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In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the (final version) of the Emancipation Proclamation, a copy of the document was on display at the National Archives in Washington, DC, from December 30, 2012, through January 1, 2013.
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Holland takes crown, meet record at state in 3,200 meters
Not only is Sanne Holland the 2012 2A 3200-meter run champion, but now she holds the meet record.
Holland's 10-minute 48.40-second time is the new state meet record, unbroken since 2007 by Hockinson's Shannon Porter, who ran it in 10:50. Her performance, along with a fifth-place finish in the 1600, led the Blackhawks to a sixth place finish with 44 points at the 2A state track and field championships May 24-26 at Mt. Tahoma High School.
Janessa Day and Kendall Dunn each concluded stellar seasons by collecting hardware at the state meet. Day took third place in the 400 with a time of 58.21, while Dunn took third in the 300 hurdles with a time of 45.15. Both girls ran both the 4x200 and 4x400 relays through trials and finals. The 4x200 team of Dunn, Day, Katie McGourin and Chae Brown placed third in finals with a time of 1:44.59, and the 4x400 team, consisting of the same group except for Kelsey Schwendiman in place of Brown, took sixth with a time of 4:04.13.
Solid state performances continued from Erin Clark, fifth in the pole vault with 10 feet nine inches, as well as from Schwendiman and Kali Klotz-Brooks, who both made it through to finals in the 800. The girls finished the state 800 much like they have other races this season: neck and neck. Schwendiman took sixth in 2:20.06 and Klotz-Brooks took seventh in 2:20.79.
Head coach Tom Stralser said he was happy with the way things panned out at state.
"This year had some very strong teams and in past years we would have trophied with the amount of points we scored," he said in an email. "Only one girl that competed did not end up off the turf and on the awards stand. We had an injury that raised its ugly head as well as a couple of kids that started getting sick."
All but one of the state qualifiers from the girls' team are seniors this year. While the Blackhawks say goodbye to Klotz-Brooks as she graduates, the team has a lot of experience returning for the 2013 season.


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Regardless of your stance on the Yankees, there had to be a twinge of sadness seeing Derek Jeter helped off the field with a fractured ankle. Say what you will about Jeter, but the man always plays hard and carries himself with dignity on the field.
He's milquetoast in an interview, but always Tabasco between the lines. To do what he did this season at his age, at the plate and on defense, was remarkable. You have to admire the way he plays the game. He never gives an inch.
Andy Pettitte was right in that you knew something was wrong the way Jeter tried to flip the ball to Robinson Cano despite his obvious pain and stayed on the ground. Funny, the first thing I thought of when I saw it was how Santanio Holmes threw the ball in the air when he was injured. The difference is in football the opposing team can recover and take it in for a touchdown.
Here, Jeter had the presence of mind to try to continue the play while Holmes, well, he is what he is. Jeter will go into the Hall of Fame when he's done; Holmes will disappear and won't be missed.
Can the Yankees win without him? Sure they can, but it will be extremely difficult. While others around him falter, Jeter keeps on going, hit after hit, play after play.
The Yankees looked dead in the water last night until Raul Ibanez's game-tying homer in the ninth. While he's been a stunning playoff story, trying to win without Jeter makes the odds more difficult.
The Yankees can still win because their starting pitching has been superb and the bullpen has been solid, enough to compensate for the lack of offense. The Yankees aren't getting anything from Alex Rodriguez and Nick Swisher. Mark Teixeira and Curtis Granderson have also underperformed, and for that matter, so has Cano.
All that marquee talent and they can't score. It's like how the Mets' offense was in the second half, only this time the whole country is watching instead of a handful at Citi Field.
I don't like their chances because of how they've been hitting, Jeter's injury and that the Tigers are pretty good and can smell it after last night. Many teams can be devastated after blowing a four-run lead in the ninth, but the Tigers regrouped.
One thing working in the Yankees' favor is Detroit's porous bullen. The Yankees, when clicking, can win a slugfest.
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* Automotive Systems and Smart Energy Systems: Design experiences for automotive systems, smart energy systems, energy scavenging and harvesting for embedded systems, chaired by University of Trento's Davide Brunelli and NXP's Bart Vermeulen.
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By: Heidi Moseley, THL Contributor
Liberal is what at one time described John Locke, Thomas Jefferson and Adam Smith. Classical liberals believed in private property rights, individual freedoms and responsibilities, and free markets. These great thinkers are on the opposite side of the political spectrum from Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton and Barack Hussein Obama. But who are the Progressives?
Wikipedia describes progressivism as a "political and social term that refers to ideologies and movements favoring or advocating changes or reform, usually in a statist or egalitarian direction for economic policies (government management) and liberal direction for social policies (personal choice). Progressivism is often viewed in opposition to conservative ideologies." I'd like to take this post to introduce you to one Progressive in particular: Margaret Sanger.
In a discussion with Congressman Fortenberry earlier this year, Hillary Clinton tried to defend her statement[1] about her admiration of Progressive Margaret Sanger– founder of Planned Parenthood: "I admire Thomas Jefferson. I admire his words and his leadership. And I deplore his unrepentant slave holding. I admire Margaret Sanger, being a pioneer and trying to empower women to have some control over their bodies. And I deplore statements that you have referenced. That is the way we often are when we look at flawed human beings. There are things that we admire and things that we deplore."
"The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it," Margaret Sanger wrote in Women and the New Race (Sanger, p. 63). Most people recognize Planned Parenthood for their birth-control and abortions. But they don't know much about the diabolical strivings of the Progressives like Sanger who truly believed that population control, especially of the "undesirable" populations, through forced abortions, forced sterilization, and education would develop humanity into a better, more just society.
Referring to immigrants and Catholics she noted in her book, Pivot of Civilization, "[They're] an unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all." (Sanger, p.187) Progressives envisioned a social order in which the state completely controlled every facet of the individual's life including who had children and who was not allowed to "breed." The Progressives still strive for a command and control society where they have ultimate power and make all of our decisions, but they first had to re-educate us to make their agenda more palatable.
Birth control is acceptable to all walks of life. Abortion is no longer taboo to most through the legalization and mainstreaming of the procedure. Progressives now have wormed their way into the environmental movement. Population control, especially in the third-world (Africans, Asians and Latinos), is becoming tolerable thanks to the Green Movement. What we don't realize is that these ideas are playing right into the hands of the Progressive Movement.
1. "I admire Margaret Sanger enormously, her courage, her tenacity, her vision … And when I think about what she did all those years ago in Brooklyn, taking on archetypes, taking on attitudes and accusations flowing from all directions, I am really in awe of her." ~Hillary Clinton accepting the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood on March 27, 2009.


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TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) Allen Crabbe scored 19 of his 31 points in the second half, Justin Cobbs hit a big shot in the closing seconds and California held its composure down the stretch to knock off No. 7 Arizona 77-69 Sunday night.
Cal (14-9, 6-5 Pac-12) rallied from a 15-point deficit behind its defense against Arizona State on Thursday before coming up just short in a 66-62 loss. The Bears did the same thing to Arizona, keying a big run that put them up 10 with their zone.
Cal held on behind Crabbe and Cobbs, who scored on layup with 39 seconds left and had 21 points.
Arizona (20-3, 8-3) never fully recovered after struggling against Cal's zone defense to open in the second half and had 17 turnovers to end a five-game winning streak.
Mark Lyons had 16 points, Solomon Hill added 13 and Brandon Ashley 12 for the Wildcats, the sixth top-10 team to lose this week.
Arizona has had a penchant for getting off to slow starts this season, particularly at home, of all places.
The Wildcats did it against Florida in a matchup of top-10 teams in December before rallying for a victory and did the same thing against Stanford the last game to nearly spoil the 40th anniversary of the McKale Center opening doors.
Arizona wasn't so fortunate against UCLA on Jan. 24, unable to fully recover after missing 12 of its first 13 shots and falling behind 19-3.
The Wildcats weren't as bad as they were against UCLA, but weren't particularly sharp, either.
Arizona struggled with its shooting early and had some breakdowns defensively, allowing Cal to make 15 of 28 shots and Crabbe to score 12 points on 6-of-8 shooting.
The Wildcats still managed to lead 38-33 at halftime, thanks to Hill's 11 points and 10-of-13 shooting from the free throw line.
The Bears helped Arizona out with eight mostly-careless turnovers - two by David Kravish sailed directly into the crowd - that led to 12 points for Arizona.
Once the second half started, Cal tried to run away with it.
The Bears gave Arizona State problems by switching defenses with 8 minutes left in Thursday's game. Cal got its defensive mojo going earlier against Arizona by switching to a zone to start the second half.
Indecisive and tentative, the Wildcats opened the half by missing nine of their first 10 shots against the Bears' zone, many of those late in the shot clock and contested.
At the other end, the Bears made their first five shots to open with a 17-2 run, going up 50-40 on Crabbe's four-point play.
The Wildcats clawed their way back with a 9-2 run to stay within reach, but Cal pulled away in the closing seconds. Crabbe scored on a difficult baseline drive with just under 2 minutes left and Cobbs hit his layup that put the Bears up 75-69.


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For the third year in a row, the Bishop Hendricken football team had a playoff game looming as it prepared for its annual Thanksgiving match-up with Toll Gate
Once again, that didn't stop the Hawks from taking care of business on the holiday.
Hendricken scored early and often on Thursday morning at Toll Gate, jumping out to a 13-0 first-quarter lead. It added three more touchdowns and held Toll Gate in check the rest of the way en route to a 31-0 victory. It's their 20th consecutive victory in the series and their second straight shutout.
"We went in and did what we needed to do," said Hendricken head coach Keith Croft. "We knew Toll Gate was going to come out and play hard, and they did. They played hard the whole game. I give the kids and the coaching staff over there a lot of credit."
Hendricken again came in as the favorite. The Hawks went 6-2 in league play and earned the No. 2 seed for the Division I playoffs. Toll Gate, meanwhile, struggled to an 0-7 record in D-II.
With the Hawks again scheduled for a Tuesday playoff game, the Titans were hoping they could catch them napping. Last year, Toll Gate came out hot and trailed by just a touchdown at halftime.
This time, though, the Hawks were the ones getting off to the quick start.
Quarterback Ryan Brannigan threw a pair of touchdown passes in the first quarter, hitting Laionel Cintron from 27 yards out and Mitch Lucci from 37 yards away, to put the Hawks up 13-0.
It was exactly what the Hawks were hoping for.
"Anytime you're in a rivalry game, you always hope things go your way early," Croft said. "We came out strong and we were able to put some points on the board."
Toll Gate's defense hung tough at times, but as was the case all season, the Titans were vulnerable to the big play.
"We were hanging with them defensively but then they beat us on a couple of big plays," said Toll Gate coach Matt Mancuso. "Unfortunately, that's kind of been our M.O. this year. We didn't let teams drive on us that much, but we gave up a lot of big plays. One mental breakdown can do that."
The Hawks went up 19-0 in the second quarter on another big play, this one a 48-yard scamper by Brannigan. In the second half, the Hawks got a 20-yard touchdown by Remmington Blue and an 80-yard kickoff return for a score from Aaron Webb.
"They just have too many athletes for us," Mancuso said. "Even when their second and third backs came in, those guys were just as good."
The Titans had some success on offense, with Derick Durand running well. Mitch Howkins and Dave Babcock both saw time at the quarterback spot and also did some damage. Derryck Anderson was a standout on defense.
"We definitely put the effort in the whole way," Mancuso said. "We never quit."
In the end, though, the Hawks just had too much. It was the 12th shutout in the series by the Hawks, who have out-scored Toll Gate 76-6 in the last three Thanksgiving games. That came after Hendricken won by just three points in 2007.
"We talked a lot all week about the tradition, and how well we've played in this game the last couple of years," Croft said. "A lot of alumni come back and it's a big crowd. We really wanted to come out and have a positive showing, and I think the kids were proud to do that."
Hendricken will now turn its attention to the semifinal match-up with No. 3 South Kingstown. Toll Gate heads home but has some positives to build on for the future.
"I think it was a learning experience," Mancuso said. "We had a lot of young players and they got some varsity time, so that's big. The thing we take as a positive is that those guys are going to be ready for next year. This year, we didn't have a lot of people who had taken varsity snaps. Next year, we won't have that problem."


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Brad Pitt: Fine After Fender Bender
Brad Pitt looks like he's back to normal after his motorcycle accident the other day as he's spotted on Monday (October 26) in Studio City, Calif.
While reports differ on what happened yesterday, we do know that the 45-year-old Inglourious Basterds actor was in an accident after losing his balance on his bike. Brad played it safe, wore a helmet, and appears to be just fine – despite a few minor cuts and scrapes. Glad he's okay!
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Opinion: Obama's Flight Risk
Editorial board member Joe Rago on how President Obama is making the Federal Aviation Administration more dysfunctional. Photos: Getty Images
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... I ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the Federal Aviation Administration's furlough air traffic controllers is on its fourth day ... making flying in this country even more miserable than usual ... what are we learning about the FAA and the Obama administration in the process ... editorial board member Joe rego joins me now Joe ... what are we learning about how the FAA functions ... the FAA is the only agency in the government could ... implement the sequester and Winstanley which you ... with the sequester does is it takes four percent of the FA budget that basically ... returns them to what they spend in the dark ages of two thousand and ten ... now they're taking this four percent cut furloughing ... ten percent ... of the air traffic control workforce and that translates into a forty over forty percent of flights are delayed ... so four percent cut ... ten percent for a while forty percent delays and am laughing at this very serious for the U S economy people have to get him to meetings in Johnson and ... the FAA is is one of the the surf Classic government Turkey's him that the bureaucracy that they can't do anything right then and the the the but that the point is ... that as badly as they are doing this they are doing it on purpose if you go to the FAA website they've created a ... cool collection now about which airports are delayed where the furloughs are having the biggest effect ... mean this is a propaganda campaign ... done by political appointees ... to turn off the sequester and a half bigger government and it shows that these indices ... can't prioritize between ... the basic services and pointless why does he have any other U S president in our modern history ... that has willfully ... hurt the economy ... to make a political point ... to send any come to mind ... so I mean look if you cut to the White House what they say is well the sequester is is a you know it's it's it's not that it's been brutal across the board cuts in and what we're seeing with the sequester ... is that ... these cuts are brutal and then all the stuff is deliberate ... tell how Republicans reacted to this any starting to Cayman consider tax hikes which is the ultimate ... goal ... of the sequester scare you know and I think they've they've actually been pretty shrewd you know that there would be ... the on air traffic control system is is one of the ... main points people have in contact with the government ... anybody has ever flown knows that airports are not ... of the model of efficiency that that the present in claims and ... making them worse making air travel even more barbaric ... than it already is strikes me is that all on purpose ... strikes me as he decreed that political strategy in I think Republicans ... have been coming out and saying will hang on a second you know what maybe maybe we can ... say ... we won't cut the airports in ... New York ... Atlanta Chicago and Los Angeles and said shut down ... the smoke literal or furlough air traffic controllers at the smaller airports now that the ones that ... don't have any commercial traffic like the Napa Valley air ... hence the Napa Valley or profit not as important as New York ... Joe what your sources telling you about the White House's ... strategy you get a sense that they're going to double down on this or that ... they will eventually came ... again from willfully hurting the economy and Commerce Justice lower this for Idol I think what's gonna happen is that Congress is minutes that and ... you know you've seen Harry Reid moving until the that that would restore funding to the FAA ... it uses all kinds of bunching Kim and I don't think that's gonna pass but for NSN's Jay Rockefeller of the ... Senate Commerce Committee chair of the Senate Commerce Committee that ... oversees the FAA is is protesting Democrat ... is a Democrat ... and saying ... will you know way let's let's look at the FAA budget maybe there's some efficiencies that can be found that don't ... impact travel it's ... really been one idea maybe there's some efficiencies that can be found that when he impact travelers ... you gotta hope editoral board member Joe rego defenseman thanks for being on show ...


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Her home in Atlanta, recently foreclosed on, is now for sale for $1.1 million, TMZ reports. And according to the
, the property has sat on the market for more than four months.
It's not because the place doesn't look nice -- at least on the outside. Built in 2001, it's nearly 12,000 square feet and red-bricked, with seven bathrooms, six full baths and a pretty sweet-sounding master bath jacuzzi.
Wells Fargo, which has the listing, says there are 16 rooms altogether on 1.5 acres. Lots of fireplaces, a gourmet kitchen with cherry cabinets and a "huge" party deck. "A must see," the listing says.
According to the AJC, Braxton bought the house in 2004, paying $2 million. So she's taking a rather huge hit.
The paper says she filed for bankruptcy in 2010, after first doing so in 1998.
According to TMZ, the singer also had a home in Nevada that was foreclosed on two years ago.
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Shawn M. Bowman, age 48, of Warwick, and formerly of Middletown, died unexpectedly on November 30, 2013 at Kent County Memorial Hospital. He was the husband of Jennifer M. (Bellucci) Bowman.
Born in Portsmouth, Virginia, a son of the late Alex E. and Ella T. (Carey) Bowman, he lived in Middletown for most of his life, moving to Warwick 15 years ago. He was a United States Navy veteran.
Shawn was employed by the City of Warwick Sanitation Division for the last nine years. He was a long-time softball player and an avid New England sports fan.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two step-sons, Michael A. Theberge and Matthew J. Theberge, and a step-daughter, Marissa M. Theberge, all of Warwick; four brothers: Larry Bowman of Virginia Beach, Vir., Alex E. Bowman, Jr. of Massachusetts, Gregory J. Baartz-Bowman of Portland, Oregon and Carey M. Bowman of Barrington; three sisters, Ann Martin of Easton, Pennsylvania, Donna Brown of Minnesota, and Lisa Speigle of Easton, Penn.; and several nieces and nephews. He was the brother of the late David J. Bowman.
His funeral will be held on Friday, December 6, at 10 a.m. from the Barrett & Cotter Funeral Home, 1328 Warwick Avenue, Spring Green, Warwick. Visiting hours are Thursday 5-8 p.m. Burial with military honors will be in the Rhode Island Veterans' Cemetery, Exeter.


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So this is a trip. It looks like a korean "brand" named Benny Frying Pan has decided that they want to be just like Johnny Cupcakes, literally. The Korean based Benny Frying Pan changed the name, but nothing much else. As you can tell from the comparison images below, Benny Frying Pan is a clear rip off of Johnny Cupcakes.
Even a close look at the two logos and you'll notice that the cupcake are still there, but the fake version decided, hey, a fork and spoon would work better than bones. But you can't fool us, it's still a rip off.
I don't understand Korean, but I would LOVE to read the Benny Frying Pan "History" and "Concept", which they do have posted on their website, albeit in Korean. They even have a section dedicated to their "Logos" with the quote:
"Our icons are expressed to passion and pleasure, including Trust, Promise, Community, Understanding and Fun."
It's pretty sad.
So what do you guys think? Should Johnny Cupcakes pack up his suitcase and burn Benny Frying Pan at the stake? He should at least splash them with some scalding hot cooking oil.
UPDATE: It looks like Benny Frying Pan also has a US / .com version of their site. You can check it out here. Lots and lots and lots more rip off designs than on the Korean website. They even have fitted caps.


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'Fast and Furious 6' is almost here. In a the new, three-minute "extended first look" video for "Fast & Furious 6" unlike the other films in the series, it appears that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Vin Diesel are actually teaming up! The cast also includes Paul Walker, Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Elsa Pataky, Luke Evans and Gina Carano.
'Fast & Furious 6' was shot from July to December last year (2012) in various locations worldwide including London, Liverpool and Glasgow. The eagerly-anticipated movie opens in cinemas worldwide on May 24. The five previous F&F films came out between 2001 and 2011 and collectively grossed over $1.5 billion worldwide.


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A notice of Bill Gaffney's death appeared in my high school alumni magazine.
Bill was a fellow member of the honor class, the smartest 40 kids out of a graduating class of 280.
Based on academic achievement as freshmen, we received a special curriculum, and stuck together, for the next three years.
Within our honor class, kids were free to be as nerdy and weird as we pleased. SI was the smartest Catholic high school (for boys, in SF) and we were the smartest of the smart.
Some of us honor class kids expressed disdain for the low IQs of, not our fellow students, but of the faculty. And with justification--the average IQ of the honor class kids seemed significantly higher than that of the teaching staff.
Bill Gaffney was affable but otherwise very low profile. I was very high profile.
I remember only two interactions with Bill. One was a prank I played on him that caused him to spill some milk on the front of his shirt, which I'm ashamed of. The other is a fond memory.
At the height of my BMOC-hood I engaged in a mini-debate with Bill as an assignment for Public Speaking class: Pay TV, pro and con. [This was 1965.]
I was con, and coolbreeze me figured everyone else would be, too. I didn't prepare, and I didn't even look up the procedure--order of speaking, etc.
I did terrible and Bill did good. And the class, many of whom were members of the (nerdy) debate club, took great delight in voting, overwhelmingly, Bill the winner.
I was actually (stupid) kind of surprised. But I'm laughing right now just thinking about it.
I saw Bill Gaffney only once in the forty some years since graduation. It was on the Muni Metro platform at West Portal, evening commute, maybe twelve years ago.
He approached me, and after establishing who we were, Bill seemed quite pleased to see me.
After brief exchanges about career and domociliage, Bill said that he was a "single dad." Then he told me about his daughter, who was the star pitcher of a championship high school softball team.
The detail sort of fades, but Bill was so expressive, he was clearly in love with his kids, and so proud of their achievements.
This chat took place within a mile or two of where we both grew up.
Bill worked thirty two years for the State. He must have had a comfortable retirement awaiting him.
By contrast, my irregular work history has allowed me to do and experience things that many people put off until retirement.
It's really not fair that Bill is dead and I'm alive.
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The old adage, "too much power is just enough" is certainly true when it comes to many supercars. But when you say that the 571 hp packed under the long bonnet of the SLS AMG is not enough, most people would look at you as if you were crazy.
In reality, it is not so much that 571 hp is not enough, but more the fact that AMG's M159 four-cam, 6.2-liter V8 powerhouse thrives on revs, doing its most inspirational work at the top end. Thanks to its generous displacement, the low-speed grunt of this big motor is impressive in relation to say the 4.0-liter V8 in an M3. But it still lacks muscle when compared to AMG's own next-generation M157 5.5-liter, bi-turbo V8.
So what do you do if you really want to boost the output of the SLS AMG motor? The good news is that the engine bay of the SLS is quite large compared to that of the other cars in the Mercedes range fitted with this same basic motor, so finding the space to fit twin turbos or a supercharger is not a big issue.
"We considered both forms of forced aspiration, but chose to go supercharged as it gives us the progressive power and torque from just off idle we were looking for, with less heat and variance per chassis than turbocharging," explained Michael Weiss, co-founder and owner of Weistec.
The core of Weistec's SLS 750 system is a twin-screw supercharger of 2.3L displacement, mated to the cylinder heads by a digitally designed, high-flow, cast-aluminum T6-hardened intake manifold.
Intake air reaches the supercharger via a Y-shaped cast supercharger inlet fed by twin intake tubes and two throttle bodies mounted in factory locations allowing OEM installation. The shape of these beautifully cast pieces was developed using computer modeling to optimize the airflow velocity seen at the supercharger's inlet. These components are also cast from aluminum and branded "Weistec SLS."
I was very taken by the in-house-developed belt-drive system that sits prominently on the nose of the supercharger. A supercharger is driven off the engine crankshaft and alters its boost pressure in a relationship with engine speed controlled by the diameter of its pulley. Thus, boost pressure is raised through increasing rotational speed by using a smaller pulley.
Once that relationship is fixed, its effectiveness can also be improved if the system does not allow for any slippage. Realizing this, Weistec developed what they term a CMDP (Constant Mu, Delta Pressure) drive that maintains constant friction in the cog drive, and hence boost pressure in the system.
The Weistec CMDP system, which is the subject of a Weistec patent, neatly achieves a change in supercharger gearing, and hence boost pressure, through a change of its cog pulleys. This is a far less troublesome route than swapping out the pulley on the supercharger nose, which would entail changing the length of the engine-driven belt.
Intake charge temperature is kept down by Weistec's proprietary water-cooled intercooler system that sits under the supercharger unit in the valley of the motor. Rated for 1,000 hp, it has thermal capacity to spare in this application.
A high-flow water pump with a 30-liter-per-minute capacity sends cooling fluid around the closed loop system to a radiator positioned low in the front of the car. The system has a water recovery tank that increases overall water volume to keep the charge temperature consistent regardless of environmental conditions.
The fuel injectors and fuel rail system are upgraded, and a set of colder spark plugs fitted to handle the higher combustion pressures. The final part of the conversion is a recalibrated ECU to accommodate the bespoke fuelling, ignition and cam profile adjustments required to work with the supercharger system.
Steve Atneyel, Michael's partner, heads Weistec's calibration department. "Our systems are only as refined as the calibration in the ECU. We put just as much development work into engine management tuning as we do with engineering our hardware," Steve explains.
All this sounds nice on paper, but it is the sheer quality of the Weistec conversion that most impresses when you look under the bonnet. The design and finish of the components is aircraft grade, and everything looks as though it left the factory like this.
This assembly itself is a work of art. The cog drive cradle assembly is machined from solid billet aluminum, as are the cogs themselves. Designed to work with their carbon-fiber cog belt, the system puts maximum surface contact area and minimum slippage at the top of its performance list.
The serpentine belt that drives the supercharger via the crankshaft pulley snakes it route around hard-anodized billet aluminum idlers in place of the plastic AMG stockers.
Thanks to its lightweight alloy space frame and bodywork, the SLS AMG weighs just 3,570 pounds. Its tuned, dry-sump motor gives it 571 hp at 6800 rpm and 480 lb-ft of torque at 4750 rpm for a power-to-weight ratio of 6.25 lb/hp.
The Weistec-tuned SLS 750 boasts dyno figures of 750 hp at 6800 rpm with 664 lb-ft at 3650 rpm. This translates into a power-to-weight ratio of 4.76 lb/hp, or a near 25 percent improvement.
However, it is useful to compare the power and torque curves to the standard ones to understand the difference that the extra 179 hp and 184 lb-ft make to the real-world driving experience.
The power curve of the supercharged motor mirrors the factory one at a higher level, from off idle to around 6000 rpm. After that it increases at a slightly steeper angle, which can indeed be felt from behind the wheel. In normal driving however, the much beefier torque curve is what makes the most difference to the way the car performs.
Even off idle, the supercharged engine produces way more torque than the stock motor at its peak. And while the standard engine's curve is still building all the way to 4750 rpm, the Weistec motor has reached its sweet spot over 1000 rpm earlier.
This extra low-down torque makes a huge difference to the way the car picks up from low crankshaft speeds around town. If anything, it means you can drive around one gear higher everywhere, with the better potential fuel economy that this implies.
"When we remapped the fuel, ignition and camshaft curves, we could easily have perfectly mirrored the standard power and torque curves, and simply moved both upwards," Steve explained.
"However, we decided to deliver a bit more excitement for our enthusiast customers, several of whom are well known professional racing drivers. So we dialed in more bottom end torque along with an extra bit of punch at the top-end," Michael added.
On the road, the SLS 750 AMG is transformed, the supercharger's seamless delivery boosting the feel of bottom end strength. This more muscular delivery continues through the mid-range, and at the point where the standard SLS starts to flatten and fall off, the supercharger in the Weistec-tuned version really comes on strong, delivering the sort of thrust that betters major league supercars like the Aventador.
At 6000 rpm, the standard car is 800 rpm short of its peak power, and maintains its linear power delivery all the way to the electronic rev cut-out. However, 6000 rpm is the point at which the Weistec SLS 750 picks up a second wind, delivering an extra punch that catches you by surprise the first time you experience it. This change in character adds a whole new dimension to the SLS, taking it from the realm of very fast to barking mental.
It is important to note that the output numbers for the Weistec-modified SLS are obtained with U.S. 91 R+M/2 octane fuel, which is equivalent to 95 RON octane European fuel.
And unlike many other aftermarket engine conversions, the Weistec conversion has U.S. 50-state approval, as it was specifically engineered to conform to California's CARB emissions standard, acknowledged as the strictest in the world. The Weistec system has been awarded CARB Executive Order number D-691.
"The California test conditions are particularly insidious because they test the worst case scenarios. Some of the tests require the car to be tested cold, in Sport mode, and under heavy load up a hill, all the while following an industry standard trace, with monitoring of the hydrocarbon and nitrous oxide emissions thousands of times a second," Steve explained.
A much more powerful car with better driveability than stock that meets U.S. 50-state emissions is the holy grail of all tuners who sell their products in the U.S. "Ironically, we have ended up with a more powerful engine that is actually a fraction cleaner than the factory standard unit in this test!" said Michael proudly.
The fact that a young company like Weistec has achieved this so early in the day with their supercharged SLS 750 AMG simply underlines the fact that knowledge, experience and a clear vision counts for more than how long your company has been around.
The Weistec CMDP system, which is the subject of a Weistec patent, neatly achieves a change in supercharger gearing, and hence boost pressure, through a change of its cog pulleys.
Who are Weistec?
At the high-end of the tuning business, when you are dealing with expensive cars and wealthy and demanding clients, pedigree and expertise are everything. Until recently, the Weistec name simply did not figure in the small circle of serious Mercedes tuners in the world, whose number you can quite easily count on the fingers of one hand.
While Weistec was only founded in late 2010, founder Michael Weiss and his partner Steve Atneyel both have an impressive track record of working with the fastest and most powerful cars. Both were engineers for major American OEM and aftermarket performance companies, Michael doing advanced engineering, while Steve specialized in computer calibration.
They decided to start up on their own and considered a direction they would both be happy with. "We were both Mercedes enthusiasts and realized that there was a gap in the market for a company dedicated to engineering state-of-the-art performance systems for cars powered by the M156 and M159 AMG motor."
"There are a few companies that do minor upgrades with ECU and exhaust conversions, but no one provided performance engineering that these machines deserved," Michael explains.
Weistec has grown to supply such tuners as Kleemann in Denmark and Väth in Germany with their rapidly expanding product line. Even established players in the European tuning industry have recognized Weistec as a breakthrough company, and are keen to work with them. Michael hinted that there are even more exciting things on the horizon as Weistec expands its repertoire.
2012 Weistec Mercedes SLS 750 AMG
6.2-liter V8, dohc, 32-valve. Twin-screw supercharger, Weistec cylinder heads, water intercooler, pulley system, fuel injection and ECU
Seven-speed automatic
Double wishbone (f & r)
Four-piston, 15.4-inch ventilated and perforated rotors (f); single-piston, 14.2-inch ventilated and perforated rotors (r)
Wheels and Tires
9.5x19 (f), 11x20 (r)
265/35 (f), 295/30 (r)
While the standard engine's curve is still building all the way to 4750 rpm, the Weistec motor has reached its sweet spot over 1000 rpm earlier.
Peak Power: 750 hp @ 6800 rpm
Peak Torque: 664 lb-ft @ 3650 rpm
0-60 mph: 3.1 sec. (est.)
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This Guest Post is by Mario McKenna of the Okinawa Karatedo Kitsilano Dojo in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Mario is an instructor of Tou'on-ryu Karatedo and Ryukyu Kobudo. He is the English translator of Kobo Jizai Goshinjutsu Karate Kenpo (Kenwa Mabuni, 1934) and Seipai no Kenkyu Kobo Jizai Karate Kenpo (Kenwa Mabuni, 1934). His excellent article Okinawa Kata Classification: An Historical Overview appears at the Hawaii Karate Seinenkai website. Mario also has a Karate Blog.
Katas teaches us how to fight, but they also are a means of teaching the body how to correctly generate power. In Chinese martial arts we often hear the term fajing (hakkei in Japanese) as a term to describe the energy generated and released during striking. However, this same type of energy release can be found in karate as well; although it is not readily apparent. To find it, you must look at the postures, stances and way of stepping in kata in coordination with the breath. Naturally for power training, the simpler the better like sanchin or naihanchi.
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Stanford Law Review Online: Software Speech
The Stanford Law Review Online has just published a Note by Andrew Tutt entitled Software Speech. Tutt argues that current approaches to determining when software or speech generated by software can be protected by the First Amendment are incorrect:
When is software speech for purposes of the First Amendment? This issue has taken on new life amid recent accusations that Google used its search rankings to harm its competitors. This spring, Eugene Volokh coauthored a white paper explaining why Google's search results are fully protected speech that lies beyond the reach of the antitrust laws. The paper sparked a firestorm of controversy, and in a matter of weeks, dozens of scholars, lawyers, and technologists had joined the debate. The most interesting aspect of the positions on both sides—whether contending that Google search results are or are not speech—is how both get First Amendment doctrine only half right.
He concludes:
By stopping short of calling software "speech," entirely and unequivocally, the Court would acknowledge the many ways in which software is still an evolving cultural phenomenon unlike others that have come before it. In discarding tests for whether software is speech on the basis of its literal resemblance either to storytelling (Brown) or information dissemination (Sorrell), the Court would strike a careful balance between the legitimate need to regulate software, on the one hand, and the need to protect ideas and viewpoints from manipulation and suppression, on the other.
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In football, if both teams commit a penalty on the same play, they just do the play over. Does the same thing apply when Jon and Kate Gosselin both allegedly violate a court order?
A few days after Kate claimed Jon raided their joint bank account (a legal no-no), Jon filed papers of his own claiming she did the same. According to the papers filed last week, Jon claims Kate withdrew over $60,000 from their joint account between July and September 2009.
He also claims she took out over $1 million from February 2008 to June 2009 that have not been properly accounted for.
Sources connected to Kate contend her withdrawals were legal and note that Jon withdrew $230,000 without the necessary permission required by the arbitrator. Both sides are due back in court on Tuesday.
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Pasta & Fries: 5 Alarmingly Easy Ways To Eat Avocado
Is avocado a wonder fruit? Apparently there are millions of people who swear by its ability to keep them in tip-top shape. And yet, growing up I was never really introduced to avocado. I'm not entirely sure why. But now I'm slowly but surely adding it into my daily (well, monthly) eating routine, and these easy, yummy dishes really help.
Avocado is my new favorite food. While I was still in the making-myself-like-it phase, which is why I turned to these alarmingly easy ways to use avocado as starting points. I was honestly getting a little tired of simply throwing avocado in salads or slicing it up on toast and I wanted something a bit more interesting.
Avocado soup you question — yes, avocado soup and it's actually really good. But my favorite new use for avocado is by far avocado fries! Of course, anything breaded and fried is more delicious and avocado is no different.
• Avocado Frieds With Cilantro Lemon Dipping Sauce, Adventures in Cooking
• Avocado Salad, What's Cooking Mexico
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• Avocado Grilled Cheese, Jana Laurene
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Metadata Report for BODC Series Reference Number 961932
Metadata Summary
Problem Reports
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Narrative Documents
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You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: "Contains data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council."
Narrative Documents
Neil Brown MK3 CTD
The Neil Brown MK3 conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) profiler consists of an integral unit containing pressure, temperature and conductivity sensors with an optional dissolved oxygen sensor in a pressure-hardened casing. The most widely used variant in the 1980s and 1990s was the MK3B. An upgrade to this, the MK3C, was developed to meet the requirements of the WOCE project.
The MK3C includes a low hysteresis, titanium strain gauge pressure transducer. The transducer temperature is measured separately, allowing correction for the effects of temperature on pressure measurements. The MK3C conductivity cell features a free flow, internal field design that eliminates ducted pumping and is not affected by external metallic objects such as guard cages and external sensors.
Additional optional sensors include pH and a pressure-temperature fluorometer. The instrument is no longer in production, but is supported (repair and calibration) by General Oceanics.
These specification apply to the MK3C version.
6500 m
3200 m (optional)
|-3 to 32°C
|1 to 6.5 S cm-1
0.03% FS < 1 msec
0.003°C < 30 msec
0.0001 S cm-1
0.0003 S cm-1 < 30 msec
Further details can be found in the specification sheet.
Aquatracka fluorometer
The Chelsea Instruments Aquatracka is a logarithmic response fluorometer. It uses a pulsed (5.5 Hz) xenon light source discharging between 320 and 800 nm through a blue filter with a peak transmission of 420 nm and a bandwidth at half maximum of 100 nm. A red filter with sharp cut off, 10% transmission at 664 nm and 678 nm, is used to pass chlorophyll-a fluorescence to the sample photodiode.
The instrument may be deployed either in a through-flow tank, on a CTD frame or moored with a data logging package.
Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.
SeaTech Transmissometer
The transmissometer is designed to accurately measure the the amount of light transmitted by a modulated Light Emitting Diode (LED) through a fixed-length in-situ water column to a synchronous detector.
- Water path length: 5 cm (for use in turbid waters) to 1 m (for use in clear ocean waters).
- Beam diameter: 15 mm
- Transmitted beam collimation: <3 milliradians
- Receiver acceptance angle (in water): <18 milliradians
- Light source wavelength: usually (but not exclusively) 660 nm (red light)
The instrument can be interfaced to Aanderaa RCM7 current meters. This is achieved by fitting the transmissometer in a slot cut into a customized RCM4-type vane.
A red LED (660 nm) is used for general applications looking at water column sediment load. However, green or blue LEDs can be fitted for specilised optics applications. The light source used is identified by the BODC parameter code.
Further details can be found in the manufacturer's Manual.
RRS Discovery 198 Data Documentation
The CTD profiles were taken with an RVS Neil Brown Systems MkIIIB CTD incorporating a pressure sensor, conductivity cell, platinum resistance thermometer and a new Beckmann dissolved oxygen sensor. This was mounted vertically in the centre of a protective cage approximately 1.5m square.
Attached to the bars of the frame were a Chelsea Instruments Aquatracka fluorometer, and a SeaTech red light (661nm) transmissometer with a 25cm path length.
Above the frame was a General Oceanics rosette sampler with 12, 10-litre Niskin bottles fitted with stainless steel springs. The bases of the bottles were 0.75m above the pressure head with their tops 1.55m above it. One of the bottles had a holder for up to three digital reversing thermometers mounted 1.38m above the CTD temperature sensor.
Two PML 2-pi PAR (photosynthetically available radiation) meters were fitted. One, facing upward, was above the bottle rosette to measure downwelling scalar irradiance. The second, facing downward, was located near the base of the CTD frame to measure upwelling scalar irradiance. Note that there was a physical separation of approximately 2m between the two sensors. No geometrical offset corrections have been applied to the data.
Lowering rates of up to 1.5 m/sec were used, although rates were generally in the range 0.5-1 m/sec. Bottle samples and reversing thermometer measurements were acquired on the ascent of each cast.
Data Acquisition
The CTD data were acquired using the RVS ABC system.
CTD data were sampled at a frequency of 32 Hertz. Real-time data reduction by the Level A interface converted the 32 Hz data to a 1-second time series, incorporating a temperature time offset to correct for thermal lag of the temperature sensor. This correction wasn't implemented until station 12205 due to a software problem. Consequently there were more problems with salinity noise on the thermocline prior to this station.
The 1-second data were logged on the Level C workstation via the Level B disk buffer.
On-Board Data Processing
The data were transferred from the Level C into P* format on a workstation running the P EXEC oceanographic data processing package as developed for processing the UK WOCE CTD data. The ctdcal program was run to convert the data from raw counts into engineering units. Each CTD cast was split into an upcast and downcast. The downcast data file was then calibrated following the procedures described below and inspected graphically. Any spikes identified in the temperature or salinity channels were replaced by absent data values.
Data were written onto magnetic tape in the P* archive subset of the GF3 format and submitted to BODC. A 'bottle' file was prepared containing averaged CTD parameter values corresponding to the bottle firings. All channels except oxygen were derived from the upcast files. Oxygen was obtained from the downcast file by locating data corresponding to the isopycnal determined for the bottle firing from the upcast data. The individual data channels were then calibrated as follows:
The pressure calibration applied was:
|P = (Praw * 0.1 * 0.1) - 7.1
The constant offset was adjusted to -7.1 from the laboratory-supplied value of 5.13287 to adjust the mean pressure value logged in air to zero.
The laboratory-based calibration:
|T = 0.0044057 + Traw * 0.005 * 0.9999902
was used throughout the cruise.
The SIS reversing thermometers (T220 and T238) were fired as a pair on a single bottle and showed excellent agreement with a mean difference of 0.00085 ±0.00082 °C. Comparison between the CTD temperatures and the reversing thermometer values showed a mean offset of -0.00448 ±0.00174 °C. However, no correction was applied to the CTD temperatures because it was considered that the SIS calibrations were no more accurate than the CTD temperature calibration. Temperature accuracy was reported as ±0.005 °C.
Salinity was computed from time-offset temperature and conductivity. For the first part of the cruise calibration salinity samples were taken from all twelve bottles and using a Guildline Autosal bench salinometers. Once it was established that the CTD conductivity cell was stable, the number of bottles sampled was reduced to 6 and then 4 per cast.
An intercalibration cast with samples analysed on both Discovery and James Clark Ross showed salinometer measurements between the two vessels to be within 0.002 PSU.
Comparison between the CTD salinities and bottle salinities led to the following correction being applied to the CTD salinity data:
The standard deviation of the calibration was ±0.002 PSU.
Oxygen concentration was computed from the CTD temperature (TCTD) and pressure (P), sensor current (Coxy) and temperature (Toxy) readings using the algorithms:
|T = 0.75 * TCTD + 0.25 * Toxy
|Oxygen = rho * Coxy * exp (-alpha*T + beta*P)
The coefficients were determined as:
|alpha = 0.02666; beta = 0.0001494; rho = 1.276292
based on a set of 126 bottle water samples analysed using the Winkler technique as described in Williams and Jenkinson (1982). Oxygen saturations were computed using the algorithm of Benson and Krause (1984). The computed oxygen saturations were believed to be correct within 2 per cent.
An A/D converter that translated 10 Volts to 4096 counts logged the raw counts. The raw counts were therefore converted into a voltage by multiplying by 0.002442. As the transmissometer output 5 Volts for 100% transmission, the raw voltage was converted to percentage transmission by multiplying by 20.
The voltages were corrected for source decay by a ratio correction based on a manufacturer's air voltage of 4.744 Volts and a cruise-determined air voltage of 4.763 Volts.
The upwelling and downwelling irradiance counts were converted using the equations:
|Dwirr = 6.6470 - 0.001 * 12.353 * count
|Uwirr = 6.5746 - 0.001 * 12.427 * count
The CTD fluorometer voltages (determined by scaling raw counts by 0.002441) were calibrated against extracted chlorophyll determinations on samples taken from the CTD rosette. As there was evidence of quenching, samples were only considered for the calibration if they were collected in darkness (PAR >2W/m2).
The following calibration equations were derived for subsets of the CTD stations:
|CTD Station
|Calibration Applied
|Stations 12198 and 12200
|ln chl = -8.0345 + 6.313 V - 1.2020 V2 (r2 = 0.95)
|Stations 12201 onwards
|ln chl = -7.5940 + 4.603 V - 0.5721 V2 (r2 = 0.88)
The different calibration equations were attributed to different phytoplankton species assemblages. No quench correction was attempted due to insufficient quantity of suitable data.
Post-Cruise Processing
The data were converted into the BODC internal format (PXF) to allow the use of in-house software tools, notably the workstation graphics editor. In addition to reformatting, the Transfer Program applied the following modifications to the data:
Dissolved oxygen was converted from ml/l to µM by multiplying the values by 44.66.
Reformatted CTD data were transferred onto a high-speed graphics workstation. A number of tasks were performed here, using an in-house graphics editor.
- Downcasts and upcasts were differentiated and the limits of the downcast were marked using flags on the pressure channel.
- Spikes identified by manual inspection of the downcast data were flagged as suspect.
- Datacycle groupings on the upcast accompanied by dramatic oxygen spikes were flagged as possible bottle firings, including logging of the pressure range sampled whilst the bottle was being fired. These pressure ranges were subsequently used, in conjunction with a geometrical correction for the position of the water bottles with respect to the CTD pressure transducer, to determine the subset of datacycles to be averaged for calibration values.
Once screened on the workstation, the CTD downcasts were loaded into a database under the Oracle relational database management system. During the loading process, the transmissometer data were converted to attenuance using the algorithm:
|attenuance = -4.0 * ln (percent transmittance / 100.0)
Most of the CTD calibration work was completed during the cruise. However, the form of the light calibrations was unfamiliar to BODC and there was some concern that the first terms were numerically equal to the exponential calibrations usually applied to these instruments.
Consequently, the data were recomputed as voltages and the following calibrations (determined in June 1992) were applied to convert the data into units of µE/m2/s:
|Downwelling (10):
|PAR = exp(-5.090*V + 6.6470) * 0.0375
|Upwelling (08):
|PAR = exp(-5.060*V + 6.5746) * 0.0375
If the data are required in units of W/m2 then divide the calibrated data by the empirically-derived scaling factor of 3.75.
The final CTD data set contains profiles that have been binned by averaging over 1 db intervals for casts shallower than 100m and 2 db intervals for casts deeper than 100m. The binning algorithm excluded any data that had been flagged as suspect. If no good data were available within the pressure range of a bin, linear interpolation was used to assign data values. Gaps larger than three bins were left null.
The full resolution data have been archived by BODC and may be obtained on request.
Data Warnings
Benson, B.B., Krause, D. Jr. 1984. The concentration and isotopic fractionation of oxygen dissolved in fresh water and sea water in equilibrium with the atmosphere. Limnol. Oceanogr. 29, 620-632.
Williams P.J. Leb., Jenkinson N.W. 1982. A transportable microprocessor-controlled precise Winkler titration suitable for field station and shipboard use. Limnol. Oceanogr. 27, 567-585.
Project Information
Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS)
The Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS) was a Community Research Project within the Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Directorate (MASD) of the Natural Environment Research Council. The project provided a major United Kingdom contribution to the international Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). The project ran from April 1987 until March 1992 but was extended through bridging funds until March 1993. The BOFS North Atlantic Data Set was collected during the initial five year period. Fieldwork in the bridging year focused on the Antarctic in late 1992. These data will form part of a subsequent electronic publication of Antarctic data and are not included on this CD-ROM.
The primary aims of the BOFS programme were:
- To improve the understanding of the biogeochemical processes influencing the dynamics of the cycling of the elements in the ocean and related atmospheric exchanges with particular reference to carbon.
- To develop, in collaboration with, other national and international programmes. models capable of rationalising and eventually predicting the chemical and biological consequences of natural and man-induced changes to the atmosphere ocean system.
A Community Research Project brings together scientists from NERC institutes and UK universities to work on a common problem. In this way resources far beyond the scope of individual research groups may be brought to bear on a common problem. The project is coordinated through a host laboratory which has responsibility for financial management, organisation and logistics. The host laboratory for BOFS was the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML).
The BOFS North Atlantic data set was the result of fieldwork carried out on 11 research cruises. Four studies were carried out during three field seasons in 1989, 1990 and 1991; the 1989 North Atlantic Bloom Experiment, the 1990 Lagrangian Experiment, the 1990 BOFS Benthic Study and the 1991 Coccolithphore Study. Measurements taken include:
Physical (e.g. temperature, salinity and optics)
Meteorology and positioning
Chemical (e.g. dissolved oxygen, organic carbon and nitrogen)
Biological (e.g. biomass, pigments and bacteria production)
Geological (sediment traps)
The Sterna 1992 project (the Southern Ocean component of BOFS) aimed to measure the size and variability of carbon and nitrogen fluxes during early summer in the Southern Ocean, with particular emphasis on rates and processes in the marginal ice zone. Fieldwork was carried out between October and December 1992 in the Southern Ocean area, approximately 55°S to 70°S, 60°W to 85°W. A wide range of physical, chemical and biological parameters were measured.
Data Management
Data management services to BOFS were provided by the British Oceanographic Data Centre, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council.
Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS)
JGOFS was an international and multi-disciplinary programme, which ran from February 1987 to December 2003, with participants from more than 20 nations. JGOFS was launched at a planning meeting in Paris under the auspices of the Scientific Committee of Oceanic Research (SCOR), a committee of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and later became one of the first core projects of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) in 1989.
The primary aims of the JGOFS programme were:
- To determine and understand on a global scale the processes controlling the time-varying fluxes of carbon and associated biogenic elements in the ocean, and to evaluate the related exchanges with the atmosphere, sea floor and continental boundaries.
- To develop a capacity to predict on a global scale the response to anthropogenic perturbations, in particular those related to climate change.
JGOFS consisted of fieldwork, synthesis and modelling phases. Further information about JGOFS may be found at the international Joint Global Ocean Flux Study web site.
JGOFS fieldwork
|1988 - 1990
|Long-term time series stations established near Bermuda, Hawaii and in the Ligurian Sea
|1989 - 1991
|North Atlantic Bloom Experiment (NABE)
|1991 - 1994
|Equatorial Pacific Process Study
|1992 - 1998
|Southern Ocean Process Study
|1994 - 1995
|Indian Ocean (Arabian Sea) Process Study
|North Pacific Process Study
Synthesis and modelling phase
From 1998, as the fieldwork for most process studies were being completed, JGOFS focused on:
- Integrating regional synthesis and modelling activities
- Maintaining links to other ocean observing and global change programmes
- Developing a global synthesis and modelling phase
Data availability
The field data collected during JGOFS has been published on two DVDs. These are available via the World Data Center for Oceanography, Silver Spring and are entitled:
- JGOFS International Collection, Volume 1: Discrete Datasets (1989-2000) DVD
- JGOFS Arabian Sea Process Study, CTD, XBT and SeaSoar Data from 1990-1997
Data sets making up the UK contribution to JGOFS, for which BODC provided data management support, are also available directly from BODC.
Data Activity or Cruise Information
|Cruise Name
|Departure Date
|Arrival Date
|Principal Scientist(s)
|David R Turner (Plymouth Marine Laboratory)
|RRS Discovery
Complete Cruise Metadata Report is available here
Fixed Station Information
No Fixed Station Information held for the Series
BODC Quality Control Flags
The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:
|Below detection limit
|In excess of quoted value
|Taxonomic flag for affinis (aff.)
|Beginning of CTD Down/Up Cast
|Taxonomic flag for confer (cf.)
|Thermometric depth
|End of CTD Down/Up Cast
|Non-taxonomic biological characteristic uncertainty
|Extrapolated value
|Taxonomic flag for single species (sp.)
|Improbable value - unknown quality control source
|Improbable value - originator's quality control
|Improbable value - BODC quality control
|Null value
|Improbable value - user quality control
|Replacement value
|Estimated value
|Interpolated value
|Control value
|Excessive difference
SeaDataNet Quality Control Flags
The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:
|no quality control
|good value
|probably good value
|probably bad value
|bad value
|changed value
|value below detection
|value in excess
|interpolated value
|missing value
|value phenomenon uncertain
|value below limit of quantification


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Right now I have:
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120gb HD
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I have no clue what my motherboard is :/
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My plan is to slowly start upgrading parts until the end of the year. I plan to first change the case along with a new motherboard, then the processor, RAM, and finally a new gfx card when needed.
My question is this. I plan to buy this case . With that case, what do you recommend as a new motherboard? Will all the parts fit well in that case, or should i get one set up differently. Anything from xoxide.com really.
I don't want to go out, buy a new case, a random motherboard, and burn my cash in smoke.
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Jetstar is No. 50 for KLIA
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Sepang, 9 September 2007- Jetstar Airlines, a fully owned Qantas subsidiary made a historic inaugural touchdown at KL International Airport (KLIA) today,
becoming the 50th international airlines to operate at KLIA.
Jetstar is the second foreign low cost carrier to fly to KLIA after Cebu Pacific Airways made their debut in December last year. For the year 2007, KLIA has welcomed four airlines including Jetstar - GMG Airlines, Etihad Airways and EgyptAir.
The low-cost airline will operate three flights weekly, flying the Sydney - Kuala Lumpur vice versa route on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays utilising wide bodied Airbus A330-200s with 303 seats configuration.
Welcoming the arriving passengers were YB Dato Donald Lim Siang Chai, Deputy Tourism Minister, Y.Bhg. Dato Seri Bashir Ahmad, Managing Director of Malaysia Airports accompanied by Jetstar s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Alan Joyce. Among the arriving passengers were Mr. Nicole Masters of Sydney Airport, Mr. Richard Beere of Tourism Australia and Mr. Shahrin Mokhtar, Director of Tourism Malaysia in Australia.
Dato Seri Bashir Ahmad, Managing Director of Malaysia Airports said: "Malaysia Airports is delighted to welcome Jetstar to KLIA as Jetstar is the first Australian airline to operate into KLIA and therefore, it is a tremendous breakthrough for Malaysia Airports."
He added: "I am confident Jetstar will promote even greater travel between Kuala Lumpur and Sydney. We look forward to Jetstar increasing their frequencies to daily soon as well as commencing new services from other points in Australia."
The announcement on servicing KLIA was made by Mr. Alan Joyce in Singapore during an address at the 4th Annual Asia Pacific Low Cost Carrier Annual Congress on January 23, 2007, where he said: "We are excited by the prospects of entering this route with a highly competitive, two class product that since our launch of long haul flights last November, is operating ahead of expectations."
Jetstar successfully commenced value based long haul international flights in November 2006, and now directly serves 5 international markets from either Sydney or Melbourne flying an existing 18 weekly return services. These markets include Bangkok, Phuket, Ho Chi Minh City, Bali and Honolulu. Jetstar s initial fleet of Airbus A330-200s, numbering six by mid 2007, will transition to a fleet of 12 new Boeing 787 aircraft, with delivery of Jetstar s first B787 scheduled for August 2008.


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By Master Sgt. Cecilio Ricardo
Air Force Public Affairs Agency
7/25/2012 – WASHINGTON (AFNS) — All Air Force civilian employees are slated to be using a new, standardized Air Force pay system by June 2013.
The Automated Time Attendance and Production System will standardize the pay method across the service and will be implemented first at Air Force Global Strike Command and Air National Guard bases on July 29.
According to Doug Bennett, associate deputy assistant secretary for Air Force Financial Operations, the system will be implemented service-wide in eight waves during the next year and is meant to save time so personnel can focus on accomplishing the Air Force mission.
"It allows folks to focus on the mission, and allows the Secretary of the Air Force and Chief of Staff of the Air Force to make informed decisions about where we need to spend our money," Bennett said.
Along with better accountability and efficiency, the system also eliminates paper use. Currently, many Air Force civilians manually report their hours using the old paper-based system, Bennett said. ATAAPS will allow a user to enter his or her time and have the supervisor approve it electronically, providing an audit trail, while increasing the accuracy of financial statements.
"It's a lot easier to trace timecards when it is centrally located," said Benjamin Yarish, Air Force Financial Management Information Technology Portfolio manager.
According to an Air Force study 50 percent of the Air Force's civilian timecards were not properly approved by supervisors, or entered into the Defense Civilian Personnel System in a timely manner.
These inaccuracies have resulted in overpayments, underpayments, or, in some cases, no payments, according to the study.
"This standardized system will provide transparency and auditability," said John Koski, director of Air Force Information Systems and Technology.
"When your boss spends two hours every other week signing time cards, that's time that person isn't making sure that aircraft are being repaired or ready to fly," said Bennett.
The Air Force is not the first service branch to use the system.
"This system has been around for about 10 years. Army is already using it. Navy is looking to use it," said Yarish. "Therefore its track record provides confidence to use the system Air Force-wide."
The first bases to receive the ATAAPS system are Barksdale Air Force Base, La., Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., Minot Air Force Base, N.D., F.E. Warren, Wyo., and Malmstrom Air Force Base, Mont.
"I think this is a great step forward," said Bennett. I hope folks approach this system with an open mind and embrace this opportunity."


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Now that Twitter offers us yet another way to embarrass ourselves to a potentially large group of people, it only makes sense that there would be a need for a mobile app that might help us curb that tendency.
And there is: TDA and Webroot launched the Holiday Party Sobriety Test, a free mobile app for Android and iPhone devices, that is designed to save us all from our inebriated selves. They claim that the app was created to keep us out of trouble and that it "provides a series of sobriety tests that can be taken right at the party. Failure of any of the tests triggers a warning to dial it down for the rest of the evening."
Readers of this blog know how I feel about mobile apps attempting to replace common sense, but if something like this keeps you from drunkenly posting on Facebook a picture of yourself doing shots on the boss's desk at the office party, then, by all means, download it.
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Although this list has only active caches, archived caches that have at least as many finds as the 10th cahce, should receive Honerable Mentions.
By my count: East Gate Cache had 119 Finders and By The Riverside (the original) had 67 Finders.
Thanks Peter, I can add them. Are these caches still available on gc.com? Or will I have to rely on the cache owners to let me know?
As archived caches, the data is still on GC.com; but it's just harder to get to.
One way is to to search by GC#. East Gate is GC5DC2 & By The Riverside is GCGBY4.
Another way is to look at the hider's profile (if you know who hide it) or look at someone's profile who found it. I noticed you had found East Gate as well as The Courts (which looks like 84 finds; 93 total logs minus 9 "other" logs).
How did you calculate the finds on all the other caches. Do you have some software help?
You can ask caches to submit their cache (archived or not) if it has enough finds to make the list.
The first time through I went to every single active MB cache and compiled a list of finds. Since then, I've got a program that reads an up-to-date gpx file of all MB caches and tracks if they've had any finds since the last time I checked. Then I just add those numbers to the original.


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Bridget Cunningham March 27, 2017
Wilhelm Röntgen was a German physicist who is best known for his discovery of X-rays — a finding that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics. Recognized as the father of diagnostic radiology, Röntgen's contributions marked a revolutionary breakthrough within the medical community.Read More
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems must produce high-resolution images in order for doctors to accurately diagnose their patients. To achieve this level of image quality, there must be a known reliable base magnetic field distribution within the MRI machine and its components, such as birdcage coils. This is where simulation comes in. By designing MRI birdcage coils with the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, you can manipulate and optimize the magnetic field and improve the scanned data that MRI machines generate.Read More
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For those designing process equipment with conventional centrifugal pumps, rotating conical (or cone) micropumps may provide a simpler alternative. However, the performance of rotating cone micropumps needs further analysis, which can be difficult to achieve with only trial-and-error empirical studies. To solve this issue, researchers used the COMSOL Multiphysics® software to develop a realistic model for analyzing the fluid dynamics and performance of a rotating cone micropump. Here, we discuss their research and results.Read More
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The viscous catenary problem has generated a lot of theoretical and experimental interest in recent years. This is due to the industrial importance of the rich phenomena that occur within it. Using the flexibility of the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, we can gain fundamental insights into complex problems like the viscous catenary problem and determine the validity of the assumptions made in previous analyses.Read More
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Exposure to the environment can negatively impact an antenna's radiation characteristics and lead to greater losses. One way to protect these devices is with radomes, which are enclosures that can shield antennas while improving their overall performance. When designing a radome, measuring its effectiveness is key, as designs without optimized configurations have less influence. With the example of a patch antenna, we discuss using simulation to gain insight into a radome's ability to improve antenna directivity.Read More
Caty Fairclough March 17, 2017
When simulating hearing aids, it's important to determine how transducers interact with the rest of the system. In some cases, these studies require fully detailed models, increasing their computational cost. One alternative is coupling a lumped parameter transducer model with a multiphysics model representing the whole system. In this blog post, we discuss the example of a Knowles ED-23146 receiver (or miniature loudspeaker) that is connected to a test setup and compare the results to measurement data.Read More
Kristoffer Raneflod March 15, 2017
Have you ever thought about customizing or building a model in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software that is based on data from Excel® spreadsheet software? Excel spreadsheets are used to present, collaborate, and store data within many science and engineering applications. Using Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications and LiveLink™ for Excel®, we can build and control model settings and parameters within the Excel® spreadsheet software. In this blog post, we illustrate this process and go over a few examples.Read More
Edmund Dickinson March 14, 2017
In corrosion analysis, we often want to study corroding surfaces whose electrical connectivity is not as simple as a controlled current or voltage. Instead, an electrode surface might be short circuited to another electrode through a direct connection, such as the electrical connection between a monopile and transition piece. Here, we look at how to describe these electrodes and external short circuits using the appropriate boundary conditions in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software.Read More
Bridget Cunningham March 13, 2017
Noncommunicable diseases place a socioeconomic strain on low- to middle-income countries. The advent of noninvasive technology offers a solution, effectively diagnosing, preventing, and treating these diseases at a lower cost. For chronic kidney disease, one type of noncommunicable disease, such advancements are important because current methods are expensive and prone to error. As simulation research shows, sensors based on complementary split ring resonators (CSRRs) provide an inexpensive way to accurately monitor chronic kidney disease.Read More
Bridget Cunningham March 10, 2017
While reverse electrodialysis (RED) is a promising source of renewable energy, it can be a challenging process to analyze. The performance of RED units is affected by the physical phenomena that occur when converting salinity gradient energy into electric current. To address this, one team of researchers used a novel approach to model such systems in the COMSOL Multiphysics® software. Their multiphysics model and subsequent simulation studies provide further insight into designing and optimizing RED units.Read More
Bridget Cunningham March 9, 2017
When a superconducting magnet suddenly transitions to a normal state — known as a quench — its coils may overheat. Quench detection and protection systems are often included in the magnets to enable safer operation. For these systems to be effective, it's important to understand the resulting electrothermal transient phenomena that take place within the magnet. Using numerical simulation, we can develop sophisticated systems that prevent possible disruption effects.Read More


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A restaurant review in one of my local papers, the StarTribune, covered a new pizza place in Edina, one of our western suburbs. The name of the place is Mozza Mia, and it sounds very good.
The review has a picture of one of the wood-fired oven.
The review says in part, "Throw in dough that rises for 24 hours and two high-temperature wood-burning ovens (fueled by oak with the occasional toss of Italian cherry wood for extra smoke) and you get a distinctive crust that's thin but sturdy and slightly blistered, with a marvelous crackle on the outside that yields to a lightly chewy, slightly bready interior."
Purpose of this blog
This blog will really be a true web log. I will post here about different wood-fired ovens as I find them.
If you know of any wood-fired ovens I should know about, you can send an e-mail to me. (If you build wood-fired ovens, I would like to hear from you too.)
If you know of any wood-fired ovens I should know about, you can send an e-mail to me. (If you build wood-fired ovens, I would like to hear from you too.)
There will lots of posts and lots of labels, since I plan to create one post for every appropriate web site that I find, and however many labels it takes to describe each one (usually at least the type of page and the location of the oven).
The accumulated information will still be found at the real Quest for Ovens web site links pages, but that is not updated as frequently as this blog will be.
If you are from outside the US and Canada, let me know what you find interesting about it. I see that I get visitors from India and Iran, and other faraway places. I'd like to know what draws you to this blog.
I received e-mail from the organizers of the BBC Two television show asking if the Saint Paul Bread Club could post a notice about their show Great British Bake-Off for amateur bakers. The information they gave me is now accessible through a link. (The organizers don't have a web page for the show itself yet.)
Please share this with any amateur bakers in Great Britain you may know, or post the link where they might see it.
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A small crew is making a big mess at the Port of Hood River's marina office building.
The mid-1970s structure - home to the Visitors Center and Chamber of Commerce - is receiving a major remodel to upgrade both inside and outside features. Griffin Construction started demolition work last week on the lower floor of the building, with chamber staff working from tight quarters upstairs and the Visitors Center closed for the next couple of months (with a temporary location set up at Cascade Travel's downtown office).
The project will extend the usability of the aging building for the near future, and will keep the chamber at the waterfront location for at least another decade.
"The building really needed to be updated," said Kerry Cobb, chamber director. Several months ago Cobb addressed the port commission, which was debating whether to invest more than a quarter million dollars into the building for repairs or to pursue other options for the prime waterfront property. Cobb said that if the building was not updated, the chamber would likely start looking at other locations for its headquarters.
"We really like the location," she said. "The port is gorgeous and the building is in the right place for a visitors center. The changes are going to make things a lot nicer for our operations."
The port commission approved the upgrade project last year, and the chamber committed to staying in the building by signing a 10-year lease starting in January. The upgrade includes an array of interior work, including a new HVAC system, new restrooms, walls, ceilings and floors and a new layout that will create a much-needed conference room. The major exterior improvement will be a rebuild of the large wood deck overlooking the river, which has degraded over time and is no longer up to code.
"We're crammed cozily on the upper floor until work downstairs is done," Cobb said. "They've already done quite a bit of demolishing; it's exciting. I think the project will move along pretty quickly."
The port hired Griffin Construction for the job at a price tag of just under $300,000. The company expects to have work completed by the middle of April, in time for the chamber and visitors center to settle in before the busy season.
The chamber is working on an exciting new project to promote tourism in Hood River. The project, called Travel to Learn, will run for a month starting March 23. Taking advantage of local talent, the program will be a series of classes and workshops aimed at getting people to visit the area and try some of the many great activities it has to offer.
"We have a wealth of talent here, and Travel to Learn highlights that," Cobb said. "People can come to town, hopefully stay for a couple nights, and take a variety of classes; things like stand-up paddling, wildflower hiking, photography, beading and glass-blowing. There's even a bagel-making class at the Bagel Company. "
Cobb said the chamber is working on marketing the program outside of the county and updating its website to list the classes that will be offered. For more information, visit www.hoodriver.org.
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