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Talk about putting your money where your mouth is. Sully Sutherlin, president and co-owner of USauctions.com, plans to have his boat, Minx, a 74-foot Awesome luxury catamaran, on display at the Oct. 29-Nov. 2 Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show while he auctions it off online through his Web site and a link to eBay, where the bids are taken.
Sutherlin is auctioning the boat "no reserve." Bidding starts at $1, and beyond that there is no minimum bid for a sale. High bid takes the $1.5 million yacht.
"My own boat is a guinea pig," says Sutherlin, who founded USauctions.com 11 years ago to sell "hurricane-damaged, distressed, salvage and liquidation" vessels for insurers.
He says an auction also can be a good way to loosen up the yacht brokerage market. It moves a boat fast and uses today's market to determine its value.
Minx has been for sale through traditional brokerage channels for a year. Sutherlin says the brokerage market has been sluggish because owners are holding out for too much when boat values are down 40 to 50 percent. Buyers, meanwhile, are looking for rock-bottom deals. No-reserve auctions sell boats now and let market demand drive the selling price.
"We sell items to the highest bidder – period," he says.
Sutherlin says he could wind up unloading Minx for $700,000 or $800,000 in the seven-day auction. "I'm pretty sure I'm going to lose money," he says. How much he doesn't know, but that's the name of the game right now. Values are way down.
Sutherlin says he and his wife bought Minx as their retirement boat while they were negotiating the sale of USauctions.com to investors. But then the economy tanked, the deal fell through, and their hopes of retirement receded. His wife, Nickie Richter, runs USauctions.com, while Sutherlin operates Paradigm Marine, which does vessel salvage and recovery, and heavy marine construction.
Sutherlin's broker, Walter Strzalkowski, owner of Yacht Search and director of Prout International's power cat division, says buyers at auction typically bid on the high side of what a boat is really worth, so owners could do a little better than they might in a straight sale.
"It's a good way of getting the maximum return in the least amount of time," Strzalkowski says. "The interesting thing will be watching where the price goes. He is willing to take a chance."
Sutherlin hopes he'll not only sell Minx at a reasonable price, but entice more brokers and owners to auction big yachts through his Web site.
"Auctions make things happen," says Strzalkowski.
Minx will be on display on the face dock of the Lauderdale show's brokerage section, north of the Las Olas Avenue bridge.
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Recovery Following Desflurane Versus Sevoflurane for Outpatient Urologic Surgery in Elderly Females
This study has been completed.
Hahnemann University Hospital
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Michael Green, DO, Hahnemann University Hospital
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: March 7, 2011
Last updated: November 6, 2013
Last verified: November 2013
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Numerous studies demonstrate that patients have improved immediate recovery characteristics following desflurane anesthesia compared to other volatile agents, including sevoflurane. There is limited evidence in the literature to suggest that patients undergoing sevoflurane, compared to desflurane anesthesia, may suffer from limitation in function and cognitive ability for an undetermined, but prolonged period of time following surgery. These differences are not explained pharmacokinetically and may be a result of a direct neurotoxic effect of sevoflurane. An unresolved question is the time required for the ability to return to complex tasks, such as driving, following anesthesia. Commonly, patients are advised not to drive or make important decisions for 24 hours following anesthesia, but this is not well-studied and proscribed on an empiric, rather than scientific, basis with very limited data available.This study will better define recovery characteristics and characterize the severity and duration of cognitive impairment following sevoflurane or desflurane anesthesia after brief outpatient urologic surgery in elderly females using tests of cognitive ability coupled with performance on a driving simulator and cognitive task tests to objectively measure not only testing performance, but also cognitive effort in performing these tests.
|Ureteral Stent Occlusion Exposure Laser Ureterostomy; Functional Disturbance Vaginal Diseases Injury of Bladder Excessive Repair Calculi
|Drug: Desflurane Drug: Sevoflurane
|Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Participant, Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|Recovery Following Desflurane vs Sevoflurane for Outpatient Urologic Surgery in Elderly Females
Resource links provided by NLM:
Drug Information available for: Sevoflurane DesfluraneU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by Michael Green, DO, Hahnemann University Hospital:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- Time to Opening of Eyes [ Time Frame: At 30-45 minutes, following discontinuation of volatile anesthetic at the end of surgery ]
Secondary Outcome Measures:
- Time to Discharge From PACU [ Time Frame: At 30-45 minutes, following discontinuation of volatile anesthetic at the end of surgery and transfer to PACU ]
|Study Start Date:
|May 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2013
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Desflurane
During the surgery the subjects were given Desflurane, general anesthesia, that will keep the patient asleep during the surgery. The dosage form was inhalation gas, dosage equivalent to 1 MAC, frequency was once and the duration was throughout the surgery (30-45 minutes).
|Drug: Desflurane
Active Comparator: Sevoflurane
During the surgery the subjects were given Sevoflurane, general anesthesia, that will keep the patient asleep during the surgery. The dosage form was inhalation gas, dosage equivalent to 1 MAC, frequency was once and the duration was throughout the surgery (30-45 minutes).
|Drug: Sevoflurane
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|60 Years to 85 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- > 65 years old, female subjects
- Scheduled for brief urologic surgery (Cyctoscopy, Ureteral stent, Laserlithotripsy, Ureteroscopy, Vaginal sling, Bladder injury repair, Rectocele repair and Stone extraction)
- Ability to read, write and speak English language
- Driving at least one year
Exclusion Criteria:
- Preexisting neurological impairment in thinking process
- Renal insufficiency or failure
- Lack of command of English language
- Inability to drive
- Motion Sickness
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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01310582
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01310582
|United States, Pennsylvania
|Hahnemann University Hospital
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19102
Sponsors and Collaborators
Hahnemann University Hospital
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
|Principal Investigator:
|George Mychaskiw, DO
|Professor and Chair, Department of Anesthesiology
More Information
Keywords provided by Michael Green, DO, Hahnemann University Hospital:
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on July 26, 2017
|Responsible Party:
|Michael Green, DO, Assistant Professor, Hahnemann University Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01310582 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|March 7, 2011
|Results First Received:
|August 19, 2013
|Last Updated:
|November 6, 2013
Keywords provided by Michael Green, DO, Hahnemann University Hospital:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Pathologic Processes
Vaginal Diseases
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Genital Diseases, Female
Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors
Anesthetics, Inhalation
Anesthetics, General
Central Nervous System Depressants
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Hi! I believe I can be of help with this issue. First, let me say I can imagine how frustrating and worrisome this situation must be for you. You are clearly a loving and caring person and it is very wonderful that you are recognizing that you have to be somewhat patient and work through this problem. Good for you.
I have worked for a long time with people who have had obsessive thoughts or thought patterns. But what's so unusual here is that just yesterday, someone else asked me a question with the exact same problem: obsessive thoughts about Jesus and then it spread to thoughts about her family, awful destructive thoughts. I am relating this to you to let you know how this is not so uncommon. That is the first step in relaxing and the work we're going to do about this below. Because this is a form of OCD. yesterday it was a young woman: A thought comes into her mind and she obsesses on it. This obsessing causes more of these thought "events" to occur. So, let me help you implement the strategies you need to use. If you are not able to control this on your own, you should see a psychologist who is experienced in OCD to help with this. It is not good to let this become too entrenched in your thinking pattern, so you should get help soon if it doesn't abate. The therapist should be practicing some form of Behavioral Therapy for OCD, which is the most effective way to treat this.
Okay, let's start:
You have these thoughts that come into your mind and they scare you. You are CONVICING yourself of something that has no reality other than your inability to stop convincing yourself. It's a vicious circle that is caused by anxiety and increases anxiety. At the end of this posting I'm going to include a technique to use when the anxiety from these thoughts and worries rises. It will give you a little relief so you can use some of the other techniques I will be talking to you about. You need to know that this is not as uncommon as you think. Intelligent people, both male and female, tend to have these obsessive thoughts. And there is no way to predict or know why each person's subconscious mind chooses one thing to obsess about instead of another. We can theorize about fears driving the subconscious choice of subject, but it's only theorizing at this time. Therefore, I need you to reorient your view of what is going on. EVERYONE has strange thoughts come into our minds! So what's the difference between all of us and those who have a psychological problem or a mental illness? What we DO with those strange thoughts! Here's what I mean: It is very common to have a thought, sentences that come in, about jumping or falling off a subway platform or onto the tracks of a train. Why? Because we've all seen images of this in movies, etc. Same with jumping off balconies or falling. And other such calamities. BUT, most of us let these thoughts just go. We don't hold on to them. We treat them like all the other type of fleeting thoughts we have throughout the day about whole sorts of things. We just let them go and don't attach any importance to them. When someone CAN'T let the thought go, then that could be OCD for example, or some other anxiety disorder. When someone embroiders the thoughts into voices saying they SHOULD jump or into whole elaborate stories about jumping or falling on the tracks, then that could be a sign of schizophrenia or some other thought disorder, for example. Do you see the difference here? It's not in the thought, the sentences that come into our awareness. It's in what we do with it. So you had thoughts about the religious figures you revere that were thoughts of an awful nature. Okay. That is not so uncommon. But rather than letting the thoughts go like any other stray thoughts, you obsessed on these particular thoughts and they became anxiety triggers for you. By the way, you may be interested: about 5 months ago I actually treated someone with the problem you describe! His obsession was that whenever he thought about his family members and said to himself that they were okay, that he REALLY meant that he wished them to have awful sicknesses. Thoughts of that nature. What did we work on? What I'm telling you. We worked on changing his view from never having such thoughts as being normal to recognizing that we all have stray thoughts that are horrible or awful. The important skill that most people have is how to just let strange thoughts go the way of any other fleeting thought. So, that is the key and I hope you will apply it. You may need to do this in therapy. So you may want to try working on this first on your own. Apply the strategy. Every time you have the thought, consciously tell yourself that it is just a stray thought, a strange thought. This is just a stray thought. If it persists, use the technique below and remind yourself it's just a stray thought like everyone has because you still have residual anxiety. Got the technique?
Okay, I wish you the very best!
Here are instructions on a therapeutic protocol called Progressive Muscle Relaxation (PMR). It's really quite easy to do almost anywhere. My patients suffering from anxiety and stray thoughts, when I teach them PMR at first are amazed how simple it is and that it is a psychological protocol. It was first used in the 1920s! Since then, of course, it has been refined and many studies have been done showing its effectiveness. You will practice PMR at first when you don't wake up with an attack so that you will be familiar with it. I want you to practice the PMR at least 5-6 times before acute anxiety. Why? Because when you're in the throes of anxiety, you will only remember to do something you are very familiar with it. So practicing 5-6 times is really a minimum.
I want to stress the importance of breathing as well. Part of the physiology of what is happening to you in anxiety from stray thoughts is that your breathing is getting shallower. This reduces the oxygen in your blood to your brain. That increases the anxiety reaction, which strengthens the attack and you are in a vicious cycle! Not good. So breathing is the primary tool. I have found in my practice that learning breathing techniques can be helpful. But some of my patients are not interested in learning more than one thing at the beginning, so I have found that just reminding you to BREATHE deeply at the same time you are doing PMR is almost as good. If you are willing to take a yoga class and learn breathing techniques, that's the best. But, breathing deeply with your PMR will help. So, we're ready for learning PMR. I want you to print my instructions below my signature and have a copy in each of the rooms of your home where you may be when you have an attack. And again, you need to practice this easy technique at least 5-6 times as soon as you can. It needs to become as natural to you as breathing. Ah, remember breathing?
Quickly focusing on each group one after the other, with practice you can relax your body like 'liquid relaxation' poured on your head and it flowed down and completely covered you. You can use progressive muscle relaxation to quickly de-stress any time.
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Thanks Dr. Mark. I have probably made things worse by just trying deal with this on my own rather than get help. It's like "If I don't need get professional help then that means I'm not crazy and don't really have a problem that I can't handle on my own". I actually ordered an anxiety DVD series a couple years ago but only actually used it a couple times.
When you said the sooner you get help the better it elevated my anxiety because I was thinking that, because I've tried dealing with this on my own for so long that I have developed thought patterns that can't be changed. I understand this is the anxiety and irrationality talking but the thought that it isn't is what is scary. The fact that you didn't say "Go to the nearest mental health facility immediately!" when you read my question also helps. I will try the methods you suggest. I will wait for a response before I click "Accept Answer".
Please remember to click the green accept button. Feel free to continue the discussion; my goal is to get you the best answers possible. Bonuses are always appreciated! If I can be of further help with any issue, just put "for Dr. Mark" in the front of your new question, and I'll be the one to answer it. All the best, Dr. Mark
Dr. Mark,
Sorry it has taken so long to get back to you and accept your answer. You are mistaken in your last post. I never said I was diagnosed with OCD. Nor did I say that these were new symptoms. You must have misread my post. I have brought up to my primary care physician that I had some issues with anxiety and difficulty concentrating at times. He prescribed me meds for the anxiety but I never actually got the prescription filled. I just worked through it. It seems lately that my anxiety has escalated a bit but I am working through it mostly by distracting myself. At times it is very difficult to focus on the task at hand or work thorugh a normal thought process to solve problems at work and at home. If you think my best course or action is to see someone about this then I will pursue it but as I said in my previous post. Sometimes what seems to help me more than anything is the comfort that I have dealt with this on my own without medication or therapy and that it is managable. Once I go to meds or a therapist it becomes a serious problem. There's still that stigma in my head.
Please respond to this last post. I'll wait for your response and will "accept answer". Thank you again for your help Dr.
Here is the Amazon web page address for the classic workbook for phobias by Edmund Bourne The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook: http://www.amazon.com/Anxiety-Phobia-Workbook-Fourth/dp/1572244135/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1286170992&sr=1-1
So use the technique for the stray thoughts above and the PMR which is in this workbook and the other techniques in the workbook that may be useful to you on its own and see how you do. Okay?
I wish you the very best!
Please remember to click the green accept button. Feel free to continue the discussion; my goal is to get you the best answers possible. Bonuses are always appreciated! If I can be of further help with any issue, just put "for Dr. Mark" in the front of your new question, and I'll be the one to answer it. All the best, Dr. Mark


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I Just Went from an A to a D 500cc and They Are Very High How Long or Will They Drop?
Just Went From An A to D Cup With 500cc. They Are Really High. How Long Will It Take For Them To Drop?
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How long will the implants take to drop and settle?
Thank you for your question.
First and foremost you're in good company. All patients who undergo breast implant surgery look too big, too tight, too high, and too swollen early on.
In my own practice I tell my patients that it will be about three weeks before they even believe that they're going to come down, by about 12 weeks I will know and you will know you are high,but no one else will care, and ultimately your most natural result will come between six and 12 months after surgery.
Some patients can take longer to drop than others depending on the size of the implant and their anatomy. For example, it will take longer for a 500 CC implant stretch and relax the skin and muscle than a smaller implant. A more muscular person with a sub muscular implant will take longer for the implant to drop as well.
That please share your concerns with your plastic surgeon, who I suspect will walk you through this and confirm that your normal.
Best wishes.
Learn more: http://www.atcosmetics.com/breast-augmentation/index.html
Postoperative Settling of Breast Implants
Many breast implants will look high immediately after surgery due to swelling and the relative looseness of upper pole breast tissues and skin compared to that of the lower pole. Two-thirds of the volume created in most breast implants involves the lower and lateral poles of the breast which is also the most deficient breast volume areas. Even though a good pocket is made, the implant may naturally want to sit high until the lower pole breast tissues relax. This temporary phenomenon is magnified the larger the implant is compared to a very small initial breast size. This is a process which can take up to several months to become fully manifest. I would use three months as your assessment of the final breast implant position.
Learn more: http://www.eppleybreastaugmentation.com
Implants high
Congratulations on your surgery! With time the implants usually settle down into the pocket. Initially the muscle spasms and the implants are high. Give it 3-4 months minimum.
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Time for breast implants to settle
In the first 2 weeks after surgery the muscle contractions easy up and relax so the lateral and superior displacement subsides. At 4 to 6 weeks most of the swelling subsides so the size approaches the final size. At about 6 months the shape size and position reach their final results. It is important to note the a capsular Contractur can appear at any time after surgery the deforms the shap. Also as you age or become pregnant the effects of gravity effect the shape of the breast.
Best wishes
Learn more: http://www.talroudnerplasticsurgery.com/breastimplants.php
High Riding Implants
The answer to your question depends on the exact breast augmentation technique performed, the quality of your tissue (skin envelope), and your overall activity level. Swelling in the upper pole is very common regardless of technique performed and can take anywhere from 2 to 6 weeks to resolve. In some cases, it can take up to 3-4 months to truly see your final results. Don't worry, it sounds like you just had surgery and your swelling will resolve with time. Best of luck.
Dr. Basu
Houston, TX
Learn more: http://www.basuplasticsurgery.com
Breast Implant "Dropping" after Breast Augmentation?
Breast implants tend to "settle" for several months after breast augmentation surgery. Rarely, patients may even see changes up to a year after surgery.
I would suggest that you continue to follow-up with your plastic surgeon who is in the best position to monitor your progress and watch for complications.
Best wishes.
Learn more: http://www.poustiplasticsurgery.com/Procedures/Procedure_breastAugmentation.htm
Implants high right after surgery
This is common. It will take 1-2 weeks for the swellling to subside, 3-4 weeks for the skin and muscle to accomodate the new enhanced size and At 4-6 months, they will assume their final look. Give it time especially if you just had surgery. Good Luck!
Breast implants should look good right away.
1) I have a different view. I think the breasts should look the way you want them to look at the end of the operation. I don't believe in "dropping".
2) 500 cc implants are big. That alone will lead to too much fullness on top unless special steps are taken. I hope I am wrong, but I doubt that they will drop very much without a revision.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Based upon personal experience, or a guess?
Has anyone actually been running the 20 all seasons in the snow and have some real feedback?
Everyone's definition of "passable" or "acceptable" handling is different.
The X3 non-sport models came with Pirelli Scorpion All-seasons that actually were pretty good for most drivers. And if you don't drive out when there's more than 30cm of snow, it may never matter. All-seasons will probably get you to work if you drive slowly and life doesn't throw a situation where an emergency stop is needed.
But for me, control is critical. I want to be able to maximise the potential of DSC and ABS to stop in the shortest distance possible, as stable as possible. I want to be able to bring the vehicle back under control quickly should things start to go wrong. I reduce speed to appropriate levels in inclement weather, but I don't want to be crawling. And most of all, I want to be able to not worry about the car's dynamics; I love it when I can have fun in the snow, drift it around corners with ease, and then bring it all back together easily, no mess. Because the point of a vehicle is not just to get from A to B.
I've driven both the X3 and X5 (18" stock M+S) in the snow where I tried to have some fun. It's difficult. Slides and skid happen suddenly, braking distances are longer, and it is so much harder to bring the vehicle back into line- careening towards a mailbox at a 60° angle in spite of full lock countersteer and feathering the throttle is not amusing even if I can bring it back- just more work, less control.
It sounds like hooliganism but there's situations where stuff happens. Once on the way down from Snowshoe WV in the X3, driving conditions were poor and I was taking it slow, about 40-50km/h tops. Around a blind curve, came a slowplow truck that was slightly in my line. When I lifted off midcorner, the rear end came around and the X3 went off the road......towards a cliff/trees and other unpleasant things to hit. Remembering the track/driver training, I looked back towards the road, ignoring the stone drainage ditch and cliff, hit the throttle and countersteered, bringing the X3 uneventfully back onto the road (okay, my mother screamed and I'm sure I raised a few eyebrows from the plow driver and other driver behind). Given the level of control I had with the
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Lorraine Frances Brueggemann and Marty Rae Buehrlen, both of Union, announce their engagement.
Lorraine is the daughter of Elaine Voss, Clover Bottom, and the late Francis B. Voss. She graduated from Union High School in 1991 and from Central Methodist University in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in accounting. She is employed as an accountant for a software company in Chesterfield.
Marty is the son of Royace Buehrlen, Gasconade, and Donna and Don Massmann, Leslie. He graduated from New Haven High School in 1995 and from East Central College in 1997 with an associate's degree in electronics. He is employed as an avionics engineer for Georgian Aerospace in Chesterfield.
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Zevada was second on the Lady Ranger squad with a .376 batting average. The catcher hit three home runs and had 22 RBIs on the year.
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Cody Decker has the soft hands of a good catcher, but no idea about his ability to throw out base stealers.
No one's ever run on him before.
Decker caught about 20 spring training innings this year; the one time someone did, the batter hammered a ball straight back into Decker's mask.
"Felt like I was punched in the face by a really big dude," he told me before the Tucson Padres lost 11-6 to Fresno on Sunday at Kino Stadium.
Here's how a player with no position ends up at baseball's most demanding physical spot: by volunteering on a quiet winter's day in Peoria.
Decker arrived in Phoenix weeks before the San Diego Padres' spring training began. He popped over to the team's facility, first to meet the new trainer and strength coach, and later to take some swings and get in some face time.
There were more pitchers than position players. One day, the 26-year-old volunteered to catch a bullpen session.
It was no big deal - he'd done so throughout high school and college, though he never started a game at catcher at UCLA.
Padres vice president of player development Randy Smith and Tucson Padres manager Pat Murphy watched Decker behind the plate.
"They both were, actually, kinda impressed," Decker said.
Smith asked if he would consider catching, and Murphy was the first to encourage him to say yes.
At Arizona State, Murphy convinced big-league scouts to give Sun Devils outfielder Jason Kipnis a tryout at second base. He was drafted in 2009, and made the Cleveland Indians two years later.
Decker "certainly has a feel for the game" at catcher, Murphy said, from his hands to his knack for calling pitches.
The Padres devised a plan, one that's left the 2009 MILB.com Arizona Rookie League Player of the Year with only 17 Triple-A at-bats this season.
Instead, Decker spends each day doing drills and catching bullpens. He's working on his flexibility, stretching all hours of the day to make crouching easier.
"His physical tools don't play out down there like a front-line catcher," Murphy said. "If he's serviceable and can go to a club as a DH/first baseman/catcher, it might get him his day in the big leagues."
That's why Decker dons the Tools of Ignorance.
It seems strange to say that about someone who hit 25 home runs in Double-A last year. But the 5-foot-11, 220-pounder profiles as more of a DH than a corner outfielder or first baseman, positions he's played as a pro.
"They all know I can hit," said Decker, who signed for a $1,000 bonus after being picked in the 22nd round of the 2009 draft. "Finding a position for me to play full-time has always been the trouble.
"The truth is, I want to get to the big leagues, and that's all I want to do.
"It's been explained to me that this is probably my best course of action."
It's sometimes hard on Decker's ego - "There's nothing fun about getting to a field and not seeing your name in the lineup," he said - but he knows this path could change his career.
"I'm in a different situation right now then I ever have been," said Decker, who spent the offseason playing for Israel's World Baseball Classic team and working as bartender and trivia night host back home in Santa Monica, Calif. "My goal right now is to hone parts of my game I haven't honed before.
"My goal is to get good at pinch hitting and get as good behind the plate as I can."
Both Saturday and Sunday, he spent the middle innings catching bullpens before returning to the dugout, putting on a helmet and pinch hitting. He popped out in the ninth Sunday.
He could catch in a game any day now.
Do well, and another path to the big leagues opens up.
Heck, we might even see him try to throw out a runner.
"If I can catch, and hit like me," he said, "I think I can stay around for a long, long time."
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THE harrowing story of the murder of Sophie Lancaster will be told in a play at Burnley Youth Theatre next week.
Black Roses will be performed at the theatre on Wednesday, March 19, and Thursday, March 20.
The play is an elegy for Sophie in which her story is told through a series of poems by the award-winning poet Simon Armitage, alongside the words of her mother, Sylvia Lancaster.
Black Roses provoked an unprecedented response when it premiered on BBC Radio 4 in 2011 and went on to win the BBC Audio and Music Best Speech Programme of the Year Award.
The Royal Exchange production received huge acclaim in 2012, and is now touring the North West, working in support of the Sophie Lancaster Foundation.
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Motihari (Bihar), Jan 5: A Tibetan Buddhist monk crawled all his way from Lhasa to Bodhgaya on a mission to pray for peace and harmony in the world.
Gyansen Lama started his journey a year back with two of his friends from Tibet and reached Motihari in Bihar.
On his way, he spent some time in Nepal trying to figure out his way through the country, especially since he faced language problems.
"In Tibet, I stayed in Dargeh at the Chacha Gumba Temple. I started my journey from this temple with two of my friends. I took my visa from Lhasa in Tibet and left with Setan Lama for Nepal. Because of a language problem it took me so long in Nepal to decide about my journey to Bodhgaya, which is too far," Lama said.
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Farfadet replied to bwhiting's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingRight, there are arguments against their marketing approach. But what about the technology ? Polygons are great for rendering something between big surfaces or flat faces, and extremely detailed and irregular shapes (like vegetation, rocks, clouds...). For the latter, you eventually get to render polygons that are smaller than a pixel. In that case, voxels/point clouds used in conjunction with a sparse voxel octree data structure (I regroup these under the term "voxels" in what follows) are better, at least in theory, for a few reasons : 1) the sparse voxel octree is very efficient for rendering. This explains how they could obtain that frame rate without GPU acceleration 2) the sparse voxel octree is in itself a compressed data structure 3) you get rid of the real burden of polygons : UV-maps/textures/displacement mapping - especially heavy if you consider highly irregular surfaces, clouds, vegetation... Instead, you just store colour information with the voxel. The real limitation is that animation is virtually impossible with that technology. So the question is not : which is better ? but rather : which is better for what application ?
Farfadet replied to blueshogun96's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingMaybe this can help : http://www.equalizergraphics.com/documentation/parallelOpenGLFAQ.html In short, it says you can't manage one rendering context from multiple threads in openGL. I believe ths is what you're trying to do.
Farfadet replied to Farfadet's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingWell, I followed your idea and noticed that the offset is related to the windows settings (such as border margin), and even to the window size. The further the window dimensions are from the texture's (1024*1024), the bigger the offset. This means that the copy of the texture attached to the FBO takes place as if the window framebuffer's dimensions were considered, not the FBO's. However, it is the FBO/texture image that's copied. I tried about every possible combination of glViewPort, but nothing changes (and that's logical, since glViewPort involves the rendering pipeline, and here I use glCopyTexImage). The strange thing is that after copying, I use the same FBO to render on the texture, with the proper glViewPort, and there it works perfectly well. This might simply be a bug in the ATI driver. Next I'll try copying the texture by rendering it to the destination texture. Thanks a lot
Farfadet posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI'm copying a texture to another one using FBO's and glCopyTexImage2D - glCopyTexSubImage2D. Both textures are 1024*1024 pixels. It works, except that the image is offset by 27 pixels vertically in the destination texture. If I specify an offset of y = -27 in glCopyTexImage2D , the images match, but of course I miss a strip of the source. This is true for both glCopyTexImage2D and glCopyTexSubImage2D, with or without specifying the margin in width/height. Anybody experienced something like this ? I have an ATI Mobility Radeon X1400. Thanks.
Farfadet replied to Farfadet's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingFirst, sorry it took me so long to answer. Well, I'm using openGL and GLSL, and I render to texture. Putting aside the render to texture technology (I guess there's not much difference btw HLSL and GLSL), I still have a problem with the standard blending formula Cs*aS + Cd (1 - ad). Consider the case : Cs = 1 0 0 0.5 Cd = 0 0 1 0 i.e. the source is partly transparent, and the destination is fully transparent at that pixel. The standard formula gives : C = 0.5 0 0.5 0.25 (a = as*as + ad*(1-as) = 0.5*0.5 + 0*(1-0.5) = 0.25) The resulting alpha is already strange. I can go around this by using : glBlendFuncSeparate(GL_SRC_ALPHA,GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA,GL_ONE, GL_ONE). This will add up the alphas, which makes sense for a brush adding paint to a layer. But there is another problem : the resulting color I get is a dark purple because of the blue contribution. But there should be NO blue contribution, since the destination layer is fully transparent. My conclusion : standard blending is valid only for a fully opaque back layer. It assumes an alpha of 1 in the destination layer. Proof of that is that the destination alpha doesn't appear at all in the formula. Dividing by alpha will still not give me a good result : the blue will always be there. My merging formula is alright to merge two layers without changing the visible result, but I'm still not sure it's OK for painting with a brush with an alpha component.
Farfadet posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingI've been messing up some time with rendering a mesh with multiple see-through textures, until I dived into the theory. This is what I came with : 1) rendering multiple layers We can define the visible colour Vi of layer i, as the colour that would be seen if layers 0 to i were visible, and the remaining layers were invisible. Vi is obtained by computing, from bottom (layer 0) to top (layer i), the successive values of Vi with the formula : Vi = Ci. αi + Vi-1.(1 - αi) with Ci the colour stored in layer i, and αi the alpha value stored in layer i. This is the classical blending formula, but the destination colour is not the colour of the underlying layer, it is its visible colour. The lowest layer is the background, its alpha is by definition 1, so V0 = C0. This is easy to implement in a pixel shader: we need just to compute the successive values of Vi, from layer 0 upwards, possibly skipping a hidden layer. This is well known stuff. 2) merging layers Sometimes we want to merge two layers together, or better said replace two textures with their blended colours. This is the case, for example, when we paint with a textured brush on one layer. At first sight, all we have to do is use the classical blending formula (αdest, 1-αdest). Doing this we get a "halo" around the brush (where the alphas are somewhere between 0 and 1). The reason is that we ignore the source alpha, and we shouln't. Let us see how to correctly merge two successive layers together. What we want is to replace the two layers with one, and get the same visual result than when they are layered. With the two layers, say layers 3 and 4, the visible colour as defined above is given by: V3 = C3. α3 + V2.(1-α3) V4 = C4. α4 + V3.(1-α4) and we want to replace this by layer 3' (merge of layers 3 and 4) : V'3 = C'3. α'3 + V2.(1-α'3) so that V'3 = V4 Therefore we can write the identity : C'3. α'3 + V2.(1-α'3) = C4. α4 + V3.(1-α4) = C4. α4 + (C3. α3 + V2.(1-α3)).(1-α4) = C4. α4 + C3. α3. (1-α4) + V2.(1-α3).(1-α4) Since V2 is an invariant, this can only be met if two conditions are satisfied : C'3. α'3 = C4. α4 + C3. α3. (1-α4) 1-α'3 = (1-α3).(1-α4) α is the inverse of the opacity : the transparency, so the merged layer's transparency is the product of the two layer's transparencies, or : α'3 = 1- (1-α3).(1-α4) And the merged color : C'3 = (C4. α4 + C3. α3. (1-α4)) / α'3 So far so good. I'd welcome comments on this by more experienced people. My problem is to implement this formula in glsl. I cannot use the existing openGL blending formulas, so I need to do it with GLSL. The problem is that I need to write the result of the merge in texture 3 corresponding to layer 3, but I also need a lookup in texture 3. Can I do simultaneous read and write on the same texture ? I guess not. Another solution would be to write in a temporary texture, and replace texture 3 by this texture when the blending is done. Considering my brush application, I need this to be quick (of course). Is there another option ? What's the best way to do this ? Any help/advice welcome.
Farfadet replied to rgibson11's topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingA vertex shader transforms vertices from world space into clipping coordinates space (screen space) (with the modelview-projection matrix), but also needs to transform the vectors, if they are fixed in world space. This is not evident, but you need another matrix to transform vectors : the normal matrix (gl_NormalMatrix). This is explained in the orange book, ch. 6.2. When I want my light source to be fixed in global space (i.e. turning with the scene) I add the line : LightPosition = vec3(gl_NormalMatrix * LightPosition); And just remove it when I want the light fixed in screen coordinates (always coming from the same apparent direction) I also apply this transformation to the normal, tangent and binormal vectors : vec3 t,n,b; n = vec3(gl_Normal); n = normalize(gl_NormalMatrix * n); t = Tangent; t = normalize(gl_NormalMatrix * t); b = cross(n, t);
Farfadet posted a topic in Graphics and GPU ProgrammingHi, I've implemented Catmull-Clark subdivision in my app. The only thing left is to compute the tangent space vectors at the subdivided mesh vertices. Temporarily, the vectors (tangent and normal) are interpolated from the vectors at the base mesh vertices. As expected, this gives noticeable artifacts where the surface curvature is high. Internet searches returns a lot on Catmull-Clark and subdivision, but strangely very little on this topic. What I'm looking for is a method that does two things : 1) provide tangent vectors at subd surface vertices close enough to the tangent plane of the (exact) subd surface (the normal is computed by cross product of the 2 tangent vectors) 2) make it so that these tangent vectors (or vectors derived from them) correspond to the tangent space needed to apply correct bump mapping. I could of course compute the tangents and normals of the subdivision mesh the same way I compute them for the base mesh, but the CPU cost is prohibitive. Some details regarding the app : - polygonal mesh (triangles and quads) - shaders supporting lighting, color textures and bump maps - texture coordinates are simply linearly interpolated during subdivision - sharp and semi-sharp creases (for the former, normal discontinuity across the crease) - for the base mesh, tangent space vectors at vertices are computed as follows : - compute normals for each polygon - compute tangent for each polygon as explained in http://www.terathon.com/code/tangent.html - average those values at vertices, taking into account normal and texture discontinuities (creases, mesh edges and seams) - orthogonalize and normalize the vectors (only tangent and normal are stored per vertex, the binormal is computed in the vertex shader). Any link / suggestion / hint would be welcome.
Farfadet replied to Volgogradetzzz's topic in Math and PhysicsWhy would the x velocity be <> 0 ? the force is vertical and the reaction too (assuming the ground is flat and horizontal). The distance between the reaction vector and the c.g. will yield a rotation, but no X displacement, I think.
Thanks. As explained, this is very practiccal. I'll go for Cramer and see if it's fast enough. Alvaro, thanks for the link, the performance gain is impressive, but as I understand this is for Intel only - no portability.
refering to another post : http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/post.asp?method=reply&topic_id=573015 I'm trying to find an efficient way to interpolate a function whose value is known at the 4 vertices of a quadrilateral ; in other words : the same as barycentric interpolation, but for a quad. I found another way than those discussed in the post : I take the non-linear function f(x,y) = a.x.y + b.x + c.y + d. I know the function's value at 4 points (x1,y1), (x2,y2), (x3,y3), (x4,y4), this gives 4 equations with 4 variables (a,b,c,d). I need to do this for quite a few polygons, preferably real-time, and twice for each polygon (I map 2D quads on 2D quads), so speed matters. I assume the matrix has, in a general case, no particular form.
What about : the least multiplication / division operations ?
Farfadet posted a topic in Math and PhysicsHi, What would be the fastest algorithm to solve a 4 variables - 4 unknowns linear system ? I have the feeling that it must be somewhere between brutal force methods (substitution) and more sophisticated iterative methods.
I'm devastated to hear this, but thanks anyway
How do you manage this in an application then ? Wait until it crashes ?


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A battle may lie ahead over the Waveyard water park site in Mesa, as that locale is emerging as a top spot for the new Chicago Cubs spring training complex.
At the same time as the team has shown more interest in the Waveyard spot, city officials are expressing doubt and frustration over the resort's lack of progress.
Mesa leaders told the Tribune they are increasingly doubtful Waveyard can get funding in place by a July 2011 deadline. If Waveyard falls through next year on the city-owned Riverview park site, Mesa could instead sell to the Cubs.
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Councilman Dave Richins said he's lost patience with Waveyard and doesn't want the developer to hang on until the last minute.
"If you can't get a deal done and the Cubs want that site, get out of the way," Richins said. "Don't hold 450,000 people hostage with your pipe dream."
The Cubs are most interested in three Mesa sites. A downtown spot on the southwest corner of Mesa and University drives is also under close study and is a favorite of several Mesa City Council members. A northeast Mesa location has been studied since last year. The team has lost interest in a spot near Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport.
The Riverview Park site only recently came into focus, said Councilman Scott Somers. He expects the team to share its research on each site with the city in a few weeks. The team likes the location in part because of its freeway access and visibility, he said. The Cubs are aware of the Waveyard plans.
"It doesn't change the fact that they're top interest right now is in the Riverview (site)," Somers said.
Waveyard had approached the Cubs early this year to pitch the idea of adding the spring training complex to its 120-acre project that includes a large shopping district. The team spent most of the year focusing on east Mesa sites and more recently added the downtown and Riverview spots.
Riverview likely doesn't have room for both projects, Mesa City Manager Chris Brady said.
Mesa voters approved Waveyard in 2007, but the economic slump left it unable to meet the city's original deadline to get funding for the $250 million project. Mesa granted an extension last year, giving Waveyard until July 11 to prove it has funding.
The project's fortunes will be revealed well before that time, Brady said. By the July deadline, Mesa also requires Waveyard to have experienced hotel and theme park operators on board. And permits must have been approved, which will take at least six months for city planners to examine them.
"If we don't see that here before the end of the year, I would suggest that it would be nearly impossible for them to complete all the requirements of that agreement," Brady said.
Waveyard would need to be in more frequent contact with the city soon, Brady said, but so far the developer has had less communication than Mesa expected.
Waveyard has continued to tell Mesa it is close to securing financing.
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"Do you want to know how long I've heard that line?" Richins said. "I'm tired of this. How long are they going to tell me the same thing?"
Mayor Scott Smith is among the officials who have cast doubt on it.
"We're several years in and the financial world has not been friendly to the Waveyard concept. It's a great concept, I'd love to see it built, but I just don't know how viable it is given the financial situation."
Councilman Dennis Kavanaugh has been critical of the project and said it's tough to finance something like Waveyard even in a good economy.
"Since the fall of 2008, I think that climate has worsened for this kind of major development," he said. "I wouldn't be optimistic that they're going to be rescued by some hero."
The Cubs' level of interest in Waveyard will likely be even clearer in a few weeks. The team will share its site-selection studies with Mesa officials as the team works to narrow the options and develop site-specific plans.
"I think you'll see details come out over the next few weeks," Smith said.
City Council members have generally been supportive of the sites under evaluation but each spot has concerns.
Riverview's location at the edge of the city could make it easier for Tempe and Scottsdale to attract patrons to restaurants and hotels. Somers noted a prime reason for the new complex is to surround it with businesses - and to boost Mesa's tax revenues - which could make Riverview problematic for him. But the northeast site would face neighborhood opposition, and the downtown spot may require buying additional land.
Richins said he'll support what the Cubs want.
"It has to work for them because they're going to be the ones who operate the stadium and play there for the next few decades," he said.
Somers prefers downtown, where Mesa bought and bulldozed a neighborhood to make room for a resort that never came to be. The property is known as Site 17 and has sat idle for about two decades.
A spring training complex would forever change Mesa's downtown, Somers said, and rid the city of what he calls a ghost.
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