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Joined: 14 Apr 2013
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:24 pm
Post subject: Any tips for windsurfing fitness?
I'm going to ABK clinic in March, and I know it's gonna be tough.
Still learning water start and straps, and burning too much energy in the process, 2-3 hours is my typical summer session, and not so much in the winter (it's -4 out there at the moment in Winnipeg
So, here is my question to the crowd:
Are there any muscle training sets for a seasonal windsurfer?
Any tips are greatly appreciated!
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 9:19 pm
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My favorite books on building strength and aerobic/anaerobic fitness are Body by Science (by McGuff; check out his BBS website for a quick start) and P.A.C.E. (Sears). BBS does all three; PACE concentrates on interval training for aerobic and anaerobic fitness. You should be able to make some significant progress by March with very little actual workout
you are willing to work out
than you have ever worked out before.
Mike \m/
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 9:39 pm
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Until March, do some kind of sport on a regular basis to keep your general fitness up. Hands will be a
issue if you don't sail all winter. Using a variety of things like hand trainers, weights, rowing machines, and even elliptical machines. They all can help to toughen your hands up at least a bit. Then use hand cream (e.g. Nivea) every night to make the blisters disappear.
Take it easy the first couple of days. Nothing wrong with taking a little break on the water and watching others. Bonaire makes it easy to take little breaks in the water
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Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 9:57 pm
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If you are an experienced windsurfer then exercise your legs, back & core. If you are inexperienced, plan on doing lots of sail handling or not very efficient with the harness you will need to consider exercising your forearms & biceps as well. And dont forget your cardio. If you do lots of pumping with big sails you will probably also need some shoulder exercise.
In the offseason I cross train using an indoor rower (Concept 2) a couple times a week. I also work out in the gym 2 to 3 times a week. At the gym Ill set up four different stations that target four different areas of the body and rotate between them with little to no rest. By varying the exercises at each station it helps keep the boredom out.
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Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:48 am
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the best fitness program for windsurfing is windsurfing. since you cant do that in winter, use the body parts in the same manner
do it in moderation, something that will increase the heart rate like a static bicycle .
anything that maintains some stability in the muscles. walking FX
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Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 12:38 pm
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I go to my rock climbing gym and do endurance workouts along with some pull-ups and pushups, then i try to go jogging about 5k 1-2x a week. Thinking about changing that into swimming instead to be better prepared for long swims since now i´m wavesailing more then i did.
I have a heart condition called HCM so i can´t really work out or sail like i would prefer so it´s always a balance for me with being active and fit with out causing troubles/taking risks. But before i was a competitive rock climber and then i just would not get tired windsurfing so for me i find the climbing workouts to be the best stuff for me, it targets ton of muscles and can also be done as a cardio workout.
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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 12:31 am
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You can sail with a windsurfing rig in Winnipeg in every month. Just attach it to something that can handle the available surface....such as a mountain board with 7 inch tires for cleared parking lots or a modified toboggan or something attached to canted skis for hard packed snow or ice. I've sailed on hard packed snow & ice since Jan. 1995 and on cleared parking lots since around 2007-2008. For protection I use a motorcycle helmet along with knee & elbow pads.
Search for videos using terms like street windsurfing, dirt windsurfing, or land sailing, or ski sailing or snow sailing.
Use your oldest cheapest sails, masts, booms, due to the beating they can get from parking lots or frozen surfaces.
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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 8:58 am
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The number one thing that poops out first for me is arms, mostly forearms. Number two is legs, three is back, four is core.
I am an old retired dude, so I supplement all year with weights, but on average, only one to two times a week. Golf and windsurfing get in the way of doing more.
While I do lots of different exercises (full body workout for each session), the most critical elements include:
Chest rows on a machine or over a bench with dumbbells.
Leg press on a machine or squats.
Lat pull downs on a machine.
Core work - front and side planks; chest lifts, dumbbell push ups with alternating arm chest rows, medicine ball rotations in a sitting pike position.
As I said, there are another 8 or so exercises I also mix in, but the above are the key ones I feel that I need for windsurfing. I moved to a new state and only have 40 days of windsurfing this year. I had 80 last year and 90 the year before. ABK clinics are great, have fun.
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Probably the closest dynamic simulation of WSing I do in the gym is what onlookers have dubbed the "Superman". You rig up a trapeeze bar suspended overhead by a cable at each end, and counterweight each cable with roughly a quarter of your weight for a total somewhere near half your weight. Grab the trapeeze, walk with it way off to one side, face the center, pull the trapeeze down as you crouch to preload both your legs and the counterweight system, then leap into the air towards the other side. You're now flying through the air across the front of the cable station. Turn in midair to land facing center again, use your momentum and muscles to preload your legs and the weights again, and leap back towards your starting position. Max float time in each direction is an invigorating objective. Repeat rhythmically until you've used up all the oxygen in the gym or your legs collapse; that'll take only a minute or two if you're really going for it. Even under an 8-foot ceiling your leap footprint can span 20 feet laterally; with a higher ceiling and higher cable system the sky's the limit. Make sure you move Granny and her yoga mat well out out of the way first. To hit the arms harder, add more counterweight. For more leg involvement, use less weight.
It absolutely nails your legs, arms, shoulders, back, core, timing, control, and lungs VERY quickly, as you're combining strength, power, plyometrics, endurance, intervals, neuromuscular timing, balance, spatial awareness, most of your muscles, and your will power all at once. It's also more sheer fun than just about any other gym exercise I've found; I'd love to work up to 5 or 10 nonstop minutes of it, but it's usually part of an larger interval training workout, so lung power comes at a premium.
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Posted: Tue Dec 10, 2013 11:34 am
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With the level you describe, you can probably concentrate on hands, forearms and back for pulling. I'm not that much better and the only problems I had caused by windsurfing was in the forearms (tennis elbows).
The other problem that I often see from others who travel south in winter to windsurf is that they get "holes" in their hands from bad blisters. Toughening the hands or finding fitting gloves seems important.
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I didn't see this on the forum, so I am thinking Tim did not have the chance to post it yet.Helikwps wrote: Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Mollendorff made these and other selections in a short article for The Classical Review in 1907. I hope to type it up and submit it here in the near-future. Cheers,
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Classical Review, Volume XXI, 1907
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circumstances. I assume here that only the last four years of school life, with nine lessons a week, are at our disposal. And Greek cannot be considered apart from the general curriculum ; for the main principle
of these last and best years of school life must be to gather up all the scattered threads of school teaching into one whole. Greek is already connected with religion, with literature, and with history ; we must
therefore point out how it is bound up with mathematics and natural science. All this will then only be possible, if the language be learnt rapidly and as a means to understanding the literature. The trouble of learning the grammar will no longer seem too great, when Greek shall be, not one of the elegancies of life, but a guide to the continuity of history, a study of simple forms of life which will make clear the more complex. The intelligence must be brought to bear on substance and form. Moreover, we do not
want learned men, but an intellectual elite, leaders of the people, in any station of life to which they may be called. For this the first thing necessary is that the language must not be studied for its own sake. To
be versed in pure Attic, in the classical as it used to be understood, may be necessary for the scholar, but has nothing to do with the schoolboy. For us, the Gospels are classic, full as they are of blunders for the
classicist. The old world-wide culture had for its medium this world-wide language : and those who spoke it must have found the same difficulties in Thucydides and Sophocles as an Englishman finds in Chaucer. Attic is not to be neglected, but it is to be treated as a part of the whole. The language of Homer has more claim to universality than Attic ; Homer is indeed at the root of Greek culture, and we will study him therefore, but at the beginning, nor must we give him a preponderating importance. The chief place in the V. form is his, but he should be no longer read in the VI. The school grammar needs to be re-written, the
natural course being Homer first and Attic afterwards. This will enable the learner from the first to grasp the fact that Greek syntax is psychological, not logical, like Latin. In Greek, we have the true language of
nature. And since Herodotus is so Homeric, there is a satisfactory prose author to read with him. In the second year then, the pupils must learn scientifically the changes of sound which produce the later Greek ;
thus they learn what neither Latin nor French can give, and German not easily, the growth of language : which in its form at first expresses natural feeling, but is afterwards modified by the intelligence. The
importance of a complete 'mastery of this subject and its principles makes it necessary to have a lesson each week given specially to grammar : not that the explanation of the authors should have a knowledge of grammar as its aim, but its principles have a value for all. Language is, after all, the most wonderful creation of human genius ; in Greek, the pupil may learn to grasp its natural structure. Much that we admire in the Greeks is due to the perfection of their language ; and this may teach our boys to respect their own. No one has ever spoilt his style by the study of Greek ; whilst in France now, as in the sixteenth century, the highest perfection of style is due to Greek studies. A tragedy, not necessarily of Sophocles, is to be read in the last year, with such of Plato's dialogues as may serve for an introduction to his philosophy. For want of this many a young man is led astray by the dangerous fallacies of modern Sophists, such as Nietzsche. The Apology and Crito are not enough : something is wanted to touch the heart and
awaken thought, such as the Phaedo, the Gorgias, the first book of the Republic. These pieces with their religious fire are suited to awaken the enthusiasm in the young mind, and to lead the way to St. Paul.
We have the year in the Lower VI. left to deal with, and a little time besides. For this a special Reader should be devised, to introduce the learner to those points of Greek thought which he may have missed.
One might in one half give special attention to the historical and geographical side, in another to the philosophic and scientific. The scheme appended hereto will show better than words how the pupil may be led to see that all roads lead to Greece.
Two criticisms may be made on the choice of matter. In the first place, there is no oratory. Certainly Demosthenes as an orator is far above Cicero, and there is much in Isocrates of importance for the history of prose style : but formal oratory is to be found both in Latin and in French, even in the poetry of those languages, and there seems to be no room left in the four years of Greek. At the end, a few short speeches perhaps may be read. Secondly, there is no poetry. Perhaps a few epigrams and elegies ought to be added. But these are trifles ; and we must beware of the lyrical fragments which lead to further studies in dialect.
To attain our end there must be a lightening of the elementary grammar. This is effected partly because we deal with mature intelligence, so that the grammar is assimilated more in the way that serves the university man to learn a new language : general laws must be brought home to the learner, and most of the exceptions must disappear. A great help to this end is to begin with Homer ; but such a thing is unfortunately difficult now for want of beginners' books. We may expect, however, that scholars will soon meet the want. Another great relief to the learner would be to omit the accents in his own compositions, and to pay no attention to their rules.
It must not be denied that this reform is a heavy call on the teacher. The modern teacher who is to take the upper classes in hand must have a wide and special knowledge of his subject, and must not think that
a better knowledge (say) of Latin can make up for an inferior knowledge of Greek. He must have an important place on the staff, and must not be overburdened with work.
An objection is made to the scheme here proposed, that whilst the time for beginning Greek is postponed, the work to begot through is increased. True, the time is short, that cannot be denied : rather than try to diminish it still further, let the whole thing be given up. But the work contemplated is not more, only different. And if the material of the Reader seems too full, there is no compulsion to read it all. On the contrary : where the teacher has special gifts in one direction, one or other part may be preferred. Only the highest work, tragedy, Plato, Paul, must never be omitted. If there be two such qualified men on a staff, the individuality of each may have play : in any case they will give the lads what can be given only by this method, the historical sense which conceives human life as an organic whole, and culture as something not made but a natural growth ; and the comprehension of those simple elements which underlie the world of nature and of intellect, despite all apparent complexity or difference. Learned men and dilettanti we shall not produce, but philosophers in Plato's sense : who with the love of the eternal in their breasts, will learn how to take part in the life of their time, in the world, yet not overcome by it, masters of their fate.


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Patients who undergo cardiac-bypass or joint-replacement surgery routinely are given specific guidance to the exercises and therapies they will need to return to their everyday activities and to prevent complications or relapse.
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Now, an increasing number of hospitals are offering programs to provide cancer patients with comprehensive rehabilitation services, amid mounting evidence that these can help speed recovery, shorten hospital stays and improve quality of life.
Rehabilitation services are "an absolutely essential part of cancer care," says Dan McKellar, chairman of the Commission on Cancer. Last year the nonprofit standards-setting group, overseen by the American College of Surgeons, began requiring cancer programs to offer rehabilitation services to be eligible for accreditation. Major cancer centers are taking steps to better coordinate rehabilitation after treatment. And Medicare and most insurance companies are covering such services.
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One model being adopted by hospitals, including Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, M.D. and Bon Secours St. Francis Health System in Greenville, S.C., is called STAR, for Survivorship Training and Rehab. It uses specially trained teams of caregivers, coordinated by navigators such as nurses, to help patients with physical and emotional issues, as well as any other concerns that arise.
In 2011, Dan Yarborough, a 67-year-old attorney, had two stem cell transplants within months of each other and high-dose chemotherapy to treat multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, at Bon Secours. The treatments left him weak and fatigued, with pain and numbness in his feet that threw off his balance and left him unable to walk steadily and unable to stop himself from falling if he tripped. Golf and travel, favorite pastimes, were out of the question, and he was worried about being able to argue his cases standing in court.
While hospitalized for his second transplant, a nurse navigator from the hospital's STAR program set him up with regular physical therapy appointments and nutrition counseling. Staffers helped him establish goals such as improving his ability to get in and out of his SUV, and worked with his doctors to change medications that were linked to his foot problems.
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Julie Silver, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School and expert in rehabilitation medicine, developed STAR after her own treatment for breast cancer, which she says left her too sick to care for her family or return to work. Her oncologist suggested she rest and try to heal on her own, but "it left me thinking there has to be a better way," Dr. Silver says. "Every cancer survivor should have the opportunity to heal as well as possible and function at optimal level whether their cancer is cured, in remission or they live with cancer as a chronic disease," Dr. Silver says.
She started a company, Oncology Rehab Partners, which helps health systems and hospitals create their own STAR programs for many types of cancer. STAR certification is used by insurance companies in reimbursement decisions. The program costs a typical hospital about $25,000 to launch with an annual fee of $10,000 for continuing education and recertification, Dr. Silver says.
Michelle Houle, 45, has been participating in the STAR program at Bon Secours since she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2010. After chemotherapy, a bilateral mastectomy and radiation, Ms. Houle, on long-term disability from her job as a food company shelf manager, says she felt "about 90 years old." Nurse navigators at the hospital set her up with a specialist to help prevent lymphedema, a painful swelling of the lymph nodes and a common side effect of breast surgery, and she began a physical therapy regimen.
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LNS Research has released its Enterprise Quality Management Software Selection Guide, which looks at 18 major vendors in the spaces and offers comparisons on performance and applicability to individual industries. Matthew Littlefield, president and principle analyst at LNS Research, discussed with CFE Media the value of measuring quality with software, and how the acceptance of such tools is growing throughout the plant.
CFE: In evaluating the top vendors for Enterprise Quality Management Software, what criteria would you say is most critical for an effective system for end users?
Littlefield: There are a number of factors that determine how well suited a particular vendor is for a particular client. First and foremost I think comes industry experience, some vendors have experience in life sciences, others have experience in discrete manufacturing like automotive or aerospace and defense, still others have started to develop experience in consumer products or food and beverage. The drivers and needs are very different in all these industries and very few vendors have expertise across all these industries.
Second I would say existing IT infrastructure, some companies are heavily invested in ERP, others have a large PLM footprint, still others have disparate systems at the enterprise level, again different vendors have different strengths in this regard. Finally I would recommend looking at the technology itself. Originally EQMS vendors were very form based, over time many have updated their technology to be work-flow based that has a more solid data model and ability to interoperate with other systems through web-services.
Finally, is the vendor continuing to invest in areas like BI, Mobility, and an enhanced user-experience. Some companies are and others are still behind the curve.
PE: Why is software the best measuring tool for quality? What industries might benefit the most from such a system? Conversely, which industries are not a good fit for EQMS?
Littlefield: Software is an important tool for a number of reasons but I think one that stands out the most is our changing business environment. Companies are continuing to expand globally, products are continuing to increase in complexity, regulations continue to expand, and consumer demands continue to increase.
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Companies that don't specifically invest in a platform to manage how quality impacts the entire value chain and how quality addresses all these market drivers will be at a distinct competitive disadvantage.
From an industry perspective, industries that have high risk products, high risk processes, a deep impact on consumers, or a restrictive regulatory environment are all candidates for EQMS, including life sciences, consumer products, discrete manufacturing, and process manufacturing.
PE: You mentioned the education process is critical in a successful deployment of EQMS. How far into the organization does this training need to go? For example, will this get to the operator level?
Littlefield: For a quality culture to take hold it truly has to go to the operator level. Continuous improvement, non-conformance management, compliance, and more all have to be managed at the most granular level possible. We are now seeing some companies that have 10,000-plus users on EQMS systems.
PE: What are the leading causes of failure for EQMS, or any operating system for that matter?
Littlefield: Very rarely is the technology to blame itself, although that could be the case with some vendors that have not kept based with investments in their products. Most likely that failure comes from executive leadership not promoting and believing in a quality culture. If executives do not walk the walk it can be very challenging to have the right culture and technology adoption flow through the organizations
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Second if your company is focused on a new (or improving an old) operational excellence initiative, EQMS can help in the success of these initiatives and building quality into operational excellence.


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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - The UC Santa Barbara softball team used a three-run second inning to upset No. 11 ranked UCLA 3-1 at the Bruins' own Easton Stadium in a non-conference match-up Tuesday afternoon. The victory not only broke UCLA's 12 game win streak, but also marked the Gauchos' first win over the Bruins since 1991.
With the win, the Gauchos are now 20-8 on the season and 3-2 on the road. Today's game marked Santa Barbara's third upset over a team ranked in the USA Today/NFCA Top-25 Poll this season, it previously took down then-ranked No. 23 Massachusetts on February 9 and No. 2 Arizona State on March 2. UCLA drops to 24-7 and 7-2 at home.
Senior pitcher Jennifer Davis (4-6) picked up the win after throwing 5.1 innings allowing only one hit while walking two and striking out six. Freshman MeLinda Matsumoto started the game and gave up one run on four hits while walking three and fanning one in 1.2 innings of work.
At the plate, junior third basemen Tisha Duran was 1-for-4 with the two run single that brought home the game-winning run. Sophomore Christine Ramos went 1-for-3 with a run to extend her current hit streak to seven games while Jessica Hejna was also 1-for-3 with an RBI. Sophomore Tiffany Wright and senior Brittany Putich each helped out with two hits and one stolen base apiece.
For the Bruins, pitcher Whitney Baker took the loss after giving up three runs on five hits while walking three in 2.1 innings of work. Baker is now 3-2 on the season. Lisa Dodd led UCLA at the plate with a 1-for-2 performance driving in the lone Bruin run of the day. Kaila Shull was 1-for-3 with the run and Krista Colburn went 1-for-4 with a double, the only extra-base hit of the game.
UCSB got rolling at the top of the first with Hejna and Wright each getting a base hit, both runners advanced to scoring position before the Bruins were able to shutdown the Gaucho offense leaving both stranded.
At the bottom of the inning, a single off the bat of Dodd brought Shull in for the first run of the game putting the Bruins up 1-0. With two outs, UCLA managed to load the bases on a walk followed by a single to center field by Jaisa Creps, but Matsumoto earned the third out when she struck out Whitney Holum swinging to put a damper on the Bruin rally.
At the top of the second, with Nicole Churnock and Liz Walters already on base, Ramos singled to load the bases for the Gauchos. Hejna walked on the next play to bring in the first Gaucho run of the game and tie things up at 1-1. A single to center field by Duran drove in two more UCSB runs before the Bruins earned the third out, giving the Gauchos the 3-1 lead.
With two outs at the bottom of the inning, the Bruins once again loaded the bases before Davis took over in the circle. A fly to left field ended the inning with the Gaucho lead intact.
The next five innings were a defensive battle on both ends as Davis allowed only one Bruin hit and struck out six batters and UCLA's Anjelica Selden held UCSB to just two hits while fanning five. UCSB took the win with a final score of 3-1.
The win is the first over UCLA in sixteen years and the first ever by more than one run. The victory also marks head coach Kristy Schroeder's first win versus her alma mater. The series record between the two teams now stands at 59-3.
"We are really excited about our win. Jennifer Davis had a stellar performance and Brittany Putich came up with some great hits as did Tisha Duran with her couple of RBI. I thought we had great at bats today. We didn't score later on but I thought we had more opportunities than UCLA did," Schroeder said.
"We played a solid game all around. Jen Davis did a great job hitting her spot and the team did a good job jumping out and scoring especially when we were down by one run. It was a great win for us and hopefully we can carry this momentum into conference."
The Gauchos will return home this weekend to open their Big West Conference schedule against defending league champions Cal State Fullerton in a three game series to be played on Saturday and Sunday. Saturday will feature a doubleheader starting at noon followed by a single game on Sunday also scheduled for a noon start, the entire series will be played at Campus Diamond where the Gauchos have posted an 11-2 record so far this season.


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Two Independence residents face sentences in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming setting fire to the home of a local family in 2008.
Logan J. Smith, 25, and Victoria A. Cheek-Herrera, 34, this week pleaded guilty to two counts each: racially motivated arson and conspiring to threaten and intimidate to keep members of a family from exercising their constitutional right to live in their home because of their race or color.
The family – a man and woman and their minor children – lived in a house in the 600 block of South Arlington Street.
The incident happened June 26, 2008. In their plea agreement with the government, Smith and Cheek-Herrera admitted discussing their desire to set fire to the home, that they drew a swastika and wrote "White Power" on the driveway, and that they made and lit a Molotov cocktail – a glass bottle filled with gasoline, with a rag inserted to serve as a wick – and threw it into the side of the house, setting it on fire.
Both face up to 10 years in federal prison and a fine of up to $250,000 on each of the two counts.
Smith and Cheek-Herrera each face a statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for one count of conspiracy against rights and a statutory maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for one count of interference with housing rights.


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New Milford officials cancel Friday classes
NEW MILFORD -- Town officials have cancelled school Friday as a result of multiple threats received in the days following the massacre at Sandy Hook School in Newtown.
While police said there was no immediate danger to the students, "there have been an abundant amount of rumors and threats circulated around our schools," according to a statement released by the New Milford Police Department Thursday evening.
"The New Milford Police Department has investigated all these rumors and determined they were unsubstantiated," the statement said.
However, authorities added that "given the recent events in the state of Connecticut concerning the safety and well being of our students, the New Milford Police Department recommended to the superintendent's office that it was in the best interest of the community" to cancel school on Friday.
The decision was based on the magnitude of recent events and our present circumstances," according to the statement.
Sgt. James Brady said Thursday evening that no arrests have been made in connection to any threats.


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Museum of the Albemarle is venue for many events
By Rosana Castilho
For Museum of the Albemarle
Sunday, November 12, 2017
Many people think the Museum of the Albemarle is just a history museum that interprets and celebrates the cultural history of the Albemarle, an area spanning 13 counties across northeastern North Carolina. But the Museum of the Albemarle is more than just a museum; it is also a nice venue for many other activities.
Are you thinking of getting married? One of the first tasks on your to-do list is choosing a fabulous wedding and reception venue. And the question is: Where? The Museum of the Albemarle is a stunning building with a beautiful view of the Pasquotank River. A place to make the event part of a story that can be looked back on and enjoyed through photographs, videos, and memories as to the beauty of the event.
One of the exhibits now at The Museum is "I Do! Weddings in the Albemarle 1831 – 2015" exhibit. This exhibit will end Dec. 31. When you come to visit this exhibit you will be able to see the changes that have occurred in celebrating weddings, ceremonies, receptions, trousseaus, gifts and traditions since the 1800's.
The Museum of the Albemarle has also been used as a centralized meeting place. For example, representatives from surroundings counties met here to discuss with the North Carolina Department of Transportation the impact of the proposed Interstate 87.
The museum's facilities have also been used for class reunions. Northeastern High School classmates celebrated their 40th class reunion some weeks ago, with beautiful decorations and nice music. The museum has a kitchen facility to accommodate catered foods that the class reunion also took advantage of. All the former classmates had good time.
The museum has large enough spaces that Perquimans and Northeastern High Schools celebrated their proms here the last few years. The Portico was decorated with different subjects and the students had a wonderful time. Northeast Academy for Aerospace and Advanced Technologies has used the museum for both proms and graduation ceremonies.
Rosana Castilho is Museum of the Albemarle's event rental coordinator.
Church conferences and acting performances have been held in the comfortable and beautiful auditorium - another rental space available at the Museum.
A large conference room is available on the 4th floor. This has been utilized by representatives from the 13 counties who are now planning their 350th Anniversary next year!
Entertain at the Museum of the Albemarle and make any event an elegant affair. MOA is attractive and convenient to downtown Elizabeth City and is an ideal choice for a wide array of events including those previously mentioned, as well as business meetings, corporate dinners, community events, performances, anniversaries, holiday parties, family reunions, art and cultural festivals.
As you can see The Museum of the Albemarle is 'More' than just a Museum. If you are planning an activity or event, even though it might be one that was not previously mentioned, stop by to see if we can accommodate you. Then your activity or event could be added to the list that makes MOA more than just a Museum.
Rosana Castilho is Museum of the Albemarle's event rental coordinator.


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NOTE: Sci's got some major stuff going on now professionally which requires her full attention. But as I would hate for you all to be stuck without your Friday weird science (who could IMAGINE such a thing), I've arranged for some reposts.
Today's Friday Weird Science comes to you courtesy of Marc Abrahams, the founder of the IgNobel Prizes (which I'm going to next week! So excited!!). The study was featured in his new book, This is Improbable, and Marc was kind enough to send me a copy of this paper when I asked about it. (Ok, honestly, Marc has sent me a freakin' AVALANCHE of papers...because there were just that many awesome ones. And those were only the first 40 pages of the book! Marc Abrahams will be the official patron saint of weird science for the next year at least. Worship him, ye masses).
I didn't even have to come up with a fun title for this one!
Charles E. Siem "A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown" (last edited online 7/2010).
This is a funny little paper. I'm not sure it was ever peer reviewed, you can only find copies of it online, I have no record of where it was published, etc, etc. Not only that, it is entirely theoretical in nature, containing no references to literature on the subject, and with no studies into the actual physics (apparently due to a lack of female volunteers, as you read along...you'll probably figure out why).
In this paper, the author lays out the physics of the strapless dress. He begins by rhapsodizing on the strapless dress, and the many other ways in which women dress "to bring about [the] libido-awakening infliction on the poor male". He touches briefly on sheer tops, skin tight bodysuits, sweaters ("Another powerful attractant is the tightly fitted garment. A well-known example of the type of weapon is the sweater" You can't make this stuff up), and makes a brief mention of the bikini. He then moves on to his main subject, the strapless dress:
A delightful device which has sufficiently aroused the masculine sex is the use of durable but fragile-appearing cloth which gives the impression that at any moment the garment will slip down or that, better yet, certain parts may slip out of place. The best example of this method of attracting the attention of the weak and susceptible male is the strapless evening gown.
(Sci must note that I have worn a good share of strapless dresses in my time, and I never once thought of them in this light. This is something about the male gaze that I never needed to know. I will never look at my old bridesmaids dresses the same way...)
Once over the lingering pleasure of the many ways in which women dress, the author gets down to the question at hand, namely: How DOES this type of dress stay up. And being a guy who, I conjecture, has never seen a woman getting into or out of a strapless dress, he did not go to the immediate and sensible answer: Boob Tape.
Nope. He went to physics. And there certainly is a good deal of physics involved.
To aid us in our scientific foray, the author presents us with Figure 1:
It was here that I began to wonder if the author had ever seen a woman at all, let alone one wearing a strapless dress. But I think mostly he just couldn't draw.
But here we can see the main forces at work here. We have the forces F1 and F2, equal (presumably) and opposite, forcing the breasts apart (lift and separate!). You have the weight of the top (W), and the upward force of the fabric (V), which is due to the tightness of the fabric above the navel (plane A). Enough upward force (V), and the whole thing is at equilibrium and nothing falls down.
But that's ASSUMING there is enough upward force. Is there? If you take plane B alone (B for boobs! And obviously not for scientific reasons, no indeed!), you will see that there's not enough upward force to counteract the weight of the fabric (and, presumably, the breasts in it, which are not made of air, though silicone is of course an option). If you can't hold that dress up by sheer force of lift and separate...well you can't hold it up at all. The author claims that "If the female is naturally blessed with sufficient pectoral development, she can supply this very vital force and maintain the elemental strip at equilibrium." But I can tell you that sufficient pectoral development be damned, fabric won't stay up of its own will up there.
So how do you make up the difference? Here we have two options. The designer of the dress can use friction (F) to keep the dress from moving. If you increase F, the perpendicular normal force will also be increased, and the dress will stay up. When I think of increasing friction, I think of the rough side of velcro against my chest, and that doesn't sound pleasant, but what he means is that you can increase normal force by making the point at the tip of the breasts as tight as possible, which does indeed work, but can produce boob-squishery, or what is colloquially known as "baby heads".
Next, the author gets into the issues at hand when a lady decides not only to go strapless, but also to go BACKLESS ("some females require that the back of the gown be lowered to increase the exposure and correspondingly attract more attention.").
(Again...has this person EVER seen a breast in its natural habitat?! That shape is...it's...oh dear)
Now he refers to the downward angle known as "t", but which I cannot find in either of the figures. Anyway. Now you're backless. How do we keep these puppies from basking in the sun? Since you have less force coming in from the sides, you need to increase the force from below.
And as many women will know, this means boning.
This, my friends, is the inside hardware of your strapless dress. The thin lines you see are flexible plastic (or metal or even actual bones) boning, which gives the inside structure and allows the top to remain vertical despite whatever is inside it. If you ever see a strapless bridesmaids dress, for example, feel the inside of the top. It's firm. Some of them freakin' stand up on their own. That's boning.
However, as the author notes, there are other forces at work. Most particularly the downward forces caused by things like dancing, walking, and...life, and which require people wearing strapless dresses to haul them up when they think no one is looking. Strapless dress wearers of the world? I give you, BOOB TAPE. Know it. Love it.
But you have to keep in mind, this is all theoretical! "Many females have been asked to volunteer for experiments along these lines in the interest of science, but unfortunately, no cooperation was encountered. There is also the difficulty of the investigator having the strength of mind to ascertain purely the scientific facts."
...no wonder he had trouble getting volunteers.
The author maintains that the engineering of strapless gowns will have to remain trial and error. I think many of the people at this past week's New York fashion week could easily tell him it's been done. And the answers are tightness, fit, fabric, boning...and boob tape.


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I think it's safe to assume that many of us first dove into the Linux world through Mandrake Linux. Back then, Mandrake was the Ubuntu of its day; it was relatively easy to use, looked pretty darn good, and used KDE 2.x. For someone who came from Windows (this was even before I dove into BeOS; the only piece of software I've ever truly fallen in love with), KDE was a haven of customisation, features, and other cool things to explore. Mandrake made all this easy.
Sadly, all good things must come to an end - more so in the free software world. Mandrake Linux was probably the prime victim of the USS Ubuntu (which in itself has become a victim of the USS Unity and the USS Lackoffocus), and as a Linux user, that wasn't a bad thing at all. Ubuntu was better than Mandrake/Mandriva in virtually every way, and as is supposed to happen, Mandriva was forced to adapt. They didn't, or at least, they did but were too late.
After emerging from bankruptcy back in 2006, the distribution and its parent company lived a rather bland life on the fringes of the Linux space. It would seem that even that life is about to come an end, though, as the company's CEO has warned that due to shareholder infighting, the company will be forced to cease all operations come January 16.
I have to take a relatively rough stab at the whole story (since the Mandriva drama has been going on for a long time now), but it appears that a cash infusion of $4 million by Russian investors is being blocked by a minority Mandriva shareholder - with minority standing for a 42% stake in the company. ITWorld states it's all about the minority stakeholder not wanting to see its stake reduced by opening the doors to a new investor, but I'm sure more is going on there.
As far as I'm concerned, it's time Mandriva shuts its doors. It has run its course, there's no life in the old girl anymore. Ever since the company ousted its founder, Gaël Duval, I had little hope of the company rekindling the old flame. Sometimes, you should just let good things come to an end.


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Commander, a German Shepherd, at an American Kennel Club press conference January 30, 2013 in New York where the most popular dogs in the US were announced. The top five are Labrador Retriever, German Shepherd, Golden Retriever, Beagle and Bulldog according to AKC registration statistics.
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Opinion: Taranto Talks Back: Clown Politics
Best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto responds to comments from his Aug. 16 column, "Dog the Wag," on a controversy about an Obama-masked clown at a state fair. Photos: Jameson Hsieh/AP
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... double ECP and other groups or bear a son about recent climb performance in Missouri ... have a look ... I ... the ... the ... at that ... the ... I ... I ... I ... welcome back to Opinion Journal who was evident from that video but the flap was about a clown ... who was ... in funding for President Obama wearing a mask on his face the White House spokesman Josh earnest called it ... will not one of miseries finer moments and quote and then ... the clown lost his job but best of the Web Today columnist James Taranto defended the clown ... and now he's here to answer readers' comments James ... put up the first coming here and I quote ... the individual who took on the role of a clown in misery my if Mason people laugh but it was see the expense ... of so many others were cheaper ... well the piece that I wrote was about ... another clown make resurfaced Icahn wrote a piece on CNN saying ... this guy is not ... the following clown ethics that actually has a current code of ethics ... it turns out this guy is a rodeo clown he's not the same kind of clown Circus ... the difference ... the difference is that it has now seasoned professional clowns take themselves very seriously and I have this code of ethics and ... our I you know they're not supposed to make people uncomfortable apparently an ... innocent people are afraid of clowns so they have to do whatever they can do do a swatch their fears ... I mean it seems a bit overwrought today ... but we do the job a rodeo clown is basically safety it's not entertainment gets to protect ... the bullfighter from being bored ... and so I do we should go a little easier on the rodeo clown and we would on a circus clown or the kind of clown who performs a children's birthday parties and KLA have the last word on that answer ... to the next reader comment and I quote ... I wonder if there would be any problem had the clown than wearing a Bush or Nixon mask that's from Charles Sultan's ... SWAT silly little story in the mid nineteen eighties I was in Berkeley California visiting a friend who was in graduate school there ... and one afternoon in a park in Berkeley ... they have what they called the Berkeley anti Reagan Festival this was a literal he fast aimed at the then president of the United States ... I don't remember anyone trying to shut it down calling for the Secret Service investigate or anything like that ... it was understood to be you know perhaps a little silly props and foretaste but ... within the great American tradition of free political speech while Indian Double ACP in others can upset about this or that brings us to the next letter ... okay let's put that up on the screen and I quote ... but then cheering crowd in this respect for the office was not very pretty ... particularly given Obama xray Sandy and cultural similarity to more malicious attacks are passed ... and stereotypes we are all too familiar with that's from Robert do pray to saints well that answers your question ... odd but here's the problem you know the animal ACP says oh you can't ... tackle bomber you kept on mock him in this way ... because he's black ... there was a guy Alex sites wall but think his name is for salon who wrote this piece saying ... I'd you know this reminded him of forget what the analogy used are wise but all he compared it with the blackface performer in a minstrel show even though was not makeup that was AEI it was a mass ... art ... you know ... who is the race is the guy who makes fun of the present United States for the guy who looks to the likeness of the present United States ... and can only see this color ... I think that is the people who say don't make fun of Obama because he's black who have a racial double standard Obama is the present United States we have a black president that's terrific it's a sign of progress but part of being president is ... people market ... okay best of the Web Today columnist James


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LONDON (MarketWatch) — Losing a Triple-A rating is not what it used to be. The first couple of times it happens, it seems like a catastrophe, but after a while you get used to it.
So when the U.K. finally got thrown out of the club of top-rated nations last week, the market reaction was understandably muted. After all, Japan lost its Triple-A rating years ago. The U.S. lost it almost two years ago, and France last year. The pound wobbled a bit, and lost some ground against the dollar and the euro, but otherwise the market carried on much as before.
Indeed, the surprise was probably that Britain had managed to hang on to its Triple-A status for so long, not that it had finally been stripped of it.
The trouble is, it is going to get a lot worse from here. Unlike the U.S., the U.K. is going to lose another A and then another — until it gets all the way down to junk. It could easily be the first major developed country to see its bonds cut below investment grade. At some point on that descent, the ride will get very frightening indeed.
Here's why the downgrade from Moody's will be just the first of many.
First, the U.K.'s budget deficit shows no sign of coming under control.
In 2012, the U.K. government deficit totaled 8.7% of gross domestic product, according to figures compiled by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. That is more than in crisis-hit Greece, where the deficit was 7%, or in Spain, where it was 4.4%. In those countries, there have been significant cuts in public spending.
But in the U.K. spending is still rising rapidly — expenditure in January this year was 4.1% higher than in January 2012. Indeed, the deficit is about the only part of the economy still growing. Far from tackling the vast gap between what the government spends every year and what it raises in tax revenues, the best that can be said is that U.K.'s deficit is getting worse at a slightly slower rate than it was.
Two, the U.K. has a personal and corporate debt crisis as well as a government one. Some countries have massive private-sector debts — Ireland or Spain, for example. Some have terrible government debts — such as Greece or Italy.
The U.K. is virtually unique in having huge personal, corporate and government debts. The U.K. has total debts of more than 500% of GDP, according to McKinsey, once all three categories are added together. That is second only to Japan. And of course Japan is an economy that has not grown for two decades — and has seen its rating cut again and again.
Three, the next government will push the deficit even higher.
The coalition led by David Cameron is struggling to stay in power. The opposition Labour Party is 10% ahead in the polls. If Cameron couldn't win a majority in 2010 it is fanciful to imagine he can in 2015. But the opposition Labour Party makes Paul Krugman look like Friedrich Hayek in its addiction to big spending. It never sees a problem to which more borrowing is not the answer.
Its strategy will be to borrow more to kick-start the economy, on the assumption that higher growth will allow it to pay down the debt. Good luck with that, many of us will say. But regardless of your position on the wisdom of that kind of a Keynesian stimulus, the risk is obvious.
If the spending doesn't generate the increase in growth you expected, the debt will get much, much worse.
Four, taxes are not going to raise any more revenues. Many high-deficit countries can raise taxes to plug their deficits. Some, like the U.S. or Ireland, start with taxes that are relatively low as a percentage of GDP: the U.S., for example, collects 26% of GDP in tax, according to the Heritage Foundation. Others, like Greece or Italy, have notoriously weak tax collection systems. A lot of people don't pay tax. In either case, the amount of tax taken out of the economy can be raised, quite sharply if necessary. It's unpopular, but it closes the deficit.
But the U.K. already collects 39% of GDP in tax, and there is very little tax avoidance. The British are on the whole an honest lot who grumble about their taxes but pay up. So it seems unlikely any more can be taken out of the economy.
In fact, it now seems that when taxes go up revenues go down. The top rate of income tax was put up to 50%, but had to be cut to 45% because it didn't raise any extra revenue. The same applies even to taxes you might think people couldn't easily avoid. The tax on petrol, for example, will raise only £26 billion this year compared to forecasts of £30 billion — fuel now costs so much that people just drive less.
Finally, growth has been stopped in its tracks.
There is a growing body of evidence to suggest that once debt gets past a certain point, it slows an economy down. The U.K. seems intent on providing laboratory proof of that. While the U.S. economy is starting to grow again, the U.K. economy is still stuck with zero growth. If an economy can't grow, the debt just gets worse and worse.
The only other major country in as much denial about its deficit is France — and France does not have the same levels of total debt. The ratings agencies are often behind the curve, but when they come back to look at the figures in a year's time they will be worse. Spain has been downgraded all the way down to BBB-minus, just one notch above junk. But its debts are lower than the U.K.'s.
More downgrades are inevitable. That won't matter very much to investors in the U.K.'s FTSE-100 index: more than half the companies in the index earn the bulk of their profits abroad. But it matters to anyone who holds U.K. bonds, or sterling.
As the markets wake up to that, investors will start getting out of the currency a lot faster than they did this week. They have grown blasé about countries being downgraded to double-A. But not to BBB.
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(craft beer) "... is just about $27 per gallon, which would make a five gallon batch about 110 bucks..." Interesting math. $15 per sixer of 12oz bottles is pretty steep too.
Tried it out on Saturday by doing a double batch of Pumpkin Ale (recipe from Radical Brewing) and a single batch of G.Strong's Old English Ale. It worked like a charm, easier mount/unmount and didn't have to stir the grain as much in the mashtun - there was some heated water already in the mashtun when we began crushing.


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Horses, Angry Birds, Lucha Libre & More
Kids know how to party! Check out these festive celebrations from the Apartment Therapy Family channel, which posts kids' parties every day. We'll be bringing you a roundup of these inspiring parties every week.
• Elsie's Bright & Beautiful First Birthday Party
• Raedin's Angry Birds Party
• Clara's Horse Party
• Everett's Lucha Libre Party
• Norah's American Doll Party