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[dropcap]H[/dropcap]iking Annapurna Circuit Trek without a guide? Yes, it’s possible. Annapurna Circuit Trek is one of the most popular and scenic trekking trails not only in Nepal, but in the world. This trail, as its name suggests, goes almost all the way around the entire Annapurna massif. In June 2016 we with Una hiked this trail. In 18 days we walked all the way from Besi Sahar to Beni. And we did it without a guide, a porter or any tour agency.
16 days we were walking, but 2 days we took free. One to acclimatize better, another one to have a rest because I was feeling sick. As we had enough time we spent 3 days in Pokhara and in total about a week in Kathmandu.
When planning your Annapurna Circuit Trek, don’t forget to count in at least 4 more days (2 at the beginning of the trek and another 2 – at the end). Because it can take up to 12 – 14 hours to get from Kathmandu to Besi Sahar, more – if you are planning to start trekking from, let’s say, Chame or Lower Pisang. And at least the same as much time you will need to get back to Kathmandu after finishing a trek around Annapurna massif.
UPDATE: In March 2017 I returned to Nepal to hike Annapurna Circuit one more time. This time in early spring. Starting from Bhulbule and finishing in Jomsom. In total I was walking for 11 days. Here is my updated guide to hiking the Annapurna Circuit.
Trekking Annapurna Circuit Independently
1. Getting a Trekking Permit and TIMS
It’s possible to get a trekking permit and TIMS (Trekkers’ Information Management System) card on the same day, when you arrive to Kathmandu. Before applying for a trekking permit in Nepal you need to know, which trek are you going to do.
There are many different treks in Nepal. They are in different parts of the country. And in each part of the country there is a different trekking permit needed. Prices vary as well.
– For Annapurna Circuit Trek You Will Need to Obtain Annapurna Conservation Area Permit (ACAP)
We got it from Nepal Tourism Board in Kathmandu. Paying a little bit extra it’s possible to obtain it from almost any trekking agency in Kathmandu. There are really a lot of them in the city, especially in the area called Thamel. And there are also few other places, where you can get it (check it on the website of NTNC).
And then you need TIMS card. It is possible to get it at the same place – office of Nepal Tourism Board.
Each one of them cost us 2000 NPR (about 18 EUR/20 USD).
– What Is Necessary to Get a Trekking Permit for Annapurna Circuit?
To get ACAP and TIMS you need to have a travel insurance (both times we took World Nomads Explorer package), 4 passport photo size photos, as well as you need to know when and where are you starting your trek, more or less your route and when and where are you planning to finish it.
– Travel Insurance for Trekking in Nepal
If you plan to do a whole Annapurna Circuit Trek, which means also crossing Thorong La pass at 5416 (17,769 ft) meters above sea level, then you need an insurance, which covers activities at such a high altitude as well. Mostly insurance companies don’t offer it in a standard offer.
That’s one of the reason, why we choose World Nomads Explorer package. World Nomads is an insurance company trusted by Lonely Planet, Rough Guides and Intrepid Travel.
Step by step. You go to the Nepal Tourist Board office. Fill the forms. Give your photos. Pay money. Get your trekking permit and TIMS. In total it took us only about 1 hour.
2. Annapurna Circuit Packing List
Three of the most important items: comfortable shoes, quality backpack and a rain jacket.
Check out our complete Annapurna packing list for different seasons! And you will learn more about what equipment is necessary for Annapurna Circuit trek? What we have used? And how to pack light for Annapurna trek?
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3. Route – Annapurna Circuit Trek
1) In June 2016 we started hiking Annapurna circuit trek from Besi Sahar, and finished in Beni.
2) In March 2017 I started from Bhulbhule, and finished in Jomsom.
– Getting From Kathmandu to Besi Sahar (and Bhulbhule)
To get from Kathmandu to Besi Sahar we took a local bus. A bus from Kathmandu to Bhulbhule leaves from the same bus station.
Bus station, that you will need, is about 2 kilometers North of Thamel. And Thamel is the most popular district of Kathmandu among foreigners. It’s also the area where all the trekking stores are located.
Note that it’s a pretty long ride and there could be only one bus per day. And most probably it leaves early. Our bus left Kathmandu at 6:30 AM (to Bhulbhule – at 6:45 AM). Better buy a ticket one day in advance.
One way ticket cost us 450 NPR each (about 4 EUR/4,5 USD). And the ride was about 10 hours long.
Another option is to take a tourist bus going to Pokhara. These buses leave from a place closer to Thamel. Then you will need to get off at Dumre, not reaching Pokhara. And then – to take a local bus to Besi Sahar or Bhulbhule. At the end it will cost you at least twice as much. But at least the first part of the ride will be much more comfortable. To get a ticket go to any of tour agencies. A ticket for a local bus you will buy already in Dumre.
– Annapurna Circuit Itinerary: Our Annapurna Trek Route, Day By Day
Besi Sahar – Ngadi – Ghermu Phant (shortly before Syange) – Tal – Danakyu – Chame – Upper Pisang – Manang – one more day in Manang – Siri Kharka – Ledar – Thorung Phedi – Muktinath – Jomsom – one more day in Jomsom – Larjung – Ghasa – Tatopani – Beni.
In March 2017 I took a bus to Bhulbhule and on the first day I stayed at Ngadi, half an hour walk away from the place where I got off the bus. I finished my trek in Jomsom, from where I took a local bus to Pokhara. I needed to change a bus in Beni.
– Getting From Beni to Pokhara (and Kathmandu)
From Beni to Pokhara we took a jeep. It’s approximately 80 kilometer ride, which takes about 3 hours. And it cost us 400 NPR each (about 3,5 EUR / 4 USD).
On our last day we walked all the way from Tatopani to Beni. It was already afternoon when we reached Beni. And we didn’t know if there will be any more buses going to Pokhara today. So we just walked to bus station and asked for a bus to Pokhara. Man sold us tickets and asked to wait for half an hour. Later we found out that it will be a jeep ride. Ok!
– Getting From Jomsom to Pokhara (and Kathmandu)
You can fly from Jomsom to Pokhara. There is an airport.
You can take a jeep. Or you can take a local bus like we did. Taking a local bus you will need to change a bus in Beni. A ticket cost us 1000 NPR (about 9 EUR / 10 USD).
Tilicho Lake – Most Popular Side Trail of Annapurna Circuit
We also planned to go to Tilicho lake, which is one of the world’s highest lakes and most popular side trail of Annapurna circuit trek. But because of fresh landslide at one point we decided that it’s too dangerous and turned around. In March 2017 I didn’t go there either, because there was too much snow.
Our plan was as following – trek from Manang to Siri Kharka, eat lunch, leave half of our stuff there, and continue to Tilicho base camp. Spend a night in hotel at Tilicho base camp. Wake up at 5 AM, take only water and camera and trek to Tilicho lake. Return to Tilicho base camp after 5-6 hours for a lunch. Trek back to Siri Kharka. Continue to Ledar on the next day.
4. Annapurna Circuit Trek in 2 Weeks or Less
Having only about 2 weeks in total you can do something like Tal – Danakyu – Chame – Upper Pisang – Manang – Ledar – Thorung Phedi – Muktinath – Jomsom by foot, and rest by jeep or bus. From Jomsom it’s also possible to fly to Pokhara.
Not being sure if you can make it across Thorung La pass (hardest and highest point of Annapurna circuit trek; 5416 meters above sea level) or without ambitions to do it, you can also start trekking from Besi Sahar and walk as far as you comfortably can. It’s about 7-10 days walk until the pass and views are worth it. And then you can take a jeep from Manang back to Besi Sahar or Bhulbhule, from where you can take a bus to Kathmandu.
Note, that it’s not possible to take a jeep from places after Manang. Because higher in the mountains there are no roads in this area.
It’s always a good idea to have at least 1-2 extra days, in case something goes not as planned.
5. Annapurna Circuit Trek in Different Seasons
Best time of the year to hike Annapurna circuit trek is autumn – from September to November. And then – spring, from April to May.
Summer is a monsoon season in Nepal, when it can be very cloudy and it can rain a lot. But in winter it can get very cold. Though, usually not more than -20 C at the highest altitudes. Speaking about snow, even in winter on Annapurna Circuit trek it can be just a little bit of snow. But again, these are Himalayas, and the weather there can be unpredictable. Like, for example, in the beginning of March 2017, when one big part of the trail wasn’t passable because of a heavy snowing.
Trekking Annapurna Circuit During the Monsoon Season
We knew that it will be monsoon season already, but then we read, that most of Annapurna circuit trek sits within a so called rain shadow and rain there shouldn’t be a problem, not in June at least.
So we decided to give it a try. We started to hike on the 29th of May and finished on the 15th of June.
During this whole period of time we had rain only 4 or 5 times. For almost all our first day, for few hours on the second day and afterwards only at nights at the very end of our trek. So mostly it was either sunny or sunny in the morning and cloudy for the rest of the day. Not bad at all.
We also knew, that there are way less tourists during the off season. What we didn’t expect is that there are barely any tourists during this time of the year on Annapurna circuit trek. For the first and last 3-4 days we always were the only guests at the hotel, and there always were like 5 or 8 hotels to choose from.
Starting from Manang and until Muktinath we saw in total only about 25 other hikers.
6. Planning a Budget for Annapurna Circuit Trek
Basically your only expenses in the mountains are accommodation, food and drinking water.
Starting from the second day we used almost only tap water, purified with water purification tablets, that we bought in Kathmandu. Thus every liter of water cost us almost nothing (less than 3 NPR). While at the shops and restaurants in the mountains it costs starting from 50 – 100 NPR at lower altitudes and close to 200 NPR or something like 1,8 EUR/2 USD for 1 liter of water at higher altitudes.
– Annapurna Circuit Trek Food Costs
100 NPR equals to something like 0,9 EUR/1 USD.
Similar like with water, the higher you are, the pricier everything is. Few examples. Bar of Snickers or Mars in the mountains costs about 150 – 200 NPR. Bottle of beer – about 500 NRP. 1 liter pot of ginger – lemon – honey tea (the most of expensive tea) costs about 600 – 2000 NPR. 1 cup of black tea – 40 – 90 NPR. But once you are near the Thorung La pass even cup of hot water costs like 70 NPR, but pot of hot water – about 300 NPR.
Cheapest meals on the trek are soups (150 – 350 NPR) and fried and boiled eggs (150 – 300 NPR). But anything more filling, like pasta, dal bhat, momo, burgers, pizzas and sandwiches mostly cost between 350 and 600 NPR.
– Accommodation on Annapurna Circuit Trek Isn’t Expensive
Think about something like 100 – 500 NPR for a single room or bed in a dorm and 300 – 1000 NPR for a double room with private or shared bathroom. Taking a hot shower may cost you extra 50 – 200 NPR. At some places they have solar shower, which usually is for free. Ask about it!
At higher altitudes internet & electricity to charge your gadgets also might cost you extra 100 – 300 NPR.
For several days we didn’t pay anything for accommodation. There is such a possibility. In these situations they usually ask you to have all the meals at their restaurant, which in my opinion is a fair deal. You can always ask for it as well – can you give me a free room, if I’m eating dinner and breakfast with you?
In 2016 after Manang we didn’t have internet. In 2017 if not for the technical problems in Manang and Upper Pisang, I would have had internet in all the towns until Thorung Pedi.
Similar like a year earlier, a hot shower was a luxury after I left Manang. The same like running water.
– How Much Money Should You Take With You?
From our experience, if you are traveling as a couple, 3000 NPR per day (for a couple) is sufficient for all the basics and some snacks. If you are traveling solo, better take 2000 NPR in cash with you for every day you plan to spend in the mountains.
Or – at least take enough cash to last you until Jomsom, where there is an ATM and Currency Exchange booth near the airport. In any case better take also some 100 – 200 USD or EUR in cash with you as well, in case ATM isn’t working or it’s not accepting your bank card.
Planning your Annapurna Circuit budget don’t forget to count in TIMS (2000 NPR), trekking permit (2000 NPR), travel insurance (we paid about 100 EUR / 110 USD per person), getting to starting point and back (about 1500 – 2000 NPR in total) and what you will spend on snacks, medicine and probably some trekking equipment when preparing for the trek.
Annapurna Circuit Without a Guide – You Are Ready for It
Yes, you can do it!
If you have any experience of planning a trip for yourself or someone else. If you have some experience of booking a hotel room. If you aren’t very shy. If you can walk 15 – 20 kilometers per day. Then you definitely can do Annapurna Circuit without guide.
Just bring a map of the route (you can buy one in Kathmandu for 300 – 500 NPR) and you are set! In fact, even a sheet of paper with a list of towns, that you will be going through, works perfect here. Because all the route of Annapurna circuit trek is well enough marked with red arrows and red – white signs.
There are guest houses, cafes and restaurants like every 5 – 10 kilometers. And there is always someone whom to ask – hey, is this town in this or that direction? As we saw from our experience, it’s not a problem also during the off season, when there aren’t almost any foreigners. Because you can always approach locals. Like we did, when there was a need.
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NASA's Morpheus completes final test at KSC
An experimental NASA lander took flight today for the last time at Kennedy Space Center, successfully completing a quarter-mile hop testing technologies that future exploration missions might incorporate.
The four-legged Morpheus lander lit its engine at 4:11 p.m. and climbed about 800 feet, then flew forward 1,300 feet while descending to a pad in a simulated moonscape north of the shuttle runway, where it touched down in a cloud of dust.
Team members reported that Morpheus' laser-guided navigation system had controlled the entire flight, a key objective not achieved during several previous attempts.
The 97-second flight was the last planned before Morpheus is shipped home next month to Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Part of NASA's Advanced Exploration Systems division, Morpheus, which measures 10 feet on a side, was established not to fly in space but to demonstrate technologies that could support future human or robotic exploration.
Those included a liquid methane propulsion system and a package of laser sensors and software designed to identify landing hazards and steer Morpheus to safe landing sites.
The project arrived at KSC with a bang in 2012, immediately suffering a crash and explosion that destroyed the first vehicle.
A new "Bravo" vehicle returned just over a year ago for the first of a dozen free flights.
After a summer break to analyze the results from those flights, the team reconvened recently for what NASA hoped would be two more flights in Florida to wring out the laser sensors called ALHAT, short for Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology.
But weather and a series of technical glitches left only enough time for one flight.
Before liftoff, Jon Olansen, the Morpheus project manager, congratulated his team on years of work resulting in the opportunity to prove technologies that could be applied to missions to the moon, an asteroid or Mars.
"Rely on your training and let's make some history," he radioed from a control center near the Shuttle Landing Facility tower.
As Morpheus rose on a blue streak of flame about an hour before sunset, an onboard camera showed the three-mile runway stretch out below and the 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building in the distance.
Morpheus — named for the Greek god of dreams — then scanned a simulated patch of lunar boulders and craters, identified hazards and guided the vehicle to touchdown on a concrete pad.
The Morpheus team applauded, and later gathered for a photo to celebrate the milestone.
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Containing a compromised deepwater well in a region as large as the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is a complicated task. MWCC’s activities are directed by the Well Operator, or Responsible Party, and the Incident Command. Many parallel activities are required to assure safety at the incident site and access to the well – MWCC’s activities must be coordinated to work effectively within the broader response. Assuming no impact from factors such as weather, location, well-type and damage specifics, MWCC should be able to cap a well to shut-off the flow of fluids within a week. In more complicated scenarios like when a well cannot be immediately capped off due to extensive damage that creates concerns over its ability to hold pressure, MWCC’s interim collection and extended flowback systems can be used to collect well fluids while a relief well is being drilled to stop the flow. Again, assuming no issues, the extended flowback system should be onsite within a month. While each scenario is unique, in a best-case situation, MWCC can contain a deepwater well incident roughly ten times faster than the 2010 response to Deepwater Horizon.


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The Simulink model is then started and once it is done initializing and begins recording data, the pendulum can then be released. For example, if a periodic signal was sampled once per cycle, then the input signal would appear stationary as in the following figure.
The way we do this is to simply to hold the pendulum at a defined angle as measured by a protractor, etc. Overview[ edit ] A pendulum with its bob hanging directly below the support pivot is at a stable equilibrium point; there is no torque on the pendulum so it will remain motionless, and if displaced from this position will experience a restoring torque which returns it Rotary inverted pendulum model the equilibrium position.
Once the Simulink model has been created, it can then be run to collect a set of data like that shown below. In this figure, the blue line is the signal being sampled, the dots represent samples, and the red line is the signal that would be reconstructed based solely on the sampled data. Therefore, in the above figure 0 corresponds to 0 V and corresponds to 5 V.
This can be seen by examining the expression forwhich in the case of the simplified pendulum model is approximately. Examination of the following seems to indicate we have a response that oscillates with decaying amplitude as we had previously, however, the period appears to be much larger.
Below are a couple more examples to help illustrate the phenomenon of aliasing. In choosing the initial pendulum angle, it is desired to choose a sufficiently large angle such that the resulting amplitude is large compared to the level of quantization and possibly noise.
Another way that an inverted pendulum may be stabilized, without any feedback or control mechanism, is by oscillating the pivot rapidly up and down.
The inverted pendulum is Rotary inverted pendulum model classic problem in dynamics and control theory and is widely used as a benchmark for testing control algorithms PID controllers Rotary inverted pendulum model, state space representationneural networksfuzzy controlgenetic algorithmsetc.
The Arduino Board employs a bit analog-to-digital converter. This phenomenon is referred to as aliasing and demonstrates that sampling a periodic signal too slowly will result in the sampled signal appearing to have a larger period than it actually has.
In order to perform the conversion into engineering units, we will calibrate our potentiometer to determine the mapping from bits to actual angles. Equations of motion[ edit ] The equations of motion of inverted pendulums are dependent on what constraints are placed on the motion of the pendulum.
Neither of these quantities require a conversion to engineering units. The remaining blocks are part of the standard Simulink library, specifically, they can be found under the Sinks library.
This means for the default an Analog Input channel reads a voltage between 0 and 5 V and slices that range into pieces. For our example system, we recorded the following data where straight down is 0 degrees and the clockwise direction is positive. The Simulink model we will use is shown below and can be downloaded herewhere you may need to change the COM port in the IO Setup block to match location where your Arduino board is connected.
Software setup In this experiment, we will employ Simulink to read the data from the potentiometer and to plot the data in real time. For our pendulum length ofa sample time of 0.
However, we want to be able to validate the accuracy of our resulting model, hence, we need to perform the conversion. At this point again there is no torque on the pendulum, but the slightest displacement away from this position will cause a gravitation torque on the pendulum which will accelerate it away from equilibrium, and it will fall over.
This would require an external power source and we would need to orient the potentiometer so that the range through which the pendulum swung through kept the output voltage below 5 V. This model simply reads the potentiometer data pendulum angle via an Analog Read on channel A0 and then displays the stored data on a scope and a display.
Specifically, the pendulum is held at rest at an angle just less than 30 degrees. In the above figure, the resulting angles are expressed in numbers of bits.
Stationary pivot point[ edit ] In a configuration where the pivot point of the pendulum is fixed in space, the equation of motion is similar to that for an uninverted pendulum. For details on how to use the IO package, refer to the following link. Again, the reconstructed signal has a lower frequency than the actual signal.
The equation of motion below assumes no friction or any other resistance to movement, a rigid massless rod, and the restriction to 2-dimensional movement. If the oscillation is sufficiently strong in terms of its acceleration and amplitude then the inverted pendulum can recover from perturbations in a strikingly counterintuitive manner.
Another alternative, is to employ a different smaller Analog Reference than the default 5 V in order to reduce the range of the input channel.
The inverted pendulum is related to rocket or missile guidance, where the center of gravity is located behind the center of drag causing aerodynamic instability. In particular, we will employ the IO package from the MathWorks. The linearized model was derived employing a small angle approximation that is accurate only for angles near 0 degrees.
Aliasing In order to illustrate what happens when we sample a periodic signal too slowly, let us change our Simulink model sample time to 1 second. Inverted pendulums can be created in various configurations resulting in a number of Equations of Motion describing the behavior of the pendulum.
Double-clicking on the Analog Read block, we can change the "Sample time. It is not, however, recommended to use a pendulum that is too much shorter since it will cause the dynamics of the pendulum to be too fast too few samples per period of the pendulum. In order to achieve increased sensitivity, we could apply more than 5 V to the potentiometer.This work deals with the control of a rotary inverted pendulum (see Figure 1).
This device is composed of the following: an arm rotating in the horizontal plane where one of its ends is mounted on a motor shaft and where a rod is mounted on its other end.
An inverted pendulum is a pendulum that has its center of mass above its pivot point. The inverted pendulum model has been used in some recent personal transporters, such as the two-wheeled self-balancing scooters and single-wheeled electric unicycles. Rotational Inverted Pendulum: Classic pedagogical example of application of control theory The Furuta pendulum, or rotational inverted pendulum, consists of a driven arm which rotates in the horizontal plane and a pendulum attached to that arm which is free to rotate in the vertical plane.
Abstract—This paper presents sliding mode control of Rotary Inverted Pendulum. Rotary Inverted Pendulum is a section IV the sliding mode control of rotary inverted pendulum is considered and also simulation results are The variables used to define the model of the rotary inverted pendulum are as follows.
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bsaconcordia.com experimental techniques to determine the model parameters. bsaconcordia.coml the pendulum in the Gantry position. FOR ROTARY INVERTED PENDULUM QUANSER REAL-TIME EXPERIMENT Cosmin Ionete University of Craiova, Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics AND LINEAR MODEL The Rotary Inverted Pendulum module shown in Figure Increasing the weight for the rotary arm error, we obtain the results from Fig.: q = diag([20 .Download

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As many consumers make the switch to the latest devices this year, the pressure on mobile operators and retailers is only going to increase. Whilst around 30 percent of mobile phone faults are a result of expectation or misuse problems, a further 60 percent are caused by software or application issues - all of which can be fixed without the need to send the device away.
With the growing number and complexity of 'smarter' devices, it is imperative that mobile operators realise that traditional approaches to diagnostics and repair are no longer adequate in coping with the rising number of reported faults and consumers' dependence on such devices. In a time where revenue is falling and monetisation opportunities are decreasing, mobile operators and their retail counterparts cannot afford to waste money.
Technology is now available to provide in-store and remote diagnostics and repair and it is time for mobile operators to start using this to their advantage. Such devices enable operators to identify and fix a host of problems - from the basic user error, to the more serious mobile malware and malicious applications - all from the comfort of an in-store PC.
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Dave Golding is General Manager of Cellebrite APAC PTE Ltd.
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Opinion: CSU football fans finally get the chance to celebrate a real spring game
Dequan Jackson has played four years of college football and nearly 40 games as a Ram.
He’s never played a game like the one he will be in Saturday.
It won’t be the biggest or most important game of his career by a long shot, but it could be among the more fun ones.
It’s spring game time, a chance to celebrate and build excitement for the upcoming season.
A spring game should be as much about the fans as it is the team, and that’s finally happening for the first time in a long time for this Colorado State football program.
“I haven’t had a spring game,” said Jackson, the fifth-year linebacker. “I’m excited. I really don’t know what it feels like to have an actual spring game in college, it’s sad to say. Hey, let’s take advantage of it.”
For a variety of reasons, there hasn’t been a truly legitimate spring game inside Canvas Stadium.
Here’s a quick rundown:
- 2018: This is the closest to a spring game Canvas Stadium has seen. Former coach Mike Bobo ran it half practice, half scrimmage. Players were split into jerseys like a game, but it wasn’t too close to a real contest.
- 2019: Weather forced a cancellation, and the team held a scrimmage in the Indoor Practice Facility with no fans present.
- 2020: COVID-19 forced the cancellation of the back half of spring practices.
- 2021: COVID-19 protocols were still in place and former coach Steve Addazio ran the 15th practice as a normal session.
The last true spring game was in 2017 on the temporary field by the Lagoon north of the stadium. Hughes Stadium’s field was destroyed following the last game there and the on-campus stadium wasn’t yet ready to be played in.
Finally, it’s back. The contest should look like a real game and be enjoyable for fans to help drive energy toward the fall. That’s especially true in a place like Fort Collins that isn’t necessarily football-crazed.
More:What to know about the CSU spring game and surrounding festivities
“To me, the spring game has always been a celebration. We’re trying to make it a big event,” first-year coach Jay Norvell said. “It's always the first opportunity to see the team for this season. It’s a precursor to the fall. We really encourage everybody to come out and see us. It should be a great spring celebration.”
Saturday should be an entertaining event. Norvell uses a “1’s vs. the World” format. The top unit of offense and defense will be one team and the backups the other. The backups will start the game with a 21-0 lead.
The goal of the No. 1’s is to catch them and win it. Simple, competitive and fun.
More:Takeaways from first CSU football spring scrimmage, first 3 weeks of spring ball
This is just another example of how different this staff views the fan base compared with previous regimes. Fans have endured a lot of mediocre to bad football since the last real spring game.
Now as real optimism spreads, the fans are rewarded with a chance to enjoy the dawn of this new era.
“Saturday is going to be fun, that’s all I can say,” offensive lineman Brian Crespo said.
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text: DES3D (Dynamic Earth Solver in Three Dimensions) is a flexible, open-source finite element solver that models momentum balance and heat transfer in elasto-visco-plastic material in the Lagrangian form using unstructured meshes. It provides a modeling platform for long-term tectonics as well as various problems in civil and geotechnical engineering. On top of the OpenMP multi-thread parallelism, DES3D has recently adopted CUDA for GPU computing. The CUDA-enabled version shows speedup of two to three orders of magnitude compared to the single-thread performance, making high-resolution 3D models affordable. This clinic will provide an introduction to DynEarthSol3D’s features and capabilities and hands-on tutorials to help beginners start using the code for simple tectonic scenarios. Impact of the two types of parallelization on performance will be demonstrated as well.

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Cool image time! The photo to the right, cropped to post here, was taken on February 27, 2022 by the high resolution camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and shows a nice collection of what scientists have informally (but permanently) labeled as spiders, strange formations that exists only in the regions of the Martian south pole.
The spiders are believed to have formed because of the coming and going of the dry ice mantle in the polar regions that falls as snow in the winter and then sublimates away come the spring. Because dry ice is mostly clear, the spring sunlight penetrates it and warms the underlying surface, which acts to warm the base of the dry ice mantle. CO2 gas builds up, trapped below the dry ice, until the pressure causes it to break the dry ice at a weak point and spew outward, carrying with it dust that blackens the surface above. You can see three examples in today’s image.
Spiders however only happen at the south pole. In the north much of the terrain is formed by unstable dunes, which change from year to year, thus causing the gas breakage to occur at random and different spots.
In the south however the terrain is more stable, a surface of ice and dirt. The spiders form because the trapped gas always follows the same path from year to year to the same weak points, carving riverlike tributaries until these feeders combine and build up enough gas pressure to crack the overlying dry ice so that the gas can escape.
Though the gas functions much like a river of water, it has one fundamental difference that makes this phenomenon wholly Martian and quite alien. On Earth rivers flow downhill. On Mars, the gas in these spider tributaries is flowing upward, seeking a path into the atmosphere above.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

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Characteristic of the transient response to Femtosecond laser irradiation of a silicon p-i-n Photodiode
X-A. Dou, X-Q. Sun and L. Shao
To study the characteristic of the transient response to femtosecond laser irradiation of a silicon p-i-n photodiode the transient response was experimentally examined and the physical model was established. The transient response characteristic was also analysed with the aid of quasi-three-dimensional technology computer aided design (CAD) software. The results indicate that the transient response waveform has an extended tail falling edge but an about 100 ps fast rising edge. This is contributed to by the displacement current in the first several picoseconds and then by the rapid collection of holes close to the anode electrode. The peak value of the transient response could linearly increase with the average power of femtosecond laser.
Keywords: Femtosecond laser, silicon p-i-n photodiode, ultrafast optics, transient response


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Speed Tight *Tech Fleece
wish they would bring this pant back
I got these pants as a christmas gift but had to return them because they were not the right size but was extremely sad when I found out they were all sold out. Please bring these pants back they were the warmest lululemon leggings I had ever had. They were extremely soft and looked very nice on. I would definetly buy more than 1 pair if these came back because they were that nice!
January 9, 2015
Wonderful, just wish I'd sized down!
This and the Speed Tight II Herringbone are my first purchases from LLL.
Firstly, the fabric is wonderfully soft and comfortable! I was a little worried that it seemed a bit thin (I own tights that are thicker and not even specifically made for cold weather) but it definitely passed the "bend over" test and was quite warm on a brisk morning run. I love the seaming on the Speed Tights - it so flattering on my figure, makes my bum look fantastic.
My only gripe is that the fit seems large. The 8 fit me fine until I actually started running, and then I had to continually pull the pants up and readjust them. I'd exchange them for a 6, but the tags are long gone. Thankfully the drawstring saves me from having a pair of expensive running tights that I can't run in, but the 6 would fit better overall. For reference, I'm about 27" in the waist, about 40" in the hips.
December 14, 2014
So soft and cozy, plus great performance on a run!
I bought these a couple of weeks ago after reading about them online. I finally took them on their first run last night and was not disappointed.
The fabric is super soft on the inside and a bit more compressive than my other Lulu running bottoms. When I first tried them on, I thought the compression might be a bit much, but I am super glad that I stuck with my normal size instead of sizing up- they stayed in place perfectly on my run. The pants also kept my legs very warm throughout, which I find to be a rarity for running tights, especially since it was snowing and fairly windy out.
The length was great too. I flipped up the bottoms for the reflective detail, but they were still long enough to protect my ankles from the chill.
In short, it will take all of my self control to not purchase a second pair immediately!
December 3, 2014
In short, I wanna live in these pants, They feel like velvet, better than my own skin. I love these pants. best I ever bought
April 1, 2014
Love them, just a couple small things...
I really love these pants- they fit beautifully, are warm and cozy with great compression, and I want to wear them all the time. I ordered one pair on WMTM, and loved them so much that I bought another pair full price.
Unfortunately, that pair started to split at the crotch seam after about 4 or 5 wears. Not a huge hole, but a small one that I knew would grow bigger over time, and couldn't easily be fixed with a needle and thread.
I was bummed out, but really happy with how well the W 4th store resolved the issue for me. The girl I spoke to had a look at the hole and said they'd absolutely exchange them, no problem.
Sadly, the store didn't have any of the tech fleece version left, and I didn't like the ruching on the other kind, so she made me a gift card to buy them again online.
The other pair and the replacement pair have been great as for no seam splitting or holes, but I noticed that one of the pairs is starting to pill around my calves.
The only thing I could think that could cause this is that I will sometimes change from runners into boots on my way home from a run, and I think the pilling was just from the pants brushing against the side of my boots. It seems a bit excessive from just brushing against my boots, but I carefully used a razor to remove some of the pilling, and it's fine enough- I just know better than to wear them with boots in future.
Still love their coziness, and find the side pockets are perfect for my uses. Overall, I'd recommend them, but I hope the minor quality issues can be tweaked for next winter's design.
March 13, 2014
I bought these about 2 weeks ago, and at first I loved them, the material is so thick, loved the side pockets, and I loved the fuzzy inside of them. The first time I wore them I noticed they were a little saggy at the end of the day... After washing them with my other lulu pants I wore them a second time and they were huge by the end of the day! I had to keep yanking them up and it was very uncomfortable. I am now scared to wear them again for it to happen again... Im disappointed, I really liked everything else about the pants :(
March 1, 2014
I love these pants - thickness of material, fit and everything else. However, quality is a huge issue. My first pair started peeling after 2 wears and no wash. I took them to the local store and they exchanged them for a new pair. Now I wore the new pair today for a short (5k) run and they are already peeling! I am embarrassed to take them back to the store again, but one wear out of $100 pants - ridiculous! Oh and peeling is in the bum, I did not even sit down to stretch in them. I wore lululemon tech tshirt to run ugh! I guess lulu quality is still not out of the woods. I am gonna cry since I love these so much!
February 23, 2014
really terrible tights
These tights are quite comfy/fit great/stay up really well through my run, but the knees have already worn through! they're practically transparent! I have only had them for two months (and I haven't even been running in them that much, let's be honest)! I expected more (price:quality ratio) I've had a pair of under armours for 4 plus years that still look brand new for half the price. Super disappointed.
February 22, 2014
Badly design tight
Im usually size 8 for lulu tight so I got this pants for size 8. I usually wear this pants for work not for running. I am so disappointed in this pants. It's badly designed and that I had to keep pulling my pants up in the office, I need to pull it up everytime when I go somewhere away from my desk. Specially When I sit and cross my legs my inner tighs feel like being press so hard it's very uncomfortable. it looks so weird on my tighs Compare to other tights I got 5 years ago, that pants are very comfortable and is stiill stretchy like it's still brand new. I thought lulu is being famous for made to last? For the price I paid $100 I expect something better in quality and design. I hope lulu can make some changes.
February 21, 2014
Love my first pair of running tights
For reference, I am a bottom-heavy 5'6, 155lbs. I wear a size 10 in the old grooves and purchased a 10 in these tights.
I have been really dissapointed with LLL products in general over the last 1.5 years. I found these in WMTM and decided to give them a try as I had been looking for a pair of long, warm tights that I could layer. They have been a pleasant surprise!
I am wearing these under wind pants when walking/jogging currently, and have even started to wear them like long-johns for other winter activities because I like them so much. I haven't had any of the issues that other reviewers have noted. I've worn them at least 15 times now & washed them multiple times without the seams falling apart, I have no piling at all, and they've stayed compressive (haven't stretched out).
The material is thick (not at all sheer) & compressive without being restricting. I don't typically like LLL tights because I find the material reveals every flaw in your butt/thighs, however these tights smooth & conceal! I love the soft fleecy inside, very cozy. All of the seems appear to be in the right place as I haven't been chaffed at all. The length is perfect for me - they hit right at the lowest point that they can on my ankles without bunching so that I can overlap the bottoms with high socks for added warmth around my ankles. The high waist is absolutely fantastic and I find that it stays put; I'm not constantly hiking these tights up which is really, really nice.
The only thing that could have made these pants better was small zippers or even discreet snaps to seal the side pockets on the thighs. I'll never use these pockets for fear that anything that I put in them will come flying out. This wasn't a big dissapointment, not worth detracting a star for.
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March 10, 2011, Author: Ray Willmott
Popcap sure know how to make an addictive game. One only needs to look at their track record, with the likes of Peggle, Zuma, Plants vs Zombies and Bejeweled under their banner. With an equally excellent label of quality laminated to their products, Popcap are, without question, one of the premier gaming developers out there today. However, if there is one nut they’ve yet to crack, it’s creating a truly compelling, enthralling online multiplayer experience on Xbox Live. Sure, Peggle had an online mode, but it failed to create the same levels of brilliance the single player component offered. They came closer with Plants vs Zombies but ultimately the online experience felt more of a gimmick.
With Bejeweled Blitz Live, did they finally hit the nail on the head?
Let’s twist again!
Bejeweled Blitz Live is only the second game under the Bejeweled banner to come to Xbox Live, and what a radical departure from its predecessor it is. Unlike Bejeweled 2, Bejeweled Blitz Live encompasses the original classic Bejeweled and Bejeweled Twist. For those that haven’t played it, Twist has the same grid as normal Bejeweled, but instead of moving a gem horizontally or vertically with one move, you now twist a cluster of four gems together at the same time and can move them all over the board. Naturally, this completely changes the complexion of the game and the way it is played, utterly reinvigorating the experience. One other big difference here is that each turn on the grid lasts a mere 60 seconds and it is your job to score as many points as possible in that timeframe using hypercubes, bombs and supernovas.
As I was playing, I likened the differences between Bejeweled 2 and Bejeweled Blitz Live to be like that of Uno and Uno Rush. We’ve gone from a relaxed, slow-paced, easy-going game, to a fast-thinking, fast-moving piece that is much more suited to online play. While the single player for Blitz does dry up quite quickly, when playing with and against people, the experience thrives and flourishes.
As you play through the game, depending on how much you score, you will earn experience points for every game you play and it will allow you to level up. This goes up to at least level 50, so its sure to take you a while to achieve maximum synchronisation. In addition to that, you’ll also be able to compete with the rest of the World, as there’s a leaderboard where you can compare against others for how much experience you’ve earned. With an ever-evolving online landscape, this is sure to make the game continuously competitive.
The controls for the game are also much more suited to faster play than previously. In Bejeweled classic, the buttons on your Xbox pad become like a D-Pad, so X moves the jewel up, A moves it down etc. This is much better than the cumbersome controls from Bejeweled 2 where you had to hold in a button and then move it in your desired direction with the analog stick. As for Twist, a simple button press will turn the circle clockwise or anticlockwise. Even the menus are easy to navigate with a simple button press, allowing you to alternate between a game of classic or twist at any time! Honestly, the controls have been simplified so much, we’ll have videos of Gorillas on You Tube topping high-score boards!
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While the key elements of Bejeweled look the same as they have done over every instalment of the game ever released (see picture above), the menu system is probably the only noticeable change here. All in all, it offers a very futuristic vibe that’ll make you feel you’re headed toward the 22nd Century and the way of the future. Ironic then that I felt quite differently about the music.
Anyway, back to the graphics, while it’s not as high-definition and of high quality as Bejeweled 3, it’s perfectly suited to the game and still looks great on my 42″ TV. The only difference here is that like most titles these days, your Xbox Live Avatars are also supported for online multiplayer. There’s not much to say here that hasn’t been said before and will be mentioned again. Bejeweled Blitz Live looks just the same as it’s always looked and that’s totally fine with me.
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The music has a very retro, Amiga-esque feel to it, that may help you to remember gaming from the 80’s rather than the 21st Century. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing as some of my fondest memories from gaming came before I was a teenager, but it may take one or two people off guard when they approach the game for the first time.
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Popcap have also accidentally introduced gaming’s most catchy female voice. The breathy ‘Go’ from the female announcer at the start of each game will have you involuntarily emulating the voice in the same vein you tackled the male announcer from Halo when you were about to go to war. You’ll even find yourself counting down from ten with her at the end of each round. Scary how these things get in your head, isn’t it?
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You may remember I recently reviewed Bejeweled 3 for the PC, and even though the general theme of the game is the same, both of these end products are utterly different. With Bejeweled 3 having an obvious versatility in game modes yet a distinct lack of online multiplayer, and Bejeweled Blitz Live seemingly being designed for party play and fast-paced action, it shows exactly how much such a simple game can be diversified.
You’ve probably heard a lot of talk about the 16 Player Party game which is one of the selling points for Blitz. Basically, you and up to 15 others can join one game and play against each other in real-time for the highest score. Naturally, this becomes a lot of fun with banter coming across the airwaves but also with a continuous fluctuation in score, you’ll feel the desire to win is rife. With the game being so easily playable, anyone can potentially beat anyone and you can keep that going until you’ve made your point and achieved the title ‘King of the Heap’, or even if you just get bored.
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Diamonds are Forever?
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