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CAMBRIDGE, UK AND TAIPEI, TAIWAN – June 23, 2003 – ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC processor solutions, and MediaTek Inc., today announced that MediaTek has licensed the ARM926EJ-S™ microprocessor core for use in future integrated circuits (ICs) targeted at the consumer entertainment market. MediaTek is an existing ARM® Partner having licensed the ARM7TDMI® core in March 2002, and this licensing agreement extends the technology relationship between the two companies. By licensing this core, MediaTek now has the opportunity to add improved Java functionality to its next generation of products targeted at applications such as DVD players and home audio systems.
ARM now has a total of 14 Partners in Taiwan, with eight of these taking a license for an additional core.
"The designs we have produced based on the industry-leading ARM7TDMI core have been very well received by our customers and we look forward to extending our range of ARM core-based products," said M.K. Tsai, chairman, MediaTek. "The ARM926EJ-S core will enable us to continue to develop our product range and add support for the Java functionality that our customers, particularly in the consumer space, are demanding."
"The market for consumer entertainment products is advancing rapidly and the need to run Java applications within these products is taking on more and more importance," said Philip Lu, president, ARM Taiwan. "The Java functionality that the ARM926EJ-S core offers will enable MediaTek to bring enriched media content to home entertainment devices in a world where advanced, feature-rich services are becoming prevalent."
The ARM926EJ-S core contains ARM Jazelle® technology that accelerates Java execution, as measured by Embedded Caffeine Mark, by up to 8 times compared to a fully software-based JVM. It can also run diverse platform operating systems, such as Linux, Palm OS, Windows CE and Symbian OS, in mobile phones or other applications. The ARM926EJ-S core is fully synthesizable, enabling it to be applied to several generations of process technology. It also features selectable size instruction and data caches, and instruction and data tightly-coupled memory interfaces. To further ease development of a complex SoC an Embedded Trace Macrocell (ETM) interface, and an AMBA™AHB (Advanced High-Performance Bus) on-chip interconnect interface are also provided.
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ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals, and system-on-chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at www.arm.com .
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MediaTek Inc. is a leading provider of total solution for optical storage and digital consumer semiconductor. Founded in 1997 and headquartered at Hsin-Chu Science Park, Taiwan, MediaTek is now one of the world's top 10 IC fabless companies and the world's largest chipset supplier of CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, CD-RW and DVD player. The Company's common stock is traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange under the code 2454. For more information, please visit the Company's web site at www.mtk.com.tw
ARM , ARM7TDMI and Jazelle are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. ARM926EJ-S and AMBA are trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; and ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.
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How the gov's child protection database fails to add up
Risk-averse authorities likely to treble access
Comment A day after yet another case of a child brutalised in its own home, despite massive intervention from a range of support services, hits the headlines, The Register takes a closer look at what the government has led the public to believe in respect of the ContactPoint database.
One "fact" that has been repeated ad nauseam by government ministers – and apparently swallowed hook line and sinker by the press – is that ContactPoint is likely to allow just 330,000 officials across England to "use" the contact details for children on the system. That total is already too high for many critics.
So we wonder what the reaction will be to the revelation that the number with "access" could top the million mark? Pay close attention to the choice of words here: government ministers have drawn a distinction between "use" and "access", which could be no more than careless use of language, or a much more deliberate misleading of the public over the scope of an increasingly unpopular project.
We have looked closely at the categories of individual that the DCSF claims will be able to access ContactPoint. These are set out in the Children Act 2004, refined by regulations published in 2007 and repeated by the Minister last week.
Using even conservative estimates of the proportion of each of the categories listed that will have access to ContactPoint, The Register comes up with a figure of just over one million. If the Department of Children, Schools and Families wishes to take issue with us, we are more than happy to share our spreadsheet model with them.
Ah yes, but surely access will only be on a "need to know" basis? We think not. There are three reasons for this.
The government case for ContactPoint is based on two arguments: first that tragedies such as the Victoria Climbié case would not have happened, had all the agencies that could have intervened been able easily to note that the child was already of concern to other agencies. The fact that this argument is wholly fallacious in the case of Victoria Climbié, who was subject to multiple interventions before her death, has never prevented ministers from repeating it.
However, the fear that this argument introduces into the equation is real enough. Managers of any body that might end up carrying the can for future failures will do all in their power to prevent being stuck with the blame. So the likelihood is that managers will err on the side of caution or (personal) risk minimisation. Better to have as many people in your department as possible able to access a child's details, than to perhaps one day have to explain why a particular child could have been saved had access been more widely distributed.
Earlier in the year, The Register looked at the numbers behind the government's proposed vetting database and came up with figures significantly higher than those put forward by government. The difference? We used the same approach, but counted those who were likely to end up being vetted in today's blame-averse culture, as opposed to those who needed to be vetted.
Second, as the government is at pains to point out, ContactPoint will pay for itself many times over in time saved by practitioners at every level. Such benefit is likely to be reduced significantly if teams have some individuals with access, and some without.
Finally, a factor that might add slightly to the final tally, is the way in which authorisation to use the system is managed. When an individual leaves their place of employment, the government guidelines suggest they should be stripped of their access to ContactPoint. We suspect, however, that where individuals are simply moved sideways, human nature will lead to some continuing to have access long after they strictly no longer need to know.
Where did the original figure of 330,000 come from? We have asked the DCSF, but at time of writing have had no answer. Our guess is that when the estimate was first drawn up, some use was made of responses to questionnaires sent out to local councils. An original survey was sent out last year, with a follow-up apparently due to be completed in September 2008.
If that is the case – and without DCSF confirmation we cannot be sure – then the estimation method may be badly flawed. Asking councils about their likely take-up of a new system nearly two years before it goes live is akin to product research that asks consumers about buying intentions for a non-existent product. It doesn't work.
Matters may be further complicated by suggestions that some individuals may need more than one log-on. This is because the system is designed so that users can only see data appropriate to their current role, which could be an issue for users with multiple roles.
Apart from the implications such an increase in numbers might have for security, there is the slight technical matter of whether the database has been designed with scaleability in mind. A system designed for 330,000 users is a very different beast from one designed for one million, and could suffer accordingly. ®
News: UK's 'secure' child protection database will be open to one million
How we reached our numbers
Our model starts with the categories that may have access to the new ContactPoint database and simply counts up from there. Before we hear cries of "that's unrealistic", we have also applied some very serious downward weightings on some groups, on the grounds of common sense.
We suspect our approach is different from that of the DCSF, as they will have started with Local Authority intentions – which, as experience of the Vetting Database shows, can very quickly be overtaken by events.
From the model:
|UK Figure
|General practitioners
|s 2 of the appropriate regs
|Downweighted for England and some non-takeup – but assume about 80 per cent in total
|As above
|We cannot believe any significant number of chiropractors will access the database
|Slight downweight – but do we believe, in the long run this base will not be available to all officers? Also, no count included for other employees, who are included in this section
|Teaching Staff
|Significant downweight, but given the number of categories intended to be allowed access, not unrealistic
The categories listed above are just examples of the categories drawn from our model. We have of course also included some nursing staff, social workers, midwives, health visitors - and more besides.
Where our model may actually be far too conservative is over the question of administrative staff who will have access to ContactPoint. These are included in the government guidelines, but are much vaguer than the above categories.


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Panama is only a short hop from the Caribbean islands now home to Worldwatch Institute's Low-Carbon Energy Roadmaps project. But, it's a big leap from the national renewable energy strategies being developed in the Caribbean to the tense efforts just wrapping up in Panama City to agree on global climate change reduction goals.
The Panama meetings from October 1-7 marked the final preparatory negotiation before the next United Nations climate change summit convenes in Durban, South Africa from November 28-December 10. With many issues on the negotiating table, countries made surprising progress on providing funding for climate change solutions, especially in developing countries. Countries also pushed big issues like a new global climate agreement and the next stage of the Kyoto Protocol onto an already overflowing agenda for Durban.
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Degrange happy with penalty prowess
Wednesday 2 June 2010
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Emotions contrasted in Kumanovo as France trainer Jean-Michel Degrange savoured his team's semi-final win, while Germany's stand-in coach Bettina Wiegmann was left ruing a lack of ideas.
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Emotions contrasted in Kumanovo as France trainer Jean-Michel Degrange savoured his side's passage through to Saturday's UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship final, while Germany stand-in coach Bettina Wiegmann was left ruing her team's lack of a cutting edge. Degrange praised "the quality of our kicks" after a game that had finished 1-1 was decided from the spot, and can now plan for holders England – "another tough opponent" – with Wiegmann and Co hoping to "bounce back" in July's FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup on home soil.
Jean-Michel Degrange, France coach
It's great for the girls and I think they deserve it after all the work they've done, even if the match was very even at the end of normal time. Both teams had a few chances to score and afterwards we were lucky enough not to miss any penalties. That's part of the game, even if it's difficult to be eliminated in such a fashion.
I held penalty practice in our last training session and we took it very seriously. The girls understood that it was perhaps an important moment and they took their responsibility very well. In the end, the quality of our penalties told.
England are next and they'll be another tough opponent as they're the holders. I was impressed with them during the La Manga tournament and their strikers scored a lot of goals, but in a final anything can happen and both teams will have their chances.
It's great for this squad because last year we didn't really perform as we ought to have done in our semi-final. We were able to keep the core of the squad together, though, and our experience helped us here.
Bettina Wiegmann, Germany coach
We're devastated because we were never able to play our game. We made a lot of little mistakes and that meant we couldn't perform as well as we did against England. France did a great job and they defended very strongly and denied us any space. We never came up with the right idea to find a way through them, so we didn't score a second goal. We had a lot of ball possession because France played very deep, but we never got our game going which is the big disappointment for us.
You need luck to win on penalty kicks and France had five players who scored and did a great job, while we missed one. We have a very young team, so we'll be back next year. Many of these players were born in 1992 and will be back to play another U19 European Championship. Next year will be another tournament and they'll have got great experience from this year and will hopefully do better.
Some of these players could also play in the U20 World Cup. We will agree on our squad in the next few days and it will be a good chance to bounce back.


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Proposal Title: [GSoC] create nifty components
Student Name: Pablo Henrique dos Reis
Student E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
University: UFMG / Brazil
Organization/Project: Apache Software Foundation / Tapestry 5
Assigned Mentors: Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo,Ulrich Stärk
Proposal Abstract: Create the components Tapestryh Drag and Drop Palette and SelectWithAutoComplete
Detailed Description:
Tapestry Drag and Drop Palette
Objective: create a new component, DnDPalette, that can be used to can select and deselect items in a list using drag-and-drop. It will be implemented using the Draggable and Droppable classes provided by Scriptaculous, a JavaScript framework that is included in Tapestry.
The component will receive all the options in a SelectModel
- The component will receive the selecteds items in a java.util.Collection or java.util.List
The component will receive a ValueEncoder to obtain the client-side value corresponding to a given option.
How the component will be created:
It will have two HTML <divs>.
The first <div> will contain a list of the available options.
The second <div> will contain the selected options.
The user will be able to move one option to or from the selected list.
The Component Class will be an adaptation of the Palette Tapestry component.
A JavaScript file will be written containing the code that sets up the Droppables and Draggables.
Scriptaculous Draggable:
Scriptaculous Droppables:
Examples of drag and drop using Scriptaculous:
Objective: create a new component, SelectWithAutocomplete, based in the Ajax.AutoCompleter class from Scritaculous. As Select, it will be used to choose a value from a list of options, but it will be selected from an Autocomplete-like menu. SelectWithAutocomplete will be more appopriaate than Select for large numbers of options.
1) The component will receive the selecteds items in a java.util.Collection or java.util.List
2) The component will receive a ValueEncoder to obtain the client-side value corresponding to a given option.
How the component will created:
The template will use one text area. It will show the label of the selected option. A hidden Select will be used to hold the selected option client-side value and an unordered list will show the provided options.
The page class will be adapted from the Select component.
A JavaScript file will be written to contain all the needed client-side code. The Ajax.AutoCompleter class from Scriptaculous will be used as a starting point.
The component will receive all the options by triggering an event and passing what the user has typed as its context, just as the Autocomplete mixin does. The handler method must return a SelectModel containing the appopriate options.
Scriptaculous Ajax.AutoCompleter
Project Plan
Create the DnDPalette. (April – 15th May)
Create the SelectWithAutocomplete (16th May – 10th July)
Create the App example.(10th July – 16th July)
Tests and improvements. (17th July - 8th August)
Delivery (9th August 2010 )
I am Pablo Henrique dos Reis. I'm currently in the 4th semester of the Information Systems undergratuate course at UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte Brazil. I am a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 (Janeiro/2009). I have been working full-time as a developer in a project built on Tapestry and Tapestry-IoC since January 2008. I am developer. My roles are the creation of components and general development using Tapestry 5, Hibernate, Spring and JasperReports. Among my activities was being an author of the AutoCompletObjecto, which is similar with the SelectWithObjects proposed above.
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HIGH POINT, N.C. --- Lees-McRae College freshman Meagan Thornton (Millville, N.J.) has been named the Conference Carolinas Women's Soccer Player of the Week for the first time in her career after leading the Bobcats to a pair of league wins last week, announced conference officials Tuesday.
Thornton tallied four goals, including her first career hat trick, and one assist last week as the Bobcats (4-2, 3-0 CC) recorded a 4-0 away victory over King College ahead of a decisive 5-0 win against North Greenville University on Saturday. The freshman forward tallied the deciding goal in each match, opening the scoring against King in the 17th minute before assisting on the final goal of the contest.
The Millville, N.J. native then turned in her best performance of the season on Saturday against North Greenville, opening the scoring in the 18th minute with her first of three goals en route to her first career hat trick. Thornton scored again in the 40th and 69th minutes to complete the treble, and tie MaryBeth Sullivan (Greensboro, N.C.) for the team- and conference-lead with five goals and 11 points. The duo is also tied for 10th in the nation in goals per match, and 27th in points per contest.
Lees-McRae returns to the pitch on Wednesday when the Bobcats host Catawba College in a pivotal NCAA Division II Southeast Region matchup at 7 p.m. on Tate Field.


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Sceptre, this thread is >3 years old...
It was funny, I read what I wrote, and was confused: "I didn't post to this thread... oh, 2002..."
[HvC]Terr: L33T Technical Proficiency
HA, lol...
I used to be a member on here back then and when I found the article on askApache and did a google about it, this thread popped up.. so I thought, I definately need to rejoin.
You know snort still uses this exact method to capture packets.. its still a very effective method for sniffing.
The title of this thread dates it. The focus on packet sniffing and such has long since passed, being replaced with nice things like regulatory compliance and botnets.
Slarty's responses are all accurate though.
AFAIK, promiscuous mode checkers only work with machines whose IP addresses are known, or which can be reached by broadcast. A stealthed machine has NO IP address and does not respond to ANY packet.
I can confirm this in case no one else did.
Also, switches aren't going to cache MAC addresses from a stealth unit simply because it won't be aware of an IP and or ARP response/request from said device.
Old skool stuff is fun to read from time to time.
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. -- John Wooden
thats really cool, and convenient. thats what im working on in my server at school, an IDS box with snort on it. My CS prof. has no idea whats going on with his network and he asked me if i could do any sniffing for him, rather than just sniff whenever im in there i decided to set up a snort box for him on FC5. I have two interfaces running, one to log and one to be an interface to monitor. ill definitely have to consider taking off the ip of the monitoring NIC and stealthing it. cool article and thread
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An Atlanta judge put Allen Iverson in time out for his subpar parenting skills. Former Sixers great Iverson officially split from Tawanna Iverson a couple weeks ago, but TMZ has details on Iverson's custody agreement and the judge doesn't mince words when it comes to Iverson's parental history.
[Iverson] does not know how to manage the children; has little interest in learning to manage the children and has actually, at times, been a hindrance to their spiritual and emotional growth and development.
For example, he has refused to attend to an obvious and serious alcohol problem, which has caused him to do inappropriate things in the presence of the children while impaired. He has left the children alone without supervision.
He has left his young daughters in a hotel room with men who are unknown to the mother.
Tawanna has full custody of the kiddies, while Iverson has visitation rights, although he has to abide by strict rules, including abstaining for alochol for 18 months (after the period is over, he can't drink for 24 hours of seeing his kids), attending AA meetings and seeing a shrink.
Tawanna and Allen have five children together and had been married since 2001.
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JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say Gaza militants have fired two rockets at southern Israel on the second day of President Barack Obama's visit to the region.
Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld says one rocket exploded in the courtyard of a house in the border town of Sderot, causing damage but no injuries. The other landed in an open field.
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama visited Sderot, which is frequently targeted by rocket attacks from the nearby Gaza Strip. The territory is ruled by the militant Palestinian Hamas group.
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CNOOC's promise of transparency, pledged to win approval from Canada for its $15.1 billion purchase of Nexen Inc, looks like a positive step on the face of it but is unlikely to represent a sea change in Chinese business practices.
To be sure, the details of commitment are not clear. The state-controlled energy firm has promised the Canadian government an annual compliance report on all its commitments that are part of its takeover of Nexen Inc, China's biggest ever takeover. These include listing shares on Toronto stock exchange, which comes with certain disclosure requirements.
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But when capital is king, cash-rich Chinese state-owned enterprises have the balance of power in any acquisition talks, leaving doubts about the real potency of transparency pledges.
"On the transparency side, I believe there will be efforts from foreign governments to get more information, but it's still a question of how far China is willing to give," said Robert Lewis, a partner at Zhong Lun law firm in Beijing.
"Twenty years ago it was all about foreign capital coming into China and that foreign capital having the leverage in negotiations. Now it's the other way round, so China will not have to give as much on the transparency side as some might suspect".
The international community has demanded greater transparency from China on a number of fronts for years, wary of its intentions as the country grew to become the second-biggest economy in the world and symbolic of a shift in global power to emerging nations.
On the latest front, U.S. securities regulators are in an intense stand-off with their Chinese counterparts over access to Chinese audit documents. Separately, a U.S. congressional advisory panel described Chinese investment in the United States as a "potential Trojan horse."
China's state-secrets laws, massive bureaucracy and cronyism make it difficult to get key, verifiable information from Chinese companies.
But the same Chinese companies yield considerable global clout. Chinese companies launched $51.3 billion of overseas acquisitions this year, second only to Japan, Thomson Reuters data shows, making the country one of the world's most active buyers of corporate stakes and businesses abroad.
Much of that acquisition power is led by China's government-run companies, and its energy sector, which has both the cash and the need to build up oil-and-gas supplies to fuel the $5.8 trillion economy.
The government owns all large financial institutions, which lends according to state priorities and directives and which favour large state enterprises -- one reason why the Washington think tank, the Heritage Foundation, ranks China 138th out of 179 in global economic freedom.
Even Chinese companies that aren't classed as state-owned enterprises, such as telecom giants Huawei and ZTE, face accusations they could covertly gather information for Beijing.
In October, a U.S. congressional report urged American companies to stop doing business with the two companies saying the Chinese government could take advantage of their equipment for espionage purposes. Canada and Australia have also indicated they will ban Huawei from taking part in communication network projects due to cyber security concerns.
The Nexen deal, and a separate though less contentious $5.3 billion offer by Malaysia's Petronas for Canada's Progress Energy, provided capital infusions to two Canadian companies, not to mention payouts to shareholders at a time of economic uncertainty.
Such considerations may trump the fear of a state-owned bogeyman coming to town.
"No government in the world is going to say 'we don't want your money'," said Andrew Lumsden, a partner at Corrs Chambers Westgarth in Sydney. "There will be a bit of huffing and puffing but it's probably business as usual".
Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the Chinese affiliates of five of the world's biggest audit firms with violating U.S. securities law.
The United States and China could still reach a settlement, but the action shows the U.S. securities watchdog and their Chinese counterparts could not find agreement on the exact topic under discussion with CNOOC-Nexen: transparency of information.
Canada though is following in the steps of other countries that have attracted money from state-backed Chinese companies, such as Australia and Norway, in putting place a working set of ground rules.
"There's become an almost standard set of behavioral undertakings that firms accept in Australia from these kind of companies and reading between the lines it looks like the Canadians are doing similar," said Lumsden at Corrs Chambers Westgarth.
"The companies put in place a series of undertakings such as ensuring they have local management and comply with local environmental laws", he said.
Rupert Li, a partner at King & Wood Mallesons in Hong Kong, said all Chinese companies should study Nexen's transparency clause, particularly those that plan to venture abroad.
"If you want to be part of the global business community, people should have more visibility into your management, your finance, and who actually drives your strategy," Li said, adding the extent of a board's independence was also important.
"The question is whether the Chinese companies can actually dispel the notion that they are just part of the mandate from the Chinese government as opposed to being a true profit seeking entity," he added.
(Reporting by Rachel Armstrong and Michael Flahery: Editing by Neil Fullick)


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Bible Study
Date: October 27, 2009 Location: Mark Duntley's Office (Lower Level of the Chapel)
Mark Duntley's Office (Lower Level of the Chapel)
On Tuesday, September 15th we began our study of the book of Daniel. We plan to make it all the way through the 12 chapters of Daniel during the semester, and I am excited about all of the symbolism we'll uncover in this Old Testament example of apocalyptic literature. Another thing worth noting is that the book of Daniel has some great stories that are some of the best in the entire Bible. Any Lewis & Clark student is welcome to attend at 8:30 PM every Tuesday. We always have refreshments, and it is a good place to meet a small group of Christians who are interested in studying the Bible together.


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Colourful and creative drawings produced by the children of Minh Chau Island Secondary School were displayed at an award ceremony on November 19, 2007 to celebrate student participation in the "I Love Marine Turtles" Campaign. This is part of the "Saving Marine Turtles and their Habitat" environmental education programme that promotes good practices of marine biodiversity preservation.
Prominent guests who attended the ceremony include Mr. Tran Tuan Hung, Director of Bai Tu Long National Park, Mr. Nguyen Van Sang, Minh Chau Commune Chairman, and Dr. Vu Van Trieu, IUCN Viet Nam Country Representative as well as community members and journalists. First place prize was awarded to Chau Thi Anh Thu, grade 8, for her drawing that depicts global cooperation to protect marine turtles.
In 2008, IUCN will build on the successes of the Marine Turtle Conservation Project to champion sustainable development in the region by working in close partnership with Bai Tu Long National Park. IUCN will apply an innovative conservation strategy that strengthens the institutional capacity of the National Park and facilitates the professional development of park staff. This will empower staff to conserve valuable natural resources within and surrounding the park and to support the development of communities who rely on natural resources in the area.
Additionally, IUCN will collaborate with the National Park and the private sector to establish eco-tourism projects to generate sustainable revenue for the park's conservation activities and to share the natural beauty of the park.
IUCN Viet Nam has been supporting marine ecosystem conservation activities in the Gulf of Tonkin since 2001. This has been structured through an integrated coastal management (ICM) framework for Quang Ninh and Hai Phong. In 2008 the ICM framework will focus on fisheries, marine protected areas, and tourism.
IUCN's activities in the Gulf of Tonkin are generously supported by the Royal Danish Embassy in Hanoi, Fish and Wildlife Services, the US State Department through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Framework Agreement with the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).


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Unless you've been living under a rock, you know Bethenny Frankel recently got a whole lot richer (a whole, whole lot) due to a deal with Beam Global in which she sold her Skinnygirl brand of beverages.
Since then, her former manager has sued her for upwards of $100 million for what he thinks was his input into her business. In a recent interview on the Today Show, Bethenny touched on the lawsuit drama. "I work really hard; I have always had a conscience and integrity (which is what you do when no one is looking). I can't control what other people are doing nor do I want to. I'm happy where I am and I only sweat the small stuff. I torture myself more over a $40 Gap T-shirt than a multimillion-dollar lawsuit," said Bethenny.
Bethenny also hit up the Tonight Show with Jay Leno this week, during which she quipped that she wipes her bum with dollar bills when Jay asked about her wealth, and tried to hire fellow Leno guest Kevin Bacon (love!) to entertain her and bartend. There was an enlightening moment in the interview where she admits that Jill (or should I say Bobby) Zarin secured her a place with the Real Housewives of New York. She admits that she and Jill were friends before the show (which she recognizes is weird among reality show stars…they aren't usually close to begin with), but vaguely cites the show as the downfall of their relationship. Regardless, she knows the show was an amazing platform for her business plan.
And of course, having a multi-million (potentially billion) dollar empire, isn't enough for the one time New York housewife. She has several spin-off Skinnygirl products launching that are sure to keep the money rolling in for years to come. Her newest endeavor? A cleanse.
A non-preggos looking Bethenny was pictured above this week during the launching of her Skinnygirl Cleanse at a GNC in Los Angeles. She elaborates, "It gently cleanses the system on a daily basis while replenishing and restoring the system with vibrant greens. On a day-to-day basis, depending upon how I feel, I alter whether I take it at night or during the day and whether I take it once per day or more." To coincide with the Skinnygirl cleanse is also her lifestyle website Skinnygirl Daily.
Having raked in $50+ million last year, I'm sure her diehard fans will jump on with a vengeance. It certainly can't hurt after imbibing all those margaritas.


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A supplementary course text for upper-undergraduate and graduate
students in exercise physiology, exercise biochemistry, and sport
nutrition; a reference for professionals in those fields.
Peter M. Tiidus, PhD, is a professor and former chair of the
department of kinesiology and physical education at Wilfrid Laurier
University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. For more than 30 years, he has
focused his research on the physiological mechanisms of and practical
interventions in muscle damage and repair, employing both animal models
and human subjects.
Tiidus has authored more than 80 publications and presented his research
in multiple lectures and conference presentations on estrogen and muscle
damage, inflammation, and repair and the influence of treatment
interventions on muscle recovery from damage and physiological
responses. He currently serves as an editorial board member for Medicine
& Science in Sports & Exercise. He is also a former member
of the board of directors of the Canadian Society for Exercise
A. Russell Tupling, PhD, is an associate professor in the
department of kinesiology at the University of Waterloo in Ontario,
Canada. His research program, which is funded by the Natural Sciences
and Engineering Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes
of Health Research, is dedicated to the understanding of the regulation
of sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) function in muscle and understanding how
defects in the function of SR proteins that occur with oxidative stress
contribute to fatigue, weakness, and disease. In 2009, he received an
Early Research Award from the Government of Ontario to conduct research
examining a potential link between Ca2+ pump energetics in muscle and
metabolic disorders.
Tupling has 49 peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals and over
70 conference abstracts based on his research. In 2010, he won the Award
of Excellence in Graduate Supervision, which was established by the
University of Waterloo in recognition of exemplary faculty members who
have demonstrated excellence in graduate student supervision. Tupling is
a member of the American Physiological Society and the Canadian Society
for Exercise Physiology (CSEP). He was invited to give the inaugural
Mike Houston Tutorial Lecture in Skeletal Muscle at the CSEP conference
in 2009.
Michael E. Houston, PhD, received his undergraduate training in
biochemistry from the University of Toronto and his PhD in biochemistry
from the University of Waterloo. A superb athlete and lifelong exercise
fanatic, he was able to integrate his training in biochemistry with his
love of exercise sciences and to forge a career as a teacher and
scientist in the field of kinesiology. For almost 40 years during his
career, he authored more than 100 refereed publications and taught
courses on the biochemistry of exercise to many undergraduate and
graduate students. In 2003, he was presented with the Honour Award from
the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology in acknowledgment of his
lifetime contribution to research and education in exercise science.
Houston was the author of the first three editions of Biochemistry
Primer for Exercise Science. This fourth edition, which is built on
his body of work, still incorporates a major portion of his third
edition. Dr. Houston passed away in 2008.
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peer-reviewed literature that examines exercise science in conjunction
with the basic sciences. The authors are well-respected scientists in
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An important new dynamical effect has made it easier for scientists to simulate the Moon's formation following a giant collision with primordial EarthOne of the solar system's most nagging problems literally stares into the collective faces of planetary scientists on many clear nights every month. It's the Moon — or, specifically, how it came to exist.
Prior to the Space Age, scientists kicked around three models of lunar origin. In the first, the Moon and Earth simply formed together, existing as paired worlds from the outset. A second concept envisioned that the Moon was a maverick world that strayed too near Earth and became trapped in orbit around it. In the third model, Earth somehow began to spin so fast that a huge blob of its crust and mantle tore away to create the Moon. However, this "fission hypothesis" would have left the Earth-Moon system with far more angular momentum than it has today.
Once researchers got their hands on actual samples of the Moon, it became clear that none of these models was a good fit. For example, lunar rocks lack the water, iron, and certain other metals that are common on Earth, so forget about side-by-side formation. Yet the relative abundances of oxygen's three isotopes in lunar and terrestrial rocks are identical, so the Moon and Earth must share some common genetic link — and that rules out the capture hypothesis.
About 30 years ago a radical new idea emerged. If a body roughly the size of Mars had struck the very young Earth, then superheated vapor and debris from this "big splat" could have formed an orbiting ring of matter that quickly coalesced into a single large object. Making the Moon this way would satisfy a host of physical and geochemical constraints — but not all of them.
All along researchers realized that this scenario only works if the impactor dealt Earth a glancing blow, in order to eject a Moon's worth of debris into orbit. But decades of computer simulations of a glancing blow have all yielded the same result: a lunar composition with too much impactor and too little proto-Earth.Now there's a breakthrough that sidesteps this geochemical dilemma. The new results were published and also presented at a big meeting of planetary scientists last month, and we noted them at the time, but I want to delve into the story a little more deeply here.
The key is what happened after the impact. Initially, the Moon would have been very close to Earth. Strong tidal forces would have transferred energy to the Moon's orbit, pushing it farther outward, at the expense of Earth's rotation, which gradually slowed. (This process continues slightly even today.) Soon the two bodies became coupled in what's called an evection resonance. Dynamicists Jihad Touma and Jack Wisdom had probed this effect back in 1998. They found that it could pump up the Moon's orbital eccentricity and inclination — neatly explaining why the lunar orbit is tipped so much with respect to Earth's equator — but leaving the system's total angular momentum virtually unchanged.
However, Matija Ćuk (SETI Institute) and Sarah Stewart (Harvard University) have taken another look at the evection resonance and discovered it that could have lasted long enough to transfer much or even most of the post-impact angular momentum to the Sun. As they report in Science Express for October 17th, this means Earth could have been spinning so rapidly when it was hit, rotating once in just 2½ hours, that it was close to flying apart on its own.
With angular momentum no longer a constraint, it's much easier to fashion a Moon with the right mass and with a composition identical to that of Earth's mantle. Ćuk and Stewart's simulations envision relatively small impactors with only 3% to 5% of Earth's mass. They get the best fit to lunar-sample constraints with head-on and slightly retrograde impacts at velocities from 10 to 30 km (6 to 20 miles) per second.Robin Canup (Southwest Research Institute) uses the relaxed angular-momentum constraints to try a very different approach. In her computer simulations, the impactor and primordial Earth have essentially the same mass. The two strike obliquely, though more nearly head-on than in her prior runs. The wildly gyrating two-lobed blob that results eventually settles into a molten, iron-rich central mass surrounded by a white-hot silicate-rich disk. The planet and disk end up with identical isotopic ratios, Canup explains, because the impactor adds its substantial mass to the planet and the two bodies become compositionally blended.
Historical footnote: The fission model for the Moon's origin was originally proposed by George Darwin (Charles's son) in 1879. He calculated that if the primordial Earth had spun faster and faster, it would have assumed a bowling-pin shape just before a large chunk broke away to form the Moon. (He calculated correctly that the spin rate would have to be about 2½ hours for this to occur.)
With a few notable exceptions, latter-day scientists dismissed the idea because there was no obvious way to slow down Earth's spin enough after the Moon calved away. Now they realize it's quite doable.
There might still be a "gotcha" in all this. The Earth-Moon system ends up with the right amount of angular momentum only if the two bodies remain locked in the evection resonance long enough after the impact, and if each body has just the right tide-inducing characteristics during that time. But at least the isotopic mismatches have been resolved, and it's more certain than ever that the Moon had a very dramatic birth.


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Affordable Gifts for Plant-and-Flower-Lovers
These are some of my favorite picks this year among holiday gifts for the botanically inclined. Some of them are profoundly impractical trinkets; others are implements your plant-and-flower-loving friends will use for years. There are gifts for those who just like to gaze at plants and flowers, and gifts for those who like to work with them, most under $100.
Practical and Pretty
• 1 I love to give gifts of things to do, and for a flower-lover there is nothing better than a flower-arranging class with a favorite designer. Lots of small local businesses are offering classes these days. Look for one in your town; if you're in the Bay Area, check out the workshops offered by Soulflower ($175) and Studio Choo ($150) (their lovely holiday centerpiece is pictured in the top photo).
• 2 Japanese shears from Paxton Gate ($39) are both gorgeous and indispensable for anyone growing a cutting garden. I kind of want to frame them, but I suppose I'd rather actually use them. The price is decent, too, considering the quality.
• 3 Toting this copper watering can around the garden will transport you straight to Provence. It's so pretty that you don't even need the storage space for it; just hang it on a hook in your kitchen. From Terrain ($98).
• 4 Vintage gardening and flower arranging books are fun to read, often seeming hopelessly quaint, but also full of practical age-old wisdom and tricks. Visit your favorite antiquarian bookstore and put together a bundle for the gardener in your life. Or if you're short on time to shop, choose the pretty bundle in the photo from Ethan & Ollie ($30).
• 5 I love to collect flower frogs of all kinds, but these are especially fun; they're designed to fit on the tops of glass jars to help you guide your flowers in place. Package these with a set of nice old glass jars you've collected yourself and you've got a great unique gift. From Bragging Bags ($15 for a set of 3).
• 6 Okay, so maybe garden labels aren't that practical—after all, who really needs help to tell the difference between lavender and thyme?—but they sure are nice-looking, especially these antique spoons from Hammerman ($59 for a set of 9).
• 7 If you know (and maybe envy) someone who grows a kitchen garden with lots of vegetables and herbs, botanical recipe cards from Rifle Paper Company are the perfect practical stocking stuffer ($15 at the Curiosity Shoppe).
Decorative Touches
• 8 A plant-lover who's slightly eccentric in the décor department will love this mushroom wreath from Terrain ($40), with its rich textures and otherworldly shapes.
• 9 I love to use milk bottles and jars for flowers arrangements because of their narrow mouths, which make it easier to place stems. These porcelain versions from West Elm ($19-$24) are a bit more modern and whimsical.
• 10 The xerographica, a giant among tillandsias (air plants), is an elegant decorative statement all on its own or in a beautiful ceramic bowl. It's easy to care for indoors, with just a light mist of water weekly. From Flora Grubb Gardens ($45-$60, depending on size).
• 11 The versatile tarnished metallic finish of Indian lassi cups make them an excellent workhorse for someone who likes to have lots of cut flowers around. You can also plant little succulents inside them for a sweet exotic look. Also from Flora Grubb ($34.95, with a succulent plant included).
• 12 Someone who loves plants and flowers but isn't at all a green thumb might appreciate the Studio Choo calendar ($22), with photos of favorite arrangements from their year of floral designs.
• 13 Felted planters from Rare Device ($36) provide perfectly snug little socks for your houseplants.
Botanical Baubles
• 14 Succulent-lovers will swoon over this recycled silver sedum ring from Terrain ($152).
• 15 Poppy pod hoop earrings from Paxton Gate ($110) make a simple and beautiful statement.


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Cavs' Bynum isn't sure explosiveness will return
Nov. 05, 2013
CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers center Andrew Bynum is not sure he will regain his explosiveness after missing all of last season because of injuries to both knees.
The 7-foot Bynum said before Monday night's game against Minnesota that he still feels pain in his knees, but hopes his minutes will increase as the season goes on. He hoped to play in both halves of the game, his third appearance of the season.
Bynum admitted he isn't as explosive as he was when he played for the Los Angeles Lakers and wonders if that aspect of his game will return.
"I don't think that's coming back," he said. "It makes you rely more on footwork and skills versus athleticism."
Bynum is also dealing with the normal effects of having surgery, but is pleased with the progress he's made.
"I feel little sharp pains here and there, but it's nothing too bad," he said. "I feel all right. My timing's off, but I haven't played in a long time. I have skills. I have talent. I just need to get my timing back."
Bynum played 7:34 in the season opener against Brooklyn — his first appearance since May 21, 2012, when he was with the Lakers — and 10:46 on Friday against Charlotte. He didn't play in the second half of either game and was inactive Saturday against Indiana, which follows the Cavaliers' plans of being cautious with him. Bynum entered Monday's game with 4:14 remaining in the first quarter and played 9:42 in the half.
Bynum didn't play a game last season with Philadelphia and underwent arthroscopic surgery on both knees in March. He signed with Cleveland in July and resumed basketball activities in mid-September.
The Cavaliers hope Bynum, 26, will give them a large inside presence and a complement to star point guard Kyrie Irving. The team signed Bynum to a two-year, $24 million contract. Only one season is guaranteed and the team holds the option for next season.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — A wistful moment for President Barack Obama came shortly after his public swearing-in ceremony.
As he began walking off the inaugural platform to go into the U.S. Capitol for the traditional luncheon with lawmakers and other dignitaries, Obama stopped and turned around to look at the scene on the National Mall, filled with hundreds of thousands of people who braved chilly weather to be part of the day.
"I want to take a look, one more time," he said. "I'm not going to see this again."
In a nod to their increasing political clout, three Latinos played important roles in Barack Obama's public inauguration ceremony.
First, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor administered the oath of office to Vice President Joe Biden. Nominated by Obama, Sotomayor is the first Latina justice.
Next, Richard Blanco delivered the inaugural poem, "One Today." He's the first Hispanic and the first openly gay person to serve in the role. At 44, he's also the youngest inaugural poet.
Finally, the Rev. Luis Leon, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church near the White House, delivered the closing prayer. Obama attended a worship service at the church before heading to the Capitol.
Latinos voted 7-to-1 for Obama in November's elections.
Plenty of celebrities were on hand for Barack Obama's second inauguration.
Beyonce belted out an impressive rendition of the national anthem and then returned to her spot on the inaugural platform with her husband, Jay-Z.
James Taylor sang "America the Beautiful" and Kelly Clarkson followed with "My Country 'Tis of Thee."
Other celebs spotted: Katy Perry and John Mayer, who sat side-by-side, as well as actress Eva Longoria and former Boston Celtics great Bill Russell.
Not everyone was waving an American flag and cheering "Obama" at the inaugural ceremonies on Monday.
John Diamond of Arlington, Va., handed out flyers inviting people to a "dis-inauguration ball" later in the day.
"Not my president," said his flyer, with the classic Obama "O'' logo part of the word "not."
Diamond, who didn't vote in this election, said he wants to encourage peace and nonviolence.
Other voices of dissent could be heard during the president's swearing-in ceremony. Even during prayers, a steady stream of "What about the babies?" wafted from the southwest of the U.S. Capitol.
Despite the chilly weather for the inauguration parade, Bobak Ferdowsi was not permitted to keep warm with a hat as he rode with the NASA float holding a model of the Mars Curiosity rover.
That's because Ferdowsi, a flight controller at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, became famous during the 2011 Mars landing for his hair, specifically his Mohawk — which doesn't fit with the 1960s NASA white shirt and pocket protector stereotype.
He became an Internet sensation, especially among the geek set, as "Mohawk Guy."
Even President Barack Obama complimented him on his hair, joking about getting one himself.
So, as Ferdowsi prepped for his first time in a parade on Monday — let alone an inaugural parade — he had a special new version of the Mohawk. This haircut had an old NASA logo — the initials for the space agency spelled out like a worm — carved in on one side near an ear and the lab's JPL logo on the other.
He was resigned to having cold ears, saying: "I don't think they'll let me wear a hat."
It didn't all go off without a hitch.
Some folks bailed on their inaugural plans when the trek to the National Mall became too long.
Cheryl Tate, 52, of Flint, Mich., and her friend Karen Pugh, 43, gave up after a long walk from RFK stadium, and went back there to sit on their tour bus, waiting for the rest of their group. While the inauguration parade continued Monday evening, they were headed back to Michigan, a 10-hour drive away. "We didn't see anything, unfortunately," Tate said, adding that others on their tour bus had been luckier.
Near the Washington Monument, people milled through the crowd of thousands to get a glimpse of the inauguration — only to find that the Jumbotron was cutting in and out and they couldn't hear the speakers. Some booed.
Moses Ashford of Columbia, S.C., didn't have regrets. "I'm happy. I'm smiling, and I see smiles on many of the people here."
A first, of sorts, at this inaugural.
For the first time in more than three decades, there was neither a Clinton nor a Bush on either the departing or the incoming presidential ticket. Since 1981, every year until now has seen someone from one of the two famous political families front-and-center on the inaugural platform.
In 1981 and 1985, it was George H.W. Bush as vice president to Ronald Reagan, followed four years later by Bush as president. In 1993, with Bush looking on, Bill Clinton took the oath as president and again four years later in 1997. Then, a departing Clinton took to the inaugural platform in 2001 as George W. Bush was sworn in. Bush had a second inauguration in 2005 and then witnessed the inauguration four years later, in 2009, of Barack Obama.
While Bill Clinton may not have been in the front row during Obama's second inaugural on Monday, Clinton and his wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, did join lawmakers and other dignitaries on the inaugural platform. Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, also attended the ceremonies at the Capitol's west front.
Associated Press writers Nancy Benac, Seth Borenstein, Alan Fram, Philip Elliott, Mesfin Fekadu, Kevin Freking, Jessica Gresko and Stacy A. Anderson contributed to this report.


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Interesting possible story on that to come Dressel... Stay tuned.
The gaping legs of the SNowtrooper bother me but not enough to stop me from army building. I think the stance can get fixed with a boil/freeze. Too bad they got goofy with his stance though... why on earth do that?
The packages have a "Special Offer" sticker on them. What's that all about?
As per our Toy Fair coverage...2007 is the year of the coin. Instead of a lame figure you mail-away for coins, I'd assume to complete the booklet, but either way that's cool to me... At least it's something that eases the $10 pricepoint a bit.
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How to Shoot Gunge???
dear all
i trust you are all well.
bit of a weird question, but has anyone tried, instead of water, to use gunge (you know, the coloured stuff favoured by kiddies tv programmes to pour over each other and poor unfortunates - Natrosol is the formal name) ?
because of its viscosity, i guess maybe an electric pump. i have tried various knapsack type sprayers and they do not produce enough pressure.
any thoughts would be appreciated.
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Re: How to Shoot Gunge???
I suspect the issue with knapsack sprayers isn't pressure but rather very narrow tubing and valves, that get clogged more easily. You'll probably need quite fat tubing, valves, and nozzles to shoot gunge effectively.
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Re: How to Shoot Gunge???
Hmm, the viscosity is a good point to start with.
As it seems this is the american equivalent of slime, which is a non-newtonian fluid with an extremely high viscosity compared to the water we are used to shooting, it might be a huge challenge to secure parts large enough and pressure high enough to overcome that.
All in all, can't wait to see how you plan to use it.
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Re: How to Shoot Gunge???
I have had some experience with this sort of thing....
Firstly, whilst you will be able to get gunge to shoot, you won't reallistically be able to shoot anywhere as far as you will with water. As others have said this is primarily down to the viscosity, which will be massively higher than water. You will therefore need larger bore pipes and higher pressures. Electrical diaphragm or centrifugal pumps are highly unlikely to be able to provide sufficient pressure.
Most materials used to make gunge are not newtonian in behaviour- their viscosity is dependent on the shear rate. The good news is that the most common materials (natrosol, xanthan and guar) are shear thinning, meaning the viscosity reduces as it they are sheared (mixed/ or made to flow).
My recommendation would be to use a pistol that has a simple direct acting pistol pump and drill out the nozzle to a larger size. You could use a pressure sprayer modified with larger bore pipe, but this won't be very effective. I have used this arrangement to enable baloons to be filled with gunge effectively.
Other thing to think about include making sure the gunge is very thoroughly mixed- any lumps at all are likely to block the pistol. You might also want to ensure that the colouring used is fairly concentrated to give the best visual effect (i'd use 3-5% of powder paint.
Hope this helps!
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trying to learn to windsurf - not fall!
I have been trying to learn to windsurf. I took a 3 hour lesson and it seemed so easy at the time. Now I have been trying on my own and can uphaul the sail (with effort) but as soon as I try to take hold of the boom and start moving, I am overpowered and FALL! I spend all my time getting back on the board, uphauling and then falling again. The instructor told me it is about balance, not strength, but I am starting to wonder. When he was teaching me, he was on the board at the same time (on the other side of the sail). I am thinking maybe he was counter balancing the sail for me? I don't want to spend hundreds of dollars on more lessons. Any tips on getting moving WITHOUT falling after uphauling?
|28th February 2009, 11:08 PM
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Hi floridagirl,
OK, what I posted earlier did not seem to solve your issues.
How about we just deal with the primary issues.
First, what board do you have?
Is it wide (perhaps like the one you took your 3 hour lesson on) and pretty short, or is it long and narrow.
Does it have a centerboard in addition to the fin at the rear?
What size sail do you have?
If you are having problems with your rig powering up too fast, and pulling you off the board, let's talk some tuning tips to make your rig less powerful, and some techniques to
make it power up more slowly, as well as some tips to get your more firmly set on your board so you can handle more power, more quickly.
To depower your rig, you need to downhaul it more, and outhaul it more. Check for numbers written near the bottom front corner of your sail, and also perhaps on the outside of your sail bag.
There should be numbers indicating the mast specifications (i.e. 460 cm IMCS 24-26);
the recommended luff length ( the length of the mast and the amount of extension your base adds at the bottom of the mast); and a boom length.
It's very important that you set your rig up fairly close to the recommendations as you want it to give good steady power and be easy to handle.
Try putting on a little more extension ( 5 cm more than suggested by the mfg.) and a bit more downhaul and outhaul to flatten the sail and allow the top of the sail to be a little looser and "twist off" more easily. These two things will depower your rig to the extent possible and make it more balanced and easier to handle.
Next let's discuss where you are positioning yourself on your board BEFORE you add power to your sail.
After you uphaul, it works best to move back on your board until both of your feet are behind the mast foot and you have your front foot (upwind foot) about 4-6 inches outboard and upwind of the mast foot and also about 4-6" behind the mast foot.
Then place the heel of your rear foot right on the fore/aft centerline of your board and a comfortable shoulder width behind your front foot. Turn your rear foot slightly forward.
This puts you in a very steady, balanced position on your board where you will be able to handle the power from the rig more easily and you won't be tipping the board (which makes it steer in the direction it's tipped). The board needs to be very flat (side to side and front to back as well) before you power up your rig.
Your board needs to be aligned across the wind. You do this by leaning your rig slightly forward or backward to cause the board to turn until the wind is blowing across the board at a 90 deg. angle to the fore/aft centerline.
Using only your front hand (if your rig is light enough) try to bring your rig up in front of your front shoulder until the mast is mostly on the upwind side of the centerline and the rig tends to balance on the mast foot. This puts most of the weight of the rig on the board through the mast foot so you do not have to deal with very much weight.
Now reach forward right in front of your rear shoulder with your back hand and put 2 fingers on the boom.
Rotate your shoulders and upper body (from the hips) moving the back shoulder back and inboard and the front shoulder turns more inboard as well. Just turn a very slight amount, and your rig will rotate with your upper body and begin to power up.
If it pulls too much or too suddenly, let go with the 2 fingers of your back hand and try again. Unrotate your shoulders until you are facing almost forward with your upper body (you will be facing the rig and your shoulders will be parallel with a line running from the mast to the center of the end of the boom), and try again.
Put 2 fingers on the boom and slowly rotate about 5 degrees. Do this very slowly and carefully and your rig should gain just a little power, but enough to start you moving.
I would guess this is the cause of most of your issues with getting underway on your windsurfer.
You are trying to do things a little too quickly and sheeting the sail in far too much, and much too quickly.
If you PULL the sail in with your back hand, quickly, the sail will pull back, and it will pull even the best sailors off the board nearly all the time, if not done gradually.
You have to add the power slowly and gradually increase it.
Hope this helps,
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I was able to go out and try again using the advice I received. Thank you for taking the time to reply in detail. It really helped! I was able to make it "go" this time. Now I just have to learn how to stear and turn! :-)
|3rd March 2009, 10:38 AM
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Hi floridagirl,
Excellent, good to hear that the suggestions worked for you.
We still do not know if your board has a centerboard or not.
That will pretty much dictate how you need to steer.
With a centerboard, lean the rig forward (mast arcs forward toward the nose of the board a little at a time) and the power in the rig will move forward on the board and turn you off the wind (downwind, away from the wind). Be sure to sheet out (open the sail up away from the boards centerline) as you turn further off the wind.
Avoid sailing directly downwind as it's going to be hard to gain it back as you cannot sail
straight upwind and must tack several times to gain the ground lost on a short "downwind excursion".
If you want to sail more upwind, tip the rig to the rear a little and maybe sheet it in a little, and your board will turn upwind. Be sure to level the rig as soon as you've reached your new course otherwise the board will continue to turn upwind until you stall the sail.
If you do not have a center board, you must "steer" the board by tipping it slightly. Tip the upwind rail down to sail upwind, and tip the downwind rail down to sail downwind.
Turning around is fairly easy as well.
Tip your sail all the way back and slowly bring it in over the center line of your board.
This will turn you up into the wind.
When the board is heading nearly staight up into the wind, Step over the mast foot, until you are facing the other way, then let your sail out until the end of the boom is straight downwind and you are on the other side of the board.
Now you can sheet in, just as described in the previous note, and sail off in the other direction.
Hope this helps,
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Growing up in Kansas City, Mo., sophomore libero Taylor Migliazzo was taught to be a Sooner fan. Her dad, Paul Migliazzo, played linebacker for the University of Oklahoma from 1983-1986.
"The fact he went here and I got an offer here, it just all worked out," Migliazzo said. "I grew up liking OU."
In fourth grade, Migliazzo tried out for her first volleyball team. Former middle blocker Grace Whitley also tried out for that same club.
Prior to playing for the same volleyball team, Whitley and Migliazzo were in plays and musicals together.
"Her parents and my parents are good friends," Whitley said. "I didn't know her that well when we started playing volleyball, we had just done plays and carpooled together. "
They continued to play volleyball together throughout their teenage years.
In club volleyball, Migliazzo was named to the all-tournament team at the USA Volleyball 17 open division championship. Her team also won the Junior Olympics 16 open division championship.
At St. Teresa's Academy in Kansas City, Mo., Migliazzo earned four varsity letters and was name to the All-State list twice. As a senior, Migliazzo was named to the UnderArmour High School All-America Watch List.
Whitley and Migliazzo did their recruiting together. They were recruited by some of the same schools, including the University of Oklahoma.
"I committed to Oklahoma and her dad played football here," Whitley said, "so it made sense for her to follow."
When Migliazzo arrived at Oklahoma, she played libero behind Eden Williams. As a freshman, Migliazzo played just 11 sets, with five digs.
So far this season, Migliazzo has played 69 sets, racking up 265 digs. She averages 3.84 digs per match, the sixth best in the Big 12 Conference.
Head coach Santiago Restrepo is in his ninth season with the Sooners. He moved Migliazzo to the starting libero position in the fifth match of the season, a 3-2 loss at Pacific.
The Sooners keep a statistic on passing, a stat that is not tracked by the Big 12 or the NCAA. Restrepo and his staff have a scale from zero to three. The better the libero passes to the setter, the higher they are rated on the scale.
"Taylor was passing the ball a lot more consistent, or on a lot higher scale than Eden [Williams], " Restrepo said. "Therefore, if a libero was going to play all six rotations on the court, we needed to make that switch to give her more touches for passing."
Migliazzo wasn't expecting to be named the starting libero, especially after the season started.
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Migliazzo credits her offseason work to her receiving more playing time and to the team being better.
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During spring workouts, the team would run or lift in the morning before going through a routine practice. After, they would run again.
Whitley has watched Migliazzo mature as a player. She says Migliazzo has always been a good player since they began playing in elementary school and has learned what is expected of her at the collegiate level.
"She was always really, really solid when she was younger and until she was 18, but college is a completely different ball game," Whitley said. "When she got here, there was the nerves and there was the completely different style of defense she had to learn. She's really come into that and it's fun to watch her play at this level."
Restrepo attributes Migliazzo's skill to her strong work ethic.
"Since she has been here, she has been very good about going extra hard at every single practice and doing the best that she can," Restrepo said.
He credits her reading ability and control as the reason for her being a good digger.
"I think she positions herself well and reads the hitter well. It's a lot easier for her to dig. She controls it," he said.
Like the passing statistic, the coaching staff also keeps a "dig-to-kill" statistic.
"If we are digging the ball well and our setter is setting the ball well and we put the ball away, we calculate that as a dig-to-kill percentage. She has a pretty good percentage because she controls the ball pretty well," Restrepo said of Migliazzo, "and gives us a chance to transition after she hits the ball."
Migliazzo serves for sophomore setter Julia Doyle. Doyle cites their off-court relationship as the reason for their on-court connection."She's my best friend off the court so I think we carry that on the court. I love playing with her, she makes my job pretty easy," Doyle said. "She knows what I need from her and she'll do it. She's been good to me so far."


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The CommandBehaviorBase<T> is used to define a base behavior for connecting the control type to Command.
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Step 6: Open MainPage.Xaml and create an instance of the ApplicatonManagement class in Xaml. Also define Command and CommandParameter property of the TextBox as shown below:
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Jarryd Hayne, Weller Hauraki and Junior Paulo were all barred from playing in the Eels' season opener against the Bulldogs on Saturday week, the ban a result of their boozy escapades in Kings Cross early Monday morning.
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