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curtis whitt necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 369 diseños de 53 diseñadores freelance.
South Atlantic neon & cold cathode
We are located in Orlando Fl. and supply neon and cold cathode lighting to theme parks, resorts and sign companies in Florida and across the country. A passion for the art of glass blowing and over 20 years of exprience are what make us one of the best light manufacturing companies in the country.
We market our product to lighting designers & architectural engineers of companies like Disney and Universal Studios as well as other large resorts and theme parks here in Orlando . We also target project managers of sign companies and businesses that need to attract more attention with neon lights. We are currently expanding our target market to the internet which is why we need a new and eye catching logo
I am looking for a logo that has a modern techy / industrial look . I did see some examples of ready-made designs that I liked in the technology genre that have 3-dimensional abstract graphics over or beside the business name copy.
1. I would like the type face to read "south atlantic " in bold letters w/ "neon & cold cathode" in smaller copy underneath .
2. please feel free to be creative with shapes and colors
3. keep in mind that this logo will be used on our website , business cards and corporate t-shirts
4. Make a logo design that would impress you :)
5. Thank you in advance for your efforts
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Artmann takes a sideways glance at the principal myths of Gothic fiction and re-writes them in a language which combines the precision of Wittgenstein with the loucheness of Bulwer Lytton.
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ESL 061 English as a Second Language Level 1 • V1-10 Cr.
Prepares English-as-a-second language students to understand simple spoken phrases and respond to basic personal information questions. Students learn decoding skills and survival vocabulary to read and write personal statements. This is beginning literacy level ESL. Students must show progress in three quarters of instruction. Course is credit/no-credit. Prerequisite: Placement by assessment.
After completing this class, students should be able to:
- Apply active listening strategies to understand learned words and phrases in simple questions, statements, and high frequency commands as part of short conversations, explanations, narratives or instructions with limited linguistic complexity.
- Use a few simple formulas including non-verbal gestures to convey understanding and ask for repetition or clarification.
- Speak so others can understand by recalling and using simple learned phrases relating to personal information, basic objects or a limited number of activities and immediate needs related to familiar and predictable work or life-skills communication tasks.
- Apply simple strategies (gestures, eye contact, and simple requests) to monitor effectiveness of the communication and to meet the speaking purpose.
- Read with understanding by recognizing everyday words or word groups in short, simple text by decoding letter-sound correspondence, isolating and saying first and last sounds, naming pictures to isolate and say initial sounds, sounding out words by segmenting words into separate sounds and syllables, combining or blending sounds, recognizing simple rhyming word patterns, or recalling oral vocabulary and sight words.
- Demonstrate familiarity with concepts of print and letter shapes occurring in common vocabulary.
- Convey ideas in writing by following a highly structured plan (text model) to organize information about self and/or related to immediate needs in very simple structures such as lists or responses to prompts for everyday information.
- Write all letters of the alphabet and numbers and appropriately use simple everyday, highly familiar words (personal names, signatures, addresses), numbers (dates, phone #s, addresses, prices, etc.) and simple phrases to convey information, and make simple content changes and simple edits or handwriting, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization based on feedback from others.


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Wyoming: Positives for Positives
Index of articles from Wyoming: Positives for Positives
Our Mission
Wyoming Positives for Positives provides information and referral services to doctors, dentists, and other health care providers as well as local businesses that are positive-friendly. We also participate in a medication redistribution program that provides HIV medications to people who cannot otherwise access these therapies. The agency's mission is threefold:
Our History
Wyoming Positives for Positives was founded as a community-based HIV/AIDS service organization in May 1993 by Jeff Palmer to help address the needs of HIV-positive Wyomingites for HIV care, treatment, and prevention, as well as to educate health care providers in a predominantly rural setting. He was a true pioneer in advocating for the rights of people living with or at risk for HIV, including those who were incarcerated or who battled addictions that increased their risk. He was never afraid of a good fight when people's needs hung in the balance, and he won a great many more than he lost.
Jeff provided the direction and guiding spirit for the work of the agency from its most humble beginnings from the back of a trailer to its brick-and-mortar evolution. The agency came to provide a wide variety of services over the years, including outreach and prevention, HIV counseling and testing, a Lectures and Speakers program geared to health care provider education and a quarterly newsletter with a top circulation of over 12,000 with readers in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and 47 other nations.
Jeff passed away at the age of 59 on Monday, Oct. 3, 2005 at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. His wife Catherine, his sister Joan and his mother Shirley were among the family members taking care of him during his last days.
In the months since Jeff's passing the Board of Directors have been working to ensure the continued operations of the organization that Jeff's passion created and sustained for so long. The new office location and the renovated web site are part of that effort. As we continue to move forward we invite and encourage the community's participation and input.
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Browse Reviews :: Storm Warning
Storm Warning Whether global recession, terrorist threats, or devastating natural disasters, these ominous shadows must bring us back to the Gospel.
By Billy Graham
Published by Thomas Nelson
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On 6/30 Kimberly Schroeder wrote: Storm WarningBilly Graham is a man of God. Billy is seemingly always focused on Christ and this book is no different. These times we live in are full of anxiety, stress and fear. We never know what tomorrow will bring. Many of us wonder what the end times will look like and if we are ... Is there a storm brewing?
On 1/13 Mandy Kilbourn wrote: So, this has been a long time coming. To be honest, I'm not even sure how long ago I got this book from BookSneeze. I'm finally getting around to reviewing it, though, so I guess late is better than never...STORM WARNING is a reprint of a book Billy Graham actually wrote about 10 years ago, but what ... STORM WARNING by Billy Graham (book review)
On 10/5 Nanette Baker wrote: I received this book free, courtesy of Booksneeze several months ago, and have taken my time reading it! For those of you interested in the "Signs of the Times", this book sheds some light and wisdom on this ever captivating topic!! It is my belief that God is Graceful and Loving, and ALWAYS makes a ... Storm Warning by Billy Graham
On 7/1 Karen Jarman wrote: Here is the synopsis of the book:An examination of the imminence of Christ's return in light of today's headlines and the events recorded in Scripture.The morning newspapers are jammed with alarming headlines and stories asking questions no one can answer. In Storm Warning, Billy Graham examines the ... Storm Warning by Billy Graham
On 6/16 bryan hill wrote: He answers the tough questions as only he can with astute biblical insight, and points to the hope and renewal found in Christ-for our families, our nation, and our world. I really had a difficult time getting into this book. I have never been one to dig deep into the book of Revelation. Parts of this ... Storm Warning
On 6/9 Standing on Truth wrote: Many see Billy Graham as a cornerstone of Christian evangelism and faith in America, but yet, I confess, this is the first Billy Graham book I have ever read. I have read some of his daughter, Anne Graham Lotz's, writings and her talent as a writer is God-given and undeniable. Now I see where she ... Storm Warning by Billy Graham
On 6/5 lmarti04 wrote: I have to admit, this book was hard for me to "get in to" at first, but I am so glad I pressed on. Initially, I was looking for some secret insight as to when the world would end, as though Mr. Graham could attribute current events to specific references in the Bible, giving an exact formula to when ... Storm Warning By Billy Graham
On 5/28 JY wrote: What a great reminder amidst the turmoils of life. It's so easy to forget everything that God warns us about, but Franklin Graham makes it clear and real to us in the 21st century about how much we really need to run back to the Bible and run back to God, no matter how far we think we are from Him. In ... Book review for Storm Warining
On 3/1 truenorthusa wrote: The recently updated and released Storm Warning by the great evangelist, Billy Graham, is an interesting look at history and the end times events described in the Bible. This book provides a thought-provoking analysis of how world events can be mapped to the Biblical end times, and looks ahead to describe ... A look at the culture and end times
On 2/17 James Carmichael wrote: About 9 months ago I joined a book program where I would get free books as long as I agreed to review them online and post about them. Kind of a buzz generating thing, thinking it would help people who were thinking about buying the book. So, I picked up this Billy Graham book, which is a reworked ... A little cold war for your end times theology?


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Half submerged boats rust gracefully in the central canal of Alappuzha as you enter the town on the left to head towards the Punnamada Jetty road. The languid feel of the scene is almost symbolic of how your visit to Alappuzha might be. Perfect to replicate the satisfying laziness of boats floating under the shade of trees. Off the main Jetty road, one is met with bright, nature inspired illustrations on a yellow wall. The newly constructed homestay is owned by Mr. Anthony and Josmy with their two children. Close to the starting point of the illustrious Nehru Snake Boat Race, it is a perfect stop if you can manage to make it in the second Saturday of August.
Walking distance from the venue, you are sure to get good seats along with the villagers. Just over an hourâs drive from Cochin Airport and about 5 kilometers from the Alappuzha railway station, the location is aptly away from the bustling town. With a large courtyard in front, 5 spacious rooms, including 2 suites are impeccably clean and comfortable. Large sit outs with pillars and spacious rooms are equipped with ACs and TVs. A unique architectural feature with a line of holes near the top of the roof allows natural light in the rooms which are also great for ventilation in the sultry weather of Alappuzha. A fresh break from the typical Kerala architecture, the house is a modern structure with slight nuances of traditional designs. Anthony, a veteran of the town can arrange for various extra treats.
Vijay Kishore Vaidyanathan
Nov 2013
A pleasant stay The stay overall was wonderful. The rooms were very nicely done and quite comfortable. Also the couple was very pleasant and dinner was a relishing. Just one small request would be that showers need to be fixed.
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Guns N' Roses Bassist Tommy Stinson Says Record Label Contributed to Delay of 'Chinese Democracy'
It's a fact that Guns N' Roses spent an extraordinary amount of time recording 'Chinese Democracy.'
But according to GNR bassist Tommy Stinson, the bulk of the blame for the drawn-out process really falls on the band's label for failing to understand what the musicians needed.
In a recent interview, Stinson claims singer and bandleader Axl Rose "got zero f—ing help from anyone outside the band." Yet Stinson adds that the record company — Interscope Records, which controls the Geffen imprint that released 'Democracy' in 2008 — did offer support: a revolving door of A&R representatives along with different producers, such as Roy Thomas Baker.
"He made things sound better," Stinson admits, "but that wasn't what we needed. We needed someone to help us f—ing sow it up, and he came in [and] f—ing re-recorded everything five f—g times with every amp in the country."
Despite all the problems associated with the making of 'Democracy,' Stinson is proud of the album and feels it will eventually get its due from the public.
"Compare it lyrically to past GNR records … [and] I think there's some significantly deep, thought-out stuff. Down the road people will see that," Stinson says.
But did GNR benefit from the lengthy, complicated 'Democracy' experience? Stinson thinks so.
"I just see us making [the next] record much quicker," he says, "because, in hindsight, a lot of what happened with 'Chinese Democracy,' we could get around now."


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From the promo blurb for My Double Life, by Janette Rallison:
You know how they say everyone has a twin somewhere in the world, a person chance has formed to be their mirror image? Well, mine happens to be rock star Kari Kingsley. How crazy is that?
Not crazy at all, when you, like I, have just spent two days combing through dozens (and dozens) of new YA novels, every other one of which seeming to encapsulate a formula of romance novel plus high-concept commercial hook plus glamorama cover art. In my day we called these paperbacks.
One of the more interesting of post-Harry Potter developments has been the emergence of commercial fiction for young people; that is, books designed to be purchased by kids/teens themselves, written in an undemanding style and with an alluring, quickly graspable premise. Airport books. Except if they were airport books, I wouldn't have to think twice about not reviewing them. And. There. Are. So. Many. And so many that seem to want desperately to be just like some other book that has already been a hit. Little Vampire Women, I'm looking at you.


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Sure of wife choice, guys still fret about engagement ring
When superstar performing artist Justin Timberlake asked actress Jessica Biel to be his wife, he presented her with a custom-made diamond engagement ring he designed himself. Biel gushed to celebrity magazines about Timberlake's artistic flair with jewelry, said yes and married him.
Most men are not Justin Timberlake.
When a guy enters Wyatt Austin Jewelers in Schaumburg to buy an engagement ring, he generally doesn't have Timberlake's confidence.
"A lot of times it's hard for a guy to just walk into a jewelry store. He's very nervous about getting the wrong ring," says owner Candice Milstein. In the 29 years since she launched the business with her husband, Jeff, who died in 2011, engagement rings have dominated sales. But she's noticed that the typical man has no faith in his ability to pick out a ring on his own.
"I just had one guy bring in his future sister-in-law," Milstein says. "And just yesterday we had a guy bring in his parents. Sometimes we get a whole family in here. We have had occasions when he'll bring in her family."
Sometimes, the girlfriend drops plenty of not-too-subtle hints or even points out a ring she'd want if someone just happened to be proposing to her on Valentine's Day.
"If they have been told she already likes it, it makes it a lot easier," Milstein says. If not, Wyatt Austin has a CAD for that -- a computer-assisted design computer program that lets shoppers design a virtual ring on a computer screen.
"They all come in with some idea of what she wants," Wyatt Austin jewelry designer Amy Rugg says of the men she helps. "Our job is to take it, their idea, and make it beautiful."
One man planning a surprise engagement sat with Rugg at her computer, hoping to come up with the perfect ring.
"He wanted a classic design, but he wanted to make it special," says Rugg, who asked him about the woman's favorite things.
"She's crazy about dolphins," the man said, "but I don't want to get her a dolphin ring."
The result was a ring that looked very much like a classic diamond engagement ring. But if you studied it closely, you'd see that the supports in the diamond setting were shaped like dolphin tails.
"She loved it," Rugg says, adding, "They were one of two couples we had that got engaged in front of the dolphin tank at Brookfield Zoo that day."
Who knew?
Rugg won a design award for a ring that looks like a miniature baseball and features real diamonds on a baseball diamond. That, you won't be surprised to hear, was a ring a guy had made for himself, not a bride-to-be. Some of Wyatt Austin's best work is rarely seen by anyone except the happy couple.
One man's tradition of texting a "You Are My Sunshine" message to his future bride's phone each morning resulted in an engagement ring featuring a gold sunshine icon embedded in the band under the diamond and hidden unless the woman removed the ring. Some wedding rings have the date carved into the band, which comes in handy for spouses who can't remember their anniversary, Milstein says.
Of the thousands of engagement rings she's sold, Milstein says she remembers only two cases when the woman said no. Of course, not everyone who gets engaged buys a ring.
Celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary next month, my wife and I remain happy with our decision to spend money on our honeymoon instead of on a diamond ring. But the absence of a ring did create some awkward moments. When we announced our engagement, people responded by saying, "Ooh, let's see." Expecting to see something sparkly on a finger, friends seemed disappointed when we just got all doe-eyed and gazed lovingly at each other.
But the adage about spending two or three months' salary on a setting isn't set in stone, Milstein says.
"There are a lot of variables," she says.
While her typical customer might spend $4,000 to $6,000 on an engagement ring, a solitaire diamond ring starts at less than $200, and the most-expensive ring Wyatt Austin has crafted sold for six-figures.
Which brings us back to Justin Timberlake and the typical suburban guy's chances of garnering a yes to his proposal on Valentine's Day. In addition to designing a personalized ring, you might follow another of Timberlake's leads: Build the ring around an 18-carat diamond.
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As the direct link between the power and torque coming from the output shaft of the transmission to the pinion yoke of the differential where it's transferred to the axles, the wheels, and finally the tires on the pavement, the driveshaft is an incredibly vital component to the operation of a vehicle. It would be safe to say the vehicle isn't going anywhere without one, but that's a rather obvious statement that could be made about a lot of components. But a driveshaft takes a lot of stress, particularly in high horsepower racing applications; they must be straight, strong, and durable. And in a race car, it's also preferable that it's as light as possible.
Producing a strong yet lightweight driveshaft is a task that separates the men from the boys, so to speak, in the aftermarket industry, and Dynotech Engineering has been making a name for itself in virtually every major racing organization for decades by delivering driveshafts that stand up to the task at hand. Today, we're going to bring you a detailed look at Dynotech's range of steel, aluminum, carbon fiber, and even carbon fiber-wrapped aluminum driveshafts with their own Steve Raymond, discussing everything from interesting facts such as how a carbon fiber driveshaft is made to how you can best go about selecting the right driveshaft for your needs and budget.
First, let's take a look at the commonly used materials for driveshaft construction and the pros and cons of each.
Steel is the most common material used for OEM driveshafts, because not only is it strong and reliable, but it's very cost effective to manufacture. Now, you might be thinking that anything that's cheap to make and is used on a passenger vehicle can't be adequate for a race car, but this is a misconception that Raymond quickly put to rest. As with many race car components made from steel, the material is extremely durable, and that's key when you're transferring a lot of horsepower through it.
"Steel is certainly still the toughest material and often the most cost effective," says Raymond. "You can always put more torque and horsepower through a steel shaft than the other common materials based on size. A properly built D.O.M. (Drawn Over Mandrel) steel shaft will take an amazing amount of power."
Of course, the obvious trade-off to the use of steel is weight. Not only are you carrying more physical weight on the race car, but more importantly, you have more rotating mass spinning at high RPM. This robs the car of performance — even worse when there's less horsepower on tap.
Steel driveshafts can be broken down into two different sub-materials: mild steel (the aforementioned Drawn Over Mandrel), and Chromoly. There are some basic trade-offs between the two, and the weight difference between them is present but virtually indistinguishable, however, each has its own place and its own application. Chromoly, because of it's strength properties, is the strongest material you can produce a driveshaft from, but that isn't to say that mild steel can't take a beating.
"It takes a lot of horsepower before you absolutely have to go with chromoly — we're talking 1,500 to 1,800 engine horsepower before we even consider it. The D.O.M. steel is plenty strong for applications up to that level, and because chromoly is a slightly denser material, the mild steel will be a little bit lighter. They're both the same tube diameter, the same wall thickness, it's purely in the makeup of the material itself."
According to Raymond, the common driveshaft thickness is .083-inch wall, so despite what we know about chassis tubing where chromoly is stronger and can therefore be thinner, driveshaft tubing is produced at a more standard thickness due to these critical manufacturing tolerances.
"The chromoly is certainly stronger, and it can take more torque, but in an overkill situation, how much overkill do you really need? We'll easily put 1,500 to 1,800 engine horsepower through a D.O.M. steel shaft, so it takes a lot of car to start overpowering that material."
You can always put more torque and horsepower through a steel shaft than the other common materials based on size. – Steve Raymond
The primary advantage of an aluminum driveshaft is its lightweight characteristic, and as Raymond pointed out to us, it's more about the ends and less about the actual tube that derives the weight savings over a comparable steel shaft. The lighter weight material improves the initial imblance of the driveshaft and the residual imbalance can have an influence on the driveshaft critical speed, or the RPM at which the driveshaft will resonate and begin to vibrate uncontrollably.
At a high speed, a long, skinny, driveshaft will begin to resonate. Because aluminum is lighter, it can be made thicker, allowing it to remain more stable without impacting performance because of increased inertia.
So while acceleration and higher speed potential are surefire bonuses, the reduced risk of damage from vibration are key pluses for an aluminum driveshaft.
But while weight is the advantage of aluminum, the disadvantage is that it's not as strong as steel, and in general, driveshafts made from aluminum will fatigue quicker than other materials. Manufacturers perform a work-hardening process to the shafts when they're built to make them stronger. While some hardening of the driveshaft can be good and make the material a little tougher, running too close or slightly above the yield of the material will result in an eventual failure. And as Raymond puts it, "When a driveshaft fails it always takes something else with it."
The key is understanding the operating range of the driveshaft and performing regular maintenance. Says Raymond, "We have customers that have been running the same aluminum driveshaft for years in their application. The only thing we suggest is to make sure you put it on your regular maintenance list. You should check the welds and straightness of the shaft on regular intervals."
Carbon Fiber
This brings us to the ultimate in driveshaft technology — carbon fiber — and as you can guess, it's also the most expensive material in the driveshaft lineup. But that doesn't sidestep the fact that carbon fiber has the best strength-to-weight ratio of any material and is a very good dampener in and of itself.
"If you're worried about every ounce and money is no object then this is the way to go," says Raymond.
How Carbon Fiber Driveshafts Are Made
The creation of a carbon fiber driveshaft is an intriguing process that most people never get a chance to see. The manufacturing begins by "wet-winding" the carbon fiber onto steel mandrels at different angles to achieve the targeted strength characteristics. The steel or aluminum ends are then bonded into the carbon fiber tube. Dynotech does this because they still like to high-speed balance the driveshaft and need a small amount of surface area to place the balance weights. After the tube is received from their carbon fiber tube manufacturer, the ends are welded onto the application and then fit with U-joints and the slip yoke to complete the shaft.
The downside to carbon fiber is twofold. First, make no mistake that it's expensive. But secondly, it doesn't handle damage well. As Raymond pointed out to us, an aluminum or steel driveshaft can take a scratch and be okay for use for quite some time, but any damage to a carbon fiber shaft is going to cause it to fail at the damage point sooner rather than later.
What Is A Carbon Fiber-Wrapped Aluminum Driveshaft?
Dynotech offers a carbon fiber-wrapped driveshaft that uses the carbon as a stiffener for the standard aluminum shaft. By wrapping it with a thin layer of carbon fiber, the driveshaft can be spun about 20% faster without reaching its critical speed.
Critical Speed
We've alluded to what's known as critical speed, and it's a point that Raymond believes racers should understand. "Critical speed is the rotation speed of a driveshaft that excites the shafts first order bending frequency," he explains. "Every driveshaft has a critical speed, you just need to make sure don't spend time at the driveshafts critical speed."
The critical speed is determined by driveshaft length, diameter, and material. As Raymond points out, most of the time your best option to ensure you stay away from critical speed is by changing the diameter of the shaft to something larger in diameter. Unlike the diameter, it's not quite as easy to change the driveshaft length. If you have three shafts (steel, aluminum, and carbon fiber) all the same length, each shaft will have its own critical speed.
Critical speed is the rotation speed of a driveshaft that excites the shafts first order bending frequency. Every driveshaft has a critical speed, you just need to make sure don't spend time at the driveshafts critical speed. – Steve Raymond
The driveshaft thickness is often dictated by which material you choose. This is because most driveshaft tube is manufactured to higher tolerances than any ordinary tube that you'd find at a metal supply outlet. Steel is commonly .083-inch and aluminum is 0.125-inch. According to Raymond, these are also the standard weld yokes that are available in the industry.
Selecting The Proper Driveshaft
If you've got a performance street car or a purpose-built race car and you're shopping for an aftermarket driveshaft, you may be wondering what variables come into play in choosing the proper part for your vehicle and its uses. Is it based on horsepower range? On torque? On the weight of the vehicle or the intended use? These are all good questions, and as Raymond explains, it is in fact a little bit of each of these, and the experts at Dynotech are there to compile your information to help select just the right driveshaft to fit the bill.
"We always ask what is the car or truck, how are you going to use it, and how long is the driveshaft," says Raymond. "Once we start to understand that, we can begin to pick what is going to be the best for you application. Because of the performance characteristics of each of the materials, it really is pretty easy to pick a driveshaft. Most often the customer just has to select between a steel or aluminum material."
When it comes to driveshafts for race cars, Dynotech sees a pretty good mix of both steel and aluminum being used in cars producing upwards of 900 horsepower. As Raymond pointed out to us, the most important element of selecting a driveshaft is getting it sized properly for the application. How light or how high-tech the driveshaft is is purely irrelevant if it fails during operation, and so proper measurement and fit is key.
Dynotech sells more DOM steel driveshafts for racing applications than any other material, and this is primarily because it allows the customer to focus their expenses on other areas of the car or truck that can have larger effects on the on-track performance. And because it's very strong.
Speaking in terms of weight, an aluminum driveshaft is about 1.5 pounds per foot lighter than a steel-based shaft using a 3.5-inch diameter shaft, as an example. About three pounds can also be saved by going from steel ends to aluminum ends, thus making the weight difference between steel and aluminum in a 48-inch shaft about nine pounds.
In terms of steel, Chromoly is estimated to be in the hundredths of a pound per square inch more than mild steel meaning the entire shaft is a fraction of a pound heavier. Carbon fiber, meanwhile, is only .18 pounds lighter per foot than aluminum, so your average 48-inch driveshaft would only save you about .63 pounds all said and done. Regardless of the material, all driveshafts use the same U-joints and slip yoke, which are the heaviest parts of a driveshaft. The point to be made here is that there isn't as much of a difference in weight between each of the materials, and for those on a budget, that money could likely be put to better use elsewhere.
"We see more racers on a budget, so they want something they can put into their car and not have to worry about it for the next year or two," says Raymond. "This really lets the racer continue to develop his or her car and make more power without constantly spending their money on another driveshaft. The big thing to remember about racing products is no matter how cool or lightweight it is, you will never win unless it holds up."
The Weight Difference On A Time Slip
The primary focus of any driveshaft purchase should be strength and long-term durability, but there's no question that weight matters to any gearhead, and said gearhead, after reading of the differences in weight between each of the materials we've highlighted here, probably wants to know what it all equates to on the race track.
The laws of physics (and just pure logic) tells us that less rotating weight means less torque to rotate and therefore more energy that can be transferred on to the drive wheels, and there's no disputing that. But as Raymond says emphatically, "I would have to bet you cannot measure the difference between aluminum and carbon fiber at the track. There are just too many variables to try and get exactly the same each time to measure that accurately." He went on to explain that even on a chassis dyno, the differences are very minimal and often difficult to measure.
"There was a study and report done several years back with an at-the-track comparison between a steel and aluminum shaft and several back-to-back runs," explained Raymond. "They claimed to find .035 to .078 in elapsed time. Those are some pretty nice numbers for just changing the driveshaft material. We have also had customers tell us they have found between two and 15 horsepower on a chassis dyno, but they were often talking about changing the style of the driveshaft along with the material."
The differences in weight between steel, aluminum, and carbon fiber are clear and present, and there's no question that there's some performance to be had by spending the extra cash for the lighter driveshaft. The true question is what your needs are, what you're doing with your vehicle, and how much you have to spend. If you can gain those few hundredths of a second or few horsepower elsewhere, perhaps aluminum or even steel are the answer for you. But always keep in mind that a driveshaft means little if it's laying out on the race track, so make matching the material, the diameter, and the proper length and angle to the vehicle and its operation (namely the critical speed) before anything else.


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Pacific connected: A regional approach to development challenges facing island nations
Dots on the world map – they are coral atolls and volcanic islands spread across a vast swath of the Pacific Ocean with names as exotic as their turquoise water, white sand and tropical foliage.
Twelve Pacific Island countries are members of the World Bank. Between them they are home to about 11 million people, much less than one percent of the global population.
One of them, Kiribati, consists of 33 atolls and coral islets, spread across an area larger than India, but with a land mass smaller than New Delhi. With less than 10,000 inhabitants, Tuvalu is the World Bank's smallest member country.
Despite such remote and tiny landscapes, the Pacific Island countries – including Fiji, Palau, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia and Timor-Leste – represent far more than meets the eye.


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Left-handed pitcher Matt Denny and right-handed pitcher Scott Weathersby both represented Ole Miss in collegiate summer baseball league all-star games Wednesday night. They are among several members of the Rebel baseball team participating in summer league ball during the offseason before returning to Ole Miss in the fall.
Weathersby plays for the Southern
California Catch of the California Collegiate League. He was named to the South
Division All-Star team and picked up the win, as the South All-Stars defeated the North All-Stars, 3-2. Weathersby worked a perfect fifth inning with a strikeout.
The junior right-hander is 4-0 with a 2.08 ERA. He also has 23 strikeouts against six walks in 24.1 innings over seven games as both a starter and reliever. His best outing came against the Academy Barons on July 8 when he allowed just one hit with no walks and six strikeouts in five scoreless innings.
Watchin my boy @S_Weathersby40 on SportSouth!! #CCL All Star!!!-- Tanner Mathis (@tgmathis12) July 18, 2013
Denny plays for the Baltimore Redbirds of
the Cal Ripken Collegiate Baseball League. He was named to the North Division
All-Star team but did not appear in the game.
The sophomore left-hander is 2-1 with a
2.66 ERA, which included a 16-inning scoreless streak. He also has 21
strikeouts against eight walks in 23.2 innings over five starts. His best outing came against the Herndon
Braves on June 29 when he worked six scoreless innings, allowing just two hits
with no walks and five strikeouts.
Another Ole Miss player who has impressed this summer has been junior right-hander Chris Ellis, who plays for the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod League. He ranks ninth in the league in opponents' batting average and 10th in earned run average.
Ellis is 2-2 with a 2.05 ERA. He also has
20 strikeouts against nine walks in 30.2 innings over six starts, while
limiting opposing hitters to a .212 batting average. Among the six starts, he
tossed six shutout innings on three separate occasions.
In his best outing, the junior right-hander took a no-hitter into
the seventh inning against the Harwich Mariners on June 21, allowing just one unearned
run on one hit with two walks and three strikeouts.


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From July 12-23, 2004, OSC Summer Institute participants experienced firsthand the dynamic fields of high performance computing (HPC) and networking. Working with kids their own age and with similar interests, they contemplated everything from computational chemistry to mechanical engineering, all while applying newly learned programming and visualization skills.
To make the experience well-rounded, OSC invited experts from the science, engineering, HPC and networking communities to speak with the students about relevant topics and careers in science and engineering.
SI is not just about spending time in the classroom. Students enjoyed a day of learning about team building while navigating obstacle and rope courses at the Adventure Education Center. Other fun field trips with a science spin included visits to OSU's Nuclear Reactor Lab, Museum of Biological Diversity and The Center for Automotive Research. Students also got a taste of campus life by living and dining in the OSU dorms.
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Sean Lee
Kevin Lin
Amy Liu
Dylan Petonke
Zach Sjostrom
Richard Testani
James Wang
Norman Wang
Kyle Wilson
The students worked together in small teams on diverse and challenging projects. Teams were comprised of a project leader (staff member who conceived and designed the project), 3 or 4 students, a high school teacher and a student leader (in charge of dividing project tasks).
The projects offered change from year to year, This year's projects included: Parallel Processing, Electron Scattering and Fluid Dynamics.
The Parallel Processing project was designed mainly to teach the parallel processing language needed to split up a problem and assign different tasks to different processors. Their parallel code was run on supercomputers containing 128 and 256 separate processors. Two groups used parallel processing to make high-speed simulations in two different scientific areas. One group's projects studied the dynamics of stellar clusters. A cluster is a group of stars bound together by gravity. The movement of an individual star is determined by the gravitational force on it from all the other stars. Their code produced 3-D images of all the stars at times starting with the cluster formation. A processor was assigned to each of the 200 stars. Not only did the students use actual astronomical data from science journals to set up the cluster parameters but they made animations that looked amazingly close to the actual telescopic observations.
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The second parallel processing group studied the spread of an epidemic through a community. A different part of the community was assigned to each processor. The students performed a number of simulations each one on a different disease. They varied such disease parameters as contagious level, virulence level, transmission method, time to recover (if possible), and possible immunity. By changing these properties, the group simulated diseases that ran the gamut from the common cold to the Ebola virus. As with the star cluster project, actual data was used. This time obtained from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta.
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In the Electron Scattering projects, the groups considered a variation on Rutherford's theme, and developed a simulation of a beam of electrons bombarding a thin foil of some material. This basic process underlies the operation of a number of modern devices, including Scanning and Transmission Electron Microscopes (SEM and TEM). The basic idea behind these is to use the pattern of scattered electrons to reconstruct a picture of the object under study.
One team analyzed how the scattering would change if the energy of the incident radiation was changed. The animations produced showed that with higher energy, fewer particles "bounced back" and more when completely through the gold foil. The results were reversed for lower energy input beams. The track of each incident particle was colored coded to show how much energy that particle had at that moment in time.
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The other team kept the incident energy the same, but changed what type of material the particles. The simulated the electron scattering for low-density foils made of copper, for example, and high-density foils made of, say, lead. In the simulations it could be seen that the number of particles making it completely through the material was lower as the material density increased.
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The fifth group wrote code that simulated the difficult problem of Fluid Dynamics. When performing such simulations the characteristics of the fluid itself first have to be taken into account. Properties such as viscosity, compressibility, and density to name a few. Second, the interaction between the fluid and the material it is flowing through must be considered. A few of the questions to be answered included: Is the flow in a large or small conduit? Are there curves and bends in the pipe? What is the drag/friction between the fluid and the material's surface? This group produced a series of animations with different fluids and different pipe geometries. In several animations, clear constructive and destructive interference patterns were seen. All the data was calculated by solving the two/three dimensional partial differential Navier-Stokes equation.
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With the guidance of OSC faculty, students did their own work from code implementation to final results. The students took what they learned in the classroom and applied it to the coding and completion of their projects. An understanding of the project's science/engineering were prerequisites for facilitating code writing. The students made a video animation displaying their simulation data -- which was the ultimate goal of each project. Groups presented and explained their results to parents, OSC staff, and guests who attended the SI Closing Ceremonies.
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|STIS Instrument Handbook for Cycle 27
• ACCUM operating modes for the CCD and MAMAs, which produce a time- integrated accumulated image. These are the most commonly used modes.
• TIME-TAG operating mode for the MAMA detectors, which outputs an event stream of high-time-resolution observations in the ultraviolet (UV).
• 11.1.1 CCD ACCUM ModeThe STIS CCD has only the single operating mode, ACCUM, for science data. The CCD pixels accumulate charge during the exposure in response to photons. The charge is read out at the end of the exposure at a selectable gain (number of e-/DN) and converted to 16 bit data numbers (DN) by the A-to-D converter. The DN are stored as 16 bit words (with a range 0 to 65,535) in the STIS data buffer memory array. At the default CCDGAIN=1, the gain amplifier saturation level (33,000 electrons), and not the 16-bit format, limits the total counts that can be sustained in a single exposure without saturating (see also Section 7.2.10 and Section 7.3.2). At the other supported gain, CCDGAIN=4, the CCD full well (which can be as low as 120,000 e- or 30000 DN in some regions of the detector) still determines the saturation limit.A full detector readout is actually 1062 × 1044 pixels with physical and virtual overscans. Scientific data are obtained on 1024 × 1024 pixels, each projecting to ~0.05 × 0.05 arcsecond on the sky. The dispersion axis runs along AXIS1 (image X or along a row of the CCD), and the spatial dimension of the slit runs along AXIS2 (image Y or along a column of the CCD). Figure 11.1 illustrates the full CCD format and its orientation with respect to the spacecraft (U2 and U3 or V2 and V3) axes. Arrows indicate the orientation of the parallel and serial clocking. The readout directions depend on the amplifier used. For the default amplifier D, the readout is at the upper right corner. It includes 19 columns of leading and 19 columns of trailing physical overscan in AXIS1, and 20 trailing rows of virtual overscan in AXIS2. The trailing serial overscan as well as the parallel overscan pixels are used to determine the bias level in post-observation data processing. The parallel overscan can also be used in the diagnosis of charge-transfer problems.Figure 11.1: CCD ACCUM Mode Format for a Long-Slit SpectrumThe minimum CCD exposure time is 0.1 second and the maximum possible exposure time is 4.7 hours (though we cannot imagine wanting a single exposure longer than 60 minutes). The minimum time between identical exposures for CCD full-frame (1062 × 1044) images is ~45 seconds.1 This time is dominated by the time it takes to read out the CCD (29 seconds for the full frame) and can be reduced to ~19 seconds if you use a subarray (see CCD Subarrays on page 214).The CCD supports on-chip binning. When on-chip binning is used the specified number of pixels in the serial and parallel directions are read out as a single pixel. The advantage of CCD binning is that the read noise per binned pixel is comparable to the read noise per unbinned pixel. Thus if your signal-to-noise per pixel is dominated by read noise when no binning is used, you can increase the signal-to-noise by binning. The disadvantages of using on-chip binning are (a) it reduces the resolution of your spectrogram or image, (b) the relative number of pixels affected by cosmic rays increases, and (c) the relative number of 'hot' pixels (which is ~5% of all CCD pixels for unbinned data by the time this handbook is issued, see Chapter 7), increases by a factor proportional to the binning factor. On-chip binning of 1, 2, or 4 pixels in both the AXIS1 and AXIS2 directions is supported. Note that on-chip binning is not allowed when subarrays are used.The number of hot pixels has been increasing steadily with time due to accumulated radiation damage on the STIS CCD (see the discussion on hot pixels in Chapter 7). Thus the impact of hot pixels on binned data has become significantly larger. Also note that when spectral data are spatially rectified, a single pixel in the original data will be interpolated into four pixels in the rectified image. For data binned N × M on board the spacecraft, a single bad pixel will, after rectification, affect the equivalent of 4 × N × M pixels in an unbinned image.When using the ETC to estimate the effects of on-board binning on the S/N of CCD observations, be aware that increasing the binning in the dispersion direction may cause the ETC to use a larger resolution element for its S/N calculation. Be sure to understand how much of any increase in the S/N number output by the ETC is due to an actual decrease in the read noise and how much is simply due to a change in the size of the resolution element assumed for the calculation.During Phase II, you specify the binning for your CCD observations using the BINAXIS1 and BINAXIS2 optional parameters. The default values are 1.Subarrays can be used when the CCD detector is read out. Generally, there is no need to use a subarray for STIS data. The main scientific use of CCD subarrays is for time-resolved optical spectroscopy, where subarrays can be used to reduce the CCD read time and keep the data volume at a manageable level. CCD subarrays can also be specified for CCD ACQ/PEAK observations to limit the region in a diffuse object (e.g., a galaxy) over which the flux is summed for the peakup. When a subarray is used, only the portion of the detector which is within the specified subarray is read out and transmitted to the ground (see Figure 11.2—note that the spectrogram curvature is exaggerated in this figure).Figure 11.2: Using SubarraysAs described in Section 11.1.1, full-frame CCD readouts are composed of 1062 × 1044 pixels: 1024 × 1024 data pixels, 19 leading and 19 trailing serial overscan pixels, and 20 trailing parallel overscan pixels. Dispersion runs along axis1 and the long dimension of the slit runs along axis2. Subarrays are required to span the full width of the CCD detector in the serial (dispersion) direction in order to ensure they contain the serial overscan needed to determine the bias level; however, you can control the height of the subarray in the parallel direction (i.e., along the slit for long-slit spectroscopic observations). Note that no parallel overscan is returned for subarrays (see Section 7.3.6). Subarray size is specified in Phase II by the parameter SIZEAXIS2, the size in pixels of the subarray in the AXIS2 direction.The minimum allowed value of SIZEAXIS2 for ACCUM mode observations is 30 pixels (corresponding to 1.5 arcseconds), and SIZEAXIS2 must be an even number of pixels. By default the target is placed within a few pixels of the center of the subarray. For a few central wavelength settings, however, the target may be systematically offset by up to 30 pixels in the spatial direction. Observers should consult with the Help Desk prior to using SIZEAXIS2 with a value of less than 64 pixels.The minimum time between identical CCD exposures is the readtime + 16 seconds. The time to read out a CCD subarray is:Thus, using the smallest available subarray, which is 30 pixels high, you can reduce the minimum time between identical exposures to ~19 seconds (16 seconds overhead plus 3 seconds read time). The minimum time between full-frame CCD exposures is 16 + 29 = 45 seconds.The format of the data you receive when you use a CCD subarray will have dimensions 1062 × SIZEAXIS2, will cover the full range in the dispersion direction, and will include the serial overscan. The STIS buffer can hold seven full-frame CCD exposures at one time, or 7 × (1024 / SIZEAXIS2) exposures at any one time. Full-frame CCD data acquired in one exposure can be transferred to the HST data recorder during the subsequent exposure(s) so long as the integration time of the subsequent exposure is longer than 3.0 minutes. If you are taking a series of exposures which are shorter than that, the buffer cannot be emptied during exposure, and once the STIS buffer fills up, there will be a pause in the exposure sequence of roughly 3 minutes as the buffer is emptied. This problem can sometimes be avoided with the judicious use of subarrays.11.1.2 MAMA ACCUM ModeIn MAMA ACCUM2 mode exposures, photons are accumulated into a 2048 × 2048, 16-bit-per-element oversampled array in the STIS data buffer memory as they are received. At the end of the exposure, the data can be left in the over-sampled (or highres) format, which is the default for scientific exposures, or they can be binned along AXIS1 and AXIS2 to produce a 1024 × 1024 native-format image. Dispersion runs along AXIS1 and the spatial dimension of the slit runs along AXIS2. Figure 11.3 and Figure 11.4 illustrate the format and coordinate system for MAMA images, showing how first-order and echelle ACCUM mode spectrograms appear. PRISM images have dispersion along AXIS1. Note that for FUV-MAMA G140L and G140M the target is placed near AXIS2=392 to ensure that it will not fall on the shadow of the repeller wire (see Section 7.6). Thus there will be ~3 arcseconds less spatial sky coverage to decreasing AXIS2 and ~3 arcseconds more spatial sky coverage to increasing AXIS2 along the slit. Said another way, slit center will project ~3 arcseconds below the detector center along AXIS2 for G140L and G140M observations. Data taken prior to March 15, 1999 have the slit center offset above the detector center. Note also the effects of the monthly offsetting which applies to all MAMA modes, excepting the echelle modes beginning August 2002 (see Section 7.6).Figure 11.4: MAMA Mode Format for Echelle SpectroscopyThe minimum MAMA ACCUM mode exposure time is 0.1 second and the maximum exposure time is 1.8 hours. For a series of identical MAMA ACCUM science exposures, there is a minimum overhead between exposures of ~30 seconds if the exposure time is longer than 2 minutes. Exposures shorter than 2 minutes incur larger overheads of ~2.5 minutes. This difference arises because in the former case the buffer can be dumped to the HST recorder during the subsequent exposure (i.e., in parallel), but in the latter case there is insufficient time to dump the buffer during the subsequent exposure and the buffer must be dumped serially (i.e, using observing time). However, other factors may influence the timing of buffer dumps, causing them to occur serially after the first science exposure even when it exceeds 2 minutes.For the MAMA medium-resolution first-order modes and medium and high-resolution echelle modes (i.e., gratings G140M, G230M, E230M, E230H, E140M, and E140H), a correction for Doppler shifting of the photon energies due to HST spacecraft motion is applied as the photons are counted, prior to their addressing in STIS data buffer memory. The leading and trailing pixels in the dispersion direction (AXIS1) for Doppler-corrected exposures therefore receive less effective integration time, since source photons at the corresponding wavelengths have been Doppler-shifted off the edge of the detector for some fraction of the total exposure time. This effect is strongest in the high-resolution echelle modes, where for a maximum HST spacecraft velocity of 7.5 km/s, the leading and trailing ~20 AXIS1 pixels will have reduced effective exposure times.The MAMA detectors record scientific data in the so-called highres mode, producing 2048 × 2048 images of super resolution - one half the 1024 × 1024 native format pixel size defined by the anode readout itself. All scientific data are taken in this format by default. Below we explain in more detail the nature of highres data.The MAMA detectors have 1024 × 1024 physical or so-called native-format pixels. However, each count is detected by multiple electrodes, so the charge distribution among the electrodes can be used to centroid the incident charge cloud to subpixel resolution. The gain of the highres 2048 × 2048 mode is a ~10–30% increase in resolution at the price of the increased fixed-pattern noise due to poorly characterized charge partition among the electrodes. The highres flat fields have much more structure than the 1024 × 1024 flats, with adjacent columns and rows differing by ~30% in an off/on pattern whose variability is appreciably higher than for 1024 × 1024 format images. This effect and the inherently lower signal-to-noise ratio in the full resolution flat-field images (nominally ~20 to 1 per highres pixel) suggest that it may be difficult to routinely realize the benefit in resolution. However, we note that data taken in highres mode can always be binned to 1024 × 1024 on the ground in post-observation data processing, and since the extra overheads in highres mode are typically quite small, highres is the default data-taking mode for the MAMA. The pipeline bins the data to 1024 × 1024 format during calibration so that the pipeline output calibrated images are native format (see the STIS Data Handbook for more details). The astronomical community has also produced a method of correcting the increased fixed-pattern noise in this mode. For more information, see Jenkins & Tripp (2001, ApJS, 137, 297)11.1.3 MAMA TIME-TAG ModeTIME-TAG mode is used for high-time-resolution spectroscopy and imaging in the UV. When used in TIME-TAG mode, the MAMA produces an event stream of AXIS1, AXIS2, and TIME data points, with a time resolution of 125 microseconds. The volume of data produced in TIME-TAG mode can be very large and the data therefore must be continuously transferred from the STIS internal buffer to the data recorders to sustain TIME-TAG exposures of any significant duration.The axis orientation in TIME-TAG is the same as in ACCUM mode (see Figure 11.3). The spacecraft time (absolute zero point of the time) is routinely known to 10 millisecond accuracy. No Doppler correction is applied by the flight software for TIME-TAG mode, but the correction can be applied during the post-processing of the data. The recorded times are the spacecraft times, which can be converted to heliocentric times using the ephemeris of the Earth and the spacecraft. TIME-TAG mode is illustrated in Figure 11.5. Processing of TIME-TAG data by the STScI pipeline is described in Section 15.1.Figure 11.5: TIME-TAG ModeIn TIME-TAG mode, events detected on the anode wires are queued in a 4096-event first-in first-out (FIFO) prior to time assignment and subsequent storage in a STIS memory buffer. When the FIFO is less than half full, 4 events can be processed during each 125 microsecond tick of the STIS clock, corresponding to a maximum stable count rate of 32,000 counts/s. Times are assigned shortly after detection, when the event is extracted from the FIFO. This is the desired operating state in TIME-TAG mode. Higher count rate situations (described below) should be avoided because they result in less accurate times, lost events, and buffer management problems.For global count rates up to 50,000 counts/s, the FIFO will gradually fill until more than 2048 events are queued. At this point 2048 events are processed in a tight loop requiring only 41 milliseconds, instead of the usual 64 milliseconds. Processing then reverts to the slower rate until the FIFO is again more than half full. In this mode, the times associated with each event have 125 microsecond resolution, but suffer from significantly larger systematic delays. Also, the observing sequence will be frequently interrupted to handle STIS buffer dumps (described below).For count rates above 50,000 counts/s, the FIFO will fill faster than events can be processed, even in fast mode. When the FIFO fills, all events in the FIFO are discarded and the empty FIFO begins filling with new events. In this mode event times are essentially uniform, providing essentially no information about source variability.For TIME-TAG observations, STIS memory is divided into two 8 megabyte buffers, each of which can hold up to 2 × 106 events. If the cadence between scheduled buffer dumps is at least 99 seconds, then one buffer can be actively recording new events, while previously recorded events in the other buffer are being dumped to an HST data recorder. Thus, events can be dumped to STIS memory without gaps only if the global count rate is below 20,000 counts/s.During Phase II proposal preparation, observers must specify in advance the time between dumps using the BUFFER-TIME parameter. The following constraints should be considered when selecting a BUFFER-TIME:
• To prevent loss of data, BUFFER-TIME should be short enough that fewer than 2 × 106 events are expected in the interval between dumps. If R is the expected count rate (predicted by the STIS ETC, for example), then BUFFER-TIME should be smaller than 2 × 106/R. A bit of margin protects against source variability or inaccurate count rate predictions. Be sure to include sky and detector backgrounds when estimating count rates.
• On the other hand, the nominal STIS allocation on the HST data recorders allows at most 30 total buffer dumps in any one visit, and fewer is desirable. For the minimum continuously sustainable BUFFER-TIME of 99 seconds, this limit on dumps corresponds to a total exposure time of only 50 minutes. It is sometimes possible to schedule downlinks from the HST data recorders to the ground during a specific TIME-TAG visit. Thus, with a strong scientific justification, it may be possible to accommodate visits that require more than 30 dumps. Such requests should be justified quantitatively in the Phase I proposal.
• Finally, BUFFER-TIME should be at least 99 seconds when more than 2 dumps are expected. Otherwise, the observing sequence will be interrupted whenever both buffers are in the process of being dumped. In such cases it is probably better to choose a BUFFER-TIME of 99 seconds. This guarantees that photons will be recorded whenever the active buffer has remaining space. If the active buffer fills in less than the selected BUFFER-TIME, additional photons will be discarded until the next dump begins. Reliable flux calibration is not possible in such cases.In summary, BUFFER-TIME should be less than 2 × 106/R, but longer than 1/30 the total exposure time and longer than 99 seconds. As an added precaution against data loss, it is recommended to use a BUFFER-TIME of 1.6 x 106/R, which adds a 20% safety margin. In some cases it will not be possible to satisfy all of these criteria, in which case multiple short ACCUM exposures should be considered as an alternative. Figure 11.6 illustrates the process of estimating BUFFER-TIME.Figure 11.6: Estimation of BUFFER-TIME.Tint refers to the total integration time (in seconds) of all the exposures in the visit, and Texp refers to the integration time (in seconds) of the particular exposure under consideration.
Remember to include contributions from all the sources expected to fall on the detector, the sky, geocoronal line emissions and detector backgrounds along with your source counts when computing R. It is important that you include a safety margin of at least 20% in your estimation of R. Specifying too small a BUFFER-TIME can lead to loss of data after the first dump of 2 million events.Users familiar with the TIME-TAG mode of the STIS instrument should be aware that COS buffer management differs in some details from that of STIS. At the end of a STIS exposure, the entire buffer is read out, regardless of the buffer time set or the number of counts expected. Setting the STIS buffer time to any value greater than or equal to half the total exposure time will result in having only this single dump at the end of the exposure. Setting the buffer time to less than half the exposure time will cause one or more intermediate dumps to also occur during the exposure, but the time required for the dump after the exposure will not change.COS, on the other hand, reads out only the fraction of the buffer that is expected to contain recorded events. This fraction is based on the specified buffer time (tbuf) and exposure time (texp). If tbuf > texp, only a fraction texp / tbuf of the buffer will be read out. Similarly, at the end of a multi-dump exposure with tbuf < texp, sufficient time will be allocated for COS to read only the fraction of the buffer expected to contain data. This approach increases observing efficiency by avoiding the allocation of more time than necessary for the buffer dump at the end of the exposure. It also requires more caution in the setting of buffer times: If the actual count rate is greater than expected, some events that were recorded in the buffer memory will never be read out. The guidelines in this section are designed to help COS users to maximize observing efficiency and avoid data loss.This constraint implies there will be 45 seconds of overhead per full-frame CR-SPLIT, i.e., if CR-SPLIT=3, there will be 3 × 45 seconds of overhead on the set of 3 exposures due to CCD setup and readout.Beginning in Cycle 22 we are recommending that most MAMA observers with count rates below 20,000 cts/s use TIME-TAG mode rather than ACCUM mode. TIME-TAG opens-up the time domain window and increases the legacy value of the observations. It also offers enhanced capability to remove time intervals of data which are impacted by geocoronal emission. Count rate restrictions do apply in TIME-TAG mode -- see Buffer Management in TIME-TAG Mode on page 220.


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Detroit Free Press columnist Drew Sharp suggested Tuesday that the Lions avoid the issue altogether by trading Suh right off the team for draft picks.
"It's not that Suh is a malcontent troublemaker as one national report suggested. It simply doesn't make fiscal sense when there remain so many potholes on the defensive side of the ball," Sharp wrote.
Detroit plans to start renegotiation talks when Suh hires an agent, NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported Tuesday. It obviously indicates a desire to keep him. Internally, the Lions see Suh as someone who not only wasn't late to meetings, but they note he was elected captain by his teammates, Rapoport reports, per sources familiar with the Lions' thinking.
Welcome to the offseason. This idea provides a fine column topic, but it's essentially nonsense with no chance of happening. (This is the same columnist that suggested trading Calvin Johnson a few years ago.) Lions president Tom Lewand says the team and Suh have expressed mutual interest in a long-term deal, and that's what we expect to happen. Suh is coming off perhaps his best season yet.
Yes, the Lions pay an inordinate amount of their cap to three stars: Matthew Stafford, Calvin Johnson and Suh. Sharp mentions the Seattle Seahawks' model of finding bargains in the middle-to-late rounds of the draft as an avenue to success. But there's nothing preventing the Lions from doing that with a star-heavy approach. That comes down to new coach Jim Caldwell and his staff's ability to develop players.
The Seahawks example is instructive. Seattle has Earl Thomas and Richard Sherman approaching free agency soon. Thomas is the priority, but both players should get big deals eventually. Teams don't get better by getting rid of their best players in their prime.
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After two years of rebuilding, Lakeville South girls' lacrosse has reached its tipping point.
Abbie Ness was a freshman when Lakeville — then still one school — went to the state tournament in 2010. The next year, the school split into Lakeville North and South and each had its separate athletic programs. Ness was one of two varsity players that comprised the Lakeville South squad.
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"We had to start from the bottom, really," said Ness, now a senior and the state's leading scorer. "It was a really big transition. It was hard."
On Tuesday, the Cougars edged their rivals from Lakeville North in a thrilling 10-9 game. The victory completed a perfect 11-0 regular season for the South Suburban Conference champions, something Ness thought would be nearly impossible a couple of years ago.
"In sophomore year, if you were to tell me this was going to happen, I would have said, 'Wow, that would take a lot of work,' " Ness said. "Everyone just put in their work and here we are. It's awesome."
Lakeville South basically had to start from scratch. The last couple of seasons were about development, maturation and skill refinement.
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"I always knew it was there," coach Patrick Crandall said. "We just needed some maturity and to put the pieces in place. This is that tipping point, not only for this year, but for our program, we can really be in there now and be a part of that whole conversation."
One of the state's most high-octane offenses, averaging 15.36 goals per game, powers the Cougars' success. Powerful, lefthanded Abby Quinnell has scored a team-high 42 goals.
"She's that pure scorer," Crandall said. "She doesn't see people around her. She sees the net."
Ness finished with 75 points, including a state-best 37 assists.
"[Ness] has been our quarterback," Crandall said. "The offense that we run, it runs through her. That's why she's top in the state for assists. She is incredible with her stick."
But creating that much offense and putting together an undefeated season also has taken a full team effort.
Sophomore Logan Halvorson scored 22 goals and added five assists. More importantly, she tallied a state-high 97 ground balls. Junior Brooke Galle registered 75 of her own. That alone has created 172 extra possessions for the Cougars this season.
Stout defense and goaltending have further solidified Lakeville South. Lexi Halvorson has been a dominant defensive force as a senior. Sophomore Kelsey Olsen, in just her second year of lacrosse, has excelled in net.
"She was a great athlete — a hockey player," Crandall said. "We needed a goalie. I just saw it in her and put her in there and she has just blossomed. Just incredible hands, great kid — she'll soak up anything. When we need a big stop, she makes it."
That state tournament feeling that Ness experienced as a freshman is something she wants to go through again.
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The Volcom Peanut Butter and Rail Jam (PB&RJ) amateur snowboard contest series was back at Mountain High on Friday night, January 7th. The goal of the series is to give something back to the young SoCal shredders. Deviating from the established way snowboard contests are typically run, Volcom with the help of the Mountain High park crew put together a fresh format. This side-by-side jib course boosts the energy level and fun nature of the contest because everyone is together, riding, hiking, and watching in a big group. There are four divisions; 15 & under, 16 & over and Girl's and Men's Open (pro-am). The contest runs in a jam format so there are no scheduled runs. Each rider can hit each of the jibs as many times as they want during each 20 minute heat. The judges only care about the tricks each rider pulls, so there's no need to worry about falling. The event was absolutely free and signups were on a first come, first serve basis. Tons of free prizes and PB&J sandwiches were given out at the event! Also, everyone who entered walked away with a PB&RJ t-shirt and stickers!
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15 & Under
1st Patrick Fava (1:55, 2:18 – time code of video appearance)
2nd Christian Armenta (2:24, 2:41)
3rd Drayden Gardner (2:36)
4th Levi Kaseroff
5th Sean Monahan
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2nd Ian Travis
3rd Jake Vega
4th Oliver Dixon
5th Zach Foster
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5th Monique Hyman
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