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Junior Roubaix 2013
photo: Rhys Howells
Last week we featured Tao Geoghegan Hart's piece on crashing out of contention at Junior Roubaix 2012 and his ambitions for this year's edition. On Sunday he made it to the velodrome on time and finished on the 3rd step of the podium. We caught a few minutes with him in between sessions at Newport Velodrome with the GB team.
You must be tired, riding Roubaix on Sunday and then straight to a training camp?
It's good to come off the back of a long race like Roubaix and do some high intensity drills – although everyone is pretty knackered – and just work on your speed. It takes a while to make your legs warm up but it's easier than being out on the road. I feel better than this time last year when I was really on my knees.
But you must be feeling good after that result?
I was pleased yeah, obviously you always want to win but the Dane [Mads Pedersen] is a strong lad. With 10km to go I was trying to get away from him but he was always there.
If you look at the three of you on the podium, the other two look more like rouleurs, typical Roubaix riders.
The Dane's a goat though like me. I know both of them quite well. The Belgian, Nathan Van Hooydonck [nephew of Edwig, two-time Tour of Flanders winner] gave me a drink over the last 10-15 km.
But you couldn't shake Pedersen?
I kept trying to hit them but the Dane was always in my wheel. I tried and tried but it didn't work.
How did the action unfold?
Well we did the two opening circuits before the first sector, and with about 5km before that there is a bunch sprint for position. Everyone was nervous. The first section is number 16 of the elite race, once we were on there we [GB team] got flicked a bit with people riding in the gutter and on the grass at the side of the road. It was pretty chaotic with a Dutchman and Frenchman throwing punches at each other.
photo: Sophie Darlington
How were you feeling over the first few sectors?
I didn't feel particularly good or bad. The further into each sector the quicker it got. In between sectors it slowed down as people jostled for position. I actually crashed on sector 10 or maybe 11 after a Swiss rider stacked it. I rode into him and went straight over the bars. That was my only panic really, I lost about 30 seconds but I had bodies with me so I picked my way back up and actually felt better after that. I think a little bit of effort to get back on plus the adrenaline gave me a boost.
Did anyone else crash out this year?
Matt Gibson, who's a 1st year junior, crashed after about 40km and broke his hand, but he carried on for another 30km before getting into the broom wagon. Hard lad. He said there were a few of the Czech team on the bus drinking cans of Stella [Artois]…
Did you find yourself going well on the cobbles?
It's strange riding on cobbles, on the flat, it's not like a climb where you're looking around. You just concentrate on holding a wheel and don't think about what's behind. So when the Dane attacked on Carrefour [notorious sector], me and the Belgian went across and all of a sudden it was the three of us 20 seconds up the road. We caught the Slovakian rider who was out alone and then he punctured and it was just us three.
That image of you is on the Carrefour de l'Arbre?
Yeah, I've had a bit of stick for that as it looks like my saddle is about a metre too high for me, but it's because all my weight is on the inside to push me around the corner.
You had a few supporters right there?
Yeah Rhys Howells, who took the photo, and his team were out in Belgium that week racing and they came over to support me. The crowds are brilliant at Roubaix as you're racing the same day as the pros so everyone is already on the roadside cheering, clapping (and drinking).
Apart from the saddle height issue, I also notice you are riding without gloves.
Yeah, I had long fingered gloves at the start but after that I got too warm. We were using proper 27mm FMB tubulars, which I think are ex-Team Sky ones, and they made a massive difference. I also double wrapped the bars, I don't like wearing mitts.
And did you wear that base layer?
Yeah I wore the holey Merci Roubaix base layer from last year. Tom Southam said you only wear things that bring you good luck, so I put it on, underneath a merino base layer. I also wore my lucky Rapha oversocks…
photo: Sophie Darlington
It was a beautiful day in the end weather-wise too.
Yeah it was freezing in the morning but it became really sunny and we even ended up with tan lines. It was a special day all round, remembering the last two or three sectors from last year and what hell that was – I saw the exact spot where I crashed last year and got goosebumps. But what I learnt from last year was not to panic, stay relaxed and of course be there at the crunch moment, which I was.
And did it feel good riding into the velodrome?
I led it in, gave it 100% but it was weird… Of course I'm ridiculously competitive but I was just really happy to be there. My family was there cheering me. It's the only race apart from Worlds where you have that outside interest at this level. Other races we do in Europe absolutely no one is spectating, not even a dog watching. So it was really the first time I've experienced that kind of thing with everyone congratulating me. Getting a taste of that just makes me even more determined to keep pushing forward and improving. I think quite a few people were surprised by my result so yeah, to turn it on its head from last year was great.
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Prompted by thinking about the coil arrangement in 's carts on another thread, I came up with a general method for obtaining true mono from a stereo cartridge. There seems a significant (4-6dB) noise advantage versus stereo replay of a mono recording. Also described is a simple way to make it switchable between true mono and true stereo. Measurements and listening tests show a significant noise reduction, c 4-6dB, versus mono replay on a stereo cartridge.
I don't know if it's already known, but it's new to me. It has excellent results for noise improvement and sound, so I thought I'd post it anyway.
The idea is to connect L & R coils in series, and the series output is then true mono. Mono groove modulation is purely lateral movement, of course, and this method significantly attenuates noise output from vertical stylus movement. Each coil produces antiphase signals for pure vertical motion, in phase for pure lateral motion.
Although similar effects can be produced electronically by combining L+R signals later in the signal path, the method described here avoids the need for a seperate summing stage, and avoids phase and amplitude errors often arising through other methods.
This sketch shows an implementation using a DPDT switch to toggle between true stereo and true mono. I conveniently built this into the base of the arm housing under the TT I used for testing, so can switch between stereo and mono easily.
Here's a screenshot of a mono audio sample (tone), showing the effect of flipping the switch :
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Signal amplitude increases by 6dB when the mono switch is set. Note noise peaks remain same amplitude.
Here's a screenshot of a silent groove, showing the effect on noise floor of flipping the switch:
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Groove noise remains approx similar amplitude. But signal amplitude increased by 6dB (above), hence S/N improves by c 6dB when mono switch set.
Here's a spectrum plot of the silent groove samples, normalised for 6dB offset in signal amplitude:
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The benefit is clear across the spectrum. 4-6dB
Here's a plot of a 150Hz mono sinusoid tone, to check harmonic distortion.
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Harmonic distortion is more or less unaltered. There is something strange going on in the 20-50Hz range though. It remains when the stylus is lifted off, so seems hum or preamp related - this is not a very good preamp BTW.
Here's a plot that shows Vertical Modulation rejection at 1kHz is c 16dB, and across the spectrum is up to 20dB. That is how much attenuation vertical stylus noise gets.
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I tested this on an Ortofon OM5E in a project 9C arm. The S/N ratio improvement for mono records is obvious, toggling the switch.
Sound is as good as the cartridge. Voicing changes significantly due to cartridge loading on toggling the switch. I found an interim load of 68k per channel voices well enough for both stereo and mono, but I expect much more can be done to obtain optimal loading and voicing.
In the fullness of time I expect to leave a TT set up like this, because the S/N advantage when replaying mono recordings seems significant.
Neat, eh ? Appols if this is old hat, but it's not to me !


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"Let us pick up our books and pens. They are our most powerful weapons. One child, one teacher, one pen and one book can change the world. Education is the only solution. Education first!"
That rallying cry was the conclusion of a speech before the U.N. General Assembly last July by Malala Yousafzai. But this was no ordinary call for better schools, of the kind that is heard with increasing regularity today in America.
Malala is the Pakistani teenager shot in the head by the Taliban in October 2012 for advocating the education of girls in her homeland.
Thursday she won the European Parliament's prestigious Sakharov Prize for her courage. The world waits to see if, on Friday, October 11, she will also become a Nobel Peace Laureate, too.
Malala Yousafzai's example in standing against Islamist extremism has few parallels.
The 16-year-old Muslim girl deserves these accolades, and more. Her example in standing against Islamist extremism has few parallels.
Hunted down by name in a school bus and shot through the left eye socket by her would-be assassins, she was recently threatened again to shut up by the Taliban. Malala remains undaunted.
Her medical recovery has been miraculous but her persistent cry for education, even more so.
When Malala calls out for education, she, of course, is referring to a modern education, one that includes math and science and also arts and letters. That is what she was able to study and so valued in the private girls' school she attended in her native town in the Swat Valley, a neighborhood school established by her father.
In growing parts of the Muslim world – Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and in northern Nigeria, for example -- what we would call a "good" education is considered a sin and to dissent from this view, a form of blasphemy. (Ironically, the Taliban takes its name from the Pashto word for "students.").
As Malala notes, not only girls, but boys, too, in many parts of the Muslim world, are deprived of such modern education.
Students are taught by rote memorization, and discouraged from thinking for themselves.
The religious courses that constitute a large part of their curriculum are in some places taught from books and by teachers promoting religious bigotry and violence.
For example, in 2011, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom released a study, concluding that Pakistan's public schools "reinforce biases which fuel acts of discrimination , and possibly violence, against [religious minority] communities."
This independent U.S. agency's study also made the alarming finding: All the Pakistani public school teachers interviewed believed the concept of jihad to refer to violent struggle, compulsory for Muslims to engage in against the "enemies of Islam." And, moreover, "As many as 80 percent of the respondents considered non-Muslims to be enemies of Islam," despite contradictory views expressed in other parts of the interviews.
At the U.N., Malala concluded with an appeal our Western foreign policy makers should take to heart:
"We must not forget that millions of children are out of their schools. We must not forget that our sisters and brothers are waiting for a bright, peaceful future. So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism."
Hers is an urgent message. Pakistan, and other parts of the Muslim world are in dire need of investment in their human capital. All our futures depend on it.
Nina Shea is a Senior Fellow and Director of Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom.
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A Lincoln County elementary school is teaching students valuable lessons about math and science in hands-on way.
Last fall, Pine River Elementary School received a grant from the Merrill Area Community Foundation's "Beyond Crayons and Computers" program. The project, "Coop and Poop" integrated chickens to serve as teaching tools in the classroom. In January, students and volunteers assembled the chicken coop.
Fifth Grade Teacher, Russell Noland who applied for the grant, says the project has been very rewarding. "Earlier this year my fifth grade class collected eggs from our coop and incubated them. During the incubation process we made predictions, calculated hatch rate in fractions and prevents, hypothesized, drew and recorded daily investigations", says Noland.
The class eventually hatched 200 chicks and carried the lesson over to English class, authoring a book.
Others grades are also benefiting from the project. Noland say fourth grade has taken the roll as lunchroom leaders, and now assist the rest of the school in composting the waste from lunch. Some of the leftover are used as feed for the chickens; other food is composted in the Community Garden, next to Pine River.
Five hens and one rooster currently live in the coop. Noland tells the Merrill Foto News, the next step is to install webcams in the coop and have the students monitor the chickens' activities.


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The Magic Johnson story just keeps getting bigger
You'd have to look long and hard to find a more interesting, intriguing, compelling (I'm not even sure what the right word would be) sports figure of last half century or so than Magic Johnson.
The breadth of his life, publicly at least, has been astounding.
We knew him as a smiley-faced teen re-energizing NCAA basketball.
We knew him as a smiley-faced young man re-energizing NBA basketball, revolutionizing the game with the Showtime Lakers, a freak of nature 6-9 point guard who played even the drudgery of the regular season with unabridged joy and who was at his best when titles were on the line.
But forget that, actually, if you can. It's all well and good that he played a kid's game with a kid's attitude, all smiles and fun and upbeat and up-tempo and the Lakers with him were a joy to watch.
When news came down last night that his group had been the successful bidders to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers (a cool $2 billion, it says in this dispatch) you kind of just shook your head in amazement.
There are those who want our athletes to use their power and their pedestal and their iconic status for the good of the greater cause.
No one – well, very few that I can think of in the world of professional sports since I've been hanging around the games – has done it like Magic.
Yes, you have David Robinson and the school he founded in San Antonio, and Jalen Rose and the incredible work his foundation is doing with education in Detroit and I'm sure there are others doing similar work.
But Magic? Magic has given hope and support and brought education to the fore in so many areas it's incredible.
He became one of the leaders of the HIV campaign after his startling revelation 20 years ago and what he's done to raise money and awareness since then is nothing short of amazing.
He became a wildly-successful businessman in his post-playing career; with theatres and coffee shops and sundry other endeavours that showed all athletes that there was a chance to make a difference in the economic lives of fans aside from bringing them joy on the court.
And now?
Now to own one of the iconic sports franchises ever – one that needs some kind of recovery from the mess left by the previous ownership – cements him as a guy who actually did something grand once the games were over.
Far too many great athletes simply pay lip service to making a difference in the world when they're done playing before they fade off into their lives, the television studio or periodic appearances at charitable events.
Magic built an empire all while serving as a beacon for the fight against HIV.
This may not be the crowning moment of his post-career work but it is another giant step for a giant of our times.
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Holy crap.
People sure get defensive, or offensive, or whatever, when it's pizza talk, don't they?
This has all the makings of Jose-TJ to stir the passions if you wade through all the comments yesterday.
Last word? For now, at least?
Here's Zorro's piece, he's the guy who landed in the office and was asked to come up with the follow-up story.
So much for my early prognostication about Martina Navratilova and DWTS.
Sure, they embarrassed here with that get-up last night but, honestly? As a dancer she makes a great tennis icon.
Now this may cause a bit of a quandary.
Got news late last night – think the news landed while I was napping, actually – that Jerryd Bayless has a torn oblique muscle and he'll miss the rest of the regular season.
The quandary is not whether or not Ben Uzoh can adequately fill the backup point guard role, that's relatively inconsequential. The quandary is whether or not the Raptors feel confident enough in what they've seen from Bayless so far to make any longer-term commitment to him in the summer when he becomes a restricted free agent.
Maybe they have, but some of the people I've spoken to were looking to this last month to determine precisely what they had in the young guard.
The backcourt is going to need some reconstruction over the summer, far more so than the frontcourt, and if there are any lingering questions about where Jerryd fits, it's not good at all that he'll have missed this last month.
I feel terrible for the kid; he wanted to play in Chicago, wanted to play the second half of the Orlando game after he was hurt again and getting those MRI results on Monday had to be a huge blow.
Too bad.
For him and his employers.
No one's going to mention that the pucks have been mathematically eliminated from the post-season before the HOTH, right?
There are days when it's kind of boring to go to practice with these fellows, it's hard to come up with a story that's truly interesting and can be told well. We're often standing around perplexed, wondering if the day's missive will be something pedestrian like an injury update or a look ahead to the next team.
Those are all legit stories, don't get me wrong, it's that they don't really energize you and they've been done so often they are almost done by rote.
It's especially true with this group, all fine young men who are more than willing to chat with us each day but there aren't too many great tales left to tell. It's not their fault, it's just the way it is; as I said, it's a good group but there's not a Reggie Evans quote machine among 'em.
Then we get a new guy and all of a sudden Alan Anderson's story turns into a moment of revitalization, he gives good anecdotes and has a life's story to tell.
It's kind of cool and as the grunts departed the practice facility, there was a spring in our steps. Not bad for the dog days of the season.
Mail? Yeah, we'd better start.


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Hi everybody.
We started we the people so that you could directly petition your government on the matters you care about the most.
So you could make your voice heard.
In the days since the heartbreaking tragedy in Newtown Connecticut hundreds of thousands of from all fifty states have signed petitions asking us to take serious steps to address the epidemic of gun violence in this country.
So I just want to take a minute today to responded let you know we hear.
-- the majority of Americans I believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms.
We've got a strong tradition of gun ownership it's been handed down from generation to generation.
And the fact is most -- hours in America are responsible.
It by -- guns legally -- -- use them safely.
And it's encouraging that many gun owners have stepped up this week to say there are steps we can take to prevent more tragedies like the one in -- Steps that both protect our rights and protect our kids here's what I think we should.
This week I called on congress to take up and pass common sense legislation that has the support of the majority of the American people.
Including banning the sale of military style assault weapons and high capacity ammunition clips.
And making -- criminals can't take advantage of legal loopholes to get their hands on -- got.
I also -- vice president with leading an effort to come up with a comprehensive set of serious proposals to keep our children safe.
Including strengthening school safety improving mental health care and addressing a culture that too often glorifies guns and violence.
I've asked for these proposals by January.
-- push for them early in the I will do everything in my power as president to advance these efforts because if there's even one thing we can do as a country to protect our children.
We have a responsibility to try.
As I said earlier this week I can't do it -- I need your help.
If we're gonna succeed it's gonna take a sustained effort for mothers and fathers daughters and sons.
Law enforcement and responsible gun owners.
Organizing speaking up.
Calling the members of congress as many times as it takes standing up and saying enough on behalf of all our kids.
That's how change happens because of committed Americans who worked to make it happen.
Because of you.
You've started something and now I'm asking you to keep that.
I'm asking for your help to make any real meaningful difference in the lives.
Of our communities and our country and make sure war the United States of America is safer stronger place for children to learn and to -- Thanks so much.
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