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Jul 25, 2011 4:15 PM, by Bennett Liles
Introduced by Sharp just in time for InfoComm 2011, the 3D-ready XG-PH80XN has a light output of 6300 lumens in a native 1024x768 resolution. The unit uses a sealed DLP chip with an interchangeable color wheel while the dual lamp system adds reliability with the backup lamp, and it can be operated in simultaneous dual lamp mode as well. Customization extends with a choice of five lens options and there is also a 12V trigger function to activate a motorized screen when the projector is powered up. The unit is network connectable with an RJ-45 terminal for control and monitoring. Security features include Kensington compatibility, PIN code lock, control panel key lock, and optional security cable kits. The recent product release also provided the debut for the companion XG-PH80WN model in the XG-PH80 series.
A new addition to the Sony ES line, the VPL-HW30ES employs SXRD reflective display panels and a 240Hz frame rate to deliver 3D to active shutter glasses in a wide variety of formats including frame packing, side-by-side, and top and bottom. The model is capable of 2D to 3D conversion and offers RS-232 serial control and monitoring along with an IR port for easy control system integration. Delivering 1300 lumens, the unit also supports HDMI 1.4a and provides Motionflow with Dark Frame Insertion. The VPL-HW30ES began shipping in July.
The 3D-ready Pro8500 from ViewSonic delivers 5000 lumens and a native resolution of 1024x768 with a 1.5X optical zoom for a display size up to 300in. diagonal. The image is generated with a 0.7in. DLP chip, and low maintenance features include a filterless design and 4000-hour lamp rating in normal display brightness mode. This model can accept video inputs in 15-pin D-sub (two), HDMI, component, composite, and S-Video while the audio inputs include a 3.5mm mini jack for line sources, one mini jack for mic input, and a set of RCA connectors while the audio output plays through two 10W speakers. Control and monitoring connect either through RS-232 9-pin or on an RJ-45 network port.
For converting 2D to 3D and showing 3D content directly, the D538W-3D single DLP chip projector from Vivitek can produce a WXGA resolution picture at 3200 lumens with a 3000-hour 180W lamp and a 1.16:1 manual zoom/manual focus lens. Features include a rapid on/off function, closed captioning, a Kensington lock port, and a keypad lock feature to avoid accidental settings changes. The unit can take video inputs on VGA, composite, S-Video, and HDMI v1.3. Audio inputs consist of a 3.5mm mini jack and a pair of RCA ports. Control processing may be connected on the RS-232 9-pin serial port. The 230W standard mode power consumption drops to less than a watt in standby mode.
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Pro-oil blogger Vivian Krause makes her case at BC mining industry lunch
Vivian Krause and her work are welcomed with open arms by mineral exploration industry.
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Why are there protests about shipping resources out, but indifference to conflict oitankers shipping crude oil into Canada as they do now just about every day on BC's west coast?
The people funding environmental NGOs are making billions daily keeping the conflict oil flowing in. It's a drop in the bucket to throw a few million at well meaning environmentalists and manipulate them. There has not been a tanker spill since before the year 2000 because Canada has learned from the mistakes. It's better to ship out Canada resources and inject Trillions into the Canadian economy than continue to give billions to dictators who can't be taxed, sued, or forced to clean a spill. All efforts should be made to pipe and ship Canadian oil safely. No country has stricter environmental laws or safety standards. Good people are being bought off cheap and doing the dirty work of dictators.
There seems to be a great deal of debate around "conflict oil" vs. "ethical oil", but I think this rhetoric misses the mark. I agree that environmentalists could be labelled as hypocrites for using petroleum products in their day to day lives while at the same time rallying against the tar sands. But it is unsustainable to continue building up our whole energy infrastructure around oil & gas. This just further entrenches our society in an unhealthy dependence on fossil fuels. Instead we could be boosting our new energy economy and directing investment into the development of clean, renewable resources. We should be fueling innovation and restructuring our communities, rather than fueling the tar sands.
Vivian Krause is a BRILLIANT researcher and writer in matters concerning ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.
Over the past year, Krause has single-handedly TERRORIZED the Environmental-Terrorists by EXPOSING IRREGULARITIES, MISAPPROPRIATION, and SQUANDERING of money used by their organizations in Canada.
Krause's articles EXPOSED the funding and the science behind RADICAL and SUBVERSIVE Environmental-Terrorist campaigns.
Vivian Krause should be BEATIFIED for TERRORIZING the Environmental-Terrorists.
Krause serves a FAR GREATER PURPOSE than ANY Environmental Activist Organizations.
Environmental Activist Organizations exist for one reason and one only ... and that is to MAKE PROFIT.
The MAJORITY OF THESE PROFITS go to paying for Activists, Lobbyists, and Hired Guns ... as well as SUBVERSIVE CONSPIRACIES THAT ULTIMATELY SERVE NO PURPOSE TO SOCIETY.
We are living in the 9|11 Era of Enviro-Lunatic Profit-Hungry Terrorism !
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NORAHG is the National Organization Responding Against HUJE that seek to harm the Green space industry.
WILL and NORAH, your writing style pretty much embodies the central problem with our current capitalist mentality in Canada. We're more and more becoming an angry and aggressive petro-state that will SHOUT the same political rehetoric at the top of our lungs to try and quash dissent and silence anyone with differing opinions. You are allowed your own particular views—as we all are in a free country—but try responding in a respectful manner. Easy on the CAPITAL LETTERS and EXCLAMATION MARKS!


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I bought this a very long time ago and love it. Very pretty soft white/mother of pearl colour. I like this shadow but I'm not sure you can find it any longer.
A little trivia, I was reading a book by Tammy Faye (Bakker/Messner) where she writes about makeup and this shade - she loved it. Hee! Not sure that would sell someone on getting this but I thought it was funny that I had the same shade.
If you can find it grab one.
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HG! This is the nicest highlighter eyeshadow I have found. The color is just right for fairer skin and blue eyes, goes on smoothly, lasts well and looks great. The price is really good and the size is generous. I really love these and this is my favorite color, I wear it with everything! They are getting hard to find, though.
I love this Almay eyeshadow.
It is a nice,off white,slightly sexy color that goes on smooth and beautifully.
It makes my big blue eyes stand out even furthur.
I also like that it has a subtle shimmer.
Almay has some nice products and this is one of them!
Everyone else did a great job of describing this. Mother of Pearl is a subtly shimmery/gleamy off white pearl. Just enough shimmer to brighten, but not too much to look garish. Just perfect for brightening, highlight or inner corners of the eyes.
This is a really eye brightening eyeshadow. The color is a white/cream pearl with a definate shimmer - It's not bright white or a dull cream. I hope I'm not confusing anyone with this description! I would recommend this is if you have dark eyes as this really makes your eyes stand out.
This is a very pretty light beige, almost off-white. Not pearly or shimmer, but a subtle "sheen", definately cool toned. Great for any eye color w/cool skin tones, great with pinky-plummy-mauvey lips. Soft but sexxxay!
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Great highlighter colour! A nice off-white shade with a subtle shimmer to make it 'glimmery' looking on the lid. It has a beautiful, soft texture and blends effortlessly. I'll look into getting more of these...:)


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On 20 November 1998, the first component of the ISS was launched. This 'heavenly' construction began with the Russian Zarya module, a cargo and control module. Today, six astronauts live and work 365 days a year in the space research laboratory. Also on board are numerous experiments supported by scientists at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) or funded by the DLR Space Administration.
Credit: NASA.
Since the beginning, more than 60 German experiments with various durations have been performed – including biological experiments on radiation exposure such as this MATROSHKA experiment, experiments on the origin of life, from medicine to the cardiovascular system, but also physics and the physics of materials.
Credit: ESA.
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest artificial object in Earth orbit and is jointly operated by the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and the European Space Agency.
The International Space Station (ISS) consists of several accommodation and laboratory modules. On the exterior, robotic arms are installed to facilitate extravehicular activities by the astronauts. Currently, six astronauts are living and working in the orbiting research laboratory.
TEXUS 50 was succesfully launched on 12 April 2013 at 06:25 CEST from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna, in northern Sweden, carrying four German experiments on board. The rocket reached an altitude of 261 kilometers. There were 6 minutes and 20 seconds of microgravity during the flight.
Credit: DLR (CC-BY 3.0).
The TEXUS-50-rocket mounted in the launch tower at the Swedish Esrange Space Center near Kiruna.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft taking the astronauts of Expedition 35 to the ISS also carried the SKIN B experiment, which is being overseen by German researchers. The launch vehicle lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 21:43 CET on 28 March 2013. A new fast-rendezvous flight profile allowed the spacecraft to dock with the ISS in only six hours (four orbits), rather than the more usual two days; docking took place on 29 March at 03.28 CET. At 05:35 CET, the new crewmembers entered the Russian Poisk module to which the Soyuz had docked.
Credit: NASA / Carla Cioffi.
Engineers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) are using TORO to conduct research into robots that respond to their surroundings and can move safely in an unknown environment.
The German Aerospace Center's (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TORO robot began as a walking machine – just legs with a camera. With an upper body, arms and hands, TORO is now complete.
With its arms and hands, the German Aerospace Center's (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TORO robot can perform tasks such as opening doors.
2153 mirrors twist and turn at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Experimental Solar Thermal Power Plant in Jülich, directing sunlight onto a 22-square-metre receiver. TerraSAR-X, the German radar satellite operated by DLR, can also detect the mirrors as they follow the Sun – from more than 500 kilometres above Earth. The reflections of the radar signals make the tower and mirror array appear as bright spots of light.
Artist's impression of the JUICE Mission (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) to Jupiter and its 67 moons. JUICE is scheduled to launch in 2022, and DLR is involved in the mission. The mission focuses on the planet itself, as well as three of its moons, Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Scientists believe that oceans of water are present beneath the thick ice on their surfaces – and it is even conceivable that life, as we know it, may have evolved here. Arrival at Jupiter is scheduled for 2030. After a three-year observation period, JUICE is scheduled to complete its mission in 2033.
Credit: ESA/AOES.
The JUICE space probe together with Jupiter and its four Galilean moons. Ganymede is shown in cross-section to display its supposed internal structure. You can see a thin blue line marking an ocean of water sandwiched between ice shells, surrounding a core of metal and rock. The small moon to the left is Io, which has no icy armour but does have sulphur geysers. JUICE will not fly to Io.
Volker Maiwald, a researcher at the German Aerospace Center is a member of Crew 125 of the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah. The scientific programme includes 'space walks' in a kind of space suit to an outside area in which biological and geological experiments are to be conducted.
Credit: Mars Society.
On 7 February 2008, the European research module Columbus set off on board the Space Shuttle Atlantis en route to the International Space Station (ISS). German astronaut, Hans Schlegel, accompanied the mission and, in the course of a space walk, carried out work on the outer skin of the module.
On 11 February 2008, the Columbus space laboratory was lifted out of the cargo bay of Space Shuttle Atlantis by the robot arm on the ISS.
Credit: ESA/NASA.
With a deployable, four-meter-long helix antenna, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) AISat satellite will be used to receive radio signals from ships. It is expected to launch aboard an Indian rocket in 2014.
Christmas Island is a 135-square-kilometre island in the Indian Ocean. In the image acquired with the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TerraSAR-X radar satellite, one thing is clear – even today, tropical rainforest proliferates on the island and the coastal cliffs continue to make life difficult for mariners.
The DLR SpaceLiner is intended to stand upright like a space shuttle before launch and take off on its journey using rocket engines. After the initial burn, the reusable booster stage will separate from the orbiter, in which there will be a capsule with a capacity of 50 passengers. The glide phase will start eight minutes later, at 20 times the speed of sound.
The DLR SpaceLiner is intended to stand upright like a space shuttle before launch and take off on its journey using rocket engines. After the initial burn, the reusable booster stage will separate from the orbiter, in which there will be a capsule with a capacity of 50 passengers. The glide phase will start eight minutes later, at 20 times the speed of sound. The landing, around 80 minutes later, will take place on a normal runway like a conventional aircraft.
The vision is enticing – board in Europe, sit back, and disembark 90 minutes later on the other side of the world, in Australia. But before the SpaceLiner, which is being developed by the Institute of Space Systems at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), can fly a route like this for the first time, new technologies still have to be tested and basic requirements defined.
The DLR MIRO is the second generation of a versatile robot arm for surgical applications, developed at the Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics. With its low weight of 10 kg and dimensions similar to those of the human arm, the MIRO robot can assist the surgeon directly at the operating table where space is limited.
On 25 November 2012, the high-altitude sounding rocket MAPHEUS-3 was launched from the Swedish Esrange Space Center in Kiruna. On board the rocket were four experiments from the DLR Institute of Material Physics in Space. The MORABA mobile rocket base was responsible for the launch.
The granulate gases in the MEGraMa-M experiment: When subjected to conditions of microgravity, the spherules float in the brightly lit sample container. The circular electromagnets on the four sides of the container caused the particles to move.
Credit: DLR / Franz Bischof.
For scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the flight of the high-altitude sounding rocket MAPHEUS-3 is a way of conducting experiments under microgravity conditions. Days before the launch, the rocket and its on-board experiments are prepared for their flight.
The German Aerospace Center's (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TerraSAR-X radar satellite orbits Earth at an altitude of 514 kilometres. It acquired this image of the Bonneville Salt Flats in the USA at 13:40 local time on 23 June 2009. The black represents areas of water, where radar signals transmitted by the satellite are reflected away by the smooth surface of the water. The city of Wendover is conspicuous in the upper half of this space radar image, with the orange colouring indicating a strong increase in the local variance of the return signal, due to direct or multiple reflections off the buildings and streets.
VINCI should become available by 2017. As it is re-ignitable, the engine is capable of inserting satellites directly into a geostationary orbit or releasing them in a variety of other orbits. Furthermore, its active de-orbit capability helps to avoid space debris.
In 2015, ESA's BepiColombo mission will begin its journey to Mercury. After six years in space, the spacecraft will enter orbit around Mercury and spend at least one year exploring the planet. The data acquired by its instruments will be transmitted to Earth, providing scientists with new information about the composition and properties of Mercury. Among the instruments is MERTIS (Mercury radiometer and thermal infrared spectrometer), a unique optical instrument incorporating the latest infrared technologies.
Remote sensing data from Earth observation satellites are essential for many geoscientific questions. They document, for example, degrees of urbanisation and industrialisation, traffic loads, air pollution, and areas that are used for agriculture and forestry. Using the Alps as an example, DLR scientists illustrate the impact of climate change on this unique ecosystem.
DLR is developing the HP³ (heat flow and physical properties package) probe. It will be the first probe after Apollo to measure the heat flow in the subsoil of a terrestrial body. HP³ will be one of the experiments carried by the lander module of NASA's proposed InSight mission scheduled for launch in 2016.
On a parabolic flight DLR scientists have examined orthostasis under the gravity conditions prevailing on Mars and the Moon.
DLR's HP3 experiment uses an electromechanical impact mechanism capable of driving an instrument container into the Martian surface to a depth of up to five metres. Behind the cylindrical drill is a flat cable with thermal sensors. These sensors measure the temperature profile and the heat conductivity of the soil, from which the heat flow can be determined. Until now, a fully-automatic mole of this kind has never been used on any planetary body in our Solar System.
In this project, robotics have been successfully applied to minimally invasive surgery, also known as 'keyhole surgery'.
Processing and archiving data centres for the Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-3 satellites are being prepared at the DLR Earth Observation Center in Oberpfaffenhofen.
On 22 July 2012 at 08:41:39 CEST, the first small German satellite in the 'On-Orbit-Verification' (OOV) programme was carried into orbit from the Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan by a Russian Soyuz launch vehicle. TET-1 is a technology testbed with 11 experiments on board that will be operated in space for a year.
Credit: DLR.
Artist's impression of the TET-1 small satellite, which will verify the performance of eleven payloads under space conditions over a period of one year. Kayser-Threde GmbH developed and built the refrigerator-sized satellite on behalf of the DLR Space Administration, with the support of its subcontractors. DLR's German Space Operations Center (GSOC) in Oberpfaffenhofen will be responsible for the mission operations. TET-1 orbits at an altitude of 520 kilometres.
Credit: DLR / Astro- und Feinwerktechnik Adlershof GmbH.
Between the Scottish mainland and the Orkney island of South Ronaldsay, the water flows at very high speed. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X radar satellites make it possible to identify and analyse these currents from space.
DLR's SHEFEX II spacecraft was equipped with more than 300 sensors. SHEFEX II was launched on 22 June 2012 from the Norwegian Andøya Rocket Range.
A wealth of information regarding pressure and temperature, among many other variables, was recorded during the flight of SHEFEX II. Now, researchers at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) will begin evaluating this data.
After a 10-minute flight, the sharp-edged SHEFEX II spacecraft landed safely west of Spitsbergen. DLR researchers launched the seven-ton and roughly 13-metre-long rocket and its payload from the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway at 21:18 CEST on 22 June 2012. As it re-entered the atmosphere, SHEFEX withstood temperatures exceeding 2500 degrees Celsius and sent measurement data from more than 300 sensors to a ground station.
SHEFEX II and its launch vehicle still in the horizontal position; just before lift-off, the roof opens and the launch tower is raised to the vertical position.
DLR researcher Hannah Böhrk examines the porous thermal shield tiles, through which nitrogen flows during flight. The gas creates a film over the SHEFEX II craft and performs active cooling during re-entry.
A few days before the launch, DLR researchers assemble the various components of the SHEFEX II vehicle. The spacecraft is notable for its sharp-edged design.
After assembly, the SHEFEX II craft and its launch vehicle are transported to the launch pad. The antenna of the DLR radar system that was used to track the flight is visible in the background.
The SHEFEX II craft, its launch vehicle and the tower during a practise countdown.
Five years ago, at 04:14 CEST on 15 June 2007, the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite was launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This marked the beginning of a new era in satellite remote sensing for Germany. Designed to operate for five years, the satellite has now completed its nominal service life but it remains in excellent condition; the spacecraft is expected to continue operating for several more years.
Using TerraSAR X data, Berlin Central Station was measured horizontally and vertically over the course of a year. In the warm season, the steel structure of the building expands; in winter, it contracts again. Based on the coloured dots, the maximum deformation in the course of one year can be seen to be in the millimetre range. The horizontal movement is visible in the left-hand image, and the vertical movement of the station structure is shown in the right-hand image.
Credit: Stefan Gernhardt, TU München.
Radar view from above; this data analysis reveals variations in the height of the station and its surroundings. The yellow and red markings in the dot cloud show elevation changes in the millimetre range.
Telepresence technology can be used to inspect, maintain and repair unsafe or inaccessible industrial facilities from a safe distance. Transparent data transfer for the visual, auditory and tactile senses enables a human to control a robot such as Space Justin remotely, as if it was right there.
In a unique experiment DLR has collaborated with partners in the United States to enable a quadriplegic patient to control a lightweight DLR robot with her thoughts. The RMC is also using an innovative learning method for robotically supported rehabilitation. At AUTOMATICA, the researchers are demonstrating how measuring muscle activity is sufficient for controlling a robot with a hand in order to move and grip with agility and great precision.
The humanoid walking machine shown in this image was first presented at the last AUTOMATICA, two years ago. This time, the two flexible legs are striding out again – enhanced with an upper body.
The RMC has introduced a paradigm shift in the area of safe, intuitive collaboration between humans and robots; the new generation of robotic assistants puts the human at the core of the robotic system. The two-armed 'co-worker' automatically adjusts its activity and the level of safety to suit the distance from its human colleague. This means that the human can interactively and very easily reprogram the robotic software at any time – just by moving.
The DLR Hand-Arm System does not only look human-like – thanks to its flexibility it can also be moved like a human arm. Those at AUTOMATICA will be able to see how HASy catches balls thrown by humanoid robot Agile Justin.
In the Mars simulation chamber, DLR researchers recreated the atmospheric composition and pressure, the planet's surface, the temperature cycles and the solar radiation incident on the surface. The activity of polar and alpine lichen was investigated under these conditions.
Among the microorganisms that survived for 34 days in the Mars simulation chamber at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) were polar lichens.
Envisat is the largest Earth observation satellite ever built and was really only designed to operate for five years. Ten years later, its scientific instruments still work perfectly; one of them is SCIAMACHY.
The sounding balloon is made of special rubber material and is about 1.50 metres in diameter. The balloon is filled with helium and can reach an altitude of 30 kilometres.
Cryovolcanism at the south pole of Enceladus: a plume, possibly emanating from a near body of liquid water, emanates from a series of jets located within the 'tiger stripes'. Enceladus Explorer will find out whether there are traces of life deep in the ocean of liquid water below the icy crust.
Credit: DLR/NASA.
The Institute of Technical Physics at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) develops and builds lasers. In the future, lasers will be capable of detecting items of space debris and accelerating the decay of their orbits.
In the laser laboratory at the DLR Institute of Technical Physics, researchers are experimenting with high-power lasers that operate in the kilowatt range.
A year after the initial operational phase, TanDEM-X has mapped all land surfaces on earth except Antarctica completely. Elevation models have been generated with the data. According to the color scale, green tinted areas already comply with a the requirement of a two-metre accuracy. Yellow-coloured areas must be recorded a second time, reddish surfaces also require recording from a different angle. Gray-shaded strips have been recorded, but have yet to be processed.
Scramjet in the Göttingen wind tunnel. Professor Russell Boyce from the University of Queensland examines the scramjet engine in the High Enthalpy Shock Tunnel at Göttingen (Hochenthalpiekanal Göttingen; HEG).
MAPHEUS-3-engineer Jörg Drescher performs final preparation work on the MEGraMa-M experiment.
Microgravity will last for three and a half minutes in the MAPHEUS-3 rocket. The experiments were designed and built at the DLR Institute of Materials Physics in Space.
The four experiments on MAPHEUS-3 require not only microgravity but also hard vacuum conditions. The corresponding system is prepared for its use.
One of the experiment containers was removed from the SIMBOX apparatus. The data will be processed and evaluated by the experts in the coming days.
Wolfgang Jung and his colleagues will also supervise the SHEFEX II (SHarp Edge Flight EXperiment) campaign that will launch from the Andøya rocket range in northern Norway in the spring of 2012. In the SHEFEX programme, DLR is studying thermal protection concepts for spacecraft that have to endure temperatures of up to 2000 degrees Celsius.
The tents and vehicles are clearly visible in this radar image. The artificial structures have been coloured to make them more easily visible; the actual radar image is black and white.
On 31 October at 22:58 CET (on 1 November at 05:58 local time), the Chinese spaceship Shenzhou-8 was launched on board a Long March rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia.
Credit: DLR/Markus Braun.
The 'Long March' launch vehicle that will carry Shenzhou-8 and SIMBOX into space, on its way to the launch pad at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Inner Mongolia. On board is the SIMBOX (Science in Microgravity Box) experimental facility containing 17 experiments from the fields of biology and medicine, which will be conducted by German researchers together with their Chinese colleagues This is the first time that the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) cooperates with another nation in the use of Shenzhou – the core of China's human spaceflight programme.
The SIMBOX experiment hardware, consisting of a heated chamber and centrifuge, will carry biological samples in 40 compartments.
Credit: Astrium.
Andreas Neuman and André Holz viewing an electric propulsion system installed in the vacuum chamber. The STG-ET has been specially built for research into electrical propulsion systems for space.These systems have different applications than do conventional chemical propulsion systems.
A vacuum is created inside the chamber, where the temperature is reduced to minus 268 degrees Celsius – close to absolute zero.
A few days before re-entering Earth's atmosphere, the German X-ray research satellite ROSAT was targeted by the Tracking and Imaging RAdar (TIRA) at the Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques in Wachtberg, near Bonn, which is unique in Europe. TIRA is part of a global network of monitoring stations that collected data about ROSAT. From this data, the orbit was determined and images were produced. This example, acquired on 20 October 2011, clearly shows the antenna mast of the satellite.
Credit: Fraunhofer FHR.
Double success: On 21 October at 12.30 CEST the first two Galileo satellites were launched on board a Russian Soyuz rocket from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. This was the first launch of a Soyuz rocket from French Guiana.
The Galileo Control Centre at the DLR site in Oberpfaffenhofen, near Munich.
DLR's ROKVISS robotic arm shows no signs of external damage. The results of tests now being conducted confirm that the technologies developed by the DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics are well suited for use in space.
DLR's ROKVISS robotic arm is equipped with four connectors – for heater power, data, power for the arm itself and video data (from right to left in the image). For its transport back to Earth, the astronauts were instructed to cut the cables – to simplify dismantling aboard the ISS.
Earth observation satellites provide information on altitude, climate change and much more. Based on the data obtained with the German Earth observation satellites TerraSAR-X and TanDEM-X, DLR researchers have developed a sample 3D elevation model of the Rhine valley, which will be showcased on German Aerospace Day 2011 in Cologne.
TanDEM-X and TerraSAR-X orbit in formation to acquire data for a highly accurate global digital elevation model.
As part of the International K2 North Pillar Expedition 2011, German mountaineer Ralf Dujmovits and his wife Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner plus a small international team planned on climbing K2 at the end of June 2011, via the technically demanding north route, which has seldom been followed to date. DLR scientists supported the expedition with a highly accurate 3D model of the mountain. Thanks to the ability to explore the intended route virtually in advance, the mountaineers had a relatively clear idea of which route they would be taking. On 23 August 2011 Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner reached the summit of K2 together with three other climbers from the team, making her the first woman to climb all 8000-metre peaks without an oxygen bottle.This image shows the northwest ridge of K2. To the right in the background is Broad Peak, another 8000-metre mountain in the Karakoram Range. A mountaineer could never have reached the position of the virtual camera. The 3D view offers entirely new views of the massif.Technical information regarding this image:Satellite: WorldView-2Operator/Reference: Digital Globe, Longmont, USA, European Space Imaging, MunichDate acquired: November 10th 2010; 06:02 UTCGeometric resolution of image data: 0.5 metreResolution of elevation model derived: 0.5 metres (horizontal), 2 metres (vertical)Data processing and visualisation: DLR Earth Observation Center (EOC)
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After the last Space Shuttle landing: Atlantis completed the STS-135 mission on 21 July 2011.
Credit: Thilo Kranz /DLR (CC-BY 3.0).
The US Space Shuttle Atlantis landed at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 21 July 2011 shortly before sunrise at 05:57 local time (11:57 CEST). After 13 days in space, this last space shuttle mission (STS-135) has come to an end.
Credit: Thilo Kranz / DLR.
SOFIA is a joint project of NASA and DLR. The astronomical observation flights take place at night. This photo was taken during a daytime test flight, during which the telescope hatch was opened for testing purposes.
A total of 11 instruments on the spacecraft 'Rosetta' and 10 experiments on the lander 'Philae', including several involving DLR, will gather data during the first close encounter with a comet.
The landing manoeuvre is tested using what is known as a ground reference model – a replica of the lander constructed from spare parts. Using this model and their software, researchers are able to simulate, not only the sequence of operations that will be carried out during the landing in November 2014, but the operations on the surface of the comet as well.
This coloured SRTM elevation model shows the elevations for New Orleans in the southern USA. Large parts of the city lie considerably below sea level and would flood without elaborate and extensive protective measures. The yellow and green zones lie above sea level, while the blue zones lie up to four metres below it.
Credit: DLR/USGS.
Based on two radar images supplied by SRTM (one of the two images can be seen on the extreme left of this illustration), the first intermediate step is to calculate the differences between them. These differences in phase information are then depicted in the second image from the left as fringes. From these, the elevation model (third image) can be derived. Low-lying regions are shown as dark areas, with lighter coloured areas denoting higher elevations. Each grey-scale value represents an elevation measured in metres above sea level. The last image in the sequence shows the final digital elevation model, shaded and coloured using an atlas colour scheme. To make the image easier to interpret, the radar image is incorporated into the colour data.
Mission STS-134 is the last flight of the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour. The space shuttle was completed on 25 April 1991 as a replacement for the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost in an accident, and completed its maiden flight on 7 May 1992. She has completed 24 flights so far, the last on 8 February 2010 (STS-130). At that time, Endeavour carried the connection node Tranquility and the Cupola observation deck to the International Space Station.
Credit: Thilo Kranz/DLR.
The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, during its first test flight with its telescope exposed, on 13 July 2010. The German-built 2.5-metre infrared telescope is visible through the opening in the aircraft.
Credit: NASA/Jim Ross.
Dieses Bild zeigt die Auswirkungen des Tsunamis in einem Vorher-The effects of the tsunami are shown in a before and after comparison of the Japanese coast between 5 September 2010 (left) and the 12 March 2011 (right). Data: Rapid Eye.
Credit: DLR/Rapid Eye.
MetOP-A is the first of three EUMETSAT Polar System (EPS) satellites. It was developed by the European Space Agency (ESA) on behalf of the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). GOME-2 is on board the MetOp Earth monitoring satellite, launched on 12 October 2006, and is continuously taking measurements of the atmosphere. GOME-2 continues the series of ESA instruments GOME/ERS-2 and SCIAMACHY/Envisat, which have been monitoring the Ozone Layer successfully since 1995 and 2002 respectively.
ATV Johannes Kepler was launched on a specially modified launcher, the Ariane 5ES, at 22:50 CET on 16 February 2011 from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana. The second space cargo carrier in the ATV programme, it is now en route to the International Space Station (ISS).
Credit: Arianespace.
'Half-time' for Mars 500; on 12 February 2011, after a 250-day simulated flight to Mars, three crewmembers will land on the Red Planet. They will climb out of their isolation pod two days later at the Moscow Institute for Biomedical Problems (IBMP) and begin a simulated exploration of Mars. Their eight-month return journey to Earth will commence in early March. Their simulated journey to Mars started on 3 June 2010, as the hatch behind them closed, marking the start of the longest ever space simulation experiment.
A small island obstructs the constant flow of the ice shelf on Queen Maud Land – it is the lighter area at the bottom left of the image. From September 2010 until it broke off, Iceberg A 62 was connected to the Fimbul Ice Shelf by a mere 800-metre-wide bridge. Two fissures in the ice from different sides of the bridge approached one another until the break occurred. The images transmitted by the radar satellite TerraSAR-X over a long period of time should enable researchers to achieve a better understanding of how icebergs calve. Until now, glaciologists have not been able to predict where and how much ice will break away each year.
The German Receiver for Astronomy at Terahertz Frequencies, GREAT, in front of the Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, prior to boarding at NASA's Dryden Aircraft Operation Facility in Palmdale, California. From left to right: Helmut Wiesemeyer, Rolf Güsten (Principal Investigator), Jürgen Stutzki (Co-Principal Investigator), Stefan Heyminck, Karl Jacobs, Urs Graf, and Oliver Ricken.
Credit: NASA/Tom Tschida.
EDRS is based on two geostationary 'distributor' satellites that, because of their fixed position in space, will be able to receive high-speed communications from low-flying Earth observation satellites and relay them to Earth without any delay. As a result, these satellites will no longer be restricted to brief contact windows when they pass over their ground stations, which is currently the case.
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The data for these digital computer models is derived from wind tunnel tests in which the main physical properties of the martian atmosphere are simulated. For example, the atmosphere of Mars contains a higher concentration of particulate matter than the atmosphere of Earth, meaning that greater resistance to erosion is required.
In Cologne, the researchers have access to a wind tunnel heated by an electric arc system, in which models can be exposed to realistic thermal loads. Optical and electronic metrology systems are used to examine the flow characteristics of the hot gases and the local thermal loads being experienced by individual sections of the model. Space capsules enter the atmosphere with their unstreamlined undersides facing in the direction of travel. This gives rise to a shock wave at high temperatures, while the gases flowing past the sides of the capsule are significantly cooler as they pass the other end of the capsule.
Mars Express reached its destination on 25 December 2003, and the the High Resolution Stereo Camera, HRSC – developed at the DLR Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin – began operations on 10 January 2004. Since then, the spacecraft has been orbiting Mars, scanning its surface with no fewer than nine light-sensitive detectors arrayed at different viewing angles. That enables the same location, with minimal time lag and under identical light and atmospheric conditions, to be imaged several times from an altitude of approximately 250 kilometres – the data obtained supplies scientists with information about the heights and depths of the planetary surface. Roughly two thirds of the surface of Mars has now been photographed with good quality imagery. Indeed, 40 percent of the planet has been photographed at a resolution of roughly 10 metres per pixel, achieved when the spacecraft reaches its lowest altitude of 250 kilometres above the Martian surface on its elliptical orbit. This image shows the proportion of nadir coverage after orbit 8901.
Elevation of the Meridiani Planum, located at the northern edge of the Southern Highlands of Mars. The region is located at about 2°N,352°E and lies between the Tharsis volcanic region to the west and the low-lying Hellas Planitia impact basin to the southeast. Meridiani Planum spans 127 x 63 kilometres, equivalent to an area of roughly 8000 square kilometres, about the size of Cyprus. This image was created using a Digital Terrain Model obtained from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft. Elevation data is colour-coded: purple indicates the lowest-lying regions and beige the higher elevations. The scale is in metres. Copyright note: As a joint undertaking by DLR, ESA and FU Berlin, the Mars Express HRSC images are published under a Creative Commons licence since December 2014: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. This licence will also apply to all HRSC images released to date.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.
SOFIA during test observations of the night sky in March 2008. The opening in the fuselage of the converted Boeing 747SP provides a glimpse of the 2.5-metre infrared telescope, built in Germany.
Technician Mario Jünemann prepares the SHEFEX II model for its test in the high-enthalpy wind tunnel at Göttingen. This involves incorporating 50 pressure sensors and 60 thermocouple elements to the projectile. During this test, thousands of data values are recorded within a thousandth of a second.
The LaserCUSING process involves the fusion of single-component metallic powders using a laser, allowing components to be built up layer by layer from almost any metallic material using 3D computer generated data. The laser beam locally fuses a single-powder material layer by layer. The laser's rapid movement means the workpiece is scarcely heated, the melt cools down quickly and the possibilities of component distortion are minimized. The parts made from the powder cannot be distinguished from a solid piece of metal.
Hannah Böhrk and Henning Elsässer, installing the ceramic heat shield tiles. The two researchers, from the DLR Institute of Structures and Design, have been working on the design and integration of the spacecraft nose, and the construction of the heat shield for the body of SHEFEX II. Their institute developed the ceramic fibre composite being used here. The use of new materials, which retain their strength at temperatures above 1500 degrees Celsius, makes the use of sharp edges in hypersonic re-entry vehicles possible.
The aim of the SHEFEX development programme – a novel space glider called 'REX Free Flyer', which could be available from 2020 for microgravity experiments that can be returned to Earth. The sharp-edged shape promises two important advantages: firstly, the heat shield will be easier to manufacture and more immune to the effects of re-entry; in addition, the faceted shape results in improved aerodynamic properties.
The Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA, during its first test flight with its telescope exposed, on 18 December 2009 above the Mojave desert in California. The German-built 2.5-metre infrared telescope is visible through the opening in the aircraft. The test flight with the door open made it possible for the engineers to monitor the movement of air in and around the telescope and the door.
Credit: NASA/C. Thomas.
This stainless steel model of the sharp-edged spacecraft SHEFEX II (Sharp Edged Flight Experiment) measures about 70 centimetres in length. A porous heat tile is located on the surface. Nitrogen flows through and out of the tile as the spacecraft re-enters Earth's atmosphere. As the gas flows out, it clings like a film to the outer surface of the flight experiment, creating a buffer layer between the spacecraft and the hot surrounding air.
Shefex II will re-enter Earth's atmosphere at more than 12 000 kilometres per hour.
Examining a 1:3 scale model of the Shefex II spacecraft in the Göttingen wind tunnel: test supervisor Alexander Wagner (left) and Dr Klaus Hannemann.
The DLR robots, Space Justin is capable of performing complex repair tasks in orbit - it receives its commands from the operator on the ground. The DLR robots will relieve future astronauts in dangerous missions in space.
Scientists at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have recorded and analysed the signals from the new GPS-generation IFF satellite with the 30-metre German Space Operations (Deutsch Space Operations Centre GSOC) antenna in Weilheim.
As part of the development of Ariane 5's main engine, Volvo Aero and its partners Snecma and EADS Astrium developed a new engine nozzle, called the Vulcain 2+ NE Demonstrator or NE-X, shown in the image. The innovative sandwich construction of the nozzle was successfully tested on the P5 test stand at the DLR facilities in Lampoldshausen.
DLR has operated a near-polar ground station on the O'Higgins peninsula in Antarctica for several years, and has pioneered the construction and operation of ground stations in the Antarctic. The TanDEM-X mission will use a global network of more than 10 ground stations.
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Reviewed Spanish Style Pressed Ham and Cheese Sandwiches
Jul 27, 2011 in Food Network Community Toolbox on FoodNetwork.com
"I fixed this for dinner because I'm just starting out trying to learn how to really cook. My parents loved it and I thought it was really good! However, because of the cost of the cheese we substituted in swiss cheese and I have to say I normally don't like peppers but in this case, a very good meal! ""


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FREDERICKSBURG, VA - Harkness Screens, the world's leading manufacturer of projection screens for entertainment venues, and Malco Theaters, a chain of renowned movie theaters, have teamed up to give theater patrons the very best movie-viewing experiences through Harness Screens' Perlux 220 3D screen.
"Harkness Screens has presented the best-looking image of anything I've seen and they have significantly raised the bar with the introduction of the Perlux 220," says Michael Thomson, vice president of operations and technologies for Malco Theaters. "This type of screen is exactly what the 3D digital format, specifically Dolby Digital 3D, benefits from most."
Malco Theaters currently has two of the largest 3D images available in the country, both utilizing Harkness' Perlux 220 screens. The first is located in Paradiso Cinema in Memphis, TN with a 3D image sized at 61 feet; the other is located in the Grandview Cinema in Madison, MI, which is Malco's largest theater in the US. The 68-foot image, supported by Harkness' Perlux 220, is currently the largest 3D image in the world.
Malco Theaters is also one of two test sites for Dolby Laboratories for Dolby 3D. Harkness' Perlux 220 was chosen as the best screen for that format.
Perlux Screens are considered by leading cinema exhibitors and special venue operators worldwide to be the premier gain projection surface. Meeting the requirements for the highest possible gain (2.2) while maintaining acceptable viewing angles, Perlux 220 is particularly suitable for active and passive 3D systems (not using polarized light) and for large 2D systems.
Perlux 220 is noted for its invisible seams under normal projection conditions. Perlux 220 is available in full screen perforated form where behind screen speakers are required. Mini-perforated and non-perforated options are also offered.
With approximately 320 screens, in over 30 locations throughout Arkansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Mississippi and Tennessee, Malco Theaters is one of the nation's leading movie exhibition chains. Malco Theaters bought its first Harkness screen back in the early 1970s. Today, 90 percent of the company's screens are manufactured by Harkness with the Perlux 220 being their showcase screen.
"Harkness Screens has been tremendously attentive to our needs," continues Thomson. "Over the next few years, our industry and our company are very much in a state of change as we move toward digital cinema. We want to maintain our reputation as the very best in the industry and with Harkness Perlux screens, we feel our reputation is safe."


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SITIS Archives - Topic Details |
Program: | SBIR |
Topic Num: | N07-039 (Navy) |
Title: | Three-axis Low Airspeed, Low-Cost Air Data Sensor for Rotorcraft | Research & Technical Areas: | Air Platform, Sensors |
Acquisition Program: | PMA-261 | Objective: | To develop an accurate low airspeed three-axis air data sensor for enhanced safety of flight during low speed maneuvers, automatic flight control support, and weapons delivery.
| Description: | An accurate low air speed rotorcraft air data sensor is needed for enhanced safety of flight during low speed maneuvers, automatic flight control support, and weapons delivery. The low air speed regime is important in terms of safety and safely expending the maneuvering envelope during low speed maneuvers such as approach, rapid descent, hover, sideward, and rearward flight. At present, there are many challenges towards developing low cost, low weight sensors that work reliably at low air speeds for rotorcraft. This results in higher total ownership cost, limited automatic flight control authority, and costly systems for delivering weapons on target. Standard pitot systems degrade in capability below 40 knots due to sensitivity issues and the effect of rotor downwash. Although some specialized sensors can provide improvements over standard pitot systems, they are often complex, hard to calibrate, expensive, and/or significantly heavier than the standard systems. Optical Air Data Systems are one potential solution, but they currently can be expensive, complicated, and have substantial weight penalties. Other potential approaches involve separating the effect of rotor downwash from airspeed. There is a need for low cost, low weight, low maintenance, robust technology that can be easily introduced and integrated with existing avionics for rotorcraft such as the UH-1N, AH-1W, UH-1Y, AH-1Z, V-22, and rotary-wing UAVs.
The desired capability would provide accurate airspeed down to a few knots despite rotor downwash. This capability should simultaneously provide measurement of airspeed and flow angularity in all three directions (forward, vertical, and lateral). Specifically, the low airspeed sensor of interest should have the following characteristics: (1) it should provide accurate speed measurements along the longitudinal, vertical, and lateral axes; (2) it should be easy to maintain with minimum calibration requirements; (3) it should be possible to easily retrofit the sensor with existing avionics systems without extensive structural changes to the vehicle. Small size, weight, low cost, and low power consumption are also highly desirable.
| PHASE I: Provide an initial feasability study that demonstrates scientific merit and capabilities of the proposed three-axis low airspeed sensor. If possible, this should incorporate limited laboratory scale experiments to support the analysis of the feasibility of the proposed concept. Conduct preliminary design studies to develop concepts for sensor protection from harsh environmental effects. Provide evidence via design studies, analysis, and limited laboratory testing that the proposed system can meet acceptable requirements in terms of accuracy below 40 kts airspeed (with a particular focus on airspeeds below 30 kts) and in different environmental conditions, calibration requirements, retrofit requirements, cost, weight, size, and power consumption.
| PHASE II: Design, fabricate and demonstrate a breadboard and/or limited prototype three-axis airspeed sensor. Conduct analysis supported by wind tunnel and relevant environmental testing of system. Conduct helicopter flight-tests on a naval or surrogate system to fully document the system's performance. Provide evidence via design studies, analysis, wind tunnel, environmental, and flight testing that the proposed system can meet acceptable requirements in terms of accuracy below 40 kts airspeed (and with a particular focus on airspeeds below 30 kts.) in different environmental conditions, calibration requirements, retrofit requirements, cost, weight, size, and power consumption.
| PHASE III: Develop a proptotype sensor, integrate the airspeed sensor and conduct final flight-testing using a naval production rotary-wing aircraft.
PRIVATE SECTOR COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL/ | DUAL-USE APPLICATIONS: Successful development of low airspeed sensor should enhance safety and performance features of civilian helicopters. It will also assist in enhancing safety of search and rescue operations, fire-fighting, homeland defense, and in efficient transportation of loads such as lumber. Accurate low airspeed sensors will provide important data for closed-loop flight control for 'hover and stare" operations required in reconnaissance and aerial survey.
| References: | 1. Mangalam, S. M., Sarma, G. R., Augustin, Mike, and Yeary, D.: Low Cost / Low Airspeed Sensor for Helicopter Applications, AHS 59th Annual Forum, Phoenix, AZ, May 2003.
2. C. Watkins, C. Richey, P. Tchoryk, Jr., G. Ritter, P. Hays, C. Nardell, T. Willis, R. Urzi, "Molecular optical air data system (MOADS) flight experiment," Proc. SPIE Vol. 5086, p. 236-245, Laser Radar Technology and Applications VIII, Aug 2003
3. C. Watkins, C. Richey, P. Tchoryk, Jr., G. Ritter, M. Dehring, P. Hays, C. Nardell, R. Urzi, "Molecular optical air data system (MOADS) prototype II," Proc. SPIE Vol. 5412, p. 10-20, Laser Radar Technology and Applications IX, Sep. 2004.
4. Mangalam, S. M.: "Phenomena-based Real-time Aerodynamic Measurement (PRAM) System for Aircraft Performance, Safety, and Control." IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, March 2003. |
Keywords: | Airspeed; Sensor; Air Data; Rotorcraft; Helicopter; Low Speed |
Questions and Answers: |
Q: 1. Would three axis measurement of true ground speed be an acceptable alternate to the air speed sensor? |
A: 1. No. Three axis measurement of true ground speed is not an acceptable alternate. |
Q: 1. Would three axis measurement of true ground speed be an acceptable alternate to the air speed sensor? |
A: 1. No. Three axis measurement of true ground speed is not an acceptable alternate. |


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I came across this hairstyle on a model in the Nasty Gal lookbook, and it struck me as a great cut for spring. When the sun finally comes out and you're ready to shed the dry, split ends of winter and debut a new look, give this shoulder-length bob a spin. It's light, fun, and the choppy texture and blunt bangs give it a bit of an edge. Perfect contrast for all the frilly, floral sundresses you'll be wearing with it. Sigh. Spring really can't get here fast enough.
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Rutherford Rep: Kelly Is a Great Mom
Kelly Rutherford's official spokesperson Patrick McCarthy has spoken out on the Gossip Girl star's behalf regarding the actress' split from German financier Daniel Giersch.
"At this time, Kelly doesn't have an official statement on her divorce," McCarthy said in a statement to Celebuzz.
"Right now Kelly is focusing on what is in the best interest of her family and trying to bring as much normalcy to their lives as possible during this difficult time. The statements made by her husband Daniel Giersch are completely fabricated and Kelly is a loving and caring individual and a wonderful mother," said McCarthy.
Rutherford, 40—who plays maternal figure Lilly van der Woodsen on the hit CW series—told People magazine that she had to call the authorities on two separate occasions because of Giersch's hostile behavior.
Rutherford filed for divorce from Giersch on December 30, three weeks after she announced that she was pregnant with their second child. (The couple has a two-year-old son, Hermés, together. Rutherford is currently four months pregnant with a daughter.)
Since then, the couple has been locked in a fierce battle. Rutherford claims that she fears Giersch will flee to Germany with their child.
According to divorce papers filed by Rutherford, the first time she called the cops on her hubby was during a visit to New York, the couple taking residence at the Wales Hotel.
"[Giersch] kept yelling at me in front of Hermes, and threatening that he was going to take Hermes," her court filing reads. "[He] kept saying that I was 'going to learn,' and that he was 'going to teach [me] a lesson.'"
The second instance occurred in Los Angeles weeks later. Rutherford claims that Giersch "had cornered me and come within inches of my face. He would not back away."
Rutherford also says that Giersch is "an avid boxer and a kickboxer, and I am intimidated by him."
According to documents, Giersch was asked to leave on both occasions, and no arrests were made either time.
Giersch, 34, denied Rutherford's claims via a statement through his lawyer, Fahi Takesh Hallin. "I don't want to comment because all of these accusations from Kelly are false and are intended to damage my reputation," the statement reads. "I am solely seeking what is in our children's best interest."
A likely story; if Giersch was really looking out for his son's best interests, he would never have let his wife name him after her favorite clothing designer.
Lawyers for both spouses are expected to meet in a Santa Monica, California, courthouse Wednesday. Rutherford is seeking to ban Giersch from traveling outside the country with Hermés, and is also asking permission to take their son with her to New York until March, when the current season of Gossip Girl completes filming.


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Question: "Having plagiarism detection software would make the detection process so much easier than it is now. Why not invest in the software?"
CITL's Answer: McLafferty and Foust wrote that "[p]revention of plagiarism is preferable to policing papers." I have little doubt that most of us would agree with their statement. To have more valid evidence of your students' skills and knowledge and to minimize time spent on policing papers, design assignments for student work that cannot be found on the internet. For tips on how to create meaningful and plagiarism-proof assignments, or for cost-free ways to investigate plagiarism, contact Karen St. Clair, x8574. Or consult McLafferty and Foust. (McLafferty, C. L., & Foust, K. M. (2004). Electronic plagiarism as a college instructor's nightmare-prevention and detection. Journal of Education for Business, 79(3), 186-190.)


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This morning Amanda Bynes, the auto insurance industry's bane and her attorneys' boon, pleaded not guilty to two counts of hit-and-run.
Charged earlier this month after two separate incidents, one in May and another in August after allegedly hitting two cars and running from the scene,
She still faces one DUI charge and two misdemeanor citations for driving after a judge suspended her license.
The LA City Attorney declined to file suit against her in the wake of the April incident, but when she allegedly repeated the crime in August the filed charges against her for both incidents.
The DUI charge stems from an April incident in West Hollywood.
On April 6, 2012, Ms. Bynes was booked for driving under the influence after she hit a Sheriff's patrol vehicle and then failed a DUI test around 3 AM at Robertson and Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood.
According to the Sheriff, a Deputy in a marked black and white patrol car was stopped at the intersection of northbound Robertson Boulevard at Santa Monica Boulevard preparing to turn right.
It was at that point that a black BMW driven by Ms. Bynes attempted to pass to the right of the patrol car, colliding with the right rear quarter panel vehicle.
There was minor paint transfer damage to both vehicles.
She was detained for an investigation and was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence and booked at West Hollywood Sheriff's Station.
She paid a $5,000 and was released later that morning.
She reportedly tried to go partying again after her release from jail.
When she appeared in court in June to plead not guilty to that charge, the judge suspended her drivers license, however, that did not seem to faze Ms. Bynes.
TMZ repeatedly shot footage of the actress driving around town, even smoking what looked like marijuana in the car.
It was last month that she allegedly his another auto in West Hollywood, apparently backing her BMW out of a parking spot on Sunset Boulevard into the car behind her, causing minor damage.
Just days later, Burbank police caught her driving, impounded her car and cited her for driving on a suspended license.
Ms. Bynes has shown odd behavior as of late, holding up in a West Hollywood boutique's dressing room for nearly two hours only to come out wearing a bikini she initially "forgot to pay for."
During her stay in the dressing room, employees heard a banging noise come from inside at approximately ten minute intervals.
The next day she was asked to leave a spinning class in a West Hollywood fitness facility for inappropriate behavior that included stripping down to her push-up bra and pausing to apply make-up.
TMZ reported last week that the Nickelodeon star was dropped by her entire management team – "her agent, publicist and entertainment lawyer."


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Ministry Lessons from a Muslim
Eboo Patel is not the most likely seminary professor. His credentials are not the issue. Patel earned his doctorate from Oxford University, and he is a respected commentator on religion for The Washington Post and National Public Radio. He has spoken in venues across the world, including conferences for evangelical church leaders.
What makes Eboo Patel an unlikely seminary professor is that he is Muslim.
The editors of Leadership first encountered Patel at the 2008 Q Conference, where he challenged 500 Christian leaders to change the rules of interfaith dialogue. "Muslims and Christians might not fully agree on worldview," he said, "but we share a world." Patel spoke of his enduring friendships with a number of evangelicals and his desire to move beyond the "clash of civilizations" rhetoric that dominates Christian/Muslim interaction. While holding firmly to his belief in Islam, he also affirmed church leaders. "Even though it is not my tradition and my community," Patel wrote after the conference, "I believe deeply that this type of evangelical Christianity is one of the most positive forces on Earth."
We were intrigued, so we contacted Patel to talk more about the ramifications of increasing religious diversity in America, as well as his outsider's perspective of the church's response. Patel gave us more than we bargained for. He invited us to attend a class he was teaching on interfaith leadership at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago.
Patel is not on the seminary faculty. He serves as the executive director of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC)—a Chicago-based international non-profit that brings together religiously diverse young leaders to serve their communities. The seminary invited Patel to co-teach the course on interfaith leadership with Cassie Meyer, a Christian who serves as the training director at IFYC.
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When we arrived in the class, which included twenty seminarians—men and women from diverse racial and denominational backgrounds—the students were discussing a newspaper article. Patel and Meyer were using the report about tensions between Somali Muslim immigrants and Latino workers at a meatpacking plant in Grand Island, Nebraska, as a case study. The Muslims wanted the factory's managers to adjust production schedules to accommodate their prayer times and holidays like Ramadan. Others in the rural community admitted being uncomfortable with the influx of so many Muslim neighbors—particularly after September 11, 2001.
"Imagine you are the pastor of a church in Grand Island, Nebraska," Patel says to the class. "A reporter from The New York Times calls you because he is working on a story about the conflict between Muslims and Christians at the meatpacking plant. The reporter asks you, 'What should Christians do?' How would you respond?" After a few moments of reflection, a student answers.
"I would talk about the fact that this country was founded on religious freedom," he says. "We have to respect other people's beliefs."
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Posted: November 26, 2012 4:40 pm
Three weeks after Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc in the Northeast, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said that some evidence storage facilities experienced significant flooding which damaged evidence that may included DNA samples, reported The New York Times.
While it is not clear whether the ruined evidence is from open or closed cases, the damage could potentially affect the outcome of individual criminal cases, according to Kelly.
"We are waiting for an inventory before we can evaluate what the impact will be," said Jerry Schmetterer, a spokesman for the Brooklyn district attorney.
Prosecutors said that it did not appear that evidence collected in active rape cases — so-called rape kits — were stored at either of the facilities, though a definitive accounting of the contents of the facility had yet to be released.
In a worst-case scenario, evidence could have been washed away entirely which would be a major blow to New York City where evidence routinely goes missing. Earlier this year, the New York City Police Department, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner and the Innocence Project were awarded a National Institute of Justice grant totaling $1.25 million to catalogue crime scene evidence so that those seeking to prove their innocence through DNA testing can more readily get access to evidence in their case.
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Terrific Tomatoes (by the editors of Organic Gardening and Farming Magazine), Out in the Garden (Dean Riddle), A Starter Garden (Cheryl Merser), The Border Book (Anna Pavord) are books I have and are done with.
I'd swap for mini rose cuttings (or rooted ones...); I am particularly fond of single minis and micro minis. Bigger roses, too, if they are single and have red or purple stamens (a la Dainty Bess or White Wings) will float my boat. Thanks for all. |
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Spreadwave 2.0 by Mathieu Bich Show a blank deck of cards, ask someone to call for a card Spread the cards...The named card is now printed across on the spread! No Force - Easy to learn - Easy to perform Step-by-step video instructions - FISM handling included. Includes: Specially Printed deck of cards and a link to download the instructions directly to your home computer.


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DH just got a new Toshiba laptop. I downloaded MSE for him, but what else should be done to a new computer to make it safe and run well? |
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Malwarebytes Superantispyware CCleaner These work for me. YMMV. |
Make the recovery disks, repair disks. |
Yes..cant over emphasize, make the recovery disks and dont put it off...too many people do, then come to the forum lamenting the fact that their harddrive died and they dont have an OEM of their Operating system and they didnt make their recovery disks... |
I agree with Zep and Gene, make those recovery disks as they can be vital down the road. |
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Use pcdecrapifier. Com to get rid of the bloat ware. Fully remove the AV that comes on it. Spywareblaster by javacool update once and enable all protection. Make the disks, and use an imaging program to have a good clean image to be able to use to restore everything easily. There are good free ones, ask if you need help finding one. |
Not sure what an imaging program is. Can you explain it? If I go into Control Panel, System & Security, Backup your computer, I'm given the options to create System Image and create System Repair Disc. Are these 2 options not enough? |
If this is Windows 7, yes the create system image will do an image backup for you. Back up to DVDs or an external hard drive. The system repair disk, if I recall correctly, is not the same as the recovery disks mentioned by Zep, Genes, and Owbist. It is also important, but the recovery disks will be your life-saver (it has been mine). My Win 7 recovery took 4 blank DVDs. The system repair disk is only one disk, I believe. You should have a separate partition (D?) on your laptop called the recovery partition. This is what you need to put on DVDs. Your Toshiba manual (probably an online PDF) should explain how this is done. I purchased a Toshiba portable external hard drive, and that is where I store my backups. I have my recovery DVDs stored in a safe place. |
Toshiba laptop here has the recovery partition unmounted .. so sort of no drive letter or hidden. If problems arise, it automatically mounts & runs Recovery, or Repair, other options to choose from. It came packaged with Recovery DVD too. Wish it was a regular Windows DVD & seperate driver Disk, because you surely cant tell what's what the way they labeled all the directories . |
sjt2900..ifyou dig out your user manual and look at the first few pages there should be something in there of How to make recovery disks... |
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as an additional safety precaution it is a good idea while doing all of that, make a copy of all of your drivers just in case. Double Driver is free and can do that for you. |
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First install a antivirus software to protect your laptop from the virus. Its the first need to beware of Trojans. I use kaspersky.... |
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LS. Lt General Matthew B Ridgway (c-in-c Atlantic Pact Forces) alighting from 'plane and shaking hands with General Swing (6th Army Commander). CU. Side view, General Ridgway. MS. Ridgway and Swing shaking hands. MS. Ridgway holding baby son, posing with wife. MV News Reports and cameramen. MS. Ridgway standing at desk speaking (2 shots) LS. Ridgway speaking.
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1 He said to the talmidim, "It is impossible that occasions of stumbling should not come, but woe to him through whom they come! | 1 Jesus said to his disciples: "Things that cause people to sin are bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. |
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Johns Hopkins hosted a quartet of fall ball scrimmages Sunday, as Fairfield, Rutgers and UMass squared off against the Jays and each other in four regulation-length scrimmages.
Check out pictures of the action above. Johns Hopkins kicked things off against UMass, then the Minutemen played Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights stayed on the field after that game to play Fairfield, then the Stags battled Hopkins in the last game of the day. Read Geoff Shannon's notes and analysis of the action, and go to InsideLacrosse.com for even more fall ball coverage.


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One thing Umphrey's McGee has championed over the years: the fan experience.
From the start, the South Bend, Ind.-based sextet latched on to emerging technologies — the Internet, podcasts, live-streaming options, instant downloads, soundboard-fed headphones at shows (which they've dubbed "Headphones & Snowcones," after one of their songs), a fan-curated "Hall of Fame" recording series, and so on — to spread the word, and to make the whole thing better, for everyone.
It's not exactly altruism, of course; returning fans and extra revenue keep the band afloat. "From the beginning, we realized that we are going to make our living playing live shows and not through CD sales," said guitarist Brendan Bayliss. "It was the same 20 people coming to see us. We realized that without returning customers, we aren't going to have a business in five years."
The band emerged from the Notre Dame music scene in 1998, blending prog-rock, metal, funk, reggae and off-kilter covers. They've since grown into one of the best-known touring acts in the country, with devoted fans descending on every show and twice as many following their progress from their couches at home.
"When we came out in 1998, I had an e-mail address through Notre Dame," Bayliss said. "It was right when the Internet started happening. We figured we could either get on board or get passed by." Even now, they'll regularly convene to discuss the future. "We'll have powwows. We try to anticipate where it's all going to go."
Umphrey's performs twice in our area this week, once at the Klein Auditorium in Bridgeport on Oct. 17 and at the Calvin Theatre in Northampton the following night. If you're curious, sign up for headphones online ($50 rental, plus deposit), then head to the soundboard at the start of the show, and get strapped with a Sennheisser wireless pack and a pair of hi-fi Audio-Technica headphones. Wander around the show, adjust the volume to any level you want, and enjoy. You might be surprised how awesome it all is — and also wonder why more bands aren't doing it. (They will.)
"We'll see kids in the crowd standing next to each other," Bayliss said. "The moments they put [the headphones] on is an 'aha' moment... There's never going to be [another] way for the kids in the crowd to know what it really sounds like, with all the things that come into play that take away from the true sound."
Umphrey's approach to improvisation similarly grew out of the desire to make improvements. In interviews, band members have described it as "exercises in group writing," blurring the lines between composition and free-playing. They'll often agree upon pre-determined structures before launching into a jam and use hand signals and body language to "conduct" on the fly. If you aren't intimately familiar with their music, it can be hard to distinguish what's written and what's not. "We'd be listening to tapes of ourselves in the van, driving from show to show, and we'd say, 'We've just been in A minor for the last 15 minutes'," Bayliss said. "How do we avoid this in the future?"
Enter Frank Zappa, who orchestrated his bands with a series of gestures and facial expressions. "That's where we got it from," Bayliss said. "It was an easy way to get out of a rut." They can get a little complicated, and comical: a half-step forward by the "conducting" band member means "move up a half-step." Rubbing a nipple means, "milk it," or go back to the previous section. Most signals aren't even needed anymore. "I won't know where [other band members] want to go, but I can tell it's time to go," Bayliss said.
Typically Umphrey's talks over the setlist before they go on, leaving certain spots in each set open-ended for improv, but lately, Bayliss said, they've become more spontaneous about structure and cues. "We're talking about things less," he said. "It's just a product of having played together for 15 years. We can read each other's minds at this point."
Charts and drawings used to direct improvisations float around Internet channels, giving fans glimpses into the process. If a particular improv section is successful, the band might grab it for a future composition. It's all grabbable, if it serves the bigger picture. "We have a song called 'In the Kitchen," Bayliss said. "It's one of the more recognizable songs we have. I'd say 60 percent of it came from an improvisation one night... Jake started playing a progression, and I started singing about it being cold in my kitchen. It pretty much sounded like a full composition."
Hardcore fans have caught on to the inter-band communication. And yes, there are plenty of hardcore Umphrey's fans, some with band-related tattoos. That blows Bayliss' mind.
"Honestly, my reaction is: why?" Bayliss said. "It's very flattering. I don't have a tattoo and I don't think I ever would, but that's me. But there have been a couple of the faces of the guys in the band... I don't know how to react to that."
Umphrey's McGee w/ The London Souls
Oct. 17, 8 p.m., $27.50-$30, Klein Memorial Auditorium, 910 Fairfield Ave., Bridgeport, (203) 259-1036, theklein.com;
Oct. 18, 8 p.m., $23.50, Calvin Theatre, 19 King St., Northampton, Mass., (413) 584-1444, iheg.com.


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My Stella Cherry has cherries on it for the first time. It's in a pot. I live in Northern Ohio. Zone 5, maybe zone 6. I have a series of pvc arches that I use as a frame for frost protection and bird nets for a dozen or so potted fruit trees / bushes. I will also use that frame to create a plastic sheet umbrella to keep rain off the Cherries to prevent cracking. Problem is I will be leaving for 8 days. Our wonderful neighbors will water while I'm gone. It's a bit of a hassle to work around the bird net. If it's not necessary, I'd prefer not to impose that on my neighbor. So I'd prefer to delay the net & plastic sheeting. Questions: For Reference, Adams County nursery is one zone warmer than me. They list the harvest date for their earliest sweet cherry as 6/15. Thanks |
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Rain cracking only occurs just before harvest. Bird damage can begin soon after the cherries begin to color. So that would be before rain cracking. Color begins to show about 2-4 weeks before harvest. I'd say 4 weeks for me because the cherries continue to get sweeter well after most people are forced to harvest. If you are leaving soon I'd think you'd be alright. My impression is that everything is late up there this year. If they aren't beginning to change color when you leave then you are still quit a ways from harvest. |
Thanks fruitnut. I'm not leaving for a couple of weeks yet. I'm a beginner at this. But we did have a late spring, so I would expect fruit to ripen later. Followup questions: How long do you leave your cherries on the tree after they look ripe? I've been learning from your blueberry posts too. How long do you leave blueberries on the bush after they look ripe? Thanks. |
On cherries probably at least two weeks after they are fully colored up. But that's one crop where you taste them as they go along and decide for yourself. There is usually a downside to leaving them on too long, less acid if you like that and softer fruit. Blueberries are really about the same but I've left them anywhere from days to 6 weeks. Same potential downsides. |
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What month? I will be turning 40 in 2006 and I plan on doing it at WDW as well. May for me.
I'm Biz (Actually, Michele, but Bizarra is my online nom de plum) I am from Columbus Ohio and am a big Disney fan.
Last year I was in the World at this time :-( Ah well...
I'm currently planning on spending my 40th birthday there in 2006 with friends and family. I figure if I'm gonna go over the Hill, I may as well do it in a place where I can let my inner child come out and play. heehee
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What month? I will be turning 40 in 2006 and I plan on doing it at WDW as well. May for me.
October for me. :-) I'm really looking forward to it. LOLOriginally Posted by flutter
I just may do that! Where do you chat? I'd love to meet some Dis friends.Originally Posted by Princess Jas
It was nice meeting you in chat last night! Don't be stranger!
always plotting, planning, and looking forward to our next adventure...
Thanks, it was nice to meet you too. I'm sure I will join you all a little more regularly. I enjoyed meeting folks.Originally Posted by Mandabella
PS.. love that doombuggy smilie. LOL
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