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Tension (featuring Downlink, Datsik, and Excision)
New Song
What do y'all think?
I'm really digging this dub-metal thing they're doing. The scat on this song is fantastic. That's something I've been missing from Korn since SYOTOS.
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Tension is one of my favorites on the whole album.... kornfaerie... try downloading tension from itunes or something... you don't want to miss this one!
Im torn over this one I like it but the rest of POT sounds like korn with dubstep elements and i've come to really appreciate it, personally i can't see korn playing this one it sounds more like what i would imagine JD plays in a dj set. But i love the lines "i love the things that make you upset, the more you hurt the stronger i get" I'm sure it will grow on me!
Deep Inside, It can hide! Feeling so lost and betrayed, why does this happen to me everytime, Stuck in this place, where I can't escape Screaming and clawing from deep inside. Why won't it fade? Outside I had to lie; "I'm ok",
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Reviewed for Middle School, 2012
If your child loved reading The Giver, she'll be hooked on this final chapter of the four-part series. Readers will get to reunite with Gabe, the light-eyed baby, and his older "brother" Jonas after they've grown up. But this time the story is told from someone else's perspective—Gabe's mother Claire. You'll go back in time with our heroine, to when she is first given the job of Birthmother at age twelve. Like all Vessels after birth, she gives up her son without ever even seeing him, to be assigned to a couple in the community. Continuing from where The Giver left off, you'll travel with Claire on a harrowing journey to find Gabe after he and Jonas escape from their community. Claire's labor of love is both bone-chilling and heartwarming all at the same time. We highly recommend buying the entire Giver series, a must-read that will leave your teen thinking about greater themes of society, conformity, and the meaning of perseverance. (Houghton Mifflin $17.80)

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NYFF Daily, Wednesday 10/10
With only five days left of the New York Film Festival, it's still not too late to see some of the best films of the year!
Photos from NYFF Centerpiece "Not Fade Away"
Relive the 50th New York Film Festival Centerpiece Gala with images from the red carpet and our Q&A with director David Chase, executive producer Steve Van Zandt and stars of the film. Oh, and a few surprise guests from New Jersey...
Spielberg Surprises Fest With "Lincoln" Sneak
For the first time, Steven Spielberg took the stage at the New York Film Festival with a work-in-progress screening of his topical and political melodrama Lincoln starring Daniel Day-Lewis.
Youth and the Beast
Back-to-back viewings of two NYFF films—Leos Carax's Holy Motors and Olivier Assayas' Something in the Air—make a young cinephile question the healthiness of his film fanaticism. By indulging his obsession with the depiction of life on-screen, is he letting his own youth pass him by?
NYFF Daily, Tuesday 10/9
Manohla Dargis of the New York Times wrote that the New York Film Festival's mantra is "More." We're taking that to heart today with "more" new films from around the world, "more" masterpieces from across time, and "more" directors in-person for everything from intros to Q&As to free conversations!
"Heaven's Gate" and Film Maudit Culture
Once cited as the film that killed the Hollywood New Wave, a restored director's cut of Michael Cimino's unfairly-maligned masterpiece received a rapturous reception at the 50th New York Film Festival. But in the days of widespread availability and #teammargaret, is the film maudit a thing of the past?
Behind the Scenes: Peter Kubelka's "Monument Film"
Get a sneak peak at the installation that accompanies Kubelka's highly anticipated new work as it was being set up this weekend in the Furman Gallery, then see Monument Film and Antiphon tonight at 7:00pm and 9:00pm in the Walter Reade Theater. Rush tickets available!
The Spider of Lincoln Center
NYFF Convergence wasn't just a place for talking about transmedia storytelling; new projects were actually created on-site and in real-time, like this winner of our Transmedia Test Kitchen throw-down. Experience the result for yourself and check out full video of the event!
Love, Loss and Time Travel
Noémie Lvovsky's Camille Rewinds, an updated and re-imagined French take on Francis Ford Coppola's Peggy Sue Got Married (NYFF '86), finds new depth in the comedic tale of a woman reliving her high school experience.
NYFF Daily: Monday, 10/8
Today at the fest: Our buzzed-about Secret Screening; Peter Kubelka's highly-anticipated new avant-garde work Monument Film; Cinéastes docs about Jean Vigo, Chantal Akerman, and Martin Scorsese; and Main Slate offerings from Olivier Assayas, Sally Potter, and Abbas Kiarostami.


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Diane Hovey (MS DHA, 1993) and her wheelchair-bound daughter, Sonia, were profiled in the Pioneer Press by Megan Boldt. Sonia suffered severe brain damage when she was 14 months old and Diane set out to write a fairy tale based on her daughter. The fairy tale was recently published as Princess Sophia's Gifts.
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Margot Fonteyn; Sir Robert Murray Helpmann
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Margot Fonteyn; Sir Robert Murray Helpmann
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Victoria amazonica (giant waterlily)
Inside Kew's Waterlily House
Species information
Victoria amazonica
giant waterlily
Not known to be threatened.
Lakes and backwaters of the Amazon River.
None known.
About this species
Victoria amazonica is well known for its huge circular leaves, which are often pictured with a small child sitting supported in the centre as a demonstration of their size and strength. The species is highly prized as an ornamental, despite having somewhat particular requirements for successful cultivation.
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Geography and distribution
Native to tropical South America, Victoria amazonica was first discovered in Bolivia in 1801 and named Eurgale amazonica. It was subsequently moved to a new genus named in honour of Queen Victoria (originally as Victoria regia). In South America it grows in the backwaters of rivers in the Amazon basin, the Guianas and the Pantanal.
The enormous circular leaves, which grow to over 2.5 m across, have upturned rims and are anchored by long stalks arising from an underground stem buried in the mud of the river bottom. The leaves first appear as spiny heads but expand rapidly up to half a square metre per day. The upper surface has a rather quilted appearance and a waxy layer that repels water. The purplish red undersurface has a network of ribs clad in abundant sharp spines, possibly a defence against herbivorous fishes and manatees. Air trapped in the spaces between the ribs enables the leaves to float. They are so buoyant that they can easily support the weight of a small child, and a mature leaf can support 45 kg if the load is evenly distributed. In a single season, each plant produces some 40 to 50 leaves, which cover the water surface and exclude light, thus restricting the growth of most other plants.
The spectacular flowers are relatively short-lived, lasting only 48 hours or so. The flower is white the first evening it opens, attracting beetles with a sweet pineapple-like scent and with heat from a thermochemical reaction. At this stage the flower is female, and is open to receiving pollen picked up by the beetles on other plants. As they bumble around inside the flower they transfer pollen to the stigmas and fertilization takes place. Meanwhile the flower shuts, trapping them until the next evening. During the following day the plant changes from female to male: the anthers mature and start producing pollen. When the flower reopens on the second evening it has changed colour to purplish red and no longer emits attractive scent or heat. The beetles, dusted with their pollen, fly off to find another white flower on a different plant (each plant only ever has one white flower at a time), where the process is repeated. The flower then closes up and sinks below the surface of the water, its mission accomplished.
Timelapse opening of giant waterlily at Kew Gardens
Threats and conservation
Although not currently thought to be threatened, this plant lives in a highly specialised habitat. Climate change predictions for the Amazon basin are severe, and rainforest destruction, with consequent impacts on water quality and flow, may pose a significant threat in the future.
It is said that the complex 'architectural' pattern of the vein structure below the leaves provided the inspiration for Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace design in 1851, for the Great Exhibition in London. However, Victoria amazonica is most valued as an ornamental plant, for which it has been highly prized ever since its discovery. The seeds of this species can be roasted and eaten.
In the wild the giant waterlily is a short-lived perennial, but at Kew it is raised as an annual from seed planted each January.
In summer the flowers are hand-pollinated and then placed in a bag. This enables easy collection of the resulting seed, in the autumn. The seeds must be kept moist, preferably in water, all the time. To prevent premature germination, or death, they are kept at a constant temperature of 15 °C. In order to begin germination it is sometimes necessary to nick the seed with a scalpel, after which germination occurs in ten days. In January the newly germinated seed is pricked out into a tiny pot which is kept in water. As the plant grows, potting on into larger pots is carried out until the plant occupies a one ton pot. Loam is used as a substrate, the key factors for this choice being that it does not float, it is rich in nutrients and it has the capacity to enclose the fertiliser that is contained in the 'feed bombs' given to the plant.
Carlos Magdalena, who cultivates this species at Kew, notes that temperature and light are crucial. The seedlings are raised at 32 °C and the juvenile and adult plants are grown on at 26 to 32 °C. In the winter, supplementary lighting must be provided for the seedlings. A 400 watt horticultural supplementary bulb is used to give bright light for 12 hours. The brighter and longer the exposure to light, the better and faster the plant grows. Eventually, in autumn, it is the lack of light that finally causes the plant to die.
Pests and diseases are kept at bay with the provision of plenty of rich fertiliser, but aphids can be a problem.
If the plant becomes pot-bound, the crown tends to lift until it is raised out of the water. To counter this, the 'chop and drop' technique can be used whereby the crown is cut and planted in a new pot. Alternatively the pot can be placed deeper in the water. The general rule is: the larger the pot, the larger and healthier the plant.
General maintenance includes weekly feeding throughout the season using 'feed bombs' and prompt removal of decaying leaves. The pot in which the plant is growing is kept submerged in water at all times.
Giant waterlily at Kew
Plants are grown in the Tropical Nursery, which is one of the behind-the-scenes areas of Kew. In March or April, when the plants have 5 or 6 leaves, the best specimens are moved out, so during the summer months you may be fortunate to see them growing in the Princess of Wales Conservatory and/or the Waterlily House.
The species normally grown at Kew are Victoria amazonica and V.cruziana, and their hybrid, V.'Longwood'. The giant waterlily that is seasonally on display in the Princess of Wales Conservatory is normally V.'Longwood'. In 1995 the leaves reached record-breaking dimensions when they grew to over 2.5 m in diameter and were registered in the Guinness Book of Records. V.cruziana is normally grown in the Waterlily House.
Kew also raises juvenile Victoria plants to donate to other institutions that do not have facilities to raise them from seed.
References and credits
Leppard, M. (1978). The Amazonian waterlily. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society 103: 121-122.
Mabberley, D.J. (2008). Mabberley's plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants. 3rd ed. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Prance, G.T. & Arius, J.R. (1975). A study of the floral biology of Victoria amazonica (Poepp.) Sowerby (Nymphaeaceae). Acta Amazonica 5: 109-139.
Kew Science Editor: William Milliken
Kew Contributors: Olwen Grace (Sustainable Uses Group)
Copyediting: Emma Tredwell
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House Ape
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Transcontinental Railroad & Pony Express (NV & UT)
The western United States, especially the Great Basin region of the western United States, has some vast expanses that are only accessible by dirt or gravel roads. Perhaps this is because there are so few humans out there, and there seems little point in connecting tiny, isolated hamlets and ranches with networks of expensive pavement. Nevada, for instance, has a population density of 18.2 persons per square mile (compared to New Jersey: 1134.4 or even Texas: 79.6), a calculation that includes the Las Vegas and Reno metropolitan areas. Away from those glittering gambling meccas, you're much more likely to run across a jackrabbit or a coyote than another human being.
These unpeopled, jackrabbit landscapes are the ones I find myself most drawn to explore, preferably by motorcycle.
And so it is with this in mind that I rode out in early July to travel the dusty parts of Nevada and Utah. Not aimlessly, mind you. I did have a couple of goals in mind for this trip. Specifically, I wanted to roll along the old, abandoned railroad right-of-way north of the Great Salt Lake past Promontory Summit (of Golden Spike fame), and then return west via whatever traces I could find of the old Pony Express route. But other than that, my goal was to see what's out there, and to take my time seeing it.
My usual habit of racking up as many miles as possible was off the agenda for this trip. If I found myself stopped somewhere in the late afternoon, looking at the map and noting that another 200 miles will get me to Ibapah, or Mottville, or Jiggs, I would resist temptation, fascinating as those places may be. I had been through Ely at least ten times, and had never visited the famous railroad museum there. I determined that this time I would. Call this the Stop and Smell the Sagebrush Ride.
Here's a map of the planned route.
Of course, plans change. Mechanical devices fail, distant vistas beckon, exhaustion sets in, and weather happens. Were I to get rained on, all that dust would turn to mud. And mud is not my friend. So there would certainly be unforeseen diversions from the plan. But that's OK. There's plenty out there that I have yet to see.
My plan was also to camp at least a few times along the way. It was the time of the new moon, and eastern Nevada is one of those places least affected by light pollution. So the starry sky would be spectacular.
I decided to leave all of my fancy photography gear at home this time, and documented the trip using only the camera in my iPhone. Naturally this means that my images may lack some sharpness and dynamic range, but it would also allow me to concentrate simply on light, shadow, and composition. You know, what photography is supposed to be about.
Since I was traveling light, the iPhone would also be my sole method of updating this report. I figured that this maybe cause the odd worm to be insert into the text as the auto-correction feather does its thing. But you'll just have to chalk that up to poop proof-reading on my party.
And I can't express enough thanks here to AdvRider's own DockingPilot for providing GPS tracks for the section around the Great Salt Lake and the Pony Express route through Utah, and to Bucko for valuable info about the Pony Express trail in Nevada. This trip would not have been possible without their invaluable help.
So... Wish me Luck!
Ready... Set...
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Good Luck! It sounds like you have done some homework and it should be a great trip. I am very jealous!
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I'm in, this is one of the trips I've been wanting to take for awhile.
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Subscribed! I too love the wide open areas in the desert. I'm looking forward to following your remote riding!
The last old railroad trail I traversed had me on edge after finding some other motorcyclists stopped to repair a tire an old railroad spike had torn apart
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I'm tryin' ta think, but nuttin' happens!
House Ape
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The Mound of the Basquevilles
What is it with the Basques and their food? I've eaten at Basque restaurants several times now, and each time I've been presented with multiple courses of heaping piles of food, enough to satisfy at least four very hungry people. I mean, it's good food and all, but does anyone over there actually clean their plates? Is there some sort of Euskadi gene, that gives them a hyperactive metabolic rate? Or hyperbolic meta-active? Seriously. Had I been able to take my leftovers with me, I could have eaten well on just them for the rest of this trip.
Next time, I'm bringing a cooler. And a tapeworm.
Setting Out
So where was I? Oh yes, I got a late start today, so I made it only as far as Alturas in northeast Cailfornia. It was a scenic ride, though, over highway 66, one of my favorites.
Highway 66 at the Klamath River
I was headed toward Klamath Falls, but I bypassed the town via a little shortcut I know that took me through the Wildlife Refuge south of there, and then southeast past Newell, where the remains of the Tule Lake War Relocation Center are still visible. 18,700 Americans of Japanese descent were interred (how about we just call a spade a spade and say imprisoned) there from February 1942 until the camp was finally closed in March of 1946.
I rolled up to the fenced area surrounding the only remaining building from the camp, the jail, just as a car was pulling out. The driver of the car rolled down her window and asked if I wanted to see the place. Well yeah. She turned out to be a volunteer docent who was just about to leave for the day. Instead, she turned around and gave me a private tour of the jail.
Her name was Laura Patton, and she told me that she was a newly minted history major from Minnesota, volunteering out here in hopes of eventually being hired as a Park Ranger. She had a stack of old photos of the camp, and while we wandered through the cool interior of the remains of the jail, she filled me in on the history of the place and some details about the people imprisoned there.
Laura Patton in front of the jail
Tule Lake Relocation Center
It was an amazing stroke of luck for me to have arrived when I did. And after the tour I thanked her profusely and expressed my dismay that our government can't seem to figure out a way to pay for such excellent public service.
My guess is that she shares my dismay.
Just beyond Newell are the lava beds and the stronghold where Captain Jack and his 53 Modoc warriors held off more than 500 soldiers and militiamen for more than six months in 1873 after the government tried to herd the Modoc onto the same reservation with their old enemies, the Klamath. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
There's a cross on top of a nearby bluff to commemorate Gen. Canby, the only general to be killed in the Indian wars.
Canby Cross and the stronghold in the distance
Both the camp and the lava beds left me thinking that our nation has had finer hours.
But I've had few finer hours than the time I spent for the rest of the afternoon, rolling through the Modoc National Forest into Alturas, where I find myself tonight, recovering from the aforementioned culinary assault by the Basques.
The Modoc forest is covered with juniper and ponderosa pine, and after our recent rains, the heat of the day filled the air with a delightfully pungent aroma.
Modoc National Forest
I understand that the juniper is a bit of fire hazard, and I saw evidence of thinning operations as I rolled along. That made me sad. Think of all those juniper berries going to waste, instead of being distilled into good, wholesome gin!
Near Alturas
Miles today: 158.3
Total miles: 158.3
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The Jungo Book
The day dawned clear and cool, and I wasted no time packing up and heading north on highway 395 toward the turnoff onto County Road 13 that would take me over Fandango Pass and into the Surprise Valley, where I would break fast in Cedarville.
I had only ridden this section of 395 twice before, both times in late summer, and to my surprise I found that Goose Lake is actually a genuine lake in early July, and not a dry lakebed. Who knew?
Goose Lake
The western approach to Fandango Pass rises gently on the west side, and belies the struggle that the early settlers faced on their trek from the east.
The Western Approach to Fandango Pass
I stopped at the summit and surveyed the 1600 foot drop (in one mile!) down into the Surprise Valley. How ox-drawn wagons made it up that grade is a secret that's all too safe with me.
Eastern side of Fandango Pass, Surprise Valley and the Warner Mountains in the distance
The pass was originally named for Peter Lassen, who plotted the track southwest from the Applegate Trail, the trail that allowed Oregon-bound settlers to avoid the dangerous route down the Columbia River. But somewhere along the way it got renamed Fandango Pass, for reasons that are lost in western lore.
The two competing stories are: A) the first settlers were so happy to have survived the crossing of "The Great American Desert" that they broke into a fandango once they hit the summit. And 2) a troop of soldiers stationed at the base of the pass in winter broke into a fandango to keep warm.
Neither of these fables pass the smell test for me. If I had spent the good part of several weeks dragging an ox train up 1600 feet of rim rock, the last thing that I'd have the energy for is dancing.
As for the light-footed soldiers, I've looked up "fandango" on YouTube, and it's not a very energetic dance. There are many, far better ways to keep warm. I don't know. Maybe "Jumping Jack Pass" didn't have that certain pioneer cache.
Anyway, I had much less trouble getting up and over the pass than the early settlers did, and I even had the additional advantage of a comfy breakfast place waiting for me just down the road in Cedarville.
South of there the landscape turns dry and barren, and I finally got my first whiff of sagebrush.
The Warner Mountains
An hour, and many delicious curves later, I was in Gerlach, NV of Burning Man fame. Since I had just ingested a large meal, I skipped the customary plate of ravioli at Bruno's Country Club, and decided to ride north a bit to see what sort of shape the playa was in. I couldn't resist rolling out onto the lakebed and take this picture with Gerlach in the background.
The Playa
Those of you familiar with my previous unfortunate encounter with the playa's mud may find this decision puzzling.
And for those of you unfamiliar, here's a clue:
Here's the thing: I need to learn everything the hard way. At least twice. OK?
Just south of Gerlach is the start of the Jungo Road, a 100-mile shortcut to Winnemucca that traverses a very empty part of Nevada. I had ridden this road once before, so I just aired down my tires and got on with it.
Airing Down the Tires
I love this road. It's seriously isolated, and when I stopped at about the halfway point and shut off the bike, I got to witness what silence really is. The weren't any clanging human sounds, nor any natural ones. No wind. No tinkling brook or rustling leaves. No bugs. Nothing. Silence.
Jungo Road
But I couldn't just stand there all day listening to nothing, so I forged on, encountering some wild horses just before passing the big mining operation at Sulphur.
Wild Horses
Sulphur Mine
Shortly thereafter the road turns into a gravel superhighway, and I was up in 5th and 6th gear all the way into Winnemucca.
Gravel Superhighway
I had entertained the idea of bypassing I-80 on another 100-mile dirt road. But the temperature was 92°F at 2 o'clock when I rolled into town. And the idea of crossing terra incognita in the heat of the afternoon seemed neither prudent nor pleasurable. So I aired up the tires and slipped onto I-80.
By the time I gassed up in Battle Mountain, the thermometer on my bike read 102°F, so I think I made the right decision.
Tonight I find myself in Wells, NV. I was hoping to find a small motorcourt motel within walking distance of a cozy bar where I could knock back a few while listening to an old-timer named Al regale me with lies about the old days. But after surveying the entire length of Business-80 as it passes through town, I can only conclude that Wells is like a terminal cancer patient, whose entire torso has rotted away, leaving only withering appendages out by the freeway exits. Time for last rites.
Miles today: 438.5
Total miles: 596.8
I'm tryin' ta think, but nuttin' happens!
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hmmmmm, juniper.
There is a pleasure in the pathed woods, There is a rapture in the smoking pipe, There is chaos, where none intrudes, in the deep dell, with its thrills roar; I love not nature less, but bikes the more. Byron riding.
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Nice Report. Love that area. Memories flowing as I read yur report. Keep it coming.
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Riding the Iron Piglet
The view out of my motel window was ominous this morning. Dark grey clouds obscured yesterday's clear blue sky. And I feared that my plan to ride the abandoned transcontinental rail bed might get washed away.
But it wasn't raining yet, and the local forecast predicted only a 30% chance of rain. So I packed up and hit the Interstate.
My tank was only half full, but my AAA map showed a town called Oasis at a turnoff up ahead. It's on I-80. There had to be a gas station there, right?
Well, there was a gas station all right. But it looked like it had been abandoned about twenty years ago. And that's pretty much all there was to Oasis. So now what? Head back to Wells, or continue another 35 miles to Wendover and then take a 52-mile dirt detour to Lucin, UT, where the rail bed began.
I hate backtracking. So Wendover it was.
I filled up there, and put some gas in my two MSR bottles for security. I wasn't sure how much gas I was going to burn before I popped back out into civilization just north of Salt Lake City.
I hadn't planned for this detour, so I had no topo maps of the route north out of Wendover. But I did have my AAA map that showed a rough road from just east of Wendover all the way to Lucin.
So I plugged Lucin into my GPS and asked it for the shortest route. It routed me out of Wendover in a northerly direction, but the road wound through a residential tract, and then ominously turned to gravel right next to the Wendover cemetery. Hm. Bad omen?
Very quickly the road turned into a very rough jeep tack, with deep ruts filled with fine gravel. Though it was headed in the right direction, I knew that by staying on this road it would probably take me all day to get to Lucin, and very likely would cause me to drop the bike more than once.
It's been my experience that if a road appears on a AAA map, I can usually count on it being well within my comfort zone. But this road was well outside of that zone. Time to turn around and reconfigure the GPS.
The Wrong Road
So I rolled back into town and had another gander at the map.
The "right" road seemed to begin a little to the east. So I got back onto I-80 and rode to the next exit at the Bonneville Salt Flats. Then I asked the GPS to take another crack at it.
This time the course it gave me seemed to hew more closely to the line on the map, and after heading up and over a ridge to the north, I was rolling along on a nicely graded gravel road, skirting the edge of the Silver Island mountains, and well on my way to Lucin.
The Right Road
By 10:30 I was in what's left of Lucin (not much), and found the beginning of the old rail bed.
The railroad ran through this part of Utah from 1869 until the Lucin Cutoff was constructed right across the Great Salt Lake in a series of landfill berms and trestles in 1904. After that it was used mostly for local traffic until 1942 when they ripped out the rails for use in the war effort in WWII. Now, anyone with a 4WD vehicle (or adequate motorcycle ) can cross the 90 miles from Lucin to Promontory, and if you find yourself in the neighborhood, I highly recommend the detour.
The Beginning of the Railbed
I figured that the track across to Promontory Summit would be relatively straight and flat, so I'd be able to maintain a decent speed. And I did for the most part. But at regular intervals the rail bed crossed washes on small trestles, and here the track would dip down and to the side. So I had to keep on my toes lest I enter these little zig-zags a little too hot.
Remains of a Trestle
Here and there I saw railroad ties left from the removal of the steel rails in 1942.
Railroad Ties
Every now and then I'd pass a sign indicating where a siding had been, or a watering station for the old steam trains, or pass through a deep cut.
But mostly I was surrounded by lots and lots of emptiness.
After three hours I ascended the last grade onto the plateau at Promontory Summit, and parked my bike in front of the visitor center there.
First I watched a 20 minute film describing the history of the railroad and the golden spike ceremony. Then I strolled out back to see the exact replicas of the two locomotives that met there when the transcontinental railway was completed on May 10, 1869. You can't board them, but you can get right up next to them, and since they've got them all fired up each day, you can feel the heat from their boilers and the steam hissing from their pistons. Gaudily painted in their original colors, they're beautiful and powerful machines from another era.
I could try to fill you in on all that I've learned about the transcontinental railway, and the Golden Spike, and all the various powers that conspired to bring the railroad into fruition, and the changes that it wrought. But better you surf on over to wikipedia, and get the info from more authoritative sources.
I just came here because I wanted to ride the rail bed.
Miles today: 273.7
Total miles: 870.5
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Rovithakis, GA; Vallianatos, F; (2000) A neural network approach to the identification of electric earthquake precursors. PHYS CHEM EARTH PT A , 25 (3) 315 - 319.
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Reliable recognition of Electric Earthquake Precursors (EEP) is mainly prevented by disturbances of magnetotelluric (MT) origin, making EEP's interpretation difficult. However, assuming that EEP's are not accompanied by a significant magnetic anomaly, the MT disturbances can be reduced by applying the method of residual electric field calculations. In the present work, we present a Dynamic Neural Network (DNN) based prediction procedure. A DNN is employed to predict the behaviour of an electrotelluric time series with ultimate objective its application to earthquake prediction using electric precursors. To achieve such a goal, a learning phase is necessary, during which the synaptic weights of the DNN are adjusted according to an appropriate update law so as to minimize an error signal. Then the method proceeds to the prediction phase, where using the weight values resulted at the end of the learning phase the DNN predicts, the actual signal accurately. The proposed approach is applied to measured electrotelluric data. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Unless, we can come up with another $150 dollars BeYourArt.com will have to close it doors. Since I don't have the time to maintain the site and keep deleting mass influx of sex/dating profiles, this might be for the best. Again thank you all for what you have put into this great community. This has been an invaluable experience for me and I've learned an immensely about what it takes to run such a site, but more importantly I come to love all your art and your individual passion to share it.
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Buying a lace wig for the first time could be a daunting process as there is so very much choice. This selection is not restricted to finding a design that fits your deal with as lace wigs also vary in construction. The selection in lace wigs allows people to ideally meet the requires of their way of life and image.
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by bec1948 (#18979457) Attached to: Breakpoints have now been patented
The Supreme Court unanimously decided a case the other day, overturning patents for something obvious. I've not read the patent, but it would seem that this fits into the "Obvious" category. That the patented idea might also be a good one, and offer benefits may not justify the patent. I also don't know whether it matters - it will depend upon whether the vendors who compete need this functionality and what the licensing will be. If it gives competitive advantage, but doesn't pay to fight, it will stand. If someone wants to fight, I suspect the patent will fall due to the court decision.


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German-language paper founded in San Antonio
On this day in 1865, August Siemering founded the German-language Freie Presse für Texas in San Antonio. Siemering, born in Germany in 1828, came to Texas in 1851 and later opened the first public school in Fredericksburg. He was an ardent Republican and abolitionist, though he had been impressed into the Confederate army in 1861, and the Freie Presse became known as one of the leading Republican newspapers in the South during Reconstruction. A few months after founding the paper, Siemering also founded the English-language San Antonio Express, in which the prominent Republican journalist James P. Newcomb bought an interest in 1867. Siemering sold the Express in 1877 and died six years later. The Freie Presse ceased publication in 1945.


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The Resource Center for Separating & Divorcing Families
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Please click on the link below for a short video about RCSDF
Dear Prospective Clients, Students, and Interested Professionals,
Welcome to the Resource Center for Separating and Divorcing Families (RCSDF)! We provide comprehensive and affordable legal dispute resolution, therapeutic, support, and educational services for separating and divorcing families in the Denver metro area.
The RCSDF opened in September 2013 and is the first of its kind in the country; we provide these services in an interdisciplinary and coordinated manner. We are committed to providing resources to families that enable parents to create or maintain a healthy family environment through the transition period and beyond. While divorce and separation can be challenging for children and adolescents, it need not interfere with their overall health and well-being. With their parents' help and understanding, most children navigate their way through the changes in their family and adjust to their new circumstances. Importantly, the choices you make now will have a significant difference in your children's lives.
If you choose to come to our Center, we commit to provide you with several things. First, we seek to provide you with the most current knowledge on the subject of children's adjustment to their parents' separation. Second, we help you identify the things you can do during this time to foster resilience in your family. Third, we offer you an alternative dispute resolution model outside the court system. And finally, you and your co-parent can "opt" to have your final court hearing held at the RCSDF if you reach agreement.
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Workington Reds boss aiming to sign new player before Brackley game
Last updated at 12:39, Thursday, 29 November 2012
Darren Edmondson hopes to sign at least one player before Saturday's match with Brackley Town, but denied his foray into the transfer market is a response to the 6-1 hammering dished out by Bradford Park Avenue.
The 41-year-old is working with a wafer thin squad, as Workington Reds deal with a constant stream of injuries.
Striker Jordan Connerton is a major worry for the home clash with Brackley with a hernia problem, while he also chases a replacement for James Bolton, whose loan deal has now expired.
Edmondson said he planned a move into the market before the Bradford defeat, and added: "I am always looking for players who can come in and make a difference straight away.
"The Bradford defeat was awful, but any players we bring in between now and Saturday are not a result of that defeat.
"I was hoping to bring new players in even if we had won.
"We have loan players going back, others on short-term contract, and players injured, so it's vital we bolster our ranks."
Yesterday, Mark Boyd declared himself fit, and Edmondson said his return to action was a good sign.
"A fit Mark Boyd is an asset to any side," he added.
"Mark's been unlucky with injuries, but his calf is a lot better, and he's ready to play.
"It's good to have him back, and he's definitely a contender to put straight back into the team, but I haven't decided who will start, and who misses out.
"We still have training to get through tonight, and after that I'll sit down with Tony Elliott, and we'll work out how we're going to restore some pride, and win points against what promises to be an extremely tough game."
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Come on, of course 100% detection rate is possible! We don't know about any threats it doesn't detect!
Come on, of course 100% detection rate is possible! We don't know about any threats it doesn't detect!
I have this explosives detector I'd like to know if you're interested in. It's used by the Iraqi government...
Such fast. Very speed. Wow.
I can't remember the last time I was in an airport that didn't have free WiFi. But then I don't travel in the USA much.
God, but they look young in that.
Was talking about the AC commenting, not Cook. Fool boy see me after class.
1. From inside the base of a wind turbine tower in rural Inner Mongolia province, China. Or, alternatively, from a caravan in the middle of a forest in Eastern Finland in the middle of winter - minus 30 C outside.
2. While nearly frozen to death (see 1b).
3. Wrote a program from? Or wrote a program for? The latter is probably a Danish PLC which I will not name here. It has an in-house OS with an in-house executable format which is based on ELF, loosely enough that none of the standard ELF tools work on it. A serial console is the only debugging interface available. An actual debugger is out of the question. All debugging output is truncated to 20 characters. The thing has a 100MHz CPU and all floating-point math is done in software (no FPU). Its reaction to almost any programming error is to hard reboot (and "programming error" here includes calling printf with any but the most basic formatting string). Perhaps most frustratingly, when it hard reboots it claims to write a stack trace of the faulting code; about 4 times in 5, this is truncated to some extent, often to only the first function in the stack.
4. A Windows programme to drive EtherCAT IO modules from a standard Ethernet socket.
Do I win?
Can you feel the self-awareness failure yet? Cook generalises about millions of users, but he's not the one at fault here; the commenter asks a question about one person (Cook) but apparently now he's "generalis[ing] about millions of people."
Fool boy, see me after class.
This is getting nearly incoherent. Is there 'no gold standard measure of "scientific literacy"'? Or do you know how to do it correctly? You make both arguments in the above comment.
No, you don't get to say, "That would seem to be an important factor in scientific literacy," in the face of the data - that's just assuming your conclusion. The point of the article is that this is not borne out - people who don't believe that evolution explains the development of species are nonetheless equally scientifically literate in all the other areas of science.
Um, you've just ignored the data in front of you - the data collected shows no correlation between "someone's inclination to believe religion over science" (ie their position on the evolution v creationism debate) and scientific literacy. There is no value in that measurement - it has no predictive power of the scientific literacy.
Typical, isn't it?
Yes, that's right, the science is the story here.
I wondered about this. If being untested is a problem for methods of execution, how exactly are you ever going to have a usable method of execution?
I'm sure those opposed to the death penalty like it this way; methods of execution are not usable until they've been tested and they can't be tested because they're unconstitutional. Ergo, we can't execute anyone. But the same legalistic argument presented many times above applies to them, too; the constitution does not forbid capital punishment, only cruel and unusual punishment. If you want to get rid of capital punishment, you need to change the constitution, not try to game the legal system to get what you want without the due process of changing the constitution.
Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem. -- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"


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"Realigning for NextGen"
J. Randolph Babbitt, National Harbor, Md.
October 3, 2011
ATCA, 56th Annual Conference and Exposition
Thank you for that introduction. It's a pleasure to be here today.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of air traffic control in the United States. And your organization has been an integral part of that history.
We've made countless advances in air traffic control since the 1930s when the first air traffic controllers began to plot the progress of flights using radio reports from pilots.
Air traffic control has gone from bonfires to beacons to radar, and now space-based satellite technology.
The advances have helped the aviation industry achieve and maintain an unparalleled safety record, all the while constantly improving efficiency of the biggest and busiest airspace space system in the world.
It really is amazing when you think about it. Our system has grown from three control centers in the 1930s to hundreds of federal control towers today.
Our system hums each day with 15,000 air traffic controllers handling more than 50,000 flights daily. And at peak, sometimes up to 70,000 a day.
We are constantly striving to improve by working with both the industry and our own employees. Earlier this year, NATCA president Paul Rinaldi and I joined forces in a Call to Action on air traffic controller safety and professionalism.
Today I would like to announce that I have accepted a set of recommendations from a blue ribbon panel with the goal of improving air traffic controller training.
This independent panel was asked to review all aspects of a controller's experience at the FAA including the hiring process, training, placement and career development.
Our air traffic controllers do a phenomenal job every day helping passengers and flight crews get to their destinations safely.
As we move forward with the transformation to NextGen, we need to make sure they are absolutely receiving the best training possible.
This report shows we are doing a great job, but there are things we can do better and will do better.
We are now reviewing nearly 50 recommendations and developing a plan to address them.
Some of those recommendations include conducting a more stringent evaluation of the curriculum at collegiate air traffic control programs around the country.
We also want to develop a standardized "advanced" training course that controllers would be required to take before arriving at their permanent field facility. This would ensure that every controller starts with the same set of skills. And they would not be so dependent upon learning those skills in the field.
We are looking at establishing a yearly refresher course for senior controllers who serve as field instructors for new controllers. We want to make sure we are consistent and more uniform – and that our instructors too have the latest techniques and skills.
And finally, we are reviewing a recommendation to create mobile simulator labs. The idea is to ensure that controllers in smaller facilities have equal access to simulator training technology.
I am grateful to the independent panel for their hard work on these recommendations. And I look forward to working with NATCA to implement these changes.
As we move forward with NextGen, we know that we must constantly adjust our way of doing business to reach the next level of safety and efficiency.
We also recognize that we need to change the FAA internally to best serve the future needs of our nation's aviation system, and to continue to be the best stewards of taxpayer dollars.
This means realigning some functions in order to better manage the transformation to NextGen.
Congress approved the reprogramming request we submitted this summer to change our reporting structure and implement other organizational changes. This is a critical step in moving forward with the changes that will lay the foundation for our success as an agency in the next 15 years.
The reprogramming approval allows us to create a NextGen office that will report to Deputy Administrator Michael Huerta. He is setting the strategic direction for NextGen and continuing to raise NextGen's profile within the FAA and the aviation community.
While much of NextGen involves the air traffic control function, it also involves much more than that, and needs the involvement and focus of every FAA office going forward.
Congress also supported our proposal for how we handle large programs going forward into the future. As you may have heard, we are creating a Program Management Office in the Air Traffic Organization to better manage our major acquisition programs, including NextGen. This office will play a critical role in the success of NextGen by acting as the bridge between strategic requirements and tactical program implementation.
Currently, air traffic acquisitions managers are embedded in different offices. Soon they will all be in one place. Having a portfolio of programs under one umbrella provides the potential for streamlining, better cost control, and economies of scale.
Several infrastructure programs that support NextGen will be moved to the new Program Management Office, such as ERAM. And acquisition management for many NextGen programs themselves will move there, such as ADS-B.
These changes will help us to better coordinate the evolution of our air traffic control system as we embrace NextGen.
In the meantime, Congress is in the midst of the 2012 budget process. The President has asked for more than $18 billion to run the FAA and he is very supportive of NextGen.
President Obama recognizes the importance of maintaining our infrastructure and the economic good that comes from putting people back to work on these projects.
The American Jobs Act proposes a $50 billion immediate investment in construction jobs to rebuild America's airports, roadways, railways and transit systems. It will put people to work restoring 150 miles of runways, upgrading 150,000 miles of road and improving 4,000 miles of train tracks.
As part of this infrastructure investment, the Act includes $1 billion to continue our research and development to advance NextGen.
And it proposes $2 billion for airport improvements – runways, taxiways, aprons, terminals and noise mitigation –above and beyond monies in the regular AIP program.
You've also heard talk of a National Infrastructure Bank. The American Jobs Act proposes a bank with $10 billion in upfront funding. The bank would operate independently and issue loans and loan guarantees emphasizing two fundamental criteria: how badly a project is needed and how much good it would do for the economy. Airport projects and air traffic control systems would be eligible.
We are encouraged by these proposals.
And we are continuing to work to achieve a multi-year reauthorization for the FAA. Last month, we avoided a repeat furlough of nearly 4,000 FAA employees. We have been reauthorized until the end of January. But this is our 22nd short term reauthorization. The FAA needs longer term funding to better plan improvements that will help us to maintain our system as the largest and safest aviation system in the world.
We are working on many fronts to secure the funding that we need to deliver the policies, the procedures and infrastructure that will take us into the aviation system of tomorrow.
Just as radar revolutionized air traffic control in the 1950s, NextGen is revolutionizing air traffic control now. It is the next milestone in aviation innovation that will bring us greater advances in safety and efficiency.
If we delay infrastructure investments today, the long term cost to our nation – to our passengers and our environment – will far exceed the cost of going forward with the technology now.
You at ATCA are an important part of that innovation. We look to the market and to industry groups for fresh ideas. Together, as partners, we can move forward and create the best template for the next century of flight.
Thank you, and I'll be happy to take questions.


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Durban — Super Eagles handler Stephen Keshi yesterday dismissed fears over the health status of the players in camp, saying no member of the team has an injury that would threaten his readiness for the semi-final tie against Mali today.
The former Mali coach, who spoke to Daily Trust in Durban, said all the 23 players are in perfect condition and ready to battle for the final ticket against the Eagles of Mali.
Keshi, who was full of optimism that the Super Eagles will win today's battle, also expressed happiness that Fengor Ogude, who missed the quarter-final duel against the Elephants of Cote d'Ivoire, will be available for today's confrontation.
He however said the Nigerian side would approach the match with caution and determination, noting that the Malian side also has talented players that would prove a hard nut to crack against the now confident Super Eagles.
"We don't have injuries in the team now, everybody is in perfect condition and we are set for the battle of Durban tomorrow (today). We are looking forward to the match and I am happy that Fengor Ogude, who missed our last game against Cote d'Ivoire will be back against Mali.
"We will win tomorrow, but that does not means we are going to be complacent, we are going to approach the game with all the determination it requires because Mali is a good side as well", said Keshi.


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University of Toronto Canada, Blue Sky Solar Racing
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Flamborough Hockey Association - Minor Hockey (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
The Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund
Dans la Rue - Montreal, QC, Canada
The FoodBank of Waterloo Region. Food Banks Canada, its Members (provincial associations), Affiliate Member food banks and associated agencies believe that everyone in Canada has the right to physical and economic access, at all times, to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences.
University of Toronto Blue Sky Solar Racing is a student directed program that applies higher education in advancing renewable energy technology and environmental decision-making. Through the design and construction of a solar powered vehicle, Blue Sky Solar Racing facilitates innovative applications of technology. The sight of a solar car and the excitement of solar racing generate the "cool" factor, which often acts as a catalyst that leads to further innovations down the road. The car's unique shape, distinctive sound and intriguing concept captivate the minds of countless onlookers every year; while the spirit of cross-continental racing awakens the heart and imagination of the public at large. Racing across continents at highway speeds using energy harnessed only from the sun requires enlightened design for power management. Each component of the car is thought out and evaluated in three key areas: maximization of total energy efficiency, elegance, and overall safety. While the design and construction are carried out under the rubric of performance and reliability, racing itself is a competition in sustainability. Blue Sky Solar Racing offers a unique learning experience not only through the design, construction, logistical operations, public relations and administration of a world-class solar race team, but also through the use of an intensely multi-disciplinary approach. Engineering, science, humanities, social science, and business students learn from each other how the varying decision making processes affect views on the environment and the role of technology.
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House league -- Hockey for boys 7-19 years old. Novice, Atom and Peewee divisions play within Flamborough. Bantam and Midget teams play interlocking schedules with Ancaster and Dundas. House league runs from mid October to the first week in April. Rep Teams -- hockey for boys 8-19 years old. One team each from novice to midget play in the Tri-County League. Teams enter the O.M.H.A. playoffs
The Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund - The Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund was established in 1906 by Toronto Star Founder, Joseph E. Atkinson. This tradition lives on with a Toronto Star reporter still writing daily articles about the plight of needy children in Toronto eight weeks prior to Christmas. Cheques or money orders can be made payable year-round and mailed to The Toronto Star Santa Claus Fund, One Yonge Street, Toronto, Ontario M5E 1E6. Online donations are available via www.thestar.com/santaclausfund
Dans la Rue - Montreal, QC - Le Bon Dieu dans la rue - or Dans la rue as our organization is more commonly known - has been a leader in working with Montréal street kids since its creation in 1988. Our success stems directly from the philosophy of our founder, Father Emmett Johns, whose conviction that all youths are entitled to be respected and listened to in a non-judgemental way, forms the very backbone of the services we offer. Dans la rue is a safe place for these kids to go and a place for them to grow. They can find resources that have been tailored to their individual circumstances. But above all, they can draw on an unending source of respect, friendship and encouragement.


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intervention with alternatives (e.g., raising the iron fortification level; changing the type of iron used). However, reviewing iron fortification levels was not part of this committee's task.
Both objectives of the pilot study involve improving the micronutrient status of a target population. The benefit to be gained from the project depends on raising the population from a state of vitamin C deficiency to a state of vitamin C sufficiency. There is no benefit to be gained from raising the population's intake or absorption of a nutrient if the amount is already satisfactory. Thus, the measures of effectiveness depend not only on the success of nutrient delivery to, and consumption by, a target population but also on the previous status of the population.
U.S. food aid is used for two purposes: developmental aid and emergency relief. Approximately 88 percent of U.S.-supplied fortified, blended food is used for developmental purposes. Developmental aid uses food primarily in school feeding programs, maternal and child health (MCH) programs, and food-for-work projects where the food is used as a substitute for money to pay for labor on development projects. Developmental food aid is rarely the sole source of food for a family, and since there is no evidence of vitamin C deficiency in populations receiving this type of food aid there is no rationale for increasing vitamin C in food aid commodities for this purpose.
Many recipients of developmental food aid are iron deficient (OMNI, 1994; Toole, 1994; Beaton, 1995). However, doubling the vitamin C content of fortified, blended foods to improve iron absorption may be much less cost-effective than increasing the iron content of such foods above their present levels of fortification, or of increasing iron in the diet by other means. Research data to support either intervention are insufficient.
Emergency relief food aid is distributed to refugees and other distressed populations (famine sufferers or other displaced populations) in camps. A small proportion of refugee populations has been shown to be vitamin C deficient when unfortified food was given (Ranum and Chomé, 1997). All of these populations were in the eastern Sahel (greater Horn of Africa and Kenya). Except for some recent reports of Bhutanese refugees in Nepal, no other refugee populations have shown documented evidence of vitamin C deficiency, including many others in the rest of Africa.
If the proposal under consideration is to increase the fortification levels of vitamin C in all CSB and WSB, then the cost of such an intervention must be measured against the small number of beneficiaries who are actually in need of the nutrient. For any project of a given size and cost, the cost-effectiveness is lower (that is, better) if the proportion of the population in need is higher.
The cost-effectiveness analysis uses as a basis for comparison the nutrient content of blended foods at present levels of fortification that could not be purchased under the Public Law (P.L.) 480 Title II program because the money was spent increasing the vitamin C fortification. This is a conservative basis for comparison because the nutrient content of other usual food aid commodities


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Rainbow Painting
Activity DesignerMelissa Allen
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What child does not love to paint a rainbow? This is a new twist on a rainbow painting and was a lot of fun for my kids to drag paint around the paper with a kitchen sponge!
What You'll Need
How We Did It
We keep a pack of new kitchen sponges in our art supplies to paint and stamp with. They are a lot of fun for the kids to try new ways of painting with.
My daughter first made a rainbow on the sponge with her paints. This could be done in any colors really. The possibilities are endless!


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06/17/04 - Media Day
|8:45 pm
|33° 21.7 min N
|76° 34.6 min W
We awoke to a beautiful sunrise in the east. Clear skies and calm seas meant a perfect day for the media tour. It is always a little challenging to plan the media day. We can never depend on good weather and although we have a mission plan, we are not always able to predict where we will be more than 24 hours ahead of time. Fortunately, we have people on shore who help coordinate the event. We do our part too, preparing short video clips and CD-ROMs of still images that people can use immediately.
The sub went down at 8 am with Alan Brooks in the bow and Martha Nizinski in the stern. When they got to the dive location the current was very strong - more than a knot at times. The battery does not last as long when the sub has to fight the current. We had hoped that the R/V Cape Fear, the UNCW research vessel transporting our guests, might meet us at 11 am so the visitors could observe a sub recovery. Unfortunately their trip out to our location took longer than expected, so they arrived after the sub was back on deck.
Upon first arriving on board, we took our guests into the wet lab so they could see some of the specimens we have collected. There were galatheid crabs, sea urchins, Lophelia, and a few fish. After a quick look we headed to the galley, the ship's kitchen and dinning room, for an outstanding luncheon of ravioli stuffed with lobster, salmon in puff pastry, tenderloin, asparagus, and triple flavor polenta. Chef Judy did it right!
Our guests had a tour of the ship, including a visit to the bridge and a stop on the deck. We then went down to visit the sub and Craig, head of the sub crew, demonstrated the manipulator arm and let people stick their heads up into the stern compartment. We returned to the labs to talk about our research and meet some of the science team.
|Photo courtesy of NOAA
We are now steaming southward which means we are fighting the
Gulf Stream. We hope to stop at several sites over the next few
days on the way back to Ft. Pierce, Florida. We should arrive
at our next location just in time to put the sub in the water.
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The following is an archive of a post made to our
'vox-tech mailing list'
by one of its subscribers.
the only other browser i use is lynx, and i don't keep bookmarks for it.
(don't know how, and not very interested. ;) ).
i am curious if something like mozilla rewrites the bookmarks.html file.
another really annoying thing is the "personal toolbar" in the bookmarks. i
keep deleting and it keeps coming back and back and...
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Guđmundur Bjarnason wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > i keep a global bookmark.html in /usr/local/share/users/bookmark.html, and
> > make symbolic links from within $HOME/.netscape, so all incarnations of me
> > can use the same bookmark file.
> >
> > the trouble is, when i edit the bookmarks, say as user p, the symbolic
> > link is erased and /home/p/.netscape/bookmark.html is written with the
> > updated information, and becomes a regular file. the changes are only
> > accessible to p, since it's no longer a link to the global file.
> >
> > i can't make hard links because /home and /usr are on different partitions.
> >
> > i looked into chattr - can't find anything that would help me (i do want the
> > file to be modifiable).
> >
> > any ideas on how to keep the symbolic link from being deleted each time i
> > edit the bookmarks?
> >
> > pete
> Do other browsers do the same or is it only netscape!
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You may have read the stories but have you seen the video? Tommy Lee's Heathrow Airport shenanigans were caught on tape. In order to watch the video you will need to unzip the file, but I think it's worth the hassle.
I find it funny that people were concerned about Tommy's health after sliding through the x-ray machine. Um, hello, we're talking Tommy Lee here! He was in Motley Crue! I don't think we have to worry about a little radiation, people.[Watch now.]


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