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Ruth Mick and Andrew Harris have been selected as the 2006 recipients of the James R. Byers Award, the highest honor given to athletics at Lipscomb University.
Mick is a cross country and track performer in the steeplechase, 1500 meters and 800 meters for the Lady Bisons. Harris is a member of the Bisons tennis team.
The award is given annually to the top senior female and male athletes who display outstanding Christian leadership and show academic and athletic excellence.
"Ruth Mick and Andrew Harris represent the best that Lipscomb student-athletes have to offer," said Dr. Steve Potts, Lipscomb athletics director. "The Christian content of their character as well as their commitment to academics and athletics make them worthy recipients of the Byers Award."
Mick, from Zelienople, Pa., has been a member of the Atlantic Sun Academic Team every season at Lipscomb. She is majoring in environmental science and plans to continue her studies in the area of soil science after graduation.
Harris, from Atlanta, Ga., has also been selected twice as a member of the Atlantic Sun All-Academic Team. Harris was also a 2005 All-Atlantic Sun Conference second team selection for tennis where he plays the No. 1 position.
Harris is majoring in speech communications.
The awards were announced Friday morning during a brunch at Allen Arena honoring all of the athletes who have earned Atlantic Sun All-Academic honors. Dr. Jeff Mankin, from the College of Business, was the guest speaker.


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Your liver has a lot of responsibilities. It filters toxins from your blood, makes bile to digest fats, produces substances that help blood clot and makes, stores and releases sugar for energy. So when cancer strikes the liver, it's serious.
Primary liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) starts in the liver, but it can also develop in the cells that line bile ducts in the liver (cholangiocarcinoma). The liver is also a common site for metastases, which is cancer that has spread from other sites, such as the colon, lung or pancreas.
The most common causes of liver cancer are chronic hepatitis B and C infection and cirrhosis, which is liver scarring often caused by chronic hepatitis or alcohol abuse. Because of their increased risk, people with these diseases may be monitored with imaging or blood tests to detect cancer in its earlier, more curable stages.
While much remains to be learned about how to effectively treat liver tumors, doctors have developed therapies that enable people with liver cancer and liver metastases to live longer. Treatment options may include:
- Surgery: If the tumor is small, surgeons may remove part of the liver. Liver tissue regenerates and will grow back to replace the lost tissue.
- Transplantation: Some people with early-stage liver cancer may be candidates for a liver transplant.
- Chemoembolization: Chemotherapy can be given directly into a tumor through a narrow tube into the main artery in the liver. The chemotherapy is combined with a substance that helps to block the small artery that provides blood flow to the tumor.
- Radiofrequency ablation: This image-guided treatment for small liver tumors uses a probe inserted into the tumor to heat and destroy cancer cells.
- Radioembolization: Tiny spheres of a radioactive substance are delivered to the tumor via the main artery in the liver. The radiation then kills cancer cells.
- Targeted therapy: Sorafenib is an oral anticancer medication used to treat liver cancer. It inhibits the development of the blood vessels that tumors need to grow and spread.
- Immunotherapy : Nivolumab has been approved for the treatment of primary liver cancer for patients who have previously been treated with sorafenib.
- Radiation therapy: Some patients benefit from radiation treatments directed to the liver tumor.
The treatment of primary liver cancer and liver metastases is complex and requires the skills of a multidisciplinary team—such as that found at NewYork-Presbyterian. There, liver cancer experts offer the latest treatments as well as clinical trials of investigational therapies.
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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 37
This article appeared on NewsMax.com on Saturday, July 27, 2002.
Sometimes I'm asked why I am a Republican. Lately, I'm asking myself the same question. I thought I knew. I believed that even in times of war maybe especially in times of war Republicans would have the clarity of purpose and the institutional knowledge of the Founders' intent to rise to the occasion and lead the nation to victory without seriously curbing our liberties.
For years, conservatives have been shouting that liberals only want more power, want to create more rules for ordinary citizens and micromanage our lives in favor of a "big brother" utopia. I thought Republicans knew this and were fighting for our liberties, weighing every new law against the ultimate controlling legal authority the Constitution and our precious Bill of Rights.
But I'm beginning to doubt that even if we prevail upon the terrorists, the federal government we've built up to repel them will not stand down, will not automatically reduce its presence in our lives, but will find support for the notion that these extraordinary intrusions we've rushed to embrace should be maintained "just in case."
My fellow conservatives have worked so hard in the past to maintain and protect the country we love. During the Clinton years there was a sense that Bill Clinton and his cronies were not averse to using the power of the federal government against their political enemies. IRS audits of conservative foundations became routine, for example.
In fact, after the Democrats lost the House and Senate in 1994, the Clinton White House was convinced there was a conspiracy to undo Clinton's presidency, and they used White House resources to investigate those they considered to be the leaders of this emerging "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy." They rationalized this abuse by deciding that any move against the administration could be considered a threat to national security.
Just as some say "What's good for General Motors is good for the country," some actually believed that what was bad for Bill Clinton was bad for the country. Thus, any who attacked him, even for very good reasons, were considered "the enemy."
Although many thought the Clinton White House's misuse of federal tax dollars was "illegal activity," Congress didn't act aggressively enough to stop Clinton's brigade of lawyers and investigators from gathering intelligence that was later used against those they considered threats. Congress could have cut the White House budget to stop this abuse, but it did virtually nothing.
After the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma in 1995, the Clinton administration, the Democrats and their supporters in the mainstream media worked hard to establish the fiction that the bombing was the work of fringe elements of the "Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy." New evidence is emerging that suggests there might be some connection to our current terrorist foes. But Clinton and his friends were convinced it was the "Right Wing" that was responsible.
Thus, new federal laws were passed which gave the FBI and other agencies new tools to investigate "domestic terrorists." An entire class of "angry white males" was identified, and gray-haired men wearing flannel shirts and red suspenders and living in Western states were deemed to be very dangerous and worthy of federal investigative attention.
The fact that there has not been a single important indictment or conviction of any of these supposed large-scale, highly organized angry white male domestic terrorists has somehow escaped the notice of the mainstream media that helped to create this ridiculous "boogeyman."
While the FBI was sent out to investigate this horrible domestic threat, Osama bin Laden was establishing his deadly terrorist network right under our noses.
The fact that most of these men from the "right" were patriots, concerned that Bill Clinton and his strident wife, Hillary, were intent on trashing the Constitution and taking away their Second Amendment rights, meant little to FBI agents assigned to investigate them. If agents complained about investigating citizens who worshipped God and adhered to the Constitution, nobody ever heard of it. FBI agents did what they were told.
Which brings me to this: While it's all well and good to build a massive government intelligence structure to defeat foreign terrorists, it is the undeniable truth that our federal government is still hung up on political correctness and refuses to concentrate on the real terrorists out of fear of being accused by a vocal few of racial profiling.
Instead, leaders and bureaucrats take the easiest path to try to defeat our enemies: They treat every citizen as if he/she may be a suspect. In order to do that, they need new laws that give them incredible new powers, and all at the expense of our liberties.
The folks who love government have found common cause. Love of government has no party lines, apparently. Members of the Republican and Democratic parties join hands in favor of a massive buildup of federal agencies, federal intelligence ranks and law enforcement officers. No thought is ever given, apparently, to downscaling a single federal agency no matter how ridiculous, how expensive or how irrelevant. Thus, the federal government grows and grows.
After the terrorists are defeated, what remains is a massive intelligence-gathering "machine" that can be aimed at any group, foreign or domestic, that's considered a threat to national security.
Those currently holding the power apparently learned nothing from the abusive years of the Clinton administration. In the wrong hands, that "machine" currently being assembled to fight foreign terrorists can be misused against the political enemies of a newly elected president. Those "enemies" may be traditional ethical dissenters and common political adversaries.
But the former Clinton administration should serve as a reminder that once created, the terrible forces of the federal government will be used. We have learned the hard way that there are no real safeguards against political abuse.
True bureaucrats don't know how to act otherwise, and dishonest politicians could care less about your rights. To some in politics, winning is everything. Those who call themselves Republicans or conservatives should remember that.
Nevertheless, there is a vast "coming together" of all those who believe that the federal government is the answer to all our woes. They are from the "left" and from the ranks of the Republicans who call themselves moderates.
I'm certain that supporters of the emerging "Green" party are also celebrating. After all, big government is what they need to enforce their extreme environmental agenda.
The new "third party" is all of those who love government, wallow in government, know of no other way, no other solution and, not incidentally, have no other employment. The new third party is made up of bureaucrats and big-government politicians and is supported by "dreamers" who crave security over all else and can't appreciate the fact that liberty is exactly what sets us apart from all other civilizations.
If we allow the new "third party" (call them Government-Loving Bureaucrats) to trade our liberty for security, then all we'll have left is real estate. We must not let that happen.


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The divorce was over, I had an apartment with furniture, a job, friends, and a desire that was getting stronger to see the country. It was time to move out. So I decided to go somewhere. The place I decided to visit was Bandolier National Monument in New Mexico. I got the plane tickets, flew into Albuquerque, rented a car, and took off to hike and camp in the backcountry. It was November. The first night on the trail it snowed, lots. I spent the night brushing the snow off the tent so it didn't cave in and at first light headed back to the Visitor's Center. I tried to hike more that day, but it was snowshoe terrain and at that time I wasn't carrying any. I moved on to Chaco Culture National Historical Park, which was at a lower elevation, warm, and I loved it. It was my first experience with such a starkly different landscape and a culture that had once thrived there. Chaco, especially, preserves the extraordinary structures of the Anasazi (now called ancestral Pueblo people) that lived in the area from mid-9th to mid-13th century. I explored other places in the general area, and when it was time to return home, I considered my first venture out a success.
A year later I made the decision to retire from my job. I wanted to see and do more. I had worked since I was 15-years-old. I now wanted more time to travel, read, write, and do whatever I felt like when I wanted to. I drove across country on my next foray. I had a 1991 Honda Sedan, loaded with camping and hiking gear, ordinary clothes, Coleman stove, food, cooler, and anything else I thought I would need. I stayed out longer, saw more places, and became comfortable traveling on my own. I discovered that on major highways and through cities there was good cell phone reception and in the more isolated places, people were more friendly and would stop and help if I had a problem. My Honda had almost 200,000 miles on it.
As I traveled across country, I was staying in National Parks, Forests, or on areas managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Those are all Federal lands and since I am a "senior citizen," I am eligible for the America the Beautiful – National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Senior Pass (formerly the Golden Age Passport). For a one-time fee of $10 I could enter Federal lands free and camp for half price. I hardly ever stayed in a motel, saving that for emergencies, like when I was caught in a snowstorm in Lubbock Texas. The motel/restaurant owner where I was stranded said I could stay in their parking lot, but it was really cold so I did get a room that night. I loved seeing places I had never known existed, and meeting the people who were doing pretty much the same thing I was.
One time when I was hiking around Mt. Rainier, in Washington State, I came to a large hole in the ice. I went to the edge to look in and suddenly went through. I remember thinking I had been afraid of losing my mountain guide son in a crevasse on a glacier but it was the mother who was going through. I landed in a large pool of water. The ice above me that I had fallen through was over my head, but not by much and I got hauled out by passing hikers with no further mishap to anyone. I loved the nomadic life. There are so many places to go. Get a map that shows the National parks, Forests and other public lands and take your pick.


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A car has a small object hung from the cieling on a string (apparently at an angle of 0 degrees to the ceiling).
The car is accelerating and the object is now hanging at a 30 degree angle (to the ceiling). How would I figure out how much the car is accelerating.
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The financial penalty is staggering. JPMorgan Chase & Co will pay US$920 million for trading losses that shook the financial world last year.
However, the bigger price may be a few words rarely uttered in settlements with US regulators: The country's largest bank is also admitting wrongdoing.
JPMorgan's acknowledged failure of oversight in the US$6 billion trading loss is a first for a major company since the US' Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reversed its longstanding practice of allowing firms to pay fines without accepting fault.
The admission, made on Thursday as part of a broad settlement with US and UK regulators, could leave the bank vulnerable to millions of dollars in lawsuits. The legal burden of proof in such private litigation is lower than in cases brought by the government.
"The floodgates are opening," said Anthony Sabino, an attorney and business professor at St John's University in New York. "This is the kind of thing plaintiffs' lawyers salivate over."
Regulators said JPMorgan's weak oversight allowed traders in its London office to assign inflated values to transactions and cover up huge losses as they ballooned. Two of the traders are facing criminal charges of falsifying records to hide the losses.
Combined, the bank will pay one of the largest fines ever levied against a financial institution: US$200 million to the SEC, US$200 million to the US Federal Reserve, US$300 million to the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and US$220 million to the UK Financial Conduct Authority.
As part of the SEC settlement, JPMorgan acknowledged that it violated securities laws in failing to keep watch over traders.
The US Justice Department is still investigating the bank for possible criminal violations. And there could be more action to come from the SEC.
George Canellos, co-director of the SEC's enforcement division, said the agency continues to investigate individuals at the firm. The agency said that senior executives knew that the trading operation was assigning values to transactions that failed to convey the extent of the losses.
"JPMorgan's senior management broke a cardinal rule of corporate governance: Inform your board of directors of matters that call into question the truth of what the company is disclosing to investors," Canellos said.
New York-based JPMorgan called the settlements "a major step" in its efforts to put its legal problems behind it. The bank said it cooperated fully with all of the agencies' investigations and continues to cooperate with the Justice Department in its criminal prosecution of the two former traders.
JPMorgan was one of the few financial institutions to come through the global financial crisis in 2008 without suffering major losses. However, in April last year, the multi-billion-dollar trading loss surfaced, renewing worries about serious risk-taking by major banks.
The fallout even ensnared JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, who initially dismissed reports of the losses as a "tempest in a teapot." He later acknowledged the magnitude of the losses, admitted to the US Congress that the bank failed in its oversight and took a multimillion-dollar pay cut.
Three employees in the London office were fired — two senior managers and a trader. It also led to the resignation of Ina Drew, the former chief investment officer overseeing JPMorgan's trading strategy.


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Almost two years ago to the day, Derek Boogaard died in his Minneapolis apartment. Late Friday afternoon, his family filed suit in Circuit Court of Cook County (Illinois) for his wrongful death.
The family had previously sued the the NHLPA for its delay in filing a grievance on his behalf but that suit, filed by a different firm, was dismissed. The Chicago firm Corboy & Demetrio, who also represents the family of Dave Duerson in a similar suit, filed this suit before Illinois's statute of limitions for wrongful death would have run on Monday.
"To distill this to one sentence," said William Gibbs, a lawyer for the Boogaards, "you take a young man, you subject him to trauma, you give him pills for that trauma, he becomes addicted to those pills, you promise to treat him for that addiction, and you fail."
According to The New York Times, the complaint alleges that the N.H.L., through the actions/inactions of the teams and team physicians charged with caring for Boogaard, breached a duty to Boogaard in failing to monitor his prescription drug use. The suit also alleges that the league's substance abuse program violated its own rules when it failed to suspend or reprimand him for his several lapses, even in the face of multiple failed drug tests and his admissions that he occasionally purchased the drugs illegally.
Wrongful death is like a regular negligence/personal injury case with the only difference being that the wronged party dies and therefore is unable to sue/be compensated for its damages. Wrongful death allows the family to recover for things like the emotional and financial stress caused by the death.
The Boogaard family is asking the court to determine that a duty existed between the physicians (and the teams employing the physicians) and Boogaard to prevent his opioid dependency—or at least treat it in a non-negligent manner—and that that duty passes through to the NHL, as the governing body of the teams.
"On numerous occasions, the NHL allowed and encouraged Derek Boogaard, after suffering concussions, to return to play and fight in the same game and/or practice," the suit alleges.
The suit also argues that by virtue of his position as an enforcer/defender he was at an increased risk for concussions and other injuries, requiring increased prescription drug use and the potential for abuse.
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Forests and the Health of the Planet
The health of our forests directly impacts the health of the planet. The importance of forests to the Earth's ecosystems cannot be overstated. Research shows that forest die-offs are on the increase and this troubling trend is being linked to global warming. Heat and water stress associated with climate change are making forests vulnerable to insect attacks, fires and other problems.
As reported in an October 2011 New York Times article, millions of acres of forests in the northern and central Rockies are dying. In Colorado, at least 15 percent of that state's aspen forests are suffering due to a lack of water. The U.S. is not the only country where forests are succumbing to the effects of a warming climate, trees are also being impacted by climate change all around the globe.
The evidence for global warming continues to mount with March 2012 being the warmest in recorded history in the U.S. and January to March 2012 being the warmest first quarter on record in the lower 48 states. This is but the most recent data corroborating an increasingly irrefutable body of evidence.
Greenhouse gases are fueling global warming and we continue to pour massive amounts of these emissions into the atmosphere. About 10 billion tons of carbon is being dumped into the atmosphere every year from the combustion of fossil fuels and the destruction of forests. The concentration of the gas in the atmosphere has jumped more than 40 percent since the Industrial Revolution, and this could double or even triple this century.
Despite the wealth of data supporting global warming and the crucial importance of forests to planetary health, world industry leaders in wood materials are gathering in Seattle on April 11-13 to discuss the role of woody biomass for production of biofuels. According to a UBC study, wood-based biofuels could be a competitive industry by 2020. While biofuels offer questionable benefits to the planet, wood based biofuels are even more suspect.
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Although their music sometimes bears strong similarities to the technical, progressive brand of death metal centered around Gothenburg, Sweden, and epitomized by bands like In Flames, Shadows Fall actually hails from Massachusetts. Guitarists Jonathan Donais and Matthew Bachand formed the band in 1996, and by the summer of the following year the lineup had solidified with vocalist Phil Lebonte, bassist Paul Romanko, and drummer David Germain. Building their songs around the stop-start tempo and riff changes pioneered by bands like Metallica, Slayer, and Iron Maiden, the band toured New England and eventually snagged opening slots for acts like Fear Factory and Cannibal Corpse. Toward the end of 1997, they recorded a self-financed, self-released album titled Somber Eyes to the Sky, which eventually charted in CMJ's Loud Rock Top Ten and was picked up for overseas distribution. In 1998, Shadows Fall replaced Lebonte with former Overcast vocalist Brian Fair, a more versatile singer capable of handling melody as well as pure aggression. After further touring, the band scored a deal with Century Media in 1999; their first widely distributed domestic album, Of One Blood, was issued in early 2000. Soon after, Germain left the band and was replaced by drummer Jason Bittner. After releasing The Art of Balance in 2002 the band spent the summer of 2003 on the Ozzfest tour, earning a larger fan base thanks to their intense live show. In turn, their 2004 album The War Within debuted at number 20 on the Billboard Top 200 charts. A collection of tracks left off the album appeared in 2006 as Fallout from the War. It was followed by Threads of Life in 2007.


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To provide good quality modern education, including a strong component of culture, inculcation of values, awareness of environment, adventure activities and physical education.
To serve the objectives of excellence coupled with equity and social justice.
To ensure that all students to attain a reasonable level of competence in three languages as envisaged in the Three Language Formula.
To promote national integration by providing opportunities to talented children, largely rural, from different parts of Supaul District, to live and learn together and develop their full potential.
To serve, as a focal point for improvement in quality of school education through sharing of experience and facilities.
JNVST admission on the basis of Merit
Navodaya Vidyalayas draw their strength from talented children, selected on the basis of merit test, called the Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Selection Test, designed, developed and conducted by NCERT initially now, by the CBSE. The test is held annually on All India basis at block and district levels. It is objective, culture-free class neutral and is so designed as to ensure that rural children are not at a disadvantage.
Reservation for Rural, S.C., S.T. and Girl Students
Admission is predominantly for children from the rural areas, with a provision of 75%, reservation. Seats are also reserved for children from the SC and ST communities in proportion to their population in the district but not less that the national average. 1/3rd of the seats are for girl students. 3% of the seats are for disabled children.
Co-educational Residential Secondary Schools with Free Education
Navodaya Vidyalayas offer free education from Class- VI to Classes XII and are affiliated to the CBSE. Entry to a Navodaya Vidyalaya is in Class-VI only. Each Navodaya Vidyalaya is a co-educational residential institution providing free of charge amenities like boarding and lodging, expenses on uniforms, text books, stationery, to and fro rail and bus fare.
Adherence to Three Language Formula
The Regional Language is generally the medium of instruction from Class VI to VIII and from IX th class onwards it is English/ Hindi.
Promotion of National Integration
Navodaya Vidyalayas aim at inculcating values of national integration through special programmes of migration which is scheme of inter regional exchange of students for one academic year between Hindi and Non-Hindi speaking states and vice-versa. Efforts are made to promote understanding of the diversity and plurality of Indian people & cultural heritage through activities that promote national integration.
Rural Location, Cost free land State Govt.
Navodaya Vidyalayas are located as far as possible in rural areas. The State Govt. is to offer cost free land and rent free temporary buildings for the setting up of Navodaya Vidyalaya.
Board Results of Navodaya Vidyalayas students compare favorably with their counterparts, Navodaya Vidyalayas have been conceived as on idea, a progressive forward looking concept making modern India and the area of focal development through educational excellence. Board Results of Navodaya Vidyalaya students have been much higher than the national pass percentage averages achieved by the CBSE affiliated schools.
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Supaul, Dist: Supaul was established in 1987 in accordance with NPE, 1986. It is situated in a 33-acre plot in sylvan and serene surroundings with beautiful landscapes in Supaul Town of District- Supaul, Bihar State. The Vidyalaya is at a distance of 05 Kms from Supaul Railway Station and 38 Kms from Saharsa Jn.
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Navodaya Vidyalayas are residential co-educational schools for children in Classes VI to XII. These Vidyalayas offer free education to the talented rural children. The Vidyalayas offer free education to the talented rural children. The facilities include free boarding and lodging to students as well as expenses on uniform, stationery, to and fro rail/bus fare from home. Efforts are made to ensure that the Vidyalaya Management Committee under the Chairmanship of the District Magistrate/Collector or Deputy Commissioner with representation and participation of Parents ensure effective Mess Management.
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Korean games (non-Japanese games in general, actually) tend to get a lot of flack — 'They're all the same!' 'They're so badly made!' 'Just look at them!' — but Brandon Sheffield cautions that we ought to be keeping a closer on eye on the Korean market. With different development strategies, different working environments, and different players, there is stuff to be learned from Korean companies taking steps to expand westward:
The fact is, Western developers have ignored, discounted, or simply not known about the South Korean market for far too long, and now we're face to face with reality. Aside from World of Warcraft, they've taken a genre we invented, and perfected it to the point where an online dance game like T3 Entertainment's Audition has tens of millions of subscribers worldwide.
That's rather a lot of people, and we're ignoring it. When I first noticed that company in 2002, they were making a game called Raphael that was so rudimentary as to almost be freeware.
Korea is starting to get more attention, but perhaps the most impressive thing is how well some Korean companies have done with their entrance into other markets — it'll be interesting to see how the gaming landscape changes over the next couple of years.
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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#96 - User-defined warps
Opened by Christoph Lipka (clipka) - Wednesday, 14 April 2010, 09:02 GMT
Last edited by William F Pokorny (wfpokorny) - Thursday, 19 January 2017, 15:02 GMT
User-defined warps would be nice to have, something along the lines of:
warp { function { MyFnX(x,y,z) } // function to compute pattern-space x-coordinate from object-space <x,y,z> coordinate function { MyFnY(x,y,z) } // ditto for pattern-space y coordinate function { MyFnZ(x,y,z) } // ditto for pattern-space z coordinate } // a displacement warp: warp { function { x + MyFnX(x,y,z) } function { y + MyFnY(x,y,z) } function { z + MyFnZ(x,y,z) } }
i think, i should look in some older source archives of my private POV build. Sometime last year or earlier i think i implemented this functionality in an early beta version of the sources of POV3.7
If i found the code, i could donate this functionality. I should check, if the code is complete for donation.
I haven't time to finish it for publishing (code clean-up, examples, docu text snippets) and then i forgot it.
If you are interested, i will check, if i can "port" it to last public available source base of POV3.7 and create at patch
of the differences. I could also send it to you "raw".
I'm at moment not at home, but i will give feedback here, when i checked it.
Greetings from Germany
Thanks Zan - that would be very much appreciated!
Please don't submit diff files though; part of the codebase still keeps changing fast, and it's easier for the dev team to merge complete files. A patched older beta would then do almost as fine as the most recent one.
As for polishing it all up: If needs be, I guess I'd volunteer to help with that part of the job.
(Greetings both from and to Germany )
I've checked my sources and luckily I found the code. I have coded it 2 years ago in february 2008. It looks like that all
code is ready for publishing and I think refactoring needs are minimal.
Hope, it will be a good starting point for inclusion.
The codebase is POV3.7Beta25b → rather old.
I've zipped the whole directory. Please pick up what you need.
For inclusion of my code into MegaPOV, i have marked my changed
places with a ZTV_FUNCTION_WARP-define. I never mind, it will be
"directly" included into official POV...
Last evening I start VS2005 and try to check at least my last test.pov
file with one of the POV example scenes (warps.pov?), where i changed
the warp type to function warp, but I lost. My Beta25b has too much expired!
No chance to check it.
What will be a good test scene? Your example at the bug tracker?
function warp:
Allows you to use a function { } block as warp.
warp {
function { USER_DEFINED_FUNCTIONS } }
example: maybe your code snippet from FS#96
What can be used: see description of "function as pattern" (section 5.4)
The function warp uses the X, Y, Z values for setup the calculation engine.
I donate the code on a as-is base. If it fits in your needs, use it freely! If it not fit, modify it... I left it to the POV-Team to choose a suitable license for this code. This include
the right to change the license(s) to whatever the POV-Team need, anytime. It's not
needed to ask me for permission for a license change, modification, etc.
Hope, this is clear...
So, enough words written.
Please look at the sources and use, what is suitable.
Criticism, tips, questions, etc are always welcome...
Thanks for your help to polish up things.
PS.: <german>Schön, daß es noch eine nützliche Verwendung für meinen Code gibt.<\german> PPS.: Sorry for my (possible) bad english
Christoph, I assume you would be willing to review and add this past 3.7 release?
- Field changed: Status (New → Tracked on GitHub)
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About 160 miles of road will be covered, taking in sections between Stoke and Bristol on the M5 and Stoke and the M1 junction on the M6. Over 200,000 vehicles per day use the routes.
Electronic roadside signs at major junctions on the two motorways will display the latest travel time and delay information from the National Traffic Control Centre. The messages will tell drivers the expected travel time to specific junctions on the motorway and help them make informed decisions on their journeys.
The system will use software that combines historical traffic data with information from automatic number plate recognition cameras. It automatically recalculates the projected travel times every five minutes and updates the display.
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Minister for roads Dr Stephen Ladyman said: "Through the Highways Agency, we are investing in new services to help drivers to plan their journeys. These new messages are part of a range of information services so drivers can find out about traffic conditions on their route both before they set out and during their journey.
"Displaying journey times on our electronic signs will help them to do that. It will help them plan and consider options such as changing their route or taking a break if there are traffic delays ahead of them. They'll also have greater certainty about the time it will take to get to their destinations."
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Growing new breast tissue will only work on partial breast reconstruction — as in a lumpectomy. There is no suggestion that it can work in restoring entire breasts as in the case of a double mastectomy like mine. Secondly, researchers are concerned that regrowing tissue and stimulating the body in this way could also regenerate cancer cells. This is a worry but not known for sure. Research is continuing, and I for one am hopeful about the implications for the millions of survivors of breast cancer.
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Flying Springs And Other Things
I am interested in many forms of auto racing including Dirt Late Models and Modifieds, Sprint Cars, asphalt anything-including Cup sometimes-road racing, and yes, Formula 1. It was with great interest that I watched Ferrari driver Felipe Massa get hit in the head by a spring that fell out of a competitor's car during qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. He was traveling at 150-plus mph and the spring smacked him in the left temple area with the helmet taking the blunt force of the impact.
For the more curious of you that might ask, "How in the heck could a spring fall out of the car?" here are the details. Some F1 cars use a fifth spring, yeah like a Dirt Late Model, but different. It's located between the rockers in the rear to support the car at high speeds where the aero downforce is great and the normal suspension springs are too soft to hold the car up off the track. When the car slows for the turns, the fifth spring is released and loose, letting the normal suspension springs do their job. The mounts broke allowing the spring to come loose and ultimately fall out onto the track. Hindsight dictates that this extra spring should have been tethered, and most assuredly is now.
I often speak about spending the money that it takes to be as safe as possible and I get letters telling me that in the lower forms of circle track racing that is not practical. I say it's not an intelligent choice to race without proper safety equipment. Hey, it's your head and body. Who am I to tell you what to do? I can only suggest. People are told not to drink and drive, drive motorcycles without a helmet, cross the desert, or whatever and people still do those things and they sometimes end up dead.
In Massa's case, we see where the photos show his helmet is one of the expensive carbon-fiber types of the highest quality, not a big surprise for an F1 driver. But we do know that the material is much stronger than say fiberglass, which most helmet shells are made of. If he had been wearing a fiberglass helmet, we could conclude that there might be one less F1 driver around. The spring would have most likely taken the left side of his head off. But the helmet did its job, deflected the spring and he was left with skull fractures, a concussion, and is, for the most part, OK.
When you're deciding whether to buy a firesuit or helmet or whatever, get the one with the highest rating that makes sense for your type of racing. You'll probably never need it, granted. But if you do, that extra money will become insignificant to you. Your life insurance company will be very happy too.
These things come along all too suddenly and without warning. Crashes happen and freak occurrences, well, occur. If you would have asked Massa what the chances were to be hit in the head by a flying spring were in the days prior to the event, you know he would say, one in a million. Well, he "won" the bad luck lottery that day and the high price of the carbon-fiber helmet was a small price to pay.
The one thing I ask is this. I understand if you are a risk taker, it's your life. But don't write to me and tell me you had to stop racing because you blew your engine and the money you could have used to replace it went to buying quality safety gear. Yes, I got a letter like that recently, I don't make this stuff up. Racing is like everything else in life, if you can't afford it, do something else. I think sky diving is much less expensive and you won't catch on fire or get hit in the head by a flying spring, I hope.
If you have comments or questions about this or anything racing related, send them to my email address: email@example.com, or mail can be sent to Circle Track, Senior Tech Editor, 9036 Brittany Way, Tampa, FL 33619.
Here It Is
I just recently received my Oct. '09 issue and was reading the Track Tech Q&A titled Overpriced Safety Gear? I strongly disagree with Mr. Bolles saying that we as racers are willing to pay insane amounts of money to make our cars faster and just need to get over the $1,300 for a H&N restraint. I'm here to say that I might have about $5,000 invested in my Pure Stock and I do everything my budget will allow to make my car safe.
I constantly look over my suit, helmet, seat, belts, and 'cage to make sure everything is good and safe. I took a big part of my race budget over the off season to buy a new fire-suit because I knew that mine was expired and needed to be replaced. This is money that was supposed to be used to rebuild a new larger motor for my car for this season. I was more concerned about being safe than going faster.
I go to college out of my pocket as well as having a car payment and a credit card to pay off, so I have a very small budget for racing but I still maintain it to safety. Due to us not going through my motor because of no money, it threw a rod and caught on fire.
I borrowed money from my brother and girlfriend to build a new motor to get back out. That motor cost us around $800 to $900 and it wound up letting go two races later. I'm still paying off my debts from building that one so there was nothing left in the budget. We had to pull the engine out of my parent's truck and just go take it easy the rest of the year. If I would have poured all of my money into my engine as Mr. Bolles says racers do then I would not be in this situation. His examples are flawed because he doesn't consider the true weekend warrior like myself and the racers in our level. I would love to purchase a H&N for myself to be safer, but the fact of the matter is I can't afford it. I do everything in my budget to stay safe. We don't go as fast as the big guys do but we still need to be safe as well with our big, heavy cars.
I think you answered your own question. You used your budget money to buy a new firesuit because ". . . mine was expired and needed to be replaced." That was a smart move. Your priorities were in the right place. The root of the problem is not the cost of anything, it's the lack of funds you have and the inability to acknowledge that you are too poor to race. You borrow money, take the engine out of your parent's truck, and are paying for school along with other payments. Hey, stop racing until you can afford it, period. Sounds like more of an addiction to me.
Basic Setup Information
Hello, I reside in New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada, and currently race NASCAR Late Models at two different tracks as well as some NASCAR Canadian Tire Series events. I'm emailing just to further enhance my racing knowledge.
I race for McColl racing and my crew chief is a huge believer in your work and I also read everything. I'm in my sophmore Stock Car year, previously running go-karts and USAC Midgets. I give good feedback on how the car is handling, and have been fortunate enough to have good mechanics and communication with them that they can adjust the car accordingly.
But as usual, I'm wanting to learn more and tweak my brain. I was wondering if you had an article that breaks down what certain adjustments do, and where they help? I know some and have learned a lot, but the more the merrier. I had the chance to drive for Howie Lettow and learned a lot there as well.
I guess I don't have a basic question, just any setup help you can throw my way. I'm not looking for specific setups or roll centers or styles, just what adjustment usually does what (how to get more grip from the center off, loosen car in center, and so on).
Thanks, and appreciate your work,
Steven Mathews
I'm really glad you wrote. I get involved with specific setup parameters and have forgotten to present the basics that are needed by a team to fine tune its chassis. I will schedule an article in the next issue that only deals with suspension changes, what they do and how much influence they have and in what areas. There is a ton of similar information out there and every car builder usually has a setup sheet that tells how to correct "loose off" or many other conditions.
What I can do is not only tell what to do in a specific order of magnitude and logic, but tell the effects each change has on other factors. We preach developing a dynamic balance to the setups and not just a handling balance that makes the car neutral. I always say, I can make a VW neutral, but I want to make my race car balanced.
Metric Mod Racer
My father and I have been avid readers of Circle Track for the last 15-20 years. I enjoy the many articles and they have helped with my racing over the years. I run a Limited Modified or IMCA Sport Mod as they are called up north. We utilize the metric chassis and all of the stock suspension points.
I'm still lacking some forward bite and would like to utilize the free calculator for locating the height of the four-link roll center. We have come a long ways with the metric chassis finding speed and something new to help the car to pivot or roll the center of the corners better each week would help.
I appreciate your articles and hope Circle Track will continue to provide us weekend warriors more valuable information. I'll never make it to NASCAR or have engineers fine tuning my car each week, but the satisfaction I find trying to outsmart my competition has added a new twist to racing. Racing has become very technical and Circle Track continues to lead the way providing cutting edge technology. Thanks for all you guys do!
Mike Kressley
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Houston, TX
I wrote a while back that we racers are, in reality, scientists and design engineers. We fit the descriptions to a "T" and we don't necessarily need degrees to prove that. Many successful professionals in all walks of life can become very well educated outside of the education system. I'm not necessarily against formal education, I just realize that, and am example of, someone who can achieve a high level of knowledge about a particular subject on his own. Smokey Yunick was, in fact, a self-taught thermodymamics expert as well as a mechanical engineer and proceeded to educate many degreed members of the racing community.
Because we as racers enjoy this sport so much, we have a high capacity for learning. Anytime you are interested in a subject, learning comes easy. In school I was always good at the subjects I liked and did poorly in the ones I didn't. We are all like that. So, learn all you can and be aware, you and I will never know it all.
Stock Class Handling
Hi Bob,
I just read your article in this month's Circle Track about stock metric chassis setup and I think it will be a huge help. I'm 28 years old and have been a BMW master tech since I was 20. I raced karts as a kid and when I moved back to Wisconsin I quickly got back into it. I built a 125cc shifter kart and raced at the track I grew up at, Badger Kart Club in Dousman, WI, and got the 125cc championship 2008.
My dad, who is 71 now, raced stock cars before I ever raced karts and I've always wanted to try it. So, I sold my kart a week after the last race and bought a beat up Metric car to build in October and I'm still working on it. I have probably about $7,000 into my car and some of my competition have spent that much on their motors.
In area Sportsman, we are allowed to make all the modifications mentioned in "Stock Class Handling Tips," but I really don't know what to use as a starting point. For example, we can fabricate front upper mounts and use aftermarket upper arms and can lengthen the right lower arm by an inch. I used the stock mounts with a 7.5-inch right upper and 8.5-inch left upper arm. Because I didn't know where to initially set front camber and caster, I didn't make my own mounts.
Madison is a high bank 1/2-mile asphalt oval. To make a long story short, if there are any other articles or if you have any specific setup advice, I would highly appreciate it (especially stuff I can change for cheap or free). Thanks for the great magazine and for any help you can offer.
Tommy Wutke
Stoughton, WI
Great, a sensible set of Stocker rules. First off, if you can change the upper mounts, install plates and make them parallel to the centerline of the chassis. This makes setting up the frontend for geometry and antidive much easier. I once heard that the only reason the factory put the upper control arm shafts at a top view angle was to clear the cast headers in the performance cars. They couldn't have two designs, so that dictated the frontend design of every car, high-performance or not.
Talk to some local teams running in your class and ask about their cambers. The caster for that car should be set with a split of around 2-3 degrees with power steering, or 4-5 degrees without PS with the left side less than the right side. Try to work on your moment center location. That sounds complicated for you stock guys, but it is THE most important thing you can do.
Read our setup articles. The information you will find there for finding the dynamic balanced setup applies to your car too. You will know when you have a balance when the tires are the same temperature on each side front to rear. The articles tell you how to make changes to accomplish that goal.


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Tuesday, March 12, 2013
7G2 - Dragonfire 2
Ever since seeing the dazzling visuals of The Caves of Androzani for the first time, I started developing a keen interest in television directing. As I was pretty much exclusively watching Doctor Who at that point in my life, the only frame of reference I had for directing for TV was Doctor Who, and seeing this Graeme Harper person go above and beyond in setting his style apart from the others represented the epitome of televisual art. (It still does). I wanted to know more about the art of directing and, indeed, the directors of Doctor Who, but there were precious few glimpses into the world behind the camera in either book or televised form. I was resigned to live in ignorance.
Then along came The Making of Doctor Who, a New Jersey PBS production from 1988 that aired on my local PBS station in the late summer of that year. It profiled the making of an upcoming Doctor Who story called Silver Nemesis, and featured not only interviews with the cast and crew, but also a fascinating sequence of takes of a relatively simple scene that was a great insight into how television was made. The director for this story was Chris Clough, a name that was new to me at the time, and it was Clough who was my gateway drug into seeing how people directed Doctor Who. I was fascinated. He seemed to know what he was doing, he wore a Los Angeles Rams hat - he was cool.
Little did I know, of course, that Clough, who admittedly has gone on to become a successful television producer, is not looked at as one of the upper echelon of Doctor Who directors. We'll deal with the afore-mentioned Silver Nemesis when the time comes, but Dragonfire must surely be Clough's worst offering. Some of the composite shots look okay and were certainly something relatively uncommon at the time. But no one seems to know whether Iceworld is slippery, cold, or both. Or neither. Sylvester McCoy plays it as the name of the place suggests - a world of ice. He blows on his hands upon leaving the TARDIS in Part One, while Bonnie Langford strolls out as if its any old BBC set. When The Doctor, Glitz, Ace, and Mel wander around the lower levels, McCoy is slipping everywhere (with diminishing comedic effect), while everyone else is as surefooted as mountain lions. A good director would have worked this out beforehand by saying something like, oh, "Everyone, Svartos is slippery and cold. Act like it." But that didn't happen.
Early in the episode, Ace and Mel discover The Doctor's umbrella hanging on the railing near the ledge where he inexplicably was left hanging at the end of the previous episode. In between establishing composite shots at the beginning and end of the scene, Clough covers the entire scene with just one camera, whose operator apparently received the following instructions: "Wide shot.....ok, zoom in a bit.......maybe tilt down a bit...ok, zoom in a bit more.....stop......zoom in a bit more there.....and, good. Cut. Next scene." It's so amateurish, it's positively Richard Martin-esque. When John Nathan-Turner took over as producer of Doctor Who before Season 18, one of the things he wanted to eliminate was the lazy attitude of some of the crew that more or less said "that'll do". Well, Chris Clough's lackadaisical direction here shows that the same creative indifference was invading the show again at a time when it desperately needed to make its mark on the British public and on the BBC bosses who were hell bent on burying the show for good.
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Kratz's commercial draws attention, ribbing
Todd Zolecki is a reporter for MLB.com.
ATLANTA -- Erik Kratz is a Tony Award hopeful, but a CLIO Award seems more likely.
It has been difficult to miss his commercials for Godschall's turkey bacon during Phillies broadcasts, most notably one in which he talks to a cartoon turkey dressed as a pig. The commercial has gone viral locally.
"I had a blast," the catcher said Wednesday at Turner Field. "I don't know if commercials are my forte, but I had fun."
Kratz's father, Floyd Kratz, is a co-owner of the company, so he asked his son if he would help.
"A lot of people think they're cool," Kratz said.
And his teammates?
"Teammates make fun of me," he said.
Read More: Philadelphia Phillies, Erik Kratz, Michael Young, Ezequiel Carrera, Delmon Young


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Light Years Ahead
My first brush with home theater was in a large, dedicated room equipped with a top-shelf cathode-ray-tube (CRT) front projector, a Faroudja video processor, a 100-inch (diagonal) screen, and a killer sound system. Subsequently, I've measured every home theater experience against that one, making me a tough customer to please.
While I continue to be a fan of CRT projectors, I'm also aware of their limitations. They provide the ultimate in image quality - including deep, solid blacks and razor-sharp details - but they're also bulky and expensive, and they need periodic maintenance. They also require an outboard processor to fill in the scan lines that become painfully visible when standard interlaced video is blown up to fill a really large screen. These shortcomings of CRT projectors have made me eager to see whether Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology, invented by Texas Instruments, can fulfill its promise to replace tubes in the projection-TV world. Judging from the wide assortment of DLP projectors now available, the new technology has made rapid progress. What's more, a number of the latest models are HDTV-ready.
At the heart of a DLP projector is a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD), a very high-tech integrated circuit with hundreds of thousands of tiny mirrors. The first DLP projectors used a DMD with a traditional squarish aspect ratio (4:3), but during the past year Texas Instruments has made a widescreen 16:9 DMD with a resolution of 1,280 x 720 pixels - an exact match for the 720p HDTV format - available to manufacturers.
To give you a better idea of what you're getting when you buy a DLP projector, and how it differs from a tube model, a brief explanation is in order. In a CRT projector, a tightly focused beam of electrons is fired at the phosphor-coated inner surface of the three tubes, one for each primary color (red, green, and blue). As the electrons strike the phosphor, they become energized and emit light to form images that get projected on the screen. A DLP projector generates images by beaming white light from a lamp at the tiny mirrors covering the surface of its DMD. Each mirror pivots up to 50,000 times a second between reflective and nonreflective states. The length of time a specific mirror reflects light determines where its corresponding pixel falls in the grayscale.
In single-chip DLP projectors - a category that includes most models on the market, including the three I compared for this test - color is added via a rotating wheel equipped with red, green, and blue filters. The wheel is placed between the lamp and the DMD, and its rotations are precisely timed to separate the light into red, green, and blue components. The filtered light is reflected in sequence off the DMD's surface and beamed through a lens toward the screen at such a rapid pace that the eye is tricked into seeing a full-color image. In early DLP designs, slight time lags between the red, green, and blue beams created occasional artifacts, but current designs appear to have solved the problem.
Our three DLP projectors - the SIM2 Sèleco HT300 ($14,995), the Sharp XV-Z9000U ($10,995), and Runco's VX-1000c ($16,995) - all feature the high-definition Texas Instruments chip. For my evaluations, I used an 80-inch-wide (92-inch diagonal) Stewart Filmscreen GrayHawk screen, a low-gain model designed to optimize contrast levels with DLP projectors. By the time the testing was finished, I had spent so many hours in the dark that I looked like Batboy from the cover of the Weekly World News, but that's a story for another time.


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A Sony Ericsson touchscreen phone with an 8MP camera, the Xperia X5, has been glimpsed on the internet, and set the blades of the rumour mill spinning.
Sony Ericsson is one of the mobile manufacturers thought to have a high-end touchscreen device 'in the works', so the speculation comes as very little surprise.
But it should also be noted that the rumours consists of little more than basic specs and spy pictures at present. Given the SE fanboys' penchant for mocking up handsets, this could turn out to be nothing more than fiction.
8GB and a touchscreen? Innovation or what...
But the specs, which say it will have an 8GB internal memory along with Wi-Fi, 3.5G connectivity and a huge 3.2-inch touchscreen aren't too fantastic, more along the lines of what SE would be thinking were this device true.
However, with the Xperia X1 not even on the shelves yet, you'd have to wonder about the model number... why jump straight to five?
So, either this is a made-up handset, or we're about to see the next four in the nascent Xperia family any time now.


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Settings for messages and data (PCM telephone)
Changing the number of the SMS service center
Switching the SMS signal tone on and off
You can switch the signal tone that sounds when a text message comes in on or off.
Phonebook settings
Setting the memory for the phonebook
You can set whether the phonebook entries on the
SIM card, the phonebook entries in the telephone
memory, and/or the vCards stored in the PCM
should be used for the display in the phonebook.
This allows you to adapt the phonebook list of the PCM to your list in the cell phone.
If the transfer of the phonebook data from
your cell phone to the PCM fails, it may be
because your cell phone is working with
security mechanisms that affect transfer
using the "Phone Book Access Profile" (PBAP).
These security mechanisms require the PCM to be authorized on your cell phone. As part of this, the telephone requests a "user ID" and a "password" from the PCM. In order for the PCM to gain access to the phonebook, it must "log into" the telephone.
Since the PCM uses the fixed parameters "UserID: PCM3" and "Pass: 0000" for this login, these parameters must be preset as permissible on your cell phone.
Please refer to the operating instructions for your cell phone to find out whether these settings are required on your cell phone and how to make them.


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OTO LCD Watch
- $149.00
Kisai OTO is the first sound sensitive watch from Tokyoflash Japan. The graphic equalizer display reacts to music and ambient sound creating a striking visual effect on your wrist.
Choose from blue, red, amber or green LCD with matching LED light guide. The custom designed case and strap is made of high grade black anodised aluminium and is one of the lightest watch designs available from Tokyoflash Japan.
Always On Digital LCD Watch with an LED Light Guide
Three display modes are programmed into Kisai OTO. Choose time only, time with equalizer or equalizer only. You can customise this to fit your environment.
In equalizer modes, the three bars react to different sound frequencies; highs, mids and lows. The LED light guide will illuminate to the beat when the ambient volume is loud enough - whether it's screaming highs or thumping lows.
Check out the video demo further down the page to see each mode in operation.
Time, Date, & Alarm Mode
Reading the time is as simple as any digital watch. Hours are shown horizontally in the upper left two columns, minutes are shown beneath. Seconds are shown vertically in the column on the right.
The date can be read in the same way with a touch of the lower button; the month horizontally in the upper left two columns, the day below and the year vertically on the right.
Kisai OTO also has an alarm mode and you can light up the display at any time by pressing the centre button.
USB Rechargeable Watch for Hours of Fun
Kisai OTO is a USB rechargeable watch. One charge will last for at least a month based on light use of the Equalizer function. If you're serving up the beats all night, full equalizer mode will last for at least seven hours.
To charge, just connect to your computer with the USB cable provided. It takes three hours to fully charge and there are more than 300 charges in one battery.
Control the Sound to Suit the Environment
Sound sensitivity can be controlled using the sensor on the left side of the watch - open to increase sound sensitivity, close to decrease sound sensitivity. The watch is 3ATM water resistant when the sound sensor is closed.
A Limited Edition Watch Design
Each part of Kisai OTO has been individually designed and manufactured, including the case, strap and uniquely programmed display. Like all watches from Tokyoflash Japan it is a limited edition design which means that it is guaranteed to be an original watch that not many other people own.
OTO means "sound" in Japanese. The name was chosen because the of the connection the design has with music.
- Displays the time and date
- Alarm mode
- Sound Sensor
- Equalizer mode
- LCD "always on" display
- Sound sensitive LED light up function
- LED night light
- Aluminium case, stainless steel clasp
- Adjustable aluminium strap
- Minimum wrist size: 160 mm (approx.)
- Maximum wrist size: 237 mm (approx.)
- Case Dimensions: 57 mm x 39 mm x 16 mm
- Ideally suited to larger wrists
- Weight: 120 grams
- Water resistance: 3ATM
- Battery: PL402525 USB rechargeable battery
- English instructions
- One year warranty
Concept to Reality
In February 2010, Tokyoflash Japan opened its Design Studio Blog to showcase concept designs and request ideas for new watch designs from fans. The idea for Kisai OTO was submitted by Sam Jerichow from Germany. This is the tenth concept submitted by a fan to become reality.
Find out more about the original concept on the Tokyoflash Design Studio Blog.
Blog reader & watch designer Sam Jerichow says:
We know that watches can be more than just time tellers. They are gadgets, fashion accessories and fun objects. The idea of an equalizer like watch display came, when I saw one of the many reruns of Knight Rider. I was a big fan of K.I.T.T when I was a kid and i'm not alone. I early saw a connection to club music and thought that must have quite some fans too. I became enthusiastic and so quickly started to work on the concept.
After some weeks Tokyoflash contacted me with the intention to make the watch. They spent quite some time with researching and testing. I kept crossing my fingers that OTO will become reality and it did! When I saw the display reacting to sound for the first time, I laughed a bit in excitement. It really works! Thank you Tokyoflash for bringing my idea to life!
Also thank you to the blog readers and my supporters! Your input is always a pleasure. I know I have a special taste sometimes and I don't please everyone but with some of my work I'm reaching people and that's very encouraging.
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Saturday, July 3, 2010
Almost gave it away!
10 comments:
I love it!ReplyDelete
great work!!!! LETS GO METS!!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 3, 2010 at 1:36 AM
Holy crap I lol'd so hard at the crate storage!ReplyDelete
Freaking Manuel's dumbass gives every fan heart palpitations out of nowhere! This guy is an internet troll in real life!
- AnonymousJuly 3, 2010 at 1:45 AM
Oh man, that's great. They're gonna need a bigger storage unit soon if Takahashi and Igarashi keep doing poorly.ReplyDelete
that would be something if jerry goes before the other 3 crates.ReplyDelete
I just started following your blog and I love it! Let's go Mets!ReplyDelete
Lol thanks Joe for putting Jerry in a crate don't know if u read my post yesterday but my request came true thanks again like always great work !!!! LET'S GO METS!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
Hey phillies-bl**, ;) Gotcha!ReplyDelete
LMAO, just awesome.ReplyDelete
Thanks again Joe wow still hurt from tonites loss !!! Great work can't wait to see next pic Go MetsReplyDelete


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Staples baseball continues strong play with convincing 9-2 win over Westhill
With the rest of the FCIAC baseball contenders fighting for their playoff lives as the season enters the final week, Staples is in the unique position of having already clinched the No. 1 seed in the upcoming playoffs.
Watching the Wreckers go to Viking Field and beat a contending Westhill team 9-2 Monday, the rest of the league should be on notice.
These Wreckers (16-3, 15-2 FCIAC) are not going on cruise control, instead they have committed to finishing strong, setting themselves up for a high seed in the CIAC Class LL tournament and entering next week's FCIAC playoffs playing their best baseball.
The one place Staples now has an advantage over the teams still battling is in its ability to get its pitching in line for the postseason.
"We wanted to stretch Robbie (Vallone) out today and get him just over 100 pitches and just set our pitching up for next week," Staples coach Jack McFarland said. "We got some things done today that are going to help us out down the line."
Westhill (10-8, 10-6 FCIAC) is in the mix for one of the other seven playoff spots, now sitting tied with three other teams in the 6-8 spots.
The Vikings fell behind early, stung by two big innings, a problem which has plagued them all season according to coach DJ Mulvany.
"Our Achilles' heel all season long is that we just have bad innings," Mulvany said. "We allow teams to either retake the lead or extend the lead. Staples swung the bats very well today and two bad innings led to nine runs and the way they pitch, it's tough to come back."
Onyx Velez worked four shutout innings of relief to help keep the Vikings pitching in line with two games left this week.
Westhill is at Darien Wednesday before closing the season at Trinity Friday.
Westhill led 1-0 after one but Staples pounded out 12 hits in the game, scoring five in the second inning and four in the third.
Adam Dulsky hit a three-run home run in the second and freshman Ben Casparius added a three-run opposite field shot in the third.
Dulsky was 4-for-4, Casparius had two hits and scored two runs and Noah Yokoi drove in two runs.
Dulsky said the Wreckers offense is relentless and the team is focused on the postseason.
"Right out of the gate we had bases loaded in the first three innings but we didn't capitalize early but we just kept pounding them and sticking with it," Dulsky said. "We are still going after Trumbull Friday. We want to win that game because it is so important for the states and FCIACs pretty much started today with Westhill and we just wanted to go out and get them."
Westhill scored a run in the first and another in the second, loading the bases in both innings before Vallone settled down.
Vallone struck out eight before giving way to Casparius, who struck out three over 1.1 innings to close it out.
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Staples 9, Westhill 2
Records: S -- 16-3, 15-2 FCIAC; W -- 10-8, 10-6 FCIAC
Batteries: S -- Rob Vallone (W, 4-1), Ben Casparius (6) and Adam Dulsky; W -- Billy Blau (L), Austin Nardi (3), Onyx Velez (4)
Doubles: S -- Ross Poulley; W -- Dave Lauture
Home runs: S -- Dulsky, Casparius
Highlights: S -- Dulsky 4-4, 3-run HR; Casparius 3-run HR; W -- Lauture 2-4, run


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Ferrari builds bob for Italian national team for next Winter Games
A delegation from the Italian team visited the Ferrari factory today to take consignment of the bob designed and developed by the sports car manufacturer for the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
After the positive experience in Vancouver in 2010 and London in 2012, CONI and Ferrari decided to proceed with their technical collaboration for the upcoming Winter Games which will be held next year in Sochi in Russia. Apart from the bob, the other sports benefitting from the contribution of the Prancing Horse are skiing, snowboarding, ski-jumping, cross-country and short track. Furthermore the partnership which started with the Olympics in London for summer sports – canooing, kayaking and archery – will proceed, too.
The CONI – Ferrari team started to develop a two-man bob for Vancouver 2010, and it was also used at the Youth Olympics in Innsbruck in 2012, where the Patrick Baumgartner/Alessandro Grande team took the gold medal.
CONI and FISI asked Ferrari to proceed with development of the bob in order to be able to start the season leading up to the 2014 Games with a competitive sled. The technicians from Maranello, together with those from the Federation and from CONI, first started analysing the previous project, then concentrated their work on the evolutionary interventions and finally on construction and assembly of the new bob. After redesigning the chassis mechanics, optimising the aerodynamics and the structural integration of chassis and keel, the new bob is ready for the first tests on the track, which will start in two weeks in LaPlagne (France).


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In case you're wondering what all this pre-REAL RESULTS chatter is based on, Rich Lowry from the National Review Online gives us a peek at the Romney intel from the field.
Here's what Lowry says Team Romney is basing its Virginia optimism on:
In Staunton's Ward 4 in 2008, 1,450 people voted. As of 1:30 p.m. today , 1,223 people had voted. McCain won this precinct in 2008, 54.8 percent to 44.3 percent.
By noon, 972 votes had been cast in Elmont's precinct 704 in Hanover County. In 2008, there were 1,422 total votes cast in the precinct, which McCain won in 2008, 68-30.
In Democratic stronghold Charlottesville at 1 p.m., turnout was 36 percent of registered voters. Obama got 80 percent of the vote there in 2008.
In Democratic stronghold Martinsville, turnout by noon was 34 percent. Obama got 65 percent of the vote there in 2008.
Yancey Precinct in Augusta County had 1,474 voters as of 1 p.m. — that's 48 percent of the precinct's registered voters. McCain won Yancey Precinct, 68-30.
Bluefield media market and Withville, we're seeing two-hour wait lines — this is coal country in VA. These are Romney voters.
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell says that because so many folks were still waiting to vote when the polls closed, the count is going to take a while in VA.