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Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Shape Up NYC: Mind Body Fusion
at Conference House Park Visitor Center (in Conference House Park), Staten Island
8:00 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Low-impact cardio followed by balancing stretches and meditation to raise heart rate, burn calories, reduce stress, and work out every muscle.
Category: Fitness, Seniors
Greenmarket at Grand Army Plaza
at Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
At what other market can you do all your food shopping, sample local wine and explore Brooklyn's favorite park?
Category: Markets
Master Story Tellers Exhbition
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Classic tales from Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Edgar Allan Poe, and master story tellers, inspire nineteen children's book artists who create illustrations for…
Category: Art
Shape Up NYC Zumba
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
9:00 a.m.–10:00 a.m.
Combining Latin, international and popular music with dance moves that create an aerobic workout. This class features a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt…
Category: Fitness
Shape Up NYC Body Sculpting
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
This total body workout addresses muscle strength and endurance while keeping the heart rate up to burn calories. Enjoy fun, continuous movement to great music.
Category: Fitness
ESL Advanced Class
at Poe Park Visitor Center (in Poe Park), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
The focus of this class will be on sharpening English language speaking, reading comprehension, and writing for Spanish-speaking adults.
Category: Education
Bryant Park Fly Fishing
at Fifth Avenue Terrace (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Learn the basics of fly fishing for free. Join expert instructors from Orvis for lessons of fly casting and outfit rigging.
Category: Education, Nature
Basic Canoeing
at Martling Avenue and Brooks Pond Place (in Clove Lakes Park), Staten Island
11:00 a.m.
Our trained Urban Park Rangers will lead you on canoe adventures that range from the gentle waters of protected lakes to the challenging open waters of rivers and bays.
Category: Kayaking and Canoeing
Pop-Up Audubon: Wonderful Warblers
at Eastwood (in Prospect Park), Brooklyn
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Through fun games, experiments and citizen science projects, learn why warblers are so wonderful.
Category: Birding, Education, Nature, Kids, Tours
Pop-Up Audubon II: Plant Clues
at Peninsula (in Prospect Park), Brooklyn
11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
Learn what trees and plants tell us about our environment.
Category: Birding, Education, Nature, Kids
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. . . will it run on my computer!?!
The article mentions use of the Quake 3 graphics engine. Are there any games currently out that use this system? They might help estimate the sytem reqs for BioShock.
By the way, people keep comparing this game to System Shock. I don't know much about that, but BioShock does remind me of Deus Ex. Different background themes certainly, but Deus Ex gameplay was driven by character customization choices and those plasmids sound similar.
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Mitsuko Uchida and Mozart Piano Concertos; Beethoven's 9th; and Brahms' Symphonies
Danish String Quartet play Beethoven's Op. 132 Quartet in A minor from Lincoln Center
Emanuel Ax plays Bach's "D Minor Keyboard Concerto" with the New York Philharmonic
Helene Grimaud plays Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Shostakovich's Leningrad Symphony from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Orion Weiss plays Ravel's Piano Concerto in G with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Ravel's Piano Concerto in G, Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto featured on this week's "Evening Concert"
Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" recorded live in concert on "The New York Philharmonic This Week"
Till Fellner plays Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Truth to Power Festival II from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on tonight's :"Evening Concert"
Music from "On the Waterfront" on tonight's Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra broadcast
Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 and piano music from the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
50 Great Teachers: A Few Of Our Favorite Teachers
Rauner Calls For An Increase In State Contribution To Education
Mussorgsky, Borodin, and Shostakovich on tonight's "Evening Concert"
The Tallis Scholars perform Allegri's "Miserere" on tonight's "Evening Concert"
Jaap Van Zweden Conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Prokofiev's 5th Symphony
Inon Barnatan plays Brahms' 1st Piano Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
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Snow Day. Think Moss.
The winter storm is upon us… fast and furious with winds now creating drifts that topple over all of us. Spending some time outside in the freshly fallen snow does wonders for the spirit. A pure canvas, a photographer's dream, a child's wish and a dog's joy. The tree branches hold the fresh powder with... Read more »
I Knew Him Well, Ernie Banks a Life of Giving
It is another sad morning as we loose another great soul, Ernie Banks, of the Chicago Cubs. I had become friends with Mr. Ernie Banks while I worked at Oak Brook Hills Hotel as a Concierge in the 80′s. Ernie Banks, who always insisted I call him Ernie, was the kindest man I knew, with... Read more »
Where the Light Lives
As I find myself far away from home during this holiday season, it is in the awareness of the light that I find is the greatest gift of all. As my family and friends continue their individual traditions, whether it be a midnight mass at a Catholic Church, or lighting another candle on the Menora…... Read more »
Buddha Living in The Netherlands
I find a deep sense of sacredness when I return to The Netherlands. As this is my second journey this year, it is in a deep sense of mystery and curiousity that I find never ending Buddha Living here. Is it the people or is it the symbolism itself that in such a small country,... Read more »
Here and Now. A Sunrise in Ireland
It took a brilliant sunrise. It was a new light – one that I have never seen with such rich, deep colors. It was a new sunrise for me, and to be witness to this sunrise at it's own level of light… from 37,000 feet high on an Aer Lingus wing… I felt the morning... Read more »
Light Within A Japanese Garden Lives Through All Seasons
The snow is falling and winter has placed it's gentle hands upon the Midwest. As inspiring as it is… with new snow glistening on our landscape, I quietly work on new Japanese Garden designs for 2015… and wonder where did our brilliant autumn go? I'm still working on editing photos and publications from the North... Read more »
Koi & Japanese Gardens Flourish into an International Design Center
The realm of mind and spirit is the undiscovered land. – M Malinowski In healing, one sees it's own soul. Even when healing others a metamorphosis occurs within yourself. The Koi Whisperer Sanctuary & Japanese Gardens has developments underway to continue to enlighten Koi Keepers throughout the world while embracing the Japanese Garden design... Read more »
Osaka in Chicago: NAJGA Members Reveal the Light
The light has been revealed once more and in a depth of knowledge that is brought to the surface by the North American Japanese Garden Association and it's distinguished members, partners and affiliations to honor and to educate. Internationally renown Japanese Gardens live here in Chicago, and they bowed in honor to serve the NAJGA... Read more »
The Phoenix Rises - Japanese Garden Designers Come to Chicago
The North American Japanese Garden Association is coming to Chicago with it's members from across the United States and Canada to gather to continue their education, experience and passion for the love of Japanese gardens from over 50 renown Guest Speakers. The 2014 NAJGA Conference "New Pathways, The Role of The Japanese Garden for Society... Read more »
The Mystical Light of Autumn
It happened today. It arrived, the mystical light of Autumn. I have been watching the light change for weeks now and it has awakened me. Each and every day I followed the summer light and the energy within each particle and as it was drawn to particular elements of nature. The light this year has... Read more »
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Top 10 Happy Country Songs
Country music sometimes has a reputation for being all about heartache and cheatin', but the genre also has a lot to say about the good things in life!
Sugarland began in Atlanta, Ga., as a trio, made up of Kristian Bush, Kristen Hall and, the final addition, Jennifer Nettles, who all knew each other from the city's folk-rock scene. They signed with Mercury Nashville in 2004 and released their debut album, 'Twice the Speed of Life,' the same year. Sugarland's first single, "Baby Girl," became an instant hit — it landed in the Top 5 and was the highest-peaking debut single for a group since 1991 — as did their second single, "Something More." Hall left the group in 2005, and the now-duo's sophomore record, 2006′s 'Enjoy the Ride,' earned them four Top 10 songs, a CMA Award for Vocal Duo of the Year and multiple Grammys and ACM Awards for the No. 1 smash "Stay." In 2013, after two more hit albums and a child for Nettles and her husband, both halves of Sugarland took a break from the duo to pursue solo projects. Nettles' 'That Girl' album was released in January 2014, and Bush's debut solo single, "Trailer Hitch," came out that summer.
Country music sometimes has a reputation for being all about heartache and cheatin', but the genre also has a lot to say about the good things in life!
Country music may be known for its "tear in my beer" sad songs, not to mention its tunes about trucks, dirt roads and Southern living, but the genre also has a helluva sense of humor.
Sugarland and Live Nation have reached a settlement with the victims of the stage collapse at the 2011 Indiana State Fair that killed seven people and left almost 100 others injured.
A great country song can inspire you, make you laugh or make you cry. It may even enliven you to do crazy things like jump out of an airplane, dance like no one is watching ... or do a little damage to a cheater's beloved truck.
Although he's new on the country scene as a solo artist, Kristian Bush is no stranger to the CMA Awards. As Sugarland, he and Jennifer Nettles have been nominated for 17 CMA Awards and won six times. But, as Bush told The Boot during 2014 CMA Awards week, the situation backstage took a little getting used to.
Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush combine into a perfect force of sweet and sassy, feminine and masculine, emotive and strong as the Grammy-nominated duo Sugarland. Since their debut single 'Baby Girl,' they have been a mainstay in country music, with radio hits, awards show performances and over 14 million records sold.
Folks in country music like to play nice with each other. But there are times when, as Waylon Jennings once sang, something's got 'em "feudin' like the Hatfields and McCoys." The gloves come off, sparks fly, and the real fun begins.
Kristian Bush is working on his own solo album, but his work with Jennifer Nettles as part of the award-winning duo Sugarland is never far from his mind. The singer-songwriter, who co-wrote most of the songs on their four studio albums, reveals that many of the tunes told one continuous story.
At a recent stop in Buffalo, N.Y., Sugarland's Kristian Bush eagerly shared new solo material, as well as stories about writing hit songs and his very first drinking tune.
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All Music Guide -Released two years after Cartel's Band in a Bubble reality show, Cycles finds the group taking another stab at anthemic pop
ock, replete with triple-layered guitars and carpe diem lyrics. "Let me introduce myself" goes the very first line, a sly reference to the band's own critique of the Band in a Bubble experiment, and Cycles does a competent job realigning the group with its emo-pop contemporaries. Songs like "Let's Go," "Deep South," "Faster Ride" are the highlights here, evoking a sense of teenaged uplift that affects even the oldest of listeners.


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Winnipeg Free Press - PRINT EDITION
NDP effort to save itself starts with throne speech
Push to explain PST hike, reverse flagging support could come too late
It's too early to call it desperation.
However, when the lieutenant-governor reads a new speech from the throne today in the Manitoba legislature, there will be a palpable urgency in the messaging coming from the NDP government.
Since its controversial April budget, in which it raised the PST by one point to fund infrastructure, the NDP government has been hemorrhaging support. If current poll results hold firm until the next provincial election in two years' time, the NDP would almost certainly be returned to opposition.
The province will try to reverse its sagging fortunes today with a throne speech that attempts to reset the context for the PST hike debate.
This will be done by revealing specific details of some large strategic projects to be funded by the additional PST monies. Chief among those projects is a commitment to improve Highway 75 to ensure it is immune from spring flooding.
The province is also expected to introduce a "multi-year investment plan" the NDP hopes will help people see exactly what the increased tax burden is accomplishing.
"The narrative is going to be a lot more clear," Jobs and Economy Minister Theresa Oswald said in an interview. "It's not going to be mushy."
Mushy would be a fair way of describing the messaging to date. From the outset, then-finance minister Stan Struthers struggled to explain why, still faced with a half-billion-dollar deficit, he would raise taxes to spend on infrastructure rather than balance the books.
The trouble continued as Selinger set out on the road to announce projects that were being funded by the new tax revenues. Critics complained there was no focus for the new monies, and they were being squandered on low-priority projects.
The plan to raise taxes to improve infrastructure became political quicksand over the summer as the Opposition Progressive Conservatives trapped the NDP in the legislature, roasting them on a daily basis and preventing needed legislation from passing.
With the fall, however, Selinger has signalled he is at least willing to try to reset the debate around the PST hike. The key to this effort was the recent cabinet shuffle, in which Oswald and new Finance Minister Jennifer Howard took on the task of rebuilding the NDP's tattered reputation on fiscal matters.
Oswald, who moved from health, and Howard, formerly minister of family services and labour, certainly have their work cut out for them. Struthers, who always seemed to be an odd choice as finance minister, failed spectacularly to generate any confidence in the province's fiscal fortunes or to enunciate a salient argument in favour of a tax hike.
Despite the fact business, transportation and construction industry lobbies were prepared, under the right circumstances, to get behind a tax increase, Struthers could not galvanize that support.
For example, Struthers never once mentioned the potential job and GDP gains that could come as a result of the increased infrastructure spending. There was a stimulus angle to this measure but Struthers seemed unable to define it for the general public.
Oswald in particular has already signalled there is a new approach on the infrastructure file. Her portfolio, which is now chiefly responsible for the infrastructure program, is an obvious attempt to connect the higher sales tax with jobs and economic growth.
Last week, Oswald met with key industry sectors to get input on how best to invest the new infrastructure money. That is something Struthers simply did not do, either before the budget or afterwards, in the wake of outrage over the tax hike and the province's decision to bypass a referendum.
Oswald announced following that meeting her government was now committed to spending the new PST monies on "core" infrastructure. That messaging, along with the decision to highlight improvements to Highway 75 in the throne speech, is an important tell on how the NDP hopes to win back some of that support.
Many of the key lobbies and special interest groups that have opined on the tax increase have demanded to see longer-term, higher-value infrastructure projects become the focus of the new infrastructure monies. Ensuring commercial truck traffic is not forced to make costly, time-consuming detours around a submerged highway is certainly a step towards meeting those demands.
The challenge for Oswald and Howard is to inject some wow into the infrastructure announcements over the next two years in particular. Rather than a school here and a hospital addition there, they will have to unveil some big-ticket projects that finally show Manitobans the value of the tax increase.
However, it remains uncertain whether that, in and of itself, can save the NDP from the self-inflicted wounds it has suffered over the last six months.
It's not desperate times for the NDP just yet. But with today's throne speech, the current government begins what is in essence a 24-month reclamation project that will decide its ultimate political fate.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition November 12, 2013 A4
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Themes: Aardvark
Maintained by Shaun Daubney
The original menubar based theme for Moodle rewritten for Moodle 2.5+ to draw its base from Bootstrap.
The original menubar based theme for Moodle rewritten for Moodle 2.5+ to draw its base from Bootstrap.
The theme features customised icons and a profile section in the menubar ported from the previous version but with a more modern interface that adapts to different devices.
Two other new features added to this latest version are General Alert and Snow Alert. Allowing easy implementation of alerts to users for events such as Student Council Meetings, Charity Events or Snow Closures.
Inspiration taken from the Essential theme by Julian Ridden for the block icons.
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- Thu, Jan 8, 2015, 7:33 PMWRONG VERSION on "version.php" (https://moodle.org/plugins/download.php/7635/theme_aardvark_moodle28_2015010700.zip)
"$plugin->version = 2014010700; // The current module version (Date: YYYYMMDDXX)"
- Thu, Jan 8, 2015, 7:56 PMHi Shaun, same problem as mention by Ricardo Caiado, please take a look:
- Thu, Jan 8, 2015, 9:49 PMSorry about that, hopefully fixed it now. It's because I forgot it was 2015 now
- Thu, Jan 8, 2015, 10:20 PMGreat Shaun, from my open points, now everything solved! Thanks!
- Wed, Jan 14, 2015, 12:30 PMHi Shaun,
I am using Aardvark for my upcoming site. I have a very basic question for you. I want to use font awesome for majority of the icons instead of pngs. e.g. I would like to use font awesome fa-plus instead of the existing collapsed.png. Is there an easy way to achieve this? What all changes do I need to do.
Really appreciate your help in this direction.
- Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 9:26 PMI can answer that, although it is easy to accomplish it will not work for all the icons in Moodle only those that respond to the renderer you use. Father than ask this question here can you ask the same thing in the Moodle Themes Forum? Cheers Mary
- Thu, Jan 15, 2015, 9:42 PMFurther to my last comment the renderer you need to use is similar to this one ...
https://github.com/lazydaisy/Moodle-Studio/blob/tiny/tiny/renderers.php#L379-L494 but it needs altering to enable fonts rather than the sprite icons that renderer was written for. But changing it and adding Font Awesome is pretty easy...well I think so...if you Google it I am sure you will find a forum post that either Gareth Barnard or myself have written which explains it all.
- Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 10:59 PMHi, does this theme have the option of embedding YouTube videos?
- Fri, Jan 30, 2015, 11:55 PMHi Bradley, things like embedding media files is not a Theme limited option, it is freely available in Moodle itself, you just need to make sure that it has Admin permissions to add embedded files, Check out the Moodle Docs about embedding files.
- Sat, Jan 31, 2015, 3:00 PMIs this theme support RTL languages?
- Wed, Feb 4, 2015, 12:46 AMHi,
I would like to have not only the Google-Play- and Itunes-Store but also the Windows-Store implemented in Aardvaark.
Maybe that's no big thing?
Thanks for this great theme ...
- Tue, Feb 17, 2015, 7:38 PMHi, I have a 2.7 site with Aardvark and I love the theme. In some computers running IE 8 the background shows as a bright orange color when on all other systems its set as a faint gray. I can't figure this out from any of the settings. Sorry I have no programming experience and am new to moodle.
My site is at www.igrtonline.com
- Fri, Feb 27, 2015, 8:36 PMgreat to see this back for the latest release, great work Shuan My personal fav theme. Have you got fontAwesome included anywhere? and I cant seem to drag and dop blocks but it may be something to do with some old mods I made in good old Aardvark Penguin- but unusre -will get back to you.
- Wed, Mar 11, 2015, 9:28 PMHello Shaun !!
My name is Renato, I am Brazilian and I currently live in Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul - Brazil, I have several projects in Moodle and would like to use your Template AARDVARK make some customizations, including the insertion of a logo in the header and bottom of the main page of the model. You could help me fast And How Can I Do these inserts?
Thank you very much !!
Renato Nicodemus
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Within the context of a personal play project for learning more about DDD patterns, I am missing a Specification object for my filters.
Looking around for examples, it seems that everything (like LinQ) is oriented towards SQL databases. However with many NoSQL databases most queries, even just a "select * from table" requires a predefined view. Nevertheless, if the repository is mapping a web service even the type of queries is much more rigid.
Are there variations of the Specification pattern taking into account the limitations of non SQL databases? I have the feeling that this would require the use of inheritance and static declarations to support different type of persistence backends.
How should I combine "sorting" and "filtering" in my repositories? As an example consider the repository for a list of Order items.
So these are different type of sorting when displayed by a table. Since I might handle large results, I never considered sorting or filtering in my views or view models. Initially I thought about a Proyection class that selects the right query from a repository according the user actions. However this does not work well if I want to combine different sort strategies along different filters.
Obviously I need some type of "specification" object, but I am not sure if:
- Should I use them for my repositories, making them smarter? Or should I use them for my view models?
- How can properly restrict my specification objects for a good polyglot persistence?
Originally I thought about performing any query with a Repository acting as a collection-like interface but now I am noticing that a view model may also behave as "stateful" collection-like interface while the former are "stateless" collection-like interfaces.
- Overall should I try to keep any type of sorting/filtering inside my repositories? It seems that doing so, might add unnecessary complexity if all the query results can be loaded into memory.
UPDATE: To spice up this question, consider also that although NoSQL views can be filtered and sorted, a full text search might need an external indexing engine such as Lucene or SQLite-FTS providing only the unique identity of the Entities for a query that must be sorted and filtered again.


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"I just love school, I love learning," said the West Las Vegas senior.
Baca is also a year into her college career, having taken dual-enrollment classes at Highlands University. She maintains a 4.1 grade point average as a senior, and has earned a 4.0 GPA in her studies at Highlands University.
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Cetaceans Able To Focus Sound For Echolocation
Well crustacians are able to focus sound for murder . Beat that, cetaceans!
Comment: Re:It is (Score 1) 123
Wow, this is great to hear - I'd never heard of you guys before.
And looking at your site, I like what you're doing even more - direct 3d printed aerospikes? Pretty darn cool. What sort of 3d printing tech are you using? Have you looked into the new hybrid laser spraying / CNC system that's out there (I forget the manufacturer)? The use of high velocity dust as source material gives you almost limitless material flexibility and improved physical properties that you can't get out of plain laser sintering, and the combination with CNC yields fast total part turnaround times.
And you're working on turbopump alternatives? Geez, you're playing with all of my favorite things here....
What sort of launch are you all looking at - is this ground launched (and if so, do you have a near-equatorial site) or air launched? I'd love to see more details about your rockets, what sort of ISP figures you're getting so far, how you're manufacturing your tanks, and on and on. But I guess I'll have to wait just like everyone else
I wish you lots of success! And even if you don't make it, at the very least you'll have added a ton of practical research to the world
Comment: Re:Wrong Focus (Score 1) 123
Note that it's technically possible to have something like this with a slow reactor; you could for example use steam as a moderator, which will transmit a reasonable proportion of near infrared through it (the hotter you can run your fuel particles, the better transmission you'll get). But not only will you lose some light, but just the simple act of neutron moderation is a very heat-intensive process, meaning big radiators if you want big power (not to mention that the moderator itself for such a slow reactor is also far heavier than the core). The whole point of my variant is to avoid the moderator and avoid the ship having to ever capture anything but incident heat lost due to generation, transmission, reflection, etc losses.
One possibility for a slow reactor, albeit only directly applicable to the rocket mode above, is to have your propellant be your moderator, absorbing both IR and moderating fast neutrons. The fact that it's heating then becomes irrelevant (actually an advantage), since you're dumping it out the nozzle for thrust. If one wanted mission flexibility in such a scenario you could have such a moderator-ejecting rocket mode used to get to orbit, and then switch to retaining the moderator once in orbit and cooling it instead in order to make use of the fission fragment operating mode.
But a fast reactor would obviously be highly preferable so you don't have to worry about a moderator at all.
Comment: Re:Wrong Focus (Score 1) 123
Wait a minute, no, I entered it right into the calculator the first time around. Argh, this interface is confusing. Radiative equilibrium for Tunsten at its melting point 3300C according to the calculator is 92MW/m. A "cool" 1200C radiative temperature according to the calculator 2,6MW/m. According to the calculator, 10kW/m is about 380C.
Comment: Re:Wrong Focus (Score 1) 123
The cornerstone of it is the dusty fission fragment rocket, so I'd start there. Another key aspect is the use of a accelerator-driven subcritical fast reactor rather than a critical slow reactor. Lastly it's a variant of a nuclear lightbulb, albeit (as mentioned) without the primary drawbacks of them (containment and radiation blackening of the chamber blocking the light). This latter aspect is due to the spectrum changes of fused silica (I can't find a paper on short notice that shows the IR spectrum, but you can see that for most types of fused silica / fused quartz, there's little loss of transmission on the red side of the spectrum; this holds true but is even more pronounced in the IR range).
Comment: Re:Wrong Focus (Score 1) 123
Used an online calculator earlier but clearly I had entered something in wrong last time because the results it's coming back with this time are different (and much lower). Tungsten could radiate around 10kW/m around its melting point. Graphite could do 14,5kW/m at its sublimation point. Hafnium carbide, 17,2kW/m at its melting point (though ceramics are brittle and probably not suitable).
An ideal near-term radiative solution for minimizing mass in this regard would involve a working fluid in carbon tubes carrying a thermal fluid out to carbon radiators.
There's also radiator concepts that don't use solids at all - various kinds of droplet radiators.
Comment: Re:Wrong Focus (Score 1) 123
How exactly are radiators that can radiate tens to hundreds of kilowatts per square meter supposed to be mass-prohibitive but solar panels that generate a couple hundred watts at best per square meter not mass-prohibitive? Okay, they're not exactly the same, solar cells are inherently going to be heavier than whatever minimum thin aluminum sheeting is needed for radiating, but the heat pipes leading up to it will be heavier than solar power booms... regardless, I can't see how solar wins this competition.
Comment: Re:Wrong Focus (Score 1) 123
I assume because sunlight is only 1kW/m at Earth, less at Mars, and of that you only capture a few hundred watts (using very good, ridiculously-expensive spectrolab cells, otherwise only 150-200W or so, assuming full coverage), and space-borne solar panel booms aren't as light as one would desire? If you envision thermal radiators in place of solar panel booms, which can radiate a *lot* more heat per square meter than the couple hundred watts of a solar panel boom, then you can see how a nuclear reactor has the potential to have a much better power/mass ratio where cooling is the reactor's limiting factor (which in most cases it's expected to be)
Comment: Re:Wrong Focus (Score 1) 123
My personal "dream rocket" is to combine a dusty fission fragment rocket with the nuclear lightbulb concept. You have a subcritical fast dusty core which achieves criticality via a spallation neutron source rather than a moderator, using a compact linear accelerator powered by the reactor's fragment deceleration grids (no Carnot losses). The core radiates intensely in the mid-IR range. The core is suspended electrostatically in a fused silica chamber, which while it will steadily blacken in the visible from neutron radiation, is resistant to blackening in the infrared, and can tolerate quite high temperatures. Outside of the core are mirrored aluminum walls. The particles of nuclear fuel in the core being a fine dust, their ability to radiate quickly is extreme; if the process is designed suchly that they tend to radiate and absorb in different bands (a strong reverse greenhouse effect) then you can have ridiculous optical power output despite the radiative temperature only being in the infrared.
Such a craft could operate in several different modes.
1) Clean airbreathing: Air is shunted into the engine between the transparent chamber and the reflector. "Starter" microwave beams (powered by the deceleration grids) help ionize a thin sheath of air to plasma, making it more opaque to IR, allowing it to heat even more, generate even more plasma, absorb even more IR, and so forth. The superheated air exits out the rocket nozzle.
2) Rocket: Hydrogen or other fuel is shunted in instead of air; otherwise, the process is exactly the same. #1 and #2 can be hybridized, and also get a little more boost from any combustion that occurs in the process.
3) VASIMR-like: Only a low flow rate of fuel is injected. The low flow rate and high degree of ionization allow it to reach a much higher temperature and be directed out of a magnetic nozzle rather than being in contact with the physical nozzle.
4) Fission fragment rocket: The bottom of the core is opened up and fission fragments leave the rocket freely. This is of course dirty and low thrust, and would only be useful in space, but would yield absurdly high ISP while still achieving thrust levels comparable to today's ion engines.
5) Photonic rocket: If you want to go really extreme, you could simply just radiate the intense IR beam from your core running as hot as you can get it without melting the silica chamber or mirrored reflector. But I'm not sure if you'd actually get better performance, as you wouldn't be tossing your waste (thus lightening up the craft), and 3/4ths of the energy is already in the fission fragments. On the other hand, if you're willing to accept even less thrust, the simple decay of any short-lived isotopes inside the core will provide some thermal output even when your reactor is not engaged.
Another neat part of this is that being a fast reactor, it could breed its own fuel. So mined natural offworld uranium or thorium could be purified and milled into appropriate dust and then injected into the reactor; with time it'd breed into the fuel needed to power the craft. No need for offworld centrifuges or anything like that. Another capability would be to work around the anti-nuclear crowd on launches: if you face too much opposition you could launch your craft loaded non-fissile fuel, just natural uranium or thorium, and then mount it to a (very) large space-borne solar power source. You could then breed your fuel in space using the craft's linear accelerator. Of course, it'd be far better to just load it with fissile fuel on earth and then ascend in airbreathing mode.
A fission fragment reactor is expected to produce no waste when operating in fragment rocket mode excepting what fragments you decelerate for power generation. When operating as a closed system (with all fragments decelerated), the waste will still be low, as with any fast reactor, assuming that fragments are decelerated in an area well exposed to the core's neutron flux.
This is not the only "nuclear lightbulb" concept, but it avoids the problems with all of the others. It uses a practical, proven way to keep the fuel from contacting the "bulb" (electrostatically repelled dust) rather than a lot of hand-waving, and neutron blackening is not a problem due to the use of IR rather than visible or UV light. Dusty fission fragment reactors have been researched and simulated; however, that which was simulated was a slow reactor with a water moderator, not a fast subcritical reactor. So I can't say how well that aspect would play out. Also I've done no simulations on the rate of absorption of air or various fuels to absorb the IR on their way out of the rocket. I have little doubt that some configuration would work in that regard, but it's not something I've calculated out.
Comment: Re:Wrong Focus (Score 1) 123
Not true. Look up MPD thrusters. The thrust to weight ratios are incredible, the only limiting factors are cooling rate and power supply. If we're proposing an "infinitely powerful battery", then that takes care of the bigger challenge. A MPD thruster with such a battery and, say, an isotopically pure diamond radiator, could conceivably lift off from the surface of a planet.
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In fact all forces should get weaker with distance faster in an expanding space than in flat space.
That seems like quite an assumption on your part, if I'm understanding you correctly. We can't just assume that all properties of spacetime are scaling evenly - if they did, then we'd perceive no effect at all.
But perhaps I'm misunderstanding you.
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Some pilots would probably still want the ability to override the limits in an emergency if they feel that they can handle the situation better than the autopilot (for example, if the plane is crashing and the pilot wants better control over where/how to bring it down). If so, then you should make it a possibility to disable the limits, have it such that only *ground* can disable the limits. This would of course impose a delay, but at least overriding the limits would remain a possibility.
Of course, a pilot may try to trick ground into disabling limits (such as pretending to be going down or pretending to have a malfunction), so ground would need as much data as possible to assess whether the situation is legit. Might be tricky... best would be to err on the side of caution and only remove limits if everyone is absolutely sure that this is appropriate, if there's any doubt the answer should be "no".
Comment: Re:Wrong Focus (Score 1) 123
Not today. But maybe in the future. If you can develop a crazy-power-dense energy source and cooling system, you could probably do it with a MPD thruster. The research I've seen on MPD thrusters operating in pulsed mode yields crazy output relative to the mass of the thruster. But you can't run it continuously because it'd overhead and take way too much power. But who knows about the future? There's the potential for extreme heat conductors like isotopically pure diamond, maybe a some kind of fission fragment reactor with a deceleration grid for power...
(of course, if you have a fission fragment reactor, at least when you're in space itd be best just to jet your fragments rather than use them to power a MPD thruster...)
Comment: Re:It is (Score 5, Interesting) 123
I hope they simulate propane too, not just methane. Propane has some really interesting properties as rocket fuel but have (like methane) never gotten much research. But now there's a big rush to research methane as fuel based on the concept of generating it on Mars - so propane still gets left in the dark.
Methane's ISP is only very slightly better than propane's - 364,6 vs. 368,3 at a 100:1 expansion into vacuum and 20MPa chamber pressure. But propane at around 100K (note: not at its boiling point, 230K) has far higher density (782 kg/m^3), closer to that of room temperature RP-1 (820 kg/m) then that of boiling point methane (423 kg/m^3), which reduces tankage mass and cost. 100K propane's ISP is of course better than RP-1's 354.6 in the same conditions as above. Plus, its temperature is similar enough to your LOX that they can share a common bulkhead, which reduces mass further and simplifies construction.
Hydrogen generally is the easiest fuel to synthesize offworld. Methane is generally second, and propane third. Hydrogen is often rejected as a martian fuel because of the tankage and cooling requirements. Methane can be kept as liquid on Mars with little cooling in properly designed reflective / insulated containers - but so can 100K propane, in similar conditions, but with significantly smaller tankage requirements.
It seriously warrants more research, I tell you what.


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The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the team has agreed to terms with goaltender Peter Budaj and forward Cody McCormick. Budaj agreed to a three-year contract with the Avs. The 23-year old appeared in 34 games in goal last season, one shy of the franchise rookie record set by Mario Gosselin in 1984-85. Budaj tied for sixth among all NHL rookies with 14 wins, posting a 14-10-6 record. "Peter Budaj showed tremendous ability last season," said Avalanche Executive Vice President and General Manager Francois Giguere. "Our hockey staff is convinced that he will be a strong asset for our team for years to come. Along with Jose Theodore, we believe they will be one of the top goaltending tandems in the NHL heading into the 2006-07 season."
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Today Google and Salesforce.com announced another step in their ongoing flirtatious relationship. Salesforce.com will now bundle Google business applications into its on-line CRM offering. Salesforce will also begin to distribute Google applications backed by Salesforce support. It's always interesting when these two make an announcement for two reasons: First, they are both 100% committed to cloud computing and they think about the future of the industry in very similar terms. Second, it is fundamentally interesting to conjecture about the potential of a Salesforce acquisition. Note the rumor mill cranking up on this topic a few weeks ago when Oracle arranged for a $2B line of credit.
Now, Marc Benioff has stated early, often and loudly that Saleforce.com is not an acquisition target and has every intention of becoming the next major software infrastructure vendor. Fair enough. Salesforce.com has done all the right things to do just that. They've invested heavily in an infrastructure and built a reputation that represents a significant barrier to entry to anyone that wants to horn in on their territory. Salesforce.com has a significant history of securely and reliably delivering mission critical enterprise applications in the cloud. Raise your hand if you can make that claim. Not a lot of hands.
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We're doing podcasts at Forrester now, and I'm the internal resource for how to get them done. Here's what we've learned so far:
Post new podcasts on a regular basis. Decide on a schedule — twice a week, every week, every two weeks and stick to it. Listeners look forward to new material on a consistent basis. Consistency helps you gain and maintain an audience.
Name your podcast. Consider a contest to identify a good name. At Forrester we are still working on a name. Any ideas? In the meantime, you can name the podcast after your company like we have — Forrester Podcasts.
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... do you really think that you can contest one of the cornerstones of the neo-con machine, ... don't you think it's wise to check all your bases?
Seriously Zoo, the OP's intention here is the same as what I was going to be posting later tonight.
The definitions of "Unit Rule" and "Entire" and the whole meaning of Rule 38 is not entirely well known, and the OP's research on this matter should not be over looked.
Ben Swann and Matt Larson have jumped the gun on this, and Matt Larson has jumped the gun on more than a couple of issues now.
Both of them are drawing light to a potential land-side for the RP movement, but I think that even Ben Swann mentioned that he is looking into the specifics.
We're the "Good Guys" right? If that's so, then remember that patience is one of OUR virtues, and anxiety is NOT one of our strengths.
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