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Jim Larranaga, who has led two underperforming basketball programs from irrelevance to being true champions that captured the attention and imagination of fans everywhere, shares his leadership and teamwork strategies that apply on and off the court.
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Author, Expert, Activist, and Adviser, Lauren Leader-Chivee is one of the world's foremost experts on diversity and women's leadership. Her speeches explore the economic, political and social impact of diversity and inspire us all to rise to the challenge.
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Deborah Lee James has a three-decade track record of leading, transforming, and driving lasting results in the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government, and private industry. She has deep expertise in strategic planning, risk management, public policy, cyber security, logistics, and innovation.
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An expert analyst on consumer behavior, new products and the changing retail landscape, "Supermarket Guru" Phil Lempert offers critical lessons in how to appeal to the new consumer, helping leaders across industries understand shifts and capture opportunities beforethey become mainstream trends.
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Passionate about creating great teams—and ensuring that they're properly led—Pat Lencioni shows you how to meet your everyday organizational and business challenges.
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Stew Leonard's philosophy—always satisfying the customer— has won him unparalleled customer loyalty. It's a philosophy he generously shares with others.
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Charlene Li is an influential thought leader and guide on emerging technologies, with a specific focus on social technologies, interactive marketing and leadership.
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Martin Lindstrom reveals the science behind why we buy, having peered inside the brains of 2,000 consumers. His findings shatter conventional wisdom.
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'Personhood' Issue Haunts Colorado Senate Candidate
Democrats and Republicans Won't Let Rep. Cory Gardner Distance Himself From Topic
Rep. Cory Gardner, the Republican candidate for a Senate seat in Colorado, is trying to move away from the thorny issue of "personhood."
His problem is that neither his foes on the left nor some friends on the right will let him.
Shortly after entering the race against Democratic Sen. Mark Udall in February, Mr. Gardner disavowed...

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Person of Interest: The Complete Third Season
Street Date: 9/2/14
- Two new featurettes:
- Person of Interest: The Future of A.I. – Interviews with the creators of Person of Interest about how real life technology is showcased within the show. The piece also speaks with leading A.I. experts from prestigious universities and institutions to see where the world is heading and how close fiction is to fact.
- Saying Goodbye to Carter – A piece highlighting Detective Carter and her impact on the show as well as the Person of Interest team as her character exits
- Episode commentary by series star Michael Emerson
- Bear – Short piece on Bear, the team's "adopted" dog and always a fan-favorite
- Gag Reel
Quote: The Person of Interest team suffers a devastating loss and confronts staggering challenges in the hit series' most explosive season yet. Adapting to the evolution of The Machine, now completely self-governed and hidden from all, technical wizard Finch (Michael Emerson) and ex-CIA operative Reese (Jim Caviezel) team with rogue agent Samantha Shaw (Sarah Shahi) to save lives and seek justice, but their missions now threaten to tear them apart. NYPD Detectives Carter (Taraji P. Henson) and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) finally unravel the criminal police conspiracy "HR" — but at a tragic cost. And former enemy - and now highly-tuned confederate of The Machine - Root (Amy Acker) becomes an uneasy ally when the team learns a second surveillance apparatus to rival The Machine is on the verge of activation. The electrifying, 23-Episode Season Three is a must watch!
The Big Bang Theory: The Complete Seventh Season
Street Date: 9/16/14
- String Theory Serenade
- James Earl Jones: The Un-Conventional Guest Star
- BBTea Time
- The Big Bang Theory's May the 4th
- The Big Cendrowski
- 2013 Comic Con Panel
- Johnny Galecki Crashes the BBT Writers Panel
- Gag Reel
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Quote: Socially challenged they remain, but the scientific geniuses of The Big Bang Theory always deliver hilarious results. Leonard returns from his North Sea expedition to find that his relationship with Penny involves more beta-testing than he's ever done in a lab. Howard's attachment issues with the women in his life in particular and Raj's social breakthrough with women in general provide more laughs. Bernadette and Amy stand staunchly by the men in their life, even when they're sitting in marathon role-playing games. Sheldon sees his mom (Laurie Metcalf) in a totally different way, parties with James Earl Jones, establishes a (sort of) bond with his idol Professor Proton (Emmy® winner Bob Newhart) and makes a scientific breakthrough that breaks down before you can say Science Friday.
Arrow: The Complete Second Season
Street Date: 9/16
- Three new featurettes:
- From Vigilante to Green Arrow – Documentary highlighting Oliver Queen's journey from fighting injustices to becoming Sterling City's accepted savior
- How Did They Do That?! Action & FX– Explores how Season 2 has raised the bar for action and FX, showing how the creators can make anything the writers dream up come to life
- Wirework: The Impossible Moves of Arrow – See how the intense and elaborate fight sequences are shot for maximum realism!
- Episode Commentary (TBC)
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel (TBC)
Quote: Starling City has been torn apart by the Undertaking, so the need for the hooded vigilante – now known as The Arrow – is more urgent than ever in the explosive second season of the hit action series based on DC Comics' Green Arrow. After retreating to the island on which he was once stranded, Oliver Queen returns to protect his mother, sister and besieged company –, but comes to realize that allies and enemies have switched sides, and the stranglehold of evil on family, friends and city is diabolically linked to his fateful shipwreck. A once-tight comrade-at-arms and a strength-enhancing, yet mind-warping serum may prove to be the mightiest adversaries The Arrow has ever encountered. Can justice find its target in this breathlessly exciting, 23-episode Season Two? Or will all fall before the fury of Deathstroke?
Supernatural: The Complete Ninth Season
Street Date: 9/9
- The Men of Letters Interactive Set Experience - Interactive menu allows the viewer access to numerous featurettes hidden in the various rooms of the Men of Letters set.
- Men of Letters: The Winchester Legacy - This documentary featurette will explore the rich mythology of the Men of Letters – from its roots with the Winchester family to the hidden compound that was passed down to Sam and Dean by their grandfather.
- Designing the Men of Letters Bunker - From concept to completion, production designer Jerry Wanek will guide us through the creation of Supernatural's largest set.
- Supernatural - Bound by Blood: Decisions and Consequences - The documentary featurette explores the ninth season's theme of consequences for Sam and Dean.
- Crow's Nest Tour - Production designer Jerry Wanek takes the viewer on a set tour of the Crow's Nest.
- Library Tour - Production designer Jerry Wanek takes the viewer on a set tour of the Library.
- Lab - Production designer Jerry Wanek takes the viewer on a set tour of the Laboratory.
- Galley - Production designer Jerry Wanek takes the viewer on a set tour of the Kitchen.
- Dorms - Production designer Jerry Wanek takes the viewer on a set tour of the Dormitories.
- Room 7B - Production designer Jerry Wanek takes the viewer on a set tour of the Dungeon.
- 2013 Comic-Con Panel - Cast and Producers discuss the upcoming storylines of Season 9.
- Producer/Director Commentaries:
- Blade Runners - With actor Mark A. Sheppard and writing team Eugenie Ross-Leming & Brad Buckner
- Mother's Little Helper - Writer/EP Adam Glass and Director/actor Misha Collins provide commentary on his directorial debut.
- Bloodlines - EP Jeremy Carver, Director/EP Bob Singer, and Writer/EP Andrew Dabb provide commentary on the backdoor pilot Supernatural: Bloodlines
- Behind the Scenes of Supernatural: A Fan's Perspective - Mockumentary hosted by Misha Collins going behind the scenes on the set of Supernatural.
- Deleted Scenes
- Gag Reel
Quote: How do you deal with a fallout of heavenly proportions? With the angelic Host's descent to Earth, Sam and Dean are now facing a world inhabited by thousands of powerful beings, who soon form their own chaotic agendas. Before tackling the threat of the "loose nukes" roaming the globe, however, the Winchesters engage in their most personal conflict yet. Meanwhile, Castiel finds he's more vulnerable – and yet capable of more humanity – than ever. As the threat escalates, a way must be found to reopen the gates of Heaven and head off a demon insurrection in Hell. The whole time, darkness leaves its mark on Dean, but has he finally crossed the line to protect his family? The excitement of this 23-episode ninth season is positively epic.
The Vampire Diaries: The Complete Fifth Season
Street Date: 9/9
- The Vampire Diaries: To The Other Side and Back
- I Know What You Did… In the Last 100 Episodes
- A Day in the After Life with Kat Graham
- Second Bite (Gag Reel)
- 2013 Comic Con Panel
- Deleted Scenes
Quote: After a sizzling summer with Damon, Elena leaves Mystic Falls and moves into a dorm with her roomie Caroline, ready for new adventures and new friends. But dark thoughts gnaw at Elena, and soon familiar faces are back in the girls' lives. There's Stefan with his shadow self Silas, plus Katherine, with a diabolical agenda and a jaw-dropping transformation. As the Doppelgangers test destiny, tearing lovers apart and pitting the Salvatore brothers against each other, the student body count rises, evidence of powerful forces on campus. Anchors, Rippers, Passengers and Travelers struggle to survive alongside witches and werewolves, teaching our favorite vampires painful lessons along the way.
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I haven't watched The Vampire Diaries, but it seems to exist only because Twilight became such a big thing. I hate stuff like that.
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The New England Revolution Reserves and D.C. United reserves played to a 0-0 draw at the Lower Practice Field at Gillette Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
The match, which was originally scheduled on April 14 after the clubs' first-team match at Gillette Stadium, was played less than 24 hours after the two teams hosted other MLS opponents in league action. The Revolution's first team played to a 2-2 draw against Houston last night in Foxborough, while D.C. earned a 3-1 win over Toronto in Washington before the reserve side flew in this morning for the afternoon kickoff.
Because of the re-scheduling, Sunday afternoon's match was just United's first reserve match of 2012, while it was only the Revolution's second.
Both teams had early chances within the first 10 minutes, with New England's Kelyn Rowe finding Jose Moreno up the middle in the sixth minute, before Andrew Dykstra came out to smother the chance.
Three minutes later, Stephen King had D.C.'s best chance of the day with a rebound shot from distance flying narrowly high of Bobby Shuttleworth's goal in the ninth minute.
Moreno again had a go in the 12th minute, but his uncontested header off a Bjorn Runstrom cross was right at Dykstra, who made the easy save.
After the half, New England had a chance in the 50th minute when Rowe's blast from distance – off the counterattack – beat Dykstra, but kicked off the far post and out of harm.
Lewis Neal combined with former Revs player Kenny Mansally in the 60th minute, but his shot off Mansally's cross was just wide left of the Revolution goal.
In the game's final minutes, both teams went for the game-winner, but neither squad was able to mount a dangerous attack. Both sides had several clearances in the area, but no player was able to break through and get anything off on target.
Shuttleworth made five saves on the afternoon, while Dykstra had four.
With the draw, the Revolution reserves moved to 0-1-1 (1 pt.) on the season. They will next face the New York reserves on Sunday, July 8, at Gillette Stadium. With their first match under their belts, D.C.'s reserves are now 0-0-1 (1 pt.) on the season and will return to action on Monday, July 9, when they face Toronto FC at home.
D.C. United Reserves at New England Revolution Reserves
May 20, 2012 – Lower Practice Field, Gillette Stadium (Foxborough, Mass.)
New England 0, D.C. 0
Scoring Summary: None
New England Revolution: Bobby Shuttleworth, Tyler Polak, John Lozano, Darrius Barnes, Alec Purdie, Kelyn Rowe, Dominic Machado* (Diego Fagundez 40), Fernando Cardenas (Mitch Taintor* 69), Michael Roach, Bjorn Runstrom (Jack Hilger* 76), Jose Moreno (Ramiro Osorio* 56)
Substitutes Not Used: Tim Murray (GK)
D.C. United: Andrew Dykstra, Kurt Morsink, Ethan White, Cristhyan Najar*, Marcelo Saragosa, Stephen King, Lewis Neal (Dejan Jakovic 89), Kenny Mansally^, Denis Najar*, Jannick Eckenrode*, Irvin Herrera^
Substitutes Not Used: None
^ Guest player
* Academy player
Misconduct Summary:
NE – Fernando Cardenas (caution) 31
DC – Kenny Mansally (caution) 81
Team Records:
New England Revolution – 0-1-1 (1 pt.)
D.C. United – 0-0-1 (1 pt.)
Referee: Niko Bratsis
Assistant Referees: Scott Kachmark, Matt Mercier
Fourth Official: Mark Allatin
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From now until August 31, visitors to Sky View Center on College Point Boulevard in Flushing can view a Pop Art installation featuring the work of internationally acclaimed artist dEmo. The collection features 30 brightly colored bear sculptures ranging in size from two to six feet.
The sculptures have traveled the world before coming to their current stop in Queens. The Bears have visited sites in France, Mexico, and Italy, including an exhibit at the 2010 Venice Biennale. This is the third time the sculptures have been exhibited in the United States.
"This project has been one of my favorite to take around the world," said dEmo, whose real name is Eladio de Mora, in a statement. "Whether you're a young child or an adult, you can appreciate the vibrancy of the Bears and their different sizes."
Sky View Center worked with the Spanish artist and Flushing contemporary art gallery Crossing Art to bring the Bears to Queens.
This is the first time that Sky View Center has ever featured artwork.
"We done a great with décor and holiday celebrations, but this is the first time we've ever brought artwork to Sky View Center," said Ed Hilla, general manager of Sky View Center.
Hilla said Sky View was excited to have the Bears for the summer.
"We thought the Bears would be a fun and wonderful thing for the summer," said Ed Hilla, general manager of Sky View Center. "If you could see the smiles on kid's faces as they walk through the doors and run to these bears."
The Bears are situated throughout Sky View, and the center plans to run contests on Facebook and Twitter (@SkyViewCenter) throughout the summer, such as challenging shoppers to find certain Bears, to win prizes and other gifts.


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Here, in Northern California, spring has arrived in full force. The days are longer, the sun is warmer and everything is blooming. It's the perfect time to share our Chalk Hill wedding invitation suite and inspiration board with you. Chalk Hill was inspired by the pastoral landscapes of the wine country, which is displayed on paper in our wisteria and copper letterpress inks. The winding florals and calligraphic typography of this custom letterpress design make it the perfect choice for an event that is rustically romantic.
Has spring sprung in your neck of the woods? Are you inspired by your local landscape when planning your big day? Can you imagine our Chalk Hill letterpress invitation in your color palette? It would be beautiful in a mint green and classic neutral? {see our sea glass and taupe letterpress inks for the perfect shades!} Or give it a preppy twist with our peach and cerulean letterpress inks. The options are endless with this beyond-pretty botanical. Visit one of our exclusive retailers to start customizing your own Chalk Hill suite today. And don't forget about our Spring Promotion running through the end of June.


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LAKE FOREST, Calif. (AP) - The Southern California church headed by popular evangelical Pastor Rick Warren says his 27-year-old son has committed suicide.
Warren's Saddleback Valley Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif., says in a statement Saturday that Matthew Warren had struggled with mental illness and deep depression.
Warren is the author of "The Purpose Driven Life." In 2008, his church sponsored a presidential forum with Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney had been invited to a similar forum last fall, but Warren canceled it, saying the campaign had become too uncivil.
Saddleback's website says that about 20,000 people attend weekend services at the church near Los Angeles.
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Hikers donned their boots and took part in the University of Derby's annual Magificent Walk from Buxton on Saturday, to raise funds for Friends of the Peak District.
There were three routes starting from Oaklands Manor outdoor centre of varying lengths in miles, the tremendous 20, the excellent eight and the fabulous four. The 20-miler took in the spectacular scenery of the Goyt Valley, Shining Tor, the Dane Valley and Lud's Church.


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December 1, 2009
The past month has been a busy one when it comes to HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines. Revised U.S. guidelines were released on Dec. 1, providing an interesting counterpoint to recently updated HIV treatment guidelines from two other key groups: the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European AIDS Clinical Society.
Rapid Advice: Antiretroviral Therapy for HIV Infection in Adults and Adolescents (PDF)
On Nov. 30, the WHO revised its HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines for the first time since 2006. Perhaps the most noteworthy change to the guidelines, which are meant primarily for developing countries, is that the WHO raised its recommendation for starting HIV treatment from a CD4 count of 200 to a CD4 count of 350. That change may make as many as five million more HIV-positive people eligible for antiretroviral treatment throughout the world, WHO says. Of course, it also raises an important new question: If five million people living with HIV in resource-poor countries are already in need of medications, what will happen when millions more people are added to that waiting list?
Also among the revised recommendations is a more aggressive stance on HIV treatment for pregnant women. Whereas WHO's previous guidelines recommended that women with HIV begin antiretroviral treatment at their 28th week of pregnancy, the new guidelines say that they should begin taking HIV medications at week 14. In addition, the old guidelines were noncommittal on the issue of breastfeeding, WHO says; by contrast, the revised guidelines recommend that women continue taking HIV medications through the end of the breastfeeding period, which WHO suggests should last until the baby is 12 months old.
Another welcome change worth noting is that the WHO now recommends countries start phasing out Zerit (stavudine, d4T) -- a process that began long ago in the U.S., since Zerit is known to be the leading culprit of lipoatrophy (fat loss) among HIV medications, and has been tied to other side effects as well. The WHO recommends that countries turn to Retrovir (zidovudine, AZT) or Viread (tenofovir), two less-toxic alternatives to Zerit.
European Guidelines for the Clinical Management and Treatment of HIV-Infected Adults in Europe (PDF)
The European AIDS Clinical Society updated its own set of HIV/AIDS treatment guidelines just a few weeks ago (and for the first time since 2007). They differ from the new U.S. guidelines on the issue of when to start treatment: The European guidelines suggest that, among HIV-positive people with a CD4 count between 350 and 500, starting treatment is only recommended if that person is pregnant, over the age of 50 or has one of a range of specific health conditions, including hepatitis C coinfection, cardiovascular risk and cancer. (The revised U.S. guidelines, by contrast, recommend treatment for all HIV-positive people with a CD4 count below 500.)
What really sets the European guidelines apart, however (besides the fact that they're much easier to browse online), is how much detail they go into on the issue of HIV and aging. They include a host of prevention, testing and treatment recommendations for cancer, heart problems, bone disorders and other health issues that are growing more common among people with HIV as they get older.
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Functional Reorganization of the Brain: Response to Alzheimer's Pathology?
Prashanthi Vemuri, Ph.D.
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota
2011 New Investigator Research Grant
Increasingly sophisticated imaging techniques have enabled scientists to study subtle processes and abnormalities in the brain. One technique, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), can now detect tiny alterations in the chemical activity that connects brain cells of different regions. These alterations may represent disease-related changes to synapses and other neurological structures involved in brain cell communication. During Alzheimer's disease, synaptic changes occur at very early stages of the disease, and they can reveal important information about how Alzheimer's progresses over time.
For this study, Prashanthi Vemuri, Ph.D., and colleagues will use multiple imaging techniques to identify changes in brain function among a group of elderly participants. This group will include cognitively healthy people, people with Alzheimer's disease, and people with mild cognitive impairment — a condition that often precedes Alzheimer's. Specifically, the team will use (1) 11C Pittsburgh compound B positron emission tomography (PIB-PET) imaging to measure brain levels of beta-amyloid plaque, a key hallmark of Alzheimer's; (2) structural MRI to measure damage to neurons and synapses; and (3) fluorodeoxyglucose (18F FDG) PET to detect abnormalities in brain cells' functions. The results of these research efforts could point to novel ways of diagnosing and treating dementia.


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Tropical Tribute to 30 Years - 8/5/10
Guests of Family Hospice and Palliative Care, including volunteers and benefactors, took a stroll through the palms, marveled the vista from the treetop lookout, and raised their glasses at the organization's Tropical Tribute to 30 Years at the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. WTAE-TV news anchor Andrew Stockey served as master of ceremonies of the event, which also featured live island music by Phil Webster, wine, hors d'oeuvres, an anniversary cake, and a brief program about Family Hospice. "The last three decades have been witness to many enhancements in end-of-life care," says president and CEO Raphael Sciullo. "We are proud to continue to serve as an innovator in the field and grateful for the opportunity to help all of those we touch make the most of every day." Photography by Megan Wylie RuffingRead More
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Early adopters and nimble communications pros are using Instagram, the photo editing and sharing platform, for just about everything. Simply Measured found that 54% of the Interbrand 100 companies use Instagram, and that the platform grew 35% among brands in the Q3 2012, outpacing the growth of Google+ and Pinterest.
The question is, though, is your brand ripe for using this hot communications tool? Donetta Allen, VP and social media practice leader at Hunter PR, suggests that you ask yourself these four important questions before you grab an iPhone and start snapping away.
"Does your brand already have a social media presence? Most organizations use Facebook and Twitter to showcase their Instagram photos," says Allen. In fact, the Instagram-Facebook combination has proved very valuable for brands. More than 90% of Instagram photos posted by brands were also shared to Facebook, allowing consumers to engage natively on both platforms, reported Simply Measured. Brands actively cross post to Twitter as well, with 60% of photos being tweeted.
"Does your brand have a lifestyle story it can tell through photos? If not, you may want to consider another platform from which to get your messages out," says Allen.
Do you want to engage your fans through photos? "Some brands, particularly in non-consumer spaces, don't lend themselves to photos," says Allen.
Is it important to reach your audience through their mobile devices? "Since a majority of people now have smartphones, for most this answer will be 'yes,'" says Allen.
|Instagram in Action: (top) GE's photos of its engines inside planes and helicopters have drawn a rabid following; (middle) the local press picked up this shot of Montgomery County Community College's volleyball team, which resulted in coverage; (bottom) the Gansevoort Hotel Group posts cool photos of its hotels and their neighborhoods—this one was taken in NYC's Meatpacking District.
Sold on Instagram yet? If so, or if you've already begun experimenting with it in your communications, here are five tips from a wide range of PR professionals who are using it well:
Chad Torbin, media relations manager at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, a top law firm in Washington D.C: Start with a short campaign, with a clear start and end date. This makes it simple and easy to track.
Alana Mauger, director of communications at Montgomery County Community College (campuses in Blue Bell and Pottstown, Pa.): Engage in genuine dialog—interacting with other Instagram users is just as important as sharing your own pictures.
Sai De Silva, founder of jewelry accessories site RequiredFlare.com: Team with bloggers and other influencers that also use Instagram for promotions and contests. Leverage their followers.
Gansevoort Hotel Group, Douglas Brundage, the Group's chief digital strategist: If your brand demands a more professional look to its photos, try third-party editing apps like Snapseed.
Katrina Craigwell, manager of digital marketing at GE: Identify the strongest thing you have to share. We do our best with big pieces of technology. Don't stray from your strongest offering. General Electric uses Instagram to showcase its historic archives, factory machinery and jet engines.
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122nd National Meeting — San Diego, CA The AAPT Winter Meeting returned to the Town and Country Resort & Convention Center in San Diego for the 122nd National Meeting. The joint meeting with the 197th National Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) was the first joint Winter Meeting since AAPT stopped meeting with the American Physical Society in 1991. The rain that dampened the Summer Meeting in Guelph followed AAPT to San Diego and limited the use of the outdoor pools and other recreational facilities. However, most Southern Californians were pleased with the rain that relieved local drought conditions and reduced the fire hazard in the hills surrounding San Diego. Of course, some attendees thought the rainy weather could be blamed on the presence of astronomers who usually abhor rain and cloudy conditions.


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Oyapock: the bridge to discord?
The Oyapock River divides the Brazilian state of Amapá from French Guiana. Until recently, it was possible to cross freely from one bank to the other. But now everything has changed. The construction of a bridge has brought permanent border controls. Far from bringing France and Brazil closer together, the bridge has become a symbol of mutual misunderstanding.
Since the 1997 meeting of presidents Chirac and Cardoso, France and Brazil have dreamed of a bridge spanning the two sides of their common natural border, the Oyapock River. An elegantly designed cable-stayed bridge now dominates Pointe Morne. 378 metres long, it unites French Guiana and Brazil, and symbolically links the European Union with South America.
Construction was completed in the summer of 2011, and yet the bridge has still not been officially inaugurated. The edifice has become a sore point, a subject of discord on both sides of the Oyapock.
Although the access road and infrastructure on the French Guiana side are finished, those on the opposite banks are far from complete. There is no border checkpoint, and there is little tarmac along the 250 kilometres of the BR-156 road leading to the regional state capital Macapa. Construction on this road first began in 1940, and 72 years later, it is still very much a dirt track.
An interminable project
Brazilian officials admit that the bridge should have spurred things on. "We are trying to complete this road as quickly as possible so that the bridge can be inaugurated," says Antonio José Chaves, the project manager. "We are aiming to finish by the end of 2012, but I don't know this region very well. I understand that there's a lot of rain in the winter season."
It seems more than Chaves' goodwill will be needed to complete the project. Cutting the ribbon to open the bridge will require a decision at a much higher level. "The real decisions lie with the Brazilian authorities," say French officials in Paris.
In the small town of Saint Georges de l'Oyapock in French Guiana, the inhabitants are not enthusiastic. They say they never asked for or wanted a bridge. Indeed, the river had never been considered a frontier, and people have for years crossed back and forth daily in their long-boats.
But Saint Georges has changed – for the worse - since the construction of a main road linking it to French Guiana's capital Cayenne. Thefts, insecurity, and illegal immigration are today major issues. The town has become an entry point for Brazilian workers heading for French Guiana's clandestine gold mines across the border.
French authorities have stepped up their surveillance, doubling their manpower. There are now some 60 border police patrolling the town and watching every boat that arrives from the Brazilian side. But despite their efforts, the number of illegal immigrants and gold workers has greatly increased.
On the opposite bank of the river, in the town of Oyapock, the bridge has actually raised expectations. This little town in the far north of Brazil feels abandoned by the central administration in Brasilia. The road's completion and the opening of the bridge could well stimulate the economy.
A centre for illegal gold washing
But Oyapock has long served as a rear base for clandestine gold panners over in French Guiana. The issue of clandestine mining is a hot issue in the French territory. With the rising market price of gold, many Brazilians have joined the Eldorado trail into French Guiana. According to official statistics, there are over 5,000 clandestine gold diggers in the Guiana jungle, but the real figures are no doubt much higher.
The death back in June of two French soldiers, who were shot by clandestine gold washers during a raid on a gold mine in the jungle, has increased tension on the Oyapock border. It is an additional reason why French authorities are determined not to facilitate visa requirements for Brazilians wanting to enter French Guiana.
A bridge to nowhere
Amidst these seemingly eternal problems, the Oyapock Bridge – a 50-million-euro investment - stands elegantly above the waters of the Oyapock, a bridge that has still not been inaugurated and today leads nowhere.
But since our report was recorded, the long process of commissioning the Oyapock Bridge looks to have taken a step forward. On August 10, Amapa State Governor Camilo Capiberibe launched with great fanfare the work on the access zone and border post on the Brazilian side. This had been paralysed for months for obscure public procurement reasons. The work has now restarted and should be completed in three months' time.


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Udon Noodles with Five-Spice Sirloin
A five-spice rub makes this sirloin fragrant and enticing. The tender steak is sliced and added to udon noodles and broth. The added greens complete this meal in a bowl.
2 lb. sirloin, thinly sliced
2 tsp. five-spice powder
1⁄4 cup sesame oil
4 tsp. gingerroot, grated
4 shallots, thinly sliced
4 cloves garlic, minced
1 lb. shiitakes, sliced
4 red jalapeños, thinly sliced
2 cups beef stock
4 lb. mustard greens, cleaned
2 lb. udon noodles, cooked
1. Rub steak with five-spice powder and set aside.
2. In wok, heat sesame oil and sauté gingerroot, shallots, and garlic.
3. Add shiitake mushrooms, steak, and peppers and sauté.
4. Stir in stock and add greens. When greens have wilted, add noodles; toss and serve.


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OSC Interface Laboratory
The Ohio Supercomputer Center has a 400 sq ft. Interface Laboratory. In addition to providing high performance graphical displays for both interactive and recorded presentations, the Interface Laboratory offers dexterous devices to precisely localize and track 3D digitization, user movements, morphometrics, and haptic (force reflecting) interaction with complex data. The Interface Laboratory also provides equipment for recording and generating various types of audio for both interaction and presentation.
Interface Laboratory Goals
The visualization and interface laboratory provides interface equipment and expertise to Ohio's researchers. Interface Laboratory goals are:
- To provide tools for investigating novel methods for simulation and analysis of complex multimodal data.
- To provide an environment for research and consultation in visualization and interface development.
- To provide a workspace for demonstration, trials, and information exchange among researchers.
- To provide access to visualization and interface equipment and software that would otherwise be unavailable to many of Ohio's researchers.
- To provide cost-shared access to hardcopy, video, and interactive interface equipment.
Interface Laboratory Equipment and Support
Following is a list of the equipment available in the Interface Laboratory. In addition to what's listed, there are usually additional workstations and interface devices in the Interface Laboratory that are on loan to OSC for evaluation and research.
Tracking and Localization
Force Reflecting Devices
Dexterous Devices
Visualization cluster
Data Acquisition
Display Devices
Instrumented Glove Interfaces
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Pepper EM Bella - Seeds
Description for Pepper EM Bella
Bell peppers are one of the most popular vegetables grown in home gardens. The bell pepper is native to Central and North America and is easy to grow. There is now a much wider variety of peppers to choose from with different colours and even different shapes.
Peppers are a tender, warm-season crop. They resist most pests and offer something for everyone: spicy, sweet or hot, and a variety of colors, shapes and sizes. For this page, we will focus on sweet bell peppers.
|Common name
|Flower colours
|Bloom time
|ornamental pepper, Bell pepper,Paprika, Capsicum annuum, Indian name Shimala mirch
|Year round
|1 to 3 feet
Planting and care
|partial sun/shade – around 3-4 hours of morning/evening sunlight with some afternoon shade.
|Loamy with neutral pH
|When watering your plants, you want to keep a consistent moistness to the soil, but do not allow it to get soggy during the growing season. If the plants do not get enough water, the bell peppers will have a bitter taste. If you use a black plastic mulch, you will need to water the plants more frequently.
|18°C and 35°C.
|To improve the quality of your peppers, place a small amount of fertilizer around each plant early in the growing season. Place the fertilizer about 4 inches from the stem and add water to work it into the soil.
Caring for Pepper EM Bella
- Soil should be well-drained, but maintain adequate moisture either with mulch or plastic covering.
- Water one to two inches per week, but remember peppers are extremely heat sensitive. If you live in a warm or desert climate, watering everyday may be necessary.
- Fertilize after the first fruit set. Weed carefully around plants.
- If necessary, support plants with cages or stakes to prevent bending.
- Try commercially available cone-shaped wire tomato cages.
- They may not be ideal for tomatoes, but they are just the thing for peppers. For larger fruit, spray the plants with a solution of one tablespoon of Epsom salts in a gallon of water, once when it begins to bloom, and once ten days later.
Capsicum will be ready for harvest about 2 months from planting. Capsicum of hybrid varieties start green and then mature to the their original color. Unlike the Hybrid varieties, the colour of the heirloom Capsicums results from their genetics, and not just the stage of ripeness.
Typical uses of Pepper EM Bella
Special features:
For maximum flavour, eat peppers on the same day they are picked. You can also leave them on a kitchen counter for a day or two to ripen further.
Do not place peppers in the crisper drawer or in plastic wrap or bags in the refrigerator. Peppers are warm-weather fruits and do not store well in cold temperatures. If you have too many peppers, consider the following storage options.
Culinary use:
Medicinal use:
- http://www.almanac.com/plant/bell-peppers
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Very fast germination just on the third day from seeding. Happy with that but has to update the review later based on the yield. If it gives yield just as shown in the picture it will be excellent. LeDipa
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Chuck Clauser looks out from a hole Saturday where a wall once stood at his Cedar Bonnet Island, N.J., home that was damaged by a surge from Sandy
Updated at 12:00 a.m. ET: East Coast residents struggling to pick up the pieces after superstorm Sandy confronted new challenges Sunday: plummeting temperatures and the looming threat of another significant storm.
With the mercury dipping into the 30s overnight and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in New York City, its northern suburbs and Long Island still without electricity six days after the storm, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said "it's going to become increasingly clear" that homes without heat will be uninhabitable as temperatures drop.
That means that residents who have been reluctant to leave their homes will have to, and that they'll need housing.
Yet another storm indicates it will blow through the Northeast, promising between two and three inches of flooding. It will likely be raining on Election Day in Florida, The Weather Channel's Kelly Cass says, but Ohio looks to be clear. The Weather Channel's Kelly Cass reports.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the city expects that it will have to find housing for 30,000 to 40,000 people.
The battered region, still beset with stubborn power outages and gasoline shortages, could be hit by a "significant" nor'easter by Thursday, the National Weather Service said Sunday.
At the very least, the service's prediction center stated, there is "a very real possibility of heavy rain and strong winds along the coast from Virginia to Maine." Snow is likely in the interior and some models "do bring some snow all the way to the coast as far south as Virginia," it warned.
"Our suite of computer model guidance continues to advertise a significant East Coast storm that will impact the coastal areas with strong winds and heavy rainfall late Wednesday through Friday," said Tom Niziol of The Weather Channel. "Steps should begin now to prepare for these impacts."
The storm would not be anywhere as destructive as Sandy, but could cause some new erosion and hinder recovery efforts, officials said.
Many who live in the blue-collar fishing town of Highlands, N.J. are still living in temporary shelters after Sandy's floodwaters forced them from their homes. NBC's Michelle Franzen reports.
FEMA and Red Cross officials have ordered more resources ahead of the storm.
New York's Con Edison announced late Sunday night that it had restored service to more than 770,000 customers, or about 80 percent of those who lost electricity during the storm in Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island and the Bronx.
In hard-hit New jersey, PSE&G said another 600 workers will be joining the more than 3,000 linemen and tree contractors already working in blacked-out areas.
"Our biggest challenge is in Hoboken, where our stations were submersed in more than 3 feet of water. It took several days for this water to recede. Much of the equipment was corroded by salt water and needs extensive work," the utility said in a statement.
Gov. Chris Christie and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano toured Hoboken on Sunday and promised residents that what needed to get done would get done.
"Everywhere I've traveled, whether it's a local shelter or a Red Cross shelter, an impromptu roadside table that neighbors have put together to provide food and drinks for people who are working – this is the symbol of New Jersey coming together during a really difficult time," Chrsitie told reporters.
In Highlands, a blue collar fishing town, 1,200 homes were flooded, including the mayor's. The federal government has pledged to pay for housing in the region. Meanwhile in New York, transit returns on line. NBC's Michelle Franzen reports.
Napolitano said federal agencies are looking for apartments and hotel rooms for people displaced by Sandy. "Our goal is to try to get people out of the shelters,'' she said.
In flood-ravaged Belmar, N.J., where the floodwaters had receded but the streets were slippery with foul-smelling mud, hundreds of parishioners in parkas, scarves and boots packed the pews and stood in the aisles for Mass at a chilly Church of St. Rose. Firefighters and police officers sat in the front rows and drew applause.
Roman Catholic Bishop David O'Connell of the Trenton Diocese said he had no good answer for why God would allow the destruction that Sandy caused. But he assured parishioners: "There's more good, and there's more joy, and there's more happiness in life than there is the opposite. And it will be back. And we will be back."
Meanwhile, fuel supplies continued to rumble toward disaster zones and electricity was slowly returning to darkened neighborhoods. Officials were urging drivers and powerless residents desperate for gas not to panic, saying relief is on the way.
New Jersey voters who were displaced by Sandy now can cast their ballot by email or fax. NBC's Ron Allen reports.
But frustration was evident, as drivers waited in line for hours for a chance at a fill-up, snapping at each other and honking their horns.
At a gas station in Mount Vernon, N.Y., north of New York City, 62 cars were lined up around the block Sunday morning even though it was closed and had no fuel.
"I heard they might be getting a delivery. So I came here and I'm waiting," said the first driver in line, Earl Tuck. He had been there at least two hours by 9 a.m., and there was no delivery truck in sight. But he said he would stick it out.
Bloomberg said that resolving the gas shortages could take days. Across northern New Jersey, Christie imposed odd-even gas rationing that recalled the gasoline crisis of the 1970s.
With Sunday's running of the New York City Marathon canceled, some of those who were planning to run the 26.2-mile race through the city streets instead headed to hard-hit Staten Island to help storm victims.
Some would-be marathon runners are lending their energy to help those devastated by Sandy. "With our somewhat freakish skill of being able to run 26 miles at once, hopefully we'll be able to get this aid into places that are tougher to get to," a runner said. TODAY's Jenna Wolfe reports.
Thousands of other runners from such countries as Italy, Germany and Spain poured into Central Park to hold impromptu races of their own. A little more than four laps through the park amounted to a marathon.
"A lot of people just want to finish what they've started," said Lance Svendsen, organizer of a group called Run Anyway.
Cuomo on Sunday announced that more than 850 soldiers and 250 vehicles from Army National Guard units in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Massachusetts will begin arriving in New York to assist in Sandy response efforts. He also announced that the state will release $22.8 million to New York City that could be used for repairs to wastewater treatment facilities damaged during the storm.
Though New York and New Jersey bore the brunt of the destruction, at its peak, the storm reached 1,000 miles across, killed more than 100 people in 10 states, knocked out power to 8.5 million homes and businesses and canceled nearly 20,000 flights. Damage has been estimated $50 billion, making Sandy the second most expensive storm in U.S. history, behind Hurricane Katrina.
Lucas Jackson / Reuters
Superstorm Sandy made landfall Monday evening on a destructive and deadly path across the Northeast.
Officials have also expressed concern about getting voters displaced by Sandy to polling stations for Tuesday's election. Scores of voting centers were rendered useless by the record surge of seawater in New York and New Jersey.
New Jersey is allowing voters displaced by Sandy to vote by email. Some voters in New York could be casting their ballots in tents.
Christie ordered county clerks to open on Saturday and Sunday to accommodate early voters and ensure a "full, fair and transparent open voting process."
New Jersey authorities also took the uncommon step of declaring that any voter displaced from their home by Sandy would be designated an overseas voter, which allows them to submit an absentee vote by fax or email.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this story.
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Live Demos of Active Demand Response via Z-Wave and OpenADR for the Smart Grid-Smart Home Connection
Live Demos of Active Demand Response via Z-Wave and OpenADR for the Smart Grid-Smart Home Connection
MILPITAS, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 29, 2012) - The Z-Wave Alliance, a consortium of global companies that oversees the world's largest interoperable ecosystem for wireless home control products and services, will be conducting demonstrations of demand response solutions for the Smart Grid at the Grid-Interop Conference, to be held in Irving, TX, December 3-6.
The Alliance demonstration will showcase live OpenADR feeds bridged in real time to commercially available Z-Wave products that will automatically change states based on OpenADR requests. Alliance Members BuLogics and Echo Labs will demonstrate hardware and software solutions for these Smart Grid applications. In addition, Alliance Member Universal Devices will participate in a panel discussion on Demand Response Systems.
"Z-Wave is a key enabling technology in the energy management revolution for utilities as well as consumers," said Mark Walters, Chairman of the Z-Wave Alliance. "As energy providers seek solutions that connect their energy management strategies to rate payers' loads, Z-Wave offers them the world's largest ecosystem of interoperable products. Z-Wave is already the technology of choice for the telcos, security companies and retailers that are driving the smart home market and, of course, amongst consumers themselves. Our demos at Grid-Interop will show how simple, effective and instrumental Z-Wave can be for the Smart Grid."
At the Grid-Interop event, several Z-Wave Alliance members will conduct demonstrations of Z-Wave's interoperable enabling capabilities in a live demand response application. One demonstration will consist of a bi-directional OpenADR bridge based on BuLogics' StratIS cloud service and gateway technologies as designed for large wireless deployments used in commercial properties and multi-dwelling units. These systems will be receiving a live OpenADR 2.0a feed from an Akuacom Demand Response Automation System (DRAS), using its content to control and monitor any of the widely available Z-Wave-based products, reporting on success or failure of the OpenADR response.
In addition, ECHO Labs will demonstrate a commercially available residential/small business-grade energy management solution, featuring 2-way OpenADR communication using a Z-Wave automation system. Running on a Z-Wave-based gateway, ECHO's ERGY software will receive and interpret OpenADR commands that can be directly used as triggers for automation. ERGY will return, via the OpenADR API, a response indicating whether or not the system's load was reduced by the amount specified in the OpenADR request. The demonstration hardware will include commercially available Z-Wave products that will automatically change states based on the OpenADR requests, including a gateway, a thermostat and 120 and 240v Z-Wave light switches.
The Grid-Interop conference gathers the industry's top utility, government, technology and standards leaders to help define the future strategy for Smart Grid technology implementation and interoperability. In partnership with the GridWise Architecture Council (GWAC), Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Grid-Interop 2012 will tackle key issues related to utilities' Smart Grid deployments. Grid-Interop will take place December 3-6 in Irving, TX.
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About ACC
Serving Central Texas for 40 Years
Austin Community College is a nationally recognized two-year college serving Central Texas. ACC is focused on student success and providing affordable, flexible pathways to help students reach their education goals, learn new job skills, or advance their career.
The college currently enrolls more than 43,000 credit students and serves an additional 15,000 students each year through noncredit programs. Check out their inspiring stories at austincc.edu/iamacc .
Start here. Get there.
- Earn a degree and transfer
- Train for a rewarding career
- Advance your career
- Start college in high school
- Build skills to start college
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ACC's commitment to student success
ACC is committed to helping students reach their goals. We provide extensive support services – including free tutoring, advising and counseling, and specialized help for veterans – to put students on the path to success. We're also redesigning curriculum and implementing new ways of teaching. The college is focusing its efforts on five areas:
Goal 1: Increase persistence (term to term and fall to fall)
Goal 2: Complete developmental and adult education course progression to credit courses
Goal 3: Increase completion of all attempted courses with a C or better
Goal 4: Increase degree/certificate graduates and transfer rates
Goal 5: Increase success equity across all racial/ethnic/gender/income groups
For more information on student success, visit austincc.edu/success .
What it means to be in-district
ACC serves eight counties in Central Texas. The Service Area is defined by the legislature and includes Travis, Williamson, Hays, Bastrop, Caldwell, Blanco, and Gillespie counties, plus a portion of Gonzales County.
Many communities within the Service Area have chosen to join the ACC District through the annexation process. Those residents pay property taxes to help support the college (about 9 and a half cents per $100 valuation, significantly below the state average) and receive benefits such as:
- In-district tuition
- Full-service campuses in close proximity to home
- Customized training programs designed for the local workforce
The ACC District includes the city of Austin as well as the Austin, Leander, Manor, Del Valle, Round Rock, Elgin, and Hays school districts. See ACC District service area map.
The Master Plan and Strategic Plan
ACC is creating an Academic Master Plan that will guide the college's instructional programs and student services to increase student success and continue to meet the needs of an evolving workforce. The Academic Master Plan will drive facilities needs and dovetails with the development of the college's Strategic Plan, which will provide broad goals and general guidance for college operations and programs.
ACC's economic impact
Community colleges play a key role in returning the country to economic vitality. From boosting students' earning potential to growing local tax bases and diminishing the need for social services funded by taxpayers, ACC and other community colleges have a major economic impact.
ACC's accreditation
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Less manufacturing waste and fewer design constraints could enable a resurgence of metals in aircraft
"Metallics are dead, long live metallics!" This could be the rallying call for a manufacturing domain that is reinventing itself in the wake of a dramatic loss of ground to composites.
In their drive for lower weight and higher performance, where metal is used, aircraft manufacturers have moved away from traditional aluminum sheet-metal fabrication to computer-controlled machining of parts from lighter, stronger alloys. But both metals and machines are expensive. The finished part can weigh a fraction of the raw material from which it is cut, incurring high costs in machine time and waste metal.
So industry is developing ways to pre-form the raw material into shapes that are close to that of the final part, dramatically reducing the metal and machining needed, and significantly cutting manufacturing costs and lead times. Various methods are being developed to join simple shapes to create "near net-shape" pre-forms for complex components, including laser-beam, friction-stir and linear friction welding.
Additive manufacturing, where metal is deposited layer by layer to build up complex shapes, also is gaining ground, including in creating pre-forms that require minimal finishing by machine and in adding individual features to parts that would otherwise demand complex and costly machining from solid metal.
Investment in advanced metallic manufacturing technology reflects the reality that airframes and engines will use a mix of composites and metals for decades to come. "Our portfolio is split pretty evenly between composites and metallics, and between aerostructures and engine components," says Rich Oldfield, director of technology at GKN Aerospace. "The drivers are similar across metallic products in airframe and engines, and the basic driver is the buy-to-fly ratio."
Buy-to-fly is the weight ratio between material purchased and finished product. "In an extreme case, we do not use 90% of the metal," he says. "We can recycle that, but these materials are expensive to buy and the value of the recycled material is lower, so we lose value. Also, the part spends a long time on the machine to remove all that material."
Beginning with a shape that is closer to the final part can dramatically change the cost equation for metallics. "We get a double benefit if we go to near net-shape pre-forms. We buy less material and spend less time on the machine. As a result, there is a big drive to get to near net-shape manufacturing," says Oldfield.
A second driver is the need to reduce mechanical assembly using advanced fabrication techniques such as fusion and friction welding. GKN acquired aeroengine component and subassembly supplier Volvo Aero last year, and advanced fabrication "is a core strategy in engine structures," Oldfield says.
"The final driver is that advanced metallics promise a design freedom that is not constrained by the manufacturing process," he says. "We can use materials in very different ways to produce design solutions with features that were not possible before, for weight, fluid flow, aerodynamics or loading.
"With additive manufacturing, we can put metal directly where it is needed. We can build parts inside out, to create geometric shapes that were not possible, or are very difficult, with other processes. Where the design philosophy was constrained by manufacturing, we now have the freedom to create features that provide greater benefit."
GKN is pursuing several approaches to producing near net-shape parts for airframes and engines. One is to build up an engineered pre-form by depositing metal. Another is to join simple metal shapes together to approximate the final part, using either friction-stir or linear friction-welding (LFW)—both solid-state processes that fuse the metal without melting it, so preserving its mechanical properties.
"We are quite a long way down the road," says Oldfield, noting that LFW is already used for some engine parts. So far GKN's focus is on titanium, use of which has grown dramatically as it is an enabler for composites in aircraft, avoiding the corrosion that results when carbon fiber is attached directly to aluminum.
The U.K.'s Thompson Friction Welding is working with GKN and others to move LFW into full-scale production. The process involves forcing parts together and oscillating them until the metal fuses. The technique is being used to attach blades to disks to produce titanium compressor blisks for aeroengines, and is being applied to wing ribs and other structural components, says Simon Jones, global aerospace sales manager.
"Titanium is expensive and takes a long time to machine," he says, adding that it can take days to cut a blisk from solid metal. "We are now doing work on the engine hot end, with nickel- or Inconel-based alloys, where it is even worse. Inconel can take multiples of weeks to machine." To produce a compressor blisk, near net-shape blades are joined to a disk by LFW. "The process takes 3-6 seconds, and machining takes minutes. We can join 22 blades in a couple of hours," Jones says.
The first airframe structural components produced using linear friction welding are expected to fly within the next 6-12 months. LFW is used to join simple shapes, cut by waterjet from aluminum or titanium billet, to produce near-net pre-forms called tailored blanks. These are then machined to final shape. Buy-to-fly ratio can be cut to 2:1 from an average of 10:1 and an extreme of 100:1, he says.
Final part cost can be reduced significantly. "What we see in titanium is that what you save in material cost you save in post-processing as well. With nickel-based superalloy, for $100 saved on material you save $500-plus on machining," he says. Because machining time is so expensive, Jones argues, "you don't need to make as many parts as you might think to justify the cost of an LFW machine."
At Volvo, meanwhile, GKN is using laser-beam welding to build up complex engine structures by joining together simpler components. "The benefit from a cost point of view is that we can bring simple castings and forgings together at near-net shape and avoid huge, expensive castings from which we have to remove a lot of material," says Oldfield. "A key strategy is to develop a flexible manufacturing approach where it is all done robotically."
Efforts to apply similar fabrication technology to airframes are in early stages, with research work underway on a welded engine pylon. "Our objective is to leverage capabilities developed on the engine side into airframe applications, and so bring another level of automation and integration to fabrication," he says.
Another near-net-shape technology with the potential to reduce mechanical assembly involves the explosive forming of complex curved components. This enables contoured panels previously fabricated from sheet metal pieces to be replaced by a single part machined from a solid plate that has been formed to shape by explosive force.
Netherlands-based 3D-Metal Forming is commercializing explosive forming technology originally developed by Dutch R&D organization TNO. Initial applications have been in architecture and the energy industry, but the company is moving into aerospace through projects with Airbus and Boeing. A subscale nose panel, with structure and cockpit windows, has been produced for Airbus. A full-scale part will be produced this year.
"It's amazingly simple," says Marcel Oud, managing director. The metal plate is placed on a one-sided die and a charge of high-energy material is positioned above it. The package is lowered into a water tank and ignited at a depth of 4-5 meters (13-16 ft.). "The energy of the explosion transfers to the water, which pushes the metal into the die," he says.
The key has been perfecting the ability to simulate the explosion, determine the spring-back of the plate and correct for it in the die. The formed double-curvature, near-net-shape plate is then machined on both sides to produce a single part at "significantly lower cost" than an assembled component, Oud says. 3D-Metal Forming is looking at developing the process to form complex sheet metal parts and produce lighter formed, rather than machined, Invar tooling for composite parts.
Where sheet metal is still used, technology to replace hazardous chemical milling with machining of fuselage skins to reduce weight is gaining acceptance. France's Dufieux Industrie has supplied six of its milling mirror systems (MMS) to Airbus, with a seventh in construction, and further contracts have been signed in Italy and Russia. Developed with Airbus, the MMS comprises two horizontal high-speed machining centers mounted face to face. One side supports the part and provides the reference while the other side removes the metal. The part is clamped around its periphery to a palletized frame that provides access from both sides and allows one part to be prepared while another is being machined, says commercial director Jeff Line.
Machining can cut cost and cycle time by at least 50% compared with chemical milling. Dufieux has conducted trials with titanium panels, Line says, and is developing the capability to machine smaller parts, such as wing leading edges. Spain's MTorres, meanwhile, has supplied one surface milling machine to Airbus in Germany, with a second to be delivered in a few weeks. Three more are in backlog for other customers to machine fuselage panels for China's Comac C919 and Russia's Irkut MS-21.
But the technology that perhaps has the aerospace industry most excited by its potential is additive manufacturing (AM)—building parts layer by layer rather than removing metal cut by cut. "We are really just entering the phase where additive manufacturing is beginning to be viewed as a real capability for production parts," says Oldfield. "It has been a long time in its creation, but is becoming a credible production solution."
GKN sees applications for three approaches to AM. One is large deposition technology to create pre-forms by feeding wire into a laser or electron beam to melt the metal and build up the part. Another is fine deposition technology to add local features such as bosses or pads to a simple forging using wire-fed laser melting. "This is in production in Sweden for parts of the [Rolls-Royce Trent] XWB engine," Oldfield says.
The third approach is powder-bed additive manufacturing, which enables complex parts to be "printed" using a laser or electron beam to melt layer after layer of metal powder. The three approaches have different speeds, accuracies and scales. "Large deposition can produce parts on a big scale," says Oldfield. 'With powder bed, you can pick up the part, it is good for high-value, high-performance parts that you want to optimize to a high degree."
Powder-bed machines are restricted in size, and there are issues with ensuring consistency, but they are "completely flexible," Oldfield says. Ultimately, this freedom will result in radical new approaches to designing parts. "Imagine a manifold with material only where there is flow—and no housing, just attachment points. There will be massive cost savings, and weight savings at the same time," he says.
General Electric is stepping up its additive manufacturing efforts to support future engines including the GE9X and CFM Leap. The effort is led by Morris Technologies, a small prototyping company specializing in AM that was acquired by GE last year. "We want to take it out of the model shop and into the production shop as quick as we can," says GE Aircraft Engines President David Joyce.
Initial parts have been made using direct metal laser melting for the first Leap-1, assembly of which began in April. Laser melting is used to build up intricate swirl passages in the combustor's fuel nozzles. "To get the low nitrous oxide [emissions], these passages are very byzantine, and complicated if you have to braze them," says Joyce, adding that laser melting can create a more architecturally complex part that is lighter and easier to build.
A new joint venture with Parker Aerospace will focus on AM processes for fuel systems. Beyond this, Joyce says, obvious targets for applications include turbine blades and tip repairs. "The big challenge is what material systems we can use and how we can use them," he says. "I don't see it being used for big disks, but definitely for blades and repairs, particularly on blisks, as well as the manufacture of fuel nozzles and brackets."
But in the long term, Leap chief project engineer Gareth Richards believes, the concept could be used for far larger parts. "Additive manufacturing is the downfall of subtraction manufacturing. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, we've had to begin with a big block of metal, and in the future it won't be like that," he says. "We're already considering how to make compressor cases additively. It might take weeks to build up, but that's still shorter than the current 18-month cycle."
Manufacture of such components traditionally includes a lot of "white space" between times when the part is being worked on. "With additive, you don't have that. You don't have any forgings, sheets, bars and tubes. You don't have to carry all these parts. This is the vision," says Richards, who adds that "25 percent-plus of the engine could be made using this process within the next number of years."
Engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney also is moving quickly to embrace AM, partnering with the University of Connecticut to set up a research center with an initial $4.5 million investment and another $3.5 million to follow over the next five years. "We are looking at additive manufacturing to wring out development lead time," says Engineering Vice President Tom Prete. "We see it offering a great improvement in cost and time to market. It's fast, lean, efficient and green—because its use of materials is less wasteful."
AM is already being used to make parts for the PW1000G series of geared turbofan engines, says Prete, without specifying what they are. He describes them as "simple" but says in the future the process will be used to make more complex parts such as manifolds and, in some cases, to design them differently.
"It opens up a whole new game plan in terms of design," says Eli Liechty, manager of GE's Additive Development Center. "We're getting our engineers to think about designs that are more organic-like lattice structures. We're looking at things like coral and bones, and how we can model components after nature in some cases."
AM will be a key technology for metallics in future aircraft, but it is not a panacea, cautions GKN's Oldfield. "It will be good for complex components with high function where we want to make a big performance step with geometries and features we cannot do in parts today."
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Online crisis management is the name of the next session in hall 2. The first speaker in this session is Nils Apelund from First House. After two humorous anecdotes from the real world involving Canada, grapefruits and a quick-thinking boy, Nils goes on to apply the real world of crisis management to the online world.
Reputation is a great base to start from because it is an automatic draw in many ways and will bring goodwill and money all by itself. A good reputation is also a great cushion in times of crisis, buying you goodwill and extra time.
Reputation is a reflection of your identity. It is the part of your identity that the world sees and that it remembers – even when you're not in the room. Reputation starts at home with your actual actions. Doing good things is the best way to improve reputation.
Identify your stakeholders. Find out what they are saying about you already. Ask what is important to them. Compare that to what you are already communicating about. And finally harmonise these factors.
Over-delivering on your promises is a great reputation builder – even if it means you need to under-promise.
When a crisis hits, Nils says it is the test of a reputation. Monitor the crisis, find out the facts and limit the crisis. An example was the recent grounding of Eimskip's Goðafoss container ship off Norway which leaked oil. Eimskip did the best possible thing in the situation and that was to say sorry early and promise to sort the mess. It also helped that the spill was not as bad as feared. If you don't apologise, another strategy is to fight the crisis. The third option is to fix the problem and over-deliver in making it right.
As great as communicating with the press is, don't forget your own media. Your website, your Facebook and Twitter are extremely valuable during crises. The next thing to do is clean up after the crisis and get rid of its presence online.
Next up to the podium is Guðmundur Gunnlaugsson from Clara who speaks about the process of crisis management within closed communities. Clara specialises in text mining to allow businesses to electronically tag what people are saying about them online.
Guðmundur says that major corporate crisis of image spread rapidly and action in the first 24 hours is critical. A case study is Iceland's CCP (maker of EVE Online) and the wave of protest that came when it was realised that the company wanted to change over to a microtransaction model that would allow people to buy vanity items in the game and pay to revamp their characters. CCP quickly convened its player council to decide what to do, as well as monitoring the massive online buzz. In the end they decided to cancel the character upgrades while allowing the introduction of vanity items. The result was moderately favourable and the crisis was largely averted.
What was different about this crisis to other ones? Mostly that it occurred in their own backyard among their own players who they know a lot about and who they can communicate with effectively. This is very different to a global viral campaign against BP or Dell, for example.
Text mining is important these days because of the speed, its wide coverage, its good general overview and the fact that more text is published than anyone could ever read. Text mining allows you to profile likely trouble starters beforehand and work out how to interact with them before any crisis even begins.
Text mining can help you guess people's age, sex, personality type, education level and more – just by the way they write. This puts you in a powerful position in dealing with them.
Next on stage is Mikkel deMib, Ninja SEO, whose first point is that although we have the right to free speech, if we can promote the positive things said about us and suppress the negative, then we should.
Keywords are the key to search engine management. Find the best keywords and be more specific than you would be with marketing. Focus on impact rather than quantity.
You can then rate the top 10-30 URLs in search on their positivity or negativity and end up with a concrete number to describe your reputation.
So what to do about it? One thing is to promote the positive at the expense of the negative. Another is simply to find out who is saying the statements against you if they are illegal and in your jurisdiction. But never call your lawyer as a first step because they do not help online reputation.
You can't expect to outrank negative websites; but you can use a wide variety of different outlets to try and push bad ones down and beat them with positive. If one prominent website has a positive and a negative story about you, you can link build heavily to the positive one, thereby promoting it more in Google.
Staying within the law of governments and culture, remember that financial enticements are considered fine in many places and that negative websites can often simply be bought.


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The NR65AK metal connector is used for fastening various types of pre-punched hole metal connectors to wood. The small design of the NR65AKS allows the tool to easliy fit into tight places. Ideal for fastening joist hangers on decks, truss ties, floor truss hangers.
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- Nail Type: 36° Strap-Tite, Paper Strip Collation
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- Operating Pressure: 80-120 psi
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almo136 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 211 designs submitted by 47 freelance designers.
Twisted Time
I am a 28 year old male who has a passion for watches with modern designs. I'm about to launch my first online store which will sell some of my favorite brands. The store will be based in the UK but I will ship products worldwide.
20-35 year old
Male and female
Hipsters, fashionistas, indie, modern, individual.
I need a logo for an online watch store which will be launching soon. The store will focus on selling modern watch designs.
You can find a test version of the site here:
It currently has dummy products and needs content added but you can get a feel for how the site will look.
As you can see it is a very minimalist design so I want a logo which can add some personality to the site.
As well as adding the logo to the site I will also be using it on business cards and stickers.
Don't fell obliged to incorporate the blue color from the sites links into the logo. I'm not totally set on this color so if there is a color in the logo I like I will use it for the links.
Here are some images of watches the store will be stocking:
The only thing I ask is that the logo conveys something to do with time/watches so that it has meaning even when it's not being used on the site. Also, it should incorporate the tag line "Time pieces with a twist"
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