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3ds I see the word 'gym and think of working out, moving, and sweating, and then I slowly back away. But Puzzler Mind Gym 3D may be right up my alley as it has nothing to do with fitness. This upcoming 3DS release is a daily prog... | 08-12-2011 | ||
3ds Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition, the exciting new collaboration between Nintendo and GungHo Online, is coming west this May and I really couldn't be more excited. As a longtime "Pazudora" addict, it's somethi... | 02-20-2015 | ||
3ds When Nintendo announced the New Super Mario Bros. version of Puzzle & Dragons for the 3DS, reports came in that their stock values skyrocketed. Puzzle & Dragons is a huge hit on mobile devices in Japan, much like Can... | 01-23-2015 | ||
3ds Sega is showing off its new puzzle game Puyopuyo Tetris here at their already super busy TGS 2013 booth. As a fan of both games, I gave this cross-up a spin on the 3DS. Puyopuyo Tetris is also coming to the Vita and PS3 as we... | 09-18-2013 | ||
3ds I have a long love affair with Japanese falling block puzzle games. Although Magical Drop and Money Idol Exchanger are my favorites, Puyo Puyo has a place in my heart for being the first one I loved. It's a classic that has ... | 09-16-2011 | ||
3ds pc ps3 ps4 Wii-U xbox360 Of all of the games to get a PS4 remake, you'd probably never put Putty Squad, an SNES game from 1994, at the top of the list. But here we are in 2014 with a full-on re-imagining, with more or less the same platforming mechanics that still work nearly 20 years later. The only problem is, System 3 Software has opted to charge $29.99 for a decidedly dated game -- which is a bit of a problem. | 05-15-2013 | ||
3ds The never ending saga of mobile games ripping off other titles has found a new victim with Pushmo for the 3DS. The clone in this case is called BlockShift, and the developer behind the project has even stated in the comments... | 08-04-2012 | ||
3ds I've thankfully managed to forget about most of the Xbox Live Indie Games I subjected myself to over the years, but a few happy memories do remain. Ancient's Protect Me Knight, an 8-bit overhead action game about fending off... | 08-21-2014 | ||
3ds Project X Zone seems like something that probably shouldn't exist. It's a strategy role-playing game sporting an expansive all-star cast of prolific characters from the combined libraries of Capcom, Namco Bandai, and Sega. That sounds more like the stuff of fantasy than an actual game you can play. And yet, here it is. | 07-09-2013 | ||
3ds You got chocolate in my peanut butter! You got peanut butter in my chocolate! Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are great. Personally, my favorite part is the edge, as long as you still get a little bit of peanut butter along ... | 08-30-2014 | ||
3ds [Update: European release also confirmed.] Late last year, Japan got an amazing crossover in Professor Layton vs. Ace Attorney -- leaving everyone else in the dark as to when it would be announced worldwide. But due to today... | 08-07-2013 | ||
3ds ds Remember that Professor Layton, Ace Attorney crossover news that happened a while ago? Well not only do we have screenshots for it, there is even a video! Sadly all the text is in Japanese, but Bolt2nd, the person who upload... | 09-23-2011 | ||
3ds When Disney started re-releasing all their classic animated films in 3D because they like money and their classic films are really worth watching again in the theater, I wrote this review of the 3D release of Beauty and the B... | 11-16-2012 | ||
3ds Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is labeled as the sixth and final game to follow Hershel Layton. The game starts in a cozy, winter village and follows the crew on a globetrotting adventure after Layton and co. embark on... | 09-21-2012 | ||
3ds With five previous games and one movie under his belt, Professor Layton's reputation precedes him. Since 2007's Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Level-5 has been giving players control of the eminent gentleman Layton... | 03-10-2014 | ||
3ds Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is set to arrive on North American shores in 2014. After arriving in Japan back in late February, the sixth entry in Level-5's series of puzzlers is slated to arrive in Europe someti... | 04-17-2013 | ||
3ds Okay, I know no one cares that much about farm sims or things like that these days unless they're teeming with in-app purchases. Or PoPoLoCrois, for that matter. But for some reason, I really like both. I also really like the... | 02-24-2015 | ||
3ds Great news for all you Pokémaniacs out there: you can now receive Meganium, Typhlosion, and Feraligatr along with their Hidden Abilities from the Pokémon Bank, brother. This comes just after the one year anniver... | 02-27-2015 | ||
3ds Great news for all you Pokémaniacs out there: you can now receive Meganium, Typhlosion, and Feraligatr along with their Hidden Abilities from the Pokémon Bank, brother. This comes just after the one year anniver... | 02-27-2015 | ||
3ds ds Starting May 8th, you'll have the chance to pick up the legendary Deoxys through the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service in Pokemon Black and White 2 -- who will also be appearing in the Pokemon trading card game next month. On... | 04-25-2013 | ||
3ds ds Still feel the urge to do some collecting as you wait for Pokemon X & Y? Well, slam close the stamp book because I've got you covered. Participating GameStop locations will be yielding shiny versions of legendaries Dialga... | 07-29-2013 | ||
3ds ds Beginning March 4 in North America, there will be a limited-time Pokémon distribution event for Meloetta at GameStop. After that date, you'll have three weeks to make a trip over to secure this Normal- and Psychic-typ... | 04-26-2012 | ||
3ds Pokemon Tretta is an arcade game over in Japan, and now players can sync up the arcade game to their 3DS with the Tretta Lab free app. But you're going to have to buy a gigantic peripheral that can attach to either the 3DS o... | 07-30-2013 | ||
3ds I had a binder specifically for my collection of Pokémon cards but never knew how to properly play the game. Which was fine, because they were fun enough to look at. I did, however, play a ton of Pokémon Trading... | 07-07-2014 | ||
3ds Pokémon Shuffle isn't Nintendo's initial foray into the seedy underworld of free-to-play with microtransactions. Rusty's Real Deal Baseball did it first, but Shuffle is the first example that drew ire fr... | 02-25-2015 | ||
3ds Pokémon Rumble was launched on WiiWare in 2009 and apparently did well enough to justify a retail appearance. Pokémon Rumble Blast is the mildly anticipated sequel and first official Pokémon game to come ... | 10-24-2011 | ||
3ds I love Pokémon Puzzle Challenge. I am glad that it is coming to the 3DS Virtual Console. I think I will pay $5 for it despite still having a cartridge. I probably won't bother with the code for the Special Demo Version of Ruby and Sapphire it comes with, but that's fine. It is a lovely little game. I think I will go play it right now. | 10-20-2014 | ||
3ds Great news for all you Pokémaniacs out there: you can now receive Meganium, Typhlosion, and Feraligatr along with their Hidden Abilities from the Pokémon Bank, brother. This comes just after the one year anniver... | 02-27-2015 | ||
3ds Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity is finally out, and you can celebrate with two brand new animated shorts compliments of Nintendo. The first one, embedded above, is basically an abridged summation of the first few ... | 03-26-2013 | ||
3ds As weird as it is that the original Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is almost eight years old, it's even weirder that the series is coming back, this time to 3DS. Or maybe I just haven't been paying attention. Also, I suppose milking... | 03-20-2013 | ||
3ds ds Starting May 8th, you'll have the chance to pick up the legendary Deoxys through the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection service in Pokemon Black and White 2 -- who will also be appearing in the Pokemon trading card game next month. On... | 04-25-2013 | ||
3ds ds Still feel the urge to do some collecting as you wait for Pokemon X & Y? Well, slam close the stamp book because I've got you covered. Participating GameStop locations will be yielding shiny versions of legendaries Dialga... | 07-29-2013 | ||
3ds ds Beginning March 4 in North America, there will be a limited-time Pokémon distribution event for Meloetta at GameStop. After that date, you'll have three weeks to make a trip over to secure this Normal- and Psychic-typ... | 04-26-2012 | ||
3ds There once was a time when "match three" puzzle games were a rare commodity, but after the rip-roaring success of Bejeweled and Puzzle Quest, it feels like there's a new match title released every month. The craze kind o... | 03-21-2014 | ||
3ds Educational games that impart knowledge while remaining entertaining are certified rarities. Too often you're left with staggering amounts of informative material and meager side portions of "game" that contribute to a rather... | 10-23-2014 | ||
3ds You can grab a free Latios or Latias (whatever your version doesn't have) in Pokemon Omega Ruby or Alpha Sapphire right now. The catch? You have to do it right now before the promotion ends sometime tonight. All you... | 03-01-2015 | ||
3ds ds The greatest media crossover since Who Framed Roger Rabbit is exactly one month away from its Japanese release. Let the onslaught of television commercials begin! Above is a 30-second spot for Pokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition, ... | 01-20-2012 | ||
3ds It goes without saying that Nintendo's handheld needs games. As the system has been out for roughly eight months. one genre -- more than others -- that could use a little kick on the butt is the one that found such an i... | 11-22-2011 | ||
3ds Minnesota-based developer Monster Games is no stranger to resurrecting long-dormant franchises for Nintendo. In 2006 it released the spiritual successor to the NES classic Excitebike, Excite Truck for the Wii. Then, just thre... | 03-23-2011 | ||
3ds The fourth game in the Picross e series, e4, is heading to the 3DS eShop in North America. It'll drop in May, and will feature new 20x15 puzzles, as well as tutorial options for newcomers. Micross and Mega Picross modes ... | 04-23-2014 | ||
3ds The visual novel has been ubiquitous in Japan since the early '90s, but in the West they've never truly caught on. Whether it was the U.S.'s love for its own home-grown adventure games like Sierra's King&rs... | 12-27-2014 | ||
3ds ipad iphone Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies is out this week on iOS, and it's basically a port of the 3DS game with an enhanced graphical filter. You can nab the first case for free, buy each case piecemeal for $4.99, or bu... | 08-07-2014 | ||
3ds While the story eventually normalizes with both groups, you have somewhat of a difficult decision at the start of Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. Do you go with the Persona 3 crew, or the gang from Persona 4? I know a few... | 12-03-2014 | ||
3ds Kyle would've written this post about the awesome limited-edition Persona Q 3DS XL but didn't want to quote his own review of the game, so here we are. The GameStop-exclusive system is available as of today in the United Stat... | 11-25-2014 | ||
3ds I've yet to play Paper Mario: Sticker Star, or even manage to see Nintendo's television spot for the 3DS game prior to now, but little things like that aren't going to stop me from enjoying this behind-the-scenes look at Nin... | 02-05-2013 | ||
3ds The Paper Mario series has long followed an odd trajectory, filling in the holes left in the wake of new trends on Nintendo consoles. The original N64 title and its GameCube sequel worked to satiate both fans of 2D Mario game... | 11-06-2012 | ||
3ds It's no secret that I love the Paper Mario series. And it's no secret that when the 3DS was announced at last year's E3, the game I wanted the most on it was the new Paper Mario. Sadly, a year later, still no word o... | 06-08-2011 | ||
3ds I've always loved the Paper Mario series. Brilliant writing, turn-based combat with a fun twist, and tons of adorable characters all come together to create some pretty amazing experiences. When I heard that the series was co... | 09-13-2011 | ||
3ds ps3 Wii-U xbox360 It's probably the 12-year-old in me that digs this new commercial for PAC-MAN and the Ghostly Adventures 2. Burping with force waves? Cool. Sound effect stand-ins for farts? Love it. The scream-y Ask Ketchum/Naruto voice over narrator? Tops, man. Not going to lie: I've watched this more than once. I'm also pretty proud of my screenshot of the boy belching. | 04-22-2014 | ||
3ds Film or TV ps3 Wii-U xbox360 Namco Bandai's European wing recently registered a new set of domains, unearthing eight titles that potentially could see western releases in the not too distant future. The batch includes a domain for a Short Peace game, ind... | 07-20-2013 | ||
3ds Despite previously claiming that there is no way to delete the perma-save in Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions without "corrupting" the game entirely, Namco Bandai has admitted that there is a secret way of wiping data safely.&... | 08-02-2011 |
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Amazon tests delivering orders with drones: CEO
PUBLISHED: 02 Dec 2013 14:10:57 | UPDATED: 03 Dec 2013 08:31:40PRINT EDITION: 02 Dec 2013Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed his company is looking to the future with plans to use "octocopter" mini-drones to fly small packages to consumers in just 30 minutes.
The US retail giant's ambitious project still requires additional safety testing and federal approval, but Bezos estimated that Amazon "Prime Air" would be up and running within four to five years.
A demo video posted on the company's website on Sunday showed the tiny robotic devices picking up packages in small yellow buckets from Amazon's fulfilment centres and then whizzing through the air to deliver the items to customers just 30 minutes after they made their purchase on Amazon.com.
"I know this looks like science fiction. It's not," Bezos told CBS television's 60 Minutes program.
"We can do half-hour delivery... and we can carry objects, we think, up to five pounds (2.3 kilograms), which covers 86 per cent of the items that we deliver."
The mini-drones are powered by electric motors and could cover areas within a 10-mile (16-kilometre) radius of fulfilment centres, thus covering a significant portion of the population in urban areas.
They operate autonomously and drop the items at the target locations thanks to GPS coordinates transmitted to them.
"It's very green, it's better than driving trucks around," said Bezos.
Amazon said the octocopters would be "ready to enter commercial operations as soon as the necessary regulations are in place," noting that the Federal Aviation Administration was actively working on rules for unmanned aerial vehicles.
It projected a more optimistic timeline than Bezos himself for the project to be activated, saying the FAA's rules could be in place as early as 2015 and that Amazon Prime Air would be ready at that time.
Bezos hinted that part of the motivation behind the mini-drones was to make sure Amazon remains on the cutting edge of the retail industry.
"Companies have short life spans... And Amazon will be disrupted one day," he said.
"I would love for it to be after I'm dead."
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Amazon.com is testing delivery packages using drones, CEO Jeff Bezos said Sunday on the CBS television program "60 Minutes."
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ACT Seminar: Jaikumar Radhakrishnan/TTI-Chicago/Tata Institute Mumbai Gap amplification in PCPs using lazy random walks in TAY 3.128
Speaker Name/Affiliation: Jaikumar Radhakrishnan/
TTI-Chicago/Tata Institute Mumbai
Talk Title: Gap amplification in
PCPs using lazy random walks
Date/Time: February 17 2005 at 11:00
Coffee: 10:45 a.m.
Location: TAY 3.128
Adam Klivans
Talk Abstract:
Irit Dinur (ECCC TR05-046) gave a new
and remarkable proof of the PCP theorem using gap amplification in constra
int graphs. In a constraint graph each edge has has a constraint and one
is required to assign colors to the vertices so that the maximum number of
constraints are satisfied. The key insight in Dinur''s proof
is the def
inition and analysis of a graph powering construction
based on random w
alks. Using walks of length t in the constraint graph
G Dinur construct
s a new constraint graph G%5Et with the following
pleteness: if all constraints in the original graph G can be satisfied simu
ltaneously then all constraints in G%5Et can be satisfied simultaneousl
Soundness amplification: if every assignment in G leaves
an e
ps <<1/t fraction of the edges unsatisfied then every assignment in G%5Et
leaves a fraction Omega(sqrt%7Bt%7D * eps) of the constraints unsatisfied.<
We present a variation of Dinur''s powering construction with better
soundness amplification: the fraction of unsatisfied constraints
now Omega(t*eps). The size of the new graph is roughly the
same same a
s in Dinur''s construction. The main idea is to use lazy
random walks t
hat stop with probability 1/t after each step instead
of walks of a fi
xed length t.
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Blogging is emotional, people, and here's why. One day I'm confessing to you all the twists and turns, dead ends, missteps, frustrations and, ultimately, the satisfaction that comes from fashioning a cocktail recipe outta nada. And we liked that, right? The Bathtub Gin(ger) — it sounds delightful, no? We picture, like, those fantastical, Depression-era black-and-white flickers with the Mae West and the Ginger Rogers and the silky peignoirs and the heart-shaped hotel bathtubs on pedestals. Don't we? (I have a pretty active imagination.)
And then the next day, what I have to confess to you is this: I found this other cocktail site that is a pretty excellent resource for mixologists of all levels, a really thorough, user-friendly, cleanly designed database of drink recipes that absolutely merits my recommending it to you, and now y'all are gonna leave me, I just know it. Boo hoo hoo! Now I'm picturing a Douglas Sirk B-grade weepy in which Barbara Stanwyck slaps the dickens out of her unrequiting lover because she is mentally unhinged and afraid of losing him.
Kindred Cocktails lets you browse recipes by author, ingredient, base liquor or most-recently-added recipes. Anyone is allowed to contribute. The guy who runs it calls himself "Chief Swizzlestick," which your Head Blogtender finds almost but not quite as clever as Head Blogtender.
I am writing to you from on a cocktail high. It's almost noon yet I'm still riding my 3 a.m. buzz. Last night, I competed alongside 11 of the city's best bartenders in the first-ever Montreal Bar vs. Chef competition. It was like PROM FOR COCKTAIL NERDS!!!
The contest was held at Le LAB, my maison away from maison here in Montreal. (The first night Sean and I went there, I got just pickled enough that I started blabbing about my cocktail blog, and next thing I know the LAB staff and the PhoBlograpHusband had conspired against me to sign me up for the contest, despite my being neither a French-fluent nor an actually-employed bartender.) It was sponsored by Appleton Estate and consisted of three parts:
The moral of this week is: Take things literally. Yesterday I blogged about my Breakfast of Champions, an original cocktail o'mine that bears more than a passing resemblance to a Moon Over My Hammy at Denny's – and yes, it's a little embarrassing for a high-functioning alcoholic mature mixologist to admit to such levels of kitsch. Today's recipe, while not quite so blatant, was likewise created via an over-the-top approach.
The basic premise was to construct a swizzle using the sweetest ingredients we (Sean and I) could think of, but somehow manipulate them into a drink that tasted better than, say, a shot of insulin with a Blow Pop chaser. Our secondary goal was to make a juice-less swizzle — which, according to rather strict definitions I've found and mentioned here before, means it technically wouldn't be a swizzle, but whatevs — as our at-home citrus stock was low.
Dear Tri-State Weather,
You are being a whiny little beeyotch this week. After putting up with all your petulant bullshit throughout the entirety of spring (wait, what spring? Exactly), now you are ruining Summer Cocktail Week. I plan a Mai Tai post and you decide that it's a good day for intermittent drizzle and an overcast sky that can only be described as pawn-shop pewter. Do you see a dot-uk at the end of this blog's url? You're just fucking un-American, weather.
The World's Greatest Mai Tai
1 1/2 ounces Myers Rum
1 ounce of another dark rum of your choice
1/2 ounce orange curacao
1 1/4 ounces lime juice
1/2 ounce orange juice
1/2 ounce orgeat
1/4 ounce simple syrup
Orange peel and cocktail umbrella, for garnish
Combine all liquid ingredients into an ice-filled cocktail shaker and shake vigorously for about 30 seconds. Strain into a Pilsener glass that has been filled with crushed ice, swizzle-style. Garnish.
As both a maker of cocktails and a plier of the written word, I am wholly offended by garish concoctions (cocktastrophes, perhaps?) that look like this and, insult on top of insult, co-opt the nomenclature of "daquiri":
And so, welcome to reason #I-lost-track of why I so thoroughly enjoyed pitching drinks at The Royale, where the Holly Hills daquiri looks like this:
When this blog was still but an emptyish Google docs folder, my webmaster/husband, at one point needing to throw some dummy text into WordPress, cut and pasted a few grafs from a paper he'd presented at McGill University in March. He studies musicology, so next to a photo of the Autumn in New York, it read:
"The modern conception of the blues has come to be associated with two essential elements; a strict formal construction of twelve bars in common time divided into three four-bar phrases, and a cyclical repetition of that construct featuring melodic, textural and timbral variation. Blah, blah, blah." [Ed. note: "Blah, blah, blah" mine.]
We joked about how awesomely trippy it'd be to just make the blog nothing but photos of cocktails juxtaposed with chunks of musicological academia, and leave it up to the reader (of which there'd surely be even fewer than there are now; bless you (plural?) all!) to divine what the hell it all meant. There is one drink, however, which would've let the two appropriately coalesce: the Robert Johnson Swizzle, a cocktail invented at my own, personal Valhalla, Death & Co., and named after the father* of the Delta blues.


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None of this would have never happened. All the hope, effort and opportunity at employment only prove to be futile after being terminated by the city of Fort Lauderdale (job references). I felt I was treated very unfairly by the city after 17 years. The malicious and racist nature of how my situation was 'set up' and handled. The economic lynching without regard or recourse was (is) still something very evil. Since I couldn't continue to support my family, life became nothing. I no longer wanted to live in this kind of world. I also wanted to punish some of the cowardly, racist devils that help bring this about, along with the system. I am glad I did it. It became war. There should have been a more humane system. But no. All too often, the disease (racism) is personified in the white race of devils. After nearly 41 years of life as a black male there's been too many negative experiences and encounters.
"Well, that's kind of clear," Johnson says of the note today. "Even if it wasn't racial, it becomes a racial issue by virtue of this world and society that we live in. It was racial just because it happened that way [a black man killing all white men]. And you're sticking your head in the sand if you choose not to see that."
After Johnson's visit with the city's managers, she was not asked back to lead counseling sessions with employees. Instead, Panoch and Larkin hired a crisis-management team with experience in workplace violence, not racism.
"It was my conclusion after spending time [analyzing the shooting] that that act was not racially motivated," Witschen says. "Nothing I see warrants that conclusion."
That's because neither Witschen nor any other white manager was looking in the right place, Lamar says. Whites didn't think race played a part in the killings. Blacks did.
"No one wanted to address what could have been the real cause of that tragedy," says City Commissioner Carlton Moore. "If an individual has not lived it, if an individual has not felt it, they cannot understand it."
Even more important to Lamar, at the time, was to be at least involved with the recovery process.
"In my opinion, for the city not to have the city's [affirmative action specialist] involved in all phases of analysis and remedy of this tragedy will prove to be a mistake when the final chapter is recorded and read," she wrote in an e-mail to Panoch in early March 1996. "I am trying not to let that happen."
Though she wasn't invited to her bosses' meetings, Lamar nevertheless talked to dozens of black employees at funerals and memorials for days after the shootings, and most admitted to understanding how McCree could have done what he did. "The black men felt anger and fear, because they had traveled down that same road and weren't sure how far they were from McCree," Lamar says. "Maybe McCree went fifteen steps, and these men went twelve, thirteen, fourteen. They didn't know where that point was for them, and that scared them.
"The city did something worse than not dealing with it," Lamar says. "They used their lack of dealing with it to state that it was a nonissue. I think the same powder keg is building just like it did before."
Eventually Lamar's managers responded to her pleas. In an e-mail sent to Panoch, Larkin wrote that he would "prefer that Deborah spend her time on the specific assignments she has already been given." Two days later she was reprimanded for missing deadlines on four projects. Three of the deadlines had passed while she was out sick. The fourth was actually a government contracting expo she'd missed seven months earlier. On March 31, 1996, Lamar was suspended for four days with pay.
"When my questions and advice challenges the status quo... I was to be silenced by personal discipline as a distraction, and set up for future termination," she alleges in a written appeal of her suspension. "Missing manning a booth at an expo seven months ago is insufficient grounds for a manager career to be put on the line or for any formal discipline."
During her suspension Lamar decided it was time to submit a detailed affirmative action report, no matter what the consequences. She submitted the 61-page draft to department heads on July 10, 1996, five months after the shootings and several months past deadline. On July 26, Larkin asked her to resign, saying that if she didn't he would recommend she be fired, Lamar claims. He cited incompetence and missed deadlines as the primary reasons.
Lamar refused to resign, and a week later she was given notice of eleven charges against her, including more missed deadlines, violations of e-mail and computer policies, and spending $600 on outside printing to get her affirmative action report prepared.
Larkin suspended Lamar without pay for twenty days and recommended to Hanbury that she be fired. As she served her suspension, other charges trickled in, including using the city's computers to conduct personal business on city time and exceeding the budget of a summer youth program she oversaw by about $4500. Lamar claims that these are false charges, because in each case she was doing her job and had the approval of her superiors. Despite her claims, she was fired.


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Falling in Love with Football: A Super Bowl Valentine
In 1977, The Oakland Raiders finally returned to the Super Bowl. I was living at the beach that year, temporary roommates with my best friend, Stephen Salinger, a life-long Raiders fan. He made food, invited friends in, cheered through the game and celebrated for days after the Raiders' decisive 32-14 win against the Minnesota Vikings.
I went surfing.
He couldn't believe it. I had to be the only man in America not watching the game. It was perverse, it was pathological. It was unpatriotic. But there was a swell running and, in a favorite phrase of mine at the time, football was just "guys jumping into piles" anyway. I thought I was 'above' football, but the truth is I was a petty little snob from an upper East Side, socialist-leaning family (My mother voted for Adlai Stevenson. Twice). We went to anti-war demonstrations and Pete Seeger concerts (Yes, we sang along), not football games. Running photographs at half-time from Shea Stadium to the pressroom at The Daily News, years before, I had gotten a closer brush with the sport. I came away impressed by the sheer size of the players and the gladiatorial brutality of the game itself. But I wasn't inspired to watch.
I later became friendly with one of the players on the field that day, Jets cornerback Steve Tannen. We sat in my step-brother's living room watching another Superbowl, and he explained what was going on. I still didn't get it. My smug superior pose was like a suit of armor. I clanked when I walked. An actual NFL player was sitting on a couch with me, explaining the intricacies of the game, and all I could think was, "This is way too complicated for such a dumb sport."
I might never have discovered the game at all, but around ten years ago, something completely unexpected happened.
I fell in love with a fan.
. Annie and I worked together in my contracting business and we were painting a kitchen one Sunday afternoon, when she put on the radio. Not NPR as usual, but an AM station out of new York city, WFAN. The Giants were playing and she didn't want to miss the game. She liked listening almost as much as watching, which was convenient since the hated Patriots had knocked the Giants off the Boston television stations most Sundays.
Bob Papa and Dick Lynch called the games better than the boneheads FOX and ABC, and she liked constructing the plays in her mind from their rapid-fire descriptions: "It's third and eighteen, Collins in the shotgun. Amani Toomer split wide left, Cross to the right, Tiki Barber in the slot. Long snap from Center. Collins back to pass. He has Amani Toomer up the left side line, he's all alone … the pass is short, he comes back for the ball, makes the catch, in typical Toomer fashion, dragging both toes in-bounds. That's a miraculous catch at the twelve yard line and – no, there's a flag on the play. It's coming back, folks."
I didn't understand most of this. It was like listening cricket or curling. But Annie sure did. I'll never forget her howl and rage and frustration at that moment, when it turned out that Roman Oben had forced the holding call.
"What the hell are you doing?!" she shouted at the radio. "They're killing us with these penalties! You don't hold there! Not there! Not now! We're giving them the game! Why can't they just let them play? Now watch! It's fourth and inches and Fassel's going for the field goal! Just give Tiki the ball! Let him run it!" But he didn't, and the kick went wide. Another dismal day for the Giants.
But the fans were used to days like that, in the lean years before the great squad of the mid-eighties and the tough years since. And at the end of all those seasons, they'd just sigh and say "Maybe next year…" There was always plenty of time to lick your wounds and prepare for the next season: it was a long way to September.
Eventually I learned the terminology, and more and more every Sunday I got drawn into the games. It had happened the same way for Annie, as a little girl, sitting with her Dad, watching the games on television – or traveling to Yankee Stadium, and even the Yale Bowl, during those seasons when the Giants didn't have a venue of their own. Football turned into the best way to spend time with him: it gave them an endlessly fascinating topic in common, and a perfect strategy for getting to know her otherwise difficult and remote father. A few years later I saw Remember the Titans and thought I glimpsed a little of Annie in the white coach's ten-year old daughter, screaming at the TV. Not that much has changed. She still paces and chides and screams "GO DEFENCE" on those crucial goal-line stands. I don't think Annie sat down once through the whole of Super Bowl 42, when the Giants triumphed in their rematch with the hated Patriots.
She's had her glory moments as fan. She submitted a song about the team – lyrics to the tune of Ora Lee -- in a FAN contest, and won it. She wound up singing on the radio with Offensive Tackle Karl Nelson. Bob Papa had written "Good" on the sheet she submitted – as terse and emphatic as the call on an extra point. Some sample lyrics—
Twelve and Four
Twelve and Four
We are playoff bound
With Stephen Baker in the air
And Otis on the ground
A friend of Annie's worked for the New Yorker, and the big day got written up as a Talk of the Town piece.
The more I watched, the more I fell in love with the game. I gloried in the spectacular pounding the Giants gave the Vikings on the way to that other Super Bowl, in 2000 – and suffered through their humiliating loss to the Ravens, a few weeks later. We drove all the way down to Connecticut for that calamity. Annie's whole family was morbidly in tune with the team, reading the mood on the field even before the kickoff. "They look flat," her Dad announced as the Giants out onto the field. It seemed nuts to me, but they were right. "It's all about emotion," Annie told me, and I began to sense that myself, feeling the shifts in psychic energy on the field with that crucial touchdown before the half-time, or the break in concentration when the other team called a disruptive time-out.
With the increasing popularity of so-called 'reality' TV and the cultural ascendance of unscripted drama – from The Great Race to American Idol, from Survivor to The Biggest Loser – I started to realize a curious small truth: football is our true reality TV, and our most fascinating unscripted drama. I had seen football movies like Varsity Blues, where the final victory was a foregone conclusion. In the actual game, anything can happen. An interception or a turnover, a miscalculated on-side kick, can turn a game upside down.
I realized that football defines itself through series of paradoxes. It represents a kind of utopian view of America, where people work together toward a common goal, a world without rancor or racism, a peaceable kingdom … where men are broken and battered in ferocious combat every week. It's a brutal sport that rewards elegance and grace, that elevates men to unparalleled stardom through intricate self effacing military teamwork; a bruising physical competition that relies on levels of knowledge and intuition and cerebral analysis that would give a MIT statistics professor pause. It takes place on a hundred yard playing field, and yet any individual game can be decided by a matter of inches; It plays itself out over almost four hours but so often resolves itself in the last few seconds – that over-time field goal in the air as the clock runs down.
It draws familes together, like Annie's; and friends, like Stephen and me (we commisterate now, about the Raiders and the Giants); and cities, like New Orleans and Indianapolis, whose teams will be duking it out this Sunday in Miami. And it gives us an extraordinarily diverse cast of characters to enjoy: The old legends thinking about retirement, the kids scoring their first NFL touchdowns ever, in the autumn sunlight; the younger brother struggling in his brother's shadow and the older brother moving closer to the title of greatest quarterback of all time, and closing in on it this weekend, beyond the glory of another ring. And the other players who'll never get the ring – Tiki Barber, who retired too soon; or Barry Sanders, quitting because he was contractually bound to play out his career with a losing team. All the great careers ruined by traffic accidents and drug scandals, or by carrying a loaded gun in the waistband of your sweatpants and accidentally shooting yourself in the leg.
It's a complex, fascinating world and I know I'm a part of it at last as I wait for Peyton to throw that first pass on Sunday, and wonder what happened to his little brother's team, lying down to be trampled by the Vikings in a humiliating final game, and blow out a long breath and say, "Oh well. Maybe next year."
I'll be watching the Combine and the draft on the NFL channel, discussing the prospects with my family (The Giants need help on their offensive line). It's not much, but I'll take what I can get.
It's a long way to September.
And what non-fans don't understand is that football, to be played well, requires a lot of intelligence, altering blocking schemes at the line of scrimmage, whether a safety is coming on a blitz, which receiver should be covered, all decided in a matter of seconds. It's not just big brutes bashing each other.
When my husband and I first got married and moved away from home, we were broke as a joke. Our weekly entertainment was to go to the local high school football game (for $2/person). We watched Tiki and Ronde grow up on the field. By the time they got to UVa, we were lucky to be in CVille. They hold a special place in my football loving heart.
I remember reading about the cobbler in "A Suitable Boy" making one perfect pair of shoes from scratch, to impress his beloved. Shoes? Fascinating. The Wild-cat, the flea-flicker, the half-back option and the good old statue of liberty play? Ditto.
Read Halberstam's "The education of a coach." I know it's about Belichick, but it's a good read.
But I rated you anyway for the prose in the 4th to last paragraph. You almost had me there, but a string of Sport Center addict boyfriends has forever ruined it for me. Maybe its more adorable when its the woman who's into it.
But my favorite game (perversely, perhaps) was baseball. I adored the game. Still do, abstractly, for I gave up after the last two strikes. Just gave up.
Then I turned my gaze to football, and though I knew the basics growing up, it wasn't till I was in my 30's that I began to study it. It is operatic in scale, with staggering human dimension. I truly love it, and though I wince when I see what could be a concussion-causing hit, I have to admit, there's a throwback part of me that revels.
Gotta hate your friend's Raiders. But I generally root for the beleagured Giants - what happened to them this year? I think the coach is gonna get fired.
Definitely rooting for a Great Superbowl. It's good for America. It's good for me.
Looked it up, and it's interesting, comes Possibly from Dutch.
be - leger. Leger means "camp". Related to besiege, see. And does the "guer" versus "ger" come from the French "guerre"? That would seem to make sense. I wonder about this kind of stuff all the time. No wonder I don't get anything done.
Also, I could hear the radio announcers in that paragraph. The game on the radio (with our own announcers) is the usually the best way to 'see' it.
I've loved football since I remember remembering.
I love it still, but distanced myself as well for some time due to my thought it's a waste of time. I then realized most of life is wasted if one were to ask what you do with your time.
Writing doesn't make me any money, so it's a waste of time.
Money rules, hence I waste time. I love football and many other things that don't make me money.
Such is life.
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Fun fact: Some people don't even pick a wedding song. Did you know that? They just let the band pick. Always surprises me.
(BRAND NEW) Jason Mraz – I won't give up
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I love this song already. The vocal moves the track forward with the perfect amount of momentum and tension. The slight lisp on the sh's, the traditional country harmonies in the final few choruses and his incredible range make for a great track. This is the kind of tune that a cover band can easily mangle as the subtleties are essential. Love.
If you've never listened to Jason past his singles, I highly recommend picking up Tonight, Not Again: Jason Mraz Live or Beautiful Mess: Live on Earth. You don't believe the depth and versatility of his voice until you see it (hear it) live.
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Just really effing cute. If someone ever asked me to sing this I'd be impressed and super happy. Also, the video is entirely made of Jelly Bellys. The making of In Your Arms video is ridiculous. Thanks to Gloria for sharing this!
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga – The Lady Is a Tramp
Ok, I know this isn't new. And it's not your typical wedding song – but hey! – people have wedding receptions. Did you know that I play in a band that does wedding receptions in Toronto? *small plug* I love how Gaga is game for anything and holds her own with the legendary Tony Bennett.
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CONTEXT: Preterm infants have a high prevalence of long-term cognitive and behavioral disturbances. However, it is not known whether the stresses associated with premature birth disrupt regionally specific brain maturation or whether abnormalities in brain structure contribute to cognitive deficits. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether regional brain volumes differ between term and preterm children and to examine the association of regional brain volumes in prematurely born children with long-term cognitive outcomes. DESIGN AND SETTING: Case-control study conducted in 1998 and 1999 at 2 US university medical schools. PARTICIPANTS: A consecutive sample of 25 eight-year-old preterm children recruited from a longitudinal follow-up study of preterm infants and 39 term control children who were recruited from the community and who were comparable with the preterm children in age, sex, maternal education, and minority status. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Volumes of cortical subdivisions, ventricular system, cerebellum, basal ganglia, corpus callosum, amygdala, and hippocampus, derived from structural magnetic resonance imaging scans and compared between preterm and term children; correlations of regional brain volumes with cognitive measures (at age 8 years) and perinatal variables among preterm children. RESULTS: Regional cortical volumes were significantly smaller in the preterm children, most prominently in sensorimotor regions (difference: left, 14.6%; right, 14.3% [P<.001 for both]) but also in premotor (left, 11.2%; right, 12.6% [P<.001 for both]), midtemporal (left, 7.4% [P =.01]; right, 10.2% [P<.001]), parieto-occipital (left, 7.9% [P =.01]; right, 7.4% [P =.005]), and subgenual (left, 8.9% [P =.03]; right, 11.7% [P =.01]) cortices. Preterm children's brain volumes were significantly larger (by 105. 7%-271.6%) in the occipital and temporal horns of the ventricles (P<. 001 for all) and smaller in the cerebellum (6.7%; P =.02), basal ganglia (11.4%-13.8%; P=.005), amygdala (left, 20.2% [P =.001]; right, 30.0% [P<.001]), hippocampus (left, 16.0% [P =.001]; right, 12.0% [P =.007]), and corpus callosum (13.1%-35.2%; P=.01 for all). Volumes of sensorimotor and midtemporal cortices were associated positively with full-scale, verbal, and performance IQ scores (P<.01 for all). CONCLUSIONS: Our data indicate that preterm birth is associated with regionally specific, long-term reductions in brain volume and that morphological abnormalities are, in turn, associated with poorer cognitive outcome. JAMA. 2000;284:1939-1947.
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Dang, Golden State's depth chart is just nasty. (In a bad way) Ronny as a Center? Should we be proud?
Good win. GS had their D-league squad out there, but it's nice to see us beat the teams we are supposed to beat by a good margin. AA outscoring Hermann. And Amir showing why he still deserves to be in the rotation and especially over Kwame Brown. Team effort. Max ate some babies this game; probably pent up frustration from Nene dunking on him LOL
Nice win. After the meltdowns and other negative junk going on, its good to just beat up on an opponent. Will was fun to watch on point. Its interesting to see how people take advantage of situations like this. You see it with a number of player where they get a measure of freedom and they really show you what they can do.
I will demur to the leecap, which will have more precise observations, but I saw a Pistons team having fun, which is so important. Sure our opponent was the equivalent of Weekend at Bernie's, but as a live, team building exercise, the Pistons should feel pretty good about themselves. We continue to win by playing Walt. I just hope his cold shooting doesn't deter Curry from doing the right thing, and continuing to make him a part of the rotation.
He's been much more under control. He will likely be out of the rotation soon though. On a side note, the Garnett-less (and big baby davis-less) Celtics beating up the Ben Wallace-less Lebrons at home. Our win against BOS just got a little bit nicer. I'm not sure who i'm rooting for to get the #1 seed. Considering BOS's road woes in the PO's; i think they need to beat the Cavs, and as much as i hate the Celtics i'd rather see them advance other than the Cavs if it isn't us. (I'd really like see ATL but . . . yea LOL)
Right now especially with the way our schedule is later in the season I see det moving up to the 4th seed..which means a bos or cle in the 2nd round like you mentioned...I think I would rather see the Cavs get the 1 seed.. I would like for det to play Mia in the 4 5 matchup and then have us play Cle in the 2nd round...then hopefully Atl can play Bos in the 1st round..mainly because I wanted to see that series again after last year plus I think Atl has a chance at beating them (not likely but a chance)...
Well with Warrior d squad, the Warriors hung around with a couple early threes to be down 13-12 with 7 mins left in the first, then the Piston closed the qtr on a 20-4 run and eventually stretched that to a 26-4 run before the Warriors started to hit some hoops. Every Pistons scored except AI (who may score later tonight in da club, with bottle full of bub) Most of game was Scrub-on-Scrub play, but our guys had fun out there. [strike]Grandma's hands[/strike] I mean Kwames hands were on display with 4 TO's and Fabio tried to show off his big hands, but was an awful 1-7 shooting...he did grab 7 boards though... Bynum and Max were tonight's stars and hopefully one of them won Blaha's star of the game honors as long as the American Idol voters weren't stuffing the ballot box for Rip. Bynum had a season high 13 pts and was one off his career high of 14. Its a shame that Walter Sharpe couldn't get in until 2 and change left in the game....?? He had a mean under the hoop reverse dunk that shows he deserves some more PT. It's also a shame that we gave up 91 points to those scrubs, but hey a W is a W...lookin for 5 in a row in the ATL tomorrow night
This game was never in doubt once the Pistons scored a basket and it was a blast to watch even as a blowout. I really wonder what's going to happen when A.I. comes back and the rotations will be all out of whack and Bynum will lose playing time. This team is starting to look like they are having fun again and the guys enjoy playing with each other. Rip is the new leader and Stuckey has got his groove back. Even Fabio looked pretty good out there and I didn't mind him bricking his 3's. That boy has the huge mitts and between Maxiell being a dunking machine, Fabio rebounding and Bynum ball hawking and scoring at will on drives the Pistons are a dangerous team. The Poor Warriors playing with only 7 healthy bodies. They looked like a NDBL team out there and I felt almost sorry for them. Thank our lucky stars we have Arnie and his magical potions. What was he rubbing on Sheed and Dice before the game started? It looked almost like purple cream, does he sell this on eBay and where can I get some? I kind of wish Iverson would just continue his rehab until the end of the season to eliminate all the drama about what this team will do when he gets back. I'm definitely on the Will Bynum train but I've been there all year since he played at the University of Arizona one year before he bolted for another college and he was crazy talented even back then.
We were losing to teams like this a couple of weeks ago. Good win. Nice to see the bench starting to gell. 31-29. Now if we can get the next 2 tough games then the team can really go on a roll.
They're not good enough to beat Boston and Cleveland in a 7 game series. It looks like fun beating up on the 3rd string lineup of an already bad team, but in a series against veteran coaches, with superstar lineups, this team will not be playing Will I Am or Amir or maybe even Kwame and AA. If AI comes back, and can contribute enough to offset Curry's lack of experience, we might have a chance. If Iverson does not come back, or comes back but can't help, the Pistons will not go far as currently constituted.
Not much of a game. Golden State basically just played 6 guys. (10 minutes from Turiaf before he sat out the rest to let heal some minor injury) And the 6 guys they played hardly constituted a team. Rip knocked down 22 points. Stuckey about 14 points and 8 assists, hitting several outside shots. Bynum got to the hoop and scored a lot. JMAX shot 5 for 8, mostly dunks but he also hit a couple of jumpers. Amir and Afflalo got to play, did fine. Herrmann played, bricked most of his shots. He did get several rebounds and scored on a steal. Sharpe got in for a moment, and completed a pretty impressive drive in reverse. Kwame played a lot. So So. Would be better if he would make more free throws. (and even though JMAX scored a lot, yep, he could sure use work at the line too. I still say JMAX should be shooting jumpers at the free throw line - he would make more free throws that way vs. what he is doing - and it would help keep his jumper warmed up. The game featured us getting out to about a 20 point lead to start the game - and then basically maintaining that lead the rest of the way. The lead got to 25 for a moment just before the end of the first half. The lead dipped to about 15 at one point to start the 3rd quarter before the starters woke up and got the lead back up near 20 before starting to call it a night. To reiterate - GS really did not have a team out there. They started Turiaf at center - and he only played 10 minutes. The only real talent out there for GS was Crawford - who did score 50 earlier in the season - but Crawford opened with 1 for 7. So to say we beat a team we are suppose to beat - forget it. We beat a team that had no business playing an NBA game. Not worth mentioning this one.
It looks like the championship will have to come through DET again as the Piston defense turned up the heat on the leagues 2nd ranked offense and held them 16 points under their average. First time Sharpe showed anything. I too wish he could have gotten in earlier.
Funny you mentioned Weekend at Bernie's because that's exactly what I was thinking about when Eli Zarat said that AI was at the game but "in back" where no one could see him. I think for the next home game they're going to go with the sweater over the back of the chair routine and keep telling us that he's in the bathroom.
Well you know the local papers won't be bothered to even inquire about his whereabouts. If Eli says he is in the john, then "WE GOOD".
You think they would if we sent them the link? I'm going to check the ATL Journal Constitution tomorrow - Monday if I can.
That's a good point about ATL. I'm trying to figure out who we match-up better against between BOS/CLE; normally i would say CLE, but it's kinda a toss up.
well this was a much more interesting game than i expected. i saw like 5 random people i work with, which is odd because i never see anyone i know. then jmax proceeded to eat babies. then, our ticket guy gave us 'meet and greet' passes to meet one of the players after the game...sweet!! so with about 2 minutes to go we went down into the Shock locker room with a group of other people. first, Tom Wilson came in to chat with us...which was pretty cool. he said it was nice to have a breather game for once. the next thing he said is that it is interesting that the pistons are playing better without allen iverson. he mentioned a game in chicago where we blew a 15-point lead in the 4th, and then again mentioned how we are 9-0 without allen iverson playing, and that the players seem to be having more fun on the court. with that being said, he made it a point that he still thinks the pistons need AI and is kind of wondering in hindsight why they didn't make this bench move sooner (or use it from the very beginning), saying that sometimes it's hard for AI to play with starter-level players and that they could sometimes get frustrated, but that he fits in perfectly with the bench and players who aren't looking to score. Wilson also said it's pretty much one of the strangest years he can remember, beating every division leader but losing to pretty much all of the bottom teams. he also said that AI went to Joe yesterday and told him he would go to the bench and do whatever it took to help the team win. so, next came in James 'Buddha' Edwards, sans fu manchu. btw, he's rather tall. he autographed an 8.5x11" picture of himself and then i got a picture of us on my camera phone, which unfortunately came out blurry. this is the part where roscoe says something about me never bringing my real camera to the game. next Blaha came in, and my buddy mentions how he has the same suitcoat...i laughed because it was rather hideous as many of you probably saw...yellow/black? Blaha joked how it was a poor choice to wear a flannel coat with it being so warm outside...anyway i got a picture with him too (this time better quality on my buddy's camera phone). last but not least...Walter Sharpe! lol, i figured it would be him, especially because the entire team was waiting for him to do the meet & greet before they boarded a plane to atlanta for their game tomorrow. so he came up to me and i shook his hand and said it was cool that he got playing time tonight and he said he was happy to finally get in a game. he signed his player profile page in the Pistons yearbook they gave us. my buddy took a picture with Sharpe, and it was pretty funny because he thought he closed his eyes so he made the girl who took the picture show it to him and make sure it was okay, or else they'd have to take a new one. i thought it was amusing he was so concerned about it. we also got some excellent news about ticket prices for next year, especially for season-ticket holders. max...i think you're going to be pretty happy with what they're doing, and they said the packets should be in the mail soon. overall...what an awesome night!! thanks to the people who work at the Palace for giving back a little to the fans (they said they do the meet & greet after every game...and also provide some cookies/beverages while you're waiting), which is pretty cool.
Man, that was a sorry team we played tonight. They had 4 on 1 fastbreaks twice in a row on Bynum and couldn't come away with a bucket. Maxiell was a monster in there. Ferocious. Hard to put much on it though, since there were really no big men to oppose him. I agree with Lee, it's not even worth it to analyze this one. They had no shot blockers. Our little bigs were dominating. Our little guard was getting to the rim at will. And on the other end of the floor, I don't think GS ever made more than 1 pass in a possession the whole game. Some serious chucking and stat hoarding going on with them. I guess that's why I also agree with Ros, this game was all about fun and confidence. We earned this winning streak over the last 3 and now it was nice to have a light practice, break a sweat, and run some drills against this squad of lightweights. But no matter how bad they are, we can't scoff at an actual win. We've lost to some pretty bad teams this year and it looks like we aren't going to do that anymore.


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Jan 06, 2011, 01:57 PM | |
I believe it is better to face the lights in towards the foam (no groove necessary) and just tape over them with clear tape. That way the LED's cannot get ripped off and you can easily remove them to use on another plane. That way they also make the whole wing glow thus being visible from both the top and the bottom... without damaging the wing in any way...
The bump they create does not affect the performance of the wing - at least not that I could ever tell! (a challenge for anyone to see if they can detect a difference?). In fact, it could help the airflow acting as "turbulators" if in the right place - around the high point of the airfoil... |
Jan 06, 2011, 02:04 PM | ||
It's probably a little easier with the iron, but not much. It's definitely cleaner with regards to the foam, but it's messier in other areas that I care more about. The melting foam smokes like crazy, and STINKS. Also, it will make a terrible mess to the tip of my iron that I like to keep really clean. I have a sanding tool on the dremel that practically disintegrates the foam as I pass through. It's really easy to keep the depth even. The foam has a nice cut, similar to using a blade - not the hard black crusty edges you get when using an iron. The only down side to the dremel is you have a lot of foam dust. It goes pretty quick too. Not as fast as an iron, but fast enough for me. |
Jan 06, 2011, 02:06 PM | ||
I've thought about that, but then I'd probably have both colors on both sides of the plane. I haven't been out to any of the night flying sessions, but of the planes I have seen with lights, it's much more impressive having them out. ......but that would be A LOT easier. |
Jan 06, 2011, 02:45 PM | |
You can still see a difference between top and bottom - one is a bit brighter and more defined - I also use a 3rd strip on the bottom of a different color that does not shine through since I have the electronics on the top, so using various techniques, it is possible to get to where you can tell top from bottom, the wing does not get damaged, it is quick and easy to swap lights from wing to wing and the LED's last a long time.
Having said that, it would be harder to get the intricate designs some have been doing but I like being able to use the same lights on the S7, the ExtremeWing and any other plane I might want to put them on. Quick, easy. |
Jan 06, 2011, 02:56 PM | |
Adrian's right, the lights last much longer facing inward, a LOT longer.
But as for pulling lights and swapping them from plane to plane, I much prefer spending an extra $20 and getting each plane it's own light scheme that I don't have to constantly be taping on and ripping off. With the swarm sales the lights have gotten so cheap, it's much easier to just do up each plane how you like it and then leave it. It's not like they add enough weight for it to be a weight problem. Heck, I used four full light strips on my little 36" wing, embedded them & covered it, and it still glides forever. IMO, embedding with lights facing outward is the way to go for anything but combat planes. Yeah, the lights definitely take a beating when they're pointing outwards, but I still like it better because it looks way cooler and it's infinitely easier to tell top from bottom if you use completely different colors. Of course, that only matters if you fly wildly like me. If you fly around straight and level, how you light it is irrelevant. Anybody can keep track of a plane flying level with even just a couple of LED's on it. If you're spinning 5+ rotations per second, it really does matter... a lot. I can't wait to get this lit-up Kunlun done. It's gonna be so stinkin' cool! |
Jan 06, 2011, 03:47 PM | ||
But now you've got me thinking about that Dremel... So I guess you used the tool that is a little sanding drum? hmmmm.... |
Jan 06, 2011, 04:47 PM | |
I used to do this stuff with a Dremel, and it makes holy mess of things. Foam EVERYWHERE!
So you may want to keep a shop-vac in one hand with the dremel tool in the other and just suck up the foam as it's ejected by the Dremel. That, or do it outside someplace that you don't care about the mess. |
Jan 06, 2011, 07:55 PM | |
LEDs on thin EPP
Scott showed me a cool trick for putting LEDs on the elevons.
Use a pencil (or what ever) to draw a line down the center of the elevon. Then lay out a strip of LED lights on the elevon. Make a mark at every spot on the elevon where an LED will be. Use a soldering iron or tool to make a small divot through the laminate into the foam. Then place the LED lights face down and press each one into the divot. Put a piece of clear tape over the LEDs. The LED will light up the whole elevon. |
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got buy-side out of UG...now what?!
?So let's say you get a job in a buy-side asset management firm (BlackRock, Putnam, Fidelity, Vanguard, State Street ... as an equities analyst
What do you do after? It seems like everything you do will prepare you for Asset Management/private banking or hedge funds. Are you locked into these roles?
You can't do PE and you can't do corporate finance for F500 companies because everything you do will be related to investing, right?
p.s. not talking about insurance based companies (MetLife) or BB's, i realize these are different
basically. seems like you
?basically. seems like you know your limitations.
Don't know about PB roles,
?Don't know about PB roles, never heard of any of my collegues going to PB. However, there are definitely ones that left for Corp Fin and Investor Relations roles at companies within their area of coverage. If you really want to go to IBD or something you can get an MBA. Coming from the top AM firms like BR or Fido, you will very likely get into one of the very top MBA programs (simply because there arent that many people of your background at the undergrad level since most of these companies recruit at the MBA level for investment roles)
This I don't get. If you got
IBThis I don't get. If you got buy-side out of UG, I would expect that investing is something you would really want to do, and thus would not care abou the exit-ops?


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PUBLISHED: 18 Jun 2013 16:51:11 | UPDATED: 18 Jun 2013 18:44:20PRINT EDITION: 19 Jun 2013
Stocks to watch on the Australian stock exchange at close on Tuesday:
■ Elders (ELD): down 2¢, or 22.22 per cent, at 7¢; Ruralco Holdings (RHL): down 9¢, or 2.65 per cent, at $3.30
Elders has shunned a takeover bid for its rural services division by rival Ruralco.
■ Qantas Airways (QAN): down 3¢, or 2.14 per cent, at $1.37
Security screening staff at Perth Airport's Qantas terminal have dug in for a fourth week of industrial action as they remain embroiled in a wage dispute with employer MSS Security.
■ Stonewall Resources (SWJ): up 1¢, or 8.33 per cent, at 13¢.
Chinese energy company Shandong has raised funds to buy a subsidiary of Australian gold miner Stonewall Resources.
■ UGL (UGL): up 7¢, or 1.06 per cent, at $6.66
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Thursday, February 13, 2014
More than 1.15million passengers passed through Stansted Airport last month, an increase of 7.2% compared with January 2013.
The figure took the rolling annual total for the year to the end of January to 17.92million, a rise of 2.6% over the previous 12 months.
This figure represents a further improvement on the annual growth of 2.2% recorded by Stansted for the year to the end of December, which marked its first full calendar year of growth since 2007.
January's increase represents a fifth consecutive monthly rise in numbers at Stansted, with the rate of growth not far behind the 7.7% acheived the previous month which was the airport's busiest December for four years.
The upturn in passenger numbers at Stansted follows its acquisition early last year by the Manchester Airports Group (MAG) from the former BAA company, which fought a lengthy battle against a Competition Commission ruling requiring it to sell the Essex airport.
MAG has already signed new long-term agreements with low-cost carriers Ryanair and easyJet − both of which have also reported strong growth during January − as part of a strategy to increase Stansted's annual passenger total to 30m over the next 10 years.
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"We are also set to welcome a host of new routes to our network in the coming weeks and months that will offer passengers even greater choice of destinations from Stansted.
"The aviation market in the south-east has never been as competitive as it is right now, and to sustain long-term growth we will need to exceed the expectations of our existing carriers and fight hard to win new business and passengers.
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I agree with Peter99. Norwich Airport needs a passenger friendly strategy, scrap the flight tax and make it really attractive for more flights to come to Norwich. Simply trying to squeeze more money from less passengers is a desperate monopoly based tactic, nothing to do with good commercial strategy and practice. More destinations = more flights = more passengers = more spend at the airport. It's not difficult to do the sums!
Friday, February 14, 2014
I just hope Stansted Airport can count correctly. They can't add up - the 12 months figure of Air Transport Movements is overstated by 861 (this was apparent from their December report where their monthly figures did not equal the total. Growth is therefore overstated.
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Air passengers are rising because unlike Norwich airport, they actually offer destinations that people want to fly to at a reasonable cost, landing and handling fees are acceptable there unlike NWI.
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Technology is changing the nature of work and the terms of management. By creating a work environment that is:
- Connected in terms of bringing people together where ever and when ever without restrictions based on position in the organization.
- Information intensive focusing on data and decisions as the key resources for creating value, directing processes and producing outcomes.
- Open in the sense that barriers to resources, expertise and productive capacity are falling in the world of globalized supply chain, trade and services.
- Innovation intensive as growth becomes harder to achieve, sustain and extend in a more competitive, complicated, and constrained market. Where there is slow or challenging growth, there is a greater need for innovation.
The consumerization of management reflects a range of forces redefining the nature of work and the workplace. Technology shifts the balance of power in the marketplace giving consumers more choice, control and confidence. Technology reshapes markets and the terms of competition. Just ask the music, travel, publishing, advertising, automobile, consumer products and others industries about the changing nature of consumerism.
The workplace was based on the idea that the company was the consumer and the employees the providers. Our role as individuals was to become wage slaves selling our time and attention to companies in exchange for compensation, resources and a place in the organizational hierarchy. In this model the company held all of the cards because they held the cash and control of the opportunities. As technology opens things up, that shift is changing the distribution of power, particularly for the judgment workers who have the greatest impact. These professionals demand a workplace that is:
- Providing opportunities to work on significant issues that matter to themselves, the company and society. Good people want to work on things that matter. The move by many organizations toward more socially conscious missions and strategies is as much a strategy for engagement as it is a desire for socially responsible.
- Creating greater participation in the workplace and reducing the pejorative relationships within the organization. People want a say in their work, the people they work with and the way they do their work. You see this in popular business press like the Robert Sutton 's book "The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn't." As one executive told me, life is too short to work with jerks.
- Making work more accountable with less administration. People will accept greater responsibility for their results provided that responsibility cuts both ways. Just like Spiderman, with 'great power comes great responsibility' is true among the workforce provided that management provides equal rewards for success and reductions for failure. An organization where it is better to be 5 and 0 than 24 and is one that is all downside and no up.
- Greater transparency and less talk so the organization has the knowledge it needs to act rather than take blind jumps based on gossip and superstition. Transparency levels the playing field, the performance measures and the potential for improvement.
Traditional management with its focus on command, control and divisionalization is not well suited for this environment. This raises questions concerning the types of management that are well suited to this environment.
The simple answer is to say that No Management is Required as illustrated by examples at W.L. Gore, Morningstar or Valve Corp. But look at those cases and while you may not see anyone with the title manager, you see everyone performing the work of management. The consumers become managers of themselves, in collaboration with each other and in relationship to the challenges, commitments and capabilities they bring to the organization.
The consumerization of management calls for re-imaging and redistributing the work of management throughout an organization. Just as power, control and choice have shifted to the consumer, so too has the work, responsibility and commitments of management. Shifted not to another class of managers, but shifted to everyone as we recognize that we both the producers and consumers of the outcome of effective management which is human achievement.
Subsequent posts will discuss what the consumerization of management might mean to management tasks and activities, but for now I would welcome your ideas, thoughts and reactions to get the discussion going on this important topic that touches each of us.
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A Primer to the OAuth Protocol
The term nonce means "number used once" and is a unique and usually random string that is meant to identify each signed request uniquely.
The Service Provider checks the signature of the request and replies with an unauthorized request token:
The Consumer redirects Jane's browser to the Service Provider User Authorization URL:
http://photosharingexample.com/authorize?oauth_token= ↪hh5s93j4hdidpola&oauth_callback= ↪http%3A%2F%2Fphotoprintingexample.com%2Frequest_token_ready
If Jane is logged in to photosharingexample.com, this page will ask her whether she authorizes photoprintingexample.com to have access to her account. If Jane authorizes the request, her browser will be redirected back to http://photoprintingexample.com/request_token_ready?oauth_token=hh5s93j4hdidpola, telling the consumer that the request token has been authorized. The Consumer then will exchange the Request Token for an Access Token using the following address:
https://photosharingexample.com/access_token? ↪oauth_consumer_key=dpf43f3p2l4k3l03&oauth_token= ↪hh5s93j4hdidpola&oauth_signature_method=PLAINTEXT& ↪oauth_signature=kd94hf93k423kf44%26hdhd0244k9j7ao03& ↪oauth_timestamp=1191242092&oauth_nonce= ↪dji430splmx33448&oauth_version=1.0
which will return the Access Token in the response:
This exchange will happen only the first time Jane tries to access her photosharingexample.com photos from photoprintingexample.com. Any time afterward, only the following will happen.
Now, the Consumer is equipped properly to access Jane's photos. First, the Consumer needs to generate the request signature. The initial step is to create the Signature Base String. This is a combination of the following elements:
oauth_consumer_key: dpf43f3p2l4k3l03 oauth_token: nnch734d00sl2jdk oauth_signature_method: HMAC-SHA1 oauth_timestamp: 1191242096 oauth_nonce: kllo9940pd9333jh oauth_version: 1.0 file: family.jpg size: original
Ultimately, you end up with the string:
GET&http%3A%2F%2Fphotosharingexample.com%2Fphotos& ↪file%3Dfamily.jpg%26oauth_consumer_key% ↪3Ddpf43f3p2l4k3l03%26oauth_nonce%3Dkllo9940pd9333jh% ↪26oauth_signature_method%3DHMAC-SHA1%26oauth_timestamp% ↪3D1191242096%26oauth_token%3Dnnch734d00sl2jdk% ↪26oauth_version%3D1.0%26size%3Doriginal"
If your request is being transmitted through SSL, the request can be in plain text. However, a vast majority of Web sites do not use SSL, so the signature string must be encoded.
Traditionally, the HTTP protocol uses an authentication method it calls "Basic" in which users provide their user names and passwords in order to gain access to the protected resource. The major flaw in that procedure is that those credentials are passed in plain text, clear for any people listening to read and store as they wish. In order to protect users' credentials, OAuth uses digital signatures instead of sending credentials with each request.
This digital signature is used to verify that the request being made is legitimate and hasn't been tampered with. A hashing algorithm is used to make that work. In order to allow the recipient to verify that the request came from the claimed sender, the hash algorithm is combined with a shared secret. If both sides agree on a secret known only to both parties, they can add it to the content being hashed. This can be done by simply appending the secret to the content, or by using a more sophisticated algorithm with a built-in mechanism for secrets, such as HMAC.
OAuth defines three signature methods used to sign and verify requests: PLAINTEXT, HMAC-SHA1 and RSA-SHA1.
Hash Algorithm
The process of taking data (of any size) and condensing it to a much smaller value (digest) in a fully reproducible (one-way) manner. Using the same hash algorithm on the same data always will produce the same smaller value.
For this example, let's say the Service Provider allows HMAC-SHA1 signatures. Thus, the encoded signature string becomes:
All together, the Consumer request for the photo is:
http://photosharingexample.com/photos?file=vacation.jpg&size= ↪original&oauth_consumer_key=dpf43f3p2l4k3l03& ↪oauth_token=nnch734d00sl2jdk&oauth_signature_method= ↪HMAC-SHA1&oauth_signature=tR3%2BTy81lMeYAr%2FFid0kMTYa% ↪2FWM%3D&oauth_timestamp=1191242096&oauth_nonce= ↪kllo9940pd9333jh&oauth_version=1.0
The Service Provider performs the same work flow to calculate the signature of the request that the Consumer performs. It then compares its calculated signature to the provided signature. If the two match, the recipient can be confident that the request has not been modified in transit. The Service Provider then responds with the requested pictures.
This process can be daunting to deal with programmatically. There are a number of libraries written for both the OAuth server and client for quite a few programming languages.
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