Stories I Found Of Interest (weekly)

• The Triathlon Execution Magic of Riding Steady, Part I: What is Steady? | Endurance Nation

  • Remember that the metabolic cost of watts increases exponentially, not linearly. There is a BIG price to pay, later in the day, for stepping on the gas like this.
  • Also, resistance increases exponentially with wind speed.

• Visualant(TM) and Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd. Unveils Highly-Disruptive Prototypes at JIMA in Japan - Yahoo! Finance

  • expected to spawn a new wave of consumer and industrial applications bringing the benefits of Visualant Spectral Pattern Matching(TM) (SPM) techniques found in expensive science labs to people in the field
  • Visualant's ChromaID(TM) technology, which reads, records and analyzes invisible chromatic identifiers in gases, liquids, solids and surfaces
  • Our vision is to bring the power of science into the hands of people when and where they need them most," said Ron Erickson, Chief Executive Officer of Visualant

• Five Mental Steps to Achieving a Breakthrough Triathlon Performance | Endurance Nation

  • Race day is about how you drive that vehicle the race distance and across the finishline. All the fitness in the world can’t help you if you don’t know how to drive it properly!
  • as race distance increases, the chance of failure on the run increases dramatically
  • the last quarter to third of the distance, as this is when early pacing and other mistakes will begin to express themselves

• Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril - Jennifer Waters's Consumer Confidential - MarketWatch

  • At issue in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons is the first-sale doctrine in copyright law, which allows you to buy and then sell things like electronics, books, artwork and furniture, as well as CDs and DVDs, without getting permission from the copyright holder of those products.

  • Under the doctrine, which the Supreme Court has recognized since 1908, you can resell your stuff without worry because the copyright holder only had control over the first sale.   

     

        Put simply, though Apple Inc.      /quotes/zigman/68270/quotes/nls/aapl AAPL  -2.13%        has the copyright on the iPhone and Mark Owen has it on the book “No Easy Day,” you can still sell your copies to whomever you please whenever you want without retribution.   

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