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Employers in San Francisco received nearly $17 million in special business tax breaks from the city last year, with the biggest ticket corporate welfare categories being the Central Market Street and Tenderloin Area Exclusion — commonly known as the Twitter tax break after its catalyst and biggest beneficiary — and a tax break given to small businesses.
On Friday, the San Francisco Treasurer and Tax Collectors' Office delivered to the Board of Supervisors the required annual reports for seven separate programs that reduce the payroll tax burden on local businesses, most of them approved since Mayor Ed Lee took office. This year's corporate welfare total of nearly $16.8 million is up about $2.5 million from last year's total.
The Net New Payroll Exclusion, a small business tax break for businesses with an annual payroll of less than $500,000 created in 2012 by legislation authored by Sups. David Campos and Mark Farrell, last year allowed 2,488 businesses to reduce their city tax burden by $5,258,572.
By contrast, just 11 businesses in the mid-Market market reaped $4,243,997 in payroll tax breaks last year, the biggest being Twitter. Taxpayer privacy laws prevent the city from naming the businesses involved in these tax breaks, but Twitter was also likely the sole company that reportedly benefitted from the exclusion of $37,922,531 in stock options from its tax obligation, saving another $568,837 there.
Biotech and Cleantech businesses also enjoyed tax breaks for their new employees, saving $1,595,687 and $765,360 respectively. Enterprise Zone Tax Credits saved another 176 businesses $780,686 in their payroll tax obligations.
Despite a booming local economy and record low unemployment, the city itself is still wrestling with annual budget deficits that are projected to continue growing for each of the next five years, from $66 million in the coming fiscal year to $339.4 million in 2017-18, according to estimates from the San Francisco Controller's Office.
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New guidelines spell out what's appropriate for user-generated content from government.
Growing use of social media has government agencies scrambling to develop rules for their employees who blog, Twitter, Facebook or contribute to any number of other Web 2.0 networks. Utah state government is confronting that issue with a newly developed set of rules for appropriate social media use by public employees and state officials.
Utah's social media guidelines, released Sept. 29, offer thoughtful advice to state employees who participate in social networks. The guidelines offer tips for creating interesting and valuable content. They also warn employees to be honest and respectful in their postings, urge them to think before replying to comments, and remind them to follow state privacy laws.
"We want to make sure that when our agencies use social media, they do it responsibly and that they recognize the difference between social media as a private individual and social media as a public or government representative - that's not clear to some people," said Utah Chief Technology Officer Dave Fletcher. "We want to make sure that individual employees understand what is expected of them when they're posting as a government representative."
Fletcher, who is a prolific blogger and microblogger, said the guidelines take on growing importance as Utah government agencies embrace the use of collaborative, Web 2.0 networks. The Utah state portal includes more than 30 blogs from public entities, including 15 from state government organizations. And more than 200 Twitter feeds come from state and local agencies within the state.
"More and more our agencies are using social media, and there are increasing expectations from citizens that agencies will interact with them when they have issues and questions," Fletcher said. "So the agencies are being proactive in that, and it's also a way that agencies can tell their stories and share their services."
Fletcher said the Utah social media guidelines are the result of research and real-world experience.
"We looked at what other businesses have done, and we looked at the few government entities that had something," he said. "We also thought it through from our own perspective. We've used social media for quite a few years here. I started blogging in 2002, so I've observed the evolution of social media, and I've watched as people have gotten fired from their jobs for using social media incorrectly."
He recommends a similar approach to other public agencies that are developing acceptable use policies. "There's no need to recreate everything from scratch," said Fletcher. "Look at some of the early adopters, see what they've done and see if it makes sense for your organization. And then think about what you need to do to customize it."
One helpful example comes from the federal government, he added, pointing to the "Guidelines for Secure Use of Social Media by Federal Departments and Agencies" released last month.
Besides creating social media guidelines, Utah has chosen a standard set of Internet-based collaboration tools. For instance, Blogger is the preferred blogging tool, and Twitter is the standard Microblogging platform. The state prefers YouTube for video sharing and Flickr for photo sharing.
Fletcher said both the social media guidelines and collaboration platform standards were developed through Utah's statewide Product Management Council. The council, made up of state agency representatives, meets monthly to coordinate state Web portal activities.
"We don't have people using 10 different microblogging platforms, and 10 different blogging platforms - that tends to get confusing to citizens," Fletcher said. "We used to have agencies deploy multimedia in a dozen different formats. Now they just post it to YouTube, and we pick it up and display it through our aggregated multimedia site."
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Quality report for Attenuance from RRS Discovery D354 stainless-steel CTD
BODC warns of quality concerns regarding the beam attenuance channel in all data files. All profiles were found to be offset towards low values which often fell below the permitted range. The whole channel was flagged in all files as all data points were deemed untrustworthy in this context.
The data offests most likely arise from an outdated transmissometer calibration. The Originator confirmed that the latest instrument calibration dates back to 2001, hence nine years prior to the collection of these measurements. It was therefore agreed that the off-range shift of beam attenuance data cannot be corrected, however the relative change of this parameter with depth still holds scientific value.
Quality report for Backscatter from RRS Discovery D354 stainless-steel CTD
BODC warns of quality concerns regarding the backscatter channel in all data files. All profiles were found to be offset towards low values which often fell below the permitted range. The whole channel was flagged in all files as all data points were deemed untrustworthy in this context.
Checks confirmed that the correct coefficients from the latest sensor calibrations had been applied. It was agreed that the offsets cannot be corrected,and that the cause of inaccuracy is likely to be an outdated calibration. It follows that even though the single data values are not to be considered accurate, the relative change of backscatter with depth still holds scientific value.
Quality report for Transmittance from RRS Discovery D354 stainless-steel CTD
BODC warns of quality concerns regarding the transmittance channel in all data files. All profiles were found to be offset towards high values which often fell above the permitted range. The whole channel was flagged in all files as all data points were deemed untrustworthy in this context.
The data offests most likely arise from an outdated transmissometer calibration. The Originator confirmed that the latest instrument calibration dates back to 2001, hence nine years prior to the collection of these measurements. It was therefore agreed that the off-range shift of transmittance data cannot be corrected, however the relative change of this parameter with depth still holds scientific value.
Data Access Policy
Open Data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: "Contains data supplied by Natural Environment Research Council."
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Sea-Bird Dissolved Oxygen Sensor SBE 43 and SBE 43F
The SBE 43 is a dissolved oxygen sensor designed for marine applications. It incorporates a high-performance Clark polarographic membrane with a pump that continuously plumbs water through it, preventing algal growth and the development of anoxic conditions when the sensor is taking measurements.
Two configurations are available: SBE 43 produces a voltage output and can be incorporated with any Sea-Bird CTD that accepts input from a 0-5 volt auxiliary sensor, while the SBE 43F produces a frequency output and can be integrated with an SBE 52-MP (Moored Profiler CTD) or used for OEM applications. The specifications below are common to both.
|Plastic or titanium
0.5 mil- fast response, typical for profile applications
1 mil- slower response, typical for moored applications
|Depth rating
600 m (plastic) or 7000 m (titanium)
10500 m titanium housing available on request
|Measurement range
|120% of surface saturation
|Initial accuracy
|2% of saturation
|Typical stability
|0.5% per 1000 h
Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.
Instrumentation on cruise D354
Stainless steel framed CTD unit and attached sensors
A Sea-Bird Electronics 911+ CTD system was used, composed by an SBE11+ deck unit (serial number 11P-24680-0587) and an SBE9+ underwater unit (serial number 09P-31240-0720), the latter of which had last been serviced on 23 October 2008. The attached sensors are listed in the table below:
|Make / Model
|Calibration Dates
|Serial Number
|Primary sensor
|Temperature 2
|Secondary sensor
|Primary sensor
|Conductivity 2
|Secondary sensor
|CTG MKIII Aquatracka
|CTG MKII Alphatracka
|10cm path
|PAR irradiance
|CTG 2pi
|PAR irradiance
|CTG 2pi
|Light scatter
|WETLabs BBRTD
Sea-Bird Electronics SBE 911 and SBE 917 series CTD profilers
The SBE 911 and SBE 917 series of conductivity-temperature-depth (CTD) units are used to collect hydrographic profiles, including temperature, conductivity and pressure as standard. Each profiler consists of an underwater unit and deck unit or SEARAM. Auxiliary sensors, such as fluorometers, dissolved oxygen sensors and transmissometers, and carousel water samplers are commonly added to the underwater unit.
Underwater unit
The CTD underwater unit (SBE 9 or SBE 9 plus) comprises a protective cage (usually with a carousel water sampler), including a main pressure housing containing power supplies, acquisition electronics, telemetry circuitry, and a suite of modular sensors. The original SBE 9 incorporated Sea-Bird's standard modular SBE 3 temperature sensor and SBE 4 conductivity sensor, and a Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensor. The conductivity cell was connected to a pump-fed plastic tubing circuit that could include auxiliary sensors. Each SBE 9 unit was custom built to individual specification. The SBE 9 was replaced in 1997 by an off-the-shelf version, termed the SBE 9 plus, that incorporated the SBE 3 plus (or SBE 3P) temperature sensor, SBE 4C conductivity sensor and a Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensor. Sensors could be connected to a pump-fed plastic tubing circuit or stand-alone.
Temperature, conductivity and pressure sensors
The conductivity, temperature, and pressure sensors supplied with Sea-Bird CTD systems have outputs in the form of variable frequencies, which are measured using high-speed parallel counters. The resulting count totals are converted to numeric representations of the original frequencies, which bear a direct relationship to temperature, conductivity or pressure. Sampling frequencies for these sensors are typically set at 24 Hz.
The temperature sensing element is a glass-coated thermistor bead, pressure-protected inside a stainless steel tube, while the conductivity sensing element is a cylindrical, flow-through, borosilicate glass cell with three internal platinum electrodes. Thermistor resistance or conductivity cell resistance, respectively, is the controlling element in an optimized Wien Bridge oscillator circuit, which produces a frequency output that can be converted to a temperature or conductivity reading. These sensors are available with depth ratings of 6800 m (aluminium housing) or 10500 m (titanium housing). The Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensor comprises a quartz crystal resonator that responds to pressure-induced stress, and temperature is measured for thermal compensation of the calculated pressure.
Additional sensors
Optional sensors for dissolved oxygen, pH, light transmission, fluorescence and others do not require the very high levels of resolution needed in the primary CTD channels, nor do these sensors generally offer variable frequency outputs. Accordingly, signals from the auxiliary sensors are acquired using a conventional voltage-input multiplexed A/D converter (optional). Some Sea-Bird CTDs use a strain gauge pressure sensor (Senso-Metrics) in which case their pressure output data is in the same form as that from the auxiliary sensors as described above.
Deck unit or SEARAM
Each underwater unit is connected to a power supply and data logging system: the SBE 11 (or SBE 11 plus) deck unit allows real-time interfacing between the deck and the underwater unit via a conductive wire, while the submersible SBE 17 (or SBE 17 plus) SEARAM plugs directly into the underwater unit and data are downloaded on recovery of the CTD. The combination of SBE 9 and SBE 17 or SBE 11 are termed SBE 917 or SBE 911, respectively, while the combinations of SBE 9 plus and SBE 17 plus or SBE 11 plus are termed SBE 917 plus or SBE 911 plus.
Specifications for the SBE 9 plus underwater unit are listed below:
|Initial accuracy
|Resolution at 24 Hz
|Response time
|-5 to 35°C
|0.065 sec
|0 to 7 S m-1
|0.0003 S m-1
|0.00004 S m-1
|0.065 sec (pumped)
|0 to full scale (1400, 2000, 4200, 6800 or 10500 m)
|0.015% of full scale
|0.001% of full scale
|0.015 sec
Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.
Chelsea Technologies Group Aquatracka MKIII fluorometer
The Chelsea Technologies Group Aquatracka MKIII is a logarithmic response fluorometer. Filters are available to enable the instrument to measure chlorophyll, rhodamine, fluorescein and turbidity.
It uses a pulsed (5.5 Hz) xenon light source discharging along two signal paths to eliminate variations in the flashlamp intensity. The reference path measures the intensity of the light source whilst the signal path measures the intensity of the light emitted from the specimen under test. The reference signal and the emitted light signals are then applied to a ratiometric circuit. In this circuit, the ratio of returned signal to reference signal is computed and scaled logarithmically to achieve a wide dynamic range. The logarithmic conversion accuracy is maintained at better than one percent of the reading over the full output range of the instrument.
Two variants of the instrument are available, both manufactured in titanium, capable of operating in depths from shallow water down to 2000 m and 6000 m respectively. The optical characteristics of the instrument in its different detection modes are visible below:
|Chlorophyll a
|Wavelength (nm)
|Bandwidth (nm)
|Chlorophyll a
|Wavelength (nm)
|Bandwidth (nm)
* The wavelengths for the turbidity filters are customer selectable but must be in the range 400 to 700 nm. The same wavelength is used in the excitation path and the emission path.
The instrument measures chlorophyll a, rhodamine and fluorescein with a concentration range of 0.01 µg l-1 to 100 µg l-1. The concentration range for turbidity is 0.01 to 100 FTU (other wavelengths are available on request).
The instrument accuracy is ± 0.02 µg l-1 (or ± 3% of the reading, whichever is greater) for chlorophyll a, rhodamine and fluorescein. The accuracy for turbidity, over a 0 - 10 FTU range, is ± 0.02 FTU (or ± 3% of the reading, whichever is greater).
Further details are available from the Aquatracka MKIII specification sheet.
Chelsea Technologies Group ALPHAtracka and ALPHAtracka II transmissometers
The Chelsea Technologies Group ALPHAtracka (the Mark I) and its successor, the ALPHAtracka II (the Mark II), are both accurate (< 0.3 % fullscale) transmissometers that measure the beam attenuation coefficient at 660 nm. Green (565 nm), yellow (590 nm) and blue (470 nm) wavelength variants are available on special order.
The instrument consists of a Transmitter/Reference Assembly and a Detector Assembly aligned and spaced apart by an open support frame. The housing and frame are both manufactured in titanium and are pressure rated to 6000 m depth.
The Transmitter/Reference housing is sealed by an end cap. Inside the housing an LED light source emits a collimated beam through a sealed window. The Detector housing is also sealed by an end cap. A signal photodiode is placed behind a sealed window to receive the collimated beam from the Transmitter.
The primary difference between the ALPHAtracka and ALPHAtracka II is that the Alphatracka II is implemented with surface-mount technology; this has enabled a much smaller diameter pressure housing to be used while retaining exactly the same optical train as in the Mark I. Data from the Mark II version are thus fully compatible with that already obtained with the Mark I. The performance of the Mark II is further enhanced by two electronic developments from Chelsea Technologies Group - firstly, all items are locked in a signal nulling loop of near infinite gain and, secondly, the signal output linearity is inherently defined by digital circuitry only.
Among other advantages noted above, these features ensure that the optical intensity of the Mark II, indicated by the output voltage, is accurately represented by a straight line interpolation between a reading near full-scale under known conditions and a zero reading when blanked off.
For optimum measurements in a wide range of environmental conditions, the Mark I and Mark II are available in 5 cm, 10 cm and 25 cm path length versions. Output is default factory set to 2.5 volts but can be adjusted to 5 volts on request.
Further details about the Mark II instrument are available from the Chelsea Technologies Group ALPHAtrackaII specification sheet.
Chelsea Technologies Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) Irradiance Sensor
This sensor was originally designed to assist the study of marine photosynthesis. With the use of logarithmic amplication, the sensor covers a range of 6 orders of magnitude, which avoids setting up the sensor range for the expected signal level for different ambient conditions.
The sensor consists of a hollow PTFE 2-pi collector supported by a clear acetal dome diverting light to a filter and photodiode from which a cosine response is obtained. The sensor can be used in moorings, profiling or deployed in towed vehicles and can measure both upwelling and downwelling light.
|Operation depth
|1000 m
|2000 to 0.002 µE m-2 s-1
|Angular Detection Range
|± 130° from normal incidence
|Relative Spectral Sensitivity
flat to ± 3% from 450 to 700 nm
down 8% of 400 nm and 36% at 350 nm
Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.
WETLabs Single-angle Backscattering Meter ECO BB
An optical scattering sensor that measures scattering at 117°. This angle was determined as a minimum convergence point for variations in the volume scattering function induced by suspended materials and water. The measured signal is less determined by the type and size of the materials in the water and is more directly correlated to their concentration.
Several versions are available, with minor differences in their specifications:
- ECO BB(RT)provides analog or RS-232 serial output with 4000 count range
- ECO BB(RT)D adds the possibility of being deployed in depths up to 6000 m while keeping the capabilities of ECO BB(RT)
- ECO BB provides the capabilities of ECO BB(RT) with periodic sampling
- ECO BBB is similar to ECO BB but with internal batteries for autonomous operation
- ECO BBS is similar to ECO BB but with an integrated anti-fouling bio-wiper
- ECO BBSB has the capabilities of ECO BBS but with internal batteries for autonomous operation
|471, 532, 660 nm
|Sensitivity (m-1 sr-1)
1.2 x 10-5 at 470 nm
7.7 x 10-6 at 532 nm
3.8 x 10-6 at 660 nm
|Typical range
|~0.0024 to 5 m-1
|Sample rate
|up to 8Hz
|Temperature range
|0 to 30°C
|Depth rating
600 m (standard)
6000 m (deep)
Further details can be found in the manufacturer's specification sheet.
Originator's processing of CTD data from RRS Discovery cruise D354
Sampling Strategy
A total of 38 stainless steel CTD casts and 32 titanium CTD casts were deployed during RRS Discovery cruise D354, which was funded by NERC as part of the split award project entitled "Iron biogeochemistry in the high latitude North Atlantic / Irminger Basin Iron Study (IBIS)". All casts were deployed within 33 stations in the Iceland and Irminger Basins, occupied from 10 July 2010 to 07 August 2010.
No major problems were experienced on either CTD frames, however an offset of 0.02 in the secondary conductivity sensor on the stainless steel frame was verified by bottle salinity analyses.
Data processing
Four output files were created following each cast: a raw data file (.dat), a data configuration file (.con), a bottle firing locations file (.bot) and a header file (.hdr). The file names contained the cast number and the identifiers T or S for titanium and stainless steel frames respectively.
The first stage of processing for each cast was carried out using the SeaBird CTD data processing routines in the following order:
- Data conversion (DatCnv). Raw CTD files were read and converted from engineering units into binary format. Two output files were created: one containing CTD data from the whole profile (.cnv), the other containing CTD data at the instant of bottle firing (.ros).
- AlignCTD. Converted data files were corrected for the oxygen sensor's response time, which lags five seconds behind the pressure sensor. The output overwrote the .cnv file.
- WildEdit. De-spiking routine which overwrote the .cnv files.
- CellTM. Removed the effect of thermal 'inertia' on the conductivity cells using temperature measurements.
- Translate. The final .cnv files were converted from binary to ASCII format.
The second processing stage was carried out in the UNIX system of the ship using in-house processing routines. Two versions of all the processing scripts used were created, one for the stainless steel frame and one for the titanium frame (indicated in the command name as 's' and 't' respectively).
- ctds0/ctdt0. The ASCII .cnv files were converted into a binary format and header information was added, including the spatial coordinates of the CTD when it was at the bottom. The files were then averaged to 24 Hz.
- ctds1/ctdt1. Subroutines ran in PEXEC included pmdian , which removed residual spikes from all the variables, pavrge , which averaged the data to 1 Hz, pintrp , which interpolated absent pressure data values, peos83 , which calculated salinity, potential temperature, sigma0 and sigma2. The output files included both 1 Hz and 10 second averaged files.
- ctds2/ctdt2. The appropriate data cycles were manually selected out of the .1hz files using mlist . These were defined by the shallowest CTD depth after the initial 10 minute soak, the greatest bottom depth, and the last good point before the CTD is removed from the water. The data cycles were cut out using pcopya and averaged into 2db pressure bins. All CTD files were then merged with navigation to replace the manually entered position values with the accurate fixes.
- fir/firt0. The .ros files created from DatCnv were converted into pstar format. The relevant data from the 10 second averaged output files from ctds1/ctdt1 were then pasted into a new file containing the mean values of all measured variables at the bottle firing locations.
- samfir/samfirt. A new file was created, containing selected variables from the output files of fir/firt0 pasted into a World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) style master template. The "sam" files will be used in the calibration of the conductivity and oxygen sensors.
Sample Bottle Data
Text files containing salinity, oxygen and nutrient bottle data for each cast were processed separately but following the same steps. Sample measurements were converted into UNIX friendly characters, following which formatted files were created. The data were then pasted into one "sam" output file from samfir/samfirt per cast.
Salinity bottle data were used to calibrate the conductivity sensors on both stainless steel and titanium framed CTDs, whilst oxygen bottle data were used to calibrate oxygen sensors in the stainless steel framed CTD only, as no oxygen bottle data were collected from the titanium framed CTD on this cruise. A cross calibration between stainless steel and titanium framed CTD was carried out to calibrate the dissolved oxygen sensor from the titanium framed CTD.
Conductivity. Salinity samples were run using a 8400B Autosal Salinometer, and the UNESCO 1983 equation of state was used to convert the output salinity values to conductivity using both primary and secondary temperatures. Calibration coefficients were subsequently obtained and used to correct the sensor measured conductivities in the output files fromctds2/ctdt2 using the following equations:
The calibrated conductivity values resulted from inserting the A and B coefficients in the following equations:
Conductivity = A * (primary sensor conductivity)
Conductivity = B * (secondary sensor conductivity)
For the stainless steel CTD, the coefficients were set to A = 1.00012407 to calibrate the primary conductivity sensor, and B = 1.00061972 to calibrate the secondary conductivity sensor. The mean residual conductivity differences between the salinity sample conductivity and CTD sensor conductivity were 0.0000 ± 0.0020 for the primary sensor and 0.0000 ± 0.0024 for the secondary sensor. For the titanium framed CTD, the coefficients were set to A = 1.00027784 to calibrate the primary conductivity sensor, and B = 1.00023613 to calibrate the secondary conductivity sensor. The mean residual conductivity differences between the salinity sample conductivity and CTD sensor conductivity were 0.0000 ± 0.0011 for the primary sensor and 0.0000 ± 0.0012 for the secondary sensor.
Dissolved oxygen The stainless steel CTD frame was equipped with a SBE43 dissolved oxygen sensor which was calibrated against discrete oxygen samples measured via Winkler titration. The appropriate calibration was found to fit a linear regression between the sensor measurements and the sample measurements. The calibration equation thus obtained was: calibrated dissolved oxygen (ml/l) = sensor dissolved oxygen (ml/l) * 1.01454 - 0.05330 (ml/l). The mean residual after calibration was 0.0000355 ± 0.021 (ml/l), obtained by subtracting SBE43 oxygen measurements from the corresponding Winkler oxygen measurements. For the titanium framed CTD, no dissolved oxygen samples were collected, therefore a cross calibration with the stainless steel CTD was carried out to obtain the following calibration equation: calibrated dissolved oxygen (ml/l) = sensor dissolved oxygen (ml/l) * 1.0489 - 0.1404 (ml/l). The mean residual between stainless steel CTD and titanium CTD calibrated dissolved oxygen was -0.00002 ± 0.0369 (ml/l).
Processing by BODC of Stainless Steel CTD data on cruise D354
Data Processing
The data were processed and calibrated by the originator and arrived at BODC in a total of 38 ASCII format files, one for each stainless steel framed CTD cast taken throughout the cruise.
Most of the parameters in the originator's files were transferred into an internal file format using BODC standard procedures. BODC derived parameters such as potential temperature and potential density were automatically calculated and included in the internal format files, together with oxygen saturation.
Some parameters included in the originator's files have not been transferred into the internal format files, including - datacycle (number), day (DOY), hour (HHMMSS), potemp (deg.C), sigma0 (kg m-3), sigma2 (kg m-3), oxygen (ml l-1), oxygen_c (umol kg-1) and potemp2 (deg.c). These variables may have already been stored as metadata, or are automatically derived by BODC through standard procedures, or are additional derived parameters of limited use to the end user.
The following table lists all the parameters included in the internal format files, showing how the originator's variables as named in the ASCII files were mapped to appropriate BODC parameter codes.
|Originator's Variable
|Originator's Units
|BODC Parameter Code
|BODC Units
|Latitude north (WGS84) by unspecified GPS system.
|Originator confirmed degrees to be positive North.
|Longitude east (WGS84) by unspecified GPS system.
|Originator confirmed degrees to be positive East.
|Pressure (spatial co-ordinate) exerted by the water body by profiling pressure sensor and corrected to read zero at sea level.
|Originator confirmed that 'db' stands for decibar.
|Temperature of the water body by CTD or STD.
|deg C
|Practical salinity of the water body by CTD and computation using UNESCO 1983 algorithm.
|Salinity measured by the UNESCO 1983 algorithm has no units.
|umol l-1
|Concentration of oxygen {O2} per unit volume of the water body [dissolved plus reactive particulate phase] by in-situ sensor
|µmol l-1
|ug l-1
|Concentration of chlorophyll-a {chl-a} per unit volume of the water body [particulate >unknown phase] by in-situ chlorophyll fluorometer.
|mg m-3
|1:1 conversion from µg l-1 to mg m-3 to match the BODC parameter code.
|Transmittance (red light wavelength) per 10cm of the water body by 10cm path length red light transmissometer.
|Attenuance (red light wavelength) per unit length of the water body by 5 or 10cm path length transmissometer
|Attenuance due to volume scatter (650 nm wavelength at 117 degree incidence) by the water body by scattering photometer
|BODC units confirmed by the manufacturer's instrument guide.
|w m-2
|Upwelling 2-pi scalar irradiance as energy (PAR wavelengths) in the water body by 2-pi scalar radiometer.
|W m-2
|w m-2
|Downwelling 2-pi scalar irradiance as energy (PAR wavelengths) in the water body by 2-pi scalar radiometer.
|W m-2
|Saturation of oxygen {O2} in the water body [dissolved plus reactive particulate phase]
|Derived during transfer.
|Potential temperature of the water body by computation using UNESCO 1983 algorithm
|deg C
|Derived during transfer.
|Sigma-theta of the water body by CTD and computation from salinity and potential temperature using UNESCO algorithm
|kg m-3
|Derived during transfer.
Quality control flags were automatically added to data outside the expected parameter specific range during the reformatting process. All parameters in the internal format files were then visualised and screened using the in house software Edserplo, and any suspect data point was assigned a quality control flag.
The originator's files included temperature and salinity measurements from two sets of temperature and conductivity sensors mounted on the CTD. By default, the BODC reformatted files include parameters from only one set of sensors. The decision on which set of temperature and salinity measurements to keep is based on screening results. In this case, the measurements from the primary temperature sensor (SBE 3P #2729) and primary conductivity sensor (SBE 4C #2858) were deemed of better quality, as the data profiles had a lower level of noise and less data points were flagged. The originator's parameters 'temp2' and 'salin2' from the secondary temperature and conductivity sensors respectively are therefore not included in the final data files.
Fofonoff and Millard (1983). Algorithms for computations of fundamental properties of seawater. UNESCO Technical Papers in Marine Science No 44, 53pp.
Project Information
Iron Biogeochemistry in the high latitude North Atlantic - Irminger Basin Iron Study (IBIS)
Funding was provided by NERC, in the form of four standard (full Economic Cost - fEC) grants with a total value of £528,607. The project was a study of the iron (Fe) biogeochemistry in the high latitude North Atlantic, with the results providing a better understanding of the role that nutrients like iron play in the growth of phytoplankton cells in the ocean. The gathered data were intended to help computer modellers to design improved climate models that would allow for better predictions of the extent of climate change over the next hundreds of years.
Project dates - 21 June 2007 to 08 November 2013.
With the rise in carbon dioxide concentrations throughout the world, the importance of carbon-ingesting marine plants, such as phytoplankton is becoming more important. As phytoplankton take up atmospheric carbon dioxide, they are helping to reduce the atmospheric concentration. Recently it has been discovered that the phytoplankton in many of the world's oceans are lacking in iron. For example, in the Southern Ocean, phytoplankton cell growth is limited by very low iron concentrations. Thus, they do not remove as much carbon dioxide as they could. Recent studies have suggested that iron may even play a role in the phytoplankton growth in the high latitude North Atlantic, which was thought to be iron replete.
The main objective of this project was to study the iron biogeochemistry of the high latitude North Atlantic, assess whether community productivity in parts of the high latitude North Atlantic was iron limited following the annual spring bloom, and to determine the factors which lead to this situation. This project studied whether iron was limiting phytoplankton growth in the study area, by undertaking two cruises and taking samples of water, sedimenting material, and atmospheric dust and rain. The project also directly investigated whether iron is limiting the growth of phytoplankton in water samples from the study area.
ParticipantsOrganisations directly involved
- University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science.
- University of Liverpool, Earth Surface Dynamics.
- University of Essex, Biological Sciences.
- University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences.
- Prof. Eric Achterberg, University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science (Principal Investigator)
- Dr. Gary Fones, University of Portsmouth, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Dr. Richard Sanders, National Oceanography Centre, Science and Technology
- Dr. Christopher Mark Moore, University of Southampton, School of Ocean and Earth Science
- Prof. Richard Geider University of Essex, Biological Sciences
- Prof. Tim Jickells, University of East Anglia, Environmental Sciences
- Prof. Ric Williams, University of Liverpool, Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences
- Took samples of water, sediments, atmospheric dust and rain.
- Calculated the supply ratios of iron (Fe) to nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and carbon (C) to the surface oceans and in sedimenting material.
- Calculated the oceanic transfers of these elements using models.
- Assessed whether iron was limiting phytoplankton growth using both models and water samples analysis.
More information can be found within the Gateway to Research website.
Two research cruises
- RRS Discovery D350 - 26 April 2010 to 09 May 2010. Departed from Govan, UK and arrived in Reykjavík, Iceland. Study area: North Atlantic Ocean - Irminger and Iceland Basins. Principal Scientist: Dr. Mark Moore, University of Southampton.
- RRS Discovery D354 - 10 July 2010 to 11 August 2010. Departed from Avonmouth, UK and arrived in Birkenhead, UK. Study area: North Atlantic Ocean - Iceland and Irminger Basins. Principal Scientist: Prof. Eric Achterberg, University of Southampton.
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- VM ADCP 150 kHz
- Stand Alone Pump Systems (SAPS)
- PELAGRA - Neutrally Buoyant Sediment Traps
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Data Activity or Cruise Information
|Cruise Name
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|Arrival Date
|Principal Scientist(s)
|Eric Pieter Achterberg (University of Southampton School of Ocean and Earth Science)
|RRS Discovery
Complete Cruise Metadata Report is available here
Fixed Station Information
No Fixed Station Information held for the Series
BODC Quality Control Flags
The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:
|Below detection limit
|In excess of quoted value
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|Beginning of CTD Down/Up Cast
|Taxonomic flag for confer (cf.)
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|End of CTD Down/Up Cast
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|Extrapolated value
|Taxonomic flag for single species (sp.)
|Improbable value - unknown quality control source
|Improbable value - originator's quality control
|Improbable value - BODC quality control
|Null value
|Improbable value - user quality control
|Replacement value
|Estimated value
|Interpolated value
|Control value
|Excessive difference
SeaDataNet Quality Control Flags
The following single character qualifying flags may be associated with one or more individual parameters with a data cycle:
|no quality control
|good value
|probably good value
|probably bad value
|bad value
|changed value
|value below detection
|value in excess
|interpolated value
|missing value
|value phenomenon uncertain
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Subject description: Military-developed security on a live CD
Lightweight Portable Security is put out by the American Air Force Research Laboratory and is a live CD that boots straight to desktop.
It is designed for secure usage by civilians.
It runs as root. Distrowatch (where I read about it) is already complaining.
I am using it now straight to desktop and connected. Firefox working. Very good.
Looks like a very ancient xfree86 that Puppy used in the previous decade
(aprox ver 1 and before)
It contains mtpaint, flash, Leafpad and links to the US military complex.
It is very minimal and fast.
I would be interested if it is based on Linux from Scratch
or whether the US has another more secure version for infernal (ahem - internal use)?
I liked the encryption wizard and ease of use. It is very simple.
How does it compare with Puppy?
It is designed for a specific purpose and does it well.
We have a browser pup that is comparable.
It is very difficult to be objective but let me try.
Puppy is a lot better in every way - OK I tried
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Can it boot in frugal install on NTFS or does one have to resize the HDD and make a partition? Which would ruin the recovery partitions function?
I don't have DVD so no use having a CD. Sure I can try boot using USB that would be proper for a rescue gadget to have in the pocket just in case it is needed.
But would it be safe if one used a USB memory thumb?
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2011, 07:54
Post subject: LPS
Hi nooby
I tried this about a year ago.
Seemed safe.
But I felt locked in, but with who?
Hope this helps.
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2011, 08:50
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@ Lobster
Yes there is another version of LPS if you look on their website the version that they release is LPS "public"
@ nooby
There is no frugal install, it is designed to run live and that's it, unless they've changed something in 1.21
As I mentioned in another thread the one huge advantage that LPS has over Puppy as far as im concerned is the ability to use a smartcard/cac reader, I tried for a few months to get this working in Puppy to no avail and i have seen that a few other people have tried too without much success.
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2011, 10:36
Post subject: Smart Card Reader
If it is an RHS ENE Technologies smart card, then you need the
keucr module
Otherwise, you need to identify (use google) the brand of smart card reader that your computer uses and see whether the module source is available. If so, you will need to have the source compiled / compile the source yourself for the card reader you have and for the specific kernel the distro is using.
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2011, 10:54
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dpup5520 "
There is no frugal install, it is designed to run live and that's it, unless they've changed something in 1.21 "
Puppy are designed to run live too???
I mean AFAIK Flash our ModAdmin he run it that way???
Knoppix on my HDD runs live too and Porteus does it too. Even latest TinyCore runs live on my HDD and them designed to allow it AFAIK?
But sure I can be wrong about it. I am truly computer challenged.
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2011, 12:00
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@ myke
It's not that simple, coolkey doesn't work in Puppy either and I haven't been able to get it to work and there are other modules aside from just the smartcard drivers and coolkey required to get a smartcard device working properly.
@ nooby
My bad, What I meant to say is it is designed not to be installed on a harddisk and only to run live whereas Puppy can have a save file and keep persistant changed LPS will not.
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I downloaded last night and will be checking for frugal installability with ntfs!
However, usage will be limited due to its lack of persistence.
There is a deluxe version with Open Office as well. Quite how one configures that program to your liking without persistence is beyond me!
Even if the linux turns out to be no good I do like the idea of the download, system requirements info, quick start guide, faq, user guide all available from one page of the web. Puppy could learn something here!
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Posted: Tue 05 Jul 2011, 08:38
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Thanks to all for answering my naive questions.
I guess the most important thing for them is to make a CD or DVD that can be used in a secure way.
Booting from USB or HDD maybe is not part of their goals?
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you can boot from usb but only as a live usb, as far as i know anyway
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Testing complete.
DPUP5520 may say there is no frugal install and the documentation may say it does not install to hard disk and is designed to run live but ...
LPS runs as a frugal install on an NTFS partition. Just have to do it manually.
Couldn't test on my FAT32 desktop but I am sure that wouldn't be a problem either if I had enough memory.
Copy vmlinuz and initrd from the iso to a folder on your partition.
I use folder lps121 in the first logical partition in the extended partition.
the bits to add to the menu.lst for grub4dos are:
title Lightweight Portable Security 1.2.1
kernel (hd0,4)/lps121/vmlinuz load_ramdisk=1 ramdisk_blocksize=4096 root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=524288 console=ttyS3 splash=silent vga=791
initrd (hd0,4)/lps121/initrd
Note: the bold bit is all one line
You obviously change (hd0,4)/lps121 according to partition and folder name.
LPS is interesting but limited by its lack of persistence. Configuration changes stick only for the current session. Being provided by the American Air Force it assumes users are American with American keyboards and speaking American. It worked with my laptop intel 855 graphics and basic touchpad functionality. Touchpad scrolling was not available.
It does not appear to use compression which means the whole iso is larger than Puppy for very little in terms of applications. It also means the memory requirements are silly, compared to the Pup. It would not run on my 128MB dsesktop because the main file (initrd) was bigger than that. The System requirements suggest 512MB RAM for the public version and 1GB for the Deluxe version.
It includes flash but no other multimedia codecs and the flash is only playable within the browser.
I'm told it includes Java but I have not tested that.
In my opinion its usage is for a browser based OS. I would not use the deluxe with Open Office because the lack of persistence would undoubtedly limit what I could do with such a complex package.
One thing I would say. It is slightly more secure than Puppy when operated as a frugal install. Puppy will mount the partition where the frugal is installed and it must remain mounted during the session. LPS does not mount the partition. In fact, I found it impossible to mount any hard drive partition. It may be possible but I don't have the knowledge. My USB stick was recognised and mounted when plugged in so a mount facility exists but how to mount a hard drive partition is beyond me.
Running as a Live CD, LPS is no more secure than Puppy.
All the documentation accessible from the LPS home page is also available in the OS.
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ICPUG much appreciated test and info based on it then. A true Gem indeed.
I mean Air Force them would not put in back doors or something on that software
I have tested it now on my small Netbook Acer D250.
Very interesting that them have done it so well that everything just worked. Okay did not test using wireless or Cam or such.
But it found the IP through the Router directly and the resolution and it booted real fast too. I did not test if it could do the streaming of local TV station though.
Ooops I am a poor reader of text. Now I finally see this part. Haha
"In fact, I found it impossible to mount any hard drive partition."
Yes indeed that seems not to be allowed. I asked whoami and it answered root but no access to hdd at all.
So it is a secure thing but not a rescue thing then. So it is for secure browsing and that is a good thing too.
Edit I have read more at their site now and it is for being more secure when one browse so no need to access hard disk
But one had to agree to something. I have not read that one. Do them keep record of us using it?
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appriciate the testing on the new version of LPS and have gotten around to confirming your results. LPS does have some silly requirements but for me is a great os for se urely browsing using a smartcard which is its main purpose anyway.
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LPS appears to be a focused-purpose system, with secure communication its purpose focus. It is for its purpose focus it is more restricted than puppies, and for it, too, it appears, that it has SmartCard capability. The SmartCard reading is for CAC (Common Access Card) capability, which allows the card-owner to access a specific network per instructions on the card. In the case of LPS DoD (U.S. Department of Defense) networks.
The LPS system allows secure access from any computer by ignoring everything on the computer except the RAM and CPU. Everything saved is saved to RAM, in what is essentially a ram tmp file. It appears that where LPS is run from an iso installatiion on a harddisk partition the partition is mounted, so saved files might be manually movable from ram storage to the partition, or a file made on it? The LPS recommended save method is save to a separate USB stick. the stick auto-mounts and appears available when inserted. It is not the stick the OS is running from, when it is run from USB. I don't know if the separate save device is enforced (the whole LPS OS stick being formatted read-only) of if it's recommended. USB sticks can be formatted into partitions, so a second partition might be usable as a save stick. The stick-save feature is apparently left-over from before DoD protocols made saving to sticks verboten (for security against WikkiLeakers, among others, it is presumed).
The FAQs, available through the "troubleshooting" link are interesting. One answers if LPS can be installed to another operating system, saying, in part, "LPS is a turnkey solution that uses a Linux bootable CD to turn your existing computer into "virtual GFE" (Government-Furnished Equipment) by booting a trusted operating system and not mounting the local hard drive."... Does this mean your computer becomes "government property" for the duration???
The security advice they offer is good: The system is for security, not comfort, so personalization is minimal, and nothing is saved, except what the operator deliberately saves (at least on the machine piggy-backed on, in a twilight-zone computer-rack in the Pentagon somewhere...who knows...). The recommended first-line security maneuver is to reboot, restart without any vermin that may have climbed aboard. Because Puppies run from a virtual ramdisk (copied from the main SFS) this works with Puppies, too, with the additional caveat that for you have to flea-bomb your save-file, too, for a total and positive cleaning.
The LPS developers might be good for info to get SmartCard capability for puppy, since they have set it up for CAC. CAC capability, being usable for security (opening a virtual tube) would be a good idea for any computer that connects to a network through the net.
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LPS appears to be a focused-purpose system, with secure communication its purpose focus...
The FAQs, available through the "troubleshooting" link are interesting. One answers if LPS can be installed to another operating system, saying, in part, "LPS is a turnkey solution that uses a Linux bootable CD to turn your existing computer into "virtual GFE" (Government-Furnished Equipment) by booting a trusted operating system and not mounting the local hard drive."... Does this mean your computer becomes "government property" for the duration???
Don't think so, but you've given a fine synopsis. I would think the GFE item is a bit of legalese, assuring the user that they are operating in a government approved manner on whatever machine they happen to be using, and not, one supposes, to be held responsible for any security breach.
LPS is interesting. Boots right to desktop, connect to internet automagically through ethernet, and miracle of miracle, has sound right off the bat. (one of the few persistent criticisms of more recent Puppies). Some items from the FAQ:
What other utilities are included with LPS-Public?
LPS includes some useful minor personal productivity utilities with graphical interfaces:
* PCMan File Manager – file explorer
* Leafpad – text editor
* gpicview – image viewer
* xPDF – PDF file viewer
* Adobe Reader – PDF file viewer (Deluxe only)
* LXRandR – monitor configuration tool
* galculator – desktop calculator
* mtPaint – pixel-based paint program
* OpenOffice – office productivity software (Deluxe only)
We have also included some connectivity software:
* OpenSSH – secure shell, allows command line access to remote systems
* rDesktop – remote desktop
* Citrix Receiver (ICA manager) – Citrix client
* NetworkManager – network manager
Why is LPS secure?
LPS allows you to use the network without relying on a potentially compromised operating system. LPS does not include drivers for accessing the local hard drive, so LPS is insulated from any malware locally present. LPS runs a modern Linux kernel with minimal services. In the remote event that LPS is compromised, either directly or by visiting a site that exploits the software, remediation is as simple as a reboot.
Why do you permit USB storage?
LPS-Public was originally created as a demonstration of our security tenets before the DoD flash memory ban. The primary use case for LPS-Public originally was for people to use their home computers to conduct sensitive personal transactions, such as home banking. To permit users to save local files, we included the capability to use personal flash sticks. CAC support was included later as more people requested it.
and yes, I'm posting this from LPS. It's kind of a one trick pony, really, and you won't be doing many of the things you can do with a good Puppy from a Live CD, the apps simply aren't there. But I was able to check Gmail, Yahoo News, and watch some video reports on the Tour de France site as well as the BBC. LPS is what the stylish spy-about-town should have in their CD case circa 2011.
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Nissan continue to advance technologies that will be integrated into future electric vehicles, stay tuned for future local announcements in this space.
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For fans of Gibson guitars, there are a few names in the company's long history that are revered. The most obvious is Orville Gibson, the eccentric founder of the company, who, without any woodworking experience, designed and built some astonishing mandolins, guitars and lyre guitars around the end of the 19th century. There's Lloyd Loar, who came to Gibson in the early 1920s with an engineering background and made some remarkable revisions to Gibson's lines. In fact, Loar's place in Gibson history is so significant that his signature in an instrument from his time period makes it worth tens of thousands of dollars more than the same instrument without his signature.
You've also likely heard of figures like Seth Lover, who invented the humbucking pickup in 1957, and Ted McCarty, whose direction in the early fifties led Gibson to its commercial pinnacle. And then there are the people who are known by a devoted minority who kept the Gibson name and reputation alive as the brand expanded and matured. James "Hutch" Hutchins was instrumental in keeping the sixties' way of producing Gibson archtops alive in the seventies, eighties and nineties – his recent retirement has left a sizable void in Gibson's archtop production world and has kept the fish in Lake Michigan trembling in fear.
Ren Ferguson falls into this latter category; while he keeps a low profile, he is primarily responsible for some of the most elaborate flattops to come out of Gibson's Bozeman, Montana plant – officially titled "Gibson Guitar Montana Division" – and arguably for some of the most elaborate flattops in the world.
That may seem like hyperbole, but it's not. Gibson dealer, Mike Fuller, of Fuller's Vintage Guitar in Houston says of Ren, "He is simply one of the greatest luthiers of all time. His guitars will be sought after for a long time to come." Likewise, Dick Boak of Martin Guitars in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, says of Ferguson, "Ren has been our friend for several decades and we have great respect for him as a luthier and as an individual. We have let him know on several occasions that there might be a position here for him, but he loves Montana too much to leave it."
"I revere Ren as a superb craftsman," says Mike McGuire, director of operations for Gibson's Nashville plant. "Plus, he is just a great guy." Comparisons between Ren Ferguson and Lloyd Loar are frequent and well deserved. Both Loar and Ferguson have taken big liberties with the design of Gibson instruments, and both men placed intense scrutiny on the physical structure of the instruments they revised. Loar changed the bracing inside the F-5 mandolin from a single cross brace in the round soundhole version to two vertical, parallel "tone bars" or braces in the the revised F-5.
Additionally, Loar changed the openings to F-holes on the F-5 mandolin, the K-5 mandocello, the H-5 mandola and the L-5 guitar. Ferguson, on the other hand, took LeRoy Parnell's 1930s L-00 to a chiropractic office to have an X-ray taken of its bracings so he could understand just what made it so special of a guitar.
"I'm really flattered by the [Lloyd Loar] comparison," says Ren. "Loar brought a engineering background to Gibson and I brought an experience background with me. We are both musicians, too."
The praise for Ferguson's work isn't just limited to those within the guitar industry. Between 500 and 600 orders come into the Bozeman plant annually with a request for Ren's signature on the label inside the soundhole. Ren is glad to oblige because his signature is now in such demand that it helps sell guitars from Gibson Montana. Perhaps modern day investors are speculating that the value of the Ren Ferguson period at Gibson Montana will equal or exceed the Lloyd Loar period of Gibson in the twenties, but what is certain is that guitar investors are betting on the future. In the years to come, the time to do the elaborate inlay Ren does, and the materials used for that inlay, will become more scarce. Solid abalone is hardly ever used anymore, so Ren's involvement not withstanding, these "Master Museum" models, as Gibson calls them, will definitely appreciate in value for years to come.
The Beginnings
Ren was originally born Lawrence Ferguson on February 26, 1946, in Detroit, Michigan. As was family tradition on his father's side, all first born males were to be named after their paternal grandfather – in this case, Ren's grandfather, Lawrence. Not a big fan of the nickname "Larry," Mrs. Ferguson intervened, instead giving him the nickname, "Ren," after a favorite artist. "My mother, who had been an artist at Disney for a while, had a great admiration for an airbrush artist named Renwick," he recalls.
Ren began his luthier career, as it were, in shop class at Westchester High School, in Westchester, California. By the early sixties Ren had a Harmony guitar and his brother had a banjo – both rather poor excuses for instruments. Ren decided he could make a banjo in shop class for his brother. "I had no idea how complicated instrument building was back then," he says. "I soon found out how critical tolerances had to be for frets and bridges and the like." Ren's father had a furniture business with a spray booth in it, and he got to experiment with refinishing wood furniture that people would trade in – in addition to plenty of Nocasters and Telecasters. "I ruined a lot of potentially expensive guitars back then," Ren recalls.
While arthritis in his left hand has made things more difficult, Ren continues to do much of the inlay work in Boseman.
Later in high school he took a job selling guitars at a local music store, Westchester Music, which is now part of the runway at LAX airport. Westchester Music was a big store with a large record department in those days; they offered lessons on piano, organ, guitar and most any other band instrument. The store had a large rental department, and Ren was kept busy. "I learned a lot about what it takes to keep band instruments in service," he explains. "The airport would break about one guitar a day, and they would ask us to replace the instrument or repair it. Often the passenger would sell me his broken guitar or even give it to me after being reimbursed by the airport for the damage – I had a big stack of guitars from airport passengers. Back in those days it was easy enough to get a brace from Martin or a neck from Gibson." Ren cut his luthier teeth learning how to rebuild these broken guitars before taking a brief hiatus from Westchester to sell Dobros for the Dopera family. "I would hustle Dobros on the street, in clubs or wherever there were musicians I could demo the instrument to. I even designed a thin profile Dobro we called the 'Californian,' which was going into production about the time that the company was bought up by Mosrite and Buck Owens and ultimately moved to Bakersfield," he says. Eventually he set up classes teaching guitar and mandolin building in California before being drafted. While in the Navy he met two brothers, the Millers, who kept telling him how beautiful Montana was; soon after his discharge from the Navy in February of 1969, he traveled to Montana for his first Mountain Man Rendezvous, an event where men cavort as rugged outdoorsmen from days gone by.
"I still wonder what would have happened to me financially if I had stayed in California and built guitars, instead of coming up here to Montana to eat dirt and chew grass," he says. Ren wonders if he would have had Bob Taylor's place in history as the premier California guitar maker.


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What do two men battling with a chain and a machete have in common with a tow truck engulfed in flames? Police in Fairfax County, Va. are still trying to figure that out.
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I've been taking birth control pills for almost seven years and decided to stop taking them as of my last cycle last week. What kind of changes should I be expecting? How long will it take for my body to get used to not having the hormones? In the past few days, I've been feeling very edgy, tired, and with on and off headaches. Is it true that once you withdraw from birth control pills, you may actually lose a few pounds?
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Birth control pills work by tricking your pituitary gland (the hormone control center in your brain) into thinking you're pregnant, thus prompting it to turn off the ovulation switch. When you go off the pill, it usually takes between one and three months (and on rare occasions up to two years) for your pituitary gland to reestablish communication with your ovaries and start producing hormones again. During this time, your menstrual cycle will return to its pre-birth control pill state; however, don't be surprised if your period doesn't return right away. This potential post-pill amenorrhea (lack of a menstrual period) is even more reason to be diligent with other forms of birth control now that you're pill-free.
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I got lost in the screen
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The folks that were old enough to grow up with a rotary
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Octomom and IVF – before June of 2008
- In June of 2008, Nadya Suleman was a single, unemployed mother of 6 children
- According to reports, she was receiving some "public assistance"
- All six of her children were reportedly conceived through in vitro fertilization
- All 6 kids were under 7 years old, including 2 year old twins
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- In June of 2008, her IVF doctor transferred 6 frozen-thawed embryos to her uterus.
- Apparently, all six embryos survived – and 2 split into identical twins – so she ended up with eight fetuses growing in her uterus.
- Nadya declined having a fetal reduction procedure. Reduction can be done to selectively reduce the number of fetuses.
- The vast majority octuplet pregnancies would be expected to result in death of all fetuses after a severely premature birth.
- In her case the pregnancy progressed to viability. All 8 babies were born (prematurely) in January of 2009.
- This is apparently only the second living set of octuplets ever born in the United States.
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Visionworks, one of the leading providers of eye care services in Pennsylvania, is hiring a full time Optometrist in our Johnstown, PA location.
With Visionworks, you can enjoy the benefits of being a Doctor without the hassle of running the business! We handle all the insurance billing, credentialing, staff hiring & training, administrative work, etc. with no on-call or after hours work. Visionworks has been described as the closest thing to private practice without having the headache of running an office! The exam rooms and pretest are outfitted with excellent equipment to take care of your patient's primary-care needs. OD techs will work up your patients and provide CL care and fittings. Visionworks does everything we can to ensure our Doctors have great careers.
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APD planning to keep streets safe on New Year's Eve
Police depending on new technology to track troublemakers
It took less than an hour last year before 2012 started with a burst of violence that unfolded in downtown Albuquerque.
"There was -- I would say eight or nine gunshots, and that's when I seen a guy laying on the ground. It's unfortunate, I hope he makes it" said one witness.
One man was shot in the legs, and another man was stabbed several times in the chest.
So APD wants to make sure that violence doesn't hit the streets downtown for another year.
"The Albuquerque Police Department is going to be out here in full force, and we will react swiftly to remove the individuals who are here to cause problems," said Officer Tasia Martinez.
Along with saturation patrols, mounted units, and extra uniforms on the street - APD hopes a new surveillance system will make crooks think twice about causing trouble downtown.
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Antiochian.org Launches Youth and Family Section
The Antiochian Archdiocese is home to a range of ministries laboring for the sake of our youth and our families. Although all of these programs together encompass a broad range of activity and age groups, all share the same goal: to encourage full participation in the life of the Church through worship, witness, service, and fellowship. All of these ministries are looking for ways to build up our youth and help Orthodox parents navigate the challenging parenting climate of today.
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