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The Teacher/Principal Evaluation Program was born out of Engrossed Second Substitute Senate Bill 6696 during the 2010 legislative session. The evaluation provisions in the bill were part of a larger reform effort made during Washington's Race to the Top application. The bill created our pilot project and moved the state from a two-tiered system of unsatisfactory, to a four-tiered evaluation system. In addition to moving to a four-tiered system, the legislation created eight new criteria for teachers and principals to be evaluated upon, with common themes tying the criteria for teachers and principals together.
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New edition of Offenbach's Fantasio unveiled in London(December 2013)
Offenbach's rarely performed Romantic opera Fantasio is heard in the new edition by Jean-Christophe Keck at the Royal Festival Hall in London, with Sarah Connolly in the title role.
Opera Rara and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment join forces for a rare performance of Offenbach's neglected Romantic opera Fantasio at the Southbank Centre in London on 15 December. Sir Mark Elder conducts a strong cast including mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly in the title role of Fantasio, the student King of Fools who pursues true love against the odds and saves a princess from an undesirable suitor.
The opera will be heard for the first time in the new edition by Jean-Christophe Keck, the Offenbach expert who heads the Offenbach Edition Keck published by Boosey & Hawkes, which has been creating reliable performing materials for Offenbach's works, from familiar favourites to rare discoveries such as Fantasio. The opera will be recorded in the studio by the same performing forces to join Opera Rara's series of discs spotlighting lost 19th century operatic repertoire deserving revived attention.
Offenbach based Fantasio on the romantic comedy by Parisian dramatist and poet Alfred de Musset, published in 1833, but not staged until 1866 after the author's death. Fantasio is a troubled, lovelorn character, and this ambiguity appealed to Offenbach, giving him the opportunity to explore a more overtly Romantic flavour in contrast to his lighter operetta works. It clearly points forward to The Tales of Hoffmann, within a little-known strand of the composer's work exploring emotionally darker and richer territory than his opera buffa. The opera grew out of the most turbulent era of the composer's life, the Franco-Prussian War, when, reviled as a German-born adoptive Frenchman, he had to take refuge in Spain. Fantasio was first staged at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1872, the composer's fourth work for the theatre.
The London performance of Fantasio will be the first performance in recent times to present the full original French version of the opera dating from 1872, employing Offenbach's authentic orchestration throughout rather than arrangements by later conductors. This is thanks to the musicological endeavours of Jean-Christophe Keck who has investigated the available sources and prepared the new edition of the opera in the Offenbach Edition Keck. Three versions of Fantasio exist - all to be offered within the new three volume Keck edition - with options drawn from both the Paris and Vienna versions, and including variants due to the title role originally being conceived for tenor, eventually being taken by the mezzo-soprano Célestine Galli-Marié who was to become the first Carmen, and later being recast for soprano. The role will be heard in London with mezzo, as heard in the original French version, and is sung by Sarah Connolly.
The Offenbach Edition Keck has been in existence for 15 years, with a growing number of Offenbach works now available in critically acclaimed and award-winning editions. As well as researching and creating performance materials for the most popular stageworks such as Orphée aux Enfers, La Vie parisienne and La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, the OEK has unearthed many unknown musical gems including the Romantic operas Les Fées du Rhin and Fantasio, as well as concert works such as Offenbach's Cello Concerto (Concerto Militaire). Works in the OEK have been performed and recorded by leading artists including singers Anne Sofie von Otter and Felicity Lott, conductor Marc Minkowski, and staged by directors including Laurent Pelly, Jerôme Savary and Jean-Louis Martinoty.
Garsington Opera presents a new production of Offenbach's Vert-Vert in the Keck edition, opening on 7 June. The opera opens with a funeral for a dead parrot, where the convent girls look for a male replacement for the bird as the new object for their devotions. Vert-Vert will be staged by Martin Duncan and will employ a new English translation by conductor David Parry. This delectable three act comic opera has been recorded by Opera Rara under the baton of Parry with Toby Spence in the title role.
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He has basically no engines on the plane so I don't he could turn it in any way plus it had many holes in it and it was on auto pilot. They don't really give an explanation as why he can't turn it but there are plenty of factors there for the audience to just go with it. I felt that the Peggy/Cap relationship is so far the best in any comic book movie and that is all due to the 2 actors. Its definitely not the best written one thats for sure but the 2 just had phenomenal chemistry and there was something about their relationship to where you wanted to see them get together and be together which is why the ending so much heart wrenching.
What didn't I like about this movie? first thing that comes to mind the atrocious blue/green screen. It's obvious they put all their cg money into skinny Steve because the cg everywhere else in the movie especially the backgrounds is just awful
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Just say yes to the XD45.Originally Posted by Exmasonite
This is a discussion on Capacity! within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Originally Posted by Black Knight Now I carry a high cap 9 on the job (department issued Beretta) ...SNIP... The duty gun has 15 round ...
Ok, you have me stumped here. I have never heard of a law enforcement agency restricting officers/agents to less than fully loaded mags. What on earth is the thought process in their heads?!?Originally Posted by Black Knight
"Skin that smokewagon!".
Just say yes to the XD45.Originally Posted by Exmasonite
i'm hoping to say "yes" to the XD45 SC in the next 6 months... hopefully something that's 8 or 9+1
I'm with the Department of the Army Police and the powers that be here would drive a psychiatrist crazy. This isn't the only stupid policy they have for us. Wish I could tell you the others but that could get me in deep ____. This is not the way it is at other Army facilities only the one I work for.
I think Mr. Lowe hit the nail on the head so to speak. Better to have the extra rounds and not need them than need them and not have them.
I carry a small gun with a 10+1 round capacity. But, I would feel just as well protected if I carried a snub nose .38 with a 5 round capacity. As long as I was facing a single bad guy with that snub nose. That is the tricky part. There seems to be a trand of the bad guys doing their dirty deeds in groups. So, I feel a little better with a gun on my hip that has a few extra rounds in it.
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According to my most recent pistol instructor, if you carry a gun, carry a reload. His recommendation is, speed strips for revovlers, because they lay flat, and are not as bulky as speedloaders. For semi-autos, if you have a single-stack pistol, he recommends two extras. If you have a hi-cap, at least one reload.
Oh, and practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice, practice. Then, practice some more.
Practice your shooting, AND, most importantly, practice drawing your weapon. IF you can't do that at a range. Do it at home, with a dummy practice pistol, if you have one, or at worst, with an empty pistol.
IF you carry items in addition to your pistol and ammo, make sure your ammo is NOT near anything that you might grab in an emergency. You might mistake your flashlight/Pepper spray/knife for an extra magazine.
I know, I saw it happen during my last training session. One of the guys in our class had a "Bat belt" for lack of a better term. And more than once, instead of his magazine, he was pulling out some other object.
I carry my cell phone in a vest/shirt pocket. If/When I start carrying pepper spray, that will be AWAY from my ammo. The last thing I want is to try and put my pepper spray into the mag well of my pistol.
I looked at a friend's Para w/ LDA and it seems like a fine weapon. Likewise the XD. For my personal use, however, I prefer the SA-only 1911, and the single stack grip design for feel and "flat" concealability. 7+1+7 primary load and 6+1+6 BUG load provides sufficient concealable capacity and redundancy. If I knew I was going to need more, I'd take the AR without about 12 mags!
"We're paratroopers. We're supposed to be surrounded!" Dick Winters
I have 10+1 capacity in both my usual carry pieces (witness .45 & PT-140 .40 ) . Never have felt the need for more than that . The " better to have it and not need it " phrase is great , but realisticly , do people carry 4 spares for their cars? That's just the way I think . If the time ever came that I needed more than what I was carrying , it probably wouldn't matter what or how much I was carrying anyway . Not saying this is the right or wrong way of thinking , just my way .
I've carried hi-cap 9's and 40's both on and off duty. The last 40 I had (S&W 411) was "perfect" for both. Small enough to carry concealed, but heavy enough for duty.
I no longer work as an LEO, but I do still carry. I always wanted a 45. So I now carry a S&W 457 w/7rnds and a spare. If I need more than 14 rnds to defend me and my family, then I have put us someplace where we shouldn't have been.
Use the mind, and don't put yourself into a "hollywood" shoot-out. CCW is personal protection (you and yours). Call in the "Big Guns" if you need more than a few well placed rounds.
That's my opinion
Face it: since the day of the "wonder nines" and the level of unthinking, unwarranted anti-social heights to which some (perps) are willing to go, having only a handgun can be considered being outgunned. Wholly depends on the situation, of course.But when it comes to a CCW, if you need more than the 16 rounds that you have on you, then you are out gunned.
It comes down to one thing: How quickly and effectively one can incapacitate an aggressor, or, worse, multiple aggressors. If I can only have a few rounds (due to weight or concealment restrictions), I want those rounds to be as large and effective as possible. If I can accommodate far more rounds, then I'm willing to drop my requirements on size/effectiveness a little in order to gain the firepower. But in the end, a situation will drive everything. There are situations where the mere threat dissolves the problem; others, where caliber is a clear advantage; still others, where you simply cannot carry enough rounds, given the realities of a multiple-aggressor attack over long distances (until you reach safety).
A one-size-fits-all strategy works well only for unisex sweat pants and some hats.
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Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
I also believe that since just showing your loaded 1911 to a bad guy will deter most criminals. Capacity of a single mag would not convince me to buy another handgun. I do keep 3 loaded mags available. Mike Z
"fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen.'' Warren vs District of Columbia
I have ONE Spare tire for my car, so why not carry a spare mag for my gun? If you don't plan for what MIGHT happen, why carry a gun at all?
What I mean is, isn't that part of our raison d'etre? Don't we tell ourselves as well as those antis that we carry for what might happen? Well, suppose you DO need more than a single load? I'm not saying it will happen. But if we don't want to go with the idea we might need more than X amount of ammo, we could just as easily extrapolate that to read, "Well, then I don't really even need my gun."
Think about it.
WOW, lot's of different view point's on this!
Al has the right idea. He is seeing things as I was when posting this question. I carry one spare tire as well, why in the heck would I carry another spare? I've got AAA, a cell phone, extra money, credit card's, family, friends, that are backing me up. That analogy is not comparing apples to apples IMO.
I don't have AAA backing me on the street everyday helping to protect me! I am buying my own personal insurance/assurance that I am covered in as many type's of situations as possible by carrying more capacity. The more training I get the more I think this way!
To each there own as to what they feel comfortable with, I just wanted to see others views about extra capacity and what they are carrying for the most part. I should have made this a poll question as well, I'll remember next time.
Train and train hard, you might not get a second chance to make a first impression!
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TiCarry, a poll may have been a better idea if you wanted statistics--perhaps you can go that route now if it's possible.
As for me, I would find it interesting to see what % of people carry reloads, and how many. Some simple statistics without all the personal self-defense philosophies.
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I read a statistic somewhere that said the average gunfight was 7 seconds long, at 7 meters, with 3 rounds fired. For personal protection I'm quite happy with a 5 shot revolver.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - The Virginia Tech Hokies scored two runs in the first inning and never looked back to defeat the UAB softball team, 4-1, on Friday in the first game of the Knoxville Regional of the 2012 NCAA Championship at Lee Stadium.
The Blazers (37-21) will play Tennessee on Saturday at 4 p.m. ET in an elimination contest. GameTracker, live video and a live in-game chat will be available for free via the links above. Miami (Ohio) defeated Tennessee, 1-0, on Friday.
"There were a lot of pluses in that game, but with the loss we aren't really focusing on that," UAB head coach Marla Townsend said. "We are looking at a couple things we regretted and that is not why we came to play. Thankfully it's a double elimination tournament and we have the opportunity to come out tomorrow play our game.
"There were opportunities in the game. I felt that we were one hit away from really breaking through and getting back in the game."
The Hokies (41-19) jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the first inning. Lauren Gaskill drew a leadoff walk, stole second and scored on a double by Courtney Liddle. In the next at bat, Kelsey Mericka singled to right field to score Liddle and give the Hokies the lead.
In the fourth inning, Betty Rose singled to right. She moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Kat Banks and to third on a muffed catch by Lauren Webster covering first on the play. With no outs, Leigh Streetman entered the game in relief for starter Lannah Campbell. She struck out the next three batters to escape the inning.
UAB cut VT's lead in half in the sixth inning. Catherine Crawford and Mandy Lowman both walked, and Kristen McGrath stepped to the plate. With two outs, McGrath ripped a single down the middle to score Crawford.
Virginia Tech extended its lead, 3-1, in the bottom of the frame after Gaskill scored Banks. The game was then paused for a 50-minute rain delay. The break in play didn't deter VT as the Hokies added their fourth and final run on the first at bat after the delay.
"We did a good job putting the ball in play, but they made the plays," Townsend said. "The weak ground balls to the infield was something I was not pleased with. Our big hitters have got to get solid."
Campbell (15-7) suffered the loss, allowing five hits and two earned runs in 3.0 innings pitched. Streetman tossed the remaining three innings, scattering three hits and striking out six.
Virginia Tech's Jasmin Harrell (30-14) earned the win. She pitched all seven innings and allowed four hits, one earned run and four walks.


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Coastal Norway's 10 Coolest Experiences
No matter the season, Norway's picturesque scenery beckons visitors to experience its lovely, vibrant coast and out-of-the-ordinary attractions.
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Norway's capital tops lots of lists, usually of "the world's most expensive cities." But that doesn't mean budget travelers have to avoid it completely, it just means getting creative.
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There's not a lot of news that pertains to cruise embarking equipment. But this seems cool. Cunard Cruise Line is testing a new floating pier, by SeaWalk, in the port of Skjolden, Norway.
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Norway's got a bit of everything, plus some stuff few other countries have (hello, midnight sun). From fjords to fresh seafood, and from outdoorsy towns to chic cities, there's plenty to do in this Scandinavian country.
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Luxury tour provider Abercrombie & Kent has announced an Arctic cruise adventure worth planning ahead for. The company will be hosting an expedition voyage aboard the sleek, 199-passenger MV Le Boreal, for a 2013 foray into polar bear country.
Try the breakfast cheeses in Norway
Norway's famous brown goat cheese, Geitost (a sweet, caramel-flavor whey cheese made from goat and cow's milk), and Norvegia (a Norwegian Gouda-like cheese) are on virtually every table. They are eaten in thin slices, cut with a cheese plane or slicer—a Norwegian invention—on buttered wheat or rye bread.
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Whether it's a loop ride on a steam train or a practical means for getting from Amsterdam to Brussels, Europe is full of train routes with amazing scenery. Thanks to the amazing Fodor's community, we've compiled some great train trips by country.
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We can't recommend this activity more highly—just be sure to pack a sturdy pair of hiking shoes. Hiking's the national pastime, and you'll never be too far from a well-marked mountain trail here. One of the best places for beginners is the gently sloping terrain of the Hardangervidda plateau.
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Between early June and mid-July the sun doesn't set here—a phenomenon known as the midnight sun. Some of the prettiest places to take in this phenomenon are Bodo, Narvik, and Nordkapp in Norway; or while skiing the King's Trail in northern Sweden. Equally moving (though in a less gleeful way) is the reverse experience at the height of winter, when the Arctic goes completely dark for a few months.


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By Vernon Felton
"What was that?"
We're at the first aid station on the Cumberland course, on our first day of the BC Bike Race, and the rider asking that question aloud is still reeling from the day's first enduro downhill. The guy shakes his head.
"I thought I was going to die!"
Another rider wobbles by, en route to a warm cup of Cytomax, and manages to add, "And there were people actually riding that trail."
All of which had me thinking: These poor sons of bitches have no idea… Just wait till we get to the Powerhouse Plunge in Squamish.
That first day's descent down Teapot on the Cumberland course was pretty minor—a few roots, a few steeps, but nothing requiring air or much in the way of technical prowess. Relax your arms, give your brakes a much needed break of their own, and you'd rip through it with a big, shit-eating grin on your face.
Squamish's Powerhouse Plunge, on the other hand, can be a handful, particularly in a race. A standby portion of competitions such as the Test of Metal, the Plunge is a chunky mess of roots and rocks. I'd done it during a rainy edition of the Test of Metal and it was like a Pacific Northwest version of Dante's Inferno—the trail isn't steep and it's really not that technical, but when you toss in a couple hundred, flailing riders who keep death-gripping their front brake every time they see a root or a big rock, well, shit gets hairy in short order. Suddenly, your ability to maintain speed and momentum comes to a crashing halt and you're left trying to mash your way through a downhill rock garden at about 2 miles per hour. It's a bit like trying to steer a bulldozer solely through mind control.
On Day One of the BC Bike Race, however, I kept these thoughts to myself and made a mental note to try and enter the Plunge (when we finally got to Squamish), with a good bit of space between myself and the next rider. What actually concerned me more was the elevation profile for the Squamish stage of the BC Bike Race. The racer handbook showed a constantly zig-zagging elevation plot—climb, descend, climb, descend, climb, descend—with a day's tally of 30 miles and 5,849 feet. After five straight days of long rides, those numbers didn't exactly having me brimming with enthusiasm.
A few days before the BC Bike Race kicked off, I asked Dave Heisler, the owner of Corsa Cycles in Squamish, about the course he designed.
"Oh, it's not as bad as it looks on paper," said Heisler.
"Really?" I counter, "Because I looked at it and immediately thought, 'You motherf*cker!'
"No, it's not bad at all," the course designer contended. "Look, we've routed the climbs on really mellow roads and doubletracks—so you get to great trails without any real pain. There's Hoods in the Woods, Psuedotsuga, the Powerhouse Plunge and, of course, Half Nelson. People always say that Squamish is the best course of the entire race."
I'd ridden most of those trails he'd mentioned before and would agree that they are undeniably great, but I still had my doubts given those climbing stats. Math is math, right? You can't scale that many feet after several consecutive days of big rides without some misery. Turns out, however, that Dave was spot on with his course design. Squamish was a blast. Despite some decent elevation gain, the climbs were middle-ring cruisers and the descents were nothing shy of mind blowing.
When I hit the bottom of Half Nelson riders are stopping and giddily high-fiving one another.
"That's the best trail ever!"
"I have a new favorite trail!"
Grown men reduced to giggling girls by just a few miles of berms, rollers and table tops. It must be seen to be believed, but people are universally floored by the downhill pumptrack that local builder, Ted Tempany, spearheaded with the help of a small army of Squamish locals. Within a half mile of the trail's finish, I'd heard at least three different riders vow that they'd one day return from Australia, Alberta and Texas, just to ride that trail again.
And bacon. Did I mention the bacon? Somewhere before Hoods in the Woods, another stellar section of singletrack, a volunteer is standing at the top of a climb with a pan full of hot bacon. It is salty. It is fatty. It is absolutely the best thing I have ever eaten.
Not long after our pork-fueled pit stop, I hit the Plunge. While it's still a bit of a madhouse, complete with wide-eyed riders blocking all the ladder bridges and littering the descent in the least-convenient way possible, it's still a hoot. We've been blessed with an unusually hot spell this week, which means the trail is in fine shape. You can even do idiot things, like brake on the roots (a necessity on the cluttered sections) without eating crap. Sweet!
By the time we riders hit the finish line in Squamish, there's a sense of euphoria in the air, the last hard day is behind us and it wasn't nearly as trying as many of us imagined it would be. My Garmin helps explain why: we climbed about a thousand feet less than predicted in the racer guide book. It was still a fistful of elevation gain (4,727 feet, to be exact) on your sixth day of racing, but it's a number our legs can live with. Now all that remained was the victory lap in Whistler.
"So, I don't know how to put this positively," says the race announcer to the assembled riders on our last stage in Whistler. "This is a great course and a great way to cap off the BC Bike Race, but last year, we had more crashes and injuries in Whistler than anywhere else in the race."
Grant Lamont, the course designer for the Whistler stage, and the man responsible for putting in a lot of the trails around Whistler, for that matter, steps up to the microphone and adds his two cents, "Hey, have a good time out there, but just remember, you're in Whistler today. The trails here are tough. Don't go forgetting that. Don't make us have to scrape you off the course today."
It was a hell of a way to kick off the final day of the BC Bike Race, but Lamont had a point. A lot of the worst wrecks happen when you least expect it; at the end of the ride when you're knackered and you let your awareness lapse at the worst possible moment.
We start off the final stage with a mellow, but persistent climb up the slopes of the Whistler bike park. The moment we start heading down, the wrecks begin to pile up. Halfway down Crank It Up, I see the bike patrol putting a sling on a rider who wound up misjudging one of the trail's many jumps. He won't be the only one.
Eventually the route winds us away from the bike park and onto the newer Lost Lake trail system. The trails are largely mellow, and a huge departure from what we've been riding—there are still rocky sections and technical bits, but it's a dry and loose, rock-over-hardpack kind of terrain. There's nothing in the way of mud or wet roots or loam. For many riders from warmer climes, it's a welcome return to the kind of terrain they are most familiar with. On the whole, the Whistler stage proves an easy day for us—at 14.4 miles and 2,500 feet of elevation gain, it's roughly half the length of a typical stage. By the time we hit those Lost Lake trails, we can practically taste (so to speak) that BC Bike Race belt buckle that marks a successful bid of the BC Bike Race. Most of the riders complete the course in short order. As they cross the finish line, one of the many race volunteers drapes the BCBR belt buckle around their necks.
What seemed like an insane number of miles and elevation gain a week ago are now over and done—a figure on our cyclocomputers, an accomplishment achieved, a shiny buckle at the center of our waists. At the finish line there are no ends to the high-fives and hugs, and it's impossible now to tell the difference between the competitive types who spent the previous seven days blowing past other racers and the take-it-easy types who simply came to this event for the scenery and the chance to sample BC's finest. T-shirts are being handed out and you can already hear racers talking about signing up for the 2014 edition of the BC Bike Race, which begins taking reservations the following day. Within 24 hours of the last racer crossing the 2013 finish line, half the slots for next year's event had been spoken for.
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Consider the following:
z := {L == x y, y == x, x == y}
Solve[z, {L}] ---> {{L->y^2}}
no surprises. now,
Plot[L /. Solve[z, {L}][[1]], {y, 1, 10}]
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Plot[L /. Solve[z, {L}][[1]], {x, 1, 10}]
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y^2, so my brain said that
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Gender Gap or Gender Mirror?

Most boats heel too far, says the author, but is this due to macho attitudes or just poor judgement regarding seamanship?

At a recent seminar on seamanship that I led in San Francisco (one of a series sponsored by North U, the education arm of North Sails), a woman came up at the break and reported that something I had said was stimulating a decidedly favorable reaction among a certain circle.

"You told us that most boats heel too far," she said, "and on that all the women here agree that youre absolutely right." When I passed this example of the gender gap on to the whole audience, there was much laughter and cheeringand not only by the sopranos and altos in the room. Everybody was acknowledging a fundamental disconnect.

Of course its true that when the wind is up, many boats are allowed to heel much too far, meaning more than 20 degrees for beamy boats or 25 degrees for narrow ones, whose lines are not distorted as radically when they go over on their sides. Less precisely, too much heel means that the leeward rail is wet and the crew likely frightened, and that the helmsman must fight for control against a rudder that is a more effective brake than a steering device. Such a reeling, rocking boat stands out in a fleet of well-sailed vessels like a drunk in a church. Able, experienced sailors know when and how to decrease heel by dumping the traveler, pinching up, and shortening sail. But a sailor (female or male) does not have to be experienced to sense that somethings probably wrong when the boat is lying on its side.

As with most aspects of life, there certainly is a gender gap in sailing. However, good seamanship can best be achieved through proactive participation by both genders.

There is a gender gap in sailing, no question about it. Most boats are owned and commanded by men, often with a rigid authority that allows little room for women to develop into able, all-round sailors. As an indication of the historic entrenchment of gender roles, note the new, successful Suddenly Alone educational program, which trains crews to take over if their captains are incapacitated. Suddenly Alone was created by the countrys most prestigious cruising organization, the Cruising Club of America, in large part to train wives and other female crew to assume responsibilities that they have been observing from a distance for many years or decades. Now, the membership of the CCA (I count myself as a proud member) is somewhat gray-haired, which means that there is at least a possibility that a similar focus is not needed by younger sailors who have been raised in the gender egalitarianism that, happily, has come to rule shoreside America over the past quarter century.

Speculating about a gender gap can be risky. Generalizing about the capabilities and limitations of groups of people is a minefield, and for very good reasons. The two most dangerous words in the English language are "we" and its sidekick "they," which together barricade people behind walls of the status quo and intolerance. All the same, there is no question that when it comes to boats, certain behaviors often seem to be related to relative allotments of testosterone. To put it plainly, many male sailors can be macho. Besides insisting on making sailing uncomfortable and also on keeping women from taking responsibility, the macho mentality is hyper-competitive. For this I cite the experience of my mother. Raised inland in Texas, she did not start sailboat racing until she was in her 30s, and when she did she was appalled by how a Saturday afternoon sailboat race could transform courteous men into savages. "All that shrieking and yelling at each otherI never believed your father was capable of it," she once told me. Im afraid to say that she was later just as surprised to see her son capable of it, toobut I now like to think Im reformed.

Its not that women cannot be competitive. As I wrote two months ago in the case of Beryl Smeeton (Sailing with a Master Mariner), and as we know from the examples of Ellen MacArthur and Dawn Riley, women can enjoy physical challenges, too. If male voices today are heard most loudly and often on crowded starting lines, it is often because most male voices carry farther than most female voices. Yet in my experience even competitive women often are better at tasks for which traditional cowboy machismo is the worst possible aptitude. These jobs include patiently steering or trimming sails in fluky winds, fitting into a team with the crew and the boat, sacrificing ego for cooperation, and (yes) quickly recognizing that when water pours over the lee rail, something's wrong.

Boats don't play favorites when it comes to gender. The fact that this woman is hiking harder that the fellow to her right means that her lesser weight is probably producing equal the impact of his weight on the boat's heel.

It's not that men can't do the job; rather, men often have to shed some attitude in order to accomplish it. No individual can muscle a boat larger than a small dinghy through the water. All the sailor can do is help it along, and that means allowing the boat to sail as the designer intended, which means pretty much on its bottom in an orderly fashion, with about four degrees of weather helm. Like anything else, if a boat is to work properly, it should look and feel comfortable, in balance, and in control.

If any one part of the boat seems to inspire a high level of gender gapism, it is the spinnaker. Alongside the storm and the shipwreck, the chute is the most recognizable symbol of sailing chaos, and therefore it is a friend to sailors who are macho and an enemy to those who are not. It needn't be that way. No crew, female or male, should allow one or two bad experiences with a flogging spinnaker to stop them from learning how to master the sail. A well-controlled spinnaker (set with a snuffer or other sock-like device) can be handled as easily as a mainsail while adding two or more knots to a boats speed in light or moderate wind, thereby extending a days cruising range by 10 to 20 miles. All it takes is a little patience, teamwork, and practice among the men and women on board, always alert to the feel of the boat under them.

Thus as visible as the gender gap is, in fact it is not as significant as the gender mirror. There's nothing exclusively feminine or masculine about sailing a boat under control and well. The two sets of values that, in the old days, were traditionally identified either with women (sensitive, adaptable, process-driven, orderly) or with men (focused, aggressive, goal-driven, structured) are, in fact, complementary upon the sea, and coexist side by side in the best sailors. Put them together and you have the characteristics of good seamanship.

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Sinegal: Well, first of all, Robert strengths are obvious because of his leadership capabilities. He leads by example, on the field and off the field. He's a quiet, to his self kind of guy but he leads by example. He gives everything he has on the field. Mack and Texas picked that up.
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Harrison: I think it was his athletic ability and the fact that he's pretty physical. He went up there for a camp last spring, that's when they first really got interested in him. They were doing one-on-one drills, and he pressed the kid, and he didn't let the kid off the line. They took notice. He was an actual football player, not just a fast kid, not just a kid that was strong. He was a good football player.
IT: What are the things that he's working on right now to prepare for heading to Austin in June?
Harrison: To fit in that secondary, he's going to have to continue to work on his speed, because they all can run, and he's going to continue to work on his strength. He's already fairly strong. He hang cleans 260 right now and squats over 400 pounds, that's why he's such a good hitter. But that's what he's going to continue to work on. He's supposed to get into track so he can continue to work on his speed.
Sinegal: A lot of people have said that he's a prototype of Huff, so he needs experience, and like coach Harrison said, the weight and speed a little bit more, he's going to be...
Harrison: I'll tell you who he hits like: Kelson.
Sinegal: He rocks you.
Harrison: Robert hits. Hard.
Sinegal: Punishes you.
IT: I heard Robert mention that he's played some corner for you guys...
Harrison: He played corner one game. Last year, we played against Humble, and they had a guy that was 6-9, and another that was 6-7, and he and the other guy we got that's going to Iowa State (Justin Robertson), they were the tallest guys we had in the secondary, so any time they went trips open, we tried to match those guys up because we had two little bitty corners, so we took them and put them on the two big guys, so he's played a lot of man-to-man (at safety). We do that a lot, especially when we blitz.
IT: That sounds like that fits into UT's scheme because Duane Akina likes to play his DBs interchangeably....
Harrison: He can do that. You asked the thing that coach Akina liked, that was probably it, the fact that he can play man-to-man. In fact, I heard him even say that. He wants his safeties and corners to be interchangeable, and Robert can do that.
IT: What's Robert size right now? He looks like he's bigger than what we have him listed at (at the time, 5-11.5, 175)...
Harrison: He looks like he's gotten taller. They say he's 6-1 but he looks like he's a little taller. Of course, that was last spring.
Sinegal: (Former head) coach Colbert has him at 6-2, 180 pounds on here.
IT: What else did he do for you guys?
Harrison: He played tailback this year, and he played quarterback in one game. In one game, he had 275 yards rushing, an interception, two pass breakups, and I don't know how many tackles.
Sinegal: Well, we had Jamaal Charles last year, so we had someone of that caliber on both sides of the ball. Robert was our Jamaal Charles on defense. Mack Brown came through the other day and called Jamaal a freak because he's a kid that comes through only every once in a while. And Robert is close to that also. That's what he is to us. That leadership capability on the team, not just on the defensive side of the ball. Quiet leader, that's the best kind of leader. By example and quiet.
IT: The Texas program is renowned for its family atmosphere. How do you see Robert fitting into that kind of atmosphere?
Sinegal: I've worked with the varsity from behind the scenes, me being here this week [it was Sinegal's first week as interim coach], Robert understands that I'm part of the family and respect extends. I get him first, but I don't see 'em for three years after that time. After he left freshman I didn't have much interaction with Robert, but Robert is the kind of kid that he understands the magnitude of his importance. His mom even said that just since Mack came the other day she sees something in Robert different than he already had. He already had the leadership and the demonstration on the field. If another light went on, man, I think Texas is getting a player they can put on the front page of their advertising of the recruiting class.
IT: Was he a guy that other teams avoided either running or passing the ball?
Harrison: Yeah, they'd run away from him.
IT: So he had the ability to change a team's plan?
Harrison: Absolutely.
Sinegal: You wanted to know where he was on the field if you were on the opposing side of the ball. You could see it from a fan's standpoint, you could see it from the press box, cause I know coaches saw it from the field.
Harrison: Against Westfield last year, the only loss they had during the regular season was when we beat them. Jamaal had 400 yards but what they don't know is that (Joseph) had 18 tackles and he made the winning tackle on a drive. They ran a slip screen, he makes the tackle, and if he doesn't, it's first down and they keep moving the ball.
IT: Is there a defining moment for you that exemplifies Robert's ability as a football player?
Harrison: I can think of about 10 of them. We played against Pearland when he was a sophomore, and they had 71 plays and we had 29 plays because they couldn't stop our offense. Our offense had too many weapons that year, but we made them line up and take another snap and take another snap. We're up by two scores and then they score and get the ball back real quick, and they're coming down with a minute left, but the last play of the game Robert picks them off. We put him at free safety and he picks it off and is getting ready to run it back for a touchdown and I'm telling him to get down because it's over with. Another play, against Sterling, we put him at free, he comes over on a play that's about to be a touchdown, and he hits the guy, the ball flies out. There's a beautiful play against Tyler John Tyler this year, they go empty, so we go man and blitz 'em, and they throw quick to the No. 3 receiver on the bubble and Robert just squares up and you could see him come out of his hips. It was the most beautiful tackle I've ever seen. I could just go on and on and on. Interception when we played Spring to win the game, coming down. It looks like no one wants to win the game, because they keep turning it over, we keep turning it over, he gets the interception and stops them right there because they were about to go in and score. Then he turned around and scored a touchdown on offense.
IT: He played mainly free safety for you, but he's a guy you think could play either safety spot?
Harrison: When we were in our 4-2-5 scheme, he was still free safety but we moved him over to the tight end side, because we wanted him over to the most receiver side. It was a free safety scheme, so we cheated him over just a little bit to the tight end side. That's the guy that they can't block and he's going to make the tackle. When Robert tackles you, it stops. Whatever was going on, it stops. At this level, that's what I've seen. Of course, he's going to have to get bigger, maybe, but we said that about Jamaal and he seems to be doing alright.
IT: With his frame, what do you see as his ideal height/weight?
Harrison: I don't know how much taller he's going to get, but it looks like to me, he could be an NFL safety someday, and I'm not talking about an undersized safety, but like a Roy Williams-type. He could be 220 and carry it well. And keep his speed.
IT: What's he doing to work on his speed?
Sinegal: He's running track and that's the key. The track season hasn't started yet and we have a new track who's a speed coach.
IT: Is there anything you'd like to add about Robert that we didn't already cover?
Sinegal: I also coached Jordan Babineaux, who's playing in the Super Bowl, who was one of our kids prior to consolidating, and Robert has the same intensity, no, more, more intensity and understanding of the scheme of the defense, and Jordan plays the nickel package for the Seattle Seahawks, and Jordan loves to hit also. I think you can put Robert on special teams...
Harrison: Robert is a natural. He's a football player.
Sinegal: ...he's an athlete. You can put him anywhere. You can put him at offensive guard and he'll get the job done other than being undersized.
Harrison: On defense, he had to practice on defense. You can't just throw people out there, they've got to know what's going on, because on defense you face a different offense every week. So he spent most of his time practicing on defense. He didn't practice that much on offense, maybe a couple of periods each day, that's it, and they'd have some plays in for him and maybe the base plays that they've been doing since day one in the ninth and tenth grade, and he would come in and make the adjustment. He's not the type that has to do ball drills every day like receivers do. He doesn't have to do it. He can go out there and just do it. He's just a football player.
UT's Signing Day bio: Versatile, three-year letterman who was a two-way standout a two-time all-state and three-time all-district pick at free safety recorded 213 tackles (132 solo) and three interceptions over his final two seasons also played running back, wide receiver and quarterback was a Willie Ray Smith finalist (Outstanding Offensive and Defensive Players in Beaumont area) as a junior and senior tabbed first team 5A all-state by The Associated Press as a senior earned second-team all-state honors from the Texas Sports Writers Association named the district MVP was a member of the Port Arthur News Super team for three years and was named that publication's Defensive Player of the Year as a senior tabbed second-team all-Greater Houston named to Dave Campbell's Super Team second team in the preseason notched 80 tackles (54 solo) two TFL, one INT and one forced fumble in only seven games that year named honorable mention all-state by The Associated Press and the Texas Sports Writers Association as a junior earned first team all-district (22-5A) honors recorded 133 tackles (78 solo), 14 PBU and two INTs that year earned second team all-district as a sophomore has been on the Honor Roll since his sophomore year ran track for the first time as a senior enjoys playing video games full name is Robert F. Joseph born Sept. 11, 1987 in Port Arthur, Texas.
"It's been a dream my whole life to play at Texas, and I had the opportunity to have it come true. It's a very family oriented program. Coach Brown is down to earth and humble, and I'm excited to play there."
[Note: Roy Watts was originally scheduled for today, but his report will now come later in the series.]


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Dave, glad things were going well, and hope they will be again soon! God bless!
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Dave, glad things were going well, and hope they will be again soon! God bless!
Keep us posted. You'll do great!
Not far from you is Wake Forest / Baptist hospital/ Bowman Grey School of Meds in Winston-Salem, North Carolina they have a heart clinic which is one of the best in the world. If they can't get things right where ur at, You could make an appt. there soon after to ascertain a second evaluation.
Maybe an hour an half ride from you maybe a bit less. Might be worth ur time to check it out.
You will be in my prayer list this evening, remember be concerned but try not to worry which can make symptoms worse through anxiety.
I had a cardiac ablation done there soon after I retired due to increased Cardiac PVC's. Very high tech heart lab they have there and I have not had a moments trouble since the procedure was preformed.
Wishing you well....
It was the electrician cardiologist who discovered the intermittent AV node problem (not SA node) resulting uncoordinated contractions. Luckily one of the intermittent events occurred and was captured on tape while I was all wired up -- following being jump started back into sinus rhythm in prep for the cardiac ablation.
AV node was creating a delay in conducting the signal from my atria to the ventricle that was four times longer than normal. This causes the following contraction of the atria to occur before the ventricles had completed their contraction. The resulting uncoordinated contractions then cause problems that were the reverse of Premature Ventricular Complex -- i.e., my ventricle beat later, rather than earlier than expected, making the atria pump against pressure and not fill the ventricle fully. Like PVC my my heart returned to its normal rhythm rather shortly after most onsets. Hence the original difficulty catching it on tape. However, repeats of this mess caused the A-fib - albeit not the typical A-fib. That's why the pacemaker. It coordinates contractions of ventricle based on my naturally generated signals that it receives from my SA node -- 100% of the time. That plus Rx seems to have worked for the last two years, so there was no need to go in and burn out any rouge cells in the lining of right atrium.
FWIIW, my normal heart rate was always slow. At rest, it is normally between 45 and 55 beats a minute. My pacemaker is programed to only take over the from the SA node to the atria only when my beat drops below 40.
Thanks for the concern, all. I do believe Tuesday was relatively isolated event and that the scheduled tests will find nothing new going bad. Sure I'm a tad concerned but not very worried at this point. My son (a former Force Recon FMF Corpsman) was home on his day off and he's not overly worried (at this point) -- so this old brown-shoe is not. Gota trust your Corpsman. :image035:
I think of this site as sort of extended family and I sent all the family an email update -- so did a cut and past to here.
Thanks for the thoughts and prayers, all.
Dave, did they "interrogate" your pacemaker yet? I think these store up recordings of events.
What happened a couple of days ago might still be on there, or might be on there till
the device is interrogated.
I guess I missed the part about the AV block in our previous discussions and thought the problem was
all AF.
Anyway, I'm sure your cardiologists will get to the bottom of it--- and meanwhile you are feeling well again.
Put on a smile.
I have a monitor beside the bed that is plugged into the Landline 24/7.
Somewhere in the programing it or the pacemaker detects and sends certain event automatically. Also, I can manually send a readout by pressing a button. Done that. Also, am scheduled to see a MD from the electrician cardiologist office to have my pacemaker's memory/operation checked out in more detail.
BTW, I'm still feeling good today.
or not much news, at all.
I've had no recurrences of the of the major drop in BP.
There have been a bit of irregular beats. The were not to the level of concern.
After a second round of test today (five hours at the hospital), nothing new of significance.
My ProTime INR was up. But that's no big deal. Likely driven by a change in other Rx last week. Reducing the rat poison (a.k.a. warfarin dosage) will fix that. Besides, my ProTime INR was checked twice (in ambulance and at the ER) last week and was right on the mark.
They want to do another 48 hour event monitor next week and some more test two weeks later. BTDTGDT
At this point, I say no news is good news. :danceban:
Thanks for all the well wishes.
Keep us posted....
Saw my primary cardiologist, this AM. He had nothing really to report.
Looks as if things are OK.
Nothing figured our as to the 64/46 BP drop.
But, I have been OKed to resume cardiac rehab maintenance and other activities. :danceban:
Was told to stay the course on the current Rx. Followup with my electrician cardiologist in July and back to my primary cardiologist in August.
All very routine.
Well... think of it this way, you are still here, so there is a positive side..... don't let it get you down, think it only as a problem to resolve for now...
I was having irregular heartbeats regularly, and they couldn't figure it out. I kept telling them, it seems to really get bad after I take XXX medicine they had me on. Each time, they dismissed that. Then, one day..... in for a treadmill, I reminded of that again.... the Doctor told me to immediately stop taking it, because they had been notified that it was causing irregular heartbeats and heart attacks (death) in numerous people. Quit taking the med, and never ever had the issue again.
We'll keep you in our prayers.


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Cracked spoke
So i have a set fo team dynamic pro race 1 and i got out of my car and i noticed something on one of the spokes... got a closer look and it is cracked all the around of the the spokes... i know this is not good at all but howbad is it? pro race 1 are discontinued rims and were hard to find anywhere...
mostly going to order a set of rims to replace them while they get fixed... :(
not the christmas bill i was looking for.
any ideas besides taking it to a shop? and is it ok to drive on for say 2 weeks while i wait on rims?
and its on the front driver side atm would it be better to stick it in the bck?
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there is a guy on fj selling a set of 17x7 pro race1's.. he's probably not interested in selling a single rim but if you like the wheels, you could buy the set and keep the rest as back ups (assuming they are the same as yours.) he's asking $400 and is located in VA.
It must be a pretty good size crack if you noticed it just getting out of the car. If those are the wheels I think they are, the spokes are smallish.
I would definitely not recommend driving on those wheels any more, I've seen too many wheel horror stories, stay safe my friend.
I had a similar problem this past spring with my Rota Slip Streams. Contacted wheel repair shops and they all told me that the wheel was totaled and unsafe to drive on. Take the wheel off your car ASAP and find either a replacement or a new set.
Consider that wheel a piece of scrap metal at this point.
If it is still on your car, it's a ticking time bomb.
i will have to changeit out when i get home... should i switch the back rims to front and run stocks in the back? i know this is pretty awful looking but i have a set of snowflakes but there pretty much shot but i need some traction up in ri for when it does snow
have a new set of rims on the way hope they get here soon!!!
Yea definitely put the good tires in the front. post of pics of the new wheels when they get here!
Main thing is get wheel changed as quick as possible. Not only can you get hurt but if you hurt someone else their lawyer will tear you up in court. This can easily be one of those 'career decisions' spoke of so much. Your future quality of life vs. driving a bit more on bad wheel.
after i get it home tonight i am going to park it... swap my back rims to the front and then rock my stocker on the back... gonna be trashy till my new rims comes but rather be safe
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – Colorado Rapids coach Pablo Mastroeni had to know what questions were coming his way after he chose to sit eight starters from Sunday's win during Wednesday's game.
Whether he did or not, it certainly didn't stop the first-year coach from defending his decision in rather animated fashion in the tunnels of Dick's Sporting Goods Park following a 0-0 draw to the Chicago Fire.
"It's a calculated risk to everyone else. It's not a calculated risk to me," Mastroeni said, referring to a putting together Wednesday's starting lineup, one that didn't feature any of the Rapids' top seven goal scorers. "You guys think it's a calculated risk. There's nothing calculated risk about it to me. I believe we are going to get three points every time I step on the field."
That didn't happen Wednesday. Instead, it was a snoozer of an offensive performance for the Rapids and Fire.
Visitors Chicago, for one, were practically nonexistent on the offensive end all night, totaling just a few real scoring chances while Colorado were a little better.
But it didn't matter. The Rapids, who scored a combined seven goals in back-to-back wins prior to Wednesday, had nowhere near the same punch this time around.
Mastreoni even plugged in Deshorn Brown, Dillon Powers and Dillon Serna midway through the second half for a spark, but it may have been too little too late as the result stayed the same.
"At the end of the day, I think the second half was a good performance," said Shane O'Neill, one of the few players who started both Sunday and Wednesday. "We just didn't find the back of the net."
Before that, Charles Eloundou, starting in place of Powers, was in the middle of scoring chances in 14th and 37th minute the first half, but nothing hit twine. And later, in the 41st minute, Danny Mwanga was the beneficiary of precise tic-tac-toe passing from Eloundou and Marlon Hairston in the box, but the 22-year-old striker lifted his shot well over the net.
Frustrating to watch? Yup.
By the end, however, Mastreoni wasn't angry at the outcome and he stood pat in his decision to rest players and give others opportunities.
It's about looking at the bigger picture, he said.
"From the layman's perspective it looks like a calculated risk. You're playing a bunch of young guys, inexperienced players – [but] from my, from my chair it looks completely different," Mastroeni said. "… It's not what you think it is. It's much more involved, it's much more well-thought out. We don't play to win one game we play to be a great team throughout the season."


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Jailed Mubarak's health casts shadow ahead of Egypt vote
By Edmund Blair
CAIRO (Reuters) - Speculation about Hosni Mubarak's health has riveted Egyptians since he was sent to jail to serve a life sentence, a reminder that his legacy still hangs over the Arab world's most populous nation days before a run-off election to choose his successor.
The former president may have been pushed from power, yet many of his opponents worry that the institutions of state which kept him in office for 30 years are regrouping to reassert their grip after last year's popular uprising.
Some point to the deciding presidential vote on June 16-17, when Egyptians face a stark choice between the candidate of the once-banned Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Mursi, and Ahmed Shafik, Mubarak's last prime minister who was a top military officer like his ex-boss.
"The fact that you have Shafik as a candidate for the presidency and that he has a real chance to be the next president does mean for me that the transitional period has been managed in a way to reach that result," said Hassan Nafaa, a politics professor who also campaigned against Mubarak's rule.
Reports of the 84-year-old Mubarak's waning health conveyed by various officials, newspapers and state media, offering scant and sometimes conflicting details of his ailments, have only served to fuel suspicions held by the former president's opponents.
Critics see such reports as a bid to have Mubarak moved to a medical facility, sparing him the humiliation of a prison hospital. Mubarak's lawyer says he is in a critical state and being denied the basic rights of a prisoner to proper treatment.
A prison official said Mubarak was in a stable condition on Tuesday.
"(Mubarak's) entourage has already used this way to gain the sympathy of the Egyptian people," said Nafaa, although he said he had no first-hand insight into the former president's condition. "We are in a very troubled moment," he added. Continued...