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.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
About 5K - 2/19/2011 + Yoga X this morning
Friday, February 18, 2011
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...
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
- H.R. 3 - [112th] - No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
- H.R. 3590 - [111th] - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- H.R. 2 - [112th] - Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
- H.R. 3200 - [111th] - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
- H.R. 3082 - [111th] - Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011
- H.R. 4853 - [111th] - Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
- 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
- H.R. 4173 - [111th] - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
- S. 1435 - [111th] - Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009
- 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:
- ML103400346 - IR 05000259-10-201, 05000260-10-201, and 05000296-10-201, 12/17/2010, Brows Ferry Nuclear Plant; Security Inspection (Cover Letter).
- ML110400431 - Browns Ferry Inspection Report 2010-005 and Notice of Violation.
- ML110420172 - Browns Ferry Nuclear Station - Notification of Licensed Operator Initial Examination.
- 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
Monday, February 14, 2011
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...
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...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Can't have it both ways...
Two "icons" of the conservative world today seemed less than enthusiastic about what was going on in Egypt. Beck seems to think it's the beginning of world-wide pandemonium. Old Rush called the demonstrators at Tahrir feminists and "avowed socialists, leftists, communists, environmentalists."
Zoom back in time six years and recall who made the following statement:
"To promote peace and stability in the broader Middle East, the United States will work with our friends in the region to fight the common threat of terror, while we encourage a higher standard of freedom. Hopeful reform is already taking hold in an arc from Morocco to Jordan to Bahrain. The Government of Saudi Arabia can demonstrate its leadership in the region by expanding the role of its people in determining their future. And the great and proud nation of Egypt, which showed the way toward peace in the Middle East, can now show the way toward democracy in the Middle East."
The man who spoke those words was none other than Dubya. Glory child of the media of the right. The statement above came in the 2005 State of the Union.
Seems all Sarah Palin could ask (via tweet and on her birthday) was whether the media would ask "Will Obama Admin exert as much 'constructive' pressure on Iranian govt to change & allow freedom ~ as they just did for Egypt?"
Yet again, seeming oblivion to the differences in the situations and relations between the US and the governments of Egypt and Iran.
Zoom back in time six years and recall who made the following statement:
"To promote peace and stability in the broader Middle East, the United States will work with our friends in the region to fight the common threat of terror, while we encourage a higher standard of freedom. Hopeful reform is already taking hold in an arc from Morocco to Jordan to Bahrain. The Government of Saudi Arabia can demonstrate its leadership in the region by expanding the role of its people in determining their future. And the great and proud nation of Egypt, which showed the way toward peace in the Middle East, can now show the way toward democracy in the Middle East."
The man who spoke those words was none other than Dubya. Glory child of the media of the right. The statement above came in the 2005 State of the Union.
Seems all Sarah Palin could ask (via tweet and on her birthday) was whether the media would ask "Will Obama Admin exert as much 'constructive' pressure on Iranian govt to change & allow freedom ~ as they just did for Egypt?"
Yet again, seeming oblivion to the differences in the situations and relations between the US and the governments of Egypt and Iran.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
When a near failure turned into a great success....
Not long after the Hubble Space Telescope was launched, it was quickly discovered that there was a major problem with the primary mirror. It took NASA a couple of years to design and implement a solution. Within a month of the first servicing mission, the results were declared a complete success. Here we are over twenty years later and Hubble is still producing AWESOME data....
I can't believe that I hadn't considered what would happen when the Hubble finally gives up the ghost. I was incredibly stoked to discover (hey, maybe I'm just out of it) that there IS a planned successor to Hubble. It's called the James Webb Space Telescope. I hope that NASA is able to get the new telescope airborne and have some more great successes. Speaking of which....
The James Webb Space Telescope has a YouTube page, a Twitter page and a Facebook page. Here's a playlist of some of the new telescope's YouTube vids (from their Science Visualizations group of videos):
I can't believe that I hadn't considered what would happen when the Hubble finally gives up the ghost. I was incredibly stoked to discover (hey, maybe I'm just out of it) that there IS a planned successor to Hubble. It's called the James Webb Space Telescope. I hope that NASA is able to get the new telescope airborne and have some more great successes. Speaking of which....
The James Webb Space Telescope has a YouTube page, a Twitter page and a Facebook page. Here's a playlist of some of the new telescope's YouTube vids (from their Science Visualizations group of videos):
Monday, February 07, 2011
NRC docs, SuperBowl ads, Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory, Preserve your digital stuff
NRC documents regarding Browns Ferry from 1/30/11 - 2/5/11
ML021760145 - Fiser deposition, 12/11/01-12/12/01.
ML021980176 - Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Unit 3 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers Section XI, Inservice Inspection and Repair and Replacements Programs - Summary Reports for Cycle in Operation.
ML100950045 - Browns Ferry, Units 1, 2, and 3 - Submittal of Changes, Tests, and Experiments - Biennial Summary Report.
ML110260395 - Browns Ferry, Unit 3, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Section XI Inservice Inspection Program for the Unit 3 Third Ten-Year Inspection Interval, Request for Relief 3-ISI-25.
ML110270220 - Browns Ferry, Unit 3, Boiling Water Reactor Vessel Internals Project (BWRVIP) - Notification of Deviation from BWRVIP-41, Revision 3, BWR Jet Pump Assembly Inspection and Flaw Evaluation Guidelines.
ML110280447 - Browns Ferry - Notification of Inspection and Request for Information.
ML110330552 - Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant - Operator Licensing Written Examination Approval 05000259-10-301, 05000260-10-301 and 05000296-10-301.
ML103370466 - Browns Ferry, Unit 2 - Safety Evaluation for Relief Request 2-ISI-18, Revision 2, for the Third 10-Year Inservice Inspection Interval.(TAC No. ME3442).
I didn't watch much of the big game yesterday or many of the accompanying commercials. Hate to say it, but there were better things to do. Anyway, some of the ads were pretty funny. Plus, this way, you've saved several hours...
I kind of liked this one:
First Ever STEREO Images of the Entire Sun
Personal Archiving - Digital Preservation (Library of Congress)
ML021760145 - Fiser deposition, 12/11/01-12/12/01.
ML021980176 - Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, Unit 3 - American Society of Mechanical Engineers Section XI, Inservice Inspection and Repair and Replacements Programs - Summary Reports for Cycle in Operation.
ML100950045 - Browns Ferry, Units 1, 2, and 3 - Submittal of Changes, Tests, and Experiments - Biennial Summary Report.
ML110260395 - Browns Ferry, Unit 3, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Section XI Inservice Inspection Program for the Unit 3 Third Ten-Year Inspection Interval, Request for Relief 3-ISI-25.
ML110270220 - Browns Ferry, Unit 3, Boiling Water Reactor Vessel Internals Project (BWRVIP) - Notification of Deviation from BWRVIP-41, Revision 3, BWR Jet Pump Assembly Inspection and Flaw Evaluation Guidelines.
ML110280447 - Browns Ferry - Notification of Inspection and Request for Information.
ML110330552 - Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant - Operator Licensing Written Examination Approval 05000259-10-301, 05000260-10-301 and 05000296-10-301.
ML103370466 - Browns Ferry, Unit 2 - Safety Evaluation for Relief Request 2-ISI-18, Revision 2, for the Third 10-Year Inservice Inspection Interval.(TAC No. ME3442).
I didn't watch much of the big game yesterday or many of the accompanying commercials. Hate to say it, but there were better things to do. Anyway, some of the ads were pretty funny. Plus, this way, you've saved several hours...
I kind of liked this one:
First Ever STEREO Images of the Entire Sun
Personal Archiving - Digital Preservation (Library of Congress)
Thursday, February 03, 2011
AL State District #2 senator newsletter, Weekly Top 10 from THOMAS, Restore + Save the Egyptian Museum, "A Is For Atom"
Bill Holtzclaw, the AL 2nd District State Senator has a newsletter. Check it!
THOMAS Top Ten for 1/30/2011 - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
I was reading a story on al.com about a UAB archaeology professor starting a Facebook group called Restore + Save the Egyptian Museum. It's completely screwed up that priceless artifacts are at such risk...
I was checking out some nuclear related reading material and ran across another one of those "classic" movies (also available at http://www.archive.org/). I was going to embed it here, but you can see it at the post on the Atomic Insights blog. By the way, the movie is called "A Is For Atom"...
THOMAS Top Ten for 1/30/2011 - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
- H.R. 2 - [112th] - Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act
- H.R. 3590 - [111th] - Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
- H.R. 3200 - [111th] - America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009
- H.R. 4853 - [111th] - Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010
- H.R. 3082 - [111th] - Continuing Appropriations and Surface Transportation Extensions Act, 2011
- H.R. 4173 - [111th] - Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
- H.R. 4872 - [111th] - Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
- H.R. 3 - [112th] - No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act
- H.R. 6523 - [111th] - Ike Skelton National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011
- H.R. 25 - [112th] - Fair Tax Act of 2011
I was reading a story on al.com about a UAB archaeology professor starting a Facebook group called Restore + Save the Egyptian Museum. It's completely screwed up that priceless artifacts are at such risk...
I was checking out some nuclear related reading material and ran across another one of those "classic" movies (also available at http://www.archive.org/). I was going to embed it here, but you can see it at the post on the Atomic Insights blog. By the way, the movie is called "A Is For Atom"...
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Come on, groundhog!
http://www.visitpa.com/groundhog-day-live-stream
Before I forget again...
I keep hearing an announcement on WLRH about the Stones River Chamber Players appearing at the McCandless Hall at Athens State University on February 7. This is part of the Livingston Concert Lecture Series. Sounds like it might be pretty good...
Before I forget again...
I keep hearing an announcement on WLRH about the Stones River Chamber Players appearing at the McCandless Hall at Athens State University on February 7. This is part of the Livingston Concert Lecture Series. Sounds like it might be pretty good...
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