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Heather Knight is the chief executive officer of Marilyn Monrobot Labs, but she could just as easily be the CEO of Rodney Dangerbot Labs. Or perhaps Henny Youngbot Labs.
That's because Knight, a doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, wants to bridge the gap between robots and humans, and she wants to do it with humor. On Wednesday at the Freescale Technology Forum, held in San Antonio, she addressed the challenges facing roboticists as they seek acceptance for their products in a human world.
"Humor is one of our most important human attributes," she said. "If robots can learn humor, it can help them connect with people."
You might expect her robots to say things like, "Take my clone -- please!" Or: "I just flew in from Boston and boy are my servo motors tired!"
And if you did, you wouldn't be far off. But Knight is also serious about her mission. She has written technical papers with titles like "A Savvy Robot Standup Comic: Online Learning Through Audience Tracking" and "Devilishly Charming Robots and Charismatic Machines." She backs up her bent for humor with a resume that commands attention: Bachelor's and Master's degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT; a minor in mechanical engineering; a stint at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab; and another at the Personal Robots Group of MIT's Media Lab. In her spare time, she also founded Marilyn Monrobot Labs two years ago, at age 26.
Part of her mission is to address the so-called "uncanny valley" -- a moniker used by roboticists to describe the phenomenon wherein humanoid robots give the creeps to real humans (which most of you probably are).
During her keynote speech, Knight bridged the uncanny valley. Introducing attendees to an infant-sized robot named Data, she showed what humor could do for robotic acceptance. Data, built by Aldebaran Robotics, sat cross-legged on a table, then rose without help. It did imitations of Darth Vader, Buzz Lightyear, and R2D2. A crowd of 2,000 skeptical engineers watched, transfixed. (Click here for video of Data in action.)
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In her technical papers, Knight suggests robots could use sensors for sight and sound to better comprehend an audience's response to humor. Data didn't use those sensors during Wednesday's performance, but she didn't need them. The audience roared at the jokes.
Robot designers, though, see the uncanny valley as a real hurdle. "If you're going to make your robot human-like, then you've got to make it really, really human," said Tim Root, founder and chief technology officer of VGo, which demonstrated its communications robot at the Freescale event. "If you miss that, your form factor will be rejected."
Knight agrees. She adds that the acceptance or non-acceptance goes beyond appearance: "The social capabilities of a machine are as important as developing the technological capacities -- if you want to bring it into human environments."
To date, Knight has been successful with her robots. When she travels with Data, she has found that airport security people react positively. "The physical design makes the uncanny valley a happy place," she said. "But better social design makes it possible for the robot to move out of the uncanny valley."


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Dallas has had little trouble winning in Edmonton over the last few years, so the last thing the Oilers needed was to surrender a couple of fluke goals as well.
Kari Lehtonen made 35 saves and Brenden Dillon and Eric Nystrom both scored strange goals as the Dallas Stars extended their winning streak to four games with a 4-1 victory over the Oilers on Tuesday.
''We got two pretty lucky goals today, just amazing bounces,'' said Lehtonen of his team's first two goals. ''(Oilers goalie Devan) Dubnyk was playing great. He had a shutout going on in my mind until the last two goals.
''He had no business having those first two go in on him.''
The Stars tied the game 1-1 four minutes into the second period as a shot by Dillon caromed off a stick and then the glass behind the net and hit Dubnyk in the back and bounced into the goal.
''It was a weird play... it happens,'' Dubnyk said. ''There is nothing I can do about it.''
Both teams had some very good scoring chances in the second, the best one coming at the end when Jordan Eberle made a nice deke on the power play that Lehtonen was barely able to deflect with his toe.
Dallas got another gift goal just 44 seconds into the third period as a long shot by Nystrom hit the hand of one of the Oilers on its way to the net, then appeared to strike Dubnyk in the mask before hitting the post and going in to make it 2-1 for the Stars.
Jaromir Jagr and Ryan Garbutt also scored for Dallas, which has won five of its last six games overall.
The Stars have been incredibly successful against the Oilers since moving to Dallas, now holding a 55-13-4-2 record against Edmonton.
''It's up to us how well we do,'' Jagr said. ''I don't think we have the kind of team that can allow itself to play up and down hockey. We are a good cycling team and we have the goaltending. Some of our games aren't going to be pretty, but as long as we win it is fine.''
Taylor Hall replied for the Oilers, who have lost six of their last seven.
Oilers coach Ralph Krueger said it was a case of some awful luck erasing what was otherwise a good effort.
''Those first two goals were two of the most bizarre goals I've seen in a long time and back to back that way was tough for us to swallow,'' he said. ''The result was painful to look at when you look at our execution for most of the game. For the first two periods it looked like we were going to have our first real 60-minute game of the season. That second goal seemed to deflate us.
''We went back to some complicated habits after that and abandoned what had made us successful to that point.''
Hall agreed that it was a much better effort than in the Oilers' 3-1 win over Columbus on Sunday, a game where they were outshot 40-14.
''In Columbus we didn't deserve the win and didn't play well,'' he said. ''The way we played tonight is going to win us games.''
Dallas had the best chance early as Cody Eakin had a partial breakaway but was stopped by a nice pad save from Dubnyk, who finished with 25 saves.
Edmonton got on the board first with seven minutes to play in the first period as Hall unleashed a deceptive off-stride wrist shot from the top of the circle that beat Lehtonen to the glove side.
The Oilers had another good chance to score with six minutes to play in the third on a power play but Lehtonen was once again there to rob Ryan Nugent-Hopkins with a glove save at the side of the net.
Dallas got an insurance goal while the teams were playing 4 on 4 as Jagr picked up a loose puck in the slot and spun around with a shot that beat Dubnyk. It was Jagr's fourth of the season.
The Stars put the game away for good with three minutes left to play as Garbutt was able to chip a shot past the Oilers goalie despite having defender Nick Shultz draped all over him.
''We are just trying to play hard right now,'' Lehtonen said. ''We know we are not the most skilled team out there with the biggest names. We are a hard working club and everybody in this room feels we have a chance to win on any given night as long as we push ourselves. We have done well the last few games here and hopefully we can keep it going.''
Notes: The Oilers made a surprise move before the game and decided to make veteran forward Ryan Smyth a healthy scratch. D Ryan Whitney was also benched for the third time in four games. .. The only significant injury for the Stars was forward Ray Whitney (foot) - on injured reserve and expected to miss four to six weeks.


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The SSV Normandy SR-1 (Systems Alliance Space Vehicle Normandy Stealth Reconnaissance-1) was a Systems Alliance starship. She is a prototype "deep scout" frigate, first of the eponymous Normandy class, co-developed by the Alliance and the Turian Hierarchy with the sponsorship of the Citadel Council. She is optimized for solo reconnaissance missions deep within unstable regions, using state-of-the-art stealth technology powered by an experimental drive core.
Commissioned in 2183, the Normandy was initially commanded by an Alliance officer named Elli Zander. After Zander came into conflict with turian chief engineer Octavio Tatum over the limits of the ship's drive core, Zander was removed and David Anderson placed in command. Shortly thereafter, the Normandy was handed over to Commander Shepard when the Commander became the first human Spectre, and served as Shepard's main source of transportation and base of operations.
The Normandy is named after the Battle of Normandy in 1944, a pivotal battle of the Second World War.
Internal Layout
The Normandy is built on three main decks:
Command DeckJoker), the airlock, the CIC containing the galaxy map (overseen by Navigator Pressly), and the comm room towards the stern. The comm room also serves as a conference room for debriefing after missions, and allows Shepard to privately consult with the Citadel Council.
The Combat Information Center (CIC) of the Normandy is unusual. Alliance ships usually place commanding officers in the middle of the room, to facilitate communication with subordinates, but the CO's station in the Normandy's CIC is at the back. This is because the Normandy has a turian design and their commanders prefer to look over their subordinates rather than be in the midst of them; the engineers wanted to observe how well it functioned within the human command structure. When necessary, the Normandy's officers can utilize unique suit radios to communicate with the ship's operators. The cockpit area is equipped with an internal kinetic barrier, designed to protect the pilot from exposure to vacuum if air pressure is lost in the CIC.
This is the location of Normandy's habitation deck containing the mess, crew sleeper pods, the captain's private cabin and office, escape pod hatches, and the medical room where Doctor Chakwas can be found. Liara T'Soni spends her time in the lab and storage room at the back. The medical room also contains a medi-gel dispenser.
Kaidan Alenko can be found at a control panel in front of the sleeper pods. Shepard's personal equipment locker is located directly across from Kaidan.
Shepard's Locker is stocked with free gear when:
- Shepard first boards the Normandy toward the end of Citadel: Expose Saren. Locker contents are not dependent on Shepard's level if their level increases later.
- When the Normandy first lands on one of the Mission worlds (Noveria, Feros, Therum).
- Merely going to the system will not stock the locker. Shepard must land on the planet. In the case of Therum, where Shepard cannot leave until the mission is complete, the locker will therefore be accessible only after the mission.
- These locker contents are dependent on Shepard's current level. Therefore, if Shepard picks up the gear later at a higher level, it will be higher-graded gear.
Although the same locker is apparently stocked (the other three are non-interactive), there is a separate locker stocked for the Citadel and each of the mission worlds. Therefore, Shepard can return to a mission world later to pick up gear when the Commander is of a higher level. For example, if Shepard lands on Noveria but leaves immediately without performing any missions, the "Noveria locker" is available, but the gear need not be taken. Shepard can then go to Feros, and a "Feros locker" is made available although it is the same interactive locker in the Quarters. Shepard can take the gear while at Feros, then go back to again to Noveria and pick up gear from their locker again.
Shepard can only take gear from each locker once. For example, once gear is picked up from the "Noveria locker", going to Noveria again later will not restock the locker.
Engineering and StorageM35 Mako is stored on this level, Ashley Williams is cleaning rifles next to the squad lockers, Garrus Vakarian is attending to the Mako, and Urdnot Wrex is idly observing opposite the Mako. Across from Wrex is the Normandy Requisitions Officer, who can sell Shepard new equipment.
Opposite the garage, a door leads to the engineering section proper containing the Normandy's drive core. Here Shepard can find Engineer Adams and Tali'Zorah nar Rayya observing and maintaining the core's functional integrity.
Technologyheat generated by routine shipboard operations is easily detectable against the near absolute zero background temperature of space. The Normandy, however, is able to temporarily "store" this heat in lithium heat sinks deep within the hull.
The IES stealth system has a few limitations: The system doesn't work during FTL flight because this blue-shifts the Normandy's emissions beyond the sinks' ability to store, and even while out of FTL, any visual scan (i.e. looking out of a window) will reveal her. However, this is rare since most ships rely on scanners rather than visual contact and spotting another ship in space is difficult. The Normandy can go to 'silent running' for around 2-3 hours, or drift passively through a system for days before having to vent and give away her position. The stored heat must eventually be radiated, or it will build up to levels capable of cooking the crew alive.
The stealth system is powered by an experimental piece of equipment called the Tantalus Drive Core which is, proportionally, about twice the size of any other ship's core - Tali'Zorah nar Rayya is fascinated with how the Alliance managed to fit it into such a compact vessel. Joker mentions the oversized drive core affects the Normandy's balance, but it's nothing he can't handle. The Tantalus drive generates mass concentrations that the Normandy "falls into", allowing her to move without the use of heat-emitting thrusters. The core not only makes the Normandy quiet and fast, but means she can run at FTL speeds for much longer before having to discharge the drive.
Should the Normandy's design prove useful in field tests, it is expected that a follow-up class incorporating "lessons learned" will be produced.
Like all frigates, the Normandy is equipped with GARDIAN point defense lasers, kinetic barriers, and a spinal mass accelerator cannon. It may also be equipped with advanced Javelin dual disruptor torpedoes.
- Commander Shepard - Former Executive Officer (XO); Current Commanding Officer (CO)
- Flight Lieutenant Jeff "Joker" Moreau - Chief Helmsman
- Charles Pressly - Chief Navigator; Current Executive Officer
- Dr. Karin Chakwas - Chief Medical Officer (CMO)
- Lieutenant Greg Adams - Chief Engineer (CHENG)
- Staff Lieutenant Kaidan Alenko - Marine Detail Commander
- Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams - Marine
- Private Fredricks - Marine
- 2 Bridge crew
- 5 CIC Officers
- 8 Command Deck Technicians
- 4 Marines
- 3 Engineers
- 1 Requisitions Officer
- Abishek Pakti
- Addison Chase
- Alexei Dubyansky
- Amina Waaberi
- Carlton Tucks
- Caroline Grenado
- Germeen Barret
- Harvey J. Gladstone
- Hector Emerson
- Helen M. Lowe
- Jamin Bakari
- Mandira Rahman
- Marcus Greico
- Monica Negulesco
- Orden Laflamme
- Raymond Tanaka
- Robert Felawa
- Rosamund Draven
- Silas Crosby
- Talitha Draven
Former crew members
- Captain David Anderson - Former Commanding Officer (CO)
- Corporal Richard L. Jenkins - Marine
Mass Effect
During her shakedown run, the Normandy launched from Arcturus and headed to Eden Prime to covertly recover the Prothean Beacon that had been unearthed on the planet. Unfortunately, a surprise geth attack complicated the mission and the beacon was destroyed. The Normandy then travelled to the Citadel, where Captain Anderson resigned as commanding officer, allowing Shepard to assume command in his place.Citadel, the Normandy is still considered to be under Alliance jurisdiction, and her unique design means Shepard is often asked to complete missions for Steven Hackett, especially those requiring discretion. The Normandy is also the subject of an inspection by Rear Admiral Mikhailovich, who is annoyed that she was given to Shepard rather than being assigned to his flotilla as was intended. He refers to the Normandy as being 'over-designed', too expensive (costing as much as a heavy cruiser), and having no practical use. In response, Shepard can correct him and defend the Normandy's innovations. Joker's handling of the Normandy saves Shepard on several occasions: providing an extraction from Therum; dropping the Mako "under the radar" of the AA guns on Virmire, avoiding the following nuclear explosion; and performing a supposedly impossible Mako insertion on Ilos, among others.
The Normandy's stealth systems made her the only ship that could get Shepard into the Terminus Systems undetected, to pursue Saren Arterius to Ilos, but the Council refused to take such a risk, and Ambassador Donnel Udina locked out the ship's systems remotely. With Captain Anderson's help, Shepard stole the Normandy and took her to Ilos, where Joker dropped the team safely in the Mako before rendezvousing with the Fifth Fleet in the Andura sector.
During the Battle of the Citadel, the Normandy led the assault against Sovereign and distinguished herself with her impressive speed and maneuverability, which, once Shepard had disabled the Reaper's shields, allowed her to destroy Sovereign. After the battle, Shepard took the Normandy out into space to find a way to stop the Reapers.
Mass Effect 2
- For the ship featured in Mass Effect 2, see Normandy SR-2.
- For the Mass Effect 2 assignment, see Normandy Crash Site.
The sudden attack claims the lives of over twenty crew members, Navigator Pressly among them. The order is given to abandon ship and the surviving crew evacuate the ship via escape pods. Commander Shepard stays behind to save Joker, who is still desperately trying to pilot the disintegrating ship. Shepard manages to place Joker in the last escape pod as their attacker makes a final pass on the Normandy, completely destroying the ship. While Joker's pod is successfully ejected, Shepard is knocked into space by the final explosion and drifts into the orbit of Alchera along with debris from the Normandy.
Within the next two years, Commander Shepard's body is recovered and revived through the Lazarus Project by the pro-human black ops organization Cerberus. They give Shepard command of a new ship similar in design to the Normandy SR-1 but larger and bearing the insignia of Cerberus. Shepard and Joker decide to designate this new ship the Normandy SR-2 in honor of the original Normandy.
The new Normandy is nearly twice the size of the original, comprising five decks, compared to the SR-1's three decks. If Shepard asks the ship's artificial intelligence how Cerberus managed to obtain the confidential schematics for the Normandy SR-1 to build the SR-2, it is revealed that Cerberus used their substantial influence to jump-start the Alliance's decision to build the original SR-1 in the first place, and subsequently obtain the secrets of advanced turian technology that the project required for themselves.
Throughout the rest of 2185, Commander Shepard uses the new Normandy to scour the galaxy looking for the best biotics, scientists and warriors in an effort to build a team capable of taking on the Collectors and putting an end to their galaxy-wide campaign of mass human abductions.
- The Normandy's virtual intelligence (heard only during the "profile reconstruction" sequence of character creation, when entering or exiting the airlock, and in Bring Down the Sky) is voiced by Belinda Cornish.
- According to Ashley's sister, Sarah, the Alliance broadcast a news video about the Normandy on the extranet which featured some of her crew members.
- The Normandy is not the only ship of her class that the Alliance has constructed. A Citadel NewsNet broadcast in Mass Effect 2 mentions that a "Normandy-class" stealth frigate, the SSV Ain Jalut, was used by the Alliance to launch a raid upon a batarian colony world.
- STG agents, on orders from Sur'Kesh, procured schematics of the SSV Normandy's stealth systems to develop dreadnoughts with stealth capabilities that serve with the Salarian First Fleet.
- In-game, the Normandy is substantially larger on the inside than on the outside.
- In Mass Effect 2, the Normandy gains a few extra features in the interior that were not present in the first game. These include a computer system at the end of the Sleeping Pod hall, as well an escape pod opposite the airlock. There are also escape pods that appear to be on the outer walls of the quarters, but they aren't visible during gameplay.
- According to The Art of the Mass Effect Universe, the SSV Normandy was based on delta wing fighter planes and the Concorde.


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Hi Namastebuzz
Unfortunately there are none of your photo's appearing on the Forum as yet
what ever the problem is.
Yeah keeping our heads well down at moment. Have a tankful of gas (31ltr) so can get to India at a moments notice.
I'm trying to raise some cash for the orphanage I'm working for. I put an appeal on UKGSer here but so far only ONE person has responded.
Am I pitching it wrongly or is it in the wrong place?
Hi Namastebuzz
Unfortunately there are none of your photo's appearing on the Forum as yet
what ever the problem is.
'KIN 'ELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Originally Posted by Namastebuzz
You links to your pics aren't coming up either, not sure why.
On your other post - maybe people haven't seen it yet?
Ride Faster!..........I hear banjo music!
Lost in Iran
Bigger seat height than a GS and not as comfy
On the train at last
Mountain top church in Slovenia
walnut grove in Greece
Albanian mountain road
Ancient city of Bam, Iran
camping in Serbia
Croatian coast
Croatian coast...again
Olive grove in Montenegro
Camping in Turkey
A pale shadow of our former selves
A nice cuppa tea and a sitdown in Esfahan
Tried to put your pics up. Looks like Fotki.com acts very wierd. They show most of the pics on separate window, but not in the thread. Dunno the reason, maybe the fotki.com server understands their bandwith is wasted.
TIP: i put those pics that doesn't show in the thread with link. Clicking on them says error, but if click to the address of that page and push ENTER, it shows the pic.
Works for me this way.
Cheers, Margus
Ehhh... So much for the pics then. After half a day they're gone again .
Yeah - dunno about pics. Some people see em, some don't. Using photo bucket now.
Trouble is, in S-L-O-W Nepali net cafes it's a major pain trying to upload pics.
Anyway, people are responding now. Thankyou one and all.
Weve been up in Manali in the Indian Himalayas where its lovely. Unfortunately we (I) decided to do a 5 day paragliding course coz it's well cheap here. Well, it went well for 5 days. We were both flying and landing really well. On the last day we had to make 10 flights each. As we'd got better, we'd moved up this ridge to give us a better, higher lift-off. This also gave a smaller margin for error. On Tasha's 7th flight she was hit by a sudden crosswind on take-off which threw her to the right. She landed heavily in a gully.
When I got up to her she was already on her feet. We walked down the hill with our instructor and she was still in pain - in her lower back. The paragliders have a small ambulance on site so we took her to hospital in Manali about 15k away.
After x-ray they discovered her L1 vertebra was fractured. They had no orthopaedic specialist there so we had to organise a taxi to Chandaghar - some 9hrs drive south. We loaded her on to a board and made the journey overnight. Met with a spinal specialist 1st thing then she had MRI and CT scans. We're checked into this private hospital and the surgeon (who is well renowned) operated at 6am the next morning to insert 4 titanium screws into the vertebra. He reckons 4-5 days to recover and move fully. There is no loss of movement and he expects total recovery. Tasha is in a bit of pain but in quite good spirits although she's been a bit drowsy from pain medication. Whole lots cost about US$3500 so far which is a bit of a hole in our budget but obviously still cheap by western standards. After a week in the hospital we checked out and flew to Delhi where I put Tasha on a flight home. It could have been much worse though - the fracture was unstable so paralysis could have happened...
On the positive side, there was a huge TV in our hospital room with cable so I got to see all the football!
Still planning to ride up to Ladakh - just without a pillion now - so had to catch a bus back up to Manali. 12hr overnight sleeper bus sounded good. After one major breakdown, one puncture, 3 bus changes and one huge traffic jam - arrive in Manali 31 hrs later!
Well it had to happen some time.
Riding up from Manali to Solang Nullah to meet our paragliding instructor and tell him about Tasah's recovery.
I'm passing a bus coming the other way when this guy who is crossing the road behind the bus runs out directly into my path. Only doing about 50-55kmh but I only see him as I'm about to hit him. Hit the brakes as I try to move to the right and miss him but there's no chance. I hit him hard and the front end tucks and down I go - equally hard. Luckily I'm wearing most of my protective gear so not too badly scuffed. The guy is ok too. Bike doesn't fare so well - tank dented and rocker cover broken - oil is pissing out over the road.
Much swearing ensues but Lars, German buddy on R100GS, goes and fetches some oil and we tape up the cover and refill the oil and limp 4km back to the local workshop we know.
Now need to fix or replace the cover. Anyone know about BMW spares in India?
Notice that my left arm is now agony - can't move it at all. Some seriously strong painkillers and several beers later it's recovering.
I'll get to Ladakh yet.........
Riots, buses, taxis, hanggliding! Glad to hear you are both relatively ok. More scrapes on my old H&Bs!
many more (safe) adventures. Tony.
"Well it's a bruising shattering ride..but I cannot deny myself this luxury"
Just ridden up to Ladakh, camped out at 4700m then rode 200km to Tso Moriri - a lake at 4885m - and camped out there. 100km of that was offroad. Proper offroad and all over 4000m. We were knackered - esp picking up 300kg BMWs out of deep sand several times.
Take care of yourself....
Life is uncertain - eat the Dessert first!
Well finally made it up into the Nubra valley over the pass at Khardung La - the world's highest motorable road at 5608m or 18,380ft in old money. This is a restricted area and you need special permits to enter.
Set out with Lars on his 100GS from Leh with the pass 40km away. The ride up was pretty easy with mostly good road surfaces. The army have road building camps up here and the poor buggers are stuck here for 2 years at a time. It gets down to -40C in winter.Bit of snow towards the top but nothing serious. It was almost an anti climax to arrive as we had coffee in the cafe. A good ride down into the beautiful valley followed. We stayed in Hunder which is as far as you can go towards the Chinese(Tibetan) border.
After 2 days waiting for sunny weather (which didn't come) we headed back. The ride was very different this time. For starters I had a lovely Belgian girl (Brenda) on the back. She was feeling a bit ill and didn't fancy the return trip on the back of a crappy rented Enfield. The weather was a lot colder and as we climbed up to the pass the snow came. We slipped and slithered up to the top as more and more snow fell. Luckily heated grips and footwarmers (boxer engine) kept the extremities from freezing and we made it to the top for chocolate, coffee and biscuits. Brenda's feet were frozen so the army guys let ther warm them over their gas stove and even massaged some life back into them for her. Lars and I didn't get offered the same treatment.
The way down was difficult - thick fog along with the snow. A truck in front of us hit a donkey and left it for dead - but it wasn't. Out with the leatherman and the poor animal was despatched. The guys who came later on Enfields found this slain beast in a huge pool of blood and wondered what crazy f***er was out and about slitting the throats of poor little donkeys!
Eventually made it into Leh for tea and cakes. A job well done.
Had a good ride to Pangong Tso - a 130km lake which straddles the India/Tibet border. Crossed over the world's 3rd highest road on the way.
Camped out and took some nice pics.
Met a couple of Brits on XT Yamahas but they didn't stop. 1st UK bikes I've seen since Dover.
Notice how BOTH bikes in this picture are horizontal!!
I'm passing a bus coming the other way when this guy who is crossing the road behind the bus runs out directly into my path. Only doing about 50-55kmh but I only see him as I'm about to hit him. Hit the brakes as I try to move to the right and miss him but there's no chance. I hit him hard and the front end tucks and down I go - equally hard. Luckily I'm wearing most of my protective gear so not too badly scuffed. The guy is ok too. Bike doesn't fare so well - tank dented and rocker cover broken - oil is pissing out over the road.
Sounds just like Union Street on a Monday Morning.....
Glad you are okay.
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Got your last set pics and very nice too. ... keep um coming
Looks like your on road tyres there.... must've been slipping and sliding about a bit on those roads out there?
Enjoy and keep on posting.. enjoyable to read and share
Yeah the Michelin TCK 66s are no offroad tyre - that's for sure. It's fun trying though - but less fun picking the bike up.
Broke the gearshift a while back while offroading (well the footrest hanger broke where the shifter mounts on the back of it). Fixed it with araldite and it held for weeks but broke this morning - had to ride 200km to Srinagar in 3rd gear - D'oh!
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Chris Tillman: Was His 2012 Campaign A Fluke Or A Sign Of Things To Come?
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Here's an unsung hero behind the Baltimore Orioles' magical 2012 season: Chris Tillman. No, he's far from a household name, nor does he deserve to be, yet. However, if his 2012 campaign, where he posted a 2.93 ERA, is a sign of what's to come, then some of the Orioles' shortcomings on the starting pitching spectrum will be solved.
First thing's first; you may be too reluctant to put credibility into Tillman, yet. I would agree that his stunningly good 2012 season basically came out of Left Field, as in his first three year's in the big leagues, he compiled a mere 5.58 ERA and a BB/Per 9 IP rate of exactly four.
So yes, 2012 was an impressive season from the 24-Year-Old Right-Hander, but with his success came a sense of suspicion and bewilderment. Yeah, not the type of reaction a pitcher wants when he crafts a career-year.
Chris Tillman and his Pitching Mechanics:
So what fueled Tillman's emergence?
A lot of things, to be exact. First and foremost, was his noticeable faster fastball. His average fastball speed was 92.4 Miles Per Hour (MPH), nearly a three MPH increase on his 2011 total. He topped out occasionally in the high 90's, to boot.
It should be noted that Tillman's fastball did sit in the 92 MPH range in his first couple years in the Major Leagues. This low to mid 90's territory isn't exactly unfamiliar to him, but his MPH average quickly declined into the high 80's for a roughly two-year stretch before he found his groove again this past season.
Perhaps some mechanical issues hindered him from achieving his full velocity during that two-year stretch, as he was and still is extremely young. It would be irrational to think that age would be a factor in his slower velocity. Regardless of the reason, the word "inconsistent" comes to mind again.
Whatever Tillman did to his fastball, it surely worked, though. Hitters hit just .230 off of the pitch, when it was slapped around constantly in Tillman's first three years in the Majors. Take note: In 2009, opposing hitters had an OPS of 1.046 off his fastball, in 2010 they hit 1.026 and in 2011 they had a slightly less yet still very high OPS of .944. This past season, however, opposing hitters' OPS off Tillman's fastball sunk down to .714.
Did the increased velocity on his fastball really create that much of a difference?
It obviously did. Below is a screenshot of Tillman's 2011 Pitch/FX and the Batting Average of the certain locations.
Most notably is the fact that hitters crushed him on pitches on the inside half of the plate, and of course over the heart of the plate. An 89 MPH fastball left Tillman more vulnerable to hitters pulling inside pitches because he it doesn't have as much pop.
Now, here's his 2012 chart with the same factors implied.
What should be fairly noticeable is how much better he was at limiting hits on the inside half of the play. This indirectly sets up him up to get hitters out by the way of the strike (6.9 Strikeouts Per Nine Innings in 2012) because he can command both areas of the plate. Hitters simply couldn't turn his fastballs around as easily as they did a year ago. So, the upswing in his fastball velocity certainly benefitted Tillman in this regard.
However, opposing hitters had a line drive percentage of 17.5 off the pitch, which is actually higher than his 2011 total of 15.7 percent. This would suggest that he was mildly unlucky in 2011, but very lucky in 2012.
So, we turn to BABIP (Batting Average on Balls in Play) to determine whether Tillman's successful 2012 season involved more luck than the average pitcher receives.
Well, yes, Tillman did have more than a few rolls and bounces go his way in 2012. His incredibly low BABIP of .221 is way below the mean (which benefits him), and is a significantly improved mark compared to his 2011 BABIP of .348. The one number that factors in luck and produces what his ERA should look like when only things in his control are consider, is the always trustworthy FIP (Fielding Independent Percentage). This, to no surprise, justifies his beneficial BABIP, as his FIP was 4.25. Meaning, his ERA should've been much higher than it actually was. It also suggest that his 2012 performance may be hard to repeat.
To put things into perspective, Tillman's 2011 FIP was 3.99. So, based solely on this specific stat, Tillman should've been better in 2011 if his ERA wasn't skewed by factors he couldn't control.
However, Tillman shouldn't be overlooked just because his misleading ERAs—both for the better or worse of his personal sake—imply that he's been terrible. As aforementioned, he's only 21-Years-Old, and has plenty of time to develop. He just has to cut down on his walks, and he may shape up to be something more than he is currently expected to be.
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Broadside in Opposition to Abolishing Slavery, 1790
This broadside refers to an episode that took place in the First Congress when Pennsylvania Quakers, with the support of Benjamin Franklin, presented a petition to Congress requesting termination of the slave trade. The House of Representatives referred the petition to a committee, the routine procedure, but because Article I, Section 9, of the new Constitution prohibited Congress from ending the slave trade before 1808, the committee and the Congress took no action on the petition. Nevertheless, as the text of the broadside indicates, even receipt of the petition provoked controversy. The event was a reminder that the existence of slavery in a nation founded on the principles of liberty posed many problems.
During the Constitutional Convention in 1787, differences of opinion arose between representatives of states where slavery was an essential component of the economy and states where slavery was less important and was being legislated out of existence. The words slave and slavery do not appear in the Constitution, but references to slaves and slavery appear in several places, parts of the compromises worked out during the convention that allowed men from both sets of states to accept the Constitution.
The compromise that led to Section 9 of Article I permitted South Carolina, in particular, and the other slave states to participate in the importation of African laborers for twenty years, which some members of the convention defended as necessary to keep South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia in the Union. Planters in those states could continue to import what the Constitution identified as "such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit," but opponents of the slave trade could hope to terminate the slave trade at the beginning of 1808 if they could persuade a majority of both houses of Congress, which they eventually did.
The Constitutional Convention also compromised differences of opinion about taxation and about representation in Congress that arose because of the importance of slavery in some of the states. The so-called three-fifths compromise appears in Article I, Section 2. The Constitution awarded each state a number of members of the House of Representatives based on the state's population and also empowered Congress to collect taxes to be equally apportioned among the states by population. Some delegates from the states with large enslaved populations argued that slaves, being inhabitants, should be counted when determining how many members of the House of Representatives each state should have, but many other delegates argued that because slaves were not entitled to vote and were in many other respects legally treated as property, they should not be counted. In the manner of taxation, delegates from slave states opposed counting slaves, and delegates from the other states proposed to tax slave property. The compromise that settled the basis of legislative representation and proportional taxation among the states "according to their respective numbers" referred to those enslaved people as "three-fifths of all other persons." Because the number of senators and representatives in Congress that each state had was to be the number of its presidential electors, the slave states by that compromise gained influence in the election of presidents by a factor of three-fifths of the number of their slaves or, if looked at from the opposite point of view, lost influence in the election of presidents by a factor of two-fifths of the number of their slaves.
The Constitution also alluded to slavery in Article I, Section 8, by authorizing Congress to provide by law for calling forth state militias if necessary "to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions." Section 2 of Article II also authorized the president to act as commander in chief of "the militia of the several states" when called into federal service. The word insurrection could refer to any civil unrest, but it was the probably the potential threat of mass insurrections by enslaved African Americans that some delegates worried could be so dangerous that the ordinary course of the law and the militia of a state alone might not be adequate to suppress.
Another reference to slavery in the Constitution appears in Section 2 of Article IV, which reads, "No person held to service or labour in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due." Known as the fugitive slave clause, even though the words slave and slavery do not appear in it and it could also be understood to refer to indentured servants, this section was a protection that men who owned slaves insisted on including in the Constitution.
At the time that the Constitution was submitted to the states for ratification, it was well understood that those compromises were necessary to unite the southern slave states and the northern states—all of which had already or would soon abolish slavery. Those compromises and other sections of the Constitution, particularly Section 3 of Article IV, which allowed Congress to "make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory" belonging to the United States and to admit new states to the Union, all provoked controversies between the ratification of the Constitution and the American Civil War. Enslaved laborers being in one legal sense persons and in another legal sense property, and the morality and propriety of slavery in a country founded on principles of liberty led to intense debates over whether Congress could prohibit or had to protect slavery in new western territories; whether Congress could abolish slavery in the District of Columbia; whether Congress or the courts could require the return of fugitive slaves; whether enslaved people had access to courts to challenge their status; and whether, in fact, slaves were to be regarded as citizens of the United States or of the states in which they resided with rights to vote and hold public office.
As this broadside from the 1790 congressional election campaign indicates, those compromises in the Constitution and those problems were lively and important political issues almost from the very beginning of government under the Constitution. They would not be settled until the outcome of the Civil War in 1865 and the subsequent adoption of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution that ended slavery and defined citizenship.
1. Which section and article of the Constitution does the writer of this broadside say that the congressmen have disobeyed?
2. What is the crocodile mentioned in the twelfth paragraph?
Further Discussion
1. What were some of the arguments that white slaveholders used to justify keeping slaves in a nation established on equality of men?
2. Read the petition that the Quaker group submitted to Congress. Was the writer of this broadside correct in arguing that its debate was unconstitutional?
This undated broadside, signed at the top by Francis Corbin (1759 or 1760–1821), may have circulated in the Northern Neck of Virginia during the congressional election campaign for members of the Second Congress in 1790, in which Corbin, of Middlesex County, was an unsuccessful candidate.
National Archives: Benjamin Franklin Petitions Congress
Suggested Reading
Finkelman, Paul. Slavery and the Founders: Race and Liberty in the Age of Jefferson. Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.
Waldstreicher, David. Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.
Lightner, David L.. "The Founders and the Interstate Slave Trade." Journal of the Early Republic 22, no. 1 (Spring, 2002): 25–51.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - [img] Two months progression Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "[img] Two months progression" RagnarokmemberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 2000Posts: 1085Location: Navarra, Spain Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 6:11 am Well, finally I got an scanner =) I've decided to post what I've been doing with my little pencils during those two last weeks: Here it is a bigger version: http://usuarios.tripod.es/ragnark/foro/heads_big.jpg Here it is a bigger version: http://usuarios.tripod.es/ragnark/foro/draws_big.jpg Also I've done a simple new year's card: If someone is interested, I finished colouring FE's viking a long time ago, but I didn't want to post it http://usuarios.tripod.es/ragnark/foro/viking.jpg The title of the post is progression, and you should understand what I mean if you visit my poor and shitty homepage. I entered this forum just after doing it (two months ago), and I will change it completely as soon as I know a bit more about this thing called art =). I hope this hasn't been a long download. I would like to hear any (I mean any, faust =) ) crits you could have about what I have posted here. I want to improve and the only way to go is with crits. -Ragnarok Back to top sheriftariqjunior memberMember #Joined: 16 Dec 2000Posts: 28Location: New Jersey Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 9:28 am Hiyya, Nice coloring on FE's Viking. By the way, the layout on your website is great, don't change it! It's different, the layout is nice and simple and it looks great. ------------------ Sherif Tariq Member: Neuro Evolutionary Rostral Developers Society (N.E.R.D.S.) [This message has been edited by sheriftariq (edited December 31, 2000).] Back to top RagnarokmemberMember #Joined: 12 Nov 2000Posts: 1085Location: Navarra, Spain Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2000 10:08 am Hey thanks for commenting. I thought my webpage design was pityful, now I will have to think twice before changing it Someone else dares to comment? Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Archive : Sep99 - Dec00 All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Good Data Is Profitable DataBy Tom Steinert-Threlkeld Print
Keeping records safe is not enough. Treat information like your business depends on it.
The antitrust trial of Microsoft served a couple of years ago as a warning to corporate information-meisters that you can have too much e-mail hanging around. Now, smart controllers of corporate knowledge weed out e-mail every 90 days or so, and only retain truly vital messages.
A similar sort of realization that you can have too much paper hanging around came Sept. 11, as the World Trade Center towers fell. This was the financial district of the free world, with billions of dollars worth of deals sloshing around on electrons at any given time, yet a good deal of the best record-keeping on large deals still ended up on paper.
Collateralized debt obligations. High-yield bonds. Emerging market loans. Structured asset financing, involving intellectual property, shares of stock, real estate. Sure, no one keeps stock certificates any more. But the types of securities and capital being sold are getting mind-numbingly complex. The brain still can only comprehend what the eye can see and track.
So it was with great horror that captains of finance watched that week as the records of others' transactions floated into the sky and eventually fell up to a mile away, to be walked on or picked up by any passerby.
Among the high priorities in information management arising from that day should be a recognition on the part of almost any company that does complex deal-making of any sort that electronic records can and should be your best allies. Properly formatted and stored, they can be housed in any number of locales and retrieved at the stroke of a few knowledgeably tapped keys.
But proper formatting and storage is easier stated than done, Wall Street information keepers are likely to find. The more complex the deal-making becomes, the more complex the data storage becomes. Creating fields and structures that can accommodate increasingly involved transactions is no easy feat.
This is no paean to some sort of all-electronic future in document keeping. That's not going to happen. E-mail has increased paper usage, rather than decreased it. Demand for paper doubled from 1990 to the turn of the century, reaching 108 million tons in the United States alone. Indeed, the idea of paper actually disappearing has been debunked so many times it is now a nonfiction book, The Myth of the Paperless Office by Abigail Stern and Richard Harper (MIT Press, 2001).
No, the point is that, just as simply recording data on paper is not good enough, neither is simply warehousing it on servers in condition-controlled environments. The challenge is raising the quality of information stored. It is not a matter of record-keeping any longer. It can be the difference between profit and loss.
Here's a not-complex example. Say you've got $20 million in delinquent receivables. But only half of your records have accurate names, addresses and phone numbers for your customers. You're essentially writing off half of your receivables before you've even given them over to the collector. Even if the collector pulls in one out of four of the remaining receivables, you're only getting $2.5 million. Try telling that to your board of directors or shareholders, before you finally bite the bullet and write off $17.5 million. With accurate data, you might have collected $10 million or more without even bringing in a collection agency.
Never mind the depressing effect on customer receptivity or loyalty from bad data. Who wants to start up a lasting relationship with someone who can't spell your name right on a mailing label?
According to a recent Data Warehousing Institute survey, 93% of companies say they see the need for top-quality information to course through their electronic veins. But only 17% have actually tried to implement a plan for achieving it.
Which seems to say: Before you begin cleaning, consolidating, enhancing and massaging deal and customer data, you need buy-in from the top. In turn, that means you have to prove that good data is profitable data.
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