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A very public war of words between Elite XCs KJ Noons and EliteXC has culminated with Noons losling his lightweight title. Citing Noons refusal to face Nick Diaz in a rematch of they November bout which ended with Noons via a TKO due to cuts.
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We are stripping KJ of his championship belt for refusing to defend against Diaz, Lappen said. Its a very unfortunate situation but we cannot have belt-holders who refuse to fight the top contenders. We want champions who will fight anyone, anytime, anyplace. Thats the mentality all champions should have.
I feel very bad for KJ because I like him a lot on a personal level and have always thought he could be a big star. Hes charismatic, has a very exciting fighting style and is a top level fighter. So Im obviously disappointed that he has chosen to take this stance.
I dont understand why he would turn down a chance to be a headliner on CBS on Oct. 4. KJ then turned down the fight again when we offered him a headlining spot on our next SHOWTIME date against Nick (Diaz). From my view, it is a fight against a top-named opponent in Diaz (someone who beat the No. 1 fighter in the world in his weight class), a fighter KJ has bad blood with and a fight the fans really wanted to see. It seemed like a great opportunity for KJ to me.
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A Star in Honduras
The Makers of Astral and Don Tomas Cigars are Expanding Operations in Danlí
Mark Vaughan
From the Print Edition:
Matt Dillon, Spring 96
Raymond F. Guys, director of cigar and cigar leaf operations for United States Tobacco International, leads a tour of the company's Central American Cigars (CACSA) production facilities in Danlí, Honduras. In a large, open warehouse holding 200,000 pounds of aging wrapper, filler and binder leaf, four Honduran workers are "turning" a bulk of fermenting tobacco. The process involves disassembling a 4- by 5- by 20-foot pile of leaves, which have been bunched into "hands" of several leaves each, and reassembling the pile so that the tobacco in the center is rotated to the outside, thus allowing for even fermentation throughout the bulk. The work proceeds at a snail's pace, with each worker taking pains not to damage the leaves. A quiet, almost reverential atmosphere prevails in the dimly lit room on this warm, wet July morning.
Guys, a 22-year veteran of tobacco growing, processing and cigar making in Honduras, pauses to watch the workers. Reaching out, he picks up a hand of the golden-hued tobacco. In a motion common to all tobacco masters, he fans the leaves open between his fingers and, like a cellar master testing a fine Cognac, sniffs deeply. He holds the tobacco hand out for a visitor to smell. The rich chocolate and Caribbean spice aromas are almost intoxicating in their intensity.
"This is 100 percent Cuban-seed long filler tobacco, and the quality is excellent," says the soft-spoken Guys, who at 65 is slender, energetic and obviously dedicated to his work. "There is no doubt that Honduras is one of the best places for growing and processing tobacco and making cigars."
It is a sentiment one hears often in Danlí. A dusty backwater nestled beneath the mountains separating Honduras from Nicaragua to the south, the town gained infamy during the Contra War as a staging site for the anti-Sandinista rebels. Today, thanks to the efforts of producers such as Guys, Julio Eiroa, Nestor Plasencia, Rolando Reyes, Indalecio Rodriguez and others, Danlí has been transformed into a cigar making mecca. With a combined output of well over 50 million cigars a year and growing, such producers may soon make Danlí the world's premier cigar making center. That's something that wouldn't surprise Guys.
"This zone--here and in northern Nicaragua--is excellent for growing Havana-seed tobacco," notes Guys. "We've always known you can make a hell of a cigar in Danlí."
For Guys and the rest of UST International's cigar operations team, the current "hell of a cigar" is the Astral, a high-end smoke that was released with much fanfare at Morton's Steakhouse in New York City last June. Designed to be a cut above the company's Don Tomas, Don Tomas International and Don Tomas Special Edition lines, Astral is made with Honduran grown Cuban-seed filler and binder and Honduran shade-grown Connecticut-seed wrapper. The five cigars in the line range from the 5" by 52 Besos to the 7 1/2" by 52 Maestro, with suggested retail prices running from $5.75 to $6.50. A box of Astrals comes in distinctive Art Deco-styled mahogany. According to Iber Rodriguez, manager of UST International's Honduran cigar operations and a key player in developing the Astral line, it took three years to get the new cigar from the drawing board to retail shelves.
"There are a lot of considerations, from tobacco availability to packaging and marketing strategies to having the necessary skilled labor," says Guys. "You don't just make a new cigar overnight."
Though neither Guys nor Rodriguez will talk specifically about the blend and age of tobaccos used in making the Astral line, as with Honduran-made smokes in general they are largely characterized by the full-flavored locally grown Cuban-seed filler and binder. According to Guys, the cigar was designed to deliver most of its flavor in the second third of the smoke. "We wanted people to enjoy the cigar as it progresses and to be able to smoke it all the way to the end," he says. "That way you get the full flavor of the Cuban-seed tobacco."
Since their release last June, Astrals have been selling briskly, so much so that back orders have run as high as 200,000 units or more. "Market acceptance of Astral has been outstanding," says Rodriguez. "We are literally selling them faster than we can make them. It makes all that development time seem definitely worthwhile."
So worthwhile that Guys, Rodriguez and the rest of UST International's cigar operations management team are already exploring the possibility of developing another line of premium cigars. "We are talking about a number of things," says Guys. "But for now our primary focus is on expanding production, both in the tobacco fields and in the factory."
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I have recently upgraded my speaker system with a full set of Triad speakers. The fronts are Platinum LCR's with a Platinum CC
The stands were custom built by a good friend and forum member, DMark1. I helped, but my woodworking skills pale to insignificance compared to Dennis'. Dennis has a side business building drum kits. He has honed his wood working skills by making some beautiful drums kits. http://www.markleycustomdrums.com/ He's also a professional drummer and percussionist, so he has a great ear for music and has helped me significantly in fine tuning my system.
The stands are 1.5" thick plinths with columns supporting the speakers. The columns are 1 layer of 3/4", 9-ply plywood with an inner layer of 3/4" MDF. The two layers are adhered with Green Glue and the CC column is additionally lined with No-Rez. All this was done to reduce resonance in the columns. (Doing the knuckle rap test shows that the efforts were successful. The columns are very dead.) They were painted with the original factory paint used on my speakers. We bought the paint directly from Triad and got the application instructions directly from the lead "paint guy" at Triad. Dennis has a spray booth in his drum shop, and he applied the paint there. The final coat is a textured "spatter" coat that required some specific painting skills. Fortunately, Dennis has them. Here are some pics of the stands:
As you can see, the paint is a perfect match. What's even more amazing is how good the texture match turned out. Needless to say, I am extremely happy with how they compliment the speakers!
I've also added Triad surrounds. I used the Silver Monitors because they use the same mid-woofers as the LCR's and a tweeter that is almost exactly the same as the Platinum's but without the dispersion lens. I used 4 Silver Monitors placed as Wides and Sides. The Wides are supposed to be at 60 degrees to the listening position, but as you will see in the pic below, I couldn't quite get them that wide. Due to wall constraints, they ended up at about 50 degrees. They still work quite well there. Here is a pic of the right Wide:
I have 3 Submersive HP's for subwoofer duties. They are placed somewhat randomly around the room and EQ'd with Audyssey XT32. Here is a pic of the right, front Submersive HP:
In the first pic of the theater above, there is another Submersive on the left side of the CC. That sub has since been moved to a point on the left wall beneath the left Wide. The 3rd Submersive is on the right side wall behind the LP at about 3/5 of the long dimension of the room. After gain-matching the 3 subs, EQ'ing them with Audyssey XT32, optimizing their Distance setting, and invoking the 2nd DSP program on the Submersives, I get the following combined frequency response:
and here is an RTA of the full bandwidth of the system:
The rest of my audio equipment consists of:
Oppo BDP93
Marantz AV 8801
Earthquake Cinemova Grande BR7
Emotiva RPA-1
Scientific Atlanta 8300 HD DVR
Crowson Technology TES 100 Shadow 8 Dual Motion Actuator System
Buttkicker BKA 1000 Amplifier
Here is a pic of the equipment rack:
The video system consists of:
Darbee Darblet Video
SeymourAV 120" Diagonal 2.35, motorized, drop down Acoustically Transparent screen
Panamorph UH 480 Anamorphic Lens
JVC 3D Glasses
Here is a pic of the screen deployed:
The room is acoustically treated with 8" thick acoustic cotton and fiberglass bass traps in the front corners, (they're behind the burgundy drapes.) The front wall is treated with 2" of acoustical cotton, as are the first 4' of the side walls. The ceiling is a dropped acoustical ceiling using CaPaul Open Plan 1" thick tiles with a black nubby finish. Above the dropped ceiling, the overhead joist spaces are stuffed with fiberglass insulation, making the entire ceiling a large bass trap/broadband absorber. The floor is concrete with dark brown carpet over the thickest pad. With all the dark surfaces, and all the acoustic absorption in the front of the room, when the lights go out and the movie starts to play, the front of the room is on big black hole for light and sound.
There are other acoustical treatments placed around the room to reduce slap echo. Here is a pic of one of them:
The seating is a 4-chair row of Acoustic Innovations Traditional seats configured as in this pic:
The seats are a Burgundy leather. They sit on an 8" riser. This gets my eyes to 1/3 screen height, my ears to tweeter height, and allow the transducer system to shake the entire riser.
I have been an HT enthusiast for about 25 years. I built my first "HT" in 1987, (before the term "Home Theater" was even in use), using a 50" Pioneer RPTV. At the time a 50" TV was unheard of, and my "HT" had a huge "WOW Factor." Soon after, I acquired a LaserDisc player... and the rest is history. I have been through quite few different systems in the ensuing years. However, the above system is far and away the best I've ever had in my HT. I have a few things to do yet, but I am close to the point that my "upgradeitits" is almost cured. (Yeah right, she said!)
In the meantime, I am thoroughly enjoying my system!
Thanks for reading.
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Innovation is hard to define, but easy to recognize. For our first AM Innovators project, we sought association professionals who were recognized as forward-thinking by their peers. Earlier this year, we reached out to readers, colleagues, and the members of a specially created advisory board to develop a universe of nominees.
The innovators featured here stood out as professionals who, even in the deepest down cycle most of us have ever seen, were able to look at their meetings with fresh eyes and find new ways to drive attendance, create a better educational environment, and use technology to deliver a better experience for attendees and exhibitors.
We hope the following profiles provide both ideas and inspiration, so that you might think differently about the design of your own events and trade shows.
Selling Out the Show Floor
The Innovator
Stacey Chandler
Director, Expositions, American College of Rheumatology, ATLANTA
The Innovation
When the American College of Rheumatology decided to manage its annual exhibition internally after years of outsourcing, the association handed the reins to a staff member with no professional experience running exhibitions. During her four years at ACR, Stacey Chandler had worked on developing content for the association's smaller education meetings. As it turned out, however, Chandler was a stellar choice.
With the new Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals restricting marketing practices, one of Chandler's main objectives was to create more of an education environment in the exhibit hall. "There have been a lot of changes in terms of what medical meetings can and can't do," says Chandler."Bringing [the exhibition] in-house allowed us to have more control over it, but also to introduce innovative ideas that our third-party vendor might not have."
How to Make it Happen
First up: "Innovation Theater." On the show floor, ACR will build a 100-seat, hard-walled theater with a stage and two plasma screen monitors. Companies can purchase 30-minute time slots for presentations on new products or services. ACR offered six time slots: Five have already been sold.
The second new idea was the "Clinical Scenario Challenge" promotion, designed to give companies more education-oriented sponsorship opportunities, since they are restricted in terms of giveaways. Here's how it works: The sponsor publishes a clinical scenario, either in the show dailies, on the Web, or somewhere else on site. To get the outcome of the case, attendees have to go to the sponsoring exhibitor's booth. "It adds more education to our meeting and drives people to our exhibit hall," says Chandler. ACR offered one Clinical Scenario Challenge per day of the show: They're already sold out.
Another focus is improving customer service and exhibitor relationships. To that end, Chandler now uses an interactive online floor plan that allows exhibitors to see which booths are sold, which are available, and how they are configured. It also allows Chandler to change layouts as necessary. Attendees can access the floor plan as well, via ACR's Web site, so that they can locate exhibitors in advance of the show.
And to help attendees navigate the actual show floor, Chandler launched ACR Concierge, an information desk that will include a seating area.
Finally, she plans to appoint an exhibitor advisory council in order to get feedback and ideas for new ways to create opportunities that conform to the new guidelines.
What's Next
After just one year in her new role, Chandler has had a major impact. At a time when most associations are struggling to fill exhibit halls and are experiencing revenue declines, ACR's hall is almost sold out for this year's meeting, well ahead of last year's pace. And few, if any, are downsizing their booths; in fact, many are upsizing. As a result, revenues from the exhibition are expected to be up in 2009.
And Chandler doesn't plan to stop innovating any time soon. Next year, for example, she may add touch-screen kiosks to the show floor to give attendees exhibitor information. "I've got a list for 2010 that we'll start to go though pretty soon to see what is feasible and what we think will be successful."
Innovation Takes a Team
Chandler is a part of a three-person corporate relations team, which is constantly thinking about initiatives that will appeal to exhibitors. They also keep an eye on what other groups are doing to see if they can adapt ideas or tweak a concept to fit their show. "It's definitely a team effort," she says.
when Members Make the Agenda
The Innovator
Holly Ross
Executive Director, NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network, PORTLAND, ORE.
The Innovation
Since Holly Ross joined NTEN five years ago, she has always encouraged members to submit ideas and feedback. But this year, she took the concept of member involvement to another level, allowing the NTEN community to create the agenda for its annual meeting, held in April. The move reflects the changing role of associations, she believes. "We're in the information age and up until this point, the role of the nonprofit and the association was to be a place where people could turn for information," says Ross. Now, people have an incredible amount of information at their fingertips. "So our role," she says, "has shifted from being knowledge centers to being conduits of knowledge and helping our members connect to each other, share information, and share experiences."
A member-created agenda also engages members in a new way, giving them a sense of ownership and creating a buzz for the meeting. The result: In the first year of the community-driven agenda, NTEN welcomed 1,450 delegates to San Francisco, an increase of 35 percent — "the single biggest jump in attendance ever," Ross notes.
How to Make it Happen
Using Surveymonkey.com, NTEN staff asked members to submit session ideas for the 2009 annual meeting. They received an amazing 200 submissions — more than enough for a three-day conference that usually features 90 sessions. "We got high-quality submissions," says Ross, including some topics that had never been covered.
With all the proposals collected, Ross and her team put them into categories by topic and asked a steering committee for input on subjects that were missing. For example, Ross says, "Lots of people submitted social-media stuff, but no one was talking about security. But that's important. We identified the holes and made up some sessions to fill those holes."
To determine which of the submissions would make the final cut, staff sent them back out to the community for a vote, again using Surveymonkey.com "There was a lot of discussion on Twitter and Facebook, with people lobbying for their sessions and getting people to vote," Ross says. Generally, the sessions with the most votes appeared on the agenda. However, Ross notes, NTEN staff also included some necessary topics, even if they weren't top vote-getters.
What's Next
Just after this issue went to press in July, NETN was scheduled to have a community call with the membership to get feedback — good and bad — on the 2009 meeting, as well as ideas for the 2010 event.
And Ross never knows what kinds of ideas might arise. This year, for example, NETN tried a community suggestion for better networking: They created 10 different laptop stickers and gave each registrant 10 copies of the same sticker. During the event, attendees traded stickers with other delegates until they had each of the 10 different stickers. Once they did, they could turn it in for a gift. "That came from an open community call where people started to riff off each other," Ross says. "That kind of forum really bubbles some great things to the surface."
Innovative and Useful
Ross doesn't take complete credit for the community-driven agenda. She developed the concept after attending the South By Southwest Music and Media Festival in Austin, Texas, where portions of the program were community-driven. She recognized it as an idea that made sense for NTEN. "When it comes to our conference, we hope that what we implement is a marriage of innovation and utility — a new way of looking at things, but also something you can use right now to make your organization more effective at meeting its mission."
Taking CUES From Radiohead
The Innovator
Dawn poker
Senior Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, Credit Union Executives Society, MADISON, WIS.
The Innovation
With the financial industry melting down last fall, Dawn Poker was more than a little concerned about pulling off the Credit Union Executives Society's CEO Network Conference in Las Vegas last November. By September, registrations had slowed considerably and the association was looking at low attendance and high attrition penalties. It was a big problem that called for a big idea. So Poker and her colleague, Christopher Stevenson, professional development manager at CUES, got together one day to brainstorm ways to boost attendance. And suddenly it hit them: Let attendees pay what they can.
The idea to have attendees set their own price for registration actually came from alternative rock band Radiohead. In late 2007, Radiohead released its album "In Rainbows" on the Web only, telling customers they could pay whatever they liked to download it.
Stevenson floated the idea for CUES, and Poker ran with it, having just been at a leadership conference where Radiohead was featured as a case study. They brought the idea to CUES CEO Fred Johnson, who gave his enthusiastic stamp of approval. "Our association is about professional development and we felt that at this difficult time people needed to come together more than ever to network with their peers, talk about what's going on, and be part of the discussion," says Poker. Instead, many were staying home because they couldn't afford the registration fee — that was not good for members, or CUES.
How to Make it Happen
With the CEO Network Conference barely eight weeks away, Poker and her team sent e-mails and made phone calls to communicate the pay-what-you-can pricing to members. CUES even informed those who had already signed up at full price, saying they could pay less if they liked. (All of them declined.) The new offer led to an immediate spike in attendance. About 39 people took advantage of the deal, paying less than the set fee. Five people opted not to pay anything. The rest paid full price. "We were never fearful that everyone would take advantage of this, because the credit union movement is all about helping one another," Poker says. If they can afford it, people will pay for things they think are worth paying for, she says.
The conference attracted 200 attendees, with close to half signing up after the promotion. Poker estimates that attendance was probably 35 percent higher than it would have been otherwise. All told, CUES got an average of $100 less per attendee registration. That's not bad, considering it's only about one-tenth of the registration fee. And the benefits far outweighed the relatively minor revenue hit. "We were able to fill our hotel block and meet our food-and-beverage minimum, so we didn't have attrition," she says. Beyond that, the initiative generated a lot of positive public relations. And more important, it created member loyalty. "We've gotten a tremendous amount of value from the program," Poker says. "Our members really appreciate it."
What's Next
For the upcoming 2009 CEO/Executive Team Network event in Orlando, the pay-what-you-can scheme is back by popular demand. "Just today, I had three people call me about it," Poker notes. She doesn't know if the offer will continue beyond 2009, but there has been discussion about rolling it out every year. "This may be the way of the future," she says. "We need to look at it."
When the Going Gets Tough, Innovate
"We wish we could say it was one of those ideas that we thought and thought and thought about," jokes Poker, but that wasn't the case. The bolt of inspiration was a solution born of necessity that required immediate action and decisiveness to bring to fruition.
Times are tough for associations nationwide. And in Poker's view, that makes it precisely the moment to embrace new ways of thinking. With the economy struggling, attendance down, and people reluctant to travel, the rewards of innovative ideas outweigh the risks.
Directing Traffic
The Innovator
Tom Shimala
Director, Technical Exhibit Services, Radiological Society of North America, OAK BROOK, ILL.
The Innovation
For the past 12 years, Tom Shimala has overseen technical exhibit services for the Radiological Society of North America's annual meeting, the largest medical meeting in the country, with nearly 60,000 attendees. Held at McCormick Place in Chicago, the event has grown steadily over the past decade, even in the current recession. RSNA 2007 set records for revenue, exhibit space sold, and total attendance, while RSNA 2008 set a record for professional attendance and marked only a 4 percent decline in exhibit space sold.
With so much growth, RSNA has been bursting at the seams. More exhibitors, larger booths, and the flood of attendees have created traffic jams on the show floor. "Our goal was to eliminate the congestion, but even more important, to get the traffic evenly distributed around the halls," says Shimala.
Tackling the problem meant rethinking the show's whole configuration. First, RSNA hired a company called EthnoMetrics to analyze traffic patterns. Video footage showed that crowds were jamming up at some larger booths and not moving to other aisles. EthnoMetrics recommended creating two main "highways" running north and south to let traffic move more freely between the front and back of the hall. (Two east/west highways were added as well, to accomplish the same objective.) Video recordings after the changes showed that traffic was more evenly distributed. "So when people say, 'My booth location is too far back,' we can verify to them that the area received as much or more traffic than the front," says Shimala.
What's Next
For RSNA 2008, Shimala introduced another big change. He booked a third hall at McCormick Place. While total exhibit space sold was down 4 percent, the decision to move from two halls to three was made in order to improve the customer experience. Some exhibitors were concerned that traffic wouldn't flow into the new hall; however, RSNA used RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology to monitor attendee movement, and was able to show that, in reality, the third hall did not receive less traffic. Receivers were installed at entrances and exits, and attendees had tags on their badges that recorded when they came and went. (Wearing the tags was voluntary, but Shimala reports that very few opted out.)
And there was another new twist: restaurants. RSNA 2008 debuted a food outlet called Bistro RSNA in each hall. These buffet-style eateries with many menu choices offer large seating areas where attendees or exhibitors have the option to reserve tables.
Last year, the new dining outlet resulted in 20 percent more people eating in the halls. "If we can move people to the floor to find good food and quick service, everyone is benefiting," Shimala says.
Innovation is All about the Customer
Widening lanes, adding exhibit space, and investing in technology are expensive propositions. But if they improve the experience for attendees and make the show more efficient and effective for exhibitors, then they're worth it. That's Shimala's bottom line.
The New Show Floor: Replacing Sales With Science
The Innovator
Alvin Lever
Executive Vice President and CEO, American College of Chest Physicians, NORTHBROOK, ILL.
The Innovation
Considering his degrees in architecture and his history of designing medical facilities, it's not surprising to find Al Lever spearheading a redesign of the ACCP's exhibit hall. It's a redesign that was very much needed. The updated Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals, which went into effect January 1, 2009, bans promotional giveaways typically offered at exhibit booths. In July, medical device companies began facing similar restrictions under the Advanced Medical Tech-nology Association's new code.
But the need to rethink medical conventions and exhibitions goes beyond what some call the "tchotchke rule." Lever sees today's regulatory challenges as an invitation to transform the exhibit hall into an education center.
How to Make it Happen
With input from exhibitors and members of ACCP's Industry Advisory Council, Lever and his team offered to several companies exhibiting at CHEST 2008 (ACCP's annual convention) an alternative to traditional booths: clinical resource centers. Staffed by scientists, not salespeople, these centers were set up like lounges, with seating, product information, and educational resources.
While some companies have set up medical information desks separate from their promotional booths before, Lever's concept is different, as the clinical resource centers will actually replace the marketing booth and put the medical scientific liaisons in an environment that allows real peer-to-peer exchange.
While exhibitors paid ACCP the same fee for a 20-foot-by-30-foot clinical resource center as they would have for a traditional 20-by-30 booth, they potentially save on costs for shipping, setup, and take-down of promotional displays. In addition, they're not taking salespeople out of the field.
Both are critical considerations given the current economy. "We are giving companies a better environment to discuss the scientific and clinical aspects of products at a lower cost," Lever says.
To further expand the trade show's educational aspect, ACCP offers simulation centers in a ballroom outside the exhibit hall, where attendees can try out new equipment and procedures.
What's Next
Lever and his team plan to improve and expand the clinical resource center concept for CHEST 2009 this fall in San Diego. Centers will be arranged in clusters organized by theme, such as disease state or technology, making it easier for attendees to navigate.
Innovation Means Education
Lever believes that it's of paramount importance for meetings to provide as many educational opportunities as possible to attendees. "We're just scratching the surface of the ideas that we're developing," he says. "These are exciting times."
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The groom is the son of James and Rose Luckino of Weirton. He is a graduate of Brooke High School and is employed by the West Virginia Department of Highways.
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The bride was escorted by granddaughters Alanna Babel and Kylee Haines. Kerri Babel, her daughter, served as maid of honor. Flowers girls were Teagan Babel, Alessa Luckino, Felicia Wohlgemuth and Mia Wohlgemuth.
James Luckino served as his son's best man. Ringer bearers were Reed Luckino and Nico Luckino.
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The Palabos library offers a framework in C++ for fluid flow simulations with the lattice Boltzmann (LB) method. Originally conceived as a research tool for lattice Boltzmann models, the code has evolved into a general-purpose program for computational fluid dynamics. The programming interface is straightforward and offers an access to the rich world of lattice Boltzmann, even to an audience with restricted theoretical knowledge of this method. A special emphasis is put on high performance and parallel computing.
Wisecracker is a high performance distributed cryptanalysis framework that leverages GPUs and multiple CPUs. It allows security researchers to write their own cryptanalysis tools that can distribute brute-force cryptanalysis work across multiple systems with multiple multi-core processors and GPUs. Security researchers can also use the sample tools provided out-of-the-box. The differentiating aspect of Wisecracker is that it uses OpenCL and MPI together to distribute the work across multiple systems, each having multiple CPUs and/or GPUs.
The 2DECOMP&FFT library is a software framework in Fortran to build large-scale parallel applications. It is designed for applications using three-dimensional structured mesh and spatially implicit numerical algorithms. At the foundation, it implements a general-purpose 2D pencil decomposition for data distribution on distributed-memory platforms. On top, it provides a highly scalable and efficient interface to perform three-dimensional distributed FFTs.
HOPSPACK solves derivative-free optimization problems in a C++ software framework. The framework enables parallel operation using MPI (for distributed machine architectures) and multithreading (for single machines with multiple processors or cores). Optimization problems can be very general: functions can be noisy, nonsmooth, and nonconvex, linear and nonlinear constraints are supported, and variables may be continuous or integer-valued.
Elemental is a C++ framework for distributed-memory dense linear algebra that strives to be fast, portable, and programmable. It can be thought of as a generalization of PLAPACK to element-by-element distributions that also makes use of recent algorithmic advances from the FLAME project. Elemental usually outperforms both PLAPACK and ScaLAPACK, however, it heavily relies on MPI collectives so a good MPI implementation is crucial. Both pure MPI and hybrid OpenMP-MPI configurations are supported.
astroPluto is modular Godunov-type code intended mainly for astrophysical applications and high Mach number flows in multiple spatial dimensions. The code embeds different hydrodynamic modules and multiple algorithms to solve the equations describing Newtonian, relativistic, MHD, or relativistic MHD fluids in Cartesian or curvilinear coordinates.
The underling library provides simple, scalable means to manipulate MPI-parallel, three dimensional pencil decompositions using FFTW. Pencil decompositions are a natural way to distribute O(n^3) data across O(n^2) processors and are well-suited for memory-intensive, structured spectral turbulence simulations and postprocessing codes. It may be useful in other domains as well. The library is written in C99 and may be used by C89 or C++ applications.
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There is an unique solution with x being approximately 0.739085. But is there also a closed form solution?
The equation in question is a transcendental equation. Apart of guessing, numerical or analytical methods, there is no way of solving the equation without using another transcendental function, and therefore argue in circles.
In this case, denote $g(x)=\cos x -x$, see that its derivative is negative with countable many zeros, and therefore $g$ is strictly decreasing, yielding that there is at most one solution to $g(x)=0$. Since $g(0)g(\pi/2)<0$ there is such a solution. Arbitrary precise approximations can be found using Newton, bisection, or false position method.
As user Myself commented, it is a challenge (not so hard) to prove that the sequence $x_{n+1}=\cos x_n, x_0 \in \Bbb{R}$ converges to the unique solution to $\cos x=x$.
Another related problem which I encountered last week when trying to help one of my friends for an exam is to find all continuous functions $f : \Bbb{R} \to \Bbb{R}$ with the property that $f(x)=f(\cos x)\ \forall x \in \Bbb{R}$.
Mathworld calls this the Dottie Number. The page makes no mention of existence/non-existence of "closed" form and I would guess it is still open.


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USSTAG's Andrew Campbell, Brad Nichol Win Silver Medal at Star Europeans; Three USSTAG Teams Finish in Top Five
Viareggio, Italy (June 12, 2010) – US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics' (USSTAG) Star teams had a stronghold on a deep, 132-boat fleet this week at the 2010 Star European Championship in Viareggio, Italy, the biggest Star event in the class' history. USSTAG's Andrew Campbell (San Diego, Calif.)/Brad Nichol (Miami, Fla.) won a silver medal, while the teams of George Szabo (San Diego, Calif.)/Mark Strube (West Palm Beach, Fla.) and Mark Mendelblatt (St. Petersburg, Fla.)/John von Schwarz (Annapolis, Md.) finished fourth and fifth, respectively. The German team of Johannes Polgar /Markus Koy led the regatta from the beginning, but the places below changed daily. The U.S. teams consistently stayed in the top ten, thanks to several stellar days and seamless teamwork.
"We're very excited about this finish," said Campbell. "What a great day for San Diego Yacht Club, and another strong performance by the US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics. All the guys sailed well. The point spread in the top ten was tight because of the extraordinary series that everybody had amongst the biggest fleet in class history.
"We sailed conservatively, cautiously and consistently this week. We tried to avoid the traffic as much as we could," he said. "We had the best overall series if you count all six races, so that game plan ended up working out really well."
The starts were particularly challenging because of the sheer size of the fleet, so it was easy to get caught in the packs. "We stayed away from high risk starts and tried to get a clean lane so we had room to work our way up the first beat instead of battling with the pack," said Nichol.
Another challenge was the light air, which caused postponements and ultimately long days on the water. Each beat was approximately two-and-a-half miles long, so the races often lasted two-and-a-half hours. Of the six race days, they were only able to start on time two of the days, so they spent hours on the water in the hot sun, waiting for the afternoon sea breeze to fill in.
"Because of the sheer size of the fleet, the starting line [was] in two segments, totaling 1.4 kilometers, more than 4,000 feet long," Campbell wrote on his blog. "The beats [were] kept to a reasonable two-plus miles and except for [Thursday's] five-leg course, we've been tallying up eight-mile races, no problem."
"I am really impressed with the team and their determination to get to the top," said USSTAG Coach Mark Ivey (Tiburon, Calif.). "Instead of accepting where they were, they attacked the race course and continually advanced."
Campbell and Nichol applauded Ivey, who assembled U.S. team meetings every day at 10 a.m. to discuss the previous day's racing and the conditions. Ivey then had the U.S. teams do daily line-ups to test their starts.
"Coach Ivey really held us together through a grueling, light-air week, and I think the U.S. team put up a strong front with our 12:15 daily line-ups," said Campbell. "By the end of the week, there were lots of boats that wanted to see how they would line up against us."
Campbell and Nichol agreed that the USSTAG's strong team presence, training and coaching this week at the Expert Olympic Garda in Riva del Garda, Italy, last month made a big impact on how they performed at the Star Europeans. USSTAG's Szabo and Strube won a silver medal and Campbell/Nichol finished fourth at the Expert Olympic Garda.
USSTAG is made up of the United States' top athletes in each of the 10 Olympic and three Paralympic classes who train together with the common goals of winning medals at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Weymouth, England. The next major event for the team is Kiel Week, the sixth ISAF Sailing World Cup event in the 2009-2010 series, which is scheduled for June 19-23 in Kiel, Germany.
For Fried Elliott's daily photos of the USSTAG, please visit http://photos.friedbits.com/p571101811. For all of his pictures from this event, please visit http://photos.friedbits.com/2010stareuropeanchampionship. [Editors: If you're interested in downloading high-resolution photos for editorial use, please contact Marni Lane for the coupon code.]
For the full results, please visit the event web site: http://www.stareuropean2010.it/
To read Campbell and Nichol's daily regatta reports and analysis, please visit their campaign blog: http://campbellnichol2012.blogspot.com/
To read additional reports from the 2010 Star Europeans, please visit: http://sailingteams.ussailing.org
For the latest USSTAG news and updates, please follow the team on Facebook and Twitter.
About the US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics
The US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics is managed by the United States Sailing Association (US SAILING), the national governing body for the sport of sailing and sailboat racing. The top boats in each Olympic and Paralympic class are selected annually to be members of the US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics. US SAILING supports these elite athletes with funding, coaching and training. The title sponsor of the team is AlphaGraphics; other sponsors include Rolex Watch USA, Atlantis WeatherGear, Sperry Top-Sider, LaserPerformance, Harken, Team McLube, Bow Down Training, New England Ropes, Group Experiential Learning and Trinity Yachts. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, US SAILING is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. US SAILING offers training and education programs for instructors and race officials, supports a wide range of sailing organizations and communities, issues offshore rating certificates, and provides administration and oversight of competitive sailing across the country. For more information about US SAILING, please visit: www.ussailing.org. For more information about the US Olympic Sailing Program and the US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics, please visit: http://sailingteams.ussailing.org.


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I'm replanking my deck with 5/4"x4"x12' cedar. The existing 12" spaced joists are in good condition and all are perpendicular to the ledger. Deck is approximately 23' wide. Previous owner/contractor laid down the decking planks with lots of butt joints and both pieces screwed to the same joist at the joints. I want to avoid any butt joints and add a breaker board at the middle of the deck instead. Never done a deck before. Thinking I need to add to the skeleton of the deck to accommodate the breaker board. Should I add new short joists perpendicular to the existing joists for the breaker board?
Ok so what's a "breaker" board?
Deck boards are always just butted together.
It's never a good look to have all the boards the same length and have them all meet in the middle.
Just cut the pieces to differant lenghts so the butt joints are offset by at least two floor joist.
Thanks for the reply.
See attached image for an example of a breaker board. From the research I've done, seems like a lot of people are moving away from butting deck boards together at joints. Looks nicer to have a breaker board and helps avoid splits and rot common at butt joints.
What I'm not sure about is if I need to put in a new double joist for the breaker board, or maybe put in blocking and attach the breaker board to the blocking?
You would need another joist and blocking between them to do it that way.
Not going to do a thing to stop the ends from rotting, just for looks.This message has been edited. Last edited by: joecaption,
Generally there are allowances made during construction for what you are trying to do. Just remember that each deck board will have to be attached at the ends to a joist and the "breaker board" also has to be attached as well. New construction would just put two joist w/blocks of sufficent width to attach each side of the breaker board(3/4") and allow for 3/4" of the deck to attach to each joist as well. Sort of sharing each joist with the edge of the breaker board and the end of the deck board.
That will not prevent rot because the water will still enter in the cracks between the deck board end and breaker board. As a suggestion you might use a biscuit joiner on the ends to keep the tops level. But you should treat the biscuits with a protective coating and use waterproof glue.
Yup, it's just a looks thing. As said above, you'll have to add joists or expand the center joist so that it's wide enough to not only hold the width of the breaker board, but also so you can attach the ends of the planks. It does make for a clean looking deck. It also makes the deck look segmented. This could be good or bad depending on what you like.
But, the decking will last exactly as long as if the planks were butt joined.
I don't know anybody moving away from butt joints, and I don't know anybody doing a 'breaker board'. To me, unless it's part of a bigger design, to me, it looks like someone didn't do proper planning, it looks like a mistake. And agreed with the others as to if it stops rot.
There are actually a lot of decking folks talking about butt joints placed on single joists being a cause of rot with softwood decks. Here's an example: http://tigerwooddecking.com/blog/?p=21
Your link really doesn't address that at all, other than mention that butt joints are a source of moisture damage. Which is an obvious thing - any time you have exposed end-grain it is going to be more susceptible to rot than other parts of the decking plank. It's what happens when water can be trapped within the small space between the two ends of the butt joined planks. However, the same is true of what will happen if the end of a plank is set up against the side of the deck breaker board. The joint will still hold water and the end grain of the plank will still be likely to rot. Only here, instead of having two ends of planks rotting right next to each other, they are separated by the width of the deck breaker board and are rotting at the same rate about 5-1/2" apart from each other.
So again, the deck breaker is a design feature only. It does nothing at all to make the deck last longer. There is certainly nothing wrong with designing your deck with one or more breaker planks in it - I will sometimes use them when making an odd-shaped deck - like an octagon pattern. The framing of a deck with a breaker is a little harder, as discussed in the above posts. If you are using a breaker as a divider for an angle joint in the deck, then it can be easier to install decking as the breaker allows your plank alignment to be just a little off yet still look good. If all decking is installed straight-on as in the picture above, then the overall deck construction is a little harder if using a breaker board.
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Ravaged is described by the developers as, "...a first-person shooter online multiplayer game like no other," and it mostly delivers on that promise by offering gamers an unique setting and world but fails to truly expand beyond the genre norms. While multiplayer shooters have featured backdrops of post-apocalyptic worlds, none have quite captured the genuine spirit of the much-loved setting more than the experience presented in Ravaged.
Each multiplayer match supports up to 32 players separated into the sides of Resistance and Scavengers. Both groups wage war against one another to capture various bases and more importantly, the much sought-after resource of fuel. The fast-paced matches in Ravaged have players raging war on foot and in various types of ground and air vehicles. Ravaged is quite simply the video game equivalent of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, combined with more explosive mayhem and death.
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The most prominent and noteworthy feature of Ravaged is the selection of vehicles available both on the ground and in the skies. Ranging from dune buggies and armored Strykers to ATVs and helicopters, each of the vehicles are an absolute thrill to drive around maps without any regard to the safety of others. The majority of the vehicles also support room for additional players to catch a ride or control one of the many turret types. Players are nearly always ensured to gain access to a vehicle with their abundant quantity, quick spawn time, and ability to transport to ones driven by other players. Countdowns are even displayed over vehicle base locations to indicate their next spawn time.
Most of the ground vehicles handle well with precise turning and ability to enable a boost, yet suffer on a few occasions with traversing rough map surfaces. There were a few scenarios in which the vehicle would completely get stuck or flip as a result of accidentally hitting a rock. In comparison with the game's two helicopters, ground vehicles perform exceptionally well in all of the maps. In stark contrast, helicopters require a great deal of patience and precision to properly master the way in which they handle during flight. When mastered, helicopters are some of the most powerful vehicles in matches with their ability to reign death upon ground players and vehicles.
Loadouts of mayhem
In addition to the wide selection of vehicles, players can select from five character classes in both the Resistance and Scavengers sides. Characters include the normal set of classes from soldiers and snipers to distinct classes like assassins and weapon specialists. The Resistance side has a wider variety of newer and more advanced weaponry while the Scavengers rely on rusty sawed off shotguns and AK-47s. Each character class has the ability to customize their loadout with a selection of primary and secondary weapons, melee weapon, and grenade type.
The ability to instantly switch between character classes and loadouts ensure that players can quickly find a gameplay style that is most successive for them in combat. Ravaged focuses on the ease of character customization over the often overly challenging and dull process of acquiring additional weapons and equipment that is featured frequently in modern multiplayer shooters. No experience grinding is required to gain access to any of the weapons available in the loadout selection.
Post-apocalyptic bliss
The vehicles and weapons available to players are both extensions of the game's highly-detailed and engrossing post-apocalyptic world that alternates from barren desert landscapes to frozen tundra. The game launches with eight maps that share the relatively similar gameplay experience except for the iconic elements that makes each its own distinct identity. In particular, the map Liberty includes the split remains of Lady Liberty's body and head buried in the sand. The Rooftop map features the most distinct visual style from the rest with a landscape covered in snow and ice and most striking, the frozen Eiffel Tower that continually looms in the background.
Maps range in a variety of styles with some that lack any vehicles and instead focus more on close-quarters combat, while others span expansive areas of desert valleys that cater to ground and air vehicle assaults. One of the maps that I continually went back to was Bridge in which the ruins of the Golden Gate Bridge divide the area down the middle with surrounding ravines that provide a great area for vehicular and air combat. On one particular occasion, I was in an armored car with three other players frantically fighting for our lives against two pursing enemy vehicles. Ravaged truly shines best when the post-apocalyptic setting is combined with intense vehicular combat.
Built on the Unreal Engine 3, the world of Ravaged successfully captures the bleak and brutal atmosphere of a post-apocalyptic setting while also maintaining the essence of a 80s action film. Some issues with the game's presentation do affect the overall atmosphere and setting on a few occasions with overly bright sun ray effects and odd glitches with camera angles that seemed to constantly shift from closer and further away. None of the presentation issues ever hindered the actual gameplay, but instead resulted in an uneven visual experience. In regards to the game's sound, Ravaged delivers an explosive and loud experience that fits perfectly with the post-apocalyptic setting. The armored cars, dune buggies, and helicopters especially pack a punch with their engine and weapon sounds that clearly signal that death is approaching to players in the distance.
Genre fallout
If you've guessed by now, I had an absolute thrill with both the gameplay and atmosphere of Ravaged. However, the major issue that sets back the game from true greatness is the fact that it simply doesn't move the genre forward or include any gameplay element that hasn't been featured before. The included game types range from simple capture the fuel resource, or better known as a flag in other multiplayer shooters, to gaining control of bases. With the engrossing and unique setting of a post-apocalyptic world, it was disappointing that not any original or more varied game types were included with the distinct maps. At the moment, Ravaged contains a solid foundation with addictive gameplay and atmospheric setting that have me excited to see where the developers will take Ravaged in future updates and add-ons.
The success of Ravaged will rely heavily on if it can maintain a solid online community in the future, which involve factors relating to if players stick around and on how the manner in which additional contact is released to owners. I for one am eagerly hoping that Ravaged is able to build a solid community of gamers as a result of the tremendously entertaining vehicular and air combat. The freedom of customization with character class and weapon loadouts is an important element to the game's principle of providing players with the utmost freedom in their gameplay style. As well, players are constantly thrust straight into combat while ignoring the common error of other multiplayer shooters with long travel distances and wait times for vehicle spawns.
The overall experience is slightly hindered from the flaws present with the game's handling of helicopters, occasional presentation glitches, and lack of any unique game types. However, Ravaged continually provides an adrenaline shot of explosive online warfare that is difficult to ignore in a genre that's host to the same repeat of dull and unoriginal game releases each year. More importantly, Ravaged is a callback to classic multiplayer shooters that placed more emphasis on the actual gameplay experience over gimmicky experience grinding. Post-apocalyptic enthusiasts and fans of multiplayer vehicular carnage shouldn't hesitate in planning an extended vacation to the explosive and addictive world of Ravaged.
Ravaged is available now for Windows PC.
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