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Painters have traditionally depicted Joseph as an elderly man in order to emphasize the perpetual virginity of Mary. Yet it is more likely that Joseph was not much older than Mary. You don't have to wait to be old or lifeless to practice the virtue of chastity. Purity comes from love; and the strength and joy of youth are no obstacle to a noble love. Joseph had a young heart and a young body when he married Mary, when he learned of the mystery of her divine motherhood, when he lived in her company, respecting the integrity God wished to give the world as one more sign that he had come to share the life of his creatures. (St. Escriva, Christ is passing by)
Let us ask the Holy Patriarch to teach us how to live this kind of love in the circumstances to which God has called us. We want this love that lights up the heart (St. Thomas, On Charity) so that we may perform our ordinary work with joy.
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I've been cutting down on the amount of time I spend online lately. That's not really an excuse for not posting to this blog, however, because there is nothing to stop me from writing (as am I now doing) a post in an ordinary (offline) text editor and then spending a few seconds online to post it.
But by staying away from web-texts for whole evenings at a time (!), I have noticed something about them: they are contingent in a very striking way. Now, as an editor, I deal with textual contingencies every day. Indeed, I try to get my authors to see their texts as much more contingent than they are normally inclined to. I try to approach a text as something that could be otherwise, something that doesn't necessarily have to be the way it is, something that can be improved.
But that implies a sometimes burdensome responsibility. After all, if something is less than good and you are in a position to change it, then you can't just leave things as they are. You have to take action.
This is why it is good know of a few really good books. As an editor, it is painful to read a poorly written book (after it has been published), but it is a real joy to read a well-written and carefully edited work of literature. It's nice to read something you don't feel you have to do anything to.
That brings me back to the Web. Comment boxes, blogs and wikis provide opportunities to interact instantly with what what you read, and the readiness to do so is a physical part of how you read. (I'm almost certain a neurologist could prove this by measuring various kinds of synaptic activity.) There is a great difference between writing onto a blank page (unconnected to the Internet), reading a book, and "interacting" with a website.
There is something to be said for separating the activities of writing, reading and editing. The web has a tendency to blur them.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
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Jake Gyllenhaal, who has been out of the public eye for the past few weeks working on his new movie Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, emerged in London, England this weekend. Sporting a fleece jacket from 66° North (which is an Icelandic outerwear company, I might add) Jakey poo was snapped making his way out of Cipriani restaurant Friday evening … here are a couple of pics:
Woot! It has been far too long since we've laid eyes on our dear Jake and he is a sight for sore eyes. I love that he is rockin' a fleecy jacket from 66° North. When David and I were in Iceland, we learned that 66° North is pretty much the dress code for any Icelander who needs to brave the weather in comfort and style. Glad to see that Jake is part of the fam ;) While I can appreciate that Jakey poo has prolly been hard at work on his new film, I'm glad that the lad deigned to come out of hiding to remind us of how much we (well, I, at least) totally <3 him. Hopefully this reemergence is a sign that he is back on the scene and won't be hidden away for weeks on end. Welcome back Jake, we (well, I've) missed you :)


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Zoo Tycoon's Blue Fang cuts staff, exact numbers contested
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While Blue Fang CEO Hank Howie says that 10 developers were made redundant, leaving 20 on staff, a source denies this is true adding there's 'no one left'.
Ties broken with The Learning Company meant staff cuts but Blue Fang will go on, says Howie. 25 devs in recent works let go claims the source.


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You're in control of the defensive systems of the resistance. You're the last line of defense for the survivors taking refuge below your bunker. Your mission is to protect them all by putting up with waves of enemy's space ships.
As it name suggests, Vector Conflict is set in 3D vectorial graphics. This makes the game run smoothly and it doesn't take playability away. Actually the game is highly playable thanks to it's up upgrading system. After each wave, you gain resources both by mining and by destroying enemy units. These resources can be used to upgrade bunker's armory and equipment. Otherwise you won't be able to bear the next wave since the difficulty of the game increases after each level.
This is a mobile-native game regarding controls: tap to open menus, choose weapons and to shoot straightly to spaceships approaching. What's more, there's a radar to view from where the enemies are coming (bunker has a 360º view). Slide to move the camera to the desired position.
Vector Conflict is challenging and addictive. Vectorial retro-graphics give an interesting touch. The only catch: it lacks of more game modes and online leaderboards for submitting our best marks. Besides that, great game.
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Motopony were formed in the warehouse, a loft in downtown Tacoma, Washington where songwriter Daniel Blue shared space with other local artists and musicians. After amassing a collection of quirky folk songs, Blue began touring the Tacoma/Seattle area as a one-man act. Buddy Ross eventually joined him, first as a producer and later as a full-fledged bandmember, bringing with him a stronger emphasis on pop music. Guitarist Brantley Cady and drummer Forrest Mauvais also joined the lineup, and Motopony -- now a folksy electro-pop quartet, capable of turning out acoustic ballads and fractured dance songs -- released their self-titled studio debut in May 2011.


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After spending a year in Kuwait's scorching heat and countless sandstorms, the 23 soldiers of the New York Army National Guard's 27th Finance Battalion were ecstatic to reunite with family and friends at the New York State Armory in Whitestone Saturday.
"It's very exciting to be home," said Staff Sgt. Xu Chen, 24, of Flushing. "It's highly anticipated."
Chen's husband, Bishwat Rimal, was also at the welcome-home ceremony Saturday and said he was more than relieved to be able to spend time with his wife, whom he had married just before she deployed in September 2008.
"When she came back, I was just so happy," said Rimal, 25, of Flushing. "To not see her for a whole year was really tough."
The returning battalion members, who are home for good, made the 18-hour flight from Kuwait to Atlanta last week and proceeded to take a 17-hour bus to Wisconsin before they eventually landed in New York Saturday.
The soldiers were responsible for providing financial support for soldiers based in Kuwait, the logistical base for operations in Iraq, and they did everything from cashing service member checks to providing funds for reconstruction and civil affairs projects.
Many of the soldiers spoke of their relief at getting away from the 120-degree temperatures and the sand that seemed to permeate everything, Capt. Samsul Alum said.
"It is a very great feeling to be back," said Alum, of Johnstown, N.Y. "I almost can't describe it. It's smelling the grass and no more sand."
Lt. Col. George P. Wilcha reiterated Alum's sentiments.
"It's incredible to be home," George Wilcha said. "The little things you take for granted, all of a sudden they're big things — smelling the Sound, seeing the clouds in the sky. I know why there's the saying 'I love New York."
While their loved ones were abroad, Rimal and Wilcha's wife, Debra Wilcha, said they retained their sanity by focusing on spending time with family.
"I've had friends who have had people go away and they couldn't talk to them for a couple months, so thinking about that it wasn't that bad for me because we could talk and e-mail all the time," Rimal said.
Saturday's welcome-back ceremony was short and to the point, with Army officials thanking the soldiers for their work as the event's attendees sipped soda and munched on sandwiches.
"We know your families are happy to have you back," Lt. Col. Isabel Smith said. "Thank you and welcome home."
Reach reporter Anna Gustafson by e-mail at agustafson
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More than a week after it happened and became the buzz of the golf world, many questions remain over the two-stroke penalty Tiger Woods received for making the wrong drop in the second round of the Masters.
One of the most-asked questions is where was the rules official who was stationed on that hole?
Why didn't the rules official assist Woods to make sure he was making the proper drop -- i.e., dropping the ball "as nearly as possible at the spot from which the original ball was last played," according to Rule 26-1a. The violation was detected only after Woods said in a television interview after the round that he dropped 2 yards farther from his original spot.
"Any time an official is in position to help a player, he should," said Jeff Rivard, executive director of the West Penn Golf Association and a longtime rules official for United States Golf Association events. "It's very much standard operating procedure."
But here's another question: Where were Woods' playing partners, Luke Donald and Scott Piercy? Why didn't they make sure Woods was dropping from the right spot -- thereby saving him from a two-shot penalty but, more important, protecting the rest of the field from a rules violation?
After all, isn't that their job, too?
Consider what happened to Arnold Palmer in the 1963 Bing Crosby pro-am at Pebble Beach:
Palmer hit his tee shot on to the rocks near the 17th green. Back then, the ocean wasn't a hazard, so Palmer thought he had lost his ball and hit a provisional ball on the green.
After finding the first ball in the water and determining it was unplayable, he proceeded to play out the hole with the provisional ball, finished the round and posted his score.
The next morning, Dave Hill, who was playing with Palmer, went to a PGA Tour official and said he thought Palmer had inadvertently violated the unplayable ball rule. Rule 27-2c states that if the original ball "is neither lost nor out of bounds, the player must abandon the provisional ball and continue playing the original."
Hill was right and Palmer was disqualified because he had signed for the wrong score. That is believed to be the only time Palmer was disqualified from a professional tournament.
Woods didn't have to worry about being disqualified because of a rule that was amended in 2012 to protect players who have a violation detected after their round has ended. The player is still penalized two shots, but he can't be disqualified.
But there has been some speculation by people with knowledge of the rules whether that rule -- Rule 33-7 -- was even applicable in this instance.
Because the competition committee had reviewed the infraction while Woods was still playing the 18th hole and decided incorrectly at that point that no violation had occurred, the mistake was on the part of the committee. Fred Ridley, head of the competition committee, said they did not alert Woods of the breach because they believed no violation had occurred.
The infraction was apparently reported in a phone call from a person who was a friend of a rules official.
Had the competition committee made the correct ruling at the time, its members could have alerted Woods of the violation before he signed his scorecard and tacked on the two-shot penalty at that point.
When they corrected their previous incorrect ruling Saturday morning, it would have been unfair at that point to disqualify Woods because of the committee's initial mistake. Woods could have argued, and justifiably so, that he could have signed for the adjusted score with penalty had the committee made the correct ruling the first time and informed him of the violation when he was done with his round.
In the end, the decision over Woods' bad drop was correct. It was how they arrived at the decision and the actions by everyone -- the rules official, the playing partners, the competition committee, Woods himself -- that was flawed.
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Matt Kluck, a PGA master professional from Mt. Lebanon, has been thinking of ways to keep young players interested in the way they practice while at the same time developing their games. And he wanted them to have fun while they were doing it.
So he and Dennis Sweeney, an industrial psychologist from Upper St. Clair, came up with "Golf's Missing Links," a series of books with what they call "stealthy" ways to improve your game. The idea is to have golfers play different skill games involving putting, chipping, pitching and bunker shots that are actually designed to improve different aspects of their game.
"We call it stealthy ways because we kind of sneak up on you -- you don't know you're learning when you are," Kluck said. "One of the things we found with practice is lot of times people don't know what to practice. These games kind of give you an idea what to practice."
The idea was hatched after observing a talented young player who didn't like to practice, especially the short game. Kluck enlisted Sweeney's help to devise a game that would make it more enjoyable for the student to practice without him really knowing he was improving his short-game skill.
The package of "Golf's Missing Links" includes six booklets for the different types of games to play, a book that summarizes the information and details how to practice, and a performance diary to track results. Those who are interested can go to 101gamesforgolf.com.
"It's not a method of how to swing, it's more skill acquisition-based and how can you do better faster," Kluck said. "I don't think we really need another how-to book. We needed a book on how to become better faster."
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Robert Morris University men's and women's golf coach Jerry Stone was named the Tri-State PGA Teacher of the Year. Stone has been a teaching professional at Scally's Golf Center in Moon since 1995 and has been the head coach of both teams at RMU since 2001. Stone is the first coach in Northeast Conference history to be named both the NEC Men's Coach of the Year and the NEC Women's Coach of the Year in the same year (2009-10). .... The Woodland Hills High School golf team is staging a team skins game May 25 at Grand View GC to raise money for its program. The event is a two-man scramble with cash prizes. Each hole will have an official scorer. Entry is $80 and includes skins entry and lunch. Call the Grand View pro shop for info: 412-351-5390.
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How sets play important role in Real Life Applications?. please give me solid reasons on it.
Sets do not (at least never seen them) appear in applications. Sets/Categories are used for foundations. Foundations is a branch of math that focuses on the foundation of all math, definitions and proofs that appear in other branches of math.
Here is an analogy.... Set theory is like Abstract Expressionism. People (the non-artists) think that art needs to be nicely drawn (like the Renaissance). In this case People (the non-math) think math needs to have applications. But art does not need to be nicely drawn and can look stupid. Similary math can have absolutely no application and look stupid*.
*)Like in, prove that if: x>y and y>z then x>z. It looks stupid but there is much more to it.


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Hardeeville City Council unanimously approved a change order for Fire Station 83 at Hilton Head Lakes North during its Jan. 22 meeting.
Mayor Bronco Bostick urged council to approve the change order, despite members' frustrations about rising costs, so construction can begin.
The change order involves a cost increase of $78,342. The cost will go toward importing dirt from the other side of Hilton Head Lakes because of unsuitable soil conditions at the construction location.
Council member Sal Arzillo was not pleased with the increase.
"This deal between a city manager and a builder completely circumvents the council," Arzillo said. "If it's legal, certainly it's not ethical. The whole thing should have been done in one bid package."
Bostick agreed with Arzillo on some points, but he said council should approve the change order before the bid price rises again.
"I think $78,000 is too high," Bostick said. "I thought that we would be ready for operation in January of this year. One of the things that really confused me was that we hired new firefighters and we don't even have a building yet. It might take six, seven, eight or 10 months before it gets built. With all that, I think we should go ahead and award the change order so we can get the fire station built because I don't think we're going to help anything if we don't. It'll just cost the city more money."
Other council members shared concerns about escalating costs.
"The longer we're delaying this, the cost could just keep going up and up and up," council member Mike Sweeney said. "That's why last time this came up my vote was to accept the $78,000. It could be $90,000 next time."
Ian Padgett of IP Builders, the construction company Hardeeville is using to build the fire station, said the change order would have been even higher if the dirt was not given to the company for free.
Fire Station 83 will serve U.S. 278 from Exit 8 to Bluffton, parts of Sun City North and Hilton Head Lakes, Hampton Point and any new developments in the area. The 5,997 square-foot station, the city's third, will be located off Lakeside Boulevard North. Fire department headquarters will remain downtown.
Economic development
Bostick asked economic development team member Brad Samuel of SCANA Corporation to present council with an update on SCANA's efforts with Hardeeville.
SCANA is an energy-based holding company whose subsidiaries and affiliates are involved in generating and selling electricity and natural gas.
Samuel's presentation highlighted what Jasper County lacks in economic development.
"I've worked a lot with industry recruitment," Samuel said. "We talk about your town and the opportunities for people to fill the businesses here and find some people. What I will say is that what we're short of here is product. What I mean by that is class A industrial buildings."
Samuel stressed that without class A industrial buildings, or spec (speculative) buildings, industries won't bother to come to Jasper County.
Samuel compared Jasper County to Colleton County as an example.
"Colleton County built a 100,000-square-foot spec industrial building," Samuel said. "I think 50,000 feet for Jasper County would be plenty big. The industrial building in Colleton is now an international dairy processing facility."
Bostick told Samuel the city is trying to secure a grant for a spec building.
Ava Comer, executive director of the Greater Hardeeville Chamber of Commerce, was presented with a plaque by Tom Johnson, a Jasper County councilman and Hardeeville attorney.
"This is a plaque of appreciation from Jasper County to Ava Comer for your exemplary leadership and selfless acts of time and dedication as the executive director of the Chamber of Commerce," Johnson said. "... We wanted to give you this and let you know how much we appreciate your service."


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An Interview with Dana Karwas
Imagining New Environments with Max/MSP/Jitter
When you think of multimedia technology you think mostly about the technology. When you experience Dana Karwas' work you think of the rich organic layers of experience. Dana is working in the nebulous grey area between art and design. As a trained architect she is commissioned to do design works for giants such as Knoll, yet as an artist she creates amazingly tactile and organic performances like her work Party Dress and the installation Fursicle. Although based in architecture, Dana's work uses high-end technology such as Max/MSP to explore social interaction and levels of identity within public space.
I'm really interested in what you do. You have an undergraduate degree in architecture and then a master's degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU.
I do…
What is that program?
It's a multi-disciplinary program that incorporates new media, video, programming… any type of digital media. It's all about collaboration with art and technology. People are learning all the new programming tools, as well as all the new physical computing tools. The projects range anywhere from small robots to experimental cinema to moving sculptures. It's basically interactive media and collaboration, so you work a lot in groups, and then you have these art and technology projects near the end.
That sounds really exciting…
Yeah, it really is. The students come from all over, all over the world, as well as from multiple backgrounds. You'll have physicists paired with a writer, or an architect paired with a programmer. There's this incredible opportunity for collaboration to happen.
I went to an interactive art program, as an undergrad in the '80s. It was wonderful, because you create your own thing, and do pretty much whatever you wanted. Like, "I think I'll make a film today."
Exactly. There's a lot of freedom… and imagination is huge at that program.
It's about your ideas, as opposed to the craft.
Yeah. So it's about making prototypes, and just exploring new things. Most people that I know that go there end up having so much fun, just in the classes. "Oh, we'll take a class about architecture. We don't know anything about architecture, but it's here." So they get the opportunity to take different routes, and explore being different types of artists, you could say.
Let's go backwards a little. What led you to architecture school? Were you an arty, crafty kid?
I was more of a math and science kid. I was really fascinated with architecture in regard to looking inside people's houses at night. I was always curious, like what kind of space they had. As a kid, I would always be looking, going on walks in the neighborhood, and looking inside these spaces that were different than the space that I was familiar with. I really liked going over to my friends' houses and seeing their rooms, where they lived… it was really people based. These houses themselves weren't really that interesting, it was actually more about what people were doing inside of them.
When you started college, did you think you wanted to be an architect?
Yeah, I knew that I wanted to go to architecture school while I was still in high school. So I had the opportunity to take some classes in high school. I focused more on math, I guess because I was told that you needed to be really good at math to be an architect. though I also was very artistic. So I would do the art classes, but I saw the math as more of a pull. I would do drawings of floor plans for my parents, or redesign the basement. It was very residential based at that time. I had no idea who many of the even basic architects were at that moment… I did know who Frank Lloyd Wright was.
Tell me about your experience in architecture school. Were you leaning towards being a traditional architect?
No, not at all actually. I went to school in Kansas, which I'd say is more of formal education in architecture proper, where you're learning about structures, the history and theory behind many of the famous architects you see. I would never get good grades in studio. I got a D on my first model. I had no sense of craft or scale at the time. But I still really liked it; I knew that that's what I wanted to be. I didn't really fit into the conventions of the school, until they introduced me to the computer. It's a five-year program and the computer is introduced in the fourth year. So I started designing with the computer, and making animations, which allowed me to create architecture that didn't exist. That was really exciting, to make these spaceship-like places, and fantasy dream projects, as opposed to building 'a house'. The computer allowed me to express my interest, which was architecture and film at the time.
When you graduated, did you go straight to grad school? Did you work in the field?
The interesting thing about Kansas architecture program is they have an incredible study-abroad program. So one summer I got to spend in Venice, and then another summer I got to spend in France, just working for architects. It was in Venice that I saw the Art Biennale, where they had some interactive exhibits, and I thought to myself, "I want to do those." So that's why I went to grad school for interactive media, because I liked the idea of informing my curiosity about architecture through cinema, and also manipulating space with light and video. That was really cool to me at the time.
You're work is so interesting. I was going through your web site. I love the dress piece, Party Dress.
Oh, yeah, 'The dress', that's one of my more recent projects–we took a very practical approach on that. We were designing it in 3-D, trying to be really systematic about the process, but then, when it came time to actually fabricate it, it was like a craft party. We were sewing with one machine, and pinning stuff. The fabrication of it was very hands on, the design was very tech-y. I think we lost some technology along the way, but the piece itself was a blast… five women wearing one dress.
Party Dress
Did you enjoy the design process more than the fabrication?
Actually, I liked the performance of it the most. The fabrication was just kind of like, well, maybe we should have hired someone to do this. But it was also really funny because we didn't have any money; it was just my sister and I, sewing this giant 250-yard long dress. [Laughs.] It took us a week… but in the end, my favorite part was the actual performance of it, the chaos of implementing this scene inside of New York, and having it transform. Seeing how people react to it is pretty cool.
Let's talk about Max/MSP/Jitter. When did you first start working with Max/MSP? How did you know about it?
I saw Luke DuBois' show, at ITP. He has an end-of-the-year show where he has all these crazy projects on display. I was curious because it involved people manipulating video, and then projecting it onto an interesting space. There was some relationship with video that was unexpected, where it was going. Someone was projecting on a curved wall, and I thought, "Wow, I want to learn how to do that." So it's really at ITP and through Luke's class that I was introduced to that world.
Tell me more about ITP.
That's the grad school, Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. When I saw this show, I was really blown away by it. The accessibility of programming, and also what it looked like to program. It's very visual. I could build little machines in Max/MSP/Jitter that would do what I wanted them to do, without having to write code, and processing, or using Java. So I was drawn to the interface right away. The first thing I ever did with it was I did like a VJ event at The Crowbar, a club in New York. I was just manipulating video, doing VJ stuff. I was very practical with it at first, just manipulating video, but I liked building in it, I felt like it was very architectural, the actual process of building a patch. Visually, it made perfect sense to me. It was very intuitive, coming from an architecture background. We're very systematic with the way that we go about either building a model, or putting together a rendering that made some link to the way that I think architects design. So that's why I loved it… I still love it.
Did it take you very long for you to get the hang of using the programs? What was your learning curve like… did you lock yourself in a closet for a week?
I kind of fumbled around with it for a few weeks, but then, because I had this event, this deadline, and a project that needed to be done. I just locked myself up for two weeks and figured out how to use it.
What's the first piece that you did with it? Is that on your web site?
I did a piece called The See-Through Wall, I'm pretty sure it's on my web site. It was a wall that, well, that you could see though [laughs]. So that's really the first piece that I used Max on, which was shown at the Chelsea Art Museum… it was a lot of fun. I collaborated with Gabriel Winer, a filmmaker. We made this see-through wall, which had a projector on one side and a camera on the other. We got to calibrate the space, so it was kind of like live programming while we were setting it up. That was interesting to me, because we were able to tweak the art piece at the museum, while we were setting it up. So that was quite exciting for us.
The See-Through Wall
So there's this real-time immediacy about Max/MSP and Jitter that was working for you.
When you have an architectural project, there's this incredibly long process that is almost completely removed from the end product, whereas in new media, you can get instant results and manipulate spaces and forms on the fly, which, for my fast-paced life at the time, was very exciting…. I liked this immediate feedback.
It's so much easier than the days of shooting film and having to wait for it to be developed.
Oh yeah. So the first piece was The See-Through Wall. Then I became interested in using it as a tool to connect other applications or devices. I was using it as a way to connect cell-phone text messages to visuals. I would translate a text message into a hip-hop rap, and it would be like a dancing music video.
Which piece?
That one's called Freestyle. I kind of wanted to give a space or a place for a text message that was outside of the phone. Basically you could send Freestyle a text message, it would remix it into a rap or a hip-hop tune, and your message would be rapped back to you with a beat. Then the picture or the video that you send with the text would be manipulated, so you'd get this packaged, mini hip-hop video that would move and dance to the beat of the music and to a text message. They would be in computer voice, and I used the built-in voices, the voices that are on the Mac, that come with the program–I think the Mac OS has like 21 different voices. So Eric Singer wrote an object, that was text to speech, or something of sorts, and I just played with a bunch of different objects, and managed to make this monster of sound and image and cell phone data. It was cool. I became very familiar with the Coll file.
What does the Coll file do for you?
It is able to list the text for me in a certain way, and then I was able to pull from it what I wanted. I had it in a typical museum setting, so I had to censor the text messages, because people would send inappropriate words. Using a Coll file, I was able to put all the bad words in that people could possible send, and then it would skip, and just give a beep, instead of the word. I had to use it as a form of censorship, in a way because there would be like high-school kids coming in. Freestyle was at the Museum of Television and Radio, so they'd get a massive amount of foot traffic from schools. The kids would see it, and of course they're completely familiar with text messages, so they would quickly catch on, but there would be a bunch of beeps and then they realized that they were being censored.
What are some of your favorite objects?
I used an object that allows you to connect to a physical device, or multiple other devices. I think it's called Serial… I'm not very good at remembering the names. And then jit.qt.movie is my life; I kind of live within that world. I'm very simple with the objects. I try to keep it extremely simple, so it doesn't get too out of control. But all the cv.Jit plug-ins, for tracking, I've used. I know that there's Blob, cv.jit.blob, or cv.Jit … so any of the cv.Jit objects, that whole package. I use those often when I teach Max, to allow students to quickly grab something from my web cam and translate it into something else. [cv.jit.]Faces is probably one of my favorites. It's the one that lets you show the many faces that are looking at the screen. Everyone always gets a kick out of that one. There's one that's another external that you have to download, I think it's called Bonk~. I don't know if it's an external, but I like the ones that have the fun names, because I think they're really funny. We were going to make one for Luke called jit.dubois–we're still trying to figure out what that would actually will do–all of his students want to make it. And then there are any of the openGL objects that I really love as well.
Have you ever written your own objects?
Not really… I'm trying to figure out what they would be if I did. I think it would have to be some type of building generator. You'd plug in personality traits about yourself and then it would spit out some type of form that would potentially be your house, or some object that would represent you in 3-D. I like messing with it.
That would be really cool. I was looking at your piece, Fursicle.
Oh, yeah…
Did you use Max/MSP in that?
Yeah, there's a lot of Max/MSP in Fursicle it's kind of like an explosion of Max/MSP. [laughs] everything that I know how to do. My collaborator, Liubo Borissov, who currently teaches at Pratt Digital Media, and I realize that there's just so many possible connections to other programs. We connected Max to Bluetooth, had a camera picking up movement, another camera that was taking photos in the room that would catch people… like petting the carpet. You had to call the exhibit to get in, so we'd capture you're phone number, and then the exhibit would call you at 5 in the morning the next day and make animal noises for you.
I love that! What I like about that piece is that it's so primal, and yet it's high tech.
We wanted to go primitive with the actual objects, but make it this insane–this explosion of technology. So we thought of every possible thing we could pull off in like two weeks, putting this together. It involves PHP, and some other programs as well, to actually get the phone system to work. We had a number you could call–you would actually call the Fursicle–and it would give you instructions on how to go through the piece. We were projecting images, also. Zebras, and tigers, or whatever you would be stepping on, you would see it projected, and you'd also hear it. It's one of the more silly ones. I like that one.
Have you tried any alternate controllers, such as a Lemur surface, or anything?
Yeah. I had a Lemur, from JazzMutant, I played around with, but for the Fursicle piece, we actually ripped apart a Bluetooth keyboard and just scaled it up, and made switches that were speaking through the Bluetooth keyboard, or what was left of it, to the Max patch. I liked using Bluetooth in the past. I usually use a cell phone or Bluetooth that I kind of get around making my own controller. I used Arduino before, to send information from Max. It's a micro-controller that you can send information to from Max, using Serial. It's one of my favorite devices to use, to take Max/MSP/Jitter, and have a physical presence, either through lighting or sound or moving a motor. The Arduino would be what I would use to get out of, or send to Max/MSP, from the physical world. So it's just connected with a USB printer cable to this micro controller. And again, it goes through the Serial object. One of the things I find really interesting about it is you can so easily send information to other programs, or other devices.
So once that happened, it really opened things up and was really exciting.
Yeah, it really is. I've taught Max to architects and designers, and I find that the architects catch on so quickly to the programming and to the interface. I've taught it up at Columbia for a year, and those students learned it right away. I mean, it took them maybe like two weeks, but they really adapted to the programming environment. And their patches were gorgeous. Very organized. [Laughs.]
Eric Singer, he owns this place called The Lemur Complex, and I frequently taught classes out there, and one of them was called Max for Chicks, and it was kind of a cosmopolitan approach to Max/MSP Jitter. I think I had eight students; most of them were men… which were ironic in itself. It was a complete blast to teach it, because I approached in a holistic way, based around example. I would show a QT Movie, and then I would dissect it. As opposed to showing, "This is an object, this is a patch." It was more holistic… and was really fun.
What would you like to see Cycling '74 add in future updates to Max/MSP/Jitter?
I would have to say–this is going to sound a little insane [laughs] but I would like to see some type of further connection ability for the architecture community. I think if it was able to connect to something that is used as a tool by architects, such as AutoCAD, to generate plans and sections, a very specific type of document. If Max/MSP could be used in such a way to make it easier for architects to make changes on that document, that would be very cool. It's like a dynamic design tool, for a house, or a building… whatever.
So that you could use voice control through a headset, kind of thing?
Yeah, to easily make changes, so you could control the design, the details of the design, and the material through the interface of Max/MSP, which would allow an incredible amount of time to be saved in an office. So if you're making some crazy, curved building, and you have to change one of the curves in the drawing, it will have a domino effect in all of the drawings, which takes a very, very ridiculous amount of time to redraw now. If it could just be some simple way to use it as a tool for producing drawings… I would love to see something happen in that regard.
That would be exciting. It kind of reminds me of that movie Iron Man.
Right, right, something like that. I think Max is a really incredible tool. I'm a big advocate of it. Actually I'm kind of a big saleswoman for it, as well [laughs]. I see it as a tool that, if you think of something you want to do, you can probably figure out how to do it with this, because you're basically building a little machine… I tell everyone they're building their own machine, that's been how I view it. I think there is a way to make it more accessible for architects, to be used more in practice, as opposed to art projects. I know composers use it, as a composition tool for music, it's really incredible, it's very integrated into production and whatnot. But there are very specific tools in the architecture community that are standard, so some type of way to update the standardization of the architecture tools, because they're not as advanced as I would like them to be.
There are some programs that are doing that currently. I have a friend, Gil Akos, who was a student of mine at Columbia that is using a program called Grasshopper. He's doing something similar, trying to refine the tools that are used in the architecture community through programming. He discovered Grasshopper through Max/MSP, and his design philosophy is based very much on Max/MSP/Jitter, in the architecture community. He had a very interesting project for using Max: he used it to control a moving wall. It would respond as sound, so the pattern on the wall would change, and be articulated based on the sounds the microphones that were embedded in the wall would pick up, and Max was controlling the whole thing. The architecture community really likes it, one, because of the interface, but especially because of the simple feedback. It's a very intuitive program for architecture students to use. It always has a great response in that community.
So you use Max professionally for design projects and proposals as well?
Professionally… yeah I do use it. I guess the most substantial project was a project, Knoll Wa, for Knoll, in France. It was cool, because we got to bring the program and introduce it to the furniture-design community. We had a two-story projection on the side of a building. We wrote a program that would edit the scenes randomly. So if you were walking by this exhibit every day, you wouldn't see the same thing. We used it as like a live editing tool for the exhibit. That was basically what got us the project, this idea that it's not only a movie, it's dispersed over two floors, and we have this knowledge to write our own program for it.
Knoll Wa
And it was an original film?
Yeah. We shot the film in New York. They shipped us two tons of Italian Knoll furniture, and it arrived, and we shot in Boylan Studios, which is up the street from where I currently work. It was a two-week project, and then they flew us over to Paris, and we automated the system. We thought we were going to have to go turn it on every day, but we were able to automate that as well, again through the Serial objects, to turn on these 10k projectors every morning. So we ended up just having fun in Paris, and not having to worry about the project, because the whole system was automated. We stayed for about a month, in anticipation of turning the switch on every morning, but then we realized that using the Serial object, we didn't have to. With the help of Luke and Liubo, and these other serious, Serial programming guys, we figured it out the night before it opened. So we were very thrilled. The Serial object gave us a couple of extra weeks.
So that was a professional project, more of a design commission than an art installation? Even though some people probably can't tell the difference…
Right. They wanted us to have it as a spectacle, like this crazy, new thing for the launch of the new furniture line. So they brought us in to not only do the film, but also create the environment for that one particular evening. It was cool. It was really cool to be able to use Max at that level, and get paid to use it, and see it integrated into the design field, and have people ask us questions about it. It was very cool.
It's fascinating to hear about the different applications, especially outside the typical 'art scene' that Max/MSP/Jitter is being used as a tool.
As a tool, I see it having a ton of potential. Not only in the architecture community, but all across the board. The reason why I appreciate it so much is because it was very simple to grasp and catch onto. The instant feedback is one of my favorite things about Max/MSP.
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Partying it up.
This is what I got up to last Saturday....
Cardi (H&M) Top (UO) Skirt (Topshop) Belt (Vintage) Necklace (Miss Selfridge) Bag and Oxfords (Topshop)
I went round to my best friend Chrissy's house and had a go on her trampoline. I was on my bum the entire time...but with my friend Katie jumping up and down like a lunatic, it certainly didn't help...
Pretend Pimms from Aldi!Pizza and more drinks at my friend, Rachel's flat. The studded Tripp bag belongs to Chrissy.Me and Rachel. I always feel extra short next to her...Rachel's Outfit
Skirt (Tube Top from UO), Halterneck (H&M) Belt (RiverIsland) Shoes (Irregular choice) Necklaces (River Island and Beadasaurus)Rachel was lucky enough to be picked for a Korea study Exchange and leaves for 6 weeks in June. So excited for her. So many of my friends are off in different parts of the world at the moment. From my friend Claire, currently in China and soon off to au pair in Milan to Caitlin who is in Sydney and interning for Harpers Bazaar! Lucky people! I need to get me some travelling action.
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the proportions in this photo are creeping me out
what if it's not the angle and his head is really this big
how long can he hold this position before he succumbs to the weight of his cranium and topples over
would the photo crew rush over to prop him up for another take, or would they give up, admit it's not worth the effort, and leave him alone on the floor as he struggles to get up by himself
and look at him, he's too ashamed even to look at the camera. he knows he's being exploited for his head size, not his talent or his personality.
"how long will this go on?" he asks. but everyone knows the answer. it will go on until he falls over.


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Timko and Hammer Named to PING All-Midwest Region Team
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Hammer Sets Course Record on Final Day of NCAA Regional
Buckeyes place 12th at the NCAA Columbia Regional
Ohio State Heads to Columbia for NCAA Regional
The Buckeyes look to capitalize on their 46th postseason NCAA appearance all-time
Ohio State Places Sixth at Big Ten Championships
Boo Timko and Tee-k Kelly each finished in the top-10 individually
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Ohio State is six strokes back from second in the team standings
2013-14 (Freshman Season): Named to the PING All-Midwest Region team ... recorded a season stroke average of 73.63, the second-best on the team, while playing 35 rounds in 12 events ... tied for the team lead with 10 rounds under par, including four marks in the 60s ... earned co-medalist honors at the Robert Kepler Intercollegiate (Apr. 12-13), scorching the Scarlet Course with a 3-under 210 (70-69-71) ... notched a total of five top-20 and six top-30 performances ... placed 10th at the Irish Creek Collegiate (Apr. 5-6) carding scores of 73-69-72--214 (+1) ... finished T-13th and T-15th at the Seahawk Intercollegiate (Mar. 16-17) and Royal Oaks Intercollegiate (Oct. 28-29), respectively, with totals of 145 (72-73, +1) and 209 (71-69-69, -4) ... registered rounds of 77-70-74--221 (+5) to grab a share of 20th place in the Northern Intercollegiate ... shot 11-over (72-75-77--224) on the Scarlet Course to tie for 27th in the Jack Nicklaus Invitational ... split four matches (2-2) at the Big Ten Match Play Championships ... dropped in a hole-in-one from 220 yards out with a 4-iron in the third round of the Boilermaker Invitational (Apr. 20) ... wrapped up freshman campaign by firing a 64 to set a new collegiate course record at The Club of Old Hawthorne on the final day of the NCAA Columbia Regional ... Ohio State Scholar-Athlete.
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In 2012, AMD obtained the technology behind these servers when it purchased low-power server vendor SeaMicro. Verizon and AMD said they have co-developed additional hardware and software to optimize the performance and reliability of the SeaMicro SM15000 servers, which will be available in the public beta of the Verizon Cloud, coming in fourth quarter. The companies said in a statement that the deployment "ushers in a new era of enterprise-class cloud services by enabling a higher level of control over security and performance SLAs."
The SeaMicro SM15000 system provides 512 compute cores in 10 rack units, with 160 gigabits of I/O networking, more than five petabytes of storage, and a 1.28 terabyte high-performance supercompute fabric. The companies said the system removes the need for top-of-rack switches, terminal servers, hundreds of cables and thousands of unnecessary components. The SeaMicro server product family supports AMD Opterons, Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge, and Intel Atom N570 processors.
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John Considine, CTO at Verizon Terremark, told news media that this solution gives enterprise clients "control of their infrastructure" by providing the "speed and flexibility of a generic public cloud with the performance and security they expect from an enterprise-grade cloud."
The companies said that the SM15000 server provides the only available "programmable server hardware" and offers a high-bandwidth, low-latency programmable interconnect fabric, along with a programmable and control plane for network and storage traffic.
New capabilities include virtual machine server provisioning in seconds, fine-grained server configurations that match specific requirements, speeds available in 500 MHz increments and DRAM in .5 GB increments, shared disks across multiple server instances instead of virtual machines having their own dedicated drives, and quality of service definitions up to 5000 IOPS. There's also traffic isolation and data encryption whose firewalls meet Department of Defense specs, and guaranteed network performance for every virtual machine.
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Charles King, an analyst with Pund-IT, said that Verizon's decision to use AMD's SeaMicro was "a validation both of the SeaMicro technology and of AMD's decision to acquire the company," a deal that originally "took a lot of people by surprise" when the microprocessor maker bought a server company.
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Volcom's Creatine Nitrate and Mesomorph Log
Volcom's Creatine Nitrate and Mesomorph Log
First off, I'd like to thank APS and Judgement Day for offering me the opportunity to log their supplements, CREATINE NITRATE and MESOMORPH.
I'm particularly excited about this because I've recently fallen in love with pre-workouts ever since I tried Jack3d, which in turn led me to try ASGT and once Mesomorph was released and after I read all the positive feedback on it, I became very interested in this product. Jack3d and ASGT are my current standards of quality as far as pre-workouts are concerned and I'm hoping Mesomorph lives up to or even exceeds those standards.
Creatine Nitrate is also something I've been incredibly interested in ever since it came out. Historically, I'm an old school guy who lives & breathes creatine mono as a tried and true form of creatine and I rarely venture out of plain & simple mono. Also, historically, I've not been a fan of the Arginine AKG based NO2 craze. However, I am always open to give something a first hand experience and I like what I've read in regards to Nitrates and NO2.
A Little About Me:
Primarily, I'm a bodybuilder like most everyone else here, with the exception that my workout partners happen to be amateur football and MMA athletes, therefore, along with my traditional muscle hypertrophy focused lifts, I also dabble in Olympic Lifts, such as the Olympic Snatch, Olympic Clean & Jerk and various accessory power driven lifts (power as in velocity centric, not 1RM squats and bench presses).
I'm looking forward to both of these products and thank you again APS and Judgement Day.
I was asked to post photos, but I don't have any, however, I do have some quasi-recent videos that I can post a compare and contrast to, so here's a little about me.
UPDATE: 15 days into Creatine Nitrate and Mesomorph video for the Olympic Hang Snatch PR attempts.
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To simply say Mesomorph is potent would be a disservice.
Tonight was my first impression with Mesomorph, but it would not be a true, stim-virgin impression, as I have been on a 1:1 scoop concoction of Jack3d and ASGT for about two months now, 3-4 times a week. Meaning, my stim tolerance is well established and relatively high. However, after my workout I'm still feeling like the way you feel the first time you take some weight loss stim product after a month of stim celibacy. This is how day one of White Flood on fresh adrenal glands feel to me, minus the postworkout endorphin orgy fueled by the nootropics.
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335lbs x 3 reps2
Incline Bench
225lbs x 10 reps
255lbs x 10 reps
275lbs x 7 reps
295lbs x 7 reps
Hammer Wide Press
270lbs x 10 reps
320lbs x 10 reps
360lbs x 8 reps
360lbs x 6 reps
Incline Machine Press
180lbs x 15 reps
225lbs x 12 reps
245lbs x 10 reps
250lbs x 10 reps
265lbs x 8 reps
280lbs x 6 reps
What I noticed the most was an increase in general stamina and intra-set muscle endurance. I was able to push heavier weight, later in the workout and go deeper into the reps as the sets progressed.
Side Notes
- 1 scoop of Mesomorph feels like 2 scoops of Jack3d in terms of the parasthetic (tingling sensations from the Beta Alanine) effects. This is not necessarily a good or bad thing. Some people really love the parasthesia, some don't. Either way, I can still feel residual tingling 2 hours after my 4:00pm dose.
- While taking Jack3d (solo), I tend to burn out by the end of the workout, it's a rather pronounced crash. On ASGT (solo), I don't ever feel that end of the workout crash, but rather a weaning off of the stim effects. On Mesomorph, I'm still impressively (mentally) stim'd after my workout and the real impressive part about it is that I've been on pre-workouts for about 2 months already, whether I'm taking Jack3d solo, ASGT solo or a concoction of the two (while mixing in V2 on occasion). I didn't know my adrenal glands still had it in them to be so stim receptive. Again, this feels like how I felt the first time I took White Flood after a month of stim celibacy.
- Creatine Nitrate. It's still too early to judge. I was recently on creatine mono, then switched to Orotine and today was my first dose of creatine nitrate. I can say my experience with Orotin was superior to plain creapure and at the very least, this creatine nitrate has felt just as good. We'll see as the Nitrate portion of the CN starts to take effect what differences, if any, there will be.
- I actually feel more stim'd right now, then before I started to lift. Jack3d is more of a mental stim and requires a kick start for me before it fully kicks in. I really start to feel the added intensity Jack3d provides intra-workout once my blood has started moving and my metabolism fully awakens. Except, I pay for that added sense of intensity toward the end of the workout, which is fine, as workouts are concerned, because I'm done anyway. Mesomorph felt like jack3d in the sense that it requires some jump starting before its effects fully kick in, the difference is, I'm still in kick start mode post workout. At least as far as Day 1 is concerned.
I haven't been this surprised by the efficacy of a product since I first tried SX (Slim Xtreme) by Anabolic Xtreme back in the day. Great first day. My only apprehension is that traditionally, supps that kick this strong up front, tend to lose their effects quicker, so we will see how long this great experience rides out. I was truly impressed with Mesomorph tonight, I hope it continues.Last edited by VolcomX311; 12-14-2010 at 01:02 PM.
Very Nice Day 1, very detailed!
Great to see you enjoyed Day 1, I think you will really enjoy Mesomorph, I found through the whole tub it didn't lose it's effectiveness, I'm interested to see how it effects you.
What did you dose Creatine Nitrate today?Core Nutritionals Representative - 12-13-2010, 09:56 PM
4 before and 4 after. I liked the other suggestion on the bottle of 6 before 2 after, but considering I'm also on Mesomorph, I thought the 4/4 would suffice, not that I'm not open to 6/2. That said, traditionally, I like to do AM dose, PM dose and pre-workout dose to make sure my creatine stores are full. I'm currently on a low carb diet, so I'm not really benefiting from any post workout insulin spikes to enhance the shuttling of the CN into the muscle, which makes me wonder if I shouldn't just keep it an AM dose and Pre-workout dose.
P.S. GSP is already training for Shields and though I'm well aware of Shields' accomplishments in ADCC in submitting GSP, Fitch and Leos Santos, I just don't think Shield's stands a chance when GSP is allowed to punch & kick. Not to mention GSP's new found jab.
Next big fight for me is Penn and Alves, though I would love to see Vitor beat down on Andy Silva, but I just don't see it happening. - 12-13-2010, 10:16 PM
Core Nutritionals Representative - 12-13-2010, 10:29 PM
Yeah, absolutely, brain fart, Penn/Fitch (I actually wrote Penn/Alves again before correcting it).
Alright, cool. I'll go 5 caps tomorrow pre and see how that goes. I'd prefer that type of dosing scheme anyway. Thanks for the suggestion.
Side Note: Lame that Jose Aldo is out with an injury. Curious, who do you have winning between Vitor/Anderson and Edgar/Maynard II? Also, I'm pulling for Ben Henderson, I like that guy, him and Cerrone are my favorites behind Aldo coming out of the WEC.Last edited by VolcomX311; 12-14-2010 at 01:00 PM.
Ben Henderson vs the winner of Edgar/Maynard would be pretty awesome
Core Nutritionals Representative - 12-14-2010, 01:29 AM
Wow!Awesome attention to detail in this log.Will follow for sure.
side:How insane did alves look the other night against howard?He was just on another level,like everything was slow motion for him.. - 12-14-2010, 01:00 PM
Something else worth of note, I took my dose of Mesomorph at 4pm and was still fully energized once I got home. The energy started to wean around 8pm and by 11'ishpm I was able to fall asleep without any hyper-stim'd insomnia. I was actually concerned about this last night, how this would effect my sleep, but it wore off in time and once it did, I didn't have any sleep issues.
Inn for the win Volc, busted ass hand and all. Man I want to lift but it will January before a touch an upper body weight.
Just got through my 1st week back in the gym after almost 2 years off.
Thanks to AM and all the great things I heard I got Mesomorph. Very impressed and soon to adding Creatine Nitrate to the mix. Whats the deal with APS? Been out for awhile but never heard of them.. So far best pre I ever used. Hope Creatine Nitrate lived up to the hype.. Any suggestions on doses? - 12-14-2010, 07:24 PM
I am 12 and what is this? I'd better sub to find out.
"I am legally blind and if I can Squat,deadlift and over all get myself to the gym then anyone can get their a$$ in gear and get strong!!" - malleus25
Day 2; A Pump Epiphany
Today was Olympic Lifts and Delts. As far as Olympic lifts goes, we only did the hang snatch because my workout partner hurt his right knee, so we couldn't continue with anything standing that would strain his knee. This is an example of an Olympic Hang Snatch if you're unsure as to what it is.
HANG SNATCH superset Db LATERAL RAISES
Hang Snatch 95lbs x 5 reps; superset to 35lbs Db Lateral Raises x 10 reps
Hang Snatch 115lbs x 5 reps; superset to 35lbs Db Lateral Raises x 10 reps
Hang Snatch 135lbs x 3 reps; superset to 35lbs Db Lateral Raises x 10 reps
Hang Snatch 140lbs x 2 reps; superset to 35lbs Db Lateral Raises x 10 reps
Hang Snatch 145lbs x fail; superset to 35lbs Db Lateral Raises x 10 reps
SEATED MILITARY superset Bent Over Db Lateral Raises
Seated Military 135lbs x 10 reps; superset; 35lbs bent over Db Lateral Raises x 10 reps
Seated Military 155lbs x 10 reps; superset; 35lbs bent over Db Lateral Raises x 10 reps
Seated Military 185lbs x 8 reps; superset; 35lbs bent over Db Lateral Raises x 10 reps
Seated Military 205lbs x 6 reps; superset; 35lbs bent over Db Lateral Raises x 10 reps
Hammer Shoulder Press superset Db Upright Rows
90lbs x 10 reps; superset 35lbd Db upright rows x 10 reps
140lbs x 8 reps; superset 35lbd Db upright rows x 10 reps
160lbs x 10 reps; superset 35lbd Db upright rows x 10 reps
Smith, Behind The Neck Shrugs
225lbx x 20 reps
315lbs x 20 reps
405lbs x 10 reps
455lbs x 8 reps
495lbs x 6 reps
A Pump Epiphany:
I'm not one to glorify the pump too much. I don't think a normal pump serves me much purpose beyond an indication that my muscles are warm and primed for lifting. However, I noticed that I never felt ANY build up of Hydrogen + ions from today's lifts, in the face of all that super-setting. In Laymen's terms, I never felt the burning and paralyzing, numbing sensation (which is actually the H+ build up choking out the O2 in the working muscle) inhibiting my lifts.
My hypothesis concerns the synergy of the Nitrate portion of the creatine, combined with the Mesomorph; the Beta Alanine in particular. Quick breakdown so you can follow my logic. Our muscles feed off of ATP (adenosinetriphosphate) for forceful contractions. The byproduct of ATP are Hydrogen + Ions, the build up of H+ ions in the working muscle choke out the O2 and therefore, the muscle begins to numb and the inability to contract begins to set in. Beta Alanine raises carnosine levels and carnosine buffers H+ ions, therefore, delaying the H+ build up substantially.
Part two is the lactate threshold. Your lactate threshold is your ability to flush out lactic acid faster then it builds up. As lactic acid builds up in the muscle, you start to lose the ability to "maximally" contract.
We have two elements that determine the limits of our ability to contract. The build up of the ATP byproduct H+ and the build up of lactic acid.
The creatineNITRATE and Mesomorph (BA) synergy.
To be straight forward, the BA ultimately buffers the H+ via elevated carnosine levels and the NITRATES with its ability to assist in superior blood flow via the creation of NO2 causing vasodilation becomes a double barrel shotgun against intra-set muscle fatigue, which is something I felt in an extraordinarily pronounced manner today.
I hope I didn't use too much jargon and my logic made sense. Great lift today. - 12-14-2010, 09:26 PM
Good post!
Nice progress!, so far a wicked log, detail, videos....phenomenal!Core Nutritionals Representative
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For those who have been told that a dacron sail will loose it's shape in a year, and a laminate sail needs to be replaced in 3, please don't abandon the sport yet!
On my 35' sailboat, I'm still using a tri-radial paneled mainsail (laminate with twaron fibers) that has lasted for more that ten years. I know most performance conscious sailors would not expect to keep a sail this long. The actual shape, has only degraded slowly. It was over built so, probably, on the heavy side, but not lightly used. I expect that the next time I hoist it, every thread, fiber, and molecule of glue will let go all at once. But it held up amazingly well and I wish I had bought out the complete lot of sailcloth from which it was made. 2 years ago I bought a genoa constructed using continuous (corner to corner kevlar fibers. ) I don't wish to bad mouth any sailmaker so I won't mention the brand, of which there are many pushing this type of sail now. The whole thing began to come apart (delaminate) after the first year. (I know a number of others who have had similar experiences with this type of sail from a number of different sailmakers). In my opinion, even for racers, a sail that lasts only a year, is just insanely wasteful, no matter what your budget is, or what the gain in performance might be. Here's my own, very superficial and uneducated take on the difference between the 2: The lamination or bonding of film to fiber that takes place when building these 'one piece continuous fiber sails' is not as effective as the process that takes place under heat and pressure employed during the manufacture of sailcloth (rolled goods, used to make old fashioned 'paneled' sails). Tell I'm wrong .... or that there have been significant improvements? And if not, do they that still make laminated sailcloth like they did 10 years ago? And, if so, will someone build me another 'paneled/ radial sail'? (just rhetorical question) I have no doubt that all the latest sails with continuous fibers, and many other newer innovations that I'm not aware of, provide a performance edge for those who simply must have the latest and the best at any cost. But because this is often extreme overkill, I will accept the inevitable, disadvantage when I try to compete against them on the race course. (at my level, very slight!) Dear sailmaker; My new sail was fast on the first day. How about a second day? Can we work on developing a little more durability for those of us not involved in the latest America's Cup? |
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Whether you are talking about racing yachts, cars, bicycles or even wheelchairs there will always be durability sacrifices made in the quest for the performance edge over the competition. I remember years ago I spent big bucks on high performance tires for my car. They were fantastic! For about 20,000 km, then they were done.
The lofted weight that is saved in having a seamless sail, and the shape they can achieve makes a significant difference at the higher levels of racing, and does mean the difference between winning and losing. Durability is an acceptable trade off to a serious racing program. Does the average club racer NEED that same edge? Most likely not, but they sure look cool, and they are the fastest sails, so if you have the budget, go for it! If you are more practical, and want sails that will last longer, then super light sails are not for you! Sailboat racing is not cheap! |
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I thought Kevlar sails were only expected to be good for a year or two since the fibers are stiff and because they don't resist UV well. Just a few minutes of serious flogging can severly damage them.
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I went through a similar thing. I had been a North Sail patron for a brief period of my life. During that period they convinced me to buy a couple of their 3DL's. I had bad experiences with early 3DL's and they swore the technology had really improved. After falling out with North, I went to Quantum and had one of their panel cut, high modulus sails made.
Of the two North 3DL's, one of the North 3DL's never quite fit and also was so under reinforced that it never made sense for the wind range it was built for, and so fankly has only been flown maybe a half dozen times. The other North 3DL was supposed to be a powered up AP #2 but was cut so flat, that it too had a much narrower wind range than I had hoped for, but I have bene using it and so it has had approximately 200 hours of use, mostly in moderate winds well under 15 knots. At approximately the same time, I had Quantum build a broad-seamed, horizontal panel, laminated kevlar, powered up AP #3. That sail is not a 'film' sail like the 3DL. It was made from roll goods. As my sail of choice except in the lightest air, the Quantum Sail has closer to 300-350 hours on it, and certainly a lot more use in a lot higher wind, than the North 3DL's. This weekend, I noticed that the North 3DL #2 is breaking down, with the mylar layer failing, and the Kevlar exposed and delaminating. That is similar to what killed a 3DL North Mainsail that I have that also had low hours before it failed. When I look at the Quantum panel sail, it still looks very fresh, and certainly still has a nice shape. My conclusion is that whatever the theoretical value of these 'Molded film' sails, in reality, at least the North versions, just do not hold up very well in real use. Also the technology is such that they seem to have a very hard time getting the flying shape right as well. At this point, I have decided to move completely away from the 'Molded film' sails and concluded that a broad seamed, high modulus sail is the way to go. The Quantum broad seamed AP #3 has been brilliant with an excellent flying shape, doing almost as well as the much bigger #2 in low windspeeds, and holding its shape very well all the way into the low to mid 20 knot range. And its been much more rugged as well. Lastly, broad seamed sails are considerably less expensive than the film sails, if the high modulus cloth is available in the weight that you need. Then again, some of this may be the sailmaker (I have very little good to say about my experience at North), some the cloth and laminating techniques, but mostly I think that these molded film sails are being way over sold and are as you suggest very short lived. Jeff |
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I have a 27 year old mainsail available for anyone interested. I replaced it after a squirrel chewed a few holes in a couple of panels near the leach. About 33'4" luff and 12'6" foot.
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Jeff H, I've seen similar results from North 3DL's. aka 3 Days Long (how long they last). This was one of the big factors why I have chosen Q in the past, and will continue to do so.
A lot has to do with the sailmaker and owner/customer. If the customer wants a light sail, they sailmaker needs to explain that it will effect the longevity of the sail. I've also heard (read on sailing anarchy) that using the published numbers on Q's site and North's site, Q uses a lot more heat and pressure than North does. IMHO I believe North's sails are very fast, but they don't last very long. In buying my 4th sail from Q I specifically asked for a higher dpi so it would deal with being overloaded a bit. I do a lot of distance races and longevity is important to me, even if they aren't taken care of all that well and turn out a bit on the heavy side. Laminate sails require more care, which means no "late breaks" when tacking overlapping headsails, flake or roll them, put them away dry, and don't let them sit in the sun when not in use. NEVER furl them. I don't care if it's a "furling" J105 class jib. Furling is bad. The sport boats guys know this, accept it, and just replace the jib on a more frequent basis. To the OP, if you've taken care of the sail, then you need to talk to your sailmaker. They obviously under spec'd the sail or you used it in a wind range higher than what was intended to be. There are a lot of discussions about how a laminate sail stays together. The type of glue, too many fibers and the mylar doesn't stick to each other very long(like in the corners) , to little, and the sail is under built, mylar takes the load, and the same thing happens. Delamination. Since you mention "molded", "one piece", "continuous fibers", I must assume you're talking about North. They're not the only one who make string sails, so don't give up on em yet. Spend some more time talking to Ullman, Quantum, Evolution, etc. and see what they offer. Ask a lot of question from materials, manufacturing, R&D on your boat, everything. Sails aren't cheap, and after doing a bit of homework, you can usually get what you want. |
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Thanks Jeff-h and zz4gta. Some of your comments and experiences sound familiar.
'String' sails may be the future, but I'm going to live with horizontal seams and 'disconnected' fibers' for now. To me, requiring a mold to make sails is a complete anacronism. |
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ALTHOUGH, a friend of mine just took delivery of a new 'ICE' ?? sail (from Doyle NZ??).
It is a beauty! With these strange looking horizontal fibers. Who knows! We'll see if it lasts for more than a week. |
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I am looking to add some decals and some recoloring of my HD 439s. I pretty much got it sorted with what I am going to do, but except for some parts.
My first question is that will I need any sanding or priming for the headphones if I am using this http://www.amazon.com/Krylon-2421-Fusion-Spray-Paint/dp/B000C0158E/ref=pd_sim_sbs_auto_10.
It says it does not require sanding or priming, but I am not sure what would be better.
My second question is that I plan on making the decals from printed images, would the computer paper let the let the spray bleed through?
And my final question is can I remove the grills on the HD 439s? I want to remove them because spray paint will be painting the back and I cannot cover the back without removing it. If so, how?
Thanks in advance (also some links to guides would be much appreciated)