for $1,499,000 with 4 bedrooms and 4 full baths, 1 half bath. This 3,407 square foot home was built in 2016 on a lot size of 0.1590 Acre(s).
Beholding the rewards of near-new construction and a lengthy list of luxurious custom upgrades, this spacious Craftsman-inspired residence is ready to enhance your lifestyle in Rancho Mission Viejo. A towering ceiling with ultra-modern chandelier complements the open-concept home's entry, which provides passage to a dedicated office, 4 ensuite bedrooms including one on the first floor, and 4.5 baths in a floorplan measuring approx. 3, 407 s.f. Powered by an owned solar system, the model-caliber residence is accentuated with disappearing sliders that open the home to the outdoors, wood-look plank tile flooring, upgraded Shaker cabinetry, a stacked-stone widescreen fireplace, tankless water heater, and a 3-car garage with epoxy floors. Centered around a massive island with seating, the kitchen features quartz countertops, a walk-in pantry, stainless steel farmhouse sink, and pro-level stainless steel KitchenAid appliances. A dramatic semi-circular staircase with custom rail leads upstairs, where residents will discover an airy loft, and a master suite with large view deck, custom marble and oversized walk-in closet. Panoramic hill, valley and city-light views enhance the beauty of newly finished grounds that boast more than $200, 000 in improvements, including a gated entry, a new pool and raised spa, built-in BBQ, a covered California room, synthetic turf and drought-resistant landscaping, rock and brick hardscape finishes, and upgraded tile patio surfaces.


As reported earlier today by Emily Yehle of Greenwire, if the U.S. Government fails to avoid a government shutdown before tomorrow, a number of federal agencies, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of the Interior are planning to "pull the plug on their online presence." (E&ENewsPM, Sept. 30, 2013). You may ask, what other impacts will there be as a result of the impending government shutdown? While, according to the Department of the Interior's website (pdf), as a general matter "Service employees will not continue to work" on court ordered deadlines for endangered species during the shutdown. The Service does provide itself a bit of wiggle room, however, stating that "[i]n the limited circumstances where a court-ordered deadline is imminent, unless and until an extension is granted, Service employees on a case-by-case basis may be required to continue to work on these matters." As for section 7 consultations and the National Environmental Policy Act, the website states that "Service employees would not be conducting any consultations, NEPA or other work of this nature until the governments reopens."


text:
"""
Test cases for dirdbm module.
"""

from twisted.trial import unittest
from twisted.persisted import dirdbm
import os, shutil, glob

class DirDbmTestCase(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.path = self.mktemp()
        self.dbm = dirdbm.open(self.path)
        self.items = (('abc', 'foo'), ('/lalal', '\000\001'), ('\000\012', 'baz'))

    def tearDown(self):
        shutil.rmtree(self.path)

    def testAll(self):
        k = "//==".decode("base64")
        self.dbm[k] = "a"
        self.dbm[k] = "a"
        self.assertEquals(self.dbm[k], "a")

    def testRebuildInteraction(self):
        from twisted.persisted import dirdbm
        from twisted.python import rebuild

        s = dirdbm.Shelf('dirdbm.rebuild.test')
        s['key'] = 'value'
        rebuild.rebuild(dirdbm)
        # print s['key']

    def testDbm(self):
        d = self.dbm

        # insert keys
        keys = []
        values = []
        for k, v in self.items:
            d[k] = v
            keys.append(k)
            values.append(v)
        keys.sort()
        values.sort()

        # check they exist
        for k, v in self.items:
            assert d.has_key(k), "has_key() failed"
            assert d[k] == v, "database has wrong value"

        # check non existent key
        try:
            d["XXX"]
        except KeyError:
            pass
        else:
            assert 0, "didn't raise KeyError on non-existent key"

        # check keys(), values() and items()
        dbkeys = list(d.keys())
        dbvalues = list(d.values())
        dbitems = list(d.items())
        dbkeys.sort()
        dbvalues.sort()
        dbitems.sort()
        items = list(self.items)
        items.sort()
        assert keys == dbkeys, ".keys() output didn't match: %s != %s" % (repr(keys), repr(dbkeys))
        assert values == dbvalues, ".values() output didn't match: %s != %s" % (repr(values), repr(dbvalues))
        assert items == dbitems, "items() didn't match: %s != %s" % (repr(items), repr(dbitems))

        copyPath = self.mktemp()
        d2 = d.copyTo(copyPath)

        copykeys = list(d.keys())
        copyvalues = list(d.values())
        copyitems = list(d.items())
        copykeys.sort()
        copyvalues.sort()
        copyitems.sort()

        assert dbkeys == copykeys, ".copyTo().keys() didn't match: %s != %s" % (repr(dbkeys), repr(copykeys))
        assert dbvalues == copyvalues, ".copyTo().values() didn't match: %s != %s" % (repr(dbvalues), repr(copyvalues))
        assert dbitems == copyitems, ".copyTo().items() didn't match: %s != %s" % (repr(dbkeys), repr(copyitems))

        d2.clear()
        assert len(d2.keys()) == len(d2.values()) == len(d2.items()) == 0, ".clear() failed"
        shutil.rmtree(copyPath)

        # delete items
        for k, v in self.items:
            del d[k]
            assert not d.has_key(k), "has_key() even though we deleted it"
        assert len(d.keys()) == 0, "database has keys"
        assert len(d.values()) == 0, "database has values"
        assert len(d.items()) == 0, "database has items"

    def testModificationTime(self):
        import time
        # the mtime value for files comes from a different place than the
        # gettimeofday() system call. On linux, gettimeofday() can be
        # slightly ahead (due to clock drift which gettimeofday() takes into
        # account but which open()/write()/close() do not), and if we are
        # close to the edge of the next second, time.time() can give a value
        # which is larger than the mtime which results from a subsequent
        # write(). I consider this a kernel bug, but it is beyond the scope
        # of this test. Thus we keep the range of acceptability to 3 seconds time.
        # -warner
        self.dbm["k"] = "v"
        self.assert_(abs(time.time() - self.dbm.getModificationTime("k")) <= 3)

    def testRecovery(self):
        """DirDBM: test recovery from directory after a faked crash"""
        k = self.dbm._encode("key1")
        f = open(os.path.join(self.path, k + ".rpl"), "wb")
        f.write("value")
        f.close()

        k2 = self.dbm._encode("key2")
        f = open(os.path.join(self.path, k2), "wb")
        f.write("correct")
        f.close()
        f = open(os.path.join(self.path, k2 + ".rpl"), "wb")
        f.write("wrong")
        f.close()

        f = open(os.path.join(self.path, "aa.new"), "wb")
        f.write("deleted")
        f.close()

        dbm = dirdbm.DirDBM(self.path)
        assert dbm["key1"] == "value"
        assert dbm["key2"] == "correct"
        assert not glob.glob(os.path.join(self.path, "*.new"))
        assert not glob.glob(os.path.join(self.path, "*.rpl"))

class ShelfTestCase(DirDbmTestCase):

    def setUp(self):
        self.path = self.mktemp()
        self.dbm = dirdbm.Shelf(self.path)
        self.items = (('abc', 'foo'), ('/lalal', '\000\001'), ('\000\012', 'baz'),
                      ('int', 12), ('float', 12.0), ('tuple', (None, 12)))

testCases = [DirDbmTestCase, ShelfTestCase]

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For the Mall of Switzerland in Lucerne, R&M, together with Swisscom, came up with an innovation: Decentral building entry points and FO access for tenants within the building are united in one access platform. That makes fiber-optic access simpler.
In large office blocks and building complexes, such as the Mall of Switzerland, the question is always how a telecommunications provider can connect the numerous tenants quickly and efficiently to its public FO network.
Swisscom was looking for a solution that would bring the access point as close as possible to the tenants. For this purpose, the separation between the building entry point and structured building cabling was to be broken down. Decentral building entry points (BEP) and optical termination outlets (OTO) should be merged to minimize installation.
R&M developed the new access platform for Fiber to the Floor and smart buildings: OTO@BEP. In a wall rack, it unites newly developed patch inserts, which act as OTOs, and a distribution module for fiber, splice and splitter management that works as a BEP.
The OTO@BEP minimizes effort for the network operator. It can provide the transfer points and a sufficient number of OTO outlets on the floors in advance. This does away with the need for the specification and realization process per customer and optimizes access availability. The ordering process is massively reduced.
At the same time this solution facilitates an installer's work. The effort involved in splicing the optical fibers is minimized. The installers can now start with the final assembly of the cables from outlets installed and activated in advance.
For tenants within the Mall, Swisscom will be able to provide bandwidth of up to 100 Gigabits per second in future. Redundant fibers are available everywhere in order to enable access for other network operators and service providers.
This Fiber to the Floor concept can now be transferred to similarly complex key projects and smart buildings.


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Wareham DNR Rescues Two Hawks Stuck at Sewer Treatment Plant
Tim Weisberg
Tim Weisberg Published: July 24, 2021
Wareham Dept. of Natural Resources via Facebook
WAREHAM — A pair of hawks had a pretty crappy day on Friday, but the Wareham Department of Natural Resources was able to make it all better after rescuing them from sewer treatment tanks.
According to a post on the Wareham DNR Facebook page, officers and a deputy harbormaster were dispatched to the the Wareham Water Pollution Control Facility on the afternoon of July 23 for a report of two hawks caught up in the anoxic wastewater tanks.
An anoxic tank is used for the denitrification of wastewater, and while we won't get into what all of that means, let's just say it's not a spot where anyone or anything wants to get stuck.
The facility is located in a wooded area off Tony's Lane, surrounded on three sides by the Wareham River, so it's no surprise that the spot would attract hawks. However, these hawks quickly saw their plans to scout for prey flushed down the drain as they became caught in the treatment tanks.
The Department of Natural Resources wrote that the hawks were "removed from the tanks, given a bath to rinse off all the sludge and dirty water that had gotten on them," and then were released back into the wild.
But before flying off, the freshly-bathed hawks had a little bit of advice to dump on the people of Wareham.
"Also, the hawks wanted us to tell all of you to lay off the crunchwrap supremes at Taco Bell," the department wrote.
"Tanks" for the heads up, hawks.
Massachusetts Wildlife You Can Legally Take Home as Pets
Massachusetts has such diverse wildlife, but also strict limitations on what you can bring home and cuddle. In fact, there are only certain reptiles and amphibians you can keep as pets (so no raccoons, squirrels, bunnies, etc.) and you are only allowed two of each. The state also says "you cannot sell, barter, or exchange them." Also, keep in mind, these are wildlife, so it's probably best to just leave them be and maybe visit a reptile shop instead to get your next pet.
Attleboro's Capron Park Zoo Is Crawling With Brick Animals
Check out all the amazing animals made of plastic bricks on display this summer at Capron Park Zoo in Attleboro – and try to imagine how many bricks it took to make these things.
Here's a List of All the Snakes Native to Massachusetts (Two Can Kill You)
Did you know that there's a species of rattlesnake found in the Bay State? Or that two of our local venomous serpents can be deadly to humans — but despite what your parents told you, the water moccasin isn't one of them? (They don't even live in Massachusetts.) Love them or hate them, these slithery little suckers are everywhere. Here's what snakes you're most likely to find in your backyard.
Filed Under: hawks, Wareham, Wareham Department of Natural Resources
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This section describes the electric heat pump that I have constructed to help in cooling the main mirror of my 10" newtonian. Part 1 of this saga is here.
I had to find a way to attach a cooling unit to the mirror. The mirror cell (made from cast aluminium) is a very open design, with a 70mm diameter hole in the centre that goes all the way out the bottom of the cell. I decided to use this hole as the main thermal conduit to the mirror, using a cylinder of solid aluminium that would fit into this hole, and bolt onto an aluminium cold plate the same diameter as my mirror. The mirror sits on the cold plate (but is not firmly attached so as to avoid thermal stresses on the mirror).
Update The mirror no longer sits on the cold plate, but now sits on its flotation points again and these points in turn are attached to the cold plate.
The heatsinks and fans (top) and the peltier units and their aluminium plate (bottom).
The 10" aluminium plate and solid aluminium cylinder with mounting threads.
The mirror cell and mirror (upside down) showing the mounting hole in the centre.
The mirror cell back in the scope with the aluminium plate and cylinder fitted.
The mirror sits on the plate with lots of thermal paste applied to help the transfer of heat from the mirror to the plate.
More thermal paste was used between the plate and the central cylinder.
Update Due to concerns about inducing astigmatism with the cold plate directly touching the mirror, I have swapped the location of the cold plate and flotation points around so that the mirror now sits on its flotation points again, and these points in turn are anchored to the cold plate. That leaves a gap of about 3mm between the back of the mirror and the cold plate.
I'm happy to say that after testing the new arrangement I am still getting excellent results, showing that the cold plate doesnt have to actually touch the mirror to work.
Closeup of the cooling unit showing the two heatsinks (fans removed) bolted onto the hot sides of the two peltiers.
There is a 3mm thick layer of perspex between the heatsinks and the cold aluminium plate to thermally isolate them. This does not interfere with the operation of the cooler since the peltier units themselves are 4mm high. The cold side of each peltier is in thermal contact with the aluminium plate (more thermal paste) and the hot side is in contact with the heatsinks (more thermal paste).
The four holes in the middle of this unit line up with the four holes in the aluminium cylinder in the centre of the mirror cell (previous image).
The cooler bolted onto the mounting block. All that is left to do is re-attach the fans ( removed to gain access to the bolt holes in each heatsink) and apply some power.
The RED is the mirror temperature.
The GREEN is the air temp inside the tube (near the mirror).
The PURPLE is the external (ambient) air temp.
The cooler was switched on as soon as the scope was set up. Looking at the left hand side of the graph we see the mirror temp drop rapidly compared to the ambient temperature. If you compare this to the graphs given in part 1 of this project then it's clear that the active cooler is more than able to do its job.
The cooler was switched off when the mirror temp approached ambient (about 1840). This is when I discovered that my heavy-duty 12v power supply caused enough of a voltage spike to crash the temperature logger whenever it was turned on or off :-( (hence the gaps in the graph).
Just before 1930 I switched the cooler on again for another test. You can see that the mirror temp starts to plummet very quickly. Also note the effect on the internal tube temperature (green line) caused by unwanted warm air from the heatsink/fans leaking into the bottom of the tube. When the cooler is operating, enough warm air leaks into the tube to raise this temp by a degree or so.
While not serious, this intrusion of warm air into the tube is not wanted. I'll probably have to construct a shroud of some sort to stop this happening.
The rest of this graph shows me waiting patiently for the clouds to part... which they singularly fail to do. I don't bother reattaching the cooler later in the night... it's starting to look like no real astronomy will be done. By about 2am it's time to pack up and head home.
Update Part 3 of this series is now available here.


We've received a fair share of comments and emails about Mac OS X Lion making some Macs seem sluggish, running hotter than usual, and causing the machines fans to run at full speed. This sounded concerning, but after I went about installing Lion DP4 myself and looked into this a bit further I'm here to report there's nothing wrong, and here's what's going on.
Why is the Mac running hot? The explanation is simple: Spotlight. Yup, Spotlight and it's worker modules mdworker and mds are at it again. When you update to Lion 11A480b, whether you are upgrading from 10.6 Snow Leopard or just from Lion DP3, your Spotlight index has to rebuild itself, and depending on the Lion installation volume, this can take a while.
You could get away with killing the Spotlight processes, but you definitely don't want to do this with kextcache, and the Mac OS X Manual for kextcache tells us why – "Caution: Incorrect use of kextcache can render a volume incapable of startup." Let kextcache run or you could screw up your fresh Lion installation.
It's hard to give a time estimate for how long these two normal system functions should take, but on my MacBook Air there was a good 20 minutes of blazing fans and sluggish performance while the CPU was consistently pegged over 100%. The time for Spotlight to index may take even longer if you did a dual boot partition scheme because Lion will most likely try and index your Snow Leopard installation as well. You can always click on the Spotlight menu to get an ETA, but it's not always accurate and it won't include the kextcache process.
See, no big deal. Finally, you have to remember this is a developer preview and not a final release OS. It's clear that the excitement for Lion has caused usage and installation by a wider community than developers alone – heck a handful of my non-dev friends alone shelled out the $99 to get developer access just so they could run Lion – but I think this is adding to some of the confusion about system performance. This is absolutely not a Lion system compatibility issue, it's normal system behavior. Just let this stuff run and your Mac will be happy.
I'm sure the only people complaining about this stuff are the ones who shouldn't be running a beta operating system in the first place. The release is only a month away, if you aren't capable of handling a beta operating system and the quirks that come with it, just wait it out.
I think half of this is due to overzealous Mac fans and bloggers signing up for dev accounts for early access, and the other half is obtaining the builds from torrents. I don't know any developer who has complained.
There is a way to stop Spotlight from indexing your Snow Leopard partition.
Check System Preferences -> Privacy and select your Snow Leopard partition.
What a well written article, a joy to read. Hope you will write more for OS X Daily.
Ok, so basically just let it do it's thing then, eventually it will run normal again?
Yes, exactly. You can launch Activity Monitor and watch the tasks but it can take a while, a friend reported over an hour before Spotlight was done indexing the drive.
I had Lion GM installed for 3 days with sluggish performance the whole time. The fan NEVER stopped. The md services were completed and it did increase the speed, (less sluggish) but it was still not SL speed for sure. Running 13″ Pro w/ 4GB ram. Finally had to revert back to SL. I hope the GM is not the GM.
Thsi sounds about right. I upgrade my 2008 Mac mini, 500GB HDD, and 2GB RAM. The install itself took nearly 2 hrs, and after the restart the machine was slow as hell, it took 15 minutes to open mail and reindex the database, and I ended up with a spinning beachball in iCal. After I checked iTunes, and the iPhoto database, and played with the new full screen, and launchpad features I decided to call it a night at 1:00am. I left the mini on through the night however and a quick check of my mail before work and it felt much smoother.
I'm only going to give the reversed scrolling another couple of days, but it is just fighting 20 years of muscle memory when I want to quickly scroll aound a window.
I'm also going to try to find a way to replace the logon linnen image. BORING!!!!! Looks too much like Windows7, but grey instead of blue.
Even a few days after installing the release version of Lion my late 2010 MBA cpu is running at 60-84 degrees C just merely browsing the web. Indexing and caching has finished. Snow Leopard was much cooler. I hope this fixed soon.
I'm not having the temperature issues, but man is Lion sluggish. Honestly, if the performance issues aren't corrected soon, I'm going to look into rolling back to Snow Leopard.
Thanks for this… My 3 month old MacBook Pro is still running hot 4 days after the upgrade… I am hoping it is because my hard drive is 500GB and 85% full. It is not sluggish though…works great, just hot and fans flying.
I have been running Lion for nearly a week now and it is incredibly sluggish. Safari takes ages to load a webpage that Firefox loads in a third of the time….
Spotlight index has run and completed fine.
I'm considering down grade. I fing Lion as system patch/uprade I paid for – ain't new OS.
SL is the best OS ever..
Ditto to all of the above. Has anyone heard if there are plans to address these issues?
I am currently at 151ºF with just Safari and Activity Monitor open. I am at about 85 to 90% IDLE!!!! This is days after (meaning all indexing is done and the other updates should be done too) my Lion install on my 13″ MBP Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz with 4 GB memory. I don't like my MBP 13″ running hot. Apple needs to get to the bottom of this.
Just wanted to throw in my vote for sluggish performance in case any Apple engineers are reading. No problems with the fans or temperatures, but EVERYTHING is running slower. From Photoshop to Mail to opening my System Preferences. I'm even experiencing a slight delay typing this note. Quad-core 3 GHz Mac Pro with 10GB 667 DDR2.
The heat is quite concerning and very unpleasant to try and work with it on your lap.
I also upgraded and then let my system stay on for a couple of days to get all the indexing and re-indexing out of the way but it's still a little sluggish and running much hotter on my Mac Pro.
I've tried doing a safe boot, forcing all the cron scripts to run, fixing permissions— multiple restarts and reboots.
Still sluggish, still running hot.
Apple has lost the plot on this one. Over a week after the upgrade to Lion spotlight is still taking huge amounts of CPU and IO bandwidth. Come on guys. enough is enough. To make the system run at full speed with fans blazing and the disc going crazy is just unreasonable. I thought I'd let ti index stuff for a day but now it is still going. Worst of all, it does it while on battery. Basic common sense is to kill all unneeded background tasks when running on the battery.
Patch time… it had better be quick or Spotlight is gone from my computers.
If you have OS lion then, you need to configure your router. Change the channel but not too low. Keep it in the mid range. Make sure your router security mode is WPA2 personal. And make sure that the router does not change the channel. Do not put it on automatic. Your router does this to keep a good internet connection. And it likes to change frequencies, to keep the internet going as fast as possible. Lion will be really confused, as the router changes frequencies and hence your connection to the internet is lost. By making changes in your router, you will have fewer dropped connections. Hope this helps.
Mine started running hot too after watching a TV show from Fox.com. Nothing was out of the ordinary in activity monitor and it showed no high CPU percents. It was so hot it burned my lap. I restarted and now it's normal. It must be related to an application or maybe the flash player. Very strange.
I purchased lion from app store (with worries due to the fact that my mac is old) and it updated it successfully. The next week was a pain, safari and firefox went sloooow, fan running for no reason, shell of fortune spinning, opening folder to forever etc.
I decided to do a clean install, and now my old mac is like new again. Everything is snappy and looking good.
how can i do a clean install? i did the upgrade from the app store like everyone else.
This has got to be the most disappointing release of OSx yet. I did a full clean install after my Mac ground to a halt. The new version seem to work well for two weeks, but now it is awful. Constant index building, fans, overheating and odd noise from the keyboard.
Just bougth my Macbook Pro yesterday. 2GHz i7 Quadcore Today I upgraded to Lion through app store and what a disapointment. Now I'm writting this from SL again. ALOT of heat. Battery went from 6h working all morning to 3 hours after Lion install. Fan was wild. What a fail OS. I feel robbed and would really like to file a complaint to get my money back. Anyone know how or if its possible?
I'm trying the clean install into another partition tomorrow and see how that goes. But I dont expect much. Its really patch time or money back time. It reminds me of when I had WindowsXP and Vista came out. Never manage to really change until 7 came. Its the same thing they say its the big step forward but its really 3 steps back (or more).
My 17″ MBP 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 with the full Apple Certified 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 never had a problem until after I installed Mac OS X Lion now at 10.7.1 (11B26). Anybody who has been around OS know that its better to install fresh vs upgrading, but I obeyed Apple by upgrading. Now I'm experiencing either extended lags in responsiveness or complete lockup right in the middle of working on a moderate size Word document with a copy of Omnigraffle and Safari on an attached monitor. I'm talking minutes versus seconds! Applications no longer just jump up and down and open within milliseconds, its now takes 30+ seconds. My fans start kicking on for no apparent reason. I can say this because under Snow Leopard the fans would kick on after I wrote a bad SQL statement, but rarely brakes a sweat on anything else. At first I thought it was a permission problem because I kept having to enter my admin password for everything! Of course I ran the verify/repair permissions and that didn't help at all. Its only when I ran chown/chmod on my entire Users directory that it fixed that problem. But the lockup and/or slow responses is still here.
The standard Apple Care troubleshoot doesn't work here. I called 4 times, the first three they didn't know what to do except to say that this is an intermit problem and couldn't help. The fourth time, I got bumped up to the level 2 support, who had me delete all of my caches and plist files. This ended up screwing up a few applications, which require a reinstall.
So, being a techie I borrowed a friend's spare 64GB SSD and installed a fresh copy of Lion onto it. After a few tweaks had it working with my old drive by mapping the applications back to the fresh copy, etc. And guess what? No lags, slow responsiveness, applications opened like they did under Snow Leopard and no more asking for my admin password. But sadly I had to give the SSD back. I know the SSD would be a stark improvement, but I believe the fresh install resolved the problems I'm experiencing. Unfortunately I can't afford a 500GB SSD, so I'll have to time machine my drive then do a fresh install.
Shutdown and clear your System Management Controller (SMC) by holding down the Option-Command-Shift and Power button for 10 seconds then release them. Power up.
I was experiencing most of the issues described above by many people… I am using a late-2010 15″ MBP, 8GB RAM, 500GB 7200 rpm, HDD … It was uber sluggish, frequent beachballs, hot and noisy fans … This is a CLEAN Lion installation, almost 1 month old now. Idexing and all alike background processes completed long, long time ago.
I was a step away from going back to SL, then tried the suggestion of dumpster above….
Maybe still early to celebrate, but my MBP feels snappy again! The difference in performance is easily 5-10 times!
I tried the shift-option-command strategy but it didn't help. I finally went into activity monitor and shut down folding@home. I installed that recently, trying to be a positive contributor, but it looks like it makes macs run hot and trigger the fan while they are in idle mode. I figured that's not a good thing, so I turned it off. But maybe I'm wrong?
Try a "false startup". Remove the battery and disconnect from the power supply, then attempt startup (hold the button down for at least 5 seconds). This resets the machine's power allocation controls to default levels. That fixed my incessant fan.
If the battery has run down – due to not being connected and the fan continually on, and the Macbook won't restart, then reconnect the power, and follow the above.
I installed Lion on the release day and have been trying to figure out the sluggishness of my machine ever since.
Initially I did an upgrade install directly after download. Then I tried a clean install and backup from Time Machine. When migrating my old applications Flash Player was brought across to Lion and this seemed to really cause issues with the CPU speed and temperatures. I have now unistalled it, but this was not the only cause of the system running slow.
I found that using Photoshop and Aperture 3.0 to be painfully slow, just loading photos and entering full screen, even with all other applications closed. In addition swapping between applications took forever.
Last week I bought 8GB DDR3 RAM from Crucial to replace the 4GB Apple RAM, at the same time I cleaned the CPU fan and generally removed all dust I could find in under the bottom cover. I then reset the SMC and PRAM and then booted. I now have a stable fast laptop again. I notice that I am using about 6GB of RAM most of the time leaving 2GB free, 900MB of this is the Kernal, the rest is made up of Safari, Mail, Skype and Aperture.
I think the mdworker32 as regards to Spotlight is causing a BIG problem and should be fixed by Apple! I have been running Lion for 3 months and this cpu runaway started just 3 days ago. It caused hard drives to disconnect with out warning, stopped TimeMachine from backing up, and the keyboard fails to be seen.
If this is a "normal Function" then Lion will go down in history as worse than Windows!
I don't care what anybody says about Lion "re-indexing." I installed this puppy two weeks ago and everything takes longer to accomplish, web browsing, opening documents/attachments, opening email messages. Start up time has doubled. This baby slows down everything it touches. I "know" Apple will fix this thing… (wink, wink).
I was wondering if there was an issue with storage space being completely used while this indexing process worked.
I have a macbook 2009 and it went from having 70+ gigs free to having less than 1 gig free. I also uninstalled cloud and that free'd up 19 gigs of space. So i was wondering if there was backup files running or some other duplicate file being ran that would allow me to get back the 70+ gigs that have "disappeared".
Anyone have any idea what backup type files the new operation system might have made?
I have did a search through all the major folders on the computer and i have found 171 gigs of space used. The remaining space is not within the search query and i cannot locate this 70+ gigs that should still be available. I have a 250 gig hard drive in this laptop.
It's now third day with Lion and my a year old C2D iMac still runs hot and slow. On Snow leopard cpu temp was from 35 to 42°C. On Lion up to 78°C. With smcfancontrol I got the temp lower (cpu fan 3600 rpm -> 40-55°C).
Just after I was posted my previous comment I thought I check out if there are updates available. There was 10.7.3. I installed it.
After reboot and using computer normally (Safari, Mail, FaceTime, PhotoShop, Illustrator, Flash) about 15 minutes the cpu temp was 35-38°C (fan 2400 rpm), cpu usage is now 2-7 percent when only Safari is on. Mds and mdsworker still 0 and now "distnoted" shows 0.0-0.2 percent.
Earlier sluggish behaviour is pretty much gone. So, if u still have 10.7.2 you could try os update and perhaps it helps you as it perfectly helped me.
distnoted should not be taking up nearly that much CPU, you may have something weird.


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Q: Xcode 6 Misplaced Views I'm creating layouts on storyboard and setting constraints. Let's say I have an UIImageView which fill screen width. Some time after i set it, it becomes smaller and gives misplaced view warning. I'm fixing the problem by updating frames, it fills screen width again but after some time, same problem occurs. And it's not just one view, it's same for half of my UIViewControllers /:
edit: maybe some screenshots help you to understand the situation;
I'm adding my components like below and setting constraints like 0 margin from left and right.

but after some time, it becomes like this by itself

when i click update frames, it becomes what i want but for a short time..

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Q: Adobe Flex vs Silverlight This is not a pure technical question, but I believe answers will help the RIA community.
We are a software development company working on development of a stock trading product. We chose to use Adobe Flex (in mid of 2008) due to its browser penetration and its maturity relative to Silverlight. We already developed the system, and we are quite happy with it.
Now we are planning to launch the second version of our product, and it will feature a much more advanced user interface -- basically a framework of dockable windows and panes as in Visual Studio 2005 and onward, etc. We searched on the internet and found that the market of 3rd party components for Adobe Flex is still very small, but for Microsoft's Silverlight there are many advanced 3rd party components available e.g. data grids, docking frameworks, etc.
When can we expect the same type of components in Adobe Flex? What do experts think if we develop to the new version of Silverlight (Expertise in Adobe Flex vs. Silverlight is not an issue at the moment, assuming we have to develop everything from scratch).
The launch of next version is expected to be in mid 2010. Any feedback regarding this is highly appreciated.

A: Although I cannot give you the desired answer, I hope I can give you a couple of good questions and ideas that maybe help you in the process:
City Coder: Flex 3 versus Silverlight 3 in Enterprise development
Microsoft Silverlight vs. Adobe AIR/Flex Debate
I personally think, that Adobe Flash is going to lose a noticeable user base in the near future duo to new features in the upcoming html 5.0 standard. Furthermore I prefer the tools (Visual Studio), addons and languages (C#) over the Adobe equivalents and I would consider these superior. However I have to emphasis that this is only from my perspective.. :)

A: A few people in this thread assume that you can't develop Flex or Flash-based projects with Visual Studio. From 30th August, 2010 that is no longer true. You may want to look at Amethyst which is a VS visual (drag+drop) Flash Platform IDE with a multi-process debugger, IntelliSense and refactoring: http://www.sapphiresteel.com
best wishes
Huw

A: I can tell you from direct experience that Flex is a more productive platform. I work for a large RIA consultancy that builds a large number of apps with both Flex and Silverlight and we see that equivalent functionality in SL takes about 10-20% longer to develop than in Flex. Data binding support in Flex is significantly easier to use than in SL. I can also tell you that a suitably-experienced Flex developer could easily build a MDI toolkit in Flex with a couple of weeks of development time. So I would advise you to consider hiring experienced Flex developers rather than shelling out money for SL components.
SL does have a big advantage in that C# can be used on both the client and server and business logic can be reused in both tiers. This is significant and should not be discounted. ActionScript doesn't have a server-side counterpart and lacks this ability, although Flex does play nicely with a number of different backend technologies, especially Java using BlazeDS. Silverlight services integration has a variety of options on the .NET side (see Bart's comment below) while Flex can use very performant AMF in both RPC and data push (messaging). BlazeDS is free and open source.
I also think basing your decision for a development platform solely off the availability of 3rd party components is not a great idea. Putting that aside, MS platforms have always had a huge number of component development shops and a wide variety of components to choose from. It's likely even with a smaller market share that SL will have a bigger selection of 3rd party components than Flex moving forward.
Finally, I don't think MS is going to be giving up on Silverlight anytime soon. They are aggressively developing new features for SL4 and the Blend tool offers some innovations for designer/developer interactions that even Adobe is struggling to match with their new Catalyst tool.
If you have to make the decision today, I'd say go with Flex, especially for a public-facing application where you don't want to lose users because they can't or won't install the SL plugin. In 12-18 months I'm confident that SL will give Flex a much bigger run for its money but I don't think it's there, yet.

A: actually i am also thorn between the 2. in fact, i still considered Flash, but sort of struck that off because thats more for animations rather than RIAs. with Flex, theres AIR to enable deployment in both desktop and web, tho i havent tried it and dunno how easy isit to use. and i also am not sure if Silverlight can be used as a desktop app anyone?
comparing Flex and Silverlight, i dont think we shld just base our judgment on what is more widely used now. Silverlight maybe something good!
just starting exploring the 2 and find Silverlight's XAML markup more intuitive than Flex mxml. further more Silverlight will integrate with C# which is getting better with LINQ and all. so data binding, an important part of any RIA is better. for Flex, one can probably link up with something like PHP with AMF but seems abit harder from what i saw. that said i am not really familiar with both.
UPDATE: and Flex is open source now while Silverlight closed right? so Flex can be said to be cheaper to use.

A: One thing to consider is Microsoft's dedication to Silverlight. Silverlight is not taking off. How long are they going to stick with it? If the next version of Silverlight doesn't get significant market penetration, is Microsoft going to continue supporting it?
Even if they do stick with it, and even if it does take off, are they going to do like they did with Internet Explorer: develop it into the most awesome browser available at the time with IE6, and then coast for 5+ years and become a major thorn in developers' hides?
Silverlight doesn't have a lot to do with Windows. People using Silverlight does not make Microsoft much money. There's not an especially compelling business case for MS to push Silverlight.
Silverlight doesn't offer anything to the users that Flash doesn't. It's the users that are going to drive Silverlight adoption, and until there's a compelling case for me to install it on my computer (which it's not, incidentally), it's staying off.
Flex is a natural companion to Flash, which is one of Adobe's flagship products. Adobe's not going to drop Flex. Even if they did, it's entirely open-source, and Flex development could quite definitely proceed even if Adobe fell into the ocean tomorrow. (Flash runtime is not open source, unfortunately, but it's a quite good multiplatform implementation of a mostly open SWF standard, with open source implementations progressing)
I work in a .NET/Flash shop. We use Flex to talk to a .NET back-end. It can be a pain in the ass to get them to interoperate (although not impossible). I like .NET. It would be great to be able to develop our front-end in C#. I would love it. But we're not willing to bet the farm on Silverlight, given MS's technology parade.

A: One of the most important thing in our decision on our  future RIA technology is RTL support (specifically Arabic). I am very disappointed to hear that Arabic(RTL) is still not supported in Silverlight 3.0, on the other hand it is now supported on Adobe Flex 4. and I don't want to apply all non-standard tricks again that we used in our existing version of application (which is based on Flex 3). so Now One problem is solved in Flex but still remains in Silverlight... and still no docking framework in Flex, so it is going to be stalemate I guess.. :).
I will keep you updated regarding any new findings of our research...

A: One word (or two) --> "Open-source"
The world is going open source. Think android vs apple
How will you run applications for clients on Linux platform with any amount of confidence.
Right now I am not a netflix customer because no "Moonlight" support.
I have three computers at home all running Linux (Cannot shellout money to buy Windoze license) !
Think target market (and where it will be in the next few yrs)

A: Flex is more compatible with browsers, as it runs on top of Flash. Silverlight, however, needs to be downloaded, which might be a problem for users behind a proxy or network (in a workplace, for example, you can't install things). Flex also has a better framework than Silverlight, so you can customize a component in a few clicks and keystrokes.
I agree with you that VS and C# are more mature than their Flex counterparts (FB3 and ActionScript, respectively), but you'll get used to it quickly.
Then again, I am a Flex developer, and not a Silverlight developer, so my opinion can be somewhat biased. However, I did choose Flex over Silverlight because I thought that it was more compatible (nearly everyone has Flash Player) and has better support than Silverlight, and I don't regret my decision thus far.

A: If it is a stock trading product, does it stream the stock price in real-time? If it does, the cost of streaming the data will make some difference.
Both of them support some kind of data push (RTMP vs. Socket) and smart polling (RTMPT/RTMPS vs. HttpDuplexPollingChannel).

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*Infrastructural cost: Flex uses LCDS/BlazeDS while Silverlight uses IIS.

*Development cost: RTMP/RTMPT/RTMPS is already defined (and cannot be changed) while you need to define your own protocol for socket (you need to handle security and compression yourself)

From programming perspective, Silverlight should be better since XAML is drawing the interface and C# updates the state of XAML components. There are plenty of C# developers and Expression Studio to create the XAML components.
MXML is relative simple and you need Flash to draw the fancy UI. You can wait for Flex 4 (in beta) with FXG support, however. Then, it might get better support for third-party components.

A: If you have expertise on both products is hard to say, from my side having an IDE like Visual Studio is a plus (I'm a .net developer), and using the same language on server (services) and client side it's something that makes me feel quite comfortable.
I would say... go for a Proof of Concept, take a week, make two teams (same level approx.), and check in a week (without any formal testing, or formal designing) to progress in Flex and SL (for the third parties they can take advante of all the trial versions). After that week check how far the have gone and their findings.
A waste of time one week? Try to focus as a live wireframe for your final app.
Good luck
   Braulio

A: I don't think I could speculate on when or if Flex will have a similar number of 3rd party components.  Many of the Silverlight components developed by companies like Telerik and DevExpress are ports or updates of existing .NET components.  You might want to do a survey of companies that develop components for other Adobe products and ask on their forums if they plan to release a Flex product.  Aside from that all I have to go on is what's available today and it sounds like you've already done the research on existing technologies.  Good luck!

A: I have worked a bit with Flex but being more .Net oriented I can't say Flex can get any close to Silverlight in terms of developing business apps. Specially with RIA Services V2 and all the suit of .Net framework and visual studio everything is so integrated and professional.
The only reason I would consider not using Silverlight is if the product has public audience and you are going to loose customers due to low penetration of silverlight.

A: Ther is flex dock : http://code.google.com/p/flexdock/
And there is dock able flex : http://code.google.com/p/dockableflex/


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Women's Gymnasts of the Week – March 11-17, 2019
Gymnast of the Week awards are given by conference offices.
Gymnast of the Week
Sienna Crouse - Nebraska
Finished first in the all-around, posting a 39.700
Set career highs in the all-around and on uneven bars with a 9.975, including a 10.000 from one judge
Tied a career high on floor exercise as well with a 9.950
The Academic All-Big Ten honoree collects her second career Big Ten Gymnast of the Week honor and the first of the season
Event Specialist of the Week
Sierra Hassel - Nebraska
Set career highs in two events, earning a 9.975, including a 10.000 from one judge, on balance beam and a 9.925 on floor exercise
The 9.975 on balance beam ties the second highest individual score of any Husker all time
The 2017-18 Academic All-Big Ten honoree collects her first career Big Ten Event Specialist of the Week honor
Freshman of the Week
Tiarre Sales - Minnesota
Recorded new career-highs on vault (9.900) and beam (9.950) as well as tied her career-high on bars at this weekend's quad meet
Scored a 9.900 or higher on all three of her events, and never finished lower than second place
Tied for second on vault with a 9.900, tied for second on bars with another 9.900 and won the beam title (her first event title) with a score of 9.950
Earns her first career Big Ten Freshman of the Week plaudit
Big 12 Conference
Brenna Dowell - Oklahoma
Dowell garnered Gymnast of the Week, for the fourth time this season, for posting her third career 10 with a perfect mark on vault. The senior's perfect score propelled her to a 39.700 in the all-around, her second-highest score of the season. She also took home both the vault and all-around titles, along with a share of the floor title.
Specialist of the Week
Carly Woodard - Oklahoma
Woodard was awarded Event Specialist of the Week, for the second consecutive week, after tying her career-high on beam with a 9.95 against Iowa State. The sophomore notched her fourth score of 9.9 or better this season in the meet and was her second consecutive meet over a 9.9.
Newcomer of the Week
Olivia Trautman - Oklahoma
Trautman received Newcomer of the Week, for the seventh time this season, after taking home a share of the floor title with a 9.95. The freshman's floor title was her 13th event title of the year and her eighth on floor. Her performances on vault (9.875) and beam (9.850) also helped the Sooners to at least a 49.525 on all four events.
East Atlantic Gymnastics League
Alex Zois - George Washington
For the third time this season, 5th-year Alex Zois (Crofton, Md.) was honored as EAGL Gymnast of the Week. In GW's 3-1 finish in a five meet at Towson, the co-captain finished atop the podium in the all-around for the eighth time this season with a career-high matching 39.425. She had a career-high 9.925 on vault, a 9.775 on bars, a season-high matching 9.875 on beam, and a 9.850 on floor. In addition to the all-around title, Zois finished first on vault and tied for second on beam. Her efforts helped the Colonials eclipse the 196 mark for the first time this season, posting a 196.025 behind Maryland, but ahead of EAGL opponents UNH, Towson, and Pittsburgh.
Co-Specialists of the Week
Khazia Hislop - North Carolina
Hislop led the Tar Heels on vault and floor in a 1-2 finish at Oregon State, matching her career high on floor for the third week in a row with a 9.950. By placing first on vault, Hislop has placed first in an event in each of Carolina's 10 meets this season and finished first 16 times. Hislop continued her streak of 19-straight meets scoring above 9.850 on floor.
Hannah Cohen - George Washington
In GW's 3-1 finish at Towson, Cohen posted a career-high 9.850 to finish in a tie for second on bars. Cohen also paced the Colonials on beam with a career-high matching 9.875 on beam. The 9.875 is Cohen's ninth-straight score above a 9.800 on beam.
Rookie of the Week
Emerson Hurst - Towson
Freshman Emerson Hurst (St. Augustine, Florida) of Towson earned her third Rookie of the Week honor after earning a 9.875 on beam in the Tigers' 1-3 finish at their Senior Day five-meet. Her score placed second on the event and helped the Tigers earn a team total of 48.375. Hurst ranks tiedfor-second on beam in EAGL (with Alex Zois and Hannah Cohen of GW) after the regular season. This earned her a spot on All-EAGL First Team, announced on Monday.
Eastern College Athletic Conference – Division I
Monica Servidio – Temple
Servidio had a spectacular meet competing against Brown University and the University of Bridgeport as she would break Temples program record in the all-around with a 39.225. This was well above her own previous all-around career-best of a 39.05. She helped the team to a season-high on vault with a score of 9.8. On the uneven bars she would score a 9.725 and on beam score a 9.825. Servidio's best performance in any event came on the floor where she would set a new career-best score with a 9.875.
Claire Haklik – Cornell
Haklik had a great two meet weekend where Cornell had two meets with just 24 hours between them. In the first meet of the weekend on Saturday she scored a 9.825 on floor. She would step up her performance on Sunday as Cornell competed against Rutgers University. Haklik would tie the Big Reds floor exercise record score with a 9.925.
Mei Li Costa – Brown
Costa continued her impressive freshman year at Brown by scoring the top marks for the team on vault and bars. On vault she would score a 9.725 and on bars she would hit the school record. Costa scored a 9.9 on bars to put herself in qualifying position for NCAA regionals and earning the No. 2 spot on this event in the ECAC.
Coaches' Choice
Miranda Lund – Cornell
Lund stepped up for the Big Red in a couple ways last weekend. First, on vault she would be a late addition into the line-up after injuries took two gymnasts out of the line-up. She had not been practicing vault but had a score of 9.525 which would count towards the teams score. Then on beam when the regular leadoff could not participate, Lund would ask the coaches to be the lead of the event. She got the Big Red off to a great start and set the tone with a 9.725.
Eastern College Athletic Conference – Division II
Julianna Roland – Bridgeport
Roland had a fantastic weekend competing in two meets and competing in the all-around competition both days. First, she would score a 39.025 in the all-around that was accompanied by score of 9.825 on vault, 9.75 on bars, 9.625 on beam and a 9.825 on floor. She would repeat her consistency in the second meet but also improve on some of her scores, especially the all-around. The second competition saw Roland achieve a 39.25 in the all-around. She improved her with her scores on vault with a 9.9 and on the beam with a 9.875. Her bars score was a 9.675 and finished off with a floor score of 9.8.
Sarah Boyd – West Chester
Boyd hit her best beam routine of the year. She would finish first on the event and tie the Golden Rams program record with a 9.875. She also competed on floor achieving a mark of 9.675.
Bella Lanata – Southern Connecticut State
Lanata hit on both events she competed in against Bridgeport last weekend. She would also set new season-best scores which came on vault and floor. Lanata's vault score was a 9.675 and her floor score was a 9.7.
Myranda Marshall – West Chester
Marshall had a big day for the Golden Rams as they competed in their final home meet of the season, which was also senior day. Marshall would score a 9.8 to finish off her career at home. That score would tie for first place and also marked her season-best score.
Mid American Conference
Denelle Pedrick - Central Michigan
To conclude MAC competition, Junior, Denelle Pedrick claimed the All-Around Title vs. Northern Illinois. With a 39.525 (CAREER HIGH), Pedrick's breakdown includes; a 9.900 on Vault (SECOND), 9.850 on Bars (SECOND and TIES CAREER HIGH), 9.850 on Beam (FIRST), and a 9.925 on Floor (FIRST and TIES CAREER HIGH). Pedrick's 39.525 All-Around performance against the Huskies places her as the top MAC gymnast during the week of March 17th, with the next highest score coming from the respective Bowling Green performer (39.375).
Courtney Bezold - Eastern Michigan
Sophomore Cortney Bezold placed first on bars against Kent State University, March 15, with a score of 9.875.
Midwest Independent Conference
Courtney Mitchell - Lindenwood
Mitchell finished in second place in the all-around competition at the Arkansas Quad Meet on Mar. 16 with a score of 39.100. Mitchell's all-around score was the fourth-highest score of the season and placed her second at the meet. The Olathe, Kan. native established a new career-high score of 9.900 on the floor, while the Lions set a new team high for the season in the event.
Breanna Franklin - Lindenwood
Franklin matched Mitchell's performance on the floor with a new career-high score of 9.900. Franklin was Lindenwood's first gymnast to compete on the floor, helping to set the tone for what would be a season-best score. Franklin, a product of Regina, Saskatchewan, tied for third place at the Arkansas Quad Meet on the floor.
Anna Kaziska - SEMO
Kaziska registered her second career 9.900 floor score to earn third overall on the event as Southeast Missouri women's gymnastics totaled 188.250 at a quad meet with #20 Arkansas, Lindenwood and Texas Woman's last Saturday at Barnhill Arena in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The freshman from Louisville, Kentucky, also finished fourth in the all-around competition with 38.900. Kaziska matched her personal best floor mark to open the quad. She then posted a 9.725 on vault in the second rotation followed by a 9.675 on bars. Kaziska also had a beam score of 9.600.
Mountain Pacific Sports Federation
Kelley Hebert - UC Davis
Hebert (Dublin, CA) won the all-around (39.225) and floor exercise (9.950), the latter of which matched the school record she tied twice in 2018, in a home quad with No. 17 Washington, Illinois and Yale (Mar. 15). Hebert scored a 9.800 on vault, 9.575 on uneven bars, then turned around to score 9.900 on beam and the 9.950 on floor to finish the meet, which also tied for third all-time in the MPSF. Hebert has now scored 9.900 or better on floor in five straight meets. UC Davis totaled 49.050 on beam and an MPSF season-high 49.200 on floor to finish the meet with a 194.850 total. This is the 13th career MPSF weekly award for Hebert, including six this year and four in the last five weeks.
Cortney Cunningham - UC Davis
Cunningham (Hayward, CA) scored 9.700 on each of the vault and uneven bars in the quad meet with No. 17 Washington, Illinois, and Yale (Mar. 15). The vault score tied for 10th in the meet while the bars score set a career high by .125. Cunningham, who leads the MPSF freshmen on vault with a 9.745 NQS, has been a mainstay of that event lineup all season. This is the second career MPSF weekly award for Cunningham, also earning freshman recognition in week one.
Ali Marvel - Alaska-Anchorage
Marvel (Wasilla, AK) scored a career-high 9.800 on the balance beam and led the Seawolves with a 9.650 on the vault as UAA totaled 192.250 at the Michigan State quad meet (Mar. 17). She had the team's second-best score on beam as UAA's 48.625 event total ranked seventh in program history and was the best in the meet. This is the first career MPSF honor for Marvel.
Mountain Rim Gymnastics Championship
Shannon Evans - BYU
Evans was named MRGC Gymnast of the Week after scoring a 39.475 in the all-around, earning a career-best 9.950 on vault, 9.800 on bars, 9.775 on beam and 9.950 on floor. Her performance on vault and floor also led her to be named Vault Specialist of the Week and Floor Specialist of the Week.
Specialists of the Week
Shannon Evans - BYU - Vault
Helody Cyrenne - BYU - Uneven Bars
Shylen Murakami - Southern Utah - Balance Beam
Shannon Evans - BYU - Floor Exercise
Pac-12 Conference
MyKayla Skinner, - Utah
Won the all-around (39.675 points) and floor (9.975 points) at No. 6 Georgia
Earned second place marks in vault (9.925 points) and bars (9.90 points)
Skinner, the communications major, has successfully completed 151 routines in her career without a fall
Katelyn Ohashi - UCLA
Earned her fifth perfect 10 this season on the floor exercise
Has 10 career perfect 10s, which ranks fourth all-time on UCLA's career 10 list
Ohashi, the Molecular, Cell and Development Biology major, has gone undefeated on the floor this season with 10 wins
Freshman/Newcomer of the Week
Milan Clausi - California
Earned career-highs in vault (9.95 points) and on beam (9.90 points)
Clausi led the charge to Cal posting a program-record 197.575 points in the victory
The Bears tallied season highs on vault (49.350 points) and floor (49.400 points) on the way to posting a perfect season since 1994
Co-Gymnasts of the Week
Kennedi Edney - LSU
Edney, a junior from Chino, Calif., tied for first in the all-around with a 39.725 in the regular-season finale at Arizona. Edney scored her second career 10 and first on vault, and also earned a share of first place on beam (9.90) and floor (9.95).
Sarah Finnegan - LSU
Finnegan, a senior from Lee's Summit, Mo., tied for first in the all-around with her score of 39.725 at Arizona. Finnegan posted her fifth career 10 and second on bars, and earned a share of first place on beam (9.90) and floor (9.95).
Katie Stuart - Kentucky
Stuart, a senior from Parkland, Fla., earned a career-high 9.975 to take first place on vault in a tri-meet at No. 18 Nebraska. It was Stuart's eighth career victory on the event.
Rachael Lukacs - Georgia
Lukacs, a freshman from Hillsborough, N.J., placed first on vault with a season-high score of 9.95 on vault as the GymDogs earned the win over No. 6 Utah to close out the regular season. Lukacs also scored a 9.85 on floor and 9.825 on bars in the victory.


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November 29/06 12:20 pm - IMBA Canada News
Posted by Editor on 11/29/06
IMBA Canada News
IMBA Welcomes First Canadian Board Member
Online and mail-in votes cast by members of the International Mountain Bicycling Association this fall elected three new members to IMBA's board of directors, including Canadian Janet O'Connell. O'Connell is the executive director of the Bicycle Trade Association of Canada and brings with her a strong background in advertising and publishing.
The three newest members add substantial and diverse leadership skills to IMBA:
* John Bliss is the privacy strategist for Entity Analytic Solutions, a unit within IBM's Software Group. He has worked as a lawyer and lobbyist in Washington, DC. Bliss has served on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and was Chief Counsel for United States Senator Hank Brown. An active mountain biker racer, Bliss resides in Colorado, and competes in regional and national expert-class events.
* Blair Clark is senior vice president of marketing and sales at Smith Optics. He spent 13 years working at a variety of bicycle shops, directed business affairs for Specialized USA, and was president of Giro Sport Design. Clark currently serves on the board of directors for the Outdoor Industry Association. He recently founded the Paul David Clark Fund within Bikes Belong as a means of promoting bicycle safety and awareness. The native Californian now lives in Idaho.
* Janet O'Connell is the executive director of the Bicycle Trade Association of Canada. She previously served as director of strategic initiatives for the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers, and has substantial experience in the advertising and publishing industries. O'Connell is a current board member for the Canadian Association of Exhibition Managers. The first Canadian to serve on IMBA's board, she enjoys exploring trails with her two children.
Ride Great Trails in 2007 - Donate to the IMBA Canada Annual Fund
IMBA Canada's Annual Fund campaign was launched last week with an unprecedented response from IMBA supporters across the country. In less than a week, we're already one-third of the way to our year-end goal of $5,000. Help us keep this momentum by donating today, and asking your friends to do the same. Your year-end boost will help make 2007 our best year ever - a year of better riding! Annual Fund details.
Contributors of $35 or more will receive a full colour 2007 IMBA Calendar.
Whistler's "Comfortably Numb" Announced as IMBA Epic
IMBA Epic Rides are why we love mountain biking. They create great memories and inspire us to save trails. To fuel this passion, IMBA has selected three new outstanding routes as Epic Rides inductees for 2006, adding to the 37 great rides we've picked since 1999. Read why Comfortably Numb made the cut, and view a video of this Epic trail.
Trailbuilding Goes to College
IMBA Canada's Mark Schmidt and Lora Woolner recently spent a month on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast, teaching the first course in Park and Trail Design offered as part of Capilano College's new Mountain Bike Operations Certificate Program. The program is the first of its kind in North America and around the world, and is preparing the next generation of mountain resort managers, government officials, and non-profit leaders in mountain bike programming and infrastructure.
Norco Riders Raise Money for IMBA Canada
For the last three years, Norco Performance Bikes has been holding customer appreciation days across Canada. Known as VPS-Fests, these events offer Norco riders a day of great riding, free professional tech support, a chance to win cool prizes, and the opportunity to ride with some of the pros. This year, in addition to all the other benefits, Norco sold a selection of Norco-branded products, with all proceeds earmarked directly to IMBA Canada. IMBA Canada would like to thank Norco, and all of Norco's consumers for raising close to $1,000 for trails across Canada!
"It was great to see people so willing to support IMBA," commented Trisha Petrella, Norco's PR/Marketing Coordinator. "Not only do Norco riders say they care about the future of cycling in Canada, they are willing to back it up with their dollars."
Norco sold a wide variety of gear at VPS-Fest, from t-shirts to beer mugs, with all the proceeds going to IMBA Canada, and plans to do so again next summer. Thanks again to everyone who attended VPS-Fest this summer, and especially to those who supported IMBA Canada by purchasing a t-shirt!
IMBA Canada Affiliate ADSVMQ Recognized for Volunteer Efforts in Mont Blanc, QC
L'Association pur le développement des sentiers de Vélo de Montagne (ADSVMQ), an IMBA Canada affiliate, was awarded with a plaque from Ski Mont Blanc this October, recognizing their volunteers as "Trailbuilding Members" of Mont Blanc's mountain bike facilities.
Following the closure of Mont Tremblant a few years ago, the area north of Montreal, QC was left with no downhill mountain bike opportunities. However, in May 2006, Ski Mont Blanc decided to open its doors to mountain biking. Less than two months later, a chairlift was put into action to carry visitors to three new downhill trails that were built by Benoit Prud'Homme, Laurent Goyet, and countless local volunteers.
IMBA Canada affiliate, l'Association pur le développement des sentiers de Vélo de Montagne (ADSVMQ), under the direction of Jerome Pelland, IMBA Québec Rep, helped manage the project and organized a well-attended trailbuilding weekend in June. By summer's end, the mountain boasted seven downhill trails, a small cross-country loop, and the biggest dirt jump park in eastern Canada. To thank the volunteers, Mont Blanc presented a plaque to the ADSVMQ and IMBA during their annual ChromeFest in October.
Congratulations to all the the volunteer trailbuilders and their tremendous success at Mont Blanc!
New Freeride Park Proposed in Southern Ontario
Big news for riders looking for challenging terrain in Southern Ontario: a new freeride park is being proposed in the City of Kitchener. The vision of the Waterloo Cycling Club, the park will be created to challenge all riders, from beginners to most advanced. Proposed features include a skills area, dirt jumps, various levels of downhill runs and a four-cross course. To check out the plans, visit the WCC Freeride website - and while you're there, sign the petition to make this park a reality.
IMBA Canada Legal Fund Raises Over $6K
Contributions to the IMBA Canada Legal Fund have topped the $6,000 mark, enabling us to maintain our work in the increasingly important fields of risk management and bike-related liability issues. Special thanks go to Specialized for donating copies of the hardcover book Stumpjumper: 25 Years of Mountain Biking. Contributions of $35 or more earned copies hand-signed mountain bike legend Ned Overend. Thank you for your donations to this vital fund.
Give the Gift of Trails this Christmas and Get a Free Gift!
Looking for a unique gift for a riding buddy this Christmas? Consider giving the Gift of Trails. Purchase a supporting level gift membership for a friend for only $30, and we'll send you the gift of an IMBA Canada t-shirt or toque for free! That's $10 off the normal membership price of $40, and a great Christmas gift for each of you. Last order date for guaranteed delivery before Christmas is December 13, 2006. Order today.
New Study Examines Mountain Biking Impacts
A newly published study in the summer 2006 Journal of Park and Recreation Administration (Volume 24, Number 12) takes a close look at the environmental impacts of mountain biking. Researchers measured trail erosion and other impacts on 31 trails used for mountain biking in the southwestern U.S. The study concludes that, "certain impacts to mountain bike trails, especially width, are comparable or less than hiking or multiple-use trails, and significantly less than impacts to equestrian or off-highway vehicle trails."
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