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Strategically located in the heart of West Bay, Mövenpick Hotel West Bay Doha is the perfect location for anyone looking to enjoy a little shopping, take in a cultural event, or just stroll along the Doha Waterfront Corniche. In close proximity to all the city's landmarks, our hotel can arrange for day tours and short trips for your pleasure.
City Center Mall
Looking to do a little shopping? City Center Mall has over 250 stores and is only a 10 minute walk from Mövenpick Hotel West Bay Doha. It is also home to the Doha Ice Skating Rink, a cinema and a large food court.
Katara Cultural Village
Toward the northern part of the city, you will find Katara Cultural Village, a local hub for events and activities all year long. Host to various activities throughout the year, including the country-famous Sports Day, it is also great for dining, walking and taking in a show. The village includes an amphitheater, heritage centers, libraries, art galleries and other academic facilities, not to mention retail outlets, coffee shops, museum facilities and market areas.
Museum of Islamic Art
Art and history enthusiast can enjoy one of the greatest art collections at the Museum of Islamic Art. Set on the waterfront, the museum building in itself is an architectural gem. Visitors will enjoy masterpieces of Islamic art, including metalwork, ceramics, jewelry, woodwork, textiles and glass, collected from three continents and dating from the 7th century, also labeled as one of the world's most complete collections.
Souq Waqif
Dive into the Qatari tradition and customs at the ever popular Souq Waqif. Translating into 'The Standing Market' it is becoming one of the city's top tourist spots, selling traditional garments, spices, handicrafts, and souvenirs. The Souk has also expanded and now includes restaurants serving cuisines from all over the world, as well as Shisha cafes.
The Pearl
The latest addition to West Bay's coast, The Pearl is a luxury private and modern residence area. But it is so much more than that. With retailers sprawling all over the four million square meters, it is home to "La Croisette," a 3.5 kilometre marina-front pedestrian and the world's longest waterfront luxury retail walkway that includes meters and meters of internationally renowned restaurants and high end boutiques. A perfect place for a stroll, some shopping and of course, al fresco dining.


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Bumgarner, De La Rosa rolling into rematch
Left-handers squared off April 8 in Giants win at AT&T Park
Thursday's series opener between the Giants (24-17) and Rockies (21-20) was mostly an offensive showcase, with the two teams combining for 14 runs in the first six innings.
If the last meeting between Friday's starting pitchers is any indication, the second matchup of the four-game series at Coors Field is unlikely to resemble the first.
San Francisco's Madison Bumgarner and Colorado's Jorge De La Rosa will take the mound on Friday a little more than a month after squaring off at AT&T Park on April 8. Bumgarner's Giants got the better of De La Rosa's Rockies, 4-2, but as San Francisco's 23-year-old left-hander said, it wasn't easy.
"Pretty much every inning felt like a battle," Bumgarner said after the win.
In 5 2/3 innings, Bumgarner allowed two runs on five hits on the way to besting De La Rosa, who went six innings and didn't surrender a run after Hunter Pence's three-run homer in the first.
Since that matchup, Bumgarner is 2-1 with a 2.48 ERA while De La Rosa is 4-2 with a 2.06 ERA and carries a 14-inning scoreless streak into Friday's showdown.
On Sunday, De La Rosa no-hit the Cardinals into the seventh inning on the way to an 8-2 win.
"He's dominated some good lineups in this league," Rockies manager Walt Weiss said of De La Rosa. "When he's commanding his stuff, he's one of the tougher left-handers in the National League."
Colorado could use another strong outing from De La Rosa, as they try to snap the longest active losing streak (10) against a division opponent in the Majors. The defending World Series champions are 31-9 against the Rockies since the start of the 2011 season, including a three-game sweep earlier this season and a 14-4 mark in 2012.
Rockies: LeMahieu gets called up, notches base hit
DJ LeMahieu thought he should have been on the Rockies' Opening Day roster after hitting .297 with two home runs and 22 RBIs in 81 games last year with Colorado. On Thursday, the 24-year-old infielder was recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs, and LeMahieu showed his worth as soon as he could, delivering a pinch-hit single and swiping second base in the sixth inning.
It was a long time coming for the young infielder.
"I was disappointed, yeah," LeMahieu said of not starting the season with the Rockies. "I thought I played really well at the end of last year. At the same time, I think it kind of helped me to prove that I do belong here. I think that kind of fueled me to play better."
Giants: Comebacks continue
Starting pitcher Matt Cain spotted the Rockies six runs on Thursday before the Giants' bats came alive and carried the team to an 8-6 win.
For San Francisco, battling back from behind was nothing new. Half of the Giants' 24 wins this season have been by way of a comeback, while eight wins came after San Francisco was trailing or tied going into the eighth inning.
Worth noting
• San Francisco is the only NL West team Colorado has not beaten this season (0-4).
• Marco Scutaro extended his hitting streak to 15 games by going 2-for-5 on Thursday. He was tied with the Dodgers' Matt Kemp and the Twins' Joe Mauer for the longest active hitting streak in the Majors, but neither player had a game on Thursday.
• The Giants are 12-2 in their last 14 games against the Rockies at Coors Field entering Friday night.
Jeremy Warnemuende is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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Finding the cache: Treasure hunting in Plumas County
Geocaching enthusiast Valerie Grammer finds a cache located in Meadow Valley. Grammer used a GPS to find the general location, then followed clues to locate the cache inside a fence post. Caches are hidden all over the county. Photos by James Wilson
As a former gold rush area, it's fitting that Plumas County has become such a popular spot for geocaching. In the same way that forty-niners caught the fever, so have modern day geocachers.
The recreational activity is gaining more and more popularity in Plumas County, with additional caches popping up all the time. Currently, there are more than 3,000 caches in Plumas County just waiting to be discovered.
"It's really a blast," said Valerie Grammer, geocaching enthusiast. Grammer started geocaching about six months ago and now does it nearly every weekend. "It's really addicting. Once you find your first cache, you're hooked."
What is geocaching?
Geocaching began when selective availability on Global Positioning System (GPS) was removed May 2, 2000. Selective availability was a feature on GPS that added intentional errors to locations of up to 100 meters. It was meant to protect the United States from enemies using GPS for weapon guidance.
It was removed from GPS due to the inaccuracy it allowed. The day after it was removed, May 3, 2000, the first cache was set up and geocaching as a recreational activity began.
Geocachers will hide a small cache, usually containing a little prize and hidden from sight, in a public area. The geocacher will then save the coordinates and put them online for others to find.
The recreational activity quickly blew up and there are now more than 5 million geocachers searching for more than 2 million caches.
How it works
There is one specific website geocachers use to gain access to cache locations: geocaching.com. The site offers information on all the caches that are scattered around.
Along with the GPS coordinates the geocachers upload to the site, most also provide clues and often pictures.
Users search for caches they want to find based on the area they want to search. A list of different caches pops up with details about each cache. Caches are rated based on the size of the cache itself, the difficulty in finding it and the difficulty of the terrain.
Once a user picks a cache to search for, he or she downloads the coordinates to a GPS or smartphone. A GPS system is more accurate than most smartphones, but either can be used based on the location and difficulty of the cache.
If the cache is hidden out in the middle of the forest, it's unlikely a smartphone will have the service needed to work, and a GPS would be more helpful. In downtown areas, smartphones work perfectly fine. In Plumas County there are plenty of caches for users of both devices.
The GPS will give the location of the cache, accurate to between 20 and 30 meters. Once the geocacher gets to the area, it takes brainpower to find the cache.
The hunt, the journey, the treasure
"Geocaching really is like a giant Easter egg hunt for adults," explained Grammer. "It's more about taking the journey than it is about the prize."
Grammer will plan an entire day around finding different caches. She programs her GPS with several cache locations and she and her family go from one spot to the next finding them.
"We do it as a team, but it's competitive as well. It's also a great way to get in shape. It gets you outside, hiking around and scaling mountains and you don't even realize it. You're focused on finding the cache and end up getting in a great workout."
Since the GPS only points the user within 20 – 30 meters, the real hunt begins at the location. The cache is often extremely well-hidden, and geocachers have to read the clues to find it.
One cache right outside Quincy is named "Covert Mission," for example. It takes most geocachers a while to be able to find the cache, which is located in a culvert on the side of the road. The cache itself is tough to spot, as it's attached with a magnetic bolt to the inside of the culvert.
The bolt then unscrews to reveal a little secret compartment with a log sheet inside. Each team of geocachers signs and dates the log once it's found.
Many caches are multiple clue caches. The first clue will lead to the next, which leads to the next, and so on and so forth.
A cache in Meadow Valley gives you a clue as you start to get closer. "If you can't find the cache, try going postal." The cache ends up being inside a fence post, a spot one would never look without the clue.
Usually these caches include a larger variety of prizes at the end for geocachers to choose from.
The prizes range in size and content. Usually they are trinkets. Foreign, old and fake currency, little plastic animals, jewelry, personal notes and business cards are popular prizes in the caches around Plumas County.
Once a geocacher takes a prize, it is customary to leave one in its place. Geocachers never take the cache itself, as it can be rediscovered over and over again by different searchers. Since the prizes aren't worth very much, the true prize is in the hunt itself.
"Every time I pass by a cache that I discovered, I can't help but think of searching for it. There are all these little secret, hidden treasures I pass by every day now, and get some satisfaction in knowing that I know where they are," continued Grammer.
Geocaching can be a fun activity for families, though some precautions are necessary. It is suggested to bring a backpack that includes a first aid kit, sunscreen, bug spray and water.
Also, geocachers must be mindful of where they are. Caches are supposed to be located only on public property. Trespassing while geocaching is still trespassing.
With a little common sense and a strong dose of curiosity, geocaching is a great way to bring families together and have a lot of fun.


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Golden State Warriors (30 - 19) @ Memphis Grizzlies (30 - 18)
Start time: 5:00 PM PST @ FedEx Forum
Local TV: CSN Bay Area
Nat TV: None
Probable starters for the Golden State Warriors:
C - Andrew Bogut
PF - David Lee
SF - Harrison Barnes
SG - Klay Thompson
PG - Stephen Curry
Probable starters for the Memphis Grizzlies:
C - Marc Gasol
PF - Zach Randolph
SF - Tayshaun Prince
SG - Tony Allen
PG - Mike Conley
Team leaders:
PPG - S. Curry (20.8) | Z. Randolph (15.6)
RPG - D. Lee (11.0) | Z. Randolph (11.8)
APG - S. Curry (6.5) | M. Conley (5.7)
SPG - S. Curry (1.6) | M. Conley (2.3)
BPG - A. Bogut (1.9) | M. Gasol (1.8)
Game Thread: Warriors @ Memphis Grizzlies 2013-02-08
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I've been a Warriors fan since they traded Chris Webber. Can you imagine how that's like....
I think we take this one.
From "we believe", to "we belong", to "we gon beatcho ass!"
In terms of differential and winning percentage, we are the luckiest team in the league. I expect some regression, I am/was hoping we can/could avoid it because of the return of Bogut. But I think is probably definitely a lost.
Memphis is coughing up points with their perimeter lock down player in Canada. 3 out of 4 games without Gay and they're batting .250, allowing 93.8 points - compared to the 89.6 they gave up before the trade. Not to mention, without their sole victory against D-League level Washington, their points allowed since the trade swells to 99.7, over 10 points higher than when they had Gay. Granted, Gay hasn't solved ALL the Raptors' problems... But he did net them a victory against the Clippers, not to mention his losses in Toronto came at the hands of a nail-biting 4th quarter against the red hot Celtics and a Heat team whose Big 3 put up 81 points on 60% shooting.
But I'm going off on a tangent. I expect a tremendous effort from the Warriors, who have been embarrassed twice in a row... Especially against a weakened Memphis squad lacking their perimeter stopper. Golden State by 8, Lee goes for 18 points, 13 boards, and 7 dimes. GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS DIE HARD |
When did the Warriors quit playing good rotational defense?
holy fukking fuk, man... we suck this road trip...
From "we believe", to "we belong", to "we gon beatcho ass!"
We're just running into some bad luck, man. Allen shouldnt score 10 points this early and Daye shouldn't either.
From "we believe", to "we belong", to "we gon beatcho ass!"
Teams are shooting lights out against us recently. The question is, are we out of luck, or are we just playing that bad of a defense?
Seems like luck to me. All the teams are hitting their 3's against us. Jackson preaches defense from the inside out, so you'd imagine Golden State is still forcing their opponents into outside jumpers... But the past 3 games, it seems like somebody (Lee, Jefferson, and Thompson mostly) are constantly getting burned on the rotation by a corner 3. It's one thing to submit easier jumpers on the perimeter, but for chrissakes you gotta get a hand in somebody's face.
As far as tonight, I'm okay with being back by 7 at the half so long as they get it to within 4 by the end of the 3rd. Curry ignites in the final quarter, so give him something to work with and his late shooting should manage the rest. Lee is unconscious right now; I like him as a 3rd quarter option, though I see Memphis crashing him with hard physicality, so look for him to pick up 3 or 4 dimes in the quarter by facilitating off the post. Bogut is doing his job inside. My only advice besides the obvious is this: Barnes looks primed for a 40 minute game. He's contributing WAY more than Green (even defensively) and he's got the young legs to last. Let the rookie burn, Coach. If the Warriors can establish Barnes as a 3rd facilitator, with Lee and Steph, it'll open things up for Klay and then magic happens. 3rd quarter is crucial from start to finish. Let's hold them to under 25 and go for 30! GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS DIE HARD |
I've been saying that about Barnes since the beginning of the season. Kid always had it in him, just needs minutes early, to make him more confident. And Green was just fired up early on, happy being part of the NBA circus. Oh, when I remember some here were saying he is better than Harrison.
The more mins Barnes gets, the more other will look good as well. He is a complete player, he does it all. |
Name names. I wanna know who I should swap drug dealers with. GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS DIE HARD |
Damn! Klay already has 5 TOs. He is really awful tonight. Maybe he should spend some time on the bench, he is not doing anything good out there. Shoot is off, and his decisions, and effort altogether, are really bad. He's doing more ill than good for the team...put Kent in, can't be worse than that. Then put Klay back, if he continues to struggle, let his sit out the rest of the game. He just has a bad day, no reason to force it.
And we are back in this one, down by one. I wrote this in the wrong game thread by accident, lol. Anyway, since then, Klay nailed a three pointer. |
8th for sure...and I believe Blackfoot was making a case for Green. |
How come this kid isn't playing in the All-Star? It's not wrong to him and the fans, it's wrong to the game of basketball.
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Well that sucked again. I hate watching Klay Thompson
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61% of current Facebook users say that at one time or another in the past they have voluntarily taken a break from using Facebook for a period of several weeks or more.20% of the online adults who do not currently use Facebook say they once used the site but no longer do so.8% of online adults who do not currently use Facebook are interested in becoming Facebook users in the future.
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My fantastic interview with Alison Norrington on The Chatsfield: Harlequin Mills & Boon's transmedia storyworld is up! Check out how this Cutting Edge Multi-Platform Publishing Venture is supporting Fan Fiction & Fan-Made Videos... super cool http://www.tmcresourcekit.com/the-chatsfield-case-study-interview-with-alison-norrington/
Jeni Mawter's curator insight,
October 7, 2014 3:49 AM
Upper young adult writers and story creators, this is awesome!
TweetMarketers have always used stories to share information, change opinions and influence decisions. Now, as people create, consume and share brand stories in new ways, marketers need to go beyond ... Via John Randall
A new technology from BuzzFeed tracks content across social networks, offering a more realistic view of how stories spread.
Since "Coraline," LAIKA has been revolutionizing the process of stop-motion animation, using 3D printing to give characters millions of potential facial express
Each year, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC US) team up to provide a report on the growth of digital advertising industry.
the interactive tower connects an upper street to the public square next to porto's recently finished são bento train station.
A new exhibition looks at ways storytelling will change in years to come. IN THE FUTURE, you won't just consume stories by watching a movie or tuning into a podcast via earbuds. You'll be standing in the middle of them—maybe you'll even be able to see the blurry tip of your nose in front of you—with panoramic vision, perhaps a sense of smell, and maybe even the slight feeling of vertigo. "Originally stories were living things," says Charlie Melcher. "It was a dialogue, something you could interrupt, or physically respond to." Melcher thinks that sort of interactivity is exactly what the future holds...."
'We believe mobile video will become more important to marketers over time,' says Sheryl Sandberg, with 75% of views happening on mobiles
Mojang's crafting title still top game franchise on Google's video service, ahead of Grand Theft Auto and Five Nights at Freddy's
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April 24, 8:41 AM
3.9 milliards de vues en un mois rien que pour des vidéos de joueurs de minecraft (gameplay = enregistrements d'écrans). La demande est grande... par contre pour les vidéo avec sujets plus sérieux et plus importants on n'est loin des mêmes statistiques. Faut-il transmettre l'éducation ou les messages importants par des jeux vidéo? je me demande....
What's stopping people from using apps like Periscope and Meerkat to livestream video they don't own? Not much.
The Statement of Randolph Carter Robert Yang hopes that players of his latest game called Intimate, Infinite can be "patient" with its experimental nature. He made it across three months for makega.me's "Series" pageant, and is a multiple adaptation of Jorge Luis Borges's short story, The Garden of Forking Paths....
Vivalist's curator insight,
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"What Intimate, Infinite explores through the framework of The Garden of Forking Paths is how videogames allow us to experiment with alternative narratives and the infinite. Save states are good examples of this, as they allow us to load up a previous point in a narrative and explore its other possibilities. Likewise, checkpoints let us change the future by rewinding time and retrying to overcome what previously killed us. Intimate, Infinite also goes far beyond speaking about videogames, and just like the riddles and textual puzzles that Borges employs, it introduces philosophical concepts such as modal logic, time paradoxes, and the ontology of possibility. It's an enigmatic text that has us think outside of our own linearity, but it always comes back to the same ending despite suggesting many other possibilities—it's made for interpretation; a starting point for complex thought." you can check more entry from the Make Game's Series here: |
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April 29, 9:27 AM
POUND : proceso para optimizar y comprender la difusión en redes
Become one of the citizen cartographers around the globe tracing and checking roads, buildings, and open spaces to assist people on the ground.
The era of VR journalism is coming. Just ask the New York Times Magazine.
Becoming a Thought Leader in the Digital Era by @doriclark http://t.co/uUTMoc4pRi
How do you get more people to share your content? It's a simple question that lacks a simple answer. But, perhaps it's not as complicated as you think. In a …
Gesturish is an intuitive gesture language for touch devices created by a local developer and startup co-founder, Jared Malan.
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These are the types of wearable devices we would like help get funding on our crowdfunding platform www.moolahonly.com Please support our Headtalker campaign at http://bit.ly/1EjTMyU
People watch 4 billion videos a day on Facebook. Now it's joining with viral mavens like The Onion and Vice to make video ads those people might actually want to watch.
Tumblr has released a new ad product called Sponsored Day that allows brand posts to "stick" on top of users' dashboard for 24 hours. Also Read: The Complete Guide To Remarkable Advertising On Tumblr The new ad format is awesome for brands looking to quickly build high awareness for a product or campaign. Nike was the…
A 360-degree filming of NBC's "Saturday Night Live" 40th Anniversary Special will allow viewers to shift the direction of the camera at will. Some have used the feature to train the camera away from performers like Jerry Seinfeld so they can ogle famous audience members like Larry David and Michael Douglas whispering to each other and fixing their hair.
Periscope can be used to consume media without paying for it. But do you really want to watch Game of Thrones this way?
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Natanael Vieira's curator insight,
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Tópico relativo à leak que existiu dos episódios do GOT.
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McDonald's has over 10 million pounds of frozen chicken wings it needs to get rid of due to a failed promotion.
A huge stockpile of unsold Mighty Wings left over from the new product's promotion are now sitting in frozen storage, reports The Wall Street Journal. The fast food giant originally ordered 50 million pounds of wings to launch the spicy, bone-in chicken wings but still have about 20 percent left because the item was not popular enough with McDonald's customers.
Potential reasons for the failure are the price, the spice (CEO Don Thompson reportedly stated that the wings were too spicy for many customers) or the fact that they look too similar to the already popular chicken nuggets.
McDonald's is currently working on a plan to get rid of the excess wings.


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By Patricia Daukantas
In this age of instant telecommunications and social media, one of the reasons why people still attend professional conferences is to run into old friends and catch up with them. I certainly experienced this at CLEO:2011 as I ran into OSA staff members, OPN contributors and past OSA presidents at various sessions and the conference reception.
It's also gratifying to see people I've written about for OPN in the past and learn about their current work. For example, last year I wrote in the Scatterings column about a three-dimensional, near-infrared "invisibility cloak" created by a team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany. This week at CLEO, Joachim Fischer of KIT reported that his group has pushed the technology to the edge of the visible realm by making a 3-D cloak that works for 700-nm light.
To build their near-IR cloak, the KIT researchers used a fabrication technique called direct laser writing to build a tiny "woodpile" photonic crystal. Because a visible-light cloak would require even finer detail, the team incorporated stimulated-emission-depletion (STED) fluorescence microscopy into the laser-writing fabrication process. The resulting cloak worked not just with monochromatic light from a Ti:sapphire laser, but also with a white-light source passed through a red filter.
"Seeing the cloaking action with one's own eyes is an amazing experience," the KIT team wrote in the CLEO proceedings. We couldn't agree more. Their paper, with Fischer as the lead author, is now available in the "Early Posting" section of Optics Letters.
This blog can't possibly cover everything that has been happening at CLEO this week. If you hunger for more information, point your browser to the CLEO social media hub and drink in the postings. The OSA booth at CLEO has a Legislative Action Center station where attendees can express their views about U.S. science funding issues, and you don't have to be onsite to use that website, either. Finally, the CLEO:2011 proceedings will be published on OSA's Optics InfoBase in the near future.
CLEO/QELS, Lasers, CLEO
This year's CLEO conference features such a wide array of interesting scientific findings and technological applications that it's hard to know where to begin this blog post. So I'll just dive right in.
The Dawn of "Nuclear Photonics"
Ever heard of "nuclear photonics"? It may sound like a bit of an oxymoron, since photonic inventions and techniques, such as laser spectroscopy, are associated with physics on the atomic level. However, if the folks at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (U.S.A.) have their way, super-high-energy beams with laser origins could solve some extremely practical national-security problems.
According to Livermore scientist Chris Barty, researchers at the lab are learning how to make tunable gamma-ray beams by Compton scattering of laser beams off relativistic electrons. The Livermore people call these "mono-energetic gamma rays," or "MEGa-rays."
At the 2-MeV photon energy range, MEGa-ray beams would be at least 15 orders of magnitude brighter than synchrotron light, which has its maximum brightness between 10 and 100 keV. Such brilliant beams have the energy to probe not just atoms, but the nuclei within those atoms.
Nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) is analogous to the more familiar atomic resonance fluorescence, but it depends on the number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus, so that it can ferret out the spectral signature of isotopes. The narrowband MEGa-rays could selectively excite NRF transitions, and, with the appropriate detector, could provide precise assays of the isotopic content of, and isotopic distribution within, bulk material.
Although no NRF imaging has been done yet, simulations indicate that MEGa-rays could someday help detect highly enriched uranium in the 48 million cargo containers that enter the United States annually, Barty said.
Today, two U.S. laboratories and one in Japan have second-generation MEGa-ray sources for proof-of-principle experiments, Barty said. The next step is to miniaturize the technology – it needs to be able to fit into a truck to be practical for homeland security applications. Livermore is building a nuclear photonics lab for creating a next-generation source that combines compact X-band linac technology from the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory with Livermore's high-power diode-pumped lasers.
Second Plenary Session
CLEO traditionally has two plenary sessions, and the 2011 conference was no exception. While Monday night's plenary talks told of technological applications, the Wednesday morning speakers addressed fundamental science.
Mordechai (Moti) Segev of Israel outlined the pioneering work that he and his colleagues have done in Anderson localization of light. A fellow CLEO blogger, James Van Howe, summed up his talk better than I could have done. I liked how Segev, instead of ending his speech with a list of "conclusions," listed the possibilities for future research in his field. These open questions include localization in honeycomb lattices, localization with entangled photons, sub-wavelength localization of light and solitons in disordered media.
Likewise, Susumu Noda of Japan presented a thoroughly detailed account of photonic crystal theory and experiments as they have developed over the past 20 years. Although photonic crystals occur in nature – as in the scales on the wings of a beautiful blue butterfly – human-made crystals were still in the microwave regime in the early 1990s. Progress has indeed come very rapidly.
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The weather outside the Baltimore (U.S.A.) Convention Center has been varying wildly, from warm and summery to cool and rainy. Indoors, however, the atmosphere of the CLEO:2011 conference was steadily abuzz with exciting applications of the latest photonics technologies.
Ultraviolet LEDs Can Disinfect Water
Although CLEO is primarily a laser conference, some tracks focused on other photonics technologies, such as photovoltaics and quantum computing. Following a joint symposium on semiconductor ultraviolet (UV) lasers and LEDs, a session reviewed several practical applications of UV LEDs.
One task for which these devices are particularly suited is the removal of harmful germs and other contaminants from drinking water. Gordon Knight, a research manager at Trojan Technologies (Canada), explained that UV light penetrates the cell membranes of bacteria, viruses and protozoa and permanently alters their DNA so the critters can't reproduce and infect humans. UV rays can also break down organic contaminant molecules, as long as the molecular absorption spectrum matches the output of the UV sources.
Water treatment specialists are primarily interested in the UV-C spectrum (200 to 280 nm), in which the peak absorption spectrum of germ DNA falls, Knight said. The industry's workhorse has been the low-pressure mercury arc lamp, which has a strong emission peak at 254 nm. However, solid-state UV sources could be more energy-efficient and could maintain their steady output for five times longer than the mercury lamps.
Although some technical challenges remain in the development of UV-C LEDs--namely, cost and the need to boost individual chip output above 5 mW--Knight is confident that these sources will provide efficient instant-on operation for future water treatment devices, both in municipal plants and perhaps even in household-sized systems.
IARPA: An Opportunity, Not a Misspelling
You've heard of DARPA, but what about IARPA? The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency, a new branch of the U.S. government's spy agencies, recently started searching for "high-risk, high-payoff" research programs to boost America's intelligence-gathering efforts.
According to IARPA official Michael C. King, the agency is especially interested in significant advances in techniques to gather biometric data from distant, moving human subjects. Successful proposals require not just a good idea, but also a capable leader to guide the research project. One U.S. team followed King's talk with a discussion of their own technique for so-called "standoff biometric identification" of people. According to Brian C. Redman of Lockheed Martin (U.S.A.), Fourier transform profilometry involves bouncing fringes from an 808-nm laser off the subject, capturing it and its two-dimensional fast Fourier transform, then doing an inverse transform and merging it with the original data. The laser pulses are eye-safe and, with a duration of 100 microseconds, short enough to freeze motion at a brisk walking speed of 1.5 m/s. The near-infrared light can even "see" through most sunglasses, Redman said.
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Every scientific advancement has a story behind it. Telecommunications fibers and optical coherence tomography (OCT) are no different. Donald Keck and James Fujimoto--the first two CLEO:2011 plenary speakers--did a great job of telling those true tales.
Donald Keck, a retired Corning Inc. (U.S.A.) scientist who participated in the development of the first low-loss optical fiber, attributed the telecom boom to a "syzygy" of rapid-fire technological developments four decades ago. In addition to that first practical fiber, the earliest computer-network experiments, the room-temperature laser chip and the computer chip all appeared between 1969 and 1971.
Evoking the original notion of the laser as a "solution looking for a problem," Keck drew chuckles by reminding the audience of schemes for laser cutting of trees, laser-made nipples for baby bottles and Arthur Schawlow's "laser eraser" for typists. Early proposals for laser telecommunications--by sending light beams down 2-in.-wide coaxial cables--were not much more practical.
Fortunately, British government researchers asked Corning for help in creating glass fibers with attenuation below 20 dB/km, at a time (1966) when the best silica fiber suffered from signal loss of 1,000 dB/km. Drawing upon glass research from the 1930s to the 1950s, Keck and his Corning colleagues started tracking down and eliminating the sources of optical loss in fiber.
Their initial fiber-drawing equipment was crude--including a household vacuum cleaner--but effective. When Keck tested the first fiber with a loss of only 17 dB/km, he was so impressed that he wrote in his lab notebook, "Whoopee!" However, in 1970 an Applied Physics Letters reviewer initially rejected the Corning team's paper because, Keck said, "it lacked believability."
Today's single-mode fibers fulfill Keck's 1972 prediction of operation with losses of 0.2 dB/km or less at the 1,550-nm wavelength. Progress in telecommunications has come rapidly, especially after the 1984 court-ordered breakup of the old Bell-System AT&T, which created "a lot of fiber-hungry 'baby Bells,'" Keck said. With the development of fiber that can bend around sharper corners without introducing losses, the industry is poised to use fiber in ways traditionally associated with copper wire.
OCT: Joining Optics and Clinical Science
OCT is a method of imaging using echoes of light--the optical analogue of ultrasound, said James Fujimoto of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.A.). In terms of resolution and tissue penetration, OCT bridges the gap between ultrasound and confocal microscopy.
Although Michel A. Duguay and A.T. Mattick first suggested the technique in a 1971 Applied Optics article, the first demonstration of OCT, performed on a cadaver eye, was published two decades later, according to Fujimoto. Since then, progress has come rapidly, with the technique's extension to living tissue and the commercial development of OCT equipment for clinical use. Today, spectral domain interferometric techniques have improved both the speed and sensitivity of OCT. High-speed CCD cameras and volumetric data-rendering techniques have added to OCT's ability to track dynamic processes such as capillary blood flow.
OCT is now moving beyond ophthalmic procedures into the world of intravascular imaging, where the technique can identify unstable arterial plaques and guide the medical treatment of those dangerous blood-flow blockers.
Fujimoto said that there has been a huge increase in intravascular OCT procedures in the last three years. The development of tiny fiber-optic catheters and the Fourier-domain mode-locked (FDML) laser have helped make this possible.
Finally, Fujimoto drew the audience's attention to one of this CLEO's postdeadline papers, which reports a record imaging speed for OCT using a swept single-mode vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL). OCT promises to be an exciting technological field to watch in the near future.
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CLEO:2011, the annual laser conference organized by OSA and other scientific societies, got off to a strong start today with a full range of sessions on pure laser physics and applications of the technology. Here are a few highlights from Monday's sessions:
Tonight is the first of two plenary CLEO plenary sessions, this one featuring Donald Keck and James Fujimoto, both highlighted in OPN for May 2011, along with their fellow plenary speakers Moti Segev and Susumu Noda.
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Two Japanese groups demonstrated Thursday night at the OFC/NFOEC 2011 postdeadline paper sessions that they can send more than 100 terabits per second (Tbps) through one hair-thin optical fiber.
Qian et al. from NEC Laboratories America reached 101.7 Tbps over standard single-mode fiber using pilot-based phase noise mitigation. The team sent 370 wavelengths each with data rates of 294 Gbps over 165 km of standard single-mode fiber to achieve the results. The team said it achieved spectral efficiency of 11 bits/s/Hz, which it considered the highest reported spectral efficiency to date for wavelength-division multiplexing transmission.
A separate team, Sakaguchi et al. from Sumitomo Electric Industries in Japan, demonstrated 109 Tbps using spatial division multiplexed signals over a seven-core fiber. The Sumitomo group sent 97 colors through each of the cores at data rates of 172 Gbps (two 86 Gbps QPSK signals). The team sent the data over 16.8 km of fiber.
The 34 postdeadline papers came from a variety of sources, including Oracle Labs, IBM, NEC Labs America, Hewlett-Packard, ZTE, the University of Southampton, the Technical University of Denmark, the Heinrich Hertz Institute, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, AT&T Labs, TE Subcom, Sumitomo Electric Industries, the University of Melbourne, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the University of California-San Diego, the Technical University of Berlin, Infinera, Alcatel-Lucent, the Technical University of Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Nokia-Siemens Networks and NTT Photonics Labs.
C. David Chaffee (firstname.lastname@example.com) owns Chaffee Fiber Optics, a Baltimore-based firm that specializes in analyzing developments in fiber optics and publishing on the state of the industry.
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Andrew Bach, keynote speaker for the Service Provider Summit at OFC/NFOEC Wednesday morning, presented the daunting challenge the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is facing--having to transmit millions of trades in microsecond timeframes.
Bach painted the picture of an ever-growing network demanding the newest communications technologies for the Exchange to simply keep up with the ballooning number of trades at real-time speeds. "A delay of five or six microseconds could cost several hundred thousand dollars," he noted.
Bach made it clear that the NYSE is living in a terabit world. "Get me one terabit pipes, please," said Bach. The Exchange currently uses 2.5 Tbps and the demand for more is going up quickly, said Bach.
What are the volume levels like? There are between 100,000 and 400,000 messages delivered every second on the NYSE itself. By the end of the decade, Bach said the exchange expects to grow to 10 million messages every second.
Whatever delay there does seem to be is related to the need for the exchange to store the information in its New Jersey data center, according to Bach. This is critical for investigations that might come in the future.
The NYSE is "now a heavy consumer of dark fiber; we are lighting it ourselves," says Bach. An important advance has been the Exchange's ability to operate the data center remotely, a condition that was necessary recently as the result of blizzards in the area did not allow people to be physically present at the center as markets stayed open.
The Exchange currently uses 6,000 routers and switches, 200,000 1Gbps ports or below, and 10,000 10 Gbps ports, according to Bach.
What are the challenges? "As the bandwidth keeps going up and up, the jitter has to be brought down to near zero if not zero," according to Bach. "We have far too many switches waiting in case something breaks. If I cant start putting in one terabit links, it's just not worth it."
Likewise, latency needs to keep becoming less of a factor. It is one reason why the data are not encrypted for security purposes. However, as Bach points out, the data are no longer of use after a second or two anyway as they become stale after the newest trade.
Something else on Bach's wish list? Hollow core fibers, which he believes will also speed trades.
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"We are on the way to the gigabit society," said OFC/NFOEC 2011 keynote speaker Bruno Orth Tuesday morning at the plenary session. Orth defines the gigabit society as a mobile broadband photonic network that is all IP. "The price for WDM has gone down tremendously over the past decade," said Orth. Router performance is much better than Moore's law would estimate.
New networking models are needed to deal with the economics of fiber to the home, Orth said. "The first 20 percent of those receiving it are not the problem," he observed. "The last 20 percent account for up to 50 percent of the networking cost. Therefore, we need a new model for FTTH infrastructure"
A helpful exercise for service providers that is used at Deutsche Telekom is to assume that all your customers use smart phones, or that all your customers had their full content in the cloud, or that they all used VOIP and roamed freely, according to Orth. He raised the growing fear that many have that smart phones have the potential to stress or even crash the network.
"We are engaged in optics in a way we have never been before," said Alan Gara, IBM Fellow and Blue Gene Chief Architect. "All interconnects in the new IBM supercomputers will be optical by 2018," according to Gara. "Without optics we will not be able to continue to build systems," he continued. "The optical boundary will continue to move in." The only way IBM will be able to achieve its next gen supercomputing goals will be through optics, he said.
Kristin Rinne of AT&Labs said there has been an 8,000 percent increase in mobile broadband traffic over the last four years, noting that the application behind much of the growth is video. "There is an awfully lot of wireline in the wireless network," said Rinne, who quoted Dell'Oro report numbers which say that $8 billion will be spent on fiber and microwave mobile backhaul upgrades in the next five years.
Congratulations to the following winners acknowledged at the plenary session: Constance Chang-Hasnain (David Sarnoff award), David Welch (Tyndall Award), the following OSA fellows: Young-Kai Chen (Bell Labs), Charles Cox (Photonic Systems), Michael Eiselt (ADVA Optical), Nicholas Frigo (U.S. Naval Academy), Jonathan Knight ( University of Bath), Ashok Krishmamoorthy (Oracle Labs), Xiang Liu (Bell Labs), William Shieh (University of Melbourne), and Lakshmin Tamil (University of Texas). IEEE Communications Society fellows include: Debabani Choudhury (Intel), Paul Morton (Morton Photonics), Jawadand Salehi (Sharif University of Technology) and Jane Simmons (Monarch Network Architects). IEEE Photonic Society fellows include Douglas Baney (Agilent Technologies), Jin-Xing Cai (Tyco), Nareseh Chand (BAE Systems), Frederick Kish (Infinera), Paul Morton (Morton Photonics, again), Rodney Waterhouse (Pharad), and Alice White (Alcatel-Lucent).
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The first keynote speaker at OSA's Executive Forum 2011, Basil Alwan, set an optimistic tone for both the Forum and OFC/NFOEC 2011, observing that the optical transport industry now is "really breathtaking." He even went so far as to say "it is an honor to be associated with this industry at this time." Alwan is president of the IP Division and Head of Portfolio Strategy for the Networks Groups.
What's so exciting? Well, for one thing the size of the network continues to grow as does the number of its endpoints, Alwan told a crowded Marriott conference room Monday morning. Caching also is a high growth storage application Alwan is excited about. "We are thrilled with the progress in 100 G," he continued, "we are really pulling the rabbit out of the hat with 100 G."
Alwan went on to say that 400 G is "achievable and practical," and that a terabit "will be necessary."
Perhaps giving insights into what Alcatel-Lucent's optical research involvement will be going forward, Alwan said "it is not an option to leave anything on the table any more. We can't ignore any options. Each one may be a silver bullet."
In the first panel following Alwan's talk, Verizon's Glenn Wellbrock agreed with Alwan's assessment of the coming need for 100 G. The popular Wellbrock, who is speaking on some six panels this week, said optical transport routes between New York and Chicago, "deserve 100 G, probably several 100 G lines."
A question that dominated the panel was how rapidly the network operator should move to IP optical using packet transport. While Google was seen as having the newer, next gen network, Wellbrock observed that any Google search or phone call is going through a Verizon or AT&T network at some point.
And Google Senior Network Architect Bikash Koley, also a member of the first panel, was deferential, observing that, "I think everyone would agree that we are moving to packet-based services."
However, Koley also noted that "the biggest challenge for us is that a lot of the optical transport equipment that has been designed we don't need." He acknowledged that "the way to overcome this" is for manufacturers to know what Google needs.
When we caught up with him afterwards, Koley said his comments related to the larger Google core optical transport network, not the 1 Gbps to the residence network the company has promised to bring to one or more communities. However, he did say Google was 'surprised" by the high number of vendors that responded to the 1 Gbps to the home solicitation once it was offered.
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Can you do quantum mechanics with everyday-sized objects? And could such macroscopic quantum objects help detect the most elusive predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity?
Yes and yes, according to Nergis Mavalvala, a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.A.). She and her colleagues are using lasers for cooling and trapping gram-sized and even kilogram-sized interferometer mirrors--just like optical traps for cooling atoms. In a few years, instruments operating at the standard quantum limit will start hunting for gravitational waves.
Mavalvala, one of two OSA members who won a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 2010, recently gave a public lecture about her work on the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project at the Arlington, Va., headquarters of the U.S. National Science Foundation.
"If you could do astrophysics with a gravitational wave, it's like turning on a new sense," Mavalvala said. "You've had eyes all along, and suddenly you have ears and you turn on hearing. It's bound to provide some very different information."
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted the existence of gravity waves traveling at the speed of light. Such waves, if they exist, would stretch and squeeze spacetime transverse to the direction of propagation. The amplitude of a gravitational wave, also known as strain or h, is a dimensionless quantity defined as the change in length per length, similar to tidal forces. In other words, gravitational stretch and squeeze spacetime by fractional amounts proportional to the distance between two objects.
Gravitational waves, if they exist, would have frequencies of 10 kHz or less and would interact only weakly with matter. Einstein was morose over his own calculations when he realized the difficulty of detecting such waves. Two decades after his death, however, radio astronomers provided the first clue to their existence.
In 1974, University of Massachusetts (U.S.A.) researchers Russell Hulse and Joseph Taylor Jr. found a binary pulsar consisting of two neutron stars orbiting each other at 0.15 percent of light speed. Since the pulsars contain more than the mass of the sun packed within a 10-km radius, they have extremely strong gravitational fields.
Taylor and Hulse showed that their orbits are shrinking at exactly the rate that Einstein's theory would predict for the emission of gravitational waves from the system. Further observations up to the present day continue to confirm Einstein's theory. The binary pulsar's energy loss is widely accepted as evidence for gravitational waves, and led to the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physics for Hulse and Taylor, Mavalvala said.
Direct detection of gravitational waves on Earth, however, is incredibly difficult because the strain on an interferometer would be on the order of 10–21. So the two interferometers of the LIGO project, located in Hanford, Wash., and Livingston, La. (U.S.A.), have 4-km-long arms.
Scientists could measure gravitational waves by measuring the phase shifts of light in an interferometer. However, external forces also push the mirrors around much more than a gravitational wave can push them around, and laser light has fluctuations in phase and amplitude, so both sources of noise must be reduced. The LIGO team designed their interferometers with optical cavities in each arm to increase the instruments' sensitivity to mirror displacement and thus to gravitational waves.
Advanced LIGO: More sensitivity, more issues
The first-generation detectors known as Initial LIGO, which are now being removed, led to much interesting astrophysical research, but no positive detections of gravitational waves (yet). Construction of the next-generation Advanced LIGO detectors, designed to be 10 times more sensitive than their predecessors, began in October.
But with Advanced LIGO, there's a catch: The detectors will bump up against the standard quantum limit. According to Mavalvala, the team has to get around the quantum limitations by injecting squeezed states of light, with more precise measurements of phase at the expense of knowledge about the amplitude of the light, in order to reduce the quantum shot noise limit.
To deal with the other type of quantum noise--radiation pressure--the Advanced LIGO scientists are using optomechanical coupling to trap and cool macroscopic mirrors down to very low quantum states--the way lasers trap and cool atoms.
Initially Mavalvala and colleagues tested a 1-gram mirror suspended from a pair of specially made glass fibers (designed with fewer impurities and flaws than commercial optical fibers). Starting at room temperature, they shifted the mirror's oscillator frequency from 10 Hz in the mechanical regime to 500 Hz, and cooled it to just under 1 mK. In other words, the cooled mirror has 35,000 quanta, instead of 109 quanta in its normal state.
"We are not yet in the quantum regime, a factor of 5 or 35,000 quanta is not yet quantum, but it's getting close," Mavalvala said.
In the most recent experiment, the team took one of the 2.7-kg mirrors from the Initial LIGO experiment, with a resonant frequency of just under 1 Hz at room temperature (and containing about 1,026 atoms), and shifted its resonance out to about 150 Hz and cooled it town to 1.4 μK--corresponding to only 200 quanta. (When that number equals 1, the kg-scale object will have reached its quantum ground state.)
Advanced LIGO, slated to begin around 2014, will operate at the standard quantum limit. Scientists expect that the project will detect signals that could be gravitational waves several times per year, Mavalvala said.
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Work through each seaming technique with Katrina as you build a reference notebook of techniques you can apply to any garment. Katrina will show you the creative possibilities of vintage seaming techniques and design details with stunning inspiration samples. Learn a variety of tailored effects including topstitching, padded and welt seams, piping and double piping, strap seams, lace insertions and more. Design bold garment elements using faux tucks, prairie points and Seminole piecework. Katrina puts it all together in three renditions of the included Vogue Pattern 1329 to show you how decorative seams can transform simple garments.
Meet Katrina Walker and learn to chose appropriate patterns for decorative seams.
"The techniques presented were inspirational but also easy to achieve with the processes that Katrina provides. They look so professional and couture yet are easy to do!. I will incorporate a few of the techniques in my next garment projects. Love this class, maybe me favorite Craftsy class so far!"
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SRQ™ combines a coil-over shock absorber suspension design with the Active In-Frame™ twister joint. Front suspension is Independent A-Frame design with coil-over shock absorbers. Rear suspension is Swing Arm design with coil-over shock absorbers. Benefits include operator comfort, safety, reduced operator fatigue, and productivity and efficiency gains.
The innovative Active In-Frame™ Twister Joint allows each axle to react independently to the terrain. The result is the smoothest ride over the most undulating surfaces. All four wheels maintain constant contact with the ground for better traction, stability and less potential turf damage.
Extended front frame for additional leg room to enhance SRQ™ benefits of operator and passenger comfort.
The Workman® MD Series utility vehicles have the highest total payload capacities in their class for maximum productivity. Get more jobs done in less time.MDX - 1,650 lbs. (748 kg)
New rugged injection-molded body styling. Latch opened hood design for ease of access for technicians.
Double-walled composite bed can withstand the elements and heavy loads, and won't rust or dent.
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To keep operators and passengers cool in the sun and dry in the rain, the Workman MD Series has a custom designed extra-wide canopy with rear moisture drainage outlets. Made of durable, high density polyethylene. Front mounts to steel diamond plate floorboard for added stability.
Clear high-impact modified acrylic. Quick and easy fold-down for airflow to enhance operator/passenger comfort. Added flexibility of full protection against elements in fold-up position.
A convenient, easy way to unload the cargo bed. Raises and lowers the bed efficiently within the payload capacity.
Heavy-weight thickness tube bumper and guard protects against damage to front body and headlights.
Heavy-weight thickness tube bumper protects against damage to front body and chassis.
Roll over protection bar with operator and passenger seatbelts.
Headlights standard. Brake, Tail and Turning Signal Lights are integrated into one optional kit.
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This article was published in The 30 Second Wine Advisor on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006.
Sunrise, sunset ...
One of the most enduring images of the wine snob features a sniffy gentleman who has painstakingly memorized all the "good years" and "bad years" for his pricey favorites, and stuffily insists on only the best.
It's this kind of thing that gives wine a bad reputation as a hobby for pedants, a dilettante's infatuation that's almost impossible to learn.
But I'd argue that vintage is about more than mere rote memory of trivial information. Following the changes that vintage variations bring to our favorite wines is a bit like nurturing an old friendship and enjoying the changes that maturity imparts.
As I wrote just this past summer, it can be fun to observe the similarities that the grape, the land and the wine maker's hand bring to a particular wine each year, and to contrast these fixed points against the inevitable changes that result from differences in each vintage's weather and other variables.
Vintage variations also remind us in a very basic way that wine is, after all, the result of an agricultural process and that vine growing is ultimately just another form of farming. That's a useful antidote to snobbery.
All this is by way of celebrating my recent tasting of a very pleasant Austrian Grüner Veltliner from the respected producer Nigl, my first GV of the 2005 vintage. While there's some argument in favor of cellaring GV - especially the robust Wachau-bottled version labeled "Smaragd" - until it gains added richness and complexity, it's mighty hard to wait, though, when a crisp, light and minerally beauty like this one tastes so good right off the boat.
Nigl 2005 Kremser Freiheit Kremstal Grüner Veltliner ($15.49)
Transparent, very pale straw color, almost watery pale. Lovely citrus scents of lemon-lime lead into a crisp and tart flavor clean and snappy citrus shaped by "rocky" minerality and cleansing acidity that lingers. U.S. importer: Michael Skurnik Wines, Syosset, N.Y.; a Terry Theise Estate Selection. (Oct. 14, 2006)
FOOD MATCH: It made a fine match with an autumn dinner of pork rib roast braised with sauerkraut.
VALUE: No complaints at this price point, although it's worth noting that Wine-Searcher.com prices for this bottling range from $14 to $19, so careful shopping could save a dollar or two.
WHEN TO DRINK: As noted, Grüner Veltliner may gain complexity with time under very good cellar conditions, but there's really no reason not to enjoy this light, crisp rendition now.


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I am going to start this thread with a great deal more detail information than I will later on in the build. This is my first build of an RC Submarine, and for that matter, a model as sophisticated as this kit. My thoughts are that by going into a little more detail of where I am in the build it will give you some insights as to what my capabilities are, or are not, thereby allowing for help you may see that I need. This extra detail might also help someone else in the same catagory and/or position that I find myself.
Before I started any of the build, I removed the English assembly instructions, and the assembly photos from the instructions accompaning the kit, and placed each in a separate loose leaf binder. I felt this would make it easier to move from written instructions to photos during the build. I also gathered all the tools and materials I thought I would need and placed them on a separate workbench. One of the materials was the glue, and I took the shotgun approach on this.
I began by assembling the stand which was pretty straight forward. I took advantage of this to use different types of glue, except for the Stabilit-Express, to get an idea how each worked. This was Step 0. I Really could not find much difference between the "CA" type glues.
After assembling the stand I moved on to Step 1 and immediately ran into trouble. I simply could not find the parts. I checked every clear plastic bag containing parts and could not see anything resembling the photos in the plan sheet. I thougth to myself, I am not going to ask for help at only the beginning of Step 1, so I better figure this out! I decided to check the plan drawings against the written instructions description of the parts to see what scale the plan sheet was drawn. I figured that I could then search by measuring the parts to find the ones I was looking for. As it turns out the plan sheet is 1:1 so that was going to make it easier. Nevertheless, I still could not find the parts and I was ready to admit I was indeed an idiot. At the last moment, just before I was going to blame it all on my wife, I turned over the package containing the WTC end caps and there were the parts for which I was searching.
Step 1 involves soldering. I have done very little soldering so I checked on line and read up on the different types of solder and soldering. I then purchased bits and pieces of brass and copper and did some practice soldering before I attempted Step 1. The practice soldering and Step 1 soldering took about 2 hours or so, and then I quit for the day. About 2 hours later I came down with an excruciating headache. It lasted the rest of the day and thru the nite. A little investigation revealed that I should have either worn the respirator that I have, or used a fan to blow the fumes away. I purchased a small fan today.
I am still on Step 1 and have run into another problem for which I need help. I need to drill a 7mm hole in one of the bulkheads, however, I have not been able to find a 7mm drill bit within a 30 mile radius of my home, and the set I purchased on line only goes up to 5mm. I know that a 14mm wrench is more or less equal to a 9/16 wrench so I figured a 9/32 drill bit (one half of 18/32) should be very close to 7mm. Part #1.5 tubular rivet and part #1.10 washer fit thru the 7mm hole in part 1.11 bulkhead. There is no hole in part #1.11 but since the tubular rivet is 7mm in diameter, I must assume that is the diameter of the hole. Since there is no "seal" where Part #1.5 goes thru Part #1.11, and Part #1.5 is simply glued in place, I am assuming the 9/32 drill hole will be okay as it is just slightly larger (I drilled test holes on blank areas of the parts sheet) than the rivet. Is this a good assumption?
The other question I have at this point in the build is what is the best way to remove the parts from the parts sheets? I have tried cutting the pieces out with my exacto knife but to no avail. There has to be a trick to this.....at least I hope there is. I am stuck at this point because I do not want to damage any of the parts, so I need help here.
The photos below are of my shop space and how I have arranged things to this point. This is just to give you and idea of how I am working, and what I have at my disposal for the build. In the future I am sure I will have more detailed photos and less detail in my narrative. Any comments or suggestions for this thread, and/or answers to my questions above will be greatly appreciated.
I just did a "preview" of this post and when I clicked on the photos to enlarge, they downloaded huge, but I found by waiting until they were completely downloaded, they reverted to a correct size. I need some help here on how to not have this happen again. Thanks.


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The World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) has developed new materials to help physical therapists organize activities and campaigns for World Physical Therapy Day 2012, celebrated September 8. As in previous years, WCPT's suggested theme is Movement for Health. This year's materials also include the message Fit for Life, encouraging physical therapists around the world to highlight the importance of physical activity throughout the lifespan.
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What's Next Alexandria is a community conversation about civic engagement and planning for the future -- and how Alexandrians can best participate in the public decisions that shape the City. In this process, community members worked together to reach agreement on the principles that will guide civic engagement and planning in Alexandria. You will first see these principles applied to decisions about growth and transportation because these issues are among our most controversial, but they will also be used to meaningfully involve Alexandrians in decisions about all of the issues facing our City.
The City of Alexandria is seeking input from the public regarding possible site configurations for expanding the existing Chinquapin Park Recreation Center and Aquatic Facility with a new, indoor 50-meter pool. A consultant team is assisting the City and conducting a feasibility study to determine if such an expansion is viable. A series of public meetings and engagement opportunities are an important component of the study. Join the Conversation >>
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The City is the convener of this effort, but the discussion and the recommendations are up to you. Your participation will make this initiative successful and sustainable.
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Bruck Lighting 240205MC Matte Chrome 4" Surface Mount Uni-Plug Design Canopy with Integrated 75W Transformer
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Collection | Uni-Plug |
Depth | 4.5 |
Finish Application | Matte |
Height | 1.875 |
Width | 4.5 |
4" Surface Mount Uni-Plug Design Canopy with Integrated 75W Transformer
The 4" Surface Mount Canopy II includes an integrated 75W transformer, two piece canopy design with different finishes available. Uni-Plug design for use with Uni-Light fixtures, mounts over a standard J-box.
- 75VA maximum (10VA minimum)
- 120V AC, 50/60Hz input
- 11.7V AC output
- Suitable for dry locations only
- Mount to 3" - 4" round J-box
- Short circuit protection
- Overload protection
- Thermal protection
- Dimmable
- Note: 277v available upon request
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Since its beginnings, Bruck Lighting Systems has operated under the principles of providing energy efficient lighting without compromising superior quality. With seven different track and cable systems, spot fixtures, display fixtures, decorative pendants, and sconces, low-voltage lighting has always been the focus.
As technology develops new energy efficient light sources, Bruck continues to design new and innovative products to utilize the latest lighting advancements. Two primary advancements that embody energy efficiency are Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) and Compact Fluorescents. Bruck now offers an LED track system, multiple LED fixtures including some that are adapted for 12V track systems, LED pendants and sconces, and 18W compact fluorescent decorative pendants.
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Here are some pictures from inside the First Niagara Center. My thanks to Jeremy White for taking these shots and posting. Some thoughts:
The logo in the middle of the room is one of a kind. It can be changed if you want to honor a number or something. The white logo in the ceiling has also never been done.
As the players head to the ice, the retired numbers and blocks from the Aud are on the right and Sabre Hall of Fame members are on the left. Very well done.
Actions shots are above each player's locker.
Theater seating in the film room.
Player's lounge had modern furniture, games, TV's music and yes, a fire place.
In the weight room is franchise accomplishments. At the end are blank panels and the Stanley Cup which all can be added to.
If the Sabres ever offer a tour, it's well worth it. Paul Hamilton
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