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Don't look now, but Ricky Rubio and the young 'n' hungry Timberwolves are quietly offering hope to moribund Minnesota sports fans
It's crazy to think that an NBA team playing in a state-of-the-art arena in downtown Minneapolis with all the media-hyping amenities of the modern world could be described as the town's best-kept secret, but that is how it has felt the first two months of this lockout-shortened basketball season — even though there is something undeniably and unprecedentedly special happening with this young and ravenous new Wolves team.
Um, seriously?
Check the wins-losses column, and it's the same old story: More Minnesota Mediocrity. Couple the team's record (just under .500 at press time) with the sad fact that the notoriously reticent Minnesota sports fan's patience has been tested of late with bland and boring losing streaks from its top-tier teams, and you can't blame a body for ignoring the whole lot of 'em.
But go to the Target Center and it's a different story. The buzz is on. Ticket sales are up and the youthful crowd is showing up early before games to soak in the decidedly '70s atmosphere (young, wild, free, global and very chill pre-game mixes), and to snap photos of all the young studs. It's happening, for real, and it's happening in the heart of downtown Minneapolis, where the city game should be played, at Target Center, which fostered some serious juju in October when the Minnesota Lynx won the WNBA championship.
And now this.
"They're fun to watch." Those four words are basketball junkie code for: This is a team that, at its best, plays together and off each other, like a jazz quintet, with something like an artist at the helm, conducting. Considering that the Wolves make their music across the street from the next-big-thing launching pad that is First Avenue/7th St. Entry, it's easy to imagine them as a terrific new band that's still finding its groove and identity, and is capable of playing transcendent gigs (beating Dallas and San Antonio in consecutive games) followed by flops (losing to Cleveland and Memphis in consecutive games) and delivering shoulda-been hits (close losses to league leaders Miami and Chicago).
They're cool, in other words, because they're raw and still figuring out who they are as individuals and as a collective, but when they do — look out.
Modern NBA history has it that successful teams have three stars around which everything revolves, and the Wolves have an exciting nucleus in third-year beast Kevin Love and rookies Derrick Williams and Ricky Rubio. Toughness, grit, talent and chemistry abound, and the youth movement is being shepherded by veteran coach Rick Adelman and his staff of basketball gurus that includes former NBA studs Jack Sikma and Terry Porter.
"Hungry" barely does it in describing how Love and the other young hoops historians on this team look to Adelman and his staff during time-outs and pre-game huddles. They want to learn. They want to work. They want to win.
Whether they ever do is up to the fates, but at the moment, on a purely aesthetic level, they're an extremely colorful group to be around: Rubio and JJ Barea make up the first native Spanish-speaking backcourt in NBA history, a fact that has drawn Latin American flags and chants of "Ole! Ole! Ole!" to the stands, and media representatives from Puerto Rico, Argentina and Spain to press row.
Love is an inspiring freak of nature whose intensity and desire to get better as a player is on display every night on the court and in the locker room. Darko Milicic (Serbia) and Nikola Pekovic (Montenegro) are the Eastern Bloc behemoths who provide a certain cartoon chemistry to the mix. Luke Ridnour looks like he should be playing pick-up ball at Lifetime Fitness across the skyway, but the eighth-year guard is having his best year as a pro.
Rounding it out is Anthony Tolliver, the old-school scrapper and dead-eye shooter; Wes Johnson, the enigmatic shooting guard whose natural athleticism screams "potential"; Anthony Randolph, the gangly shot-blocker and ferocious competitor whose development is the surprise of the young season, and Michael Beasley, the wounded diva swan and impressive physical talent who never seems to be in the same building as his teammates.
And then there's Rubio.
Go see him play. Watch him in warm-ups, shrugging and shimmying to the music along with Love and Randolph and the others: they're dancing, getting into their rhythm, getting in the flow, connecting with one another. To that point, Rubio (like the Gophers/Lynx's Lindsey Whalen) is as natural a point guard as has ever played the position. His body language and style of play is more ESP than ESPN, and as anyone who has ever played the game can tell you there is nothing like a perfect pass between two or three players, and Rubio lives for it.
That kind of basketball is fun to play and fun to watch, and perhaps the greatest testament to the kid is that middle-aged ballers and pee-wees alike are invoking his name as they bring the ball up in pick-up and park board games, and trying out all sorts of passes they never dared try before. The Rubio effect, in other words, is contagious.
Not to mention a beautiful thing to behold and savor. When Rubio crosses midcourt, his "assassin's eyes" (Kevin McHale on Larry Bird) scans the floor for open teammates, and everybody in the gym holds their breath in anticipation of what's coming next. When it does — a blink-of-an-eye alley-oop, a no-look bounce pass, a feathery touch-pass — followed by a finger-point or high-five between the connectors, it's as good as sports gets.
And maybe as good as Rubio gets, but from the early reviews, that seems unlikely. At the moment, he's a very savvy rookie, still in the birthing stage, moth-before-butterfly, a champagne supernova rocket man just before take-off, with the sky as the limit. Hype aside (he still flails too often on defense and gets picked to death), all signs point to him only getting better, tougher and more skilled with his particular brand of magic.
The last Minnesota athlete to draw such gasps was the Vikings' Adrian Peterson, who set records with speed, power, moves and a flair that was all his own, and then blew out his knee this season. Whether he comes back or not remains to be seen, but a great young athlete cut down in his prime is a reminder to all concerned to enjoy Rubio while we can, even though in the end, maybe the truest thing you can say about him and these Wolves is that there's nothing to say.


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ST. PETERSBURG -- Manager Joe Maddon had a pregame conversation with Desmond Jennings on Wednesday to talk about the center fielder's defense in Tuesday's 2-0 loss to the Red Sox.
Mike Napoli led off the fifth inning Tuesday night with a drive off David Price, who had retired the first 12 batters he faced, to the center-field wall. Jennings could not make the catch and Napoli ended the perfect game bid with a double.
Jennings had experienced two dropped balls in the outfield over the past couple of weeks prior to Tuesday night's game, and Napoli's ball was a play that he normally makes.
A dejected Jennings, who is a Gold Glove-type center fielder, told reporters after the game: "I don't know what it is actually. It's a bad time to be playing bad."
Maddon said he had a "nice conversation with Desmond, who is pretty much in the listening mode all the time" and "listens well," noting that he just brought a couple of things to Jennings' attention.
"One, that he's really, really good," Maddon said. "Number two, that he's going to be a great player in this league. And don't ever worry about making mistakes here, don't ever. I'm never worried about anybody making a mistake here."
Maddon stressed to Jennings that he could "impact this game here for us, possibly like nobody else in our locker room can" based on his abilities.
"Just a reaffirmation of what you're all about and understand that we all get our confidence dinged once in a while, we all do," Maddon said. "Sometimes you just need somebody to remind you of what you're good at and how you absolutely are. So hopefully that will help a little bit, because I do believe in him a lot."

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FACETIME- Telford's task: Taking on the religious right
George Telford remembers the rise of Nazi Germany– and the role of some major religious organizations. "Some were co-opted by the Nazis; others were fearful and silent," he says. "Never again."
A couple of years ago, man-of-the-cloth Telford and some of his clergy buddies became alarmed that the religious voices they were hearing on political issues were all coming from the right.
Telford calls them a "radical read on Christianity," one the now-retired Presbyterian minister feels doesn't represent his experience with his faith.
"The major spark was the decision to go to war in Iraq and the unqualified support of the religious right," says Telford. "We didn't really hear anyone speaking in another voice."
Like the Nazi era, Telford thinks the religous right is too tight with the current administration. "Never again should one perspective be so tightly aligned with those in power," he says, "the kind of alignment and sense of righteousness that no one can question."
Thus was born Clergy & Laity United for Justice & Peace. Telford concedes the name is rather clunky and the group, now numbering 33, keeps trying to think of something a little snappier.
What the group has come up with is its first public event: a September 20 forum with a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim– a mix Telford calls "absolutely stellar"– discussing the role of religion in politics.
And he stresses the "lay" in the group– it's not just clergy.
Carl Matthews, a diplomat for 25 years, is the group's chairman and chief layman. He was recruited by Telford, and notes the minister's special skill set. "He's the only person in our group with the combined experience of leading a church here in Charlottesville and the national church organization," Matthews says.
Telford, 72, was the pastor of Westminister Presbyterian from 1962 to 1968, a term during which the now-defunct Prism Coffeehouse was born. When he retired, he was a professor of theology at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, the educational bastion of the American Presbyterian Church.
Clergy and Laity United is not Telford's first foray into activism– though he doesn't look at combining his lifelong faith with a public presence as merely activism. "I was here in the '60s," he recalls, "a difficult time with race issues. My church was trying to speak for an inclusive and just community."
Telford's still trying to speak for an inclusive community, "a public policy predicated on values shaped through the widest engagement of citizens– not just the Christian right– or even just Christian. There are many other perspectives.
"I'm really getting nervous about this being focused on me," Telford protests after chatting with a reporter. But sometimes, even with the noblest of intentions and causes, a deal with the devil is unavoidable.
The Role of Religion in Politics: Jewish, Christian and Islamic Perspectives, takes place 7:30-9:30pm September 20 at the Albemarle County Office Building on 5th Street Extended.
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Encouraged by the progress made in a recently posted MO problem, here is a "conceptually related" problem originating from a 2003 joint paper of Sergei Konyagin and myself.
Suppose we are given $n$ points $z_1,...,z_n$ on the unit circle $U=\{z\colon |z|=1\}$ and $n$ weights $p_1,...,p_n\ge 0$ such that $p_1+....+p_n=n$, and we want to find yet another point $z\in U$ to maximize the product $$ \prod_{i=1}^n |z-z_i|^{p_i}. $$ How large can we make this product by the optimal choice of $z$?
Conjecture. For any given $z_1,...,z_n\in U$ and $p_1,...,p_n\ge 0$ with $p_1+...+p_n=n$, there exists $z\in U$ with $$ \prod_{i=1}^n |z-z_i|^{p_i} \ge 2. $$
Here are some comments.
If true, the estimate of the conjecture is best possible, as evidenced by the situation where the points are equally spaced on $U$ and all weights are equal to $1$.
We were able to resolve a number of particular cases; say, that where the points $z_i$ are equally spaced on $U$, and also that where all weights are equal to $1$.
The case $n=2$ is almost trivial, but already the case $n=3$ is wide open.
In the general case we have shown that the maximum is larger than some absolute constant exceeding $1$.
Although this is not obvious at first glance, this conjecture is actually about the maxima of polynomials on the unit circle.
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In southern Crystalsong Forest, overlooking the Crystal Vice's exit, you will find Lord Everblaze. Kill him and take the everburning ember from his corpse.
Bring it to the center of Winter's Breath Lake in northern Howling Fjord, and use it to free the maiden encased in ice. She is the guardian of an ancient sword and will award it to whoever frees her.
Prove your worth and earn the weapon that she has guarded for so long, <name>.
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If Congress waits to resolve its differences over spending and taxes until next year, it could have a very unpleasant affect on the economy.
That's the concern one of the Federal Reserve's most prominent members, William Dudley, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
In an appearance on CNBC and also in a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations on Thursday, Mr. Dudley warned that Congress could damage the economy if it cannot resolve its differences. If Congress cannot reach an agreement on extending the Bush-era tax cuts as well as cutting the budget, Dudley warns that a 3 percent contraction of gross domestic product would automatically begin on January 1.
"That would be a huge shock to an economy that isn't that strong yet," he warned in an interview with CNBC's Steve Liesman.
Even the uncertainty of what Congress might do leading into year-end might be enough to cause economic damage, he warned. "Businesses might be more reluctant to hire, more reluctant to invest, because of uncertainty about how the fiscal cliff is going to be resolved," he said. "So I think it's a negative both now, in terms of uncertainty, and potentially later, because it could be resolved in a way that's not good for the economy."
Dudley's warning followed a similar storm warning on Tuesday by the Congressional Budget Office which used the phrase "fiscal cliff" in describing the possibility of both taxes going up and fiscal spending coming down. The CBO went one step further saying the economy would slip into a recession in the first half of 2013 if Congress does not act.
Working against any agreement is the presidential race. In a forthcoming issue of Time magazine, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney said that he did not want President Obama and Congress to deal with the issues in a lame-duck session.
"You would like them to defer to you?" asked Time correspondent Mark Halperin. Replied Romney: "Absolutely…. My hope is to be able to come into office with people on both sides of the aisle who are cognizant of the critical nature of what America faces fiscally, what the people of America are facing employment-wise, the failure in our economy that is hurting so many people, and that we'll see Republicans and Democrats say, OK, well what kind of tax proposals will encourage economic growth? What kind of regulatory reform will encourage economic growth?"
However, if Congress waits, as Romney is asking, the Internal Revenue Service will be unsure of what income tax withholding rates to publish for 2013. Corporate boards won't know the tax rates for dividends.
"They need to get this done by the end of September or early October," warns Pete Davis of Davis Capital Investments, a former economist on the Joint Committee on Taxation, who now advises Wall Street clients.
Mr. Davis says technically the US Treasury can decree that the IRS use a lower withholding rate in anticipation that the issue will get resolved later. He recalls in 1992, President George H.W. Bush decreed lower withholding rates without any action from Congress to stimulate the economy. "He put out a pretty good tax cut without any change in the law," he says.
Davis thinks the warnings from the CBO and the Federal Reserve officials may be starting to have an effect. "Now some people are asking if there is some way to wiggle out of this and avoid the damage," he says.
However, Congress has to be careful how it does this, he points out. If it does not pay for tax cuts or ignores its own sequestration rules, it risks having the rating agencies downgrade the US credit rating. In August of 2011 after Standard and Poor's downgraded the US debt from AAA to AA, the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank almost 530 points.
So what is Congress to do? At the Council on Foreign Relations, Dudley said that Congress needs to start with a modest goal of reducing the deficit and then increase the reductions in later years as the economy improves. In addition, he says, any budget deal needs to be credible with bipartisan support so it can be sustained over many years.
If nothing gets done by Congress, Dudley says it could affect monetary policy. "It would have implications for the economic outlook, we would have to take that into consideration," he said.


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Editor's note: The author is teaching English in China.
BEIJING – I arrived in Beijing on June 25. My first time in Asia. My first time outside of the Western hemisphere. Though I had studied some Chinese, I was a bit overwhelmed at the communication barrier as I walked into a restaurant to order my first meal here. The menu was all in Chinese, with no pictures, and no pinyin. (Pinyin is the transcription of Chinese to the Latin alphabet, with accent marks denoting the tones). Nevertheless, after being here for two and a half months, my Chinese is slowly improving.
My initial impressions of Beijing and China were, and still are, complex. China has surpassed Japan and Germany to become the second largest economy in the world, and China's GDP will likely pass that of the U.S. in a few years. China's economy is a mixed economy, with the state controlling much of what Lenin called the "commanding heights" of the economy, but with a large capitalist sector, and with an enormous number of small businesses. While the state permits capitalist enterprises, including foreign companies, to operate here, the state retains the ownership of the land, and essentially is granting the company the privilege of using the land in the interest of development. Continue reading


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NUACT production of 'Inherit the Wind' canceled
NEW ULM – The New Ulm Actors Community Theatre's production of "Inherent the Wind"?was canceled last week due to cast dropouts stemming from objections by Martin Luther College professors and local WELS members over the play's depiction of the evolution/creationism debate.
NUACT originally slated the play as its fall production with MLC student Zach Stowe as director. The play deals with a fictionalized version of the evolution/creationism debate in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey Trial." The play is also a metaphor for criticizing the suppression of free expression under the McCarthyism of the 1950s.
The play was not slated to be performed at MLC, but a final audition was scheduled on campus on Friday, Aug. 30. NUACT previously used MLC for auditions, rehearsals and performances.
After seeing the poster for the audition, several MLC professors raised objections about the play's subject to the administration.
Jeffrey Schone, MLC's VP of Student Life, declined to name the objecting professors, but stated the administration similarly became concerned about being associated with the play.
MLC is the college of ministry for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), which believes in creationism that teaches the Genesis story as a factual, historical account. Schone said MLC was concerned about making it absolutely clear to its students, WELS members and the public about its beliefs and teachings on creationism. He said he recognizes the subtext of the play, but feels it is unfairly critical of creationism and that most people would only see the criticism.
"We felt it was not compatible with what [the school] teaches the Bible says about the universe and the world,"? said Schone. "This is a ministerial school. People employing our students need confidence about their views."
Schone informed Stowe on the morning of the audition that it could not be held on campus. The audition was then rescheduled to a new location.
On the following Tuesday (Sept. 3), Stowe resigned from the play. He cited a flood of e-mails and letters objecting to his association with the play from MLC professors and local WELS members for his decision. He was also concerned that MLC administration would maybe take their concerns further if the outcry kept growing, so he decided to focus on the more important issue of his schooling.
However, he said he felt his creative freedom had been stifled and that he was very disappointed that some of the criticism seemed to come from MLC. He said he shares WELS' belief in creationism. He said he believes open discussion about the topic is essential to proving its validity.
"The play does not just say evolution is right. It treats Christians with respect. The entire point of the play is both sides need open, free discussions,"?said Stowe. "But, I don't have any negative feelings about it. Everyone acted how their conscience directed them in this situation. I can respect it."
In the following two weeks, six NUACT members dropped out of the cast after consulting their WELS pastors or officials about being in the play after Stowe's departure.
On Sept. 16, the NUACT board voted to postpone the show indefinitely due to insufficient time to replace and retrain the lost staff before Oct. 4, which would have been opening night. NUACT Executive Director Paul Warshauer said the group still hopes to put on "Inherit the Wind," but no date has been determined.
Schone said he feels MLC did not put any pressure on Stowe or the NUACT cast. But, he said he feels it is appropriate for the college to voice concerns about the extracurricular activities of its students.
Schone's only regret was the timing of the decision due to when the administration learned about the audition. He said he apologized to NUACT for the inconvenience. He said NUACT and Stowe can use the MLC campus for future plays, and that the concerns were only with the content of "Inherit the Wind."
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Greenbriar Capital Corp. Announces Appointment of a New Director
19 Feb, 2013, 03:06 GMT
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, February 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
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(Toronto Venture Exchange symbol "GRB") Greenbriar Capital Corp. (the "Company" or "Greenbriar"), today announced the appointment of a new director, Clifford M. Webb.
Mr. Webb is a seasoned executive and engineering management professional with over 45 years of professional engineering experience and over 35 years of experience in utility-scale renewable energy. Past experience includes holding the position of Executive Vice President of Luz Development and Finance where Mr. Webb was directly responsible for the development and construction of the Luz SEGS Units III through IX for a total of 310 MW which today is still the world's largest combined solar electric generating installation. Mr. Webb has held other executive management and project director positions at various renewable energy companies engaged in solar, biomass, cogeneration and geothermal energy.
In addition, Mr. Webb has extensive utility experience both as a senior manager with Southern California Edison Company where he developed and managed its renewable procurement program and as a project developer negotiating power purchase and transmission interconnection agreements. In these positions, Mr. Webb has had directly applicable experience working with the California Independent System Operator, the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Energy Commission and the US Bureau of Land Management. Mr. Webb is also a former Division Chief of the Engineering and Environmental Division of the California Energy Commission where he was responsible for processing and managing the permitting and licensing of all thermal power plants over 50 MW for the State of California.
Experience prior to renewable power generation included working at the NASA Johnson Manned Spacecraft Center as a Thermo-physics Engineer in the Crew Systems Division performing mission computer simulations and thermal vacuum testing and at Martin Marietta engaged in Skylab, Viking Mars Lander, Venus Pioneer and Outer Planetary Exploration programs. In addition, Mr. Webb worked for a major architectural engineering firm as the Supervising Mechanical Systems Engineer responsible for the power generating systems and balance-of-plant engineering, equipment, procurement and licensing of a two-unit nuclear power plant for Ohio Edison Company.
Mr. Webb was also a nuclear advisor to Governor Jerry Brown including working directly with the Governor and representing the State of California at hearings before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Mr. Webb has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of California at Berkeley, various graduate studies in engineering at the University of Houston and Colorado State University and is a Registered Professional Engineer.
Jeff Ciachurski, CEO of Greenbriar states, "We are pleased to have Cliff join our Board of Directors. Cliff's 45 years of executive leadership in the fields clean and reliable Renewable Energy, Space, Science, and Energy Efficiency, will help Greenbriar expand from real estate into the redemptive businesses of Solar, Wind, Energy Conservation and related technologies. Together with the experienced renewable energy team at Greenbriar, we are committed to providing leadership, innovation, value and financial stewardship to our stakeholders.
Mr. Webb will be granted 250,000 options at $0.75 with a term of 5 years.
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Innovation and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPR) go hand in hand, and are two topics that come up frequently in discussions about China. Tsinghua University is doing a study on the status of both in China and asked for my comments. In Part I, I responded to Tsinghua's first set of questions, and […]Read more


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The Arab Spring started exactly two years ago this week, when a young Tunisian expressed his frustration in an act of self-immolation. Mohamed Bouazizi's subsequent death sparked a series of street demonstrations through December 2010 ultimately led to the ousting of longtime President Mubarak a year later. The demonstrations were preceded by high unemployment, food inflation, corruption, and poor living conditions. The tension between rising aspirations and a lack of government reform may have been a contributing factor in all of the protests.
In Canada, Aboriginal peoples' frustration has boiled over, precipitated by many of the same circumstances seen in Tunisia: chronicallyhigh unemployment, inflated food costs, corruption, and poor living conditions as seen in Attawapiskat. Canada's Mohamed Bouazizi may be the hunger-striking chief of the troubled Attawapiskat First Nation, Theresa Spence.
While Arab leaders ignored spurts of dissent or attempted to quell the Arab Spring, their efforts were rendered futile. No Arab government could un-ring the bell that is sociopolitical awakening. To this day, Egyptians held their leader's feet to the fire when he overstepped his boundaries, forcing President Morsi to annul a constitutional amendment that would have expanded his power. Tunisians and Egyptians awoke from the fog of fear, stood up and spoke out on the streets of Cairo and -- most importantly -- took their movement to the polls.
In contrast, voter turnout for First Nations has been dismal at best. While the statistics are not exact and do not include off-reserve Aboriginals, voter turnout on reserves hovers between 35 and 50 per cent. Like many oppressed Canadians, Aboriginals have diluted their own strength via their collective electoral idleness. It could also explain why PM Stephen Harper has given more face time to Justin Bieber than the First Nation's leader.
As the "Idle No More" movement grows, Canadians are wondering whether First Nations' commitment to the cause will constitute a new normal, or will the beat of the native drums die down in yet another defeat?
On this day of Winter Solstice and the shortest day of the year, here's hoping for an Aboriginal Autumn that lasts through the 2015 Spring election and beyond.


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Read about Aphex Twin and it all seems like a joke. He releases music under hundreds of aliases, puts his face in a track that has him with big breasts and in a bikini for a cover and releases an album of pure Ambient noise. Sometimes listening to him and enjoying the beauty of it feels like you're being fooled, like there's some kind of joke which you're not clever enough to get so Richard serves you with accessible techno. If only you were intelligent enough, you'd realize Selected Ambient Works II was a parody, or that "Windowlicker" thing is meant to prove that Dance music is stupid.
Richard himself said he finds the tag IDM pretentious, though. So maybe he's just really intelligent while also knowing how to have fun and enjoy pretty sounds. "On" is the definitive Aphex Twin track for that reason.
While "Windowlicker" is better, "On" is right in the middle. There is no joke here. The song consists of pretty electronic sounds over weird IDM drums that are steady enough to be danceable. Nothing about is extreme, not like the simplicity of Aphex's debut or the emptiness of his second or the wackiness of his third.
It's just a welcoming, warm track that defines Aphex's approach better and makes it clear why he's the dominating figure of IDM. In the end, he really is all about discovering and enjoying simple, pretty sounds. That puts him in contrast to Autechre and Boards of Canada, whose personalities weren't so deceptive but more impenetrable. Autechre especially came off like two calculating geniuses so absorbed in their research of sound they forgot what's the point of it all.
Whether "On" is one of IDM's best tracks is a different manner. I'm too ignorant of the genre to say such a thing, but it is one of Electronic music's best statements in how it welcomes the listener. Whatever you think of Electronic music, listen to this. It'll give you a clearer image of the point of it all.
The EP also contains other tracks, and that's a problem. "On" is so brilliant that the only way to include it in an album is to feature other tracks that sound like just dicking about. Aphex tries, but nothing close. It's not like any other album by him can contain this song.
"73-Yips" comes close to being worthy. It's a pounding, almost Industrial track that has no melody and just wants to grind the listener. If "On" is the chill out part, then "73-Yips" is a moshpit starter. The problem is it has no guts. Nearly all Aphex tracks are defined by how clear their idea is, how Richard knows exactly what kind of song he makes. "73-Yips" just doesn't go hard enough. The sounds are loud and screeching, but it has none of the darkness of actual Industrial music. It actually feels more like a joke track, annoying the listener who enjoyed "On"'s soft beauty.
The other two tracks are attempts at a darker Ambient, but he did it better in his first two albums. "D-Scape" is just "Tha" with slightly different sounds. "Tha" was pretty cool, but there was no need for a replica.
How come these 3 other tracks got so dull is beyond me. They're interesting enough for one or two spins, since Richard is a talented and interesting enough producer. The safety net of IDM is that its nature means the worst track might contain interesting ideas. When your catalogue is so extensive though, average tracks quickly lose their point. Listen to "73-Yips', and any time you need a loud Aphex track just bump whatever remix of "Ventolin" that comes up in the playlist.
Still, the EP does contain "On" and 3 b-sides Aphex Twin tracks which is never a bad thing. If only "On" had a more prominent place in his catalogue. He managed to be famous without it, but that song deserve more fame. How can anyone dislike such an innocent, welcoming song that only wants you to lay down on the beach, look at the sky and think happy thoughts? When IDM is pretty, it's really pretty.
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If I were a major league ballplayer and someone told me I was being traded on April 1st, I'd think someone was trying to pull one over on me. However, trades do happen, even on days known for their practical jokes. Ed Ott was your average useful catcher: not great with the bat but solid behind the plate with a good arm. I remember Ott being one of my favorites as a young child, mostly because his name was easy to say and remember. Coming off of a decent 1980 season, Ott was dealt to the Angels with Mickey Mahler for Jason Thompson. The Pirates had a promising young catcher named Tony Pena ready to step in and needed a replacement for aging Hall of Famer Willie Stargell. Thompson was then immediately dealt to the Yankees for first baseman Jim Spencer and minor leaguers Greg Cochran and Fred Toliver, but the commissioner blocked the deal. This turned out to be a big boon for the Bucs. Spencer was instead dealt to Oakland midseason and was done the next year. Cochran never made the majors and Toliver bounced around as a middle reliever before ending his career pitching in 12 games for the 1993 Pirates. Thompson started at first for four years, hitting 31 HR and making the All-Star team in 1982.
Thanks again to John Dreker of Pirates Prospects for bringing this deal to my attention. Be sure to read This Day in Pirates History for more on this deal and the Tony Pena/Andy Van Slyke trade which happened six years later to the day.
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Optus will push for NBN Co to be given the power to offer volume discounts to service providers on the National Broadband Network (NBN) under legislation currently in Senate Committees hearing.
Speaking at the Senate Committees into the National Broadband Network Measures-Access Arrangements Bill 2010, Optus government and corporate affairs director, Maha Krishnapillai, said the telco debated internally whether it was better to have an environment where no volume discounts were offered by NBN Co, but decided it was in its commercial interest to push for them.
"As the second largest player, we think there would be advantages, clearly, in us being able to say we are more efficient in terms of buying," he said.
"What we are trying to do is mirror normal commercial negotiations and commercial practices... which say that if you are helping the supplier in their costs to you — effectively aiding efficiency — then there should be some recognition for you of that in commercial discussions."
The decision comes despite concerns that offering volume discounts would undermine the level playing field which NBN Co, in its being the dominant wholesale provider of broadband carriage in Australia, would create.
In November, communications minister, Stephen Conroy, dismissed concerns held by independent Senator, Nick Xenophon, that the current NBN legislation may allow NBN Co to offer special pricing to major players such as Telstra.
"What is set out in that bill is that if the NBN wants to give say a volume discount, it has to go and get approval from the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission)," he said following the passing of the <i>Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (Competition and Consumer Safeguards) Bill 2010</i>.
"The NBN can't just go off and give a volume discount to anybody or make new pricing arrangements."
Also speaking at the hearing, Internet Society of Australia director, Paul Brookes, refuted the argument for volume discounts arguing that automation of NBN Co's carriage allocation systems should mean that it was no more or less work in supplying a major player, such as Telstra or Optus, than in a minor service provider.
"If NBN Co is doing its job properly and has set up automated provisioning, then there should not be any rationale for a reduction in cost to NBN Co's service whether that is presented to them as one block of 10,000 or 10,000 individual orders," he said.
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Optus' Krishnapillai added that despite the telco's desire for volume discounts from NBN Co, it was difficult to gauge what volumes of carriage would be needed to justify such a discount.
"That is the real difficulty as I don't know that volume per se should be criterion or effectively some kind of discount," he said. "The key [criterion in the bill] is how you define 'aiding efficiency'.
There is no definition around that so I don't know that there is a number [for a volume discount]."
Optus interconnect and economic regulation general manager, Andrew Sheridan, said for volume discounts to apply, NBN Co would need to demonstrate that at a certain volume of carriage the economics of supply changed.
"It is not reasonable to say that if we had several times the volume of company X we should get a discount of X per cent," he said.
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Useless art: "Quack" disappoints in person
DjTRIO featuring Christian Marclay
at the Jefferson Theater
February 17
Sometime around 1920, Ukranian cubist painter Kasimir Malevich decided that the essence of visual art lay in what was implied. In one case, he painted a red square on a black background; in another, he hung a plain blue canvas as a finished piece of art.
A talented Hungarian pianist named Gyorgy Kurtag employed the same philosophy in his compositions. The culmination of that stage in his life was a piece entitled "4'33" " where he sat at his piano for four minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence.
Those are just two examples of what I will now dub "useless art." By that I mean art that exists merely for the idea's sake and not for any particular aesthetic or practical application. I ran into another example of useless art last week when I wasted an hour and $12 on Swiss-American visual and audio artist Christian Marclay's newest project, djTRIO.
DjTRIO experiment with noise and texture on six turntables using an array of effects and unconventional record playing techniques. Marclay has drawn a distinct line between the music he records to the music he performs. The music he records is arguably groundbreaking stuff (check his impressive catalogue and collaborations with the likes of John Zorn, The Kronos Quartet, and DJ Spooky).
However, his live show pretty much blows a fat wad. I sat in pure confusion and watched as Marclay played dirty, scratched-up vinyl on 30-year-old phonographs while the other two turntablists mixed in effects and textures to blend in with the wall of white noise emanating from the speakers. To add insult to injury, cameras projected what they were doing on stage onto the screen behind them– as if seeing what they were doing would enhance the garbage I was hearing.
What saddens me is that this guy makes a living doing this. He is accepted because of his degrees in academia– not because he has any talent. Respectable members of the UVA community actually came to support this quack. The whole charade reminded me of the children's story "The Emperor's New Clothes."
He may have everyone else fooled, but not me!
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hmm.... what time is it where you are? maybe you are two hours... its 6:34 where I am, so the meetup is in an hour and a half.I HAVE A QUESTION.1) Do you believe in the underpants fairy? (This is a totally legit question, and it's a very serious matter...) :|
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Horrible. Terrible. And the keyboard doesn't work. That's at least what Salesforce.com (CRM) - Get Report CEO Marc Benioff thinks of the new Microsoft (MSFT) - Get Report Surface.
You've got to love guys like Benioff. They're the polar opposite of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
They're competent, confident, and they shoot straight.
Chris Ciaccia asked today
, how in the world does Ballmer keep his job?
It's obvious what's going on here.
Sinofsky likely couldn't take it anymore.
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Maybe Sinofsky spoke up and quit. Or he spoke up -- one too many times for Ballmer -- and the CEO pulled a
, called Bill Gates and had Sinofsky exiled.
But that's neither here nor there.
What really matters is that a guy like Benioff feels compelled to speak up about how absolutely awful the Surface tablet is. Relative to Apple's iPad, it's a piece of plastic. It will go nowhere fast in the consumer marketplace and, if Benioff is any gauge (and I think he is), it will die only a slightly slower death in enterprise.
Getting rid of Sinofsky wasn't a bad move, provided you had a viable plan B such as heaving a real, true fireball at Apple and bringing Scott Forstall on board. But that's not what Ballmer wants.
He got rid of the assertive, aggressive Sinofsky and put people in place he obviously perceives as lesser threats.
Bold move.
If you're a MSFT shareholder -- and it's one widely held name among retail and institutional investors -- you should be demanding that Ballmer's head rolls.
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Do Not Walk, California—Run from EDLs
As early as next week, the California State Senate could vote on S.B. 397, a hitherto little‐noticed bill that approves "enhanced drivers' licenses" in California. The bill's ostensible purpose is to bring California's licenses up to the standards set by the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI), which mandated the use of a passport or "enhanced driver's license" for sea and land crossings in 2008 within continental North America and the Caribbean. (Air travel still requires the use of a passport.) WHTI was and still is a paragon of costly overreaction to terrorism.
What's "enhanced" about an "enhanced driver's license"? It contains a radio frequency identification (RFID) chip, which in turn contains a personal identification number. Think of it as your Department of Homeland Security tracking number. The RFID chip broadcasts the information to any receiver that properly interrogates it. At the Canadian and Mexican border, this in theory allows for quicker transit and passage through EDL‐specific "Ready Lanes." The receiver pulls up information held in a DHS database, including identity data, the bearer's picture, and signature. (Unsurprisingly, the bill reserves the right for the state to include other information in the future, should it deem it to be necessary.) At the border and beyond, it allows pretty much anyone to figure out your comings and goings.
Using RFID in identity documents was identified as a no‐no by DHS's privacy advisory committee in 2006. That doesn't seem to have stopped the agency from moving forward with it. If S.B. 397 passes, EDLs in California would become legal but optional, as they currently are in New York, Michigan, Vermont, and Washington State. Given the government's propensity for turning optional pilot programs into permanent mandatory programs (witness the current debate over the 17‐year‐old E‐Verify "pilot progam"), it's not difficult to imagine a time when the EDL programs cease to be optional—and when EDLs contain information well beyond a picture, a signature, and citizenship status. The government also tends to expand programs far beyond their original purposes.
Californians should not walk—they should run away from "enhanced" driver's licenses.
UPDATE: Rep. Justin Amash (R‐Mich.) is on the case for Michiganders.


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Lawn care is even more crucial in the hot summer months.
The lawn: the stage for languid summer parties, a table for young lovers' picnics, the field for touch football rivalries and the place where toddlers take their first tremulous steps. We love our lawns.
The Middle English word "launde" originally referred to a glade or opening in the woods. Some of the earliest lawns were the grasslands around castles. They were stretches of land kept clear of trees so watchful guards had a view of approaching visitors or enemies.
In the early days the lawn was a rural phenomenon, and only the wealthy had the time or money to cultivate a well-manicured lawn. For the rest of the people, if they were fortunate enough to have a small plot of land, it was used for drying laundry, gardening and raising chickens.
That began to change with the Industrial Age and the invention of the garden hose and the rotary lawn mower. Edwin Budding developed the first lawn mower in 1830, and by the 1890s the lawn mower was a fixture in the average person's lawn care routine.
A key figure in bringing the lawn to the masses was Frederick Law Olmsted, the American father of landscape architecture. He planned New York City's Central Park in the 1850s and designed suburbs in which each residential home sported a lawn.
The following is from an essay by Michael Pollan: "If any individual can be said to have invented the American lawn, it is … Olmsted. In 1868, he received a commission to design Riverside, outside of Chicago, one of the first planned suburban communities in America. Olmsted's design stipulated that each house be set back 30 feet from the road and it proscribed walls. … In Riverside, each owner would maintain one or two trees and a lawn that would flow seamlessly into his neighbors', creating the impression that all lived together in a single park."
The Garden Club of America also played its part in popularizing lawns. Through contests and other forms of publicity, it convinced homeowners that it was their civic duty to maintain a beautiful lawn. The club even stipulated that the appropriate type of lawn was "a plot with a single type of grass with no intruding weeds, kept mown at a height of an inch and a half, uniformly green, and neatly edged."
The types of viable grass seed suited for Louisiana are warm-season grasses such as Bermuda, zoysia, Centipedegrass and St. Augustine.
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Summer lawn care is all about keeping one's lawn healthy while temperatures soar and rainfall diminishes. Once temperatures get into the 80s and above, lawns will begin to struggle, growth will slow, color may fade and lawns will show signs of wear and tear as they are less able to recover from stress and traffic.
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In addition, raise your mower blade in the summer. Taller grass is more drought-tolerant, grows deeper roots and helps shade the earth to prevent weed seeds from germinating. Warm-season grasses should be mowed to 2 to 3 inches.
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Not everyone today is in favor of lawns: One-third of America's water goes into the upkeep of lawns, and many see that as wasteful. The Xeriscape movement, started in response to the droughts of the 1970s, advocates using little water and encourages planting local, drought-tolerant species of grass and plants. More and more people are forgoing traditional lawns by using native flowers and low ground covers instead of grass. Homeowners can also cut back on grass in their landscapes by adding more shrubs, trees, patios, water features, decks and vegetable and herb gardens.
Today, U.S. homeowners spend $40 billion annually on lawn care, and the average homeowner will spend 25 hours per year on lawn care. That's a lot of time and money. But for many of us, it is all worth it if for nothing else than the irresistible combination of freshly cut grass and bare feet on a hot summer day.


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"The Ultimate Fighter 11" participant Costantinos Phillippou (7-2 MMA, 0-1 UFC) is now official for a previously reported fight with Rafael "Sapo" Natal (12-3-1 MMA, 0-1-1 UFC).
As MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) reported in June, the two will meet on the preliminary card of "UFC 133: Evans vs. Davis."
With the bout now official, the lineup for UFC 133 is again complete with a hefty 12 total contests.
Featuring a light heavyweight headliner between Rashad Evans and Phil Davis, UFC 133 takes place at Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia on Aug. 6.
Phillippou, a Serra-Longo Fight Team fighter, suffered an elimination-round loss to Joseph Henle on "The Ultimate Fighter 11." However, as a late replacement on the UFC 128 card, he signed a UFC contract and suffered a unanimous-decision loss to Nick Catone. Prior to the setback, the Ring of Combat veteran owned a seven-fight win streak with five stoppage victories.
Natal, who trains in New York City at Gracie Fusion, attempts his first UFC win for the third time. A veteran of the Brazilian fight circuit who later competed in the popular Northeast-based Ring of Combat, Natal signed with the UFC in 2010 and suffered a decision loss to Rich Attonito after he was dropped early. Then, despite a dominant start, he faded in the final round and fought replacement fighter Jesse Bongfeldt to a majority draw at UFC 124.
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A time comes in the life of a traveller when she or he won't have a single penny, and looking for free attractions become main activity when visiting a city. Madrid, one of the top main destinations in Europe, can be a very expensive part of your journey, but with these tips you could perfectly enjoy it without spending money.
One good tourist attraction is the Royal Palace, a magnificent building home for old kings of Spain, with amazing rooms, museums, halls, staircases, paintings and ornaments on the inside, and an amazing architecture on the outside. It's the largest royal palace and one of the largest buildings Europe, and the entrance for EU citizens is free on Wednesdays, day that also happen the Change of the Guard, and Thursday afternoon.
Also royal was the Parque del Buen Retiro, now open to everyone who wants to feel the good vibes and stroll on those beautiful gardens. There are also museums, monuments and galleries in the park, but the best thing about it is that it's free. Some of the best art galleries in the city have a free entrance time once or twice a week, like the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia that is free at weekends and has a collection with paintings of Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso.
It's incredible the things for free that you can find in a city. In Madrid you can also visit an ancient Egyptian temple in the Parque del Oeste, sent there in the 60's as symbol of gratitude for Spain's help in protecting other temples. The Temple of Debod has some two thousand years and before being brought to Madrid it was in the region of Aswan.
To enjoy the nightlife, you can catch the street parties and events that happen around the city, and even some bars offer free entrance to the flamenco's performances. Madrid is a top destination in Europe and pretty enjoyable on the budget.
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When a potluck sign-up sheet goes around at work I love to bring cupcakes. They have all been such good sports about my efforts and even the ones that don't turn out perfect are ok with coffee at work. Because really there's not much that a cup of coffee and a sweet bit of cake with a mound of frosting on top can't help.
I've been dreaming up a new recipe to try and was actually looking forward to a culinary experience last night. I was set to make a white cupcake – with green food color of course – with white buttercream frosting. BUT…my ingenious plan was to bake Junior Mints inside the cupcake and also use on the top as a decoration!
Each pan of cupcakes had a slight difference in the way they were baked, all the while I took copious notes. The frosting went on beautifully, with an almost perfect swirl on each cupcake. I did notice that the warmth from my hand started causing the frosting to melt a bit, so I put every cake on a platter to set inside the refrigerator a bit before decorating.
And then…….disaster struck:
I tilted the platter just right and they all came tumbling down! Poor Keith was in the kitchen with me when it happened and I think time froze as he waited for my tears to start. But I just looked at it and said "Huh." And then I laughed. And he joined in. And all was right.
And this is my little buddy Joe, who is always right next to me regardless of what I'm doing. Fortunately he is a very well trained dog and I had him "down" and "stay" while we took pictures and then cleaned up. I did let him take two licks of frosting, but he grabbed a cupcake to carry around (after all, he IS a retriever!). I made him "drop" and he did obey, though he looked disappointed.
I was able to stop at a grocery store on the way to work and buy some cupcakes to fulfill my part of the potluck. And I showed the Joe picture to everybody and we all got good laughs.
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A national film competition is being launched by campaigners who are raising awareness of the potentially devastating effects of club drugs and legal highs.
The Why Not Find Out campaign by the newly-launched Angelus Foundation will see young people invited to make films about the best ways of getting naturally high, such as sports and music.
Judges will include Lord Puttnam and the winners will be mentored by award-winning producers including Simon Berthon who produced Wallis Simpson: The Secret Letters. The winning films will appear on TV.
The launch, at the Tricycle Cinema in Kilburn, north London, at 9pm on November 14, comes after figures showed more than 40 deaths were linked to a group of now-banned legal highs in 2010, eight times as many as the previous year.
The biggest increase related to meow meow, which rose from five deaths in 2009 to 29 the following year, the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths report showed.
Maryon Stewart, who founded the Angelus Foundation after her medical student daughter Hester died aged 21 in 2009 after taking the then legal GBL, said a substance being legal does not mean it is safe.
Ms Stewart, from Brighton, East Sussex, said: "Our children don't need to die or be harmed for life by these toxic chemicals falsely disguised as legal highs. It's natural for young people to want to have fun but it's important that they stay safe and fully understand just because a substance is legal it doesn't mean it's safe."
Almost one third of young people search for ways of getting legally high, according to a survey commissioned by the Angelus Foundation. But two thirds of the 16 to 24-year-olds surveyed admitted not being well-informed about the risks linked with taking such substances.
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April is Rosacea Awareness Month, a perfect time to understand more about the inflammatory condition that, according to the National Rosacea Society, affects 16 million Americans. Many mistake the facial redness or bumps for acne, but there are tell-tale signs you may be dealing with rosacea instead. And although there is no cure, dermatologists can provide treatment (find one through rosaceafacts.com). There are even some beauty tricks you can employ to diminish the appearance of rosacea.
Avoid alcohol: This means in your beauty products and your liquor cabinet. Alcoholic drinks like wine can worsen the redness from rosacea. Also, products that contain powerful ingredients, including witch hazel, menthol, peppermint, or eucalyptus oil, can irritate already-sensitive skin.
Protect against the sun: The sun is another trigger of rosacea. It is important to always apply a broad spectrum sunscreen with a high SPF, no matter the season. Try to be mindful of extreme temperatures, as well; soaking in the jacuzzi or skiing the slopes might make your skin worse.
Go for light coverage: When you want to minimize the redness caused by rosacea, sidestep heavy foundations and concealers. You'll also want to avoid the harsh scrubbing and makeup-removal products required to clean your face. Instead, reach for a green primer to counteract red bumps or discoloration.


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The small Southern town of Denver is located in the western North Carolina county of Lincoln. Denver is a quiet, laid-back town even though it has undergone development in the past few years. Sitting on the west side of Lake Norman, Denver is a prime location for families who want to be close to recreation and nearby city amenities in Charlotte and Hickory - both 26 miles from the center of town.
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The first settlers came to the area in the late 1740s, and they settled along the banks of the Catawba River near shoals that made it easy to cross. There were several battles fought on these grounds during the Revolutionary War, such as the Battle of Cowan's Ford.
Today, Denver serves as a popular destination spot because it hugs Lake Norman. However, the community is also a hub for manufacturing, and some of the top employers include The Timken Company, RSI Home Products, Blum, McMurray Fabrics, Actavis, UTC, and Robert Bosch Tool Corp.
People looking at Denver apartments will enjoy the low cost of living, which is three percent lower than the national average. However, Walkscore.com rates Denver as a fairly car-dependent community with only a few amenities within walking distance, and the average commute time is around 32 minutes. People moving to the area will likely want to have access to a vehicle.
The biggest attraction in Denver is Lake Norman, and many residents and visitors spend their summers enjoying the recreation along the shoreline. Residents are also only a short drive from Charlotte, where they can find dining, entertainment, sports, and recreation amenities.
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