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Motorcycle Vagabond
Joined: Nov 2006
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I just got home yesterday
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Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Diamond Bar, CA.
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Day 12: Sunday July 5th, 2009
It was a good thing we were indoors last night.
Huge thunderstorms with lots of lightning pounded the Conway Arkansas area all night.
My first waking thought was about the condition of the trail. Would it all be muddy and slippery? Would it be a hellish day of slipping around? I'd heard the horror stories, I'd seen the pictures...
My second waking thought was "Breakfast"!!!
And we were all good there. Tinks whipped up a great morning feast!
Yummy food and free Wi-Fi meant we got a late departure, but that was OK.
We had a kickstand up / wheels rolling by 11:30. There were brief rainstorms, but the trail was in good shape; and their was no dust!
The TAT took us through the countryside.
Past farms, and cows with BIG horns.
Across streams.
And to another Sonic for lunch.
There's something about a drive-in when you are on a motorcycle that just makes sense.
Semi-health food.
After lunch, the TAT took us past small, abandoned towns.
Scotland Arkansas's Post Office.
The large road grader the make the dirt roads so smooth and fast.
Honestly, the dirt roads in the Ozark National Forest are in better condition than a lot of the paved roads in the area.
I mean look at them.
Consistant traction for controled burn outs and power sildes.
Motoadventuregal approved!
Nice road surfaces.
Too bad my tires were pretty shot by now.
The forest views were a nice treat.
But don't get distracted, or you might go off the road like this guy did!
I tok this picture as I was passing the moving flat-bed truck going about 50MPH. (Not bad camera work for on the fly, 'eh?)
We rode all the side roads that looked like they might offer us a view.
Cell towers usually had good views of the forest around us.
Occasionally we would get a clearing.
As we entered and exited the Ozark National Forest several times.
(Of course there were some 'slightly tricky' sections, but I did not take pictures - I was too busy keeping moving.)
Bamboo was growing alonside thr roads. We don't have that in Connecticut.
We rode past old abandoned houses,
and on through the forest for mile after mile.
Climbing to higher elevations, the sky gets brighter.
Eventually we get to a ridgeline. The air is cooler and there is a breeze to keep the bugs away. (We've had our fill of hot, humid with bugs by now.)
Motoadventuregal finds a small, steep, side road that leads to a hiltop clearing.
It's called "Pilot Rock" and used to be the site of a fire tower.
Here's a panorama from the top.
The place is so nice, that even though it is still early, we decide to set up camp here and enjoy the afternoon.
It's cool and dry. There are no bugs, and there is a great view.
For me it's time for a cocktail. Rum and Coke anyone?
While enjoying the location, in the distance we hear motors. High reving motors with quick throttle controls. Getting louder. Dirt bikes perhaps.
Other TAT-ers?
These guys come screaming up the hill towards us, and lock up the brakes when they see our little camp.
Arkansas locals in their Dune Buggies.
They turn out to be really nice folks.
Notice the cooler bungied to the front of the vehicle?
These rigs were custom, well made and fast!
(Perhaps I'll take my Dad on the TAT, in one of these next time! )
These VW motors were no joke. Probably 150 HP.
Look what they were doing to the tires!!!
After about a half hour of conversation and the mutual asking of questions about our vehicles and trips, they left in a roaring cloud of dust. We could hear them tearing down the National Forest road for quite a few minutes as they drove away.
Then it was dinner time. Tonight we had something besides Glorp. We had Chicken Chili!
And watched the sunset.
Another awesome day on the TAT.
Stats for the Day:
125 miles.
Moving average 33.7 Moving time 3:43
Stopped 1:44. Total 5:32.
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Questor screwed with this post 10-08-2009 at 02:19 PM
Motorcycle Vagabond
Joined: Nov 2006
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Day 12 MotoAdventureGal pics
Questor...you forgot the Tinks' famous COFFEE!!!! She spent 20 minutes making us the absolutely most perfect cup of coffee I've ever had in my life. And only in a TRUE ADVrider household do you find the GoJo right next to the MoJO.
The sign itself is not so significant...but what it DOES do is mark the beginning of the 'interesting' TAT, at least for me. If I ever do a "re-do" of the TAT, I'll start in Arkansas. Probably at Tinks and Scoon's since they are now a waypoint on Sam's Maps... :-)
GPS says?
I suppose this RR would not be complete without mentioning that my GPSMap 60Cx was on crack the entire TAT. Yes, I wanted to be in front at times, but Q and I could never figure out what my GPS would do next. We were navigating from the same tracks, same waypoints, yet mine would say go left when his said go right. And lest you think that it was due to "Fastest route" SHortest Distance" differences, my GPS would sometimes tell us we were heading South or West when we were facing the sun in the morning!
This was such a cool side road...and the mark of the beginning of my being the primary camping spot picker. I just had a feeling about this place, and it was so beautiful up on the ridge...there were 360 degree views
After the VW-cart-ers zoomed off across the forest we laid out our entire pantry to see what magic Q could perform from our meager rations
sorry, operator error on the camera controls
my personal chef
After dinner we took a stroll along the ridge
And witnessed a pretty fabulous sunset
no fly on the tent this night.
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MotoAdventureGal screwed with this post 10-18-2009 at 08:45 PM
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Hey all, Greetings from Tn. I liked the "antique car " tag on the railbuggy. We didn't have s shooting at the creek this year,guess people either can't afford the ammo or hording it for the coming end of the world. But we did have two near drownings, one atv rollover,two knife fights and various fistfights so the 4th of July wasn't a total bust. If it wasn't for the meth labs and the drug heads it would be a great place to live ! It is app 98 miles from the camp back to the house. It took a little longer than expected -I had to stop for a confab with a THP. Who would have thought a Klr 650 would do 72 in a 45 ? Lucky it was one of my buddies that pulled me. He was just setting up for a drunk driver checkpoint ,If I had came from the other way his Lt was on the other end and that would have been $$$. Brenda and the dogs say hey .
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Location: Aztec, NM, USA
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Great report, thanks for taking the time to post it!! Looking forward to the rest of the story!!
Hiram V.
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Joined: Sep 2002
Location: Corral de Tierra CA, Ketchum ID
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Great trip so far keep it coming!
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Location: Diamond Bar, CA.
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Thanks for checking in.
So good to hear from you.
It's good to be a local when it comes to dealing with cops.
I'm glad your 4th of July was not a disapointment.
I've got lots more epic stories and pictures to upload to the collective.
I knew this Ride Report would take a while to post. What I did not know is how much bandwidth it's using. I had to upgrade my phptobucket account to "Pro" to deal with the 30GB a month this Ride Report is using up.
It's worth it...
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Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Diamond Bar, CA.
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Day 13: Monday July 6th, 2009.
After a great nights sleep in the cool weather we woke up to overcast skies.
So we made a batch of coffee, broke down camp, and were rolling by 7:30am. Temperatures were in the low 60's but the air was dry. Perfect riding conditions for a New Englander like myself.
We rode an hour and a half to the town of Oark.
We passed some small logging operations.
But for the most part, the TAT was beautiful and peaceful.
We stopped to check out the small suspension bridge that went over a particularly blue river.
By 9:00am we found ourselves entering Oark.
Home of the famous Oark Country Store. I'd read that the food here was good, so I was hungry for a good breakfast.
We lined up the motorcycles in formation.
Pet the store's dog.
When we saw the stickers on ther door, we knew we were in "The Right Place".
The decor was homey. Not fake homey like some restauraunt chains.
And the food did not dissapoint.
The biscuits and gravy were very good.
We stayed there for almost two hours talking to an old biker guy who used to work for the Strategic Air Command. He had tons of great stories about the big bombers that he used to work on.
Best quote. "Strategic Air Command. Peace is our profession - total annihlation is our specialty."
After eating, on our way out of the store I noticed this mounted above the door.
We gassed up.
And continued west on the TAT.
A few hours later we came to the infamous "War Loop Road".
It has been called the toughest part of the eastern TAT.
I found it to be fairly tame, but there were a few sections that would be tricky on a Big Bike. It was steep in places. Again, I did not take pictures of the tricky parts. I was too busy riding.
But we did see the pile of logs that a fellow ADVrider had cleared that spring.
We left a note for those that were following us.
Once we finished War Loop Road, we stopped for lunch.
This is what we were able to come up with.
In hindsight, I should have eaten the Dog Food...
I knew we were near the Arkansas / Oaklahoma border when I saw this.
But then again, the past week was becoming a blur.
I decided to name this area, "Tennemissiarkahoma".
Motoadventuregal had been contacted by "Vinnie the Snake" who lives near Tulsa. He had seen our TAT OCD 2009 thread in "Trip Planning" and he strongly suggested that we detour out of our way to stay with him for a day or two and get caught up on maintenance. I was unsure, for I wanted to stay on the TAT as much as possible, but when he said he had an air conditioned garage where I could work on the bikes, I agreed. We needed new tires, an oil change, and Vinnie seemed like he knew the TAT very well.
My rear tire.
Motoadventuregal's front tire.
(I'll just add this now. Meeting "Vinnie the Snake" was probably the highlight of the trip for me. A wiser, more generous person I have never met. His knowledge of motorcycles, gear, places to ride, and the TAT surpass most. And he's just such a nice guy. We were to meet up again in Colorado in two months time.)
So we rode to "Vinnie the Snakes" place in Oaklahoma.
Should we tresspass here?
We saw large 4 legged animals.
Stopped to get gas, and had to check out this tank.
and rode some 70 miles of slab to "Vinnie's".
When we rolled into "Vinnie's" place, he let us unpack, offered us cool drinks, and took us out to dinner at his favorite local Mexican restauraunt.
No Glorp tonight. Tonight we eat solid food.
And to top things off. Mr. Snake let us sleep in his air conditioned camper.
We were very fortunate...
Just an aside. See the tent drying out on the ground in that last picture?
When I picked it up to dry out the other side, several large ticks, the size of quarters fell out. We must have had them with us since Arkansas. None bit us, but they were numerous and gross. As I've said, we'd had our share of insects: Mosquitos, black flies, grasshoppers, chiggers, ticks, and more.
It was good to be back in civilization. Thanks again Vance!
Stats for the day:
262 miles.
Moving average 35.3 Moving time 7:22
Stopped 4:56 Total 12:19
Tomorrow will be a bike and personal maintenance day...
Ride Reports:
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Questor screwed with this post 10-09-2009 at 05:42 AM
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Day 13 pics - MotoAdventureGal
All I can say is "God Bless the Snake".
I'm not sure why, but for some reason this was a hard day. I don't have any notes in my journal, but seeing the pictures I remembered this was the first time I turned off my headset and tuned out Questor. He was going too fast for me to go around the corners with him safely, and wasn't slowing up to let me get caught up after the corners, and I was tired of eating dust. (we had LOTS of days on the trail when we did not / could not fuel ourselves properly and got super grumpy with each other).
Those cheesy little sandwiches we had at lunch really didn't cut it, and honestly we probably both should have eaten another one each. Questor doesn't say it above, but we actually ate standing up in the grocery store because it was an iota cooler inside that outside. But then we get outside, and a fellow rider (in a cage not on a bike) starts chating us up and i'm FRYING and grumpy and just wanna get there because I know we have a long stretch of superslab ahead of us and GRRR is was just one of those days.
And Vinnie the Snake to the rescue!
But before all that, we rode some amazing roads in Arkansas--tons of fun!
Questor walked across--I only went half way (I had to pee!)
The parking attendant at the Oark General Store
More groovy slidey twistey roads...
This is where I had my temper tantrum and turned off the Cardo. I guess I figured if he was going to ride that fast and cut me off in the corners I'd let him get a few miles ahead...
I love riding on this surface
The road leading up to Warloop Road
The now famous stack o'wood
Sorry, no pics on Warloop ROad. I'd gotten really nervouse about riding it, and today was the day...and I can honestly say it wasn't nearly as bad as I'd heard...but I was riding a 350. I had to duck branches while negotiating large rocks, so I could see how I'd be more uncomfortable on a bigger bike. I could also see how it could get ugly fast in there when it was wet. We were lucky and it was dry.
A slight overshot in navigation brought us by this field...I could not believe my eyes...what in the world were all these strange beasts, from all different continents, doing hanging out chewing their respective cuds in the same pasture? Not in this pic is the water buffale to the left.
I did not take any pics when we got to Mr. Snake's. Instead, I divested myself of all my hot riding gear right beside the bike.
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MotoAdventureGal screwed with this post 10-18-2009 at 09:12 PM
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What kind of tires are those? I was about to razz you about not having D606's like you recommended to me. But then I remembered that you rode your bikes from CT to Tenn...so thats why they are worn out!
My D606's lasted the whole TAT ride...I had a smaller bike, 250cc and I was careful not to spin them up....
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I was using a Maxxis 6006 on the rear.
It was inexpensive and lasted approximately 4000 miles on pavement.
But it was not that great a dirt tire, and clogged up quickly in mud.
It was also VERY noisy.
Motoadventuregal was running non-DOT knobbies, and they wore very quickly once we started to run higher speeds on pavement and warmer temperatures.
I'm still a fan of the Dunlop D606 and Pirelli MT-21 for smaller Dual Sport bikes.
Now that I'm riding a KTM 950 ADV, I'm looking at the D908RR and the Mefo Super Explorer, and Mefo Stone Master.
I'll mount the Stone Masters in Spring 2010 for Labrador, and let you all know how they work out.
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I feel you on the bandwidth - we had to upgrade to Pro for our RR, too... I love your big photos - so, thanks for upgrading!
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I remember those "NO TRESPASSING - NO EXCUSES" signs! There were a whole bunch of them.
I also did not trespass there.
Nice report!
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You know my long winded and tired rants about how reality shows are far better overseas than in the U.S. thanks to much more liberal views on nudity and sex on the small screen in foreign countries. But with all the evidence I've shown you, you're probably just thinking to yourself, oh, that's just liberal Europe, or the cultural norms of South America. Well, how about Africa.
Yep, even Big Brother Africa (which you probably didn't even know existed. They've got the ladies from Nairobi and Ethiopia and six other African nations competing in their current season. And they love to take showers and baths. And the cameras just keep on rolling.
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Variable Data Printing (VDP) offers the ability to uniquely tag each item in a serialized list, which increases product security. However, it is often not cost-effective or practical to employ VDP, in which case each item is printed with the same set of images. The brand owner should be able to use such "static" printed areas to gauge if the printing was performed by an authentic or a counterfeit printer/label converter. In this paper, the author describes a system that uses a small set of pre-classified images (either authentic or counterfeit images from the same source) for initial training, and thereafter adaptively classifies and aggregates images from multiple sources as they join the population to be classified.


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Halo 3 is coming in 2007. i am anrgy it was suppose to be out this year.
Halo 3 is coming in 2007. i am anrgy it was suppose to be out this year.
I ususally hate trailers that show no game play, but man, WOW, that was freaking crazy. The music is awesome! I WANT IT!
...a vaguely celtic music fills the air...
Can't wait! I get it and then head over to sub lagoon after I'm Done since they both come out in 2007 .... I too am upset that it was supposed to come out this year.
I would just like to point out that the trailer that was put out for halo 3, was done in the actual engine. that is what the game is capable of. that game is going to be so awesome i so cant wait. Huge halo freak. ask my other half. waiting to get my armor.
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I believe that now is the time for responsible Southern Baptists to develop an exit strategy from the public schools. This strategy would affirm the basic and ultimate responsibility of Christian parents to take charge of the education of their own children. The strategy would also affirm the responsibility of churches to equip parents, support families, and offer alternatives.Those who know the history of the Religious Right might well perceive this as a logical outcome of a takeover movement that began simultaneously with the Religious Right's reaction to a 1978 IRS decision to deny tax exemptions to segregated Christian schools.
Bill Martin, in his book With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, documented an interview with Paul Weyrich, a key organizer of the Religious Right:
Paul Weyrich emphatically asserted that "what galvanized the Christian community was not abortion, school prayer, or the ERA. I am living witness to that because I was trying to get those people interested in those issues and I utterly failed. What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation." . . . The IRS threat "enraged the Christian community and they looked upon it as interference from the government, and suddenly it dawned on them that they were not going to be left alone to teach their children as they pleased. It was at that moment that conservatives made the linkage between their opposition to government interference and the interests of the evangelical movement, which now saw itself on the defensive and under attack by the government. That was what brought those people into the political process. It was not the other things."Martin added corroboration from an interview with the son of another Religious Right organizer who said,
"If the Christian schools were to lose their tax-exempt status, Billings explained, "their tuition could conceivably double. When it becomes not just a moral or a conservative/liberal issue, but a pocketbook issue, you definitely take an interest. And they did. I don't know if I was really surprised. I knew that somewhere there was going to be something that would jolt these people into action. We'd been trying to encourage that."Perhaps the SBC's attack on public schools will help jolt some more Baptists out of their lethargy about confronting the takeover of the Convention. It was never "just a preacher fight," it has always had undertones that can be traced back to the fundamentalists' disatisfaction with the leadership of SBC moderates during the civil rights era.
It is not hard to discern the ultimate goal behind SBC takeover leaders' criticism of the public schools. The intention is to replace the public schools with a balkanized system of private, religious schools funded at taxpayer expense. The threat to democracy posed by such a system has long been recognized. In 1952 James Conant, then president of Harvard University, said:
A dual system of schools with tax money going in some form to private schools, would be harmful to our democratic traditions. Some critics of the public schools are not honest in their attacks -- they want to weaken public school education and sponsor privately controlled schools. We do not have and never had an established church. To my mind, our schools should serve all creeds. The greater the proportion of our youth who attend independent schools, the greater the threat to our democratic unity. Therefore, to use taxpayers' money to assist such a move is, for me, to suggest that American society use its own hands to destroy itself.Using "our own hands" to destroy democracy, that is precisely what SBC Dominionists desire. To them, democracy is heresy. They are trying to create a Christian theocracy.


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Shaq was on the bench three times and stepped out for his debut in the Europa League group match against Anji at the Lane.
He later joined Torquay on loan in League Two and capped his 2013-14 campaign with his Football League debut and first senior goal, one of two goals in six appearances for the Gulls.
Shaq also scored seven goals in 14 appearances for our Under-21s.
He joined Southend on a season-long loan in August, 2014.
Born in Hackney, Shaq joined our Academy in July, 2011 and signed professional forms in April, 2012.
He was promoted to our Under-18s as early as the 2009-10 season and scored seven goals in 15 appearances in 2010-11.
Capped at Under-19 level for England, Shaq's statistics were impressive again in 2011-12, when he scored 12 goals in 24 apeparances (21 starts) for the Under-18s and two in two in the NextGen Series.
Shaq made headlines in 2012-13 when he struck a hat-trick in our spectacular 4-1 win at Barcelona in the NextGen Series.That was in November, 2012 and that was three of five goals in eight appearances (six starts) as the team progressed to the quarter-finals of the Under-19 competition.
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There are no missteps for K-pop performers in South Korea, onstage or off. Each group's image is cultivated with almost military precision, from coiffure to couture. The music and albums are never a hodgepodge of whim— concept, design and packaging are just as paramount as the music and lyrics.
In SHINee's case, their reinvention album, entitled "Sherlock" took its five members (Onew, Jonghyun, Key, Minho & Taemin) to new territory—provocative, semi-erotic poses for the album covers, imagined hippie hipster commune group shots and a cinematic steampunk Victorian setting for the music video. Despite two years of absence from the K-pop scene, the SHINee boys' stellar dance skills had not dulled at all, as evidenced by the fluid steps and catchy beat of the titular single "Sherlock (Clue + Note)", where they dance their way to solving a mystery, complete with requisite ghostly aid (played by SNSD's Jessica Jung).
Indeed, the future is bright and shiny for the quintet. They performed last year at Abbey Road studios, becoming the first Asian performers to have done so. Recently, the boys had also signed on to be endorsers of Korean beauty brand Etude House, along with its mainstay, Sandara Park. In Korea, it is not uncommon for men to become beauty brand endorsers, not just because of the Korean male actor's delicate features bordering on androgynous, but because all of them have damn great skin.
Their TV ad spots for Etude House's new lipstick line were really short films dubbed as "web dramas" by the brand. The web dramas were a riff of popular Japanese anime "Death Note." but with a sweeter outcome: Kiss Note, where Sandara would write the name of her dream guy in a notebook using lipstick, and said dream guy would magically be compelled to kiss her—it's every girl's dream come true. Apart from the lipstick, tins of tinted lip balm have been released called "Shini Star," with each shade representing each SHINee member. At the bottom of each tin lies a special message from each guy.
Super had the chance to go to a top secret location where SHINee and Sandara were shooting another TV ad for Etude House's summer product, Precious Mineral Sun BB Cream. We were brought to a sports complex an hour away from Seoul, where they were filming. It was bitingly cold, but SHINee and Sandara seemed unfazed, clad in matching cotton-candy pink suits.
They had nothing but good words for each other. When asked how it felt having to kiss each other for Kiss Note (Sandara had to kiss each member for each web drama installment, with the exception of Onew), the boys thanked Sandara for helping to ease them into the mood. "It was not our first kiss, but we thank Sandara for making things comfortable despite the awkwardness of the situation." Sandara meanwhile, demurred when asked who was the better kisser. "Fake lang, pero siyempre kinilig pa rin ako," Sandara answered in Filipino, proving her still excellent command of the language. Of the four web dramas she appeared in, she loved all of it, but considered the one with Minho to be memorable, "Yun yung romantic na episode!" she adds. She even professes to be a fan of their music, having loved their first song, "Parang sinasabi lang nila 'Ang ganda mo … ate,'" she laughs. SHINee's first song entitled, "Noona Neomu Yeppeo" is a song waxing poetic about a pretty noona, a term referring to an older sister, or ate in our vernacular, cementing the group's popularity amongst noonas and ates everywhere.
During a break from filming, SHINee stopped by to talk to us about training and future plans. We had to ask them first though what the secret to their amazing skin was. "We drink lots of water and make sure to cleanse just before bedtime," they replied. They also stress the importance of getting enough rest, even though their days are packed with training. "We spend nearly half of each day practicing and preparing for this (Sherlock). The moves were very difficult and challenging, and we'll always remember the long and difficult practice sessions!" they said. The choreography for Sherlock was done by Tony Testa who has done choreography and dance for the likes of Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Kylie Minogue and Beyonce.
SHINee is currently preparing for an arena tour in Japan spanning seven cities and 20 performances. They also hope to return to the Philippines and have a concert, too. "Our last visit was memorable because of the love of our fans. We hope to visit again soon and share songs from our latest album."
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Right now, I'm working my way through all of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels. Currently about half done with Lords and Ladies. That'll be fourteen books, and another twenty-five to go... I've already read most of them, but never all in one go. They're definitely worth rereading, though.
For people who aren't familiar with them, I'll put it this way: imagine Lord of the Rings written with the humor of Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, but weirder, and oddly reflecting our world. The series was off to a kind of shaky start with the first couple of books (they were still good, mind you, but read more as a series of vaguely related short stories than a cohesive whole), but after that Pratchett really caught his stride, and hasn't let up yet.


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SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 08/05/14 -- Innotas announced today it has been named to the JMP Securities "Hot 100: The Best Privately Held Software Companies" list. The report profiles 100 of the leading private companies in the software industry as identified by the software research team at JMP Securities, a full-service investment bank. Innotas is a leading provider of Cloud Portfolio Management solutions and delivers a seamless way to manage projects, resources and applications across the enterprise.
For the past five years, the 'Hot 100' has identified leading privately held software companies that show exceptional progress and potential within their sectors. Companies are selected each year based on the evaluation of multiple criteria, including financial growth, products and services, quality of leadership, customers and market potential.
"We are honored to be named to the JMP Hot 100 list for the second time in three years, recognizing our growth and leadership in the Project Portfolio Management sector," said Kevin Kern, CEO of Innotas. "Not only is this an incredibly exciting recognition, but it further validates our success in delivering the best Project Portfolio Management solution to organizations worldwide."
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Of the 10 games between the two at Sabina Park, Windies have won six, India one and three have ended in draws.
New Delhi: In a three-match Test series, it is imperative to win the first Test. Very often in the past it has been seen that India have lost the first Test on a tour and then had to come back to draw level. Almost always one of the three games is drawn and what at the beginning of a tour looks like an opportunity to register an overseas Test series win often ends on an even keel.
After India comfortably won the one-off T20 game and the first three games of the ODI series, they made the cardinal mistake of taking the foot off the pedal. They failed to press home in the last two games and with hosts West Indies managing to pick up two important wins not only were they able to draw a respectable scoreline, but also wrest back the initiative from India.
India's perennial problem with the short ball came back to haunt them again at the Sabina Park in Kingston, Jamaica in the fifth ODI. Just days before that game, West Indies pace legend Curtly Ambrose had remarked how the West Indian bowlers had forgotten the art of intimidating the batsmen. But the likes of Kemar Roach and even Lendl Simmons gave the Indians some lessons in chin music.
And what is worrisome is that the first Test starting Monday will be played at the same venue. The two sides have clashed on 10 occasions at this ground with the West Indies having won six Tests, India one and three ending in draws.
The Sabina Park is full of memories of India-West Indies encounters. Right from the follow-on in 1971 to the controversial decision to declare the innings against the hostile pace attack in 1976. Playing at Sabina will test character and even though the team in whites with the likes of VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid and MS Dhoni looks stronger than the bench strength team that played the ODIs, the venue and the history it holds is bound to have an overbearing impact on the players.
The only silver lining is that India's only win at this venue in 2006 also helped them win a Test series in the West Indies in 35 years.
India first played at the Sabina Park in the fifth Test in the 1953 series. It was a game full of runs with Pankaj Roy, Polly Umrigar and Vijay Manjrekar scoring hundreds for India. For the hosts, the three W's shone with the bat with Frank Worrell scoring a double hundred, while Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott hit hundreds. The game ended in a draw.
India's second appearance at Sabina Park came in the second Test in 1962 and saw the visitors go down by an innings and 18 runs. Despite a healthy first innings score of 395, the Indians couldn't cope up with the massive run gap that was created by the West Indies as they reached 631 on the back of three centurions - Easton McMorris, Rohan Kanhai and Garry Sobers. India's second innings folded up for just 218.
The two teams returned to the venue for the fifth Test of the same series and the result was no different. The Indians did well to restrict the Windies to 253 in the first innings, but Lester King's five-wicket haul saw India being bowled out for 178. The Windies scored 283 in the second essay and set India a target of 359 runs. India could only manage 235.
India's next Test at Sabina Park was the historic first Test of the 1971 series. Even though it ended in a draw, India managed to get the hosts to follow-on. It was the biggest psychological battle that India had ever won while on tour and it pushed the Windies on the backfoot for the whole series. The hero of the game with the bat was undoubtedly Dilip Sardesai who scored a magnificent 212. Eknath Solkar was the second highest scorer with 61. But it was India's spinners who put the Windies through the ignomony of the follow on. Erapalli Prasanna picked up four wickets, while Srinivas Venkatraghavan got three and Bishan Singh Bedi scalped two.
Five years later in 1976, India and West Indies played a controversial Test that the hosts won by 10 wickets. India had scored 306 in the first innings, when captain Bishan Singh Bedi declared the innings in protest against the hostile pace attack. Six Indian batsmen were absent hurt in the second innings and the Windies were set a winning target of merely 13 runs.
The two teams were back at the venue to play the first Test in 1983. In an almost evenly-contested affair the Indians made 251 in the first innings and allowed the hosts to take just a three-run lead with Kapil Dev and Ravi Shastri picking up four wickets each. But a five-wicket haul by Andy Roberts in the second innings saw India being skittled out for 174. The hosts knocked off the 172 required in 25 overs and won the game by four wickets.
The story was no different in the fourth Test in 1989. Despite Kapil Dev's six-wicket haul, the hosts managed to take over a 100-run lead. In the second innings, India slumped again and the Windies knocked off the 58 runs for the loss of three wickets to win the Test by seven wickets.
India were back at the Sabina Park to play the first Test in 1997. That was the third game to be drawn between the two sides at this venue. Anil Kumble got a five-wicket haul for India, while Windies pacer Franklyn Rose picked up six in India's first innings.
The venue continued to be a happy hunting ground for the Windies in the next Test against India here when the two sides faced off in the fifth game of the 2002 series. Mervyn Dillon ripped through the Indian lineup to help his side take more than a 200-run lead. Rather than enforce the follow-on, West Indies batted again and set India a winning target of 408. The Indians were bowled out for 252 and the hosts won the game by 155 runs.
India's 10th game at the venue was played in 2006 and when they were bowled out for 200 runs in the first innings it seemed that another loss was inevitable. But Harbhajan Singh turned it around for India has he sent down a dream spell picking up five wickets for 13 runs in 4.3 overs. The hosts were bowled out for 103. Corey Collymore returned the favour with a five-wicket haul to restrict India to 171 in the second innings. The hosts were set a target of 269 runs. Anil Kumble picked up six wickets for 78 runs to bowl out the West Indies for 219, thereby leading India to a 49-run win. India had finally won their first Test at Sabina Park.


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My rubbish attempt
Well... basically... I, erm... reinstalled my Graphire and took yet another try at using it... and this was the best I could come up with. OK, admittedly I only set aside a couple of hours to do it and I was semi distracted by a game invite on my Xbox, but to be honest... it is rubbish, don't you think? Basically I was trying to sketch up an idea I had... something that wasn't a superhero - because superheroes are a bit... meh in my opinion - but had some form of power. I was going to make this guy an aeromancer, but I screwed up the hand and just made him a pryomancer instead.
And yes... I hate drawing hands.
And the whole Aeromancer/Pyromancer idea wasn't nicked from GW... the Air/Earth/Fire/Water magic concept has been part of a few videogames. And Captain Planet, even if they did have an extra element (Heart) in that one.
Soooo... judging from that pants effort (one of quite a few), what do you reckon: Give up and stick to small pixel art or keep trying?


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In case you missed it, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ("OECD") released the revised Guidelines Governing the Protection of Privacy and Transborder Flows of Personal Data (the "OECD Privacy Guidelines") last month. There is work to be done for the Governments of Canada, British Columbia and Nova Scotia.
Last month's revision was the first major update to the 1980 OECD Privacy Guidelines, which have been influential in the development of private sector data protection legislation worldwide. Canadians should be justifiably proud that the Canadian Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, was the chair of the expert group that was convened to develop the 2013 amendments.
So far, the Government of Canada has not commented on this important work. Time will tell whether the Government intends to respond with legislation to amend the ageing Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act to implement some of the recommendations from the 2013 OECD Privacy Guidelines. Potential amendments should include:
But it isn't just the Government of Canada that has work to do. The Governments of British Columbia and Nova Scotia should consider the renewed emphasis on free transborder data flows among OECD members. In particular, Part IV states:
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Meanwhile, the Net beneath the Web remains decentralized: a World of Ends in which every end is a functional distance of zero from every other end. "The end-to-end principle is the core architectural guideline of the Internet" says RFC 3724. Thus, even though the Internet is a "collection of networks", what collects them are the transcendent purposes of the Net's ends, which consist of you, me, Google and every other node.
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Figure 2. It helps to think of the Net as the ground we walk and drive on, and the Web as clouds in the sky.
There are many possibilities for decentralized solutions on the Net's ground, and I hope readers will remind us of some. Meanwhile, I'll volunteer a pair I've been watching lately. One is TeleHash, and the other is XDI.
TeleHash is the brainchild of Jeremie Miller, father of Jabber and the XMPP protocol for instant messaging. Its slogan is "JSON + UDP + DHT = Freedom", and it is described as "a new wire protocol enabling applications to connect privately in a real-time and fully distributed manner, freeing them from relying on centralized data centers". The rest of the index page says:
It works by sending and receiving small encrypted bits of JSON (with optional binary payloads) via UDP using an efficient routing system based on Kademlia, a proven and popular Distributed Hash Table.
It's very much in the R&D stages yet, but check out hash-im for a simple demo.
The current spec is implemented in a few languages (any help here would be great!), and prototype apps are being created to test it. Questions can be directed at Twitter, or to Jeremie Miller directly.
XDI is a mostly-baked standard. Its purpose is "to define a generalized, extensible service for sharing, linking, and synchronizing data over digital networks using structured data formats (such as JSON and XML) and XRIs (Extensible Resource Identifiers), a URI-compatible abstract identifier scheme defined by the OASIS XRI Technical Committee". Wikipedia (at the moment) says:
The main features of XDI are: the ability to link and nest RDF graphs to provide context; full addressability of all nodes in the graph at any level of context; representation of XDI operations as graph statements so authorization can be built into the graph (a feature called XDI link contracts); standard serialization formats including JSON and XML; and a simple ontology language for defining shared semantics using XDI dictionary services.
XDI graphs can be serialized in a number of formats, including XML and JSON. Since XDI documents are already fully structured, XML adds very little value, so JSON is the preferred serialization format. The XDI protocol can be bound to multiple transport protocols. The XDI TC is defining bindings to HTTP and HTTPS, however it is also exploring bindings to XMPP and potentially directly to TCP/IP.
XDI provides a standardized portable authorization format called XDI link contracts. Link contracts are themselves XDI documents (which may be contained in other XDI documents) that enable control over the authority, security, privacy, and rights of shared data to be expressed in a standard machine-readable format and understood by any XDI endpoint.
This approach to a globally distributed data sharing network models the real-world mechanism of social contracts, and legal contracts that bind civilized people and organizations in the real world today. Thus, XDI can be a key enabler of the Social Web. It has also been cited as a mechanism to support a new legal concept, Virtual Rights, which are based on a new legal entity, the "virtual identity", and a new fundamental right: "to have or not to have a virtual identity".
It's early for both of these. But I know in both cases the mentality of the developers is on the ground of the Net and not lost in the clouds of the Web. We'll need a lot more of that before we all get our freedom back.
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When the enlarger head is too high and no amount of "ape hanger" position will reach the focus knob I get a friend in. One person watches through the focussing magnifier and calls "up", "down", "ok" while the other tweaks the focus knob.
Doing mural size enlargements is usually a two person job (in my darkroom at least) so the "focussing assistant" job already has a volunteer.
Sorry for the delay fellas... I got sick for a few days and totally forgot I'd posted this...!!! (great when you're posting in an emergency call for help, huh???). At any rate- yes, I think Mick and Maris/Bob pretty much have the idea. The whole problem is that it's a freestanding devere converted to wall mount. And I had to remove the fabulous focus shafts - since I didn't really want to make knob photograms everytime I made a print! I'm printing on a floor vacuum easel. So yeah - mick - it's on the floor on my knees. Then I have to stand halfway up to reach the locks and unlock... move the head a MICRON with my hands, lock... and check again - to discover it's even MORE out of focus. Great. It seems to take me in the neighbourhood of 30-100 of these iterations to nail the focus. I used to be able to do this by eye... (sigh).
So anyway- I was just looking for some sort of trick (I guess the opera glass thing doesn't sound all that bad) to 'cheat' the process somehow. I think I may try to cut off the old focus shafts and fix a flex shaft to them or something (like a long spring, etc) so that I can use them from the floor. It's not a quick fix - but probably the most time/effort effective...
Right, this is how you may be able to achieve a workable solution. I figured it was either a wall mounted free standing or tabletop unit. Yes a vacuum easel is almost mandatory but it must be in perfect alignment, I assume it is.
What you could do is this:- Go to an auto shop and purchase one of those ½" drive double jointed extensions, (actually a universal joint) mechanics use to screw and unscrew spark plugs and bolts in offset situations.
These are usually about 50mm long. You cut either your existing set of focusing rods to a stub and weld one of these jointed adaptor to the stub, or make up a set of stubs.
Then you buy (or manufacture) a long enough ½" rod with a T bar end which will allow you to kneel on the floor and move either your neg stage up and down, or your lens stage up and down. Locking the thing whilst you are on the floor, will depend upon just how long your arms are!
Once you are finished focusing, simply pull the shaft out of the universal socket extender, then expose to your hearts content.
I assume that you are already focusing in total darkness to aid your light gathering capacity?
This is just an alternative method. I will first state, for the record, my very impressive background in making murals...I have never even tried. You are using a vacuum easal on the floor. You have already found a means to provide alignment.
While the movement of the negative stage is very critical to the focus of the image the movement of the easal is not nearly as critical.
Why not start with half inch thick shims underneath the easel and focus as well as you can by eye while standing up. Then using a focus magnifier on the easal determine in the print becomes sharper by adding additional shims or becomes sharper by using thinner shims ?
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I think i'll do something like that, Mick. I'll probably just get some springs - there's a rather good specialty spring company a few miles from here. I'll probably get a machine shop to cut off the shafts and weld the springs on... or something like that. Perhaps spray the spring with black rubber...
Claire - well - a vacuum easel tends to be rather THICK and built-in... so there's no moving it. However - I've been getting excellent results simply taping the paper to the easel without vacuum power. So maybe I'll try a shim -- but the shim has to be at least as large as the print... but not a bad idea...
I would stay away from shims under the easel.
Once the vacumn easel is aligned with the neg/lens stage I would not play with that. Getting that perfect alignment is a job in itself , this is tempting disastor with edge focus problems.
I like the idea of an extension arm and will persue this myself as I do a lot of odd hour printing where a second hand is not always availabe.
For my horizontal Durst there is an unit for fine focus at the wall but not sure if Deveere makes them and also for Omega which I also use for murals. Extension hands would really be the cats ass.
Yeah- well the easel's not going anywhere - it's a 2x4 frame which is glued to the floor with about 10 tubes of liquid nails and covered with 3/4" baltic birch ply... amazingly (and i didn't even try) the alignment was perfect from the get-go. I can shoot a 40x50 print at f/8 and get near perfect grain across the board...!! Pretty cool, that.
I have often wondered if something like this would be able to grab the focus knob: http://pick-up-tool.com/
This photo from the web shows what looks like a telescope type focusing aid:
Don't know where or when I read it, but I did see something about a fellow who rigged up a second wheel, attached to the main focusing knob with a bicycle inner tube. This seems to me to be prone to over and under runs, but maybe a loop made of heavy canvas instead?
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