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Sometimes you can only coax a reluctant partner and I&O customer community for so long before you feel you have to take matters into your own hands. That is exactly what VMware has decided to do to become relevant in the cloud platforms space. The hypervisor pioneer unveiled vCloud Hybrid Service to investors today in what is more a statement of intention than a true unveiling.
VMware's public cloud service — yep, a full public IaaS cloud meant to compete with Amazon Web Service, IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, HP Cloud, Rackspace, and others — won't be fully unveiled until Q2 2013, so much of the details about the service remain under wraps. VMware hired the former president for Savvis Cloud, Bill Fathers, to run this new offering and said it was a top three initiative for the company and thus would be getting "the level of investment appropriate to that priority and to capitalize on a $14B market opportunity," according to Matthew Lodge, VP of Cloud Services Product Marketing and Management for VMware, who spoke to us Tuesday about the pending announcement.

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Arsenal Ladies forward Rachel Yankey says her side's Women's Super League title was the best possible answer to the critics who wrote the team off before the start of the season.
The inaugural WSL campaign saw stronger teams and more competition for the title and many people questioned whether the Gunners would prevail.
But Laura Harvey's side showed why they have been dominant team in the women's game over the last decade, finishing three points clear of their closest rivals at the top of the league.
"Everyone wrote us off and said that it wasn't going to be Arsenal's year but we've battled on and won it. It feels fantastic to lift the trophy," Yankey told Arsenal.com.
"It's been a tough season for us and it's been a long season. It feels like we've been playing throughout the whole year.
"But we have so much quality and character in our squad and it has shown this season. We've had to deal with injuries and setbacks but we have bounced back every time so it feels great to pick up another league title."
With the pressure on Arsenal to get the three points they needed to win the WSL title, Harvey's side needed all of their experience to get them over the finish line.
And it was Yankey who emerged as the hero against Liverpool, grabbing two first-half goals to send the Gunners on their way to a 3-1 win.
"Finding the back of the net is not my strong point so it was fantastic to get two goals on Sunday," said Yankey.
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So, I've won our tracks "Sport Compact" class championship 8 times, and finally decided to go after the "real cars" in Sportsman. I have every intention of winning this class too, and just thought I'd throw updates on here in case anyone cared.
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Stella McCartney has thrown presentations in many an undiscovered enclave of New York City, most recently a carnival party in a secret Lower East Side garden for resort 2013. This season the British designer opted for a more established milieu to showcase her new collection: the uptown headquarters of the Americas Society. "You know I'm actually half New Yorker, from this part of town," said the designer. "And the collection speaks to that." If you happened to step through the society's double doors last night, past the unicorn ice sculpture, up the wooden staircase, and into a chandelier-lit vestibule, you would have found a modern tableau of sophistication: models dressed in mixed-media velvet and silk dresses, having their portraits painted by a trio of artists. In fact, the languid color-block looks were reminiscent of Abstract Expressionist works hanging in any number of storied museums north of Fifty-ninth Street. In the hallway stood a cluster of girls in bold, striped cocktail-hour cropped pants and blouses—one of whom had an oversize camel coat casually thrown over her shoulder, a nod, said McCartney, to the wardrobe of her eternally chic American mother, Linda.
The designer has a way of infusing all corners of a working wardrobe with a sense of ease, and that was apparent even against a buttoned-up backdrop. Super-luxurious fabrics like layered jacquard came laden with fun, like a red suit sprigged with jumbo flowers and a trapunto sweater appliquéd with a gigantic kestrel bird. As McCartney put it, "it was about loosening the stricter side of a woman and adding a little playfulness—bringing two emotions together." She motioned to a burgundy bomber jacket paired with tailored track pants for proof, but could have easily been talking about what she herself wore: one elegantly oversize tweed onesie freshly minted on the pre-fall production floor.


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- Dazzling to behold, Gemworld is one of the wonders of the Federation: an artificial world composed entirely of crystal, its atmosphere held in place by a sophisticated network of force fields. Home to a half dozen different sentient races, this singular world is a low-gravity playpen of mammoth spires, endless fractal staircases, gemstone arcs, and dazzling prisms, all carefully nurtured by the planet's many inhabitants – until now.
- Lieutenant Melora Pazlar, who previously served on Deep Space Nine, is currently stationed aboard the Starship USS Enterprise-D where an urgent telepathic summons alerts her to the danger threatening her homeworld.
- The crystals that once sheltered her people, and several other alien species, are now growing at a vastly accelerated and uncontrollable rate, wreaking havoc throughout the planet. Captain Picard orders the Enterprise on a rescue mission to Gemworld, but they arrive to find a world in chaos – and an unexpected menace that traps the crew of the Enterprise along with the fragile civilization they hoped to save!
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- The Melora Pazlar character first appeared in DS9: "Melora". Her story has continued in the Star Trek: Titan series, where she is the stellar cartographer aboard the USS Titan under the command of Captain Riker.
- This novel, set in 2375, states that Barclay is still part of the Enterprise crew at this point. However, the Voyager episode "Pathfinder", set in 2376, states that the character had been on Earth for almost two years.
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Hi all, first post. I'm thinking of training to be an ESL teacher and wondering which school to go to. I'd like to do a course which gives me the appropriate skills. I taught in China 2006/7 in a primary school which was fun. The training I had was ad hoc and online and sufficient for 5 - 11 year olds but wouldn't cut much mustard, I'm guessing, with intermediates.
My background has a business flavour with a degree in economics and I worked in a bank for 8 years, up to 2006. I visited Madrid last year (which is beautiful, BTW), staying in a hostel, and see there's a healthy teaching industry in the city. I suppose learning in a school there would be ideal. I just want to start off on the right foot in my new career so any help/recommendations would be great to hear.


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OTAC recognizes and celebrates that OT/OTA students are the bright future of the profession and the Association. In support of its student members, OTAC offers benefits that students find particularly valuable including the OTAC Student Leadership Committee.
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- Discounted student membership dues - only $50 annually.
- Discounted first year practitioner dues - only $100 for OTs and $85 for COTAs. (You must have been a student member with no lapse in membership to take advantage of this discount. Contact the OTAC office when you graduate and they will assist you with transitioning your membership to first year practitioner.)
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Sorry for last night!
I used to say to the players, 'our job is not to talk, but to produce performances.' So I'm not very comfortable today, to speak to you. I would just like to start my speech by thanking Pat Rice, who publicly was my right hand for 16 years. He was a genuine, committed and 100 per cent dedicated Arsenal man. So I would like to thank him personally and publicly.
I know there seems to be a lot of dissatisfaction and I can understand because we want to win. But as well, it's important we don't go overboard. If everybody is absolutely devastated when we finished third in the league, I promise you I will not be here when we finish 15th one day.
We have, last night, not produced a good performance but as well let's not forget that it was the first defeat in 43 home games in the Champions League. First of all, not many clubs play 43 home games consecutively in the Champions League, and I think many teams don't lose at all for 43 games.
Having said that, we finished last year third in the league. A season where we had a very difficult start and where we, of course, had to be solid. One of the good consequences of last year is that the Club has been solid, the team has been solid and the staff have been solid as well to come back and win third place that was down to one point basically.
During the whole season, we had no Wilshere, no Diaby and of course at the end of the season, we lost Van Persie. We lost Song and we lost Benayoun. We bought Cazorla. We bought Podolski. And we bought Giroud.
We anticipated a little bit that we might lose Van Persie, because the talks were open but we didn't know if he could find an agreement and that's where we anticipated Giroud and Podolski to bring them in. Of course we lost 40 goals, but I think the three players we bought will be [a] success.
I think as well, that this team started in a very convincing way, a very dynamic way and in a very promising way. We hit the wall in the last two games in a little bit of an unexplainable way. But the attitude of the team is fantastic. The focus they have every day is very good and the quality that we see in training is very good.
We have as well some good news with players coming back. It's always difficult, the day after a defeat, to take a distance with the result and have a little bit [of a] bigger picture. But I believe this team can deliver and therefore I am personally optimistic that we'll have a good season and that we still will show, and that the players will show, that I am right.
I do not want to go too much into financial discussions. It's not my job. My job is to deliver a team who produces performances with the resources we have and I never complained about that. I think it should be the same absolutely everywhere.
You can be proud, when you produce the resources, that your team delivers. I wouldn't be very proud to take my wage at the end of the month, just because somebody puts a cheque in and says 'OK take my money'. I would like to think that every club produces its own resources and pays its players with the money it produces. There's no way to be ashamed of that.
For the rest, our policy will be exactly the same as we have always done. Produce our own players - I think that's vital for the spirit of the game. The style of our play and of course the way we want to behave. Therefore, it's important that 60 to 80 percent of the team comes from our own ranks.
We produce English national team players, maybe the most now in England. That means the quality of our work comes through. For the rest, the 20 to 30 to 40 per cent of the players we bring in have to be top-class players.
That's why I would like to come back to one thing. We speak about trophies. For me, there are five trophies - the first is to win the Premier League, the second is to win the Champions League, the third is to qualify for the Champions League, the fourth is to win the FA Cup and the fifth is to win the League Cup.
I say that because if you want to attract the best players, they do not ask: 'did you win the League Cup?', they ask you: 'do you play in the Champions League?
I say that as well, because recently we had a meeting in Geneva about when a manager is in some situations, what does he do? For example, a guy came out with a problem. He said 'I played the semi-final of the Europa League at home and three days later, I played the decisive game in the championship to qualify for the Champions League.
And I was thinking 'what do I do?' Do I go for the semi-final of the Europa League? Or do I go for the qualifier in the Champions League?' And the whole meeting was about that decision.
What came out as a 90 per cent conclusion, is that all the managers said 'if you take care of you, you go for the semi-final of the Europa League. If you take care of the club, you go for the Champions League position.' And that's what we do, always.
I think that's vital because we have periods where we [don't] have the squad available to play in the competitions and we protect the championship when we have injuries. That of course is our priority. If people convince me that's wrong, we have to do completely differently, I'm listening. I'm ready to do that.
First of course, we want to win the Premier League and that's why we are here and that's what we want to fight for. Believe me we'll give absolutely every drop of energy to achieve that and we will do that again this year.
The environment is competitive, difficult and challenging. I think we have to be united to achieve it. I accept every different opinion but it looks to me that the modern world creates [little communities] inside every big community. The multiplication of medias create little groups of different opinions and we see that as well inside these clubs.
But these little communities have to learn to live together for one common thing, and that is the strength of our Club. And I think we have to keep that in mind.
We understand that you do not always agree with what we do. But [it's] still very important that we keep strength and that we keep united for the same thing - the good of Arsenal. Sometimes we can forget that.
I'm sure we can count on you for the whole season and we'll come up with what we deliver at the end of the season. If you're not happy, I'm happy to listen to you, and I'm happy to meet you.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Desert Island Discs was created by Roy Plomley in 1942, and the format is simple: a guest is invited by Kirsty Young to choose the eight records they would take with them to a desert island
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Episode 142 of 599 episodes
Actress Celia Imrie joins Kirsty Young to choose her Desert Island Discs.
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I don't see it passing, and if it does, I bet SC loses a lot of reciprocity with other states.
Hopefully if it does pass (I highly doubt it, too) there will be a way to restore reciprocity through another state ccp.
We're currently allowed to take the Utah class. That gives us 28 states. Funny we have to have that to carry in our neighboring GA.
I like the comments below the article...
I'm personally supportive of unrestricted carry, any where, any time, except inside federal buildings with metal detectors, or if deemed by a court of law for an INDIVIDUAL, not a class of people.
The 2nd Amendment was not designed to be parceled out and permitted...
Kinda like state laws governing free speech... Do you have a permit to speak freely in your state? Does your state have free speech reciprocity with any others???
Something to think about today...
I guess this is what the new SC reciprocity map would look like if it were to pass but put SC in blue, too.


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- 2 teaspoons finely chopped onion
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 tablespoon olive oil, divided
- 1 tablespoon butter, divided
- 2 tablespoons beef broth
- 8 uncooked medium shrimp (about 1/4 pound), peeled and deveined
- 2 teaspoons minced fresh parsley
- 2 beef tenderloin steaks (6 ounces each and 1-1/2 to 2 inches thick)
- In a small skillet, saute the onion and garlic in 1-1/2 teaspoons oil and 1-1/2 teaspoons butter until tender. Add broth; cook and stir for 1 minute. Add the shrimp; cook and stir until shrimp turn pink, about 3-5 minutes. Stir in parsley. Cut a pocket in each steak; place three shrimp in each pocket. Cover remaining shrimp and broth mixture; keep warm.
- In a large skillet, heat remaining oil and butter over medium-high heat. Add steaks; cook until meat reaches desired doneness (about 10-13 minutes for medium), turning once. Top with reserved shrimp and broth mixture. Yield: 2 servings.
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Oracle once again has made invalid benchmark claims in a press release -- this time on SPECjAppServer.
- Oracle utilized a 48 core server in this benchmark, not the 6-core one their press release leads you to believe. IBM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) was benchmarked on a 4 core server. Note that while Oracle reports 7x the performance of IBM it was with 12x the number of processor cores (1).
- The IBM WAS benchmark result used as a comparison was conducted in August 2008, 14 months ago and utilized WAS v6.1. WAS v7.0 was made available in September 2008 and provides superior performance to WAS v6.1.
- Oracle claims they are the leader in multiple SPECjAppServer benchmark categories - but they have gone back to 8 year old retired benchmarks which have no relevance to today's IT infrastructure - SPECjAppServer2001, SPECjAppServer2002, and even, can you believe it, ECperf. Those were the days.
- The most recent SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark result from IBM using WAS v7.0, released in January 2009, compared with an Oracle WebLogic Server result using the same amount of application processor cores and the same software version as cited in the release clearly shows IBM WAS v7.0 as the dominate price/performance leader (2).
The fantasy continues as Arnold carries Larry off the stage with an "I'll be back."
(1) Oracle Web Logic Server on HP ProLiant DL785 G6 with a Six-Core AMD Opteron 8439 SE 2.8 GHz processor (48 cores total), 9,455.17 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@ Standard. IBM WebSphere 6.1 Application Server on IBM System p570 with 2 processors, 4 cores, IBM POWER6 4.7 GHz, 1,197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
(2) Based on dividing the list price for the application server software used in the benchmark by the throughput of the benchmark result for Oracle (http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2009q2/jAppServer2004-20090325-00130.html) and IBM (http://www.spec.org/jAppServer2004/results/res2008q4/jAppServer2004-20081216-00126.html) on results with comparable throughput levels.
Source: http://www.spec.org; Results current as of 10/14/09.
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Okay folks I need pictures/Terence in two categories:
1. Found Parts - Dental Equip
2. Not found, but suspected to be a 'Found Part'
I was at a friends house yesterday, using some of his tools when I had an idea. His job is dental equip repair, and he's been doing it for 25 years or so. In that time, he's kept ALL of his customers old/broken equipment and any parts they were getting rid of. The result, a 2.5 car garage stuffed to the doors.
Well, I owe him a few favors so I told him that the missus and I would come over and clean/organize his garage in a few weeks, in return, I can go through all the boxes/parts bins/machines and keep anything that will help us here on the board.
I've been away from the board for awhile, so I'm not super up to date on what is found, what's little being researched, and what is KNOWN to be scratch-built.
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So today I got the chance to demo a Bataleon Evil Twin at Bear Mountain.
I originally emailed the Bataleon sales rep, and he put me in contact with Alex, who worked at the Bear shop. The demo price was $30, and the Bataleon rep couldn't get me a free demo, so Alex was nice enough to hook me up with an employee discount, which was $15. So basically I walked out of the shop with a brand new Evil Twin with Flux Titans.
They weren't allowed to use my personal bindings (Rome 390s) but Alex said the Titans were the closest thing that they had, so I guess I'll review that as well, as I've never been in those bindings before.
170 lbs.
My usual setup:
Rome Agent 156
Rome 390s
Salomon Dialogues
Today's setup:
Bataleon Evil Twin 151
Flux Titans
Salomon Dialogues
Skill level:
5/10 - - I usually charge the blacks at Mammoth, just learned how to ride pow, starting to ride switch, can do small-medium jumps, boxes, ollies and nollies.
First run:
I just cruised around, trying to see how the TBT worked. At speed, this thing is just as stable, if not even more stable than my Agent! All the little imperfections, the little bumps and iceballs here and there, the TBT handled it very well. I'm guessing the TBT just pushed the iceballs aside like a boat going through an icefield. I normally get sketched out on those things. Turning is effortless, and actually a lot smoother. In a straight line, the board still tracks straight and true.
A little side note about the bindings. The Flux Titan straps are really hard to buckle. You really have to push them in to get the ratchet to catch. Unstrapping is also a little difficult because the release lever is actually two small bits instead of one long lever on the 390. However once in, my feet felt solid.
Second run - end of the day:
Alex told me not to jib on it because it's a brand new board. It really was. He took it off the shelf and detuned it right in front of me. If I wanted to jib, I'd have to take out last season's ET. I don't really jib, since I'm deathly afraid of rails. I'll do boxes, but no rails, no HVAC tubes, etc.
I did a lot of switch practice on the ET. Because the edges almost never catch, it gave me a lot more confidence. I'm able to link a few turns in switch, but no charging down runs yet. Definitely easier on this board than on the Agent.
On boxes, I've actually never tried any presses, but I was able to do a slight nosepress on and nollie off. Haven't tried spinning on the box yet, so maybe when I try it again I'll let you guys know. The board felt really stable on the box. It didn't want to rock to either side.
I love this board for ollies. I've never tried any sort of reverse/zero camber, so I can't compare, but the board is really poppy and ollies/nollies well. Combine the pop with jumps and catch-free TBT landing, this board is freakin' legit. I landed all the kicker jumps today. Landed a little sketch on some of them, but rode out anyway. I really wanted to grow some balls and try a backside 180, which I only learned late last season, but decided it was too early in the season to try and do something stupid. I still should have tried though. The only times that I ate it during landing was when I tried jumping off hips. Those will forever be the death of me.
The only con I can think of:
My legs are a little longer, so I run a 23.5" stance, but the ET couldn't do it. I think it was either 23" or 24". 23.5 would have to be set back a bit. I got used to it rather quickly though.
Final verdict:
The hype is true. All the reviews, advertisements, articles, and videos are 100% correct. The board made my day just so much more fun. Cruising, charging, jumping, boxes. It does it all and then some. For us SoCal riders that do not see powder that often, it's a fantastic park board that excels at riding the whole hill. I think the giant shit-eating grin I had at the end of the first run said it all. I want this board. I don't care if it's a 151 because I don't really ride anything big unless I go to Mammoth or Tahoe, which is just a handful of times a year. Unfortunately it's priced at $400+ and I'm going to be unemployed at the end of next week, so I probably shouldn't pick one up...not right now at least.
Before I buy a funstick though, I would like to demo Reverse/Zero camber boards, as well as regular camber park boards to really make an accurate comparison.
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Hey Dom! nice review and nice to see you already started 09-10 in socal.
Hey dude!
Yeah I was at High last Thursday for Shredsgiving. Are you on facebook? I put together a little video. Have you gone yet?
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Great review! There's a reason why I fell in love with their boards last year and my quiver is all Bataleon this season!
Great review!! I wish you had a chance to ride the Aerobic and do a comparison of the two. I'm looking to pick up one (Aerobic) this season as my F-around board, but am worried it's toooooo soft for when I just want to ride down hills. I don't want to carry two boards with me every time :(
Yeah, I'm gonna email the rep again and see if I can demo the Airobic next Saturday. I'm not much of a jibber but I would really love a noodle fuck-around board.
Thanks for reading!
yo how do you contact the rep to get a demo board?
Find the contact for the area that you are in.
For example, Bataleon's contact list is here: CONTACT US | BATALEON SNOWBOARDS | Triple Base Tech, the best thing to happen to snowboards since edges.
I emailed email@example.com and someone there hooked me up with the nearest sales rep. Mine for instance, was Mike Bishop in Lake Arrowhead.
tight thanks man. how long did it take to hear back from them?
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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by TheIronLady, Mar 7, 2013.
My point was projection and musicality, not maturity.
Well, at least Gold can project a 3/3 to the judges
Let's see if she could do it at Worlds and Olympics like Kerrigan.
Agreed, let us see . . . thank goodness we won't have to wait very long
Shame she never really practiced.
Can anyone tell me the starting order of the ladies for the short? because on the old system that would have affected the scoring!
Great Question. Tony Wheeler's Blog did an amazing recap of it. See this link. Flutzing Around, Tuesday July 6, 2010 It has all the video links too.
Short Program Skate Order
Nancy Kerrigan, USA
Anisette Torp-Lind, DEN
Joanne Conway, GBR
Kristi Yamaguchi, USA
Lu Chen, CHN
Patricia Neske, GER
Nathalie Krieg, SWI
Laetitia Hubert, FRA
Surya Bonaly, FRA
Yuka Sato, JPN
Karen Preston, CAN
Marina Kielmann, GER
Josée Chouinard, CAN
Tonya Harding, USA
Nancy did have good technique, but I don't believe she had that much speed.
Actually, I've read that skating order affects the scoring even more under the IJS.
Incidentally, concerning the mentions of Gold, is she working on a triple axel? Meissner made a brave attempt at one, but it was puny at best compared with Tonya's. However, I do think Gold could do the jump justice. OTOH, under the IJS, it's really not worth the trouble to acquire one IMO.
These are the results i agree with
1st: Kristi - 5.8 5.9
2nd: Chen - 5.7 5.8
3rd: Josee - 5.6 5.7
4th: Karen - 5.6 5.6
5th: Latetia- 5.5 5.5
6th: Nancy - 5.2 5.5
7thatricia- 5.2 5.4
8th: Yuka - 5.1 5.4
9th: Surya - 5.1 5.3
10th:Tonya - 4.9 5.3
Feel free to agree or critisize
Interesting. Where would you have placed Belgium's Alice Sue Claeys who was eighth in the short. (I am assuming she went clean and landed a 3toe/2loop combo.) For a first year senior, she had the look of a seasoned competitor, too. It is a shame she got injured, because I thought Claeys was a skater with medal winning potential.
Apart from Yamaguchi, Neske and Harding, it's funny to think that Bauil would beat them all the following year.
I think 5.6 for elements is a bit high for Josee since too much her miss was a blatant step out and should have been more than .2. I think 5.8 for presentation for Chen is much too high for that program which was not at all artistic.
Given the dire quality of the event it shouldnt have been that surprising a newbie came in and beat everyone with Kristi retiring next year. Kristi was so far ahead of the rest this year she could have probably won with 4 falls.
But I seem to remember '93 Worlds as a mixed bag. Surya Bonaly had the performances of her life (I think she should've won, personally), Chen Lu gave her best performances up to that point, Yuka Sato maybe had a step-out and/or pop in there but was otherwise great, the German skaters Marina Kiehlmann and newcomer Tanja Szewczenko were clean, as was even Karen Preston. But, I think the one skater the judges would've put over Oksana Baiul was Nancy Kerrigan and she was a disaster, only to be out-disastered by Josee Chouinard!
Interesting that Karen Preston beat Chouinard at 1993 Worlds. Did she have a problem after 1993? Why did she not qualify to the Olympics?
Preston two-footed several jumps in the free skate at 1994 Canadians (and fell on a triple flip IIRC), which might not have been fatal errors vis-a-vis Susan Humphreys except that her Swan Lake program wasn't particularly well-suited to her. That Humphreys skated very nicely to music from the same ballet without falling certainly didn't help.
I agree. My recollection is that everyone assumed Kerrigan (the highest ranking skater returning after 92) would win 93 Worlds pretty easily. She did have a strong SP then totally imploded in the FS. While Bonaly was able to win Europeans, the judges at Worlds so hated her technique flaws and lack of presentation they were never willing to put her on top, regardless of how many jumps she landed. So that left Baiul with a strong clean skate. Even though she was a comparative newcomer, she was so obviously and extraordinarily gifted, I think the judges were happy to give it to her.
The most significant repercussion of Kerrigan's meltdown from the US POV was that left us with only 2 ladies spots at Lillehammer, meaning a very young Michelle Kwan didn't get to go.
At 93 Worlds, Bonaly actually produced 7 clean triples and 2 2axels. No 3/3s but no URs either. But yes she was a very flawed skater. However, as strong as Baiul was, her whole package was also severely lacking when she didn't do any combination jumps, a fourth spin, a step sequence and both of her 2axels were flawed. Definitely not a well balanced program (although I am not sure if this term existed in 1993).
In hindsight, I would give the free to Chen (5.8/5.8) who produced 5 solid triples and a 6th slightly flawed triple together with a complex program, and also have Bonaly (5.8/5.5) ahead of Baiul (5.6/5.6).
I definitely agree about putting Chen first. I can even see putting Bonaly ahead of Baiul as well.
But I haven't watched their short programs in a while and don't know how this placement would affect the overall podium. IIRC Baiul was clean in the short. Don't remember the rest.
Chen was 5th in the SP, but I don't remember what she missed. Baiul was second in the SP, and Bonaly third. So the medals would be identical to your top 3 in the LP.
True. Along with pretty bad skates from Lisa Ervin and a disastrous SP from Tonia Kwiatkowski. Tonya Harding was left off the team that year.
That's a shame, because she had a really good SP in '93 as well:
I was going to add that but couldn't remember what the rule was at that time. There was a while where having any skater on the podium got the country 3 spots.
I think you meant disastrous qualifying skate from Kwaitkowski. She didn't even make it to the SP. Ervin finished 13th overall.
I frankly never remotedly understood the decision to send Kwiatkowski to Worlds over Harding and Bobek when all 3 had comparable long program skates and mistakes at Nationals that year. I could definitely see if Tonia had a good skate and clearly outskated the other two, but all 3 had mistakes and landed only 2 triples each. Tonia at that time had very poor international results, was already a middle aged skater, and was unlikely to achieve even a respectable result at Worlds. Very bizarre decision. It seemed it was the USFSA wanting to send a message to the two bad girls, especialy after all the trouble Bobek had caused at Junior Worlds that year. I could see Ervin I guess as she was the only one to do a personal best in the long at Nationals that year, but her content was limited enough, and she had done poorly in the short, so they could have easily justified keeping her down too.
I also think in retrospect Tonia could have done alot better had she been more focused on skating in the 92-94 period. When one looks at her skating in the 95-98 period, she could have been very competitive in the years I mentioned, but she sacrificed alot of what could have been her peak years when she was most invested in school. Had she skated at the 93 Nationals like she did at the 96 Nationals (or even 95) for instance, the judges would have had to have given her the National title (or atleast would if they had a conscious or any integrity at all).
93 Worlds actually ended up to be a really good ladies event! One of the best ever at that point. Bauil, Bonaly, Chen, to some degree Sato, Preston, Kielllmann (in the LP only), Szewcenko, and Kulovana all had personal best performances/competitions. One could not have forseen such a great event after the 92 debacle, especialy with Yamaguchi and Ito retiring.
I agree the only skater the judges would have put above Baiul is Kerrigan, especialy seeing Bonaly skate so well with much harder content (and being right behind her after the short) and still not do it, and Chen skate so well and not even come close. Although I think if Josee Chouinard had duplicated her Nationals performance from that year she "might" have had a chance to beat Baiul.
Does anybody remember the ordinals? I don't know how close Tonya got to making the World Team, but yes, I think they were tired of giving her the benefit of the doubt. And that's understandable. I mean, she could only manage 2 clean triples?
Never thought about that--yes, definitely makes sense. Her '96 Nationals skate was really good, but nowadays under the IJS I wonder how much she would've gotten dinged for the jumps. I believe she had a lot of two-footed landings.
I wonder what the judges would have been "willing" to do with Tonya at that event? Assuming she skated a clean SP, where would she have ended up in that segment?
It's also interesting that Kerrigan and Baiul both finished 2nd in qualifying, yet Baiul still managed to win. I wonder how many jumps both landed in the qualifying?
Not specifically, but I do know that there was flipflopping in the long program. Basically the ordinals were all mixed up between 2nd and 5th place. And Kerrigan may have gotten some ordinals below 1 and Kwan may have gotten some above 6th.
Choosing Kwiatkowski was the judges way of showing Harding that unless she cleaned up her act, she wouldn't get to go to Worlds now or in the future and like you said, they were also admonishing Bobek


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IMO its food for thought. If your looking to rebuild the system i wouldnt start with the factory speakers. I would hold off and replace a different part of the system.
I would repace the speakers last. With a good head unit you can cross the stock speakers over using them more for midrange wich IMO they are perfect for midrange.
|As for the first page of plots, 3dB is twice the sound level don't forget. And at higher levels, I bet the factory speakers will have more distortion, if they don't "blow up" altogether. My 2013 SE's audio system sounds pretty bad.
The model # of the bazooka tube you gave me shows it has a built in amp and that requires 3 power wires +- and remote.
And either 2 RCA or 4 high level input wires right?
Who installed it?
You radio has the settings im talking about.
Ide set your HPF (high pass filter) to 120 for the stock speakers both front and rear. Make note of wher ethey are set if they are. Ide set the LPF to 120 as well. This way all the door speakers get 120 hz up and the sub does everything from 120 down.
On my stereo my radio defaults with the sub output off. If i unhook it, or i disconnect my battery or any power from my radio my amp output is OFF and i get no bass from it. Actually no SIGNAL to it. I have to manually go into the settings and turn the sub ON before i get any sound from it. All my othe rsettings are lost also. All my speakers go to "through" setting with it just full frequency no filtering. Also my phase swith goes back to default as well and im not sure where its at right now. Mine is a Kenwood though and they all pretty much have the same types of settings and the way they all work is simmilar.
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hmmmm. well since all my subwoofer requires me to do is plug one wire into the sub, and that same other end of the wire goes right into the back of the head unit. its like 2 pieces. I don't think theres much else I can do. I think I just need a bigger sub lol.
but today I was messing with my head unit a little more and I found out that I can set it to the size of my door speakers. it allowed me to select either (none) or (5x4) or (6x9). or (OEM). I think mine are 6x9. im not sure. their the stock speakers. it doesn't really change it much. it just changes the presets to sound better depending on the speaker size. idk. eh.
today I got my motor mounts replaced and my power steering pump. the pump was leaking to the point that I had no power steering fluid left. haha. the car is much quieter with the motor mounts replaced. I tried to find an aftermarket exhaust for the wagon but I couldn't find anything. I was so pissed. I wanted something that was more high flowing. so pissed. do you have an aftermarket exhaust?
What kenwood radio is it?
The radio is what im talking about that has a phase setting. It can send a reversed phase signal to the sub different from the door speakers.
Yours may already be set to the best bass sound or it could be in phase and then it seems to rob the bass.
WHen its set right its more effecient then it doesnt need as much power.
lol omg I feel the same way when I listen to my sub. I lean forward and im like hmmm it louder! then I move in the middle and listen. I go in the back seat. Its actually louder in the front seat. I thought that was strange. it sounds awesome if you sit in the trunk! haha. but who sits in the trunk? u cant drive in the trunk haha.
heres my sub. http://www.amazon.com/Bazooka-BTA850...t+bazooka+tube
its a 8 inch 50 watt one speaker sub. it has a built in amp. theres no settings on it. all there is, is a volume level knob on it haha. its ok. the door speakers would be perfect if my sub was just more powerfull. eh...oh well lol.
First does your sub have 1 or 2 speakers in it?
I think mine is 150 watts and i dont have alternator problems. Mine is just a small 10" as well.
I noticed mine didnt sound very good on default i had to run the sub out of phase with the rest of the speakers. I think kenwood calls this sub setting "normal, or reverse"
You can do a similar thing by reversing the wires to the sub.
If all your door speakers are say running + from the radio to + tot he speaker and - to - then you do the same to the sub the sub could be running in phase with the rest of the speakers and by the time the sound gets to you its be canceled out by the rest of the speakers. Sometimes moving the sub around in the trunk can change it, sometimes more people in the car or reversing its phase.
My amp also has a setting on it called "delay" i can adjust the delay on mine also this can help but the phase setting is enough for my setup.
What you do is sit in your car like you normaly do when driving, then you adjust it where your sitting. I notice mine will change if i lean forward and my ear is not in the sweet spot. Its really weird its like im getting a phase cancelation off the window or something.
Cars can be tricky to setup and sound good, you just have to play around with it and change things and keep trying different things.
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"How fast can a mammal evolve from the size of a mouse to the size of an elephant?" This question introduces a new paper published today by a group of international researchers led by Alistair Evans of Monash University, including Dr Erich Fitzgerald, Senior Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at MV.
The world's largest mammal by weight, the Blue Whale, is about 61 million times heavier than the world's smallest, the Etruscan Shrew. Erich and his colleagues are interested in how such a range of body sizes evolved within the mammals, particularly the rate at which such evolution occurs.
Previous investigators have calculated rates of evolution using narrowly-defined parameters, whether within a shorter time scale or within a limited taxonomic group. This study is the first to tackle the larger picture, using data from a variety of species that lived over the last 70 million years.
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Interestingly, aquatic mammals such as whales evolved large body mass much faster than land mammals, taking about half as many generations to achieve the same scale of increase.
Says Erich, "Whales can get bigger because the water supports their bodies and so their maximum size is not limited by gravity." He explains that a huge body can also be an advantage for aquatic mammals because it loses less heat.
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Richard writes:
Hi Vincent and hosts,
I have a theory, as to why mitochondria would be involved in programmed cell death. It makes sense that, if they are descended from parasitic bacteria, that mitochondria would have had the ability to kill cells. They may well have needed this in order to spread, from cell to cell.
It makes sense that evolution would adopt something already present, in order to kill cells, rather than inventing something new.
I have no proof, but it does seem reasonable.
Thanks as always, for your interesting group of podcasts.