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UVM Student Earns Sixth Place at Equestrian Nationals
- 05-09-2013
- By University Communications
University of Vermont's equestrian team captain Madison McKay was awarded sixth place in the United States Equestrian Federation's Cacchione Cup, May 2-5. Collegiate riders nationwide gathered in Harrisburg, Pa., to represent their colleges at the 40th Intercollegiate Horse Show Association (IHSA) National Championship. McKay, a graduating senior from Melville, N.Y., represented the Catamounts in the prestigious Cacchione Cup. The competition consists of the top 37 riders across the IHSA, representing the top 10 percent of collegiate riders.
Madeleine Austin, coach of the University of Vermont's equestrian team for the past 30 years, has lead both the team and individual riders to IHSA Nationals with much success. Austin, owner of Imajica Farm in Williston, Vt., has been responsible for coaching four of the Cacchione riders in this region over the past ten years.
The UVM equestrian team finished its season in second place in the Zone One, Region Two standings behind the University of New Hampshire. Eight of the Vermont riders qualified to compete at Regionals held at Dartmouth College March 30. There, three UVM riders, including McKay, continued on to Zones at Mount Holyoke College on April 6. First-year Annie Fitzgerald finished third, just short of qualifying for nationals in the intermediate flat.


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Internals of Java Class Loadingby Binildas Christudas
Class loading is one of the most powerful mechanisms provided by
the Java language specification. Even though the internals of class loading
falls under the "advanced topics" heading, all Java programmers should know how
the mechanism works and what can be done with it to suit their
needs. This can save time that would otherwise have been spent debugging
ClassCastException, etc.
This article starts from the basics, such as the difference between code and data, and how they are related to form an instance or object. Then it looks into the mechanism of loading code into the JVM with the help of class loaders, and the main type of class loaders available in Java. The article then looks into the internals of class loaders, where we cover using the basic algorithm (or probing), followed by class loaders before it loads a class. The next section of the article uses code examples to demonstrate the necessity for developers to extend and develop their own class loaders. This is followed by explanation on writing your own class loaders and how to use them to make a generic task-execution engine that can be used to load the code supplied by any remote client, define it in the JVM, and instantiate and then execute it. The article concludes with references to J2EE-specific components where custom class loading schemas becomes the norm.
Class and Data
A class represents the code to be executed, whereas data represents the state
associated with that code. State can change; code generally does not.
When we associate a particular
state to a class, we have an instance of that class. So different instances
of the same class can have different state, but all refer to the same code.
In Java, a class will usually have its code contained in a .class
file, though there are exceptions. Nevertheless, in the Java runtime,
each and every class will have its code also available in the form of a first-class Java object, which is an instance of
Whenever we compile any Java file, the compiler will embed a public, static,
final field named
class, of the type
java.lang.Class, in the emitted byte code. Since this field is
public, we can access it using dotted notation, like this:
java.lang.Class klass = Myclass.class;
Once a class is loaded into a JVM, the same class (I repeat, the same class) will not be loaded again. This leads to the question of what is meant by "the same class." Similar to the condition that an object has a specific state, an identity, and that an object is always associated with its code (class), a class loaded into a JVM also has a specific identity, which we'll look at now.
In Java, a class is identified by its fully qualified class name. The fully
qualified class name consists of the package name and the class name. But
a class is uniquely identified in a JVM using its fully qualified class name
along with the instance of the
ClassLoader that loaded the class.
Thus, if a class named
Cl in the package
Pg is loaded by an instance
of the class loader
KlassLoader, the class instance of
C1, i.e. C1.class is keyed
in the JVM as
(Cl, Pg, kl1).
This means that the two class loader instances
(Cl, Pg, kl1) and
(Cl, Pg, kl2) are not
one and the same, and classes loaded by them are also completely different
and not type-compatible to each other. How many class loader
instances do we have in a JVM? The next section explains this.
Class Loaders
In a JVM, each and every class is loaded by some instance of a
java.lang.ClassLoader. The
ClassLoader class is located in
java.lang package and developers are free to subclass
it to add their own functionality to class loading.
Whenever a new JVM is started by typing
java MyMainClass, the "bootstrap class loader" is responsible for loading key Java classes
java.lang.Object and other runtime code into memory first.
The runtime classes are packaged inside of the JRE\lib\rt.jar file. We cannot
find the details of the bootstrap class loader in the Java documentation, since
this is a native implementation. For the same reason, the behavior of
the bootstrap class loader will also differ across JVMs.
In a related note, we will get
null if we try to get the class loader of a core Java runtime class, like this:
Next comes the Java extension class loader. We can store extension libraries,
those that provide features that go beyond the core Java runtime code,
in the path given by the
java.ext.dirs property. The
ExtClassLoader is responsible
for loading all .jar files kept in the
java.ext.dirs path.
A developer can add his or her own application .jar files or whatever libraries
he or she might need to add to the classpath to this extension directory
so that they will be loaded by the extension class loader.
The third and most important class loader from the developer perspective
is the
AppClassLoader. The application class loader is responsible for
loading all of the classes kept in the path corresponding to the
java.class.path system property.
"Understanding Extension Class Loading" in Sun's Java tutorial explains more on the above three class loader paths. Listed below are a few other class loaders in the JDK:
java.lang.Thread, contains the method
public ClassLoader getContextClassLoader(), which returns the context class loader for a particular thread. The context
class loader is provided by the creator of the thread for use by code running in
this thread when loading classes and resources. If it is not set, the default is the
class loader context of the parent thread. The context class loader of the primordial
thread is typically set to the class loader used to load the application.
How Class Loaders Work
All class loaders except the bootstrap class loader have a parent class loader.
Moreover, all class loaders are of the type
The above two statements are different, and very important for the correct
working of any class loaders written by developers. The most important
aspect is to correctly set the parent class loader. The parent class loader
for any class loader is the class loader instance that loaded that class loader.
(Remember, a class loader is itself a class!)
A class is requested out of a class loader using the
loadClass() method. The internal working of this method can be
seen from the source code for
java.lang.ClassLoader, given below:
protected synchronized Class<?> loadClass
(String name, boolean resolve)
throws ClassNotFoundException{
// First check if the class is already loaded
Class c = findLoadedClass(name);
if (c == null) {
try {
if (parent != null) {
c = parent.loadClass(name, false);
} else {
c = findBootstrapClass0(name);
} catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
// If still not found, then invoke
// findClass to find the class.
c = findClass(name);
if (resolve) {
return c;
To set the parent class loader, we have two ways to do so in the
ClassLoader constructor:
public class MyClassLoader extends ClassLoader{
public MyClassLoader(){
public class MyClassLoader extends ClassLoader{
public MyClassLoader(){
The first method is preferred because calling the method
from within the constructor should be discouraged, since the object
initialization will be complete only at the exit of the constructor code.
Thus, if the parent class loader is correctly set, whenever a class is
requested out of a
ClassLoader instance, if it cannot find the class, it
should ask the parent first. If the parent cannot find it (which again
means that its parent also cannot find the class, and so on), and if the
findBootstrapClass0() method also fails, the
findClass() method is invoked. The default implementation
findClass() will throw
and developers are expected to implement this method when they subclass
java.lang.ClassLoader to make custom class loaders. The
default implementation of
findClass() is shown below.
protected Class<?> findClass(String name)
throws ClassNotFoundException {
throw new ClassNotFoundException(name);
Inside of the
findClass() method, the class loader needs to fetch
the byte codes from some arbitrary source. The source can be the file system, a network
URL, a database, another application that can spit out byte codes on the fly, or
any similar source that is capable of generating byte code compliant with the
Java byte code specification. You could even use BCEL
(Byte Code Engineering Library), which provides convenient methods to create classes
from scratch at runtime. BCEL is being used successfully in several projects
such as compilers, optimizers, obsfuscators, code generators, and analysis tools.
Once the byte code is retrieved, the method should
call the
defineClass() method, and the runtime is very particular
about which
ClassLoader instance calls this method. Thus, if two
instances define byte codes from the same or different sources, the defined classes
are different.
The Java language specification gives a detailed explanation on the process of loading, linking, and the initialization of classes and interfaces in the Java Execution Engine.
Figure 1 shows an application with a main class called
MyMainClass. As explained
MyMainClass.class will be loaded by the
MyMainClass creates
instances of two class loaders,
CustomClassLoader1 and
CustomClassLoader2, which
are capable of finding the byte codes of a fourth class called
Target from some
source (say, from a network path). This means the class definition of the
class is not in the application class path or extension class path. In such
a scenario, if
MyMainClass asks the custom class loaders to load the
Target class,
will be loaded and
Target.class will be defined independently by both
CustomClassLoader1 and
CustomClassLoader2. This has serious implications in Java.
If some static initialization code is put in the
Target class, and if we want
this code to be executed one and only once in a JVM, in our current setup the code
will be executed twice in the JVM: once each when the class is loaded separately
by both
CustomClassLoaders. If the
Target class is instantiated in both the
CustomClassLoaders to have the instances
target1 and
target2 as shown
in Figure 1, then
target1 and
target2 are not type-compatible. In other words, the JVM
cannot execute the code:
Target target3 = (Target) target2;
The above code will throw a
ClassCastException. This is because the JVM sees these
two as separate, distinct class types, since they are defined by different
instances. The above explanation holds true
even if
MyMainClass doesn't use two separate class loader classes like
CustomClassLoader2, and instead uses two separate instances of a single
class. This is demonstrated later in the article with code examples.
Figure 1. Multiple
ClassLoaders loading the same
Target class in the same JVM
A more detailed explanation on the process of class loading, defining, and linking is in Andreas Schaefer's article "Inside Class Loaders."

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Franz Ferdinand: Tonight is the third release from the Scottish alt-rockers and is a slight departure from their previous CDs which established them as one of the up and coming indie acts. You will still find some tracks that will remind you of their previous efforts but you will also find some disco-dance-infused tracks that are a pleasant surprise. Take Tonight out and turn it up because it is best listened to in the car on a weekend night! If you have seen the new iPod commercial you may have already heard "No You Girls." Other standout tracks include "Lucid Dreams" and "Ulysses."
Music for: Kids, Teens & Tweens


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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Adreené Elliott tallied 13 kills (.500 pct.) and eight blocks as the Maryland volleyball team dropped its final match of the season to Virginia, 3-1, in Charlottesville, Va. Saturday night.
Seniors Mary Cushman and Sarah Harper played valiantly in their final collegiate match, tallying 15 kills and 16 digs, respectively. Cushman finished fourth all-time in Maryland history in kills (1,344), while Harper etched her name atop the program's digs leaderboard with 1,763.
In similar fashion to Friday's match against Virginia Tech, the visiting Terrapins jumped on top of the Cavaliers with a first set victory. Squared at 22, Maryland scored three consecutive points – culminating with a Dani Bozzini ace – to seal the set.
The host Cavaliers responded to the early deficit with vigor, however, as they took a 9-3 lead in the second frame. Maryland clawed its way back into the match with a 5-1 run and worked its way to set point, 24-23, after an Emily Fraik kill. The momentum crumbled, however, as Virginia tallied three straight points to steal the set, 26-24.
Maryland took a late 17-14 advantage in the third set, but the Cavs rattled off seven consecutive points en route to taking the frame, 25-22. The fourth and final set proved much of the same as Virginia staved off a late Terrapin rally to claim the set and match.
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END:CIV examines our culture's addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation, and probes the resulting epidemic of poisoned landscapes and shell-shocked nations. Based in part on Endgame, the best-selling book by Derrick Jensen, END:CIV asks: "If your homeland was invaded by aliens who cut down the forests, poisoned the water and air, and contaminated the food supply, would you resist?"
The causes underlying the collapse of civilizations are usually traced to overuse of resources. As we write this, the world is reeling from economic chaos, peak oil, climate change, environmental degradation, and political turmoil. Every day, the headlines re-hash stories of scandal and betrayal of the public trust. We don't have to make outraged demands for the end of the current global system — it seems to be coming apart already.
But acts of courage, compassion and altruism abound, even in the most damaged places. By documenting the resilience of the people hit hardest by war and repression, and the heroism of those coming forward to confront the crisis head-on, END:CIV illuminates a way out of this all-consuming madness and into a saner future.
Backed by Jensen's narrative, the film calls on us to act as if we truly love this land. The film trips along at a brisk pace, using music, archival footage, motion graphics, animation, slapstick and satire to deconstruct the global economic system, even as it implodes around us. END:CIV illustrates first-person stories of sacrifice and heroism with intense, emotionally-charged images that match Jensen's poetic and intuitive approach. Scenes shot in the back country provide interludes of breathtaking natural beauty alongside clearcut evidence of horrific but commonplace destruction.
END:CIV features interviews with Paul Watson, Waziyatawin, Gord Hill, Michael Becker, Peter Gelderloos, Lierre Keith, James Howard Kunstler, Stephanie McMillan, Qwatsinas, Rod Coronado, John Zerzan and more.
"In the face of collapsing ecosystems, mass-extinctions, and global genocide, END:CIV is undoubtedly one of the most important films of the 21st century. López unapologetically burns all indoctrinated illusions and exposes critical truths and realities carefully kept from the public. López has crafted a brilliant and courageous exposé which fully exposes the mainstream environmental movement's self-inflicted paralysis, stemming from a false sense of moral superiority, deep denial, delusion and, in many cases, unparalleled greed on behalf of those in positions of power in the champagne circuit. This is the film the corporate- colluded state hopes you never watch. This is the film the non-profit industrial complex hopes you never watch. Watch this film. "
-Cory Morningstar
"In END:CIV, Franklin López does a refreshingly thorough and well packaged job of laying out the inherently self-destructive nature of westernized civilization and the ineptitude of peaceful reform. Using Derrick Jensen's Endgame as a lose framework, López not only identifies root causes of systemic oppression and exploitation, but also exposes the deceptive nature of reformism and green-washing, instead spotlighting examples of indigenous resistance and the Earth Liberation Front. By the end of the film, passionate viewers will no longer just be questioning not whether western civilization is justified, but what they themselves can do to help bring it down."
-Leslie James Pickering
Former spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front
"A fierce critique of systematic violence and industrial civilization, End:Civ is not intended for garden-variety environmentalists. If you are anywhere below, say, an 8 on that sliding scale of pissed off, then this film is going to scare you — which means you should watch it."
-Eugene Weekly
."A tour de force film from Franklin López which does more than justice to Derrick Jensen's thesis that industrial civilization is destroying life on the planet. Employing all the contemporary audio visual techniques our digital world makes possible for a single brilliant penurious filmmaker, López harvests sounds and images from our demented world to relentlessly show the rape of the mind and the earth. To those outside the small choir who see the message of resistance as obvious, this powerful film makes them deal with it either by denial or acknowledging, yes I see it is obvious."
James Becket
-Director of The Best Revenge
"Franklin Lopez is a fantastically talented filmmaker, who has created a powerful and important film about the most important topic ever: how to stop this culture from killing the planet."
-Derrick Jensen, Author of Endgame
"By far the most routinely praised contemporary media activist is Franklin López. His shows and films not only possess a distinctive look and feel, but they also contain a wicked sense of humor that is often sorely lacking among alter-globalization activists. López's work engages in constructing a new vision where popular culture serves the interests of the poor and dispossessed, where humor is reignited within activism, and the D.I.Y. ethics of punk and hip-hop allow those with talent and gumption to be the media, once again."
-Chris Robé, Pop Matters
"Franklin Lopez' END:CIV is a labour of love, a stunning 75 minutes film…"
John Zerzan, author of Future Primitive
"It brought me to tears…" "I recommend it to people"
-Alex Smith, Host of Radio Ecoshock
"Franklin Lopez's END:CIV project is awesome."
-Shannon Walsh, Director of H2Oil
"Both the quantity and the quality of this movement's filmmaking is increasing. This is the big battlefield on which we fight right now."
-Michael Rupert, CollapseNet.com
Franklin López will be touring with END:CIV in 2011.
The END:CIV DVD by PM Press can be ordered now.
If you wish to book a screening in your town or want to order a DVD, simply click on the links below.
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We discuss the new technology used in FotoMagico 4.4 plus the new video editing capabilities also introduced with FotoMagico 4.4. And of course we answer as many questions as possible.
Please also check the previous two webinars about FotoMagico 4 and FotoMagico 4.2.
(click on the timecode to jump to the position in the video)
- 1:00What's new in FotoMagico 4.4?
- 6:50Convert legacy videos in FotoMagico
- 10:30Deinterlace Video in QuickTime Player X
- 11:50Deinterlace Video using Handbrake (boinx.com/connect/fotomagico/k...)
- 13:00Adding legacy video files
- 16:15Sharing Slideshows in FotoMagico 4.4
- 20:26One more thing: Editing Video
- 26:55How to sync Audio and Video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gettvk...)
- 27:40How to work with multiple elements on one slide? (www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBRZ2J...)
- 28:20How to use FotoMagico with video editing applications? How does it compare?
- 30:40How to use old FotoMagico slideshows in FotoMagico 4.4?
- 31:25What are the key things to make a slideshow stand out? What about Music?
- 34:34How to you upgrade from 4.x to 4.4?
- 35:08How to make a DVD with the same resolution as my computer?
- 35:50How does ducking work and how to trim audio?
- 40:50Can I still run FotoMagico 4.4 on 10.7.5?
- 41:30Does FotoMagico 4.4 support Lightroom 5?
- 41:45Questions from the chat
- 41:52Does image quality improve with images from Lightroom?
- 43:15Can you add transitions between the video cuts?
- 44:07What about support for iPhone 5S slow motion video?
- 44:59Does cutting video also cut audio?
- 45:20Can layers be grouped together?
- 45:37Can you edit audio very precise?
- 48:29How is the 2 1/2 D effect done?
- 50:30End of the official Webinar
- 52:26More Questions
- 52:33Can you stretch titles over multiple slides?
- 55:23Should the Aperture library structure be visible in FotoMagico?
- 56:12Can you accelerate or slow down videos?
- 56:33How fast is the export speed compared to older versions?
- 57:47What is the maximum file size for photos and what DPI should be used?
- 1:02:17Does FotoMagico use the rendered preview from Lightroom?
- 1:03:47What is the best image format for a FotoMagico slideshow?
- 1:05:16Can you crop or pan video?
- 1:08:15Can FotoMagico export as Bluray format?
- 1:08:50Does FotoMagico store media inside the FotoMagico document?
- 1:09:20Summary: Why do videos have to be converted with FotoMagico 4.4?


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Michelle Duggar ditches the mullet, gets a new hairdo
Michelle Duggar ditches the mullet, gets a new hairdo
Getting a dramatic new haircut is never easy. For Michelle Duggar, mom of 19, a birthday makeover that ended with her familiar long, curly tresses being cut and straightened was a shock - to the whole family.
"It was quite different. Definitely different," Michelle told TODAY.com on Friday (using polite-speak known by women the world over to mean, "Oh no, what have I done?!").
The big makeover happened in August, in advance of Michelle's 46th birthday, and it aired this week on the Duggars' TLC show, "19 Kids and Counting," which chronicles the daily life of the large, Arkansas-based Christian family. On the show, you can see the shock on Michelle's face when she's spun around in her salon chair to see her hair about eight inches shorter and straightened.
"This is what I look like when I get out of the shower!" she told the TLC camera in an interview right after the haircut. Her naturally wavy hair had reached past the middle of her back since junior high, Michelle told TODAY.com.
Her husband, Jim Bob, was not a big fan of the new 'do. "I do like it longer," he said - twice.
Michelle said she plans to grow it out. "I want to please my hubby, it's all about what he likes," she told TODAY.com. "He says he likes my long, flowing hair!" And waking up an hour earlier every day to straighten and style her hair before tending to her 19 children is not in the cards, Michelle said.
Her youngest was a bit shocked, too. Michelle said that Josie, who turns 3 next month, kept touching her straightened hair and saying, "Mommy? Mommy? Mommy! Mommy?" as if to make sure she was still the same person.
But she's not reverting totally to her former style. Some days she wears it straight, some days curly, and her older daughters have helped her discover new ways to style it. Many nights after their family Bible study, Michelle told TODAY.com, her older daughters will gather 'round her with curling irons, brushes and bobby pins and play with her hair. Michelle says it reminds her of the days when they were younger and she'd do their hair in braids or pigtails - but now the roles are reversed.
"My girls have played with it more than I have; I'm busy, I don't have time for that," she said. "I used to play with their hair when they were little, and now they do it on mom."
Her daughters' hairstyle sessions have even won over Jim Bob. One night they pulled her hair partially back with bobby pins, keeping it in loose waves, and she said her husband gasped: "He was like, 'I love it, I just love it.' I was like, wow, he really likes it."
All of the Duggar girls have long hair, and Michelle said she wanted to make sure they weren't inspired by mom's surprise makeover. The night after her makeover she said she went to her daughters' room while they were getting ready for bed and told them, "Girls I just gotta say to you, don't get any ideas, don't rush to a hair salon and chop off half your hair."
She needn't have worried. "ALL of my girls all said, 'Oh mom, don't worry, we are not going to go and chop off our hair.' I was like phew, thank you."
You could say the whole makeover has been a learning experience. Thanks to her daughters, she learned some new ways to shake up her style while still pleasing her man. And, Michelle says, she learned a new term: The mullet. Until she heard someone joking about it on a Christian radio station, she said she'd never heard the term - and didn't know people referred to her short-in-front, long-in-the-back hairdo as a mullet.
"I just realized what a mullet is, I never really heard of that before," she told TODAY.com. "I thought, that is so funny!"
TODAY Moms editor Rebecca Dube hopes her husband likes seeing her hair in a ponytail, because most days, that's what he's going to get.
She should learn how to wrap her hair, cuts down the straightening, heat, & saves time.
Much better look tho.
can't imagine she has a whole lot of time w/all those kiddos!
Quoting Litlmama87:
Looks a lot better.
She should learn how to wrap her hair, cuts down the straightening, heat, & saves time.
I think she should keep it like that, looks good to be a woman with 19 kids.
Still has that frazzled smile though lol
Quoting maciymommieof3:
can't imagine she has a whole lot of time w/all those kiddos!
Quoting Litlmama87:
Looks a lot better.
She should learn how to wrap her hair, cuts down the straightening, heat, & saves time.
Quoting Jaxsonsmama2009:
How can her stupid husband not see that she looks so much better?
That style took 10 years off of her.
I do not believe her when she said she never heard mullet before. She has been super religious only since she was I believe 23 from 44 makes it 21 years and the term mullet has been around since the 80's


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Manchester City midfielder Gareth Barry admits the sale of Carlos Tevez is a massive blow for the club.
The Argentinian striker completed a quick-fire move away from the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday, finalising a move to Serie A champions Juventus in a deal worth £12m.
Tevez spent four years at Manchester City after controversially moving from fierce-rivals Manchester United but, because of this move, he soon became a fan favourite.
Despite having his lows during his City stint - in particular when he refused to come on as a substitute against Bayern Munich in the Champions League and then left the club without permission for six months - his former team-mate Barry admits that the striker will be a massive loss for the former Premier League champions.
The 29-year-old striker has been influential for City over the past few seasons and played key roles in their Premier League and FA Cup successes.
Barry has spoken out about the move and he insists that Tevez will be a real hit in Italy with the champions.
"It will be a massive loss for Manchester City," the midfielder told Sky Sports News. "He has had a fantastic few years there and he has been fantastic to play alongside.
"To hear that news is quite sad but he will go and do a great job wherever he goes."
Tevez finalised his move yesterday after agreeing to a three-year deal and then passing his medical and in his press conference, he revealed that he rejected a move to AC Milan in order to join Juve.
The sale from City means that they only have two strikers left at their club: Edin Dzeko and Sergio Aguero.
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I had reason to hit the road this morning having just finished a new road project build (more details forthcoming). The basics are steel and clearance for fat tires and that's all I'm a gonna say. However, to say I was a little bit excited to hit the road this morning is an understatement. I only had two hours and wanted to avoid Highway 1 on what was a busy Labor Day weekend. This meant a counter-clockwise loop of Pt. Reyes-Petaluma Rd, Platform Bridge Rd., Cross Marin Trail, Sir Francis Drake, Nicasio Valley Rd., Pt. Reyes-Petaluma Rd and back home. Nice loop with some rare wide shoulders and a bit of dirt.
As somewhat meaningless as the old no-hands test is, it always shows just how stable a bike is riding no hands. At higher speed, a bike should be able to be ridden fairly easily with no hands on the bars because the wheels, acting like gyroscopes, will want to remain upright and moving in a straight direction - assuming that the combination of head angle and fork offset isn't too far out of a certain range.
What is that range? In my many years of bike design and talking to other folks, one person whom I respect greatly, Lennard Zinn, has told me that he likes to keep the trail at about 65mm for a road bike. My latest bike has a head angle of 72 degrees and a fork offset of 45mm. I think that puts the trail very near 65mm. Whatever it does, the bike tracks straight as an arrow at 15mph and 25mph. It tracks straight at between 15-20mph on a hard-packed dirt road no handed too. Basically, the bike rode so well, and simply disappeared underneath me that I was quite pleased with its maiden voyage.
So, here I was riding up Nicasio Valley Rd. from Sir Francis Drake and I hear riders coming up behind me. I don't really want them to pass me on the climb so I simply dropped a gear while maintaining the same calm appearance on the bike. Don't want to let it on that I'm suffering. Make it over the top, hit the big ring, dump the gears in back, and move to the drops. Pretty soon they overtake me, almost every one hunched over the bars in an aero tuck worthy of a Euro pro descending a mountain pass. I give a "howdy," but to a one, nothing comes back to me. Oh well, I simply find the wheel of the last rider past and sit in.
Sitting in a paceline, it always becomes painfully evident that so many riders simply don't know how to ride in a paceline and make it work for the group. Instead of keeping a steady pace and having the lead rider simply pull off and fall back allowing the new lead rider maintain the same pace, it always happens that as soon as the lead rider pulls off to fall back, the new lead rider always increases the pace only to fracture the paceline until it comes together and when he finally pulls off, the cycle is repeated. I may not be as fit as I once was, but dangit, I can ride a paceline.
Tired of yo-yoing, I drift back to resume my morning ride solo. I can see the group up ahead pull off at Rancho Nicasio right as another group comes past me. And as per the first group, my "howdy" is met with nothing but the sound of tires on pavement. Okay. I'll just sit in here. Again with the yo-yo paceline. My mind is telling me to just go off the front and pull them all behind, but my legs aren't what they used to be and they tell me to just sit in.
I recognize one rider (on a nice old Breezer steel road bike) as someone who's been in my shop in the past. The other riders were a crazy mix. There was one strong looking guy on a Steelman cross bike, another big guy on a carbon Cervelo, another newish looking rider on a carbon Bianchi, an average looking guy on a Cannondale, and one cat on a ti Moots riding with his jersey tucked into his shorts. These guys were as unpredictable as a hummingbird in a maze of hummingbird feeders. As these guys were rotating through their paceline, the guys coming off the front were trying to fit into the paceline somewhere in the middle. And when the road tilted slightly upwards, it was as if they all hit their brakes at once.
We finally hit the Pt. Reyes-Petaluma Rd. and the squirrels went right and the Breezer rider and I went left into Pt. Reyes and we actually had a nice chat as we rode with our handlebars about 6" away each other. Two old guys on two steel road bikes riding side-by-side because we both know that the other knows how to ride that close.
Alright, got the paceline thing covered, what about 28s? At the stop sign at the bottom of Pt. Reyes Petaluma Rd./Platform Bridge Rd., I picked up a roofing tack in my front tire and it went flat fast. Besides the fact that a 700c x 28 tire inflated to 90psi is a great riding tire, the other benefit from a 28 is that inflating with a hand pump (Zefal HPX-4, naturally) getting the tire to only 60psi will still give you a nice firm tire that will get you through a ride. Try that with a 23.
I got my flat (first one on the road in over 2 years - knock on wood), pulled out the tack, peeled the tire off the rim sans tools, flat tube out and in my jersey pocket, new tube from seat back out, puff of air in the tube, tube in tire, 50 or 60 strokes with my handy frame pump, pump back on frame, wheel back in fork, and back on the road in less than 5 minutes. My riding partner even commented that that was fast. I've had a lot of practice, I mention.
End result, my new bike is absolutely fantastic. I can't wait to ride again tomorrow morning.
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With holiday parties upon us, I thought these two studies were interesting this festive time of the year when there tends to be an abundance of alcohol flowing.
The first study, published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, looked at the trend among some young adults called "predrinking" or "frontloading." This is the practice of consuming alcohol before heading out for an evening of socializing. For some, the rationale for doing this is to save money. Let's face it, wine, beer, and liquor are cheaper when you buy it by the bottle rather than paying a premium price per glass at clubs, bars, and sporting events. At first glance, you may think that this would reduce the overall amount of alcohol consumed in a night. Since money is tight among those who "predrink," they can't afford to drink a lot when socializing outside the home. However, the reality may surprise you.
In a study of 180 young adults (average age of 23), researchers tracked their weekend (Thursday through Saturday) consumption of alcohol. Those who drank before leaving the house consumed an average of about 7 drinks nightly compared to about only 4 drinks for those who didn't drink before going out. In essence, predrinking leads to overdrinking when you couple it with socializing outside the home. Not surprisingly, those who over-drank also reported adverse outcomes from their bingeing such as hangovers, blackouts, and increased violence.
The second study suggested that American adults, on average, consume almost 100 calories a day (about 4 ounces of wine) from alcohol. (A standard drink is considered 5 ounces of wine, 12 ounces of beer, and 1.5 ounces of hard liquor.) At the extreme, almost 20 percent of American men and 6 percent of women consume more than 300 calories daily from booze.
While a 4-ounce serving of wine may not seem like a lot of calories, keep in mind that many wine goblets that are being used nowadays hold 8 ounces or more of wine, escalating the calories per glass.
Based on the studies, these tips may help you minimize alcohol and calorie consumption during this festive time:
Don't drink at home before an event.
Take inventory of your wine and beer glasses and measure how much they hold. If need be, shop around for smaller ones.
If you want to drink, go for quality over quantity. Buy more expensive wine, beer, or liquor and savor one fine drink rather than several of a lower quality.
Drink alcohol in a one-to-one ratio. After consuming a glass of wine or beer, make the second "drink" a large glass of sparkling water. Who knows — you may end up stopping after the second "drink" of water.Joan Salge Blake is a clinical associate professor and registered dietitian at Boston University. Read her blog at Boston.com/NutritionAndYou. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Delivery of NASA's large Curiosity rover to a Martian crater next Aug. 6 will be a do-or-die test, not just of its "sky crane" landing system, but of an equally new approach to targeting distant bodies with unprecedented precision.
Curiosity will be lowered on high-tech cables from a hovering spacecraft—that looks a little like something out of a Star Wars movie—to the smallest landing zone ever. Whether it works or not, getting the rover into position for the touchdown also is stretching planetary entry and descent techniques in ways that will shape space exploration for decades.
"Overall we're fairly confident in this system, but going through the process we have recognized that there are limits to how far we can go with the mass of the landed system with this, and we have ways that we think we could develop improvements to allow even more landed mass," says Steven W. Lee of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who is guidance, navigation and control manager on the MSL project. "It's the same with the precision landing."
Targeted in the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is a 20 X 25-km ellipse adjacent to a 5-km-tall (3-mi.)mound inside Gale Crater. Just south of the planet's equator, the crater measures 154 km across—smaller than the landing zones of the Mars Exploration Rovers launched in 2003.
On Dec. 10 controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory will oversee the first in a series of trajectory correction maneuvers spread over the probe's 255-day cruise to Mars designed to deliver it to the proper entry corridor at the outer edge of the planet's thin atmosphere. The MSL lifted off from Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla., at 10:02 a.m. EST Nov. 26 atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V-541, with four solid-fuel boosters and a Centaur upper stage. The Centaur's second burn, lasting almost 8 min., sent the spacecraft out of Earth orbit toward Mars.
"The launch vehicle has given us a great injection into our trajectory, and we're on our way to Mars," states MSL Project Manager Peter Theisinger. "The spacecraft is in communication, thermally stable and power-positive."
Initially the probe was targeted away from Mars slightly to keep the Centaur stage from following it to the planet's surface and perhaps contaminating it with terrestrial microbes. With the precise launch, the first correction maneuver could come even later than Dec. 10, Lee says, because it will only need a small 3-meter/sec. "nudge" to turn it back on course.
From there on, the cruise phase of the mission will look a lot like other Mars-landing transits—checking out the suite of instruments and making additional trajectory adjustments as the spacecraft approaches its targeted entry corridor. The differences will come at the end of the trip, when the spin-stabilized cylindrical cruise stage feeds a final position fix from its Sun sensor and star trackers to the entry capsule and then separates before reaching the atmosphere.
JPL engineers drew on expertise at Johnson Space Center and elsewhere dating back to the Apollo era to devise what will come next. After the cruise stage jettisons, springs will kick two 73-kg (161-lb.) tungsten weights away from the entry element to shift its center of mass off the aeroshell's centerline. That will allow the spacecraft's entry, descent and landing (EDL) algorithms literally to fly the capsule toward the floor of the crater.
"The airflow goes faster over the top of the aeroshell relative to the bottom of the aeroshell; that gives you a lift vector," Lee says. "We can use that lift vector not only to keep ourselves a little higher in the atmosphere, but we can maneuver that lift vector to control the energy of entry to try to control our down range relative to the center of the landing ellipse, and also use it to control cross-track."
A Honeywell inertial measurement unit keeps track of the capsule's position and velocity as it hurtles through the Martian atmosphere, flying "S" turns like a reentering space shuttle to bleed velocity and home in on the landing ellipse. When the capsule has slowed almost to Mach 2, the vehicle will jettison more tungsten ballast, broken into six 28-kg spring-ejected pieces for a gentler shift of the center of mass back to the center of the vehicle. That way it will be falling straight ahead when it pops its 16-meter-dia. parachute at Mach 2.
After the chute opens 11 km above the surface, plus or minus 2 km depending on landing-day conditions, the heat shield falls away, exposing the Curiosity rover and its eight-engine descent stage. A six-beam Ka-band radar—the "terminal descent sensor"—is activated at 8 km, again plus or minus 2 km, giving the EDL algorithm the information it needs on distance to the ground and rate of descent.
"The terminal descent sensor has been another lynchpin in enabling this kind of a mission, mainly because we're such a large vehicle and we need to commit to our maneuvers using the radar data relatively early in the timeline," Lee says. "As a result, we need to have a radar that can work at higher altitudes than past radars."
When the parachute and backshell are released at 1,800 meters above the surface, the descent stage engines begin firing to slow the descent further. Firing asymmetrically at first, they maneuver the stage away from the chute and start the final trip to the surface. The 899-kg rover is lowered toward the surface on three cables and a data umbilical in the sky crane technique (AW&ST Aug. 1, p. 38).
If all goes as planned, Curiosity sets down on its six wheels—sparing the need for more landing gear—to begin exploring the crater's sedimentary mound for evidence of past habitability.
The site has been characterized by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE), which gives mission managers confidence that the spacecraft won't come down on a large boulder or teetering on a low cliff. That is necessary, because while the final landing sequence is complex, it does not involve active hazard avoidance to maneuver the descending spacecraft away from danger.
"Our landing site experts here could actually show you the landing ellipse and point to a little scarp there, a little mesa here," says Lee. "I don't think there's a scarp or mesa that we don't know about, or worry that we haven't characterized the site. It's a very small—less than 1 percent, certainly, and probably much less than 1 percent—chance that we just happen to come down right in that bad spot. Those are risks that, when you're going to Mars, you just have to accept."
Humans-in-the-loop have been actively avoiding terrain hazards while landing since Neil Armstrong piloted the Eagle to its touchdown in the Sea of Tranquility on Apollo 11. Lee says JPL is already researching active hazard avoidance all the way down for robotic missions in rougher terrain than the relatively flat target ellipse in Gale Crater.
In developing the MSL mission, Lee and his colleagues used extensive simulation and "millions" of Monte Carlo risk-reduction runs of the approach and landing, raising confidence. And despite the complexity of the EDL sequence, driven by the size of the rover and the tight landing site, there was an ongoing effort to keep it as simple as possible.
"Part of our culture has been, when we think through a problem and think through options, we always want to be able to go back to a whiteboard and start with first principles," Lee says.


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Demba Ba says he is gunning for regular first team football at Chelsea - and insists he won't be put off his goal even if a new striker arrives in the summer.
Fernando Torres is currently in possession of the sole striker spot at Stamford Bridge - although the £50 million forward's ailing form could mean he is moved on in the summer.
Chelsea have been linked with moves for Atletico Madrid's Radamel Falcao and Napoli's Edinson Cavani at the end of the season for some time now.
However Ba, a £7.5 million January acquisition from Newcastle, says he won't feel disheartened if a new forward arrives in the summer, and says that fierce competition for starting places is just par for the course at Chelsea.
"Everywhere you go, competition is there. It will always exist," he said.
"I'm at one of Europe's biggest clubs and, each year, they're going to bring in a striker. That's part of football.
"It's what makes you better if you take it the right way.
"I work, I know what I can achieve. If they buy a new forward, it'll help me improve. I won't let myself be pushed around."
Ba has impressed when given the chance during his short Chelsea career so far, playing just 212 minutes in the Premier League and scoring once.
The 27-year-old, who took an unorthodox path to Chelsea via the likes of Belgian side Mouscron and West Ham, says he has worked hard to earn his shot at the big time and will continue to do so in order to impress at Stamford Bridge.
He said: "There is a logic to everything. When you work, you always get to where you want to go.
"I look at the work I've put in with my fitness coach and watching videos of my performances.
"The more you watch yourself play, the more mistakes you put right. When I look at the work I've put in in the last six or seven years, I'm not surprised I can do such things now."
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Submission + - Cisco Shows True Face In Ugly Bait And Switch (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "Deep End's Paul Venezia questions whether Cisco can ever be trusted again in the wake of its automatic Linksys firmware update that forced customers to create Cloud Connect accounts and agree to have their browser histories tracked. 'In the intervening days since the discovery of this disgusting display of corporate thuggery, Cisco has backtracked. The company promises to modify the terms of service to remove some of the more egregious language, but as ExtremeTech points out, that doesn't matter — Cisco can still update those terms at any time. Cisco has also provided a way to downgrade affected devices, but that leaves users without an upgrade path in the future. It's actions like this that make open source solutions all the more attractive,' Venezia writes. 'These cases highlight the lag between regulation and technology. Prior to the past decade or so, the idea of a manufacturer purposefully breaking a product after purchase in order to spy on you and profit from that information was so outlandish, there was no need for concern. We're now living in a world where it could easily be done clandestinely."


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New Frontiers in UnionbustingComments
Mike Elk has an outstanding report based upon leaked documents from Honeywell workers showing the company's unionbusting strategy–use CEO Dave Cote's connections with President Obama as cover:
The third section, on Government Relations (GR), reveals Honeywell's hopes that its influence with the Obama administration can be leveraged to help combat union activity. Slide 18 of the confidential document states that Honeywell (HON) should "continue to grow positive relationships with elected officials, with federal agencies, focusing on local branches." These relationships, the document explains, "can be directed at union activity, if needed." The plan suggests that Honeywell's Government Relations division can be used to "break up union cohesion across the country." A picture of President Obama speaking at a Honeywell plant is included (see above), with a caption reading "HON has great relationships with Federal officials, focus is needed at the State and local levels."
Indeed, President Obama and Honeywell CEO Dave E. Cote have a very close relationship. Cote visited with Obama at the White House this past Wednesday to push him to cut budget spending. Cote is considered one of Obama's closest allies in the business community. In January of 2009, Cote introduced Obama's stimulus package in a White House speech. Cote was subsequently appointed by Obama to serve on the Deficit Commission. President Obama even flew with Cote to India while a lockout at Honeywell's Metropolis, Ill. uranium plant was ongoing. Cote returned the favor by giving heavily to the Democratic Party. In the 2010 election cycle when the Met, Honeywell was the top corporate PAC contributor to the Democratic Party.
Union activists believe that Honeywell's federal ties have already enabled the company to call in government help when suppressing unions. In 2009, Honeywell threatened to use Marines to replace 500 United Steelworkers members in Blount Island, Fla. if the military contractors went out on strike. Honeywell had the military security clearances pulled on several of the union leaders, leading them to lose their jobs. In 2010, I exposed evidence that Honeywell cheated on qualification tests for scab replacement workers during the lockout at its Metropolis uranium facility; during the lag between my report and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission taking action, the scab replacement workers caused a number of accidents. In 2011, International Association of Machinists Lodge 778, employed as nuclear weapons workers at Honeywell's Kansas City, accused the Department of Energy of abandoning its legal mandate by not stepping into to stop a concessionary contract Honeywell was pushing on the union.
Cote is close enough to Obama to be widely talked about as a potential Cabinet appointee. (Warning: link is from Politico and is fully of dumbness–Michelle Rhee for Secretary of Education!) Honeywell's record on unions is terrible and certainly I'd be deeply disappointed (though not at all surprised) if Cote was placed in the Cabinet.
The bigger lessons of course are that labor should trust no politician and that it needs to remind the president that labor got him reelected. Active unionbusters should no role in a Democratic administration.


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Hello, I'm Gantoris, and for reasons various and sundry, our WHM has decided to leave our static. Long story short, it was simply a mix of playing styles that led to the split, nothing dramatic, insane or all that big.
With that said, our static is looking for a replacement WHM, or a BRD. Currently our party set up is:
PLD/WAR (that'd be me)
RDM/BLM (although I believe WHM can be subbed)
and we are all sitting at the 52 level mark, at about 3-4k in. We are a group of guys, all in our early to mid 20s, so you can expect a little bit of juvenile behavior on our behalf. We are good players, and we know our roles, and are looking for someone who'd be interested in joining us. BRDs are more than welcome, as we have a RDM that could handle healing duties if it came down to that.
Beyond exping, we'd also be coming together to help out with Missions, each other's AF, etc. You aren't expected to assist with this sort of stuff, but don't expect a lot of help back if you don't. ;P
We play most nights, and would ideally like to be able to static 3-4 nights a week, usually for about 3-4 hours, although we are respectable regarding schedules. If you're unable to commit to at least 3 days a week, please don't bother with us.
Anywho, if you're interested, give me a /tell in game or talk to me here. Character name is Gantoris and I'm on most evenings. Thank you!


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can anybody explain me the functionality of the background actions of the extension 'runactions' in detail?
I havent got a clue to implement such a function generally.
In the documentation i could find just the following code which doesnt help me to understand whats going on.
public function actionTimeConsumingProcess() { if (ERunActions::runBackground()) { //do all the stuff that should work in background //mail->send() .... } else { //this code will be executed immediately //echo 'Time-consuming process has been started' //user->setFlash ...render ... redirect, } }
Where should i put this function? Within my controller? In the next step i thought i simply call the function normally. But obviously i was wrong:-) nothing happend and only the else part was executed. So in my next attempt i call my function with the help of:
but...nothing happend. Although the false part has been executed again.
so, i gave this method a chance
which should triggered my background job code in the if part. But in this case nothing happened at all. Even the else part has been omitted.
So, as you guess, my proramming skills are really far away from average:-)
Can anybody help me to explain me the basic functionality of this extension when i'm going to execute code in the background.
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Awesome job. She really, really wanted everyone fawning over her little darlings didn't she?
Glitter, in your first update post after speaking with Amanda, you mention she said she will "defiantly" be attending - Freudian slip or not, thank you for the chuckle, and well done on the Amanda convo!
Quote from: Hmmmmm on December 27, 2013, 06:01:55 PMAwesome job. She really, really wanted everyone fawning over her little darlings didn't she?I doubt that was why she wanted them there. As the OP posted it appears she's a "Don't tell me what to do or I'll do the opposite" kind of person.
She's kind of like family to me now, so I'm used to her. Generally she's a nice person, but when you tell her no she turns into bratty child. If you tell her she can't do something she doesn't want to do in the first place. Normally she'd find a sitter even for a kids are welcomed NYE party, so that she could really party down, but I told her no kids and all of a sudden we must include the children.
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|2011-05-02, 22:27
|Link #19825
#1 Akashiya Moka Fan
*strategically placed sniper still gets Kyero*
anyways, about the "pupa" thing that tsukune possibly has gone through- about the only comment I have to that is if his "butterfly stage" involves him becoming some sort of sparkly vampire, we're going to have problems...
|2011-05-02, 23:40
|Link #19826
Tastes Cloudy
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Snake Way
Age: 29
grabs bullet and laughs "of course by tsukune ends up with mizore that i mean I end up with mizore!" throws the bullet at the sniper at twice the speed
besides Fighting a ifrit is like fighting a active volcano...
|2011-05-02, 23:40
|Link #19827
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Poland
Age: 32
I don't think that we are at a risk of Tsukune becoming some sort of "sparkly vampire" Magin, fortunately it's not that kind of series.
I think that Tsukune just reached a next stage of evolution, or rather degeneration, since he still isn't capable of taking control over the transformations that are occurring within Tsukune's body, which means that Tsukune is still at a risk of transforming into something similar to what Alucard is.
Of course, considering that R+V is a shounen manga, so Tsukune is probably going to find someway to avoid that outcome, but I believe that until Tsukune is going to be capable of gaining control over his transformation and "berserk side", he is still going to need to keep wearing the Holy Lock to contain his "vampire side" in check - which, is something that Tsukune still isn't capable of doing on his own.
Obviously, it means that Tsukune's "berserk side" is still at a risk of emerging, and if nothing is done to prevent it, (which, probably means that again, one of the girls in Tsukune's harem is going to have to do something to bring Tsukune back to normal) consuming Tsukune's sanity and turning him back to normal.
Ultimately, I'm starting to think that it's going to be Moka (preferably Inner Moka), who's going to help Tsukune in gaining complete control over his powers, but that isn't going to happen anytime soon, and there are probably going to be a few more incidents of Tsukune's powers going out of control, especially if Tsukune is going to keep undergoing dangerous techniques that have a risk of "reacting" with the vampire blood in Tsukune's body.
Naturally, even if Tsukune is still going to keep wearing the Holy Lock, which is probably going to be repaired by Tohou Fuhai, during the time when Tsukune's unconscious, the amount of power that Tsukune is going to be capable of using, is going to be increased, so that Tsukune would be capable of fighting against Akua, but it probably won't reach a point, where Tsukune would be capable of using his Shinso powers, since that's something that Tsukune won't be capable of consciously controlling, while Tsukune is still at a risk of losing his sanity.
|2011-05-03, 00:33
|Link #19828
Chicken or Beef?
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Seattle
Age: 35
Well we already know that Tsukune's physical form is already genetically changing, Touhai confirms this. Now that the modification is complete his body is compatible with his Youki now, which will add some interesting story bits. Can't wait to see what Ikeda has in store for us.
|2011-05-03, 00:36
|Link #19829
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|2011-05-03, 02:17
|Link #19830
Senior Member
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Poland
Age: 32
I have to say that I'm not so convinced that Tsukune's transformation is complete or that Tsukune is without a risk of going berserk again.
I mean, I agree that Tsukune's body has become more ayashi like, and probably Tsukune's body is mode adjusted to Tsukune's vampire abilities, but that doesn't mean that Tsukune's human mentality will have less problems with controlling his powers - I believe that it might be the opposite of that, since Tsukune's human mentality could have even more problems in adjusting to the changes made by Tsukune's transformation, which could mean that Tsukune could be more easily, taken over by his vampire nature and instincts.
Honestly, it depends on how Ikeda is going to continue Tsukune's development, but to me if Ikeda really aimed to make Tsukune's transformation complete with the current developments, then he should have made Tsukune's "human form " a lot more similar to how Inner Moka looks like (in other words, with Tsukune having silver hair, like in his recent "berserk form", but since that didn't happen (in other words Tsukune's normal appearance is how he looked like in his "vampire form", before his latest transformation. )
In other words, I believe that Tsukune's transformation hasn't been completed yet, meaning that it's not the end of Tsukune's powers going out of control - after all do you really think that Ikeda would still keep the Holy Lock in more or less, one piece (seen when Tsukune has returned to a more human looking form), if Tsukune wouldn't need it anymore, since I believe that he plans to make the breaking of the Holy Lock a lot more spectacular then what we had seen so far - in other words break it so much that it wouldn't be able to stay on Tsukune's arm anymore, but so far we hadn't seen that happening, which means that it's probably not the end of Tsukune's transformation yet.
Of course, it's probable that something like that is going to happen in the next chapter, since I don't think that's the end of the current "training arc", but we will have to wait for the next chapter to come out, to verify that.
|2011-05-03, 02:54
|Link #19831
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Moe Land
Age: 37
What Iam expecting in the future of R+V.
Both Moka's personalities fused, will look more similar to proto Moka.
Tsukune being able to control his Shinso blood transform to Ayashi at will.
A Mizore spin off.
Though we all know it will end up Moka x Tsukune, still hoping there will be hints of a harem end.
|2011-05-03, 03:50
|Link #19832
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Noctis Labyrinthus
Age: 27
Caterpillar into chrysalis, chrysalis into butterfly, of course what Tsukune will evolve into isn't going to be a sweet little butterfly or god forbid a "sparkly" vampire, R+V isn't "that" series speaking of something like that and comparing to R+V is forbidden, and will be punished
Tsukune will evolve into the darkest, most badass good guy in the series
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|2011-05-03, 04:04
|Link #19833
Awe of She
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
Wouldn't it be something else if Alucard turns out to be originally human...a human that absorbed Shinso blood that caused him to go berserk and had to be 'put down', very much like how Fuhai was about to do to Tsukune, if not for Kurumu's intervention.
Are Moka and Tsukune reliving what Akasha and Alucard played out 200+ years ago? Only now, can Tsukune succeed where Alucard failed? Stay tuned for the next episode...
|2011-05-03, 04:09
|Link #19834
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|2011-05-03, 06:18
|Link #19835
The Shermain
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: NY
Age: 38
Good chapter. Wonder what they'll be focusing on next now that Tsukune has been skewered enough times. Hopefully, they won't spend a whole chapter with them recovering and instead will focus on planning to save Moka.
|2011-05-03, 07:56
|Link #19836
Tastes Cloudy
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Snake Way
Age: 29
1. White hair > pink
2. Thaats a givinin
3. Hoping
4. A shuffle! Ending would serfice
|2011-05-03, 09:31
|Link #19838
Awe of She
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Orlando
It's already known that Alucard (for some reason) hated humans and began to absorb other ayashi in a bid to gain enough power to singlehandedly curbstomb the barriers between youkai and human realms and rampage. Only thing was that too much blood, too much power, not enough time to mentally sort them out = Alien Queen.
One must know the rules in order to break them. Well, not really, but it's preferred in order to break them in a believable manner.
|2011-05-03, 10:23
|Link #19840
I am a Boxer
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Where hot girls are fighting!
Wow...charter 41 is very good..i read the chapter.. I'm happy for Kurumu...why this manga go out once only month....i can't wait, i want to' see the new Powers Tsukune,and the fight with Akua!!
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Italy's integration minister, Congolese-born Cecile Kyenge, watched as soldiers transferred body bags from boats and onto trucks to be brought to the makeshift morgue. There the survivors of the tragedy were bidding farewell to the other 111 deceased fellow travelers who were recovered from the sea on Thursday. Their coffins stood in three lines at the island's airport, each with a single red rose save for four white caskets for children topped with a teddy bear.
The divers went back into the sea today to look for some of the 200 people still missing, following a two-day suspension caused by bad weather. The latest recovery brought to 143 the number of people confirmed dead.
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