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Andrew Luck: Part nerd, part jock
STANFORD, Calif. – Andrew Luck, appearing like any other slightly disheveled, scruffy college kid in army-green shorts, blue T-shirt and brown leather loafers, scrounges in his pocket and produces a prized possession.
The soon-to-graduate architectural design major and sooner-to-be-a-multimillionaire pulls out … a retro flip phone.
Stanford's scholarly All-America quarterback, whom the Indianapolis Colts confirmed will be the No. 1 selection in the first round of today's NFL draft, is not embarrassed. Of course, as the fresh face of the franchise in the post-Peyton Manning era, Luck might want to consider an upgrade.
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"I don't know how old my phone is, but it was only $10," Luck says of his decidedly un-smartphone, a slightly battered Samsung. "It is a nice subconscious way of not having the Internet at your fingertips … e-mail, Twitter or Facebook."
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Of course, Luck can easily replace his dated cellphone with newer technology when he reaches the pros. Question is, will he ever take Peyton's place?
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In his three seasons at Stanford, Luck passed for 9,430 yards and 82 TDs against just 22 INTs.
"You don't replace a guy like that," he says.
Smart fellow.
Luck is no Luddite. He texts and uses e-mail but does not have accounts with social-media monsters Twitter and Facebook. In an age of tattooed, self-branded athletes, the 22-year-old son of law school graduates is a fascinating deviation, a down-to-earth student who revels in such mundane things as being the "self-proclaimed champion of Bananagram in our apartment-dorm."
A self-described "nerd," Luck would rather pedal his bicycle across the sprawling Pac-12 school campus than roar around in a conspicuous sports car. Occasionally, he shares a 3-year-old Honda Accord with younger sister Mary Ellen, a member of the Cardinal volleyball team.
A 'Legos guy'
Hardly the rock-star quarterback, Luck recently had to borrow a bike because his was broken. "It was so bad — no brakes," he says. "I was glad I was wearing boots, because they had nice soles that I could sorta use to slide-stop."
At Stanford, Andrew Austen Luck was a genuine student-athlete, with nary a whiff of scandal and a 3.48 GPA in a rigorous academic discipline within Stanford's civil environmental engineering department. His parents theorize that his love of edifices might have been fostered by seeing "1,000 years' worth of architecture" when they lived overseas, says his father, Oliver Luck.
John Barton, director of the architectural design program, says when Luck "is in our studio, he doesn't flash anything about being a football player. He is really down to earth.
"Other instructors come up to me and say, 'You know, I've had some football players in class before, but Andrew isn't like any of them. He is really, really smart,' " Barton says.
Luck, a "Legos guy" in his youth, has one regret: "I never got to do a stadium design for a school project."
Jim Viglizzo, owner of Jimmy V's Sports Café inside the athletics building, gushingly describes Luck as the "greatest kid of all time — the real deal."
How authentic? This authentic: A tad goofy. Detests preferential treatment. Sits with freshmen. Playful. Unpretentious. Enjoys a beer with his buddies. Embodies the ideals of a Heisman Trophy winner; he twice finished as runner-up.
Last year, ESPN wanted to follow Luck on campus, including the classroom, for a TV feature. He limited the exposure, preferring to preserve some privacy and avoid disruption to fellow students, many of them exceptional in their own right.
"I like to lay low," he says.
Luck's chief competition for the top spot in the draft was Baylor's Robert Griffin III, another high-character, high-GPA quarterback and the Heisman Trophy winner. While Griffin has started to make the news media rounds, Luck has granted few interviews. He politely declined a request from USA TODAY Sports for an online video presentation or a photo shoot.
The thought of hitting the NFL's instant lottery leaves the limelight-averse quarterback wrestling with the notion of fame.
"I realize I'm very fortunate to hopefully make a lot of money playing football," he says. "I don't know if I want to abuse that privilege and make myself a larger figure than I am. I don't know how to make sense of this … (of) not getting too full of myself, realizing that I'm human.
"It is still a game. You're not saving lives or curing cancer. You are providing entertainment. Maybe you can make someone's week."
Too good to be true?
"I guess I ultimately have to take some credit, or blame, for this, but he is kind of a throwback kid," says Oliver Luck, athletics director at West Virginia University. "Every athletic director would love to have 125 football players like Andrew — kids who attend classes, complete their education in four years and who are respectful. It's not as if he's a choirboy; he has fun, too. Many people say, 'Geez, how boring.' Andrew just does his thing."
Leaving the 'Stanford Bubble'
Matt Millen, ESPN college football analyst and a former NFL general manager, has met Luck a couple of times and walked away impressed.
"He has a great awareness of people," Millen says. "He is comfortable with whom he is — he is not trying to impress. He was part Stanford egghead, part (jock). Mostly, he was a student."
Breaking down former Stanford QB Andrew Luck
In pro football, of course, he will not have the benefit of the "Stanford Bubble," a rather insular world. Luck realizes he will not be as protected in professional football.
"Maybe we don't get as many real-life problems here," he says, "but I'm not complaining."
In the NFL, Luck is considered the proverbial sure thing, but he has large horseshoes to fill with the Colts, where Manning produced at a prodigious pace during 14 seasons, including a Super Bowl triumph and a barnful of goodwill.
Ironically, their fathers — fellow quarterbacks Oliver and Archie — were teammates on the Houston Oilers in the early 1980s. They remain friends.
"Every time Peyton was on TV, my dad would tell us, 'Archie used to make me drive Peyton (and older brother) Cooper to McDonald's my rookie year,' " Luck says. "As a kid, you're thinking, 'That's amazing. My dad drove Peyton Manning around!' "
Finally, as an eighth-grader, Andrew was introduced to his boyhood idol at the Mannings' passing academy in Louisiana.
"I was excited, as any kid would be, but the skies didn't part, the angels weren't blowing trumpets," laughs Luck, who had met his share of superstars because of his father's occupation.
A major reason the Colts released Peyton Manning was Luck's availability. Still, it seems a bit awkward to the young quarterback that he helped usher Manning's exit even after the former Colt had helped counsel him in the past.
"Weird, like, 'How did this happen?' " he says.
A year ago, Luck could have locked in a $20 million-plus guaranteed contract as the likely No. 1 pick after his sophomore season. Instead, he opted to return to Stanford. He cited a desire to graduate with his class and complete the college experience, which includes a relationship with girlfriend Nicole Pechanec, a Stanford gymnast.
Of course, his team was loaded last season, too.
Under his leadership, the Cardinal were 11-2 and advanced to their second consecutive Bowl Championship Series bowl game, losing 41-38 in overtime to Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl. On the plane ride home, Luck sat with Jordan Williamson and consoled the kicker who had missed three field goal attempts.
In Luck's final two seasons at Stanford, his teams posted a combined record of 23-3 and he threw 69 touchdown passes with 18 interceptions.
While he made the decision to play one more season, there is no doubt that Luck's parents have heavily influenced the person he has become.
"My wife tells me, 'I want to spend time with his mother to know how in the world she created this kid,' " Stanford coach David Shaw says.
Elliott Allen, Luck's coach at Stratford High in Houston, remembers that he was "mature when he walked into the building as a freshman."
"He always said and did the right thing," Allen says. "He was very aware of people around him, how they felt. He knew how to make them better. He saw the picture at a very early age."
His brainy father quarterbacked West Virginia from 1978 to 1981 and was a Rhodes Scholar finalist before the Oilers drafted him 30 years ago. He played sparingly for four seasons, then earned a law degree with honors from the University of Texas, where he met his future wife, Kathy.
"Oliver is one of the most intelligent guys I've ever been around — he could run a Fortune 500 company," Allen says. "Kathy is really the backbone behind the whole deal. She is kind of quiet but very intelligent and very calculated with everything she does. I think Andrew gets a lot from her."
She declined to be interviewed for this story.
"She doesn't like the attention, like me," Luck says. "My dad has a great ability — how do I put this? — of not being bothered by it. That was something I had to learn. It didn't come naturally."
A 'less is more' world
Perhaps one reason Luck was more mature than many boys his age was that he spent his formative years living in Europe, mostly in Germany, where his father worked in various roles in the NFL's experiment with having a football league abroad.
By the time he was 11, the close-knit family had resided in 13 homes.
"Naturally, you are going to rely on your parents and siblings more, even as friends," he says.
While his father coached him in youth sports, Oliver Luck "completely backed off" once his son reached high school. Archie Manning says he realized that "in my time around Ollie and Andrew, we had similar philosophies about parenting, especially being former players."
"Mine was one of support but not interference," Manning says. "I sense that is how the Lucks do it, too. Looks like to me that they are always there for him, but they don't stick their nose too deep."
In the sometimes-tricky father-son sports relationship, Oliver Luck believes "less is more."
"I didn't want to be a helicopter parent on the sideline," he says. "We were the antithesis of a son and father who dissected a football game. I never watched a moment of film with him. You can have a lot of coaches, but you only have one dad."


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Executive Director, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Dozens of people were injured as protesters clashed with the riot police last week in Bahrain marking the second anniversary of the Saudi-led military intervention against the pro-democracy movement. Two narratives dominate the debate between those either called reformists, dissidents, or terrorists and the government of Bahrain -- the government claims that Shiite activists are collaborating with Iran to unleash chaos, while the Shiites allege that the government has committed escalating human rights abuses with Saudi Arabia's support and U.S silence, choosing repression rather than reform. This three person panel will explore these competing narratives.

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source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/busine...i-business-hedTaser Int'l Develops Shotgun Shells
PHOENIX -- The nation's largest stun-gun manufacturer is working on a new way to deliver electricity to the human body: through 12-gauge shotgun shells.
Though it's still being developed, Taser International Inc. says the new product will allow police officers and U.S. troops to hit someone from a much greater distance than its current line of Tasers, which Amnesty International has cited in more than 120 deaths.
The eXtended Range Electro-Muscular Projectile, or XREP, will be a shotgun shell designed to combine the blunt-force trauma of a fast-moving baseball with the electrical current of a stun gun.
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Just wanted to report that some of us CRAZY HARDCORE NJ hunters are battling the 25 mph winds and flood tides to chase the snow geese and today we were rewarded. I asked my long time partner Chickie today when we would shoot enough birds to not have to risk life and limb to persue these crazy birds and he said he wasn't sure but not for another 40 years or more.
We met at 5:30 to extreme flood tides, 4 foot above normal high tides, the entire bay was a boiling cauldron of white water with winds whipping the bay into a white water mess. We waited until the light began to filter out the darkness and with the trusty GPS to guide us away from the islands we threaded our way across the bay to our destination. The action was slow, but the geese were here. We saw thousands and they were flying, landing everywhere but in our spread. We were able to entice 3 snows in the morning when the conditions were crazy, and had decided to call it a day around 11AM when the sun was getting higher and the temperature was rising. The snows waited until we had picked up, watching as we were taking pictures and getting ready to leave when they began flying. We had almost left, but decided to stay and we put ourselves on the "X".
We stayed until 3PM and shot a box of shells each before deciding enough fun was had by all. It is days like this that keeps me coming back time after time, waiting for the moment when action like today's happens. Wish you all could have been there to share the fun.


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In preparation for the IMLS webinar series- Connecting to Collections– I've been thinking about some of my favorite ways that museums are merging social and tech to engage audiences. Part of the series, Using Social Media to Tell Your Collection's Stories, will take place from 2:00pm to 3:30 pm EDT on Thursday, October 28th, 2010. I'm pleased to be serving as commentator, and working with presenter Nancie Ravenel (@NancieRavenel) of the Shelburne Museum. This series is free and you can register here to learn more about how museums are utilizing social and technological elements of communication to engage audiences and stay ahead of the curve.
Technology is a powerful tool for cultivating community, and the merging of social and tech in museums is occurring more and more frequently. Here are my 41 favorite examples of museums building social capital through social media and technological endeavours.
Let's start with some museums that are making the most of social media and online community engagement's most powerful and basic building blocks:
1. Twitter. Are you following The Women's Museum on Twitter yet (@TheWomensMuseum)? This is just one museum. There are over 871 museums on twitter.
2. Facebook. The California Science Center gets visitors involved by featuring a Fan Photo Of the Week on their Facebook page. Simple, yet effective.
3. YouTube. The Renaissance Society has its own YouTube Channel that allows folks to access gallery talks and events after they've happened. In fact, a lot of museums have YouTube channels.
4. Flickr. Which museums are using Flickr as a valuable photo sharing resource and a way to communicate with visitors? Here's a taste.
5. Website. Have you noticed how many of the nation's most visited museums feature social media information above the fold on their homepage?
6. Social Media Pages. The Art Institute of Chicago has a whole page devoted to social media and interactivity. So do many other museums, like the Smithsonian (well, they have many pages….)
7. Blogging. A crew of professional sailors teamed up with Pacific Science Center educators to sail Around the Americas. Good thing they're so social; they used a blog to take us along for the ride.
8. Mobile Applications. The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis hosts Art on Call, which allows you to listen to tours on your cell phone. A lot of other museums offer this feature. MoMA was ahead of the curve when they created a mobile app for audio tours in 2008. They've recently revamped the app.
9. Foursquare. Become the Foursquare Mayor of the Vancouver Police Museum, and you and a guest receive free admission AND a 25% discount in the gift shop.
10. Virtual Conferences. The American Association for State and Local History made their annual conference accessible to folks who could not get to Oklahoma City this September by putting some of their best (in my humble opinion) conferences online in an interactive format.
Museums are taking interaction even further and building upon Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, mobile applications and web-based platforms. Check out these initiatives, competitions, and downright cool ideas (in no particular order):
11. Looking for a short-cut to becoming a museum-displayed photographer? The Denver Art Museum gives community members prime gallery realty by featuring a Flickr Cascade Installation that displays photos of the museum taken by Flickr users. Even cooler? They give proper attribution to each photographer.
12. Mixing social and tech isn't just for older folks. The Walters Art Museum gets families talking by highlighting an interactive game featuring their lovable mascot: Waltee's Quest: The Case of the Lost Art.
13. Please just visit the Adobe Museum of Digital Media. No need to take off your PJs or put your shoes on.
14. This list would be silly if it didn't include the Museum of Science and Industry's Month at the Museum. Out of 1,500 applicants, Kate has been chosen by project judges and the public to spend a full month living in the museum.
15. Now this is super sneaky. Three cheers to the International Spy Museum for creating themed geocaching adventures with a fun twist.
16. The Contemporary Jewish Museum melds art, technology, and Judaism through their new LINK initiative which bringing in monthly speakers to explore the intersection of Judaism and new technologies. I love this post about Jaron Lanier's talk.
17. I could go on forever about how the rock stars at the Brooklyn Museum engage audiences through social media. But I'll just give you this example. Oh! And 1stFans must be included. Okay. Done.
18. Combining Twitter and Flickr to engage visitors in science education? It's no problem for the Museum of Life and Science in North Carolina. They created NameThatZoom- an interactive game moderated by the museum in which folks are shown flickr photos and challenged to identify those photo via twitter using the #namethatzoom hashtag.
19. Remember playing capture the flag as a kid? Try playing it as an alternate reality game at… (are you ready?)… The Smithsonian American Art Museum.
20. Meet SCREENtxt, a real-time live text messaging and photo streaming location-based social network created by The Mattress Factory and updated/created by museum visitors. Get confused there? Their blog helps explain. Oh, and I cannot forget The Mattress Factory's iConfess!
21. Did you know that on September 1, 2010 over 340 museums took part in Ask a Curator Day on twitter and #askacurator became a trending topic?
22. If you're a tech tinkerer, you can't really beat tinkering at the Maker Faire in Detroit at The Henry Ford– the birthplace and showplace of one of the world's most famous tinkerers.
23. Like to babble about art (or rather, babble about cool videos about art)? A lot of us do. And we do that on ArtBabble, thanks to these museums.
24. The planned hijack of LACMA's twitter account by The Office star, Rainn Wilson, could easily have been called "Operation: Who's stuffy? Not This Art Museum."
25. When art museum directors at the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art talk trash regarding the Superbowl, everybody wins.
26. The Skirball Cultural Center's lovely Build a Better World Project encourages you to share how you are making the world a better place via Facebook, and hopes you'll pass the message along using small decorated tokens as powerful community symbols.
27. The Smithsonian National Museum of American History tapped into talent by conducting a YouTube competition (O Say Can You Sing) featuring folks signing the National Anthem. The winner (out of over 800 entries) got to sing the anthem at the museum and at the Baltimore Orioles vs. Atlanta Braves game on Flag Day. Check out the winners contest entry below:
28. Want to see something cool? Try making The Getty's Augsburg Display Cabinet and experience augmented reality at it's best. As it is, this project may be high on the tech and low on the social aspect. But trust me, you'll want to show a friend.
29. If it weren't for twitter and YouTube, so many folks wouldn't know about "Those About to Die, We Salute You," the downright awesome staged battle featuring warriors represented by The Queens Museum of Art (the hosts), Brooklyn Museum, The Bronx Museum, and El Museo del Barrio.
30. This is the public wiki for the Smithsonian's Web and New Media strategy process. Prepare to learn.
31. Folks at The Autry created Trading Post, a site to facilitate conversation between the museum and its visitors regarding current events.
32. One of the most powerful and important jobs of museums is storytelling. Please check out Culture Shock, a site full of digital stories by people in the North East of England.
33. The Australian Center for the Moving Image has created Generator, a "creative studio space for teachers and students to explore exemplary work by their peers and industry professionals. Comment, tag, and share creative work and education resources."
34. The Auckland Museum's Hybridiser is an interactive kiosk where visitors can create their own orchards and then share them with folks in their social networks.
35. The American Museum of Natural History's new mobile application, Explorer, has many highlights. My favorite? It allows you to easily share finds in the museum with your own networks on Facebook or Twitter.
36. Open Museum is like "Facebook meets Blogger and Flickr for the visual arts."
37. Could you inspire America in six words or less? The National Constitution Center asked folks to aid Barack Obama in their project, Address America.
38. We've covered that there are over 871 museums on twitter… but I don't think I mentioned that museum artifacts are hitting the social media space, too– and making folks laugh in the process.
39. Follow treasure maps, decipher codes, uncover hidden objects- The Smithsonian American Art Museum's multimedia scavenger hunt, Ghosts of a Chance, is downright cool.
40. The Guggenheim says YouTube videos may be art. In fact, they took the time to go through 23,000 video submissions to create a short list of videos to be featured in the museum.
41. The Virtual Museum of Canada allows visitors to create their own museum and point members of their online networks to the collection.
Do you know of a cool way that a museum is merging social and tech that you think belongs on this list? Please feel free to comment with additions below. Please feel free to provide links!
* Photo credits: Top image from www.ieplexus.com/blog/
- Address America
- Adobe Museum of Digital Media
- Ask a Curator Day
- Auckland Museum
- Augsburg Display Cabinet
- Australian Center for the Moving Image
- Brooklyn Museum
- Connecting to Collections
- Culture Shock
- flickr
- Flickr Cascade Installation
- foursquare
- Generator
- Ghosts of a Chance
- Guggenheim
- How are museums using social media?
- Hybridiser
- Maker Faire
- Mattress Factory
- Month at the Museum
- Museums
- NameThatZoom
- O Say Can You Sing
- Open museum
- public wiki
- Skirball Cultural Center
- social capital
- Social Media
- social technology in museums
- SueTheTrex
- The Getty
- Those about to die
- Trading Post
- virtual conferences
- Waltee's Quest
- we salute you
- youtube


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The role of the CIO is changing, and everyone is talking about it — a lot.
Technology executives are under pressure to adapt and grow. Develop deeper business savvy; transition systems to the cloud; and then there's the "CIO-CMO imperative" — identify ways to best collaborate with marketing.
This month I had the opportunity to catch up with someone on the other side of that imperative. Alex Green is the VP of marketing at Canada's leading casual dining chain, Boston Pizza. Alex and I talked about how that tech-marketing collaboration is playing out for marketing executives. You might be relieved to hear that it's just as pressing, and at times intimidating, for marketing leaders to embrace technology — especially as CMOs are given greater responsibility over IT spending. But Alex brought up an important point: although influence over how technology dollars are spent might be shifting, the skill-set required to execute those projects is still co-owned by technology and marketing. Neither side can manage the shift alone.
Change isn't easy, but if there's one thing IT leaders do well, it's project management. Apply those skills to managing this shift in your own careers. Here are some practical suggestions that may help you through this evolution:
Be willing to embrace risk. IT leaders have historically been risk-averse to protect costly technology infrastructures and ensure consistency. Moving forward, IT leaders will be expected to be innovative thinkers and experiment. Don't be hampered by narrow approaches for measuring ROI. Look for new ways to evaluate success, and let your marketing peers be your allies here.
Be willing to learn. Share articles and attend seminars on negotiation skills and business strategy. Lobby for technology to become a part of the company's shared language. Consider updating your organization's mission statement, and form a technology steering committee (results from HT's research show this is an under-used but growing practice). You might even consider changing the IT department's name or titles. Most of all, remember that you're not going through this shift alone. Embrace it as a co-owned transition with your marketing peers and lend each other support through the process.


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|I wish! But I am poor, it's on my list as next board to buy though.
|sick review. i think this is the GNU version of the banana magic (based on price point and agression). sounds like a sweet ride.
|Yeah I didn't understand that either, seem like with the T-Rice, skunk ape, and fenix this just gets looked over. It didn't even have a review on boardinsiders, I fixed that... Did you get one?
|Thanks! Been waiting for somebody to review this, doesn't seem to get too much publicity.
GNU Altered Genetics 10/11 159 review
Height: 6'1"
Weight: 190lbs
Years Snowboarding: 4, 20 years skiing
Skill level: Free Ride = 9. Park/freestyle = 4
Board: Gnu Altered Genetics 159
Bindings: Burton Mission (I'm not made of money get off my back haha)
Boots: Burton Moto Size: 11.5
Angles & Stance +15/-15, 24"
Wax: Lib tech all temperature snowboard hot wax (Did not stand up too well to the ice coast conditions, needed waxed again at the end of the day).
Hoooooly crap I am in love with this board! I came off a GNU billygoat 07/08 166 regular camber and no mag traction. So this tech is new to me but this thing is insane. First I will say my style is more of a hall @$$ down the hill, natural jumps/features, back-country (if I ever get back out to WA), and POW (wont see much of that in the ice coast). I am not a big park fan save for some kickers and depending on how many beers I had, sometimes the pipe, I will hit the occasional rail but not much of that going on here, I like having a silky smooth base for speed and my new rock board (my billygoat) is a 166 so not much park action going on with that beast. .
Ok enough babbling, on to the review-
This board is a rocket ship. I thought my billygoat was fast, yeah no this is faster and it just eats it up. I had no fear of edge catch with the C2BTX. The mag traction?!!? wow, I keep hearing if you like speed say away form mag because it will slow you down well to that I say bullshizen this deck rips and it cuts trough crust/ice like its melted butter. Now keep in mind I came off a 166 and it is stiff as nails with regular camber, thus built for speed, however the AG is faster and more stable.
What surprised me is the flex is much lower than my 166, I could press it super easy (but what seems easy to me may not be to another as my 166 is mega hard to press) but that did not effect how it handles at speed, I am telling you I pointed it down the steepest hill I could find and just rode it out, only carving a few times and this run was full of chop and ice and still no chatter at all and no loss of confidence in the board.
Edge to edge is lightning fast and the side cut seems perfect. it is a really light board, has a great amount of pop, and will not wash out on a aggressive carve, it just locks you in to the turn like it was on tracks (this feeling actually took me by surprise and almost lost balance as I am use to compensating to a little bit of wash out on the 166). And even being a directional twin not a true twin it felt very comfortable in switch.
I took it on one rail (scared of trashing the base so that was all haha) and had no problem with catching edge or not enough pop.
I live in PA ATM so POW was not an option today haha plenty of groomers, ice, man-made, slush, and junk, the AG took all of that like a champ however I don't know how it rides in pow but I can not see having any issue.
Didn't hit any huge jumps (Ice hurts bones) so I can't say how good it takes big air landings (not that you could even consider the jumps I will hit "big air" more like medium air haha)
All and all I have not one bad thing to say about this board, it's fantastic. I can't wait to get some more aggressive bindings on it so I can really bring it to life (although even with my Mission bindings it felt fantastic). I would defiantly recommend this to a more advanced rider who loves big boy speed and carving, I would even say it could take the park just fine if that is your thing. But this is by no means a high flex board so it will take some more work to press if you are use to a flexy gib stick. So if you are considering a freeride/all mountain (with the emphasis on freeride) Try this bad boy out, you wont be let down.
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January 28th, 20100
We're so over the snow right now we could quite happily never see it again, ice on the other hand, we'll keep but only to put in our cocktails!
This winter has been a long and cold one, which goes without saying really but honestly shouldn't it be spring sometime soon? The dark nights and freezing temperatures have really taken a toll on us this year, not to mention the disruption it has caused on the roads and general transport. So we've come up with the perfect antidote to these cold wintry nights, a cocktail party! Now we realise that January's pay check is a long time coming but that doesn't mean that we can't have some fun, whilst sticking to a budget. So why not turn the heating up, invite your girlfriends round, put on the cocktail dresses (just because you're not going out doesn't mean you don't have to make an effort) and get the cocktails flowing! Hosting your own party is great as there are only the people there that you want to be there, there are no queues to get in and you can be in control of the music. If everyone brings a different bottle, mixer or nibbles then the costs are spread out evenly and you actually end up getting more for your money if you make the cocktails yourself! Do this and you're guaranteed to forget about the rubbish weather in no time. What better way to get excited for the Sex and The City sequel than cocktails with the girls?!
For a whole host of weird and wonderful cocktail recipes as well as the classics visit: www.cocktailmaking.co.uk


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In a perfect world, I'm sure we'd love them all but I know MY finances don't allow it.
I definately plan on Jeremy Bulloch because Fett is naturally my favorite character, Ben Burtt because I've always liked his personallity and his contribution to ILM and their movies through sound, and Anthony Daniels because I thought 3PO was funny when I was a kid.
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Chips were perfect with guacamole or jar salsa, which tends to be too salty for me with salted chips. Crunchy and light but not without flavor.
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Loved that it is unsalted - so hard to find. But overbaked and so is "heaty" - gave me a sore throat after eating just a few pieces. So I won't be buying again. Such a pity. There are so many other brand of tortilla chips that don't give me any sore throat; unfortunately, they are all oversalted. So the hunt goes on ...
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Sounds like you know your alternator fairly well.
Go into the back of the alternator, and find the field wire. The field wire accepts the current from the regulator to energise the rotor of the alternator. It is this field current that the make-before-break battery master switch is supposed to disable before it swops over the batteries. It looks very much like it is NOT doing that, as you have noticed the loads being switched off as you turn the switch.
When you find the field wire, you are going to cut the wire close to the alternator, and join a length of conductor to that wire. lead the length of wire up to your instrument panel and fit a wee switch for it, then lead the wire back to the alternator regulator again. Effectively what you are doing is allowing a manual interrupt to the field wire via a big loop.
MANUALLY, you must throw that loop switch to disable the alternator field wire before you move the alternator switch. Then after moving the switch, you enable the field wire again.
This is my set-up, and has been for years.
You simply remember to throw the disable switch each time.
It works too, and you can see the effect on your ammeter, if you have one. Don't trust that battery switch of yours. The loads must not drop out when you turn it. Your alternator diodes will not take that for long. It is possible to put a "snubber" at the back of the alternator to give you some defence, but mine fell off.
My alternator is the US-supplied Ample Power 100A, small frame model. It is a damn good alternator, now 16 years on, and still running.
You don't need fancy monitors and read-outs and flashing lights. One big storm in open water and the whole show will be soaked anyway. Man, getting soaked in seawater sorts out the junk from the necessary, I can tell you. A simple manual switch and a wee ammeter will do fine.
normal use of 1 and 2?
In most older sailboats (we have a1984) is the normal convention that 1 is for engine starting and 2 is the house batteries?
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A 30-year old battery switch may not be making proper contact anymore, the contacts do wear and sometimes shift. I'd be tempted to replace it, or to install a battery combiner switch (West/Yadina or Hellroaring) which starts you on the starting battery, then combines both to charge/run once the alternator has come up to full voltage in a minute or two. When you shut the engine, it disconnects them again, so your starting battery is just isolated for starting use while you are on the house bank.
The combiner option is one I have on my boat, but with an override, so I can switch it off manually. Sometimes you want to.
Personally, I recharge the engine start batteries to about 95%, then the house batteries to a similar level before switching to "Both". When in the "Both" position, the batteries will flow juice from one to another. Gnerally not too big a deal when the engine is running, but can be. If the "house batts" are flat, you switch it on "Both" there can be a current overload as both the alternator and engine batts try to recharge the house batts. Also, if the engine should die, or be shut off at that point. it's possible the engine batt will have been drawn down so the engine can't be restarted.
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I have a Catamaran with two seperate 12V starting batteries - one for each engine - along with a house bank consisting of 6 6V Trojan deep cycle batteries. I also have 2 alternators - one on each engine.
Is it best to have both the starting batteries allocated to the "1" position then the house bank designated to the "2" position? Or, should I find a way to isolate the two starting batteries from each other? Is there a switch that offers 1, 2, 3, ALL and OFF positions? And if so, would that be the most desirable for my setup?
1) I would have both alternators charging the house bank
2) I would have either a single starting battery bank or one dedicated per engine.
3) I would charge the starting battery(ies) from the house bank with a DuoCharge or equivalent.
I have a Catamaran with two seperate 12V starting batteries - one for each engine - along with a house bank consisting of 6 6V Trojan deep cycle batteries. I also have 2 alternators - one on each engine.
Is it best to have both the starting batteries allocated to the "1" position then the house bank designated to the "2" position? Or, should I find a way to isolate the two starting batteries from each other? Is there a switch that offers 1, 2, 3, ALL and OFF positions? And if so, would that be the most desirable for my setup?
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Good advice. Charge them separately or, better, use a Xantrex EchoCharge or a Balmar DuoCharge device (NOT a battery combiner or an isolator, etc.).
Sorry, halekai36, while I very much value your expertise and thoughts on many things, I have to disagree on your philosophy re: starting batteries.
The preferred setup is:
1. ONE large house bank, charged by every onboard device (battery charger, alternator, solar, wind, generator, etc.);
2. ONE starting battery, sized for your engine and NOT a deep-cycle battery; and
3. an EchoCharge or DuoCharge device, as per above.
This gives you a near bullet-proof, very efficient setup, and provides all the safety and redundancy you need.
Switches, fuses, breakers, etc. are a related but separate topic.
Battery combiners have most of the flaws of the 1+2+1 switch except that they cannot be forgotten in the "Both" position. That's an improvement.
I use the Balmar DuoCharge and it works as advertised.
FYI, I also have a secret way of combining both banks but it is not accessible from any panel.
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YOu're talking about the BlueSea dual circuit plus battery switch... I installed it on my boat and two others so far.... and they're great, especially with the combiner.
Unless somebody can come up with a down-side to this system, it's the way I'm planning to go. (Already got the ok from the Admiral and family CFO to spend the $100+ on that, as opposed to $40 or so for a vanilla OFF/1/BOTH/2 switch.) I do have one question, but I'll start a separate thread so as no to drag the OP's thread off on a tangent.
My battery switches have been on ALL since I bought the boat 14 years ago, but for reasons which probably don't apply in this case. I have 3 gel cell banks, and combining them cuts down on the discharge percentages and extends their life. However, I have alternative charging sources (solar, wind and water), and can recover from a shorted cell.
In this case, installing a ZAPSTOP would be the cheapest and easiest way to keep from frying the diodes when the in-laws are 'helping'.
So if I add a single starting battery with an isolator between my existing 2-banks (2x 280Ah house/starting); I could have a starting circuit that protects my engine alternator and leave the 2-banks on my safety main as-wired?
Can the starting bank be isolated from the ignition switch; so that section does not need to be wired directly to the starting bank?
|Diodes are killed by a back high voltage pulse (peak reverse voltage)produced by the alternator coils when you abruptly disconnect the alternator on the battery with a defective switch or. My simple solution: I connected the alternator directly on the house bank and I charge the Start battery with the dock charger or put the battery switch to Both occasionnaly when the house bank is near full.
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ah, sorry. In that case, no. Platonic friend, to me, means no more than if you happen to be at my house and I say, "hey, can you help me move this dinghy from my driveway to the horses in the back yard". 10 minutes later, done. I'd ask any woman this as well.
If it's , hey, 'can you rebuild my deck for me'....a good friend would never impose that much.
Now, if you do this for a living anyway and she is offering to pay you your rates or you offer to do it for less...
Whatever, having said all this, if your in my hood, I could sure use a hand with my dink in the driveway!
|No yawler, I have a boat. The lady in question had things around her home she needed done. As I said above, I was more concerned about the right or wrong of the situation, in a moral sense.
I don't think there is a right or wrong either. I'm a single hander female single in all ways) and am still getting up to speed on learning how to maintain/fix the boats systems). Every now and then I get discouraged that there is no 'man in my life' that could help. If I met you, and there was some electricity and we talked about it. Ended up saying to each other, well, let's just sail together, keep it platonic, I'll help you maintain the boat (is this your definition of handy man?) and let's see how it goes...
If this is close to your scenario and you are asking the questions you ask - and assuming I am not too presumptuous - I'm guessing that your query is more about you wondering if you can do this knowing that it is not your boat and it might appear that you are somehow less?
IMHO you have nothing to loose and everything to gain, great cruising, great company, maybe an opportunity to fall in love - or not.
About july 01 I met a women thru my landscape biz.........did work......
She hired me the following yr to do more work......noticed I was a big different.......got to talking, explained in the middle of nasty divorce.....are there unnasty divorces?!?!?!?!.......any way.... after finishing job, started dating a bit.........then my brain went haywire while trying to finish divorce etc.....broke up..........
Kept in some contact, got hired to do third project........a bit later got back to gether after divorce was finalized............Feb 06 got married.........
Ok, so not sure how that helps or hinders the answer, but that is from this end.......oh by the way, first wife, met the same way! ack!! that lasted 17 yrs untill I was sick of the physical and verbal abuse she thru at family, myself, kids etc......... so any way..............
I'll let you figure this one out. Ladies can chastise me if they want, men can too, in the end.....not sure that there is really a right or wrong!
|No Mel, I have no problem with working for women. I was merely put in a position I had never encountered before, and wanted to make clear in my own mind, that I wasn't taking advantage of the situation, at the expense of the other person. Basically, I saw it as an ethical question, rather than a relationship question.
OK John - here is my .02 worth. First we met in Annapolis, while I don't know you well, at least I know of you.
I am a little confused here so I will ask a question. Do you have a problem here working for a woman? Or is it that you have a problem working for a woman that you have an interest in? I think it is the latter from the post but I have to ask the first question base on your original post.
If the answer to the first question is,"Yes I do", than move on. You cannot change horses in the middle of the stream. If the answer is "NO", than it is strictly business. Business is business. She hires you at X rate per hour, you perform the work, than she pays you. Very simple. Document all your work and bill her.
Now for the second question. Still do the work as explain above, and play the relationship as you would any other. Either it works or doesn't. Keep them both separate in the beginning of the relationship. Remember every relationship has at least two phases. The first phase being the infatuation phase. For you boys, it is like having a new toy. Everything is great in the beginning until you start to see flaws. This usually takes anywhere from 1-3 months. This is the phase for which I think that both sides might take advantage of in this situation in order to appease the other. Just be careful here. The bottom line here, is communication. Always talk about your concerns between work and a relationship. Keep the slate clean and above water. Both will appreciate it. It will clear the air and everyone knows where the other person stand at ALL TIMES. If a thought comes into your head or hers about the situation, than communicate that. In other words, it is like reefing. If you think about it, than do it.
Remember one cannot move forward unless one steps forward.
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|The School of Business Starts Business Idea Competition
|Entrepreneur and Ithaca alum Chris Burch '76 is giving students the opportunity to develop their own businesses.
Entrepreneur Chris Burch '76 got his start in business selling sweaters on campus 35 years ago.
Now, he is giving today's students the opportunity to develop their own businesses, underwriting the Business Idea Competition that begins this fall. Prize money of up to $85,000 is available for the winner of a campus-wide competition that leads to the creation of a new business. The winning teams will have the chance to launch their businesses in the spring.
Burch – chairman of J. Christopher Capital and co-founder of the Tory Burch women's fashion label – has spent more than 30 years as an entrepreneur and investor focused on luxury and technology brands.
He says he's been involved in "brands that disrupt and change the world" with new ideas and concepts. It's the same innovative thinking that he wants to stimulate among today's Ithaca College students.
"I think it's great to motivate students to create new things and to think in new ways that challenge the norm," said Burch. "I like that there is an element of competition and to give them some rewards for their hard work. I also think that these programs will help prepare them for the real world."
The Business Idea Competition idea developed from discussions with Burch about what's important in business education, said Dean Mary Ellen Zuckerman. She sees this as the first step toward developing a Center for Business Creativity and Collaboration, to be housed at the School of Business.
"He really believes in hands-on opportunities for creativity, disruption, and innovation," Zuckerman said.
Among Burch's business ventures during his IC student days were selling hot dogs at football games, pinball machines at Cornell University, and sweaters on campus that he bought from importers for $9 and sold for $18.
The year he graduated, he and his brother started Eagle's Eye apparel company in their basement. His initial investment of $2,000 grew into one of the largest branded sweater makers in the world with $140 million in sales before it was sold to Swire Pacific Ltd. in 1989.
Burch became one of the earliest investors in Internet Capital Group, a successful IPO in 1999, and in 2004 he and his former wife co-founded Tory Burch. He's a founder of or investor in such companies as Aliph Jawbone wireless accessories, Color Kinetics, Voss of Norway bottled water, Codfarmers AS branded food producer, NextJump marketing services, and PowerMat wireless charging systems.
Last winter, Burch visited campus to address students on "Brand Building for the Luxury Customer of the Future." He revealed details about several new ventures: Poppin office products; C.Wonder, a luxury retail store; and Monika Chiang, a consumer lifestyle and retail brand.
"The world is ugly," he said. "It can be more beautiful. Everything can be improved."
Before Poppin, recently launched on an invitation-only beta test, "office products were really ugly," he said. Poppin will introduce "hip and cool" factors to the market and beat Office Max by half their prices, he said.
A Poppin video that he showed to the audience called Poppin "office supplies reinvented. We are eye-poppin products. We are jaw-droppin prices."
More than once Burch emphasized the Asian market.
"Asia is more important to us now than the United States," he said, adding later, "Chinese are buying more luxury items today than Americans are."
Burch's interest in China meshes with Ithaca College's. His Chinese investments include MC2B (Hong Kong) Ltd., Freeborders, and a factory he is building near Shanghai. He has contributed funding to the China Association of Social Work and Child Welfare League of China.
Future business competitions may involve students from Chinese universities in teams with Ithaca students, said Zuckerman. This will fulfill part of the College's goal of more international partnerships, with a specific focus on China. Increased global education is a pillar of the College's new Strategic Vision, IC 20/20.
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|Well, I didn't include too much info because I kinda was looking for a general answer on possibilities, I will shoot you a pm with some more specific information though.
Is it a stock intake and carb? If so take off the spacer.
If not the dead spot can be tuned in by the squirter's, pump cam, jetting.
It has to be tuned in to the spacer since the plenum size is changed.
Would help to know what parts you are using.
In you want please send me a PM if you need any help.
|I got a question.... My GTO has (I am guessing, since I didn't think to measure it when I had it all apart) 3/4" to 1" open spacer. The GTO also has a dead spot in the throttle that has been giving me trouble.... Not a bad one, but it is annoying and I can't seem to get rid of it for the life of me. Anyway, if an open spacer takes from low end a bit and adds a bit to high end... Could changing to a 4 hole spacer rid the dead spot or help with it?
I would use the new type that is a 4 hole with the bottom half machined away and flowed.
I Believe they come in 1" or 2 " as in everything else always check for flatness of mounting surface. This is where most baseplate's break.
I'll find the name of it if interested.
Vacuum carbs liike the better siginal it gets from a 4 hole.
Use the 2" if you have the room.
Dude, you said a mouth full!!
Thats the best explanation I have heard on carb spacers!! Now, for street application what do you suggest, the 1 1/2" or the 5/8" spacer? I like the 5/8" spacer myself as best all around street application on SBC motors with a mild cam and stock torque converter.
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You mean spacer plate,
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Tuning with carburetor spacers
by Wayne Scraba
The art and science of tuning headers
Most people think of carburetor spacers as simple horsepower-increasing devices. But that might not be completely true. Certainly, in some cases they can be used to increase engine power levels, but, more important, they can be used as a sophisticated tuning aid. Spacers often provide an increase in top-end power, but at the same time, they can reduce bottom-end power as well as mid-range torque. Typically, power gain comes from increased plenum volume, but that's not the complete picture.
The manifold dilemma
Using a single-plane intake manifold as an example, you must first realize how a single-plane intake manifold functions. Generally, a single-plane intake includes a large, centrally located plenum that has reasonably straight runners leading from the plenum to the port entries in the cylinder head. In this configuration, a large common plenum is under the carburetor. According to the experts, this common plenum allows each runner and cylinder intake port combination to draw from all four carburetor venturii at wide-open throttle. As the partially vaporized air/fuel mixture leaves the base of the carburetor venturii, it forms as four individual mixture streams. When each of the cylinders places a demand on the plenum chamber, these mixture streams, or in some cases portions of the streams, physically bend in the direction of demanding runner/port entry. The mixture "streams" combine to form a single "mixture river," which flows into the runner, eventually feeding the cylinder that is making the demand.
Moroso Performance Products points out that the beauty of a single-plane manifold configuration is that it allows each runner to withdraw a larger volume of air/fuel mixture during the available induction time span. Unfortunately, life isn't always simple and neither are intake manifolds. As each cylinder withdraws a charge from the plenum, the mixture streams are forced to change direction constantly. Creating more havoc inside the manifold are pressure pulses that travel backward from the cylinder into the manifold runner and eventually into the plenum. And some engine combinations have more of this reverse pressure pulsation than others. These constant directional changes in the plenum along with pressure pulses can create a healthy amount of turbulence inside the plenum.
The cure
Moroso notes that some single-plane intake manifolds are designed with a very short-turn radius coming out the bottom of the carb venturii into the respective entries of the intake-manifold runners. When the carburetor is moved up most often with a spacer the velocity of the intake charge is reduced, which in turn allows the previous mixture streams to make the bend around the corner, or short-side radius, easily. In certain applications, a short, 1/2-inch spacer will work, but in other cases, the manifold design dictates a larger spacer.
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the addition of a spacer effectively increases the distance between the carburetor and the floor of the plenum. Because of this added distance, the carburetor signal is weakened. And when the signal is weakened, a larger jet or jets in the carburetor will be required. Carburetor spacers designed with four separate holes tend to recapture the velocity of the mixture stream that gets lost when an open carburetor spacer is installed. In simple terms, more exit velocity in the mixture stream creates a stronger carburetor signal than that found with an open spacer. Generally, the jet size will still have to be increased when a four-hole spacer is used, but not as much as with an open spacer.
How much spacer should you use? As a rule of thumb, single-plane intake manifolds seem to respond best with larger spacers two inches in height and larger. On the other hand, most dual-plane intake manifolds work best with open spacers with a height of between 5/8-inch and 1 1/2 inches.
The market is filled with dozens of spacer styles and configurations. Some spacers are manufactured with insulating materials. These spacers decrease the amount of heat transferred from the intake manifold to the carburetor throttle plate and main body. This reduces the fuel temperature inside the carburetor. Naturally, the result is a denser fuel charge to the manifold, which in turn creates more horsepower.
Spacer materials
Believe it or not, plywood can be an ideal material for constructing carburetor spacers. The thin layers of laminated wood, bonded with resin, form a natural heat sink. For example, a wooden Moroso spacer features top-quality hardwood plywood with a sheet of phenolic resin-impregnated paper bonded to both sides. This creates a durable product that can be used in drag racing, circle track competition, or on the street.
Plywood spacers are easy to modify to suit a given manifold for optimum performance. On the other hand, phenolic spacers are constructed from an advanced material similar to plastic that can reduce heat conductivity 10 times greater than aluminum for a much denser air/fuel charge. Obviously, aluminum spacers are still widely available. The advantage in aluminum is that it can be easily modified for a given application. The disadvantage is that in some cases, an aluminum casting can be porous. Because of this, several manufacturers now offer billet-aluminum spacers CNC-machined from 6061-T6 material.
So how can spacers be used to improve performance? The folks from Moroso provide this theoretical example: You have a car that hooks. It works well, turning the tires slightly during the rollout. Everything is fine until you're up against a track that's greasy after the launch pad or provides conditions that resemble a mine shaft. Typically, the car still hooks reasonably well, but on the 1-2 gear change, it turns the tires heavily (in this case, assume that the engine rpm is brought down to the torque peak on the gear change). The e.t. goes away, and so does the consistency.
Now what? It's a tough situation to "tune" out. None of the normal tricks work because they kill the launch. That's where a spacer can be used. Add a spacer or increase the spacer height and increase the jet size by a couple of numbers. The launch will remain almost the same, but the increased plenum volume helps to shift the torque peak and peak horsepower upward. Because of this, the engine isn't dragged into the meat of its torque band during the gear change and it doesn't turn the tires. The result? A quicker e.t. and a bunch more consistency.
That's but one area where spacer tuning can work; however, there are dozens of other tuning applications, especially those where you have to tune to the engine, the car, the track, or the atmospheric conditions.
One final item to consider when buying or testing carburetor spacers is hood clearance. If the carburetor air horn is moved too close to the hood, then the airflow and fuel metering can become restricted. If the airflow is restricted, you simply won't be able to take advantage of the spacer.
when you restripe aren't the lines suppose to be white and yellow not black??
I use a 4 hole adapter on my truck and it makes monster torque!
So much torque, the ricer shop down the street keeps the gate shut at night and on the weekends after I restriped their parking lot with some junkyard tires. MUHAHAHAHA
There are also several types avalible. the open spacer is just that, open, on devided plane intake, it`ll make it act as a open plane, 1 cylinder will draw off the entire mass of the carb, it kills low end torque in favor of high RPM horsepower.
A 4 hole spacer increases volecity and booster signal at really no cost in power at either end of the power band, it enhaunces low end torque.
I`ve seen dyno tests in magazines on the "super sucker" spacers, and it said they increase power by quite a gain over other carb spacers. But I`ve never tried one, so it`s hard for me to say if it`s true.
lifter plates
well the different materiol may also keep heat away from your carb but in reality what they do is give you a larger plenum, almost like putting a higher rise intake on. it also moves your power band up.
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Carb Lifter Plates?
I watching Popular Hot Rodding TV the other day and they said that Carb Lifter Plates give your engine more power. Why? Don't they only raise you carburator more? Just wondering.
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the people on this forum are very knowledgeable, patient and seem cool in general so i thought i might bother you with another boring "should i get this board?" question.
i am 30 and started snowboarding this year. I became very addicted to it. i went about 20 times (in PA) and felt like i progressed decently. i had a friend bring me home from Massachusetts a technine 161 board with like a sphinx looking lion thing on top and technine in white on black backround on the bottom. i couldnt find any information online about it but tried many times. really liked the board but i am really wanting to get something newer for next season.
anyway a forum goer named toecutter put up a link for this board and i fell in love with it immediately
here is my riding style, progession and hopeful aspirations. i pretty much enjoy the entire mountain experience. i like the carving, getting some speed and going off little jumps and dropoffs. on the other hand i like to do a little bit of the park stuff too. basic grinds, little spins, grabs etc.
i got into doing some basic grinds on boxes and things. i could also get some decently high straight airs and was about to start trying some grabs. actual carving is something i feel i can do really well. can ride switch comfortably down blues. could pop ollies and spin 180's but the board seemed stiffer and seemed heavier than i want.
my goal for next season is to get more refined in all aspects of riding. i want to improve my freeriding skills but also be able to do a little more in the park. my limit for park riding will probably stop at maybe a 360 grab and a few ok grinds. i guess i just want to be a well rounded rider.
i think i may like this board even better http://www.skis.com/snowboards/c669/...a-001b2166c2c0 but i cant figure out if the 157 is too small for me (6'0 165lbs). i am wondering if the 157 will be ok for the all mountain riding but also help me with spinning and be capable of getting my grind on suggestions? recommendations?
sorry, i get long winded but thanks for any input.
Edit: after some more reading about it i will probably just go with the 159
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A lot has been made of a paper (Lyman et al, 2006) that appeared last year that claimed that the oceans had, contrary to expectation, cooled over the period 2003-2005. At the time, we (correctly) pointed out that this result was going to be hard to reconcile with continued increases in sea level rise (driven in large part by thermal expansion effects), and that there may still be issues with way that the new ARGO floats were being incorporated into the ocean measurement network. Now it seems as if there is a problem in the data and in the latest analysis, the cooling has disappeared.
Ocean heat content changes are potentially a great way to evaluate climate model results that suggest that the planet is currently significantly out of equilibrium (i.e. it is absorbing more energy than it is emitting). However, the ocean is a very big place and the historical measurement networks are plagued with sampling issues in space and time. Large scale, long term compilations globally (such as by Levitus et al, 2001; Willis et al, 2004) and regionally (i.e. North Atlantic) have indicated that the oceans have warmed in recent decades at pretty much the rate the models expected.
Since 2000, though, ARGO – which is a network of floats that move up and down in the ocean and follow the currents – has offered the potential to dramatically increase the sampling density in the ocean and provide, pretty much for the first time, continuous, well spaced data from the least visited, but important parts of the world (such as the Southern Oceans). Data on ocean heat content from these floats had been therefore eagerly anticipated.
Initial ARGO measurements were incorporated into the Willis et al, 2004 analysis, but as the ARGO data started to dominate the data sources from around 2003, Lyman et al reported that the ocean seemed to be cooling. These were only short term changes, and while few would confuse one or two anomalous years with a long term trend, they were a little surprising, even if they didn't change the long term picture very much.
The news this week though is that all of that 'cooling' was actually due to combination of a faulty pressure reading on a subset of the floats and a switch between differently-biased observing systems (Update: slight change in wording to better reflect the paper). The pressure error meant that the temperatures were being associated with a point higher in the ocean column than they should have been, and this (given that the ocean cools with depth) introduced a spurious cooling trend when compared to earlier data. This error may be fixable in some cases, but for the time being the suspect data has simply been removed from the analysis. The new results don't show any cooling at all.
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Re: Three piece function
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On 9/7/05, Steven Jonak <JonakSt at gw.kirkwood.k12.mo.us> wrote:
> I'm a little new to using Mathematica for creating handouts/quizzes and
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