 make parallel turns on blue runs but do not ski many advanced trails. Level Six skiers use their poles to time turns. A Level Six skier is interested in learning to ski better on more challenging terrain. Including Powder
I tried leaning back and leaning forward I believed staying just right centered worked the best.
But I just felt there was something lacking with the ease of turning. Not very much ski in front of me and a lot behind feeling.
I was expecting a more bouncy playful ski
I did notice when the ski went a little faster it like it and I felt it turned easier.
But then I start to have control issues. Too Fast for my liking.
I called Icelantic Skies in Colorado spoke to a very friendly guy and told him what I felt and he told me
That he skies his Gypsy's mounted at -4 from boot center and that the forward mount was for switch skiers.
He likes that forward leaning "chins in front of boot feel"
and he told me to maybe go out again and get used to the forward mount and at that point maybe move them back to -2
I am thinking just go ahead right now and move them back, I really could feel a lot of tail on the ski
What do you guys think Move the Mount back a few or stick with it?
Question would moving the mount back help me out with having a more playful ski?Earlier this month, the Ultimate Fighting Championship released one of the top welterweights in the world, Jake Shields. Once Shields was released, there was a public outcry from mixed martial arts fans who felt that he was wrongfully released, but he is expected to land on his feet in no time.
One of the promotions who plans to reach out and pursue Shields is Titan Fighting Championship, with the promotion’s CEO Jeff Aronson telling Adam Martin on the Parting Shot Podcast that Shields will be a target.
In addition to Shields, Titan FC has had some dialogue with UFC and Bellator veteran Ben Saunders.
Martin wrote:
According to @JAronsonTitanFC, Titan is going hard after free agent Jake Shields. Jeff also mentioned there is interest in Ben Saunders.
— Adam Martin (@MMAdamMartin) April 14, 2014
Signing Shields would be a no-brainer for Titan FC, who can bolster their welterweight division with the acquisition.
Titan FC has begun to build a very respectable welterweight division, and a former Strikeforce champion and UFC title challenger will only continue to build the 170 pound division that they currently have.
Tags: Jake Shields MMA Titan FC Titan Fighting ChampionshipA former vice president of San Antonio-based Tesoro Corp. has filed a federal “whistleblower” lawsuit against the refining company, saying he was fired in 2010 for pointing out financial irregularities at the company.
In the suit filed Feb. 3 in U.S. district court in San Antonio, plaintiff Kevin Wallace, the former vice president of pricing and commercial analysis, alleges Tesoro set certain prices in violation of federal antitrust law, and that the company booked certain taxes it collected as revenue, thus inflating its financial results reported to shareholders and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
No hearing dates have been set, and Tesoro has not yet filed a response to the suit.
In the suit, Wallace claims he made his superiors aware of financial irregularities. The suit also claims that in two internal company surveys, he checked “yes” to retaliation. The suit did not go into detail about the alleged retaliation. The suit claims Wallace told his superiors that the company had violated federal antitrust law in setting wholesale fuel prices in southern California. Wallace's superiors said they disagreed with his financial analysis.
He was fired in March 2010.
Wallace was based at Tesoro's San Antonio headquarters and remains a resident of Bexar County. He seeks unspecified damages, including punitive damages, lost wages and certain benefits, including his pension.
Tesoro, a Fortune 150 company, owns seven refineries, mostly in the western United States, and almost 900 branded retail stations.
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I am new to all this, but one big problem for me is the coding of the widgets. I really need to have everything on one page - with schedule and other details. I have a Wordpress hosted website but they don't allow javascript. Nor does my blog website accept the widget coding. I understand that these widgets work some websites with full access to HTML, but for some/many this is not the case. It would be a vast improvement if something could be done in this area. Thank you.
If you have a wordpress.com site then you are restricted in what you can do with it - because it is hosted/owned by WordPress (it's on their servers).
If you host the WordPress site yourself on your own hosting plan (WordPress.org) then you have a lot more freedom. It's far more versatile than the dot com offering.\section{Introduction}

Connected components labeling (CCL) is a task to give a unique ID to each connected region in a 2D/3D image.
It means that the input data are clustered as separate groups where the elements from a single group share the same ID.
As a basic data clustering method, CCL is used as a tool for object detection and classification in the field of computer vision and image processing \cite{baxes1994digital} \cite{suzuki2003massive} \cite{suzuki2008mixture}.
W. Song, et al. \cite{song2017motion} presented a motion based skin region of interest detection method using a real-time CCL algorithm to reduce its execution time. 
A fast 3D shape measurement technique using blink-dot projection patterns that utilizes a CCL algorithm to compute the size and location of each dot on the captured images has been reported \cite{chen2013fast} \cite{chen2015blink}.  
P. Guler, et al. proposed a real-time multi-camera video analytics system \cite{guler2016real} employing CCL to perform noise reduction.
Acting as a fundamental operation in all the applications, especially in real-time applications, speeding up CCL is an important task \cite{he2017connected} \cite{cabaret2014review}.

Numerous studies have proposed ways to accelerate CCL.
The proposed solutions on CPU can be summarized into two classes: label propagation algorithms and label-equivalence-based algorithms \cite{he2017connected}.
The approaches \cite{he2011two} \cite{martin2007hybrid} based on label propagation often find an unlabeled pixel using raster scan and give it an unused label; then, the label is propagated to all the pixels in the same region in an irregular way, such as tracing the object's contour \cite{chang2004linear}.  
These approaches are not suitable for parallel implementation and hardware implementation because of the existence of the irregular scan.
The methods \cite{he2009fast} \cite{he2008run} \cite{he2010efficient} \cite{grana2010optimized} \cite{he2014configuration} on the basis of label-equivalence solve the CCL issue with multiple raster scans.
Provisional labels, often associated with the pixel position in the image or in a specific row, are assigned to all the pixels in the first scan; the label-equivalence lists are constructed based on the pixel connectivity and resolved with root-find algorithms in the other steps.  
Since the pixels are processed in a regular way, it is feasible to extend these methods into parallel implementation and hardware implementation \cite{johnston2008fpga} \cite{gu2013fast}.
Until recently, the use of GPUs with interfaces such as CUDA \cite{manohar1989connected} or OpenCL \cite{dewar1987parallel} finds countless applications in both industry and academia areas.
The parallel extension and improvement of serial CCL algorithms are significant advances to enhance the real-time property.
For the algorithms developed on GPUs, data parallelization across multiple processors \cite{nickolls2008scalable} \cite{sanders2010cuda} plays an important role in computing with multiple processing elements in parallel.
Generally, the different data parallelization approaches lead to different computation algorithms.  
According to the various ways of managing data, the reported solutions for CCL on GPUs can be classified into three types: pixel-based algorithms, block-based algorithms, and line-based algorithms.
The first type extends the label-equivalence-like algorithms into parallel ones directly by considering each individual pixel or the pixels in a small group as a computation unit.
The other two types first divide images into independent sections, blocks or lines, then perform local labeling and section merge to solve the CCL.


In this study, we propose a block-based solution to explore the benefit of two-dimensional pixel distribution to reduce the number of iterative operations.
Its main contributions are:
(1), a row-column connection and a label-equivalence list unification algorithm are performed using shared memory to sort out the mess of an initialized