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THAILAND: Ford retail sales rise 88% in 2012
By Graeme Roberts | 9 January 2013
Ford full year retail sales in Thailand for 2012 rose 88% year on year to 54,865 units, a yearly record.
Fiesta (3,369 in December, up 62% to 28,645 for the year), Ranger (up 117% to 2,922 in December and 148% to 19,745 in 2012) and Focus (232% to 782 December; 160% to 5,335 full year) set model line sales records.
December retail sales soared 234% to a monthly record of 7,210 units.
"We continued to make significant progress on our One Ford plan in 2012 and finished the year in record fashion," said Yukontorn 'Vickie' Wisadkosin, vice president, marketing, sales and service, Ford Thailand.
Ford claimed the Focus would be the best-selling nameplate globally for 2012 with the Fiesta the top global B segment car, giving the automaker the best-selling B and C segment models in the world, based on the Polk data to 30 September.
The Focus is built at the company's new US$450m plant in Rayong which came on stream in mid 2012.
Escape family SUV sales rose nearly 20% year on year to 623 units.
Ford opened 15 new dealerships across Thailand last year and plans 140 outlets by the end of 2013.
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Rouault's large, black-and-white etchings (roughly twenty-five by nineteen inches) combine a strong sense of human suffering and Catholic iconography with a masterly technique. Rouault (1871–1958) worked and reworked the etchings between 1912–18 and 1922–27 (the series was not published until 1948), and they constitute a powerful meditation on war, poverty, human venality, and redemption.
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Efforts are underway in Israel to convince Israeli President Shimon Peres to decline the Presidential Medal of Freedom Award in June unless President Barack Obama changes his mind and grants clemency to Jonathan Pollard more than 26 years after he was convicted of spying for Israel.
Peres on April 9 sent Obama a personal request asking that he release Pollard on humanitarian grounds. But on Tuesday, Matt Lehrich, a White House spokesman, said in an e-mail to The Jewish Week: "The administration's position has not changed."
Lehrich said Obama had received the Peres' letter and "appreciates hearing his views and looks forward to their next meeting."
Rabbi Pesach Lerner of the National Council of Young Israel, who has worked for years to win Pollard's freedom, said of the White House statement: "This response is very unfortunate, to say the least."
He said efforts to convince Peres not to accept the award, the nation's highest civilian honor, unless Obama changes his mind would be up to Israelis to pursue. He noted that more than 40,000 Israelis have signed an online petition to that effect. The rabbi added that in the meantime he would continue to "gather more across the board support" for Pollard's release.
Pollard, 57, returned to his prison cell Sunday after spending 10 days in a nearby hospital after complaining of abdominal pain. He spoke by phone with his wife, Esther, for about two-minutes after his return and she said later that he sounded weak and had found it difficult to speak.
Rabbi Lerner said doctors were unable to learn the reason for Pollard's abdominal pain and that he was returned to his cell in Butner, N.C., without any medication. He pointed out that Pollard has twice been hospitalized with kidney stones and has other medical problems.
Peres' letter to Obama was not the first time he has interceded with Obama in Pollard's behalf. Just a year ago, he hand delivered to Obama a letter from Pollard in which Pollard expressed remorse and begged for his sentence to be commuted.
One day before sending his letter last week, Peres met in Jerusalem with Pollard's wife, Esther. She reportedly told him that her husband's deteriorating health was such that it might be too late if Peres waited until June to plead for her husband's release.
"I ask that you contact Obama today, it will make the difference between life and death — if he's still alive," she was quoted as telling Peres, adding that she did not want to become a widow.
Peres' letter to Obama was hand delivered to Daniel Shapiro, the U.S. ambassador to Israel. In it, Peres is reported to have thanked the president for the positive attitude and great friendship the U.S. has demonstrated towards Israel, and emphasized the great concern the Israeli people and the Pollard family have in light of Jonathan Pollard's deteriorating health. He then is said to have requested clemency based on humanitarian grounds and the fact that Pollard has already served 26 years in prison.
Just a day earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement issued to coincide with Passover, said the "Jewish holiday of freedom should become Pollard's private holiday of freedom. I will continue working toward his release."
On April 11, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations renewed its request for Obama to commute Pollard's sentence. It said its members had visited Pollard in prison several months ago and "came away concerned about his health and the medical challenges he faced. … Given his clear expressions of remorse and pledges regarding his activities upon release, we believe the commutation [is warranted]."
Among those in Israel pressing for Peres to refuse the Medal of Honor unless Pollard is freed is Uriel Ariel, a member of the Knesset who chairs the Knesset Lobby for Pollard. He was quoted as saying that without Pollard's release, Peres should "consider giving up on receiving the Medal of Freedom from Obama and canceling his upcoming visit with him."
Rabbi Lerner said he agreed with that position.
"I think it would be a contradiction in terms," he explained. "I think he would have a problem accepting the Freedom Award when Jonathan is still in prison and when the person giving the award" has the power to change that, Rabbi Lerner said.
"I'd tell him to stay home," he added. "I'd probably tell him to respectfully decline. The president, the prime minister, the rabbis and a super majority of the Knesset all want Pollard home. Combine that with his ill health and the unfair treatment he has received for more than 26 years and it would be a contradiction for Peres to be up there accepting the award. It would not be good for anybody."
Meanwhile, one Israeli columnist wrote that should Pollard die in prison, "our whole generation will die just a little. … If he dies, Israel's relationship with the U.S. will be forever marred."
"We will all bear the stain of having not helped the man who risked his life to protect Israel," Yishai Fleisher wrote in the online publication of Yediot Achronot. "When our children will ask us, 'Were you around when Jonathan Pollard was alive? Why did he die in prison?' The shameful answer will be, `Yes, I was around and I did not do enough to help him ….'"
"To remind you," Fleisher added, "Pollard was a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who passed information to Israel, an ally, about its own self-defense. He was caught and agreed to a plea bargain, and instead of getting two to four years like agents who spied against the U.S. for enemy states, Pollard got life in prison without parole."
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote in an editorial that the campaign to win Pollard's freedom should be done "quietly, behind the scenes, not in public."
It said the White House's negative response to Israeli entreaties to release Pollard means that the U.S. "believes that every nation, including Israel, has the right to treat its traitors as it sees fit, and that Pollard's incarceration is an internal matter that is out of bounds to foreign meddling."
The Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon last week as saying that the reason members of the American intelligence community have steadfastly opposed Pollard's release is because of their belief that Pollard had an accomplice. He said the U.S. had offered to release him in exchange for the name of the accomplice but that Pollard had refused. Ayalon is quoted as saying Pollard worked alone. He did not respond to requests for an interview.
But Rabbi Lerner said such talk is irrelevant because Obama has it within his discretion to simply sign clemency papers and Pollard he would be freed. He noted that a letter sent to the court at the time of Pollard's sentencing by then Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger has never been released and that it has been withheld from Pollard's own lawyers.
Rabbi Lerner said Pollard did read the letter 26 years ago and that Pollard said there was nothing in it that would justify keeping him imprisoned all this time. But the full extent of the stacks of documents Pollard gave the Israelis has never been disclosed. It reportedly included information Israel used to assassinate a senior PLO official in Tunisia in 1988.
Despite the opposition of the American intelligence community to Pollard's release, Rabbi Lerner said many former senior government officials have signed letters supporting Pollard's clemency. Among them are former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Schultz; Lawrence Korb, Weinberger's assistant secretary of defense at the time; former CIA Director R. James Woolsey; Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and former Vice President Dan Quayle.
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May Mr. Pollard find peace whether he is released or not. Mr. Obama should exercise his Executive privilege to pardon some one who was assisting an ally in our national self defense. Israel was and is our ally; and there cannot be any espionage charges brought against an ally or one of its own operatives.
Pollard was a U.S. Navy intelligence analyst who passed information to Israel.
Violations of the Espionage Act. Pollard had passed tens of thousands of documents
In 1987, Pollard began his life sentence. His wife, Anne, was sentenced to five years in prison but was paroled after three and a half years she emigrated to Israel
Espionage, is a serious offence in the United States conspiracy adds to this case He was paid which added to his case.
The State of Israel did admit, nformed him to do such all the while he was in employment by the US Navy.
Except he shouldn't have gotten a life sentence in the first place. The maximum he should have got was 7 years! And BTW he wasn't spying against the US - the documents contained information on Israel's enemies, which were also America's enemies. To have shared this information with Israel would have been valuable to the US.
Jonathan Pollard's extraordinary, and ongoing, sentence is an absolute disgrace to the present American Government and every one preceding it since 1987. Shame, America! Land of the free.
Here is an example of outrageous Hutzpah.
America gives Israel $3 BIILION Dollars plus each year in aid in addition to
military aid and weapons to ensure Israel's military superiority in the Middle East
When threats emerge to Israel's security, as in the threat of Iran's nuclear program, to Israel, the USA gives continuous unambiguous support to ensure Israel's security.
When Israeli Presidents and Prime mInisters come to Washington for Reaffirmation of US support to ensure Israel's security, the US President is demonized for not granting clemency to a US citizen who sold America's most sensitive secrets and who became an Israeli citizen while in prison.
America gives Israel billions of $$$ in aid and is there to back Israel militarily, and our President and we are vilified as anti-semitic because we will not release someone who would have sold Israel's secrets if he had had access to them. Enough.


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Thread: Worst paddle out
Nov 28, 2012, 02:22 AM
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Nov 28, 2012, 05:29 AM
I have never seen anyone successfully duck dive a decent wave on a longboard... So I googled it like you said and almost everything says it's next to impossible to do. How do you do it?
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Nov 28, 2012, 12:19 PM
Actually, I surf with a couple very seasoned surfers (20+ years experience), and they now ride longboards until it gets well overhead. They cannot duck dive their boards. They usually roll them to get through bigger waves.
Actually, I found this on google: http://howtobuyasurfboard.net/techni...-in-big-water/
That is what I do, and I do not call it a duck dive. When it is higher than 4 ft, I use the second method of diving while holding on to the back where the lease fastens. Not the best methods, but it works.
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Definitely not the same as duck diving a shortboard but similar.
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Nov 28, 2012, 04:56 PM
It's not hard, just tricky. It's all in the little hook/corkscrew maneuver and then making sure the tail follows the nose under. I started doing it long before ever stumbling across that article.
No one ever told me it wasn't possible. I miss that one a lot.
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[QUOTE=zaGaffer;147936]How do you think people get guns or long boards out into big waves? I don't know how tall or strong you are or how much you weigh; but it doesn't matter, just about anyone can duck dive just about any board. It's a question of mechanics, not muscle.
hey i have a 6'8" board and i weigh 150.. i cannot seem to duck dive i just get the nose into the water and it wont go down anymore..
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Nov 30, 2012, 02:53 PM
Try tipping it over on it's side and driving the rail down and under with like a scooping motion. That gets the nose down... then use your foot to sink the tail as best you can. This technique works best when approaching the oncoming wave at an angle.
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Prai mole in Florianopolis Brazil on a big day for me.
Pretty much impossible to paddle out.
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Nov 28, 2012, 04:03 AM
^ Not heavy but a long Indo paddle story. I started at HH Sanur which is already 1/3 off a mile out caught some waves pealing nicely down the reef...thought 'grass is greener' it looks better further up the reef...paddled up their caught some more waves talked to some Aussies... 'grass is greener' got the better of me again paddled up the reef caught more waves talked to some Aussies... repeat the process a couple more times till I'm like a mile out not quite to Hyatt but scary far when you realize your all by yourself at a unfamiliar spot and no one knows where you are in the midst of tiger shark country...the tide dropped quickly causing the waves to closeout in knee deep water over reef. Could I take the direct route in? Sure but off the reef the water gets deeper and I'm in no mood for a 3/4 mile paddle with the jaws theme playing in my head. So I take beatings on closeouts the mile or so back down the reef to sanur by the time I got back the tide was so low I could walk most of the 1/3 of a mile straight in to the beach. Luckily by then a few years of Micronesia had turned my feet into virtual reef booties. Not the longest paddle ever but longest in a strange place. A lot of the spots in Micronesia were 1/2 to 3/4 mile+ paddles but reefs and passes not continuous whitewater.
\nHeaviest paddle out? Beachies OBX at OH-DOH for sure. Florida super storm Sandy was still playful at that size. OBX gets heavy at that size...one of two times I've almost drown.
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Nov 28, 2012, 11:42 AM
For me, it was out on Parramore Island, VA, before the Nature Conservancy took it over. We used to go out there over spring break and camp for a week at a time. We'd kayak out with food and water and tents... surfboards strapped to our boats or towing behind... because it was pretty much uninhabited and had no water. You had to time the trips out and back with the tide because it can be a tough paddle against the current through the back bays and creeks. One trip we knew we'd be getting huge surf, because a storm was bearing down, and taking the ferry from Cape May to Lewis was a rough one, with the boat rolling side to side so hard that looking out the window it was... water... sky... water... sky. When we finally parked the truck in Wachapreague, loaded up, and hit the water, we knew we'd be cutting it close with daylight. We just got there at dark, got set up and tried to sleep. But we couldn't... the muffled roar of storm surf filtering through the trees from the other side of the island all night was too scary and exciting to let our minds go to rest.
\nThe next day we suited up at first light and walked through the woods to the beach. It was big and breaking way out... I don't even know how many sets of sandbars you had to paddle over to get to the outside, but it was breaking so far out you couldn't really see where the outside was setting up. The current was running like a river, so we walked waaaaay up the beach and jumped in. There was no timing it... it was just non stop pounding surf. We never made it to the outside. We ended up drifting for MILES struggling to make it out, and just never did. Finally we started to see we were coming to the south end of the island, so we just came in and walked back, exhausted and defeated.
\nThe next day was perfect, overhead barrels (mostly lefts) and offshore. From hell to heaven in 24 hours.
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Playa Hermosa, CR. First time on a new twin fin. It was pretty heavy and mostly closing out. I paddled for a solid 45 minutes. It was the only time I haven't made it out as an experienced surfer. The only guy catching anything was getting towed in with a ski. It was real sketchy getting back to the beach, as I had been pushed down near the rocks.
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OBX lighthouse on a bigger day...sweep down the beach can be brutal. Denied 4 times.
They say OB SF is the worst of the worst, but I've never been there.
I've never had a problem at any reef breaks, Hawaii, Indo, Puerto Rico, etc.
But anytime the water is really really cold, like NE water 40 and below, the paddle outs are always worse, even if the conditions aren't as bad. I'd rather take a beating in warm water than 35 degree water with a 5 mil w/ hood, boots, and gloves, any day of the week.
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I've lived on the east coast, hawaii, and cali, and I think the worst consistently difficult paddle out for "regular guy" surfers like myself is Ocean Beach SF. It is such a pain that most of the reports include a paddle-out time ("took me 45 min to get out").
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Nov 28, 2012, 02:23 PM
eh, I've made plenty of walks of shame, no biggie on the east coast breaks. It's nice actually, the ocean self regulates here. If you can make it out, go for it. No channel to stumble out into and then get raped on a wave you shouldn't be surfing in the first place. I did paddle out on the wrong side of a pier once, realized this about 1/2 way out when the first set came though. That was interesting. Broke the board and shredded the wetsuit on the barnacles
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Nov 28, 2012, 02:46 PM
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i've surfed blacks when it was around head high, but never bigger. i can imagine surfing there during a big swell is a recipe for some rough beatings. one of the worst paddle outs i've experienced happened a few years ago at overhead marias in pr, ona board that was way too short on a day with a ridiculous current. i ended up finally making it out there and caught a wave at dogmans, broke my leash duck diving a clean up set on the way back out and ended up swimming/getting pummeled all the way to the inside where my board was floating. A friend of mine also lost his board to the clean up set and had to swim in with me. He definitely helped keep me from panicking on the swim in, as I had never experienced anything that heavy before. Im pretty sure he ended up paddling back out, but after the initial paddle out and the subsuquent swim in, I was done. Besides this experience,any winter swell at home (NY) has the potential to leave you stuck on the inside, paddling till you're exhausted, without having caught a wave.
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My toughest paddle out/most memorable, would have to be down in Rodanthe a few years back. There was a huge south swell, with a good 8 mph south to north current. I didn't want to paddle out, but I let my two crazy friends talk me into it. We paddle out just north of the pier and by the time I made it out, I was just passing S Turns (around 2 miles down the beach). The waves were just freight training rights, a couple feet overhead and more rectangles than round, just throwing out thiiiick barrels. I kept missing waves, half because they were impossible, half because I couldn't bring my self to jump over the ledge. Finally I realized that I couldn't see Rodanthe anymore and that I was going to have to make it to shore at some point. I paddle as far in as a I could and caught a medium sized one, and it was by far the fastest wave I've ever caught.
\nI was so stoked I paddled out for one more and in the process, took the heaviest lip to the head during a duckdive that I saw stars. My head almost got smashed into my board and I was immediately sucked back over the falls upside down and throughly thrashed, but I didn't let go of my board, even though it was way oversized for me/conditions (6'2 Santa Cruz fish, I only weighed in around 145).
\nAnyways, I finally made it to hwy 12 and started the 5 mile walk back to Rodanthe with my thumb out, trying to hitch a ride. I must have seen 20 empty pickup trucks drive by (fishermen hate surfers I guess) before a chick in a tacoma with only room on the tailgate to sit, gave me a ride back to town. It took me a couple nervous hours to find my other to buddies by driving down HWY 12 and running across the dunes looking for them up and down the beach.
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Nov 28, 2012, 06:55 PM
\nOcean Beach-' + '-It just gets insane
\nMoss Landing-' + '-' + '-Can be almost as bad as O beach
\nPuerto-' + '-' + '-Can really be rough when it gets well overhead but then it just lets you out sometimes
\nAny descent sized beach break when the h20 is low 50s or below-' + '-' + '-' + '-ugh
\nStrictly for length of paddle, Santa Catalina is a journey there and back-' + '-like half an hour
\nI was also on a boat trip to a no name break breaking half a mile off land in Nica one time and a dude and I drifted down the break a bit and it was IMPOSSIBLE to get back out after catching a couple waves -' + '-' + '- and of course we had to to get to the boat so we had to get back out. I managed to punch through after about 10 minutes but the other guy was ducking diving waves for 45 minutes about 15 feet away from me...it was crzy
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\nThat's intense man. Had a similar experience in RI during pre-hurricane swell. I tend to agree with Lee that the right coast is self-regulating, but everyone has those moments where the force of the ocean shocks them, and one of the craziest for me was during Irene last year. I was watching the path predictions early, so I went into angry broad deterrence mode. I planned a "getaway weekend" with the girl near the beach (that is generally clean during solid E/SE swell) before she heard about the storm and subsequently wanted to spend the weekend watching point break and listening to the rain... I've digressed.
\nThe point I was going to make was I believe it was Sunday right at the end of August, and you could tell the hurricane was passing. The barometer was still all screwed up , winds were ~30mph NNW, it still wasn't friendly out. I was parked on a bluff overlooking a NE facing beachbreak w/ miles of beach north and south. The ocean was still looking a bit discourteous, and after an hour of convincing myself the waves were shaping into a-frames, although uncomfortably large and most likely unmakeable, I considered suiting up. At this point an SUV driven by a once-hot soccer mom pulled up. Immediately two kids, maybe 17, jump out with bodyboards, sprint down the cliff just frothing and jump in. I'm not kidding when I say within one minute, the sideshore had swept them so far north they were gone - couldn't see them from the cliff. Until then I never thought someone was going to literally get taken into the Atlantic. It must have hit the mom all of a sudden because she stopped smiling, then she started losing her sh*t. I told her to follow me to the next beach, about 2 miles north, because there was no way they were making it back there. Some guys used to intentionally drift the beaches, but not like this. She followed me to the next beach and we just watched. After about 20 mins of waiting we were about to make some calls. Finally two black dots came into view on the beach… from the north. They were panicked and said they tried coming as soon as they got in but they had absolutely no control – they went north and then got pulled into a rip and they were fortunate to hang onto their boards and caught some lucky waves which eventually deposited them on the beach...3 miles from where they went in. Hurricanes carry a lot of power. Anyway I'm sure that would have been my worst paddle out had I made it in haha. Sorry for carrying on and a lack of paragraph separation but thanks for the good stories.
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Nov 29, 2012, 10:51 PM
DOH plus at Hermosa. It was brutal. Nobody was out except a couple of guys towing. My friends and i were going out nor matter what being that we just got off the plane and were so stoked to surf...
\nAfter 45 min of duckdiving I made it out. Took 1 wave, got the barrel of my life along with 2 of the best turns. I should have kicked out after the barrel but I was too stoked. A 2 story wall of water crashed on my head and I got thrashed for what I felt was 2 minutes, probably closer to 20 sec.. But, when I tell people it's 2 minutes. The black sand made it so dark.
\nI washed up in to water I can stand in, got my **** together and walked outto applause on the beach. I thought they saw my barrel and I felt like Slater. Then I pulled my leash to grab my board and realized why they were clapping. My shorts were on the other end of my leash. Thank god it didn't snap or my walk up the beach a lot more embarressing.
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Nov 30, 2012, 12:28 AM
when it gets big on north costa beachies its about a 1/2 mile paddle out. went at it for a half hour just to have a clean up set come through and break my leash. lucky my buddy was headed back out when it happened to assist. still pretty scary
\ngreat stories/thread
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Nov 30, 2012, 12:27 PM
\nLike two weeks ago I decided to go surf first street (...VB). Almost got run over by a pontoon boat and two jet ski's. It was 2-3ft.
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Nov 30, 2012, 01:50 PM
Agree with the Ocean Beach/Moss Landing guys. It gets crazy out there!
\nMy scariest *moments* were all in Hawaii paddle-outs, but more because of huge freak sets than the setup's themselves. I usually found the paddle-outs to be quite comfortable, even on the big days, so long as I scouted the terrain before getting in the water. That was actually a curse in some ways, because it was easy to get in WAY over my head at a time when my false confidence often surpassed the skillz.
\nAll in all, however, it's still those Jan-March days in good ole MD, when the waves are barely overhead but the water frigid, the air even colder, and the winds howling. I get so cold duck-diving that I literally feel my sanity leaving the body. Sometimes I'll start screaming profanity because it's just so damn agonizingly cold and I don't know what else to do about it...probably really funny for those watching, but whatever.
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This is a fun thread, I've never had the pleasure of an Ocean Beach thrashing but as a long boarder, have had a few days where you can't believe how far and long you have to paddle. I can recall several days at Boca Barranca where if you don't find the right gap, you are thrashing through some very push long-period swell. The bigger it is the farther out it breaks, so you're talking about quite the ridiculous paddle. Probably 1,000 paddle strokes on a longboard to get outside. It is a point break so you have the alternative of paddling around the break, but that can be 1/2 mile.
\nFor me, my most memorable paddle out was an October day at Assateague, MD. It was a hurricane swell and I stood on the beach with a couple of buddies intimidated by the walls of whitewater pushing across the trough and then re-forming to create some incredible shore pound. After watching for a while we decided to suit up and head out. I was a relative newby, had been surfing a lot that year, but not for a long time. I saw what I thought was a gap and started to head out and suddenly I went from being in thigh deep water to being on dry sand and looked up to a huge shorebreak wave that detonated on top of me flinging me and my board up onto the beach.
\nI've always been a bit hard-headed (ask my wife) so I picked up my board and chose another gap and started paddling. When the first wall of whitewater hit me, I couldn't believe the power in the water and how it thrashed my body as I tried to fight through it. I kept digging hard to get outside as my heart pounded. I was almost completely out of gas and almost outside, when my buddy Hank looks over and yells that a cleanup set was coming. I dug deep and put my chin down and gave it everything I had left to scratch for the horizon. I made the first two waves of the set but the third wave loomed large and looked like I was a goner. I was totally spent yet found a way to keep paddling and just as I was cresting the top I felt as if my leash was tugging me backwards. With two last strokes I broke loose from the grasp and was outside.
\nI was completely exhausted and wound up sitting outside for an hour before I had the gumption to try catching some waves. I wound up getting some nice rides before I broke my board and had to swim the two pieces in. My buddy Hank graciously offered to loan me a board, but I declined and went birding the rest of the afternoon.
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Nov 30, 2012, 03:19 PM
Duppies, Barbados @ 10+ feet. The currents are weird out there even when its smaller, this was insane with waves breaking through the channel and a constant current trying to draw you back into the cliffs of death. I even got knocked back on my ass in the keyhole trying to punch through the 6' Waimea shorebreak-esque craziness.
\nIf you've seen it that big out there, you know what I'm talking about.
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Nov 30, 2012, 04:35 PM
Big Nor'easter swells in New England are definitely brutal for the cold alone, but the worst I've taken was definitely at Punta de Lobos, Chile - double overhead+ with strong onshore flow keeping you pinned into the rocks by the El Mirador section. Spent 30 minutes plus duckdiving waves while essentially stationary, less than 20 feet off the rocks, before finally getting a window and sneaking through a 3-foot wide gap between rocks and getting into the open ocean on the inside.
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Hurricane Sandy pre-swell at Lincoln - Long Beach NY. For those who don't know there are rock Jetti's about every 500 - 1000 feet at Long Beach. Makes it very difficult for the beach to hold large swells and there are close outs one after another relentlessly from Jetti to Jetti. The only way to ride a wave was to get out past the Jettis to catch the bigger sets that broke before getting into the Jetti zone. The only problem is that once you go out farther than the Jetti, there's a straight rip current to the left down the whole coast of New York. So I tried making it out past the constant closeouts for about an hour and kept getting swept back to the shore the whole time. Finally I luckily found a calmer time to give it a go and I made it out! Then of course I got swept along by the current down the beach. It was just dragging me left, luckily not out to sea, but it was the fastest current I've even been caught in. The current was so strong that I couldn't even paddle back in towards the shore as I was being taken to the left. So I began to realize that it would be a huge effort to get back into the shore after spending all of my energy just to get out.
If you are familiar with this beach you will know that the break at National Street is the widest spot between the Jetti's. So I knew that I would have the best chance to make it into the shore on that street without getting swept into the rock Jetti's. So I waited to get swept down to that street resting my arms knowing that I would have to paddle as hard as I could to make it into the shore before being swept into the rock Jetti. So as I past the right Jetti I began paddling as hard as I could towards the shore and I was still being swept sideways. Finally I realized I wasn't going to make it in time before I drifted down to the left Jetti at National Street about 1000 feet away. Then I saw a huge set coming, but I was in too far to ride it. I had a choice, turn around and try paddling back out with a huge set coming or try paddling into the shore and hope that the waves break giving me a nice white water push into the shore before I hit the Jetti coming up. I decided to paddle towards the shore as I looked over my shoulder and saw a huge one curling over behind me. I thought there was a chance that I could catch it and ride it in. I was picked up as I was paddling hard, and I popped up on the board and began to glide down the front of the face. Then all of the sudden it just completely closed out and I was thrown down the front of the wave. By this time I looked to my left and saw the Jetti was right there and that this wave was sending me right into it. I quickly thought that my best chance was to put my legs straight out in front of me and land on my back trying to keep my head from hitting the rocks first. I slammed my foot and thigh into the big rocks first. My board flipped up into the air and came down slamming the rail right on my head. Then there was so much force behind the wave that it flipped me over the rocks and spit me out the other side and pushed me into the shore. I limped up onto the beach and collapsed with blood running down my foot. I reached up and felt a big bump on my head where the board had slammed me. There was a huge gash in my board and a chunk of my hair stuck in it. I had a huge bruise on my thigh for a couple days and my foot had a gash on it. I looked around and didnt see any other surfers out and I just lay there catching my breath.
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Holy Sh$&t! Just reading your post got my heart pounding.
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pascuales mexico on a big day. that wave is scary as hell and jacks up out of the middle of nowhere. snapped 3 boards in one day.
locally i would say a reef around here which detached my bicept on the paddle out walking on rocks and the board got ripped out of my hand i tried to hold on to it which cranked my arm back and now my bicept looks like i do curls all day (it turned into a positive)
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Nov 30, 2012, 11:08 PM
At that point I would have quit trying...actually about 40 mins before that point I would have quit trying. Dang. So do the jettys not run perpendicular all the way to the beach? I ask because the current at the correctly corresponding side of jetty in VB sucks you right out...sometimes dry hair.. on the rare OH washmachine day
So I tried making it out past the constant closeouts for about an hour and kept getting swept back to the shore the whole time
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\nIt does, but the long shore current drags you to the left so quickly that you are out of that strong rip current before it's able to get you to the outside.
\nI too surfed that day, and the paddle out was definitely no joke. Took me about 30 mins to get out, and the longshore was nuts.
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Dang ... glad you're safe ... just curious, at some point the long-shore would have taken you to somewhere more hospitable for landing without risking injury on the jetties, no?
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Yea wow that sounds hectic. Glad you're ok to surf another day. In RI recently I found the backside of a particular point was prominent enough to catch some very legit swell and protected enough to make it swing around the point and clean up. I finally caught some good rides all the way down the point, and when I kicked out, all the water was washing into a corner against the rocky beach and a large jetty - the current was super strong. It took me five mins or so paddling parallel to the shore just to stay in place to stay off the jetty while letting waves wash me closer to shore. I literally just made it to shore before getting pinned against the jetty - and yes it was very uncomfortable haha. Sounds like you went through what i was afraid was gonna happen. Damn that sounded painful. I love hearing about the warm water spots - and I second the request for more info on Punta de Lobos in Chile - always has been alluring. From what I'm reading Ocean Beach must be a beast.
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That's intense man. Had a similar experience in RI during pre-hurricane swell. I tend to agree with Lee that the right coast is self-regulating, but everyone has those moments where the force of the ocean shocks them, and one of the craziest for me was during Irene last year. I was watching the path predictions early, so I went into angry broad deterrence mode. I planned a "getaway weekend" with the girl near the beach (that is generally clean during solid E/SE swell) before she heard about the storm and subsequently wanted to spend the weekend watching point break and listening to the rain... I've digressed.
The point I was going to make was I believe it was Sunday right at the end of August, and you could tell the hurricane was passing. The barometer was still all screwed up , winds were ~30mph NNW, it still wasn't friendly out. I was parked on a bluff overlooking a NE facing beachbreak w/ miles of beach north and south. The ocean was still looking a bit discourteous, and after an hour of convincing myself the waves were shaping into a-frames, although uncomfortably large and most likely unmakeable, I considered suiting up. At this point an SUV driven by a once-hot soccer mom pulled up. Immediately two kids, maybe 17, jump out with bodyboards, sprint down the cliff just frothing and jump in. I'm not kidding when I say within one minute, the sideshore had swept them so far north they were gone - couldn't see them from the cliff. Until then I never thought someone was going to literally get taken into the Atlantic. It must have hit the mom all of a sudden because she stopped smiling, then she started losing her sh*t. I told her to follow me to the next beach, about 2 miles north, because there was no way they were making it back there. Some guys used to intentionally drift the beaches, but not like this. She followed me to the next beach and we just watched. After about 20 mins of waiting we were about to make some calls. Finally two black dots came into view on the beach… from the north. They were panicked and said they tried coming as soon as they got in but they had absolutely no control – they went north and then got pulled into a rip and they were fortunate to hang onto their boards and caught some lucky waves which eventually deposited them on the beach...3 miles from where they went in. Hurricanes carry a lot of power. Anyway I'm sure that would have been my worst paddle out had I made it in haha. Sorry for carrying on and a lack of paragraph separation but thanks for the good stories.


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My case for my NAS, very small, sturdy, rolled edges inside, suitable for HTPC. But i decided to use it for my NAS.
Bought a CF-to-SATA adapter from eBay for 5$ shipped, planned to put the FreeNAS OS here, although I could just boot the whole thing from a USB stick.
All the SATA cables plugged in tightly against the 24 pins adapter.
Bought the wrong picoPSU, i needed a 24 pins, but accidentally bought a 20 pins. Went to buy a 20-24pin adapter for 3$.
Planning to go to Home Depot and grab another 0.99c metal plate, mount it there, then mount my SATA adapter over it.
Originally I was going to do a RAID1 NAS, but decided to fit one more HDD on top and make it a RAID5. On the left, you can see my manual fan controller for 2 of my back system fans. I had this fan controller for a while, but never installed it on my PC.
The little picoPSU that will be powering up my NAS. I think i will just leave it hanging there.
My DIY SATA power cables. Made a splitter cable to power the 2 HDD at the bottom, and made another extra long power cable to go all the way to the top to power my 3rd HDD. All HDDs are 2TB.
Here you can see how small the case really is. I could actually fit in a DVD-rom in there, but who still use DVD nowadays...? External USB DVD is the way to go.
I had to hack up my 20-to-24 pin adapter to tap the 12v for the CPU's 4-pins molex. Here the 2 yellow 12v wires had already been cut and soldered individually. I also need to solder the other 2 ground wires.
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Special thanks to Marvin donating his 8GB CF card.
From first boot to installation took less than 15 minutes. Very easy to setup.
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Torrence has spent several years in the Wiregrass. For the last 3 seasons he's been the linebackers coach at Enterprise. He's also made coaching stops at Hoover, Northview and T. R. Miller. This will be the first head coaching job for Torrence.
You may remember him as a linebacker on the 1992 National Champion Alabama team. Torrence takes over a football program that has struggled the last couple of seasons. Donnie Smith resigned after a 1-9 record in his only season with the Warriors. The Warriors were also 1-9 in 2009.


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New Ways to Classify Bipolar Disorders: Going from Categorical Groups to Symptom Clusters or Dimensions
- Chantal HenryAffiliated withINSERM, Unité U955Université Paris-Est, Faculté de Médecine, UMR-S 955, fondation FondaMentalAP-HP, Groupe Henri-Mondor Albert-Chenevier, Pôle de Psychiatrie Email author
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Current psychiatric disorder classifications are based exclusively on categorical models, which were designed to increase the reliability of diagnoses. However, this system has some limitations, and various psychiatric disorders may be classified using a dimensional approach, which is more appropriate when no clear boundaries exist between entities or when examining various features on a continuum. Thus, the forthcoming DSM-5 appears to be undertaking a hybrid approach by including categorical models associated with dimensions. We aim to review examples of dimensions or symptom clusters associated with a categorical approach that could be useful in refining bipolar disorder classification. We selected predominant polarity, psychotic symptoms, inhibition/activation behavioral level, and emotional reactivity to define mood episodes, impulsivity/suicidality/substance misuse, and cognitive impairment. The selection was based on the fact that these dimensions or symptom clusters are currently being discussed to be implemented in the DSM-5 and/or may orientate toward the choice of specific treatments and represent more homogeneous and thus more appropriate subgroups for research purposes. In the future, there will be a need to identify biomarkers that can definitively validate the use of these criteria.
KeywordsBipolar disorder Dimension Category Polarity Impulsivity Emotion
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Grading My HDTV Homework
A Columnist Finally Takes the HDTV Plunge, Unleashing a Tidal Wave of Other Purchases
Last month's column about taking the HDTV plunge generated lots of mail and discussion. Folks who knew their way around HD offered point-by-point advice and debunked some misconceptions I had -- for which I'm very grateful. At the same time, folks who shared my anxiety about big price tags and a blizzard of techie terms wanted to know what I'd bought and how it'd worked out. The need to give them an answer probably kept me from backing off and dithering for another few months.
To my amusement (but not to my surprise), none of my four tentative conclusions held up to further study. To review, here's what I'd decided was best for my wife and me -- and what actually happened:
1. We want a flat panel. And we bought one. But it's not on the wall and it's not going up there any time soon. We live in New York City, where even the smallest renovation project is complicated and expensive. Putting our TV on the wall and hiding the wires and cables would require -- at minimum -- an electrician, a plasterer, matching old paint and dealing with our building's co-op board. That would be expensive and tedious even if it all went as planned, which it wouldn't. My wife and I quickly decided it wasn't worth it. I'm not sure what Everest-sized leap of faith made me think otherwise.
2. We want plasma. My concern about viewing angles was outdated. We wound up buying an LCD. I also was impressed with DLP sets, which while not flat can be a good bargain compared with LCD and plasma.
3. We want a 50-inch set. This was the TV equivalent of one's eyes being bigger than one's stomach. We bought a 46-inch set, and even that was too big.
4. We're not building a home theater. Ha ha. Guess again.
In other words, your typical tech project.
So what did I buy? A Sony Bravia KDL-46S2010, which is a 46-inch LCD set that supports 720p and has one HDMI connection. (Funny how a month ago that sentence would have been incomprehensible to me.) The Bravia was a friend's recommendation -- a smart friend who'd done meticulous homework and vetted many models in her own HDTV search. (Thanks Megan!) Sony's made such a botch of entering new markets in recent years -- such as getting its lunch thoroughly eaten by Apple in digital music -- that I was a bit wary of a Sony TV. But between Megan's endorsement, the Bravia's good reviews and my own inspection, I was convinced. (I've only had my set for a week, so that shouldn't be considered an endorsement.)
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The fact that the set isn't 1080p or 1080i didn't throw me -- we sit far enough from our set that the premium didn't seem worth it. That single HDMI connection bothered me a bit more, but I decided I would reserve the HDMI connection for the upconverting DVD player and use component video to connect the TV and the HD cable box, with the non-HD TiVo box hooked up via composite video.
I felt like I'd done my homework, but it was still nerve-wracking walking back into the store where I'd inspected TVs knowing I'd walk out down nearly $2,000. And then I didn't, because the retailer -- a New York City institution I'd always respected -- started playing games with me. The price had jumped dramatically in the couple of days since I'd had a conversation with a very helpful saleswoman, and in her absence everyone else professed shock that such a price could have been offered. I noted that the sticker on the TV and a sign next to the TV displayed different prices and was told that a customer could have switched stickers. I was amused when the saleswoman peeled off the sticker to reveal another one that was still lower than the price now being quoted -- perhaps there'd been a race to the bottom among sneaky sticker-switching customers. I walked out of that retailer and don't plan to ever walk back in again -- I took my business to another retailer, had a far better experience, and a day later had a giant box in my living room.
A bunch of boxes -- if my Bravia were a shark, I'd supplied a bunch of remoras as I decided various TV peripherals were no longer up to snuff. I'd known that would happen, but it was still amusing watching it occur. First I concluded that our DVD player wouldn't cut it, and we needed an upcoverting DVD player. (After some homework, I settled on an Oppo DV-970HD.) I also bought a calibration DVD, which was probably silly. And I needed a new cable box, obtained after a brief wait in line at the cable-company office.
Learning From My Mistakes
Some tips -- based on my mistakes and some things I actually did right -- on having a good HDTV experience:
1. Measure first: Cut out a piece of cardboard the size of your TV and see how it looks at home. A big TV looks small surrounded by others in the showroom.
2. Ask questions: Don't worry if a question is dumb -- ask the salesperson, tech support, people on online forums, etc. Feeling embarrassed for a minute is better than throwing away money you can't get back.
3. Unhappy? Walk away: Lots of retailers want to sell you electronics gear. If you don't like how you're being treated or someone won't answer your questions, go someplace else.
4. Know your gear: Figure out what will connect to what, and make sure you have enough inputs and the proper inputs. Don't assume it'll all work out.
5. Write down the connections: Before you unplug everything in your existing setup, write down how it was connected. You may forget the quirks of your system.
6. Label wires: It gets messy behind the TV cabinet.
One new item did solve a longstanding problem in our house -- one I'd been embarrassed to realize existed. Emily and I had both decried the fact that dialogue was often hard to hear on our TV with its two separate speakers, but chalked that up to age or the evils of this wicked world. Nope, we needed a center speaker. I wound up buying one from Sony -- one that came with small surround speakers, too. I hadn't intended to bother with anything that smacked of home theater -- our neighbor's bedroom is right behind our living-room wall -- but then of course I'd noticed that between the kitchen counter and the mantle, two little speakers wouldn't be very intrusive. (Next up on the shopping list: subwoofer.)
Our old stereo receiver wouldn't support surround sound, but it was already curb fodder, anyway -- because I didn't have enough inputs. On our old TV, live TV went through our Series 2 TiVo box. But that wouldn't work with the Bravia -- live TV looks much worse via TiVo than on HDTV. And with two different video signals, I needed to separate the audio channels -- TiVo audio is delayed. With my receiver's antiquated PHONO input useless (told you it was old) and Tape Monitor reserved for playing digital music via iTunes, I was left with two audio inputs and three sources. I worked around this problem by running the HD box audio outputs directly into the TV, but I knew that wouldn't pass muster with Emily. ("So I switch the video and turn up the TV volume with one remote and then turn down the stereo volume with the other remote? Why?") So I bought an Onkyo A/V receiver.
Fussing with all this gear wasn't fun (OK, that's a lie -- it totally was), but happily HDTV itself lived up to the hype. The first night, I flipped over to Discovery HD in the heretofore-unexplored upper end of the cable channels and found myself gazing in fascination at … a guy sitting on a beach. He wasn't doing anything particularly interesting and I didn't have the sound working yet, but I didn't care -- I was happy to stare at the sand and the water and the sky. The next night I rented the second "Pirates of the Caribbean" movie, and while no technology could make Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley terribly interesting, gawking at the kraken and octopus-faced Bill Nighy and the color of the sea was entertainment enough.
And then there were Mets games -- the reason we'd got HDTV in the first place. An inning made everything worthwhile. Baseball was now borderline hallucinatory: I could see the pattern of paint spray on the Mets' helmets and the little lip of the decal. I kept getting distracted by fans in the front rows, because for the first time I could see details of what they were wearing or doing. But what really amazed me was the wide shot of the stadium from behind home plate -- shown upon return from most commercials. On our old TV, the scoreboard beyond Shea's center-field wall was a dark monolith with smudges of light that I knew were the out-of-town scores. On the Bravia, I could read those scores perfectly. It was like looking at a intricately detailed model of the stadium sitting on the other side of the glass.
Did I make some mistakes? Of course -- it's not a home project unless I do.
While I know we need to get used to it, 46 inches turns out to be more TV than we need. The Bravia dominates the living room (which in our Brooklyn digs means half our apartment), giving it a frat-boy bachelor feel. You can't judge a TV's size in a showroom full of them -- before you buy, cut out a piece of cardboard the size of the TV and see what it looks like. If I'd done that (and I was advised to do so), I think we would have opted for a 40-inch TV at most.
I've already seen the truth of some things HDTV-philes had warned me about: After HD broadcasts, standard TV looks blobby and blocky. HD broadcasts remain few and far between, so you wind up looking for something to watch in HD, That will seem funny in a couple of years, like the whole family staring at the test pattern on some giant set from the early 1950s. And the Mets' away games aren't in HD. (Insult to injury: The Yankees' are.)
And I've got some logistical issues to figure out. Watching TV now demands multiple remotes, unless we get a universal -- which I'd rather not do, as Emily and I are used to our TiVo remote and love it. And the biggest problem is TiVo's video and audio are now separate from the HDTV's. That means if TiVo decides to switch channels to record something, you neither see nor hear its prompt -- the HDTV simply switches channels, leaving you scrambling. (This is really fun in the middle of a key at-bat.) I'm not sure how to fix that, short of switching to a TiVo HD unit -- a big new expense I'd rather not take on.
And then there's the question of furniture -- which kept me from taking the HDTV plunge for a ridiculously long time. Right now, we're housing all this new gear on and in an armoire I beheaded. To my surprise, Emily agreed that made sense as a temporary measure until we got my Dad to make something for us, so before unpacking anything, I took a screwdriver and saw to a perfectly good piece of furniture. It seemed like a preposterous idea then and still does now. But you know what? Somehow it didn't turn out too badly. Which, I suppose, sums up our HDTV adventure so far -- I'm not sure I really needed all this gear, and there's some work yet to be done to get everything working the way it should be. But for all that, it's been fun and I'm glad I did it.
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The Kezcast – The Activision cuts and what they mean
When Activision announced it was "resting" the Guitar Hero franchise and closing studios, many assumed the worst. Keza MacDonald explains why Kotick's house is still standing.
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