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Side by side: Stacking up two great Oregon defenses

This year’s Oregon Ducks may or may not field a top-notch defensive squad. As I wrote last week, the makings are all there, but success can only be proven on the football field through a season’s worth of games.

Alex Molden, one of the few 'stars' of the 1994 Oregon defense, went on to a long pro career.

If they do, though, the 2012-13 Oregon defenders undoubtedly will be compared to two great defenses of recent Duck lore — the famed “Gang Green” defense from the 1994-95 Rose Bowl team, and the group from 2010-11 that played in the BCS National Championship Game against Auburn.

I mentioned both of those defenses last week as well — mostly in passing. But that got me to thinking; and curious about which of those squads was a better stopper, I spent time digging up records and other information to see how they stack up.

Pretty evenly, as it turns out.

It’s true that it’s risky to compare defensive squads from the same program, particularly ones some 16 years apart. As much as college football stays the same, the more it changes, and the style of play is much more points-friendly today than it was in the mid-1990s. Consider, too, that Oregon’s frenetic offense under Chip Kelly leaves the defense on the field for most of the game now, skewing statistical comparisons with other defenses. Also, given the ‘Oregon brand’ today, the Ducks recruit better athletes under Kelly than they did under Rich Brooks.

I was a witness to virtually every game both defenses played — either in person or on the screen — and even I have a hard time discerning which squad ranks higher. I might give 1994-95 a slight nod for its unbending consistency, and 2010-11 a slight nod for its depth and speed.

As can be seen in the graph on the right, the 1994-95 squad was a little better in rushing defense (rush yardage per play); 2010-11 a little better in passing defense (pass yardage per play and catch). Each gave up about the same number of points on the season; each thrived on creating turnovers.

Which brings us to the intangibles, such as how these two defenses performed when it counted most.

The 2010-11 defense was predicated on speed, aggressiveness and take-aways. The line executed well, allowing Oregon’s superb linebackers and ball-seeking secondary to take care of business and attack with regular blitzes. The Ducks were third in the nation in creating turnovers and fifth in red-zone defense.

Like all good defenses, it got great play from several players. While linebacker Casey Matthews (79 tackles, including nine for a loss, three interceptions and three fumble recoveries) and cornerback Cliff Harris (six interceptions, 17 passes broken up) received plenty of accolades, they weren’t alone. Spencer Paysinger, John Boyett, Kenny Rowe, Brandon Bair, Talmadge Jackson, Zac Clark, Terrell Turner, Eddie Pleasant, Boseko Lokombo, among others, filled big roles and were play-makers in their own right.

The team that fell to Auburn 22-19 in the national title game has mostly been celebrated for its offensive fireworks. Oregon led the nation in scoring 47.0 points per game and featured stars like LaMichael James, Darron Thomas, Kenjon Barner, Jeff Maehl, Drew Davis, David Paulson and Josh Huff.

But the defense was equally good, particularly when it mattered most. Over the course of the season, it surrendered just 6.8 points a game in the second half. Eight of the 13 teams it faced didn’t score a point in the fourth quarter. And that for a squad that was frequently on the field due to the team’s quick-strike offense.

Spencer Paysinger, a linebacker on the 2010-11 team, now plays for the New York Giants.

The 2010-11 defense’s big moment may have been at California. Ranked No. 1 in the nation, the Ducks struggled mightily on offense in the darkness of Berkeley. If it hadn’t been for the defense — which held the Bears to just a touchdown and 193 total yards — Oregon likely would have fallen instead of pulling out a 15-13 win.

And in the waning minutes of the BCS Championship Game, with the Ducks trailing 19-11, Matthews stripped the ball from Heisman Trophy winner Cam Newton, leading to a late Oregon score and a 19-19 tie. Auburn’s game-winning field goal as time expired were just the fourth, fifth and sixth points the Tigers scored after intermission.

“We’re like a great white shark in the ocean just swimming on the surface,” the incomparable Cliff Harris said in the days leading up to the title game. “Everything that’s in front of us, we eat it up.”

In his own way, Harris was right.

The 1994-95 defense was not so much flash as it was unyielding and smash-mouth tough. It ranked 12th in the country in rushing defense and recorded 30 sacks and 20 interceptions. Its best athletes were arguably in the secondary: Alex Molden (All Pac-10), Kenny Wheaton (four interceptions), Chad Cota (All Pac-10), Herman O’Berry (All Pac-10) and Jeff Sherman (109 tackles); but its linebackers weren’t far behind. Reggie Jordan, who was paired with Derrick Barnes on the outside, led the team in sacks and tackles for loss. Inside backers Rich Ruhl (103) and Jeremy Asher (91) were among the leading tacklers. Upfront there was stout nose tackle Sallila Malepeai.

Unlike the 2010-11 team, the 1994-95 squad was coming off a 5-6 year and was picked to finish no higher than seventh in the Pac-10. It also overcame a 1-2 start that had some calling for Rich Brooks’ head.

In eight league games, Oregon gave up just 13.5 points per game, including holding USC to seven in Los Angeles.

Wheaton’s 97-yard interception return against Washington — arguably the greatest moment in Oregon football history — was the signature play. But the defense’s performance at home a week later against No. 11 Arizona was undoubtedly its best performance all season and kept the Ducks on the path to their first Rose Bowl in 37 years.

The Ducks played well defensively in the first half against Arizona, but still trailed 9-0 at intermission. From then on, though, it was all Oregon. Aided by the noisy Autzen crowd, Gang Green held the Wildcats scoreless in the second half, never allowing them to cross midfield, as the Ducks prevailed 10-9.

“We were just a bunch of average blue-collar guys,” Mark Schmidt, a sophomore defensive lineman on the 1994-95 team, told recently. “We had just a few top-caliber athletes, but how we were successful on the Gang Green was we played together as a team and did whatever it took to get the job done.”

In 2005, the entire team was inducted into the UO Hall of Fame.

Interestingly, one of the few common denominators between the 1994-95 and 2010-11 teams is that both had the same defensive coordinator, one Nick Aliotti. I don’t know if Aliotti has ever publicly commented how his two squads stack up. I did some research and couldn’t find anything. I wish he would. It would be interesting to see what he has to say.

In the meantime, with no clear-cut winner, we’re left to compare, contrast, consider, ponder, wonder.

And — if you’re a Duck fan — hope the 2012-13 Oregon defense enters this same discussion some day.

What would Nick say then?

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  • Dmcewing

    The stat that jumps out to me most for the 2011 team is giving up 11 rushing td’s! That’s incredible, 9 less than the 94′ team. The 2011 defense was special no doubt, they were undersized and not the most athletic group but they played smart. I see the 2012 bunch as the best defense ever assembled at Oregon.

    DL: We have great size upfront with Ricky-300+, Wade-300+, Hart-290? We wont be pushed around by teams, and they have had a few seasons to gel. The D-line has the most athletic lineman in the Pac-12 in Jordan. If he stays healthy he’s 1st-rd for sure with his speed. He’s taller and faster than K. Rowe. Obviously Armstead is a gigantic wildcard at around 6’8, 300 lbs! I think his presence alone will force teams to run opposite of him. Another X-factor could be Ebert, I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a monster year. He’s a star if he can get on the field.

    LB’s: Clay keeps this crew together, he’s solid and smart like Matthews. Maybe a bit more athletic than Casey was. Kiko is an NFL LB who’s only going to get better and more disciplined. Guys like Kiko (6’4, 250) do not come to Oregon from what i’ve seen with his combo of size/speed. Bolo is a heat-seeking missile, he makes plays nobody talks about him until this season. He becomes the new Kaddu causing havoc.

    DB’s: With the Harris saga finally behind us the young guys can focus. They’ve been in the hot seat facing Luck, Barkley, Foles and Wilson. (Wow) Their experience will payoff big time this year. Boyett will have 100+ tackles once again, he provides leadership and eases the pressure off of the young corners to make plays. Pleasant is the main replacement clearly. From what I’ve heard Jackson is an animal and should fill in seamlessly along with Patterson. Word is that Jackson’s one of the strongest guys on the team.
    Great size, excellent speed, and leadership with Jordan, Clay and Boyett. This is the best defense ever at the U of O.

    • DefensiveDuck

      100% agree with everything you said… I would like to add their teams overall pursuit is top notch, if not the best in the nation. Also that people don’t recognize how physical we are on the perimeter. Our rush defense is so good at forcing opposing backs run lateral while the defense fly’s to the ball from everywhere.

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

iPod Magic

Carl finally got his Christmas present this weekend. Since it is actually a rather funny (in a sick sort of way), I will share the story with you. Here's what happened:

He has an 8GB iPod touch, but wanted the 2nd Generation with more memory. I had this brilliant idea (or so I thought) to check eBay first. Lo and behold, you could get a brand new 32 GB for the same price as the 16GB! So, I quickly bought the first one I won. In my defense, there were over twenty people bidding on each of the listings, so I was distracted by that fact. Because I was distracted, I failed to notice that the seller had NO feedback and was from THAILAND. Yup, you read that correctly. I chose to bid over three hundred dollars of our money on just such an item.

Needless to say, we never received the world's greatest deal. I (thankfully) had paid through PayPal, and upon filing a claim for an unrecieved item, discovered that PayPal will give you a full refund if the seller does not respond to their e-mails. Of course our seller never responded, the case was closed, and we should have payment today or tomorrow.

In the midst of all this, Carl ended up without a Christmas present from me at all. We had ordered him a new snowboard jacket from Steep and Cheap as well, but it was too big and had to be sent back. Not the best of Christmas luck!

So, while I was at Costco stocking up on a multitude of things last week, I browsed the electronic section (quickly, so as to avoid children screaming) and discovered they now carried a 16 GB iPod Touch. The price was great, I knew we were getting our refund, so I bought him one. I think it did more for me than for him, since I felt awful about failing to give him a Christmas present, whereas I don't think he cared all that much. Nevertheless, he loves his new iPod and I do too -- I inherited his 8GB. :)

Moral of the story: Don't order eBay items from sellers with zero feedback that reside in Thailand. I know, I probably don't need to state this fact, but I wouldn't have thought I would forget something so simple either!

Sandra said...

Oh goodness! It can be easy to get caught in a "good deal" and not pay attention to the details. My friend did the same thing with and IPOD. He didn't check the seller location and ended up paying more in shipping than he did for the item.

Kristen said...

Been there, done that! Glad you used Paypal!

aola said...

yeah, us, too! We almost got burned for $17,000.00 on an international sale in our estore... long, long story but we did get our money.

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Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Happy Birthday, CNN!

Thirty years is a fairly long time, and that's exactly how long CNN's been around. The news network started by Ted Turner celebrates its 30th birthday today, and though times are a little tougher these days -- the net is no longer ne plus ultra in TV news, ratings-wise at least -- it still packs a comprehensive punch and is virtually synonymous with 24-hour coverage.

Many of my former Turner colleagues did time at CNN and from all accounts it was an exciting place to work, no doubt attracting the best, the brightest, the toughest and the most willing to work at wages at that time below the industry standard. It's paid off, and for those of us who can't bear the politically-motivated shrillness of Fox or the good but inconsistent (no weekend news?) coverage of MSNBC, CNN is still the one.

I recommend taking a look at this feature from the CNN website: Defining Moments from CNN's 30 Years. No doubt you'll remember many of these, as I did.

Congratulations, CNN! You were an idea who time had come, and thank goodness Ted Turner was around to make it happen.

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Jane said...

It will be Ted Turner's legacy. Truly one of the most innovative and important developments in television. Plus, it made a great name for my cat!


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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

I admit that I have been lax about blogging these past few weeks (to the relief of many people, I am sure), but I haven't been doing much to blog about. It's spring!, and I've been futzing in my garden, which has been sorely neglected for the ten springs and summers I've been in Japan.

Outside of pruning and planting, I've made a few pairs of plain socks and sorted through my stash--lace yarn in this basket, sock yarn in that basket, and the "What chemical was I imbibing when I purchased this stuff?" yarn in a large plastic bag over there.

Some of the WCWIIWIPTS yarn was actually very nice, but the colors were either insipid or frightful.

..rustle...clank....out came the cauldron and Potions kit....

Here is a Before photo of Schaefer Andrea in the Louisa May Alcott colorway. I. Hate. Brown.

A flick of Chinese Fireball Red dragon scales...

I didn't much care for the green in the Andrea Helen Hayes colorway either.

A bit of Gillyweed and some Merpeople hair later...

Consultation with my Advanced Potions textbook allowed me to transform Fleece Artist's pale blue and yellow Cornflower colorway into something a bit more interesting:

And Fleece Artist's lackluster Saffron colorway was transformed into a spicier flavor:

I used potions with hues similar to the colors in the underlying yarn so I wouldn't end up with muddy colors. The process works surprisingly well, although I am still adding red to a particularly stubborn skein of ghastly beige Malabrigo laceweight in an effort to make it attractive. (It was billed as Peach, but the color I received bore no resemblance to either the on-line picture or the namesake).

One word of advice if you decide to try this at home. Do NOT add Eye of Newt to your potion mixture. Otherwise, you'll end up transforming your skein from a plain, but mainstream yarn:

Into something like this:*

A little vitreous humor (snicker).

*Actually, this incredible skein of handspun was created by the fabulously talented Jacey Boggs. You can find this yarn, as well as other amazing creations, at her web site: Insubordiknit.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

I haven't done much productive knitting this week, but I have frogged what seems like an endless wad of samples. Every morning, I grabbed my coffee and some neatly caked sock yarn (thank you, Roy!) and spent several hours trying to find an appropriate yarn for a few favored patterns that have been in the Experimental Pile (some of them for years).

After seven days of this, I had a large pile of yarn squiggles and a headache.

What I really wanted was a soft, squooshy sock yarn with long runs of variegation. Well, guess what--there doesn't seem to be such a thing, at least on this planet.

Every pattern looked spectacular in the yarns I don't care to knit with--Trekking XXL, Julia's Vinca, and Noro's Brillo Kureyon Sock Yarn.

Every pattern got lost in the yarns I love to handle--Lisa Souza, Claudia, Cherry Tree Hill, and Soxie.

The basic problem seems to be that the yarns with glorious color variations are not very soft, and the touchable yarns were either too splotchy or zingless.

This conundrum also plagues lace yarn. The long-color-runs are found in yarns that are a bit harsh--JoJoLand's Melody, Yarn Place's Graceful, and Yarn Treehouse's Merino Print. And the touchable yarns--Yarn Place's Gentle,Touch, and Angel, for example, only come in plain colors.

While I am whining, I might as well utter a high-pitched plaintive cry about Angel's color selection. Take that, Yarn Place!

Don't get me wrong--plain colors are lovely and most appropriate for complex lace. But after you've seen LaceFreak's Legends of the Shetland Seas, you'll probably agree that those long color runs can transform a merely pleasant pattern into a spectacular finished piece.

In Other News
I did actually accomplish something this week. Hanabi is half-finished (I will post a picture next time.) And the Vinca yarn from Julia's Craft has turned into an interesting pair of socks. Total cost for the yarn was about $6--2 balls (@ $2.99, 255 yards) are needed for a pair. It's a slightly fuzzy marled yarn and a wee bit splitty.

As you can see, I made no attempt to match the coloration, being a dedicated lazy knitter. Roy says the yarn is quite light and soft on his feet. Knitting with Vinca isn't an overwhelming experience, but the color shifts are inspired, and make me want to keep knitting so I can see what will happen next.

Thursday, May 8, 2008

More Bling!

Harry tossed his finished Bling shawl center at me this morning as he sashayed out of the house for his morning sauna/massage. He instructed me to photograph it (with feeling) and post the pictures and text (with alacrity). Since he is holding my ebony needles hostage, I must obey.

Here's a boring face-on shot of the center:

And a pseudo-arty shot so he can't accuse me of slighting his work...

Apparently, after crawling around the center for an hour or two, Harry is having second thoughts about the Really Wide Border. (Of course he is--he just can't leave well enough alone).

He says he might adapt the border of the Black Window Spider King for his Bling shawl. It's a more interesting knit and is slightly smaller, too. He pointed out that he might run out of yarn if he stuck with the original design and thus, I would have to go around begging for another cone of Colourmart's Japanese Maple cash/silk.

After thinking about it, I have to admit that Harry has a point. We already have the trapezoidal shape worked out and adapting the spectacular border to a triangle shape would provide an opportunity to fool around with the pattern yet again (fun!).

And finally, Harry says he absolutely refuses to endure the boredom of a knitted-on border, so he is in the throes of adapting an Estonian/ Icelandic/German border to suit the contemplated changes.

Does this litany of changes sound familiar? The gods of Shetland Knitting are poking out their eyes with tridents, lightning bolts, and swizzle sticks.


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Despite the fact that I blab about my life here on this blog, I’m not really a “let’s share our feelings” sort of person. So I was just as surprised as you are when, after we lost Sam and Emilie, my greatest source of comfort was our infant loss support group.

We attended regularly for a couple years, and attended a “subsequent pregnancy” group when we were pregnant with Henry and Eleanor. These groups were invaluable to us. It was the one place where people got it, where you could crack a morbid joke or admit your bitterness over others’ pregnancies and people would nod in understanding.

We attend only the rare meeting now, but one we don’t miss is every December, when they hold a candlelight ceremony to remember the children and pregnancies we’ve lost. I look forward to it; it allows us a moment during a busy time of year to reflect on our family and how it came to be. It also gives us a chance to reconnect with others who attended the group the same years we did, the people who knew us as “Sam and Emilie’s parents” when the rest of the world wouldn’t (and still don’t) acknowledge it.

This is the first year that Henry and Eleanor took part in the ceremony, the first year they weren’t too young to understand what was going on. We had explained things as best we could, that they had to stay quiet and be respectful, that they’d see some people (including Mom and Dad) be sad, and that was okay. And they could feel sad or not sad, and that was okay, too. And to my great relief, they did wonderfully.

I was actually a little surprised at how seriously they took the ceremony, and how important it seemed to them. Eleanor was quick to dart up to fetch Kleenexes at the first sight of a tear; I had a fistful by the end. She even teared up a little herself during one or two of the songs, although she’d never admit it (“I’m not crying, Mom, my eyes are just randomly watering.”). Henry looked solemn and listened intently to everyone’s stories. At one point, Eleanor whisper-asked me what day was Sam and Emilie’s birthday and how old they’d be in heaven, then mentioned we should get the candles back out for their birthday next year to celebrate.

When it came time to light the candles, the girls lit one for Emilie and the boys did one for Sam. Eleanor took her job very seriously. She scoped out the candle she wanted, and insisted on saying Emilie’s name as we lit the candle. Henry picked out his candle, too, and both kids held them all the way home, where they insisted on lighting them again. Granted, Henry then wanted to carry his around the house like he was exploring, but overall, I think they understood the specialness of tonight.

I struggle with how much to incorporate Sam and Emilie into our daily lives. I think about them every day, but don’t want Henry and Eleanor to grow up with the spectre of a dead brother and sister always hanging over their heads. But the fact of the matter is that there will always be visits to the cemetery, and candlelight ceremonies, and mentions of people who are in our family but aren’t here with us. It’s a tricky balance to acknowledge the reality of our family but do so in an age-appropriate way. So Andy and I just do our best, answering questions honestly when they’re asked, and talking about Sam and Emilie when we feel it’s relevant. We’re basically making up the rules as we go along, I mean, who can ever expect and fully prepare for their family to be a blend of living and non-living children? Hopefully tonight proved that we’re on the right track.

Aug 302011

Andy and I remarked to each other after the soccer parent meeting that we still sometimes feel like imposters. Like someone was going to come up to us and say, “I’m sorry, you don’t belong here.” I think there are parts of us that will always have a hard time believing Henry and Eleanor are real, that they actually happened.

During our four years of waiting for a family, the one dad-type activity Andy consistently talked about was his wish to be a coach. That’s why last night’s very first soccer practice was so special.

Sure, it was just a bunch of three- and four-year-olds running amok for an hour. But for me? It was not believing my luck in seeing my two healthy children proudly wear their soccer cleats, while their father realizes a goal (oooh, soccer pun) eight years in the making.

I know the minivan-driving soccer mom is such a cliché. But I’ve known the alternative, so it’s a badge I happily wear with pride.


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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Sunflowers! A new tradition!

There are beautiful crops of Sunflowers popping up all over North Texas. Of course, that meant I had to get the kids pictures in them. We were careful to stand in front of the sunflowers (crops are being ruined from people stamping them down trying to get pictures) and to find a field off a side road instead of off the highway.  We found a beautiful field, thanks to a tip from a friend.

Sweet Harper:

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Sarah said...

One of my favorite flowers! My dad grew some of these n a field behind our house one summer...I couldn't believe how big they got!


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New Comiskey Park opened April 18, 1991. The team promised, "New fangled, old-fashioned fun." For a variety of reasons, the park has come in for some criticism. Is that fair? You decide.

Old and New, side by side on September 30, 1990. The last game at Old Comiskey.

The main entrance into the post modern Comiskey is not
for the fans, but for the team's offices.

These massive arched windows reflect passing clouds, but are
not visible to anyone inside the park.  An architectural afterthought,
most of  these windows are hidden behind the switchback ramps which were
inexcusably left outside the park's exterior facade.

The west elevation of New Comiskey looks like nothing but
an ugly parking garage.  The park was originally designed for a site in
suburban Addison back in 1986.  The Old Comiskey "retro" look was never
a consideration until 1988 after funding legislation required the
park be built at 35th and Shields.  Reinsdorf's front office refused
any design revisions which might have delayed the park's 1991 opening.
Gee, $125 million in taxpayer money just doesn't buy you much
clout with Jerry Reinsdorf.

Shields Avenue looking south towards the park.
The Addison-designed park was too big to fit Chicago's
street grid, so they simply terminated Shields at 35th Street.
In Baltimore and Cleveland, the park's quirky design was necessitated by fitting
the ballpark to the site.   New Comiskey was just the opposite.
Reinsdorf's front office had the exact park they wanted shoved into the Chicago
site the politicians required.  Thus New Comiskey's layout is as symmetrical and vanilla
as any new ballpark built in the previous 30 years -- but not a single one since.

New Comiskey's scoreboard backs up to a retirement home.
Could the city planners have ever agreed to permit an
exploding scoreboard be placed so close to a residential building
if someone further up the chain of command was not specifically
forcing them to overlook it?

New Comiskey's scoreboard is bigger than Old Comiskey's but seems much smaller given the new park's expansive bowl. This scoreboard doesn't "loom" like the old one did.
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The infamous upper deck.  This aisle terminates
29 rows up towards the clouds above New Comiskey's
playing field.  Even those who don't suffer vertigo are
left unsettled by the steep incline of the seats.

There are thousands of terrific views inside
New Comiskey.  This one was taken from the Club Level,
the narrow band of seats sandwiched between the park's
two decks of Diamond Suites.

The outfield concourse is a lively area for fans attending
day games.  Fans keep cool with a misting rain room and
Veeck-esque shower head installed in 1998.

Not a single post obscures the fans' view at New Comiskey except
of course the fair poles.  The upper deck seats are hardly any further
away from homeplate as those of any new ballpark -- including the popular "retro" ones
built in Baltimore, Cleveland, and other cities in the  90's.
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concourse and upper deck.  Sandwiched in between is the press box
and Club Level seats.

Here is a view from the upper deck at New Comiskey Park that is not
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This means if you are not in obtaining Vitamin A from the correct sources, your organs, including your skin, will malfunction and you will not be able to achieve optimal skin.

Vitamin D – The Sunshine Vitamin

There is a lot of varying information regarding this all important vitamin (better classified as a hormone rather then a vitamin). What scientists do agree on is that Vitamin D is very necessary for optimal health. Without it, Vitamin A absorption becomes a problem, as well as the absorption of different minerals such as calcium and phosphorus.[3]

Vitamin D can be obtained from sunlight, but this becomes more complicated then just tanning at the beach every now and then. Many different things effect the levels of Vitamin D absorption from the sun [4], and these include:

  • The amount of toxins present in the body, particularly through foods.
  • Latitude and altitude (elevation, i.e. distance from the sun), with the Equator being the highest sun exposure.
  • Cloud cover and pollution
  • The Ozone layer
  • Season and time of day

For this reason, it is highly recommended that you obtain Vitamin D through natural food sources, rather then relying on sunlight.

Elongated Omega-3 Fatty Acids

Omega 3 Fatty acids are equally important as other fatty acids such as omega-6 and fatty acids from other naturally occurring sources such as butter and coconut oil.

Research shows that omega-3 fatty acids reduce inflammation and may help lower risk of chronic diseases [5], acne included.

Americans consume far too much of omega-6 EFAs, found in most polyunsaturated vegetable oils. These EFAs tend to promote inflammation when not in correct balance with Omega 3s.

Natural vs. Synthetic, and it’s Importance

The nutrients in Cod Liver Oil are easy to absorb and super powerful because it comes from a natural source (from the liver of the cod fish). Many supplement companies will attempt to sell Vitamin A, Vitamin D, and Omega 3s in different forms (synthetic) that were produced in a lab. These synthetic nutrients only go so far, and many do not contain the necessary cofactors that promote the absorption of these minerals.

What are Cofactors? Cofactors are easier known as “helper molecules” that assist in biochemical transformations. [6] Many cofactors (the cofactors of Vitamin D, for instance) have not yet been discovered by human science. This is a big reason why synthetically made vitamins will not be absorbed properly, because we do not understand the hundreds of cofactors necessary.

Our only solution is to obtain these nutrients from natural sources, where cofactors are naturally present. When supplementing with any type of vitamin or mineral, make sure to obtain it from naturally occurring sources found in nature!

All Nutrients Work Together

Acne sufferers will often look to one type of supplement (Vitamin A) for example, to end the woes of their acne prone skin. Attempting to supplement with just one of these vital nutrients is an effort in futility, since all nutrients work together. This goes beyond just Vitamin A, D and Omega-3s but also include all minerals and water soluble vitamins. The bottom line is, if your body is deficient in just one type of essential nutrient (meaning, the body cannot produce it on it’s own), other nutrients cannot be absorbed properly, and the effects can be seen on various organs, skin included.

Why Cod Liver Oil is Considered a ‘Superfood’

Cod Liver Oil contains a balanced proportion of all these nutrients and cofactors, in their natural forms. The typical American diet is very low in these particular nutrients, and is an extremely healthy adjunct to any diet.

It is of the utmost importance for any acne sufferer wishing to cure their acne and achieve optimal skin to obtain these nutrients on a daily basis.

Cod Liver Oil is a part of the book Focus: Your Ultimate Guide to Clear Skin, and many have shared improved success with it’s use. Some have even reported good results applying cod liver oil to old acne marks.

There’s more you should know. . .

Cod Liver Oil & it’s relationship to acne only touches the surface of what you should know about this debilitating disease that we’ve all grown to hate. Here at Focus:Acne, we have started an information revolution – where we put all misconceptions aside, and inform the “motivated-to-cure” on the true nature of this disease. Stop buying acne medications, stop visiting the dermatologist, and simply enter your name and e-mail below – it’s time to be inspired and officially put acne in the past…

  1. Cod Liver Oil: The Number One Superfood, Weston A. Price Foundation, June 2002,
  2. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Weston A. Price, DDS, 1945, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
  3. Vitamin Primer, Weston A. Price Foundation, January 200,
  4. Vitamin D – Amount of Sun Exposure Required, Wilder, Bee, July 2010,
  5. Omega-3 fatty acids, University of Maryland,
  6. Cofactors (biochemistry),,

About the Author: George is the head coach behind the scenes, in the Focus:Acne Members Area. He, along with the strong community of former acne sufferers, have helped several people cure their acne, and change their lives for the better.

FOCUS! Your Ultimate Guide to Clear Skin

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Are you ready to throw away those nasty chemical lotions and creams… never pay for another expensive, worthless prescription ever again… and discover the “hushed up” truth about so-called acne cures and the 100% natural secret that’s WAY MORE POWERFUL?

Where can I buy these?

I LOVE cod liver oil for my skin… I recommend it to all my readers!! I actually JUST heard about this Green Pastures fermented cod liver oil…. I’ve been using Carlson brand and it’s quite good, but I gotta get my hands on some of this!

When you refer to cod liver oil and synthetic products I become confused. Is taking a cod liver pill daily considered helpful or is there another way to get cod liver oil?

Like there aren’t already all sorts of synthetic hormones our overworked livers have to deal with, why are the manufacturers calling synthetic vitamins by their standard names?

Why are syntehtic vitamin D posing as as ACTUAL vitamin D? Why are synthetic estrogen calling themselves estrogen? Isn’t that plain and simple false adveritizing? Isn’t it NOT OK if you call the thing chicken meat, it should be REAL chicken meat and should NOT be synthetic amino acid plus recombined chicken bone meal concentrate pretending to be real chicken meat?

Why do we have to work so hard to ensure the vitamin E they now put in our everyday food is not the synthetic vitamin E pretender that is gonna give us cancer one of these saturated liv er xenohormone-overdosed days?

Why are we being so slack about making Pharmaceuticals and Food & Beverage manufacturers CALL A SPADE A SPADE?

Synthetic hormone should be called SYNTHETIC hormones.

What about aspartame ? And trying to banned stevia!??!! Wtf is going on with this country?”?????

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Michael Weber: Random Bits and Pieces

...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list.

Kent M. Pitman

Picture of UM Platter

(with apologies to Drew McDermott)

Although the right people were at the right time in the same room, we did not have time to participate in this year's ICFP Programming Contest. The warm-up task was to implement the Universal Machine (UM), which was then used to run a program which contained the real riddles.

However, a few days later after reading that for speed reasons many participants had abandoned their first VMs (in their languages of choice) in favor of C reimplementations, I spent a train ride (and the subsequent Sunday afternoon) on implementing and benchmarking the UM specification in Common Lisp.

With only fourteen instructions, the interpreter loop is a pretty straight forward transcription from the specification:

  (setf insn (aref program (offset pc))
        opcode (ldb (byte 4 28) insn)
        a (ldb (byte 3 6) insn)
        b (ldb (byte 3 3) insn)
        c (ldb (byte 3 0) insn))
  (incf pc)
  (ecase opcode
    (#x0 (unless (zerop (reg c)) (setf (reg a) (reg b))))
    (#x1 (setf (reg a) (aref (platter-array (reg b)) (offset (reg c)))))
    (#x2 (setf (aref (platter-array (reg a)) (offset (reg b))) (reg c)))
    (#x3 (setf (reg a) (logand #xFFFFFFFF (+ (reg b) (reg c)))))
    (#x4 (setf (reg a) (logand #xFFFFFFFF (* (reg b) (reg c)))))
    (#x5 (setf (reg a) (logand #xFFFFFFFF (truncate (reg b) (reg c)))))
    (#x6 (setf (reg a) (logand #xFFFFFFFF (lognand (reg b) (reg c)))))
    (#x7 (return))
    (#x8 (setf (reg b) (platter-array-allocate (reg c))))
    (#x9 (platter-array-free (reg c)))
    (#xA (write-char (code-char (logand #xff (reg c))))
         (when (= (reg c) #.(char-code #\Newline))
    (#xB (setf (reg c) (handler-case (char-code (read-char))
                         (end-of-file () #xFFFFFFFF))))
    (#xC (when (plusp (reg b))
           (setf program (copy-seq (platter-array (reg b)))))
         (setf pc (reg c)))
    (#xD (setf (reg (ldb (byte 3 25) insn))
               (ldb (byte 25 0) insn)))))

Noteworthy details:

  • With (logand #xFFFFFFFF ...) we make explicit that we implement 32-bit modular arithmetic as per the UM specification. Helpfully, SBCL knows about modular arithmetic, too, and generates efficient machine code for it.
  • (ldb (byte size position) integer) is a nice way to write what you would need bit-fiddling operations for in other languages. Good examples are the decoding of opcode and registers from instructions (see top of the loop) or how byte-order can be swapped in RUN.
  • The really interesting opcodes are the ones dealing with arrays platters (#x1,#x2,#x8,#x9,#xC). When doing some trial runs it becomes obvious fast that in the given UM programs, arrays are allocated and freed extremely often, many of small size.
  • The provided SANDmark benchmark and the actual application (the uncompressed codex) have different requirements to the VM. Just getting SANDmark fast is not necessarily helping for, e.g., the UM's adventure or the QvickBasic Compiler.
  • We are benchmarking GC performance here, as well as code generator quality for tight loops with integer arithmetic.

Trust in Garbage Collection

Frederic Jolliton's UM implementation (also in CL) uses malloc-like memory management for arrays. While I did not go that far, I tried several different schemes (reusing freed arrays instead of allocating new ones, handling small arrays seperately, etc.). All of them had in common that they were not winning at lot over a simple strategy which offloads freeing to CL's Garbage Collector, often they performed even worse. Unsurprisingly, the implementation got a lot shorter too, that way.

I keep a map of UM array indices to CL arrays, and a free list to keep track of reusable indices. The latter is quite crucial to keep the size of the index map down, because arrays are allocated tens of millions of times, but, e.g., less than 50000 array indices are active at any time in the SANDmark benchmark.

For a short time, I toyed with a copy-on-write strategy for arrays for opcode #xC (Load Program), but there was no real gain so this idea was abandoned. Optimizing I/O performance was not done either this time, as it seemed less critical.

I now DECLARE this bazaar open

I was not patient enough to let the UM without any added declarations finish SANDmark. However, just telling SBCL that the parameter to execute, the program, is actually of type (simple-array platter (*)) improves things a lot. From way too slow we get down to acceptable 229.0 seconds.

Next, we declare the array index arrays of type (simple-array t (*)), which brings us down to 174.3 seconds (losing 54.7 seconds).

We can put the compiler into a more aggressive mode with declaration (optimize (speed 3)). Down to 170.9 seconds. We declare some variables of (user) type array-index which also gets rid of some compiler notes, and we are at 165.5 seconds. By declaring (optimize (safety 0)), we allow the compiler to trust us and thus omitting safety checks at run-time (also silencing most of the compiler notes, as they were about fixnum checks), thus finally arriving at 145.2 seconds. A far cry from where we started, and all this with four more lines of declarations.

Finishing Touch

We now get quite nice times:
SANDmark complete.
Evaluation took:
  145.229 seconds of real time
  142.4289 seconds of user run time
  0.568036 seconds of system run time
  0 page faults and
  2,651,641,176 bytes consed.
However, we can still do better. If we examine the generated machine code (SBCL 0.9.13) with DISASSEMBLE, we find that the ECASE statement in the instruction decoding loop is translated poorly:
;      249:       E905040000       JMP L38
;      24E: L9:   83F804           CMP EAX, 4
;      251:       0F846E030000     JEQ L34
;      257:       83F808           CMP EAX, 8
;      25A:       0F8430030000     JEQ L32
;      260:       83F80C           CMP EAX, 12
;      263:       0F8405030000     JEQ L31
;      269:       83F810           CMP EAX, 16
;      26C:       0F84D8020000     JEQ L30
;      272:       83F814           CMP EAX, 20
;      275:       0F84A3020000     JEQ L29
GCC uses all kinds of tricks for large switch statements, like tree partitioning and jump tables. With little macrology, we can partition the case statement similarly:

(defmacro ecase/tree (keyform &body cases)
  (labels ((%case/tree (keyform cases)
             (if (<= (length cases) 4)
                 `(ecase ,keyform ,@cases)
                 (loop for rest-cases on cases
                       repeat (truncate (length cases) 2)
                       collect (first rest-cases) into first-half
                       finally (return `(if (< ,keyform ,(caar rest-cases))
                                            ,(%case/tree keyform first-half)
                                            ,(%case/tree keyform rest-cases)))))))
    (let (($keyform (gensym "CASE/TREE-")))
      `(let ((,$keyform ,keyform))
         ,(%case/tree $keyform (sort (copy-list cases) #'< :key #'first))))))

Using the ECASE/TREE macro improves quality of the generated code somewhat. The performance gain on SANDmark is about 1.2 relative to the original ECASE version:

SANDmark complete.
Evaluation took:
  120.372 seconds of real time
  117.30733 seconds of user run time
  0.680042 seconds of system run time
  0 page faults and
  2,651,634,776 bytes consed.

Running the same program with CMUCL, we get:

SANDmark complete.

; Evaluation took:
;   131.0 seconds of real time
;   126.16389 seconds of user run time
;   3.84424 seconds of system run time
;   208,528,252,530 CPU cycles
;   [Run times include 17.8 seconds GC run time]
;   0 page faults and
;   2,654,874,728 bytes consed.

On a final note, g++ still generates tighter code for the corresponding switch statement, but we are not that far off.

Compared to the (then) fastest C(++) UM implementation I was aware of, this implementation has one third less code, and that with taking ECASE/TREE into account. With my benchmark setup, Li Peng's implementation runs in 104 seconds:

% time ./peng-um sandmark.umz
SANDmark complete.
./peng-um sandmark.umz  102.58s user 0.20s system 98% cpu 1:44.75 total

Execution is about factor 1.15 faster than my implementation in CL. Not bad, and it seems again to support Gabriel's hypothesis that one can get CL programs within twenty percent of the performance of their C counterpart.

Also, Ranjit Mathew reported on using array pointers as indices:

"One of the wicked ideas from the mailing list did help however - using the pointer to an array's memory as its index instead of maintaining an "array of arrays", yielded a 20% boost in the performance of my UM implementation (as measured by SANDmark) but reduced its "portability" to only those machines where both integers and pointers are 32 bits."

The array index trick is not easily transferable to CL, at least not portably across different implementations. Then again, it also precludes running the UM on 32-bit architectures while the CL implementation presented here works fine on 64-bit hardware.

Quo Vadis?

The next step, if UM speed is still not considered sufficient, would probably be to translate UM byte-code directly to Lisp, possibly as a JIT compiler. And indeed, people seem to be going the JIT route. I will save this for another time, though.

Unless noted otherwise, all times are wall clock times and were measured with (time (run #p"sandmark.umz")) from the REPL within SLIME, with SBCL 0.9.13 on a 1.6 GHz Turion64 laptop with 450MB RAM, running Linux 2.6.15. Additional tests were conducted with SBCL 0.9.15, CMUCL 19a, and LispWorks 4.4 Personal Edition.
If anybody manages to get this code fast on OpenMCL, Lispworks, Allegro CL, etc., drop me a line.

UPDATE 2008-10-30: Going Nowhere... Fast

Opcode #xD (Orthography) is somewhat special in that it does not use the common decoding of registers. Initially I thought it is not worth special-casing it but after wondering why another UM implementation was unexpectedly fast, I did some measurements and was proven wrong. Apparently, we can get down times by another 15% when changing the execution loop like this:

(cond ((= opcode #xD) (setf (reg (ldb (byte 3 25) insn))
                            (ldb (byte 25 0) insn)))
      (t (setf a (ldb (byte 3 6) insn)
               b (ldb (byte 3 3) insn)
               c (ldb (byte 3 0) insn))
         (ecase/tree opcode
SANDmark complete.
Evaluation took:
  103.894 seconds of real time
  100.318275 seconds of user run time
  0.712045 seconds of system run time
  0 page faults and
  2,651,630,240 bytes consed.


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Former NACUFS President and College Dining Silver Plate Award winner John Birchfield passed away in late December at age 82. Birchfield, who most recently had been founder and principal of the Birchfield Foodsystems (now Birchfield Jacobs Foodsystems), Inc., foodservice consulting and design firm, was also author of Design and Layout of Foodservice Facilities and served as director of dining services at the University of Tennessee from 1966 to 1973, when he won the Silver Plate for his ...

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Thursday, 10 January 2013

Bonington storms out of charity group over Zip wire decision

Sir Chris Bonington...not so sweet on Kendal based charity group.

Britain's foremost mountaineer, Sir Chris Bonington, sensationally resigned his role as Vice Chair of The Friends of the Lake District, after National Park planners once again, threw out a planning application from the Honister Slate Mine company to construct a zip wire from Black Star- close to the summit of 2.126' Fleetwith Pike-descending 1500' to the mine site at the head of Honister Pass.The original zip line planning application was instigated in 2010 by the then Honister Mine owner, Mark Weir who was tragically killed in the middle of the planning process when his private helicopter crashed close to the Honister Mine.

The controversial proceedings which at the time of the original planning application, were being recorded by filmmakers and broadcast on BBC4's National Park Stories in late 2011- See Something in the air-highlighted an increasingly acrimonious dispute between Mr Weir and his supporters in the tourist and leisure industry, and environmental campaigners. Most notably,The Friends of the Lake District who saw the development as having an adverse effect of the mountain's delicate ecology.

At the original planning enquiry in 2011, the elder statesman of UK mountaineering spoke in favour of the application and was  shown to be visibly perturbed when the application was thrown out. After the latest setback for the Honister mine company which prompted his resignation, Bonington was said to be 'appalled by the arguments put forward by the charity'. He went on to say,"I'm sad for Jan (Wilkinson), the owner of Honister, and all those at the mine that have turned it not just into a great visitor attraction, but something that is informative and educational. "The zip wire would have been something that would have given people a lot of enjoyment and excitement and would have been good for the Lake District as a whole."

Bonington's position in support of the controversial application put the mountaineer at odds with other mountaineering organisations to which he was attached; most notably The British Mountaineering Council who opposed the original plans.

While The Honister company and Sir Chris were condemning the planning decision, The Friends of the Lake District went on record to declare their satisfaction at the result of the process. The charity body put out a statement which read;"We are pleased that the Lake District National Park Authority members agreed that the scale of this proposal in this location was inappropriate and the open fell should remain free from man-made developments, protected for everyone’s benefit "This is the best decision for the Lake District’s wider tourism economy now and in the longer-term. “The decision reaffirms the previous refusal, recognizing that recreational activities reliant on man-made infrastructure and harmful to the landscape should not be allowed in sensitive locations. “Zip-wires and GoApe tree assault courses are best located in forest settings as they are in other parts of the UK.”

Company owner and widow of the late Mark Weir, Jan Wilkinson was bullish after the latest setback,declaring that she was 'just waiting for the paperwork to come through from the authority' before putting in an appeal against the decision.

Chris Bonington who is a long time resident of Hesket Newmarket in Cumbria has since been removed from the Kendal based Friends of the Lake District list of trustees on the charity's website.


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Congressman Randy Forbes announced today that a district field representative from his office will hold open office hours on Thursday, June 6, 2013, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m., in the Main Conference Room of the Smithfield Public Library, 255 James Street.

Diana Williams, Community Outreach Coordinator, will be available to provide assistance with a variety of constituent services and discuss issues facing the region.

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The Big Screen

Grays Harbor Historical Seaport is known for its fine millwork, educational programs, the Lady Washington . . . and creating fabulous Hollywood sets

You may not have heard of the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport, a nonprofit organization, which sits on 214 acres outside Aberdeen, Wash. However, you're probably familiar with Pirates of the Caribbean (the blockbuster Disney movie).

It turns out that the Grays Harbor Historical Seaport had a prominent role in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies--they created a lot of the set dressing, including the masts for Jack Sparrow's (Johnny Depp's) infamous Black Pearl.

Captain Les Bolton, executive director of the nonprofit Historical Seaport, says that the Pirates of the Caribbean project encompasses many important aspects of the nonprofit organization -- specialized milling, historical shipbuilding, and vocational education.

Matt Bale operates the one-of-a-kind 1930s woodworking tracer lathe. The tracer lathe can handle poles 122' long and 44" in diameter.

Rush Job for Hollywood

In 2000, the Historical Seaport made a bid on the Pirates project. Bolton said they bid the job based on using their horizontal band saw. "You can make spars on a horizontal band saw--square it, set your taper, cut it, turn it, cut it, reset it -- but it's a long process and labor intensive. I never heard anything back and assumed they'd found someone else."

When the Seaport finally did hear back, it was a "good news" and "bad news" scenario. The good news was that they had the job. The bad news was that they didn't have enough time to do the sizable project on a horizontal band saw.

Bolton and his team knew that McFarland Cascade owned a giant woodworking tracer lathe from the 30s. It could handle poles up to 122' feet long and 40" in diameter. It had been used heavily for decades but was currently sitting idle in Tacoma.

"We got a hold of McFarland Cascade and worked out a deal with them," says Bolton. "We said, 'We'll buy this machine, but we have to use it in your yard--this week.' It was crazy," says Bolton.

Refurbishing the Lathe

After the set dressings were completed for the first Pirates movie, the tracer lathe gave out, and the Grays Harbor team decided to rebuild it from the ground up.

"It was in bad shape," says Site Manager Kent Wall. "We took every nut and bolt out of this thing, cleaned it up, and reassembled it." They also made a few improvements, like a safety shield and dial indicator.

Although the machine was originally built in the 1930s, the team found the original builder had used some
interesting components, like pieces from a WWI gun turret. Also, some of the railing that came with the tracer lathe dated back to 1881.

Built for Precision

The tracer is equipped with high-speed steel knives. Although the head (known as a beaver) is a 6-knife beaver, McFarland Cascade recommended 3 knives to avoid the machine cutter-head loading up.

"The cutter-head is guided by a 3" x 1" steel rail," says Bolton. "You can set that up to make the shape that you want. Then the machine just follows it."

The 1930s tracer has no computers, so it requires the special touch of operators Kent Wall and Matt Bale.

"The operator has to hear and feel the machine," says Kent. "When you run into knots, you have to know to slow down, and if you run into a large knot, it can actually take the cart off the tracks."

The operators also use the "steady rest" to ensure a great finish. "A real good log resonates," explains Bolton. "Even though the log will stay straight in the machine, those cutter knives, as they are hitting it, tap on it like a little drum. The log will start to tremor, and then you get chatter marks that screw up your finish. So we put steady rests on, and that kind of deadens the hum in that piece."

Site Manager Manager Kent Wall (pictured) says the Grays Harbor Seaport has spars all over the world. This 38' log came from Rochester, Wash., and will eventually become the mast on the Brigantine Fair Jeanne out of Ottawa.

Educational Experience

Once the work was completed for Pirates of the Caribbean I, the tracer was moved to its new home in Aberdeen, Wash., just in time to start on Pirates of the Caribbean II and III.

The Historical Seaport strives to help educate the area's youth, and local students played a big role in creating the complicated movie sets.

"We are an unusual organization in that most of our education is hands-on, vocational, and pre-vocational work," says Bolton. "So as we were building this project, we were working with local high school and junior high school kids. They'd be looking on the wall and seeing a blue print that says ‘Jerry Bruckheimer's Pirates of the Caribbean II and III' and were actually able to work on that project."

Kent adds, "I actually took kids out in the woods and we'd select some of the trees. So they'd get a little forestry school in there too." The logs were brought in, and Kent and the students used a Lucas Mill to remove the sapwood.

It turned out to be an ideal situation. The students not only got hands on experience, they also learned how to safely operate machines, get the most out of the log, and work as a team.

"They also learned to read prints, which is math in disguise," says Bolton. "And when we took them to the movie, you'd hear, 'I know that piece. I made it!'"

Lucas Mill Plays a Leading Role

A new 30 hp Lucas Mill, purchased in 2009, is a vital piece of equipment at the Historic Seaport, removing the sapwood before the log goes onto the tracer. That sapwood is used for a variety of projects -- benches, pens, belaying pins, etc. -- created by both students and volunteers.

"We bought the slabbing attachment, so we can mill trees up to 6' wide and deep," says Bolton. "And we've got a planer head so we can plane that whole surface. Having a mill to square the log [before it goes to the tracer] saves a lot time."

Wall adds, "If we're into a mast or a spar that has any squaring on it and faceting, this is the machine for it."

Even Rejects Have Life

Nothing goes to waste at this mill. Bolton puts it best, "We're like that saying, 'frugal farmers use everything out of the pig except the squeal.'"

Even the reject masts sitting in the parking lot will find a second life,

"We're waiting for Hollywood to buy them and blow them up," says Bolton shaking his head it disbelief.

The mill discovered the value of rejects when they broke some pieces while lifting them with a forklift. It was a frustrating setback for the mill, but Bolton says, "The Hollywood guy perked right up. He said, 'That's great. The art department can fix that. We'll hit it with cannon balls -- it will blow apart.'"

Because battle scenes are built from old, condemned materials, the Historic Seaport is holding on to its rejects. "Right now they're a parking barrier. Down the road--money in the bank."

Historic Future

The organization is looking to move to waterfront in Aberdeen. The 2.5-acre site is better situated, and its rich history, makes it an ideal location. At the turn of the century, it was the home of Lars, Christian Endressen and Treason, Spark and Pole and Company, which made the masts for Kaiser Wilhelm's yacht.

In the meantime, the little Historic Seaport will no doubt continue to grow in notoriety. Not only has Hollywood put them to work, but they've also been asked to mill columns for homes, mill private masts that can range from $3,000 to $30,000, and also to work with museums to create historically accurate maritime pieces.

The Grays Harbor Historical Seaport seems to have an unspoken motto... If it has to do with boats, we can do it!

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Mike Reynolds Logging shows it takes innovation and determination to stay in the business these days

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The #2 and #5 north from East 180th Street to Dyre Avenue wasn’t always a subway. It used to be a full fledged railroad.

The impressive building to the left is the East 180th Street Station in the Bronx that serves the #2 and #5 trains. Why does the East 180th Street station rate such an impressive station?

In the early 1900s, the directors of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (which today is part of Metro-North) wanted to expand their operations into The Bronx, which was only then beginning to shake off its rural reputation and become urbanized. The New York, Westchester and Boston Railroad emerged in 1906, guided by Charles S. Mellen. Mellen’s grand plan was to build a new station in the Bronx to rival the then-overtaxed Grand Central Station. Trains would terminate in The Bronx, and commuters would then transfer to the Bronx subways, which then cost only a nickel. Commuters would save a great deal on fares, since it cost a lot more to take the railroad all the way to Grand Central Station.

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A series of fabulously ornate stations was built along the line, at E. 180th St, Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Gun Hill Road, Baychester Avenue, and Dyre Avenue, at a time when other railroad lines settled for sheds or shacks for their stations.

The detail even was manifested in the designs chiseled in the concrete above station overpasses. The caduceus, symbol of the speedy Roman god Mercury, adorns the overpass (left) at Brady and Matthews Aves. in the Bronx. RIGHT: A fantrip special leaves the Gunhill Road station.

In these photos taken in the 1930s, the NYW&B takes power from the overhead catenary lines. After the conversion to the NYC subway, standard third rail power was introduced.

The master plan failed. Given the choice of higher fares for a one-seat ride to Grand Central, or lower fares for a transfer to the IRT in the Bronx, most commuters chose the former. The line continued to lose money until it finally closed down on December 31st, 1937.

In 1940, New York City bought the BMT and IRT and united them with its own IND subway line. Looking to expand, the city purchased the N.Y.W. & B. tracks for $1.7 million, a bargain, and moved to convert the tracks for subway use. Two of the four tracks were ripped up, BMT signals installed and the line became a shuttle service from 1941 to 1957, when the tracks were connected to the IRT north of the East 180th Street Station. There was finally a one-seat subway ride from the North Bronx to Manhattan!

The East 180th St. station has been converted to a police precinct. There are still N.Y. W.& B touches like the bust of Mercury (above) above the front gate.

Until recently, fares were collected on the train during late nights, just like on an actual railroad. This was discontinued with the MetroCard.

There are only a few vestiges of the N.Y. W & B remaining today. The caduceus (above) is one. Large stations at E. 180th Street and Morris Park, among the few original station houses left in the subway system (there are more on the D line in Brooklyn) are still standing.

Until recently, an MYW&B trestle crossed East Tremont Avenue south of East 180th Street station. It was torn down in September and October 2003 (above).

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    From 2000 until 2004, I was the Zone Superintendent for the Dyre Avenue line. I loved walking around the stations, looking at the artwork and detail work. It’s a shame that New York City Transit covered everything with paint and failed to restore physical deterioration. But, money came first. I can also remember working at the Baychester Avenue station, as a Railroad Clerk, in 1977. I had to “seal up” the booth window and put blocks in the turnstile slots and unlock all entry gates, in closing down the control area for the night. I then boarded the train, meeting clerks from Dyre Avenue, Gun Hill Road, Pelham Parkway and Morris Park stations taking the funds and receipts to 180th Street. We then deposite funds in the safe, at 180th Street. The conductor on that train had a Johnson Fare Box, to collect fares. A police officer stayed with the conductor until the booths reopened in the morning.

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Hi to all,

i would like to get new Arduino GSM running on Arduino Due?
According to documentation, Arduino GSM supposed to work for Uno.

Anybody having experiences with combining Arduino Due and Arduino GSM?

I would like to know before i purchase Due :-)

Thy for any hints, tutorials etc.

Arduino GSM Shield is not supported by the Due.

Adding support for the Due is planned but not as a high priority (it could take many weeks).

thanks a lot for your reply. Pls let us know, when there is a scheduled date for due support.

Are there any updates regarding GSM shield support for DUE. Many weeks have been passed now  :smiley-roll:

is there an existing "code seed" for port or replacement of library GSM, from avr to sam,
which we can start with to help ?

Just wondering if there's any update on GSM Sheild support for the Due?

Any new about this? I bought an Arduino Due and a GSM shield together through the arduino.cc shop, now I figure that the GSM shield is not supported  :smiley-roll: Can I return it or is there a chance its will be supported soon?

The R3 revisión of the Ethernet Shield gained the ability to use the IORef pin, so that it could dynamically opérate at 3.3v...so that revisión became DUE compatible (Electrically)...

Will the Arduino GSM recieve a similar revision?
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I too am interested in this (funny how I encountered  this problem exactly 1 year after the OP).

What I don't get is why exactly is this so hard to port to the Due?  From what I gather, it's just a software serial connection and a reset pin.  Assuming all the GSM library does is send a series of commands to configure and operate the shield, couldn't we just use establish the RX1/TX1 serial connection and send commands manually?  How complicated could it really be to tell it to send a text message, pick up an incoming phone call, or get the PIN?  I don't have any documentation on it so I don't really know where to begin.  Skimming through the source code to the GSM library, I can understand why nobody has bothered to support the Due - it's pretty big.  On the other hand, if this really is as simple as just sending serial messages with some sort of header, that library seems very over-complicated.

While this is a different board, wouldn't something like this be possible:

The heart of the GSM shield-the M10 module-can work at 3.4V thus, more than a matter of voltage tolerance, the bottleneck of porting the GSM library from AVR to SAM is the fact that it was built as a 'state machine' which is a peculiar case given that most of the microcontroller libraries are built with the traditional scheme of a main class as parent of different small classes. This means a great time spend (months not weeks).

Hello everyone, first I will introduce myself: I'm Jorge Garcia from Spain and I'm working in Arduino to try to develop some different solutions to different applications.

I'm working on Due and rigth now I want to add GPRS connectivity to send real time data. So I have doubts how to connect both systems:

HARDWARE: I have read the GSM Shield is not compatible with Due (and it was confirmmed by the Arduino support) but in this forum it was said both can works at 3.3V. Is that correct? If not, can I use the TTL converter SN74LVC254 to connect the GSM shield to the Due?

In the other hand, I can use the Arduino Ethernet Rev3 with pinout 1.0. It should be compatible with the GSM shield working both in 5V TTL signals. But in that case I should have four serial ports in the main Arduino Ethernet: programmer, GSM shield, GPS and external ADC. Using the SowtwareSerial I should add these ports but, Which pin can I use as serial ports?

SOFTWARE: When the hardware issue was solved (using Due or Ethernet), can I use the GSM library or I must to send the AT commands directly? What limitations I will found in both cases?

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Old 02-14-2012, 09:31 AM   #269
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Originally Posted by HiHoBrian View Post
So basicaly this Enco is not worth buying yet because it doesn't do OBD or wifi? What good is Android without wifi? Can't even download angrybirds with out a 3g plan.

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As with the Dynavin, there's also a non-android version. And Dynavin hasn't have support for OBC function until the latest version, still thousands of people own it and are happy with it. So, saying that something isn't worth it just because it lacks two functions (which, obviously more than a few doesn't need) is a bit hard.
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Old 08-06-2012, 03:34 AM   #20
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Yup right away I noticed it. I'm about 400 miles in already.

Slight fuel economy improvement, quieter idle, rpm doesn't bounce back when you're in neutral press the gas hard and let go, definitely more power in the low rpm range. I swear, I don't even push the gas so hard and it can hit 100 like that. Really is worth doing. I'm a believer.
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Old 09-06-2008, 01:03 PM   #13
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Probably will be to busy working on the new M3 that our 330s wont be getting any love

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it all sounds GOOD, but what are the plans for the 330?
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