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Air Service Basel's continuing airworthiness management organization (Camo) status has received approval by the Civil Aviation Authority of the Cayman Islands. It is now authorized to provide continuing airworthiness reviews for all Cayman-registered Gulfstreams, Bombardier Challengers, Global Express, and Learjets, Dassault Falcons, Cessna Citations and Embraer Legacy 600/650s. It has been an established EASA and Bermuda BDCA-approved Camo+ organization for several years and holds both EASA and FAA repair-station approvals.
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The civil aviation authorities for mainland China, Macau, Canada and the Cayman Islands have accepted Hongkong Jet as an approved aircraft maintenance organization. They follow recognition by the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department. "With the strong growth in business aviation in mainland China and customers' increasing level of sophistication, more customers on the mainland are requesting maintenance services to international standards as they travel to Hong Kong and beyond," said Chris Buchholz, CEO of Hongkong Jet.
Greenwich AeroGroup has named Ralph Kunz as general manager of Summit Aviation. Kunz has more than 20 years experience in aerospace operations. He will be responsible for operations at Summit's Middletown, Del., and Somerset, Ky. facilities. Kunz most recently served as vice president of operations for Airborne Tactical Advantage. Previously he held senior leadership positions with Keystone/Sikorsky Helicopters, Vector Aerospace and Parker Hannifin.
The FAA is proposing an airworthiness directive for variants of the Bombardier Challenger 600 and 601. There have been several reported incidents of jamming/malfunctioning of the left-hand engine thrust control mechanism on the affected airplanes.
The Jet Aviation Sorocaba FBO and maintenance facility of Jet Aviation has been rebranded as Gulfstream Brazil. Both companies are owned by General Dynamics. The 20 employees, including nine maintenance or avionics technicians, will remain in place. The Sorocaba facility joins two more international service centers: Gulfstream Luton, north of London; and Gulfstream Beijing, scheduled to begin operations later this year.
Air Works India Engineering has made an investment in Dubai-based Empire Aviation Group. EAG offers aircraft sales, management, charter, finance and insurance. "The acquisition will help us establish a significant footprint in the Middle East by providing maintenance to EAG's fleet of managed aircraft. In return, EAG will provide aircraft management services to Air Work's customers in India," Vivek Gour, Air Works managing director, told AIN.
The Bombardier Challenger 601-1A/3A/3R and 604 have been added to Banyan Air Service's FAA Part 145 repair station approval at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, as well as to its EASA certification and Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela approvals. "We have a large customer base and as they transition into larger aircraft we intend to augment our capabilities to be able to continue to offer them service and support," said Paul Rose, Banyan's vice president of technical sales.
Jet Aviation Basel said it will save as many as 60 jobs previously slated to be eliminated. A Swiss labor law-mandated consultation phase resulted in 115 employee suggestions on how to reduce the cuts. Last September AIN reported Jet Aviation would axe up to 300 of the 1,565 jobs at its Basel completions facility over a 12-month period as part of a larger cost-cutting program.
Vector Aerospace recently acquired Pratt & Whitney Canada's A'Asia wholly owned subsidiary in Brisbane, Australia. According to Brian Thompson, Vector's senior vice president commercial, "Vector is buying the 30,000-sq-ft facility and all its assets. It will officially be a P&WC PT6 designated overhaul facility and will hold FAA, EASA and Australian CASA approvals." P&WC will retain the name A'Asia, so the facility will be rebranded as Vector Aerospace. Thompson said it is the company's first infrastructure-based investment in the Australian/Asian market.
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Definition of mass spectrograph in English:
mass spectrographSyllabification: mass spec·tro·graph
A mass spectrometer in which the particles are detected photographically.
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- Infrared spectra and mass spectrographs of organic compounds are typically very detailed, offering a unique 'fingerprint' that can be used to identify the presence of the compound.
- Within two decades of inventing the mass spectrograph, he succeeded in identifying 212 of the 281 naturally occurring isotopes of all the elements.
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CROWN POINT | The Crown Point High School RoboDogs competed at the FIRST Robotics Crossroads Regional Competition at Rose-Hulman in early April.
Dean Kamen, the founder of FIRST Robotics and a famous inventor (most known for the Segway) was in attendance as was Glenda Ritz, Indiana Superintendent of Education.
The RoboDogs competed against 49 other teams from four states.
The CPHS students and mentors worked 30-plus hours per week including all day every Saturday designing, programming and building their robot. They faced some incredibly stiff competition and learned a great deal again this year, not only about Java, CAD and building skills, but about the interpersonal relationships of working together as a team.


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Presto Chango: Panthers Turn Awful 2013 Start Into First-Round Playoff Bye
The Carolina Panthers started off the season with a 1-3 start, and were tied with the Atlanta Falcons for second place. It wasn't a second place that was even close to the NFC South-leading New Orleans Saints, but the rest of the season proved to turn out completely different.
Sports Verdict: Who Will Win The NFC South? Saints Vs. Panthers
Both the New Orleans Saints and Carolina Panthers sit tied atop the NFC South at 10-4. One of them will emerge as the winner of the conference in two weeks. The question is, who will secure the division title?
Jets Need Full Team Effort In Order To Beat Panthers
Gang Green enters this game relatively healthy. Can the Jets find a way to beat one of the league's best teams?
Panthers Win Chippy Affair On MNF
Cam Newton threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to Ted Ginn Jr. with 59 seconds left and the Carolina Panthers held off the New England Patriots 24-20 Monday night for their sixth straight victory when officials picked up a penalty flag on the final play.
Gronkowski, Patriots Prepped For Panthers
With three games and a bye week under his belt, Rob Gronkowski is ready for anything in Monday night's game against the surging Carolina Panthers.
Carolina Panthers Rout Winless New York Giants 38-0
After Sunday's shutout loss to the previously winless Carolina Panthers, no one can argue that Big Blue hasn't earned its position at the bottom of the NFC East standings. After all, the G-men allowed the Panthers to set a team record with seven sacks of Eli Manning. Panthers quarterback tossed three touchdown passes as Carolina thoroughly embarrassed New York 38-0.
New York Giants Look To Exploit Depleted Panthers Secondary In Sunday's Contest
Relatively speaking, the New York Football Giants head into Sunday's contest with the Carolina Panthers healthy. Both teams are winless (0-2) to start the 2013 NFL season, and the loser of this game may have their playoff hopes fatally damaged.
Giants, Panthers Look For Initial Win In Critical Early Season Matchup
The Carolina Panthers have been a victim of early season bad luck, while the New York Football Giants have been a victim of their own poor play. Can the Giants defense slow down the Panthers Cam Newton and Steve Smith, in order to get their first win of the young season?
Sports Verdict: Who's The Bigger Fantasy Sleeper? DeAngelo Williams Vs. Bilal Powell
Every fantasy owner wants to know the sleepers. With that in mind, who will emerge as the bigger fantasy sleeper: DeAngelo Williams or Bilal Powell?
Panthers' Cam Newton Wiping The Slate Clean And Looking Forward
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Rhino: All content tagged as Rhino in NoSQL databases and polyglot persistence
Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Project Rhino goal: at-rest encryption for Apache Hadoop
Although network encryption has been provided in the Apache Hadoop platform for some time (since Hadoop 2.02-alpha/CDH 4.1), at-rest encryption, the encryption of data stored on persistent storage such as disk, is not. To meet that requirement in the platform, Cloudera and Intel are working with the rest of the Hadoop community under the umbrella of Project Rhino — an effort to bring a comprehensive security framework for data protection to Hadoop, which also now includes Apache Sentry (incubating) — to implement at-rest encryption for HDFS (HDFS-6134 and HADOOP-10150).
Looks like I got this wrong: Apache Sentry will become part of Project Rhino.
Original title and link: Project Rhino goal: at-rest encryption for Apache Hadoop ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2014/06/project-rhino-goal-at-rest-encryption/
Hadoop security: unifying Project Rhino and Sentry
One result of Intel's investment in Cloudera is putting together the teams to work on the same projects:
As the goals of Project Rhino and Sentry to develop more robust authorization mechanisms in Apache Hadoop are in complete alignment, the efforts of the engineers and security experts from both companies have merged, and their work now contributes to both projects. The specific goal is "unified authorization", which goes beyond setting up authorization policies for multiple Hadoop components in a single administrative tool; it means setting an access policy once (typically tied to a "group" defined in an external user directory) and having it enforced across all of the different tools that this group of people uses to access data in Hadoop – for example access through Hive, Impala, search, as well as access from tools that execute MapReduce, Pig, and beyond.
A great first step.
You know what would be even better? A single security framework for Hadoop instead of two.
Original title and link: Hadoop security: unifying Project Rhino and Sentry ( ©myNoSQL)
via: http://vision.cloudera.com/project-rhino-and-sentry-onward-to-unified-authorization/
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Nashville, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman announced 168 schools as the 2013-14 Reward Schools, the top 5 percent of schools in the state for academic achievement and the top 5 percent for annual growth.
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Nashville, TN – Tennessee's composite ACT score showed its largest gain in more than a decade, and increased more than it has since the state began testing all students in 2010, according to scores released today by ACT. Officials with ACT called the 0.3 gain "noteworthy."
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Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Department of Education today announced the newest round of Priority and Focus Schools, as well as school-level TCAP results.
Tennessee's accountability system identifies three types of schools, as required by the U.S. Department of Education: Priority, Focus, and Reward Schools. Priority and Focus Schools are named every three years, and the first designation was in 2012.
Priority Schools are the 5 percent of schools across the state with the lowest overall performance. Focus Schools are 10 percent of schools with the largest achievement gaps between groups of students, regardless of overall performance. «Read the rest of this article»
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Department of Education has released district-level results from the 2014 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, which show strong gains in high school, and relatively constant scores in elementary and middle school.
As seen in state results, districts did well in high school in most subject areas. Statewide, growth in 3-8 reading dropped slightly and is an area of continued need for improvement. Results in 3-8 math, science, and social studies were largely flat or showed slight growth.
Names Them to Inaugural Advisory Council
Nashville, TN – The Tennessee Department of Education is proud to announce the finalists for the 2014-15 Tennessee Teacher of the Year Award.
The nine finalists are elementary, middle, and high school educators from each Grand Division of the state. Grand Division winners and the Teacher of the Year will be selected from this group and announced later this fall. «Read the rest of this article»
Since 2011, more than 100,000 additional students are on grade level in math
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and Department of Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman today announced Tennessee students made gains in the majority of the state's 31 grade and subject-level tests.
The biggest increases seen in the 2013-2014 Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program (TCAP) results were in high school, where students made gains on five of seven high school tests. The 2014 results mark the second year of strong growth in a row at the high school level.
Haslam announces 2013 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress
Mount Juliet, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam has announced that Tennessee had the largest academic growth on the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) of any state, making Tennessee the fastest improving state in the nation.
The NAEP results also show that Tennessee had the largest growth of any state in a single testing cycle since NAEP started nationwide assessments a decade ago.
Nashville, TN – The 2013 state Report Card posted on the Tennessee Department of Education website offers increased functionality for users to view detailed breakdowns of last year's continued statewide student achievement growth.
The new design of the 2013 Report Card offers users the ability to create personalized comparisons between state, school, and districts on the following measures: achievement, ACT scores, graduation rate, student enrollment and ethnicity, and value-added composite scores. «Read the rest of this article»
Montgomery County, TN – The Tennessee Department of Education today released its system by system report card and Clarksville-Montgomery County has scored an all-time high in both achievement and growth since the transition to the Tennessee Diploma Project standards.
CMCSS earned three A's and one B in Achievement and three B's and one A in student growth.
CMCSS Director of Schools B.J. Worthington
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam joined Department of Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman to announce the administration's goal of becoming the fastest improving state in the nation when it comes to teacher salaries.
"We're asking our students to be the fastest improving in the nation in education achievement, and the data is showing that we're making real progress," Haslam said. "Teachers are the single most important factor in student achievement, and higher accountability for teachers and proven results should be met with better rewards."
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This Transmission is for the BONE STOCK Impala. not the LS or SS (sorry guys different transmission)
I got the transgo sk4t65e kit and changed accumulator springs and spacers, works great, really easy to do. drop pan, unbolt accumulator housing, pull out piston, replace spring with ones in kit and reinstall. takes about 160 bucks and about an hour of your time.
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Go and Get some transmission fluid and a trans filter since you are going to removing all of the old fluid might as well do some preventative maintenance on your car as well as fixing a problem. I also put a drain plug in mine to make changing the fluid easy the next time
Step 1: How to Repair skipping/missing shift for 04 impala transmission
Unfortunately my trans has these other defective parts in it as well. But FEAR NOT!, I will be posting a instructable on how to COMPLETELY REBUILD THIS TRANS shortly.


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Edward's rare birds on display at Audubon Gallery
By Charleston Mercury Staff
From October 2 through 16, the Audubon Gallery will host an exhibition of the conserved Lenhardt Collection of George Edward's watercolors. Discovered in the attic of a home on The Battery in the 1960s, these watercolors date from the 1730s, when a young John Drayton purchased them for his own collection. Edward is considered the Father of British Ornithology, and among the birds in the collection are the ivory billed woodpecker and the Carolina Parakeet. Such images are an incomparable look into the colonial connections between local planter elites and their British partners. This will be the first time these images will go on display since their conservation.
Historical guns have home in Camden
By G. Harris Jordan
Camden, South Carolina is a beautiful midlands city known for its colonial heritage, Revolutionary War sites and fine houses. It is part of the "Olde English District," named for 1700s British settlements. It is also one of the oldest and most active equestrian communities in the country. From fall through late spring more than 1500 thoroughbreds are present for various regularly held events. Many lovely homes and horse farms dot the area, hinting at a quiet and well-mannered gentility. There is more.
Spray paint does what the British couldn't: Gen. Moultrie assaulted on The Battery
By Charleston Mercury Staff
A little before noon today, Monday, October 6, the Charleston Police Department reported to the scene of disturbing act of barbarism that profaned our historic city. The base of the statue of Maj. Gen. William Moultrie was spray painted, in state-flag blue no less, with the words "Olds out 99%," "Bye East Egg," and "Kidd Napp."
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A member of British royalty will be arriving in Connecticut this spring.
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Jul 1, 2014
How long have jellyfish lived in the ocean? This jellyfish fossil is from the Cambrian period, more than 500 million years ago. It was found buried in Utah —an area that used to be underwater, covered by the ocean. Fossil jellyfish are rare because they have no bones or other hard parts to turn into fossils. Instead, scientists have to look for so-called "soft fossils," when organisms are quickly...Read more
Jun 30, 2014
Large waves are a draw for surfers, scientists and spectators alike to locations around the world. Changes to the coast and ocean floor as well as sediment flow can change the nature of a wave as it reaches shore. So when three condos were going to be built on the shore of his favorite surfing spot, a surfer turned to economics . Turns out you can quantify the value of waves by looking at how...Read more
Jun 27, 2014
Instead of females, male seahorses carry the developing seahorse embryos in a kangaroo-like pouch. During mating season, the female deposits her eggs into the pouch, and the male fertilizes them. After about two weeks of development, out pop the seahorse fry, ready to swim off and explore the ocean world. Here is a very pregnant short-snouted seahorse ( Hippocampus breviceps ) in Australia. Read...Read more
Jun 26, 2014
This nudibranch, or shell-less marine snail, is making a comeback to a location it hasn't been to in years along the California coast. First discovered off the coast of Southern California in 1902, Felimare californiensis was thought to be extinct in the region since 1984 due to pollution. But the nudibranch with its blue and gold color scheme has been spotted off the Southern California coast...Read more
Jun 25, 2014
Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaengliae ) can be found in Antarctic waters during the spring and summer in the Southern hemisphere, where they gorge on their main food source: tiny krill. How do they locate the small prey and maneuver their large bodies to eat? Scientists are looking at those questions and using different types of tags to learn more.Read more
Jun 24, 2014
Penguins are odd birds. For one, they cannot fly (but they are amazing swimmers), and, contrary to popular belief, the majority of penguin populations live in warmer regions. Only four of the 18 penguin species regularly live and breed in frigid Antarctica; the rest live in sub-temperate to temperate regions, along the coasts or on islands in the Southern hemisphere. But these beloved birds are...Read more
Jun 23, 2014
The Arctic comb jelly or sea nut ( Mertensia ovum ) is commonly found in the surface (top 50 meters) in cold, northern waters. Like other cydippid ctenophores, it has two tentacles fringed with smaller tentacles, which are dappled with colloblasts. Colloblasts are specialized cells that, upon contact with other organisms, act as a glue, allowing the comb jelly to pull the food to its mouth with...Read more
Jun 20, 2014
Harp seals are protected in the United States by the Marine Mammal Protection Act . Although they are not considered endangered, as sea ice melting earlier and earlier each year, available harp seal breeding grounds are being lost in the North Atlantic and Arctic. "Every March, up to 200,000 harp seal pups are born on sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. In 2011, storms and lack of ice-cover due...Read more
Jun 19, 2014
A great white shark ( Carcharodon carcharias ) emerges from the water's surface, gaping at the photographer. Gaping is a way sharks communicate with each other, and maybe even try and communicate with humans. In addition to gaping, sharks have six highly refined senses for both hunting and communication: smell, hearing, touch, taste, sight, and electromagnetism. These finely honed senses coupled...Read more
Jun 18, 2014
This rare staurozoan , or stalked jellyfish ( Haliclystus californiensis ) is about 2 centimeters in length and was collected off the coast of California. Unlike the traditional bell-shaped floating jellyfish, staurozoans live attached to rocks or other hard surfaces and mostly live in cold water. They tend to blend in with their surroundings, so often go unnoticed except to those who seek them...Read more


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