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Tigers' First-Half Goal Spoils Bulldogs' Senior Day Celebration
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The Yale University men's soccer team celebrated the careers of five seniors prior to facing Princeton in the final game of the 2012 season Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, the Tigers were able to take advantage of one of the few offensive opportunities in the game, which was enough to spoil Yale's Senior Day celebration.
Senior Matt Sanner just managed to sneak his header past Yale's senior goalkeeper Bobby Thalman in the game's 34th minute to lift Princeton to the 1-0 win at Yale's Reese Stadium.
"It is disappointing," Yale head coach Brian Tompkins said. "It wasn't the kind of game that we were hoping that we would finish with and certainly that our seniors would finish their careers on. It was a tough game. It was a very scrappy, emotional game. I don't think either team ever really settled down. It wasn't a very well-played game overall."
Sanner's goal was enough to push the Tigers to an 8-6-2 overall finish and a 4-1-2 record in Ivy League play.
"Sanner got the header on it. I thought Bobby had it, but he just didn't push it hard enough to get it wide of the post so it kind of crept under him," Tompkins said. "Sanner did a good job to get his head on that, but that is one that Bobby was a bit unlucky not to keep that out."
Yale, which fell to 4-8-5 overall and 1-4-3 in Ivy League play, managed to put together a late push in the final minutes of the game, but the Bulldogs could not convert any of the opportunities produced in that span in a last-ditch effort to tie the game.
"Credit our guys, we gave a much better showing in the second half and we fought our way back into it," Tompkins said. "The ball just wouldn't bounce for us today. It's disappointing that the seniors could not go out with a win, but that's the way it goes sometimes."
Princeton ended the game with a 10-4 edge in shots, but Yale had a better percentage of quality shots in the game as Thalman and Princeton's second-half goalkeeper, Seth MacMillan, only had to make two saves apiece.
All four of Yale's shots came in the second half, but even during that late push, bad timing seemed to slow the Bulldogs' offensive rushes down. Several of Yale's opportunities were stopped by the referee's whistle because of offsides calls.
In the end, the seniors went down fighting. Andy Hackbarth and Milan Tica each had a shot in the game, while Thalman, last week's Ivy League Player of the Week kept his team within striking distance in the closing minutes.
The Bulldogs have 19 players returning next season, including eight players who will be seniors in 2013.
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"Jones's ship, the Bonhomme Richard, and two other ships had been sailing in the North Sea, looking for British ships to raid, when they came upon a large merchant convoy protected by two British ships. While the convoy escaped, the British ships began to fight, and one of them, the Serapis, ended up fighting one-on-one with the Bonhomme Richard.
The two ships began firing broadsides at each other, but on the second round, two of Jones's heaviest guns exploded, killing their gun crews and decreasing the ship's firepower. After fighting a losing battle for a while, Jones tried to grapple the Serapis but failed, so the Serapis tried to rake the Bonhomme Richard but ended up getting its rigging tangled with the other ship's bowsprit. When the captain of the Serapis called over to ask Jones if he was ready to surrender, Jones replied, "I have not yet begun to fight!"
After the ships got untangled, Bonhomme Richard tried to rake the Serapis, but the two ships only got tangled again, and soon they were stuck floating side by side. The Serapis began firing right into the Bonhomme Richard's hull, and it looked like the battle would soon be over for Jones.
But with the two ships in such close quarters, Jones ordered his men in the rigging to begin shooting the sailors on the Serapis's deck. According to the most common version of the story, one of Jones's men managed to drop a grenade down a hatch to the lower deck of the Serapis, causing some improperly stored powder to explode and putting most of the lower gun deck out of commission. Realizing that his ship couldn't escape (due to a heavily damaged mainmast), let alone fight any more, the captain of the Serapis surrendered."
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Evolution of Complex Systems
"I think the next century will be the century of complexity." - Dr. Stephen Hawking, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.Learn More about Complex Systems at UAA
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Martin Cenek, a complex systems expert, forefront, and graduate student Max Franklin, have developed a watershed model to study salmon migration with the goal of understanding how different resource management techniques may influence the goal of "maximum sustainable yield." They also hope to scale the modeling program for use in high school science classes.
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) will award the Engineering Research Center for Compact and Efficient Fluid Power (CCEFP) a four-year, $16 million dollar grant, enabling the Center to continue its efforts in transforming how fluid power is researched and taught. Industry partners will augment NSF funding with contributions, and the Center's seven universities will contribute an additional $3.2 million.
This is welcome news to the more than 30 faculty, 300 undergraduate and graduate engineering students, and 57 industry sponsors who have been involved in the CCEFP since its founding in 2006 through an initial NSF grant. Their work on four test beds and more than 25 research projects focuses primarily on increasing the efficiency of existing fluid power applications; expanding the use of fluid power in transportation; creating portable, untethered human-scale fluid power applications; and ensuring that fluid power is clean, quiet, safe, and easy to use. Fourteen inventions have been disclosed and more than 100 technical papers published.
The Center's education and outreach program offers more than 20 projects designed to attract pre-college students to science and engineering generally and to hydraulics and pneumatics in particular; educate all mechanical engineering undergraduate students about fluid power; raise the general public's awareness of the ubiquity of fluid power; increase the diversity of students and practitioners in fluid power research and industry; and establish lasting forums where industry and academia can exchange ideas and strategize.
"The CCEFP has already made landmark breakthroughs," says Dr. Kim Stelson, Center Director. "The Center has transformed hydraulic and pneumatic research in this country from isolated efforts by a few to a cohesive, strategically-directed collaborative team linking seven universities and many leaders in the fluid power industry. Recognition of these efforts continues to grow, as the Center's work impresses academic and engineering audiences worldwide. Our efforts in education and outreach show significant results, too, as the CCEFP works with established, effective partners to maximize program impact."
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Our Sale meetings are held at the The Boathouse, Sale Water Park on the 3rd Tuesday of every month from 5.30pm – 7.30pm so put us in your diary! All Dynamic Networking meetings are free to attend and we are flexible with when you arrive and leave.
You will find us in The Boathouse, Sale Water Park, Rifle Rd, Sale, Cheshire M33 2LX. There's a metro link about a 10 minute walk away and plenty of free parking.
The venue kindly provide us with complimentary tea and coffee, and our leadership team always bring a selection of biscuits!
We hold our ever popular 30 second 'round robin' part way through the evening to help you identify those attendees who you may wish to connect with and talk to in more depth.
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07.23.2019 | 20 Tammuz, 5779
Terror victim to terrorists: Violence is not going to help - watch
New Palestinian song says Netanyahu is 'darkness' sending 'messengers'
Wadi Hummus: J Street head says Israel 'weaponizing' building permits
Syrian opposition: Israel killed senior Hezbollah officer by Damascus
Jamie Bell on how he packed on pounds for his role in the movie Skin
Blue and White begins campaign for Ethiopian vote
Transformers director Michael Bay visiting Israel
Netanyahu: Israel preparing for battle in Gaza
Ayelet Shaked: We won't ask for Defense Ministry
Yair Lapid opposes ambassador to U.S. Dermer's term extension
Bennett-Shaked hold key meeting
What would the MK do on Gaza?
Stylish expressions Ballet Hispanico
Concert Review: Dream Theater
Fun on the fringe
2019 Ophir Award nominations for Israeli film prizes announced
Young Israeli hoopsters revel in success
Med student Andi Murez ready to jump into pool for Israel at Worlds
Blue-and-white back in Under-20 semis
Israel has largest delegation at International Children's Games in Russia
Workers make explosive threats as massive Teva layoff strikes continue
Israel seeks to bring more women into the hi-tech industry
Nation girds for general strike today in protest of Teva layoffs
Teva Pharmaceuticals to lay off 14,000 employees worldwide, 1,750 in Israel
Can medical empathy survive the technological revolution?
Israeli-founded start-up raises $15m. to help fight heart failure
Israeli doctors are first to implant device for congestive heart failure
Rambam Hospital hosts Chinese teams, treats deformed children in Ghana
IN PHOTOS: Israel's winged winter residents
Watch: Thousands of migrating pelicans get free lunch in Israel
Pipeline failure for Tamar gas field to cause hiccup in electricity rates
Haifa Chemicals to close down two plants, layoff 800 workers
Political detox in the American Sabbath
A dishonest broker?
The burden of proof
Democrats should have backed Israel but didn't
"Port of Beirut now Port of Hezbollah," Danon tells UNSC
Workers' strike shuts down largest Palestinian daily for one day
UNSC to debate Palestinian home demolition after Wadi Hummus - watch live
Netanyahu to Arab journalists: Israel prevents collapse of the Middle East
Zarif: US playing with fire
Iran's hard-to-attack underground nuke facility part of increasing threat
Steinitz: Iran is playing the Europeans as 'suckers'
Iran draws the line, says Vienna is 'last chance' to save nuclear deal
Exclusive: German peace and religious group boots pro-BDS ex-mayor
The fight to preserve South Wales' Jewish history
Vicious antisemitic attack in Germany: 'Not surprised Hitler gassed you!'
German Munster University students passed motion against Antisemitic BDS
Soccer star Messi is newest ambassador for Israeli startup
Economic allies: The US and Israel's top partnerships
Teen wunderkind wows global forum with innovative app
Amazon reportedly to open up Israeli shipping center
All the times Trump has invoked Israel, Jews in attacks on 'The Squad'
Chelsea Clinton gives birth to third child
Stephen Miller: AOC's concentration camp comments offended me 'as a Jew'
Policemen fired over Facebook post suggesting AOC be shot
Analysis: Clinton falls amid assault on establishment
Clinton concedes: 'We have still not shattered that highest and hardest glass ceiling'
Hillary Clinton and the glass ceiling: Cracked but intact
NY hassidic village loyal to Clinton despite Trump popularity among ultra-Orthodox
Trump reportedly picks friend of Jared Kushner to serve in administration
Trump calls UN 'sad,' days after Israeli settlements vote
Saddam Hussein's daughter touts Trump's 'political sensibility'
Dermer calls on Trump to move embassy to Jerusalem
Shabbat candle-lighting times for Israel and U.S.
Podcast: Three Ladies, Three Lattes
Podcast: Does Trump love Jews or embolden antisemitic voices?
Why Starbucks failed in Israel (and only in Israel)
Taxicab Diplomacy: Trump vs. Clinton
This week in 60 seconds: Ahed Tamimi released from prison
This week in 60 seconds: Israel evacuates Syrian White Helmets
This week in 60 seconds: Knesset passes controversial Jewish nation-state bill
This week in 60 seconds: Israel retaliates after Syrian aircraft enters airspace
Warning: Weddings can be hazardous to your health
Race for respect
Port of Tel Aviv: More than a pretty picture
Creating chaos
Poetry: a neglected art?
A gripping spy thriller about Jews and Israel, hate and love
'Promised Land' tells the story of a love triangle in the nascent state
Facing facts: we must learn to live together and live separately
Stories of hope at new Auschwitz art installation
Yad Vashem presents Passover observance in the Holocaust period
Calling all Mancunians
Beauty past and present
Cyclists get tunnel vision, for a day
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בּוֹא שִיר עִבְרִי
כְּשֶקִיבְּלוּ אֶת הַתוֹרָה
הַתְמוּנוֹת שֶבָּאַלְבּוֹם
The Christian Edition- one month free subscription
Christian broadcasting studio attacked by arson on Shabbat morning
Pro-Israel Pastor Greg Laurie honored at Friends of Zion Museum
World affairs prove 'Lord is soon to return,' Christian broadcaster says
Remembering the 'Exodus 1947', in the Carmel Mountains
Special Needs Children Soar among the Treetops
Gaza Border Fires: 138 Incidents, 180 Acres Burnt
KKL-JNF to Build Rest Stops along Israel's Highway 90
A Computer Cowboy and a Writer Living in Israel
An Ecumenical High Priest: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen coming up in Athens
The Eagle has Landed!
Chaos in both of my countries.
Think With Me
06/05/2018 08:30
A world premiere in Hollywood Fringe Festival 2018, a story of generations apart 'meet' under circumstances, not that unusual today but having a teaching moment.
Trapped At Tea Time, a one act contemporary play, with Heidi Mendez as Yolanda, Mark Anthony as Omar and E.P. Evans as Ramiro, written and produced by Marcos Cohen, co-produced by Baila Romm and directed by Linda Alznauer, takes place in the apartment of Yolanda, 80-year-old Holocaust survivor into which Omar breaks in order to rob.
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From L-to-R-Linda Alznauer director, Omar, Ramiro, Baila Romm co-producer, Marcos Cohen writer & co-producer, Yolanda
Through humor and suspense the actors tell their personal stories, reveal emotions and share personal experiences.
As the play progresses, as the cup of tea's water boils to its crescendo, Omar, the robber, shifts his ill intent to humane values, receiving a lesson in what crime against humanity is all about, rather than petty thieving, and the ability to take his own reflection on life.
One hour of a flowing story carried out by fine acting, is one hour worthwhile spending with the cast of Trapped At Tea Time. From the play:
'Trapped At Tea Time' Yolanda and Omar in play scene
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Chagrin Falls Honors Its Veterans During Independence Day Event
Red, white, and blue bunting brought patriotic life to Chagrin Falls' historic downtown, as the Crooked River Drum and Fife Band provided the tune for townspeople marching into Triangle Park.
There was also a cannon blast….which didn't come with quite enough forewarning for some…a few people jumped, yelped, and giggled at the sudden boom.
A local Boy Scout, Rob Kovachick, read from the Declaration of Independence…
"In Congress, July 4th, 1766, the unanimous declaration of the 13 United States of America…" (FADE OUT)
Charlie McGibbony, Commander of the Chagrin Veterans of Foreign Wars post, emceed the event. He thanked the audience for their support, attendance, and participation.
"It's a great way to start off the Fourth of July weekend, and to realize it's not just hot dogs and fireworks. But it's a way to recognize our independence and we'll also take the opportunity to recognize some of the veterans who've maintained that freedom and independence."
McGibbony said this year also marked 70 years since the D-Day landings into northern Europe, which contributed to the end of the Third Reich and World War II. And he said it was the 200th anniversary of the writing of the Star Spangled Banner…which was sung by Sammy Swords as the crowd solemnly listened.


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Oct. 19, 2001
Santa Barbara, Calif. -
Whatever UC Santa Barbara men's soccer coach Tim Vom Steeg says at halftime of Friday night matches, he should probably market.
Last Friday, Vom Steeg's Gauchos trailed Cal State Fullerton by a 2-0 count at the intermission, only to explode for three goals, and a 3-2 win. Tonight, UCSB trailed 1-0, after a lethargic first 45 minutes against Cal Poly, but once again, they scored three goals in the second half, winning 3-1.
The Mustangs got on the board first at the 5:00 mark, when forward Mark Jones drilled home a rebound of a Scott Gellman shot. Gaucho goalkeeper Danny Kennedy was able to stop Gellman's shot, but could not recover in time to deflect the follow by Jones.
UCSB wasted little time tying the score in the second half. Junior forward Rob Friend lofted a pass into the box, senior forward Jaime Ambriz collected it, and dished it to freshman Drew McAthy who shoved it past Cal Poly goalkeeper Greg Blevins.
The Gauchos took a 2-1 lead in the 62nd minute, but this time it was Friend pounding home a rebound of a McAthy shot for his sixth goal of the season. UCSB scored an insurance goal with 40 seconds left, when freshman Nate Boyden scored his first goal of the season, shoving home a through-ball from Joe Hubay-Dies.
The win extends UCSB's unbeaten string to three in a row. They improve to 6-3-3 on the season, and 2-0-1 in Big West play. Cal Poly drops to 1-8-1 overall, and 0-3 in league play. The Gauchos continue Big West play on Sunday, when they travel to Cal State Northridge for a 7:00 p.m. match.


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From the sunny southern slopes of the Alps to the lush orange groves of Sicily to the great cultural cities of Florence and Rome, Italy offers enormous variety not only in its landscape but also in its customs and food. Added to this are the warm, friendly people and long summers.
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Hotels in Italy
Adriatic Riviera
Set against a spectacular backdrop of rolling countryside peppered with ancient castles and elegant towns, the Adriatic Riviera is a popular beach destination. Visit the chic boutiques of Riccione, experience exhilarating water sports along the coast or simply relax on one of the many golden beaches. Be sure to visit Pesaro, rich in historical buildings and stunning architecture.
Bologna, Modena & Northern Italy
This picturesque region is brimming with a serene landscape, fairy-tale castles, historic cities and medieval cathedrals. Visit Bologna for fine architecture, lush parks and shopping or discover Modena's automobile heritage. From Ravenna's golden beaches, Rimini's fabulous nightlife and Parma's delicious cuisine, some might say this beautiful region has it all.
Florence (Firenze), the epicentre of the Italian Renaissance, is the art-lovers favourite destination. Influenced by Leonardo, Dante, Machiavelli and Michelangelo, Florence is filled with fabulous architecture, museums and galleries. This compact city is the capital of Tuscany, a stunning province of hills, mountains and, of course, Chianti.
Italian Lakes
Northern Italy includes the regions of Aosta, Emilia-Romagna, Friuli, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Trentino and Veneto. A prosperous industrial and agricultural area, it is enclosed in the north by the Alps and contains the magnificent Italian Lakes.
Stylish and fast-paced Milan is a major trailblazer for fashion and design. Enjoy shopping in one of the capitals of style and absorb the city's unique culture. Alternatively Milan has plenty of historical sites and world class venues for sport, opera and trade fairs, making it a perfect destination for any discerning tourist.
Neapolitan Riviera
The Neapolitan Riviera is the rugged and beautiful coastline of the Campania region in Italy. A walker's paradise, it includes lively Naples, the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii, the active Mount Vesuvius and a multitude of picturesque towns.
The gorgeous city of Pisa, located in Tuscany, Central Italy, is the perfect location for an absorbing and cultured short break. Sporting a wealth of art and history, Pisa is renowned for its breath-taking landmarks and tourist hotspots. Visit the famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, the star of the stunning Campo dei Miracoli. The Field of Miracles also includes the Duomo, Baptistry and Camposanto. These and many more architectural gems are a legacy of Pisa's Golden Age as a maritime power from the 11th to 13th century.
By booking a hotel in Rome, you are opening yourself up to one of the most culturally intoxicating cities in the world. From ancient Rome to the thoroughly modern-day fashion stores, the Eternal City boasts an endless list of attractions and an abundance of Rome hotels. Rome's renowned historic attractions include the Vatican with Saint Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel, the Colosseum, the Roman Forum, and the Pantheon. But don't leave without throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain and climbing the Spanish Steps. Rome is also home to two airports, making travel that little bit easier, you can book Rome flights alongside your hotel with SuperBreak. Make the most of your short break in Rome by pre-booking a sightseeing tour with us along with one of our many hotels in Rome.
This picturesque region is blessed with rolling hillsides, beautiful beaches and plenty of local charm! A treasure trove of culture and history, Tuscany is renowned for its famous wines and delicious cuisine. Be sure to explore the wealthy Arezzo with its Gothic Cathedral and magnificent Fortress or head to the exclusive coastal resort of Forte dei Marmi, home to warm powdery shores, designer shops and fashionable restaurants.
Known as 'The Floating City', Venice is a truly unique and beautiful destination off the north east coast of Italy, with a fantastic range of Venice hotels to choose from. Laced with canals, the whole city is built around the curving Grand Canal and is full of historic buildings. Our Venice hotels are within walking distance of the many galleries, museums and grand cathedrals replete with breathtaking artworks from the world's masters.
Verona is one of Italy's loveliest towns with pink-hued medieval buildings. Nearby peaceful Trento is located in a spectacular mountainous region. Sleek Vicenza is blessed with outstanding 16th century buildings by the architect Andrea Palladio.
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You can also test the air valve. Fill the bag up, then cover the top 2/3 of the bag in plastic and a towel, to protect it, ( don't want water getting down inside past the top threads) and leave the bottom part with the air valve open. Then with it fully inflated, I submerge it into the bath tub, hold it or secure it underwater and watch to see if air bubbles come out the bottom. If it sets at the bottom of a tub and no air comes out, then I'll hold it and squeeze it hard to put pressure on the sides as if I was punching it. Then you might see air escape the valve, which tells you it goes flat due to the force of punches forcing air out the valve.
Either way, if air escapes the valve, the valve is bad. You can do as Roc Stone said, blow it up one last time, and seal the valve with vaseline, or glue a plug into it. But it will probably blow and then you will have to change it anyway or get a new bag. changing bladders is a pain....
A good friend of mine puts oversized bladders into his bags, meaning he'll put the bladder for a 10x7 into his 8x5. that way, the bag leather stops the inflation of the bladder, but there is never enough pressure in the bladder to blow the seams. Since the bag leather is fully inflated, the bag feels full and hits very well, with little or no strain on the bladder.
I have never done that, but it works for him, and he can pound a speed bag too dust. Never broke one yet.
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Gionta, White to miss Game 4
Ottawa, ON – The Montreal Canadiens will be without captain Brian Gionta and forward Ryan White for Tuesday's Game 4 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinal series against the Ottawa Senators.
Both players are sidelined with upper-body injuries.
Gionta also missed Game 2 with the ailment but was in the lineup for Sunday's testy 6-1 loss to the Senators during which the teams combined for 210 penalty minutes in a fight-filled third period.
White incited a line brawl with a slash on the ensuing faceoff after Kyle Turris made it 4-1.
The Senators own a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven set.


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Meet MAC Cosmetics newest launches, Matte2 and Plush Lash. Both collections were released today and are available at counters and stores everywhere.
Matte2 is a collection of highly pigmented eyeshadows and the best part about them is that they are now a permanent part of MAC's eyeshadow range. This new eyeshadow's formula is new for MAC, they are jet-milled with a high percentage of pigment. Sometimes you really need to layer on matte shadows to get a good color payoff but with these that is not necessary. That's not to say that you can't really pack on the color until your hearts content. To the contrary, you absolutely can. The texture of these eyeshadows are extremely soft, like silk to the touch. I also really like that the collection combines bold color with more everyday neutral colors. My favorites include Blanc Type, Poison Pen, Copperplate and Flourishing.
How about some eyeliner for those matte eyeshadows? The shades Inky, Inkspill, Electrolady, Point Black and Coco Bar are being repromoted as well.
Also at MAC Cosmetics counters and stores today is Plush Lash mascara. This new mascara comes in two shades; Plushblack and Brownette. The wand is a little different from the wands we're seeing in mascara these days, it's got a v-shaped wand. The flat side of the wand pushes the lashes up and the fuller side separates, combs them through and adds volume. I had zero clumping when I applied this and I loved the way my lashes looked. Also, if black mascara is a little too dark for you, give Brownette a try. I'm using the mascara in this shade and the color is not too light, it's like your natural lashes only better.


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Money isn't everything for renters…or is it?
The real estate information magazine At Home has released the results of a survey it conducted in December among 600 people who are looking for rental apartments in Tokyo's 23 wards. The main purpose of the survey is to find out how much people compromised when selecting an apartment, the idea being that, especially for young persons, there is no such thing as an ideal affordable apartment in Tokyo, so which criteria were respondents most willing to compromise on and which ones were they totally unwilling to compromise on? They were not allowed to say rental amount, size of apartment or surrounding environment, probably because everyone compromises on those three.
The number one answer (30.3 percent) in terms of what they would compromise on was distance from the nearest train station, which tends to be the most reliable criterion in Tokyo for determining cost of a rental. The second most common answer was age of the apartment. However, when it came to criteria they wouldn't compromise on — for this question respondents were allowed to give multiple answers — the number one answer, once again, was distance from station (72.2 percent), with separate bath and toilet and higher than second floor tied for second place. The third answer was age of apartment. When asked what upper limit they would settle for in terms of distance from the nearest train station, 39.1 percent said between ten and fifteen minutes and 31.8 percent said between five and ten minutes.
Nevertheless, the main criterion for compromise is always the price of rent. Among the single persons surveyed (average age 31; average salary ¥5 million) the average rent they were "looking for" was ¥89,000 a month, but for the apartment sizes they desired the average rent in realistic terms was calculated by At Home to be about ¥128,000. For married respondents (average age 33; average salary of householder ¥7.4 million) the difference between what they want to pay and what they would realistically pay was about the same, ¥39,000. That would seem to represent the perception gap regardless of income bracket.
At Home concluded that 40 percent of people looking for an apartment in Tokyo "have to compromise even before they start looking," and when asked if they thought that life was all about compromise, 60 percent answered "yes."


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REALLY REMOTE Debugging: A Conversation with Glenn Reeves
In this classic 1999 Dr. Dobb's Journal interview, contributing editor Jack Woehr talks with NASA's Glenn Reeves about the programming behind the Mars Surveyor program. At the end of the post, read Reeves' first-hand account of the still-amazing fix of the team's priority inversion problem -- talk about REALLY REMOTE debugging for real-time systems!
A Conversation with Glenn Reeves
By Jack J. Woehr
The Mars Pathfinder Mission was the first mission of NASA's Mars Surveyor program -- a decade-long program of robotic exploration that focused on the search for evidence of past life on Mars, understanding the Martian climate and its lessons for the past and future of Earth's climate, and understanding the geology and resources that could be used to support future human missions to Mars. As such, the mission (managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory; http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/) was one of the most ambitious and closely watched space missions in history.
Pathfinder essentially consisted of a stationary lander (the "Lander") and surface rover (called "Sojourner"), which together had the primary objective of demonstrating the feasibility of low-cost landings on and exploration of the Martian surface. The Pathfinder system itself was built around a variety of off-the-shelf hardware and software components. At the heart of the system was a single CPU -- the RS6000 -- running the Wind River Systems VxWorks real-time operating system.
Pathfinder was launched on December 4, 1996, and had a seven-month cruise to Mars. It landed on Mars on July 4, 1997, where Sojourner almost immediately began conducting experiments and collecting data. In the first month of surface operations the mission returned to NASA about 1.2 gigabits of data, including 9669 Lander and 384 Rover images and about 4 million temperature, pressure, and wind measurements.
Suddenly, on September 27, 1997, communication with Sojourner was lost as the system began experiencing total resets, along with the resulting loss of data. The mainstream press promptly -- and generally inaccurately -- pounced on the problem, referring to "software glitches" that were due to the computer "trying to do too many things at once."
The problem, as JPL engineers like Glenn Reeves (the "Flight Software Cognizant Engineer for the Attitude and Information Management Subsystem, Mars Pathfinder Mission"), quickly discovered involved priority inversion -- a phenomenon familiar to real-time operating-systems engineers for more than 20 years. Contrary to most published reports, the problem was hardly extraterrestrial: A low-priority task (such as one for meteorological data gathering) occasionally grabbed a semaphore needed by a top-priority task (a bus management task, for example), then got preempted by medium-priority tasks (for instance, a communications task). Therefore, the high-priority task was not able to complete its work by the specified time. When the blocked top-priority task didn't do its work in time, a watchdog thread reset the system. This reset reinitialized all of the hardware and software. It also terminated the execution of the current ground commanded activities. Data that had already been collected wasn't lost. However, the remainder of the activities for that day could not be accomplished until the next day.
Not only were JPL engineers aware of priority inversion from the outset, but they had carefully planned for instances of it. Consequently, they were able to quickly reproduce the problem on a duplicate system in the lab, then transfer a fix -- changing the system default priority for select() semaphore creation -- to the spacecraft about 100 million miles away. (Talk about remote debugging!) This was doable because they had originally created two writable images of the control software, and either one could be deleted and reloaded from Earth. The team chose to never delete one of the two original copies while patching from the ground, for fear of losing something clean to boot with.
In the end, all went well. The spacecraft completed its mission. Reeves, who is now the Chief Engineer, Mission Data System Project, recently took time to chat with DDJ contributing editor Jack Woehr about Pathfinder and other issues involved in writing software for extraterrestrial exploration.
DDJ: You're programming computers that operate on the surface of another planet. That's weird!
GR: It's weird for me, let me tell you. You're in this microcosm of people where your whole life is concentrated on making sure the next day's work of activities are going to go just right. You're walking home at 3:00am still wired from staying up all night looking at information coming back. Your wife and the kids are asleep, there's no way you can sleep and you've go to be back at 8:00am anyway. So you turn on CNN and there's your smiling face in the control room and you're looking at the same images you looked at 12 hours ago. It's a strange feeling.
It was a small project by a small team, yet it had a phenomenal impact overwhelming to many of us. On the technical side, it seemed straightforward at the time.
DDJ: I guess when you're doing the code, it's like any other real-time project.
GR: When you have a ballistic entry, there's not much you can do about it. There's a little unknown, where you're relying on information gathered 22 years ago, but in general, we tried to simplify that job as much as we could.
We spun the spacecraft, we had inertia on our side...the control part was fairly straightforward. The hard part was thinking what things could go wrong, what do we do if something breaks...There are very few things that are redundant. How are we to go about testing it? How do we make sure that we can build an environment that matches what we want the spacecraft to fly through? Things like that turn out to be much harder than the spacecraft development itself.
DDJ: That's always a problem when one designs a large system, how one tests it in anything resembling the deployment environment.
GR: Space is pretty forgiving, few forces, everything action and reaction. Coming down through the atmosphere, that's a little different ballgame, but we can still do decent simulations. We gave up on trying to model bouncing and orientation of the vehicle and the simulation of the accelerometer values during the movements. Those were too hard to do. We tested the thing as hard as we can in a brute force sort of way.
DDJ: You dropped it from a tall building?
GR: Some drop testing. We did a lot of testing of the airbags. We proved to ourselves they could withstand the forces of the bounces, made sure they wouldn't bottom out, would retain the right pressure, that the airbag material itself wouldn't rip prematurely or catastrophically. We did that for two or three years, it was either the most expensive portion of our test program or pretty close.
The actual orientation, opening the petals and turning the vehicle over, was very much brute force. Put the thing on the ground, read the accelerometers, see that it opened the right petal in the right order.
We did testing of the airbags as they are retracted. They get pulled in by cables within the bag. We did a lot of testing with rock placement, "Given the fact that bag's going to wrap around this rock, are the motors going to stall and leave the bag extended and flapping in the breeze?"
In the end, the darn thing bounced 16 times, landed right on its base, and all the airbags retracted right in, just like it was supposed to. The perfect scenario happened in the actual mission.
DDJ: It seems almost petty to ask about the computer programming problem in comparison with the flow of the entire enterprise.
GR: In this mission, most of the navigation was done from the ground. The attitude of the spacecraft was controlled onboard.
JPL used to build their own computers; in fact, at a point in time, we built our own CPUs. Not any longer, that's an art form that's better left to industry. Single-board computers are an off-the-shelf item.
So for the second time in history, JPL went out to buy a flight computer on contract. We put in a provision that specified an operating system on top of that. I wrote a lot of the flight computer specifications.
I was very familiar with [Mentor Graphics] VRTX and [Wind River Systems] VxWorks, and have done some [Integrated Systems] pSOS work before. So I specified a fairly generic real-time operating system. What was proposed by IBM, the winner of the flight computer contract, was OSOpen, done by IBM's Raleigh, North Carolina division. It was in early beta.
We looked at it, and they had some more work to do on it. Then suddenly around 1993-1994, IBM Federal Systems got sold to Loral. What had been one company became two divisions of two large companies that were mutually antagonistic. It became obvious that we weren't going to get a real-time operating system from these guys in Raleigh within the time frame we needed it.
That's when we decided to go to Wind River and see if they would come in and port for us to this RAD6000 computer.
DDJ: The original IBM RISC mask, rad-hard?
GR: Right. In a nutshell, we sold Wind River on the neat publicity they would get porting VxWorks onto this processor. They bit, and did it fairly inexpensively and they did it quickly. We had a working version of VxWorks within four months.
Not only were they receptive to the idea, but they put people on it right away. They were very generous with time, there was no nickel-and-diming on this contract. When there were problems...I had a team of seven people doing the flight software for this (the rover was entirely separate)...the technical interchange was engineer-to-engineer, there was no contract management in the middle. It was a nice interface. They did a good job.
DDJ: And when you had to hot-patch in flight?
GR: That's standard procedure. You always build in the ability to change it.
DDJ: Just in case.
GR: Just in case, but JPL and a bunch of decent-sized companies have had the problem where you can't get all the software done in time for launch. You always make sure you build the capability to change things.
DDJ: When you send something 300,000,000 miles there's always the chance something you hadn't anticipated will happen.
GR: Well, as we said, space is forgiving, but on the surface of Mars and other places, you're right. But what we'd really like to do is build spacecraft that are much smarter about how to take care of things they don't precisely expect yet still achieve the things they are intended to do without interaction from the ground.
DDJ: Real robots! Were you an Asimov fan when you were a kid?
GR: Still am! Both a kid and an Asimov fan.
DDJ: What did your title on the Pathfinder mission -- "Flight Software Cognizant Engineer" -- signify?
GR: I was ultimately responsible for development and operation of flight software on the spacecraft itself. My butt on the line.
DDJ: Software project management, the final frontier! How do you guys actually get the product out?
GR: Here's my opinion on why Pathfinder worked as well as it did: We were focused. We had a specific goal, to get this spacecraft launched, get it to Mars, get it through the atmosphere, deliver the rover onto the surface. We managed to focus everyone on the team on that objective.
Number two, JPL was in this Total Quality Management phase, so they talked a lot about empowerment, authority, and responsibility. Some of us, despite being more than a little skeptical about TQM itself, took that and ran with it. If we were empowered, that meant we really had the ability to make the decisions. The whole project worked that way, and the management of the project structured it. They really did trust the people working on it. You really did take responsibility for the people you put on the project.
We were the small project at JPL. Still ongoing was the back end of all the Cassini development, a 3000-person development. Pathfinder was 300 persons or fewer. So, the team was very tightly knit.
All these things contributed to the success from the management point of view. I'd love to say that JPL took that lesson and applied it to all the subsequent projects, however, I would say the exact opposite was true. A lot of people look at Pathfinder as successful, yet, "We don't want to do it that way again."
Recognize, however, that one of the reasons that's true is that, in the past, we at JPL had these huge projects and were able to build up a lot of infrastructure institution-wide within a project. But since we have a bunch of much tinier projects now, we have to build an infrastructure across the board, so there's a lot more interdependency between projects than there has been in the past.
So the Pathfinder approach of putting yourselves out, a sort of skunkworks type of environment, just doesn't work anymore at JPL.
DDJ: As space travel becomes routine, you don't need geniuses to do it.
GR: When that occurs!
DDJ: But that's your job, year after year, trying to make it routine.
GR: That's correct. And once we make it routine, we'd like to make sure that industry is doing the routine part and we go off to the stuff that's still on the frontier.
DDJ: Glenn, what are you doing now?
GR: I'm working on one of those infrastructure things. JPL is developing some avionics hardware that's radiation hardened to the point it can survive at Europa, which has a very severe radiation environment. We are pushing the technology in this arena, looking at the part level at one megarad type of problems.
This is a lot of contractual work going outside of JPL. We're trying to fly as much commercial heritage stuff as we possibly can. The flight computer we've currently selected is PowerPC 750 based at 200 MHz.
DDJ: You're putting a Macintosh into space!
GR: Isn't that convenient? The processor speed of the thing we flew on Pathfinder was about 22 MHz. We've gone up an order of magnitude. That's a phenomenal increase. JPL has, historically, flown processor technologies that are 10 to 12 years behind...
DDJ:...As you wait for the rad-hard version of the part.
GR: Yup. What I'm specifically working on is a project that is sort of mislabelled as "Mission Data System." It's really an institution-wide effort to do a couple things. JPL has had several autonomy-oriented things occurring. We're trying to come up with an architecture that builds a foundation where we can have much more autonomous spacecraft than we've had in the past.
There are a lot of things involved with that, not just software, but also process, normal, up-to-date software engineering practices. I think JPL is moving from a hardware-centric organization to a more software-centric organization. The computer systems that we're building now look a lot like little local area networks. Computer systems both fast and less fast connected by things like FireWire and I2C.
DDJ: I2C is still going strong!
GR: It's not fast, but it's low power. That's often a real determinant. For high volume, high speed, we have 1394 FireWire -- 100 MBit/sec.
DDJ: I guess the NASA environment is pretty "toy-rich" for the programmer?
GR: We're trying to make it toy-rich in the sense that we're pushing hard for the commercial, off-the-shelf standardized things.
On Pathfinder we said, "We're going to fly the VME bus, because look at all the cards we can buy instead of doing in-house design and building every piece of test equipment."
We're still following that path.
DDJ: We started discussing the challenge of your current assignment in the context of trying to preserve the best of the Pathfinder skunkworks methodology in the current horizontal arrangement of smaller teams and standardized parts. How are you addressing that challenge?
GR: JPL is in the throes of trying to address team organization and interdependency between teams effectively. It's a big problem for an organization to go from a very command and control-oriented to a very interdependency-oriented structure.
DDJ: Is it left to JPL internally, or are you one eddy in the NASA river?
GR: At this point it's pretty much JPL internal. Our interdependency issues are certainly known to NASA.
DDJ: You personally are being slurped into management. Do you get to write code anymore these days?
GR: Not these days...I have a position called Mission Data System Chief Engineer. It sounds like a technical decision making position, but it's primarily a programmatic activity. I'm resisting as best I can!
DDJ: All the techies reading DDJ are cheering, "Don't give in to the Dark Side!"
GR: Someone has to put the plan together. That deficiency has dragged me to the dark side.
DDJ: Yes, really, the management is the final frontier. Development environments are shrink-wrap now. Figuring out how to divide work suitably between people, how to interleave so the product arrives on time...
GR: Those are second-order effects. The first-order effects are methodology. UML or not UML? Languages, classic things, the ability to do things on the type of computers we're now buying...Some of the things we had to worry about in the past we don't have to worry about any more. A 200-MHz PowerPC is about 200 times faster than the processors that run in Cassini. A lot of efficiency issues are starting to disappear.
DDJ: So you just write "good old code" like anybody writes?
GR: Well, wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't it be nice if we could get close to the maturing edge of some software engineering? JPL, because we've been relegated to targets about 10 to 15 years back, we ended up having to use whatever's available, but we're no longer in that ballgame.
DDJ: What about Linux?
GR: We haven't evaluated it from a flight perspective. It has a fairly decent presence here on desktop computers. Every engineer has his opinion on the One True Way. Languages turn out to be a religious issue, too.
DDJ: What religions are sweeping JPL?
GR: Most of the work JPL has done has been primarily in procedural languages. We did a fair amount of Ada on Cassini, but from a true object-oriented perspective, we haven't been there yet, not on the flight side. Pathfinder and others are all C-based.
But moving towards an object-oriented direction takes you to an object-oriented language, C++ or Java...We have a whole bunch of artificial intelligence folks for whom LISP is a language of choice. Factor in a multitasking, preemptive real-time environment, even a multilanguage environment, and you have a whole bunch of religious conflicts.
DDJ: You're going to need memory to run that stuff.
GR: Look at the memory densities we're starting to see. On Pathfinder we had 128 megabytes of RAM. We moved into the realm where my desktop machine has more than the spacecraft. We're continuing in that direction. Let's put it this way, the software guys will be able to use all of that space. "If it's there, we can fill it up."
DDJ: When are we going to Europa?
GR: The hardware and the software come together in the two-year time frame for the two missions that will be supported. The first one is a mission called "Space Technology 4," or ST4. It's going off to a comet [to] take some samples [and] possibly eventually return. I'm not sure about the return part now, they've done some descoping lately.
The second mission is to Europa. They're launching possibly in 2003. There are other ongoing missions that will also probably use this technology, but those are the only two signed up now.
DDJ: What keeps people going to Congress for funding to shoot tin cans at Europa? Why does this happen?
GR: My personal opinion is that you have to recognize this is a very small planet. At some point in the future, man is going to move off into space, there's no doubt about it. People recognize there has to be some level of exploration that's ongoing to support that goal.
Perhaps the question is, "How can we spend billions in space while there are starving children in the world?" I think it's a balance, where you're balancing the short-term goals with the long-term goals.
I can't speak for the manned exploration side of NASA, but we on the robotic exploration side have witnessed great changes, going from billion-dollar spacecraft to $200 million spacecraft. NASA applies fairly small resources to greater and greater discovery and exploration missions.
DDJ: I grew up with Robert Heinlein's books about mining the asteroids. Is that in the foreseeable future?
GR: That's interesting, because this week or next week there's a guy coming from a company called SpaceDev Inc., to talk to us about commercial deep-space exploration. How there will be a shift from government-sponsored space exploration, whether Russian, Japanese, German, French, or American. I'm not sure he's going to address mining, but he's going to address that there are institutions both research and commercial that are willing to pay for images and spectroscopy in the hopes of discovering minerals, resources...
DDJ: The classic SciFi goals of space exploration.
GR: I can tell you that it's coming. Any time soon? Maybe in our lifetime, late...My kids will see it.
DDJ: Any advice for software engineers interested in space?
GR: My brother-in-law says, "Ya write the software but ya never actually know about the thing it's doing." I think that's wrong. I think you can still be a computer scientist and do phenomenally interesting applications of that art. Pathfinder is an example of how exciting that can really get.
Priority Inversion: How We Found It, How We Fixed It
By Glenn E. Reeves
The Mars Pathfinder spacecraft had a single RS6000-based single-board computer residing on a VME bus to control the spacecraft. The single VME chassis also contained interface cards for the radio, camera, and an interface to a 1553 bus. The 1553 bus, in turn, connected to the "cruise stage" and the "lander" part of the spacecraft. The hardware on the cruise part of the spacecraft controlled the thrusters, valves, sun sensor, and star scanner. The hardware on the Lander provided an interface to accelerometers, radar altimeter, and an instrument for meteorological science (ASI/MET). The hardware that was used to interface to the 1553 bus (at both ends) was inherited from the Cassini spacecraft.
To support the Mars Pathfinder Mission, Wind River Systems ported its standard VxWorks for the 680x0 to the RS6000. The RS6000 is the same single-chip CPU that can be found in some (now older) IBM AIX workstations. The Mars Pathfinder flight software also had several debug features that were used in the lab, but not on the actual flight spacecraft because they produced more information than we could send back to Earth. These features were not enabled, but remained in the software by design.
One of these tools was a trace/log facility that was originally developed to find a bug in an early version of the Wind River Systems VxWorks port. David Cummings, one of the JPL software engineers, built the trace/log facility. Lisa Stanley (at Wind River Systems) took this facility and instrumented the pipe services, msgQ services, interrupt handling, select services, and the tExec task. The facility initialized at startup and continued to collect data (in ring buffers) until told to stop. The facility produced a voluminous dump of information when asked.
When the "repeated reset problem" (for details, see RISKS Digest, Volume 19 Issue 54, January 10, 1998; http://catless .ncl.ac.uk/Risks/19.54.html) occurred on Mars, we ran the same set of spacecraft activities over and over again in the lab. Since the flight software had the trace/log facility enabled and the failing task was already coded so as to stop the trace/log collection and dump the data (even though we knew we could not get the dump in flight) for this error, we went into the lab to test whether we would have to change the software.
In less than 18 hours, we were able to repeat the problem, isolate it to an interaction of the pipe() and select() mechanisms, diagnose it as a priority inversion problem, and identify the most likely fix. In fact, the fix seemed straightforward: We had to change the creation flags for the semaphore used within the select() facility so as to enable priority inheritance. This change was possible because Wind River Systems supplied global variables for parameters, such as the "options" parameter for the semMCreate used by the select service (although this was not documented and those who do not have VxWorks source code or have not studied the source code might be unaware of this feature). Still, the fix was not that straightforward for several reasons:
1. The code for this was in the selectLib() and was common for all device creations. When this global variable is changed, all of the select semaphores created after that point will be created with the new options. There was no easy way in our initialization logic to only modify the semaphore associated with the problem.
2. If we made this change and applied it on a global basis, we didn't know how it would affect the behavior of the rest of the system.
3. Because Wind River Systems deliberately left the priority inversion option out of the default selectLib() service for optimum performance, we didn't know if performance would degrade if we turned the priority inversion on.
4. Finally, we didn't know if there was some intrinsic behavior of the select mechanism itself that would change if the priority inversion was enabled.
In the end, we modified the global variable to include the priority inversion. This corrected the problem. We asked the Wind River Systems engineers to analyze the potential impacts for (3) and (4) above. They concluded that the performance impact would be minimal and that the behavior of select() would not change so long as there was always only one task waiting for any particular file descriptor (this was true in our system). I believe that the debate at Wind River Systems still continues over whether the priority inversion option should be on as the default. As for the aforementioned (1) and (2), the change did alter the characteristics of all of the select semaphores. We concluded, both by analysis and test, that there was no adverse behavior. We tested the system extensively before we changed the software on the spacecraft.
We weren't able to catch the problem before launch because the problem would only manifest itself when ASI/MET data was being collected and intermediate tasks were heavily loaded. Our before-launch testing was limited to the "best case" high data rates and science activities. The fact that data rates from the surface were higher than anticipated and the amount of science activities proportionally greater served to aggravate the problem. We did not expect nor test the "better than we could have ever imagined" case.
We did see the problem before landing, but could not get it to repeat when we tried to track it down. It was not forgotten nor was it deemed unimportant. Yes, we were concentrating heavily on the entry and landing software. Yes, we considered this problem lower priority. Yes, we would have liked to have everything perfect before landing. However, I didn't see any problem, other than that we ran out of time to get the lower priority issues resolved.
We did have one other thing on our side -- we knew how robust our system was because that is the way we designed it. We knew that if this problem occurred, we would reset. We built in mechanisms to recover the current activity so that there would be no interruptions in the science data (although this wasn't used until later in the landed mission). We built in the ability (and tested it) to go through multiple resets while we were going through the Martian atmosphere. We designed the software to recover from radiation induced errors in the memory or the processor. The spacecraft would have even done a 60-day mission on its own, including deploying the rover, if the radio receiver had broken when we landed. There were a large number of safeguards in the system to ensure robust, continued operation in the event of a failure of this type. These safeguards allowed us to designate problems of this nature as lower priority. We had our priorities right.
Did we (the JPL team) make an error in assuming how the select/pipe mechanism would work? Probably. But there was no conscious decision to not have the priority inversion enabled. We just missed it. There were several other places in the flight software where similar protection was required for critical data structures and the semaphores did have priority inversion protection. A good lesson when you fly commercial off-the-shelf stuff -- make sure you know how it works.


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Chris Sikorski provided the treasurer's report to the ANJHHWC, which is provided below as an attached Statement of Account chart.
Training Sessions for Members
Diana Vigilante was provided quotes for an 8-hour refresher HHW training for the ANJHHWC. She stated that we need to figure out who to have and where to have it, but it is likely to be somewhere in Central NJ. We want to do it sometime in early winter before we begin our 2013 HHW events. A motion was made to approve the J Gibbons quote in the amount of $1,300. This motion was seconded and approved by all. We anticipate the fee for members will be $100/person. We will try to get registration forms this fall for the winter sessions.
E-Waste Update
ANJHHWC's E-waste campaign is was commenced thanks to Covanta JoAnn gave update on our ad campaign and lack of action by NJDEP, in contravention of the law requiring NJDEP to do provide an education effort to support the E-waste law. So far NJDEP has not complied with this requirement.
When NJDEP discovered the tool kit went out to retailers, NJDEP contacted ANJHHWC and asked how the NJDEP can help. JoAnn got an E-mail back from Vicky K. of NJDEP asking follow-up questions regarding the ANJHHWC campaign but to date, nothing else materialized.
JoAnn mentioned the ANJHHWC had a virtual subcommittee meeting a few weeks ago and that we decided we need about $10,000 for a promotional campaign if we use the battery campaign as a template. ANJHHWC received pricing on ads, of which $5,800 would be for transit ads, covering 19 of the 21 counties with spending the rest on web ads. JoAnn thinks this is another opportunity for manufacturers to step up and help out in the ads. Newtech offered some support and JoAnn explained how we will try to spread the wealth and provide the promotional coverage as is appropriate for the vendors.
Regarding the tool kit mailing, JoAnn gave a summary of what happened to distribute this over the past months. Reenee reported that a radio station up by her got the packet and transmitted the PSA over the air on several occasions.
JoAnn brought up the concept of NJ and NY teaming up on a grant application for an EPA grant on a regional basis that gets NY off the ground and gets funding for NJ. Ken Armelino from Covanta serves on the NY Recycling Board and he brought it up with them and the "team-up" concept works, so we decided to get a committee together to work on this grant. There is potential for $216,000 from the EPA. JoAnn is looking for a little help on this.
JoAnn asked Guy about NJDEP action regarding our E-Waste Campaign. Guy stated New Jersey's procurement procedures for the NJDEP required them issue an RFP if the cost of something will be over $17,500. He suggested that if the ANJHHWC modifies the grant proposal to be under the $17,500 and submit and scope of work to NJDEP, they maybe permitted to award us this grant as a service. This would be after they verify the ANJHHWC's proposal is the cheapest of at least 3 proposers. JoAnn stated she will be sending a letter to NJDEP letting them know our intention to apply for the previously mentioned EPA grant in cooperation with NJDEP.
Producer Responsibility Issues:
JoAnn mentioned several of us participated in a paint recycling discussion at a recent Recycling Coordinators meeting and this issue is come to the front since Oregon recently implemented such a program. JoAnn stated that even though Union County doesn't spend money on paint management directly, they do spend time discussing proper paint management with residents that call in for information. JoAnn liked what Oregon is doing in that drop-off sites are retail establishments. ANJR sent out a survey last week following this meeting asking questions on each county about their paint amounts and costs. For those that pay by car the cost and the quantity of paint management is estimated to be around 65% of the costs of HHW management.
Guy mentioned the industry is likely to sponsor legislation themselves in NJ.
Guy stated the Governor conditionally vetoed amendments to Electronic Recycling Act which had proposed to bring enforcement of E-waste regulations in line with enforcement currently performed under solid waste management act.
Procurement of Services
Reene of Sussex County brought up procurement issues she had in a recent bid that enabled her agency to not select an unqualified bidder. She shared the language from her recent bid that enabled her to disqualify a low bidder that was determined to be unreliable. He bid requires submission of DOT records from bidders so she could check on them and their records with respect to DOT issues. Sussex Co. now also requires a certification of compliance or non-compliance from bidders as a means to evaluate each bidder. Each bidder had some type of infractions, but the firm they rejected didn't include this required certification and which provided the ability to dismiss the low bid.
Insurance and bonding are other elements that can be used to keep the bidders as reliable vendors.
Propane and Other Types Tanks
Ron Berenato of AtlanticCounty potentially found a market for a variety of cylinders from Ohio like propane, Freon, O2, etc. The problem is he is in Ohio and needs a critical mass to come here to NJ. Ron and Fred Stanger agreed to form a subcommittee to explore this concept. Insulation in the form of 2-part tanks are a new item showing up now as HHW. They are a severe problem now.
County Program Updates:
- Middlesex – No Major updates, status quo.
- Somerset – Cutting back in programs due to economy. Sheriffs are taking drugs at their programs. They recently executed a new E-waste contract with Newtech and now people can drop-off E-waste weekdays.
- Hudson – Small drop in participation due to no longer advertise accepting latex paint at programs, but they do still accept latex if delivered, short of that, HudsonCounty is status quo.
- Passaic – 3 days/year, status quo.
- Morris – Participation is up slightly from last year. MorrisCounty has noticed more and more tanks for insulation coming into the programs. Isocyanate is the foam insulation product we are all discussing.
- Ocean – They had 5 events in spring and 5 events in fall. Participation is down since they have year-round paint program but the paint costs for the County are through the roof. Ernie Kuhlwein asked members at the meeting about what they do with ammunition and firework waste.
- Mercer – Status quo, 3 scheduled events and 2 E-waste events.
- Camden – 6 one-day events and 3 E-waste events. Car counts seem about stable, with volume going up a bit. They current collect and spend a lot on latex paint, they are contemplating dropping the acceptance of it in next year. They are looking to consider a permanent E-Waste drop-off site.
- Sussex – Their program is status quo with 2 events/year. They have never taken latex paint at their programs.
- Gloucester – They dropped from 8 days to 4 days last year but numbers slowed down a bit and 4 days seems to be the appropriate level to meet the demand. They haven't taken latex paint since 2008 and it saved them quite a bit of money. They did this because they want to use their hazmat money for hazardous materials and not the non-hazardous material such a latex paint.
- Salem – They increased events from 2 to 4 events though the overall volume hasn't increased. They expanded to 2 satellite events. They do not accept latex. One strange item that came into her program this year was expired home canned food, 7 cases of it from a person. Salem provides E-waste recycling twice-a-week at their convenience center and participation keeps increasing.
- Atlantic – Status quo.
Vendor Updates:
- Radiac – Nothing new and exciting but they are up a little in performing events in the Northeast. They currently have 4-5 counties programs in New Jersey. They see volumes of waste batteries declining now that alkalines aren't coming into HHW programs. Other batteries are a pain to deal with. They now accepts smoke detectors for a cost of $25/detector as a special program if anyone is interested.
- MXI – They have been dabbling with Connecticut's paint program
- Newtech – Renewed license with NJDEP recently – Manufacturers are pushing back on taking materials. Battery management is an important issue in its certification process.
NJDEP Update
- Ed Neiliwocki provided an updated on the release of grants to counties for the money collected as part of the Recycling Enhancement Act. He stated his office just received an email with preliminary numbers for REA program – Grant numbers are preliminary because the $5.5 million is a NJ Treasury estimate. As soon as numbers are confirmed, they will send out spending guidelines. Guy states the number will not go down. Treasury stated there was $18 million in fund so the $5.5 million is and will be there. This $5.5 million is in comparison to $5.5 million they distributed last year.
Next Meeting
Holiday Meeting – Chris was contacted by McLoones again like last year. Chris will evaluate prices and will try to select one of their sites down the shore. We are targeting Dec. 5, 2012.
Adjournment – The meeting was adjourned at 11:55am.
Executive meeting: At 12:15 the executive board conducted a meeting discussed how to exchange documents and emails without having to get together. . The executive meeting was adjourned at 12:30


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Warning sirens in Tomahawk
I was just reading that Merrill activated sirens several times to warn residents to take cover when their tornado struck saving many lives. I am under the impression that Tomahawk's sirens are no longer in working order. I hope I was misinformed. If not, Lord help Tomahawk if a tornado heads that way.
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Re: Warning sirens in Tomahawk
A few years ago the city determined that the sirens needed major repairs and decided to take them down and go without rather than spend the money to fix them. Tomahawk now has no sirens at all.
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Re: Warning sirens in Tomahawk
so let me get this straight Tomahawk has no warning system. Growning up in the area was great. i miss being up there and try to get home when i can. With my family getting bigger with very small children it concern me that they mjay not be safe. what is it going to take to get the city to update this for the safety of all the people of Tomahawk
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Re: Warning sirens in Tomahawk
Next week there will be a day for Tomahawk to prepare for an oncoming tornado. Again we have no sirens. I realize that they may not be heard indoors and I realize they are expensive but to save 1 person to me is worth any cost it incurs. We can have drawings for a sign to be put on highway for tourists, we can have people jump in icewater and have mudfights etc. I am sure if the town cannot afford it there would be a way to purchase sirens. People like to gamble and would not mind putting money towards something that is life saving. I personally would not hear a siren where I live and have to rely on TV or a police scanner etc. To say we cannot afford it I do not understand. We cant afford NOT to have sirens. With everyone texting and using cellphones surely the word would get around. I know this will go on deaf ears but I had to get it off my chest once again.
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General AC talk
edited June 2012 in Animal Tracks
We desperately need this. I'll start, I am in love with the flow of everyone whistling into la rapet. Discuss
That was my favorite part of actually buying the CD, because when I just had it in mp3 form there would be like a quarter second jump that would mess up that intro into La Rapet. What is your favorite transition? Mine is In the Flowers into My Girls.
don't believe the pilot into wcwar on animal crack box. its just perfect.
I also love when Queen in my Pictures goes straight into Doggy, pure bliss. What exactly does Deakin do besides provide guitar to the Collective. Their songs just have a diferent feel to them when Deakin is somewhere in the song/album.
^what peace said. That's one of my favorite transitions of all time
that transition is also, according to panda, one of the best things the band will ever do. im pretty sure deakin provides some backup vocals sometimes. i feel like the whole band gives every other member notes on what theyre playing and its one big creative process
I don't doubt that PB said that, what a wonderful transition into a wonderful song. And I thought that they recorded that whole album in one sitting, so if that transition was just natural and not even thoroughly edited thats even more impressive.
Safer's first half's lyrics are unreal. im speechless Why am I so scared That the shadows on the wall from yesterday... I turn and tell my dad I saw ghosts in the park wooing girls with cakes And their moms are scared 'Cause they haven't been home in two or three days Wind blows trees through the tops of my hair I saw wolves in the fog, I can see through the rain Oh, man and things have changed In the snow filled lake where there used to be waves I feel deranged They're building beaches inside so it's sunny all May I don't know, I think it's strange 'Cause I know we met before but I cannot place it I don't know if there's any real danger But the creatures all know that it's safer in the dark Why am I so scared Of explosions going off just any old way I turn, ask is it that bad They say we've much bigger problems, we got wolves on the plane And they left their den 'cause the cracks in the pipe's shootin' murky grays They're running just as fast as the hares They say you shouldn't leave a place if you can eat there Oh, man, and things have changed In the snow filled lakes where there used to be waves I feel deranged They're building beaches inside so it's sunny all May I don't know, I think it's strange 'Cause I know we met before but I cannot place it I don't know if there's any real danger But I'm alright if you're alright I'm alright if you're alright...
So true Ticon, it still baffles me why AC didn't even put it on the EP. As far as EP's go, which one is your favorite from Animal Collective? I love Fall Be Kind the most, but I would have said Water Curses if it had Safer.
definitely fall be kind, but people is a close second. two awesome songs, one trippy snippet and an amazing live performance including avey screaming like a madman
[IMG]http://i1233.photobucket.com/albums/ff384/cooperolson/Picture14-3.png[/IMG] this photo makes for a great tiled desktop background
Nice! New wallpapr then.
Is Campfire Songs an EP? I could listen to it on loop for days. Other than that, probably People. Tikwid is one of my favourite AC songs. Edit: and yes, also takin that for my wallpaper aha! thanks ticon!
I find Tikwid annoying, in an affable catchy way
Can see that for sure. It's most definitely Panda's drumbeat that does it for me - whenever it comes on I have to be that annoying ass that bangs on the nearest table along with it. Oooooooh oooh ooh OOOHH ohhh oohh oohhh ooooooooooooooh IT GLOWS
I love how you can never tell whether the "oooooh" part is gonna repeat or not. And I'm pretty sure CS is considered an album, not EP
Yeah CS is an LP for sure. Do you guys consider Hollin and ODDSAC "TRUE" LP's. I like counting ODDSAC as one more than I would consider Hollin a LP, mainly becasue I really love ODDSAC and I'm not really a huge fan of Hollin. What do you guys think?
hollin is definitely an lp in my mind, but im not sure about oddsac. when i think of oddsac, i think of watching, not listening
Just got a Songkick notification that they'll be playing Massey Hall in Toronto with Washed Out on October 10th - but the date isn't listed on myanimalhome or the venue's website or ticketmaster. HOW DO I GET TICKETS. HOW DO I GET THEM NOOOOW
Oh my god i seriously hope this is happening!!
AnCo do Europe tours, right? A London concert or whatever may be my only chance of seeing them, because they sure as anything are't coming back to Malta . I watched an interview where they said they're more comfortable touring the states, which sucks for the rest of the world.
europe has it allright this year. hope theres no fans in whales. They are gonna tour on the east and west coast of the States but the middle is left untouched. Dag. Either way I'm going.
Second leg of the tour, middle US and Australia goddammit!
Where is the second leg posted? Songkick is the only place i can find that says they're coming to toronto. The venue's website doesnt even have them scheduled
They're gonna come to Australia just to party with the Aborigineese
I don't live with the Aboriginals...
AC said they knew that they had skipped over a lot of places and that they were going to do another round of touring on their FB page. They don't want to get burnt out (as they have in the past). So, there is about 100% chance they will reach the Midwest and other northern U.S. states, but I am unsure of other countries.
Vesufius, it's also on the Domino Records (AC's record label) website that they're coming to TO on the date Songkick says - so it's a fair bet you should keep an eye on ticketmaster and myanimalhome.net for tickets.
Oh yeah, just checked that out. Thanks a lot Frumpkin, this is great news!
Back onto a topic... So when will be the last time you guys listen to the 2011 bootlegs before the album (if you have even heard the new songs)? I'm planning on giving those boots two more listens, one tomorrow and another listen a month after tomorrow.
HAH! I'm putting them on my ipod so I can right up the lyrics asap and sing them while they play it HAH!!! I intend not to be a stiff stiff
im only listening to individual songs if they come up on shuffle
I've never said this but I first truly enjoyed danse manatee while listening on a beach. The high frequencies, piercing percussion and strange melodies fit the beach setting so well for me
Sounds very, very, similar to the studio version, but all of the sounds are at different levels and what not. I liked it and Avey is sounding as cool as ever. The drums also have that cool effect on them where they come in and out of focus. Thanks, Ticon.
HCTI is slowly becoming my favorite AC album. sadly, Sung Tongs is not what it used to be
I agree with that statement, Sung Tongs can sometimes be a disapointing listen when i'm not in the right mood. On the other hand, HCTI always surprises me and takes me on a different journey every time I listen to it.
leaf house will always be their best intro though. spirit they've vanished a close second. i wish their last three album's first songs had a more intro-ish feel
Oh no! I still haven't listened to Sung Tongs! Don't say such things.
No like. Edit: gone.
I actually disagree with you Ticon, but that may be a result of many, many listens of AC albums. Spirit They've Vanished seems to set out the world, a dreamscape, in which te rest of the album takes place. Danse Manatee and the track A Manatee Dance really is the worst intro imo. Then Campfire is decent with QIMP. Native Belle is another explosion of noise to kickstart HCTI. Leafhouse isn't that strong imo, but it does show a departue from the rest of AC's music imo. The DYSTW and the build up in that song, not to mention the love going on in that track, set's up Feels. The abstract intro in Peacebone going into that iconic series of samples is jjust a marvoulous begining to Straw Jam. Then the Alien space ship, Dishwasher, whatever it is in "In the Flowers", that seems to set a pace for MPP and it flows perfectly into My Girls. That's my attempt at writing/reviewing Album intro's, but don't hold me to grammar or my opinion.
A song doesn't have to be intro-ish to be a good intro. If that makes sense Edit: a manatee danse is an awesome intro if you make sure to listen to the album In order. The way it goes straight into penguinx2 is great (IMO of course)
Off topic... Im beginning to like the living toys, which Is my least favorite on DM
"Do you guys consider Hollin and ODDSAC "TRUE" LP's. I like counting ODDSAC as one more than I would consider Hollin a LP, mainly becasue I really love ODDSAC and I'm not really a huge fan of Hollin. What do you guys think?" but holland is a live shindiggy! that can't count in album canon surely? YOU JEST! though in a world where campfire counted but holland didn't would make me SICK! and oddsak MUST count! a VISUAL album! album is in the name of what it IS! oh god? either way they have 9 albums (somehow) and Senty Peed is AC X! animal collective sex!
On topic of general AC talk, I have decided that Sung Tongs is probably the best winter album of all time. And it's making me nauseous, where the hell have I got to? :-h
Well... Winter's Love, Kids on Holiday, and The Softest Voice make it a really good winter album. However, Sweet Road and Leafhouse seem more like spring or summer. But It definetly is a great album for Fall or Winter.
i like to think of fall be kind as in late nov / early dec the cold now here and thinking OH FALL WON'T YOU BE KIND AND REWIND! wanting it all to come back! we have to glow black!
FBK is definetly a winter/fall album. I really am going to make that my second album to listen to this fall besides CHZ, that is going to take over my ear buds for months.
Fall be kind is my 2nd favorite AC release right now. Behind HCTI
Sung Tongs is also good winter/fall album Its wierd... HCTI is my most neglected AC album even though i like it a lot


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chestnut/chest·nut/ (chest´nut) a tree of the genus Castanea or a nut of various species; the wood and leaves of C. dentata (American chestnut) contain tannin and it has been used as an astringent and in pertussis.
horse chestnut the tree Aesculus hippocastanum or a preparation of the medicinal parts of its seeds, having antiexudative, antiinflammatory, and immunomodulatory activity and used in the treatment of chronic venous insufficiency, in homeopathy and in folk medicine.
1. flattened, oval masses of horn on the medial surface of the forearm and the hock of the horse. Those on the forelimb are just proximal to the carpus, those on the hindlimb are at the distal end of the tarsus. In donkeys the hindlimb chestnut is very small, in mules it is absent. They are regarded as being vestiges of the carpal and tarsal pads.
2. fruit of the chestnut tree Castanea sativa.
3. a popular coat color in horses. A deep reddish brown varying from a red dominance or light chestnut, to a heavier brown tone, liver or deep chestnut. Mixed with white hairs is a chestnut roan.
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