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Interesting little colloquy here by UFC chief Dana White and some of his UFC 140 fighters about brain damage and concussions in MMA. For all its sanguinary appeal and danger, MMA is actually safer than sports like boxing, football, and hockey, at least according to the limited medical studies available. But that could change as more studies come out and more fighters compete. MMA is still a very young sport. And it ain't healthy to get clubbed in the skull. Ever.
MMA has evolved from style-vs.-style fights in which Brazilian jiu-jitsu experts throttled opponents on the ground, to an era when everyone had to learn BJJ to compete, to an era in which traditional wrestlers learned enough BJJ and striking to dominate. Now the best fighters know how to do everything at a top level. There's more striking in the sport, which increases the chances of cumulative head trauma. Look no further than the Nick Diaz-B.J. Penn slugfest in October. Diaz couldn't finish Penn in the fight, but he ended his career with punches in the second. In the third, Penn wanted to show his heart. He took more punches for it. What's remarkable is that both Penn and Diaz are elite BJJ practitioners who started off as grapplers. And they opted to punch each other in the face for three rounds.
That said, White and his fighters make valid points. In MMA, you can tap out to avoid damage. There's no standing eight count like in boxing, which gives woozy fighters just enough of a break so they can take more punishment. Refs in MMA are, for the most part, quick to intervene. And medical commissions force fighters to rest up for weeks and sometimes months before competing again. To protect its brand, the UFC has also been vigilant about medical screenings and even offers fighters injury insurance now.
In the end, the athletes in the above video make clear that they know what they're risking and choose to risk it anyway, which is more than can be said for some football players and hockey goons. The real problem becomes when the athletes no longer clearly perceive the risk and are compelled to take it anyway. Which hasn't seemed to happen too much in MMA. But there is some anecdotal evidence that it does, as evinced by Gary Goodridge, a former UFC fighter who says his brain "doesn't remember much these days." Then again, Goodridge also fought in a lot of kickboxing matches and budget MMA events staged in jurisdictions with loose rules.


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Amid the uncertainty of a reduced-hockey existence, Mr. D, Murdoch Mysteries, Republic of Doyle and Heartland are the scripted comedies and dramas that officially have been renewed by CBC.
Also on the list of renewals, which was released Friday, was Dragons' Den (which had been confirmed previously with the announcement that new Dragons Michael Wekerle and Vikram Vij are replacing the departing Kevin O'Leary and Bruce Croxon), The Rick Mercer Report, This Hour Has 22 Minutes, The Fifth Estate, The Nature of Things, Doc Zone, Marketplace, Just For Laughs, Steven and Chris, and Winnipeg/Halifax Comedy Festival.
New series include Schitt's Creek (with Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara), Strange Empire, Canada's Smartest Person and Of All Places.
Prior to this announcement, the news had circulated that Arctic Air and Cracked have been cancelled by CBC.
Late last year it was announced that Rogers has purchased Canadian rights to NHL games, beginning next season. Hockey Night in Canada will continue as a staple on CBC on Saturday nights for at least four years, but the broadcast will be controlled by Rogers, and there are no guarantees beyond that four-year window.
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Japanese scientists have cracked open a freaky new chapter in the sci-fi-meets-stem-cells era. A group in Yokohama reported it has grown a primitive liver in a petri dish using a person's skin cells.
The organ isn't complete. It's missing a few parts. And it will be years --maybe decades — before the technique reaches clinics.
Still, this rudimentary liver is the first complex, functioning organ to be grown in the lab from human, skin-derived stem cells. When the scientists transplanted the organ into a mouse, it worked a lot like a regular human liver.
"It's a huge step forward," George Daley, from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, tells NPR's Rob Stein.
"There have been groups that have attempted to generate liver cells, and that's been promising," says Daley, who wasn't involved in the current study. "This is the first attempt to regenerate the organ by mixing the cells that are critical components of that organ."
Several labs around the world have been trying to grow organs on plastic scaffolds, which offer a three-dimensional surface on which cells can stick.
This approach has been used to make tracheas from a person's own cells. And doctors have even transplanted these synthetic organs into a handful of patients.
But more complex organs – kidneys, pancreases and livers – have been elusive. So Takanori Takebe and a team at the Yokohama City University tried a more laid-back strategy: They let the cells build their own scaffold.
The team took some liver cells (made from a person's induced pluripotent stem cells) and then mixed them with two other cell types — one that makes blood vessels and one that builds connective tissue to hold an organ together.
Five days later, Takebe was "completely gobsmacked," by what he saw in the petri dish, he told reporters Tuesday, with the help of a translator.
The cell mixtures had assembled into tiny 3-D structures that looked and acted like miniature livers, or "liver buds," as Takebe calls them.
The proto-organs were only about 5 millimeters tall, or half the height of a Lego brick. But the liverettes built their own blood vessels, which allowed Takebe and his team to test-drive them in mice.
They plucked the liver buds from the petri dish and then connected them to blood vessels in a mouse. About 10 days later, the buds started working. They broke down human drugs and made blood proteins, as a regular liver would.
One proto-organ even saved a mouse from liver failure, Takebe and his colleagues report in the journal Nature.
The results are "extremely encouraging," says stem-cell scientist Stuart Forbes, from the University of Edinburgh. "But there's a significant amount of further research [required] before we could translate this to a clinical therapy for patient," he tells Stein.
First off, the organs are too small to be useful. Doctors would need thousands of them to help a person with liver damage. And the little buds don't form a full liver. They're missing bile ducts, or the tubes that drain away toxins.
Plus, Forbes says, there's still a big question about safety. Stem cells tend to form tumors. And the current study doesn't look at the long-term effect of the transplanted liver. "To perform this in humans, we'd like to see a lot of safety testing," Forbes says.
We're learning this morning about an event that's being hailed as a milestone in medicine. Scientists in Japan have created human livers in a laboratory. This marks the first time researchers have created a complex organ using stem cells. Here's more from NPR's Rob Stein.
ROB STEIN, BYLINE: Ever since scientists discovered stem cells, the ultimate goal has been to use them to make tissues, and even whole organs to treat diseases. Harvard stem cell researcher George Daley says scientists have made some progress.
GEORGE DALEY: There have been groups that have attempted to generate liver cells, and that's been promising. There's been other groups that have seeded scaffolds, like from a donor trachea with cells, and created a trachea, which is kind of like an organ.
STEIN: But no one had been able to make a whole organ, or anything really close, until now. In this week's issue of the journal Nature, researchers at the Yokohoma City University in Japan report they have produced structures that are similar to primitive human livers. The researchers described their work during an international telephone briefing.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: First, we're going to hear from the lead author of the paper, Professor Takenori Takebe.
TAKENORI TAKEBE: OK, so, with this study, we succeeded in generating the human liver precursor. We call this liver buds.
STEIN: Liver buds, because they're very tiny, and they don't have all the parts a regular liver has. But when Takebe's team transplanted them into mice, they did the most important things livers do. They attached themselves to blood vessels. They produced key proteins. They broke down chemicals in the animals' blood. And they can even keep the animals alive after their own livers had failed.
TAKEBE: Taken together, we concluded that this liver is functioning.
STEIN: So how did they succeed, where so many others failed? They mixed together three types of cells: stem cells known as induced pluripotent stem cells, umbilical cord cells and cells from bone marrow. Interpreter Matthew Salter stepped in during the briefing to help Takebe explain what happened next.
MATTHEW SALTER: They noticed that during that process, that some of the plates they were using had allowed them to grow these three-dimensional structures. As a result of that, they realized this extraordinary result, which gave them a functioning, three-dimensional liver bud.
STEIN: At first, Takebe and his colleagues couldn't quite believe what they had done.
SALTER: It's a little difficult to translate directly, but he was completely, I think gobsmacked is probably the word in English, absolutely surprised and thought, you know, this is something which he really couldn't predict.
STEIN: But after confirming his results with other researchers, Takebe was convinced, and other experts are hailing the results. Stephen Forbes is a liver specialist who's been doing similar research at the University of Edinburgh.
STEPHEN FORBES: Well, it's very exciting.
STEIN: Forbes says laboratory-made livers could someday help thousands of patients suffering from liver failure.
FORBES: Given that there's insufficient donor livers available for transplantation, that would be a very exciting future use.
STEIN: Now, everyone agrees that much more work is needed before the stem cell livers will be ready to help any patients. For one thing, the liver buds the Japanese scientists created don't have bile ducts, which are needed to drain away toxins, and according to Harvard's George Daley, so far, they're too small to keep a human alive.
DALEY: This is very early. It's a very different matter to make enough liver buds to save a mouse. The scale-up alone for treating a human is a Promethean task. But this is the first step.
STEIN: Takebe predicts it will take 10 years before anyone is ready to start testing his stem cell livers in humans. But he has already started to use the same approach to try to make other organs, including kidneys and pancreases. And so far, that work looks promising, too. Rob Stein, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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born Dec. 3, 1933, Amsterdam, Neth. Dutch chemist who received the 1995 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for demonstrating, in 1970, that chemical compounds of nitrogen oxide accelerate the destruction of stratospheric ozone, which protects the Earth from the Sun's ultraviolet radiation. He shared the honour with American chemists Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland, who discovered in 1974 that manufactured chlorofluorocarbon gases also contribute to ozone depletion. Crutzen received a doctorate in meteorology from Stockholm University in 1973. He worked at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Ger. In 1970 he discovered that nonreactive nitrous oxide (N2O), produced naturally by soil bacteria, rises into the stratosphere, where solar energy splits it into two reactive compounds, NO and NO2. These compounds, which remain active for some time, react catalytically with ozone (O3), breaking it down into molecular oxygen (O2). His research was published that year in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. Although Crutzen's work was not widely accepted initially, it helped pave the way for the atmospheric research of Molina, Rowland, and other chemists. Crutzen was elected to academic societies in both Europe and the United States.
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New Yorkers of all income levels got a rude awakening yesterday when they saw in The Post how much more they will pay in taxes next year without a fiscal-cliff deal by Jan. 1.
"It's that much higher?" asked IT worker Vikas Kataria, 34, who discovered that his combined household income of about $250,000 per year will cost him nearly $10,000 more in taxes.
"I thought it was a couple thousand — but that's a lot," said Kataria, who works at Merrill Lynch in Manhattan and is married to a systems analyst for a brokerage firm. "That's huge!"…
"What am I supposed to do, work harder?" Hagon said. "I don't want to find myself in front of my store dead with a heart attack!"
Whether or not a Senate deal can be reached is anyone's guess, though it seems unlikely considering all the false starts that have characterized negotiations up to this point. Whether McConnell would allow for an up-or-down vote on a Democratic-authored bill is even less certain. On Friday evening, Reid's office announced that it was preparing such a bill for a Monday vote as a contingency plan…
[A White House] official argued that any final deal that emerged from the Senate would have to be crafted with an eye toward garnering Democratic support in the House. Reid, after all, wouldn't sign off on a bill that set the threshold for tax hikes too high. And since Boehner's failed "Plan B" proposal showed he was unable to pass legislation raising rates only on millionaires, Democratic votes in both chambers would be needed.
"Whatever McConnell and Reid cook up is something that Nancy Pelosi has to support," the official said. "The Minority Leader will have a powerful role in these discussions."
The last-minute tax and spending deal being discussed in the Senate would do little to reduce the deficit, and could actually expand it, leaving difficult choices about Medicare, Social Security, and the country's borrowing limit until next year…
This weekend, with talks moving closer to the deadline, the only item being discussed that would reduce the deficit is a White House proposal to let the Bush-era tax cuts expire for upper-income households. White House officials believe raising tax rates on income above $250,000, combined with changes in capital-gains, dividend, and estate-tax rules, would raise roughly $950 billion over 10 years, a level that is short of their $1.2 trillion goal. That means the White House is likely to try and pursue more tax increases as part of any subsequent budget debate in 2013…
The other items being discussed as part of the slimmed-down package would cost the government. One would extend emergency unemployment benefits for one year, at a cost of roughly $30 billion. Another would prevent Medicare payments to doctors from being cut close to 27%. This change would cost another $10 billion, according to estimates.
The big-ticket item hanging over the Reid-McConnell talks will be the income level at which taxes can rise. Boehner failed to win sufficient GOP support for a plan to increase taxes for income over $1 million, and Obama has previously upped his offer from $250,000 to $400,000. McConnell and Reid are also trying to agree on the level to set taxes on estates that are transferred after the death of an owner.
At the meeting, Boehner made clear any efforts to eliminate pending cuts to defense and domestic programs — about $109 billion next year — must be replaced by spending cuts to other programs. Republicans later said it appeared that the so-called sequester would not be addressed in a final agreement. A final deal appears unlikely to include an increase of the $16.4 trillion national debt limit, which will be reached on Monday, meaning that Congress will almost certainly renew the battle over taxes and spending immediately in the new year.
Multiple GOP lawmakers indicated that their goal now is to get through the fiscal cliff standoff one way or another, at which point Republicans can regroup and focus their efforts on extracting concessions from the White House in exchange for a debt-limit boost.
"Give the president whatever he wants [on taxes]," Grassley said hypothetically. "All it covers is somewhere between eight and 12 percent of the $1.1 trillion deficit.
"When you get beyond this fiscal cliff deal, the public starts looking at what we're trying to do to cut down on spending as opposed to increasing taxes, that strengthens our hand," he added.
A House GOP aide said the debt limit provides a "natural venue" for Republicans to continue to push for preferred fiscal policies, once the fiscal cliff is in the rearview mirror.
"A top Obama administration official" told The Huffington Post that "they don't view an unresolved debt ceiling fight as too generous a concession because, as a matter of principle, the president will not negotiate with Republicans over raising it down the road."…
If Obama drops the debt ceiling demand, he's setting the stage for another round of budget talks in late February, during which the GOP will demand long-term spending reforms in exchange for an immediate increase in the debt ceiling.
A pair of GOP senators, confident Congress will head off the tax hikes set to kick in within days, are already turning their attention to entitlements and the debt ceiling.
Tennessee Sens. Bob Corker and Lamar Alexander pitched a plan on Friday to cut federal spending by $1 trillion — much of it from Medicare — in exchange for increasing the nation's borrowing limit by that amount. The plan would raise the Medicare eligibly age to 67 and require wealthier Medicare users to pay higher premiums. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has estimated extraordinary measures can push the necessity of Congress addressing the debt ceiling until perhaps February.
"Here we are on Dec. 29 without a serious proposal before us to deal with the biggest issue, which is entitlements," Corker said. "There's been a lot of discussions about figuring out a way to deal with the … revenue side and at least getting that portion out of the way. Since we know it's going to happen either before the 31st or after."
Cliff-jumping also would mean that instead of spending the early weeks of January laying out big plans for a second-term agenda, Obama and his staff will be bogged down with negotiations over the myriad issues wrapped up in the cliff, including everything from the tax cuts and across-the-board spending cuts to the alternative minimum tax and the "doc fix," the formula under which physicians receive reimbursement for treating Medicare patients. In the White House's preferred scenario, a deal addressing key elements of the fiscal cliff would have been clinched by the end of this year and that could have been used to tee up negotiations in 2013 over a grand bargain on the budget. Obama has set a goal of reaching a long-term budget deal by the first half of next year and hopes to notch up an agreement as part of his legacy.
Not only will the grand-bargain discussions need to await an eventual resolution of the fiscal cliff, but other items on Obama's second-term agenda risk getting pushed to the back burner, too, including gun control and immigration.
"I think everyone is trying to look busy, so when we go over, they can say, well, we tried," Brooks said. "He came back from Hawaii. He had to do something. And so they had a meeting. If you don't have new offers, you are not really making progress. You could have a nice frank exchange, but they are in the business of making a deal. And there is really, as far as we know, no real evidence that they moved. So I remain convinced, as I have been, that we are probably going to go over."
Under the most likely scenario, Republicans will get nothing — nothing — in return for giving in on tax rates for the highest-income Americans. No spending cuts, at least no serious spending cuts beyond what are already included in sequestration, would be part of the deal done on Sunday or Monday, if that is indeed what happens…
As for spending cuts, particularly in entitlements, some Senate Republicans say they will press for those in January or February, during the coming battle over raising the nation's debt ceiling. They believe that fight will give them leverage to extract real concessions from the White House and Democrats on spending. It's not entirely clear why they believe that so strongly; Republicans will certainly take a beating in the press if they appear ready to push the nation toward default to win unpopular cuts. Nevertheless, some in the GOP are readying themselves for that fight…
So a deal will most likely be done. But the bottom line is that the fiscal cliff fight will not end happily for Republicans. They will have given in on what was an article of faith — that taxes should not be raised on anybody, poor or rich — in return for essentially nothing. All they will have is a plan to fight again, soon.
It's difficult to find a Republican operative who is willing to say on the record that going over the fiscal cliff next Tuesday is a good idea. Provoking a crisis is bad politics: Republicans are resigned to taking the blame. And it's bad for their policy agenda: They will likely be cornered into a broader tax hike than the best deal they could get from President Barack Obama today, and with none of the spending cuts that might now be on the table.
And yet, the dominant emotion among most Republicans here is one of sheer resignation.
"It's a shit show," one prominent Republican told BuzzFeed of the GOP's messaging position. "Tax rates are going to go up on everyone, and we're going to get the blame."
Congress can prevent it from happening, if they act now. Leaders in Congress are working on a way to prevent this tax hike on the middle class, and I believe we may be able to reach an agreement that can pass both houses in time.
But if an agreement isn't reached in time, then I'll urge the Senate to hold an up-or-down vote on a basic package that protects the middle class from an income tax hike, extends vital unemployment insurance for Americans looking for a job, and lays the groundwork for future progress on more economic growth and deficit reduction.
I believe such a proposal could pass both houses with bipartisan majorities – as long as these leaders allow it to come to a vote.
The Republican-controlled House has taken a step in the right direction. The House has already passed bills to protect all Americans from burdensome tax increases. In addition, they've passed legislation to replace damaging across-the-board spending cuts with responsible targeted ones, and to bring our nation's record debt under control. But instead of working across the aisle and considering the House-passed plan to protect taxpayers, Senate Democrats have spent months drawing partisan lines in the sand.
The President's proposal to raise taxes on the top 2 percent of Americans won't even pay one-third of the annual interest that's now owed on this massive $16 trillion debt. In fact, the President's tax hike would only fund the government for eight days. Americans deserve to know: What does the President propose we do for the other 357 days of the year?


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Frank taught an incredible class on celestial navigation that brought me from novice to some solid understanding of sextants, their history and most importantly their use as a aid to seeing the sea...and knowing where you are on this planet!
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Frank did a great job keeping the class interesting with visual aids, both on screen and out on the seaport grounds. Frank had also noticed i was interested in the Draken. This is the Viking ship which had made its voyage across the Atlantic and up and down the east coast, resting for winter in Mystic as the troops regroup, gathering resources for another ocean voyage. He took extra time to talk about and show with polarized film the concept of the "Viking Sun Stone" which is a suspected navigational aide the Vikings may have used to traverse the globe as they had.
All in all i would highly recommend this class to any and all folks interested in learning about navigation and sextants. Informative and digestible, but most of all useful to the point where i am comfortable with the instrument and have the formulas needed to continuing to set my sights on the horizon!!
I look forward to more classes to learn more from Frank and strengthen my understandings of celestial navigation!
Thank you!!!
Several things stand out. The course material is presented in a balanced way, with a well thought mixture of detailed calculation, broken up by historical, factual, and hands-on aspects. This type of teaching is well suited to most, as it provides periods of more intense reasoning with relaxation and humor. Anyone can walk away with new-found knowledge. I also feel that the approach of understanding historical context and a simple practical approach is unique. It has gone a great way toward clearing up a lot of my preconceived ideas and confusions resulting from the many contradictory or esoteric approaches found in various volumes or on the internet.
Very simply, I learned a lot and it went a long way toward clearing up a mess. I was fascinated the whole time. The courses and NavList provide the tools to keep learning even after the course is over. I left able to measure what I see with a more calibrated eye for real world application, and a greater appreciation of human history. I can strongly recommend these classes for the curious, the fascinated, the historian, the hardcore navigator, or the armchair one. There is something in them for all.
I also found the NavList community to be helpful and encouraging as my journey continues. I hope I can undertake even more material in additional courses in the future.
"There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats" (Kenneth Grahame, from the "Wind in the Willows")
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The class was also a great resource for my teaching and my own research interests such as the visibility of celestial objects in the daytime (Jupiter and Venus) and the effects of astronomical refraction near the horizon. I hope to take more workshops with Frank.
Dr. Russell D. Sampson
Wickware Planetarium
Eastern Connecticut State University
Also, the class was made more enjoyable through discussions with my other classmates during, and after the class had ended! You know a class is worthwhile when the learning continues outside of the classroom.
Philip M. Sadler, Ed.D.
F.W. Wright Senior Lecturer in Celestial Navigation
Harvard University Astronomy Department
Cambridge, MA
I highly recommend any of Frank's classes and workshops, since the guy knows what he's talking about, and he can explain it to folks with (or without) all kinds of math and physics backgrounds.
Plus, it's just plain fun to realize that all you have to do to find out where you are in the universe is "look up". Now that's just cool.
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Saratoga Springs, NY
I would appreciate talking to your people if you have done this, to discuss things like determining "dip" in a theater where the sextant user is actually BELOW the projected horizon rather than above a true horizon outside.
Another issue is that the altitude of a celestial object projected on the theater's dome would vary from one seat to another inside the theater. I would love to discuss how you have managed this.
Bob Goethe
You both bring up a fantastic idea that has been approached and (to some extent) solved before. Specifically for the U.S. lunar space program at the Morehead planetarium in NC.
Frank: you excellently bring up dome parallax, but isn't there going to be at least one point, or small area (near center of dome sphere, focal point of the dome) where the parallax wouldn't be nearly as significant? I'd assume this may require a platform / scissor lift etc and might not always be practical, dependent on the type of star projection system in the planetarium selected. I'd also guess the use of a bubble horizon would be necessary too.
Like Bob, I am also very interested in this subject with a local planetarium interested in the subject, and it doesn't seem to have a well published solution ;)
Your collective thoughts? Are there any good resources available on the subject?
You don't need to purchase a sextant in advance, but if you have one, yes, bring it along. If you would like to acquire a relatively inexpensive, functional sextant, I would suggest looking for a lightly-used Davis plastic sextant. These turn up fairly often on eBay for $100 or less. They're real sextants. You can cross an ocean with one. They're somewhat less accurate than a proper metal instrument, but it's not a major concern. And you can always upgrade later.
He observed a partial eclipse of the moon but did not record his
longitude . I calculate it to be 75west.
Some historians say he calculated it by lunars while at Point Reyes
again it is not recorded
your thoughts please
There were occasional attempts to determine longitude by early forms of lunar observations on many voyages before the development, in the late 18th century, of the proper methodology of "lunars". Unfortunately, in nearly every case that I have seen, the methods used in those earlier examples are highly flawed and nearly useless for longitude. I've never looked specifically at Drake's voyage, but I would be happy to discuss it further if you have any details.
To determine longitude by a "lunar-like" observation, two things are needed:
1) a specifically recorded event involving the Moon's position in the sky, for example, the measurement of an actual "lunar distance" (the exact angle between the Moon and Sun or a star), or an observation of an occultation of a star, or an observation of a specific and well-defined event in a lunar eclipse.
2) an observation for local time that is nearly coincident with the first observation (of the Moon's position). This can be any observation of the altitude of the Sun or a star so long as it is well away from the meridian. This observation determines, what we might call, "sundial time". Without this second observation, which was often poorly understood historically, the first observation is nearly useless. Longitude is proportional to the difference between this local "sundial time" and the absolute time provided by the observation of the Moon's position.
It's worth noting that lunar observations for mapping, as opposed to "live" navigation, did not require a Nautical Almanac or proper "lunar theory". If the observations above were taken and recorded competently, they could be converted into an accurate longitude after the voyage by comparing against similar observations made at nearly the same time back in England, or any other comparison location. Unfortunately, few experimenters in navigation seem to have understood this point historically. So instead we find navigators attempting to work out longitudes on-site using the very flawed lunar motion models available before the 1760s. This was usually hopeless, resulting in longitudes in error by 10 degrees or more. But when they did record their observations in detail, and so long as those observations met the criteria for the two types of time above, then it's possible to work out relatively accurate longitudes even today.
Your suggestion that Drake's longitude on some date could be found from lunar eclipse observations is certainly reasonable. Whether an accurate longitude can come out of that depends on whether we can reliably determine the specific eclipse event that was observed, and equally important, whether there was some attempt to determine accurate local time simultaneously. As for a lunar longitude near Point Reyes, this probably falls in the category of wishful thinking. A standard "lunar" (in the 18th/19th century sense) was simply impossible in the late 16th century.
Frank Reed
Conanicut Island USA
Drakes observation of a partial eclipse of the moon was after he had passed through the Magellan passage into the Southern Ocean It was observed at " 6 o 'clock in the evening and lasted two hours. Golden Hind was in a very bad storm at the time and Drake had much to occupy himself with at the time . Subsequently using the NASA web sight to from the time of the eclipse at London it was at 2300 hence I arrived at Drake's longitude of 75W.
Bawlf in "Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake" claims based or unsupported evidence that Drake set up an point of position in the Point Reyes area . This has been hotly denied by other historians .
AS you say it is unlikely that astronomers in the 16th Century had the skills or equipment to carry out lunar observations even on land . Gallileo did not invent the telescope until thirty years after Drake's voyage .
I am a Master Mariner and have PhD in history and am very interested in pre Harrison navigation methodology . Besat Regards and a Happy Christmas Tony Fletcher
I noted your comment to Tony Fletcher that using lunar distances to determine longitude prior to about 1760 led to errors in Longitude of 10 degrees or more. I am a retired mariner, hydrographer and lecturer in these fields. The latter in Tasmania, which, as a former Dutchie, made me interested in Abel Tasman's voyage of discovery in 1642/43.
I recently obtained a copy of his logbook. The authors modernised Tasman's Dutch to modern Dutch to facilitate understanding what he wrote. Assuming they did this correctly I am amazed by the accuracy of his longitudes, at least of those near the coast of Tasmania (I have not attempted to check his positions in other locations on his voyage).
He almost daily (depending on whether the skies were clear enough) enters in his log that he measured his latitude and longitude and compass error. On days when he could not observe he calculated his position by Dead Reckoning. He used a variety of expressions w.r.t. how he obtained his position. E.g. "at noon we had the altitude of 41 degrees 15 minutes, longitude 172 degrees 35 minutes, course made good East and sailed 40 miles." Note that his miles equal exactly 4 nautical miles.
In the introduction by the authors no mention is made of Tasman's navigational methods, except to say that he used the Meridian of Tenerife as his Zero Meridian. It lies 16d39m West of the Greenwich Meridian. I automatically assumed he used lunar distances, but of course he could not possibly use these every day for the simple reason of course that the Moon is not always visible during the day, whereas it is obvious from Tasman's log he always obtained noon positions and always had a longitude and no mention is ever made of obtaining a fix at night.
My question to you: Do you have any idea what method Tasman used to determine his position ?
Kind Regards,
George Goldsteen
The entries on the lunar distance prediction page for DR lat and lon only matter if you select "Visible at DR Only". This is just for planning purposes. For example, if you wanted to practice shooting lunars tonight, you would not be interested in cases that cannot be seen from your position. Otherwise, the lat and lon data have no effect since the calculated distances are "geocentric". You can experiment with a couple of cases and verify this. Thanks for your question!
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Kooka Scanner Suite Now With Website
The Kooka team is proud to announce the launch of the official Kooka website. Kooka is a scanner management suite for KDE with support for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The Kooka web site offers extensive documentation on Kooka and the KScan library, future project plans, screenshots, and much more.
Kooka supports
Image Storage
The Image Gallery
KDE Scan Service
How good is OCR? I remember trying it 4-5 years ago when I had my old scanner, and back then every OCR program I tried wouldn't work properly as it always missed words on the pages that I scanned in.. They were also terribly slow..
What's the error-percentage today?
Ps. Keep up with the good work! Did you know that Kooka is one of the few programs that Mandrake have screenshots of for each distribution release?
By Christian A Str... at Sat, 2002/05/11 - 5:00am
Re: OCR
OCR is suprisingly good considering the pain it is to program ... I notice lots of people help with fun high-profile projects and less with low profile hard slogging type projects. gOCR, sane, gimp, pango etc. prolly share some programmers but this thing needs corporate backing I think ....
By NameSuggesterEngine at Sat, 2002/05/11 - 5:00am
Re: OCR
In case no one notices .... SANE now has a backend that supports Gphoto2 devices as well (still under development). Thus with one masterful API wee get Kooka, camera, scanner, an OCR support .... all exportable as a service to any KDE app that wants to use it.
This may not be "Enterprise Ready" just yet but the idea is quite frankly awesome and is bound to be good for development and catching bugs. The projects are essentially leveraging each others contributors.
It would be nice if KDE, Gnome and GNUstep could export services to one another.
By Positive Spin Dr. at Sat, 2002/05/11 - 5:00am
Re: OCR
How good is "surprisingly good considering"? If you scan in a 8.5*11 sheet of paper with clear print on it, is it likely to get the whole thing with no errors? 1 error? 10 errors? more?
By not me at Sun, 2002/05/12 - 5:00am
Re: OCR
Looking the screenshots on the website, the rate seems to be more on the order of 2-3 per paragraph. That was for some German text so perhaps english will be a little better with the lack of "funny" marks on the characters. I could probably tolerate that kind of error but i've never used OCR before so don't know what to expect.
By somewun at Sun, 2002/05/12 - 5:00am
Re: OCR
I'm french and I try gocr alone : it works not so bad with a single column text (the recognition will be perfect when gocr can recognize the CCEDILL and the ligature o-e), but the result is catastrophic with a multicolumn text.
By Capit Igloo at Sun, 2002/05/12 - 5:00am
Does anyone know?
What OCR software does Google use for their Catalog site(http://catalogs.google.com/)? It must be good if they can do 2,7000 catalogs. It is probably completely automated I would assume.
By Rosis at Sun, 2002/05/12 - 5:00am
Re: Does anyone know?
> It is probably completely automated I would assume.
Don't count on it.
Usaualy the OCR engine has a configurable confidence threshold, so any document, or field that doesn't meet that confidence gets put in the repair queue.
Part of the problem is that there are some letters and numbers, that if printed in the wrong font, even a 100% accurate OCR engine (which doesn't exist) could not possibly guarantee to get right. Just look at the word Ill (That's capital 'i' and two lowercase 'L's) in a sans serif font to see what I mean.
In a big job, we could easily have a room full of operators keying continually to keep up with the repairing needed on the ouput of one (high speed) scanner, and that's with forms that have clearly marked boxes for text, and dropout colours.
By Stuart Herring at Sun, 2002/05/12 - 5:00am
Re: Does anyone know?
The 'Ill' problem is automated to some degree by simply using a dictionary. If you have a word that looks like '|||', it's not hard to figure out that 'Ill' is the only word that actually exists. If there are alternatives, choose the one with higher frequency. The process can be further improved by analyzing the sentence grammar.
Different fonts is a minor problem compared to handwriting recognition. I have an application on my Psion PDA, where I can write the word 'Reykjavik' very sloppily and still get it recognized. That's because there are no other alternatives. I can look at the list of alternative spellings, and see that 'Reukjavik', 'Heykjavik', 'Reukiavik' and other and other non-words have been ruled out.
There's no such thing as perfect OCR, but you can improve the process a lot by analyzing word by word instead of character by character.
By Gaute Hvoslef K... at Sun, 2002/05/12 - 5:00am
How does it compare to Vuescan?
Anyone with Kooka and Vuescan experience have any opinions on how they stack up against each other. When I got my slide scanner, Vuescan was so much more sophisticated than anything Free that I gladly shelled out for it. Is Kooka anywhere near Vuescan?
By Anonymous at Mon, 2002/05/13 - 5:00am
Re: How does it compare to Vuescan?
Faster; not as accurate
By uncertainty_pri... at Tue, 2002/05/14 - 5:00am
Don't like it so far :-}
Sorry, but I'm not a fan of kookas (current) UI. Like most Linux scanner/cd-writer GUIs kooka ask for a (scsi)-device. Why must I choose a device? I want _only_ choose the _name_ of my scanner/cdwriter? BTW is'nt this something for KDE control center (hardware devices)? Same thing for default resolutions, gamma etc of the device?
I like UIs that help to solve tasks. I have a scanner, so I want to scan and
Do I really need a gallery function when I could use my scanner with e.g. pixie by a kio_slave|libkscan|kpart?
By Thorsten Schnebeck at Tue, 2002/05/14 - 5:00am
Re: Don't like it so far :-}
I find th preview window too small to make any accurate seclections. You should be able to preview in the main window (or is it just not obvious how to do this?).
By John at Wed, 2002/05/15 - 5:00am
Re: Don't like it so far :-}
I like to comment some of the remarks just to explain why things are somehow
By Klaas Freitag at Thu, 2002/05/16 - 5:00am
Re: Don't like it so far :-}
I like to comment some of the remarks just to explain why things are somehow not so straightforward with scanning ;-)
Why do you have to select a scan device? Well, you can easily have two scsi
After starting the program, the viewer appears to be empty.
It is true that Kooka does not provide a fax or mail function (yet). But my proposal would be that the specific applications for that should accept drops of images and send them or use the scanservice provided by libkscan. The same for pixie and friends: They do not need Kooka - they need the scanservice if they want to receive images from the scanner ;)
By Klaas Freitag at Thu, 2002/05/16 - 5:00am
http://dwhs.info And what google catalog have relationship with kde?I mean that port of google suck.Like is not enough to see google in every day use.
By Luka Horvatic at Thu, 2007/02/01 - 6:00am


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HOW TO: Enable iPhone Theme On Magento For Mobile Browsers0
If you've been using Magento as e-commerce platform, then you may have noticed that it comes bundled with an iPhone directory in the app and skin folder. Until recently I didn't pay this theme much attention. However, after experimenting with Magento for a while today I've figured out how to automatically display this iPhone theme for anyone with an iPhone, iPod or even an Android browser, and still use your default store theme for everyone else…
- Login to your Magento Admin
- Go to System -> Configuration from the top menu
- Click the Design tab on the left
- Click the Themes tab to expand the Themes options
- Under Templates click the Add Exception button. Two new boxes will appear underneath it
- In the Matched Expression field enter:
- In the Value field enter:
- Repeat steps 5-7 for Skin (Images/CSS) and Layout
- Click the Save Config button in the top left
That's it! Your store should now automatically display your mobile theme whenever it detects the iPhone, iPod or Android user-agent.
Don't forget to update the logos in the iPhone theme to match your stores.
TIP: In step 6 you can enter additional mobile user agents such as Opera, Blackberry etc.


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Like us, the kids at YAYSports! watched that Pacers-Cavaliers last night and were pretty astounded at just how awful Reggie Miller was as a broadcaster. YAYSports! takes this to its logical conclusion and imagines how Miller — an unabashed homer for the Pacers — might cover events on other channels, including the History Channel above.
We are not the least bit surprised Miller was so terrible, but we give a possible explanation: The headphones wouldn't fit over his ears? Maybe? Just trying to help here.
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Common substitution matrices for alignments.
When in doubt, use BLOSUM62. Consult http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast/blast_whatsnew.shtml#20051206 for some hints on good parameters for nucleotide alignments.
See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substitution_matrix for a summary about the difference between the different matrices.
|BLOSUM matrices
For BLOSUM matrices, the associated number determines the similarity of the sequences the matrices are derived from.
Henikoff, S. and Henikoff, J. Amino acid substitution matrices from protein blocks. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 89(biochemistry): 10915 - 10919 (1992).
|BLOSUM45 matrix, suitable for distantly related sequences
|The standard BLOSUM62 matrix.
|BLOSUM80 matrix, suitable for closely related sequences.
|PAM matrices
For PAM matrics, the number indicates the number of mutations that have occurred between the sequences that are compared.
Dayhoff, M.O., Schwartz, R.M., Orcutt, B.C. A model of evolutionary change in proteins. In "Atlas of Protein Sequence and Structure" 5(3) M.O. Dayhoff (ed.), 345 - 352 (1978).
|The standard PAM30 matrix
|The standard PAM70 matrix.
|BLASTn defaults, for nucleotide sequences
|Blast defaults, use with gap_open = -5 gap_extend = -3 This should really check for valid nucleotides, and perhaps be more lenient in the case of Ns. Oh well.
|Generic and simple matrix generator
|Construct a simple matrix from match score/mismatch penalty
|Produced by Haddock version 2.4.2


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Wall Street resumed its rally Wednesday, rising moderately as investors saw rebounding commodities prices as a reason to snap up energy and materials stocks.
Commodities prices that have been skidding lower for months turned around as investors seemed to have more of an appetite for risk. Gold picked up more than $36 an ounce. That advance spilled over to the stock market, lifting energy stocks including Exxon Mobil Corp., which rose 2.4 percent, and mining company Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., which added 16 percent.
Shifting sentiment over a possible bailout deal for Detroit's Big Three automakers also tugged at stocks throughout the session. That had major indexes alternating between gains and losses in afternoon trading and dragged financial stocks lower. Financial houses that hold investments in the car companies could see further strain on their balance sheets if big players like General Motors Corp. file bankruptcy.
The session's gains represent the continuation of the market's advance since late November. It has been punctuated by a few steep selloffs, including Tuesday's slide. But most trading had been more subdued than in September and October. The less panicked tone has helped boost confidence that the market might be stitching together a sustainable bottom.
Wall Street remains nervous about the level of opposition to efforts to aid U.S. automakers. Democrats in Congress and the White House finalized an agreement on $14 billion in loans for Detroit's struggling car companies. However, the plan negotiated by the White House is being opposed by a group of conservatives led by Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev.
The proposal would provide relief for General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC. Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Alan Mulally and Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. told The Associated Press Tuesday they don't need to take the bailout.
At close, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 70.09, or 0.81 percent, to 8,761.42. On Tuesday, the Dow shed 243 points as investors after disappointing corporate news reminded investors of the magnitude of the economy's troubles. Stocks have rallied for two sessions before the decline.
Broader stock indicators advanced. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 10.57, or 1.19 percent, to 899.24, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 18.14, or 1.17 percent, to 1,565.48.
The Russell 2000 index of smaller companies rose 10.69, or 2.30 percent, to 476.40.
Stocks Make Late Move Upwards
Wall Street resumed its rally Wednesday, rising moderately as investors saw rebounding commodities prices as a reason to snap up energy and materials stocks.


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Detroit officials gave Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG until the end of today to say how much they would accept to cancel interest-rate swaps that cost city taxpayers about $4 million a month or face a possible lawsuit, a person familiar with the talks said.
The city and the banks have been trying to negotiate a new deal since a federal judge rejected a proposal to pay the banks $165 million to end the swaps. Should the banks make a low enough offer today, the city will keep talking through the weekend in hopes of presenting a new deal to U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes in Detroit, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions are private.
Without a deal, the city will consider taking legal action to have the swaps declared illegal and prevent the banks from seizing about $4.2 million in casino taxes held in a custodial account, the person said. The city has paid more than $200 million on the swaps since 2009.
Rhodes this month rejected the $165 million proposal, which was a reduction from an earlier agreement to pay $230 million, as "too high a price." He advised Detroit to seek better terms.
Bill Halldin, a spokesman for Bank of America, declined to comment on the swaps negotiations. Megan Stinson, a spokeswoman for UBS, didn't immediately return an email seeking comment after regular business hours.
The judge's rejection of the deal was a setback for Kevyn Orr, Detroit's emergency financial manager, who said Jan. 29 that he will soon submit to Rhodes a plan to adjust about $18 billion in debt. Creditors have received a draft of that plan, Orr said this week.
In July, Detroit filed the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy after decades of decline, saying it couldn't pay creditors while also providing basic city services. Orr has been in court-supervised mediation with creditors including bondholders and pension funds to see if they can reach an agreement on cuts.
Under the 2009 swaps agreement, the banks have the right to seek control of Detroit's casino taxes, which the city pledged as collateral. To prevent the banks from seizing the money, Orr may need to file an emergency request with the court.
The swaps are tied to pension obligation bonds issued in 2005 and 2006. They were designed to protect against rising interest rates by requiring the banks to pay the city if rates climbed above a certain level. When rates fell, Detroit was required to make monthly payments.
Days before filing for bankruptcy, Detroit agreed to pay $230 million to end the swaps contracts, which a city service corporation signed with Zurich-based UBS and SBS Financial Products Co. Merrill Lynch, a unit of Charlotte, N.C.- based Bank of America, took over the SBS position in July.
Creditors led by bond insurer Syncora Guarantee Inc. opposed settlement. The city didn't prove it would lose if it sued to cancel the swaps contracts instead of settling with the banks, Syncora said.
Rhodes suspended a December trial over the $230 million settlement and told the city to renegotiate. On Dec. 24, Detroit announced the deal that reduced the termination payment to $165 million, which Rhodes rejected.


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Yesterday I think I removed something called Unity webapp integration (I don't remember exactly) Now when I log in to Ubuntu, only the image of the desktop and its content are displayed, there's no top bar, no sidebar on the left. I'm pretty much unable to do anything.
How can I get it back to normal?


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Is there any way to make my fragrance last longer?
Fragrance evaporates faster on dry skin, so be sure your diet includes moisturizing omega-3 fatty acids. Or look for a scent that rereleases with surface changes (for example, when you rub your wrists together) so it lingers. Try Thierry Muglers Angel body line.


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SimplyScripts Radio – The Cabin In The Woods Edition
In this special edition, host Mike Shelton talks with Actor/Director/Producer Timothy Woodward Jr about two upcoming indie films Finders Keepers (written by Pia Cook and Todd Gorden) and Blackout (directed by Matthew K. Hacker and written by the inestimable Pia Cook.
Finders Keepers trailer (available on 4/4/13 – Check out the Official Website and Like 'em on Facebook)
Blackout trailer (available in July)
BLACKOUT (2012) – Official Teaser from Matthew Hacker on Vimeo.
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