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I went down there with 2 training buddies. Out of the 3 of us, none of our opponents showed up. So me and my buddy decided we could still put on a show for the venue. The result[^]
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Starting at 5:15, which one are you, the bouncy one or the more sedate guy?
Marc
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I'm the guy in the black pads (not the white).
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loctrice wrote: put on a show
If you say that you are the one displaying the round number placard, I will be your groupie. 
You can lead a developer to CodeProject, but you can't make them think.
The Theory of Gravity was invented for the sole purpose of distracting you from investigating the scientific fact that the Earth sucks.
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You need to work on your camera skills. 
Oh wait, you are the one fighting, right?
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There was supposed to be someone filming it, but there were technical difficulties. This clip is actually a backup I had my wife take (from the seating) just in case. The original clip was ringside.... would have been nice to have it instead, but *shrug*
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loctrice wrote: none of our opponents showed up
Was that your scheduled St-Louis fight ?
How come nobody showed up ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Yeah, this was the St. Louis fight. Amateur fighters seem to have a problem with showing up. Not sure why. A lot of the times when they show up, they don't make weight. We had one of the guys that was wanting to fight 170 show up at 185 (the next weight class up), and still want to fight one of the 170 guys.
I think it's just that the nerves get to them. It's different for pros because they get a purse for showing up, they get to train for their job, and a few other things. Also, in the amateur league, there's not much consequence for ditching a fight.
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This sucks. Even I got pretty excited with all the trailers you made on CP, and now ... nothing. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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We did the k1 match
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I tried watching the video, but had to stop because there was no close-up shot of what may have been a young woman in less than full street dress holding a sign bearing the number "one:" that was a very noisy meeting of Domestic Violence Anonymous.
“I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: They amount to 14.” Abd-Ar Rahman III, Caliph of Cordoba, circa 950CE.
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You should have seen the waitresses out there. Shady Jacks, as it turns out, is a fully legit biker club/bar. It's even got a harley shop attached to it. There were tons of Hells Angels there, and lots of other clubs. All the ladies working in the area were dressed for the occassion ;D
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You may have remembered a while back I posted a link to the Blitzortung community real-time lightning detection and monitoring network.
Well I decided to join the community and install a station, so far my furthest detection has been just under 3600 km.
So, that's what Project-X was in my rant on Friday was about, trying to get up on the roof!
I did a write up with pictures of the controller and antenna builds/installs for anyone who is interested.
Lightning Never Strikes Twice? Maybe Blitzortung knows![^]
Maybe a few more CPians can join the collective and get the detection accuracy and coverage up!
Cheers the noo....
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Seriously cool stuff.
As we've had actually quite ridiculous weather lately, with several hours of thunderstorm this evening, I've been sitting watching the realtime data from lightningmaps and noticed sadly that a majority of the strikes isn't getting registered. And that's despite having an active station just a bit to the south of here
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I suppose it depends on how the users have built their systems. Types of antenna used, locations etc. Also, some of the strikes are maybe cloud to cloud and therefore in the wrong phase with the antenna (again depending on antenna type).
It does also say in the literature that if the strikes are too close to a station they aren't detected.
Looking at the live data, things are pretty quiet over Europe today/tonight. Last week, the place was just bouncing with strikes, most of central europe was just covered in colour on the live maps.
Hopefully the fine weather forecast for the next couple of days will stir something up! 
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Amazing and cool!
What blows me away is how far away lightning can be detected. I've seen detectors go off in Alaska for lightning strikes in Louisiana. How is that possible? Is the EM pulse that strong that it can be detected 4 or 5 thousand miles away? And what is the EM pulse measured in? Farads? uWatts? I'm totally clueless on this stuff.
[edit] - Never mind, I re-read your article and realized the answer was right there!
Another question I have is, what is the clock source for triangulation? Is my assumption that it is the master clock on the GPS satellites? I guess these things have pretty high resolution, but also that more detectors results in better triangulation.
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Marc
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Hi Marc,
Yes the system does use the GPS system as the master clock. You can see a time stamp on the trend and in the raw data snapshot and they go down to nanoseconds.
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Whatever your question it this is the easy[^] answer!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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Brings up a video suggestion to this[^]. Not quite a generic answer...
The console is a black place
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There's a Bong version as well!
(Bong: Like Google, but slower and less likely to produce anything useful...)
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Have to check that out. My son sent my ex the link I provided and I thought it was funny and appropriate as she'd rather ask then do the lookup herself.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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I have been fortunate enough to get a new laptop (Toshiba Satellite S55t-B) Quadcore i7-4710HQ 2.5Ghz, 8Gb ram, running Windows 8.1
Wasn't sure about Win8 but I don't mind it at all.  Finding it very similar to win7, but with some additional nice features -- like the TaskManager which is much nicer with more granular control.
I thought I was supposed to hate windows 8?
So I've replaced my hatred for Win8 with hatred for Eclipse Android Studio and especially the Android Emulator. Oh, how I loathe you, AVD!!!  
I started it about 30 minutes ago and it is still at the Android splash screen.
Come on!
It was the main reason I bought the computer so I could do some android dev.
I guess there is always something in the tech world to loathe. 
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You might want to try GenyMOtion[^] as an emulator, much faster and a hell of a lot better.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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I believe I am going to go this genymotion route now. It's just getting ridiculous.
I just want to do some android dev on the road -- out at coffee shops without carrying my android (nexus 7) in every time.
Thanks for the information.
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Your welcome, I got so frustrated with the emulator provided and I use AMD not Intel so the only solution was to go to GenyMotion.
Good Luck!
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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