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Interloper of the Venus Transit
I figured I was done posting Venus Transit pictures, but I should've realized I hadn't heard from Thierry Legault yet. And as soon as I saw his name in my email Inbox this morning, and before I even opened it, I knew I'd have at least one more picture to show you.
And I was right. Thierry is a master astrophotographer, and he's not one to just let an astronomical event go by without figuring out some way to make it even cooler. He traveled to northeast Australia to view the Venus transit… not just because it had a good view, but also because from there, he could see the Hubble Space Telescope transiting the Sun at the same time! On June 6th, at 01:42:25 UTC, he got this amazing shot:
Holy wow! [Click to doubletransitenate.]
You can see Venus as the big black circle, as well as dozens of sunspots. But you can also see multiple images of Hubble as it zipped across the Sun, circled in the image above. Orbiting the Earth, Hubble moves across the sky so quickly that it crossed the Sun in just under a second. Blasting his DSLR away at ten frames per second (and with an exposure time of only 1/8000th of a second per frame) Thierry managed to get 8 shots of Hubble silhouetted against the Sun.
Here's a bit of a close-up:
I added the arrows to help you see Hubble. The orbiting telescope was about 750 kilometers (450 miles) away from Thierry when he took these pictures (it was not directly overhead), so details on Hubble are too small to capture, but it can be seen as a black dot.
Theirry's done this before, too: in January 2011, he got an astonishing picture of the space station crossing the Sun during a partial solar eclipse! His ability to time these events and get pictures like these is nothing short of amazing.
He also says he got more pictures, too, including some of Venus just as it was entering the Sun's face. Hopefully he'll have those available soon! In the meantime, click the links below under Related Posts to see more of his ridiculously cool photos.
Image credit: Thierry Legault, used by permission.
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Not to be picky but I count 9 shots of Hubble.
I knew he wouldn't disappoint. I was hoping for Venus+ISS+Dragon, but since Dragon is back from space, that obviously wasn't possible. Venus+ISS would have been nice, but I suppose we'll just have to "settle" for Venus+Hubble.
Awesome-sauce! Looks like 9 shots of Hubble though?
Yay! I was just talking about Mr. Legault's photos with someone at work the other day, and I wondered if he'd be doing anything for the transit? Bien sûr!
A picture from Earth, of the Hubble, when it was looking at the Moon, which was reflecting light from the Sun, which passed through the atmosphere of Venus, which is also in the picture.
Have I impressed you yet, Amy Pond?
I figured he would do something like this, but I thought it would be the ISS. He must be really rich that he can travel all around just for some photos. Glad he is using his money for good and not evil
I actually thought I saw something go across the sun while I was watching the transit, but I'm pretty sure it was just a bug walking across the lens. It was way too big and slow to be anything else.
Well, as photo-bombs go, I guess that's pretty mild.
Next I want to see HST transiting Venus transiting the Sun . . . 😉
Space telescopes these days… always in a hurry.
Phil, finally got around to sorting through all 600 images I took of the transit, and just spotted something that is of the utmost importance.
In one shot I had an interloper that was not in the preceding shot, nor the shot afterwards (was taking an image every 5 seconds). Too big to be the ISS, couldn't have been a jet or prop plane.
From the shape, there is only one explanation on what it can be…….
Next I want to see HST transiting Venus transiting the Sun . . . 😉
2117. Better eat your Wheaties. And start raising funds for a few reboost flights from SpaceX. Or whoever…
But if you're paying, I'll bet you can CHOOSE the orbit so it's just so. Posing spacecraft….
Just curious, but I could not find an explanation of the editing needed to composite these nine images. Thierry must have either taken 9 negatives, summed them together, then negated the final; or is there a process of directly "subtracting" the 9 images. Otherwise it would require pasting 8 Hubble's onto a master image.
If Mr. Legault is reading this:
How did you manage to find a location from where you could see the HST crossing the Sun? Do you have customised software which allows you to calculate such transits for all possible locations on the Earth at a particular time or during a certain period? (I don't know if CalSky offers non-location-specific predictions.)
I think it took just OVER a second rather than under. There are nine shots and he was taking 8 shots per second soooo….
Breath-takingly marvellous work.
Thankyou for taking and sharing this Thierry Legault & the Bad Astronomer!
Cool pictures !
Now Thierry Legault is just showing off. =)
And I hope he continues to do so for a long, long time. Spectacular image!
That is very cool.
Such a shame Hubble orbits too high to get any detail of it in the photos.
Thank you for your ncie comments!
@Chris: it's a combination by "darkest pixels" (I don't remember the exact name in Photoshop since I did it with astronomical software, but it's the same principle), the algorithm takes the darkest value of all 9 images for each pixel.
@Navneeth: Calsky can calculate the path of transit for any chosen interval of time, the observer site having no importance in this case.
Thanks, Mr. Legault! Nice work.
It occurs to me that those were probably the most well documented and observed SUNSPOTS in history too, yes?
.. my FSM he's good.
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It's been observed that the last thing today's physicians need is something else to make them feel guilty, inadequate, or coerced. It shouldn't be surprising, then, that there is some displeasure with implementation of New York State's Palliative Care Information Act, which mandates that clinicians offer information or counseling about palliative care to "terminally ill" patients or their surrogates should they choose to accept it. Failure to comply with what, by fiat, is now deemed a standard of practice can be punished by fine.
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Rather than threaten the doctor-patient relationship, these efforts stand to reinforce it in the noblest ways. For both doctors and patients, the efforts can deepen the understanding of an illness in a person as distinct from a disease in an organ, as well as suffering as meaningless endurance. Conversations can afford the opportunity to empathize and compassionately communicate concern while assuring ongoing care and nonabandonment, even as the goals of care change. For most, that should be viewed as reassuring, not threatening.
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The then-No. 10-ranked Eagles upset then-No. 3 Northwood, 43-27, at Jim Scott Stadium on Thursday night, ending a 15-game losing streak to teams from the Pacific Coast League.
"Everybody thought we were going to lose this game, except for us," said Bargas, whose Eagles (3-1) are now No. 6 in the poll. "This is a big game for us because it gets us a little bit of respect from the Pacific Coast League teams.
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The Sailors (1-3) traveled to San Clemente and battled before losing, 24-12, Friday.
Newport Harbor's first four opponents have a combined record of 17-3. Three of them are currently ranked, San Clemente (5-0) is No. 4 in the CIF Southern Section Pac-5 Division, Los Angeles Loyola (4-1) is No. 7 in the Pac-5 and Corona del Mar (4-1) is No. 1 in the Southern Division.
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Coach J.R. Tolver said he is unsure when Petty will return.
"He's got something going on with his leg," Tolver said. "It's his abductor, so right there by the groin muscle, but he's a tough kid. He'll be back as soon as he can."
The Lightning have another tough team Friday, when they travel to Pasadena for a 4 p.m. nonleague game against Poly (3-1), ranked No. 9 in the CIF Southern Section Northeast Division.
The last time Sage Hill met a team from the Northeast Division, it lost at Mojave, 36-0, on Sept. 16.
Estancia's win showed Bargas that his Orange Coast League team can compete with the Pacific Coast League, which saw three of its teams — Northwood, Corona del Mar and Beckman — reach the semifinals of the playoffs last year.
The Eagles have been knocked out of the first round by Pacific Coast League teams in each of Bargas' three postseason appearances at the school.
Next for Estancia is a home date Thursday with one of those teams, No. 2-ranked Beckman (2-2). Last year in the first round, the Patriots traveled to Estancia and won, 56-22. Beckman made it to the division final.
Mario Smith has now run for 818 yards and nine touchdowns through the Mustangs' first five games.
He has already eclipsed last year's leading rusher, now-senior quarterback Nathan Alvis (508 yards).
Smith has run for 140-plus yards in each of Mesa's five games, despite not carrying the ball in the second half of two of them.
CdM honored its 1971 team that finished 7-3 and won the Irvine League title, the program's first league championship.
Among those introduced at halftime Friday at Newport Harbor High were head coach Dave Holland, assistants Al Calonico and Dick Morris, as well as players John Stebbins, quarterback Reed Johnson, Greg Collins, Joe Tosti, Scott Parker, Greg Stone, Marc Wynne and running back Bob Ferraro.
Among the highlights that season was a 7-0 triumph over Back Bay rival Newport Harbor, CdM's first win over the Sailors. In that game, Ferraro rushed for 205 yards on 27 carries, including the game-winning touchdown.
Newport Harbor lost key contributors early and late at San Clemente.
Offensive lineman Hamilton Randle left in the second quarter with a leg injury. Landon Gyulay, a wide receiver and cornerback, missed the fourth quarter because of leg cramps.
With Hamilton out, Brinkley moved fullback Grant Frazier to the line. Frazier switched jerseys, going from No. 1 to No. 55, the jersey of lineman Ted Barry, another of the Sailors injured players.
Defensive end Steve Michaelsen said Barry missed his second straight game with a broken fibula.
While Northwood aired it out for 369 yards and three touchdowns passing, Estancia pounded the ball for 340 yards and four touchdowns rushing.
The ground game helped the Eagles control the game and take a 29-7 lead late in the third quarter.
Running back Robert Murtha led the team with 182 yards and he had a 74-yard touchdown run. He exited the game in the third quarter after his 14th carry because of an abdominal strain. Bargas expects the junior to return.
If Murtha cannot go next week, Estancia has a more-than-capable replacement in Alex Trancoso. The senior tailback came in for Murtha when he was hurt and rushed for 120 of his 129 yards in the second half.
Trancoso found the end zone twice, scoring from three yards out in the third quarter and from 31 yards in the fourth quarter.
Costa Mesa picked a good way to go into its bye week. The Mustangs should be well-rested when they play Godinez on Oct. 14 at Jim Scott Stadium.
But to Grant, two blowout wins in the first five games — also counting a 42-7 win over Santiago on Sept. 8 — have been a mixed blessing.
"The downside is that we've had two games like this where we've only played a half," Grant said. "You have kids that aren't playing four quarters of football. When we play the good teams [in league], Godinez, Laguna Beach, Estancia, we've got to play four full quarters of football."
The Mustangs will be trying for their first league title since 2008.
CdM's lop-sided victory allowed Coach Scott Meyer to empty the bench, which afforded freshmen running backs Cole Martin, Hugh Crance and Barrett Barbato to have a moment in the varsity spotlight.
Martin had a 45-yard run, Crance produced a five-yard touchdown run and Barbato had a 22-yard pickup as the trio combined for seven carries in the fourth quarter.
The win also allowed the Sea Kings to assume the No. 1 ranking in the CIF Southern Section Southern Division.
Newport Harbor quarterback Cole Blower and Gyulay found a rhythm late in the second quarter and early in the third quarter.
Blower completed six straight passes during the stretch, four of them going to Gyulay, his top receiver.
The biggest were touchdown passes of 16 and 23 yards. The second score cut San Clemente's lead to 17-12 just 89 seconds into the second half.
Eric Cheng scored Sage Hill's lone touchdown, coming on a 90-yard kickoff return four minutes into the game.
Cheng finished with 163 yards on five kickoff returns and 45 yards on one punt return.
The senior rushed for 40 yards on 10 carries.
Costa Mesa is 4-1 for the first time since 2001.
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"Bangladesh cancels licences of 6000 charities" ~ Sep 11, 2012
On a day that the USA remembers terrorist acts, it's also useful to also remember what is going on in the world in some of our most impoverished areas of the world, where non-profits, NGOs hope to make a difference.
According to this post, thousands of charities are being shut down in Bangladesh over the past 3 years, attributed to power moves. (See the Peter Drucker "There's no such thing as leadership" article for how effective that really is, long term.)
Bangladesh has revoked licences for more than 6,000 charities over the last three years, an official said Tuesday, in a policy that critics slammed as a government attempt to extend its powers.
"The government increasingly acts as though it is interested in controlling the NGO sector to a minute level detail, which will only stifle civil society activity."
Masud Rana, spokesman for the social services department, said the licences for non-government organisations (NGOs) were withdrawn after charities were found to have collapsed or have changed their area of work.
"Most of these NGOs were sitting idle doing nothing or doing things other than they were permitted," Rana told AFP.
But the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) group said the closures were a deliberate move by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government.
"This is just a smoke screen to exert political control over civil society," said Brad Adams, Asia director at the HRW.
"The government increasingly acts as though it is interested in controlling the NGO sector to a minute level detail, which will only stifle civil society activity."
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Check out this interesting (somewhat recently GPLv3 re-licensed) game Blackvoxel:
As you can see it has some interesting mechanic which they call "Molecular Voxel Interaction Engine". As seen in the trailer above, it basically allows you to automate crafting, resulting in interesting "programmable" factory setups.
Of course this might sound a bit too much like actual work and not fun... but given the big fan scene for the closed source game Factorio, I would say it can be more fun that it looks at first ;)
Blackvoxel itself probably needs to be a bit more of a game instead of "just" a sandbox, but there is big promise in the overall concept, so give it a try :)
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Power outage nightmare nearly over
A hurricane, a nor'easter and 10 very long, tiring days later, the vast majority of Greenwich residents had their power back Thursday.
By late Thursday evening, all Connecticut Light & Power customers in Greenwich had their electricity restored. As the town returned to normal and several inches of slushy snow began to melt on lawns and roadways, First Selectman Peter Tesei lifted the state of emergency imposed over the week-and-a-half following Hurricane Sandy. The Emergency Operations Center closed at 4 p.m. Thursday. The American Red Cross also closed the shelter it had been operating at Eastern Middle School.
Around town, utility crews were finishing the last of their work. At a Grass Island staging area for many of the utility workers and trucks serving Greenwich during and after Sandy and the nor'easter, James Cosber, a worker with Oklahoma-based Texoma Powerline Inc., said about 40 crew members from the company who have been working up to 16-hour days and at least a dozen trucks arrived in Greenwich Monday to assist with power-restoration efforts.
CL&P has been providing instructions for out-of-state crews, such as where to begin work, where to focus their efforts, and a time frame to complete the work, Cosber said.
The utility has also been providing crews with food, lodging and fuel.
"They've been real good to us," he said.
Crews from Texoma are no strangers to Connecticut -- they've done work in the area at least three times in the past two years, according to Cosber, who said Thursday might have marked their last day in Greenwich.
Don Oster, a utility worker with D&M Electric, said he had spent most of the storm recovery working in Danbury, and was awaiting instructions on where he would go from Greenwich.
Their crews weren't hampered by fuel shortages that hit Greenwich following Sandy.
"The utility had tankers for us at the staging areas," he said. "They were pretty good with fuel for us."
Kevin O'Connor, member and chairman of the grounds committee at Greenwich Boat & Yacht Club, said club members helped utility crews by giving out food and drinks, some of which were donated by Whole Foods and Kings.
"They're a long way from home," he said of the out-of-state crews. "They got our power back on for us."
The club was without power for over nine days, O'Connor said.
Tesei said he and other town officials have fielded concerns from some residents who complained about seeing utility crews near the sites of outages, but not working.
Tesei has expressed those concerns to CL&P representatives, he said.
"I think that's something they do need to answer, in terms of their overall supervision," he said.
Though utility representatives have provided some answers about how they conduct restoration work, Tesei said communication should be better with residents, who become frustrated during extended outages.
About a utility crew standing near the site of an outage but not actively conducting repair work, Frank Poirot, spokesman for CL&P, said, "More often than not, that's a crew waiting for the next assignment."
A crew will also not leave the site of a repair until the utility determines the circuit has been successfully reenergized and is safe and secure, he said.
In general, utility crews work to restore power to critical areas and buildings -- such as hospitals -- and then branch out from vital power arteries, he said.
"We repair so-called trunk lines," he said. "These are the lines that run along roads like Route 1. We work from the trunk line out."
Crews were working to restore power in town even as Hurricane Sandy first began knocking down lines, but the utility company pulls crews once winds hit 40 mph, posing a threat to workers conducting work on poles, he said.
Tesei said though lines at gas stations have diminished since the storm, the town is prepared to again request state police assistance, should motorists from other states -- some of which are instating gas rationing -- flock to Greenwich for fuel.
Should the need arise again for emergency shelter, residents can be accommodated at other locations in Connecticut and New York. The Greenwich shelter could also reopen if necessary, according to a release from the town.
The Red Cross will distribute clean-up supplies to residents who suffered flood damage during Sandy. Volunteers will pass out kits containing mops, brooms, gloves, disinfectant and trash bags at the Sound Beach and Cos Cob fire houses Nov. 10 from noon until 2 p.m.
As of Nov. 8, inspectors from the Building Inspection Division inspected about 600 buildings for water damage to mechanical equipment caused by Sandy. Not all houses that were flooded have been inspected, so residents with flood damage are urged to call the Building Inspection Division at 203-622-7755 or 203-629-6999.
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Currently, eighteen French urban areas have at least one tramway line and by 2014, nine more towns will have opened their first lines. In France, the organisation of public transport is based on a decentralised administrative system established in the 1980s. For thirty years, land authorities have had great autonomy to develop their public transport networks in a context of very heavy car use. Today, the car is gradually making way for public transport systems and tramways have been experiencing a revival for several years now. Tramways have been making their mark over the years because they fit into the scheme of urban renewal, transport planning and environmental concerns. This is a political choice which is firmly rooted in the sustainable development ethos and enables planners to take a new approach to urban mobility and urbanisation projects. Trams have also become a tool for promoting a town, because building a tramway implies a desire to renew the image of the town where it is…
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A World of Warcraft blog detailing the time I spend in Azeroth admiring the scenery and doing some other stuff...
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Yeah I never found it depressing either, more just... melancholy I guess is a good word. Things can be sad without being depressing.ReplyDelete
There is a definite beauty in it along with a sense of purpose. Yes terrible things have happened to them but the average Gilnean seems to have adapted rather well. I love the near constant rain, the ravens and the red and white roses. If it wasn't for the feeling of being trapped I get whenever I hit a phased start zone, I'd play through it far more often.ReplyDelete
The rain is very cool. I always find myself laughing at the stereotypical British accents too - I also like to copy them. My favourite phrase has to be "get gabbin' or get going". I agree with you on the trapped feeling - I'm sure that's part of the reason I felt like it took so long to get out of there.Delete


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Blackhawks maintain mastery of Kings
LOS ANGELES -- The Chicago Blackhawks got back on track by revisiting a site that was part of their 2013 Stanley Cup run.
Posting their seventh win in eight games against the Los Angeles Kings, including a five-game victory in last season's Western Conference finals, the Blackhawks earned a 5-3 win Monday at Staples Center.
Chicago (34-10-14) lost of five of its previous six games overall. Los Angeles (30-22-6) failed to win despite playing well offensively, adding to the frustration that accompanies its current skid. The Kings lost their fourth game in a row and fell for the ninth time in 10 games.
Winger Patrick Kane had two goals and an assist, defenseman Nick Leddy added a goal and an assist, and goaltender Corey Crawford made 31 saves for Chicago.
Kane learned of the death of his grandfather just prior to the opening faceoff.
"It was a tough day overall," Kane said. "He was one of my great friends growing up, and it was tough to hear that right before the game."
Chicago won for the second time in four games on a road trip that will run through the Olympic break. Center Jonathan Toews and winger Patrick Sharp added two assists apiece.
The Blackhawks took the lead for good at 3-2 on center Marcus Kruger's sixth goal of the season with 6:09 remaining in the middle period. Kruger deflected a shot in the slot from Leddy, and a second deflection by Kings defenseman Matt Greene ricocheted past Los Angeles goaltender Jonathan Quick.
Chicago added an insurance goal at the end of a man advantage when Leddy hammered home his sixth of the season at 7:01 of the final period.
Kane sealed the victory off another odd-man rush against the Kings' porous defense. Sharp drew the lone assist with 8:51 remaining in regulation.
As the Chicago lead lengthened, the large contingent of Blackhawks fans inside Staples Center roared its approval.
"It was a great start, we had some excitement in our game," Chicago coach Joel Quenneville said. "It was incredible how many Blackhawks fans were here today. I think it really helped us."
The Kings, a preseason favorite to win the Pacific Division, have dropped out of the division-title race and are losing ground rapidly in the playoff race. They lead the ninth-place Coyotes by just four points, with Phoenix holding three games in hand.
"We've got one game left (before the Olympic break), and we'll plan on playing the best game of the year," Kings coach Darryl Sutter said. "I'm sure every team could use a break mentally; we're not special. I look forward, not back, and we're as close to winning as we are losing."
The Kings lost in a different manner than in most of the defeats in the current skid. They scored as many goals Monday as they did in their previous six games combined, but they could not match the offensive firepower of the defending Stanley Cup champions.
"The guys are frustrated, but we are sticking together," Kings winger Dustin Brown said. "We made a couple of mistakes. Against a team like that, you can't make them."
Down 2-0 nine minutes into the game, the Kings rallied to tie the score.
Los Angeles defenseman Drew Doughty scored his eighth of the season on the power play at 9:52 of the first period. The Kings squared things on center Anze Kopitar's 17th goal of the season 6:30 into the middle frame.
The Blackhawks jumped on the Kings by way of a power-play goal in the game's second minute. Kane walked out from the right corner and deposited his team-leading 26th goal past Quick at 1:02, with Toews and Sharp earning assists.
Winger Bryan Bickell doubled the Chicago lead when he fired a wrist shot past Quick at 9:11 off a three-on-one rush. Kane feathered a pass to Bickell for the score that was his 100th point at 8:44.
For Los Angeles, Kopitar had a goal and two assists, winger Tyler Toffoli scored his 10th of the season, and Quick made 25 saves.
NOTES: Chicago scratched D Michael Kostka, D Sheldon Brookbank and C Michal Handzus. ... The Blackhawks are one of four teams that have yet to be shutout this season. The St. Louis Blues, Anaheim Ducks and Colorado Avalanche have lit the lamp in every game as well. ... Los Angeles did not dress D Alec Martinez, D Jeff Schultz and C Jordan Nolan. ... Kings RW Matt Frattin returned to the lineup after four consecutive games as a healthy scratch. He saw a team-low 6:58 of ice time.


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Every business needs a website. Local market searches are a driving force for businesses to increase market share locally. Organic web traffic is not just about local traffic, though that is where the bulk of online traffic generates. It is also about global traffic. Shoppers in other countries use the web to find better products and services in both B2C and B2B transactions. A website represents your company when you close up shop for the night. It works 24/7 to sell, teach and convert visitors into customers.
From Brick-and-Mortar to the Digital Age
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Two words: Cyber Monday. Each Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday, online stores draw millions of visitors world-wide to their websites. On Cyber Monday in 2013, consumers spent an estimated $2.6 Billion. That is just one day out of the 365 days per year that your business website works for you. If your business is not online, your business needs to be online.
Location, Location, Location
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Local search engines direct local traffic to stores in many ways. Search engines use the physical business address to provide direction and show consumers the choices they have on Google Maps. Local searches and mobile searches now outrank traditional searches. That fact translates into two things. First, the amount of local searches in your area is probably staggering. Second more shoppers look for instant access to products and services.
Businesses do not need a fancy website to draw local search traffic. A good website uses the content that appeals to visitors of the site. The power of events like Cyber Monday occurs because stores offer special online-only discounts. That is something that some businesses use year round as part of their marketing plan.
Use the Whole World as Your Marketing Platform
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Websites are not limited to just your local area. The world-wide-web connects the world. Use each of the days in the week to run a special for customers in other countries. Encourage them to pay via sites like Ria Money Transfer, so both you and your customers minimize th fees charged by your bank and credit card companies. Keeping your prices as low as possible attracts foreign customers. That is one of the biggest attractions for Bitcoin. It transcends borders without fees. Offer your customers the same service in an easy to use online format.
A good tip is to develop marketing strategies that focus both on local and global customers. Many businesses lose money because they focus only on local marketing. Maximize your revenues by increasing your sales territory.
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is powerful. Don't be afraid to invest in the services of a professional company to help you with SEO. If you choose a good company, the increase in local and global traffic will offset the service cost of optimization. Using a professional company also allows you to focus on the things that you need to do. SEO takes a lot more time when you do not understand it. This is one opportunity that justifies the cost.
Talk to an SEO company about social media marketing, video marketing, Email marketing and the power of the Call-To-Action (CTA) as these are highly focused ways for your website to interact with online shoppers. Not every option will benefit all businesses. The huge arsenal of online marketing products offers businesses the best options for reaching as many online shoppers as possible. They can also become a time dump, so check time-spent versus results.
The world holds over seven billion people. Websites help business owners maximize revenues by enabling globally based customers to find exactly what they want. A website is a tireless employee that also represents your business when no one else is on duty. You don't have to pay a website or offer it benefits. Periodically they need upgrades or maintenance, but they do a ton of work for very little cost. A website is your best tool for maximizing profits.


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TORONTO — Shane Feldman, a teen who is no stranger to the concept of tikkun olam, hopes the Count Me In Conference he founded will inspire his peers to "get off their butts" and give back.
It may be hard to believe that the 17-year-old Westmount Collegiate senior has experience in this area, but Feldman's May 1 event, held at the Living Arts Centre, was his second attempt at inspiring members of his generation to volunteer and promote positive change.
Last year, Feldman led a one-day event called the World Youth Conference that attracted some 400 Ontario students and teachers.
"Last year was a pilot event to test the water," Feldman said, adding that he decided to rebrand the initiative with a new name: Count Me In Conference (CMIC).
"We've grown from about 400 youths from certain areas in Ontario to over 1,000 from all over Ontario, and it's growing into a national event over the next few years, so we're looking at some exciting things ahead. The Ontario Ministry of Education supports our endeavours, so that's also really exciting for us."
Some of the speakers and performers at the four-hour event included Shut Up and Dance singer Victoria Duffield, Life With Derek actress Ashley Leggat, 11-year-old dancer and semifinalist on Canada's Got Talent Shale Wagman, as well as Ontario Education Minister Laurel Broten, and motivational speaker Andy Thibodeau.
"The other part of the event is an hour-long charity marketplace, which is essentially a trade show with non-profits and NGOs and charities from all over the province with the aim of getting students to sign up and volunteer," Feldman said.
"A lot of times you'll get that motivational speech, and then you go on your way, but we actually hold their hand through the process and make sure there is that tangible way for them to take this inspiration to get involved and actually do it."
He said more than 30 charities and NGOs made up the marketplace, including the Jewish National Fund.
"Everything comes down to getting kids off their butts and involve them in whatever way they want to."
He added that this event is about getting your hands dirty, not donating money.
"We're trying to get away from the mentality of putting money in a jar, versus using your two hands and getting involved in the community," said Feldman, who volunteers with a number of NGOs, including Pencils of Promise and Invisible Children.
The event, run entirely by student volunteers and sponsored in part by TD Bank and Fabricland, has also partnered with WoW Living TV to air an hour-long webcast featuring highlights from the conference and backstage footage.
The webcast will go live on May 8 at 8 p.m. at www.cmiMovement.com.


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Deep Sea IMAX 3D
Posted 15 February 2006 - 11:16 PM
I wanted to take some pictures of the preview screening, but ... there wasn't really anything but the illuminated movie poster to photograph, and a picture of that is already online.
I highly recommend seeing it when it comes out on March 3rd!
Posted 16 February 2006 - 12:48 AM
I am really keen to go and see it.
p.s. Actually Exhibition Road is rather a fun walk for the underwater photography geek at the moment as there are posters of UW pix taken by myself, the Hoodster (Charles Hood) and Seafood (Douglas Seifert) all within about 50 yards!
Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D5 (Subal housing). Nikon D850 (Subal housing). Olympus EM10-Mk3 (Nauticam housing).
Posted 16 February 2006 - 02:03 AM
Alex: Seafood for Seifert?!?! ooo thats funny, going to write an email now!
Join us for an Underwater Photography Workshop in the Lembeh Strait at NAD Lembeh with Doug Sloss in 2018
Blog and Photo Archive/Portfolio Site www.mikeveitchblog.com
Learn underwater photography in the ultimate classroom, Bali! or join us on a trip www.underwatertribe.com and www.baliuwphoto.com
Join us for a trip in Indonesia in Komodo or Raja Ampat
Posted 16 February 2006 - 05:00 AM
I most definately will go seeing as how I saw them filming in the Bahamas and British Columbia. Wonder if I made the credits
all photographs posted © Todd C Mintz
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Posted 16 February 2006 - 06:55 AM
Michele said that "they" were being fairly lenient on number of people on the guest list this time around, but there were only a few dozen people in the audience. I wondered who they were; it is Warner Bros film (!), and maybe some of the other people there were associated with them? Press?
Posted 16 February 2006 - 07:24 AM
Mike Oelrich
Canon EOS 40D in Seatool housing, 100mm macro, Tokina 10-17, INON Z-240s.
Posted 16 February 2006 - 09:07 AM
p.s. Mike V, as I am sure you know, nicknames are very import to us Brits. Normally a sign of respect!
Alexander Mustard - www.amustard.com - www.magic-filters.com
Nikon D5 (Subal housing). Nikon D850 (Subal housing). Olympus EM10-Mk3 (Nauticam housing).
Posted 16 February 2006 - 09:23 AM
No Imax theatres around the Cotswolds we've only just got the telephone.
Witchcraft I tell ye, Witchcraft.
Dive safe
NOW ON SKYPE !!! ... deanb69
Posted 16 February 2006 - 03:02 PM
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Author, Catalina Island - All you Need to Know
Posted 04 March 2006 - 10:01 AM
The question that came to mind is whether the sound is recorded live, or if some of the sound is foley. Do scallops really scream? Ok, they don't 'scream', but it does kinda sound like they do when running from the starfish.
Posted 04 March 2006 - 02:07 PM
Hopefully some of the coral spawn shots made it into the movie.
At the time, we didn't know who the narrator(s) would be. Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet.. pretty cool. Can't wait to see it.
Chris Parsons
Nauticam USA / Zen Underwater
innovation at nauticamusa
Posted 04 March 2006 - 05:52 PM
Olympus E-520, TLC arms, Inon Z-240s, 50mm, 14-42mm woody's diopter
Posted 04 September 2006 - 02:47 PM
I thought the narration was very good too without getting too preachy, it still got a good conservation message across.
Loved every minute of it!!!!!
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Finally made it up to Sherman this season for an epic weekend of kiting!! Saturday afternoon was amazing as well as Sunday's dawn patrol...
The jet ski madness on the other hand was unreal, I've heard about this shit... A group of delta locals had parked their boat on the upper island and were terrorizing the kiters on their skis. It was a father son combo, the kid must of only been 13 years old and the two of them decided they were going to hold their ground and play chicken with the kiters. The face on the kid was pure aggression, egged on by his "adult" father they continued to dangerously aim their skis and drive head on with us every single tack. After three or four tacks it became obvious that this was 100% intentional and they even seemed to have little meeting to decide who to go after etc... I was slightly distracted by their big fake breasted mother on the beach when my buddy told me one of them was inches from clipping me from behind.
I admit I dipped my kite at them as two of them aimed directly at me and I didn't raise my lines forcing them to bear off their tack... They did seem to understand that they were going to get fucked up if they hit the lines. This made the problem way worse, they were all over me for a few tacks and were hunting me down... however they wouldn't follow me into the seaweed... intelligent rednecks. I'm not proud of that but I'm also a fighter when it comes to shit like this.
Anyways sorry for anyone who has to deal with that shit, ridiculous. Also I know I shouldn't of egged them on but it is what it is.


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Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Rhubarb & coconut cake - or is it a coconut & rhubarb pie?
I used some rosy pink rhubarb bought at the local market (yes, I finally ran out of the farm-sourced rhubarb), and the cake didn't only taste wonderful, but it also looked lovely pink (see the flecks of rhubarb?) - white (the coconut filling) - yellow (the pastry base). And it tasted even better on the day after, as the coconut flavour was much more pronounced then..
Rhubarb & coconut cake*
Serves 8
200 grams plain flour
2 Tbsp sugar
a pinch of salt
100 grams butter
1 medium egg
a dash of cold water
Rhubarb layer:
400 grams rhubarb, chopped
Coconut topping:
75 grams butter, at room temperature
200 grams sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
250 grams natural yogurt or thick sour cream
2 medium eggs
200 grams grated coconut
2 Tbsp plain flour
For the pastry, mix flour, sugar and salt, add the butter and work with a knife until you've got fine crumbs. Add the egg and combine - if necessary, add a bit of cold water. Wrap into a cling film and put into the fridge for 30 minutes.
Butter a 24 cm springform tin. Roll out the dough into a slightly bigger circle than the cake form, and line the cake form with the pastry. Pierce with a fork, and blind bake at 200C oven for 10-15 minutes, until golden.
Meanwhile, cut the rhubarb into 1 cm slices (there's no need to peel your rhubarb, as long as it's young and slender).
Mix the butter and sugar until light and creamy. Add yogurt/sour cream, vanilla extract, eggs, then add coconut & flour (I combined used the flat beater of my KitchenAid for this).
Spread the rhubarb slices on the pre-baked pastry case. Pour over the coconut filling and bake at 200 C oven for 30-35 minutes, until the cake is slightly golden.
Cool a little, remove from the cake tin and serve with whipped cream or some vanilla ice cream.
* I'm still to figure out what's a cake and what's a pie. I blame my mother tongue - they're pretty much all 'cakes' ('kook' in sing., 'koogid' in pl.) in Estonian :)
Other coconut recipes @ Nami-nami:
Coconut brownies (February 2007)
Other rhubarb recipes @ Nami-nami:
A creamy rhubarb pie (June 2005)
Moist rhubarb muffins (May 2007)
Rhubarb crumble (May 2007)
Rhubarb jam with ginger (May 2007)
10 comments:
- sciencemel said...
Hummmmm... Cake vs. Pie. Well, they are two very distinct items in my head so I checked with Webster's Dictionary to see if they had different definitions.
Cake: a breadlike food made from a dough or batter that is usually fried or baked in small flat shapes and is often unleavened b : a sweet baked food made from a dough or thick batter usually containing flour and sugar and often shortening, eggs, and a raising agent (as baking powder)
Pie: a dessert consisting of a filling (as of fruit or custard) in a pastry shell or topped with pastry or both
So, to me, a cake is bready/spongey while a pie has a chunky filling.
Hope that helps. Fab use of coconut.
- 9:46 pm, May 30, 2007
- Mann said...
see kook näeb jummalik välja.
ma võtan nädalavahetusel siin kirjas olnud rabarbri moosi ette.
avastasin, et paks kreeka jogurt,rabarbrimoos ja pisut krõbedat müslit on suurepärane algus hommikule.
- 10:40 pm, May 30, 2007
It looks wonderful Pille! What a great idea to combine rhubarb and coconut! Maybe I'll bake it during the weekend :-)
I think that cakes are bready and pies have filling and a crust. I would love to learn about the difference between a pie and tart though...
- 11:58 pm, May 30, 2007
- Alanna said...
Cake, pie, whatever. Just save me a big piece. No, a bigger piece!!
- 12:44 am, May 31, 2007
- deinin said...
Oooh, coconut! Yes, this is a fine idea, I bet it was fabulous. Our rhubarb plant is humongous (I'm wondering if I should divide it or something in the fall) so I foresee lots of experiments. (Rhubarb juice/mead! Your rhubarb-ginger jam! I have Moomin spoons and everything...
- 1:12 am, May 31, 2007
- cookiecrumb said...
It's fun for me to try to parse the Estonian words. I can see clearly that "kook" is "cake" (even if it's a pie), and "rabarbri" is also very transparent to the English speaker. So that leaves "kooko" as coconut, right?
BTW, beautiful dessert, whatever it is.
- 1:23 am, May 31, 2007
- joey said...
How I wish somebody here would try to grow rhubarb! I wonder if it would take...
Then I could make this cake (coconut are not a problem here) and moominmama's jam! :)
Can't wait to see the other recipes from this dinner...
- 2:42 pm, May 31, 2007
- Patricia Scarpin said...
I agree with Joey - I'd love if someone here in Brazil tried growing rhubarb. :)
Your cake looks really delicious!
- 5:32 pm, May 31, 2007
- lory said...
joli gâteau!!
- 10:00 pm, June 21, 2007
- Evi W. said...
I just made this. It was very good. A macaroon topping on a more traditional rhubarb plaadikook.
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In the Garden with Urban Harvest: Train fruit trees for strength
Once you have planted a fruit tree, it is useful to train the young plant to form a strong tree that will hold a lot of fruit. Once the tree has aged a year or more, it is important do to at least yearly pruning to develop a long-lived productive tree with minimal problems.
Doing this is not very time-consuming for each tree, but it requires knowledge that is not easily guessed except in a few easy cases such as citrus and figs. Pruning fruit trees is something like sculpting or cutting hair: It requires skill with good-cutting tools, a vision of what is needed and an ability to adjust the vision to the particular case. And like, sculpting and haircutting, the more one practices, the faster one can work without error.
These days, the web has huge numbers of pamphlets and videos explaining how to "prune fruit trees," "prune apples," "train young apples," "prune mangoes" and so forth. A gardener with time and interest can learn essentially all the basic ideas from these invaluable resources.
There are a few places where such a search can lead southeast Texas residents to failure. In the south, we have longer warm seasons and shorter winters, so trees grow more during the summer than they do in Washington State, so pruning techniques that work there may require excessive maintenance here or produce short-lived trees.
Also, much of the information is directed at commercial production. The homeowner probably doesn't have a cherry-picker truck to reach heights, may have squirrels to deal with, and can make do with "only" 200 peaches, so doesn't need time-consuming techniques that increase production 20 percent. So taking local fruit-tree pruning classes such as the ones I teach through Urban Harvest can help.
Fruit bushes such as blueberries, feijoas and pomegranates; and fruit vines such as grapes, kiwis and passion fruits have their own, somewhat analogous training and pruning methods, but I want to focus on homeowner fruit tree pruning, especially the establishment of a strong tree.
With a newly planted tree, develop a strong scaffold of branches well spaced around the tree with enough space between branches for sunlight to hit all branches for many hours. In practice, the goal is to have three to five branches come out from the trunk about 2 feet or more above the soil. The branches should leave the trunk at right angles, and once they are a few inches from the trunk, head upward at a 45-60 degree angle with the horizontal. This is done using toothpicks, clothespins, weights, limb-spreaders, or other devices to accomplish the goal (see millernurseries.com, starkbrothers.com).
Branches that come off the main trunk are called "primary scaffold branches." Once they get about a yard (24-40 inches) out from the trunk, pinch or cut the branch to divide the primary into two 45-60 degree upward heading "secondary scaffold branches." And when these get a yard or so further out, you pinch them again to get two "tertiary scaffold branches." Four primary branches around the trunk at 2 feet thus become 16 tertiary branches reaching 4-6 feet off the ground.
After the trunk grows another 3 feet above the original 2 feet, a second tier of main scaffold branches is selected and the process is repeated, and after another 3 feet, a third tier is added. When trunk and branches get about as high as they can be picked and pruned with a safe ladder, a yearly pruning to weak side shoots and suppresses upward growth.
With a scaffold in place, the next concern is fruiting wood. Some trees fruit on last year's new wood, and others on older wood.
Each year, the tree needs to be pruned to safeguard this year's crops while pruning to grow wood for future production.
Bob Randall, Ph.D., is the retired cofounder of Urban Harvest and is author of "Year Round Vegetables, Fruits and Flowers for Metro-Houston." Contact him at yearroundgardening.me and firstname.lastname@example.com. Urban Harvest produces this column. Learn about gardening classes, community and school gardens, farmers markets, fruit-tree sales and more at www.urbanharvest.org.


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= Requirements =
= Requirements =
Revision as of 09:02, 31 October 2008
This page is for planning Carver 2.0.
Please, do not delete text (ideas) here. Use something like this:
<s>bad idea</s> :: good idea
This will look like:
bad idea
- good idea
- (shouldn't this just match what the underlying afflib & sleuthkit cover? RB)
- Joachim A name for the tooling I propose coldcut
Joachim Could we do a MoSCoW evaluation of these.
- AFF and EWF file images supported from scratch. (Joachim I would like to have raw/split raw and device access as well)
- Joachim volume/partition aware layer (what about carving unpartioned space)
- File system aware layer.
- By default, files are not carved. (clarify: only identified? RB; I guess that it operates like Selective file dumper .FUF 07:00, 29 October 2008 (UTC))
- Plug-in architecture for identification/validation.
- Joachim support for multiple types of validators
- dedicated validator
- validator based on file library (i.e. we could specify/implement a file structure for these)
- configuration based validator (Can handle config files,like Revit07, to enter different file formats used by the carver.)
- Joachim support for multiple types of validators
- Ship with validators for:
Joachim I think we should distinguish between file format validators and content validators
- TAR (gz/bz2)
Joachim For a production carver we need at least the following formats
- Grapical Images
- JPEG (the 3 different types with JFIF/EXIF support)
- Office documents
- OLE2 (Word/Excell content support)
- Open Office/Office 2007 (ZIP+XML)
- Archive files
- E-mail files
- MBOX (text based format, base64 content support)
- Audio/Video files
- QuickTime
- Printer spool files
- EMF (if I remember correctly)
- Internet history files
- index.dat
- firefox (sqllite 3)
- Other files
- thumbs.db
- Grapical Images
- Simple fragment recovery carving using gap carving.
- Joachim have hook in for more advanced fragment recovery?
- Recovering of individual ZIP sections and JPEG icons that are not sector aligned.
- Joachim I would propose a generic fragment detection and recovery
- Autonomous operation (some mode of operation should be completely non-interactive, requiring no human intervention to complete RB)
- Joachim as much as possible, but allow to be overwritten by user
- Tested on 500GB-sized images. Should be able to carve a 500GB image in roughly 50% longer than it takes to read the image.
- Perhaps allocate a percentage budget per-validator (i.e. each validator adds N% to the carving time)
- Joachim have multiple carving phases for precision/speed trade off?
- Parallelizable
- Joachim tunable for different architectures
- Configuration:
- Capability to parse some existing carvers' configuration files, either on-the-fly or as a one-way converter.
- Disengage internal configuration structure from configuration files, create parsers that present the expected structure
- Joachim The validator should deal with the file structure the carving algorithm should not know anything about the file structure (as in revit07 design)
- Either extend Scalpel/Foremost syntaxes for extended features or use a tertiary syntax (Joachim I would prefer a derivative of the revit07 configuration syntax which already has encountered some problems of dealing with defining file structure in a configuration file)
- Can output audit.txt file.
- Joachim Can output database with offset analysis values i.e. for visualization tooling
- Joachim Can output debug log for debugging the algorithm/validation
- Easy integration into ascription software.
- Joachim I'm no native speaker what do you mean with "ascription software"?
- Use as much TSK if possible. Don't carry your own FS implementation the way photorec does.
- Extracting/carving data from Thumbs.db? I've used foremost for it with some success. Vinetto has some critical bugs :( .FUF 19:18, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
- Carving data structures. For example, extract all TCP headers from image by defining TCP header structure and some fields (e.g. source port > 1024, dest port = 80). This will extract all data matching the pattern and write a file with other fields. Another example is carving INFO2 structures and URL activity records from index.dat .FUF 20:51, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
- This has the opportunity to be extended to the concept of "point at blob FOO and interpret it as BAR"
.FUF added: The main idea is to allow users to define structures, for example (in pascal-like form):
Field1: Byte = 123; SomeTextLength: DWORD; SomeText: string[SomeTextLength]; Field4: Char = 'r'; ...
This will produce something like this:
Field1 = 123 SomeTextLength = 5 SomeText = 'abcd1' Field4 = 'r'
(In text or raw forms.)
Opinion: Simple pattern identification like that may not suffice, I think Simson's original intent was not only to identify but to allow for validation routines (plugins, as the original wording was). As such, the format syntax would need to implement a large chunk of some programming language in order to be sufficiently flexible. RB
File System Awareness
Background: Why be File System Aware?
Advantages of being FS aware:
- You can pick up sector allocation sizes
- Some file systems may store things off sector boundaries. (ReiserFS with tail packing)
- Increasingly file systems have compression (NTFS compression)
- Carve just the sectors that are not in allocated files.
Tasks that would be required
- As noted above, TSK should be utilized as much as possible, particularly the filesystem-aware portion. If we want to identify filesystems outside of its supported set, it would be more worth our time to work on implementing them there than in the carver itself. RB
- I guess this tool operates like Selective file dumper and can recover files in both ways (or not?). Recovering files by using carving can recover files in situations where sleuthkit does nothing (e.g. file on NTFS was deleted using ntfs-3g, or filesystem was destroyed or just unknown). And we should build the list of filesystems supported by carver, not by TSK. .FUF 07:08, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- This tool is still in the early planning stages (requirements discovery), hence few operational details (like precise modes of operation) have been fleshed out - those will and should come later. The justification for strictly using TSK for the filesystem-sensitive approach is simple: TSK has good filesystem APIs, and it would be foolish to create yet another standalone, incompatible implementation of filesystem(foo) when time would be better spent improving those in TSK, aiding other methods of analysis as well. This is the same reason individuals that have implemented several other carvers are participating: de-duplication of effort. RB
Validator Construction
- Write validators in C/C++
- Have a scripting language for writing them (python? Perl?) our own?
- Use existing programs (libjpeg?) as plug-in validators?
Existing Code that we have
Implementation Timeline
- gather the available resources/ideas/wishes/needs etc. (I guess we're in this phase)
- start discussing a high level design (in terms of algorithm, facilities, information needed)
- input formats facility
- partition/volume facility
- file system facility
- file format facility
- content facility
- how to deal with fragment detection (do the validators allow for fragment detection?)
- how to deal with recombination of fragments
- do we want multiple carving phases in light of speed/precision tradeoffs
- start detailing parts of the design
- Discuss options for a grammar driven validator?
- Hard-coded plug-ins?
- Which exsisting code can we use?
- start building/assembling parts of the tooling for a prototype
- Implement simple file carving with validation.
- Implement gap carving
- Initial Release
- Implement the threaded carving that .FUF is describing above.


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White Cross Farm
CHAPEL HILL – The sun's rays now cannot only brighten your days, but also your home.
In early July, Strata Solar teamed with Orange County to begin construction on a 35-acre, six-megawatt solar farm on White Cross Farm in Chapel Hill.
After about twelve weeks of construction to install more than 26,000 solar panels, the sun's light will provide power to about 750 homes in the area, says Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Strata, Blair Schoff. Schoff says, though more difficult, the builders even continued to make progress during the heavy rains of early July.
He says the construction can take up to 120 workers to get the land ready, drive posts, mount solar panels, and wire the electrical work.
Schoff says the farm generates power, which is sold to utility companies, and businesses and residents close to White Cross Farm will consume most of the solar power.
"One of the things that we're trying to do is add additional green power to the grid," says Schoff. "It helps the utilities because a lot of their peak demand is during the day when businesses and air conditioners are being used at their peak and we're providing them the alternative of having energy generated by the sun added to this mix."
Schoff says Duke Energy will receive the solar power from White Cross Farm, and then provide it to local residential and commercial clients.
He says using solar power benefits the environment and eliminates 4,224 tons of carbon dioxide from being emitted annually by other power sources, like coal.
"There's no moving parts," says Schoff. "There's no noxious fumes. There's no liquids being dropped into the soil. It's very clean, renewable. It's an excellent source of renewable generation."
Solar power relies on electrons for power.
"Solar panels, the type that we use, it's essentially silica that's cut into wafers," says Schoff. "One of them has a treatment on it with an element that is interested in yielding electrons. Another wafer has a treatment on it with an element that is interested in gaining electrons. Those two wafers are essentially sandwiched together. The photon, from the sun, of enough energy catalyzes the reaction where that electron from one wafer is liberated and is finding its way toward the electron on other and we try to harness as many of those electrons as we can and use them as power."
Many farms have the necessities for a solar farm, but Schoff says White Cross met the standards.
"There's a certain criteria that we look for in any of our farms," says Schoff. "Having a farm that's flat with access to the appropriate infrastructure are the key components. White Cross and that property just happened to pick all the boxes to make an appropriate solar farm."
Headquartered in Chapel Hill, Schoff says Strata Solar is excited to build so close to home.
Strata Solar is in the midst providing solar power to many other places across the state. It is developing eight farms in the Triangle and two in Orange County.
Schoff says everywhere could benefit from solar power.
"All counties have a need for solar power," said Schoff. "It's not just Orange County. It's the state of North Carolina. It's the country."
For more information on Strata Solar, click here.


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The NXP® CWH-CTP-COP-YE is a removable probe tip targeted for Power Architecture® processors (see Supported Devices for precise list). This probe tip connects the Power Architecture microprocessor target system's JTAG port to the CodeWarrior® TAP base unit's 30-pin target connector.
This tip is compatible with the CodeWarrior TAP CWH-CTP-BASE-HE base unit. Base units do not come with a probe tip so you must have at least one of these to debug your device.


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Just watching TV and seen this amazing, amazing magazine thats out now in the UK (its one of those where you collect it every week or fortnight…usually reserved for children and trainspotters).
Yes – with week one (£1.99) you get a free Hello Kitty Dinner Place! How cuttteeeeeeeeee!
Mr Candy's immediate response was, "You know they have an age limit" but I say poo-poo to your age limit, where Miss Kitty is involved, all ages are welcome.
I might subscribe because you get a Hello Kitty Bag, a Magnetic Notepad, a Binder, a Placemat and….and…..and…..and……a table cloth!!!
This is the full set:
I must have the pasta bowls, the milk jug and sugar pot!
You can geek it out with me , and I am sure they will sell the magazine in WH Smiths.


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So I don't know about you, but I'm thinking of going on an all-berry diet. Okay, not really.
But man!
It seems like every other day strawberries and/or blueberries and/or blackberries are in the news because some expert-type people discovered yet another antioxidant-related magical power.
Today in miraculous berry power news: Apparently eating blueberries and strawberries can the prevent the "cognitive decline and memory loss that comes with aging."
Well, these are truly happy tidings, my friends. Because I am sooo sick of losing my keys. And I'm still in my 30's! I better start pounding the berries asap or I'm not going to remember my own name by the time I'm 50.
According to researchers, this long-term study was an especially big deal because it was the first berry study to be "conducted on such a large scale."
My favorite part, personally? (Besides thinking maybe I'll start remembering where my keys are?) The memory-boosters in berries are thought to be flavonoids -- the same stuff that makes dark chocolate good for you.
So strawberries dipped in dark chocolate have gotta be the ultimate health food!
Will you start eating more berries to boost your memory?
Image via Angelo DeSantis/Flickr


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Texas Edges Out Arizona State with Buzzer-Beater
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Cameron Ridley's buzzer-beating layup lifted Texas to an 87-85 victory over Arizona State in the second of the NCAA tournament on Thursday night.
Jonathan Holmes missed badly on a long 3-pointer for the seventh-seeded Longhorns in the final seconds, but Ridley emerged from the scrum with the ball and banked it in as time expired over the outstretched fingers of an ASU defender.
The call stood after a video replay, giving Texas its first win in the NCAA tournament since 2011.
Ridley finished with 17 points and 12 rebounds for the Longhorns (24-10).
Jordan Bachynski scored 22 points for No. 10 seed Arizona State (21-12), which was making its first tournament appearance since 2009.