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Computational Fluid Dynamics
The Legacy of Group T-3(taken from LA-UR-96-1426 by Norman L. Johnson)
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The early history is presented of the prolific development of CFD methods in the Fluid Dynamics Group (T-3) at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the years from 1958 to the late 1960s. Many of the currently used numerical methods: PIC, MAC, vorticity-stream-function, ICE, ALE methods and the k-e method for turbulence' originated during this time. The rest of the paper summarizes the current research in T-3 for CFD, turbulence and solids modeling. The research areas include reactive flows, multimaterial flows, multiphase flows and flows with spatial discontinuities. Also summarized are modern particle methods and techniques developed for large scale computing on massively parallel computing platforms and distributed processors.
1. Introduction
At times in history there often comes together a unique confluence of people and events that can change the development of history. In many ways the early development of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and in particular in the Fluid Dynamics Group, in the late 50s and through the 60s was such an example, a rare integration of unique computational resources, people and applications. Arguably, a critical factor was the creation of the worlds largest computer resources for programs of national interest that were available for exploration into alternative CFD methods. But equally, the presence of Francis H. Harlow with his prolific creativity, which continues to this day, and his colleagues were also a rare occurrence. Even though the laboratory programs at the time needed robust simulations of multimaterial, compressible flows, all applications were fair game because of the almost total absence of CFD codes at the time.
The purpose of the present work is two-fold: to review the early days of the development of CFD methods in the Fluid Dynamics group (T-3) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (at that time called Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and hereafter referred to as Los Alamos) and to summarize the current research in T-3, as an invitation to the reader to inquire about more information as warranted.
Although this review focuses on the work from T-3, there is significant work that has been done over the years in other parts of the laboratory, some in collaboration with T-3, or, more often, as independent work. The author makes apologies for the myopic view of CFD at Los Alamos and is the first to recognize the direct contributions of colleagues in other parts of the Laboratory and the contribution of the Laboratory as a whole, in providing one of the premiere research facilities in the world.
2. Early History of Group T-3 (1958-68)
In the early years of the Fluid Dynamics Group (T-3) in the Theoretical Division at Los Alamos, the problems of interest were multiple materials under high compression, in which solids behave like fluids. The standard approach in the 50s to numerical modeling of deforming materials was a Lagrangian treatment with staggered primary variables (thermodynamic variables at the element centers, kinematic variables at the vertices or nodes). The Lagrangian method satisfied the need for an accurate interfacial treatment, but severely suffered from mesh distortions under the large shearing deformations and instabilities. Typical simulations at the time had to be halted when the mesh entangled and painstakingly "remeshed" by hand, and then the simulation continued.
PIC: Particle-In-Cell
In this time of great need, the PIC method was proposed and developed by Harlow in 1957 [Evans et al.][Harlow, 1957]. The original PIC code used mass particles that carried material position, mass, and species information on a two-dimensional (2D), uniform, Eulerian mesh. It treated transient, compressible flows of multiple materials with no restrictions on interfacial deformation. It was also the first of the T-3 codes that used the technique of solution phases: the division of the computational cycle into a Lagrangian and Eulerian (remap or rezone) phase. Fig. 1-1 shows a result from an early PIC calculation. A large number of particles per element ' 16 was found to be best in 2D ' were required to reduce the inherent fluctuations of the method (this is discussed in more detail in the FLIP section 3.3 below) and, consequently, the method was memory intensive, particularly for the computers of the time (IBM 701 and 704). While the PIC scheme for fluid flow had limited application outside of Los Alamos except for plasma simulations, the T-3 PIC method did find significant use in the Soviet Union as the "Large Particle" technique. The PIC method has had a major resurgence almost three decades later in the development of FLIP (see section 3.3).
Fig. 1-1. A shock passing though two gases with a stepped interface, with a density ratio of 2 (the lighter gas is shown) [47]. The PIC particles and mesh are not illustrated.
Formation and Style of Group T-3
The success of the PIC method in solving the truly unsolvable problems of the time made the idea of forming a dedicated fluid dynamics group attractive. With the support of Stan Ulam and Conrad Longmire, the Fluid Dynamics Group (T-3) was created in the Theoretical Division in 1958, with Harlow as its first Group Leader. Harlow remained group leader until 1973. T-3 started out with seven core members, and grew to 13 members by 1963, 15 members by 1970, and 25 by 1990. Although the group was largely funded by weapons research money in these early years and weapons applications remained the main area of application, the atmosphere of the late fifties and sixties was one of free exploration of CFD techniques for solving a wide variety of applications, including incompressible, free-surface flows.
The rest of this introduction focuses on the specific techniques that were developed; these were developed with a common approach, a certain style that was characteristic to T-3. The techniques were developed under the collaboration of typically a programmer and a theorist. The involvement of a skilled programmer was essential, because each code pushed the limits of the current computer capability. The necessity for large computers precluded much of the use of this work outside of Los Alamos in the early 60s. Computer codes for each new method were written from scratch and were not intended to be exported. But, as the 60s progressed, the T-3 techniques were widely applied across the country. The development of codes for use outside Los Alamos came much later.
FLIC: Fluid-In-Cell
To address the particle fluctuations and the large memory requirements of the PIC method, the FLIC method was developed under Harlow's direction by Gentry, Martin and Daly [Gentry et al, 1966]. The FLIC method treated compressible flows of a single material on a 2D, uniform, Eulerian mesh, in which all the state variables were co-located at the cell center. The technique fluxed material across cell boundaries in the now-typical Eulerian fashion. Not surprisingly, the method suffered from stability problems from poorly coupled momentum and pressure fields, which plagued the co-located variable methods for the next three decades. The method included the capability to treat arbitrarily shaped objects by using a piece-wise linear representation of a solid boundary in the regular mesh ' a precursor to the later fractional area/volume formulation.
Vorticity and Stream Function Method
Fromms work was the first and only foray away from primitive variables in T-3 of velocity and pressure, and developed the first treatment of strongly contorting incompressible flows in the world: the vorticity-stream-function method for 2D, transient, incompressible flows in 1963 by Fromm and Harlow [Fromm et al, 1963]. Fromm's ideas of a "Phase-Error Correction" method anticipated monotonicity-preserving methods currently popular. The origin of this idea has been largely forgotten.
MAC: Marker-And-Cell
To treat incompressible, free surface flows, the MAC method was developed by Harlow and Welch [Harlow et al, 1965] as a variation of the PIC method but treating applications that extended beyond those addressed by the vorticity'stream-function method. The MAC method was the first successful technique for incompressible flows. Particles were used as markers to locate the material in the mesh and, consequently, to define the location of the free-surface. The MAC method had the advantage of a more compact finite difference stencil and tight coupling between the pressure and velocity fields. To treat the fluid incompressibility, a solution to the Poisson equation for the pressure was used. This was in contrast to later methods that solved the coupled velocity-pressure equations, as discussed by Viecelli [Viecelli, 1969]. Although the solution of Poisson's equation was numerically simple, the specification of the velocity boundary conditions were not straightforward. There was some controversy at the time about the relative stability of the MAC method, and this was resolved in the now-classic paper by Hirt [Hirt, 1968], in which he showed that the MAC method is unstable with centered momentum advection unless the viscosity is sufficiently large. This work was the precursor of the modern truncation error subtraction analysis. This controversy illustrated the T-3 approach: the development was always on the physics, with limited application of mathematical analysis of, e.g., convergence and stability properties. The MAC method is still in use and has profited from the added efficiency of modern conjugate gradient schemes for solving the Poisson equation.
ICE: Implicit-Continuous-Fluid-Eulerian
Also in the late 60s, an all-speed code was developed, and called the ICE method [Amsden, 1968][Harlow et al, 1970]. The ICE method was the first approach that removed the Courant stability limitation based on the fluid sound speed. Originally, the method had a fully nonlinear implicitness, which is often replaced by a modern linear implicitness ' a more simple approach, but with the same stability properties in the limit of zero Mach number. In the limit of zero Mach number, the ICE scheme reduces to the MAC scheme.
SOLA and Reactive Flow Codes
The MAC method was the basis of the later particle-less techniques for compressible and incompressible flows embodied in the SOLA family of codes by Hirt, Nichols and others in the early 70s that were the first T-3 codes distributed internationally. These codes included extensions to two immiscible fluids in the SOLA-VOF code [Hirt et al, 1975][Hirt et al, 1981], the first broadly distributed T-3 code in its source form. One member of SOLA family, the SOLA-DF code, included a multiphase treatment with multiple velocity fields [Hirt et al, 1979][Rivard et al, 1976][Travis et al, 1979]. About the same time, the first reactive flow code, RICE, was developed by Rivard and Butler and others [Butler et al, 1976][Rivard et al, 1975], which evolved into the most widely used of the T-3 codes, APACHE-CONCHAS-KIVA lineage of codes [Ramshaw et al, 1979], discussed in the next section.
LINC (Lagrangian-Incompressible) and ALE (Arbitrary-Lagrangian-Eulerian)
In 1967 the first 2D Lagrangian method for incompressible flows was developed in the LINC (Lagrangian-INCompressible) code. The approach was based on restricting the movement of the vertices such that the volume remained constant and, thus, was not based upon a global solution to the zero divergence of the velocity field, as in previous incompressible methods. While the LINC code was no more successful in treating flows than other multi-dimensional Lagrangian codes, its formulation led to the staggered mesh approach to coupling of the pressure and velocity fields in the MAC method and was used to explore elastic-plastic materials and surface tension effects. The most important consequence of the LINC code was the observation that mesh rezoning was needed for most problems. The second generation version of LINC, consequently, included an ALE capability. This first application of the ALE formalism paved the future for all the later ALE codes [Brackbill et al, 1973][Hirt et al, 1974], including SALE [Amsden, 1980] and its progeny. This version of LINC was also the first application of the Finite Volume method, the use of integral formulation of the conservation equations, the close cousin to the finite element methods. The Finite Volume method enabled straightforward treatment of nonorthogonal and three-dimensional meshes.
Turbulence and the k-epsilon Model
Harlow and his colleagues also contributed to the early numerical modeling of turbulence and, in particular, by the postulation of the now ubiquitous k-e model in the 60s [Harlow et al, 1967][Harlow et al, 1961]. The history of the early turbulence modeling in T-3 is included with the current modeling in section 3.5 below, in order to present a unified treatment of this complex topic.
PAF (Particle-and-Force) and Free-Lagrangian Methods
One of the least known CFD methods outside of T-3, but one that was the precursor to the Free-Lagrangian methods, including the Smooth Particle and the Lattice Gas methods, is the PAF method, first documented in 1961 [Harlow et al, 1961]. It was the first of the mesh-less (in the sense that computational points were not associated with any mesh) and variable connectivity methods (in the sense that the connectivity changed during the simulation). It combined the lack of numerical diffusion of the Lagrangian methods with the robustness of the Eulerian methods, but without the underlying mesh and the large memory requirements of the PIC method. One way to view the method is as a molecular dynamics approach, but applied on a macroscopic scale. Computational points have a constant mass and carry all state information; they do not possess any moment of inertia, i.e., they are point masses. The particles represent parcels of fluid that interact with fluid like forces that are chosen to duplicate the equation of state and viscous effects [Harlow, 1963]. At any time, the particles interact with only their neighbors. The time evolution of the particles is just the solution of Newtons equations for a multi bodied system.
In 1965, a summary report was published [Daly et al, 1965] and comparison between fairly complex experimental data and simulations were made. The PAF technique was abandoned because of the inherent noise in the flow field as particles reconnected with different neighbors during shear flows. The PAF method also suffered from slowness of the calculation of the nearest neighbors, one which scales with N2, where N is the number of particles, if no acceleration techniques are used. Modern methods now have reduced this scaling to be linear and the approach has become computationally attractive again.
Not until 1983 were methods developed that minimized the fluctuations in the PAF method, such that even incompressible flows could be modeled [Johnson, 1983]. The smooth particle methods of recent times take a different approach and reduce this difficulty by averaging over more particles, but at the expense of less compact support and more computations. The Lattice Gas methods, which take the approach of reducing the unrestricted particle motion to moving on a regular lattice, tried to relate the fluctuations to thermal motion and averaged the solution over a large volume to eliminate the fluctuations in the macroscopic flow field.
Harlow has often said that 1968 was the last year that he could keep up with all the CFD developments around the world, so much had the entire field grown after that time. By a similar measure, the CFD methods developed in the 70s and 80s in T-3 were more application driven with close collaboration with the end users and less of explorations in CFD, an era had passed.
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'My schoolwork suffered greatly but my guitar playing got really good'
EUGENE, Ore. -- With no apparent effort, his fingers sweep across the guitar strings sending out notes that seem to come from three different guitars, as a bass line, chords and melody intertwine to form a single breathtaking tune.
Others call him a phenom, but 23-year-old Brooks Robertson does little to call attention to himself. Until he picks up a guitar.
He won the National Public Radio Prairie Home Companion talent competition for younger musicians from smaller towns when he was 14, beating out 500 other contestants. Six years later he received second place overall in the Yamaha Six String Theory Guitar Competition, an international event in Los Angeles, and he won the country category. He is also one of the youngest players to endorse Godin Guitars.
Until he was 11, Brooks thought he was going to grow up to be a baseball player, but that was before he saw Buster B. Jones playing fingerstyle guitar at the first annual Nokie Edwards Festival near Eugene. Winner of the National Fingerpicking Championship in 1990, Jones was considered one of the best, ranked right next to Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed.
"By the time I left the concert I was a serious dedicated young student of the guitar," Brooks says. "I wanted to play so bad, and that's really all it took for me to realize that this is what I have been searching for and want to play."
Brooks got to meet Jones a few times behind the stage and within a year Buster had taken him on as a student. They were almost inseparable from then on and after six months Jones starting bringing Brooks along to play beside him at concerts. Brooks was 12.
"It kind of took over my life really," Brooks says. "My schoolwork suffered greatly but my guitar playing got really good."
He did not immediately adapt to life on a stage but over time he adjusted.
"Live shows are wonderful; I really like doing them," Brooks says comfortably. "But when I first started playing live shows when I was 12 years old, I was terrified to get up on stage. Slowly as I got older, performing for more and more audiences with Buster, he would do a thing that I used to just hate. He would get up in the middle of our set and just walk off the stage and announce, 'Here's the Brooks Robertson show,' and I was forced to talk to people and try to entertain."
He remembers his first concert with Jones as being an interesting full circle, since it was at the same festival where he had first met his mentor: "There I am sitting right next to my hero, and the guy that inspired me to want to play. So it was a pretty great day for me. One of the best days there's been."
In the beginning Brooks molded himself after the top fingerstyle guitarists, learning their songs and techniques. Gradually he started creating his own sound and starting four or five years ago he has been writing some of his own tunes. Yet it might not be considered "writing" since he plays more by ear than anything. Even in concerts he usually just has a list of song names before him, nothing more.
"I don't read music very well, if any at all," Brooks admits. "And as Chet Atkins used to say, 'I don't read enough music to hurt my picking.'"
Another unusual aspect of Brooks' childhood—aside from playing live shows before he was even a teenager—is that he also started teaching Buster's other students while still learning himself.
Now Brooks lives in Portland and teaches monthly clinics and weekly group and individual classes at Artichoke Music, a non-profit music community center. He also has Skype lessons with people from all around the country.
"I like teaching a lot," Brooks says with a half-grin. "It's made me a lot better guitar player."
Buster B., his mentor, teacher and friend, passed away in February 2009, but that did not stop Brooks from continuing his meteoric rise.
"I got a lot of insight of things you wouldn't normally get from your typical guitar teacher," Brooks says. "I attribute what I'm doing now to what he did for me then."
Buster called his student "the future of American fingerstyle guitar."
"I've been playing now for about 12 or 13 years and the better I get, the more I realize that I don't think I'll ever be able to master this," Brooks says. "I just want to be playing the best I can, and playing music that I love to play."
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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
Continuing on with my British Safari fascination, I decided to go with a scene from one of Ernest Hemingway's most famous short stories. I read The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber a long time ago and it has always stuck with me. It was first published in 1936.
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Thank you to everyone who helped out at Saturday's race!
It was a HUGE success! With bike race fees and outside monetary donations, we raised over $1,700 that will all go to C.K. McClatchy High School athletics!
I believe everyone had a really good time, and I got a lot of compliments on how fluid and organized things were, and I couldn't have done it without such great volunteers!
Look for more Cogs for Cause events coming in early 2013! Continue to visit the website for more information on dates and events.
Fox40 was on hand covering the action.
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The Effect of Oral Niacinamide on Plasma Phosphorus Levels in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients
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Hyperphosphatemia is common in the peritoneal dialysis population. Current strategies are insufficient to optimize phosphorus control. Animal studies have shown niacinamide, a form of vitamin B, to reduce phosphate uptake by the rat small intestine. Our trial investigates the use of niacinamide, in addition to standard phosphorus lowering strategies, to reduce plasma phosphorus levels in peritoneal dialysis patients versus placebo.
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Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
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|Official Title:
|The Effect of Oral Niacinamide on Plasma Phosphorus Levels in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients
- The change in plasma phosphorus after 8 weeks of niacinamide versus placebo [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
- The change in intact parathyroid hormone, calcium-phosphorus product, cholesterol profile, and percentage change in plasma phosphorus [ Time Frame: 8 weeks ]
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Drug: Niacinamide
Niacinamide 250 mg twice daily titrated up to 750 mg twice daily
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Drug: Placebo
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This is a prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled 8-week clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of niacinamide versus placebo to reduce plasma phosphorus levels in peritoneal dialysis patients. Patients on a stable regimen of phosphate binders with plasma phosphorus levels > 4.9 mg/dL are eligible for enrollment and randomization. The study will span 8 weeks of active medication treatment. The primary end-point will be absolute change in plasma phosphorus levels. Sixteen patients (8 randomized to each treatment arm) are needed to detect a 1.5 mg/dL difference assuming a standard deviation of 1 and powered at 80% (alpha 0.05). Placebo will be packaged to resemble the study drug in all physical attributes. The starting dose of niacinamide will be 250 mg twice daily to be titrated to 500 mg twice daily at the end of week 2 with a final titration to 750 mg twice daily at the end of week 4. Secondary end-points will include absolute change in the calcium-phosphorus product, intact parathyroid hormone, hemoglobin, platelet count, total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, and percentage change in plasma phosphorus.
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- Age > 18 years
- Capable of giving informed consent
- Duration of peritoneal dialysis > 3 months
- Dose of phosphate binder(s) stable over previous 2 week period
- Plasma phosphours > 4.9 mg/dL based on most recent laboratory data within 1 month of enrollment
Exclusion Criteria:
- Pregnancy
- Known liver disease
- Active peptic ulcer disease
- Treatment with carbamazepine
- Intolerance to niacinamide or niacin
- Current medication regimen including niacin or niacinamide > 100 mg daily
- Planned or expected surgical procedure in the next 4 months
- Patients in nursing home or extended care facilities where administration of the study drug may not be appropriately given
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00508885
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|Washington University School of Medicine
|St. Louis, Missouri, United States, 63110
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|Washington University, Renal Division
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|July 26, 2007
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Keywords provided by Washington University School of Medicine:
peritoneal dialysis
renal osteodystrophy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Metabolic Diseases
Phosphorus Metabolism Disorders
Nicotinic Acids
Cardiovascular Agents
Growth Substances
Hypolipidemic Agents
Lipid Regulating Agents
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Therapeutic Uses
Vasodilator Agents
Vitamin B Complex
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I have added extra directories to
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If $MANPATH is set, manpath will simply display its contents and issue a warning.. Does this mean setting MANPATH is not the right way to add directories for
man command to search for manual pages?
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IMO you should add your custom directories at the end of your PATH
This is so that your custom directories do not over ride system binaries / libs and is a minor security issue.
you set MANPATH the same way (MANPATH is empty by default).
You should not need to set a MANPATH with well behaved packages, so if it is not broken don't fix it and if it is broken, perhaps you are better filing a bug report ;)
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Doctor leading inquiry into Irish woman's death is supporter of legal abortion
Catholic World News - November 20, 2012
The doctor appointed by the Irish government to head an inquiry into the death of Savita Halappanavar is an avowed supporter of legal abortion.
Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran, a former president of the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, is co-author of a journal article calling upon countries that bar abortion to "look at the evidence available in favor of liberal abortion laws."
Arulhumaran will lead an investigation into the circumstances leading up to the death of Savita Halappanavar, who died of septicemia after a miscarriage. Her husband has charged that she was refused an abortion that might have saved her life, and abortion advocates have argued that her case demonstrates the need for changes in the Irish law barring abortion.Pro-life activists in Ireland have responded that the current law allows for abortion if it is required to save the mother's life.
The case has also sparked angry criticism of the influence that Catholic Church teachings allegedly exert over Irish medical personnel. But Church teachings, too, allow for medical intervention to save a woman's life, even at risk to the unborn child.
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2015 is a big year for Honda with the Honda Jazz and Honda HR-V – which won our Reader award at the 2015 What Car? Car of the Year awards – set for release during the year.
The Honda NSX will also be launched alongside these cars and it's on display at the Geneva motor show.
What is it?
The NSX is Honda's hybrid supercar that will arrive in the UK towards the end of 2015.
It's the second generation of the NSX; its iconic predecessor was launched 25 years ago.
What engines can I choose from?
The NSX will come with a mid-mounted twin-turbocharged V6 engine and three electric motors.
One of the electric motors is between the engine and gearbox and supports the acceleration, braking and transmission shifting performance. The other two motors are mounted on the NSX's front axle with each motor driving an individual wheel.
The petrol-electric hybrid powertrain drives all four wheels and is connected to an all-new nine-speed dual-clutch automatic gearbox.
The NSX will have four switchable chassis modes: Quiet, Sport, Sport+ and Track.
Official figures are yet to be announced by Honda, but the NSX is expected to produce around 550bhp.
How much equipment does it come with?
Interior features and trim levels are yet to be announced.
How much will it cost?
Order books will open in the summer for the US and first deliveries are expected towards the end of this year, but a right-hand drive UK version won't be on sale until the end of 2015.
Honda has previously told us that they were aiming for the NSX to compete with the Ferrari 458 Italia in terms of performance, but lie in a similar price bracket to the Audi R8.
That would mean that the NSX is likely to be somewhere around the R8's price range of £93,735 - £126,835.
Can I get a discount?
There's no news on this yet, but our Target Price for the R8 is a couple of thousand pounds cheaper than list price across the range, so a similar discount may be available on the NSX.
Anything else I should know?
Honda has said that different bodystyles, namely a convertible version, and higher power output versions of the NSX can be expected, but there has been no official announcement.
How good are its rivals?
The NSX's natural petrol-electric supercar rival is the fantastic BMW i8 that has a combined power output of 357bhp, so if the NSX matches its predicted 550bhp and is in a similar price range then it will pose a real threat to the i8.


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Stop Paying for Ring Tones
Run Audacity, go to the Audacity/Preferences menu, and click the Find Library button near the bottom of the screen. Navigate to the LAME Library on your hard drive, and select it. I recommend setting your bit rate to 128 Kbps. You can choose a lower bit rate to save space on your phone, but you'll get lower-quality sound.
In Audacity's File menu, select Open and find the song you ripped for your ring tone.
You'll see your song laid out from left to right. Click the cursor around until you find the section you want for your ring tone. You're looking for a phrase of 10 to 15 seconds or so. Take a few passes at highlighting your future ring tone. Press the space bar to preview the selections. When you find the right one, you can export it as is -- or you can personalize the ring tone with audio effects.
Audacity comes with several effects; to try them out, leave the ring tone selected in the Audacity window, and then select anything in the Effect menu.
I recommend trying the Echo and Phaser. Each has various settings to tweak. Adding these effects is a matter of taste, but I figure it adds a bit of spice to the ring tone and makes it more of an individual statement.
Creating a derivative work of a copyright song is technically illegal. I'm no lawyer, and this does not constitute legal advice, but I am fairly certain that one could successfully defend these highly unlikely charges on the grounds that creating -- and not distributing -- a ring tone from a legally purchased song is covered by the affirmative defense of fair use.
After you're happy with whatever effects you've decided to use (the Edit/Undo function often comes in handy here), leave the ring tone selected in Audacity and choose File/Export Selection as MP3.
It's time to transfer the MP3 ring tone onto your phone. The easiest way to do this is with Bluetooth, assuming you have already paired your computer and cell phone. If your phone came with a USB connection, use that; otherwise, try e-mailing or texting it as an attachment. Put the ring-tone file into the Audio folder if your phone has one, and then select the new ring tone in your Tools or Options menu.
- - -Eliot Van Buskirk is a freelance writer and musician. In his last column, he wrote about Howard Stern and podcasting.


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The Autoflo Home Humidifier Model OceanAire 1000, which is the same as the Model 450, is an air flow driven or powered turbine unit - it has the same pad as the 400BP. You can find your part by clicking on the diagram on the left, enlarging it to full size. This humidifier is no longer in production but parts are still available. NOTE: there are no instructions of specifications sheets for this model.


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West Allis booster clubs to host parking fundraiser
Central, Hale athletics programs to raise funds during State Fair
West Allis — High school athletes, instead of their fans, will be doing the wave pretty soon to raise cash for their sports programs.
They'll be waving Wisconsin State Fair-bound drivers off Greenfield Avenue and into their parking lot at 82nd Street right across from the fair. Last year, they raised $50,000 after expenses that sports teams at both Central and Nathan Hale high schools split proportionately.
The booster clubs from both schools run the fundraiser during the 11 days of the fair, Aug. 1 through 11. A few drivers believe in high school athletics so much that they toss in an extra $5 over and above the parking price to boost the kids over the financial hurdles, said Alderman Marty Weigel, who plays a key role in the fundraiser.
The parking lot is on city land partly slated for hotel development next year. The booster clubs started organizing the parking fundraiser four years ago with just a small parking lot on 82nd Street where seven flood-damaged homes had been razed, Weigel said. Since then, the lot expanded dramatically with the razing of the former Mykonos restaurant and a large foundry.
Sports skills, life skills
Weigel acknowledged that some neighbors would rather the lot were not there because they too offer fair parking on their properties.
"The neighbors probably would fill faster," Weigel acknowledged.
But there's more than fundraising going on.
"In parking cars, there's a lesson for some kids on being on time and having to earn money," Weigel said.
"The benefits are just as meaningful as what we do in sports," agreed former West Allis-West Milwaukee School Board member George Sotiros, who is now varsity head coach of the Hale girls basketball team. Working the lot teaches life skills, not just sports skills, he said, and it promotes togetherness.
"It's a rare opportunity for both high schools to work together," Sotiros said.
An aid to taxpayers
In his view Weigel said that not taking advantage of a strong revenue source would be a disservice to taxpayers. The parking fee is anywhere from $20 on a sunny Saturday afternoon to $5, perhaps on a weeknight. The fee changes depending on the crowd, the grandstand show and other factors.
But to not shoot for that extra revenue, Weigel said, "would be an example of blatant government inefficiency."
Instead, he said, "it's an example of a municipality working with parents and the school district and with business."
One business, for example, even provided portable lights so families don't have to find their way through the lot in the dark. Those lights would have cost hundreds of dollars to provide, Weigel estimated.
While the big lot across from the fair is operating, more parking will continue to be provided in the West Allis City Hall parking lot and again, the proceeds will be split between the high schools.
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Lord of the Shado-PanRid Taran Zhu of his possession by the Sha of Hatred.
DescriptionOur lord, Taran Zhu, has been overcome by a sha of pure hatred. The whole monastery has been lost!
<class>, you must find a way to free him of this possession. Last I knew, he was meditating in the Grove of Falling Blossoms.
Thank you, <class>. I am cleansed of all hatred.
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Posted on Fri, January 22, 2010 by Chris Crosby in 2010 Haiti EQ • Data • News
Recent reports indicate that there is LiDAR data being collected by a number of groups over Haiti in the wake of the 12 January magnitude 7.0 earthquake. These data will potentially be powerful for earthquake relief workers and the scientific community, and should be an important geospatial resource in the recovery and rebuilding of Haiti.
This news article describes the work being done by the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command out of Stennis Space Center in Mississippi to acquire LiDAR around Haiti. These collections are apparently hydrographic surveys of ports and other areas in Haiti using the CHARTS (Compact Hydrographic Airborne Rapid Total Survey) system. More information about the CHARTS system and the National Coastal Mapping program is available here.
Today, a press release entitled, Rochester Institute of Technology Captures Haiti Disaster With High-Tech Imaging System; World Bank Funds Five-Day Mission, was issued that describes the data collection being conducted by a team out of RIT who are acquiring LiDAR, high-resolution color imagery, and thermal infrared data using a platform called WASP (Wildfire Airborne Sensor Program) designed to detect wildfires. The press release provides quite a bit of information about the acquisition, data products, and logistics of the collection. Specifically on the topic of the LiDAR data, the press release states:
The LIDAR capability detects and measures collapsed buildings and standing structures damaged by the earthquake. At the request of the U.S. Geological Survey, Faulring is using LIDAR to map the fault line to estimate how much the earth moved. This information is critical to refinement of earthquake-risk prediction models.
Application of these data to investigations of co-seismic ground rupture is logical and given the tropical vegetation in Haiti I would expect that the data may prove quite useful for locating and documenting surface rupture associated with the earthquake. This is also a potentially interesting test case for application of LiDAR to post-earthquake scientific investigations, but is not the first time that airborne LiDAR has been collected immediately following an earthquake. That honor goes to the LiDAR data collected following the 16 October 1999 Hector Mine, CA Earthquake and available for download here.
My understanding is that the RIT WASP data will made publicly available as soon as it has been processed. At this time I don't have specific information on how they intend to distribute the data products, but we've offered OpenTopography as a potential access point for the data if there is a need to host it someplace. When we know more about how to access these data we'll provide an update.
Finally, I understand that the scientific community has deployed at least one terrestrial laser scanner (TLS) instrument to Haiti for post-earthquake investigations.
UPDATE (January 24): Wired Science has a nice article with more information and preliminary images of the RIT LiDAR data discussed above: New 3-D Aerial Images of Haiti Will Aid Recovery and Research
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This Piper Aztec is a very economical alternative for airborne data collection.
We are capable of handling most airborne equipment with 28 volts DC and 40 amps at the hole.
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What qualification and major is needed to become a LiDAR specialist in the field of GIS? Looking at expanding into this field. However I don't know what to study. I am currently studying spatial science majoring in GIS and want to know where I need to go at the completion of this study to specialize in LiDAR at the completion of this degree. The many webpages I have read and people i have attempted to contact for information have been of little assistance.
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Ask Sean A'Hearn at Hunter College or also ask Airborne1 in LA
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Author of "Frederick Douglass Republicans ~ The Movement to Re-Ignite America's Passion for Liberty."
K.Carl Smith loves his country and is an unyielding defender of the Constitution and Liberty. A former Army officer and motivational speaker who has become a sought-after political activist, his quest is simple: re-ignite America's passion for Liberty and help shape a new Republican Party.
K.Carl's commitment to the guiding principles of the Founding Fathers led him to launch the Frederick Douglass Republican Movement, a grassroots initiative to: enlighten, educate, empower, and equip its members based on the Frederick Douglass Republican Methodology. This is a unique and powerfully effective strategy to: (1.) Re-ignite America's passion for Liberty; (2) Help the Republican Party recapture its political distinction; (3.) Save the souls of the politically lost: (4.) Promote racial unity: (5.) Create an atmosphere for political dialogue without the accusation of racism or Uncle Tomism: and (6.) Trump the race card.


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Maronite patriarch fears Syrian conflict may spread to Lebanon
Catholic World News - August 20, 2012
The head of the Maronite Catholic Church, an Eastern church in full communion with the Holy See, expressed concern that the conflict in Syria could spread to neighboring Lebanon, which Pope Benedict will visit in September.
"The civil war in Syria between the Sunni majority and the Alawite minority has already begun to have an impact on the Sunnis and Alawites in north Lebanon," said Patriarch Béchara Boutros Raï. "The Lebanese are… split into supporters of the Assad regime and supporters of the opposition."
The patriarch also told Aid to the Church in Need that a majority of the region's Muslims "recognize the importance of the presence of Christians due to their intellectual, moral and vocational qualities," as well as "their respect for the law, their loyalty to the country and government authorities, without interfering in policy where the particular regime is theocratic."
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By TERRY WILLISSun Advocate sports reporter
One bad inning.
For the Lady Dinos has been their downfall in most of their losses this season and on Tuesday it was again more of the same. Salem Hills came out on top with a 10-3 game to finish off Carbon's region play.
Kenzie Cave pitched a good game until the fifth inning. Even then she gave up a few hits and the defense behind her committed a few errors as well. Those mistakes parlayed into five runs before the end of the frame.
Britney Gustas led the Dino offense with a pair of hits and a double. Coach Tony Pinedo was sure it should have been a triple, but Gustas was bumped rounding the bases and stumbled. The base umpire did not see the contact and Gustas had to settle in at second. Megan Tubbs also had a good day at the plate with a pair of hits.
The fate of who their next opponent will be is still in the Lady Dino's hands. The team will travel to Desert Hills Wednesday and finish up against Timpview on Thursday (today). If they can win both of those games they will get to head to North Sanpete to play Bear River at 10 am on Saturday. If they lose even one of the two, they head to Grantsville to play Grantsville at noon on Saturday.
For those that are planning to attend either game information on where they will be playing can be obtained by calling Carbon High or checking the Sun Advocate's breaking news website.


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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
Viewing 1–10 out of 16,395 events
from January 21, 2014 (x) to April 25, 2026
Monday, September 8, 2014
Bryant Park FitClub: Pilates with Pilates on Fifth
at Fountain Terrace (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
Target the spine and deep abdominal muscles to build a strong body.
Category: Fitness
Bryant Park FitClub: Pilates with Pilates on Fifth
at Fountain Terrace (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
7:30 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
Target the spine and deep abdominal muscles to build a strong body.
Category: Fitness, Outdoor Fitness
2014 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition at Socrates Sculpture Park
at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens
8:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m.
The annual Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition is a cornerstone of the park's visual arts program and is widely acclaimed for the ambition, breadth & innovation of the works on view.
Category: Art, Waterfront
The NY World's Fairs and the Port Authority Bringing Trade, Travel and Tourism to Queens, The Region and the World
at Queens Botanical Garden, Queens
8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
In our continuing celebration of the New York World's Fairs, enjoy this Port Authority multimedia exhibit.
Category: Art, History
Weird, Wild & Wonderful
at The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
The New York Botanical Garden invited members of the American Society of Botanical Artists to participate in a study of the eccentric, creating works of art based on unusual plants.
Category: Nature, Art
Dinosaur Safari: Mysteries Revealed
at Bronx Zoo (in Bronx Park), Bronx
10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
See more than 30 animatronic dinosaurs, including a 40-foot long tyrannosaurus rex, on this ride through the two-acre safari.
Category: Education, Nature, Kids
Bryant Park Early Bird Game Social
at 40th Street Plaza (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
The Early Bird Game Social gives you a chance to start the day in the park, and warm up your mind with games that get you thinking.
Category: Games
Chair Yoga
at Asser Levy Recreation Center (in Asser Levy Playground), Manhattan
10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m.
Chair yoga is a gentle form of yoga that can be practiced while sitting or standing using a chair for support.
Category: Accessible, Fitness, Seniors
Monday Movement
at Brownsville Recreation Center (in Brownsville Playground), Brooklyn
11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Get the week started off right in this low-impact, chair aerobics class. Perfect for seniors or those with limited mobility. Open to adults and seniors.
Category: Accessible, Fitness, Seniors
Bryant Park Putting Green
at The Green (in Bryant Park), Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.
Practice your technique, perfect your distance and speed, or bring the kids to play on the green, all free of charge. Golf balls and clubs are provided.
Category: Kids, Sports
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Adding some serious man candy to the mix, Chris Hemsworth will join Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon in the forthcoming reinvention of the classic "Ghostbusters" film.
Director Paul Feig took to his Twitter account on Wednesday (June 10) to break the news that he'd snagged the "Avengers: Age of Ultron" hunk to play a secretary.
Ending the weekend with some posh sporting fun, Prince William and his brother Prince Harry showed up in Ascot, England for Day 2 of the Audi Polo Challenge on Sunday afternoon (May 31).
Back in the 1980s, "National Lampoon's Vacation" was one of the hottest movies, and now Ed Helms and Christina Applegate are looking to make a new "Vacation" for a new generation.
Showing some love to their British fans, the stars of "Avengers: Age of Ultron" showed up at Westfield London for the big European premiere on Tuesday afternoon (April 21).
Serving up a massive Humpday surprise, Marvel Studios just released the brand new promotional trailer for "Avengers: Age of Ultron."
They've been juggling twin sons Tristan and Sasha for the past 10 months, and Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky shared yet another aww-worthy moment with fans on Monday (January 26).
The "Thor" hunk and his "Fast Five" wife, who also have a 2-year-old daughter named India Rose, snapped a photo of their boys holding hands while perched in their matching bassinets and wearing matching onesies.
Looking forward to an exciting evening, Chris Pratt and Chris Hemsworth was in good spirits as he made his arrival at the 20th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards earlier tonight (January 15).
He's been busy promoting his new movie "Blackhat" and last night (January 13) Chris Hemsworth showed up at Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The "Thor" hunk was in the house for a fun-filled appearance on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," and before long he found himself in the middle of one of Fallon's crazy games.


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Thalia Ortiz finished 3 for 3 with two triples to lead the La Quinta High School softball team over Tahquitz 18-3 during the first day of the Tahquitz Tournament on Monday.
Jayme Stark also finished with three hits and three RBIs to help La Quinta. Sidney Halbeisen contributed with two hits and Brianna Gatlin blasted a pinch hit home run.
Dominique Rivas allowed two hits with five strikeouts in the five-inning game called for the 10-run rule. ...


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Gun control is a contentious topic in America, and one most businesses like to stay away from, as their clientele could easily fall on either side of the divide. With multiple mass shootings in America this year alone, people have chosen to make their opinions known.
Starbucks has decided to throw their hat in the ring, and while not a policy change for the company, is a divisive plea to their consumers and patrons.
Starbucks Chairman/President/Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz, in an open letter to the public, has made this statement:
Recently, however, we've seen the "open carry" debate become increasingly uncivil and, in some cases, even threatening. Pro-gun activists have used our stores as a political stage for media events misleadingly called "Starbucks Appreciation Days" that disingenuously portray Starbucks as a champion of "open carry." To be clear: we do not want these events in our stores. Some anti-gun activists have also played a role in ratcheting up the rhetoric and friction, including soliciting and confronting our customers and partners.
For these reasons, today we are respectfully requesting that customers no longer bring firearms into our stores or outdoor seating areas—even in states where "open carry" is permitted—unless they are authorized law enforcement personnel.
As it's stated in the letter, this is not an outright ban of carrying firearms into a Starbucks, but a plea and request. This gives any and all gun owners a chance to respect their request and not have a ban forced upon them. This also skirts a potentially scary incident of having a Starbucks employee request an armed individual to leave the premises.
This announcement is made in light of recent "Starbucks Appreciation Days", in which gun owners and gun supporters were to drink at Starbucks, perceiving them to be a champion of the "open carry" laws many states have. Schulz claims that the announcement is not in response to these incidents, nor in response to the Washington Navy Yard shootings earlier this week.
While tragedies are horrible and no company, business, or restaurant should be caught promoting or profiting off of them, they do force business owners to look at how they handle situations.
Does your restaurant lean towards more allowing guns or banning them? It may be a slippery legal slope to fall under, and a hard one to balance with your audience. You may lose customers if you announce a stance one way or another on this hot-button topic. At the same token, you may gain new customers if you make a stance. For example, if you declare that your restaurant is a "gun-free zone", you may engage new customers who are appreciative of this stance, or new ones that feel safe in your establishment. On the opposite, if you embrace the right to bear arms, you may get new customers who applaud you for your commitment to their rights.
In any situation, think long and hard about your stance. If you don't feel strongly either way, or are too worried for a negative response, you can always just not make a stance.