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Today is our last full day here.  This morning we head to the very touristy shops at the end of the beach to bargain our way to some deals for families and friends back home.

This afternoon, Kurt and I decide it is our time to play around in the waves.  He takes the boogie board to the far left of where we had been the previous few days.  We watch in awe as he catches wave after wave.  By the time he is tired and ready to give up the board, I am eager to try it out.

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Going for a swim (Marissa Jensen)

I go a little closer to the condo so I can help with the little ones if need be.  The sand in the water on this side of the beach is so soft.  My first indication of trouble should have been when I walked into the water and a crab pinched my toe.  I told myself to get over it and tried to catch some waves.  I did catch a few but they were far between.  With every wave that washed over me I could feel debris by my ankles.  Mainly seaweed and sticks.  These felt very weird when they hit my legs and I contimplated putting my boarding skills to rest for the afternoon.  But again I told myself to get over it.

The next wave I pushed off the sand to jump on my board and stepped on something very slimy and squishy.  It really grossed me out.  Thinking it was a sea cucumber and bidding myself to continue to boogie board, I jumped up to catch the wave.  In that instant I felt a sharp pain on the outside edge of my left foot.  It hurt and bad.  At first I thought a crab had clipped a chunk out of my foot.  I started to panic a little.  And then realizing I had to swim to shore with one arm (the other holding the board) and one leg (as my left foot hurt too bad to move it) I really started to panic.  I couldn't yell for help because I knew the waves would drown out the sound.

Finally making it to the beach, I yell for my mom to come help.  "I've been bit by somthing".  When she comes to check it out, I see the blood and I really start to worry.  Kurt makes it to us and heads to the condo to get water and ibprofen.  In the meantime, my mom wraps a towel around the wound to stop the bleeding.  After Kurt arrives, we try to get me out of the sun and in a chair.  I try to hobble my way to the chairs and am not able.  Finally he carries me and we decide to go to the condo to take a better look.

The condo managers start to be concerned when they see Kurt carry me off the beach.  When they see my foot they tell us in Spanglish, I have been stung by a Manta Ray and I need to go to the emergency room.  That is when my true panic sets in.  'This is serious enough to require medical attention is my first thought' and then 'what will an ER in Mexico look like'.

Kurt rushes to get us clothes, passport and some money before we have a very diligent taxi driver rush us to the hospital.  I am trying to go to my happy place but my happy place is the beach and that only makes me think about the sting and the excrutiating pain I am in.

At the ER, they wheel me away while Kurt takes care of the paperwork.  I am so thankful I know Spanish but wishing I knew more medical terms.  The doctor speaks good English and she explains the only treatment is very hot water and pain reliever.  The pain is so bad I just want her to knock me out.  But when she sticks my foot in the hot water it does start to feel better.

When Kurt makes it back, it is his duty to re-fill the water.  He is doing so every 3-5 minutes.  As soon as the water even starts to cool I am in pain again.  It takes an hour or so and when I am still crying, the doctor decides to give me an IV of what we manage to understand is like morphine.  And that does it.  We make it back to the condo around 7 that evening and I am done for.

The kids are so excited to see me as I could tell they were worried.  My mom as well not knowing what to expect and being solely responsible for our kids in a foreign country has spooked her for sure.

After I am better, we research how and why sting rays sting.  Usually the only time they strike is when they are stepped on.  They strike over their heads so I was in the perfect position for the Manta Ray to get me.

The main treatment is to put the wound in very hot water and to let it bleed as both draw out poison.  It is also a good idea to have a medical professional check for the stinger and have it removed.  The stinger is barbed it is not recommended to remove it yourself as you can cause tissue damage.

It is also recommmend to shuffle your feet in the sand!

While my last day in Puerto Vallarta was not the best, the entire week of sand, sun, ocean, food and family has made up for it.  I love Puerto Vallarta and can't wait to return again!

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How Society's Notion of Manhood Leads to Murder

How Society's Notion of Manhood Leads to Murder

When gay novelist David McConnell began exploring violence against gay men for his first nonfiction book, American Honor Killings: Desire and Rage Among Men (Akashic Books, $11.96), he had no idea he’d end up looking at the issue from the side of the perpetrators, exploring the intersections of violence, sexuality, and hatred with the killers themselves. In a culture where artists and celebs and everyday LGBT folks talk of being bullied but never of being the bully, McConnell’s exposé challenges us to acknowledge the natural impulse to violence that rests in everyone. American Honor Killings hit bookshelves just as a series of (seemingly unrelated) murders of gay men in New York City brought out politicians and activists to warn of the dangers of homophobia, but McConnell says that take on crime is simple and misguided. In his book, he says, he wanted to “shake up what’s become a formulaic story and show that if there is a cause it lies in the killers more than in the victims.”

The Advocate: It’s hard not to think of the recent murders in New York while reading your book. What did you learn during your investigations that you could apply to those cases?
David McConnell: I wrote about cases in which the victim was gay or thought to be gay. That was what got me interested on a personal level. But as I studied the murders I came to think we shouldn’t be categorizing these crimes based on the identity of the victims. The problem is larger and deeper. It begins with the impulse to violence itself. I think the gay issue is a great lens through which we can look at all violence among men. It helps us understand the psychology of the people involved. But what goes on in the hate murder of a gay man, for example, isn’t really so different from school shootings, racist attacks, and to an extent, even violence against women. I don’t want to take anything away from certain victims or deny that they’re all preyed upon for their perceived weakness or marginality, but it’s important to look at the source. It’s our society’s notion of manhood.

One thing you explore is how desire and anger can coexist, as it does with more than one of the killers you talked to. Did that surprise you?
I’ve always been comfortable with emotional paradox, so no, not really. I think I was more shocked and upset by the cases where intense emotions weren’t involved. In other words, where an idea of what was right — that gay people didn’t deserve to exist — could lead to murder. The killers were clearly disturbed, but those particular crimes had a political inflection. We don’t like to think about that in this country. I find it much scarier.

You have a theory that the “hate” is there often before the target of that hate, and certainly before the actual victim. Do you feel like that’s something that’s commonly understood when we look at murders of gay or bisexual men?
No. We’ve come to rely so heavily on the terms of identity politics that we miss all sorts of issues that aren’t particularly our own. We don’t want to engage with straight men or damaged men or violent men until it’s too late, until it’s time for punishment or retribution.

When the media talks about hate crimes, you don’t think they get it right. Why?
I guess one problem I’d point to is emotionalism. Americans like their politics and their news to have a lot of feeling. We want our president to bite his lip and our Twitter feed to scream, “I hope he rots in hell #pigbasketballcoach.” People complain about civility and sound-bite culture, but not many notice that it’s the emotion that’s so corrosive. What do you expect from a culture that treats scientists like villains? Hate crimes are prime territory for extreme emotions, understandably. Emotions like that thrive on certainty. I wanted people to stop and think and even get a little confused about the issue. In this case I think a certain kind of confusion would lead to better understanding.

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You ever wonder if someone really hates you? Take for example we spent all day saturday cleaning up the yard removing all the dead branches cutting the grass and other yard type things. Everything looks real nice and trimed just right so, what does it do the next day? Severe thunderstorms, tornado watches/warnings and dump a new load of junk to clean up. If I didn't like trees so much I'd cut the lot down. As it is some of the bigger pine trees close to the house have to go. The icestorms down here like to know em down and I'd rather not have a huge pine tree falling through the roof wake me up one morning/night.

Exciting events today..

Bought a house. (eek! now I'm broke) Now comes moving, bleh. Lets see 2 cats, 10 computers, 2 phone lines, ISDN line, and all the other fun stuff... Looks like it may be bread and water for the first few months till I fund all of this... People keep telling me its worth it, I sure hope so...

Looks like its time to start shopping around for some replacement scsi drives as the ones in tweetie are getting progressivly louder and I fear that when I go to move tweetie to the new house the drives will not survive. A well its been a good 5 years with those drives and I shall miss them when they die..
Let me tell you one thing... Buying a house is a royal pain.. The most painless part (believe it or not) is/was getting the loan, that took all of about 1 1/2 hours. Looking for a house, making an offer, doing the counter offer, doing the inspection, getting insurance and on and on is about to drive me batty..

Well after some time a 'lost' member of the gxsnmp team re-appeared today, lets hope this trend continues.

Meanwhile Larry has been a code writing maniac. There is a ton of stuff I need to comb through and get cleaned up and building in a nice clean/warning free way.

I suppose I should start looking into getting a clone, but I don't know if the world is ready for that :)

Ahh time for vaction.. do the family thing and all that jazz.. One benifit no work.. I can deal with that...

Well been a few days since an entry so here goes. I got the infamous 'letter' from the Deutsche Bank / Alex Brown people about the directed stock offer thingy. So naturally I went ahead opened the account. Then I get an email from them stating that I had the wrong account number and the correct on should be on its way. Some how or another the message telling me the corrected number arrived before the message telling me the incorrect number. Couple of emails/phone calls later got this sorted out.

Pricing day comes. No word from them, read an article on slashdot (i think) something about the range increasing blah blah blah. Get a mail telling me that I will be contacted tomrrow afternoon or I may call to confirm the price. So I go ahead and call, get informed I can get 40 more shares then the original 100. Did I want to do that. Sure, its only money. The lady I spoke to couldn't confirm the price but could confirm my allocation so I did. Next day rolls around I can in am to confirm the price. Yep it priced at $30.00 please remit $4200.00. Off to the bank I go to wire said funds to the broker.

I come home, get a message to call a friend of mine, so I call him, he informes me that lnux is trading at 300+ so that turned into a happy day. Now the paper work starts trickling in from all this madness. Lets hope in one of them is the check for the shares I sold. :)

Lots of fun on irc today watching a potential war start *sigh* some people are just to excitable. Further proof did surface during all this that good ole Nat is a diplomat as well as a pointy haired type :)

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A Rhapsody In Warsaw

DjangoCon and I have a long history. The very first DjangoCon, back in 2008, was also my very first conference - and I've achieved the slightly dubious honour of having attended every single one.

They are not, of course, the only conferences that I go to; these days I try to speak at a variety of events. I've seen a lot of venues and they're all variations on a theme. That theme, of course, is large rooms full of chairs.

DjangoCon EU 2013, hosted last week in Warsaw, bucked that trend and was probably the best yet - and that's not something I say lightly. Ola Sitarska and the rest of her team went for an inspired gamble that really paid off.

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When I first heard of the plans to host this year's DjangoCon EU in a circus tent, I was a little sceptical - after all, conference venues have evolved over many decades to serve the many needs of a large-scale event. Seating, airflow, power, networking, A/V, catering and toilets are all needs of a modern conference population.

The end result, however, was impressive. The circus tent had been outfitted with power, WiFi, lighting, a stage, projectors, audio and even chillers full of drinks, and beats many indoor venues I've spoken in. One entire side of the tent was open to the outside, providing easy airflow and access without making the inside too bright.

There were a couple of small niggles - the flight path of the nearby airport had changed the week before, meaning planes would occasionally interrupt talks, there wasn't quite enough toilet capacity at peak times, and WiFi was sluggish - which is normal for tech conferences. These were all outweighed by the positives, though - and what positives there were.

One of my tweets describes the conference as "like a music festival", which gives some idea of the wonderful attitude everyone had. Hammocks, deckchairs and bean bags were some of the seating options, there was a plentiful supply of free popcorn, and in between talks you could wander down to the fountain, relax on picnic blankets under the trees or dip into an entire freezer of ice cream.

Everyone was in a very good mood, and very relaxed. DjangoCon has always gone for a laid back approach, and here it worked incredibly well. I mostly come to DjangoCon to socialise and meet new people, rather than to learn from the talks, and in that environment it worked very well.

Danny's handstand lessons are almost a DjangoCon staple. From

I'd like to highlight the catering in particular - it makes such a difference to have snacks and drinks available throughout the day rather than at set times. It was possible at any point in the afternoon to go and get some ice cream, fruit juice or even one of the sandwiches from breakfast.

Not only that, but the catering during the sprints wasn't the usual case of just ordering pizza or sandwiches for everyone - there were proper hot meals, with desserts. Portion size suffered a little since the sprints were so popular, but it was still very tasty, and I'm pleased to see healthier food at a sprint event.

As a speaker, the slick execution of this conference began before I even arrived. As DjangoCon is a community-run conference, staffed entirely by volunteers, speakers are generally expected to pay their own way, sometimes including some of the ticket price. This time, however, not only was admission free but the organisers picked us up from the airport and sorted out the hotel.

Of course, it's not that unusual for a conference to do this at all - I've experienced it many times before - but to do it while still keeping the prices low was impressive, and Ola and her team did it well, keeping us up to date and taking feedback into account very quickly.

One thing I wish more conferences did for their speakers is providing a local SIM card with data - this is especially useful in non-English-speaking countries, where getting one can be tricky. DjangoCon provided one right in the welcome basket, and I used it all week - a data connection is invaluable for navigating a foreign city.

Approaching the circus through the trees

I continue to be really impressed by the way the Django community evolves each year. DjangoCon EU itself gets more impressive every year - and previous years have set a high standard indeed.

Conferences are a very important part of bringing a community together and fostering the cohesion that really helps keep a project like Django going. I'm so glad that DjangoCon exists, and that each one helps push forward projects both old and new. It's somewhat unfortunate that the tech scene is mostly governed by who you know, rather than what, but events like these offer a way to improve both at once.

I'm also amazed how each year another group of volunteers tirelessly steps up to host, and this year was no different - a team of French volunteers stepped up to host it in the French Rivera next year. I can't wait - I wish them the best of luck.

I have many friends who I only ever see at conferences, and so the return of conference season each year is always a delight. It's a privilege to be able to attend and enjoy all these events each year, and to the organisers - not only of DjangoCon EU but all similar events - I'd like to say one thing: dziękuję!


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On September 29, the long since rumoured RAF Coningsby nightshoot finally materialised, with 50 photographers provided with rare access onto the base. The evening promised the chance to shoot not only the front line Tornados and Typhoons based at Coningsby, but also some of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight airframes, all of which were in varying lighting conditions, with the shoot running from between sunset and darkness. Importantly, a bacon roll was included! Harry Measures reports from Lincolnshire, bacon roll and camera in hand.

The obvious benchmark against which to assess this event was always going to be the RAF Northolt Nightshoot events run by Philip Dawe. In reality, it transpired the two events could not be more different – the first of those differences was the queue to get on base! Being limited to only 50 persons meant that the event sold out very quickly, along with some initial confusion as to who had actually secured a place. Those who were allocated places were sent individual laminated tickets via post – a nice touch in today’s era of “print your own” tickets.

Once through the ID check we were allocated into groups of around ten before a brief was given. Despite being in groups there was no set timetable, so the groups were free to move at their own pace, with the group members electing which airframes to photograph. This seemed fine, until each group moved onto the pan and split up with a starburst effect – some wandering through the backgrounds of others shots! This group approach may gave work better in future if the group leaders were more authoritarian and had a set & prearranged timetable to stick to, allowing say 10 minutes at each particular ‘set-up’ before rotating all the groups together. The reason for the group method, as far as could be seen, was because there was no line for photographers to stand behind unlike Northolt, and with the pan being quite a large area it would be very easy to lose track people if left to their own devices.

The aircraft that were available on the night were the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) Spitfire Mk.XVI and Mk.V together with the Dakota C.3 against the fence outside of their hangar. The E-3D Sentrys that are currently ‘boltholing’ from Waddington during runway work there were on their allocated pan while Spitfire Mk.IIa P3750 sat flanked by two 12 Squadron Tornado GR.4s – one of which was the newly decorated centenary special tail. Further down the line, the Syncro pair Typhoon FGR.4, wearing its camouflage scheme, was grouped with Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIc PZ835 and 29 Squadron’s centenary jet. A tooled up Typhoon FGR.4 sat in one of the EFASS (Expeditionary Forces Aircraft Shelter System) hangars with a line of operational jets, including the 41 Squadron special just outside.

It should be noted that there were essentially no boundaries around the aircraft, as with Northolt. You were free (within reason, and as part of your group) to walk around the aircraft and get as close as you wanted to – hopefully without getting in anyones shot.

Our group initially bypassed the line up of BBMF airframes, stopping briefly at the Sentrys, before cracking on with the Tornados. Thankfully, the weather had cooperated & the sunset made for a great backdrop with deep blues and oranges on the horizon, especially once we moved to the line of operational jets. Our group even managed to somehow steal a set of steps from the engineers, which was an added bonus! Once most of the useful natural light had faded away, we regrouped en masse at the burger van, which gave time supposedly to set the lights up for the nightshoot element of the evening. While it was a nice touch to include food & drink, I’m not sure it was the best use of time to have a “set” break – many may have preferred more time shooting, but this is obviously a restriction of the group method.

Once we were all fed and watered, our group moved to the Expeditionary Forces Aircraft Shelter System hangar. Probably the most unique, but also under-utilised part of the shoot – it would have been great to see a cameo posing pilot with the jet, canopy up and lights on. Even using push in intake blanks on this jet would have been great, but instead it had the bag-type draped over it. We didn’t have a great deal of time to shoot it regardless, as word came through that the 12 Squadron centenary Tornado was to be towed away for maintenance, so our group moved over to shoot it. By the time we had a chance to return, the lights in the EFASS hangar had been turned off.

While we had been shooting the Tornado, the 41 Squadron Typhoon had been floodlit, but sadly, it was to be the next victim of the tug, being removed from the line not long after being illuminated. One cannot criticise too heavily on this, being that they are operational jets on a frontline base, however, as they were two of the star items in the line up perhaps an extra thirty minutes wouldn’t have gone amiss. The next airframes to be the subject of attention was the ‘Hurriphoon’ & Hurricane, with the pan being wet down by the station fire service at the request of the photographers.

The final airframe to be floodlit was the 29 Squadron display Typhoon, after which the photographers were escorted off base, briefly stopping at the BBMF hangar on the way out for some last minute photos. It would have been good to have an engine run from one of the BBMF airframes, perhaps going forward this would be a possibility. As with RAF Northolt events, many would certainly not object to a slight raise in cost (provided the group size stays small) to cover it, or indeed foregoing the bacon butty.

For a first event, the only response can be to praise the organisers and all of the team present – they were very attentive to all requests, and where possible acted on them to achieve a better photographic outcome. All the RAF personnel helping with the event were a credit to Coningsby indeed, and went out of their way to ensure a good experience.

That said, with any event of this type several things could be addressed for future events. For example the ladders left in front of one of the Tornados completely missed the point of a photocall, and the airbridge seemed to be positioned in the middle of nowhere. It should also be mentioned that by the time we had got on base and had been briefed, most of the sunset had passed – even being in half an hour earlier would have made all the difference or a week earlier in the year to give a slightly later sunset.

The team at Coningsby were constantly asking for feedback on how to improve, so there is no doubt that as more of the events happen, niggles such as those mentioned will disappear. It has the making to be a fantastic event, with unrivalled access to a frontline RAF base & aircraft. The only question left is one of participation – moving forward, what will these events attract?

AeroResource would like to thank everyone involved in the planning & delivery of the night, and very much hope to be back out on the pan at Coningsby next year.


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Enter Simplicity 1654 Fitting Muslin

First things first. I did rub-off a pattern for my Garnet Hill inspired dress. I then proceeded to cut out fabric, sew it up and even though the dress itself will work, the color scheme looks really really drab and sad on me. So I've put this project off to the side for now until I have the wherewithall to possibly toss it and start anew. This is life. Onwards and upwards.

I've really just wanted to sew some dresses is the thing. This is a weird thing for me because well, I'm such a practical person these days. But a dress can be practical. Especially with a white stretch cotton blazer - which is the project directly next after this dress. Yes! So I went to my stash and dug out this Simplicity 1654 pattern. I had actually forgotten how much I love Simplicity patterns. Of the Big 4, this line fits me the best straight from the envelope (note I said fits me the best, we still have a few fitting problems, just not as many as the other Big 4). I find that with McCalls, Butterick and Vogue the armholes are cut so low! Is that just me? So it was nice not to have to deal with that for a change.

This pattern has some great design lines. The bodice is just killer! And since I know that a skirt like that will require little to no fitting, I muslined the bodice to see where we were at. The fit was actually quite good through the bust and waist, but the straps were trying to fall off my shoulders. And its not that they were too wide/far apart, it was the angle at which they were sitting on the body. So I thought I would show you what I did to fix it. I pinched out the excess pooling that was happening when I put the straps where I wanted them to be. That pooling happened at an angle at the bust and shoulder blade. See?

How do you fix that on a the pattern piece. It's the same idea really. I measured how much I pinched out, then slashed and overlapped that amount in those areas of the bodice that I pinched out with pins on the muslin. It's not a hard fix by any means, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that its intuitive. This is something that I'm always amazed by, but when fitting, many times the part that needs fixing is not the part that we intuitively feel needs the fix. Just some random fitting thoughts.

I've settled on an aqua linen to make this up in. I'm actually nearly finished with the dress itself, so here's a sneak peek.

Now off to line and hem the thing. And then to focus on a white stretch cotton jacket. Yay!

  1. Yay! I just chose this for a summer dress. so please document ALL of your progress! Hahahaha!

    Can't wait to see it!

  2. Sunni, just to tell you it´s not just you having a problem with Big 4 armholes! You should switch to European patterns they are so much better. Just have a look at this shirt pattern muslin I just made It´s without any armhole alteration.

  3. Great job, Sunni! I wonder if a small bust adjustment would also do the trick?

  4. Ooh that's a beautiful blue! Looking forward to seeing the whole thing. I think dresses can be practical, too. And I've never really felt that way until this year. They felt bulky, or awkward, or somehow not appropriate for X, Y, Z situation. Then I realized it was the *fit* not the fact that it was a *dress* itself per se, that was the crux of the issue for me. Ill-fitting, poor fabric choice for how I like to wear things, etc. Now that I'm getting past all that, I seriously feel like sewing about a million dresses. Throw it on and you're done. How could that not be practical, I'm not seeing!

    Ironically I just picked up a blazer on mega sale at Gap and my first thought was "ooh! perfect to throw on over a dress!" Looking forward to your stretch cotton blazer, too.

  5. That is a beautiful blue! Is it finished yet! Can I see it?

  6. i don't remember seeing this pattern before, but i love the seaming! thanks for the fitting tips. since i always have to do a SBA, i tend to shy away from too many seams. can't wait to see this one finished!

  7. I too have the same problem with the armholes being cut too low on McCalls! Haven't noticed this on Butterick or Vogue yet, but I'll be on the lookout. I've only ever tried a skirt from Simplicity, but I'd like to try other patterns from my stash. Anyway, you do such a great job with fitting! Looking forward to seeing the finished dress (with jacket!).

  8. Sunni, I always have the shoulder seams falling off my abnormally narrow shoulders! I love the way you remedied this on this dress. I have the dress pattern and am going to do what you did to make the shoulders fit me. I usually have to make a size smaller in the neck and shoulders, then go out to my normal size at the bust, waist, and hips. In this particular dress, your fix is super! Thanks for the clips! They are priceless for not so good sewers like me!!! Doris

  9. I often successfully remedy the shoulder problem by having my shoulders slope/size traced on a large poster board and then comparing the pattern to the slope and size of my actual shoulders before cutting. I have very small shoulders and back in comparison to the rest of me, especially the bust. However, I believe some version of this would also be helpful for me, as I still end up with some extra fabric at the top of the chest area sometimes....

  10. […] the Simplicity 1654 finale! Ha ha! Since I already had this white leather jacket that I made and never blogged from […]

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Strainer Bell - A "Bell Less" Option

This second post on same topic to include diagram.

Not exactly Bell Less but made this siphon without its normal 80 mm bell. Its getting difficult to source the 80 mm end cap so I decided to try using the outer strainer as the bell itself.

Diagram below illustrate this siphon.

Nothing special just that the inner bell is removed and the vent cowl is replace with an end cap. This will make the siphon cheaper by a few ringgit and less components to worry about.

This siphon need to be tested against root growth.

Strainer bell can be of smaller diameter but this size was chosen on all my siphon due to ease of cleaning, that is the only reason.

Completed Strainer Bell Siphon above, that holes on the bottom needs to be of smaller size, this is using 10 mm drill. The bottom end cap will need to be drilled too making water drainage better.

As previous post, water cut off occur at top rows of drilled holes, in this set up there is about 1.5 inches of water left upon cut out.

Newer sample above with single row of drain holes, this from my latest growbed : Here that I'm testing that will drain really low.

This is for Subang Jaya Installation

This is for installation in Subang Jaya to modified the siphon outlet due there is too much inflow.

1. Either make a restriction like this below :

2. Try adding an elbow with a short 3 inches of 25 mm PVC with final horizontal incline towards fish tank. No other changes to existing pipe just add to make an incline with second elbow as below.

Please try ... the pump used was slightly higher capacity, since 2 growbed involve, and unbalance will cause the other growbed to receive more that its fair share of the inflow.

Kuchai Or Not To Kuchai - Part 4

If your second attempt don't succeed... try a third time ... :)

Previous seed I ordered online and it didn't germinate ... tried cutting, it turn to compost. These I bought at the local supermarket and give it another go.

Sown few seeds today, the whole packet actually... hoping when I'm back from Borneo it miraculously sprouted.

BTW yes ... on my last post : Here its wild weed... :(

4th Growbed Done - That's The Limit For My Setup

Haul another 200 liter (4 bag) of hydroton to complete my last growbed in this current setting. Fish tank is at its maximum growbed ratio, I'll need to convert to CHOPS if additional growbed needed or if this current tank can't cope with the demand.

Note : Power consumption calculation is at bottom of page, based on average Malaysian Electricity Tariff.

This growbed I am testing that "Strainer Bell" type of siphon, which can be imediately converted to my normal bell siphon with addition of a bell and removal of the white end cap.

I made 4 rows of holes just like normal strainer that I use, with slight different in the pitch of the rows making it tighter.

Completed siphon above, this siphon will cut off water once the first top row is reached. I put an outer mesh due to hydorton but forgotten to snap the actual picture. Below picture of previous installation which is very similar.

Water I'm using a single pump at the moment which feed all four growbed using simple divider pipe, no rocket science there just adjust the incline to restrict and roughly divide water by four. Photo below is the actual pump, this was during previous installation where its just a two growbed division.

Pump Rating below, this pump is almost 5 years old today.

Simple "Tee" that branch to left and right feeding four growbed.

Below is the right side.

I will put another pump and made same feed on the opposite side of the growbed, a single pump is sufficient, but I am putting two so that if a failure of one pump the entire setup will still function without problem.

Overview photo above and below, space required for this setup is 3.5 ft x 10 ft so approximately 35 sq ft.

Siphon operation tested with this single pump configuration, it works without problem. Now I can concentrate on planting.

What it cost to operate electrically

Cost for operating this setup with one pump is as below :

Water Pump : 29 watt @ 14 hours/day - 1 pump
Aeration Pump : 3 watt @ 24 hours/day - 1 pump

Total Power Consumption 1 day : (29 x 14) + (3 x 24) = 478 watt hour/day

Total Power Consumption 1 month : 478 x 30 = 14340.00 watt hour (14.34 kwh)

Electricity cost : 14.34 kwh x 0.25 = RM 3.58 ( USD 1.20 approx) per month.

My setup electricity consumption with two pump as follows :

Water Pump : 29 watt @ 14 hours/day - 2 pump
Aeration Pump : 3 watt @ 24 hours/day 1 - Pump

Total Power Consumption 1 day : (29 x 2 x 14) + (3 x 24) =  884 watt hour/day

Total Power Consumption 1 month : 884 x 30 = 26520.00 watt hour (26.52 kwh)

Electricity cost : 26.52 kwh x 0.25 = RM 6.63 ( USD 2.20 approx) per month.

Malaysian Electricity Tariff : Here

Strainer Bell - Back To The Roots

My final growbed almost ready, lately getting a bit difficult to get the 80 mm end cap. While waiting for it, decide to try using the outer strainer itself as a bell.

This strainer is the type that I use that extra end cap inverted to form a holder, as in this posting  making it easier to try out various style for a strainer.

For trying out, this strainer I only made 2 row of holes instead the usual 4 or 5, this to ensure water level will be low. Siphon cut off will occur once it reaches the first top row of holes.

Above looking from top, without usual inner bell and below with the flat 110 mm UPVC endcap.

It works, and siphon cut off will be at the highest row of holes leaving almost slightly more than an inch of water. With just two row of holes I'm not sure how will it stand against root growth and clogging, normal it will be 4 rows minimum but this will makes water in growbed to be about 2.5 ~ 3 inches at siphon cut off.

Trying out on earlier growbed, remove the inner bell and capped the strainer. It work no problem but this strainer has 4 row of holes so water is higher.

This can be use if shortage of parts or to reduce cost of making one siphon, but it need to be tested against roots growth etc.

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Something is germinating, too soon to shout for joy.. but it does looks like something.

Too tiny to make out what is it, all looks the same. Hope its not some wild seeds blown by the wind, let see for few more days whether is a Kuchai plant or a wild grass.

Final Growbed Racking Done

Made another Rack today and this growbed need to be done before Friday. Will not be around this this weekend and I'll be away to Borneo for a week next Tuesday and another trip late March.

Four growbed in total, this will be the extreme amount for that size fish tank. If its running low I will need to add a CHOPS components to this setup.

26th Feb Update

26th Feb 2013 Update..

Kailan transplanted to hydroton growbed.

Okra few plants on this gravel bed, okra is a tall plant best to be on gravel for support.

Other plants cuttings starting to take root, that rosemary in the back looks good, I have no idea whether its already take root.

Few more seedling left in this sowing tray, wait another week before I transplant these few.

Midday sun very hot, I un-siphon the growbed to ensure high water preventing the new seedling from drying. Will leave it this way till late afternoon.

Hydroton Growbed - Part II

Top up additional bag of Hydroton today, so that makes it 4 bag for this growbed. RM 280.00 in total, its quite a sum to pay for a 3 x 2 grow area.

Looks good, let see in few more months how its doing on my setup. Now I'm letting it mature for the next 6 to 8 weeks. Will do simple plants first before it fully matured.

Equatorial Lowland Strawberry Project- Ride for Highland Strawberry

Going up mountain today for Strawberry and have fun on the twisties too.

Google Map : 4.583521,101.403245 there are many more in this area its about 45 km of great twisties up mountain.

Video of Strawberry Farm in Cameron Highland below, apologize for those that don't find motorcycle ride interesting, just putting some spice to a flat Aquaponics Video.

Took home one and in it goes into the growbed, I doubt it will survive the low land heat.

Everything you need to know about Strawberries : Here

Pebbles & Hydroton Comparo

This only comparison on price factor between Hydroton and Pebbles on my 3 ft Growbed the only different is the racking required.

Hydroton which is lighter will not need an expensive rack, while Pebbles do need it. I may try Pebbles on lighter rack later.

Below are items needed and it price.

Hydroton : 4 Bags @ RM 70 per bag so its RM 280.00 for a growbed
Racking : Sloted Angled Iron @ RM 70.00 (exclude man hour)
Total Cost : RM 350.00 per Growbed

Pebbles : 10 Bags @ 8.00 (Average price) so its RM 80.00
Racking : Custom Made @ RM 250.00 each (Average price)
Total Cost : RM 330.00 per Growbed

Price different is not that much, however if lower grade pebbles are use than the price would be around RM 6.00 per bag

If racking for Pebbles can be made of Slotted Angled Iron then it could be reduce in price more, than it would be much significant.

Using Hydroton the total price per growbed is around : RM 350.00 excluding other common item and Pebbles growbed will cost about RM 130.00 ~ RM 330.00 depending on racking and grade of pebbles.

Pros and Cons of Hydroton

  1. Light Weight
  2. Ph Neutral - This is one important factor.

  1. Expensive
  2. Limited retailer selling it
Pros and Cons of Pebbles

  1. Cheap
  2. Easy to get

  1. Heavy
  2. Ph on the high side - This is bad.
I will compare after few months how Hydroton holds up to Pebbles.

Update 21 July 2015

Without doubt hydroton is much better to be use in Aquaponics due to its neutral Ph and light weight. It is very easy to work with making the process of setting growbed much easier.

Pebbles, due to its heavier weight makes redoing growbed or setting up very tiring. The racking for pebbles are expensive offsetting the cheaper price of pebbles.

Currently I am trying to reduce on the amount of hydroton requires for setting aquaponics set by using Potted Media Base Flood And Drain NFT Hybrid. It is still in its trial phase and whether it is successful or otherwise only after few months of trial will tell.

Hydroton Growbed - My 1st Attemp

Another Growbed in the process of completion, this time I use Hydroton (LECA) to try out. I'll calculate the costing in comparison to stones or pebbles later : Here

 This time I use a strainer holder made of 110 mm PVC pipe endcap, compare to gluing strainer direct a strainer holder is easier to work with. However water remaining after siphon cut off will be half an inch more than the direct glued on.

Two gasket are used one on each side of this holder to prevent leak and please take note that this gasket at bottom try to use a thicker rubber due to sometimes the growbed tub is uneven and cause a leak.

 Above holder and stand pipe in place.

Water inlet I tap from existing pump, making it feed three growbed. No problem since this pump I am using has excess capacity.

Those Hydroton (LECA) are smaller in size, so my 10 mm holes strainer not able to handle it properly. A quickie additional strainer made of plastic netting fixed the problem.

Three bags of LECA is not enough, I'll get another bag. So 4 bag of LECA needed for each of my growbed.

Under Growbed plumbing, I don't have enough 25 mm PVC that the reason for stepping up to 40 mm. I need to change that to all the way 25 mm.

Murphy's Law of Aquaponics

No. 1 : If you drop something it will always be into somewhere that you can't get to it.


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Rio Tinto’s decision to forge ahead with $US6 billion ($6.1 billion) in iron ore projects in Western Australia marks a critical turning point for the economy and sends a strong signal about corporate confidence in China’s medium to long-term growth.

The decision to give the green light to the largest single mining investment in Australian history is the first of several that will come up on the radar of the Reserve Bank of Australia as it assesses inflationary pressures caused by the tightening in what it calls “resource utilisation".

The central bank is already well plugged into the WA economy through its Perth liaison officer, whose job is to keep a finger on the pulse of the resource industry and provide a perspective that is independent of the data coming out of the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

WA is at the forefront of the bank’s analysis of the economy because it will account for the lion’s share of the expected $60 billion in capital investment in the year to June 2011, up about 75 per cent on the previous year. WA will be at the core of Australia’s growth over the next few years and its resource projects could be a potential source of inflationary pressure.

Rio is moving to expand its iron ore operations against a background of constrained short-term supply in China, according to Jim Lennon at Macquarie Bank. However, its expansion comes at the same time as its two largest rivals, BHP Billiton and Brazilian miner Vale, ramp up their expansion projects.

Also, the macro-economic environment is changing rapidly. China’s central bank yesterday lifted lending rates for the first time in three years. The benchmark lending rate rose by 25 basis points to 5.56 per cent.

The rate rise contributed to the sharp sell-off in Asian markets yesterday but it should be seen as a positive because there needed to be a withdrawal of stimulus. The Xinhua news agency quoted an analyst as saying the rate rise was in anticipation of the impending release of third-quarter growth statistics.

China cut its benchmark interest rates four times in the wake of the financial crisis, so the rate rise is as much a sign of bullishness as Rio ’s decision to invest to increase its annual iron ore capacity in the Pilbara to 283 million tonnes by 2013. More money will be spent to lift annual production to 333 million tonnes, pending a feasibility study.

The ramp-up of Rio’s iron ore production could mark a turning point in its battle with BHP to maintain its supremacy in iron ore. BHP yesterday revealed a potential change in the sequencing of the development of two of its biggest iron projects in WA, called RGP5 and RGP6.

BHP revealed in its latest quarterly production report that it would need a new $250 million car dumper and a $25 million ship loader to reach the annual targets set for RGP5 of 205 million tonnes. This would change the completion date for RGP5 but not upset its starting date.

Even so, BHP has an iron ore development pipeline that envisages the company hitting annual production of 350 million tonnes by 2017.

Rio and BHP are in a race to become the single largest producer of iron ore in Australia at the same time as Fortescue Metals Group is trying to double its iron ore production.

For Rio’s chief executive, iron ore and Australia, Sam Walsh , there may be a sense of deja vu in the current tussle with BHP in iron ore.

Walsh won his project management stripes in the local car industry with the $300 million VN Commodore project in the late 1980s. That project helped save Holden from the wreckers and gave the company a competitive edge over arch rival Ford.

Walsh’s division has the edge on BHP in terms of total production and is likely to hold that for at least five years. He was at the helm of the iron ore division when the global financial crisis hit and smashed his plans for a “big bang" approach to expansion.

In hindsight, the GFC provided the company with the necessary breathing space to reconsider its plan for expansion in the Pilbara. It opted for a more measured approach and broke the $US10 billion expansion into two manageable parts.

Instead of trying to hit annual production of 100 million tonnes in one hit, the project was broken into two 50 million tonne projects.

The scale of the Rio project at Cape Lambert is mind-boggling in dollar size. But when all aspects of the expansion are taken into account, the Rio workforce will only rise from about 9000 to a peak of 16,500 during the expansion phase.

The fact that $US6 billion in projects will only result in 7500 additional full-time jobs at Rio says a lot about the capital intensity of mining and the company’s extensive use of technology. These attributes, telltale signs of the changing structure of the economy, are the subject of an article in the latest RBA Bulletin. The importance of the services sector, which accounts for 80 per cent of output, 72 per cent of employment and 23 per cent of exports, is evident in the Rio project.

Service companies that will benefit directly from the Rio expansion include Sinclair Knight Merz, KBR, Monadelphous and NRW Holdings.

Now that James Packer has about 18 per cent of Ten Network he can proceed to the next phase of his investment strategy, which is not unlike the one used by Australia’s other media mogul, Kerry Stokes , to get control of West Australian Newspapers .

Stokes bought a significant shareholding in WAN and then used that as a platform for seeking board changes in 2008. It took some time to get the board control, but once that happened the company’s strategy was changed under new management.

The activist strategy employed by Stokes, which was pioneered by Ron Brierley in the 1980s and still used by him today, is cost efficient because it does not involve a full bid for the company. The WAN board initially resisted the pressure from Stokes for board seats. That forced him to call an extraordinary general meeting where shareholders voted in favour of the incumbent board of directors.

However, the resistance wilted and three directors, Jenny Seabrook and Mel Ward and chairman Peter Mansell, resigned. They were replaced by Stokes, local heavyweights Rio’s Sam Walsh and Woodside’s Don Voelte and former Australia Post CEO Graeme John .

When Packer returns from Macau he will be pressing for a meeting with the Ten Network board which is headed by executive chairman Nick Falloon .

Packer will want answers to some questions that have been asked by other shareholders for about two months following the pre-release of the company’s earnings for the year to August 31, 2010.

The key question is about costs. Why did Ten Network’s costs, adjusted for licence fees, blow out in the second half of this year from $303 million to $330 million? All the analysts who cover the stock got caught out by a fundamental breakdown in communications between the company and the market.

Brokers such as Alex Pollak at Macquarie research had tipped earnings per share for 2010 of 11¢ a share based on the guidance given by Ten Network in relation to its revenue growth for 2010.

On the one hand the reason for the costs blowout does not matter. The fact that it happened is the reason why the stock tanked.

However, Packer will be asking why it happened and it is almost certainly because of the company’s investment in live sport on its new digital channel.

It is generally accepted in the free-to-air television industry that the advent of digital multi-channels has been a bonanza for the established networks. It has added annual revenue of at least $150 million at very little extra cost because the programs are predominantly reruns.

But industry sources say that about $130 million of that additional revenue, and possibly more, is being shared by Nine and Seven. That leaves a big question mark over Ten Network’s strategy, which includes a new push to chase viewers of news and current affairs at a cost of $20 million.

One other aspect of the Packer raid on Ten Network is that it cements a decade-long relationship with investment bank UBS and its top banker, Matthew Grounds .

The relationship is arguably one of the most enduring and unusual in corporate Australia. It survived the extraordinary move by Grounds to be an intermediary for Stokes in his Seven-WesTrac merger.

Grounds has taught some of his rivals a lesson by showing how smart it is to pitch ideas, even ones that don’t work out, to very rich people.

The Kohlberg Kravis Roberts bid for Perpetual will have to be recommended by the board to succeed because it will never get past the three shareholder limits imposed by the Trustee Companies Act (10 per cent limit), the Corporations Act (15 per cent limit) and the Foreign Investment Review Board (15 per cent limit).

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On February 4, 1896 Paul Andrag arrived in Cape Town, South Africa, having left Germany to work for the Moravian Mission near Caledon. His task was to manage the trading store at Genadendal. During 1904 he started his own business in Cape Town and subsequently transferred to Saron, situated between Gouda and Porterville in the Cape and continued with a trading store.

Paul noticed that the local farmers faced many problems due to a lack of proper equipment. He knew that European agricultural machinery could solve some of these difficulties and began to import equipment to sell locally. Well-known agencies were acquired, including Lanz Tractors, Perrot Irrigation, Deutz Engines, John Deere Tractors, Fahr Combines, KSB pumps and others.

In time, his sons joined him in the business and many pioneering ideas were introduced to South Africa by them. Some of these are: The first rubber-tyred tractor, the first sprinkler irrigation, useful varieties of plants (Including Lupins and Serradella), some of the first locally manufactured ploughs, the first locally made irrigation tubing and many more. By the time the second world war had ended, all five sons of Paul were active in the business, which was then called P Andrag & Sons.

In 1950 Agrico Machinery (Pty) Ltd was founded to resume importation of Lanz Tractors. The branch network of Agrico grew steadily to follow the demand for its products. During 2000 the shareholders merged the Andrag and Agrico companies into one, larger group. This was done to make use of synergies in manufacturing, marketing and distribution. In 2016 Agrico decided to sell the machanisation devision (comprising various agencies) in order to focus on Agrico's own manufactured products and it's water related business.  Today there are 27 branches spread over Southern Africa, including a new branch in Zambia.

Three factories produce implements, agricultural tractors, industrial tractors, centre pivots, quick coupling pipes, PVC pipes, polyethylene pipes, drippers, micro jets, aluminium and iron castings, electric valves and crop sprayers.  The 4+Series of tractors was developed, with sales to farmers commencing in 1986. The cumulative production exceeds 600 tractors. The manufacture of centre pivots was started in 1988 and is done in an integrated factory that features on-site galvanising.

Currently five shareholders, who are all university graduates, are active in the day to day management of the company with more third and fourth generation family members serving as non-executive directors. Therefore three successful generation successions have taken place, often a critical stage for a family business.

Our company currently employs over 900 people, and has annual sales exceeding 1 Billion Rand.

Our management style can be characterised as conservative. This philosophy coincides with that of our main customers, the farming community, construction and industrial companies. These customers generally have a low mobility and tend to favour long-term business relationships, based on mutual trust.

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Horizon Community Learning Center is already on fall break and now Kyrene School District parents and those from other schools will be looking for activities to keep their kids busy on those upcoming days off.

To aid in the search for those fun activities and to give working parents peace of mind, consider the following:

YMCA camps

The Ahwatukee Foothills Family YMCA, 1030 E. Liberty Lane, is offering a variety of activities to keep kids and teens active during fall break. The YKidz fall break camp Oct. 11 to 15 will offer kids the chance to partake in recreational sports, games, swimming and also rockwall climbing. There is a full-time, part-time or one-day-only option for the camp, with prices varying.

There will also be a Teen fall break camp at the YMCA from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 11 to 15. It will include five different field trips: Pecos Park, the movie theater, bowling, Jump Street and a hiking trip. The camp cost is $154 for facility members, $167 for program members.

The Ahwatukee YMCA will also be having a dodge ball game from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 13. The game is free for YMCA members and $5 for non-members.

To learn more about the camps being offered through the Ahwatukee YMCA, visit http://www.ahwatukeeymca.org/ or call them at (480) 759-6762.

Kyrene offerings

Kyrene Community Education is offering three different camps and activities during fall break. The offerings Oct. 11 to 15 will be at various locations.

The Kids Club Camp is for students in kindergarten through fifth grade, and also for children ages 3 to 5 that are not yet enrolled in school. Participating students will be able to attend one of the camp's two different locations: Kyrene del Milenio Elementary, 4630 E. Frye Road, and Kyrene del Sureno Elementary, 3375 W. Galveston St. The Kids Club camp is open from 6:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. daily.

There will also be two Kyrene After Hours camps for students in sixth through eighth grades at Centennial Middle School, 13808 S. 32 St., and Kyrene Middle School, 1050 E. Carver Road. The After Hours camp will be open from 7 a.m. to 5:30 pm. daily.

Both camps will included numerous activities for kids of all ages to partake in, including recreational games, cooking projects, arts and science projects, etc. The price of the Kids Club camp is $25 per day in advance, and $35 on the day of. For those ages 3 to 5, the price is $30 a day if bought in advance, or $40 the day of. The After Hours camp is $25 a day if bought in advance, $35 the day of.

There will also be two middle school athletic clinics, one for basketball and the other for volleyball, during fall break. The basketball clinic will be from 10 a.m. to noon, and the volleyball clinic will be from 1 to 3 p.m. The cost of each clinic is $65 for the week.

To learn more about the camps being offered through Kyrene Community Education, or to register, visit http://www.kyrene.org/eservices or call (480) 783-4044.

Other activities

The Ahwatukee Community Swim and Tennis Center, 4700 E. Warner Road, will be conducting a Golf, Swim and Tennis Camp during fall break for kids ages 6 to 14. The camp will be Oct. 11 to 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Participating kids will be split into groups according to their skill levels, and will be involved in different skill set games that will teach them something new in each individual sport.

Susan Hyden, community center director for the Ahwatukee Community Swim and Tennis Center, said the camp is a great way to keep kids active during fall break, and also to get them interested in other sports.

For more information, or to register, call them at (480) 893-3431 or visit www.ahwatukeehoa.com.

Chelsea Brown is interning this semester for the Ahwatukee Foothills News. She is a senior at Arizona State University.

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Old 04-27-2006, 02:10 PM   #10
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Re: The "Jo Trick" and Similar Exercises

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I don't mean to be offensive at all. I'm an engineering consultant and deal with physics, lever arms, mechanical advatages and forces every day. From a technical stand point these feats seem impossible. I dont care how you visualize it in your mind, if a perpindicular force is really applied at the end of a lever arm, you are in some real trouble trying to provide a counteracting force. I can visualize invisible energies all day long, it wont prevent simple physics to win over. Again, I'd love to learn more about this subject and if it is possible train to do or at least understand how these feats are accomplished. I wish there was someone local that can perform/teach these Ki excercises. If anyone has any detailed descriptions on how to practice I'd greately appreciate it. At our Dojo we train hard in our techniques, movement and moving around our centers, we do not attempt any KI specific excercises.
You're not offensive at all, Paul... you're doing exactly what I think everyone should do, analyze, challenge, think out loud, etc. This is the sort of stuff I like to do on the QiJing list: analyze forces, skills, etc.

Think of this for a second. If you're say standing up and and you're holding your left fist inside your right hand (to make them one object. Your elbows are against your ribcage so basically your joined fists are a solid part of your body. If I say "start to move forward but don't really move", there will be a forward potential to your fists, even though you don't move; I can't see it. If I say "pull backward, but don't really move", there will be a backward pulling potential to your fists, even though you don't move; I can't see the difference. If I say "push the fists vertically straight up, but don't move".... same idea; I can't see the difference. And I can say "add weight to your fists like you're trying to sink them down, but don't move"... same thing; I can't see the difference.

Without moving, your mind and micro-muscular motion are able to bring force vectors to the hands (or any part of the body), provided you have a good connection. Yes, there are physical limits to these tricks, but they can get pretty sophisticated. If you're conditioned well and you can adjust the vector directions your body is "emanating" quickly, you can arrange your resultant body direction so that someone pushing against a seemingly vertical lever is actually pushing against a *ground-based* force that is coming into them at an upward angle. So draw a picture of a horizontal non-ground-based force meeting head to head with a ground-based force that is coming up toward it. It takes some skill and yes, whoever applies first can usually be the winner, etc., but it's not magic.... it's practice. And you have to learn to rely on your lower body for the load-bearing responsibilities.

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Solar storm warnings just got a little more user-friendly.

A view of activity in the Earth's magnetosphere today, courtesy of the Space Weather Prediction Center. (Model: University of Michigan Geospace (SWMF))

In 2012, a massive wave of plasma erupted from the surface of the sun and lashed out into space at a million miles per hour. It missed us, Earth, by nine days. Had the timing been different, we would have had little warning, and the warning in those days would have been simple: shut everything off and pray.

Since then the White House has issued a National Space Weather Strategy, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has started requiring electric utility companies to develop safety measures to protect the grid in the event of a big solar storm. And now, thanks to researchers at the University of Michigan and Rice University, utilities—and anyone else—can receive more detailed and localized warnings about potential solar disruptions.

As of yesterday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Center is using a new model, or rather a framework combining several models, that can provide a kind of space weather map of the earth. Earlier models based mostly on remote observations of solar events could only predict their arrival at Earth within a three- to six-hour window, and couldn’t say how severe their effects would be or what regions would be hardest hit. The new model framework, using data from spacecraft positioned between Earth and the sun, will produce color-coded maps showing which regions on the planet are most and least likely to be affected, with as much as 45 minutes lead time.

Space weather, made up of a “wind” of charged particles and magnetic field fluctuations caused by the sun’s restless activity, can affect everything from the flight paths of aircraft (flights crossing the poles can lose radio contact and GPS navigation when the atmosphere is ionized by a solar flare) to rapid financial transactions in the stock market (they use GPS). The biggest potential impact, though, is on the energy infrastructure. When a solar storm nicknamed the “Carrington event” hit Earth in 1859, it blew up the only electricity-based technology around at the time—the telegraph system—generating so much electricity that some stations were able to send messages even after their power sources had been destroyed (just as moving magnets are used to generate electricity in power plants, moving magnetic fields from the sun can shoot massive currents through transmission lines that then destroy transformers, cutting off the downstream power grid).

Needless to say, our 21st-century civilization would grind to a halt if a similar event took us by surprise today. Everything from heating and cooling to food storage to health care—pretty much everything we do—would be affected, possibly for months or even years, depending on the severity of the storm. Costs to the United States alone could exceed an estimated $1 trillion (that’s one quarter of our total national budget). The problem is compounded by the fact that much of our power grid is interconnected over long distances, allowing instant widespread outages even when only one specific area is affected.

So what happens if the new model warns that a big storm is on the way? The plan is for utilities to simply switch off parts of the energy infrastructure before the storm hits, just as we unplug computers during lighting storms. This is where forecast accuracy is key, because shutting down an entire section of the power grid is costly, and utilities need to be able to weigh the risks. “You don’t want to shut off the electricity every month,” says UM’s Gábor Tóth, one of the developers of the new model. “On the other hand, you want to shut it off if it will be a problem.” That’s why the spatial element of the new model is so important—it will predict where solar storm affects are expected to occur down to a resolution of 350 square miles, about the size of Dallas, Texas, and with 60- to 70-percent accuracy, compared to 10-20 percent with previous models.

Since the Carrington event in 1859, there have been several significant storms, including one in 1989 that knocked out power in Quebec for nine hours. It could be decades or longer before the next “big one,” but it could be sooner too.

“The big difference between space weather and atmospheric weather,” says Daniel Welling, another of the new model’s developers, “is that nobody cares until everybody does.”

If you’d like to start keeping tabs on how solar activity is affecting Earth, you can check out the model’s daily weather maps here. Here are some for today:

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