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Since 2001, the Benthic Resources Group at the SWFSC has been using remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to conduct visual surveys of benthic marine fishes and invertebrates. During these surveys, we have also identified numerous instances of marine debris throughout central and southern California.
Marine debris comes in a variety of forms, from discarded soda bottles to derelict fishing gear. In addition to being unsightly, marine debris can have negative impacts on marine habitats and sea life. For this reason, the documentation and removal of marine debris has become a priority for groups like NOAA's Marine Debris Program.
Photos and descriptions of these sightings in your browser are available here using Google Earth (free browser plug-in required). Click points on the map to view images of marine debris. Download the entire dataset (KMZ file below) for viewing in Google Earth. Click individual Tours to conduct virtual 'fly-bys' at a few selected survey locations in Southern California.
This work compliments ongoing work to document marine debris in deepwater benthic habitats throughout CA by the SWFSC's Habitat Ecology Team in Santa Cruz, CA. Check out the short video that documents their research here.
For more information, please contact Kevin Stierhoff, the Benthic Resources Team Leader at the SWFSC.
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Portuguese For Dummies
- Publish Date: 2006-05-08
- Binding: Paperback
- Author: Karen Keller
Quick! Whats the most widely spoken language in South America? Thats right, Portuguese! And whats the fastest, easiest, most enjoyable way to learn Portuguese? Portuguese for Dummies, of course! This fun, friendly guide helps you start speaking Brazilian Portuguese immediately! Whether you're a student, a traveler, or you work in business or government, you'll love its practical lessons, cultural facts, and handy references including a Portuguese-English mini-dictionary, lists of vital verbs, and more! Youll discover how to:
- Have everyday conversations in Portuguese
- Make sense of Portuguese grammar
- Use idioms and popular expressions
- Improve your pronunciation
- Get a handle on verb conjugations
- Get around in Portuguese-speaking countries
Portuguese for Dummies comes complete with a CD loaded with real-life Talkin the Talk dialogues that help you understand and pronounce this lovely, lyrical language. With this easy, low-pressure approach youll be jabbering away in Portuguese in no time.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

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Andrea and Jem show you their personal routines when getting ready for the day ahead!
Andrea & Jem are back from their travels! Check out their favourite overseas buys, funny trip stories and even a pickpocketing incident!
Drea and Jem share their top picks for the hottest looks this festive season!
Jem finds huge discounts at brand names like Prada, Coach, and many more!
Need Christmas gift ideas? Andrea and Jem show you their picks for the best gifts under $40!
Drea puts her OCD tendencies to good use as she shares personal tips on organising your wardrobe!
Jem hits the streets of London and Paris to see what people are wearing!
Andrea and guest host Christabel Chua share tips on how to pose, their favourite photo editing apps, and more!
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Drea shows you how to rock different vintage looks!
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Andrea goes style-hunting again! This time, she heads to Haji Lane to check out what people are wearing.
The girls get personal and share their most embarrassing fashion guilty pleasures - ratty old pyjamas, batik clothing, and more!
The girls go head to head in their first ever fashion challenge! They've got the same LBD and 10 minutes to come up with a full look that best…
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Who wore what to Fide Fashion Week? Andrea and Jem hunt down some fashionistas that stood out from the crowd.
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What's hot and what's not for the current F/W 2013 season!
The girls give Andrea's brother a style makeover!
Andrea and Jem learn how to make a simple ponytail and bun look runway ready from the pros.Terms and conditions apply to Urbanhair's 25% discount.
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Andrea and Jem visit NAFA to hunt down Singapore's most stylish students!
Andrea and Jem dish out useful tips on accessorising for different occasions!
Andrea and Jem continue their shopping adventures in Bangkok! This time they head to Union Mall, Terminal 21, and Siam Square.
Andrea and Jem go crazy shopping in Bangkok! In this episode, they check out Pratunam Market, Platinum Mall, and Asiatique.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and cram for your psychology final. Did the fact that you procrastinate so thoroughly ever make you concerned that you may have a mental imbalance? If you had studied harder, you might know the answer. LET'S GO!
GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS – 8:00PM Sunday (NBC) It's the one where they all get drunk. And unlike most years, when the Globes are hosted by "Randomly Generated Voice-Over Person," this year's awards have an actual host in one Ricky Gervais, who will presumably be able to get away with savaging these people because he's British, and it takes an extra beat for the average person to realize a British person is mocking them. Did you know they nominated "The Tourist" for Best Picture? They really did. Even Qatar thinks that's shady. ANTICIPATION: STAREFFING!
MISS AMERICA PAGEANT – 9:00PM Saturday (ABC) And if the Globes don't quite satisfy your lust for meaningless honors, then tune in to ABC the night before and find out which lucky girl will be scandalized two weeks from now. Your judges include Joy Behar (Don't give any conservative answers, ladies!) and "Desperate Housewives" creator Marc Cherry, who is qualified to judge this show because… uh… Well, he was in town. ANTICIPATION: GOWNS AND SUITS!
BIG LOVE – 9:00PM Sunday (HBO) It's the final season of HBO's polygamy drama, which I never watched despite people always telling me it was really good until last year, when they suddenly told me it sucked. But apparently, the show has unsucked itself and it's final season promises more family intrigue and Bill Paxton's family dealing with the fallout from being exposed publicly as polygamists. ANTICIPATION: SISTER WIVES!
DENIS LEARY AND FRIENDS: DOUCHEBAGS AND DONUTS – 10:00PM Sunday (Comedy Central) It's a standup bonanza as Leary takes the stage along with fellow comedians and best buds Adam Ferrara, Lenny Clarke, and Whitney Cummings, who I assume adopted her name as a stage name just for the shock value. ANTICIPATION: JOKES!
TED HAGGARD: SCANDALOUS – 10:00PM Sunday (TLC) Follow the disgraced preacher as he attempts to establish a new congregation. Keep in mind that Haggard still doesn't consider himself as homosexual, but rather "heterosexual with issues." That issue? Suppressed homosexuality. And meth. ANTICIPATION: METHY!


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From time to time, we'll select stories — old and new, sports and otherwise, relevant and merely sublime — that we urge you to read for one reason or another. Today: Colt McCoy, quarterback of quarterbacks.
"Arms Race," by Bryan Curtis (Texas Monthly, September 2010)
Suggested readers: Fans of either Texas football or God or both
Colt McCoy's finely tuned, defense-destroying brain is still trying to process the events of January 7, 2010. "I knew it was going to be a great night," Colt says. "And then it's over, in one little hit." Colt and his dad, Brad, whom Longhorns fans know as his ever-vigilant high school coach, are back in the McCoys' adopted hometown of Tuscola. They're sitting at a long table in an old hotel that a friend has recently converted into an office. Both men appear friendly and solicitous, if slightly guarded. A gallery of taxidermied hunting trophies surrounds the McCoys, a metaphor, if we're feeling literary, for athleticism interrupted.
Colt and Coach are sitting here in May, four days before Colt must report to the Cleveland Browns, who selected him in the third round of the NFL draft. But this discussion—this reckoning—centers on the events of the national championship game against Alabama, and it is awfully uncomfortable. A four-year starter at UT, Colt became the winningest quarterback in the history of college football, but the national championship remained just beyond his reach. That one little hit, which came on Texas's fifth offensive play, made Colt's right arm go numb.
"They asked me to pick it up," Colt says. "I could raise it to about right here." He points to a spot just below his shoulder, then drops his arm and lets it dangle by his side. His doe-like eyes have always made him look childlike, but with his arm hanging stiffly he looks positively helpless, like a kid forced to try on a sports coat and check the length of the sleeve.
After he was hustled off the field, Colt and his dad huddled for more than an hour in a locker room at the Rose Bowl. None of the 30 million viewers at home had any idea what Colt and Coach were planning, a rare blackout in our information-saturated world of sports. When word finally came that Colt wouldn't emerge from the tunnel like Willis Reed and beat Alabama, some fans—here we're thinking of Texas Exes with accounts on Internet message boards—were so dumbstruck that they wondered if Colt had laid up to protect his NFL prospects.
"People say that I skipped out on it because of my future," Colt says, a tinge of anger in his voice. "That's stupid. If I could have gone back in the game, I would have. I couldn't hold on to a ball. I couldn't take a snap." In the seven years that he'd been a starting quarterback, Colt had never felt so forsaken. In 2003, Coach says, he and Colt rode down Graham Avenue, Tuscola's main street right outside this office, in a fire truck to celebrate Jim Ned High School's undefeated regular season and a run to the state title game. He finished his high school career as the all-time leading passer in 2A and was twice named state offensive MVP by the Associated Press. But if he fell short of a state championship, failure had never visited him in such a freaky, near-biblical way—which is to say, his arm had never just stopped working like it did in the Rose Bowl. As UT offensive coordinator Greg Davis puts it, "You just wonder . . . why?"
What we need is to inject some kind of meaning into that numb right arm, to write a satisfying ending to the story of Colt McCoy.
Coach has a suggestion. He says the injury allowed his son to become a religious messenger. Colt told ESPN after that game that, despite the seeming unfairness of it all, he would continue to put himself in God's hands, that he was "standing on the rock." The statement proved powerful. When Coach repackaged the story of Colt's unbreakable faith for a speech at a church, a speech he has given many times since, an account of it quickly appeared all over religious and football websites.
But this is not the Colt McCoy ending that we seek. Forgive us, for ours is football-oriented. Colt was a near-legendary college quarterback: He threw for more yards (13,253), more touchdown passes (112), and had a higher quarterback rating (155) than any UT passer before him. He also rushed for 1,571 yards, won 45 games in 53 starts, and took a horrendous weekly beating—who could forget Coach's reaction shots on TV? But beyond being a great quarterback, Colt was heralding a new era of football in Texas. High schools have turned into a quarterback assembly line. The state is churning out great passers like Colt every year, and now those quarterbacks are beginning to overrun college football and the NFL.
The September issue of Texas Monthly hits newsstands this week.


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Welcome Crow18, so you are trying to convince us that the hockey stick is not for dealing with road rage.
Welcome Crow18, so you are trying to convince us that the hockey stick is not for dealing with road rage.
Looks like high sticking to me.Originally Posted by Crow18
Stephen Burns - 2007 R1200GS
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Only if he makes contactOriginally Posted by Burnszilla
It isn't what you ride, it is if you ride
The sticks are so securely bungied that it would be easier for me to unzip the bag and fling a skate at someone. It does seem to deter tailgaters, however.Originally Posted by M1ka
Grand Teton National Park, Sept. 2005
Heading up north on 23 towards Ann Arbor this past week-end.
KRS at Grand Tetons
My Krauser fairing is made from Unobtainium, so I had to have it completely reglassed to make it useable. Then, since I was having it painted, I decided it was pretty cheap (incrementally) to add a custom graphic.
I'm pretty pleased with it, and the shop did a show-quality finish on it, but I will continue to ride this bike, and just let the paint suffer. The fairing does make the rest of the paint look shabby though.
I had to take this picture while it still looked pretty.
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Gene Merritt - Ames, IA - BMWMOA#111610 - IBA#21886 - Rounder #26---- 1986 K100 ---- 2006 K1200GT ---- 2001 F650GSD ----
Hey, seeing all these K1 bikes (and probably the K100LTs also) makes me ask a question:
On my K100, how much can I wisely block off the heat behind the fairing and in front of my legs without causing problems? The K1 pictures make it look like the fairing is well sealed to the tank and engine, so that would sure take some heat off me.
Gene Merritt - Ames, IA - BMWMOA#111610 - IBA#21886 - Rounder #26---- 1986 K100 ---- 2006 K1200GT ---- 2001 F650GSD ----
I have a K1 and have owned a K100RT so know something about HEAT. The heat transfer on the K1 is much different from the K100RT in that your legs and upper body do not get cooked, but there is a lot of heat that comes from down low across you feet and lower legs. At highway speeds it's not too bad, but around town it builds up and then really gets your attention when you get on the open road until the heat "trapped" under the fairing gets a chance to purge. My take on this is you shouldn't do a lot of low speed running with the K1 because it seems to collect more heat under the body work than seems like a good idea.Originally Posted by merrittgene
On the K100RT the heat would come up from just below the tank and get sucked up past my legs and onto my torso because of the negative pressure behind the fairing. On a hot day it was an oven. I got a set of Kguard Heat Shields which helped quite a bit. They fill in the gap just behind the fairing lowers and force the heat to pass behind them and exit behind your legs. You still don't get a lot of fresh air due to the size of the fairing, but at least the convection oven effect is greatly reduced. The web site for the company that makes these is still there, but it's marked that they are closed for business right now: http://hometown.aol.com/bmwkguard/ You might also find some for sale by searching the lists.
Greg Feeler
Ambassador & amateur K-Bike collector, it seems
Originally Posted by merrittgene
Man, that's beautiful!
Greg Feeler
Ambassador & amateur K-Bike collector, it seems
My first K - K75C converted to an almost RT (no lowers). Color number was 666.
Now I'm baack - this time a GT. The dark side lives.
Phil Space
I rebuilt this from salvage and it has a clean title. Her name is Prowler. She was repainted in the origenal black metalic. I love this little bike, quick, quite and with a lot of class. See you all in VT. Ramblen Rebel.
I just brought home an 06 GT. My wife took me today and wrote out the check herself! I am a luck man....
Here is a picture of the bike.
And here is one with my daughter on the back after a run around the block.
This is my first BMW and I love it! I put on 120 miles on day one!!


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Rockies Recap: Reynolds so-so in start
Giants 7, Rockies 3 (10 innings)
At Tucson, March 13
At the plate: Colorado's bats cooled considerably today, though catcher Yorvit Torrealba continues his productive spring. He went 2-for-3 with two solid singles, boosting his average to .348. Seth Smith and Ian Stewart each hit doubles.
On the mound: Starter Greg Reynolds, still in the mix for a rotation spot, was decent for three of his four innings. An effective sinker produced inning-ending double plays in the first and second. In the third, however, the Giants hammered him for four hits, including run-scoring triples by Eugnio Velvez and Fred Lewis. Reynolds regrouped in the fourth, setting the Giants down in order. His biggest problem today was poor curveball location.
The Rockies' relief corps was nails until Steven Register was hammered in the 10th. Juan Morillo (one inning), Manuel Corpas (one) and Josh Fogg (two) held the Giants scoreless. Fogg, apparently destined for a long relief role, worked out of a jam in the eighth.
In the field: First baseman Todd Helton, continuing his comeback from back surgery, showed nimbleness around the bag in the third inning, making an option-worthy pitch to Reynolds covering first, forcing out Pablo Sandoval by a half-step.
Propect Chris Nelson had a tough day, committing two errors at short.
Footnotes: Garrett Atkins aggravated his right hip flexor two days ago, didn't play today, and is expected to miss a few days. … Right fielder Brad Hawpe, out of the lineup since Feb. 27 when he cut his left pinky in a game against the Angles, is expected to be back in the lineup Saturday.
Up next: The Rockies host the Mariners Saturday at Hi Corbett Field.
Scheduled Rockies pitchers: Jason Marquis, Ryan Speier, Allen Embree.
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31 complaints against a TV ad for Take-Two's Bully: Scholarship Edition were dismissed by the Advertising Standards Authority. The complainants said that the ads "glorified and trivialized" bullying, but the ASA found that the ads themselves were not in violation of any standards.
According to GamesIndustry, the ASA did find the game distasteful, but was not glorifying violence because of its "comic and exaggerated" nature:
"Although many might find the name and content of the game to be in poor taste, the content of the ad was unlikely to cause serious or widespread offence," it said.
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'KKTNY' Finale: 6 Reasons Why Kim Kardashian & Kris Humphries' Marriage Seems Fake
Now that the 'KKTNY' finale has aired, the Kim Kardashian/Kris Humphries marriage seems even more like a pre-planned match between a clueless Kris and a ratings-savvy Kim — here's why.
Reason #1:Kim never spends any time wrapped up in normal post-bride obsessions. Any woman who's been married knows that your first weeks of married life are consumed with post-wedding follow-ups. Brides stress over the thank you notes for their wedding gifts. They fuss over the wedding photos and making an album. They can hardly wait to see the wedding videos — the personal ones, not just their upcoming wedding special.
Kim NEVER does ANY of this. She NEVER mentions her gifts. Never seems to have even seen what her gifts were. NEVER discusses her three wedding dresses and how to take care of them for posterity's sake. All brides freak out about this i.e. taking care of their beloved wedding gown. Not Kim! It's as if the $10 million dream wedding NEVER occurred, aside from being referenced as a "big waste of time and money" that Kim admits that she got "all these people to come to " in last night, Jan. 29th's finale of KKTNY. Kim and Kris NEVER reminisce about their wedding — something every newlywed woman does with her husband.
Reason #2: Kim Kardashian was already dissing and ignoring her sister-in-law Kaela Humphries by Sept. 13 — less than a month after the Aug. 20 wedding.
What new bride disses her sister-in-law, especially one she supposedly likes, less than a month after her wedding? Kaela, a model, was in NYC to walk in the Richie Rich runway show on Sept. 13 and Kris Humphries attended without Kim. In fact, there were three empty seats in the front row for Kim, Kourtney and Scott — all no-shows. In the Jan. 22 episode of KKTNY, Kim claims that Kris Humphries never told her that Kaela was coming to NYC — hard to believe — and then, that she didn't want to see Kaela because she is "having so many issues with Kris," and would find it hard to "put on a happy face."
This is less than a month after the wedding and almost a full month before Kim and Kris's wedding special aired on Oct. 9 and 10.
So Kim was, according to the dates, already having major marital problems a little over two weeks after a supposedly fabulous honeymoon.
Reason #3: Kim was already contacting medium John Edwards to reach out to her late father for comfort on her marriage to Kris Humphries just a month after the marriage.
If we follow the dates in the KKTNY show, then Kim was already in such distress over her marriage that she actually contacted her late father through medium John Edwards, on Sept. 30 — eight years to the day after Robert Kardashian died. This was also just over a month after the wedding and actually almost two weeks before Kim went to Dubai and told her mother Kris Jenner that she wasn't happy in her marraige around Oct. 16.
Kim confesses in the Jan. 22 episode that she's been going through a lot "emotionally and mentally" and she says she'll "find comfort in connecting to my dad again." She also decides not to tell her new husband that she's going to do it. "It makes me not want to talk to him about it," she said.
So again — she's miserable in her marriage just six weeks after the wedding and keeping secrets from Kris H.about talking to a medium.
Would you hide anything major from the man you loved? Wouldn't you be so excited to discuss contacting your late father? Is this not bizarre behavior from a newlywed?
Reason #4: Kim never EVER wanted to spend time with Kris Humphries! She avoided him from almost the moment they arrived in NYC — Aug. 29 — nine days after their wedding!
Kim appears happy with Kris for only the first two episodes of KKTNY. At first she is so happy, she is ready to get pregnant. But by Sept. 13, she is avoiding her sister-in-law because she has so many issues with Kris.
In the meantime, Kim spends time with BFF Jonathan Cheban, jets with her sisters to appear at Sears on Sept. 18 in LA and tweets that she takes a trip to Mystic, Connecticut to be with Kourney and Mason on Sept. 29. Then she leaves for Dubai on Oc. 12 for four days.
All of this doesn't leave much time for Kris and in fact in the KKTNY finale she says they "never hang out."
That is NOT normal newlywed behavior. Newlyweds are obsessed with each other — anyone who's ever been around one knows that. It's also nowhere near enough time to be having MAJOR issues with a new husband.
Kim somehow would have had to fall out of love with Kris with epic speed to be having divorce-ready issues two weeks after the honeymoon.
Since he didn't abuse her physically, verbally or emotionally or cheat — what could he have done to provoke her speedy revulsion?
Reason #5: Kim claims she loses trust in Kris after he secretly makes a personal appearance in Toronto when she goes on a "sisters weekend" with Kourtney!
First of all, none of the dates match up on these two events. Kim and Kourtney actually take Mason on a "sisters weekend" on Wed. and Thurs., Sept. 28 and 29.
However, Kris Humphries and Scott Disick actually jet to Toronto for Kris's personal appearance on Sept 17, a day before Kim appears in LA with sisters, Kourtney and Khloe to promote their Kardashian Kollection of clothes at Sears.
So — Kim could hardly have been furious with Kris for secretly making an appearance while she was on a "sisters weekend." She didn't have a weekend away and he didn't sneak off during it.
He did go to do business with Scott while she was also away on business — this hardly qualifies as a divorce-worthy crime.
In fact, the scene filmed between two in the aftermath of Kris's misbehavior had to have been staged.
Reason #6: The PR spin on Kim's divorce starts already in the show's last few episodes.
By the time Kim is supposedly confessing to her mother in Dubai that her marriage with Kris is floundering, she's already using the "F" word, as in fairy tale. She wanted a fairy tale and thought she was getting one with Kris. But it didn't pan out.
Khloe even says to her in the finale episode on the phone: "You got caught up in your fairy tale."
It's so strange that the fairy tale word comes up repeatedly when Kris Jenner later explains why Kim has filed for divorce, 72 days after she married.
Kris Jenner responded to criticism that Kim filed for divorce after making millions on her wedding by saying, "At the end of the day, Kim had to pay a great deal of money [for] the balance that was owed for the wedding which she was delighted to do because that was her fairy tale," she told the Today Show on Nov. 2.
It's as if the PR spin was already being laid while the show was being filmed.
Who does that?
Hmm! People who knew they'd have some explaining to do and needed to start "branding" their divorce explanation?!
It's all very suspicious. It all seems like the marriage was sooo fake!
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers?
Does anything else stand out strangely to you?
Tell me now!
— Bonnie Fuller
More Kim Kardashian News
- Kim Kardashian Tweets Topless Photo Of Herself & Her Sisters
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- 'KKTNY' Finale Shocker: Kris Humphries Says He Wants To Divorce Kim Kardashian


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The Persistence of Vision Raytracer (POV-Ray).
This is the legacy Bug Tracking System for the POV-Ray project. Bugs listed here are being migrated to our github issue tracker. Please refer to that for new reports or updates to existing ones on this system.
FS#81 - sphere_sweep generating artifacts
Opened by Jeff Evarts (JeffEvarts) - Saturday, 13 March 2010, 21:06 GMT
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I'm running POV-Ray for (64 bit) Windows v3.62 on (64 bit) Windows Vista
This pov file:
#include "colors.inc" #include "metals.inc" light_source { <6, 9, -21> color White } camera { location <0, 0, -3> look_at <0, 0, 0> } sphere_sweep { cubic_spline 6 <-2.0, 0, 0> 0.05 <0.000,0,0> 0.2 <0.025,0,0> 0.2 <0.050,0,0> 0.2 <0.075,0,0> 0.2 <3.0,0,0> 0.2 pigment { color White } }
Produces two strange artifacts: A disk at the center of the sweep, and a faint "halo" or veil which shows as 4 faint hyperbolas centered around the origin.
I have tried tweaking tolerance (for no other reason than I saw that someone else was tweaking it to solve a problem) but this does not seem to change things.
For a look at MY result when I run this, view this image:
Alain reports the same behavior in the latest version: "It's still there with the latest version: 3.7 beta 35a." This MAY move the status to "confirmed", but I can't do that
Someone else says that changing the scale (!) "solves" the problem by moving the disk and the halo offscreen, but that sounds like a bad idea to me.
-Jeff Evarts, first-time POVRay bug reporter
Your post and Alain's comments got me to thinking about this long-standing
problem, so I did some experiments (and a few animations). Here's what I've come
up with (in v3.6.1) using your code unchanged:
1) The cubic_spline type is *by far* the worst offender. It produces those
hyperbolas *outside* the object, plus the vertical 'plane' that Alain mentioned.
It also takes MUCH longer to render than either a b_spline or linear_spline
(about 10X longer!). The ENTIRE scene renders slower–every pixel. Moving the
camera way back–so that the sphere_sweep is barely visible in the
scene–doesn't change this; in fact, the scene renders even *slower*, which is
completely counter-intuitive. Changing the tolerance value doesn't affect it.
Putting all of this together, it *seems* as though there's a 'visible' part of
the object (the one we see) and an infinitely large INVISIBLE part as well, that
POV-Ray is also having to do render calculations on –the outside artifacts
showing up as vestiges of this part. BTW, my animation tests seem to show that
the 'plane' artifact is at the location of the asymptote of the hyperbolas (or
one of them, anyway.) Not sure about that, though. And I still can't tell why
this 'plane' is showing up where it does; it has nothing to do with the
sphere_sweep being made near POV's <0,0,0> origin location. (See 3) below.)
2) The b_spline and linear spline don't produce any artifacts *outside* the
object, except for that 'plane'–and it's actually more pronounced with a
linear_spline than either of the other two spline types.
3) Creating the sphere_sweep somewhere other than near the origin (via its
spline points OR by translating it afterward)–and moving the camera
likewise–doesn't alter the artifacts. Changing the tolerance helps somewhat,
but not with the cubic_spline's hyperbolas.
4) The artifacts don't seem to change their positions relative to the object,
when the camera moves around. (I thought at first it was some kind of
camera/sphere_sweep 'interaction'; but moving the camera via animation doesn't
really alter their behavior or location, it just shows them in 3-D space.)
My own conclusion is that the cubic_spline code (at least when used in a
sphere_sweep) needs to be re-worked. That may not fix ALL of the sphere_sweep
artifacts, but would surely help!
Question (a bit off-topic): Is POV's b_spline the same as a natural_spline?
Looking them up on Wikipeadia doesn't give me a clear answer.
Sphere sweep artifacts are also reported for POV-Ray 3.7.0.beta.36 (see news://news.povray.org:email@example.com)
A note about this issue: It is an ancient bug with the spline interpolation bounding computations not working. It has been known ever since sphere_sweeps where added to POV-Ray (as the bug existed in the original source). It was even discussed back then (3.5 beta), but nobody ever volunteered to implement the somewhat complicated mathematical solution to computing the correct bounding for spline based sweeps. The issue is that the code guesses the bounding for splines rather than computing it. The guessing fails for splines with "more extreme" splines where the sweep simply ends up being outside the bounding volume, causing plenty of artifacts due to intersections not being computed.
I don't think that's correct. It explains the slowness, but not the halos.
If it were MERELY a bounding problem, then either the bounding object would "clip" the object (if it was too "small" in places) or it wouldn't make any difference at all (if it was too large everywhere). Likewise, the problem would go away completely if you turned bounding off (since it would be very very slow, but still only draw things that belonged there).
This is a case where rays which SHOULD miss the object altogether are colliding with it, so it's a problem with more than just the bounding object.
And we should probably bump it from "possible bug" to "bug", too.
- Field changed: Task Type (Possible Bug → Definite Bug)
I absolutely agree with Jeff - we actually have two bugs: The non-existent bounding, and the artifacts.
(Which presently leaves us with the question which of them Chris has committed himself to fix.)
Surely the bug isn't "fixed" until the customer is satisfied, right? lol
Chris? Christoph?
Any word on this?
I'm a little snowed right now - will comment shortly.
<discrete cough>
Any word, here?
Promise I'll get to it this weekend: it's on the top of my list now.
Ok, as mentioned it's clear that there are two issues - the bounding and the artifacts.
For reasons mentioned above, fixing the bounding properly is difficult, so in the near term we need to consider what means could be used to work around this for the average user (i.e. someone not aware of the issue). For those in the know, it is possible to use bounded_by to manually specify the bounds.
The question then becomes, can we detect (or infer) the cases in which the bounding is behaving badly (either by being too small or too large). If we can it might have to be at run-time. If so, what do we do about it? Issue a warning that points to the docs discussing this?
The other option (less likely to happen) is to code a correct solution; if someone can correctly describe the maths needed then I would at least take a stab at coding it.
As to the artifacts, I'll have a look at that to see if I can locate the cause.
NB feel free to create a new bug about the bounding.
OK, so this is officially the artifact bug. Gotcha. (That's great, since my project isn't hampered by the bounding issue.)
Any progress this week?
Chris Carson/chrisc: Any word on this bug? It still shows as "0% progress".
The disc artifact apparently has the same root cause as the artifacts described in
FS#92 (fixing that error by modifying the square root solver will also make the disc in this cubic_spline issue go away). The other artifacts still remain unsolved, but I wouldn't be surprised if the underlying problem was similar (small polynomial coefficients, and a failure of the root solver or calling code to somehow normalize the polynom before trying to short-cut some computations).
While it must be conceded that we do have artifacts with the cubic_spline, this particular case is probably not a suitable example: The extreme choice of the first and last control point coordinates makes it a pathological case anyway, even if the algorithms were perfect. The long X coordinate distance causes a massive overshoot into the next interval, "telescoping" the sphere_sweep into itself, making it hard to tell which effects are due to this "telescoping" and which are real bugs in the sphere sweep code.
The following scene shows artifacts that are unrelated to such "telescoping":
#include "colors.inc" light_source { <6, 9, -21> color White } camera { location <0.0, 0.0, -3> look_at <0,0,0> } sphere_sweep { cubic_spline 4 <-20.0,-2.0, 0> 0.2 <- 1.0,-1.0, 0> 0.2 < 1.0, 1.0, 0> 0.2 < 20.0, 2.0, 0> 0.2 pigment { color White } }
From what I could find out so far, the primary reason for these artifacts is that the code does not directly try to solve for intersection points, but rather the location on the spline itself that corresponds to these intersections. This leads to problems when the front and back intersection correspond to (almost) the same location on the spline, in which case the respective intersection points cannot be unambiguously computed from the location on the spline, and will "flip" due to precision issues.
Chris, I think we'll need to come up with different math for the cubic spline sweep.
Chris, I think we'll need to come up with different math for the cubic spline sweep
I concur - the code was already in need of fixing, so if it's also a fundamental issue there's not much point trying to solve this as well.
Does that mean my artifacts will remain (with no workaround) until the date of the cubic spline change? I'd like to use POVRay for this project, but if this is a "wait for the next revision" kind of fix, then I'll probably need to change that plan.
Does that mean my artifacts will remain (with no workaround) until the date of the cubic spline change?
I can't comment on whether or not there's no workaround (since for all I know someone might come up with another way for you to achieve what you need), but insofar as the existing code is concerned, there's really no straightforward way of fixing it: the issue is fundamental to the maths involved; i.e. it's not really a coding bug (insofar as we can tell).
I'll try to drop Jochen Lippert (the author of the original sphere sweep code) a line and see if he's interested in taking a look at it.
Does that mean my artifacts will remain (with no workaround) until the date of the cubic spline change? I'd like to use POVRay for this project, but if this is a "wait for the next revision" kind of fix, then I'll probably need to change that plan.
The disk artifact will be fixed in the next 3.7 beta (as a beneficial side effect of the fix for
FS#92 ); if you need a fix earlier or can't use the betas, you will have to create and patch a custom version of POV-Ray, changing "polysolv.cpp" as follows: Locate the function "solve_quadratic"; in there, locate the statement reading "d = b * b - 4.0 * a * c;" (after the first if-block); before that line, place the following instructions: "b /= a; c /= a; a = 1.0;" (The function hasn't changed from 3.6 tp 3.7.) The function should now read:
static int solve_quadratic(DBL *x, DBL *y) { DBL d, t, a, b, c; a = x[0]; b = -x[1]; c = x[2]; if (a == 0.0) { ... } // PATCH: normalize the coefficients b /= a; c /= a; a = 1.0; d = b * b - 4.0 * a * c; ...
As for the other artifacts, there is also a fix that reduces them considerably, though it will not eliminate them completely, nor do I know how it will affect performance: In file "sphsweep.cpp", locate the function "Intersect_Sphere_Sweep_Segment" (or "SphereSweep::Intersect_Segment" if you're patching a current 3.7 beta); in there, locate the second "switch" statement, subsection "case 4:". In there, you will find an "if(fabs(fp1) > ZERO_TOLERANCE) { ... } else { ... }" statement. replace the condition with "false"; your code should now look something like this:
... case 4: for (m = 0; m < Num_Poly_Roots; m++) { fp0 = 6.0 * f * Root[m] * Root[m] * Root[m] * Root[m] * Root[m] + 5.0 * g * Root[m] * Root[m] * Root[m] * Root[m] + 4.0 * h * Root[m] * Root[m] * Root[m] + 3.0 * i * Root[m] * Root[m] + 2.0 * j * Root[m] + k; fp1 = 3.0 * b * Root[m] * Root[m] + 2.0 * c * Root[m] + d; if(false) // PATCH - was: if(fabs(fp1) > ZERO_TOLERANCE) { t = -fp0 / fp1; ... } else { // Calculate center of single sphere VAddScaled(Temp_Sphere.Center, Segment->Center_Coef[0], Root[m], Segment->Center_Coef[1]); VAddScaledEq(Temp_Sphere.Center, Root[m] * Root[m], Segment->Center_Coef[2]); VAddScaledEq(Temp_Sphere.Center, Root[m] * Root[m] * Root[m], Segment->Center_Coef[3]); ... } } break; ...
Note that neither did I test these patches with 3.6, nor do I know how the second patch affects rendering speed (it will not solve the drastic bounding-box related slowdown; you will have to use custom bounding for that). However, it should get you somewhere in case you can't wait for an official fixed release or beta.
@Chris: In case the general overhaul of the cubic_spline sweep should take a while, we might try that second workaround as well for 3.7 betas. I think it's better than nothing, even despite leaving some residual artifacts and possibly being slower.
See attached file (_test.png) for a rendering with both patches applied (to POV-Ray 3.7 beta.36 in this case). Note that both disk and parabola are eliminated, and the artifacts on the right end cap as well; a thin line between left end cap and the sweep remains as a residual artifact though.
Any idea when the next beta will be? Looks like the last one was in December?!?
Any idea when the next beta will be?
I think there's enough changes in there to make a new beta worthwhile. I'll see about doing one in the next few days.
checked in the described 2nd patch as change #4947.
Any word on the new beta and whether or not it will include change 4947?
See http://email@example.com (and yes, it does).
Chris is on it (see news://news.povray.org:firstname.lastname@example.com); change #4947 will be included.
and the news is...
... yes, Jeff? Did you test beta.37?
What is the status of this?
February 2014: a counter-example for the patch has been posted : sw.pov.
Without the patch, it's fine.
With the section of code in comment from the patch in sphsweep.cpp (#if 0), there is black shadow on the bottom left part of the picture.
More investigations, that seems to work:
1. cancel the "#if 0" preliminary work
2. RAISE ZERO_TOLERANCE (yes, instead of 1e-4, use 0.1)
It keeps the good section for the counter-example of 2014-02-13 (which need the section under #if 0), and keep the benefit of "#if 0" for the original scene of this issue.
Still to check against the scene of fs#92, and the double-shadow of a sphere-sweep posted in the newsgroups.
Post found (2013-06-02) in p.b.images, attached scene.
The modifications of previous comment seems ok to render that scene correctly too.
Same for fs#92: it works (as did the 3.7 too).
- Field changed: Status (Assigned → Tracked on GitHub)
Now tracked on github as issue #147.


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I have done a few characters from the very popular series TMNT. Today I will show you "how to draw a ninja turtle", step by step. There really isn't much to say about the Ninja Turtles because I wrote about them more than a few times. I already told you about all of the turtles and how they became what they've become. I made this tutorial because someone asked me if I could do a simple lesson that teach an artist "how to draw a ninja turtle" in a better way than the ones I submitted in the past. I not only have tutorials on all four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, I also have a lesson on Master Splinter himself. I was such a fan of the movies when I was like eleven years old and even to this day I can still sit back and watch all but one of the movie series. I wasn't too fond of the last movie because it became too, fake for my taste. Yes I know what you're saying, "the turtles are fake anyway", and you're right, they are. But when you make a movie based on some fantasy type characters, you should try and at least make the storyline sort of believable. Anyways this is going to be a fun tutorial because not only will you learn to draw a ninja turtle, you will also learn how to draw Raphael as well. I guess that pretty much does it for me for today. I will be back tomorrow with more drawing fun so stay tuned in. Peace out people and enjoy your drawing day!
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Participants in a melee can opt to attack, parry, fall back, or flee.
Attack can be by weapon, both hands, or grappling.
Parrying disallows any return attack that round, but the strength "to hit" bonus is then subtracted from the opponent's "to hit" dice roll(s), so the character is less likely to be hit.
Falling Back is a retrograde move facing the opponent(s) and can be used in conjunction with a parry, and opponent creatures are able to follow if
not otherwise engaged.
Fleeing means as rapid a withdrawal from combat as possible; while it exposes the character to rear attack at the time, subsequent attacks can only be made if the opponent is able to follow the fleeing character at equal or greater speed.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Delving into AD&D: Parrying and other combat options.
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- Peter D said...
It's rarely noticed, commented on, or (AFAIK) used in play.
I like how Parrying only works for ST 17+ characters, not so well at that, and that most monsters can't use it . . . they don't get a ST "to hit" bonus. It's like a strong fighter only option.
- February 17, 2013 at 9:18 AM
- Tim Shorts said...
Yeah that Parry rule sorta sucks. Probably why we didn't use it. Running away never seems to work unless you're on a horse. Running just means dying tired.
- February 17, 2013 at 10:09 AM
We used the free attack when breaking off (fleeing) rule.
We would have used Parry, but I doubt anyone who could use it wanted to waste an attack for so little gain.
- February 17, 2013 at 11:43 AM
- Hedgehobbit said...
The parry rule where you give up your attack goes all the way back to Chainmail. It's a suckers choice. As a DM, I don't know if it's cheating to make the monster attack some other non-parrying PC as the PC who is parrying isn't a threat anymore.
- February 17, 2013 at 7:53 PM
- Peter Fröhlich said...
I didn't like that rule either, I replaced it with something that gave the level of the defender as a penalty if I recall correctly? For low-level play giving a fixed penalty probably works just as well. However, given the nature of the D&D combat system, I could never figure out why you'd waste your attack to parry unless you're really low on hit points, so it's really only a cover for the "withdrawal" step in any case. So why not roll it into that one?
- February 18, 2013 at 12:23 AM
- Clovis Cithog said...
I use a house ruled variation of HOLMES for parrying.
With a suitable weapon,
"A player may elect to have a character parry an opponent's blow. He must announce that he is going to do so before the opponent strikes. The parry subtracts 3 from one designated opponent's die roll."
The person parrying rolls d12 (instead of d20) to hit for his next attack (s).
"If defender is parrying or using a shield, and the opponent makes his to hit roll and gets exactly the number needed, the parrying weapon or defender's shield may be SHATTERED, but no damage is inflicted. It takes one round to draw a new weapon, but one in the off-hand can be employed immediately."
this house rule makes even high level fighters dangeroous when on the defensive; mages - not so much, but they could could get lucky on a poorly armored opponent.
- February 18, 2013 at 5:26 PM


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For a country to begin and maintain industrialization, infrastructures such as railroad systems, highways, bridges, ports, buildings, roads, and most important of all, electricity, are necessary. India, one of the world's largest emerging countries has been growing at an average rate of 7.37% (from 2000-2012). This astonishing growth requires even faster electricity growth. Nevertheless, India continues to be an electricity-starved country.
This week, when India should be celebrating the 1GW solar power milestone, half of the country has been suffering from power outage. According to PV Magazine, India's solar installation reached 1,030.66MW with most of the installations located in Gujarat.
Coal, ignite and hydro-electric are the main source of power generation in India, according to BBC News. In addition, homes and farms consume more power than industries and businesses, said the news outlet. According to Brisbane Times, demand for electricity in India regularly exceeds supply by 10% during summer. This means India is no stranger to power outages.
India has been seen as an emerging solar market with large potentials. Currently, there are still 300 million people without access to electricity. Charanka Solar Park, the world's largest solar power station and a cluster of 17 thin-film solar PV systems, is situated in Gujarat state. On April 19, 2012, 214MW of power was commissioned. When the construction of the park completes, it will host 500MW of solar PV installations. This figure might be small compared to the total installed electricity capacity of 170,000MW of the country, but it will help as per capita of electricity consumption in India has been low, around 107 watt per person (2011). India has lower per capita of electricity consumption than countries such as China, which is 389 watt per person, and the world average is 306 watt per person (2005-2012).
The government has been proposing energy bills to promote the use of solar power. In addition, to protect the domestic solar industry, the government has begun anti-dumping investigations against China-based solar firms. Despite the efforts, India is still in need of more power. Some believe the problem is not about generating power but to reduce the power losses during transmission and distribution. BBC News noted that in India, "transmission and distribution losses have leapt from 22% in 1995-1996 to 25.6% in 2009-2010."
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If you read my post from last year, Prank Envy, you will have met our friend Terry and his highly-developed sense of humor. He decided to give it another try this year to see what kind of results he would get this time around.
It's kind of a social experiment, isn't it?
Once again, Terry posted his "Cat Found" papers strategically around the neighborhood. On my way into the office this morning, I stopped in our neighborhood coffee shop for some much-needed caffeine for my early-morning drive. I saw several other early-morning punters clustered around the bulletin board and laughing. After ordering, I wandered over to see what was so funny.
Here's what I found.
One lady was about to call and wake up Terry because she thought he was mentally challenged and needed to know that this was a wild creature, not a pet, before he was bitten. She was very concerned. I didn't say anything, preferring to see how this played out. I also figured if Terry was awakened at 6:45am, it was his fault.
The next guy figured out it was a prank and thought it was the funniest thing he's seen in a long time. He also played along, telling the concerned lady that he hoped the possum wasn't in the guys house. The other two guys standing around picked up their coffees, took a picture of the board to post to their facebooks, and left.
By this time the workers at the coffee shop were interested, and all came out to read it. I was putting sugar in my coffee and stirring it nonchalantly, when I heard "hey – that's a possum!" and "gee, should we call and tell this poor guy?". I nonchalantly walked up, took a picture with my phone, and said that I've seen that possum before, and wanted to double-check to see if it's the one who lives in my back yard.
That got me a few stares. I then walked out and enjoyed a good laugh in the car.
By the way, the concerned lady had her cell phone out as I left.
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The Senate last week passed a bill that would require the U.S. to impose tariffs on Chinese imports to compensate for Beijing's cheap trade tricks. On the surface, the bill sounds like a wise idea. If China artificially devalues its currency to lower the price of its goods (and so make them more attractive to U.S. consumers), aren't we justified in an attempt to bring that price more in line with reality? Maybe — but Chamber of Commerce head Thomas Donohue today offered an important reminder of why the bill is a bad idea:
Thomas Donohue, the president and CEO of the influential business group, told a group of Dow Jones reporters and editors that U.S. policy makers should resist embracing protectionism. While understandable in times of economic stress, an attempt to force China's hand could have negative repercussions for U.S. firms, he said, as Beijing seeks to maintain full employment for its citizens.
"They want to keep all those people working and if that was forced on them somehow … they would simply just drop the prices as low as they have to to keep those folks working," Mr. Donohue said. …
Mr. Donohue said it is important for U.S. officials to press China to speed the pace of appreciation — it's a "great idea to ring their bell and them know we're still worried about this" — but protectionist policies could backfire.
"Keeping them as a very positive force in the things we're trying to do in the world is important, and sticking a stick in their eye is not a smart idea," he said.
In other words, as has been oft-repeated, this will start a trade war.
Don't buy the lie that the China currency bill is a jobs bill, either. As U.S.-China Business Council president John Frisbie has explained, "The main reason for the decline in manufacturing jobs [in the U.S.] is productivity, not China. The U.S. makes more with fewer people, primarily because of productivity and technology advances. … Yes, China needs an exchange rate that better responds to global trade flows. But China's exchange rate is probably not as significant a factor in the U.S. trade deficit that some make it out to be."
Also consider that Chinese imports support their fair share of jobs for non-Chinese workers (a.k.a. workers in the United States, as well as in other countries).
Because China's blatantly unfair practice of undervaluing its currency is understandably unpopular, the bill to slap sanctions on China enjoys bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate. Still, the House should resist passing it. If Sen. Chuck Schumer and others in support of the bill seriously want to credibly demand that China stop its devaluation, the best bet would be to address the U.S. deficit and debt and to reverse Barack Obama's failed economic policies so the Federal Reserve won't have any excuse to continue to intentionally devalue the U.S. dollar through quantitative easing. In other words, Schumer and company should remove the plank in the U.S.' own eye before worrying about the speck in China's.
Again, Republicans and Democrats alike are guilty of bashing China — and the electorate responds when they do. As Ed pointed out a while ago, that's one reason Sen. Harry Reid moved the China currency bill ahead of the president's jobs bill. But, as international trade attorney Scott Lincicome puts it, China-bashing is "good politics, bad consequences." As voters, we need to educate ourselves on this issue so we don't respond viscerally to what sounds good in theory but would be disastrous in practice.


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This is all marketing, OK? This is a sizzle trailer, even if it is two-and-a-half minutes long and packed with gameplay (and one outstanding choice of music). But in addition to hyping the living hell out of NBA 2K12 it does offer a few things of value: One, a look at the presentation of old-time games within the NBA's Greatest mode. And, two, many of the actions selected were deliberate. Check out Bill Cartwright going into the air but still managing to block Alonzo Mourning on the way down, at 1:15. I don't think I've seen that before. I'm sure others will spot more.
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Supplied as a complete brake and gear cable system and a claimed thirty per cent lighter than standard models, the Jagwire Racer kit is a complete cable overhaul for your road steed. It incorporates some very clever detailing, and performance is better than most. They're unusually pleasant to install and are fairly keenly priced to boot.
The flexible Kevlar outers employ a unique concertina section to improve cable runs on aero brakesets where they exit the lever. This coupled with Teflon inserts translates into very low friction: exactly the standard demanded from increasingly sensitive ten-speed derailleur transmissions. Double ended stainless inner wires are what you'd expect, guaranteeing a near universal fit, although the wires temselves aren't markedly better than other reputable brands.
Installation is a delight, the flexible outers and clever concertina section ensure graceful, flowing and friction free performance, even entering the rear mech. While lacking the fit and forget simplicity of the latest generation of weather-sealed systems, they're much quicker to dial in and don't feel like a builders hose. However, while they're reasonably forgiving of mistakes, razor sharp cutters and/or hydraulic arms are essential for a clean cut. Completing the package are clever rubberised frame protectors that slip atop the outers, protecting frames and livery from abrasion-especially around the head tube, eliminating the need for expensive patches that lift and peel at the first hint of dirt.
Paired to reverse action TT levers and pursuit bars, they've been buttery smooth from the outset with no additional lubrication and transformed the performance of a budget dual pivot brake. Gear cables improved the shifting performance of a very highly strung ten-speed setup. While they're designed as a road system, with a periodic shot of Teflon based lube they'll cope admirably with cross and rough stuff duties. Four-season slave bikes, especially those in coastal regions might be better served by trickier to fit, fully enclosed weather sealed systems but otherwise the Racers are a very fine cableset.
Nicely designed and reasonably priced performance cables.
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Make and model: Jagwire Racer gear/brake cable set
Size tested: n/a
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
The racers are a generic lightweight performance cable system for applications ranging from road racing through to cyclo cross.
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Derailleur 4.5mm outer housing, stainless steel inners, L3 teflon lining. Campagnolo, Sram and Shimano compatible. Brake cables-5mm kevlar outers, L3 teflon liners and stainless steel inners. Dual ended nipples ensure compatibility with both Shimano and Campagnolo systems.
157g per set seems very reasonable.
Good value for a complete system-especially given the technology employed.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Gear cables are excellent, although particularly impressive on the latest, ultra sensitive ten-speed set-ups thanks to nominal stretch and high standards of manufacture. Brake cables were a delight to install and the concertina sections ensure superbly smooth cable runs-especially exiting the levers. This translates into smooth, dependable all-conditions braking but slave bikes might be better served by a completely sealed system.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Ease of fitting, super slick performance and clever detailing.
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Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes- in most contexts.
Age: 35 Height: 1m 81 Weight: 70 kilos
I usually ride: Rough Stuff Tourer Based around 4130 Univega mtb Frameset My best bike is: 1955 Holdsworth Road Path and several others including cross & traditional road
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Most days I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: cyclo cross, commuting, touring, fixed/singlespeed, mtb
Shaun Audane is a freelance writer/product tester with over twenty-eight years riding experience, the last twelve (120,000 miles) spent putting bikes and kit through their paces for a variety of publications. Previous generations of his family worked at manufacturing's sharp end, thus Shaun can weld, has a sound understanding of frame building practice and a preference for steel or titanium framesets.
Citing Richard Ballantine and an Au pair as his earliest cycling influences, he is presently writing a cycling book with particular focus upon women, families and disabled audiences (Having been a registered care manager and coached children at Herne Hill Velodrome in earlier careers)


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Dasypeltis scabra (Common or Rhombic Egg Eater)
Illustrating how an egg-eating snake consumes an egg. There are two genera of colubrids which eat eggs; Dasypeltis and Elachistodon. Shown here is Dasypeltis scabra.
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To cite this page: Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2019. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed at https://animaldiversity.org.
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The F40 – still a winner
The F40, the last car launched by Enzo Ferrari before his death, received a major new plaudit this afternoon, a good 25 years after its debut as more than 20,000 readers of the highly-respected German car magazine, Motor Klassik, voted it Classic Car of 2013 in the 1980-1991 category.
"This award is a great honour for us because the F40 was a unique car that epitomised the Ferrari supercar myth in the 1980s," commented Müller, head of Ferrari Central/East Europe. "It became an object of desire for collectors across the globe, and, to this day, enthusiasts and experts the world over regard it as one of the great iconic models in our history."
The F40 took over the baton from the GTO, the first of the limited edition supercars whose ranks were recently swelled by the new LaFerrari. A total of 1,315 were built. Enthusiasts of all kinds can currently enjoy a first-hand experience of the Prancing Horse's supercar history at the Ferrari Museum in Maranello. The latter's special "Ferrari Supercar. Technology. Design. Myth" exhibition features not just the GTO, the F40 and the LaFerrari but also the F50 and the Enzo, all protagonists in an extraordinary chapter in the Prancing Horse's history.