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Mets VP: "We're not going to sit back"
Bisons fans can take a moment and take a collective breath and start focusing on the future and forgetting about the past. The Mets are moving forward.
"We're in a new city, a new team for the franchise and we're with a franchise that has a lot of success at that level," Bernazard stated to the Buffalo News. "We've promised the ownership in Buffalo that we're not going to sit back. We're going to keep trying to get better."
Bisons' beat writer, Mike Harrington of the Buffalo News was able to connect with Mets VP/AGM Tony Bernazard yesterday. READ MORE!
I commend Bernizard for being extremely candid in the discussions and being able to express the frustration that is felt about how the Herd got out of the gate. We'll have more discussion on "Countdown to Bisons Baseball" this morning at 11:35 prior to today's first pitch. Bisons are back at work today in Rochester at 12:05 p.m.
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Ronnie Franklin borrowed to pay his tuition at a for-profit college that advertised its success in preparing graduates for better jobs. The decision still haunts him.
Despite graduating from RETS Technical Center in Boston in 2000, he found himself so strapped for money that he and his two sons lived in a homeless shelter last year. Frustrated that his degree didn't lead to work in electronics, Franklin — now a $12-an-hour housepainter — decided to go to a community college this year. He can't qualify for a federal grant that would pay the cost because he has defaulted on $20,000 of his earlier U.S. student loans.
Students seeking to move up in life by getting a degree from a for-profit college are being trapped in a growing underclass of education debtors. Under U.S. law, their loan obligations can rarely be discharged in bankruptcy, making them more onerous than credit-card debt or sub-prime mortgages. Defaults can subject students to government confiscation of salaries, tax refunds, and Social Security payments — and disqualify them for aid to get more marketable degrees.
More from Bloomberg Businessweek: Executives collect $2 billion at for-profit colleges
Students at for-profit colleges carry the biggest loans in U.S. higher education. Bachelor's degree recipients at for-profits have median debt of $31,190 compared with $17,040 at private, nonprofit institutions and $7,960 at public colleges, according to Washington-based nonprofit Education Trust.
While currently enrolling one in eight U.S. students, for-profit colleges account for almost one in two federal-loan defaults. The Obama administration wants to curb rising default rates and the threat of student destitution by cutting off federal funds to for-profit college programs whose students have the worst loan-repayment rates and lowest incomes relative to debt, which suggests their degrees aren't translating into higher salaries. That's if a degree is earned: The graduation rate for first-time, full-time candidates for four-year degrees at for-profit colleges is 22 percent, compared with 55 percent at state colleges.
For-profit colleges have higher student-loan default rates and dropout rates because they serve lower-income students, minorities, immigrants, and working adults, says Harris Miller, president of the Association of Private Sector Colleges and Universities, a trade group.
Bloomberg Businessweek: For-profit colleges fail poor students, report says
Don Harris, president of RETS at the time Franklin attended, says 80 percent of RETS graduates succeeded in finding jobs related to their fields within 60 days of graduating. Washington Post's Kaplan Higher Education bought RETS in 2002. About 20 percent of students at the school, now called Kaplan Career Institute, default in the first two years they're required to make payments — more than three times the rate at public colleges. That figure reflects the low-income backgrounds of Kaplan students, spokeswoman Melissa Mack says. "Most Americans are willing to take some risk with a student loan, knowing the payoff for them individually can be quite significant," Miller says.
The degree didn't pay off for Franklin. "I got an outstanding student loan, I got no job, and I'm further and further in debt," he says. "It's basically crippling me from doing a lot of things to improve my living condition."
The bottom line: Students at for-profit colleges graduate with higher debt loads and loan default rates than those who attend conventional schools.
Bloomberg Businessweek: For-profit colleges double spending to beat aid rules
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Out-of-control cement truck crashes into Morgantown apartment building
Building condemed; 10 WVU students forced to move
An out-of-control cement truck rolled down a hill at a Morgantown, W.Va., construction site and crashed into the front of a residential building on Grant Avenue, forcing 10 West Virginia University students to move to emergency housing operated by the university.
"The driver had gotten out of the car real quick, and I guess he thought he had it in park, but it wasn't," student Chris Levy said. (Photos: Cement truck crashes into apartment building)
Levy is one of the students who were living in the four apartments in the building. The building is now condemned.
"I heard a bunch of people screaming and a big bang. I thought it was an earthquake because the whole house shook," Levy said.
"I just heard a lot of screaming and hollering and then a loud, just a loud boom," student Chase Strickland said.
"We all thought an earthquake hit; we didn't know what happened. We ran outside without shoes or a shirt on. It was freezing," student Joseph McKee said.
Don Corwin owns the building. He says the truck came within inches of potentially igniting a natural gas line. The area was evacuated for a gas leak for a short time.
The building is in the jurisdiction of WVU campus police. Officers say the incident is still under investigation but confirm the driver of the truck received medical care after trying to run after the truck as it rolled away. No one else was injured.
Corwin says he recently renovated the front porch of the house. It could be a month before students are allowed to return to the building.
"It's a big inconvenience, especially because it is a Friday -- it's the last thing I want to be doing," said student Dylan Adams.


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Problem went away. Got new Akebono pads and new rotors and the same caliper sticking to the point of smoke and gunmetal colored rotor. Exercised the caliper piston several times and got dirty fluid out of there. The outer seal is not in any way attached to the inner part of the caliper which is most likely my issue. Right now a new rebuilt caliper is not financially obtainable and 40-45 for used isn't right either so I ordered a re-seal kit. Just for the caliper, the rubber guide pins are fine and not sticky so I'm going with it.
Never ever rebuilt a caliper. Brake cylinders and master cylinders yes. Just like anything new it seems evasive but I cant imagine it to be as perplexing as a transmission and valve body. Not going to replace the rubber line now which seems like hardened plastic because the piston pushes back effortlessly. Just curious why it is sticking slightly. I don'y want to keep pushing the piston in and out cause I might really fubar the seal, it is not leaking and until I get there I don't want it to.
Anyways I will post pictures once I get the mini seal kit and we will see why this thing is sticking.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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Opened her up, cleaned and installed the new seals. Seems after hitting the brakes she is free to turn which was tight before. I might just do this to all the calipers just cause it's less than 10 bucks each rear. Not sure about fronts but just having rust tarnish was a welcome discovery. The rust between the outside seal and internal seal was significant. Had to sand it down for the piston to move at all. Oh PS they say to use not more than 20 PSI to dislodge the piston. Ummm 120 and it barely came out.
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
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KEXP @ Upstream Music Fest
Since The Long Winters don't play live that often, we gladly share this video with you courtesy of the wonderful KEXP , who hosted a The Long Winters session at the Upstream Music Fest. Plenty of banter, and some songs too.
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This is a targeted post, the words are strong.
When I was in secondary school, I had been targeted a few times by my friends from other races, calling me 'pariah' , 'keling' and other words they thought suited Indians. I've never really bothered this, although deep inside I would feel very angry, but knowing fighting a group of Malay boys alone is like a suicide, I chose simply to ignore it.
The trend has now changed in schools, instead of the students bullying and calling each other with derogatory names, the teachers had instead started to plant racist ideologies into this young kids. Recently, just a few weeks ago, one of the teachers in Georgetown was caught red handed uttering 'india paria' to a group of young Indian kids, yet she was not punished but simply transferred to another school. What kind of 'product' will come out as a result of teachings like that?
Precisely below:
And look at this below girls, fighting and dragging their parents into their conversation. There is a fine line about how sick you can be, but when you cross certain boundaries, you will be held responsible for your actions, and people will generally isolate and cast you away for life. When you're young, you're bound to make mistakes, but not to this extend.
How hurt and what will the parents think when they see this? Ippeh yosichi yenna iruke, appeve atti alurle uthireknum.
Similarly,I've received numerous amount of screenshot about a particular Malayalee girl. When I heard the name of Presana Narayanan, and how she had been going on a rampage about Tamilians in Malaysia, I first thought about how hot she might be; that she can downgrade others to such an extend.
I was thinking along the line that she might be one of this…
or this…
or at least this..
Presana Narayanan is undoubtedly a freedom fighter for Malayalees. I don't and can't understand any reason for her hatred against Tamils, and she might be one of those who would have been very happy when Tamilians in Sri Lanka were killed without mercy.
What is the real reason for a girl to behave like she had been gang raped by all the Tamils?
Lack of parental guidance?
Cheated by a Tamilian perhaps?
Or simply maybe because she 'lama tak dapat?"
People who generalize and target certain ethnic groups, religion, gender, and race are seriously sick people.
There are many people who are as sick as this girls, the problem is none of them really show it. Fine examples are the people who is liking and supporting her comments in her wall. Only the completely insane and dumbfucks come out as open as this, declaring statuses targeting and hating Tamils all over the web. I don't know how 'open' she is though la…
Let me give you an example, if you were cheated by someone, would you be angry with him alone or would you be targeting his race and ethnicity? Unless you were fucked by the entire Tamil community, there can't be any real reason why you must hate them all.
This is not about a status that is being blown out of proportion. This is a serious issue of a retarded pussy let loose, going on a rampage spreading hatred all over. I love Malayalees, some of them are hot and awesome. And when I was in Kerala, Malayalees had like the best attitude ever, and was very welcoming.
This is not a bashing session; this is something that needs to be highlighted. People need to know that sick rats like this exist in our community, infesting and damaging not only their own community, but also the rest of the people who lives by righteousness and with mutual respect towards each other.
Here's some of the amazing things our freedom fighter had said in the past:
I wonder how can anyone be supportive of low life girls like this? Look at the amount of likes and support she has, it's amazing that people can support such a cause.
We're bound to have disagreement between us. We might have different set of ideologies when it comes to ethnicity, religion, race and caste, and it can be a good reason for us to compete and be proud of our roots, but it is not right to downgrade and spit on those who are different from you. Presana Narayanan and her supporters is a disgrace not only to the Malayalees, but also to every right thinking individual.
Have fun.
Update 22/5/2012- Police report were made about Presana by Bro Thanesh.


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Reviewed By David S (Wesley Chapel, FL) Reviewed for a 2009 Ford Fusion —7/5/2014 9:01 PM
Purchased as OEM replacements which wore through. The construction, backing, depth of the carpet pile, etc... all exceed OEM by a wide margin, and Ford wanted the exact same amount for their replacements as the Lloyd Mats Customs. Slightly larger, much thicker, and overall a much better mat than OEM, hands down. I do wish that since they are "just floor mats" that they were less expensive, though. Even though they are better than OEM by a longshot, definitely expensive by any standard.


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DWTS Cheryl Burke Hits The Town In Las Vegas For GMA Miss America Pageant Preview
Above is Dancing With The Stars pro Cheryl Burke. She was seen at the Marquee Saturday night in Las Vegas which you can read about here. As you might know, Cheryl is in Las Vegas this week to judge the Miss America Pageant. You can watch Cheryl in a Good Morning America preview of the pageant at this link with Sam Champion who is also judging.
By the way, I'm really interested in how this pageant turns out this year as Miss Wyoming is from where I live.


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|Chinese opera costume parade, Sinapore, 20 February 2000
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|Asian Civilisations Museum (Singapore)
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|Traditional Chinese Opera Costume Parade put on by Chinese Opera Society (Singapore).
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DescriptionIt's always silly season down in Uncle Berry's woods and he needs your help to gather all the tasty berries. All you have to do is connect three or more berries of the same colour. When you create long chains special berries appear, which will help you collect even more delicious berry treats.
- Click on the berries to rotate them. Connect three berries of the same kind and – way-hay! – they'll disappear!
- Make long chains of matches to create the special berries.
- When you've cleared the required number of berries, you get to move on to the next level, where all berries cleared will earn you more points.


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(Pocket-lint) - With our Windows 8 review taking up so much of our time, it seemed only sensible to test Microsoft's newest OS with some of its new hardware. The Wedge Touch mouse is designed to work specifically with Windows 8, although it's a standard Bluetooth affair, so it will also work with tablets, phones and computers that have Bluetooth.
So what does this tiny little bit of kit have to offer over a normal mouse? And perhaps more important a question: is it worth £70?
When we got the Wedge out of its box, we almost fell over in shock. Had someone zapped us with a ray that made us in to giants? It was tiny, far smaller than we expected.
And then of course we had a flashback to that godawful Apple puck mouse that came with the original iMac. Despair settled its inky claws into our brain and suddenly reviewing things didn't seem to be such a good idea.
But a few minutes getting the Wedge up and running, and we were soon falling for its odd charms. For example, the battery cover slides open in an incredibly pleasing way, waiting for you to insert the single AA battery and get pointing.
Once you've turned the mouse on, it comes alive with light. The business end, which holds the motion tracking gubbins, lights up with a strong, bright, blue glow. This is Microsoft's BlueTrack system, which the firm claims will work on pretty much any surface. We've tested it on sofas, wood, leather and a few other places for good measure, it works pretty well.
On the bottom of the device, there's a power button that doubles as a Bluetooth pairing control. On the other side of the sensor, you'll note a battery switch, flip this and the battery cover opens: button-operated magic.
On the back of the mouse, there's a long strip light that glows red and green during pairing. It's very cool, but you won't see it again after the mouse is set up - it's almost a shame.
Touch control for Windows 8
When you use Windows 8, a lack of touch screen becomes a real bind. With the Wedge though, you get touch controls. As there's no scroll wheel, you can simply drag your finger down the middle to achieve the same result. It's brilliant.
Perhaps best of all though, you can also scroll horizontally with the mouse, something that you'll do a lot of in Windows with its funky new interface. This worked really well too, and using Windows 8 we learnt to appreciate it very quickly. In fact, we think it's fair to say that this mouse had at least something to do with our eventual learning to quite like Windows 8 - something that surprised us.
Right-click woes
The only major problem we could find with the Wedge was its slight reluctance to allow us to right click. Most of the time it worked, but on our Windows 8 test machine, there were times when it just gave us a normal click action. It's a minor problem, but you'd be surprised how often it caught us out and caused frustration.
Our solution was to click slightly higher up the mouse than we normally would. Once we got used to this, we didn't really have any more problems with it.
We'll be honest, we thought the Wedge would be dreadful. In fact, it was utterly brilliant. It's sensitive enough to make light work of all the pointing you need to do, but it's not too "whizzy" to get anything done.
On the downside, the right click problem caused us some heartache from time to time, and the scrolling can sometimes be a little temperamental. But for the most part, this tiny little rodent does an amazing job - one of the best Microsoft Touch Mouses we've tried.
We don't know if it's honestly worth the £70 it's on sale for, but if you need something tiny and functional, then this is probably the device for you.


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IT Help Desk
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Comic Books Should Be Good is an excellent blog, and Greg Burgas has pretty good taste in comics (except when he disagrees with me). Twice over the past 8 years, Brian Cronin has done a massive poll for the best 100 runs of all time, and recently completed his 2012 edition. You can find it here.
Also twice over the past eight years, Greg has run his analysis of the list. He just finished his analysis of the 2012 list. It's excellent fun, and you can find it here.
For the first time in eight years, I'm doing an analysis of Greg's analysis. Just for kicks and giggles. Because, I mean, Brian gives his list and then Greg goes and bitches about it, but nobody bitches about Greg!
I know I'm nowhere near as "important" a blogger as they are. Barely 1500 pairs of eyes look at my stuff each day. But I love lists as much as the next guy. So here goes.
First, Greg starts with his own top 10 list. I pretty much completely disagree with it—or with 70% of it.
After the break: Greg's list.


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Penalty Bid Rule needs to be overhauled
It is illegal to fix the price or control the price of any security; that rule is one of the basics of a fair marketplace, and the function of government regulation, i.e. FINRA, is to make, or create, the perception that the market is fair to all bidders. With the vast amount of cash looking for a home the expected boom in underwriting and new issues is exploding, and market makers have sounded the call for FINRA to change the Penalty Bid Rule. Pitting market makers and issuers of new securities against savvy investors, this will be a bloody battle. Penalty bidding permits the underwriter to fix the bottom price on any new issue during initial distribution. Also known by its evil-twin name "pegging" it is permitted under SEC Rule 10b-7 but only for syndicate managers and underwriters of new issues. Fixing prices of securities is the antithesis of fair markets and the implausible arguments used by FINRA to support the Penalty Bid Rule are under attack. Keep tuned for more follow-up on this page. If your financial advisor has been pegging your account then you have the right to file a complaint. Contact a securities fraud lawyer in South Florida for more information about abuses and corrupt practices of financial advisors if you feel like you have been the victim of securities professional.


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DGS Publications
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|RI78 Subsurface Geology of the Area Between Wrangle Hill and Delaware City, Delaware
|Jengo, J.W., McLaughlin, P.P., Ramsey, K.W.
|RI75 Stratigraphy and Correlation of the Oligocene to Pleistocene Section at Bethany Beach, Delaware
|McLaughlin, P.P., Miller, K.G., Browning, J.V., Ramsey, K.W., Benson, R.N., Tomlinson, J.L., Sugarman, P.J.
|RI72 Geology and Extent of the Confined Aquifers of Kent County, Delaware
|McLaughlin, P.P., Velez, C.C.
|RI71 Internal Stratigraphic Correlation of the Subsurface Potomac Formation, New Castle County, Delaware, and Adjacent Areas in Maryland and New Jersey
|Benson, R.N., McLaughlin, P.P.
|OFR45 Characterization of the Potomac Aquifer, an Extremely Heterogeneous Fluvial System in the Atlantic Coastal Plain of Delaware
|McKenna, T.E., McLaughlin, P.P., Benson, R.N.
|SP16 Generalized Geologic Map of Delaware, Postcard
|DGS Staff
|SP5 Geology and Earth Resources of Delaware
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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Ceiling Project in the Library 2009 – 2010
Under the auspices of fire safety, the Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library has been selected by the Asbestos Protocol program at the University of Utah for removal of asbestos containing materials. The ceiling tiles on all three levels of the library are slated for removal later this Fall 2009. In addition to the removal …Read More »
Video: Good Health Information @ Your Library
Good Health Information @ Your Library is a statewide initiative encouraging people to come to the library for information about their health and medical issues. Video produced by UWIN and Salt Lake County Library Services. View the Good Health Information @ Your Library video.
Eccles Goes Mobile
Eccles Library now has a mobile-ready website. The Home page features a 3-tab interface with a collection of mobile-friendly links and pages, as well as direct links back to the library's main website. It is currently optimized for viewing on an iPhone/iPod Touch, with further refinements under development to support users of other mobile devices. …Read More »


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Of all the political issues that kept Southern Californians awake at night in 2013, none did so more literally than the fact of helicopter noise.
As the debate over what to do about it promises to continue in 2014, residents must not let up in calling for solutions from the region's representatives — and we must broaden the campaign, making sure other powerful members of Congress hear the same message.
Something has to be done.
Hopes for action by the Federal Aviation Administration sank in the middle of this year when the agency issued a report claiming it would be "extremely difficult, if not impossible" to write regulations to deal with a problem as complex as helicopter noise in an area as varied as this. The FAA promised to promote voluntary agreements between communities and helicopter operators. As if that ever helped before.
More hopes were dashed when a bill called the Los Angeles Residential Helicopter Noise Relief Act, which would have required the FAA to regulate flight paths and altitudes, stalled in a House committee.
Now that bill's sponsor, Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank, and other Democratic congressmen from the L.A. area have launched a new legislative effort. In a letter last week, Schiff, Brad Sherman, Tony Cardenas, Henry Waxman and Alan Lowenthal urged the chairman and ranking Democrat of a key transportation committee to include a provision on helicopter noise in a 2014 spending bill.
The provision would direct FAA Administrator Michael Huerta to take a half-dozen steps to address the issue of noise from the engines and blades of helicopters used by tourists, news media, police and the military; adjust flight routes to lessen the impact on residential areas and landmarks; analyze whether helicopters could fly higher in some areas; develop best practices for hovering news helicopters; inform pilots of voluntary policies to avoid disturbing noise-sensitive places and events; work with community stakeholders to develop a complaint system; and keep participating in talks between helicopter operators and community leaders. The provision would require officials to start writing regulations within a year of its passage unless voluntary measures are proven effective.
To underscore the frustration of Southern Californians who have dealt with helicopter noise for decades, the House members' proposal is basically what Sen. Dianne Feinstein inserted in a spending bill a few months ago. Feinstein's provisions were directed at the U.S. secretary of transportation. The bill wound up blocked by Republican senators.
As Schiff noted after a public hearing at the Autry National Center in Griffith Park in June, no "one-size-fits-all solution" will fix the problem of helicopter noise that interrupts sleep, work, conversation, recreation in the mountains and on the coast, and outdoor events. For instance, areas can be found where reasonable rules about altitudes and hovering could limit noise.
Last week's letter went to House transportation subcommittee leaders Tom Latham, R-Iowa, and Ed Pastor, D-Arizona. Schiff said he hoped it gave "a sense of the urgency residents feel" about the issue.
Residents must back that up with their own calls for action. Let Latham and Pastor know you're impatient for action. Until the night skies are quieter, you won't be either.


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SCOTT Athletes: San Diego Report
The AMA Supercross series rolled into San Diego, California for the 6th round of the season. Track builders battled rain late in the week but thankfully the weather subsided and on raceday, the track conditions couldn't have been better.
450 Class
In the 450SX class SCOTT athlete Trey Canard qualified for the main event with a 3rd place finish in his heat race. Unfortunately, Canard was unable to carry that momentum to the main event, where he found himself midpack off the start and was only able to cross the finish line in 8th place. Canard now slips to 4th in the points standings.
Finishing right behind Canard was SCOTT goggle athlete Andrew Short. Short had a great heat race and qualified for the night show with a 2nd place finish in his heat race. In the main, Short didn't get a great start and had to battle midpack, eventually finishing in 9th. Shorty now sits 7th in the 450SX point standings.
SCOTT athlete Matt Lemoine had a great night in San Diego despite his main event result. Matt had the 5th fastest practice time in the seeded 450SX class and followed that up with a 5th place finish in his heat race. Lemoine got a great start in the main event and was running as high as 5th. Unfortunately, Matt was taken out by another rider and found himself in 17th place. Lemoine regrouped and attacked the track, climbing back up to 13th by the checkered flag. Matt is now in 16th in the 450SX point standings.
250SX Class
The Monster Energy Pro Circuit team was determined to get better results this week in San Diego after a dismal start to the series. The PC riders were ready to come out swinging for what was to be the last 250SX West Coast series race before the series goes East. SCOTT goggle athlete Tyla Rattray was consistent all night and finished his heat race in 6th, qualifying him for the main event. Rattray didn't get the start he wanted and had to work hard for an 8th place finish in the main. Tyla sits 11th in the 250SX West Coast point standings.
It looked like SCOTT goggle athlete Martin Davalos was going to turn his season around after he won his heat race in dominating fashion. In the 250SX main event Davalos got a great jump off the line and rounded the first turn in the top 3. Unfortunately a slight mistake would send the PC rider to the ground and to the back of the pack. Martin charged through the pack though and by the checkered flag, he had worked his way from last to 9th. Martin now sits 6th in the West Coast point standings. The West Coast series takes an 8 week hiatus while the East Coast series begins. The West Coast series will resume at the Seattle Supercross in April.
Next weekend the tour heads to Arlington, Texas where the 250 East Coast series begins.
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Irrefutable photographic evidence of the biggest and rarest fish on Canada's west coast — the endangered basking shark — is shining light on a sea change in federal government attitude, from destruction to conservation of sharks.
Half a century ago Ottawa fitted sharp blades to the bows of its vessels to deliberately kill as many basking sharks as possible for interfering with commercial fishing nets on the B.C. coast.
Today, Ottawa is asking for the public's help in identifying sharks observed dead or alive by location and species on the B.C. coast. The feds are also about to publish both a "code of conduct" for interaction with basking sharks and a "best-handling practices" for how to generally release a shark alive by cutting the line as close as possible to the hook.
"There is an increasing international, but also Canadian, focus on sharks and their vulnerability," Jackie King, a research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada based in Nanaimo, said in an interview.
"Public perception is moving away from the image of Jaws (the 1975 thriller movie) to the image of this primitive fish that's been around for millions of years. It's a top predator but, increasingly, stressors are making some populations vulnerable."
Sightings of gentle basking sharks — the second largest fish in the world (after the tropical whale shark) and capable of reaching 10 metres or more — are extremely rare on the west coast, and confirmed sightings are even rarer.
"It's surprisingly, given how many digital cameras and cellphones there are, that photos remain elusive, almost as elusive as the shark itself," King said. "Part of it could be that you're startled, 'What is that?' And by the time you fumble to get a photo it's gone."
That's why the research community is so excited over a photograph taken by marine researcher Wendy Szaniszlo last Aug. 8 on the Canadian Coast Guard's 58-metre research ship W.E. Ricker off Brooks Peninsula on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
"It was the chance of a lifetime, a perfect sighting day, sunny and calm," King explained.
"Because she was fitted with binoculars and camera equipment, she got a fantastic picture. There's no doubt it was a basking shark. For us, that's exciting because it's not just reliable, but what we can call confirmed."
There were a total of eight reported sightings of basking sharks on the B.C. coast from April to September this year, mostly off the west coast of Vancouver Island but also as far north as Haida Gwaii. In addition to the one confirmed, two sightings were considered reliable.
The current hotline for reporting basking sharks — 1-877-50-SHARK — will be expanded to all shark sightings, other than dogfish, King said. Photos of the head and gills along with the tail are important, as are estimates of the shark's length and sex.
"We want to start filling in gaps in our knowledge," she said. "Where do we find these species in our waters? Where are potential nursery sights and spawning locations? Where are the hot spots?"
The commercial groundfish fleet has already received shark identification cards and must keep a log of any they inadvertently catch.
Satellite tagging of sub-adult six-gill sharks near Gabriola Island in 2011 revealed they swam from the surface to depths of 475 metres and likely stayed within the Strait of Georgia. Tagging of blue sharks in offshore B.C. waters showed they roamed widely, including to Hawaii and Central America.
Basking sharks, which spend much of their time at the surface with mouths agape filtering plankton, went into serious decline as a result of directed fisheries for liver oil between 1941 and 1947 and a federal eradication program from 1945 to 1970, according to the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada.
It is thought that 3,000 to 5,000 of basking sharks once roamed B.C.'s waters. Their recovery could take at least 200 years.
B.C. sport fishers are permitted a daily limit of one salmon shark and four dogfish, and must release all other shark species.
B.C.'s hook-and-line dogfish fleet in 2011 made history by becoming the first commercial shark fishery to be deemed sustainable by the London-based Marine Stewardship Council.
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In February, three critics of inflation Ijjas, Steinhardt, Loeb (ILS) published a diatribe in Scientific American titled "Cosmic Inflation Theory Faces Challenges". They tried to defend the seemingly indefensible – the claim that there exist reasons to abandon the inflationary cosmology. They combined various unflatteringly sounding, mostly irrational sentences about the experimental status of inflation as well as its theoretical underpinnings.
As Sean Carroll and Peter W*it have mentioned, a day or two ago, dozens of authors signed under the response (also) in Scientific American named "A Cosmic Controversy". Note that ILS's title already tried to summarize their opinion while the title of the pro-inflation article doesn't make it clear that it's pro-inflation. This pattern can be seen repeatedly: Wrong statements often appear as titles but correct ones almost never do. Why is it so? I think that the journalists believe that more readers are attracted when the title is a wrong proposition.
The new pro-inflation text was penned by folks like Guth, Linde, Kaiser, Nomura (GLKN) but also by famous folks like Hawking, Witten, Maldacena, Susskind, occasional TRF guest bloggers Randall, Silverstein, but also by Sean Carroll, among others.
Most cosmologists would agree that the inflationary cosmology is a vital fundamental building block in most of the thinking about cosmology in the modern era. In its rather general form, the theory of inflation says that the Universe has undergone a period of intense, approximately exponential expansion driven by a scalar field that was away from the minimum where it's sitting now. The previous sentence is a huge insight but it's not a complete theory so most of the detailed questions may remain – and indeed do remain – unanswered even if you deduce all derivable consequences from the paradigm that I have already described.
When you deduce some basic universal consequences of the paradigm and/or the simplest models, you will make predictions that seem extremely encouraging, to say the least, and in some cases, they precisely agree with some highly nontrivial observations.
The basic predictions are that the Universe is very large, almost smooth, has a nearly uniform temperature of the cosmic microwave background, but also has some non-uniformities whose structure may be largely predicted, and complex curves predicted by the theory are exactly observed. The success is rather stunning and even though cosmology used to be much less hard, more philosophy-like scientific discipline, unlike particle physics, many of these predictions, work with possibilities, and experimental confirmations are totally analogous to those in particle physics.
If I were asked to formulate a concise argument in favor of inflation that I find most relevant, I wouldn't discuss any details about what are the simple models of inflation, whether we work with simple models or all models, or other fuzzy questions. Instead, I would tell you:
What happened when cosmologists began to study inflation and talk about inflation every day? Well, Alan Guth and pals have basically made the following simple observation: Scalar fields that appear in theories from the same class as the Standard Model may also have local maxima or places away from the minima where the scalars may be located for reasonably long periods of time.That's it. The point is that Guth, Linde, and others have realized that all physicists and cosmologists before them were overlooking a type of behavior that is very likely to take place in theories of particle physics that are very analogous to the Standard Model – theories with scalar fields. They were overlooking some interesting and almost unavoidable behavior of the scalar fields near the local maxima – and this behavior may be immediately seen to be very helpful to explain some features of the Universe around us.
When a scalar field spends some time near the local maximum, the potential energy \(V(\Phi)\) affects the cosmology just like a constant energy density of the vacuum – the cosmological constant (however, numerically a huge one) – and that makes the Universe expand just like a de Sitter space.
And when you study what happens to the Universe with a scalar field in such a state, you will find out that it was expanding and it was doing so in a way that seems strikingly similar to what is needed to get the large, almost smooth Universe around us, with some galactic structures born into it, and so on.
Many important overall features seem to be explained well almost immediately and that's a reason why you should never overlook inflation – this expansionist behavior of the scalar field away from the minima – again! Instead, you should always take it into account. You can't be told in advance what will be all the conclusions you will be led to – but that's correct. You should go wherever the evidence will lead you! It's not the purpose of science to create prophesies about all detailed twists that will happen in the future. The real point is that since the late 1970s, it looks like an obvious fallacy to keep on ignoring inflation.
The most colorful, precise enough analogy for my claim is that Guth and Linde etc. became the Adam and Eve who just found and ate the apple in the Garden of Eden. This apple also gave them some new skill – it was a recipe for coitus or something like that, sorry, I don't have a full-blown education in Judeo-Christianity ;-) – and they haven't forgotten the lesson even since.
So the researchers who are using inflation are not fanatics who would resist a clearly even better theory in the hypothetical case that such a theory is proposed. However, some speculations about future discoveries shouldn't distract you from the current state of cosmology and the current state is that inflation seems to be the best explanation for the basic features of the Universe we know and even from the perspective of quantum field theory, one should agree that something like inflation is very likely to influence the Universe at some point.
What ILS – the critics of inflation – are doing is to ask us to forget about the apple in the Garden of Eden once again. They tell us to uneat the apple, unlearn the skill of coitus, and start overlooking the expansionist behavior of the scalar fields once again. We should forget that scalar fields have points away from the minima in the configuration space and we should forget the lessons what these fields are doing to the Universe when they are located over there. Apologies but the lesson of the eaten apple is irreversible. You can't make the researchers forget about such important things once again. It would be utterly irrational and unscientific to do so. Unlike religions, science simply isn't compatible with the commandment "you shall forget about all your previous gods that the ILS prophets have declared blasphemous". In science, "not to overlook" is superior in comparison with "to overlook". Period.
You can only forget about detailed proposals that have actually been ruled out. So many very specific models of inflation have been shown to produce predictions that disagree with the experimental data. It's enough to abandon the detailed models but it is not enough to abandon the inflationary framework. It's common sense. The garden analogy exists. In some countries, some forms of sex – like one with children – may be banned but that's different from banning sex altogether. People more or less creatively probe various types of sex, while taking various desires, pressures, and laws into account, but they don't generally forget the lesson from the apple in the garden of Eden.
Whether the framework is easily falsifiable has nothing whatever to do with the question whether it's correct. Only imbeciles are confusing these two things. And researchers should primarily search for theories that are correct, not those that are easy to work with. Some tasks awaiting a scientist may be hard or messy or they may take a long time but that doesn't prove that the direction of that journey is incorrect.
To be specific, let me pick a sentence from the ILS rant that talks about the alleged untestability of inflation:
In other words, scale invariance is possible but so is a large deviation from scale invariance and everything in between, depending on the details of the inflationary energy density one assumes. Thus, the arrangement Planck saw cannot be taken as confirmation of inflation.The problem aren't these statements by themselves. The problem is that ILS think that the sentences imply something bad about inflation. Well, they don't. They're completely analogous e.g. to the following statements about Darwin's theory:
Darwin's natural selection implies that the survival of large animals is possible but so is the survival of small animals and animals in between. Therefore, the sizes of observed animal species cannot be taken as a confirmation of Darwin's theory.Well, right, Darwin's theory implies that it may be very clever to be a big animal in some situations or a small one or a medium one. The theory doesn't make a unique clearcut recommendation for the animals how big they should be. But that doesn't mean that there is something wrong with the theory. Even more importantly, it doesn't mean that there is nothing correct about the theory. The fact that one particular would-be piece of data isn't positive evidence in favor of the theory doesn't mean that there is no positive evidence. Other things are the positive evidence – both in the case of Darwin's and inflationary theories. There is no obligation for a theory to give some unambiguous recommendations of this kind for every quantity that may be discussed within the theory. Some theories combined with some selection of the data and constraints simply allow numerous answers to a question. There's nothing wrong about it. A scientific theory predicts things but especially if you only pick some rough summary of the scientific theory, it just doesn't predict everything.
What I say about these matters sounds like pure common sense to me. I can't believe that someone is incapable of understanding this simple point. Nevertheless, all the people who whine about "testability" seem to misunderstand it. And that's why I think that all of them are just plain idiots.
Once the cosmologists have eaten the apple of inflation, they may study various questions such as:
- Can they determine the precise selection of the required inflaton field (or fields) and their potential that fits the detailed data or that is derivable from a deeper (string) theory?
- Can they derive the inflaton as an effective field describing some more detailed microscopic physics (such as the distance between two branes)?
- Can they deduce some predictions for so far undiscovered phenomena (such as the primordial gravitational waves)?
- Does the theory predict a large multiverse which connects inequivalent environments and do the observations constrain such scenarios? The more anthropic a paper about the multiverse is, the more irrational it seems to be, but the very existence of a multiverse may be predicted and it's just foolish to try to ban it just because it looks too large and therefore untestable to you.
- Is it possible to say about the vacuum selection in string theory or particle physics in general by extending the cosmological considerations?
- Can one design theories where the successes of inflation are explained truly differently?
But the problem with ILS is that they don't want to rationally discuss particular questions. They want to ban inflation as a blasphemy and use this ban to place some of their pet theories – cyclic or ekpyrotic Universe or whatever they like now – to the place of the inflation. However, they don't actually have any scientifically valid arguments for that which is why the people who keep on thinking as scientists won't do it.
I have spent many and many hours by reading papers and listening to talks about the cyclic cosmology etc. I think that the percentage of indisputably wrong statements – e.g. about the second law of thermodynamics – is high among the people proposing some things. Some versions of these theories could work but I would view them just as generalizations of inflation (e.g. with some extra-dimensional interpretation of the inflaton, e.g. as the distance between branes in the direction of a new dimension of space).
Concerning the cyclic character itself, I haven't seen any argument or calculation that would persuade me that the cyclic cosmology is likely. But even if it were true, the last cycle from the "Bang" is clearly the most important one for explanations of what we can see – the previous history has been scrambled, melted, and washed away. So the obsession of ILS with convincing the reader that even the "Bang" in the term "Big Bang" is semi-blasphemous seems utterly irrational. Even if there were a pre-history, the recent history will still be more important and will often be talked about separately. It's foolish to expect otherwise.
I have also spent many and many hours with some smart and nice folks who were convincing me e.g. that their string/brane gas cosmology is a totally viable – and maybe superior – competitor to inflation. Well, I am still not 100% sure about these matters but I simply couldn't quite find the "corresponding features" in the string gas cosmology that would demonstrably reproduce similar successes as those that make me believe in inflation.
Most cosmologists find themselves in a rather similar condition. They are somewhat open-minded about explanations that are very different. But those don't quite make as much sense to them as inflation which is why these alternative paradigms aren't substituted as the fundamental building blocks in these people's thinking about matters. ILS haven't actually brought us any rational reason to do so. Screaming that some paradigm is blasphemous because it's not easily falsifiable just won't make it. People don't have any rigorous proof that the human society may live without sex (the counterpart of the "falsification") but that doesn't mean that the people will stop practicing it.
And again, we have many very different reasons to take inflation seriously. Even if Cumrun or Robert or Ali would persuade me that string/brane gas cosmologies may do all the good things for cosmology to replace inflation, I would still think that a viable field theory – or string vacuum – will probably have some scalars with some local maxima or other inflation-like pieces of the configuration space. So even if the job of inflation could be done by someone else, there would still be reasons to think that some inflation is there, anyway.
Just to be sure, I wouldn't be quite happy about all comments in the pro-inflation GLKN text. For example, we learn
According to the high-energy physics database INSPIRE, there are now more than 14,000 papers in the scientific literature, written by over 9,000 distinct scientists, that use the word "inflation" or "inflationary" in their titles or abstracts.OK, that's nice that the paper has 33 authors and they mention that some 9,000 others are likely to be on their side but that still doesn't prove that they're right. Instead, critics like ILS are surely willing to say – and they are already weakly saying – that all these 9,000 people are indeed deluded and similar claims are in principle possible. And yes, the public could be willing to buy the opinion that some 9,000 people are a cabal of hacks who have hired each other – similar statements hold for some other groups of 9,000 people. If ILS had an actual valid argument, they could strengthen the case that the 9,000 people are just wrong.
(Don't make me wrong: I think it is good that GLKN plus 30 others have published the pro-inflation article. I just think that such pro-inflation and pro-string etc. semipopular articles should have been written some 10 years ago or so, too.)
But ILS haven't really provided us with any valid argument against inflation. So the article hasn't changed an epsilon about the status quo and masses of cosmologists simply won't be leaving inflation after they have read the ILS rant.
Inflation seems to be a previously overlooked type of behavior of rather generic field theories – those with scalar fields – and what the papers mentioning inflation have in common is that their authors no longer want to make the mistake of overlooking the inflationary regime. Guth, Linde, and perhaps a few others have eaten the apple in the garden of Eden and they can't uneat it again. At most, they may defecate it but some clear falsification – and/or some better food than apples – would be needed for that.
P.S.: Inflation critics ILS have written another "rebuttal" of the defense of inflation. They repeat many things and write e.g. that inflation is highly sensitive to initial conditions because of some new research. I think that it's just not true. Also, we read points like
What has changed about the inflationary theory? Originally scientists thought that the outcome of inflation (a smooth, flat universe with a certain spectrum of density fluctuations and gravitational waves) was generic. Now we know it is not.If it's not generic (and this adjective seems rather hard to be precisely defined), then it's not generic. Things may be hard. But a smooth Universe with a realistic spectrum of density fluctuations is still much more likely with some random inflation model than in it without inflation – without inflation, it seems almost impossible – so considerations linked to these observed features still dramatically increase the probability ratio of inflation vs non-inflation.
They repeat the comments that there are many kinds of inflation and many vacua and some specific models have been ruled out. But none of these facts actually reduces the probability that the inflationary cosmology is needed to understand the Universe and their opinion to the contrary proves that they are irrational or worse.


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'Zagat Buzz' Interviews Motorino's Mathieu Palombino
Zagat Buzz has a nice interview with Mathieu Palombino of Motorino:
"I always thought I would be in a fine restaurant," he sighs. "It was my profession; what I knew. But gastronomy in New York was going toward something that didn't excite me any more – molecular cuisine and things that were too trendy. I saw a couple of guys doing simple spots like a barbecue place in Williamsburg, or Mario Batali's Otto – things without pretension. So I threw my knife over. I am still always seeking perfection, whether it is a game bird or pizza. I let the season drive the pizza toppings and my training helps, because I am very critical and always trying to improve. I still use the best ingredients, but I can serve a 16-inch pizza with the best flour, cheese and olive oil for $12–$14."
You can try Palombino's excellent Neapolitan-style pies at the original Motorino in Williamsburg or wait until he opens its second location in the former Una Pizza Napoletana space in the East Village.
319 Graham Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11211 (at Devoe Street; map) 718-599-8899; motorinopizza.com
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The Impact of RIAs
Rich Internet Applications are not new. Adobe's Flash plug-in has been around since the early days of the web, delivering richer experiences than standards-based browser technology allows. Yet, until recently, RIAs have largely been abandoned by web developers creating online applications. In 2000, Jakob Nielsen, preeminent web usability researcher, set the tone for RIAs, calling Adobe's Flash "99% bad." According to Nielsen, most sites would be better if rich multimedia objects, like Flash, were removed.
What's changed? Why have RIAs become so popular recently after years of developer neglect? In short, they have become developer friendly.
In 2004, Adobe introduced a new programming layer for Flash called Flex. Flex added programmability to Flash that made it much more suitable for building data-driven applications. With new APIs and a development environment geared towards developers, not designers, Flash suddenly became a rich application platform and not just a rich animation platform.
Then, in 2006, the popularity of RIAs was confirmed with the introduction of Silverlight by Microsoft. Like Flex, Silverlight is a plug-in based technology that runs in a web browser with tools aimed at enabling developers to build data-driven applications.
The appeals of RIAs for business are easy to define:
- They overcome the limits of the browser, enabling "desktop-like" rich visual interfaces guaranteed to look and behave the same in any browser supporting the RIA plug-in.
- They are faster to develop than standards-based applications because they don't depend on inconsistent browser implementations of web standards.
- They evolve faster than standards, delivering support today, not 2012, for offline and out-of-browser web-delivered experiences.
For controlled Intranet environments, RIAs are often a better solution for application development than standards-based Ajax applications. They represent the closest thing to the utopian ideal of having desktop applications that can be easily delivered through the browser without requiring any IT installation support. But for all that they offer RIAs do have some serious drawbacks that even corporate Intranet developers should consider.
RIAs are inseparably tied to their vendors. Neither Adobe nor Microsoft makes their RIA platform available as an open source project, so companies that build applications targeting Flash or Silverlight are at the mercy of the vendors to improve the plug-in platform in the future. Independent companies can't build a "better" Flash or Silverlight plug-in. This may not be a problem today while Adobe and Microsoft are feverishly working to improve their RIA platforms, but once the excitement settles, companies may find themselves with applications locked-in to platforms destined to go the way of VB6.
If an organization wants to make sure its web applications are broadly accessible, especially on the exploding category of mobile devices, RIAs platforms are severely limiting. Few mobile platforms today support Flash, and none support Silverlight, though it's promised later this year. Even if Microsoft and Adobe continue to add new supported devices and browsers to their RIA plug-ins, there will always be more devices and browsers than they can reasonably address. RIAs ultimately require some software to be installed, and if that software cannot be installed, users are out of luck. That is one of the main reasons standards-based development is superior for Internet-facing applications.


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We help progressive businesses, cultural institutions, non-profits and government agencies find opportunities to improve core performance, reduce unnecessary costs and build stronger reputations by working with purpose to make positive changes for people and the environment. When key audiences and stakeholders are outside the organization, we develop outreach strategies to promote effective engagement.
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When organizations are looking to implement change, we facilitate the process. We help organizations move through goal setting to building collaboration and trust to move the needle—at the executive level and in the trenches—to optimize core performance through sustainable action.
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Trail Led is a bike light company similar to the great handmade bike builders like Moots and Vanilla Cycles. It is run by craftsman Grady Pace who is meticulous about his work and craftsmanship. These lights are machined from billet aluminum and then assembled in Dallas TX. All components except lenses, batteries, and chargers come from the USA.
They sent us three lights and they are illuminating in their design and innovation. The three in the line are:
Trail Led XXX: $300 – 1800 Lumens claimed – 1610 measured
Trail Led DS: $500 – 3000 Lumens claimed – 2640 measured
Trail Led Halo: $1,200 – 6000 Lumens claimed – 5350 measured
They are all helmet lights varying in brightness from 1800 claimed Lumens to 6000. They exhibit the highest levels of craftsmanship with the metal work on the lights that seem to be on par with Paul Components or Paragon Machine Works bike 'jewelry'.
They also put out ridiculous amounts of light on the helmet. Grady believes that the helmet is the best place for the light, as a wide beam beam pattern that can be pointed gives the best illumination for the fastest and most aggressive night rides.
The beam pattern has a nice rectangular shape. It's fairly wide for peripheral vision and it's got a nice spot to see far ahead.
The battery is separate of course and it is a very well-insulated 'brick' style with a system weight of 380 grams. It can power the light at full brightness for 2.5 hours and the battery can be charged to full capacity in just two hours. It is intended to be carried in a hydration pack.
- Price: $300
- Claimed Lumens: 1800 Lumens
- Measured Lumens: 1610 Lumens
- Measured MTBR Lux: 155 Lux
- Lumens per $: 5.37 Lumens
- Lumens per gram: 4.24 Lumens
- Time on High: 2.5 Hours
- Charge Time: 2:00 Hours
- Mounted Weight: 380 grams
- Category: High End
- Good brightness and beam pattern
- Power and run time compared to weight is very good
- This will be an ideal helmet light when matched up with any high powered bar light
- Excellent construction and very versatile light for $300
- Mounting is fairly rudimentary as up and down aiming cannot be done on the fly
- Very bright helmet mount can cause glare in foggy or dusty conditions
Mounting and charging
Mounting is done with a couple of heat proof bands that go through the vents of the helmet. Some helmet shapes don't conform with the light shape, so uniform contact will not be achieved. Aiming the light is done by positioning the light along the curvature of the helmet. Mounting the XXX model is the easiest in the family and it can be mounted anywhere on the helmet.
Charging is done by a huge external charger that will fully charge this powerful battery in two hours.
Mtbr Light Meter Measurements
This light measured 155 Lux on our ambient light measurement facility. The light output measurement is performed by placing a Lux light meter beside the light. Both are pointed at the ceiling (five feet above) of a dark room. This measurement uses the ambient light produced by the bike light.
Integrating Sphere Measured Lumens
This light measured 1610 Lumens in an integrating sphere. Claimed Lumens by the manufacturer is 1800 Lumens.
Compare all Lumen Tests here »
Beam Pattern Photo
We photographed the lights in the same location setting with the same camera settings. The photos were taken in the back yard that is approximately 25 yards long. These photos feature many objects and a distinct background to analyze detail and beam pattern.
Compare all Beam Patterns here »
Bottom Line
While Trail Led has the incredibly powerful Halo light at 6000 Lumens, this XXX light hits home with your more practical side. Used by itself or with a bar light, it is a well-engineered solution.
For more information visit trailled.com.
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Iraq has moved closer to banning the use of US dollars in the country following the Council of Ministers' economic affairs committee's decision to prohibit all state institutions from dealing in the US currency.
Iraq is also trying, although with some difficulty, to transfer its UN-monitored escrow petroleum account from US dollars to euros and to halt all foreign trade transactions in US dollars. However, the decision has raised important questions about the underlying rationale for the move.
According to the Iraqi daily al-Thawra on 5 October, the government decided to replace the US dollar with the euro and other convertible European currencies in an effort to minimize the influence the US has on the country's international economic and financial transactions, which are significantly curbed by the US-backed UN sanctions. The ban includes all agreements and trade contracts concluded with foreign parties.
Sabri Kati, undersecretary at the Ministry of Transport and Communications, said on 5 October that the ministry had begun using alternative currencies to the dollar in the contracts it signs with foreign trading partners. Iraq has also started to inform its trading partners that it will no longer deal in US dollars and is asking them to price their goods in other currencies.
The Central Bank of Iraq has announced that it plans to buy European currencies including the French franc, the German mark, the Austrian schilling, the Dutch florin and the Italian lira against their equivalent in US dollars.
However, the Iraqi decision and its consequences depend on how the country manages the conversion. "It depends what they use the currency for," one Iraqi economist told MEES. "They must study the currency in term of imports and goods and services in terms of origin of product.
It is important to know if Iraq needs the currency to invest internationally as well as to know where to invest. And of course, if you want to accumulate your reserves using the euro, you have to think about the returns on these reserves. The central bank will have to study gains and interest rates."
In addition, Iraq must weigh up the transaction costs and the exchange exposure risk that will occur when it moves from US dollars to euros. "Iraq could experience large losses from transaction costs," said the economist. "This is a good time to use the dollar since the euro is weak and purchasing power vis-a-vis the European currencies is high."
Iraq will also be forced to consider the structure of its external trade, with a focus on external claims. And at the moment it is unclear how this would affect the Iraqi dinar.
"Do they want to peg the dinar or link it to the currency, or do they just want payments at a particular time?" asked the economist. Domestically, a conversion to the euro would reduce the volume of circulation of the dollar in the economy and its strength in the black market.
Hisham Hasan Tawfiq, chairman of the Iraqi Economists Society, was reported as saying that the switch to other currencies would not affect daily trade dealings in the domestic market and that there would be no negative consequences from such a move.
He said that banking and trade transactions with other countries will use foreign convertible currencies, making it possible to control the offers received by Iraq priced in these convertible currencies.
Dr Muhammad Taqah, dean of the Baghdad School of Economic Science, said the decision to exclude the dollar in trade transactions has strategic dimensions and claimed that the decision will stabilize the local market. - (mees)
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Top 5 Moments of 2010 with Bret Little
5. A summer at home
This past season was off to a really good start for me and I had planned on going to a lot of places, but a torn muscle in my shoulder pretty much grounded me. It actually ended up being a good thing though because of some important family stuff that came up. I also took advantage of an opportunity to move in with CWB rider and fellow Central Texan Gabe Lucas, so overall it was nice summer at home.
4. Tom Fooshee – ROTY
My good friend and long time room mate Tom Fooshee not only took home the honor of being named the first ever Wake Park Rider of the Year at Wake Awards, he was also chosen as Alliance Magazine's Rider of the Year for 2010. I'm so proud of you homie, you've been straight killing it! And this coming year is going to be just as good.
3. Sublime
The first time I got back on the water after surgery this year was extra special for me because it was at an event that I was invited to in Germany called Telekom Extreme Playgrounds. The water was cold and I rode terribly, but it was a lot of fun getting to see all of my international friends and stuff. The best part of the whole trip though was that Sublime played their first show in Germany ever at the same event I was riding in. I ended up sitting next to one of their tour/security guys on the flight over and he introduced me to the band and the new singer. The day that they played I got to kick it with them while they jammed and warmed up for the show and stuff, it was so sick! They were one of my all time favorite bands while growing up.
2. Toejam / Expo 2010
This year's Byerly Toejam was the first time after coming back that I was able to actually ride hard. I hadn't been back on the water for too long and my back arm was still a little weak, but I rode better than I even hoped to by making it to the finals of the winch comp and tying for 3rd on the cable. I was pretty pumped on riding, but I was more stoked just to see and shred with everyone. I try not to take any of this for granted, and I cherish all the friendships I've made through wakeskating. Plus, what better way is there to celebrate those friendships and our industry in general than by partying "expo style"
1. October 2010
There was about a solid three week span in October this year where the highs were in the mid 80's to low 90's, the lows were in the 60's, and there were no clouds or wind. It literally could not have been more perfect for riding. I was just getting back to 100% and pretty much riding better than ever. I also got to do some shooting with people I had never shot with before, and found several new winch spots right in the backyard. It was epic. Definitely my favorite part of 2010.
fyi – brett that surgeon did a shitty job on those stitches. I had the same stitch-up and they will have a gnarly scar! all they care about is the inside job and then have a ignorant nurse stitch ya up! go back and get $ if it doesn't heal right!
Hey Brett, you've always been a star here at TSR. Great article… hope 2011 will be a great year for you!


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NOTE: This article is now somewhat dated. For a more up to date and in-depth look at getting video rich snippets, please check out this post.
The following post is a beginner's Video SEO blueprint. Follow the steps below to ensure that you're getting video results in both Google Video Search and Google Organic.
1. Target the Right TermsCertain terms are more likely to yield video results than others. Look for longer tail enquiries currently returning video results or other rich snippets. Don't expect to get a video result for terms returning a lot of local results or competitive commercial terms.
For example, search terms containing the following words will typically yield video results:
- "tutorial"
- "review"
- "test"
- "what is..."
- "how to..."
- "demonstration"
- "explanation"
2. Secure the ContentEither self-host your videos, or use a third party hosting solution which allows you to control where your videos are visible. I would recommend the following platforms for third party hosting: Amazon S3 or MetaCDN to host your videos is fine.
Do not use YouTube or a standard Vimeo account for your hosting, as the youtube.com or vimeo.com domains will rank for your videos, rather than your own domain.
3. Embed in a Crawlable PlayerEnsure you embed your videos in an HTML5 player with flash fallback (or a pure flash player) – not an iframe. All of the major hosting solutions above have this option.
If you are self-hosting, then use a player from the following list of excellent customisable video players, or create your own in HTML5 and jQuery
- JW Player - Paid
- Video JS - Open Source
- Kaltura HTML5 - Open Source
4. Surround the Video with Supporting InformationIf possible, ensure you have attached a closed caption file to your video player and include a link on the page to a text file with the captioning information in a TTML compatible format like SubRip (.srt). Most of the major video players have a proprietary solution for captioning, but if yours doesn't, then you can include subtitles on HTML5 video using JavaScript
Alternatively, it's also fine to include the transcript of the video as body text within the rest of the page.
Images, links and supporting text also help to indicate to the engines that this is a quality page and should be indexed, so make sure your video at least comes with an accompanying text description. A page with only video content on it looks thin algorithmically thin.
Blog posts featuring unique videos are the most common content types to receive video rich snippets.
5. Submit a Video XML SitemapA video sitemap is the main way of giving search engines rich meta-data about your video, ensuring that they have access to the thumbnail, raw video file and supporting descriptions of the content.
Once you have created your XML sitemap, ensure the sitemap is added to the robots.txt file and submit it to Google webmaster tools.
Use this template to construct your video sitemap:
Theelement in the sitemap refers to the location of the actual video file (.mp4 or .flv etc), while the
element refers to the location of the HTML5/Flash video player.
Dependent on your hosting solution, sometimes it's not possible to include both
andelements - if you cannot provide both, including just one is fine.
Ensure than the
links to an image file in 16:9 up to a maximum resolution of 1920x1080 px.
Good practice is to ensure that the element links to a blog profile page, ideally one with rel="author" attribution.
6. Include the Schema.org Mark-up in the Page's HTML CodeSchema is another way of giving the search engines some rich meta data about your video. Include as many of the relevant tags as you can, for the best chance of receiving video rich snippets.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch. Good luck!


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Alex Newman
The New American
May 10, 2013
With a veto-proof majority, the Missouri legislature approved a popular bill protecting private property and due process rights by banning a deeply controversial United Nations "sustainability" scheme known as UN Agenda 21. The legislation, SB 265, now heads to Democrat Governor Jay Nixon, who has not yet taken a public position on the issue.
The effort to ban Agenda 21 in Missouri, widely celebrated by activists from across the political spectrum, comes in the wake of similar moves to stop the UN plan across America. In Alabama, for example, lawmakers in both houses unanimously approved a law last year prohibiting the international "sustainable development" agenda within the state. Numerous other states are working to do the same, and multiple legislatures have adopted strongly worded resolutions blasting the program.
In Missouri, the legislation was approved 24 to 9 in the GOP-controlled Senate last month. The Republican-dominated state House of Representatives, meanwhile, approved the bill 131 to 42 on May 8, also with a slight veto-proof majority. It remains unclear whether the governor will try to stop the legislation, sign it, or simply do nothing and let it quietly become law, according to news reports.
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Re: point in convex hull
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg55515] Re: point in convex hull
- From: "Carl K. Woll" <carlw at u.washington.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 02:42:51 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: University of Washington
- References: <email@example.com>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
"steve fisk" <fisk at bowdoin.edu> wrote in message news:d1tvc0$rli$1 at smc.vnet.net... > If pts is a set of points, and w is a point I can use ConvexHull[pts] to > find the convex hull of the points in pts. Is there a function to > determine if w lies in the convex hull? > Hi Steve, On further reflection, if you are interested in testing membership of a lot of points in your convex hull, then you should be able to use the fact that you have a convex hull to speed things up. You can take the information returned by ConvexHull to obtain the min and max x values, and then use Interpolation (with InterpolationOrder->1) to find an above line from min to max and a below line from min to max. The convex hull contains all points between these two lines. To find out if a point is between the two lines, simply take the difference between the y value of the point and the above and below lines, and then multiply the two values. If the value is nonpositive, the point is in the convex hull. Once the above and below lines are determined, the time to test inclusion of a point is negligible. For comparison purposes, this approach is orders of magnitude faster than Ray Koopman's for a set of data with a convex hull containing more than 100 points. Below I give a function that puts the above ideas together. Needs["DiscreteMath`"] membership[pts_] := Module[{ch}, ch = ConvexHull[pts]; al = Interpolation[ pts[[Take[ch, Position[ch, Ordering[pts, 1][[1]]][[1,1]]]]], InterpolationOrder -> 1]; bl = Interpolation[ pts[[Take[RotateLeft[ch], Position[ch, Ordering[pts, 1][[1]]][[1,1]]-Length[ch]-2]]], InterpolationOrder -> 1]; includedQ[{x_, y_}] /; al[[1,1,1]]<x<al[[1,1,2]] := (y-al[x])(y-bl[x])<=0; includedQ[{x_, y_}] = False; ] For example, if we define pts as a subset of the points on a circle: pts = Table[{Cos[x], Sin[x]}, {x, 0, 2Pi, .01}]; The convex hull contains almost 630 points. Then use membership on the points. membership[pts] and test on some points includedQ[{-.5, .5}] includedQ[{.9, .9}] includedQ[{1.1, .1}] True False False Carl Woll
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I spent a little time recently updating my lunar lander game. Nothing much changed gameplay-wise but I cleaned up the code and build system, and rewrote all the graphics code away from the "legacy" OpenGL fixed-function pipeline. I also fixed a number of small issues and removed the artificial fixed 30fps frame rate. I've made […]
Archives for lunar lander
New Lunar Lander Version
Almost a year since I released the last one, there's a new lander-0.6.5.tar.gz package available. Nothing exciting: just fixing bit rot and some FreeBSD build fixes Dmitry Marakasov. Glad someone's using it! 🙂
Updated Lunar Lander
I've released a minor update to my Lunar Lander clone. Version 0.6.3 0.6.4 fixes a build error when using recent versions of Boost that a couple of people have noticed. There's also a new Dutch translation: Download it here: lander-0.6.4.tar.gz UPDATE: apparently some configure script changes I made cause breakage on FreeBSD so I've released […]
Minor Lunar Lander update
I've released an updated version of my Lunar Lander game: version 0.6.1. Aside from some minor packaging tweaks, the main new feature of this release is that it queries the system for a list of supported resolutions rather than using a predefined list. Source version is available here: lander-0.6.1.tar.gz. Windows and perhaps binary .deb to […]
Lunar Lander Update
I've just released a new version of Lunar Lander. This version doesn't contain any new features, but the code has been cleaned up a lot to make it easier to port to new platforms. The Windows version has been improved greatly and now comes with a proper MSI installer. Additionally, there are a few gameplay […]
Lunar Lander on Windows
I've updated Lunar Lander 0.5 so it works on Windows. You can get a zip file containing the binaries here. The updated source archive contains the MSVC9 project files if you want to build it yourself. No installer yet since I built this with Visual Studio Express; if you desperately want an installer you can […]
Minor update to Lunar Lander
I've posted a small revision to Lunar Lander – lander-0.5.2.tar.gz. This fixes a few issues with the version I released last week: The sound lag problems on some Linux distributions has been greatly reduced (thanks to KernelJ) Harry J Mason fixed a segfault when the game was started with sound effects disabled (oops!) A Swedish […]
Lunar Lander 0.5
A new release of my Lunar Lander game, finally! This version features improved sound effects, some new obstacles, and much more polish. Check out the Lunar Lander page!
New Lunar Lander version
I've released version 0.4 of Lunar Lander! New features in this version: Sound effects! Much improved performance when no hardware acceleration is available Prettier effects Bug fixes Windows binaries for the first time in ages Get it here.
Lunar Lander update
I've posted an updated version of my Lunar Lander game. This is mostly a code clean-up of the last release, but it also features a new options screen and the ability to switch resolutions. Download it here.