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The Late Rex Dockery to be Honored
On December 12, 1983, Memphis State head football coach Rex Dockery, his offensive coordinator Chris Faros, Tiger freshman defensive back Charles Greenhill and pilot/Highland Hundred member Glenn Jones lost their lives in a plane crash in Lawrenceburg, Tenn. The four were en-route to the Lawrenceburg Quarterback Club season ending luncheon.
In late December of 1983, the Memphis City Council approved the naming of the playing surface at Liberty Bowl Stadium as Rex Dockery Field in honor of the late coach. Now, on the 30th anniversary of that tragic event, a ceremony is being held on Wednesday, October 30th, prior to the Tigers' game against Cincinnati, to install a commemorative plaque in remembrance of those individuals who gave their all.
Dockery, a native of Cleveland, Tenn., and a graduate of the University of Tennessee, had come to then Memphis State University in the spring of 1981, after serving as the head football coach at Texas Tech University for three years. Inheriting a football squad that had suffered three consecutive losing seasons, Dockery and his staff began their task of reconstructing the program.
After two consecutive years of showing consistent improvement through outstanding recruiting classes and excellent on-field coaching, the 1983 season became a coming out party for the Tigers. The opening game against backyard rival Ole Miss turned into a rout with Dockery's Tigers winning 37-17. The goalposts at Liberty Bowl Stadium were torn down by the students and Dockery was carried off the field on the shoulders of his jubilant players.
More football victories would follow that fall with Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, Tulane, Cincinnati and Louisville becoming victims of the rapidly improving Tigers. The 45-7 Thanksgiving weekend victory over Louisville on the frozen turf of Cardinal Stadium marked the team's sixth win of the season and boosted Memphis' overall record to 6-4-1. The Tigers were tabbed by the national media as the second most improved team in the nation for 1983, and Dockery and his staff set about the task of landing yet another outstanding recruiting class.
Little did anyone know that night, just 18 days later the Memphis athletic program would be rocked to its foundation with the solemn news of the loss of Dockery, Faros, Greenhill and Jones. Now, 30 years later, Wallene Leek, the former wife of Rex Dockery, Pam Russell, the former wife of Chris Faros, Sylvia Greenhill, mother of Charles Greenhill and Marty Dobson, the former wife of Glenn Jones, are returning to the football stadium where so many memorable games were played during Rex Dockery's tenure at the Tiger helm.
With the unveiling of the plaque, donated by the Highland Hundred booster club and placed at the Tiger Lane entrance to the stadium, it is hoped that all who pass this way in the years to come will see and understand the legacy of these four Memphis Tigers.
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I regret to inform the board that Fred Bridge, AKA Fred of York, passed on today.
I was blessed in getting to know Fred as a friend in the past 10 years. He was one of the most wonderful men I've ever met. Kind, generous, funny and a man of the highest possible integrity.
Fred was perhaps the most effective fly fisher I've ever watched and always willing to pass on his wisdom and skills. He was also an incredibly skilled fly tyer, probably best known for perfecting and popularizing The Infamous Pink Worm - a fly every fisherman he's met in the past 20 years now carries and uses frequently.
Fred's passing leaves a big hole in the fly fishing community. Please keep his family in your prayers..
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BP's Latest Bargain is a Win-Win
Two years ago, BP plc (NYSE: BP) kicked off the biggest fire sale in history, looking to raise $38 billion by the end of 2013 to cover the costs of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Well, the company's latest divestiture brings BP one step closer to meeting that goal.
BP has agreed to sell ownership of the Marlin, Dorado, King and Horn Mountain fields in the Gulf of Mexico to Plains Exploration & Production Co. (NYSE: PXP) for $5.5 billion. The deal also includes minority stakes in fields held by ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) and Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A).
This is big news for PXP, which has a market cap of just $4.7 billion – less than the value of the deal. And in addition to the $5.5 billion going to BP, the company has agreed to buy the remaining interest in the Holstein Field from Shell for $560 million.
PXP will take on $7 billion of debt to finance these acquisitions. But those costs will be mitigated by the cash flow generated from oil production. PXP will also sell off some of its natural gas assets to put a greater emphasis on oil, which is far more profitable. The company aims to boost oil volumes to 89% of its total production next year, up from about 61% now.
All told, PXP expects to see up to $5 billion in cumulative excess cash flow between 2013 and 2016.
BP comes out ahead, as well. Most analysts anticipated a return of $2.2 billion to $3.5 billion for the recent deal, not $5.5 billion.
Better still, the company's been able to offload aging and less-productive holdings for a solid return and can now focus on its most promising wells. And it still has control of major Gulf of Mexico oilfields, like Thunder Horse, Atlantis, Mad Dog and Na Kika, which are far more lucrative.
Over all, BP has now raised more than $32 billion through asset sales. So it's just a deal or two short of its goal of $38 billion mentioned above, which could be achieved in the near future…
Just last month, BP agreed to sell off its refinery in Carson, California to Tesoro (NYSE: TSO) for about $2.5 billion. And in July, the company entered a 90-day period to talk to potential suitors for its 50% stake in TNK-BP (PINK: TNKBF) – a joint venture BP formed nearly a decade ago with a group of Russian billionaires.
Rosneft (PINK: RNFTF) has already said it's interested – whether it goes in alone or takes a partner, like Exxon, along. BP's oligarch partners may also seek to expand their stake.
Selling its stake in TNK-BP would be game changing for BP.
It's a big part of BP's operations. In fact, it accounts for 40% of the company's global oil output and 27% of its total oil and gas production. And it's paid BP $19 billion in dividends since 2003.
Still, the project has been fraught with political complications, and it could fetch as much as $30 billion in a sale.
That would bring in enough cash to buy BP a fresh start – like expanding its stake in Canada's oil sands.
BP's been a fixture in Canada's oil sands since 2007, and the president of BP's Canadian operations has said the company's looking to develop more projects. Specifically, BP is interested in the Fort McMurray region, which is the epicenter of Canada's oil sands.
The cash boost could also help the company fight some legal battles. BP's been working to reach a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department to cover all civil and criminal liabilities relating to the Gulf spill.
BP is reportedly looking to settle for about $15 billion. But the government has a substantially higher figure – about $25 billion – in mind. And judging by an August 31 memo, the government's prepared to go to court to make up the difference.
The memo, filed with the New Orleans Federal District Court, didn't hold back one bit – accusing the company of gross negligence and "a culture of corporate recklessness."
"The behavior, words and actions of these BP executives would not be tolerated in a middling size company manufacturing dry goods for sale in a suburban mall," it read.
Legal experts say that kind of language suggests the government isn't close to settling and is very confident it can win in court.
That's easy to believe, considering oil, tar and other debris continue to wash up along the Gulf shore – driven there by Hurricane Isaac – coating pelicans and shutting down beaches.
A trial is scheduled to begin in January in New Orleans.
It's in BP's best interest to settle before then. And if it's able to do so and further fortify its position with more divestitures, the company will have weathered the storm.
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The 50 Games That Defined 2012
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At the end of every year, you can count on Gamasutra for our annual series of retrospective roundup lists. Typically, at this point, we'd recognize the best games by platform -- PC, Xbox 360, Wii, PlayStation 3, etc. etc.
This year we're doing things differently. We've nixed those platform-specific lists in favor of compiling (in alphabetical order) the 50 Games That Defined 2012, starting with the first 10.
This isn't just a list of awesome video games from 2012 (that much shorter list comes later). There will be some not-so-great games listed here as well. There will be some games that didn't release in 2012, but still made a mark on the year regardless. There will even be some games that will never release.
What all of these games have in common is that they're representative of a trend or interesting story that captured the zeitgeist of 2012 -- they all say something about what happened this year.
-- Kris Graft, Editor-in-Chief, Gamasutra
Black Mesa
Black Mesa Modification Team
Black Mesa proved two things in 2012: That passion alone can fuel game development, and that an ambitious "fan game" (usually doomed to vaporware) can come out eventually...it just might take a few years.
Black Mesa is a complete remake of Valve's original Half-Life, with 40-or-so fans completely recreating the 1998 game to take advantage of a more modern engine (Valve's own Source) all in their spare time.
The first public release of the game was released in September after years of patience from eager fans and, by all accounts, it has lived up to the hype. And thanks to Steam's Greenlight project, it's going to officially become a Steam game when it's done. Yes, that's right: this fan-made game is, in its way, officially recognized by the creators of its source material.
Borderlands 2
Gearbox, 2K Games
Perhaps the developers at Gearbox knew deep down that Borderlands was going to be a series. But when the original released back in 2009, competing against a slew of high-profile franchises, we had to wonder if the game would be able to even break through all the noise.
It did more than break through the noise, and the game fostered an impressive fanbase -- one that that salivated over this year's sequel. Borderlands 2 exemplifies the ideal modern triple-A game: It's well-done, it garners the sales and fanbase it deserves (sidenote: see how Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford himself interacts with the community via Twitter -- that's someone who really cares) and it's from an independent studio that owns this valuable franchise. It doesn't get much better (or rarer) than that.
Boyfriend Maker
These days, metrics and experience design are paramount -- aren't they? Yet somehow 36You's tacky little iOS app Boyfriend Maker [see the Tumblr here] became the viral sensation to close the year. There are obvious reasons why it caught on: It stars a customizable, vacant-eyed Ken doll with a chat bot core that was prone to spewing unexpected responses and random obscenities. That every happy accident lent itself so readily to Facebook sharing meant Boyfriend Maker spread like wildfire, with the amused and the curious of all genders and predilections signing on to see what their placid, vulgar virtual man would say and do.
More interesting is that Boyfriend Maker relies on a chat bot tailored by internet users, applied in a post-release update so that this unpredictable element somehow sneaked by Apple's walled garden. Boyfriend Maker got pulled after it was revealed users could basically get their virtual boyfriend to offend egregiously, even to condone pedophilia. Yet amid this bizarre accident is an interesting kernel: Let users own randomness, feel creative and share offbeat creations, and even established best practices of viral sharing and in-app purchases seem to turn on their heads.
Bubble Witch Saga
Taito's Bust-a-Move came out in 1994. Eighteen years later, somebody else's bubble popper ends up on a list of the most significant games of the year. How in the hell did that happen?
Well, that's because Bubble Witch Saga teaches us something: wrapping a proven mechanic in a smartly-designed social layer will yield you amazing results -- in the case of King.com, becoming the number two Facebook developer. The game is also exemplary for the way it synchronizes with its mobile version and how it smartly uses virality to keep players coming back. This overall approach, further refined, will power the success of many developers' games.
It's a fine enough bubble popper with some clever, if unoriginal, design flourishes; in the end, it's here because it proved what's possible.
Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Treyarch, Activision
Call of Duty: Black Ops II left its sizable mark on 2012 by sheer brute force: An enormous marketing campaign that was difficult to escape, midnight launches at retail and a by-the-numbers high budget, high production-value product that has a thick coat of that triple-A lacquer. The monetary result? A billion dollars in revenue following 15 days on the market. Not only is Black Ops II a financial boon for Activision in 2012, it's also a message to the triple-A video game industry: If you want to hang out in this high-stakes business, this is the kind of bombastic effort you're going to have to compete with, for better or for worse.
Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified
Nihilistic Software, Activision
There's a dark irony that the developer of this game is called "Nihilistic." Black Ops Declassified may, in fact, be a significant step on the road to oblivion for its target platform -- the PlayStation Vita. Qualitatively, it's a complete disaster, earning a 31 Metacritic as of this writing. Reports suggest this isn't Nihilistic's fault -- the game started development at another studio, and was rushed to market for the holiday season as a key part of the marketing strategy for the struggling platform.
Indeed, it may end up being the turning point for the system. When Western publishers see that a Call of Duty game can't perform on Vita -- and those with knowledge say it isn't selling -- the lesson learned will likely be "don't bother." If the Vita's pitch is that it's current-gen console games in your pocket, and Call of Duty epitomizes the current generation, then this game is an unmitigated failure.
Clash of Clans
While the free-to-play space continues on its journey of discovery (and MAUs), Finnish developer Supercell is stepping out from the crowd and making huge strides. Four months after the launches of Hay Day and, more prominently, Clash of Clans on iOS, the company now consistently has two games in the top five grossing charts on the App Store.
As other studios scramble to work out just how a relatively unknown company could come out of nowhere and release such a dominant game, Clash of Clans is yet more proof that a careful mixture of free entry, social elements and suggestive in-app purchases can work wonders to loosen the purse strings of mobile players.
38 Studios
The state of Rhode Island probably never expected to own the rights to an ambitious fantasy-themed MMORPG but, hey, here we are. Copernicus was the codename for the game that 38 Studios -- the developer founded by retired all-star baseball pitcher Curt Schilling and partially funded by the state -- was pouring money into before its money dried up and it was forced into bankruptcy, its assets (including whatever work was done on the game) defaulting to Rhode Island.
The specifics of what happened are beyond the scope of this article, but in 2012 Copernicus was a reminder of just how expensive and risky a triple-A MMO is in our rapidly evolving climate.
CSR Racing
Boss Alien, NaturalMotion
The first product from a group of triple-A expatriates, CSR Racing was a big departure for new mobile game company Boss Alien. Formed by ex-Disney Black Rock staff, who specialized in racing games like Pure and Split Second (and whose studio eventually shuttered), Boss Alien took its triple-A, packaged product sensibility and carried it over to the freemium mobile space. The result? CSR Racing, a drag racer with realistic graphics, generated $12 million in revenue in its first month, and the studio was promptly acquired by NaturalMotion. CSR Racing is proof positive that there is life after "triple-A" for developers willing to brave the Wild West of the mobile space.
Curiosity -- What's Inside the Cube?
When Peter Molyneux spoke at this year's Unite conference, he gunned right past his usual "enthused" toward "manic." It's always a bit difficult to know if you should take his claims seriously, but Curiosity makes it even harder. Is it even a game? He has described it as an "experiment"; you might describe it was "gamified bubble wrap."
His grandiose claim that the secret at the center of the cube will be "life changing" is probably irrelevant; what matters is that Molyneux has shown that a big developer going mobile can do whatever he or she wants, with all of its implications. Whether you think the attention the app has gotten is unfair, whether the "experiment" is merely on players' wallets, or whether you believe Molyneux is showing the power of big minds and small teams, there's no doubt that this bizarre little app exemplifies the time we live in.
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With only 20 days left to polish up the biggest budget snowboard film ever, things seemed surprisingly under control in the editing suite tucked into the side of Travis Rice's Jackson home. General Gizmo and Captain Gadget, the household pugs were holding down their stations wrestling from lap to lap. Travis was on his cell making reservations. Editor Curt Morgan was sampling different music just recorded by his new band, Atlas.
Lora: How did it go this winter?
TR: It went really good. The whole concept was to have an open-minded game plan. Wherever we went and whoever we ended up riding with determined how the movie came together.
Lora: This winter, it seemed kind of loose, just go out and ride, see what happens. Is that how you ran it?
TR: Sometimes it was much more planned like when helicopters were involved, but for the most part, it was pretty much freestyle. We didn't want to stress people out. If you want to come ride with us, great, no pressure. It was a self-motivation thing. We were there and had cameras there. A lot of time 10-15 people and a bunch of cameras would show up and we'd invite whoever, locals, anyone around, whoever wanted to get after it. Sweet, you can be in the movie. But for the most part it was just fun times … that's my hippie standpoint, I guess.
Lora: Is this the first time you've produced a movie here, in Jackson?
Curt: This is the first time we've made a movie.
Lora: Are you doing it again next year?
TR: Yeah.
Curt: It was cool to see everyone come together. We would have six or seven photographers at one shoot.
TR: Yeah, because it's become such a seize up filming lately. Like, only that photographer can come and those riders, not your other friends.
Curt: And we just opened it all back up.
TR: Sure, invite your whole f—'n family.
Lora: That's how it seemed to work in Jackson, everyone was out there filming.
TR: That was our theme this year. OPC. Just leave it at that.
Lora: Are there any riders that you feel like really broke through in this movie?
Curt: Yeah, JJ Thomas.
TR: Definitely JJ Thomas really stepped up a bunch.
Lora: Broke through? Didn't he win an Olympic medal?
TR: He re-broke through. Everyone knows he can ride super good in the pipe, but we got his ass out in the backcountry.
Lora: So this was his first time filming in the backcountry?
TR: No, he's familiar with backcountry. But spending a whole bunch of time really riding it.
Curt: Someone actually giving him the chance to come back hard.
TR: Andy Finch, too.
Lora: Did you film with any girls?
Curt: Two Swiss girls; Anne Flore Marxer and Dorianne Vidal. Anne Flore impressed me big time.
Lora: Was there a certain location that stands out from this season?
TR and Curt: Japan! It's the longest segment.
TR: Best snow in the world. The deepest snow I've ever seen. Sapporo.
Curt: We're telling a story with pictures that is legitimate. We're traveling around the world. When your sitting there with your folks watching the average snowboard movie, it's kind of boring. People who aren't into snowboarding will be able to appreciate this too because it shows where we are in the world. Still we got away with our plan to keep a lot of the talking out of it, because snowboarders aren't actors, they're snowboarders.
Lora: Anywhere else that you went that you were stoked on?
TR: Micah Creek, a new heli operation in BC. They were rad. We spent almost three weeks there. It's such a sick operation.
Lora: How was your season different filming for yourself, versus with Absinthe again?
TR: It was motivating to go out and do our own thing. Justin Hostynek makes rad movies, but I've worked with them for the last four years, which were awesome. for the slideshow


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One day all too soon, we'll look back at the styles that fashioned photography (both still and moving) in and around 'The Noughties'.
It's my guess that the phenomenon known as drop-focus, tilt and shift or perspective control will be seen as one of the main signifiers of the current era.
The Waterfall Project by Olivo Barbieri is a classic contemporary example.
Implemented well, this is an approach I happen to like; I enjoy the feel of the model village often achieved with this method of capture.
For me, at least, it tugs at the childhood heartstrings and seems to instil utopian, feel-good emotions.
So, I thought you might like to share in this particularly fine example—a French ad made to celebrate their improvements and progress on the railways over recent years:
RESEAU FERRE DE FRANCE from W & CIE on Vimeo.
If you fancy seeing big cameras strapped to the front of trains, a bit of green screening (and your French is up to scratch), you might like to see this 'making of' video too…


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A$AP Rocky Transforms Into Terry Richardson [PHOTOS]
A$AP Rocky brings out his inner fashion killa in a new photo shoot with famed photographer Terry Richardson.
In the flicks, posted on Richardson's Tumblr page, Rocky invokes his best impression of Terry, shirtless and wearing thick-rimmed glasses.
Several other images capture Rocky smoking a blunt, chilling on a couch, showing off his muscles and flipping the bird.
The lauded photographer has been music's go-to-guy for high fashion photography for the past several years and has shot everyone from the likes of Action Bronson to Rihanna.
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Channeling Don Rickles: President Barack Obama blasted climate-change deniers in a speech Wednesday night, pumping up environmentalist supporters with sarcastic zingers. Politico reports Obama's mocking of climate skeptics is about getting the liberal base excited for midterm elections. But Obama was also having a good time, smiling when he took congressional opponents down a peg. "In Congress…folks will tell you climate change is a hoax or a fad or a plot. A liberal plot," he told the League of Conservation Voters. He said people who avoid the question of whether climate change is real "pretend like, I don't know, I can't read."
Getting closer: The Hill says Republicans are in the strongest position to win back the Senate since losing it eight years ago. Over several months, the GOP has expanded its range of targeted seats, and the National Republican Senatorial Committee has helped defeat insurgents it didn't want representing the party in the midterm elections. For Democrats, the Hill writes, Tuesday night's primaries showed they can't count on tea-party candidates upsetting more electable incumbents.
Highway fix: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden will on Thursday try to move ahead with his $10 billion plan for a short-term extension of the highway trust fund. But committee Democrats and Republicans are split over the plan, according to New York Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat. And there isn't much agreement on the issue between the House and Senate, either. As the Fiscal Times reports, the trust fund is projected to run out of money in late July or early August.
Jobless-aid forecast: cloudy. Politico writes there's a new bill to renew unemployment insurance benefits in the Senate, but the forecast for aid is as cloudy as ever. The bill faces many of the same problems as earlier attempts to pass it, and some new ones. House Republicans continue to demand any unemployment bill contain job-creation measures, but Senate Democrats aren't yet committed to revisiting the issue.
Strong tea: Never mind Republican Sen. Thad Cochran's victory over his tea-party-backed opponent in Tuesday's Mississippi runoff. The Wall Street Journal writes conservative activists retain considerable influence in Congress as they fight the Export-Import Bank, an immigration overhaul and higher taxes to repair roads and bridges. Sen. John McCain, an Arizona Republican, had this to say at a breakfast sponsored by the Journal on Wednesday: "I'm not sure the tea party has peaked…They're still extremely viable" at a time when anger at Washington is high.
Want to read the latest and most interesting stories and analysis to come out of D.C.? Subscribe to the WSJ's email newsletter, Capital Journal Daybreak.
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The battle over leaded avgas in California took a turn against a coalition of associations representing users, distributors and producers of avgas on October 19 when a U.S. District Court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the coalition in an attempt to halt legal action against the use of avgas in the state.
The General Aviation Avgas Coalition filed the lawsuit, which sought an injunction against the Center for Environmental Health (CEH). The CEH filed notices of violation (NOVs) on May 9, warning avgas producers and distributors (including FBOs) that they are violating Proposition 65, the Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986. Under Proposition 65, according to the CEH, those companies are required to provide warnings to people living near airports about the risks posed by chemicals used to make avgas. In California, signs containing such warnings are posted in such profusion that they have become widely ignored, part of the background scenery. In fact, a CEH spokeswoman told AIN that she is not aware of any research that has proved whether Proposition 65 has saved any lives or prevented any diseases.
What Proposition 65 has done is create a mechanism whereby organizations such as the CEH can file lawsuits against companies found to be violating the requirements to warn about use of covered chemicals. The law allows the CEH and other such organizations to keep 25 percent of any civil penalties assessed for violations. "It's not too far from extortion," National Air Transportation Association (NATA) president James Coyne told AIN in an earlier interview. In the avgas case, CEH is also seeking reimbursement for legal expenses. According to NATA, the CEH calculated that "each company named in the NOVs could face a penalty of up to $1.3 billion."
The May filing of the NOVs was the first step in the CEH's attempt to have avgas producers and distributors comply with the law, and this move served notice that the CEH planned to file a lawsuit in 60 days. The coalition's efforts delayed that deadline by about three months. Following the judge's dismissal of the coalition's injunction request, the CEH filed a lawsuit in state court on October 20, naming 46 companies (and 200 unidentified companies) as violators of Proposition 65. The suit doesn't just ask for those companies to comply by placing warning labels on the doors of their businesses but seeks an outright ban on avgas sales until the companies comply fully with Proposition 65 by warning local airport residents about the lead in avgas.
FBO chain Signature Flight Support is part of the coalition and has enlisted its customers to help fund the coalition's efforts. Signature announced that it is collecting a quarter cent per gallon "California Proposition 65 Defense Fee...to fund the fight for general aviation. Customers not purchasing fuel will be charged Defense Fee based on minimum uplifts." The coalition has spent more than $400,000 on the avgas battle and expects expenses to continue, according to Signature.
Limited Data on Emissions Dangers
According to a 2008 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report, airport-specific lead emissions totaled 1.4 tons per year at the highest emitter, Van Nuys Airport in southern California. These calculations, however, use 2002 traffic levels, which have dropped considerably during the past decade. The EPA issued an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) in April 2010, part of an effort "to consider the information presented in the ANPRM and comments received from the public to determine whether, in the Administrator's judgment, aircraft lead emissions from aircraft using leaded aviation gasoline cause or contribute to air pollution which may be reasonably anticipated to endanger public health or welfare."
While the EPA noted that lead is harmful and that the agency is "concerned about continued emissions of lead to air," the ANPRM doesn't get into detail about whether tetraethyl lead used to prevent detonation in piston aircraft engines has been found to cause actual harm to the estimated 16 million people who live within one kilometer of 20,000 airports in the U.S.
"If the EPA judges, in a subsequent action, that lead emissions from these aircraft cause or contribute to air pollution that may be reasonably anticipated to endanger public health or welfare, the EPA would be required, in consultation with the FAA, to establish standards to control the emissions of lead from piston-engine aircraft. The FAA would also be required to establish standards for the composition of piston-engine aircraft fuel to control lead emissions," said the agency.
The Experimental Aircraft Association, one of the coalition members, published detailed comments to the EPA ANPRM, pointing out, "Given the widespread impact of the actions described in the ANPRM, any determination related to lead emissions from piston-engine aircraft must be supported by sound and complete data. As explained in the following comments, the coalition does not believe that the present body of data is adequate to support any such finding."
The coalition would prefer that the state hold off on any action that would prevent leaded avgas being distributed and burned in California, at least until a suitable replacement for avgas can be found. But the CEH is trying to force the issue with its legal actions. The coalition was weighing its legal options following the judge's dismissal of the injunction request.
"We are deeply disappointed with the judge's ruling that dismissed the coalition's federal suit on two technicalities," said Eric Byer, NATA vice president of government and industry affairs. "We are extremely concerned about the impact this ruling has on FBOs and fuel providers throughout the state of California that are now facing additional litigation and escalating costs as a result of the CEH's complaint. And for the first time, there are serious concerns about the future availability of avgas in California. All of these concerns have been brought to bear because of Proposition 65 and a private group's relentless effort to penalize FBOs for doing what the FAA and the airports require them to do–sell leaded avgas to general aviation aircraft."
The CEH contends that residents near airports where lead emissions are above legal limits must be notified per Proposition 65. In a previous effort, the CEH and manufacturers of automobile wheel balance weights made of lead came to an agreement to eliminate use of lead weights. Anaheim-based Disneyland is currently the subject of a CEH action because it has lead-based stained glass windows and other products like leaded-brass doorknobs, chains and the Sword in the Stone attraction that children might handle and thus be exposed to excessive amounts of lead.
Peter Wesselius (not verified)
May 19, 2012 - 11:43pm
"the ANPRM doesn't get into detail about whether tetraethyl lead [...] has been found to cause actual harm".
Here's some detail for you, from a National Institute of Health article on lead: "Over 10 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL) is a definite concern. Levels between 2- 10 mcg/dL should be discussed with your doctor. In many states, blood screening is recommended for young children at risk."
Source: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002473.htm
And, this too:
"The banning of lead from consumer products and the subsequent reduction in lead exposure has had an enormous impact on children's health. The drop in blood lead levels has resulted in significantly fewer diagnoses of lead-related deficits in learning and behavior, along with an estimated average improvement of four points on standard intelligence tests. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this small difference translates into an increase of $56,000 in lifetime earning potential for each child in the United States."
Source: http://www.niehs.nih.gov/health/impacts/lead/
It absolutely amazes me that anyone would think having cheaper fuel for their private aircraft is more important than the health of the general public. How arrogant.
Tom (not verified)
September 28, 2012 - 6:11pm
Indeed, environmental lead is harmful, no question about it. However, I would like to see a study showing that tetraethyl lead is the source of the harmful environmental lead. It is my understanding that tetraethyl lead was removed from gasoline not because it was an environmental pollutant, but because it fouled catalytic converters.
jay brown (not verified)
September 20, 2012 - 2:31pm
Van Nuys airport looks like a ghost town already. Leaded avgas is such a non issue but grounding avgas burning general aviation aircraft, including some helicopters, will affect more people and production than can be imagined.


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This blog post by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry originally appeared on the State Department's Dipnote blog.
The Internet Iron Curtain
by John Kerry
Since the printing press, no technology has had a greater capacity than the Internet for individual empowerment, economic development, and human expression.
How telling then that, while countries around the world are devoting precious resources to expanding their citizens' access to the Internet, Russia is doing the opposite.
Russia's Parliament passed a package of new restrictions on blogging and the Internet, a potent legislative cocktail of regression and repression.
It is part of a pattern. Russian-backed militias operating in Ukraine have been detaining legitimate journalists and knocking down television towers to block the truth from getting out. While the world celebrated the Internet's potential for positive change at NETmundial, Russia isolated itself by objecting to the principles and ideals of Internet freedom.
Not satisfied by its stranglehold on traditional media, the Russian government has lunged at digital media, one of the last bastions of independent voices in Russia. While so many will be commemorating World Press Freedom Day on Saturday, Moscow forced the founder of its largest social network, Pavel Durov, to flee after he had refused to disclose personal information about the protesters in Ukraine's Euromaidan.
As I said on Monday when I spoke via the Internet to the Freedom Online Coalition's Conference in Estonia, actions to squelch free expression reflect a government's basic insecurity everywhere and anywhere it happens. Open societies understand that a free and open press, including the Internet, is vital to holding governments accountable.
As someone who spent two years of my own life as a young veteran trying to end a war, I believe in dissent and I love that in my country, we welcome dissent. But make no mistake — as someone who has been in public life for four decades, it doesn't mean I think every story I read is fair, or accurate, or balanced. I've got the scars to show it. But, what's important is, I believe our values must be strong enough to withstand criticism. Together, we must remind authoritarian states everywhere that the Internet is not a tool of oppression — it is a tool of growth, freedom and transparency.
In today's world, there's no sustainable way for a country to seal itself off electronically by dropping an iron curtain on the Internet. No one can hide behind a wall of 1s and 0s.
Tear down that wall — demand a single, global, and open Internet.


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just wanted to reiterate what everyone has been saying - great job, beautiful stuff! your most recent is my favorite, the fluid camera works so well for your material.
i'm jealous because i too have written a bunch about childhood and those early days on the house computer. its a generational thing, so i'm assuming i'm not alone.
i also admire that you seem to be making shorts at a pretty quick clip (at least one a year?).. keep doing it! don't view them as stepping stones to features, these are the real thing.


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Online Resources
Note that the single best comprehensive view of newspapers published in Baltimore City is the Guide to Newspapers at the Maryland State Archives.
- Baltimore Afro-American
Indexed from 10/92 until present by Ethnic Newswatch and is available at all the branches of the Pratt Library or from a home computer with library card access. Based in Baltimore with a regional edition in Washington, D.C., the Afro-American is one of the oldest African American publications still publishing. For the period from its founding to 1988, use the access provided by the Pratt Library to historical newspapers:
- Baltimore Afro-American – Historical Newspaper (1893-1988)
- The Baltimore Afro-American was one of the most widely circulated African American newspapers. The paper's contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Sunders Redding, artist Romare Beardon, and sports editor Sam Lacy. To see Baltimore history unfold, start here. Provided by ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
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- Baltimore Jewish Times
Indexed from 1991-present by Ethnic Newswatch and is available at all the branches of the Pratt Library or from a home computer with library card access. The Baltimore Jewish Times is Baltimore's oldest and largest Jewish publication.
- The Baltimore City Paper (1998-2017)
- Baltimore Magazine (1907- )
- The Baltimore Sun: The Baltimore Sun is available at the Pratt LIbrary through ProQuest which has a full text search of most newspaper articles dating back to September, 1990.
(Accessible in all Pratt Library Locations, or from home with your library card). The most convenient on-line access to the Baltimore Sun is currently available from the Baltimore County Public Library if you have library card:
Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper: 1893 – 1988 (Login required – click here)Founded by former slave John Henry Murphy Sr. when he merged three church publications, The Baltimore Afro-American became one of the most widely circulated African-American newspapers on the Atlantic Coast. In addition to featuring the first black female reporter (Murphy's daughter) and female sportswriters, the paper's contributors have included writer Langston Hughes, intellectual J. Saunders Redding, artist Romare Bearden, and sports editor Sam Lacy, whose column influenced the desegregation of professional sports. Baltimore Sun: 1837 – 1985 (Login required – click here)Founded by Arunah Shepherdson Abell as a paper devoted to the news that most directly affected the lives of its readers, The Baltimore Sun's history is among the most distinguished in American journalism. It represented this bustling port city by reporting on pivotal issues and events of the 19th and early 20th centuries: immigration, the slave trade, commerce, the Civil War, Washington D.C. politics (The Baltimore Sun began publishing 40 years before the Washington Post), Americana, and literature. H.L. Mencken, the "Sage of Baltimore," and one of the most influential American writers of the early 20th century, wrote for this renowned newspaper. Baltimore Sun: 1990 – Current (Login required – click here)Search the latest issues of Maryland's paper of record. Full text (but not images) are available. Baltimore Sun and Afro-American Combined Search (Historic) (Login required – click here)The historic collection includes digital (PDF) images of the full papers including headlines, articles, classifieds (including death notices) etc.
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A boat docked at Morrison's North Star Marine's refueling station along Westlake Ave. exploded just before noon, sending one person to the hospital and creating a dramatic chain of events that averted a much larger fire.
Fremont resident Warren captured the sequence on camera. Witnesses say the burning boat was cut loose from the refueling dock under the Aurora Bridge, and then it drifted southeast alongside Diamond Marina next door.
It charred the front of a large boat (above) as it drifted by, and the flames threatened to ignite the boathouse.
That's when witnesses say Harbor Patrol pulled it into the middle of the Ship Canal and extinguished the flames.
Craig Edwards, whose boat is moored at the Diamond Marina, praised the Harbor Patrol for their quick response, averting what may have been a devastating marina fire. One person was taken to Harborview Medical Center and another sustained minor injuries.
TV crews videotaping Morrison's North Star Marine's refueling dock. Westlake Ave. was closed for a half hour or so during the fire response, diverting traffic to Dexter Ave. and delaying traffic over the Fremont Bridge.
(Thanks Warren for sending us the photos!)


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NILES, IL, June 24, 2010 — Shure Incorporated announced that Chairman, Rose L. Shure, has been honored with the 2010 Per Haugen Lifetime Achievement Award from the NSCA (National Systems Contractors Association). The award was presented earlier this month at the InfoComm trade show in Las Vegas to an industry leader who has proven to be a dedicated and sincere champion for the electronics and communications markets.
"I'm very honored to have been given this award," Mrs. Shure said. "Really, it doesn't belong to me; it should go to my husband [S. N. Shure], who founded and built this Company. I am pleased to accept this in his memory."
Mrs. Shure's career at Shure Incorporated began more than 60 years ago. She helped Shure grow from a small microphone and phonograph cartridges Company to the leading global audio electronics manufacturer with the strong and diversified product line it is today. Shure products are now used and publicly endorsed by prominent musicians, public speakers, sound contractors, and audio engineers around the world.
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A grand jury has now indicted 36-year old Howard Carmack. 'The Buffalo Spammer' faces 12 years behind bars if convicted on all counts. Carmack walked into Erie County Court this afternoon for arraignment on the grand jury charges. He remains a free man on a $20,000 bond.
This is believed to be the first case in judicial history to prosecute someone on charges stemming from sending out too many mass marketing emails, known as "spam."
It's also the first case in state history involving New York's new identity theft laws.
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Boning Up on Bone Health
Growing Evidence Suggests That People With HIV May Be at Risk of Bone-Related Problems
Summer 2011
The results of David Vereschagin's first-ever bone scan, performed in 2009, threw him for a loop. At age 52, he was told that he had the spine of a 70-year-old. He was cautioned against activities that might strain the bones of his spine because they could fracture.
This unsettling news was all the more surprising because Vereschagin had experienced very few health problems since testing HIV positive in 1995. In fact, for 10 years after his diagnosis he remained healthy without anti-HIV medications, beginning treatment only in 2005, when his CD4 count fell below 300 -- had he waited until his count fell below 200, he would have been at risk of life-threatening complications. Since starting treatment, his CD4 count had risen and until that bone scan his only other setback had been a bout of kidney stones, a problem that was mostly under control.
Unfortunately, the caution against "spine-straining" activities included the gym workouts he had come to love. The warning "really put a fear of weight training into me," Vereschagin recalls, "like one day I was going to lift too much and suddenly hear my spine snap." His workouts were a significant part of his healthy living routine and Vereschagin couldn't give them up: "I just did it with a lot more anxiety."
In the meantime, his HIV specialist muddied the waters with a surprising opinion: She "wouldn't have bothered" with the scan, because "nobody knows what to do" with the information scans provide. Vereschagin recalls feeling caught in the middle of these conflicting points of view and "hopelessly muddled" by this extra twist.
What exactly is going on with people with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) and their bones? Is it possible to find some answers without anxiety and confusion? Let's give it a shot.
Hold on to Your Bones
Bones are strong, but they aren't solid -- their texture is dense in some spots but spongy in others. Bone mineral density (BMD) is the measurement that doctors use to evaluate the density, and by extension the sturdiness, of a bone. Bone density can vary between bones (for example, Vereschagin was told he had low spine BMD but that his hips were fine) and it changes over time. That's because bones are living parts of your body, constantly being worn away and rebuilt. From our mid- to late-20s (when bones are at their strongest) into old age, bones erode slightly faster than they are replaced, gradually weakening the skeletal structure.
In other words, losing bone density is a normal part of aging and is not a problem when the degree of loss is small. Healthy bones are so sturdy that we can afford to lose quite a bit of bone density without any serious risk of breaking them. Loss of a moderate amount of BMD is called osteopenia. If the loss continues, bones become porous, fragile and prone to breaking -- a more serious condition known as osteoporosis. Neither condition typically causes any noticeable symptoms, so they can easily go undetected until a bone breaks.
Dr. Jason Szabo, assistant professor of family medicine at McGill University, suggests that the best way to think of bone density is "as a bank account. You build it up when you're young, with good nutrition and exercise. Then beyond a certain age, you're making small withdrawals each day. If you haven't built up a good 'balance' earlier, you're more at risk of becoming overdrawn -- that is, getting osteoporosis."
Traditionally, in people without HIV, bone problems are most common in postmenopausal women because hormonal changes lead to a significant decline in BMD. But men with HIV are developing bone problems at an unusually early age, and postmenopausal women with HIV are more likely to develop osteoporosis and osteopenia than their HIV-negative counterparts. Figures vary, but studies suggest that osteoporosis may affect about one in 10 PHAs. And many studies have found that osteopenia (less severe bone loss) affects 30 percent or more of PHAs.
A Bone of Contention
The next question is: Does osteoporosis translate into an increased risk of breaking bones for PHAs? That's certainly the case in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, with or without HIV, so it might seem a foregone conclusion for PHAs as well. But some experts (like Vereschagin's specialist) argue that the studies we have so far are not conclusive and that we need to do more research before we can say for sure.
Dr. Szabo is less optimistic. "We know, because of several large observational studies, that HIV greatly increases the risk of osteoporosis. Prospective studies -- the kind that tell us about the outcomes [of a disease or treatment] -- are much more limited. But some data do suggest that osteoporosis in people with HIV is a risk factor for fractures. I suspect that as years go on, we'll see greater numbers of osteoporotic fractures in our HIV-positive patients."
One study found that HIV, independent of other risk factors, increased the risk of broken bones in men by about 40 percent. While this does not appear to be the case in younger HIV-positive women, more research on older women with HIV is needed to say whether they are at higher risk of breaking a bone due to their HIV status.
What's Behind the Bone Loss?
What causes one person to develop bone disease and another to maintain strong healthy bones into old age? Traditional risk factors for osteoporosis include:
People with HIV have additional risk factors for osteoporosis, including HIV infection itself: the degree of BMD loss has been shown to increase with the duration of infection. But evidence also suggests that some anti-HIV drugs, such as protease inhibitors, may be a risk factor for osteoporosis. Some studies have also suggested that the anti-HIV drug tenofovir (Viread, also in Truvada and Atripla) might have an impact on bone density, but this is not so simple. Studies found that in the year after starting the nuke, people showed rapid loss of bone density, but after this initial decline, the rate of bone loss stabilized. The take-home message: If you are taking protease inhibitors or tenofovir, you probably shouldn't switch away from them purely because of concerns about bone loss. If you are on tenofovir and see a significant loss of BMD, you should talk to your doctor about getting tested for phosphate wasting, as tenofovir use can lead to low levels of phosphate, a mineral needed to keep your bones healthy.
This article was provided by Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange. It is a part of the publication The Positive Side. Visit CATIE's Web site to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
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Foo Fighters May Be Recording New Album With Steve Albini and Butch Vig
Rumors have been swirling for a few weeks now that Foo Fighters would be recording their new album in a bunch of different studios. Turns out that those rumors, or at least some of them, are most likely true.
According to a Facebook update from 'This Is a Call' (the name of the 2013 book about Foos frontman Dave Grohl), the band is recording with a couple of superstar producers from Grohl's past at a couple different studios.
"Brilliant to see Dave Grohl going back to his punk rock roots and bringing the Foos to Washington D.C.'s legendary Inner Ear studios to record a new song yesterday," the post reads. "Having already recorded with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio and Butch Vig at 606, it seems like the new Foos album will be a great reflection of Dave's entire career."
Vig produced Nirvana's breakthrough 1991 album 'Nevermind'; Albini was on board for the band's follow-up LP in 1993, 'In Utero.' Vig also worked on Foo Fighters' last album, 2010's 'Wasting Light.'
Back in November, Grohl told Rolling Stone that he and the group would be recording their new album "in a way no one's done before." While nothing's been confirmed, it appears that maybe this brand new way has something to do with recording each song in a different studio with a different producer. You know, just like your typical pop star does.


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Right-wing claim about nuclear summit logo debunked on Comedy Central
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In recent days, Fox News and the conservative media have seized on the official logo of the Nuclear Security Summit to claim its image "looks like" an Islamic crescent. However, as Comedy Central's Jon Stewart noted, "the inspiration for the logo is actually the Rutherford-Bohr Model of the atom that we all learned about in high school."
Fox, right-wing media claim nuclear summit logo is an "Islamic crest"
NY Post's Goodwin: "[N]ot a coincidence" that nuclear summit logo features "[t]he kind of crescent moon you see on the flags of Muslim countries." In his April 14 New York Post column, Michael Goodwin wrote that the logo "reminded" him of "a crescent moon," the "kind of crescent moon you see on the flags of Muslim countries." He added: "Indeed, the crescent, often with a single or multiple stars, is the main symbol of Islam. So now there is something like it at an official presidential event, prominently displayed in photographs being beamed around the world." While Goodwin claimed that he was "not suggesting President Obama is a secret Muslim," he wrote: "But I am certain the crescent-like design of the logo is not a coincidence, especially at an event where Iran's nuclear ambition and al Qaeda's search for a bomb are prime topics."
Fox & Friends sees "Muslim image" in logo for Nuclear Security Summit. On the April 14 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, co-hosts Brian Kilmeade and Gretchen Carlson discussed Goodwin's column, with Kilmeade saying: "When I first saw this logo, I wasn't really thinking this, but upon further review, perhaps I should have been. And that is, if you look at the Nuclear Security Summit logo, what does that have in common with all those other flags there representing Muslim nations?" Showing images of flags, Carlson replied: "That's the same thing that you see on the flags of Turkey, Algeria, Tunisia, and Pakistan, and what do they all have in common? They're all Muslim nations." Carlson then stated that Goodwin's claim is that Obama "deliberately put this as a logo to try and continue his outreach to Muslim nations in a positive way," adding that at "the same time, he points out in his article that we're not going to say terms like 'Jihad' anymore or 'Islamic extremists' anymore. So you be the judge." During the segment, Fox featured text that read: "Curious Crescent Logo: Summit Symbol Similar to Muslim Image" and "Islamic Image? Summit Design Looks Like Crescent Moon."
Jim Hoft: "That's weird?... Obama's nuclear summit logo is an Islamic crest." In an April 14 post on his Gateway Pundit blog titled, "That's Weird?... Obama's Nuclear Summit Logo Is an Islamic Crest," Jim Hoft repeatedly asserted that it's "weird" that "Obama's nuclear summit logo is an Islamic crest." Other right-wing blogs, including Evil Conservative and Right Side News, also claimed that "the Nuclear Security Summit logo looks an awful lot like an Islamic crescent."
Error Theory: "Nuclear Summit logo uses an Islamic-shaped crescent." In an April 13 post on the Error Theory blog, also featured at Free Republic, Alec Rawls claimed that it "is hard to believe that the State Department" could use "an Islamic-shaped crescent" for the Nuclear Security Summit "by accident," asserting: "Maybe our State Department really is this ignorant, but more likely, as in the case of Fort Hood mass murderer Nidal Hasan, nobody was willing to make an issue of anything connected to Islam, no matter how disturbing, for fear of committing career suicide. After all, Obama has commanded all of his underlings to be as oblivious to Islam as possible."
Pam Geller reprints NY Post graphic calling Obama a "crescent loon." In an April 15 Atlas Shrugs post -- published the day after the logo claim was debunked -- Pam Geller reprinted the following graphic from the April 14 edition of the New York Post:
Geller then wrote: "Good to see that big media (NY Post) is actually printing the obvious. Whether O is a crypto-Muslim is irrelevant. Because even if he were, what would he be doing differently?"
Daily Show debunks absurd logo claim
Stewart mocks Fox & Friends for seeing "Muslim image" in nuclear summit logo. On his Comedy Central show, Jon Stewart aired excerpts of the Fox & Friends segment on the nuclear summit logo and stated that when the show contacted the White House, they learned that "the inspiration for the logo is actually the Rutherford-Bohr Model of the atom that we all learned about in high school."
From the April 15 edition of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart:
STEWART: Yeah, you be the judge! We're just letting you know about some bullshit thing we saw saying this is a coded message to the Muslim world. We're just curious citizens, wondering if we put that logo up with four Muslim flags, whether you'll have a visceral reaction that our president is perhaps Muslim, while clearly stating our conclusion on our lower third graphic. Anyway, but -- we're just -- what do you think? We're just doing the math and giving you the answer and then asking you to check our work.
We called the White House to find out the genesis of the nuclear summit logo because, I guess, our phones work. You hit nine, and you get an outside line. Anyway, they said that the inspiration for the logo is actually the Rutherford-Bohr Model of the atom that we all learned about in high school. So it turns out, it's worse than we thought. It turns out the people at the White House are not secret Muslims, they're nerds.
Right-wing previously linked new defense agency logo to Islamic Crescent
Gaffney: "Can This Possibly Be True? New Obama Missile Defense Logo Includes A Crescent." In February, after the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) redesigned its logo, media conservatives compared the new design to the Islamic crescent. In a February 24 BigGovernment post, Frank Gaffney called the "symbolic action" "nefarious," writing that "the new MDA shield appears ominously to reflect a morphing of the Islamic crescent and star with the Obama campaign logo," and that "Team Obama is behaving in a way that -- as the new MDA logo suggests -- is all about accommodating that 'Islamic Republic' and its ever-more aggressive stance." Gaffney concluded: "Watch this space as we identify and consider various, ominous and far more clear-cut acts of submission to Shariah by President Obama and his team." Gaffney later issued a correction.
FoxNews.com: "Others have noted that it has a crescent and star design, evoking a common symbol for Islam. " In a February 24 article, FoxNews.com acknowledged that the MDA logo "first appeared" on the MDA website "in the fall," nonetheless reported claims that the logo was "strikingly" and "scarily" similar to Obama's 2008 campaign logo, adding that "[o]thers have noted that it has a crescent and star design, evoking a common symbol for Islam." In a Special Report segment, anchor Bret Baier cited an MDA statement calling the claims "ridiculous," and that the new logo is "for recruiting in the public website and was developed almost three years ago" and "has no link to any political campaign," he went on to note that "The Washington Times points out that the red, white, and blue symbol looks strangely similar to Barack Obama's campaign 'O' from 2008."
Free Republic: "[I]s it a coincidence it also looks like an Islamic Crescent?" In a February 21 blog post on Free Republic, RaceBannon wrote that the "Missile Defense Agency Changes logo to look more like Obama logo," and asked: "Tell me, is it a coincidence it also looks like an Islamic Crescent?"
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Today, September 17th, 2015 will be forever remembered in the history of horology as the most complicated watch ever created gets unveiled. In François Constantin's words: " Do better if possible, and that is always possible". The very essence of this motto drives Vacheron Constantin to cultivate special ties with the great patrons and exceptional men whose dreams have fired them to contributing to the advancement of art and of haute horlogerie over the past two centuries. To celebrate the 260th anniversary of Vacheron Constantin, the manufacture has created the most complicated timepiece ever made featuring 57 complications —three of them never seen in a watch before. The pocket watch ref. 57206 was developed and finished over the course of eight years by the hands of three master watchmakers. Below are some of the complications never before seen in a watch and that are included in the new Vacheron Constantin ref. 57260. Up to date the most complicated watches ever made were the Patek Philippe Calibre 89 with 33 complications, the Patek Philippe Star Calibre 2000 with 21 complications, the Patek Philippe Henry Graves Jr. Supercomplication and the Vacheron Constantin Tour de l'Ile with 16 complications.
The Hebraic Perpetual Calendar
Probably the most challenging of the 57 complications the Hebraic perpetual calendar requested highly complicated mathematical calculations combining both the lunar months and solar year were transcribed into not only an operational mechanism but a display that is elegant, logical and easy to read. The Hebraic perpetual calendar works on the principle of the 19-year Metonic cycle because 19 years it is almost exactly a multiple of the solar year and lunar month over that period. On this watch, the Metonic cycle (also called Golden Number) is displayed as a sector at 3 o'clock concentric with the chronograph hour register. The date of Yom Kippur indicated in the Gregorian calendar each year, is represented by the corresponding retrograde hand at 6 o'clock, which returns to its starting point every 19 years, at which time the sector is replaced for another for each of the 19 year cycles.
To keep the 12-month lunar year in pace with the solar year, a "13th" leap-month called an intercalary month has to be added seven times during the 19-year cycle. Ingeniously, this watch not only allows for this addition but also shows the user whether the current year is a 12 or 13-month year via an indicator hand and 12/13 display situated concentric with the chronograph minute register and counter hand in the 9 o'clock position.
In the Hebrew calendar, there are fixed lunar months of 29 or 30 days alternately. Those of Cheshvan and Kislev can have 29 or 30 days, depending on the year. Here, the self-correcting date hand is concentric to the Yom Kippur sector and constant seconds. On either side of the date, two windows indicate the number of days and months in Hebrew.
The secular Hebrew calendar, which is displayed in a four-digit window below the Yom Kippur sector is calculated from the supposed date of the creation of the world in 3760 BC. To calculate the present year in the Hebrew calendar 2015 is added to 3760 giving the year 5775. The Jewish New Year begins again in September 2015 with therefore the Hebrew year 5776. Tishrei is the first month of the Hebrew calendar.
Within the center of the hour chapter-ring are four representations of the moon phases and also a hand indicating the age of the moon within its 29.5305882 day cycle. The Vacheron Constantin moon phase system requires correction only once every 1027 years.
Double Retrograde "Rattrapante" Chronograph
Completely new to the world of watchmaking, the retrograde rattrapante chronograph is of a totally innovative design and construction. This is the first watch ever to be made with a rattrapante chronograph with double retrograde action. It is not only a highly visual complication but mechanically ingenious. This new chronograph is read by the user exactly in the manner of a classic split-seconds chronograph; uniquely however, whilst both hands still work in unison and from the same axis, unlike all other split-seconds chronographs, the two hands never actually meet but operate on two separate scales on opposing sides of the dial. In this respect, the new chronograph can perhaps be best described as a "detached" split-seconds chronograph.
In addition, it has been necessary to specially design and make the two long and very fine chronograph hands so that the chronograph has perfect stability and extreme accuracy during operation. There are two register dials for the chronograph counting each elapsed minute up to 60-minutes and each elapsed hour up to 12-hours so that events of up to 12-hours in duration can be accurately recorded.
The Westminster Chiming, Alarm and Special Night-Silence Feature
Sectors can be seen on the dial to either side of the hour chapter ring, just above the chronograph registers. These sectors with their corresponding hands are indicators for the selection of the mode of chiming, mode of alarm striking and the alarm power-reserve indicator. These are unsurprisingly highly sophisticated and incorporate new and unique watchmaking inventions and innovations.
This watch offers 3 possible striking modes:
1. Striking - the watch chimes automatically at each passing quarter hour, in the same way as a clock. With five hammers striking five finely tuned steel gongs, the chiming sequence is that of "Big Ben", the clock of the Palace of Westminster in London.
2. Night silence – chiming automatically disabled from 22h to 8h (described in more detail below).
3. Silence - chiming switched off when it is not desired.
There are two additional options to choose from; Grande sonnerie - striking the hours and the quarters at every passing quarter and alternatively Petite sonnerie – striking the full hours at the hour but only a quarter-strike without hours on the quarters. To repeat the chiming at any time, the slide on the band of the case can be activated whenever it is desired by the user.
Night-Time Silence
A unique and very user-friendly new feature has been developed especially for the chiming system of this watch, that of the automatically activated "Night-Time Silence" mode. A special system has been developed by Vacheron Constantin and built into this watch whereby (in this instance) between the hours of 10pm at night and 8am in the morning it does not chime in order not to disturb its owner. This system is unique in being the first to be automatically activated without the need to manually set the chime or silence option.
In addition to the chiming mechanism, this model houses an integrally connected alarm system with separate power-reserve indication. The main feature of this Vacheron Constantin mechanism is that it allows a choice between either a traditional alarm on an additional differently tuned single gong with single hammer or Westminster carillon full chiming alarm in either Grande or Petite sonnerie mode.
The alarm is set via the winding crown which moves an additional alarm hand co-axial with the hour and moon's age hand. The flush-fit winding button is situated in the band of the case.
The Second Dial and Further Functions
As well as the astronomical indications, several unique and major systems developed especially for this watch are presented here including a 12-hour second time-zone governed by a digital world-time display, a double perpetual calendar and a remarkable fully visible armillary sphere tourbillon.
The blue star chart in the upper half of the dial represents the night sky and the star constellations visible from the user's home city, with the months appearing around the edge. Concentric around the outer border is the scale for the retrograde date of the perpetual calendar, the hand "flying" back to its start point at the end of each month. Subsidiary dials for the days of the week and the months flank the star dial and the aperture above the month dial shows the number of the year between 1 and 4 in the leap-year cycle. Around the edge of the dial are three astronomic scales which are read using the central gold hand identified by its sun counterpoise. The outermost scale is for the months of the year and their respective number of days, while a concentric scale for the year divided into Zodiac sign periods additionally indicates the dates of the Vernal and Autumnal Equinoxes and the summer and winter solstices. The inter-related four seasons are displayed on a further inner concentric ring.
The sector above the tourbillion aperture indicates Equation of Time showing the discrepancy between true solar time and standard meantime which fluctuates during the year but can be ahead by as much as 16 minutes (around November 3rd) and behind by 14 minutes (around February 12th). Solar and meantime are equal on just four occasions each year. Flanking the tourbillon aperture are two dual sectors for the time of sunrise and day length and time of sunset and night length in the user's home city. These indications are in fact another relevant factor in the Gregorian calendar in which the days are calculated from the hours of light and darkness and not strictly set times.
Another watchmaking first is the 12-hour second time zone dial with separate day and night indicator window located in the 10 o'clock position: the second time zone is used in conjunction with the digitally displayed world-time function which gives a choice of 24 cities and countries and their respective time deviations from Greenwich Meantime. This thoroughly new and discreet 12-hour system of world-time mechanism and display is the first new system to be developed since Louis Cottier's well-known world-time system with 24-hour indication invented about 1935 and is therefore of major significance.
The Dual-Function Perpetual Calendar
The perpetual calendar systems invented and built by the watchmakers of Vacheron Constantin are amongst the greatest achievements made during the construction of this watch. They represent Vacheron Constantin's supreme mastery of both highly complex mathematical calculations and the ability of their watchmaking team to translate the calculations into mechanisms functioning in complete harmony in relation to the myriad other functions. Including the Hebraic perpetual calendar seen on the other dial, this watch has the ability to provide three entirely different perpetual calendar readings.
The fundamental new departure is that two possible options are available for the reading of the Gregorian perpetual calendar displayed on this dial: either the traditional Gregorian calendar or the business calendar system known as ISO 8601, a numerical system which utilises 52 weeks and 7 days.
The Gregorian perpetual calendar which automatically corrects itself for the appropriate number of days in the month and the leap-years can be read on the dial using the retrograde date, the days of the week and months dials, with the leap-year window displaying a number between 1 and 4 located to the right of the retrograde date sector.
The ISO 8601 business calendar is a specific system founded by the International Organization for Standardization and used mainly in the international financial sector – for example in company accounting for tax years, payment of wages or rents due on a weekly basis, the planning of projects in weekly cycles, etc. The purpose of this standard is to provide an unambiguous method of representing dates and times, so as to avoid misinterpretation of numeric representations of dates and times, particularly when data are transferred between countries with different conventions for writing numeric dates and times. When times are also required under the ISO system, they are given using the 24-hour system and with time-zone information where necessary. Both these functions are also present on this dial.
When the ISO 8601 mode is employed, the number of the week within the year and the number of the day within the week takes precedence over the traditional calendar month and traditional date, the number of the week is read from the dial concentric to the month indication and the number of the day within the week is indicated by a number between 1 (for Monday) and 7 (for Sunday) in a window directly above the week dial.
The ISO system has a full cycle of 400 years and employs a seven-day cycle with weeks starting on a Monday. However, an ISO year can have either 52 or in some cases 53 full weeks when New Year's Day falls on a Thursday (Wednesday or Thursday in leap-years): this occurs every 5 or 6 years. In the ISO system, week 1 is the one which contains the first Thursday of the year and always contains January 4th. The last week of the year in the ISO calendar is the one that contains the last Thursday and always includes December 28th. This system requires the user to adopt a different way of interpretation, for example: if the calendar is displaying Thursday, September 17th, the ISO calendar will read as day 4 in the day aperture (because Thursday is the fourth day) and W 38 (W for week) on the week dial.
Another option in the mechanism of this ingenious system is that it can be switched from ISO mode to traditional calendar year mode. A calendar year is the period beginning January 1 and ending on December 31. Its programming mode will therefore also on 1 January of the year put the number of days of the week in synchronization with the first day of the calendar year. If the annual calendar displays the first day of the year on Thursday, January 1, the calendar will display W1 on the week dial and 1 in the day window (Thursday is the first day of the year).
The Vacheron Constantin Armillary Sphere Tourbillon
The mesmerizing Armillary tourbillon cage containing the watch's escapement is visible through the aperture beneath the sky chart. It is both technically exciting and visually dramatic. The watchmakers at Vacheron Constantin have created the most supremely elegant mechanism that displays a three-dimensional constantly rotating sphere moving with the utmost delicacy simultaneously in three directions. Appropriately, the watchmaker has also chosen to use a spherical balance spring which not only adds to the elegance of the mechanism, its special properties contribute to the accuracy of the watch.
This tourbillon was named "armillary" because visually it is reminiscent of the circles and rings of the scientific instrument known as the armillary sphere. It was placed in the second dial side complementing the astronomical functions to suggest the apparent movement of the stars, the Sun and the ecliptic around the earth. The frame of the cage itself, made of ultra-light aluminum and carrying the escapement and balance, is ingeniously constructed to incorporate the Vacheron Constantin company symbol of the Maltese Cross, once every 15-seconds during the tourbillon's rotation, the Maltese Cross becomes fully visible to the viewer.
The armillary sphere tourbillon is a feat of high-precision watchmaking. Made of the lightest of materials, its purpose is to minimize the effects of gravity on the balance wheel, hairspring and pallet fork of the escapement. The tourbillon is essentially a revolving platform and "cage" upon which the whole escapement is mounted that makes one full rotation in one minute. In this tourbillon, the escapement is rotated in three planes at once. The escapement has two further exceptional features: a spherical balance spring and diamond anchor pallets.
Full List of All 57 Complications
Time Functions
1. Regulator-type hours, minutes and seconds for solar meantime
2. Visible spherical armillary tourbillon regulator with spherical balance spring
3. Armillary sphere tourbillon
4. 12-hour second time zone hours and minutes
5. Indication for 24 world cities for world-time
6. Day and night indication for the 12-hour world-time
Perpetual Calendar Functions
7. Gregorian perpetual calendar
8. Gregorian days of the week
9. Gregorian months
10. Gregorian retrograde date
11. Leap-year indication and four year cycle
12. Number of the day of the week (ISO 8601 calendar)
13. Indication for the number of the week within the year (ISO 8601 calendar)
Hebraic Perpetual Calendar Functions
14. Hebraic perpetual calendar with 19-year cycle
15. Hebrew name of the day
16. Hebrew name of the month
17. Hebrew date indication
18. Hebrew secular calendar
19. Hebrew century, decade and year
20. Indication for the number of months in the Hebraic calendar year(12 or 13 months)
21. Indication for the Golden Number with 19-year cycle
Functions of the Astronomic Calendar
22. Indications for the seasons, equinoxes, solstices and signs of the zodiac with "sun" hand
23. The sky chart (calibrated for the city of the owner)
24. Sidereal time hours
25. Sidereal time minutes
26. Hours of sunrise (calibrated for the city of the owner)
27. Hours of sunset (calibrated for the city of the owner)
28. Equation of time
29. Length of the day (calibrated for the city of the owner)
30. Length of the night (calibrated for the city of the owner)
Lunar Calendar Function
31. Phases and age of the moon, one correction every 1027 years
Religious Calendar Function
32. Indication for the date of Yom Kippur
Functions of the 3 column-wheel Chronograph
33. Retrograde fifths of a second chronograph (1 column wheel)
34. Retrograde fifths of a second rattrapante chronograph (1 column wheel)
35. 12-hour counter (1 column wheel)
36. 60-minute counter
Alarm Functions
37. Progressive alarm with single gong and hammer striking
38. Alarm strike / silence indicator
39. Choice of normal alarm or carillon striking alarm indicator
40. Alarm mechanism coupled to the carillon striking mechanism
41. Alarm striking with choice of grande or petite sonnerie
42. Alarm power-reserve indication
Westminster Carillon Striking Functions
43. Carillon Westminster chiming with 5 gongs and 5 hammers
44. Grande sonnerie passing strike
45. Petite sonnerie passing strike
46. Minute repeating
47. Night silence feature (between 22.00 and 08.00 hours – hours chosen by the client)
48. System to disengage the striking barrel when fully wound
49. Indication for grande or petite sonnerie modes
50. Indication for silence / striking / night modes
Further functions
51. Power-reserve indication for the going train
52. Power-reserve indication for the striking train
53. Winding crown position indicator
54. Locking mechanism for the striking
55. Winding system for the double barrels
56. Hand-setting system with two positions and two directions
57. Concealed flush-fit winding crown for the alarm mechanism
Technical Specifications
Reference: 57260/000G-B046
- Material: White gold
- Diameter: 98 mm
- Thickness: 50.55 mm
Caliber 3750
- Diameter: 72 mm
- Thickness: 36 mm
- Number of components: Over 2,800
- Number of jewels: 242
- Frequency: 2.5Hz / 18,000 vibrations per hour
- Power Reserve: 60 hours
- Number of complications: 57
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