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Here in New England, temps have taken a dive and the first snows of the season are becoming more common. Both morning and evening runs are fighting the short days, but being lit by the holiday directions sprouting in homes along the way. All signs that our 2012 calendar is nearing the end.
Two races on tap this weekend. Vegefrog is putting her marathon taper energy on the line in a 5K...behind the scenes we're all nagging her to keep the real goal in mind and to rein in the reindeer and jog it home. Going to be an easy race, the reward for 16 weeks of focused training.
I'll be heading south to the land of US Naval Academy cadets and crab cakes for the Annapolis Half which has a starting time of 7:00AM Saturday. Uggh, I can't recall the last time I went for a run at 7AM...I'm a night time runner. This will end my 2012 journey or running at least one half marathon each month. It will feel good to be done, it's time to move on.
As always, sending best wishes for Good luck and fleet feet to our racers. Go hard when they fire the gun..don't stop 'till someone offers you a water, medal or space blanket.
Meanwhile for all our trainers working towards next week's races...remember now is not the time to try and stuff in last minute overloads, better to show up fresh and undertrained than sore and tired.
I've done my best to live the right way. I get up every morning and go to work each day. (for now)
Good luck MilkTruck and vegefrog! I can't wait to hear how both races went.
"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order." John Burroughs
Andy - Awesome accomplishment mate - have a good run.
Vege - you know.
2017 Goals1) Run more than 231 miles2) Be ready for HM in the spring
Run Fastah 2018
Here's to great races for both of you.
I've got the SantaShuffle 5k tomorrow. I'm not sure it'll be great conditions (freezing rain likely today) on top of the snow we already have. I think it'll be a fun run, but not a PR.
"Don't feel like running today...suck it up and run ...you're an athlete." (John Stanton, founder & owner of The Running Room)
Three half marathons later, I got a number. Half Fanatic #9292. :)
Have fun Meg! I hope you are dressing up! I put jingle bells on my racing flats last night. My husband was like "doesn't that ADD weight and sort of defeat the purpose?". LOL, I don't think they weigh THAT much
Andy do work! Have a great race! What an amazing year you have had!
I am going to keep all of your little voices on my shoulder as I toe the line tomorrow and will try to have a nice, steady, even race...I'm almost thinking of getting myself wasted tonight so I will be too hungover to even THINK about racing it, hahahaha.
Not a dude
Good luck!!!
Vegefrog, have you considered doing it as a MP run so you have a specific pace in mind and aren't tempted to push it too hard? Although...getting wasted would help too.
Flippy...I know that I SHOULD do something like that
I considered it...in FACT I ran the Turkey Day Trot 5K last week with a friend in 34 minutes which was a very comfortable pace for me and it was really fun seeing everyone all dressed up and taking in the sights.
I just...I just...want to RACE!!!!!!!! I'm saving it....I'll be good tomorrow. I promise. I will do a 24 minute 5K. No faster.
Fleet feet to MT, Vege, and Meg. Hope you all enjoy yourselves!
Ugh is right, MT. 7 am is just way too early!
I'll be trail running again tomorrow, something around 10 miles. The current downpour is supposed to taper off in the morning - hopefully before I get going. But I have an available running buddy, so I can't pass up the opportunity! Matt, one of these days, you gotta get out on a trail run. You feel so free and unencumbered out there.
Go as long as you can, and then take another step.
There's 7 o'clock in the morning too? Who would have guessed?
It's hard to hold back at a race, I did that in a half marathon that was 2 weeks before a 10k I really wanted to PB, but after about 10 miles I could not hold back any more.
The hangover ploy might work, but you might just stay in bed.
HF you are really doing well with the trail running, 10 miles of trails is a long run in my book! Good job!
PBs since age 60: 5k- 24:36, 10k - 47:17. Half Marathon- 1:42:41.
10 miles (unofficial) 1:16:44.
Well, after an icy run, I have a shiny medal that looks like a Santa hat, a Lindt Advent calendar, a Salvation Army Christmas CD and a new PR. My last PR for a 5k, I didn't wear a watch so the time was a real guess (started at this time, finished at this time on a regular watch, no stopwatch.) This time I took my Garmin and was under 32 minutes! Yay! I wasn't expecting a PR and I only looked at my watch once the whole race.
VF, I wore a Santa hat with bells on it. Once I get my pictures off my camera, I'll post a pic if anyone wants to see. The pom pom of my hat with the bells hung down to my shoulder blades so with ever step I could hear the bells. There were a fair number of costumed people. My kids came with me, both with bells to ring at the start. Next year I think I'll take them and do the 1K. (My kids are 5 and 8.) The youngest runner with a bib was 2 months; she had the bib pinned under the straps in the stroller.
on a trail run. You feel so free and unencumbered out there.
on a trail run. You feel so free and unencumbered out there.
Well I certainly felt unencumbered today - not wearing the rain jacket I should have been! Total downpour after about a mile into it. It wasn't so bad running, but the 30-minute drive home in waterlogged clothes was not something I care to repeat. Despite the rain, the trail was great and the forest had an enchanting look to it all green and misty. My legs felt fatigued from the start, so I just ran a comfortable pace and was glad I had chosen a shorter "long run" for today.
Congratulations on your 5K PB, Meg! That's super! Yes, we want to see a pic!
Course was short by a good amount. I'm not saying the course isn't legit - but what they had us run was screwed up or something. I'll need to update this after uploading data frommy garmin..but all I chatted with in finish area had some version of short course.
Posted a 1:39:20 or so. More to come tomorrow pm, battery is gone on iPad.
MTA: Way to go Meg!!! Nice running.
Taper FAIL.
I. Am. Amazing
It felt great guys...no injuries, no soreness...I don't think I put myself in any danger of having a poor race next weekend by racing today.
Only SAD thing...I got 4th in my AG It's a HUGE race, they give $$$$$ so people come from out of town. Oh well...maybe next year
YAY MEG! PR's all around Show us the pic!
HF that trail run sounds magical....
Andy, sounds like a good race, short or not, a 1:39 is AWESOME!
Congrats to milktruck and vegefrog!


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The one thing we can never get enough of is lists. A list of our favorite songs. The best Nicholas Sparks novels. The top 10 Rocky movies.
The end of the year brings the trite, mail-it-end look back at the year that was. Because The Big Mac Blog loves cliches as much as the next, here is a look at the best games of the year. I tried to spread the wealth ...
1. Texas Tech 56, TCU 53 (3 ot); Oct. 20, 2012.
Hands down the most entertaining game of the Big 12 season.
In TCU's first year of the Big 12, the Frogs led Tech by five in the fourth quarter before the Red Raiders rallied to take a 10-point lead with 4:06 remaining.
TCU managed to tie the game with 18 seconds lef that set up one of the more entertaining series of overtimes you could watch.
2. Cowboys 27, Steelers 24 (ot); Dec. 16, 2012.
Tony Romo played one of the best games of his career as the Cowboys rallied to win a game they trailed by seven points in the fourth quarter.
Romo passed for 341 yards and two touchdowns, one to the busted-fingered Dez Bryant.
The Steelers weren't as good as advertised but this was a highly entertaining game and offered the Cowboys at their best.
3. Texas Rangers 11, LA Angels 10, (10 innings); Aug. 1, 2012
The Angels led 7-1 after four innings. The Rangers scored four in the fifth, and runs in the eighth and the ninth to send the game into extra innings. The Angels scored three times in the top of the 10th, but the Rangers scored four runs in the bottom of the inning, the final two on an Elvis Andrus single.
4. Texas Rangers 10, Baltimore Orioles 3; May 9, 2012
Josh Hamilton hit four home runs.
5. DeSoto 49, Southlake Carroll 45; Dec. 8, 2012.
In the 5A quarterfinals, DeSoto trailed by 18 points in the first half before taking the lead. Carroll QB Kenny Hill was stopped on consecutive running plays from the 1-yard line, the final as time expired.
6. TCU 20, Texas 13; Nov. 22, 2012.
Easily the biggest win of the year for TCU as the Frogs won on Thanksgiving night in Austin. The Frogs forced four turnovers, including the game-clinching pick by Sam Carter with less than two minutes remaining.
7. Oklahoma 63, Texas 21; Oct. 13, 2012.
The game was boring as hell but there was so much comedy and amazement to watch Bob Stoops' Sooners put yet another nasty beatdown on Mack Brown's Longhorns at the Cotton Bowl. It truly was watching a train wreck.
8. Dallas Mavericks 101, San Antonio Spurs 100 (ot); Jan. 29, 2012
This was before the Mavericks completely crashed in the playoffs and was Jason Terry at his best. He hit a 15-foot game-tying shot to tie the game with 1 second remaining and send the game into OT. Terry finished with 34 points.
9. Dallas Stars 3, Vancouver Canucks 2 (ot); Feb. 26, 2012
Before the Stars fell apart to miss the playoffs yet again, they rallied for this impressive win against a good Canucks team. The Stars were down 2-1 with less than one minute remaining before Mike Ribeiro scored to tie the game. In overtime, Loui Eriksson scored the game winner.
10. Cowboys 24, NY Giants 17; Sept. 5, 2012
In the NFL season opener, the Cowboys defeated the defending Super Bowl champions in what would be arguably their most complete win of the season.
Romo threw for 307 yards with three touchdowns; Kevin Ogletree caught eight passes for 114 yards with two TDs; DeMarco Murray rushed for 131 yards.
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China Quickens Pace in Financial Reform
China is moving along on its long march to free up interest rates, a key part of financial reforms. This week it picked up the pace a bit.
On Thursday, five big banks issued the nation's first interbank negotiable certificates of deposit, marking a small but important step in interest-rate liberalization. They issued a total of 19 billion yuan ($3.1 billion) in NCDs—the largest of which were for 5 billion yuan each by China Construction Bank and the Bank of China. And hot on their heels, five mid-sized banks announced plans of their own.
The moves came just four days after the People's Bank of China gave the final go-ahead for the much-anticipated policy shift. And they follow a November meeting of top Communist Party officials that unveiled a blueprint for economic and financial reforms over the longer term.
China has long had its eye on giving the market a bigger role in determining domestic interest rates, and the central bank has been gradually stepping back from its role in setting them. After seemingly endless discussion and research, the PBOC scrapped its floor on lending rates in July after giving banks a little more room to set deposit rates last year.
NCDs are a tool for banks to lock in funds from other banks, helping them manage liquidity. Interest rates on these instruments are negotiated by the banks themselves and aren't subject to guidelines set by the central bank. For the first batch of these interbank products, a one-month NCD fetched 5.10% on Thursday, while a six-month instrument carried a rate of 5.25%.
The NCDs don't directly affect consumers—but products that do probably aren't far off. Next year banks are likely to issue large certificates of deposit for individuals and companies, and these too will have interest rates that fall outside the central bank's deposit-rate guidelines.
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For years, depositors have had to settle for lower rates on their traditional deposits as the central bank took care of its state-run commercial banks, keeping a hefty spread between rates on deposits and loans. The central bank benchmark calls for a 3% interest rate on a one-year deposit, and banks can pay up to 3.3%.
These relatively low deposit rates have led to the rapid growth in so-called shadow banking—the nontraditional financial system that operates alongside the banking sector. Wealth-management products, which are not technically deposits but which banks can offer, carry considerably higher rates and have become hugely popular with customers. For savers with a minimum of 50,000 yuan, these products offer returns of 5%-6% at the banks; trust companies offer even more for a somewhat higher degree of risk.
The faster pace in rolling out these latest reforms is good news for a host of other measures that have long been in the planning stage. China is getting ready to open the door to more private capital in the banking sector while also moving closer to unveiling a deposit-insurance system and a financial bankruptcy law—two essential building blocks for a liberalized banking system.
The arrival of the negotiable certificates of deposit may not give consumers too much to cheer about just yet. But they are an important signal of things to come.
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You do not sound like you actually like your job Do you?
I like my job very much. I believe that when you do something you truly enjoy you don't find it tough and you actually get it done better. So, I hope you like analyzing oil !
Oh, I have heard Salam Alaikum. I used to live in Kazakhstan (ever heard of this country?) and even though they do not speak Arab they really like it. I think in a reply you have to say something like 'Alaikum A Salam'? Sorry if I made a mistake, I only heard how other peoiple say it.
Hi Natalie,I want to tell you that I like my job very much its interisting and we learn more ,every day.
By the way I work using gloves , chemical mask and safety goggles most of the day to be in safe .What do you think our look will be ?space man, hahahahahhh
What do you think shall we exchange jobs for one day to see whose gonna sucess?
I just wanted to jock with you
Regarding, your reply about Al Salam Alaikom ,it is right.
Its wa Alaikom Al salam. :R:
and of course I know kazakhstan and your country as well.
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Kid Cudi is shifting gears for a new Need for Speed film. The rapper/actor has carved out a supporting role in the is an adaptation of the Electronic Arts video game.
According to Hollywood Reporter, the story follows a street racer (Aaron Paul) who was framed for a murder and finds his revenge in a Coast-to-Coast race. Cudi, who hit the small screen as a major character in HBO's How to Make it In America, will play a member of the crew.
Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek and Harrison Gilbertson are also on board for the movie. Need for Speed is scheduled to hit theaters February 7, 2014. –E. Parker, CBS Local


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Not much use without the targeting laser, harpoon and plasma bolt attachments though...
It's seemed like a long road, perhaps, but arguably the destination has been reached. PDAs have incorporated mobile phones and acquired increasingly zippy and flexible mobile/wireless data connections. Cameras have come aboard, and in some cases have become quite good. The resulting smartphones have since added the capabilities …
Not much use without the targeting laser, harpoon and plasma bolt attachments though...
There's an app for that.
You phone doesn't have that?
If thermal imaging is ubiquitous, then the 'baddies' will have it too :-(
"And a couple of years after that, the same features will appear in the latest iPhone and the world's media will be amazed."
Best quote from the whole article. :)
If 'the baddies' wanted it, they can already get it. Follow the link at the end of the article; you can get handheld thermal imagers suitable for identifying, say, the last PIN entered on an ATM keypad. This particular genie was let out of the bottle years back.
Simple IR night vision is trivial, just dismantle a webcam, pick apart the lens assembly and swap out the filter that blocks IR for one that blocks everything but IR. Then you can play games using your TV remote as a torch.
Proper thermal images are much more fun and much more expensive. A previous employer bought one (they're useful for finding hotspots in electronics) and had to sign all sorts of bits of paper because it was classified as a weapon under US export regs.
It doesn't give you night vision. Not noticeably more than the original visible-light more camera could see at night either. IR-only cameras do create some rather pleasing photographic effects, but to use them at night you'd need an infra-red illuminator of some kind (a TV remote will work fine over short range).
It's entirely possible that the cheap-and-nasty sensors in most webcams just aren't up to the job. I expect someone ripping apart a DSLR and removing it's IR filter could get better results at night. I have no intention of taking a screwdriver to mine to find out though!
I've always wanted a thermal imaging camera but when you'd be incredibly lucky to get one for as low as £1000 it's not likely I'll own one, but I have played with IR and CCD/CMOS cameras, don't bother with cheapie CMOS cameas, a b/w CCD unit is one of the best (and easily available cheaply) ways of getting night vision with a bunch of IR LEDs for illumination.
I do have a 1st gen image intensifier night vision monocular which is a nice toy but it's bulky, heavy and cumbersome to use for any real length of time which is why one day I'll turn a pair of LCD video glasses into night vision goggles with a decent camera + IR LED illumination.
This article's title was a bit misleading, I was hoping they'd already created a miniature thermal camera sensor, then maybe the overall prices of thermal cameras could come down to something a bit more realistic.
In fact in the early 1980's a friend made a primitive IR sensitive camera out of a 64Kbit DRAM, The discharge rate of the capacitors is proportional to the light falling on it.
The one that comes to mind straight away is finding out where the bloody cold draft in my house comes from.
Or you could try the old analogue method of licking a finger and moving towards where it feels coldest.
(Hang on, wouldn't that be "digital"?!)
...the Taliban already use cellphones. You want to give them night vision as well?
... sounds like an excellent way to ensure your enemy (even the moderately poor ones) can easily get the same capability as well.
<SCENE> trench at night
Soldier switches on DARPA phone
Phone lights up and plays tune
Sniper bullet kills soldier
Wow, this sounds really useful. An IR camera on my phone would let me.... errm..... do..... something...... with it...... or something.....
Elevated body temperature is a sign of sexual arousal.
That's the only app I can think of.
Hmm, Bob looks a bit under the weather... let me just pull out my phone, and... whoa! Look at the elevated temperature on that guy! Definitely skipping this meeting!
With 'flu.
Works both ways, sunshine. She might have a similarly equipped camera, and be checking to make sure your python (IT angle) is worth a syphon.
Which kinda obsoletes the old trick of a rolled-up pair of socks down your trousers in the nightclub.
(Down the front, natch!)
"the place where promising young mad scientists worldwide, toiling in their dungeon laboratories to produce invincible robot assassins or freakish genetic abominations, hope one day to work."
It's not Friday is it?
I'm sure its not Friday. If it was Friday, I'd be in the Pub by now.
That's billion dollars idea.
There will be some interesting and/or useful thing you can do with a proper IR cam on your phone.
A friend used to work for a Thermal Imaging company and one day we borrowed a camera to do some tests. We went to a local park to see how far away we could identify the rabbits.
So, you can picture then scene, 2 adult males walking in a park at 10pm with a huge bright yellow thing held to one or the others face. It's lucky nobody saw us.
We never did find any rabbits but we did find a "beast with 2 backs" in one bush and a drunk/tramp asleep in another. :)
The one thing the proliferation of thermal cameras will do is remove the last hiding places of those who wish to remain hidden. Police will no longer need a helicopter to find which wheelie bin the crim is hiding in, nighttime Parklife will be curtailed unless you wrap up in one of those foil thermal blankets, and it will be impossible for people to deny being naughty in the office cupboard as your "bits" glow much brighter if they have recently been used! <LOL>
1. discover heat leaks in my house
2. find out where my damn cat is hiding, when he's gone
3. inspect for lovers hidden in wardrobe/behind curtains
4. find a hot chick
...locate nearest marijuana grower.
I see a comeback of the whole "fig-leaf underwear" touted for the airport perv scanners, but this time blocking heat signatures. The thing about thermal scanners is they can (depending on sensitivity) see through walls, which means thermal cloaks for home exteriors most likely (unless you don't mind an audience with cell phones watching you and the missus). Not sure if metal siding would block the thermals....don't believe it helped in the Arnold movie "Eraser"...
I think even wikipedia on a bad day is probably a more reliable reference than "Eraser".
No thermal camera can see through a wall. They are used for building inspections to determine heat loss through walls and if the walls weren't completely opaque to IR then you'd be unable to measure the temperature of the wall itself (since you'd see what was behind it) and so you'd be unable to assess heat loss. Google for some IR images and see for yourself.
Similarly, despite various rumours to the contrary, I'm not aware of any clothing fabric that is opaque in the visible but transparent in any part of the IR. On the other hand, close fitting outfits transmit body heat better than loose ones, so if IR cameras ever go mainstream it probably will have an effect on fashion. (You may have less luck googling for example images here. It isn't the sort of thing corporate types put on their web-sites.)
On the fashion issue, much the same probably applies to the (very) near IR and near UV, both of which might be accessible to bionic eyes later this century. (They don't suffer from the wavelength problem I allude to in another comment. I believe various species have been exploiting/enjoying these wavelengths for a few hundred million years, so there's stuff to see if you have the gear.) Bionic eyes *will* be developed for medical purposes, and will then come down in price to the point where they are available as "cosmetic" items for those who wish to upgrade their mortal frame.
"Thermal cloaks for home exteriors"... I believe that's otherwise known as "insulation".
Isn't the next step to just start looking for clusters of RF that looks like a mesh network? Presumably they'd use that rather than routing everything through the cell network.
Black Sabbath
......to buy an iPhone so I can carry out my fiendishly diabolical plan to take OVER THE WORLD BWA HA HA!
The lizard army waits until everyone has these thermal cameras, and is used to relying on them for detecting hidden enemies, then attacks, safe because they are cold-blooded and match the background temperature. WE MUST RESIST THIS FIENDISH PLOT!!!!
(OK, it's not going to work, "cold-blooded" means they don't use their metabolism to control their internal temperature, they will still warm up when exerting themselves)
Oil refineries also use these to find gas leaks.
Speaking with just a tad of inside knowledge, there are two barriers. The first is cost, but this has followed a fairly predictable downward slide over the last twenty years and although no-one is offering anything below £1000 yet, no-one really doubts that there is a market and so it will happen. Lewis' timescale is about right and I'll probably be an early adopter because I work for a company that makes them.
Probably not in phones, though. The longer wavelengths that give you images from room-temperature objects are around 10 microns, compared to 0.5 microns for visible light. That has an immediate effect on the size of detectors (because you can't shrink a single pixel much below one wavelength) and that in turn has an effect on the size of optics. A megapixel visible camera is only a couple of millimetres across and will deliver usable images with a bit of bent plastic for a lens. A megapixel IR detector is the size of 35mm film and so the associated camera isn't going to shrink much below SLR sizes unless you can work around the Fraunhofer limits. (That's going to be "challenging". Near-field optics continues to astonish anyone who took a traditional optics course at uni, but I'm not holding my breath.)
Speaking as a retired physicist, that doesn't sound entirely plausible for near IR, based on the wavelength ratio being the same as the size ratio. But that aside...
1) Who needs Megapixels anyway. Fisher Price Pixelvision style would surely be enough from an entertainment point of view ? If necessary, with lots of digital interpolation that the average punter would never spot.
2) One day, some micromechanical genius with a historical memory will think of scanning by moving the lens rather than solely by having multipixel sensors.
Or maybe not.
Flame purely because they probably look nice in IR, be it near or far.
Near IR isn't useful for room temperature objects (Try working out kT/h for a few temperatures of interest.)
Current state of the (commercial) art is roughly VGA resolution with the pixels at 25 micron pitch for the 7-14 micron waveband. That's smaller than 35mm, but it isn't megapixel either.
"One day, some micromechanical genius..."
Quite possibly, or skip the moving lens bit and simply craft a million micro-lenses directly onto the detector like an insect, which is why I won't say it can't be done and which might explain DARPA's interest. A friend sent me this the other day: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/01/new-material-blocks-light-from-exhibiting-diffraction.ars. If you can pick your lens material to have any optical properties you like, and then use some micromechanical wizardry to shrink the whole package down to the size of a postage stamp, even the plot of Eraser starts to seem plausible.
Beer, to drink whilst I sit in front of the warm fire you provided. :)
If you can have 8MP or 12MP "normal" cam on a phone, sure you should be able to fit a 0.5MP thermal cam. Price isn't a problem either, since the first application is for military, and I'm 100% sure Apple can charge what ever it wants on iPhone.
Think what kind of cool apps you can write if there is thermal cam on the phone.
"The only weakness of thermal imagers is that they don't work at all well through windows"
Simple answer then. Use Linux.
But only with a text console....
OOh, imagine that. A thermal imager for every tech's workshop.
I could find that very handy indeed, imagine the diagnostics possibilities.
No more inexplicable shutdowns, just compare Board A with archive of known good boards, and spot the overheating part(s) or broken tracks etc.
Also handy for locating shorts between board layers for diagnostics, as well as fixing those stubborn intermittents where a part has a microfracture or bad joint at one end.
Not to mention comparing newly fitted parts with the original to confirm that the problem isn't fixed before your $$$ component goes KafizzztBANG.
These are sometimes used in industry but the cost is too high.
BTW there is a way to make your own using ZnS:Ag:Cu glow powder as this somewhat responds to both near infrared and thermal to a limited extent.
AC, because if I ever get this to work it is SOOO going in EPE.
I don't see why this idea shouldn't be commonplace in the not too distant future. If the purpose is simply to locate hotspots a relatively low pixel count will suffice. I can imaging a phone clipped to a shoulder strap with the video fed to a Head-Up-Display as used in so many applications today - attached to a pair of glasses or a hat. Add to that the phone's video recorder with GPS data and sound plus the ability to use visual and/or IR or even mixed imagery and you'd have quite a nice little self-contained low profile surveillance system. I'd have thought that mass production would make the cost of small quartz, ZnSe or other IR-transparent material lenses low enough for general use. An application for remote control would fairly trivial to produce.
"... a relatively low pixel count will suffice [...] attached to a pair of glasses or a hat."
These are already available for firefighters. (Finding bodies in smoke-filled rooms, etc.)


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Need to write a program that will read in 3 positive double values as the three sides of a triangle. echo the input and then output the perimeter and area of that triangle.
Formula for computing the area of a triangle is given (must include math.h):
area = sqrt( s * (s - a) * (s - b) * (s - c) )


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Skaggs added to Futures Game roster
By Steve Gilbert / MLB.com
Skaggs replaces Trevor Bauer, who was called up to the big leagues on Thursday, and joins outfielder Alfredo Marte in representing the Arizona organization.
Skaggs, who is pitching for Double-A Mobile, will play on the U.S. Team, while Marte, who also plays for Mobile, will play for the World.
This will be Skaggs' second straight appearance in the game.
"So blessed to be able to go to the [Futures Game] again!" Skaggs tweeted. "Can't wait to get to KC. Another dream come true."
Bauer expects to make start on Tuesday
MILWAUKEE -- Trevor Bauer was still dealing with tightness in his groin muscle on Friday, but both the right-hander and manager Kirk Gibson said the injury should not prevent him from making his scheduled start Tuesday.
"He seems to be able to pitch with it," Gibson said. "We've tested it; he's strong as a bull. He's very, very strong. That's encouraging. I expect he'll be able to make his next start."
Bauer has dealt with the issue on and off throughout the year. It flared up in the third inning of his debut on Thursday, and he said it caused him to alter his mechanics and therefore impacted his command.
"A lot of hip repositioning stuff to try to take off some of the pressure and some soft tissue stuff to get some of the swelling out of there and get it to calm down a little bit," Bauer said of the treatment he received Friday. "It's been worse in [Double-A] Mobile and I never missed a start. I'll be fine."
It has been a whirlwind few days for Bauer, who is still trying to get acclimated to the big leagues. The fact that Major League teams travel via charter aircraft as opposed to flying commercial flights like they do in the Minors is a big perk. So is the fact that in the Majors players get their own hotel rooms on the road, whereas they have to have a roommate in the Minors.
"I'm still trying to figure the whole routine out," he said. "Parts have settled in. It's nice knowing guys from Spring Training, for sure. Last year, when I went to Mobile, the first time I met the guys, and when I went to [Class A] Visalia [last year], it was the first time I'd met the guys. I definitely feel more comfortable now that I know some of the guys from Spring Training and I can shoot the breeze with them. It makes things easier."
Before being called up, Bauer had to incessantly answer questions about when he thought he might be promoted. As of Thursday, his online interaction with fans changed.
"Now I have people on Twitter telling me I let their fantasy team down," Bauer said with a smile. "Whole new set of issues. It's nice, though I try to keep myself away from all that and focus on what I can control and pitch. It's tough.
"Obviously, I do enjoy going on Twitter and interacting with fans and stuff like that. I see what people are saying, good, bad and indifferent. It's something I want to continue doing, be kind of fan accessible and answering questions and stuff like that. It's always going to be there. I just hope to find a way to regulate it and be able to shut it off when I need to get my work done."
Bauer is No. 17 because 17 was available
MILWAUKEE -- What's in a number? For D-backs right-hander Trevor Bauer, apparently not a lot.
Bauer made his Major League debut on Thursday wearing No. 17, the same number he wore with Triple-A Reno this year. He was asked about the significance of the number.
"I don't know," he said. "I showed up to [Double-A] Mobile this year and I think I wore 19 last year. The clubby asked me what number I wanted. I said, 'Do you have 47?' He said, 'No, we don't have a 47 jersey.' I said, 'OK, I'll take 19.' He goes, 'Well, someone else already has it.' I said, 'Just give me a number.' So he gave me 5. Then I showed up to Reno and I just had 17. I was like, 'OK, I guess I'll wear 17.' Hopefully I can get my college number back at some point. Numbers don't mean that much to me."
That would appear to be the case, as he went through a couple during his time at UCLA.
"I had 11 my freshman year," he said. "One of my teammates from high school came to UCLA. He has a twin sister, they've both worn 11 the whole time. She plays softball at Tennessee. I gave him 11 and took 47, and really, there was no reason behind it."
First baseman Mark Grace and right-hander Brandon Webb are two of the players who have worn No. 17 over the years for the D-backs.
Worth noting
Left-hander Joe Saunders (shoulder) is scheduled to throw a light bullpen session on Saturday, and if that goes well, he will throw 50 pitches in a simulated game on Tuesday at Chase Field.
If Saunders comes through those tests, the plan is to have him make one Minor League rehab start.
"He should be good to go after that," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "[Right] after the All-Star break. That's the wish. I don't see it getting sped up. It's possible, but that's kind of the plan as of today. Things can change."
After playing two days in a row, shortstop Stephen Drew was out of the starting lineup on Friday.
"I kind of planned on not playing him today anyway, so hopefully he'll be ready to go tomorrow," Gibson said. "We just want to work him back into it at a reasonable pace."
Drew, who played Wednesday for the first time since last July 20, said he was feeling pretty good and expected to be back in the lineup Saturday.
The D-backs signed a four-year contract renewal of their player development contract with their Triple-A Reno affiliate.
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Discussion in 'Other Equipment' started by AlfaAce, Nov 24, 2012.
Vote for your favorite.
Wilson US Open Extra duty
This will be a dead heat between Dunlop Grand Prix/Slazenger Wimbledons and Wilson USOs, with Pro Penn ATPs bringing up the rear. Why? The Dun/Slaz is the best overall ball. Lasts the longest, plays great. The Wilson is a slightly better playing ball, is a bit softer, BUT, will only last for about one match. This thread has been done dozens of times.
I recently started playing with Penn ATPs and noticed how much more lively they are - specifically, how much more they seem to respond when hit with topspin. I don't even have to try that hard, and when the ball bounces on the other side of the court there is a very noticeable kick to the ball.
It seems that USTA Leagues here in Cali seem to mostly use the Penn Championship, which, no matter how much extra topspin I put on the ball, seems to have no effect when the ball bounces on the other side of the court.
Anyone else notice this difference with other tennis balls?
Penn Championships should be reserved for nursing home walkers only. You even look at one of those things and it turns into a slow moving ball of fluff with no pop.
What ?
Slazenger not included? You gotta be kidding me, right?
By far the best ball IMO.
My top 2 choices fall into the OTHER category. My top choices, in order:
~ Prince Tour
~ Slazenger Wimbledon
~ Dunlop Grand Prix
~ Wilson US Open XD
~ Wilson US Open Regular Duty
~ Penn ATP
Have not had the opportunity to use the A-Player, Marathon, or the Babolat FO ball. Of the Championship balls, I'd go with either the Prince or the Dunlop balls. However, the Penn Champs are my first choice on a cold night -- the others feel like rocks and take longer to warm up. Of the premium (pro) balls and the 2nd-tier balls (like the Championship balls), the Wilson Champs are at the bottom of my list.
I Hate it when cheap clubs use Dunlop balls just so that they can save some money. they tend to last longer but control really sucks
Amen brother. SSGator80, you reading this?
1. Penn ATP
2. Penn Marathon + Wilson USO
Last: Dunlop GP
Disagree, ive used all slazenger balls and i go agree that they are very good, but they bounce way to high - especially when you play moonballers. I find that the slaz tournemant balls last way longer than any other of thr balls.
So far ive used Penn championships just for 3 hrs (1can), and i love them, i have to see how they last. Penn great for flat hitting
^ Note that the quality/quality control of the Penn Champs is somewhat substandard compared to the premium/professional balls. I have noticed this for more than 5 years now. The XD version is one of the most popular balls in our part of the planet -- due to cost and the softer feel of these balls. However I have noticed that nearly every can, if not every can, of Penn Champs contains one substandard ball. I believe that this is intentional on the part of Penn.
Sometimes, the odd ball is cosmetically flawed (crooked or offset label, excess glue or rubber at the seams, etc). This is not too objectionable at all. OTOH the odd ball, instead, very often has a bounce that is noticeably lower than the other two balls in the can. Check this out for yourself with your next new can.
Also, Penn Champs noticeably lose pressure/bounce height by the 2nd set of a match. By the 3rd set. the bounce is quite a bit lower. I have not seen this with Dunlop or Prince Champs or any of the premium/pro balls.
Wilson USO XD balls do tend to fluff up quite a bit in the 2nd or 3rd set of a match -- it depends on the type of shots that the ball experiences. Players who hit a lot of low, flat or underpin balls that skid fluff the USO XD ball rather quickly.
What is your objection to the Grand Prix ball? The only ball that is brighter than this ball is the Slaz Wimbledon ball. It also has an excellent, consistent bounce and is longer lasting than most other pressurized balls. I have not had the chance to use the PP Marathon ball for comparison. Of all the balls that I have used, only the Prince Tour ball appears to last longer. Some have reported that this Prince ball lasts longer than the Marathon ball (which is 1 of the 2 balls in this poll that I have not used myself).
Dunlops by a mile.
They last the longest.
All 3 last the same. No ONE ball goes flat or fuzzless.
Yes, they are somewhat heavy. So hit harder and go for more winners!
Everyone been telling me about the 1 ball doesnt bounce, didnt happen to me, but ive only played 3 hrs with a can- need to play longer with them and only played indoors with them. Also see how all 3 tubes see out to discuss quality control.
Anyone played with Head atp? brief summary
Head ATP gold
Um, they don't use Dunlops to save money, they use Dunlop balls so that they don't waste money on a ball that's worthless after a week of lessons. Also, all respect intended, I don't think that the ball has anything to do with the amount of control you have when hitting the ball.
The Dunlops and Slaz are slightly harder and faster balls. The Pro Penn and ATP Penns are fine. It's the Penn Champs which are simply worthless. Seriously, they are soft after warmup, let alone a set.
I'm with you and LeeD. I've yet to find a better ball than GPs or Wimbledons. Some people prefer USOs because they're slower and softer, but the Dunlops and Wimbys are the most consistent throughout their life.
Perhaps you got a can of balls that had a cosmetic flaw on one of the balls (instead of a substandard bounce). I see that happen every once in a while -- perhaps 5-10% of the time.
Usually, with the substandard ball, the bounce height is about 80-90% or so of the other two balls. Perhaps you got one where the lower bouncing ball was 90+% of the other 2 balls so you may not have noticed it. I have seen hundreds of cans of Penn Champs where one of the balls had a substandard bounce.
One night while playing doubles, we lost one of the new USO xd balls after 40 minutes of play. One of the guys decided to open a new can of Penn Champ balls. At that point, the 2 older Wilson balls had the same bounce height as 2 of the newer Penn balls. So we decided to continue play with the 2 USO balls and the 2 Penn balls (that had the same bounce height). After a couple more hours of play, it was apparent that the bounce height of the 2 Penn balls was noticeably lower than the 2 older Wilson USO balls.
The Head ATP ball should be identical to the Penn ATP ball -- they re the same ball with a different label. The Penn name is used for balls used in the US. The Head name is used for most other countries.
I have not been satisfied with Pro Penn Marathon XD at all, they last less than 2 hours, the former Pro Penn lasted more (bounced well for longer), 3-4 hours i'd say. I have had many cans that didn't pass 1:30 mins, they were completely flat. Wilson US Open XD doesn't last that much neither, lower bounce fluffs faster as well. I wish Yonex sold balls, I bet it would be good.
I can see that what they wanted was us to buy more, therefore more profit.
So you guys recommend Dunlop Grand Prix and Slazenger (4 can ball)??
The Penn champs even look cheap. The glue is always slathered on like it was toothpaste. I seriously don't know how anyone can use those for an actual match when there are other champ balls that are so much better.
Has anyone had much chance to try the Babolat French Open balls?
I bought a dozen cans of them on sale recently and have used one set so far. They seemed pretty quick, which I don't mind and perhaps wore out quicker than average - but by no means the quickest. They seemed pretty good overall to me - comparable in some ways to the Wilson US Open balls.
They feel like fuzz-rich Wilsons
Didn't they become hairy after a while ?
I think they also seem slightly larger as balls.
I am currently playing with Dunlop Grand Prix balls - after having read some reviews I expected them to last longer.
They seem to lose their fuzz pretty fast and they also don't bounce as much as I would like them to either. "Dunlop Fort" felt better and were also more durable. Just a better ball overall, but some people are not fond of how they feel. They are bouncier and feel a bit heavier and harder - similar to Slazenger, but the latter ones are probably more playable and better quality IMO.
If I definitely had to consider Dunlop Grand Prix, I would probably rather buy Wilson US Open balls instead. Playable right out of the box and as-much-as-you-pay-for durability. Some QC issues might occur, but you know what to expect.
I do not know why people like Dunlop Grand Prix :-?
Don't get me wrong. Even tho' I presented the shortcomings of the Penn Champs in posts #12 and #19, I still consider them a decent ball -- but definitely not as good as the premium balls that I listed. I do like the Penn Champs on a cold night because, unlike most other balls, they do not feel like rocks and tend to bounce a bit better cold than other balls.
I also consider the Penn Champs to be better balls than the Wilson Champs. However, as far as other Championship balls go, I would pick the Prince or Dunlop over Penn.
Our cheap head pro uses those for our annual club tournament. You have to throw them away after 2 sets and get another can. Sigh...
I prefer the Wilson Champs over the Penn Champs but to each his own. I've never noticed the Penn Champs to bounce much in any weather.
Slazenger Wimbledon Ultra Vis.
Now go to the Wilson/Prince leather grip thread.
I personally love the Pro Penn Marathon Extra Duty balls. My high school uses them, and they generally retain their bounce for several months. Almost every other ball we've used usually dies within the month we get them.
For me, they also aren't too heavy or light, so hitting with them feels fine
I also liked using the can of Slazenger balls I bought. Only problem I had with them is the logo of the ball wears off, which kind of bothers me at times
My current ball of choice is Pro Penn Marathon Regular Duty on the clay. They are very bright which is nice at night and not too heavy or furry.
Penn ATP Extra Duty, Pro Penn Marathon and Slazenger All Court. I also liked the Prince balls in the white/green 3-tube (can't remember the name) that Walmart sells/sold.
Wilson US Opens are a consistent ball but feel too light for me (this is entirely subjective, of course).
So, PENN ATP XD is the same as Pro Penn Marathon XD??
What are the heavier balls out there??
I'm willing to try this Slazenger Wimbledon, Dunlop Grand Prix and PENN ATP (if it's not the same as PP Marathon) , but it's hard to find he other 2 in my area, the club doesn't sell nor the stores, so hopefully if I order something online (I hardly do that) I'd like to add 2 cans of each, but no online retailer sells 1 or 2 cans of these balls, I'm not ordering a whole case just to try them.
2 pages noone mentions volkl? love them. i also like the pro penn extra duty. dunlops are the worst
^ Never seen any Volkl balls in my neck of the woods. Which Dunlops are you referring to? You must qualify your statement. There are also a number of other models than the 3 listed in the poll. You cannot dismiss the highly-regarded Grand Prix balls just cuz you don't like the A-Player, Championship or one of the other Dunlop models.
I love Penn Titanium Tennis Ballls. I always play my best with them and they seem to last longer than any other ball
haha. i dont like any of the dunlops. especially grand prix
Probably no one on here as ever tried them, but I love the Gamma Pro Tours. The Dunlop Grand Prix are a really really close second for me, but I like the Gammas just a little bit better. Their felt lasts forever and they hold their bounce really well, but they don't feel heavy coming off the racquet to me.
Seems that you may be in the minority in the TW world. The Dunlop GP generally favors well in polls and various threads in this forum. Even their Championship ball, so far, is doing a bit better than Penn or Wilson Champs in this poll.
How about specifics? Not enough to just say that you don't like Dunlops? Why don't you like the GP and other Dunlop balls? What type of courts do you usually play on? Play primarily at night or during the day? Low or high altitude? Hot or cold weather? Wind/calm? Etc.
What are your major criteria for judging the utility of a tennis ball? Price, durability, bounce, etc. Quite often ball preferences vary quite a bit from one person to the next based on the type of considerations that I've mentioned in this post.
yea. well in the TW world everyone also debates on lead placement and how much overgrip weight will affect the swingweight, and how fuzz on the stringbed causes them to lose topspin, so yea....
but the reason i dont like them is the weight. too hard and heavy. i have played in snow and over100degree heat, on decoturf2 to har tru clay. i have paid for about 5 cans of balls in the last 5yrs so price isnt a big concern, playability is. hence why i picked volkl. does this make sense to you now
i like the gammas!
Between dunlop champ and wilson open, babolat a distant last
+1. My club sells the Dunlop Grand Prix exclusively and I don't like the feel at all. They may stay consistent for longer but, unfortunately, it's consistently hard and heavy.
I've been trying to bring my own cans of Wilson USOpen balls for matches but may try the Penn ATP based on the feedback on here.
I just feel like the Dunlops are hard on the arm.
where in ny? i go up there each yr for the us open and would like to hit when visiting
Yep, them and Penn ATP.
Now we are getting some where. Yes, your feedback is now more informative. You are correct that Dunlop balls, in general, feel harder or stiffer than balls from Penn, Wilson and some others. This is probably one of the main factors with regards to longevity. Because, they last so much longer than other brands, they usually end up being cheaper in the long run. Of the pressurized balls, I believe that Prince Tour balls are only ones that last significantly longer that Dunlop GP balls.
I don't recall the Prince Tour balls feeling as stiff as the Dunlop GP balls.
Despite their stiffness, Dunlop balls are still quite a bit easier on the arm (less stiff) than hard pressureless balls. I currently have a seriously compromised shoulder and have had mild-to-moderate cases of TE in the past. Despite these issues, the Dunlop balls have never bothered my arm except on very cold nights.
This is probably because I use a soft string at a fairly low tension and the frames that I use provide a pretty good measure of dampening & isolation (from the shock and vibrations due to the ball, strings and frame). If you are using tight or harsh strings with a harsh feeling frame(stiff or lacking in shock reduction) or hit a lot of balls off-center, it may explain why Dunlop balls bother you so much.
As for their weight, I do not believe that the GP or other Dunlop balls are significantly heavier than other brands. They may give the illusion that they are heavier but they must fall in that fairly narrow weight range that I've stated (earlier in this thread, I think).
well there you go
i string at low tension, poly syn. i also dont use stiff rackets. i just dont like heavy balls
^ Hard/stiff balls not heavy balls.
Poly strings can be a huge factor, even at low tensions. A racket that is flexible (not stiff) is no guarantee that they will not transmit a lot of shock (and vibration) to the arm.
Well there's yer problem!
lol yea. in the rain too. at the end my shoes weighed like 5lbs each
for me they are heavier too. you are connecting the wrong things. i dont like the balls because they are hard and heavy, not because they transmit shock to my arm. it has nothing to do with that. i just dont like the feel of the bounce
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Discussion in 'Trials' started by LCNMRIDER, Sep 1, 2012.
So who is the trials master for the lowers next weekend at Lakefork?
I think Mike Salazar :huh and someone with the Butler crew but not sure.
SaladBar and LBD III Hannah Butler are TM's next weekend. Should be fun (if I have anything to say about it ).
Is this a 2 day or just a 1 day event. I would like to come with my 5 year old son on Saturday and watch some sections if it is a competition day. I work Sunday's so can't make Sunday's unless I am "having an Eye problem..."
Two day event. Morning riders are beginner through Intermediate, kids and and others. Afternoon (1:00 PM or so) is advanced riders including one bad ass lady rider or maybe two. Saturday will let you see the whole deal, hang out afterwords and get someone to let your son ride an Ocet, you ride someone's trials bike. Just ask and be friendly, everyone there will be ubber nice and your always welcome. Time to buy trials bikes, you will be able to beat your son for a few years maybe.
I dont know about that son beating part. The only way I beat my son is to stay out of the class he is riding in.
Hey ATeamNM- my wife and I tried a trial's event in Angel Fire in 2006 and met Garrett who gave a tour of the lower sections. He wasn't the 6 foot bohemoth he has turned into, I think he was 7 or 8 and we also met Rachel at Sipapu before she became one badass lady. Sold our trial's bikes to Rob ONeill when we started adopting children.
I have experienced the Trial's group and yes you all are ubber nice and would love come and spectate and possibly see my son on a tuned down Osset. May not be able to make it Saturday as we have a soccer game until 1130 so soonest we could make it up would be 2ish.
My Angel Fire event was in the novice, having ridden dirt and street for 15 years I thought I would nail it, didn't realize how hard it is to ride a motorcycle slow. I hadn't sweated that much since I was 15 and had broke into my Dad's stash and was waiting for my punishment. I think I lost 10lbs and Larry and Sherry gave me a beer after my last section. It tasted sooo good even though I think it was a PBR, but it was ice cold.
If we don't make it up this weekend, we'll shoot for a San Ysidro event where I will have to ask someone for the gate combo again. I think I have 2 combo's for the gate, if they are still valid. Looking forward to seeing how far Devin's boy has come as his and my son are pretty close in age.
Thanks for the invite and hope to make a meet in the near future! Rick
Larry and Sherry were there this past weekend. Had a beer (or 10) with 'em around the campfire. GREAT to see those crazy kids again!
Neither of those old combo's are even close. We are in Roswell next month, then SanYo in November and December. Come on out!
HhMmmm! 39 riders at lake fork pitifull. Be lucky then to have 30 at Roswell. The board should do away with the overall awards till they figure it out! This club don`t `print` money like the USA.:huh
I've said it before and I'll say it again.
The quest for all of these individual "state championships" is hurting attendence more than anyone will ackowledge.
Guys sandbagging in a class all year to win something instead of moving out of that class intimidates anyone that has even remotely thought about moving into that class.
Why come out and ride amateur (or novice, or anything) when there is a career amateur hanging out there just to win a title.
Back in the days of MX we used to give points for each podium finish and when you had a certain amount of points, you moved up! Period.
This allowed the newer riders a chance to fill those slots and actually win something.
Not many riders will continue to come out and get beat by the same guys year after year with little to no chace of ever placing.
I feel fortunate that the guys and the class that I am in now is very competitive and no one is bagging it. We also usually have one of the largest classes.
I do realize that some guys shoot themselves in the foot by not practicing and then coming to the events only to get whupped up on.
BTW, some of the first events of last year had 17 riders in Clubman. WTF happened to all of those guys?
We do need to do something about the downward trend. I have only been in the club a short time and it is really noticeable.
Is the relative difficulty scaring away guys? It sure does seem as though the skill leve required to be in a certain class has moved up. I started in INT and it certainly wasn't then what the INT riders are riding now.
Thankfully we had some CO riders down. That was cool!!
Between the economy, guys getting slower(older)and all our changes in classes the last three years has messed with the fun factor of NMTA. Lake Fork was always our premier event. We pushed over a hundred riders several times. Sadly you lose riders faster than you can add them when things are harder for our mature sport. The thirty to forty somethings are the ones that keep clubs alive. Start catering to the wrong age group and you will see a club die. It has happened in the past to NMTA for the same reasons. Late seventies and early eighties 12 riders were not uncommon. Hope we can change a few things to reverse the trend.
Central Arizona Trials is having the same soul-searchings. Trials masters are encouraged not to beat up the middle-aged guys who don't ride enough. We cancelled at least one event where attendance couldn't cover the land use fees. A few of the missing riders have showed up at the recent events, and it's good to see them. Trials isn't brutally expensive, but it costs a few hours a week and a few hundred a month to practice, travel, repair, and wear out a bike. The family guys multiply that by supporting young riders and it can get out of hand. [ My wife and I blew up a few VISA cards in the day, trying to be bicycle racers..!]
On the other hand, getting whomped by lineaway-on-an-antique- motorcycle at San Y this spring was one of the highlights of my year... the guy should move up!!
The variable here is that the track stays the same in MX. Move up a class in trials and things get harder/scarier.
I've given this all some thought as a relatively new rider. My main competition this year and last has been older guys who are moving back down as they age. Maybe the sections are getting harder too - I don't have enough time in it to say. I can't fault them for wanting to move down, and the organization I ride with is small and doesn't have any senior classes. What they do have for the vintage guys is Master classes. Win two titles (was one until this year) in any class and you must move to Masters. This lets guys who are comfortable on a certain line compete with each other and moves them out of the way so the new blood has a chance. Unfortunately, they don't do this for modern riders - it's primarily a vintage organization.
There's also a rider or two who I think should move up, but the rules don't make them. They're not coming to enough events to win championships. Ultimately, if the rules allow it and it's the class that they find fun, I can't find any fault.
It looks like I'll win a championship in my class this year. I'm not quite ready to move up at this point, and I don't know that I will be by the start of next season. Maybe, but after sitting out six weeks due to a broken rib this season, I don't feel much need to push. The plastic trophies and paychecks don't change if I move up. Fortunately, the organization offers an "exhibition" class which will allow me to ride different lines in different sections so that I can ease into the next class. It's a no-points, no-championships, just-for-fun class. I'm looking forward to it.
OK, I got it!
Just like anything, make it fun and they will beat your door down to do it.
Well.......that....and free beer!
I agree that the state championship pursuit, career riders and economy have had some impact on the NMTA attendance, but I gotta wonder just what all those riders are doing that's keeping them away. Hell, for most of the ABQ riders it is no more than an 1 1/2 hr drive.
For myself, this event was hard to get to because I had to pull my son from school to make the trip up north and getting him back in time to get a good night sleep to go to school monday morning is also a challenge. I did debate not coming due to the the school issue and the distance we have to drive but both my son and I agreed that LakeFork is just too good to pass up. For us, Roswell is our closest event (3 hour drive) and I am not sure that I can pull off another trip that interferes with school.
I can't imagine he does not make good grades? If so, then school will not educate him those few hours like being with Dad in the wilds of New Mexico riding a motorcycle all weekend?


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Hello my fellow sufferers:
We have some major issues here:
1)Rumors are abound that Jonathon Vilma is trade bait right now for Philip Rivers, Patrick Ramsey, and Billy Volek. If he goes, so do I and we all should. He's one of the top 5 linebackers in the NFL IN HIS SECOND YEAR!!!
2)Lose the loyalty--As should have been done last year (prior to losing LaMont Jordan) Martin should've been traded or cut and LaMont should've been starting. Now we need a RB too. Pennington should never have started. He doesn't have the necessary arm strength even when healthy. Now we have another Ken O'Brien, alternating efficient brilliance and awful underthrows. Cap space should've been cleared to re-sign McKenzie and Thomas. Mawae, Fabini, Kendall, Moore, and Jones aren't an effective combination of an offensive line. Now our QBs dead....
3)Lose out the year, resign Abraham and keep the defense together. Gut the offense (cut Chad, Fiedler, Vinny, and Coles) and spend a draft pick on one of 3 QBs coming out next year (Young, Leinart, or later, Shockley from Georgia who has enough) or trade for McMahon from the Eagles, Volek, McCown, Ramsey, or Shaub. Enough West-Coast Rag-arm. Or get Reggie Bush or another RB via free-agency and get everything back in order. Time to gut it all and start anew. I've had it with the loyalty to these guys, they're all getting paid, there's nothing to feel bad about. Herm can win, he's a good coach and needs to have at least 2 game breakers on offense with that defense (see Ravens 2000, Pats 2 of the last 3 years) and stop wasting draft picks on Robertson's and Thomas'.
Bradway should be fired, but, instead, make him dig himself out of the mire that he's created.
This old team needs to start over.
You should be banned for your thread title and your retarded post as well.
Ok dude, you're new, so you get a pass for this awful thread title. If you are going to start a thread like this, it is best not to title it something declarative like, "Vilma Traded." People think Vilma has actually been traded already, and that is misleading. You should have titled it, "I think Vilma should be traded."
Get my drift?
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No doubt. Site Admin, please address this.Originally Posted by WestJet
You're retarded my friend, how could you not agree? They're garbage right now and will be until their QB can throw the ball downfield, their line can give a QB more than 2 seconds, and their running back isn't held together by ducktape. Look at WINNERS:
They turn-over their players, the Jets stay stagnant....it's awful...
Fiedler sucks and so does WestJet.
Dump It
lock and load
Dump The Poster And The Thread...
This guy is Frank Moga's brother.
Originally Posted by jets5ever
An intelligent and non-combative way to educate a new user. Well done jets5........
This is the dumbest thread Ive read. Im callin the thread police
Are hall of famers on this site. Tear it down my mis-guided friends, my ranking has no bearing on how used to losing you all are.....
Nothing but a Super Bowl title will suffice and you need Super Bowl talent or Bill Belichick to do that. Nice work on booting him Woody. Here's to the 2nd most mis-guided franchise over the past 20 years in all of sports (next to the KC royals) playoffs mean nothing without a title in there somewhere. Ask the Bills and Eagles.
first of all before you go and post stupid sh!t like this do your homework. This has been a rumor circulating for a week now and its not happening. everyone knows it too. Do you actaully think the jets would trade the teams Leading tackler.
Originally Posted by crasherino
FU Crasherino...that was totally uncalled for. The poster is a newbie moron, don't link me with this crap...it really pisses me off.
Are you serious? Look at past history, it should be EXPECTED and then they'll put Brian Bosworth in there and start Nagle at QB....what a joke....
man - this was a waste of brain cells - one of the dumber posts ever and the worst headline ever
misguided?? kinda like you thinking that Woody owned teh team when BB quit????Originally Posted by PMarsico9
As opposed to Frank "Klingsbury is the Next Montana, he MUST Play" Moga?Originally Posted by FrankMoga


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The first manned Apollo flight was delayed by a tragic accident, a fire that broke out in the Apollo 1 spacecraft during a ground rehearsal on January 27, 1967, killing all three astronauts. On October 11, 1968, following several unmanned Earth-orbit flights, Apollo 7 made a 163-orbit flight carrying a full crew of three astronauts. Apollo 8 carried out the first step of manned lunar exploration; from Earth orbit it was injected into a lunar trajectory, completed lunar orbit, and returned safely to Earth. Apollo 9 carried out a prolonged mission in Earth orbit to check out the LM. Apollo 10 journeyed to lunar orbit and tested the LM to within 15.2 km (50,000 feet) of the Moon's surface. Apollo 11, in July 1969, climaxed the step-by-step procedure with a lunar landing; on July 20 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon's surface. (See the Britannica Classic "After Apollo, What?" by Rudy Abramson.)
Apollo 13, launched in April 1970, suffered an accident caused by an explosion in an oxygen tank but returned safely to Earth. Remaining Apollo missions carried out extensive exploration of the lunar surface, collecting 382 kg (842 pounds) of Moon rocks and installing many instruments for scientific research, such as the solar wind experiment, and the seismographic measurements of the lunar surface. Apollo 17, the final flight of the program, took place in December 1972. In total, 12 American astronauts walked on the Moon during the six successful lunar landing missions of the Apollo program.
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My apologies to those few of you who expected to see a MAZ-INT blog entry for November, however, the AFCEA Webpage does not seemed to be overwhelmed with inquiries about the missing blog, the IC seems to be functioning despite missing a month of my advice, and unemployment has started to drop since my last blog. Perhaps I should take more months off!
Not that you asked for one, but by way of explanation – my day job at Oracle kept me distracted from what I really enjoy which is examining IC issues with you. To be fair to Oracle, which insists on paying me far more than I am worth, most of my discretionary time in November was consumed with planning the AFCEA's Spring Intelligence Symposium, which I am co-chairing with Zal Azmi. The dates for the symposium are 21-22 Apr 2010, at the DIAC on Bolling Air Force Base and the topic we will examine is: INTELLIGENCE R&D: IS IT MEETING NATIONAL SECURITY NEEDS? Thanks to Zal and a terrific group of session chairs the agenda is eclectic and stocked with highly qualified speakers from the government, industry, and the laboratory communities. Hope you will save the date!
There are a variety of IC issues I am going to get to in lighting round fashion but they pale in significance to the President's decision to commit 30,000 more troops to
My strategic concern aside, the President has decided so what are the intelligence issues associated with this surge succeeding? If General Jones asked for my input I would tell him FORCE PROTECTION as a
Besides long-dwell, high resolution sensors, military intelligence is going to need to ramp up the use of WEB 2.0 technology so it can make sense out of all the data such sensors will provide through information sharing and collaboration. Technical (IMINT, SIGINT, MASINT) and non-technical intelligence (HUMINT, DOCEX, OPEN SOURCE, etc.) are going to need to be mashed-up both in the field and up echelon to keep our forces from being attacked and enabling them to put their limited resources where they will do the most good for creating a more secure Afghanistan by 2012. None of this will be easy in terms of work flow, but our industrial age security regime could end up sinking this mission by impeding the cross domain sharing of intelligence and operational data across echelons of command with coalition partners. Presumably I am just uniformed, but I'll take the "under" that their has been no specific tasking levied on the Unified Cross Domain Office (UCDMO) to support intelligence sharing and collaboration associated with the surge, nor does the UCDMO believe they have the authority to step up and take the initiative here.
Now to the Lightening Round!
Fort Hood shootings an Intelligence failure?! I don't care how much information the IC collected on Major Hasan about contacts with radical jihadists and whether they shared it or not, the first line of defense and responsibility here is his military chain of command. My experience tells me that his peers and superiors misread Hasan's unusual views and non-social behavior as somebody trying to avoid deploying and worse not wanting to pay the Army back for his education. From an intel perspective this tragedy does show that progress is not as far along as reported since 9/11 on merging foreign intelligence into homeland security cases.
The new PACOM Commander, Admiral Willard, called out the American intelligence
Community (IC) for a failure to estimate correctly the growing capabilities of the Chinese Navy (PLAN) for the past ten years! Does Admiral Willard actually mean the
I understand a boat load of money has been appropriated for the National Cybersecurity Initiative (NCSI), US Cyber Command has been established, and Mike McConnell has been on 60 Minutes warning of the extreme extant cyber threat to national security and yet no National Cyber Coordinator --- I mean Czar --- has been nominated yet! ! ! It seems anybody capable of doing this job is smart enough not to take it given that the position is buried on the NCS staff with meddling rights from the Council of Economic Advisors and has no authority over funding! Doesn't sound like a Czar position description to me!
The CIA has won a long turf battle over its boss, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to name overseas Chief of Stations (COS'), assuring the primacy of CIA personnel over
The December issue of SIGNAL has a pretty good article about DCGS-N, but what do you mean titling it "Seaborne Intelligence Comes Aboard"?! As an intelligence officer who spent 11 of his 27 years in the Navy afloat the introduction of DCGS-N is hardly the beginning the intelligence at sea. The Navy started investing in and deploying afloat IT dedicated to intelligence (NIPS/Naval Intel Processing System, which morphed into MIDB) during the Vietnam War before most IT companies where garage start ups. JDISS is a Navy Intel System that started life as LANTDISS before anybody thought of DCGS. Then there is OSIS, the first dedicated Intelligence Network in DoD that started up circa 1970. As I was once told ----- the history of Rock n Roll did not begin when I turned on the radio for the first time!
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Do you suspect someone has forged emails from your account?
There has been quite a bit of confusion lately regarding email. Many individuals at the University have been receiving messages that state they sent an email containing a virus, but according to their knowledge, they did not send a virus. What really happened is that a virus used these individuals' email addresses to send spam without the users' knowledge. To help alleviate some fears, a short explanation of how these viruses use email is below.
How a spamming virus works
For an email today, typically the recipient sees something like this:
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:28:45 +0000
From: Company X <email@example.com>
To: email@example.com
Subject: You may have already won!!!
The physical equivalent would be kind of like this:
One important point to make about both of the above examples is that email@example.com may or may not have sent the message. Anyone can put mail in a mailbox with a false return address on it. In the same way, anyone can claim to be someone else when sending an email.
Many recent viruses take advantage of this, and pretend to be from someone else, mostly to help hide their tracks and to try to give legitimacy to the message. After infecting a system, they will collect all the email addresses that they can find on that computer, and take two of them at random. The first one become the "From" address and the second one becomes the "To" address. In almost all of the cases, neither of these people nor their computers were involved in this. However, many anti-virus servers are configured to send a warning back to the sender - in this case, the forged "From" address. The only relation that the alleged sender may have to the recipient is that a third person, who has both the sender and recipient's email addresses, has been infected.
To prevent this from happening again in the future, be sure to update your anti-virus protection.


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One my holiday gifts was the SanDisk Sansa e280 MP3 Player.Marc picked it because I had asked for an MP3 player, and also mentioned several times that I would love to have a digital voice recorder to capture the gems that Alex spouts on a regular basis. The voice recorder idea was inspired by an old Thingamababy post, and I was thrilled that the Sansa has a built-in recorder.
Of course, I've now had the recorder for close to a month (it was a Hanukkah gift) and have yet to use the voice recorder feature. I haven't even read the instructions for it. And there have been more than a few occasions when I've thought, I need to record that! Like when Alex was singing "Jingle Bells" every day – few things are cuter than a little boy belting out "laughing all the way" followed by "ha-ha-ha"!
So there you have my family resolution for the year: Use my voice recorder. Often. Because there are going to be memories that ought to be preserved forever.


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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Microsoft Launches Translation Service — Microsoft launched a service for automatic translation called Windows Live Translator. The site lets you translate a text limited to 500 words or a web page from English to German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Russian.
Discussion: CenterNetworks, Download Squad, WebMetricsGuru and Mashable!
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Microsoft launchs Windows Live Translator beta
Marshall Sponder / WebMetricsGuru: Microsoft Translation Service - Windows Live Translator Beta
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Microsoft Launches Online Translation Service
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Windows Live Translator — Darren Straight has been snooping around some Windows Live Translator domain names, and today, for the first time, the Windows Live Translator beta site is live. According to Darren, the following urls are now working: — translator.live.com — translate.live.com
Discussion: InsideMicrosoft, TechCrunch, ParisLemon, Microsoft News Tracker and Darren Straight's Blog
Nathan Weinberg / InsideMicrosoft: Windows Live Translator Launches
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: Microsoft Launches Babel Fish, I mean Windows Live Translator
MG Siegler / ParisLemon: Windows Live Translator: Lost in Translation
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
danah continues the "precious," er, Facebook conversation... danah boyd continues the conversation. danah (she doesn't capitalize her name) is one of our industry's top researchers about social software. — Actually now that Milan (our new son) is coming I'm finding myself a lot more in her camp than previously.
Discussion: Alfred Thompson … and Memex 1.1
Zephoria / apophenia:
SNS visibility norms (a response to Scoble) — A few days ago, I lamented the tech crowd's Facebook fetish. Scoble raised the bar by responding to all of my nitpicks. Now, it's my turn again. Tehehe. — I think that Scoble summed it all up perfectly with this: … He's totally right.
Discussion: Insider Chatter, Techquila Shots and WeBreakStuff
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter: Jaiku Rules: Facebook Addict Kicks the Zuckerberg Habit
Wagner James Au / GigaOM:
Weekend Feature: The How of Habbo Hotel — How did a small Finnish company create an online world which now boasts the largest current active user base in Europe and North America (about 6.5 million)*, far larger than World of Warcraft (around 4.5 million, not counting its Chinese audience)?
Discussion: Habbox - Habbox, Broken Toys, Insider Chatter and Web Strategy
Scott Jennings / Broken Toys: AGDC: Notes From Fighting The Last War
Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter: Hype Crimes: Habbo Hotel Weekend How-To
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy: Experiencing Habbo, A Virtual Play World (screenshots)
Shira Boss / New York Times:
Even in a Virtual World, 'Stuff' Matters — IT'S payday for Janine Hawkins. Not in the real world, where she is a student at Nipissing University in Ontario, but in the online world of Second Life, where she is managing editor of the fashion magazine Second Style.
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Eloise Pasteur / Second Life Insider: Second Life in the media again
Mark Wallace / 3pointD.com: NY Times on Second Life Economics and Utility
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
Rainbow Hash Cracking — The multi-platform password cracker Ophcrack is incredibly fast. How fast? It can crack the password "Fgpyyih804423" in 160 seconds. Most people would consider that password fairly secure. The Microsoft password strength checker rates it "strong".
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SINGULARITY SUMMIT TALK: OPENNESS AND THE METAVERSE SINGULARITY — The following is the text of the presentation I'm giving today at the Singularity Summit. I've set the post to go live at the same time I go onto the stage. Update: this is now the corrected version …
Discussion: Insider Chatter, Mike Linksvayer and Between the Lines
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Singularity Summit 2007: Designing rational self-improving AI
Singularity Summit 2007: Designing rational self-improving AI
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Renee Blodgett / down the avenue: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iTunes 7.4.1 ringtones re-rename workaround discovered — So last night iTunes 7.4.1 came out which, among other things, blocked off the custom ringtone renaming method, which allowed users to add their own ringtones to their iPhone without buying them on iTunes.
Discussion: TECH.BLORGE.com, Mobility Site, Oubipaws.org, Forever Geek, Macworld, Joe Maller and Digg
Sean P. Aune / TECH.BLORGE.com: iPhone ringtone hack still exists in iTunes 7.4.1
Nick Mercer / Oubipaws.org: iPhone Custom Ringtones [Part 2] [Update #1]
Griffith / Forever Geek: $.99 for iTunes ringtones? Not anymore!
Jim Dalrymple / Macworld: Apple attempts to block free ringtones with iTunes update
Michael Rose / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
iTunes 7.4 obsolete after 48 hours; 7.4.1 breaks homebrew ringtones
iTunes 7.4 obsolete after 48 hours; 7.4.1 breaks homebrew ringtones
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Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: Apple releases iTunes 7.4.1
Jonathan Schlaffer / TECH.BLORGE.com: Apple blocks homebrew iPhone ringtones with iTunes 7.4.1 update
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Can Michael Dell Refocus His Namesake? — "Some of our competitors jumped over us in a Darwinian way," Michael S. Dell says. "Now it's our turn." He recently returned as C.E.O. — Round Rock, Tex. — ON a recent afternoon at his company's headquarters here, Michael S. Dell is seated …
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Peter Cohan / BloggingStocks: Is Dell (DELL) breathing down IBM's (IBM) neck?
Ryan Block / Engadget:
RFID implants linked to cancer in lab tests — As if pain, conspiracy, big brother, and lack of necessity weren't already enough to deter you, the average Joe or Jane, from getting a subcutaneous RFID chip implant, a number of studies over the past decade have amassed which link the chips to malignant tumors in animal tests.
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Jonathan Schlaffer / TECH.BLORGE.com: Implanted RFID chips may cause cancer
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: RFID implants linked to animal tumors
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: Conspiracy!: RFID Chips May Cause Tumors
3G, 16GB iPhone for Europe in November? — Apple may launch its iPhone campaign in Europe with a 3G-capable iPhone with enhanced storage, according to what appears to be a leaked ad from T-Mobile Germany. The ad promises a version of the handset with support for 3G-level cellular Internet access using …
Antony Mayfield / Open (finds, minds, conversations): Sarin grapes about the iPhone
Haroon Malik / Gizmodo: Unconfirmed: Europeans May Get Bigger Badder iPhone
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Tips for Google Reader Search — While Google Reader's new search feature has many limitations and is still far from Bloglines, there are some features that help you find a post faster. — 1. You have three ways to view search results: — * snippet view, similar to the way Google displays web search results.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Virtual Worlds Are The Future Of Global Commerce: ICANN CEO — In a wide ranging keynote address at the 2007 Influence Forum, ICANN CEO Paul Twomey told the audience that virtual worlds are the future of global commerce. — Twomey used The Sims Online as an example of the sort of interface …
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Top Twenty Five (25) Best Selling Video Games Of All Time — Video Gaming is a multi-billion dollar industry where over two (2) billion video game titles have been sold. Below, we examine the top twenty five best selling video games of all time including a title that sold over 20 million copies.
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Flynn De Marco / Kotaku: Best Sellers: Top Twenty Five Best Selling Video Games
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"HAPPENSTANCE" Art Exhibition by Clarkson University Digital Arts & Sciences Students Nov. 2-30
"HAPPENSTANCE" is an experimental exhibition event featuring work by students from the Digital Arts and Sciences program at Clarkson University. Over the course of the exhibition students will develop an evolving series of site-specific new media art installations.
This exhibition event will take place in the Creative Spirit Community Art Center, 6 Raymond St, in Potsdam, N.Y., November 2-30.
The public is invited to attend the opening reception on Friday, November 2, from 7-9 p.m. (If you're planning on attending a Halloween party the same evening, you're also very much encouraged to turn up in costume!)
Make sure you return during the course of the exhibition to see how the artwork changes and evolves.
The Digital Arts & Sciences Program is an interdisciplinary major, which spans the boundaries between the sciences and the arts. Students take advantage of programs in digital art, math, computer science, and communication & media.
The program's objective is to combine artistic and scientific skills and interests to develop creative talent, with a strong technical foundation. Graduates from this program pursue careers in a host of creative endeavors including graphic design, film production, video game design, animation, and web design.
For more information about Digital Arts & Sciences, visit http://www.clarkson.edu/digitalarts.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in five alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.