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ECHL Today - April 27
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Eastern Conference Semifinals (Best of Seven)
#1 Reading Royals at #4 Florida Everblades 7 p.m. ET
Series tied 2-2
Series Matchup Sheet
• Reading's Yannick Tifu is tied for second with 13 points (8g-5a).
• Florida's Mike Cornell is tied for second among rookies in plus-minus at +7.
• Royals are first with 1.78 goals-against per game.
• Everblades are first on the power play at 31.1 percent (14-for-45).
• Game 6 is Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. ET at Reading
#3 Gwinnett Gladiators at #2 Cincinnati Cyclones 7:35 p.m. ET
Series tied 2-2
Series Matchup Sheet
• Gwinnett's Sacha Guimond is third among rookies with four power-play points (1g-3a).
• Cincinnati's Mathieu Aubin is fourth with 40 shots on goal.
• Gladiators have outscored their opponents 8-1 in the first period.
• Cyclones are 4-0 when tied after one period.
• Game 6 is Tuesday at 7:35 p.m. ET at Cincinnati
Western Conference Semifinals (Best of Seven)
#2 Ontario Reign at #3 Idaho Steelheads 7:10 p.m. MT
Series tied 2-2
Series Matchup Sheet
• Ontario's Derek Couture is tied for first in plus-minus at +9.
• Idaho's Matt Case and Jace Coyle are tied for first among defensemen with six assists.
• Reign are fourth with 33.75 shots per game.
• Steelheads are fifth with 3.20 goals per game.
• Game 6 is Tuesday at 7 p.m. PT at Ontario
Other 2013 Kelly Cup Playoffs series
Western Conference Semifinals (Best of Seven)
#1 Alaska Aces vs. #4 Stockton Thunder
Stockton leads series 3-1
Series Matchup Sheet
Game 1 – Stockton 2 at ALASKA 5
Game 2 – STOCKTON 5 at Alaska 3
Game 3 – Alaska 3 at STOCKTON 5
Game 4 – Alaska 1 at STOCKTON 2 (OT)
Game 5 is Sunday at 6 p.m. PT at Stockton
Eastern Conference Quarterfinals (Best of Seven)
#1 Reading Royals vs. #8 Greenville Road Warriors
Reading wins series 4-1
Series Matchup Sheet
Game 1 – Greenville 0 at READING 1
Game 2 – Greenville 0 at READING 4
Game 3 – Reading 2 at GREENVILLE 4
Game 4 – READING 3 at Greenville 0
Game 5 – READING 5 at Greenville 0
#2 Cincinnati Cyclones vs. #7 Toledo Walleye
Cincinnati wins series 4-2
Series Matchup Sheet
Game 1 – CINCINNATI 2 at Toledo 1 (2 OT)
Game 2 – CINCINNATI 5 at Toledo 2
Game 3 – Toledo 2 at CINCINNATI 5
Game 4 – TOLEDO 3 at Cincinnati 2 (2 OT)
Game 5 – TOLEDO 3 at Cincinnati 1
Game 6 – CINCINNATI 4 at Toledo 3 (OT)
#3 Gwinnett Gladiators vs. #6 South Carolina Stingrays
Gwinnett wins series 4-0
Series Matchup Sheet
Game 1 – South Carolina 0 at GWINNETT 5
Game 2 – South Carolina 2 at GWINNETT 3
Game 3 – GWINNETT 3 at South Carolina 1
Game 4 – GWINNETT 4 at South Carolina 3
#4 Florida Everblades vs. #5 Elmira Jackals
Florida wins series 4-2
Series Matchup Sheet
Game 1 – Elmira 1 at FLORIDA 5
Game 2 – ELMIRA 8 at Florida 2
Game 3 – FLORIDA 2 at Elmira 1 (OT)
Game 4 – FLORIDA 5 at Elmira 4
Game 5 – Florida 1 at ELMIRA 5
Game 6 – Elmira 2 at FLORIDA 7
Western Conference Quarterfinals (Best of Seven)
#1 Alaska Aces vs. #8 San Francisco Bulls
Alaska wins series 4-1
Series Matchup Sheet
Game 1 – San Francisco 1 at ALASKA 5
Game 2 – SAN FRANCISCO 1 at Alaska 0
Game 3 – ALASKA 4 at San Francisco 1
Game 4 – ALASKA 6 at San Francisco 5
Game 5 – ALASKA 5 at San Francisco 3
#2 Ontario Reign vs. #7 Utah Grizzlies
Ontario wins series 4-0
Series Matchup Sheet
Game 1 – Utah 2 at ONTARIO 5
Game 2 – Utah 2 at ONTARIO 7
Game 3 – ONTARIO 2 at Utah 1 (OT)
Game 4 – ONTARIO 2 at Utah 1 (OT)
#3 Idaho Steelheads vs. #6 Colorado Eagles
Idaho wins series 4-2
Series Matchup Sheet
Game 1 – Colorado 3 at IDAHO 4 (OT)
Game 2 – COLORADO 6 at Idaho 5 (OT)
Game 3 – IDAHO 1 at Colorado 0
Game 4 – IDAHO 5 at Colorado 3
Game 5 – Idaho 4 at COLORADO 7
Game 6 – Colorado 2 at IDAHO 3 (OT)
#4 Stockton Thunder vs. #5 Las Vegas Wranglers
Stockton wins series 4-3
Series Matchup Sheet
Game 1 – Las Vegas 2 at STOCKTON 3 (OT)
Game 2 – Las Vegas 2 at STOCKTON 3 (OT)
Game 3 – Stockton 0 at LAS VEGAS 3
Game 4 – Stockton 2 at LAS VEGAS 5
Game 5 – Stockton 0 at LAS VEGAS 3
Game 6 – Las Vegas 3 at STOCKTON 5
Game 7 – Las Vegas 4 at STOCKTON 6
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• The ECHL celebrates its 25th Anniversary in 2012-13 and is the third-longest tenured professional hockey league behind only the National Hockey League and the American Hockey League.
• ECHL began in 1988-89 with five teams in four states and has grown to be a coast-to-coast league with 23 teams in 16 states in 2012-13.
• The league officially changed its name from East Coast Hockey League to ECHL on May 19, 2003.
• 512 players have played in the NHL after playing in the ECHL including 23 in 2011-12.
• 22 ECHL players have made their NHL debuts this season: former Trenton Titans right wing Jason Akeson (Philadelphia on April 27), former Gwinnett Gladiators forward Matt Anderson (New Jersey on Jan. 29), former Stockton Thunder center and 2011 ECHL All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Mark Arcobello (Edmonton on Feb. 6), former Utah Grizzlies defenseman and 2010 ECHL All-Star Victor Bartley (Nashville on March 8), former Charlotte Checkers, Wheeling Nailers, Pensacola Ice Pilots, Florida Everblades and Augsuta Lynx left wing Patrick Bordeleau (Colorado on Jan. 19), former Cincinnati Cyclones forward Cory Conacher (Tampa Bay on Jan. 19), former Trenton Devils goaltender Jeff Frazee (New Jersey on March 9), former South Carolina Stingrays and Reading Royals goaltender and 2013 ECHL All-Star Philipp Grubauer (Washington on Feb. 27), former Cincinnati Cyclones left wing Kevin Henderson (Nashville on April 19), former Toledo Walleye goaltender Carter Hutton (Chicago on April 27), former Trenton Titans defenseman Matt Konan (Philadelphia on April 25), former Ontario Reign and Orlando Solar Bears goaltender Darcy Kuemper (Minnesota on Feb. 12), former Toledo Walleye defenseman Brian Lashoff (Detroit on Jan. 21), former Toledo Walleye goaltender Petr Mrazek (Detroit on Feb. 7), former Las Vegas Wranglers, Toledo Walleye and Idaho Steelheads defenseman Steve Oleksy (Washington on March 5), former Alaska Aces right wing Anthony Peluso (Winnipeg on Feb. 12), former South Carolina Stingrays center Steve Pinizzotto (Vancouver on March 14), former Ontario Reign right wing Jon Rheault (Florida on March 5), former Reading Royals left wing Antoine Roussel (Dallas on Feb. 1), former Florida Everblades right wing Jared Staal (Carolina on April 25), former Wheeling Nailers center and 2011 ECHL All-Star Ben Street (Calgary on Feb. 9) and former Toledo Storm right wing and 2007 ECHL All-Star Jamie Tardif (Boston on Feb. 2).
• The ECHL has had 320 players reach the NHL since 2002-03 when it changed its focus to become the primary developmental league for the NHL and the AHL. The ECHL had 97 players reach the NHL in its first 10 seasons and 215 in the first 15 years.
• 256 ECHL players have played their first game in the last eight seasons for an average of 32 per year.
• ECHL had a record 87 players on NHL opening-day rosters in 2012-13, surpassing the 81 from 2011-12 and marking the 10th year in a row that there have been over 50 former ECHL players on opening-day rosters.
• ECHL has affiliations with 25 of the 30 NHL teams in 2012-13, marking the 16th consecutive season that the league had affiliations with at least 20 teams in the NHL.
• 30 coaches with an ECHL background are working behind the benches of teams in the NHL including Anaheim Ducks head coach Bruce Boudreau, Pittsburgh Penguins head coach and 2011 Jack Adams Award winner Dan Bylsma, New York Islanders head coach Jack Capuano, Dallas Stars head coach Glen Gulutzan, Philadelphia Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette and Winnipeg Jets head coach Claude Noel. It is the seventh consecutive season that there have been 11 or more coaches with an ECHL background working in the NHL. Boudreau, who coached Mississippi for three seasons winning the Kelly Cup championship in 1999, was named NHL Coach of the Year in 2007-08 becoming the first former ECHL coach to receive the award.
• 26 former ECHL officials are scheduled to work as part of the NHL officiating team in 2012-13 with referees Darcy Burchell, Francis Charron, Ghislain Hebert, Jean Hebert, Marc Joannette, Trent Knorr, Mike Leggo, Dave Lewis, T.J. Luxmore, Wes McCauley, Jon McIsaac, Dean Morton, Dan O'Rourke, Brian Pochmara, Kevin Pollock, Kyle Rehman, Chris Rooney, Graham Skilliter, Justin St. Pierre and Ian Walsh, and linesmen Steve Barton, Matt MacPherson, Brian Mach, Tim Nowak, Bryan Pancich and Jay Sharrers.
• ECHL was represented for the 12th year in a row on the Stanley Cup champion in 2012 with Los Angeles Kings assistant coach Jamie Kompon, players Dwight King, Jordan Nolan and Jonathan Quick, manager of communications/broadcasting Jeremy Zager and scouts Steve Greeley, Mark Mullen and Mark Yannetti. Quick was named the recipient of the Conn Smythe Trophy as Most Valuable Player of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, marking the second consecutive year a former ECHL player won the award.. There were 43 former players and 13 coaches on the 16 teams competing in the National Hockey League's Stanley Cup Playoffs, marking the seventh year in a row that there have been at least 30 former ECHL players and the ninth consecutive season that over 25 players with ECHL experience have competed in the NHL postseason.
• Former ECHL broadcasters working in the NHL include John Ahlers and Steve Carroll of the Anaheim Ducks, Tom Callahan of the Nashville Predators, Dave Goucher of the Boston Bruins, Chris Kerber of the St. Louis Blues, Jack Michaels of the Edmonton Oilers, Dave Mishkin of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Bob McElligott of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
• Ryan Stanzel and Jeremy Zager, who were both recipients of the ECHL Media Relations Director of the Year award, are working in the communications department for the Minnesota Wild and the Los Angeles Kings, respectively. Former ECHL assistant director of communications Joe Siville works in the communications department for the Philadelphia Flyers.
• ECHL has affiliations with 25 of the 30 teams in the American Hockey League in 2012-13 and for the past 23 years there has been an ECHL player on the Calder Cup Champion.
• In the last seven seasons the ECHL has had more call-ups to the AHL than all other professional leagues combined with over 3,500 call-ups involving more than 1,800 players and in 2011-12 there were 10 times as many call-ups from the ECHL to the AHL than all other professional leagues.
• The ECHL averaged 4,695 fans per game in 2012-13, the highest single-season average since 1999-2000, and marking the ninth consecutive season and the 21st time in the last 23 years that the ECHL has averaged over 4,000 fans.
• Further information on the ECHL is available from its website at ECHL.com, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.


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Wonderful Episode! Thank you for sharing.
In the last minutes of the show, you identified a complex application having their own STS federated with the main Identity Provider STS. Is the "private" STS a private instance of ADFS2.0 or is it a custom implementation?
This question is coming from an ISV perspective. We want to embrace the claims model and "outsource" identity to an STS. But 1) the client may need us to provide the STS because they don't have one, 2) they may want us to use an existing STS (political struggle ensues to get our required claims from their IT), 3) they may want us to federate our STS with their IP-STS. Can ADFS2.0 be used as a private STS for an ISV application simliar to the scenerio you described? It seems SharePoint 2010 took this approach with their own SharePoint STS.
Can you provide some insight into how an ISV installing software into the clients environment should approach this problem? (or suggest another place to post this question.) Thanks for your consideration.
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Apartment fire ruled electrical
WINTERSVILLE - A fire that severely damaged an apartment complex off Two Ridge Road Saturday morning has been ruled to be electrical in nature, said officials.
Wintersville Fire Chief Rob Herrington said the state Fire Marshal's Office supports his conclusion the fire at the Ridgewood Place apartment complex was electrical in origin.
Herrington said the fire started in the attic of the complex and was noticed by officers with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department and Village Police, who had been dispatched to a domestic incident at another building nearby.
The officers reported the fire, which tore through the roof, and evacuated residents from the building, he said.
Herrington said no one was harmed by the blaze.
Firefighters from Wintersville, Richmond, Belevedere and Steubenville were able to contain the fire to the attic but the apartments below suffered extensive water and smoke damage.
Herrington said the local chapter of the American Red Cross has offered the residents assistance in seeking other accommodations.
Empire man pleads guilty
COLUMBUS - An Empire man has pleaded guilty in Franklin County to collecting workers' compensation benefits while he was working for a local real estate development company.
Franklin County Judge Stephen L. McIntosh ordered Thomas Piatt III, 404 Liberty St., Empire, to pay $25,332.92 in restitution after pleading guilty to the felony count of workers' compensation fraud. A one-year jail sentence was suspended, but Piatt will be on probation for three years and must maintain viable employment.
Prosecutors say Piatt worked in construction and remodeling while collecting temporary disability benefits from 2006-2008. Investigators with the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation Special Investigations Division unit were alerted to the case by a bureau auditor who discovered Piatt on the payroll of the local development company.
"Workplace injuries are unfortunate events and workers who suffer injury deserve care and assistance as they recover," BWC Administrator/CEP Steve Buehrer said. "However, the goal should be to heal and return to work, and that is why restrictions are in place to prevent abuse and ensure employers are not continuing to pay for that assistance when it is clearly no longer needed."
Health board to meet Monday
WELLSBURG - The Brooke County Board of Health will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the education and training room on the first floor of the Brooke County Courthouse.
An increase in the agency's state retirement contribution and the department's environmental fees will be among issues discussed.
Bethany College to hold lightup
BETHANY - Bethany College will hold its second-annual Holiday Light Up Night at 7 p.m. Nov. 29 at the college's Commencement Hall.
The Christmas tree there will be lighted by College President Scott Miller. Students will discuss aspects of Christmas and other holidays of the season, including the Islamic Eid al-Adha, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa, and the Beech Bottom Community Christian Church Choir will perform.
There will be an auction for holiday-themed trees to benefit local charities and drawings for children's trees for children 12 and under. There also will be an area for children to write letters to Santa Claus and have their photos taken with him.


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This world is a very different place to the one you know. In this world, there are no wild canines roaming the land; the ones that do live in the world are very different to the ones that roam our land. There are three different tribes; the Lupines, or wolves; the Vulpines, or foxes, and finally the Lycaons, or hunting dogs. At the beginning of everything, these tribes had separate territories and kept strictly apart, not mixing at all. Traditions were followed and rules strictly adhered to. Apart from the occasional scuffle with a rival pack over such things like territory and hunting grounds, the canines lived peacefully enough alongside each other. Cubs were raised and brought up within the pack; once they reached adulthood, they could choose whether they would remain with their home pack or leave to start another with likeminded canines. There was plenty of food and water for all, and the only hardship was winter. However, the canines were able to gather food from the plenty around them in order to keep food stocks for the winter and they kept close together for warmth in caves and dens. The canines thought that these times would last forever; but nothing lasts forever, even a Golden Age.*
This was when the humans came. Where they came from, none of the canines knew. Some thought that the humans came from another land over the sea, others that they'd flown in via ships from space. Whereever the humans came from, once they arrived and settled down, the Golden Age was over, perhaps for good. The humans did not want to share their freshly aquired territory, and hunted down the canines, shooting and scattering them. The old values were forgotten, save by those packs of canines who refused to pander to what the humans wanted and insisted on following their old rules and traditions. These packs were known as Vigilantes. Others chose to take their true forms and live among the humans as pets and guards, taking everything they could from the humans in exchange for the companionship and strength that they could offer. Finally, other canines live on the fringes of humanity, taking their human forms to blend in with the humans in their own cities, alternately taking their natural forms to scavenge for food. The renegades pride themselves as not being slaves like they see the pets, however they are, in some ways, as much dependant on the humans as the pets are. They have lost their way; they have no leaders and do not form packs like the canines of old did. If they ever think of the old Golden Age, it is as nothing save a daydream of paradise, now lost forever and something that can never be regained.
Trouble is brewing on the horizon. The city is full to bursting, and the mayor wishes to expand it so that more houses can be built for new residents, along with more shops, more clubs and inns and everything else that goes with expansion. He has already drawn up the plans and his intentions are cruelly simple. He intends to encroach on the land presently occupied by a vigilante pack which contains a forest and a stream. The stream he has already earmarked as a place to put down a fountain; the forest on the other hand will be cut down. As for the vigilantes, the adults will be killed or driven out and the cubs sold as pets or guards. The mayor sees no opposition to his plan. After all, the canines are not allowed to vote, and the humans living in the city are bound to want more space and more places for people to live. As for the vigilantes, he doesn't even care about them. They are simply worthless trash, to be merely swept aside unless there is a chance of profit. The mayor is so caught up in his new plan, that he is neglecting other aspects of the city. Such as the illegal dog fighting groups. They train guards to fight and pit them against each other for profit and entertainment. Such gangs will also capture renegades, and force them to either fight each other, or the specially trained fighters, against who they do not stand a chance. Not all humans are behind the mayor or approve of the dog fights, but they are sadly in the minority. The endless flood of progress is almost impossible to stop, especially when those concerned do not have the rights needed to fight against it.
However, the canines are divided. They all cling stubbornly to their own different ways of life, but there needs to be some kind of alliance that has to be formed if the humans are to be stopped. Maybe in the future, one with the humans could be considered, but at the moment, that is a distant thought, one that is almost a fairy tale and almost too unlikely to even be considered. There are humans who do not hold this view, but wish to continue with the status quo, with humans presiding over all and canines on the very bottom rung, their lives there for the humans to do with as they wish. A small group of humans do dream of peace between the races, however this is a dangerous opinion to have. The majority of humans do not like for their own kind to hold such a treacherous thought, and there are of course the renegades who naturally see all humans as their enemy, and do not differentuate between the two groups. Sadly, there are a lot of humans have ended up dead; either murdered by the first, and largest, group of humans, or found savaged to death by renegades. The latter happening is taken by the dominant group of humans and used as a reason to prove that the canines are just as they consider them; just wild, mindless, savage animals.
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In a video taken on March 3 from Lillian Page's backyard, Page and her neighbors are trying to get help with a blackbird problem.
Lillian Page says: "We need some help in Rolling Hills subdivision with a blackbird problem. Huge blackbird problem."
For the past two years page and her neighbors have been dealing with blackbirds nesting in their backyards.
Larry Hawkins says: "The noise is terrible. The smell is awful."
Horse Cave Mayor, Joanne Smith, is working with residents in Rolling Hills to eradicate the problem.
Mayor Smith says: "We have in the past used cannons. Last fall we had four cannons for about three weeks. And we tried to blast them out of the city and that's a temporary at best solution."
The problem is the birds end up coming back. Some kind of habitat modification must be done for the birds to stay away permanently. Residents in the Rolling Hills subdivision say it's a health risk.
Page says: "There's a school right across the street and there's a hospital and there's a nursing home and these people are at risk. Their health is at risk with these black birds."
Blackbird droppings can harbor histoplasmosis (a respiratory disease) that is indirectly transmissible to humans. Page says she doesn't like letting her grandchildren out at night because the blackbird problem is so bad.
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Mayor Smith says the problem may be more than the city of Horse Cave can handle. And they are looking to get help from the state level.


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How can one get bigger at home without weights such as bench press, dumbbells or anything else. I don't have any weight equiment at home but I workout everyday such as push-ups, sit-ups and dips but dont see any results. I don't know what the problem is. I just want some suggestions on how to get bigger and stronger at home. Any one have ideas?
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I have to disagree with Christopher Bibbs assertion that you are limited to the same weight by performing bodyweight only exercises. It is not how much weight in total that you have at your disposal but rather how much force you are able exert on particularly groups of muscles that will determine how close to maximal a loading you can apply to them. There are many bodyweight exercises that through leverage and isolation of particular muscle groups will bring you to exhaustion after a very low numbers of repetitions. Here are some suggestions with some progressions that would allow you to exert increasingly larger forces relative to the muscle groups involved (i.e. that would push you to muscular exhaustion in few repetitions).
I could go on. Many on this list would require significant training for 1 repetition. Bodyweight exercises also potentially have some broader spectrum benefits for general strength and balance with the coordination they require.
This is not say that Olympic lifts and the like do not, and I cannot think of a way to replicate the the kind of effort involved in a very heavy dead-lift or bench-press (the latter doesn't interest me much though), and the development from bodyweight exercises surely diverges from that of lifting at the advanced level, but it is fallacious or at least misleading to say that you have 'one weight' to work with in callisthenics.
A compelling summation that I read was that through bodyweight training you will develop mastery of internal loads, with all the stability that involves, and also a good level of mastery of external ones. With lifting alone the converse is not true.
You cannot expect to see muscle mass or strength gains if you repeatedly do the same exercises with the same weight (in your case, bodyweight). At best you'll see a change in the ratio of slow-twitch to fast-twitch fibers for an improvement in endurance.
Looking at recent ACSM guidelines, in order to see gains you'll need exercises that can take you to exhaustion in 6-12 repetitions. That is unlikely to be normal push-ups or dips. If weights are completely out of the picture, I'd recommend a backback loaded with books or other heavy items. Whatever it takes to hit exhaustion before that 12th rep.
Also, cut your workouts down from daily to 2-3 times per week per muscle group to give time for recovery.
The basic building blocks of all successful exercise regimens will require a decent understanding of Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome. The initial theory has been expanded to include a two-factor conceptual model of adaptation syndrome:
Initially you will see good gains no matter what you do. However, the trick is to increase the stress enough to require adaptation. Weight lifters and body builders do that by increasing the weight on the bar, and manipulating the sets and reps that they use.
If you are restricting yourself to strictly body weight exercise, then you have to adjust other variables:
According to the "Practical Programming for Weight Training" book we have some common rep ranges that cause different adaptations:
Many programs use sets of 5, as a good compromise between building strength and size. This information is important to figure out how to organize your sets to get the adaptations you want. To increase the volume of work done (the stress required to disrupt homeostasis), add more sets of the same number of reps. If you were doing 3 sets of 12, increase to 4 sets of 12, or 5 sets.
You can carry these variations for a good while and make some progress. Eventually, you will run out of time in the day to progress any further on body weight exercises. At this point you really need to look at purchasing a weight set if you can't/won't go to a gym. Even a used set would help you get stronger.
If you want to build overall strength and gain muscle, you need to train the LEGS. Why? They are your biggest and strongest muscles, and many exercises involving the legs will recruit a variety of secondary muscles as well.
You want intense/heavy compound exercises that will increase your testosterone levels, which is, in the simplest of terms, your body's "build muscle" on/off switch.
If you have absolutely no access to weights, sprints (i.e. MAXIMUM pace you can put out) with full recovery in between will help, along with whatever bodyweight exercises you choose. (Squats, pushups, pull-ups, etc.) Sprints are probably the closest you'll get to max effort exercises without weights.
Ideally, though, if you really are serious about gaining strength, you need to find a gym where you can train heavy, or if that's not possible, build a home gym. Building strength with hackish or halfway-solutions will NEVER compare to being able to lift truly heavy weight.
If you're trying to gain mass, look at your calorie intake. You're probably not eating enough. An increase of about 500 calories/day is the number I hear most often, but you'll want to figure out what you're currently taking in vs burning each day and go from there. Also,
Added benefit: Increased caloric intake translates to increased weight, which increases resistance on bodyweight exercises.
I recommend checking out You Are Your Own Gym by Mark Lauren. It covers increasing difficulty/intensity of bodyweight exercises, diet, intervals, and pretty much everything else to help you push past your current plateau.
You should add Pullups/chinups into your routine as well as one-leg squats to balance your workouts to hit each body part.
There are ways to add resistance to you workout without weights. You could try adding intentional resistance by contracting the muscles (squeeze the contractions at the weak points), or by using resistance bands, for instance.


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I would like to know how to change the background color of single a page in a Google Document. I want to make the Cover Page attractive.
It is possible to change the background color of a single page !! This is how you do it:
Select page setup from the file menu
Choose the color you want
Color is set for a single page, but also set for the whole document.
If you print out the finished documents as PDF files, then you can use for example the following web app to merge the two documents: http://www.pdfmerge.com/.
Why not just make a separate doc for your cover page? Or better yet, download your doc into a pdf and make a flipsnack or something for the paper.
AFAIK there is no way to change the background color of a single page. The best workaround I can think of is to create a a table that is 1x1 and expand the cell to be as big as possible. You can then change the color of the cell to be whatever you want.
The downside here is that, well, it's a table, so already not ideal. There other thing is that you are constrained by the margins of the page, unless you want to change the margins for every page in the doc.
The easiest way is to open MS Paint, make a rectangle with the colour you want, copy it into your document and format the image to stay behind the text.
Then you can expand the rectangle to fit the whole page or to whatever size you want.
Go to page setup then click page color. Then you can change the color.
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Most of Mount Marcy on skis
|There's a stream below all that snow, a frozen waterfall over the edge, and a fabulous view of Algonquin and others of the High Peaks beyond. (Tim Jones/EasternSlopes.com photo)
Here's the problem with Marcy: The summit is almost seven miles and 3,200 feet up from the nearest road. Being cautious by nature, in winter, on trails we didn't know, on a mountain we'd never tackled, it just made sense to hire a guide. Dan Sandberg, manager of the Eastern Mountain Sports Climbing School, (www.ems. com) made the climb much safer, more fun and taught us a lot.
We discussed our options with Dan before leaving for the Adirondacks. Snowshoes would be slow, safe and reliable. We could also use lightweight touring skis and carry snowshoes for the steeps. But because David and I are both experienced Alpine skiers, Dan suggested AT skis and skins (see below), arguing the relative speed (and fun) of sliding downhill might balance the extra effort needed to skin up. We chose the AT option, recognizing that we might not make the top.
We hit the trail from Heart Lake (elevation 2,180 feet) early on Sunday morning. The trail is flat to Marcy Dam, a good warmup. From there, it starts to climb, gradually at first, then with many steeper spots, some scary-steep. Even though you slide rather than lift your ski with each step, that much climbing over that much distance is a workout.
We eventually passed Indian Falls and topped out on a flat spot about 900 vertical feet below the summit. The view from there shows the whole half-mile of trail ahead, which follows a ridgeline above an open bowl. The final crest is exposed, windblown, icy and rocky. We had traction cleats in our packs in case we got that far.
All the way up, despite frequent refueling, I'd been watching my internal power meter drop with each step and calculating how much energy it would take to ski down those very narrow trails. I also looked at my watch and decided that the time it would take to reach the summit would have us completing a death-march out in the final moments of daylight-or later.
Finally, despite preventative efforts, I'd developed blisters on both heels. Eating lunch, admiring the view of the trail ahead (and the 900 feet left to climb), I decided I wasn't going to chance it. David had made the same calculations for himself and reached the same conclusion. Dan could have continued. Ah, youth!
So we didn't make the summit; so what? Marcy will still be there next winter and I'm already planning how and when I want to do it. Lofty aspirations are good, but they shouldn't interfere with safety and the basic goal of having fun every time you step outside. Life isn't a spectator sport. Get out and enjoy!
The Downhill Challenge
The higher we skinned up Marcy, the clearer if became that the ski down was going to be more challenging than the skin up. Controlling your speed on steep, narrow trails is tough enough if you've ridden a lift up, let alone when you've tired out your legs by climbing up over 2200 vertical feet (that's more than many "large" alpine areas offer).
In many spots, the trail was only four to six feet wide, bumpy and uneven, with rocks and trees on both sides. Letting yourself go too fast was an invitation to disaster, and if you hit a tree in the backcountry, there's no friendly ski patroller close by to haul you out on a toboggan. So it was up to us to keep ourselves safe.
For the more moderate pitches of the descent, we kept the skins on our skis, which actually helped slow them down. But skins on meant losing a large degree of edge control and the ability to sideslip. So it was a tradeoff, and we took the skins off to ski the steeper spots.
Controlling speed on the steeps without skins meant snowplowing, skidding sharp, quick, short-radius turns (much like skiing bumps) and stopping often. In other words, you did whatever you could to slow down, whenever you had space. What I really wanted was a parachute-but that would have gotten tangled in the trees.
No matter how good you are on Alpine terrain, even in the bumps, this is a different skill set and one that needs practice. By the time we were halfway down, we were just getting the hang of it enough to relax and really enjoy the ride.
Dan told us he'd normally ease his guiding clients into backcountry skiing with a day on milder terrain before tackling Marcy. In retrospect, that probably would have been a good idea for us, too.. Next time.
What is AT skiing?
Nordic skiing (including Telemark and cross-country) uses binding which leave the heel free to lift, so you can walk naturally for climbing on hills and skiing across flats. Alpine skiing uses stiffer boots and locks the heel down for downhill control.
AT (Alpine Touring) uses lightweight Alpine-style skis, lightweight boots which work for both walking and skiing, and special bindings which allow you to unlock your heel for climbing and lock it down for downhill.
On the base of the skis, you use removable synthetic "skins" (they used to be real skins) with directional hairs which allow the ski to slide forward but not backward. We used narrow skins for more glide on the flats; on the steeps, we switched to "full coverage" skins for more traction.
If You Go
Base in Lake Placid (www.visitadirondacks.com) and enjoy all the amenities of civilization before you hit the backcountry.
We stayed at the super comfortable Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort (www.golden-arrow.com). Highly recommended, as is the guide service provided by EMS (www.ems.com).
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I know it is better to just say before noon, but if you wanted to say "before the afternoon arrives" or "before the afternoon ends" would it be correct?
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There's nothing ungrammatical about them, but these expressions sound rather unnatural to my native ear.
As to a better way to word it, that depends on the context. Am I talking to a coworker, about when we should meet with a client? To the appliance store, about when they are going to deliver my new washing machine? To some friends, about when we are going to meet for drinks?
In the workplace, I think "by the end of the afternoon" might sound more natural than "before the afternoon ends." For example:
(In this case, by the end of the afternoon essentially means the same as by the end of the workday, or before you go home today.)
If the appliance store was going to make a home delivery, I'd expect them to say something more like:
instead of:
As for drinks, I really don't expect I'd ever suggest to my friends:
Instead, I might say one of these:
or even:
I'll offer one more example. Say we're planning a picnic; I might say:
seems more natural than:
1 (or dinnertime, but that's another question...)
What the fragments "before the afternoon arrives" and "before the afternoon ends" do is make afternoon into something which can act, which can do something.
While day can break and night can fall, morning and afternoon don't generally do anything; they just are. Consequently they don't end or arrive, and one says "before the end of the afternoon", or "before the end of the morning".
Because the use of before sets a deadline, it's usual to align it with the end of a period, not its beginning, so one wouldn't generally say "before the start of the afternoon", but "before the end of lunch".
Following Kris's comment, perhaps the question needs to be explicitly answered: Before the afternoon arrives or ends is grammatical but is certainly not idiomatic. Using those expressions is not generally to be recommended.
Yes. The afternoon arrives and ends at certain times, so this is a way to put it. Whether it's the best way is debatable.
Note, though, that those times will be different in different contexts, but will almsot always be specifically-defined.
"Before noon" is non-specific and therefore often meaning any afternoon, but not always. It's also less specific in terms of the timeframe, not implying any hurry. The phrase "before the afternoon arrives" carries some urgency. Even though it doesn't specify exactly which day; could refer to any day; it specifies it's the day, adding more impact or urgency.
This is from my understanding of the phrase in common usage, not a scholarly appraisal of these related phrases.


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Recently, I was doing my homework and I found out that Torque can be calculated using $\tau = rF$. This means the units of torque are Newton meters. Energy is also measured in Newton meters which are joules.
However, torque isn't a measure of energy. I am really confused as why it isn't measured in Joules.


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News about the environment, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Jun. 23, 2016
Op-Ed article by journalist Vince Beiser warns that Earth is beginning to run short of sand, material essential to construction of cities and roads, largely in form of concrete; notes $70 billion extraction industry is wreaking environmental damage, as is global over-development that fuels demand; supports efforts to moderate industry. MORE
Jun. 21, 2016
Nonprofit Global Witness publishes report saying 185 environmental activists were murdered in 2015, which is 59 percent increase over 2014; case of activist Berta Caceres, who was killed in Honduras, highlighted. MORE
Jun. 17, 2016
Letter from Sen Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island comments on Richard Conniff's June 12 Op-Ed article reminding Republicans of their party's legacy in protecting environment and natural resources. MORE
Jun. 12, 2016
Richard Conniff Op-Ed article offers reminder that American conservatives used to be staunchly in favor of conservation, and that past Republican presidents were responsible for some of country's greatest environmental policy achievements; identifies areas of agreement between environmentalists and conservatives today. MORE
Jun. 12, 2016
Op-Ed article by wildlife guide Jeremy Hastings describes his reason for using scythe to cut grass on small field he owns, allowing him to complete his task without harming ground-nesting birds; notes larger environmental and health benefits of scything over mowing, technique regaining popularity among farmers and landscapers in Britain. MORE
Jun. 8, 2016
Builders in California are utilizing its ballot initiative system, which allows residents to propose and approve laws by popular vote, to hasten big developments and dodge state environmental laws; supporters contend ballot measures let residents avoid ineffective system, while detractors say they give developers special privileges. MORE
May. 27, 2016
Donald J Trump, during policy speech at oil industry conference in North Dakota, lays out his positions on energy and environment; calls for more fossil fuel drilling and less environmental regulations, while also vowing to cancel Paris climate agreement and restore lost coal mining jobs; experts express skepticism over whether Trump understands complexities of global energy economy. MORE
May. 17, 2016
Building trade unions, including AFL-CIO, are enraged over efforts by wealthy environmentalist Tom Steyer to help bankroll voter-turnout super PAC dedicated to electing Democrats and ensuring loss for Donald J Trump in November; many in organized labor view Steyer's environmental agenda as threat to jobs that could be created through more traditional infrastructure projects like new gas pipelines. MORE
May. 13, 2016
Obama administration is set to announce creation of National Microbiome Initiative, which will involve over dozen federal agencies, universities, philanthropies and corporations; initiative will seek to advance study of trillions of micro-organisms that live in soil and human gut in effort to create new tools, discoveries and training techniques across disciplines including health and the environment. MORE
May. 3, 2016
Greenpeace leaks documents from talks between United States and European Union over Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership trade deal; accuses American negotiators of trying to weaken environmental protection standards and of trying to give corporate lobbyists greater say in decision-making. MORE
Mar. 19, 2016
Op-Ed article by science and environmental writer Gabriel Popkin examines backlash against Bradford pear trees, unwelcome invasive species that does little to benefit environment; concedes that while tree is bothersome, other environmental priorities are far more important. MORE
Mar. 15, 2016
World Health Organization report finds that about 12.6 million deaths out of total of 55.6 million globally are caused by preventable environmental factors. MORE
Feb. 7, 2016
Dumpster Project at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Tex, teaches sustainable living by requiring students to adapt 33 square-foot dumpster into environmentally-friendly home. MORE
Dec. 31, 2015
Fiddleheads Forest School in Seattle is one of several private preschools around country that focus on outdoor play and interaction with nature; growing national trend has even begun to influence public schools in some areas. MORE
Dec. 17, 2015
Vanessa Barbara Op-Ed article warns multinational mining company Samarco, which was deemed responsible for dam break resulting in environmental disaster in southeastern Brazil, is unlikely to pay agreed-upon cleanup costs or fines; cites historical precedent in country for lack of enforcement for environmental lawbreakers. MORE
Oct. 20, 2015
Chinese scientists and researchers at Chicago's Paulson Institute report country's economic development has rapidly and seriously deteriorated its coastal wetlands; warns future environmental sustainability is at grave risk, and hinges on government initiative and bureaucratic cooperation. MORE
Oct. 9, 2015
California Gov Jerry Brown signs number of environmental bills, including one that compels state's public employee pension funds to divest from coal; law will make California first state in nation to drop its investments in coal. MORE
Sep. 30, 2015
Documentary films Racing Extinction and This Changes Everything have similar messages of environmental destruction infused with sense of hope; filmmakers and distributors have carefully planned marketing campaign to avoid alienating audiences with frightening subject matter. MORE
Sep. 26, 2015
Pope Francis addresses world leaders gathered for three-day summit meeting at United Nations and makes passionate plea for environmental justice, drawing connection between environmental degradation and plight of world's poorest citizens; emphasis placed on these issues mirrors Sustainable Development Goals adopted by world leaders. MORE
Sep. 25, 2015
In Transit blog; Environmental Awareness Month on Dutch Caribbean island of Saba will feature a free series of Sea & Learn events, ranging from hands-on field expeditions with research biologists to scientific lectures, some taking place during happy hour events at local bars and restaurants. MORE
Sep. 5, 2015
Greenpeace India vows to continue its environmental campaigns after government revokes group's permission to accept foreign donations, latest move in crackdown on nongovernmental organizations. MORE
Sep. 5, 2015
Mark Oppenheimer Beliefs column notes New City Church, founded in Minneapolis by Tyler Sit, is among growing number of Methodist churches with environmental focus; Sit's congregation takes active approach to environmentalism that emphasizes social equality and helping needy populations. MORE
Jul. 31, 2015
Judge Michael J Hogan of New Jersey Superior Court hears arguments by environmental groups as well as lawyers for state and Exxon Mobil Corporation in challenge to proposed settlement in ongoing legal battle over environmental pollution at refinery sites. MORE
Jul. 28, 2015
Dr Jennifer L McDonald study published in journal Ecology and Evolution finds that British pet owners emphatically reject notion that cats have negative impact on wildlife, and most would not be willing to restrict their cat's access to the outdoors in effort to protect environment. MORE
Jul. 8, 2015
Pope Francis addresses exploitation of Amazon rain forest during his visit to Ecuador, in implicit rebuke of economic and environmental policies of Pres Rafael Correa; statements were expected, following environmental encyclical released worldwide in June that discussed climate change as a social issue and linked environmental destruction to plight of poor. MORE
Jul. 6, 2015
Pope Francis arrives in Ecuador to begin tour of Latin America, returning to his native region to spread message of a church in transformation; visit to area, which contains several poor but environmentally rich countries, is especially significant in light of Francis's encyclical on the global environment. MORE
Jun. 19, 2015
Pope Francis sets off uproar over his document on environment and peril of climate change, with industrialists, politicians and critics once again saying he should stick with religion and not make fuss in areas where he lacks competence; Francis is following in footsteps of popes and bishops who have penned documents on social problems by applying religious teaching to current events. MORE
Jun. 17, 2015
Leak of Pope Francis' message on environment creates tension in Vatican, among both staff members and reporters, who criticized others for breaking promise not to publish before release of final document. MORE
Jun. 16, 2015
Leaked draft of papal encyclical on environment has Pope Francis calling for swift action on climate change by people of all religions; includes references to scientific evidence and touches on familiar themes regarding inequality and anti-consumerism. MORE
Jun. 8, 2015
Editorial calls on Pres Obama to be willing and ready to use his veto power to block onslaught of legislation from Congressional Republicans intended to cripple critical environmental protections about to be promulgated by Obama administration; assails Congress for its lack of leadership, calling it transparent protection of big business and an appalling disregard for health of America's natural resources. MORE
May. 23, 2015
California State Assembly approves measure to ban use of microbeads, tiny plastic balls used in personal care products that manufacturers herald for their exfoliating power; environmental activists say particles flow through pipes and drains when washed off, winding up in nation's lakes and rivers, and eventually, the food chain. MORE
May. 21, 2015
House Republicans' attempt to block endangered species protections for the sage grouse and two other birds as part of $612 billion military bill sets off major congressional skirmish; push, part of a broader Republican attempt to roll back environmental regulations, has outraged environmentalists and Western state constituents. MORE
May. 3, 2015
Board of Swarthmore College announces it will not drop fossil fuel investments from its $1.9 billion endowment, despite demands of student protestors; school is considered to have sparked environmentally-focused divestment movement that has spread to other colleges. MORE
Apr. 23, 2015
Civic leaders and environmental experts welcome OneNYC, ambitious long-term environmental plan for New York City introduced by Mayor Bill de Blasio, but caution that it remains unclear how measures will be achieved; far-reaching goals include eliminating use of landfills by 2030 and lifting some 800,000 people from poverty. MORE
Apr. 22, 2015
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio repurposes PlaNYC, environmental program set up by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, changing focus to fit with his own ambitious antipoverty agenda; changes name of program to One New York: The Plan for a Strong and Just City, or OneNYC; assures critics that concrete environmental and sustainability goals of plan's previous incarnation will remain intact. MORE
Apr. 15, 2015
Eduardo Porter Economic Scene column examines new arguments from environmentalists against current strategies for sustainable growth in developing world; suggests nations must be allowed to develop economically before they can adopt regulations, and that demanding unreasonable concessions pushes them further into China's sphere of influence; examines counter-intuitive environmental benefits of 'development first' theory. MORE
Apr. 14, 2015
Idea of composting human dead is taking green burial movement step further and attracting interest from environmental advocates and scientists; environmental fellowship recipient Katrina Spade has begun Seattle-based Urban Death Project, initiative that seeks to create facility that combines environmentally conscious burial with ceremony and respect family members crave. MORE
Apr. 11, 2015
Op-Ed article by Prof Douglas M Thompson warns of adverse environmental effects of stocking American rivers with trout from hatcheries; points to overfishing of ocean fish species in order to create trout food, pollution created by trout hatcheries and low survival rates of hatchery-born fish; urges stricter protections of native fish in order to protect their numbers in wild. MORE
Mar. 10, 2015
Lawmakers and environmentalists are questioning why New Jersey's attorney general's office settled for significantly less than the state had been seeking in lawsuit with Exxon Mobil Corp over environmental damage; records show that if deal is approved, New Jersey will probably receive $180 million or so--small fraction of $8.9 billion in damages it was seeking in court--and is likely to lose additional $45 million in legal fees. MORE
Mar. 5, 2015
Op-Ed article by attorney Bradley M Campbell decries decision by Gov Chris Christie to settle multibillion-dollar environmental lawsuit against Exxon Mobil for mere cents on the dollar; questions whether Christie was motivated in part by large sums Exxon contributed to Republican Governors Assn while he was group's chairman. MORE
Mar. 3, 2015
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Feb. 8, 2015
Donovan Hohn First column describes how reversal of Chicago River, long considered triumph of engineering, is now known to be responsible for contaminating bodies of water to the south with invasive species; notes that it is one of many engineering projects, like dams and draining of wetlands, that country is now trying to reverse in order to improve environment. MORE
Jan. 20, 2015
Op-Ed article by Profs Don Melnick and Mary Pearl, along with policy expert James Warfield, proposes new method to save tropical forests from decimation; holds that forests' carbon reserves could be sold as offsets to greenhouse gas emitters, raising funds for their protection; observes that previous objections to method have been addressed. MORE
Jan. 9, 2015
Eric McDavid, serving 19-year prison term in California for environmental terrorism, gains early release after Federal District Court Judge Morrison C England Jr in Sacramento accepts settlement acknowledging authorities had withheld documents during his trial; McDavis was convicted in 2007 of conspiring to bomb targets near Sacramento as part of radical environmental campaign. MORE
Nov. 27, 2014
News analysis: Pres Obama may leave office with far-reaching environmental legacy without having passed single major environmental law; has issued series of landmark regulations based on broad powers of Clean Air Act, which was designed in 1970 to give Environmental Protection Agency great flexibility. MORE
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Thomas L Friedman Op-Ed column describes attending World Parks Congress in Sydney, held by International Union for Conservation of Nature every 10 years to draw attention to protected areas; contends protected land and parks are the most powerful tools for restraining environmental problems like global warming, deforestation, mass extinction and fresh water pollution. MORE
Nov. 7, 2014
Tom Steyer, the billionaire environmentalist who spent at least $57 million of his own money to influence midterm elections, more than any other Democratic donor, appears to have largely wasted his time and money; most of his candidates lost; Steyer, however, says that his money was well-spent because it put climate change on the ballot across the nation and elevated the issue to keep it on the public radar. MORE
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Head And Neck RestraintsWritten by on August 1, 2002 If You Race A Car, Wear One Of These Life-Saving Devices
If youve followed racing for the past two years, then you know what a head-and-neck restraint system is. You know why it exists and what it does to help prevent injuries to the brain.
Knowing all that, and assuming you drive a race car, own one or help make it go fast, why dont you have one of these systems or make sure your driver has one on?
A head-and-neck restraint system is just as much a part of your racing effort as tires, wheels and an engine, or at least it should be. Its all there, in black and white. Test data garnered from crash tests using instrumental dummies tell an interesting story. Boiled down, that story is either wear one or die.
That might seem a bit dramatic, but its the truth. The majority of head-and-neck injuries in racing are caused by the neck trying to do its job and failing against the massive force exerted on drivers by impacts with walls or other cars.
Following the death of Dale Earnhardt at Daytona in 2001, there was a massive investigation into the circumstances of the crash. In the course of that investigation, the investigators determined that the change in velocityotherwise known as the Delta Vgenerated in that fatal crash was 42 mph. Delta V is not about how fast youre going on the track. Its about how fast you hit the wall and how fast you come off it.
If Earnhardts Delta V was 42 mph, then how difficult is it to imagine that the Street Stock or Late Model you drive can generate that kind of force? If youre traveling 50 or 60 mph, hit a parked car or something and stop, thats more than enough force to generate a head or neck injury. You dont have to be racing at Daytona or Talladega to generate this kind of impact.
Trevor Ashline, whose résumé lists Swedish restraint-system manufacturer Autoliv in addition to BSR, is the inventor of the Hutchens Device. It is one of two devices mandated by NASCAR and other sanctioning bodies for its drivers. His advice to racers of all stripes, budgets and abilities is: wear it.
Theres no reason not to, especially a harness device like this one, he says. There are no negatives.
How much are you worth? For the cost of a quality racing suit, you can outfit yourself with something that will give you a chance to survive a heavy impact. The Hutchens Device in its current form costs $300-$325, depending on the bottom-end hardware for the buckle system. Ashline recently debuted an alternate version of the original, and its cost is $400. The difference in the two is that the new unit does not buckle into your safety harness. It uses your bodys own structure to keep your head in place and out of lethal range.
Once you put it on, you can hook the helmet to it outside the car, Ashline says. When you get in the car, you just pull it snug. When you sit down, the points change. Youre using body kinematics (motion) to tighten the belts up. This one (the new unit) has a rebound strap on it, where it will try to catch your head going back. Ive equaled the best numbers Ive ever gotten on the original Hutchens. The original hooks to the belts as its anchor; the new one uses your pelvis as its anchor.
What youll get upon purchasing either one is: the harness, leg straps, two upper tethers and the hooks for the helmet, along with the screws for the helmet.
The HANS Device ranges in price from $1,275 to $2,000, depending on the type of racing you do.
Neck Collars
OK, the price tag is a little steep for some of the more budget-conscious racers out there. Why not just pass on the Hutchens and go with a neck collar?
Neck collars dont do it, Ashline states. The people who thought that worked believed that the head just rotates down, and it doesnt in a crash. The head first translates forward. Your upper torso belts hold you back, and your head goes straight forward until your neck tries to pull it down. You get full extension, you load the belts all the way and youre (neck is) out here like this (three or four inches), then your neck starts to pull you down and it misses the collar altogether. Youll never hit the collar.
Does the collar work with a Hutchens device? Ashline continues. Yes, because you have the collar in close to your neck. The Hutchens Device is limiting the stretch of your neck, and its going to force your head down. That will help you because the rotation of your head as it is pulled down gets you into the collar. I dont disagree with using a neck collar with a Hutchens Device. If you do not use a Hutchens or a HANS, youre playing with fire. Your neck cant hold the forces of the weight of your head, trying to take it off the top of your shoulders.
Load Limiting
The Hutchens Device and the higher-dollar HANS both act on the same principle: They limit the loading on the weakest joint in the human body in terms of impact. Your neck is very strong when its holding your head up under normal gravity. When impact forces of 800 to 1,500 pounds (1 Newton = 0.2248 pound of force) are at play, its a weak collection of bones held together with discs and ligaments. Dont be misled by the fact your Street Stock only reaches 80 mph. Forces generated from an impact at that speed can kill you just as dead as impacts at 160 mph.
Load limiting is the key, Ashline says. Restrain the occupant early, limit the load the occupant sees and then ride them out. Thats the key. You dont want them to spike. The spike comes when you restrain late and everything hits quickly. If you restrain early, you can take that force out, and if you use some kind of load-limiting device, like the Hutchens Device ... it comes in early. Because it does, you never really get the high (load) numbers. It brings you up, over and down, and thats what you want to see.
The first thing you want to do is to have your pelvis locked down in the seat.
In the first 20 milliseconds, youll start loading up the belts as the occupant moves forward, Ashline explains. As that forward movement starts, the occupant tightens the belts. The biggest thing you want to do in any type of crash is to lock down the pelvis and reduce the amount of movement there early. Then its easier to control the chest and the head. Center of mass is your pelvis, and it can handle a lot more g-forces than the rest of you can. When you lock the pelvis down, you have this load on your lap belt thats 2,500-3,000 pounds. That provides a really good anchor for the (original) Hutchens device.
He continues, The straps that go up the back are very heavy material with low elongation. As your head starts to go straight forward, it tightens up the straps. The upper torso starts moving because your pelvis is locked in and rotates into the upper belts. It limits the amount of movement your head is going to see. The device comes into the lap belt, and the lap belt is under so much load there is no way the harness is going to move it. The helmet straps limit the whipping motion of the head.
Lab Tested
Ashline, as an engineer, recommends that whatever you decide you need for a head-and-neck restraint, make sure the product has been tested under laboratory conditions.
You learn how to watch the kinematics, learn where the loads are going, in a laboratory/crash sled setting, he explains. The only way you get to do that is to run your own sled tests. The (safety) guys who are out there who arent doing sled testing have no idea what theyre doing. You can sit there all day long and say, my thing is the best in the world. You put that on a sled test and that will tell you. Thats the only way you can do it, in a laboratory setting where you can study the motion and see how your system interacts with the rest of the systems in the cockpit. If youre not doing that, dont go there, dont buy it, dont even think its going to be right.
As for the HANS, developed by sports-car racer Jim Downing, it does its job well, according to Ashline. The end result stays the same, and thats good, Ashline says. The HANS is a good product, it works well. Ive done a lot of testing on it. They are just going a different way than I am.
While this article is focused on head-and-neck restraints, theres more to this than just going out to buy a Hutchens Device or a HANS Device. All systems in the cockpitbelts, restraints, steering column, seat, padding, etc.work together, and if they are working in concert, the result is a better opportunity to survive a crash.
Seat Belts and Head Padding
One piece of advice Ashline gave that applies across the scope of racing is on seat-belts. The seatbelt and the seat are the number-one things you can do to be safe, he says. Mount your belts correctly. If you can get good geometry on your seatbelts, you are so far down the road into a good restraint system its not funny. Seatbelt manufacturers supply mounting instructionsuse them.
Padding around your seats head restraints is important too. Ashlines advice is to go with thicker, more impact-absorbing padding there. Formula One, the IRL and CART require three inches of energy absorption padding around their headrests, Ashline says. It doesnt give you a big spring-back. You want something that rides you down and is strain-rate dependentwhich means that the faster you ride into it, the more energy it will absorb. Were working with urethane foam right now, which is harder than other types of foams and gels. The visco-elastic foams and gels are temperature-dependent, so when it gets cold or hot, they do too. The gels are heavy, too. You need a minimum of three inches.
The idea for this story is to get you, the racer, to think in terms of safety in ways that are outside the old standby. If you drive a racing car, whether it be a full-on Late Model or a Hobby Stock, you need one of these devices, just like you need a helmet, firesuit and gloves. It is not a question of whether you can afford one. The question is rather, can you afford not to have one?
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The two leftmost columns represent impact force (in Newtons) for sled test crashes. The two baseline measurements (Baseline 1 and Baseline 2) were recorded on crash-test dummies wearing seat belts but no head and neck restraints. The three devices tested--the original Hutchens Device, the HANS Device and the improved Safety Solutions unit--show the benefits of restraints by how much force they take away from the vital head/neck area. Note the line just above the 4000 level on the graph. Anything above that line in terms of measured force will cause some kind of head or neck injury. Anything over 8,000 Newtons is considered in the lethal range.A rear view of the original Hutchens Device. The two long, vertical straps are the key to controlling head motion in a crash, using the lap belt as its anchor.A rear view of the updated device. Note the straps that cross the back instead of run along the spine.Trevor Ashline shows the updated helmet tethers for the original Hutchens Device. The original had one D-ring on each side of the helmet; the new hardware has two: one in front of the centerline and one behind.A front view of the Hutchens Device in its original form. Note the wraparound harness for the legs, which is what brings the device into the belt system.A front view of the new Safety Solutions device, Ashline's updated version. Note the thicker straps, the horizontal chest strap and the lack of any hardware to buckle into the belt system. This device works using human kinematics instead of the lap belt. The red tethers are for rebound, keeping your helmet from flying backward as well as forward.


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I saw a movie around 2000 (which would've been made within 5 years or so of this year) where I heard the line "People who sit at home and watch sitcoms... those people are dead" - this is paraphrase.
I thought it was "Instinct" (with Anthony Hopkins) - and my memory of a man like Anthony Hopkins' character saying this line is fairly clear - but I re-watched the film and did not find the line (I also checked the scripts and transcripts) so this does not look good.
The film was NOT: "Goodfellas", "Trainspotting", "Silence of the Lambs".


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Canon U.S.A. Visual Impact: The Documentary Experiment Presentation Date: November 9
New York University's Department of Photography & Imaging has announced that the photographers Ed Kashi and Donald Weber, both members of VII (Seven) Photo Agency, will discuss how they are using new technologies to push the boundaries of traditional visual representation and to expand the reach of their storytelling to new audiences. The lecture, entitled Canon U.S.A. Visual Impact: The Documentary Experiment, will be moderated by Whitney Johnson, director of photography for The New Yorker and adjunct professor in the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Department of Photography & Imaging, NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, Canon U.S.A., and VII Photo Agency.
VII Photo Agency photographers are visiting top journalism programs at universities across the United States this fall to discuss media literacy and how new technologies are changing the use of still and video photography within the social documentary field. The photographers have adopted the latest technologies to create dynamic imagery and film in the areas of fashion, music, lifestyle, philanthropic and foundation storytelling, narrative, and documentary.
A Canon representative will be available before and after the event to answer questions regarding the launch of the new EOS 1D X camera. The Photography & Imaging Department will also host a master class for NYU photojournalism students Nov. 7 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. with Kashi and Weber. Interested students must RSVP to: firstname.lastname@example.com.
The lecture will take place on Nov. 9, 2012 from 7 to 9 p.m. at 20 Cooper Square, 7th Floor Commons. The event is free and open to the public with advance reservation. To RSVP, send an email with "Visual Impact" in the subject line to: email@example.com.
VII Photo Agency was created in 2001 by seven of the world's leading photojournalists and by 2005 VII was listed in third position in American Photo's "100 Most Important People in Photography". VII Photo Agency now represents 23 of the world's preeminent photojournalists whose careers span 35 years of world history.
The Department of Photography & Imaging is an intensive four-year BFA program centered on the making and understanding of images. It is a diverse department embracing multiple perspectives. The students work in virtually all modes of analog, digital, and multimedia photo-based image making, exploring photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. For further information, visit www.photo.tisch.nyu.edu.
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Dear Mr. Bowlus,
I read your article of Aug. 28 on football. I am sending you a picture of the El Dorado football team of 1946.
You notice the absence of face guards. I didn't play football, but I can't remember any serious injuries in a game.
The players tackled to bring an opponent down, not to injure them. I also remember that basketball was basically a non-contact game, and only four fouls per game. Basketball is as rough as football now, and to me, less interesting. Most teams now would foul out in the first quarter.
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I noticed just now that $\sqrt2 = \frac{2}{\sqrt2}$
I'm suprised because isn't this like saying $x = \frac{2}{x}$?
I noticed just now that $\sqrt2 = \frac{2}{\sqrt2}$
I'm suprised because isn't this like saying $x = \frac{2}{x}$?
Yes, just make sure you make sure you understand the distinctions below:
$\frac{2}{\sqrt2}$ is obtained by multiplying the $\sqrt2$ by 1 or $\frac{\sqrt2}{\sqrt2}$.
$$\left(\frac{\sqrt2}{1}\right)\left(\frac{\sqrt2}{\sqrt2}\right) = \frac{2}{\sqrt2}$$
This happens clearly because the two square roots cancel each other out due to the fact that the squaring operator is the inverse of the square-root operator, and vice versa.
Now let's perform the same method on x.
$$\left(\frac{x}{1}\right)\left(\frac{x}{x}\right) = \frac{x^2}{x}$$
$x \neq \frac{2}{x}$ unless we first explicitly state that x = $\sqrt2$.
I think I have simply stated the definition of the square root, since multiplying $x = \frac{2}{x}$ by $x$ gives $x^2 = 2$, so $x = \sqrt2$
$$\frac{2}{\sqrt{2}} = \frac{\sqrt{2}\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{2}} = \sqrt{2}$$
Mr_CryptoPrime's answer is the right way to think about this, but here is another way to see it. Since $\sqrt{2}$ can be defined as a positive real $x$ number such that $x^2=2$, we can ask ourselves whether $2/\sqrt{2}$ satisfies these two properties:
Thus, $2/\sqrt{2}$ satisfies the properties that define $\sqrt{2}$, and the two numbers must be equal.


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Instead, you'll use a higher-level model called ASP.NET AJAX. ASP.NET AJAX gives you a set of server-side components and controls that you can use when designing your web page.
This does not seem correct to me, at least in this case.
For example:
This does not seem correct to me, at least in this case.
While I'm not aware of a particular grammatical rule that would prohibit this, as a matter of style, I would prefer not to do what you're suggesting there, especially with something like ASP.NET AJAX. I would suggest something like:
You can replace toolkit with something more appropriate if you prefer.
It is a recognised rhetorical device. That said, when you are not going for rhetoric it may be best if you avoided it.
Yes. You just did.
I don't know of any rule forbidding it and even if there was it likely is simply a best practice.
As with most things, avoid it if it makes the sentences hard to read or sound awkward, even if it is technically correct.


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I am having some difficulty lining up the definition and my intuition for rational equivalence of cycles. My intuition is based off of the idea that two cycles being rationally equivalent is analogous to the two cycles being homotopic.
If it is requested of me to state the definition of rational equivalence, I will; for the moment I will refrain and simply link to the wikipedia page for the chow ring and adequate equivalence relation.
Here are two examples that I have thought of that are giving me trouble.
In $\mathbb{k}[x,y]$, consider the line given by $x = 0$ and the unit circle. By taking the rational function $\frac{x^2+y^2 - 1}{x}$ on $\mathbb{k}[x,y]$, we get that these two are rationally equivalent. These two being homotopic is only semi-okay with me. I can imagine making the circle larger and larger, making it look more and more like a line. But it seems to me that the final step of taking it to the line is not allowed by homotopy.
Consider the 2-torus $\mathbb{T}$, thought of as sitting in $\mathbb{A}^3$ with center at the origin. Let $S_1$ be (one of the) circles obtained by intersecting $\mathbb{T}$ with the $xy$-plane, and let $a$ be the regular function defining it. Let $S_2$ be one of the circles obtained by intersecting with the $xz$-plane, and $b$ the regular function defining it. Then the rational function $\frac{a}{b}$ gives a rational equivalence of $S_1$ and $S_2$. This goes very much against my intuition.
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Twin Fires of '64 threatened county in one 'hell week'
There were two photos on the front page, like bookends on each side. One showed a broken vase and a china cat lying on a slab of ash-covered cement in front of a blackened fireplace chimney. It was, said the caption, all that was left of the Sky High Ranch in the mountains behind Wikiup after the fire went through. The other image was the weary figure of Bert Anderson, foreman of the Wikiup Ranch development, dwarfed by the stark skeleton of an oak tree as he patrolled a fire line. The Sept. 25, 1964 edition of this newspaper, 30 years ago today, bears testimony to a terrible week in the history of Sonoma County. The news on this Friday was hopeful –for the first time since the previous Saturday. Containment of the two separate fires that had burned more than 52,000 acres in Napa and Sonoma counties, the newspaper reported, could come as early as the following morning –if the weather held. It was the beginning of the end of our "hell week." Too often since then we have watched on television as Santa Barbara and the Oakland Hills and Malibu and its neighboring canyons were consumed by fire. As the flames flicker on our screens, many of us can smell the burning brush again and see the ominous glow in the night sky and hear the police cars' loudspeakers calling residents to "Evacuate! Evacuate!" The "twin" fires started on Saturday (Sept. 19). One, to be known evermore as the Hanly Fire, began at 10:15 a.m. in Napa County on the southwest slope of Mount St. Helena, near a cliffhanging resort called Hanly's. Foresty investigators would later determine that a careless (which is not a strong enough term, try criminally negligent) deer hunter had tossed a cigarette away. The Nunn's Canyon Fire, which took its name from the section of the Mayacamas mountain range east of Sonoma Highway and Dunbar Road, already was burning. It had started with a bang at 5 a.m. when a PG&E transformer exploded on Al Torrieri's ranch on Nelligan Road in the same canyon, spewing sparks that ignited dry brush. Al and his brother Nick fled ahead of the fire that consumed their barn and three trucks as it roared off in two directions, toward Sugar Loaf Ridge and Adobe Canyon and south toward Sonoma. As it was with all those "television fires" we have witnessed since, the conditions were prime for disaster. The area was in the throes of a week-long heat wave with temperatures bouncing over 100 degrees. A hot, down-slope wind was blowing. The fuel moisture index, monitored by the Forestry, was at 3, described by a ranger as "about as low as it gets." The Hanly Fire raced down the mountain into the Napa Valley and licked into the northeast limits of Calistoga, burning some 40 homes before the fire line of professionals and volunteers held fast. School buses waited on downtown streets to evacuate the entire town, when it became necessary, as many felt it most certainly would. Bu the wind died down and, but Monday morning, fire bosses were tentatively predicting containment. The Nunn's Canyon Fire burned up the Sugar Loaf Ridge where gusting winds carried it down into Adobe summer cabins along the way. Then, on Monday night, the unthinkable happened. The wind kicked up and the Hanly Fired turned west, jumped the lines and roared over the hill into Knight's Valley and headed for Santa Rosa, going more than 40 mph. It burned homes and ranches along porter creek Road and Mark West Road, into the Riebli Road area destroying homes on Wilshire Heights. It burned into Wikiup and across Parker Hill Road and appeared to Santa Roasans on two fronts, from the north and the east. Some 5,000 homes in Rincon Valley and on Motecito Heights and along Chanate Road were evacuated. Cars filled with scared, sleepy children, frantic pets and household goods clogged Middle Rincon Road and Highway 12, heading for the homes of friends, for their churches or for the shelter opened at the Vets Building. All through the long night, Santa Rosa residents stood in the streets, listening to the smoke-muffled hoofbeats of horses being ridden up Sonoma Avenue from rural Rincon toward the safety of the fairgrounds. In most instances, it was mothers and children who evacuated and fathers who stood by with a garden hose, hoping for the best. In many cases, their "best" worked well enough, in tandem with a fire fighting technique known as "pump and run." Firefighters, knowing they couldn't stop the blaze, which was traveling in bursts up to 80 mph by the time it reached the Riebli area, simply moved a tanker truck beside the threatened house, added their big hose to the garden hoses and stayed as long as they could. Many homeowners fled at the last minute, believing their houses were lost, only to find at daylight that the flames had passed by the wet wood structures. Firefighters and hundreds of vlunteers, including a corps of junior college and high school students, formed a wall of determined humanity from Mendocino Avenue to Wallace Road. They had 125 pieces of equipment, including bulldozers to make fire breaks. They had shovels and hoes and wet sacks to beat the flames. And they had feet to stomp. Ever so slowly, as the wind died, they backed the fire down the ridge. People who were not in Santa Rosa then have difficulty believing this, but the Hanly Fire was finally stopped just 100 yards away from Community (then County) Hospital. Had the winds not shifted, it would have burned into the junior college neighborhood, down the canyon of Humboldt Street, destroying hundreds of homes. When Assistant Fire Chief George Elliot spoke to reporters about the 3 a.m. "miracle" stand at the hospital, he said: "It was a battle of survival for the northern area. WE just had to make a wall to save the city, and that's what we did. We put everything we had –hands, tools, sacks. WE had wonderful assistance from all the people." Meanwhile, the wicked winds had turned the heat of the Nunn's Canyon fire to the south. It whipped across the Triniti Road area and headed for the triplet towns of Agua Callente, Fetters and Boyes Springs. Once again, the heroes were many, including the high school football team. Three Valley of the Moon firefighters stayed so long defending the San Francisco Boys Club summer camp on Cragmont Road in Agua Caliente that they had to dive into the pool to avoid the flames, only to have the pool's chlorine tank explode. All three were treated for chlorine poisoning. At Mission Highlands, in the hills above the city of Sonoma, the "rich and famous" gathered to save their expensive homes. Frank Bartholomew, chairman of the board of United Press International and a Sonoma resident, "covered" the story for his wire service, listing the names of important people –chairman of Matson Navigation, an Armco executive, at least two hero-generals- who joined firefighters on the line. The great fire burned to the edge of Highway 12 and the outskirts of Sonoma, before the wind shifted and then died and the danger passed. When the smoke had cleared, residents counted 111 permanent homes and 24 summer cabins lost, along with thousands of acres of pasture land (causing ranchers to sell their stock and being again) and 105 million board feet of timber. Incredibly, no human lives were lost. And surprisingly few firefighters were injured. Bu the smell of the fire lingered long. And it only takes a gusting south wind and a few dry leaves crackling down the streets to make it come back again.
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How do you change the pic on a deals.woot deal you submitted?
I submitted a deal to deals.woot but it attached the wrong pic and I cant figure out how to correct it.
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You cant personally. Tattle on the deal and include a link to the picture you would like to use. A mod might come around and help you with getting it changed.
Tattle on it and request a picture change.
I usually print out a copy, pull the deal up, then lick the back of the picture & stick it on the screen (over the wrong picture, duh). Messy, but effective; well, for that deal and nothing else, but ya gotta make sacrifices for D.W!


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I have encountered a certain generalization of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem as folklore, and I am hoping that someone out there knows its provenance or can otherwise refer me to a source where it is discussed or proved. The statement of the theorem should look vaguely like this:
Let $X$ be a smooth, complete variety over $\mathbb{C}$ and $g$ an automorphism of $X$. Suppose also that the fixed locus of $g$ is smooth and complete (but not necessarily discrete), and let $e(g)$ denote the Euler characteristic of this fixed locus. Then $$ e(g)=\sum _{i=0}^{\dim L} (-1)^i Tr (g | H^i(X)). $$
Any help or advice you can offer is much appreciated!