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There is a good walk beside a river from the Smallbrook Lane carpark. A level track runs through the trees to pass a gurgling waterfall and then emerge at a wide expanse of cut grass. A broad stretch of the river and sloping bank makes the water accessible here - a good playground for children and dogs.
A short distance away, higher up the river are the remains of a brick building. I heard once that this was the remains of a mill and that the people of Upton Scudamore used to bring their crops here as they did not have a mill in their village. Has anybody else heard about this?
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Dakar organiser, the ASO, has just confirmed that the 2009 Dakar Rally will be joint-hosted by Argentina and Chile, after this year's race was cancelled.
This year's rally was called off at the last minute due to direct terrorist threats and the murders of four French tourists in Mauritania on Christmas Eve last year.
The 2009 race is planned to start and finish in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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A three-month fight against North Carolinas ban on same-sex marriage will move Monday to Concord, where a group of social activists will make its eighth attempt this year to get a marriage license for a same-sex couple.
The previous attempts, including one Oct. 9 in Mecklenburg County, failed.
The Campaign for Southern Equality, which is organizing the test of North Carolinas statute, says it will try this time in Cabarrus County.
Most of the previous efforts ended with a courteous refusal from the register of deeds in the various counties where the ban was tested. J. David Granberry, Mecklenburgs register of deeds, told three same-sex couples who applied for a license last month that he understood their interest in getting a license but said he had to follow state law.
One exception was in Buncombe County, where Register of Deeds Drew Reisinger accepted the applications from same-sex couples. He did not grant licenses, however, instead asking state Attorney General Roy Cooper for a ruling. Cooper has said he supports same-sex marriage but is determined to uphold state law.
Earlier this year, county officials in New Mexico and Pennsylvania granted marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and some of those opposed to the marriages say they believe the Campaign for Southern Equality is hoping to find an official somewhere in North Carolina who is willing to follow suit.
Tami Fitzgerald of the N.C. Values Coalition told The Associated Press in September that she believes the effort is a stealth attempt to overcome the results of Amendment One, a ballot proposition in May 2012 that defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. That issue passed with support from 61 percent of the electorate.
What theyre encouraging registers of deed to do is to actually break the law, Fitzgerald told the AP. They couldnt win at the ballot, and now theyre trying to win by inciting lawlessness, which ultimately leads to anarchy.
M. Wayne Nixon, who was appointed Cabarrus Countys Register of Deeds in February, couldnt be reached for comment Sunday.
The Campaign for Southern Equality says Cabarrus County residents Jean Raley and Terry Dennis will visit the Register of Deeds Office in Concord at 11 a.m. and seek a marriage certificate.
The groups effort to test the law began in August in Madison County. Since then, the group has failed in Forsyth, Guilford, Henderson, Mecklenburg, Buncombe and Transylvania counties.
Amendment One is immoral, unconstitutional and harmful to real people across North Carolina, said the Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, executive director of the Campaign for Southern Equality. Jean and Terry will request a marriage license because they have a fundamental right to marry.
In this spirit, we pray the Cabarrus County Register of Deeds Office will choose to issue them a license.
The organization has one more effort planned this calendar year, on Nov. 22 in Rowan County.
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The upper-bout strap-button component of the American Nashville B-Bender Telecaster (above), and the bridge component (below).
Occasionally, Fender is asked if it still offers a Telecaster model equipped with something called a "B-Bender." The answer is yes. It's called the American Nashville B-Bender Telecaster. Released in 2000, it incorporates the latest version of an unusual device with an interesting history that dates to the late 1960s.
The device is the aforementioned B-Bender, and, while it didn't always have that name, that's what most guitarists know it as.
The B-Bender is a mechanical device that raises the pitch of a Telecaster's B string by a whole tone (up to C#), producing plaintive, sinuous bends very much like those produced on a pedal steel guitar. This is accomplished by spring-loaded levers inside the guitar's body, which connect the bridge to the strap button on the upper bout. The strap button itself is attached to a lever that moves up and down about an inch. When you wear the guitar over your shoulder and you push the neck downward, the guitar strap pulls the strap button upward, activating the lever system and raising the pitch of the B string.
The B-Bender was invented by two country-rock pioneers, guitarist Clarence White and multi-instrumentalist Gene Parsons, both of whom played in Nashville West and the Byrds, among other acts, in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Their device was called the Parsons/White Pull-String, and it was designed to fit White's 1954 Telecaster (White was killed by a drunk driver in 1973; his guitar with the prototype bender mechanism is now owned by Marty Stuart, who has played it often).
After licensing the Parsons/White Pull-String to another manufacturer in the early 1970s, Parsons renamed it the StringBender and began making and installing it himself in 1973. He produced hundreds of units over many years before partnering with California folk musician Meridian Green in 1989 to increase production. Parsons and Green eventually approached the Fender Custom Shop, resulting in the signature Clarence White Telecaster model, which was introduced in 1995 and featured the modified "Parsons-White B-Bender." About 200 of these guitars were built through 2002.
Not long after the Custom Shop's 1995 introduction of the B-Bender-equipped White model, however, Fender also decided to introduce a production version of the guitar. Parson and Green modified the B-Bender once again for the mass production of this instrument, which was introduced in 1996 as the American Standard B-Bender Telecaster. A three-pickup version of this two-pickup model was introduced in 1998.
Diagram showing the inner workings of the original Parsons/White Pull-String mechanism.
As noted, the current version of the instrument—the American Nashville B-Bender Telecaster—appeared in 2000 and remains in the Fender line. It uses what is now called the "Custom Fender/Parsons/Green B-Bender System," which is adjustable to allow no change in pitch, a half-step rise in pitch (C) or a whole-step rise in pitch (C#).
If the whole concept of the B-Bender sounds a bit strange, keep in mind that you've very likely heard it before. You might not own a copy of the Byrds' Live at the Fillmore: February 1969, which features Clarence White's sterling use of the B-Bender, but you probably have heard "All My Love" by Led Zeppelin and "Peaceful Easy Feeling" by the Eagles, both of which feature a B-Bender. Other guitarists who have put a B-Bender to good use include James Hetfield (Metallica), Pete Townshend, Albert Lee, Rich Robinson (Black Crowes), Mike Campbell (Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers), Peter Buck (R.E.M.) and David Gilmour.
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The night before Greg Brown and Bo Ramsey returned to St. Louis and the Sheldon Concert Hall, there was a show at a club across town that featured a rock band called the Hold Steady. You've probably heard of them, and you've probably heard about that sold-out show. The words "joy" and "powerful" and ... More >>
Perhaps one of the greatest joys of this here job is seeing what bands come up with for press photos. They range from strange and deranged to just plain silly (as shown above in string form). In case you missed it last year, my predecessor and now music editor Daniel Hill compiled a list of the 15 m ... More >>
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The 2013-14 bowl season started with a big comeback Colorado State rallying from 22 points down to win the New Mexico Bowl and ended with another when Florida State overcame an 18-point deficit to win the BCS National Championship Game. With 35 games in all, its difficult to keep up. But fear not, here is a recap of the final bowl season before the four-game playoff format kicks in.Not in high CottonOklahoma States 41-31 loss to Missouri in the Cotton Bowl dropped the Big 12 to 1-10 over the past 11 Cotton Bowls. All the losses have come to SEC schools. And to make things worse, the only Big 12 team to win during that time was Missouri (2008 vs. Arkansas), which is now in the SEC. In its six-game losing streak, the Big 12 has been outscored by an average of 15.8 points.Bowling with JohnnyIf Johnny Manziel leaves Texas A&M for the NFL, the quarterback will leave behind a bowl legacy that will be difficult to top. He led the Aggies to victories in both of his bowls a 41-13 win against Oklahoma in last years Cotton Bowl and a stirring 52-48 defeat of Duke in this seasons Chick-fil-A Bowl. In the two games, Manziel was 52 for 72 passing (72.2 percent) for 669 yards with one interception and six touchdowns. He also had 28 carries for 302 yards (10.8 yards per attempt) and three touchdowns.Texas Bowl II?The Texas Class 5A Division I state championship football game between Allen and Pearland drew 54,347 fans to AT&T Stadium. If that had been a bowl game, it would have placed 13th in attendance out of 35 bowl games. Average attendance at bowl games was 48,989. Interestingly, the most-attended game was not the championship game at the Rose Bowl (94,208) but the Rose Bowl game (95,173).Rare skidsAlabama and Ohio State are now riding two-game losing streaks. Alabamas loss to Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl gave the Crimson Tide its first two-game losing streak since the 2008 season, which also ended with a loss (to Utah) in the Sugar Bowl. Ohio State, which lost to Clemson in the Orange Bowl, had won 24 consecutive games before losing to Michigan State in the Big Ten championship game and Clemson in the Orange Bowl.Somethin about TexasMiddle Tennessee had its lowest offensive output of the season in its 24-6 loss to Navy in the Armed Forces Bowl at TCU. The previous low for the Blue Raiders, who averaged 29 points per game, came in Denton with a 34-7 loss at North Texas in October.Top comebacks 1. Florida State. It wasnt the largest comeback, but it had the largest ramifications. The Seminoles trailed Auburn 21-3 late in the first half, took the lead with 4:31 to play, then had to come back one more time on a touchdown with 13 seconds left to win the national championship. 2. Texas A&M. The Aggies trailed Duke 38-17 at halftime but came charging back behind Johnny Manziel to win the Chick-fil-A Bowl 52-48. The comeback was completed on Toney Hurd Jr.s interception return for a score with 3:33 to play. 3. Colorado State. Washington State led the Rams 38-23 early in the third quarter at the New Mexico Bowl. Colorado State outscored the Cougars 25-7 from there to win 48-45. The Rams scored 18 points in the final 2:52, including the game-winning field goal on the final play.By the numbers1Loss in school history for Ohio State when scoring at least 35 points after its 40-35 loss to Clemson in the Orange Bowl. The Buckeyes are now 279-1-1.2Victories against top-10 teams this season for UCF after defeating Baylor in the Fiesta Bowl. Before this season, the Knights had only one win against a ranked opponent.56Passing yards for Texas against Oregon in the Alamo Bowl. 75Yards in interception returns for Oregon against Texas.5Total yards covered in Iowas two scoring drives during its 21-14 loss to LSU in the Outback Bowl. The drives were set up by an interception return to LSUs 1 and a kickoff return to the 4.1Touchdown that Georgia scored in seven trips inside the Nebraska 21-yard line in a 24-19 loss in the Gator Bowl.20Combined punts for Vanderbilt and Houston in the BBVA Compass Bowl. Both teams punted 10 times.99Yards covered for Nebraska in Tommy Armstrong Jr.s touchdown pass to Quincy Enunwa in the Gator Bowl. The Cornhuskers longest pass play during the regular season was 49 yards.505Total yards rushing and passing for Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd 78 more than Ohio State gained as a team in the Orange Bowl.41:27Time of possession for USC against Fresno State in the Las Vegas Bowl.Conference callThe Big 12 went 3-3 in bowl games. The Big 12 is 20-19 in bowl games over the past five seasons, with one winning record during that span. A look at conference records in this seasons bowl games:
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Basketball players from New Trier, Glenbrook North and Deerfield helped Chicago win the Maccabi Games.
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It is on my too buy list, but wont be until end of feb or in a sale.
I'm starting to fall out with paid beta access. I understand that you're likely paying less than the release amount, and I understand that you may get bugs, lose progress (in the case of Starbound for example) and I'm totally okay with that.. My paid-beta list, I believe there are more that I can't think of off the top of my head, though..
Minecraft: Always a good'n
All Points Bulletin: Loved it until it got infested with hackers.
Starbound: Thoroughly impressed with it
Rust: Enjoyed it until it got infested with hackers.
As I hear more and more complaints about companies having terrible attitudes towards their beta testers, or 'beta' being more like 'alpha', or companies not really focussing on the game as much as they should (likely because people are already buying it) it just makes me more and more reluctant to enter paid betas.
As for this game specifically, too many people are rushing trying to enter the survival market without properly thinking it through. If 7DTD drops to <£10 in the sales, I'd consider getting it. But we'll see.
Well, i'm loving it at the moment. The thought of a horde of zombies able to break a few pillars on a house and bring the whole thing down is exciting. Not to mention having to constantly find water, food, ammunation and a safe house. Trust me, at the moment, nowhere is safe.
Me and my brother holed up in a 2 storey house in the attic. The number of zombies that rush us, is insane.
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Where do mummies swim? In the Dead Sea. Do mummies enjoy being mummies? Of corpse! And so will young readers when they wrap themselves up in these sidesplitting riddles! The colorful, spooky illustrations add to the humor. "This lively collection of puns and jokes is likely to be frightfully popular." --School Library Journal
Authors: Hall, Katy
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Publisher: New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, 1997.
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Like a ladder through your brand new tights, rumours start to spread quickly in the biz we like to call fashwan. Take earlier this week for example – after Stefano Pilati, creative director of Yves Saint Laurent didn't make an appearance at
After six years as designer, Mr Pilati's position at the classically elegant French brand is the latest to be dogged by the fashion rumour mill. His last collection at Paris Fashion Week earlier this year received mixed reviews from the fashion press, although there's no denying his foxy shoes and handbags remain a huge hit (Pilati's previous position at YSL – while Tom Ford was in charge of the brand - was head of accessories).
However, the company were quick to respond to the whispers in order to stamp out any speculation, insisting that Pilati will be in
"Stefano Pilati, YSL's creative director, has asked me to convey how sorry he is not to be able to join us tonight [at the Opera Gala], and sends his very best wishes from Paris, where he is busy with the coming collection, " she said, adding "somebody still has to work in this company."
Another consequence of this unexpected absence on Mr Pilati's part was a lonely, dull evening for poor actress and hipster/muse Chloe Sevigny, who said "I came to hang out with Stefano and now he's not here so I'm kind of disappointed." Tsk, Stefano, it's one thing to be busy working on your collection, but standing up your girl chums?
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: A Realistic Look at 2011: Part III : You said the RedSox have a small chance (of playing in WS). Depending on UR definition of small , each team entering the PO's has the same statistical chance of getting to the series. Whether they do or not depends on many factors. If the pitching gets healthy Boston's chances increase. Judging from personal, I'd say the Phillies have the best chance in the N.L. to reach the WS. Boston has a 25% chance right off the bat. If they play the Tigers (something you obviously can't grasp, as winning the division may forgo that opportunity), their chances are better because they match up well with the Tigers. Beating them favors Boston if they get access to Beckett/Lester/Bedard healthy and in good enough form. I noticed on UR list, you put Boson ahead of the Detroit . WHY ? The team pulled Josh/Bedard out of the rotation to get them as physically ready as possible. Their return might now be hastened. This could affect their future availability. The team is walking a fine line in that regard. If Boston goes into the first round with pitching intact and they face the Tigers , they could be seen as a 50% choice to reach the WS. Hardly a small chance. Try looking beyond the present and weighing it out with a little faith.
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NASA unveils its chosen Shuttle successor
NASA has announced plans for a massive rocket based on recycled space shuttle technology, intended to launch manned missions beyond Earth orbit in decades to come. The Space Launch System (SLS) will make use of a central first stage equipped with no less than five shuttle main engines (the now-retired orbiter spaceplanes mounted …
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Congress just barely funds NASA to give their corporate friends some money, but then they don't want to fund NASA enough to actually be useful. I wish these clowns would just make up their mind what they want to do. I do believe the future of space travel lies with private industry, but having a mix of commercial and private is not making the most use of us tax payer's dollars. Just another example of the flawed reasoning behind the "trickle down" theory of economics that they subscribe to.
Anyone else see a parallel with the US space program and the music industry?
Deja vu all over again
Saturn MLV-V-4, anyone?
"American orbital launch vehicle. MSFC study, 1965. Saturn V core, strengthened but not stretched, with 4 Titan UA1205 strap-on solid rocket boosters..."
Completely underwhelming?
Using shuttle main engines isn't exactly a bold leap forward - weren't they they ones that got cracked turbine blades that could easily have caused a Challenger type disaster if the SRBs hadn't got there first? I suppose at least they are not planning on reusing them this time. And the SRBs look like they have joints in them still which suggests a certain lack of learning from the past. And an upper stage using apollo era engines?
I think they missed the "not" and went for "we will only look at revising or modifying older models".
Musk may have a tendancy to overly "big up" what they will be able to do soon, but what they have acheived so far is pretty impressive and, if he can continue at that pace, it's pretty likely that he will out-achieve the SLS before it's even test flown. Even if he can't do 130 tons (and there is no guarantee that the SLS will either) surely sending things up in smaller lumps and assembling in orbit (which is likely to be a required step even with130 tons of lift) when the launch cost is likely to be a fraction of the SLS is better?
NASA should be designing/building the thing that gets assembled in orbit and goes to Mars/Asteroids/whatever - that would be the new exciting thing. $18bn worth of genuine new, never-been-done before technology.
What a missed opportunity.
The Falcon Heavy is the sensible way forward.
Unfortuantly the people that run America are not sensible. This money would be much better spent developing all the other components needed for a mission to Mars or indeed a mission to anywhere.
An if they were sensible much of that development would be base of excisting technologies or technologies already under development.
Blue origin craft for example look like it would make a perfect Mars lander and take off vehicles, once it bugs are figured out.
Using Bigelow inflatable Habitat technologies to build the space ship and a Mars base of operations would also make sense.
Using VASMIR drives for the propulsion system to mar and back from Mars make perfect sense. This also a private venture.
Use Falcons 9s and Falcon Heavies to deliver components for in orbital assembly, using the International Station as a base of operations perhaps.
NASA should focus it efforts on designing and building a power source capable of powering VASMIR drive and developing the life support systems capable of supporting such a mission. Plus supporting and funding the development of the above technologies. It should not focus of build earth to orbit technologies, it a wast of funds.
SLS, SSMEs, reinventing the wheel, etc.
"Using shuttle main engines isn't exactly a bold leap forward - weren't they they ones that got cracked turbine blades that could easily have caused a Challenger type disaster if the SRBs hadn't got there first?"
I don't know about the cracked turbine blade issue, but iirc, the SSMEs have been far more reliable and less accident-prone (shall we say) than the SRBs. USAF experience with strap-on SRBs on the Titan III long before the Shuttle flew showed lots of problems with seals similar to the Shuttle SRB O-ring issue.
It makes perfect sense to me that on the new SLS heavy-lift vehicle, NASA is going with technology that's already proven and has a long filght history instead of trying to invent something new from zero... although I still wonder about how the new version of the Apollo-era J2 design will work for them; with all the advancements in engineering and materials science since the '60s, you can be pretty sure they aren't just going to pull the old J2 plans and build the engines as-is from the old '60s designs.
You also have to remember that a lot of what they're proposing for this new vehicle probably has its origins in the old "Shuttle-C" unmanned heavy-lift cargo launch system proposed in the late '80s:
"American orbital launch vehicle. NASA Marshall design for a cargo version of the shuttle system. The shuttle orbiter would be replaced by an unmanned recoverable main engine pod. The same concept was studied earlier as the Interim Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle (IHLLV) and as the Class I Shuttle Derived Vehicle (SDV). The Phase I two-SSME configuration would have a payload of 45,000 kg to low earth orbit. Design carried to an advanced phase in 1987-1990, but then abandoned when it was found the concept had no cost advantage over existing expenable launch vehicles..."
Granted, the new SLS heavy-lift vehicle doesn't exactly resemble the proposed Shuttle-C --
-- but there are many similarities, such as the first-stage core based on the Shuttle main tankage powered by SSMEs with solid strap-ons.
It's also interesting that along with reviving some elements of the old Shuttle-C proposal, the SLS vehicle also bears a striking resemblance to the old Saturn MLV-V proposed in the '60s, an uprated Saturn V with strap-on SRBs on the first stage.
As far as private industry being able to do space better... well, it's not like privately-run aerospace corporations are loaded with risk-averse leadership, or bean-counter types cutting corners and jeapordizing missions in order to save a couple of bucks... are they? Let's not forget North American's issues with workmanship, etc. on the Block I Apollo; when Gus Grissom hung a lemon from the hatch of an under-construction Block I CM after a visit to the NA plant, he wasn't just joking around.
What also worries me is that with all these different companies all going ahead with their own programs -- instead of proposing their systems to NASA under an RFP for a contract award to build a single design -- we're going to end up in a situation much like the xUSSR during the '50s and '60s: two or three companies -- or, in the xUSSR's case, design bureaus -- going ahead and building full-up launch systems and flight hardware, and suffering all the duplication of effort and duplication of cost overruns that went with it.
Still, I've got to admit I'm totally rooting for SpaceX, as it looks as if they've really got it going on with the Falcon launcher, and if they can get their manned version of Dragon together and get it certified, well, I sure as hell won't be complaining. Being an old '60s kid, I'm a die-hard NASA fan, but, still... what the hell, the more the merrier.
To build the SRB's without sections, the fuel grain would need to be cast as one big lump.
I'm not saying the design is perfect, but there are practical reasons for it.
SME turbine blade cracking
It was in one of the high pressue fuel turbopumps. I think a similar "normalisation of deviance" process to the o-ring leasks was occuring in NASA - the cracks would be spotted but "nothing bad had happened" therefore it was OK. I recall that at one point there were launching with known cracks and measuring how much they had grown on return. I may have over estimated the impact though - i think the failures they did have led to premature engine shutdown rather than catastrophic failure. Not that engine shutdown is necessarily a trivial event.
Single piece SRBs
I thought the original design of the shuttle SRBs was in one section? But that would have required building them near the launch complex as they would have been too large to transport. i.e. the work couldn't be done in a different state therefore the budget wouldn't have been approved if each state didn't get a piece. These ones are bigger though so that could make a difference.
"I thought the original design of the shuttle SRBs was in one section?"
As a wise man once said about the Apollo project-
"We do these things,not because they are easy, but because they are difficult." (or similar)
Practical methods don't arise from ease, but from difficulty.
> I don't know about the cracked turbine blade issue,
Then you should read Richard Feynman's book about Challenger.
Business as usual
Take the most expensive and complicated bits of the existing shuttle (the SME) bolt them to the unsafe bit of the existing shuttle (the SRB) and hope.
Wonder which senators Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Morton Thiokol own?
I'm not going to hold my breath
waiting for this thing to ever actually fly
I do not think anyone expects this to fly, in fact everyone in the administration and NASA hopes congress sees sense and cancel the entire thing.
More NASA pork, more delay, less space
As usual, NASA is reinventing everything instead of going with what we already know, and what is already 90% of the maximum that is physically possible. NASA is aided here by credulous politicians and journalists who don't understand rockets.
Power isn't everything. In space, efficiency IS everything. A low-thrust engine that works at highest amount of delta-V per kg. of fuel is way better than a monster thruster. But you do need monster rockets to get into the sub-orbital regime. Solid boosters have a lot of thrust but are low in delta-V/kg. They get you off the ground. The space shuttle main engine is a high-efficiency engine, but to get the high efficiency it uses highly expensive technology. It would have been better to go with a less expensive rocket. Saturn V stage 1 rockets did a very good job and represent close to the maximum possible for their technology and fuel type.
Best of all, there's Soyuz, a proven system. But no way will US politicians allow NASA to adopt anything that even looks like it.
What does NASA stand for
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
It is an Administration, run by administrators for the benefit of administrators. No mention of science or such. Thus there is little point in expecting amazing engineering solutions - just expect plans which will guarantee the brass keep their jobs.
As for "inspire millions around the world". Playing around in space was inspiring in the 1960s. In the 1980s I remember hundreds of people going outside to see the shuttle fly over. But just doing 50 year old tricks is no longer inspiring.
This isn't NASA pork, it's congress'
The only reason NASA is fronting this design is because the "geniuses" in congress ordered them to do it. Congress has killed funding for all research into new technology, and demanded they come up with this design, which congress will later cancel as well and blame NASA for the money that's been wasted.
The NASA jobs have mostly gone
Already. Most of the Shuttle processing workers at the Cape have been given their cards and there are reports of ghost towns as they move away. If the Senate Launch System ever does fly they'll need to start again with the ground crews.
The jobs that are being kept for now are in Utah building the stretched SRBs. Eventual replacement by liquid boosters is a nice idea but will never happen while the current Utah senators hold on to office.
Ghost towns? Please.
Look Guy, you dont live in Central Florida or else you'd never spout garbage like that. Reports of Ghost Towns? If it wasnt so damned ignorant of how Aerospace actually is here, I'd think it was hilarious. Most of it is geared toward the Military and Private Industry, NASA only ever occupied around a 3 to 5% workforce share.
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, who manufacture the Trident, Patriot, Javelin, Hellfire, Sidewinder, AMRAAM, and Standard Missile series for the US Army, US Navy, and several other nations is based in Orlando. Northrop Grumman Laser Systems is based in Apopka. General Dynamics has a large facility in Titusville. Harris Corporation is in Melbourne. The United Launch Alliance and Space X have large facilities at the Cape. Titusville, Melbourne, Satellite Beach, Jupiter, and Merritt Island arent exactly Ghost Towns, Lockheed Martin East Orlando/UCF and the Lockheed plant in South Orlando by Universal are a bit of a longer commute for these folks but its only about half an hour away on the 528 and 417 toll roads.
Most people who had experience with the civilian program are already employed by the main contractors like Boeing and LM, or the thousands of sub-contractors working on Military programs, or switched over to being employed directly by the United Launch Alliance for the civilian side of the Delta and Atlas projects. Space X is also on a hiring blitz locally because COTS is most likely going to be based at LC 41 at CCAFS. Unemployment in Aerospace has actually FALLEN since May. Wont hear NASA saying it, but according to the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, its true.
The only people who really got hurt were small businesses who produced specialized parts and refused to expand beyond their comfort zone. Sucks for them. Perhaps they should have innovated in, say, 1986?
Everyone else, as long as they weren't working on dead end technologies like ceramics or Orbiter Processing (and even then the Air Force hired a lot of them for the X-37B), has a better shot at staying in the field by staying local than nearly anywhere else with the exception of Wallops and Vandenburg.
"Most people who had experience with the civilian program are already employed by the main contractors like Boeing and LM, or the thousands of sub-contractors working on Military programs, or switched over to being employed directly by the United Launch Alliance for the civilian side of the Delta and Atlas projects. Space X is also on a hiring blitz locally because COTS is most likely going to be based at LC 41 at CCAFS. Unemployment in Aerospace has actually FALLEN since May. Wont hear NASA saying it, but according to the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation, its true."
You make it sound like it there could be trouble hiring *any* of these guys back if they have relevant experience.
Is that correct?
Sounds like this guy
agrees with you:
Black helicopter because who calls himself "Procrustes 17" unless he's waiting for them to find him?
Paint the main fuel tank orange and you have Ares V.
It's exactly the same
Screw the NASA pork barrel
Go spacex!
If only Nasa could deliver space exploration as well as it delivers Pork.
I'd agree with you, if it wasn't for the fact that congress demanded this design. NASA held off as long as possible hoping that they'd change their minds. Alas, there's no minds left in congress, so this money will be wasted. Blame congress for that, not NASA.
Ah, excuse me...
I like the pretty design. I hope it's loud. I hope it can carry huge payloads into orbit. I like NASA. But...
The Shuttle Main Engines are relatively expensive because they were designed to be reused hundreds of times, as opposed to lasting just 120 seconds (single use) and being tossed into the sea. So this design uses the very expensive, endlessly-reusable Shuttle Main Engines and then tosses them into the sea?
Can they add parachutes to the first stage?
Evdently the notion of using the RS-68A engines that the Delta IV uses has been abandoned in favor of jobs. It's only got 95% fewer parts (less parts = fewer points of failure, less machining), generate 140% as much thrust as an SSME (3 RS-68A @ 2.1M lb outmuscle 5 SSME @ 2.0M lb), and would give huge economies of scale for both NASA and Delta to be buying them. Also, that's another 6 tons of payload capacity from not hauling 2 SSME...
Of course cryogenic engines require a labyrinthine seal and so consume absurd amounts of helium when fueled to keep 'em separated, which drives costs up. RD-170s would be nice, purge with nitrogen and all. Oh wait, Russians, danger, danger.
You forgot that the "J-2X" is about a 90% RS-68 (but with *special* man rating source) and now they appear to be talking about an *expendable* SSME (RS25e).
It's interesting to speculate if NASA *had* considered the RS68A man-ratable would it have been flying by now?
The Aerospace Corp reckoned it would mostly take a backup hydraulics system but with no SRB's needed for Ares 1 they projected a $6.8Bn bill from ATK to re-start SRB production, killing any cost advantages.
Of course if NASA ditched solids entirely that re-start cost would go away entirely.
I note that the *suggested* Merlin 2 thrust level is 1.7M lb, just about 1/2 that of an SRB. Merlin 1d's have an Isp about 26 secs higher (274 Vs 248) of SRB's. *if* that could be preserved by Merlin2 that would make for an interesting entrant in the booster engine stakes.
If they're going to (stupidly) pass on SpaceX, why not just build...
... an up-rated Saturn V, then?
They were heavy, reliable workhorses that also, like Musk's kit, had kerosene-based first stages.
I'm sure the blueprints can still be found at Boeing, stuffed in a filing cabinet (or two) somewhere.
"New designs, new materials, [and] new technologies" aren't necessarily the best way to go about things, especially when it involves strapping your arse to the top of a large container carrying a couple million kilograms of rocket-grade kerosene and liquid oxygen.
Keep it simple; use what works. Musk (and by extension, SpaceX) gets this. The Big Players don't...
They should have just de-mothballed the Saturn V design, used it and then started to make changes. Essentially that is what they are doing now, use what they know works and make changes later but with other designs. A Saturn V design has to be cheaper than this proposed solution.
The Saturn V tooling will have been scrapped years ago, while they appear to have let most of the workers go, the Shuttle tooling is probably still sat around.
This would be cheaper than having to re-tool to build the Saturn V Update.
Well, a not insignificant portion of Apollo's tooling was adapted to work with the Shuttle, so one could presume that doing the same thing in reverse would also work.
Besides, just because we would be using the Saturn V blueprints as a starting-point, doesn't mean we would end up with a 1969-era Saturn V in the end.
The C-130J SuperHercules, for example, is designated as a "C-130" series cargo plane by the manufacturer (Lockheed Martin) and the US Department of Defense, but is structurally and mechanically quite a different animal from its earlier brethren, despite its similar outward appearance and being based on the design of its immediate predecessors.
I can already think of a couple things I would do to "modernise" the Saturn V. For starters, I would replace the venerable F-1 first stage engines with enhanced RD-180s. I would also try to find a way to use some of the kerosene fuel to provide pressure to operate the engines' gimball actuators, eliminating the need for separate (and payload-weight-consuming) hydraulic fluid tankage.
Correction: RD-170, not RD-180
Er... That should have been RD-170, not RD-180. Hit the wrong digit there...
The RD-170 is the 4-chamber version, w/ 7.55 meganewtons thrust at ground level. The RD-180 is the 2-chamber version, w/ 3.83 meganewtons thrust at ground level.
For comparison, the Saturn V F-1 engine is a single-chambered unit, and produced about 6.75 meganewtons thrust at launch.
This makes me
A very sad panda...
Reusable rockets are like reusable beer cans
And no, I don't mean "recycling", I mean "wash out the can and fill it back up with beer and crimp on a new top".
SLS isn't news...
The plan for SLS has been available for months. It does use the SRBs because they give tremendous lift for their cost. SRBs have not given any trouble in Shuttle service, either. SRBs were always scary in that one cannot shut-them-off, though. The SLS SRBs are substantially larger than Shuttle SRBs, though.
The central LOX rocket array is quite different from the Shuttle. Theoretically, a similar LOX was to be used on Ares V, but none of them were ever built. Given the place where these rockets would be discarded, it is hard to imagine how they would be recovered for reuse. SLS is all about leaving Earth orbit and getting to deep space.
J2X is 50% wider than the Apollo J2 and weighs twice as much. It is clearly derived from J2, but it isn't a warmed-over J2.
In short, SLS found it cheaper to expand and adapt technology from Apollo, Shuttle, Proton, etc. than to deploy completely new technology to meet its 2015 timeline. Research continues on Ion-Rockets (two unmanned missions have already been using them for years) and other advanced technology. It just won't be ready by 2015.
FWIW Ares V was never a man-rated system and Ares IV was about going to the Moon, so they clearly weren't going to satisfy this Mars-mission project-track to which SLS is being assigned.
I wish SpaceX well, but they have their plate full with COTS right now. COTS is funding the overwhelming percentage of SpaceX activity. SpaceX needs to make profits from its already-busy schedule over the next 3-5 years.
"SRBs have not given any trouble in Shuttle service, either" Ummmm, are you forgetting Challenger?
The article fail to tell a key peace of the story.
NASA did not have a choice about building the SLS, it did not even have much of a choice about what engines and components that craft use. It even forbids NASA from holding a competitive tendering process, by way of mandating which components NASA were allowed to use, which eliminated all competition from winning the contract.
The US senate created a law which mandated that NASA builds the SLS. It also declared that the engines and components of the SLS must be derived or adapted directly from the Shuttle and Apollo programmes. NASA has no choice but to design the vehicle it has design or break the law.
Oink Oink
I believe the RS-68 is SSME-derived. What's the problem here? Yep.
Still smaller than Energia
Throw it away! Throw it away!
Sorry, did I read that right, throwing away SMEs?
Apart from the idea of throwing away reusable engines, why aren't they putting money into alternative SSTO tech, like the DCX-Clipper or the X33? YES I KNOW they had problems, but so did the bloody Apollo CM and the Shuttle, and they got solved!
Why is humanity suddenly so scared of innovation or engineering? Are we afraid Electric Sky-Daddy Baby J'eeeezus will slap us for blasphemy?
NASA - We put men on the moon, once; now we piss money up against the wall!
When you have invisible friends...
Like: Electric Sky-Daddy Baby J'eeeezus...
You don't need science nor innovation.
in this case NASA is avoiding innovation by direct order of congress who said they had to use exsisting STS and/or Apollo kit so that congress could write thier corporate leash holders a nice check without inconveniencing them overmuch... i mean "create jobs" I always get the two confused.
@Soyuz being proven technology
[[Best of all, there's Soyuz, a proven system.]]
Didn't a Soyuz crash on launch less than a month ago? And this is the same Soyuz system that within the last few years had two ballistic reentries, at least one of them traced to a failed section-separation explosive bolt*?
IMO, the Soyuz has been proven Russian. We can absolutely learn from it, but I don't know if I'd want to depend on it much.
(* Some of the Russians said there were too many women on board. More evidence the system needs work - we need spacecraft that are women-capable because... Mars Needs Women!)
Driving down the costs.
"We have been driving down the costs on the Space Launch System and Orion contracts by adopting new ways of doing business and project hundreds of millions of dollars of savings each year,"
Scene: the Orion CM
Date: November 2019
Cmdr: "WTF?"
Pilot: "Ah, Mumbai, we have a problem"
MSpc: (sniggering) "LOL"
GC: "Hello, my name is Gupta, how are you today sir?"
Pilot: "We seem to be venting something.... a gas of some sort?"
GC: "Thank you sir, can I get you to read me your credit card number so I can transfer you to tech support"
Cmdr: "Does anyone else smell burning?"
GC: "Confirm you question is you are out of inkjet toner? Have you tried switching it off then on?"
Pilot: "DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!"
exeunt omnes
Sorry, this has got me riled up. That or the coffee.
"That's not in the 70-130 tonne class required for deep space missions."
My maths says 54t x 2 = 108t, which puts it slap bang in the middle of the lifting power needed for deep space missions.
Does anyone else remember way back when we could launch two rockets and have them rendezvous in orbit fairly easily? Like Gemini in the 60's? You know, like LAST FRELLING CENTURY?
Wasn't that the way we could get to Mars? (actually a better bet is Europa or Titan, pardon me for being an optimist!)
It isn't looking good for the human race, is it?
Deep Space Exploration
I think the reality is that while *we* are thirsty for space adventures the reality is that Mars exploration is pretty pointless and we do not have the tested technology for deep space exploration such as Europa or Titan.
Having said that, I do not understand why VASIMR technology has not been deployed yet to the space station at least. It appears to have worked reliably in deep space missions and everything I read tells me it's ready for prime time.
I think President Obama's mission to the asteroid belt would be much more interesting than a Mars mission anyway. It has the advantage of nod needing to lift off Mars (which is a *big* deal) and providing a source of possibly usable materials that are *not at the bottom of a gravity well*.
"I do not understand why VASIMR technology has not been deployed yet to the space station at least. It appears to have worked reliably in deep space missions and everything I read tells me it's ready for prime time."
VASIMR hasn't been into space yet, other types of ION engines have. VASIMR has only been tested in hypobaric chambers.
The flight engine was due to go up on the last shuttle launch, but it wasn't finished in time.
Well it's certainly not looking good for NASA's ability to design and *build* a rocket in any reasonable timescale.
Or Senators to fund (what they *demanded* be built) to a level that will actually see it *fly*.
It's looking like a triumph for cost+ and re-hiring programmes.
SRBs have not given any trouble in Shuttle service, either.
If you ignore the 'blow the whole stack to smithereens' incident, then yes, they've been perfect.
Oh, and IIRC you have to harden the hell out of anything you strap them to because they shake the buggery out of it due to their uncontrolled burn. It only means you have to subtract a few tonnes from the payload though.
It's a darn good thing NASA doesn't build cars. After who would want to drive a hybrid electric that came with a flathead from a '44 jeep and 80 hp DC brushless motors that were hand wound by physics PhDs in a penthouse suite somewhere in Tribeca on each wheel that needed to be replaced with every tankful of gas. But think of the children's jobs it will create... or something like that.
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Festivalul International de Film Transilvania
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TIFF 2014 Awards
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Suppose we allow ourselves to use three numbers less than 10 and
multiply them together. How many different products can you find?
How do you know you've got them all?
Can you order the digits from 1-6 to make a number which is
divisible by 6 so when the last digit is removed it becomes a
5-figure number divisible by 5, and so on?
Can you fill in this table square? The numbers 2 -12 were used to generate it with just one number used twice.
Mr McGregor has a magic potting shed. Overnight, the number of
plants in it doubles. He'd like to put the same number of plants in
each of three gardens, planting one garden each day. Can he do it?
Find the smallest whole number which, when mutiplied by 7, gives a
product consisting entirely of ones.
There is a clock-face where the numbers have become all mixed up. Can you find out where all the numbers have got to from these ten statements?
How many different shaped boxes can you design for 36 sweets in one
layer? Can you arrange the sweets so that no sweets of the same
colour are next to each other in any direction?
This magic square has operations written in it, to make it into a
maze. Start wherever you like, go through every cell and go out a
total of 15!
How could you put eight beanbags in the hoops so that there are
four in the blue hoop, five in the red and six in the yellow? Can
you find all the ways of doing this?
Investigate the smallest number of moves it takes to turn these
mats upside-down if you can only turn exactly three at a time.
What do the numbers shaded in blue on this hundred square have in common? What do you notice about the pink numbers? How about the shaded numbers in the other squares?
What do the digits in the number fifteen add up to? How many other
numbers have digits with the same total but no zeros?
Lolla bought a balloon at the circus. She gave the clown six coins
to pay for it. What could Lolla have paid for the balloon?
Using the statements, can you work out how many of each type of
rabbit there are in these pens?
Ten cards are put into five envelopes so that there are two cards in each envelope. The sum of the numbers inside it is written on each envelope. What numbers could be inside the envelopes?
Can you put the numbers 1 to 8 into the circles so that the four
calculations are correct?
The planet of Vuvv has seven moons. Can you work out how long it is
between each super-eclipse?
A game for 2 people. Take turns placing a counter on the star. You
win when you have completed a line of 3 in your colour.
Exactly 195 digits have been used to number the pages in a book.
How many pages does the book have?
Can you work out the arrangement of the digits in the square so
that the given products are correct? The numbers 1 - 9 may be used
once and once only.
A mathematician goes into a supermarket and buys four items. Using
a calculator she multiplies the cost instead of adding them. How
can her answer be the same as the total at the till?
This problem is based on the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. Investigate the different numbers of people and rats there could have been if you know how many legs there are altogether!
Arrange the four number cards on the grid, according to the rules,
to make a diagonal, vertical or horizontal line.
This problem is based on a code using two different prime numbers
less than 10. You'll need to multiply them together and shift the
alphabet forwards by the result. Can you decipher the code?
Add the sum of the squares of four numbers between 10 and 20 to the
sum of the squares of three numbers less than 6 to make the square
of another, larger, number.
There are 4 jugs which hold 9 litres, 7 litres, 4 litres and 2
litres. Find a way to pour 9 litres of drink from one jug to
another until you are left with exactly 3 litres in three of the
Can you put plus signs in so this is true? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 = 99
How many ways can you do it?
In a square in which the houses are evenly spaced, numbers 3 and 10
are opposite each other. What is the smallest and what is the
largest possible number of houses in the square?
Can you find which shapes you need to put into the grid to make the
totals at the end of each row and the bottom of each column?
What do you notice about the date 03.06.09? Or 08.01.09? This
challenge invites you to investigate some interesting dates
There are 78 prisoners in a square cell block of twelve cells. The
clever prison warder arranged them so there were 25 along each wall
of the prison block. How did he do it?
Place the numbers 1 to 10 in the circles so that each number is the
difference between the two numbers just below it.
This cube has ink on each face which leaves marks on paper as it is rolled. Can you work out what is on each face and the route it has taken?
Have a go at this well-known challenge. Can you swap the frogs and toads in as few slides and jumps as possible?
This dice train has been made using specific rules. How many different trains can you make?
Find the sum and difference between a pair of two-digit numbers. Now find the sum and difference between the sum and difference! What happens?
This challenge focuses on finding the sum and difference of pairs of two-digit numbers.
In this matching game, you have to decide how long different events take.
Katie had a pack of 20 cards numbered from 1 to 20. She arranged
the cards into 6 unequal piles where each pile added to the same
total. What was the total and how could this be done?
You have two egg timers. One takes 4 minutes exactly to empty and
the other takes 7 minutes. What times in whole minutes can you
measure and how?
Look carefully at the numbers. What do you notice? Can you make
another square using the numbers 1 to 16, that displays the same
Use your logical-thinking skills to deduce how much Dan's crisps and ice-cream cost altogether.
Play the divisibility game to create numbers in which the first two digits make a number divisible by 2, the first three digits make a number divisible by 3...
Given the products of adjacent cells, can you complete this Sudoku?
Zumf makes spectacles for the residents of the planet Zargon, who
have either 3 eyes or 4 eyes. How many lenses will Zumf need to
make all the different orders for 9 families?
Arrange eight of the numbers between 1 and 9 in the Polo Square
below so that each side adds to the same total.
There were chews for 2p, mini eggs for 3p, Chocko bars for 5p and
lollypops for 7p in the sweet shop. What could each of the children
buy with their money?
This package contains a collection of problems from the NRICH
website that could be suitable for students who have a good
understanding of Factors and Multiples and who feel ready to take
on some. . . .
Is it possible to place 2 counters on the 3 by 3 grid so that there
is an even number of counters in every row and every column? How
about if you have 3 counters or 4 counters or....?
Tim had nine cards each with a different number from 1 to 9 on it.
How could he have put them into three piles so that the total in
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Bridget Moynahan may have wanted to drop-kick her football-playing ex, Tom Brady, when their relationship came to an end while she was pregnant with their first child.
"I'm not sure anyone—and I could be wrong in this—grows up thinking, I want to be a single mom," the actress reveals in the July issue of Harper's Bazaar.
But the I, Robot star decided to play out the remaining months of the baby game herself and, in the process, scored a touchdown in the form of a boy named Jack.
"Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me," says Bridget. "But now I have a child, and it's the best thing in the world."
As for Jack's dad, the 37-year-old mom is mum when it comes to discussing him.
"There's no reason why my son, years down the line, would need to read anything [personal] about his mother or his father," she insists.
Score one for Team Moynahan.
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Information Pulled From Daniel Voyager's Blog: http://danielvoyager.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/2014-rfl-of-sl-kick-off-press-release/2014 RFL of SL kick-off press release And more information of Fashion for Life coming soon! A new press release has been released for the upcoming 2014 RFL of SL kick-off celebration starting this weekend (7th-9th March 2014). This year marks the 10th anniversary of Relay For Life of …Read more »
Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness. ~ Michael M. Honda T-Shirt: Purple Moon, Pink T-Shirt Day . Hair: Tableau Vivant, Campbell . Hat: Glam Affair, Mouses Studded . Necklace: Zibska, Takeo **NEW** . If you have followed my blog for a while you know …Read more »
I wanted to send out information on this incredible dress from Baboom http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/New/112/129/22 because it's going to go fast! There are only 25 units in inventory, five on the marketplace and 20 at the mainstore, so you better runnnnnn! The purse is a free item from the 6th Peace on Earth gridwide hunt ( http://peaceonearthhunt.wordpress.com/ …Read more »
Miamai Black Label Season One . Just as I love life imitating art, I am also a big fan of Fashion Imitating an Artistic Life so you can imagine how excited I was to find out that Miamai is once again releasing a Black Label line of their more haute creations. SQQQUUUEEAAAALL!!! Right up Cao's …Read more »
Jewelry: Chop Zuey, When Elephants Dream Set Stephen Covey once said "Every human has four endowments – self-awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change." At the turn of the 20th century there were a few million African elephants and 100,000 …Read more »
I know, I know. I am retired. I've certainly said so enough. And I really am, I'm down to walking a runway once, maybe twice a year and definitely only for charities or on the rare instances a friend asks me to join in and I feel a pull to do so. Because of this …Read more »
We meet but briefly in life, if we touch each other with stardust – that is everything. ~Unknown . I wasn't going to blog today. Remember? I am wandering a bit. But then I heard Squinternet Larnia designer of Donna Flora, Giulia, has not only lost her battle with cancer, she lost the war. No …Read more »


text: Its Wednesday's again and time for the this week's Wednesday Clicks. With all that has been going on politcally here in Malaysia, especially that state up north of Selangor, there have been loads of interesting news flying about. Chase Jarvis has posted on his blog a post entitled, "Shake Your Tree", which is an interesting read especially for you photographers out there. He talks about how to start shaking our own tree and.. Read More