Saturday, February 19, 2011

Alvin Frame-Grabber : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Alvin Frame-Grabber : Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Alvin is a research DSV owned by the US Navy and operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. The frame-grabber has dives listed (many with pictures) as far back as 1988. Alvin's been operating in the Gulf of Mexico within the past couple of months. I put this up here after reading a story discussing the recovery of the undersea environment/oil degradation after BP's blowout in the Gulf last year. Seems that the oil didn't get consumed by microbes as much as expected/reported...

Here's the Gulf Oil Blog. It's maintained by the University of Georgia marine science team that was researching the oil plumes from the failed well.

Space Shuttle Discovery Declared Ready to Fly Next Week

Space Shuttle Discovery Declared Ready to Fly Next Week

About 5K - 2/19/2011 + Yoga X this morning





Nothing strenuous, but when included with the 90 minutes of mostly successful Yoga X this morning, turned out to be a fairly sweaty day.....

P90X

P90X

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Friday, February 18, 2011

Nice day for a run...



Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Fear and politics - Watson - Government secrecy related sites - Belle Chevre

The use of fear as a campaign tactic/political tool is not limited to one party nor is it a new thing. via archive.org



Go Watson.

Much debate has been given to secrecy and secrecy policy in the wake of WikiLeaks in the past several months. Lest we forget, there are some other great sites out there:

The National Security Archive
- The FAS Project on Government Secrecy - Cryptome

In closing, here's a shameless plug. Check out Belle Chevre. In and around Huntsville, a selection of their products can be found at Publix, Earth Fare and Costco. There might be other places, but these are the ones I know for sure...

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Top 10 searches on THOMAS, NRC items of interest for BFN, Tempel 1 flyby

Top ten legislative items searched on THOMAS, compiled on 2/6/2011 from weekly usage statistics

  1. H.R. 3 - [112th] - No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
  2. H.R. 3590 - [111th] - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  3. H.R. 2 - [112th] - Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
  4. H.R. 3200 - [111th] - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
  5. H.R. 3082 - [111th] - Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011
  6. H.R. 4853 - [111th] - Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
  7. S.Amdt. 13 - [112th] - To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
  8. H.R. 4173 - [111th] - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
  9. S. 1435 - [111th] - Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009
  10. H.R. 359 - [112th] - To reduce Federal spending and the deficit by terminating taxpayer financing of presidential election campaigns and party conventions

4 NRC docs for Browns Ferry between 2/6/11 and 2/13/11:
  1. ML103400346 - IR 05000259-10-201, 05000260-10-201, and 05000296-10-201, 12/17/2010, Brows Ferry Nuclear Plant; Security Inspection (Cover Letter).
  2. ML110400431 - Browns Ferry Inspection Report 2010-005 and Notice of Violation.
  3. ML110420172 - Browns Ferry Nuclear Station - Notification of Licensed Operator Initial Examination.
  4. ML110190410 - December 15, 2010, Browns Ferry, Units 1, 2 & 3, Summary of Meeting with Tennessee Valley Authority Extended Power Uprate Plans (TAC NOS. MD5262, MD5263 & MD5264).

Image Gallery for comet Tempel 1 Valentine's Day flyby

Oak Barrel Half Marathon - 4/2/2011 - course map



Sunday, February 13, 2011

Didn't quite make two hours, but I wasn't that far off...

From http://www.besttimescct.com/results/Mercedes11_Half_Overall.txt:

DIV       OVRL   SEX                                                 ***10K***      ***FINISH***
PLACE  PLC     PLC   NAME             AGE RANK     TIME  PACE  TIME      PACE    CITY    STATE
145        1493     910    Arthur Metcalf   40     112       54:19  8:46    2:07:20    9:44     Athens  AL

I have to say that, although seriously sore, I was also quite stoked...

Gotta love the Church Lady!!!