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Sunday, Jun 6 2010

Nadal wins the French Open, again (5x)

awesome match this morning, nadal is back. here is a cool article about it.

Nadal roars back to King of Clay throne



It is always worth watching a great champion in action. But Nadal is not going to be drawn into deciding whether he is the greatest clay-court player of all time.

“I am not so arrogant,” he said with his disarming smile. “Maybe that is for you to do decide when I end my career.”

But if he wins a sixth French Open title here next year to draw alongside Bjorn Borg, who won six titles over eight years (after opting out of two to play World Team Tennis), Nadal, who now has five in six years, will be laying a solid claim to that unprovable acclamation of The Best of All Time.
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It was not always easy Sunday, but there always was going to be only one winner. From the moment he started destroying the field in Monte Carlo in April, beating good players by humiliating scores like 6-1, 6-0, it was clear it would take a herculean effort and a moment of real inspiration to beat him on clay.

Poor Soderling, who took his defeat well and managed to smile at appropriate moments as Nikki Pietrangeli, a two-time winner here in times of yore, handed out the trophies, was never going to be the man to rise to the required heights. No disgrace there because those heights are very high indeed.

So Nadal heads for grass, on which he will be practicing at the Queen’s Club in London by Monday afternoon, having cleaned up the clay-court season so effectively that only two players — Ernests Gulbis and Nicolas Almagro — managed to take a set off him in four tournaments.

coliesandalbert.com

Posted same on our joint site

Nicole & Albert's post wedding summery party.

July party in NYC

The invite for our post-wedding party in NYC in July, will be fun . It's at the rooftop on the Kimberly Hotel.



A couple pics of the place, pretty cool.



leaving equipment always on vs. off

Reading about pluses and minuses of leaving electronics at home on vs. off. I typically leave all my computers on, but turn off the stereo stuff. There are reasons to leave your HT on as well (below), just trying to weight in the extra power consumption.

"Electrolytic capacitors require some significant amount of time to fully stabilize, not just hours, but days of continuous exposure to nominal operating conditions.

An electrolytic capacitor actually has some of the characteristics of a battery, in that it contains an electrolyte, and works partially via electrochemical action. The dielectric layer on the chemically etched aluminum foil plates has to fully form and stabilize before the leakage current will go down to rated specs, and for the dielectric to reach full breakdown strength.

During the dielectric forming process, the capacitor will not perform normally, charge and discharge may be asymmetrical, the DA effects may be much higher than normal, the device may not have fully reached rated capacitance.

This forming process can take anywhere from hours to days of continuous on time, as well as several charge/discharge cycles to fully stabilze. After having been left off for anywhere from several hours to several days, the dielectric will begin to degrade slightly, and the forming process will need to occur to some degree all over again.

Leaving equipment on all the time avoids these effects, and maximizes the stability of the electrochemically formed dielectric.


There are other effects involved with elelctrolytic capacitors, but this is the main one. Note that there is an initial burn-in, and subsequent burn-ins after the equipment has been turned off for awhile.

Some designers still use electrolytics in the signal path, directly affecting the sound, other locations such as power supplies, and servo circuits also have their sonic effect. Virtually every piece of electronic equipment has electrolytics in the power supply."

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