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Robert Batlle is the 1:8 Offroad World Champion after the factory Mugen driver dominated what was a processional and uneventful one-hour final in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Starting the race from second on the grid Batlle took control of the race when pole sitter and early leader Ty Tessmann made a mistake allowing the Spaniard through from where he opened up a lead he would never relinquish to give Mugen their first win since 2004 and the first World title for Novarossi since 1990. Behind Batlle, Tessmann took the runners-up spot with HB team-mate Atsushi Hara third.
The first European winner since Frenchman Guillamne Vray took the title 8-years ago, Batlle said it was 'dream come through' and he was finding it hard to find words to describe how it feels to reach his ultimate goal. Asked about the race he said while it may have seemed like an easy race to onlookers he said it was far from it from a drivers point of view. Switching from the soft compound of Procircuit's Marathon tyre which he ran in the Semi to medium for the Main, Batlle said while his MBX7 was easy to drive track conditions made it a very difficult race. The first Spanish driver to be crowned World Champion, he said Tessmann had the speed to always be a threat and he had to push hard for the majority of the race. Setting the joint fastest lap of the race with Ryan Lutz, he said in the closing stages he started to focus on controlling the gap between himself and the Canadian.
With disappointment at missing out on the title written all over his face, Tessmann said while his buggy started to fade a little in the latter part of the race it was too many mistakes that ultimately cost him the win he had worked so hard towards achieving. 2012 has been the 19-year-olds coming of age with him winning a host of high profile races culminating in him being crowned US National Champion and one can only expect the quiet talent who likes to do his talking on the track will be one of the biggest threats to Batlle defending his title in 2-years time in Italy.
A legend of the RC racing World Hara's third place finish sees the Japanese ace becomes the first driver to finish three consecutive World Championships on the podium. Changing to a longer chassis after the Semi final practice and choosing HB's hardest compound Gridlock tyre for the main event he said the buggy, tyres and fuel mileage from his OS engine were good. Hara's third Worlds podium this year having finished runner up in electric touring car earlier his year and then again in nitro touring car last month, he said he 'tried his best' but he had too many mistakes. The 2008 World Champion said prior to the event he told himself if he wasn't competitive he would retire from the class but with a smile on his face he said his performance in the final has given him huge motivation for the next Worlds adding next time he wants to be back on the top step of the podium.
Snatching fourth position from Associated's Ryan Maifield on the last lap, David Ronnefalk was the top Kyosho with outgoing World Champion Cody King finishing 7th. Ronnefalk said he was 'super happy' with the result as it is the best finish to be achieved by a Swede. The 16-year-old, who made a great initial start to the race making up five places before catching an out of shape buggy at the double double which dropped him back to last, said his MP9 was not very good at the start but improved as the race went on and passing Maifield on the last lap was a bonus.
The top Associated in the race finishing one spot ahead of team-mate Yannick Aigoin, Maifield described his fifth place finish as 'alright'. The America ace said he crashed too much and a damaged drive train meant his LRP powered RC8 was difficult to drive in the last few laps. A driver who is not afraid to mince his words he said the best thing about the race was 'we now get to go the F#*k home.' Behind the two Associateds, Xray's Josh Wheeler finished 7th followed by the sole TLR driver to make the Main Dakotah Phend. The 15-year-old had a bad start to the race but pitman David Spashett said afterwards they didn't have the economy to be able to challenge for a good result needing fuel every six and half minutes.
The only driver not to finish the race was American Taylor Peterson after he suffered a receiver failure on his Mugen MBX7 while on for solid result with 5-minutes to go. Team-mate Lee Martin had a troubled Worlds final debut, the British driver suffering numerous engine flame outs. Despite this he persisted to the end to finish 11th behind Peterson. Managing to equal new World Champion Robert Batlle's fastest lap of the race Ryan Lutz finished the race last after he suffered a broken front centre drive shaft on his prototype Durango. Taking the buggy back to the pits his mechanic and Durango designer Gerd Strenge fitted an entire new front gearbox allowing the American to rejoin the race albeit 12 laps down on the leader.
A World Championship that has lacked the wow factor in almost every way hopefully it will lead to the manufacturers coming together to ensure that future events are worthy of the World Championship status. The pinnacle of ones sport should inspire future generations to follow their dreams and is that not also part of the reason for our sport having and investing in a World Championships. To our media colleagues Live RC, who despite valiant efforts by Brandon Rohde were unable to bring the world their usual top quality TV coverage, we hope this event hasn't diminished your passion for the sport and that if the manufacturers do decide on taking action that you are part of the package they create. Finally we would like to thank new World Champions Mugen, JConcepts and Serpent for making our coverage from Argentina over the past 8-days possible.
Main Final Result
1. Robert Battle – Mugen/Novarossi – 76/60:45.260
2. Ty Tessmann – HB/OS Speed – 75/60:13.874
3. Atsushi Hara – HB/OS Speed – 74/60:01.333
4. David Ronnefalk – Kyosho/Orion – 74/60:04.762
5. Ryan Maifield – Associated/LRP – 74/60:12.374
6. Yannick Aigoin – Associated/nVision – 74/60:50.218
7. Cody King – Kyosho/Orion – 73/60:39.724
8. Josh Wheeler – Xray/OS Speed – 72/60:07.733
9. Dakotah Phend – TLR/Orion – 72/60:18.770
10.Taylor Peterson – Mugen/Alpha – 67/55:01.026
11.Lee Martin – Mugen/Novarossi – 60:35.665
12.Ryan Lutz – Durango/Alpha – 60:14.762
View our event image gallery here.
Spain's Robert Batlle is the 1:8 Offroad World Champion after the factory Mugen driver dominated the 1-hour final in Argentina with the new MBX7 ahead of the HB D812s of Ty Tessmann and Atsushi Hara.
Provisions Main Final results
1. Robert Battle – Mugen/Novarossi – 76/60:45.260
2. Ty Tessmann – HB/OS Speed – 75/60:13.874
3. Atsushi Hara – HB/OS Speed – 74/60:01.333
4. David Ronnefalk – Kyosho/Orion
5. Ryan Maifield – Associated/LRP
6. Yannick Aigoin – Associated/nVision
7. Cody King – Kyosho/Orion
8. Josh Wheeler – Xray/OS Speed
9. Dakotah Phend – TLR/Orion
10.Taylor Peterson – Mugen/Alpha
11.Lee Martin – Mugen/Novarossi
12.Ryan Lutz – Durango/Alpha
Full report to follow shortly
The 12 drivers that will battle it out for the 14th 1:8 Offroad World Championship title this evening in Buenos Aires has been decided but despite being the most spectacular driver all week and the man to top qualifying Elliot Boots won't be taking part. Boots retired his Novarossi powered Kyosho 6-minutes into the first Semi final with a steering servo failure in his MP9. Winner of the first Semi, pole position for the 1-hour race goes to Tessmann with Robert Battle who won the second Semi starting directly behind the Canadian.
The first Semi final saw Tessmann take the win from Associated team-mates Ryan Maifield and Yannick Aigoin with Warm Up race Top Qualifier David Ronnefalk fourth with his Kyosho. Securing the last direct qualifying position was US Mugen driver Taylor Petersen. Big names to drop out at this stage of the event included electric Offroad World Champion Ryan Cavalieri, whose engine cut three times, TLR's Adam Drake and Xray's Renaud Savoya who both suffered flame outs.
In the second Semi which would prove the faster race and therefore provide the final two drivers to bump up based on being the fastest two drivers joining the Top 5 finishers from each of the 30-minute encounters. The race was won by Warm-up Race winner Robert Batlle ahead of 2008 World Champion & 2010 Runner up Atsushi Hara with TLR's Dakotah Phend third. Defending World Champion Cody King who started the day out in the 1/8 final and is set make his 4th race start in the Main event finished 4th and his Kyosho will start sixth on the grid. Lee Martin finished 5th to secure his first 1:8 Offroad World finals appearance while behind the British Mugen driver Xray's Josh Wheeler and Durango's Ryan Lutz secured the final two spots, Q4 TQ man Wheeler getting past Lutz on the last lap.
The biggest drop out of the second Semi was 2010 Top Qualifier and podium finisher Jared Tebo who flamed out three times putting him out of contention to progress. Ultimately the American star would retire with broken front suspension on his Kyosho.
Grid for Main Final
1. Ty Tessmann – HB/OS Speed
2. Robert Battle – Mugen/Novarossi
3. Atsushi Hara – HB/OS Speed
4. Dakotah Phend – TLR/Orion
5. Ryan Maifield – Associated/LRP
6. Cody King – Kyosho/Orion
7. Lee Martin – Mugen/Novarossi
8. Yannick Aigoin – Associated/nVision
9. Josh Wheeler – Xray/OS Speed
10.David Ronnefalk – Kyosho/Orion
11.Ryan Lutz – Durango/Alpha
12.Taylor Peterson – Mugen/Alpha
View our event image gallery here.
Defending World Champion Cody King will progress to the Semi-final after the American scraped through from his 1/4 Final just ahead of Serpent's Billy Easton. Having bumped up from the early 1/8 final which he won, the Kyosho driver had a terrible start to the 30-minute encounter as his MP9 ended up on its roof leaving him last of the 12 car field as he needed marshaling.
Up front TLR's young star Dakotah Phend controlled the race taking the win from A-Main Hobbies team driver Dylan Rodriguez with Team Durango's Ryan Lutz third despite getting a Stop & Go penalty for bad refueling. Phend's team-mate Miguel Matias suffered cruel luck as he retired from a bump position with a steering servo failure. Another TLR team driver to bow out was European Champion Darren Bloomfield who had the battery fall out of his transmitter during the race.
In the other 1/4 final, reigning electric offroad world Champion Ryan Cavalieri booked his place in the final 24 winning by 7 seconds from fellow American Barry Pettit who is having a great day having progressed from the 1/8 final which got today's action underway. 'Mr. Fuel Economy' Adam Drake who was the only driver to do 10-minute fuel stops, finished 3rd ahead of 3-time European Champion Renaud Savoya both progressing to the Semi final. The race saw the demise of Matt Castellano who finished 5th and JQ Products boss Joseph Quagraine who had tyre issues needing to stop in the race to fit a new front tyre as the rubber had parted company with the rim.
Grid for Semi A Final
1. Elliott Boots – Kyosho/Novarossi
2. Ty Tessmann – HB/OS Speed
3. Ryan Maifield – Associated/LRP
4. Yannick Aigoin – Associated/nVision
5. Davide Tortorici – Mugen/Bliss
6. Jerome Aigoin – Kyosho/Novarossi
7. David Ronnefalk – Kyosho/Orion
8. Taylor Petersen – Mugen/Alpha
9. Ryan Cavalieri – Associated/Orion
10.Barry Pettit – Mugen/Novarossi
11.Adam Drake – TLR/Novarossi
12.Renaud Savoya – Xray/RB
Grid for Semi B Final
1. Robert Battle – Mugen/Novarossi
2. Jared Tebo – Kyosho/Orion
3. Lee Martin – Mugen/Novarossi
4. Kyle McBride – Kyosho/Novarossi
5. Martin Bayer – Xray/LRP
6. Atsushi Hara – HB/OS Speed
7. Josh Wheeler – Xray/OS Speed
8. Renato Tradardi Jr – Associated/Novarossi
9. Dakotah Phend – TLR/Orion
10.Dylan Rodriguez – Kyosho/OS Speed
11.Ryan Lutz – Durango/Alpha
12.Cody King – Kyosho/Orion
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The final day of the 14th 1:8 Offroad World Championships has arrived and getting the day underway was the 1/8 Finals with the biggest news from the two 30-minute encounters being that defending World Champion Cody King, who ended up in the 1/8 B final after a disappointing qualifying in which he was only 38th, will progress to the 1/4 Finals. The Kyosho/Orion driver had a slow start to the race but worked his way to the front to eventually take the win ahead of the Serpent of pole position starter Billy Easton, Team Associated's Neil Cragg and Durango's Joern Neumann. Nuemann who bumped up from yesterday's 1/16 final started the race 9th and took the lead on the second lap and led for the majority of the race but having one more stop than his rivals, refueling on 6-minutes, he dropped back into the final bump position. The same race saw the end of the event for 2006 World Champion Mark Pavidis who finished 5th.
In the earlier 1/8 A Final German Kyosho driver Carsten Keller took a comfortable win ahead of Australian TLR driver Craig Laughton who started from pole. Just behind Laughton was American Mugen driver Barry Pettit with TLR's Matt Castellano claiming fourth and the final bump up position. The race brought to an end a good run for A-Main Hobbies team driver Chad Bradley who yesterday bumped up twice to make it through to the main day. The American missed the cut by 4-seconds finishing fifth behind Castellano.
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Kenya: Floods - Aug 2011
Starting August 2011, heavy rains in northwestern Kenya caused several cases of flash flooding in the Kisumu East, Nyando, and Turkana districts. Around Kakuma, an estimated 60,000 people experienced flooding with water sources, latrines and homes damaged (UNICEF, 17 Aug 2011). As of 12 December ,Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) estimated at least 25 people had lost their lives in flood-related incidents and approximately 15,045 households (91,692 people) were displaced from their homes (IFRC, 12 Dec 2011).
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- Horn of Africa Crisis - Situation Report No. 26
- Kenya Emergency Humanitarian Response Plan 2012+
- Kisumu west district crop, livestock and fisheries asessment report for high and medium potential rainfall potential areas - October 10th to 20th
- Better hygiene and safer water for 7000 drought-affected Kenyans
- Rainfall, disease, hitting refugee camps in Kenya, Ethiopia
UNICEF report: despite recent improvements, outlook for the Horn of Africa increasingly worrisome
More than 8 million people need emergency assistance
NAIROBI, 11 April 2012 – The massive humanitarian response in the Horn of Africa in 2011 reversed the spread of famine and saved tens of thousands of children's lives, but the outlook is increasingly worrisome, threatening the tentative gains achieved to date, according to a new UNICEF report.
World Vision welcomes the news that the famine is easing in parts of Somalia. The United Nations has officially downgraded the situation in Bakaool, lower Shabelle and Bay. At the peak of the crisis, malnutrition was affecting 53 per cent of the population in some areas of Somalia; now, that figure has fallen below the famine threshold of 30 per cent. But although conditions have begun to improve in the Horn of Africa for some, challenges remain great for the families who live there and the aid workers trying to respond.
· The security situation in southern Somalia, northeastern Kenya and areas around the Kenya- Somalia border remains highly unstable.
· Access to the drought-affected population in the Juba regions of Somalia and northeastern parts of Kenya continues to be impeded by insecurity and heavy rains.
· 60 cholera cases have been reported in Dadaab refugee camp since August, with ten laboratory confirmed cases as of 4 November. According to UNHCR, despite the limited medical resources at the camp, the situation is currently manageable.
Between September 1 and November 4, insecurity and drought displaced approximately 65,000 people from central and southern Somalia, according to the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Of the total population displaced, 17,500 people were displaced from Mogadishu, with 14,000 people moving to other areas within Mogadishu and 3,500 people leaving the city.
Increased attacks on civilian and police targets have been reported in Kenya this week, as the Kenya military incursion in southern Somalia continues.
Humanitarian operations at Dadaab refugee camps and drought-affected areas of northeastern Kenya have been increasingly restricted, and in some cases halted, due to insecurity and damaged roads resulting from the ongoing heavy rains.
· Tensions remain high in the region as Kenyan troops advance further in Somalia in pursuit of Al-Shabaab militants.
· Non-essential humanitarian operations in Dadaab refugee camp have been temporarily suspended due to insecurity in the area.
· Heavy rains continue to be received in the region, rendering some roads impassable but positively impacting on water recharging and pasture regeneration in drought-affected areas.
· Humanitarian actors in Djibouti are rolling out more clusters, enhancing coordination in the country.


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SunAce Australia
|SRSB Capital Funding Grant for compressor upgrade and voltage optimiser
SunAce is a leading polymer additive manufacturer in Australia. They produce an extensive range of PVC stabilisers and metallic stearates.
SunAce has commissioned two major energy audits in 2009 and 2011 to investigate low cost and effective measures for reducing energy consumption. Two of the major capital works projects recommended from these audits was a voltage optimiser and variable speed drive technology on the air compressor.
The existing compressor had no part load capabilities and was switching between full power and idle regularly, with idle power consumption of 40kW. It was proposed to install a new air-compressor with VSD capability. Operating and installed correctly this could lead to substantial energy savings. Analysis by Southern Cross Compressors, showed a 35% energy saving was achievable. It was also proposed to install a new voltage optimizer reducing voltage to 230 V (a reduction of 12.5V or 5.2%). The combination of these two measures will have a significant benefit on the operations at Sun Ace and lead to consistent and significant energy savings. The two measures could lead to a 13% electricity saving.
Enhar assisted Sun Ace by applying for a $25,000 Capital Funding grant through the Smarter Resources Smarter Businesses Program at Sustainability Victoria. They were successful in recieving this grant, which reduced their costs by 18%.
"The assistance Enhar provided for obtaining capital funding under the Victorian State Government's SRSB Energy and Materials Program was very professional and of a high standard. Enhar accepted the challenge to work within a very short time frame in order to meet the approaching application deadline. I am now happy to announce that Sun Ace (Australia) Pty. Ltd. is on the 2014 list of capital funding recipients for energy efficiency projects. I have therefore no hesitation in recommending their services to other prospective grant applicants."
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Liv Tyler dons a 'Hillary for President' tee and discusses her adamant support for women in the July issue of Violet Grey.
The down-to-earth actress explains to the digital magazine, "It's a competitive world, I guess, but all we can do is feel our best. I'm not a competitive person. I love women, I'm intrigued by them. I think they're fascinating and complex." Well said, sister!
Ever since her appearance in Empire Records, Tyler has captivated fans with her effortless charm and sensual energy; this spread is no exception. Tyler relaxes by the lakeside, sporting her signature tousled locks and electrifying grin. Tyler's friend and makeup artist Genevieve Herr applied an intense, vibrant cat eye and a royal blue manicure, which Tyler somehow manages to make look cottage-appropriate.
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Liv Tyler Emphasis Girl Power in the July Issue of Violet Grey
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Nigeria team go through to finals of Airbus global Fly Your Ideas contest
Nigeria's "Team Nevada", has been shortlisted by Airbus for the final round of its 2017 global Fly Your Ideas student challenge. The winners, who will be announced at a special event in Toulouse, France on 17 May, will walk away with the EUR30,000 prize.
The Lagos-based team, from Nigeria's Obafemi Awolowo University and Bells University, is led by 18 year old Biochemistry student, Anyaegbuna Kosisochukwu. His team-mates are 25 year old Mechanical Engineering student, George Okereka and Obianom Ekenedirichukwu who is 19 and studying Electrical Electronics Engineering.
Their entry proposes a novel system using electronic sensors and mathematical algorithms to automatically control aircraft on the ground when they are maneuvering around airports. This solution has the potential to significantly improve traffic flow at airports and reduce harmful emissions.
"We were motivated by the worst accident in aviation history (at Tenerife airport, March 1977), which occurred on the ground, and we were inspired by the precision of self driving cars in close-range driving. Together with my team-mates, we have developed an automated taxiing system which offers maximum efficiency without compromising safety," explained Kosisochukwu.
"We looked at how the new driver-less technology works and thought 'why can't we import something similar, but different for airplanes, that removes the human factor that causes about 90% of taxiing accidents?" added Okereka.
Kosisochukwu first heard about the biennial Fly Your Ideas competition when he was at high school, but had to wait until this year, when he became a university student, to assemble a team with a competitive entry.
"Making it to the finals is such an achievement on its own, it means that all the hard work paid off. It also taught us not to underestimate ourselves and at the very least we made it till here" said Obianom.


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Every week we get to play two tracks for Tom Robinson on his excellent BBC 6 Music Introducing show... you can listen again here.
Well this tune just automatically puts a big smile on our dial. Pumping electro pop with a great little vocal riff. This trio from Liverpool are fronted by big mouth Lizzie O'Neill, discovered at a house party dance off (er, can we come next time?) the two boys who produce and provide the stomping backing track knew they were onto something special. Saint Signal release this on the 26th March and no, we can't find much info about this independent label either. Embrace the madness and do a silly hipster head bop to this record... oh, and buy it whydoncha!
Remixes here:
The vinyl junkies indie Fruits de Mer decided to reinvent 'THE definitive rock opera/ concept album' - that's S.F. Sorrow by The Pretty Things - with some great new artists, the album is Sorrow's Children and is out in April. One of those 'great new artists' happens to be a TOW favourite, Hi Fiction Science. Their version of Private Sorrow is just fantastic, staying true to their Bristol roots - there's some trip hop in there and Maria Charles' ethereal psychedelic vocal lifting the track into another time and space.


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After my decluttering expedition on the weekend, I rediscovered a quilt top that I made in 2006. It was one of my first quilts with HSTs.
When I made it, I loved it and I still do. It was made with 1930's fabrics. I was planning to have it quilted for DH's grandfather but unfortunately his is no longer with us. So I'm planning to give this to another person, I've decided that it can go to a new home with my Grandpa.
In 2010, my Nan had 3 strokes very close together. We thought that we were going to lose her but she pulled through and made a miraculous recovery. Well this year my Nan and Grandpa moved into a aged care hostel close to my Auntie. My Nan learnt to quilt in her later years of life +75's and had started a number of quilts which she could no longer finish after her strokes.
My Mum inherited her UFOs and material. There was some fabric that Mum had to use for Nan to make her quilts out of. This is her Crinoline ladies using red and white fabrics. Mum hand stitched the ladies in variegated DMC red. (The dated photos are my Mum's photos which I got off Facebook).
So for Christmas this year, my Nan is getting her beloved pansy fabrics into a reversible quilt. The front of the quilt is hexagon flower garden blocks using her pansy fabric. The backing is pieced together with her left over fabric.
So I decided that I would give my Grandpa his own quilt for his new twin bed at his new home for Christmas. I just need to add some borders to the top and bottom of the quilt. It currently measures 54" x 61" and I want to make it longer for him. (A note to self... Iron quilt top before photos) Stay tuned for further updates.


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A Proposal for Etiologic Classification of Intracerebral Hemorrhage
stroke.ahajournals.org: August 2, 2012
The purpose of this study was to provide a simple and practical clinical classification for the etiology of intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).
Methods—We performed a retrospective chart review of consecutive patients with ICH treated at the Helsinki University Central Hospital, January 2005 to March 2010 (n=1013). We classified ICH etiology by predefined criteria as structural vascular lesions (S), medication (M), amyloid angiopathy (A), systemic disease (S), hypertension (H), or undetermined (U). Clinical and radiological features and mortality by SMASH-U (Structural lesion, Medication, Amyloid angiopathy, Systemic/other disease, Hypertension, Undetermined) etiology were analyzed.
Results—Structural lesions, namely cavernomas and arteriovenous malformations, caused 5% of the ICH, anticoagulation 14%, and systemic disease 5% (23 liver cirrhosis, 8 thrombocytopenia, and 17 various rare conditions). Amyloid angiopathy (20%) and hypertensive angiopathy (35%) were common, but etiology remained undetermined in 21%. Interrater agreement in classifying cases was high (κ, 0.89; 95% CI, 0.82–0.96). Patients with structural lesions had the smallest hemorrhages (median volume, 2.8 mL) and best prognosis (3-month mortality 4%), whereas anticoagulation-related ICHs were largest (13.4 mL) and most often fatal (54%). Overall, median ICH survival was 5½ years, varying strongly by etiology (P<0.001). After adjustment for baseline characteristics, patients with structural lesions had the lowest 3-month mortality rates (OR, 0.06; 95% CI, 0.01–0.37) and those with anticoagulation (OR, 1.9; 1.0–3.6) or other systemic cause (OR, 4.0; 1.6–10.1) the highest. Read more


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These days, I become winded very easily.
I notice it when I climb stairs.
And I especially notice it in karate class.
It's a hot, humid day today, with the temperature in the low 90s. The dojo is air-conditioned but the heat and humidity make their presence felt nonetheless.
Today's class was very rigorous, compounding the discomfort.
We were working on basic techniques taken from kata (set forms) that involved executing a block in one stance and a punch in a different stance. The emphasis was on making sure our movement and power came from our hip rotation. I was winded after just a few sets and became frustrated at myself for not keeping up with my sempai, or senior fellow student ("older brother," if you will).
And then an analysis of what I was doing technique-wise flashed in my mind.
In trying to keep up with my senior, I was being very stingy with my blocks and punches. That is to say, I wasn't executing full techniques. I was cutting them short in the interest of greater speed. I was doing the techniques halfway, especially the block and the hip rotation, arriving at the destination by taking a shortcut. Thus, the techniques felt as if they lacked power.
In a fight, that may be fine. But in trying to solidify my shaky foundation in the basics, it won't do.
So, I tried a different approach.
I was exhausted, so I gave up on the idea of trying to match the tempo set by the senior student. Instead, I decided to exploit my exhaustion, allowing it to give me the opportunity to execute each technique deliberately and fully, as if my life depended upon it. I tried to visualize an opponent in front of me.
My techniques became fuller, and had a feeling of power behind them, even if they weren't as fast as before.
It was at that point that I saw that exhaustion can be a great teacher.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Blessing and curse
Labels: Observation
6 comments:
- Michael said...
This is a great lesson, nicely described. It works outside the dojo too. Thanks for sharing it.
- Saturday, May 26, 2007 1:35:00 PM
- Michael said...
Hi Michael,
Many thanks for your comment. Yes, karate was merely the vehicle by which this lesson was learned. For me, it has broad applications and implications.
- Saturday, May 26, 2007 9:42:00 PM
- Zen said...
Yes, wonderful!
- Monday, May 28, 2007 12:43:00 PM
- Michael said...
- Monday, May 28, 2007 12:49:00 PM
- east village idiot said...
Jesus Christ. You should write a book. I learn so much from you.
I can't even do a cartwheel. Exhaustion or no exhaustion!
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:16:00 PM
- Michael said...
Hi EVI,
Here's the truth of the matter: I'm a slow learner. My first karate teacher explained to me 14 years ago -- 14 years ago -- how exhaustion can be a learning aid. On Friday, I finally saw, and felt, what he meant.
And, for the record, I can't do a cartwheel, either.
- Tuesday, May 29, 2007 11:41:00 PM
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"600 pages...."
That was my first reaction, when I heard that Amish's latest and concluding part of the Shiva Trilogy was going to be bigger than the earlier ones. The novel had already garnered a lot of anticipation and the buzz was building high. My little heart was weary with worry. I could not help but think of all the hyped concluding parts of so many other series'. Be it the JK Rowling's Potter Series or MR's Five Warriors. The buzz had always higher than the results that were delivered. Was Amish going to add to the list of disappointments? The book took a little too much time for release. The release date was postponed twice and the buzz and anticipation roared higher. My misgivings rose too.
When it came for pre-release order on Flipkart… I was fast to order it. It saved me 150 bucks and I would get the book before (or at the same time) it reached the stores. I was happy. Early last week, I got the mail from Flipkart saying the book will reach me by Thursday last and I was happier. Friday evening, I reached home to see a big parcel waiting on the table for me, and I opened it with nervous energy.
First things first: I don't like the cover. It's muddy and its less attractive on the earlier two. Had I not been a reader of earlier two, I would "not" have picked this one up ONLY by looking at the cover. (I mean, check the other two and then see the last one above and tell me...which "look" more interesting?)
Two: Phew… it's a BIG book. And for first two readings, I had real problem focusing, coz I took some time adjusting to the font. (But it's possible that dynamic fonts on my Kindle has spoiled meJ)
Three: I'm against reviews with spoilers. My reviews are usually are written to entice the reader of the review to grab the book and read it himself. But… it's going to be VERY hard task, to review the novel without spoilers. So, if you want a pristine review…walk away now … (or surf away, whichever suits you)
Now to the review.
It's going to be hard surmising the book in one word. And that makes my work real harder. So let me start with what I'm feeling. I wish the book was a bit shorter. Coz the story that Amish tells in essence is a very good narrative. It's just a bit too long. And first 300-350 odd pages, Amish stretches it too thin. If I did not have the bug in my head, which forces me to complete every series I start to read… I would have given up the novel after 200 pages. The Amish that you read in first two novel, who was crisp of words and solid of the ideas is lost somewhere in his attempt to explain the reasons and clarifying concepts. You expected him to start on with astonishment of discovering Brihaspati alive and well and then move on to finding the TRUE evil… sadly, it doesn't really happen like that. The book's back-cover talk about Shiva's journey to discover the EVIL and his true adversary and then destroying both. The back cover is not a lie. The story does chronicle Shiva's discovery of both. But the "discovery" happens in first 50 pages itself. And when the great EVIL is revealed… I found myself asking "Really? THAT'S the big evil? HE is the true adversary?"
(Spoiler alert)
The portrayal of the Somras as evil and Bhrigu as the mastermind of it all, is sadly under-whelming. So is the way it all is "revealed". Amish probably forgot that there was a gap of more than a year and half between his last installment and this one, so he should have taken some time to build the reveal, which he did not. And that meant a real shock-less exposure. The reasons that Brahaspati offers to prove Somras as Evil are also presented in a rather same manner. Had he talked about the plague in Branga a bit more or had his discussions around disappearing of Saraswati a bit elaborative, the impact might have been a lot stronger. Possibly, Amish was more focused on the story that unfolds AFTER the big reveal that this was missed. But because of it, I felt the reveal was really not THAT big. There were definitely times when you felt why Bhrigu was a great man to oppose, like when Shiva finally learns that he can read minds. (It was a creepy feeling, coz while Shiva was told that secret, Bhagirath was being grilled by Bhrigu)… but I believe this came a bit too late in the story and it lasted only for a small time, so again… a waste.
The next 250-300 pages, are all about war and war strategy. Somehow, these 300 pages were the worst part of the entire book. I understand that the book was based in a time when fighter planes and satellite communication was not present and the "wars" were fought over "years" and not mere days. That fighting against a vast expanse of Old India would have taken time… but was it really necessary for the reader to "feel" those long months? I mean seriously…it actually FEELS like you've been reading for more than 6 months…
I'm not a big fan of war movies/games/books. So, possibly, my un-interest had something to make me feel bored. If I take a bird's eye view, I realized that strike and counter-strike in the stories were actually good. Had it been crisper, It would have been much much better.
(Spoiler Alert)
Getting to the Vayuputra. For starters…They don't appear in the story for first 400 pages. So, "WHY" the novel is called Oath of the Vayuputras is open for discussion and your guess would be as good as mine. But once they do come in, and you do realize that geography wise Amish is talking about Parsi community, you kind of go with the flow. Adjust. J
The novel then picks up speed after that. The next 150-180 pages, you find the Amish that you had read in the past two books. The narrative is tight here onwards. The story progresses with speed, and even when things in Shiva's world happen over a long time, the novel quickly becomes a page turner. These last pages see a LOT happening. And even when I have shared some spoilers above, I believe these pages need not be revealed. They need to be read.
Going a little wry here… have you seen Harry Potter movies? Did you see how the movies derailed when they switched the director? And then when Peter Jackson once again took the reins of the movies in his hands, and the movies got their original flourish back… Oath of the Vayuputras is like that… first two novels were Amish's style… fast, interesting and gripping. Vayuputras' first 300-350 pages are like he switched the director in his head… and then after that switched back to the original director again.
So, even if it's a BIG book you could read it, only for the last 100 or so pages. That's where REAL action is. Even tha epilogue/end chapter is lame. The last page where Amish hints at what his NEXT novel is going to be… really feels like a stretch. But even with ALL these… it's a interesting enough end for what was an intriguing trilogy. J


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its been quite a while since i last posted, been really busy producing my final garments for the fashion module, but after lots of hard work its finally finished! and were off to Paris in 2 weeks which is going to be amazing!
Here's just a few things ive been up to!
My mood board and a few photographs i have taken and edited
Some close ups of the embroidery i have used on my final garments


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I have 14 pairs of running shoes - not because I am rich, nor because I am some kind of running addict- but because I have yet to find a truly comfortable pair!!! My most comfortable and usable shoes are Skecher GoRun 4's - BUT they are quite expensive here because of our lousy AUD/US exchange rate and they wear out underneath VERY badly making them actually more expensive than my second best Nike's.
Anyway, I have recently purchased a pair of Brooks Pure Cadence 3 at a "runout" store - these got good writeups a couple of years ago when they were first released - and now being an old model were reasonably inexpensive to buy - less than half the original price. Like the rest of my shoes - they seemed very comfortable in the store - but 30 minutes of running in them yesterday made them get tighter and tighter ( as I guess my feet swelled?) - I managed to finish my 45 minute easy run - but it became very painful. When I got home I took the inner soles out - to find that they are quite thick. Replacing them with el cheapo flat and thinner insoles makes it much roomier inside the toebox and I will see later this week how they go this way. I also have multiple pairs of socks - very thin ones, very thick ones and ordinary socks . I find that I have to wear different styles of socks in my different shoes and also dependent on what inner soles I have in them
Does anybody else have this unsatisfying relationship with their running shoes??? I do read about people who get blisters and black toenails from their shoes - and I cannot even imagine how this could be so. I would have discarded the shoes within 10 minutes of running if I had such badly fitting shoes!!!! Or am I just a sook!!!! ?)


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The leaders of many federally funded organizations in the area are on edge as they anticipate budget cuts that could kick in if the federal government sequester rears its ugly head on Friday.
The White House issued a report this week sounding the alarm that the state of Wyoming will lose some of its federal funding for schools, Head Start programs, environmental protection programs, military readiness programs, law enforcement grants, job assistance, child care subsidies, vaccinations for children, public health services, senior citizen nutrition programs and more.
Medicare reimbursement
According to North Big Horn Hospital CEO Rick Schroeder, the hospital is expected to receive 2 percent less in Medicare reimbursements within three days of the sequester going into effect.
Fifty percent of the hospital's business is Medicare and, for the most part, services to Medicare patients are already reimbursed at a fraction of other payers.
"We see it as a social responsibility to accept Medicare patients and I never see us even thinking about cutting coverage to Medicare patients," said Schroeder.
Schroeder explained that due to the hospital's "critical access" designation, the hospital receives an additional 1 percent from Medicare, which helps pay for new equipment like the recently purchased ambulance, CT scanner and Glidescope.
The mill levy the hospital receives from the community also helps to keep the hospital afloat, along with insurance reimbursements and private payments.
"We really appreciate that the community votes to support us through the mill levy whenever it comes up for vote," said Schroeder. "We depend on that income to stay current."
The 2 percent decrease in Medicare payments represents approximately $70,000 per year in lost revenue to the hospital. Schroeder said patients will receive the same services, but the hospital will get paid less for those services.
"I want to emphasize that if the sequester happens, Medicare recipients will not receive a reduction in services of any kind," explained Schroeder. "Their ability to obtain and receive services will not be compromised in any way. The hospital will take the loss, not the patient."
Schroeder said the hospital will continue its efforts to be as cost-effective as possible.
"We always try to save whenever we can but we never want to sacrifice being effective at the cost of being efficient," said Schroeder.
Park Service
"We remain hopeful that Congress is able to avoid these cuts," said Bighorn Canyon NRA Superintendent Jerry Case in a prepared statement released this week. "The National Park Service, like every government agency, has been asked to prepare plans in the event that the sequester happens. I can confirm, on background, that the impacts outlined in the retirees' release include potential consequences of the sequester. The planning process is ongoing and the information contained in the retirees' release should not be considered final."
The National Park Service, which is funded by the federal government released the following statement:
"The public should be prepared for reduced hours and services provided by National Park Service employees at 398 national parks, historic sites, monuments and memorials, parkways, trails, preserves and reserves, seashores and lakeshores, recreation areas and national battlefields.
"Visitors would see reduced hours of operation for visitor centers, shorter seasons and possibly closing of camping, hiking and other recreational areas when there is insufficient staff to ensure the protection of visitors, employees and historic, cultural and natural resources.
"The reductions would limit the National Park Service's ability to sustain a full complement of seasonal employees needed for interpretive programs, maintenance, law enforcement and other visitor services as we are preparing for the busy summer season."
According to the NPS, approximately 280 million people visit national parks each year. The dollars spent by those visitors support 247,000 jobs with an estimated $31 billion economic impact, mostly in local economies.
Senior Nutrition Program
North Big Horn Senior Center Director Denise Andersen said that although the meals program is funded in part by the federal government, she does not expect the sequester to affect the center's meal program.
"Everything we do here has a little bit of federal oversight," explained Andersen. "The federal funding isn't expected to run the whole program. We are expected to also come up with a certain amount of state and community funding. It's not a stand-alone program."
Andersen said approximately 60 percent of the center's operating budget is dependent on a combination of state and federal funds. The program will stand to lose approximately $16,000 per year due to an 8.2 percent reduction in the portion of its funding that comes from the federal government.
"We're in a better place than many other senior centers across the state," said Andersen. "We've always faced the possibility of the federal government pulling out from under us, but I believe that if it is right it will work out and this is a right service and it will continue because it is the right thing to do. We have fantastic support from the community, not only on our meals program but on every other program we are offering."
Andersen noted that the center is also a senior district and receives funds directly from the community in the form of a mill levy.
"It's discouraging to know that on the national level we may be taking these hits, but the encouraging part for us is that we had the foresight 13 years ago to establish a senior district and because of that, for the near future anyway, most seniors will not see any change in services."
School Funding
Big Horn County School District No. 2 Supt. Dan Coe said he didn't expect his school district would see any immediate impact on federally funded programs. He said federal programs, like Title I, might be affected down the road but the federal government has not stated that yet. As far as the immediate future is concerned, he said he wasn't anticipating any immediate effect on education in Wyoming.
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Although he is mild-mannered and self-effacing, Samuel A. Alito Jr. has compiled such a clear track record in 15 years on the federal appeals court that his nomination Monday to the Supreme Court sparked immediate reactions -- from both fans and critics -- that his presence on the high court would move it to the right.
Alito has written strongly conservative decisions on reproductive rights, the role of religion in public life, federalism, defendants' rights and the environment.
Those rulings have made him a darling of conservatives and precipitated an outcry from civil rights and women's organizations urging that his nomination be blocked.
By nominating Alito, President Bush fulfilled his promise to nominate "justices in the mold" of justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, said an enthusiastic Jay Sekulow, president of the American Center for Law and Justice, a group affiliated with evangelist Pat Robertson.


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Learned how to pronounce (badly) molon labe today. A cancelled appointment opened up a good four hours for studying. Sun is out and shining. Life is good.***
Memory Is A Tricky Thing, #187: I read the Baen Fantasy Contest guidelines the other day, and could have sworn the line went "political drama where nothing happens" and not ( as it currently reads) "political drama without any action."***
'Go sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time.' - Napoleon
Thoughts on the movie Noah -
Thoughts on the movie Noah -
Short version: I saw, twice. I liked. Thought it was fairly scripturally sound, and that the variation from Genius were more like the difference within the Synotic Gospels than the differences between those recitations and that of John. Wonderful special effects, thought the actors really brought out the humanity of the characters.
As an animal-oriented person, I always loved the story of Noah's ark. (Heck, I loved most of the Genius stories. Because they were stories - people did things. Things happened. Wonderful things. Numbers, on the other hand…) As a child, exposed to the more-or-less sanitized versions of Maxwell's Bible Story, I was most interested in how the details of the ark's journey would have gone – how to keep the lions from eating the zebras, for example, and just how he kept the rabbits at two.
(Having Bill Cosby's records playing in my parents house as a regular thing didn't help.)
Joss Weldon took a stab at the physics of the issue -
(River Tam: We'll have to call it early quantum state phenomenon. Only way to fit 5000 species of mammal on the same boat.)
but never did that much with it.
but never did that much with it.
(Which is a bit of a shame, seeing as the metaphor of Serenity as an ark on a journey of salvation was right there, ready to be taken up, played with, mocked, subverted, and mangled, just as Weldon did with nearly everything else. Dad nab you, rat bastards at FOX…)
It would not surprise me to find that this is the general take on the Noah story – that it's all about this guy who loves and saves animals. Much like Mad Frankie, we have internalized the warm fuzzy and rejected the harder parts of the lesson. (This keeps happening in biblical animal stories – everyone remembers the whale that et Jonah, yes? How about the vine that died?) In an interview, Russell Crowe related as much, inside the movie universe – that people who save animals must be good, right?
Turns out, much to the distress of my pre-teen self, that the Noah story is not about the animals. It never really is – Star Trek is not about Klingons, Avatar is not about blue giants, and none of the Thor movies is about otherworldly aliens, nor superhuman godlings, nor the Nine Realms.
It's about us – us, and the God that made us.
In that context, Noah-the-Scripture is about listening to God, living under God's guidance (or not) and living with other humans. All those messy human/God things, and very little about the sparkling wonderful things of creation.
In that context, Noah-the-movie is the crazy guy – rejected by his community – who spends a very long time preparing for something which any reasonable person could tell you was without precedence. Noah is about that crazy guy and how he fashions a mechanism that saves the animals of the earth – yet lets all the rest of humanity drown. Noah is about how alone even a whole family can be, without a wider connection to the rest of humanity.
And Noah is about learning to listen to God.
The production values for this film were very high – frame after frame of frameable art. I thought the acting was very well done, and the writing supported the acting and the film's art. In particular, the Cainite king had all the best lines – spoke all the thoughts and all the objections that have rattled around in my brain. A friend had issues with the relative passivity of Noah's family members, but I can see the reactions of real people, trying to hold a family together, unwilling to shatter the bonds of the last humans in the world.
Other reviews have hit on the most visible theological concepts (the Watchers, a pre-Covenant God, the other two wives) but I accepted the version presented without much issue. For the Watchers – the whole concept of angels and grace and divine control is beyond my ken and my sphere. It is a matter for angels, not for men. The world shown in the film is not the one we currently inhabit. Other issues (racial diversity, veganism, accents) I do not consider to have a large enough impact on the story for mentioning.
As for the other two wives…
Many critics of Christianity point to the heavy hand of the OT God as one of the most off-putting parts of my faith. And I can't say that they're wrong. (I'm still grieving over Pharaoh's horses and charioteers.) But in many (not all – not that I've found) in many cases, what is put forth as cruelty and harshness of God can more easily be read as a failure of humanity to live up to our potential.
In the case of the Noah story as put forth in this movie, there is room to view Noah's "final solution" as a human error in understanding God's plan. Surely not all of humanity was to enter the ark – not all animals were taken, after all, and it appeared that an overwhelming majority of humanity had fallen into habits of cruelty, depravity, and violence that rejected the guidance of God. One need only look at the damage done to Ham during his brief tutelage under the Cainite king to see why permitting a large number of such people on the ark was not practical, in terms of establishing a humanity washed clean of those sins.
(If anyone wants to suggest that bringing young women on board would have been perfectly okay, on accounta young women couldn't/wouldn't harm/warp anyone, dude. Get off my island, and go find some other place to ruminate on women as helpless things by definition.)
(If anyone wants to suggest that bringing young women on board would have been perfectly okay, on accounta young women couldn't/wouldn't harm/warp anyone, dude. Get off my island, and go find some other place to ruminate on women as helpless things by definition.)
But there is a wide space between "all humanity wiped out" and "save everyone". Noah errs – and I think this is pretty clear in the film – by assuming that God intends the first. It would be very hard to argue Scripturally that God intended the later - wanting everyone to repent and everyone repenting are not the same things. Which leaves that space in the middle – space which, Scripturally, has been taken up again and again by multiple people: Lot's family, Noah's, the 10 righteous, the woman who hid the Israelite spies, etc, etc.
A God who would wipe out all of humanity is not a merciful God. A God that would permit horror to go on without consequence is not a just God. If we demand that all of us be saved, we are claiming that none of us should be held to a higher standard. This is the error of those who think that our sins are without consequence. (And day to day, our numbers are legion.) If we demand that God do away with all of us, we are claiming that none of us should be granted forgiveness. This was the error of Noah, and of some anti-human environmentalists.
I think that many hold to some version of "many will be saved, but not all". This solution is not perfect, either – and again, it is mostly due to human error. When we start assuming a perfect knowledge of who is acceptable to God, of who will be saved and who will not – that road is paved with Pride, lined with Envy, and shaded with Wrath. This is the error of those of us who forget that Christ died for Cain, and Pilate, and Hitler, and Ted Bundy, and every hateful, murderous, soul to every walk the planet.
Did one of those repent, and beg God for forgiveness, and resolve to sin no more – God would have shouted in delight, a hundred times more glad than when any of us more ordinary sinners comes creeping back to confess our sins.
I get, I think, why Noah refused to bring any of the Cainites onto the ark. And I would have understood why he would have hesitated to do so, even if he did eventually relent. But I would like to think that if it had been I, that I would have opened my heart and mind to God's guidance, and taken as many with me as the ark could have held.


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It's as if the whole world is wearing them! Despite my usual view and the rising sun lighting up Red Rocks, I know that the "big picture" is anything but rosy, especially for those of us who care about the Earth.
This morning I've been reading around in Honest Ab's blog (no typo there), and even ventured over to his website. Dr. Stanley Rice is honest indeed, about our planet's situation and its prospects, no rose-colored glasses there. Too bad I didn't find him last week; he would have been good on our "rant" list! See his archive for July-Sept 2011 and scroll down to You Can't Do Just One Thing and Our Great Big Opportunity for some entertaining reading.
Even the dog looks to be alert in this morning's dawn. He has few worries. His (and my!) advancing age mean that our chances of being greatly at risk in the coming "transition" are relatively slight, and diminishing with each passing year.
It's young people, and the young of all species, I fear for most these days. They traditionally "have their whole lives ahead of them"... but that isn't the joyous prospect it once might have been.
The rosy outlook above was fleeting, fading quickly into a grey cold day with promise only of snow.


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10. Ignore the size on the label – Buy the size that fits! Remember that size and stature are often associated with leadership and power. Be proud of who you are!
9. Ignore the old taboos – Yes, big guys can wear bold-colored sport coats and horizontal stripes. (Just wear them with confidence). Must your belt match your shoes, your socks match your pants? It's always appropriate, but no longer mandatory – wear colors you love and feel good in.
8. Have fun with accessories – Fashionable eyewear, pocket squares, a great leather bag, contrasting shoelaces – details make a difference.
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6. Get the right belt – Don't wear a dark leather dress belt with light colored khakis – try a fun color or a coordinating lighter shade. (A dark belt can draw a thick line across your widest point – not a flattering look!)
5. Color Coordinated – A flattering look: a knit vest or v-neck in the same color as your pants. (Try a subtly lighter shade…this looks excellent layered under a jacket).
4. Custom clothing- There's nothing better than Made-To-Measure dress suits, trousers, and shirts: treat yourself! (You'll be surprised…it's not a big up charge from off-the-rack but you'll love the fit).
3. Buy quality – In fashion, as in life, you usually get what you pay for. Buy quality clothes.
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The first grave is that of William J. and Rose C. (Benoit) Duffy (my great-grandmother's sister and brother-in-law).
|Photo taken July 15, 2013.
|Photo taken July 15, 2013.
The second grave is that of Lawrence and Esther Irene (Meagher) Perry (my great-grandfather's sister and brother-in-law).
Video taken on July 15, 2013.
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The increasing requirements for mechanical and electronic product function quality place high demands on the design of test and production systems. This in turn necessitates the use of special instruments to measure:
- Length
- Force
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- Current / voltage / resistance
- Radio frequency and power
- Inductivity and coil quality
- Light intensity
Testing and measuring these and other dimensions are another core competence of Huf Tools.
Camera-Assisted Recognition Systems
Camera-assisted recognition systems use the many possibilities of image processing to detect the position and nature of components, and also measure and sort them according to defined criteria. In the assembly of worm gears in electronic ignition lock housings (ELV), the individual gears are delivered in blisters and supplied to the production line by a compact stack storage system. A camera on the robot detects the position and rotary position of the worm gear and transfers the coordinates to the robot controller for correct positioning.


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2NE1 is dreaming of a special debut.
2NE1, awaiting their debut in May who has had the name 'Female Big Bang', is said to be debuting in a particular way. YG Entertainment is preparing 2NE1's debut in secrecy.
A spokesperson from YG Entertainment said, "2NE1 will be debuting in a different way to the normal way groups debut and that they are not at the stage to reveal in what way they will be debuting."
2NE1 has already gained popularity through 'Lollipop' with Big Bang which has been number one on many online music charts. It is also said that 2NE1 will be the best rookie of 2009, and because of this, their special debut is getting more interest from fans.
Meanwhile, the song 'Lollipop' is hogging the #1 positions on various music charts. Not only that, the song is also doing very well winning the #1 positions on various caller ringtone and bell song charts – one of the most successful CM songs released.
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US court declines Khobragade indictment relief
A Manhattan court on Wednesday rejected diplomat Devyani Khobragade's request to extend her indictment deadline beyond January 13, clearing the way for her prosecution.world Updated: Jan 09, 2014 10:55 IST
A Manhattan court on Wednesday rejected diplomat Devyani Khobragade's request to extend her indictment deadline beyond January 13, clearing the way for her prosecution.
Khobragade had sought more time saying the indictment deadline was "negatively affecting the ability of counsel and the government to engage in productive plea negotiations".
The diplomat has been in plea bargain talks with Manhattan US attorney Preet Bharara's office, but has, through her lawyer, tried to keep it out of public view.
"The defendant's request for an adjournment of the preliminary hearing date is DENIED," ruled Sarah Netburn, United States Magistrate Judge for Southern District of New York.
The prosecution has until January 13 to file an indictment -- roughly the same as a chargesheet -- 30 days from arrest (she was arrested on December 12).
On January 13, the court will decide in a preliminary hearing if the case should be committed to trial, a majority of criminal cases reaching this far do end up in trial.
To prevent that possibility, the government encourages plea bargaining, allowing defendants to plead guilty to lesser or fewer charges in return for reduced punishment.
Khorbagade's choices from the start have been basically three, according to experts. One, she enters into a plea deal, admits guilt and walks away with minimal punishment, a fine.
Two, she pushes for the case to be dropped or dismissed, the preferred choice. But the US department of justice has made it clear it will not drop the case, having come this far.
Third, take a G-1 visa, which apparently is on the table, granting her diplomatic immunity because of her transfer to the Indian mission to the UN, and leave the country.
Sources on both sides insist the demand for dropping the case was unrealistic. Her real options, they added, were a plea deal or leaving the country.
But the leaving the country was not the issue before the court. It only had to decide on Khobragade's claim that the indictment date was making plea deal discussions difficult.
Her lawyer Daniel Arshack had claimed in a letter to the court that impending deadline was severely hampering communications with the government.
Though he did not describe the nature of those communications, he was referring to plea deal talks, according to a letter filed in response by the Manhattan attorney's office.
"The defendant has requested only that the preliminary date be adjourned for 30 days for good cause shown," the judge said, adding, "Because a modification of the hearing date will not itself alter the time period for the filing of an indictment or information, the defendant's concerns regarding the pressures of an impending indictment on plea negotiations will not grant her the relief she seeks."
Bharara's office had told the court earlier that the plea deal discussion could continue beyond the indictment, therefore there was no need to extend it for that purpose.
Khobragade has been charged with visa fraud and making false statements, which could together get her a maximum punishment of 15 years if convicted.
But that's the maximum, government sources have said, adding, she could have gotten away get away with far less as a first-time offender with no history of offenses.
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Hello dear blogging friends !!
I am back today to show you another one of the Susana Loves Stamps Collection. And from my title you can see this beauty is Garden Eyes !!
Isn't she just adorable???
I have colored her with copic's and have used some spica glitter pens.
Lots of glamour dust and some diamond glaze on the eyes.
The paper pad I used is from Authentique called Free bird and you all need to check out all of Susana's collection of paper. You won't believe the large variety.
Well I hope you have enjoyed this gorgeous Garden Girl
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Quiksilver BLACKS 21 Boardshort with super-soft satin backed finish. All-over contrasted, Quiksilver laser-printed artwork. The Quiksilver BLACKS 21 Boardshorts have a fixed waist with tie detail and Velcro fly fastener. There is a contrasted, flapped pocket on the outer right leg, with embroidered branding, containing a wax comb bottle opener. They also sport an attractive rubberised Quiksilver logo on the reverse of the waistband. Length 21". Material 100% Polyester. An impressive, light-weight boardshort from Quiksilver.


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Related Information for Brassy Brassy formed in 1994 and were based in Manchester, England. Their line-up comprised Muffin Spencer (from New Hampshire, USA, the kid sister of Jon Spencer of Jon Spencer Blues Explosion) on vocals/guitar, Jonny Barrington (a.k.a. DJ Swett) on drums/samples/scratching, Stefan Gordon on guitar and Karen Frost on bass.The band released two albums, Got It Made (released in 2000) and Gettin' Wise (released in 2003). Their early singles were released on the Costermonger imprint and from 1.. read more


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Remarkably, considering the price, the 300 also bundles live traffic updates. The Traffic icon lets you browse current alerts, but specific warnings will pop up as you travel, too. These will give you the option to reroute around a detected problem. The alerts come via the traditional RDS-TMC system using an FM receiver in the car power adapter, so have the usual issues associated with that service. In other words, updates arrive every 15 minutes or so and only cover a fraction of UK roads. So RDS-TMC is useful for avoiding jams on motorways and major trunk arteries, but not so great for more local routing.
The Points of Interest database has been augmented with travel information for key UK towns from WCities. You can access this via the Travel Book. So alongside the location of POIs you can read a brief description of each one and even opening hours in some cases, to help you plan tourist trips. The most frequently used POIs have their own buttons, however, so you can find nearby petrol stations, medical facilities, tourist attractions, restaurants, car parks and cash machines with a single finger press.
In everyday use, the 300's map view provides a decent level of information. The interface has been pared back a little from Navman's Smart ST, and now leaves most of the screen area for the map. Along the top is a bar indicating the next turning, and just beneath on the right is a box which can show your choice of details such as distance to destination or ETA. This is perfectly adequate for most journeys, although TomTom manages to fit virtually everything you could want into the same space, even if the end result is a little less aesthetic.
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Awarded the "Atmospheric Water Generation for Forward Operating Base" CCD contract with the UK Ministry of Defense (March 2012). GEN-350G was exhibited at the NATO Capable Logistician Exercise as one of the two products representing the UK Ministry of Defense fields of innovation (May 2013). It is MIL-STD compliant and field proven.
The GEN-350G is a medium scale, and highly mobile water generator aimed for fast and easy deployment at all weather conditions. Weighing 800kg, the GEN-350 can be easily mounted on a small truck or SUV, servicing water to remote, and otherwise difficult to access locations. The GEN-350G includes the patented GENiusTM, the world's most energy-efficient Atmospheric Water Generator (AWG) module of its kind. The GEN-350G has an integrated energy optimization module, that constantly optimizes water production in accordance to external atmospheric conditions (day-night, seasons, geographic location, altitude etc.). The system has a built-in 200L water reservoir and a water treatment system, keeping the water fresh. The water can be dispensed directly from the system, either cold, or at ambient temperature.
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text: How many droids have been sold? Is it massively popular, or is it a niche market? I'm curious because the downstream effects are important (more apps, more support, etc) to us as users. I've noticed everywhere I look and read about apple/iphone the droid is mentioned. It seems as if this comparison is neverending. Personally, I try not to compare the two when people stop me and ask me questions about the phone. They are different, and I'm glad they are. But it seems to me the iPhone users are a bit paranoid, like the droid is a serious contender (which, in all honesty, it is), even if they won't come out and say it. As a side note, everyone who's seen my phone has always asked a question about it. "What is that? Can I see it?" "Hey, that's a nice phone", etc etc. So, as I said.. anyone have any info on what droid sales have been? -Wil


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Pope of Debunkers
Robert Shone's blog, Dissident 93, covers a variety of Lancet topics. Here is a good summary of why so much of the criticism of the Main Street Bias work is incoherent. Via his blog is also this useful Science article.
www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 319 18 JANUARY 2008 273
A team led by the World Health Organization
(WHO) has produced a new estimate of
the number of Iraqis who died violently in
the first 40 months following the U.S.–led
invasion: between 104,000 and 223,000.
This figure, published online last week by
the New England Journal of Medicine, hews
close to some other attempts to quantify the
toll but comes in far below a controversial
2006 study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Maryland.
That group estimated approximately
600,000 violent deaths during the same
period. The discrepancy has prompted critics
to renew their charge that the Johns Hopkins
results are not credible.
Data from a war zone are never fully reliable;
the best researchers can hope for is
"getting the numbers roughly right," says
Fritz Scheuren, a statistician at the University
of Chicago in Illinois and past president
of the American Statistical Association.
Escalating violence in Iraq after 2003 put a
limit on quality control, but researchers do
have a quantitative starting point: the casualty
tally made by Iraq Body Count, a nonprofit
advocacy group based in London. By
controlling for multiple accounts of the same
car bombs and shootings, the group estimates
from media reports that between
81,000 and 88,000 violent deaths have
occurred in Iraq since the invasion. The figure
is useful as "a lower bound on the true
number," says Jon Pedersen, a statistician at
the Fafo Institute for Applied International
Studies in Oslo, Norway.
To get the upper bound, says Pedersen,
you have to knock on doors in what is known
as a two-stage cluster survey. That's the
method used by the WHO and Johns Hopkins
teams, among others. Researchers divide the
country into regions and then sample clusters
of households within each. Finally, they
extrapolate mortality rates from those clusters
to the total population.
Epidemiologists Les Roberts and Gilbert
Burnham of Johns Hopkins published the
first Iraq cluster study in November 2004 in
The Lancet. They used data collected by
Roberts and an Iraqi team, which, in September
2004, surveyed 988 households in
33 clusters across the country. They arrived
at a figure of 98,000 "extra" deaths since the
invasion, about half due to violence. Soon
after this, a team led by Pedersen and the
United Nations Development Programme,
which had used a much larger sample of
21,668 households in 2200 clusters, produced
an estimate for roughly the same
period of about 25,000 violent deaths.
As the invasion gave way to occupation
and insurgency, Rober ts and Burnham
mounted another study. This time they left
the surveying entirely to the Iraqi team,
communicating from abroad. Published in
October 2006 in The Lancet, the second
survey—based on 1849 households in
47 clusters—estimated that 601,000 Iraqis
died violent deaths between the 2003 invasion
and July 2006. To many, the number
seemed unrealistically high. Some also
faulted the authors for not fully answering
questions about the survey's methods
(Science, 20 October 2006, p. 396).
Now comes the WHO survey. Conducted
with the help of the Iraqi government, it is by
far the most comprehensive mor tality
assessment to date. Interviewers visited
9345 homes in more than 1000 clusters. But
its estimate of 151,000 violent deaths has
come in for some criticism, too. Unlike other
Iraq casualty surveys, this one includes an
upward adjustment of 35% to account for
"underreporting" of deaths due to migration,
memory lapse, and dishonesty. "That is
really an arbitrary fudge factor," says
Debarati Guha-Sapir, an epidemiologist at
the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research
on the Epidemiology of Disasters in Brussels,
Belgium. But the number falls squarely
within the range produced by a meta-analysis
of al l avai lable mor tal i ty studies by
Guha-Sapir and fellow centre epidemiologist
Olivier Degomme. The Johns Hopkins
figure is an outlier, she says.
Why the Hopkins study came up with
such a high figure is not clear. Criticism of
the study has in fact intensified since Burnham
and Roberts released a data set to
selected peers last year. "It did
not include the standard kinds of
data," says Seppo Laaksonen, a
statistician at the University of
Helsinki in Finland and a specialist
in survey methodology.
For example, he says, it was
impossible "to check the objectivity
and randomness of cluster
selection." Scheuren, who also
received the data, wanted to
compare results obtained by different
interviewers to "get a handle
on noise" and check for fabrication
by surveyors. Rober ts
declined to provide all the
details, according to Scheuren,
saying that he was concerned
that this would risk the safety of
the interviewers.
Burnham told Science, however,
that the Johns Hopkins
team does not have such detailed
information. "Our goal was to
reduce any type of risk to the community
and the par ticipants," says Burnham.
"While we have much of the raw data, we
requested that anything designating the
interviewers or the location of the neighborhoods
visited not be sent to us." Laaksonen
responds that he would not have published
"any f igures for the country" if he didn't
have direct access to such raw information
from surveyors.
Burnham is not retreating. Because the
WHO survey was conducted by Iraqi government
personnel, "people may have been
hesitant to answer honestly," he says. He
claims that unlike those in the WHO study,
nearly all of the deaths tallied by the 2006
Lancet study were verified with death certificates.
Even if the debate may be drawing
to a close about whether the number of violent
deaths in postinvasion Iraq could be as
high as 600,000, the argument about methods
is clearly far from settled.
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H.Res.991 - Commending the University of Virginia men's soccer team for winning the 2009 Division I NCAA National Championship.111th Congress (2009-2010)
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Hello everybody,
We are a project group from the Amsterdam Fashion Insitute and we do an investigation about the tourists who visit Amsterdam. Because of this we have some questions for you guys what will help us to learn more about the tourists. We hope you have the answer to our questions so we can go on with our investigation. Thank you very much….
Anouk, Laurianne, Linda and Loes from Amsterdam
1. To exam the differences between men and women we ask your gender:
0 Man
0 Woman
2. To exam our target group, as well is possible, we ask your age:
0 Younger than 20 years old
0 Between 20 and 30 years old
0 Between 30 and 40 years old
3. Which two possibilities has your preference to spend your holiday?
Activities 0 0 0 0 0 Relax
Luxury 0 0 0 0 0 Low budget
Visit a city for the weekend 0 0 0 0 0 visit a city for a week
Culture 0 0 0 0 0 night life
4. If you visit a city for the art what will you find of several galleries within a radiate of 1 kilometer?
0 boring
0 ideal
5. What would you find about a bed&breakfast at the artist's place or gallery holder's place, during your on art oriented visit to Amsterdam.
0 I don't like this idea
0 I like this idea
6. You will visit Amsterdam because off……
0 The sex, drugs rock and roll
0 The art culture and curiosities
7. During your visit in Amsterdam you will go to…..
0 The well known things like the 'van Gogh museum'
0 The less known things like the 9 streets with her galleries
8. What is according to you the image of Amsterdam? 0………………………………………………………………….
9. Would you during your journey to artistic Amsterdam be open for surprises like a lesson in painting?
0 no thank you
0 yes, that would be nice
10. I prefer the city Amsterdam above cities like Paris (romantic) and Berlin (historically) because of….
0 The sex, drugs rock and roll
0 The art culture and curiosities
0 The Multi-cultural city and kindness
11. Which thought is negative when you think about Amsterdam? 0……………………………………………………………………………


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ABOUT THE CTeL FALL SUMMIT 2018
The CTeL Summit brings together Fortune 500 executives and telehealth stakeholders from prominent hospital systems, providers and payers, care visionaries, researchers and analysts, legal experts, technology prophets, policy influencers, and policy makers all actively innovating in private organizations, government, academia, and non-profits.
Under the microscope at the Summit table will be:
- Telehealth best-care practices
- New technologies and research insights
- Innovative business approaches
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- Telehealth public policy governance
All promising to deliver an interactive and though-provoking experience.
- Engage in substantive dialogue with those in telehealth who are the catalysts for growth
- Learn about how and where new models of telehealth delivery are evolving
- Hear the difficult, yet essential questions, and the hard answers on compliance issues
- Participate in debates with those passionate about quality telehealth care
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- Learn from stakeholders about what is working and what isn't, in telehealth practices across North America and in emerging global markets
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At this they began to argue with each other because they hadn't brought any bread. Jesus knew what they were saying, so he said, "Why are you arguing about having no bread? Don't you know or understand even yet? Are your hearts too hard to take it in? 'You have eyes—can't you see? You have ears—can't you hear?' Don't you remember anything at all? When I fed the 5,000 with five loaves of bread, how many baskets of leftovers did you pick up afterward?" "Twelve," they said. "And when I fed the 4,000 with seven loaves, how many large baskets of leftovers did you pick up?" "Seven," they said. "Don't you understand yet?" he asked them.
Then Jesus began to tell them that the Son of Man must suffer many terrible things and be rejected by the elders, the leading priests, and the teachers of religious law. He would be killed, but three days later he would rise from the dead. As he talked about this openly with his disciples, Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things. Jesus turned around and looked at his disciples, then reprimanded Peter. "Get away from me, Satan!" he said. "You are seeing things merely from a human point of view, not from God's." Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my message in these adulterous and sinful days, the Son of Man will be ashamed of that person when he returns in the glory of his Father with the holy angels." (Mark 8:16-21, 31-38 NLT)
Observation: In 16-21, Jesus is showing the disciples how simply, how easily, how willingly He will care for them. How He will supply their every need. All the while as they were bellyaching and pointing fingers at one another over who should have brought the food, and whining about being hungry, Jesus was RIGHT THERE. The Bread of Life. The Living Water. And an endless supply of both.
Application: How often do I assume Jesus won't bother Himself with little ordinary me? How regularly do I hesitate, not wanting to weary Him? Cherishing in my heart a seed of fear in not wanting to be disappointed? Believing more in my mortal life experience than I do in Christ's eager willingness to save at every turn, and holding back from releasing His will into my life simply by telling Him what I need and turning it over to Him? He was saying to His disciples: "I've fed nine thousand people with what usually wouldn't even feed all'y'all. Why are you all wrapped around the axle about forgetting bread?" This God of ours is the God of Miracles. Why do I continue, in practice, to not let Him perform them in my life?
Prayer: Father who is my God in Heaven, I praise You for Jesus. I praise You for who You are, and that He won the Victory for us. I'm really astounded at Your generosity, and at Jesus', and am scratching my head as I try to accept the deep rest You offer, the bounty of Your care, and to hear clearly what You would have me do. Father, show me how to walk in Your will. Show me where the truth lives between those who believe that a few words from their mouths will save them, and those who believe that it's all up to them to earn salvation through their works. Make Yourself known unto me, and give me understanding and the company of Your Spirit in my heart so I might better be who You need me to be. Let me not only believe *in* Jesus, but to actually *believe Him.* In Jesus' beautiful name, so be it. :-)