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Height 6-4, Weight 220, B/T: R/R, DOB: 1/21/1988
2009 Redlegs Baseball Prospect Ranking: #24
Picking up on my Comments from the Matt Klinker post, Josh Ravin is an example of a pitcher whose development may not follow the path of predictable, incremental improvement, but one who still could make a significant breakthrough to a new level of performance. Position prospects typically follow a more standard, linear development curve, one with incremental, steady improvement. On the other hand, pitching prospects are much more volatile and unpredictable, which makes them capable of more rapid and unexpected improvement.
Despite the struggles in his early professional career, Ravin will head into the 2010 season at the ripe old age of 22, which is the equivalent of a senior coming out college, so he has time to develop into an MLB caliber pitcher. He still has a long way to travel on the development curve, but he certainly took a small step forward in 2009.
Draft Position and Physical Build
The Reds selected Ravin in the 5th round of the 2006 draft with the 144th overall pick. Ravin was selected out of Chatsworth High School in California, which has a very strong baseball program, producing former first rounders Mike Moustakas and Matt Dominguez.
Ravin has a very good build for a pitcher, standing 6-4 and tipping the scales at 220, which gives him good height and a strong core. He incorporates his lower body effectively in his delivery and reduces the stress on his arm with a strong lower half.
Professional CareerIn 2009, Ravin took a significant step forward in his development. The Reds sent him back to low-A Dayton, the level where the wheels came off the wagon in 2008. In 2008, Ravin pitched 56.1 innings for Dayton, posting a 7.19 ERA, 1.86 WHIP, and a 47/50 K/BB ratio. His walk rate was almost unbelievably bad at 8.0 BB/9. He completely lost the plate and was ultimately demoted down to the rookie league Billings Mustangs.
Fortunately, his repeat engagement went much more smoothly. In 2009, Ravin tossed 81.0 innings compiling a 3.67 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, and a 66/40 K/BB ratio. His command and control were dramatically improved, as evidenced by his 4.4 BB/9 mark, which was roughly 3.0 fewer walks per nine innings than in the previous season. And, he continued his high strikeout ways, posting a strong, but career low, K/9 mark of 7.3. His performance was legit and represented a breakthrough to a new level of performance, as his components were strong and supported the ERA and WHIP that he posted. His FIP was a solid 3.88, his BABIP was a bit low at .273, and his strand rate was also a bit low at 65.1%.
The high point of his season was his June 14th start against Lansing when he tossed 6.0 innings of two hit ball. In the game, he gave up 0 runs and posted an 8/2 K/BB ratio. That start was fairly typical of his performance in the month of June, which was by far his best month of the season.
In April, Ravin tossed 20.0 innings, posting a 4.50 ERA with a 16/8 K/BB ratio and a .211 batting average against. In May, Ravin struggled with his command, working 31.0 innings posting a 4.94 ERA with a 25/22 K/BB ratio and a .233 batting average against. In June, his game took off, as he worked 30.0 innings with a 1.80 ERA, 25/10 K/BB ratio, and a .213 batting average against.
Unfortunately and perhaps a bit surprisingly, Ravin's season was cut short by a right elbow strain. He was originally expected to miss only a single start, but it ended up costing him the season. While an elbow strain can occasionally be the precursor to a more serious injury, reports are that he's fine and is ready to roll when the 2010 season starts. In light of his strong pitching mechanics, it's somewhat curious to see Ravin succumb to injury. Even so, it's a good example of the principle that strong mechanics merely reduce injury risk, not eliminate it entirely. In Ravin's case, his struggles with his command make him rather inefficient with his pitches, which in turn increases his workload and, subsequently, the stress on his pitching arm.
It's unfortunate that the injury arrived at a time when he was pitching his best baseball of the season and, perhaps, his career. Hopefully, to start off the 2010 season Ravin will be able to pick up right where he left off in June of 2009. If so, he'll be ready to take the next step in his development.
Pitching Mechanics and Repertoire
Ravin throws a good, heavy fastball with late life that sits around 92-94, but can touch 95+. He also works with a solid, but inconsistent curveball that has plus potential and throws a change-up. Part of his struggles come from an inability to consistently spot his curveball. If he can't get the curveball over, then he becomes overly reliant on the fastball, which makes him easier for the competition to figure out. He needs to become more consistent with his secondary offerings to keep the hitters off balance. An effective curveball with two plane break would enable him to change the eye level of the hitters.
Ravin has some of the best pitching mechanics in the system. He has an easy, fluid tempo that he maintains throughout his delivery. He starts his delivery with a very small step with his left foot, which is really nothing more than shifting his left foot in order to unweight his right leg. He can then rotate his right foot down onto the rubber. Once he has shifted on the rubber, he brings his left leg up into a high leg kick. He brings his knee up past parallel with the ground and utilizes hip rotation to generate additional energy to unleash in the delivery. As he uncoils his leg kick, he drives his momentum to the plate. The higher leg kick and taller frame enables him to more easily generate additional energy as he drives towards the plate.
In the photos below, you can see that he is in textbook position. He has a good stride length and position, as his stride isn't closed and doesn't force him to throw across his body. His balance is strong, due in part to his good tempo and body control. He is getting a good push off the rubber to drive his momentum to the plate. His plant foot has landed and his pitching arm is up in throwing position, which is indicative of a throwing motion that keeps the upper and lower body in sync. His pitching hand is in good position, as he is "showing" the ball to second base. The shoulders are level, he's not a pitcher who uses forced scap loading to increase his velocity, and the pitching elbow is in good position relative to the shoulders.
In the photo below, he is just a bit further along in his delivery. He has just pushed off the rubber with his right leg and is driving his momentum towards the plate. His upper body is effectively out over his lower body. You can also see his arm slot, which is a high three-quarter delivery that is free-and-easy.
Once he releases the ball, Ravin's follow-through is very well controlled. He finishes up in perfect fielding position and maintains good body control throughout his delivery. One of the more impressive aspects of his delivery is the ability to generate plus velocity without losing any control of his body. He's got a very smooth delivery and an easy arm action, so he's definitely not a max effort pitcher. He doesn't have to put so much effort into his delivery to generate velocity that he loses control of his body and loses his balance. He maintains his tempo and balance throughout the delivery, which should, at least in theory, help with consistency and reduce his injury risk.
Overall, Ravin remains one of my favorite pitchers to watch simply throw the ball. His tempo and balance are very strong and his arm action is smooth. I think he is very solid mechanically, which should enable to be more effective than he has been thus far in his career. Hopefully, he'll start maximizing the benefits to be reaped from his potentially plus stuff and pitching mechanics. To do so, he might need to improve his mental approach on the mound. He needs to be able to grind through innings where he doesn't have his best stuff or command. He is the type of pitcher who is susceptible to the big inning, so he needs to learn how to not let the inning get away from him. Learning to overcome adversity to be successful is a pivotal part of player development and an area where Ravin needs to improve.
I'd recommend taking a look at his MLB draft scouting video, which you can access here.
Ravin remains a personal favorite of mine. He's got the combination of pure stuff, clean mechanics, and physical build that should enable him to be an effective pitcher in the professional ranks. And, the fact that he has struggled as much as he has in the professional ranks is a bit surprising to me. In 2009, he was in the process of taking the step forward that I have been waiting to see, but unfortunately injury in the second half derailed his season and limited his workload. So, it turned out to be more of a half-step, but still an encouraging sign for his continued development.
While Ravin's performance to date has been underwhelming, his raw abilities are strong enough to enable him to make a significant breakthrough when it all comes together. He's a light-switch type player, but it's time for him to flip the switch and emerge from the shadows to reclaim his prospect status.
It seems like he's been around forever, but he'll still only be 22 years old during the 2010 season. His breakthrough in 2009 and his natural abilities continue to give me a good deal of hope for the future. So, for now, he checks in at #25 on the list, but he'll need to have a strong showing in 2010 to avoid falling off the list entirely.


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Similar to any other medical setting, there are a variety of rules in place in your dental office for infection control. While your dentist can give you specific information about recovering from your treatment, there are some general guidelines you can follow to prevent infection from occurring. Keep in mind that once an infection begins, it can easily spread to other areas of your body. Infection control is crucial to both your oral and overall health after a dental procedure or oral surgery.

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Our group includes PostDocs, PhD students, and student assistants, and is headed by Prof. Jürgen Döllner. If you are interested in joining our team, please contact Jürgen Döllner.
This project investigates automatic non-photorealistic image processing techniques for the creation of simplified stylistic illustrations from color images, videos and 3D renderings based on generalizations of the Kuwahara filter.
Photorealistic depictions often contain more information than necessary to communicate intended information. Artists therefore typically remove detail and use abstraction for effective visual communication. A typical approach to automatically create stylized abstractions from images or videos is the use of an edge-preserving filter. Popular examples of edge-preserving filters used for image abstraction are the bilateral filter and mean shift. Both smooth low-contrast regions while preserving high-contrast edges. Therefore, they may fail for high-contrast images where either no abstraction is performed or relevant information is removed because of the thresholds used. They also often fail for low-contrast images where typically too much information is removed.
An edge-preserving filter that overcomes this limitation is the Kuwahara filter. Based on local area flattening, the Kuwahara filter properly removes details even in a highcontrast region, and protects shape boundaries even in low-contrast regions. Hence, it helps to maintain a roughly uniform level of abstraction across the image while providing an overall painting-style look. Unfortunately, the Kuwahara filter is unstable in the presence of noise and suffers from block artifacts. Several extensions and modifications have been proposed to improve the original Kuwahara filter. The most recent work by Papari et al. [2007] introduces new weighting windows and a new combination rule. Even though this improves the output quality significantly, clustering artifacts are still noticeable.
In our work [Kyprianidis et al. 2009] we present a generalization of the Kuwahara filter that avoids clustering artifacts by adapting shape, scale and orientation of the filter to the local structure of the input. Due to this adaption of the filter to the local structure, directional image features are better preserved and emphasized. This results in overall sharper edges and a more feature-abiding painterly effect. Local orientation and a measure for the anisotropy are derived from the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the smoothed structure tensor [Brox et al. 2006]. Then structure-aware smoothing is performed using a novel nonlinear filter. This nonlinear filter uses weighting functions defined over sectors of an ellipse whose shape is based on the local orientation and anisotropy. The filter response is defined as a weighed sum of the local averages where more weight is given to those averages with low standard deviation. Our approach shows excellent temporal coherence without requiring expensive video motion estimation. Implemented on the GPU the algorithm processes video in real-time.
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While traveler expectations are increasing due to carry-over effects from other industries where customer centricity and service, supported by digital technology, have matured quickly.
Airline managers must overcome the eternal dilemma of structurally reducing costs, while investing in enhancing customer experience.


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Back in 1975, Porsche's chairman Ernst Fuhrmann met with the Soviet automotive industry minister Viktor Polyakov and agreed on a three-year partnership where Porsche would help design Ladas. This is the failed result of that partnership.
It's called the VAZ-Porsche 2103 and it was planned to be a facelift of the Lada of the time. Porsche revised the suspension, redid the interior, and cleaned up the exterior. Well, they pulled off all the metal brightwork and put plastic in there instead. To put things charitably, it looks very much of its period.
Porsche proposed their update in 1976, but the Soviets rejected the car. Old Russian Cars points out that Lada went with their own update instead, the 2106, but we all know that the Lada was always perfect and never needed any changes. Lada did, however, accept some work Porsche carried out through 1980 on the Niva offr0ader. Porsche apparently reworked the engines for accepting bad gas and did some work in aluminum for Lada as well, PorscheC.ru states.
Of course, the Porsche/Lada connection didn't end there, but that's a story for another day.
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Three homers back Bumgarner's strong start
Morse slugs first; Sandoval, Posey go back-to-back in fifth inning
LOS ANGELES -- The Giants entered this season knowing that Madison Bumgarner could excel at power pitching. As for power hitting, they couldn't be blamed for harboring some self-doubt.
But through six games, the Giants have shown that they can indeed use the home run as an asset. Their rediscovery of the long ball crested Saturday, as they hit three homers to complement Bumgarner's 6 1/3-inning, 10-strikeout effort in a 7-2 triumph over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Bumgarner recorded his 50th career victory, a precocious achievement for a 24-year-old. His excellence against the Giants' archrivals has helped him reach that figure so quickly. Bumgarner owns a 9-3 career record against the Dodgers in 13 games (12 starts) and has defeated them in five of their last six encounters.
By contrast, the Giants' shower of power has not been so commonplace. They've totaled nine homers, a figure they didn't reach until their 16th game last season.
But this is a wholly new season, filled with fresh possibilities.
Michael Morse, Pablo Sandoval and Buster Posey went deep as San Francisco (5-1) won its fourth consecutive game. Sandoval and Posey delivered back-to-back homers in a four-run fifth inning that enabled the Giants to pull away.
"Throughout the order, we have some power," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "And hopefully that's going to help us. It's hard enough to score runs, but if you can do it with one swing of the bat, it makes your job easier."
With one swing of the bat off Dodgers starter Paul Maholm, the switch-hitting Sandoval matched his 2013 homer total as a right-handed batter. Bochy cited Sandoval's offseason work with Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera as a likely source of improvement. Sandoval has become quicker to the ball with his right-handed swing. The third baseman is still dealing with a slump overall, as his .174 batting average indicates.
"I'm happy," Sandoval said, "but I'm not satisfied."
Sandoval's three-run homer did more than sweeten his credentials. It also demonstrated the Giants' renewed penchant for building big innings. They already have constructed three four-run innings, a five-run rally and one six-run outburst.
Bumgarner welcomed the increased support.
"It makes it easier to go after guys and challenge them," he said.
Approaching hitters aggressively never has been a problem for Bumgarner. He surrendered eight hits but limited the Dodgers to one hit in eight at-bats with runners in scoring position. Bumgarner performed his most impressive work in the fourth inning, striking out Matt Kemp, Scott Van Slyke and Juan Uribe following Adrian Gonzalez's leadoff double.
"He has command of three fastballs -- four-seamer, two-seamer and cutter," Gonzalez said. "[He] can throw them to both sides, with a slower curveball and changeup. He knows how to pitch. He has command down and away, up and in, he criss-crosses the strike zone and makes it tough."
As usual, Bumgarner was tough on Yasiel Puig, the Dodgers' mercurial right fielder who returned to the lineup one day after being benched for reporting late to Dodger Stadium. Puig mustered an infield hit off Bumgarner in three at-bats and is 3-for-12 lifetime off the left-hander.
Asked what adjustments he made against Puig, Bumgarner said, "Nothing. I was pretty good last year, too."
Whenever the Giants needed an extra lift, their defense provided it.
Their most scrutinized gem occurred in the seventh inning, when the Dodgers loaded the bases with one out and drove Bumgarner from the game. But A.J. Ellis tried to follow Van Slyke home on pinch-hitter Andre Ethier's RBI single off Santiago Casilla and was apprehended at home plate by right fielder Hunter Pence's one-hop throw. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly challenged the call but it was confirmed via replay, resulting in Pence's third outfield assist this season.
Flinging himself to his left, Sandoval snared Kemp's grounder with a runner on first and converted the out to end the sixth inning. Second baseman Brandon Hicks turned a difficult double play in the eighth to help defuse a two-on, nobody-out Dodgers rally. And left fielder Gregor Blanco made a deft sliding catch of Ellis' ninth-inning liner.


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WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis swimming and diving teams traveled across Waltham tonight to face off against rival Bentley University. The Judges suffered a pair of losses, with the men dropping a 152-83, while the women fell, 148-79.
Junior Max Fabian (Keene, N.H./Oak Park) was a double-winner on the men's side once again. He won the 1,000-meter freestyle. With a time of 10:12.04, he won the event by a margin of more than 45 seconds. In the 500 free, Fabian established a record for the Brandeis-Bentley meet, breaking the five-minute barrier for the first time against the Falcons with a time of 4:58.07, seven seconds ahead of second place. Fabian also placed third in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:08.51.
Sophomore Brian Luk (Hong Kong / Northfield Mount Hermon) added a win in the 100 butterfly with a time of 55.43 seconds, a margin of 0.21 seconds. Luk was also the runner-up in the 200 freestyle (1:48.51) and the 100 free (50.59 seconds) and third in the 50 free (22.79 seconds).
Rookie Edan Zitelny (Syosset, N.Y. / Syosset) was third in two races, the 100-yard backstroke (58.72 seconds) and the 100 IM (59.24 seconds). He was also fourth in the 200 back (2:07.00).
On the women's side, rookie Joanna Murphy (Sarasota, Fla./Riverview) had the team's top performance with a pair of wins and a second-place finish. Murphy captured the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:03.50 by about more than a second and a half, and came back to also take the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:23.75, winning by a margin of nearly 14 seconds. Her runner-up came in the 100 free with a time of 57.44 seconds, 0.84 seconds off the winning pace.
Sophomore Fallon Bushee (Malden, Mass. / Mystic Valley Regional Charter Sch.) added a runner-up performances in the 50 free in 27.05 seconds and in the 100-yard individual medley with a time of 1:07.89 seconds. Classmate Theresa Gaffney (Braintree, Mass. / Braintree) added a third-place finish in the 1,000 free in 12:13.94.
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Do you like to work with numbers? Are you analytical? A problem solver? Do you enjoy working as part of a team? Then you should consider a major and career in accounting.
Accounting is central to business operations and critical to the capital markets. Accountants organize, analyze and communicate financial information. In addition to providing services in the traditional areas of preparation and analysis of financial statements, auditing, and tax planning and compliance, accountants serve as valuable members of management teams, as highly respected consultants to top management, and as trusted advisers to professionals, business owners, and government leaders.
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Maik1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 68 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
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I run a personal trainng company in NYC, http://www.adlertraining.com, where I deal with executives from Wall Street etc. During the years, I found that many suffer from the same ailments, so I choose to make the following DVD
How to stop repetitive stress injuries dead in their tracks before they occur
DVD Outline
In the age of intense technology usage and ever-increasing workloads, people sit longer than ever and often with poor posture. Most commonly reported consequences are lower back pain (lumbar), sciatic pain, shoulder and neck pain, as well as elbow problems.
According to the US Department of Health, repetitive stress injuries (RSIs) are the single biggest cause for missed work in the US, costing the employers tens of billions annually. Billions more are spent on pain killers, ergonomic chairs, chiropractor visits, physical therapists and so on.
Here is the problem with these remedies: they are all reactive to the problem! They treat the symptoms rather than preventing RSIs or bringing sustained relief from the pain.
However, there is a surprisingly easy way to avoid the majority of RSIs before they even occur.
I have created a three-step exercise program which will a maximum of only 10 minutes of your time, just three times per week, and will be the basis for constant relief from most back, neck, shoulder and elbow-pain caused by repetitive stress injuries.
18-65 years old, white collar workers, anyone who has repetitive strain injuries in shoulder/lower back/ elbow or wrist. pretty much anyone in front of a computer who suffers from any of the above ailments
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Review: Parrot Zik Noise Cancelling Headphones
I'm skeptical of any audio product with a fancy design. In my experience, the more trendy or attractive a product is, the worse the performance. Maybe this prejudice comes from a place of subconscious competition, given that I'm so trendy and attractive.
So I approached the Parrot Zik with caution, not least because I found out that "Design by Starck" was not a misspelling and had nothing to do with Ned or even Robb (What about Tony? - Ed.).
But turns out, zee Ziks are zuper.
I can't think of another pair of headphones that look this good. Even the best headphones still look like, well, headphones. But the Ziks look more like swanky black earmuffs. They're able to look high-tech, without looking like technology. It's quite the trick, that - and the company's style-savvy enough not just to get Phillipe Starck to design their headphones, but to get Carla Bruni to endorse them.
The Ziks, however, are very much technology. At the basic end, there's Bluetooth and noise cancelling. Then there's the capacitive touchpad built into the right earcup. Inside, there's a sensor to detect when the headphones are on your head, so it can automatically go into standby when they're not. Then there are the EQ and selectable Concert Hall Effects, accessed via a free app.
Available for Apple and Android, the Audio Suite app informs you of battery life, and controls the noise cancelling and aforementioned EQ and Concert Hall settings. More on all this later. The outside of the right earcup is touch-sensitive, swipe up and down to increase/decrease volume, tap to pause, swipe forward to change tracks. It seems like a gimmick, but it actually works as advertised, and in a way, is more natural than fumbling with in-line remote controls on a headphone cable (especially how with Bluetooth there's no cable).
As solid as the Ziks look, they're actually quite light. They're also really comfortable, putting very little pressure on your noggin yet maintaining an excellent seal. I'd rate them among the most comfortable headphones I've reviewed.
I had co-Tech2er Brent and voice actress/regular headphone opinionifier Lauren Dragan check out the Ziks. Brent found the soft earpads as comfortable as I did, and figured he could wear them for long periods with no issue. Lauren thought they were a little unusual, but futuristic and interesting looking, and quite comfortable.
I started my listening tests with "All the Roadrunning," from the Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris album of the same title. Their voices and acoustic guitars filled out a wide soundstage. The treble, even at high volumes, remained smooth and pleasing. Knopfler's voice was gravelly, without being bloated-sounding. The track didn't quite have the openness I've heard on some other headphones, but it didn't sound dull. The snare drum hits, for example, didn't have quite the crack they can elsewhere. Being a little more open sounding would be a plus, but this lack is slight enough not to be a dealbreaker.
I figured this was as good a song as any to try out the Concert Hall Effect. I have a knee-jerk reaction against spatializer effects, preferring my music unmolested. However, the Parrot's CHE is actually rather impressive, seemingly more than just excessive reverb. There are four settings: Concert Hall, Jazz Club, Living Room, and Silent Room. The sense of space changed convincingly with each level. Silent Room, for example, is very intimate, with Emmylou right in the middle of your head. Switch to Concert Hall, and she recedes a bit, seemingly in a much larger space. Even cooler, you can slide the virtual speakers, and it really does sound like you're moving speakers in a room. Not sure I'd use it, but it's a really neat trick.
Unlike the Bose QC15s and many other noise-cancelling headphones, the Ziks work with the power off. The sound changes a bit, though, with a little less bass and vocals getting a little midrange push when in passive mode. The sound is fuller when the Ziks are switched on, and fuller still when you activate the NC. Given how much I like the sound in powered mode, it's probably a little heavier in the bass than is strictly neutral. It's not Beats-level bass heaviness though, which is good by me. The low end is warm, but never boomy or mushy. It's like you turned up the volume on a really good subwoofer by 2 or 3 dB.
"Ordinary," from Lucky Boys Confusion's Commitment album, was a good example of this. With the Ziks powered off the guitars and vocals are a little forward and very slightly shouty, while the electric bass is tight but very slightly subdued. With the Ziks on, the soundstage gets wider (even with the Concert Hall Effect off), the bass gets a fuller, and the vocal range becomes more neutral. With the NC active, the bass expands even more though the rest of the sound stays the same. The bass is probably a little bit much with the NC on. However, Parrot makes it easy to fix. Using the User setting of the built-in equalizer, I dropped 150 Hz by an indicated 1 dB, and that was perfect. Easy fine tuning is always nice.
In powered mode with the noise cancelling off, Lauren found the Ziks to be a little bass heavy for her tastes. However, she liked the size of the soundstage (again, the CHE was off), and found them able to create a great sense of space. On the high-end, she found acoustic instruments to be crisp without being harsh. Brent found them to be nicely punchy, with great dynamics, at least when they were powered (he found the bass rather lacking in wired, passive mode), and he felt the noise cancelling performance was above average.
Ah yes, the noise cancelling. The design cleverness of the Ziks is a bit too clever when it comes to noise cancelling. The only way to turn the NC on/off via the smartphone app. This is a terrible idea. The Rube Goldberg series of steps to do something a simple switch (or series of taps) could do better is not user friendly. What if I'm using an iPod? What if I'm on a plane and realize too late I'd turned off my phone forgetting to activate the NC? I'm fine with the concert features, battery levels, and so on being in the app, but this is one step too far.
The noise cancelling performance, however, is good. I have yet to find anything that does a better job than the Bose QC15s in this regard, but the Ziks are better than most. To subjectively test, I played the sounds of a 777 (thanks YouTube!) through my theater's 5.1 system. The Ziks dropped the low rumble of the engines a lot. You could still make them out, but they were greatly reduced and not annoying. This was better performance than most NC headphones I've tried, but not as good as the Bose, which use some sort of exceptional blackmagic. Check out Brent's measurements for a more objective take.
The touch sensitive earcup does take some getting used to. If you usually rest your head on your hand, you could accidently increase volume or change tracks. If you have a smaller head, the head-sensing circuit in the earcup might not register that the Ziks are actually on your head, pausing the music randomly. Lauren got annoyed with how the touch sensitive earcup would interpret normal usage movements (like adjusting hair or headphones for a better fit) for random control inputs, like volume or track changes.
On my sample, the audio cable plug gave a false (or too-early) positive that it was in correctly, causing a bizarre phasing/echoey effect that make me think the headphones were broken. A greater-than-you'd-expect shove of the cable locked it in place. Not a huge deal, but worth noting.
To measure the Zik's performance, I used a G.R.A.S.43AG ear/cheek simulator, a Clio FW audio analyzer, a laptop computer running TrueRTA software with an M-Audio MobilePre USB audio interface, a Musical Fidelity V-Can headphone amplifier for measurements in wired mode, and a Sony HWS-BTA2W transmitter for measurements in Bluetooth mode. I experimented with various positions of the Zik's earpads on the ear/cheek simulator and settled on the positions that gave the most representative results.
The Zik's frequency response varies considerably depending on how it's connected. In Bluetooth mode, it has ample deep bass response, a midrange peak at 1.2 kHz, and a steeply rolled off treble response. Wired/NC off mode has a similar response in the mids and treble, but much less bass output. Switching NC mode on raises the upper mid and treble response to levels comparable with most of the better headphones we test, although the bass response rolls off gently below 100 Hz.
(Note that because of the differing latency in the Bluetooth, NC and wired/NC off modes, I had to employ a different time window on each measurement, which could have had some effect on the measured bass response.)
Although impedance is rated at 32 ohms, it ranges from 39 to 118 ohms in wired/NC off mode and runs flat at 620 ohms in wired/NC on mode. Adding 70 ohms output impedance to the V-Can's 5-ohm output impedance to simulate the effects of using a typical low-quality headphone amp has no effect in wired/NC on mode, but tilts the treble down -2 to -3 dB above 2 kHz in wired/NC off mode.
Because of the latency introduced by the Bluetooth connection and the NC mode, I could measure total harmonic distortion (THD) only in wired/NC off mode. The measurement shown was taken at an average level of 100 dBA. Distortion in this mode is very low, only 2% even at 20 Hz, so at least we can tell the driver is capable of high output.
Isolation is pretty much typical for an over-ear design with NC off. Switching NC on improves isolation by -4 to -15 dB from 60 to 600 Hz, which is a few dB better than the NC technology built into most headphones can do.
Average sensitivity with a 1 mW signal at 32 ohms rated impedance with a wired connection from 300 Hz to 10 kHz is 101.5 dB with NC off, 92.7 dB with NC on. From 300 Hz to 6 kHz, it's 102.7 dB with NC off, 93.5 dB with NC on. - Brent Butterworth
Bottom Line
At $400 the Ziks have a lot of strong competition. From a pure noise-cancelling standpoint, they don't hold a candle to the $100 cheaper Bose QC15s. From a sound quality standpoint, the opposite is true. The QC15s sound fine, but given the choice I'd reach for the Ziks every time to do any listening.
Really, then, I think biggest challenge comes from the PSB M4U 2s. Lauren actually bought a pair of the PSBs, and guards them with a zealous ferocity familiar to anyone who has annoyed a feral cat. Her pick was obvious. Brent too would pick the PSBs, because they were more accurate, and their sound signature more consistent between active and passive modes. However, he felt the Zik's warmer sound would be perfect for some people, especially given their cool looks, "whiz-bang tech features" and Bluetooth.
Yes, the PSBs are more accurate than the Ziks, but I like the sound of the Ziks a lot (at least in powered mode). Given the same money, I'd actually lean ever so slightly towards the Ziks. But like I said, I like a touch more bass in my audio than is strictly "accurate." When it comes down to it, I think some people are going to like the PSBs more, and others will like the Ziks more. It's a matter of taste.
I listen to a lot of headphones, and Brent jokes that I hate just about all of them. The Ziks though, are a fantastic blend of comfort, looks, and have a sound quality that is exactly what I look for in a headphone. All that in one package put the Ziks among my favorites. Definitely worth checking out.


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Coll Kirk Session Minutes, 1813-1844, GB 234, CH2/70/2; National Archives of Scotland
15 March 1833
At Arileod the Kirk Session of Coll met, Compeared Mary McFaden daughter of Lachlan MacFaden Tenant at Grimsary, Declared herself to be with child to Allan son of Hugh MacFaden Tenant also at Grimsary. She acknowledged that the first lapse took place about the beginning of September 1832 and that there were guilt between them repeatedly after that. The afore said Allan MacFaden did not appear. The Kirk Session delayed doing any thing farther in the mean time and ordered Allan MacFaden to be Summoned for Sunday first.17 March 1833
Compeared Allan MacFaden acknowledged to have had guilt with Mary MacFaden Several times but as he would not own to be the Father of the child unless the said Mary MacFaden would make oath that he was the father of it, the Session was of oppinion that her oath should be taken which was done accordingly.
I find no marriage recorded in the parish for Allan McFadyen to Mary McFadyen after their second offense, nor indeed Allan to anyone else from 1821 to 1855. However, their daughter Isabel McFaden was baptized 15 July 1833, no date of birth given, the parents both residing at Grimsary (first offense, as above). Their son Donald McFayden was born in June 1835 and baptized 10 January 1838, the father at Grimsary, the mother, or perhaps the baptism, at Loanban (second offense, as previous post).
One of the genealogical points is that if either of the parents married later, depending on who raised the two children, those kids may be attributed wrongly to the current spouse. Another point is the importance of noting place names. On Coll at this time, the "places" were little more than a cluster of cottages for farm crofters and workers. That's not to say that folk wouldn't move from one place to another as necessity arose.
As a tenant at Grimsary, an Allan McFadyen fathered two children with Janet McLean: Jean born 19 September 1843 and Lachlan born 28 April 1845. Was Allan married to Janet or was he a serial offender for population explosion? Was there more than one Allan McFadyen at Grimsary? The parish register shows no marriage for Allan McFadyen to Janet McLean, and none for his erstwhile lover Mary McFadyen at Grimsary from 1835 onward. If Mary McFadyen moved to a different farm or community, she might be one of three Marys who married in Clabbach (1840) or Arinagour (1840 and 1852).
We know that many marriages and baptisms are missing from the parish registers. The main reason was probably whether the minister was on the island or not; historically, his parish included the Isle of Tiree as well and he had to spend time there too. So we can't necessarily trust the absence of records to mean that events didn't occur. For Coll children born in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, we can seldom confirm family composition with the use of the 1851 census when all household members are named. Sometimes the emigration of families, and their subsequent death/burial records, or marriages of their children, or other sources, if available, assist in the difficult process of identifying parental relationships.
However, children born in the 1830s and 1840s could show up in 1851 if they lived that long. There is an Allan McFadyen age 37 at Grimsary, Coll, with a wife Janet age 35; the head of household is Hugh McFadyen ... seemingly Allan's father as above.[2] Allan does not have Isabel and Donald with him. The children are Flora 11, Jam 7, Lachlan 6, John 4, Mary Ann 2. Jam could well be an erroneous transcription for Jean (digital images are presently not shown on Ancestry). Baptisms for John and Mary Ann with these parents are missing.
It looks like Allan made an honest woman of Janet, but where did Flora come from?! Allan McFaden at Grimsary had a child Flora born 8 November 1839, baptized 1841, whose mother was Mary McLean at Arivorich. Flora age 11 in the census almost fits the age of this child. Did Allan take his and Mary McLean's daughter into his household, or did the minister record Mary instead of Janet at the 1841 baptism?
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While I can find no marriage at all on Coll for a John McArthur 1821-1855, a daughter Mary was born to him and Mary McDonald in May 1835 and baptized 10 January 1838. Possibly this was the same John McArthur (the only one in the parish records of this period) who had children with Effy Kennedy at Grimsary in 1837 and 1838, at Gortan in 1840, and Arnabost in 1843 and 1845. John is described as a weaver in all the entries with Effy; while he sounds like a fairly established man, a marriage to Effy is missing.
Superficial searches like this merely emphasize the need for thorough study of original sources.
[1] Please note: the parish marriages and baptisms in this case were consulted from the transcriptions on Isle of Coll Genealogy
[2] "1851 Scotland Census," database, Ancestry.ca (http://www.ancestry.co.uk : accessed 8 February 2010), Island of Coll, entry for "Allar" McFadyen, p. 4.


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I was thinking the other day why I have enjoyed consulting with small business owners for so many years. Talk about reality shows. What is more real than talking to the person who created, owns and operates a business? They have made their dream a reality. It's a whole different conversation and level of engagement from talking to a marketing or business development manager working for a small or mid-size company. I don't mean to imply that the marketing or business development manager knows less about the company's business than the owner. It's about the level of passion for the business. Passion or entrepreneurial zeal, as we know, doesn't always translate into being able to run a company successfully but I love to hear their story.
I enjoy the initial phase of a search engine optimization or pay per click management campaign for any new client. We call this the discovery phase where we gather quantitative and qualitative information about a business to lay the groundwork for the project. The more we know about what they do, how they do it, who they are trying to reach and what their goals are the better we can develop and implement a successful online marketing strategy for them.
One big difference I notice almost immediately when talking to an entrepreneur is the desire to talk about their business. You never have to worry about keeping the conversation going that's for sure. Entrepreneurs love to talk about their business. It's their passion. That's why they are doing it. Many businesses, if not most, are built based on the personality of the owner and more often than naught these owners have an outgoing, engaging personality. That is why social media marketing can be so powerful for small business owners.
Social media marketing is not just about creating profiles on facebook, myspace, LinkedIn and other social media networks to try to create buzz and links to your web site. It's about being actively engaged in the networks. Let people get to know you. Be real. Tell them about your business, why you do it and how you do it. Not from a sales and marketing stand point so it sounds like every other Tom, Dick and Harry selling the same thing but from your personal stand point – your personality – let it shine through. Just a warning here, if you are a real drone with a negative view point on the world this might not work. :>) Find people with the same interests as yours and participate in their discussions. It has to be a two way network for it to work best.
Are you thinking how in the heck am I supposed to find enough time to do this plus run my business? This is a valid point but if done correctly this can reap big benefits for your business. Millions and millions of people are participating in social media networks every day. Instead of actively participating in 4 or 5 determine which one best fits your desired demographic and focus predominantly on that one. Also, you might really enjoy it. Just talk about your favorite topic – your business.


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It's that time of year again. The time of year when shoppers waiting in line for the best bargains often bring out the worst in each other. Stories of trampled shoppers, fistfights and more are shared alongside stories of $1 DVDs and $5 board games. Yes, I'm describing Black Friday. This year I challenge you to take a stand against consumerism, skip the Black Friday sales and honor Buy Nothing Day instead.
Buy Nothing Day falls on the day after Thanksgiving (at least in the U.S.) but the organization behind the movement, AdBusters, wants you to turn a 24-hour statement against rampant consumerism into an entire Buy Nothing Christmas. Buy Nothing Day has been active for more than two decades, but last year AdBusters changed it up a bit and aligned the day with Occupy Wall Street, and the #OccupyXmas movement was born.
"Go cold turkey from consumer culture completely! Like those who have accepted this magical invitation before you, you may be rewarded with a life-changing shift of perspective — a glimpse into how to consume less and live more on this precarious Planet of ours … And then take the next step, stretch out the joy of Buy Nothing Day by getting your family together and deciding to celebrate Xmas differently this year."
I've participated in Buy Nothing Day several times, but I've never managed to go all out and celebrate a no-gift Christmas. Instead, I try to shop locally owned small business and give gifts of experience and time instead of just consumable items.
This year I'll do the same, skip the shopping malls again and cozy up with my family on the Friday after Thanksgiving. How about you?
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Chapter 1
What is Reactive Arthritis?
Reactive arthritis is an uncommon, but potentially debilitating group of symptoms that can follow Salmonella, Campylobacter, and other foodborne illnesses.
Reactive Arthritis refers to a group of arthritic diseases that includes a subset formally known as "Reiter's Syndrome" The old term Reiter's syndrome has fallen into disfavor. In recent medical literature Reiter's Syndrome is simply referred to as Reactive Arthritis which may or may not be accompanied by extraintestinal manifestations.
Reactive Arthritis is the name used to describe an uncommon, but potentially debilitating group of symptoms that follows a gastrointestinal, genitourinary, or viral infection. The most common gastrointestinal bacteria involved are Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia, Shigella, E. coli, and Vibrio. The most common genitourinary causes are sexually transmitted diseases such as Chlamydia and Gonorrhea. The most common viral causes are the common flu, HIV, and Parvovirus.
The specific triad of arthritis, conjunctivitis, and urethritis was known as Reiter's Syndrome. In many patients, however, only one or two of these symptoms many be present, such as arthritis and urethritis or arthritis and conjunctivitis. [1] A reactive arthritis may develop after a person eats food that has been tainted with the pathogenic bacteria. Many patients will get severe bloating, abdominal pain, and watery diarrhea. However in some patients, the initial infection may be milder and not easily recognized, but the reactive arthritis may still occur. Reactive arthritis typically involves inflammation of one joint (monoarthritis) or several joints (oligoarthritis), preferentially affecting those of the lower extremities. The most common joints affected are the knees and ankles. The pattern of joint involvement is usually asymmetric. Inflammation can also be commonly seen at an enthesis (a place where ligaments and tendons attach to bone), especially the front of the knee or the back of the ankle where the Achilles attaches to the calcaneal bone. This is referred to as an enthesopathy. It causes local swelling and pain with walking or exercise.
Salmonella has been the most frequently studied bacterium associated with reactive arthritis. Overall, studies have found rates of Salmonella-associated reactive arthritis to vary between 6% and 30%. [1] The frequency of post-infectious Reiter's syndrome specifically, however, has not been well described. In a Washington State study of an outbreak of foodborne Salmonella gastroenteritis, 29% of patients developed arthritis, but only 3% developed the triad of symptoms associated with Reiter's syndrome. [2] In addition, individuals of Caucasian descent may be more likely than those of Asian descent to develop reactive arthritis, [3] and children may be less susceptible than adults to reactive arthritis following infection with Salmonella. [4]
The frequency of acute reactive arthritis from other bacteria varies widely. The occurrence of new joint pain alone after enteric infection is reported to be between 1 and 4% in adults with Campylobacter or Shigella infections. [5] In another study, it has been reported to occur in 0.6% to 24% of Campylobacter gastroenteritis patients. [6] After Shigella infection the percentage of patients who exhibit subsequent reactive arthritis ranges from 1.5% to 7%. [7]
A clear association has been made between reactive arthritis and a genetic marker called the Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) B27 genotype. HLA is a major histocompatibility complex in humans; these are proteins present on the surface of all body cells that contain a nucleus, and are in especially high concentrations in white blood cells (leukocytes). It is thought that HLA-B27 may affect the elimination of the infecting bacteria or an individual's immune response. [1] HLA-B27 has been shown to be a predisposing factor in one-half to over two-thirds of individuals with reactive arthritis. [8,1] While HLA-B27 does not appear to predispose to the initial infection itself, it increases the risk of developing arthritis that is more likely to be severe and prolonged. This risk may be slightly greater for Salmonella and Yersinia-associated arthritis than with Campylobacter, but more research is required to clarify this. [1]
Why Have Some Forms of Reactive Arthritis Been Called Reiter's Syndrome?
One could also ask, "Why isn't Reiter's syndrome called Reiter's syndrome anymore?" The answer is that the syndrome, or group of symptoms, is named for Hans Reiter who described a soldier with the triad of urethritis (burning and pain with urination), conjunctivitis (redness and pain of the eye), and arthritis (swelling and pain of the joints) after having bloody diarrhea in 1916. However, the history of this constellation of signs actually predates his description. And what is disturbing is that Reiter was a high-ranking Nazi official who was responsible for medical experiments in concentration camps. [9, 10] As a result, the term Reiter's syndrome has fallen out of favor and Reactive Arthritis is preferred to describe the post-infectious arthritis which may be accompanied by extra-articular manifestations (such as urethritis and conjunctivitis). .


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TBILISI, Georgia — Russian soldiers and armored vehicles pulled back from positions deep in western Georgia on Saturday, meeting a closely watched withdrawal deadline a month after the war between the former Soviet republics.
A Georgian policeman was shot dead near the edge of a breakaway Moscow-backed province, adding to tensions in areas where Russian troops are supposed to cede control to unarmed European Union monitors within weeks.
Georgia's government, meanwhile, pressed its claim ethnic Georgians are being persecuted in South Ossetia, the separatist region at the heart of the war. Officials said Ossetian paramilitary fighters doused Georgians with kerosene and ordered them to leave their villages.
Starting before dawn, hundreds of Russian soldiers packed up their gear and abandoned earthen-walled bases they had set up on the outskirts of the Black Sea port of Poti and at three other locations in western Georgia that they had promised to leave by Monday.
"They have fulfilled the commitment" made in an agreement worked out by French President Nicolas Sarkozy last week, Georgian Security Council chief Alexander Lomaia told The Associated Press.
Soldiers remain inside Georgia
But Lomaia said that even with the departure of those 250 soldiers and 20 armored vehicles pulled, some 1,200 Russian soldiers still remained at 19 positions inside Georgia.
He stressed that Georgia — like the European Union and the United States — demands a full Russian withdrawal to prewar positions, in accordance with a cease-fire that Sarkozy brokered a month ago.
Russia is not willing to do that and is tightening its grip on the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Pushed by the West, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev promised last week to withdraw from the Poti positions and from posts ringing the two separatist regions within 10 days of the deployment of 200 EU monitors in buffer zones around the two areas. The EU monitors are supposed to be in place by Oct. 1.
But the Kremlin has announced plans to maintain 7,600 soldiers in Abkhazia and South Ossetia themselves and has formally recognized them as independent nations, deepening the worst crisis in Russia's rocky post-Cold War relations with the West.
Russia is also pushing to keep Western monitors outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia, saying the EU observers' job is to protect the two provinces against Georgian aggression. The U.S. and EU want observers inside the two regions, where they are concerned about allegations of abuses against ethnic Georgians.
New charges of violence
Georgia made new charges Saturday, saying Ossetian fighters poured kerosene on several ethnic Georgians and ordered them out of their villages late Friday.
Georgian Deputy Foreign Minister Giga Bokeria said Ossetian paramilitaries first set fire to houses owned by ethnic Georgian in two South Ossetian villages, Koshka and Disevi.
"Then they poured kerosene on several residents of the villages and told them to leave," Bokeria told the AP.
He said a number of residents, possibly as many as 200, had left the villages and were traveling to Georgian-controlled territory.
The New York-based activist group Human Rights Watch also has accused Ossetians of engaging in systematic harassment of Georgian civilians since the war.
In recent weeks, AP reporters have seen homes burning in more than a half dozen ethnic Georgian villages in and around South Ossetia, as well as incidents of looting by armed men — in at least one case as Russian troops stood by.
South Ossetian government spokeswoman Irina Gagloyeva called Georgia's latest allegation "a complete lie."
"With such messages, the Georgians are trying to justify their aggression against us," she said.
Georgia launched attack
Georgian forces launched an attack targeting South Ossetia's capital Aug. 7. Russia's army swiftly intervened, driving off Georgian troops and then pushing deep into Georgia in a five-day war that killed hundreds of people and displaced nearly 192,000.
The presence of Russian troops deep inside Georgia more than a month after the fighting ended has deeply angered Georgians and been an enormous sore point between Russia and the West.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said his country wants good relations with the United States, saying "mutual interests outweigh some disagreements," according to the transcript of an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro posted Saturday on his government's Web site.
But Putin said he didn't expect any thaw until the new U.S. administration takes office and, in his typically bullish fashion, said it would be up to Washington repair relations. "They spoiled them, let them improve them," he said.
An Associated Press Television News crew saw Russian soldiers lower the Russian tricolor flag and pack military trucks before dawn Saturday with blankets and other supplies at a post by a road leading to the secessionist Abkhazia region.
Russian units also left posts on the outskirts of Poti, one by a road into the city and another a few miles from Georgia's main port and devastated naval base, Interior Ministry official Shota Utiashvili said.
"Russian forces have withdrawn completely from Poti," he said.
The presence in Poti was particularly galling for Georgians because it is more than 100 miles from South Ossetia, where the war broke out and where most of the fighting occurred.
An AP photographer saw several small columns of Russian armored vehicles crossing a bridge leading toward Abkhazia and military trucks moving over another bridge at a different location.
Georgian policeman killed
In the tense belt of land along Abkhazia's administrative border, a Georgian policeman was killed by gunfire that came from the direction of a post where Abkhazian and Russian forces have been based, Utiashvili said.
The shooting came three days after an almost identical incident in which a Georgian policeman was killed by shots that Georgian authorities said came from the vicinity of a Russian checkpoint outside South Ossetia.
Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said police officers at posts near the Russian-held territories around South Ossetia and Abkhazia would be replaced by Interior Ministry special forces to strengthen security.
That could increase tensions and might prompt Russia to argue that Georgia is violating the cease-fire's stipulation that Georgian troops return to their barracks, although the special forces are technically police.
Russia's withdrawal pledge is conditioned on Georgian observance of the cease-fire deal.
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Western wear, revisited: Fresh ideas at the Denver market
While you certainly see people turned out from head-to-toe in Western wear in January in Denver, adopting a few accessories often is a way to look contemporary without turning into a cliché.
During a walk through the semiannual Western & English Sales Association trade show at the Denver Merchandise Mart last week, it was the boots and hats, jewelry and bags that stood out, in a good way. Retail buyers from boutiques and big stores were treated to an eyeful of designs for summer through winter 2012-13.


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Going into its fourth model year and its third year with the current interior design, the Chevrolet Avalanche had major changes made to how options are bundled. Previously the LS and LT option packages, found on the Silverado, were not offered, but that model has changed. Factory production of 2005 models started on August 9, 2004 and availability started in mid-September.
Model changes from the 2004 year include:
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Java web development is notoriously tedious, but help is on the way: Grails. Using the principle of convention-over-configuration and the dynamic Groovy programming language, Grails takes the pain out of web development and brings back the fun. This book will get you up and running with Grails by putting it to use in constructing an original, working application from start to finish.
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Pages: 200
Published: 2009-10-21
Release: P1.0 (2009-10-19)
Grails is a full stack web development framework that enables you to build complete web applications in a fraction of the time and with less code than other frameworks.
In Grails: A Quick-Start Guide, you'll see how to use Grails by iteratively building a unique, working application. By the time we're done, you'll have built and deployed a real, functioning website.
Along the way, we'll learn about domain classes, controllers, and GSP views. We'll see how Grails allows us to use powerful frameworks like Spring and Hibernate without even knowing it.
Using this hands-on, pragmatic approach, we'll explore topics such as AJAX in Grails, custom tags, and plugins. We'll dig into Grails' powerful view technology, Groovy Server Pages, and see how we can easily leverage the help given to us by scaffolding to create custom user interfaces faster than you would have thought possible.
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Kobe Bryant and Andrew Bynum put up their usual big numbers. Their supporting cast came up even bigger, sealing the Los Angeles Lakers' 92-88 victory over Denver on Sunday night that put the Nuggets on the brink of elimination.
Bryant had 22 points and Bynum added 19 to help the Lakers overcome a six-point halftime deficit and take a 3-1 lead in the first-round playoff series that they can wrap up Tuesday night when the series shifts back to Staples Center for Game 5.
Sixth-man Jordan Hill had 12 points and 11 rebounds, and recently acquired guard Ramon Sessionsand reserve point guard Steve Blake each hit crucial 3-pointers in the final minute as the Lakers broke free.
Those were the players the Nuggets preferred had the ball in crunch time, and Bryant wasn't at all hesitant to oblige.
"Sessions has hit big 3s. Even when I was out he hit some big 3s to win games. He did it again tonight. I have confidence in him," Bryant said. "If you're observing the game in the third quarter I hit Sessions for an open shot, Blake for an open shot and (Matt) Barnes for an open shot and they missed all three of them. George (Karl), being observant as he is, saw I was (ticked). I was and didn't think I would trust them at the end of the game to knock down those shots, but they stepped up and knocked them down."
With the game tied at 86, Danilo Gallinari was covering Bryant when a hard screen from Pau Gasol sent the Italian to the floor grabbing his throat. While Gallinari stayed down, Sessions' 3-pointer from just in front of the Nuggets bench put the Lakers ahead 89-86 with 48 seconds remaining.
"It was a tough pick, you've got to expect that in the playoffs," Gallinari said. "I've got to be ready and play defense. Unfortunately, they hit a big shot out of that."
Andre Miller was whistled for basket interference at the other end, and Bryant found Blake for a 3-pointer from the left corner with 18.9 seconds left for a six-point cushion, L.A.'s biggest of the night.
Blake got a bear hug from Bryant during the 20-second timeout.
"Those moments don't scare him," Bryant said.
"It's always good when you get a hug from Kobe. It means you did something right," Blake said. "It was a total team effort for us tonight."
Sessions, whose acquisition from Cleveland this spring led to the trade of five-time NBA champion Derek Fisher, finished with 12 points, and Blake had 10.
"They got the two 3s to go down at the end of the game," Karl said, "but conceptually what we're trying to do at the end of the game is not let Kobe, Bynum and Gasol beat you."
Instead, it was Sessions, Blake and Hill that did the damage.
Gallinari led the Nuggets with 20 points, and Miller had 15.
After torching the Lakers for 50 points combined in the previous two games, Ty Lawson was held to 11 points and Nuggets big menKenneth Faried and JaVale McGeeweren't nearly as effective on offense or disruptive defensively as they were in Game 2, when they combined for 28 points and 30 rebounds.
Together, they had 14 points and 11 rebounds Sunday.
Bynum, who blamed his scoreless first half 48 hours earlier on failing to properly prepare in the pregame, was much more active early on, scoring 11 in the first half, which ended with the Lakers trailing 51-45.
The game was briefly delayed with 1:10 left in the first half when a female fan started walking across the court while the Nuggets were setting up a play. The woman walked several steps onto the court as Lawson brought the ball past halfcourt. Officials blew the whistle to stop the play and the woman was escorted away by security.
The woman, identified as 20-year-old Savannah McMillan-Christmas of Denver, was cited for trespassing.
Al Harrington scored nine points in his return to the Nuggets' lineup. He started out with a clear face mask protecting his nose that was broken Friday night by an inadvertent elbow from Bynum, but he ditched the mask in a matter of minutes.
Harrington missed his first six shots but then sank four straight, including a 3-pointer that put the Nuggets ahead 76-75 early in the fourth quarter.
The Nuggets, who have hung tough since getting blown out in the series opener, face a daunting task of winning three straight, including two at the Staples Center, where they never led in Games 1 and 2.
"Losing always gets old. Losing is not fun. I'm not unhappy with my team, I'm not happy with where we're at, but we still have a series to play," Karl said. "I don't think it's an impossible challenge. I think it's a great challenge for this young team. For me, I've been blessed with having great runs in the playoffs and I think I probably have one or two more left in me in my lifetime. I'd like to see it come this year."
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Miller stole the ball from Barnes and drew a clear-path foul from Barnes five minutes before halftime. … For the second straight game, McGee's mother, Pamela McGee, who played in the WNBA, was seated courtside near the Nuggets' bench. At one point, her son jumped over Bynum, who was whistled for traveling as he found his path to the basket blocked by his counterpart 7-foot center.
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2nd Md. death linked to tainted steroid injections
Md. attorney calls for facilities to refrain from destroying shots
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now reporting a second Maryland death related to the fungal meningitis outbreak tied to tainted steroid injections.
The CDC's website shows the second death was reported sometime within the past week. The state reported its first deadly case in October, but state health officials don't have any details yet about the latest death.
The CDC has reported that 590 illnesses and 37 deaths nationwide are now linked to the New England Compounding Center in Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, a Maryland attorney acting on behalf of several of the state's victims is demanding that the facilities in the state that may have administered the injections refrain from destroying, disposing of or altering the shots in question.
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So many people today are raised by divorced parents - I had one Freethinker parent and one Christian parent, and spent years with each, maybe questions could allow for this.
I'm also a bit unclear on the use of the term "Freethought activities" - I'm not sure if the things we do instead of church - activities in nature & with the mostly Freethinking folks at the local nature center, science center, museum, playing games, camping, stuff I host for local kids - being a free-thought parent who values rationality, science, and rational ethics myself, do these count as Free-thought activities? If they do, I spend thousands of dollars a year, and do Free-thought activities weekly. If you only count things like UU events, we never do those because the local ones seem religious or new-agey, and my child doesn't like that kind of atmosphere.
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Max 5 API Reference
You are familiar with inlets and outlets when connecting two objects together in a patcher.
To receive data in your object or send data to other objects, you need to create the C versions of inlets and outlets. In this section, we'll explain what inlets and outlets are, how to create them, and how to use them. We'll also discuss a more advanced type of inlet called a proxy that permits a message to be received in any of your object's inlets. Proxies are used by audio objects to permit inlets to handle both signals and normal Max messages.
By default, every object shows one inlet. Additional inlets appear to the right of the default inlet, with the rightmost inlet being created last.
Inlets are essentially message translators. For example, if you create an int inlet, your object will receive the "in1" message instead of the "int" message when a number arrives at this newly created inlet. You can use the different message name to define special behavior for numbers arriving at each inlet. For example, a basic arithmetic object in Max such as + stores the number to be added when it arrives in the right inlet, but performs the computation and outputs the result when a number arrives in the left inlet.
Outlets define connections between objects and are used to send messages from your object to the objects to which it is connected. What is not obvious about an outlet, however, is that when you send a number out an outlet, the outlet-sending function does not return until all computation "below" the outlet has completed. This stack-based execution model is best illustrated by observing a patch with the Max debugger window. To understand this stack-based model it may be helpful to use the breakpoint and debugging features in Max and follow the stack display as you step through the execution of a patch. Outlets, like inlets, appear in the order you create them from right-to-left. In other words, the first inlet or outlet you create will be the visually farthest to the right.
Proper use of an inlet involves two steps: first, add a method that will respond to the message sent via the inlet in your initialization routine, and second, create the inlet in your new instance routine. (Creating inlets at any other time is not supported.)
There are three types of inlets: int, float, and custom. We'll only describe int and float inlets here because proxies are generally a better way to create an inlet that can respond to any message. For int inlets, you'll bind a function to a message "in1", "in2", "in3" etc. depending on the inlet number you assign. Here's how to create a single inlet using "in1"...
In your initialization routine:
class_addmethod(c, (method)myobject_in1, "in1", A_LONG, 0);
In your new instance routine, after calling object_alloc() to create your instance:
intin(x, 1);
The method that will be called when an int is received in the right inlet:
void myobject_in1(t_myobject *x, long n) { // do something with n }
Creating a single inlet in this way gives your object two inlets (remember that it always has one by default). If you want to create multiple inlets, you'll need to create them in order from right to left, as shown below:
intin(x, 2); // creates an inlet (the right inlet) that will send your object the "in2" message intin(x, 1); // creates an inlet (the middle inlet) that will send your object the "in1" message
Inlets that send float messages to your object are created with floatin() and translate the float message into "ft1","ft2","ft3" etc. Example:
In initialization routine:
class_addmethod(c, (method)myobject_ft1, "ft1", A_FLOAT, 0);
In new instance routine:
floatin(x, 1);
void myobject_ft1(t_myobject *x, double f) { post("float %.2f received in right inlet,f); }
Note that you can mix int and float inlets, but each inlet must have a unique number. Example:
You create outlets in your new instance routine. Outlet creators return a pointer that you should store for later use when you want to send a message. As with inlets, outlets are created from right to left.
Here's a simple example. First we'll add two void pointers to our data structure to store the outlets for each instance.
typedef struct _myobject { t_object m_ob; void *m_outlet1; void *m_outlet2; } t_myobject;
Then we'll create the outlets in our new instance routine.
x = (t_myobject *)object_alloc(s_myobject_class); x->m_outlet2 = bangout((t_object *)x); x->m_outlet1 = intout((t_object *)x); return x;
These outlets are type-specific, meaning that we will always send the same type of message through them. If you want to create outlets that can send any message, use outlet_new(). Type-specific outlets execute faster, because they make a direct connection to the method handler that will be called at the time you send a message. When we want to send messages out these outlets, say, in our bang method, we do the following:
void myobject_bang(t_myobject *x) { outlet_bang(x->m_outlet2); outlet_int(x->m_outlet1, 74); }
The bang method above sends the bang message out the m_outlet2 outlet first, then sends the number 74 out the m_outlet1. This is consistent with the general design in Max to send values out outlets from right to left. However, there is nothing enforcing this design, and you could reverse the statements if you felt like it.
A more general message-sending routine, outlet_anything(), will be shown in the Atoms and Messages section.
A proxy is a small object that controls an inlet, but does not translate the message it receives. Instead it sets a location inside your object's data structure to a value you associate with the inlet. If the message comes "directly" to your object via the left inlet, the value will be 0. However, in order to be thread-safe, you should not read the value of this "inlet number" directly. Instead, you'll use the proxy_getinlet() routine to determine the inlet that has received the message.
The advantage of proxies over regular inlets is that your object can respond to any message in all of its inlets, not just the left inlet. As a Max user, you may already appreciate the proxy feature without knowing it. For example, the pack object can combine ints, floats, lists, or symbols arriving in any of its inlets. It uses proxies to make this happen. MSP audio objects that accept signals in more than one inlet use proxies as well. In fact, the proxy capability is built into the way you create audio objects, as will be discussed in the Anatomy of a MSP Object section.
If your object's non-left inlets will only respond to ints or floats, implementing proxies is usually overkill.
First, add a place in your object to store the proxy value. You shouldn't access this directly, but the proxy needs it. Second, you'll need to store the proxy, because you need to free it when your object goes away. If you create many proxies, you'll need to store pointers to all of them, but all proxies share the same long integer value field.
typedef struct _myobject { t_object m_obj; long m_in; // space for the inlet number used by all the proxies void *m_proxy; } t_myobject;
In your new instance routine, create the proxy, passing your object, a non-zero code value associated with the proxy, and a pointer to your object's inlet number location.
If you want to create regular inlets for your object, you can do so. Proxies and regular inlets can be mixed, although such a design might confuse a user of your object.
Finally, here is a method that takes a different action depending on the value of x->m_in that we check using proxy_getinlet().
void myobject_bang(t_myobject *x) { switch (proxy_getinlet((t_object *)x)) { case 0: post("bang received in left inlet"); break; case 1: post("bang received in right inlet"); break; } }


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