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NYU's Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) is one of New York State's cutting-edge research laboratories and the incubator of a range of multimedia ventures. In 1997, Kenneth Perlin, director of CAT, received a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science for his development of Perlin Noise. Perlin Noise is a technique used to produce natural-appearing textures on computer-generated surfaces for motion picture visual effects. Examples of Perlin Noise can be found in films, including The Lion King, Batman Forever, Jurassic Park, The Abyss, True Lies, Terminator II, Independence Day, and Toy Story.
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The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
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I honestly have no clue.
I really wouldn't be upset if Luongo stuck with the Canucks all year. In a short season like this, having 2 #1 goalies could come in handy. Granted the Canucks do have holes that need to be filled...The return of Kesler and Booth will help with that though.
I just hope Gillis sticks to his guns and doesn't trade Luongo from something that he doesn't deem close to equal value. Can't just give away an all-star goalie.
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Luongo gets the start again tonight. Very interesting...
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Lu with the start, Lu with the shutout. Maybe it's because there is so little pressure on him, but he looks so damn calm and technically sound in there so far. He ALWAYS has terrible starts to the season but has had a really great one this time around. As each game goes by i'm starting to think maybe they just might keep the guy for this shortened season...Especially since Lack is out now.
Kassian! 5th goal in 7 games. Hey, good things happen when you play with the twins!
And Garrison finally got a goal, although it was pretty weak. Oh well, he seemed to shoot it a couple times after that so maybe it will help get him going.
Overall a good game. Going to be a doozy on Friday vs Chicago. I wonder who will get the nod...Gotta go with Luongo coming off a shutout, no?
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Game was definately better. Twins starting to show signs of life, Kassian may be for real. Having said that, Raymond still seems allergic to the middle of the ice, Hamhuis apparently forgot how to play hockey, and the goalie controversy is real.
As well, Tanev is suddenly a goon...
I'm not taking too much outta that game. It was the Avs without a first line. There are signs of players getting in shape and finding their timing. Chicago will be a true test.
The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart.
-- Camus
^^^^ agreed
And Luongo gets the start.
I still don't see why this has to be a controversy. They both get along extremely well and are team guys first. Ride the hot hand as far as i'm concerned. You have both goalies right now so might as well use both.
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It was going to be hard enough seeing Luongo leave...Now when they trade him it's just going to be that much tougher. I big part of me still can't believe that a goalie of his caliber is getting shipped out.
I know i'm repeating myself, but I really hope he gets one more run this season with Vancouver. This is not a knock on Schneider at all. I still think he is an unreal goalie...Haha, but it's Lu.
What impact, if any, do you guys think this has on a Luongo trade?
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Nassau County Legislator Laura Curran (D-Baldwin) hosted a Substance Abuse Education Awareness Community Seminar at the Merrick Library on July 28. Curran, who had hosted two previous seminars with … more
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Interacting selectively and non-covalently with any protein or protein complex (a complex of two or more proteins that may include other nonprotein molecules).
Isoenergetic transfer of ubiquitin from one protein to another via the reaction X-ubiquitin + Y -> Y-ubiquitin + X, where both the X-ubiquitin and Y-ubiquitin linkages are thioester bonds between the C-terminal glycine of ubiquitin and a sulfhydryl side group of a cysteine residue.
Catalysis of the transfer of ubiquitin from one protein to another via the reaction X-Ub + Y --> Y-Ub + X, where both X-Ub and Y-Ub are covalent linkages.
Any process that activates or increases the frequency, rate or extent of the addition of ubiquitin groups to a protein.
A protein ubiquitination process in which a polymer of ubiquitin, formed by linkages between lysine residues at position 48 of the ubiquitin monomers, is added to a protein. K48-linked ubiquitination targets the substrate protein for degradation.
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Dutch brewer Heineken NV seems to have taken a leaf out of Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi's books when it bought a mere 1.4% stake in its takeover target company Asia Pacific Breweries from Singapore state investment company Temasek Holdings Pte. Ltd. on Tuesday.
Although the acquisition of Temasek's stake may seem quite small compared to the huge amount Heineken is shelling out to take control of APB, that small purchase could turn out to be a strategic move by the Dutch brewer in its quest to cover all its bases — including providing for the possibility of taking the maker of Tiger beer private.
Over the weekend, Heineken raised its offer for APB, a joint venture between the Dutch brewer and Singapore conglomerate Fraser & Neave Ltd., offering S$53 a share for the whole of F&N's 39.7% direct and indirect stake in APB. Taking full control of APB will cost Heineken $6.3 billion as the Dutch plans to make a general offer and take the company private once shareholders of Fraser & Neave approve the offer.
F&N's board has approved Heineken's offer and said it won't accept any other offers for APB.
Heineken now has an 84.24% stake in APB, which includes 39.7% F&N's direct and indirect stake which needs to be approved by F&N shareholders and another 2.68 million shares it bought from Temasek and open market transactions. Had Kindest Place bought Temasek's 1.4% stake, it would have given the Thai company around 10% control of APB, that could have potentially complicated the Dutch's plans to delist APB. What is now up for grabs is a 7.16% stake held by several minority investors.
Heineken would now need acceptances of more than 90% of direct shares it doesn't own pre-offer to take APB private.
Heineken may have spent many sleepless nights when Mr. Charoen's Thai Beverage PCL and his son-in-law's company Kindest Place Group began building up their stakes after initially buying a 22% and 8.6% stake in F&N and APB respectively last month from Singapore's Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp. and its associates. Since then, Mr. Charoen has been slowly building up his stake in F&N through open market purchases and is now the largest shareholder in the Singaporean conglomerate with a 26.4% stake. Kindest Place, on the other hand, made an offer of S$55 a share to buy F&N's direct 7.3% stake in APB, which pushed Heineken to up its offer for whole of APB to S$53 a share from S$50.
Heineken said Wednesday that it has acquired 2.68 million shares in APB via "open market purchases and married deal" Tuesday at S$53 a share costing $292 million. This will taken Heineken's direct and indirect stake in APB to about 44.6% and is aimed at ensuring that they are able to move ahead with their plans to take the company private if the F&N shareholders agree to Heineken's offer for APB.


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LAKE PLACID - Eight years ago, Highlands County's housing department helped a citizen raze her own dilapidated house with $44,519 in Florida State Housing Initiatives Partnership funds and another $44,316 from the federal HOME Investment Partnerships Program.
After the woman and her daughter died, there was no one to pay the mortgage, so the county took back the Highway Park house.
On Tuesday, however, the county sold that $89,000 house at 104 Taylor St. for $35,000 to Habitat for Humanity, which plans to rehabilitate it and resell it for affordable housing.
"You might call this a poster child for why the guidelines were changed," said Highlands County Commissioner Don Elwell.
Both Elwell and Commissioner Jack Richie questioned whether the house was ever worth $89,000, even during the housing boom.
"I can't make a judgment on what happened eight years ago," said Richie, who has seen the home in its current condition. "But would I have made that decision? Absolutely not."
"It looks like a $35,000 house to me," said Elwell, who has seen photos of the house, which is now boarded up but otherwise in decent shape.
John Hawthorne, executive director of Habitat for Humanity in Highlands County, said his $35,000 offer was based on an appraisal, which compared three recently sold homes in Lake Placid.
Because the old home was demolished eight years ago and rebuilt on a lot owned by the homeowner there was no appraisal, said Highlands County projects manager Chris Benson.
State SHIP dollars can fund emergency repairs, new construction, rehabilitation, down payment and closing cost assistance, construction, gap financing, mortgage buy-downs or affordable housing. Federal HOME funds could be used for similar purposes, and the county housing department often combined one, for instance, to repair the home, and another to buy it.
"There were a couple of funds where they had double dipped," Elwell said.
A year ago, the commissioners were required to forgive almost $500,000 in loans to homeowners because that's what was required at the time mortgages were signed.
"This looks like a pretty good example of why we changed those guidelines for the housing program," Elwell said.
"There are no more loans like that," Richie said. "Now, you have to pay back every penny."
Even so, commissioners saw the sale of the Taylor Street house to the local Habitat as a good idea.
"It takes a house that was off the tax roll and puts it back on the tax roll," Elwell said.
Richie said after the owners died, the vacant house was vandalized.
"So it's a win-win situation for Habitat and for Highway Park," Richie said. "And it takes a lot of pressure off the sheriff from people breaking in."
After five large banks conceded liability in the housing loan scandals, the federal government and 49 state attorneys general announced a landmark settlement to address mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure abuses. The five major banks provided over $25 billion in relief to homeowners.
Since most of the money went to the hardest-hit states, Florida received $8.4 billion, Hawthorne said. Highlands County Habitat qualified for $480,000.
However, the money must be spent by June 2015, and Highlands has one of the most productive Habitat chapters in the state. Therefore, it may receive more money, Hawthorne said.
Habitat is trying to acquire houses that can be rehabilitated and returned to the affordable housing market, Hawthorne said. "We have to do eight houses, but if we can do 12 with the $480,000, we will.
Will Highlands County have more houses to sell, he asked.
Benson said he working on that list, which could be ready next month.


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The Los Angeles Regional Center Directors Group just sent out a letter to the Los Angeles Coalition of Service Providers providing a response to AbilityFirst's recent letter to several regional centers concerning the impact of increases in the minimum wage on service providers ability to provide quality services and create meaningful new ways to better serve our mutual clients and their families in integrated, community settings.
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About Michele
Michele Tremblay-Fine Artist, Entrepreneur, Expert Floral Designer
How long have you been an artist and how can you be an artist, an entrepreneur and an expert floral designer all at the same time?
It is easy to say I have been an artist my whole life, which is true. I definitely had flashes of that understanding that I was an artist, but the defining moment came when I completed my first large scale paper sculpture. The feeling that came over me when I mounted the flower on the wall was unlike any other feeling I had ever had connected to my art work.
Here's a little history.
I graduated from college with a BFA in painting. One of the many things I was taught (or told) in college by many professors was that I would never make a living as an artist. Sadly, I believed them.
Lucky for me, there was one professor, Lillian Lent, who saw that I had no idea what I was going to do when I finished college.
She introduced me to a friend of hers. A woman who was an interior decorator. This woman worked full time as a decorator, but also had a side business. She had a flower delivery business. She was not a floral designer, but she didn't need to be. What she did was go to the local flower wholesaler, buy flowers that were reasonably priced and in season, take them to her place of business, package them into individual bouquets and deliver them. She had customers who would buy flowers on a monthly basis, so she delivered flowers every friday, just in time for the weekend.
I became an artist entrepreneur.
I loved this idea. I decided to offer the same service in my neighborhood. I wrote a letter and sent it to anyone I could think of including all of my Dad's friends and all of the neighbors. The letter outlined the service, the day of delivery (thursday…my day off from my regular job) and the cost $4.50 a week. I probably had about 35 customers at my busiest time. Not hundreds but it was ok. I loved having the extra $$$ and enjoyed being around the flowers.
Things were going along well, then the inevitable happened. Someone asked me to make some flower arrangements for a bridal shower…gulp….and then…..GULP…..the wedding. I was way out of my league here. Did not have the first idea about how to make a flower arrangement. So, of course I said" Yes…I'd love to do your flowers". What was I thinking? Never, and I mean NEVER had made a flower arrangement in my life.
I became a floral designer.
I did the flowers, after much fretting and reading and studying from books, and they were great! Everyone loved them! The Bride and her Mom were delighted and I was so pleased/relieved that I had done it. Didn't make much money…I don't even remember the amount. The thing that is memorable is that I did something I wasn't sure I could do, did it and eventually chose a career in the flower world.
Eventually I worked at a very fancy Flower shop in Philadelphia and learned everything I would need to be an expert floral designer. I worked as a floral designer for many years.
I now work as a full time artist.


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Popping in to share a recipe for some healthy, yummy treats. They're gluten free, dairy free and vegan. It's so easy to make snacks that don't include processed and refined ingredients — and it's much more fun too!
These raw vegan energy balls will give you a wonderful boost of energy and nutrients. Look for raw, organic ingredients, and have fun experimenting to your taste!
I was reminded this weekend, whilst walking through town, about the magic of staying open. Two strangers openly greeted me with big smiles, and I am ashamed to say I was consciously taken aback. But once I acknowledged it was me they were smiling at, I responded by grinning with appreciation at them (possibly scaring them, apols about that!).
See, after I moved here, I often found myself talking (or rather, trying to talk) to strangers in the street, or at bus stops, or as I queued to pay for groceries. Despite my best efforts, the funny looks I often received in return took their toll, as I assumed they were a negative reaction towards my behavior. This eventually led to me becoming more shy and reserved, and less likely to try to connect with those I met.
Newsflash: Yoga teachers are just as damaged, depraved, sordid, angry, insecure and proud as everyone else. Perhaps the only difference is that some yoga teachers are more aware of their flaws than others. But that isn't a given; plenty are oblivious to them.
People are people. I'm not excusing abhorrant behaviour; I'm merely observing the fact that we are more similar than we might like to think. We have feelings. We get hurt. Exploited. Taken advantage of. Pissed off. Irritated. Fed up. Lost. Angry. Furious, even. Exhausted. Whiny. Grumpy. There's a whole range of drama going on within all of us in the wrestle of the upward and downward spirals.
What can make all the difference, though, is connecting the inner to the outer and finding balance between them.
In this inspired new post, Dionne Elizabeth – a yoga teacher, DJ and writer who lives in Bergen, Norway – harmonizes music, blogging and yoga. Here, she shares the best yoga poses to improve your buns, which may, in true mind-body synchronicity, improve your life.
Here it is folks: We are already completely, marvelously, wildly, entirely who we were born to be.
At times this might not be clear to us, but the fact that we exist, that we are here together at this moment, and that you, dear reader, are on this page at this moment, is no coincidence. To meet each other at this point, somewhere along our separate journeys, really is absurd and wonderful. There is a reason for the particular path we happen to tread, including all its glorious and perfect sweetness, as well as the more sour, "interesting" parts. We each have a mission, a function, a purpose. So how do we live our life to honour that?


text: Editor's note: For more photos, pick up the print edition of this week's Snowmass Sun.SNOWMASS VILLAGE -I wish I could say I partied with the rest - that I threw on the old cowboy hat and mini-skirt, boozed it up and boogied all weekend with the thousands of others who attended this year's Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival. The truth is, I don't actually own a cowboy hat, and if I did, I don't know if I could ever find an appropriate occasion to wear it. But in all honesty, I was there, just not on the side with the comforters, cowboys and coolers. For the entire weekend I was behind the bar, enthusiastically serving drinks alongside a group of veterans who have worked the Labor Day Festival for the past 10-plus years. And it was fine by me, because apart from the occasional drunk who asked to buy 18 beers at once, I had the opportunity to work with some great people who not only spit out drinks faster than a vending machine, but also took timeouts to help out their neighboring bartenders, like initiating much-needed "safety meetings" in between sets. Whoever you are, I hope you enjoyed the weekend as much as I did. And if perhaps you didn't, I sent a photographer to the scene to capture some memorable moments that at the very least should bring a smile to your face.


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PARKERSBURG- A lawsuit seeking to collect more than $94,000 in back real and personal property taxes was filed against Fenton Art Glass by Wood County Sheriff Jeff Sandy.
In the suit, Sandy states the glassmaker owes Wood County $94,557.88 in real and personal taxes. Sandy said the filing asks for a judgment against the company, including the amount along with accrued interest and penalties and any other costs incurred.
Sandy said the amount in the lawsuit is not an additional amount due in taxes, but what is left of the $385,840.39 of the real and personal property tax debt the sheriff sued the company for in 2010.
"All we had to do was update the matter to protect the citizens of Wood County and to make sure the taxes due and owed are paid," Sandy said. "What's left from that; it's a mutual agreement between the parties. We are cooperating with each other to help get the matter paid."
On Aug. 31, the circuit court was informed that the company "does not wish to contest the allegations contained in the complaint and that it has agreed to have judgment entered against it."
Wood County Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey Reed signed the order.
Sandy said the filing was not adversarial. Since the agreement was made in 2010 to pay the back taxes, Sandy said, payments have been made and the company is on schedule to pay off the amount.
George Fenton, president of Fenton Art Glass, said the agreement also was made as a condition of the sale to U.S. Glass.
"As a condition of the potential sale they wanted a clear statement as to who will be responsible for the tax debt," Fenton said. "The current plan is to sell the equipment and lease the building to U.S. Glass."
Fenton said Wednesday the company has reached an agreement on all issues.
"It's now really dependent on U.S. Glass being able to raise funding to do what is needed to restart," he said. "Our goal is to pay as much of the debt as possible and we have been working in selling inventory and other assets significantly over the past year. There is a priority first to the lien holders, or secured lenders, and then taxes; they (taxes) are not first priority according to West Virginia law."
Fenton said the best chance of the company getting taxes paid is for U.S. Glass to succeed.
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|The solar normalized water-leaving spectral radiance is a basic ocean color remote-sensing parameter required for the vicarious calibration and bio-optical product development. Determination of normalized water-leaving spectral radiance using in-water radiometry requires measurements of the up-welling spectral radiance at several depths. The Marine Optical System (MOS) Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) is a portable, fiber-coupled, high-resolution spectroradiometer system with spectral coverage from 340 nm to 960 nm. MOS was developed at the same time as the Marine Optical Buoy (MOBY) spectrometer system and is optically identical except that it is configured as a profiling instrument. Concerns with instrument self-shadowing because of the large exterior dimensions of the MOS underwater housing led to adapting MOS and ROV technology. This system provides for measurement of the near-surface upwelled spectral radiance while minimizing the effects of shadowing. A major advantage of this configuration is that the ROV provides the capability to acquire measurements 5 cm to 10 cm below the water surface and is capable of very accurate depth control (1 cm) allowing for high vertical resolution observations within the very near-surface. We describe the integrated system and its characterization and calibration.
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|August 26-30, 2007
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Top bike builder Jeff Palhegyi, acknowledged in over 40 international magazines, television specials and documentaries, is the architect of many of the most admired customized Star Motorcycles ever crafted. Applying his creative vision and artistry he has teamed up with the Star Motorcycle's Custom Accessories group to offer Bomber Chrome Components available through Star Motorcycle Dealers.
Jeff created these high-quality bolt-ons exclusively for the Raider, Stratoliner, Roadliner, and Road Star models. Each Bomber piece is polished and plated to a show quality finish. With simple bolt-on application any Star motorcycle is radically changed for a more custom look.
The Bomber lineup includes clutch cover inserts, drive pulley cover inserts, starter covers, ignition covers, cam covers and many more chrome options. View the full lineup at starmotorcycles.com.


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YouTube cover band Scott Bradlee and Post Modern Jukebox created a swing-inspired rendition of Beyoncé's "Drunk in Love." The band has racked up fans with their knack for transforming pop songs into other genres, such as bluegrass, swing and doo-wop
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FILE - In this 2012 file photo, Josh Brent of the Dallas Cowboys NFL football team is shown. Brent is facing an intoxication manslaughter charge after a one-vehicle accident that killed teammate Jerry Brown, a member of the team's practice squad. Irving police spokesman John Argumaniz said the accident happened about 2:20 a.m. in Saturday, Dec. 7, 2012, in the Dallas suburb. (AP Photo/File)


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In New York, the amount snowfall didn't just take drivers by surprise, it gave Plattsburgh city and town plow workers a bit of a late start Monday morning.
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I've got a Tempest for sale in Southern California. It's in VERY good condition, having only been in the water a handful of times (less than 5-6). I simply don't use it. My wife and I paddle our Wilderness Systems tandem a lot, but I just don't use this kayak much. We're moving to a smaller place, and I've got to downsize the fleet a little.
This is an awesome sea kayak, especially for those of us who are slightly bigger than average. I'm a former instructor and guide, and I've paddled nearly every sea kayak I could squeeze into, including some I probably shouldn't have. When it came time to buy a kayak, this is the one I chose. It's more than capable of anything you'd throw at it, and it handles every kind of conditions I've taken it out in. it's an awesome boat, and I'm sad to see it go, but I gotta make some hard choices.
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Sorry Dave. I sold it. Wish I hadn't. Definately had some serious sellers remorse as life has changed a bit and I'd probably be paddling it now. Great boat.
Also new to forum. Any chance this boat is still available?
I'd never even heard of it before you mentioned it. Google'd it, it looks like a cool design, but I have no experience.
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If you can drop the price a little more and shorten it by 3ft, I'm there!
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Welcome Britrisky. I was also intending to do Ripon but ended up having to gig with my band the night before (late night, lugging equipment etc - not good prep!) so have opted for the Eccup 10M run on the Sunday and will do the Leeds Xpress Tri instead a couple of weeks later. It also allowed me to chicken out of having to do OW.
Blunders ... fins are too much fun.
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I was even shoved out of the slow lane. Very proud moment!!
Now that made me laugh.
Supercaz ... rivers, sea ... sure you're in the rigth thread?
Body rotation was feeling good in some of my drills yesterday ... seems to fall apart a bit when I try to do the full stroke though. But small steps...
DrDan OW for the first time?
I'm off for my first OW swim after work today if I don't wimp out! Sort of excited and nervous - more about wearing my wetsuit for the first time, really.
I'm doing my first OW swim on Sunday at Heron Lake... I'm excited and nervous too! There's a group of about 5 of us going and we're going to practice mass starts, sighting, getting in and out of a wetsuit (mine arrived yesterday!) and most importantly going for some cake afterwards
Managed a full 500m (more actually - the 500m was 15 lengths, but you always have to do an even number, haha) without stopping yesterday - I hurt my knee on Monday night while doing a circuits class, so resting it at the moment. Think my swimming might improve a lot in the next week or so...
SuperCaz is going to be swimming the Channel in a 3-person relay in the not-so-distant future with Long John Silver and In-the-Blue! So is a good person to give you some tips.
I'm slow as they come but I can swim for ever, love river and lake swimming but not the sea because the salt water makes me sick.
Lauren555 - don't forget to use Bodyglide or other lubricant under your wetsuit where it's likely to rub, particularly on your neck. Many of us have suffered from that and it isn't nice!
I second the body glide, I've had a very sore neck from my wetsuit - looked like the love bite from hell!!
Nameless I;m loving you being kicked out of the slow lane, good effort
Ironwolf you're not meant to drink the sea
Thanks for the tip, guys!
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How best to dry the wetsuit after, though???
Rinse it out in the shower and hang it up over the bath, or outside (but not in the sun).
First time I put my wettie in the bath to soak, Mrs DB walked in in the middle of the night and thoght she saw a headless black man in the bath and screamed! LOL.
Tempted to join Lauren555 Sunday at Heron, never been to Heron before and I need to OW soon.
I haven't done any OW ... probably won't do any this year either. I'm so behind on my running, I really need to concentrate on that.
Pool day, short session, but somehow, it felt easier. 20 lengths done in twos. The breaks between pairs of lengths were smaller, because the HR was much more under control. Relaxing appears to be hugely beneficial and I drank less water. Less, not none. Happy.
Turn your wettie inside out before you hang it up to dry, then turn it the right way. The inside takes longer to dry.
Swimming tonight. The session briefing was doled out. So many 200's hard, then 50's then more 200's. Yadder yadder. I can just about do 50m at a time, then rest for 20 seconds or so. At the end of the hour I was pumping. I can positively feel my upper body muscles growing. I bet I did 20 lengths! Soon I'll be trying to link them together. There is measurable progress. I think I managed 4 on the trot at the beginning. Of course, I got the usual problem of "over-hydrating".
hi all
has anyone mastered fly on here? I've mostly mastered tumble turns which is one of my swim ambitions forever, mostly mastered front crawl, another ambition, and final ambition is to be able to do a passable fly
did first attempt in the pool today, was feeling brave as a guy was in the lane working on his and he was self taught. did a couple of lengths with a kick board just doing the kick (not allowed fins in the pool ) and felt reassured that I actually moved. bloke borrowed my float and I decided to brave introducing the arms. am pleased to say I managed 3/4 of a length, twice. the first length wasn't too successful as I wasn't lifting out of the water enough and mostly just dragging my arms through the water, but the 2nd attempt was much better and definitely lifting out of the water enough to do the arms.
BUT ... the kick and breathing timing ... I kind of understand there are two kick phases, a smaller kick followed by a large kick that drops the hips and lifts the shoulders, where are the arms during this phase, have watched on you tube but can anyone break it down into laymans terms. think today I was kind of doing two kicks and probably lifting teh arms too late so having to pull up out of the water using my shoulders. think it was better on the 2nd length as it did feel more "together". bloody knackering though, but didnt' drown or make a complete idiot of myself (I hope). I know from front crawl it's all technique and timing and fly is even more so. I can't afford lessons as on long term sick.
also any training tips for fly if you can't use fins gratefully received, the kick with the kickboard was really hard and knackering but it did make it easier when it came to introducing the arms
hope everyones swims are going well
ps, v jealous about all the OW swimming going on, one day ... one day ...
Loon, the way our trainer taught us to swim fly was to start with using one arm at a time and then put the two together, so, do a length with one left arm stroke, then one right arm, then both together. The trick with fly is while your hands are underwater, point them up to the surface, then your arms and shoulders naturally follow your hands out of the water. Don't think I explained that very well?
Two lots of OW training today, LJS did 3000m and 3800m, I managed 2000m and 2780m.
thanks wolf, kind of makes sense, hands up to the surface through the whole underwater phase?
well done on swim
ps, if you do one arm stroke, what is the other one doing, staying at your side/out in front, or do you use a float?
sounds great britrisky. I really would like to try OW but financially isn't an option at the mo. next year .......... feel more confident about trying it now I have contact lenses I can swim in
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Soria, G, Sobrino, JA (2007). ENVISAT/AATSR derived land surface temperature over a heterogeneous region. REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, 111(4), 409-422.
AbstractIn this paper a method for evaluating land surface temperature (LST) algorithms over heterogeneous areas is presented. The evaluation was made for a set of 12 algorithms derived by using the split-window (SW) and dual-angle (DA) techniques for estimating sea and land surface temperature (SST and LST) from Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) data. A validation of the proposed algorithms was carried out over a heterogeneous region of Morocco in the framework of the WATERMED (WATer use Efficiency in natural vegetation and agricultural areas by Remote sensing in the MEDiterranean basin) project. AATSR data and in situ measurements over this heterogenous region were compared by implementing a classification based strategy over a higher spatial resolution Landsat image. Three reference classes were considered when performing the classification from the Landsat image. Ground based measurements where then used to assign an effective surface radiometric temperature to each of these three classes. Finally, an averaging procedure based on class proportion was implemented for deriving surface radiometric temperature at the AATSR pixel scale. For this heterogeneous site, the results showed that LST can be obtained with a root mean-square error (RMSE) lower than 1.7 K from the split-window algorithms. Dual-angle algorithms, on the other hand, provided greater RMSE due to the different surfaces observed in the nadir and forward views. The results suggest that to retrieve LST from 1 km pixels over heterogeneous surfaces spatial averaging is required to improve accuracy on temperature estimation. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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I am deeply interested in the geological record of marine carbonates and the information it holds about past climate, oceanic chemistry, and geochemical cycles. The carbonate system is linked to several essential geochemical cycles, and as a major component of the sedimentary record, understanding it in detail has significant implications for understanding Earth history. My work focuses on interpreting past environments and diagenetic effects using isotopic tools and geochemical models.
I am also fascinated by the geochemistry of evaporite formations and the record they contain about seawater chemistry. It strikes me as incredible that we cannot yet entirely answer the question, "Why is the sea salty?" Seawater chemistry is an elusive problem, as robust records of ancient seawater are difficult to come by. I am pursuing this problem with new isotopic tools to help constrain this important boundary condition for the marine geological record.
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CL Blättler and JA Higgins. Ca cycle constraints from the Ca isotopic composition of Precambrian sedimentary carbonates. Manuscript in preparation.
CL Blättler, NR Miller, JA Higgins. Mg and Ca isotope signatures of authigenic dolomite. Manuscript in preparation.
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Baijiu isn't for the easily tipsy. Richard Nixon's advisers famously tried to keep the president away from the strong Chinese liquor (baijiu translates as "white spirit") at state dinners during his first visit to China in 1972.
That didn't stop Diageo, the world's largest spirits producer, from in June acquiring a majority stake in Shui Jing Fang, a premium baijiu label. Now Diageo is seeking to modernize the brand and take it beyond China and Hong Kong.
It's starting with Singapore, where it launched Shui Jing Fang last month. It has found distributors in Los Angeles and will be launching in Australia next year, says Lee Harle, Diageo's general manager for Chinese white spirits.
Even outside China, Diageo is focused on the overseas Chinese community, he says, pointing out that Diageo also sells Shui Jing Fang at duty-free shops in 14 airports around the world. "We're planning to go where [Chinese] business travelers go," he says.
But will baijiu be a hit abroad, where it is much less common at banquet tables and with the second- and third-generation customers that Diageo is targeting in its overseas expansion?
Mr. Harle is confident it will. "Baijiu hasn't been explained or distributed well" outside of mainland China, he says.
"Just like people will not accept factory-made mapo tofu," a popular Chinese dish, he says, "they no longer want the Disneyland version of [baijiu]."
Some experts agree. Ron Taylor, an independent tutor who lectures at the Fine Wine Centre in Hong Kong, has seen some interest in rare Maotais, but it "stays within the Chinese community," he says. "There is a big gap in explaining the complexity of the various baijiu in a serious manner."
Shui Jing Fang, which traces its history back to 1408, has deep roots in China. In 2000, one of its distilleries was named China's first by the Chinese National Cultural Relics Bureau. But the company holds only a 1% stake in China's $41 billion baijiu market, trailing better-known competitors like Moutai. (Shui Jing Fang has a higher market share in the premium baijiu market, which only a fraction of China's 18,000 baijiu makers belong to.)
Shui Jing Fang's makers have taken tentative steps to expand its audience in the past. In 2009, Diageo teamed up with Shui Jing Fang to produce Shanghai White, a vodka made with Russian and Chinese techniques. Around the same time, it started selling variants of Shui Jing Fang baijiu in Hong Kong. In Singapore, a 500-millileter bottle of its main Wellbay 52% collection retails for about 168 Singapore dollars (US$138).
The volume of Shui Jing Fang baijiu sold in duty-free outlets in Asia has quadrupled in the last two years, Mr. Harle says. "International sales are meaningful now," he adds, and make up 10% of all the spirit's sales.
One thing's for sure: Diageo will be facing stiff competition. In 2007, luxury group LVMH Moet Hennessy bought a 55% stake in Wen Jun, a baijiu distillery, for 960 million yuan. Pernod Ricard also has a stake in a Chinese baijiu maker.
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December 24, 2014
The Wellington School, located in Columbus, Ohio, is an independent private school for students in preschool through Grade 12. Four-time CrossFit Games athlete Lindsey Smith is its athletic director.
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October 20, 2014
Old City CrossFit in Washington, D.C., is located near Gallaudet University, a federally chartered private university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing.
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April 26, 2014
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Eric Gross and Sabha Parameswaran, from Oracle FMW Architects Team (The A-team) are happy to introduce ThreadLogic, an open source Thread Dump Analyzer, to Oracle Fusion Middleware community and customers.
Motivation behind ThreadLogic
The current set of TDA tools (Samurai/TDA) do not mine the thread dumps. Neither do they provide a more detailed view of what each thread is doing. Most of the existing tools tend to limit themselves to reporting the state (locked/waiting/running) or the lock information. They don't go into details of the type of activity within a thread, should it be treated as normal or deserving a closer look? Can a pattern or anti-pattern be applied against them? Any possible optimizations? Are there any hot spots? Any classification of threads based on their execution cycles?
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AbstractThis paper presents a welfare analysis of several capital insurance programs in a rational expectation equilibrium setting. We first explicitly characterize the equilibrium of each capital insurance program. Then, we demonstrate that a capital insurance program based on aggregate loss is better than classical insurance, when big financial institutions have similar expected loss exposures. By contrast, classical insurance is more desirable when the bank's individual risk is consistent with the expected loss in a precise way. Our analysis shows that a capital insurance program is a useful tool to hedge systemic risk from the regulatory perspective.
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Are you serious? Are you completely mental?
> One of the main sticking points for maintaining the IxDA.org platform has > been posting to the discussions via email. Email posting has caused > discussion threading issues, moderation issues, performance problems, and > often breaks and overloads the system. For all these reasons we've decided > to discontinue the ability to post to the forum via email and move to web > based posting only.
So rather than fix email, we'll just break it further so hey, come to our zippity do dah new Web site where you can post! Boy, that's the kind of user experience I'm looking forward to!
Please try to understand that this is not a new technology, and not a new technical problem. It's a problem that has been solved thousands of times all over the world. Why IXDA can't get it right is probably fodder for an epic documentary but mostly I want to know why you think it's OK to break decades-old working technology in favor of your pet new whizbang whateverthehellitis.
Signed, Some Grumpy Old Fart Who Isn't A Cool Young Rock-Star Designer And Therefore Clearly Not An Important IXDA User
Please refrain from calling me/us "mental," it's highly offensive and doens't contribute to the conversation at all.
When the new site launched there were technology choices made that have made it very hard to support this feature. We've had ongoing problems and not enough resources to fix Drupal to support this. Making email posting work properly would mean an entirely new technology platform again, something that's not a good option at this time.
Your tone in this message is uncalled for. If this is important to you, which is clearly is, then please help us make the right choices rather than just make everybody uncomfortable and upset.
If you're interested in helping to fix this problem, rather than just call names, feel free to contact us civily and offer some support.
My suggested solution is to switch to using Yahoo groups. It would solve the problem, rather than sticking with what is admitted to be a less than satisfactory solution. I have suggested it before, but never heard a reason whiy it shouldn't be done.
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(for those who aren't following the comments on the original announcement :-)
For anybody who prefers email to web forums - I've just setup a google group
It won't sync with the ixda site forums of course, but might be useful if some folk want to stick with mailing lists.
When the new site launched there were technology choices made that have made it very hard to support this feature.
Then those were bad technology choices, and they should be unmade. Like, now-ish.
I'd daresay that IxDA reaches a substantial proportion of subscribers solely as an email list, so it should support basic email list functionality. While the tone of the 'mental' email was certainly snarky, that doesn't detract from the truth of the message.
We are trying to fix the issues with the technology choices, but it takes time and some tough decisions. Moving a community of this size to an entirely new platform isn't something that can happen overnight, and if the new platform is chosen in haste we'll be in the same position. The choice we made for the current change is one that was meant to balance ongoing issues, improvements, costs, effort, and impact. There were sacrifices for sure, but ones we considered and weighed.
"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
Matt's point is well taken that this was not an arbitrary decision rather one made in context of the site redesign project that we all had an opportunity to participate in/contribute to and declined (for lots of good reasons to be sure). It seems imprudent to criticize the new methodology without trying it first. It may be more cumbersome and, if that is the case, those who find it so would be able contribute technology solutions or workarounds.
Actually you pretty much can migrate a group like this overnight, if you move to a pre-made site that already has the functionality you're looking for. I have aboslutely no stake in Yahoo groups, or Google groups, or anything, but they work, and whilst you wouldn't have the same branding, navigation etc they could work for this community. At the very least, they could work until a better solution is in place. For the forum, isn't it possible just to plug in a bulletin board?
I wonder though if it's reasonable to ask of presumably busy volunteers that they design, build, implement and maintain a fully-featured and highly usable custom site.
Look, I appreciate the efforts that many people have made to set up this site and organisation. So A+ for effort, no question. I think the clear feedback (from those who have expressed an opinion) is that certain key elements don't work very well. The ability to participate in a forum by email is just a given these days, and I really find much of the navigation and function on the site to be obscure and difficult - and that's nothing to do with the technology. The job system is still entirely US-centric.
Clearly the thing can plug away as it is - but some people are leaving, some setting up alternative discussions, and that's really not what we want. We have heard that there are others who would participate in the discussion, but are put off by the hurdles. I know it's easy for me to say, as I haven't put in all the hard work, but sometimes you just need to acknowledge what's not working, and start again.
thanks for listening
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I hear you, and all these things are being, and have been, considered. I totally agree about the strain on volunteers to manage a custom system, and we're moving towards something that will be easier to manage. That's actually part of this current move. We all have an ideal state in mind, but we need to take steps to get there. In order for out volunteers to think about how to really address these issues we need to move our current system to a plcae where it doesn't take up 100% of our time to just keep it up and running. That's what we're doing now. Once that's done we will have the time to consider larger changes, other tech options, etc.
You mentioned pluggin in a bulletin board. That's exactly what this is, it's Drupal's forums module with a few customizations. However, most plug-in forum software that I've seen doesn't allow posting by email, most send out email notifications and you have to click on a link. A few will accept replies, but so far I haven't seen any that allow new threads by email. (by the way, this is something we're looking into for this site).
If, as I've heard from a number of people, this isn't that hard then please volunteer to help us. There will be a call for a couple website related volunteer positions within the next few days, I really hope some of you will consider helping out. The best way to fix decisions you don't like is to volunteer to make new choices youself.
A few quick points:
- Let's keep it clean. Personal attacks have no place here.
- Migrating to Google Groups or Yahoo Groups might make for easy emailing, but in turn we lose the rich archive of past questions and answers we have on this site. Answering the same question over and over is not a great user experience either, I think.
- In my view, splitting the discussion from the other aspects of the IxDA (see the global nav) isn't worth it just for the ability to reply to an email thread (which Matt says is a little-used feature).
- Matt and the other IxDA volunteers are smart, hard-working people. They obviously didn't make this decision lightly. Matt clearly explained the rationale, and it makes sense in the short term. Have we not all worked on projects where we needed to compromise, or at least prioritize? Where technology was a constraint? Am I the only one who's worked on a platform where things that would seem to be easy are, in fact, really thorny?
- Thanks to Matt and company for doing the hard work and taking the hits. Others--feel free to volunteer or donate. Or at least be grateful to those who do. Or at least be sympathetic.
Yes, we all know this site has been troublesome. It's a long way from perfect. But there is no magic wand. Just a handful of volunteers doing the work, which takes time.
FWIW, this particular discussion was beat vigorously last year around this time.
I applaud Matt's patience and persistence in sticking with this "project" (projects are typically *funded* and *staffed*, aren't they?) over the years.
Remember that it's more difficult to volunteer to help with the technology here, even if you know the technology at-hand. This is a big group, with high expectations and a long history (really?), so you can't expect to just step in, tweak the code, and deliver a completed solution back for Matt to integrate and deploy. Matt & the team have to keep the entire system up to par, and really don't have time to hand it all over to a prima-donna's preferred environment.
I would personally love to help (and am pretty confident that I could), but if I can't spare the time they NEED me to dedicate to the project, then I might as well not raise my hand.
And that's why I will support Matt and the team's decisions, and adjust my behavior accordingly. Email submission has been problematic for years, so I've become more of a lurker than a poster. However, I still feel connected to the "industry" through the email feed, and am happy to hop onto the site to post on the rare occasions I can add value.
Email listservs are ancient by now, but I assume there is good reason why they aren't the de facto discussion-forum standard for every organization. I think it's unreasonable to expect an all-VOLUNTEER organization of this size and maturity to simultaneously deliver a technology designed for small, niche topic interests, while meeting the dozens of expectaions for a large (and growing) diverse audience (most of which are unrelated to emailing submissions).
If a better "emailable, brandable, multi-purpose portal environment" existed, I trust Matt would have found it by now, and we would be using it. Personally, I've been working in this area for a dozen years or more, and I can't think of anything that meets those expectations equally well...can you?
I forgot to mention, the system must be scalable, manageable, and free.
Also, on the volunteering front. The most difficult issue in troubleshooting and solving an email configuration problem is replicating the environment so you can repeat the error. If you can't replicate the entire thing at home, then you have to work in the main system's space (test or otherwise). That requires a lot of Trust on Matt's part, so you'd have to be willing to commit to a high degree of collaboration to avoid breaking china.
Again, it's not as easy as it looks.


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