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Power plant automation at Ruukki: Innovative R&D through close collaboration
When there is a need to improve a process, there is a way to do it. This has been especially true of the long collaboration between Ruukki's Raahe Works and Metso. Numerous solutions that have been developed together are found today at power plants around the world.
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The list of ingredients in innovative product development is actually simple. In addition to high technology and process know-how, it includes a thorough understanding of customer needs and a daring attitude on the part of the customer in question.
When Ruukki people and Metso people meet, it's like old friends getting together: the discussion starts off where it ended the last time. The roots of this fruitful collaboration go back to the 1980s. Since then, Raahe Works' power plant has acted as a guinea pig for a large number of Metso pilot projects – completely at its own free will with the sole target of improving its power production processes.
The power plant provides electricity and steam for the entire massive Raahe Works area with its many steel manufacturing process stages.
"We have presented Ruukki's needs, based on which Metso has developed features that we have wanted. A few times Metso has sold us features that have not yet even existed as finished commercial products at that time," says Tapani Seppälä, Chief Designer, Automation, Investments, Ruukki Metals.
"The people at Ruukki have a lot of know-how and a clear vision of their needs. We appreciate their tremendous courage and open-mindedness in taking part in our pilot projects. They have also trusted our ability to execute things properly," comments Heikki Mylläri, Sales Director at Metso.
60% electricity consumption covered
The power plant provides electricity and steam for the entire massive Raahe Works area with its many steel manufacturing process stages. There are two power boilers. Boiler No. 3 built in 1975 at 84 bar 525°C. The other one, Boiler No. 4 from 1990, produces 42 kg/s of main steam also at 84 bar 525°C. They are mainly fueled by gas from the plant's two blast furnaces. Also some coke gas is used as well as heavy oil as spare fuel.
In connection with the power boilers, there are two turbogenerators: TG02 with a capacity of 65 MW/h built in 1975 and TG01 with a capacity of 21 MW/h built in 1963.
Approximately 60% of Raahe Works' electricity needs are covered by in-house production. 60% of the district heat produced at the power plant and various manufacturing processes is used internally, and the rest is supplied to the town of Raahe.
According to Seppo Kenakkala, Power Plant Manager, there have been plans to build a new power plant. At least for now, they have been put on hold.
According to Ruukki's Veli Vesikukka (left), Tapani Seppälä and Seppo Kenakkala, there is always some project going on at Raahe.
PLU technique gets rid of separate systems
The cooperation between Ruukki's Raahe Works and Metso started with small steps in the 1980s and has broadened over the years. One of the first major projects dealt with the automation system of Boiler No. 4 where the single-control unit technology was used as a PLU card application for the first time. And what's best, the same I/O cards still function flawlessly, although the process stations have been upgraded to modern ACN technology.
According to Seppälä, the PLU technique was a clear competitive advantage when Ruukki chose the boiler automation system for Boiler No. 4. Metso was the only supplier who was able to offer complete boiler automation with one concept. The PLU technology was also applied to the boiler safety system and burner automation for the first time in Finland.
"We wanted an automation system to carry out all power plant automation tasks and to get rid of separate systems," Seppälä recalls. "Our requirements were high. And we did a lot a work together to integrate the whole boiler automation into the same system."
Turbine control integrated within the main automation system
After the mid-1990s, the joint product development focused on the introduction of a turbine controller. It was incorporated in the turbogenerator TG01 and featured full integration within the Damatic XD process control system used in those days with the ACU and PLU single-control technology.
However, the beginning was far from promising. The supplier who was in charge of the turbine revision did not trust the new and modern concept of an integrated turbine controller, and some of the Ruukki people did not believe in it either.
"There was a huge amount of prejudice against the idea. In fact, I almost ran out of persons who believed in it any longer," Seppälä now admits.
A few years later, Kenakkala and Seppälä visited the Energy Fair in Tampere, Finland, and took part in a lecture that introduced a new turbine control solution integrated within the main automation system. The subject sounded very familiar to them; after all, they had been using the solution already for four years... Today, all three turbines at the power plant are equipped with a turbine controller implemented within Metso DNA.
All three turbines at the power plant are equipped with a turbine controller implemented within Metso DNA.
Sensodec 6S to measure turbine vibration
Raahe Works was familiar with Metso's Sensodec 6S monitoring system as it was used in the motor-driven combustion blower in the blast furnace. However, its measurement cycles were not fast enough for a turbogenerator. Additionally, there was a desire to integrate condition monitoring with the main automation system.
"With turbines, vibration measurements are needed in one-second cycles, since damage can take place fast. The operators must get the alarm early enough," explains Veli Vesikukka, Development Technician at Ruukki's maintenance development department.
In the years between 2004 and 2005, the Ruukki and Metso people spent a lot of time developing a mechanical condition monitoring application suitable for turbines. The hard work was successful, and today all large machines at Raahe Works, including both power boilers, are connected to the condition monitoring application.
"We presented the idea of integrating the process automation system, mechanical condition monitoring and field device condition monitoring to Metso already ten years ago. Now it is has become true. Everything takes its own time," Seppälä continues.
Vesikukka, who uses Sensodec 6S in his daily work especially appreciates the features that are not available in other systems, such as the signal analysis tool. It enables the user to examine the signal in detail and allows him to see, for example, the frequency bands where bearing damage occurs. The system includes 270 sensors to monitor turbine vibrations.
"Sensodec 6S is a reliable tool. The clear and simple graphics enable users to understand the big picture. They know how to pinpoint the damaged part and can go to the process to see it," he continues.
"Our machines are old, so they need to be monitored extensively. Without monitoring, a turbogenerator can break down completely and cause a lot of damage to its surroundings, too," adds Kenakkala.
Today, Metso has taken vibration monitoring yet a step further by introducing Metso DNA Machine Monitoring, which offers condition information on all rotating machines for process operators and maintenance staff through one common user interface.
Remote-controlled fresh water supply
Ruukki has also been involved in Metso's remote application pilot projects. Fresh water needed at the Raahe plant comes from the Piehinki River some 15 km away. There is a dam whose opening is controlled by Metso DNA via a wireless phone network connection. At another location in Pattijoki, there are two dam systems controlled with Metso DNA.
In fact, the long cooperation includes so many pilot protects that it is hard to keep track of them. In this partnership, many good-natured jokes are allowed, too.
"I guess we could say that part of Metso's product development has its roots in Raahe!" Seppälä remarks with a wide, friendly smile.
Close support from Oulu and Kemi
Time to pose for a partnership portrait. Pictured from the left Jarmo Harjuoja, Veli-Pekka Meriläinen, Seppo Kenakkala, Tapani Seppälä, Veli Vesikukka, Heikki Mylläri, Jyrki Koskela.
At the early stages of cooperation, Raahe Works relied on the Metso people in Tampere. But since the 90s, the contacts and support have been available at a closer distance. The Oulu Sales Office is situated some 70 km, and the Kemi Service Center is some 180 km from the plant.
The companies have signed a service agreement that covers all the automation systems, casting machines, the power plant, blast furnaces and on-call service. The latest addition to the collaboration is the valve storage service provided by Metso. Today, the power plant island is completely automated with Metso DNA.
"Our cooperation has widened over the years. There hasn't been much silent treatment; instead we have been on good speaking terms all the time. Usually, there is always some extension or rebuild project going on," Kenakkala points out.
"Long-term cooperation and good personal relationships increase trust on both sides," Seppälä concludes.
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Religions & Public Life
Religions and Public Life at the Kenan Institute for Ethics examines the paradoxes that abound at the nexus where faith, citizenship, and law intersect with processes of globalization in order to produce new forms and reconfigurations of the public sphere. This initiative is a collaboration among Duke Divinity School, Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, and the Kenan Institute for Ethics.
Religions and Public Life aims to surface crucial yet neglected dimensions to negotiating the impact of globalization—particularly with regard to issues such as public health, the environment, welfare provision, schooling, development, immigration, urban regeneration, and security—on the local, national, and international levels. Religious beliefs and practices are vital components of grassroots attempts to address inequality through democratic means. At the same time, religious groups are perceived as reinforcing and exacerbating conditions that produce inequality, particularly for women, embodying undemocratic institutions, and contesting visions of public life as secular and plural. The Initiative's research and activities coalesce around four principal issue areas:
- Judaism, Islam, and the West
- Religions and global climate change
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Judaism, Islam, and the West: At the distinctly Western intersection of post-modern secularity and the legacies of the three major monotheistic religions, there are rich avenues to explore on the historical and contemporary flourishing of Jewish and Islamic identities and cultural contributions. At the same time tensions persist between strong religious commitments and the liberal state. At Religions and Public Life at KIE, we are engaging these issues through multidisciplinary activities and collaborations. Past activities include a workshop series exploring the aesthetics of Middle Eastern Islam through digital production, music, architecture, art, satellite television, and social media; a research conference of scholars and practitioners to synthesize lessons in innovation for Jewish organizations and communities; and several workshops and panels on Jewish and Muslim diasporas in Europe. Ongoing collaborations look at Jewish human rights traditions and examine the ethical tensions and complexity of multicultural accommodation and religious freedom in North America and Europe.
Religions and global climate change: Increasingly, concern for environmental justice and sustainability is understood by many religious communities as relevant to their faith commitments and practices. This program, in collaboration with the Nicholas Institute, has particularly focused on Christian communities in the Southeastern United States, leading to a roundtable conversation on mobilizing faith communities to act upon climate change. Pastors, professors, denominational leaders, and para-church organizers worked together on strategies to raise awareness about environmental issues in their congregations and will create opportunities for congregants to effect change. Work continues along these lines through peer-to-peer relationships.
Religions, development, and faith-based humanitarian efforts: In an age of considerable debate about the relative merits of development and relief work, along with the often problematic histories and assumptions underlying humanitarianism, ongoing research at RPLI engages both philosophical and theological critiques. This research began with a symposium on theology, global health, development and poverty, and continues to investigate the emergence of alternatives to both market-driven and state-centric visions of welfare provision, public health, and responses to poverty. The project also examines the globalization of religious and democratic movements and how these interact with and shape relations between churches of the Global South and Western faith-based development agencies.
Interreligious engagement: This new collaboration supported by the Golieb Foundation aims to help Duke University become a leader in interreligious service-learning at all levels of education. In order to explore interreligious relations as a civic-political rather than simply religious or humanitarian practice, the program has already hosted a faculty panel discussion of goals and guidelines. The program is also sponsoring an Alternative Fall Break bringing together students, faculty, and secular and religious organizations around the theme of food traditions in Durham, and will be launching a service learning graduate student fellowship and student training in conflict mediation and reconciliation.


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Ancients: Magnus Maximus, Western Roman Emperor (AD 383-388). AV solidus (21mm, 4.64 gm, 6h). ...
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Rare London-Mint Solidus of Magnus MaximusMagnus Maximus, Western Roman Emperor (AD 383-388). AV solidus (21mm, 4.64 gm, 6h). Londinium (London), ca. AD 383-384. DN MAG MA-XIMVS PF AVG, rosette-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust of Magnus right / VICTOR-IA AVGG, two emperors (Magnus Maximus and Theodosius I) seated facing on throne holding globe, Victory between and above them, palm branch between, AVGOB in exergue. Cohen 9. RIC 2(B). Extremely rare, with fewer than ten specimens known. The last coin type struck in Roman Britain. Extremely Fine.
Ex S.C. Markoff Collection (NAC 62, 6 October 2011), lot 2115; ex Bonhams-Vecchi 8 (1982), lot 709; Levis Collection (Naville XI, 1925), lot 1032.
A capable general of Spanish birth, Flavius Magnus Clemens Maximus was appointed military commander of Britain in AD 380. Three years later, Maximus made a bid for the throne of the Western Roman Empire, then ruled by the ineffectual Gratian and his young brother Valentinian II. To secure the loyalty of the British legions, Maximus reopened the old mint of Londinium, which had been closed for more than fifty years, and began striking gold solidi acclaiming himself as Augustus. By this time, Londinium had been renamed Augusta, as reflected in the mintmark AVG. After disposing of Gratian, Maximus proposed a three-way division of the Empire, with himself ruling Britain, Gaul, Germany and Spain, Valentinian II ruling Italy and Africa, and Theodosius I, another Spaniard, holding the East. This uneasy equilibrium lasted about three years but, thereafter, Maximus began encroaching upon Valentinian II's territory. The second issue of gold from Londinium, represented by the solidus above, likely belongs to this period of "cold war" between the West Roman regimes. The mintmark is augmented by the letters OB (standing for Obryzium, or "pure gold"), and the reverse type and legend (VICTORIA AVGG) explicitly acknowledge only two Roman emperors, surely Maximus and Theodosius. Intriguingly, many of the few surviving AVG OB solidi are slightly heavier than the 4.5 gram standard for the solidus, indicating a perceived need to impress the soldiery with a particularly sound coinage, or perhaps a defective scale at the London mint. In AD 387, Maximus raised his son Flavius Victor to the rank of Augustus and launched an invasion of Italy, provoking a final showdown with Theodosius. But in a lightning campaign, Theodosius struck eastward and defeated Maximus before he could fully martial his forces. Both Maximus and Victor were summarily executed by Theodosius, who restored Valentinian II to the Western throne.
Maximus' grab for power proved ill-advised, resulting in a destructive civil war and the downfall of his own promising regime. The AVG mint solidi and siliquae of Magnus Maximus, represented by a handful of surviving specimens, were the last coins struck in Roman Britain.
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Dash Longe, Dylan Hood, and the TGR production crew headed to the mountains of Croatia to explore some new territory. They hit the storm cycle perfectly; Locals said this was the most snow they've seen in 50 years. Croatian culture, sneaky 100 meter sinkholes, and deep pow quickly helped to make a first visit to Croatia epic.
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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. The Minnesota Vikings don't want to be fooled again. Last season, Minnesota looked at the positives during its first three games -- when it held big halftime leads before letting wins slip away during disastrous second halves -- and was convinced cleaning up a few areas would turn the season around. That turned out to be fool's purple and gold, and the Vikings aren't falling for it in 2012. Minnesota lost, 23-20, last Sunday to the Indianapolis Colts, dropping its record to 1-1 in two games that both went down to the last minute. The similarities through two games of 2011 and 2012 are obvious, but the Vikings are trying to make sure this season doesn't have the same finish. "We've got to shore things up in a hurry," linebacker Chad Greenway said this week. "No excuses. No explanations. Go to work and get it right. We got into this last year. 'Well, we did this good and that good. We didn't finish, but we had a really good first half.' Well, you're losing, so...
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Graphing Calculator
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Last updated1/16/2012
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Appcylon's popular graphing calculator application for iOS is now available for Windows Phone 7. The GUI has been adjusted for Microsoft's Metro theme, so the application looks and feels like the rest of your phone. Graphing Calculator turns your smartphone into an intuitive high-resolution function plotter and scientific calculator. Features include the following: - Includes a powerful, yet easy to use scientific calculator. - Quickly plot and trace multiple equations on the same graph. - Pinch to zoom and drag/slide for scrolling the graph in real time. - Custom keyboard designed to enter equations and mathematical expressions quickly. - The graph page supports portrait and landscape modes. - Supports graphing polar and parametric equations. - Currently supports the following functions: abs, acos, acosh, acot, acoth, acsc, acsch, asec, asech, asin, asinh, atan, atan2, atanh, ceil, cos, cosh, cot, coth, csc, csch, deg2rad, exp, fact, floor, gamma, gcd, lcm, lgamma, ln, log2, log10, logbase, max, min, mod, nCr, nPr, nroot, rad2deg, rand, sec, sech, sin, sinh, sqrt, tan, tanh. Feel free to e-mail me if you have questions or feedback.
2/24/2014Works to a point but froze multiple times and ended up making me have to soft reset my phone.
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Five dresses, ca. 1860s
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These dresses are shown in the display entitled "Godey's Ladies: An Exhibition of 19th Century Dresses" held at the Brick Store Museum in 1986.
From left, the dresses were worn by Mrs. Elbridge Spooner, Mrs. Joseph Titcomb (Fannie Perkins) and Ernestine Lord Perkins.
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Simulation and training specialist CAE is about to embark on a full-scale beta test of the new multi-crew pilot's license (MPL) curriculum it developed to complement existing programs in its Global Academy.
CAE introduced the Global Academy network of flight training organizations two years ago to address the shortage of pilots by offering the training required for a commercial pilot's license and a clear path to a specific type rating.
Jeff Roberts, CAE's group president for innovation and civil training and services, said the MPL program is also designed to focus on the skills and abilities that are specific to airline or transport category airplane operations.
The traditional path to commercial flying tends to embrace flight instructing and building hours in small airplanes. "The skills, talents and abilities required to do that are not all that closely aligned with those necessary to serve as a first officer for an airline," Roberts said.
The training program associated with the MPL, by contrast, "has been created from day one to indoctrinate people in crew concepts, challenge and response check list utilization and situational awareness, all the concepts that are needed to be a successful, confident and safe airline pilot."
The beta trial of the curriculum is due to start at CAE's Moncton, Canada training center in the fall of this year, with a dozen or so students from Canada, the Middle East and southeast Asia. And where traditional pilot training tends to take 24 to 30 months, the MPL course sets out to produce a qualified first officer in just 12.
The course includes about 400 hours of flight experience per cadet, all but 85 to 90 of them in a simulator of some kind. It includes seven to 10 hours of extreme attitude or upset training and recovery, but only 14 to 15 hours of solo single-engine flying. "We just don't see a whole lot of value from a training standpoint for that," Roberts commented. "Then we'll have the required night flying as well."
The course also incorporates scenario-specific training such as wind shear recognition and recovery, along with normal, abnormal and emergency procedures. It includes aviation English labs "so that we can be sure that everyone will be at ICAO level 4 competency," and threat and error management training via scenario-based lesson plans. "And then we've also pulled some of the lessons learned from the advanced qualification pilot training program that some of the airlines have used as part of the methodology," said Roberts.
CAE's pilot training portfolio embraces the general aviation, business, regional commercial and military segments. "We've tried to pull best practices from each of those areas and introduce them into the curriculum to try to create a new standard that will be the best in the world for this beta program," added Roberts. "It's very different from anything we've ever done and I think it's materially different from anything the industry has ever seen."
CAE tailored and "modularized" its MPL program to adapt to the needs of specific regions. Some places have adopted it aggressively, Roberts said, while others have taken a more reserved approach. "I think it will be accepted globally," said Roberts. "I don't think you're ever going to eliminate the other avenues of certification for pilots.
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Consistently a target for criticism from his GOP opponents, Ron Paul remains steady in the polls with an ardent following. Doug Wead, a senior advisor to the Paul campaign, joined Gregg Jarrett this morning to respond to the latest attacks against the presidential candidate.
Of all of Paul's platforms, it's his views on foreign policy that his opponents have called out:
"Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of every decent American." - Newt Gingrich
"Ron Paul is to the left of Barack Obama on national security. He's even to the left of Dennis Kucinich. Don't laugh." - Rick Santorum
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Barry Cowan believes a negative approach cost Andy Murray his latest chance of Grand Slam glory.
The Scot was swept away in straight sets, 6-4 6-2 6-3, by Novak Djokovic in Sunday's Australian Open final.
It rarely looked like being a case of third time lucky for the 23-year-old after losing out to Roger Federer in the 2008 US Open and again in Melbourne last year. And he is yet to win a set in his three Grand Slam finals.
Once he was broken in the 10th gamel Murray was on the receiving end of a ruthless display from the world number three as Djokovic took just two hours and 39 minutes to claim his second title down under.
But Cowan believes the Scot had himself to blame as much as anything the Serb served up.
"It was the third (Grand Slam) final hes played in, the first time without playing Federer but I actually felt this was the most disappointing," he told Sky Sports News.
"You can understand the first one with the nerves, and in the second, but I just felt he was cautious from the word go.
"His tactics were, 'I'm ready for the five sets, I'm ready for the long haul because I'm stronger than you' - and because of that Djokovic won the first set and from then on was able to play with more freedom.
"Once he got a set and a break up, the match was over."
As his Grand Slam dream faded in the final set, Murray cut an increasingly frustrated figure and was constantly berating himself in a very public display of disappointment.
Cowan accepts that is part of his make-up, but also proof that when it comes to the biggest stage of all, he still struggles to cope with the weight of expectation.
"We've seen that before from Andy," he said. "That's part of his personality but also one of the reasons he's as good as he is; it's that desire to win.
"Novak Djokovic was sensational as he has been throughout the tournament. I thought his semi-final demolition of Roger Federer was one of the best matches I've seen and then to be handle the pressure in the final... that was where it was won.
"He handled the pressure a lot better than Murray."
It was not all doom and gloom, though, and Cowan did point to the improvements Murray has made over the last 12 months.
And with the Australian Open marking the start of the season, he believes there is plenty to look forward to - providing he can adopt a bolder approach when it really matters.
"I think we have to look on the positive side and he has made big strides forward again in the last year; he's played more aggressive in certain matches," he said.
"But in the biggest matches of all, that's where he's got to throw caution to the wind."
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Yes Mr Barry Cowan, you would know all about what it takes to win a Grand Slam! How many Grand Slam finals did you play in? Murray played great tennis to get to the final so why must he "throw caution to the wind" on finals day, surely he must contine to play the same high standard and if the opponent is better on that day then you have to say too good!
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If Barry Cowan had amounted to anything in his own so-called tennis career, he may have had room for such criticism. Given his own track-record, his condescension is laughable.
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Did Mel Gibson go Mad Max?
Is Mel Gibson ready for "Lethal Weapon 5?"
Sure sounds like it. If you buy the report on TMZ about the actor/producer/director's behavior (anti-semitic racial slurs, profanity, threatening police officers) after his Thursday June 27 arrest for drunk driving in Malibu.
Four pages of what TMZ alleges is the original police report certainly suggests that Mel needs to start going to meetings again.
Or perhaps the "Braveheart" Oscar winner (Best Director, Best Picture) has just been spending way too much time making movies about the apocalypse, doomed cultures and ancient wars.
His new film, "Apocalypto," deals with the decline of the Mayan Empire and a young man who flees the dying kingdom rather than be sacrificed to the Gods. It's due out in December.
His next one is called "Warrior," about Boudica, a peasant woman who rose to lead Britain against the Romans in 61 AD and who was posthumously crowned Queen of the Empire.
One theory is that he just went postal after seeing a screening of Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" and realized that he shouldn't have turned down the role of Sgt. John McLoughlin to direct "Apocalypto."
Frankly, I think the "WTC" role Mel should have gone for is that of Dave Karnes, the real-life former Marine who, after watching the towers fall, felt compelled by God to go to the still-burning site and search for survivors. That brave, if slighty unhinged, patriotic commando part sounds tailor-made for the Mel Man.
Hey, maybe Mel's defense for this arrest will be to pull a Winona Ryder. He could say he was doing research for his new role in another film he's producing called "Sam and George." It's about two friends who reunite after one (Gibson) gets released from prison after serving twenty years for a crime he didn't commit.
Yeah, that's what I was doing. Role research, dammit!
But at least Mel had the good grace, er, sense to profusely apologize in a statement released on Saturday, July 29....
Photo Credits: Gosh, Mel Gibson looks completely sane at a press conference in Veracruz back in October 2005. Wonder what happened to set him off this week?


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Tales of Maj'EyalFebruary 7th, 2012 by Crusader
Winner of Roguelike of the Year for both 2010 and 2011, Tales of Maj'Eyal is an open-source, single-player, tactical role-playing roguelike and action game.
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For one a lack of consumable hoarding. The Tome philosophy is that hoarding potions and scrolls until the end of the game is neither fun nor particularly easy to balance. Things generally handled by consumables like healing and teleportation are handled through runes and infusions instead, which are basically swappable talents. Likewise Tome dungeons do not respawn. Once an area is cleared it's generally cleared for good. The game's leveling and xp system is balanced around these concepts so the player should never feel the need to grind to advance.
Tome also comes with a full tile set, has sound and music, as well as an integrated chat system so you can ask advice of other players without leaving the game (hence the thread title). It also supports ASCII and has an options menu so almost any feature you don't enjoy you can turn off.
There's more, the game's pretty innovative and it would be hard for me to cover everything. But briefly, a friendly interface that supports both keyboard and mouse based play along with fully functional auto-explore, a fairly unique combat system, a polished UI (which will be customizable next beta), a very active developer (the game's seen 37 beta releases in the last two years), and a growing player base.
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The Art of Katahdin and Conservation
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The Bates College Museum of Art is currently featuring two exhibitions of art in the form of environmental advocacy.
Wildness Within Wildness Without: Exploring Maine's Thoreau-Wabanaki Trail features large-format, visionary color photographs by Bridget Besaw.
Taking Different Trails: The Artists' Journey to Katahdin Lake presents paintings, drawings and photographs by 20 artists involved in the Katahdin Lake Campaign.
Bridget Besaw's brilliant visual interpretation of the places visited by Henry David Thoreau on his three trips to the Maine woods was a bonus when I visited the Bates Museum in Lewiston, Maine, on Saturday, March 8. Besaw's photographs, some of which were previously exhibited in Maine at the University of Maine and the College of the Atlantic, were scheduled to come down on March 4.
Besaw originally undertook her exploration of Thoreau's journeys in 2005 at the behest of Maine Woods Forever in order to promote the preservation of the wilderness around mile-high Mt. Katahdin.
My favorite photograph depicts students from the Chewonki Foundation wilderness camp hunkered down in a snow cave, fittingly so as "Wildness Within Wildness Without" will be exhibited at the Chewonki Foundation in Wiscasset during April and May. If you can't make it to Maine, you can see some of Besaw's wondrous photographs at www.thoreauwabanakitrail.org and www.bridgetbesaw.com.
"Taking Different Trails" grew out of the Katahdin Lake Campaign (For more information, see the Trust for Public Lands), which raised $14 million in order to add pristine Katahdin Lake to Maine's forever-wild Baxter State Park. The artists in the exhibition all donated works that raised money for the cause.
Painter Marsha Donahue, who owns North Light Gallery in Millinocket, helped organize the exhibition and contributed to the Bates show both a stark charcoal drawing of an inlet on Katahdin Lake and a brushy watercolor of the same scene. Painter David Little, who contributed an oil painting of a green canoe on the shore of Katahdin Lake, co-curated the show.
"Taking Different Trails" also features works by Bill Bentley, Milton Christiansen, Elaine Crossman, Evelyn Dunphy, Deborah Grabber, Chris Huntington, Dean Johnson, Bill Landmesser, Bruce MacDonald, Abbott Meader, Caren-Marie Michel, Jerry Monkman, Chris Polson, Jym St. Pierre, Paul Thibodeau, Michael Vermette, and Ian White. Not surprisingly, the predominant artistic view of the Katahdin Lake landscape is one of painterly realism after Marsden Hartley.
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from the under-the-lidar dept.
from the under-the-lidar dept.
LucidBeast writes "Mapping the world isn't easy as our friends in Cupertino have found out. Google's maps seem ubiquitous, but there is a less known real heavyweight still mapping the world. Nokia acquired Navteq in 2007, and five years later they are still reading fleet data and scanning cities with LIDAR and 360 degree cameras."


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Great Performances | Macbeth - Preview | PBS
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Program: Great Performances #3415
Broadcast Date: Oct. 6, 2010
Director Rupert Goold's gripping stage production of Macbeth, set in a nameless 20th-century militaristic society and starring Sir Patrick Stewart in his Tony-nominated performance as the ambitious general, and Kate Fleetwood as his coldly scheming wife, has been rethought in vivid filmic terms. The movie airs for Great Performances Wednesday, October 6, at 9 p.m. (check local listings).Tags:
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Md. Officials Continue Crackdown On Illegal Crabbing
Cracking down on illegal crabbing. New rules are set to go into effect.
Watermen Use Technology To Count Crabs
On the serene Potomac River, Rocky Rice's crab-pot markers stretched for miles, an orange-dotted rope floating on water that sparkled like jewels under a bright summer sun.
Authorities Find Body Of Missing Maryland Boater
Police say 52-year-old Dean Dixon of Harwood was found at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday.
Watermen's Group Leaves Crab Management Talks
A watermen's group has stopped participating in discussions on crab management with the group's head saying members oppose proposals for a catch-share system.
Officials Prepare For Winter Crab Survey
It's the count that sets the limits and, down the road, what you'll be paying for that summer crab feed.


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Evidences for Rapid Formation and Failure of Pleistocene "Lava Dams" of the Western Grand Canyon, Arizona
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by Scott H. Rugg and Steven A. Austin, Ph.D.
Presented at the Fourth International Conference on Creationism, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 3–8, 1998. Published in: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Creationism, R. E. Walsh (editor), pp. 475–486, 1998.
© 1998 by Creation Science Fellowship, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. All Rights Reserved.
Over two hundred isolated outcrops of horizontally stratified, basaltic lava flows within the inner gorge of western Grand Canyon indicate that several natural "lava dams" blocked the flow of the Colorado River during the Pleistocene, resulting in the formation of several lakes within the canyon. The largest lake was 90 m above the high water level of present-day Lake Powell and backed up a distance of over 480 km to Moab, Utah. Although early studies indicated that three or less dams once blocked the inner gorge, work completed in 1994 indicated that at least thirteen distinct lava dams may have blocked the Colorado River. Comparison with modern erosion rates of cliff retreat (Niagara Falls) indicate that the thirteen dams would have required a minimum of 250,000 years to erode during the Pleistocene. However, geologic features and relationships not previously considered indicate that the dams formed rapidly (hours, days, or months) and failed catastrophically soon after formation. Excess radiogenic argon is contained within many basalts of Grand Canyon. This initial argon invalidates K-Ar model ages which are assumed by many geologists to require an age of more than one million years for the oldest lava dams. We envision that the entire episode of the lava dams can easily be reconciled within a time frame of less than two thousand years. Our observations and interpretations reveal serious flaws in the current long-age timescale of the Pleistocene Epoch.
Arizona, Grand Canyon, Catastrophic Erosion, Dam Breachment, Lava Dam, Geomorphology, Excess Argon, K-Ar Dating, Pleistocene Epoch
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Public workers, mortgage rules, federal debt and more
In his analysis of [Chuck] Hagel's postures on a number of issues in Saturday's Charles Krauthammer commentary ("The meaning of Hagel," Opinion, Jan. 12), I was concerned about one point pertaining to the trimming of the defense budget. There may well be bloat in the military, but Krauthammer points out it there is a cut, Obama will apply any savings to new welfare programs. What about reducing the national debt? There's a concept!
Oh, that's right. Obama wants to grow the welfare state, doesn't seem the slightest bit bothered by running up the debt, and does exactly what he wants. – Diane Obright, Encinitas
I am so disgusted that one of the first actions our new mayor took was to send a memo to our police chief and city attorney to stop code enforcement pertaining to "pot shops" ("Filner: Stop pot shop crackdown," Local, Jan. 11). What other ordinances, codes and/or laws can we anticipate Mayor Filner to expunge from the city of San Diego charter in the next four years? When the majority of voters on government assistance outnumber the wage earners in a county, this is the type of governance everyone gets. My hopes are we survive these next four years and have better judgment in the next election. – Kathy Tuttle, Rancho Bernardo
I was very impressed with the "Lone Star rock star" article by Ruben Navarrette Jr. (Opinion, Jan. 11). I don't often agree with his point of view however, this one was fair. I'm a Hispanic woman with a similar family background like that of Ted Cruz. My parents were proud, strong, hard workers who came to the United States from Mexico for a better life and raised us to be Americans. We had an intimate relationship with poverty; however, that did not stop us from achieving our dreams.
Upon leaving that [commentary], I read the poison-pen letter to the editor from Patrick Velasquez, co-chair of the San Diego Chicano/Latino Concilio, attacking Francis Barraza for aligning herself and accepting the appointment of executive director of the San Diego GOP. WOW! I really want to meet this fantastic Republican woman and attorney, and praise her for her accomplishments.
Velasquez says that it's a" tragedy for the entire Chicano community" and "that she aligns herself with a party that supports blatantly racist policies." He goes on to mention education, immigration, social services, etc. Who are these services for? My poor parents never had any assistance and we survived and thrived. Spanish was our first language and yet we are all fluent in both languages without bilingual or English as a Second Language education.
I left the Democratic Party decades ago because there wasn't any room in the party for a conservative independent decision-maker who wants less government in my life. I was not brainwashed into my conservatism, I was born into it as are most Hispanics. I never felt that I should be treated differently than any other person by anyone. I was elected into office (Solana Beach councilwoman and mayor) on my principles and not for the color of my skin. Most Hispanics, like my parents and siblings, do not want handouts nor dependency on the government. That's too easy. We are hard workers and achievers and in America there are rewards for these qualities. It's called THE AMERICAN DREAM.


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Where are you from?- Bordeaux, France.
Your equipment- Nikon D300, Nikon F3, Nikon FE, Mamiya 645.
Influences and photographers you like- Walker Evans, August Sander, Irving Penn, William Eggleston, Boris Mikhailov, Wolfgang Tillmans, Alex McLean, Sophie Ristelhueber.
A little about you- I am a French photographer mostly working on urban landscapes but not only.


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Nonprofit seeking volunteers, donations for Thanksgiving meal deliveries to elderly, disabled
The nonprofit Faith in Action (FIA)/Volunteer Action for Aging (VAA), operated by Independence At Home, is seeking volunteers and donations for its annual Thanksgiving meal delivery program for older and disabled adults who have minimal resources and opportunities for holiday celebrations with family and friends.
Last year, FIA /VAA provided 1,200 meals to those less fortunate, and once again, volunteers are needed to deliver these meals to clients who are isolated and lonely.
On Thanksgiving Day, volunteers are to arrive at 9am at SCAN Health Plan's Headquarters parking lot located at 3800 Kilroy Airport Way, Suite 100. Between 9:30am and noon, deliveries will be made in the areas of greater Long Beach, Lakewood, Signal Hill, South Bay, South Los Angeles and surrounding cities.
Those interested in helping with this event are asked to call (562) 637-7103 or email email@example.com by Nov. 1, 2011.


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based in London, UNITED KINGDOM
Ecometrica is passionate about clear, correct, and meaningful environmental management that helps businesses meet their sustainability challenges, reduce costs, and increase overall performance. We help our clients measure their environmental impacts, from carbon, energy, paper, waste and water management all the way through to full supply chain accounting. We have global ...
Gasmet Technologies Oy
based in Helsinki, FINLAND
Gasmet Technologies is a leading manufacturer of gas monitoring instruments and systems for industrial and environmental applications including Continuous Emissions Monitoring (Power Plants, Waste Incinerators, Cement Kilns etc.) Stack Testing / Comparison Measurements, Process Control, Industrial Hygiene / Indoor Air Quality, Engine Exhaust Gas, Semiconductor ...
Johnson Matthey Emission Control Technologies
based in Royston, UNITED KINGDOM
A British company with global operations, Johnson Matthey is a world leader in the development and supply of catalytic systems for air pollution control. Catalyst technology from Johnson Matthey helps to control exhaust emissions from mobile and stationary sources of air pollution, including passenger cars and motorcycles, trucks and buses, constructions equipment, as ...
Ecotech Pty Ltd
based in Knoxfield, AUSTRALIA
Ecotech is an Australian owned company with more than 35 years experience in servicing, maintaining, designing, manufacturing, installing and commissioning ambient air and emission monitoring systems around the world. Ecotech is ISO17025 accredited for the operation and maintenance of ambient air and continuous emission monitoring systems and was first accredited in 1999. ...
Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC)
based in Cambridge, UNITED KINGDOM
Cambridge Environmental Research Consultants (CERC) is the leading provider of environmental modelling software and services, including the ADMS range of software for industrial and urban air quality management. Our software development team continues development of ADMS, GASTAR, FLOWSTAR and EMIT and provides custom made products. Our consulting team can help in ...
based in Austin, TEXAS (USA)
AEREON, headquartered in Austin, Texas, is a global leader in the supply of high-quality technologies and services for gas and vapor handling, combustion and recovery for the oil and gas industries. AEREON was formed in 2012 when Flare Industries, LLC acquired Jordan Technologies. Under the two brands, AEREON offers the broadest product line of engineered flare systems, ...
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based in Milwaukee, WISCONSIN (USA)
Anguil Environmental Systems is a global provider of industrial air pollution control, emission abatement and energy recovery systems. We design, manufacturer, service and install thermal and catalytic oxidation technologies as well as heat recovery systems for a variety of applications and industries.
Genius5-Instruments GmbH
based in Kottingbrunn, AUSTRIA
Genius5-Instruments is producer of isokinetic sampling equipment, velocity proportional sampling equipment in stack emissions. It produces the products Genius 5, Windselect and pmctrace. Genius 5 is an isokinetic sampling system, suitable to sample dust, dioxins and metals. Pmctrace is a velocity proportional sampler, which is suitable for emissions trading. Windselect is ...
Enviro Technology Services plc
based in Stroud, UNITED KINGDOM
Enviro Technology Services plc (ET) was founded in 1983. Now led by MD, Mike Webley the company is active in 45 countries with a multi-million pound turnover, ET has evolved over 31 years to become a leading provider of air quality and emissions monitoring systems and servicing across the globe.
Climate Bridge
based in London, UNITED KINGDOM
Climate Bridge Ltd. is a multinational business that develops and implements emissions-reduction projects in Asia. The company has a portfolio of more than 180 emission reduction projects, both CDM and VER, in a wide range of technologies. Climate Bridge's history began on the Great Wall of China in 2005, when its founders, Alex Wyatt and Cameron Hepburn, conceived of a ...


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Continuum Magazine is the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's quarterly publication that showcases the laboratory's latest and most impactful clean energy innovations and the researchers and unique facilities that make it all happen.
Issue 5
Thermal management technologies increase vehicle energy efficiency and performance while reducing costs.
Lab works to create biofuels indistinguishable from conventional petroleum-based fuels.
NREL research, development, and deployment accelerate efforts to put energy-efficient, low-emission cars and trucks on the road.
Research focuses on boosting reliability, reducing costs, and designing infrastructure of the future.
DOE challenge met—research advances cut costs to produce fuel from non-food plant sources.
CAEBAT collaboration targets EDV batteries with longer range and lifespan, at a lower cost.
Leveraging state-of-the-art technology to revolutionize fleet sustainability and energy efficiency.
National Parks Initiative greens roads and preserves once-in-a-lifetime experiences.


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On most of my sites I use a css class like this:
Which I use to center any text on the site that needs to be centered. The problem is that IE6 is throwing me a strange problem. The text centers, but it is like the width is only set to 50%. This results in really ugly centered text. I can't figure out a solution, any suggestions? Why might this be happening, it doesn't make sense to me.
Maybe I'm not thinking this through enough… but why bother with the 100% width?
Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am applying this to block elements (div, h1, etc). If width: 100%; is not set that it has no effect since the element is only as wide as the text itself.
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So Phil Davis says he uses NO-Xplode. I've been thinking that a pre-workout supplement is something I want to start using so I looked up NO-XPlode but it seems like there are better options. Some other supplements that I noticed have good reviews are: Controlled Labs White Flood, BPI 1 M.R., Muscle Pharm Assault, MRI Black Powder, XPI Supplements Myonox, and USP Labs Jacked.
Assault looks pretty good has anyone used it? It's $27.95 for 1.76 lbs on TFSupplements. Blackpowder though is $34.95 for 3 lbs. I've also read a lot of positive reviews for Jacked. Can anyone shed some light on the best buy/best overall product?


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Rising land, food prices cause recognition of indigenous peoples' rights to stagnatemongabay.com
February 09, 2011
The report, "Pushback: Local Power, Global Realignment," says that after 25 years of progress on governments recognizing forest peoples' land and resource rights (recognition of indigenous and community ownership and management tripled between 1985 and 2009), gains stagnated in 2010.
"The lack of progress at the global level in 2010 was doubly disappointing," said Andy White, RRI Coordinator, in a statement. "On one hand the necessity of secure rights is now widely promoted by climate change negotiators and development specialists, yet on the other, the rate of recognition is not at all keeping up with the rate of large commercial land acquisitions—so called 'land grabbing.'"
Pushback takes an extended look at the Reducing Emissions for Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) mechanism, and sees both threats and opportunities. It notes that after years of demonstrations, forest people are finally getting a seat at the table when it comes to REDD discussions—more than 500 attended last December's climate talks in Cancún, Mexico. The report finds that groups which have the most optimistic outlook on REDD tend to be the ones that have secure rights to their land.
"At the local level, support or distrust of REDD is directly tied to how much control you have over your lands," said White. "Community groups in Mexico are very interested in REDD because they don't think it will prompt the government to come after their lands. But elsewhere, there is concern that REDD will become just another reason for government taking back land and resource rights."
"2011 could see a decline in the effectiveness of consumer pressure as a way to encourage land tenure reform. While consumers have been successful in pushing major western investors to act more responsibly, the West's share of the global market is declining," says RRI in a press statement. "Western interests are being replaced by investors from developing and middle income countries, who are less susceptible to consumer campaigns."
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(02/04/2011) As large-scale mining, logging, and plantations threaten indigenous communities worldwide, a new report from the indigenous rights NGO Amazon Watch states that when extractive industries work in indigenous people's territories, the peoples' rights must be respected. The report argues that all indigenous groups have the right to 'free, prior, and informed consent' of any resource extraction occurring on their lands, and that this international standard should be upheld not only for obvious moral reasons, but for sound business.
'Land grab' fears in Africa legitimate
(01/31/2011) A new report by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has found that recent large-scale land deals in Africa are likely to provide scant benefit to some of the world's poorest and most famine-prone nations and will probably create new social and environmental problems. Analyzing 12 recent land leasing contracts investigators found a number of concerns, including contracts that are only a few pages long, exclusion of local people, and in one case actually give land away for free. Many of the contracts last for 100 years, threatening to separate local communities from the land they live on. "Most contracts for large-scale land deals in Africa are negotiated in secret," explains report author Lorenzo Cotula in a press release. "Only rarely do local landholders have a say in those negotiations and few contracts are publicly available after they have been signed."
Renewed conflict between tribes and oil companies looms in Peru
(01/06/2011) Indigenous peoples and their allies have intensified their fight against two oil companies over contamination in the Peruvian Amazon. Last week, a group of indigenous protesters blockaded portions of the Marañon and Corrientes Rivers in the province of Loreto in northeastern Peru. The protesters were demanding that Pluspetrol, an Argentinean oil company, compensate them for a recent oil spill. As of December 28th, after eight days, the blockade remained unbroken.
United States to back U.N. indigenous rights declaration
(12/23/2010) The United States will endorse the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP), making it the last industrialized power to support the agreement, which recognizes the rights of indigenous peoples on issues including free prior and informed consent (FPIC), right to sovereignty, territory and respect for traditional knowledge. The move was announced last week by President Barack Obama.


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You know the expression 'art is subjective'. A group of people could be looking at the same painting and have completely different ideas about the definition of art. Even elephants can use a paintbrush and create something that someone will consider a masterpiece and pay good money for it. There's no accounting for taste but with modern spectroscopy, we can account for the exact composition of a painting, and this becomes very important to scientists and art conservators as they work to preserve the antiquities that record our history and culture. Thermo Scientific Informatics solutions include laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and the world-class suite of GRAMS spectroscopy software that is used around the world by art conservation professionals and scientists across the broadest range of industries. This week I wanted to share a really interesting use of spectroscopy at Queen's University's school of art conservation. Gus Shurvell is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry and an Adjunct Professional in the Art Conservation Program at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. His focus now is to help graduate students specializing in paper, paintings and objects in the conservation program at the university. His primary tool is spectroscopy – spectroscopic and chemical analysis of materials. Professor Shurvell uses Thermo Scientific GRAMS spectroscopy software to compare spectra recorded in the laboratory with spectra contained in databases of reference spectra, which can be stored in the LIMS. Professor Shurvell has authored a number of books and more than 200 other published works. You might find some of Professor Shurvell's writings of interest.
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Percentage of Stocks Above 50-Day Moving Averages
Yesterday's market plunge left the S&P 500 well below its 50-day moving average. As shown below, the percentage of stocks in the index trading above their 50-days took a big hit as well. As of this morning, 33% of the stocks in the S&P are trading above their 50-days. This is still slightly above the low readings seen in this indicator back in November 2012 and June of this year.
The Financial sector took the biggest hit to breadth yesterday, leaving just 11% of the stocks in the sector above their 50-days. This is the lowest reading of any sector. Consumer Staples (15%), Utilities (16%) and Telecom (17%) are the other sectors with readings in the teens. Only one sector -- Materials -- still has more than 50% of its stocks above their 50-days. Technology has the second highest reading at 46%.