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Penn-Trafford rallies to support rival after crisis
Franklin Regional hasn't felt like much of a rival to Penn-Trafford over the past week.
The usual, healthy competition between neighboring school districts vanished in the moments immediately after the April 9 stabbing attack inside Franklin Regional Senior High School.
P-T administrators rushed to help Franklin officials reunite unharmed students with their parents; P-T students traded in their green-and-gold garb on April 11 to wear Franklin's blue and gold in support.
Penn-Trafford School Board members requested a moment of silence at their meeting Monday night for the 21 injured students and one security guard. Four still were hospitalized -- including three in critical condition -- as of Monday night.
"I know they're improving, but they have a long way to go," school board President Toni Ising said.
P-T students, who signed a banner saying they stood with Franklin students, are arranging a sale of FR-themed T-shirts as a fundraiser for the victims.
Penn-Trafford has been one of several districts in the region to step up in some way or another, Franklin Regional officials said.
"I'm very appreciative of their support and assistance, and look forward to having continued, as promised, support and assistance as we move through and deal with this tragedy as a community and as a school family," Franklin Regional Superintendent Jamie Piraino said.
Staff Writer Renatta Signorini contributed to this story.
Chris Foreman is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-856-7400, ext. 8671, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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It seemed like a good idea at the time.
With the LA Galaxy having come off two lucrative MLS cup wins at home, and with the memory of very poorly attended and cold 2010 MLS Cup in Toronto (officially listed as a sellout despite thousands of empty seats clearly visible) fresh in their minds, MLS decided that future cups would no longer be played at a neutral venue designated beforehand. Instead, the league's marquee match would be hosted by the club with the better record of the final pairing.
There are some sound reasons for making such a decision. It does reward teams for regular season success. It also ensures that home fans can see their team play in a championship game easily, which hopefully leads to fewer empty seats (MLS cup tickets were being sold on the secondary market for more than $350 last week)
It's one thing to reward teams for good play in the regular season. But to allow the possibility of an MLS cup to be hosted in December in more than half of the league's markets – Kansas City included – is inviting disaster. The pitch condition (frozen) was very poor, despite an undersoil heating system that clearly wasn't up to 20 degree temps. The temperature at kickoff made much of the core of the game that is soccer difficult to play.
Early on Kansas City took the match to Salt Lake with Graham Zusi's pace down the left side of the pitch clearly giving Beltran and Schuler fits. After about 20 minutes, the RSL defenders had worked out their communication issues and managed to more or less contain the winger thereafter.
While creating chances using a frozen ball on a frozen pitch was difficult, KC did move it around well early on – only to have their finishing let them down. Nagamura misfired from 12yds just 4 minutes in. Defensively KC's plan seemed to centre around taking down Robbie Findley whenever and wherever they could. Eventual MVP Collin hacked him down in the 22nd, 35th and 69th minute in pretty much identical fashion. Curiously, referee Grajeda found only one (35′) of these to be worthy of yellow card.
In the 29th minute, KC goalkeeper Neilsen misplayed a ball in the air allowing Finley a clear chance at a near open goal. The Salt Lake attacker inexplicably struck the woodwork on the near side.
Game analyst Alejandro Moreno had the most apt comment possible on the game at halftime, saying the play had been "very sloppy, but you have to take your chances".
No-one had done so, nor did they look likely to.
Just three minutes after the break CJ Sapong broke free in the box and shinned a sitter straight over the bar from 6 yds out. Four minutes later Saborio brought down an inspired Beckerman pass just outside the KC area and hammered it into the lower right corner past Neilsen. Replays showed he had controlled the ball with the uppermost portion of his left arm, but Grajeda rightly allowed the goal to stand.
Salt Lake seemed genuinely buoyed by this success and had perhaps their best spell for the next 15-20 minutes. Findley was fouled by Collin again in the 69th while going past the defender just outside the 18yd box. With Findley arguably having only Neilsen left to beat, there were thoughts a card might be warranted. Referee Grajeda awarded only a free kick. In a match in which creating scoring chances was always going to be difficult given the conditions, Grajeda's laissez faire approach was perhaps misguided. While no-one wants the match official to "be the show", the rules do need to be enforced less the game descend into farce.
The moment of the match for Salt Lake perhaps came in the 73rd minute. Findley again made a good run down the left and, with RSL heading in 3 on 3, he pulled up and centred to Morales 20 yards out. The Argentine chipped a nicely weighted ball toward the wide open left side of Neilsen's net. The keeper, clearly beaten, looked away in disgust. Morales' placed shot landed just at the base of the post and rebounded across the face of the goal to the keeper. Salt Lake's chance to put the game away had gone.
Just three minutes later the scale of the missed opportunity would be revealed. Myers drove a ball into the box from the right side. Sapong threw himself clumsily into Schuler pushing him away from the ball, which Borchers then cleared into touch. Sapong's effort was not unlike two barging tackles that Grajeda had carded players for earlier in the match. This time, he awarded a corner kick to Kansas City rather than a goal kick to Salt Lake.
From tiny acorns do mighty oaks grow. Off Zusi's fine corner, Aurelien Collin launched himself into a perfect header at the edge of the six yard box, depositing it neatly into the far corner of goal. 1-1. Perhaps the corner should never have been given. Perhaps Collin should already have been sent off for (3) cautionable offenses. Nonetheless, it was a fine goal and arguably the one true moment of offensive quality KC mustered.
RSL nearly snatched the win in the 84th when Saborio hammered a ball from the edge of the six yard box. It was labelled for the bottom right corner and looked certain to beat an out of position Neilsen. Only a fine block from fullback Seth Sinovic preserved the draw.
With both teams very tired, extra time was more or less a non-event. In the 103rd minute Schuler and Sapong clashed again in the box with Sapong going to ground. Grajeda again chose not to intervene. Feilhaber – who had spent much of regulation yelling at his own teammates and diving, kept yapping to the ref about the contact and eventually earned a deserved yellow card. The Schuler/Sapong battle was a keen one to watch and both players are to be commended for playing hard but fair for the full 120 minutes. In the 105th Saborio appeared to have scored on a fine cross from Findley, but the linesman's flag was up. Replays showed it had been very close, but the official's call was absolutely correct.
So, for the third time in the last 8 Cup finals, the result would be decided by penalty kicks (6 of the last 9 have gone to AET!). Perhaps the players were just dog tired, perhaps the 20 degree weather made bending the ball impossible. Through 20 penalty kicks, only 13 were converted. Of those 13, perhaps half were attempts of reasonable quality. Ultimately, the unfortunate Lovel Palmer took the final kick. He beat Jimmy Neilsen, but the ball clattered off the underside of the crossbar and bounced out, making Kansas City champions.
In truth, neutral observers would have to credit KC as the better team on the balance of play. But whenever a Cup final ends with central defenders taking penalty kicks, an epic competitive failure has occured. It was a messy, chippy, badly officiated, uninspiring game and an awful advertisement for a league that portrays itself as soccer's elite level in North America. Outside of Kansas City itself, it's hard to imagine even one fan was converted to the MLS brand by what was on display.
Surely the showpiece event of the MLS season should not be hampered by conditions like those seen on Saturday?
Do you really think any "neutral observers" would have wasted 2 hours of their lives watching that garbage? 🙂
As a non observer of the MLS, glad I missed it.
Why not hold the finals at designated warm weather cities, or change your schedule to Europes.
Let me add although I may live here, I'm against having the Suoer Bowl in NJ. The stadium is just a larger slab of concrete (somehow cost more than Dallas), and the weather will be unpredictable. While playing football in the snow may look great, and I would enjoy that, but one played in freezing windy weather won't be. This isn't old time football, where defenses ruled the game. This is now a passing league, which will mean both finalists will be handicapped.
Same holds true in futebol. It's a game of feel and touch and movement. Freezing temperatures, surfaces, ball and players hamper all that. I know there's a lot of angst over Amazon humidity, but the pitch will be fine and conditions playable. Qatar is heat in a whole different context.
What I'm saying, is why not put your signature game in the best possible light.
On a side note, the US match in the snow should have been called off. If the score was reversed, I'm sure pundits and Klingsmann would be screaming.
Juve's match yesterday was also a joke. I understand harsh conditions, but chunks if the field were ripped off while clearing the hale. Push the game back to Tuesday or Wednesday. Not a Juve fan.
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Shelby County can point with pride to examples of its generous helping hands – with every month seeming to bring new opportunities to raise funds, raise awareness for a cause, or help a local resident in need – and now organizers of Project Graduation are hoping to tap into that willingness to help.
Superintendent James Neihof could not discuss test scores during the Shelby County Board of Education meeting on Thursday, so he brought up another hot-button issue: school redistricting.
Based on next year's opening of Southside Elementary, Neihof has had the district administration working on a plan to accommodate the expanded size of the new school. Its focus was to create feeder schools, marking three elementary schools to feed each middle school and in turn each high school.
The Kentucky Association of Counties put on a presentation for 3rd and 4th graders at Heritage Elementary Wednesday that included a Kentucky artist and Shelby County officials that spoke to the children about what they do and their roles in government.
There were several smiling faces throughout Shelby County Public Schools on Wednesday morning when the district received its Unbridled Learning Accountability System report card.
The district saw its ranking in Kentucky improve by 21 percentile points, up to the 77th percent out of 174 school districts, earning it the classification of Proficient and Progressing.
The Shelby County Board of Education will put together the final budget for the 2013-14 school year during Thursday's regular board meeting at 7 p.m. at the district's offices, 1155 Main St. in Shelbyville.
After voting in August to maintain the personal property and real estate tax rate at 71.5 cents per $100 of assessed value, the board will look to approve the final numbers in its working budget.
By maintaining the same rate as last year, district officials estimate that general fund will be reduced by nearly $741,000.
In a darkened auditorium Wednesday at Collins High School, former Gov. Martha Layne Collins sat down with Shelby County Public Schools Public Relations Coordinator Ryan Allan for a question-and-answer session to help enlighten the school's senior class.
The assembly – which was handled in a style akin to the classic Inside the Actors Studio – featured Collins informally answering questions from Allan as the students provided a backdrop of laughs and clapping.
Kerry Fannin, director of secondary schools, presented a past, present and future of College and Career Readiness to the Shelby County Board of Education during Thursday's meeting at Painted Stone Elementary.
The presentation was designed as a prep for the board on what the Strategic Leadership Committee will be tackling and for how the district can prepare to reach its BIG Goal of having all students graduate College and Career Ready by 2016.
The Shelby County Board of Education will take a look at its past, present and future Career Readiness.
Kerry Fannin, who has returned to the district as director of secondary schools, will have a report on the topic for the board at its meeting Thursday at Painted Stone Elementary School, 150 Warriors Way in Shelbyville.
The Shelby County Board of Education on Thursday took an action that it hasn't taken in years, voting unanimously to keep the district's personal property and real estate taxes at 71.5 cents per $100 of assessed value.
By maintaining the same rate as last year, the district officials estimate that general fund will take a revenue decrease of more than $740,000, but Superintendent James Neihof said the district could withstand that this year.
Shelby County Public Schools is preparing to change the face of learning in the county.
By February, Superintendent James Neihof said he hopes to have a recommendation in place to alter the vision of the school district and the board for the next five years.
In a report during Thursday's school board meeting, Neihof announced his plans for a Strategic Leadership Committee. The committee will be comprised of about 40 teachers, 15 administrators, 10 parents, six students and two board members.
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Figures published on the GLA website show the London Ambulance Service went to nine knife injuries in January.
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Most people today know Quack Grass, Elymus repens, today as a pest, a hard-to-get-rid of weed found in corn and soybean crops, persistent and resistant to a variety of herbicides. To the Internet population Quack Grass is an herbal medicinal employed as a diuretic. Forgotten between reduced agricultural cash flow and increased urinary flow is Quack Grass as food.
In Edible Wild Plants of Eastern North America, Merritt Fernald, the grand botanical man of his day, wrote: The ubiquitous Quack-Grass or Witch-Grass (with scores of other colloquial names) is usually known merely as a persistent and obnoxious weed, most difficult to eradicate and completely eating up the good of the land; but it was shown in the 18th century that it might be eaten if one cared to utilize it. Thus the British botanist, Withering, wrote: 'the roots dried and ground to meal have been used to make bread in years of scarcity.'"
Flour from the roots, not exactly what one might expect to learn. Daniel Moerman in his Native American Food Plants mentions seven species used as grain by the natives including E. repens. Also listed were: Elymus canadensis var. candensis, Elymus elymoides, Elymus glaucus, Elymus glaucus ssp. glaucus, Elymus multisetus, and Elymus sibiricus. Dr. Couplan in his Encyclopedia of Edible Plants of North America adds Elymus condensatus, Elymus triticoides, and Elymus canadensis (without the variation.) In Cornucopia II E. canadensis is reported as an important food for the Paiute. It also reports E. triticoides were parched and ground into a fine meal called pinole. It was eaten as porridge or in cakes and drinks. The book also warns that hair on the grain must be singed off before it is used as food. Quack Grass is not a large producer of grain, perhaps only 25 seeds per plant. The starchy root is more attractive from a foraging point of view.
Also called Couch Grass, Quitch, Twitch, Witchgrass and a couple of dozen other common names, it came to North America from Europe around 1818. Botanically, as one might expect, it has has several names: Agropyon repens, Elytrigia repens, Elytrigia vaillantiana, Triticul repens, Triticum vaillantianum, and most recently Elymus repens (EL-ih-mus REP-inns) which understandably translated means Low Growing Wild Millet. Elymus is Dead Latin's version of an old Greek word for Millet (Elymos) which comes from Elgo which means to cover referring to the lemma and palea which tightly cover the seed. In botanical English it is often referred to as Wild Rye. In Greek mythology Elymus is also the natural son of Anchises and brother of Eryx; one of the Trojans who fled from Troy to Sicily. With the help of Aeneas they built the cities of Aegesta and Elymé. The Trojans who settled in that part of Sicily called themselves Elymi, after Elymus. He was also a man from Lemnos killed by Gorge when the women there killed all the males on the island. I know a family from Lemnos. So the he's and she's must have patched things up since then.
Quack Grass seed is some 12% oil and has 3 to 8% triticin, which is related to inulin which might make it suitable for diabetic use. On digestion triticin releases fructose; mucilage (10%); saponins; sugar alcohols (mannitol, inositol, 2% to 3%); essential oil with polyacetylenes or carvone (0.01% to 0.05%); small amounts of vanilloside (vanillin monoglucoside), vanillin, and phenolcarboxylic acids; silicic acid; and silicates.
Green Deane's "Itemized" Plant Profile: Quack Grass
IDENTIFICATION: Elymus repens: A perennial grass from rhizomes reaching 3 1/2 feet in height. Leaves, 1 1/2 to 12 inches long, very skinny, under 1/2 inch. Blue green leaves may or may not have hairs on the upper surfaces, lower leaf hairless. Short membranous ligule, narrow auricles that clasp the sheath, the quickest and easiest element of identification. Seed head a long, narrow spike with many individual spikelets arranged in two rows along the stem. Spikes 2 to 8 inches long, seeds with awns. To separate it from other grasses look for the auricles, rhizomes, and a long, narrow spike for a seed head.
TIME OF YEAR: Can flower spring to fall.
ENVIRONMENT: Crop fields, turfgrass, lawns, nurseries, moist meadows, urban landscapes, disturbed areas.
METHOD OF PREPARATION: Grain winnowed, singed, used for flour porridge. Roots dried and ground, used like flour.
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England coach Steve McNamara has been linked to a job with Sydney Roosters next season.
McNamara, who oversaw a new era of professionalism in England's preparation for the World Cup, is also believed to be considering an offer to join the coaching staff of Bath rugby union club.
However, Fairfax Media has been told that the Roosters are another genuine option for McNamara and he has previously expressed a desire to work in Australia.
After losing Paul Green to North Queensland, the Roosters have appointed Adam Hartigan as a part time under 20s coach and are looking for someone to oversee the NYC team and work with Jason Taylor and Craig Fitzgibbon as an assistant to Trent Robinson.
McNamara, who enjoys a close relationship with former Roosters mentor Brian Smith, was under consideration at one stage to coach Parramatta next season.
During his three year tenure with England, McNamara organised regular camps for the players at Loughborough University, an altitude training camp in South Africa and was involved in the establishment of an annual Origin type fixture against The Exiles.
He also regularly travelled to Australia to meet the growing number of English players in the NRL and has developed relationships with journalists in Australia.
However, his relationship with the British media soured during the World Cup when he refused to discuss disciplinary issues within the team which led to Gareth Hock being sacked, James Graham stood down for a match and Zac Hardaker leaving the camp.
Graham, Sam Burgess and England captain Kevin Sinfield were all vocal in their support for McNamara after last Saturday's heartbreaking 20-18 final minute loss to New Zealand in the semi-final at Wembley Stadium.
Sinfield this week broke his silence on the disciplinary issues to praise McNamara in a column in the UK Daily Telegraph newspaper and revealed the coach had tried to protect the players from the media.
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Gating very complex sounds like fuzz and delay is always a challenge. The Loop Gate provides a loop switch with a built-in "perfect" audio gate (high headroom, no distortion, no hiss) that lets you set up a loop of pedals you can switch in and out of your signal path at will, but you have a couple of really fun options to control that loop. Let's say you want to play a bunch of really interesting noise textures into the loop to create a giant swath of sound with echos and fuzz and perhaps a Lo-fi Loop Junky repeating some swirly, woozy phrase, and you want it to fade away perfectly when you mute the strings on your guitar. This can do that. It looks at your guitar signal to see when you want to gate.
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BUT WAIT, that's not all. There's a small switch to select "chop" mode, which holds the gate open for a specific time set by the release knob, and suddenly slams shut. It won't open again until the same period of silence has elapsed, so you can get a very interesting effect by letting your guitar sustain, where the loop gate opens and releases a blast of sound in a rhythmic pattern just like a tremolo except for one thing... you can stop playing at any moment and start again, and it will reset the start point. This is very useful for locking up the timing with the band, if you're trying to get the tempo just right. Say the band has drifted back in tempo, and your release setting is now a little too fast. As soon as your pulses begin to creep ahead of the beat, just stop playing for a moment (say, just before 1) and start in time, and it will start with you the moment you play. Being able to bring in a whole loop of pedals with a crazy sound that is being pulsed at a precise rate and suddenly make it disappear by hitting one bypass button is very very handy for creating intense textures that need to come and go without having a switching system. While the loop is disengaged, of course, you can switch on and off pedals in the loop at your leisure, and by switching off the gate (there's a stomp switch for that), use the bypass switch to bring the loop back in at any time. One more feature added to the LOOP GATE. Cross Fade:: you can set the gate to close slowly(or at any rate you choose), so the volume of the effects loop will come down as your input signal comes up at the same rate. Like having a mix engineer in your pedal!
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We accidentally did that thing where instead of checking the fridge before running to Costco, we just threw things into the cart willy nilly. It wasn't until we came home with a six pack of red bell peppers that we realized we already had a drawer full of them.
We cooked up a bunch fajita style for easy weekday lunches (Bill calls it his "Chipotle meal" and saves $10 a day when he remembers to pack it) but we still had a laughable amount of peppers. That's why I decided to make stuffed peppers for dinner tonight.
The kids are rice, peas and cheddar cheese. Ours are quinoa, kale, tomatoes, mint and feta. They're all definitely edible; I just hope they'll be a hit.
Because Liam already cried at lunch today and I really don't want to sit through any more mealtime drama. I suppose it's my fault - serving him a burrito like a damn monster - but the more I learn about nutrition, the more I realize what a disservice I've done letting him eat mostly what he likes for the past eight years.
Proper nutrition is so important. Especially for growing kids. I just want to kick myself for all the times I've let him win the food fight and cringe when I think about all the sugar and junk he still eats on the daily. But I'll give myself a pass. Because compared to how he used to be? He's a healthy eating machine!
A few weeks ago, our neighbor invited us to the soft opening of his new restaurant, Adele's. Normally we wouldn't have brought the boys - because anywhere without a predictable kids' menu is just asking for trouble - but they were really excited and we thought it would be fun to share the experience with them.
Turns out, we were right. Despite the very grown up menu, both boys found something they wanted to order (and did so with lovely manners, I might add). Liam chose the gnocchi which we told him was like fancy pasta and when it arrived covered in pesto and tomatoes and other deliciousness, he didn't seem nearly as freaked out as I thought he would be.
"Is this my gnocchi?"
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The high resolution and unique coverage of these data will allow for new scientific investigation of a variety of remotely-sensed features. For example, flow features or flowstripes are readily visible in the image mosaic, and may be mapped to determine the drainage paths and extents of outlet glaciers. The undulation field, such as the 1 to 20 km scale relief caused by the flow of thick ice over irregular bedrock, is also shown in detail. However, its appearance in these radar backscatter data results from a combination of the actual surface shape and variations in snow characteristics. In many areas, the effect of snow structure on radar backscatter exceeds the effect of surface shape.
Additionally, field camps and features such as runways and heavily traveled snowmobile tracks can be identified, providing an opportunity to locate former field sites and to check image geolocation accuracy. See Jezek (1999) for further description of features revealed in the mosaic.
The interactions between radar signals and the ground surface depend upon many factors, including the density and dielectric properties of surface materials, vegetation cover, surface roughness at the scale of the signal's wavelength, topographic variations and the instrument's look angle, and signal polarization. The resolution of the image product is especially affected by signal strength, chirp pulse length and bandwidth, return signal integration time, and the time between pulse transmissions.
For more information, see the following:
For general information about the mathematical derivations and theories behind SAR processing algorithms, see Coert Olmsted's Alaska Satellite Facility Scientific SAR User's Guide or other SAR manuals listed in the References Section.
The ASF SAR Processing Algorithm Document describes processing of the raw signal data.
Tiles were created from blocks at the Byrd Polar Research Center (The Ohio State University) using the RADARSAT Antarctic Mapping System (RAMS), developed by Vexcel Corporation. Swath data were converted to georegistered blocks, and blocks to tiles, in the following steps:
NSIDC's RAMP Basics page offers a description of the tiling scheme and other graphical information about blocks and tiling.
The first step in creating the mosaic was to convert the RAMS output -- 100 m resolution 16 bit data -- into 8 bit data, in order to resolve disk space issues and processing time problems associated with 16 bit data. The following equation was used to convert 16 bit RAMS output into 8 bit unsigned integer:
DN = 7 * [10 * log(RN2) - 40]
where RN represents the 16 bit RAMS DN number and DN represents the 8 bit DN number.
Next, the 8 bit generic binary data were geocoded in a conversion from ERDAS Imagine to ARC/INFO GRID files. ARC/INFO GRID files were then merged to create the mosaic.
The bilinear interpolation method was utilized in an ARC/INFO environment to convert 100 m resolution data into 125 m data. The final mosaic image is available in generic binary format.
The images in this data collection are visual representations of variations across Antarctica in radar backscatter qualities, which can be described by the variable termed sigma-naught, the radar backscatter coefficient. Sigma-naught can be defined as a quantification of the ability of an object to scatter the incident microwave radiation back toward the radar instrument.
ASF defines sigma-naught as:
10 * log{a2 * [d - (a1 * n(r))] + a3}
d = pixel intensity (data number)
a1 = noise scaling
a2 = linear conversion
a3 = offset
n(r) = noise as a function of range.
See the Collection Contents section for more information.
Data are available via FTP.
Each 25 m tile is packaged with a variety of software tools. These C programs contain documentation on compiling and linking in their headers. A Makefile is also provided to help users build and link the software. A more detailed explanation of each program can be found in the 25 m tile README file, but brief descriptions are provided below:
GEOMAP.c - Converts latitude and longitude to x, y map coordinates
MAP2GEO.c - Converts x, y map coordinates to latitude, longitude
TILE2MAP.c - Converts RAMS tile name, line (col), and sample (row) to RAMS map x, y coordinates
MAP2TILE.c - Gives the sub-tile name, column, and row with a specified map x,y coordinate is contained
MERGEMAP.c - Generates a mosaic of SAR image sub-tiles within an area specified by center point and size. To generate an image for the entire tile the center point can be found in the file file name
GETSIG0.c - Prints the original pixel value in power for a pixel at image location (x,y) in map coordinates
Data cover the entire continent of Antarctica, outlying islands immediately adjacent to the coast, and an approximately 100 km wide band of sea ice, icebergs, and landfast ice surrounding the coast. Sea ice coverage was increased slightly for Version 2 of the mosaic to provide a view of typical early spring sea ice and fast-ice extent and interaction with coastal features.
See the mosaic overview available from NSIDC's RAMP Basics page.
Images in this collection have resolutions (pixel size equivalents) ranging from 25 m to 1 km.
All images use the following:
polar stereographic map projection
WGS84 ellipsoid
longitude of central meridian: 0
latitude of true scale: -71
false easting (meters): 0
false northing (meters): 0
Data were collected between 9 September and 22 October 1997.
The 25 m image tiles preserve a true quantitative measure of backscatter which may be directly related to sigma-naught. For the other products, each pixel's intensity qualitatively represents its radar backscatter intensity, but actual backscatter values have been arbitrarily adjusted to improve mosaic image quality.
Variables affecting radar backscatter include surface roughness, the surface material's dielectric properties, and the geometry between the spacecraft and target. For more information, see the SAR Theory/Interpreting Images PDF.
Backscatter intensities in decibels (dB) are converted to gray-scale values between 0 and 255 for all but the 25 m images. Values range from 0 to 216 for the 25 m images. Sigma-naught values are preserved quantitatively within, and therefore can be reconstructed from, the 25 m resolution image data. Sigma-naught values are not preserved in the 125 m mosaic or the other image products derived from the 125 m data.
Version 1 of the RAMP mosaic is affected by a number of image processing problems. Version 2 benefits from the following error corrections and other updates:
The effects of Automatic Gain Control (AGC) used in initial data gathering by the satellite remain in the Version 2 images. In collecting the data, a region of each swath is sampled for intensity so that the gain of the processed data may be set optimally for increased contrast over the surface to be imaged. Within swaths that include abrupt changes in surface type, for example, near the coast or near rock outcrops, this initial sample may include only water or rock outcrop, and thus the gain is set for these surfaces rather than for ice. The section of the swath is processed with gains that are not optimal for the ice sheet mosaic. The affected regions of the ice sheet show up as slightly darker blocks or corners within the mosaic.
As mentioned in the Version 2 Updates section, the AGC affect was not addressed. The resulting anomalies appear as seams in affected coastal areas of both Versions 1 and 2. Known AGC problem areas are highlighted in some of the 25 m tile browse images.
From September to November 2000, RADARSAT-1 collected a new set of SAR swath data covering Antarctica in an effort referred to as the Modified Antarctic Mapping Mission (MAMM, or AMM-2). MAMM had two primary science objectives. The first was to re-map the perimeter of the continent and the majority of Antarctica's fast moving glaciers, since these areas are most likely to have experienced change over the three years that followed after the first mission. The second MAMM objective was to obtain as much surface velocity data on the ice sheet as possible. For more information regarding this data set, see the Antarctic Mapping Mission - 2 Web site.
RADARSAT-1 is a polar-orbiting, sun-synchronous advanced Earth observation satellite developed by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) to monitor environmental change. NASA launched RADARSAT-1 in exchange for access to the satellite on a pro rata basis through its Alaska Satellite Facility (ASF).
ASF's RADARSAT-1 Satellite Document (PDF) describes the satellite in detail, and ASF's RADARSAT-1 Left Looking RAMP SAR Images Document (PDF) provides information about the use of RADARSAT-1 to collect the source data for the RAMP mosaic.
RADARSAT-1 carries an advanced radar sensor called Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). The SAR sensor provides its own microwave illumination and thus will operate day or night, regardless of weather conditions. Radar pulses are transmitted and the targets' radar backscatter received by the same antenna.
By sending out rapid radar pulses while orbiting overhead, the SAR is able through signal processing to simulate a large multi-antenna array to achieve high image resolution. The 15 m x 1.5 m rectangular antenna points to the side to enhance terrain variations and for technical signal processing reasons. The antenna generally looks to the right (north) except during the Antarctic mode, when the satellite is rotated so that the antenna is left-looking. This SAR instrument has many different beam modes which allow it to image the Earth at a variety of incidence angles and swath widths.
The following parameters describe the RADARSAT-1 SAR sensor:
Frequency: 5.3 GHz (C-Band) Wavelength: 5.66 cm Polarization: HH RF Bandwidth: 11.6, 17.3, or 30.0 MHz Pulse Repetition Frequency: 1200-1400 Hz Transmitter Peak Power: 5 kW Transmitter Avg Power: 300 W Tape Recorders: 2 high speed (10 minutes capacity) Available SAR Use per Orbit: 28 minutes Radar Data Rate: 77-105 Mbps Tape Playback Data Rate: 85 Mbps Sample Word Size: 4 bits each I and Q Range Chirp Chirp Type: Linear FM down chirp Chirp Rate/Transmit BW/ Sampling Rate: -279.300 KHz/u-sec / 11.731 MHz / 12.927 MHz -416.200 KHz/u-sec / 17.480 MHz / 18.467 MHz -721.400 KHz/u-sec / 30.299 MHz / 32.317 MHz Resolution Bandwidth: 11.583 MHz / 17.282 MHz / 30.002 MHz Transmit Pulse Width: 42.0 u-sec
For more information consult the following online documents:
Bicknell, T. 1992. Alaska Satellite Facility SAR Processor System User's Guide To Products. NASA, JPL. JPL D-9362.
Bicknell, T. and D. Cuddy. 1995. ASF Product Specification, Version 1.0. NASA, JPL. JPL D-13122, Volume 1.0.
Carande, R.E. 1988. Alaska Satellite Facility SAR Processor System Functional Design Document. NASA, JPL. JPL D-4922.
Carande, R.E., P. Jennex, and A. Schlutsmeyer. 1988. Alaska Satellite Facility SAR Processor System, Alaska SAR Processor Software Specifications Document. NASA, JPL. JPL D-5364, Volume 2.
EOSDIS Information Management System Users Manual. 1994. Hughes STX Corporation, EOSDIS IMS, NASA.
Fitch, J.P. 1988. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Springer-Verlag. New York.
Jezek, K.C. 1999. Glaciological properties of the Antarctic ice sheet from RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar imagery. Annals of Glaciology 29: 286-290.
Jezek, K.C. 2002. RADARSAT-1 Antarctic mapping project: change detection and surface velocity campaign. Annals of Glaciology 34: 263 - 268.
McCandless, S.W. Jr. and S.A. Mango. 1990. The Theory, Design and Application of Space Based Synthetic Aperture Radar. University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institute, Alaska Satellite Facility.
Olmsted, C. 1993. Alaska Satellite Facility Scientific SAR User's Guide (PDF). University of Alaska Fairbanks, Geophysical Institite. ASF-SD-003.
Robnett, T. 1991. Alaska SAR Processor Principles of Operation. NASA, JPL.
Sabins, F.F. Jr. 1978. Remote Sensing Principles and Interpretation, Second Edition. W. H. Freeman & Company, New York.
Schlutsmeyer, A. 1991. Alaska SAR Processor Programmer's Technical Manual. NASA, JPL.
Special Issue - RADARSAT. 1993. Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing 19(4), ISSN 0703-8992.
Synthetic Aperture Radar Data Product Format Standards. 1989. CEOS-SAR-CCT, Issue 2, Revision 0.
Tabel 1 describes the acronyms and abbreviations used in this document.
|Automatic Gain Control
|Antarctic Mapping Mission 1
|Antarctic Mapping Mission 2
|Alaska Satellite Facility
|Canadian Centre for Remote Sensing
|Candian Space Agency
|Digital Elevation Model
|Digital Linear Tape
|Earth Observing System Data and Information System
|Environmental Research Institute of Michigan
|Frequently Asked Questions
|File Transfer Protocol
|Goddard Space Flight Center
|Jet Propulsion Laboratory
|Modified Antarctic Mapping Mission
|National Aeronautics and Space Administration
|National Imagery and Mapping Agency
|National Science Foundation
|National Snow and Ice Data Center
|RADARSAT-1 Antarctic Mapping Project
|RADARSAT Antarctic Mapping System
|RADARSAT International
|Synthetic Aperture Radar
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Pee-Wee Herman Isn't Helping
In the latest issue of Playboy, Paul Reubens – known 99.9% of the time as Pee-Wee Herman – finally speaks out about his 1991 arrest for allegedly masturbating in an adult theater. Turns out he sincerely believes his lawyers had a foolproof defense that would prove his innocence provided the judge never had a penis and a spirit of adventure. Via FOX 411:
"Had we gone to trial, we had ready an expert from the Masters and Johnson Institute who was going to testify that in 30 years of research on masturbation the institute had never found one person who masturbated with his or her non-dominant hand," Reubens divulges in the latest issue of Playboy (which hits newsstands Friday). "I'm right-handed, and the police report said I was jerking off with my left hand. That would have been the end of the case right there, proof it couldn't have been me."
Adding insult to wrist injury, Pee-Wee was depressed to find his close friends relentlessly mocking him on TV because Hollywood is usually such a selfless community of people not looking out entirely for their own careers:
"I turned on the TV and saw people I mistakenly and naively thought were my friends making jokes about me. That was really painful. I knew Arsenio Hall, and his guests were Patti LaBelle and Luther Vandross, who were also my friends," Reubens told the men's magazine. "I was just sitting there going, 'Oh, they're making jokes about me.' I turned the channel to Jay Leno, who was also saying some snarky things. I get that it's their job, but I had already said the allegations weren't true and felt I deserved the benefit of the doubt from them. Make a joke about me but also just say, 'By the way, he's been a friend of our show for many years.' I was shocked people would kick me when I was down."
While I genuinely feel sorry for Pee-Wee that his friends decided to take cheap shots at him, when I'm eventually caught for public masturbation I hope at least five of mine write a book about it and one of them titles it "Dick Pounder: Man of Destiny." That said, was his entire legal strategy seriously a study that claims no one in the past 30 years has ever jerked off with their non-dominant hand? Because I broke my right hand once when I was 16 and can pretty much guarantee I would've been a surprise witness to Mr. Herman. "Your honor, the prosecution would like to call to the stand a remarkable young man who claims to have shattered the very foundations of science as we know it. I almost didn't believe him myself until a team from NASA showed me classified studies they've attempted at request of the Pentagon. We're truly stepping through the looking glass here."
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Justin Allgaier passes Jacques Villeneuve, wins in Montreal
Jacques Villeneuve was in the driver's seat heading to the white flag, more than 20 car lengths ahead and his first victory in NASCAR just a lap away on the track named for his dad.
Then, in the blink of an eye, Justin Allgaier bumped past him for the victory Saturday in a Nationwide race as a stunned crowd at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve recoiled in disbelief.
"It's tough when you have a driver who has his last name on the race track," Allgaier said after the third victory of his career, first on a road course. "Obviously, this is a big race for him and a big venue."
Meanwhile, Danica Patrick, who started fourth, ran over a shoe and into problems while leading the race around the midway point. She settled for 27th after leading 20 laps.
Having maintained the top spot through restart after restart in the final laps of a race that went six extra circuits around the 14-turn, 2.7-mile layout, Villeneuve was running low on fuel and kept turning off the engine of his No. 22 Dodge to conserve.
What seemed like an insurmountable lead vanished on the last lap. Allgaier closed in a hurry as Villeneuve suddenly slowed and was hit from behind.
"I don't know if he went into protect mode," Allgaier said. "We knew he was going to be close on gas. My first thought was he was out. I had too much steam running my normal pace, and we got together. I'm sure he's not happy about that, but I know that the 30 (polesitter Alex Tagliani) got taken out by that car. I guess at the end of the day what goes around comes around."
Villeneuve should know. He took out Patrick at Road America on the final lap in June, depriving her of a top-five finish, and bumped Tagliani, a Montreal native, out of the lead late in Saturday's race. Tagliani finished 22nd.
"We got together," Villeneuve said. "He was really slow and just blocking, braking on the inside and the guys behind me were catching me. We tangled a little bit and I thought it would be all right. I didn't get off the gas because I didn't want the cars behind me to catch me, and I ended up turning him around.
"That's a shame for him. That wasn't my intention, but at that point I couldn't just stay behind him."
"We were the quickest car out there," said Villeneuve, who led 43 laps. "When you run in the front all day and get taken out on the last lap, it's just frustrating. I guess that's life. When it's a mistake, you let it go, but when it seems to be done on purpose, that gets a little bit annoying."
Sam Hornish Jr. finished second and Villeneuve was third, giving Dodge two in the top three. Elliott Sadler and Ron Fellows rounded out the top five. Hornish's finish put him in a tie for second in Nationwide points with Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who was strong with the laps winding down but spun out challenging for the lead and finished 12th.
Kyle Busch, who flew in from the Cup race in Michigan to drive his No. 54 Toyota, arrived about 2 hours before the green flag, started at the back of the field because of a driver change — Owen Kelly qualified fifth for Busch on Friday — and finished 10th after briefly challenging Villeneuve for the lead with 20 laps left.
Patrick also ran second to Villeneuve for another 12 laps before she suffered a broken rear axle after her No. 7 Chevy hit a shoe thrown on the track while she was tracking Villeneuve in her rearview mirror.
During ESPN's live broadcast, viewers even heard her drop a curse word over the feed to crew chief Tony Eury Jr. as she described the car's handling while eyeing Villeneuve on her bumper.
A few turns later, cameras caught a part coming out from under Patrick's car as she rounded one of the corners.
During warmup laps for the race, Patrick had complained to Eury that something didn't feel right — "something is slamming around and it's kicking my car around all over the place. It doesn't want to brake. It doesn't want to turn."
Patrick led 20 laps, the most at a NASCAR race in her career, and led a race for the first time since the Nationwide event at Daytona International Speedway in July.
So far this season, Patrick has seven top-10 starts, six DNFs, and a best finish of eighth at Texas, her lone top 10.
"How disappointing! What can I say?" Patrick said. "We've got to get some luck sometime. At the end of the day, I just can't believe how unlucky we've been. It's got to come."
Villeneuve had regained the lead by spinning Tagliani around on lap 67 of the race, which was scheduled to go 74. Tagliani had passed Villeneuve and Hornish for the lead with an aggressive move in the first turn, with Hornish sliding off course after heavy contact with Michael McDowell. After Hornish recovered, he and Patrick collided after Kyle Kelley spun Patrick.
Villeneuve then built a lead that seemed insurmountable but eventually was done in by the flurry of late cautions. He ran out of fuel driving to the pits, stopping briefly by Allgaier's No. 31 Chevy to express his frustration.
For Allgaier, it was a lesson learned. He was concerned about crew chief Jimmy Elledge's pit strategy — Allgaier had plenty of fuel because Elledge was counting on extra laps at the end and planned accordingly — and figured he was running for second until that final lap.
"I think the only way he (Villeneuve) was going to lose the race was by doing what he did, not pushing the car and slowing down," Allgaier said. "I had conceded the fact that I knew we were probably going to finish second.
"For whatever reason, he just went into protect mode and slowed down so much that I caught him in a bad spot. Where I caught him, to try to block somebody there, you're a sitting duck."
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Zakheim is not a neoconservative when it comes to foreign policy, though he supported the Iraq War at first.
Some of the figures who loom largest in neoconservative history—Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Jeane Kirkpatrick—were non-Jews.
Take Mark Dubowitz, an official with the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Like his neoconservative brethren, he offers nothing besides moral condemnation.
"We saw connections in neoconservative think tanks as well as the Bahai faith," Hultquist said of his research.
Once upon a time, neoconservative did mean something distinct.
He had always loathed the "American Empire" and its neoconservative apologists, especially Jews.
He had no interest in the old liberal, and now neoconservative, goal of nation-building.


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Rationalist victory:
The Federal Shariat Court in Islamabad, in yesterday's hearing of its full bench, cleared Zafran Bi Bi of all charges and acquitted her. Zafran, who had been accused of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning in early May, is free at last!
This is the victory of rationalists from all over the world, who reacted to our call and expressed their deep concern about Zafran's fate and the state of human rights in Pakistan in nearly three thousand e-mail letters to President Musharraf during the last weeks, demanding his intervention. On 2 June, one day after receiving our last Bulletin, the President issued a public statement, assuring that "they (the Federal Shariat Court) would not allow the sentence to be carried out" - and in fact, in the sweeping decision of 7 June, Zafran was awarded a first-class acquittal.
The victory which we could achieve together with hundreds of Human Rights and Women's Rights activists in Pakistan, who have put up a courageous and determined fight at the home front, is a triumph over the forces of religious extremism and the brutal and inhuman social order they try to enforce wherever they are powerful enough. Though Zafran Bi Bi's case has become an encouraging symbol and a mile stone in this fight, time has not yet come to celebrate. As long as the draconian Quran-based hudood law remains in force and is used as a ready weapon to suppress thousands of women in the country, our victory remains a temporary one.
The hudood ordinance was installed under the military regime of General Zia ul Haq in 1979 and opposed by Human Rights and Women's Rights advocates ever since. It bans all kinds of extramarital sexual contacts and is used especially for the suppression of women. Women are nearly always taken as the guilty part, even if, as in Zafran Bi Bi's case, they are victims of rape! The hudood laws don't make any difference between consensual and forced sexual contacts. Thousands of women in Pakistan are accused of zina (adultery) every year and many of them are kept in prison for 10 to 15 years. Though the law gives judges the option of condemnation to death by stoning, such a condemnation did not occur since the early 80s. Zafran Bi Bi's case marks a strengthening of the religious right, which is trying to increase its influence again.
Reacting to the massive protest against the conviction of Zafran Bi Bi, the Council of Islamic Ideology, Pakistan's top religious body, has announced a basic review of this law. This unusual move is again a great victory. But reviewing is not enough. The hudood law as well as the entire religious based legal system has to go and make place for a modern and secular legal system, if Pakistan is to free itself from the clutches of religious obscurantism.
Dr Shaikh is still in the death cell...
Rationalist Dr Younus Shaikh, founder president of The Enlightenment, the Pakistani organization for the promotion of secularism, scientific temper and reason, is still languishing in the death cell. He was arrested in 1999 and accused of blasphemy. On 18 August 2001, the lower court condemned him to death. The appeal filed by his family in the High Court is still in pending. The case is moving very slowly. Dr Shaikh's life is in danger, not only because the death sentence could be confirmed, but also because the fundamentalists are after his blood and may be waiting for an opportunity to "implement Allah's will" on their own.
Rationalist International and several other organizations world-wide have been campaigning vigorously for the release of Dr Shaikh ever since his arrest.We request you to join us in our efforts for his rescue and for the abolishing of the draconian blasphemy law in Pakistan.
For more details of the case of Dr Shaikh, please visit the web site of Rationalist International http://www.rationalistinternational.net.


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Church of Scientology in Taiwan Hosts First Asian Human Rights Youth Summit
Youth delegates representing 10 nations met with Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou who welcomed the 10th annual Youth for Human Rights International World Educational Tour and first Asian Human Rights Youth Summit to his country.
The first Asian Human Rights Youth Summit, cosponsored by the 10th annual Youth for Human Rights International (YHRI) World Educational Tour and the Church of Scientology in Taiwan, began March 8 with a meeting in Taipei with Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou.
President Ma welcomed youth delegates from 10 nations and YHRI President Dr. Mary Shuttleworth to his country and spoke of the importance of human rights and of his work to incorporate United Nations human rights covenants into Taiwanese domestic law.
Dr. Shuttleworth thanked the president for receiving the Youth for Human Rights delegation, explaining that Taiwan was chosen as the site of the first Asian Youth for Human Rights Summit because of the government's support of human rights and human rights education.
Youth for Human Rights Taiwan President Simone Hsu pledged her group's continued support of President Ma's human rights objectives, promising to carry on their nationwide program to educate youth on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the world's premier human rights document, with even greater vigor.
The summit then began at National Chengchi University in Taipei. The University's International Conference Hall was filled to capacity for the opening ceremony in which youth delegates entered carrying the flags of their countries: Australia, England, India, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and the United States.
The entire three-day summit was filled with presentations and discussions where delegates shared their most successful human rights awareness activities—from teaching human rights lessons in schools to organizing street events and art competitions. Delegates attended workshops where they learned how to promote their activities and generate sponsorships and support for their programs.
Youth for Human Rights International empowers youth through educational resources that bring the subject of human rights to life. Regional summits are designed to make it possible for many youth delegates to network, learn skills and formulate plans to advance human rights education, thus forwarding the goal of full implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in their countries.
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