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Scadden began his medical career intent on being a practicing physician, until his mother was diagnosed with cancer. He was deeply troubled by the limited tools available to help her. He wanted to change "the inevitable death sentence" cancer used to be. And he has. Today he is one of the foremost stem-cell researchers in the world, and his work influences therapies for treating cancer and AIDS patients.
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DAMASCUS, Syria — Waving photos of President Bashar Assad and dancing with flags, tens of thousands of Syrians pledged renewed allegiance to President Bashar Assad as they voted Tuesday in a presidential election that excluded a vast swath of the pre-war population and was decried by the opposition as a charade.
Some stamped their ballots with blood after pricking their fingers with pins supplied by the government in a symbolic act of allegiance and patriotism. Others chose to vote in full sight of other voters and television cameras — rather than go behind a partition curtain for privacy.
Men and women wore lapel pins with Assad's picture and said re-electing him would give the Syrian leader more legitimacy to find a solution to the devastating three-year conflict that activists say has killed more than 160,000 people, about a third of whom were civilians.
Security was tight, with multiple rings of checkpoints set up around the Syrian capital and its entrances. Troops searched cars and asked people for their IDs.
Even as crowds of Assad's supporters flocked to the polls in Damascus, the sounds of war were inescapable.
At least three fighter jets roared low over Damascus during the voting, which residents said was unusual.
The dull sounds of explosions also reverberated in the distance as pro-government forces and rebels battled in nearby rural towns and ashy plumes of gray smoke marked the skyline. Several mortar hits were reported in the capital, including one that crashed near the Opera House on a major plaza, though the voting was largely peaceful.
The balloting is only taking place in government-controlled areas, excluding much of northern and eastern Syria. Tens of thousands of Syrians abroad voted last week, although many of the more than 2.7 million Syrian refugees across the region either abstained or were excluded by voting laws.
Assad's win — all but a foregone conclusion — would give him a third seven-year term in office, tighten his hold on power and likely further strengthen his determination to crush the insurgency against his rule.
The opposition's Western and regional allies, including the U.S., Britain, France, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, have called the vote a sham. The so-called internal Syrian opposition groups seen as more lenient are also boycotting the vote, while many activists around the country are referring to it as "blood elections" for the horrific toll the country has suffered.
The vote is also Syria's first multi-candidate presidential election in more than 40 years and is being touted by the government as a referendum measuring Syrians' support for Assad. He faces two government-approved challengers in the race, Maher Hajjar and Hassan al-Nouri, both of whom were little known in Syria before declaring their candidacy for the country's top post in April.
In government strongholds of Damascus and Latakia, the voting took on a carnival-like atmosphere, with voters singing and dancing, all the while declaring undying loyalty to Assad.
In Homs, Syria's third-largest city, the atmosphere was more restrained, with people standing in long lines to vote. Even the destroyed Old City, recently evacuated by hundreds of rebel fighters after a cease-fire agreement with Assad's government forces, had a few polling stations, including one placed in the courtyard of the heavily damaged St. Mary's Church of the Holy Belt.
Mohammed Hussam, an opposition activist in the eastern half of the contested northern city of Aleppo, said no voting was taking place in "liberated" areas, as rebels call areas they control. Speaking via Skype, he said there was much anger about the "theater" taking place in government-held parts of western Aleppo.
The government has presented the election as the solution to the conflict, but there is no indication it will halt the violence or mend a bitterly divided nation. The stage-managed balloting also will likely put to rest any illusions that the man who has led Syria since 2000 has any intention of relinquishing power or compromising to reach a political solution.
Assad cast his ballot in the morning at a school in his posh Damascus neighborhood of al-Malki. The TV showed him in a dark blue suit and tie, flanked by his wife, Asma, both smiling as they inserted their ballots in a transparent box.
In his first public appearance since undergoing heart surgery in March, Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem voted with a Syrian flag wrapped like a shawl around his neck.
"The path toward a political solution to the crisis begins today," he declared.
At a polling station in the upscale Dama Rose hotel in central Damascus, a cup filled with pins was on offer for those who chose to vote in blood. Some pricked their fingers repeatedly to ensure they drew enough blood to mark the circle under Assad's name on the ballot. Most, though, voted in ink.
"With the leadership of Bashar, my country will return to safety," said student Uday Jurusni, who voted in blood, after pricking his finger. "He is my leader and I love him."
Outside the hotel, about two dozen men banged drums, waved flags and danced as they chanted, "God, Syria and Bashar!" Streets around polling centers were awash with Assad posters.
In one Damascus polling station, government official Basam Ramadani stood with a small pile of syringes instead of pins for those wishing to vote in blood.
After using one of the syringes, voter Firyal Sheikh El-Zour, 50, proudly displayed her bloodied finger to the media. Another voter suspiciously glanced at the syringes, then muttered: "Give me a clean needle."
The Interior Ministry said there were 15.8 million eligible voters, both inside and outside Syria, and that 9,600 voting centers have been set up around the country. Polls were expected to close at 7 p.m, but the ministry has said voting could be extended for five hours if there was a big turnout.
A London-based Syrian opposition figure, Muhieddine Lathkani, called the vote a "black comedy."
"This election has no value and no one will recognize it, no matter what North Korea and Iran think about it," he said, referring to some of the key states allied with Assad.
Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam contributed to this report from Beirut.

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By CAROLINE WARD
and DAN FREEDMAN
The Supreme Court this week takes up the hot-button immigration issue in a case from Arizona that — depending on how the justices decide it — could be a bellwether of the Latino vote this November.
Arizona v. U.S. promises to bring the controversy over illegal immigration to the surface just as the 2012 presidential contest between President Obama and presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney gets underway in earnest.
At issue is the 2010 Arizona law that directs police to determine proof of citizenship or legal immigration status where officers have a reasonable suspicion that the individual they detain is "unlawfully present'' in the U.S. Individuals must present proof of legal status before police can release them.
The law also makes it a criminal offense for an illegal immigrant to apply for a job or to hold a job, and authorizes police to arrest without warrant anyone they suspect of committing any "public offense'' that would make them "removable from the United States.''
The Arizona measure, subsequently put on hold by lower courts, set off a firestorm of protest and indignation among Latinos. It also galvanized illegal immigration opponents to support similar measures in other states, including Texas.
Gov. Rick Perry promoted a proposal that would have allowed police to ask detainees about their immigration status. And it would have banned local governments from enacting policies prohibiting the enforcement of state or federal immigration laws. But the measures died during both the regular legislative session and last year's special session.
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments in the case on Wednesday. U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli is expected to argue that the federal government — not an individual state — has jurisdiction over immigration.
If allowed to stand, the Arizona law could "subvert'' federal law by fostering a patchwork of non-uniform state laws, the U.S. government argued in its legal brief.
Washington lawyer Paul Clement, appearing for Arizona, likely will counter that federal immigration law encourages state and local law enforcement assistance.
And in any case, Arizona's law represents the state's desperate attempt to curb the negative impact of illegal immigrants on the state's economy and seize back control of a desert border region that violent alien smugglers have turned into the Wild West.
For Verrilli and Clement, the argument is a rematch of the Obamacare case last month, a contest in which Verrilli appeared to falter while Clement showed agility in parrying the justices' fireballed questions.
Justice Elena Kagan has removed herself from the Arizona case, evidently because as the U.S. solicitor general preceding Verrilli she helped formulate legal strategy against the law.
A 4-4 split among the remaining eight justices is a distinct possibility. Such a vote would simply uphold the San-Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling against the law, but it would set no precedent.
A Supreme Court decision is expected by the end of June.
Arizona supporters insist the state was well within its rights to pass a law aimed at counteracting deficiencies in U.S. border enforcement.
"The Arizona law mirrors federal law and is only necessary because the Obama administration has failed to do its job of enforcing our immigration laws and securing the border,'' said House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, who along with 11 other GOP House members submitted a court brief backing Arizona.
Rep. Ted Poe, R-Humble, who also signed the brief, said that while the U.S. government has primary responsibility for immigration law enforcement, the question before the court is "may states also do that in the name of public safety for their citizens? I think they can.''
Critics say a Supreme Court opinion upholding the law would be a green light for the 49 other states to fashion their own individual immigration laws.
"Immigration is a federal issue," said Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo.
"I can feel the frustration that states feel from border issues,'' he said. "I live on the border. I understand the border. But, at the end of the day, it's still a federal issue."
Civil rights advocates argue that the law, if upheld, would unleash a wave of legalized racial profiling comparable to what African Americans experienced in the Deep South decades ago.
Wade Henderson, head of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said the law gave him a case of "deja vu.''
It recalls "a time when some states wanted to supersede federal policy as to whether or not African Americans were allowed to vote, to attend public schools or to eat at the lunch counter of their choosing," he said.
The Greater Houston Partnership, an alliance of 2,100 Houston-area businesses, said in a brief that it feared a spillover effect if the Arizona law is upheld "The practical effect of Arizona's effort to achieve `attrition through enforcement' will be to drive illegal aliens (as well as legal immigrants and Latino citizens) to surrounding states,'' the partnership said. "The resulting `attrition' will not only affect Arizona's economy, but that of other states as well.''
Politically, the Supreme Court's Arizona ruling — no matter which way it goes — is likely to benefit Obama.
"Democrats are doing just fine with the Latino vote,'' said Antonio Gonzalez, president of San Antonio-based Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. "They can't do much better.''
Still, a Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Arizona law could energize Latino voters to turn out in larger numbers for Obama, whose Justice Department has led the charge against the Arizona law. Latino votes could tip the balance in key swing states such as Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada.
The Obama campaign is investing in an effort to register and turn out Latino voters in Arizona itself, which over the past decades has been a virtual lock for Republicans.
A court opinion striking down the law could also be parlayed by the Obama campaign into vindication for its leadership on behalf of Latino civil rights.
For Romney, the calculus is a little more difficult. He took a hardline stand on immigration during the GOP primary battle. A shift to the center would risk alienating the conservative voters that Romney needs to stay competitive.
But his campaign will make a significant play for the Latino vote. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a young upcoming Hispanic conservative, is talked about as a possible running mate.
A Supreme Court decision against the law could tone down the decibel level and perhaps lead Latino voters to judge the candidates on other issues.
Latinos will "vote their interests, but that could be mixed,'' Gonzalez said.


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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The 2010 Gaucho cross country season will begin on Saturday, Sept. 4 with the UCSB Lagoon Open. Three races will be contested, beginning with an Alumni/Community 5k at 9:30 a.m. The women's Open 5k will be held next at 10:30 a.m., and the men's Open 8k will begin at 11:00 a.m. The staging area will be behind the University Center (UCEN).
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Sony's two recently unveiled tablets, the Tablet S and Tablet P, are rumoured to become the first real competitors to Apple's iPad and iPad 2. The Tablet S will be introduced into the Australian market at the end of October, and is available for pre-order on 28th September. The dual-screen Tablet P is expected to launch sometime next year.
See Which tablet should I buy? iPad vs Xoom.
Here we compare Sony's Tablet S with Apple's iPad 2.
The Tablet S will be available in 16GB and 32GB versions, like the Apple iPad; however, the iPad 2 also offers a 64GB option. The Tablet S 16GB version will sell for $579 and the 32GB for $689, cheaper than the iPad 2 equivalents, which are priced at $729 and $839 respectively.
While the iPad 2 is run on iOS 4.3, the Tablet S will run on Android 3.1 (Honeycomb), a platform designed specifically for tablets. Tablet S users will be able to upgrade to the Android 3.2 platform when it becomes available.
The Android 3.2 will introduce a new compatibility zoom mode that gives users a new to way to view fixed-sized apps on larger devices, linking adequately with the Tablet S's Infrared Remote.
The Tablet S, like the iPad 2, has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities, but Sony's tablet has introduced the Infrared Remote (IR). This built-in remote allows IT executives to control and connect to their TV, Blu-Ray players, and stereo systems.
DNLA technology allows the Tablet S to 'throw' personal content such as video, images and music to compatible TV's or wireless speakers, perfect for business meetings. The Tablet S also contains a USB port, allowing easy accessibility to a number of other media.
The iPad 2's processor is the 1GHz dual-core Apple A5 while the Tablet S uses a NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile processor with Dual Core ARM Cortext –A9 CPU. The Dual-core ARM Cortext-A9 CPU is the world's first dual-core CPU, which allows faster web browsing and response time, and is the first mobile CPU with out of order execution allowing for more efficient processing and a better overall performance.
The new Sony tablet is 10 grams lighter than the iPad 2, weighing 598 grams. The Tablet S is similarly sized to the iPad with a 9.4 inch display, but unlike other competing tablets, it is differently shaped to the iPad. It is wedge-shaped, imitating a magazine that has been folded over.
This design allows the device to be held over a long period of time and its wedge shape makes it feel extra light in one hand. When set down, the shape allows easy angling for typing. The Tablet P is smaller, has two screens and is opened like a book. While reading e-Books on the Tablet P, the two screens show pages on both sides.
The Tablet S 9.4 inch display includes a capacitive touch panel and 10-point detection and TruBlack display. TruBlack controls and lessens reflections from sunlight or bright light for high contrast and visibility allowing strain free use indoors and outdoors. This is an improvement on the iPad 2, which has received complaints regarding reflections making use difficult outdoors.
Battery life in the two tablets are similar, with the Tablet S having a Li-ion 5000mAh battery that offers 8 hours usage, while the 25 watt hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery in the iPad 2 offers up to 10 hours life on its Wi-Fi version and 9 hours on its 3G and Wi-Fi version.
Like the iPad 2, the Tablet S contains front and rear cameras. The Tablet S and iPad 2 both have VGA-quality cameras on the front and 5 megapixel cameras that can also record 720p video at the rear.
While the Tablet S and the iPad 2 share many similarities, some of the innovative specifications and new features of the Tablet S are rearing it up to become one of the first major competitors to the iPad 2. Only time (and sales) will tell.
Apple iPad 2 vs Sony Tablet S: Specs
|iPad 2
|Tablet S
|241.2mm x 185.7mm
|iOS 4 and later
|Android 3.1 (Honeycomb), to be upgradeable to Android 3.2
|WiFi (603.277g) WiFi 3G (607.813g)
|598 grams
|Wireless & cellular
|Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology, UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
|WiFi (b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Infrared (IR) Remote
|9.7 inches (diagonal), LED-backlit glossy widescreen Multi-Touch display with IPS technology. 1024 by 768 pixel resolution at 132ppi
|9.4 inches capacitive touch panel, 10 points detection TruBlack display (controls and reduces glare and reflections from sunlight or fluorescent light for high contrast and visibility for strain free use indoors or outdoors)
|1GHz dual-core Apple A5 custom-designed, high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip
|NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile processor with Dual Core ARM Cortext –A9 CPU
|Camera, photos & video recording
|Back camera: video recording, HD (720p) up to 30 frames per second with audio, still camera with 5x zoom; front camera: video recording, VGA up to 30 frames per second with audio, VGA-quality still camera
|Face focus VGA camera (front), 5.0 megapixel camera (rear)
|Power & battery
|Built-in 25 watt hour rechargeable lithium-polymer battery, up to 10 hours (9 hours 3G), charging via power adapter or USB to computer system
|Li-ion 5000mAh,8 hours based on standard usage
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A Tennessee man described as an Obama "fanatic" has been convicted of threatening to kill Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his family, possibly in connection with the lawman's investigation into the president's eligibility for office.
Adam Eugene Cox, 33, of Knoxville, was arrested Jan. 27 in connection with graphic online threats that came to light last October.
Cox's threats included: "I plan to kill Arpaio first. He will be filled with a thousand bullet holes before the year is out. I promise you this. He won't f**k with Obama. He will be buried 10 feet under and his whole family will be murdered along with him."
Authorities say Cox's postings indicate – and his own mother confirms – that Cox is a "fanatical supporter" of Obama, and Arpaio's ongoing investigation into the legitimacy of the president's purported birth certificate may have been the reason behind the threat to kill the sheriff.
As WND reported March 1, Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse announced there is probable cause indicating the document released by the White House last April that is claimed to be Obama's original, long-form birth certificate is actually a forgery.
NOTE: In case you missed the news conference of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's "Cold Case Posse," you can view it here.
According to Knox County Sheriff's deputies, Cox has a history of assault.
"I will not be intimated against pursuing this investigation into Obama's eligibility to serve as the president of the United States," Arpaio said upon Cox's arrest in January.
Several different Mexican drug cartels have threatened Arpaio's life, placing a contract nearing $4 million for his execution.
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Cox pleaded guilty to harassment of Arpaio, and was immediately sentenced to serve nearly a year in a "bootcamp"-style program similar to probation, as well as ordered to pay court costs.
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
Pterosaur Aerodynamics at GWU
These students are all engineers, which adds a fun element because most were quite unfamiliar with pterosaur biology going into this project. There are some errors in the terminology and details of biology as a result, but it's quite good work, and brought some new things to light for me (especially the Wagner section). Enjoy!
Oh, and Happy New Year everyone...
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Dear Lorena Barba,ReplyDelete
I enjoyed the guest blogs done by your students. Although the first three were based on the well-known Habib/Witton/Palmer canon, I was more interested in the blog on the Wagner effect.
There were still a few howler however. In the Druv/Golding blog they state that "Tupuxuara weighs in at 22.8 kg, nearly half the weight of the largest flying modern birds at 41 kg."
As far as I know, the heaviest modern flying bird is the Kori Bustard at 19Kg. I am not aware of any bird flying at 41Kg. Perhaps this is a typo for lbs rather than kg? If so, it should really have been checked before release.
Another one was the delightfully simplistic 4th part of the quadrepedal launch sequence: I quote: "Launch —In the final phase, the pterosaur completed its quadrupedal launch and took off." This is phraseology straight out of a childrens' novel and not really scientific language at all.
Finally, there was the maths that went awry on the blog on weight estimation (Forcha) where we appear to have mention of pterosaur wing loadings of 220Kg/m2. That is greater than a B-17 Bomber! I suspect this should have read 22Kg/m2. Another typo perhaps but they all detract from the credibility of the whole article.
I have managed to get under the skin of several palaeontologists including Habib, Witton, Palmer et al. From my reading of learned articles, it would appear that the palaeontological community have become used to making statements about what these extinct creatures could and couldn't do.
It is easy for palaeontologists to pontificate on the taxonomy of ground or even sea-dwelling creatures, with little fear of contradiction. Who can say how heavy a Tricerotops weighed or how fast a Plesiosaur could swim? However, when it comes to Pterosaurs, they are rigidly bound by the laws of aerodynamics. Habib has postulated that Quetzalcoatlus N. could fly at 80 mph; fly non-stop half way around the globe at 15,000 ft. And that ridiculous theory of the quad launch! His arguments are that some modern birds can do it so why can't Quetzy. My counter argument is that Penguins, Hummingbirds and Gannets are also birds – does that mean that Quetzalcoatlus could swim, hover and dive? We need to get away from the theatrical postulations of recent years. Let's try instead to work out whether and how these creatures lived and – if indeed they did - flew.
Come on Lorena Barba's team. What about some feedback?ReplyDelete
OK No feedback? I am an aerodynamicist. If we are going to get the big, late-Cretaceous pterosaurs to fly we HAVE to have all their dimensions in order to fit in with aerodynamic theory. We have lengths, widths etc from fossils, but no-one can come up with a weight that matches. We must rely on palaeontologists to come up with a professional estimate for us. With Quetzalcoatlus we have been given a 30ft wingspan with (according to Mark Witton) a body only 60cm long. Yes, 60 cm. The height of a giraffe but weighing only 250Kg. This is the creature that Habib has flying at 15,000 ft and travelling at 80mph half way around the world non-stop. Any of you students like to respond? Or are you content to follow the palaeontologists and just accept everything they throw at you - melodramatic, theatrical or downright contradictory to the laws of physics?ReplyDelete
Phil Parsons
Dear Lorena,ReplyDelete
I'm not getting any response from your students. Are they just copying chunks of other people's work and not really understanding it? Please don't let them follow Mike Habib into his wonderful world of the light fantastic. Get them to THINK through what they are writing and stand by it rather than rolling over and doing the sycophant in the face of these 'famous' palaeontologists. Remind them of the story of the Emperors New Clothes. Emperor Habib can give them plenty of opportunity!
Phil Parsons
Dear Phil Parsons,ReplyDelete
I am one of Prof. Barba's graduate student, and have been working on the Wagner effect post.
In you first comment, you said we were more interested in this post, but reading what your next comments, I see nothing related to that. I will be happy to discuss about it with you if you let me know your thoughts.
Olivier Mesnard
Hi OlivierReplyDelete
Thank you for responding to my posts. My problem in a nutshell is that I am annoyed with Messrs Habib, Witton, Palmer et al for some of the claims they are making concerning the flight capabilities of the larger, Azhdarchid pterosaurs.
Their claims are simply not sustainable using the laws of physics!
Why? Well firstly let me surmise that the bulk of palaeontologists focus on land and sea dwelling creatures. They must surely be used to making sweeping statements about the size and weight of Tyrannosaurs or Plesiosaurs without anyone being able to contradict them. Land animals walk and sea creatures swim and that's about it. So sweeping statements on capabilities don't lend themselves to criticism.
However, if a creature is to fly it faces a considerable hurdle in the form of the laws of aerodynamics. Habib and Co have extrapolated a single arm bone from Quetzalcoatlus Northropii into an almost mystical creature capable of 80mph flight at 15,000ft and cruising 12,000 miles in 8 days non-stop etc etc.
I mentioned earlier the story of the Emperor's Clothes? Well, Habib and Co make fine Emperors who have clothed themselves in proposals and theories which, if you take a pause and look closely at them, are plainly not scientific and in my view are just risible. Habib has even admitted that his calculations cannot be published 'because he is still working on them'. Talk about a snake-oil salesman. (And you can tell him I said so!)
Let's look at your paper on the Wagner effect. I put it to you that the Wagner effect can only apply to small, narrow chord wings. It could be argued that the small, bird-sized pterosaurs might be affected by vortex flow, but Q.n apparently had 30ft wings with Re of the order of 10^6 so I think we would be safe keeping to laminar flow formulae, even for flapping fight. Certainly there will be vortices, but not lift-inducing ones - just drag don't you think?.
As you know, at low airspeed and narrow wing chord, air viscosity is a dominant factor. The bigger the chord and higher the speed, Reynolds numbers become so high that air viscosity becomes insignificant. With Q.n we are not dealing with a bumblebee, dragonfly or even a sparrow. We are dealing with a 12m span (lets say 4m per flapping wing) and with an aspect ratio which appears to give a mean chord of about 1.5m. Re = (air density/viscosity) x airspeed x chord. If the Cretaceous atmosphere was the same as today's, for a 250Kg creature, the minimum velocity for a wing area of about 13m2 would have to be about 20ms so the formula would result in Re=68459x1.5x20. Reynolds would be is 205,3770 or 10^6 plus. Looks like the Wagner effect is a non-starter wouldn't you say?
Are you interested in more scepticism from me? I'd be delighted if you would join the 'sensible' side of the pterosaur arguments.
Greetings Mr. Parsons. As always, I appreciate your interest in the subject, but I suspect the reason you aren't getting responses from students or other blog posters here is because your attitude is problematic. Disagreement is fine. Making ad hominem attacks and the like, on the other hand, are not. It's also not helpful to spam comment streams with one liners like "Come on Lorena Barba's team. What about some feedback?"ReplyDelete
I don't particularly care that you disagree with me, Colin, or anyone else. One cannot be a professional scientist while being fearful of disagreement, after all. However, I do care that you practice some basic etiquette on the blog here at pterosaur.net. I would hope it is obvious that personal attacks, for example, do not constitute a reasonable approach to scientific discussion.
Another reason that you may not be getting many responses is that you self-describe as an aerodynamicist and then make rather critical errors that undermine this label. For example, at high Re numbers flows become less laminar, not more laminar. Similarly, vorticity is required for lift. Any lifting structures is producing a bound vortex, otherwise it wouldn't be producing lift. Low Re flows will produce additional vorticity that is mostly absent at higher Re ranges, such as leading edge vortices, but your comment that "Certainly there will be vortices, but not lift-inducing ones - just drag don't you think?" suggests a fundamental misunderstanding regarding vorticity. Those are pretty basic mistakes.
Keep in mind that Colin Palmer, Jim Cunningham, and I are aerodynamicists. So your argument from authority approach rings rather hollow. It is also telling that the results you find so outrageous have not raised eyebrows among lead aerodynamicists at Lockheed Martin or Scaled Composites (just to use two examples).
I think you will find it difficult to stimulate discussion if you argue that we can't even measure fossils. That 60 cm estimate you are up in arms over is based on direct measurements. Quetzalcoatlus is known from nearly complete skeletons. The largest specimen (Q. northopi) is known from a wing (not a single bone). Assuming that the proportions of the large animal were similar to the small ones, the shoulder to hip distance would have been about 0.60 meters. Among azhdarchids, the skull length tend to be about 3-4.5 times the shoulder to hip distance. Are those unusual proportions compared to living animals? Yes. But those are the real proportions. You can be incredulous all you want, but it does not change the measurements.
Your unsupported incredulity about unremarkable numbers doesn't help. (15,000 feet is not an extreme altitude for a long-range flyer with a flow-through lung system, for example, and even a passing look at the literature shows that quite a few birds hit that altitude during migration). The same goes for your disdain for my launch reconstructions. If you have serious evidence for bipedal launch, then please do share (or better yet, publish it). However, acting as if it is somehow obviously absurd just makes you seem unfamiliar with the basics of animal launch.
Baiting is also not a good approach to attracting discussion. My previous quantitative work is published, including information on methodology. Ongoing work is not yet published - that's why it's called ongoing. Some of that work has been presented at conferences. I refused to share all of the ongoing calculations and measurements in a public blog prior to peer reviewed publication. That shouldn't be a surprise.
I'll be honest and say that I can't quite figure out why this work angers you so much. Maybe some of my estimates or predictions will turn out to be wrong someday. That is simply part of science. If you have work that suggests different conclusions then by all means publish it! That's how we build better models. But I really don't understand why you are so annoyed that some random professor you've never met thinks some extinct reptiles flew well.
Greetings Dr Habib,ReplyDelete
Thank you for at last acknowledging that I am here and arguing my position.
I am not really interested in battling you with scientific or even aerodynamic formulae. That does not get us anywhere. The reason for my scepticism is that you have been making blatant assumptions about the flight of the large Azhdarchids and then extrapolating these claims beyond believeable reason.
I believe firmly that these creatures could fly - what I cannot understand is HOW. Your extravagant claims concerning their flight capablities just annoys the heck out of me because they are not supported by reason let alone science.
I have assembled a Witton/Habib flying machine with its 60cm body and its 11m span wing and put it together in a photograph. It is actually a large dog and a hang glider wing which apparently fits your specification for Q.n.
I will try and put it up here if I can work out how to do it. I'm not sure I can upload photographs on this site. Watch this space.....
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On this blog, I've written many times about the explosion of use for the DSLR cameras ( Canon 5d Mk11) being used for high end productions. From such shows as Saturday Night Live, House and numorous commercials, this trend has been growing rapidly.
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Taking its design cues from traditional Craftsman furniture, the Archer line of baths reveals beveled edges and curved bases for a clean, sophisticated style. Whirlpool jets relax away the day's tension, while the heated surface warms your back and neck with adjustable temperature settings to create a soothing, spa-like environment. This bath offers a low step-over height while allowing for deep, comfortable soaking.
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On Tuesday, September 29, 1959, the Los Angeles Dodgers completed a two-game sweep of the Milwaukee Braves to win their playoff and advance to the World Series. In those days, playoffs occurred only if two teams ended the season tied for first place. This was the fourth such playoff in baseball history and the third in the National League. The Dodgers had been involved in the previous two, losing both. The most recent loss had occurred in 1951, thanks to Bobby Thompson's famous home run. The 1959 playoff, though not nearly as dramatic, deserves to be remembered.
One of the neat things about the old-fashioned playoffs was the pitching match-ups. By their nature, these series pitted teams that had pulled out all the stops during the last few games of the regular season. Therefore, they usually were forced to use second-line pitchers in the first playoff game. 1959 was no exception. 50 years on, I still remembered the 1959 Game 1 starters — Danny McDevitt (10-8) for LA and Carlton Willey (5-9) for the Braves. The only other detail I remembered was the final and decisive play of Game 2.
LA manager Walter Alston was the star of Game 1, as he was throughout the year. He pulled McDevitt in the second, with one out, after the lefty gave up a walk to Logan and singles to Bruton and Crandall. With the score now tied 1-1, Alston turned to Larry Sherry. A second run scored as the result of an error by Neal, but that was all Milwaukee would get the rest of the way. The Dodgers tied the game in the third (singles by Neal, Larker, and Hodges) and took the lead for good in the sixth on a home run by Roseboro.
Game 2 featured a more conventional match-up Don Drysdale (17-13) against Lew Burdette (21-15). Drysdale didn't make it through the fifth inning. He left trailing 4-2 and the Braves led 5-2 going into the bottom of the ninth. The lead was almost larger. Sandy Koufax, brought on to pitch the ninth walked the bases loaded with two out. But Clem Labine struck out pinch-hitter Mickey Vernon to keep the deficit at three runs.
The Dodgers opened the ninth by loading the bases with three straight singles (Moon, Snider, and Hodges). Milwaukee manager Fred Haney then replaced Burdette with Don McMahon. It may be harsh to second guess the selection of McMahon, who had tied for the league lead in saves and had the lowest ERA of any National League closer. On the other hand, Haney had Warren Spahn, one of the greatest southpaws of all-time, available to face the left-handed hitting Larker (who would, however, been replaced by Carl Furillo had Haney made that move). Spahn had two days rest, more than enough to pitch effectively in relief, though using him would presumably eliminate him as the Game 3 starter.
Larker proceeded to single home two runs. Haney then brought in Spahn, and Alston duly sent up Furillo to bat for Roseboro (had Furillo batted for Larker, Alston probably would have used Essegian in place of Roseboro). The long-time Dodger tied the game with a sacrifice fly and the game went into extra innings.
In the bottom of the 12th, veteran right-hander Bob Rush retired the first two Dodgers. But then he walked Hodges and gave up a single to light-hitting Joe Pignatano. Furillo then hit a slow ground ball over second base. Mantilla had to hurry his play and ended up throwing the ball away, allowing Hodges to score the run that put the Dodgers into the World Series.
Mantilla's error was a fitting end to the Braves season, their inability to find a competent second baseman to replace Hall of Famer Red Schoedienst having plagued them all year. The following players, in descending number of games played, manned the position for Milwaukee in 1959: Mantilla (.215), Avila (.238), Johnny O'Brien (.198), Wise (.174), Roach (.097), Joe Morgan (not that one) (.217), and Cottier (.125). Schoendienst, who had come down with tuberculosis, managed three at-bats (with no hits), one of which was in the final playoff game.
But even with their problems at second base, the Braves should have won their third consecutive pennant. They outscored LA by 19 runs and gave up 47 fewer runs. In fact, it should have been San Francisco that gave the Braves their toughest competition, but the Braves had a better run differential than the Giants too.
Why did the Braves under-perform to this extent? Some of it may have been down to back luck, but much of the blame has to rest with Fred Haney. Some baseball historians, and I thnk Bill James is among them, have argued that Haney's performance as a manager in 1959 rates among the very poorest in the annals of baseball.
After looking at a cross-section of Braves line-ups, I can't disagree. Sure, Haney had a problem at second base. But that didn't mean he had to bat his second basemen, including the awful Casey Wise, leadoff, as he frequently did. And what was up with batting Eddie Mathews, the league leader in home runs, second? What other manager in the history of baseball would have batted Mathews behind Wise when he could have batted him behind Hank Aaron, who led the league with a .355 average?
Aaron has said that he still can't believe the Braves, with all their talent, won only two pennants and one World Series. The numbers confirm Aaron's lament. They say the Braves should have sandwiched their '57 and '58 pennants with flags in '56 and '59. But 50 years ago today, Larker's single and Mantilla's error meant that Milwaukee would end up settling for just the two pennants.
UPDATE: Writing about these games helped me remember watching them with my parents. My mother was a Dodgers fan, having grown up in Brooklyn, while my father, who lived in Boston as a boy, rooted for the Braves. Fortunately, neither was a particularly vocal fan, which makes me wonder how they ended up with a son like me.
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Wait, I just remembered that Linh Chi & Nhan Phúc Vinh won the Express Pass in the first leg. I can't think of them skipping a task though. Did they ever say anything about it?
Wait they could use the EP until that leg?! wtf <///3Anyways, thanks for the recaps! ETA: I am very pissed that they're recycling the color-code task from TARPh/Velyki.
Are you sure Hari & Tien Dat get a 30 minute penalty at the START of the next leg, and not at the end if they don't arrive first? (Asking 'cus I'm building wiki pages)
Which one is the male? Đức Hưng or Thuỳ Dung?
Um...call me crazy, but do we even SEE TD & ĐH doing the Roadblock on Leg 3? I just re-watched the episode from the point they completed the blindfolded beach challenge and got all the way to Kim Lee & Pharreal doing the Roadblock. If you know, could you tell me the time when we see them at the Roadblock?
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