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Best Times:
100 Breaststroke: 55.83
200 Breaststroke: 2:03.49
200 Individual Medley: 1:57.79
Peddie Aquatics Coach: Greg Wriede
2011-2012 (Freshman): 100-yard breaststroke: Finished 20th at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships with a time of 57.34… Fastest time was 57.18 in the prelims at Ivy's… Won the event against Columbia with a time of 58.46… Won the event against Cornell with a time of 59.16… Finished fourth at Boston University's Terrier Invitational with a time of 58.04… 200-yard breaststroke: Finished 20th at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships… Finished 10th at Boston University's Terrier Invitational with a time of 2:07.19… Best finish in the event was against UMass, second with a time of 2:10.28… 200-yard IM: Finished 33rd at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships with a time of 2:01.67.
Before Yale: School Swimming Team Captain in 2009-10… Finished first in the 100-yard breaststroke final (55.83) at "2011 Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships"… "Hugo Chan Memorial Scholarship for The Best All-Round Student in High School"… School Prefect in High School for 2 years… "The Yu Kam Wai Scholarships" for the Outstanding Athlete in 2007-08… Individual Champion in the 58th Hong Kong Schools Speech Festival… Champion in "The Hong Kong Youth Science and Technology Invention Competition… National rank 1st in Men 200m Breaststroke in Hong Kong (Long Course Season in 2009-10 & Short Course Season in 2010-11)… Held 12 Hong Kong Age Group / Junior / Inter-school Swimming Records in 50m, 100m, and 200m breaststroke… Member of Hong Kong National Swimming Squad since 2006… Achieved the B-finals in the 11th Pan Pacific Swimming Championships 2010, Irvine USA… Finalist in 8th Asian Swimming Championships, Foshan China... Finalist in 5th East Asian Games 2009… Finalist in 1st Asian Youth Games, Singapore.
Personal: Hobbies include reading and basketball… "City Volunteer" for Beijing Olympic Games 2008 working at the Beijing Olympic City Volunteer Service Station.
Why Yale: "As a world-renowned research university, Yale is distinctive in its commitment to undergraduate teaching, and I am also impressed by the atmosphere of the swim team which is probably the closest and the most supportive I've ever seen."


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I received a sweet strawberry lemonade party in my inbox by the gorgeous Kristina from Modern Frills. I have been an avid fan of Kristina's blog for quite a while now, and I am excited to share the gorgeous party she styled for her daughter Ava. I adore the cake stands, crate & bunting, there are so many adorable elements that come together beautifully. Well done Kristina! x
"Strawberry Lemonade is a favorite of the birthday girl so it was an easy choice for the party theme. Stefanie of Anne and Blue Paperie took my ideas and created a perfect vintage inspired birthday invitation along with party printables to coordinate with the theme.
Once the invitations were in the mail, I began the dessert table preparations. I started by looking for a white tablecloth that had a vintage feel. I was unable to find exactly what I was looking for so I purchased a simple white tablecloth from Target. I went with a size larger than I actually needed. After cutting the tablecloth down to the correct size and hemming the edge, I used the extra fabric to add a simple ruffle around the edges.
The backdrop of the dessert table was made using the "Happy Birthday" banner by Anna and Blue Paperie. I also made a few fabric flowers from vintage inspired kitchen towels and some remnant fabric using fabric stiffener (purchased at a local craft store) and a tutorial from Jones Design Company
The rest of the dessert table came together with cupcakes, fresh strawberries and some amazing cookies by Callye of The Adventures of Sweet Sugarbelle. The birthday girl and her friends sipped lemonade and danced in tutus with her dance teacher. It was a perfect day!"
Vendor Credits::
•birthday girl's shirt :: Modern Frills •invitation & all party printables :: Anna and blue paperie
•invitation photography :: Kate Ward Photography
•cookies :: Callye of The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle
•party photography ::aKa Photography
•birthday girls rosette headband :: Sweetharts
•fabric flowers ... DIY project made with vintage style kitchen towels from House8810
•twine:: The Twinery
•cupcake stand and mini cake stand:: Delightfully Lovely by OliviaDru
•straws and strawberry containers :: Sweet Lulu
•party balloons :: Balloon Time
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Search Engine PlacementJuly 22, 2003
The introduction to this piece has been lost thanks to a Safari caching error. The rest of it should make sense with a little guesswork. Sorry for the inconvenience.
When we start to look at more generic terms like 'css', there are obviously far more sites that qualify for high placement. The full first page of results for 'css' on Google are relevant and deserve to be there, except for possibly the current result #10 — Doctor Dobb's Journal is running Eric Meyer's CSS Reference Guide as a feature right now, but it's the only item on their home page pertaining to CSS.
At the time of writing, the Zen Garden sits in spot #9 on Yahoo's search results page for 'css'. It's in spot #11 in Google's search results for 'css'. When DDJ's feature is moved off the front page, I expect to see it in spot #10 shortly thereafter.
I have no qualms about this. In fact, I'm quite pleased that we're so high up in the results for CSS. It's when we become number one for a generic term that doesn't relate to CSS that we start to have a problem.
Right now, the css Zen Garden is the number one result for 'zen garden', trumping even dailyzen.com's Zen cards. It's on the first page of results for the even more generic 'zen'. I've even made a dent in the listings for 'garden', showing up on the second page.
This highlights a fundamental assumption that Google makes: the title of a page determines what the content pertains to. In this case, any mention of 'gardens' or 'zen' does no such thing, so the assumption falls apart.
Is this my problem? I don't think so, as it would indicate that I'm incorrect for choosing a title for my project. In an indirect way, the Zen Garden theme was rather appropriate even though the true focus was on a technology that couldn't be more different. Is this Google's problem? Signs point towards yes.
One more thought, somewhat unrelated — remember when once upon a time it actually mattered to have a Yahoo directory listing? Those days are over.
Reader Comments
Well it's seriously weird IE bug-of-the-day time: try selecting the first line of text in the left bar of the first new Zen Garden design.
Boom: "Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close". Such a flaky browser.
Nice designs by the way :)
Confirmed. How odd. Surprising though? Not really. IE has pretty terrible text-selection when getting into CSS-positioned layouts - try selecting body text on this absolutely-positioned older version of this site.
That gets my vote as most rediculous browser regression in history. Worked fine in IE5.*, totally broken in IE6.
Actually, watch this space and I might have a little hack around it…
…actually mattered to have a Yahoo directory listing?
Being in Yahoo's listing–no. But it might be worth have it placed in DMOZ's listing because Google Directory and many more use DMOZ's listings.
Actually, I imagine that a lot of the ranking related to "zen" and "garden" have to do with the way people link to the zen garden.
from my understanding of the way google works, ranking is link based. You're ranked higher if you have more links coming to your site, and based on those links, you appear for certain words. Everyone links to the zen garden using the words zen and garden and hence it ranking higher. If all the same people linked to the garden using the words css playground you would not be as highly listen for zen and garden, but significantly higher for playground, even though the site was named the zen garden.
In saying that the listing is title based, it's because that's what the readers refer to it as, and we use the name that you have used, and thus google picks up on this. Indirectly, your statement becomes true…
Visting the CSS Zen Garden after a long long break, and I just noticed " Zunflower" by Radu Darvas. Stunningly beautiful. Lovely combination of color and layout. Someone get this man a job. Pronto!
Are you supposed to "count" those indented results in a Google search? I never thought so, since they are just another page within the site above. If so, then Zen Garden is already at #9 for CSS. Erm… Does this make sense?
Another IE regression :
I worked on my garden subscription at home on a Mac, preparing for a long IE/Win debug afterwards.
I then tested the design on IE 5.0 at home and got it right almost at once, just minor glitches. I was very pleasantly surprised.
I came to work the day after and tested the design on IE 5.5 and 6.0 : browser crash.
I had to spend a very long time debugging : erasing all the css and then adding the rules one by one was the only way I found.
I narrowed it down to my use of margins around p:first-letter elements, but using only that rule in a document doesn't break the browser, you have to include it in a more complex layout. Erk.
"Little authority" sites, as you call them, won´t *hinder* your site´s ranking, on the contrary, they will improve it; maybe just a little bit, but every link counts.
Imagine that you get you site linked in 5 "little authority" sites, that won´t make a big difference. But let´s say that, for example, 150 "little authority" sites link to your site, now google will see that and move your site up in the ranking because it assumes that your site is popular/important/relevant in those 150 sites (even if the contents relate to some very obscure subject).
Of course, if you get your site linked in Wired, Slashdot or some other similar site, your site will rocket up the ranking faster than you can say "My God, it´s full of strars" :-) .
For sure its the link text and not just the title that's getting you the great Google exposure. Google depends largely on links, and is even happier if the link anchor text complies somewhat with the title tag and then content etc.
Even more, some recently launched sites of ours are turning up the exact same results in Google recently for the 'allintext:' search as for searching on Google. The 'allintitle' search returns different results, which makes me think that right now (as the big G is undergoing some tweaks) the title tag may not have the same weight as it normally carries (all based on observations, nothing solid here).
Masad, ColetasSoft, I used to work for a company that hired a search-engine optimization analyst, and I based my "little authority" comment on conversations I had with him. Perhaps he was the one of "little authority." ;-)
I'm sure the page's good structure is playing well to Google's relevancy algorithm. When you have page title, h1, links and content that all repeat the same words, and use proper alt, title attributes, you scream "authority."
And as everyone has stated, it really helps that other well-linked authorities in turn link to the Garden. I guess that the sites with "little authority" actually hinder your score, but not much to be done about that.
Vaguely reminds me of Cory Doctorow's Whuffie concept.
"I guess that the sites with "little authority" actually hinder your score, but not much to be done about that."
Fwiw - Thankfully this isn't true; imagine how easy it could then become to ruin your competition!
And you are right about good structure. For google it seems that what's good for the user is also good for google. As we know, standards are good for everyone :-]
Are you supposed to "count" those indented results in a Google search?
Yeah - multiple sites off the same domain could have equal relevance to the topic. And of course, they still push me off the first page of results.
Thanks all for the points on link text — I may have known that at one point, but I certainly didn't remember as I was considering this piece. Interesting notes on proper structure, too. Good markup continues to pay off.
I think Vinay has a point. It must be the numebr of links from various blogs. Over that past few months, 90% of the blogs I visit, mention CSS Zen Garden and/or link to it.
They hired a "Search Engine Optimization Analyst"? Wow… where can I get that job. Sounds like a ton of fun.
Hmmm…Next to food and movie critic, my dream job:
Search Engine Optimization Analyst Job listings


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The private sector created 192,000 new jobs in January, better than expectations and reflective of the slowly improving trend in the labor market.
Small businesses led the way, adding 115,000 new positions. Services again were the most prolific suppliers of new labor, adding 177,000 workers, the bulk coming from the 40,000 in professional and business services jobs.
The manufacturing sector lost 3,000 jobs. Goods-producing businesses added 15,000 positions, primarily in construction.
Economists had expected the report, compiled jointly by ADP and Moody's Analytics, to show the private sector created 165,000 new jobs in January.


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Amazon web services back up and running
But reasons for outage still being investigated
Amazon has finally resolved the lingering issues from the outage last weekend, but the root cause of the power failure has yet to be determined by energy provider ESB Networks.
The web giant said at the time that lightning had struck a transformer in Dublin on Sunday, which knocked out all power provision including the back-up generator.
But exploration of the problem by ESB ruled this out, a spokesman at the Irish firm told The Register.
"Investigations are ongoing but we still don't know the official cause," said the ESB man. "We know that it was a transformer fault, a transformer blew."
He said it was not dismissing Amazon's claims of lightning, as reported yesterday, which the web player made on its services health dashboard hours after the incident.
At 3.01pm PDT Amazon said: "We understand at this point that a lightning strike hit a transformer from a utility provider to one of our Availability Zones in Dublin, sparking an explosion and fire."
A spokeswoman at Amazon said ESB had made the "initial assessment that the cause of the power outage was lightning. Amazon and ESB have been on close contact to understand the root cause of the power event in question".
She added: "As often occurs during investigations like this, root cause is not always what it first appears to be."
The firm is reporting that web services are operating normally today. ®


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What I've tried
You got the game file, did you not download it off steam?
If you didn't download Warframe via steam you can add nonesteam games into your steam library.
Click on the games menu
Add nonsteam game
find the game and then click "add selected program"
You can also just download Warframe via steam
What doesn't work? adding the non steam game or warframe downloaded from steam?


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bigstrads wrote:bada wrote:bigs, my son saw your picture and wants to know if you want to come over and play Pokemon
LOL. he is pretty good my friend, although we have not played it much. After playing the Lego Batman game you got him for awhile, we are now playing Super Mario Galaxy 2. Get a Wii and you can challenge him over the internet. LOL


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What The Science Says:
1970s ice age predictions were predominantly media based. The majority of peer reviewed research at the time predicted warming due to increasing CO2.
Climate Myth: Ice age predicted in the 70s
"[M]any publications now claiming the world is on the brink of a global warming disaster said the same about an impending ice age – just 30 years ago. Several major ones, including The New York Times, Time magazine and Newsweek, have reported on three or even four different climate shifts since 1895." (Fire and Ice)
What was the scientific consensus in the 1970s regarding future climate? The most cited example of 1970s cooling predictions is a 1975 Newsweek article "The Cooling World" that suggested cooling "may portend a drastic decline for food production."
"Meteorologists disagree about the cause and extent of the cooling trend… But they are almost unanimous in the view that the trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century."
A 1974 Time magazine article Another Ice Age? painted a similarly bleak picture:
"When meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe, they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age."
However, these are media articles, not scientific studies. A survey of peer reviewed scientific papers from 1965 to 1979 show that few papers predicted global cooling (7 in total). Significantly more papers (42 in total) predicted global warming (Peterson 2008). The large majority of climate research in the 1970s predicted the Earth would warm as a consequence of CO2. Rather than 1970s scientists predicting cooling, the opposite is the case.
Figure 1: Number of papers classified as predicting global cooling (blue) or warming (red). In no year were there more cooling papers than warming papers (Peterson 2008).
In the 1970s, the most comprehensive study on climate change (and the closest thing to a scientific consensus at the time) was the 1975 US National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Report. Their basic conclusion was "…we do not have a good quantitative understanding of our climate machine and what determines its course. Without the fundamental understanding, it does not seem possible to predict climate…"
This is in strong contrast with the current position of the US National Academy of Sciences: "...there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring... It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities... The scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action." This is in a joint statement with the Academies of Science from Brazil, France, Canada, China, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United Kingdom.
In contrast to the 1970s, there are now a number of scientific bodies that have released statements affirming man-made global warming. More on scientific consensus...
Quite often, the justification for the few global cooling predictions in the 1970s is overlooked. Probably the most famous such prediction was Rasool and Schneider (1971):
"An increase by only a factor of 4 in global aerosol background concentration may be sufficient to reduce the surface temperature by as much as 3.5°K."
Yes, their global cooling projection was based on a quadrupling of atmospheric aerosol concentration. This wasn't an entirely unrealistic scenario - after all, sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions were accelerating quite rapidly up until the early 1970s (Figure 2). These emissions caused various environmental problems, and as a result, a number of countries, including the USA, enacted SO2 limits through Clean Air Acts. As a result, not only did atmospheric aerosol concentrations not quadruple, they declined starting in the late 1970s:
Figure 2: Global sulfur dioxide emissions by source (PNNL)
Similarly, if we now limit CO2 emissions, we can also eventually get global warming under control.
So global cooling predictions in the 70s amounted to media and a handful of peer reviewed studies. The small number of papers predicting cooling were outweighed by a much greater number of papers predicting global warming due to the warming effect of rising CO2. Today, an avalanche of peer reviewed studies and overwhelming scientific consensus endorse man-made global warming. To compare cooling predictions in the 70s to the current situation is both inappropriate and misleading. Additionally, we reduced the SO2 emissions which were causing global cooling. The question remains whether we will reduce the CO2 emissions causing global warming.
Intermediate rebuttal written by John Cook
Update July 2015:
Here is a related lecture-video from Denial101x - Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
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'Song Without Words' by Gerald Shea
The memoir genre has been often criticized as narcissistic navel-gazing, a wallowing in personal problems. Memoir writers, this critique goes, glorify their own behavior (however foolish) while blaming the rest of society for their problems. Enter Marblehead resident Gerald Shea, whose life story easily could have been a tale of self-pity. Instead, Shea's "Song Without Words" constitutes everything that a great memoir can and should be.
Shea contracted scarlet fever as a boy, and as a result became profoundly (not completely) deaf. He wouldn't be professionally diagnosed until age 34, thus compelling him to live a lot of his life, said one of his doctors later, as if he were running with a broken ankle. Shea simply carried on, working twice as hard to overcome his hearing loss. He would graduate Columbia Law School near the top of his class, then become a partner at a big Manhattan law firm, Debevoise & Plimpton. Shea describes what he needed to do to reach such heights with clarity and without complaint.
"Song Without Words" is both a work of literary art and a manual for understanding the difficult world Shea inhabits. Instead of complaining, Shea patiently portrays what it's like to be unable to comprehend spoken language in real time, and how he brilliantly developed his own "transitional" language, which he calls "lyricals," and then translates these lyricals back into English.
Shea describes the biggest challenge of his life: the lost time (in the Proustian sense, too) between what people say and what he understands. Sometimes, meaning is simply lost in translation. In his work as a high-powered commercial lawyer representing Fortune 500 companies in multi-billion-dollar deals, being unable at times to understand others became a massive professional obstacle. Shea succeeded, but the toll it took on him emotionally and physically, the lunches he spent in the bathroom sipping Mylanta from the bottle as his stomach churned with stress, was significant. Shea is impressive that, with so much to complain about, he complains so little.
Shea beautifully describes the language of the sounds he hears, letting us see how he races to translate them into meaning. At a meeting with the New York City Builders Association, for example, Shea hears another lawyer say "any fissing of the pride of lament would violate the antitrust law." Shea translates: "lament" becomes "cement"; "fissing of the pride" becomes "fixing of the price." Like deciphering James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," reading Shea's lyricals can be both poetic and breathtakingly difficult.
Sometimes Shea is unable to piece together meaning from his lyricals, especially when negotiating with non-native English speakers. To say that he spends much of his life desperately playing a game of catch-up doesn't begin to explain Shea's dramatic efforts. That Shea actually succeeds is a miracle brought about by sheer, grind-it-out determination of Olympian proportions.
When Shea finally gets a hearing aid in his mid-30s, it helps but doesn't eliminate the lyricals. He sits on a bench near a field and listens: "the chorus [of crickets] came from everywhere . . . stretching in from over the hills and fields and pouring into my electrified ears. I turned around in circles to hear it, a melody. . . coming from every direction." Once Shea accepts his disability and begins to seek help, his life changes from one of absolute professional focus to one that better values himself and his family.
Eventually Shea decides he doesn't want to grind out 16-hour days and guzzle Mylanta. He gives up his job, and begins to focus on both his family and his hearing loss. Readers are lucky that Shea took the time to write this masterful memoir, which brings us into a hidden world so few have ever visited. "Song Without Words" proves that memoir, at its lyrical best, can be a truly wonderful and inspirational literary genre.
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Long before Pro Touring earned its name, there were still lots of ways to build a corner-burning early Camaro. Chris Kerr began his quest for apex exhilarations way back in 1983 when he located this Camaro for a paltry $300. From the very beginning, he wanted a car that was not only brutally quick but could also shave the orange paint off an apex cone in a slalom course.
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The first area for attention was clearly the front suspension. Stock early Camaros, despite their ponycar appearance, are miserable in the corners. Chris knew the stock front subframe harbored many limitations, so he built his own! He then fabricated his own front suspension using Koni shock coilover fronts with '85 Corvette spindles, Afco upper and lower control arms and springs, and a circle-track style adjustable antiroll bar to create the camber curve he desired.
Since Rat motor power was always part of the plan, Chris knew all that iron Rat weight would require an engine setback–like 5 inches! After major firewall surgery to ensure everything cleared, he turned his attention to the rear suspension using circle track technology to create his own fabricated three-link system combined again with Koni adjustable coil-shocks and a 1-inch rear antiroll bar.
Steamroller tires on all four corners were also an integral part of the plan, so that meant sheetmetal surgery and tubbing in the rear in addition to a complete 21-point rollcage that ties all four corners of the car into a very rigid chassis compared to the Camaro's original flexy subframe design. All these changes demanded significant body modifications, including stretching and widening the wheelwells and, taking a cue from Smokey, channeling the body down over the frame. The whole car is steel except for the fiberglass hood and decklid, and the bodywork credit goes to Jeff Dellamater of Otisville, Michigan, while the DuPont Brandywine mixture is Fred White's handiwork, from Manteno, Illinois.
All this chassis work still needs power to make it work, and that's where the relatively simple yet durable 454ci iron Rat takes its cue. Using a Moldex steel crank and LS7 steel rods, Chris added a Comp Cams 294 flat tappet cam, a ported set of iron oval port heads, and Comp roller rockers for the internals, bolting on an Edelbrock Victor Jr. intake and a Holley 750 for the induction duties. An equally simple ACCEL dual-point distributor and Hooker 2-inch headers complete this basic Rat, while a custom 3-inch exhaust makes use of a set of Magna-Flow mufflers to keep things relatively quiet.
The Muncie four-speed isn't really much of a surprise, but what is almost purely race-bred is the 10,000 RPM 5.5-inch multi-disc clutch and an aluminum flywheel with a modified Lakewood bellhousing. The clutch is somewhat temperamental, as Chris discovered at the Real Street Eliminator Shootout last year, but its incredibly light weight does contribute to lightning quick acceleration. When combined with a set of 3.50 gears in the Moser-axled 9-inch, the Camaro has tripped the quarter with an 11.80 at 121 mph. Of course, it helps that the car only weighs 3,050 pounds with driver. While we're on the subject, the Camaro has also delivered 1 g numbers on the skidpad.
For 20 years, Chris has run the Camaro in autocrosses, the Power Tour, top speed events where the Camaro clocked 165 mph, car shows, and most recently in CC's Real Street Eliminator Shootout. For 20 years, Chris has beaten the snot out of this Camaro and enjoyed every minute of it!
Car Craft Q & A
Car Craft: What was the most difficult part of building this car?
Chris Kern: The front suspension. It took me about eight months to work out all the coordinates on the computer getting the upper control arm lengths with minimal bumpsteer with the right rack-and-pinion length. That took a long time.
CC: Do you have any changes planned for the Camaro?
CK: After years of running a spool, I bolted in a set of 3.64 gears and a Detroit Locker, and it really frees the car up in the corner now. I have other plans for a dry-sump, and eventually electronic fuel injection. I also have a nitrous system waiting to go.
CC: Any interesting stories with the car?
CK: My aunt bought this car new in 1968, and I always thought it would make a great street machine. The next owner eventually lightly crashed the car and parked it in his backyard. That's where I tracked it down and bought it for $300. I've had it ever since.
The Details
Car: '68 Camaro
Owner: Chris Kerr, Flower Mound, TX
Engine: 454ci big-block Chevy, Moldex crank, TRW LS6 pistons
Heads: Iron oval port, owner-ported with 2.19/1.88-inch valves, 1.7:1 Comp Cams roller rockers
Cam: Comp Cams 294 mechanical flat tappet cam 248/248 degrees at 0.050, 0.595/0.595-inch valve lift
Induction: Edelbrock Victor, Jr. with Holley 750-cfm mechanical secondaries
Clutch: 10,000 RPM 5.5-inch multi-disc with aluminum flywheel
Transmission: Muncie four-speed, Hurst Competition-Plus shifter
Rearend: Ford 9-inch, 3.50 gears, Moser 31-spline axles, spool
Front suspension: Owner-fabricated with Koni coilover shocks, Afco springs, '85 Corvette spindles, BRT rack-and-pinion 12:1 steering, 11/8-inch front antiroll bar, Afco tubular upper and lower control arms
Rear suspension: Owner-fabricated custom three-link rear with Koni coilover shocks, Afco springs, 1-inch rear antiroll bar, and adjustable roll center
Brakes: Baer 13-inch Track system in front with PBR calipers 12-inch GM rear discs with factory calipers
Wheels and tires: Budnik 17×11-inch Tiller wheels with P275/40ZR17 Hoosier tires front, Budnik 17×13-inch Tiller wheels with P315/35ZR17 Hoosier tires rear
Body mods: Fiberglass hood and decklid, front and rear fenders widened, rears stretched, rear wheeltubs added from Competition Engineering, RCI 22-gallon fuel cell in trunk, owner-fabricated 21-point rollcage, engine set back 5 inches, bodywork by Jeff Dellamater, Dupont Brandywine paint by Fred White
Performance: 11.80 at 121 mph, 1 g on the skidpad, top speed of 165 mph
Crew: Mary Kerr, kids Courtney and CJ, Jeff Dellamater, Mike Close, Jack and Kathy Kerr, Bob Thrash, and Pat Glenn


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DETROIT – LensCrafters, a major eyewear company, will pay $192,500 to settle a female-on-male sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. The EEOC had charged that LensCrafters subjected a male employee to a sexually hostile work environment at its Saginaw, Mich., retail location.
According to the EEOC's suit (Civil Action No. 1:09-CV-12694, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan), LensCrafters violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subjecting a male lab technician to sexual harassment and failing to address his complaints that a female co-worker was abusing him. The EEOC said the harassment included the female employee touching the male and making inappropriate comments about his appearance. In its suit, the EEOC charged that LensCrafters fostered the hostile climate by disregarding the male technician's complaints because he was a man.
In addition to the monetary payment, the consent decree settling the suit requires LensCrafters to enhance its sexual harassment policies and train its employees on recognizing and preventing sexual harassment. The decree specifically requires LensCrafters to incorporate in its training examples of sexual harassment against male employees to emphasize that men can be subjected to this kind of misconduct as well as women.
"This is a favorable resolution for everyone," said EEOC attorney Nedra Campbell. "Sexual harassment is always unjust and illegal, regardless of the gender of the perpetrator or the victim. LensCrafters's willingness to resolve this case early in the litigation process is commendable."
Mason, Ohio-headquartered LensCrafters is a wholly owned subsidiary of Luxottica U.S. Holdings and a part of Luxottica Group, an international designer, manufacturer, and distributor of eyewear.
The EEOC is responsible for enforcing federal laws against employment discrimination. Further information is available at www.eeoc.gov.


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posted on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - 11:57 am
I have fitted the following model using Mplus 7:
Type = complex ;
Param = Theta ;
Peers BY friendci friendot ;
Exposure BY iad2 mad2 sad2 tvmoviea ;
Peers promoite ON Exposure familyto
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ctobacco ON Exposure Peers promoite
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ctobacco IND Exposure ;
This model examines the association of a latent tobacco advertising variable (measured by four ordinal indicators: internet ad exposure, magazine ad exposure, store ad exposure, TV/movies ad exposure) with current tobacco use, a binary variable, mediated by an ordinal variable, willingness to use tobacco promotional products (promoite) and a continuous latent variable (peers).
The model fits the data well. Several collaborators are now curious to learn what the specific effect of tobacco ad exposure in TV and movies is on the current tobacco use outcome. E.g., they would like to compare what the model-implied probability is for respondents with a '5' (maximum self-reported exposure) to those with a '1' (minimum self-reported exposure). Is there a way to address that type of question using Mplus?
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - 1:53 pm
You can do that. Because you have a binary distal outcome you want to follow the ideas of
Muthén, B. (2011). Applications of causally defined direct and indirect effects in mediation analysis using SEM in Mplus.
Tor Neilands
posted on Tuesday, April 09, 2013 - 9:27 pm
Thank you, Bengt. I've read the excellent paper to which you refer here (sidebar suggestion: anything you and the Mplus team can do to build in features in future Mplus versions to make causal mediation of this type more easily available in Mplus, e.g., something similar to the current MODEL INDIRECT statement, would be greeted very enthusiastically in the public health community. I don't know if it's statistically feasible to build in such a feature, but if it is, it would be a boon to public health researchers).
A follow-up question about my example model, if I may: All of the examples I recall from the 2011 paper have exogenous predictors. My observed TV/Movie ad exposure variable is endogenous because it's one of four indicators of the latent ad exposure variable. I will re-read the 2011 paper, but any guidance on how to adapt the most relevant example (6.6 + appendix example 14.4, I'm assuming) given my endogenous indicator would be greatly appreciated.
Tor Neilands
posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 8:36 am
I realize my previous message may have been unclear. My initial thought was to change the scaling units of the latent tobacco exposure variable "exposure" by overriding the Mplus default of fixing the first indicator's factor loading to 1 by freeing the factor loading for iad2 and fixing the factor loading for tvmoviea to 1. That would put the units of the exposure latent variable in tvmoviea units (tvmoviea is the variable for which we want to obtain model-implied probablities when tvmoviea = 1 and tvmoviea = 5).
But I'm guessing that's not sufficient because if I then use exposure as the upstream predictor in the causal mediation syntax shown in the 2011 paper, the probabilities estimated would be based on the shared variance among all four predictors, not just tvmoviea. I think what I need is the model-based probabilities at tvmoviea = 1 and tvmoviea = 5, not exposure = 1 and exposure = 5, if that makes sense? And where I'm stuck is how to build that into the causal mediation examples you have in the 2011 paper. Thanks again for any suggestions you can offer.
Tor Neilands
posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 8:59 am
I see that I wrote "...all four predictors..." when I meant to write "...all four indicators...". My apologies for any confusion that may have caused.
I thought of another way of expressing what I'm looking for: I need an expression for the portion of variance in the latent exposure variable attributable to the observed variable tvmoviea (I assume that expression would be some combination of the factor loading for the tvmoviea variable and its item thresholds?). I would then plug that expression into the causal mediation examples (modified accordingly) shown in the 2011 paper to obtain the probabilities for the distal binary outcome ctobacco when tvmoviea (purged of measurement error) = 1 and when it = 5.
My apologies for so many posts on this topic!
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 12:04 pm
Tricky situation. I wonder if it is satisfactory to your clients if you simplify the situation a bit by focusing on standard deviation changes in the exposure factor. As part of the exposure factor model, you can express what the expected change in your tvmovie indicator is as a function of changes in the exposure factor. If you set the factor metric to mean/variance 0/1, you get
E(y | f=0) = nu (intercept of tvmovie),
E(y | f=1) = nu + lambda*1 (1 SD above the factor mean)
You can then see for which exposure factor change you would get the tvmovie indicator change the clients are interested in. So an indirect approach. The SD change in the factor can then be used in the indirect effects.
It seems like you should stick to your factor given that you formulated a factor model. Otherwise, use just the tvmovie indicator as the only, observed exposure representative.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 12:05 pm
And, yes, in a future version we hope to simplify/automate getting the effects using the causal formulas from the paper.
Tor Neilands
posted on Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 2:38 pm
Thank you, Bengt, this is great news about the future version automating causal effects.
I also appreciate your suggested approach involving SD change. I'll give that a try. One clarifying question: the tvmovie indicator is ordinal with five levels ranging from 1-5. So, there are four thresholds rather than one intercept. How would the formula you presented above work in the ordinal indicator context? (or should I switch tvmovie to be continuous?)
Yes, I would like to stick with the factor model if possible because if I change tvmovie to be a separate independent variable with exposure measured by the three remaining indicators, a suppression-type effect occurs, with what was a significant positive effect of ad exposure becoming significantly negative, which is contrary to substantive expectations and what is known from the literature in this area.
As you noted, of course, it is possible to do away with the latent exposure variable entirely and the other three measurements completely and just use tvmovie as the sole exposure variable. I'll reserve that as a backup plan.
Thanks again.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 8:38 am
Unless the tvmovie indicator has strong floor or ceiling effects, I would treat it as continuous.
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The Week In Music: Paul McCartney, Brian Wilson Turn 70
It may seem it was only yesterday when Sir Paul McCartney was 64, but in reality it was six years ago. But the GRAMMY-winning icon, who celebrated his 70th birthday on June 18, is still putting in many a hard day's night. In the past year, McCartney married Nancy Shevell; was honored as the 2012 MusiCares Person of the Year; closed the 54th GRAMMY Awards; and released a new album, Kisses On The Bottom. As fate would have it, fellow GRAMMY-winning legend Brian Wilson celebrated his 70th birthday on June 20. "I feel great! I don't think I look or act 70," Wilson told Rolling Stone. "I feel more like I'm in my mid-40s." Wilson and the Beach Boys are quite active with the recent release of their reunion album, That's Why God Made The Radio, and touring in celebration of their 50th anniversary, which kicked off with a memorable performance at the 54th GRAMMYs. Fittingly, Wilson received a call from an old friend on his special day. "[Paul] said, 'Happy birthday, friend!" said Wilson. "I said, 'Happy birthday to you, Paul.' He told me he was headed into Abbey Road. I told him we were on our way to Montreal." While good vibrations are keeping Wilson going, just how is McCartney keeping such a rigorous pace? "Y'know, he's gettin' it every night onstage and hopefully in bed with his new wife!" Aerosmith's Steven Tyler told ABC Radio. "God bless him."
We've heard of aiming for the moon, but the creators of website Stuff Monsters Like are taking the phrase to a literal level. The site has kicked off a fundraising campaign at Kickstarter for a multifaceted project that involves the Moon and the real estate, architecture and music industries. Site creators Sarah Giavedoni and Jim MacKenzie are looking to purchase the Lunar surface, construct a Moon base and write a folk album, to be titled Lunar Aid 1985. Time is apparently of the essence, since the "Russians have announced their plans to permanently live on the Moon too." Is this project legit? "Hell yeah, we're for real," said Giavedoni and MacKenzie in a statement. "We want to be the John Denver of space folk!" Further details about the project's concept and a sampling of the site creators' musical talents are available to preview in the project's video synopsis. Pledges of $1,000 will net a "free Moonbucks Coffee Membership for Life" while those contributing one dollar will get "warm fuzzies/a good feeling." We here at TWIM are mulling the $25/autographed album copy and $50/pet moon rock options.
It's no secret that the Flaming Lips appreciate a good game of musical antics. On Halloween in 2011 the band, led by frontman Wayne Coyne (who has been known to bounce along a crowd encased in a bubble) launched a website to stream their new song "7 Skies H3." Only this was no ordinary song — it lasted for 24 hours straight. Obviously believers in the "rock and roll all night" mentality, the Flaming Lips are embarking on another 24-hour adventure as they aim to break the Guinness World Record for most live concerts in 24 hours in multiple cities. The band will begin June 27 with a 3:30 p.m. show in Memphis and end June 28 with a 4 p.m. performance in New Orleans. All in all, the band will travel to eight cities in 24 hours. Will the Lips cover "Rock Around The Clock" at the shows?
With a No. 1 album and worldwide tour, it seems Madonna is back and more fierce (and demanding) than ever. Apparently, Madge is also still befitting of her title as the Material Girl, given the items listed on her current tour rider. Along for the MDNA journey is a 200-person entourage, 30 bodyguards, a team of personal chefs, a yoga instructor, an acupuncturist, and a dry cleaner. Additionally, she requires her dressing rooms to feature 20 international phone lines and flowers (white and light-pink roses and lilies to be exact, cut at exactly six inches). "She requires all furniture be removed from the rooms and replaced with her own pieces that she has shipped in," a source told In Touch magazine. If Madonna looks like this onstage, we're afraid to see what she's capable of offstage if her demands are not met.
Nearly three decades after they topped the pop chart with songs such as "Careless Whisper" and "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go," Wham! may be ready to make it big all over again. According to a Daily Mirror report, Andrew Ridgeley and George Michael are planning to reform for a one-off show and comeback single. "Things are still in the early stages but everybody is getting really excited about it," said an anonymous source, who also revealed "they do want to commemorate the event with a big gig ... and an even bigger party afterwards!" A Wham! reunion was originally planned at a Michael concert in London in 2006 but Ridgeley became "too sick with nerves" to perform. These days, Ridgeley maintains a low profile while Michael is set to resume his Symphonica tour in September after a bout with life-threatening pneumonia. Will Wham! give their fans everything they want? Stay tuned …
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WASHINGTON, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The Democratic-led U.S. Senate set debate to begin on Friday on President Barack Obama's nomination of Janet Yellen to head the Federal Reserve, with confirmation expected on Saturday.
Democrats had hoped to confirm on Yellen on Thursday or Friday, and then adjourn for the year. But they failed to get a time agreement with Republicans to speed up the process.
Regardless, Yellen, now the Fed's vice chair, is expected to be confirmed with bipartisan support to replace Ben Bernanke, whose term expires next month.
A senior Democratic aide said that unless a time agreement is suddenly reached, the Senate would begin consideration at close to midnight EST on Thursday (0500 GMT Friday) of Alejandro Mayorkas as deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, the first of four of Obama's pending nominees.
Under a tentative schedule and working around the clock, the Senate would vote to confirm Mayorkas before dawn on Friday, followed later in the day by John Koskinen to head the Internal Revenue Service and Brian Davis to be a federal judge in Florida.
The confirmation vote on Yellen is expected to occur at about 6 p.m. on Saturday (2300 GMT), the aide said.
The stage was set for this end-of-year battle when Democrats, who hold the Senate, 55-45, changed the rules last month to strip Republicans of their power to block most of Obama's nominees with procedural roadblocks known as filibusters.
Under the new rules, a nominee needs the support of only a simple majority of the 100-member Senate, rather than the earlier 60, to be confirmed.
The change, however, did not strip Republicans of their ability to slow down matters by refusing to yield back allotted debate time, which for a Cabinet-level nominee like Yellen is 30 hours.
For most lower-level picks, Democrats and Republicans get four hours each.
Earlier Thursday, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid accused Republicans of obstructionism, and vowed to get the nominees confirmed.
"These are crucial nominations, and if that means working through the weekend and next week, so be it," Reid said.
Assistant Senate Republican Leader John Cornyn said, "The irony is that none of these nominations are particularly urgent."
"Even Ms Yellen - Bernanke's term doesn't end until the end of January - so this is all gratuitous from my perspective," Cornyn said.
After the Senate votes on Yellen, it could begin consideration of six more nominees, all of them for relatively lower-level posts.
Democrats have asked Republicans to agree to carry over the six until next year. But so far Republicans have refused.
Any nominee not confirmed by the end of the year would face the prospect of having to begin the process all over again next year with Obama renominating them.
McConnell said in a Senate speech that he would oppose the IRS nominee, denouncing as inadequate an investigation into the tax-collection agency's "incredible abuse of power" in targeting conservative groups for added scrutiny.
"The American people deserve answers about how and why this targeting happened. They deserve justice too. And I will not be supporting any nominee to lead this agency until the American people get the answers they deserve," McConnell said.
Reid urged confirmation of Koskinen to head the IRS, saying, "With all the problems we've had with the Internal Revenue Service ... we need to have someone running that agency."


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Volkswagen of America this week announced partnerships with renewable fuels companies Solazyme and Amyris to test emissions reductions and the performance of advanced biodiesel and renewable diesel fuel.
Volkswagen will provide Solazyme and Amyris each with the 2012 Passat TDI and 2012 Jetta TDI (pictured) to examine the effects that the fuels produced by these companies will have on Volkswagen clean diesel technology and the environment.
Amyris converts plant sugars into renewable hydrocarbons for fuel and chemical applications while Solazyme has developed a technology that produces renewable oil from algae. The 12-month test period will provide Volkswagen engineers data that will help in the ongoing development of TDI Clean Diesel technology and help the brand to develop more efficient, cleaner burning diesel powertrains.
Initial analysis indicates that advanced biofuels are comparable to standard diesel blends in terms of performance, but also offer significant opportunities to reduce vehicle emissions.
"Amyris's renewable diesel's cold weather performance, high cetane and comparable energy density to petroleum diesel have enabled us to obtain one of the highest blending registrations certified by the U.S. EPA," said Mario Portela, COO, Amyris. Portela added that nearly 200 buses in Brazil are currently running on various blends of Amyris diesel.
Solazyme's 100-percent drop-in renewable diesel is compatible with existing infrastructure and vehicles, and provides the engine manufacturer with an advanced diesel replacement that drives significant reductions in greenhouse gas, said Rogerio Manso, chief commercialization officer, Solazyme.
Volkswagen's clean diesel TDI models accounted for 21.6 percent of sales in 2011, a significant increase over recent years. Its February 2012 sales of clean diesel products were up more than 54 percent over the prior month. The automaker also recently announced that the 2013 Beetle TDI will become the sixth clean diesel model available in the brand's U.S. lineup.


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The image was created from Hubble data from proposals 12053, 12077, and 12305: D. Jewitt (UCLA), H. Weaver (JPL/APL), M. Drahus (UCLA), and M. Mutchler (STScI).
NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA)
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North Korea continued its aggressive posturing Sunday with a promise to continue developing its nuclear weapons program.
In a statement released by the state-owned Korean Central News Agency, the ruling Worker's Party vowed to defy United Nations sanctions and pressure from the international community to discontinue its nuclear program.
Calling the armed forces "the nation's life," the statement said the weapons are not "a political bargaining chip nor a thing for economic dealings to be presented in the place of dialogue or to be put on the table of negotiations aimed at forcing the DPRK to disarm itself."
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Last week, the Obama administration announced that approximately 800,000 undocumented youth will be eligible for relief from deportation and be given two-year work permits through an executive order. To be eligible, they must have been brought to the U.S. before the age of 16, be younger than 30, living in the U.S. continuously for five years, either in school or graduated from a U.S. high school, earned a GED, or served in the military, and have no serious criminal history.
It is undeniable that this development will have a positive and profound affect on the lives of not only the young people who are eligible under the executive order, but also their parents, relatives and friends who will no longer have to fear the removal of their loved ones. At the same time, this shift in deportation policy leaves many important issues unaddressed.
The executive order carries many of the hallmarks of the proposed DREAM Act, a bipartisan federal immigration bill that was first introduced in 2001 that would give undocumented youth a path to citizenship. However, it falls short of the DREAM Act in several respects.
Most importantly, as the Department of Homeland Security memo describing the executive order notes, "This memorandum confers no substantive right, immigration status or pathway to citizenship."
Moreover, the language of "deferred action" and the program of renewable work permits sidesteps one of the most important aspects of the DREAM Act: the certainty and security that comes with permanent legal status.
As a matter of politics, the executive order will undoubtedly factor heavily into President Obama's re-election campaign. Its timing will also likely take the wind out of the sails of Republican attempts to push a revised version of the DREAM Act through Congress – efforts that have thus far gained little traction among conservative Republicans.
However, a deeper subtext also exists. Immigrant advocacy groups have not been shy in criticizing the administration over the record numbers of deportations that have occurred under Obama's watch.
And earlier this month, the administration was sued by the American Immigration Council for what it described as unlawfully withholding records related to another form of removal known as voluntary return.
Pushing the administration further were the undocumented students themselves. Earlier this month, two students staged a sit-in at Obama's campaign office in Denver. Sit-ins, described by DREAMERS as "UndOccupy Obama," also took place at Obama re-election offices in Ohio, Michigan and California. These actions are part of a larger strategy that has emerged over the past couple of years of undocumented youth "coming out of the shadows" to contest their illegality, risking their own deportation and creating a meaningful social movement.
However, for many the executive order is bittersweet.
As the DREAM Act has languished in Congress for over a decade, many have "aged out" of its provisions and are now too old to be eligible under the executive order. For these people, their dreams are deferred as their status remains unresolved. Even those who are eligible under the executive order are expressing caution.
This is where politics comes back in. "Deferred action" carries with it a two-year window. If Obama wins re-election, Friday's announcement will allow his administration to use its prosecutorial discretion to act in the area of immigration even in the context of a highly divided and partisan Congress. But if Obama loses, a Romney administration could reverse the policy of deferred action by denying the renewal of work permits when they expire. The fear, as some immigrant legal advocacy groups have already suggested, is that undocumented youth will come out of the shadows now only to expose themselves to deportation later.
The political winds, however, suggest that this may not be the case. Earlier last week, a coalition of evangelical Christian groups, including Focus on the Family, released its "Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform." This statement described current immigration laws as having created a "moral crisis" at a "tragic human cost." It seems unlikely that a Republican administration would risk doing damage to its evangelical support by deporting undocumented youth.
What this means is that if Obama is not re-elected, his administration will have given the Republican Party a gift when it comes to using deportation policy to court the Latino vote.
As the political drama unfolds in the background, undocumented youth and their allies are celebrating across the country. For many, though, this celebration is but a short respite in what remains a long and difficult road ahead.
To be sure, the mantra of "Undocumented and Unafraid" has left an indelible mark on the landscape of American immigration policy. But for the DREAMers who are not eligible under the executive order, and even for those who will receive deferred action, a second mantra remains incomplete: "We are Americans." The movement has already made its mark, but much more work remains.


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Signs of life on Mars may be hiding under its rocks, or perhaps hiding inside those rocks. A new study offers a simplified technique for detecting biological and prebiotic molecules that become trapped inside minerals.
Studying seven samples of the mineral jarosite collected from various places on Earth, researchers were able to identify amino acids, the basic components of proteins, that had presumably been incorporated into the mineral's crystal structure.
Although this was not the first time biological compounds have been detected inside rock, the new method has the advantage that it works "at very low concentration without prior sample preparation," said Nancy Hinman of the University of Montana.
Hinman and her colleagues believe their technique would be perfect for looking at Martian samples brought back from a future mission.
Minerals and microbes
Jarosite is a yellowish-brown sulfate mineral containing iron, potassium and hydroxide. It is found in places around the world such as southern California beaches and volcanic fields in New Zealand. It forms only in the presence of highly acidic water.
In 2004, jarosite was discovered on Mars by Opportunity, one of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers. Scientists immediately heralded it as clear evidence for past water on the Red Planet.
"The rate of the jarosite formation would be extremely slow without microbes and the presence of water," Hinman said.
Whether jarosite can form without the assistance of these microbes is very difficult to say, since every corner of Earth is occupied by little bugs of some sort or another.
"I don't know of any environment devoid of microorganisms," Hinman said. "Earth is not a good test bed for abiotic processes."
But perhaps Mars is. There are theories for how jarosite might form in the absence of life.
"It's a very oxidizing environment on Mars," explained co-author Michelle Kotler, also from the University of Montana. Jarosite could therefore arise from chemical weathering of the planet's abundant basalt rocks.
Garbage can
And yet, there remains the tantalizing possibility that martian jarosite owes its existence to the martian version of rock-eating microbes. If so, remnants of these organisms may be locked in the mineral.
This is because jarosite on Earth is known to let all sorts of foreign elements incorporate into its crystal structure.
Among the foreign substances are organic compounds. However, previous techniques for detecting them required that the jarosite be dissolved in a solution or mixed in with some other medium, which dilutes the sample and runs the risk of introducing contamination.
"We are very concerned about contamination," Hinman said.
Hinman and her colleagues have a technique that requires no sample preparation. They use a laser-based optical and chemical imager (LOCI), located in co-author Jill Scott's lab at the Idaho National Laboratory. A single laser shot vaporizes a small portion of the crystal surface into individual ions. These pass through a mass spectrometer, which can identify each ion by how much mass and charge it has.
In four of the seven samples, the scientists detected glycine, the smallest of the amino acids required for making proteins.
Sample return
"This study shows that a molecule basic to life can be detected in an important Martian mineral using an instrument that might fly on a future spacecraft," said Carlton Allen, Astromaterials Curator at NASA Johnson Space Center.
But the method probably will not be suitable for any near-term missions because of the mass and complexity of the LOCI instrument, said David Beaty, chief scientist of the Mars Exploration Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Instead, the technique could be used for sample return missions that NASA researchers are currently planning for.
"The advantage of our method is that it doesn't need sample preparation," Kotler said. "We just put the rock in the machine and shoot it."
Not only can their technique identify organics, but it can also measure the isotope ratios of carbon and other elements. If the accuracy can be improved, this measurement could potentially tell researchers whether the organic molecules they find came from living things or not.
"There's an advantage for organisms to use the lighter isotopes," Kotler explained. This shows up, for example, as a higher percentage of the isotope carbon-12 versus carbon-13 in biological samples.
Although jarosite possibly may have provided martian biomolecules safe haven from the planet's harsh UV radiation, astrobiologists are interested in studying a whole list of martian minerals.
"One thing that is becoming clear is that the total scientific return on [a sample return] mission would be dependent on the diversity of the sample collection, and it is important to plan for ways to optimize that diversity," Beaty said.
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NEW YORK — The Westminster Kennel Club dog show has long been the province of purebreds. But the nation's premier canine event is opening a doggie door this year to mixed-breed competitors: They'll be included in its new agility trial.
Next month's show at New York's Madison Square Garden also will feature three new breeds. They're the chinook, the Portuguese podengo pequeno and the rat terrier.
A news conference Wednesday featured some of the newcomers, plus dogs weaving around poles and jumping through a tire on an agility course.
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Mapping fiber quality within a cotton field poses some unique challenges, but if researchers can determine a way to identify specific areas where specific quality levels show up farmers may be able to adjust management to improve quality.
Ongoing research at Texas A&M University seeks to find ways to trace fiber quality back to specific field locations, said Dr. Alex Thomasson, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering.
Most yield mapping studies, Thomasson said, during a precision agriculture session at the recent Texas Plant Protection Association annual conference, focus on yield, even though industry has emphasized the importance of fiber quality.
"Growers have not done so for in-season crop management," Thomasson said. "The amount of fiber-quality variation observed has been smaller than lint-yield variation (observations)."
Both are part of a "profit mapping" system that "would enable producers to implement precise field management practices to maximize profit on each portion of a field."
Fiber quality mapping comes with significant challenges, he said. "To map fiber quality, harvest location of cotton bales must be known, so an automated wireless module tracking system was developed."
The system included wireless transceivers that enable transfer of cotton basket numbers among harvesting machines. Also, the system used automated wireless triggering based on basket weight and basket-tilt sensing. The third part of the system included automated identification of each machine.
"The completed system allowed automated tracking of harvested basket-area position and mapping bale-level fiber quality data to those areas," Thomasson said. "Further study was conducted to determine relative effects of yield and fiber quality on in-field revenue variation, which was separated into lint yield and fiber quality components."
Standard deviation of revenue ranged from $73.20 per acre to $87.40 per acre. The fiber quality variation contribution ranged from 13 percent to 31 percent of the total.
"While lint yield was more important, the contribution of fiber quality was substantial and should not be overlooked," Thomasson said, "especially when high input costs and small profit margins are considered."
He said measuring fiber quality is difficult, but, as farmers become more interested in "profit mapping," they may want to incorporate fiber quality mapping into the system. "Profit mapping requires site-specific knowledge of yield and price, which varies (from site to site) because fiber quality varies," he said.


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