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Quarterback Terrelle Pryor signed a four-year contract with the Raiders on Thursday night, made his way to Napa on Friday morning and practiced with his new teammates for the first time.
His first practice featured a handful of reps in full-team drills and included nine passes. Pryor completed only four of his passes and looked rather shaky.
Still, Pryor's confidence remains intact, and he is certain that he has what it takes to play quarterback in the NFL. That subject was one of many he touched upon during an eight-minute interview. Here is the complete transcript:
Q: How was Day 1?
A: "It was fun interacting with the other quarterbacks here. It was a good time. It was a lot of information in one day, but I'll get used to it."
Q: What was coach Jackson saying to you?
A: "He was just helping me out. He's a great coach. I enjoy him a lot and I look forward to working with him."
Q: How much work will you be able to get done before the suspension kicks in?
A: "I would say the rewind and the problem is that now I'm 17, 18 days, practices behind right now. I'm just playing catchup right now. Some of the stuff is getting there, and I'm starting to get familiar with some of the stuff. But it's been one day. Give me a couple of days, and I should be able to fill it in and feel a lot more comfortable."
Q: What do you hope to accomplish your rookie season?
A: "I don't know. Just help out and help to win. Get in, get my feet wet a little bit and just really learn off of Jason Campbell and the other quarterbacks here because they've been around the block."
Q: How much fun have you had the past two days?
A: "I wouldn't say fun because I traveled yesterday for about, what, 17 hours. They had delays because of that Irene and bringing with it the weather. I don't know if I call that exactly fun, but it's fun that I was able to get an opportunity to come out here and now I'm out here. So, it's fun that I'm back on the practice field."
Q: Were you nervous the first day of school?
A: "Not nervous, but you're getting so much information and you're just trying to … my mind wants to accomplish it, I want to accomplish it. But it's just overwhelming."
Q: Were you OK with coach Jackson throwing you right into the mix?
A: "The biggest thing was I had to get the cadence down. I was learning the cadence. At first, coach was playing around with me, saying he was going to embarrass me and stuff like that. I had fun. I'm learning and I like the way coach makes his quarterbacks learn."
Q: How important is it to be low key at first?
A: "This right here probably isn't the best thing right here. But, just pretty much be quiet, talk when I'm supposed to talk and just learn. I'm behind the 8-ball and I'm just trying to learn and get as many things done as I can possible."
Q: How disappointed are you at being suspended?
A: "It's a disappointment because I've never sat out any games, even when I was hurt. I tried as much as I could and I played, even when I was hurt. Not being allowed to play in a game and miss games, I don't really know. When you ask me next time, I probably could be able to tell you what it feels like. Right now, I'm just trying to play catch up and get the information as much as I can."
Q: Was the judgment fair?
A: "It's what the call was. Like I said before, I didn't have to be in the supplemental draft, and I was allowed in. I'm just going to take the opportunity. I'm not going to bad mouth it or give my opinion on the good side, bad side. It goes both ways. I'm just glad they gave me the opportunity. That's all I can really answer on that."
Q: What do you say to critics who say you can't play QB at this level?
A: "Ask coach Jackson."
Q: He said you're a QB?
A: "Yeah, ask him after a couple of practices."
Q: Feel as if you have something to prove?
A: "No, I don't have … Obviously, anytime you come in fresh, you have something to prove. I'm just trying to get better. I'm not here to answer any critics. I'm just trying to answer myself. I'm the biggest critic. I don't really hear the other critics anyway. I'm the biggest critic and I'm just trying to prove it to myself. That's all I'm trying to do."
Q: What have your conversations with managing general partner Al Davis been like?
A: I haven't met him yet face to face. I've chatted with him a couple times on the phone. He's just an aggressive guy and he loves to win. That's what I get out of him.
Q: Impressions of Jason Campbell, and what is the relationship like?
A: He's great. That goes for all the quarterbacks, they're great, helping me and just trying to catch me up as fast as possible. Jason Campbell he's a great quarterback.
Q: Jason said guys teasing him for looking like your older brother, you feel that way?
A: He carries himself like a professional. I can't speak any more highly of him. That's all you can say. He just carries himself like that, acts like that. He's a great person. I look forward to working with him.
Q: Are you determined to be QB in NFL?
A: Yes.
Q: Hue said he will play to strengths, what are yours?
A: That's why we're out here on the practice field trying to find it out. I don't know. I don't know what he's envisioning.
Q: What were strengths at Ohio State?
A: A lot. It's too hard to break down for you in the time I have. I'm sure you'll see it whenever I get on the field and have a chance.
Q: Thoughts on how Raiders been playing on offense and how you can contribute?
A: I haven't really thought much of that because they have a quarterback right now. Right now I'm behind the eight ball trying to catch up. I have a lot of catching up to do.
Q: Have you watched much of them of late?
A: Yeah. I watched the offense sitting at home on TV. But you can't really break things down because you don't know if someone ran the wrong route or the throw. You can't really break things down like that. You have to be in the film room and know exactly what the plays are and see what really went wrong and not judge off of TV.
Q: How fearful were you that you would not be in supplemental draft?
A: I was fearful because I didn't want to sit out a year. Things worked out for the best. I'm happy about that.
Q: What did you tell NCAA about all the cheating you did at OhioState?
A: I'd prefer not to answer questions about the NCAA.
Q: This feel like a fresh start personally and professionally?
A: Yes sir. I'm just happy to be here and ready to start fresh and ready to learn as much information as I can possible. I can just breathe and feel a lot better. I'm happy. I'm ready to get going.
Q: Last time you played something other than QB?
A: I think it was my freshman year. I always played running back because I had a lot of speed and always go on these sweeps and stuff right and left and things like that. I love playing the quarterback position and I can't envision myself playing anything else. I truly enjoy it.
Q: What No. 6 instead of No. 2?
A: Coach won't let me wear No. 2. Why, I don't know? You tell me. He won't let me wear No. 2. I'm just going off what coach tells me.
Q: When you ran so fast at your workout, did you hear talk that Raiders would take you?
A: Nah. I had no clue what was going on. I was getting ready for the draft process.
Q: Can you compare this challenge to anything else in your life?
A: In terms of what.
Q: Starting as fourth QB and trying to accomplish what you want?
A: I don't understand.
Q: Uphill battle?
A: It's a challenge anytime you want to go somewhere and you aren't there quite yet. Even when you get there it's still a challenge to stay where you're at. I'm just looking forward to getting better. I'm No. 4 right now. That's OK. I have a lot to learn. This is my first day.


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03:43 pm - Architecture problem...
I used to have a really good idea of what the architecture of a system that had to respond to multiple different possible sources of input or other reasons to do things (such as some interval of time expiring). My idea was basically to make everything purely event-driven and have big event loops at the heart of the program that dispatched events and got things done.
This solves the vexing problem of how to deal with all these asynchronous occurrences without incurring excessively complex synchronization logic. Nothing gives up control to process another event until the data structures its working with are in a consistent state.
But there are two problems with this model. One is old, and one is relatively new.
The old problem is that such event-driven systems typically exhibit inversion of control, and that makes them confusing and hard to follow. There are ways to structure your program to give people a lot of hints as to what's supposed to happen next when you give up control in the middle of an important operation only to recapture it again at some later point in time in a completely different function. But it's still not the easiest thing in the world to follow.
The 'new' problem is that silicon-based CPUs have not been getting especially faster recently. They've instead been getting more numerous. This is a fairly predictable result. CPUs have a clock. This clock needs to stay synchronized across the entire CPU. Once clock speeds exceed a certain frequency, the clock signal takes longer to propagate across the entire chip than the amount of time before the next pulse is supposed to happen. This means that in order to have an effectively faster CPU on a single chip you need to break it up into independent units that do not need to be strictly synchronized with each other. It's a state horizon problem.
But most programs are not designed to take advantage of several CPUs. If you want a program that's a cohesive whole, but still gets faster as the hardware advances, you need to break it up into several threads.
It seems like maybe it would be simple to do this with a program that had multiple threads. You just have multiple event loops. But then you end up with several interesting problems. How do you decide what things happen in which event loop? What happens if you need to have data shared between things running on different event loops? You run the risk of re-introducing the synchronization issues you avoided when you added the event loops in the first place, all with the cost of inversion of control. It doesn't seem worth it.
Additionally, if you have inter-thread synchronization, what happens if it takes awhile for the other thread to free up the resource you need? How do you prevent deadlocks? Most event systems do allow you to treat the release of a mutex or a semaphore as an event, so you can't just fold waiting for the mutex back into the system as just another event without doing some trick like spawning a thread that waits for the mutex and writes into some sort of IPC mechanism once it's acquired.
And splitting up your program into multiple event threads is not trivial either. How do you detect and prevent the case of one thread being overworked? Also, there is 'state kiting' to consider. Preferably you would prefer one CPU to be handling the same modifiable state for long periods of time. You want to avoid situations where first one CPU cache, then the next have to load up the contents of a particular memory region. Typically, each core will have its own cache. If for no reason other than efficient use of space, it would be good if each core had a disjoint set of memory locations in cache. And to avoid the latency of main memory access, it would be good if that set was relatively static. This means that a single event loop should be working with a fairly small and unchanging set of memory locations.
So simply having several threads, each with its own event loop seems a solution fraught with peril, and it seems like you're throwing away a lot of the advantages you went to an event driven system (with the unpleasant inversion of control side-effect) for in the first place.
So the original idea needs modification, or perhaps a completely new idea is needed.
One modification is embodied in the language Erlang. Erlang still has an event loop and inversion of control. You waiting for messages that come in on a queue. Any other loop can add messages to any queue it knows about. These messages are roughly analogous to events. But the messages themselves convey only information that is immutable. Since it is immutable, shared or not, no synchronization is required since it cannot change.
Erlang also encourages the creation of many such event loops, each of which does a very small job. Hopefully, no individual loop is too overloaded. Modern operating systems are adept at scheduling many jobs, and so this offloads the scheduling of all of these small tasks onto the OS.
I do not think Erlang does overly much to solve the locality of reference problem.
Another approach is the approach taken by the E programming language. It makes extensive use of a concept called a 'future' or 'promise'. This is a promise to deliver the result of some operation at some future point in time. It allows these promises to be chained, so you can build up an elaborate structure of dependencies between promises. In a sense, the programming language handles the inversion of control for you. You specify the program as if control flow were normal, but the language environment automatically launches as many concurrent requests as possible and suspends execution until the results are available.
It is possible to build a set of library-level tools in C++11 to implement this kind of thing somewhat transparently in that language.
I am unsure if there are any major tradeoffs in this approach. Certainly in C++ there is a great deal of implementation complexity, and that complexity cannot be completely hidden from the user as it is in E. I wonder if that implementation complexity introduces unacceptable overhead.
I also suspect that it may be difficult to debug programs that use this sort of a model. They appear to execute sequentially, but in truth they do not. It is possible, for example, to have two outstanding promises for bytes from a file descriptor, but which order those promises will be fulfilled in will not be readily apparent from reading the code. And error conditions can crop up at strange times and propagate to non-obvious places in the control flow of your program.
I also suspect this model will not exhibit the best locality of reference semantics. There will be a tendency to frequently spawn and join threads to handle asynchronous requests. And it will not be immediately apparent to the OS CPU scheduler which threads need to work with which memory objects. And this may lead to active state kiting between CPUs.
Also, those calls to create and destroy threads have a cost, even if that cost is fairly small, it's still likely much more expensive than acquiring an unowned mutex, and probably even more expensive than the call to wait for a file descriptor readability event or waiting for a briefly held mutex to become available.
Of course, it may be possible to implement all of this without creating many threads given a sufficiently clever runtime environment that implements its own queue that folds IO state and semaphore/mutex state events into a single queue. Such an environment would still need a lot of help from the application programmer though to divide up the application to maximize locality of reference within a single thread.
This is a fairly long ramble, and I'm still not really sure what the best approach is. I think I may try to set up some kind of 'smart queue'. This queue will have a priority queue of runnable tasks, and a queue of tasks that could potentially execute given a set of conditions. When a condition is met, the queue will be informed, and if that conditions enables one or more tasks to be run, these tasks will be added to the priority queue.
I envision that the primary thing on which the priority queue will be prioritized is length of time since the task was added to the 'wait for condition' list.
I can then write a C++11 library that will allow you to automatically turn any function that returns a promise into a function that uses these conditions to split up its execution. At least, if you use sufficient care in writing the function.
The conditions (since fulfilling a promise will be a possible condition) will have data associated with them. If this data involves shared mutable state, that will require a great deal of extra care.
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The Grand Theft Auto V machine seems to be shifting gears as we slowly climb toward that mid-September launch date.
After the second official trailer hit the Web, fans eager for more information on the next GTA title found themselves twiddling their thumbs with just a slow trickle of screenshots to slake their thirst.
Now, Rockstar has not only given us a whopping 10 new screenshots late last month, it's also followed up with a Twitter reveal of the official box art for GTA V.
It'll certainly look familiar to anyone who's played one of the older GTA titles, but hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?
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Baseball, football go hand in hand for Rangers
ARLINGTON -- Dallas Green was the manager of the Yankees in 1989 when he made an observation about Rangers rookie Kevin Brown.
"He's going to be a good pitcher ... if he doesn't take up football," Green said.
ARLINGTON -- Dallas Green was the manager of the Yankees in 1989 when he made an observation about Rangers rookie Kevin Brown.
"He's going to be a good pitcher ... if he doesn't take up football," Green said.
Brown was not a football player. Green was taking an old-school shot at then-Rangers pitching coach Tom House, who had upset the baseball establishment by having his pitchers toss the football around in the outfield before games.
House's contention was the mechanics needed for pitching were the same ones used to throw a football properly and make a perfect spiral. The old schoolers scoffed until Nolan Ryan was seen throwing the pigskin around before his starts. Ryan said throwing the football helped loosen up his arm quicker and allowed him to throw fewer warmup pitches before a game.
"I eased into it, had positive results and slowly became a believer in its value," Ryan said in his book "The Pitcher's Bible."
Through the Rangers' history, there has been an occasional crossover between football and baseball, and that was shown again last week when the club selected Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson in the Triple-A phase of the Rule 5 Draft. Wilson was selected out of the Rockies organization as an infielder, even though he hasn't played baseball since the 2011 Minor League season.
Having enjoyed tremendous success with the Seahawks, Wilson isn't going to give up football for baseball, but he might make an appearance with the Rangers in Spring Training.
"I'm sure I'll go down there for Spring Training and just talk to some of their players, and hang out with some of them," Wilson told Seattle reporters last week. "It'd be kind of a cool experience, but that's down the road."
Considering that baseball and football have long been two of the top three sports in the United States, it's not surprising that the two occasionally get mixed with the Rangers. Call outfield coach Gary Pettis on any given Sunday in the early months of the offseason and you'll most likely catch him watching his nephew Austin, who is a wide receiver for the Rams. He had four catches on Sunday against the Saints.
Two years ago, the Rangers took a high school outfielder from Hueytown, Ala., but didn't sign him. Instead, Jameis Winston went to Florida State on a football scholarship and ended up winning the Heisman Trophy on Saturday night. Winston also said in a television interview that he still dreams of being a two-sport star like Deion Sanders and Bo Jackson.
The Rangers never had a player attempt to make it in two sports at once. They did have Donald Harris, who was a star defensive back at Texas Tech and also played baseball there as well. The Rangers selected and signed him as their No. 1 pick in the 1989 First-Year Player Draft, and a few years later, he was also drafted by the Cowboys. Harris only played in 82 games for the Rangers and never did play for the Cowboys.
Winston is not the first Heisman Trophy winner who was technically under the Rangers' control. Ricky Williams was drafted by the Phillies out of high school in the eighth round of the 1995 Draft. He played Minor League baseball for four summers while spending the autumn running the football for the University of Texas.
Williams won the Heisman in 1998 and then was selected by the Expos in the Rule 5 Draft. The Expos traded his rights to the Rangers, but he never did play baseball for them. But Phillies shortstop Jimmy Rollins said Williams was the fastest player he ever saw.
The Rangers also took outfielder Riley Cooper in the 25th round of the 2009 Draft with the understanding he would play baseball after he finished his senior season as a wide receiver at the University of Florida. But Cooper was taken in the fifth round of the NFL Draft in 2010 by the Eagles and ended up playing football instead.
The Rangers did have Brian Jordan for one season in 2004 near the end of his baseball career. Jordan was a defensive back for the Atlanta Falcons from 1989-91 while playing baseball in the Cardinals' Minor League system. His football career ended when the Cards rewarded him financially for sticking with baseball.
Hey, do you "Remember the Titans"? That's right, the 2000 Disney movie about the T.C. Williams High School football team from Alexandria, Va., which won a state football championship and starred Denzel Washington. The real Williams football team beat Salem (Va.) Andrew Lewis High School in the state championship game.
Former Rangers outfielder Billy Sample was a wide receiver on the losing Andrew Lewis team. Two weeks earlier, he caught the winning touchdown pass in the quarterfinal game to help his team advance toward cinema infamy.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger.


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Rapper Coolio, 53, and his bodyguard were arrested for possession of a stolen, loaded firearm Saturday, an airport police officer said.
Around 10:50 a.m., Los Angeles Airport Police responded to reports of a prohibited item at Transportation Security Administration screening in Terminal 3 of Los Angeles International Airport, Airport Police Officer Alicia Hernandez said in a statement Saturday.
Officers took a carry-on bag and detained a 39-year-old man who claimed the bag was his, according to Hernandez. Their investigation revealed that items inside the bag belonged to another man who had already boarded a plane.
Airport police said they detained Artis Leon Ivey, Jr., better known as Coolio, on a plane, who said he owned the carry-on bag during questioning.
Both men were arrested and transported to LAPD Pacific Division Jail to be booked.
Coolio's bail was listed at $37,308, sheriff's inmate records show. He posted bail and was released from custody at 4:35 p.m.
The man with the carry-on bag was released, officials said.
Coolio, known for hit songs such as "Gangsta's Paradise," was scheduled to perform Saturday night in Dallas. He also has a concert scheduled on Sunday in Indio, California.
He is expected to appear in the LAX Superior Court on Oct. 13.


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The goal of work in the Gore Laboratory is to understand the neuroendocrine control of reproduction and sex differences in the brain during development and aging. We are interested in hormone actions (especially estrogens) in the brain, and perturbation of these processes by environmental hormone disruptors. One line of research focuses on molecular and cellular changes to the aging female hypothalamus, and estrogen effects on the aging brain as a model for menopause. A second line of research seeks to understand how prenatal exposure to environmental endocrine disruptors (EDCs) causes molecular epigenetic modifications and cellular changes to the developing hypothalamus and the manifestations of these effects later in life, and transgenerationally. The outcomes of this developmental reprogramming by EDCs include perturbations in brain structure, neural phenotypic properties, and sexually dimorphic behaviors in adulthood. Our team uses comprehensive behavioral, physiological, neuroanatomical, immunohistochemical (light and electron microscopy), and molecular approaches to address these questions on the neurobiological control of reproduction across the life cycle.
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Considering the source and the subject, I'm declaring Alex Beam's Boston Globe column on MIT professor of meteorology Richard Lindzen the best of the day: "MIT's inconvient scientist." Another inconvenient scientist in Professor Lindzen's Cambridge neighborhood is physicist Russell Seitz. Seitz has now established Adamant, his own blog. Scrolling down through his first posts on the site, I see this:
As summer sizzles on, pundits are warming to Al Gore's popcorn film debut. One of the things that make An Inconvenient Truth a scary movie is that in its certitude it ignores our past, present and future dependence on the greatest of native American fuel sources. Al may dream of fields of switch grass as biofuel frenzy spreads, but coal remains the mainstay of America's power supply.
I wrote Seitz earlier this week to ask what he was up to on his site. He responded:
Science politicized is science betrayed.
Adamant focuses on advances in science and international security, and how the rhetoric of motives distorts them in public television, often thoughtless think tanks, and both sides of the aisle in a Congress where lawyers outnumber scientists 30 to 1.
It also affords respite from the Science Wars by surveying bizarre things that surface in the 36,000 ostensibly learned journals to which Harvard's library's subscribes.
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Try to imagine the size and power of the hydraulic system required to move a 60-ton movie prop mounted to the world's largest motion platform. But the dazzling special effects needed in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World called for some dramatic engineering, not only in sheer physical capabilities, but in the sophistication of motion control as well.
The 60-ton prop is a full-size replica of the H.M.S. Surprise, a 179-ft sailing ship boasting a towering 130-ft main mast. From the outside, and the right vantage point, it looks just like a seaworthy sailing vessel. But inside, it's obvious that this is nothing more than a sophisticated stage prop.
Imagine the size and power of the hydraulic system required to move a 60-ton movie prop mounted to the world's largest motion platform. But the dazzling special effects needed in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, called for some dramatic engineering not only in sheer physical capabilities, but in the sophistication of motion control as well.
The ship replica is mounted to a huge motion platform capable of moving in three axes: roll (pivot along the longitudinal axis), pitch (pivot along the transverse axis), and heave (vertical displacement). Hydraulics brings life to this monstrous mechanism, and, as is usually the case in applications such as this, all hydraulic and mechanical motion components are hidden from view. Two giant hydraulic power units that drive the hydraulic system had to be hidden as well, so they were positioned more than 100-ft from the motion base. This presented a challenge to system design because such a long distance would normally slow response to sudden flow demands. However, proper line sizing and strategic placement of accumulators kept system dynamics within required specifications.
Each of the three motion axes had to produce smooth and precise motion, without jerky movements. Controls had to be easy to operate and allow making changes quickly on-the-fly. Safety was also important because roughly 130 actors, stunt men, other professionals, and extras were on board the Surprise replica during rehearsals and filming.
Setting the stage
Academy Award nominated director Peter Wier teams with Oscar winner Russell Crowe in this motion picture spectacle set on the high seas. Crowe stars as Jack Aubrey, a captain whose ship is suddenly attacked by a much superior enemy warship. Aubrey becomes a man on a mission and sets sail with his crew in a high-stakes chase across two oceans to intercept and capture their foe. Master and Commander: Far Side of the World (click to view trailer) is not only an epic tale of leadership and dedication, but a powerful story of the relationship between Aubrey and his trusted friend, played by Paul Bettany.
Before it was transformed into the H.M.S. Surprise for the film, the tall ship had been christened the H.M.S. Rose, and served as a floating museum in Bridgeport, Conn. Film makers purchased the Rose and converted it into the fictional H.M.S. Surprise. This seaworthy set is used in shots taking place out on the open seas. Because its movements can be precisely choreographed and controlled, the Surprise replica is used for closeups and scenes that must be carefully choreographed.
Film makers contracted Commander Productions Ltd., Los Angeles, to provide the Surprise facade mounted to the articulated steel framework, or gimbel, fixed to the bottom of a large tank at the shore of the Fox Studios set in Rosarito, Mexico (which was also used for the sea adventure films Titanic and Deep Blue Sea). This allowed commanding the ship replica through choreographed motions while it appeared to be far out at sea.
No bit-part for hydraulics
The sheer mass of this load made it a natural for hydraulics. Bosch Rexroth, Hoffman Estates, Ill., supplied the hydraulic system. The heave axis required the greatest force and stroke. To accomplish this, Bosch Rexroth provided four cylinders, each with an 8-in. bore, 8-ft stroke, and 2-in. piston rods. Not only did these cylinders transmit the most power in the application, they were the most critical because they were used in every scenario, and their motion had to be synchronized to handle the load and provide realistic motion. Had these cylinders moved out of synch, they could have applied uneven forces to framework. The resulting stress could have distorted the framework or even torn it apart.
For the roll and pitch axes, a Bosch Rexroth 4-ft stroke and 10-in. bore cylinder was specified for each. Although these axes required much shorter strokes, they still required large-bore cylinders operating at 1500 psi to move and control the 60-ton load. The motion of these cylinders was not synchronized, but each needed to work in tandem with the five other cylinders.
GS-Hydro U.S. Inc., Houston, also supplied the massive hydraulic power units, valves, and other hydraulic components, including 12 runs of more than 250 ft of hydraulic lines. According to Scott Cady, president of GS-Hydro, "Our design manager, Scotty Bearb, modelled a non-welded piping system in 3D that spanned a total of 4500 ft. The entire piping system was prefabricated in Connecticut and installed in Mexico in three weeks, after receiving the order."
Meeting high expectations
Since special effects have become a major segment of today's action movies, high expectations have been placed not only on equipment performance, but also on reliability. Once the film crew, special effects experts, actors, stunt men, and everyone else involved in a particular scene have assembled for a shoot, everything must work as planned. If anything doesn't, the lost production time can cost thousands of dollars per minute.
Dan Sudick, special effects coordinator at Commander Productions, considered the size of the mechanical system and complexity of controls, and mapped out many potential plans to operate the Surprise replica. Hydraulics were the clear choice for actuation because they could handle the dynamics of the application without question. The need for closed-loop motion control was also obvious because of the tight motion and position control requirements. The challenge was to provide an integrated system that could generate the power required to move the tremendous load through a wide range of motions and have everything look realistic.
But even though tight control was required, the resulting motion could not appear to be jerky or stiff. Fluidic motion was especially important for this application because a ship at sea pitches, heaves, and rolls smoothly. The only time a ship would jerk or move suddenly would be if it ran aground. So motion had to be highly damped to avoid any sudden movements.
Another challenge was the variable load presented by this giant stage prop. Buoyancy forces from the water caused the Surprise replica to become "lighter" as it became partially submerged. With a reduced load, the hydraulics could become too stiff, potentially creating unrealistic motion. This meant the system had to self-compensate for varying load conditions.
Controlling motion
The system was installed as it had been designed, but the expectations of the electrohydraulic servo control became higher than had been anticipated. This led Sudick to look for specialists in hydraulic controls. He chose Delta Computer Systems, Battle Ground, Wash. to help with this concern.
After the first run of the original system, the special effects people were skeptical as to whether the system would be controllable enough to meet their needs. They had to be convinced, and it needed to happen quickly because the shoot was scheduled to begin only a few weeks after the entire system had been installed.
Because Delta manufactures motion controllers designed for the special needs of hydraulics, they convinced Sudick that they understood the requirements of the hydraulic controls and had the solution.
Time was running short, so Delta suggested using a proven control systems integration company to integrate the motion controls. That is when Concept Systems Inc. entered the project.
An alternative solution
Michael Gurney, a founder and principal engineer at Concept Systems, went to the site immediately after the decision was made to go with Delta and installed and wired an RMC100 motion controller into the system. He then tuned the system, ran the motion program, and had the system running within six hours. This was unprecedented for a project of this stature.
Because Concept Systems was not brought into the project until it was nearly completed, very little time was available for testing. Nevertheless, Gurney had the ship rocking and rolling in two days, with less than ten hours to test it. This all was possible because of Concept Systems' extensive experience implementing challenging motion control solutions under demanding conditions.
To produce smooth motion of the platform, the RMC100 advanced tool was used set to run third-order cubic splines. This programming feature automatically sets optimum acceleration, deceleration and velocity based on simple operator commands. It accomplishes the same effect as variable damping of the system. But damping the system would have required re-engineering the hydraulic system, which was not an option. To simplify operation, Concept Systems added a PC-based operator interface, allowing for simple button-type interaction with the motion controller. This provided the look and feel the special effects crew was familiar with.
Dan Sudick was impressed with the whole system Concept Systems installed, especially the motion controllers. "The RMC100 controller is the best we've ever had," he offered. He added, "We can use this on many special effects requirements in other productions."
For more information, call Concept Systems at (866) 791-8140 or visit www.conceptsystemsinc.com.
The HMS Surprise is now docked at the Maritime Museum San Diego. Click here to see a video.
Editor's note:
After this article was originally published, a subscriber wrote with additional information. His comments, and a response from the article's author, are shown below.
Give credit where it's due
Upon receiving the July issue of Hydraulics & Pneumatics , I was initially very excited. But upon completing the article about the upcoming movie, Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, I was very disappointed. The article gives Bosch Rexroth credit for work they did not perform. Specifically, author Johanson wrote, "Bosch Rexroth also supplied the massive hydraulic power units, valves and other hydraulic components including runs of more than 250 ft of hydraulic lines."
To clarify, GS-Hydro supplied 12 runs of more than 250 ft of hydraulic lines and many valves. We are very disappointed that this article was allowed to be printed without involvement from all of the major contributors.
How the hydraulic fluid was transported from the hydraulic power units to the gimbel was a major concern for Fox Motion Pictures on this project. The special effects coordinator did not want a repeat of the type of problems the studio had experienced filming Titanic .
I personally spent three days in Rosarito, Mexico with our project manager, Peter Laneri, working with Dan Sudick and Ralph Kerr. GS-Hydro's design manager, Scotty Bearb, 3-D modeled a non-welded piping system that spanned a total of 4500 ft. The entire piping system was prefabricated in Connecticut and installed in Mexico in three weeks from time of order.
I, for one, will be at the movie theater November 14th watching the boat rock and roll, and I hope that by then I won't be the only one who knows that it takes many great products, people, and ideas to make hydraulic special effects electrify an audience.
Scott Cady, president, GS-Hydro U.S. Inc. Bloomfield, Conn.
Editor's response:
Author Johansen acknowledged that the hundreds of feet of piping were, indeed, provided by GS Hydro. He brought this to our attention after initial approval of the manuscript, but the issue had already gone to press.


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49ers defensive tackle Justin Smith hasn't resumed a full schedule of football activities after the torn triceps injury that limited him near the end of last season, but he has started talking about his rehab in the past tense.
Smith said Wednesday that he thought the rehab "went pretty well," even though he says he's still short of being 100 percent. The expectation remains that Smith will reach that point by the start of training camp in six weeks and that he'll take on a full workload once camp is underway.
At that point, Smith will start building his case to stick around the 49ers beyond the 2013 season. Smith's entering the final year of his contract and turns 34 in September, something he realizes has worked against other veteran players when they hit the open market.
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Jennifer writes in:
I'm getting very frustrated with my husband. Every few months he will come up with some new personal project he wants to work on. He tried woodworking a few years ago. A few months ago he tried cooking. Now it's exercise. As soon as he gets into that mindset, he goes and spends hundreds of dollars on equipment for the project and will be really gung ho about it for about two weeks. After that, it just tapers off and a few months later he's not doing it at all. This repeated cycle really eats into our annual budget. Help!
The title of the article says it all, but let me elaborate a bit.
The Honeymoon
When you stumble across something new that you're passionate about, you go through a "honeymoon" period with it. You dive into the enjoyable side of it. You find yourself filling a lot of your spare time with it. It fills quite a few of your spare thoughts.
During that period, because your focus on the new thing is so intense, it's easy to think that you'll be doing this for a long time. It's also easy to think that you should outfit yourself well for this journey right off the bat so you can do it "properly."
In truth, though, you're far better off going through that "honeymoon" period with low end equipment.
There are two big reasons for this.
First, it's often hard for a novice to really understand why the "better" equipment is actually worthwhile. If you don't have chopping skill, for example, the difference between a great chef's knife and a cheap chef's knife is almost nonexistent. It's only when you can chop quickly and efficiently do you see the subtle ways in which a good knife can improve your cooking productivity.
Second, it's impossible to tell whether or not you'll stick with a new passion after that honeymoon period. It might feel great to run every day right now, but in three months, are you going to get up at five in the morning on a rainy day to run? Are you going to stick with it when the new wears off? You can't know until you cross that threshold.
Diving In
So what's a better way to attack a new passion? For me, I attack any new interest of mine with as little cash up front as possible. This way, if it doesn't last, I'm not out very much, and if it does last, I can replace the equipment a piece at a time as I need it.
Take my recent dive into piano playing, for instance. I'm using an old used keyboard to practice at home and visiting a local church a few times a week to practice on a real piano. The keyboard was a freebie; the church piano is free, too. For instruction books and sheet music, I'm using more books picked up for free, either off of book swapping sites or as gifts.
If I keep up my current level of playing over a year or two, I probably will invest in a piano. For now, however, at my current level of skill, the equipment I have works well in helping me build additional skill. There will come a point when a piano in my home will help me greatly in making further progress, but I'm not there yet and I still don't know for sure if my current passion will sustain me to that point.
Whatever your new passion is, look for ways to channel it and dive in without emptying your wallet. Check out the library. Check out Craigslist or consignment shops or Freecycle. Ask around your social circle. Look for community access to the equipment and facilities you need, whether through a city department or a shared workshop space.
Once you've found that inexpensive source for deepening your passion, dive in. Chase that passion as hard and as deeply as you want. If that passion still burns within you after six months, then I would argue that you've reached a point that it's reasonable to begin upgrading your equipment when you can articulate clearly what that upgrade will gain you.
At the six month mark, you will either have found that the passion is sustainable over a long period or that it didn't fulfill you like you initially thought that it might. In either case, if you didn't invest a lot up front, you're in better shape than you would be if you had invested a great deal up front.
Don't let the stuff lead the passion – it almost never works. Instead, let the passion lead the stuff. See if the passion is deep and true before you throw money into it.
Good luck!
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My offer of a paper for ASCS 34 (Australasian Society for Classical Studies) next year (January 2013, in Sydney) was accepted. They were blind reviewed. Here is the abstract:
The Seen and the Unseen: Perception and Authority in Livy's Battle Narratives
At the battle of the Trasimene Lake in 217 B.C., the consul C. Flaminius led his army into a fog that arose from the lake, which obscured their vision of Hannibal's army lying in ambush. This paper will examine a number of aspects in Livy's representation of Flaminius and the defeat at Trasimene in conjunction with Feldherr's (Feldherr 1998) ideas surrounding the spectator and the spectacular. Taken as a whole, the episodes explored in this paper will show that Livy did not set out simply to denigrate Flaminius by repeating the opinions of sources hostile to him, but to have him fulfil an important role in a thought-provoking exemplum about the exercise and the visible representation of power. The paper will link Flaminius' nebulous perception of the natural world around him to his own invisibility in the Roman civil ceremonies that should have marked his investiture as consul and departure to command the army. It will also explore the theme of sound versus sight in the human perception of battle. It will show the connections between the rational mind of 'autopsy' and the irrational emotions which only hear the dissonant clamour of the invisible enemy, in the battle of Trasimene, Hannibal's crossing of the Alps, and the sack of Rome by the Gauls in the 4th century B.C. as it appears in book 5.
There's also some additional points I'd like to make about the "invisibility" of Flaminius at Trasimene and in Rome, but I'm leaving those as surprises in the paper.


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When I first began writing this advice column, back in the Paleolithic era, most correspondence came via snail mail. Those were the days, huh? Email replaced letters as the dominant means of communication about 8 years ago, and so it remains today. Lately, there's been yet another innovation — the Instant Messenger. Never fear, Dr Dick stands at the ready to console and advise even at cyber speed.
Instant messenger technology allows me to do something I've never been able to do before, save the whole shebang as a single document. This, dear readers, will provide you, as you will see below, an intimate vantage point to a crisis as it is being reveled.
What follows is an abridged version of an exchange I recently had with a good friend. This is someone I deeply respect and admire. However, my friend has been through a terrible lot this past year and the signs of stress are beginning to show. His judgment, generally razor sharp, is now clouded and he is consumed with self-doubt.
William: Hey Dick, I have a question. Do you know the current social standards surrounding marijuana use?
DD: Are there current standards? I didn't get the memo.
William: Smart ass!
Let me put it a different way, is daily, long-term use of pot a sign of an addiction?
DD: Probably. Certainly designates one as a heavy user.
There is a simple test. Can/will the user go 48hrs without?
William: Here's the deal, a guy I hang with smokes every time we get together. He says it relaxes him after a hard day. I told him I thought that was a rationalization. I don't drink daily; so I have to deal with life as it presents itself, rough edges and all.
DD: I guess you told him, huh?
William: I know I can't drink every day without it becoming a problem for me, but am wondering if pot smokers think daily usage is different than what I think about daily drinking?
DD: See my comments above.
William: My friend's paternal grandfather was an alcoholic; his dad never drank. My friend admits to doing 200 hits of acid in high school and crystal when first arriving in town 10 years ago. He claims he hasn't done either for 7 years.
Trouble is my Dad was an angry alcoholic so this guy's marijuana use triggers feelings of abandonment and flashbacks of abuse in me.
DD: Right about now you should be hearing yourself say out loud: "Whoops, where did I put my car keys? Gotta run! Call me when you get home from Betty Ford"
William: I confronted my friend about his pot consumption and he got all defensive. He countered with, "what am I supposed to do, not smoke while you're around? He was already high when we had this exchange. He said I should have warned him about not smoking before he rolled the joint he just smoked.
DD: Wait a minute; he's saying his drug "(ab)use" is now your issue? Why does this stink to high-heaven?
Here's a tip; don't be surprised when you confront a pot-head, while he's ripped, about his habit and he gets, as you say, "all defensive".
William, I'm pretty confident that was not a teachable moment, don't you agree?
William: The problem is he's generally stoned by the time we get together, so there's no real good time to talk to him.
I even entertained the idea of smoking with him to get in the same mind set. Instead, I drank a half a bottle of wine. I realized later that both options were self-defeating.
DD: At least you're clear on that. In this instance, sinking to the lowest common denominator is not a good idea.
William: Bottom line is I feel he needs to smoke to be around me.
DD: I suggest that he needs to smoke around everyone and everything, not just you.
William: I am thinking this is an indicator of his low-self esteem.
DD: You betcha! Aren't all addictions?
William: Maybe I am projecting.
DD: What if you are? It doesn't diminish the fact you called it right.
William: I also questioned what type of relationship we are forming if all our time together happens while he's in an altered state.
DD: That's easy, a codependent one!
William: I've been thinking, maybe he needs to smoke to have sex. Maybe that's the only way he can cope with his guilt or shame. When he smokes he likes to top me. But when I top him, he's a very passive. I told him what I like sexually, so he knows. But he doesn't even try to please me. He doesn't play with my nips when I top, which is the only way I can cum. When I bottom it's simply out of desire for intimacy, it doesn't do anything for me sexually.
DD: YIKES! Sounds like a match made in heaven.
Like my momma always used to say, "if it has four wheels or a dick you know you're gonna have trouble with it."
William: For example, when I realized I wasn't going to get what I wanted sexually the other night, I shut down. I got him off and he fell asleep.
He knows me well enough to know when I'm pissed. So the next time we were together, he asked if he had done something wrong. He's a fuckin' genius! He asked if he had been too passive as a bottom. Unfortunately, he was pretty stoned at this point, so I thought any further discussion would be fruitless.
DD: Again, YIKES! Any more red flags and this would be a Chinese New Year Parade, for christ sake!
William: If I dump him, am I throwing the baby out with the bath water?
DD: Darlin', there is no baby in the bath water! There's just a fucked up stoner dude who is taking you for a ride. He's welcome to live his life as he so chooses. You, on the other hand, need to find someone a less fucked up.
William: I like him, he is smart, affectionate and we have the same analytical way of thinking.
DD: When he's not stoned, ya mean.
Here's a suggestion, why not keep him as a friend. Have dinner together occasionally, enjoy his sparkling conversation and then, quick as you can, get back in your car and go home.
William: He takes care of my physical needs, except sexually. There is, after all, more to a relationship than sex.
DD: EXCEPT SEXUALLY????? That's like saying he takes care of your nutrition needs, except for the protein and carbohydrates. Sheesh!
You're right, there is more to a healthy relationship than sex. But given that you are an intensely sexual man, why would you start a relationship with a deficit like this?
William: This is triggering my deep-seeded feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt, which I fully accept as my own shit. I want to please him, so I did not ask him to stop smoking around me. But I did tell him how "not present" he is to me when he smokes prior to sex.
DD: I am so amazed that you are bottoming for this dude. What's up with that? You hate being a bottom. Listen darlin', you are way too needy at this point to be looking to someone like this to even begin to meet your needs.
William: He said that he did not think his personality changed when he smokes. But yet he thinks people liked him better when he's got a buzz on.
DD: Where did you find this guy? Does he live under a bridge?
William: Is this a glitch in a new relationship? Do you think I should hang in there during this adjustment period?
DD: This is scariest thing you've said up to this point.
GLITCH??? Are you serious? Does a stripped down, burnt out skeleton of a car on the side of the road, suggest to you that the owner is having a problem with his windshield wipers? Good lord, man, what can you be thinking?
What follows comes from the deepest recesses of my heart, William. I put this out there because you are my friend. The fellow you describe would be a handful for you if you were at your peak of your emotional and psychological powers. But even then, I'd suggest you avoid him like the plague.
But now, dear William, you are in crisis. You've had a terrible lot happen to you this past year. You are hanging on by a thread. I support and encourage all your efforts to find your balance in your life once again, because you are a good and resilient person.
I empathize with your desire to connect with someone who will love you, stand by you and care for you during this difficult time. This is decidedly not the time to be taking on dead weight.
Look to yourself, care for yourself, nurture yourself, love yourself, heal yourself. Come back to us refreshed and whole. Then, and only then, will you be able to take on a complete wreck of a project like this dude.
Count on me to walk through this with you. Thanks for letting me be part of your life. Remember, I'm only as far away as your Instant Messenger.
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The common theme through "Our Lives Matter" is one of hope and determination. These teenagers refuse to be judged and pigeonholed, offering their stories to emphasize their differences, their commonalities, their dreams and their commitment to education and change. Through it all forms a thread of hope that the new generation will make the world a better place and fight the barriers that keep us separated.
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A who's-who of Tories had few words for the handful of assembled journalists at Ottawa's National Arts Centre, where a memorial service was being held for Conservative senator and party stalwart Doug Finley, who died earlier this month.
Solemn-looking cabinet ministers, senators, aides and strategists declined to speak to reporters about a burgeoning Senate scandal which is likely to receive continued attention this week.
Harper is expected to address the Conservative caucus Tuesday morning before departing to South America for trade talks.
The prime minister will no doubt field questions about his former chief of staff Nigel Wright, who quit his job this weekend over his role in the controversy over Senate expenses.
Wright gave embattled Sen. Mike Duffy a personal cheque for $90,000 to repay his housing claims — a gesture that likely never would have become public knowledge had the former broadcast journalist exercised a greater degree of discretion.
Last week, CTV News reported that Duffy told several people about the payment. On Sunday, Wright resigned.
"My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the public interest, and I accept sole responsibility," Wright said in a statement.
"I did not advise the prime minister of the means by which Sen. Duffy's expenses were repaid, either before or after the fact."
Wright's resignation followed the exit of two senators from the Conservative caucus. Duffy left on Thursday and Sen. Pamela Wallin — who is facing her own expenses audit — left on Friday.
Duffy did not respond to an email asking if he intended to be at the Senate on Tuesday.
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The NDP's ethics critic, MP Charlie Angus, wrote to RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson on Monday asking the force to look into the actions of Nigel Wright.
Angus said Harper has a duty to explain to Canadians just what happened.
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At least one Tory MP was trying to put a decidedly optimistic face on a week that saw Harper lose two Conservative senators and his top aide.
Conservative MP Joan Crockett took to Twitter on Monday to trump her party's commitment to ethics.
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You can make three different biscuits with the one biscuit mixture with this easy biscuit recipe. Add red colouring to make the pink swirl biscuits or add cocoa to make the chocolate swirl biscuits. Easy and yum!
- 250g butter, softened
- 3/4 cup caster sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 1/2 cups plain flour
- 8-10 drops red food colouring
- 1 tbsp cocoa powder
1Cream the butter and sugar together with a spoon in a bowl or using an electric mixer. Add the egg and vanilla and beat until smooth. Add the flour and mix until a smooth dough forms.
2Divide the dough into four. Colour one portion with red food colouring and another with cocoa powder. I did this in separate small bowls with a knife, but you could knead the colour in.
3Wrap the four dough portions separately in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
4Preheat the oven to 180°C. Line two baking trays with non-stick baking paper.
5Roll each piece of dough on a floured surface into a rectangle shape about 18cm x 20cm. To make swirly biscuits, place the pink dough on top of the plain dough, trim edges into a neat rectangle and roll into a log.
6Repeat with the other plain dough and chocolate dough. To make the marbled biscuits, knead the trimmings together and roll into a log.
7Slice the logs at 5mm intervals. Place biscuits on baking trays and cook for about 15 minutes until golden.
- These are lovely vanilla flavoured biscuits with the added attraction of colour and 'movement'! Great fun for the kids to help with colouring, kneading, rolling and slicing.
- Choice of knife for slicing is of utmost importance. I went through five different types before I found one that didn't result in squashed non-swirly biscuits. I ended up using a serrated bread knife, using a very light slicing action!
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Geologists say the 4.3 magnitude earthquake that shook eastern Kentucky over the weekend was too deep to be induced by the region's underground mining activity.
The epicenter was about 10 miles west of Whitesburg, in the heart of Kentucky's coal country, where underground mining and surface blasting are common.
The head of the University of Kentucky's Geologic Hazards Section, though, says Saturday's quake occurred about 12 miles below the surface, far too deep for underground mining to have been a factor.
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Something Here Doesn't Add Up
We all know Wreckerators have trouble with the English and the spelling and whatnot.
(I don't know why they have trouble with the English, but they do.)
Well, turns out they aren't so great with numbers, either.
(Oooh, math puns are FUN!!)
There's an unwritten rule in Wreckerating: every number ends in "th." Yes, every number.
Oh, and speaking of irony...Sarah J., Annette H., Dao, Janie, Jessica B., & Mike V., you're all number 1th to me.