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Steamboat to host freestyle skiing U.S. Olympic team trials December 30-31
Steamboat to host freestyle skiing U.S. Olympic team trials December 30-31{mosimage}The U.S. Ski Team and the U.S. Olympic Committee have named Steamboat, CO, as the site of the 2006 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for freestyle skiing Dec. 30-31. The Olympic Team Trials will select wild-card spots for the U.S. Olympic Freestyle Ski Team and will be televised same-day on NBC.
"We're going to Torino to be best in the world," said Bill Marolt, president and CEO of the U.S. Ski Team, regarding the first Olympic Team Trials partnership for the U.S. Ski Team and USOC. "This is the first step for athletes on what could be one of our strongest teams ever at the Olympics in February."
The U.S. Olympic Team Trials will feature all of the top U.S. freestyle ski athletes vying for wild-card spots on the 2006 Olympic Team. The winners of the men's and women's moguls and aerials competitions will earn spots on the 2006 Olympic Team. The full team will be named Jan. 25 for the Winter Games, which will be held Feb. 10-26 in Torino, Italy.
'The USOC is very excited to partner with the U.S. Ski Team on what will be a terrific competition for the athletes and fans' said USOC Chief Executive Officer Jim Scherr. 'The U.S. Ski Team is coming off a great season, during which its athletes achieved extraordinary success in World Cup competitions. These Olympic Trials will continue the positive momentum created over the past year and will serve as a preview of what to expect from Team USA in Torino. We're particularly pleased this event will be televised to millions of Olympic fans through our broadcast partner NBC.'
The Olympic Trials will open under the lights Dec. 30 with aerials competition at historic Howelsen Hill in downtown Steamboat Springs. Action shifts to the Steamboat Ski Area on Dec. 31 for moguls competition on Steamboat's Voo Doo trail.
"The U.S. Olympic Team Trials will be a tremendous showcase for our Team with same-day national TV coverage from Steamboat on NBC," said Ted Morris, vice president of marketing and sales for the U.S. Ski Team. "Freestyle skiing is always one of our strongest spectator events and highest rated on television. We're happy to partner with the U.S. Olympic Committee, NBC and Steamboat on what will be an incredible event."
Members of the U.S. Freestyle Ski Team are consistently ranked as the top competitors in the world. Last season, moguls skier Jeremy Bloom (Loveland, CO) collected two World Cup globes for his performance as the top-ranked moguls skier and overall freestyle skier on the World Cup circuit. Meanwhile, U.S. teammate Jeret 'Speedy' Peterson (Boise, ID) captured his own globe for winning the World Cup aerials title. Also last season, five U.S. men's moguls skiers finished in the top seven in last year's FIS World Cup standings.
Among the top competitors scheduled to appear at Steamboat are Bloom and Peterson, along with 2005 World champions Nate Roberts (Park City, UT; moguls), Hannah Kearney (Norwich, VT; moguls) and Toby Dawson (Vail, CO; dual moguls).
While this is the first official Olympic Team Trials event for the U.S. Ski Team, a similar wild-card format has been used in the past for the Team's Gold Cup. In 2002 that process launched Steamboat's own dark horse Travis Mayer onto the Team and on his way to an Olympic silver medal in moguls.
'Freestyle is clearly one of the hottest sports in all of skiing, consistently generating some of the highest television viewership ratings in the sport' said Andy Wirth, vice president of marketing & sales for Steamboat. 'Freestyle skiing has always been and remains a huge part of Steamboat's claim to Ski Town USA®, and we are excited to be hosting the U.S. Ski Team Olympic Trials.'
'The Steamboat Springs community has a strong skiing spirit and established Olympic heritage' added Marolt, a 1964 Olympic alpine skier. 'It allows us to give back to a community that has supported the Team for so long and to provide some exciting ski competition for athletes vying for the 2006 Olympic Team.'
The remaining spots on the 14-person 2006 U.S. Olympic Freestyle Ski Team will be selected primarily from World Cup events, including events Jan. 13-14 in Deer Valley, UT, and Jan. 20-22 in Lake Placid, NY. The final full team will be named Jan. 25. Team selection in all other ski sports will be named primarily from World Cup competitions. The U.S. Olympic Snowboard Team will be named from a combination of World Cup events and the three-stop Chevrolet U.S. Snowboard Grand Prix.

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Category archive: Kentucky Wildcats
How the Tide roll
For our introductory column here at "The File," we're following the money in the BCS. So when we saw President Obama welcoming the BCS champs of Alabama to the White House in March, it made us wonder: How much does the ultimate photo op cost? Here's how that $97,327 total breaks down:
$79,314: A chartered plane from Tuscaloosa and back again
$3,500: Four buses to transport the team to and from the airport
$6,000: Four more private buses to tour the team around D.C.
$1,671.30: Bill from Metropolitan Police Department, Homeland Security Special Ops, for crowd control
$3,512: Breakfast, Classic Fare Catering
$3,329.95: Lunch tab from Chick-fil-A
As for the president's description of Nick Saban: "There aren't too many coaches in the country who have the knowledge, the motivational skills, the program discipline to win two national championships in six years."
When Tim Tebow sneezes ...
Last September, Tim Tebow was laid low by a flu-like bug that ripped through Florida's roster. Did that mean he was sidelined? Nope. To keep the QB in the lineup against Kentucky -- and avoid having him infect the rest of the team -- the Gators paid almost $10,000 for a private plane to get Tebow to Lexington, according to documents provided by the Florida Athletic Department. Although school officials blacked out Tebow's name on this official flight itinerary, his stats were bold-faced news: 123 yards rushing, 103 yards passing and three TDs in a 41-7 win. Florida clearly figured it was worth an extra $42.50 a yard to have Tebow in the lineup. Heisman voters, not so much.
Mascot makeover
He works every Michigan State home game, stars in "SportsCenter" commercials and twice has been named Muscle & Fitness magazine's "buffest mascot." That's a lot of wear and tear on Sparty, as we found when we sent a public records request to Michigan State asking for the cost of a mascot makeover. (We're pretty sure it's the first one like that MSU has received, as evidenced by the assistant who kept saying, "What do you want again?") If you've ever paid $2,650 for a pair of leather boots, you know what it's like to dress for a capacity crowd of 75,005.
Big Ten chief no fan of the press
While the game of musical chairs called BSC realignment was in full swing this summer, Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany was hunkered down in his office, trying to keep a wall of silence around the negotiations.
This March 3 e-mail from Delany to his conference athletic directors -- obtained through a freedom of information request to a Big Ten school -- shows that Delany was just thrilled that Ohio State president Gordon Gee and Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez refused to talk to a Chicago Tribune reporter doing a story on the expansion.
"Fyi -- I appreciate Gordon and Barry being unavailable for this story per my request as we move our process forward," he writes. "I made myself unavailable also and it had the consequence of making me a focus of the story. To reiterate as a collective we have no conference stake in contributing either on or off the record or via background on these stories."
Delany goes on to suggest that talking to the press, among other things, is "an affront to those who are practicing discipline by refraining from commenting [and] inconsistent w [sic] the protocols of collegiality and trust which are the foundational elements of moving big and meaningful issues thru a governance system such as our own."
To see more bad grammar, and the five reasons Delany doesn't like the press, you can read the full text of his e-mail here.
Well equipped
Think your office feels like an equipment locker? Take a look at what it takes to outfit a real one. We asked Texas to tell us what's in its spring locker stockpile and got back a 28-page response listing everything from visors (181) to practice jerseys (197) for 111 players and 14 coaches. The Longhorns did such a painstaking job, we didn't have the heart to ask for the number of mismatched socks.
Public information research by Dale Brauner, with assistance by Benjamin Arledge.


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- Nexus is a brandname for a tablet computer belonging to which corporation?
- The French word 'peloton' usually refers to a bunched group of competitors in what sport?
- As at 2012 Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan, a hot spring hotel in Hayakawa, Yamanashi, Japan, is officially regarded as being what world-record-holding business: Highest above sea-level; Lowest below sea-level; Oldest; or Most energy-efficient?
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Woody Allen, one of the funniest and most influential directors of the last century, discusses his movies, sense of humor and work ethic in the documentary "Woody Allen: A Life in Film" (7 p.m., today, Turner Classic Movies).
The normally reclusive Allen opens up for a 90-minute, clip-rich interview, conducted by filmmaker and film critic Richard Schickel. As you might expect, the documentary begins with Allen's "early, funny" comedies. Allen describes "Take the Money and Run" and "Bananas" as highly structured pieces, designed to present one gag after another. While many critics have discussed his many influences, which include Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Frederico Fellini and Ingmar Bergman, Allen admits to blatant imitation of Bob Hope. Accompanied by clips from "Sleeper" and "Love and Death," Allen explains how he shamelessly stole Hope's timing, material and style.
Viewers looking for insight into Allen's scandalous love life will not find it here. But the acerbic Allen is quite frank about the doomed view of relationships that he presents in films including "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan," as well as his dark take on a Godless universe, as explored in "Crimes and Misdemeanors."
In addition to "A Life in Film," Turner Classic Movies will present 18 Woody Allen films throughout the month on Saturday nights. "Annie Hall" (8:30 p.m.), "Manhattan" (12 a.m.) and "Stardust Memories" (2 a.m.) will air this evening.
Come on in, the water's fine! Sir David Attenborough narrates the spectacular and captivating four-hour special "Blue Planet: Seas of Life" (6 p.m., Discovery). Almost every moment of this film features scenes of jaw-dropping beauty.
The four-part "Blue Planet" series includes "Seasonal Seas" (6 p.m.), "Coral Seas" (7 p.m.), "Tidal Seas" (8 p.m.), and "Coasts" (9 p.m.). The first four installments of "Blue Planet," which aired in January, can be seen on Discovery, beginning at 2 p.m.
A young filmmaker, inspired by her parent's decision to put vinyl siding on their Long Island, N.Y., home, examines the side-effects of plastic manufacturing in the probing, if often smug, first-person documentary "Blue Vinyl" (9 p.m., HBO).
Tonight's highlights
Jocks have moms, too. Athletes, including Shaquille O'Neal, Mia Hamm and Drew Bledsoe, discuss their relationship with their mothers in the documentary "Apple Pie" (11 a.m., ESPN).
A boy who sees dead people (Haley Joel Osment) copes with the help of a therapist (Bruce Willis) who has problems of his own, in the clever 1999 thriller "The Sixth Sense" (7 p.m., ABC).
Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones star in the empty 1997 summer blockbuster "Men in Black" (8 p.m., NBC).
"America's Most Wanted" (8 p.m., Fox) anticipates its 700th captured criminal.
William Shatner appears on the chat show "So Graham Norton" (10 p.m., BBC America).
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Prior to the new Honda CR-V's European launch next month, we've found some attractive deals on the current model, which offers a great combination of driving enjoyment and practicality.
The Honda CR-V is a family-friendly 4×4, although it's more at home on tarmac than having off-road adventures. The spacious cabin and excellent driving position make it easy for drivers of all sizes to get comfortable, and the cavernous boot is well suited to family life. That said, the poor rear visibility and large turning circle can make parking awkward.
With a reliability score of 96.8%, the CR-V was rated as one of the most reliable 4x4s in the latest Which? Car Survey – second only to the Skoda Yeti. It also received a good 88% score for overall owner satisfaction.
£4,500 off Honda CR-V diesel
The current CR-V comes in two 150bhp engine choices: a 2.2 diesel or a 2.0 petrol. The more fuel-efficient diesel isn't as frugal as some rivals, but the SE+ T spec is the most fuel-efficient in the range. In our realistic lab testing it recorded 39.8mpg – slightly shy of the 43.5mpg claim. It is also one of the fastest models in the range by going 0-62mph in 9.6 seconds.
Discounted New Cars is offering the Honda CR-V 2.2 i-DTEC SE+ T for £21,868 – that's £4,527 less than the list price of £26,395.
The Diesel SE+ T comes with sat nav and Bluetooth as standard. But if you want all the toys, including a panoramic glass roof, subwoofer and rear view parking camera, then Discounted New Cars also has discounts on the top of the range EX spec. You can get £5,378 off the 2.2 i-DTEC EX's list price of £30,095 – so you can be on the road for £24,717.
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Tipping – It's Out Of Control And Needs To Be Reigned In
I ran across a story in the news earlier this week about Starbucks and its new mobile payment app. The story was about how the company can "nudge" customers who pay through their app to remember to tip their barista. It can actually "gently remind you" for up to two hours after the purchase was made.
Some customers say they're happy to leave tips, while others argue they fork over enough money and shouldn't be asked to pay more. The fact that the app "gently reminds" customers to tip is neither here nor there. My question is, "When did it become a given that we need to tip for, what seems to be, EVERYTHING?"
I realize the restaurant industry has run on the tip model for years (which I think is extremely unfair and needs to be changed), but I don't understand how establishments can get away with paying their employees under minimum wage and expect tips to make up the difference.
Thankfully, there are a handful of states where this isn't the case, Minnesota being one of them. There, all food establishments are required by law to pay their employees at least minimum wage, regardless of whether they receive tips or not.
But I've noticed here recently it's gotten to the point where anyone and everyone thinks they deserve a tip. Even when you get poor service, a tip is still expected. Really?!? But service sucked!
Did you know in some parts of the country you can actually be arrested for not leaving a tip?
Case in point – a man by the name of Humberto A. Taveras was arrested for not leaving an 18% tip after dining at a restaurant in New York City. Instead of tipping 18%, he left 10%, stating that his group didn't think the food was very good, so he didn't feel like he needed to leave a large tip.
This 8% discrepancy resulted in the owners of the restaurant actually calling the police and having Taveras arrested and charged with "theft of service". The case was eventually thrown out of court because the judge ruled tips can never truly be mandatory, regardless of posted signs in a restaurant or restaurant policy.
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't the original intent of giving someone a tip to acknowledge that that person went over and above what was expected? This having to tip someone just for pouring me a cup of coffee is, in my opinion, ridiculous.
As I eluded to before, I would like to see businesses pay their employees a decent wage where they wouldn't need to be dependent on tips. That way, if someone goes out of their way to make me feel special when I'm dining at their establishment, I can decide for myself whether to leave a tip – and how much!
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Oliver production notes
First off, I made a necessary correction in the in-season projection of fielding runs. Quite simply, the previous code was not correctly designed and was giving an incorrectly weighted sum of the past four seasons.
The intention was to apply the same weighting system that is used for the in-season batting and pitching projections, but the complication is that each season's fielding runs is a sum of several skills which are calculated independently, and each player can play several different positions each season.
With batters and pitchers, it's easy to just look at the projection and know if it's out of line with the seasonal major league equivalencies used to generate the projection, but not so with the defense. The weighting formula has been corrected, but I also calculated the regressed "true talent" fielding runs per 162 games for each player at each position. The fielding runs projection is then a weighted mean of the positions the players has played this season.
For major league players, this will soon use the THT team depth charts as input for expected playing time at each position. For example, Steve Pearce of the Pirates is +5/162 at first base, -1/162 at third, but -16/162 in right field. If Pearce is expected to play 20 games at first, 10 games at third and five games in right the rest of the season, his fielding runs projection would be (5*20-1*10-16*5)/162 = +10/162 = +0.1 runs. If Pearce is expected to spend 100 percent of his time at first, then it would be (5*35)/162 = +175/162 = +1.1 runs.
The second major item is the new version of Baseball on a Stick (BBOS), a Python language application developed by Kyle Willkomm (available at SourceForge) that I use to collect the Gameday data that is a major portion of the Oliver projections. Some of the upgrades are bookkeeping in nature, but are important to maintaining the integrity and completeness of the database. I am now able to check the final game status in order to detect suspended games (which will continue to be downloaded until finalized) and games that were downloaded while in progress (which will be deleted and downloaded again the next time).
Another important data addition is the explicit tracking of base runner advancement, which will allow me to rate players on their base running as well as outfielders on their throwing.
Japanese stats are now "live" in that in a manner similar to BBOS, new scripts I have written allow me to load on demand standings, rosters, batting and pitching from the NPB website. Soon I'll also be able to access box scores, which contain additional information not available on their batting and pitching pages.
I also recently improved my database code, which incrementally updates the tables that Oliver uses as input. The three major steps are to first download data from the web, second rearrange that data into efficient formats and compile situational stats, then finally conduct the analysis that results in Oliver.
In that second step, with seven seasons and more than 100,000 games, building many of these tables (games, hits, pitches, events, batting/pitching by park, batting/pitching vs. hand, etc) from scratch takes too long, but it can be a tricky process to efficiently and accurately load new data into these tables. I also needed to be able to delete, download again and accurately update games in which MLB announced scoring changes. The greatly improved stability of this step will allow more of the process to be automated (I won't have to sit here and watch for errors) and that might allow us to in the future update the website more often than weekly.
I and other members of the THT staff involved with the Forecasts are starting discussions on how to improve the product for next year (which will arrive by Christmas). Improvements to the player cards and expanded downloadable stats are being considered. High on my list of suggestions are an expansion of each player's status, assignment and biographical data as well as detailed defensive stats. Any of your suggestions (or complaints) can be sent to Greg Tamer (
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I would like to take opportunity to thank those who have helped me with software development over the past couple years. I've mentioned Kyle Willkomm, developer of BBOS, with assistance from Russell Goldstein, who've put up with my many feature requests for more than two years. Now I know quite a bit of MySQL database programming, but fellow BBOS user Colin Wyers offered valuable assistance when I was a newbie. I'm fairly good at the basics of the Excel spreadsheet, but Richard Bergstrom has been very kind to offer his help coding macros which allow automating the process of having Excel download data from web pages. And I've slowly been learning how to code in Python, having written from scratch the scripts that get the Japanese stats, but I greatly appreciate the assistance and patience with me of Wells Oliver, now developer of Baseball Systems for the Padres, whose set of py_mlb I use to get rosters, transactions and player biographical information from mlb.com.
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Thus closes my notes for the month of December and also for the year just passed and gone and now numbered with the things that were. Whether the Almighty will spare me to chronicle the daily events of the incoming year is more than I know but trusting in Him I shall enter upon the pleasing task, which is useful as a reference and may be profitable to those who have an interest in me.
To day I am engaged in glazing and glazed 33 lights. In the evening I had to attend the store as salesman, Charley Lund having other fish to fry. weather cloudy and rainy.
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December 23, 1936 - March 13, 2004
George R. Petersen, of Bellevue, died on March 13, 2004 in Seattle. He was 67.
Mr. Petersen was born on December 23, 1936 in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, the son of Stanley and Sylvia Petersen. He was raised in Wyoming and graduated from Davis High School in Ogden, Utah. In 1964, he married Marilyn Newton in Salt Lake City. He was a specialty self employed contractor in residential and commercial construction. He also worked for Boeing as a machinist for 12 years. In his leisure time he enjoyed reading and spending time on his computer. He moved to Bellevue 1983.
Survivors include son Sean Petersen of Puyallup.
At his request no services will be held.
Friends are invited to share memories and sign the family's online guestbook at www.flintofts.com
Arrangements are by Flintofts Issaquah Funeral Home


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The information on this site is about the extended family of:
Myer Samuel Isaacs and Rebecca Samuels, who emigrated from Holland to London, England in 1814 and
Solomon Salant, who emigrated from Courland, Russia to New York City in 1878, to be followed a few years later by his wife Dora Geffen.Isaacs-Salant Family Tree Web site, courtesy of John Isaacs of Washington, DC. Contact John for more information.
What's New:
Much expanded: click on name to find link to family tree (September 2011)
Write up of Isaacs family reunion (July 2010)
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Over 55 New Zealand relatives. (February 2005, updated February 2010)
About 60 relatives, many living in South Africa. (August 2005, updated September 2011)
Write up of Isaacs family reunion (July 2005)
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In an encore performance from last year, we will once again screen the 1947 holiday classic "It's a Wonderful Life" with James Stewart, Donna Reed, and Lionel Barrymore and directed by Frank Capra. It is 130 minutes long and will be shown on Blu Ray in English with Spanish subtitles.
Before the movie there will be caroling, including an audience sing-a-long, as well as a special introduction by Mary Owen, the daughter of actress Donna Reed.
And if you get all gussied up in a tux or gown, you get in for free. Happy holidays!
The plot, as described by Amazon, is: "George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born."
Don't forget to make arrangements for dinner before or after the show!
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Discussing parents' perspectives on school safety after the Sandy Hook tragedy
'Street-Level Conversations' is a discussion-based civic-engagement project in Northwest Philly. It combines facts and personal stories dealing with the issues most pertinent in our communities and seeks to inspire solutions. SLC aims to empower every member of the community to believe in the validity of their voice and the vital role they play in sharing it.
The idea that "every student deserves the opportunity to reach his/her full academic potential in a safe, productive classroom," as stated on the School District of Philadelphia's (PSD) website, reflects the goal of schools throughout the nation.
On Monday, the first day back to school since 20 children and six educators were slaughtered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct., SLC asked Northwest Philadelphia parents their perspective on the current state of school-safety efforts here.
More security needed
At most schools, visitors must ring a bell and identify themselves as they are viewed via surveillance cameras.
However, some parents say that buzz-in, sign-in practice is not enough. That includes Angela Guiton of Germantown who wants more security in schools since she thinks anyone can gain entry if they want to.
"The school ... pretty much has good safety, but I'm still worried," said Guiton.
Many schools have security protocols in place like metal detectors, lockdown drills and security personnel.
Brian Lugget, of West Philadelphia, said his child's school does offer a safe learning environment for students, especially because of the school's security officer.
"My daughter is around the corner right now, they've got an armed guard at the desk," he said. "I think she's safe right now."
Like Guiton, Marian Cromer of Roxborough would like to see increased security. She proposed parents volunteer their time to monitor the schools.
Newtown on their minds
Debbie Lipshutz of Germantown said her daughter's school asked students to wear blue Monday in honor of the victims.
"There's a certain awareness of children being hurt that affected her," said Lipshutz, noting that the tragedy speaks to the need for accessible mental-health services.
She said she hopes to hear more discussion about getting help for people with mental illnesses.
Richard Hartwell, of East Falls, noted that he doesn't think increased gun laws will necessarily prevent future tragedies.
"We already have a lot on the books, but they're not being enforced," he said. "We're always going to have people doing this. That's the price that we pay for living in an open society."
A look inside: What is the state of safety in the PSD?
There is still much concern that school districts don't have the resources to improve security.
With the PSD facing a financial hole and the recent announcement to close 37 schools, is there room to heighten security?
Some schools currently have trained police officers on staff. "Supplemental school security and support" is also available for schools with "high rates of violent incidents."
Overall, the "School Police Support Services Unit" is "responsible for monitoring ... all schools." School alarms, closed-circuit TV systems and "mobile metal detector operations" bolster those efforts, along with unannounced screenings of all students at a principal's request.
In the event of an emergency, students and staff follow "Universal Emergency Response Procedures," which are described as "standard, clear directives that may be implemented across a variety of incidents/events." Responses include "duck, cover and hold," evacuation, lockdown, severe weather safe area and shelter in place.


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Do ballerinas get dizzy performing pirouettes?
Ballet dancers develop differences in their brain structures to allow them to perform pirouettes without feeling dizzy.
Researchers from Imperial College London said dancers appear to suppress signals from the inner ear to the brain.
Dancers traditionally use a technique called "spotting", which minimises head movement.
The researchers say their findings may help patients who experience chronic dizziness.
Luisa Baldini reports.
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5 point game with a minute left, this is NOT over yet.
I'm so glad we have 2 stars who can take over a agme down the stretch.
Tinsley and O'Neal are just money late in ballgames.
we lose this ____game god damn I'm pissed off
No Linking to your own site if it sells something.
No Quinn, we DON'T want to shoot threes now because they will not go in!
Dan Crawford, Courtney Kirkland & Tommy Nunez
This is probably the most disgusting loss I have ever seen the Pacers have.
Like i said this team can't hold a lead for crap...they suck on offense and defense is just as bad. Denver woke up and won the game...this team can be beaten at any time.
normally i have the same mindset, but this team seems to have lost all momentum.
Oh man
Tinsley passes it directly to the other team, out of another time out, Iverson 3, goodnight, how mentally weak is this team at the end of games.
We can pin this on the refs all we want, but good teams don't blow 25 point leads. PERIOD. Not another team in the NBA would blow a 25 point lead. Not even the Sonics.
I'm not at the game, but I am booing.
Withdraw from the league!
I don't even know what to say.
miss these miss these!
embarrassing pure and simple - I'm sorry but it is
No Linking to your own site if it sells something.
I also want to thank Granger for taking the night off.
Let's throw up crappy jumpshots with 2:30 to go.....
I'm glad I don't get too upset when we blow games like this. You can't when it's a tradition.
Call the fire department, PD could get hot......
Super Bowl XLI Champions
2000 Eastern Conference Champions
Wow, maybe it is time for a little negativity
I wonder what the nba record is for biggest point differential between halves for one team?
74 and 32- that's a pretty huge disparity.
It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.
Division Champions 1955, 1956, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Conference Champions 1955, 1956, 1988, 2005
NBA Champions 1989, 1990, 2004
Final Score:
:thepacers 106
Your horse is dead, get off it already...
Refs smefs, a good team doesn't play so poorly on the offensive end at the end of games. Reverts to a pick up game in the 5 mins. Amazing. Obie needs to give them confidence, but um how about some guidance on closing.
I just wasted 3 hours of my life!
What an embarrasing loss!
The Pacers once again run out of gas by the end of the 3rd quarter and don't have enough energy to be effective in the 4th...


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ST. PETERS, Mo. (KSDK) – Nursing student Bahia Bisharat disappeared without a trace on March 19, leaving behind a note in her unlocked car that simply said "good-bye."
Ten days later, nearly 100 volunteers took part in a search for the 19-year-old, scouring parts of Busch Wildlife Preserve.
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Bisharat has last seen at the St. Charles Community College campus in Dardenne Prairie, although she didn't go to class the day she disappeared. Earlier this week, she would have celebrated her 19th birthday. Police say they've seen no indication of foul play, but they haven't ruled anything out.
Bisharat's family, meanwhile, says she was kidnapped.
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Busch Wildlife Area encompasses thousands of acres of land, but the group narrowed its search to areas near SCC's campus and lakes with easy access.
Hunters who have spent time in the area stepped up to lead the groups through some very difficult terrain.
Bisharat's mother said she's starting to lose hope that her daughter will ever be found, but seeing the big group of people out searching helped rejuvenate her spirit.
ORIGINAL STORY: St. Peters family searches for missing teen
"People are motivating me and I hope we find something," Munira Qader said. "I hope we find something."
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Strikes menace Paris Olympic bid
PARIS, March 10 (AFP) - France's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games took a hard knock on Thursday as trade unions staged a nationwide day of strikes, demonstrations and transport stoppages just as an IOC team held an inspection tour of the proposed Paris sites.
PARIS, March 10 (AFP) - France's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games took a hard knock on Thursday as trade unions staged a nationwide day of strikes, demonstrations and transport stoppages just as an IOC team held an inspection tour of the proposed Paris sites.
Much of the capital's metro and bus system was at a standstill, half of flights to the two airports were cancelled or delayed, classrooms and government offices were closed, and a mass demonstration drew tens of thousands during the afternoon.
The protests were part of a campaign by unions and the socialist opposition to force the government of President Jacques Chirac to increase wages, reverse reforms of the 35 hour working week and end its efforts to trim the welfare state.
Elsewhere large rallies were held in cities across the country, as workers heeded calls for strikes in schools, national and local administration, post and telecommunications, gas and electricity services, banks, the press, museums and tourist offices.
Union leaders insisted they did not mean to damage the Paris bid - which if successful would create tens of thousands of jobs - and some participants in the capital's protest march had banners and base-ball caps proclaiming their support.
The city's mayor Bertrand Delanoe - a socialist who has been the driving force behind the candidacy - even said the protests could be an asset, if Paris could take the disruption in is stride.
"Do you think the committee does not know what democracy means, that it doesn't know France and thinks the best countries are the ones where there are no arguments? Contrary to what people say, this could actually reinforce our bid," he said.
But many organisers and politicians conceded that the strikes could harm France's chances - in what is likely to be a tight race against other candidate cities - by reinforcing its image as a country prey to pressure from trade unions and the street.
With urban transport - along with security - one of the key issues under the inspectors' gaze, their inability to use the system for their tour of venues left a poor impression.
Bid organisers were also fending off embarrassing questions about the forthcoming trial on corruption charges of one of the leading members of the city's olympic committee.
Former sports minister Guy Drut is one of 47 politicians who will appear in a Paris court on March 21 accused of organising kickbacks from building firms on behalf of political parties in the early 1990s.
Making its third bid for the Olympic Games in 20 years, Paris has so far put on a confident display - with politicians from right and left rallying behind Delanoe and only a handful of Greens arguing against the nomination. Polls show nearly 90 percent of the public is in favour.
For weeks police vehicles and taxis have borne stickers supporting the bid, a vast multi-coloured representation of the Olympic symbol is emblazoned across the parliament building, street posters bear the slogan "Love of the Games," and buses fly Olympic flags.
The inspection team - which has already visited London, Madrid and New York and will travel on to Moscow - was being feted in a luxury hotel near the Opera, and had invitations to dine with both Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin during its five-day visit.
On Thursday it travelled by coach to the key sites, including the proposed Olympic village in a derelict railway yard of northwest Paris; the Stade de France and Roland Garros tennis centre; and even the Eiffel Tower, beneath which beach volleyball is planned.
Most of the venues are in the west of the capital, and the demonstration was routed in the east.
"We can't hide from it: abroad France is seen as a country of strikes. What we have to do is show that we are capable of positive discussions to overcome the problem," said Philippe Baudillon, director of the Paris bid committee.
"If we are asked by the evaluation committee, we will reply that in France we have a democracy, there is a right to strike, and we will add that if Paris gets the games, we will put in place a management system that limits the risks due to social problems," he said.
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The End of the Jews
The lives of a young Jewish man in the 1930s and a young Czech woman in the 1980s echo across generations in Mansbach's (Angry Black White Boy ) continuing investigations into ethnic identity. Tristan Brodsky, the son of New York Jewish immigrant parents, is introduced to pre-WWII jazz and African-American culture by a City College professor who mentors him into a mostly successful, though often controversial, career as a novelist. Tristan's grandson and namesake, known as Tris, is a suburban teen in thrall to hip-hop culture who becomes a novelist himself. (Tris's writerly angst provides some of the funniest scenes in the book.) Then there's Nina Hricek, a talented young Czech photographer who is all but adopted by a touring American jazz group passing through Prague: the black band members affectionately dub her "Pigfoot†and insist that she must be part Creole. Nina becomes a sort of apprentice to the group's tour photographer. One night, when covering a gig at New York's Blue Note, she locks eyes with a man working at the club—Tris. Mansbach moves effortlessly between U.S. jazz clubs of different eras and Communist Prague, and his dialogue rings true. Believably eccentric characters and an inventive cross-generational plot make this novel of immigration's vicissitudes a delight. (Mar.)
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All pretense of trying to win a majority of the white working class has been effectively jettisoned in favor of cementing a center-left coalition made up, on the one hand, of voters who have gotten ahead on the basis of educational attainment — professors, artists, designers, editors, human resources managers, lawyers, librarians, social workers, teachers and therapists — and a second, substantial constituency of lower-income voters who are disproportionately African-American and Hispanic.Now, of course, the Democrats have always been an over-under party. But the point of the New Deal coalition was that the "under" included the working stiff, the white working class.
It's interesting that the Dems are trying this right now, especially in the light of an article on the same day from Michael Barone. He points out, using a study done by the indispensable Paul Ryan (R-WI) that entitlements actually contribute to inequality. How? Well, a smaller share of entitlement spending is going to the poor these days. According to Ryan:
[T]he distribution of government transfers has moved away from households in the lower part of the income scale. For instance, in 1979, households in the lowest income quintile received 54 percent of all transfer payments. In 2007, those households received just 36 percent of transfers.Can anyone spell "Medicare"?
Now, I'm all in favor of reducing middle-class entitlements. I think that middle-class people like me in their 60s should be paying for their own retirement and their own health care. But I also understand Irving Kristol's argument that, in order for government to do something for the poor you have to deal in the middle class.
You can see what the Democrats are planning. They are planning to energize their over-under coalition by taking monies from the middle class, including the white working class, to fund their redistributive programs. They want to send more money to the poor (oh, and quite accidentally, the overclass that will manage the redistribution.)
There is one problem with Baldrick's cunning plan. If the Dems start moving money away from the middle class they will reduce middle-class support for entitlement programs and government spending in general. The middle class likes to vote itself free money like anyone else. But if the ruling class decides that the middle class doesn't need so much of the free stuff then the middle class is liable to make the obvious judgment. It will say that if I can't get my share of the loot then nobody else should either.
All of which just shows what we knew already. The upcoming 2012 election will be a momentous election that decides the direction of US politics for decades to come. It won't just be a "wave" election. Or even a "realignment." It will be an earthquake.


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This paper reports on a sociolinguistic survey conducted in the Aja speech communities of Benin and Togo. The purpose of the survey was to gather data that would help administrators of SIL Togo/Benin decide the nature and extent of SIL's involvement among these communities.
The survey was carried out between November 12 and December 11, 1996 by Angela Kluge and Barbara Tompkins (members of SIL, Togo/Benin).
In the following sections, general background information on the Aja area will be given, followed by a description of previous linguistic research, a presentation of the research questions for the current study, and a description of the applied methodology. Following these sections, the results of the survey will be discussed. Finally, conclusions and recommendations for the Aja language program will be presented.


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The 2009 Cohort of the Martha West Teaching Scholars, a group of prospective teachers, spent the Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend learning and exploring a new city. After a five-hour drive to Atlanta, Georgia, the West Scholars were free to roam the city for two-and-a-half days. Accompanying the seventeen scholars that went on the trip were Teacher Education professors Dr. Cyndi Osterhus, Dr. Bonita Bloodworth and Dr. Tiffany Hunter, along with Dr. Calvin Hunter of the athletic department.
The group departed the Ketner parking lot at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 15th and after two stops, they reached Atlanta. Their first stop was the Martin Luther King, Jr. Historic Center, the site of the tombs of both Dr. King and his wife, Mrs. King. The site also had many historic items from the life of Dr. King. It was extra special to be visiting that site because January 15 is Dr. King's actual birthday, and if he still were alive, he would be 82 years old.
After departing the King District of Atlanta, the group checked into their hotel, and was free to roam until dinner. Many students took advantage of nice hotel beds and relaxed, while others toured the city. Christina Faircloth and Amelia Baity shared a horse-carriage ride through the city, while Jarrett Jackson and I explored Olympic Centennial Park, the Georgia Dome and other parts of the city. Almost everyone joined back and went to Johnny Rocket's for dinner, an old-timey themed restaurant with spectacular milkshakes.
The next morning, the entire group got a tour of the CNN Center and CNN studios with our excellent tour guide Adam. We saw many actual newsrooms, news studios and hard working people. We even took the tallest freestanding escalator, standing 200 feet tall and only supported at the base and at the top. After the group tour, the scholars were free to visit other great sites in the city. Many went and saw the World of Coca-Cola, the Georgia Aquarium, Olympic Centennial Park and other attractions in the city.
At the World of Coca-Cola, you could learn all about the history of Coke, as well as try 170 different flavors of Coke products from all over the world. In many of our opinions, the Beverly from Italy was the worst, with Bibo and Frosty Melon from Africa being the best. Other options included Coke Orange, Cherry Sprite, and various flavors of Powerade and Dasani water, along with the basic Coke products that Americans enjoy daily.
The Georgia Aquarium, the world's largest aquarium, was truly a site to see. Whale sharks, hammerheads, clown fish, otters, penguins, stingrays, and thousands of other fish are only a beginning to the massive building of water. Fellow Pioneer reporter Lizzle Davis actually went swimming with the sharks.
On Monday, the entire group visited the Fernbank Museum of Natural History, the Varsity, and the Zoo Atlanta. At the Fernbank, many activities were open. Maggie McKee, Denise Grissom, Casey Baucom and Amanda Terry made massive bubbles, and then tested their eyes with several overwhelming brainteasers. Jessica Everett and Suzy Williams paid extra close attention to the dinosaurs also located inside the museum. After the museum, the scholars went to the Varsity for lunch. In case you have never heard of the Varsity, it is a massive quick order restaurant where you will hear "What'll you have?" if you do not tell them immediately what you want. They also had great milkshakes. The Zoo Atlanta was home to several Chinese pandas, the main attraction of the zoo, and the first place many people went to see.
After a very fun filled trip to the Empire State of the South, and non-stop action, the West Scholars returned to Catawba on Monday night.
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My husband and I have been together since 1997. We have been married since 2003. Prior to our marriage we had an open relationship that I took advantage of. I ended up "cheating" on him for nearly 2yrs with a close member of his family and another guy. However he would sneak off at random times with a girl at a party or something like that. I admit It was not my best decision. We nearly divorced over the cheating..I begged for us to stay together. We have 4 children and this happened before our marriage and kids. now however I feel sexually trapped in our marriage to say the least. This has been a struggle for a really long time for me tho. He demands sex a lot and I don't feel sexually attracted to him like I use to when we were first together. I LOVE our marriage,I LOVE our family life and I LOVE him as a person but the sexual dissatisfaction is hard to deal with at both our ends. He wants more and I want something different. We haven't had an open relationship at all since we got married in 2003. I had to sneak around a time or two and find myself pursuing it recently very strongly. In fact I have been talking to a good friend of ours a lot and it is becoming hard for me to not plan to have sex with him..I need the feelings of satisfaction...This weekend we spent the entire weekend hanging out and I could barely keep myself controlled. I was secretly wishing my husband would leave us alone. The friend did hang out a couple wks back and came on to me very strongly and It made me feel amazing!! He really makes me feel very satisfied sexually. I have tried to explain to my husband the needs I am looking for so that I can feel satisfied and be able to satisfy him. unfortunately he just wants what he wants. I want us to have an open relationship again so we both can pursue our needs. He needs someone that is into just having wild sex every day 2-3 times a day. I need someone that likes a lot of foreplay and teasing before. He is open to having an open relationship again but, he feels that I wont be truthful with him. Which is where he is probably right. I don't really know what to say or how to tell him. I can't just say OK today I feel like I am going to have sex with so and so...I sometimes just am hanging with friends and I find an interest for that moment. I don't mind him being with other women,I am not jealous of that as long as it doesn't interfere with our family life. Meaning hes not gone all the time with the girl. Anyway - I am struggling with this and how to handle the situation.I feel like I need to say OK I am interested in sex with our friend so and so..Are you cool with that? My husband always makes the rules because he knows I will cheat again...I dont have emotional attachment but, I do enjoy my time with other partners. What do I do?!?!
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"We want the public to know that we are holding ourselves to this standard," De Blasio said.
So far Bill de Blasio's attempt to import the Swedish Vision Zero plan led to the beating of an 84-year-old man and not much else. But the left-wing mayor obviously doesn't follow the laws that he makes for everyone else.
Liberals never do.
Just days after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an aggressive plan to prevent traffic deaths, CBS 2 cameras caught the driver of a car carrying the mayor violating a number of traffic laws.
As CBS 2′s Marcia Kramer reported Thursday, the mayor's two-car caravan was seen speeding, blowing through stop signs, and violating other traffic laws. Kramer reported that if the driver of the lead car, which carried the mayor in its passenger seat, had been cited, he would have racked up enough points to get his license suspended.
But that's for ordinary people. Not for Bill de Blasio. An 84-year-old man gets beaten down for jaywalking, but not William Wilhelm Jr. aka Bill de Blasio.
When the mayor announced his 62-point safe streets initiative, which includes lowering the speed limit to 25 mph, he said, "We want the public to know that we are holding ourselves to this standard."
But Kramer reported the mayor failed to practice what he preached Thursday.
CBS 2 crews found Mayor de Blasio's cars going through a stop sign at a Queens intersection, and that wasn't the only traffic violation caught on tape.
The safety violations came just two days after the mayor unveiled his traffic safety plan.
The mayor's two-car caravan violated speed laws and racked up other motor vehicle violations after he held a news conference in Maspeth, Queens on pothole repairs.
De Blasio even filled a pothole himself. The mayor was in the front passenger seat of the lead car, driven by a member of his security detail. But being in the front, the stop sign violations were clearly seen.
Kramer said as she followed de Blasio's caravan, his words at the road safety press conference rang her ears.
"We hope that every time someone reads one of your stories, they're also asking themselves the question — are they handling their vehicle as responsibly as they could?" the mayor said.
But as Kramer followed de Blasio, she saw his cars go 40 to 45 mph in a 30 mph zone, and as they passed a 45 mph sign, Kramer clocked the caravan going much faster – up to 60 mph.
Kramer reported if a police officer had been following the cars, and had pulled the mayor's caravan over for his violations and issued tickets, the lead driver would have had his license suspended:
• Driving or rolling through a stop sign: 3 points;
• Driving or rolling through a stop sign a second time: 3 points;
• Going 10 mph over the 30 mph speed limit: 3 points;
• Going 15 mph over the 45 mph speed limit: 4 points.
The grand total for all four violations, had they been handed out, is 13. Your license can be suspended if you rack up just 11 points.
Bill de Blasio blamed the NYPD which tried to excuse the whole mess by claiming that they were driving protectively as if a van full of Colombian drug lords were chasing after the Sandinista politician.
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In the second one, it still depends on FarmEJBRemote, doesn't it?
You have already noticed that FarmServlet is tightly coupled to the FarmEJBRemote instance, which was retrieved via a call to "FarmEJBUtil.getHome().create()". It makes it very hard to test. When unit testing, we don't want to use any database. We don't want to access an EJB server either. That would make unit tests both difficult to execute and slow. So in order to unit test the FarmServlet class smoothly, we'd better make it loosely coupled. To remove the tight dependency between FarmServlet and FarmEJBRemote, we could use a setter based injection:
In the second one, it still depends on FarmEJBRemote, doesn't it?
To be or not to be. It's a question.
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It looks like "FarmServlet is tightly coupled to the FarmEJBRemote instance" should maybe be "FarmServlet is tightly coupled to the FarmEJBUtil class".
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Shirley Gary, founder of About Sales, Inc. launched and operated Paul Thomas Realty, the inside brokerage for Paul Thomas Homes for three years before founding About Sales. She also launched and operated the inside brokerage for Sharon McSwain Homes for four years, served as active adult sales manager for Pulte Homes for two years and over eight years, moved her way through sales associate and sales manager positions to Vice President of Sales and Marketing at D.R. Horton/Torrey Homes.
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dub81 wrote: I mean he was there when Jim was a child so he know's more about Jim then us.
They are the same age. So when Magic met Jim they were both well past child status.
I think people give Jim Buss to much grief based on one point. Dr Buss is still the shot caller. When Doc is gone or incapacitated then we can start pointing serious fingers at Jimmy. Until then let's have some faith and look at the all the good this front office is trying to do for us fans.


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Georgia Tech's offensive line has looked like a very different unit from 2010 to 2011. Many of the same pieces are back from the 2010 squad like guards Will Jackson and Omoregie Uzzi and tackle Phil Smith, but the attitude and quality of play is very different.
Uzzi and Jackson have started every game this season along with center Jay Finch, but the Jackets are rotating three offensive tackles, Ray Beno, Tyler Kidney and Smith at left and right tackle, so there isn't really one thing that sticks out about why there is a difference in the level of play so far. Jackson says the Goon Squad mentality adopted by the line is the difference.
"I think our attitude is the biggest difference from last year," Jackson said. "We thought the attitude was good last year, but we came together in the offseason and said as a group that last year's performance wasn't going to cut it. We really focused on coming out and working hard and being focused and positive no matter what the circumstances are or how hard practice is or even how long the day is, we are just going to keep pushing through to Saturday."
All of the linemen contributing in the main rotation this season are in their third year or more in the program as opposed to last season when Jackson and sometimes Finch were thrown into starting roles as redshirt freshmen. Kidney came on at the end of the season as a solid back in 2010 down the stretch and ended up on scholarship and Beno finally found a spot on the field at offensive tackle after moving back and forth from center and guard during his first two season. Uzzi has been the rock of the line for the last two seasons while Smith is finally coming back physically and mentally from his traumatic leg injury in 2009.
"Last year I was the young pup on the line sandwiched between Nick Claytor and Sean Bedford who were both really seniors who are no longer here and now I am playing mostly with guys from my class," Jackson said. "We went through workouts, scout team and now practices together for three years and that has definitely paid dividends on the field. We still haven't played really well yet and while Uzzi is lighting it up every week, but we need to work on the backside and getting everything cut off and being consistent on the playside with the push on every play."
Those factors have all combined to make the 2011 offensive line look better in 2011. Health has also been a key. Jackson missed large chunks of several games last year with chronic ankle and shoulder issues.
"Last year I had an ankle that didn't get better all year and I never quite came back from that and it gave me issues all year. I also had an issue with my shoulder that lingered and I made a consistent focus on staying in the weight room in the offseason."
The Jackets are leading the nation in total offense and scoring this season behind the work of the Goon Squad.


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The rupee whizzed past 55 against the dollar to hit another new low Wednesday, touching 55.95 by midday, reports the Hindustan Times.
Traders said increased dollar demand from banks and importers, especially oil refiners coupled with capital outflows from foreign funds following melting stocks mainly affected the rupee value against the dollar.
They said the plunging dollar had overshadowed the stocks market as the BSE benchmark Sensex dropped below the 16,000 mark, down 179 points in midsession trade today.
Can anybody stop the bleeding?
Clearly, Manmohan Singh's mea culpa, tempered with a lame attempt to defend his government against charges of "policy paralysis," on Tuesday has not done the trick.
Look for my report later... (yes, yes, GlobalPost still uses editors!)... But the gist is that things are going to look pretty shaky until the government hikes price controls on petrol and diesel -- thus reducing its subsidy burden, alleviating budget deficit pressure, and sending a signal that it's ready to take action despite possible political consequences.
Rupee watchers say they're hoping for such a move as early as June, which will have the added benefit of forcing the Communist Party of India (Marxist) workers and similar characters to hit the streets to burn their effigies and so on during the hottest part of the summer.