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Cancer Prevention: Cruciferous Veggiesby Toby Amidor in Healthy Recipes, Healthy Tips, February 4, 2012
In honor of World Cancer Day, we're focusing on cruciferous veggies—those from the cabbage family. Studies show that these vegetables have a special plant chemical that protects against cancer. Here are some ideas on how to incorporate them into your everyday eating plan.
The Power
Cruciferous vegetables include cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, turnips, kale, and Brussels sprouts. These superstar veggies are packed with so many nutrients it's tough to keep count. They contain fiber, vitamins A and C, riboflavin, B6, folic acid, magnesium, potassium and omega-3 fats. What's more, they also have plant chemicals known as glucosinolates that have been shown to help reduce the risk of various types of cancer.
A 2011 study in the International Journal of Urology found that the more veggies that were eaten from the cabbage family, the lower the risk was from prostate cancer. According to the American Institute for Cancer Research, studies also link the various components in cruciferous veggies to helping reduce the risk of colorectal, esophageal, stomach, mouth and pancreatic cancer.
Brussels Sprouts
These green jewels can be broiled, roasted or steamed – or sliced and sautéed like in the recipe below. If you're not familiar with cooking these babies, check out our recent post.
Recipe: Brussels Sprouts Hash
Studies show that cooking broccoli may enhance its cancer-fighting properties. Keep a bag in the freezer and toss into pasta, soups, stews, stir-fry and rice dishes. Find out why broccoli is one of our top 10 superfoods.
Recipe: Broccoli, Mushroom and Cheese Breakfast Strata
There are many varieties of this leafy veggie including Dinosaur (a.k.a. Cavolo Nero), Curly, and Plain Leaved. If using raw in a salad, don't chop or tear until you're ready to use it in order to preserve the vitamin C.
Recipe: Kale Chips
Green or red, cabbage contains a plethora of nutrients. Red cabbage also contains anthocyanins, a potent anti-inflammatory antioxidant.
Recipe: Braised Red Cabbage and Turnips
Although peak season is September through November, you can still find cauliflower in your frozen food aisle; look for brands without added butter or sauces.
Recipe: Oven-Roasted Cauliflower With Turmeric and Ginger
Bok Choy
Add this green veggie to soups or stir-fry. Raw bok choy adds a sweet crunch to salads and sandwiches too.
Recipe: Wilted Bok Choy With Soy Sauce and Cashews
TELL US: Which cruciferous veggies will you be cooking today?
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Way back in the pack heading into the final turn, Orb was calm ... even if his jockey wasn't.
Churning through a sloppy track that resembled creamy peanut butter, the bay colt picked up speed and, one by one, blew past its rivals.
By that time, jockey Joel Rosario knew he was aboard the Kentucky Derby winner.
Orb powered to a 2½-length victory Saturday at Churchill Downs, giving trainer Shug McGaughey and Rosario their first Derby wins.
"I was so far behind," Rosario said. "He was very relaxed. It's exactly what I wanted."
Rosario had Orb in the clear on the outside, and they forged to the lead in deep stretch, with enough momentum to hold off 34-1 shot Golden Soul, trained by New Orleans' Dallas Stewart.
It was a popular victory before a crowd of 151,616, which poured enough late money on Orb to make him the 5-1 favorite, a position Revolutionary had owned most of the day.
McGaughey, a 62-year-old native of Lexington, finally got the Derby win he had long sought. Orb was just his second starter since 1989, when he settled for second after Sunday Silence beat Easy Goer on a muddy track.
"It means everything to me," the Hall of Famer said. "I've always dreamed of this day, and it finally came."
The race was dominated by closers. Golden Soul rallied from 15th to second, while Revolutionary, the Louisiana Derby winner, was 18th at one point and finished third for trainer Todd Pletcher. Normandy Invasion finished fourth.
Orb paid $12.80, $7.40 and $5.40. Golden Soul returned $38.60 and $19.40, and Revolutionary paid $5.40 to show.
Mylute — trained by New Orleans' Tom Amoss and ridden by Rosie Napravnik — was fifth, followed by Oxbow, Lines of Battle, Will Take Charge and Charming Kitten. Giant Finish was 10th, then came Overanalyze, Palace Malice, Java's War, Verrazano, Itsmyluckyday, Frac Daddy, Goldencents, Vyjack and Falling Sky.
The second leg of thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown will be May 18, when the Preakness Stakes is held at Pimlico.
The rain that pelted the track earlier in the day had stopped by the time 19 horses paraded to the post for the 139th Derby. While it created a gloppy surface, it didn't seem to bother Orb, who had never previously run on a wet track.
"I said, 'A day like today might have cost me one Kentucky Derby; maybe it'll turn around and help us today,' " McGaughey said.
His triumph was a victory for the old school of racing, where a private trainer like McGaughey works exclusively for wealthy owners — in this case Stuart Janney and Ogden Mills "Dinny" Phipps.
"The Phippses and Janneys has been my whole life for 20 some years now and have really kind of given me everything I've got," said McGaughey, who never lost his thick Southern drawl despite years of working in New York.
"I'm extremely proud to be able to work with people such as this. To bring a day like today into their lives is just a huge, huge thrill for me. All I can do is just say thanks for the opportunity."
First cousins Janney and 72-year-old Dinny Phipps, who are among the sport's blue bloods that include the old-money Whitney and Vanderbilt families, also got their first gold Derby trophy.
When the horses burst from the gates, Palace Malice and Mike Smith set a sizzling pace that couldn't be sustained.
On the far turn, the pack closed in on the leader, with Oxbow attacking from the inside and Normandy Invasion moving up on the outside to take the lead.
Rosario positioned Orb in the clear on the outside and they reeled in Normandy Invasion in mid-stretch before surging clear.
History was denied on several fronts Saturday:
- Pletcher's Derby record fell to 1 for 36 after sending out a record-tying five horses for the second time in his career. Besides Revolutionary, Charming Kitten was ninth; Overanalyze was 11th; early pacesetter Palace Malice was 12th; and previously unbeaten Verrazano was 14th.
- Napravnik's bid to become the first woman jockey to win ended with a fifth-place finish aboard Mylute. It was still the highest finish by a woman rider, bettering her ninth-place showing two years ago.
- Kevin Krigger failed in his attempt to be the first black jockey to win since 1902. He rode Goldencents to a 17th-place finish for trainer Doug O'Neill, who won last year with I'll Have Another. Rick Pitino owns 5 percent of the colt, who couldn't deliver a horses/hoops double for the coach of the national champion Louisville basketball team.
- D. Wayne Lukas missed out on becoming the oldest trainer to win at 77. He saddled two horses: Oxbow was sixth with 50-year-old Gary Stevens making a Derby comeback after seven years in retirement, and Will Take Charge was eighth.


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• cicisbeo •
Pronunciation: chee-chiz-bay-o • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. (Obsolete but still fun) A knotted, decorative ribbon attached to the handle of a sword, walking cane, umbrella, fan, etc. 2. A cavalier servant of a married woman, a dangler about married women, a man who professionally accompanies married women or unprofessionally pursues them.
Notes: My recent blog on the glut of pejorative names for female lovers in the absence of such for men resulted in a surprising response. Ed Garvin suggested that we do have a pejorative word specifically for a male lover (aside from gigolo, which I conceded), so I made it today's Good Word. It is a word that has refused for ages to surrender its Italian plural cicisbei, pronounced [chee-cheez-bay-ee].
In Play: Even though I don't think this rarely used word damages my argument that we have more negative words for female than for male lovers, it is curious enough that I though we would all enjoy it: "Armin, I saw that cicisbeo Phil Anders parked in front of your house while you were away in Mexico last week!" And we all thought Phil was a professional cicisbeo who only accompanied married women for their protection and with their husbands' consent.
Word History: This word is such an esoteric one etymologists have paid it no attention. The pronunciation of CI as [chee] gives it away as an Italian word, maybe borrowed from French chiche beau "cute chickpea". The other hypothesis is that it came from a word in the Venetian dialect cici "women's chatter", but that would leave us with an inexplicable SBEO. I prefer the first one since beau is associated with boyfriends in some languages outside French. However, the long and short of it is, no one really knows. (Let's thank Ed Garvin for coming up with this curious old word and hope he didn't learn it from experience.)


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Jaquet Droz Watches
Jaquet Droz is an interesting watch brand. They stick to classical conventions in the watchmaking world and haven't embraced any modern (as in, this decade) trends towards larger watches and the like. Yet their designs were never purely classical, with charcoal dials, off-center sub-dials and striking silver accents. Pictured above are two of my favorites: The Grande Heure Minute Cerclée from the Hommage Londres 1774 line, and the Les Lunes Cerclée from the La-Chaux-de-Fonds 1738 collection. All in all, they make some beautiful watches in a classic yet a little off the beaten path style. Would make a great gift for a guy; even if he hates it he can sell it for around 10k or so :)


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Just a few days ago, Samsung announced that it would offer a gold Samsung Galaxy S4 model; this brought Apple fans to their collective feet, claiming that Samsung had copied the gold Apple iPhone 5s. The timing looked ad for the Korean based OEM. After all, just last week Apple asked its partners to increase production of the gold iPhone 5s by 33% because of strong demand for the unit...
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Lost River Range > Mount Idaho > Climber's Log
Mount Idaho Climber's Log
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|Elkhorn Creek
Date Climbed: Aug 13, 2016
|Perfect day. Fresh winds. Climbed up the boulder field, and cruised down the scree field. I loved the variety of this climb. The pillars were my favorite. The summit block sucks with a sprained ankle! Hands down best view of Borah! 5/9 12ers
|Posted Aug 14, 2016 5:16 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2015
|Jon and I camped at the trailhead for an early start. Made it up in under 5 hours. Saw a couple goats at the saddle around 11,000'.
Made a major error coming down and got ourselves into some pretty nasty steep runouts. Took us over 2 hours just to get to treeline.
|Posted Oct 20, 2015 3:50 pm
|Quiet day
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2015
|Standard route up Elkhorn creek. Didn't see anyone or anything the entire time. My last twelver for Idaho. Lots of driving for this so next time I'm picking something closer.
|Posted Aug 3, 2015 10:07 pm
|West Ridge / Southwest face
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2015
|Third time is the charm. Tried twice before in the snow and unfavorable conditions turned us around both times. It decided to snow a little the previous night so we could summit "in snow." I think I liked the snow glissade previously, better than the scree ski this time though. Reached the summit at 8:15 am as weather was due to arrive at 10 but we were lucky and only had a few sprinkles near the end.
|Posted Jul 13, 2015 4:30 pm
|Scrambling Man
Date Climbed: Jul 27, 2012
|Took the west ridge/SW face route. Pretty good climb. Thunderstorms made us retreat off the summit shortly after reaching the top.
|Posted Jul 29, 2012 5:50 pm
|Scree - o - Rama
Date Climbed: Jul 18, 2012
|It's a fun mountain but dang, the scree on the way to the summit is quite slippery! Did the standard route and if I ever go up it again, I'm wearing a helmet.
|Posted Jul 19, 2012 4:35 pm
|Completion of 12ers
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 2002
|My last 12er in the quest of Idaho's tallest peaks.
|Posted Aug 13, 2011 1:49 pm
|West Ridge/Southwest Face
Date Climbed: Aug 17, 2010
|What a great climb! Our final 12'er. Instead of following the route in Tom's book we headed up a drainage that provided us solid rock and a little climbing to take the ridge. Then when we got to the pillars we learned that there is a trail behind them now, so we didn't have to circumnavigate them. The face was challenging, but fun. Really a great climb.
|Posted Jan 4, 2011 7:45 pm
|Warm for December
Date Climbed: Dec 7, 2002
|Great warm, sunny day with John O.
|Posted Dec 18, 2010 1:55 pm
|Long day.
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2009
|Lots of scree and talus.
|Posted Nov 16, 2010 12:45 am
|Long Day
Date Climbed: Oct 1, 2010
|After a few previous attempts i finnaly summited with dave,Ken and Hiking Bella in an 11 hour trip. perfect day in the mid 80's in October! this was a fun and challenging mountain and the last of my 12,000 ft summits in Idaho. guess its time to continue to work on the top 50 in the state
|Posted Oct 2, 2010 11:04 pm
|Southwest Ridge
Date Climbed: Apr 17, 2010
|Strike two. Made it to the top of the southwest ridge. It had been snowing since 4am but looked like it might break. Then the wind and snow picked up and visibility dropped so we bailed. Maybe try this one in the summer next time.
|Posted May 31, 2010 10:14 pm
|Southwest Ridge
Date Climbed: Apr 12, 2008
|Maybe next time. Too much avalanche activity.
|Posted May 31, 2010 10:10 pm
|Happy Birthday!
Date Climbed: Sep 19, 2009
|Climbed this one as my birthday present to myself. So far this is my favorite 12er. It is also my 5th of the 9. We started before sunrise in the morning and got lost a few times because the trail is hard to follow in places. The descent was quite the scree slide. We went down the Southwest face, dodging cliffs as we went and stirring up quite a bit of dust. I highly recommend Mt. Idaho.
|Posted Sep 20, 2009 5:49 pm
|nice september day
Date Climbed: Sep 18, 2009
|warm day- felt like midsummer. Not as much scrambling as I expected. Primarily a class 2 hike. Great views of Borah. Summit register has gone missing
|Posted Sep 19, 2009 12:50 am
|Elkhorn Creek
Date Climbed: Aug 21, 2009
|Powered by gu's, licorice, and tootsie rolls as the rest of it tasted like cardboard.
It is possible to drop straight off the west face and punch through the scree to the basin. Finding a doable break through the cliffs is a challenge and left me wondering if it was really quicker. A traverse over to Peak 11967 looks like an even bigger challenge.
|Posted Aug 24, 2009 11:15 pm
|Super Dave
Date Climbed: Sep 6, 2008
|Great climb with Brendon and Erik. Climbed the standard route up Elkhorn creek, then the west ridge. A nice way to finish off my 12ers. Great views of Borah. Here's a trip-report and some photos.
|Posted Sep 8, 2008 11:59 pm
|Idaho Kid
|Great Idaho
Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2007
|Climbed the Elkhorn Creek route, it was a great climb. We had a blast scrambling up the peak. From the saddle we had the most amazing views of Mount Borah I had ever seen.
|Posted Jun 18, 2007 11:25 am
|Elkhorn Creek
Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2007
|Approached from Elkhorn Creek. The hike up the saddle wasn't bad. We stuck to the vegitation to the left and found the goat trail to the saddle. Getting around the pillars was tricky, but great scrambling. Hit a snow field for about 500 of the last 1000 ft. Made the summit in about 6hrs. Great views of Borah all day. I would rate this as my favorite 12er so far.
|Posted Jun 17, 2007 8:32 am
|skunk ape
|Climbed North face from pahsimeroi in May
|Posted Feb 26, 2007 11:29 pm


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The combined costs of housing and transportation in the nation's largest 25 metro areas have swelled by 44 percent since 2000 while incomes have failed to keep pace, according to a new report from the Center for Housing Policy—the research affiliate of the National Housing Conference—and the Center for Neighborhood Technology. The report, Losing Ground: The Struggle of Moderate-Income Households to Afford the Rising Costs of Housing and Transportation, details the challenges that American households face as the combined costs of housing and transportation consume an ever-larger share of household incomes.
The report includes a special focus on moderate-income households, defined as those earning between 50 and 100 percent of the median household income in their area. In the 25 largest metro areas, the report finds that moderate-income households spend an average of 59 percent of their income on housing and transportation. The report finds cost burdens to be highest in the Miami area, where moderate-income households spend 72 percent of their income on housing and transportation. The next highest burdens are in the Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., area (69 percent), the Tampa area (66 percent), and the Los Angeles area (65 percent)
"If we really want to understand whether housing is affordable, we need to consider housing and transportation costs together," explains Center for Housing Policy Executive Director Jeffrey Lubell. "Along with utilities, which we include within housing costs, these are the true 'costs of place,' and our report shows they have grown much faster than incomes since 2000."
The report finds that housing and transportations costs have increased 44 percent over this period while household incomes have risen only 25 percent. As a result, Americans are now substantially less able to afford their costs of place, undermining their ability to meet other critical household expenses, such as food, clothing, health insurance and child care.
Cost burdens have increased despite reductions in home sale prices caused by the major housing downturn that began in 2006. "Increased demand for rental housing combined with insufficient new production has raised rents," continued Lubell, "while households with blemished credit and existing homeowners with underwater mortgages have been unable to take advantage of lower home prices. Add in the higher transportation costs associated with higher gas prices, stagnant or slowly growing wages and the loss of income associated with layoffs and it's easy to see how Americans have lost ground."
"Both housing and transportation costs need to be made more affordable," notes Center for Neighborhood Technology President and Co-Founder Scott Bernstein. "Letting the public know that the full cost of a location includes both housing and transportation is a first step; targeting resources that lower the cost of transportation, such as improved public transportation, to areas where it will help America's working families, is also essential."
The report notes that there are many policies that local and state governments can adopt to help reduce housing costs in places where transportation costs are low or where public investments will make transportation more affordable in the future. Policy options include taking measures to preserve existing affordable housing, reforming restrictive regulations to lower the cost of creating new housing in such areas, and instituting requirements or incentives to include affordable housing as part of new development.
"Given the substantial increases that we expect in coming years in the demand for housing within walking distance of public transit," explains Bernstein, "it will be essential to act proactively to ensure that affordable housing is preserved and included within new development in these areas."
Key findings:
· Housing and transportation costs have gone up faster than incomes for American households. Since 2000, combined housing and transportation costs have risen 44 percent in the 25 largest U.S. metros, while household incomes have risen only 25 percent. That means that for every dollar household incomes have gone up, housing and transportation costs have risen about $1.75, cutting into wealth, savings and even budgets for essentials.
· Moderate-income households spend a disproportionate share of income for housing and transportation. For households earning 50 to 100 percent of the median income of their metropolitan area, nearly three-fifths (59 percent) of income goes to housing and transportation costs. For these households, the growing "costs of place" are particularly burdensome, leaving little for necessary expenses such as food, education and health care.
· Places where the combined housing and transportation cost burden is greatest are not always the places with the highest absolute costs. In some metro areas, such as Washington, D.C., Boston and San Francisco, high costs are matched by relatively high incomes, helping moderate-income households better afford their housing and transportation costs. But other regions, such as Riverside-San Bernardino (CA), Los Angeles and San Diego, have high housing and transportation costs despite moderate to low median incomes, with average combined cost burdens for moderate-income households ranging from 63 to 69 percent of household income.
· Moderate-income households in the Miami metro area have the highest combined cost burdens, spending an average of 72 percent of income on housing and transportation. A second Florida metro area— Tampa— also has very high cost burdens, with moderate-income households spending an average of 66 percent of income on housing and transportation. To a large extent, the high cost burdens in both of these metro areas are driven by low incomes.
· Housing costs alone do not paint a complete picture of the total "cost of place." The inclusion of transportation costs shifts the relative affordability of many metro areas. For example, housing costs in the Houston region are comparatively affordable for moderate-income households, ranking eighth out of the 25 regions examined, but adding in transportation costs drops Houston into 17th place in overall affordability. In contrast, metro areas such as San Francisco, Boston, and New York are some of the least affordable regions for moderate-income households when housing alone is considered, but are among the most affordable when housing and transportation costs are considered together.
· For moderate-income households, homeowners carry heavier cost burdens than renters. For the typical moderate-income renter in the 25 metro areas studied, housing and transportation costs consume an average of 55 percent of income. Moderate-income homeowners carrying a mortgage, however, face average costs of nearly 72 percent of income.
· Despite lower burdens than homeowners, moderate-income renters are still barely making ends meet in many metro areas. In the LA metro area, where average housing + transportation costs consume 61 percent of income for moderate-income renters, a typical renter household would not have enough left over at the end of the month to pay the minimum costs of food, health care, and other basic necessities. This would suggest these households are either cutting corners on essentials, or accruing debt.
· Cost burdens for moderate-income households vary substantially within metro areas. Even in metro areas where average cost burdens are relatively affordable, there are many neighborhoods that are out of reach for moderate-income households. In the Philadelphia region, for example, moderate-income households are faced with average housing and transportation costs exceeding 90 percent of income in some neighborhoods.


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Ethnic Studies
Program Overview
- Ethnic Studies major
- Ethnic Studies minor
How is ethnic identity developed and maintained? When does conflict develop between ethnic groups? Why does ethnicity matter? The Ethnic Studies Program addresses questions of ethnic identity and relations between ethnic groups through a variety of interdisciplinary courses in areas ranging from anthropology to history to art.
The ethnic studies major is composed of courses from a range of disciplines, with core courses in anthropology, education, religion, and sociology, and a variety of electives in additional disciplines including art, politics, history, music, and psychology. The faculty members who contribute courses to the program reflect the diversity of disciplines that deal with questions and issues related to ethnic identity and relations among ethnic groups.
Off-campus studies
A number of ethnic studies courses are offered off campus. For example, the anthropology course West Indian People and Culture takes students to Trinidad and Barbados, while Applied Anthropology focuses on tourism, health, and cultural survival in the Bahamas. Students may also conduct research at Chicago's prestigious Newberry Library and other historical locations during an on-site history course studying the urban transformation of Chicago.
Careers and complementary majors
Ethnic studies is an increasingly marketable major. Students who major in ethnic studies often go on to pursue careers in teaching, social work, and law. However, a background in the social, political, and legal status of ethnic groups is useful in many different careers, including psychology, counseling, health care services, journalism, community organizing, and a wide variety of civil service positions in all levels of government. As today's employers become increasingly aware of the importance of diversity in the workplace and throughout the world, they are seeking employees who are informed about ethnic diversity and who are able to work effectively with many different minority groups and constituencies.
Many students at Cornell complete double majors, and the ethnic studies program is flexible enough to be easily paired with a more traditional major, such as education, political science, psychology, English, economics, history, or sociology


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GPI Prototype has installed its third direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) machine from EOS. The additional EOSINT M270 joins M270 and M280 machines currently being used at GPI to build metal parts additively.
According to the company, DMLS offers many advantages over traditional tooling, including the ability to manufacture complex geometries and shapes not possible with CNC machining. Conformal cooling channels can also be integrated into designs to reduce injection molding cycle/lead times and lower costs.
GPI offers six material choices for DMLS, including stainless steel (GP1 & PH1), titanium (Ti64), cobalt chrome (MP1), maraging steel (MS1) and nickel alloy (IN718). The company is in the testing phase for aluminum and says it will be dedicating the EOSINT M280 machine to aluminum parts.


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Tesco has defined the limit of mutual responsibility for supply chains. Having inquired into the provenance of beefburgers that contained horsemeat, it has dumped Silvercrest, its supplier of frozen burgers, essentially for deviating from the list of Tesco-approved meat suppliers.
"The breach of trust is simply too great," said Tim Smith, the UK retailer's technical director, in a statement. (The owner and founder of Silvercrest's parent told the FT earlier this month it had been "let down" by its own suppliers.) Read more


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Hello, little red sea star.
I can reach you where you are,
In a rocky ocean pool,
Full of water clear and cool.
Oh, I want to touch your skin,
So I dip my hand right in.
Your skin that's so rough and tough
Keeps you safe from scary stuff,
Like seagulls, crabs, and the fish
Who think you're a tasty dish.
You don't feel like lunch to me.
You're hard like bark that's on a tree.
When I try to pick you up
I find you are tightly stuck.
Five strong arms hold on like glue.
Crashing waves cannot move you.
Sea star, do you plan to stay
Till I come back again to play?
- Jennifer Bové
Visit kids.niehs.nih.gov. On this site, you can hear "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and many other children's tunes.


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The results from a new survey prove that many gay men are willing to die for the perfect body.
As a matter of fact, nearly half of the gay man in the survey said they would die a year earlier if it mean living the rest of their lives with the perfect body.
Even worse, 10% of gay men would agree to die more than 11 years earlier if they could have the perfect body now.
Straight men, however, aren't as concerned about looking perfect. Only a third of the straight men surveyed said they would give up a year or more of life for an ideal body shape.
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Dr. Ramin Manshadi brings his extensive knowledge of cardiovascular health direct to you. In his book, The Wisdom of Heart Health: Attaining a Healthy and Robust Heart in Today's Modern World, Dr. Manshadi covers a wide range of important topics related to heart health that should be mandatory reading for everyone concerned about cardiovascular disease. Dr. Manshadi's good work is not limited to the words of wisdom espoused in his book. In a partnership with St. Joseph's Hospital, Dr. Manshadi has generously pledged proceeds from the book to help purchase automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for placement in schools throughout California.


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Black Friday — it's the Olympics of shopping. The one day of the year all hell breaks loose and decorum goes out the window. Avoid disaster by starting your day with a game plan and, of course, gift ideas so you aren't left in the dust. (We recommend starting your day with the proper fuel. These Lemon Blueberry Muffins are delish and will super charge you for the retail task at hand.)
We asked Cooking Channel stars and staffers what they wanted in their stockings this year — take some inspiration from their Holiday Wish Lists.
Shake things up with Kelsey Nixon's pick: a Soda Stream. It's perfect for making custom soda flavors from your own artisanal-flavored syrups.
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Cook like a rockstar with Nadia G.'s Guitar Spatulas — breakfast just got more fun and kids will love them, too.
Unique Eats host Lee Ann Wong wants an old-school Berkel Meat Slicer — very fancy!
If you want to make your own gifts this year, we recommend Nigella Lawon's Sweet and Salty Crunch Nut Bars. They're addictive and easy to make. Just don't eat them all before you can give them away!
Kelsey Nixon's Berry Pie Pops are not only fun to eat, they're also easy to transport.
David Rocco's Chili Pepper Jam is the ideal gift for friends who like a little heat. Package in a cute mason jar and pair with cheese or crackers for an instant party hit.
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Published: Saturday, February 9, 2013 at 8:00 a.m.
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A closer look at the league's worst this week.
Trevor Releford: The Alabama junior guard is just 5 of his last 19 from the floor and 0-of-7 from 3-point range.
Vanderbilt: The Commodores have lost four straight, with three of the losses coming by five points or less.
Kenny Boynton: The Florida senior guard is just 3 of his last 14 from 3-point range.
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Hi guys
I'm trying to display the navigator with add, edit and delete,below are the codes,My First Grid
and below is the .htmMy First Grid
What the hell I'm missing here?, because it's not showing anything?
Thanks in advanced.
Which web browser are you using, because depending on which one you use, there are some different errors that they can help you to find.
I'm using FireFox 4 and Safari.
Okay, with Firefox you can get a web development extension called Firebug.
In the Net tab of Firebug you'll see that one of the script files is not loading, because either the HTML script reference is incorrect, or the script file is not on the server where you expect it to be.
If you use Google Chrome, that provides a very nice interface when debugging your code too.
Are you referring to the jquery-ui-1.7.1.custom.css file?
If yes then I'll try to fix it.
Thanks I'm learning to use FireBug with you.
That's a part of it, yes.
The other thing that Firebug shows you is in its Console tab, where it shows you the scripting line that has the problem.
On the NET tab of FireBugAre those URL in red are invalid? Does it means the browser can't find those links? Correct me if I'm wrong.
By the way I saw what you mean in the Console Tab in FirebugIt's the "Invalid Object Initializer".
What is this mean? and how do I fix this?
Thanks in advanced again.
The red line shows a status message of "404 Not Found" so yes, it can't find that CSS file.
Here's the line that it's complaining about:
}).navGrid('#pager',{parameters}, prmEdit, prmAdd, prmDel, prmSearch, prmView);
What part of that line is the object?
Either, provide a proper object initialization, or remove the object.
.navGrid ?
Actually this is a JQuery Plugin, I'm not sure about the --> {parameters}The Documentation of jqGrid plugin is not really in detail.
I hope you can help me.
@paulBy the way this is the documentation.wiki:navigator - jqGrid Wiki
I'm not sure how to add the parameters?I hope you can help me out with this.
Thanks again in advanced.
Just remove it until you find a need to have some parameters there.
thanks, because of you the CSS is now working properly,My First Grid
Anyway my real problem here is to add the Edit and Delete buttons in the Navigator.
Paul have you tried jqGrid before? I'm just curious.
I haven't used this particular grid, but there are several jQuery grids that exist.See the jQueryUI blog post on unleash the grid where they list all sorts of other grids that they are taking inspiration from.
With your particular grid, go to its demo page, go to Live Data Manipulation and select Navigator.
You will see a live demo of it in action, along with the code used to achieve it.
Just want to share this to you also.Actually I found the jqGrid in this url,PHP Team: 10 jQuery Datagrid Plugins
It's the first grid in the list.
I'll try to review your Grid, I guess it's much more advanced and updated?
It will be, it doesn't exist yet. jQueryUI still have it under development.
The place to go for jqGrid demos is their demo page.
Cool, I guess this is very helpful,jqGrid Demos
I really did not found that.Thanks to you again paul.


text: Katie Riley's big idea has translated into big help for a destitute community. In 2009, she organized "Fierce and Fancy," an event where people donated old formal dresses for a fashion show and silent auction to raise money for a Haitian community. The Haiti Outreach Program and the UT Haiti Club will host its third annual fashion show and dress sale on Saturday, March 3.


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Trekking across frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia
Crossing a pressure ridge on the second day trek across frozen Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. .They are a group of five people: Justin Jin (Chinese-British), Heleen van Geest (Dutch), Nastya and Misha Martynov (Russian) and their Russian guide Arkady. .They pulled their sledges 80 km across the world's deepest lake, taking a break on Olkhon Island. They slept two nights on the ice in -15c. .Baikal, the world's largest lake by volume, contains one-fifth of the earth's fresh water and plunges...
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LISTEN: 9th Circuit hears oral arguments on marriage in Nevada & Idaho
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Today, September 8, the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit will hear oral arguments in landmark marriage cases out of three different states - Idaho, Nevada and Hawaii. Listen to audio from the oral argument later today.
Nikki and Sue's beautiful HI wedding
Postedon Feb 10, 2014 at 12:00 pm
When Nikki and Sue declared their love for each other in their beautiful ceremony, neither Hawaii nor their home state of New Jersey extended the freedom to marry to same-sex couples - now, both states do.
IN THE NEWS: Reflecting on 2013, and looking ahead to 2014
Postedon Dec 04, 2013 at 04:30 pm
In the past few weeks, discussion about the freedom to marry has thrived in some of the country's most widely read publications - and Freedom to Marry founder and president Evan Wolfson has been on hand to answer questions, offer insight, and provide perspective on this historic year.
Same-sex couples begin marrying in Hawaii as the freedom to marry takes effect
Postedon Dec 02, 2013 at 01:00 pm
This morning, December 2, the freedom to marry took effect in Hawaii, allowing same-sex couples across the state to finally share in the joys of marriage.
President Obama applauds Hawaii's approval of the freedom to marry
Postedon Nov 13, 2013 at 10:30 am
Last night, shortly after the Hawaii Senate granted final approval to the marriage bill that has been dated in the state over this month's three-week Special Session, President Barack Obama issued a statement applauding the decision.
The freedom to marry in Hawaii: A Victory 20 years in the making
Postedon Nov 09, 2013 at 04:00 am
On this historic day, we take a look at the far-reaching influence of that very first win in HI 20 years ago, tracking how it has shaped the marriage movement – and how it worked as a catalyst for the strategic vision of Freedom to Marry.
HI House Committees advance marriage bill to full House floor
Postedon Nov 06, 2013 at 11:30 am
Last night, after listening to five straight days of testimony, much from opponents of the freedom to marry who have attempted to stall the lawmaking process, the Hawaii House Committees on Judiciary and Finance voted overwhelmingly in favor of the freedom to marry.
WATCH: Soldier from Hawaii submits video testimony about why marriage matters
Postedon Nov 05, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Bryan Kawika La Madrid, an active duty soldier from Hawaii, is currently stationed in Texas, having previously served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He couldn't be at the hearings to testify about why marriage matters to him - but he took the time this week to record a sweet video about why he wants Hawaii to pass the marriage bill.
INFOGRAPHIC: Tracking the impact of the freedom to marry on Hawaii
Postedon Nov 04, 2013 at 12:30 pm
This week, The Williams Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles published a new infographic analyzing how extending the freedom to marry to same-sex couples in Hawaii would impact the state.
Hawaii Senate approves the freedom to marry; bill moves to House
Postedon Oct 30, 2013 at 06:33 pm
Today, October 30, the Hawaii Senate voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would extend the freedom to marry to same-sex couples in Hawaii. Now, the bill will be placed before the House, beginning tomorrow morning.


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Petraeus affair: the 'shirtless' FBI agent called Frederick and the socialite 'who could ruin you'
Published: November 15 2012 - 2:03PM
The "shirtless" FBI agent who started a probe into a friend's email complaint that led to the resignation of CIA director David Petraeus and an investigation into the top US commander in Afghanistan has been named, US media report.
Frederick W. Humphries II, 47, who reportedly sent topless images of himself to Jill Kelley, the Tampa socialite who complained about harassing emails, was described as a "'hard-charging' veteran counter-terrorism investigator who used his command of French in investigating the foiled 'millennium' terrorist plot in 1999", The New York Times reported.
His former colleagues told the Times he was a "solid agent with experience in counter-terrorism, conservative political views and a reputation for aggressiveness".
Mr Humphries is under scrutiny because of his links to Mrs Kelley. He was ordered to stay away from the Petraeus case when his bosses became afraid he had become obsessed with it, and later contacted a member of Congress as he was concerned the case would be buried to protect US President Barack Obama.
Kelley, Broadwell stripped of military access
The revelation came as Mrs Kelley, who was reported this week to have exchanged up to 30,000 pages of emails with General John Allen, was stripped of her privilege of visiting MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa - the home of US Central Command (CENTCOM) and US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) - without an escort.
Mr Petraeus's biographer Paula Broadwell, who had an affair with the former top spy and allegedly sent the harassing emails to Mrs Kelley, also had her security clearance revoked amid an FBI investigation.
'She's the kind of person who could ruin you'
At least one of the emails Mrs Kelley handed over to the FBI was sent to General Allen through an anonymous email account, NBC News reported.
The first email was reportedly sent in mid-May from an account called "kellypatrol" and included text that said: "Beware of Jill Kelley. She's the kind of person who could ruin you." The email also mentioned an upcoming meeting with Mrs Kelley, her husband and General Allen.
General Allen forwarded the email to Mrs Kelley and assumed it was a joke, a source told NBC.
Other emails, which investigators believed were sent from Ms Broadwell, also include messages such as "What kind of person are you?" and for Mr Kelley, "Do you know what your wife is up to?".
Broadwell had 'substantial classified data on computer'
The FBI investigation into Ms Broadwell, which has expanded beyond the emails to include classified information that she was allegedly in possession of, was warranted, law enforcement and national security officials told Reuters.
The officials said Ms Broadwell's computer contained substantial classified information that should have been stored under more secure conditions.
The contents and amount of the classified material - and questions about how Ms Broadwell, reserve officer in military intelligence, got it - were significant enough to warrant a continuing investigation, the officials said, Reuters reported.
Late Monday, FBI investigators searched Ms Broadwell's residence in Charlotte, North Carolina, an action that officials said occurred with her consent.
'No classified information disclosed'
During a news conference at the White House on Wednesday, US President Obama said there was no indication so far that any classified information had been disclosed as a result of the sex scandal.
Mr Obama also said that for now, he would refrain from judging whether he should have been told earlier than last Wednesday about the probe involving his CIA chief, who resigned on Friday just before the affair became public.
"I am withholding judgment with respect to how the entire process surrounding General Petraeus came up. We don't have all the information yet," Obama told a White House news conference.
The president noted that had he known earlier, he might have been open to accusations of interference in a politically sensitive law enforcement matter.
During the FBI investigation that led to the discovery of the affair between Mr Petraeus and Ms Broadwell, both individuals denied that Petraeus had supplied her with any classified information and the FBI accepted those explanations, law enforcement sources have said.
'What kind of person are you?'
Mr Petraeus, General Allen's predecessor in Afghanistan, agreed to testify to the US House intelligence committee as early as Thursday afternoon on the assault on Benghazi that killed the US ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
At the same time, the lawyer for General Allen, who succeeded Mr Petraeus in Afghanistan, said the military commander planned to "fully co-operate" with Pentagon investigators looking into the emails he sent Mrs Kelley.
According to a senior Pentagon official, the married general denies any sexual liaison with the Florida socialite, though the "sheer volume" of correspondence could amount to "conduct unbecoming an officer", AFP reported.
The offence is subject to court-martial under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Earlier on Wednesday, US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta, speaking in Perth, Australia, warned against jumping to conclusions over the actions of General Allen, a day after placing him under investigation in connection with the Petraeus scandal.
Ms Broadwell met Mr Petraeus when she was a graduate student at Harvard University who attended a lecture he gave. She travelled to Afghanistan to write a biography of the general.
The affair - both Ms Broadwell and Mr Petraeus are married with children - began last year after the acclaimed general who led international forces in Iraq and Afghanistan took up his CIA post.
It ended four months ago, according to a friend of Mr Petraeus.
An animated version of the retired four-star general appears in the freshly-launched military espionage action title Call of Duty: Black Ops 2.
Petraeus is promoted to US Secretary of Defence in the game, set in a fictional near-future, serving under a woman president who resembles Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State who is currently visiting Australia.
The game, and the role of Mr Petraeus, was created well before the sex scandal erupted last week.
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As we go into the Christmas break, some thoughts:
1) The NHL gets it right by shutting down for two days. What a disgrace it is that the NBA makes all those people go to work on Christmas Day.
2) I know I've said it before in games they failed to win, but I thought the Rangers played pretty darn well.
3) It speaks to the direction of this organization that in two consecutive games they've had to call up kids who didn't look even a little out of place. I think they've got to feel pretty good if they need Dale Weise or Mats Zuccarello again later on … and I'm sure they will.
4) How sweet was that Derek Stepan goal? And the pass by Brandon Dubinsky?
5) Obviously I have some problems with the first and third Tampa Bay goals. The first needs no words. Michal Rozsival had a complete brain-lock. The second goal, Stamkos made a good play on Dan Girardi's stick to turn the puck over. Then, how about that pass by St. Louis, and the bottle-popper shot by Stamkos? Wow. But the third goal, yes, Zuccarello needed to pick up a man in front. But why was Marc Staal in the corner on one knee trying to block a pass? And why was Dan Girardi at the side of the net, one one knee, trying to block the same pass when there were three Lightnings in front?
6) The shootout was pretty cool — how about the goals by Christensen and Zuccarello? — and yeah, everybody in the building was going nuts. But I still think it's a lousy, lousy way to lose a HOCKEY game that's been played so hard for 65 minutes. Lousy. Have I mentioned that before?
7) And I'm not exactly sure why Rozsival gets a call there in the skills competition, ahead of, say, Prust. And Staal.
8) During a favorite commercial, a question arose. Can anybody tell me the difference between a woodchuck, a groundhog and a gopher? Is there a difference?
9) Once again, I thought Matt Gilroy did just fine. You could definitely have a worse No. 7 defenseman (or no No. 7 defenseman, like last year).
10) Stamkos=Monster.
11) Both Anisimov and Frolov are coming on lately. I'm serious about Frolov.
I hope youse who celebrate Christmas Eve have a wonderful evening with special people tonight. And that Santa has you on his "nice" list. That might be a stretch in some cases.
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Superman soars in Philippines
Warner Bros Pictures International senior executives reported on Wednesday night [12] that Man Of Steel opened on $1.7m to set the biggest opening day in the territory's history.
The summer tentpole starring Henry Cavill and directed by Zack Snyder launched on 466 local screens and drew 347,626 admissions on Philippines Independence Day.
Studio sources said the superhero saga, which opens in North America this week, currently has more than 90% of local market share. The first-day local currency haul amounted to PHP 69.3m.
Man Of Steel is set to debut in 24 markets day-and-date with North America this weekend including the UK, South Korea and Mexico.
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Distributed intelligence
Sometime in the next year or so, companies are going to release control products that will dramatically change the landscape of the automation and process control industry in ways never dreamed possible.
ometime in the next year or so, companies are going to release control products that will change the landscape of automation and process control. These changes may be the most dramatic to hit our industry since 1975, when the introduction of distributed control systems (DCSs) completely upset the analog control apple cart, threw the established control industry into turmoil, and caused dozens of old, slow-moving control vendors to fail. By the time the DCS trend had swept the industry it had helped create a whole new set of control equipment suppliers.
The biggest difference now is that in 1975 Honeywell caught the rest of the industry with its pants down when it introduced the TDC 2000. This time, severalif not allof the control vendors have their R&D "skunk works" busy creating new distributed intelligence products, so it's likely most will come to the market at about the same time.
Essentially, a new type of control system is coming down the pike, and it promises to save you millions of dollars in hardware costs, provide access to the most advanced control and monitoring software at a fraction of today's price, eliminate security problems, and allow unattended process plant operations. What's more, it will be better suited to solving your problems than today's overly complex systems.
"The great thing about the control business today is the equipment and software is finally evolving to the point where we can make the solution fit the problem," says Edward Bullerdiek, control group leader at Marathon Ashland Petroleum in Detroit. "In the past we've always had to make the problem fit a usually imperfect solution. The user community knows how this ended up—usually not well."
Two technologies are involved: one at the bottom of the control pyramid and one at the top. One begets the other.
The first-generation Mote is a tiny (3x3 cm), battery-operated computer that communicates via wireless. It has a small operating system (TinyOS), and enough memory and hardware capability to perform control and monitoring tasks. The next generation Mote will be half this size.
The Dream Begins Here
The technology can put a web-enabled processor at every sensor and every actuator. As long as another mote is within 100 ft. or so, it requires no hardwired network. Hundreds of motes in a process plant can form a spiderweb-like mesh or sensor network that provides unlimited numbers of pathways to pass information back and forth. Such a network has multiple levels of redundancy because, if any single mote fails, dozens of others stand ready to move network traffic. (See "Developing Your Potential," Sept. '04, p57 and "Technically Speaking," Sept. '04, for a discussion of mesh networks and the Zigbee protocol.)
Similar devices are available. Mote is the term used for sensor nodes created by University of California Berkeley and their partners, including Crossbow and Intel. TinyNode is another example, which is a sensor/actuator node produced by Embedded Research Solutions, Annapolis, Md. A more generic term is a "sensor node."
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) calls all this technology "pervasive computing."
To keep it simple, we'll call them all motes and sensor networks for the time being. Whatever you call them, motes are the ultimate in distributed monitoring and control.
Consider the ramifications of a sensor network in your plant. What does it cost you to transport the output of a traditional 4-20 mA pressure transmitter to your DCS and then on to your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system? The 4-20 mA signal first has to run via a twisted-pair wire through a hazardous environment and intrinsic safety barrier to an A/D converter on an I/O board mounted on a rack in a NEMA 12 enclosure out in the plant.
From there, the signal is linearized, converted, massaged and otherwise processed by a remote terminal, PLC, or PC, and transmitted over the plant network to a central control room.
Now it gets tagged, identified, fitted with XML descriptors, and stored in the plant historian data base. Finally, another piece of software bundles it up with other data and ships it off to an ERP program. What is the total cost in hardware and software products--plus labor for engineering, configuring, installation, running cable and so on--to bring that one sensor point to the ERP system? It can vary and may range from $2,500 to as much as $10,000. Think about it. The cost of wiring alone is probably $50/ft.
The Point is Mote
With sensor networks, all you need is a $50 mote and an A/D converter. Hardware cost: $100 or less. If the vendor embeds a mote into the transmitter at the factory, the added cost is incremental; about $5. Micrel (www.micrel.com), for example, is offering its RadioWire RF Transceiver to OEMs for $4.50 each. Then, any processor with a DCS or ERP program that wants to see the pressure value simply calls up the IP address of the web server in the sensor and reads it with a conventional web browser.
"The concept behind motes is not unique," says Robert Jackson, PXI Product Manager at National Instruments (www.ni.com). "An example would be a computer with a wireless connection or radio modem." He likens them to the transducer electronic data sheet (TEDS) "smart sensors" defined by IEEE 1451.2-1997. "The key is that applications for smart sensors and motes increase as the cost and size of processors decreases. With the trend for faster and cheaper processors unlikely to reverse, it is important for process control applications to support PC-based technology. Motes will not replace all sensors, but smart sensors will play a role in specialty applications."
Today's control system architecture, from the sensors at the bottom to ERP systems at the top, are all dependent upon hardwired connections. (Source: SMAR)
Such a concept shakes the very foundation of the process control and automation industry, which is based on charging huge amounts of money for the specialized hardware, software and services traditionally required to acquire data from sensors and transmit commands to actuators (See Figure 2). Motes, sensor networks and pervasive computing threaten to replace all that infrastructurefieldbuses, proprietary networks, redundant networks, intrinsic safety hardware, cable, conduit, I/O boards, data acquisition hardware, enclosures and so onwith inexpensive wireless devices.
May the Force be With You
Control equipment vendors can rest easy for the time being, because motes are a few years away. "In three to five years, pervasive computing applications will start to dominate the technological market, much like the telecom industry dominated in the late â90s," predicts Dr. Stewart.
At present, the only functioning mote systems we know about are in laboratories, research facilities, semiconductor fabrication plants, and a ship. BP, for example, has outfitted one of its oil tankers with 160 motes to measure vibration in the ship's pumps, compressors and engines. At Intel's Ronler Acres semiconductor fabrication plant in Hillsboro, Ore., vibration engineer Mick Flanigan is working with motes and vibration sensors. It's all still in development, Flanigan says, but the results are promising.
"We are monitoring pumps, compressors, and other plant facilities equipment with vibration sensors," he reports. "Each machine has from 1-12 vibration sensors, and each sensor has a mote. The motes report via wireless to a central Stargate wireless processor, which converts the data from up to 12 motes and transmits it to a PC that runs Rockwell Automation's ENSHARE asset management software."
Flanigan reports that they have 210 sensors installed on 40 machines so far, and will eventually equip about 3,000 machines. The cost to equip a machine with six sensors is about $750 for the vibration sensors and about $250 for the motes, Stargate modem and enclosures, or about $1,000 per machine. To do it with conventional equipment would cost "about $8,000 per machine," Flanigan estimates.
The technology is not quite ready for prime time, though. You can buy the necessary hardware easily enough, but better hardware-to-software integration is needed. "We are probably a year away from having commercially available network components and the software to tie them to asset monitoring software," says Flanigan. "However, any reasonably competent engineer can put such a system together today. In my case, the tough part was dealing with the complex vibration data, not the motes."
Some automation companies have distributed intelligence projects in the works. "Rockwell Automation is working on technologies to propagate control capabilities as low in the architecture as required by the customer application," says Rockwell's John Weisenberger, a strategic marketing manager for Distributed I/O. "Over the next 2-3 years, it's likely that the next logical step beyond running many applications on a white box PC will be a migration into the controller rack. Additional functionality will migrate into the devices themselves. This, however, will require development of much simpler system management tools to increase the level of robustness, manageability and maintainability of such solutions."
As far as we know, no process control company or software vendor has yet to develop a product. They are mostly still at the talking stage. And waiting.
"Standards organizations such as ZigBee, the 802.15.4 committee, and the Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance (WINA) are all working to make wireless standards and products more appropriate for industrial applications," says Hesh Kagan, Consulting Engineer, at Invensys Process Systems. "Invensys is involved with the standards groups as well as WINA, helping to promote the acceptance of wireless solutions."
"Motes are a great concept, especially for independent field measurement and reporting devices," says James M. DiNanno, marketing manager at Schneider Electric (www.schneider-electric.com). "Motes are a concept for dynamic networks, where sensors talk to each other using embedded RF and smart technology. The addition of mesh networking also helps to create a robust self reconfiguring network topology. The best industrial application for this type of technology is redundancy, to assure reliability and to double-check the information being used before taking a control action which is gated by a master controller."
And, once the problems are solved, development tools are needed so you can actually use them. "The key will be to make the devices work out of the box to make installation easier and mitigate the need for site surveys," says Sierra. "As with any new technology, suppliers will need to educate end users of its technical aspects, advantages, limitations, and application identification and support."
Trough of Disillusionment
Michael Paulonis, instrument engineer at Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, Tenn., thinks motes are mostly hype. "Typically, emerging technologies quickly climb the hype curve and get a lot of, well, hype," says Paulonis. "Then, as reality sinks in and issues are exposed, the technology descends into a trough of disillusionment. Some technologies make it out of the trough and slowly climb to a plateau of productivity. I don't see the game-changing nature you describe for wireless distributed sensing and control. Granted, it will reduce installation cost, but that seems much more evolutionary than revolutionary."
While we wait for motes and pervasive computing, wireless products continue to make inroads into the hardwired scene. A study by Venture Development Corp. (www.vdc.com) predicts that spending on wireless networks will more than double from the $75 million spent in 2003 to more than $183 million by 2006. While we see little evidence that the hard core process control suppliers are making wireless products, a scan through issues of our companion publication, Industrial Networking, reveals plenty of companies offering wireless Ethernet products and systems.
How Low Can We Go?
Motes, wireless, fieldbus, pervasive computing, smart sensors, smart valves, and a host of similar intelligent devices raise the question: How low can we go? How far out can we push distributed control? Technology makes it possible to put an inexpensive processor at every sensor and actuator, and lets them talk to each other. But we don't need motes to do that: we can do it now with hardwired networks.
Systems integrator Ian Verhappen says we are on our way down: "The trend is to distribute down to the lowest level, as evidenced by research in networked motes," says Verhappen, director of ICE-Pros (www.ice-pros.com). "In the case of fieldbus, field-level control ensures single-loop integrity, minimizing the impact of a single point of failure. If properly designed, a fieldbus system's only significant point of failure is the home run cable."
Luis Trejo, an engineer for Emerson Process Management Mexico (www.emersonprocess.com), agrees. "I personally think the âfarther down the better.' The more intelligence is in the basic cell the better for the whole unit, mainly because of improvement in execution times and diagnostics information."
Even if you have the capability, you don't have to use it. Jorge Cano Carmona, a process control engineer at MetMex Penoles in Torreón Coah, Mexico, has Foundation fieldbus (FF), so he can distribute control as far out as he wants. "It is very important to choose when and where to put the control in a smart instrument," he says. "In my latest experience with FF instruments in two ammonia spheres, we discussed where to download the PID: In the controller or in the valve? We analyzed the process operation and choose the controller."
It was a tough decision. "The advantage of running the control loop at the valve allows for continuous operation if the controller fails," he admits. "However, if a failure occurs, most likely it will be the FF segment. It is more common to find a fault in a segment than in the controller, at least with the controllers we are using." To Carmona and MetMex then, there is no advantage to putting control at the valve.
Verhappen agrees that controllers are more reliable than the field devices. "Look at SIL ratings to confirm that," he says. "However, if the field devices fail, what do you have to control to—or with? The main impediment to field based control in my mind is that every PID algorithm in the field can be a different type, so that if you migrate control from one device to another, the tuning will be different. Some call it gain, others call it proportional band."
Distributing control to field devices is not a technical or hardware problem. Dave Holmes, marketing communications manager for Emerson Process Management, explains: "In the case of Emerson, the same algorithms that run in the controller also run in the final devices. This gives us the unique ability to move the execution of the control algorithm from the controller and back again without affecting how the control is executed."
"One significant advantage to running PID in the final control elements or sensors is the ability to have localized loop control at the process," he adds. "Should communications with automation system experience be interrupted, the backup link active scheduler in the H1 segment will continue to maintain reliable control locally."
Two problems raise their ugly heads when intelligence is distributed out so far:
1. How do devices from different vendors talk to each other?
2. Who's in charge here?
"The largest issue preventing the widespread adoption of digital control at the field level is interchangeability," says Verhappen. "This means the ability to truly exchange one manufacturer's device for another and get the same functionality. To be truly effective the networks need to be vendor-independent and therefore able to talk to each other, regardless of who makes them and what each one is saying. We still need to find a way to get everyone to agree to a common 'object dictionary' series of definitions. I believe that ISA, NAMUR, and the various fieldbus foundations have a role to play here."
Tom Mueller, director, Asset Optimization Marketing at ABB (www.abb.com) supports Verhappen's assertion. "The challenge right now, as more intelligence goes to the field devices, is finding a way to capture this intelligence and deliver it from the device to the user in a usable format," says Mueller. "The current standards are not consistent enough to use intelligence from multiple vendors effectively to get to the ânew frontier'—really taking this intelligence beyond control loops and PID and up to advanced control levels. Many customers have an interest in this opportunity to do much more with their field device intelligence, but they need a way to get this information back in a usable and understandable format."
Even if the information was readily available, who makes the decisions? Steve Lazok, manager of Technical Solutions Support at Yokogawa (www.yokogawa.com) lays out the problem: "The issue is, not where control executes, but where and how you manage the information and how to interact with control in the field. Where and how does an operator change a setpoint? Where, how, and to whom does device information, like its health, get reported? And then, who fixes any problems and by what means do these problems get fixed?"
DiNanno says the basic fault is in the distributed control concept. "The most notable weaknesses of distributed control are the lack of precise integrated software tools and ways to handle scenario-evaluation and decision-making processes," he says. "Since you may deploy many intelligent devices and these can operate autonomously, the number of scenarios and methods to manage and interoperate all these devices can become a very large and complex task. Better tools are needed to help manage these types of conditions in an easier way."
Todd Stauffer, marketing manager at Siemens Process Automaton Systems group, agrees. "To gather up all these inputs from distributed devices that may not necessarily be on the same physical bus, and provide this data to an embedded controller in a field device in real time without data latency issues is a major challenge, and perhaps out of reach today," says Stauffer. "This is reflected by the trend that while fieldbus adoption has shown an increase over the last 3-4 years, adoption of control in the field in real process plants have been relatively weak."
But wait! Getting all that data to distributed devices is exactly what motes and sensor networks do! They bypass all the fieldbus segment limitations, data latency problems, and vendor incompatibility issues. If a controller needs a particular sensor input, it just asks the sensor for it. Sensor networks may be the key to advanced control.
Making Advanced Control Possible
Control gurus, like our own Bela Liptak, keep telling us that multivariable control is the future. Instead of just dealing with a simple process loop, future control systems will develop models, consider everything that's going on in a plant, and make control decisions based on many interlocking and interdependent variables.
Some industries already rely on multivariable control. "Boiler-turbine control systems must deal with a high degree of process interaction, which requires the system to coordinate many different plant functions, from boiler inputs to generator output," says Roger Leimbach, marketing manager at Metso Automation (www.metso.com). "There are few independent control loops in a power plant automation system. Virtually all critical processes are interconnected, which requires constant communication, especially during load changes. Communication delays cannot be tolerated. Thus, pushing control functions down to the device level is not likely, nor recommended."
He continues: "Let's say that you have control algorithms in the valve tops and the brains and alarm notifications are distributed out into a thousand places around the plant. Where is the guarantee that these controllers are working toward a common purpose such as making money? How are they coordinated in such a way as to notify the operator, maintenance planner, technician, and engineer only if and when their process performance degrades and is no longer consistent with business objectives?"
Paul McLaughlin, director of architecture for Honeywell Process Solutions, adds: "One argument against extreme downloading of control is that process elements are multivariable dynamic systems. Decisions on control actions for multiple actuators must be undertaken in a coordinated way and based on measurements of multiple, sometimes hundreds of parameters. There are, therefore, good reasons for today's distributed control architectures with their separation of multivariable supervisory and univariable regulatory control. Complete distribution of control isn't advisable. But with technological advances steadily removing barriers to distribution, we can expect that problem and process characteristics will dictate distribution to a considerably greater extent than is possible today."
It looks like distributing control to ordinary field elements is good only in some cases. "Decentralized control is best suited for basic controls such as plain PID, cascade PID, feedforward and ratio," says Jonas Berge, marketing manager for SMAR (www.smar.com). "Although it is theoretically possible to do very complex loops in field instruments, the control cycle will get too long if too many blocks are chained in series. There is a magic sweet spot where field control is not most beneficial and where centralized control becomes advantageous."
Bullerdiek backs that up: "Any complex process that requires a high degree of coordination, such as batch processes and continuous processing units, will still benefit from centralized control," he says. "The regulatory loops might get pushed out to a fieldbus, but there will still be a reason for centralizing the higher level controls. The rule of thumb will likely be: wide distribution/low complexity equals highly distributed control, and close proximity/high complexity equals centralized control."
It is safe to say that batch control systems, continuous control, and advanced control of all kinds most likely will require some kind of centralized system to oversee everything. However, this does not rule out the use of distributed control, motes and sensor networks. If controllers need to obtain data from everywhere, why not through a smart sensor network?
"One of the most immediate benefits of being able to deploy many inexpensive wireless sensors across a process is a heightened ability to make inferential measurements," says Kagan. "Most process plants today take measurements at only about 10% of the possible points. Although they might get better measurements by taking measurements at more points, running the wiring and connecting the sensors is cost-prohibitive. But if the attachment and sensor costs were low enough, as mote technology promises, you could measure at many more points, giving you a much richer process model to work with."
Through the Hype Curve Smartly
Where does all this leave us? "I see this technology following a similar path as that of computing itself," says Paulonis. "The first powerful computers were mainframes. This is like a DCS. PCs might be like single-loop controllers. When networking reached the PC, we saw a huge shift away from mainframes. Perhaps something similar will happen with wireless distributed controllers. However, there were some real problems with managing gobs of PCs. There will likely be similar issues managing wireless distributed controllers as others have already pointed out. We now find ourselves with fewer, standardized PCs, a number of centralized servers doing a lot of work, and even a resurgence in mainframes. Personal computing has gone through the hype curve. Wireless distributed controllers will also. There will be circumstances where wireless distributed control is the best solution, others where centralization of control is a better choice, and yet other applications where the DCS approach continues to be advantageous."
Get Those IT Systems Out of Here!
It's obvious that all control systems require a central supervisory system to issue maintenance orders, advise operators that things require tending to, tune loops, acquire data, prepare reports, perform advanced optimization calculations, maintain the process historian, deal with ERP software, and otherwise perform the thousands of housekeeping and IT tasks required of a control system.
But here's the kicker: The housekeeping and IT systems do not have to be in the processing plant. They could just as easily be distributed upward to a computer center 6,000 miles away.
In the future, almost all the networks and hardwired devices in levels 0, 1 and 2 -- such as I/O boards, fieldbuses and device networks -- will be replaced with a wireless sensor network. Only real-time control functions will remain at the plant. Level 3 and 4 software will reside in a secure data center or "server farm" far away and communicate to the real-time plant systems via a secure Intranet.
With IT software on a server, you won't have to pay millions of dollars to buy advanced control, process historian, maintenance management, trending, adaptive control, process modeling and ERP software. Thanks to the Internet and client/server technology, you will be able to rent such software, and pay only for the capability you actually use.
Sound farfetched? Not hardly. As we pointed out in "Is Colocation Coming to the Process Control World?" May '01, p31, Siemens is doing exactly that in Germany. Its Haus der GieÃer (Foundrymen's House) Internet portal gives medium-sized foundry companies access to ERP, supply-chain management, MES, process data analysis, plant operation systems, maintenance and diagnostics software, plus systems to support purchasing, sales, production planning, logistics and more. All are in a single server, and all are configured specifically for foundry operations. Each foundry pays for whatever computer time it uses. Because they don't have to buy or maintain the software, German foundries save up to 70% of the cost of doing it themselves.
Honeywell does it too. "Honeywell Process Solutions offers monitoring services for control loops via the Internet through our LoopScout and AlarmScout services," says Paul McLaughlin. "More recently we have launched a remote performance monitoring via the Internet jointly with UOP."
"We provide underlying technology to many OEMs," says Lawrence Ricci, Business Development manager at Applied Data Systems. "While our client relationships in this area are confidential, there are OEMs who are actually distributing control internationally. These are OEMs who furnish a package process which is installed in thousands of industrial facilities worldwide. They take responsibility for the local control system as well as supervisory functions which are performed on the company's data servers in Europe."
There is absolutely no technical reason why all the IT software you use cannot be put on a server and rented to you for a 70% cost saving. Here's how it works:
- Your IT packages are hosted on servers at secure data centers, which are located close to a reliable source of power and high speed fiber. The data center could be at your corporate headquarters, a vendor such as Emerson, or at a "process control center," which would house software from multiple vendors, such as Honeywell, OSIsoft, SAP, ExperTune, and so on.
- You can have your own processors at the data center, or you can access the vendor's server hardware.
- You connect your plant to the data center in several ways for redundancy: via a private leased high speed Intranet, commercial Internet, and/or dial-up phone service. Obviously, when you communicate via your own high-speed leased line, security is exceptional.
Data from the sensor network is gathered at your plant by a central device, which communicates with the far-flung data centers. The concentrator device can speak to the data centers using encrypted messages. Commands and set point changes coming back to the plant can also be encrypted.
The advantages of such a scheme include renting instead of buying; freedom from upgrading your software every year; freedom from maintenance costs; no worries about hackers or system security; very high speed network operations; excellent reliability; and redundancy. All this has to be worked out in more detail, but the technology is here to do it all and more. Commercial Internet web sites do it every day.
"The computing and information management parts of control systems are not bound to physical processes," ABB's Hausler points out. "As an example, many parts of today's systems leverage standard IT technology, and could move this into a shared computing environment or even a rental model. There are significant potential cost advantages to this type of approach."
Indeed, costs are an issue. "For users this could be cheaper," admits Lazok. "For suppliers, cheaper may mean less revenue than if they could sell them, particularly on large installations, where license fees for software may be required yearly."
There is no question that IT software vendors oppose any changes to their comfy little world. Selling software for millions of dollars, charging hundreds of thousands to maintain it, and requiring periodic expensive updates is making vendors a fortune. But the IT world is rebelling out there. "The industry's dirty little secret is that, in many cases, their customers do not really need to install an entirely new CRM or ERP system," says Charlie Cooper, executive editor of CNET News. "Truth be told, many probably can't even use the one they already have."
Cooper says a customer revolt is looming, and IT buyers are looking for alternatives, such as open-source software or rent-an-application providers. We wish them luck, because their revolt will benefit our industry as well.
The Next Logical Step
The next logical step is to take engineers out of the process plants, and put them in central command centers, where they can supervise the operation of multiple plants. Server-based systems allow you to do just that. "I believe that you will see significant numbers of unmanned process plants all around the world," says Alex Johnson, Systems Architect, Invensys Process Systems. "We have been seeing it already in gas production plants since the mid â90s. In general, we will be removing people from the bad environments and running a lot more plants remotely. And I think we are going to see it occurring over networks that are not designed solely for the control system."
But that is another article.
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