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Finally! iOS 7.1 is now available for download for all you lucky iPhone and iPad users…
Just go to your iDevice's Setting > General > Software Update, then tap on Download and Install. You need to agree to Apple's Terms and Conditions to proceed with the download of course, but hopefully that's a small price to pay for the goodies in store. The update is 186MB and should take only a few minutes to install, depending on your network connection.
So what do we have to look forward to in the new, iOS 7.1?
The update includes support for CarPlay, which allows users to connect their iOS 7.1 device to any vehicle that supports Apple's CarPlay feature. It supports Phone, Music, Maps, Messages, and third-party audio apps. CarPlay can be controlled using Siri or the car's touchscreen, knobs, and buttons.
The activation method has been upgraded, and so instead of just speaking to Siri and hoping for the best (that it actually understand you are talking to it, and when you have finished speaking) you just hold down the Home button while you speak and release it when you're done talking. Siri's also been given more 'natural sounding' male and female voices in Mandarin, UK English, Australian English, and Japanese languages.
iTunes Radio
The search field above 'Featured Stations' has been upgraded to allow users to easily create stations based on their favorite artists and/or songs. Users can now purchase albums with thetap of a button from Now Playing. The update also allows users to subscribe to iTunes Match with their iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch to enjoy ad-free listening on iTunes Radio.
Options to display events in the 'month view' are now available, and country specific holidays have been automatically added for many new countries.
The option for bold font is now available on the keyboard, calculator, and many icon glyphs. For those getting dizzy with the movement on the screen, Reduce Motion now includes Weather, Messages, and Multitasking UI animations. Finally, there's a new option to display button shapes, darken app colors, and reduce white points.
Other improvements and fixes
There's a new Camera setting for the iPhone 5s that automatically enables HDR; iCloud Keychain support is now available in more countries; FaceTime call notifications are automatically cleared when you answer a call on another device; there's a fix for a bug that can occasionally cause a home screen crash; Touch ID fingerprint recognition has been improved; and there's a fix to the 'Mail Unread' badge which means that numbers greater than 10,000 can be viewed; plus a few user interface refinements.
You can download iOS 7.1 directly on your iDevice via an over-the-air update, or by connecting your iDevice to a Mac or PC with the latest version of iTunes installed.
iOS 7.1 may be something users of newer iDevices are grateful for, but the major update is hugely beneficial for iPhone 4 users as well.
iPhone 4 benefits
Not everyone can afford to buy a new iPhone the moment a newer model comes out, which means there are plenty of folks using older versions – even if Apple has stopped supporting these devices. The iPhone 4 was the oldest iPhone model to receive the original iOS 7 update, but that came with a lot of gaps and performance issues.
iPhone 4 users who upgraded to iOS 7 do not have the following features: 3D Flyover or turn-by-turn navigation in Maps, Panorama mode or Filters in the Camera app (though these filters can be applied in the Photo app), AirPlay Mirroring, Siri, AirDrop, and graphical improvements such as the translucency effects throughout the OS, live wallpapers, and the parallax effect used on the Home screen.
One of the biggest issues of updating iPhone 4 to iOS 7 was that it made the device appear somewhat sluggish. Of course, you have to consider that the hardware of the iPhone 4 is four years old, so it's to be expected that the features and performance aren't quite up to par with the newer models, or even the iPhone 4S.
Apple hasn't forgotten users of the iPhone 4 though, as it made improvements to iOS 7.1 that will hopefully make the older devices run a bit faster, or almost as fast when it was still running iOS 6.1.3.
One of the major improvements for iOS 7.1 on the iPhone 4, aside from the significant faster UI, is the HFP Prompts in Maps. There's also a new audio setting in Maps that allows you to enable HFP prompts which automatically tells your car to connect to your iPhone 4's Bluetooth when a voice direction needs to be played.
As ArsTechnica points out, this will probably be the last major upgrade the iPhone 4 will recieve. What with its hardware being four years old, it probably won't be able to handle all the new features and enhancements that iOS 8 is sure to have.


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The standard Baby Eagle is made by Magnum Research out of Israel. It's basically a clone of the CZ-75. It's a good gun. Can't say about the custom part. I've never come across a custom one.
I was looking around my shop recently and something caught my eye I have never seen before. It's a Baby Eagle in 9mm in either stainless or nickel and its from a custom builder. i forget who the custom person is but it starts with a "C". Anyways they want $1,000 for it and I've been browsing the net for the last few days and haven't turned up much on them. It really looks like something I would like to have. Anyone have any experience with these in general?
The standard Baby Eagle is made by Magnum Research out of Israel. It's basically a clone of the CZ-75. It's a good gun. Can't say about the custom part. I've never come across a custom one.
brand new baby eagles sold for about 650.00 so I d say take a pass and buy a CZ
If it is a custom gun find out what custom work was done to it and if that work matters to you or will help you in any way. If not it is a shinny gun that is over priced for what you need. If the work is worth 500 bucks and you would do it anyway then it is a deal.
If not scooters advice is sound, save the $$$ and buy a CZ
Down boy........there is only 350 bucks of difference in this gun, not 2 grand. A trigger job and a competition hammer will eat up $350 fast. You, personally, may not place any value in that and if thats the case so be it. If the OP would buy a CZ then have the trigger worked on and a competition hammer installed he already has it done on this weapon. If not, there is no value. It appears you have a bit of a rub with things labeled as custom. Where did the 500 dollar gun into a 2500 dollar 1911 come from. Did one of your buddies have some work done on his gun and now he tells you how cool his gun is and it pizzes you off?
Your advice to pass is probably very good advice, but to discount the custom work done without knowing what it actually is or the result of it seems hasty at best. Anyway $1000 is a bit much for a standard Baby Eagle. Maybe the OP should just skip the custom work and take a pass on it.
I have a problem with custom because it is almost always parts added/changed...I can do that myself for A LOT less than any custom shop charges. There isnt a "custom" handgun made (in my opinion) that is worth the $$ they ask for them except to the uneducated or snobbish that want to say they paid 1500+ for a handgun.
A handgun is a TOOL used to shoot and kill, it can be fun for shooters but it is still just a tool.
The 500 to 2500 was just an example used to illustrate what I just said above.
The Most I have EVER paid for ANY gun is the 950.00 I paid for my eclipse ultra, I didnt REALLY want to pay that much but it was purty
Anyway , Knowing as much as I do about 1911's I knew even if it had a problem I could most likely take care of it myself (and my boys egged me on too cuz they wanted to shoot it, that didnt help my willpower any)
Even my AR was only 750 new. The good thing is it has been a very reliable pistol and the closest I will ever get to a "custom" gun.
To be honest I don't know what i like or dislike yet and/or need and don't need when it comes to pistols. I have been doing my research but only just finally got my pistol permit this last weekend. My 1st pistol is a FNP-9 and I haven't even had a chance to shoot it yet.
I just find that baby eagle very attractive and when I look online I haven't seen another that looks like it yet. I just mentioned it was custom cause it said it was on the tag. I see the CZ's were mentioned and I've found I am very fond of them also. There is just something that keeps bringing me back to that eagle. I have to go there today and pick up an AK I ordered and maybe i can get a chance to ask about it and fondle it a bit.
I am not sure if I am uneducated or just a snob but I own a custom handgun that is as plain looking as it was before the work was done. My DA has gone from 9.5# to 4.7# and my SA has gone from 5# to just at 3#. The polish and hammer movement is so smooth now I can't describe it and the creep in the trigger has been eliminated. My tool now serves its intended purpose to me much better, and without any frustration when it performs its task. I figured it out I must just be a snob because I am not uneducated. I do not hold it against anyone how they choose to spend their own money nor do I have ill will toward someone with a custom tool, motorcycle, car, or set of ginsu knives. Even if I don't have one myself. On the other hand, I also admire someone who can do the work or have talents other who do not are either forced to pay for or do with out.
Does your "custom'' gun kill any better than before? No? Then what you had "customized" wasnt the least bit neccessary was it?
And for your info I dont consider having trigger work done to fix a factory defect/deficiency "Custom" it is more like maintenance or tune up.
What I AM talking about is taking a 500$ pistol giving it a paint job and fancy grips,tightening up the specs till it will almost not function , puttting spirally shaped rub marks on the bare metal parts and selling it for 1500+. And there are a LOT of custom guns out there that description fits very well.
Best way to put it
Polish a turd its still a turd
Once again your response was exactly as I anticipated. I know you said in your opinion, I don't believe I mentioned anything about your opinion. Polish a turd.....thats a good one. Razor sharp.
The purpose of the tool I had work done on is not to kill anything. There are more then one use for a tool to those with open minds. What I had customized was to me, very neccesary and greatly appreciated. Some may not be able to notice the difference and not be able to take advantage of the subilties, and they might call it unneccesary. I can now make my second shot much quicker and with greater accuracy, almost 100% of the time. This simple fact cuts my time down and raises my point total dramatically in my shooting sport. No not because of any defect or even a deficency, but because I wanted more from my tool.
Maybe some are satisfied with their turds looking like sh!t. But
If it isnt their turd getting polished why would they care?
Damn stirred up a crap storm in here. Anyways I'm not gonna get the custom one. I'll keep my eyes open for a decently priced Jericho 941 or the like and if I feel it needs some work I can spring for it later. That way I know whats been done and who did it etc.

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Paul A. Curtis, an American gunnery expert who recently resigned as a captain in the British Army, shot and killed himself at 12:31 P.M. yesterday in the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew J. Gahagan at 277 Park Avenue.
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Right wing Republican conservatives have been filling television with their weird comments about releasing prisoners from Guantanamo into the "streets of America" as though the Obama administration was simply going to dump them in the nearest city and walk away. the European Union is examining the possibility it could take some of the released prisoners and find jails which would house them until there could be trials. Benita Ferrero-Walder, EU Commissioner for External Relations, said the EU would urge member states to accept the men. In the Czech Republic, a spokesperson for Amnesty International in that country, said, ""we believes that Europe should take some of these detainees."
There are nations prepared to become involved in finding solutions as to the guilt or innocence of the detainees. The assumption of right wing Republicans is that all detainees are guilty because the Bush administration put them in a jail. At least 24 already have been released because after eight years, the Bush people could not find sufficient evidence to link the men to any crime.


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The Murder Of Aziz Khan; By Zulfikar Ghose. 315 pp. New York: The John Day Company. $6.50.
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Slowly but relentlessly, the countries of the inscrutable East are being Westernized in business practices, in commerce, even in cultural manifestations -- and the social history of that change is good grist for the novelist's mill. For if the essence of the novel is conflict, what better drama could be found than the struggle of the old against the new, land-based values against mechanization, tradition against personal power?
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Response to Green Algae Strategy Review
I have received a response from Mark Edwards, auther of Green Algae Strategy: End Oil Imports And Engineer Sustainable Food And Fuel. I reviewed the book here recently, and as I indicated in the conclusion of the review I would gladly post any of Mark's comments. So, here they are in full. I have added clarifications, such as to indicate when Mark is quoting me [e.g., RR quote]. I have otherwise tried to keep the formatting consistent with what Mark sent me. No further response from me.
Response to Green Algae Strategy Review
Thank you for the review and the opportunity to respond to your thoughtful comments. Your observations are right on target for someone focused on algal oil as a liquid transportation fuel.
Remember that food energy is actually more important to humans that liquid transportation fuels. We can survive without transportation assistance but we starve quickly without food energy. I see no way to produce algae economically purely for liquid transportation fuels. The only way production makes sense will be to grow massive amounts of algae biomass, harvest the lipids for transportation energy and use the protein and carbohydrates to produce additional forms of energy, including especially food and feed.
RR quote: "Either Mark Edwards is dead wrong, or I am dead wrong."
On the future of any topic, especially science, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
Skeptics abound in the algae space and the leading skeptic, Dr. John Benemann, speaks at all the algae conferences and stands in stark contrast to many other equally experienced scientists who do not share his natural pessimism. John revels in his reputation for pessimism. Other scientists engaged in the Aquatic Species Report have a completely opposite view. Several are working for companies that are producing algae for fuel. Professor Milton Sommerfeld at ASU and a co-author on the Report, has been producing algal oil for jet fuel in the laboratory and a field setting for several years.
Speculation on cost per gallon of algal oil is useless until we see actual field production. The good news on this front is that I have seen the following:
• Cost reduction of algal oil production — one order of magnitude in the last two years
• Cost reduction on algal extraction — two new methods promise two orders of magnitude
• Cost reduction on energy for mixing — one order of magnitude in the last two years
These cost reductions will be reflected in various producers' cost models. American scientists and engineers are exceptionally talented at taking costs out of production.
The real question is not the cost of algal oil per gallon but the value of the total culture. The best production models I've reviewed have only about 30% of the algal biomass value going to fuel. That means 70% of the biomass produces other coproducts from the protein and carbohydrates. Those many coproducts are examined in analyzed in Chapters 7 and 10 in Green Algae Strategy.
Green solar energy captured in algae creates a portable energy source and grows biomass with solar energy stored in forms that may be used for a variety of purposes:
• People – organic protein in food
• Animals – organic protein in fodder
• Fowl – natural protein for birds
• Fish – natural protein in fish feed
• Land plants – organic nitrogen fertilizer
• Fire – high energy algal oil for cooking and heating
• Cars – carbohydrates refined to gasoline for transportation
• Trucks and tractors – high energy clean, green diesel
• Trains, boats, barges and ships – high energy clean diesel
• Planes – high energy, clean aviation gas and jet fuel
Algae also offer low energy and low cost pollution solutions to clean waste, brine or salt water, sequester CO2 from coal fired power plant plumes and recover abandoned soils. This presentation will highlight the status of the algal industry with a focus on food and energy.
RR quoting a study that I cited in the review: What about the value of sequestered carbon in algae-based biofuels? In short, there isn't any. Atmospheric carbon is only sequestered for a short time until it's burned in an engine. Under existing biofuels mandates in most industrialized countries, there will be no opportunity to sell carbon offsets unless fuel production is additional, or beyond such mandates.
This criticism ignores the fact that algae-based biofuels recycle atmospheric carbon and every gallon displaces a gallon of fossil fuel. When algal production occurs with no fossil energy, the production is carbon neutral because the carbon dioxide is simply being recycled. In contrast, cropland-based biofuels such as ethanol emits more carbon than burning natural gas directly due to the huge amounts of fossil fuels needed to produce corn.
I recently presented a paper demonstrating our work with Desert Sweet Biofuels where we produced carbon negative algal biomass by using a gasifier and creating bio-char. The gasifier burned biomass in a oxygen starved container creating hydrogen and carbon monoxide. The hydrogen was burned for energy to create electricity while the carbon dioxide was flued into algal ponds to produce algal biomass. Our calculations showed that we sequestered only about 10% of the total carbon — the bio char that was scratched into fields. The University of Arizona is currently conducting research to see what percentage of that bio char stays in the soil and for how long. Other research suggests that much of the bio char stay sequestered for decades.
Several countries are financing gasifiers in the U.S. for algal oil production for carbon trade off-sets.
RR quote: Edwards falls prey to the Vinod Khosla fallacy on cellulosic ethanol: This is simply too important and there are too many companies working on this to fail.
Vinod Khosla gave an excellent keynote at the 2009 Algal Summit in Seattle where he outlined his reasoning for not investing in algal production. His primary points were that he needed to see actual production before making investments and that the industry needed to do a better job at conveying the value proposition for algae.
RR quote: He is sufficiently skeptical about the near term prospects for cellulosic ethanol, and is harsh in his assessment of corn ethanol (even more so than I have been).
My prior book, Biowar I: Why Battles over Food and Fuel Lead to World Hunger examines the entire ethanol fiasco including energy and cost models. BioWar I is available for free PDF download with color speaker notes at http://greenindependence.org/. Every claim made for ethanol has turned out to be false. Consider that 2009 production of ethanol produce about 9 billion gallons of ethanol (the DOE Target) and will consume:
• 40 million acres of prime American cropland
• 2 trillion gallons of fresh water for irrigation
• 5 billion gallons of diesel fuel for corn production
The 2009 ethanol production will create severe pollution of air, water and soils while reducing imported oil by about 3%. Algal production, when commercially viable, could produce far more ethanol or other higher energy fuels using no or minimal cropland, fresh water or fossil fuels.
BioWar I covers the research on cellulosic ethanol which, for litany of reasons including that it takes too much fresh water and energy, makes no sense for biofuel production. Cellulosic products may turn out to be an excellent source of carbon for the production of algal oil. BioWar I concludes that our best policy is to end subsidies for ecologically destructive production such as ethanol and big oil and to shift subsidies to ecologically friendly production such as algal biomass. Subsidies played a key role in the review.
RR quote: He blames the lack of progress for algae on lack of funding, which is blamed on corn ethanol. This, he argues, was the politically favorable biofuel that sucked up all the R&D funding (and subsidies). He later writes "If corn ethanol makes sense, the market will reward it without taxpayer monies or protectionist tariffs." Can't we say the same about algal fuel?
Making corn whiskey, ethanol, is a 200-year-old technology. Subsidies are useful for changing consumer behavior and supporting new technologies. Subsidizing corn and the many inputs for growing corn for ethanol make no sense and are ecologically destructive. Algal production does not need protectionist tariffs but does need public monies to develop the knowledge base to grow massive amounts of biomass. The two top threats I see to the algal industry are subsidy-based. Lack of government subsidies, which began in the 1990's at the end of the Aquatic Species Program led to: (Subsidies were shifted to corn ethanol.)
a. No support for academic, institute or government algal research. As a consequence, the US has few algae labs, nearly no American algal professors and very few students trained in algal production. Lack of trained scientists and graduate students put the U.S. at severe disadvantage in algal production.
b. An algal industry constrained by vertical markets. Each algal company jealously protect its intellectual property and does not share bubble research or breakthroughs. Even the scientific meetings are full of statements that the scientist cannot share real numbers because they have signed on disclosure agreements with their employers or grantors.
The R&D necessary for successful algal production will take more money than is available from private investors. Who wants to invest $500 million on R&D. Investors want a fast return and are not willing to fund sufficient R&D. Failing government subsidies, the industry will sputter for decades. Then, when humanity desperately needs sustainable food and energy solutions, we will discover that the intellectual property for production is locked up by a very few producers who monopolize production to the detriment of all humanity.
RR paraphrase: To commercially grow them in the Midwest –pipedream.
Watch. Within 10 years, most the farms in the Midwest will use algal production to:
a. Recover and recycle energy in agricultural waste streams, especially manure
b. Recover and recycle nutrients in agricultural waste streams
c. Reduce the ecological damage and carbon footprint for agricultural production
Yes, many producers may use greenhouses and geothermal energy for algal production. However, cold tolerant algal species may flourish in the Midwest especially during the normal growing season.
RR paraphrase: Energy return not covered.
Correct. No one can credibly address energy return until production specifications and costs are determined. However, the production of algal biomass using solar, wind and geothermal energy avoid the issue of fossil fuel use. Two new extraction technologies promise significant reduction in energy requirements. One method uses simple air flocculation and another uses ultrasonic waves to break up the algal cells and separate the oil from the other biomass. The ultrasonic solution allows the oil to flow to the top where it can be skimmed off at very low cost.
RR paraphrase: Casually dismiss technical challenges
The technical challenges are treated with seriousness and focus. True, most are not solved in the book. An entire chapter examines each technical challenge and what needs to be done to successfully produce algal oil. In addition, the table in the last chapter provides a summary of the technical challenges and the R&D needed.
RR quote: Page 13: As a criticism of using food crops for fuel, he states that massive planting of corn leads to high humidity because the leaves transpire water. This leads to thunderstorms and potentially tornadoes. That large areas planted in corn can increase the risk of tornadoes is something I have never heard before.
Neither had I before doing the research for BioWar I and Green Algae Strategy.
RR quote: Page 150: When writing that algal fuel mimics fossil fuels without fossilization, he writes "Skipping the fossilization step not only saves 200 million years of pressure and heat, but lowers production costs significantly." I can't really comprehend this one.
Consider the true cost of production for fossil fuels. Failing government subsidies, fossil fuels would cost around $15 a gallon and that's ignoring their ecological cost. Oil fields must be found and developed at huge cost. Extraction and transportation add significant additional costs.
Imagine growing algae locally for fuel production when the inputs are only sunshine, carbon dioxide and wastewater.
RR quote: Page 179: He cites a claim by Aurora Biofuels that their process creates biodiesel with yields 125 times higher and 50% cheaper than current methods. I am going to presume that this was supposed to read 125% higher and not 125 times higher.
You are correct.
RR quoting from the book: Page 204: "When someone invents a carbon capture filter for vehicle exhaust pipes, there will be a nearly limitless supply of low-cost CO2 for growing algae."
I think this is a great idea. A Brit has developed the vehicle exhaust filter. This is only one of many new and some recycled ideas presented to spur algal production.
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Green solar energy captured in algae creates a portable energy source and grows biomass with solar energy stored in forms that may be used for a variety of purposes:• People – organic protein in foodSOYLENT GREEN ENERGY IS PEOPLE!!!Sorry, I just had to say that…
Comment by Anonymous | June 15, 2009
The bottom line is it took about 300 million years of algae and phyto-plankton growth to produce the oil we've burned in a little more than 100 years.Obviously, it is possible to make liquid fuel from algae, Mother Nature has shown us that. The question is how we could ever scale up production to compress those millions of years into a matter of a few months?And how can we handle the logistics of the billions of tons of algae it would take to produce the 31 billion barrels of oil the world uses per year? (2006)The question isn't the process. The question is the scale and time compression needed.
Comment by Wendell Mercantile | June 15, 2009
Hmmm, you lost me at $15 a gallon.Unless I'm mistaken, the U.S. oil industry is extremely profitable at $50/barrel ($1.19/gallon).Not only that, it is a NET tax payer.Meaning that it pays tax. Sure, it might get a few tax breaks here and there, but it still pays tax.So are we to belive that there are costs somewhere else amounting to $580/barrel? (15-1.19 x 42 gallons/barrel)If US production is 5 million barrels a day then the daily cost of this subsidy is $2.9billion/day.'Cmon, not even the Iraq was is that expensive.Pull the other one, its got bells on it.Andy
Comment by Andytk | June 15, 2009
If algae is a promising source of liquid fuel, our nation's very vibrant venture capital community would pounce on it. Why we still require government-backed algae labs, at this late date, is beyond me. Unless, algae (sadly) is just a no-go. Believe me, the global market for liquid fuels is gigantic. I can hardly think of a larger market. You don't think the VC boys would kill to make algae oil? My memory is that a several VC outfits have poured money into algae oil, and it hasn't happened. Meanwhile, the gas boys in Louisiana have uncovered incredible huge supplies of NG without any government help.
Comment by Benny "Boom, No Doom" Cole | June 15, 2009
How can I take anything he says seriously? His numbers regarding ethanol are so far out of reality (ex. he's off by an order of approx 70 when discussing diesel fuel use – 70 Million Gallons vs. 5 Billion Gallons) that he, obviously, is just blowing smoke, and trying to sell books.Another example: We're raising an extra 14 million acres of corn, NOT 40 Million Acres.Only 56,000 acres of that was irrigated. Is he saying we poured Two Trillion Gallons on 56,000 Acres? What is that? About 40 Million Gallons/Acre?Wow!Looney Tunes.
Comment by rufus | June 15, 2009
Um, that should be 560,000 irrigated acres. About 4,000,000 Gallons per Acre.
Comment by rufus | June 15, 2009
Beaten to it!Soylent Green occurred to me too.
Comment by PeteS | June 15, 2009
"Remember that food energy is actually more important to humans that liquid transportation fuels. We can survive without transportation assistance but we starve quickly without food energy." I don't think I'd survive too well without transportation fuels bringing me food from the farms, even if I had a productive back yard garden. Is algae supposed to replace corn as the basis of our food supply? Replace corn feed for our animals, replace corn syrup in our beverages, etc? An interesting idea."Watch. Within 10 years, most the farms in the Midwest will use algal production to: a. Recover and recycle energy in agricultural waste streams, especially manureb. Recover and recycle nutrients in agricultural waste streamsc. Reduce the ecological damage and carbon footprint for agricultural production" Is Algal production better for this than anaerobic digestion of manure for generating power from the biogas while converting the methane to a less potent GHG, and returning the phosphorus nutrients in the remaining slurry the to the soil? Would algal production take up less space, be cheaper, less complicated or more efficient than anaerobic digestion?"Correct. No one can credibly address energy return until production specifications and costs are determined. However, the production of algal biomass using solar, wind and geothermal energy avoid the issue of fossil fuel use." You could claim the same thing about the alleged 5 billion gallons of diesel needed to produce corn ethanol in 2009. Replace the diesel with biodiesel and avoid the issue of fossil fuel use. Would the solar, wind and geothermal energy be better used directly, or is there additional benefit to be gained in recycling it into algae biomass?
Comment by Clee | June 15, 2009
RR wrote: That large areas planted in corn can increase the risk of tornadoes is something I have never heard before.Edwards wrote: Neither had I before doing the research for BioWar I and Green Algae Strategy.Care to share your sources for that, or is it confidential?
Comment by Clee | June 15, 2009
Ben,The International Association for Natural Gas Vehicles claims there are some 9.5 million nat. gas vehicles on the road world-wide.http://www.iangv.org/John
Comment by Anonymous | June 15, 2009
Cited study: What about the value of sequestered carbon in algae-based biofuels? In short, there isn't any. Atmospheric carbon is only sequestered for a short time until it's burned in an engine. Under existing biofuels mandates in most industrialized countries, there will be no opportunity to sell carbon offsets unless fuel production is additional, or beyond such mandates. Edwards: This criticism ignores the fact that algae-based biofuels recycle atmospheric carbon and every gallon displaces a gallon of fossil fuel. When algal production occurs with no fossil energy, the production is carbon neutral because the carbon dioxide is simply being recycled. If the point is that you don't need to sequester carbon to sell carbon offsets, I can agree with that. But if the point is to say that something that is (or could be) carbon neutral and displaces fossil fuel therefore sequesters carbon, then I can't agree. Nobody pretends that solar, wind or geothermal energy, while displacing fossil fuel usage is "carbon sequestering", and burning algae biodiesel in a car engine isn't carbon sequestering either.Biochar is interesting. Sequestering 10% of the carbon is something, though obviously it's not 100%. On the other hand, you can make biochar using any biomass, and it makes no difference if the 10% carbon sequestered came from a coal plant smoke stack or the air in a forest or cow manure.
Comment by Clee | June 15, 2009
Consider that 2009 production of ethanol produce about 9 billion gallons of ethanol (the DOE Target) and will consume:• 40 million acres of prime American cropland• 2 trillion gallons of fresh water for irrigation• 5 billion gallons of diesel fuel for corn production.Can that be right?If it is, it means that you need about 0.93 BTU of diesel fuel for every BTU of corn ethanol you produce. Even before one factors in the natural gas used for distillation. That seems overly pessimistic. RR?
Comment by Optimist | June 16, 2009
john-Thanks for that tip. I think we can sfaely say that CNG vehicles are a proven technology, and sfae to use. Can they be commercial? I don't know. Kinu raises some tough q's. But the fact that we have seemingly limitless supplies of NG, and can drive CNG cars means that doom scenarios just don't hold water. Life may slightly less convenient, though our air will be cleaner. I cab live with that trade-off. And, I suspect, over time designers will find ways to make CNG easier to use. TOD=The Oracle of Defeatism.
Comment by Benny "Boom, No Doom" Coile | June 16, 2009
Optimist, after allowing for distillers grains you will get in the neighborhood of 700 gallons of ethanol per acre. It requires about 5 gallons of diesel to farm an acre of corn. So, figuring 10.5 Billion gallons of ethanol this year, that would be 15 million acres X 5 gal = 75 million gallons of diesel. 5 billion gallons? Lunacy.
Comment by rufus | June 16, 2009
This deep into the corn ethanol controversy, it's disheartening to see such distorted numbers about the basics. Clearly Dr. Edwards forfeits any presumption of him being a knowledgeable or unbiased observer of either algae or corn ethanol when he can't even get a few obvious key ethanol statistics right. He seems to be as goofy as Dr. Pimentel. I can't say I'll waste the time to read the rest of his algae analysis. And Rufus knows those numbers are wrong, but I don't understand where he gets his numbers either. The facts are not hard to come by: 2008-2009 planted corn crop =~86 million acres, and about 30%+ for corn ethanol, so about 26 million corn ethanol acres. Even RFA says over 10% of US corn is currently irrigated, and USDA says 17% was irrigated in 2002, so that means 2.6 – 4.42 mil irrigated corn acres. Probably about 15 inches (1.25 acre ft) of water needed for average irrigated system, so that does come to 400,000 gallons (not 4 million, Rufus) per acre (~2000 gal/bu, or about 700 gal per gallon of ethanol produced, as shown by several peer-reviewed studies this year and last). Even if only 10% of ethanol is from irrigated corn, that 700 gal/gal spread over entire ethanol pool still means ~70 gallons of water for every gallon of US ethanol. Of course, Edwards' diesel fuel number is also horribly distorted, since it's probably closer to ~0.03 gal diesel per gallon of ethanol, so maybe ~0.2 bil gallons, using USDA 2005 numbers of ~10 gal/acre combined diesel / gasoline. That's just the liquid fuel for tractors & trucks, not diesel equivalents for fertilizer, pesticides etc.
Comment by OxyMaven | June 16, 2009
Rufus, how on earth do you get 700 gallons ethanol per acre, 'allowing for distillers grains'?? Please share your math on that. 150 bu /acre x 2.8 gal per bushel = 420 gallons / acre, plus about 1.2 tons of DDGs. How do the DDGs give you more ethanol?
Comment by Anonymous | June 16, 2009
Oxymaven, it's figured that only 4% of the corn that actually goes into ethanol is irrigated. Just because some corn in Texas is irrigated does NOT mean it's going into ethanol, for example.Okay, here's the figures, Anonymous. You get back 40% of your cattle feeding ability in the form of distillers grains. This is Very Important. This means that if you're growing corn for cattle feed (over 60% of corn is used for this purpose) you only have to grow another 0.6 of an acre to get your 420 gallons of ethanol.420/.6 = 700Ethanol opponents Scream when I post this, but, reality is reality.BTW, the odds are pretty good that the yield this year will be closer to 160 bu/acre. It was 154 last year, and millions of acres had to be replanted because of the floods.
Comment by rufus | June 16, 2009
And, again, Oxymaven, if you put 400,000 gallons of water on corn that will be turned into Ethanol, AND DDGS, you must charge 40% (160,000 gallons) against the Distillers Grains. BTW, most of the irrigation water does NOT come from the deep aquifers, but, instead from fairly shallow riverbed supplies. And, of course, most of it goes right back in. Some is transpired out to fall in the next county, or state. It's not nearly as big a thing as it's made out to be, sometimes.That nat gas frac'in uses a fair amount of water, also. As do Oil Refineries, and old oil wells.
Comment by rufus | June 16, 2009
There was one comment among many by algae author Mark Williams which caught my attention. And it is the most basic of facts in the global fuel equation which people still seem to miss and miss again.{One method uses simple air flocculation and another uses ultrasonic waves to break up the algal cells and separate the oil from the other biomass. The ultrasonic solution allows the oil to flow to the top where it can be skimmed off at very low cost.}Algae cultivation at whatever high costs still produces oils. And all oils still float on this planet's water bodies. That is why these algae oils can be skimmed off the surface of water after being hit by microwaves as mentioned and forced out of the algae mass itself.Finished biodiesel produced from green algae oils is clarified using water. What a waste! And this same substitute biodiesel can be produced from cultivated algae, soy, palm or recycled vegetable oil greases or animal fats. Each and every variety of oil including petroleum crude still floats on water. This is the most basic problem which everybody seems to miss!The incomplete combustion of hydrocarbon oils (or hydrocarbon coal) – whether refined petroleum-based oils, recycled french fry grease, other oil-bearing crops like jatropha, soy or palm oils – this incomplete combustion of OILS is what we see and breathe as brown urban smog.And my belief is that smog is globally so intense now that it blows between continents affecting six billion-plus people and all other living creatures. This airborne oil phase separates from the planet's atmosphere of water vapor. We term it "smog' and this is what is driving climate change phenomenah let alone making people and animals sick with various forms of respiratory distress.All of these OILs, whether petroleum-based or agri-based – are missing that Oxygen Atom in their end-product fuel recipe. If Oxygen derived from steam were introduced, then these oils would become water soluble, oil soluble, coal soluble, AND biodegradable alcohols instead! See it now? Anybody?This is the game changer. Not busting oils out of intensively farmed algae with microwave flocculation techniques.Then, why grow algae via extremely intense farming with water raceways, waterborne nutrients plus sunlight and CO2? Why chop down rainforest to grow new acres of palm oil? Why plant and water any agri-based corn or soy or switchgrass crop simply for it's carbon (fuel) content when so much waste carbon is available in ground tires, biomass woody leftovers, garbage, sewer sludge, petroleum coke and even CO2 is readily available for recycling?The refined, finished algae oils only contain hydrogen and carbon, ie: basic hydrocarbon like the best refined petroleum hydrocarbon. Add one Oxygen Atom derived from boiling water into steam and presto – alcohol is produced instead.I think people are missing this basic chemistry involving Oxygen which is so simple. However, I agree, that the "next-gen" focus here in alternative fuels has recently switched massively towards algae. A few short years ago the focus was on compressed hydrogen fuel cells. Last week we were discussing compressed natural gas.There needs to be some paradigm shifts in feedstock processing methods – ie: thermal steam as the front-end process driver. Batch fermentation using acidic enzymes and yeasts or nasty ecoli biobugs isn't the process answer here. RR thank you for your latest book review. And thank you Mark Edwards for your thoughtful and very insightful comments as well. So much for my online college class today. Just my 2¢ worth.Cliff
Comment by Anonymous | June 16, 2009
OT/BTW:Of late there have been a few futurists proclaiming the ned of global trade, as oil will cost too much. I did a little 'net search, and evidently there are plans afoot to build ships propelled by natural gas. Curiously, there are also "CNG" ships that could capture "stranded natural gas" and re-sell it. RR might know what that means. In any event, since the globe looks flush with NG for decades, it is probably premature to sing about the collapse of shipping just yet. Never bet against man's ingenuity in free, well-capitalized societies.
Comment by Benny "Boom, No Doom" Cole | June 16, 2009
Optimist ~ "If it is, it means that you need about 0.93 BTU of diesel fuel for every BTU of corn ethanol you produce. Even before one factors in the natural gas used for distillation."Optimist,Have you seen any farmers ready to give up their diesel-powered ag equipment in exchange for alcohol-powered farm equipment?Corn farming is diesel fuel intensive. Take away that diesel fuel (and the natural gas used for fertilizer and distillation) and there would be no corn ethanol industry.
Comment by Rocket 88 | June 16, 2009
after allowing for distillers grains you will get in the neighborhood of 700 gallons of ethanol per acre. It requires about 5 gallons of diesel to farm an acre of corn.With all due respect, Rufus, those numbers do not sound even remotely realistic. You have a source for those numbers?Probably about 15 inches (1.25 acre ft) of water needed for average irrigated system, so that does come to 400,000 gallons (not 4 million, Rufus) per acre (~2000 gal/bu, or about 700 gal per gallon of ethanol produced, as shown by several peer-reviewed studies this year and last).OxyMaven, you neglected to take into account the water required for the fermentation stage, as well as cooling water, etc. required during distillation.Okay, here's the figures, Anonymous. You get back 40% of your cattle feeding ability in the form of distillers grains. This is Very Important. This means that if you're growing corn for cattle feed (over 60% of corn is used for this purpose) you only have to grow another 0.6 of an acre to get your 420 gallons of ethanol.420/.6 = 700Ethanol opponents Scream when I post this, but, reality is reality.That's pretty shameless manipulation, Rufus!What you neglect to mention is that we need far more oil than DDGS. Exhibit #1: We are already exporting DDGS, apparently having exhausted the local market. More ethanol will further flood the DDGS market, until DDGS have no monetary value. See Exhibit #2: The Glycerine Market for more on that.At the end of the day I remain convinced that converting Food into Fuel is a Crime against Humanity. Regardless of whether the food is corn, edible oils or whatever. Only low value feedstocks, as opposed to low priced feedstocks (So long, and thanks for all the subsidies), should be considered.
Comment by Optimist | June 16, 2009
"What you neglect to mention is that we need far more oil than DDGS. Exhibit #1: We are already exporting DDGS, apparently having exhausted the local market. More ethanol will further flood the DDGS market, until DDGS have no monetary value."You are correct. At full scale ethanol production, there would be piles and piles of DDGS sitting around that no one would want. Ethanol plants would like like old coal mines ~ but instead of slag heaps, the waste piles would be heaps of DDGS.There would be so much DDGS sitting around, that ethanol plants would be forced to burn the stuff as a source of energy just to get rid of it.
Comment by Rocket 88 | June 16, 2009
Ben — a couple of news items….————————————-1.Hyundai Motor Co. will receive pre-launch orders for its first hybrid electric vehicle from today, the company said yesterday.The price of the car will be disclosed before its launch on July 8, it said.Based on the compact sedan Avante, the car is powered by a 1.6-liter liquefied petroleum gas engine and electric motors powered by lithium polymer batteries.—————————– 2.The new Ford Fiesta is now being offered with a factory-installed LPG option in Europe. This is the fourth Ford model that uses this technology and allows the car to run both with unleaded gasoline and LPG, similar to the new Golf Plus Bi-Fuel. The base model Fiesta uses a 1.4-liter gasoline engine. In the conversion, the spare tire is replaced with an additional 42-liter tank for the LPG. This model has an engine output of 92hp. Since the gasoline tank is left untouched, the Fiesta LPG has a total range of 1,200 km when burning the both fuels. Prices start at €15,490, which already includes the €1,990 conversion cost. The conversions are performed at the Ford's brand new facilities.John
Comment by Anonymous | June 16, 2009
Come on, fellas, think it through. If you're making more ethanol you're using more corn. This corn will be replaced by . . . . wait for it. . DDGS. Also, more and more ethanol refineries are moving toward fractionation. This means that the coproducts will be corn oil, and Corn Meal. Corn meal is much more versatile than Distillers Grains. As for "exporting" DDGS: Well, yeah. If you had a product you would want to "build a market," right? And, DDGS have an advantage over corn. They have a higher protein/weight ratio. In other words, if you're a Mexican Dairy it's cheaper to import DDGS than it is to import corn.
Comment by rufus | June 16, 2009
"Corn meal is much more versatile than Distillers Grains." Sure, you can make corn bread and Fritos out of corn meal. Maybe Frito-Lay will buy up the excess. Of course that is corn meal that has had all the starches and sugars sucked out of it to make ethanol, so I'm not sure I'd want to eat a Frito made from ethanol plant waste product. "They have a higher protein/weight ratio. In other words, if you're a Mexican Dairy it's cheaper to import DDGS than it is to import corn."A higher protein/weight ratio because all the sugars, starches, and other nutrients have been sucked out. Perhaps it would be better for those Mexican dairy farmers to just feed their cows grass.
Comment by Rocket 88 | June 17, 2009
I don't know, Rufus. You are counting on a lot of different markets to stay in balance for your scheme to work. Seems highly unlikely that all of it stays in balance…
Comment by Optimist | June 17, 2009
Just for the record, Rufus is still completely wrong on irrigated corn acres. He clings to the 4% figure that is only mentioned passingly in a fairly obscure article by a DoE NREL staffer. There are many USDA statements and data, many of them cited in recent papers on ethanol water use, but Rufus fails to acknowledge that any have any merit. I like ethanol, even corn ethanol, but I like Facts even more. Even the National Corn Growers Association says it was 13% of corn acres in 2006, and they are never one to give an inch on these kinds of parameters.http://ncga.com/files/pdf/TenMyths4-09.pdf (see myth #8)
Comment by OxyMaven | June 18, 2009
Thanks for a highly interesting debate with some obviously knowledgable algae fuel skeptics. I am quite neutral to the whole thing as of yet but would like to get your perspectives on the fact that some rather big companies like BP and Exxon are investing in algae fuel companies?Regards,Editorwww.algaehub.com
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The electron microscopy market is dominated by the scanning electron microscope (SEM), which is widely used in both materials and biological analysis as one of the few ways to reliably image spatial features in the nanoscale realm. As the user base for SEMs expands, even specialized varieties of electron microscopes are undergoing substantial technical transformations.
Low-vacuum scanning electron microscopes (LV-SEM) are a good example of this "democratization". Unlike conventional high-vacuum SEMs, LV instruments can handle wet, oily or non-conductive samples without sample preparation. In low-vacuum mode, pressure can be adjusted in the sample chamber to remove the deleterious effect of electrons that build up as charge as the electron beam is rastered on the sample.
In a conventional SEM, the sample would require treatment to make it conductive so as to remove these electrons. These built-up electrons move unpredictably, causing imaging artifacts in the form of lines or streaks. But for many types of analysis applications, particularly in biology, safety and forensics, altering the sample isn't possible.
The usefulness of LV-SEM has prompted a major revision of JEOL's line of tungsten/lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6) LV-SEMs, which now features the new, and much different, JSM-IT300LV.
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In 2011, JEOL and Nikon launched the NeoScope JCM-6000, a bioscience and industrial benchtop SEM that complemented both optical microscopy and traditional SEMs with its 5- to 15-kV range, SE and BSE imaging and low-vacuum capability. One of the marquee characteristics of this instrument, in addition to small size and low cost, was its unique, stylish appearance that evoked the sort of minimalist design sensibilities of Apple or IKEA.
The firm responsible for the NeoScope's look is led by Kiyoyuki "Ken" Okuyama, a high-profile designer of industrial products, most famously Italian sports cars such as Ferrari and Maserati. Okuyama's KO Design was enlisted again to create the look for the IT300LV. Instead of the compact white "box" of the NeoScope, the predominant hue of the new LV-SEM is black, and in multiple finishes. Materials used include a black metallic chromite and black smoked Lexan, a first for a scientific instrument of this kind.
"JEOL's instruments have always looked a bit utilitarian. This is a radical break of that mindset," says Vern Robertson, SEM technical sales manager at JEOL, Peabody, Mass. The reason for a specialized—and high-end—design is two-fold, he says. First, JEOL's developers wanted the instrument to be appealing to users, some of whom might be using an electron microscope for the first time, or who might be only casually using it as part of a large research group. The attractive look helps put users at ease, and provokes interest and curiosity.
Robertson says the whole design paid attention to this effect: "When we do demonstrations of this SEM to prospective customers, I would say more than 80% of customers look around the instrument, even behind it. When they see there's only one Ethernet cable between the computer and microscope, they see that, yes, they can install it easily. It's less imposing; there's less things they have to do."
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In addition to the high-end design, the visual appeal is aided by an improved iteration of the graphic user interface that helped JEOL's 6010 InTouchScope win an R&D 100 Award in 2012. This analytical SEM was the first to offer the capability of touchscreen control directly at the instrument. The traditional interfacing options, including manual controls and Web-based remote control, were all retained. The touchscreen acted much like a tablet computer and was a positively received control improvement.
The 6010 InTouchScope's touchscreen interface, incorporating pinch, rotate and swipe functions was improved for the IT300LV and updated to feature metallic, 3-D icons and a customizable layout that complement the external design.
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Why does a workhorse LV-SEM get such a design treatment? Robertson says that users of LV-SEMs are often interdisciplinary groups, or the purchasing decisions are made by committees that include physicists, materials experts and biologists.
"Long gone are facilities where individual scientists have their own SEMs. Increasingly these are 'tools' for more casual users, but not limiting the functionality to very high-end users is required," says Robertson. Today's instruments have enough hardware and software safety precautions that both the instrument and the sample are well protected.
With the JSM-6610, JEOL's small and medium-sized customers found, many for the first time, that they could afford to have an in-house SEM with EDS capability. The IT300LV represents the next level up, improving resolution performance to 3 nm at 30 kV and a magnification range of 5 to 300,000X. Like the previous 6610 Series, the vacuum chamber is large to accommodate a wide variety of large and heavy samples.
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"For years, people have done EDS analyses in conjunction with SEM. Typically, they would attach one spectrometer, and that spectrometer was quite small," says Robertson. "They would struggle to get x-ray counts."
Two things have changed in recent years, however. One, users have added multiple types of imaging detectors and spectroscopy on the tungsten microscopes. Two, the EDS manufacturers started making larger, higher sensitivity detectors, increasing from 10 mm2 for EDS to greater than 100 mm2 today.
"The acquisition rate is either 10-fold faster for the same amount of data, or 10 times the data for the same acquisition time, improving both data quality and throughput," says Robertson.
One solution is to increase the number of attachment points for imaging and spectrometry, which JEOL has done for the IT300LV. The instrument has multiple ports for EDS, electron backscatter diffraction, cathodoluminescence detectors, wavelength dispersive x-ray spectrometers, chamberscopes or heating/cooling substages.
But this wasn't the only change during the redesign of the chamber. A major limitation of x-ray spectroscopy is its line-of-sight; because x-rays don't have a mass or charge, they can't usefully resolve highly textured surfaces and produce significant shadowing. In recognition of this effect, JEOL's engineers revised the chamber design so EDS detectors could be placed 180 degrees apart from each other. This has the effect, says Robertson, "of removing the topography on less than 'ideal' samples, which comprise most of the real-world samples." Another change for the IT300LV, and one that may appeal most to the traditional microscopist, is the 650-Pa pressure range, which is more than twice that of preceding models.
According to Robertson, the audience for this type of low-pressure microscope is niche relative to general analytical SEMs; but the level of interest in analyzing wet samples, oily samples and samples of unusual size or shape, will continue to grow. Strong growth in areas such as food and plant analysis, petroleum or biofuels studies and biofilms has prompted JEOL to make an effort to improve the pressure range.
The design change allowing increased pressure has been to reroute the pumping mechanism through electron optics infrastructure. This allows extra pumping to prevent gas from migrating up the column where the gun is located.
"This helps elevate the pressure, and it's the first design we've done in that regime," says Robertson. Other vendors have adopted a similar design for certain instruments, and this is still typically focused on a small, niche market.
Studies that can benefit from this type of pumping approach include soft samples. One recent example, says Robertson, is an energy systems company that wanted to examine a boiler tube and determine whether insects were contributing to corrosion. Another example where this is useful is in the biofuels market where scientists closely examine changes in algae.


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This month is my month of 20 mile long runs. I've done two of them and the 3rd one is scheduled for the 28th, on the marathon course I'm running as my second marathon.My thought is that by familiarizing myself with the course, the second marathon of the two in one weekend won't seem like never ending death crawl.
The issue I'm dealing with is that I'm running a half marathon this weekend. I had originally planned on just running it as a training run and enjoying the beer after. Lately I've had the desire to put some effort into the run and see where my speed takes me. I haven't done any speed work to speak of, but my endurance allows me to hold on to the pace for a while.
My normal running pattern for a week this month has been 7 miles on Monday, 10 miles on Wed., 4 or 5 on Friday, and 20 miles on Saturday. I'm debating on how much to 'taper' for the half marathon. I ran 5 today, and am debating on running 10, 7 or 5 on Wed. I'm sure my legs would appreciate running 5, but my head tells me to run at least 7. What does the Loop think? I've got just over a month until my double marathon weekend so I don't think it really matters about mileage any more.
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When it comes to naming a starting quarterback, Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin admits he's pretty far behind schedule. Then he grins.
Asked after practice on Thursday when he wants to name a starter at quarterback, Kiffin's response was immediate.
"Six months ago," Kiffin said with a smile. "That's what I would have liked. As soon as it shows, it shows."
Saturday afternoon will be the biggest test so far to see who shows up. And the most realistic one, too.
The Vols, who have tried to simulate game conditions during their previous two fall camp scrimmages, are going a little further Saturday.
First, they'll walk to the stadium, taking the same route they'll use for Vol Walk before the Western Kentucky game on Sept. 5. The pregame warm-ups and music will be the same. So will the amount of time the team spends in the locker room. They'll even begin the proceedings at 12:21 p.m., the same time as kickoff for Western Kentucky.
Every aspect of Saturday's scrimmage will be the same as it will for the season opener. Well, almost every aspect.
"Everything will be the same, except we'll be short about 100,000 (fans) and won't have a band," Kiffin quipped.
The game day simulation will extend to the scrimmage itself.
And while Saturday's scrimmage is vital for the entire roster, the game day effects will definitely be felt most by the quarterbacks.
Kiffin, a presence in the offensive huddle throughout spring practice and fall camp, will be on the sidelines Saturday, and UT's assistants will either be on the sidelines or the press box. And instead of Kiffin's voice calling plays in the huddle, it'll be quarterbacks Nick Stephens' and Jonathan Crompton's show to run between the lines.
The most important aspect of Saturday's performance for the quarterbacks will be how they manage game conditions. Both Crompton and Stephens started six games last season, but they'll be running an entirely new system on Saturday.
"They have to manage the huddle, and they have to manage the offense," Kiffin said. "That will be a challenge for them, doing it without any assistance. Making sure everybody's lined up, making sure the call's right, getting the wristbands flipped. This is a pretty big terminology offense. In the end a lot of times, the decision has been made on who's the smarter quarterback, and (who) makes the smarter decision ends up beating the guy out. It'll be great to see Saturday." To prepare for Saturday's scrimmage, Stephens said that Kiffin has been moving away from the huddle some in practice and letting the quarterbacks announce the play in the huddle. The Vols have also starting using signals as well.
"It's not going to be a real drastic change," Stephens said. "The signals, we're coming up with on our own, and I think that's going to help us remember them. I think we've got them down already. Once we get the signals rolling, it won't take long. We're used to learning signals and stuff. It won't be that big of a change for us." But it will still be a big day.
Kiffin said Thursday that he wants to have a starter by game week, which gives Stephens and Crompton a week at most from Saturday's scrimmage to distinguish themselves.
For Stephens, at least, he'll concern himself with the starting job after Saturday.
"I've got to keep doing what I'm doing. I had a pretty good day last Saturday and the Saturday before," Stephens said. "Once you start thinking about it too much, that's when you're going to try to do too much and force balls and not play well. "I'm going to worry what's going to happen after the scrimmage. There's no point in doing it now. They haven't said when they're going to name a starter. I think both of us are just trying to play football right now, and whatever happens, happens."
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Scott Haggerty Accused of Public Corruption
Original post made by Corruption, Another Pleasanton neighborhood, on May 8, 2013
Among the allegations:
-- "misuse of his position to extort personal, interest-free loans," from him and from others, "including individuals who engaged in business dealings with the county."
--"misuse of his public position to receive kickbacks and benefits," including abusing his office "to enhance his profits on the sales, purchases and leases of his homes."
-- regarding Staples Ranch -- "in some land purchases, Wong has agreed to purchase county property directly through Mr. Haggerty, with Mr. Haggerty controlling the entire negotiation independent of any other county authority. Having engaged in multiple deals with Wong, Mr. Haggerty requested Mr. Wong return the favor when he needed to sell his personal residence but was unable to sell it in the time frame or price range he desired. Upon Mr. Haggerty's request and insistence, Mr. Wong purchased Mr. Haggerty's personal residence immediately at Mr. Haggerty's asking price, despite this price failing to attract any independent purchasers."
--He claims Haggerty Other used his position as county supervisor to extort a $25,000 donation from Chevron to the Livermore Film Commission," on which Haggerty was a board member.
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That's politics. That is what is is bought --- I mean elected -- to do.
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Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi last night threatened retaliatory attacks against passenger aircraft in the Mediterranean if foreign countries made air strikes against his country.
The warning came as the United States said it would back a United Nations resolution for military action to protect civilians against Gaddafi's forces.
After deliberating for weeks over what to do about Gaddafi, the UN acted with sudden speed and passed the resolution as it became clear the dictator would try to finally put a brutal end to the month-long rebellion against his rule, especially in the opposition-held city of Benghazi.
Early this morning (New Zealand time), British Prime Minister David Cameron told the House of Commons that Royal Air Force Tornados and Typhoons were being readied to enforce a no-fly zone over Libya.
He said the decision to deploy the armed forces was based on three considerations - there was a demonstrable need, there was regional support from the Arab League and others, and the action was legal.
He said the aim was not to choose the government of Libya but to save lives by preventing "a brutal attack using air, land and sea forces" by Gaddafi on Benghazi.
France and Nato were holding emergency meetings early this morning.
At the same time, reports were coming in that Gaddafi forces had stepped up their attack on the rebel-held city of Misrata, 200km east of the capital Tripoli and across the Gulf of Sirte from Benghazi.
"They are bombing everything, the houses, the centre of the city," insurgent Saadoun told Reuters by phone from the city, the last big rebel stronghold in western Libya.
"It's the heaviest bombardment I have seen so far."
The sound of heavy artillery could be heard in the background.
The attack began hours after the UN Security Council passed a resolution endorsing the no-fly zone and military attacks on Gaddafi's forces to protect civilians.
"We believe they [Gaddafi's forces] want to enter the city at any cost before the international community starts implementing the UN resolution," said Saadoun.
"On behalf of all the people of Misrata, the women, the children and the elderly, we call on the international community to do something before it's too late. They must act now," he said.
Another insurgent who gave his name only as Mohammed said government tanks were advancing towards the centre of the city and the rebels were trying to resist them.
The UN Security Council passed its resolution after Gaddafi urged rebels in Benghazi to surrender, and backed his call with threats.
"We are coming tonight ... There won't be any mercy."
Speaking in an interview with Portuguese television broadcast just before the UN vote, Gaddafi pledged to respond harshly to UN-sponsored attacks.
"If the world is crazy," he said, "we will be crazy, too."
The Security Council responded with the resolution authorising the world to take "all necessary measures" to prevent attacks on Libyan civilians by the Gaddafi regime.
It imposed the no-fly zone over Libya and authorised force short of a ground offensive to protect the people from the dictator's forces.
The Libyan Defence Ministry delivered its warning of retaliation as it became clear the UN resolution would be passed with Americansupport.
"Any foreign military act against Libya will expose all air and maritime traffic in the Mediterranean Sea to danger, and civilian and military [facilities] will become targets of Libya's counter-attack," it said.
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No he didn't touch that. VERY tough play...and kinda unfair to think he "should've" had it.
No he didn't touch that. VERY tough play...and kinda unfair to think he "should've" had it.
Bailey just overthrew that next to last pitch. I don't send him out for the ninth.
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Nice job Homer.
"Since I've been with the Reds in 1989, we've never had a farm system this loaded," Bowden said. "If we were the New York Yankees and had unlimited dollars, we could have traded for Colon, (Jeff) Weaver, Rolen, (Cliff) Floyd, (Kenny) Rogers and Finley and gotten them all -- and still held onto our top five prospects. That's an amazing statement."
Excellent job Homer
Yeah, I think that's enough.
Good job Homer.
Luckily Gomez takes a humongous hack at a 2-0 pitch and hits it straight up. Any time you get down on Drew Stubbs... there's a guy like Gomez to make him look like Joe DiMaggio.
I think Homer is done. Might have gone the distance with an easy eighth but now we'll see the pen.
I'd guess Aroldis. He had Monday and Wednesday off, pitched Tues and Thurs. Pitch him tonight. Rest him tomorrow.
Homer's pitch count is high enough to keep him in the dugout. No sense pushing it.
Homer 112 pitches, now with a 3.74 ERA.
Excellent outing.
No I'd sit Aroldis tonight and use someone else.
"I can still throw it in the 70s. And I can throw it in the 80s if I don't want to comb my hair for a week." - Bob Feller at age 66 when asked how hard he could throw.
I would rather not use Aroldis, he has been pitching a lot since the break and this lineup is loaded with righties. Get him ready, but try to let Arredondo get the save.
Fantastic start for Homer. I've said this before, I don't care if he gives up a few solo shots or not, if he can limit the walks and keep the ball in the lower part of the strike zone...he'll be VERY good. If he can keep a 2:1 ratio in strikes to balls, he'll have success. Tonight, 78 strikes, 34 balls. That's fantastic.
Gotta wonder if Stubbs knows the strike zone.
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By Richi Jennings. October 8, 2010.
Is Microsoft about to buy Adobe, or are they just dreaming up a Barney announcement? Their respective CEOs have been spotted getting close; what could Steve Ballmer and Shantanu Narayen possibly have to talk about? Are they just their enemies' enemies, or is there some deeper meaning behind the talks? In IT Blogwatch, bloggers think the unthinkable.
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment. Not to mention IE6 GPF oops...
Gavin Clarke reports:
Wall St was excited to learn that Adobe's Shantanu Narayen and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer had convened a secret, hour-long meeting. ... Topics on the table were ... how the pair could team up to battle ... Apple's control of the mobile phone market.
...A possible acquisition of Adobe by Microsoft was also discussed. ... There's long been talk of a Microsoft purchase of Adobe, but ... there are too many anticompetitive hurdles blocking that deal a least on the PC.
Nick Bilton wonders what they talked about:
[We] learned about the meetings through employees and consultants to the companies ... all of whom asked not to be identified because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
...Randal C. Picker, a professor of law of the University of Chicago, said ... that the technology landscape was drastically different now and that an acquisition or partnership of this nature would likely not be halted.
And was Nick Farrell builded here?
The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell on earth yarn. ... The word on the street is that "boss of the year" and serial chair chucker Steve "sounds of silence" Ballmer has been wining and dining ... Narayen.You can take the information with a grain of salt because the rumour comes from the Apple press office, or New York Times as it is sometimes called.
Chris Nerney looks back:
Remember the beating shares of software maker Adobe Systems took last month after it gave a revenue warning? ... Shares tumbled from about $33 to below $26. ... [But] this afternoon ... [the] stock soared as high as $30 per share on rumors that ... Ballmer recently dropped by ... to chat with ... Narayen.
...Shares actually had hit a 52-week low Thursday of 25.45 before responding to the Microsoft rumor.
But Preston Gralla thinks "an acquisition makes no sense":
It won't help fight Apple. ... After all, Flash runs on Android 2.2 phones, and Google didn't have to buy Adobe in order to make that happen.
It won't help fight Google. ... Adobe has no special expertise in search, Web applications, or online ad delivery. Microsoft needs to be worried [about] Google Docs ... but Adobe is no help there, either.
...It will be a major distraction. ... Combining two large companies with different cultures takes a major effort. ... Right now, Microsoft executives need to focus on competing against Google and Apple.
And Shira Ovide thinks Google would be a better partner for Adobe:
The search giant has established itself as the counterweight to Apples smart phone dominance. Microsoft, by contrast, has gone nowhere fast. ... The lions share of Adobe revenue comes from software like Photoshop and Dreamweaver. ... Googles engineering heft could help [here].
...On the flip side, Adobes Omniture, which tracks when people click on online ads, can help Google with its ambitions to be the biggest seller of ... search ads online ... [and] banner ads on computers and phones.
Meanwhile, Michael Collado notes the pachyderm in the place:
Adobe and Microsoft are somewhat rivals. Most notably with the Flash versus Silverlight battle that is currently taking place.
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