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1. When using a normalized brdf how do you tweak(?) the intensity of the specular highlight. Isn't the point of this to get a result which is <= 1 ?
Which also brings up another question. Considering the normalization factor for a phong brdf: (SpecularPower + 2) / (2 * PI) and not using any geometry or fresnel term the specular would always be 'blazingly' bright (and a lot higher than 1). Also wouldn't multiplying the result with some value aka specular intensity value afterwards distort from the original idea of normalizing it ? If that's true how do you control the intensity of this specular ?
2. When trying to make a metallic looking material, how would you create the diffuse and specular map for it considering its real life behavior. You can't just use a black diffuse map and only use a specular to make the entire object lit can you ? At least it didn't work for me. Wouldn't the rest of the object be completely black (if no ambient term was there) ? Also this might be more of an artist's problem but if you'd use the fresnel reflectance color of a material F(0°) e.g. a stonewall which probably would have a very low color how would I create such a specular map without loosing detail. Because lowering the maximum brightness of this map to 0.02 (for example) makes it almost entirely black and all its details will be lost.
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With only six practices on his Dolphin resume, it seems almost unfair that inside linebacker Kevin Burnett has to make his debut with the first-team defense in Friday night's pre-season opener at Atlanta.
Burnett's take: It's football.
"In this day and age you've been through enough battles, especially if you've been a starter in this league, that you know what to expect," Burnett said after Wednesday's final workout before the pre-season opener. "So I should be prepared to go out and play 20-30 snaps, if not the whole game. You have to be prepared to do it at any time, and do it at a high level."
Burnett certainly did it at a high level last year, not only playing on the San Diego Chargers' top-ranked defense but leading the team in tackles. In one year he made more defensive big plays - defined as sacks (6), interceptions (2), forced fumbles (1) and fumble recoveries (1) - than the guy he replaced, Channing Crowder, has made in his career.
For all that, Burnett, 28, a six-year veteran who was a second-round pick of Dallas in 2005, is unknown to Dolphin fans. If he's feeling any pressure to demonstrate his skills, he doesn't show it.
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I'm beginning to crank on Sabertooth, my advanced O/R mapping technology for Java.
I'm beginning to crank on Sabertooth, my advanced O/R mapping technology for Java.
Latest word is that my article in the Java Report will be showing up a little late, in the July 2001 issue.
Found what may be a good open source, Java, UML tool called ArgoUML.
I haven't checked it out too much, but what I saw was pretty impressive.
I'm beginning to lean the joyrs of Python and wxPython. Maybe I wont be programming in Java for the rest of my life ... certainly not for an GUIs.
As I learn this stuff, I hope to create GUI editors for Tapestry and for Sabertooth.
Things are winding down on Tapestry for the moment. The code is stabilizing and I'm working just on bug fixes, documentation and some improvements to the JBE.
I'm also planning my next framework: Sabertooth. It's yet another approach to accessing database data. It borrows some ideas from NeXT/Apple EOF and J2EE Entity EJBs but is architected to work well in a web application environment.
I once read a quite from someone on the Quake team who said "all computer science is caching" at that's very true.
You win some, you lose some. The Java Report has accepted my article on Tapestry (though I need to put together some performance stats and UML diagrams).
However, JavaOne has turned down my proposal to present Tapestry.
Tapestry 0.2.9 is coming very soon. I really have to figure out when I can just call it "1.0.0".
Release version 0.2.8a of Tapestry just now. A little bit of savage refactoring, and I completed support for localization.
I seem to spend at least as much time documenting things as I do actually coding them.
What's in a name? I'm in the process of changing the name of the central object of a Tapestry application.
Instead of "application", it will now be "engine".
This fixes so much of the documentation! It moves the term "application" out of the real of implementation and back into the real of pure ideas.
Well, the JavaReport got my article on Tapestry and now I get to wait for a couple of weeks to see if they take it.
Just released Tapestry 0.2.7.. I'm definately getting to the point where I have to ask the question: How does it end? ... in other words, when is it finished, when does it start to really bloat?
Of course, bloat really started at least a month ago; some of the new components, ValidatingTextField, FieldLabel and Script, are far more than the "really basic" set of components I initially envisioned ... but I want Tapestry applications to really differentiate themselves and the text field components, at the least, are important for that.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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Shrimp Fra Diablo
"Fra Diablo" means Friar Devil. Any "deviled" food is spicey. Friar is just a slang sir name. So one translation could be "Mr. Spicey".
Buy 12-15 shrimp, med sized , peel and devein leaving the tails on. Coat a saute pan (straight sided skillet works best)with olive oil. Chop 5 cloves fresh garlic and throw into oil and simmer a few minutes. Next add 2 tbs. chopped dried chili peppers (or any of your favorite type of hot pepper,use to taste depending on how hot you can stand it).
Simmer few mins. Add shrimp and a tblspoon of fresh or dried basil. Saute lightly till shrimp are almost done. Add 2 cups of diced (1/2") plum tomatoes (the riper the better) or 1 can of crushed tomatoes. Simmer till tomatoes are thouroughly cooked and mushy. Serve over pasta. Top with fresh chopped parsely and fresh grated romano cheese.
Use Calimari instead of shrimp, or both, or evan mussels, clams etc.
Add red wine or burgandy just before tomatoes
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We are headed for huge changes on how healthcare is delivered in the US.
It is hard for me to say if this is 10 or 20 years away. Though I think the ACA has accelerated this process.
Universal Healthcare should be a pillar of a modern wealthy society(as we like to think of ourselves). If implemented correctly then it will result in savings down the road, because a healthier society is a more productive society and doctors will be able to intervene on issues earlier when they are less expensive.
Unfortunately this is not fiscally compatible with the way Americans have come to perceive the delivery of healthcare which is a kin to a fast food restaurant where they can come when they like on the menu at any time they want. Continuing to deliver healthcare this way while adding universal healthcare will be financially ruinous.
There are various factions that will fight tooth and nail to keep the changes from happening because they are making too much money.
What you will ultimately see is the elimination of the small entrepreneurial/small business doctors office. Several physicians with a keen business sense have used this model to make themselves very wealthy at the cost of everyone else in the system.
You will probably see the implementation of an automated medical home.
Your direct care will likely be given by a mid level provider such as a nurse practitioner or physician assistant. The doctor will come in on more serious issues.
The ACA/Obamacare is a start down this path and will likely evolve and change many times over the coming decade.
The republican plan under Ryan was essentially a minor tweak of the current system with no structural changes.
Essentially a way of maintaining the status quo for as long as humanly possible.
Patients on medicare(the largest deliverer of healthcare in this country) would see much of the savings by the government essentially passed on to the people in the form of higher premiums.
Lower middle class elderly would get hammered by this. Upper middle and rich would simply shift costs to supplementary private insurance.
Many providers preferred this system because they feared change.
State driven medicaid systems simply do not work, and when Romeny began spouting off about how successful this model was, I burst out laughing. The state of Florida has easily one of the most poorly run, inefficient, and underfunded medicaid systems in the entire country.
I gladly embrace a company (like MCNA) to privatize medicaid. They not only deliver savings to the state (3-6% typically) but also enhance provider compensation. If there is no change, the entire state will find itself with zero providers


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"SOC 2 exams are rigorous independent assessments, geared toward technology service providers, especially those running data centers," commented Val Stinson, director of compliance for SoftLayer, on the announcement by SoftLayer Technologies that it successfully completed its Service Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II examination for the company's 13 data centers, located in the United States, Singapore and the Netherlands
"With our successful completion of testing, we're able to provide our customers with greater insights into our controls, procedures and systems for our entire portfolio of cloud based services," Stinson continued. "To date, approximately 100 customers have requested our SOC 2 Type II report as a part of their compliance efforts."
The examination, conducted by independent accounting and auditing firm Weaver, evaluated the processes, procedures and controls for security and availability at SoftLayer's facilities for the year-ending October 31, 2012.
SOC 2 certification assures SoftLayer customers that the company has effective operational controls and meets audit levels for data protection and availability. Organizations with certification and compliance requirements such as HIPAA and PCI DSS may request and leverage the company's SOC 2 Type II report as part of their compliance strategy.
This certification is also an important step for any Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider that supports outsourced, mission-critical, and information technology services. The audit includes a full assessment of:
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A SOC 2 examination is widely recognized, because it represents that a service organization has been through an evaluation of their control activities as they relate to the applicable Trust Services Principles and Criteria. A Type II report not only includes the service organization's system description, but also includes detailed testing of the design and operating effectiveness of the service organization's controls.
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I recently picked up a free 20g tank off of Craig's list. First thing I did was water test it...and it failed miserably. But it seems like a nice tank, so I figured I would reseal it. Being new to the world of aquariums though, I had a concern that I figured I would seek help with. The tank (pictured below) has a metal frame around the whole outside of it. The picture hopefully shows it better than I can describe it.
The inside seal is for sure cracked and leaking. My concern and question comes in the seal pictured below. Is it even a seal? It's between the outside of the tank glass and the metal frame.
Is this a deal breaker? I don't want to pour a bunch of time and energy into this project if it is doomed to fail from the start. The outside material is hard as a rock and cracked like pictured all over. But it seems it's maybe just a barrier between the glass and metal. I could be wrong though, so that's why I'm checking in to the collective knowledge of the forums. Any thoughts, suggestions, or help would be appreciated!First 29g Tank: In process
Do you know any history about the tank. Typically, the one with the metal frames are very very old. Either the metal frame on your is better than the old tanks that I have sean, or, it is a reproduction. Either way, I would think it is worht a try
As the pics of the framing look like it is in good shape, I would suggest replacing the inner silicone seal. That should make it leak proof if done right. After letting the new silicone cure, you could fill it with water and let it sit a few weeks just to be safe. You would only be risking about $7 of silicone and your time
The below link explains how to reseal a aquarium if you have not done that before
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By the looks of it this is no more than a decade old. If you like the looks of it then go ahead and reseal it.
The only history I know about the tank is that it came from an Elementary School classroom. The lady I got it from was the teacher and used it as a visual aid/class pet display for awhile. I have no idea how long ago that was, or for how long it sat around her garage, or outside in the yard (there was a fair amount of pine needles and pine cone bits in it when I picked it up).
I have already prepped the inside to be resealed. I was just about ready to start putting in the silicone, but figured I'd ask about the cracked outside seal before I went ahead with it. The frame itself is in really good shape with just a few nicks and dings here and there, but nothing too noticeable. I was able to remove most of the gunk on it with a little work.
Maybe a follow up question: could the frame be painted? I don't want to jeopardize the integrity of the inside of the tank with a bunch of paint residue, but if I taped it off really well, would that be an option? If paint were to get inside the tank, is that the end of things, or can it be sanitized in a way that wouldn't be harmful for fish added much later on?First 29g Tank: In process
All depends on the paint you use. Problem with most paints is the solvents. Over here we have a range of paints intended especially for use in children's rooms which are even less toxic than standard paints.
If you do paint I'd let it dry really well before rinsing it out a few times with conditioned water.My 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
Look up metaframe aquarium on google. They are from the 1960-1970's era I think. The bottom of the tank is usually slate in the old metaframe tanks. Can be hard to reseal, fairly sure they don't make that type of sealant anymore, was some sort of tar. There are folks who do collect these old metaframe aquariums.
Yea, if you want to try it would defiantly be worth it, at most like $15 for silicone and a weekend of messing around. They tanks can have a retro feel to them, if the glass isn't too scratched up, and the metal isn't rusted go ahead.
I would say do the outside seal while you are at it. My guess is that it is so water doesn't get between glass and metal and cause corrosion.
Just remove the old sealant careful, bag it up in a heavy garbage bag and toss away (small chance it could be asbestos, so just don't make a ton of dust doing it if you are worried). Old black tar sealant / adhesives are occasionally asbestos related products.
Overall I think it'd be a neat project, worse case scenario, clean it up and sell it to someone as a reptile tank lol
Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I think at this point I'm just going to reseal the inside of the tank and not worry about the outside seal. I don't really notice it unless I'm trying to find the faults with it. Seems to just blend in.
Not sure this is an older tank or a newer copy cat, but the bottom is definitely glass, not slate. Some of those older metal framed tanks are pretty sweet though. I like the retro aspect of it a lot. I think the flashy silver frame could look cool with some select fish.
Now lets just hope can seal properly!First 29g Tank: In process
Slate... in aquarium terms that would make it an antique. I know metal frame tanks were made until well into the 1970s.
Looking at this tank it just does not seem that old, the dimensions and the metal work seem wrong for it. I think it was something made to fit a particular style of decor in the 1990s. Still, to you that won't matter much, see if it's sealed properly and decide from thereMy 33 gallon/125 liter tank. My photography on flickr.
I could be wrong but the "seal" around the outside doesn't appear to be for preventing leaks, it was probably put there for cosmetics or for holding the glass to the frame. It looks like the frame is made of stainless steel, if you want to paint it make sure you tape of the top with some plastic to seal off the inside of the tank to exposure. But first wash the metal with white vinegar, it will be easy on the fish because it is easy to rinse out. It is also a mild acid which will clean the steel rather thoroughly. Then buy a really high grade primer for metal and hit it with a few coats ( wet sanding between coats gets it smooth) then spray paint the frame. I would take the glass out of the frame completely, then paint it real nice. Clean the glass with a diluted vinegar/water solution to make sure there are no contaminants, then do a really nice silicone job between the sheets of glass, along the inside seams use a decent bead and wet your finger with water and run it along the bead to make it nice and smooth. Clean up excess silicone that squeezed out to the outside of the joints and let it cure for week or so. It seems like a lot of work and might be a bit intimidating at first but it is really easy to do, it just requires patience. Good luck! PS. if the metal is aluminum , use an etching primer to get it to adhere better.
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How Will History See Bernanke's Legacy?
Friday Jan. 31 is Ben Bernanke's final day at the Federal Reserve after eight years at the helm, and Fed watchers of all stripes are weighing in on his legacy. (See a photo slideshow of his tenure at the Fed)
The Journal's Jon Hilsenrath dug into the chairman's tenure in an article late last year: "After a financial crisis he didn't see coming, Ben Bernanke steered the U.S. away from a potentially devastating panic. Yet five years later, the recovery he helped engineer with extraordinary policies remains frustratingly weak," Mr. Hilsenrath wrote.
"That legacy — a mix of failings, boldness, persistence and frustration — is coming into sharper focus, and with it a clearer picture of the power and limitations of modern central banking. "
In a column last month, David Wessel described how Mr. Bernanke left a lasting mark on the Fed: "Mr. Bernanke has succeeded in changing an institution once so committed to secrecy that a 1985 book dubbed it "an intentional mystery." Twenty years ago, the Fed didn't even disclose when its policy committee had decided to move interest rates, let alone explain why. [In December], the central bank issued a 694-word statement as well as economic forecasts stretching to 2016."
Mr. Hilsenrath and Mr. Wessel discussed Mr. Bernanke's legacy in this video:
Mr. Bernanke also had a lasting impact on markets. The Journal's E.S. Browning parsed the legacy from an investors' point of view: Mr. Bernanke "still has plenty of critics who accuse him of misguidedly distorting the economy. Even admirers worry about the huge, uncertain task that remains: withdrawing the unprecedented Fed support on which markets now rely. But many professional investors are acknowledging, sometimes grudgingly, that Mr. Bernanke has gone a long way toward achieving the main goal he set in 2008: He has stabilized markets and restored a large measure of investor and public confidence. Many thought it impossible that he would accomplish what he did."
In his effort to stabilize the economy, Mr. Bernanke took the central bank into unprecedented territory. The following graphic shows the tools the Fed used to influence the economy under his watch (Click for larger version):
Those tools have affected the economy in a variety of ways, some intended and some not. (Click for larger version)
Professional economists surveyed by the Wall Street Journal graded Mr. Bernanke with a solid B for his time as chairman of the Fed. Looking back on his legacy, the forecasters took a kindlier view of his performance. As the Journal's Pedro Nicolaci da Costa noted: "His final grades improved significantly from a December 2012 poll, when he averaged a disappointing 'C.'"
The general public says Mr. Bernanke is leaving office less popular than his predecessor Alan Greenspan was when he stepped down. About 40% approve of the way Mr. Bernanke has handled his job as chairman, versus 35% who disapprove and 25% who have no opinion, according to a Gallup poll. Alan Greenspan stepped down with a 65% approval rating in 2006, before the financial crisis. Journal readers also weighed in and had a mixed view of Mr. Bernanke's tenure.
The Journal also asked five prominent economists to write about how they imagined Mr. Bernanke will be remembered. Among them, Lars E.O. Svensson, former Deputy Governor of the Riksbank wrote, "Ben Bernanke most likely saved the US and probably the world from the Great Recession turning into the Great Depression II," wrote. But not everyone was so sanguine. "Purchasing long-term securities — quantitative easing — lowered longer rates but because the Fed paid interest on excess reserves, the banks were discouraged from lending, hindering recovery. These policies formulated by discretion rather than rules threaten the Fed's credibility and independence, and Bernanke's legacy," wrote Michael Bordo, Board of Governors Professor of Economics, Rutgers University and Visiting Distinguished Fellow, The Hoover Institution.
Other critics are even harsher. Economist Steve H. Hanke wrote for the Cato institute that Mr. Bernanke deserves a failing grade for his handling of the economy: "Prof. Bernanke's days at the Fed have been marked by monetary misjudgments and malfeasance. Since the proof of the pudding should be in the eating, zero stars in the Michelin Guide."
There were also less serious examinations of the chairman's legacy. Economist Anil Kashyap presented Mr. Bernanke with a light-hearted musical tribute at the American Economic Association annual meeting in Philadelphia earlier this month:
Other news organizations have also taken a look back at Mr. Bernanke's legacy:
Jeff Kearns at Bloomberg collects some of the most memorable moments from his tenure.
Reuters put together a nifty graphic looking at how every Fed chairman, including Mr. Bernanke, performed on the dual mandate of inflation and unemployment.
Want more? Read legacy pieces from the Financial Times, Washington Post, Quartz, the New York Times, the New Yorker and the Journal's own editorial board.
And if you want to read about Mr. Bernanke's legacy as it unfolded, here's your chance. Over eight years, The Wall Street Journal has chronicled Ben Bernanke's tenure as the world's most powerful economic policy maker, showing the challenges he confronted and how he managed them.
- Long Study of Great Depression Has Shaped Bernanke's Views 12/5/05
- New Fed Chairman Hopes to Downplay Impact of His Words 9/8/06
- How a Panicky Day Led the Fed to Act 8/20/07
- Bernanke, in First Crisis, Rewrites Fed Playbook 10/31/07
- Fed Rate Cut Halts Market Free Fall, But Recession Fears Are Mounting 1/23/08
- Paulson, Bernanke Strained for Consensus in Bailout 11/10/08
- Federal Intervention Pits 'Gets' vs. 'Get-Nots' 6/16/09
- Bernanke Heads to Congress Battling Calls to Tame the Fed 7/21/09
- Battle Inside Fed Rages Over Bank Regulation 3/8/10
- Fed Split on Move to Bolster Sluggish Economy 8/24/10
- Fed Chief Gets Set to Apply Lessons of Japan's History 10/13/10
- Markets Defy Fed's Bond-Buying Push 12/10/10
- Bernanke to Open Up as Fed Embarks on Era of Glasnost 4/21/11
- Spenders Become Savers, Hurting Recovery 10/22/11
- Bernanke's Legacy at Fed: Still a Lagging Indicator 12/13/11
- Fed Wrestles With How Best to Bridge U.S. Credit Divide 6/19/12
- How Bernanke Pulled the Fed His Way 9/28/12
- Inside the Risky Bets of Central Banks 12/12/12
- Fed Split Over How Long To Keep Cash Spigot Open 2/21/13
- Tense Negotiations Inside the Fed Produced Muddled Signals to Markets 10/8/13


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Obit of Mrs. Mary Woodward
October 24th, 2010
The Gainesville News, Gainesville, Georgia, 16 December 1903, p. 1, c. 1
Good Woman Gone
Mrs. Mary Woodward, aged 84 years, died at the residence of her daughter on Athens Street last Thursday morning after an illness of several months. She leaves four children, Miss Lizzie Woodward and Mrs. W. K. Merck of this city, Capt. J. W. Woodward of Dahlonega, and Mr. Charles B. Woodward of Knoxville, Tennessee.
The funeral was held Friday afternoon from the residence, the body being interred at Alta Vista.
Mrs. Woodward had lived a long and useful Christian life and was a perfect type of noble Christian womanhood. Numerous friends will deeply mourn the death of this good woman.
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Devil's Lake risks funding to stay open during shutdown
Federal government could halt funding due to failure to comply
As the federal government shutdown neared the end of its first week, the House approved a measure to give back pay to all furloughed workers once the shutdown is over.
The Senate and President Obama are expected to approve that bill.
Despite the rare show of unity, there isn't any deal in sight to end the shutdown stalemate.
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Troop 47 is one of about 1,500 Boy and Girl Scout Troops from across the state that come to Baraboo for the annual Scout's Jamboree.
"It's a fun camp to come to and I was looking forward to it this year," said scout Adam Kanetzke.
But the federal government shutdown almost cancelled the weekend-long celebration because Devil's lake is one of seven state parks that receive federal funds.
"We had planned this for quite a while," said Hal Sommer of Troop 47. "And if it was shut down at the last minute, we probably wouldn't have been able to do anything this weekend."
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He says the park also generates nearly $2 million in annual revenue.
"On Wednesday this week we received a letter from the National Park Service asking us to close these seven properties that are so valuable to the people of Wisconsin because of the federal shutdown," said Biermeier, Chief of Recreation, Planning and Development at Wisconsin State Parks.
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But the state's decision to keep the parks open means there's a chance the parks won't get that funding back from the federal government once the shutdown is over.
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"I'm still happy we were at least able to come here," said Kanetzke.
"We look forward to this," said Sommer. "This is a good opportunity for the scouts to enjoy Devil's Lake, which is really close to us, and to get a hike in as well."
Among the other six Wisconsin state parks that the federal government requested to be closed: Cross Plains State Park and Horicon Marsh Wildlife Area.
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When you gaze out over the vast canyons of Manhattan from the 86th floor observatory deck of the Empire State Building (ESB), you are looking at one of the greenest cities in the United States. New York City's per capita emissions are a third of those in the rest of country because of public transit use, density and smaller residences. New York also vows to reduce current carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030.
And, if the Empire State Building— constructed during the great depression in just over a year, then the highest building in the world—embodies the ambition of New York, then it only makes sense for it to be evolving toward green now, too. Such was the visionary thinking over the last year when the owners of the building took a planned capital improvement renovation to another level by asking Rocky Mountain Institute and a team of experts to recommend sustainability measures that could be incorporated into the planned renovations.
"My wife and I have a very deep commitment to sustainability. It's our belief that sustainable practices in everything are critical to our future," says Tony Malkin, who owns the Empire State Building.
Malkin's renovations will provide state-of-the-art office building amenities in a historic building, and with RMI's recommendations, the renovations have the potential to greatly reduce both energy use and carbon emissions. While typical retrofits aim to reduce energy consumption by 10–20 percent, RMI proposed an integrated approach that includes whole-building considerations to realize savings of almost 40 percent.
To date, few, if any examples of great pre-war multi-tenant building retrofits that achieve these standards exist and the ESB project provides a practical model for other existing building owners to replicate. Setting this precedent is especially important now as nearly 75% of the U.S. commercial building stock is 20 years or older.
"Historically, improvements in existing buildings are made on an ad hoc basis," says Kathy Baczko, NYC City Director of the Clinton Climate Initiative. "However, so much more energy efficiency and savings can be obtained by taking a whole building approach, when integrated solutions and blended savings bring long term benefits. More owners and operators should take advantage of them as the Empire State Building is doing today."
"The idea that the Empire State Building would undergo a green retrofit is immensely inspiring to building owners across the boards, whether it's in New York or in any other city, because the Empire State has always been the signature building of New York," adds Carol Willis, founder, director, and curator of the Skyscraper Museum.
The 102-story Art Deco skyscraper at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, according to the ESB website. The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and it was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1986.
"This building is a great example of the right kind of building to retrofit," Fluhrer says. "The fact that it is an iconic building that is going to be around for a long time to come means it makes sense to invest in it. And the fact that it could be coordinated with a major capital improvement project made it really cost effective and the owners can save a lot of carbon. "
The capital improvement plan, for example, called for resealing all the windows so they open and close properly. "If you are going to be disturbing tenants and moving them around anyway to work on windows, you might as well put in new energy efficient windows," explains Fluhrer.
Wendy Fok, an architect with Jones Lang LaSalle, who worked with RMI and the rest of the team on the ESB recommendations, explains the process for retrofitting the Empire State Building's 6,514 operable windows for energy efficiency: "We use the frames, remove the sashes, reuse the glass, clean it. But between the glass, you'll have an intermediate material which is actually a low emissivity (low-E) film, so even though they call it a triple glazed window, it's actually reusing the existing glazing and inserting a (low-E) film between the two pieces."
The air handling units provide another example of how RMI's recommendations capitalized on the pre-existing capital improvement plan. RMI recommended that instead of replacing old units with the same type of unit, as was the practice, ESB should replace them with a higher quality floor mounted unit when they wear out. While the cost would be marginally higher, the efficiency would be much greater and ESB would only need two units per floor instead of the four units per floor they have had in the past.
RMI partners on the project included Clanton & Associates (lighting engineers), Rumsey Engineers (mechanical engineers), and Alpen Energy Group (glazing experts). Johnson Controls, Inc. (JCI) was selected as the preferred Energy Service Company (ESCO) while Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) was selected as the project manager. The RMI team provided engineering consulting services, including peer reviews of the development of JCI's package of facility improvement measures, and supported the project documentation and outreach process.
"It really was a collaboration," says Fluhrer. "We work with others all the time, but we truly worked as a team. It was challenging but instilled a lot more confidence for the owner. When three world-renowned groups come to the same conclusion, it makes it easier to move forward."
To achieve these results, ESB would need to implement eight key projects or measures. The recommended package of measures also reduces cooling load requirements by 33% (1600 tons). The measures would reduce peak electrical demand by 3.5 MW, benefitting both the building and the utility. This package of measures also results in enhanced indoor environmental quality for tenants, by way of better thermal comfort resulting from better windows, radiative barriers, and better controls; improved indoor air quality resulting from tenant demand controlled ventilation; and better lighting conditions that coordinate ambient and task lighting.
The recommended package of measures includes projects related to:
The team has identified three key programs to influence tenant energy use –-the tenant pre-built program, tenant design guidelines and a tenant energy management program. Nearly 40% of tenant space will turnover in the next fours years, so aggressive guidelines are needed immediately. RMI's proposed green pre-built design will save $0.70 - $0.90/sf in operating costs annually for an additional cost of $6/sf and help ESB demonstrate design principles for all tenants to endorse. Design guidelines, based on this pre-built program, will provide green ESB standards. Tenants can verify the technical and economic validity of the recommendations by accessing the tenant financial tool RMI created specifically for ESB. For the tenant energy management program, ESB will begin sub-metering all tenant spaces and manage a feedback/reporting system to inform tenants about their energy use. This program will also assist tenants with their own carbon reporting efforts.
The ESB team designed a new pre-built space on the 42nd floor (currently in construction) for the Empire State Building to market to prospective tenants. Key design features include a low-pressure drop HVAC system design, an indirect layered lighting system design (ambient-task-accent lighting), new high-performance glazing, light shelves, and blinds, and high-recycled content and local, and healthy construction materials.
The ESB team is in the process of evaluating all the recommendations for increasing energy efficiency and lowering carbon emissions to determine which measures will be incorporated into the renovations. Regardless of the measures adopted, RMI hopes other building owners can use the analysis and recommendations to replicate the process of existing building retrofits. RMI's next steps include securing funding to report out lessons learned from the ESB retrofit analysis.
"There is further work to be done to capture the lessons learned, systematize the process and disseminate the results to broad audience, says RMI Vice President Stephen Doig, who consulted on the project. According to Doig, some of the lessons from the project include:
"Carrying out retrofits in sync with the normal upgrades to the building makes many more options economically possible. Second, there is a natural tension between maximizing investment returns and maximizing CO2 reduction. It is important to acknowledge that this tension exists and consider funding mechanisms that provide incentives to achieve the maximum efficiency improvement in an economically viable manner. The work also made clear that delivering real reductions needs to engage and incent owners, ESCOs, tenants and building managers. We were fortunate in our project that was the case and it needs to become the norm in the future. Finally, we learned that we need to make our approach replicable so it can be widely adopted. "
"From the larger dissemination point of view, I think the most exciting thing is the fact that the Clinton Climate Initiative brings us this platform of the 40 large cities of the world with a pretty substantive existing building stock comprised largely of commercial office buildings," says Aalok Deshmukh, who worked as RMI's project manager on the ESB recommendations. Working on the Empire State Building to create an exemplary building retrofit project for the rest of the world to replicate, came about in large part due, to RMI's collaborative work with the Clinton Climate Initiative on their Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program, carried out in New York City, in 2007.
"All portfolio managers and real estate owners to some extent have been concerned with energy-efficiency, and they've done small things. What this project is going to show is that it actually makes sense to make large and significant energy-efficiency improvements, not the five to 10 percent type things, but the 20 to 30 percent and more type of improvements, and that there is a business case for doing so, " says Clay Nesler, VP, Global Energy and Sustainability, at Johnson Controls.
The Empire State Building retrofit provides a glimpse of what is possible for the future of our existing buildings and the future of our cities. As Carol Willis puts it, "The Empire State Building is the best place to go in order to see the city of New York and the lay of the land as you, as you look out towards the continent or towards the ocean…The Empire State Building stands in this kind of exceptionalism that hopefully will never be compromised."
The project kicked off on April 14th 2008. Collaborative team activities took place over a six-month period between April and November of 2008. At the conclusion of the seven-month project development process, the team found that at current energy costs, ESB could cost-effectively reduce energy use by 38% and save 105,000 metric tons of CO2 over the next 15 years. Achieving an energy reduction greater than 38% appears to be cost-prohibitive, given current conditions.
RMI helped make the financial case for the energy retrofit measures by providing the retrofit team with tools to measure and capture financial and energy analysis. Because of the formal documented analysis through the tools the project has an unusual transparency. This transparency allows anyone to test the results and to replicate them in other circumstances and other projects.
In close collaboration with RMI, JCI ran energy analyses using DOE-2.2 (eQUEST interface), a building energy simulation tool that allows for the comparative analysis of building designs and technologies. By inputting weather files, building geometry, material properties, equipment schedules, and system components, the program computes building loads and outputs building energy use.
Once preliminary energy savings estimates for individual measures were provided, the team turned to the financial model (developed by RMI specifically for this project) to determine how to create packages of measures that maximized greenhouse gas savings while providing reasonable economic benefits.
Iterations between these models helped the ESB team make final recommendations to ESB ownership regarding specific short-term and long-term projects and programs they can implement.
In 2006, the Clinton Foundation launched the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), an initiative aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The initiative targets the world's largest cities, which are responsible for 75 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions.
The first program within CCI, the Energy Efficiency Building Retrofit Program (EEBRP), addresses greenhouse gas emissions generated by existing buildings. Within large urban areas, buildings are huge energy consumers, responsible for approximately 70 percent of a city's carbon footprint. In New York City, buildings are responsible for 79 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions.
EEBRP brings together banks, product suppliers, energy service companies, and public and private building owners to drastically reduce energy consumption in existing buildings, including the Empire state Building.
"In large cities around the globe, buildings typically produce the most carbon emissions, most atmospheric pollution; it's often the 70 to 80 percent of the total energy used in a city goes into the operation of buildings. So if we can retrofit existing buildings in cities, it could have a major impact on carbon emissions," says RMI's Greg Franta.
CCI has a relationship with RMI to assist CCI in guiding and encouraging integrated approaches to energy efficiency improvements—an approach that can achieve much deeper energy savings—rather than more conventional one-off lighting or HVAC upgrades that leave deeper savings permanently unavailable.
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Molly Miller is a communications specialist at RMI
--Published April 2009


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DRC: Fighting cholera with chlorinated water
22 March, 2012
Sometimes it requires only a small, simple intervention to save lives. About one teaspoon of diluted chlorine solution renders 20 litres of water safe for human consumption and helps protect people from deadly waterborne diseases.
Mrs. Menekito, a volunteer for the Congolese Red Cross, is making that intervention. She sits under a tree for up to 12 hours every day at the Kalema chlorination site in the outskirts of Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Mrs. Menekito adds milky-white chlorine solution to the plastic jugs of water that women and children lug over from the source – a bare cement wall with five water pipes. The water comes from a natural spring as many parts of Bukavu have no water supply or drainage system.
Lack of access to safe drinking water and sanitation facilities is the underlying cause of a severe cholera epidemic that has infected over 26,000 people across DRC since early 2011. Cholera, a bacterial infection transmitted by contaminated food or water, leads to diarrhoea and vomiting, causing dehydration and death if not treated in time.
"People wash their clothes and their kitchen wares above the source, and often the collective latrines drain into the water catchments," explains Mrs. Menekito.
Chlorination sites like this one, which are often supported by international organizations, are labour intensive because they require constant attention to ensure water quality. Antoine Bugale, who works for the NGO Action Contre la Faim (ACF) USA, monitors more than 20 chlorination sites every day, taking samples of treated water to check the chlorine concentration levels. "If there is too much chlorine in the water it will taste bad. People will not come back to our sites and continue to drink untreated water," he says.
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Chlorination sites were established in Bukavu in response to a cholera outbreak that began last year and peaked in mid-January 2012, with over 350 cases per week.
The response to the crisis was initiated by staff from OCHA. They noticed a marked increase in cholera cases and brought humanitarian actors to work together.
Working with the provincial health services, aid partners responded by installing chlorination sites in the affected areas and strengthening medical services. By mid-March, the number of cholera cases was declining.
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ACF is also teaching people how to avoid catching cholera by washing their hands frequently, particularly around food and after using the bathroom. In a country where water has to be carried on foot, and where cities suffer from severe water outages, these precautions mean extra work for women. Aid workers will often go from door to door to explain the importance of these messages, which are also carried by local radio stations.
Actors from Bukavu's street theatre group, Theatre Mutunimutu, have also joined the education campaign, armed with loudspeakers, a wooden stick, big buckets of dirty water and blue sachets containing a blue powder called PuR. This acts like a dirt magnet, as it has both purifying and coagulating properties. Unlike chlorine, PuR can be used even on muddy water.
Dozens of people on their way to the water source flock around the theatre group's truck, watching a comedian as he stirs a bucket of dirty water while barking into his microphone. Five minutes later, he pours the water through a cloth, dips a glass into the bucket and shows it to his audience: it is clear. He takes a gulp from the glass as proof that the blue powder works.
Reporting by Philippe Kropf/ OCHA Bukavu
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So, in the GNOME-and-fd.o(freedesktop.org)-verse, there are a few things I want to run from the latest updates - evince, poppler and cairo. Which means I want to run the latest versions of their dependencies as well. So I decided to use jhbuild to build it all. Last month, GNOME developer André Klapper wrote in his blog about how little fun it is to build GNOME from the latest commits via jhbuild. Perhaps, but I finally did it - a subset of GNOME anyhow.
The default jhbuild moduleset is gnome-3.0, but that builds some of the stuff I'm focused on from tarball's, which is supposed to be deprecated in jhbuild now anyhow. So I remove gnome-3.0 from my .jhbuildrc and put all of the devel modulesets into my .jhbuildrc. But some of the dependencies were missing - they were in the non-devel modules. So I put all of those into my own moduleset. As my moduleset is local, I set use_local_modulesets to True - even if thats not necessary, I git pull from jhbuild before I run a jhbuild, so why not do that? I also put
module_autogenargs['evince'] = autogenargs \ + ' --disable-nautilus 'into my .jhbuildrc to avoid those headaches with evince. I skip a number of modules people recommend to put in skip, like mozilla, although I don't believe they're dependencies in my chain. I also add a few pkgconfig path's to .jhbuildrc, on advice from the net. Of course, I also install the packages on Ubuntu that the jhbuild web site recommends for Ubuntu 10.10.
Incidentally, here are the jhbuild dependencies for evince (and epdfview):
Color code for nodes: green are packages in jhbuild "devel" modulesets, red are packages in jhbuild "non-devel" modulesets, brown (libgcrypt and libgpg-error) are also in jhbuild "non-devel" modulesets and they are tarballs there, purple are packages in jhbuild "devel" modulesets which other packages might have a hidden dependency to which is not shown in the current jhbuild modulesets. Finally blue are non-GNOME packages that no GNOME module is dependent on, but which are themselves dependent on some GNOME modules.
I made the above dependency tree with graphviz, a tool which makes doing such dependency charts really easy.
Everything went pretty swimmingly until I started to reach the top of the chain. Poppler busted on some GObject introspection stuff - I installed gobject-introspection as a jhbuild module and updated the poppler gir include from Gdk-2.0 to Gdk-3.0 and it went sailing along.
Next up - gtk+ 3.0 broke. This happened to me a few days before, when I was taking my first stab at jhbuild. At that time, I looked at the recent gtk+ code, saw the stuff breaking had changed recently, and did a hard git reset of gtk+ to a commit from 48 hours before - it installed fine. This time the commit done was the last one. I went on GNOME's IRC network and tracked down the developer who made the bad commit, he fixed it and I was sailing along again.
So now I get to evince. A few days ago I had some problems with deprecated combo box calls that had been removed from the dependency libraries, but there were patches for that in bugzilla. After patching that, this time I get an error that a set_scroll_adjustments call is failing. I look in gtk+ and see that they have been mucking with scrolling there recently, and figure it is due to that. I disable the call and compile. Evince comes up and I can look around, but it hangs on loading anything.
I check poppler's test programs and they are working. So I encapsulate a lightweight PDF viewer that depends on poppler and gtk+, epdfview, into my personal jhbuild moduleset and build it against these libraries. Epdfview comes up, and displays PDFs etc. fine. Ultimately, epdfview and evince are dependent upon almost entirely the same libraries, except evince depends on three more icon-related ones. And epdfview is working. So either evince is broken, or some library it depends on has changed, meaning... evince is broken, for the moment. But Epdfview works.


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LOOK WITH THE EYES AS WELL Fenix's gleeful casting and costuming. CREDIT WHITNEY SMITH
A Midsummer Night's Dream is arguably the Bard's sultriest, silliest, and most gossamer comedy. As such, of course, it is also among the most oft-produced al fresco summer offerings in the whole canon. But if you believe yourself over-sated on its ethereal and mortal foibles; if you fear you have guffawed all you can guffaw at its Rude Mechanicals; if you think you might just pass on yet one more outdoor production of the old summer stand-by — I strongly recommend that you think again: The Midsummer being lavished upon lounging park-goers this season at the Deering Oaks wading pool is uncommonly, gloriously fresh. By that I laud both the cheekiness and the vitality of this exquisitely cast and beautifully situated production of the Fenix Theatre Co., under the deliciously smart direction of Peter Brown.
As with past Fenix productions, this Midsummer departs gleefully from the classical: Fairies are glammed up in fluorescent short-shorts, rave wings, and lots of glitter and polka dots; their ethereal serenades campily channel the Eurythmics and Gary Wright. The infamous Puck (Ian Carlsen, whose image was already in the dictionary next to "puckish") wears pink and black striped arm warmers, pink-rimmed sunglasses, and a loincloth, and when he calls out to the fairies to "Frolic," the imperative is steeped in libido.
But amping up and modernizing the sexy debauchery of Midsummer is hardly an innovation. What does shake things up, and to exhilarating effect, is Brown's decision to make Hippolyta and Theseus (the mortal royals) the mere playtime alter-egos of, respectively, fairy queen and king Titania and Oberon (Kathleen Kimball and Paul Drinan, perfectly cast with their majestic sexuality, and done up fabulously — Kimball in glittering pink chiffon and purple Spandex; Drinan in a purple fishnet shirt). The supernaturals don crowns to play at being human, then clap hands to revert to their "real" life squabbles. Similar doublings, involving Puck and the Rude Mechanicals, are equally invigorating. Brown's choice compresses the key cast to only eight players, giving the show an intimate cohesion, and also lending the play's themes of illusion and trickery even more concentric resonance.
And oh, is the trickery sublime — witty, gritty, and astonishingly physical. Here, the romantic knot-work of Lysander (Brian Chamberlain), Hermia (Ariel Francoeur), Demetrius (Seth Rigoletti), and Helena (Liz Chambers) entangles them bodily as well as emotionally, as lovers crawl and wallow through each other's legs, cling to torsos with all four limbs, and entwine in unabashed concupiscence. Under the enthusiastic direction of fight directors Sally Wood and Ned Donovan, Athenians are pinned, punched, slapped, thrown against, and made to tumble down the hill (which acts as a kind of three-dimensional backdrop). The verisimilitude and velocity are such that I heard genuine gasps arise from the house blankets.
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Why BMW and Mercedes look childish
Memo to BMW and Mercedes: Grow up.
Over the past two days, the two luxury brands delayed and delayed before finally releasing their December and 2011 U.S. sales figures.
The most lenient explanation is that the two companies have woefully inadequate sales-tracking software. That would be grounds for beating down their stock prices.
The more likely explanation is that this was a playground showdown. "Show me yours!" "No, you show me yours first!"
Each company wanted to see the other's sales numbers first, so that it would know how high its figures would have to be to grab the U.S. luxury-market crown from the other. And from Lexus. The Japanese brand is the usual luxury leader in the United States, but that ended last year when the March 11 earthquake hit Japan.
By the time the numbers came out, I was wondering whether that would be the end of the gamesmanship. Might the No. 2 brand "discover" some extra numbers that put it ahead? As in "Oops, we forgot to count Connecticut."
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Three galleries in the University Art Museum will be closed for renovation and are scheduled to reopen Friday, Aug. 20.
The medieval, Renaissance and baroque galleries will be closed while newly acquired works are integrated into the collection. The renovation is part of the museum's ongoing study and reinterpretation of its permanent collection. Galleries housing the museum's American, contemporary, neoclassical, impressionist, post-impressionist and early modern art have been renovated since 2001.
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mitchparov wrote:dipayanban wrote:Hey, I'm Dipayan. I'm a freshman at Stanton College Prep in Jacksonville, FL and a member of the JV Brain Brawl team. My first recollection of watching Jeopardy is following watching Ken Jennings' streak, and although I didn't know any of the questions, being only five, I decided that I was going to be on J! someday. Hopefully being a member of this board will help me with getting good enough to make it on Jeopardy!
People who were five during Ken's run are now in high school.
::starts looking for retirement communities::
Just barely, I always know exactly how long ago Ken's run was, because I've related the story about how my son's birth coincided with the end of his run (he was born about 3 weeks before his last game, and despite my diligently watching to see when he'd lose, my son's medical issues at birth prevented me from seeing the last game (though I did catch the one immediately after)). My son is now a happy, healthy, seven year old.
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So What is the 411 on Sans 542 ?
Dedicated to all those services opened to browsers and the backend servers that support them.
don wrote:FYI - We really try to make these review articles as comprehinsive as possible. We also go through a couple rounds with the author, Ryan in this case, and myself to get a pretty good draft. Then we forward it to the instructor, in this case Kevin, for fact checking. For most of us, this is not our only job, and we really try to make the quality much better for articles then for simple forum posts.
Thanks for your interest, but this is not a fast process. Thanks in advance for your patience.
don wrote:Ryan did the first iteration of Kevin's 6-day web app course. I did Josh Wright's wireless class which was already 6 days, but has been rebranded as "617 - Wireless Ethical Hacking, Penetration Testing, and Defenses."
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text: Site Under Construction System 2400 The New Standard for Medium-priced Systems "This is the best compact speaker system I have ever listened to." — Mark Smith, Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity on the System 2200 A perfect speaker system for medium-sized home theatersWe took the "best compact speaker" and improved it! Building on the System 2200's attributes--superb sound, small size for easy, unobtrusive placement, mounting flexibility, high-class materials and top-notch build quality--the System 2400 delivers an even more impressive performance than its predecessor. Key to the 2400's remarkable sound is its use of Atlantic's exclusive Low Resonance Tweeter™. This specially-engineered driver crosses over about a half-octave lower than conventional tweeters for markedly wider midrange dispersion, and therefore far greater sound coverage of the listening area--regardless of where you're seated. These new loudspeakers are actually a set of "acoustic building blocks" for assembling a system perfectly suited to any room and budget, but one that still maintains a consistent tonal balance. As an additional option, the 1400 SR-z surround speakers are not only great surrounds, they're also the first speakers developed by anyone to be used with the new Dolby PL-IIz Height algorithm. Their small size and shallow mounting depth makes them the perfect speakers to mount in height applications. Rated for Medium RoomsView Room Size Ratings RELATED PRODUCTS 224 SB Subwoofer or 444SB Subwoofer Overview Product Specs Details Feature List Center channel speaker has acoustic optimization controls Atlantic's exclusive Low Resonance Tweeter for ultra-wide dispersion 2-way left-right speakers are stand, shelf, or wall-mountable Suggested subwoofer 180-watt 10" 224 SB or 325-watt 12" 444 SB Dipole/bipole switchable surround speakers 2400SR or 1400SRz Satin Black Finish Manuals 2400 System Manual 2400 LR Wall-mount template 2400 SR Wall-mount template 1400SR-z Wall mount template Sanus stand compatibility chart Brochures 2400 System Brochure Reviews Home Theater System 2200 Review A/V Guide Monthly System 2200 Review Secrets of Home Theater & High Fidelity System 2200 Review BigPictureBigSound 1400 SR-z Review Videos System 2400 Trouble viewing the links above? Download the latest version of Adobe Reader. Specifications Model 2400 LR 2400 C 2400 SR 1400 SR-z Type Sealed-box, 2-wayD'Appolito array Sealed-box, 2-wayD'Appolito array Dipole/Bipole sitchable surround speakers Dipole-Bipole switchable surround speakers Drivers Woofer (2) 4 1⁄2" GLH (2) 4 1⁄2" GLH (2) 4 1⁄2" GLH (2) 3 1/2" Poly-treated full range with HFAR** Tweeter (1) 1" Low Resonance Tweeter (1) 1" Low Resonance Tweeter (2) 1" soft dome Frequency Response 90Hz – 20kHz ±3dB 90Hz – 20kHz ±3dB 90Hz – 20kHz ±3dB 110Hz – 20kHz ±3dB Nominal Impedance 8 ohms 8 ohms 8 ohms 8 ohms Crossover Frequency 2.25kHz, 2nd order 2.25kHz, 2nd order 3.5kHz, 2nd order 200 Hz Hi-pass on one driver Sensitivity 90dB 90dB 90dB 89dB Recommended Amplifier Power 10 – 140 Watts RMS 10 – 140 Watts RMS 10 – 140 Watts RMS 10-100 Watts RMS Magnetic Shielding Yes Yes No No Dimensions w/ grilles (W x H x D) 6.4 x 12.9 x 7"160 x 325 x 177mm 14.6 x 7.5 x 7"*370 x 191 x 178mm 11.4 x 10.4 x 7.5"283 x 265 x 191mm 12.25 x 8 x 5.4"312 x 204 x 138mm Weight (ea) 7.5lbs; 3.4kg 8lbs; 3.6kg w/base 7.5lbs; 3.4kg 7 lbs; 3.2 kg *Height includes tilt base.** High Frequency Assistave RadiatorAtlantic Technology reserves the right to change specifications or appearance at any time without notice. 2400 LR — Left and Right Channels The Model 2400 LR Front Channel Speakers are high-performance 2-way systems intended for use with a high quality subwoofer, such as the Atlantic Technology Model 224 SB box-type subwoofer. 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Though many competing systems offer individual speakers which physically look alike, upon an initial listen, it is often obvious they do not sound anything alike. For this reason, the 2400 C center channel utilizes the same driver components as the matching 2400 LR speakers. The 2400 C is designed to be placed horizontally and features an advanced tilting base to provide optimum sonic coverage of the listening area even when mounted higher or lower than the listener is seated. A hallmark of Atlantic Technology speaker systems has always been the unusual vocal intelligibility they offer. Like all of our center channel speakers, Atlantic has included acoustic compensation controls which allow the listener to fine tune the speaker's response for varying placement situations or room acoustics. The High Frequency Energy filter changes the tilt or roll-off slope of the tweeter and has been designed to help compensate for varying room acoustics.The Average position is intended for rooms with a reasonable combination of reflective (hard) and absorptive (soft) surfaces, while the Reverberant position is designed for rooms with an abundance of reflective surfaces like hardwood or tile floors, glass walls, etc. When used in this position, it decreases the high frequency output of the speaker to reduce excess HF energy that builds up in live rooms. The Damped position brings the tweeter's output slightly above flat response, to compensate for overly absorbent rooms with extra soft and absorptive surfaces. High frequency energy is not the only acoustic anomaly one needs to contend with. For that reason, the Boundary Compensation circuit was specially designed to adjust the lower frequency output of the 2200 C to compensate for sound colorations caused by placing the speaker near a TV screen, large boundary, or when built into a wall unit or custom cabinet. Although these controls have been designed to compensate for acoustic room anomalies, we recommend you try different combinations in order to hear first hand the affect they exhibit on the sound of the system. Once again, Atlantic has taken a flagship feature designed for the THX Reference Standard 8200e system, and built the same level of control into the 2400 C, at a far lower price point. 2400 SR — Surround Speakers The Model 2400 SR Dipole/Bipole Surround Speakers are intended for use in multi-channel audio/video sound systems as dedicated side or back surround channel speakers. Each 2400 SR enclosure features a 1" soft dome tweeter and the same midrange driver found in the 2400 front LR speakers. 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So sad. I can only hope more of this incredibly ignorant type of thinking continues on a larger scale yet. MEBBE you folks that vote these stupid politicians in will start talking to the absolute brain-dead voters in your state to start getting educated before voting for anyone that sez they'll give you ice cream.
Do you folks in the blue states realize how badly we red state folks want you to throw out your liberal/socialistic government, so we don't have to continue putting up with the riff-raff you send to our states?
Elections have consequences! How many more must you suffer through before you get off your duff and become involved? Once conditions get to where they are now, it's almost too late to get the genie back in the lamp.
I can empathize with you folks in the bankrupt states of America, but take a serious look at why you are in that situation...puhleeze.
My son and his wife work two jobs each to survive in that state. Eventually they will be convinced of their folly, and move away like so many others are doing, my brother included. After so much, even Atlas will shrug, and the have-nots will rule themselves. Wonder if I'll be around for that tyranny.


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Recent grad named to USA Today team
David Goldberg, a Binghamton University history major who graduated in December, has been named to USA Today's All-USA Academic Team, which annually recognizes the nation's top college students.
Goldberg was among 20 students named to the second team by a panel of judges drawn from colleges and academic organizations. The first, second and third teams were selected from nearly 500 students nominated by colleges and universities nationwide.
Judges consider grades, leadership, activities and, most importantly, how students extend their intellectual talents beyond the classroom. Goldberg has a 3.9 cumulative GPA and is a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society and Phi Beta Kappa. Outside the classroom, he tutored at-risk middle and high school students, advised college peers through the Discovery program and served in various positions with the Student Association.
Goldberg spent the fall of 2001 and summer of 2002 traveling the world, visiting 21 countries, in the University of Pittsburgh's Semester at Sea program. Last fall, he interned in the White House Office of Management and Budget within the Executive Office of the President of the United States as part of the SUNY Washington Semester Program. Goldberg is enrolled in graduate school at Hofstra University this spring and plans a career in education and public service.
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Am. Results:
1st. Ghillie Voight
2nd. Snapper Hays
3rd. Copper Wattleworth
4th. Roxie Benson
RJ. Cooter Martin
JAM Curry Powers
Hammer Magnusson
Am. Results:
1st. Ghillie Voight
2nd. Snapper Hays
3rd. Copper Wattleworth
4th. Roxie Benson
RJ. Cooter Martin
JAM Curry Powers
Hammer Magnusson
Derby callbacks after 3rd series:1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 24, 25
I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
Noon time temp.:39*F.
I don't want to feed an ugly dog!
AM....3rd. Copper Wattleworth
Choctaw's Daring Greatly (10/19/2015)
Choctaw's Piscataquis Sebec UD MH CGC WCX ***(All-Breed AM 2nd)
UCDX HR SR Sand Dancer's XX MTB Ranger UDT, MH, WCX **, UKC HR Finished & U-B Legs, OTCH Points, Utility B Win, Agility HIT (1/20/2001-7/24/2015)
HR SR Scarlett's Andi O'Malley CD SH OA NAJ CGC (OAJ-2 Placements) 9/16/1995-3/31/2011
Big congrats to Rick Stawski and Trey Bullard Rita got 1st and coot and Katie got jams in the derby
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Nice job Rick Stawski on the great derby showing!
Congrats to Barb and Floyd for the Qual 2nd and to Roger Magnusson on the Amatuer JAM with Hammer! Love seeing Amateur trained and handled dogs doing so well.
Congratulations, Barb, on your Qualifying 2nd with Floyd, a Reuben and Dora youngster, that we look forward to watching for many years to come!!!!
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Ugg boots are the fashion statement for the winter season. Only problem is that they need proper care to keep them looking good. So what's the best way to care for Uggs?
The number one rule about caring for Uggs you should know: Tent to stains or dirt as soon as it appears!
Here are 2 ways to clean your boots:
1. Buy Ugg Cleaner. Get a bucket of water and wet sponge or brush. Gently sponge the plain water onto the entire boot. Take the sponge and Ugg cleaner and gently apply the cleaner to the boot. Do not clean just the stained area. Clean the entire boot so when it dries it does not leave water lines. Rinse the boot several times with the sponge and the water in the bucket. Don't immerse the boot in the water. Just take a clean sponge and rinse the boot until the cleaner is removed. You may need to repeat this process one or more times depending on how soiled your boots are. And some stains may become permanent and not come out. This is why you should clean your Uggs immediately after noticing the stain. Allow your Uggs to dry where they are not in the direct sunlight. Do not wash in a washing machine. Do not put in a dryer. Removing stains from Uggs takes time. Ugg Boots need to be cleaned several times during the season.
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