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OPG Invests in DynaMotive's Integrated BioOil Power Facility
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Vancouver, BC, Canada DynaMotive Energy Systems Corporation (OTCBB: DYMTF), and Ontario Power Generation (OPG), a major North American electricity producer have entered into an agreement for the proposed development of renewable fuel projects in Ontario.
The two companies will be working together with other members of a consortium on an integrated 100 tonne/day biofuel and 2.5 megawatt combined heat and power facility in West Lorne, Ontario, Canada. The facility, the largest of its kind anywhere, will utilize wood residue from the operations of Erie Flooring and Wood Products. It will consist of wood conditioning equipment, a pyrolysis plant, and a combined heat and power plant. The objective is to utilize DynaMotive's unique pyrolysis technology to establish a biofueled power generation plant on a commercial scale. Previously, DynaMotive successfully demonstrated the use of this technology to produce biofuel from wood in a 10 tonne/day pilot plant. This project will demonstrate an integration of the fuel production with its use in combined heat and power production in an industrial environment. If the project is completed, the project participants will apply for EcoLogoM certification and could be contributing green power not utilized by Erie Flooring's operations to the Ontario grid by early next year.
DynaMotive and OPG executed a Memorandum of Understanding in July 2002 to investigate opportunities to utilize DynaMotive's process to convert wood residue to BioOil. This is a renewable fuel that can be efficiently transported to other facilities and could be used to replace fossil fuels to produce green power. A byproduct of the process is a high quality char that has several potential commercial applications including as a partial replacement fuel for coal.
"This project expands the technology to a commercial scale. We're excited about the potential because it essentially converts wood, which is a renewable energy source, to a liquid fuel that allows for easier use for power generation," says Larry Doran, OPG's Vice President Business Development.
OPG's initial C$200,000 investment in the project provides for the predevelopment work, including a project integration study by UMA Engineering Ltd. of Burnaby, British Columbia. Optional further investment by OPG will be subject to project feasibility. OPG has the right of first offer on future DynaMotive initiatives in OPG's trading areas and the right to partner with others.
"DynaMotive is pleased to have OPG as the first commercial generator to partner in the project. It is instrumental to have a leading generation company recognize the commercial potential of our technologies and how important they are to the collective future for renewable energy and our environment," says Andrew Kingston, President & CEO of DynaMotive.
Other participants in the project are: Magellan Aerospace division-Orenda Industrial, which is providing the power generation and fuel handling system utilizing BioOil; UMA Engineering; and Erie Flooring and Wood Products, which will supply wood residue for the project and receive electricity and process heat for its operations.
Ontario Power Generation is an Ontario based company, whose principal business is the generation and sale of electricity to customers in Ontario and to interconnected markets. OPG's focus is on the risk-managed production and sale of reliable electricity from our competitive generation assets. OPG's goal is to be a premier North American energy company, while operating in a safe, open and environmentally responsible manner.
DynaMotive is an energy systems company that is focused on the development of innovative energy solutions based on its patented fast pyrolysis system. Through the application of fast pyrolysis, DynaMotive has shown how to unlock the natural energy found in the world's abundant organic resources that have been traditionally discarded by the agricultural and forest industries in a wasteful and costly manner, and to economically convert them into a renewable and environmentally friendly fuel. Proven applications include forestry residues such as wood and bark, and agricultural residues such as sugar cane bagasse and corn stover. DynaMotive has successfully demonstrated conversion of each of these residues into fuel known as BioOil, as well as valuable char, making these residues a renewable and environmentally friendly energy reserve.
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Fax: (604) 267-6005 Email: investor@DynaMotive.com Website: www.DynaMotive.com
In Europe, contact:
Antony Robson, Managing Director Tel: (44) 0207 550 3872	Fax: (44) 0207 409 2304
US enquiries, contact:
James Acheson, Chief Operating Officer DynaMotive Corporation
Tel: (323) 460-4900 Fax: (323) 465-2617 Email: jacheson@DynaMotive.com
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Q: Given an RGB value, how do I create a tint (or shade)? Given an RGB value, like 168, 0, 255, how do I create tints (make it lighter) and shades (make it darker) of the color?

A: I'm currently experimenting with canvas and pixels... I'm finding this logic works out for me better.

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*Use this to calculate the grey-ness ( luma ? )

*but with both the existing value and the new 'tint' value

*calculate the difference ( I found I did not need to multiply )

*add to offset the 'tint' value
var grey =  (r + g + b) / 3;
var grey2 = (new_r + new_g + new_b) / 3;

var dr =  grey - grey2 * 1;
var dg =  grey - grey2 * 1
var db =  grey - grey2 * 1;

tint_r = new_r + dr;
tint_g = new_g + dg;
tint_b = new_b _ db;

or something like that...

A: Among several options for shading and tinting:

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*For shades, multiply each component by 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, etc., of its
previous value. The smaller the factor, the darker the shade.

*For tints, calculate (255 - previous value), multiply that by 1/4,
1/2, 3/4, etc. (the greater the factor, the lighter the tint), and add that to the previous value (assuming each.component is a 8-bit integer).
Note that color manipulations (such as tints and other shading) should be done in linear RGB. However, RGB colors specified in documents or encoded in images and video are not likely to be in linear RGB, in which case a so-called inverse transfer function needs to be applied to each of the RGB color's components. This function varies with the RGB color space. For example, in the sRGB color space (which can be assumed if the RGB color space is unknown), this function is roughly equivalent to raising each sRGB color component (ranging from 0 through 1) to a power of 2.2. (Note that "linear RGB" is not an RGB color space.)
See also Violet Giraffe's comment about "gamma correction".

A: Some definitions

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*A shade is produced by "darkening" a hue or "adding black"

*A tint is produced by "ligthening" a hue or "adding white"

Creating a tint or a shade
Depending on your Color Model, there are different methods to create a darker (shaded) or lighter (tinted) color:

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*RGB:

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*To shade:
newR = currentR * (1 - shade_factor)
newG = currentG * (1 - shade_factor)
newB = currentB * (1 - shade_factor)

*To tint:
newR = currentR + (255 - currentR) * tint_factor
newG = currentG + (255 - currentG) * tint_factor
newB = currentB + (255 - currentB) * tint_factor

*More generally, the color resulting in layering a color RGB(currentR,currentG,currentB) with a color RGBA(aR,aG,aB,alpha) is:
newR = currentR + (aR - currentR) * alpha
newG = currentG + (aG - currentG) * alpha
newB = currentB + (aB - currentB) * alpha

where (aR,aG,aB) = black = (0,0,0) for shading, and (aR,aG,aB) = white = (255,255,255) for tinting

*HSV or HSB:

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*To shade: lower the Value / Brightness or increase the Saturation

*To tint: lower the Saturation or increase the Value / Brightness

*HSL:

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*To shade: lower the Lightness

*To tint: increase the Lightness
There exists formulas to convert from one color model to another. As per your initial question, if you are in RGB and want to use the HSV model to shade for example, you can just convert to HSV, do the shading and convert back to RGB. Formula to convert are not trivial but can be found on the internet. Depending on your language, it might also be available as a core function :

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*RGB to HSV color in javascript?

*Convert RGB value to HSV
Comparing the models

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*RGB has the advantage of being really simple to implement, but:

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*you can only shade or tint your color relatively

*you have no idea if your color is already tinted or shaded

*HSV or HSB is kind of complex because you need to play with two parameters to get what you want (Saturation & Value / Brightness)

*HSL is the best from my point of view:

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*supported by CSS3 (for webapp)

*simple and accurate:

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*50% means an unaltered Hue

*>50% means the Hue is lighter (tint)

*<50% means the Hue is darker (shade)

*given a color you can determine if it is already tinted or shaded

*you can tint or shade a color relatively or absolutely (by just replacing the Lightness part)

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*If you want to learn more about this subject: Wiki: Colors Model

*For more information on what those models are: Wikipedia: HSL and HSV

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Tony Abbott returns for 2018
Ray Hadley
Australia Daychange the dateMalcolm TurnbullTony Abbott
Tony Abbott has launched a staunch defence of the First Fleet and Australia Day.
In his first regular chat with Ray Hadley for 2018, the former Prime Minister discussed the ongoing Change The Date campaign, Malcolm Turnbull's leadership and a nasty cycling crash he had over the summer break.
"Australia Day is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate all of the things we've achieved.
"I would also argue Ray that what happened on the 26th of January 1788 was on balance for everyone, Aboriginal people included, a good thing.
"All of the things that we know and love about modern Australia are the lineal descendants of the attitudes that came ashore with the First Fleet on that day back in 1788.
"We shouldn't underestimate the contribution that the Aboriginal ethos has made to the wider Australian ethos.
"That easy going, stoicism, that laconic style that so characterises Australians is typical of the spirit that pervades indigenous Australia."
The former PM also commented on Malcolm Turnbull edging closer to his record of 29 consecutive Newspoll losses, defending the man who knifed him.
"It's not the polls that count, it's the quality of government that counts."
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Comett is an alternative pop music project founded in 2005 by the multi-instrumentalist artist Alexandre Canola, originally from Tours, who after living successively in London and Dublin, has been based in Paris for more than 10 years.
After the great success of its last album "The Ghost inside me", and after more than a million streams, Comett is back this spring with a folk ballad that might not have displeased the two brothers from Manchester.
"You've done everything right' is about personal failures, which we blame on ourselves, even though they are out of our control. From a series of songs recorded during the lockdown, 'You've done everything right' can be understood as a musical tribute to the English band Oasis, of which Comett was a fan in his teens.
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from django.test import TestCase

# permissions imports
import permissions.utils

# lfc imports
from lfc.models import BaseContent
from lfc.models import Portal
from lfc.tests.utils import create_request

# lfc_page imports
from lfc_page.models import Page

class ManagerTestCase(TestCase):
    """
    """
    def setUp(self):
        """
        """
        Portal.objects.create()
        self.p1 = Page.objects.create(title="Page 1", slug="page-1")
        self.p2 = Page.objects.create(title="Page 2", slug="page-2")

        self.anonymous = permissions.utils.register_role("Anonymous")
        self.permission = permissions.utils.register_permission("View", "view")

        permissions.utils.grant_permission(self.p2, self.anonymous, "view")

    def test_get(self):
        """
        """
        obj = BaseContent.objects.get(slug="page-1")
        self.failUnless(isinstance(obj, BaseContent))

    def test_get_content_object(self):
        """
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        obj = BaseContent.objects.get(slug="page-1").get_content_object()
        self.failUnless(isinstance(obj, Page))

    def test_get_content_objects(self):
        """
        """
        obj = BaseContent.objects.filter(slug="page-1").get_content_objects()
        self.failUnless(isinstance(obj[0], Page))

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What number is the greatest cube of a whole number that evenly divides 54?
27 = the cube of 3 = 54/2
Q: What number is the greatest cube of a whole number that evenly divides 54?
What is the greatest square of a whole number that evenly divides 54?
What is a number that divides into a whole number evenly?
A number that divides into a whole number evenly is called a "factor" of that number.
The largest whole number that divides evenly into two or more given numbers?
The greatest common factor is a number that divides evenly into two or more numbers. It is also called the highest common factor or greatest common divisor.
A whole number that divides another whole number evenly?
Factors, such as 12 or 24
What is the greatest common factor between three digits?
It's the largest whole number that divides into each of them evenly with no remainder.
What is a whole number that divides evenly into another whole number?
The first one is a "factor" of the second one.
What is a decimal amount that ends or divides evenly?
A whole number.
What number goes into 7 and 100?
The only whole number that divides evenly into both 7 and 100 is ' 1 '.
What are 5 4 and 8 divisible by?
The only whole number that evenly divides 5, 4, and 8 is ' 1 '.
Why is 8 a factor of 32?
Because 8 divides into 32 evenly with no remainder.
What is the greatest cube of a whole number that divides 72 with a remainder of 0?
The largest cube is 23 = 8 which divides 72 with a remainder of 0.
What is a whole number that divides into another with no remainder?
It's a factor of the whole number that it divides into with no remainder.
When a whole number can be divided evenly by another whole number?
It is called a whole number. Every whole number, other than 1 can be divided evenly by 1. 1 itself can be divided evenly by -1. Thus, every whole number can be divided evenly by another whole number.
How do you make a whole number out of a fraction?
If the numerator divides evenly by the denominator, simply do that. When working with algebra you can multiply both sides by the denominator.
Because 1 x 12 is 12. Because 1 is a whole number that divides evenly into 12. Because 1 is a factor of every whole number.
What is it called when a whole number can be divided evenly by another whole number?
When a whole number can be divided evenly by another whole number is called?
What is the largest whole number that divides evenly into both 30 and 10?
numbers are infinite so this question is impossible, but 30,60,90,120, and so forth go into 30 and 10 evenly.
Why 5615 is not prime?
The definition of a prime number is a whole number greater than 1, that can be divided evenly only by 1 and itself. 5615 ÷ 5 = 1123 (5 divides evenly into 5615, therefore not a prime number).
What is it when a whole number can be divided evenly by another whole number?
It means nothing at all. Every whole number, except 1, can be divided evenly by 1. Which leaves 1 which can be divided evenly by -1. Thus every whole number can be divided evenly by another whole number.
When a whole number can be divided evenly by another whole number mean?
Why is 13 a factor of 26?
Because 13 divides evenly into 26 with no remainder.
What is 19 over 40 reduced too?
19/40 is in the reduced form as there is no whole number that divides 19 and 40 evenly (remainder zero).
What does not lowest term mean?
when a fraction is not in lowest term is there ius a whole number greater than 1 which divides into both the numerator and denominator evenly
When a number divides into a whole number and there is no remainder what is it?
A factor.


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The filing doesn't accuse President Donald Trump of a crime, in the legal sense, but argues that Trump has committed "high misdemeanors" worthy of removal from office. | Jim Watson/Getty Images
The Trump impeachment document: NFL protests, Charlottesville, anti-Muslim videos
By KYLE CHENEY
Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) introduced articles of impeachment on Wednesday against President Donald Trump.
The filing doesn't accuse Trump of a crime, in the legal sense, but argues that Trump has committed "high misdemeanors" worthy of removal from office. Those offenses, it says, include excusing bigotry in the aftermath of the Charlottesville riot, attacking NFL players for protesting police violence and insulting African-American Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.). It also notes Trump's sharing of anti-Muslim videos on Twitter — posted originally by a far-right British group — among the charges.
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Summary of Articles of Impeachment Article I – Associating the Presidency with White Nationalism, Neo-Nazism and Hatred
-Donald J. Trump issued a public statement characterizing anti-Semites, bigots, racists, white nationalists, and Ku Klux Klansmen who rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia as "very fine people." -Donald J. Trump did not issue a public statement when these hate groups returned to Charlottesville, Virginia chanting "You will not replace us!" He did, however, issue several statements related to players in the National Football League exercising their constitutionally protected right to protest.
-Donald J. Trump shared three videos from a British right-wing extremist that purported to show various violent acts committed by Muslims. The videos were found to be inaccurately titled and characterized.
Article II – Inciting Hatred and Hostility
-Donald J. Trump issued Executive Order 13769, which caused a partial shutdown of immigration from Muslim countries.
-Donald J. Trump issued a public statement that transgender individuals are banned from serving in the United States military.
-Donald J. Trump made a public statement referring to professional football players as "sons of bitches," therefore denigrating them and their mothers, for exercising their constitutionally protected right to protest.
-Donald J. Trump made a public statement that after being devastated by a Category 4 and Category 5 hurricane, Puerto Ricans "…want everything done for them when it should be a community effort," inciting racial tensions around the stereotype that people of color need or want handouts.
-Donald J. Trump made a public statement that after being devastated by a Category 4 and Category 5 hurricane in one week, Puerto Ricans had "…thrown our budget a little out of whack." Similar statements were not made by Mr. Trump about Texas or Florida, which were also devastated by hurricanes in September 2017.
-Donald J. Trump issued a public statement referring to Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24), a female, African-American Member of Congress as "wacky" and called her a liar.
-Donald J. Trump issued a public statement referring to Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24), a female, African-American Member of Congress as "wacky" a second time.
-Donald J. Trump issued a public statement referring to Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL-24), a female, African-American Member of Congress as "wacky" a third time.


Since the last Google update, there have been many instances and examples of the Google Nuke Bot! This is what I call it anyway. Have you visited a favorite website lately only to realize they've been nuked by Google?
More and more we are seeing internet marketing / SEO companies getting nuked, by Google completely removing them from their data banks. I am not going to mention any names because I'm sure the owners of the once populated websites already know and are embarrassed from this development.
Since the word went out on WebPositionGold getting banned from Google for automatic queries sent to Google, we are noticing other related websites going down for the count as well.
The thing is, we already know about Webpositiongold, what about other sites that are getting hit hard? Has your site been nuked?
It seems as though, some sites that had thousands of links pointing from Google are getting hit the hardest. It seems like Google is cracking down on "spam tactics", "submission tactics", and anything related to unethical SEO practices.
Is Google Making An Effort To Uphold Their Webmaster Guidelines?
Will it come to a point where if we don't uphold the Google guidelines, we cannot be successful online? This thought is ridiculous but almost scary to think it could happen! What about website's that still hide text through same background colours? Hidden div layers? and mirror pages? Why hasn't Google attacked those issues first?
You can almost make the assumption that by Google nuking websites that send automatic ranking & link popularity queries to their data base, this may be a huge effort to relieve the strain on the query servers in order to free up some memory.
How Does Getting Your Website Nuked From Google Affect Your Credibility?
An event like this could ultimately ruin your reputation online. People who have come to trust your knowledge and judgment on Google rankings may never look at your company the same ever again. People might think to themselves "I don't want to get nuked like they did!".
How Can You Tell You've Been Nuked?
For newer websites, don't be confused between this nuking process and your own evolution online. Getting and maintaining a high PR level takes a lot of work.
Once Nuked, Does Google Still Come Back?
The question I have for websites that have been nuked: Can you still see Google in your stat log files for your site? If so, I wonder if Google is still keeping an eye on you and watching your every move?
Stay away from programs that generate automatic queries into Google. Don't check your link popularity 3 times a week and especially don't check your search engine rankings twice a day. Just simply promote your website and measure your success through your internal website stats and monthly profits. Google doesn't appreciate websites that consistently draw their power in order to measure their success, just simply take that out of your daily actions.
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Ergogenic aids - Squat or ScrumTruk: which is best for quadriceps training for athletes?
Squat or ScrumTruk: which is best for quadriceps training for athletes?
McLaughlin et al. (1978) suggests that there are deficiencies in the squat as an exercise for developing quadriceps strength. I suggest that the ScrumTruk may be a more efficient apparatus for this purpose.
McLaughlin and his colleagues investigated torques and joint forces generated during the parallel squat by studying nationally-ranked and world-class powerlifters competing at the U.S. Senior National A.A.U. Powerlifting Championships. Although now very dated, the study is important given that, as with other complex joint movements, the study of the kinetics of the squat exercise has been virtually neglected. The research involved a cinematographic analysis to calculate joint forces and muscular torques for the shank, thigh and trunk, i.e. at the ankle, knee and hip joints, respectively.
Subjects were classified as world-class, high-skilled or less-skilled. This delineation of ability was used in order to isolate trends in technique. It was assumed that the most-skilled subjects "would exhibit efficient patterns of performance," so that they were, in effect, used as a reference group in assessing the performance of those in the other subgroups.
By comparing the techniques of lifters in each group, the researchers hoped to identify possible general trends in performance for individuals unskilled in the squat.
McLaughlin (1975) and McLaughlin et al. (1977)[1,2] had found that less-skilled subjects "leaned forward more and moved the knees frontward to a greater extent during the descent, and ... moved the hips backwards more in the early ascent while also increasing trunk lean." The degree of forward lean during the lift appears to increase the torque for the trunk extensors and reduce those of the thigh extensors.
McLaughlin et al. (1978) confirmed these findings. One of its major observations was "a general trend for the high-skilled subjects to exhibit more extensor-dominant thigh torques than the less skilled." In particular, the three world-class subjects had the greatest extensor-dominant thigh torques.
With respect to trunk torque, it was noted that it "increased linearly the more a subject's trunk angle decreased." The angle referred to was that between the trunk and the horizontal at the hip joint.
McLaughlin et al. (1977) found the mean trunk angles to be smaller for less-skilled subjects than for the high-skilled. The most recent study verified the related trend for less-skilled subjects to exhibit greater trunk torques than more highly-skilled subjects. "It would appear from the data that high-skilled subjects attempt to minimize the trunk torque and do so largely by reducing forward trunk lean."
It was noted that among the subjects, the then world super heavyweight champion maintained the greatest trunk angle of all subjects and, despite his much greater bar load, had a lower trunk torque than many smaller, less-skilled subjects.
It was suggested that the magnitudes for trunk torque affect the magnitude and dominance of the thigh torque values. As mentioned above, the high-skilled subjects demonstrate larger trunk angles, lower trunk torques, and more extensor-dominant thigh torques. "The high-skilled subjects strive to use the leg extensors to a greater extent than do less skilled subjects. This greater emphasis on the leg extensors is obtained by a minimization of the trunk torques by the high-skilled subjects (achieved by maintaining more erect trunk positions)."
Although the parallel squat has been regarded as primarily a leg-extensor activity, the results of this study show that trunk extensors play a very significant and even a dominant role. The muscular torques for the trunk extensors were found to be greater than the thigh and shank torques across a wide range of trunk-angle positions. The authors conclude that the widespread recommendation of the squat as one of the primary exercises for developing quadriceps needs to be altered in light of their findings. Those recommending the exercise primarily for quadriceps development should either ensure that a high trunk angle is maintained or suggest other exercises that more directly involve the quadriceps. In practice, of course, given the observed tendency of inexperienced lifters to move their hips back and lean forward more when coping with heavy loads, it is unlikely that the squat is an effective exercise for development of the quadriceps group.
Is the ScrumTruk a useful alternative?
At the low point of the squat movement, the exerciser has completed the eccentric or lowering phase and is switching to the concentric or rising phase. This is occurring in a region of high mechanical disadvantage. At this point, the injunction to keep the hips forward and the trunk near upright is unlikely to be followed if an inexperienced lifter is struggling with a near-limit weight and worried about the implications of failure. The corresponding scenario with the ScrumTruk involves the exerciser allowing the push truck to roll back towards them in the eccentric phase then generating the shove for the concentric or pushing phase. If they are not confident about coping with the weight they can simply allow the push truck to come to rest against the bumper stops. They have no need for a spotter to take some of the load. Even more importantly, the horizontal trunk position adopted with the ScrumTruk is intuitive, comfortable and involves no strain on the lumbar spine. Athletes find no difficulty in maintaining a horizontal trunk throughout a set of repetitions. Figures 1 and 2 provide a comparison of the orientation of the trunk relative to the direction of weight force for the squat and ScrumTruk respectively. In Figure 1 it is obvious that there is quite a long moment arm from the fulcrum point at the hip joint to the vertical line of force from the weight bar. This moment arm increases as the trunk angle decreases and the hips are moved back. Figure 1 Vertical weight force with the Squat Figure 2 Horizontal weight force with ScrumTruk the exerciser in Figure 2 is in the typical starting point for pushing the ScrumTruk. The included angles for both hip and knee joints are 90°. It can be seen that the moment arm from the hip joint to the horizontal weight force is negligible.
In scrummaging the conventional range of movement in terms of included angles for both hip and knee joints is 90° to 140°. This relationship is readily replicated using the ScrumTruk. Further, when the exercise range is extended to "lock-out" or full extension, hip and knee joints move in unison from 90° to 180°. Thus, the hip and knee extensors share more or less equally the distribution of the load, with the result that the quadriceps group, as knee extensors, are fully engaged.
As noted, there is the tendency with the squat for excessive trunk lean. To the extent that this occurs, at the lowest point of the squat, the included angle at the hip joint is significantly less than that at the knee joint. Consequently, rising to "lock-out" or 180° extension involves a much greater range of angular movement for the trunk than the thighs. Crucially, observation of actual lifters suggests that much of this greater relative movement tends to occur when the lifter is moving from a horizontal thigh position through the "sticking point," which McLaughlin and his colleagues estimated at around 30° above horizontal. Thus the trunk extensors, principally the gluteus maximus, bear the bulk of the serious loading while the quadriceps is not fully taxed.
Given that the ScrumTruk is a very recent invention which is just coming out of the development stage, there have not yet been any systematic studies of its operation or effects. However, the most common observation from players in Sydney University Football Club's Elite Development Squad who have been making extensive use of the ScrumTruk in out-of-season training is a very definite "pump" or "burn" in the quadriceps when performing heavy sets. When queried, they report no similar effect from the squat which they are simultaneously performing.
For rugby players, who usually have an inexpert technique in the squat, the ScrumTruk appears to be a much more efficient vehicle for developing and strengthening the quadriceps. Given its ease, comfort and efficiency of use, the ScrumTruk is likely to offer similar advantages over the squat for athletes in other sports or for other people pursuing strength and fitness. Its use is certainly indicated where there is a history of back or knee problems or where the person's limb geometry makes it difficult to maintain good form in the squat.
Bruce Ross is a retired academic who has been President of Sydney University Sport for the past 14 years. He has a background in rugby, both playing and coaching, and in strength development. His company, MyoQuip Pty Ltd is focussed on identifying and exploiting areas where current strength-increasing technology is inadequate or non-existent.


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The Pyx: An Eerie Postcard From The Past
Published July 19, 2013 by vfdpixie
The Pyx (1973, 1 hr 48 mins)
After a brief and tipsy jaunt in Montreal, I thought it only fitting that I write about a 1973 classic that I stumble upon at Suspect Video. Filmed in Montreal, and based on a novel by John Buell, The Pyx is a trippy, time jumping story that showcases a very young Christopher Plummer and the striking Karen Black in some lesser known roles.
Elizabeth Lucy (Karen Black) falls to her death from the penthouse of a posh apartment complex, adorned with an inverted crucifix and a pyx (a vessel used to transport the Catholic Host outside the church). Detective Jim Henderson (Christopher Plummer) is assigned to the case; a sarcastic, hard-nosed but thoughtful cop who's been around the block. His partner, Detective Pierre Paquette (Donald Pilon) realizes that she was a prostitute, and piece by piece, Henderson uncovers a mysterious plot where no one is as they seem, and fear and the occult fuels everyone's motives.
The story is revealed through two parallel timelines: Henderson's present investigation, and events in the past that lead up to Elizabeth's death. In my opinion, it is actually two films; a complex weaving of both characters' race against time. I found the film to be good, but I would have liked to have seen Henderson's character expanded just a touch more. We get to see Karen Black's great performance of Elizabeth as a world-weary addict/sacrificial lamb (literally), but just a glimpse of Christopher Plummer's brilliance as the tough cop with a haunting secret. And when he spoke French in that pseudo-French/British accent, I fell in love with him all over again! A nod also goes to Jean-Louis Roux, who played Elizabeth's mysterious client Keerson. He had very little screen time, but was effectively creepy!
I loved the religious aspect of the film. It is so fitting since, as I learned on my double-decker bus tour, Montreal has churches all over the place. Like everywhere. Made my weird phobia of churches and religious statues more evident, by the way. Hence the tipsiness, but I digress. The director, Harvey Hart, had his pick of gothic looking churches to convey Elizabeth's personal conflict with her faith and profession. And the anticipation of finding the villain, supernatural or otherwise, created a decent amount of suspense. Just to throw in a quick note, another film that comes to mind is the more recent Kill List (2011). Check it out for a similar feel. I think it's an homage to the horror films of the 1970's.
As a good '70's supernatural thriller, The Pyx fits the bill. Weird, and intricate, it's definitely worth a watch to see Montreal in the old days, the beautiful Karen Black and her folk singing skills, and a debonair Christopher Plummer rocking some sweet '70's suits.
Most Memorable Line: When Henderson investigates the penthouse Elizabeth fell from, he is challenged by the superintendent. "Are you a superintendent or a lawyer?", he asks. The super replies, "I'm the superintendent of this building." Henderson then quips, "Then be a good superintendent and stay right there, and shut up." Said with such a condescending tone. Taking notes for the next time I'm challenged…
Favourite Scene: Instead of a chalk outline, Elizabeth's body is marked by a string, which is then pulled up and used as a skipping rope by the neighbourhood kids as the camera pans upwards. All to the soundtrack of one of the eerie folk songs written and sung by Karen Black herself for the film. Talk about '70's trippyness!!
Karen Black is currently battling cancer. If you are interested in her progress, there is a crowd funding site that gives official updates on her condition. Here is the link. Along with all of her fans, I truly wish her all the best.
Posted in: Vintage Horror
Tagged: Karen Black, Suspect Video
Zombie Globetrotting
Published July 1, 2013 by vfdpixie
World War Z (2013 1 hr, 56 mins)
This pixie is breathing a sigh of relief. If you read my previous post, you will know that I don't like my zombies messed with. No tip-toeing through the tulips with zombies please. Just keep 'em blood-thirsty, unthinking, and mean. Fast or slow-moving, doesn't matter, but stick to the program. I am happy to report that World War Z has renewed my zombie fervour (even if technically speaking, these zombies are more of the "infected" types rather than zombies).
I've heard from a few people who reported World War Z is not what they expected. They read the book, and felt the film adaptation wasn't exactly what they envisioned. I'm surprised I haven't read this wildly popular book by Max Brooks, since I love a good zombie/survivalist story. From what I've heard, it's an oral history of the world after an outbreak of a zombie-making virus. After seeing the film, I will definitely read it, because even though the film is great on its own, I want to get familiar with the source.
Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt) is a retired UN investigator who gets thrown back into action after a virus outbreak turns its victims into fast-moving, biologically driven biters. Lane witnesses this first hand during one of the best chaos scenes as he sees a man "turn" in 12 seconds after being bitten, making this outbreak almost impossible to contain. He is forced to leave his family at a U.S. navy vessel and help a young Dr. Andrew Fassbach (Elyes Gabel) navigate the world as they trace the origins of the virus in the hopes of finding a cure. Unfortunately, the doctor panics during a zombie attack in a decimated South Korean army base, and inadvertently shoots himself. Lane is now the only hope in finding a cure for the virus that has rapidly reached a world-wide pandemic.
I really enjoyed World War Z. It was filled with tons of suspense and action, and although Brad Pitt is not one of my favourite actors, he gave a pretty solid, quietly bad-ass performance. If you can get past the similarities to 28 Days Later, and also the feeling that the film at some points behaved like a video game, I think it's a great summer horror movie. I liked the tone and scope of the film, as Lane moved from Philadelphia to South Korea, then on to Jerusalem and Wales. The pacing was great as well. Never a dull moment here, and the tension grew from the first frame as Lane and his family see the horror unfold during a seemingly normal traffic jam to the end as he races against time for the cure.
A huge kudos goes to the actors who played the zombies. I wouldn't call them full-blown zombies, as they were really fast and reminded me of the infected from 28 Days Later. (I'm sure there is a zombie chart out there that classifies zombie differences such as speed, rate of decay, etc.) They played their roles with such blood-thirsty vigor, that most people in the theatre I was in cringed or giggled nervously. Yes people, I crawled out of my bunker and went to a movie in the theatre. In public. It was difficult, but the crowd exhibited proper movie etiquette and seemed to enjoy the movie as much as I did. Anyway, check out this cool article I found from the L.A. Times about a couple of key zombies from the film. The F/X makeup was brilliant and gruesome, and of course a great actor uses this as a tool to immerse themselves into their role, down to the chilling teeth clicking as the virus made them want to chomp on autopilot.
There were some familiar faces here too. James Badge Dale was gritty and dour as Captain Speke, who helps Lane out of South Korea. I will always remember him from the short-lived but much-loved AMC series Rubicon (which they should have never cancelled). Mireille Enos played Lane's wife Karin and you can see her in another AMC show The Killing. David Morse has a great cameo as crazed ex-CIA agent, and Matthew Fox (of Lost fame) made a brief appearance as a parajumper on the navy vessel. I suspect his role was supposed to be bigger, but this production was apparently, um, plagued with problems like rewrites, going over budget and several cast changes. Despite these issues, I think the film was entertaining and worth emerging from your bunker, under your bridge, or out of your cardboard box to see it.
Most Memorable Line: The ill-fated young Dr. Fassbach proclaims that "Mother Nature is a serial killer." He goes on to describe her wily ways and wanting to get caught at the same time. Interesting concept, and something to make us think as global resources dwindle.
Favourite Scene: At the W.H.O research facility. This is what reminded me of a video game as Lane has to navigate a maze of zombies to get to precious and dangerous ingredients for a possible cure. I loved the contrast between the stark, sterile environment of the labs sullied by infected, snarling zombies. Definitely a nail-biter!
Posted in: Good Scares!
Tagged: Max Brooks, zombie


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Laurin (1989) Robert Sigl
Labels : 80's , Horror , Robert Sigl , West Germany , 1 com
Laurin (1989)
Genre: Drama | Horror | Mystery
Country: West Germany | Hungary | Director: Robert Sigl
Language: English or German (2 separate audio tracks)
Subtitles: English, German & French (Optional, embedded in Mkv file)
Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 83mn
Bdrip H264 Mkv - 1280x690 - 24fps - 2.59gb
Strange goings on in an idyllic harbour town at the turn of the last century. Children disappear without trace. Death in the form of man dressed in black seems to plague the area. The nine-year-old girl Laurin is haunted by creepy dreams and hallucinations of a man heaving a sack and children drumming in fear against closed windows. Step by step Laurin tries to unravel this terrifying mosaic and eventually puts her own life at risk.
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Busybird's Unsung Heroes
We're tiny here at Busybird! Just five us, all working varying schedules.
Co-owners, husband and wife team Kev Howlett and Blaise van Hecke, might be called 'over-timers', instead of 'full-timers'. They often work from Sunday to Saturday, and sometimes evenings. They're constantly over-servicing to give our clients the best experience possible, be that self-publishing a book, running a workshop, hosting a function, or any of a number of things that Busybird do.
Les Zigomanis – who's full-time, and is our chief editor and publications manager – had been our one employee, but now there's also two part-timers: Megan Low, a very talented designer who brings a wealth of skill, imagination, and flair to every layout and cover she designs; and Shell Brave, our marketing coordinator, who's warm, friendly, and always engaging.
There's Oscar, too – Kev and Blaise's Labrador. He's a seeing-eye-dog puppy they fostered for fifteen months, who then went off for training, but unfortunately failed. Kev and Blaise happily welcomed him back into the fold, where he's adopted the Busybird Studio – and everybody it contains – as his own. Oscar is renowned for charging the door, barking deeply while furiously wagging his tagging when couriers step in, and then running away from Eric, the six-month-old ginger tabby from next door who sometimes comes over.
They're all the people (and animals) who you know at Busybird, and who are often thanked at events such as launches. They are the faces of Busybird, and the identities you interact with if you come to our studio, or come to any of our functions, such as Open Mic Night. They are the constants in the Busybird world.
But there's also a host of people who you might not know exist at Busybird.
There's a raft of editors we employ to perform any editing. Most of them are personally trained here at Busybird. Those who aren't are still required to learn 'the Busybird way' through periodic workshops we run. That 'way' – outside of editing requirements – is to become a mentor for authors. That means being supportive, nurturing, and encouraging. We want our authors to have a positive experience. That doesn't mean telling them whatever we think they need to hear, but being constructive, nurturing, and accessible, so that they enjoy the process and learn from it, and about publishing as a whole.
Then there's our interns. We have a different intern for every day of the week. They come for one month's probation just so they can see if this is something they want to pursue and whether it's a good fit for them (although no intern has ever left within that month). And then it's a further five months (so six months, overall).
In that time we issue them practical duties, overseeing their every move, and educating them where required. But it's through practice that one improves. Duties include tasks such as editing, proofreading, writing, design, research, and administration. It can feel overwhelming at times, but we're always there, looking over them. Recently, one former intern commented that she learned more in her six months at Busybird, than she did studying at a tertiary institution.
While this blog provides an insight into how Busybird operates, it's also intended as a thank you to those unseen people who help Busybird to run as it does!
They are Busybird's unsung heroes.
Thank you for everything you do!


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Q: Is there a way in C# to call a method just once like in the jQuery "one" method? I wish to know if there is a way to execute code in C# just once, like "one" in jquery:
$("#foo").one("click", function() {
  alert("This will be displayed only once.");
});
What I would like to do is the following:
public void foo(){
  Console.Write("hello");
}

then
foo();
foo();
foo();

and the output result must be
hello

I´m looking for a library and not just using flags attributes.

A: I know this is old news... but here is a Functional approach to the question that someone might find useful:
    public static Action<T> Once<T>(Action<T> action )
    {
        return (arg) =>
        {
            action?.Invoke(arg);
            action = null;
        };
    }

Then you can generate a function that will only do the meat of the work one time:
    var writeNumberToConsole = Once<int>( Console.WriteLine );
    writeNumberToConsole(1); // "1"
    writeNumberToConsole(2); -> //nothing
    writeNumberToConsole(3); -> //nothing

A: Why do you want a library when you could just do something like this:
private bool wasExecuted = false;

public void foo(){
  if (!wasExecuted) {
     Console.Write("hello");
     wasExecuted = true;
  }
}

A: private bool _fooExecuted = false;

public void foo(){
  if (_fooExecuted)
     return;

  _fooExecuted = true;

  Console.Write("hello");
}

A: I don't think you're going to find a library for this. This required behavior is very rare, at best. The easiest way to accomplish this would just be to have a static flag variable like so:
static bool hasRun = false;
public void doSomething {
    if (hasRun) {
        return;
    }
}

A: I can't imagine why do something like that, but if you really do it and if you want it universal for any method, you can do this:
void Main() {
    var myFoo = callOnlyOnce(foo);
    myFoo();
    myFoo();
    myFoo();

   var myBar = callOnlyOnce(bar);
   myBar();
   myBar();
   myBar();
}

void foo(){
  Console.Write("hello");
}
void bar() { Console.Write("world"); }

Action callOnlyOnce(Action action){
    var context = new ContextCallOnlyOnce();
    Action ret = ()=>{
        if(false == context.AlreadyCalled){
            action();
            context.AlreadyCalled = true;
        }
    };

    return ret;
}
class ContextCallOnlyOnce{
    public bool AlreadyCalled;
}

A: The jQuery example is an event handler, and once the event handler has been called it is removed from the element. The equivalent in C# for (eg.) an button click event would be
myButton.Click += new EventHandler(MyEventHandler)

void MyEventHandler(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  Console.Write("hello");
  ((Button)sender).Click -= new EventHandler(MyEventHandler);
}

In this way, only the first click of the button would yield the Console Write.

A: Do you mean only once in the entire execution of the program or will you ever have a reset criteria that allows it to be displayed again?  In either case, I recommend creating a wrapper class that you instantiate as a field with an embedded bool flag for each particular line you want to 'only once' display.  If the string is known to be fixed (no parameters that alter it), you can also use a central service class that keeps a set of strings that have already been printed.  The issue with this is that you can't log the same string from multiple locations.
One common general solution is an 'alarm manager', though I haven't seen a standardized library for this.  It comes up frequently in my industry, however, as industrial machinery can enter a persistent alarm state and you want to log transitions into the alarm state, but not continually log that you're still in the alarm state.  The solutions I've used/seen usually create a unique alarm code for each condition, with a 'set' and 'clear' notion, often with operator intervention required to acknowledge and finally clear the alarm.


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Annika Palm – Piano
Annemarie Åström - Violin
Tomas Nuñez-Garcés – Cello
Riko Eklundh – Reciter
Riko Eklundh
Riko Eklundh (born 1965) graduated from the Theatre Academy Helsinki 1989 and is thus celebrating this year his 25th anniversary on stage. He started his career at the Turku Swedish Theatre but has mainly been working at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki. He has also done a fair amount of freelancing with various theatres.
Riku has played leading parts in both musicals and spoken dramas. His most important musical roles include Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, tailor Motel in Fiddler on the Roof, Albin/Zaza in La cage aux Folles, and the Host in Cabaret.
Riko has held the principal role in Amadeus, Topelius, Peer Gynt, The Viola Road, The Dancing Priest and A Contract with God.
He has also voiced Snufkin in the Swedish moomin films and Piglet in several of the Swedish versions of Disney's Winnie the Pooh movies.
Furthermore Riku has also participated in many TV-series such as Hovimäki, 16 and Framom främsta linjen. He works with radio and documentaries. He is a popular master of ceremonies and also works as a singer, both as soloist and as part of choirs and orchestras.
At the moment he plays one of the main characters in the hugely popular musical Mamma Mia at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki.


Following the RACT2015 conference, held 25-27 FEB at Lund University (see: http://ract2015.wordpress.com), we invite submissions of papers for publication in a special issue of TOPOI (http://www.springer.com/philosophy/journal/11245). Papers must be in the order of 6000 to 8000 words (including references), and must address one or more of the conference themes listed at the above website. Whether being addressed from an empirical or a more conceptual perspective, other than rigor and quality of scholarship (as evidenced, for instance, by demonstrating, familiarity with the relevant literature), this special issue primarily seeks to inform those who wish to reduce the distance between the research front and what is (falsely) presented to students as the state-of-the-art critical thinking instruction. Therefore, papers should in one way or another be of immediate relevance to those who already do, or plan to, teach or implement instruction in critical thinking as part of school or university education, either as dedicated courses or across the curriculum. Of special relevance is the current trend to appropriate research on social, cognitive and other biases, as well as two systems or two processes accounts of human reasoning.
All papers have to pass through the peer review stage before they can be published. Those unsure whether a given topic fits this special issue may submit a brief abstract (max 200 words) to the editor, Frank Zenker, at frank.zenker@fil.lu.se to receive feedback.


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He died and left his daughter ten thousand pounds in gold.
He left it with her uncle, her uncle to control.
Into the garden all alone all tales of love they'd tell.
He tapped at her bed-window: "Arise, put on your clothes.
I will press young William from the banks of sweet Dundee."
"For here I will die for Mary on the banks of sweet Dundee."
She met there with the Squire down in her uncle's grove.
Two pistols and a sword rhe saw beneath his morning-gown.
"Stand off, stand off," cried Mary, "daunted I never shall be!"
Likewise a noble lawyer for to write down the Will.
Willed all of the gold to Mary on the banks of sweet Dundee.


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Gaming ⋮ PC ⋮ Rumor
Duke Nukem 3D: World Tour (Redux) Leaked; First Screenshots Inside
By Aernout van de Velde
Aug 26, 2016 04:00 EDT
On the official Duke Nukem website, developer Gearbox has placed a countdown timer which is counting down to September 1st. This might indicate that a Duke Nukem 3D remaster will be unveiled on that date.
The website doesn't provide any additional information, but if recent leaks are to be believed, we're looking at a redux of Duke Nukem 3D, titled Duke Nukem 3D: World Tour, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Duke Nukem 3D.
Duke Nukem 3D: World Tour will keep the 2D sprites of the original Duke Nukem 3D, but will feature enhanced lighting effects, and will include new/original content. Down below we have posted some screenshots:
Duke Nukem 3D, was released for PC back in 1996. The game was developped by 3D Realms, and is considered the game that boosted the popularity of first-person shooters. Several ports were released in the years that followed, the most recent version, called Duke Nukem 3D: Megaton Edition, being released for the PS3 and PS Vita back in 2015.
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Home›Tutorials›Table Saw Enhancement – Converting Extension Table Into Router Table.
This is a continuation of my other table saw enhancements, Attaching a Sliding Crosscut Table Without Cutting Down the Rails and Attaching an Extra Cast-Iron Extension Wing.
The additional cast iron wing that I attached to my table saw moved the wooden extension table another 10″ past the end of my rails. This allows me to relocate my router table to the far-right edge of the table saw without having to cut notches in my front and rear rails to accommodate the miter slot.
Converting the extension table into a router table.
I had to remove my fence in order to attach the additional cast iron wing. I didn't want to put my fence back on yet but I realized that I needed to so I can cut a dado in the wooden extension table for the miter slot. This is the same extension table that I had previously removed. I temporarily reattached the front rail and did a quick fence alignment so my cut would be parallel with the edge of the table. This led to a slight problem as you'll soon see.
Temporarily reattached the front tube so I can use the fence to cut a dado in the extension table.
I wanted to make sure I didn't accidentally cut through any screws so I removed the legs for the table.
I figured that I would make the miter track 6″ from the edge of the table. This would ensure that I didn't hit any screws while cutting the dado. I wasn't worried about hitting a screw and activating the brake in the SawStop since a screw by itself is too small to activate the safety system. I mainly didn't want to mess up the carbides on my dado stack. I positioned the fence at the 6″ mark.
I applied some blue painters tape to help prevent chipping and scratching the laminate on the edges of the dado. In keeping with tradition, I miscalculated where I should put the tape. You'll see what I mean in a second.
Taping where I'll be cutting.
I clamped some scrap wood on the side of the table to help prevent tear-out. I made sure the clamps were positioned where they wouldn't get hit by the blades.
Clamping some scrap wood to help prevent tearout.
I lowered the dado stack so it would make a scoring cut first. This is another step that can really help prevent the edge of the laminate from chipping.
Lowering the dado stack so it"ll just cut through the laminate.
I made my first pass. As you can see, the blue tape wasn't positioned correctly so my first cut didn't have tape on each edge. As it turns out this wasn't a big deal. The laminate that SawStop recently switched to for use on their extension tables is some high-quality stuff and didn't tear out at all. I didn't have similar luck with the laminate for their older extension tables.
Didn't position the tape correctly but it didn't matter in the end.
Here you'll see one of the areas where I screwed up. Remember when I said I did a "quick fence alignment"? Well, I should have taken my time. If I had, I would have noticed that in aligning my fence I also slightly loosened the clamping pressure of the fence on the front tube. This caused my fence to slide a little bit as I was cutting and caused a slight unevenness in the dado.
Fence shifted while making this cut.
As you can see, the scrap wood kept the laminate from chipping on the edge.
I reattached the legs and temporarily clamped the extension table to the rails and the right wing, making sure it was flush. Then I drilled new holes through the sides of the wooden extension table for the bolts to attach it to the rails.
Lined up the table and drilled holes for the mounting bolts.
I then did the same thing on the back. After the holes were drilled, I reattached the table to the rails using the appropriate bolts, washers, and nuts.
Drilled the mounting holes on the back of the extension table.
I then reattached my outfeed table to the rear rail.
Now it's time to mark the opening that I'll be removing. I'm going to remove most of it with my jigsaw then clean up the rest with my trim router and a pattern bit.
Using the old router table as a template.
I laid the pattern on the tabletop in the spot where I am going to remove the material. Absolute precision is not critical at this point. I used a few pieces of painters tape to mark the inner edges of the opening.
Temporarily marking the inner edges of the template.
I then took the template off and ran some strips of painters tape over where the edges will be. The actual edges should be somewhat centered in the strips of tape.
Applied blue painters tape over the edges where I will cut out the insert opening.
Then I put the template back in place. Again, absolute precision isn't critical at this point.
Set the template in place.
I used a red Sharpie to trace the opening on the blue painters tape.
Traced the outline of the opening with a red Sharpie.
I then removed the template yet again so I can see the outline I just traced.
Removed the template after tracing the outline.
I drilled 1/2″ holes near the inner corners.
The holes have been drilled.
I'm using a jigsaw to remove the bulk of the material, roughly cutting it out about 1/4″ inside the lines.
I'm going to rough-cut out the opening with a jigsaw.
Nice and sloppy. The critical thing is not crossing over the line.
The piece has been removed.
Carefully positioned the left edge of the template and clamped that side in place.
…then used a try square to make sure the template was square with the table.
Using a try square to ensure the template is square with the table.
Once I was satisfied that it was square, I clamped down the opposite end then applied one more clamp to each edge just for good measure.
Carefully clamped the other end in place and secured with additional clamps.
I outfitted my trim router with a 1/2″ pattern bit.
Positioning the router to cut out the opening.
It was throwing up quite a bit of dust so I set up a dust collection hood to grab most of it out of the air.
Getting pretty dusty so I set up my dust shroud.
I had a problem with the bearing on this pattern bit coming loose and the whole bit slipping. This caused a little gouge on the inner-right edge of the opening.
Chewed up the opening a bit when the bearing came loose. Otherwise, it looks okay.
I removed the template and the painters tape so I could inspect the edge. There was a little divot where the bearing came loose but other than that, it wasn't bad.
Removed the painters tape. Other than the small goober on the right, it didn't turn out bad at all.
I used a file to break the edge a bit.
Broke the edges a bit with a file.
This particular extension table has some support bars underneath. They are only screwed in and are easy to remove.
The table braces are going to get in the way so I'm going to move them.
I removed the support bars so I would have room for the Kreg PRS3040 Precision Router Table Insert Plate Levelers which installed easily from underneath the table.
Installed the Kreg PRS3040 Precision Router Table Insert Plate Levelers.
Each leveler has two set screws that are used for leveling the router insert.
The Kreg levelers went in easily.
I reinstalled the support bars. I had to move them by about 1/4″ from their usual spot.
I reattached the supports under the table.
The next step was to start hooking things up. I installed a 4-outlet electical box that was wired to a motor power switch.
I hooked up an electrical outlet and a knee switch under the table.
Then it was simply a matter of dropping the Rockler router lift in place and plugging in the router.
The router lift has been placed in the table and the router plugged into the outlet.
A little bit of leveling and I'm all done.
The router table is all finished.
I can use the table saw fence with the router table. This photo shows how close I can get it to the router bit. I will be making an auxiliary router table fence with built-in dust collection that I can attach to my table saw fence, but that's a project for another day.
I can use the table saw fence with the router table as well.
That's it! Up next is an enclosure for the router and maybe some drawers for storing router bits. For now, I've got some other projects that require my attention.
If any of this has been helpful to you, or if you have any suggestions or questions, please take a minute to post a comment below. I'd especially like to hear any suggestions for projects that you'd like to see me tackle.
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Husky Oil of Canada and Balaclava Enterprises of Vancouver offered $7.25 a share for Mohawk. The offer was conditional on 90 percent of Mohawk common shares being deposited to the bid, including the approximately 21 percent already held by Balaclava. Mohawk's board of directors accepted the bid and had recommended it to shareholders at which time Hugh Sutherland held 42% of the shares.  Letters explaining the offer were sent to Mohawk shareholders June 5 with offer expiry of July 6, 1998.

Purchase of Mohawk Canada Limited for C$102 million proceeded in July 1998. The acquisition added about 300 gas stations and an ethanol plant to Husky's assets.

The oil recycling plant was sold off in the late 90's to several different operators, and is currently functioning as "Terrapure Oil Recycling" in North Vancouver.

The brand name and logo reinforce an all-Canadian image similar to that of Petro-Canada. Stretching from Vancouver Island to Eastern Canada, Mohawk and Husky have over 500 stations. Mohawk's fuel contains up to 10% ethanol.

In 2015, Mohawk sold off its remaining gas stations and left the oil industry altogether.

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Beamforming with Microphone Arrays
Beamforming with microphone arrays is typically used for extracting a desired signal without distortion while suppressing unwanted interference signals, if desired source and interferers are located at different spatial positions.
Broadband data-independent beamforming designs aiming at constant beamwidth usually lead to superdirective beamformers for low frequencies if the microphone spacing is small relative to the wavelengths. Superdirective beamforming is often desirable due to its inherent ability to provide high directional gain with a small array aperture satisfying constraints on space. However, these beamforming designs are highly sensitive to microphone self-noise, mismatch between microphone characteristics, and position errors. This may necessitate the use of expensive hardware such as matched microphones, high-precision microphone placement, and acquisition hardware with very low self-noise, which contradicts the desire for low-cost hardware, especially for off-the-shelf products. Therefore, broadband beamforming methods have to be developed that allow to directly control the robustness of the resulting design for given array hardware precision. To this end, research activities at the chair are focused on developing flexible design procedures that allow the robustness of the resulting beamformers to be adapted to given prior knowledge on microphone mismatch, positioning errors, and microphone self-noise. This resulted in the development of data-independent least squares beamforming approaches, which use a predefined white noise gain (WNG) constraint value to directly control the robustness of resulting beamformers.
The beamforming designs are optimum in the least squares sense and simultaneously constrain the WNG to remain above a given lower limit by directly solving constrained convex optimization problems. Well-established tools for specifying and solving convex problems may then be used to solve these problems. The major advantages of these designs are that they are applicable to arbitrary array geometries, i.e., there are no restrictions on microphone placement and they guarantee the optimal solution for a given array geometry, desired response, and chosen constraints. The capability of controlling the robustness of the resulting beamformer according to the user's requirements underlines the flexibility of these design procedures.
An exemplary design for a uniform circular array is shown in Figure 1: Exemplary robustness control of a beamformer design for a 6-element uniform circular array; Beampatterns for WNG lower limits of a) -10dB and b) -30; c) WNGs.
The beamforming designs described above are usually based on the free-field assumption of acoustic wave propagation. However, for scenarios where the microphones are mounted to a scatterer, the free-field assumption is not fulfilled, since the influence of the scatterer on the sound field is neglected, which will decrease the beamformer's signal enhancement performance. One example of such a scenario is a microphone array mounted on a humanoid robot's head used for robot audition (see Figure 2: Newly developed head for the NAO robot incorporating 12 microphones. Red dots highlight the microphone positions.). To overcome this limitation, Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) can be incorporated into the beamformer design instead of the free-field steering vectors. The resulting HRTF-based superdirective beamformer design then incorporates the influence of the scatterer on the sound field. Therefore, it yields a significantly increased signal enhancement performance compared to the original free field-based design.
Exemplary robustness control of a beamformer design for a 6-element uniform circular array; Beampatterns for WNG lower limits of a) -10dB and b) -30; c) WNGs.
Newly developed head for the NAO robot incorporating 12 microphones. Red dots highlight the microphone positions.
Dereverberation
Later reverberation, caused by the reflecting surfaces in a room, leads to major degradation of recognition scores in automatic speech recognition. Thus, dereverberation, i.e., the suppression of the late reverberation components from the recorded microphone signal is an active field of research in the area of acoustical signal processing. In this field, LMS focuses on two dereverberation approaches which will be presented in the following: a) Blind Source Separation (BSS)-based dereverberation and b) coherence-based dereverberation.
The idea of BSS-based dereverberation is to first employ a BSS-based blocking matrix which is adapted to suppress the direct path and the early reflections of the desired signal, and thus directly generate an estimate of the late reverberation component in the blocking matrix output. This late reverberation estimate is used to compute a postfilter for spectral enhancement, e.g., a Wiener filter, which is then applied to the reverberant input signal.
In the case of coherence-based dereverberation, instead of directly producing an estimate of the late reverberation component as for the BSS-based approach, we estimate the Coherent-to-Diffuse Power Ratio (CDR), which is the power ratio between direct and diffuse (reverberation) signal components at the microphones. Assuming that, for example, weak diffuse signal components are present at the input of the system, the CDR in the corresponding time-frequency bin will exhibit high values. Estimating the CDR requires an estimate of the spatial coherence between the microphones and the spatial coherence of the late reverberation component, which is assumed to be spherically diffuse. In addition, it is also possible to incorporate the DOA of the desired signal into the CDR estimate. An example of the estimated diffuseness, which can be calculated from the CDR as 1/(1-CDR), is illustrated in Figure 1. It can be seen that when the target signal is active, i.e., strong direct-sound signal components are present at the microphones, the diffuseness exhibits low values, which corresponds to a large estimated CDR.
Similar to the BSS-based approach, the estimated CDR is then used to calculate spectral enhancement weights, e.g., using a single-channel Wiener filter, which are then applied to the microphone signal in the spectral domain in order to dereverberate the target signal.
Comparison of the diffuseness calculated from the CDR estimated using a (b) DOA-independent and a (c) DOA-dependent CDR estimator. The spectogram of the clean target signal is illustrated in (a).
Blind Source Separation
In a cocktail party scenario, many acoustic sources are active simultaneously. Thus, microphones which record the acoustic scene from a distance capture a mixture of all active sources. Since the individual source signals are of interest in many applications, it is desirable to recover them from the acoustic mixture. Blind Source Separation (BSS) algorithms rely on the assumption of mutually statistically independent source signals, which is generally justified for signals originating from different physical sources. In this context, 'blind' means that no other prior knowledge, e.g., of the acoustic scene or the microphone array geometry, is employed.
The TRIple-N Independent component analysis for CONvolutive mixtures (TRINICON) framework conceived at the LMS separates acoustic sources by simultaneous exploitation of the three fundamental signal properties of speech, namely non-Gaussianity, non-whiteness, and non-stationarity. Besides the original task of source separation, this generic and powerful concept is also suitable for the estimation of relative transfer functions. Several extensions incorporating prior knowledge have been developed and extend the applicability of TRINICON to problems such as simultaneous localization of multiple sources and signal extraction in overdetermined acoustic scenarios. Using the latter to separate one desired source from all others, up-to-date noise reference signals can be obtained, even if the number of sources exceeds the number of sensors. Such reference signals can then be employed, e.g., in a Generalized Sidelobe Canceller (GSC) structure.
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Ego-Noise Suppression for Robot Audition
A robot's capability to capture, analyze and react to its acoustic environment is referred to as robot audition. In this context, the robot caused self-noise by motors and motion is of crucial importance since it degrades the recorded audio signals of a microphone-equipped robot massively. Thereby, the robot's auditory capabilities suffer. To relieve this problem, a suitable noise reduction mechanism is required. This task is particularly challenging because the noise involved is often louder than the signals of interest. Beside this, it is highly non-stationary as the robot performs different movements with varying speeds and accelerations. Furthermore, ego-noise cannot be modeled as a single static point interferer as the joints are located all over the body of the robot. However, it exhibits pronounced structures in the time-frequency domain. An intuitive approach for ego-noise suppression is therefore to learn those noise structures, collect them in a so-called dictionary and use its entries in the suppression step for a sparse representation of the current ego-noise sample. If multiple channels are considered, also instantaneous phases of all involved signal can be optimized account which outperforms single-channel approaches for ego-noise suppression.
In this context, motor data, i.e., the physical state of robot joint in terms of angle, angle speed and angle acceleration, can be useful for ego-noise suppression since it provides additional information about the joints of the robot and thereby the noise sources.
Ego-noise example in the time-frequency domain. It exhibits pronounced spectral structure which is the key motivation to use learning methods for suppression.


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Time To Move On
By Ted S. McGregor Jr.
Careful readers may notice something different this year. It's election season, yet there are no official Inlander endorsements here in the Comment section. After 20 years of advocating, as an institution, for candidates or initiatives, I've decided to stop.
It's been a long time in the making, as I have discussed the pros and cons with staff, readers and fellow publishers over the years. Journalists and academics are mixed on endorsements, with more newspapers ending the practice in recent years. But traditionally, daily papers have made endorsements, which is why I included them when we first started publishing in 1993.
When I came home to start a paper, I felt Spokane was in need of a more open mind about the world. Our daily paper, I felt, had a too-conservative, small-minded outlook that held sway for a century. We needed a wake-up call. A monolithic mindset doesn't help anyone; America thrives with a robust marketplace of ideas. I felt the Inlander could, in a small way, balance the scales — perhaps encourage people who thought differently by showing they weren't alone, or even get more progressive people to run for office. Today Spokane is more open-minded, and that is translating into a dynamic, problem-solving, entrepreneurial community.
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