The Rate Of Climbing Uphill Explained
2009-08-01 13:00:00 I've noticed that some cyclists who have been introduced to the concept of the rate of climbing uphill falsely think that Michele Ferrari pulled this out of his own pocket, as in, he invented it or something of that nature. Negative. He only went ahead and popularized the idea, putting a confusing trademark name to it such as "VAM" and developing some of his own methods to look at it with respect to cycling performance. But the idea itself is rooted in centuries old elementary geometry and Newtonian physics. Click here for the history of vectors.Let's have some *serious* fun with climbing rate. You'll start to see simple relationships that may finally make some sense to you as a cyclist. If you love analysis, this may be for you.I'll show 5 different ways to study vertical speed, or rate of climbing. 3 of them are using math. The 4th involves using some field work with math. I'll show you what Tom Danielson's climbing rate was for the record ascent up Mount Washington and I'l...
The Church Of Lance Armstrong
2009-07-29 00:08:00 Over the past couple of years, I have been sort of a silent surveyor of the emotions people have for Lance Armstrong. You need not go to Austin, Texas for this privilege. Its right here on the internet.While Mr. Armstrong's Twitter account is bludgeoning with over 1.5 million followers, fierce wars are being waged in forums, blogs, news websites, sports commentaries, opinion columns and even video sites like Youtube and Metacafe. I wonder if the numbers of people and the sheer amount of time spent/wasted in these 'word battles' make any sense to a casual observer at all.To give you a small perspective, take Yahoo Sports for example. On stories such as this one in YS, the number of comments from people who were interested in trading and exchanging the war of words on the topic of who was right and who was wrong is easily over 1900. Yes, you read right. One thousand nine hundred comments.Now, if you go through such comments like you slowly flip the pages of a fat book, you can sort...
Tour Wins, Probability & Sporting Misconceptions
2009-07-01 06:00:00 We have more or less 3 days to go for this year's Tour de France. It is that time again when various websites, blogs, forums and paper publications devote many many words and pages in prediction of who will win the yellow jersey in Paris. The focus is often on a handful of men. The other 200 or so odd racers who participate with them never grab much media attention at all. However unfair that may sound, there's some interesting things an astute observer can spot here. Most predictions will pick as favorites a band of individuals based solely on good results in the past. These ones then go into the Petri dish for review. Then one or two are picked and we tell ourselves or our friends, "You know what, I think he's so going to win because he can climb well, 'cause he won so and so stage in the mountains in 2003....and he can time trial like a beast because he won so and so stage at this pace in 2006 and 2007."This sort of thinking to me is a little absurd. In fact, its a fallacy of...
5 Interesting Perspectives and Analysis of the Indian Election 2009
2009-05-17 12:23:00 The big fight is done and the kingdom stands stable still. The elections for the 15th Lok Sabha was perhaps the most keenly contested and the most debated one ever in the short history of the Indian republic. Guess that is also more due to the fact of the growing voices online fueling talks, discussions, debates, views and even tweets. As I was scouting for more stuff read on the elections that just went by, and UPA’s big win, I found some interesting blog posts. Some provided analysis of the election, some provided a digital perspective, another foreign and some other cynical. Nevertheless, all the posts gave way to an excellent weekend reading and food for thought on what awaits the country for the next five years and beyond. Nostradamus To begin with albeit a little late, is poll scenario analysis by Quick Tale. I call the post Nostradamus like because from the 4scenarios laid out in the post, the very first assumption became the election result. Comprehensive thoughts at...
By: WATblog
Paul Gilbert: italian clinic perspectives
2009-04-27 18:24:00 News: 27-04-2009: Jenn has been busy again working on the translations of some reviews / perspectives of the recent Paul Gilbert clinic / vip concerts in Italy. (in English) http://metalichicka.wordpress.c-om/2009/04/26/perspectives-a-fe-llow-musicians-experience-at-th-e-paul-gilbert-clinicconcert-la-tina-italy-2009/ (in... This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
Carnival of Healing #171 - Positive Perspectives
2009-01-10 19:29:00 Welcome of this week’s carnival of healing. Carnival of Healing is a weekly round-up of personal blog posts on the topics of holistic health, wellness, spirituality, and self empowerment. You’ll see many different perspectives in this week’s carnival as Holistic Healing “addresses all parts of the individual, not just the physical aspect of a person where manifested illnesses are most apparent. Holistic healing is not intended to serve as a band-aid or a one time fix. It is an ongoing journey of discovery in search of more answers and ultimately; living better, being healthier, and striving for wholeness.” as described in Phylameana’s blog. I hope you enjoy visiting and reading the following informational articles in this carnival. Russ presents Eat Healthier at Work posted at Open Road Open Mind. Surfer Sam presents NEW !! Vitamins for Good Health posted at Surfer Sam and Friends. Dr. Davon Jacobson presents Easy Dental Care with Highly Sens...
The Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges
2008-11-20 21:18:00 Study of Modern Italy conferenceThe Association of the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI)2008 Annual ConferenceIn association with the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, the Stirling Media Research Institute, the National Library of Scotland and the University of EdinburghThe Media in Italy: Historical Perspectives and Future Challenges21-22 November 2008Italian Cultural Institute, EdinburghFRIDAY 21ST NOVEMBER 2008Keynote IDavid Forgacs: Notes and queries for a history of the media in Italy? Emiliana De Blasio: Mobility and Social Networking between Involvement and Participation? Marta Cola: Media diets in comparison: Italians and Italian-speaking Swiss media consumption.? Guy Puzey: Italian Political Identity on the Internet: Into the Age of Web 2.0? Federico Ruozzi: Italian public television, Christian Democracy party and the Second Vatican Council: who influences who?? Maria Way: Church and State: Broadcasting ? a game of two halves with moveable goal posts.? Niamh Cullen: 2001, ...
By: weblogART
When You are Your Own Enemy
2008-11-06 16:03:00 Now that is the best kind of war. Not only is it the best because it’s the sort that makes the best films and the best novels, but it’s also the best because it’s the most winnable kind of war to wage. The Best Kind of War It makes for the best of entertainment because it’s ...
By: I Will Not Die
Black Males and Testosterone: Evolution and Perspectives
2008-10-09 07:40:00 Development of agriculture in modern Blacks also seems to have led to high testosterone levels. Groups with the highest testosterone in the world today are primitive agriculturalists.Hunter-gathere-rs tend to have lower testosterone. This is because in hunter-gatherer society, women need men to survive. So they just grab one pretty quickly and get married.In primitive agricultural societies, women do not need men since they can farm on their own. So they can afford to be quite choosy. These societies have tended to develop in a polygynous way where a few high-ranking males monopolize most of the females and the rest of the guys get none. It's kind of like high school except it keeps going for your whole life.Sub-Saharan Blacks are highly polygynous ,and this resulted in intense competition for fewer women and selection for very robust male body types. SS Blacks are more robust than Whites on all variables. In Namibia, the polygynous Kavango have much higher testosterone than the muc...
By: Robert Lindsay
Southeast Asia: Perspectives on Compliance
2008-09-03 02:00:00 This past weekend, I left Southeast Asia after a week-long trip to Bangkok, Singapore and Manila. The week was spent in back-to-back meetings with customers and our local sales teams, and the majority of our discussions centered on PCI DSS and compliance in general. One clear takeaway: Compliance is one of THE growing areas of concern for businesses in the region. I found the degree to which customers in the region were concerned about compliance to be a bit of a surprise. I say 'surprise' because I often hear that compliance isn't as much of an issue outside of the U.S. From what we're seeing, though, the regulatory environment in non-U.S. geos, including Southeast Asia, is becoming more complicated...
2 perspectives from Denver: Veterans, and youth
2008-08-25 15:49:00 I've spoken with several veterans of U.S. military service in Denver, and unsurprisingly they mostly express strong support for the Democratic candidate. One outspoken Viet Nam vet was basing his support on his assessment of the lack of support for vets he percieved in Senator McCain's voting record.Generally, however, I was hearing more "Pro-Obama" sentiment expressed than I was "anti-McCain" on Sunday, as the visitors to the city took on a distinctly Democratic leaning on the eve of the opening day's events. Oliver Lawrence, for instance, is an Air Force veteran of both Korea and Viet Nam, a fifth generation descendant of slaves who has lived in Georgia all his life. Taking in the pre-convention activities, he describes feeling a very different sort of energy among the delegates when compared to previous election cycles.Oliver also spent the late 50s on duty in Wyoming, when duty sometimes meant babysitting ICBMs, as it did in his case. I chatted with him as we walked along...
Afrique : Les dirigeants africains se réjouissent des perspectives économiq
2008-06-07 19:00:00 Les dirigeants africains ont fait l'éloge cette semaine des progrès enregistrés par le continent lors de la cérémonie d'ouverture du 18ème Forum économique mondial sur l'Afrique au Cap, tout en rappelant les périls de l'extrême pauvreté et de l'instabilité auxquels l'Afrique est confrontée. Les présidents de l'Afrique du Sud, du Burundi, du Ghana, du Kenya et du Malawi ont fait part de leur satisfaction de la croissance économique du continent.
Economic Cycling Stimulation
2008-06-05 21:52:00 Rich Uncle Sam and his IRS drinking buddies are sending everyone a tax rebate check this June.Oh boy, here they come with more band-aids. "Dude, but did you know I have malaria?!"You see, its like a feedzone in a long hilly road race on a hot hot day.Your water bottles are empty and someone hands you a cold drink after 70 miles of painful work. You go another 10 more, and you're still tired, managing a snail's 10mph pace.Well, turns out the big underlying problem is not thirst, its fatigue! Your urine was a weird shade of brown this morning, arrhythmic heart beats are putting bad techno music to shame, the legs are like powerless twigs in a 90mph gust, and your tongue seems like the drought ridden soil of Somalia.Basically, you are going to die so get off the damn bike already.Or.. its like a thick and mercilessly wrapped handlebar tape to solve your wrists' accumulating problems, when the fundamental fitting technique you used on the bike in the first place was completely flawed...
De nouvelles perspectives pour l'été qui vient
2008-06-03 08:40:00 Je vous informe que d'ici quelques jours, je vous emmène en voyage... dans le cadre d'un nouveau guide! L'an dernier, je vous avais laissé quelques cartes postales de mon séjour romain, du forum aux bonnes adresses, au vert ou au musée. Quelques mois plus tard, le résultat était enfin là. Avec en bonus, un guide de survie pour les candidats au week-end romain. Cet été, je ne suis pas envoyée en Italie, mais toujours dans ce sud que j'affectionne tant. Un nouveau périple de 5 semaines, à moins de 7 heures de train de Paris. Une terre de caractère où les gourmands sont à la fête, où l'on aime chanter à l'unisson, où la rudesse dissimule une générosité véritable. S'y rencontrent la montagne et la mer, une culture et une langue enracinées dans ces paysages contrastés. Impossible d'oublier le coeur des hommes qui reviennent toujours au pays après l'exil. Une petite idée?Suite à certaines remarques désobligeantes (voire très désobligeantes, vive les blogs), j'en profite pour pré...
By: Ma dolce vita
Perspectives on Laughter
2008-06-02 15:15:00 Have you ever noticed that when you are caught up in a stressful situation for a while, you are much more likely to pick up a cold or flu? And when everything's going well you don't get sick as often? It's been shown in medical research that both stress and laughter have effects on the immune system, one having negative effects and the other positive ones. Laughter helps to stabilize blood pressure, stimulate circulation, aid digestion, increase oxygen supply to muscles, decrease muscle tension, and leaves you with an overall sense of well-being to name just a few.
An Open Letter to Velo News : The Journal of Competitive Men
2008-06-01 00:14:00 ..Dear Velo News,I'm sick of seeing man after man after man across the pages of your commercial "Journal of Competitive Cycling".Now I'm not what you call a long term reader of your magazine, but wanting to see what all the fuss, gloss and color are about, I picked up two copies from the local supermarket during grocery shopping, over a period of maybe 2-3 weeks.If you want to know how bad this problem is, here, I inspected two issues from the recent past, Vol 37, no. 7 and 8 dated April 29 and May 13.In 98 pages of no.7 above, 2 teeny weeny sections on 2 pages were devoted to female pros.In 110 pages of no. 8 above, one, I repeat, just one page was devoted to women.Whats worse, it was an ad for Continental tires that featured two of the most ugliest, wicked looking, fattest women I have seen in my entire life. It beats me how they can promote tires!After seeing that, I had to puke my Cliff Bars out, the only time I have ever thrown up such magnificent food.If this is some weird p...
Cycling and Relationships : A Tough Question
2008-05-30 07:12:00 Suppose : Your new life partner, apple of your eye, but obviously not as crazy as you about cycling, tests your commitment in relationship. One day, in a very serious tone, he or she asks you to drop your passion altogether. Its either him/her or bicycles, not both. Its a one way street.You've finally found a perfect mate after years, but cycling is another thing that keeps you alive. How will you reply and act? Will you do the obvious - say yes and keep riding (hehe) or will you give in, either to your urges or their demands .Many, if not some, may already have gone through this situation. Because lets face it - serious cycling is a lot of investment in time. If you have not realized that by now, I don't know what to tell you. You don't necessarily have to be pro to decide to do every race in the local calender or ride 10,000 miles every year, not including the hours that go in training, preparation, reading cycling blogs and magazines, watching bike races and hunting for new eq...
The PRO Mechanic
2008-05-29 06:57:00 So you want to be a PRO mechanic?Afterall, someone's got to do it.Boy, how do I even start telling of the wondrous things they do?Like a woman is behind a successful man, mechanics complement the riders with their talents.You NEED the energy to go, whenever, wherever. "Problem on his bike? No problem. Where? Middle of the peleton? 12% gradient? No problem, give me the job."When riders sleep, you prepare their equipment, wash their bikes, grease its bearings, lube the chain.You know torque specs like they were on the back of your fingers. You inspect sprocket wear and remember everyone's favorite saddle height. Not a millimeter more, not a millimeter less.Like the rider is fond of the bike, the bike is your baby too. You put it to function, gave it that white handlebar tape, put the shine on the chain and the gloss on the top tube.You adorned her with cables and cut it to perfect length and saw that the brakes kissed the rim perfectly.The words "straight", "length" and "centered" a...
Let?s at Least Be Honest About ID
2008-05-24 21:32:00 I found a decently done review of Ben Stein’s idiocy, ‘Expelled’, but the reviewer has swallowed a little bit of the ID Kool-Aid and it happens to be a bit of Kool-Aid that annoys me greatly. Having now watched the film — which is terrible, filled with specious reasoning, false dichotomies, and self-contradiction — I ...
Rim Heating During Hard Braking
2008-05-22 03:58:00 While I don't know "how-much" brake shoe fins may help for their intended design (whatever that is), a general increase in surface area should aid heat dissipation/transfer to the air. I love it when readers help me fill my own limited knowledge. Take a look at the comments beside yesterday's post on brake shoe fins. See if you can come up with some more "possible" uses. :)However, the subject of heat production in rims is real. I realize that a few riders out there may still not have come to terms with this. Allow me to wander and bore you.Think of a 15% gradient downhill slope, narrow and curvy. Now think about your total weight,speed,drag co-efficient yada yada. Think about 60+ mph. Now think a sorry looking deer popping out of no-where just 200m in front of you. Rapid deceleration needed or you and the deer won't make it. Either deer will end up inside you or you'll end up inside the deer through the wrong side and it'll make for an interesting news article.Picture a sorry ...
The Frog-amander isn?t Transitional
2008-05-21 22:34:00 Image via WikipediaMay 21, 2008 starts the clock. Let’s see how long it takes for the creationists to cook up some way to claim that this latest ‘transitional’ fossil isn’t in fact transitional at. Sure it has that “overall amphibian gestalt. ? You know, kind of a froggy salamander-y sort of look” but I’m sure that’s ...
Mobile Persuasion: 20 Perspectives of the Future of Behavior Change (Paperb
2008-05-21 08:05:00 Mobile Persuasion: 20 Perspectives of the Future of Behavior Change (Paperback)By BJ Fogg 1 used and new from $34.95 Customer Rating: First tagged “nokia” by Dean Eckles Customer tags: captology(4), phones(4), mobile(4), ...
By: GadgetGiz.com
Yefim Bronfman: Perspectives (Audio CD)
2008-05-09 05:05:00 Yefim Bronfman: Perspectives (Audio CD)By Mily Balakirev Buy new: $19.97$19.9728 utilised and new from $10.49 First tagged “piano” by G. histrion “#1SkinsFan” Customer tags: classical music(6), prokofiev, classical, music, solo piano, piano ...
Ideas for New Cycling Products : Part 2
2008-05-05 20:43:00 Continued from the past post, Part 1.7. Adaptive Stiffness - Wacky idea. A bike that will adapt its stiffness the more you ride it. Say Sam is a new bicyclist, knows nothing about bikes and goes out an purchases a new road bike model. Initially, for say the first 500-1000 miles, the bike is very compliant and accommodating, hence it is comfortable and he loves it. The more he rides it and perhaps races on it, the more the bicycle's stiffness adapts to his riding patterns. I'm thinking that the material of construction is a "smart" material that detects how the stresses it is subjected to changes as a function of time and then suitably "adapts". A cyclist knowing this, may perhaps be inclined to put more miles to get his bicycle to 'change'. This is the most perfect symbiosis I can think of in any sporting equipment - as a cyclist gets stronger and is able to ride more, the bicycle adapts too, yielding the rider more confidence in sprints and climbs.8. The Smart Bicycle - Oh boy,...
Ideas for New Cycling Products : Part 1
2008-05-05 20:29:00 There's a fair number of people out there who think that the bicycle industry is stagnant. That there is no engineering, no new ideas and not enough, you know that certain something compared to other industries which I don't know how to define. I have come up with some of my own ideas for possible new cycling products/ideas. Some of this may be practical, some over the edge and wacky and some swims in the realm of science fiction (hey, but look what Arthur C. Clarke did for space exploration!!)I haven't gone too much into the technicalities of any because that will defeat the purpose of me writing this. They are simply ideas and I hope they will influence, stimulate or even inspire your own thinking. If you're willing to contribute more, do drop in comments. If you have a winning idea, keep it for the patent office.1. On the go tire inflation/deflation system - A monitoring system mounted on the handlebars detects tire pressure while riding. If pressures are too low and in orde...
Perspectives and Expectations
2008-04-22 00:00:00 Upon departure from Fort Lauderdale Saturday at 3:00 p.m.: Upon arrival in the Buffalo area at 5:30 p.m.: We spent most of our time down in Southern Florida, but did relent and take the kids to Disney on Wednesday. We stayed overnight at a Radisson in Lake Buena Vista. ...
By: BuffaloPundit
Hear me on Empowered Black Perspectives radio
2008-04-05 15:15:00 Last night I was interviewed by host Rachel Ramone on Empowered Black Perspectives radio. We discussed race and the 2008 presidential election, Michelle Obama, the Rev. Wright controversy, whether black people should vote Republican, a Democratic "dream ticket" and more.I don't sound too bad. My nasty chest cold actually gave me sultry, radio voice. (It also contributed to my heavy breathing early in the call. Sorry about that!)Hear the show at the Empowered Black Perspectives Web site here.
By: What Tami Said
Conference: Imaging War: Intergenerational Perspectives
2008-04-03 20:13:00 European Science Foundation conference, ‘Imaging War: Intergenerational Perspectives’, Vadstena, Sweden, 3-7 September 2008: We have entered a time of highly technological warfare, where over half of the world?s research and development is now military and an ongoing revolution in military affairs (RMA) is changing the rules and weapons that will be used to define our common ...
By: KuiperCliff
The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives, Illustrated Lessons From Fin
2008-04-01 11:56:00 Wiley 2007-11-12 ISBN: 0470139501 PDF 240 pages 8,7 MbAn engaging and informative source of financial market historyThis new, updated edition offers revealing and provocative snapshots of modern financial markets that reveal how stocks relate to sales, earnings, dividends, cash flows, and assets; while others include turn-of-the-century originals, and new charts of even older events. In each case, Fisher provides what he calls a visualization in which he analyzes each chart according to its origin, historical significance, and most importantly, its relevance to today's market. A combination of illustrative charts and informative explanations, The Wall Street Waltz paints a compelling portrait of financial history that paves the way for future profits. Buy this book from Amazon:The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives, Illustrated Lessons From Financial Cycles and Trends (The Fisher Investment Series)Thanks to original uploader:rapidshare
The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives, Illustrated Lessons From Fin
2008-04-01 11:56:00 Wiley 2007-11-12 ISBN: 0470139501 PDF 240 pages 8,7 MbAn engaging and informative source of financial market historyThis new, updated edition offers revealing and provocative snapshots of modern financial markets that reveal how stocks relate to sales, earnings, dividends, cash flows, and assets; while others include turn-of-the-century originals, and new charts of even older events. In each case, Fisher provides what he calls a visualization in which he analyzes each chart according to its origin, historical significance, and most importantly, its relevance to today's market. A combination of illustrative charts and informative explanations, The Wall Street Waltz paints a compelling portrait of financial history that paves the way for future profits.Buy this book from Amazon:The Wall Street Waltz: 90 Visual Perspectives, Illustrated Lessons From Financial Cycles and Trends (The Fisher Investment Series)Resources
Dominant Perspectives of Affiliate Marketing in India Posted By : Meenakshi
2008-03-15 11:03:00 The article throws some light on the dominant perspectives of affiliate marketing in India. It tries to address the key issues concerning affiliate marketing in India. More: continued here --> Startowka.pl
Other perspectives: severe price pullback; REOs selling
2008-03-13 18:17:00 Here is a quick tour of what some people in local real estate are writing concerning the state of the South OC and OC real estate markets. All bold in entries is our emphasis.From ocrealestateblog.com: "Real estate prices in Orange County have pulled back substantially in the past 18 months. In the City of Aliso Viejo, CA. the price per square foot in the 3rd Quarter of 2006' was $408/SqFt, and the price per square foot for detached homes now stands at $336/SqFt. "This represents a drop in values of 17.5%. This severe pull back in prices is the result of a much needed correction to the unprecedented run-up in prices from 1997 to 2006', coupled with a high rate of foreclosures caused by the easy money lending standards of the past 5 years."From Straight Digs blog: "Today, bank-owned homes are selling. As an example, in the Aliso Viejo area for homes up to $400,000 (logically, the hottest price range under the old conforming loan limits) there are 93 active homes and 33 in escro...
Human Error vs Redesign
2008-03-12 19:50:00 Its quite needless to talk about the convenience of repair and maintenance afforded by a bicycle workstand.But there are many who don't have one and prefer to overturn their bikes, supporting it on the floor. And there is nothing wrong with that although we all know it can sometimes get difficult to work around some areas.Anyway, the support points while the bike is turned upside down are the floor, saddle and the brake hoods on the handlebar. While doing this, it is necessary to ensure the following :1. The handlebar is straight, preventing the bicycle from tipping to either side.2. All handlebar mounted electronics are either rotated away from the floor, or even removed such that they do not make contact, support the weight of the bike and get damaged in the process.3. If you have a nice expensive saddle, it'll be better placing it on a smooth clean cloth or piece of paper to ensure that it doesn't rub against the floor or get dirty.With the bike in this position, clothing, fi...
New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Introductory (New Perspect
2008-03-08 03:03:00 New Perspectives on Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Introductory (New Perspectives (Thomson Course Technology)) (Paperback)By June Jamrich Parsons Buy new: $64.9557 utilised and new from $28.99 Customer Rating: First tagged “excel” by Andrew ...
Santé et personnes âgées : perspectives et réalités du projet de Jean-
2008-03-04 23:25:00 Chers amis, Ce matin Jean-Noël Guérini a visité le Centre Gérontologique Montolivet dans le douzième arrondissement de Marseille. Accompagné par le Professeur MAGALON, chef de service Chirurgie Réparatrice et Grands Brûlés Hopital Conception, du Dr Brigitte PIETRI, PH Médecin du SAMU, du Dr LANKAR, Médecin Généraliste et des représentants des internes et des étudiants en médecine, Jean-Noël Guérini a pu entrer dans le détails de ses propositions concernant les personnes âgées et, plus avant, son projet concernant un meilleur accès à la santé pour tous en redonnant “une nouvelle impulsion et un nouvel élan à nos hôpitaux publics marseillais.” Voici la teneur de ses propos, entre-coupés par ceux du Pr Magalon : Introduction de Jean-Noël Guérini “Je vous remercie de votre présence aujourd’hui. J’ai en effet souhaité vous entretenir d’une question essentielle et primordiale pour nos concitoyens celle de la santé. La santé tient u...
More Perspectives
2008-03-03 20:45:00 Lot’s of news and happenings. I’ve got almost no Internet today so am struggling with a nearly non-working dialup. Here’s a couple of “dots” sent in: The world has faced periodic bouts when it looked as if population growth would outstrip the food supply. Each time, food production has grown to meet demand. This time it ...
Women Cyclists : Not in Vogue?
2008-02-25 21:50:00 I have found reading about Jeannie Longo so fascinating that I had to devote a post on her.I first heard about her in the work, Tour de France - Three Weeks to Glory by Samuel Abt, now a poor, old and torn book lying on my bookshelf.Its a little unreasonable that women are excluded out of our daily coffee table cycling talk. We easily remember Lance and his super human feats, how Merckx took part in almost every event in the racing calender and possibly managed to win them all, about Anquetil's relentless French conquest of the early Tours, Levi's time trial prowess, boy Boonen's classic but surely rabid sprint wins, Cipo's flamboyance this, Bartali and Coppi's that ... and so on and so forth.And so when it comes to publicity campaigns,flashy magazine ads or even a subjective agreement on who the greatest cyclists are, its quite obvious to see that limitations are only to men.How about the other gender, possibly half of the 6 billion people on earth? Even if a .01% of them bike...
Web Perspectives - Canada's Premier Online Consumer Research Survey Panel
2008-02-21 12:36:00 Web Perspectives - Canada's Premier Online Consumer Research Survey Panel. JOIN CANADA'S LARGEST MARKET RESEARCH COMMUNITY FOR A CHANCE AT $5,000! Web Perspectives Canada would like to invite you... More Online Money Making Opportunities At My Blog . . .
Power to Weight Ratio
2008-02-18 22:03:00 Men 5 s 1 min 5 min 20 min World Champion/World Record Holder 23.5 11.5 7.6 6.62 23.16 11.35 7.46 6.5 22.82 11.2 7.33 6.38 22.48 11.05 7.19 6.26 World Class 22.14 10.9 7.06 6.14 ...
Psychiatric Diagnosis: Brain Function Changes our Perspectives
2008-02-18 00:00:00 When I began training in psychiatry, almost 40 years ago, much of the diagnostic psychiatric world evolved from affect thinking: depression and anxiety, euphoria, and misperceptions of reality. In a word, we began with a Freudian, affect driven, trauma driven set of patterns.
By: CorePsychBlog
Cluetrain Perspectives: Right or Wrong?
2008-02-14 00:32:00 Doc Searls, co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, did a anniversary presentation at the SAP offices in New York City today and his comments were summed up by Charlene Li on a blog post at Social Media Today that is worth sharing. Charlene writes : ?Doc Searls started talking about ...
The Kano Diagram Applied to Cycling Products and Services
2008-02-13 22:12:00 Dr. Steve Shooter is a professional and practicing engineer at Bucknell University. He focuses on topics in product design and development and some of his videos on You tube are just fantastic material.Here, he explains the Kano Diagram, a model used to measure how well a product or service meets customer requirements. This concept is a basic topic in engineering design courses, but you don't necessarily have to be one to understand it. Its simple to assimilate; there's no math or funky equations.Let's try and apply this to the bicycling arena, referring at each step to the Kano Diagram.THE KANO DIAGRAMBASIC FEATURES (Shouldn't They All Have Them?!)All mortals need brakes!When one goes out to shop for a bicycle (depending on what is really wanted), certain basic features are expected. Certainly when one sits down to even think of buying a bicycle, something like the picture on the left pops up on mind.It must have brakes, pedals, reliable wheels and tires for the job at hand...
Perspectives #1 - Transport Efficiency
2008-02-05 00:22:00 Energy consumption is costly and steadily increasing today. A majority of production and consumer buying decisions are based around efficiency of the product they are designing or purchasing. With this in mind, it will be nice to have the moving transportation system in question have as little dead weight as possible and more payload weight instead.Dead weight, denoted by Wempty, like dead load in structures, is non-productive and costs money to move around during its economic life.Payload is the part of the transportation system, other than structural items, that will gain something (like humans moving from one position to another) or it will generate money for some other public party. Weight of the payload is denoted by Wpayload.When considering the Wempty/Wpayload ratio, interesting results are observed. This ratio is a dimensionless paramter by which we can have some amount of idea of transport efficiency. Generally, we want this ratio to be as small as made possible with the ...
Shifting Perspectives: Hit Rating, Expertise and Defense skill for PvE - Se
2008-01-29 21:21:00 Shifting Perspectives: Hit Rating, Expertise and Defense skill for PvEFiled under: Druid, Analysis / Opinion, Tips, Features, Raiding, Guides, Classes, (Druid) Shifting Perspectives Every Tuesday, Shifting Perspectives explores issues affecting druids and those who group with them. This week John Patricelli, sometimes known as the Big Bear Butt Blogger, offers guidance on three of the Feral Druids' key combat mechanics; Hit Rating, Expertise and Defense skill. There are three combat mechanics that have a direct bearing on the Feral Druid in PvE at level 70, and each have a functional upper limit on how much you need, before adding more becomes a waste of points. The three combat mechanics I'm talking about are Hit Rating, Expertise and Defense skill. When discussing these combat mechanics, there are three numbers I want you to remember; 142, 91 and 415. If you remember nothing else from the rest of this article, I hope that you carry these three numbers away with you. 142 is the...
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Genetic Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives
2008-01-22 12:02:00 Genetic Democracy: Philosophical Perspectives ISBN: 1402062052 | 160 pages | PDF | 972 KB GENETIC DEMOCRACY involves an in-depth analysis of the ethical, social and philosophical issues related to modern genetic research and gene technology. The aim of the book is to introduce systematic research on the social and ethical impacts of the use and development of genetically modified
Newer perspectives can be helpful.
2008-01-21 22:43:00 Perspectives on any subject can determine many various conclusions regarding the object(s) being viewed, often helping those involved more than just one expert opinion. When someone decides that they want to set a selling price or decide on what offer to make on a prospective property, are there any ways to gain good information besides a comparative market analysis or appraisal? Custom, unique, out of the way places can really be a challenge and the better the information available the better the pricing will be, I believe.
ADHD/ADD class offers parents different perspectives on disorders (Las Cruc
2008-01-19 00:00:00 Parents of children with ADHD/ADD have an opportunity to learn more about this disorder from a class at Doña Ana Community College. The class is called ADD: A Dubious Diagnosis, and offers information about what has been called the nation's number one psychiatric disorder.
Humanist Perspectives on Trent Radio (Update)
2008-01-09 23:43:00 The interview for the Humanist Perspectives Radio Show with Aga Smies at Trent University was recorded this morning. It will be aired this Sunday from 1-2 PM (my segment was probably about 15 minutes). Listen online at www.TrentRadio.ca. If you’re in the Peterborough area, tune in at 92.7 FM, or 95.3 on Cable. In this interview ...
Humanist Perspectives on Trent Radio
2008-01-08 02:00:00 I will be a guest on Age Smies’ Humanist Perspectives, a radio show at Trent University in Peterborough, ON. Age and I will be discussing a few things. Firstly, is it possible for one to say that they believe theistic belief to be a form of irrational delusion without being accused of being offensive? Is ...
Different Perspectives
2008-01-01 21:22:00 As my wife has said many times and never ceases to remind me."I am a city boy" , I also happen to be British but don't hold that against me .I have listened to Callie and Jessie talk about horse slaughter and read Callies article about Closing the Slaughter Houses and her post about the accident with a loaded hauler.I am sort of on the fence over horse slaughter , I do not like the idea but sort of understand why it happens, and normally stay out of it.But something has just caught my interest a new bill going through CongressAmerican Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 503/S. 311)Now as an outsider and with little understanding it seems to block the domestic and international transport of live horses or horseflesh for human consumption, which will stop the current way round the slaughter houses being closed down and the horses for slaughter being transported to Mexico and Canada for slaughter.The bill does appear to be set up to stop it , but leaves the question of who will polic...
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