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The Pretorius Outeniqua is a new titanium race bike with stylish looks and a sweet ride. It's available as a frameset for £1,950 (with a full bike fit included) although ours came as a complete bike in a £5,999 build.
Here are six key reasons why you might want to buy it.
1 The frame is strong, lightweight titanium.
It's 3Al-2.5V titanium, to be precise, which means it's actually 3% aluminium and 2.5% vanadium. This is the alloy that's used to make most (but not all) titanium bikes.
Titanium has high strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight ratios and an excellent fatigue life. If you're looking for a bike that'll still be going strong several years down the line, titanium is a very good choice. It won't snap if you stack it and will cope fine with the inevitable knocks it'll pick up during regular use. It won't corrode when you forget to clean it either.
Don't get us wrong: we're not saying that everyone should be riding titanium. Carbon, when done right, can certainly be made into bikes with higher stiffness-to-weight than anything else right now. But titanium certainly has a place still.
2 It's a well made, tidy frame.
The Pretorius is well put together with classic straight lines and neat welds throughout.
Although the Outeniqua has a fairly traditional air, it boasts some distinctly modern features. The head tube, for example has an internal diameter of 44mm from top to bottom, but it comes with a Chris King 1 1/8in InSet upper bearing and a 1 1/2in external headset cup down below and the fork has a correspondingly tapered steerer to improve rigidity.
The other feature that performance bike manufacturers have increasingly turned to over the past few years for adding stiffness is an oversized bottom bracket. Pretorius have gone with a BB30 design too.
The wall thickness in both the head tube and the bottom bracket is thicker than elsewhere too. It's a meaty 2mm for extra stiffness rather than 0.9mm of the other tubes.
The tube shaping is subtle. The slightly sloping top tube, for example, tapers from 38mm at the head tube to 34mm at the seat tube and the seatstays slim down 3mm along their length. And while the head tube and the down tube (42mm in diameter) are oversized, they're not that oversized.
The details are tidily done too. The dropouts are a smart half-moon design and the cable stops are welded into place rather than riveted. And while our test bike comes with mechanical shifting, the Outeniqua is also available in Shimano Di2 options if you want to go down the electronic route. With Dura-Ace Di2 the battery can now go inside the seat post.
The Outeniqua comes with a brushed finish as standard although custom paintjobs are available from £200. You can choose from eight different decal colour options and you can pick the Chris King headset colour to match if you like.
The overall result is a frame that looks stylish rather than one that's trying too hard.
3 A proven geometry.
The Pretorius' geometry is racy and efficient without being too extreme, although if it doesn't work for you, you can get a custom version made.
Road bike geometry is rarely all that radical. People have been making road bikes for a long time now and we know what works. Our Outeniqua is a large (58cm) model which comes with a 58cm seat tube, a 57cm effective top tube, and a 17cm head tube – although you need to allow another couple of centimetres of stack height for the external headset cup.
Compared to a 58cm Specialized Tarmac SL4 full-on carbon race bike, for example, the Outeniqua has a 1.2cm shorter top tube while the head tube and seatstays are about the same. The frame angles (73.5° head angle and 73° seat angle) are the same too, so you know what you're getting here: it's a well-proven set up.
The standard Outeniqua frameset (see below) is £1,950 but if none of the seven sizes is right for you, an extra £200 gets you one built to a custom geometry.
4 Excellent frameset components.
Buy an Outeniqua frameset and you get an Enve 2.0 fork and Chris King Inset 7 headset as part of the package. Both are excellent.
The Enve 2.0 fork, which retails alone at £390, is full-carbon right down to the dropouts. It comes with a tapered 1 1/8in to 1 1/2in steerer and, despite weighing in at just 350g, it provides loads of stiffness whether you're pinning it into a fast turn or throwing the bars about on an out-of-the-saddle climb. It also damps road vibration well without leaving you feeling too isolated from the road; a great combination.
The Chris King Inset sealed bearing headset is a winner too. With this one the upper cup sits inside the head tube while the lower one is external. The high-quality bearings should last an age.
5 You can choose you own spec.
Pretorius will build up the Outeniqua however you like. We had a high-end spec comprising a Campagnolo Super Record 11-speed groupset, Reynolds Thirty Two wheels with Schwalbe Ultremo ZX tyres, Enve carbon bars, stem and seatpost, and a Selle Italia SLR saddle. There's an Arundel carbon bottle cage on there too. You're looking at £5,999 for that lot.
In this build, the Outeniqua weighs 7.2kg (15.8lb). Spend six grand on a bike and you can get lighter without too much trouble – especially if you go for a carbon frame – but this is certainly a highly respectable weight.
I won't talk too much about the specific build because it's not set in stone, but you really can't go wrong with these components. If you prefer Shimano or SRAM to Campag's shifting, no problem, go with that instead.
The Reynolds Thirty Two wheels are very light and spin beautifully. We have the clincher version and they weigh in at 1,351g. Reynolds' Cryo Blue pads provide good braking on the carbon rims in the dry, although the braking is nowhere near as good as you get with aluminium rims in wet conditions. That's always the way.
Getting your saddle position right on the Enve carbon seat post is really easy and the sub-200g Enve bars come in either standard (144mm drop, 85mm reach) or compact (127mm, 79mm reach) versions.
But I wasn't going to go on about the spec too much, was I? So I won't. It's good though.
6 The high ride quality.
The Pretorius offers a quick, agile ride. Put in the power and it responds with a sharp kick forwards. It doesn't have the all-out rigidity of some top end carbon bikes when it comes to a sprint but it's still impressively efficient and it whips up to speed in no time. Of course, that's partly down to the components as well as the frame and forks. The Reynolds Thirty Two wheels in particular make a big difference here, accelerating beautifully when you ask them to.
The ride position is balanced. It's certainly low and efficient, which is exactly what you want for a bike of this kind, but it's not ridiculously aggressive. Most people with reasonable flexibility will be happy getting in the big miles on this setup.
You also get a good compromise between stability and reactive steering. The Outeniqua is manoeuvrable enough for last second line changes when a ride mate decides to swing out for no apparent reason, but it's not so nervous that you can't relax when you want to.
The ride-quality is the Outeniqua's most valuable feature. There are no wrist-shuddering jolts coming up through the Enve fork and you don't find yourself clinging on for dear life when you hit a patch of jagged road. Quite the opposite, in fact. The Outeniqua keeps everything nice 'n' smooth. As well as making life comfortable for you in the saddle, that means the wheels stay firmly in contact with the road even when the road gets rough under fully loaded tyres.
Again, the components help with the comfort; I always get on well with a Selle Italia SLR saddle, for instance. To me, it offers the best combination of lightweight and comfort of any saddle out there, although if you're not such a fan you could go for something that suits you better.
All in all, the Outeniqua offers a sweet ride. Swift, responsive, comfortable, it's a great performance option with a big helping of style thrown in.
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Pretorius Outeniqua (f&f)
Size tested: Large
About the bike
State the frame and fork material and method of construction. List the components used to build up the bike.
3Al-2.5V titanium frame
Enve 2.0 fork
Campagnolo Super Record groupset
Reynolds Thirty Two Wheels
Enve bar, stem and seatpost
Chris King InSet7 headset
Selle Italia SLR titanium railed saddle
Arundel Gecko bar tape
Tell us what the bike is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about the bike?
It's a performance/race bike
Frame and fork
Tell us about the geometry of the frame and fork?
We had the large size with 57cm effective top tube, 58cm seat tube, 19cm head tube (including headset). It has a 73.5° head angle, 73° seat angle and 40.5cm chainstays
Riding the bike
Was the bike comfortable to ride? Tell us how you felt about the ride quality.
Yup, the ride quality is a definite highlight
Did the bike feel stiff in the right places? Did any part of the bike feel too stiff or too flexible?
Yes. If you want the ultimate in stiffness to weight you'll go for a carbon bike, but this bike offers impressive stiffness. Pretorius reckon that's down to the thick tube walls used for the head tube and the bottom bracket.
How would you describe the steering? Was it lively, neutral or unresponsive? Well balanced edging towards lively. Certainly manoeuvrable.
The drivetrain
Wheels and tyres
Your summary
Did you enjoy riding the bike? Yup, certainly
Would you consider buying the bike? Put it on the list of lovely bikes I can't afford!
Would you recommend the bike to a friend? Yes
About the tester
Age: 41 Height: 190cm Weight: 75kg
I usually ride: My best bike is:
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, club rides, sportives, general fitness riding,
Mat has worked for loads of bike magazines over 20+ years, and been editor of 220 Triathlon and Cycling Plus. He's been road.cc technical editor for eight years, testing bikes, fettling the latest kit, and trying out the most up-to-the-minute clothing. We send him off around the world to get all the news from launches and shows too. He has won his category in Ironman UK 70.3 and finished on the podium in both marathons he has run. Mat is a Cambridge graduate who did a post-grad in magazine journalism, and he is a past winner of the Cycling Media Award for Specialist Online Writer.
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Full disclosure first: I've been lucky enough to own a Pretorius Outeniqua for the past few months. To your final point, I wanted a bike that would last me for many years (if nothing else, to justify how much I was spending on it..!)
I'm absolutely delighted with the bike. Very soon after getting it I rode it with some friends from Pau to Girona, up and down some of the legendary Pyrenean climbs and it was fantastic throughout. Clearly my own physical limitations restricted performance on the way up, but what really impressed me was the bike's performance on the descents. Just awesome and it gave me huge amounts of confidence.
I'd thoroughly recommend a trip to Shoreditch to meet J-C Pretorius and chew the fat if nothing else. He's a top guy.


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At a meeting of the volunteer companies, citizens of Guyandotte, Va., and vicinity, held on the 20th April, 1861, Peter C. Buffington, esq., presiding and Capt. H. H. Miller, secretary; a large number of people of Cabell county being present, the flag of Virginia made by the secession ladies of Guyandotte, and Lewis Peters, esq., artist, was raised on the bank of the Ohio in front of the Planter's Hotel. It went up amid the enthusiastic applause of the multitude and the rejoicing of the ladies, a large number of whom were present. The flag was raised by Elijah Rickets and John W. Ong, sr., two of the oldest citizens of the place.
Rev. St. Mark Russell was called to address the meeting, who promptly responded. While he was portraying the causes that should impel the secession of Virginia, in his usual animated and eloquent style, he was interrupted by the arrival at the wharf of a steamer and a report that the Convention had passed the ordinance of secession, upon which more deafening shouts now rose on the banks of the Ohio than went up from the meeting. Salutes were fired for the Confederate States and President Davis.
The speaker was again called to the stand. He rejoiced and thanked God, that we were once again free; and in conclusion expressed the hope that Virginia would be as united as that meeting in an hearty approval of the action of the Convention.
L. H. McGinnis, esq., of Logan, was then called for who rose and in a masterly and el[o]quent manner portrayed the wrongs we have endured; the unparalleled sacrifices we have made; and the extraordinary system of legislative encouragement we have acquiesced in towards our heretofore sister States of the North to save a Union which he now declared is more odious than any tyranny ever established over men.
Advertising to the cause of the disruption, the speaker declared that it was a duty we owe to the States themselves; that we were bound by the most sacred obligations to conserve the institution of slavery; it was indispensible to the civilization of the African. He argued elaborately that we had not only the plainest recognition in the Old and New Testament of property in slaves, but all history proved it right and favored by Providence. The revolution of 1776 proved it, and that of 1861 would prove it.
As our fathers enlisted under the banner of Washington, a slaveholder, fighting for the freedom of the white and the slavery of the black race; we should rally under General Davis who is also a slaveholder, against Lincoln the first, who, like George the third, and yet bolder in his demands is opposed to African and in favor of American Slavery. And alluding to Virginia, and her flag waving over his head, and her great efforts to preserve peace, he said that while the old and justly renowned Commonwealth stood as a meadiator [sic] betweenn [sic] the contending fires of revolution, a mercenary soldier had been thrown into her bosom to reduce her to military subordination. And now that she had bravely turned upon her invaders; he made a powerful appeal to Virginians to stand by the mother of States and her flag, and declared that he would be foremost to hang the traitor that dared insult the flag that floated over their heads. His sentiments were responded with the utmost enthusiasm.
B. H. Thack[s]ton, of Cabell C. H., was called, who made a short but patriotic defense of Virginia's rights.
Dr. A. B. McGinnis, was called, who responded in an eloquent review of the causes, rise and progress of resistance to abolition rule in Guyandotte and vicinity. He had taken his stand months ago for independence as the only cure for the political disease that threatened the existence of our institutions and liberties.
He rejoiced to be joined by many of those who had denounced him for his "secession madness." He argued at length, the importance of Union of the South; but above all unions the union of Virginia was most essential to her salvation.
Amid the most enthusiastic applause the meeting adjourned to the Town Hall.
G. D. Warren, esq., was called and responded in a practical and glowing description of the present proud position of Virginia. He declared amid tremendous cheering, that the time for division in Guyandotte had passed; that those who were not for Virginia in her sovereign, independent position, were against her in toto; and would now be marked as her enemies; that if any such existed in Guyandotte they would be treated as traitors.
Capt. H. H. Miller, of the Home Guard, also addressed the meeting.
Hon. William H. Buffington responded to the call of the meeting in a brief, practical and forcible review of the crisis. He, however, said the time for argument had passed, and pressed in a most eloquent manner the necessity of immediate preparations for defense. He said he had long believed that such a crisis was inevitable. That the Puritanic intolerant sentiment of New England, of which he gave a most glowing description, was incompatable with the brave and generous spirit of the Cavaliers of James river; that could they not be united long under the form of free government. He declared he would defend the flag of Virginia to the death; and his sentiments were greeted with enthusiastic applause.
At the conclusion of Dr. A. B. McGinnis' speech he offered the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, we have a practical interpretation of the inaugural address of the President elect of the late United States, in an illegal, unnatural and mercenary war upon our sister Southern independent States, for the purpose of subjugating them to a foreign military despotism, and whereas, we have intelligence by report, that the Convention of Virginia has passed the ordinance of secession; therefore be it resolved,
1st. That we approve the action of the Convention, if the ordinance has passed.
2d. That in our judgment the failure of the Convention to submit an ordinance of secession to the people, will inevitably involve the State in a double revolution, the like of which no parallel is found in history.
3rd. That we would deem it an act of political tyranny in the Convention to withhold from the people the privilege of choosing whether their destiny shall be with the South or with the military despotism now being forced upon the people by the revolutionists of the so called Lincoln Government.
4th. That in our judgment the formal and legal withdrawal of Virginia from her connection with the late United States, and union with the Confederate State, is the surest, if not the only remedy for the troubles which now environ and disturb her social and political systems.
5th. That the secretary cause the proceedings of this meeting to be published in the Kanawha Valley Star, and that the Richmond papers be requested to copy.
P. C. BUFFINGTON, Pres't.
H. H. MILLER, Sec'y.
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In its early days, table tennis was played as an after-dinner parlour game in upper-class Britain during the 1880s; a row of books in the centre of the table served as a net, a book served as a racquet and a golf ball was hit back and forth. In 1901, the discovery of celluloid balls and, in the 1950s, racquets made from a rubber sheet combined with a sponge layer, changed the game dramatically
Also known as ping-pong, whiff waff and flim flam, table tennis is played in both singles and doubles events.Match winners are determined by the best-of-five games. The game is played on a table measuring 2.74 metres (9 feet) in length by 1.52 metres (5 feet) in width, with each half of the table divided by a net measuring (15.25 centimetres,(6 inches) in height. Based on the same principles as tennis, where a player hits the ball over the net to their opponent's side using a variety of shots, this lightning-fast game can see balls reach speeds of over 150 kilometres per hour.
Athletes from all disability groups, except blindness or visual impairment, can compete in table tennis. Once the athlete's range of movement, muscle strength, restrictions, balance in the wheelchair and ability to handle the racket has been assessed, they are selected for the appropriate category.
Intellectually impaired athletes can also compete. Men and women can participate in individual, doubles or team events. Matches consist of five sets of 11 points each, and are played in a best-of-five format. At the London 2012 Games, 276 athletes competed in 29 medal events.
Muhammad Mudassar of Team Canada returns the ball.
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FSU Board Member rips the new ACC deal; lowlights include $1 million per school increase; the big increase touted is back-ended.
Also, schools give up Tier3 football rights, but BBall schools (looking at you, Duke and UNC) individually kept their Tier3 Bball rights.
FSU to BigXII chatter commences. Some say Clemson may come as well?
IF the ACC does asplode (losing FSU and Clemson, with Yes-That-Smoking-Crater-Miami on NCAA life support, VTech is the only consistent football power), does the B1G pick up a piece or two?
UVA would be my top choice...GaTech is too far away and would not 'bring' the Atlanta market, just like Rutgers would not 'bring' the New York market.
Adding UVA with all the PSU/Michigan/Ohio alumns running around the Baltimore/DC/Nova megaburb would capture this market. Maryland would as well, but not as many people care about the Terps.
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Late last week we ran a story on how the Google Chrome team had decided to use Gtk+ as the graphical toolkit for the Linux version of the Chrome web browser. It was a story that caused some serious debate on a variety of aspects, but in this short editorial, I want to focus on one aspect that came forward: the longing for consistency. Several people in the thread stated they were happy with Google's choice for purely selfish reasons: they use only Gtk+ applications on their GNOME desktops. Several people chimed in to say that Qt integrates nicely in a Gtk+ environment. While that may be true from a graphical point of view, that really isn't my problem with mixing toolkits. The issue goes a lot deeper than that.
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This Is The End (UK - DVD R2)
Screw The Avengers this is mega Team-Up Marcus had the most fun with
While at a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill and Craig Robinson (among many others) get to be at the forefront of the end of the world as L.A. begins to sink into hell. With the survivors locked up safe in Franco's house, things go from bad to worse as demonic creatures begin lurking about and when Jay's prediction that this could very well be the sort of apocalypse that's written about in the Book of Revelation seems more and more correct, the group begin to work out ways to survive.
Okay, I'm an unapologetic fan of everyone in this flick. I don't think Rogen's "thing" has gotten old, I don't think the stoner and dick jokes that many of these cast members thrive on have run out of stream and I'm not bored of the improvised style of dialogue delivery these guys deliver like masters. Those that are may want to avoid this one, as this seems to be a movie that splits the audience down the middle and given the cast are all playing themselves (well comedy spins on their celebrity personas at least) this may very well be Apatow's crowd overload for many.
I lapped this one up by the double spoonful. From the strained friendship between Jay and Seth to the sleazy Michael Cera and everything in between. I laughed way more than I have done at many comedy movies for a fair few years and the scenes with the group considering who would most likely rape Emma Watson or Danny Mcbride and James Franco going at each other about Franco's porn mags killed me in ways only my favourite comedies do. Also the late in the game cameo from a certain G.I. Joe was astonishing.
Rogen and Goldberg seem very much aware of how their friends are perceived. The in jokes about Franco wanting to be Rogen's best friend is a nice nod to what made their relationship so good in Pineapple Express, Baruchel not quite being in the main L.A. crowd works very well and his odd relationship with Hill is hilarious. Danny McBride is treated like a god (as he should be) and he really is used as the the driver to a lot of madness that this end of the world tale plays in but despite all that in-joke-a-rama this doesn't just fall back and play as a spoof, instead it makes for one of the most feel good comedies of the year (despite everyone in it playing pretty horrid versions of themselves).
This may be a bit of a stretch but I'd say This Is The End is pretty damn close to the sort of fun Ghostbusters provided. It balances the monster elements well alongside its comedy slants and the characters still have to deal with the danger around them without the chuckles undermining anything. Of course This Is The End is not as family friendly as Ghosbusters has become and has a more of an adult edge but it still captures the fun and level headed approach to the sort of craziness Ghostbusters delivered on.
This Is The End feels like a logical step on the road that this slice of the Apatow pie was always going to take (even though Apatow isn't directly involved with this project). It's almost like how all the Marvel films culminated in The Avengers. Seeing the Apatow crowd meet up in this funny as all hell team up movie seems to fit just as well as seeing all the Marvel heroes meet up and given how much I enjoyed this one, I can only hope after the next phase of movies the individuals churn out, they will once again meet up for another party movie where they all get to bounce off of each other.
I've just come out of the 4K mastered Blu-ray release for this as I picked it up on Monday, so hitting this DVD's standard definition was a hell of a come down. Anything that isn't a close up is super soft and colours feel really washy with the lack of sharp edges. Black levels are good enough and colours glow with all the fiery intensity the end of the world requires but standing this alongside the Blu-ray really shows the chasm between the two formats.
Skin tones run very hot with zero texture in anything less than a super close up. There's not much in the way of depth to the image and details around Franco's home are lost in the backgrounds a lot of the time. This DVD simply looks okay for the format. None of the elements quite add up to greatness and the overall look of the standard definition release is sort of a creamy, grubby, glowing looking presentation that never quite looks right.
The audio mix is nice and punchy. The bass involved with the film's soundtrack and the bedlam involved at the end of the world is felt throughout. Dialogue is crisp, there's a good sense of space with the rears used to fill out the action sequences.
A lot of the time scenes are simply dialogue due to the structure of the comedy but when the regular interruptions from survivors or indeed demons kick the doors in they always pull the simple talking into a more powerful place. This one delivers bursts of full on thumping surround sound show off moments but largely relies on the cast talking as its focus.
The DVD comes with way less extras than the Blu-ray release and we begin with 'Directing Your Friends (06:16) which is a good overview of the film's making.
'This Is The Marketing features seven of marketing spins used for the film including the redband sizzle trailer.
The commentary with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg is a blast. The pair are obviously close and it makes the track a whole lot of fun as they recount the making of the movie and the stories behind the scenes as the visuals spark their memories.
This Is The End is way up there in terms of my favourite flicks of 2013. I can see me re-watching it a whole lot as it doesn't seem the sort of thing I'll get tired of re-visting as even on this third viewing I was chuckling at the big laughs and finding a lot of sniggers in the smaller throw away gags. This DVD is pretty grubby looking but has a solid audio track. The extras are good but like most of this DVD release, the Blu-ray edition has a lot more going for it if you want a much better overall package.
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Absolutely dreadful film and my worst film of the year. Anyone who thinks it's the US equivalent of "The Worlds End" obviously watched a different edit than I did. It's not even a quarter of the fil Wright's film is, replacing all the depth, intelligence, wit and creativity with a load of talentless "comedians" throwing everything into the mix and creating a boring, unfunny abomination with a final third that was actually painful to watch as it dissolved into CGI overload, puerile humour and wasted cameos!
Disc Details
Release Date: 4th November 2013
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, English Audio Description Service, Dolby Digital 5.1 Italian
Subtitles: English, Engllish SDH, English Commentary Subtitles, Hindi, Italian Italian Commentary Subtitles, Polish
Extras: Commentary, Featurette, Marketing Material
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg
Cast: Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Michael Cera. Emma Watson
Genre: Comedy and Sci-Fi
Length: 102 minutes
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Breaking Waves and Shifting Sands
The Science of Surf
Black's Beach, near San Diego, is renowned to surfers for its tasty waves. Blue-green waters swirl in a jumble of rip currents, whirling eddies, and powerful crossing swells. It is not a beach for novice surfer dudes and dudettes.
But less than three kilometers down the coast, toddlers, scuba divers, and sea kayakers frolic in the gentle waves of La Jolla Shores, where the surf seldom rises more than a half meter.
It's the same Pacific coastline, the same weather and wind patterns. So how can a surfer's paradise lie so close to a parent's dream beach? WHOI scientists Britt Raubenheimer, Steve Elgar, and two dozen colleagues from the Nearshore Canyon Experiment spent the autumn of 2003 trying to find out.
Steve Elgar, a senior scientist in the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering (AOPE) Department, studies the surf zone, where the water covers his head and the waves start to rise and break toward the shore. Britt Raubenheimer, an associate scientist in AOPE, works in the swash zone, the part of the beach alternately covered and uncovered by the foamy white water that wets your ankles and wipes out sand castles.
They both work in the waves, with a knack for building experiments and collecting observations that few others have the patience or moxie to attempt. They share an interest in using their measurements to improve the mathematical models of coastal processes. And they love getting their feet wet in the surf. Their science is better off for the partnership.
A mess of physics
Nearly all theoretical models that explain the physics of the deep ocean break down and go haywire near the shore. The coast is a puzzle with a thousand moving pieces.
Even when the ocean looks still, everything is in motion. Waves shape beaches, and beaches shape the waves. Winds blow from ever-shifting directions. Waves come in at different periods and angles. Waters rush toward the beach and back out, while sloshing sideways too. Some waves are born in storms thousands of kilometers away; others are whipped up by nearby winds.
The slope of the beach, the shape and size of its sand grains, the position of offshore islands, canyons, shoals, and sandbars-even the level of the local groundwater table-all play a role in coastline dynamics. All told, the beach is a mess, a mathematical nightmare.
"Our goal is to understand and model waves, currents, and sand movement to better predict conditions along the shoreline," Elgar said. "We would love to reach a level of understanding where you could give us a map, some information about the sediments, tell us the direction and strength of the winds, and we could tell you what the waves will be like along the coast."
From a science perspective, understanding the nearshore region is critical because it is where the greatest quantity of sediment and suspended material moves through the ocean. Waves and currents deliver nourishing sediments to the beaches and nutrients to clams, crabs, and other shoreline organisms. Similarly, land-based sediments, chemicals, plants and animals, and fresh water must cross this region as they wash out to the deep ocean.
From a societal perspective, understanding the nearshore is vital to living wisely along the coast. "Studies of the nearshore will directly benefit beachside communities concerned with erosion and beach nourishment," said Tom Drake, program manager for the Coastal Geosciences Program at the Office of Naval Research. "They will give coastal planners an improved ability to predict how pollution from storm runoff moves through nearshore waters. And they will aid biologists attempting to trace the complex paths of larvae and other marine organisms in the surf zone."
The nearshore is growing in importance, as the U.S. coastal population is estimated to grow by 3,600 people per day. Nearly 53 percent of Americans live in coastal counties.
Yet the surf and swash zones have typically been neglected. "There's a lot of tedious, physical work to be done, and it is labor-intensive, which makes it tough to fund," Raubenheimer said. Scientists and equipment are constantly pounded by waves and sandblasted by strong, sediment- and debris-laden currents. "But the difficulty," she said, "is part of what makes it interesting."
California dreaming
For much of the past 15 years, Elgar and Raubenheimer and other surf zone researchers have focused their surf and swash experiments on the East Coast of the United States, where the gently sloping, broad continental shelf allows waves and sediments to behave somewhat predictably. When researchers can make the right measurements in the Atlantic-they have been developing and refining their tools for a generation-then the physics problems are at least manageable.
In the wake of several research campaigns at an Army Corps of Engineers facility in Duck, North Carolina, scientists including Elgar developed a nearshore processes model, a testable mathematical hypothesis of how the beach works. That model has been built, tested, and refined repeatedly with field observations from Duck and other facilities where the seafloor geometry is relatively simple and the variables are few.
But researchers have known all along that most coasts are not as simple as North Carolina. Many continental shelves have abrupt, irregular seafloors that cause large gradients in the waves and currents. Scripps Canyon and La Jolla Canyon in Southern California provide one of the more dramatic extremes, with wild changes in wave energy over distances of just a few hundred meters.
"Our present theories for how waves move over an irregular seafloor are best suited to smooth or gently rolling underwater hills," Drake said. Elgar, Raubenheimer, and longtime collaborator Robert Guza of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) decided it was time to try modeling a more complex environment.
Situated just a few hundred meters off Torrey Pines State Beach near San Diego-and close to a research pier operated by SIO-the Scripps and La Jolla canyons are the poster children for unusual seafloor geometry. The two canyons start as one, several kilometers offshore, and cut as much as 300 meters into the seafloor. The chasm forks, with branches running perpendicular to the coast and coming as close as 100 meters to the shoreline.
"As waves pass over the canyons, the steep topography may act like a magnifying glass and concentrate ocean wave energy in hot spots, creating large waves," Raubenheimer said. The canyon acts like a circus mirror as well, distorting, reflecting and trapping ocean waves along the shore to make legendary rip currents.
But just how the canyon affects the direction and speed of nearshore currents is poorly understood. "The currents there are the most complex I've seen anywhere," said Guza.
Like surfers itching for a challenge, the trio took on the waves of Scripps Canyon from September through November 2003. In the Nearshore Canyon Experiment (NCEX), they collaborated with more than 20 scientists from 10 institutions to measure how the underwater topography of submarine canyons affects wave propagation and nearshore currents.
Attacking the shore
Before NCEX, little real-life data had been collected to support theories and models of how the surf and swash zones behave on complicated coasts. The focus of the 2003 experiment was to collect field measurements that could stretch and validate the numerical models.
In the oceanographic equivalent of the Normandy invasion, they attacked the shore from water, land, and air. They set up tripods and frames of instruments with sensors to measure wave heights, water speed and direction, and the movement of sediment on the bottom. They launched jellyfish-like drifters with global positioning system (GPS) sensors to follow the currents up, down, and along the coast. From airplanes and from cliffs above the beach, they collected video and radar images of the surf zone. They drove Waverunner personal watercraft headlong into the surf, with GPS receivers and bottom-finding sonar strapped on the back.
A crew of 25 people-many of them outstanding athletes-struggled to keep the equipment free of kelp and sand, not to mention keeping it upright. "It was the hardest place we've ever worked, and there were few easy days," Elgar said. "We've never run an experiment in a place where the circulation was so crazy."
Divers dropped off from boats 100 meters north of the equipment would often drift so fast that they could not reach the instruments. Other times they would walk or swim out from the beach into strong shoreward currents, get themselves into two or three meters of water, and then find there were no currents at all...or currents pulling out to sea.
The effort was worth it. "We gathered a spectacular data set," Elgar said after they achieved a 98 percent data return. Critical to their success were many practice runs and equipment trials leading up to the experiment. They also monitored the performance of their instruments in real time, connecting their equipment in the surf zone with their battery-powered computers on the beach via cables.
Awash in data
With the field experiment completed, Elgar and Raubenheimer have months of data processing and sorting to do. They are probably years from presenting conclusions to scientific colleagues. But they already have some tantalizing preliminary insights.
As predicted, the direction and strength of waves are definitely altered by the shape of the Scripps and La Jolla canyons, just as winds are focused and directed by mountains and valleys. In some places, the offshore ridges reflect waves in divergent directions. In other places, waves are focused, causing hotspots for erosion along the beach.
Breaking waves cause an increase in the mean water level, piling up water along the beach as you might pile up water at one end of a bathtub. They found evidence that changes in the water levels caused by changes in wave heights might be important for driving the wildly divergent surf along the coast.
"Breaking waves transfer their energy into the water column, and that momentum lifts the water up," Raubenheimer said. The funhouse bouncing and focusing of waves near La Jolla create extreme gradients between water levels-similar to high- and low-pressure systems in the atmosphere. "With all the waves breaking at different angles, the water column is lifted unevenly, which might be what is driving the strong currents."
So now it is time to go back to the computers and models, new observations in hand. "This data set comes from an environment completely different from anywhere the models have been tested," said Elgar. "The question now is: can our models work in a complicated situation? It is an iterative, evolutionary process, and it will take two to three years for the modelers to integrate these data and adjust. But ultimately, we have to let the observations guide us and figure out the important physics that is missing."
Originally published: July 1, 2004


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Tuesday, January 24, 2012
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – The following is a statement regarding the Audit Report 2011-F-16 and the corresponding press statement released by the Office of the New York State Comptroller on Tuesday, January 24, 2012.
The New York Racing Association, Inc. (NYRA) took very seriously the recommendations that were made in the two 2010 audit reports from the Office of the New York State Comptroller.
However, as the actual audit report notes, NYRA has made strides in implementing the 2010 recommendations, including plans to enhance revenues, staffing analysis and cuts in overall staffing, the termination of our former integrity counsel and the awarding of a more cost-effective integrity counsel, cost savings on the transportation of horses between NYRA tracks, and several other cost-cutting initiatives.
In the statement, the comptroller's office references that the audit found that NYRA expects a $19.7 million loss from racing operations in 2012. This figure is misleading. It should be noted that the 2012 budget was not within the scope of nor was it referenced in the audit, and was never discussed with NYRA management. Furthermore, NYRA's 2012 budget contemplates approximately $19 million of net income, not a net loss. Additionally, operating income solely from current racing operations, and without giving effect to Video Lottery Terminal (VLT) proceeds for operations and capital expenditures, is projected to be $1.4 million.
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Dr. Joseph "Jay" J. Brennan, 82, died Aug. 11, 2013, in East Stroudsburg.
Jay was born on June 15, 1931, in New York City. He was a son of the late Joseph and Anne Brennan of New York City. He is survived by his brother, Donald Brennan; his sister-in law, Donna Brennan; five nieces: Peggy Brennan, Karen Brennan, Mary Jane Brennan, Terri MacDonald and Anne Brennan; and his cousins, Rosemary and William Walker.
Jay received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Iona College, a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University and a Doctor of Philosophy from New York University, where he was the recipient of the Founders Day Award for "Consistent Evidence of Outstanding Scholarship."
His incredible passion for life, the arts, books, film, and travel drove him to a successful lifelong career in theatre. He taught and directed multiple generations of students as a professor at East Stroudsburg University from 1960 to 1999. Jay was chairman of the speech communication and theatre arts department from 1973 until the departments separated in 1982. He then served as chair of the theatre department for 10 years.
During his tenure at ESU, Jay served on many different committees, including the Student-Faculty Judiciary Board, and he directed the Summer Repertory Theater for its five-year life span. He also initiated the idea for the university to have a fine arts degree program. His work in theatre resulted in a federal grant for the study of television production at ESU.
Jay directed more than 70 plays during his almost four decades at ESU. These plays ranged from Shakespeare to more modern comedy and drama. He also was the advisor to Alpha Psi Omega, a theater honorary fraternity, and Stage II, a student theater organization.
Jay also taught a variety of theatre courses for many years at Oxford University, England, where he was one of the founders of the Oxford Court Players. His teaching schedule abroad was coordinated through the Pennsylvania Council for International Education. Prior to his appointment at ESU, Jay taught junior and senior high school English and served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps, both as a clinical psychology specialist and a psychiatric social worker.
Throughout his years, he changed the lives of many students, families, relatives, friends and colleagues through his overwhelming passion, love of the arts and kindness. Jay truly lived life to the fullest each day. As a theatre professor, he got so much joy and inspiration from teaching his students.
Established in 1999 at his retirement from ESU was the JJ Brennan Theatre Excellence Scholarship through the ESU Foundation.
A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23, at St. Luke's Catholic Church in Stroudsburg.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to VNA Hospice House of Monroe County, 502 VNA Road, East Stroudsburg, PA 18301.
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Anyone go to either/both the Mark Gardener/Robin Guthrie gig or The History Of Apple Pie gig around Old Street earlier?
I saw Mark Gardener as a support act as I'm a big Ride fan I then scurried off to a hugely packed Old Blue Last for The History Of Apple Pie gig. Bloody hell; very very packed but Apple Pie were great. Any Dis-ers go to any of these?
history of apple pie too.
bought the album at the end. bit unsure of the support acts. many people at Cargo?
The Cargo was ok. For some reason they had a merchandise
desk right next to the arched entrance inside the venue. I guess people didn't know the venue well as the arched entrance was packed but it was very empty near the back where I was. Gardener was good but I'm glad I legged it for Apple Pie. A packed venue (Old Blue Last) but what do you expect for a freebie when you have an excellent album out. Two great sets. A very good night out.
went to thoap the weekend gone
on their penultimate show on the tour
& doing mark gardener/ robin guthrie trio this weekend
so not the same shows, but the same tour
Mark Gardener played almost all new songs. The only Ride
song was an acoustic version of Vapour Trail; brilliantly performed despite a lot of idiots talking loudly. I missed his last song as I had to get to The Old Blue Last for THOAP.
Robin Guthrie & band were awesome too. Mark did a new work-in-progress-song with them as an encore, fell a bit flat to my ears, as he was kinda drowned out by Robin's beautiful sounds, and he's no Liz Fraser ;)
Didn't he do three Ride songs during his set? definitely "Polarbear". Was nice to see him again, his floppy fringe replaced by a hat, don't look to closely and you can still see him during the Ride years, and I think he made the most with the limited acoustic setup. But, again, Robin Guthrie was the main course that evening and he was just majestic...
Gardener did 3 Ride songs at the Nottingham show...
Polar Bear, In A Different Place and Vapour Trail.
Yeah. You guys are right. He played more than just Vapour Trail.
I've not heard anything of Robin Guthrie's solo stuff. I saw Liz Fraser at The RFH last year which was great. I was just glad of seeing two different bands at two venues in the same evening.
assuming you know what the Cocteaus sounded like...
Robin playing solo pretty much sounds like vintage Cocteaus, but without vocals. No Cocteaus material was played but some of the slower, more languid numbers sounded like something from "Victorialand" though there were some louder/faster numbers too. You seem to mostly hear Robins guitars, often in loops and layers, but the bassist and drummer he's got with him are very good and round it out well. Live it really packs a punch, very powerful...


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English Professor's book analyzes films of Charlie ChaplinUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Professor, Department of English
Charlie Chaplin was not only one of cinema's most important and influential actors who rose to fame in the silent film era of the early and mid-1900s. He was also a multi-talented, complex individual who transcended his on-screen persona to excel behind-the-scenes as a writer, director, composer, producer and, finally, studio head. Now a new book, co-edited by University of Hawai'i at Mānoa English Professor James E. Caron, features essays that help to analyze Chaplin's films and shed light on their cultural contexts.
"Refocusing Chaplin: A Screen Icon Through Critical Lenses" was released by Scarecrow Press in late 2013. Along with Caron, it was co-edited by English Professors Lawrence Howe of Roosevelt University in Illinois and Benjamin Click of St. Mary's College in Maryland.
"Charlie Chaplin created one of the best-known comic figures ever, the iconic Little Tramp, and 100 years after he made his first films for Keystone Studios, his work continues to delight audiences and intrigue scholars," said Caron, a Kaneohe resident. "Much of what has been written about Chaplin is biographical in nature, so the significance of the essays in 'Refocusing Chaplin' is their departure from that approach, instead employing various critical perspectives to understand the depth of Chaplin's creative genius."
At UH Mānoa, Caron's areas of interest include 19th-century American literature, Mark Twain, comic art and literature, and popular culture. He is the winner of a 2012 College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature Excellence in Teaching Award. Caron earned a BA from Loyola University in Los Angeles, and MA and PhD from the University of Oregon.
According to a December 8, 2013 review by Racine Film Examiner James L. Neibaur for examiner.com, "Refocusing Chaplin" is recommended "for libraries and research centers, especially at the University level, for its intelligent, thorough examination of perhaps the most important figure in cinema's history."
Films discussed in the essays include The Gold Rush (1925), City Lights (1931), Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940).


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Amid reports that Kate Upton, the world's "hottest supermodel," was dating "Dancing With the Stars" veteran Maksim Chmerkovskiy, multiple sources have come forward to deny the rumors.
Rumors about Upton and Chmerkovskiy dating came about when the two were spotted having a "cozy" dinner at Scalinatella in New York City. However, sources at the restaurant have confirmed that the dinner did "not look intimate at all."
Sources close to Chmerkovskiy told E! they've "heard nothing about them dating," while another source said the two "are just good friends."
Upton has remained relatively private about her life since rising to international fame. Last February, however, she publicly denied rumors that she was dating Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander.


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