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In the years prior to his and Lee Foss' Hot Creations imprint becoming a global force, Jones was the most prominent proponent of a style of house that put basslines and '80s-inspired synths front and centre. His 2009 debut, Don't You Remember the Future, was totemic in this regard. It's a style that's since been the driving force in him being voted RA's #1 DJ of 2011, and has proved a primary influence for an entire generational subset of producers. Almost three years after Future, Jones returns to Crosstown Rebels for Tracks from the Crypt, an album that serves as both an overdue encapsulation of a movement's figurehead and a lingering disappointment.
Both of these viewpoints are related to the album's sub-heading: "lost classics from the vaults 2007-2012." While it's difficult to quantify exactly, it appears as though only three of Crypt's 12 tracks—"Mari 2d Underground," "Our Time In Liberty," "Tonight In Tokyo"—are more recent recordings. The others are what fans or regular attendees to Jones' gigs might class as "well-worn staples." It's not difficult to hear why many of these tracks have enjoyed such longevity. Opener "Somewhere," for instance, brims with dance floor appeal, its simple piano riff and incidental vocal snatch forming a memorable double-act. "Frequencies," another older number, similarly utilizes a one-word female vocal, a lacquered and filtered guitar this time providing the track's main thrust. Of Crypt's newer material, "Mari 2D Underground" is a highlight. A writhing synth, not dissimilar to that of Loco Dice's "Seeing Through Shadows," makes a two-octave leap from the track's bassline springboard, a background sense of gloom nagging at the lower-end's more sunny disposition.
Taken on an individual basis, there is very little here that couldn't have formed some part of a release around the point of creation, albeit as a more sparse and floor-focussed B-side. The bells, whistles and additional production flourishes of Remember the Future are largely absent on Crypt, making for an effective collection of (to use Jones' term) "weapons" for DJs, but little for deeper absorption in the home listening environment. It's recently come to light that Jones is currently working exclusively on a Hot Natured full-length alongside Less Foss, Ali Love and Luca C, recording in "big studios" in London and "making sure it's suitable for radio." Five years after his full break through it's the type of developmental decision you'd expect from a scene-leading artist who's been setting the agenda for so many—but it's also the move that many more would have been longing for on Tracks from the Crypt.
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Ryan Keeling
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01. Somewhere
02. City At Night feat. Surveillance Party
03. Tonight In Tokyo feat. Luca C.
04. Special Effect
05. Mari 2D Underground
06. Our Time In Liberty feat. Art Department
07. Stems From Hackney
08. Frequencies
09. Over Each Other feat. Livia Giammaria
10. Paradise
11. Havana Good Time
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Akash Mirchandani and Tony Grillo finished tied for seventh (Harvard Athletic Communications).
Thursday morning arrived with constant rain showers as the Crimson played a practice round at the difficult Galloway National Golf Club. They formed strategies of where to place their tee shots and how to navigate the sometimes roller coaster-like greens. That night, all the Men's and Women's golf teams of the Ivy League gathered at the hotel for the traditional Ivy League Opening Banquet to find out their pairings for the next day. The Crimson drew historic rivals Yale as their playing partners in what was sure to be an exciting matchup.
2012 Ivy League Player of the Year
Peter Williamson, Dartmouth, Sr. (Hanover, N.H.)#
# - Unanimous
2012 Ivy League Rookie of the Year
Will Davenport, Yale, Fr. (Palm City, Fla.)
Final Team Scores
1. Penn (318-302-297--917)*
1. Dartmouth (310-294-313 -- 917)
3. Columbia (312-296-312--920)
4. Harvard (317-302-303--922)
5. Princeton (321-300-309--930)
6. Yale (329-315-296--940)
7. Cornell (329-311-321--961)
8. Brown (337-329-308--974)
* - Defeated Dartmouth on third playoff hole to win Ivy Championship.
1. Peter Williamson, Dartmouth (73-69-71--213)*
2. Michael Yiu, Columbia (76-73-72--221)*
3. Sam Bernstein, Yale (78-77-69--224)*
4. P.J. Fielding, Penn (83-72-70--225)*
5. Scott Williams, Penn (73-76-77--226)*
6. Evan Harmeling, Princeton (80-75-74--229)^
t7. Charlie Edler, Dartmouth (81-72-77--230)^
t7. Tony Grillo, Harvard (79-75-76--230)^
t7. Akash Mirchandani, Harvard (77-72-81--230)^
10. Greg Jarmas, Princeton (77-75-79--231)^
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
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WARNING! THIS POST CONTAINS POKéMON X/Y SPOILERS! Viewer discretion is advised!
So yeah Greninja. I think I have a new favourite Pokémon. I mean, it's a frog, which uses its tongue as a scarf, and its signature move is throwing water shurikens.
Kabutops used to be my favourite, but Greninja gives me a similar vibe for some reason. Plus, it doesn't have that awful 4x weakness Kabutops always had to Grass-type attacks, since it's a Water/Dark type. Which is a really cool combo! Dark is actually my fifth favourite type, so this is a very favourable combination of a typing I like, a design which looks awesome and has a good creative value, and a Pokémon which doesn't have crippling weaknesses like a lot of others I like.
So, when X/Y comes out, I think I'll be soft resetting for a Shiny Froakie, which I'll make as my main for years to come. By the way, if you haven't seen a Shiny Froakie yet, it's a Kermit-like green. Since Greninja's colours reverse with the darker blue being the main and the lighter blue just being used on the flaps on its head I imagine that it will look really cool. It's kind of amusing that my two favourite Pokémon both have green-coloured Shiny forms.
Anyway, enough about that. Sorry I haven't posted in here for a while, but I haven't been very motivated to draw a lot of fan-art, besides some linearts(and some of those were never ironed out anyway). But since I love Greninja so much I decided to draw a proper pic of him.
It's just a WIP for now, though.
Yep, I got really lazy on some parts. >.> After fiddling with the tongue for a while and being unable to get it to look scarf-like, I just ended up pretty much copying one of the screenshots of him. Also, the bits that the eyes are sort of on, I drew too long(they're shorter on the official design... And they just make his eyes too small here, no?). And the chest, boy, the chest. I was never good at drawing those kind where the top is so much larger than the bottom and it's a cone-like thing. Just a nightmare. It's a shame, as I always liked how those looked.
Also, I just realised how badly I have to work on drawing within my space. I should have probably drawn it vertically instead, but oh well. I guess I'll just make it into a desktop wallpaper type thing.
Anyway, yeah, I'm really bad at drawing that body type, so I'm fairly happy with how it is so far considering that, but it needs a lot of adjustments. Probably just gonna need to make a bunch of stuff smaller.


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A sustained period of tax cutbacks, strict budget discipline and selective privatization in certain areas that began in the 1990s allowed Sweden to avoid the major pitfalls that other European nations have had to contend with in recent years.
Yet, Sweden has preserved the essence of the unique economic and social model that has allowed this small northern European nation of 9.5 million people to repeatedly score high on all manner of global indexes, not least the OECD's Better Life Index, which measures overall well-being in numerous categories.
Today, as Europe is struggling to get back from several years of downturn, Sweden is in a relatively strong position, with manageable unemployment and a GDP growth rate that's forecast to rise this year. Public sector expenditure has fallen from 67% of GDP in the early 1990s to around 49% today, so it's no surprise that the spotlight is on Sweden as a potential model for other countries to follow and a good example of how economic dynamism can exist within the boundaries of a strong welfare state.
That welfare state has delivered to the Swedish people, in exchange for the high taxes that they pay, what it was mandated to deliver. However, thanks to political and economic astuteness, the model has never reached a point beyond which it would become too bloated to control and from which there would be little recourse to backtrack, according to Krister Thelin, a former deputy minister of justice in Sweden.
At any rate, not yet.
That's partly because Sweden has always had a healthy outlook on business—which Thelin, who also served as judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, said dates back to the 19th century and owes to the fact that Sweden was never a feudal nation.
"A lot happened back then that enabled the mindset for entrepreneurship, and that has continued through the years," Thelin said. "Sweden, unlike Denmark, which doesn't have any natural resources, has been able to rely on forests and mines, so we have had grand-scale industries that fitted very well with the 'bigger is better' concept of the Social Democrats [who held power in Sweden from the 1920s to 2006], who didn't nationalize companies but nationalized concepts instead."
What's been missing in Sweden is the encouragement of small-scale entrepreneurship, an issue that has become even more important today and that if not addressed properly, would thwart further economic progress in Sweden and raise some serious doubts as to the future of the Swedish model.
"There's never been a real incentive in the past to encourage small businesses in Sweden, and this has been an impediment to economic growth," Thelin said.
Encouraging economic development is even more important now because Sweden's demographics have changed very rapidly over the past 10 or 15 years, "and you're finding in the immigrant communities a great deal of entrepreneurism that, because of the laws, can only be active in the black sector," he said.
"Whitening" the small business sector and encouraging entrepreneurism at that level would help further much-needed economic development, but it also needs to go hand-in-hand with a loosening of the labor laws, in particular laws that would let companies hire and fire with greater ease. Otherwise, Sweden's resources, not least its health care system, will become even more stretched than they already are to the point where retaining the welfare system as it is would mean having to make some serious changes and major cutbacks, according to Thelin.
Because as much as Sweden has done more than its fair share in taking in immigrants from countries like Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria, to name but a few, and the nation prides itself on being a champion of human rights, the laws are such that it takes immigrants quite some time to be able to enter the labor markets and contribute to the economy, Thelin said.
"Here, you have trade unions setting standards and bars for outsiders, and that makes it very difficult for them to enter the work force," he said. "So you reach a point where you can either close the borders and retain the welfare system as it is, or you let things go on and you have to cut down seriously on subsidies, because what is happening now is that new immigrants coming into Sweden cost much more than old Swedish retirees, and that is simply untenable in the long run."
In the run-up to Sweden's 2014 election, therefore, immigration and the ensuing, fiery debate on who, actually, is Swedish and who isn't, is probably the most important issue and one upon which all else hinges, not least the future of the Swedish model.


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Well hello! Hope you had a wonderful weekend! I was busy keeping Kleenex in business with a lovely cold. :)
I did get a bit of work done on the basement – I could actually breathe much better down in the cold! It's going to take quite a bit more time and a ton more work, but I am SO excited about the changes down there. The amount of crap we had has been a bit overwhelming, and getting it out of this house has been such a fantastic feeling!
So onto this month's Before and After – I am pretty much done with the family room (mini) redo, and I'll show you that whole space soon. There was one last part that was bugging me – the drapes.
I get a lot of questions about these drapes and I think many go "ARGH!" when I email them back and tell them I actually made these myself. ;) I started with the brown diamond patterned fabric as drapes, and then decided a few years ago they needed a little sumpin sumpin. So I found a coordinating (and much more expensive) fabric in a tan/wider diamond pattern and added it as a panel to the bottom:
I adore these drapes. Lurve. I was contemplating new window treatments in here though, because there were a couple things that had bothered me about them as I reworked the room. The obvious was the diamond pattern just didn't look right to me next to the new rug. (As you can see a bit in the pic above.)
The other thing that has bothered me from pretty much the day I put them up is they never seemed to hang right. I always felt like they should look fuller than they did. They also covered a little more of the window than I really wanted.
There are two things I always suggest to folks about drapes – hang 'em high and hang 'em wide. High and wide gives the illusion the windows are bigger than they really are. I usually suggest hanging the rod far enough to the side of the window so the window treatment will only cover about four inches of the actual window.
This allows for more light, and again, makes the window seem wider. Which is never a bad thing!
Well, my drapes were covering way more of the window than I wanted. Not sure why I did that, or why I hadn't fixed it yet? But staring at them the other day, I came up with a solution to all my issues. And it was FREE!
First, I took down the drapes and just shortened the rods by five inches. I used my miter saw to do this, but the first time I cut these to 24 inches each, I used my little miter box and saw and it worked like a charm.
The finials had a brassy tone that I wanted to get rid of, but I didn't want to have to replace the whole set. So I just taped the brassy sections off and sprayed them with my ORB paint:
I love them all over again! (Like I did five years ago when I bought them!)
Once I got the hardware rehung, I went ahead with my wild and craaaazy idea and just flipped the drapes and hung them with the panel on top. I stepped back to check it out…
And luuuurved it! UH DUH. Why didn't I do this from the start??
Flipping these did a few things – it made the bottom of the drapes way less busy, and the brown matches the brown tones in the rug really well.
It also made the gorg diamond fabric the showcase of the drapes, as it should be:
I love, love, LOVE this fabric:
I would totally wrap myself up in it at night, I love it that much. But it's not cheap. (I think $40 a yard at Joann's?) So there will be no wrapping in this stuff. ;)
Then I used my usual tried and true drapery tricks to finish up…
I keep the outside drapery rings between the finial and the bracket so when fire trucks and trains are driven under the window treatments by a sweet little three-year-old, they stay put:
And I hung them from behind with the drapery clips, creating the folds like this:
Try that trick – if your fabric is thick enough and long enough, you'll never go back to hanging the drapes down from the clips again!
I had to use flash in most of these pictures, so I apologize for the poor quality, but this one shows you how much of the window is covered by the drape. I like to use the window panes (if you have them) as a guide:
Half of one pane is what I typically do. Oh, and please ignore the deck furniture that has been stacked and ready to go in the garage for the past four months, umkay? :) Priorities people.
Shortening the rods made the drapes hang SO much prettier:
They just "pleat" so much better now!
I. love. it! And did I mention? FREEEEE? All of the updates – cutting down the rods, rehanging them, spraying the finials and hanging the drapes again took about an hour. Not bad at all!
So here we go! Here's the before from years ago – with the white two inch blinds, wider rods, and the panel of fabric on the bottom:
And here's the after – bamboo roman shades (from last year), shorter (debrassified) hardware and the panels at the top:
You like? I still love them either way, but I love how I made them work with the other changes in the space. I am keeping my beloved drapes! Yippee!
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"We're not Tahiti or Hawaii. We're California, and that's what we're scheming toward," said Brett Miller, managing partner of Belmont Park, which is now jointly operated by hospitality company eat. drink. sleep (EDS) and Pacifica Real Estate Services. "Our goal is to have this park be one of the top six in San Diego, along with Petco Park, Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego Zoo, SeaWorld and Legoland."
EDS, a Pacific Beach-based hospitality management company and Pacifica Enterprises, a Rancho Santa Fe-based real estate investment firm, have owned historic Belmont Park since November.
The business partners, said Miller, are presently about one-third of the way through redeveloping the amusement park in the heart of Mission Beach.
Belmont Park features an athletic club, amusement rides, retail shops, restaurants, multiple bars, a miniature golf course and FlowRider and FlowBarrel wave machines.
On a recent walk-through of the park, Miller noted numerous renovations done or under way.
"This was all chain-link fence," he said, pointing to glass now lining the outdoor patio next to the WaveHouse. Filling the space Cane's Beach Bar left when it vacated four years ago (before its lease ran out), is Cannonball on the upper level with a microbrew-style restaurant below.
"The Cannonball is our new concept," Miller said. "It's a sushi bar with a splash.
"We are pulling away from being a retail center," he said. "We want to go to an entertainment complex/amusement park."
The park's general manager noted Cannonball's restrooms are now all state-of-the-art. He added the upper-level patio overlooking the ocean has been converted to more of a Southern California-beach look and feel with plenty of comfortable seating.
Belmont Park's redevelopment, however, has not been without its critics. Excerpts from emails circulated recently underscore concerns by local residents who fear that "the planned/proposed south parking lot expansion at Belmont would remove/ replace numerous standing trees," and that plans for redeveloping Belmont "would destroy the (existing) Wyland mural."
Miller said residents' fears on both counts are unfounded.
"If you look at everything we've done, we're beautifying this property," he said. "We're not going to take out all the trees. We're adding trees. If the perception is that we're tearing down trees, I apologize for that. We're trying to maximize the parking spaces because we don't have enough. And we don't have enough trees either. We've got to find a way to add more things [like] vegetation."
Concerning the huge Wyland mural of whales and other marine life, Miller said it's true that the fate of that particular mural is uncertain.
"We're trying to save it," he said, noting it's on a wall that may require structural repair, which means it may have to go and there's no way to move it.
"But if we don't keep this one, then we're going to have him (Wyland) do another one," Miller said.
Belmont Park had been in bankruptcy four years before EDS and Pacifica acquired it. The park has faced significant renovation barricades in recent years because of a lease dispute between the city and the city-owned park's previous primary leaseholder, Tom Lochtefeld.
Redevelopment challenges at Belmont have been made worse by the intermittent closure of the iconic Plunge pool because of repair needs and the ultimate court-appointed receivership of the park by East West Bank after Lochtefeld filed for bankruptcy in 2011.
After filing for bankruptcy, Wave House Belmont Park, LLC sued the city of San Diego for breach of contract involving a commercial lease for Belmont Park. In a judicial foreclosure action, Symphony Asset Pool XVI LLC foreclosed upon the property.
George Schaefer, deputy city attorney, said the Wave House bankruptcy case is "still pending," adding the principals have submitted a Chapter 11 reorganization plan.
Schaefer said a court hearing on the reorganization plan has been scheduled for Sept. 27. He added negotiations with the city's Real Estate Assets Department to resolve the lawsuit are ongoing. If those negotiations come to a successful conclusion, Schaeffer said it's possible the lawsuit Wave House brought against the city will be dismissed.
Meanwhile, the Belmont Park revamp continues. Part of Cannonball is already open, and Miller said the remaining portion of the sushi bar will open sometime this fall. The microbrew pub downstairs could be in by November.
"In November, we're also going to redo the midway as well," said Miller. "We'll put up all new signage to make it more like an amusement park, put in a bunch of brand new rides, redo all the concrete."
Belmont Park will remain open through construction.
"We're planning to be here for a long time," said Miller of the developer's long-range plans.
For more information about Belmont Park, visit www.belmontpark.com.


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Australia-based shipbuilding group Austal Limited said its Vũng Tàu, Vietnam shipyard launched its first vessel, a 94 -high-speed catamaran for the National Infrastructure Development Company (NIDCo) of Trinidad and Tobago.The vehicle-passenger ferry, to be known as APT James, is the first vessel to be constructed by Austal Vietnam following the official opening of the shipyard in November 2018.The Austal Auto Express 94 is an all-new aluminium catamaran design, with capacity for 926 passengers and 250 cars, travelling at speeds up to 37.5 knots. The ship will feature an advanced motion control system, to deliver a more comfortable and stable ride for passengers and crew, the builder said.
Iranian Tanker Docks in Venezuela
The first of five Iranian tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela has moored at a port serving the El Palito refinery, the oil minister said on Monday, and Refinitiv Eikon data showed a second vessel had entered its waters.Iran is providing Venezuela with 1.53 million barrels of gasoline and refining components in a move criticized by U.S. authorities as both countries are under U.S. sanctions, according to the governments, sources and calculations by TankerTrackers.com.Refinitiv Eikon data showed that the tanker Fortune docked at one of El Palito's berths around 1 a.m. local time (0500 GMT).
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has given his government a week to process some 24,000 repatriated Filipino workers stuck for weeks on cruise ships or in coronavirus quarantine, so they can finally go home.Thousands are aboard cruise vessels off Manila Bay or stuck in hotels and crowded health facilities, some growing frustrated having tested negative for the coronavirus and completed the mandated 14-day quarantine.Overseas Filipino Workers, or OFWs, are breadwinners and a key support base of Duterte. Their more than $30 billion of annual remittances is a key driver of the Philippine economy, sustaining millions of family members.
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Two fisherman reportedly adrift for two weeks and presumed lost at sea were rescued with help from a good Samaritan towboat crew and the U.S. Coast Guard.Domingo Jimenez, 45, and Ramon Castillo, 29, both from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, departed Samana, Dominican Republic on May 2. On May 5, USCG Sector San Juan watchstanders received a report from a concerned family member stating Jimenez and Castillo were overdue after heading out in their 25-foot vessel to fish approximately 132 miles northeast of Samana.The U.S.
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Wärtsilä launched its FuelFlex Injection Control Unit (ICU) upgrading solution available for retrofitting on vessels with Wärtsilä RT-flex96C-B and RT-flex84T-D two-stroke engines to meet the requirements of operating its RT-flex type two-stroke diesel engines with both residual and low-viscosity marine fuels. According to Wärtsilä, this is particularly relevant in view of the industry's increasing use of low-sulphur-content fuels in order to be compliant with sulphur emission regulations.ICUs deliver a precisely controlled quantity of fuel into the cylinder at timed intervals, thereby ensuring efficient combustion at any engine load.


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We have our own ever changing mix of bits and pieces for you to make the vision in your head a reality. Rather than sell you a finished piece of artwork, we have the things you need to create your own bit of art. Everyone is creative in their own way. You just have to find the medium or technique that opens that creative door.


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(To the tune of "I'm Henry the 8th I Am")
(Don't worry. "I'm Henry the 8th I Am" is in the PD, so we're clear.)I'll read for LibriVox dot org!
Read for Librivox dot org dot org!
I'll go post on the message board,
then I'll grab a micphone and record!
And every book will soon be read,
Written by the authors who are dead.
I'll head on over to LibriVox,
And read for LibriVox dot org!
Who wants to sing it with me? I can't sing, but I'll be willing to take the lead unless someone else wants to. Also, we need a PD midi file for the background music.
What do you think?


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Federal authorities on Tuesday announced charges against 18 people in an alleged international credit card scam that officials say stole at least $200 million, which would make it one of the biggest ever broken up by the U.S. Justice Department.
Officials say the losses are still being calculated and could grow much higher.
Charges were filed in U.S. District Court in Newark against 18 people. By Tuesday morning, 13 of them were in custody.
The scam operated in at least 28 states and millions of dollars were wired to Pakistan, India, the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Romania, China and Japan, according to court papers.
The basic charge is that, starting in 2003, perpetrators used 1,800 different addresses to create thousands of false identities, and used those identities to get 25,000 credit cards.
But there's a sophisticated wrinkle, authorities said: The scammers sent credit rating agencies fictitious reports to persuade them to give the fake cardholders excellent credit scores. The better the credit scores, the more could be charged — and never repaid.
Further, the court documents say the conspirators set up at least 80 sham companies that did little or no legitimate business. The companies, including jewelry stores in Jersey City, had two functions, authorities said: They accepted credit card payments, which their creators kept, and they provided further fake credit reports to help pump up the fake cardholders' credit ratings.
Authorities say the suspects created up to 18 false identities apiece, and obtained up to 298 credit cards.
Two brothers, Muhammad Shafiq and Mohammad Naveed, of Bellrose, N.Y., are accused of together getting 464 cards. Prosecutors said Shafiq and Babar Qureshi, of Iselin, N.J., were the ringleaders.
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But it's Michael Douglas and it was a real relationship and we haven't seen him in a while, so what a pleasure and surprise to see him back, delighted to be there (and, of course, totally deservedly, since everyone pointed out the picture was nothing without him and Matt Damon) and being open and honest and straightforward.
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It has been demonstrated that arrays of vertically oriented carbon nanotubes (CNTs), specifically multi-walled-carbon- nanotubes (MWCNTs), are an exceptional optical absorber over a broad range of wavelengths well into the infrared (IR). The reflectance of such arrays is 100× lower compared to conventional black materials, such as Au black in the spectral window of 350–2,500 nm. Total hemispherical measurements revealed a reflectance of ≈1.7 % at λ ≈1 μm, and at longer wavelengths into the infrared (IR), the specular reflectance was ≈2.4 % at λ ≈7 μm.
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"Super" Wi-Fi will be available on seven of 10 smartphones in 2015, according to a market analysis by ABI Research. And they'll have more advanced Bluetooth radios and near-field communications (NFC) as well.
Resources for understanding 802.11ac 'Gigabit' Wi-Fi
Because of the benefits of the emerging 802.11ac standard for Wi-Fi, ABI Senior Analyst Josh Flood forecasts very rapid adoption in smartphones and other mobile devices, though backward compatibility with 802.11n will let them link with existing access points and hot spots for a long time to come.
But 802.11ac innovations are something of a moving target: some of the biggest boosts won't come for several years as vendors phase in selected features. And one of the biggest initial gains may be due simply to the fact that 802.11ac operates only in the relatively clean and clear 5-GHz frequency.
The data is from a new report, "Mobile Device Enabling Technologies" from ABI Research.
Flood notes that 802.11ac's connection speed is much faster, offers better reliability and better throughput at a given distance, and requires much less power consumption compared to 802.11n. "It's also capable of multiple 2X2 streams and should be particularly good for gaming experiences and HD video streaming on mobile devices," he says in an ABI statement.
But that's more likely for tablets or similar larger-format devices than for most new smartphones. Generally, vendors and analysts expect that smartphones will have single-antenna 802.11ac radios, supporting one data stream. Like 802.11n, 802.11ac creates dramatically higher data rates and throughput but using multiple send/receive antennas with corresponding multiple data streams. [see "11ac will be faster, but how much faster really?"]
The 802.11ac standard is sometimes dubbed 'Gigabit Wi-Fi" because a 3x3 antenna configuration with three data streams yields a PHY rate of just over 1Gbps.
The increased performance won't drain batteries: chip vendor Broadcom, for example, says its 802.11ac chipset will be six times more power efficient than 802.11n.
A somewhat similar evolution is taking place with Bluetooth, according to Flood. In 2012, 65% of mobile devices have some version of Bluetooth, 1.0 to 3.0 known as "Bluetooth Classic." The fourth generation of Bluetooth, dubbed Bluetooth Smart Ready," was unveiled in 2011. While it has the same data rate and range (up to 26Mbps and 100 meters), Smart Ready radios are vastly more power efficient.
According to Flood, Bluetooth Smart Ready "will extend the possible usage of the technology by a factor of five to 10 times, depending on the user's behavior." He predicts that Smart Ready devices will outstrip Bluetooth Classic devices within two years.
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Gay ex-mayor who fled U.S. awaits immigration change
Partner was undocumented.
SAN ANGELO — A secret gnawed at J.W. Lown's conscience after his six years as mayor of this deeply conservative city on the West Texas plains.
At 32, he began dating a young university student, and their relationship quickly grew serious. The problem? His new love was a man — and an undocumented immigrant.
Advisers pleaded with the mayor to drop the romance. If word got out, it could sink his political career. Even worse, they cautioned, illegally harboring an immigrant could send him to federal prison.
So days after winning re-election to a fourth term, Lown made a drastic decision.
"We just packed up the car, drove for the border and never looked back," he said. "Just like Thelma and Louise."
With that choice four years ago, San Angelo lost one of its most popular mayors ever, and Lown — widely viewed as a rising star in West Texas politics — abandoned his rapid ascent. But he followed a path blazed by hundreds of gay Americans each year, who have found that U.S. immigration law offers no easy way for them to live legally with foreign-born partners.
While heterosexual citizens can sponsor spouses for green cards with relative ease, no such option exists for committed same-sex partners. Many move abroad. But few have their choices play out on such a large public stage.
"I could not honestly take the oath of office to uphold the laws of this country and remain in my relationship," Lown said.
In the years since his flight, he sought to avoid the TV news crews and tabloid press that descended on San Angelo, hungry for any detail of the gay mayor and his illicit love in the heart of conservative Texas.
But now, as debate over immigration policy and same-sex marriage have moved to the national forefront, San Angelo's runaway mayor has re-emerged, hoping to marshal his past notoriety to influence opinion back home.
"It's painful to think about — leaving behind my family, leaving behind eight years of building a stellar reputation within my community," he said in an interview from his new home, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where he and his partner have settled. "I'm hopeful the country has come to a point that we can have this discussion."
Conservative and tolerant
Granting new rights to same-sex couples has emerged as one of the most controversial elements of the immigration reform debate.
President Barack Obama has endorsed including same-sex partners "in permanent relationships" among those eligible for spousal green card sponsorship. But key constituencies, including some Republicans and religious groups, describe that plan as a deal-breaker.
Some might view Lown's recent attempts to enter the fray, including a letter to chief immigration reform opponent U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, as a quixotic effort, given the politically charged debate.
But if anyone stands to sway opinion, it might just be Lown. After all, the residents of San Angelo not only chose him, a gay man, as their mayor, but re-elected him three times.
Lown never spoke openly about sexuality while in office. Though looking back, he said, it had to have been "one of the worst-kept secrets in San Angelo."
"When you're 33 and still escorting your sister to every social event in town, people start to wonder," he said.
Ask residents now, and most will tell you they knew well enough.
"Everybody knew the mayor was gay," said Jean Rochford as she prepared for a game with one of the city's many bridge clubs on a recent afternoon.
"And nobody cared," card partner Betty Whitten chimed in.
Still, opinions are slow to change. When a proposition to ban same-sex marriage appeared on the ballot in 2005, 83 percent of the city's voters supported it. Pundits still rank San Angelo's U.S. congressional district as one of the most conservative in the nation.
For Greg Gossett, Lown's former campaign treasurer, the inconsistency isn't too hard to explain. In a city founded as a small, bone-dry outpost on the Texas frontier, folks have always faced life with a hearty dose of "live and let live," he said.
"Life was tough here, and you had to rely on your neighbors," he said. "There was a sense of everyone banding together. Even today, people are conservative, but also fairly tolerant."
That Lown, son of a prominent local foundry owner and an immigrant mother from Mexico City, proved to be a charming and able politician didn't hurt either.
A 'special charisma'
Joseph Wendell Lown could not have been more different than the bankers, developers and good-ol'-boy types San Angelo was used to sending to City Hall when he first announced intentions to run for the city's highest office in 2003.
Fresh off a stint with the Peace Corps in Bolivia, the then-26-year-old looked as if he could have walked off the campus of Angelo State University. About the only trait that lent him an air of gravity was a head of prematurely graying hair.
But what Lown lacked in age and familiarity he made up for in a willingness to devote himself to the political grind.
He knocked on doors of seniors, women and Hispanics, groups the old business establishment had long ignored. He attended garden clubs, block parties and dozens of other community events.
And once elected, he rarely let up. He would spend hours in conversation with constituents and later echoed their concerns at City Council meetings, supporter Louise Karona recalled. In one year, he attended nearly 1,600 community events.
"He had this special charisma you don't find in too many people," she said. "He had a way of making you feel important."
Politically, Lown brought a brand of fiscal conservatism and social libertarianism to bear on city management, keeping a tight watch on taxpayer money while promoting the city's downtown and investment in its infrastructure.
"He was tireless, and people saw that," Gossett said. Eventually, "at his political rallies, you started seeing Republicans next to Democrats, liberals standing with conservatives."
His passion paid off among voters. After three terms in office, Lown won his last campaign — just days before his departure in 2009 — with an unheard-of 90 percent of the vote.
"Of course, people knew he was gay," said Mario Castillo, a prominent Washington lobbyist from San Angelo, who became Lown's political mentor. "But they kept voting for him to be mayor, not the parish priest."
He added: "As long as they liked what they saw on the ledger sheets, they didn't much care what was going on between his bedsheets."
Fleeing the country
But close friends rarely heard Lown discuss much of a social life.
"Occasionally, he would mention how it would be nice to have a dinner conversation with or someone to wake up with and grab breakfast in the morning," said Charlotte Flowers, a city councilwoman and friend. "But he was so geared toward politics, so focused on his career."
So when he met and began dating the man who would eventually become his partner in early 2009, he was as shocked as anyone to find himself falling in love.
The man, a then-20-year-old junior studying business at Angelo State, first met the mayor while working on a class assignment. The two hit it off and began to see each other socially.
Lown's new beau grew up in the Mexican state of Guanajuato and came to Texas in 2004, hoping to pursue an education. And at Angelo State he thrived, becoming a fixture on the dean's list, studying business and teaching salsa classes on the side.
From the beginning, Lown said, "he was very up-front with me about his legal status."
Fearing for family members still living illegally in West Texas, the man asked not to be identified in this story.
But while Lown recalled seeing something of himself in the attractive, young striver, his political advisers saw only trouble.
Castillo first heard of the budding romance well into the mayor's 2009 re-election campaign.
"I made it very clear to J.W. the perils of the situation," he said. If word got out, the relationship could sink Lown politically, or worse, send him to jail.
Lown tried to break it off, but doubt quickly crept in. As supporters celebrated his overwhelming election victory, Lown couldn't muster much in the way of enthusiasm.
"Finally, it just hit me," he said. "I couldn't live my life regretting I never took a chance on love."
On the morning of May 9, 2009, San Angelo's newly elected officials gathered at City Hall to be sworn in at the first meeting of their new terms. "Nine o'clock came. Then 10 o'clock came," said Flowers, the councilwoman. "We were all getting kind of worried. Finally, about an hour later, the city manager broke the news."
Lown had fled the country.
Opened minds
Today, Lown's sprawling ranch house south of San Angelo remains much as he left it four years ago. Presidential biographies and books of philosophy still cram his bookcases. His bed lies unmade. His closet remains stuffed with abandoned clothes, among them a pair of size-13 work boots.
"They still haven't found the guy who can fill his shoes," his sister Alicia joked while giving a recent tour.
A persistent rumor heard about town has it that Lown will return any day now to run for his old office.
"If he were to come back," said Dwain Morrison, one of three actual candidates in May's mayoral race, "he would beat all of us."
Despite the town's conservative politics, San Angelo has rallied around its former mayor.
Drop his name even now and watch as faces light up and questions pour forth asking how he and his partner are doing. During his one visit back to San Angelo — for a friend's wedding last year — the receiving line at his homecoming party stretched three hours long.
Some even credit Lown with reshaping their political views. Flowers' husband, a man the councilwoman described as "as red-necked as they come," no longer makes gay jokes over weekend barbecues. "He's done a complete 180," she said. "Without J.W., he still would have been back in his old, closed way of thinking."
Back at Jean Rochford's daily bridge game, similar sentiment has spread among the crowd of players.
"I don't understand why they can't just live here together," she said. "Who are they hurting?"
Brenda Chapman nodded her head in agreement. "Sometimes when it affects someone you know and respect," she said, "your conservative views just go right out the window."
Life in San Miguel
Lown and his partner realize they might never be able to return. Their efforts to find a legal path back have so far have met with disappointment.
Last year, the White House issued an executive order sparing immigrants brought into the country illegally as children from the threat of deportation. Had he stayed put in Texas, Lown's partner might have qualified.
Recent talk in Washington of overhauling the nation's immigration system brought more cautious hope. But an immigration reform bill introduced in the U.S. Senate this month makes no mention of visas for same-sex couples.
As it stands now, his partner won't become eligible for even a tourist visa until 2019.
"You can't plan a life on a tourist visa," Lown said. "So, you just block it out and try to press the restart button as best you can."
Since settling in San Miguel, a colonial tourist haven in the Central Mexican highlands, Lown's partner has finished his degree. The former mayor now works in real estate and attends classes at a Mexican university.
But even in their new life, signs of Lown's first love peek through.
At every bar and restaurant he enters, he works the room like he's running for office, stopping to visit with an endless stream of friends, business contacts and casual acquaintances. At school, a recent lecture on building and maintaining political power drew a wistful look to his eyes.
And so, Lown persists.
On a recent afternoon, he set out to write a lobbying letter to Congressman Smith, who he worked for as a college intern in the late 1990s. Typing from his computer, more than 2,000 miles from Washington, Lown sought to prevail on their past personal connection to sway the lawmaker's thinking.
"There's no other place than San Angelo I'd rather be," he said. "But I have no plans to return again, unless (my partner) can come with me."
He won over San Angelo. How hard could a congressman be?
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Last week I talked about how the relationship problems facing asexual people aren't all that bad, because we can use language to solve them. By finding new ways to talk about relationships we can greatly increase our options for forming them. I'm going to spend the next three posts talking about some of the language that I use, I hope that you all will respond by posting some of yours!
Drop the words "friend" and "boyfriend" and "girlfriend" from your vocabulary, use "relationship" instead.
The first and most important task in rephrasing relationships is getting rid of the binary. Describe a relationship as a "friendship" and people will make a set of assumptions about how important that relationship is in your life, how you feel about the person and what sort of commitments you've made to one another, describe it as "romantic" and you'll get another set of assumptions. Personally, I've found that most of the time neither set of assumptions is very accurate. I'll form a new relationship that's exciting like a romantic crush, nonphysical like a friendship and structured like neither. When talking about the relationship, either to the person it's with or to other people, I want to jump out of these boxes. I want people to get a puzzled look on their face and ask me what I mean so that I can have a chance to tell them.
Just using the word "relationship" does this beautifully. I use relationship in the broadest possible way, the dictionary definition of "a connection, association, or involvement." I have a relationship with my computer, the hydrogen and oxygen molecules in my glass of water have a relationship, so does a nine year old and her multiplication tables."Relationship" describes the full spectrum from friendship to romance and then some, it gives people almost no room to project false assumptions about what kind of relationship you're talking about, which is what you want.
You can think about this sort of language like a coloring book. When you say "friend" you get one page with a bunch of lines that you can shade and color in. If you don't have all the right colors or you want to draw a different picture then you're out of luck. When you say "romance" you get another page. When you just say "relationship" you get a blank page. You have to go to the trouble drawing your own lines, but you can draw them however you want, with whatever colors you and the other person have around and like the best.
That blank page can be a little intimidating. Stop right now and think about some of the most important friendships and romantic relationships in your life. Now, imagine describing those relationships without using the words "friend" or "romantic". What would be the most important information to convey about each relationship? How would you distinguish the relationships from one another? Are there common themes in how you would describe them? Getting rid of the binary forces you to generate a new language to replace it. (I'll talk about the words I use next post.) This is good because the new language will much more accurately reflect how things work for you than the binary does. It's also challenging, because you wind up thinking about relationships in a language that no one else speaks. Sometimes people will be happy to sit around while you go into long discussions of what makes your relationships unique, but most of the time you'll only have room for a few words of information. For your most important relationships it's important to figure out what these words are.
Relationships are not people.
The other reason I love the word "relationship" has to do with grammar. Friends, boyfriends and girlfriends are all types of people, relationships aren't. If I have a girlfriend then conceptually all that's going on is me and her. If I have a relationship with Bernice then there are conceptually two things going on: Bernice and the relationship. For me, separating these two makes things a lot clearer. I can feel respect and love for Bernice while at the same time feeling fear and excitement about our relationship. Bernice can stay more or less the same while our relationship changes radically, or vice versa.
Because I think about Bernice as "Bernice" and not "my girlfriend" it's easier to separate who she is and what she wants from the expectations I've placed on her. It's easy for me to see that there are important parts of her that have nothing to do with her relationship with me, I can see that she is a complicated entity that I only understand one facet of, and I can appreciate that she's deserving of unconditional love and respect (though not unconditional time and energy.)
Because I think about my relationship as a distinct entity I can appreciate all of the ways that it behaves like a relationship and not like a person. It exists to the extent that both people are actively invested in it. It can be hurtful without either of the people involved in it being hurtful, it can go from extremely energetic to fairly mellow without the people involved changing in any fundamental way. Usually it's easier to try to change a relationship than to try to change a person. It's one thing to say that I want Bernice to call me every day, it's another to say that I want to build the sort of relationship where we call each other every day. It's one thing to say that a person is hurting me and needs to stop, it's another to say that I am being hurt by my relationship with them and try to envision ways that I can change that relationship.
I find it useful to separate people from relationships because it helps me draw general guidelines. People aren't fundamentally more important than one another, but relationships can and should be prioritized. I can't control people (and generally shouldn't try), but I always have some control of my relationship with them. All people are deserving of fundamental respect, even if relationships with those people have serious problems.
Next post I'll get into some of the language that I use to describe these relationships, ways to quickly and accurately give them meaning without relying on the binary.


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In my notes it said that ${d^2y\over dx^2} -xy=0$ has an irregular singular point at $x=\infty$.
It was illustrated by doing a transformation $y(x)=w(t)$ with $t=\frac{1}{x}$. But I don't understand, how did they get
${dy\over dx} =-t^2 {dw\over dt}$ and ${d^2y\over dx^2}=t^4 {d^2w\over dt^2}+2t^3 {dw\over dt}$?
And how did they get
${d^2w\over dt^2} + \frac{2}{t}{dw\over dt}+\frac{1}{t^5}w=0$?


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unpossible, GPL violation.
some part are not GPL (part of Vista/7), this require require separate download (cad.exe, schook.dll)
but from single computer connected to internet like the one you use for read this post, you can download and compile your own installer for internal usage inside the company only.
file change are only vncviewer.exe + winvnc.exe
Rudi De Vos wrote:If you want to install the server only, no drivers
you require
for encrypt/decrypt the vnc connection:
you need for viewer and server:
msrc4plugin.dsm 22.214.171.124 (single thread)
securevncplugin.dsm 22.214.171.124 (multi-thread)
at same level of winvnc and vncviewer (not subfolder)
If you want to install the viewer only, you require:
If you run vnc only in application mode, you can copy them where ever you want, if you want to install them as service (on Vista) it need to be somewhere in "%programfiles%"
If you want it in a single setup you need to create your own setup exe.
1) You need to install inno setup
2) download the win32 bins 18.104.22.168 Full aka winvnc_184.108.40.206.bins.zip
3) download the cad.exe and schook.dll and driver.zip
(all files required below are include inside the winvnc_188.8.131.52.bins.zip)
4) extract all in the same directory
5) add your custom ultravnc.ini to that folder
6) click the INTERNAL_UltraVnc_installer_script.iss, this open inno setup
now press compile and you get your own custom installer.
No internet access needed to load the non GPL components
Ultravnc.ini is installed with installer. The script expect the drivers.zip, he just put the driver files in the uvnc folder , manual install of drivers is needed if you want to use them.
Go ino the INTERNAL iss file with the installation creator tool( ispack installed )
go to "files and directories"
Go down to ultravnc.ini and double click it
Click on the component tab and check "ultravnc server silent"
( I also unchecked "replace same version" and "replace on restart" on the file tab page ).
Make sure your customized ultravnc.ini file is in the build directory
Then rebuild your installation
Here is my config file i am using when doing the installation:
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Dir=C:\Program Files\UltraVNC
example Setup command line:
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\\myserver\Software\VNC\UltraVNC_1082_Setup.exe /verysilent /loadinf="\\myserver\Software\VNC\ultravnc\installvista\setup.txt"
Just note that the example named the installer "UltraVNC_1082_Setup.exe" in the iss config file.... but thats something that can be renamed.
informations from admin developer and user little bit modified:
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Gordon proud of teammate Earnhardt Jr. for seeing Dr. Petty
JEFF GORDON, NO. 24 DRIVE TO END HUNGER CHEVROLET, met with members of the media at Charlotte Motor Speedway and discussed Dale Earnhardt, Jr. out of No. 88 with concussion, Jimmie Johnson at Charlotte, rule changes and other topics.
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE LEVEL OF COMMITMENT OF SAFETY BY THIS SPORT NOW COMPARED TO WHEN YOU GOT IN, AND HOW MUCH SAFER THIS IS? "Sure. I was pretty fortunate that I came into this sport at Hendrick Motorsports, but also with Ray Evernham as a crew chief. Ray Evernham had experienced some pretty horrendous crashes in his career, and some major concussions that really ended his driving career. I think because of those combinations, we as a team, put a lot of effort into safety. I think if you go back through, we might not have been the first ones always, but a lot of time, we were kind of leading the way on seats and how they are mounted in the car. Seat belts. Shoulder support. Head support. All those types of things. Along the way NASCAR was making improvements as well, as well as race tracks. You learn from every wreck. Then there was that big leap forward after 2001, and with this new car. I look at seat designs, Hans Devices, seat belts-how they are mounted in the car, the padding, the safer barriers, the race cars…it's so much safer now. But, it doesn't mean that it is still not a dangerous sport.
INTERRUPTED BY MUTANT NINJA TURTLES WHO ENTERED THE ROOM: I've got some guys with me that…don't mess with me this weekend.
"I think a lot of times we think of where this sport has been safety wise; guys breaking arms; major injuries that either kept them out of their cars, or possibly even death at times. But the thing is, these days, we've made a lot of things better, but I think Junior is a reminder that these head injuries, we've seen it in other sports, can be very, very serious and not something you take lightly. You can hit your head, and two or three days later feel like you are okay to get back in the car. But, it is that sustained injury over and over again that can really be damaging, and long term. So, I'm proud of him for stepping up, and going to see Dr. Petty. I love Dr. Petty. That is who I would go to. I think a lot of people in this garage area value his expertise and opinions. I'm proud of both of them, because that was a tough call. Not only for Junior to go, it was a tough call for Dr. Petty to say 'I think you need to sit out' as well."
HOW DIFFICULT A DECISION WAS THAT FOR JUNIOR TO GO TO THE DOCTOR KNOWING HE WAS PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE TO GET OUT OF HIS RACE CAR? TALK ABOUT WITH EMOTIONS A DRIVER HAS TO DEAL WITH TO DO THAT: "I have talked to Junior; but I haven't talked to him at length and detail about some of those things. I don't know if he knew going there that there was a possibility that could happen. I think he just wanted to diagnose what was going on. If you've got headaches day later after an accident, then obviously you've got to go see somebody. I mean I only have my own kind of experience. I think we all play a role; NASCAR, the NASCAR liaisons at-track, safety crews, us as drivers, teams…we all play a role in keeping this sport safe, and preventing injury. Sometimes that is just what it is – preventative. Something can happen, and it sends a signal to you and you've got to be the one to make the call and step up. That's the first step. Then you have got to go see the right doctors, and rely on their expertise to make the right calls as well. And so on, and so on. It was a big step, I'm proud of Junior for doing it. I don't know if he knew going in that was going to happen, but, from my own experience; I had that wreck at Pocono, and I know I was trying to leave the infield medical center. I knew I was a little loopy. I hit my head pretty hard. But as a driver, your adrenaline is still flowing; you go in there; its' been a bad wreck. You go "Yeah, I don't feel great, but I feel okay, I'm going to go', and I was leaving and they said 'Whoa, wait a minute'. They had the crash data box, and I don't know if there is a red signal on it that once it gets up to a high G Load or something, but they said 'No No, we've checked the box and you need to stay here, and we need to go get you checked out'. So I actually left there and went to a hospital and got an MRI that night because of NASCAR directly me to do that. Everything checked out okay, but, hours later is when you start to realize. At the time, you can go into the Infield Care Center right afterwards and feel fine. It's usually hours later when some of the symptoms start to hit you."
PEOPLE ASSUME THAT BECAUSE JIMMIE (JOHNSON) HAS HAD SO MUCH SUCCESS HERE AT CHARLOTTE, HE'S GOING TO HAVE AN ADVANTAGE HERE SATURDAY NIGHT. BUT, IF YOU LOOK AT HIS THREE OR FOUR RACES, HE HASN'T DONE THAT WELL. YOU KIND HAD A REALLY GOOD STREAK HERE AT ONE TIME, AND THEN YOU HAVE SPELLS TOO. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU OWN A TRACK, AND THEN IT KIND OF GOES AWAY? DOES IT PLAY WITH YOU MENTALLY? "It's just advancement in technology, and set-ups, and speed in race cars, and tires, aerodynamics. You start to advance forward in some areas that start to make the cars go faster, and it takes away a little bit of that magic set-up that you had. Tires change as well. Goodyear is constantly advancing with safer, more durable tires, and sometimes tires have more grip. Sidewalls are changing and different. Any of those little things can change that feel that you have. I don't know if any of that is leading to the last few races for Jimmie. He always runs good here; he won the All Star Race, so I expect for him to be really strong this weekend. That is my experience. I remember we really did dominate here, and we came here and we started getting off. At the time Jerry Nadeau was my teammate, and he was running really fast, and he had this huge right rear spring. We were all laughing going 'you can't run that'. He was super-fast with it. We had to adapt to that. Somebody else puts it in and they go fast, you go 'let's try it'. It's not just that you throw it in and it's magic. There's times when that happens; but rarely. It is something you have to adapt to as a driver, and get a new sense and feel and security and confidence in that it is going to stick. That happens, and it just goes through these little waves. When you have been in this sport for 20 years, I've been through a few waves."
DALE, JR. SAID AFTER THE KANSAS WRECK THAT HE CONTINUED TO RACE EVEN THOUGH HE FELT DINGED. HE OBVIOUSLY HAD A CONCUSSION AS WE'VE FOUND OUT. HOW OFTEN DO DRIVERS DO THAT? YOU ARE IN WRECKS ALL THE TIME, IMAGINE YOU GET DINGED QUITE A BIT. WHEN DOES IT GET TO THE POINT WHERE MAYBE IT IS DANGEROUS FOR SOME OF YOU GUYS TO BE ON THE TRACK? "When I think of it, it is just trying to get peak performance out of your body and your brain, and giving good information back to the team to try to make the car go faster. I don't think it is a danger to anybody else; it's just the potential of it being a danger to yourself having another impact. That's the thing. Sometimes that first big impact, yes, it rings your bell, and it gets your attention sometimes. I think usually we use the sign if you are knocked unconscious. I've hit my head really hard many a times, never have been knocked unconscious, but I've probably still had a concussion, or a mild one. To me, as long as I feel fine going into the weekend, and don't have any headaches and feel like once I get in the car, I'm driving the car to the best of my ability, then I feel like I'm fine. I'm not saying that is correct. And, I think we're getting into it other sports, and we'll probably get into it a little bit more now in our. It is just trying to really properly diagnose a real concussion, and try to acknowledge it as well as educate on the dangers of having another impact with your head. It could be a small impact that could be very damaging."
LOOKING AHEAD TO POSSIBLE RULES CHANGES REGARDING TESTING AT TRACKS YOU RACE AT AND ELIMINATION OF TOP-35 RULE, YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT: "Those aren't confirmed. I thought those were confirmed.
KERRY THARP-NASCAR: "Jeff, I think you can speak freely about them." (LAUGHTER)
GORDON CONTINUED: "Ok, thank you. I was confused. We had this meeting, or whatever it was last week, and could have sworn that I heard Mike Helton even say it will be on Twitter 30 seconds after we leave this room. (LAUGHTER) I waited five minutes. I thought that was plenty. I was just going to re-tweet others. (Brad) Keselowski I thought for sure would have it out there. Then I was the first one to put it out there, then I felt bad because I thought I did something wrong. I was wondering why we didn't just have a bulletin handed to us when we walked in there. It wasn't really much of a meeting, it was more of a 'here is what is going to happen'. I think that the testing especially, and we saw this with this current car, them open up the testing to get more laps and more information for Goodyear, for us, for NASCAR, and all the teams to just get as comfortable with a new body style; new rule changes, and with this new car. I think that is a very good thing. I will be interested to see if that continues past next year.
"The top-35 rule, I have no opinion on that. They can go either way on that. I'm just not the right one to ask honestly. I think that it is really designed for deeper in the field of figuring out what is best for those guys to get out there week-in and week-out. Not saying I won't ever be outside the top-35 in points, it could be. I just don't have good experience at it. I thought I was going to this year at time. The qualifying draw thing is the one that threw me off. Now they aren't going to go off of practice. KERRY THARP: "Who else has a question?" (LAUGHTER) GORDON: "You said I could speak freely. But ok, I'll wait until it's official." (LAUGHTER)
DR. PETTY SAID THAT 90% OF CONCUSSION INFORMATION COMES FROM THE PATIENT. GIVEN THAT INFORMATION, IF WE WERE AT TEXAS OR PHOENIX, IF DALE EARNHARDT (JR.) WERE LEADING IN POINTS, WOULD HE HAVE GONE TO SEE DR. PETTY? NO ONE WOULD HAVE KNOWN EXCEPT DALE HOW HE FELT. IF HE'S WITHIN A RACE OF TWO OF WINNING THE TITLE, WOULD YOU GO TO A DOCTOR AT THAT POINT IF NOBODY IS GOING TO KNOW EXCEPT YOU? "No. Honestly, I hate to say this, but no, I wouldn't. That's why I say we all play a part in this. If I have a thought at the championship, there's two races to go, my head is hurting, and I just came through a wreck, and I am feeling signs of it, but I'm still leading the points, or second in the points, I'm not going to say anything. I'm sorry. You know, that is competitor in me, and probably many other guys. And, that's to a fault. That's not the way it should be. It is something that most of us, I think, would do. I think that is what gets a lot of us in trouble."
WOULD YOU BE OFFENDED IF NASCAR CAME OUT WITH A POLICY THAT BASICALLY SAID YOU RECEIVED X-NUMBER OF Gs IN ANY TYPE OF ACCIDENT DURING THE RACE, THAT YOU HAD TO SEE SOMEONE LIKE THE DR. TO HAVE YOUR HEAD CHECKED BEFORE YOU COULD COMPETE AGAIN? "I don't have a problem with that. But if you ask me if I am going to volunteer if I'm in a championship battle. Those things just don't come along very often, and I think…and I applaud Junior for stepping up. Whether he felt like he was out of the championship or not, the fact that he felt like he needed to I applaud him. And I think that you would wish as an individual, you would do the same thing in that situation. But, I can't say that I would. But, if I was in that position of being in a championship, I'd almost guarantee that I wouldn't. So, I would think that yes that would be a good thing. I don't think that was much of an impact though on the race on Sunday. It's that Kansas one that was what led to this. I had heard he took a big impact at Kansas. So I think after an impact that it would be got to see a doctor Tuesday or Wednesday, and then at that point they would monitor you for the next week or two. I would definitely be in favor of that, yes."
CAN YOU TALK ABOUT ALL THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES THAT MAKES IT ALL POSSIBLE THE PIT CREW, CREW CHIEF, THE BODY SHOP, ETC.: "They are everything. I sit up here and get the credit and I question it all the time because I'm the same one that drove the cars when we didn't do well. All of a sudden something starts to click and you are going 'well what happened'. You just start driving the car with more desire, more aggression, like all of a sudden the car starts working. These guys they are amazing in how hard they work, how many hours they put in. I'm very fortunate that I have people that believe in me so when things aren't going well they work harder and try to find different areas to work in. Then when things are going well there is nobody that just sits there and rallies behind you more than the group of guys I have. We have had it tough on pit road this year, but we have all stuck together. We are running better and qualifying better. That's amazing how when you step up so does everybody else and those guys have been stepping up on pit road as well."
I HEAR YOU ARE PROBABLY HAVE SOME SPECIAL 'TURTLE POWERS' TONIGHT WHEN YOU GO OUT AND TRY TO GET THE POLE: "I hope so we had a good practice, fifth on the board. All we did was qualifying runs and I feel like we have a little bit more left to get up there. It's going to be very fast cool conditions. Great draw going out late, I will enjoy it while it last. It's been awhile since we have practiced this well for qualifying here at Charlotte. I hope that we can back it up."
Source: Team Chevy Racing
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