What I really like about the city is that even though we are here just a short time, we were welcomed into the community so easily.”
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“Here it’s just be yourself and be outdoors. “Compared to other American cities, it’s laid back, everyone here is friendly and not in a rush and not showing off,” Neef said. When ten Dam is not in the saddle, Thessa Neef, his one-time high school sweetheart and now wife, like to go camping and take their boys, ages 2 and 4, to the nearby pump track. He likes to live simply,” said local cyclist Scott Davis, who mountain bikes with ten Dam weekly. Bicycling magazine recently reported that ten Dam is the most followed athlete on Strava, a wildly popular app used by millions of cyclists to track their speed and mileage.ĭespite his accomplishments, ten Dam, 36, is easygoing and fits in well with the casual Santa Cruz lifestyle. Ten dam is beloved by his fans worldwide with 108,000 followers on Twitter and more than 18,000 on Facebook. He’s suffered some gnarly crashes along the way, even being nicknamed “Rocky” by friends back at home after he busted his nose. He finished eighth in the Vuelta a España and ninth in the Tour de France.
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“I have trained very hard, so I don’t want to abandon the race even before we enter France.”Ĭalled “LTD” by his friends here, ten Dam keeps a low profile locally despite racking up noteworthy top-10 finishes at major stage races during his 14-year professional cycling career. “I said that they had to pop my shoulder back in,” ten Dam told. Ten Dam decided to continue despite a dislocated shoulder. At least six riders, including the tour leader, were forced to pull out of the race.
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His name may not be familiar unless you follow pro cycling, but the international press have called ten Dam “super human” and “one of the gutsiest athletes around” after he suffered a horrific crash in Stage 3 of the Tour de France in 2015. He wants to help and it’s a joy to have him in town.” To have someone who has raced in the Tour ride with us makes people ride better. “He has absolutely no arrogance about him. National and Olympic Team Member and two-time National Champion road racer. “During his second ride in town, he spoke to me and said something friendly,” said Santa Cruz cyclist Katrin Tobin, a former U.S. His arrival, for a one-year stay, sent a ripple of excitement through the cycling community.
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The Dutch road racer with Team Giant–Alpecin moved to Santa Cruz with his wife and two young children last January. Adding star power to the already illustrious roster of cycling national champions and Olympians residing here is Tour de France rider Laurens ten Dam. Our study provides insights into the membrane foaming process at relevant (micro-) length and time scales and paves the way for its further development and application.Santa Cruz is widely known as “Surf City,” but the name “Spin City” is equally apt since so many world-class cyclists are drawn to live and train here. The stabilizing effect is ascribed to the convective transport of proteins and the intersection of timescales (i.e., μs to ms) of bubble formation and protein adsorption. Particularly, in a 2.5 wt % whey protein system, coalescence could be suppressed with a coefficient of variation below 20%. Coalescence resulted in an increase in bubble size ( D c o a l > D 0), which can be strongly reduced by increasing either continuous phase viscosity or protein concentration-factors that only slightly influence D 0. Bubble formation time and the snap-off bubble size ( D 0) were primarily controlled by the continuous phase flow rate ( Q c) they decreased as Q c increased, from 1.64 to 0.13 ms and from 125 to 49 µm. Observations with high spatial and temporal resolution allowed us to study bubble formation and bubble coalescence processes simultaneously. In this study, we provide a fundamental study of a cross-flow membrane foaming (CFMF) system to understand and control bubble formation for various process conditions and fluid properties. Membrane foaming is a promising alternative to conventional foaming methods to produce uniform bubbles.