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As Asia's fourth-largest economy, South Korea is a major player among the world's top exporting nations.
Exports made up 53 percent of the Korean economy in 2011, according to the World Bank. That's one of the highest rates globally, and much more than the world's No. 2 economy, China (29 percent) and emerging-market dynamo Brazil (12 percent). South Korean exports grew 19 percent last year.
Here's a look at the 10 biggest-listed South Korean companies by market cap that have benefited from the country's export boom.
All of them are listed on the Korea Composite Stock Price Index, KOSPI. Rankings are based on market cap as of July 10, 2012.
Some of the companies on our list are global brands, while others aren't well known outside of Asia.
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elizabeth.larrick necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 191 diseños de 54 diseñadores freelance.
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I like to believe I'm an entrepreneur running the first test of a new business in the marketplace. I work for a public corporation that incubates new businesses. This is my first "go" at taking a business to market. I'm extremely excited / nervous / eager to take a business plan on paper and build it in the real world. If the market test goes well, this has the potential to be a $100M business! I'm fairly inexperienced in branding so I'm relying on you to be the expert. I look forward to partnering with a designer during the development of multiple designs including: logo, brand, web, icon, print, collateral and print.
I am looking for a brand that will attract attention as persons walk by understanding that they don't know anything about this new kiosk product.
We'll be targeting grocer shoppers (we're testing this in groceries in the Midwest. This is a totally new concept centered around trading in unwanted or unused gift cards for cash, instantly. We're trying to get the average consumer who has gift cards sitting in their house, car, purse, wherever to walk up and sell us their gift cards. Almost every US household has unused gift cards lying around so this needs to appeal to young and old, male and female, rich and poor, etc.
First of all, you're free to be very creative in this logo. I have no preconceived notion on what this should look like. To help guide you, here are some parameters / thoughts.
We worked on building a mock-up machine that would ultimately be built to execute this business (it's a self-service business, not a "manned" solution). I will attach an image of this foam mock up. Please don't be distracted by the "stand-in" logo on here. This is not the logo we want.
But the color scheme is blue, green and yellow. I'd prefer to stick with this color scheme.
This concept centers around some key words: gift cards, exchanging gift cards, cash, instant gratification, money, marketplace, trading, cash liquidity, etc.
I will be taking this into market on Nov 15th, so this needs to move fast!
The business name of should be integrated with the logo (or rather, I'm looking for input on how the name AND logo should look). This should appeal to the masses, be fairly clean, and professional but engaging and attracting all consumers
I need output to be in simple picture format (such as .jpg, .gif).
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
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Apr 7, 2006 (CIDRAP News) Under a schedule laid out yesterday by federal agriculture officials, a nationwide livestock identification system to help in the investigation and control of animal disease outbreaks will be fully operational by 2009.
"A long-term goal is to be able to identify all animals and premises that have had direct contact with the disease of concern within 48 hours of discovery," Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said at a press conference on the plan.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) began working on its National Animal Identification System (NAIS) after the first US case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, was discovered in December 2003. After that case and the two subsequent BSE cases, it took investigators weeks or longer to trace other cattle that might have been exposed to the disease.
"A national animal ID system will dramatically improve our ability to respond to animal disease outbreaks," Johanns said at the news conference. The system "will help animal health officials identify the birthplace of a diseased animal and shorten the time required to trace the animal's history to identify other potentially exposed animals."
Johanns said the US livestock industry will need the tracking system to stay competitive with other beef exporters, such as Australia and Canada. "Traceability is being used as a marketing tool by several countries," he said. "For example, Australia is aggressively marketing animal traceability to gain a competitive advantage over us."
The NAIS is a cooperative and voluntary effort of the federal government, states, Indian tribes, and industry. Under the plan, each newborn animal will get a 15-digit identification number linked to its birthplace. The plan also calls for the registration of all livestock premisesfarms, feedlots, sale barns, packing plants, and other facilitiescoupled with the creation of animal tracking databases managed by the states and industry groups.
Parts of the system are already built. Registration of premises was under way in all 50 states and two territories by August 2005, and 235,000 premises, roughly 10% of the total, have registered, USDA officials said. Also, animal identification began last month.
An implementation plan released by the USDA yesterday calls for registration of 70% of premises and identification of 40% of animals by January 2008. By January 2009, the USDA aims to have all facilities registered and identification procedures in place for all newborn animals. In addition, the agency hopes to have complete movement data available for 60% of animals under 1 year old by that time.
Under the current plan, industry participation in the NAIS is voluntary, but Johanns said it could become mandatory if producers and other industry groups are slow to sign on. The USDA has authority to make the program mandatory without new legislation, he told reporters.
Newspaper reports have described cattle producers as wary of the plan, particularly the cost of the identification tags and the privacy of data. Meanwhile, some consumer groups have pressed the USDA to move faster and to make the plan mandatory.
If only 50% of animals are registered, "It is not a workable system," Johanns said. "But I think producers . . . understand that, and my hope is that they will embrace what we are offering, which is a voluntary approach."
Yesterday the USDA released technical standards to provide for the linkage of private animal tracking databases with the NAIS. The agency will sign agreements with private databases that meet the standards, officials said.
By early next year, the USDA expects to have a system in place that will permit state and federal animal health officials to query the NAIS and private databases during disease investigations. The system will be called the Animal Trace Processing or Metadata system, the agency said.
Johanns described the NAIS as an enormous undertaking. "At any given time you have 90 to 100 million head of cattle in the United States. There has never been a system put in place that would deal with that kind of magnitude," he said. "We are talking about a system that literally says from the time of their birth through the entire chain, we will trace that animal until we can ascertain where the animal was finally processed."
Given the scale of the program, the USDA's implementation schedule is "very amibitious," Johanns said. "We are asking the industry, not just cattle but in other areas, to really change how they look at things."
The primary focus of the NAIS now is on cattle, officials said. But working groups are looking at the extension of the system to other species, including swine, sheep and goats, horses, deer and elk, and even llamas, said Dr. John Clifford, the USDA's chief veterinarian.
The USDA has spent about $84 million on the system so far, said Johanns.
See also:
Transcript of Apr 6 USDA news conference
USDA NAIS site


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French wildlife artist Thierry Bisch is developing a project with IUCN to deliver a powerful message about the need to protect threatened species.
Called "Les Murs de l'Arche" (the Ark's Walls), the project would create awareness by painting large murals of animals on buildings and outside walls in city centres.
Bisch plans to use his talent to serve a cause close to his heart. "I've been painting animals for many years and sharing my appreciation for their beauty and dignity with a wide public," said the artist. "Now is the time to get involved in saving species form extinction. Working with IUCN was therefore a natural thing to do."
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™ is the world's most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of the world's species. All the animals to be featured are listed on the IUCN Red List and the IUCN Red List logo will appear prominently on each mural along with the well known computer prompt "Delete?", provoking the public to consider the reality of the species extinction crisis.
"I am very happy to get involved in this project," said Jane Smart, Head of the IUCN Species Programme. "I hope that cities and building owners will help us convey this important message while improving the urban environment in which many of us live."
Large wall paintings have many advantages: they're highly visible, they improve the urban landscape and they last a very long time. With this project, they will also raise awareness about an important environmental issue.
Municipal authorities or companies owning buildings in cities interested in joining this project should read the accompanying .pdf file and contact us for further information.


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Op-Ed: Registrars are continually working to improve elections system
In recent weeks, there has been a lot of press, both in print and on television, about problems associated with voting in the 2012 presidential election.
The word "archaic" has been bandied about, along with censure of the long lines voters faced in West Hartford, Hartford and Manchester. In many of these stories, the registrars of voters across the state are taking the brunt of this criticism.
It is unfortunate that the "other side" of the story is not being told. In the vast majority of polling places in the vast majority of towns, the election went smoothly, with fast moving lines, cheerful service to the voters on the part of the poll workers, and swift reporting of results at the end of the night. Large cities such as Bridgeport, Stamford and Norwalk handled the large turnout of voters with no major problems.
It is also unfortunate that the "archaic" system is being blamed on the registrars and their poll workers. The Registrars of Voters Association of Connecticut (ROVAC) educates registrars all over the state, both at statewide conferences held twice a year, and in county meetings held three to four times a year. Consider some of the improvements that registrars are currently using and developing in their towns: the use of Skype to communicate with various polling places in the cities, leaving phone lines open for the public; the use and development of electronic check-in books, where a voter is checked in not on a paper list of many pages, but with several clicks of a mouse on a laptop, or the scanning of a barcode next to a voter's name; and a post-election audit system that uses high-speed scanners rather than teams of people hand inspecting and counting ballots.
ROVAC also supports the use of technology that is already available for our current tabulator system to report results: using either the ports on the back of our tabulators to send results to the secretary of the state's office instantly, or placing the memory cards that each tabulator houses into an "ender machine" that will read the information on the card and send it electronically to the secretary of the state.
Such use of this technology, which is used in other states without problems, would speed up the reporting of the election results tremendously, while virtually eliminating the mistakes that come from bleary-eyed election workers attempting to read and accurately record numbers by hand onto a Head Moderator's Return, which then gets faxed to the secretary of the state's office.
You may wonder why you haven't seen these innovations implemented statewide. Part of it is that state statutes have not caught up with technology, and part of it is a lack of priority within the secretary of the state's office. ROVAC brings forward legislative initiatives every year, many of them dealing with reforming the state statutes to allow for technology to improve our system, but often our bills are just not a high priority for our lawmakers.
The large majority of registrars are eager to embrace new technologies and new educational opportunities. We eagerly await the certification program that the secretary of the state's office is by state statute required to implement, and look forward to the continual improvement of our elections system statewide.
Melissa J. Russell is president of the Registrars of Voters Association of Connecticut.


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This document explains how to set up Xen 4.2 in Arch. It uses the new oxenstored / xl toolstack (replaces the xend / xm toolstack which was deprecated in Xen 4.1).
- 1 何謂 Xen?
- 2 Types of Virtualization Available with Xen
- 3 Obtaining Xen
- 4 Configuring Xen
- 5 Using Xen
- 6 Common Errors
- 7 Resources
何謂 Xen?
According to the Xen development team:
- "The Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization, offers a powerful, efficient, and secure feature set for virtualization of x86, x86_64, IA64, PowerPC, and other CPU architectures. It supports a wide range of guest operating systems including Windows®, Linux®, Solaris®, and various versions of the BSD operating systems."
The Xen hypervisor is a thin layer of software which emulates a computer architecture. It is started by the boot loader of the computer it is installed on, and allows multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on top of it. Once the Xen hypervisor is loaded, it starts the "Dom0" (short for "domain 0"), or privileged domain, which in our case runs a Linux kernel (other possible Dom0 operating systems are NetBSD and OpenSolaris). The physical hardware must, of course, be supported by this kernel to run Xen. Once the Dom0 has started, one or more "DomUs" (short for user domains, sometimes called VMs) can be started and controlled from Dom0.
Xen.org provides a full overview
Types of Virtualization Available with Xen
Paravirtual (PV)
Paravirtualized guests require a kernel with support for Xen built in. This is default for all recent Linux kernels and some other Unix-like systems. Paravirtualized domUs usually run faster then HVM domains as they do not have to run in emulated hardware.
Hardware Virtual (HVM)
For OSes that do not natively support Xen (e.g. Windows), HVM offers full hardware virtualization. To use HVM in Xen, the host system hardware must include either Intel VT-x or AMD-V (SVM) virtualization support. In order to verify this, run the following command on the host system:
grep -E "(vmx|svm)" --color=always /proc/cpuinfo
If the above command does not produce output, then hardware virtualization support is unavailable and your hardware is unable to run Xen HVM guests. It is also possible that the host CPU supports one of these features, but that the functionality is disabled by default in the system BIOS. To verify this, access the host system's BIOS configuration menu during the boot process and look for an option related to virtualization support. If such an option exists and is disabled, then enable it, boot the system and repeat the above command.
Obtaining Xen
Xen is available from the AUR. The recommended current stable version is Xen 4.2, and the bleeding edge unstable package can be found here. Both packages provide the Xen hypervisor, current xl interface and all configuration and support files, including systemd services.
Xen, unlike certain other virtualization systems, relies on a full install of the base operating system. Before attempting to install Xen, your host machine should have a fully operational and up-to-date install of Arch Linux. If you are building a new host from scratch, see the Installation Guide for instructions on installing Arch Linux.
Like all AUR packages, the Xen binaries are built from source. Note that it is possible (but not necessary) to build the package on a separate machine and transfer the xz package over, assuming that the machines share the same architecture (e.g. x86_64). For Xen, an internet connection is needed during its compilation because further source files are downloaded during the process. Xen.org recommends a host to be 64-bit. This requires the 'multilib' repository to be enabled in etc/pacman.conf.
To build the package you will need the following:
base-devel zlib lzo2 python2 ncurses openssl libx11 yajl libaio glib2 base-devel bridge-utils iproute gettext dev86 bin86 iasl markdown git wget optional packages: ocaml ocaml-findlib
You will need to enable the 'extra' repository to get bin86. A tool such as yaourt or packer can aid in downloading, compiling and installing dependencies for AUR packages.
Configuring Xen
The following configuration steps are required once the Xen package is installed.
The dom0 host requires
- an entry in the bootloader configuration file
- systemd services to be started at boot time
- a xenfs filesystem mount point
- bridged networking configuration
In addition to these required steps, the current xen.org wiki has a section regarding best practices for running Xen. It includes information on allocating a fixed amount of memory dom0 and how to dedicate (pin) a CPU core for dom0 use.
Bootloader Configuration
Xen requires that you boot a special xen kernel (xen.gz) which in turn boots your system's normal kernel. A new bootloader entry is needed. To boot into the Xen system, we need a new menuentry in grub.cfg. The Xen package provides a grub2 generator file: /etc/grub.d/09_xen. This file can be edited to customize the Xen boot commands, and will add a menuentry to your grub.cfg when the following command is run:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Example non-xen menuentry for LVM with gpt partition table
menuentry 'Arch ' { insmod part_gpt insmod lvm insmod ext2 set root='lvm/vg0-arch' linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/mapper/vg0-arch ro init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd quiet initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img }
The menuentry to boot the same arch system after Xen has been installed. Get the UUID for lvm/vg0-arch by using blkid.
menuentry 'Arch Xen 4.2' { insmod lvm insmod part_gpt insmod ext2 set root='lvm/vg0-arch' search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 346de8aa-6150-4d7b-a8c2-1c43f5929f99 multiboot /boot/xen.gz placeholder dom0_mem=1024M module /boot/vmlinuz-linux placeholder root=/dev/mapper/vg0-arch ro init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd quiet module /boot/initramfs-linux.img }
Example for a physical partition
Arch Linux(XEN) menuentry "Arch Linux(XEN)" { set root=(hd0,X) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 346de8aa-6150-4d7b-a8c2-1c43f5929f99 multiboot /boot/xen.gz dom0_mem=1024M module /boot/vmlinuz-linux-xen-dom0 root=/dev/sda ro module /boot/initramfs-linux-xen-dom0.img }
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Systemd Services
Issue the following commands as root so that the services are started at bootup:
# systemctl enable xenstored.service # systemctl enable xenconsoled.service # systemctl enable xendomains.service
Xenfs Mountpoint
Include in your /etc/fstab
none /proc/xen xenfs defaults 0 0
Bridged Networking
Previous versions of Xen provided a bridge connection whereas Xen 4.2 requires that network communications between the guest, the host (and beyond) is set up separately. The use of both DHCP and static addressing is possible, and the choice should be determined by your network topology. With basic bridged networking, a virtual switch is created in dom0 that every domu is attached to. More complex setups are possible, see the Networking article on the Xen wiki for details.
Netcfg greatly simplifies network configuration and is now included as standard in the base package. Example configuration files are provided in etc/network.d/examples and Xen 4.2 provides scripts for various networking configurations in /etc/xen/scripts.
By default, Xen expects a bridge to exist named xenbr0. To set this up with netcfg, do the following:
# cd /etc/network.d # cp examples/bridge xenbridge-dhcp
make the following changes to xen-bridge:
INTERFACE="xenbr0" BRIDGE_INTERFACE="eth0" # Use the name of the external interface found with the 'ip link' command DESCRIPTION="Xen bridge connection"
assuming your existing eth0 connection is called eth0-dhcp, edit /etc/conf.d/netcfg
NETWORKS=(eth0-dhcp xenbridge-dhcp)
restart the network:
systemctl restart netcfg.service
when the prompt returns, check all is well
ip addr show brctl show 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 3: xenbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP link/ether 00:1a:92:06:c0:c0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 192.168.1.3/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global xenbr0 inet6 fe80::21a:92ff:fe06:c0c0/64 scope link valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces xenbr0 8000.001a9206c0c0 no eth0
Final Steps
Reboot your dom0 host and ensure that the Xen kernel boots correctly and that all settings survive a reboot. A properly set up dom0 should report show the following when you run xl list (as root):
# xl list Name ID Mem VCPUs State Time(s) Domain-0 0 511 2 r----- 41652.9
Of course, the Mem, VCPUs and Time columns will be different depending on machine configuration and uptime. The important thing is that dom0 is listed.
Using Xen
Once the dom0 is fully operational, domUs may be created / imported. Each OS has a slightly different method of installation, see the Guest Install page of the Xen wiki for links to instructions.
Creating a Paravirtualized (PV) Arch domU
This is how to install Arch as a user domain (or VM) on an already-running Xen host. To install Arch as the Xen host (dom0), see the previous section.
To begin, download the latest install ISO from the nearest mirror: Dowload page. Place the ISO file on the dom0 host. (it is recommended that its checksum be verified, too)
Create the hard disks for the new domU. This can be done with LVM, raw hard disk partitions or image files. To create a 10GiB blank hard disk file, the following command can be used:
truncate -s 10G sda.img
This creates a sparse file, which grows (to a maximum of 10GiB) only when data is added to the image. If file IO speed is of greater importance than domain portability, using a Logical Volume or raw partition may be a better choice.
Next, loop-mount the installation ISO. To do this, ensure the directory /mnt exists and is empty, then run the following command (being sure to fill in the correct ISO path):
# mount -o loop /path/to/iso /mnt
Create the bootstrap domU configuration file:
kernel = "/mnt/arch/boot/x86_64/vmlinuz" ramdisk = "/mnt/arch/boot/x86_64/archiso.img" extra = "archisobasedir=arch archisolabel=ARCH_201301" memory = 256 name = "archdomu" disk = [ "phy:/path/to/partition,sda1,w", "file:/path/to/ISO,sdb,r" ] vif = [ 'mac=00:16:3e:__random_three_mac_bytes__,bridge=xenbr0' ]
This file needs to tweaked for your specific use. Most importantly, the
archisolabel=ARCH_201301 line must be edited to use the release year/month of the ISO being used. The
"phy:/path/to/partition,sda1,w" line must be edited to point to the partition created for the domU. If an image file is being used, the
phy: needs to be changed to
file:. Finally, a MAC address must be assigned. The 00:16:3e MAC block is reserved for Xen domains, do the last three digits may be randomly filled in (hex values 0-9 and a-f only). See the xl.cfg man page for more information on what the .cfg file lines do. The AUR package xen-docs will need to be installed to access the man pages.
Create the new domU:
# xl create -c /etc/xen/archdomu.cfg
The -c option will enter the new domain's console when successfully created. At this point, Arch should be installed as usual. The [Installation Guide] should be followed. There will be a few deviations, however. The block devices listed in the disks line of the cfg file will show up as
/dev/xvd*. Use these devices when partitioning the domU. After installation and before the domU is rebooted, the following modules must be added to
MODULES = "xen-blkfront xen-fbfront xen-netfront xen-kbdfront"
Without these modules, the domU will not boot correctly. After saving the edit, rebuild the initramfs with the following command:
mkinitcpio -p linux
For booting, it is not necessary to install Grub. Xen has a Python-based grub emulator, so all that is needed to boot is a grub.cfg file: (It may be necessary to create the /boot/grub directory)
menuentry 'Arch GNU/Linux, with Linux core repo kernel' --class arch --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option 'gnulinux-core repo kernel-true-__UUID__' { insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='hd0,msdos1' if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1 __UUID__ else search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root __UUID__ fi echo 'Loading Linux core repo kernel ...' linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=__UUID__ ro echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...' initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img }
This file must be edited to match the UUID of the root partition. From within the domU, run the following command:
# blkid
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The origin of the Axel
March 18, 2009, 05:58 PM »
Date: Fri, 17 September 1993
I started doing a move I called the "Axel" in the 92' season. This move consisted of, in light wind, moving toward the kite while the kite is flying downward, thus "flattening out" the kite. While in this flattened position, carefully popping the left or right line to make the kite spin around while in this position. I later learned to do a "double axel" with this technique--which consisted of the kite spinning around 540 degrees.
Doing this move in competition had a major drawback--in more than, say, 5 MPH of wind, the move didn't work--you couldn't run fast enough towards the kite to get it to flatten out. Consequently, only a few of my routines in the 92' season contained this move.
About the middle of the 92' season, I started trying to do the move in Wind. I noticed that if I really jerked around the lines a lot while the kite was in a stall, the kite would pop out of the air--and sometimes "flatten out". I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how to control the kite's popping out of the air--without ending up with a tangled mess. This process took quite a while; at Berkeley 92', I _almost_ put the first "pop axel" (as I called it) into a routine. Unfortunately, the move just wasn't 100% (it was more like 75% at that time), and the move has a pretty ugly failure mode (if you miss it, you have a tangled mess--not real pretty in a Master's class Choreographed routine).
By early this year, I had the "pop axel" down to a science, and was able to teach people how to do it.
Well, here on the Left Coast, the move has caught on like wildfire. Everybody, it seems _needs_ to do this move. This came as something as a suprise to me, since my old "axel" move, although it got a lot of looks, didn't really catch on. Everybody's doing it, and the move has been renamed--for convienience' sake--to simply the "axel" (nobody does the "old axel"--or what I now call the "flat axel"--so the simpler name stuck).
I've taught many, many people how to do this move, and I've found that some people catch on quickly, and some take a while (Scott Auchenbau could hardly do the move even after at least an hour of patient drilling [last time I saw HP, Scott was in fact doing the move--I'm sure I've taught this move to him/them at my own competitive peril :-) ]).
Some kites are much better suited for the move than others. Kites that "oversteer" are often--but not always--apt to do it better. More stable kites, such as the Stinger, the NSR, Big Brother, Phantom, etc. will do the move, but don't like to very much.
In competition (here comes a plug), I fly the XTC by Buena Vista Kite Company, San Francisco. The XTC does this move better than any other kite I've ever flown. The only kite I've ever done a "double axel" with is the XTC and the XTC X-10 (10 foot "team kite" version of the very radical XTC).
Other kites that are easier to do it with are Prism's Eclipse, the UP Warrior, and--although I've never tried one myself--I've heard that Jordan Air's Pro can do the move quite well.
The move starts in a Stall. Note the capital 'S'. The most important thing for a good axel is to start in a good Stall. You need to be in a Stall that you can keep for at least 5 seconds. The reason for this is that the entire move is performed _in_ the stall. If the kite is out of "stall mode" at any time during the move, it doesn't work.
So, step one is to Stall your kite, and learn to keep it there for a "long time".
Next, while in the stall, push out with your left hand, while your right hand stays PERFECTLY STATIONARY throughout the move.
Next, "pop" your left line by quickly pulling your left hand and then PUTTING IT BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL POSITION (i.e. pushed out). While doing this, KEEP THE KITE STALLED--RUN TOWARDS THE KITE IF YOU NEED TO, DON'T PULL BOTH LINES.
The "popping" action of the left hand will provide the momentum to spin the kite around.
Last, steady the kite--the move looks the best when it starts and ends in the same place.
(The ALL CAPS instructions are the things that I've noticed people tend to find counter-intuitive when first learning this move).
Since first perfecting the Axel, I've kept moving. It's also important to note that the rest of the "Berkeley School of Flying" ("BSF"--another plug), has also been taking this move into new territory.
Many new moves that are "axel-based" are happening on the ground. This consists of starting the motion not in a stall in the air, but stopped on the ground--on one tip or another. Miguel Rodriguez (maker of the "Berkeley Wasp"--yet another plug) came up with a move he calls the "coin toss" where the kite starts on the ground with both tips down, pops into the air doing a 360, and then lands back in the same place (Miguel developed his move partially concurrently with mine, but the "class of moves" is the same).
Another frontier is the obvious one: double axels, triple axels. I did the first double axel in a choreographed routine in front of people at the World Cup a few weeks ago. The double axel is not to be confused with a "1+1" axel when the kite gets popped again in the middle. A true double relies soley on the momentum from the first popping action, and the kite remains completely flattened thoughout the move. This move very much relies on a very "slippery sail", and I've only accomplished it with the two XTCs. (The Jordan Air Pro might be a canidate, but kites with "winglets" tend to aerodynamically spin themselves upright during the first turn, and won't continue to spin on their bellies).
The Triple Axel is still on the horizon for me. The only way I've accomplished it--and I've only pulled it off a few times--is a "2+1" kind of action. The kite remains spinning on its belly, but you need to give it another Pop at the right time to keep it spinning. (This is real hard). Again, the kite should never pop back out off of its belly or even start to--this would be a (1+1+1) axel (a good exercise, perhaps, but not a true double/triple axel).
Flying indoors is excellent Axel practice. Indoors, the "axel" action is actually the best way to turn a wing, since you're on such short lines and your space is limited. Also, the Axel can be acomplished at any place in the (dome-shaped) flying window--even directly above you (this is really neet).
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All aboard! New Explorer seats seven.
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XLS ($24,020) comes with cloth upholstery, a high level of standard equipment, and a five-speed manual transmission. Ford's new five-speed automatic transmission ($1095) is optional. Four-wheel drive adds $1800. XLS does not offer some of the high-zoot options available on the other models, including the V8.
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Our first impression of the new Explorer was that it offers substantial refinement over the previous version, which feels like a buckboard wagon by comparison. Ride quality and handling are greatly improved, benefits of the Explorer's new frame, chassis and suspension system. New engines give it more power for acceleration and towing, and the four-wheel-drive system gets more refined every year. It's still a truck, though. Tire whir is heard; road vibration is felt.
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As a result, the Explorer delivers a smoother ride on rough roads, and it handles better on winding roads. It's very stable at high speeds and feels comfortably secure in bad weather. Running over bumpy surfaces in the middle of a corner doesn't upset the handling, though it is still a truck.
One thing Ford learned from the massive Firestone tire recall was to offer a selection of tires. Depending on trim level, Explorer buyers can now choose among Goodyears, Michelins, and Firestones. Sixteen-inch wheels are now standard with P235/70R16 tires standard, slightly wider P245/70R16s on Eddie Bauer and Limited models.
Off road, the Ford Explorer has never measured up to the competition and the 2002 model doesn't really change that. There are improvements, however. Ground clearance is increased by an inch and shorter front and rear overhangs provide better approach and departure angles, which means you don't scrape the ground as much as before.
About 60 percent of Explorer buyers will opt for 4WD. Explorer's optional Control Trac four-wheel-drive system works great. Our 2002 Explorer offered surprisingly good grip on a muddy, snow-covered two-track in the Arizona high country near Sedona. Ford has refined this system to make it more transparent to the driver, while improving its abilities in limited traction situations. The normal driving mode is Auto 4WD (there is no two-wheel-drive mode.) In Auto 4WD, Control Trac directs the power front to rear according to input from sensors that compare grip between front and rear wheels. If the rear wheels lose traction, the optimal amount of torque is transferred to the front. Using a new, dedicated controller, the system checks for slipping tires 50 times a second and can anticipate situations that are likely to cause the wheels to spin, such as hard acceleration.
Pressing a button shifts the system into 4WD Hi, which effectively locks the front and rear drive shafts together. This can be useful for severe off-road or winter conditions, though Auto 4WD does such a great job of transferring torque that it may be irrelevant in practical terms. Driving on a muddy, primitive trail, I couldn't tell the difference between Auto 4WD and 4WD Hi. It may be possible to detect subtle s.
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Dodge Durango is the only other SUV in this class with third-row seating. We find the optional third rows in both of these vehicles to be uncomfortable. Regardless, the Explorer is the more refined of the two.
Model Lineup
2WD: XLS ($24,020); XLT ($27,780); Eddie Bauer ($32,090); Limited ($32,090)
4WD: XLS ($25,900); XLT ($29,745); Eddie Bauer ($34,055); Limited ($34,055).
Assembled In
Louisville, Kentucky; St. Louis, Missouri.
Options As Tested
Front Side Impact Air Bags ($495); auxiliary air conditioning ($610).
Model Tested
Explorer 4WD Eddie Bauer ($34,055).The ultimate in versatility.
Ford Explorer Sport Track offers the comfort of an Explorer sport-utility with the hauling capability of a short-bed pickup truck.
The Sport Trac is basically an SUV with a pickup truck bed grafted to its tail. The Ford Explorer has been the best selling of all sport-utility vehicles. The Sport Trac is based on the previous-generation Explorer, so it does not benefit from the new Explorer's independent rear suspension and other advancements. But it's a nice design with an outdoorsman's interior, and offers the utility of a thoughtfully designed pickup bed for large, and dirty, cargo.
Ford Explorer Sport Trac comes in two-wheel drive and four-wheel drive models. Three equipment packages are available: Value, Choice, and Premium.
The 2WD Value ($22,040) and 4WD Value ($24,810) versions come with a long list of standard equipment. Value packages actually give the buyer a credit over the base models by deleting the five-speed automatic transmission, leather-wrapped steering wheel, remote keyless entry, cruise control, and a tilt steering column.
Make Choice your choice and you get cruise control, power door locks, a more powerful version of the 4.0-liter V6 engine, remote keyless entry, a tilting steering column and an automatic transmission. Choice 2WD ($23,880) and Choice 4WD ($26,650) versions are considered the base models.
Pick the Premium package ($1560) and you get a 4.10 axle, floor and overhead consoles, fog lights, captains chairs with six-way power for the driver's seat, step bars to ease entry and exit from the cabin and upgraded tires.
For 2002, all Explorer Sport Tracs get 16-inch alloy wheels (instead of the old 15-inch versions). There's also a new 23-gallon fuel tank that replaces the 20.5-capacity tank in the 2001 model.
Visually, the 2002 Ford Sport Trac is not very smooth. It has a rugged, utilitarian look with chunky gray cladding along the sides, and bulges along the body. Sport Trac looks like a box, twice over. First, there's the five-seat cabin and then there's the bed, whose walls are nearly 20 inches high. Overall, it's high and bulky looking.
The cargo bed is just over four feet long and the entire bed is made of a seemingly indestructible composite material, so it does not need a liner and won't rust. Ford engineers say they dragged cinder blocks over it and threw in steel pipes and heavy angle iron without any appreciable damage. Any marring of the bed blends in with the black grained finish. Ten winged cargo hooks are sturdily mounted on the rails of the bed, six black ones on the outside and four on the inside; there's also a waterproof 12-volt power source in the cargo area, useful for power tools and even refrigerators.
An optional bed extender is available, a hinged stainless-steel tube-frame that flips back to the edge of the dropped tailgate, increasing the bed length to 72 inches. When it's in position inside the bed, it creates a compartment 25 by 45 inches and can securely contain bags of groceries and keep other small cargo from sliding around. It's removable, but it takes too much fiddling to get it out and back in. There's also an optional lockable hard tonneau cover, which is two-piece, foldable and lightweight, and there is an optional plastic bed divider available.
The standard roof rack consists of just two longitudinal bars, with the crossbars sold as an option, but they are necessary if you want to carry anything up there. The lack of crossbars severely limits the things you could otherwise easily strap on. Without the crossbars, we carried a nine-foot-long duffel bag full of sailing gear, and had to flop it right down on the roof.
The Sport Trac is built on a lengthened Explorer frame and has increased lateral stiffness, a tubular crossmember and thicker side rails. Urethane body mounts are used to smooth the ride.
Sport Trac's cabin is durable. The flooring is made of a textured composite rubber easily swept with a Wisk broom or cleaned with water. Door panels are resilient plastic. Cloth is only found on the seats and headliner. The rest is ready for mud. The rubber flooring under the removable Berber carpet floor mats offers enhanced sound insulation.
Optional leather seating ($655) includes leather low-back seats with adjustable head restraints, six-way power driver's seat, and manual lumbar adjustment for the front seats.
The front seats are nicely contoured and quite comfortable. We weren't crazy about the looks of the dark brown gabardine seats at first, but they kind of grew on us. We prefer the lighter shade. The seat material appears to be easy to clean.
The rear seats are roomy. Rear legroom is ample at 37.8 inches, a full seven inches more than the Nissan Frontier. The back seat also contains three child seat tether anchors, standard. The rear seats split and fold down without having to remove the headrests, which quickly provides cargo space inside the cabin.
Big fixed cup holders in front, forward of the armrest, add convenience, along with a little slot good for coins and tickets. Forward of that is another tray with two more slots, one of them fairly big.
The removable nylon pack under the center armrest was curious. It enables you to carry your console contents with you. It even has a shoulder strap. But it gives up function that would exist if it were fixed. It was awkward when in place, and as a result we never used the compartment because we didn't want to deal with first raising the armrest, then lifting a limp material top secured by Velcro.
A power rear window slides up and down, either slightly for flow-through ventilation or all the way down, which the kids in the back seat will love. Back-seat passengers can reach through to grab things out of the bed, such as drinks from a cooler.
A digital compass with outside temperature gauge over the rearview mirror is a highly useful and appreciated tool that more carmakers should fit in their vehicles, especially any vehicle that may head into the backcountry. We noticed it was a long reach to the emergency brake release.
Ford is trying hard with big-ticket engineering details, an area where the company excels. A lot of effort went into reducing the noise level in the cabin, successfully.
Driving Impression
Sport Tracs come with Ford's 205-horsepower 4.0-liter V6. It's a sophisticated engine, with overhead-cams, and an aluminum head and pistons. It likes to rev, and it's smooth, responsive and great fun at speed. The 237 foot-pounds of torque come way up there at 4000 rpm, and 203 horsepower is produced at 5250 rpm, with redline at 6250. But that fun you're having at speed will have to come in the lower gears; at 75 mph the engine cruises at a mere 2650 rpm. That's with the standard 3.73 final drive rear axle ratio. The optional 4.10 rear-axle ratio with a limited-slip differential ($355) would allow the engine to better do its thing, although at the expense of gas mileage. The higher-numerical 4.10 rear end also improves performance for towing.
With five speeds in the transmission, we were surprised by how far the tach needle jumped when the transmission kicked down, as more gears mean closer ratios. Once, we were hauling uphill on the freeway at 70, working around a semi-rig, and when the tranny kicked down, evidently from fourth to third, the rpm lunged to more than 5000, then back to 3500 when it upshifted again. But overall, the transmission matched the engine for smoothness and sophistication. You do get quality Ford engineering, here.
The four-wheel-drive system can be shifted on the fly between two- and four-wheel drive. A low-range mode is ready for heavy snow, deep mud or soft sand.
To make the Sport Trac, Ford lengthened the Explorer's frame more than 14 inches to 206 inches on a 126-inch wheelbase. An Explorer's suspension and drive train isn't Ford Tough like the big Super Duty pickups, but Ford reinforced the frame for greater rigidity and tuned the suspension to improve its off-road performance. Payload is up to 1,500 pounds with a 5,040-pound towing capacity.
The Sport Trac is quite tall, so it doesn't handle like a car. There is some weave and pitch, sway and jounce. It's not heavy, but the rougher the road and the higher the speed, the stronger it gets. The bushings, spring rates, shock valving and stabilizer bars have been modified, according to Ford, for improved ride, handling, and noise/vibration/harshness over the Explorer. The power rack-and-pinion steering did not provide as much assist as we would have liked for parallel parking in tight places.
The Sport Trac comes with bigger brake rotors than the previous-generation Explorer, using ventilated discs in front and drums in the rear. The brakes slowed and stopped the Sport Trac okay.
Ford Explorer Sport Trac is an innovative design packed with small innovations that make life in town and in the backcountry more convenient. The solid strengths of the 2002 Ford Sport Trac, the engine, frame, chassis and body, for example, make for an impressive sport-utility truck.
Model Lineup
4x2 ($23,880); 4x4 ($26,650).
Assembled In
Louisville, Kentucky.
Options As Tested
Cloth Comfort Group ($935) includes cloth front bucket seats with six-way power driver seat, high-series floor console with rear climate and audio controls, overhead console with outside temperature display and compass; Convenience Group ($750) includes autolock, remote keyless entry, cruise control, tilt steering column, leather-wrapped steering wheel; cargo cage ($195).
Model Tested
Sport Trac Choice 4x4 ($26,650).
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Kevin O'Connell got drunk and went to the Connecticut Whale minor-league hockey game on Jan. 28. When he got there, he tackled and punched team mascot Pucky the Whale, who was greeting child fans. In court a few days later, he said he did so because of a bet.
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The team has invited O'Connell to have a center-ice apology session with Pucky, despite the fact that he's been banned from the building. His family, however, said they were worried about a vigilante fan exacting revenge. Writes Jeff Jacobs:
[Defense attorney Peter F.] Odlum even called back to say O'Connell had undergone shoulder surgery Friday and wasn't healthy enough to appear next Saturday, anyway. Hmm. When I called back looking for O'Connell's father to see about the shoulder and if Kevin had hurt it attacking Pucky, I got the answering machine and no return call.
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Judge: Man Must Apologize For Attacking Pucky [Hartford Courant]
Makeup Calls For Burton, Mascot Attacker [Hartford Courant]
Conn. man charged with attacking hockey mascot 'Pucky' [Boston Herald]


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So we beat Georgia Tech easily and drop a spot or two in the BCS Poll?! Maybe we should drop the Nerds from our schedule to prevent this from happening in the future. They suck so bad they pull you down even when you trounce them. Hmmm...
Anyway, Tech is done and we will think about them again around Thanksgiving 2012. For now, our focus shifts to LSU and the most prized piece of hardware in College Football - the SEC Championship. The BCS can kiss my ass. Herbstreit and May can kiss my ass. Spurrier can kiss my ass. Polls don't matter nor do the pundits. All that matters is going out next Saturday and winning our third SEC Crown under Coach Mark Richt. By the way, Coach Richt now has seven 10 win seasons in eleven years at Georgia. HE KNOWS WHAT THE HELL HE IS DOING!
To get everyone in the mood for LSU here are a few early limericks (keep them coming guys)
Gadget Dawg
There once was a coach name of Les, his antics were so hard to guess,
while his team kicked some ass, he at up some grass, and his players
turned grass to a mess!
There once was a badger of honey, who went to the bayou for money, he
smoked some fake grass, they suspended his ass, whatchu think makes
his hair look so funny?
There was a tall lad name of Jord, and on friday he got kind of bored,
he got in a drunken brawl, they wouldn't let him play ball, til they
needed a QB to score.
Mr Shepard he did love to tweet, 'bout the teams that L$U plans to beat, but the text he did type, Dawgs prove to be hype , and some cold crow he'll soon have to eat!
Rex Robinson
What is a Bulldawg to do, when faced with a great LSU? Corndogs will be
eaten and we may yet be beaten, but it will NOT be BAYOU!
Rex even submitted a Haiku:
Mad Hatter is here...losing is in his future...he will be pissed off!
Russell Shepard is boldly Tweetin', none of that ish is worth repeatin',
with one catch per game, he sounds pretty lame, soon he'll meet Shawn
Williams for de-cleatin'
There will be more added, so check back daily.
Go DAWGS, beat the Corn Dogs. GATA!
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Whip Tech, Slide in the Polls - Yes... They Suck That Bad!
Posted by Hunker Down at 11:16 PM
1 comment:
Tech is doing his job very well.. Amanda Vanderpool CEO
- 8:56 AM, September 19, 2013
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