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Artis Gilmore: When Will the A-Train Arrive at the Hall of Fame?A slightly different version of this article was originally published in the December 9, 2005 issue of Sports Collectors Digest.
Gilmore Puts Jacksonville on the Basketball Map
Artis Gilmore played two years at Gardner-Webb Junior College before bursting into national prominence by leading Jacksonville to the 1970 NCAA Championship game against the UCLA Bruins. Despite 19 points and 16 rebounds from Gilmore, UCLA won 80-69, their fourth title in the midst of a record run of seven consecutive championships. Gilmore remembers thinking that the Dolphins had a good chance to dethrone the Bruins: "Early on we played very well in the tournament and then we came up against UCLA in the championship game. We were pretty hyped up and at that time I think that we were given a pretty even chance to beat UCLA because we had proven all along that we were very competitive and not just some fluke team. But, of course, we didn't have quite the experience that UCLA had."
In 1971 Jacksonville finished the regular season 22-3 but lost to Western Kentucky on a last second shot in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Gilmore averaged 24.3 ppg and 22.7 rpg at Jacksonville, leading the NCAA in rebounding in 1970 and 1971, setting an all-time Division I career rebounding average record that still stands today. He is one of only five players to average 20-plus ppg and 20-plus rpg in a Division I career.
Gilmore fondly recalls his days at Jacksonville: "We had such an outstanding season my first year and it was almost like we kind of floated through everything. I remember we received some national recognition. Then we played Florida State, which had Dave Cowens, and we didn't do so well (in that game). Later on we had a trip to Hawaii—that is a special memory, even though we didn't play as well there as we had earlier in the season. Overall we did pretty well."
Instant Impact in the ABA
Gilmore never hit the "rookie wall" of mental/physical fatigue that slows down so many first year players who are not accustomed to the rigors of professional basketball. He won Rookie of the Year and MVP in 1971-72 for the Kentucky Colonels while helping the team jump from 44-40 to 68-16, the best regular season record in ABA history. Gilmore led the ABA in rebounding (17.8 rpg), field goal percentage (.598), minutes played (3666; 43.6 mpg) and blocked shots (422; 5.0 bpg). He maintained this high level of production in the playoffs, but Rick Barry and the New York Nets upset the Colonels in six games.
After Gilmore's rookie season he played in the second annual NBA-ABA All-Star Game. Gilmore took a break from a European vacation to participate: "That particular game I remember playing against Wilt Chamberlain and I was pretty excited about that because I've always considered him an idol in a sense. An opportunity to compete against him was certainly a unique and extraordinary experience for me. I had left the country and I came back briefly to play in the All-Star Game before returning to another location in Europe during that time frame."
Playing against Chamberlain is something that Gilmore will never forget: "He was apparently prepared for me more so than I was for him. I remember that I took one shot and he blocked it. Beyond that, the strength—obviously, he was very dominant in strength and it was a long time before my body started developing to the point that I could say that I was as strong as many or most. It was quite a while before my body developed to that point." Gilmore adds, "If you could say that I patterned myself after anyone in particular, I do remember the excellence of Wilt Chamberlain as well as Bill Russell in terms of blocking shots."
The NBA won 106-104 after the ABA's Rick Barry missed a desperation three pointer at the buzzer. Despite Gilmore's modest assessment of his results head to head versus Chamberlain, Gilmore scored 14 points, second on the ABA squad to guard Donnie Freeman.
In 1972-73 Gilmore ranked first in rebounding (17.6 rpg), field goal percentage (.559) and blocked shots (3.1 bpg). He led the Colonels to the ABA Finals, but Kentucky lost in seven games to their Interstate 65 rivals, the Indiana Pacers. Gilmore averaged 22.1 ppg, 17.3 rpg, 5.3 apg and 4.0 apg in the ABA Finals.
Gilmore led the ABA in rebounding (18.3 rpg) for the third straight year in 1973-74, but Julius Erving's New York Nets eliminated the Colonels in the second round of the playoffs en route to winning the ABA title. Gilmore says, "It was always competitive between the Nets and the Colonels. Julius Erving was going to get his points and he was certainly an extraordinary talent. It was very difficult to find a good matchup for him. I guess the objective was to try to take advantage of some of the other players who were on the floor with him and match up with those individuals. It was always a challenge to compete against the Nets…Playing in New York also gave us a little bit of exposure, that environment."
The Colonels had become one of the ABA's most successful regular season teams, but had no championships to show for it. That all changed in 1974-75 when Kentucky hired Milwaukee Bucks' assistant coach Hubie Brown as head coach. Gilmore immediately noticed that Brown was different from most other coaches, particularly in that era: "He was a very detail oriented coach and as a result when we competed against teams he had statistics and reports about some of the things that were successful against those particular teams. We were able to incorporate that with the players. That helped the team as a whole to develop the momentum that we needed to have a great season as well as move into the playoffs and excel." Gilmore once again had an outstanding regular season, ranking second in rebounding (16.2 rpg), second in field goal percentage (.580), second in blocks (3.1 bpg) and sixth in scoring (23.6 ppg).
Brown had the Colonels practicing hard even in the latter part of the regular season, in contrast to some coaches who pull back the reins so that tired veterans can rest. Gilmore says, "Hubie was certainly very intense with his practices…Hubie actually would give you a five minute grace period if you were late, but if you were six minutes late you were fined for the whole six minutes. He had a dollar amount for each number of minutes that a player was late." There certainly was no sign that the workload wore down the team. Kentucky finished the season on a 22-3 burst and rolled through the playoffs with a 12-3 record, defeating Indiana in five games in the ABA Finals. Gilmore won the Playoff MVP after averaging 25 ppg, 21 rpg and 1.2 bpg in the Finals, including 28 points and 31 rebounds in the clinching game. ABA Commissioner Dave DeBusschere challenged the NBA champion Golden State Warriors to play a three game series against Kentucky but, not surprisingly, the established league declined, realizing that it had nothing to gain and potentially a lot to lose in staging such a matchup.
Before the 1975-76 season the Colonels decided to trim their payroll by trading star forward Dan Issel. Gilmore increased his scoring to a career high 24.6 ppg (fourth in the league) and led the ABA in rebounding (15.5 rpg) while ranking second in field goal percentage (.552) and third in blocked shots (2.4 bpg). Despite his Herculean efforts, the Colonels fell from 58-26 to 46-38 and lost to the 60-24 Denver Nuggets—Issel's new team—in the second round of the playoffs.
The A-Train Delivers Rebounds, Blocks and Deadeye Shooting
The NBA and four ABA teams merged prior to the 1976-77 season. The Kentucky and St. Louis owners received financial compensation instead of joining the combined league. ABA players whose teams folded were placed into a dispersal draft; Artis Gilmore was selected first overall by the Chicago Bulls.
Playing for a new team in a different league had little effect on Gilmore's statistics. The Bulls played at a slower tempo than the Colonels, so Gilmore's scoring declined a bit, but he remained a top rebounder (13.0 rpg, fourth in the NBA), shot blocker (2.5 bpg, fourth in the league) and field goal shooter (.522, tenth in the league). The Bulls qualified for the playoffs, but had the misfortune of playing the eventual champion Portland Trailblazers in the first round. Portland won 2-1.
Gilmore played for the Bulls from 1976-1982 and he ranked in the top ten in rebounding, blocked shots and field goal percentage every year except 1979-80, when injuries kept him out of 34 games, snapping his streak of appearing in 670 straight ABA/NBA regular season games; even that year he still ranked third in field goal percentage. Despite Gilmore's dominant inside presence, the Bulls never became a contender, and before the 1982-83 season Chicago traded Gilmore to the San Antonio Spurs, one of the ABA teams that joined the NBA in 1976.
Gilmore and four-time NBA scoring champion George Gervin led the Spurs to a then franchise record 53 wins and a berth in the 1983 Western Conference Finals, but the defending champion L.A. Lakers won four games to two. Gilmore led the NBA in field goal percentage (.626) while ranking fourth in rebounding (12.0 rpg) and fifth in blocks (2.34 bpg).
Many observers felt that Gilmore guarded the Lakers' legendary center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as well as anyone else did. Gilmore explains his approach to defending pro basketball's all-time leading scorer: "Kareem was a tremendous offensive player. His scoring was done in rhythm, so the objective was to force him to change his rhythm. You could have some success in that area."
The 1982-83 season proved to be Gilmore and Gervin's last, best shot at an elusive NBA championship. Gilmore enjoyed several more productive seasons before retiring in 1988 but the Spurs never again mounted a serious title run.
Artis Gilmore had an answer for almost anything opposing teams threw at him, as his impressive ABA/NBA statistics prove: 24,941 points (19th all-time, ahead of such notables as Charles Barkley, Elgin Baylor and Larry Bird), 16,330 rebounds (fifth all-time, trailing only Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Moses Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), 3178 blocked shots (fourth all-time) and a .599 field goal percentage (first all-time). Gilmore led the NBA in field goal percentage for four straight years, a streak exceeded by only Chamberlain and Shaquille O'Neal. Gilmore played pro basketball for 17 years and now has been retired from the game for more than 17 years but he still has not been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The snub mystifies Gilmore: "To tell you the truth, I have no idea. I don't know what the criteria are for being selected…if it was statistics I probably would have been selected as a Hall of Famer. Beyond that, I can't elaborate and I don't know who the people are who make those decisions."
Thoughts About Collectibles and Signing for Fans
Gilmore has very few pieces of memorabilia from his long career, noting, "I think I had some jerseys but what happened is that during the moves, what's really sad to say, is that as I've gone through my memorabilia, some of it is missing. It's tough to accuse the movers, but somebody went through it during that process and I don't have it anymore." The items were packed away in boxes and Gilmore is not sure during which move his memorabilia disappeared. His 1975 ABA championship ring was also stolen, but he had it replaced with a duplicate model that he wears proudly to this day.
Gilmore is wary of items that he receives in the mail, saying, "I get quite a few things in the mail to autograph. I don't think that it is appropriate for those people to send things to my house the way that they do because it is frightening that folks who you don't know anything about all of a sudden send something in the mail straight to your home that says 'I enjoyed you as an athlete, can you send me an autograph?' Simple as that--I think that after 9/11 (and the subsequent incidents with anthrax tainted mail) all of that should have changed."
On the other hand, approaching the gentle giant for an autograph is a completely different story. He says simply, "I don't have a problem with that."
Gilmore is not a fixture on the sports card show or autograph signing circuit: "I haven't gone to card shows. They just have select people that they invite to those shows. I would think that it is very costly to bring in certain people and hopefully you would have a good draw for that particular person that you bring in. I don't know. I really haven't been to any memorabilia signings."
Gilmore bought cards when he was growing up, but he was not thinking of them as collectibles: "When we were kids they had the real bubble gum cards, with big block bubblegum. We collected them for a short period of time. We did not understand the significance of putting them away and saving them for a rainy day." He mainly bought baseball cards: "We were thinking in terms of getting more for your money—a whole lot of bubblegum and some cards for a penny or a couple of pennies. When your resources were limited, that was your thought. Certainly bubblegum and baseball was a good combination."
Gilmore is enthusiastic about the way that Upper Deck and other card companies have incorporated retired players into current card sets and happy that younger collectors seem to be interested in these cards: "I think that it's great for those guys that they collect the cards of those individuals and it's really considerable exposure for those individuals."
The Adjustment to Life after Pro Basketball
Like many professional athletes, Gilmore took some time to adjust to retirement: "Initially the adjustment was difficult—not from not playing basketball but from the fact that I had very little business experience. I created a business and because I did not have enough experience running a business it obviously did not work out—on a couple different occasions. I was involved in business but not understanding how to make it work and that certainly was one of the most difficult transitions. While I was playing basketball for so many years I guess I paid other people to handle my business for me, rather than basically understanding how to do it myself. That was certainly a growing experience. Now I work for a mechanical engineering company—W.W. Gay Mechanical--in the marketing aspect and I really enjoy what I am doing. The owners of this company have been fabulous. They have treated me very well." Gilmore has worked for W.W. Gay Mechanical Contractor, Inc. since 2000. Gilmore concludes, "I've gotten to a point that I have learned so much about business from bad experiences. It's a sad way to learn—I mean a difficult way to learn—but I've learned."
Gilmore enjoyed coming back to Denver for the All-Star Game in 2005 as a Slam Dunk contest judge, 29 years after he participated in the first Slam Dunk contest, which was held at halftime of what turned out to be the last ABA All-Star Game. He recalls that first contest, which is most remembered for Julius Erving's breathtaking dunk from the free throw line: "I think that it is really a tribute to Carl Scheer, who was so creative at the last moment considering the struggle (for the ABA to survive) during that time frame. Basically, because I was an ABA star they threw me in as one of the (dunk) contestants. I remember that they had a total of $1500 in prizes. What it is today has certainly evolved and moved to an extraordinary level. It was pretty exciting to watch the festivities."
Gilmore also went to the ABA Reunion, which was held in Denver during All-Star Weekend. Asked if he saw some people who he had not seen in years, Gilmore replies, "Absolutely--quite a few guys and obviously I know that there were a number of guys who were not able to make it. In fact, I spoke to some guys who regret not coming. It was a phenomenal time and kind of special to see a number of guys who I had not seen for 10, 15 or 20 years."
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10/31/15, "Donald Trump Gets Specific on Veteran's Affairs Policy Reform Plan," NBC News, Ali Vitali, Norfolk, Va.
"Donald Trump proposed a series of reforms to the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs on Saturday, delving deep into the specifics of his plan for nearly half an hour at a rally in Virginia before releasing the documents online a few hours later.
In the policy paper on Trump's website, the Republican presidential candidate railed against the current state of the VA, calling it "absolutely unacceptable" and proposed three principle tenets to a reform plan that he feels will ameliorate many of the problems veterans currently face with the scandal-scarred agency.
According to Trump, his plan will "ensure our veterans get the care they need wherever and whenever they need it," "support the whole veteran" by treating both their physical and mental health needs and "make the VA great again by firing the corrupt and incompetent VA executives who let our veterans down."
Trump outlined this plan for the first time at a rally Saturday afternoon, ahead of the plan's release, where he spoke in front of the U.S.S. Wisconsin to a crowd of about 5,000 supporters....
"All veterans eligible for VA healthcare can bring their veteran's ID cards to any doctor or care facility that accepts Medicare to get the care they need immediately," he said.
Trump promises an increase in funding for PTSD and suicide prevention services, increased funding for job training, incentives for companies that hire vets and working with non-profits that already work with vets to find employment opportunities.
The Trump VA plan also provides a focus on female vets, who Trump says exemplify some of this "new generation of veterans."
"The fact that many VA hospitals don't permanently staff OBGYN doctors shows an utter lack of respect for the growing number of female veterans," the plan states. "Under the Trump plan, every VA hospital in the country will be fully equipped with OBGYN and other women's health services."
In the eyes of the real estate mogul-turned-politician, Trump's plan requires managerial prowess — a skill that he frequently touts as one that only he possesses in a saturated Republican primary field.
"It's time we have to say it," he told the Virginia crowd, "I like Ben Carson. But there's no way he can fix this, folks."
Trump has hit Carson on his ability to manage before, saying that Carson's tax plan for a flat tax across the board would grow agencies like the IRS — a move that Trump explains would increase bureaucratic red tape.
In his plan, Trump also bucked the idea that throwing money at problems in the VA would work.
"Politicians in Washington have tried to fix the VA by holding hearings and blindly throwing money at the problem. None of it has worked," Trump writes, citing wait times that were "50 (percent) higher this summer" than the year before.
"It's time we stop trusting Washington politicians to fix the problems and empower our veterans to vote with their feet," he wrote."
10/31/15, "Trump releases plan aimed at improving veterans' care," AP via wral.com, Jill Colvin
"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released a plan on Saturday aimed at improving veterans' health care and other services in the wake of continued criticism of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Under Trump's plan, eligible veterans would be able to bring their veterans' identification cards to any doctor or facility that accepts Medicare and be able to receive immediate treatment. He said the change, which has also been proposed by other GOP candidates, would help improve wait times and services by adding competition.
"The VA will become more responsive to veterans, develop more efficient systems, and improve the quality of care because it will have no other choice," it reads....
Trump's plan would also increase funding for treating for post-traumatic stress disorder and suicide prevention services as well as provide additional job training and placement. It also calls for better support for female veterans, including improved health services....
Trump has also released policy papers on immigration, the Second Amendment and tax reform.
Veterans groups have criticized another presidential contender, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, for proposing to eliminate the Veterans Health Administration entirely."
Four Trump position papers to date:
Trump Veterans Plan, "Veterans Administration Reforms That Will Make America Great Again"
Trump Immigration Plan, "Immigration Reform That Will Make America Great Again"
Trump Tax Reform Plan, "Tax Reform that will Make America Great Again"
Trump on the Second Amendment, "PROTECTING OUR SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN"
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#6. AP image, "Trump releases plan aimed at improving veterans' care," AP, Jill Colvin
This report says Trump's audience was "overwhelmingly white." In case you wanted to know.
10/31/15, "In Norfolk, Trump announces plan to improve veterans' care," Virginian Pilot, by Dave Mayfield, Patrick Wilson, Norfolk
"Standing to the starboard side of the region's most visible symbol of military might, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump found an easy target on which to train his own guns Saturday: the nation's troubled network of care for veterans.
Trump, in a rally next to the battleship Wisconsin, said he'd root out incompetence and corruption in the Department of Veterans Affairs, firing anyone who stood in the way of reforms he promised would give vets more choices and faster treatment for injuries and illnesses.
Several thousand turned out for the speech at the spot where 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney introduced Paul Ryan as his running mate. The current GOP frontrunner crowed that he'd been told his appearance drew a lot more people.
It wasn't the only boast from the billionaire businessman and reality-TV celebrity during the nearly 90-minute speech.
He said he'd use his negotiating skills and unpredictability to rewrite U.S. relations with Iran and China, which he said have run roughshod over weak U.S. negotiators. "I mean, you can't blame China if we have people that are incompetent representing us."
Trump repeated his promise to build a wall to quell illegal immigration – and make Mexico foot its multibillion-dollar cost. He pledged to cut new trade deals to bring jobs back from overseas. And he said he intends to spend more on defense. "We are going to build our military so big and so strong and so powerful that we're not going have to use it, most likely."
But in a speech strewn with asides and jabs at his rivals – Democrats and Republicans--Trump devoted the most time to veterans' health care.
His campaign released a three-page paper outlining what the candidate wants to reform in a system plagued by chronically long wait times for appointments.
The VA health system is a "total disaster," Trump said.
"They pour money at it, but then everybody steals the money," he said. "The Trump plan will make the VA great again."
Trump hit the highlights of his plan, saying that veterans would be allowed to choose an alternative to the VA if they were unsatisfied. He'd require every VA hospital to have an obstetrics/gynecology unit, calling it unacceptable that that is not already the case. He'd also establish satellite VA clinics within hospitals in rural areas and other places lacking a VA presence.
The man whose best-known line is "You're fired!" didn't disappoint those who came to hear him say it. That's exactly what he'd tell VA administrators who dragged their feet, he promised.
Eric Shinseki, the former secretary of Veterans Affairs, resigned in 2014 after a scandal in which employees conspired to cover up the length of time veterans were waiting for health care.
Trump's audience Saturday was overwhelmingly white and skewed middle age or older. Many held signs proclaiming, "The silent majority stands with Trump."
Hampton Roads radio show host Steve Batton emceed the rally. Gary Byler, a Virginia Beach lawyer, GOP activist and former state House candidate, was introduced as Trump's Hampton Roads chair. Virginia Beach School Board member Carolyn Weems spoke and endorsed Trump.
About 40 vets, recruited from the crowd by rally organizers, stood on stage behind Trump throughout the speech.
Among them was Toby Yarbrough, a retired Army sergeant from Chesapeake who said the rally was the first political event he'd attended.
Yarbrough, who was disabled in a heavy-equipment accident while serving in Iraq in 2002, brought his service dog, a German shepherd named Duke. He said he found Trump's penchant for political incorrectness refreshing. "We need more nonpoliticians to run our country. So many politicians have their hands in our pockets, it's pitiful."
His experience with the VA has been a nightmare, Yarbrough said.
A handful of protesters stood at the entrance of the event in opposition to Trump's immigration proposals.
Trump shot to the top of the polls shortly after his announcement speech in June, which drew widespread media attention for comments about Mexican immigrants, and he has remained first in most polls since then.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the two GOP establishment candidates closest to Trump in polls, have had difficulty gaining ground. Trump's attacks on Bush as a "low-energy person" are credited with helping dampen his well-financed campaign.
Trump jabbed at Bush on Saturday: "I think I'm going to revive him. It's not fair."
People in the crowd exclaimed, "No!"
The Trump phenomenon is difficult to explain, said Soji Akomolafe, chair of the Department of Political Science at Norfolk State University.
"Nobody saw it coming," said Akomolafe, who said he thinks Trump could be the GOP nominee. "There's no way Jeb Bush is going to come back from the political grave that he's in right now thanks to The Donald."
Virginia's GOP presidential primary is March 15."


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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:47 am
Post subject: 9.0m sail on a jp supersport 136l or isonic 133l
Has anyone tried to rig a 9.0 sail on the JP supersport 136l ( 2007 ) or Starboard Isonic 133 ( 2007 ) ?
Looking for a alternative to my formula board in lighter winds. Per manufacture spec. you can rig a 9.0 on either one of the boards above, it just seems like a very big sail on a small boards. I weight about 185ibs.
I have the options of buying the slightly bigger jp supersport at 136l and width of 75cm. Or the slightly smaller isonic at 133l but 5cm wider at 80cm. Board will be used on flat water and racing but it still has to be maneuverable and jibe-friendly... Any suggestion ?
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:05 pm
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The manufacturers' specs are probably true- either would work with 9.0. But I reckon the wider one (iSonic) would be most comfortable with 9.0, especially if it's wider at the back footstraps, too. Helps you get the leverage you need to fully sheet the sail and pressure the fin.
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:44 pm
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A little off your question so feel free to toss a few tomatoes if my response is not helpful or confuses you more
I have a 2008 SuperSport 127L (75cm wide) and sometimes rig an 8.5 3 cams Simmer 3XC on it. I weight 210 lbs and have a hard time getting it on a plane in ~16mph wind.
My experience with this JP is that it gets going in relatively higher winds and not that easy to get going in lighter winds...
With 80cm on the 136L + your 185lb weight, the dynamics will be different. My experience making this 127L as my "light wind" machine have failed... Looking towards kiting now since Formula is another ball game I am trying to avoid...
That said, I do REALLY enjoy the JP in >17-25mph conditions since it is really fast and the nose just stays down with incredible top end control.... Cannot speak about the isonic besides its great reputation in slalom racing... A sure bet! O.
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:11 pm
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Formula is actually pretty cool, IMHO.
There is a lot of hype about 75-85 cm wide freeride boards and 7.5 - 9.0 sails being a great "light wind" solution, but it's exaggerated. I think that to really be powered in 12 knots or less (and have the bonus of being able to rip upwind and downwind) ya gotta go 100 cm wide formula and 9.8 - 12.5 sails, depending on your weight. (At 210 lbs, you'll want a 12). I kite, too, and I can attest that kites of any size are sketchy below steady 12 knots, because they'll fall out of the sky in lulls and do other bad, unpredictable, expensive, frustrating things.
Today it was ~10 knots, and I couldn't keep my 12 m kite in the air. It jellyfished and nearly self-destructed in the shorebreak. I know I could have been ripping on my 9.8 and formula board, though, if my boom wasn't broken. (Both kiting and formula have some gear hassles. The price of light wind performance, I guess.)
Sorry for the digression.
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Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 11:38 pm
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""""""""I think that to really be powered in 12 knots or less (and have the bonus of being able to rip upwind and downwind) ya gotta go 100 cm wide formula and 9.8 - 12.5 sails, depending on your weight. """"
I agree, you can windsurf when our Kite buddy's sit on the beach I don't think you need 100 cm formula board I use a 140 liter Slalom board with a 9.0 Slalom / 9.8 Race or even bigger sail and plan just fine. For going B&F a lot of fun as well less technical to sail. This maybe a way for many to get in to the groove and later start to excel in to Slalom or Formula racing.
there are a couple nice racing series to go racing, everybody in SOCAL check in with Jo Roth or me for Slalom and Formula racing events.
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 6:13 am
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ive got an isonic 130 and im a bigger guy, if its blowin a hard steady ill use it with an 9. its better on my formula board though if there are breakes in the wind, this sail size and these board are right on the line.could go either way. i really like to use the sonic with my 8.4-6.5
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:44 am
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Pumping unto a plane with an 80 cm wide board is not impossible with 7.5 to 9.0 sails. Just gotta have a lot of practice. Pump up and duck gybe in the gusts. Have your arms straight out ahead and swing the hips forward. Won't be as powerful as FW, but if you've got the gear anyway, why not leep working on the efficiency skills? Comes in very handy with some sketchier, but doable, wavesailing later on....
That photo shoot we did in FL for the lightwind free ride test was in some pretty light stuff. 9-16 mph or so. Had to pull out all the tricks to keep the plane alive. Don't hook in before planing and at least in the front strap is the key for better pumping. Higher boom, and longer harness lines helps lots too. BTW, I'm 207 lbs right now. Kona sailing has allowed me to fatten back up a bit. Cheers.
Kiters watch me in envy time and again when I'm wave saiing with my Kona 11'5 in winds as low as 4-10 mph. In that light of winds, kiting is canceled.
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 2:52 pm
Post subject: Re: 9.0m sail on a jp supersport 136l or isonic 133l
surfalex wrote:
Has anyone tried to rig a 9.0 sail on the JP supersport 136l ( 2007 ) or Starboard Isonic 133 ( 2007 ) ?
Looking for a alternative to my formula board in lighter winds. Per manufacture spec. you can rig a 9.0 on either one of the boards above, it just seems like a very big sail on a small boards. I weight about 185ibs.
I have the options of buying the slightly bigger jp supersport at 136l and width of 75cm. Or the slightly smaller isonic at 133l but 5cm wider at 80cm. Board will be used on flat water and racing but it still has to be maneuverable and jibe-friendly... Any suggestion ?
I use a 07 Supersport 126l with an Ezzy 8.5 Infinity Race sail with adjustable outhaul, I weigh 160lb/72kg, stock 42cm fin. It's not fun with the wind below 10 kts, partially submerged. With stronger winds of 20+, the sail seems too powerful, fatigue set's in soon, and seems to have too much drag to go upwind, even when outhauled to the max (flat!), when flat, it also seems really too twitchy unless you love to catapult. A smaller sail is probably mandatory with 20kt+ winds.
Considerations for winds between 10-20... The 8.5 Sail is sweet and powerful, but the board is so friction free on the plane you accelerate right up to the wind limit....so you've been leaning back during acceleration and the board quickly accelerates right up to wind speed. But, at wind speed you lose the apparant wind you were leaning against, and splash down. I think a smaller sail would not allow you to accelerate fully to wind speed so you'd still have a little pull to maintain balance. (I hit 20 mph in 10-15 mph wind all the time, but run out of pull so fall, or get off balance)
Oh, one more thing...there is no "float volume" forward of the mast foot on the Supersport, jib's are kindof mandatory ....(Just did my first Honest-to-goodness SuperSport jib turn today)...stepping forward of the mast foot will sink the nose at non-planeing speed. the SuperSport is half DOGGED_SLOW_SUBMARINE, half OMG!_ROCKETSHIP! (Love my SuperSport! only wind and fear limit's it's speed (GPS I've clocked only 21mph wind limited)
P.S. compared the shape of the 126l 07SuperSport with the (120l I think 08)ExciteRide, other than the two rear cutouts (SS), the boards look essentially practically identical in Shape, rails, thickness, top, bottom, front, back, and profile.
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My brother has a 2011 iSonice 122 and my dad has the JP 2008 136L SuperSport (and I had the 2008 118L supersport for one season).
The 9.0 will work "better" on the iSonic because it has a wider tail. It will plane sooner too because it has a flatter rocker. But, you could sail a 9.0 on the JP too. I would say the iSonic is better though if you are looking to step down/replace a formula board because teh iSonic is much closer to a formula board. Those early year supersports (2007/2008) have more free ride in them than free "race" (too much rocker to be slalom-y). They are still fast and jibe like a dream - but just not the same kind of blast off as an iSonic or the more current supersports.
Also, I would say that how well the 9.0 works depends on whether it is cambered or not. A cambered sail will work much better cause it is more stable and has more power. If you are using a no-cam "race" type sail it will be ok, but not as good - as long as yo uare constatly powered up it shoudl balance out fine.
Fin is also important in how the board will feel with a 9.0 too.
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I have a 2011 SS 136 / 79 cm wide as my light-wind board and I use it exclusively with a 9.0 Retro . I like this set up , it planes in 10 mph wind and that's all I need. Btw I just got a 490 RDM and the sail pumps easier and feels softer with it-very nice. It's comfortable off the plane too and water-starts easily. The board feels big and I wouldn't go below 8.0 with it. My next one down kit is a 112 Lt. Firerace and a 7.4.I switch to it in 18 and up mph wind.Im 170 lb.
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I had a very intense "Taxi Driver" phase during my college years, in which I watched the De Niro/Scorsese/Paul Schrader masterpiece about a zillion times.
There's so much to enjoy about that movie. I loved the score. I loved De Niro blowing it with Cybill Sheppard by taking her to a porno movie. I loved De Niro getting a Mohawk, which was the visual cue that he was about to finally blow his stack. I loved Harvey Keitel getting his fingers blown off. If you were a young man full of aggression and utterly lacking in any sort of girlfriend, "Taxi Driver" was quite the soothing balm.
So when rumors flew up earlier this week that the movie was possibly going to be remade, my inner teenage punk was having an extremely difficult time comprehending that. Especially since the remake was apparently being driven by Danish director Lars von Trier, who has somehow made a career out of directing unwatchable movies and getting others to remake perfectly good movies with pointless constraints. The rumor was he wanted to do the same with Scorsese's opus, but Screen Daily mercifully debunks it all.
Their encounter provoked a flurry of speculation in the Danish media about a potential collaboration between the two directors. It has been speculated that von Trier was going to have Scorsese re-do Taxi Driver, putting hurdles in his way as he had done with Jorgen Leth in The Five Obstructions.
Zentropa sources have been busy denying the rumours. "I have seen it [the story] in the Danish film magazine and what is written there is not true," von Trier's business partner Peter Aalbaek Jensen told Screen.
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Good evening. I am delighted to join you here in Richmond to participate in the Virginia Council on Economic Education's annual meeting. I have been involved in economic education for a long time now, both in Minnesota and at the national level, and I think the effort has, if anything, become increasingly urgent. In this vein, I am pleased that the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond is hosting this event and that Kemper Baker of the Richmond Fed is the chairman-elect of your organization, and I am equally pleased to be able to publicly thank Buford Scott for his many significant contributions to economic education. As you may know, Buford and I serve together on the Board of the National Council on Economic Education.
This is the fourth opportunity I've had in the past year to address an annual meeting of a state council on economic education. While I genuinely welcome these opportunities, they present a challenge in that I do not want to take these occasions to simply repeat "the same old song." But that means I am obligated to reflect upon and to refine the content and the message I plan to deliver.
For this evening, I thought I would argue for the value of economic education by demonstrating that economics can provide insight into several interesting and somewhat controversial public policy issues. In particular, I will provide examples of economic analysis as it pertains to four such issues: transportation and congestion, affordable housing, the minimum wage and deposit insurance. In at least some cases, the rigor of economic analysis is missing from much of the public discussion of these issues, and hence the quality of the debate has suffered. At the same time, I readily acknowledge that considerations other than those of economics are relevant to the policy choices that might be made. Further, let me emphasize that the points made are not original; rather, they are part of the ongoing economic commentary on these topics. And let me also remind you that I am speaking only for myself, and not the Federal Reserve, on these issues.
The launching pad for these thoughts is a comment by Bob Solow, a Nobel Prize winner in economics and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in an interview in the September issue of our Region magazine. Paraphrasing, Solow said that conveying economic ideas clearly is a very difficult thing to do, and yet it is essential that we succeed because too much of what passes for debate on policies is nearly incoherent. Certainly, citizens better steeped in the principles of economics would be able to both understand and to contribute to discussion about policy at a higher level, and consequently we should expect better policies over time as a result.
As indicated, I am going to discuss several issues for illustrative purposes, and since there is no one obvious place to begin, let me arbitrarily start with transportation. An issue in many large cities today is congestion—specifically, a level of automobile traffic that has lengthened commuting times and heightened inconvenience for many. One response to this problem, implemented in numerous locations, has been special lanes for high occupancy vehicles (HOV), that is, cars with two or more travelers. Unfortunately, such lanes are generally underutilized and have done little to relieve congestion.
Observing this, economists have proposed opening HOV lanes to anyone willing to pay for them, presumably drivers who want to save time and have the financial resources to permit them to do so. By the way, the lanes could remain free to cars with at least two travelers. This proposal, to permit cars with only one occupant to use HOV lanes for a fee, has been opposed because allegedly it favors those with high income and therefore is unfair. In light of this opposition, few politicians have been willing to take up the cause.
The problem with this argument is that it overlooks the fact that almost everyone would be made better off by charging for HOV lanes and opening them to more vehicles. By definition, those who pay to use the lanes are better off because they have voluntarily decided to do so. And those who continue to travel the regular lanes are also better off because congestion will have decreased, since some travelers have transferred to the HOV lanes.
Taking these considerations one step further, those with training in economics might see in pricing a potentially effective way to address congestion more broadly. Suppose "rush hour" in city x is from 7:30 to 9 in the morning and from 4:30 to 6 in the evening. Why not charge one price for use of highways during those hours and a lower or no fee during off-hours? Since we, the economically literate, know that incentives matter, we can say with confidence that such a fee schedule, known as congestion pricing in the trade, will alter traffic patterns and will reduce congestion.
Let me move to a second issue where an economic perspective helps to elucidate policy options. We hear a lot today about affordable housing and, specifically, about an affordable housing crisis. Yet, the nature of this crisis is hard to pin down since, as far as we can tell from available evidence, housing markets work well in most locations, and only a small part of the population lives in substandard housing. It turns out that the affordable housing crisis is best described as a situation where low-income families have to spend a disproportionately high share of their income on housing, leaving limited resources for food, clothing, medical care and so forth.
From this perspective, the issue is more appropriately understood as an income problem rather than a housing problem. Moreover, this is a distinction with a difference, for it suggests that the solution lies not with housing policies per se but with policies which increase family income. In the long run, these may well involve an emphasis on education and training. But in the short run, for low-income families spending a high percentage of income on housing, one could consider a housing voucher program, a voucher program for other necessities thereby making them more affordable or direct income transfers to families who qualify. These are all potentially effective means of relieving pressure on the budgets of low-income families. All of these suggestions will have side effects to be sure, not all of which will be desirable, but none of these proposals involves direct government intervention in housing markets, markets that are already functioning well.
Also on the income front, we have the issue of the minimum wage. Proposals to increase the minimum wage abound, and they are usually "sold" as beneficial to people with low incomes. But economic analysis suggests that this is not the whole story. It is more accurate to say that an increase in the minimum wage is helpful to low-income workers who remain employed; however, an increase in the minimum wage will decrease employment, other things equal, because labor will have become more expensive, and hence employers will use less. Straightforward supply and demand analysis produces this conclusion.
But the incentive effects of an increase in the minimum wage also ought to raise concern. An increase in the minimum wage may induce some to drop out of high school earlier than otherwise to seek employment, since returns to work have gone up. This outcome may not be desirable. After all, we know that the economic and other returns to education are substantial, and in general education is something we want to encourage. An increase in the minimum wage seemingly does not contribute to this objective.
Finally, in a different arena, let me offer a few thoughts about deposit insurance, a policy successful in several respects but one which carries substantial, albeit subtle, costs as well. As initially conceived back in the 1930s, deposit insurance at banks and similar institutions was designed to protect the assets of small and presumably unsophisticated account holders. With the current insurance limit of $100,000 per account, one might argue that the original intent has been surpassed, but that is not the key point. Any amount of deposit insurance necessarily creates a group of depositors with no incentive to monitor the quality of their bank and worry about the soundness of its practices. This is because such depositors know they will be fully protected by insurance in the event the bank fails.
This absence of incentive to worry about the riskiness of the bank means that market discipline of insured institutions is not all that it could and should be. One might think that this is a relatively minor issue, since large uninsured depositors have ample incentive to monitor banks. In many cases this is true, but it is not accurate for banks deemed "too-big-to-fail," that is, banks so large and important that policymakers will not permit them to fail. Even uninsured depositors may have little incentive to monitor these banks because they expect to be protected by extraordinary government action if the bank encounters serious difficulty.
As suggested earlier, one significant consequence of deposit insurance and too-big-to-fail is that market discipline of banks is unduly low. As a result, at least some banks will take excessive risks, not because they intentionally make bad loans but because the market is not pricing risk accurately. That is, because of deposit insurance and too-big-to-fail policies, risk taking is priced too low, and we know from economics that, therefore, too much risk will be taken. Even if no bank fails, mispricing risk and excessive risk taking mean that resource allocation in the economy is suboptimal and living standards are not as high as they could be. Admittedly, we don't know the size of the resource misallocation, although it could be sizable. Costs of implicit too-big-to-fail guarantees clearly have been substantial in several developing economies where turmoil in the financial sector and subsequent disruptions in economic activity reduced living standards appreciably.
To be sure, deposit insurance has conferred significant benefits as well as costs. But the point is to recognize that this policy, like so many others, is a double-edged sword. Moreover, it is especially important to recognize this in light of the current debate about the desirability of increasing deposit insurance coverage in the United States, a step I think ill-advised.
The point of these examples, as suggested earlier, is to demonstrate that economic thinking can contribute meaningfully to significant policy issues. Economic considerations will not necessarily be decisive but, given the "law of unintended consequences," I would maintain that such considerations deserve considerable weight. After all, it is important that we get public policy right—it can affect the well being of many.
I suspect that emphasizing the value of economic reasoning before a group of economic educators is tantamount to "carrying coal to Newcastle." That's OK from my perspective. It doesn't hurt to remind ourselves and others that economics has a lot to say about important issues. It's one of the reasons we should and do care about economic education—and it's one reason why I congratulate and sincerely thank the classroom teachers, economic educators, and business and community leaders here tonight who have contributed so meaningfully to the cause of economic education.


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2013 marks the fiftieth anniversaries of Dumbarton Oaks's Rare Book Reading Room and Pre-Columbian Collection Pavilion. Designed by Frederic Rhinelander King and Philip Johnson respectively, these two wings were constructed simultaneously between 1961 and 1963 but in two dramatically contrasting styles, one traditional and the other modern. This exhibition displays original drawings, photographs, and a model of these two buildings in order to demonstrate the details of these architectural contrasts as envisioned by Dumbarton Oaks under the patronage of Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss.
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This morbidly obese animal is clearly either a member of the leisure class or isolated on a food island where only banana trees can grow. It's also adorable the way it tries to hold the banana like it's people and, unlike a lot of people in the world, it evidently has an unlimited access to all the potassium-rich foods it can get its little whiskies around. As this creature enjoyed its tropical snack, two things were happening in the Southern Hemisphere: a person was staring up hungrily at a denuded banana tree and an obese orangutan was stuffing its face with carrots. You know, because everything's backwards and wacky down there!
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The fight against cancer offers rewarding career opportunities for medical physicists as well as healthcare professionals, as Giulia Thompson describes
Most people have a friend, colleague or family member who has experienced cancer at some point in their life. Anyone who has supported someone through treatment knows that a wide variety of healthcare professionals are involved in helping those affected by the disease. Naturally, the most visible of these professionals are the clinicians, nurses, radiographers, life scientists and medical physicists who operate within the hospital environment. However, there are also many scientists and engineers who design, develop and manufacture the equipment and tools used in cancer treatment. This is the area where I have chosen to make my career.
I work at Elekta, a global company that delivers clinical solutions for cancer care, including image-guided radiation therapy, stereotactic radiotherapy and radiosurgery, in which beams of radiation are accurately focused in a 3D coordinate system to treat small target areas. The company has about 3300 staff, and every day at least 100,000 patients at more than 5000 hospitals around the world receive diagnosis, treatment or follow-up care with the help of a solution from Elekta.
The company's corporate headquarters are located in Stockholm, Sweden, but I am based in Crawley, UK, which is the main manufacturing site for Elekta's radiotherapy linear accelerators. My role there is to lead the physics team that works in the firm's oncology product area, which covers both the hardware and software related to the linear accelerators used for patient treatment, and also the X-ray systems for patient imaging. This means that we help to develop the systems that generate, monitor and shape the beams used to treat patients, and we also contribute to development projects for the cone-beam computed tomography unit that is used for image guidance. The physics team is involved throughout the research and development cycle, from defining product requirements and providing input to new designs (for example by computer modelling and prototype testing) to the final phase, when intensive testing is carried out in dedicated radiation bunkers before the equipment is released for use.
Research and mobility
I received my undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Bologna, Italy, where I did my thesis project on gamma-ray spectroscopy, using Monte Carlo techniques to model charge-trapping effects in semiconductor detectors. But I had always been interested in applied radiation physics, and after graduation I got involved in a research project that used reactor-based neutron beams in cancer therapy. During this time I was part of a close-knit research group that studied applications of radiation physics in industry, medicine and archaeology.
I have very fond memories of my early research. Bologna is my home town and is famous for its medieval towers, its gourmet food, its terracotta red-tiled roofs – and, of course, the university itself, which is among the oldest academic institutions in the world. However, I was always aware that to grow as a scientist I would need to experience new research environments, ideally by working abroad. So after I earned my Master's degree in medical physics, I applied for a Marie Curie Fellowship under the EU's Training and Mobility of Researchers scheme. Winning this fellowship allowed me to move to the UK, where I joined the Department of Medical Physics and Bioengineering at University College London.
For my PhD in radiation physics, I worked on the design and experimental development of a novel imaging system for nuclear-medicine applications using a Compton camera. It was the perfect project for me, combining my interests in radiation detector technology, computer-simulation techniques and medical physics. This work was carried out in collaboration with Middlesex Hospital and also with the high-energy physics group at Imperial College London, since the prototype system used an electronic chip originally designed for CERN's Large Hadron Collider. Working with these different groups was a great experience and gave me the opportunity to develop new technical knowledge, as well as to enhance my team work, task co-ordination and planning skills.
I enjoyed my PhD research, but after spending quite a long time in academia, I felt ready for a change. I had always been attracted by the idea of working in industry, and I wanted to join a company where innovative technology and team work resulted in a real-life product. I applied for a position with Elekta in 2000 and I was offered a job in its development team.
Career progression
As a physicist working in R&D, I was quickly given the opportunity to make use of my experience with Monte Carlo modelling techniques, while also applying my knowledge of radiation physics and my experimental skills to contribute to the design of new oncology-related products. These included an improved collimation system for electron beams, which reduced the radiation dose outside the area being targeted for treatment, as well as different versions of X-ray beam-shaping devices called multi-leaf collimators, which use a series of tungsten blades ("leaves") that can move independently to generate irregular beam shapes.
As my experience level grew, I also started to manage a number of physics test programmes, in which new products are thoroughly assessed before being released for clinical use. These assessments are done to verify product safety and performance, and to ensure compliance with the stringent requirements in the international standards that regulate the medical-device industry.
Elekta has a very collaborative approach to R&D, which means that our products are developed together with customers working in research, university clinics and other institutions. For example, a few years ago I co-supervised a PhD project at the Joint Department of Physics of the Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital, where we investigated an alternative system for patient imaging. Doing projects like this allowed me to maintain contact with academic research and, later on, to become a senior research physicist at Elekta.
I have worked on many great projects over the years, but the one that stands out for me is our latest beam-shaping device, Agility. This device consists of 160 tungsten leaves that move independently at unprecedented speed, producing dose distributions that accurately conform to the tumour's volume while shortening the treatment delivery time to as little as a couple of minutes for patients with head and neck cancers. I have been involved with the project since it began more than five years ago, and the moment in early April this year when the first patient was treated with Agility (at St James's University Hospital in Leeds) was very special for me.
While I am still very much involved with the technical aspects of Elekta's physics programme, for the past two years I have also been the leader of the company's UK R&D physics team. This means that I am responsible for resource and task management within a team of 14 people on a daily basis. In addition, I work on developing the skills and capabilities within the group – for example by introducing new computer-modelling tools and experimental equipment, and by identifying appropriate training for staff. Finally, our group is still expanding and I am actively involved in the recruitment process.
Getting into the industry
I am often asked whether a PhD is necessary to work as an R&D physicist in the oncology industry. Looking at my own experience, I think that my PhD certainly equipped me with many useful skills, and most members of my current team also have a PhD or Master's degree in fields such as radiation physics, medical physics, nuclear or particle physics. Others have come from the fields of laser plasma physics, radio-frequency physics and imaging detector technology, while a few have a specialized background in beam generation and accelerator technology.
However, there are also alternative routes into commercial R&D, including internships, industrial placements and apprenticeships. These routes offer a "fast track" not only to learning the practical aspects of the technical job, but also to understanding how a large commercial organization operates. Indeed, Elekta has recently launched a two-year graduate programme, and is planning to train about 10 physics and engineering graduates each year via a series of placements in departments spread across the key business processes of the company. The programme will include technical and personal skills training, along with a support network of mentors and coaches.
My studies in physics have allowed me to pursue a very interesting career, working with innovative technology that helps people's lives. The work environment at Elekta is also very good: the expertise of staff members is valued, I am surrounded by talented colleagues, and the company really listens to customers and strives to provide what they need. There are more exciting developments on the horizon and I look forward to being a part of them.
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Thanks so much Xymph, that's exactly what I needed to know.oscarian wrote:With any ASECO/RASP you can write out the current track list to an up-to-date matchsettings file with the /admin writetracklist command, by default to GameData/Tracks/MatchSettings/tracklist.txt
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The Maryland State Police said it is going to begin assigning domestic violence investigation coordinators to each of the state's 22 barracks to better support victims and combat the problem.
The newly appointed coordinators will review each reported incident or anything that might be related to domestic violence. That person will then get in touch with the victim and work to get them counseling and peace or protective orders to help prevent future abuse.
"By assigning domestic violence coordinators at each barrack, troopers can better serve victims living in these horrible situations," said police Col. Marcus Brown. "The coordinators will ensure all available resources are utilized to protect the rights and safety of the victims and their families."
The coordinators will have gotten special training in domestic violence situations and have resources to help the victims. Other troopers will also have entry-level training to help the victims and their families after an initial incident.
Anyone who may have been a victim of domestic violence -- or who may know a victim -- can contact State Police, their local police department or other agencies that can help if they don't want to deal with police. Victims can also contact the Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence at 800-MD-HELP.


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ENGLEWOOD — — If there has been improvement to the Broncos in the past few weeks, it has been not so much through addition as rebalancing.
Yes, the Broncos dropped a high-dive, free-agent splash on their defensive side of the ball. But the overall roster picture shows that while the Broncos added three standout defensive players — DeMarcus Ware, Aqib Talib and T.J. Ward — they also lost three offensive starters in Eric Decker, Knowshon Moreno and Zane Beadles.
Ware, Talib and Ward will bring $32 million in 2014 salaries to the Broncos' defense this year. Decker and Beadles will make a combined $17.5 million in 2014 with other NFL teams. To get something on one side, the Broncos had to give up from the other.
Shifting the assets only makes sense for a Broncos team that last season statistically had the best offense in NFL history but was No. 22 in points allowed. Mix them together and the Broncos were close to a championship team last season because they reached the Super Bowl, but so far away once they took the field against the Seattle Seahawks.
Do the recent additions and subtractions add up to a better Broncos team in 2014?
"That's always subjective," said John Elway, the Broncos' general manager who directed the potentially seismic shift in his roster. "On paper you can say that, but we're talking a Super Bowl team in 2013. Now we're better too, because we had six guys on (injured reserve) who were on the defensive side that when we took them off IR we became a lot better on defense."
And then, after some explanation, Elway directly answered the question: Are the Broncos better?
"That's hard to say, but I think we have a chance to be better on defense," he said. "Offensively, it's going to be hard to be better."
Precisely. The Broncos set an NFL record last season by scoring 606 points. They averaged 37.9 points per game. Gone from the offense are 87 catches and 11 touchdowns from Decker, 1,586 yards and 13 touchdowns rushing and receiving from Moreno and a four-year starting left guard in Beadles.
The Broncos replaced Decker by signing former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders, who has never compiled more than 740 yards or six touchdowns receiving in a season. The Broncos, though, believe he can approach Decker-type numbers now that he's playing with quarterback Peyton Manning in a fast-break passing system.
Moreno will be replaced by second-year tailback Montee Ball. C.J. Anderson and Ronnie Hillman will back up Ball.
Beadles hasn't been replaced, though there still is the draft May 8-10, when the Broncos will have the No. 31, 63 and 95 overall picks. The second phase of free agency is from April until mid-July.
Still, on paper — and that's all any NFL team is during the month of March, names on paper — the Broncos probably aren't as strong offensively without Decker, Moreno and Beadles. But even if the Broncos drop, say, 20 percent of their offensive production from 2013, that still puts them at 30 points per game in 2014.
If Ware, Talib and Ward, along with the return to health of Von Miller, Chris Harris, Rahim Moore, Kevin Vickerson and Derek Wolfe, can improve the Broncos' defense by 20 percent, the rebalancing of the roster could make the Broncos stronger overall. (Quinton Carter, a rookie starting safety in 2011, is the sixth defensive player referred to by Elway.)
The eight highest-scoring teams in NFL history, and 13 of the top 14, did not win it all. High-scoring offenses tend to occur at the expense of their defense.
To get better, the Broncos had to play Robin Hood and rob from their rich offense to give to their often-poor defense.
"It's a do-over this time of year personnel wise, and then when you start practicing it's a do-over," coach John Fox said. "That's the fun part about it. When you stand in those rooms at the end of the season, you know it's not going to be the same. That's just the way the business is."
As long as the defense isn't the same, the Broncos believe they have a chance for a happier season-ending meeting in 2014.


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Lotta talent in this Educational Comedy, released by Twentieth Century-Fox December 23, 1937, starring Imogene Coca with Danny Kaye, June Allyson, Burlesque comic Hank Henry, a very young Barry Sullivan, and Johnny Johnson and his Orchestra, directed by Al Christie, and transferred from a 35mm nitrate print:
DIME A DANCE (1937) Imogene Coca, Danny Kaye, June Allyson
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 8:51 pm
Post subject: Do they still make "bump & jump" boards ?
I was sailing around off of Wells island over the 4th of July weekend having fun but definitely getting smacked around by the chop. This got me thinking that I could use a board with some double concaves and deeper vee. Something around 85 liters, good for gybing and jumping, smooth in high winds. I am more of a lawn mower than a swell surfer - and I certainly don't do and of those flippy tricks that I don't even know the names for
I am sure if I went to one of the custom manufacturers like Opean Ocean they could make me a board like that for $1500+/-. But it got me thinking that the big manufacturers have stopped making this category. The board line-ups usually go :
Free style
The whole category of "bump & jump" seems to have gone out of style. Am I imagining this?
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:06 pm
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Oh yeah, on a related note, I went to the CGWA swap and picked up some sails from a guy who was offloading all his windsurfing gear and going "all in" to kiting because windsurfing was too rough on his knees.
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:21 pm
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You forgot freestyle wave or free wave as some call it. Unless you get a custom OO (which IMHO is more bump than jump) that is what you should be looking at. Freewave by Fanatic, Freestyle Wave by JP, Kode by Starboard to name a few. Just about all manufactures make one. It planes up better than a pure wave board, can make small or large radius turns, and in the size you are looking at is fairly quick. My Fanatic Freewave (2008) has been my all time favorite board. Although I'm thinking of replacing it next year with a Starboard Kode....
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Posted: Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:25 pm
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Although with the dam removed from the White Salmon and the resulting silt bar I have found the chop more disorganized (or is it all the kiters 😈) up around Well and not as enjoyable as past years...
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 10:34 am
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The new Tabou Pocket (or whatever Sven zeee German has) is exactly what you're looking for. Just go try it out... if you can find one.
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Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 11:31 am
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ascott72 wrote:
definitely getting smacked around by the chop ... I could use a board with some double concaves and deeper vee. Something around 85 liters, good for gybing and jumping, smooth in high winds. I am more of a lawn mower than a swell surfer - and I certainly don't do and of those flippy tricks The whole category of "bump & jump" seems to have gone out of style. Am I imagining this?
Apparently not, as an international videographer asked me a few years ago where/with whom he could record that style in the Gorge for his WSing style documentary.
If you prefer to mow the lawn efficiently i.e., lightly powered, with maneuverability and lull planing constrained by power limitations some modern boards ride well in chop. That Fanatic Freewave John mentioned is a good example. If efficiency is your primary criterion, and particularly if straight reaches float your boat, you can find plenty of smooth riding modern boards if you try. All other hull factors being equal, narrower is smoother, but at the penalty John mentioned.
If, however, you recognize and choose to tap the many advantages of extra power including added high-speed, high-g maneuvering in rough water, say so and I'll write more. I have devoted a great deal of time, effort, and hoots of joy to that facet of WSing and have several insights to offer. In particular, a harsh ride shuts down my vision and is thus a deal-breaker for me.
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:57 am
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I am the type of sailor you describe and I have been riding Fanatic's Freewave boards since 2005 that perfectly fills my needs.
I have a friend that had to replace his RealWind last week. He demoed two Freewaves (75 and 85) from Gorge Surf Shop and ended up buying the two.
You can't really go wrong with a Fanatic Freewave: they are always test winners in British, German and French magazines.
Another great board that fits the bill as a "bump and jump" board is the Tabou 3S (3-style). I have the 2012 3-S 106 liters and love it. Wonder why they are not available in the Gorge anymore
You can demo a Fanatic Freewave at Gorge Surf Shop.
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Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 7:05 pm
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I hadn't really thought about how the new White Salmon sand bar would affect the chop. Thanks for pointing that out.
Thanks for the board recommendations.
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Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2013 6:34 pm
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I dropped by Windance to check on the condition of a consignment board they have, with you in mind. They had it listed at 75 L, but in fact it's the 81L version. This series of boards, size for size, is my Go-To design when the rest of my fleet is getting pounded. Whether it's my 65 L version for 40 mph winds of my 96L version used only as a last resort to avoid digging out my 115 L Synchro, this line of boards has never disappointed me. I've never seen chop it doesn't smooth out very well, it does everything else I demand from a board, its WSMag reviews were absolutely great, and it sails and rides rings around almost every board I've ever tried.
I'd go into more detail, but ... alas, for you ... it was so near-new that I snapped it up as a backup for my backup. $299.
However, have you checked out the beautiful 2009 Exocet Wave they have for $549? Google its reviews from the big European magazines and you'll find extremely high praise for its incredibly smooth ride in rough water, even at its very high top speeds. I'd have grabbed it, except that it prefers wide jibes.
Here's another tip: the mags attribute its exceptional ride to great pads. My point? It's SO easy to add pads to any board, especially right where they matter most: under our heels. It really makes a big difference.
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Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 2:47 pm
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Ditto what johnl said. Also the bigger Starboard Evos are similar to the JP Freestyle wave. Stay away from any wave specific board. They are designed specifically for waves (and regardless of what other posters think there are no waves in the Gorge) and have severe drawbacks to lawnmower sailing. Also no need to spend lots of money, older FWs going back up to 10 years should be fine, even better, for your needs. Some newer FWs I`ve tried are more W and less F than they used to be.
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This was once my position (ID creationism, gh), one that I held until after I became a biology professor, and I do not fault Mr. Myers or others who came to hold it in much the same way that I did. I was at least as passionate though not as fearful about Darwinist control as Mr. Myers, and 10 years ago I signed the Discovery Institute's "Scientific Dissent from Darwinism," a choice that I now genuinely regret.
I suggested at the time that Prof. Steve should consider becoming one of the "Project Steve" Steves.
Well, today he did, and is welcomed as the 1184th Steve. That is one more Steve for truth, and one less for the Discotute's bogus appeal to authority, the "Dissent from Darwinism."


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Today Earth passes between the sun and Jupiter, placing Jupiter opposite the sun in our sky. Astronomers call this event an opposition of Jupiter. The 2011 opposition is Jupiter's closest until 2022.
In 2011, Jupiter came nearest to Earth on October 27, at 19 hours Universal Time (2 p.m. Central Daylight Time). Then Jupiter was only 369 million miles away.
However, Earth flies in between the sun and Jupiter tomorrow, on October 29 at 2:00 Universal Time. That is 9:00 p.m. Central Daylight Time tonight, on October 28. When it is opposite the sun, astronomers say that Jupiter is in opposition. The king planet now rises in the east at sunset, and sets in the west at sunrise. At midnight, Jupiter climbs highest in the sky.
So when the sun goes down on this late October night, you might — if you're fanciful enough — imagine bright Jupiter as a tiny sun all night long.
And remember, this opposition of Jupiter counts as extra special — Earth's closest encounter with Jupiter until the year 2022!We read that Jupiter will be like a night time sun, rising in the east at sunset, brightest overhead at midnight. This is the closest Earth will be to Jupiter for a very long time.
As the stars above in heaven resonate the movie stars below on Earth we check to see whose Birthday it is on this day of Jupiter opposition.
Julie Roberts and Joaquin Phoenix are the most popular stars born on October 28 according to IMDb (I'm 42).
Immediately this aligns perfectly as Julia Roberts is one of the most singularly Jupiter resonating stars extant. The name Julia is derived from Jupiter.
Above we see her address on the Pelican Brief is 42 (amalgamated in the Jupiter symbol) and that she plays TINkerbell in Hook. Tin shares the ♃ aka 42 symbol of Jupiter.
We see Julia encountering Jupiter a few times in Mystic Pizza and reenacting 2001: A Space Odyssey (Jupiter Mission) in Notting Hill.
She embraces her sun in ValenTINe's Day as Jupiter watches..
Yesterday, as we entered Scorpio, I saw this scorpion inside of the O of Mexico on the poster for Once Upon a Time in Mexico.
We see the list for films (Wide & Limited) released on 28 October, the first round of films in Scorpio and the date Jupiter is at its closest approach to Earth.
At least three of the films opening this weekend associate overtly with the Once Upon a Time in Mexico film.
- In Time is present in the title "Once Upon a TIME IN Mexico".
- Stars Antonio Banderas & Salma Hayek are counterpart lead cats in Puss in Boots.
- Johnny Depp is the star of The Rum Diary
I like how "heavy" the tagline becomes considering the strength of these syncs "The Time Has Come"
The symphonic orchestration of sync - present at the core of all worldly organization - is elegantly unveiled by noting Julia Roberts stars in The Mexican. How amazingly susynct that the films opening on the 28th would be highlighted by Once Upon a Time in Mexico and that our 28th Birthday Star Julia Roberts is in The Mexican.
People online are talking about Carl Johan Calleman who according to wikipedia "differs from professional Mayanists in seeing 28 October 2011 and not 21 December 2012 as a significant date. Calleman does not interpret the date as an apocalypse, Armageddon, or other cataclysmic event but a slow transformation of consciousness in which people experience a higher "unity consciousness.".
Mexico - so potently highlighted by the syncs we have explored & attracted by the 28th - is a major location in Pre-Colombian culture, including the Maya who birthed the calender whose end date is in question.
In fact "Izapa is the ancient Mayan site in southern Mexico where the Long Count was first devised" says Calleman.
The Mayan Calender that might end on 28 October 2011 or on 21 December 2012 was made in Mexico.
Underneath the context of any and every moment we are already in the higher "unity consciousness".
Sync charges this or that time and space with more significance to help us part self imposed veil between us and the eternal ever present perfection. The ultimate goal of sync and everything else is always to uncover the already self realized self.
Updates asap flux willing.
In the movie Drive (Go/Spirit/Jupiter), the main character played by Ryan Gosling (seen in the "Ides of March" 50/50 face poster with GC on Time) wears this Scorpio jacket throughout the film, even when it gets covered in blood. The camera fixes on the scorpio design for long periods of Time. Towards the end of the film, Shannon (played by Bryan Cranston) informs/lies to a mobster that GoslinG has gone to Mexico. The first robbery in the movie takes place at 421 South Alameda.
Wiki Scorpio
Joaquin Phoenix (born October 28th) played Johnny Cash in Walk The Line.
Today is the Birthday of Superstar Katy Perry who sings the hit song Firework.
(The fire alarm went off as I started this post, jikes...)
Katy Perry - Firework
Maybe your reason why all the doors are closed
So you could open one that leads you to the perfect road
Like a lightning bolt, your heart will glow
And when it's time, you'll know
You just gotta ignite, the light, and let it shine
Just own the night like the 4th of July
'Cause baby you're a firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go "Oh, oh, oh"
As you shoot across the sky-y-y
Baby, you're a firework
Come on, let your colors burst
Make 'em go "Oh, Oh, Oh"
You're gonna leave 'em all in awe, awe, awe
Boom, boom, boom
Even brighter than the moon, moon, moon
It's always been inside of you, you, you
And now it's time to let it through-ough-ough
I heard this song the first time shortly after doing an Ayahuasca ceremony with my friend Jim Sanders.
Jim has an Icaro that reminds me allot of this song. An Icaro is a sacred song, sung during ceremony, to help guide and ground the experience.
Jim Sanders - The Cosmic Tigger
You're a bear of little brain
And an atomic heart
Some people think you are a little insane
But you're the fool with keys to the Ark
Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
Whatchya gonna do Winnie-the-Pooh?
You can climb a tree in search of Hunny
You can march in band and sing "Yes we can!"
You can go to the North Pole with Christopher Robin
Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Roo, Piglet, have not been forgotten
Your Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
Whatchya gonna do Winnie-the-Pooh?
You can save the day
Start a parade
Sing some praise
Makes some mistakes
And show us the way
Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
He's got no idea what to do
But his heart's so big he always makes it through
Winnie-the-Pooh, Winnie-the-Pooh
Lives in a tree inside of you
Say hello, he'll open the door and pull the trigger
It's time to unleash
The Cosmic Tigger
KA-Boom, boom, boom,
Boom, boom, boom,
Boom, boom, boom, Boom, boom, boom,
Both Firework and Cosmic Tigger talk about opening a door out of suffering by letting your heart light up with love into the crescendo "Boom, Boom, Boom".
I couldn't quite figure out who had channeled who when realizing this...
We see fireworks in both trailers for Johnny Depp's The Rum Diary (above) and Puss in Boots (below).
The Guy Fawkes Mask from the comic and film V for Vendetta has become an Icon of Anti-Establishment.
Guy Fawkes Night is an annual commemoration on 5 November seeing the setting off of fireworks.
The group & meme Anonymous is synonymous with this mask. Anonymous is also the name of a film opening this Friday 28 October about a Shakespeare conspiracy.
Not sure what to make of these feathers but "time flies when your having fun".
We see feathers again as spread wings on the poster behind Hugo Weaving as masked vigilante V in the film V for Vendetta.
He introduces himself as "V" to Natalie Portman who returns the favor saying she is "Evey". He remarks and thoughtfully highlights "E-vey" the vey (or V) echoing his own name. Curious as to the reason of his seeing significance in her name V responds "I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence."
The V shape cut into the poster behind Hugo Weaving frames NIT NIT or TIN TIN and we have seen how tin shares its symbol with Jupiter.
Our friend and co The Sync Book author Jennifer Palmer (@true) tweeted that she had dropped a copy at the Occupy Wall Street Library then running into @rustyrockets and @danielpinchbeck.
(Listen to Alan Abbadessa-Green talk about The Sync Book on Red Ice Radio)
Katy Perry is married to comedian and actor Russell Brand who is @rustyrockets. He tweets the same day as Jennifer about visiting #OccupyWallStreet and talks about hanging out with Daniel Pinchbeck in his blog article #Occupy.
In Brand's film Arthur he smashes his Batmobile into the Wall Street Bull used in the original propaganda for #OccupyWallStreet and a symbol of capitalism in general.
Hugo Weaving aka V stars in the film The Tender Hook resonating Julia Roberts' turn in Hook. I like the highlighted Hooked H of Hook.
Helen Mirren lifts Russell Brand's hat up towards the h of Arthur. Mirren, like Julia Roberts, is a big (the biggest?) Jupiter resonator.
H as Hydrogen is the 1st element, its the 8 letter or infinity & repeats in key places like Thoth and YHWH.
Helen travels to Jupiter in 2010: The Year We Make Contact as cosmonaut Tanya Kirbuk.
Phoenix appears in this film and is a metaphor for Jupiter igniting & becoming our second sun just like it will on the 28th.
Jupiter becoming a Star in 2010: The Year We Make Contact.
So when the sun goes down on this late October night, you might — if you're fanciful enough — imagine bright Jupiter as a tiny sun all night long.
We saw that the 28th is Joaquin Phoenix's Birthday and that the feathered fire(work) bird is another name for Scorpio.
Helen Mirren is the voice of Deep Thought in Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. As such she proclaims the answer to life the universe and everything is "42".
Jupiter's symbol can decode as 42 or even 421 and Russell Brands tweet about #OccupyWallStreet was his 2,142'nd.
To add to the Sync Mesh its interesting to note how naturally the M symbol entrains with the sign of Scorpio. The film "Martha, Marcy, May, Marlene" just came out under the Sign of Scorpio.
"Babalon(Wikipedia)—also known as The Scarlet Woman, The Great Mother, or the Mother of Abominations—is a goddess found in the mystical system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with English author and occultist Aleister Crowley's writing of The Book of the Law. In her most abstract form, she represents the female sexual impulse and the liberated woman; although she can also be identified with Mother Earth, in her most fertile sense. "
Babalon is associated with Babylon, the Scarlet Woman of the End Times that are prophecized by Saint John in the Book of Revelations.
These film posters sync with the TIMES it feels too
"Darkest Hour"
"The End is Now"
It is also pertinant that Carl Calleman an expert on the Mayan Calendar beleives that the Calendar/Time actually ended yesterday October 28th 2011
As we all sense the emergence of a new Earth and a new paradigm, the signs of changing times are highlighted in our consciousness, we know were on the verge of a new matrix. "The End is NOW"
The last two years during Scorpio I posted similiar meditations on Babalon, Death, and Time, and the Death of Time.
See Momma Death and Vagina Dentata and Scorpio Flight of the Raven and the Good News