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The college was once again honored with multiple Fulbright award winners this spring. Karen Beckwith, the Flora Stone Mather Professor in the Department of Political Science, will spend six months next year in the United Kingdom for a project to identify how the political process can work to create policies favorable to women. Read more.
Andrea Fidler, who recently completed a bachelor's degree in psychology with minors in childhood studies and mathematics, will travel to Macau on an English Teaching Assistantship grant. Andrew Flagg, a 2013 graduate in biology with minors in chemistry and Chinese, will spend 10 months in the Chinese city of Wuhan, investigating the impact of air pollution on residents' respiratory health. Finally, Alanna Ropchock, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Music, will travel to Germany to pursue research for her dissertation on Josquin des Prez's Missa Pange lingua, an important Renaissance mass.
A study co-authored by Stanislaw Szarek, the Levi Kerr Professor of Mathematics, has identified the threshold at which the quantum mechanics property of entanglement occurs. The research shows that entanglement is prevalent in large quantum systems—large groups of particles that have the potential for use in our world.
The property shows promise for such technologies as super high-speed communications, hack-proof encryptions and fast and powerful quantum computers. Read more.
Ellen G. Landau will become the Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emerita of the Humanities upon her retirement at the end of this month after a 31-year academic career. But her contributions as an art historian and scholar aren't over: Her latest book, Mexico and American Modernism (Yale University Press), has just been published.
She also has another book on the way and is working on projects for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Denver Museum of Art. Read more.
Ron Wilson, the Katherine Bakeless Nason Professor of Theater and director of the Case Western Reserve/Cleveland Play House MFA Acting Program, discovered his drawings had gone viral when multiple websites recently published a photograph of him sketching in the Cleveland Museum of Art. He talked with The Huffington Post and The Daily about his unexpected fame.
In other news from the CWRU/CPH MFA Acting Program, alumnus Joe Russo (GRS '95) is in Cleveland this summer, where he's co-directing Captain America: The Winter Soldier with his brother, Anthony. They spoke with The Plain Dealer about their careers and the advantages of shooting a likely blockbuster in Northeast Ohio. Read more.
The Plain Dealer profiled a new program in the Department of Psychological Sciences that's designed to help middle school girls cope with shyness.
Led by Assistant Professor Amy Przeworski, the Girls Link project seeks to learn whether participants in a small-group setting can develop skills to help them deal with their shyness. Read more.
NPR asked Susan McClary, MacArthur Fellow and professor in the Department of Music, to comment on why mothers in operas are so often murderers or other outrageous characters. She explains that opera is not alone: In fairy tales, Shakespeare's plays, and other narratives created in patriarchal societies, "mothers become either invisible or monstrous."
McClary is profiled in the latest issue of the college's magazine, art/sci. Read the issue here.
Check out photos from our events, including our annual graduation party, on the college's Flickr page.
Issue 30 / June 2013
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The plan would be unusual, if not unique, in New York. Similar programs are considered successes in Colorado, Massachusetts, South Carolina and elsewhere.
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Glass slivers that store data forever unveiled by Hitachi
The company has not decided when to put the glass chips to practical use, but may start with governments, museums and religious organizations.
Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 05:54 AM
The data is stored in binary form by creating dots inside the thin sheet of quartz glass. (Photo: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP)
TOKYO — As Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones prove, good music lasts a long time; now Japanese hi-tech giant Hitachi says it can last even longer — a few hundred million years at least.
The company on Sept. 24 unveiled a method of storing digital information on slivers of quartz glass that can endure extreme temperatures and hostile conditions without degrading, almost forever.
And for anyone who updated their LP collection onto CD, only to find they then needed to get it all on MP3, a technology that never needs to change might sound appealing.
"The volume of data being created every day is exploding, but in terms of keeping it for later generations, we haven't necessarily improved since the days we inscribed things on stones," Hitachi researcher Kazuyoshi Torii said.
"The possibility of losing information may actually have increased," he said, noting the life of digital media currently available — CDs and hard drives — is limited to a few decades or a century at most.
And the rapid development of technologies has resulted in frequent changes of data-reading hardware.
"As you must have experienced, there is the problem that you cannot retrieve information and data you managed to collect," said Torii, apparently referring to now-obsolete record players and cine films.
Hitachi's new technology stores data in binary form by creating dots inside a thin sheet of quartz glass, which can be read with an ordinary optical microscope.
Provided a computer with the know-how to understand that binary is available — simple enough to program, no matter how advanced computers become — the data will always be readable, Torii said.
The prototype storage device is two centimeters (0.8 inches) square and just two millimeters (0.08 inches) thick and made from quartz glass, a highly stable and resilient material, used to make beakers and other instruments for laboratory use.
The chip, which is resistant to many chemicals and unaffected by radio waves, can be exposed directly to high temperature flames and heated to 1,000 degrees Celsius (1,832 Fahrenheit) for at least two hours without being damaged.
It is also waterproof, meaning it could survive natural calamities, such as fires and tsunami.
"We believe data will survive unless this hard glass is broken," said senior researcher Takao Watanabe.
The material currently has four layers of dots, which can hold 40 megabytes per square inch, approximately the density on a music CD, researchers said, adding they believe adding more layers should not be a problem.
Hitachi have not decided when to put the chip to practical use but researchers said they could start with storage services for government agencies, museums and religious organizations.
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XBLA Gamecore cap now 400, possible 800:
1 JAF 1970, Mon, 12th Mar '12 8:58:51 AM from New York
Jonah FalconJust more evidence XBLA and retail is being blurred. PSN as well, via association.
Jonah Falcon
2 Known Unknown, Mon, 12th Mar '12 9:09:05 AM from Here. There. Everywhere.
Fresh For 2014Er... well... I like having more gamerscore... I guess... but... I see this either alienating smaller games or causing a lot of "Achievement Unlocked: Opened The Options Menu!"
edited 12th Mar '12 9:09:19 AM by KnownUnknown
"My final prayer: O my body, always make me a man who questions!" — Frantz Fanon
3 Spirit, Mon, 12th Mar '12 9:18:00 AM from America Relationship Status: Hooked on a feeling
Scumbag LeeI'm okay with this. Though I'm not sure I see the point.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Knouge forever!!SWEET! This doesn't quite make up for that rumor about a lousy new Xbox that doesn't use discs and forbids used games.
I am completely, utterly, and thoroughly done with Sola Sonica and 2D
5 JAF 1970, Mon, 12th Mar '12 10:58:34 AM from New York
Jonah FalconWell, XBLA games are getting bigger. Something like Ms. Pac-Man, yeah, 200 GS is okay. But then you have games like Shadow Complex, and it felt like there were way too few cheevers.
Jonah Falcon
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- Publisher: THQ
- Release Date: Oct 20, 2010
- Also On: iPhone/iPad, PC, PlayStation 3
- Summary: Costume Quest is a rollicking Adventure/Role-Playing game that unfolds on Halloween night across seemingly peaceful suburban neighborhoods, a mysterious village carnival, and a monster-infested shopping mall. Created by Double Fine's lead animator, Tasha Harris, the game follows the adventure of a group of young friends who must rid their neighborhood of monsters using only their wits, their bravery, and their home-made costumes. Players go door-to-door collecting candy, points, cards, battle stamps and quest assignments as they prepare themselves for Combat Mode-where they transform into larger-than-life versions of their costumes. Each costume that comes-to-life provides its own unique set of superpowers that players will need to battle Halloween's worst monsters.… Expand
- Developer: Double Fine Productions
- Genre(s): Action RPG
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Score distribution:
Positive: 24 out of 39
Mixed: 15 out of 39
Negative: 0 out of 39
Oct 26, 2010Its greatest strength is its ability to rustle up nostalgia and good, old-fashioned Halloween fun.
Oct 26, 2010Games like Costume Quest are a breath of fresh air in a sea of FPS's and hardcore RPG's. I welcome any more games like this.
Oct 22, 2010Double Fine recently made the decision to break up their team into small groups, allowing them to release a number of smaller titles, rather than one big game every few years. Costume Quest is the first of these sort of games, and if the quality is any indication, they have made an excellent decision. I can't wait to see what's next.
Dec 22, 2010Costume Quest works better when the emphasis is on action. The "collect all candy to unlock next world" variation may get a little tired by the end of the game, but it's a lot of fun to collect new costumes (and discover their abilities).
Oct 20, 2010Costume Quest does a lot of things right – it's humorous, has a great art style that fits the childish theme, a decent battle system and costumes that double as super powers. But despite these qualities, the game does have its shortcomings -- the campaign feels, well, short, side-quests can get repetitive, there isn't much in the way of character customization and $15 seems a bit steep.
Jan 5, 2011Costume Quest is sweet and addictive like the sugary goodness the game is about, but sells itself short in terms of gameplay.
Oct 21, 2010If Costume Quest is a success, it's because it looks cute, it's instantly appealing, and it's very funny. But it's not a very good game. [Issue#66, p.88]
Score distribution:
Positive: 12 out of 15
Mixed: 1 out of 15
Negative: 2 out of 15
Oct 23, 2010A very addicting game that is hard to put down. There's a great blend of excellent writing, unique characters you encounter, and enjoyable gameplay to be had. It's charm lies in recreating a typical night of Halloween, but ratcheting it up to 11 with epic turned based battle sequences. Exploration and puzzles round out the game as you work to unlock more costumes, for said epic turn based battles, as you progress to save your sibling. Like Super Meatboy this game is incredibly hard to put down once you start. Easily one of this years best games period.… Collapse
Oct 20, 2010One word "charming"! This game is so cute its almost sick. What I really loved about this game is how it made me feel like a kid again. I mean come on who doesn't love costumes and trick or treating. Overall the game is incredibly well crafted for a $15 XBLA title. My wife and I played through it in one sitting. This isn't to say its too short. It took us about 6 hours total. Its just incredibly addictive, fun and...charming.… Expand
May 19, 2011I saw this game at gamestop and it looked so cute I just had to try it out. Im glad I didnt see the critics revvews becuase for once they were wrong about a gome. Costume Quest isnt some revelotionary great game lik modern warfare but its a good game that is worth playing. Especially at a small price of 15 dollars. One thing I didnt like about the game is that it can get repetitive I found myself doing the same thing at each of the 3 locations that you can warp to after you discover. THe good thing is that there is plenty of quests to accomplish and lots stuffed into the cramped but buetiful locations. I was bobbing apples finding rare cards and entireing costume contests. The battles are simple with a special attack a regualar attack and battle stamps that you can buy at a station set at eahc of the three locations. Wants you execute your attack you have to preform a quick timed buttun press or repeated pressses but this adds and element to the battles. You also have alot of stratagey to what enemy you attack first because if you attack healers last you are sure to lose. Lastly the presentation and story in this game are buitiful the art style goes along with the story of the monsters taking you brother or sister(since you are able to choose who to play in the beggining) and you constantly having to find them. Overall I think that anybody that has any time on there hands should play costume quest. THe battles are fun the story is fun and my only critism is that the game can get repetitive and the save system is highly flawed but dosent hirt the esperience to much.… Expand
Oct 22, 2010The game has charm to spare, and to me, is best played in small doses. Still, I think the game is very well put together for a RPG-lite (emphasis on the lite) game. The characters are well animated, the dialogue is occasionally chuckle-worthy, and the battles, while simplistic, have just enough to keep me coming back for more. The game definitely won't be for everyone, particularly for gamers who want something a little deeper or gamers looking for the next great Tim Schafer epic. Still, it's a great entry for Schafer and co. into the world of downloadable games, and I can't wait to see what comes next!… Expand
Mar 23, 2012Let's get it out of the way: You should probably get this game. Download the trial and you'll be able to tell by the end of it whether you want this game or not. Hopefully you decide you will because you will be hard-pressed to find a more charming and delightful game on XBLA. Even though the battles are less than basic, and the overall structure of the game is repetitive, you'll happily power through all this to find more costumes (because every single person has fantasized that they could be what they dressed as for Halloween) and to hear more of the funny and well-written story and dialogue. Your inner child is probably telling you to buy this game, and you should listen to it.… Expand
Dec 31, 2011I got this game for me and my son, who loves to play games with me, but cannot read just yet. I was truly disappointed, that there were no voices in the game, just text boxes. What was worse, the text was flashing too quickly, that I couldn't even finish reading them.
I found the simple controls to be ridiculously confusing, and the combat - well after the first combat, I gave up. Its a cute idea, that's poorly executed, and apparently made by someone who neither has kids, nor has been around any in a long time.… Expand
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As a Defense Intelligence Agency Senior Leader, Mr. Harvey served as the Afghanistan-Pakistan Center of Excellence (COE) Director after his appointment by the CENTCOM Commander in 2009. He has extensive experience in policy development, strategic planning, designing analytical studies and writing estimates and key policy papers for inter-agency planning and national-level decision-makers. He has engaged US Congress and Executive Branch on Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and a range of Middle East issues and briefed the President and NSC principals. Mr. Harvey has been a presenter at symposiums and academic oriented panels to include Council of Foreign Relations, Harvard University's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Center Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Rand, Institute for the Study of War, Center for New American Security and other organizations.
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Brit workers: The Xmas skive starts today
A poll of 2,500 Brit workers has confirmed what most of us already knew: the Xmas holiday starts tonight at 5pm as a third of the UK's workforce will "mentally switch off" in advance of next week's pre-Yule skive. That's according to Teletext holidays, which estimates that nine million people will from Monday fill their working …
(Posted as anon coward incase the boss reads the reg)
It def started today. My office is more than half empty (although mianly with folk who have taken the last of their hols today).
I can;t get motiviated to work so close to christmas and with noone about so spent most of the day surfing the web and the rest trying valiantly to find something interesting to do. Think I might knock off a bit early and get a Christmas pint or two in!
Nothing wrong with it! Bring it on!
anyone who posts after me is a loser, coz the are still sat at a computer. HAHAHAHAHA.
I'll be in the pub.
Thats good to see...
"We tried to conduct a Reg straw poll to confirm the above findings, but the sales department has been lodged in the nearest wine bar since 11am, the Strategy Boutique emailed in to say it was "redefining the pro-somnia paradigm" (i.e. still in bed), and members of the editorial team nipped out an hour ago "for a news meeting" and are believed to be exchanging Xmas gifts (beer, in pint glasses) in Vulture Central local The Scribe and Strumpet"
Im glad to see that El Reg are keeping up there normal working standards and not falling in to this skive trap.
he he he
You may have realised by the substantial increase in the number of posts I've made in the past 2 weeks that the Christmas holidays are in full swing here.
So true!
Ive just got back from a lunch that i started at 12.45 and the pub was JAMMED which it has never been during working hours before! im slightly tipsy from a few stellas. Also next week several people have requested me to bring in my xbox 360 for a pro evo and halo 3 fest.
This article read by no
Are we to take the ironic lack of comments on this article as evidence that the world of IT workers are all down the pub instead of pretending to work by reading El Reg or playing counterstrike at their workstations and answering the odd phone call saying "have you switched it off and on again?" before returing to the surruptitious websurfing or departmental lanfest?
I am sitting in my lab waiting for my TCA precipitation to centrifuge while all the other scientists have gone to the Genome Centre kneesup or down to the "Mongolian Barbeque" in Brighton for some nosh and booze. (I am not that sad - planned experiment while forgetting that the pissup/skive was on for today, D'oh!).
IT related will get done till the middle of Jan. Happens every year oh well happy holidays everybody.
Tonight at 5pm?
Pah, lightweights... Started for me yesterday at 5pm...
Which is why I'm now sat at my office desk with a hangover and heartburn from last nights curry-fest.
Oh well, the official office party is tonight, so best I do something useful, and fill the photocopier paper tray up.
Happy Crumble everyone!
we only get 60 odd in a life time
So let the good times roll :)
Though we probably forget most, either to young to remember or to much 'spirit' in the subsequent years. And the ones we do remember we would probably rather forget the majority :)
Christmas humbug.
Just got back from the pub
" the Xmas holiday starts tonight at 5pm"
Nah, it started at lunchtime. It's ten to four and I just got back to me desk from lunch. Which started at at 12.45. And was mostly made out of beer.
On top of that, I can't be working very hard if I'm posting here....
cheersh! <hic> and happy christmas
No pub for me...
...I was at Tescos cafe having chips and beans
google earth
Is a great time waster - planning stuff for Xmas in new york.
With handy wordy doc in another pane just in case one gets disturbed.
I knew it wasn't just me.
'Anonymous Coward' rather appropriate having nipped off early because of a 'pre-Xmas dentist appointment'.
Good work.
Well it really started for me
Today is my last day in my job.. so now i can start the drinking, mince pie eating, turkey and cranberry enjoying festivities in their full glory.
Bring on a crate of lager and home alone 1, 2, Scrooged and National Lampoons Christmas Vacation for starters.
Change Freeze anyone?
Most major banks have their change freeze starting this weekend. This translates to little work in my book :) I'll be surfing all the way. ho ho ho
None of that, here...
I'm working right up until Christmas Eve, weekends included. Got a critical client project that needs to be finished by then.
But then again, I can skive off when I take my holidays for New Year. :)
network lockdown was started about 2 weeks ago, strangely faults have dropped by about two 3rds..
And this is the first time in 5 years I get 2 weks off, and the first time in 4 years I've not worked on christmas day... :)
And to think, initially i was worried about my job going to India... LOL, they can have it.
Happy Christmas from (anonymous massive ISP)...
I live in America...
...which means work 9-5 every day except the 25th.
Working US does stop me!
I am a Brit also living and working in US but doesn't change xmas antics.
I waltzed in late this morning after being our for xmas beers last night and I am about to swan off for a tasty beverage meeting with a co-worker. Gonna be a lot of those meetings next week :-)
My last progress report was today. Next one is in January.
@ Paul Wells
Your employer sucks, then. I'm taking 2 hours off on Monday the 17th (dental, not so much a holiday as what I hope is the beginning of a long holiday from pain), and we get the 24th and 25th off as paid holidays. Then I'm taking the 26th as a vacation day because Boxing Day seems a very good idea. No work will get done the 27th or 28th, except in the machine shop (which is mostly automated work anyhow, the employees just shift materials and load the programs when it's time to change them), and the following Monday and Tuesday will be paid days off...
We might get back to actually doing things on Jan 3rd.
And this *is* the USA.
Ready to roll!
That's me all done from now until Jan 24th. I make that the 14th Christmas and New Year in a row that I have not had to work over. No working Xmas eve no working Boxing day, no working Hogmany Ner'day or the 2nd Jan. Merry Crimble.
Scribe and Strumpet?
would that be "Ye Olde Scribe and Strumpet" - a pub on the malarial flats south of MWVille that caters to newbies.?
Pub Flu!
Glad my HR department doesn't read this, otherwise they'd know exactly what the words "pub flu" mean when I write them on my next 'sickness' form.
I'm surprised there are any non-anonymous cowards on this list!
Working in a retail-related industry
We're on call 24/7, all parts of the business are producing at something like 400% and after christmas it doesn't slow down for a good week or two...
I have GOT to get into the finance sector :D
i'm in work at the moment and is slowly winding down thankfully
i'm in until the 22nd then i'm off on the 23rd,24th and 25th but back in on boxing day as didn't have enough holidays
tho i have been advised it does slow down here over xmas (i work for an isp technical support desk :-) )
Re: None of that, here...
"But then again, I can skive off when I take my holidays for New Year. :)"
You skive off on your holidays?
Do you sneak off back to work? ;)
rub it in, why don't you? I pulled the short straw again this year and have got to man the datacentre on Xmas Day - triple time though.
Oh well that'll mean all day alone for me with virtual Paris....
What about us Proper Engineers, not you nancy boy code fiddlers!
Thought that I had pulled a flanker by jacking the job earlier in the year and then they ask me back part time.
I agreed to work 3 days, (Tuesday ,Wednesday, Thursday ) without realising that I will miss out on bank Holidays as they are on Fridays and Mondays :-(
Spare a thought for us who are in our 50's and have managed to escape without having cushy jobs or share options...
Teletext would know...
TT Holidays has estimated this based on it's own office - 90% of it's staff are in the John Bull pub in Chiswick most days of the week from 11am til closing time at the moment!! The other 10% have beers in the 'breakout area' playing foosball!!!!
Merry Xmas TT
christmas SHUTDOWN.....
yah. we shutdown the whole box on xmas for a WEEK. but...if ya wannna work , even part of it... it's overtime. 40hrs ot anybody? not usually. 16-24hrs mebbe. just for money and masochisms sake... oh... but anyone ranking group leader and above won't be there? nniiiice...
count me in...
call center
I work at a call center. Most of my clients are in the states. I swear if I get a call at all on the 24th I'll lose it. I'll tell wtf you find a bar or a bottle of jack
Xmas eve Job
I was given a job to install a Plan 107 telephone system on XMAS EVE! The customer (Brit Gas) told me when I turned up at 10:00 that they were all off down the pub "soon, like 12:00!" I looked at want was wanted & said I'd finish it by then. There was much laughter & chuckling at 'the poor BT engineer actually working today!' I finished the job at 11:00 & then joined them in the pub & had free drinks all afternoon! I never worked so fast before; although I have done better than that but...
You all have my sympathy
I work for myself so if my boss gives a shit if i come in late or not at all, then I have only myself to blame.
I work when and only if I want to. My "commute" is down the stairs and a sharp left into my office. I don't answer my phone except by appointment -- if my bloody clients want me urgently, they can fax me and wait for a response.
I step out of my back door, walk up the lane, and look across the rolling green fields of West Cork fading down towards the sea.
Best of all... I love my work so much it's not even like work (and if it was, I'd do something else).
Life does NOT get better than this.
Happy Christmas, everyone.
-- Jon
if you live in West Cork ...
... you hardly notice the Christmas binging, 'cos they drink like bloody fish all year long over there ;-)
Not skive - but slow..
Some companies have a 'change freeze' between now and the middle of jan, as senior policy makers, and essential staff 'who only that thing' become unavailable on holidays, or just in the pub :)
There is a slow-down, but not a skive, afterall you can do that any time of the year if you like, its just that christmas almost forces it on you....
Please Sir, can i have some more?
Let us spare a thought for the unfortunate IT contractors; who would not notice the the difference between this week and any other week and whos' life is one long holiday. Perhaps we should have a whip-round for the poor little blighters, when they will only have 1 day on their invoices next week....shame!!
Xmas shut off (you jest)
You penpushers might be able to "mentaly" shut off (never thought you were anything else),but we who actually produce "things" still have to work as hard as ever
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Let us spare a thought for the unfortunate IT contractors; who would not notice the the difference between this week and any other week and whos' life is one long holiday. Perhaps we should have a whip-round for the poor little blighters, when they will only have 1 day on their invoices next week....shame!!
Only 2 days in the Netherlands :) Then its back to work.. Then moving... Why does this always happen around xmas...
Four years ago I did some "deep level" support (whatever that means) for a large IT company.
The refused all my holidays (long story) until December and then said that I'd had to be "on call" for the three weeks that I was on holiday. I couldn't go anywhere without my laptop. I couldn't even have a drink at New Year.
So I was on holiday and being paid double time to support a system which had absolutely zero users because they were all on holiday too. Nedless to say, I got absolutely rat-arsed and didn't take the laptop with me anywhere...
What's new ?
While these so called "workers" spend 2 or 3 weeks doing sod all productive, the people who actually keep the country running and all the rest of you alive and able to bugger about, are busy doing REAL work. You know, the kind where you use your body to achieve a noticeable end result - like food on the shelves, animals kept alive, fires put out, people operated on, f*kin cards delivered, etc.
Personally, I'm working the 24th, 27th and 28th then the 31st and back to normal on the 2nd of Jan. (And BTW, my working day is rarely less than 13 hours long).
Enjoy yourselves, just bear in mind how many people do without for your benefit.
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SEN. JOHN KERRY'S little joke about smarts and soldiering in Iraq turned out to be, pardon the expression, not much of a swiftie. If the Kerry Correlation is true, the senator's performance at a California city college last week qualified him to be dropped off alone in middle of the Sunni Triangle with a rifle, pack, and desert uniform with a stitched-on name patch: Doofus.
If that scenario sounds suicidal, Mr. Kerry's remark about the lazy and ill-educated "get[ting] stuck in Iraq"--he claimed later he was talking about President Bush, but Mr. Bush is a fellow Yalie--was political hari-kari. Speaking of Mr. Kerry's presidential prospects in 2008, the amoral political genius Dick Morris says, with a brevity that precludes dissent, "Kerry is dead." One commiserates with Mr. Kerry, returning home to Teresa after immolating their First Couple hopes, perhaps trying to explain things while dodging every shoe in her closet. She probably has a lot of shoes. Mr. Kerry may not have encountered hostile fire this intense on the Mekong.
Actually, the senator's lethal gag might be better likened to a suicide bombing: Not only did he blow up himself, but he also blasted shrapnel at Democratic candidates in tight races, some of whom disinvited him from campaign appearances. A week before a watershed election, apathetic GOP voters were sharply reminded why they might want to keep Congress from falling wholly into the hands of the party that just two years ago ran John Kerry for commander in chief.
Mr. Kerry's lapsus linguae , as Dick Mephistopheles Morris pointed out, may have been Freudian. The senator may really look down on the troops. But the current U.S. military got off easy--Mr. Kerry implied that they are merely ignorant--compared with their forebears who fought in Vietnam. Young John likened them to the brutal minions of Genghis Khan, only with grenades.
There are dirty politics, and there are pseudo-dirty politics, tossed unjustly by skilled liars into the skullduggery cell. One widely accepted falsehood is that Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, the Democrats' 1988 presidential candidate, was "smeared" by George H.W. Bush's Willie Horton ads. In fact, as governor, Mr. Dukakis had backed the furlough program that allowed Horton to rape a Maryland woman and half-kill her fiance. Another crystallizing canard paints the Swift Vets and POWs for Truth as a GOP front group devoted to ruining Mr. Kerry's Vietnam War record just in time for the 2004 election. While that group went too far in impugning the basis for Mr. Kerry's combat awards, it brought overdue reckoning to a man who had branded hundreds of thousands of living and dead warriors as berserk brutes.
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"The reason there's been so few accidents is they pay so much attention to safety," said Larry Lester, who has worked in theater and previously oversaw live action shows at Universal Studios before launching an entertainment design firm. "They're constantly looking at that. They're constantly practicing."
Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil was established in 1984 and now includes more than 1,300 artists, according to its website. "Ka" is one of 20 shows playing around the world this year - eight of which are based in Las Vegas.
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We've updated the BMW F20 1-series gallery with nearly 50 photos. We'll have the full tech details posted for you this weekend, but enjoy the preliminary info and full set of pics in the meantime!
Here they are, the very first photos of the F20 BMW 1-series! The full press release is expected this weekend, so stay tuned!
Seen here are "Sport Line" and "Urban Line" models. Compared to the outgoing 1-series hatchback, the F20 has grown by 8.5 centimeters to 4.32 meters in length. Wheelbase grows by 1 inch. It retains its 50:50 weight distribution.
Base engine in the BMW 116i with a newly developed 1.6-liter turbo gasoline engine that makes 100 kW/136 hp. For the same displacement, the 118i gets 125 … CONTINUED
Even clearer updated photos of the F20 1-series M Sport front fascia. The different angles show us just how aggressive the M sport bumper actually is. Check out the new set inside….
We bring you the very first look at the upcoming F20 1-series M-sport front end on a 135i hatchback, and it's undoubtedly the most aggressive M-sport front bumper we've ever seen from BMW, owing to the integration of air curtain bodywork and deeply inset air inlets to direct more airflow to the air curtains.
The rest of the M-sport package has not yet been affixed on this car, but expect the usual set of M-sport wheels, rear bumper, sideskirts, and of course interior M-sport bits.
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We've just seen the start of Nurburgring testing for the 1-series on 3/28, and now spyshots.nl brings us some more photos of the car, from a lower angle. Theres nothing substantively new in these photos, just additional views from different angles. Enjoy!
Update: This image has been confirmed as a render based on a real BMW image, so we are essentially seeing the real new look of the 1-series. Autobild leaks the new BMW 1er Sporthatch. This photo certainly looks like the real deal, especially comparing to the spyshots and everything we know about the car, I believe this to be real!!
We've caught the new upcoming 2012 1-Series hatch every which way imaginable, but now the car has finished its winter testing and entered Nurburgring testing. This is a critical point on the path for any BMW towards production. In fact, the new 5-door hatch is rumored to be revealed online this spring, 2011, with its first public showing at the Frankfurt autoshow this fall, so I'm sure things are in high gear with the 1-Series development team.
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Although we're still in the process of reviewing Danger Close's Medal of Honor Warfighter reviews for the EA published first-person shooter have started to appear online.
As always, we've corralled them up and put them in a list below. We'll be updating this round-up as and when more reviews are published, so check back regularly to stay up to date on the critical reception.
Polygon: 4.5 - Medal of Honor Warfighter's multiplayer failings underline its real problem - it feels thrown together, with little consideration for why its parts should fit. While the multiplayer's obtuse design decisions are preferable to the campaign's lack of artificial intelligence, decent mechanics, or interesting level design, it's still difficult to find much reason to recommend Medal of Honor Warfighter over the shooters it wants so desperately to resemble. In an attempt to build a bridge across Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty, Danger Close has once again fallen into the hole between them.
Eurogamer: 5/10 - There's been a backlash brewing for some time against the bombastic direction military shooters have taken, but it would be wrong to assume that Medal of Honor: Warfighter is simply the game unlucky enough to bear its brunt. The truth is far simpler and more depressing: it's just not that good.
CheatCodeCentral: 2.7/5 - Medal of Honor: Warfighter feels unpolished. It's a slew of great ideas mashed together in a way that doesn't give any of them time to truly shine, rushed out to make a deadline that didn't do it any favors. While there's enjoyment to be had here, it is fleeting and often devolves rapidly into frustration and boredom.
Destructoid: 5/10 - Charmless, cynical, and uninspired, Warfighter encapsulates everything wrong with the annual big budget shooter industry. It's really not an awful game, it's just insipid and shallow, a title that exists solely to exist, and squeeze whatever profit remains to be had from serving the same flavorless porridge to the same unadventurous customers. It will make its money, and keep the FPS factories in business for another year.
NowGamer: 6.5/10 - While it's disheartening to see the promise of Danger Close's previous effort fall foul of the explosive taint of Call Of Duty, Medal Of Honor: Warfighter is still a fairly solid shooter with an unfortunately short campaign length.
The Daily Mail: No Score - But what it lacks in realism, it makes up with its colossal production values and memorable multiplayer - a tried-and-tested recipe for success. It's not the deep, emotional journey many were expecting, but action blockbusters never are.
GameThirst: 6/10 - Medal Of Honor: Warfighter isn't what you'd expect from Danger Close, especially in a day and age when the FPS genre in particular has become extremely competitive, with developers like DICE, Infinity Ward, 343 Industries, Gurrella Games and Treyarch pushing the boundaries. And with big titles like Halo 4 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 available in less than one month, there's no need to buy Warfighter. Rent it instead.


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OC Oerlikon Corp AG (OERL), the Swiss maker of textile machinery that announced the sale of a solar unit to Tokyo Electron in March, said profits may rise further than earlier guidance as a slumping textile market stabilizes.
"The bottom line and the top line can improve on our guidance," Michael Buscher, chief executive officer of Pfaeffikon, Switzerland-based Oerlikon, said in a phone interview. "We are confident we can increase profitability further compared to 2011," he said. Buscher didn't give more detail on how much profitability could improve.
Earnings before interest and taxes in the first quarter rose 7 percent from a year earlier, excluding the one-time sale of property from the textiles unit, to 113 million Swiss francs ($125 million), Oerlikon said today in an e-mailed statement. Sales rose 6 percent from a year earlier to 961 million francs. The Ebit margin, or Ebit as a percentage of sales, was 12 percent.
Oerlikon set a 2012 Ebit margin target of about 11 percent and forecast sales and order intake to decline by as much as 5 percent when it reported full-year earnings on March 5.
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Oerlikon has climbed 8.5 percent since the 2011 results were reported, trading at 8.53 francs on April 27. That gives the company a market value of about 2.7 billion francs.
Order intake in the first quarter dropped 12 percent from a year earlier, led by a 19 percent decline at the textile unit. Buscher said the fall was due to an "exceptionally high" first quarter last year. He said he's confident about orders for the unit, "based on the strong start to the year and in the context of our discussions with customers."
Buscher said demand from China, which generates 53 percent of Oerlikon's textile sales, is stable, with "smaller markets like Indonesia and Turkey helping to push growth."
Demand for machinery to spin natural fibers like cotton has stabilized and should rise this year, after falling through most of 2011, Buscher said. The peak of the textiles industry was at the end of 2010 and beginning of 2011, as companies re-stocked after the financial crisis, Buscher said.
Demand for man-made fiber machinery to spin nylon and polyester held up better last year and continues strongly, according to the CEO. "We can see good orders for man-made fibers through to 2014," he said.
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Artificial fibers make up about 45 percent of revenue for the textile division, with 40 percent coming from natural materials, Buscher said. The remaining unit revenue comes from components for textile machinery. Oerlikon competes with Rieter Holding AG (RIEN), China Textile Machinery (600610) Co. and Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd. (LMW) in textiles.
Oerlikon agreed to sell its solar business to Tokyo Electron Ltd. (8035) of Japan for 250 million francs, the company said in March. The transaction is expected to close this summer, the company said in today's statement.
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American teenager Gabby Douglas has been wowing the world with grace, style, and of course, the women's all-around gymnastics gold medal.
Nevertheless, much of the chatter on social media and online platforms has been about the upkeep of her hair, and not all feedback is positive.
Douglas, one of the few African-American gymnasts ever to compete in the Olympics and the first to win all-around gold, is an inspiring story.
Time and Sports Illustrated have her on their covers. President Barack Obama called to congratulate her. So why do people care about Gabby Douglas' hair?!
"I love how she's doing her thing and winning,'' says 22-year-old Latisha Jenkins of Detroit told The Daily Beast. "But I just hate the way her hair looks."
"With all those pins and gel ... I wish someone could have helped her make it look better since she's being seen all over the world."
"She representing for black women everywhere.''
According to reports, the 4'11" Douglas appears to have chemically relaxed natural hair, to which she adds a human-hair ponytail for height.
The Olympic champ then apparently slicks it all back with a heavy layer of gel to help it stay in place during her high-energy performances.
Hair has always been something of a hot button issue for African-American women culturally, but in the case of Douglas, isn't the criticism a little much?
Douglas' accomplishments speak for themselves ... for the conversation to turn to a teenager's physical appearance and upkeep seems a bit unfair.
Do you like her hair? Does it matter? Tell us what you think.
why do yall care about her hair she is beautiful intelligent and very talented and to be honest she has more money than all of yall up here (with the negative comments). GO GABBY DOUGLAS KEEP UR HEAD UP AND KEEP DOING WHAT YOU DOING!!!!!!!!!! SN: FORGET ALL THE HATERS :):):):):):)
With a name like Latisha Jenkins...think ghetto...nevermind...she probably has never left the Detroit, Michigan, 'hood that she lives in.
This is the stupidest thing I have ever read. She is representing our great nation by achieving the highest decoration for an athletic event, and people are worrying about her hair? What pains me the most, is this is just another racially motivated subject. Let it go! African-American this, black that. Her mother saying "She's living with a WHITE host family. Their are no BLACK salons in the area." Who cares about the skin color? She's an American. She went to London to bring home the gold and she did, that's ALL that matters. USA!
Gabby has made a name for herself and will go down in history with other great historians. You (the lady with the stupid comment about her hair) also will go down in history as the stupidest african american in the United States. Stupid ass probably didn't vote!!
i dont give a flying fuck about her hair. she looks like a fucking alien even with her hair down.
Hey Sandra, I bet you're "UGLY & FAT!!!
Hey u "haters", keep on hating while Gabby goes to the bank and you live your "miserable" lives. Hey "pubic hair guy", she's a "gymnast not a model you fool......you're a born loser".
I am glad the gabby douglas won gold for the US but the bottom line outside of her hair needing serious attention I am sorry but she is ugly
Gabby - You have proved to the world that hard work pays off. You are a beautiful 16 year old African American Girl; I am so proud of you; keep pushing and remember this quote: The Sky is the Limit! You Go Girl!! (PS: Dr. Teresa Harris-KC)
It is an outrage that here we are having to defend a marvelous athlete against such pointless opinions. This is a girl with her priorities in order. Besides, what does race have to do with how we as women choose to keep our hair? It is an accessory. How odd that anyone would allow their hair to define them. Instead we should be defined by our actions. If there is time, need, or desire for a particular type of hair, then go for it. It is an individual choice. Miss Douglas has chosen to have neat, presentable hair that does not get in the way of her goal to be the best she can be at a difficult sport. Her mother has raised an intelligent, focused, humble, and talented young lady. Let's celebrate that!


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