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More evidence on the spatial scale of cities
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I found these to go cups at our local Dollar Tree a month ago and finally got around to getting one decorated. I cut Kraft paper with the template provided and then stamped it with the sentiment and coffee bean image from Caffeine Trip.
I bought more the other day so that I could make some simple gifts for the folks at the office. Nearly all of them are coffee drinkers, so this should be perfect. I'll just be using dp for them, it'll be much easier on me than all that stamping. Now, just to find the time to cut the paper.
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- ~amy~ said...
just leaving you a quick note as I head out for the dollar tree...LOL...what an awesome giftie tina!!!!!
- December 13, 2009 at 9:08 AM
- alienanessa said...
This is so stinkin' adorable!! Wish I had a bunch of coffee drinkers at work to bestow these on...such a quick and useful gift!!
- December 13, 2009 at 10:05 AM
- MsJay said...
I purchased about 20 of these myself. I never thought to do craft paper then rubber stamp. Great idea.
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OMG I am in LOVE!!!!! Saving this for future reference. *wink*
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brilliant - now I have to make a trip to the $ tree...thanks for the WONDERFUL inspiration.
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Over the first three years of his career, when he has been on the court Steph has been really, really good. Not a 'Star' level of production, but pretty much the tier right under that. He has averaged a line of 17.5 points, 5.8 assists, and 4.8 boards with a 'he's on fire' level 47.5% field goal percentage and 44.1% from downtown, and about 40% of the games those stats are coming from were in his rookie season, so realistically it wouldn't be shocking to see him put up a line of 19-6.5-5 with phenomenal percentages in the next couple years. However, the caveat with Curry is that he has had serious issues with his ankle, causing him to play in only 26 games last year. His first two seasons he did play 80 and 74 games, so it wouldn't be fair to call him perpetually injured like Greg Oden or something yet, the issues have all been with his ankle which is very troublesome.
So realistically, what is he worth? A lot of this is going to depend on how many games he plays this year, so lets assume that he has some issues but overall puts up another very productive year and plays in 74 games. How much would be the most that would make sense for the Warriors to pay him, and how could he realistically get offered as an RFA? I would be more than comfortable the Warriors would offer him something like 4 years/36 million, which seems a realistic number to me. However, what is the most that you think Curry would be worth matching at? Lets say some team has a bunch of cap room to blow and thinks Curry is the perfect piece for their team and offers him 4 years/50 million; would that still make sense committing that much money to someone who has had real issues with his ankle and could end up being paid ~12 million a year to sit in street clothes for a lot of that, crippling the team? Curry is the face of this franchise and our main star at this point, a great kid with a great work ethic and no personality concerns at all, and Lacob and co would certainly be loathe to lose him at this point, which certainly counts for a lot. So how much do you think Curry is worth paying, how much do you realistically think is the most he could be offered on the open market, and would he be worth it at that price?


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This issue has been discussed on the board here before, but troubled me more than usual during the Nebraska game. The event of which I speak, of course, is Coach Painter's constant vocalization of the word "move" during our offensive possessions. In addition to being slightly annoying, it is a disturbing indication of our offensive state.
In order to properly demonstrate my feelings, I will use a horse racing analogy. When racing, the jockeys have whips that they use to "suggest" to the horse that it run faster. "MOVE" is Matt Painter's whip. The thing is, great horses don't need to be whipped during the whole race. They run on their own, and only require the occasional smack to stay on track. If our team were a horse, CMP would be whipping it about 30 times per second as hard as possible. I'm not sure that this is supremely effective.
I'm not saying that CMP is incorrect. There are definitely times when our offense becomes stagnant. But the time to "teach" your offense is not during a game. Yelling "MOVE" constantly has absolutely no effect on the players and, frankly, makes our team look silly. I have a sneaky suspicion that our players do in fact realize that our motion offense requires movement to operate correctly. If they HONESTLY need to be reminded to "MOVE" every possession, something is very wrong. Plus Stephens should never move, he should just stand about 3 feet behind the three point line and stroke it like he just don't care.
Good lord I love making polls.


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In an unforgettable finish, the University of Denver won its first NCAA men's hockey title in 34 years by defeating Maine 1-0 in the 2004 championship game.
Pioneers' goalie Adam Berkhoel made 24 saves, including two huge stops in the wild closing minutes, when Maine held a 6-3 advantage in skaters.
Denver got into penalty trouble when Matt Laatsch was sent off for hooking with 2:09 to play in the third period. Then Gabe Gauthier was called for a delay of game with 1:34 left after closing his hand on the puck.
Jimmy Howard left the Maine net with 1:13 remaining, giving the Black Bears a three-man advantage for more than a minute.
Berkhoel, chosen the Frozen Four's MVP, came up with his two biggest saves on blistering slapshots by Maine's top scorer, Colin Shields.
Gauthier scored the only goal of the game on the power play at 12:26 of the first period.
The Pioneers almost never made it to the title game. Denver pulled off a thrilling comeback to upset Minnesota-Duluth in the semifinals. Duluth was in control after two periods, leading Denver 3-1. But Gauthier and Ryan Caldwell scored 34 seconds apart to tie the game at 3:04 of the third. Lukas Dora scored the winning goal for Denver about five minutes later.
Duluth pulled its goaltender for the final 1:25, and appeared to have tied the game with 32.2 seconds left. But the goal was disallowed, the referee ruling that Duluth forward Tyler Brosz knocked over the goaltender to dislodge the puck. The Pioneers then iced the game with an empty net goal.
In the other semifinal, Jimmy Howard led the way with 40 saves as Maine defeated Boston College 2-1. The Eagles outshot the Black Bears 30-15 through two periods, but the teams were tied 1-1. Dustin Penner scored the go-ahead goal for Maine at 1:05 of the third, and the Bears shut down the Eagles the rest of the way. Boston College managed just one shot on goal in the final seven minutes.
Denver won five national titles in a 12-year span in the 1950s and '60s, but this is its first since 1969. Maine won the championship in 1993 and 1999.
Complete regional and national tournament results:
Men's Frozen Four (Fleetcenter, Boston, Mass.)
National Championship Game
Saturday, April 10, 7 pm:
Denver 1 - Maine 0
Thursday, April 8:
Denver 5 - Minnesota-Duluth 3
Maine 2 - Boston College 1
Results From Regional Playdowns
March 26:
Maine 5 - Harvard 4
Wisconsin 1 - Ohio State 0 (OT)
March 27:
Maine 2 - Wisconsin 1 (OT)
March 26:
North Dakota 3 - Holy Cross 0
Denver 3 - Miami (Ohio) 2
March 27:
Denver 1 - North Dakota 0
March 27:
Boston College 5 - Niagara 2
Michigan 4 - New Hampshire 1
March 28:
Boston College 3 - Michigan 2 (OT)
March 27:
Minnesota 5 - Notre Dame 2
Minnesota-Duluth 5 - Michigan State 0
March 28:
Minnesota-Duluth 3 - Minnesota 1


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How to love the job you hate
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Midweek round-up
September 29, 2010 § Leave a comment
- Opel is trialling three Meriva EVs in Karlsruhe, Germany, to study vehicle-to-grid communications and Level 3 (up to 400-volt) charging. This three-phase charging system can be set up to only charge the car from renewable-source electricity fed into the grid, or for an any-source feed which can charge the car within an hour. The Meriva EV prototypes themselves are good for 81mph but only have a 40-mile range; they've been built only to study the V2G network.
- The main Mini story at the Paris Show will be the Vespa-alike electric scooter, but of more interest is the new entry-level diesel engine, now in the One D Clubman in which it returns 72.4mpg and 103g/km. The drop-top gets it too: the Cooper D Convertible does 70.6mpg and 105g/km.
- Saab has inked an engine-supply deal with BMW: BMW's to provide its turbocharged 1.6 to Saab. This is an engine-downsizing move for the 9-3 and perhaps even 9-5, and the engine will be supplied complete with BMW's stop-start and brake energy regeneration tech. It could also feature in the upcoming 9-2 small car.
- Rumour of the day: we've heard this before, but Motor Trend is reheating the whispers that a new-age Ford GT40 (oh yeah?) could be all-electric. Pigs, wings, etc., but you never know…
Paris preview: Exagon gets Furtive
September 28, 2010 § Leave a comment
French motorsport firm Exagon Engineering – maker of electric buggies for an ice-racing series – has announced a 2+2 range-extended coupe it calls the Furtive-eGT. Claimed to be a potential Tesla-beating sports car, its pair of Siemens motors develop 340bhp and take it 0-60 in 3.5 seconds; its small range-extending petrol engine allows for a total range of 800km (400km in all-electric mode, an extra 400km with the engine acting as a generator). Exagon says it could start production in 2012; the Furtive-eGT will be unveiled at the Paris Motor Show later this week.
- Component-supplier Valeo is to showcase its latest tech in a concept EV at the Paris Show: battery management systems and drivetrain components will be highlighted, apparently, along with "realistic, high-performance solutions for mass production" of electric cars.
- An alliance of 70 companies and 17 universities and research centres has been formed to develop electric vehicles and technological innovation in the Italian auto industry, reports del Corriere della Sera. Participants include Pininfarina, Ferrari, Fiat, Brembo, Piaggio, Dallara, Electrolux, Indesit, the universities of Rome, Padua, Palermo and Naples, and the polytechnics of Milan and Turin; the aim is to "win leadership" for Italy in "a rapidly-growing sector", says the paper.
- Interesting research at the Argonne National Laboratory: putting petrol into a compression-ignition (diesel-type) engine. Reduces nitrous oxides emissions and particulates, gives super-precise ignition control and diesel-like fuel consumption, says an engineer in a post for Wired. All enabled by firing top-dead centre, as in the Scuderi engine.
Fuso truck gets E-Cell treatment
September 27, 2010 § Leave a comment
Mitsubishi Fuso – now part-owned by Daimler Trucks – has given its Canter workhorse the E-Cell treatment. Using the Daimler electric powertrain, the Canter E-Cell has a 120km range and a 3.5tonne gross vehicle weight. Its batteries are mounted in the chassis frame. It's on display in concept form at the Hanover Commercial Vehicle Show, and production is likely; the Canter is already offered in hybrid form.
Paris preview: Kia Pop
September 27, 2010 § Leave a comment
Kia has released more shots of its Pop concept car in advance of its unveiling at the Paris Motor Show later this week. Its butterfly doors probably won't make production, but these aside, it looks like a neatly-styled little city car. Designed at Kia's European studio under the guidance of Peter Schreyer, it's an attractive proposal for an all-electric commuter vehicle. Chief designer Gregory Guillaume says: "Designers very rarely have the opportunity to start from a clean sheet of paper and it's great to be in a position to operate with such freedom." More details in Paris, presumably.
Paris preview: Skoda goes Greenline
September 27, 2010 § Leave a comment
Skoda is launching new-generation Greenline models, now featuring brake energy recuperation and stop-start. Both the 1.6 TDI CR 105bhp (in the Octavia, Yeti and Superb) and the 1.2 TDI CR 75bhp (Roomster and Fabia) and have particulate filters, a supercharger and direct injection, and bring big reductions in carbon dioxide emissions and fuel consumption. The new Fabia Greenline returns 83.1mpg and emits 89g/km; the Roomster Greenline 67.3mpg and 109g/km; the Octavia hatch 74.3mpg and 99g/km; the Octavia estate 67.3mpg and 109g/km; the Yeti 61.4mpg and 119g/km; and the Superb 64.2mpg and 114g/km.
- Volvo, meanwhile, has reduced the emissions of its S40 and V50 DRIVe models, which now also feature stop-start. These 1.6-litre models both now emit 99g/km and thus fit into the zero-rate road tax band; they will also be exempt from the London congestion charge, if changes to the scheme to exempt all vehicles emitting under 100g/km are implemented next year as planned.
Starting the week
September 27, 2010 § 1 Comment
- Nissan's Infiniti brand is to make a compact, five-seater all-electric model, and has released a sketch (pictured). This will be launched in Europe and the US in 2013; it's thought to share its platform and powertrain with the Nissan Leaf.
- Fiat has axed its two-seater, two-cylinder Topolino, reports Autocar, and instead will focus on a new-generation, more accessible and mainstream, Seicento.
- BMW is to start field trials of the ActiveE – a 1-Series Coupe-based EV – in the USA. Drivers in New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Boston and areas of Connecticut will participate in a full shake-down of the technology, which will later feature in the Megacity. The ActiveE trials follow those of the Mini E in BMW's Project i programme, and are an advance in that this car's a four-seater with a 100-mile range.
- Toyota has confirmed production of a new small hybrid – Yaris-based – in Valenciennes, France, from 2012. And it's also to supply the hybrid powertrain for the Lotus Elite, reports Automotive News Europe.
- Saab is to start making electric all-wheel-drive systems and components for electric/hybrid powertrains in Trollhatten from 1st October. It has formed a partnership with American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., named e-AAM Driveline Systems, and will supply components to other manufacturers as well.
- Subaru has improved the efficiency of its famous flat-four 'boxer' engine by 10%. Revisions to the cylinder bore, lengthening of the piston stroke, a new active valve control system and intake port configuration, plus lighter pistons and con rods and a smaller oil pump have all contributed to the improvement; internal engine friction is down 30%. The engine will be built at Subaru's new factory north of Tokyo, and will first feature in the US/Japanese-market Forester from this autumn.
- Rumour of the day: Honda is preparing a successor to the S2000 – and it'll be a hybrid based on the CR-Z's underpinnings/powertrain, claims Road & Track.
- Meet VIPER and TIGERS: the first stands for Vehicle Integrated Powertrain Energy Recovery, a project underway involving Jaguar Land Rover, Ford, Imperial College, BP, University of London, IAV and Controlled Powertrain Technologies (CPT). CPT is to contribute TIGERS: Turbo-generator Integrated Gas Energy Recovery System, to help reduce heat energy losses in an exhaust system.
- Heard the one about the road as smooth as glass? Glazed solar panels in road surfaces could provide all the power for an 'intelligent highway', reports Wired.com.
Thursday briefs #2
September 23, 2010 § Leave a comment
- More about the Peugeot EX1 (pictured) at Autocar: features ed Matt Saunders is now convinced that high-performance EVs can "go the distance".
- Opel (incl. Vauxhall) has announced that it will build an all-new city car, and that there'll be an all-electric variant. This Ford Ka/Fiat 500 rival, currently codenamed Junior, will be built in Eisenach, Germany, from 2013.
- Nissan's Infiniti division is to launch the M35h hybrid at the Paris Motor Show next week. We've seen it already at Geneva, but the facts and figures are now out: its 306PS 3.5 V6 and 68PS motor combine for 0-100kph in 5.9 seconds, a top speed of 250kph and a return of 38.6mpg and 170g/km. It'll do 80kph on electric power alone. European deliveries start spring 2011.
- Honda America held a web conference this week to discuss "the future of the automobile", reports the LA Times. Yes, the company's hedging its bets – but we knew that anyway.
- An airborne diversion: a University of Toronto PhD student has built a human-powered 'ornithopter' and flown it for 145m. Todd Reichert's creation, made from balsa wood, carbon fibre and foam, weighs just 45kg and generates its own energy from pedal power and, uniquely, the pilot 'flapping' its wings. This glorified glider will probably never fly again, however. Video at the National Post; a more detailed story on human-powere flight at the Globe & Mail.
- An interesting discussion of Tesla and its relationships with Daimler and Toyota, both shareholders, at Der Spiegel.
Get communal with Communicar
September 23, 2010 § Leave a comment
Is it a car? Is it a train? Communicar is a bit of both. Meterbuilt of Los Angeles has come up with a concept for individual commuter vehicles which link together to form a fuel-saving chain. Not much info on it at the company's website, but the slideshow's quite fun. Found via inhabitat.com.
Paris Motor Show preview: Lotus Elite
September 23, 2010 § Leave a comment
KERS is coming to road cars – though it'll be at the top end of the sports car market at first. Lotus is unveiling a 2+2 concept called Elite next week – recalling an earlier Lotus coupe – and whilst a rather un-environmentally-friendly 5.0 V8 is posited for the standard-issue version, planned for production in 2014, the interesting bit is the KERS (Kinetic Energy Recovery) option. This is said to bring down carbon dioxide emissions to 215g/km, still high, but low by V8 super-coupe standards.
Thursday newsbriefs, in brief
September 23, 2010 § Leave a comment
BMW has signed off a version of the Vision EfficientDynamics concept (pictured) for production, reports Car magazine. Rumoured name is i100 ActiveHybrid. Production 2012; three-cylinder 1.5-litre diesel engine plus a pair of electric motors.
Chevrolet is launching a Cruze EV trial in South Korea. The Cruze EV has a range of 100 miles and a top speed of 103mph; Chevrolet (aka the former GM Daewoo, in Korea), is studying its performance and also the use of quick-charge systems. More at Auto Express.
- Renault-Nissan has signed an agreement with the City of Amsterdam to encourage EV use. The City wants at least 1000 EVs on its streets by the end of 2011, and is offering free charging – and free parking at its charging posts till March 2012. Amsterdam has nearly 100 charging points at the moment and plans up to 2000 public facilities, including quick-charge points which come next year. Nissan, along with Mitsubishi, has also joined a project with Spanish utility firm Endesa SA to install a network of quick-charging stations in Malaga and Catalonia, and this week it's also announced a partnership with local authorities in Cordoba, Argentina, to accelerate EV use in the city, where it has a production facility.
- Dutch sat nav-maker TomTom is launching a product for fleets called EcoPlus. This is a simple, affordable and easy-to-install device enabling fleet managers (and drivers) to analyse vehicle usage, fuel consumption, carbon dioxide emissions, idling time and even gear-changes. It costs £129 excl. VAT. Eco-saviour or spy in the cab?
- Santa Monica-based start-up Coda Automotive is promising first deliveries of its Chinese-built compact saloon in December. It will initially sell directly through factory-owned outlets in shopping malls in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with 17 sites to open by the end of next year, and sales of 14,000 cars are planned for this first year. Prices start from $44,900 but Californian and federal incentives and tax breaks bring it down as low as $32,400.
- Kia is expected to unveil a hybrid version of the Optima saloon at the Los Angeles Auto Show in November. This'll be closely related to the Hyundai Sonata Hybrid recently launched.
- Better Place, purveyor of battery-swap systems and partner of Renault-Nissan, has done a deal with General Electric to cover financing and technology transfer. GE can link its chargers to the Better Place infrastructure and vice versa, whilst Better Place will gain financing for its purchase of 10,000 battery packs for its first swap-stations in Denmark and Israel.
- Toyota is to build an EV for China in partnership with Tianjin Auto, reports the Nikkei. The small hatch will be based on the Vios supermini but will be sold under a new brand-name and targeted to undercut its opposition.
- BMW's X3 SUV is no eco-saint, but it is to gain stop-start and a more fuel-efficient eight-speed automatic gearbox option (Euro-market) with its six-cylinder engine. The updated-for-2011 X3 will be launched at the Paris Motor Show next week.
- DIY EV of the week: the Probatron, built by James Killick of Basildon, Essex. Handily, he's an engineer at Ford's Dunton Technical Centre.


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Rationalism in Politics
In anticipation of a talk I'm giving later on in the week on Oakeshott's so-called "dispositional conservatism", here is a nice little piece by my chum Gene Callahan serving as a good introduction to RIP.
The British philosopher and historian Michael Oakeshott is a curious figure in twentieth-century intellectual history. He is known mostly as a "conservative political theorist," although he rejected ideology and his conservatism was primarily temperamental. Furthermore, his work on politics was only a fraction of his output, which comprised idealist philosophy, aesthetics, religion, education, the philosophy of history, and even horse racing. His popularity reached its zenith in the 1950s and early 1960s, when he was well known on both sides of the Atlantic, appearing on the BBC and becoming the favorite philosopher at National Review. But he never seemed to seek popularity, and did little or nothing to boost his own when it subsequently faded. Today, despite the growing interest in Oakeshott since his death in 1990, even his best-recognized work, his essay "Rationalism in Politics," is, I contend, not appreciated widely enough—thus, this article.
Lovers of liberty should keep Oakeshott's work on rationalism in mind for at least two reasons. First, it offers a complementary but still significantly different critique of planning to those of Mises and Hayek. However, at the same time, it provides a warning to the advocates of freedom not to fall into the rationalist quagmire themselves. The relevance of the latter point is demonstrated by, for example, the tendency of many development economists, even those who are "market oriented," to attempt to impose their theoretical schemes for taking a shortcut to westernization on some Third World country, while running roughshod over all the traditions, customs, and morals native to the place, which, whatever their short-comings, at least managed to sustain the society in question over previous centuries. Freedom cannot be "imposed" on a people according to some preconceived scheme. We all need to watch out for "the rationalist within."
Hayek and the "Use of Knowledge in Society"
Here is a draft of my entry for the SAGE Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences.
Friedrich Hayek
Born on this day in 1899
Albert Camus
Here is a review article I came across in The Economist. Having read Camus in my youth knowing little about his life and even less about his philosophical perspective, time permitting I'm inclined to rediscover him (I was taken by Visconti's adaptation of L'Étranger). And anyone sidelined by Sartre (a fate to befall the great Raymond Aron as well), is worthy of admiration.
Albert Camus, 50 years on
Prince of the absurd
In search of the real Camus
Jan 7th 2010 | From The Economist print edition
Albert Camus: Solitaire et Solidaire. By Catherine Camus. Michel Lafon; 206 pages; €39.90. Buy from Amazon.fr
Les Derniers Jours de la Vie d'Albert Camus. By José Lenzini. Actes Sud; 144 pages; €16.50. Buy from Amazon.fr
Albert Camus, Fils d'Alger. By Alain Vircondelet. Fayard; 396 pages; €19.90. Buy from Amazon.fr
Albert Camus. By Virgil Tanase. Gallimard; 416 pages; €8.10. Buy from Amazon.fr
WHEN Albert Camus was killed in a car crash 50 years ago on January 4th, at the age of 46, he had already won the Nobel prize for literature, and his best-known novel, "L'Etranger" ("The Stranger" or "The Outsider"), had introduced readers the world over to the philosophy of the absurd. Yet, at the time of his death, Camus found himself an outcast in Paris, snubbed by Jean-Paul Sartre and other left-bank intellectuals, and denounced for his freethinking refusal to yield to fashionable political views. As his daughter has said: "Papa was alone."
Today, by contrast, the French are proud to consider Camus a towering figure, while Sartre's star has faded. Even President Nicolas Sarkozy, from the political right, has proposed transferring the writer's remains from Provence to the Panthéon in Paris. Several new books mark the anniversary of his death, including an elegant illustrated volume by Catherine Camus, one of his twin children and custodian of her father's estate.
The reader in search of literary criticism, or even the origins of absurdist thought, will not find it in the three new biographies. That by José Lenzini, a French former journalist, is the most unusual, retracing Camus's last journey from Provence to Paris as a series of imaginary flashbacks through his life. The other two are more conventional but both finely drawn, digestible portraits of the football-playing "little poor child", as Camus called himself, from Algiers, who came to leave such a mark on literature and moral thought.
A double haunting presence looms throughout all the books: that of Algeria, where Camus was born, and of his mother, Catherine. Before he was a year old, the infant Albert lost his father, an early settler in French Algeria, in the battle of the Marne. His mute and illiterate mother, and her extended family, raised her two sons in a small flat in Algiers with neither a lavatory nor running water. Alain Vircondelet writes movingly of the "minuscule life" in the apartment with nothing: "those white sheets, his mother's folded hands, a handkerchief and a little comb." Her purity and silent dignity marked her son, as he struggled to confront his own shame at such poverty—and his shame at being ashamed. "With those we love," he once said of her, "we have ceased to speak, and this is not silence."
That the young Albert went to the French lycée, and then to university in Algiers, was thanks to two inspiring teachers with whom he kept in touch throughout his life; he dedicated his Nobel prize to one of them. Camus began writing, as a reporter and dramatist, in a land that was then part of France—and yet apart. His was the solitude, self-doubt and restlessness of dislocation and displacement. The young man who emerges from Virgil Tanase's biography in particular is seductive, funny and loving, but constantly on the move: between the raw, sun-drenched Mediterranean and cramped, grey Paris, ever in search of respite from crippling bouts of tuberculosis, as well as comfort from the various women he charmed and loved with a passion.
History finds Camus on the right side of so many of the great moral issues of the 20th century. He joined the French resistance to combat Nazism, editing an underground newspaper, Combat. He campaigned against the death penalty. A one-time Communist, his anti-totalitarian work, "L'Homme Révolté" ("The Rebel"), published in 1951, was remarkably perceptive about the evils of Stalinism. It also led to his falling-out with Sartre, who at the time was still defending the Soviet Union and refusing to condemn the gulags.
Camus left Algeria for mainland France, but Algeria never left him. As the anti-colonial rebellion took hold in the 1950s, his refusal to join the bien pensant call for independence was considered an act of treason by the French left. Even as terror struck Algiers, Camus was vainly urging a federal solution, with a place for French settlers. When he famously declared that "I believe in justice, but I will defend my mother before justice," he was denounced as a colonial apologist. Nearly 40 years later, Mr Lenzini tracked down the Algerian former student who provoked that comment at a press conference. He now confesses that, at the time, he had read none of Camus's work, and was later "shocked" and humbled to come across the novelist's extensive reporting on Arab poverty.
The public recognition that Camus achieved in his lifetime never quite compensated for the wounds of rejection and disdain from those he had thought friends. He suffered cruelly at the hands of Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their snobbish, jealous literary clique, whose savage public assassination of Camus after the publication of "The Rebel" left deep scars. "You may have been poor once, but you aren't anymore," Sartre lashed out in print.
"He would remain an outsider in this world of letters, confined to existential purgatory," writes Mr Lenzini: "He was not part of it. He never would be. And they would never miss the chance to let him know that." They accepted him, says Mr Tanase, "as long as he yielded to their authority." What Sartre and his friends could not forgive was the stubborn independent-mindedness which, today, makes Camus appear so morally lucid, humane and resolutely modern.
The Social Science of Hayek's The Sensory Order
Here are the publisher's details for this soon-to-be released volume that includes my paper "Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre"
Hayek: cognitive scientist avant la lettre
Here is the uncorrected proof of my essay – do not cite.
Hayek's Inevitability Thesis
Hayek's notion of cognitive closure, a mark of the human condition, can be ameliorated if the social and artifactual world functions as a kind of distributed extra-neural memory store manifest as dynamic traditions, part of the resources for acting, thinking or communicating. This cognitive¬epistemological¬liberty tripartite is closely related to a long-standing bone of contention in Hayek centering on the two-fold claim:
(a) epistemological immodesty is the sine qua non of a mixed or socialist economy, and that
(b) this inexorably leads us on "the road to serfdom" (Samuelson, 2009).
The manifold ways in which this so-called "inevitability thesis" (Hayek 1944/1976, Chapter IV) can be interpreted is discussed by Farrant & McPhail (2009). Working from the 1976 edition of The Road to Serfdom Hayek gives out a mixed message. The cover trumpets the book as "A classic warning against the dangers to freedom inherent in social planning" (emphasis added). In the forward Hayek claims that he has "never accused the socialist parties of deliberately aiming at a totalitarian regime or even to show such inclinations" (Hayek 1944/1976, pp. xiv, xxi). Hayek is of the view that the source of misinterpreting the inevitability thesis is terminological – that is, socialism at the time he was writing really did mean complete and utter centralization. Thirty years on, socialism in Western Europe pretty much denoted a mixed economy. So what are we to make of Hayek on this issue?
Hayek definitely does believe that a necessary condition of socialism is a degree of centralization, political and economic, which seriously infringes personal freedom. This looks like a causal claim: socialism cannot operate without this degree of centralization. It's a quite different (though still causal) claim that a mixed economy either leads to socialism or, for other reasons, itself produces a degree of centralization, political and economic, which seriously infringes personal freedom. I'd agree that the link between central planning and the kind of socialism Hayek had in mind is logical. One might even see it as definitional. One might think that the diminution of freedom is itself a logical consequence if what is centrally planned, since it is no longer a matter for personal choice. But this line of argument, whether Hayek's or not, neglects the calculus of freedom. It's logically perfectly possible for central planning to restrict some freedoms but to create or increase others. Why not? Hayek can't logically rule it out. It's a causal matter. In any event, it should be remembered that Hayek's target was a rationalist zeitgeist that infected "socialists of all parties": this was, after all, the polemical point of the book (note the tongue in cheek dedication; p. 35).
Of course it matters whether one is focusing on the Hayek of 1944 or the Hayek of 1967: it is clear that Hayek had refined his views. Consider the later essay "The Theory of Complex Phenomena" (Hayek, 1967, p. 42) where he concludes that:
. . . we may well have achieved a very elaborate and quite useful theory of some kind of complex phenomena and yet have to admit that we do not know of a single law, in the ordinary sense of the word, which this kind of phenomena obeys . . . I rather doubt whether we know of any "laws" which social phenomena obey . . . in the field of complex phenomena the term "law" as well as the concepts of cause and effect are not applicable without such modification as to deprive them of their ordinary meaning.
Hayek rightly admits that the "inevitability" is a vague and imprecise expression. So far as I can see, Hayek's "infelicity" is generated by a lack of philosophical precision – but his critics fare little better on this point. A philosopher would talk about some (specified) kind of necessity. I'd guess Hayek assumes causal necessity but the covering law(s) would have to contain ceteris paribus clauses – which rather undermines the dramatic claim of inevitability. And what is the covering law or set of covering laws? Hayek can, it seems to me, assume causal necessity and does so at various points in his argument. The spontaneous social order emerges causally. Epistemologically we can't predict its features but it's not spontaneous in the sense of being metaphysically uncaused. Clearly ceteris paribus clauses water down a law's necessity, and in this sense make its operation contingent. And contingency means that the law has a probability of less than 1. This is so even if the law "works" with exceptionless regularity: that's just a contingency. But ceteris paribus clauses don't tell you, without extra assumptions, what the actual probability is between 0 and less than 1. If there's a social law with ceteris paribus clauses to support this probabilistic generalization, then we need to know what the clauses are and what in turn their probability is. Central planning leads to the general erosion of freedom unless:
x, y, z where 'x, y, z' individually or as a disjunctive set have a probability of 0.9 (or whatever).
If, on the other hand, Hayek is offering a social law as an exceptionless generalization, then presumably his whole interlocked social theory will be needed to deliver this law (note 1). The claim might be that there's a high probability, approaching 1, that central planning will lead to the erosion of freedoms. Not just economic freedoms but any freedom that relies on the rule of law, since central planning will need to override the rule of law. What is this probability claim based on? If on enumerative induction, then Hayek cannot make good this claim because his sample base is tiny. Enough said.
Note 1: By the way, while Marx does talk of the "iron laws of history," there are other passages where historical transitions are seen as trends of extremely high probability. Epistemologically, of course, Marx never claims chronological precision as to what will happen: he can't give even the roughest of timelines.
Farrant, A. & McPhail, E. (2009). Hayek, Samuelson, and the logic of the mixed economy? Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 69 (2009) 5–16.
Hayek, F.A. (1944/1976). The Road to Serfdom. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Hayek, F.A. (1967). Studies on Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Samuelson, P. A. (2009). A few remembrances of Friedrich von Hayek (1899–1992). Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 69: 1–4


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There was probably a collective groan on Tyneside when our midfield maestro came out of retirement last season, for he has so often been the scourge of the Magpies in the past.
In 24 league appearances against them, the 37-year-old has scored nine goals – more than he's managed against any other team. That tally included a memorable hat-trick in a 6-2 romp at St James' Park in 2003, while he's also found the net twice in FA Cup ties.
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So, the strike is officially underway, with a bit of a twist…it'll be rotating strikes across the country, not all at once…
Postal workers will go on strike in Hamilton over the weekend as part of a rotating work stoppage designed to prevent Canada Post from bringing in changes that the union says will undermine health and safety protections.
Canada Post has said it needs to address labour costs, noting the letter-mail business has fallen by more than 17 per cent since 2006 due to digital communications.
The union's chief negotiator would give no indication Friday when the rotating work stoppages that began late Thursday would end.
"We will continue to strike… the goal is still the same, it is a achieving a good collective agreement," Denis Lemelin told reporters Friday morning in Ottawa.
"We have a dangerous workplace that needs to be fixed but Canada Post won't listen to us. We cannot accept unsafe and unfair work conditions."
Lemelin said postal workers have among the highest number of lost days due to injury of any industry, more than four days a year.
Workers inside Canada Post sorting plants have to stand for eight hours on a machine daily, while outside workers walk on average 15 kilometres a day with heavy mail bags — sometimes facing bad weather and slippery footing.
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business said rotating postal strikes will have less impact on businesses than a system-wide strike.
But a steady stream of such strikes will become problematic, said Dan Kelly, the federation's senior vice-president.
"It inevitably is going to throw some wrenches into the system and cause delays at the very least and a lot of stress and anxiety with small businesses," Kelly said from Ottawa.
While there are electronic payment methods, Kelly said a lot of small business owners don't use them to pay their suppliers.
"I am most concerned about business-to-business transactions because a lot of that still takes place by cheque."
Lemelin called on Canadians to exert pressure on Canada Post to negotiate in what he called a fair manner.
"It's important that the population who really care about the postal service really push Canada Post, phone Canada Post, in some ways we really need the help of the public," he said.
About 150 Canada Post workers hit the bricks in Winnipeg at 10:59 p.m., Central time on Thursday. Winnipeg was chosen as the first city to strike because it was the first city to be impacted by Canada Post's modernization program.
Postal workers in Hamilton will go on strike starting at 11:45 p.m. EDT Friday, and remain off the job for 48 hours.
The Crown Corporation said it is committed to continuing negotiations but its last-ditch contract offer tabled Thursday afternoon didn't satisfy the union.
In its latest offer, Canada Post said it would be willing to put a controversial short-term disability program on hold, to be reviewed by a joint union-management committee.
Proposed changes to sick leave have been among the key sticking points for the union.
As well, the employer said it was willing to raise the starting wage of new hires to $19 an hour.
But Lemelin said the offers were not enough.
The last time the Canada Post workers went on strike was the fall of 1997. The workers were off the job for two weeks before being forced back to work by federal legislation.
Labour Minister Lisa Raitt urged the parties on Friday to keep talking, saying the best solution will be one that negotiators work out themselves.
In a statement, Raitt said the parties have pledged to continue delivering government mail such as Canada Pension Plan, Canada Child Tax Benefit, Old Age Security, and regular veterans' benefits will still be delivered.
The government issued a phone number for Canadians to call for information, 1-800-OCANADA for more information.
How are you going to deal with the postal strike, if it's for an extended length of time? Are you worried? Do you support the striking workers?


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In America today, Thanksgiving is generally seen as a time to get together with loved ones, eat a ridiculously large amount of food, watch some football, and of course give thanks for all the blessings in our lives. Many homes will be decorated with horns of plenty, dried corn, and other 'symbols' of Thanksgiving. Schoolchildren across America will 'reenact' Thanksgiving by dressing as either pilgrims or Wampanoag Indians and sharing a meal of some sort. All of this is wonderful for helping create a sense of family, national identity, and of course remembering to say thanks at least once a year. However, as with many other holidays and events in American History, many of these commonly believed traditions about the origins and celebration of this holiday are based more on myth than fact. Let's look at the truth behind our celebration of Thanksgiving.
Origins of Thanksgiving
The first interesting thing to point out is that the feast shared with the Wampanoag Indians and the first mention of Thanksgiving are really not the same event. During the first winter in 1621, 46 of the 102 pilgrims died. Thankfully, the following year resulted in a plentiful harvest. The pilgrims decided to celebrate with a feast that would include 90 natives who helped the pilgrims survive during that first winter. One of the most celebrated of those natives was a Wampanoag who the settlers called Squanto. He taught the pilgrims where to fish and hunt and where to plant New World crops like corn and squash. He also helped negotiate a treaty between the pilgrims and chief Massasoit.
This first feast included many fowl, though it is not certain that it included turkey, along with venison, corn, and pumpkin. This was all prepared by the four women settlers and two teenage girls. This idea of holding a harvest feast was not something new to the pilgrims. Many cultures throughout history had held feasts and banquets honoring their individual deities or simply being thankful for the bounty. Many in England celebrated the British Harvest Home tradition.
The First Thanksgiving
The first actual mention of the word thanksgiving in early colonial history was not associated with the first feast described above. The first time this term was associated with a feast or celebration was in 1623. That year the pilgrims were living through a terrible drought that continued from May through July. The pilgrims decided to spend an entire day in July fasting and praying for rain. The next day, a light rain occurred. Further, additional settlers and supplies arrived from the Netherlands. At that point, Governor Bradford proclaimed a day of Thanksgiving to offer prayers and thanks to God. However, this was by no means a yearly occurrence.
The next recorded day of Thanksgiving occurred in 1631 when a ship full of supplies that was feared to be lost at sea actually pulled into Boston Harbor. Governor Bradford again ordered a day of Thanksgiving and prayer.
Was the Pilgrim Thanksgiving the First?
While most Americans think of the Pilgrims as celebrating the first Thanksgiving in America, there are some claims that others in the New World should be recognized as first. For example, in Texas there is a marker that says, "Feast of the First Thanksgiving – 1541." Further, other states and territories had their own traditions about their first thanksgiving. The truth is that many times when a group was delivered from drought or hardship, a day of prayer and thanksgiving might be proclaimed.
Beginning of the Yearly Tradition
During the mid-1600s, Thanksgiving as we know it today began to take shape. In Connecticut valley towns, incomplete records show proclamations of Thanksgiving for September 18, 1639, as well as 1644, and after 1649. Instead of just celebrating special harvests or events, these were set aside as an annual holiday. One of the first recorded celebrations commemorating the 1621 feast in Plymouth Colony occurred in Connecticut in 1665.


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This album was the first real metal album that I listened to. It is really what turned me into the metalhead that I am today. A friend told me about this band when he first heard their drummer, Travis Smith, laying down just about the fastest double kicking he'd ever heard. As he described it, Travis Smith had "feet on steroids". I checked them out, and at first, I had thought there was too much screaming. However, I then began to look into other metal bands, such as my current favorite, Opeth, and somehow began to appreciate this newly discovered style of music. This CD deserves five stars because of the rare, wonderfully clean vocals of Matt Heafy, and also because of the consistent guitar harmonies. Some may say it is 'not the first album to use clean vocals on the chorus', but yes, we know that, it isn't. Trivium's 'Ascendency' may not be the first to use clean vocals, but I think they do it very well, in fact, better than most other bands. Even though the whole CD is near flawless, here are some of my absolute favorite tracks ( Yes, I know that they are mostly all together, but thats just the way the CD goes ) :
2. Rain – I'd call it a tie for my favorite between this song and Drowned and Torn Asunder. The constant, blazing double kick assault is really what makes this song. I especially like the end of the song where there is a major tempo change and Heafy sings, "Swallow every blasphemy. Eat out your heart and make it bleed."
3. Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr – Great lead-in by Travis on this song. The vocals on this track are very fierce, and the chorus is one of my favorites.
4. Drowned And Torn Asunder – Superior vocals on the chorus, the best on the album. Great double kicking once again during the verses.
5. Ascendency – Not much lyrics to this song, but it is still a thriller. The intro will send chills down your spine. Matt is spilling his guts during the verses.
6. A Gunshot To The Head Of Trepidation – Wow, one of the best guitar solos that I have ever heard. This song is probably the heaviest on the album, which makes a nice break-up in the material.
12. Declaration – A PERFECT closer. Gotta love that signature Travis Smith 16th note assault on the kick drum. Probably the most meaningful lyrics on the CD, too. The whole song is just amazing. Period.
So, really, in conclusion, if you are new to metal and need an introduction, I recommend this CD. It is probably the best place to start for anyone. Hell, even if you're not just starting up, it's still a really great album to add to your collection. I'd place "Ascendancy" among my top 10 favorites of all time. Also, look for their new album when it hits the racks this fall. Thank you for your time.


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Toolroom Goes Deep returns for its third outing, showcasing the deeper side of Toolroom Records though an impressive array of Toolroom favourites and previously unreleased exclusives.
Crammed full of the biggest Deep House from established and emerging artists. Ranging from deep and melodic tunes with tracks from Hot Since 82 and Hackman to garage-inspired cuts from Vanilla Ace, Prince Club and Bordertown, to techy rollers from Supernova, Doomwork and Tapesh. With an impressive array of exclusives to be discovered, including Eelke Kleijn's 'Onderhuids', Honey Dijon & Jerome Robins' 'Wanting' and Deep City Groove's 'Don't Want Don't Need', alongside tried and trusted Toolroom favourites like Dusky's remix of Cloud 9's 'Do You Want Me Baby', Mark Knight's remix of Submotion Orchestra's 'Thinking' and Robosonic's rework of Johnny Corporate's 'Sunday Shoutin'.
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text: Right Away, Housing Challenges for ObamaFiscal cliff negotiations may include homeowner tax breaks.By Inman News Editor's Note: This item is republished with permission from Inman News. View the original article, "Right away, housing challenges for Obama."Now that President Barack Obama has won re-election, there are several housing-related challenges staring the federal government square in the face. These are some of the decisions that will have to be made in the coming weeks:1. The "fiscal cliff": The fiscal cliff is a series of tax increases and spending cuts that will go into effect unless U.S. lawmakers come up with an alternative plan to reduce the federal deficit by $1.2 trillion as required by the Budget Control Act of 2011. The spending cuts, known as "sequestrations," would automatically go into effect on Jan. 2 and be split evenly between defense spending and domestic spending.The credit rating agency Standard & Poor's has said there's a 20 to 25 percent chance the U.S. economy will go into a double-dip recession should Congress fail to reach an agreement avoiding the fiscal cliff. S&P's deputy chief economist, Beth Ann Bovino, warned that such a scenario would cause home prices, currently at a bottom of 31 percent below their mid-2006 peak, to tumble to a record low of 40 percent below peak.In a report released in September, the Obama administration called sequestration "bad policy" that "would be deeply destructive to national security, domestic investments, and core government functions." The president has put forward two deficit reduction proposals that included both spending cuts and revenue increases, but has run into opposition from some members of Congress who oppose tax increases and want to reduce the deficit solely through spending cuts, the report said.Given that Congress remains divided after the election—Republicans retained control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Democrats retained control of the U.S. Senate—whether lawmakers can come to an agreement over the coming weeks remains a question.2. The mortgage interest deduction (MID): Revamping the mortgage interest deduction is one of the solutions proposed to head off the fiscal cliff and could be part of a broader plan to streamline the tax code by eliminating some loopholes and deductions. Some experts have said the MID, which costs the government about $90 billion a year, is unlikely to survive in its present form, though what would take its place, if anything, is unclear.Two years ago, a bipartisan deficit reduction commission recommended scaling back the MID, which is currently capped at mortgages worth up to $1 million for both principal and second homes and home equity debt up to $100,000. The deduction is available only to taxpayers who itemize.The commission, often referred to as Simpson-Bowles, proposed turning the deduction into a 12 percent nonrefundable tax credit available to all taxpayers, capping eligibility to mortgages worth up to $500,000, and eliminating the deduction on interest from second homes and home equity debt.The National Association of Realtors, which has consistently defended the mortgage interest deduction in its current form, was highly critical of the recommendation, claiming any changes to the MID could depreciate home prices by up to 15 percent, and promising to "remain vigilant in opposing any plan that modifies or excludes the deductibility of mortgage interest."3. Mortgage debt forgiveness: Another homeowner tax break may be on the table in fiscal negotiations: the Mortgage Debt Relief Act of 2007, which is set to expire at the end of this year. 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An unreadable plaque lies at the base of this climb because someone decided to scratch out the name and over-write it with the words "Bad Bolt."
This climb is the last climb left of Tofu Crack in the lighter-colored wall, just before turning left around the corner past a tree to the base of the huge, left-facing "Two Timer" dihedral.
A set of cams to hand-sized with a few large nuts or extra large finger sizes. (EDIT): The once-loose lower bolt, (owing to its poor placement) on this anchor has reportedly been repaired and beefed up.


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Juergen Teller and Paolo Roversi: the hard side of fashion
What the famed Anna Wintour's assistants have to go through as fictionalized in the movie The devil wears Prada is only a fraction of the merciless battles in the uber-competitive world of fashion.
Two fashion photographers survivors and wearing the battle scars of years spent in the cut throat business of fashion have received praise for their successful campaigns through the years and are now to reveal the inside of the most glamorous and competitive man-made battlefield- jungle ever. They have been called "fashion war correspondents." Juergen Teller and Paolo Roversi have just brought some of the best works from their careers to Seoul, Korea . Some considered to be classic moments in fashion photography history. Interestingly, both photographers put great emphasis on nude photos.
Teller, one of the most sought-after fashion photographers of today, is holding his show "Touch Me" at Daelim Contemporary Art Museum in Tongi-dong, central Seoul.
As can be assumed by the title, the majority of the exhibits deal with sex ― either in an explicit way through obvious nudity or in a clever way using ambiguous signs.
In one photo, Kate Moss is crumpled in a muddy wheelbarrow in deserted land somewhere in Gloucestershire, England. She could have been mistaken for an abandoned rape victim somehow reminiscent of Susan George in Sam Peckinpah classic movie Straw Dogs as opposed to the supermodel that she is.
In other photoes sophisticated backdrops and fashion items are the only reminders in Teller's photos that these are not documentary photos or pornography but fashion photographs. In fact, most were commercially used.
"Though some may disagree, there is no reason why his works would not qualify as art. The artistic twists and turns given to the photos, which are not expected from usual commercial campaigns, take his works to another level.
"Iget questions a lot everywhere I go, if I am an art photographer or a fashion photographer. Well, it doesn't concern me whatsoever. I just work with different forms like exhibitions, magazines, books, and just enjoy them. I don't put myself in an image of a box," said Teller.
In Cheongdam-dong, Seoul, Roversi's show is under way at 10 Corso Como.
The Italian photographer is a legendary figure in fashion photography who has worked with numerous top notch actresses and models. In Korea, he has worked with actresses Kim Hee-seon and Song Hye-kyo.
He opened his studio in 1974 and most actively worked in the mid 1980s, when fashion houses were really into making catalogues. It was up to the photographers to create the most artistic and original photos possible, and Roversi promoted himself well, working with some of the most open-minded brands ― Comme des Garons, Yohji Yamamoto and Romeo Gigli.
Nudity is also an important inspiration for Roversi. One third of the show here are nude photos of famous models, including Russian model Natalia Vodianova
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text: Diamondbacks pitcher Brandon McCarthy is taking medication and said he's confident he'll be fine after he collapsed at a Phoenix restaurant with a seizure related to the head injury he sustained while pitching last September. The righthander underwent extensive examinations at the Mayo Clinic after the incident Monday. He was having dinner with his wife when he passed out. McCarthy, speaking before Arizona played San Francisco on Sunday, said he knew that after a traumatic brain injury a person can become more ''seizure-prone.'' McCarthy had an epidural hemorrhage, brain contusion, and a skull fracture after being struck by a line drive off the bat of Erick Aybar of the Angels. McCarthy, on the 15-day disabled list with what has become an annual problem with his shoulder, said he will be taking antiseizure medicine for the foreseeable future. He doesn't believe the seizure will impact his return to pitching.


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what i've seen tonight is fantasmagorical!! :) wohoooooooooooo!! yeah!!!!!
keep doing awesome things!! Lamar!! that's your true self showin' up!! Pau, of course you are fantastic. before i forget, Kobe!! i'm just in awe, the way you lead the team is just aweinspiring.
a friend (who is rooting for the nuggets by the way) said this--- "hmmmmm looks like the lakers are winning when they are having fun!!"
it is so much fun to watch your favorite team win.
this is relevant:
"One person working diligently alone can do wonders, but many people working harmoniously together can accomplish worlds."-Brandon Boyd"


text: Folks in Sioux City might see a jump in their solid waste costs. The cost of solid waste collection services will increase starting February 3rd.A typical residential services will cost $15.30.The senior rate will now cost $11.30.And for an additional cart the charge will now be $2.80."As agreed upon in the contract with Gill Hauling, our provider of solid waste, last fall of 2012 that we would make adjustments annually based upon the transportation CPI to the contract this year," said Jade Dundas, Public Works Director. Residents will see the rate adjustment on their March billing statement.There will be no changes to the recycling program.


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We are here!!!!! First stop Liverpool!
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Tomorrow we are visiting Anfield stadium. Soooo excited! ❤ Liverpool FC
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... and the first thurs of every month - all of the bells are tuned to a specific note, they are upside down, the tallest bells in the UK -building of the church began in 1904 and took over 80 years to complete - after three straight days of bombing, in one week Liverpool was processing 86,000 tons of incoming cargo and by a month was back to full capacity despite the bombing - the cavern club was demolished and then rebuilt in the 80's using archeology style ...
Strawberry Fields Forever
... in a shoot out, with Argentina for the win. Interesting facts: -Liverpool hosts the largest cathedral in the UK, standing at over 100 m - the Adelphi hotel is the oldest in Liverpool, it's grand room windows are exactly the same as the windows of the grand room in the titanic (same designer created both) apparently if you eat there it is the closest you can get to replicating how it would have been on the titanic -Queen Victoria loved this ...