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Before the World Cup kicked off, the Russians asked themselves questions like: What could they expect of their national team? And also: Was there such a thing as a Russian soccer soul? A report from the heart of the country.
With complicated issues it's a little like with matryoshkas, those typically Russian wooden nesting dolls: It takes a while to get to the heart of the matter. But let's begin with the core question anyway: Is there such a thing as a Russian soul? Maybe the traditionalists will all now reply with an emphatic "Yes!" Others, who regard the whole thing with suspicion anyway, will mutter a hesitant "well, you know ….." So let's ask the experts, the people who evoked and still evoke for us our image of Russia: Russian writers. Let's ask Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. " I think that the paramount, most basic spiritual need of the Russian people is the need for suffering, constant and unslakeable suffering, everywhere and in everything. I believe that the most important, the main spiritual need of the Russian people is the need to suffer, always and incessantly, everywhere and in everything. They seem to have been infected with this longing to suffer from the very first. Their stream of suffering flows through their entire history; it comes not only from external misfortunes, but also springs from the depths of the national heart. The Russian people seem to enjoy their suffering," the graduate military engineer wrote in 1873 in his Diary of an Author. Is that all there is to is? Suffering? Should we give credence to someone who lost his parents when he was just 17 and later spent more than four years imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp?
After all, it was in fact a Frenchman who coined the phrase "Russian soul." In his The Russian Novel (1886), Vicomte EugèneMelchior de Vogüé, a diplomat in czarist Russia, compared the country and its people to the traditional okroshka: "Everything exists in this soup, both the delicious and the disgusting. You never know what you'll be spooning out of it next." The situation was very much the same with the Russian soul, opined de Vogüé, who described them as a mix of so much, mysticism and common sense, everything and nothing – and, one might imagine, melancholy! We still have a third voice to hear, a more modern one. Asked whether the Russians were an unhappy nation, author Alina Bronsky, who was born in 1978, replied: "Yes, they are suspected of being melancholy. That suspicion is expressed in Russian art and literature. But like all other people, the Russians are well acquainted with the entire spectrum of human emotions." So is the "Russian soul" just a blanket term? "When talking about mentalities, we have to be open to diversity and nuances," says Bronsky, "and an altogether mystical/religious word like "soul" is in my view somewhat misplaced here since it posits human idiosyncrasies as inherent and virtually impossible to change."
Ice hockey was the most popular sport in the country in the days of the late Soviet Union, but that has now changed. Russia has in fact been increasingly involved in international sports since the 1990s; the soccer boom is a global phenomenon, and even the proud Russian wants to belong and to be loved. Russian enthusiasm for soccer is not entirely new. Russia's national soccer association was established long ago in 1912 and joined FIFA in the same year – in other words, at the same time as the great soccer power Argentina. At the time, there were already just under 200 clubs with a good 5000 players. At the foundation meeting of the German football association on January 28, 1900, only 86 clubs were represented.
For all its tradition and broad popularity: Soviet and Russian soccer successes are few and far between. There has been the odd exclamation point – Dynamo Kiev's 1975 and 1986 European Cup wins, for example, and those of ZSKA Moscow in 2005 and Zenit Saint Petersburg in 2008 – but the national team barely profited from them. And the only title it did earn, that of European Champion in 1960, came with an extremely bitter aftertaste. After all, England, Italy and Germany did not even play in the first European Championship. On top of all this, Russia's quarter-final opponent, Franco's Spain, refused to travel to the Soviet Union so that the Russian side, the Sbornaya, made it uncontested into the semifinals. There they beat Czechoslovakia 3:0, and at the final in Paris, Yugoslavia 2:1 after extra time. Victor Ponedelnik, 23, scored the winning goal and was immediately dubbed the "sword of the Sbornaja" by the Russian press, inspired by the team's "shield," goalkeeper of the century Lev Yashin. A short time later, Ponedelnik was at the top of the Eiffel Tower when a man asked him if he would like to play in Spain, for Real Madrid. That man was Santiago Bernabéu, president of the "royals" and the person for whom the club's stadium is named. Even then, Real Madrid was one of the best club teams in the world.
But Ponedelnik had no business wanting. For Eastern Bloc players, international transfers were out of the question.
The Russian people seem to enjoy their suffering
A team with an error rate of less than 15 to 18 percent cannot be beaten
At least the striker whose home was in the south, in Rostov-on-Don, did succeed in resisting transfer to a top team, as was usual in those days. There was a massive scandal, and even Mikhail Sholokhov, who would later win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the sport minister stood up for Ponedelnik. Ultimately, he beat the functionaries and was allowed to remain in Rostov, but he never again played an international game.
Obedience or gentle resistance to the omnipotence of the state – this was an issue that divided Soviet soccer. Most clubs were assigned to an administrative authority (ZSKA to the army; Dynamo to the police) or to an operation (Lokomotive to the railroad). Only a handful of clubs, including Spartak Moscow, were "free," and they were the most popular in the country. Being a Spartak fan also meant softly saying "No." In other words, in the Soviet Union, soccer was always in a sense opposition – and otherwise plenty of indifference.
The prospect of a little distraction, of passing some time, along with the yelling, swearing and laughing – that's what brings most visitors into the stadiums these days. The Russian soccer fan likes to follow in the footsteps of the great writers and composes derisive verses, disparaging chants far coarser than those of their forefathers. The best-loved fan chants are the ones that insult the opponents and the referee.
Fans naturally expect better results from the Russian national team
In his book Football Against the Enemy, Simon Kuper takes a look at sport's significance around the world. His anthropological approach is revolutionary in the field of soccer literature, and the British magazine FourFourTwo even named it the "best soccer book of all time." While his concept is not entirely wrong, isn't it all too simple? The German? A disciplined endurance runner. The Italian? A hot-blooded tactical genius. The Brazilian? A life-affirming player of the beautiful game. All of this was true for a long time and was reliably confirmed on the pitch. And what about the Russian? Hard to say…
In the Soviet era, the dabbled in the game and in the state: with strict plans laid out for years to come, drill and restriction. Later, under Dynamo Kiev's once-in-a-century coach Valery Lobanovsky, who also coached the national team, science found its way into the changing room. The players were precisely analyzed by computer to determine their ideal position on the field. Lobanovsky's motto: "A team with an error rate of less than 15 to 18 percent cannot be beaten." On Lobanovsky's watch, the seeds were sown for what was for a long time the soccer DNA of all Russian teams: action, action, action. Ever since, the players have scurried around like ants, constantly attempting to make their teammates "an offer." But what has also manifested itself since then is a blatant failure to follow through to score. The better Russian national teams have always impressed with the way they plow across the turf – only to miss out on a goal and fail in eternally useless virtue.
It could be argued that the globalization which has taken over and dominates soccer would rule out the possibility of a country having a typical soccer culture of its own anymore. The German team is more of a poster child for an open, multicultural society than the mirror image of the Teutonic fighter cliché, quite apart from the fact that its members long since ceased to play exclusively German league soccer – and can therefore field some of the world's best players. It's a very different picture for the Russian team. The forays into the West of top Russian players are a thing of the past: Igor Belanow, Europe's Footballer of the Year in 1986, played for Borussia Mönchengladbach and Andrej Arshavin for FC Arsenal – but the present generation of players remains loyal to the Russian premier league. There's money enough to be earned in Russia these days, thanks to the patrons and businesses that finance most of the clubs. What's more, the state – partly because the country is hosting the World Cup – is doing everything to improve conditions. Today's players have hardly any reason to leave their native comfort zone, so the only hope now is for a soccer talent to make it at a top European club. What ails Russian soccer is that its players are unwilling to suffer. Ironic! How untypical, if we share Dostoyevsky's view. But not all clichés have to apply. It will be enough if the World Cup bears out another cliché: the Russian reputation for warm hospitality, which also has something to do with the soul. The conditions for a successful World Cup could be less auspicious.
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En:Beginners Guide
Through this Wiki, on several places you can find Documentations and visual tours about how to install, and use Sabayon Linux.
To give you a overview, all those articles are merged here, into one synoptic page.
- 1 System Requirements
- 2 The live CD/DVD
- 3 checking the integrity of the burned disc
- 4 Installing Sabayon
- 6 Troubleshooting
System Requirements
- Live Environment - No 3D Desktop:
- i686 Processor
- at least 512 MB of RAM (1 GB suggested)
- a 2D graphics card
- a DDC capable Monitor
- mouse and keyboard
- Live Environment - 3D Desktop:
- Installation:
A full KDE Desktop for example, CAN run with only 1 GB RAM, but you will most likely run out of memory during a session.Especially when running programs, such as firefox or thunderbird. Please keep that in mind.
- i686 Processor
- at least 512 MB of RAM (1 GB suggested for decent eyecandy effects)
- an OpenGL capable 3D graphics card (mostly NVIDIA, ATI, Intel, VIA)
- 20 GB of free space, that is bare minimum DVD Install. 30+ GB is highly recommended.
- 8 GB of free space for miniCD. 10+ GB is recommended
- Internet connection (not mandatory but highly suggested)
- a DDC capable Monitor
- mouse and keyboard
The live CD/DVD
What Editions are available in Sabayon Linux?
Sabayon is all about choice. You have many flavors to choose from.
You can download them from the mirrors, here:
The following choices are the main releases available in 32Bit (x86) or 64Bit (amd64):
1. KDE 2. Gnome 3. LXDE 4. MATE 5. XFCE 6. Enlightenment
All of the above mentioned Desktop Environments are fully featured.
7. CoreCDX CoreCDX is a minimal install for those wishing to configure the system more to their liking, (for more advanced users) in 32bit or 64bit., and uses the Fluxbox Window Manager.
burning / checking the .iso image
One of the most common problems with burning a Linux install CD/DVD is that people sometimes don't understand that an iso image file is not a normal file. You cannot just burn the iso to disc to and expect it to work. I repeat: you cannot simply put the iso file on a blank disk and expect it to work. In order to properly make a CD or DVD out of an iso image, you need special software. Instructions for Nero and Isorecorder are included; for other programs, see the manual for the software, or just give one of these a shot.
With Nero you just select file and burn image, then select the .iso file you want to burn. The software handles the rest.
If you're looking for a good, alternative freeware solution, you can download a free image burner.
isorecorder [1] Simply download and install the correct version for your version of windows, then right click on the .iso and tell it to burn.
checking the integrity of the burned disc
Many people know they can check if a downloaded ISO file is OK by comparing the md5sum of the ISO file against the md5sum posted on the SL mirrors. For example:
# md5sum -c SabayonLinux-x86_64-3.4f.iso.md5 SabayonLinux-x86_64-3.4f.iso: OK
cf. the contents of ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/sabayonlinux/SabayonLinux-x86_64-3.4f.iso.md5 which are: 645600788920443b372baae3544acffa SabayonLinux-x86_64-3.4f.iso
so the ISO I downloaded was good.
Remember - verify the MD5 sum for the version of Sabayon that you downloaded - they are all different. The MD5s can be found on the mirrors listed at: http://www.sabayonlinux.org/mirrors
But a different method is needed to verify the integrity of the LiveDVD/CD itself. You should select the verify written data checkbox in K3b before burning the DVD/CD, but if you forgot or still have doubts then the following method can be used to check the integrity of the burnt LiveDVD/CD:
If you only have Windows installed on your HDD, apparently you can use a Windows shareware application, see the following Web page for details: http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Checking_the_integrity_of_a_Live_CD
1. I have not checked if the method for Windows on the above-mentioned Web page actually works, so use it at your own risk.
Under Linux:
Insert the LiveDVD into the optical drive, let the disc spin up and then enter the following three commands:
md5sum /dev/cdrom | awk '{print $1}' > md5a.txt md5sum ~/Sabayon_Linux_8_amd64_K.iso | awk '{print $1}' > md5b.txt diff -qs md5a.txt md5b.txt
(Obviously change the path and/or the ISO file name to match your circumstances.)
If you get an error message while the md5sum is reading the disc, there must be something wrong either with the burn or with the optical drive itself.
If you get the message "Files md5a.txt and md5b.txt differ" then the burn was bad.
If you get the message "Files md5a.txt and md5b.txt are identical" then the burn was good.
Passwords on live CD/DVD
- The root password:
no password is required: just press the Enter key.
- The sabayonuser password:
no password is required: just press the Enter key.
- For older releases (version 6 and earlier) the password for Root is "root" (without the quotes) and the password for Sabayonuser is "sabayonuser" (without the quotes).
Visual walkthrough Booting process
Please see: Visual_Tour:_Boot-menu_Sabayon_LiveCD/DVD
There is nothing wrong with the ISOs, it is because "nvidia-drivers-304.64" or higher is installed by default.You can bypass that by hitting ctrl-alt-f1, remove the nvidia-drivers, (nouveau is installed too), and restart xdm., as explained below:
Removing latest nvidia-drivers:
# Press the "CTRL-ALT-F1" key combination.
"#" is just indicated that you have to be root, so do not include that with the actual commands...
# su
# equo remove nvidia-drivers --ask
Check that "x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers" got removed., nothing else... and confirm with "yes"
Restart XDM:
# /etc/init.d/xdm restart
For a overall view of which cards support what driver., please see: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html
The following visual tour will show you how to edit Xorg.conf: Visual_Tour:_Part_2_Editing_the_xorg.conf
Installing Sabayon
For a installation guide, step-by-step, please see: En:Introduction#Installation_Guide:_Step_by_Step
We also offer a visual walkthrough about installing Sabayon, please see: Visual_Tour:_Installing_Sabayon
When installing, Sabayon offers a standard partitioning scheme using LVM, and leaves Windows partitions untouched.
If you wish to manually partition, or add mountpoints, please see: HOWTO:_Manual_Partitioning_with_Sabayon_Linux
For GPT partitioning: HOWTO:_Install_Sabayon_with_GRUB2_and_GPT_on_a_New_System
Advice on the hostname:
Dual boot with Windows
If you want to Dual boot with Windows, or first need to reduce the size of the existing partitions, please see: HOWTO:_Dual_boot_Sabayon_Linux_and_Windows
Install the Gentoo way
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Deadspin has video of a wonderful scene from this year's Scripps National Spelling Bee. Here's a recap.
Emma Ciereszynski: Hi.
Judge: Hi. "Sabermetrics".
E.C.: Sabermetrics. Can I please have the definition?
Judge: The statistical analysis of baseball data.
E.C.: May I please have the language of origin?
Judge: It's from an English acronym, plus a Greek-derived English part.
E.C.: Sabermetrics. S-A-B-E-R-M-E-T-R-I-C-S. Sabermetrics.
[Exeunt, to wild applause]
Can we agree that the matter is now settled once and for all? To the average person, there isn't a more credible arbiter of spelling than the national spelling bee. I generally don't care about the "correctness" of speech or spelling, but there is literally not one reason to British-ize the word sabermetrics.
So, to Tango and his Tangettes: please, I beg you, listen to reason.


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Musings about Leadership, Decision Making, and Competitive Strategy
Monday, September 20, 2010
Why Bricks and Clicks Failed at Blockbuster
I called Mr. Pachter, who is now managing director of equity research at Wedbush Securities. "Blockbuster should have won — and didn't. I was wrong," he said. He ticked off the ways that Netflix executed flawlessly and Blockbuster stumbled when it tried to replicate Netflix's online service.
"I honestly believe most consumers would like a bricks-and-clicks solution," Mr. Pachter said. "The reality is, they do have it. It's just two different companies: Netflix and Redbox." With video-rental vending machines that sit within grocery stores, drugstores and other retail hosts, Redbox uses the bricks of its partners.
Here is a great learning point for strategists. Yes, it is two different companies, and that is NOT surprising. The fact is that executing two fundamentally different business models within the same corporation is VERY difficult. Thus, it should not shock us that we have two "pure plays" who have done better than Blockbuster, which tried to create a hybrid model of bricks and clicks.
3 comments:
- Luke Bornheimer said...
Trade-offs, trade-offs, trade-offs...Blockbuster was TERRIBLE at making trade-offs.
Not until Netflix arrived on the scene did anyone realize Blockbuster was SO weak and nimble, but once an innovator surfaced, they had clearly had no back-up, or next-generation, strategy ready to implement.
Let this be a lesson to businesses who disregard innovation because they have a cash-cow with no real competition.
- Michael Roberto said...
Is Barnes and Noble headed down the same path as Blockbuster? Will they get that ship turned around, Luke?
- iyarkaya said...
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Our target audience are consumers of all ages that want to find out about various topics, whether it is health, finance, fun, cruising, cooking, hobbies etc.. These customers want to get the information they are seeking in a short and to the point type format.
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Hi, I'm Anne, and I'm a Nail BiterPosted by Anne-Nucleus on
It's hard to believe, looking at the picture of my left hand over there, but I bite my nails. Not just my nails either, as I've told you before, but all of the skin surrounding them as well. On a bad day, I can bite my nail down to a bloody stump in a matter of minutes, and then tear my eponychium to shreds until I'm faint from the blood loss. I'm such a bad nail biter, that I don't even realize I'm doing it until I've mangled a finger or two. I'm so bad, in fact, that I don't think I'll ever be an ex-biter, the best I can do is manage my habit, and take measures to prevent it.
So how did someone like me get nails like that? Well, it was actually pretty easy with a little help from nail enhancements. So easy that I believe anyone can do it if they're willing to try.
First off, you need to find a good nail tech; if you can find one who's worked with biters before, that's a big plus. You'll need someone who will do a complete consultation with you to figure out what will work best with your habit. They should ask questions about what triggers you to bite or pick, if you've ever been able to stop for a short time, as well as ask questions about your nails themselves. Are they brittle, flakey, bendy? These are things your tech will need to know in order to tailor a rehabilitation program that suits you. So obviously the NSS at the mall isn't going to cut it.
My recommendation for most biters is to start off with a Liquid and Powder acrylic overlay. I'll extend the nail a little bit with tips or forms if my client wishes, but extending them too much on a person who's not used to having long nails just isn't a good idea. The reason is because when a client isn't used to long nails they don't know how to manage long nails, and the extensions will be subject to accidental breaking, which can further damage the natural nail. I also prefer Liquid and Powder acrylic over UV Gel acrylic because it's more durable than Gel. Gel overlays are just too brittle to stand up to the beating a recovering biter is going to give them. I want a product that can withstand an occasional chomp from absent minded teeth, so Liquid and Powder is my choice for this circumstance.
Now, overlays aren't only for the ladies out there. I can do a very natural looking overlay on a male biter too, and no one will ever know he's wearing an enhancement. So male or female, there's absolutely no excuse to stop your nail biting habit if you want to!
Once a biter has successfully worn overlays for a few months, and the natural nail has grown out to the desired length underneath, I'll start talking to the client about maintenance. Some biters will need to continue wearing overlays, though they can be thinned down over time as the habit breaks its mental hold. Some people can graduate to a gel polish at this point, and perhaps eventually a regular nail polish if that's what they desire. It's important to keep seeing your nail tech for regular check-ups even after you've graduated though, to ensure your nails stay healthy, and tooth-mark free.
Because I bite skin along with nails, I'm the type of person who needs to keep overlays on my nails to prevent me from being able to reach that skin with my teeth. I'm ok with that, overlays prevent the nail breakage that my very active lifestyle leads to. They're also more comfortable for my clients, as my sharp nails tend to pinch them when I'm holding their fingers if I'm not wearing overlays. You may find that like me, you want to keep your overlays on, or perhaps you'll be counting the days until you can be free of them. Either way, you'll have a lot more options once you've gotten into the habit of not gnawing on your nails.
So, knowing that I've worn enhancements regularly for the last few years, and worn them consistently for the last six months, I want to show you something. Click on the picture of my nails up at the top of the page to bring up the larger version.
My nails are a little dry in the picture because I had just soaked my overlays off before I took it, and the acetone leaves them a little flakey looking. Do you know what you're not seeing though? You're not seeing Rings of Fire, like you can see in the picture to the right here. What are Rings of Fire? Well, they're damage to the nail plate caused by a manicurist cutting into it with a file during a fill, leaving a crescent shaped channel in your nail that turns an angry shade of red.
Many people believe that only electronic files can cause this type of damage; that is false. Aggressive, improper filing with a hand file can also cause this or very similar damage. Some people believe that any use of an electronic file causes damage to the nail plate; this is also false. Proper use of an electronic file will cause no harm to your natural nails. Case in point. I use an electronic file on my own nails as well as my client's nails, and as you can see in the full sized picture above, my nails are as healthy as they were when my matrix formed them.
It is very important to avoid a nail tech who causes damage to the nail plate! Why? Well first off, it shows poor technique, improper use of tools, and puts the client (you) at risk for injury and infection. However, for a biter, it's doubly bad. Thinning out the natural nail in any way is going to make it more prone to breaking when the overlays finally come off. Broken nails are like heroin to a recovering biter, any rough spots are fair game to the teeth, and you're not going to be able to resist the temptation. So if you start seeing red rings under your overlays after your fills, it's time to have a frank discussion with your manicurist and perhaps look into finding a new one.
So now you know everything you need to know about breaking the habit. Throw away the cyan pepper and 'No Bite' and stop in at Nailed It! or a quality salon in your area to see how we can help you. You'll love being able to show off your beautiful hands!
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This course is designed to familiarize students with the basics of trial advocacy, and provide exposure to actual courtroom advocacy. To that end, the class is held in the Washtenaw County Courthouse, and students will receive an orientation to the mechanics of trial practice (motion practice, scheduling orders, case evaluation, alternative dispute resolution, settlement conferences, etc.) as background to the simulated trial tasks. Those trial tasks focus on the chronological development of a trial: jury selection; opening statement; direct examination; exhibits; objections; cross examination; impeachment and rehabilitation; experts and closing arguments. Individual critique will be provided each week by the instructor. At the end of the semester, each student team will participate in a jury trial, either against two of their classmates, or against Trial Practice students from another Law School. At that time they will receive individual critique from the jury and practicing attorneys, magistrates or judges who will serve as Judges in the trial.Judge Connors
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Abstract: This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among companies we extend this to the community level. We then focus on how key agents — lead users — facilitate knowledge sharing in this setting and the features that moderate such sharing. Our results show that lead users are central to search and integration of knowledge from different external sources of relevance to their communities. Inside the community lead users are active in both "giving and taking" knowledge. Further, as users build up experience they tend to give more knowledge, thus suggesting a dynamic pattern of knowledge sharing in which increases in experience make way for important knowledge diffusion processes in the community. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7870
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Abstract: It has been demonstrated that users occasionally innovate. However, it can now be observed that even end-consumers act as a source novel product designs. A case study of a firm, and "its" consumers - from the computer games industry - illustrates how sourcing of consumer knowledge has enabled the firm to improve product design. Two conditions favor the results firms can obtain from consumer's knowledge. First, is firm's ability to exploit new opportunities of information and communication technology - on-line communities - to establish interfaces connecting them with consumers. Second, is firm's ability to initiate a mode of organization by which the consumers are guided and motivated to reveal merely relevant knowledge. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/7898
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Time to ramble...
It's been a busy month of racing round these parts with 5 rounds of the North West CX League crammed into October. I'd missed the two opening rounds through being away in the equally exotic climes of Italy & Leeds, so rolling up to the start line at round 3 in Bolton I was shoe-ed towards the back of grid having amassed a sum total of bugger all series points. A reasonable start & a mass pile up meant I squeezed my way up into the top 30 by the first corner. It was absolutely lobbing it down making the going fully wet & slippery but not boggy. For a few laps I had a good tussle with Velocake's Tim 'tubs & turbo trainer' Kershaw, chasing each other down & picking our way through the field. Tim finally got a gap on one of the descents that I couldn't reel back in, staying just out of reach until the end. I just scraped my way into the top 20 (that'd be 19th) & got my first league points of the season on the board. Not overly blown away with my performance, but then it was my first cross race for a few weeks & having been doing loads of long steady rides I was expecting it to take a couple of weeks to get up to speed again.
Next stop was up to Winderemere for round 4, incorporated into the Rapha Super Cross. Good to see Rapha making a bit of positive input, giving people who aren't the begrudging other halves a reason to take a look at what was going on. A Superprestige it wasn't, but with hundreds of free cow bells handed out, Duvel being served by the pits & a commentator that seemed aware of what was going on in the race, it was certainly substantially more spectator friendly that usual.
On pre-riding I rather liked the course; there was a stiff little climb in there & some relatively techy bits. The one thing that did stand out was how short the lap was. That caused a bit of an issue at the start - impressively over 150 were on the line but with just 50metres of open field before a hairpin it got a bit sticky. I like a bit of good humored argy-bargy at the start of these things, but that many people manically trying to find a line just causes some to get a bit panicked & others get a bit too aggressive, shitty & plain rude. I can do without that, so decided to calmly pick my way through when the opportunities presented themselves.
All was going pretty well with that tactic for a few laps, eventually getting a pretty clear run at the course. Then two things went wrong.
1: It got claggy. It had been wet, then it was warm & dry. All those wheels churned the mud up pretty bad. As a one bike competitor I felt the effects. Wheels didn't go round very well. Then not at all. I ended up having to stop twice a lap to pull handfuls of clag out of my frame & forks, loosing places every time to those that were able to grab a clean bike from the pits.
2: My gears went all clunky. Just out of alignment enough that whenever I stood on the pedals the chain chunked about over two cogs. It was then that I realised that blundered into a schoolboy error, having built my one & only race bike without any barrel adjusters on the gears. I felt like a tit for that. Quite grumpily I finished a lowly 40th on the day.
Then a change of fortune :-) The following day was round 5 at the fantastically named Boggart Hole. It's properly ace there, one of my favourite courses with loads of off-camber rooty bits (for a cx course), singletrack & a long climb. I rode well there last year, so I was hoping to finally get the season up & running. Another big field started, but thankfully starting around a suitably big field before dropping into the woods. Still un-gridded I managed to razz my way round the inside corners to get into the first singletrack section towards the front of the pack. Stomping on nicely I had time to look up & gauge roughly where I was in the race - further up than I was expecting. Pushing on I was waiting for a stream of riders to come passed, but whenever I caught a glimpse behind no one seemed to be closing. Perhaps I was on for a good one. Eventually Roy 'still amazingly quick for an old fella' Hunt crept through, but that was it. I stayed strong & picked up 10th on the day. It was yet another strong turnout, so I was really chuffed with that particularly after the previous day's frustrations.
Roll on another week & it was back oop north to the home of Hope Technology, Barnoldswick for round 6. A new course to the league & one that rode ok, but when hit at race pace became great fun. A kind of classic British cross course with 5 dismounts a lap: 2 sets of boards, 1 set of steps & 2 slimey banks to run up. Plus a sandpit. And a barbecue, although that wasn't actually on the course.
Once again, missing those two opening rounds meant I was hidden in the bulk of riders on the start. Thankfully I was catching up with my old compadre Ian Wilkinson before the gun went & managed to jump on his wheel for the first couple of hundred metres, getting dragged passed many riders, escaping the inevitable bottleneck at the first corner. Needless to say that was the last I saw of Wilks' wheel as he buggered off to the front of the race. Once again I felt I was riding strongly, right in the mix with a few of the handy NW league riders, jostling for positions, putting in little digs where possible & picking up positions. I struggled a bit on one long off-camber bank, trying to ride it & failing, then trying to work out the best way to run it & failing. Yet I seemed to edge out the others on most other sections of the course managing to stay away & finish 13th. Another good result for the likes of me.
End of the month was racing at a classic NW venue, Otterspool Park. Another course I enjoyed last season, usually really fast going with a good amount of woodland tracks, plus a cobbled climb that is permanently wet. Pre-ride went well & I was looking forward to getting stuck in after the performances I pulled out in the last two rounds. Then.... NIGHTMARE!... In the mad dash of the start loop a rider somehow managed to clip my rear QR. The wheel now loose in the dropouts was forced into the non-driveside chainstay where it wedged & stopped me from going anywhere fast. By the time I'd got off & sorted it all out the whole field of over 110 riders was in front of me. That wasn't the plan. For a moment I pondered sacking it off for the day, by instead I decided to HTFU & get on with it. I spent the next hour riding out of my skin. I ripped through the back makers now thinking that any league points were better than none. After a few laps I started spotting some of the usual suspect I end up racing with. That gave an extra bit of impetus to keep on top of the gears for the last few laps. I wound up moving from DFL to 13th rider home, just missing out on 12th in a sprint for the line. Mathematically not my best result, but definitely my best ride turning round a crappy bit of luck. I feel like I have now earned the right to don the new VCM skinsuit.
It's comforting to know that I didn't have the worst luck of the day... One guy forgot to charge the battery for his fancy-dan Di2 gears!


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Elkin theater remains closed after weekend crash
A Surry County building inspector ordered the Reeves Theater sealed off from occupancy pending an official inspection by a structural engineer. The theater is to remain closed barring any occupancy until it's structure is deemed safe.
Elkin Fire Chief Tommy Wheeler indicated that it's protocol for the safety and well-being of all to be followed in the accident aftermath.
"My understanding is that the owners have gotten in touch with a structural engineer," said Chief Wheeler.
The County Inspection's Department was called onto the scene on Saturday after a vehicle lost control and pummeled into the historic theater.
Richard Collins of the Surry Inspector's Department temporarily ordered the building sealed off, according to the chief.
The wreck happened at approximately 9 a.m., according to reports.
The driver was not seriously injured in the accident.
Plywood is now covering the opening of the crash site and yellow caution tape prevents pedestrians from accessing the theater.


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Dante Cunningham scored a season-high 18 points, Nikola Pekovic added 14 and the Minnesota Timberwolves beat the New Orleans Hornets 115-86 on Saturday night to stop their six-game losing streak.
Cunningham hit all nine of his shots to set a franchise record for most consecutive field goals without a miss.
Anthony Davis scored 18 points for the Hornets, who played without Eric Gordon and finished their five-game road trip with four straight losses. Team doctors still haven't cleared Gordon to play in back-to-back games while recovering from knee surgery.
Gordon played 25 minutes at Denver on Friday, and the Hornets badly missed their star shooting guard's energy. A night after committing 22 turnovers, New Orleans turned it over 23 times against the Wolves, who recorded their largest victory margin this season.
One of the worst-shooting teams in the NBA, the Wolves shot 58 percent (45 for 77) using a simple formula: Get to the paint. Minnesota went hard to the basket early and often - 15 of its scoring possessions in the first quarter were either drives or free throws. The Timberwolves led 33-14 after one, and their lead was never seriously threatened.
Ricky Rubio, who took the blame for Minnesota's lackluster start in a 111-100 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers on Friday night, set an aggressive tone early by driving to the basket and finding open teammates with his usual flashy assists. The biggest highlight came late in the third quarter, when Rubio lobbed an alley-oop to Cunningham for a two-handed jam that stretched the Wolves' lead to 74-46 and brought the crowd to its feet.
Rubio had nine points and seven assists, and Minnesota outscored the Hornets 58-32 in the paint.
NOTES: New Orleans is 8-7 when Gordon plays and 7-26 in games he's missed. "It's tough when you have a guy who can put up 20 points and you've got to sit him," Hornets coached Monty Williams said before the game. Much like Williams has done with Gordon this season, Wolves coach Rick Adelman has had to limit Rubio since returning from knee surgery. "I understand the deal with Rubio," Williams said. "He's such a great young player that you don't want to damage him for the future." Adelman, though, joked that he didn't believe early reports that Gordon wouldn't play. "I'm just very pessimistic at this point," he said. "He'll probably play 40 minutes." ... The Hornets are 9-4 in their last 13 against Minnesota. ... The Hornets matched their season low of 14 first-quarter points, which previously came against the Wolves on Jan. 11.


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San Francisco's favorite film hostess Peaches Christ already knows exactly what you want for xmas: a not-at-all silent night of goth holiday glory at San Francisco's historic Castro Theatre! With that in mind she has concocted a ghoul-tide extravaganza like none other. Saturday, December 15th marks the world premiere of THE NIGHTMARE WE CALL CHRISTMAS, an all-new Antichristmas Pageant featuring a screening of the only holiday movie with skintight leather bodysuits, a fervent appreciation for hair styling and topiary maintenance, and Winona Ryder in a blonde wig! Yep, it's Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands.
But that's not all! Edward Scissorhands is just one of many unforgettable characters Tim Burton has given the world, and the spectacular NIGHTMARE WE CALL CHRISTMAS pre-show will pay tribute to a wide range of Burtonian weirdos, featuring guest appearances from the likes of Beetlejuice, Pee-Wee Herman, The Queen of Hearts, Mrs. Lovett, a chorus of oompah-loompahs, and so much more. Peaches Christ will be steering this sleigh ride to hell as "Peach Boggs" alongside her very "special" sidekick "Martiny Scissor-claws."
And make sure to dress up in your gloomiest holiday look for our HOLIDAY MACABRE COSTUME CONTEST.
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Fuji HS50 EXR First Look at CES 2013
Summary of the Camera
Recently, FUJIFILM announced their new flagship camera, the FinePix HS50EXR. The HS50EXR features a manual zoom lens with a 42x focal length range (24-1000mm) and a new 1/2 inch EXR CMOS II sensor with phase detection. This sensor claims to achieve the world's fastest autofocus speed in its class of just 0.05 seconds. Also, the camera comes equipped with an Intelligent Hybrid Autofocus system. It allows the camera to automatically select between phase detection autofocus or contrast autofocus in low light to ensure the best focus system is used. The HS50EXR can shoot in burst mode of 11fps at the full 16MP resolution.
The HS50EXR comes with a built in stereo microphone and is capable of full HD movie recording (1080p) at up to 60 frames per second. You also have the ability to connect an external microphone to the dedicated input to allow for even better sound quality. In addition, the phase detection pixel technology and scene recognition modes also work while recording movies. The HS50EXR features several "Film Simulation Modes." Users can choose from ten different modes which simulate the effects of traditional Fujifilm films.
The FinePix HS50EXR will be available in March 2013 at the price of $549.95.
My First Impression
My first experience with the camera was at CES 2013. I was especially drawn to the Fuji HS50EXR due to the DSLR look and feel of the exterior. As a DSLR shooter for over 10 years, the camera appeals to me in both a visual and tactile way. It is the size of a small, entry-level DSLR. It feels solid and well-made. The camera has a plethora of physical buttons that are, again, reminiscent of a DSLR. One thing that really sets this camera apart from others in the ultrazoom category is the presence of a manual zoom lens. That's right, a manual zoom lens with a 42x zoom (24-1000 equivalent on a 35mm camera)! Plus, the aperture on this lens, f/2.8-f/5.6, is actually very good for the vast focal length of 24-1000. Included on this camera is built-in image stabilization. Also featured is a super macro mode that allows you to focus from only 1cm away from your subject.
The room where I was briefed was small, white and did not have good lighting. So I don't feel like I had a good opportunity to test this camera's color quality or long zoom capabilities, but I did notice that the autofocus was very fast and responsive. The images that appeared on the 3-inch variable-angle LCD screen were crisp and bright. The camera was easy to hold due to an ergonomic grip that is rubberized and beefy. The lens was relatively smooth and easy to adjust. Personally, I prefer this type of lens. I feel like I can grab the exact focal length easier and faster than I can on the motorized zoom lenses you find on most ultrazoom cameras.
The focus peaking feature in manual mode is fantastic. I can't wait to see this technology used more widely across all camera genres. If you are like me, you generally don't use manual autofocus because you tend to trust the cameras ability to grab the focus faster and more accurately than you do your own eyes. However, the focus peaking feature on this camera takes the guess work out of manual focusing and allows you more flexibility and creativity while composing shots.
Another feature that I really love is the 920k dot, electronic viewfinder (EVF). Although a tad bit too small, it is perfect for those of us that still like to hold the camera to our eye while composing a shot. It was bright and easy to use. It also comes equipped with an eye sensor that detects whether you are using the viewfinder or the screen.
The Fuji HS50 EXR is a great option for those interested in getting into the DSLR world, but not quite ready to make the plunge. It is also good for those of us that have used DSLRs for years, but would rather have a more compact camera for traveling, sightseeing or for a family gathering.
I am looking forward to reviewing this camera. If the HS50 EXR has the same great Fuji color I am used to, has the speed I've always wanted from this brand and delivers great image quality, I can see adding this camera to my already overstuffed camera bag. Traveling across the US with a camera of this size would be so much easier than lugging around my DSLR equipment. Hummm…I might just have to get another camera bag.


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PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Expanding oil palm plantations, providing a common processed food ingredient, are driving rainforest destruction and increasing emissions, U.S. researchers say.
A study by Stanford and Yale universities, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, says deforestation for the development of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo is causing a globally significant increase of carbon dioxide emissions.
An oil palm is a tropical tree with seeds that provide palm oil.
Indonesia is the leading producer of palm and palm kernel oil, which together account for more than 30 percent of global vegetable oil use
Plantation expansion is projected to contribute more than 615 million tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere in 2020, an amount greater than all of Canada's current fossil fuel emissions, the researchers said.
Indonesia's tropical forest area is the third largest in the world, but Indonesia is also one of the world's largest emitters of greenhouse gasses because of rapid loss of carbon-rich forests and peatlands, they said.
The U.S. study created the first comprehensive maps of oil palm plantation expansion from 1990 to 2010.
"With this information, we were able to develop robust carbon bookkeeping accounts to quantify carbon emissions from oil palm development," study leader Kimberly Carlson, a Yale doctorate student, said.


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Hi everyone,
I'm sure some of you will remember a very similar post from me this time last year! We received a brilliant response from you wonderful lot, so I've got my fingers crossed for this year.
We're a museum of rescued historic buildings set in 45 acres of beautiful landscape in the heart of the Chiltern hills (just off J17 of the M25) and home to 2,000 years of architectural history from a reconstructed Iron Age roundhouse to a 1940s Prefab. We're looking to fill the last gap in our events programme for this year: specifically, we're looking for a group available on the Sunday and Monday of the August Bank Holiday weekend (Sun 27th & Mon 28th August, with access available on Saturday to set up), which can offer both decent living history and exciting arena displays.
It's a lovely site, we're a decent bunch and although we're a charity and budgets are tight we pay fairly. There's loads of room for authentic and modern camping, huge display areas (archery/projectiles no problem), firewood, modern loos and even a shower. Ask nicely, and we'll even let you sleep in our Iron Age roundhouse...
If your group is available on that weekend, please drop us a line at email@example.com to let us know who you are, what you can offer and what you charge. Please note that the size of the site, and the likely visitor numbers, mean we're looking for a group that can guarantee at least 12 and ideally 15 members. We love having smaller groups here (and we absolutely understand that quantity and quality are completely different animals) but on a busy Bank Holiday weekend it's almost impossible for a small group, even an extremely high-calibre one, to cope.
Thanks in advance: we look forward to hearing from you.
Siân and the Events team
Chiltern Open Air Museum
August Bank Holiday: group wanted for museum in Bucks
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The medieval combat society is free at the moment for that weekend
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In Jan 2018, Entrenuity, a nearly 20 year-old nonprofit dedicated to entreprenership education and development, bought Overflow Coffee Bar, located in the same building as the Entrenuity offices at 1550 S State Street in Chicago, from founders Brandon and Amanda Neely. The purchase fit with Entrenuity's expanded mission for 2018 of not only launching new businesses, but also developing existing businesses in the community. These ventures create employment, skills training and real-time opportunities for entrepreneurs, while increasing sustainability for existing businesses and Entrenuity.
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I guess I'll explain myself to get the ball rolling.
What we teach as 'tenses' are not really tenses but combinations of aspects and tenses. So, present perfect progressive(continuous) is in fact
Present tense + perfect aspect + progressive aspect
Perfect adds the meaning 'before' so since we are talking about the present perfect here it means before now. If we were talking about the past perfect it would mean before the point in the past I am referring to. Similarly for the future perfect.
The progressive aspect adds the idea of 'limited in duration'. So to look at a couple of example sentences:
I drive.
I am driving.
In the first there is no limitation on the duration of the verb so it can only be interpreted as being a factual statement. It could answer the question 'How do you get to work?' and would not be referring to any particular time.
The second restricts the time to 'at this moment' and might answer the question 'What are you doing now?'.
Used with short duration verbs the progressive aspect makes the action repeat in order to fill the time period in question. Which is why sentences such as
'I have been cutting my finger.'
although grammatically correct - there is no difference in grammar between the above and "I have been cutting my toenails.' - feel uncomfortable to native speakers. To make sense of the former we have to come to the conclusion that the speaker is some kind of masochist since either they must have been cutting their finger either very slowly or repeatedly.
'Future tenses' are made from combinations of aspects, present verb forms and future markers such as 'will', 'could', 'might', etc.
Future time is often expressed by the use of unmarked present forms: 'going to', 'am doing' etc.
I feel that it is useful to explain the above to students. In my experience it is simpler to explain than the EFL tense system and helps to lead them to a clearer understanding of our language. I tend to do this at intermediate level. I am interested in the opinions of other teachers on this matter.
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About the Stories That Apple Hates ProsNovember 28th, 2012
The conventional wisdom, such as it is these days, has it that Apple no longer craves professional content creators, such as audio engineers, video editors and others who traditionally buy Mac Pros, Final Cut Pro and the Logic Studio audio production suite. There's even a published report from Europe suggesting that the Logic programming team has been cut back to just two software engineers, and the next audio app from the company will be designed to run on an iPad.
Now it's also true that The Loop's Jim Dalrymple, who is amazingly plugged in to things happening inside Apple, and is just about always correct with his conclusions, states: "There's no truth to this rumor."
I suppose for many professional users, the iMac might be an appropriate replacement. Each generation gets more and more powerful, and the 2012 model, with optional Fusion drive (combining most of the performance of a solid state drive with the capacity of a regular hard drive) has the potential of being a very powerful beast. But many professional users still require 12-core Xeon processors, two internal optical drives, four internal hard drives or SSDs, and internal PCI peripherals. You can also outfit a Mac Pro with twice as much RAM as an iMac, and that does make a significant difference for some users.
So is it possible that Apple really wants to lose those customers? Certainly if an office has a handful of Mac Pros, they might have dozens, hundreds or thousands of regular Macs that might also be dumped if the company moves to Windows. I can't see why Apple would risk such a loss.
But there appears to be hope. Some of the rumor sites are suggesting that a forthcoming Mountain Lion update, version 10.8.3, actually has support for a new ATI Radeon 7000, high performance graphic cards that seem tailor-made for a computing workstation, such as the Mac Pro. Tim Cook has previously promised a big Mac Pro upgrade for 2013. It doesn't matter what form it takes, but that would seem to mean that professional Mac users will be able to take advantage of the latest Intel Xeon chips and graphic cards, Thunderbolt ports, and all the rest by next June, in time for the WWDC. Apple might even keep those optical drives around, since there appears to be no real reason to remove them on a price-no-object computer where the emphasis on weight and miniaturization is a secondary issue.
That doesn't mean the Mac Pro isn't bloated, and that Apple can't give the thing a diet. Try lugging them around an office, or from office to location and back again, and you'll see what a chore that becomes after a while, unless you really want to build those biceps and pecs.
Indeed, I have no doubt that it's possible to substantially reduce the size of the Mac Pro and keep the weight in the 20 pound class without sacrificing expandability or cooling capability. In the old days, the legendary Mac IIx, the most powerful and expandable Mac in its time, weighed just 24 pounds, and that was over 20 years ago. Surely Apple can do far better now.
Now about Final Cut Pro X: It's true it got a bad rap when it came out bereft of important features video editors required for their workflows. Since then, Apple has released several updates that restored many of the lost features and added others. So it's hard to say it is slimmed down or dumbed down, despite the more accessible user interface. At $299.99 for the digital download, it is quite affordable for a much larger audience that includes students and so-called "prosumers." The key question is whether a significant portion of existing Final Cut Pro users, who have avoided the upgrade until now, will reconsider as the feature set is enhanced.
Apple didn't make the job easier by temporarily removing the previous version from sale and not clearly explaining that the new FCP represented the introduction of a new editing platform, and that it would take time to flesh out the features so upgraders wouldn't lose anything. That PR debacle likely sent dissatisfied customers to other video platforms, though nothing stopped them from using the previous version of FCP, since it appears to still work with current OS X versions.
And before you suggest that Apple doesn't care about business or professional users, look at the enterprise (and government) adoption rates for the iPhone and the iPad. As more and more companies let customers bring their own devices, Macs are also being accepted by businesses in greater and greater numbers. It's absurd to think Apple doesn't want to expand this important customer base.
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Men charged with breaking into Troy store, stealing more than 100 iPhones
Clarence Boger, Brandon Dean charged
TROY, Mich. – Two men stand charged with stealing more than 100 iPhones from a store in Troy.
Troy police said a witness tipped them off early Sunday morning that there were two suspicious men carrying duffle bags in the area of Chicago and Maple.
When officers approached the men, the men dropped the bags and ran.
Police were able to catch one of the men right away and the second was captured with the help of a K-9 tracking dog from Royal Oak police.
Police said they followed the men's footprints in the snow and it led them to Partners in Progress, a cell phone repair business. A window had been broken out.
Detroit residents Clarence Boger, 28, and Brandon Dean, 27, are charged with breaking and entering.
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PARCHMAN, Miss. — To spend time alone with the man she married four months ago, Ebony Fisher, 25, drives nearly three hours through the flat cotton fields of the Mississippi Delta until she pulls into a gravel lot next to the state's rural penitentiary.
She joins her husband, who in 2008 began serving a 60-year sentence for rape, aggravated assault and arson, in a small room with a metal bunk and a bathroom. For an hour, they get to act like a married couple.
"That little 60 minutes isn't a lot of time, but I appreciate it because we can just talk and hold each other and be with each other," said Ms. Fisher, who is studying to be a surgical assistant.
But conjugal visits, a concept that started here at the Mississippi State Penitentiary as a prisoner-control practice in the days of Jim Crow, will soon be over. Christopher B. Epps, the prison commissioner, plans to end the program Feb. 1, citing budgetary reasons and "the number of babies being born possibly as a result." In Mississippi, where more than 22,000 prisoners are incarcerated — the second-highest rate in the nation — 155 inmates participated last year.
Since they began here in the early 1900s, when the penitentiary was just called Parchman Farm, conjugal visits have been an unlikely barometer of racial mores and changing times both in Mississippi and in states like California and New York, where married same-sex couples can participate.
In the 1970s, new prisons often included special housing for what had come to be called extended family visits. But by 1993, only 17 states allowed conjugal visits. Mississippi is one of just five that have active programs.
In California and New York, they are called family visits and are designed to help keep families together in an environment that approximates home. Some research shows that they can help prisoners better integrate back into the mainstream after their release.
Visits in those states, and in Washington and New Mexico, can last 24 hours to three days. They are spent in small apartments or trailers, often with children and grandparents, largely left alone by prison guards. Visitors bring their own food and sometimes have a barbecue.
In New York, about 8,000 family visits were arranged last year, a figure that corrections officials say has declined. Of those, 48 percent were with spouses. The rest were with family members such as children or parents.
Studies cited by Yale law students in a 2012 review of family visitation programs showed that the programs could work as powerful incentives for good behavior, help reduce sexual activity among prisoners and help strengthen families.
Though what qualifies prisoners for the visits varies from state to state, all must have records of good behavior and be legally married. In most, prisoners in maximum security or on death row are denied the visits. Federal prisons do not allow them.
Mississippi ended its more extensive family visitations last year but left in place the hourlong visits, which since their inception a century ago have been designed more as a way to control inmates than nurture relationships.
"Conjugal visits have been a privilege," said Tara Booth, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Corrections Department. "So in that sense, it has, as other internal opportunities, helped to maintain order."
The notion of allowing prisoners to have sex was born here shortly after Parchman Farm opened in 1903 as a series of work camps on 1,600 acres of rich Delta farmland. Inmates, most of whom were black, were used as free farm labor in an arrangement not that far removed from slavery.
Set in the middle of the birthplace of the blues, Parchman Farm has been the subject of many songs written by classic bluesmen like Bukka White and others who did time here.
The warden at the time believed sex could be used to compel black men to work harder in the fields, according to a history on the practice produced in the 1970s by Tyler Fletcher, who founded the department of criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi in 1973. So black prisoners were allowed time on Sunday with spouses or, more often, prostitutes.
By the 1940s, makeshift lean-tos and shacks built by inmates for the visits gave way to formal facilities, and white inmates were more likely participants than black ones.
Announced in December, the decision to stop the hourlong conjugal visits came as a surprise to the handful of prison spouses who rely on them. Several have taken to Facebook and other online forums and written to lawmakers to try to save what they say is an essential part of their relationships. A Mississippi prisoners' advocacy group and a Memphis-based civil rights organization have planned a rally for Friday in Jackson, the state capital, to protest the policy change.
But State Representative Richard Bennett, Republican of Long Beach, wants the practice stopped, and he said no amount of protest would change his mind.
He said he learned about conjugal visits a few years ago when an elementary school principal told him a student of hers had shown up with a photograph of a new sibling. The student's mother was incarcerated. The baby had been conceived during a conjugal visit.
In 2012, Mr. Bennett introduced a bill to end the visits. It did not get much attention, so he will try again when the Legislature meets this month. He said he was aware of Mr. Epps's plans, but wanted a permanent ban. Officials have not offered any figures on the number of babies born or the program's cost.
"I don't think it's fair to the children conceived and to the taxpayers," he said. "You are in prison for a reason. You are in there to pay your debt, and conjugal visits should not be part of the deal."
But Tina Perry, 49, a production manager at a small newspaper in eastern Mississippi, said the spouses of prisoners should not be forced to suffer any more than they already do. And the state, she said, should not take away something that is inexpensive and infrequent but essential.
She has been visiting her husband in prison every couple of months for eight years. He is serving time for molesting his former wife's daughter, and has 19 more years to go. Ms. Perry said he was innocent. She called the surroundings, a small room with a thin mattress, "nasty" but said it was an hour she treasured nonetheless.
"It's your husband," she said. "You take what you can get."
Ms. Fisher, whose husband is facing 60 years, said she was heartbroken because no more conjugal visits meant no children.
"Let me have that option," she said. "I feel like they are taking away my choice."
But officials who want the practice to be stopped say the state should not be helping to produce children who will be raised by single parents and possibly need state support.
There are concerns, too, about cost and H.I.V. transmission.
Women interviewed about the visits said they would be willing to pay to defray costs. And they made it clear that the visits were not about the sex. They are about privacy in a world where every letter is opened, every call monitored. Regular visits are crowded with other prisoners and their families.
"You never just get husband and wife time," said Amy Parsons, an office worker in Arkansas who drives eight hours to see her husband, who was convicted of aggravated assault. His release date is 2022.
"It's not romantic, but it doesn't matter," she said. "I just want people to realize it's about the alone time with your husband. I understand they are in there for a reason. Obviously they did something wrong. But they are human, too. So are we."


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RUAG: determine aerodynamic loads
RUAG: ICE in the wind tunnel - Determination of aerodynamic loads in a wind tunnel
In general, force and torque balances with strain gages (SG) are used to determine aerodynamic loads that act on test objects in a wind tunnel test. The measurement engineer often wishes for an autonomous, flexible and mobile measuring system with which they can acquire, record and display the balance forces.
The determination of aerodynamic vehicle parameters in a wind tunnel test is required for the safety evidence for rail vehicles in side winds. Requirements for the model, measurement technology and implementation are specified in a regulation. The measured data are valid as a component of the vehicle licence. In order to implement such tests with high precision, reproducibly and essentially independently of the measurement technology used by the wind tunnel operator, RUAG Aerospace, Emmen, Switzerland developed a system consisting of a strain gage balance, signal processing, data acquisition and measured value analysis on behalf of Deutsche Bahn AG, Munich, Germany.
This system can be configured with various models outside of and independently of the wind tunnel. The balance is installed in the model, which means that shorter lever arms and therefore more precise determination of the torque can be ensured. On the wind tunnel side, only the main operating and set-up parameters (pressure, temperature, humidity, pushing angle) must be provided to determine the required aerodynamic parameters.
Principle of measurement
Strain gages are installed in a Wheatstone bridge circuit on the measuring elements of the wind tunnel balance used. Under the action of the aerodynamic loads, the components with measurement point deform in the elastic region causing the measuring bridges to emit a voltage signal proportional to the force applied.
Depending on the balance type, up to 6 load components in space can be determined (force Fx, Fy, Fz and torque Mx, My and Mz). In general, these balances are also called multi-component balances. The relationship between the electric output signal and the loads applied is determined by calibrating
the balance.
The complete system
The following functional requirements are placed on the complete system:
- Independent measuring system consisting of sensors,
- signal processing and measured value analysis
- High accuracy, resolution and reproducibility
- Modular construction
- Simple operation
RUAG Aerospace block balances
A whole family of block balances have been developed over the years at RUAG Aerospace. They cover a wide diversity of application cases with regards to geometry and load requirements. The balances are characterized by their robustness, high measuring sensitivity and long-term stability.
The block balance type consists of a wind tunnel-side load-bearing plate with 7 beam spring elements that are connected to their model-side counterparts with articulated rods. These articulated rods have the task of transmitting forces without interference where possible. The balance therefore does not have moving parts that could generate friction-based hysteresis effects.
Measuring amplifier
The tasks of sensor supply, signal amplification and conditioning, as well as communication with the PC, are implemented by the measuring amplifier system MGCplus. The defined linearity deviation of the ML30B amplifier rack means that the expected signals can be measured in the design range with the required balance accuracy of < 0.3%.
The measuring bridges on the strain gage block balance are connected to the carrier frequency amplifier with electrically insulated 6-wire circuitry. To avoid a ground loop, the cable shielding must not have any connection to the balance. An optical and acoustic balance overload control is also implemented. A limit value of 80 % of the balance measuring point design value is set for every strain gage signal.
The developed application uses the software DIAdem from National Instruments as the measuring and evaluation program. The data connection
to the measuring amplifier system MGCplus is provided via Ethernet using the appropriate HBM driver. Alternatively, other products can be used.
Software requirements:
- Sequence control for data acquisition and processing
- Acquisition of measuring signals
- Acoustic and optical monitoring of the strain gage balance
- Statistic evaluation of individual values
- Processing of measuring signals
- Visualisation and saving of data
- Modular construction
The MGCplus assistant is used to set and parameterize the measurement channels. This assistant is part of the MGCplus package and can be started directly in DIAdem. The scaling of all sensors, including the balance, is implemented with the DIAdem macros. Only the limit values for the balance monitoring are set in the MGCplus assistant.
Wind tunnel test
Figure1 (see PDF file) shows the test layout in the flow direction within the RUAG Aerospace subsonic wind tunnel. The model based on the ICE with the internal strain gage balance is fixed to a rotating floor with two struts in the area of the undercarriage in order to implement the side flows. The measuring cables of the balance are fed through the hollow struts to the measuring amplifier in the measuring cabin.
Measurement results
The qualification of the new measuring system is implemented by comparison
with the measured values of an external balance which have been externally acquired. Figure4 shows an example of force coefficients over the travelled pushing angle at constant wind speed. The differences in both systems lie within the required tolerances. Very good results were also obtained regarding hysteresis and symmetry of flow.
The measuring system presented here, consisting of a RUAG Aerospace multi-component balance, a HBM measuring amplifier unit and appropriate software, permits very precise determination of forces and torques that occur in a wind tunnel test. Further advantages are the overload and frictional connection monitors integrated in the system and the short set-up time in the wind tunnel. This measuring system is also suitable for other applications, in which dynamic or even intermittent loads must be determined.