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09 Mar 2016:
U.S., Canada to Announce Series
Of New Climate and Environment Initiatives
President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are expected to announce a series of environment and climate initiatives during Trudeau's first visit to the White House later this week.
The measures include a 45-percent cut in methane emissions from the oil and gas industry and a partnership to protect the rapidly melting Arctic from climate change. Trudeau's focus on global warming since winning office four months ago marks a significant shift in Canada's environmental policy. Its previous prime minister, Stephen Harper,
cut funding for climate research
and backtracked on international climate pledges. "The commitment of both leaders to addressing this global challenge is clear," Todd Stern, the U.S. Special Envoy for Climate Change,
. "I suspect under their leadership, North America will make significant progress this year and next."
03 Mar 2016:
Oregon To Eliminate Coal
From Its State Energy Mix by 2030
Oregon has become the first U.S. state to eliminate the use of coal by legislative action. Lawmakers at the statehouse
Oregon's only remaining coal plant, in Boardman
voted Wednesday to eliminate coal from the state's energy supply by 2030, and to provide half of all customers' power with renewable sources by 2040. The legislation was hammered out between the state's two largest utilities and environmental groups. Clean energy groups praised the legislation as one of the strongest pieces of pro-climate legislation in the U.S. in years. "In terms of the coal phase-out, this really is precedent setting,"
said Jeff Deyette
, senior energy analyst at the Union of Concerned Scientists. There is only one coal plant currency operating in Oregon, and it is the state's largest single source of greenhouse gas emissions.
Rethinking Urban Landscapes To Adapt to Rising Sea Levels
Sea levels are rising faster than they have in at least 28 centuries, according to recent research, and by 2100, they are expected to rise by one to four feet — possibly even higher.
Kristina Hill
Landscape architect Kristina Hill argues that cities throughout the world need to start planning now for impacts that will happen 50 or 100 years in the future. "It takes decades for us to get our act together and build things," says Hill, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley. "Future generations won't have the luxury of decades." Hill advocates blending natural ecosystems and human-made infrastructure to help cities adjust to rising tides. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, she talks about her vision for modifying coastal communities, the limits to adaptation, and the promise of "cyborg landscapes."
Read the interview.
22 Feb 2016:
Reaching Emission Targets Could
Save 295,000 U.S. Lives by 2030, Study Says
The greenhouse emission cuts that America agreed to at the Paris climate conference may come with a significant public health benefit —the prevention of 295,000 premature deaths—
according to a Duke University study
. At the December summit, 196 nations, including the U.S., agreed to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. In order to achieve that goal, the U.S. will need to reduce emissions by 40 percent by 2030, which would lead to a significant reduction in deadly air pollution, according to the study. "People should realize that emissions are having a big impact already… more than 100,000 deaths a year,"
said Drew Shindell, a climate scientist at Duke and lead author of the study
. "Air pollution is a very big health challenge, it's having a major public health impact in the U.S."
According to the World Health Organization
, about seven million people died in 2012 as a result of air pollution.
10 Feb 2016:
Supreme Court Suspends
Obama's Coal Plant Emissions Cuts
The U.S. Supreme Court voted Tuesday to put on hold new federal regulations to curb carbon dioxide emissions, mainly from coal-fired
A coal-fired power plant
power plants, until a legal challenge by more than two dozen states and interest groups is complete. It is the first time the Supreme Court has granted a request to halt a regulation before its review by a federal appeals court. The 5-4 vote along ideological lines is a blow to the centerpiece of the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, its strategy to combat climate change. Those challenging the regulations claim the new rules, which are to be enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency, would have a devastating economic impact. The White House says it expects the regulations to survive legal challenges. The plan, designed to lower carbon emissions from U.S. power plants to 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, is the main tool for the U.S. to meet CO2 reduction targets pledged at the December climate talks in Paris.
03 Feb 2016:
China's Wind Power Sector
Experienced Rapid Growth in 2015
China installed
nearly half of all new global wind power generation
last year and added as much new wind energy capacity in one year as the total capacity of the leading U.S. wind-producing states — Texas, Iowa, and California. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that China installed nearly 29 gigawatts of new wind-power capacity last year, surpassing the previous record of 21 gigawatts in 2014. China's new wind energy capacity dwarfed the next-largest market, the United States, which added 8.6 gigawatts in 2015. Analysts said China's wind sector grew rapidly because of declining manufacturing and installation costs, generous government feed-in tariffs, improving transmission capacity, and the government's campaign to curb pollution from coal-fired power plants.
Five Questions for Robert Bullard
On the Flint Water Crisis and Justice
In Flint, Michigan, a city of 100,000 whose population is 56 percent African American, a state cost-cutting measure to begin drawing drinking water supplies from
Texas Southern University
Robert D. Bullard
the Flint River has led to a public health crisis. The corrosive waters of the river have leached lead out of Flint's aging water pipes, causing thousands of children to ingest dangerously high levels of lead — a problem that was ignored for months.
Yale Environment 360
asked Robert D. Bullard — dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University and the man widely considered the first to fully articulate the concept of environmental justice — five questions about how the situation in Flint reflects on environmental inequality in the United States.
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27 Jan 2016:
Rush to Electric Vehicles
Is Worsening Air Pollution in China
The push by the Chinese government and the country's automakers to expand production of electric vehicles is
actually worsening air pollution
and carbon emissions because most of China's electricity is still produced by coal-fired power plants, new studies show. Thanks to government incentives, production of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles is expected to grow six-fold to two million cars and trucks by 2020. But studies by researchers at Tsinghua University show that electric vehicles charged in China with coal-fired power produce two to five times as many particulates and other pollutants as gasoline cars. The Tsinghua studies call into question the government policy of promoting deployment of electric vehicles while the vast majority of the country's electricity still comes from coal. "International experience shows that cleaning up the air doesn't need to rely on electric vehicles," said one analyst. "Clean up the power plants."
Interview: Finding a New Politics
For Our New Environmental Era
In an age defined by humankind's unprecedented influence on the environment, how do do we begin to
Jedediah Purdy
reverse our increasingly disruptive impacts on the planet's fundamental natural systems? Author Jedediah Purdy maintains that the times require a new politics to address the urgent global issues now confronting the planet, a vision he lays out in his new book,
After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene
. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Purdy concedes that it's difficult to discern the specifics of the "democratic Anthropocene" he's calling for, but it has fundamental underpinnings: being less beholden to Big Money, attaching a moral value on climates and landscapes, and placing more emphasis on our responsibility to future generations. "We only have one way of collectively pivoting the direction in which we're taking that world, and that is political."
Read the interview.
23 Dec 2015:
Congressional Tax Credits
Expected to Further Boost U.S. Renewables
The renewable energy sector in the United States is finishing 2015 on a high note as Congress has voted to approve
significant extensions for tax credits
for renewable energy, and the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has reported a
surge in wind power installations.
Ending uncertainty about the fate of tax credits for the wind and solar industries, Congress has voted to extend investment tax credits for solar power and production tax credits for wind energy through 2022 and 2020, respectively. Renewable energy companies and analysts praised the extensions, saying that, coupled with rapidly falling prices for wind and solar energy technologies, the tax credits virtually guarantee a boom in the production of renewables in the U.S. Earlier this week, the AWEA said U.S. wind energy production has reached a milestone, with 50,000 turbines providing a generating capacity of 70 gigawatts — enough to power 19 million homes.
16 Dec 2015:
Five Questions for Bill McKibben
On the Paris Climate Agreement
Activist Bill McKibben was a visible presence during the climate conference in Paris, urging for strong action.
Yale Environment 360
caught up with McKibben, the founder of
, after an agreement was reached and asked him five question about Paris and the road beyond. While the Paris accord "didn't save the planet," McKibben says, "it may have saved the chance to save it – that is, it didn't foreclose the possibility. Actually getting anywhere will now require massive organizing to hold leaders to their promises."
Read more.
15 Dec 2015:
China Anti-Pollution Efforts
Lead to Steep Drop in Sulfur Dioxide Levels
Emissions of sulfur dioxide, a toxic gas that threatens human health and causes acid rain, have
dropped sharply in the last decade
China's sulfur pollution has decreased in recent years.
in China, thanks to aggressive air pollution control initiatives by the Chinese government. As these NASA images show, levels of sulfur dioxide in China fell significantly from 2005 to 2014, while emissions of the gas increased in India during the same period. From 2012 to 2014, Chinese SO2 emissions fell especially sharply, by 50 percent. The steady drop in emissions of the noxious gas, released during the burning of coal and other fossil fuels, can be attributed to pollution control measures enacted before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the widespread installation of flue gas desulfurication devices on power plants, the switch to coal with a lower sulfur content, and the closing of coal-fired power plants in favor of less-polluting energy sources such as natural gas, wind, and solar power. India's sulfur dioxide emissions have risen because of the rapid expansion of coal-fired power plants.
10 Dec 2015:
Paris COP21: An Unexpected Move
Toward Global Target of 1.5 Degrees
It is the big surprise of the Paris talks: the growing acceptance of a call from small nations most vulnerable to climate change
Johan Rockström
for the conference to declare warming should be halted at 1.5 degrees Celsius. Even a few months ago, this seemed unimaginable. Two degrees was the only target on the table. But here it has gained momentum with more than 100 nations, including the U.S. and the EU, agreeing it should be in the final agreement. With more than a day of talks remaining, inclusion is far from a done deal. But it has strong support. A 1.5-degree target "looks much more scientifically justifiable," said Johan Rockström, director of the Stockholm Resilience Institute.
Read more.
08 Dec 2015:
Paris COP21: Amid Optimism, Key
Issues Remain on Negotiating Table
The centerpieces of a potential climate deal in Paris are the 180 national emissions pledges for the period up to 2030, which
Delegates draft text for the proposed agreement.
were submitted ahead of the conference. What is at issue now are the rules for their implementation, including funding of pledges from poor nations, and whether a procedure can be agreed for upgrading them later to give the world a chance of meeting its two-degree Celsius temperature-rise target. To do all that in the final few days of the conference, negotiators are considering a 48-page draft text that contains numerous brackets, which denote alternative options and text yet to be agreed on. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he expected the final deal to include a review of emissions targets every five years to determine how they are playing out and to allow for increasingly ambitious goals that could secure the two-degree target.
Read more.
07 Dec 2015:
Paris COP21 — How 'Landscape
Carbon' Can Be Part of a Solution on Climate
A group led by the World Resources Institute has unveiled plans in Paris for a grand restoration of Africa's landscapes that includes
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former Nigerian finance minister
replanting forests and reviving soils. The group, which includes the World Bank and the African Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development are seeking $2 billion a year to restore 100 million hectares of Africa by 2030 — an area three times the size of Germany. The plans were announced to some 3,000 delegates attending a Global Landscapes Forum in Paris on Sunday. "We need landscape restoration for development and for climate," said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former Nigerian finance minister. Some African countries said they are already at work. Ethiopian ministers told the forum they had restored a million hectares of farm soils in the drought-hit Tigray region and elsewhere in the past 20 years, through terracing, irrigation and other activities.
Read more
03 Dec 2015:
Paris COP21 — Regular Reviews
Of Carbon Emission Cuts Likely to Be Adopted
An important point of contention at the Paris climate talks — whether to regularly review nations' pledges on emissions cuts, in
U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres
the hopes of stimulating further reductions — may be close to being resolved. U.N. climate chief Christiana Figueres says there is a growing consensus that emissions-reduction pledges
should be reviewed every five years
, a stance supported by the U.S., China, and the European Union. Other nations, such as India, have been reluctant to commit to such reviews. Figueres, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, and other top officials at the Paris talks are
urging delegates to begin resolving issues
such as emissions-pledge reviews, as the
50-page draft climate treaty
now contains four to five alternative versions of disputed points. Fabius has given negotiators until Thursday night to deliver a streamlined draft and has set a deadline of noon Saturday to come up with a close-to-final draft.
03 Dec 2015:
Paris COP21: Is India the Main
Stumbling Block at Climate Talks?
By some measures India has offered a lot to the Paris neogitations. Its pledge on future emissions includes perhaps the
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
most ambitious renewable energy program in the world, with 175 gigawatts of green power, including 100 megawatts of solar panels, by 2022. But many nonetheless see India as the biggest single threat to curbing CO2 emissions in the next few decades. The problem is coal. The speed of India's current industrialization is so fast that, even with a huge surge in solar energy, it still plans the world's fastest rate of construction of coal-fired power stations. India's continued reliance on coal will increase its CO2 emissions by 60 per cent by 2030. And that addiction to coal is making enemies among countries that India would normally count as its friends – poor nations most at risk from climate change.
Read more.
02 Dec 2015:
Paris COP21: China's About-Face
Fuels High Hopes for Paris Talks
China has changed everything. After years of sulking about climate change, China is right now diplomatically and technologically
A worker installs solar panels in eastern China.
transforming the chances of slowing global warming. President Barack Obama might wish for a deal here at U.N. climate negotiations in Paris to be his own crowning legacy. But the truth is that this is China's ball. Nobody personifies the transformation better than the head of the Chinese climate delegation for the past nine years, Xie Zhenhua. He spent years pretending climate change was a developing-world problem that the rich nations had to sort out, and he was widely blamed for scuppering the 2009 Copenhagen climate negotiations. But here in Paris he is quietly confident a deal is about to be done that will be in China's and the world's interests. "China is entering a new normal of energy and resource conservation," he said. "We can seek a different way [through] ecologically driven wealth generation."
Read more.
01 Dec 2015:
Paris COP21 — Business Leaders
Announce 'Breakthrough Energy Coalition'
A group of leading business people and technology entrepreneurs — including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Facebook founder
Global leaders announced 'Mission Innovation.'
Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Jack Ma of China's Alibaba Group — have announced in Paris a
new initiative to spur investment
in low-carbon energy technologies. The
Breakthrough Energy Coalition
says it will work closely with governments and research institutions to "mobilize investment in truly transformative energy solutions for the future." The coalition will work closely with governments to invest in and develop the technologies, and at the Paris conference the leaders of 21 nations announced the formation of a
Mission Innovation
initiative to make clean energy available worldwide.
01 Dec 2015:
Paris COP21: To Save Forests,
A Combination of Carrots and Sticks
Forests must be saved and restored if the world community hopes to slow global warming. That's a given at the Paris climate
Indigenous leaders at a forestry session in Paris.
conference. But how? It's a tough issue for many environment ministers, who know that back home their agriculture, mining, and even forestry ministers have other plans for forest lands. In nations such as Peru and Indonesia, the gap between aspirations for slowing deforestation and the reality on the ground is huge. How to close that gap is a major topic of discussion in Paris, with countries, business groups, and conservationists proposing a combination of carrots and sticks to spur reform. And advocates say that returning many forests to indigenous groups is a key part of any solution.
Read more.
Complete Coverage of the Paris COP21
Climate Talks From Yale Environment 360
30 Nov 2015:
Paris COP21: For the Poorest
Nations, Questions of Compensation
In a series of side events on the first day of the Paris climate conference, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched the
Initiative on Resilience, a program designed to help the world's poorest countries, which are especially vulnerable to the ravages of global warming. Finance to help developing nations adapt to climate change is potentially the dealbreaker in Paris. Developing nations expect a Green Climate Fund, which would cover adaptation and the cost of moderating their greenhouse gas emissions, to contain $100 billion a year by 2020. If the money is not on the table, they may ditch their promises on emissions — and scupper the deal. Germany, France, and other developed nations promised help in Paris. But the president of Angola, chairing a group of 48 African nations vulnerable to climate change, said $5 billion of such projects were already on hold for want of cash.
Read more.
30 Nov 2015:
Paris COP21 — Obama, Xi Vow to
Lead In Climate Fight as Paris Talks Open
Joining leaders from 150 nations in Paris, President Barack Obama acknowledged the U.S.'s
special responsibility as the major historical emitter
U.N. climate chief Figueres greets President Obama
of greenhouse gases and vowed that the U.S. would take a leading role in fighting climate change, which he called the central challenge of the 21st century. "The United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it," Obama said at the opening of United Nations climate talks. He vowed that the U.S. and other developed nations would provide aid for renewable energy development and climate adaptation to developing nations, which he said had "contributed little to climate change but will be the first to feel its most destructive effects." Chinese President Xi Jinping said that his country would meet its
goal of hitting peak emissions by 2030
, with steady declines thereafter.
23 Nov 2015:
In Major Shift, Alberta
Adopts New Plans to Fight Climate Change
In a sharp reversal from the previous government, Alberta's recently elected premier has announced a
host of new climate measures
, including a tax on carbon, the phase-out of coal emissions by 2030, a transition to
Dave Cournoyer/Flickr
Rachel Notley
renewable energy sources, and CO2 emissions limits on the province's massive tar sands industry. Premier Rachel Notley said Sunday that the province will adopt an economy-wide carbon tax of 20 Canadian dollars in 2017, increasing to 30 dollars in 2018. She vowed that two-thirds of the electricity now produced by coal-fired power plants will be replaced with renewable energy. And she said Alberta will impose a carbon emissions limit on the oil sands industry of 100 megatons; the industry currently generates 70 megatons of carbon annually. "This is the day we step up, at long last, to one of the world's biggest problems: the pollution that is causing climate change," Notley said.
Interview: Why Brazil's Pledges On
Carbon Emissions Are Not Enough
In recent years, Brazil has been widely praised for reducing deforestation in the Amazon by 75 percent from 2005 to 2014.
Maria Fernanda Gebara
But analysts are now taking a closer look at Brazil's pledges to cut deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions, with some saying there is less there than meets the eye. One of the more outspoken critics of the country's CO2-reduction policies is Brazilian political scientist Maria Fernanda Gebara. In an interview with
Yale Environment 360
, Gebara, a research associate in the Department for International Development at the London School of Economics, says Brazil's policies will do little more than stabilize emissions for the next 15 years, will fail to clamp down on illegal logging, and will continue the nation's dismal record of developing solar and wind power.
Read the interview.
16 Nov 2015:
U.S. Cities Vary Widely in Climate
Preparation Due to Politics, Study Says
Portland, Boston, and Los Angeles are further along than many U.S. cities in planning for extreme weather events linked to global
Matthew Paulson/Flickr
Downtown Tampa, Florida
warming, according to a study published in the journal
Global Environmental Change
. The report found that Tucson, Arizona, and Raleigh, North Carolina, are in the middle-to-early stages of planning, while Tampa, Florida — which is at the highest risk for hurricanes in the U.S. and is located very near sea level — largely dismisses climate change and has done little to plan for it. The study is the first to look at societal factors, such as a city's political environment, and how those factors affect action on climate change. Interviews with 65 local policymakers in each of the six cities revealed three factors that play a role in how well city planners prepare for climate change: the risk of extreme weather in a given area, public acceptance of climate change, and how aggressively a city's residents engage in public policy.
11 Nov 2015:
Renewable Diesel Production and
Demand Growing Worldwide, Report Finds
A new type of renewable, non-petroleum-based diesel fuel is on the rise worldwide,
according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration
Renewable diesel growth
with demand driven by mandates in multiple countries. Unlike other biofuels, renewable HEFA biofuels — the acronym stands for hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids, and the fuels are known as "renewable diesel" in the U.S. — are nearly indistinguishable from their petroleum counterparts, meaning they can serve as "drop-in" fuels, readily substituting for traditional diesel. For example, they can be used in diesel engines without the need for blending with petroleum diesel fuel. Worldwide, more than a billion gallons of HEFA fuels were produced in 2014. Ten plants worldwide now produce renewable diesel, and five additional projects are in development. Alaska Airlines, KLM, and United Airlines have demonstrated the use of HEFA biojet fuel on commercial flights since 2011.
10 Nov 2015:
New Online Tool Maps Lands
Managed and Protected by Indigenous People
Indigenous people have historically demarcated their ancestral lands in a variety of ways, from rudimentary agreements and maps to,
A new online tool maps native lands.
more recently, drone surveys. But until now, there has been no systematic way of recording the actual boundaries and legal status of each swath of land managed by native peoples, who, as research shows, often do a better job of protecting their lands than local or national governments.
, a new tool launched today by a broad partnership including the World Resources Institute (WRI), is the first online, interactive platform for mapping lands managed by native communities. It was created to fill a critical gap in indigenous and community rights and make clear that these lands are not vacant, idle, or available to outsiders for exploitative development such as mining, palm oil plantations, or timber concessions. But Abdon Nababan, secretary general of the Indonesia's Indigenous Peoples' Alliance, cautioned that "these maps do us no good unless they become public knowledge and indigenous rights are recognized by all who have ambitions to grab our lands."
09 Nov 2015:
Globe Is Set to Cross 1 Degree C
Temperature Increase Threshold in 2015
The United Kingdom's Met Office says that 2015 will be the year when average world temperatures
rise more than 1 degree C
Globaly, 2015 is expected to be warmer than 2014.
above pre-industrial levels. That is halfway to the 2 degrees C temperature increase threshold that scientists say could dangerously destabilize the planet's climate system. The Met office reported that from January to September this year, global temperatures hit 1.02 degrees C above pre-industrial averages and that temperatures for the full year are virtually certain to be above the 1 C level. Meanwhile, the World Meteorological Association (WMO) reported that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 in 2014
averaged 397.7 parts per million
and that average 2015 concentrations could surpass the 400 ppm mark. "We are moving into uncharted territory at a frightening speed," WMO Secretary General Michel Jarraud said.
06 Nov 2015:
Obama Rejects Keystone XL
Pipeline, Ending a Seven-Year Battle
President Barack Obama
has rejected a Canadian company's request
to build the Keystone XL Pipeline, which would have carried 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta's tar sands to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The decision is a major victory for climate and conservation groups and burnishes Obama's legacy in the battle to slow global warming. Obama's announcement, made after a seven-year review by the U.S. State Department and other agencies, comes just weeks ahead of key United Nations climate talks in Paris. In remarks at the White House, Obama said that the economic benefits of building the pipeline were outweighed by the high environmental costs of helping move to market tar sands crude, whose production is among the most carbon-polluting on the planet. "The pipeline would not make a meaningful long-term contribution to our economy,'' Mr. Obama said in remarks at the White House.
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Alyssa MIlano steps in as host for the new season.
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DHS provides scholarships for undergraduate students and fellowships for graduate students pursuing degrees in mission-relevant fields of study.
In addition to receiving full tuition, students participate in a 10-week summer research internship with a DHS office, DHS Research and Education University Center, DHS laboratory or National laboratory. The Fellowships provide full tuition and mandatory, nonrefundable fees as well as $2,300 per month stipend for 12 months. Scholars and Fellows are brought to Washington DC in November for an orientation meeting where they will have an opportunity to meet DHS leaders and scientific personnel from the homeland security research enterprise and participate in research internship fair.
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How did the ESC seem to do?
I have switched out to a E-flite 60. I posted the #'s earlier for a 3s 2200 40c with the stock prop and ESC. It draws 40.3 Amps.
Also HH just called me back and they are sending me a new servo tomorrow. I'll still be replacing mine with Hitec MG's, but Good Job HH.
I got mine out for a maiden flight today between the rain. Hand launch into the wind is decent. I would love a better grip though. Power was decent. It was hard to tell how it tracked as there was quite a bit of wind gusting around today. I had mine set up for factory suggested D/Rs and expo and think that 5% expo is probably low for what I like and may be another reason it was not tracking as well as I thought it should. I found low rate aileron rolls to be a bit too fast for my liking too and reduced it from 50% to 40%. High rates (35mm of throw) was just a crazy blur spin like they show in the promo video. I only did this once and went back to low rates. I tried one high rate elevator parachute and that was quite nice. Inverted needed little to no push on elevator to stay level.... CG is very neutral with the battery all the way back. I was having trouble at first with inverted flight but realized I was still in elevator high rates. Once I went back to low rates, it flew much nicer. I will likely add some more expo on elevator low rates too. I tried some knife edge but there is a LOT of coupling going on. Speed was OK but not as fast as my FunJet. It is nice but I am not WOWed by it yet.
I think that once I get D/Rs and expo to my liking and a KE mix dialed in, it should be fun.
United States, NC, Mooresville
Joined Feb 2006
385 Posts
When doing a elevator/ parachut try using a little rudder and alieron to get it to turn on it's yaw axis in the decent. Really looks neat.
I flew her again tonight. She is a blast. I made an unscheduled single point landing... held the flat spin too long and couldnt get out fast enough....you need more then 25 feet to straighten out and power up. LOL
As for HL, I use my thumb and my ring finger in the finger holes and use my pointer and middle finger set on the motor mount screws. This gives me the ability to sling the tail forward like a fork pitch for baseball. I launch at a 50* nose up angle and once away I hit the throttle hard and she is off and flying with about 5 feet of space between her and the ground.
United States, GA, Newnan
Joined Aug 2010
1,201 Posts
HS-55's on the Q???
Kuczy thx for the vid, bro...dude that sounds nasty! Glad HH sending a new one.
Servo question
Ok, I have the FunJet original (not ultra) w/ the Grayson motor & esc and I've ripped that thing around at 85+mph for 2 doz flts now. Wow what fun
This FJ has had 2 Hitec HS-55's since the giddyup...and they have worked perfectly at all times...never stripped, work great.
I HOPE we don't have the servo issues on the Q like we've had on the EF Carbon-Z.
BUT IF WE DO, then I plan on just replacing the Q's oem servos w/ a couple 55's.
Yes? No? Maybe?
I'd bet anybody a steak dinner that my FJ would outrun a stock Q...so if the FJ is good w/ 55's, the Q should be too? Digital, schmigital...I just want servo's that'll work.
Yes? No? Thoughts?
thx gents
How's it going everyone... Long time Stryker flyer here and I just received the Q today!
Opening up the box it looks GREAT... Looks like a lot higher quality then the C (one of my favorite and most fun aircraft I've flown) I got the PNP, I have my AR500 installed in the plane and have included some pictures of how I set up my antennas, seemed the best way to route the long antenna that I could figure out.
Anyways, the plane looks awesome, looks like some great improvements and I can't wait to get this thing in the air with the new rudders! I just need to swap out to a deans connector and I'll be taking it up for a maiden flight
I cut small slits on both sides of the receiver indention area (ar500 fits perfect) for the antennas to slip right between. The short antenna is sticking right outside of the fuselage straight out. I cut a shallow slit for the long antenna to sit in and turned it 90 degrees towards the rear of the aircraft. The very end of the long antenna is exposed. (That crooked cut straight back is going to be one of those small things that is going to bother the hell out of me! hahaha)
Edit: Looks like I need to reroute my antenna.... I've been looking around and I'm seeing "do not bend spektrum receiver antennas"
I'm gonna do a smooth curve instead... Gives me a chance to straighten up my cut anyways
Edit: New antenna route
Jeff, my FJ has the Grayson Super Mega and I have had it on radar in the low 100s flat and level and as fast as 120 MPH with a stiff tail wind. My Sonic Blu F-22 has the Grayson Super Sonic and has made 79 MPH passes with a light tail wind. I suspect my Q is somewhere in the 80s MPH range. I will get it on radar when the weather cooperates.
I have had nothing but horrible luck with HS-55 servos. I recently sent nine in for glitching issues and when I got new ones in return, I sold them all. The FJ instructions suggest metal gear servos. I am running MG-14s in mine and they are working perfectly. http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...idProduct=8303 If you want to stick with Hitec, the HS-65s would be a better route than the 55s.
Is the AR600 a decent RX?
United States, GA, Newnan
Joined Aug 2010
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9Sec...aint the Grayson FJ fun??!! Funny thing is, I'm just the opposite...I've had a doz or more 55's on all kinda models and have had nothing but good luck & performance. Guess I'll keep chanting, burning incense, and rubbing my rabbit's foot.
I guess I'm just in "irked mode", having had to replace all the oem servos in the CZ Yak ...and the thought of maybe having to do the same on the Q just doesnt set well. I sure hope that's not the case.
If any of you new Q pilots spot anything funny w/ the stock Q servos, pls post asap.
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Childhood Cancer
Chapter II
Rates and Risk Factors
Rates and Risk Factors
About 87 percent of all pediatric kidney cancers are Wilms' tumor. Wilms' tumor is rare in persons over age 15 and behaves very differently from adult kidney cancers.
Incidence Rates
The incidence of kidney cancers among children in NJ and in the US was 0.8 per 100,000 (Table 1a). Wilms' tumor accounted for almost all of these cases. The incidence among girls in NJ and the US (0.9 per 100,000) was higher than among boys (0.6 per 100,000 in NJ; 0.8 per 100,000 in the US). In NJ, the incidence rate of kidney cancers was higher among white children than among black children, whereas in the US, the incidence rate was higher among black children than among white children (Table 1b). The reason for this difference is not known.
Incidence and Mortality Trends
Figure 10 presents incidence and mortality trends for childhood kidney cancers. Incidence rates for NJ and the US were very stable at about 0.9 per 100,000. Mortality rates for kidney cancers were very low and declined slightly to nearly zero over the period.
Wilms' Tumor: Demographic Patterns and Survival
In New Jersey, Wilms' tumor is more common in black children than in white children and in girls than in boys. Incidence of Wilms' tumor is highest in the first two years of life and declines thereafter. The five-year survival rate is 89 percent for children with this disease.7
Risk Factors
Wilm's tumor can be hereditary, but familial Wilms' tumor comprises only 1.0 to 2.4 percent of all cases. The genes responsible for the transmission have not been identified.7 Patients with certain genetic syndromes have a predisposition to Wilms' tumor: Beckwith-Weidmann syndrome, Perlman syndrome, and Drash syndrome.7, 25
Parental Occupation
Some studies have suggested increased risk of renal cancers in children of fathers or mothers exposed to certain substances through their occupations. Most of these studies did not have sufficient numbers of subjects or specific enough data on exposures to be definitive. The paternal exposures investigated were hydrocarbons, lead, solvents and pesticides and the maternal exposures were aromatic amino hydrocarbons (electronics, clothing manufacturing, dental assistants), aromatic azo compounds (cosmetic sales, clothing manufacturing, hairdressers, laboratory workers) and pesticides.23, 24


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Older Kids Do Better When They Sleep InKacy Faulconer
I love Mondays–Late Start Mondays. On Monday my son's high school doesn't start until 8am and my daughter doesn't have to get to middle school until 9:20. It's so dreamy, since their normal start times are 7:30 and 8am.
A lot of people have this idea that teens and tweens are lazy–and they are. They don't like to do the dishes or put away their clothes. But they aren't lazy like you'd think. My son usually runs 10 miles a day. (He can also watch whole seasons of The Simpsons in a single sitting, as long as he has a very big bowl of cereal to sustain him.)
Teens and tweens actually have boundless energy. But they're tired in the morning–not because they are lazy. They are tired because of that pesky P word: Puberty. It's a gross word. I mean, PUBERTY. Bleh. Poor kids. I hate it when my body goes all Alien on me.
Those hormones that make junior high so "fun" make teenagers secrete (ew–another gross word) melatonin later at night. Melatonin signals that it's time to go to sleep. So, even though they might be rocking out late at night like a fledgeling punk rebel high on anarchy, the real reason they don't feel tired is the melatonin. The later sleep signal causes a later "wake up" signal as well.
"All this makes bed time pretty challenging and pushes it to be very late, yet school doesn't change," says one psychologist in favor or later start times. "In general, teens need nine hours of sleep at night. Otherwise, they can end up chronically sleep deprived, and that daytime tiredness can harm their behavior and performance in school," he noted.
Many of the stereotypical complaints we have about teenagers–moodiness, depression, inattention, inability to focus–are just side effects of sleep deprivation. Moodiness, depression, inattention, inability to focus . . . Sound like any new moms you know?
I wish every day were late start. I wish school were shorter. I wish my kids had less homework. I wish I was a little bit taller. I wish I was a baller. I wish I had a rabbit in a hat with a bat and a '64 Impala. Such as it is, being the mom of 4 kids who go to school entails a lot of nagging and prodding about going to bed, getting up, and getting their homework done.
7am comes early, my friend.
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Describe motor patterns of the stomach after a meal.
Vago-vagal reflexes
- dilates to accommodate large volumes
- exhibits contractions for mixing food w/ gastric juice
- moves chyme into duodenum
What are the exocrine secretions in stomach?
2. Pepsinogen
3. Mucus
4. Bicarbonate
5. Intrinsic Factor
6. Gastric Lipase
7. Water
What are the endocrine secretions in stomach?
1. Gastrin
- G cells
- stimulates acid production
2. Somatostatin
- D cells ("defense" or inhibitory cell)
- inhibits acid productions
Mucous neck cells
- lubricates food
- forms gastric mucosal barrier protecting against acid and pepsin
What is the major electrolyte composition of gastric juice at high and low flow rates?
- mostly HCL
- interstitial fluid
Explain the mechanism for generating gastric acid secretion in lumen and the alkaline tide in plasma?
H/K pump = H+ pumped into lumen (stomach)
HCO3 made from cell metabolism goes into plasma via Cl exchanger
Post-Prandial Alkaline Tide
HCO3 made from cell metabolism goes into plasma via Cl exchanger
- causes gastric venous plasma to become alkaline
Why is Cl so important in stomach lumen?
Creates large negative electrical potential on the lumen
- "traps" H+ in lumen
- prevents H+ self attack of mucosa
What 3 molecules stimulate parietal cells and what are there signaling pathways?
1. increase intracellular Ca
- gastrin
- Ach
2. increase cAMP
- histamine
Stimuli for CEPHALIC phase
Thought of meal, smell, taste
Amygdala & Hypothalamus
- low pH of stomach at rest (30% of gastric juice)
1. Dorsal Motor Nucleus
- vagal stimulation releases Ach
- Ach stimulates parietal cell H+ secretion
- Histamine release from ECL cells
2. Postganglionic Parasympathetic Vagus
- GRP released = GASTRIN released from G cells
- inhibits D cells (somatostatin)
Stimuli for GASTRIC phase
Distention of Stomach (50%)
1. vagal-vagal reflex
- food entry neutralizes acid which causes GASTRIN secretion
2. Breakdown products of protein digestion stimulate G-cell directly
How does the negative feedback work for acid production?
1. pH falls below 3
2. H+ directly inhibits G cells(most imporant) and parietal cells
3. H+ stimulates D cells (somatostatin)
What are the enterogastrone negative feedback effects on stomach?
1. Secretin
- released in response to acidity in duodenum
- stimulates other release
- stimulus = glucose and fatty acid
- inhibits parietal cells
- stimulus = protein and fat
- reduces stomach motility
Where are the 2 types of pepsinogen from?
1. peptic and mucus cells in parietal glands
2. mucus cells from pyloric glands
What is stimulus for pepsinogen secretion?
1. Ach release from nerve terminals during cephalic and gastric phases of gastric secretion
2. Local acid-sensitive reflex
- vagal input
Describe the gastric mucosal barrier.
1. High HCO3 in surface mucus cells = pH7
2. Tight junctions
- prevent back diffusion of H+
What are some agents that disrupt the gastric mucosal barrier?
1. Ethanol
- dissolve lipid membranes
2. Bile salts
3. Drugs (aspirin)
- inhibits PGEs which inhibits acid production (histamine)


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HBO's low-fi animated series The Ricky Gervais Show is getting a third season.
The series hasn't been much of a ratings draw for the network, but Gervais is a good brand fit for HBO and the show – which animates the popular podcast hosted by Gervais, Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington – is not expensive to produce. The show is currently airing on Friday nights.


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State Farm®, Safe Kids & Hackensack University Medical Center Celebrate Teen Driving
New Jersey (September 13, 2012) – One way community partners in Bergen County will help teens "Celebrate My Drive" is by providing four high schools with the Pennsylvania Safety SIMulator presentation. Through a partnership with Hackensack University Hospital's Trauma Unit, Bergen County Safe Kids and State Farm, the Safety SIMulator will help teens learn how to drive safely under many diverse and adverse conditions, including snow, fog and heavy traffic. Training on the SIMulator will help teens gain confidence in their ability as a driver and develop an appreciation for safety.
As a part of the "Celebrate My Drive" initiative, State Farm presented the University with a $5,000 grant to make this program available to local high schools. This program will be offered in conjunction with the Trauma Unit's High School Traffic Safety Challenge (Seatbelt Competition) that has been established in Bergen County since 2003. This program focuses on promoting seatbelt use but also includes distracted/drinking & driving education and making the right choices behind the wheel and as a passenger. The four schools with the lowest use of seatbelts from Spring 2012 Challenge will be the recipients of the Safety Simulator presentation. They will receive this presentation during the Fall 2012 Challenge after the 1st unannounced seatbelt check and before the 2nd unannounced seatbelt check.
State Farm agents were on hand to present the grant and wish the Trauma Unit well as they embark on educating students on rules for safety.


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It's just about impossible to be reasonable in this state.
Summerville lawmaker Jenny Horne is pushing a bill through the Statehouse that would update sex education in South Carolina schools — seeing as how we're about 25 years behind the times.
You'd think this would be a no-brainer. Right now, the state ranks third nationally in terms of sexually transmitted diseases, and half the cases involve teens. And every year, more than 6,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 19 get pregnant. We're No. 11 on that list, and it doesn't include the girls younger than 15 who get pregnant.
And you know there are some because, well, this is South Carolina.
State taxpayers spend nearly $200 million a year in Medicaid costs related to these teen pregnancies. Serious money.
But when Horne and some similarly sane colleagues suggest teaching kids medically accurate information about their bodies, what do they get?
They get baloney about condoms and contraceptives, and how this will weaken the state's focus on abstinence.
And that's just from the state superintendent of education.
Less risky behavior
As much as this state loves the 19th century, it's time to stop living there.
Of course no one wants to think about teens having sex, but they do it. Quite a bit — no matter what the sugar babies tell their sugar daddies on that website.
Teaching proper sex education is not going to put it on anybody's mind. Rest assured, it's already there.
Horne says the idea is simply to cut down on many of our state's social ills through education. What a novel idea.
"The scientific evidence suggests if kids understand their bodies, they are less likely to engage in risky behavior," says Horne, a Republican.
To do anything else, Horne says, is a disservice. She is absolutely right.
Unfortunately, using science, logic or reason is a sure way to get your legislation killed in this state.
Et tu, Mrs. Cleaver?
The South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy is trying to get us off the top of some of these bad national ranking lists.
It supports this legislation because, well, it makes sense. Who can argue with medically accurate lessons, or teachers who are actually certified to teach this sort of material?
Well, Mick Zais apparently.
Look, Horne's legislation is all about abstinence, and so is the Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. But they aren't living in fantasyland. It's happening a lot. Rep. B.R. Skelton, Horne's co-author, notes that teen pregnancy often leads kids to drop out of school, work at minimum-wage jobs and rely on the government to make ends meet.
In a state where people detest that sort of lifestyle, you'd think they would do anything to cut down on instances of it. Sorry, showing 1950s sex-ed films isn't going to fix anything, Mrs. Cleaver.
So the Legislature needs to get off its duff and pass Horne's bill.
If it doesn't, all those poor South Carolina teens out there are just going to have to keep learning about sex the way they have for years.
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Foreclosure Trouble Spreads to Those Who Bet the Farm
McGREGOR, Minn. -- The home-foreclosure crisis, which began in cities and suburbs, has spread to rural America.
When the mortgage mess erupted, some economists believed that rural America wouldn't be heavily affected. Farms were prospering. The housing boom largely bypassed small rural towns. And exotic, new mortgages at first were seen as an urban and suburban phenomenon.
But rural homeowners, it turns out, were just as susceptible to subprime loans and easy lending as the rest of the country, often refinancing existing mortgages to take out cash or pay off debts.
"The idea that somehow rural America was going to escape this...is not proving to be the case," says David Dangler, who oversees rural initiatives at NeighborWorks America, a housing-aid nonprofit.
Foreclosure rates remain higher in cities and suburbs than in rural areas, and the change in home values from boom to bust hasn't been as severe. Since the peak, values have dropped 13% in rural areas and 23% in urban areas, according to Moody's Economy.com, while from 2000-2006, home values appreciated 45% in rural areas compared with 84% in urban areas.
Still, defaults in rural counties are rising rapidly and setting off concerns that the population in these already sparsely populated towns will decline further. In Minnesota, where rural borrowers are much more likely to have a subprime loan than city homeowners, foreclosures outside of the Minneapolis-St. Paul region have increased 232% since 2005, according to the Greater Minnesota Housing Fund. Economists say foreclosures could erode rural economies faster than urban areas because when homeowners in small communities walk away from their homes, they often also abandon their towns.
That is the worry for McGregor, a town of some 400 people on northern Minnesota's lake-strewn frontier. Robert Sundberg first refinanced his two-bedroom home here in 1999, when he had just $2,000 remaining on his mortgage. "I wish I had never done it," the retired manufacturing worker says. "I just went and refinanced too much."
Mr. Sundberg refinanced his home twice since then, once to pay medical bills and then two years ago to pay off car loans. The Sundbergs purchased their home for $24,000 in 1987. They owe $98,000 on the property, which is scheduled for a foreclosure auction on Thursday. Despite his difficulties, Mr. Sundberg says he won't consider leaving McGregor.
Other residents feel they can't afford to stay. On an icy morning in February, Paul and Judy Perrine packed up the contents of their five-bedroom farmhouse, and, with 13 children and two horses in tow, left the town where they raised their family.
The Perrines purchased their McGregor home in 1994 for $30,000. Home values in the area began to climb as city dwellers scooped up lakefront property nearby. The Perrines also added on to their house, and after a series of refinancings, the mortgage swelled to $255,000 by 2007. Mr. Perrine, a self-employed carpenter, stopped making mortgage payments last fall when the economy soured. The home is headed into foreclosure, and the Perrines have moved to Rock Rapids, Iowa. "We overstepped common sense with regard to debt," he says. "[My] income was always pretty decent, so you always felt like you could make it up down the line."
High-cost loans, which are predominately subprime, accounted for nearly 40% of all refinance loans between 2004-2007 in Aitkin County, of which McGregor is a part, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Dan Williams, who oversees financial counseling for Lutheran Social Services in Duluth, Minn., says the risk for towns like McGregor is a rise in abandoned housing and population decline similar to the farm crisis of the 1980s.
In the current crisis, full-scale farms are in somewhat better shape because agricultural mortgage lenders didn't follow the looser standards that prevailed elsewhere. Also, two years of record commodity prices have given farms a financial cushion.
But the manufacturing and construction trades that were tied to agriculture are reeling. In Faribault, Minn., a town of 20,000 south of Minneapolis, Jennifer Wicks still has her job as a secretary, but her husband has struggled to find construction work. They looked forward to one day running their own farm when they took out two loans to buy a $184,000, three-bedroom home on a 10-acre farm south of town three years ago. "Our goal had been to keep buying land around us, but it just hasn't worked out that way," says Ms. Wicks. Instead, they lost the home to foreclosure.
Ms. Wicks says she was "naïve and stupid" about her loans, including a $147,000 adjustable-rate mortgage. Monthly payments were tough to make before they jumped to $2,000 from $1,200. "It's awful," she says. "Our whole way of life is going to change."
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We may at times look back on our lives and imagine what they would have been like if we knew then what we know now. People who have children may want to give them the guidance and opportunities that they could have used. Those without children may see themselves reflected in the eagerness and innocence of younger people and want to reach out to help them. It is just as likely that age is not a factor when you see someone struggling and want to help them and also give them the information they may need to help themselves in the future. Whether you choose to help one person or many today, by sharing what you've learned from life, you can inspire and motivate others on their journeys.
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text: Longview Coal Opponents Point To Weak Finances Of Company Behind Proposed Terminals By Bellamy Pailthorp • Aug 21, 2014 AP Photo Oregon regulators' rejection of a proposed coal export terminal on the Columbia River is just the latest hurdle for the energy company behind it, according to anti-coal activists. The activists are asking Washington officials to consider Ambre Energy's finances before allowing a terminal it's involved in at Longview, Washington. Sweeping Environmental Review For Longview Coal Terminal By The Associated Press • Feb 12, 2014 Elaine Thompson / AP Photo State and local regulators say they'll consider a sweeping environmental review of the impacts of a proposed terminal in southwest Washington that would export millions of tons of coal to Asia. The state Department of Ecology and Cowlitz County said Wednesday its review includes looking at train traffic impacts along the entire route as the coal is moved by train from Montana and Wyoming throughout the state. The review will also study global-warming effects of burning the exported coal in Asia. Thousands Weigh in on SW Wash. Coal-Export Plan By The Associated Press • Nov 18, 2013 Ted S. Warren / Associated Press Regulators have received an unprecedented number of public comments on a controversial proposal to export millions of tons of coal out of southwest Washington. The Army Corps of Engineers, Washington's Ecology Department and Cowlitz County are preparing to sift through more than 163,000 comments to decide what environmental impacts should be reviewed. Hearings Begin in Environmental Review of Longview Coal Terminal By Bellamy Pailthorp • Sep 16, 2013 Erin Hennessey photo / KPLU News Listen Listening... / 1:51 Scoping hearings begin tomorrow on a proposed coal export terminal in Longview, near the Columbia River. It's one of two Washington terminals that would ship coal from the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming to Asia. Nutty! Fourth Squirrel Bridge Coming to Longview By Tom Banse • Aug 16, 2013 Tom Banse Listen Listening... / 2:23 As signature landmarks go, Seattle has its Space Needle. Newport, Oregon has the Bay Bridge. Astorians are proud of their iconic Column. And in Longview, Washington, you've got, well, the Nutty Narrows Bridge. The skybridge is about 60 feet long. It spans a busy, tree-shaded thoroughfare and is just wide enough. For a squirrel, that is. 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Pedro Sosa
He was always big. And, as far as Pedro Sosa remembers, he always enjoyed watching college football. He just never put the two together until Union Hill High School coach Joe Rotondi approached Sosa one day prior to his junior year and suggested he try playing the sport.
Seven years later, Sosa has blossomed into one of the best offensive tackles in Rutgers history, a 6-5, 290-pounder with pro potential as he heads into his third year as a starter on the left side.
"At first I didn't want to play because I didn't know enough about the game," Sosa said. "But once my coach convinced me to come out I think I picked it up pretty quick."
A second-team all-Big East selection last year, Sosa was one of the driving forces on a line that led the country in fewest sacks allowed (eight) while helping Ray Rice rush for a school-record 1,794 yards.
This is how good Sosa was: He remembers every detail of the only sack he allowed in 13 games last season.
"It was the fourth play of the first series at North Carolina (in the opener)," he said. "I remember it was loud. I couldn't hear the signals. When they snapped the ball my footwork was all messed up because my timing was off. But I give credit to (Tar Heels defensive end) Hilee Taylor. He took advantage of it."
That was it for the season.
It's a long way from the uncertain, rattled redshirt freshman who was unexpectedly sent into the 2004 game at Syracuse and suffered a case of the yips by immediately committing two false starts. Sosa was pulled after the second penalty.
"I wasn't prepared then. I got thrown in and I wasn't ready," Sosa said. "But that game opened my eyes a lot. I realized I was on scholarship and that I had to grow as a football player. That made a big difference in my career."
A year later he became the starter. He has started 25 straight games at left tackle heading into this season.
His goals haven't changed, either: A sack-free season.
"I don't like giving up sacks. I know all offensive linemen say that but it really bothers me," he said. "To me, there's no worse feeling than seeing your quarterback on the ground."
The others
Jeremy Zuttah
A four-year starter who can become Rutgers' first offensive lineman to earn first-team all-Big East honors twice.
Mike Fladell
Slimmed-down big man (he's "just" 6-8, 320 now) has developed into a solid two-year starter at left guard.
Kevin Haslam
Rangy (6-7, 280) third-year sophomore has stayed one step ahead of heralded recruit Anthony Davis in the right guard battle.
Ryan Blaszczyk
After sitting for two years, the former Shawnee High standout will open as the Knights' starting center.
The future
Anthony Davis
Parade All-American from Piscataway High will be a starter before long - perhaps even some time as a true freshman this year.
Desmond Stapleton
Appears to have lost considerable weight and now looks to be quicker and more nimble. True frosh will likely redshirt, but his future is promising.
Richard Muldrow
Another big freshman lineman (6-6, 300) with a bright future. Rutgers has the luxury of being able to redshirt him so he can learn the system.
Talent Level in the Big East:
No. 1
Even with two key starters gone (center Darnell Stapleton and right guard Cam Stephenson), there's still enough in the way of returning talent and promising newcomers to make this the league's best unit (with Louisville a close second). Last year's offensive line set the bar as high as it has ever been: Not only did the unit pave the way for Ray Rice to rush for a school record 1,794 yards, but the Knights allowed the fewest sacks (eight) in the nation. The encouraging news is the zone blocking that Kyle Flood teaches makes it a little easier to plug in new parts. Jeremy Zuttah and Pedro Sosa, the bookend tackles, are as good as the Knights have ever had.
The all-timers
1. Jeremy Zuttah
He's athletic, versatile and durable. And he's a four-year starter. May be a bit undersized for the NFL at 6-4, 295 but don't bet against him sticking.
2. Shaun O'Hara
One-time walk-on from Hillsborough earned first-team all-Big East honors in 1999 after making second-team in 1998. NFL career has been solid, too.
3. Alex Kroll
The Yale transfer captained the 9-0 team of 1961 and earned first-team All-American honors at center that year. Rutgers was 17-1 in his two years.
4. Robert Barr
Big tackle is one of only four Rutgers offensive linemen to earn first-team all Big East honors. Was a third round pick in the 1996 NFL draft.
5. Pedro Sosa
Second-team all Big East in 2006, he heads into his third year as a starter at left tackle after allowing just one sack last season - none in the final 12 games.
The Big East's 5 best
1. George Bussey, Louisville
Cards' 6-2, 292-pound junior left tackle comes off a year that saw him earn first-team all-Big East honors in his first season as a starter.
2. Jeremy Zuttah, Rutgers
Arrived in Piscataway with plenty of hype - and then proceeded to live up to it. Senior right tackle is a superb athlete for his size.
3. Trevor Canfield, Cincinnati
Rising junior guard earned second-team all-Big East honors in his first year as a starter. Has good mobility despite being 6-5, 320.
4. Ryan Stanchek, West Virginia
One of the keys to WVU's successful ground game, the physical 6-4, 300-pounder can play guard or tackle. Second-team all-Big East last year.
5. Eric Wood, Louisville
Fourth-year junior has started 25 straight games for the Cardinals and is on the Outland Trophy watch list. Was a freshman All-American two years ago.
The nation's 5 best
1. Jake Long Michigan
Senior tackle was told he was a top 5 NFL pick if he came out last year. Instead, the 6-7, 313-pounder returned to try to win a national title.
2. Sam Baker, USC
Trojans' 6-5, 305-pound tackle is trying to become the first USC offensive lineman to earn first-team All-American honors three straight years.
3. Jeremy Perry, Oregon State
Junior guard has rapidly gained a reputation as one of the nation's best. Has made 23 starts already - and was Pac-10 co-Rookie of the Year as a frosh. ¶
4. Will Arnold, LSU
Knee and ankle injuries slowed the 6-4, 322-pound guard last year. He's the SEC's top offensive lineman.
5. Barry Richardson, Clemson
Durable 6-7, 320-pound tackle heads into his senior season having made 32 consecutive starts.
Best NJ High Schooler
Art Forst, Manasquan High
The imposing tackle, who stands 6-8 and weighs 290, gave a verbal to Rutgers last month.
Forst, who has been timed in the 40 in 5.4, also received offers from Syracuse, Virginia, Boston College, Florida, Duke and Maryland.
Forst helped pave the way for halfback Mike Mele (1,974 yards, 30 TDs) as Manasquan went 12-0 and won the South Jersey, Group 2 championship in coach Vic Kubu's final season.
He is rated No. 4 overall and No. 1 among offensive linemen in New Jersey by Rivals.com, which rates him No. 20 nationally at tackle. He is rated No. 22 in the East by Scout.com. ¶
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Has Rutgers finally reached the point where it can simply plug in talented offensive line players when it loses one (or two) to graduation? We're about to find out. Zuttah and Sosa are the best pair of tackles the school has ever featured, and Fladell was the full-time starter last year, when the unit had as productive a season as any Rutgers offensive line ever has. With Blaszczyk the new starter at center and either Haslam or Davis taking over at right guard, the potential is there for Rice to have a 2,000-yard season - if the line is up to the task. The future looks bright as well with true freshmen Davis, Stapleton, Muldrow and Caleb Ruch.


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My current live rig is the new EVH 5150III, not those crappy ones made by Peavey. Hands down the best production amp on the market, I a/b'd against a Soldano SLO 100 and one of Dave Friedman's (boutique builder) and the EVH just shit all over both of them! I actually went out and bought the amp instead of getting a freebie if that says anything. My studio amp I've had since I was 16, I bought it from Jack of The Mob, it still says "The Mob" stencilled in huge letters on the back which I'll never cover up out of respect for Jack and The Mob. As far as guitars I'm endorsing ESP guitars, I did a session a few weeks ago and I had an ESP 401and a 70's Gibson Les Paul standard and the ESP just had a better tone.
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First, Dr. Know (there's no one better than him as far as originality, he invented the genre as far as I'm concerned)…also, Bubba Dupree from Void was rad. I once saw him do a show thru a Pignose amp on a chair and kill it! There are so many I could list: Parris and Doug in the Cro-Mags prime, Lyle from Minor Threat…but the most important of them all, VINNY STIGMA!!!
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I wish I could take some time off and have the money to go to the Musician's Institute. In terms of excitement…writing a new song, coming up with a new lick, and I'm still a fan boy, so tapping into that 12 year old kid that worshipped the Bad Brains, that's what keeps me going.
Favorite people you played with over the years?
Playing in Motorhead was such an honor, playing with Ace Frehley (even though he's not hardcore)…he was my hero growing up so playing with him was pretty cool. But to be perfectly honest, this is my dream band. John is my favorite frontman, Joey is my favorite drummer and nobody can touch Phil at the Motorhead style bass playing, it really is the dream team.
Favorite punk/HC recording? Can anyone capture the sound of Roir or the Cro-Mags demo now?
Well unfortunatley the Roir and Cro-Mags demo were both recorded by Jerry Williams who passed away a few years ago, but listen to the first three Off! records, I think they captured that rawness! To me recording hardcore is about capturing the moment, that's what is so great about those early HC records. They weren't thinking about getting on the radio, they were capturing a moment in time and we are so fortunate to have these records.


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Until now Modular Data Centre has meant either a number of racks installed in an ISO-style shipping container or in a pre-fabricated building. While both are modular they come in fairly large and expensive 'chunks' and are often used as buildings within buildings rather than being stand-alone buildings in their own right.
New to the commercial modular data centre industry is Cannon Technologies' Incremental T4 Modular Datacentre - a complete external grade data centre building that can be almost any size or shape, capable of withstanding wind, rain, snow, seismic activity, hurricanes and desert heat yet can be specified (and extended) in units as small as one standard data rack width.
A complete building in its own right, able to house offices and NOCs in addition to data halls, and in many jurisdictions it needs no planning permission because, despite its 25+ year design life it can be classed as a temporary structure. It also protects investment because it is just as easy to disassemble, transport and re-use as it is to assemble in the first place.
Not only this but without any need for cranes or special transporters and road closures for delivery - it is rapidly assembled onsite. Every panel is one-man manageable and simply slots together to form a building complete with data racks in place. From site delivery to complete working datacentre from a few days to two or three weeks
Cannon Technologies has used its 30 years of experience building outdoor structures for the military and telecoms network sectors to create its new Incremental Modular T4 Data Centre. New, that is, to the commercial sector – in fact the building system has been developed over many years for military data centre applications and is therefore well tried and tested.
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Conventional 'bricks-and-mortar" data centres have always been very heavily front-loaded in terms of capital expenditure (CapEx) and spend most of their working lives far below maximum efficiency on either CapEx or OpEx. The other types of modular datacentres help somewhat by delaying CapEx, but they tend to have a premium cost by their very nature. Cannon Technologies' Incremental T4 Modular Data Centre due to its polyhedral construction is highly cost efficient, well insulated to reduce solar gain and together with close coupled or free cooling represents usually a significantly lower CapEx and OpEx cost than bricks-and-mortar, containerised or pre-fabricated alternatives.
By way of its extremely small module of incremental growth (which by the way is also extremely easy and quick to implement) it is believed to represent the best pay-as-you-grow data centre solution now available.
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Based on over 20 years' experience with this building construction technique in the field, Cannon Technologies has designed and factory builds the system to high specification based on a number of industry standards.
Built usually of 100mm walls, each of two 2mm fully galvanised and powder coated skins with Rockwool insulation – the entire building is fire rated to typically one hour in accordance with BS476 Pt20&22. With similar constructional specimens over 20 years old still looking good and performing well in the field, life expectancy is 25+ years
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Physical security is paramount and the building is designed to meet LPS1175 Rating-3, Tools Category-3 – meaning it can withstand a deliberate attempt at forced entry using bodily physical force and tools such as axe, cold chisel, brick bolster, crow bar, lump hammer and cordless drill.
The building can be constructed on a concrete pad or without, using a specially designed sub-frame.
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ARDMORE, Okla. - A frontierswoman in the fashion industry recently opened a mill for spinning buffalo hair into yarn.
Ruth Huffman, founder of American Buffalo Knits by Ruth Huffman Designs, was expecting two semi-truck loads of buffalo hair to be delivered last week.
In 1994, Huffman began research for a natural fiber she later developed from bison hair. After almost two years of research and development, she took possession of thousands of skeins of cocoa-brown buffalo yarn ready to bring her design concepts to life.
Huffman knitted the skeins into capes and wraps.
"It will keep you very warm," she said. "It also has the ability to retain a lot of moisture without feeling wet. For example, I have had some families test the mittens out with their children in the snow in Montana and Wyoming."
When the children played and built snowmen all day long wearing the mittens, their hands stayed dry. The outer part of the mitten would be wet, but Huffman said the inside, where the hand is, would be dry.
"The fabric is easy to care for. You can wash the socks, gloves, mittens and smaller items in a washing machine," she said.
Buffalo hair is acquired one of two ways - either hand-gathering tufts shed onto trees and bushes in the spring or by shaving. Each animal yields 4 to 5 pounds of hair. With the creation of the buffalo spinning mill, shaved buffalo hair is scoured or cleaned at the mill, de-haired - which means all the coarse hairs are separated from the soft down - and the down is spun into yarn.
Buffalo have five different kinds of hair. Huffman's process removes nearly all the coarse outer hairs and leaves the soft, downy undercoat.
"It was the first time the coarse hairs had been commercially separated from the downy fleece," she said. The process exceeded her expectations by producing a soft cashmere-like yarn in a deep,earthy brown.
Experimentation produced a second, heartier yarn when she mixed the longer hair of the buffalo with the soft fleece that grows closer to the skin.
As with any fine fibers, she said smaller accessories without fringe can be hand washed, towel dried or laid flat to dry. Buffalo yarn does not shrink when washed. Huffman recommends dry cleaning larger garments.
Her line of original hats, suits, capes, scarves and coats sell at a dozen boutiques from Indiana to Alaska and through her Web site. Items also be ordered from the Web site at www.ruthhuffmandesigns.com.
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