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Some Thoughts on the Impact of AMD's Layoffs on the Future of AMD GPUsby Anand Lal Shimpi on November 4, 2011 8:18 PM EST
Here's something I'm concerned about. AMD's Carrell Killebrew, part of yesterday's announced layoffs, was a Director of Product Planning for AMD's GPU division. His job, at least as he explained it to me so many times in the past, was to figure out what the next 3 - 5 years of AMD GPUs were going to look like. He's still technically with AMD today, although that will change in the not too distant future.
Carrell is a dedicated guy, he works hard and generally seems to know the right move for AMD in the GPU space. His track record as of late is a good one. The verdict isn't out on AMD's 28nm GPUs, but the last three years of AMD GPU releases have been excellent. They've been competitive and well executed.
When reducing workforce to cut costs, you don't go after your product planners - unless their vision and your vision don't line up. We all know what Carrell wanted for the future of AMD GPUs (as I wrote before, he wanted to deliver a first generation "Holodeck" by 2016), but what does AMD's new CEO want that conflicts with this goal?
Carrell's vision saw the continued growth of the high-end GPU. On November 9th we're supposed to hear more about Rory Read's new strategy for AMD. I am concerned that it may conflict with Carrell's vision. Maybe I'm reading too much into all of this. What do you all think?
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djc208 - Saturday, November 05, 2011 - linkIt seems like AMD is betting much harder on their CPU/GPU integration than on the discrete market. So a product planner that wants to push the high horsepower GPU system with larger and more complex chips probably doesn't fit with what seems to be AMDs vision of a chip that's less CPU/GPU and more of a big integrated package. Intel is pushing the same direction as more and more of the discrete systems become integrated into the CPU.
In all honesty I can't say that for the mass of the market they are wrong. How many work PCs (mine included) couldn't be handled more efficiently by such a system? Even most home users are the same. If a tablet can do 90% or more of what you want to do on a computer then will most people really need a monster desktop with huge power? If you design smart CPU/GPU combos that can handle the home use tasks well (video playback, transcoding, and power management), then most people will be happy.
I may like my gaming rig and it's capabilities but even I'll admit that the most used PC in my house is my home server which does DVR duties as well as storage and delivery, and it's headless. Reply
TristanSDX - Saturday, November 05, 2011 - linkThey do not make profit on Radeons. While the Radeons are proud, lack of profit is shame. Designing GPU at AMD is pure idea. It does not matter they are first with GDDR5, or with DX11 or with new silicon process. What matters is lot of clients and cash - NV leads in this spaces.
Additionaly NV is more complete graphics company. They make lot of osftware (CUDA, Physx, Optix, lot of other tools), have strong relationships with game developers, industry, movies studios, academia, etc.
AMD have only good unprofitable GPU with some drivers and nothing more.
Maybe Rory Read want new NV inside AMD, than old ATI. Reply
Targon - Monday, November 07, 2011 - linkWhere do you think the GPU side of the APU came from, thin air? It comes from the Radeon side of things, and advancing the state of the GPU means long-term advances in the AMD APUs. Reply
george1976 - Monday, November 07, 2011 - linkNumbers, or i will call you a fanboy :) Reply
Pantsu - Saturday, November 05, 2011 - linkI wonder how Killebrew and restructuring is going will affect the development of next gen GPUs? While Southern Islands will be unlikely to be affected by this, the gen after that might be completely diffferent, if they ditch the current GPU strategy explained in the slide. Maybe they'll go for Nvidia style big chip again?
It would be really sad (and bad) if AMD completely folded high performance GPUs and CPUs and concentrated on Brazos class products. Reply
Tanclearas - Saturday, November 05, 2011 - link1. AMD's APU Strategy is just a sum of its parts (CPU+GPU)
From Wikipedia:
"Fusion was announced in 2006 and has been in development since then. The final design is the product of the merger between AMD and ATI, combining general processor execution as well as 3D geometry processing and other functions of modern GPUs (like GPGPU computation) into a single die."
The reality is, AMD has done very little in the mainstream to actually leverage GPGPU. Intel has done a better job here with QuickSync. The GPU folks have done a horrible job with letting people use their GPU for anything other than graphics. AMD's video converter offers a limited number of default targets, and there is an extremely limited number of configurable options. To top it off, I'm willing to bet most people with AMD GPU's don't even know how to access the video converter, or even know it's there.
2. GPU design methods forced upon CPU
Nvidia and ATI use(d) more automated approaches to chip design. When they are releasing new architectures every 18 months, this is pretty much a requirement. This design approach won out between the CPU and GPU designers following the ATI acquisition, and was used for Bulldozer. The result is a chip that requires many more transistors to essentially just match the performance of the previous generation.
I'm guessing the debate between the CPU and GPU folks about the design strategy was an unpleasant one, and given the result, the GPU folks are taking much of the blame.
3. Failure in high-end GL products
Nvidia commands a huge lead in the workstation class GPU segment. AMD is pretty much failing to compete in this high profit area as well. This isn't completely disconnected from the first point. AMD needs to significantly improve the software and drivers associated with their graphics chips. Reply
TSS - Saturday, November 05, 2011 - linkIt's sad, but not a bad thing per se. What lots of people seem to forget is what graphics cards where developped to do in the first place: Display graphics! I remember playing carmageddon 2 at <25FPS and commenting to my friend he needed a new graphics card because his voodoo 1 wasn't cutting it any more. back then software always outpaced the hardware.
In the current console age though, the most money isn't made off gamers it's made off everybody else. Most games are ported over from the console to the PC and while the PC gets performance upgrades the consoles don't thus limiting what the games can actually do.
And we've seen news messages that the consoles are starting to lose revenue and die out in favor of social media games, which require even less graphical power.
I've only built a monster PC once in my life. It had a radeon x1900xt graphics card bought a day after it was released. The entire PC cost around $3500. Back then, It was "for every $1100 you spend, you get an extra year of use. at >$3300, you get 1 year of high settings, 1 year of medium settings and 1 year in low settings of games, then you need a new PC." This was about 5 years ago. 3 years later, i needed a new PC as predicted. But the PC i bought then i still have now, with a GTX275. Still the most expensive component, but more then $200 cheaper then i paid for the X1900xt. If it was 5 years ago, i should've had to drop setting everything to max settings within 6 months. 2 years later, BF3 is the most taxing game released in a long time, and it's the first game i can't run on "ultra" anymore. But it runs >60 FPS on medium. Some settings i can even set to high. In the current age if i buy a $500 graphics card now it will still run games in a decade. Good for me, yes, but bad for AMD who won't sell me another graphics card for an entire decade - but still has to develop new high end parts that entire decade at the rate of 2 new generations per year!
The reason to have high end parts simply isn't there anymore.
But since everybody seems in agreement that the future of computing is mobile, be is smartphone, tablet or notebook, that would be the smart segment to focus on. It will still be about performance per watt, only at much less watt's then where used to. There's much more room to grow, as mobile graphics still suck (while PC's hardly got room left for improvement really).
This doesn't mean high end parts will dissapear! once they have a good running laptop design, there's nothing to prevent them from just upping the watt's. Remember intel's Core CPU lineup came from a CPU designed for mobile stuff, the pentium M. But it will mean that the focus is no longer on getting the newest, fastest GPU.... It will be getting the one that does more with less. Reply
nofumble62 - Saturday, November 05, 2011 - linkNobody is playing serious video game on mobile device. Perhaps AMD wants to change that.
OK, but before we get to that point, AMD must have SOC design. Even Intel is struggling in this space. But they have buy many small companies, each provides a piece of puzzle. In 1-2 years, Intel will have a SOC with lot of features integrated into one single chip. AMD has not even started.
Who want to partner with AMD to get into this space? I say who else? Qualcom but they don't have to buy AMD. Just send a head-hunter to AMD campus. Reply
jabber - Saturday, November 05, 2011 - linkAs you'll find more and more exec boards will be taken over by the accountants and finance men. The creatives will be pushed out. It will happen to Nvidia/Intel/Apple etc in time.
It's all about cutting costs, the bottom line etc. Excitement or revolutionary products don't come into their way of thinking. Its the money that counts to them, not the 'Vision'.
Eventually we will all end up being drip fed a line of similar dull mediocre products from all the big corps. Reply
softdrinkviking - Sunday, November 06, 2011 - linkseriously. this always happens.
it's like the wallmart syndrome.
goodbye to quality and care, hello to bottom line. Reply


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On July 27th, we learned that the Scientific Steering Committee of the Census of Marine Life is the 2011 recipient of the International Cosmos Prize [1], an annual award presented by the Expo '90 Foundation. The award was given to the Census in recognition of its holistic global approach, which reflects the Foundation's ideals of having humans respect and live in harmony with nature and the need for new paradigms formed through integrated and inclusive approaches.
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I serching a long time of parts to that car but I can't find in Israel.
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if a 84 1300 dl dashboard is the same as your 1980 station,which i think is
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I have a 1983 Leone 1800 dashboard with no damages here. It has a green light if I remeber right. Perhaps we should look at some pictures if you still need it.
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Barry's back! Oh my God! Beat L.A.! The Giants are in it!
Just . . . stop.
I will no longer be a pawn in the Giants' sick game. When Barry comes back, I'll watch. When the Giants get within three games, I'll believe they have a shot.
Until then . . . cue Keith Jackson from the late 80s: "Ohhhh, good golly, lemme tell you about that college football!"
With the lone and patently offensive exception of new "College GameDay" staffer Nick Lachey (So tell me Deion, when did you first learn about Devin Hester?), what a great start.
The most upset I've ever been at a college football game was sitting in the Oklahoma section in a Texas hat at the Red River Shootout a couple years back.
My take on OU fans from that unforgettable afternoon was that -- for the most part -- they are vile, vicious, passionate, ugly, disturbing and all together not right folk.
On Saturday, all I could think about as I watched the Sooners get kicked around in their own house by a perfectly mediocre TCU squad was the beady-eyed psycho who sat behind me that day and heaped abuse on me (verbal and physical) as if I were Mack Brown's house boy.
I'm sure that feckless blockhead is too depressed to go to work this week and I doubt he's eaten since Saturday.
Good. I hope he goes to the Red River Shootout this year and I hope Texas wins by at least 75 points.
The Horned Frogs made my day. Heck, my weekend. Although several rousing games of pool volleyball made the weekend downright stupendous. (yes, I'm still sore).
Spotted elsewhere around the country at stadiums where the Sooners would no doubt get their butts handed to them:
* The Pitt Panthers, another team like Oklahoma that was drilled in a bowl game to end last season, was run over by an improved Notre Dame squad. Texas A&M? Same thing. Clubbed by Tennessee in the Cotton Bowl, the Gaggies started what was supposed to be a banner season with a bad loss to Clemson.
No bowl hangovers for Cal or Michigan. The Bears toyed with Sac State and the Wolverines handled one of the Illinois directional schools.
It's about scheduling, people. Kansas State and Nebraska were smart enough to schedule easy wins. K-State still gave up three touchdowns to something called Florida International and Nebraska dispatched the plucky Black Bears of Maine.
Oklahoma State thought it was scheduling a "W" with Montana State (same league as Sac State) and only won by five, a truly alarming score if you follow the Cowboys.
* So much talent and so few legitimate class credits on the field Monday night as Florida State and Miami battled. And what a sloppy, awful game. Opening week should never be bloodbath games. Ever.
* Watching Joe Ayoob play as if he'd been sampling the many wonderful products on Telegraph Avenue reminds me of the big difference between JC football in California and the Pac-10. He can't be that bad, but if there was pressure on Marshawn Lynch before, now there is PRESSURE.
* Enough with the old, ugly helmets. I could barely watch Wisconsin with the huge floating "Ws" on the front and back of those off-white domes and Syracuse looked nasty in their ancient getup as they gagged away the game to West Virginia. If they were going for anything resembling the Jim Brown Era, it was an embarrassment to Mr. Brown in every way.
* Time to shut down the SMU football program. Now. The Stoned Ponies lost at home to Baylor. Sorry, it's over. Stop pretending. Texas state law prohibits any team from sucking that badly in football.
* Hawaii has always bugged me. For whatever reason, almost every player thumps his chest and wants to fight after almost every play. They pulled that same garbage against USC in the early going last weekend and because of that, the Trojans tried to put 70 on them. Good, act like idiots and you get treated like idiots.
* Thank goodness both Texas and Ohio State have had scrimmages (easy nonleague wins in Week 1). This week's game (national title hopes are on the line for both teams) could be one of the best early season nonleague showdowns ever.
In non-football matters:
* The over/under on A's attendance tonight: 14,893. Sad, but true. Go ahead, take the over, but there won't be more than 18K in the house.
* Finally, I figured out the title for the Giants 2006 highlight film: "Barryless, Brain Dead and Yamid Haad? Chaos on the Cove!"
* Lance Armstrong is already thinking about unretiring. Just get it over with, Lance, and say you'll ride in the 2006 Tour de France as a way to show those ungrateful French snakes that you're a mean, clean pedaling machine.
Besides, no one ever retires once these days. Football players retire twice, baseball players three times, announcers four and boxers get at least five official retirement announcements until anyone takes them seriously.
Has anyone bought a pay-per-view boxing match in the last couple years? I'm sure someone has, but I can't imagine why.
* The Giants have seven games left with the Padres and . . . weakening, must . . . ignore . . . Giants.
Question of the Week responses: College football is about to start. In many places, it's a religion. Around here, it's something to pass time between Saturday soccer practices. Why is that?
* The Bay Area is a smorgasbord place to live. There is so much to sample, residents like to taste different dishes of entertainment. This year, Cal is like the Fried Prawn dish, most people are interested in tasting, but others are allergic. Stanford is like Liver and Onions, where most people haven't liked the smell, but diehards stick with them. San Jose State? Can you say boiled tongue? John S.
* There is too much turnover in college football, making it extremely difficult to follow. Most Bay Area-ians are more interested in pinot noirs and soy nonfat lattes than sports, so combining those fans with a sport that is tough to follow doesn't mix well. etc. Brendan B.
* Memorial Stadium in the fall is one of the most amazing settings for college football anywhere, but the lukewarm support baffles me. Maybe they are guilty of being in a "soft" sports market. Maybe it's tough to find parking. Maybe the Bears have sucked for too long. Maybe this market has two baseball teams and two (OK, when the Raiders go to San Antonio; one) NFL teams. Slam.
* The college football religion requires two basic elements: location and a winning tradition. Most college football meccas are not in a major metropolitan area. They are in college towns where the locals (and students) have nothing better to do then root for the home team and alumni come back for trips down memory lane (think Lincoln, Nebraska; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Columbus, Ohio; South Bend, Indiana). They are places where people don't go to the stadium just for football, but because the stadium is the place to be. In the Bay Area, Berkeley and Palo Alto (and San Jose) are not quaint college towns and any winning has been sporadic at best. Jay J.
* My theory as to why college football is not too popular in the Bay Area is that we have had very successful pro teams in all sports over the last few decades that have taken the focus off what, at times, have been very good college teams on both sides of the bay. Yes, even the Warriors have been a playoff team at one time or another, and may be again very soon. Think about places where college football is an obsession (Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame, even USC, etc.) What pro teams do their fans have to root for on a consistent basis come playoff time? Josh B.
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See Weigel explain himself in his own words. He cites hubris and regarding journolist as a dive bar where you drop in and shit-talk. Interesting stuff. I'd like to hear more about this:
After the 2008 election, I drove up from Atlanta to D.C. and was greeted by my editor, Matt Welch, with surprising news. It would be better, he said, if I worked somewhere else. I'd voted for the Obama-Biden ticket (having joked, semi-seriously, that I was honor-bound to vote for a ticket with a fellow Delawarean on it) and wasn't fully on board with the magazine's upcoming, wonky focus on picking apart the new administration.
Anyway, I'm not writing this to be a thumbsucker about the future of the press. After Ta-Nehisi, and Ambinder (and Ross Douthat, for that matter) pointed out that I was wrong about Weigel's reporting, I realized that, yes, I was wrong. Also, I subsequently had a very interesting and illuminating conversation with Weigel about this brouhaha, and, the conversation swayed me to believe -- as did his now-posted apology/explanation on Big Journalism -- that Weigel is a good reporter who did something boneheaded. I still don't understand the trash-talk on JournoList -- and I certainly don't understand how a smart guy like Dave Weigel could believe that a listserv of 400 bloggers and journalists (!) could possibly be off-the-record in any meaningful way -- but I was wrong to characterize him the way I did.


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The early roots of rapid mechanical prototyping technology can be traced to at least two technical areas: topography and photosculpture.
As early as 1890, Blanther (1892) suggested a layered method for making a mold for topographical relief maps. The method consists of impressing topographical contour lines on a series of wax plates, cutting the wax plates on the contour lines, and then stacking and smoothing the wax sections. This produces both positive and negative three-dimensional surfaces that correspond to the terrain indicated by the contour lines. After suitable backing of these surfaces, a printed paper map is then pressed between the positive and negative forms to create a raised relief map. This is shown in Fig. 3.1.
Perera (1940) proposed a similar method for making a relief map by cutting contour lines on cardboard sheets and then stacking and pasting these sheets to form a three-dimensional map. Further refinements of this approach were made by Zang (1964), who suggested using transparent plates with topographical detail inscribed on each plate, and Gaskin (1973), who described a three-dimensional geological teaching device. In 1972, Matsubara of Mitsubishi Motors (1974) proposed a topographical process that uses photo-hardening materials. In this process, a photopolymer resin is coated onto refractory particles (e.g., graphite powder or sand), which are then spread into a layer and heated to form a coherent sheet. Light (e.g., from a mercury vapor lamp) is selectively projected or scanned onto this sheet to harden a defined portion of it. The unscanned, unhardened portion is dissolved away by a solvent. The thin layers formed in this way are subsequently stacked together to form a casting mold. In 1974, DiMatteo (1976) recognized that these same stacking techniques could be used to produce surfaces that are particularly difficult to fabricate by standard machining operations. Examples he mentions include propellers, air foils, three-dimensional cams, and forming of dies for punch presses. In one embodiment (Fig. 3.2), contoured metallic sheets are formed by a milling cutter, then joined in layered fashion by adhesion, bolts, or tapered rods. This process has obvious similarity to the earlier 19th century work.
In 1979, Professor Nakagawa of Tokyo University began to use lamination techniques to produce actual tools such as blanking tools (Nakagawa et al. 1979), press forming tools (Kunieda and Nakagawa 1984), and injection molding tools (Nakagawa, Kunieda, and Liu 1985). Of particular note, Nakagawa mentions the possibility of complex cooling channels in injection molds (Nakagawa, Kunieda, and Liu 1985).
Photosculpture arose in the 19th century in attempts to create exact three-dimensional replicas of objects, including human forms (Bogart 1979). One somewhat successful realization of this technology was designed by Frenchman François Willème in 1860. In his method, shown in Fig. 3.3, a subject or object was placed in a circular room and simultaneously photographed by 24 cameras placed equally about the circumference of the room. The silhouette of each photograph was then used by an artisan in Willème's studio (Fig. 3.4) to carve out 1/24th of a cylindrical portion of the figure.
In an attempt to alleviate the labor-intensive carving step of Willème's photosculpture, Baese (1904) described a technique using graduated light to expose photosensitive gelatin, which expands in proportion to exposure when treated with water. Annular rings of the treated gelatin are then fixed on a support to make a replica of an object, as shown in Fig. 3.5. Similar techniques and improvements were developed by Monteah (1924).
In some of the earliest work in Japan, Morioka (1935, 1944) developed a hybrid process combining aspects of photosculpture and topography. This method (Fig. 3.6) uses structured light (black and white bands of light) to photographically create contour lines of an object. The lines can then be developed into sheets and cut and stacked, or projected onto stock material for carving.
Fig. 3.4. François Willème's photosculpturing studio in Paris, about 1870
(Bogart 1979; photo courtesy of George Eastman House).
Fig. 3.5. Photographic process for the development of plastic objects by Baese (1904).
Fig 3.6. Process for manufacturing a relief by Morioka (Morioka 1935, 1944).
In 1951, Munz (1956) proposed a system that has features of current stereolithography techniques (Fig. 3.7). He disclosed a system for selectively exposing a transparent photo emulsion in a layerwise fashion, where each layer comes from a cross-section of a scanned object. These layers are created by lowering a piston in a cylinder and adding appropriate amounts of photo emulsion and fixing agent. After exposing and fixing, the resulting solid transparent cylinder contains an image of the object. Subsequently this object can be manually carved or photochemically etched out to create a three-dimensional object.
In 1968, Swainson (1977) proposed a process to directly fabricate a plastic pattern by selective three-dimensional polymerization of a photosensitive polymer at the intersection of two laser beams. Parallel work was conducted at Battelle Laboratories (Schwerzel 1984). The essential features of this process, termed photochemical machining, are depicted in Fig. 3.8. The object is formed by either photochemically cross-linking or degrading a polymer by simultaneous exposure to intersecting laser beams. Although laboratory hardware was constructed for this process, a commercially viable process was apparently not achieved.
A powder process that has more in common with laser surface cladding techniques than photosculpture was proposed in 1971 by Ciraud (1972). This disclosure describes a process for the manufacture of objects from a variety of materials that are at least partially meltable. In order to produce an object, small particles are applied to a matrix by gravity, magnetostatics, or electrostatics, or positioned by a nozzle located near the matrix. The particles are then heated locally by a laser, electron beam, or plasma beam. As a consequence of heating, the particles adhere to each other to form a continuous layer. As Fig. 3.9 shows, more than one laser beam can be used in order to increase the strength of the union between the particles.
Hideo Kodama of Nagoya Municipal Industrial Research Institute was the first to publish an account of a functional photopolymer rapid prototyping system (Kodama 1981). In his method, a solid model is fabricated by building up a part in layers, where exposed areas correspond to a cross-section in the model. He studied three different methods for achieving this (Fig. 3.10):
A second, parallel but independent, effort was conducted by Herbert at 3M Corporation (1982). Herbert describes a system that directs a UV laser beam to a photopolymer layer by means of a mirror system on an x-y plotter (Fig. 3.11). In Herbert's experimental technique, a computer is used to command a laser beam across a layer, the photopolymer vessel is then lowered (~ 1 mm), and additional liquid photopolymer is then added to create a new layer.
Besides those described above, there are numerous active patents that cover existing commercial processes. Table 3.1 lists the most prominent patents.
Although very intricate parts produced by rapid prototyping equipment are now common, the first parts out of these types of systems required a good deal of faith that improvements would occur. Shown in Fig. 3.12 are three early parts from different systems. The Housholder part was made from an embodiment that included a grid for separating mold material (concrete and water) from casting material (dry concrete). The Herbert part was created in August 1979. It is not known exactly when the Kodama and Housholder parts were created.


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At the 'Times,' the future of blogs is uncertain: Some shuttered, some dormant, all under review
The New York Times is deciding what to do with its dozens of blogs.
Sources tell Capital that a review of the blogs is underway ahead of the paper's planned web relaunch later this year.
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At least one of them, the environmental blog, has already been killed. Another, Media Decoder, hasn't posted any content since April 14.
For the time being, "they've moved all media coverage over to an article format," according to a source familiar with the situation, who added: "I think it's part of a broader effort to prune the blogs and push everything into our own new CMS, called Scoop. Better for the coming redesign that the paper has previewed."
Asked about the status of Media Decoder, which had become a topic of interest among media wonks on Twitter these past few days, a Times spokesperson said the blog is "dormant, not dead." Media editor Bruce Headlam was out of the office today and didn't immediately respond to emails.
Last month, the Times previewed a major overhaul of nytimes.com that has the site veering into a more tablet-friendly format.
UPDATE, 5:32 PM: Headlam got back to me with some color on Media Decoder:
From my perspective, the issue the Times is dealing with is discoverability: it's a huge site and finding material can be a problem. Media Decoder was a homemade production of the media desk -- for a long time it didn't have its own producer -- that allowed us to break a lot of news quickly. Since a lot of that news found its way into the paper, we often had two versions of the same story and that was confusing for readers (and search engines).
So the news we broke on Decoder will now go to the Media homepage (and Media now has its own tab on the Times navigation bar, which also helps). I really fought losing the blog format -- it was quick, easy and great for imbedding video -- but in truth we can do a lot of things on the Media page we couldn't do on the blog.
And we're certainly not retiring the Decoder name: we're still going to use it for bloggier items like Carr riffs or interactive features, and we have a few new uses in mind. Part of this is just ego: I made the name up and want to keep it going. (I don't mean that to sound sad, like we're one of those bands that keep touring under its famous name even though the only original member left is the bass player.)
I'd make one more point. Decoder allowed writers and editors to loosen up a little, to write items and headlines with a little more verve and humor and to react quickly to news. We all want that spirit to continue on the Media page, even though the articles are produced differently. I really don't know the eventual fate for other blogs at the Times but I know my writers and editors liked the pace and the feel of the blog and that's not going to change just because we've moved away from Wordpress.


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Jack Nissen, President of the Wisconsin Wildlife Federation and NWF Delegate, is a true conservationist, demonstrated by his 15 years of involvement with the Wisconsin affiliate, his serving on numerous committees, and his commitment to getting children of all abilities outdoors. In addition to being a volunteer WWF board member, hunter education instructor, and his village president, Jack also serves on the Advisory Council of United Special Sportsman Association, a charity designed to provide hunting and angling opportunities to terminally ill and disabled children.
"Strong conservation policy and conservation education have become my life, after being involved with WWF for so many years you begin to understand just how important our Natural Resource are to all of us." – Jack Nissen
Jack recently spearheaded efforts to develop a youth committee within WWF, connecting with a young leader in the sporting community who is developing youth conservation clubs in high schools across the state that are now affiliated with WWF, providing valuable insights, opportunities and the next generation of conservationists.
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HILLVIEW - Past requests for annexation and rezonings have never been easy for the Rogers Group, owner of Bullitt County Stone.
But as the company seeks to have over 300 acres annexed into the Hillview corporate limits, one of its major opponents will no longer be in opposition.
The Hillview City Council will decide at its Nov. 21 meeting whether to annex over 300 acres into its corporate limits.
The property, owned by the Bates family, is being purchased by the Rogers Group.
SHEPHERDSVILLE - With the exception of one race, Bullitt Countians followed suit in Tuesday's statewide elections.
Some of the most cynical scams target service members, their families, and veterans, warns the Better Business Bureau. Veterans' Day is a key opportunity for scammers who would target those who are serving or have served their nation, especially elderly vets.
BBB Military Line provides free financial literacy and consumer protection services to the military community, as well as information on the latest scams, schemes, and ID theft tactics that threaten them. Among the scams to watch out for:
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This week Paul Coyle lampoons the HVAC issues county officials are dealing with at the Bullitt County Courthouse.
The Bullitt County Chamber of Commerce recently held its annual awards dinner. Several members were honored during the event.
MOUNT WASHINGTON - After two meetings and a public hearing, the Mount Washington City Council recently voted to raise its real and personal property tax rate for the 2011 tax year.
During a public hearing held just before the council's Monday, Oct. 24 regular meeting, members voted 4-2 in favor of raising the rate to 11.4 cents on each $100 of assessed valuation of all real and personal property within the city.
The results of the November 8, 2011, general election in Bullitt County.
Bullitt County clerk Kevin Mooney estimated a 27 percent voter turnout.
GOVERNOR and LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR:
Steven Beshear, Jerry Abramson (DEM) - 7,370
David Williams, Richie Farmer (REP) - 3,092
Gatewood Galbraith, Dea Riley (IND) - 781
SECRETARY of STATE:
Alison Lundergan Grimes (DEM) - 8,088
Bill Johnson (REP) - 5,495
SHEPHERDSVILLE - When Bullitt County Public School Board members hosted a public hearing on a tax increase a couple of months ago, there were several concerned citizens who spoke.
One of their biggest concerns on the tax increase was not necessarily the quality of education being received.
Instead, it was areas where they felt waste were occurring.
LOUISVILLE - Hundreds of flag-waving family, friends, and Americans packed the terminal at Louisville International Airport Oct. 23 to welcome home veterans returning from a trip to Washington, D.C.
Twenty-nine veterans, ranging in age from 85 to 92, went on a one-day trip that was sponsored by Salt River Electric, Kentucky's Touchstone Energy Cooperatives, and the Bluegrass Chapter of the Honor Flight Network. While in Washington, D.C. the veterans visited the World War II Memorial.
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These are the easiest pancakes to make – you don't even need scales to weigh your ingredients. All you need is a cup or a mug. As long as you use the same cup for measuring both the flour and the milk, you'll be laughing!
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- 1 large free-range egg
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To make your batter
• Crack the egg into a large mixing bowl
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• Fold through the blueberries (if using)
To cook and serve your pancakes
• Put a large frying pan on a medium heat and after a minute or so, add 1⁄2 tablespoon of oil
• Carefully tilt the pan to spread the oil out evenly
• Add a few ladles of batter to the pan, leaving enough space between each one so they have room to spread out slightly – each ladleful will make one pancake, and you'll need to cook them in batches
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The perils of English-language Europuddings are nowhere better illustrated than in "For My Baby." A neo-Gothic, Vienna-set psychodrama, pic's director is Dutch, it was largely shot in Budapest and features a potentially strong British cast adopting a variety of bad accents. Resulting farrago could find some play in undiscriminating non-Anglo territories but is likely to be laughed off the screen by native speakers. Daniel (Scottish comedian Alan Cumming) is an egocentric standup comic whose sister, Hannah, died as a kid in a Nazi concentration camp. Halfway to Norman Bates hell, Daniel dresses up as her to please his half-dead hospitalized mom (Hungarian veteran Hedi Temessy) and is finally dumped by his long-suffering g.f. (Serena Gordon). Enter Lilian (Juliet Aubrey), a naive Texan on a scholarship in Europe, who falls for the half-crazed Daniel while trying to work out the connection of her father, a former Nazi scientist who emigrated to the U.S., to chemical tycoon Wittfogel (Frank Finlay), himself being investigated by two Jewish Nazi-hunters.
Fancily lensed by Hungarian d.p. Gabor Szabo in a style approaching "Mephisto," the movie veers wildly from a love melodrama through a meditation on WWII guilt to some kind of weird psychosexual riff on "The Third Man." English actress Aubrey's perf is as wobbly as her Lone Star accent, and both Cumming and Finlay chew up the scenery with their Viennese ones. Bob Zimmerman's big symphonic score tries to bring some order to the onscreen mess, but after a while only compounds the overheated theatricality of the whole affair.
For My Baby
A Hungry Eye Pictures/VARA Television production, in association with Transatlantic Media Associates (Hungary). (International sales: Hungry Eye, Amsterdam.) Produced by Rene Seegers, Berry van Zwieten, Karel van Ossenbruggen. Co-producer, Laszlo Helle. Directed by Rudolf van den Berg. Screenplay, Michael O'Loughlin, Van den Berg; screen story, Van den Berg.
Camera (color), Gabor Szabo; editor, Kant Pan; music, Bob Zimmerman; production design, Lorand Javor; art direction, Tibor Lazar; costume design, Linda Bogers; sound (Dolby SR), Mark Holding, Paul Caar; assistant director, Gabor Gajdos; casting, Joyce Nettles. Reviewed at Nederlands Film Festival (competing)/Holland Film Meeting, Utrecht, Sept. 28, 1997. Running time: 103 MIN. (English dialogue)
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Summer Stars: Dopapod
This past winter was brutal, dude," reflects Dopapod guitarist Rob Compa. "We flew into the Philadelphia airport in the middle of a blizzard, and I swear, the snowstorm didn't stop for three weeks. We drove all the way out to Colorado and back on a big, long tour and it was just white-knuckle driving the entire time. It scared the shit out of us."
Fortunately for Compa, and just about everyone else for that matter, the summer is now upon us. Yet, while the change in seasons may mean nicer weather and safer roads, it doesn't signify much of a difference in work patterns for the perennial touring machine that is Dopapod. The group, which first got started at the Berklee College of Music in 2007, has built a national following the way that any good jamband should—by relentlessly playing shows in as many places as possible.
"It's easier today, with the Internet, for bands to do that. Twenty years ago, it would have been unheard of for a band from New York to have people listening to them in California. Now, you can just record a demo in your living room, click a few buttons and people can listen to your music anywhere in the world," says Compa. "But that doesn't get a band recognized. You have to put in the work and tour, and some people aren't fortunate enough or don't want to work hard enough to do that. It takes a lot out of you, but we're in our 20s and we're just down to travel all over the country to play and get our name out."
The main thing that differentiates Dopapod's summer touring schedule from their work during the rest of the year is the prevalence of music festivals. Like many bands before them, Dopapod have learned how to capitalize on multi-day events, which provide artists with perfect opportunities to reach audiences that otherwise would have been left in the dark. Whether it's a midday chill out, a late-night rager or an old-fashioned headlining slot, the band always makes sure to gear their set to the crowd at hand. With a repertoire that includes elements of funk, jazz, metal, electronica, prog-rock and more, and a seemingly limitless ability to improvise within all of those styles, Dopapod have no trouble winning over new followers at fests of all shapes and sizes.
"Festivals are a different beast than playing club shows because the people at club shows are often already fans," notes Compa. "The sets are also shorter, so we don't even have as much time to stretch out and get weird. We play more straightforward versions of our songs, and that's good for people hearing us for the first time anyway."
Dopapod will roll through upward of 20 festivals this summer, undoubtedly turning on countless music aficionados to their eclectic sound at every stop. They've come a long way since 2007, and the future looks brighter as they continue to play an increasingly diverse array of events.
"One that we did last year that I'm really looking forward to doing again is The Peach Music Festival. The Allman Brothers are just awesome and Trey Anastasio is going to be there. I'm really excited for that—he's probably my favorite guitar player," adds Compa. "Seeing my band's name on the same poster as somebody like that—I used to get Fs on papers in high school because I would be off daydreaming about that kind of stuff."


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A warning to the Washington, D.C., photographer: don't dawdle. If you linger for more than five minutes to take a photograph in a public place, you could be arrested under an obscure D.C. regulation.
To be fair, this law and similar ones pertaining to photographers have been around for decades with little attention or enforcement. But they drew laughs -- and serious criticism -- last week when a Washington Post blog listed them as one of 160 minor infractions that, according to a Metropolitan Police Department policy manual, can be considered arrestable or citation-worthy offenses.
The misdemeanors uncovered by the blog range from the everyday, such as posting signs or ads on street lamps, to the bizarre, such as failure to check an eel trap. But the list garnered attention because one of the offenses, driving a vehicle that is unregistered or has an expired registration, stirred controversy when the Post reported in October that thousands in the District have been arrested in recent years for expired tags.
Although most professional and amateur photographers were not the intended target of these municipal regulations, which were originally crafted to regulate street-vendor type cameramen who take photos of tourists and sell them for a fee, some worry that there is still potential for abuse.
Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, said that although he has not heard of anyone being subjected to the regulation, the language of the laws is vague enough to pose a threat of enforcement to a non-hawker photographer. The possibility alone was enough to provoke him to write a letter to the city's attorney general asking the city to repeal and revise the laws, he said.
"I understand that might not have been their intent, but the thing that concerns me is that photographers lately have been interfered with without statutes on the book, they are charged with disorderly conduct or interfering with arrest, even when mostly taking pictures in public is not a crime," he said, adding that he would not be surprised, for example, to see police issuing tickets and arresting photographers for violating these regulations at an Occupy Wall Street-type demonstration.
"When you have a statute or regulation as vague as these, they are open to abuse and lack of discretion by law enforcement officers," he said.
And the language could be a source of confusion for some: the police manual only lists the offenses as "Photographer- More than 5 minutes at a location" and "Photographer violations."
The rules seem to refer to the more specific D.C. Municipal Regulations for vendors and solicitors, which state that "street photographers" and those who "engage in the business of taking photographs of any person or persons upon the streets, sidewalks or other public spaces of the District of Columbia, for profit or for gain" have to be registered. Furthermore, these photographers are not allowed to "impede traffic" and the law continues "nor shall any photographer remain longer than five (5) minutes in any one (1) location on… public places."
Osterreicher said that although many cities and organizations regulate commercial photography, they generally do so with narrower definitions and specific exemptions for the press. As the law stands now, he said, a journalist or freelancer making money for their photos could fit the definition of the regulations.
"Arbitrarily, for example, placing a five minute time limit on photographers is not tailored to satisfy a governmental objective," he said. "It is arbitrary and capricious and we have a problem with that as most courts would. The regulations as written are facially unconstitutional."
Helder Gil, a spokesperson for the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, said that only one or two street photographers are currently licensed and that it has been their policy to exempt journalists, bloggers, professional photographers who take pictures of buildings and scenery and wedding photographers.
Gil said he also is not aware of any enforcement taken against street photographers by his agency in recent memory, but that they are working to revise the entire chapter covering street vending regulations that he expects will be proposed by the end of the year.
Osterreicher said that he had only received a confirmation of receipt for the letter he sent asking for revisions from the D.C. attorney general, but that he hopes that his organization can work with the city to rework the definitions in the regulation.
However, he said, if the city stood by the current version, the NPPA would consider taking legal action to challenge them.
For now, said the Post's Mike DeBonis, photographers should not worry "so as long as you don't make a living hustling tourists for snapshots, you can snap away without keeping an eye on your watch."


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My Thoughts: You may remember a few months ago when I mentioned how excited I was for the upcoming release of This is 40. Well, I recently had the chance to watch it and I was not disappointed in the least. Because I LOVE Knocked Up, I pretty much knew I would enjoy this movie, especially considering it stars Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann, two of the funniest actors there are (in my opinion)!
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Learning to look. Looking to see.
Learning to look at animal tracks in the woods can teach us a lot. They can help us become more aware of our surroundings. They can help us recognize we're part of a larger community. They can help us see the world a little more clearly.
The trail along Turkey Flats on Glade Park is a wonderful place to rediscover the joy and importance of seeing as fully as we can "as a way of appreciating, respecting and learning more about the world in which we live."
As an Information/Education Specialist for the former Colorado Division of Wildlife in a previous life, I had the opportunity to work on and implement a thing called Project WILD. It was/is an interdisciplinary, supplementary education program for educators of kindergarten through high-school-age kids.
One activity in Project WILD was called "Learning to Look. Looking to see." The objectives of the activity were to allow students to describe differences seen in an environment as the result of casual and detailed observation, and give reasons for the importance of looking closely at any environment.
What's more, it allowed teachers to actually teach language arts, science, social studies and art. How? By using wildlife as a catalyst, those educators had the kids' attention. If you have that, you can teach 'em almost anything.
On Turkey Flats Trail No. 661 the other day, we saw lizard tracks, deer tracks and elk tracks. We saw a mountain lion track following some of those deer tracks, and a lone coyote track crossing the trail at numerous spots.
Plenty of bird droppings showed us there was lots of avian life around, even if we couldn't hear the song of a black-throated gray warbler or see the soaring golden eagle above.
We observed the tracks of chipmunks, squirrels and a grouse, probably a blue grouse, winding in and out of the pines at the highest points on this trail, at 8,878 feet in elevation.
We noticed all of our senses were more tuned, not just our sense of sight, as we listened to the wind blow through the trees and understood why the quaking, trembling aspen are called "quakies."
To reach the Turkey Flats trail head, take Grand Avenue over the Colorado River Bridge and turn left onto Monument Road. Travel through Colorado National Monument's east entrance. You don't have to pay the park fee if you're going to Glade Park.
Once you're through the tunnel and reach the top, you'll come to the Glade Park turnoff just past Cold Shivers Point. Turn left and go to the Glade Park Store, 14.5 miles from Fourth and Main. Turn left onto 16.5 Road. The pavement ends in another 2.6 miles, but stay on it.
This is a well-maintained dirt road, but watch your speed, as there are a few blind curves. Mud Springs Campground is 4.2 miles past the end of the pavement. In another 1.3 miles you'll come to a fork in the road. Take the right fork toward Fruita Divide. In 1.5 miles you'll enter Grand Mesa National Forest. Yes, this small section on Glade Park is managed by the Forest Service for your use and enjoyment.
Travel past Fruita Reservoir No. 1 and the Fruita picnic ground, then past Fruita Reservoir No. 2. About three-tenths of a mile past No. 2, you'll see the Turkey Flats Trail head on your left. Park on the right.
This trail is great in the winter (cross-country skiing and snowshoeing) and summer (hiking, bike riding, horseback adventures, fishing and wildlife watching). Spring brings mud and accessibility issues, and hunters enjoy it most during fall big-game hunting season. Hikers and mountain bikers usually find another spot at those times of year.
The Turkey Flats Trail begins with a small climb through a lush aspen forest. It then angles through a transition zone of aspen and spruce.
Within another half-mile, you'll top out at about 8,800 feet, and then meander down into a long, lovely park where the Turkey Flats Trail meets Haypress Trail No. 662. Go left, or northeast, and continue on Trail 661 through another beautiful grove of aspen. In about three-quarters of a mile, you'll have to climb again. In another half mile, you'll come to a junction with a trail that has no sign. Continue forward and to the left on the most-used trail here, and eventually you'll find yourself on the dirt road that leads to Fruita Reservoir No. 1 (to the right) and the Fruita Picnic Grounds (to your left), which you passed on your drive to the trail head.
Turn left and follow the road back to the trail head. Yes, it's a couple miles down the dirt road, but it will allow you to actually see what you passed on your way in.
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The Foyt name has been synonymous with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the past 50 years. The first four-time winner of the '500', Anthony Joseph (A.J.) Foyt always said that the Indianapolis 500, "made A.J. Foyt." Larry Joseph Foyt, three...
The Foyt name has been synonymous with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the past 50 years. The first four-time winner of the '500', Anthony Joseph (A.J.) Foyt always said that the Indianapolis 500, "made A.J. Foyt." Larry Joseph Foyt, three time starter in the Memorial Day Weekend classic and son of A.J. Foyt Jr, is back at the Brickyard with his father. His goal this time: to continue making the Foyt name synonymous with The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.
Larry Foyt has never missed an Indianapolis 500 race in 32 years. That is every year since he has been alive. Of course it helped being the son of the driver with the most consecutive starts in the '500'. A.J. Foyt Jr. had a record 35 (1958-1992) consecutive starts in the Indianapolis 500, most while Larry was growing up back in Texas.
This Texas bachelor, born in Houston, and a graduate of Texas Christian University, has the daunting task of bringing A.J. Foyt Enterprises back to being a top tier Indy Car team. Although not driving in the IRL or NASCAR anymore, he still has the drive and desire to compete at the Indy Car level.
Foyt's title since 2007 is "Team Director" over the ABC Supply/Foyt Enterprises #14 car operation during the 17 race Indy Racing League season.
"I just miss driving a race car," stated Foyt in the first garage in Gasoline Alley at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Foyt Enterprises have occupied the first set of garages at the Brickyard ever since the new modern garage area was built in 1986.
"It was always great for me to show up at a racetrack. I love some of the days in the morning when no one is there and you get in the race car and know you are just going to go fast."
"It is nine o'clock in the morning and you are going 200 miles per hour. There are not a lot of people that get to do that and I always enjoyed all the aspects of competing, but I just enjoyed driving a racecar. Who doesn't want to drive fast?" Foyt said recalling his days as a driver at the historical racetrack that is celebrating its Centennial Era.
Larry Foyt raced three times in the Indianapolis 500 and never got the finish he wanted. He finished 32nd after an accident on lap 54 in 2004, 33rd in 2005 due to an accident on lap 14, and 30th in 2006 due to handling problems after lap 43.
As the Foyt crew worked on the famous #14 car in the garage the day before pole qualifying for the 2009 Indianapolis 500, Foyt recalled his early career in racing. When he was younger, driving was a lot of fun and he was having success. It was however, "a fight" because his father A. J. didn't want him driving. In general, he misses the competition of driving, but he also stated that he gets competition on, "this side of the game also."
On a weekly basis A.J. Foyt Enterprises competes with the world's greatest racing teams such as Team Penske, Chip Ganassi Racing and Andretti-Green Racing.
"When I was growing up A.J., was still racing and he was very busy with his own racing and he never wanted us to race. My older brother Jerry wanted to race but A.J. was just closed off to that. He grew up in a different era and it wasn't as safe as it is now. A.J. just wanted something different for us. His main thing was that I went to college. That was the biggest thing for him."
Foyt beamed with pride on how great it was to have A.J. Foyt as your father. "I was always as a kid really proud of A.J. I was always bragging on him in school, taking trophies to show and tell. I was always really proud of him." Foyt, who if he weren't racing, would like to be a film director. He thinks the story of A.J. Foyt Jr. would be an excellent movie.
Larry Foyt received a B.A. in Communications from Texas Christian University in May 2000. His brother Jerry now runs a car dealership in Houston. In his younger days, Jerry ran A.J. Foyt's dealerships in the Houston area and he would sneak off and do some racing on the side.
"A.J. always said if you get your college degree I'll help you and he lived up to his word. I graduated and it was two weeks later he put me in an Indy car at Texas. That was the first time I drove an Indy car. I had driven some Formula Fords and stuff and that was a big step at the time" recalled Foyt of his early driving years.
"The (Indy car) series had just had the split between the IRL and CART and A.J. felt like 'Well look, we don't know what's going to happen in open wheel racing. You need to race stock cars' he said. I just packed up a Suburban and drove to Charlotte, North Carolina. I moved to Charlotte right then after I graduated from college and started racing ASA."
Larry eventually moved up through the ranks and ran in what was the Craftsman Truck Series, the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series and NASCAR Winston Cup Series. In 2003 he started 20 NASCAR Cup races and finished 16th in the final race of the year at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. He earned just over a million dollars in 67 starts in now what is the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
In 2006 A.J. Foyt asked Larry to come back to Texas and run the Foyt operation in Hockley. "There are a lot of guys who have been in place a long time at our company. When A.J. asked me to come move back from Charlotte and get started in this role, it was a tough decision for me to make, but one of the things I told him was 'Dad if we do this, I want to do this right. I don't want to come down there and just work there and everything keep going the way it's going.'"
"Obviously we haven't had the competitiveness in our race team in a while that we needed to have and I had already suffered through it on the NASCAR side. It was just really tough those years down there in Charlotte," Foyt said recalling his NASCAR days.
"It was horrible, to be honest, and it killed my driving career, and I said, 'Look, if I come there I don't want us to do it that way,' and obviously you have to have the right funding and what has been great is that we have gotten into a situation with ABC Supply where now we at least have had funding for a few years. That's really enabled us to step up. I think we have made huge gains on catching the rest of the field."
When asked if it bothers the elder Foyt that his grandson, A.J. Foyt IV, who is known as Anthony, races Indy cars, Larry added, "I like to think that I helped loosen A.J. up to the idea of Anthony racing. Jerry was the one who first got Anthony into a junior dragster."
"I think A.J. did have a little fun with it when I was driving, but I still see it even now when Anthony drives for us, definitely A.J. is a little more conservative maybe with him. He does fear and it would kill him if Anthony or anyone gets hurt in his race cars."
A.J. Foyt Jr. was injured in what was the CART series in 1990. The brakes failed on his Indy car at Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. The car sailed off the mile-long straight at nearly 190 miles per hour, flew over a sand trap, and landed in a dirt embankment. The impact shattered A.J.'s legs. Larry was just a freshman in high school back in Texas at the time.
"I remember we were waiting for the race to come on in Houston. It was tape delayed. My mom and I were sitting there and the phone rang and my mom was immediately upset and was throwing clothes in a bag and getting ready to head for the airport. It was pretty scary."
A.J. Foyt IV is driving the ABC Supply #41 in the 93rd running of the Indianapolis 500. He is engaged to Casey Irsay, daughter of Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts. Larry and Anthony were both guest of the Irsay family at last year's Super Bowl.
It has been noted that on the pit lane and in the garage area that Anthony Foyt has exchanged his burnt orange University of Texas hat for a blue Indianapolis Colts ball hat.
"The Super Bowl was great. I am really happy Anthony is getting married in July. Casey is a great girl and it has been awesome to get to know her family as well. I'm excited and she has been good for him. I think she has helped him get focused as well. He is more focused that I have ever seen him in racing so I think that is really good too."
On getting married, Larry has a steady girlfriend now, but he is letting Anthony get through his wedding first. Larry will be the best man at Anthony's wedding this summer in California.
Rooting for the Colts and living in Houston, home of the Houston Texans, can be a bit difficult for any one from the Lone Star State. Foyt laughed and said, "It has been fun. I guess I am getting old. I have been nursing an injury for a while and I couldn't even play golf the other day. Casey arranged for me to see a Colts trainer. They were really nice and I am hopeful that it is a merger of two great organizations and maybe we can all keep winning together."
Larry commented on the differences between NASCAR and the IRL for rookies and veterans alike. "There is a friendliness level between teams here that you don't always have in NASCAR, but the NASCAR veterans are always super helpful when you're a young driver over there."
"I remember guys like Mark Martin always willing to help you out. I remember one day I asked him to run me around in the pace car and he said 'no problem' because most of those places I had never been to. I think the same is over here. All racing is dangerous and when you get into these cars, especially in a place like this, the danger takes a little bit more of a step upwards so I think guys are very willing to help you out."
When asked about his ultimate goal for Foyt Racing, Foyt wasted no time in responding. "I want this organization to get back where it deserves to be and what made the Foyt name and that was winning. My dad definitely still has the fire. He is very competitive, he still wants to win."
"He (A.J.) has been miserable the past few years here with the struggles and it has just been a work in progress. I think we are really at a point where we have got a great group of guys."
"I think our crew is as good as anybody out there now and it has taken us a couple of years to sit back and say 'Hey, let's work with this,' because dad in Texas has always had guys who were not just Indy car mechanics. We have had guys who have come out of different fields into Indy car racing but they have really all worked hard to step up."
"We felt like this year with Vitor Meira coming on board and ABC Supply still backing us, we would have success. We really have been disappointed in the results at the beginning of this year. Obviously you feel like 'we have done all this work and we want that instant gratification', but this league has also gotten tougher. We all didn't know how tough some of the CART teams coming over were going to be."
"As you can see from the list of entries these teams are good. I am very surprised at the level of competition this year because everyone is talking about the economy. People said there is not going to be enough cars. We've got more cars here than we have had in years. The competition is tougher than it has been in years."
Meira, driver of the ABC Supply #14, was on a local Indianapolis talk show before the 1st day of qualifying for the 2009 Indianapolis 500. Meira stated that he wanted to be just like A.J. when he gets into his 70s. Foyt added that, "Vitor is a professional race driver. What I mean is, he works at it; he thinks about it all the time. The guy will call me early in the morning or 8:00 at night, and he is thinking something about racing. I just like that, the guy is always thinking about racing."
"He has shown he is very talented. He has been on the verge of winning so many times. I knew he was going to give 110% all the time and he really wants to do it, and he wants to win and like I say, he loves racing and thinks about it all the time."
Talking about long-term goals for Larry Foyt and A.J. Foyt Enterprises is easy for soft spoken Texan. "Five years from now I would love for them to say, 'You have to beat the big four, Team Penske, Team Ganassi, Andretti Green and Foyt Racing.' To be listed up there again with the front-runners would be the goal."
He has the same goal for the future. Foyt wants to be consistently up front again. "Every week to unload and know we have a chance to win the race."
A.J. Foyt Jr. turned 74 in January of 2009. When asked if Larry sees himself still on the pit lane at that age, he just laughs and states, "Who knows? There might be robots doing the whole deal by then. I hope I am around to see what racing is. I hope we don't lose what racing is now. I feel we are getting away a little bit away of what the purpose of the IRL was, but I hope we don't get too far from that.
Foyt was not against the road courses on the series but cautioned, "I like the road courses, I think there is a place for them. I like the diversity they bring, but if we get to the point where there are a lot more road courses than ovals, well I like the balance now."
On what type ovals Foyt prefers, "Some big ovals, some short ovals. On this side of it, you can argue that it is tough when you crash a car on an oval. Generally it is a lot more expensive so as you are on the team side now and you start thinking about expenses more than just pure racing, it is something that enters your mind," referring to the amount of damage suffered on an oval verses a road course when the car has an accident.
"At the same time, I think it brings up a general problem, right now all these cars in general are just too expensive. So I think if we can find a way to bring cost down completely across the board we can race on ovals and road courses."
If Larry Foyt had a magic wand and could reduce cost in racing the one thing he would do is reduce the cost of engines.
"I think what the IRL is trying to do is a step in the right direction in limiting a lot of things which has helped. I mean, limiting the wheelbase, things of that nature is good. I think right now, engines are way too expensive. Engine lease programs are tough, but I understand Honda's point when they designed this engine. They were competing against Toyota and Chevrolet."
"They (Honda) made an expensive engine and it has been hard for them to trim cost. I think when we come out with a new engine package, and as well as a new car package, that it will be a little less expensive. Just across the board I don't think there is just one thing. What the IRL is doing to the rules is a step in the right direction."
On the future of A.J. Foyt Enterprises Larry reflects on the life and legacy of A.J. Foyt Jr. "It is very tough. A.J. always laughs that he is retiring next year and I tell him you can't because obviously his knowledge about everything far surpasses what I'll probably learn in my whole lifetime. Even with engineers and all that, we draw on him quite often, literally all the time."
Foyt tells the story of an engineer with the team who is very smart and who is perplexed on how A.J. operates. "Every time A.J. throws something off the cuff, we call it shooting from the hip, we will laugh because he throws these changes out on the car. He (A.J.) throws these math numbers that the engineers are tying to calculate on the computer and A.J. almost hits it dead on every time."
On the second day of qualifying for this year's 93rd Indianapolis 500, the Foyt Team was lacking in speed. Once again A.J. made big changes to the set- ups and the ABC Supply #14 picked up three miles an hour.
"The engineer just laughs and says, 'I don't know how he does that, it is just amazing.' From that aspect, we use him all the time. My goal has been to keep getting people here to surround ourselves with people who a lot smarter than me."
Larry Foyt now has the task of securing the future of A.J. Foyt Enterprises. As far as being the team manager, he likes the personnel he has on board. "I think that is what a lot of great managers and people have done. If you can get the best people around you and really have that strength of that group."
On being a Foyt, and living up to the Foyt name and the responsibility that goes with it in racing Indy cars, "As far as being the legacy of Foyt racing, it is a bit, I don't want to say daunting, but it is scary on the fact that the things we have we wouldn't have without the legend of A.J. Foyt."
ABC Supply, the primary sponsor of A.J. Foyt Enterprises lost the company's founder, Ken Hendricks, when he died a few months ago. "I know we haven't given them the results we've wanted", added Foyt, "but our company and their company are similar. Ken Hendricks was a self-made man who built this company the same as A.J. Foyt did."
"Our two companies together have meshed well. We are two family companies. I've been working hard to try to get results because, hopefully it is a long time in the future, there will be a day come when A.J. is not with us."
"It scares me. Us not having him is going to really hurt us if we don't have the results to sell sponsorships because at the end of the day that is what it is. We can't race without sponsors. Having him around has been just huge on us keeping the sponsors we have and I hope he is with us a long time, I think he will be."
"He has been a lot of fun and our relationship has come a long way since I have been down here working with him."
If Larry Foyt succeeds in bringing A.J. Foyt Enterprises back to the "Big 4," there will be no doubt that the Foyt name at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway will be around for another half century.


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RIP house DJ Martin Dawson, aka King Roc, who died of a brain aneurysm. [Spinner]
Madonna's doing 'Gangham Style' now. What took her so long? [Death + Taxes]
All supergroups are super, but these 10 are the most super of all. [Ultimate Classic Rock]