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The Falcon 2000S has been redesigned, repackaged and repriced to compete in the super-midsize (SMS) jet market. It can fly six passengers 3,350 nm at 0.80 indicated Mach (0.789 true Mach) and land with NBAA IFR reserves. The cabin is about 10 to 20% larger than a typical SMS, so the 2000S will accommodate eight to 10 people comfortably for transcontinental U.S. trips.
Dassault believes that many people in the market for an SMS aircraft actually would prefer a large-cabin Falcon if it were competitive in purchase price and operating cost. With a standard equipped price of $27.1 million, the Falcon 2000S is $1.3 million more than the Bombardier Challenger 350 and about $2 million above a typically equipped Gulfstream G280. The 2000S has an impressively low empty weight for a large-cabin aircraft. So, its fuel consumption and direct operating costs are nearly the same as the two main SMS competitors, Dassault officials assert. In the 10-passenger configuration, its cost per seat mile actually is lower than eight- to nine-passenger SMS aircraft.
The S model thus puts to rest any speculation about when or how the French firm will create a clean-sheet SMS business aircraft. The 2000S will be the smallest, lightest, most economical Falcon Jet in Dassault's product line for the foreseeable future.
Larger cabin volume and competitive operating efficiency aren't the Falcon 2000S's only strong points. Typically equipped, it can carry eight passengers with full tanks, so it has good payload-versus-range performance. It also has a bigger galley and baggage compartment than its two SMS competitors. And it offers better runway performance than either competitor because it has lower takeoff and landing speeds.
The 2000S concept was jointly developed in 2009 by John Rosanvallon, president of U.S.-based Dassault Falcon Jet, and Olivier Villa, Dassault Aviation's senior vice president of civil aircraft. Both of them wanted a re-creation of the transcontinental U.S.-range 1994 Falcon 2000 Classic but in an aircraft updated with all possible improvements that were feasible in light of the price target.
The 2000 Classic had 3,000+ nm range but not the best possible runway performance because it only had partial-span leading edge slats. So, Dassault fitted the 2000S with the Falcon 900LX's full-span slats and high-lift trailing edge flaps, plus Aviation Partners Inc. blended winglets. The avionics and interior of the 2000 Classic were barebones basic, so the 2000S gets the newest Dassault EASy II cockpit and a BMW Group DesignworksUSA interior.
The biggest challenge for Dassault's production specialists was meeting manufacturing cost targets for the new aircraft, thereby enabling the Falcon 2000S to compete in the SMS category.
Dassault's last attempt at this was with the Falcon 2000DX, a shorter-range version of the 2007 Falcon 2000EX. The DX's sales foundered because it had 20% less range than the EX, but it only was only $2.2 million less expensive. The value equation didn't work for buyers, so Dassault was forced to discontinue the model after two years.
Fast forward six years. The 2000S has about 20% less range than the 2000LX or LXS, but it's priced $5 million to $6 million less than the longer-range models. So, Dassault can squeeze the 2000S into the upper end of the SMS segment rather than have it compete directly in the large-cabin class. Dassault, as a result, has high hopes for a much longer and more robust production run than it experienced with the 2000DX.
To control manufacturing costs and thus purchase price, the French firm focused on three main areas. First, four years ago the demand for business aircraft, even large-cabin models, was softer than a soufflé at Guy Savoy. This was a powerful bargaining chip for Dassault to put the squeeze on vendors to reduce parts prices. Next, the firm refined its planning processes and continued to improve lean manufacturing on production lines, thereby reducing labor and energy costs. And finally, Falcon 2000S buyers would be offered a choice of three standard cabin layouts, enabling Dassault to speed completions by shifting more of the furnishing and finishing processes to the green aircraft production line.
Honing the Legacy of 450+ Falcon 2000 Jets
All Falcon jets have been built mainly with high-strength aluminum alloys since the mid-1960s. The Falcon 2000S uses the same time-proven, damage-tolerant, aluminum monocoque construction. Titanium and steel also are used in the primary airframe structure. The horizontal stabilizer and APU firebox are constructed from carbon fiber reinforced plastic. Fiberglass and Kevlar are used for secondary structures, such as the radome and certain aerodynamic fairings. The aircraft has a 20,000-cycle/30,000-hr. basic design life, but its service life can be extended almost indefinitely with stepped-up maintenance.
The fuselage has a nose section housing avionics and radar, a center pressurized section and aft section containing systems components, the engine carry-through structure and APU, among other components. The pressurized section is circular for structural efficiency under pressurization loads. The seven cockpit windows are glass laminate with a left-side, opening weather window. Stretched acrylic is used for the 18 cabin windows.
All model 900 and 2000 aircraft, including the 2000S, use Dassault's first-generation supercritical airfoil dating back to the mid-1970s Falcon 50 tri-jet. It has an inboard quarter-chord sweep of 29 deg. and modest outboard sweep of 24.5 deg. and is designed for efficient cruise at Mach 0.73 to 0.76, as illustrated by the accompanying Specific Range chart.
But the addition of Aviation Partners' winglets enhances its performance by reducing induced drag both by increasing span and therefore wing aspect ratio from 7.62:1 to 9.34:1, and by redirecting most of the tip vortices as thrust vectors. Thus the aircraft can climb higher and cruise up there at Mach 0.789 with virtually no loss in fuel efficiency, while the same aircraft without winglets would fly lower and slower.
When examining Falcon Jet perform–ance, it's essential to distinguish between indicated Mach number (MI) and true Mach number, which determines true airspeed (TAS) at a specific outside air temperature. Dassault publishes both MI and TAS in its performance manuals. A comparison of the two values reveals a 0.005 to 0.015 difference between indicated and true Mach numbers, depending upon indicated speed. That's why MI 0.80 cruise, when corrected equivalent to 0.789 true Mach, results in a 453 KTAS cruise speed at ISA temperature in the stratosphere.
The wing employs a classic ladder structure of milled aluminum spars and ribs sandwiched between upper and lower machined skins. Visit Dassault's Merignac factory and you'll see that robots do most of the assembly with great precision. Few aircraft have better metal work than Falcons.
The Falcon 2000S retains the 28 VDC electrical architecture of the Falcon Jet family with both main and essential buses. Left and right sides of the system normally are split for fault isolation and manually switched together when needed. There is no automatic bus tie. Power is supplied by two engine-driven brushless generators, two lead-acid batteries and an APU, rated for both ground and flight operation up to 35,000 ft. External power can be supplied by a ground power unit.
The left wing, half the center wing box and aft fuselage tanks are grouped together and feed the left engine. The right wing, half the center wing box and the forward fuselage tanks form the other side feeding the right engine. The DX and S have identical fuel tanks. Total fuel capacity is 14,600 lb., with fuel contained in left and right wing, fore and aft center wing and fore and aft fuselage tanks. Compared to the LX and LXS, the S has shorter fore and aft belly tanks that reduce fuel quantity by 2,060 lb. The left- and right-side fuel systems have almost the same fuel capacity, with the latter holding 64 lb. more and most of that typically is consumed by the APU prior to engine start.
Dual left and right brushless DC fuel boost pumps, housed in quick-change dry sump canisters, supply the engines and APU. After engine start, the bleed air system pressurizes the fuel tanks. If a boost pump fails, this maintains positive head pressure to feed the engine-driven fuel pumps, even at full takeoff power.
The left- and right-side 3,000-psi hydraulic systems, each having two pumps and using MIL-H-5606 red fluid, power the flight control actuators, leading-edge slats, trailing-edge flaps and wheel brakes, along with the nosewheel steering, landing gear and gear doors, plus airbrakes and thrust reversers. One of the pumps in the right-side system is electrically powered and can provide power to essential hydraulic equipment if all three engine-driven pumps are inoperative. The four main wheel brakes are fitted with carbon heat packs. Dassault originally planned for an optional auto-brake system, but the final runway V speeds were so low that engineers deemed it unnecessary.
The primary flight controls are fully hydraulically powered in all three axes. There is an indicated speed-proportionate artificial control feel (Arthur Q) system for roll. Position of the horizontal stabilizer varies the amount of control feel force in pitch. The result is a nearly constant stick force per g of vertical acceleration. The rudder has a simple spring box for artificial feel.
The control surfaces have no trim tabs. Electro servos also reposition the neutral points of the aileron and rudder artificial control feel units to provide trim in those axes.
Dual electric trim motors reposition the movable horizontal stabilizer for pitch trim. There is an automatic Mach trim that increases speed stability between Mach 0.77 and Mach 0.87. The stab range of motion has been recalibrated from +2 deg./-10 deg. to +1 deg./-11 deg. to provide increased nose-up pitch control authority to counter the effect of the winglets and new high-lift system.
The slats and three-position flaps work together as high-lift devices. On Falcon Jets, the full-span slats provide most of the slow speed lift augmentation. The S is also equipped with the Falcon 900LX's three-position trailing edge flaps, along with other high-lift design features. When compared to older Falcon 2000 aircraft with partial-span slats, the full-span slats increase stalling angle of attack (AOA) by as much as 4 deg., thereby cutting stall speed by as much as 8 kt.
The slats also function as automatic stall protection devices at high AOA. If the aircraft is in the clean configuration, the outboard slats extend at high AOA to enhance roll control characteristics by energizing the boundary layer over the wing with a high velocity air stream. If the slats are extended, the inboard slats retract as AOA approaches stall to produce a positive stall break while maintaining full roll control.
The winglets enable the aircraft to climb higher and cruise efficiently up to 30 kt. faster than the DX. The winglets, the new high-lift system and more standard equipment all add empty weight to the airframe, but a typically equipped aircraft still has a 1,600-lb. payload with full fuel tanks.
The standard interior layout for the first 20 aircraft seats 10 passengers, thus crews will have to leave two passengers on the tarmac with full tanks, in spite of Dassault's claims of the aircraft's full-tanks/full-seats loading flexibility. With all 10 seats occupied, the aircraft still can fly 3,225 nm and land with 200-nm NBAA IFR reserves, as illustrated by the accompanying Range/Payload Profile charts.
Dassault's flight test engineers at Istres, France, ran a complete runway performance recertification program for the S, reducing V speeds by 8+ kt. and shrinking runway distances by nearly 1,000 ft. at sea level/standard day runway and almost 1,500 ft. at BCA's 5,000-ft. ISA+20C airport compared to the DX. The new high-lift system and winglets are so effective at reducing V speeds that rudder authority had to be increased by 10% to keep minimum control speeds below stall speeds.
The slats extend before the flaps and retract after the flaps. The outboard slats also extend automatically below 265 KIAS at high AOA to enhance handling characteristics at stall. With the slats extended, aerodynamic stall behavior and recovery characteristics are the best of any aircraft in the business fleet, in BCA's opinion. We reached that conclusion after fully stalling all members of the Falcon family that share this wing airfoil shape and high-lift system.
Bleed air, supplied by the engines or APU, is used for main engine start; air-conditioning and pressurization; ice protection for engines, wing leading edges and the wheel brakes; plus pressurization of the hydraulic, fuel and potable water systems.
A ground pneumatic cart can be used in lieu of the APU for main engine start. A single air-cycle machine provides refrigeration. Pressurization control is automatic and the 9.0-psi differential provides a 7,950-ft. cabin at FL 470, the aircraft's maximum cruising altitude.
Passenger Accommodations
The Falcon 2000S has a 1,024-cu.-ft. cabin that is longer, wider and higher than most SMS cabins. The standardized, 10-seat interior on the first 20 production units features a four-seat club section up front having 20-in.-wide chairs and six 18-in. side chairs in the aft cabin, arranged as a four-chair conference grouping on the left with two facing chairs on the right side.
Three different color and material schemes are offered, all having matte finish wood veneers on the monuments. The Sedona option has light desert hues, the Havana option has tobacco and tan colors, and the Alpine option has snow white that contrasts with dark earth and rock.
For 2014, two additional, eight-passenger seating configurations will be offered. All three seating layouts feature the four-chair forward club section. The eight-seat layouts have either a second club section in the aft cabin or a four-seat, left-side conference grouping with a right-side credenza. Gloss finish cabinetry also now is being offered.
Club chairs have longitudinal and lateral track, swivel and recline adjustments. With six seats in the aft cabin, the individual facing chairs on the right side also are 18 in. wide. Notably, each pair of facing seats has a foldout worktable. The conference grouping has an electrically powered, raising and lowering 42-in. by 28-in. conference table.
There is a 5.6-ft.-high, 2.6-ft.-wide air-stair main door, equipped with a right-side telescoping handrail, tread lights and electrically powered door closer. The seventh window on the right side of the cabin is contained within a 1.7-ft. by 3.0-ft. Type III over-wing emergency exit. The aft internal baggage compartment has a lavatory access door and a 2.6-ft. by 2.5-ft. external air-stair door. The air stair is not a trivial design feature. It makes it much easier for the crew to heft suitcases into the 131-cu.-ft., 1,600-lb. capacity aft baggage compartment. The baggage compartment is larger than that of most SMS aircraft.
Not to be overlooked, the aft baggage compartment is clear of the engine rotor burst plane, so it's completely accessible up to the aircraft's FL 470 certified ceiling.
The forward vestibule, ahead of the main seating area, has a 15-in.-long galley annex and a 46-in.-long main galley on the right side. The galley has a tap and sink, two ice drawers, coffee maker and generous storage compartments. There is a 30-in.-long combination closet and entertainment cabinet on the left side, aft of the entry door.
Since the aircraft was announced, the Rockwell Collins Falcon HD cabin management system has been upgraded. It now includes a 1 terabyte server that supports Apple TV, a media center with a 19-in. HD color monitor on the forward cabin bulkhead, two individual seat 10.6-in. plug-in LED monitors with eight stations, an AirCell Axxess II Iridium satcom phone and eight 115 VAC/60 Hz or 230 VAC/50 Hz power outlets. A special application program will be offered for Apple iPod Touch or iPhone PDAs, enabling them to control cabin temperature, interior lights, video playback and optional electric window shades.
In the forward club section, left- and right-side electrically powered chairs will be optional for the second row. Internet connectivity will be available by means of an optional Aircell air-to-ground high-speed data link or medium-speed MCS 7120 Inmarsat system. A two-channel Aircell Iridium satcom voice phone is standard.
Aft of the main seating section, there is a full-width lavatory with tap and sink, an externally serviced toilet and additional storage compartments. The lav has a rear door that provides inflight access to the baggage compartment.
Let's Go Flying
In late June, we climbed into the left seat of serial number 702 on Avitat's ramp at Vancouver International Airport. Dassault Falcon Jet Chief Pilot Franco "Valentino" Nese belted into the right seat as our instructor and demonstration pilot Peder Sarsten rode along as safety pilot on the jump seat.
The aircraft was loaded with optional equipment including the Rockwell Collins HGS head-up display and CMC Electronics EVS IR camera, among other kit that increased BOW to 25,280 lb. Thus, this aircraft had a 1,320-lb. tanks-full payload rather than the 1,850-lb. advertised by Dassault. With a 600-lb. payload and 8,440 lb. of fuel aboard, ramp weight was 34,500 lb. and computed takeoff weight was 34,000 lb.
Why the 500-lb. difference? We needed plenty of time and instruction to reacquaint ourselves with EASy II, Dassault's revolutionary cockpit design. It's easily the firm's most capable avionics system ever installed in a Falcon Jet, but it's not intuitive for pilots accustomed to more traditional cockpits — including me. There's display symbology and system function overload for some older pilots transitioning to the new system, in our opinion. The PFDs and MFDs appear to be in permanent reversion mode with 10 lb. of data in a 5-lb. display.
When the PFD is set up for takeoff, for instance, there's the usual ADI symbology, including flight guidance mode annunciations, speed bugs, pre-selected altitude, airspeed and altitude tapes atop the synthetic vision background, plus arc or rose HSI, active waypoint and RNP status.
But wait, there's more. There's also a CAS message window, engine instruments, fuel quantity, all three trim indications, landing gear, slats and flaps indications, along with active and standby VHF comm and nav frequencies, transponder mode and code, TCAS status, TAS and ground speed digits, and OAT/SAT and ISA deviation temperature indications, plus FMS active waypoint, ILS localizer identifier.
If you're comfortable in a Dassault Mirage 2000 or Rafale cockpit, perhaps transitioning to EASy is more natural. Sarsten and Nese, though civil aviation pilots, demonstrated great ease and prowess with EASy II, as one might expect from factory demo pilots. As long-time BCA contributor and current Falcon 7X captain Ross Detwiler notes, once you've mastered its nuances, EASy II is one of the quickest and most informative human/machine user interfaces ever created for a flight deck.
But we only started to feel more at home with EASy II toward the end of the demo flight. With a few more months and some 100 flight hours in the cockpit, we'd likely be as adept as a teen with a Wii console.
Even with all its capabilities, the EASy II FMS performance computing module wasn't yet certified, so Sarsten manually computed the takeoff data and we plugged it into the flight management takeoff window in the MFD. Vancouver International, elevation 14 ft., was reporting winds 080 at 7 kt., temperature 15C, altimeter 29.70 in. Hg. Based on using SF2 (slats plus flaps 20 deg.), the V1 takeoff decision speed was 107 KIAS, rotation was 112 KIAS, the V2 OEI takeoff safety speed was 116 KIAS and "clean the wing" slat/flap retraction speed was 141 KIAS. Computed takeoff field length was 3,427 ft.
Using the embedded electronic checklist, we ran through the pre-start checks. As Nese advanced to each item on the checklist, EASy II automatically called up the associated system synoptic on the MFD so that we could graphically verify the correct status of each system. Advancing the checklist cursor to the aux hydraulic pump item, for instance, EASy II called up the hydraulic system schematic, thereby enabling us to see the proper operation of the pump.
Nese pointed out the 2000S's quiet, dark cockpit design. However, the backlighted membrane switches in the overhead panel lack the tactile feedback of toggle switches used in pre-EASy Falcon 2000 aircraft. Thus, your eyes carefully need to guide your fingers when completing cockpit checks. But systems synoptic diagrams, printed on the overhead panel, clear up any ambiguity about what button to select and when to push it.
To start, we just turned on all boost pumps, advanced the right power lever to idle, twisted the engine start switch all the way to the right and monitored the indications of proper FADEC operation. In 35 sec., the first engine stabilized at idle and we repeated the process for the left engine, then secured the APU. Total fuel burn at idle was 720 pph.
After completing the post-start checklists, it took little more than idle thrust to start rolling out of the chocks. Braking action was very smooth. Nosewheel steering is controlled exclusively by the tiller. It's easy to make small heading changes. But if you need more steering authority, it comes on in a hurry as you turn the tiller past about 45 deg.
The tower directed us to line up and wait on Runway 8R as a Singapore Airlines Airbus A330 departed. I called for the standard-takeoff Falcon "FATS" line-up check — Nese responded with "Flaps SF2, airbrakes retracted, trim three set and speeds bugs set."
Once cleared for takeoff, we advanced the thrust levers to about 50% holding the brakes, checked the gauges and then pushed them fully forward while releasing the brakes. At the aircraft's relatively light weight, it accelerated as though it were a light jet. Control forces at rotation also suggested the Falcon 2000S was a light jet, in spite of its 17-ton weight.
Ground roll was about 1,500 ft. We climbed on the 083 runway heading to 1,000 ft. then headed 098 deg. in compliance with the Fraser departure. Vancouver Departure quickly cleared us to climb directly to 16,000 ft., our final requested altitude, and vectored us to intercept V317 to the northwest over the Strait of Georgia. Nese said that normal climb is 300 KIAS/Mach 0.80. We used a 260 KIAS climb to conserve fuel.
After level off at 16,000 ft., we used the auto-throttle to maintain 300 KIAS, flying through several cloud layers until we neared Comox radio beacon on Vancouver Island. In ISA+3C conditions and at a weight of 33,500 lb., the aircraft cruised at 379 KTAS on 2,650 lb./hr. In contrast, had we been up at FL 450, the aircraft would have cruised at 456 KTAS on 800 pph total fuel flow, assuming the same weight and ISA deviation.
Once in clear air, we flew a couple of 360-deg. steep turns. Pitch control force was comparatively light for a large-cabin aircraft. The HUD's flight path marker and thrust director took all the work out of maintaining a 45-deg. bank angle and 300 KIAS.
Next, we slowed the aircraft at idle in the clean configuration with the autopilot engaged to sample the Falcon's automatic auto-throttle engagement for automatic speed protection. The stall warning system generated a sideways magenta teardrop at 135 kt., or 5 kt. above the yellow low-speed cue tape as we maintained 1g flight in the 33,000-lb. aircraft. Had we increased vertical acceleration, the speed warning tape and bug would have increased due to the higher AOA.
Once the aircraft reached 135 KIAS, the auto-throttles automatically engaged and advanced the thrust levers to prevent the aircraft from flying slower, and the aircraft flew itself out of the high AOA state.
We then disengaged both the autopilot and the auto-throttles, again slowing the aircraft at idle. Nese then selected SF2 and the stall warning teardrop dropped to 111 KIAS, again 5 kt. above the yellow low-speed warning tape. Aircraft weight was 32,700 lb. We allowed the aircraft to decelerate to less than 106 KIAS, 5+ kt. below the 111 KIAS teardrop, and then flew a series of shallow turns in the yellow band, occasionally allowing the aircraft to slow to the red tape signifying approach to stall. The aircraft remained completely docile.
Our only clear indication of the excessive AOA was a constant "Stall! Stall! Stall" synthetic voice alert as we flew at 100 KIAS.
As we experienced on previous Falcon Jet demo flights, automatic deployment of leading edge slats as the aircraft nears stalling AOA makes this series of aircraft among the most docile handling business jets yet produced.
We accelerated, cleaned the wing and headed southeast to Abbotsford (elevation 194 ft.) for pattern work, setting up for the ILS Runway 07 approach. Using EASy II's graphic user interface, Nese rolled the cursor to the appropriate icons and items in the flight-planning window on the MFD. He had the approach procedure loaded as fast as one can read the description. He noted that the crew needs to type in a decision altitude for the selected procedure or EASy II won't allow you to engage the flight guidance system's approach mode.
Sarsten computed landing data for slats and flaps 3 (40 deg.) for a 31,200-lb. landing weight. Vref was 113 KIAS and approach speed was 118 KIAS. Computed landing distance was 2,450 ft.
We flew a couple of touch and goes, then set up for a maximum effort, full-stop landing. Runway 7 was wet and not grooved, so we didn't expect the best stopping performance. After a normal flare and touchdown, the ground spoilers automatically deployed and we applied maximum brakes. Judging from our windshield cam video, the 31,000-lb. aircraft came to a stop 1,810 ft. after the tires made contact with the asphalt. Using no-flare touchdown flight test procedures, we could have shortened this distance substantially.
Nese called for our clearance back to Vancouver and we departed Runway 7 via the Abbotsford Seven, picking up radar vectors to the ILS Runway 8R at CYVR. We flew an uneventful approach and taxied back to Avitat.
Conclusions? The Falcon 2000S is so nice to hand-fly, it's difficult to cede control to the autopilot. EASy II provides a wealth of information to the flight crew, particularly with the optional synthetic vision package. The HGS and EVS options are well worth the added investment, in our opinion. EASy II is quick and responsive to pilot inputs. But it takes a considerable investment in time and training to make full use of all of its capabilities.
Price and Value
The accompanying Comparison Profile illustrates that the Falcon 2000S, priced at $27.1 million without HGS, EVS and SVS, fits into a new and higher niche in the super-midsize jet market. While it's 6% more expensive than the composite average, it has superior payload with full tanks, more unrefueled range because of its high maximum landing weight and outstanding runway performance. Its light empty weight makes it a strong short-range competitor as shown by its superior runway performance and fuel economy on BCA's 1,000-nm mission.
Its most significant shortcoming is fuel efficiency at its Mach 0.84 high-speed cruise. However, if you slow down to Mach 0.82, drag drops rapidly and fuel efficiency rivals much smaller aircraft. The large-cabin Falcon 2000S's direct operating costs should be close to those of the Gulfstream G280 and Bombardier Challenger 300/350.
The aircraft also has many assets that are not shown by the bar graph, including overall cabin volume and baggage capacity, and floor width. It offers large-cabin head and shoulder room for seated passengers. It's the only aircraft in its price range to offer a four-seat conference grouping with two additional facing chairs on the opposite side of the cabin.
Orders for large-cabin aircraft are resurging at a time when orders for smaller aircraft remain lackluster. With the 2000S, Dassault is betting it can attract a big chunk of customers lusting for a large cabin but buying with super-midsize budgets. The Falcon 2000S now gives the firm a way to field a large-cabin aircraft in the super-midsize class, offering more cabin comfort, better field performance and higher tanks-full payload.
However, it's tempting to load up the aircraft with popular options and boost its purchase price by $1 million or more. At $28 million to $29 million, the Falcon 2000S is priced well above other super-midsize jets. It's more like a Château Dassault St. Emilion Grand Cru Classé and less like a Bordeaux Cru Bourgeois.
But Dassault points out that the Falcon 2000S isn't a faux Falcon, a cheapened version of a Falcon 2000LXS. Rather, it's a fully fledged member of the Falcon family. Now, it's up to the market to decide if the Falcon 2000S is in a class of its own.
Dassault Falcon 2000S Performance
These graphs are designed to illustrate the performance of the Dassault Falcon 2000S under a variety of range, payload, speed and density altitude conditions. Dassault Falcon Jet sales engineer Alexandre Gregoire provided the data for the Range/Payload Profile. Data for the specific range chart were extracted from the Dassault Falcon 2000S Performance Manual. Do not use these data for flight planning purposes because they do not take into account ATC delays, and less than optimum routings and altitudes, along with other factors that can alter actual aircraft performance.
To watch our video pilot report of the Falcon 2000S, tap here in the digital edition of BCA, or go to AviationWeek.com/video
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i support background checks--- for POLITICIANS!
i support gun control-- hell yea giving guns to mexican drug cartels is a CRIME!
anyone useing tax money to give guns to the mexican drug cartels should get LIFE IN PRISON! and or be shot for treason!
hell we got a president that can't even pass his own background check BS running the country!
but he wants YOU to jump through every shyster lawyer red-tape thing in the book plus sign your life away to keep things you legally own and have not been involved in a crime!
but this same guy is giving weapons to the muzlim broitherhood? with ties to al-quaida and other enemys we are fighting and everybody knows it?
all paid for with YOUR MONEY!
they get free F-16s and M1 tanks -
-but he wants to TAX you for guns YOU have owned for decades?
tell me what is WRONG with this picture?
just asking---
Obama has not had a background check to be president yet. Still he controls thousands of nuclear weapons, can declare nuclear war on other countries without congress's approval, and controls the largest military in the world.
Yet, he wants all real Americans to have background checks before we buy a single little firearm, in violation of the U.S. Constitution and its Second Amendment.
May he rot in HELL!
Ask a potential voter for a picture ID and the libs freak out because of course the poor, elderly, or undocumented might not be as willing to vote.
We need to minimize the delay and hassle the govenment puts in the way of exercising our 2nd amendment rights. Just as the libs have attempted to do for the rights they wish to protect and expand.
Ha...thought we was fixin to have a go around.i support background checks!
Any one running for office especially higher offices official should have to pass a back ground check an a mental health evaluation.
seriously we have a guy running the country who has either. Hilter would have never got were he did if he had to have passed a back ground check.
pretty scary when I have ot have a back ground check to get a 22 for rabbit hunting but we have a man running the country that it took two years to see his so called birth certificate . nobody knows him his school records are sealed an hes running around giving executive orders. he has control of nukes . the army an every thing else. yet I need to prove who I am he don't.
I think Feinstein an Hilleary need counseling big time.
I definitely would like to see a thorough check into Barky's backgound!
Here's a good circumstantial case for his Socialism/Communism/Marxism background:
The Astonishing History of Barack Obama and his Rise from Obscurity to Power | Voting American
Enforcement, NOT Amnesty!!!!!!
"If theyre going to come here illegally, apply for & receive assistance through a corrupted Government agency encouraging this lawless behavior, work under the table & send billions of dollars each year back to their families in Mexico, while bleeding local economies dry, protest in our streets waving their Mexican flags DEMANDING rights, while I have to press 1′ for English, then they need to be shipped back to where they came from!" -Chad Miller


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But to your point, I see Ansah playing the strong side and setting the edge rather than beating it.
Ansah's edge rushing video consists of a bull rush into the OL every time. I have never seen in all his film a single time where he won to the outside with any combination of burst/flexibility/or hand usage.
He doesnt even attempt to take the edge, he fights to the inside almost every play.
Yes hes strong and he has amazing chase speed, you dont get that at the snap. The OL just inside sets and prepares for the bull rush because they have no fear at all of him going outside.
I just think its a huge projection to take him as an edge rusher. Now if you put him inside at 5t, give him 1 gap to hit, or tell him to jam the OL back into the QB, and you focus on his hand usage, he could be a really good player.


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"Measure Twice......Cut Once"
You couldn't be more full of **** if you were break dancing in a Port-a-Potty.......Kruunch
Why would they run anywhere BUT at out 2 inexperienced DT's??
Whoa I remember during the offseason this board was crying that we sign osi back, now killing the guy? Lol that's funny.
I actually like Osi's comments...I take it as he got pissed by TR's comment so he's daring him to run his way. I get the feeling that Osi is fed up with his own performance and wants to make some plays. Let's see if Osi can back his words...for once
Yet another reason we should have traded him last off season. It would be fine to talk if he had actually DONE SOMETHING worthy of talking....but he hasn't. STFU and show me something!!
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Energy Efficiency
Promoting Energy Efficiency at the Federal and State Level
Making appliances and buildings more energy efficient is one of the most effective ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Aside from automobiles, appliances and equipment are the largest users of energy derived from fossil fuels. The federal government and California have set minimum energy efficiency standards for a number of commercial and residential appliances, including heating and cooling equipment, water heaters and refrigerators.
Enforcing the Energy Policy & Conservation Act
Under the federal Energy Policy and Conservation Act (EPCA), the Department of Energy (DOE) is required to regularly revise and strengthen appliance efficiency standards. Unfortunately, DOE has a long history of foot-dragging in this area, missing deadlines and setting weak standards. California and other states repeatedly have been forced to sue DOE to ensure compliance with EPCA. For example, states successfully challenged DOE's rollback of efficiency standards for air conditioners and heat pumps that took place soon after the Bush Administration took office. Natural Resources Defense Council v. Abraham, 355 F.3d 179 (2d Cir. 2004).
In September 2005, the California Attorney General, along with the California Energy Commission and other states, sued DOE for its failure to meet the rulemaking deadlines under EPCA for over twenty categories of consumer and commercial products. For some products, revised standards were more than 10 years overdue. The states successfully negotiated a consent judgment that imposed court-enforced deadlines for the rulemakings. Read the consent decree, pdf. Under the consent decree, DOE has issued improved standards for some products, and is in the rulemaking process on others.
The Attorney General's comment letters and litigation in recent years have resulted in improved federal standards for distribution transformers, residential central air conditioners and heat pumps, residential furnaces and boilers, and certain commonly used lighting. As the Attorney General's comments stated, the lighting standards are the largest potential energy saver among 25 new appliance efficiency standards that DOE must complete during the next four years. Read the comments, pdf. In response to our comments, on June 29, 2009, the White House announced new lighting standards that are expected to avoid the emission of up to 594 million tons of carbon dioxide from 2012 through 2042 - roughly equivalent to removing 166 million cars from the road for a year, and save consumers $1 to $4 billion annually from 2012 through 2042.
Promoting Energy Efficiency in California
The Attorney General also is working to promote energy efficiency in California. For example, in 2007, the California Public Utilities Commission required California's investor owned utilities (IOUs) to prepare a statewide energy efficiency Strategic Plan for the period 2009-2020. The Attorney General filed comments on the preliminary plan submitted in February, 2008 by the IOUs. The Attorney General's comments discussed a number of programs and priorities that could potentially increase energy savings and renewable energy generation in the State, and accelerate achieving the greenhouse gas reductions required by AB 32 and Executive Order S-03-05. Read the comment letter, pdf. The Attorney General filed a supplemental comment letter on July 31, 2008. Read the supplemental letter, pdf. The Attorney General advocated, for example, greater use of feed-in-tariffs, which the Commission is now undertaking. See Renewable Energy.
The Attorney General also advocates that local agencies consider energy efficiency in their permitting decisions, as required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Local governments must, for example, discuss a proposed project's energy efficiency as set out in the CEQA Guidelines, Appendix F. Local governments can, in addition, adopt their own, more stringent, green building ordinances or include an optional "Energy Element" in their general plans.


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February 27, 1972
Sydney, AU
Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Black Dog, Since I've Been Loving You, Celebration Day, Stairway to Heaven, Going to California, That's the Way, Tangerine, Bron-Y-Aur Stomp, Dazed and Confused, What Is and What Should Never Be, Moby Dick, Rock and Roll, Whole Lotta Love (medley incl. Let That Boy Boogie, Hello Mary Lou, Let's Have a Party, Lawdy Miss Clawdy, Going Down Slow), Communication Breakdown, Organ solo ~ Thank You.
While in town, the band attends a press party and conducts interviews for radio and television. Footage from this concert and the press party is featured on the official dvd, released in 2003.
Click here to view the 1972 Australian tour programme
Sound System:
Showco Sound System
Jands (Additional) System
2 x RCA W Bin c/w 2 x JBL K140
2 x JBL 4550 c/w 2 x JBL K130
2 x JBL 2350 Horn + 2480 Driver
2 x JBL 2355 Horn + 2440 Driver
2 x JBL 2356 Horn + 2480 Driver
8 x JBL 2402
12 x Jands 150w Power Amplifiers
Press Report: The Led Zeppelin concert at the showgrounds last Sunday must rate as one of the best ever held in Sydney - but, if the crowd had not stormed the fences, it could have been the worst.
The official attendence figure was 27,000 but senior police officers at the concert estimated the crowd at "at least 30,000". According to showground officials the three stands used last Sunday have a maximum capacity of 25,000 - so whatever way you look at it the ground was dangerously overcrowded.
Despite the fact that there were no seats left at mid-day and no standing room by 1.30pm., people were still coming through the gates at 2.30pm. The overcrowding that existed before the fences were stormed must never be allowed to occur again because next time someone could be killed in the crush. Once capacity is reached the gates should be closed. David D. Bryant The Sun-Herald, 5 March 1972, p. 109.
Submit your personal review of a particular show you attended, updates, corrections, etc., which will be considered for addition to the official online archive.
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Submit your personal review of a particular show you attended, updates, corrections, etc., which will be considered for addition to the official online archive.You may also contact the webmaster at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Led Zep at Sydney Showground
I was there, like a lot of others, and it was a totally amazing experience. I remember running down to get to the front when a gate was opened. We made it right up close to the stage near Jimmy Page, who had recently shaved off his beard. They were really slick and cool. As teenagers, we thought they were really stylish; but it was the impact of the music that was the real experience. It seemed incredibly loud then ands , even though we had listened to the albums, it sounded new. The drums and bass hit you physically- a sensation we would get used to in the future. Page was just a virtuoso-he was so confident and together. It was 1972. I can still remember that concert.
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|Shawn Thornton will handle the Blackhawks 'chirping' his own way after nasty injury
|03.30.11 at 12:12 am ET
The sight of his own blood was bad enough. So was the feeling as he was falling to the ice that he was about to go face-first into the back of the skate blade of Fernando Pisani and suffer 40 stitches on his forehead above his right eye.
But to have the opposition taunt you as you're going off the ice was too much for even tough guy Shawn Thornton to take Tuesday night.
How bad was it? So bad that even referee Don Van Massenhoven was yelling at the Chicago bench to shut up as he was ushering Thornton off the ice to the Bruins' bench and eventually dressing room.
"If I ever find who it was, I'll deal with it my own way," Thornton said. "Yeah something was said. Obviously I can't swear when I talk to you guys. There was some stuff said that I am not happy about."
Cameras showed Thornton shoving and nearly punching Van Massenhoven, who was actually trying to stand between Thornton and the Chicago bench.
"He heard it and he was [ticked]," Thornton said. "He was [ticked] too. He didn't know who it was either. He actually yelled at their bench. I appreciate it. Those guys on their team chirp a lot. I don't know if it is right when someone's face is half across the other side of their face.
"But it is a tough game and people have to live with their actions. If you guys ever find out who it is don't be afraid to send me a Christmas card."
Thornton said he was prepared to return to the game with a visor but because the medical staff was concerned about a concussion and the 40 stitches opening up, he was held back and not permitted to return.
"I am fine," Thornton said. "I guess I was lucky. It could have been worse. It could have been on eye. No headache, no concussion, no nothing. It was just throbbing a little bit from getting some stitches but nothing bad."
Thornton said he was given great treatment immediately by the Bruins medical staff, led by Lars Richardson, who administered so many stitches he lost count.
"I didn't ask," Thornton said. "Someone else did and they said around 40. I don't know, they lost count. I was told that was the reason I couldn't come back. They had some fine stitches inside and they didn't want those to pop out or I might look deformed afterwards."
As for the play itself in the second period, Thornton nearly scored a great pass from Daniel Paille before heading back down ice to back check. He was chasing Pisani when he lost his balance.
"I went to go finish my hit," Thornton said. "I don't know if I tripped over a stick or some feet or whatever and fell on the back on his skate blade. It was accidental. It was something that happens when the game is moving so fast. If I had scored the goal right before that none of this would have happened. We would have been lining up at center."
He could see the injury coming, which made it all the more gruesome in his mind.
"I kind of slowed down," Thornton said. "I was fortunate to see it coming after I fell. It is easy to say now but I knew it was a bad cut. I didn't see how bad it was they wouldn't let me go look at it. I knew nothing else was hit other than my forehead.
"It had happened to me before and it doesn't really hurt when it happens like that it just feels like you got banged in the head. I know how lucky I am. It could have been a little lower and I could have been in a lot of trouble."
As for Thursday for Toronto, it's wait-and-see for Thornton.
"I don't know," Thornton said. "I don't think so but the doctors will look over it the next couple of days and make sure everything is where it needs to be. The good news is, I don't know what is going to happen, we are in good position and if need be we have some extra bodies around anyways."


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Rush nation, check out the great article about Rush Soccer that was posted on TopDrawerSoccer.com yesterday.
Here is an excerpt from J.R. Eskilson's piece:
The most expansive youth soccer club in the world is based in Colorado.
Rush Soccer has gone from a quaint local club to a global brand in just under a decade. With expansion into new countries nearly every month, Rush Soccer is at an endless supply of players in hopes of discovering talent all over the world.
"There are great players in every nook and cranny," Rush Soccer CEO Tim Schulz told TopDrawerSoccer.com earlier this year.
With 28 domestic clubs, 19 international clubs, and over 35,000 players all together, Rush Soccer claims the title as the 'the largest youth soccer club in the world.'
It started in 2003 with just the Colorado club. One year later, the player pool doubled with the addition of Virginia Rush, and Rush Soccer expanded across the country rapidly.
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We're going to court to stop President Trump from reversing protections for Arctic and Atlantic waters. More than 120 million acres of pristine Arctic waters depends on winning this fight. We're in this battle for as long as it takes. Please support all of our efforts to stop Trump's recklessness!
Grand Canyon National Park is undoubtedly one of America's most beloved national parks, attracting about five million visitors every year who come to hike, camp and raft the river at its depths.
Those of us who are committed to America's lands are becoming increasingly concerned about what has been referred to as the "constituency crisis." While millions still love enjoying our wild places, there has been a decline in interest in the past few
With the 50th anniversary of The Wilderness Act looming, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell was asked to do the unthinkable.
From weird invasions of moose parasites to strange vandalism cases on our public lands, there was no shortage of drama in places that are otherwise known for their peace and tranquility. In case you missed them, we thought we'd share a few.
We know that Arches National Park and the red rock canyons, buttes and mesas that make up Utah's San Rafael Swell are Too Wild To Drill—but not that long ago nearby wildlands
Six U.S. senators have asked Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to delay decisions about new leasing and exploration for offshore oil and gas until the government completes a thorough re-evaluation of the environmental and safety risks, and issues enhanced, Arctic-specific regulations.
The Forest Jobs and Recreation Act passed out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Dec. 19, advancing a years-long campaign to protect almost a million acres of incredible backcountry throughout western Montana, including over 600,000 acres of new Wilderness Area.
This past year many promising achievements were made to conserve our spectacular wild lands.
Wilderness Areas in the United States- (Drag and Zoom for specific regions)
This coming year, wilderness needs your voice more than ever. Our nation's wild places continue to disappear at alarming rates, while climate change and other human made pressures are stressing wild lands to the point of no return.
Trump is trying to open the Arctic Refuge to oil drilling. Tell Congress to defend this wild place.


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The death of innovation, the end of growth
The US economy has been expanding wildly for two centuries. Are we witnessing the end of growth? Economist Robert Gordon lays out 4 reasons US growth may be slowing, detailing factors like epidemic debt and growing inequality, which could move the US into a period of stasis we can't innovate our way out of. Be sure to watch the opposing viewpoint from Erik Brynjolfsson.
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DAEL Staff Visit Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School
In late December 2011, staff from OVAE's Division of Adult Education and Literacy (DAEL) visited Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. DAEL staff received a presentation on the school's evidence-based model from Chief Academic Officer Allison Kokkoros, and Principal Ryan Monroe. The school has served over 50,000 students during 42 years of operation. It was chartered in 1998, and earned accreditation in 2005 through the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Each year, the school serves more than 2,000 immigrant adult students representing 75-80 countries. Class options range from basic English literacy and life skills for successful integration into American life, to career-level English and professional certificate courses in technology and culinary arts. The school offers classes in the morning, afternoon, and evening to accommodate students' differing work and family schedules. DAEL staff members toured the school, observed class sessions, and ate lunch with students and staff. Inspired by the work of the school, one OVAE staffer has requested to begin volunteering there. For more information, please access Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School.
U.S. Department of Education Publishes RFI for Promising and Practical Strategies to Increase Postsecondary Success
The secretary of education has published a Request for Information (RFI) inviting institutions of higher education (IHEs), non-profit organizations, state systems of higher education, adult education providers, researchers, and faculty and staff to provide the Department with information about promising and practical strategies, programs and practices that have improved the rates of postsecondary success, transfer and graduation. While responses to this RFI may be submitted at any time, to be considered in the first round of reviews, responses should be submitted by April 30, 2012. The Department is interested in strategies emphasizing the quality of what students learn, and timely or accelerated attainment of postsecondary degrees or certificates. These include industry-recognized credentials that lead to improved learning and employment outcomes. The secretary is particularly interested in successful innovations that IHEs and states could replicate to help reach the president's goal of increasing the number of Americans who earn postsecondary degrees and certificates. The secretary will establish the Postsecondary Completion Website as an online resource on which the responses to the RFI will be posted for sharing, commenting, and discussing. Interested parties are encouraged to review the full Promising and Practical Strategies to Increase Postsecondary Success RFI. Additional information on the president's blueprint for keeping college affordable and the Department's college completion and affordability efforts is also available.
National Career and Technical Research Center Solicitation Release
The Department has released a new requirement to establish a center to carry out scientifically based research and evaluation, and to conduct dissemination and training activities consistent with the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 (Perkins IV). By legislative mandate, the Department intends to award a contract to an institution of higher education, a public or private nonprofit organization or agency, or a consortium of these entities to establish this new national research center for career and technical education. Interested parties may view the solicitation online https://www.fbo.gov/. Proposals are due on March 23, 2012.


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A phrase David uses that has no numerical value, after several inquiries David will still not disclose how much "good ass money" actually is.
"Dude it doesn't matter dude, he's still gonna be making good ass money."
"Yeah I'll finally be making that good ass money!"
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The "kidney grilles" now resemble buck teeth!
Wow, and people thought Chris Bangle made ugly cars.
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The rear-end looks better than the current one...aside from that, not liking it too much.
The front looks reminiscent of a Dodge Charger.
I actually like it. It just looks funny in this one shot:
I like it....a lot. A vast improvement over the current bulbous, squinty-eyed and droopy 6!
___________________Current:1971 MGB 4-speed2003 Mitsubishi Lancer O-Z 5-speed2014 Subaru Forester XTBritish cars don't leak oil; they mark their territory!
I am not liking it, the straight on front shot looks good but everything else is mehhh
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This is....I just don't like it. The grill protrudes too far from the headlights, the creases on the hood are disgusting, I don't care for the overall shape either, the only part that I like looking at is the rear, which is probably all I'll be seeing when it's on the road haha.
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I'm not sure. As my friend said, it looks like a Shark mixed with a Stringray. I'm not sure how I feel about BMW's new design language in general.I'll wait until I see this and a 5-Series in person.
Two dimensional representations often do not capture the subtle nuances of the three dimensional world we live in. So, like the needy speedster said, i shall wait for my visual receptors to witness it in actuality!
ChaiLatte:Wow, and people thought Chris Bangle made ugly cars.He did. This is much better.
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It's an elegant redesign.
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This looks great. Very classy. Love the new back end.
I like the back but my first impression of the front was that I didn't like it very much. I want to see it in person though, and It'll probably grow on me.
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Pikeman's Armour. English, about 1625 (II.113)
Pikeman's Armour. English, about 1625 (II.113)
Figure of King James II in the Horse Armoury, The Penny Magazine, 1840.
Pikeman's Armour. English, about 1625 (II.112)
Pikeman's Armour. English, about 1625-30 (II.114)
Pikeman's armour. English, London, about 1630 (II.115)
Object Provenance:
English, about 1625–30
Object Number: II.113, IV.272
The armour is composite. It comprises a broad-brimmed pot, a gorget, breastplate with solid plate tassets and backplate. The pot is one of the early group of pots decorated with a band of embossed scallops and a medial rib between two rows of decorative rivets at the base of the skull, It is stamped with the crowned IR for the Tower arsenal during the reign of James II.
The gorget is a plain one, made in two pieces joined by a rivet at the left and fastened with a stud and keyhole slot at the right. The breastplate has permanently attached tassets, each made in one piece and embossed to simulate seven lames. The breastplate is stamped C at the neck for the maker, possibly Richard Cox of London, has a crowned IR Tower arsenal mark and a large, crude WD mark, and has a construction mark, four wedges, inside. The backplate is of the same series, plain and stamped with a crowned IR; the shoulder straps are modern.
The armour was displayed on a wooden cross between two of the mounted figures in the 19th century Line of Kings.
Tower arsenal, Hewitt 1859, 16, II.80; Dillon 1910, 172, II.95
Object Provenance:
English, about 1625–30
Object Number: II.113, IV.272


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a few things to try
is the safety OFF?
is the hammer down?
is the take down lever still in the open position?
did you put a mag in? if so remove it
palm slap the butt like you were inserting a magazine (just incase something has slipped)
now firmly grip the slide and pull forward
if not cock the hammer, see if it releases the slide?
if the trigger will move, try to ease the slide forward with the trigger depressed.


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Abler-Minded: Incrementalism
We're probably all familiar with the word "increment."
As a noun, it means an increase in the size or amount of something ... and is accepted to also include a series of small, often regular or planned increases.
Now, if you add "al" to the noun, you get an adjective that really means those regular or planned — incremental — increases. Going one step further, the suffix "ism" denotes a movement, doctrine or system of belief.
While you won't find "incrementalism" in the dictionary, you will certainly find it at work in just about everything we do.
Incrementalism is how you boil a frog. In case you're not familiar with that concept, I'll explain.
You can't drop a frog into boiling water. Its reflexes are so fast that when one foot touches the hot water it will jump, twist or otherwise leap away from the danger.
If, however, you put a frog in water and slowly raise the temperature — in small increments — you will eventually raise the temperature enough so the frog will be unable to respond when the water gets too hot.
Actually, you'll probably have a dead frog even before the water boils. I prefer my frog legs battered and deep fried anyway.
Incrementalism is either in our genes or we learn it as a child. My parents were young adults during the Great Depression. They worked hard — first to survive and eventually to be successful — to be thrifty and save their money and to have a better life than their parents. They taught me and my siblings the value of hard work — and its rewards.
I think I can safely say we had an easier time than our parents did. We have taken that incrementalism and applied it to nearly everything. If you look at any significant event you can see its effects.
Take the Super Bowl, the Academy Awards, the Presidential Inauguration celebrations or anything similar, and if you compare today's extravaganzas to how they were celebrated in the past, you can see what happens when we feel we have to do things better than last time.
Our children expect more toys with each succeeding birthday and Christmas. And we often oblige. The people who receive government benefits vote for those who promise to continue or increase those benefits.
And who advances social agendas of many types in order to satisfy those expectations? The liberal progressives in all areas of our government and society, that's who.
When Social Security first became law, it wasn't intended to be anything close to a retirement system. It was meant to supplement people's own savings and resources.
Fast forward one lifetime and as a result of incrementalism in the legislative and executive branches, such as increasing benefits, extending benefits to many more people who did not contribute to the phantom "trust fund," and spending the money on many things other than what was intended — and you have a system that can only survive if it takes in significantly more money to keep it from total insolvency.
The social progressives slowly turned the heat up under all of us in regard to contraception and abortion over the last 60 years to the point that abortion and contraceptive drugs and devices are now considered an integral part of health care.
And in the state of Minnesota, we even get to pay for the privilege of killing the unborn. Isn't there an inconceivable level of insanity in a child being unable to go on a school field trip without parental permission, but that same child can get contraceptives or an abortion without the parent even being notified?
Another area where incrementalism is in full force is in the gun control movement. Over the years, in virtually all areas of personal behavior and expression, the liberal elements in our society have sought to remove all obstacles to people "doing their own thing." And if someone decides that doing his own thing includes slaughtering a couple of dozen people, the liberals' conclusion is the weapon is the problem.
Incrementalism is working on both sides of this debate.
The gun lobby sees any registration, gun or ammunition restriction as one too many. The anti-gun crowd knows that if they get their foot in the door on strict background checks and limits on magazine capacities, they can use that as leverage to move incrementally into full registration of all weapons, limits on ammunition purchases and eventual confiscation of all handguns and/or firearms.
Our founding fathers supported an armed citizenry as a sure protection against a tyrannical government, and I believe many citizens today perceive that tyrannical government as a highly potential reality.
On the other hand, incrementalism is a key part of our economy. If people didn't want a better computer, car, camera, bicycle, house, golf club, shirt, jacket or any other widget you can name, we wouldn't have had the economic growth we have experienced since the country was founded.
In contrast, if you look at the incrementalism in the growth of the national government and its programs and the associated costs, you can understand why we're on a path that is simply not sustainable.
Incrementalism usually occurs in small, modest and affordable steps. When it is done in exponential numbers in just a few years' time, national economic disaster becomes more likely as do draconian governmental actions to fix the problem government caused.
If we aren't on an incremental path to socialism, then what path are we on?
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1. Warmack by a long shot
2. Ogletree
3. Ansah
- Warmack will be a pro bowler almost every year. I can't say that about the other two. Not a big Ansah fan, there are about 10 other players I would draft over him if we had the chance.
Ill be honest, I think Ansah is probably going top 10, 15 definitly. He's going to be pushed as the next JPP. Remember what happened with Chandler Jones, he shot up the boards fast.
Ogletree is trash, Ansah is another overhyped nobody, Warmack looks good.
In the same order you listed them.
When I first saw some of his Bama film I thought the same but as you start to watch him more you see how good he really is. He's a consensus top 20 talent right now in the draft process and here's why. He has elite athleticism and coverage ability for the position. He also has great instincts (always around the ball) and is a big hitting playmaker.
Getting back on topic, Warmack by a long shot then Ogletree and Ansah. We don't need a DE because we can move Kiwi there and FA is deep there.
Why does everyone want a pass rusher in the first round. It is recalled that Strahan, Osi, and tuck werent first rounders, right? Even Kiwi was the last pick of the first. We clearly know how to pick elite pass rushers outside of the first. Clearly Jpp was a first, but I think his talents and measurables were rare. Do you guys really think any pass rushers in this draft are worth a first? I feel like a quality corner or Lb or even o-lineman is more.of a first round priority. I mean, Im no GM either, but that's just my take.
My god, Warmack is having some game. Who wouldn't wanna see Wilson run behind him?


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Joanie Zeier Poole's book on machine quilting teaches you what you need to know to start free motion quilting. FMQ can be so scary – where do you start? How much do you do? What designs work best? This manual will definitely help you find your bearings.
Chapter 1 is full of lots of tips regarding different types of quilting machines – long arm, domestic machine with frame (my dream is to own one of these!), and even a domestic machine. And don't worry that you don't have a long arm – Joanie explains that she prefers to work on a domestic machine and is quite happy with her results. She also discusses essential and useful attachments, accessories, and even setting up your working space.
Chapter 2 is all about planning and preparations. It helps you choose and plan quilting techniques for different types of quilts along with techniques for transferring them to your quilt. Joanie discusses fabric preperation and even when to starch (answer: lightly and often!) as well as thread and needle types and how to choose wadding.
Chapter 3 discusses the varieties of machine quilting – channel, stippling, background and echo as well as others. You'll learn about moving from shape to shape on the quilt.
Above is an example of filler designs, and you'll also learn how to plan and quilt designs based on straight lines – there are more than you think! She also discusses how to practice designs before sewing them.
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June 18th 2012, 5 pm to 7 pm to 9 pm
The Knox County Beekeepers Association is sponsoring an educational workshop for beekeepers and anyone interested in learning about bees and beekeeping. Come for all the activities starting at 5 pm, or just come at 7 pm for the general meeting.
We will be running hive inspections from 5 pm to 7 pm. For hive inspections please bring a veil. There will be a few extra veils available. We will be checking the condition of the hives, demonstrating proper hive inspection techniques, and what things to look for when inspecting a hive. During the hive inspections there will be Learning Stations placed around the apiary, where specific topics can be discussed one on one, or in small groups with experienced beekeepers. Remember this is a live demonstration and you may be stung.
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Hive Inspections: a new hive will be opened every ½ hour
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm Learning Stations see topics below:
Managing Supers, Queen Excluders: How and When to harvest honey?
Varroa Mites: Identifying and Counting Varroa Mites.
Equipment: Boxes and frames to smokers and cloths; what is needed and how to use it.
Feeding Bees: Why, How, When, and Feeding Equipment.
Swarms: How to catch and manage a swarm and managing your hive after it swarmed.
Queen Grafting Demonstration: Where queens come from.
7:00 to 9:00 General Meeting
7:00 to 7:15 - General Meeting and Announcements
7:15 to 7:40 Requeening: Why, When and How to Requeen a Hive? Dana Stahlman
7:40 to 8:00 Nucs Why you should have a nuc and how to start one? Scott Taylor
8:00 to 8:20 - Varroa Mites: Review of the latest Control Methods. Jeff Gabric
Directions: The event will be held at the invitation of Steve Collins at 7175 Patton Rd, Mt. Vernon. This is located near Bangs, Ohio just off Rt. 36. From Mt. Vernon take Rt. 36 towards Columbus. When you get to Bangs, go 2 more miles and make a left on Patton Road. The Bee yard is ¼ mile on the right. Restroom facilities are available. Bring a lawn chair if you have one.
Admission will be $10 per person and free to Knox County Beekeepers Association members. With the $10 admission fee you will receive a free membership to the Association which happens to cost $10. Well supervised children are free; remember this is a live bee demonstration.
If you dont have time for dinner we will have free hotdogs and refreshment for the hungry.
Simpsons Bee Supply will be on site for your equipment needs. Call or email your orders the week before and you can pick up at the event. 740-599-7914. email@example.com
For updated information go to the Knox County Beekeepers Association Web site:
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An exhibition of 19th century dissection apparatus, including gruesome wax figurines of body parts, sheds new light on the practise of body snatching – revealing that it wasn't just surgeons who wanted to get their hands on cadavers, but artists too.
A body cast of Chelsea murderer James Legg with his skin removed and strung up on a crucifix, will form the centre-piece of the Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men exhibition opening at the Museum of London on Friday.
The piece, dated 1801, was made by sculptor Thomas Bank along with artists Benjamin West and Richard Crossway. The experiment was made as part of an artistic debate - the three Royal Academicians wanted to demonstrate that historical artistic depictions of Christ on the cross were anatomically incorrect.
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While still warm from the gallows Legg's corpse was nailed into position on the cross and flayed by a well-known surgeon Joseph Constantine Carpue. A cast was then made of the cadaver when it cooled.
At the time anatomy classes were offered at the Royal Academy of Arts and many artists forged relationships with surgeons and anatomists. It signalled a boom in the accuracy of life drawing and painting.
The Anatomy Act, passed thirty years after Legg's hanging, stipulated that only the bodies of executed murderers could be used for dissection. It came about because the demand for subjects of human dissection among scientists, doctors and artists had led to the illegal trade in dead bodies.
Gangs of 'resurrection men', a name given to those who robbed graves - and in the worst cases, murdered -, to trade cadavers for money, rose up, leading to an atmosphere of fear. Relatives held guarded vigils at the gravesides of their loved ones.
But because only around 50 public executions of murders took place annually in the 1830s the demand for bodies still wildly outstripped the supply – and the bone trade went on unhindered.
The exhibition includes portraits of members of the notorious Gang of Burkers who sold the "suspiciously fresh" corpse of a 14-year-old Italian boy to King's College School of Anatomy on the Strand. It was suspected that the body had not even been buried and three resurrection men were arrested.
Two of the men, John Bishop and Thomas Williams, gave written confessions of the murder and were hanged at Newgate in December 1831. The third man, James May, was exonerated. The case contributed to the passing of the Anatomy Act in 1832.
Also on display will be gruesome artefacts used for dissection and autopsy including a rusted mantrap, a skull saw, an amputation saw and dissecting hooks and table.
Many of the items were taken from a 2006 excavation of a burial ground at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel. It revealed some 262 burials, including a confusing mix of bones and animals dissected for comparative anatomy.
From 19 October to 14 April 2013, www.museumoflondon.org.uk
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Hi theblondskeleton,
Here is my DIY led upgrade for your collection:
More detailed step by step description is here: Fluval Edge 2 DIY Lighting System Upgrade with LED light and Timer
|Nice that seems like a ton of light, though! Good thing you have the pot! Adding this to the DIY LED FAQ, if you don't mind. I'd like to include as many different kinds of DIY's as people come up with
|i personally hate my light arm when trying to do maintenance. but very nice mod on the arm
Chiefston, fantastic mod! I have never done any project like this, and it was very easy to follow and do myself. I did make a "mod" on your mod.
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For starters, I have the 12 gallon and didn't have any problem with lighting the bottom of the far corners. However, halfway up my tank on the front the lighting ends. But fortunately the front usually has low lying plants anyway.
Also, because I have 12 gallons, I literally just doubled the LED's that you had put on (8 Cool White Cree XP-G's and 4 Royal Blue LED's from the Moonlight Kit).
My tank came with the stock 42 LED's (5 watts... the newer lighting they added). The main difference between my mod and your mod is that I wanted save the entire stock arm to be able to reuse it if necessary. So, instead of cutting the lights out, I made some arms out of some aluminum channel.
Lastly, for anyone making this mod on the 12 gallon, I used the Mean Well LPC-35-700 driver (which kicks out about 35 watts) as my driver. However, normally I would have used the Mean Well LPC-60-1050 which would kick out more like 50 watts which would have worked very well with my LED's, however, I'm running shrimp and Cardinal Tetra's (both of which don't like too much light). As a result, I went with a little lower lighting (but still enough to grow my plants... well, hopefully!). If nothing else, my tank now has "wings" from the great lighting!
Anyway, you can see from the photos that I put in (2) 1" bolts to catch the arms to keep the lights set in position.
Anyway, thanks again! Great modification! Works like a charm in my 12g Edge!
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Mxx, I hadn't thought of front lighting for the fish, I guess I will see how they look when I stock my tank this week... I will defiantly be paying attention now that you have mentioned it!
aphul, I have the cool white XP-G which is 5000-8300K. I think the lighting really makes the colors look great on the plants. Whether it is as great for the plants as it is for my eyes, only time will tell....
I also keep the moonlights on 24-7. As they are really dimmed (I put a resistor in-line with them to get current down to ~40mA) they don't make that much of a difference. I think it helps just enough with the colors though, that I don't want to put them on a timer as well.
|what color LEDs did you use? are you happy with that color or would you have changed it?
My own 6G Edge light and filter modifications are somewhere in the official Edge thread. Getting light across the front substrate, into the corners, and onto the front of the fish rather than on their backsides certainly wasn't easy.
I suppose the 12G makes it much easier though. For the height should allow an adequate spread, and you should be able to aim enough of the light at the front pane for it to reflect off the front pane and back onto the front of the fish in order to actually visibly illuminate their colors and iridescence instead of just washing them out.
I'll have to think about whether that is adequate still, for maybe I'd be better off just doing my own custom tank from scratch where I could mount a bar of LED's on the front inside edge of the tank anyway. $100 isn't bad in any case, though perhaps I'd have to include the price of a Dremel as well.
Mxx, I have all the receipts sitting around, I can put together a price lost when I get home. I'd guesstimate it cost around $100? Post pics if you decide to tackle a similar project. I'd love to see this done on a 12g
Most excellent work! I had found myself considering whether I'd want to try an Edge 12G as a marine tank, and was wondering exactly how to go about doing exactly what you've just demonstrated here! With the 12G at least I wouldn't be facing the same limitation on light spread.
Mind us asking the cost? And mind telling us how much you'll sell retrofit kits for?
Now, sorting reef tank filtration properly would be a different sort of PITA however...
|Thanks Jayme. The front corners are still not AS bright as the center of the tank. I guess the real test will be if the HC grows all the way out to the corners or not. At this point, I am hoping that ANY of the HC grows out. It seems people generally have a hard time growing it, and I am a total newb at this whole fish tank/plants thing...
I love that you can keep the stock look with this and eliminate that dark edge/corner problem. I told my husband he is going to do this for my EDGE, lol.
Thanks for sharing!
Extra things.
Here is a pic of the moonlighting. Iphone4 camera is NOT good at taking these...
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And a pic of my CO2 mod, routing the CO2 into the back of the filter. Found this little trick browsing around the forum here. It actually works very well, with 1 BPS I get green drop checker.
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And finally, I spray painted the inside of the hood white to help keep photons in and darkons out... =-P
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So, thats my modifications so far. Going into this project I was a little nervous about what I was getting myself into. And after cutting up my light bar there was a hint of dread, like "What have I done!?" But, I am extremely pleased with the outcome. I have been running this setup for 5 days now, and my HC and dwarf grass has not completely died yet, so there's that. Also, my new diatom algae colony started pearling today! So, the construction has completed and the learning has begun.
Hope this helps someone out! If there are any questions, please feel free to ask.
So, once the mounting portion is complete, it is time to start wiring things up. There are videos on youtube explaining how to use artic silver for the LEDS, and also tips for soldering LEDS. I highly recommend watching these! For those paying attention, I did wire up the two moonlights incorrectly here. I was in a soldering trance and just kept connecting things together! I did remove one of the wires when only one LED came on... In the last two pics, you can see the 2.2K resistor wired in series with the 10K pot. Since I had an extra 12V power supply lying around, I used a simple voltage divider to get my 10V. Unfortunately, my cheapie PS is non regulated and I get 10.5V when the pot is at 10K... This is remedied by turning down the pot a quarter turn from full on.
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Here you can see the wires being routed inside the arm, with the top cover taken off. I also had to cut an opening for the wires to escape out of the arm at the bottom, which you can see in the last pic.
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After hooking up the lights and testing, I decided there was too much shadow in the front corners, and that I had mounted the light too high in the neck of the aquarium. So, off to Lowes, and I found some ErecterSet looking pieces in the hardware isle. Two holes were enough to get the light down into the neck and not above it, so I cut it down with the dremel.
Before... Notice how high up it is? Above the rim.
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After lowering it with the hole-y piece. Notice it's IN the neck now, eliminating most of the shadowy corners.
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Matthew Friedberger says this a lot. As one half of the semi-inscrutable bizarro-pop duo the Fiery Furnaces (with his sister Eleanor), he often finds himself having to explain the unexplainable when it comes to their music. Over nine years and eight albums (not counting the two solo efforts he put out during a brief downtime for the band in 2006), Matthew and Eleanor have carved out a knotty songbook that is dizzyingly complex. Yet there's enough honest-to-goodness soulful tuneage to reward close inspection.
Although their dense jams throw down the gauntlet at the terrified feet of casual listeners, Matthew, on the phone from his home in Brooklyn, doesn't quite see Fiery Furnaces as a sealed-off æsthetic cosmos. "Look, we just think that we, as a band, are very . . . interested. In things, in the world. We don't think of ourselves as closed off — actually, we think of ourselves as pretty open-ended in the way we do things. But a lot of our music is not the kind of thing that you can easily utilize or 'get' in the same way that you might utilize or 'get' another type of rock record. The way that you're supposed to enjoy it is a little different than from some other band, but we still think that our music is involved in the world. Our records, they have a particular sort of — I hate to use this word — but a sort of eclecticism that we feel obligated to perpetrate."
Does that make any sense? It does if you've heard Fiery Furnaces' music, a jarring barrage that's at once a spit in the eye of musical tradition and a heartfelt love letter to the same. The duo, who play the Middle East downstairs this Friday, came to international renown with 2004's Blueberry Boat (Rough Trade), a song cycle — on topics ranging from pirates on the open seas to the White Sox, Oxycontin, and Damascus Internet cafés — that shape-shifts just as you begin to process what it is you're listening to. The dizzying swirl of plangent piano choruses, fuzzed-out guitar leads, swooning and crooning vocalizations (Eleanor), crashing percussion, James Brownian funk workouts, and kaleidoscopic keyboard shards is enough to detonate the head — and the response has been love-it or hate-it. Live, the band are thornier still, taking their recordings, tearing them up, and reassembling them into a patchwork medley that sounds like a K-Tel ad.
"Look [Matthew also starts with "Look" a lot], with what's going on in the world, everyone has massive amounts of information, and it's very hard to synthesize it. So there are a lot of different styles for a rock band, and the goal of synthesizing it is to make it coherent in a way that people are used to hearing in rock music of the past. So in a sense, it's about a failure of intelligence — I mean 'intelligence' like the intelligence community, where they intercept everything the world says and eavesdrop on every phone conversation, and putting it all together is very difficult to do. So we don't try to synthesize our music into a single object — but maybe this means that the product of this synthesis is harder to comprehend. Am I making any sense?"
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