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Ecklund Is 2009 Melges 32 ACURA Key West Champion
26 January 2009
After a grueling ten race series, Jeff Ecklund (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) on USA-32 STAR with Harry Melges calling tactics, Sam Rogers, Clay Bartel, Lindsay Bartel, Adam Burns, Scott Norris and Sarah Callahan are the 2009 Melges 32 ACURA Key West Champions! "We made it difficult on ourselves with that one bad day. We had to come out today and get the job done and we did," said Ecklund. "It would be hard to do this without Harry. He is one of the best sailors in the world and I'm fortunate to have him by my side."
Going into today's races, the point standings were really tight making the Melges 32 fleet the class to watch on the final day. Ecklund led the series solid up through Wednesday. Yesterday's extremely shifty conditions toppled his lead and left Joe Woods (Torbay, UK) on GBR-700 Red sitting on top, one point ahead. Needless to say, everyone was on the edge of their seats for the start of Friday's races. The tension between all the boats was intense at the first start. Everyone knew that Friday's two races would be do or die.
The stage was set for race one — glorious sunshine, breeze on conditions at 17-20 mph, a course bearing of 020 and a moderate chop. The start was clean with the exception of Geoff Pierini's (Perth Amboy, N.J.) USA-178 Shakedown being called over, while Ecklund occupied the mid-line and Woods stuck closer to the committee boat, Marty Kullman and Mike Carroll (Clearwater, Fla.) on USA-131 New Wave shot off the starting line and the first to tack to port. At the first weathermark Derek Campbell (Seattle, Wash.) on USA-138 Banshee took the lead, but fumbled the set. Jason Carroll (New York, N.Y) on USA-128 Argo rolled Campbell and picked up where he left off. Carroll blasted downwind with Campbell, Ecklund, Kate Mullin at the helm for John Sherlock (Port Credit, Canada) on CAN-134 Arkle, John Taylor (Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.) on USA-1315 Ninkasi and the spectacular team of Kullman/Carroll. Woods got caught up in an altercation as he had to drop his kite and perform penalty turns, a real heartbreaker as this cost him the game. Campbell regained the lead and took it to the finish line, with Carroll finishing in second, and Taylor in third, Ecklund was fourth and Mullin was fifth.
For the final race, it was clear that Ecklund had retaken the overall lead, but it was uncertain as to how wide the margin. Ecklund had to focus and do well, no mistakes had to be the goal. The fleet got a really great start under primo conditions. Ecklund who almost immediately was out front, was chased by Bill Faude at the helm for Tom Neill (Chicago, Ill.) on USA-136 Nitemare, Alex Jackson (Newport, R.I.) on USA-666 Leenabarca and Woods. Taylor played the left side, moving him into contention along side of Ecklund and Faude as the fleet approached the first weathermark of the five leg race. Around the top was Ecklund in first, Carroll in second and Jackson in third. Kullman/Carroll, Faude and Campbell rounded respectively. Downwind the fleet was split down the middle with equal numbers right and left on the course. At the leeward gate, a course change was implemented for the second beat, Kullman/Carroll looked strong on the right. So strong, that the second weathermark found them now in the first position, Carroll still in second and Ecklund back to third. One last course change was on tap for the finish beat with Kullman/Carroll still out front taking it to the finish line with Ecklund on his heels taking second, Carroll was third. New fleet comer John Dane (Gulf Port, Miss.) on USA-196 War Canoe got a piece of the action taking fourth and Jackson assumed fifth.
Woods' Red Team was rightfully a bit crushed. "Well... Last year we were third, this year we were second,' said bowwoman Sophie Esson. "We suppose next year, is our year. We'll be first." she added with a smile. Woods has one of the most impressive teams in the Melges 32 fleet and they dealt with a lot this week — the struggle to the top, an injured tactician, a couple of hard knocks on the race course Friday and the difficulty of staying at the top in an extremely challenging fleet. Without a doubt we will see them again, in the winner's circle.
The International Melges 32 Class would like to extend a very special thanks Peter Craig, Jeanne Kleanne and Alison Snipes of Premiere Racing! If it was not for your hard work and dedication to sailing this event would not be possible.
A massive thank you to Shawn Grisham who unfortunately could not be with us this week in Key West, although had planned to be. Bruce Ayres and U.S. Melges 24 President Travis Weisleder also leant their support to the cause as well. Bill Wiggins our boat driver, kept us on the water and in position to bring you not only the live conversation and blog commentary, but photos and video too. Thanks to you all!!!
Last, but certainly not least — a sincere thanks to Justin Chisholm, Melges 32 European correspondent who graciously provided the Melges 32 commentary and helped keep the blog at its best in Key West!
TOP TEN RESULTS (Final)
- Jeff Ecklund, STAR; 1-1-10-1-1-5-11-[12]-4-2 = 36
- Joe Woods, Red; 2-8-3-5-3-1-8-7-6-[13] = 43
- Jason Carroll, Argo; 3-[13]-5-4-8-11-4-4-2-3 = 44
- Marty Kullman/Mike Carroll, New Wave; 13-10-2-9 -[14]-2-2-1-8-1 = 48
- Derek Campbell, Banshee; 4-2-1-15-[18]-3-3-15-1-9 = 53
- Alex Jackson, Leenabarca; 6-9-[17]-7-2-4-10-3-7-5 = 53
- Savino Formentini, Bitipi; [17]-3-8-2-10-15-9-8-9-6 = 70
- John Taylor, Ninkasi; 10 RDG-4-7-16-9-10-5-[-21 DSQ]-3-8 = 72
- Stuart Simpson, Team Barbarians; 9-7-9-[14]-12-8-7-6-10-11 = 79
- Carlo Alberini, Calvi Network; 8-5-13-6-5-7-13-13-12-[14] = 82
The International Melges 32 Class is working hard to bring you all the action in Key West. Check out the very latest in photos, videos and blog entries!
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Dianna Agron & Christian Cooke: Holding Hands in NYC!
Dianna Agron and her new flame Christian Cooke hold hands while strolling the streets of the Meatpacking District on Wednesday (November 14) in New York City.
The 26-year-old Glee actress and the 26-year-old Magic City actor checked out one of their pal's soon to be opened restaurants and then picked up some groceries at Whole Foods.
Christian has been busy shooting the upcoming second season of his Starz series Magic City in Miami lately. Dianna recently returned to film scenes for her hit Fox series Glee after a hiatus to shoot the film Malavita.
DO YOU THINK Dianna Agron and Christian Cooke would make a cute couple?


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The tragic story has been everywhere over the last week. I don't have anything interesting to add, but I thought Lawrence Lessig did:
Why was he being charged with 13 felonies?
His motive was political — obviously. His harm was exactly none — as JSTOR effectively acknowledged. But he deserved, your "career prosecutors" believed, to be deprived of his rights as a citizen (aka, a "felon," no longer entitled to the political rights he fought to perfect) because of what he did.
Yet here's the thing to remember on MLK weekend (even though my saying this violates a rule I believe in firmly, a kind of inverse to Godwin's law, because though I believe these two great souls were motivated by exactly the same kind of justice, King's cause was greater): How many felonies was Martin Luther King, Jr., convicted of? King, whose motives were political too, but who, unlike Aaron, triggered actions which caused real harm. What's that number?
And how many was he even charged with in the whole of his career?
Two. Two bogus charges (perjury and tax evasion) from Alabama, which an all-white jury acquitted him of.
This is a measure of who we have become. And we don't even notice it. We can't even see the extremism that we have allowed to creep into our law. And we treat as decent a government official who invokes her family while defending behavior which in part at least drove this boy to his death.
Emphasis supplied.
I've dealt with this aspect of the Aaron Swartz episode numerous times – at least once in official court filings no less – but it seems to have always fallen upon deaf ears. Yet the coarsening of our humanity in the past few decades is as unmistakable as it is disturbing.
In 1952 the US Supreme Court was outraged that in order to secure evidence some cops in California took their suspect to a hospital to have his stomach involuntarily pumped. So outraged they overturned the suspect's conviction. But almost 50 years later in 2003, the SCOTUS (other than Justice Stevens in dissent) didn't bat an eye at police ignoring repeated pleas – from a man they themselves had shot and seriously wounded – to stop questioning him and give him medical treatment.
I suppose it has something to do with the immediate aftermath of WWII. We were more sensitive to tyranny and official cruelty then, and not blind to the potential that we might be guilty of it just as others had been. As our collective memory of those events has receded, though, so has our awareness of the hidden dangers of power, prominent among them being the glib indifference to conduct that plainly constitutes official torture.
Torture is as torture does, you know.


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A theory can be "normative (or prescriptive)", meaning a postulation about what ought to be. It provides "goals, norms, and standards"
A theory is a contemplative and rational type of music.
A theory can be a body of sounds, which may or may not be combined in a particular explanatory model.
A theory is a process by which concepts are derived from the usage of this music.
A theory uses both live sampled and acoustic sound sources to complete a whole in silence.
A theory consists of two entities with similar mass orbiting around a common barycenter with elliptic orbits.
A theory contains reasoning and logical connections based on hypotheses and evidence.
A Theory
One Point One
16 March 2015
A Theory - One Point Two (ZTIS 303)
02 December 2013
a theory: is officially released today


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On the job
Chastity Abbott 1/28/2007 2:07:14 PMAWESOME captures!!!! Wonderfully created! #595910
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Kay E. Mahoney 2/24/2007 7:12:05 PMCongratulations on your finalist. Good luck in the next round. #3987239
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Suzanne Plumpton 2/28/2007 9:10:05 AMLove the combination of images, tells the story in one photograph! Very well done, Congratulations - what a wonderful honor and capture! #4006818
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Nikon D2H & 12-24mm on tripod - Composite photograph at local soccer club of man who prepares the pitches for games, including mowing and linemarking. Three separate photographs are taken (using a tripod so the background doesn't change) and then blending them together in Photoshop.
Exif: FNumber: 20, ExposureBiasValue: 0/6, ExposureTime: 0.001, Flash: flash did not fire, ISO: 800, WhiteBalance: manual white balance
Uploaded on 1/28/2007 1:02:46 PM
Camera: Nikon D2H Digital SLR Camera
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text: Greetings, First of all, I want to preface by saying I have had very bad luck with extending linux filesystems. My situation is this: I had a 4TB Hardware RAID5 (3x2TB) in a Fedora Box. I use this array for backups, files, music, lots of things. Recently it started to grow low on space, so I procured a 4th 2TB drive, and added it to the Hardware RAID. No issues with that. The RAID BIOS shows the new ~6TB Capacity. What I am having trouble doing is making Linux extend it's partition to the ~6TB size. The RAID is device SDC1. SDC1 is a member of the volume group vg_3ware. I'd appreciate some help. All of the tutorials and howtos I've found seem useful, but I always get stuck because i only see the original ~4TB size in Linux, and not the new size. Thanks! C


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Looks like Bike Polo's hitting the mainstream in little old Seattle, heralded by article in the Seattle Times. But it's not just here; it's been in the Times (in New York) earlier this year.
Bike polo's fascinating in it's diversity. Ranging from the very formal and internationalized version played in the US and farther a field to urban park polo played in major cities all over the US. Here's a mallet-cam view of a game in NYC.
My favorite are the mini bike events – like the Bruised By Bike event detailed on Alex Wetmore's blog earlier this year. These folks are totally nuts in the best possible way. I hope I get a chance to attend next year's bike rollo.


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The new session, which will be held Aug. 6-9, is for kids entering grades five through eight and includes four days and three nights of supervised camping in the La Sal Mountains near Moab. Campers are "on retreat" and may not come and go to town each night nor have visitors. Two CFI adult staff and one teenage assistant will be with the group throughout the camp. All have educator clearances, according to a news release from CFI.
The cost is $150 per child. The price for Grand County students is $100. The fee includes transportation, tents, meals, land-use permits, and hiking, games and nature activities. A 10 percent discount is available for siblings, and additional scholarship assistance is available for qualifying Grand County families.
Additional information is available online at www.cfimoab.org. To register, contact CFI at 435-259-7750, or by email at email@example.com.


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The ISSILC is proud to announce the Call for Abstracts for CILC4.
The International Society for the Study of Interactivity, Language, and Cognition (the acronym ISSILC can be pronounced I-silk) is a society of scientists and scholars engaged in conversing with each other in ways that help to integrate studies of cognition, language, and interactivity.
The ISSILC organizes a biennial conference that gathers internationally leading researchers across disciplinary borders, including linguistics, applied linguistics, education, interaction studies, biology, cognitive science, psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, communication studies, semiotics, and biosemiotics. These are the CILC conferences: International Conference for Interactivity, Language and Cognition.
The International Society for the Study of Interactivity, Language, and Cognition welcomes new members. As a member of the ISSILC you receive regular newsletters, participation in the biannual CILC conferences, and, when available, discounts on selected publications that result from the work of members of the Society.


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Potentially brilliant: Vita's wasted 3G dreams
The lack of decently implemented 3G functions in a console all about connectivity is just another reason why Brenna's Vita is getting pretty dusty.
I've used all these apps, and more, and really liked them – but I use them at home, connected to my WiFi, because they all require an Internet connection to function.
I really like the Vita, as I've mentioned many times. There aren't enough games, which is a shame, because it's a lovely little device. I love playing it sprawled out in bed – remote play is a fantastic way to utilise for my poor old, couch-less PlayStation 3 – and its lovely screen makes it a very pleasant portable media player. But with all that in mind, I'm thinking of swapping it out for a 3DS.
There are a couple of games on the 3DS which I'm interested in, but what really attracts me to the 3DS is StreetPass. I know that's silly; it's just a social app – but I like the idea of shoving the portable in my bag and coming home to find a bunch of little presents waiting for me. Wherever else it may have dropped the ball, Nintendo's been very clever with connectivity on the 3DS.
Sony, not so much, and the heartbreaking issue is that it came so close. I have half a dozen apps on my Vita which encourage social interaction in various clever ways, and I greatly enjoy using them. For example, there's Near, a piece of system software that lets you check out what other people around you are playing and pick up exclusive little treasures; Treasure Park, a puzzle game which uses near to swap new boards with other users; and t@g, which lets you decorate the world around you without copping a vandalism fine.
I've used all these apps, and more, and really liked them – but I use them at home, connected to my WiFi, because they all require an Internet connection to function. You can't just register your location with the GPS and then come home and see what you got; you have to stop, take the Vita out, and check in manually.
This is a right pain because, of course, it's not like free WiFi spots are that common. And the Vita's incredibly promising 3G connectivity is – well, it's not great.
I've found the Vita's 3G simply too slow, too patchy, and too expensive to be worthwhile. Assuming I can get a signal, I have to sit watching wait icons spin, and if I dare to download anything or – gasp – attempt multiplayer, I run out of credit almost immediately. This could just be a problem with local telcos, but it must be said that my Android, by virtue of design as a dedicated 3G device, does a much better job of finding and holding a network, and doesn't seem to chew through my data plan anywhere near as quickly.
In the end, 3G almost seems like too much trouble. Very few actual games make use of it in interesting ways, and even switching it on is a pain, sending you trawling through menus – unless you want it to sit there constantly active, draining the battery and your credit at an almost identical and quite spanking pace. The whole affair seems so unnecessary, cumbersome and painful that it's no wonder Sony seem set to axe it all together.
And that's a damn shame. At announce, the Vita sounded so promising, but all that potential hasn't been capitalised on. The promise of home console quality games has gone largely undelivered. The touch screens turned out to be a bit of a gimmick which gets in the way of gaming rather than enhancing it. And even the system's most interesting and endearing functions, like 3G connectivity, are just a little bit too shitty to bother with.
There are some fantastic gems in the Vita's catalogue and it's a lovely piece of hardware. Here's hoping we see something bright in the portable's future in between all the PS4 hoopla at E3 in June.


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The first family settled into their new lives in the White House on Thursday as President Barack Obama won an important personal victory: He gets to keep his BlackBerry.
Obama will be the first sitting president to use e-mail, and he has been reluctant to part with his ever-present handheld device. Its use will be limited to keeping in touch with senior staff and personal friends, said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.
"I've won the fight, but I don't think it's up and running," Obama said as he walked through the White House briefing room Thursday evening to meet reporters.
And though Gibbs said Obama had to ask at one point where to go next in his "pretty big house," he also said the president was enjoying living above the store and had time for dinner with the family on Wednesday.
"I think that obviously means a lot to him as a father," Gibbs said.
It was back to business for daughters Sasha and Malia, too, who returned to classes at the private Sidwell Friends School on Thursday.
The girls were allowed to play hooky Wednesday after a late-night scavenger hunt at the White House that ended when they opened a door and found their favorite band, the Jonas Brothers.
But two days of frivolity was, apparently, enough. Michelle Obama had no public schedule for the rest of the week as she helped the girls make themselves at home, said Mrs. Obama's spokeswoman, Katie McCormick Lelyveld.
"Her primary focus this week is getting the kids settled. She is focused entirely on getting unpacked and getting the kids up and running," McCormick Lelyveld said.
Both girls were excited to get their rooms set up, McCormick Lelyveld said. Mrs. Obama has worked hard throughout the transition to maintain a strong routine for Sasha, 7, and Malia, 10.
"I know the family's moved now three times in only a few weeks. But if you know them and you know their family, they've had a routine for a long time," Gibbs said. "This is a monumental testament to Michelle."
The monumental testament to her husband? He won the BlackBerry battle.
Gibbs joked that the development was "almost as exciting as the presidential dog." He poked fun at the White House press corps for stirring at the news during his briefing. "Let's make sure the pen still works."
But the BlackBerry victory is a big concession. Obama said earlier that he was working with the Secret Service, lawyers and White House staff to keep the device.
Gibbs said the president will limit its use, and security has been enhanced to ensure that Obama can communicate in a way that's protected. Only a small number of senior staff members and personal friends would be given his e-mail address.
Previous presidents chose not to use e-mail because it can be subpoenaed by Congress and courts and may be subject to public records laws. And Gibbs said the presumption from the White House counsel's office is that Obama's e-mails will be subject to the Presidential Records Act, which requires the National Archives to preserve presidential records.
But he also said there are exceptions for "strictly personal communications."
Obama has often been seen checking his e-mail on his handheld device, even when it meant getting his hands slapped by Michelle during his daughter's soccer game.
Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton didn't e-mail while in office, although Bush was an active e-mailer before becoming president.
That was before the era of the BlackBerry, a device now ubiquitous in Washington and precious to Obama. When asked by The Associated Press about his worst habit during the campaign, Obama responded, "Checking my BlackBerry."
Gibbs said the president believes that using the device is an effective way to keep in touch with people without "getting stuck in a bubble."
He said Obama's e-mails to him personally have ranged "from something that's very strictly business to, why did my football team perform so miserably on either any given Saturday or any given Sunday?"
Those who have access to the president's e-mail will be briefed about appropriate communications, Gibbs said, without offering specifics.
So the president who gave up smoking – mostly – managed to avoid withdrawal from his other addiction – mostly.
All in all, Gibbs said, Obama looked comfortable in his new surroundings.
"They're very much the same four people that I met five years ago when I went to work for them," he said, before conceding, "Obviously, it's a little different."
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BABSON PARK, Mass. – MIT made it two for two in New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference men's tennis play this afternoon as it defeated Babson College, 9-0. The No. 28 Engineers improved to 8-3 overall with the win, while Babson fell to 4-9 overall and 1-2 in NEWMAC play.
MIT established itself early in the match, taking all three doubles contests. At No. 1 the MIT team of junior Matthew Skalak (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.) and sophomore Edwin Zhang (Falls Church, Va.) scored an 8-3 win over the pairing of Ramone Doyley/Mitchell Henry while the No. 3 duo of senior Elia Harmatz (Huntingdon Valley, Pa.) and junior Larry Pang (Torrance, Calif.) defeated the team of Danny Schneider/Nissim Cohen-Sabban, 8-2. Sophomore Curtis Wu (Yorba Linda, Calif.) and freshman Eugene Oh (Alpharetta, Ga.) completed the sweep at No. 2 with an 8-4 decision over the team of Roy Murdock/Zach Ringer.
MIT kept things rolling in singles play, taking straight sets victories in five of the six singles matches. Zhang had a strong showing at No. 1 singles with a 6-3, 6-0 win over Doyley, while Harmatz dropped just a pair of games in a 6-1, 6-1 win at No 6 over Hubert Cromback. Pang was impressive at No. 2 in a 6-0, 6-4 decision over Cohen-Sabban, while Wu also won in straight sets, taking a 6-3, 6-2 win over Schneider. Oh was challenged in the first set at No. 4 by Murdock, but also took the match in straight sets in a 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 win.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The MIT men's fencing team ended its season on Sunday at the NCAA Northeast Regional Fencing Championships hosted by Brown University. Jackson Crane's 12th place finish led the way for the Engineers, but the freshman narrowly finished outside of national at-large consideration, and MIT failed to advance any fencers to the national tournament.
Carter Chang (19th) also competed in epee. At foil, Richard LaGrandier was seeded 31st entering the tournament, but his impressive performance and 16th place tournament finish left him ranked 20th in the region for the season. Daniel Levine faced tough competition in his pool and finished 28th on the day.
MIT had three sabre fencers competing. Senior Rajiv Nadadur (22nd) had the team's best finish, while Max Brand (24th) and Vinayak Ramesh (30th) rounded out Tech's participants.
A fencer's performance during the regular season comprises 40% of his national-qualifying score. The other 60% is based on his finish at the regional tournament. Eight fencers in each weapon are guaranteed to advance to the national tournament, while other high-scoring competitors are eligible for at-large consideration.
MIT (7-15) finished the year with one fewer win than the 2008-09 season and posted the same Northeast Fencing Conference record (6-4) for the third consecutive year. The team will lose three seniors for next year's campaign, including Nadadur and epeeists Damon Henry and Javier Ordonez.


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Amanda Palmer, the musician best known for – depending on which crowd you run with – marrying Sandman creator and genre figurehead Neil Gaiman or raising more than a million dollars to fund the recording of her new album on Kickstarter, has found herself with another Internet controversy to struggle with: Whether or not musicians deserve payment for their work.
Considering that Palmer has successfully managed to take advantage of her vast online fanbase in order to fund her own work, this isn't necessarily the most surprising issue for her to become involved in, but what is surprising is what side of the argument she falls on. Palmer, you see, was thinking more along the lines of it being okay for musicians playing on her tour for nothing more than… well, gratitude, apparently. "We will feed you beer, hug/high-five you up and down (pick your poison), give you merch, and thank you mightily for adding to the big noise we are planning to make," Palmer wrote last month when describing what the required horn and string sections could hope for in return for their talents.
Many took issue with this, understandably, whether they were musician unions, the president of the American Federation of Musicians, or musician and producer Steve Albini. Palmer initially responded by defending her request, but has since backed down (writing somewhat passive-aggressively that "i'm sad to realize that our creative intentions of crowd-sourcing – something that i've done for years, and which has always been an in-house collaboration between the musicians and the fans, never a matter of public debate or attack – are getting lost in the noise of this controversy"). Now, she says, all of the musicians will be paid for their work.
But what was interesting to see was an analysis of the situation from Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin: "When you crowdsource project funding, every single person that contributed, and every single fan that even just heard about the campaign and didn't contribute—every single one of them feel like they own a little piece of you," Jardin wrote. "That can be a good thing, and Palmer has certainly benefitted from that kind of mass intimacy. But any time that many strangers feels entitled to tell you how to do your work, shit like this is just gonna happen."
That's certainly true, but it feels like an overly simplistic approach to take to the subject. Yes, there will be some who use what happened here as an opportunity to go over whether or not Palmer has used her Kickstarter funds appropriately (Something that's not necessarily a bad idea, bringing in some oversight to crowdfunded projects), but to use that as a way to dismiss concerns feels as glib as the "They think they own you, but they don't" rationalization in the first place.
Weirdly, I think the crowdfunding aspect is confusing matters here – It brings an irony to the situation, definitely, but the majority of those speaking out against Palmer's initial request weren't doing so from a position of "You crowdfunded all that money, you can afford it," but one of "It's wrong to ask people to play for free." They're different subjects, and very different reactions – Instead of accusing Palmer of bring a hypocrite, they're accusing her of doing something they see as morally wrong, as such. What Jardin seems to be doing is taking as much ownership interest in Palmer as she accuses the detractors of doing, but taking that in the other direction – something more positive and protective.
There's definitely something to be said for the amount of possession people feel from crowdsourcing projects and artists, and it's something separate from the traditional "fan" bias – But does such possessiveness undermine any objective consideration of the artist and their work? And if so, where does that leave crowdfunding as a process moving forward?
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Aerosmith Living for 'Music From Another Dimension' Album
There are those who wonder how much longer Aerosmith will keep going, but singer Steven Tyler says he feels rejuvenated by the music on the band's latest record, 'Music From Another Dimension.'
He tells Rolling Stone that despite any disagreements the band members may have, it's the music where they all eventually come together. He explains, "It's the music that's keeping us alive. I've seen a thousand bands go down the drain because they can't stop giving each other the finger and holding resentments. No I just look at Joe Perry and say, 'F— you about your 'F— you!'"
Even with their occasional disagreements, Tyler says this is a band with everyone clicking. He adds, "The band has really come to the table, and I'm so f—ing proud of that. Joe Perry brought astounding stuff. Joey Kramer wrote one. Brad Whitford plays some fantastic leads. Tom Hamilton wrote a couple of great songs that we put on the album, where in the past his songs have been shunned."
Tyler, who is definitely into the new album, says he's even gone so far as to get a license plate for his Mercedes that says, 'Oh Yeah,' after one of the titles of the songs on the record.
As for the new disc, while it has its fair share of rockers, Tyler says he's got a track on there called 'Beautiful' that falls outside of the norm. He adds, "It was looked upon by the other guys as not Aerosmith. It's off the beaten path. But anything that I question these days, I just go, 'F— it, let's do it.' And there's another full-bodied melody song called 'It Could Have Been Love.' I can't get away from it."
The singer jokes that he can't get away from the melodies, but he adds that his background has always taught him that you have to play to your muse, otherwise "it's gonna bite you in the ass."
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My 10 year old cat has been having some tests done due to vomiting and weight loss. He used to be 12 lbs and is now down to 7.
So far his blood tests have come back fairly normal; to make a long story short, I can either spend an additional $360 on tests (I've already spent $350) that may not tell us much more, or we can treat for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Pancreatitis (she said the possibilities are those two or a slighter chance of intestinal cancer).
I've decided to go the route of treatment at the moment so he will go on meds, get 2 vitamin B12 shots over the next month and she wants him started in Hills I/D. My issue is that I don't like Hills products. I asked her if she could recommend something else or tell me what kinds of things I should look for in a food to help him. She told me she doesn't know of any other food other then the Hills.
So my question is, does anyone here know of a food that will be good for these issues that is better then the Hills?
I'm currently feeding him Taste of The Wild, it's mostly kibble but I've started adding in more wet as I've heard it's better for them.
Any advice would be great!
I would definitely change your kitty's diet, but most assuredly not to a Hill's product. How do you feel about feeding raw? There are some good frozen commercial diets you can start with, and if that goes over well, perhaps you could make your own. It can be challenging to convert an older cat over to healthier food, but not impossible. In the meantime, work to eliminate all kibble from the equation, as that is the number one cause of digestive issues in cats. What wet food have you started feeding? I'd suggest for canned foods that you look at something with a novel protein source and no grains, along the lines of Evo 95% Venison or Nature's Variety Instinct Rabbit.
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I read the message boards on vin.com - since I work at a clinic I have access to the vets' boards. I usually read the ones regarding nutrition. A couple of vets have used Evo for cats with diarrhea because it is very digestible. I wonder if this would help your cat's vomiting. Im talking about the 95% formulas that Evo makes. Just a suggestion in terms of food.
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At the pinnacle of this frenzied "get-tough era" in juvenile justice, the eminent forensic psychologist Tom Grisso authored Forensic Evaluation of Juveniles, a groundbreaking text that guided practitioners into the burgeoning niche of psychological evaluations in delinquency cases.
Now, in a major overhaul of that influential 1998 text, Grisso writes optimistically of a new trend in juvenile justice that he labels the "developmental era." Social science evidence about adolescent brain development and social maturation will contribute to greater judicial and societal recognition that much delinquency is time-limited, he believes. Although this new direction comes too late for the youths and families shattered by the get-tough policies of the past few decades, Grisso hopes that forensic psychology can help judges, probation officers and policy makers understand the potential of rehabilitation for today's wayward youth.
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Grisso's practical guide strikes a humanistic tone, refreshing in a field increasingly infiltrated by a gloomy, pathologizing, technocratic worldview. The award-winning director of the Law-Psychiatry Program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School for example cautions evaluators to avoid simple tallies of actuarial risk factors in informing the court of a youth's risk. Rather, evaluators should understand and incorporate the two broad, and complementary, theories of delinquency: The biological and personality-oriented theories of psychology, and the social-environmental theories of criminology, such as the notion of "drift" into delinquency. Evaluators should also understand the individual child's context, and the factors that contribute not only to pathology but also to resilience in the face of adversity.
Disappointingly, given this humanistic tenor and discussion of racial and cultural issues, Grisso soft-pedals criticism of the growing practice of labeling juveniles as psychopaths. He describes evidence for the validity of the psychopathy construct in juveniles as "mixed," yet omits mention of the calamitous -- and often self-fulfilling -- consequences to youths when the psychopathy label is introduced in court.
Like the first edition, this is a practical manual that provides a clearly written historical overview of the field for novice practitioners, and useful review material for more seasoned juvenile evaluators. Chapters address specific types of evaluations, including competency to stand trial, waiver of Miranda rights, risk assessment, waiver to adult court, and rehabilitation and treatment recommendations. New statutes, case law, scientific findings and assessment methods are interwoven throughout, making this an indispensable addition to the juvenile evaluator's bookshelf.
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I have databound GridView in my page and I have a hidden DIV in all rows. Each row contains a Button that I want it to make the DIV visible for me! how can I use that with jQuery?!
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If i hard coded role=Manager on the specific SiteMap/Folder/Page/etc. I will have problem when the manager need to remove from access a specific page. I need to change the code ont eh page/SiteMap/Folder more move the file into another folder.
What i have in mind is to change the role to taks oriented. such as role=AddStock, Edit Stock, Delete Stock, Print DO, Add Sales, Edit Sales, Deleted Sales..... (but it will be many role for 1 user compare to just 1 as Manager)
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I would like to get a persons name from their username - a common query on forums i know, but i haven't managed to get mine working yet and any help would be appreciated.
I currently have this code that I found here: http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=612655 (Thanks Chris128)
I have adapted it from VB into VB.net. The page renders but when i enter my username into the Username textBox and hit the submit button (Which calls IsUser) I just get "The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted." I have tried lots of other code but I always get this response...
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I added web service reference to Class library project. When it asked for namespace I typed "CurrencyProxy". Projects build ok, but when I run web app, Class library throws an error: Could not find default endpoint element that references contract 'CurrencyProxy.CurrencyServiceSoap' in the ServiceModel client configuration section. This might be because no configuration file was found for your application, or because no endpoint element matching this contract
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Ever since the housing crisis began, Americans have gotten used to hearing a word that only used to apply to the very desperate: foreclosure. In the past, the word summoned to mind images of abandoned, dilapidated homes with boarded windows, a vacant porch swing, and the occasional tumbleweed.
Those days are over, and the foreclosed home in move-in condition is an increasingly common sight today. Foreclosure now seems like something that can happen to anybody, including the once rich and famous. The idea that celebrities are immune to market forces is long gone.
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Popularity of LS-10S PCM recorders among wide variety of users has resulted in a product re-launch available exclusively at Guitar Center stores everywhere
CENTER VALLEY, Pa., June 21, 2012 – Originally released in 2008, the Olympus LS-10S Linear PCM audio recorder is back by popular demand and available exclusively at Guitar Center stores everywhere. The LS-10S (previously named the LS-10) is a favorite gadget for artists, parents, students, nature enthusiasts and anyone looking for a pocket-sized audio recorder to capture memories and information in the form of pristine audio. Whatever your passion, the Olympus LS-10S has satisfied the audio demands of users across the country.
"It's unbelievable to watch people find new and fascinating ways to use their LS-10S," said Amy Leslie, Senior Marketing and Business Development Manager at Olympus Imaging America Inc. "LS-10S recordings have popped up everywhere on the internet – everything from live music to multimedia presentations - and the number of uploads is a testament to both the creativity of Olympus customers and the LS-10S' sound quality, intuitive controls and striking design."
The LS-10S PCM recorder boasts a sleek, convenient design that fits comfortably in the palm of your hand. This portability allows users to take their LS-10S PCM recorder everywhere they go, and an online search will show the LS-10S PCM recorder has been used to capture audio in a wide-variety of settings and situations.
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In addition to look, feel and performance, part of the success of the LS-10S PCM recorder can be attributed to its simplicity. Intuitive control buttons and menu commands allow even novice users to record professional-quality audio. Capable of recording 24bit/96 kHz audio for up to 12 hours, the device operates on just two AA batteries and requires no cumbersome external gear. It is also made of lightweight aluminum, providing a durable, yet incredibly light recording device, weighing a mere 5.8 ounces, including batteries.
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by Tom Utescher
As expected, Mount St. Joseph Academy opened its second round of league field hockey contests last Thursday with a victory over visiting Country Day School of the Sacred Heart.
Two goals apiece by junior Katie Maransky and sophomore Virginia Poliwoda highlighted the 7-1 victory, and other goals came from junior Chrissy Pascali and freshmen Margot Biamon and Ava Self as the Magic raised its record to 7-4 overall and 5-3 within the Athletic Association of Catholic Academies.
Although Sacred Heart's entire high school enrollment is just three-quarters of the size of the Mount's freshman class, hockey is usually one of the Lions' stronger sports, with the program under the guidance of alumna Rory (Rogers) Callaghan, who also played for Villanova University. Besides, this season any "W" is welcome for Mount St. Joe, since the 2012 league runner-up found itself sitting fourth in the AACA following the first round of competiton.
A look at the scoring in the initial meetings with the top three teams gets to the heart of the Magic's difficulties this fall; they registered a total of one goal in those three outings. Anchored by senior goalie Christina Black, the Mount only gave up a total of five goals in those games, so clearly point production is the issue.
Head coach Christina Post saw a number of positive signs in last Thursday's home match.
"We're learning to play off each other better; our work during practices is paying off," she commented. "We've been working on framing the goalie and finishing, because that's something that we've been struggling with this season. Yes, I know we weren't playing a team like Gwynedd [Mercy, the undefeated league leader] today, but it was a step in the right direction for us."
Earlier last week, Mount St. Joe lost to a fellow franchise from Class AAA in PIAA District 1, Council Rock North, and then the Magic finished their first set of Catholic Academies contests by beating Villa Joseph Marie. The first goal of the CR North game was scored by the Indians on a penalty stroke, and that proved to be the difference as the Newtown team prevailed 2-1.
Senior Millie Stefanowicz scored for the Mount in that game, and she also provided the only goal of the day in the match with Villa Joe.
On Thursday, Sacred Heart arrived with a 2-5 record from the first round of AACA bouts, so the Magic just needed to make sure they came out aggressively and took care of business.
Coach Post noted, "We did a great job of earning corners and executing and getting shots off, and you have to give credit to their goalie for making a lot of good saves."
The Mounties were awarded a penalty corner in the first minute, and in the aftermath of another restart from the endline, they scored their first goal a little over seven minutes into the action. This one was deposited by Pascali from a few yards outside the left post.
Two-and-a-half minutes later, the hosts converted directly off a corner for a 2-0 advantage. Here, Pascali inserted from the left to Stefanowicz at the top of the circle, and she dished the ball to her right to set up a scoring drive by Maransky.
When Poliwoda deposited her first goal with 17:23 to go in the first half, the visitors called a time-out, but the Magic would penetrate the Lions' cage two more times before the period ended. The freshman class accounted for both of these markers, with Biamon finding the backboard with 8:32 remaining, and Self (who was recently brought up to the varsity squad) making it 5-0 for halftime just as the clock dipped below the two-minute mark.
Responding well to their halftime talk, the visitors seized the initiative in the early minutes of the second half, breaking up the MSJ shutout on a goal by Mary Rose O'Donnell with 3:17 elapsed. After that, though, the Magic controlled play much of the time for the remainder of the contest, adding their last two goals in the middle of the period as first Maransky and then Poliwoda scored a second goal in the game.
"We were there for the rebounds, and we were getting to the right spots," Post said. "That was good to see because we have a number of young players, and in some of the earlier games they weren't always sure where they were supposed to be in a given situation. I thought we read the spaces well today and transferred the ball when we needed to, instead of trying to go right through a couple of defenders."
In the Mount goalcage, Black was only called upon to make two saves throughout the encounter.


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France has been having a rough couple of weeks that demonstrate the gap between popular American perceptions of the country and reality.
Strikes over austerity measures being pushed by French President Nicolas Sarkozy is causing delays at major airports and has closed hundreds of gas stations across the country. The Eiffel Tower, that tourism-magnet and symbol of France, was briefly closed in September over a bomb scare.
Now, the country is warning that it's being targeted by a terrorist group.
French Interior Minister Brice Hortefeux told local media Sunday that Saudi Arabia has warned him that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a Yemen-based group that shares Osama bin Laden's worldview but is a separate organization from his mostly Afghanistan and Pakistan-based group, has France in its sights.
That's led France to increase its warning level of a possible terrorist attack to "reinforced red," the second-highest alert on its scale.
How accurate is Saudi tip-off?
The Saudis have relentlessly pursued Al Qaeda affiliates in their country for over a decade now, since the organization is devoted to the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy. Those efforts have been quite successful – leaving most of its leaders bottled up in lawless corners of Yemen.
That has left the Saudis with an enormous amount of intelligence about the group – as well as an incentive to perhaps overemphasize threats to others, possibly to remind potential arms suppliers such as France that "our enemy is your enemy."
So while the Saudis may be correct in asserting that AQAP aspires to launching attacks in France, it's worth keeping in mind that the group hasn't yet successfully organized an attack anywhere in Europe (or anywhere in the West).
The closest the group might have come to an attack beyond Saudi Arabia and Yemen was the hapless underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who managed to burn himself while attempting to set off a homemade bomb stuffed in his pants on an Amsterdam-to-Detroit flight last December. AQAP claimed after his arrest that they had dispatched him as revenge for US support for offensives against AQAP operatives in Yemen.
AQAP focused on targets close to home
AQAP's rhetoric – as its name suggests – has been more focused on Saudi Arabia and its ruling family than on the land of Brie and Bordeaux.
Qasim al Raymi, a military commander for AQAP, explained his group's goals in an audiotape released earlier this month. "The mujahedin are advancing with firm steps towards their goal: to apply sharia in the [Arabian Peninsula] by means of jihad."
The group claimed responsibility for a failed 2004 car bombing of Saudi interior ministry buildings and a 2006 suicide car-bomb attack on a Saudi oil refinery. Inside Yemen, it has been involved in a number of militant activities, particularly in Abyan province, as recently as last week.
None of this is to say the group's members probably wouldn't like to lash out at France, over its recent efforts to ban the burqa. Or the US for its strong support for the Saudi monarchy. Or the UK and Germany for their involvement in the US-led war in Afghanistan.
AQAP aspirations vs. ability
But desire and ability are quite different things. French security, and most of their European counterparts, have improved their monitoring of would-be militants and intelligence sharing in recent years, to positive effect. And a number of would-be jihadis from Europe are hardly terrorist masterminds. This excellent article in Der Speigel points out that about 11 Germans went to Pakistan to become holy warriors and found themselves out of their depth.
With all that it mind, it's worth looking at Mr. Hortefeux's precise words. He explained to a weekly French talk show that the Saudis told France that "Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula was doubtless active or envisioned being active ... [in Europe], notably France."
There is an enormous gulf between having active militant cells in Europe and "envisioning" having active militant cells. According to Hortefeux, the Saudis aren't sure how close to actually "being active" the group really is.
To be sure, the likelihood that a successful attack could be carried out in France can't be dismissed. In particular, France probably has more to worry about from Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the North African group that draws many of its followers from France's former colonial possessions in the area. With many French of Algerian and Moroccan heritage and ongoing ties to their ancestral homes, that's a more likely source of severe threats.


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This morning I read a post on Marian's Roots and Rambles about dealing with people you don't know following you (Twitter) or adding you to their circles (Google+). What is proper etiquette? Should you automatically follow back? Check them out first, and then decide? What would be your reasons for not following someone back? Marian was concerned that this someone (who is a quasi-celebrity) who followed her (circled her?) had done so simply to get more followers of their own as people follow back. If Marian follows her back, does this imply some level of endorsement of that person? Marian then discussed her relationship to the genealogy "world" and a certain protective feeling about it, and that protection might mean not wanting to appear to endorse someone, or through allowing them to add her to their circles, to give the appearance of endorsing someone. It might help to know that in Google+, shared circled people (followers/followed) are normally visible.
My stance is that on Google+ and Twitter, if I don't recognize the name, I always check out who follows me, check their profiles and some activity. If it looks entirely self-promoting, or is offensive to me, I block and report the individual. If it's someone who I just have little or nothing in common with, I usually allow the follow, but do not follow back. I don't need ten thousand followers. I might have 150 friends on Facebook. I place a higher value on a smaller number of good friends than I do on endless streams of acquaintances or even less worthwhile connections. If we have something in common, like Genealogy, or science fiction or photography or... then I follow back and correspond. It's voluntary social media, not an obligation. It's a lot like if I meet you out in town. If you shove advertising in my face, I'm not likely to hang out with you. Likely, if you're inviting me to a quilting circle, I'm not going to be very interested in hanging out. But if you want to go shoot some pictures of stuff, we just might be spending some time together.
I have many more interests than genealogy. It seems to me like most genealogy bloggers tend to have that as a major focus of their lives, and that's simply not where I'm at with it. I do genealogy as a hobby and for my own family history, and the blog I write is just an offshoot of that. I don't feel any special "membership" of the Genealogy Blogging Community(tm) other than to be flattered when others take note of something I've written. I read the blogs because they either have something to teach that I wish to learn, or have information about people and places of interest to me, or in some cases because I like the writer's style and humor.
As I write this, I'm wondering if that will garner me some ill will, or at least cause some of you to stop reading my blog posts. And then I wonder if that matters much to me, given what I just said about not feeling any membership in the community. I think it would bother me more in that any blogger writes to be read by others, and I enjoy it when others get some useful information or entertainment out of something I write, so I would prefer not to lose readers. Some of the comments I've received have been very positive in stating that things I've written have been informative to others. At the end of the day, that's why I blog!
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I have a couple of very old family photos printed as postcards. I was told this was common, so your photo may very well be family or friends. Also, not as likely a store-bought postcard of strangers would be kept by your family over the years.
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At Bread for the World's annual gathering Monday, a panel of Hispanic religious leaders from various denominations was convoked. They said they were setting doctrinal differences aside to work on issues on which they had common cause, like hunger, poverty and immigration.
However, speakers talked about some of the tensions that still exist among different faiths. The Rev. Juan Martinez, a Church of the Brethren minister, recalled trying to set up a Hispanic pan-Christian clergy breakfast at Fuller Theological Seminary in Atlanta, where he teaches. After much internal deliberation, he said, he decided against inviting Catholics out of fear of alienating the Protestant clergy he hoped would attend.
At another event he organized, Rev. Martinez said, an Episcopal bishop supported the endeavor with a monetary contribution, but shied away from attending himself, saying his presence would be too divisive.
Another panel speaker was an Augustinian Recollect priest who is director of the Hispanic Pastoral Institute in Newark, N.J., sponsored by the Archdiocese of Newark, which educates both Catholics and Protestants. A Protestestant minister let it be known he would not attend any events sponsored by the institute because of the name of the building in which it is housed: Centro Guadalupe, named after Our Lady of Guadalupe.


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We're celebrating Halloween tonight in the Artifact Lab as part of Yelp's Night by the Nile event.
To get into the spirit, Lynn and I will be working late, in costume, and talking to guests about conservation and mummies.
We thought that for tonight's event, it would be appropriate to lower the lights and do some ultraviolet (UV) examination of objects, and to talk about this process to those who visit the lab.
As we have explained in previous posts, visual examination is a critical first step of the conservation process. We can understand a lot about objects just by looking at them under good lighting and with magnification.
While most of our examination is initially carried out under visible light, we also use UV lamps (better known as black lights) to examine artifacts in order to make visible things that we cannot see otherwise. Examination of objects in the dark under UV allows us to see UV fluorescence of materials, and some materials exhibit unique or characteristic fluorescence. This often helps us characterize materials and to distinguish old restoration materials from original materials-for instance, shellac, used historically to repair objects, exhibits a characteristic bright orange fluorescence under UV.
We'll be sure to share any interesting images we capture tonight!


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BOULDER, Colo.—A press advocacy group and a Boulder Daily Camera reporter are suing Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett seeking the release of an indictment that was secretly voted on by the JonBenet Ramsey grand jury in 1999 but never prosecuted.
Reporter Charlie Brennan and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press filed the lawsuit in Boulder District Court on Wednesday, citing the Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act in an effort to compel Garnett to release the indictment.
The newspaper is not participating in the lawsuit (http://tinyurl.com/nbeepmb).
Six-year-old JonBenet was found dead Dec. 26, 1996, in the basement of her family's home, hours after her mother told police her daughter was missing.
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August 17, 2012
TRUCKEE, Calif. and#8212; The National Summer Biathlon Championships are coming to Tahoe next week. Auburn Ski Club is hosting the event at its Training Center on Donner Summit. Organizers report that entries are coming in from across the nation to take part in this annual test of running and shooting skills.
Summer biathlon has grown out of one of the original Winter Olympic sports of biathlon, in which athletes challenge their cross-country ski and shooting skills. Biathlon has become one of the most watched of the winter sports in Europe and is gaining popularity in America.
In winter, biathletes cross-country ski a course carrying a specialized .22 caliber rifle on their backs, stopping to shoot at targets 50 meters away. Each shooting round involves five shots with a 150-meter penalty loop being required to be skied for each miss.
In summer, biathletes leave their rifles on the range and replace skiing with running. The shooting is the same and#8212; runners have to calm their breathing and pulse as they enter the range so they can have the best chance to hit the targets which are 50 meters away, and just 115 millimeter rounds for standing rounds and 45 millimeters for prone rounds.
The Auburn Ski Club has the only biathlon shooting range in the region, attracting athletes year-round who wish to try biathlon and train for local and regional competitions.
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Differentiable Exponential Functions
The exponential property is actually a rather stringent condition on a differentiable function . Let's start by assuming that is a differentiable exponential function and see what happens.
We calculate the derivative as usual by taking the limit of the difference quotient
Then the exponential property says that our derivative is
So we have a tight relationship between the function and its own derivative. Let's see what happens for the exponential function . Since it's the functional inverse of we can use the chain rule to calculate
Showing that this function is its own derivative. That is, this is the exponential function with .
Since a general (differentiable) exponential function is a homomorphism from the additive group of reals to the multiplicative group of positive reals, we can follow it by the natural logarithm. This gives a differentiable homomorphism from the additive reals to themselves, which must be multiplication by some constant . That is: . How can we calculate this constant? Take derivatives!
So our constant is the derivative from before. Of course we could also write
And since is invertible this tells us that . That is, every differentiable exponential function comes from by taking some constant multiple of the input.
By the usual yoga of inverse functions we can then see that every differentiable logarithmic function (an inverse to some differentiable exponential function) is a constant multiple of the natural logarithm . That is, if satisfies the logarithmic property, then
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Plenty of words almost described the Durango High School girls basketball team Friday night.
It was OK, DHS head coach Nancy Smith said.
Spot on.
The Demons nearly doubled their point total from their first meeting with the Montrose Indians, but they still lost the Southwestern League rematch 54-38 on Friday night at DHS on senior night because of inconsistent defense and shooting.
For the first three quarters, the Indians dismantled Durangos newly implemented zone defense with a drive-and-dish attack that played to Montroses superior size and took advantage of the Demons oft-perplexed rotation on the back side.
The Indians built a 45-20 lead on a 16-2 third quarter that was far too much for the Demons to overcome.
That gave them most of their free layups, said Durangos Molly Barnes, daughter of Joe Barnes and Carol Cunefare.
Kala Keltz finished with 19 points for the Indians to lead all scorers. Emily Thorp added 12.
Our energy just kind of waned, Smith said.
This time around, though, at DHS, the Demons got plenty of chances to strike back.
On Friday, the Demons finally squashed the turnover bug thats been buzzing around them for most of the season, limiting themselves to 13 turnovers, half of those coming in the first quarter.
They only had one in the final frame for three total in the second half.
That was our best turnover rate so far this season, so thats really good, Barnes said.
We didnt turn over the ball, which means we got a lot more shots off, said Jessi Sigillito, daughter of John and Laurie Sigillito.
Unfortunately for the Demons, most of those shots didnt get much further than the rim.
Whereas the Indians collapsed the Demons zone defense possession after possession with their size and authoritative play, then took advantage of shots from the outside, the Montrose zone kept its shape like a memory-foam mattress.
And we didnt push it as much as we wanted to, Smith said.
The Demons settled for jump shots for the first three quarters, often contested or from poor position and didnt find much net.
Durango was 0-for-6 from beyond the 3-point arc in the first quarter. DHS hit just two 3s on about a dozen shots and scored just 19 points in the first half.
So the Montrose turnover bug got squashed, but the shooting miasma? Still infectious.
And last time we played them, that happened, too, Smith said of the Demons 11-percent shooting percentage the first time the teams met in January.
McCue led the Demons with 13 points, and Barnes scored eight for DHS (11-7, 4-5 SWL).
Both seniors were honored at halftime along with teammates Alyssa Montoya, Shanelle Bogus and Dominique Ward.
Six of McCues points came in the final quarter, which the Demons handily won with the game too far out of reach.
In that quarter, they scored 18 of their points and forced the Indians into five turnovers. The Demons finally figured out how to find space in the paint and pick solid shots.
We were in a rush, Sigillito said. When we started to slow down and realized we could keep up with this team, we started to make our shots.
With a game against Grand Junction marking the end of Durangos regular season and SWL play at noon today at the DHS gymnasium and Durangos playoff hopes at stake, Smith said those were good lessons to learn.
With every test you take, you learn from it, Smith said. Teacher hands it back, and you take it home.