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hi avajon,I have tried this last night but had no luck. The eibd is automatically starting (rcconf) through a script without issues. As mentioned above I am able turning on/off lights on a terminal using the groupswrite command (groupswrite ip:127.0.0.1 1/2/3 1). However, it didn't work with LinuxMCE. Was this new driver ever tested with USB? I'm considering now buying a RS232 FT1.2 (costs about 200€++ incl. the bus coupler) but I wonder whether this makes a lot of sense if LinuxMCE can't read from the bus. According to Hari's statement "… It will listen to the additional GAs, so no direct read, but it will state the change of the devices from those telegrams …". If I turn on a light using a switch and not LinuxMCE I guess LinuxMCE would not be aware of the current state of this light. Is this right?
What kind of KNX/EIB PC interfaces and devices do you use guys? If it isn't secret of course
Hi hari,Thanks for the fix. Where can I find it? Here http://svn.linuxmce.org/svn/branches/LinuxMCE-0810/src/EIB-eibd/


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Last week,Massachusetts-based grocery chain Big Y announced
that Butterball would only be fulfilling 50% of national orders for fresh birds over 16 pounds due to a national shortage.
Of course, the obvious answer is that there are plenty of other brands of turkeys to try, so don't sweat it. But if you must have your Butterball, here are a few suggestions from Sherry Rujikarn, assistant food editor in our Good Housekeeping Test Kitchen, on what to do if your store runs out.
Go for frozen.
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There's not really a noticeable difference in taste, Rujikarn says. You'll need to do a bit of pre-planning if you opt for an frozen bird, however: It takes roughly a day to thaw per four pounds of turkey. Plan to place the turkey in your fridge at least four days in advance. And unfortunately, there's no workaround we recommend if you forget until the day before.
That said, Rujikarn does have one trick to help you speed up the thawing process: After it's defrosted a bit, unwrap the turkey from its packaging and remove as much as you can from the cavity. (Often brands will stuff the giblets and neck in there, and they can really slow down thawing time.) Once you've done that, rewrap the turkey in plastic and put it back in your fridge.
Make a side of turkey breast.
If you're looking to feed a crowd of more than 12, you'll want at least a 16-pound turkey. If your heart is set on a cooking a fresh Butterball, you can pick up a turkey that weighs less; It will cook faster but, otherwise, there's no major benefit to a smaller bird. To up the amount of meat you get, pick up an extra turkey breast. If your oven is large enough, you can roast it at the same time on the rack beneath the bird in an hour and a half to two hours, depending on how you prepare it.
No room in the oven? You can also cook the turkey breast a day ahead, let it cool, wrap it tightly, refrigerate it, then slice it thickly, smother it in gravy, and gently reheat it in the oven while the whole turkey rests. Or more adventurous home cooks can throw it on the grill.
Pick local.
If you haven't tried a local turkey in the past, this might be the year to visit a local farm or market. "The meat will always taste better than any factory-farmed meat," Rujikarn says.
If you're cooking with a smaller bird, be sure to check out Ina Garten's easiest-ever Thanksgiving menu. Ina likes to pick up a kosher turkey ("It's already salted, so you'll get a brined flavor without the labor.") that weighs in at 12 to 14 pounds. It cooks in less than three hours, so it won't take all day to roast either.
Also, be sure to take a look at Ina's top tips for more ways to make Thanksgiving stress free.

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Oracle Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) 3.0 Concepts Guide
Concepts Guide
Using This Documentation
1. ILOM Overview
What Is ILOM?
What Does ILOM Do?
ILOM Features and Functionality
New Features in ILOM 3.0
Roles for ILOM User Accounts
Support for ILOM 2.x User Accounts
ILOM Interfaces
ILOM on the Server and CMM
Access and Initial Login to ILOM
root and default User Accounts
root User Account
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root Factory Default Password Warning Message
System Banner Messages
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ILOM Network Management
ILOM Connection Methods
Initial Setup Worksheet
Network Port Assignments
Switch Serial Port Output
ILOM Communication Settings
SP Management Port - Recommended Practice for Spanning Tree Parameters
Network Configurations for IPv4
Dual-Stack Network Configurations for IPv4 and IPv6 (ILOM 3.0.12)
ILOM IPv6 Enhancements
Dual-Stack Network Options in ILOM CLI and Web Interface
Local Interconnect Interface: Local Connection to ILOM From Host OS
Platform Server Support and ILOM Access Through the Local Interconnect Interface
Local Interconnect Interface Configuration Options
Local Host Interconnect Configuration Settings in ILOM
Manual Host OS Configuration Guidelines for Local Interconnect Interface
3. User Account Management
Guidelines for Managing User Accounts
User Account Roles and Privileges
ILOM 3.0 User Account Roles
Single Sign On
SSH User Key-Based Authentication
Active Directory
User Authentication and Authorization
User Authorization Levels
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
4. System Monitoring and Alert Management
System Monitoring
Sensor Readings
System Indicators
Supported System Indicator States
Types of System Indicator States
Component Management
Fault Management
Clear Faults After Replacement of Faulted Components on Server or CMM
ILOM Event Log
Event Log Time Stamps and ILOM Clock Settings
Manage Event Log and Time Stamps From CLI, Web, or SNMP Host
Syslog Information
Collect SP Data to Diagnose System Problems
Alert Management
Alert Rule Configuration
Alert Rule Property Definitions
Alert Management From the CLI
Alert Management From the Web Interface
Alert Management From an SNMP Host
5. Storage Monitoring and Zone Management
Storage Monitoring for HDDs and RAID Controllers
CLI Storage Properties Shown for HDDs and RAID Controllers
RAID Status Definitions for Physical and Logical Drives
Monitoring Storage Components Using the CLI
Monitoring Storage Components Using the Web Interface
RAID Controllers Tab Details
Disks Attached to RAID Controllers Details
RAID Controller Volume Details
CMM Zone Management Feature
6. Power Monitoring and Management of Hardware Interfaces
Summary of Power Management Feature Updates
Power Monitoring Terminology
Real-Time Power Monitoring and Management Features
System Power Consumption Metrics
Web Interface Power Consumption Metrics as of ILOM 3.0
CLI Power Consumption Metrics as of ILOM 3.0
Web Interface Server and CMM Power Consumption Metrics As of ILOM 3.0.4
Web Enhancements for Server SP Power Consumption Metrics As of 3.0.8
Web Enhancements for CMM Power Consumption Metrics As of 3.0.10
Power Policy Settings for Managing Server Power Usage
Power Policy Settings in ILOM as of ILOM 3.0
Power Policy Settings in ILOM as of ILOM 3.0.4
Power Capping Policy Settings in ILOM as of ILOM 3.0.8
Power Usage Statistics and History Metrics for Server SP and CMM
Web Interface Power Usage Statistics and History Metrics
Power Usage Statistics and History as of ILOM 3.0.3
Power Usage Statistics and History Web Enhancements as of ILOM 3.0.4
Power Usage Statistics and Power History Web Enhancements as of ILOM 3.0.14
CLI Power Consumption History Metrics
Power Consumption Threshold Notifications as of ILOM 3.0.4
Component Allocation Distribution as of ILOM 3.0.6 for Server SP and CMM
Monitoring Server Power Allocated Components
Monitoring CMM Power Allocated Components
Component Power Allocation Special Considerations
Power Management --> Distribution Tab Renamed to Allocation Tab as of ILOM 3.0.8 (Server SP)
Updated Server SP Power Allocation Web Procedure
Power Management --> Distribution Tab Renamed to Allocation Tab as of ILOM 3.0.10 (CMM)
Revised CLI Power Allocation Properties as of ILOM 3.0.10
Power Budget as of ILOM 3.0.6 for Server SPs
Why Use a Power Budget?
Server Power Budget Properties as ILOM 3.0.6
Advanced Server Power Budget Features as of ILOM 3.0.6
Power Management --> Budget Tab Renamed to Limit Tab as of ILOM 3.0.8
Updated Power Limit Configuration Procedure
Power Supply Redundancy for CMM Systems as of ILOM 3.0.6
Platform-Specific CMM Power Metrics as of ILOM 3.0.6
7. ILOM Back Up and Restore Operations
ILOM Configuration Management Tasks
Backup and Restore Operations
Reset to Defaults Feature
8. ILOM Firmware Update Operations
ILOM Firmware Compatibility and Update Operations
ILOM 3.0 Firmware on the Server SP
ILOM 3.0 Firmware on the CMM
ILOM Firmware Updates
Process for Updating the Firmware
ILOM Firmware Update - Preserve Configuration Option
Troubleshoot the Firmware Update Session If Network Failure Occurs
9. Remote Host Management Options
Server SP Remote Management Options
Remote Power Control
Storage Redirection CLI
First Time Access
Storage Redirection CLI Architecture
Default Network Communication Port
Oracle ILOM Remote Console
International Keyboard Support for ILOM Remote Console
Single or Multiple Remote Host Server Management Views
Installation Requirements
Network Communication Ports and Protocols
Sign In Authentication Required
CD and Diskette Redirection Operation Scenarios
ILOM Remote Console Computer Lock
Special Considerations When Enabling the ILOM Remote Console Lock Option
Host Control - Boot Device on x86 Systems
ILOM Operations for LDom Configurations on SPARC Servers
10. Remote Hosts Diagnostics for x86 and SPARC Systems
Pc-Check (x86 Systems)
Generate NMI (x86 Systems)
SPARC System Diagnostic Configuration Settings
Collect SP Data to Diagnose System Problems
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Though Apple has long prided itself on the Mac's safety record, recent events such as the Flashback Trojan horse have proven that the company can't take the security of its operating systems for granted. And the security upgrades in Mountain Lion make it clear that Apple isn't.
The Gatekeeper
The marquee new security feature in Mountain Lion is Gatekeeper—but you won't find a new pane for it in System Preferences. Instead, you open up the General tab in the Security & Privacy preference pane and (after providing your administrator credentials) set the Allow Applications Downloaded From option. That single setting is the front-end for Gatekeeper.
You have three options there: You can choose to run only those apps that were downloaded from the Mac App Store, apps from the Mac App Store and identified developers, or apps from anywhere.
The first and last options are straightforward: The first limits your Mac to running apps from the Mac App Store; the last places no limitations on the apps your Mac can run. The middle option merits explanation: Any developer can register with Apple to get a unique certificate with which to cryptographically sign its apps. Thanks to such signatures, your Mac can know which developer is behind a given app. It can also tell if a signed app has been tampered with. If a signed app is found to behave maliciously, Apple can revoke its developer's certificate. That would cause a warning to appear before users could install the app.
Gatekeeper works its protective magic only the first time you launch an app. So if you upgrade to Mountain Lion and choose the Mac App Store–only Gatekeeper setting, you can still freely launch apps that came from elsewhere, if you ever ran them in the past.
Most Mac users have already encountered messages similar to the ones Gatekeeper will pop up: In previous incarnations of OS X, your Mac asked you to confirm your intentions when you first launched any app downloaded from the Internet. With Gatekeeper, the warnings are new, but the general experience is the same.
Should you come across an app that your Gatekeeper settings prevent from launching, you needn't dive into System Preferences to fix things. Instead, Control-click (or right-click) on the icon of the app you're attempting to run, and choose Open from the contextual menu that appears. You'll see a variant of the warning dialog box; this one adds an option to go ahead and launch the app despite Gatekeeper's grave concerns. Once you've done that, you can launch the app normally from then on.
Other improvements
In addition to Gatekeeper, Mountain Lion leverages a variety of other technologies to help keep your Mac secure.
Most significantly, Mountain Lion expands on Lion's requirement that apps be "sandboxed". Sandboxing requires an app to specifically request what it wants to do with your Mac, rather than having a blanket license to do anything it wants. Sandboxing prevents apps from performing malicious activities upon your Mac and limits the damage security-compromised apps can wreak on your machine. All new Mac App Store apps are sandboxed; in addition, several Apple-provided apps are sandboxed in Mountain Lion,—among them FaceTime, Mail, Reminders, Notes, Game Center, and Safari.
Other new security tools: Mountain Lion uses Kernel Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) to make it harder for malicious attackers to exploit low-level system functions on your Mac. If you use FileVault, you can now leverage management updates to the
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Finally, Mountain Lion will check for software updates daily. In previous versions of OS X, you could manually configure how often the system would check for updates; the default was once per week. But in Mountain Lion, Software Updates move to the Mac App Store, which can check for updates even when it's not running. You'll receive a Notification Center alert whenever new OS X updates are available. So when or if new Mac-focused malware starts to spread and Apple issues a fix, Mac users should at least be aware of the fix's availability more quickly than they may have been before.


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Doubleclick to enlarge, and take this in by details . . . name on the forward portion of the cargo deck and house as well as profiles on the horizon. Surprise at the end of the post.
Consider this different vessel, Alblasserward by name.
Short sea shipping has been figured out in Europe using
vessels like these. The flag is the Netherlands, and crane lifts the compact car onto the hard and dry when
inland waterwayfaring is done.
Ditto Alabama, the vessel in foto #1.
I hope by now you're asking why an obvious European self-propelled barge carries a name like Alabama, right? By the way, a personal connection here . . . my father reported that as a kid, he imagined growing up to be captain of such a vessel in the inland shipping business, aka binnenvaart.
So the surprise . . . Alabama (1947) and Alblasserward (1949) and many other European waterway barges were built in . . . Alabama! So you're thinking . . . somewhere near Mobile? Nope! Up in Decatur, on that tributary of the Ohio called the Tennessee. As part of the Marshall Plan. What's interesting is that these vessels do not appear on the Ingalls (now part of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding) record here.
The after and fore part of the vessel were built completely on the yard, living quarters including what was touted as an "American kitchen," engine room,wheelhouse, etc. The middle section was shipped in crates and the engine was installed at the yard in Dordrecht, Netherlands, after traveling the Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi to New Orleans, and then the Atlantic. Upon arrival in Rotterdam, the crates and forward section were placed on a barge and towed to the yard, and the aft section was towed to the yard separately.
All fotos thanks to Rene Keuvelaar; info thanks to Rene and to Jan van der Doe. Rene runs a web-log linked here. You might also check a different forum/database called "binnenvaart" aka inland waterway shipping, which in Europe like the sixth boro among boros and states, seamlessly connects waters through different countries. . And given that these vessels are still earning their keep, I'd love to hear from anyone who knows, firsthand or otherwise, about construction and transportation of these US hulls to their final destination. If one of these were brought back to the US, would they be considered US hulls even though they've never . . . in over 60 years, worked in US waters? Europeans in Europe doing short sea shipping with US-built vessels . . . who knew?!@!!
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When I worked at Amazon.com we had a deeply-ingrained hatred for all of the SQL databases in our systems. Now, we knew perfectly well how to scale them through partitioning and other means. But making them highly available was another matter. Replication and failover give you basic reliability, but it's very limited and inflexible compared to a real distributed datastore with master-master replication, partition tolerance, consensus and/or eventual consistency, or other availability-oriented features.
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We ended the day yesterday with Winona, our beauty. We'll do the same today -- twice in one week!
Here she is walking around New York with a friend. You know who else is in New York and used to be a friend?
It is a great gossip tragedy that they fell out. They had matching haircuts and best friend boyfriends. It was the happiest time of my life. OMG. I just searched "Winona Ryder Gwyneth Paltrow" on YouTube and there's a video called "Winona Ryder & Gwyneth Paltrow Frenemies"! With all due respect to the creator, the soundtrack could have been better. There's an idea. What's your Best Friend Breakup Playlist? Create!
PS. I complained earlier that the Jon Stewart-Gwyneth Paltrow interview was geo-blocked. The Comedy Network has now made it available. Click here to watch. The payoff is at the end, when Jon pretty much sums up the lunchtime seating arrangement. See? THIS is pure GP.


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iPhone 5/5S and iPhone 6/6+ macro lenses are now also available. Check my store.
Make your own slide-on macro lens for the iPhone 4 or 4S. I designed this for my iPhone 4 when I couldn't find the image quality I wanted for less than $60. Print this model and then buy a glass lens for $4.50 from Surplus Shed:
Their part number is L4581 (NOTE - THIS IS NEW UPDATED LENS CHOICE. The previous L4471 is now too small at 11mm diameter. This 3D print requires a 12mm diameter lens). The search function on the Surplus Shed site won't search part numbers. To find L4581, use the "Lens Finder" on their homepage.
In "Lens Finder" type:
Lens Type: PCX, Plano Convex
Diameter: 12mm to 12mm
Focal length: 39mm to 39mm
That will get you to L4581. If you want other magnifications, search for other 12mm diameter lenses. A longer/shorter focal length means less/more magnification. Slightly smaller diameter lenses (down to 11.8mm) will probably also fit fine. Feel free to experiment.
The lens fits in a recess in the model and is held in place with a few tiny drops of Superglue. If you get any glue on the lens it can cleaned off with nail polish remover or acetone. The lens is plano-convex (one side is flat). When inserted in the holder, the flat side of the lens faces the phone.
Note that the lens fits pretty snugly into the opening. Try fitting the lens before applying any glue. A good technique is, with the lens holder laying face-down on a table, lay the lens in position, and then push it into the recess by poking the lens with the eraser-end of a pencil. Once you know the lens fits cleanly, push it back out and put two tiny drops of superglue on opposite edges of the opening. I use a toothpick to apply the glue because squeezing the superglue directly out of the tube risks putting on too much. Then push the lens back in the same way as in the test fit.
The object pictures in the photo gallery (dime, ruler, and watch) are unedited and uncropped shots directly from my iPhone4.
This model will not slide over iPhone cases.


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In a word – yes. Certainly the chivalry of old perished long ago. I'm not saying it died with the knights, although an early form of noble gallantry may well have done. I'm talking about being a gentleman. And it's been many years since it was normal for every single bloke to be "courteous and considerate" towards the womenfolk and indeed each other. Or at least since we were expected to be.
A certain type of classically dressed chap, who is both suave and selfless, reliable and romantic, is now nothing but a fictional character. He may have always been so, in reality. A combination of factors conspired to kill off his desirability though, many of them good things, like greater gender equality. But some of them not so good.
I think a form of chivalry, an evolved romance and respect for women, still has a place in modern life. In the past I've been shot down and put in my place for expressing some sort of view on chivalry by female friends and I would not dare to raise the subject with male ones. In recent days I've been reminded of the conflict and decided to turn to blogging to try to articulate my thoughts.
So I do think it is possible to still aspire to be a gentleman, even admirable to do so. But it's become ridiculously taboo to hold such a good natured view. Try an act of classic chivalry and you're liable to criticism or it's assumed you're a fake using it as a means to a very predictable end. Try to criticise a man for being an arse by saying he's not living up to gentlemanly standards and duties and you're being sexist. The last bastions of chivalrous behaviour are under attack not just from the loutish disrespect of some men, which are ever present opponents, but also from feminists who seem to view what was once common decency as a slippery slope back to women being tethered like livestock to the kitchen sink.
I do not mean to sound pompous and arrogant. Of course everyone is entitled to their view. I admit I am entranced by a nostalgia for the past and eras I was never a part of, eager to taste and preserve attributes of times that seemed more honest and honourable, with more to discover and greater purpose to existence. I can be something of a hopeless and foolish romantic at times. I don't see what is wrong with that; indeed I think it's refreshing, given that mostly I'm realistic and pessimistic like the world around me.
People striving to capture the essence and best intentions of aspects of the past should not be ostracised. Just because the historical balance of power between men and women has been grossly unfair, does not mean that all the elements of the way women were once treated were wrong. In fact some of the things incorrectly lumped together with the tools of male oppression ought to make a comeback.
If it seems like I am struggling to make my point it's because I am. The problem is that I can't really explain or argue my point of view persuasively because it's something vague I just instinctively feel is right. I don't have masses of evidence to call upon, just a sense of moral conviction.
I can understand why women might feel patronised by certain gentlemanly acts. I tried to rationalise this by saying to myself that I reserve most of my chivalrous compassion for those women that earn it. This is what I'd say to the feminists, I thought. I am simply considerate and caring to good friends, people I know to be nice or those that I love. That is not solely down to gender.
But then I thought, I'd still hold the door open for a female stranger. I might turn my head a little more if they were attractive but that wouldn't be the reason. Monster or model, most of the time, if I had the opportunity, I'd hold the door. And I've done it for men too, more than most people, but there's no question I'd be more aware of the ladies and they'd take priority. For example if it was busy and at some point I'd have to pass through the door myself, I'd cut in front of a man far more willingly. Why?
For those of you familiar with Friends, Phoebe's claim that there's no such thing as a selfless act will spring to mind, when I say that doing something needlessly kind like holding the door for a stranger, makes me feel good. Regardless of whether the pretty girl flashes me a smile or the less pretty one looks grateful, I'll feel better about my day. To an extent though this would be true if I was holding the door for a 60 year old chap.
Perhaps that goes someway to answering the issue; being a gentleman now can mean being kind and thoughtful to anybody, not just women. The fact remains though that I still feel an inexplicable duty towards "the fairer sex", an outdated term which could have petrol bombs and bricks flying through my windows. And I still feel passionately that I shouldn't be made to feel guilty about that.
If I'm really scraping the barrel for reasons behind my vague, fluffy and inconsistent philosophy, I'll resort to my ignorant grasp of science. Could it not be said that it's simply a natural part of humanity, an evolutionary trait, for the man to be protective? We may have rightly moved beyond the idea of the man being the breadwinner but physical differences alone show he can still be a protector.
Women ought to be the equals of men in everything that matters but they're still held back by a glass ceiling. Cracks might start appearing in that barrier if we admitted that whilst the sexes are unquestionably equal, they still have undeniable differences.
This isn't really an aspect of the argument I'm all that convinced by though, I hate the overuse of scientific theory and the constant linking of everything to evolution. I am aware I'm treading on controversial ground and I just needed something concrete to say. I come back to the fact that I just feel strongly about this. Probably all because of misplaced and naive romanticism.
I've had conversations with friends about relationships, in which I said something like that the girl shouldn't have to bother herself with extravagant gifts and presents for her chap. I was met with fierce disagreement, unanimously against me. I see the weaknesses of my position, believe me. I know relationships are two-way and as I said earlier I wouldn't dream of telling anyone what is right for them. I feel very irrational at times holding the view that I do; but nevertheless I hold it.
I think for me it boils down to the fact that I enjoy being romantic and even in friendship I enjoy being supportive and helping out however I can. I like to actively care for people I give a shit about. Shoot me if this is wrong. I know I haven't put forward any compelling arguments in favour of chivalrous behaviour. But if people are willing to do it and get satisfaction from it too, I don't see what is so bad about what is essentially kindness and respect.
In an increasingly self-involved culture I think that the ideals of chivalry and the symbolic figure of the gentleman are very British and very necessary influences, that should not be destroyed by misguided taboos.
P.S. I do apologise for such preachy, waffly and poorly expressed writing. I'll try to deliver something manly and thought through soon-ish


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Suffolk Theater opening gala lights up Riverhead
Opening night at the newly restored Suffolk Theatre in downtown Riverhead was a show stopper.
Hundreds packed the venue on Saturday to celebrate the theater's grand reopening. The "Back to the 30's" cocktail party marked the first time the theater has been open for business since it screened "Dirty Dancing" in 1987.
"We're tired, but it feels great," owner Bob Castaldi said. "This is what we've been waiting for."
The theater first opened in December 1933. More than 80 years later, it remains the last large art deco theater on Long Island, theater officials say.
After buying the theater in 2005, and after litigation with the town halted progress on work, Mr. Castaldi and his wife, Dianne, have spent the last three years restoring the theatre to its former glory. Most of the fixtures and detailing are true to the original building.
Massapequa resident Jim Frost took notice. He recalled coming to the theater as a young boy. On grand opening night — a night two swiveling spotlights shot light back and forth off the clouds, and Main Street was lined with vintage cars — he took his wife, Mimi, to enjoy the celebration and reminisce.
"It's wonderful," Frost said. "We bought tickets right away. I haven't been this excited about an event in a long time."
There was no stone left unturned, right down to the ragtime music gracing the stage. The party came to life with the help of Vince Giordano's band, The Night Hawks. The ensemble won a 2012 best compilation soundtrack Grammy for its work on HBO's prohibition-era series Boardwalk Empire.
Party guests indulged in the era. They dressed for the occasion and were sure to hit the dance floor.
"This has been something I've been talking about since I was 10," explained Erin McKenna, whose mother has volunteered during the restoration. Ms. McKenna now lives in New York City but made a special trip to support the theater.
Many believe the theater is going to help the long-beleaguered downtown area start attracting much more people and businesses.
"It's finally here," Ms. McKenna said. "This is so important for Riverhead."
The grand opening gala officially ended about9 p.m., but not many noticed. The party continued well into the night, as DJ Aly Di Nas kept guests dancing at the after party that featured signature cocktails.
In the upcoming weeks and months, the Suffolk Theatre will showcase a variety of classic movies, hold live concerts and dance parties and even a couple of magic shows.
To check out the full list of upcoming events, log on to www.suffolktheater.com


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Dan Toler, a southern rock guitar great who was part of the Allman Brothers Band family, has died near his hometown of Sarasota, Fla. He was 65.
A note on his official Facebook page reads, "It is with great regret and sadness that our dear friend and loved one, Dan Toler, passed away peacefully in his sleep last night. Future service to be announced. Please keep Debbie and the family in your prayers. We would also ask at this time that you would respect the family's privacy. The Toler family thanks you for all your love and support." Many fans have taken to his Facebookpage and Twitter to express their condolences.
In 2011, Toler was diagnosed amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as "Lou Gehrig's disease." Since then, many benefits were held to help pay for his medical bills and to raise awareness of the disease, which affects the central nervous system and makes it difficult for the muscles to receive messages from the brain.
Toler, known as "Dangerous Dan," got his start with Dickey Betts & Great Southern, playing on their 1977 self-titled debut and 'Atlanta's Burning Down' a year later. When the Allman Brothers Band reformed in 1979, Toler followed Betts into the band and stayed until 1982. Following the second breakup of the Allman Brothers Band, he went on the road with the Gregg Allman Band, recording the hit 'I'm No Angel' and 'Just Before the Bullets Fly.'
From there, he went on to play in several southern rock and jazz fusion project. His last album was in the Toler/Townsend Band, which included John Townsend of the Sanford-Townsend Band ('Smoke From a Distant Fire').
Toler's brother, David 'Frankie' Toler, also an Allman Brothers alumni, passed away on June 4, 2011 at the age of 59 from complications after a liver transplant.


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They are giddy. Drunk on knowledge. High on the conceit of what they are trying to do. Finest dining, here in Fort Point - modern yet lavish, refined and formal and beyond expensive. You are in their sights, and Menton's minions are coming for you. From the right! A woman armed with more information about the wine she will pour than anyone would ever need to know. She is grinning. She is talking perfume and acid and soil and philosophy. She is pouring liquid, golden, into your glass.
From the left! A man with a dish of delicate white porcelain, covered by a domed lid. Attached at his hip like Gemini, twin in intent, another man with fingers out like pincers. He removes the lid. They watch, smiles twitching the corners of their lips, as you bend forward to look at what he hath revealed. Tiny, delicate, edible jewelry, landscape artistry in miniature. It is a round of rock crab salad with caviar, grapefruit, and almonds. It's a balm, as refreshing as a cool cloth on the forehead.
They keep coming, the courses and the servers. You can't have too many of either, it would appear.
A Maine scallop, glowing round and plump like a pearl. Hello, luscious. It sits beside ravioli stuffed with fava leaf. Truffles are flung about here and there like rose petals at a wedding. It's a celebration of something, all right. Land and sea. Taste and texture. Spring and cleansing. So good.
Lobster salad, austere, coral rounds all in a row. On top, little piles of white sturgeon caviar and tarragon. Beneath, a line of artichoke shaved into delicate, tender slivers.
Foie gras terrine, anything but austere, a slab of richness punctuated by sweet wine gelee. Squiggles of rhubarb gel cavort exuberantly across the plate, doing backbends over bits of almond.
Lovely spring, a pea veloute the color of Kermit, poured from on high at the table. It pools around a melange of candy colors, courtesy of nature. Tiny pink radishes, bright carrots, asparagus tips, elfin mushrooms. The season's sugar, spiced with wisps of curry yogurt.
Fat langoustines with blunt pink tails, wrapped in shredded phyllo dough. Turbot poached and served with sauce Veronique, beside white grapes wrapped in pleasingly bitter braised endive. Quail seated with its legs crossed and confited, breast puffed out around a filling of foie gras: proud little bird. Dinner here is part medieval banquet, part Relais & Chateaux.
Time is marked by plates delivered and swept away, a brigade of silver marching - forks of all sizes, spoons of all sorts. Servers want to give you foie gras and fold your napkin. They want you to be so adequately hydrated, alcoholically lubricated to the perfect degree. They want to surprise you with extra, unannounced courses of fresh bacon with tomato jam or seared tuna with chanterelles and black rice. They want crab to blur into bass into pork into veal. I believe - those are bits - of brain - in the sauce - but - gasp - too full can't think.
There will be cheese, doled from a cart whose arrival is announced by ripe perfume. And sweets as elaborate as a geisha's hairdo. And macarons in a wee glass dish. Would you like a souvenir menu, personalized just for you? Would you like to come see the kitchen?
It is after midnight and you stand, blinking in fluorescence, huddled with your fellow diners in a space of white and steel, like so many fatted, bleary beasts. For the staff, beer in cans, a quick palaver with executive chef Colin Lynch, a turn with a broom. How can anyone in this world drink another sip, move so quickly, complete a chore that is useful? And when are they sending the magic floating pods that will bear you back home to your bed? Because surely, surely, after all that excess and buttering and love and attention, there will be magic floating pods. No?
Well, no. But if your wish can be granted, it will be.
Chef Barbara Lynch has quenelles of steel. The girl from the Southie projects wants a four-star restaurant. She believes it can be done, in this neighborhood, in this economic climate. There must be a formula, and she determines to master it. Study, emulate, one-up. Grant every wish. Grant it before it is even made.
This is the secret.
Because the food at Menton (they pronounce it mawhn-TAWHN) is not night-and-day different from that at Lynch's No. 9 Park - it is more refined, lovelier and lighter, turned a few degrees more toward the sea. The wine list at the restaurant - which opened in April, completing Lynch's Fort Point trilogy with Sportello and Drink - is equally significant. Composed by master wine director Cat Silirie, it lends itself to transcendent pairings with every course. Menton's design is in the details: Chinoiserie wallpaper in the bathroom, cream-and-cocoa rugs in the lounge, Ted Muehling candlesticks in the private dining room, an arabesque motif that echoes in white pendant lights and empty display shelves. The main dining room is either stark to a fault or Zen-like, depending on your aesthetic. Linear and gray, it could as easily play host to cubicles as to banquettes. It does not distract from the show.
The show is what you're paying for, what makes Menton work, what makes Menton worth its price, even if only for one crazy night. Dinner for one is $95 or $145, for a four-course prix fixe or seven-course chef's tasting. These are your only options. That's before wine. And it's before you pay the you're-kidding-me upcharge of $8 and $12 for lobster salad and langoustines, respectively: At these prices, there should be no upcharge. But it is possible to spend not-that-much-less for a much lesser experience.
Quibbles: Desserts aren't always as intriguing as some of the other courses. On slower nights, without the bustle of other tables, the attentions of so many servers are slightly overwhelming. And to the staff member who feels compelled to comment, every time two women finish a tiny course or a half-pour of the wine pairing they are splitting, "You hated that, didn't you?": No, we hated you.
But we won't wish you any harm, because at Menton wishes tend to have consequences.
When the girl from Southie walks into this restaurant in her old backyard and thinks, "I made this come true," it must feel damn good.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. – Shares of Russian companies traded in the U.S. are plummeted Monday as the country's military forces streamed into Ukraine, raising the possibility of sanctions by Western governments.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian President Vladimir Putin that he may "find himself with asset freezes on Russian business." There are also talks of boycotting the Group of Eight summit of leaders in the Olympic host city of Sochi this summer.
BNY Mellon's Russia ADR Index slumped 9 per cent Monday morning, and is now down more than 27 per cent for the year. Stocks in the index include metals company Mechel, which fell 7 per cent to $1.76; Russia's biggest mobile communications operator, Mobile Telesystems, tumbled 9 per cent at $15.60. Another mobile phone company, VimpelCom, is off 7 per cent to $9.44.
In addition, U.S.-traded shares of Yandex, Russia's biggest Internet search engine, fell 13 per cent to $32.49.
Global markets were shaken by the developments in Ukraine and Crimea, as fears of contagion spread. A number of Europe's biggest banks fell sharply.
Russia essentially took control of Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula with strategic importance, and the new Ukrainian government in Kyiv fears a wider invasion. The West responded by questioning Russia's membership in the Group of Eight leading industrialized democracies, and the U.S. threatened possible asset freezes and trade penalties.
In Moscow, the Russian stock market dropped about 10 per cent and the ruble — already down nearly 10 per cent this year — fell to its lowest point ever against the dollar and the euro.
Russia's central bank decided to temporarily increase its key interest rate by 1.5 percentage points, to 7 per cent, in a bid to keep the ruble's fall from driving up inflation.
Markets also fell elsewhere in Europe. In the U.S., the Standard & Poor's 500 index dipped 12 points, or 0.7 per cent, to 1,847 as of 11 a.m. Eastern time.


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Washington (CNN) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he expects to be running for president within a month.
"I think within a month, we'll have that taken care of and we'll be running," Gingrich said on "Fox News Sunday." "It's my hope that all of this will work out and I'll be able to run."
Gingrich touted his "very good team" and the reception he has received during appearances in early presidential primary and caucus states.
"I have recently been in South Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa, the places you need to go, as well as Texas, Florida and North Carolina," Gingrich said. "The water is pretty warm. My hope is that within a month, we'll be in swimming there very rapidly."
The former Georgia congressman, who has been married three times, also addressed his past indiscretions - a perceived weakness for the potential candidate - saying he did things of which he is not proud.
"I don't think I'm perfect. I admitted I had problems. I admitted that I sought forgiveness," Gingrich said. "But I also think over time, if you look at my record, I'm a pretty effective leader."
When asked if his involvement in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton for lying under oath was hypocritical given his own past, he said "no," because he was focused on the law, not Clinton's private life.
"It's not about personal behavior … it's not about what he did in the Oval Office. You can condemn that. You can say it's totally inappropriate," Gingrich said. "But it was about a much deeper and more profound thing, which is: Does the president of the United States have to obey the law?"
Did he ever think that he "shouldn't be throwing stones?"
"No," Gingrich said. "I thought to myself if I cannot do what I have to do as a public leader, I would have resigned."
It is not that just he is a hypocrite, he is a baltant opportunist who will say anything to anyone to get elected. Not at all someone you can trust with power.
Very poor attempt to justify action as not hypocritical. It doesn't work on any level.
Also, lastest hypocracy in saying what he would do as President about Libya and the once the President had done it, stated he would never do that. It's all too ridiculous!
Gingrich, you are the epitome of hypocrisy.
Gingrich is a liar and a hypocrite.
Say what you want, you were, are, and will always be a hypocrite.
Go for it Newt! Given your past and present hypocritical buffoonary, you'll fit in very nicely with the current crop of GOP hopefuls.


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A hypersonic aircraft launched by the Air Force Tuesday spiraled out of control and was destroyed before it could reach its goal of speeding to 4,600 mph, Pentagon officials said Wednesday.
The third test of the X-51A Waverider was launched Tuesday off the California coast from a B-52 modified bomber aircraft and was to fly for 300 seconds, reaching hypersonic speeds of Mach 6, but only flew for 16 seconds, according to the Air Force.
Officials said a problem with a tail fin caused the missile-like vehicle to fly out of control before the main engine could be ignited, leading researchers to destroy it early.
"A fault was identified with one of the cruiser control fins. Once the X-51 separated from the rocket booster, approximately 15 seconds later, the cruiser was not able to maintain control due to the faulty control fin and was lost," said a statement issued by the Air Force.
It's unclear what, if any, information was gleaned from the test. According to the statement, "Program officials will now begin the process of working through a rigorous evaluation to determine the exact cause of all factors at play."
The Air Force plans to go public with details of the failed test in a few weeks, after researchers are able to analyze the data from the flight.
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"It is unfortunate that a problem with this subsystem caused a termination before we could light the Scramjet engine," said Charlie Brink, X-51A Program Manager for Air Force Research Laboratory. "All our data showed we had created the right conditions for engine ignition and we were very hopeful to meet our test objectives."
The Air Force had four X-51A Waveriders and has tested three. Officials said they do not yet know when or if the fourth Waverider will be tested.
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Soooo. The F-22s aren't fast enough-we need something that will go 4600 mph....Units are struggling due to budget cuts to make sure their people have proper SAFETY equipment but thats not important-–we need to focus on 4600 mph hyper supersonic crap that makes absolutely no sense....quite simple if you ask me
That's just it...it's not simple...so nobody asked you. Just because you don't understand the difference between a manned supersonic aircraft and an unmanned hypersonic missile doesn't mean everyone else is equally dense.
I thought tail fins generally were bad at high mach speeds, they usually cause some flight anomalies. It would be nice to be provided with the design of the fin to determine at what speed the anomaly occurred at, ie. subsonic, supersonic, or transonic speed. My bets are sock waves and wave drag due to improper design, meaning design was based on highly supersonic flight, but didn't fully account for enhanced maneuverability at transonic or subsonic conditions.
Wow, thanks for the input. I guess all the hypersonic specialists in the AIr Force don't know as much as you do about designing tail fins. It must have been dumb luck that they worked for the first two flights, huh? Maybe the wind just blew it the right way and they got lucky...twice. If only you'd offered to give them your boundless knowledge before, you could have saved the taxpayer millions of dollars!!!!
(or maybe, something just broke, and you have no clue what you're talking about. I'm thinking the latter is more likely).
matt you are right next to me in computer apps shut up
How many more days will CNN be reporting this ?? Move on to current new please on your header.
Adrian your threw
Well, you spelled ONE word right out of three. Might want to skip computer class and go back to English. Sigh...
Why is it so bad that it failed?
The numbnuts in the Air Force should get some engineers from NASA that just landed a vehicle on Mars.
Good coment...Makes you wonder...Where does all of our tax dollars go......
Not to your school, apparently.
Landing a vehicle on Mars has been done before, multiple times now, although there were some failures too. Scramjets have not. That's why they are testing. Oh, and NASA doesn't have a perfect record. Consider Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 8, Challenger, Columbia, NOAA-19, MCO, Deep Space 2, MPL, SBIRS, Genesis, Hubble (later fixed), Helios, DART, and OCO.
you space-x mf are real dumb
What does Space X have to do with this test?
retractable tail fin anyone, iq 157 and I know what has to be done, pay me half what you pay ur guys please. ps ur stabilizer
is off, ur figuring it for mach 4 speeds not mach 6 which cause increase "water vapour" build up on a certain section(different extreme temp. plus speed ice catch a fin anyone.) Good luck guys
Correction...IQ 15.7
Considering that the flight was lost 15 seconds after launch and BEFORE the scramjet engine could be ignited you are merely speculating, trying to sound knowledgeable, about things that did not happen. Since the vehicle never got anywhere near Mach 1, much less Mach 4, 5 or 6, there is no evidence that you are correct, which is probably why the USAF has not hired you even at the reduced labor rate.
well, it seems that we can figure how the marine life dies during the tests. maybge
After all the big bucks spent on this puppy and it fails because of a faulty tail fin. Give us a break!
just looking at the lack of stabilizing wings it seems obvious this thing would lose increasing amounts of ability once it started wavering. What idiocy. And what would be the use of such a thing? To deliver murderous payloads in the blink of an eye? What? We aren't killing people overseas fast enough?
Thanks for the objective and creditable assessment "michael el".. Mr Aerospace Engineer and Rocket Scientist.
To kill "bad guys" with greater efficiency and speed that are fighting and sometimes killing my fellow servicemembers? ABSOLUTELY...if thats what this project's objective is. Maybe in your spare time, you're also a military affairs journalist with access to some of the details of this project and your speculation is actually creditable.
I'll bet good money you're none of the above and therefore you're "critque" of this project has ZERO relevance...do you enjoy looking foolish?
Hay Trevor. You and your fellow servicemen should not be there in the first place. Wake up.
And where are all of your tax dollars spent??? Or are U in the top 1% like Mittens????
Trevor, I think you are right about Michael el. I have no personal knowledge about this particular project, but my guess is that the X-51A is merely a test bed to prove up the concept and engine design which will probably be enlarged for use on MUCH larger aircraft, not necessarily all of which will be for military purposes. The concepts for hypersonic commercial aircraft that can do transoceanic flights in a few hours have long been on the drawing boards of aeronautical engineers here and abroad.
CRP- "over there in the first place"? Deflection from the topic by taking this very specific issue about possibly giving servicemembers an advantage on the battlefield to save their lives and you turn it into a "political" one? How proud you must be...
It's funny how it's bad for the government to try and spur innovation in the energy industry by providing loans for alternative energy research, the findings of which would be beneficial for all of human kind. But it's ok for the government to spend $100+ million for each vehicle, that will be destroyed (so far 3), to test what is essentially a better missile that would only benefit our military in the near to mid-term future or until our "ENEMIES" develop a similar technology.
You telling me that they would ever be able to fly civilians at mach 6 for commercial purposes?! LMAO!!!
Our priorities are so screwed up it's comical!
Wow, I didn't know that the military "protected and served" itself... If this project produces weapons that benefits me and my fellow servicemembers and gives us an advantage on the battlefield this is a waste? I do really appreciate your support and everything you've done your country...
A least he's not out there killing women and children like your fellow servicemen. Do you feel big when you call in a jdam strick on a family?
CRP- INTENT is huge isn't it? Or do you just assume folks like us do this without discrimination? You have no idea of the ROE and restrictions placed on us to minimize civilian casualities over here pal...continue to call us "baby killers"...the vast majority of the American people have our support, you can continue with your assumptions about what really goes on over here from the safety of your home, we'll continue to defend your right to "mouth off" about things you know nothing about...
Well, LowNtellect, the very idea of hypersonic commercial space travel has already been widely promoted for a couple of decades, and a few wealthy individuals have already been able to experience speeds well beyond Mach 6, so yes, the idea of hypersonic commercial aircraft travel across oceans is very real and reasonable to expect in the near future.
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I am amazed that they were able to recognize a fault and abort the shot within sixteen seconds. They must have just launched it, focused their eyes on the screen and hit abort. A tail fin problem? You would think they would have gone over that potential and eliminated it after wind tunnel experiments with the form......that seems like negligence and is hard to believe. Same thing with that "lunar lander" that just blew up....I have sympathy for the designers and engineers for both these projects, in light of the Glorious Success of the Mars Curiosity Rover these guys must feel like they have egg all over their faces and they do.....they went off half baked. It shouldn't be allowed, they should be denied funding for future projects and be taken off these ones before they waste more precious time and money....a tail fin problem, and it took all of sixteen seconds in flight to determine that? Have they never heard of Quality Control? NDE testing of welds? Wind tunnel would tell about the fin's aerodynamic form and position, x ray or phased array would have told about the structural integrity of the fin......I don't believe this, not really. I may be just an uneducated old fool but I am observant of the testing that goes on when I am at work and while I know problems arise, this tail fin problem should never have arisen, due to the simple fact that it's a basic component of the flight capability.....how could it be problematic and them not know?
a teleporter wouldn't have any of these problems. sure, people may not rematerialize with all of their limbs and organs in the right place, but we could use Occupy Wall Street protesters as guinea pigs promising to teleport them all over the world each day to whatever the latest, greatest protest that is going on, until we get it right.
Exactly what kind of waves are you guys planning to ride? Electromagnetic waves, by chance?
Another 7.7 million down the drain.( I looked it up)So where's the tea bagger's and their government waste argument?
They were probably waving the flag as it crashed
Because waste due to a lack of oversight or by beaucratic design is something that shouldn't be tolerated...if you can point to where this project has either one of those characteristics let us know...
You are the one who said Lack of oversight and beaucratic design not the poster. Do you even read the comments befor you mouth off?
CRP- when the poster talks about the the Tea Party and alludes to money "down the drain", I'm telling him EXACTLY what their argument is and if he can point to "waste" with this project then do so...what EXACTLY is your point?
can't we act like North Korea and pretend everything went off without a hitch and we're now super-loaded with hi-tek space gizmos?
yeah, and then we'd be called Russia
Lol! Flew for 16 seconds. You mean fell out of the sky for 16 seconds. Faling is not equal to flying.
It did not fall thy blew it up reread the article
Why can't they just skip this missile stuff and bring back the Teleporter from Star Trek, that was way quicker, easier and didn't use so much fuel. There is the risk that a Klingon could attack you, but I'd rather deal with him than the fin coming off my rocketship at 4,600 miles per hour.
Meanwhile nearly 1 in 4 American children live in poverty; the second worst child poverty rate in the developed world, only slightly better than Romania's, and the United States ranks 49th in infant mortality, slightly ahead of Croatia.
Stopping R&D, like this test that failed is not going to stop poverty. The US spends about 40% of its budget on social programs, maybe better use of the money already allocated or better yet US citizens can get up and do something about it ,adding more money will not solve the problem.
Well, if you're smart, you probably aren't poor. And if you were smart, you'd know better than to have children that you cannot support.
You do the math.
Here are just some of the Federal and California social programs that benefit he poor.
. Medicare
3. Medicaid
4. Medi-Cal
5. Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (Food Stamps)
6. Aid to Dependent Children
7. Foster care
8. CalFresh -$54
9. CalWorks, the state's welfare to work program.
10. Unemployment compensation
11. K-12 education state funding
12. Section 8 housing
13. Supplemental Security Income/State Supplemental Payment (SSI/SSP
14. Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA)
15. Cash Aid for Families with Children
16. California Food Assistance Program (CFAP)
17. County Medical Services Program
18. Food Stamp Employment and Training Program (FSET)
19. Employment Development Department (EDD)
20. CalWORKS
21. Kin-GAP
22. Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program
23. Emergency Food Assistance Program (EFAP)
24. Emergency Welfare Services' Mass Care and Shelter Program
25. In-Home Care
26. In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS)
27. Adoptions Assistance Program
28. BabyCal, Breast and Cervical Cancer Programs
29. The Assistance Dog Special Allowance Program
30. The Access for Infants and Mothers (AIM)
31. Healthy Families Program
32. AVID Advancement Via Individual Determination
Okay, I'll play your game. You want to take $140 million (pick any number) from this program and give it to the poor. Right?
Then, we'll have $140 million spent on feeding people unable to feed themselves, or otherwise contribute to the economy. They'll sit around doing nothing...well, other than having kids they can't support. More money we'll need to spend.
In the meantime, you have $140 million worth of salaried people (about 1000 people) unemployed, since you just pulled their funding.
And you've lost incidental benefits from their research.
So, you rob Peter to pay starving Paul, and end up with a starving Peter and two Pauls who need continual feeding. Seems pretty obvious to me that it's a LOSING PROPOSITION!
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I guess this won't be the test flight that gets noticed by the Vulcans.....
It's the size of a missle...How it this any help to transportation? or daily life...it's not, it's great for destroying pre-emptive strikes agains the US using ICBM's or maybe other more traditional military hardwares. IDK...does anyone else think this?
We have ICBMs that go faster. If you want to carry more weight, like people or freight, you need to have an air-breathing engine that can go fast. This is an attempted proof of that concept. If it can be made to work, you can scale from there.
It is called R&D , this is how we learn, educate ourselves. The technology my be used in the future to power aircraft, missiles,or spaceships, etc......To learn....
Will this failure effect any of the upcoming 'flight's to the International Fake Station?
You have to be in the air for more than 30 seconds to fly from LA to NYC
Tell me how this is an improvement on the X-15 (which was successful and set world speed records) , which was launched form a B-52 decades ago. Are they trying to re-invent the wheel? Sure seems like it to me.
.... way different engine type.
The X-15 was manned and rocket-powered. The X-51 is unmanned and scramjet powered. Different engine technology that has great potential to change how you live.
@Blookerman, the vehicles in test are unmanned. The technology supports crew flights as well. @Tim, the X-15 traveled at maximum speeds of Mach 6. That's the maximum output performance capable of jet engines. The technology used in the new X-51A scramjet engines hold the potential of exceeding speeds of Mach 20 and is more environmentally friendly because it's engines run solely off oxygen instead of carbon based jet fuel.
Uh..no Matt....the scramjet doesn't just run on oxygen.
@Huh, unless you have some sort of insider knowledge, I can only go by what's reported. Try paragraph 12. 😉
It uses oxygen from the atmosphere for its engines, as opposed to carrying large fuel tanks that rockets require, making it a more efficient vehicle for military or commercial purposes...... This does not mean " because it's engines run solely off oxygen". Please research a bit more.
Very different type of engine.
Oh great!
It's funny how they try to hype up the mission's targeted flight time of 5 minutes with "300 seconds." Seems like a grossly misappropriation of the peoples tax dollars to destroy the $140 million vehicles after every test flight. The cost of search and recovery efforts can't possibly exceed that of building new ones.
eat your waffles
Um, these kinds of flights are ALWAYS timed in seconds. And for good scientific reasons. If you are recording data by the second, then you measure your flight time in seconds.
This being top secret military technology, probably it is destroyed to ensure that the technology doesn't get out. Whether you think that is a wise use of resources or not, you'll have to take it up with the military planners.
You and I have no clue how many untold millions and billions of taxpayer dollars were spent on military research since (random year) 1935. There is no progress without research and no research without money.
there goes another 140 million dollars down the drain. meanwhile our infrastructure crumbles. Some expensive 16 seconds.
Instead of the Air Force, perhaps NASA should be in charge of projects like this. They seem to have a better record of doing technological things right (and spend less money as well).
NAW! Why do that .. the Air Force wants to keep its' secrets ..not share them with NASA!
Please provide data on this better record and expenses. They both have had successes and failures. Here are some failures for NASA: Apollo 1, Apollo 13, Liberty Bell 7, Gemini 8, Challenger, Columbia, NOAA-19, MCO, Deep Space 2, MPL, SBIRS, Genesis, Hubble (later fixed), Helios, DART, and OCO.
it's primarily dealing with the force of the air, hence "air" force.
anyone going to the grocery store today?
Our rockets always blow up.
UHH, NO, they don't. Spend a little time actually researching a topic before you insert the foot.
Francisco was referring to Italy's rockets....not the USA. Take in the whole picture before reviewing.
You may want to read a book before replying and proving your ignorance.
It's a quote from a book. Google it and learn something.
Hooray! More of tax dollars gone! WOOOO!
Right, because it is much better to not try to advance our defense technology. Good call, Me.
What are we defending, the crumbling infastructure or miserable economy?
Defend against what? We spend more on our defense than the next 25 countries (the vast majority of whom we are allies with) COMBINED.
me = stupid
zon and experienced man – harsh on' ME.' Relax.
Defense spending should be as focused on anti-terro tactics as anything else. And NASA could do what the AF is trying. And by golly, there are times when our armed forces procurement system wastes lots of money...
Seeing as the prototype would have been destroyed regardless, and the purpose was the collection of data, then what we have here is instead of 300 seconds of data, we have 16 seconds of data, with that data, being from a failure, usually much more valuable in the long run than data from a success (as we always learn more from failure than from success).
So it certainly isn't tax dollars "gone". You could think of it as an unforeseen budget overdraft....
don't worry.
the military will just raid the social security trust fund to fund the next hypersonic flight. If that's not good enough they will just cannibalize other programs for funding.
maybe we all can set up a bake sale to fund the next hypersonic USAF flight.
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I kissed my way up to VP at a health insurance company. Now I take over $500,000 of your health care dollars for NO VALUE ADDED to your health care. And that's just me. Now think about how many other VPs, Directors, Managers, etc. are at my company alone. Now multiply that by thousands of others at hundreds of other health insurance companies. From 10 to 25% of your health care dollars go towards administration that adds NO VALUE to your health care. But my company's PAC dollars will continue to fool you little people into thinking that a single payer system will be bad. Little people like you are so easy to fool. Little people also don't realize that a single payer system is the ONLY system that would allow little people (as an entire country) to negotiate better health care prices. Little people don't realize that the Medical Cartels already know that. And that is the reason why the Medical Cartels spend so much PAC money from the hospitals and doctors lobbying against a single payer system. Some little people say that a single payer system would cost you little people more. But if that were true, then wouldn't the hospitals and doctors WANT that extra money? Yes they would. So why do the Medical Cartels lobby against a single payer system? It's because the Medical Cartels know it would allow little people to negotiate better health care prices. And that's what the Medical Cartels are afraid of. Period.
But us big wigs at insurance companies, hospitals, and pharmacy companies don't ever need to worry about health care no matter what it costs. We get our health care paid for one way or another by you little people. And we get the little people that work at our companies to contribute to our PACs. And us big wigs say it's to protect the little peoples' jobs. But in reality it would be in the little peoples' best interest to NOT contribute to the PAC. Again, little people are so easy to be fooled. I won't ever have to worry about losing my job with so many little people being brain washed by the Medical Cartels' PAC money. Not only that, the Medical Cartels' PAC money is used to elect so many republicans that will never allow a single payer system. Republicans have always fought against any meaningful health care reform. But that's what our Medical Cartels' PACs pay them for. Politicians can be bought so easily.
Pretty soon the only people that will be able to afford health care is us big wigs. And that's the way it should be. We don't want you little people using up the resources when we need them. And once again, I thank you little people for capping my SS tax at the $106,800 level. Now I only pay 1.3% SS tax and you little people pay 6.2%. Also, thank you for extending my tax breaks. I'm using the extra money on my vacation houses.
Timmy, what are you talking about? This is a story about a crashed test plane.
Your tongue-in-cheek comment is spot-on, and would be funny if it weren't so sadly true. Thanks!
a "little people" person
A little pre-luv stuff just started dripping from my you-know-what
Perhaps the X-51A Waverider would have fared better if its wings were slightly larger than that of a dolphin's dorsal fin.
Its not the size of your wings, its how you use them.
You learn from your mistakes and try again.
I saw this movie where Julianne Moore gave hand to her son
now we know how North Korea feels..
Good thing some Republican congressman secured this contract for his ol' buddy and wasted our tax dollars. Yea Paul Ryan, lets increase military spending some more so that useless contractors can blow some more of our money.
i have come to expect this idiocy from the fringe looney left lib - my only hope is that one day you will wake up
This is technology for the future, research learns from both success and failure. This test program is not really a waste as the F22 is. The F22's radar absorbing paint doesn't like to be exposed to abrasive conditions like desert sand or rain. Yes we bought a fighter that can only be used in clear skies. So lets hope we don't have to fight during April showers.
You should all think about this in the following light. What USA needs is a cheap way to get to space. In space we have minerals and no animals. Which means mining without enviormental costs. We have a sun that shines 100% of the time and is not diluted by the atmosphere. That means nonstop solar power. Space is the solution to much of our planetary problems. We can then create energy without CO2. So everytime you decide to like or dislike a project think about weather it will help us get to space. What I just laid out here is forward thinking and not short term thinking.
You misspelled "whether."
Clearly you have never seen/played Dead Space.
Alright! Made in the USA!
What has your thirld-world dirt farm produced?
This vehicle cost 140 million. For anyone who cares it would have been relatively fuel effecient because most of the fuel would have been oxygen directly out of the atomosphere. The biggest thing that angrys me is that they never had any plan to recover the waverider. They were always planning on having it crash it just crashed prior to firing the engine.
Oxygen is the oxidizer, not a fuel. But yes this was a very fuel efficient Mach 6 vehicle. This test plane was designed to provide flight data, it wasn't feasible to add landing gear and there was no way to slow this bird down enough to land. Also there is the level of security in not wanting this technology to fall into another country's hands in case it landed somewhere it was not supposed to go.
Should have contracted the job to Space-X.. [more] government waste
Magnetism Over Combustion...
I don't know why America with all of its knowledge keeps supporting the CH chainers anyway.
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Face transplants now widely accepted
They savor pizza and burgers, no longer frighten children, and many of them can walk the streets without people knowing they have someone else's cheeks, nose, lips and skin. People who have had face transplants increasingly are going public, helping to transform an operation that six years ago was daredevil theory into one that is widely accepted.
At least 18 face transplants have been done around the world, starting with a French woman mauled by her dog in November 2005, said Dr. Maria Siemionow, at Cleveland Clinic. She did the first face transplant in the U.S. in December 2008.
Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston has done three this year alone. The U.S. Department of Defense is providing money for more of these surgeries in Cleveland and Boston in hopes of helping soldiers disfigured in battle. The University of Pittsburgh plans to offer face transplantation soon.
"It isn't mainstream yet. It's a last resort surgery," said Michael Cunningham, a psychologist at the University of Louisville, a pioneer in hand transplantation. But the face transplant experience so far shows "there were a lot of naysayers and worries that just didn't seem to come to pass," he said.
On Thursday, the Boston hospital released a photo taken last month of Charla Nash, a Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee. She had a face transplant in May.
"I will now be able to do things I once took for granted," Nash said in a statement. "I will be able to smell. I will be able to eat normally. I will no longer be disfigured. I will have lips and will speak clearly once again. I will be able to kiss and hug loved ones. I am tremendously grateful to the donor and her family."
Not all face transplant recipients have recovered hoped-for capabilities yet, and some have less than stellar aesthetic results although they are all vastly improved from how they looked before. The more recent ones in particular, where full rather than partial transplants have been performed, have fared especially well.
"They look from the very beginning quite natural and quite normal," said Dr. Bohdan Pomahac, who has performed four face transplants at Brigham. The most touching moment for him was a recipient texting him nine days after the operation, asking for a place to get good sushi in Boston.
"The level of normalcy," and to consider going out in public so soon, is "amazing," Pomahac said.
Here's how some others have fared:
¦ Dallas Wiens, a 25-year-old Texan severely disfigured in a power line accident, looked like a sock of flesh had been pulled over his face - no eyes or nose and barely a mouth. After his transplant earlier this year in Boston, he said the first thing his young daughter told him was "Daddy, you're so handsome." He said his new face felt "natural," and that right away he could smell the hospital's lasagna.
¦ Connie Culp, 48, an Ohio woman who was the first U.S. face transplant recipient, has made several television appearances and become an advocate for organ donation. Doctors have refined the droopy jowls and extra skin they purposely left to make checkup biopsies easier, and she now has "a normal face," Siemionow said. "She's smiling, she's perfect. When she jokes, she kind of flickers her eyes. Her face is vivid. You can see emotions."
¦ Mitch Hunter, 30, of Indiana, wore a prosthetic nose and had a distended, lopsided jaw after being disfigured in an accident. Now, he could pass you on the street and you wouldn't guess he has a new face, so good is his cosmetic result.
The successes have led more hospitals to approve face transplant protocols.
"We're currently screening patients," said Dr. Joseph Losee of the University of Pittsburgh. Carefully selecting appropriate patients "is the most important thing," he said.
So far, only two face transplant-related deaths have been reported, said Dr. John Barker, former director of plastic surgery research at the University of Louisville who is now a reconstructive medicine researcher at the University of Frankfurt in Germany.
One was a Chinese man who reportedly was not given or did not take medicines to prevent his body from rejecting his new face. The other was in Paris, a man who received a face and a double hand transplant. He suffered a heart attack during surgery to address a complication, Barker said.
Overall, "I think it's gone fabulously," he said of face transplantation. "It is a clinical alternative now, not experimental," he said. "It's been done and it works. For a select group of patients, it is a viable treatment."