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It's not the vendors issue for poor windows sales. It is your sucky OS for corporate users. All we want is the desktop-give it back to us please...oh and, make it backward compatible. Why should I have to buy a new version of Quickbooks because I was stuck with windows 8? Up yours Ballmer. If you won't fix this issue with your next version of your OS you will see your stock tank! Listen to your customers.
I like your opening line its funny
If BOMBER was to make his LONG OVER DUE EXIT MSFT would shoot straight to $35.00. Under Him MSFT doesn`t seem to be able to be truly exceptional and struggles to remain relevant. He hasn`t truly LED MSFT anywhere.Like most of the stocks I own I bought them more for the Yield than for capital appreciation, but still expected a bit more of the latter.
Yes, I agree. I am a consultant and see many firms, large firms, that have postponed or cancelled upgrades to Windows 8 as it makes tasks that were formally simple, much more complex. The lack of the start button, the restart, log off, and shut down aspects, the difficulty if is to find recently installed or any existing program, the fact that so many features are hidden, i.e, the Charms area, the lack of a simple run comman area, are just a handful of items that companies and individuals depend on. They have tried to appeal to a tablet audience with the metro interface but at the same time, alienated their core market. I see no reason why they could not have kept the things I mentioned above as well as the metro interface. Then they make the upgrade path easier while still opening new markets.
I see this fix very simply... in sp1 release for windows 8 give us the question does this device have a touch screen? y or n (press key) If yes give it metro; if no then bypass metro interface and give it the desktop on boot up. Lastly, next make it backward compatible and I would be happy with it. It is simple Ballmer-like Nike says-just do it. In your case, make your programmers do it or fire them. And if you don't support this simple process-fire yourself.
Totally agree. However, if MSFT implements what Start8 has done in the next upgrade then I think the desktop problems go away. These issues were resolved by Start8 but I think the OS has to have the Start8 functionality baked in. It is a matter of perception. The OS seems broken when you have to use a 3rd party add-on to get basic functionality.
A consultant to whom? Sesame Street? All you have to do is toggle back to the traditional desktop. You really have no idea what you are talking about.
Exactly ...
Apparently Ford has hired a few Microsoft UI engineers ... so next year you can expect new models coming out with the steering wheel in the glove compartment and the gas pedal in the trunk. LOL


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Straightforward or elliptical, poetry needn't be hard
We're taught that poetry is supposed to be hard, but it really isn't. High school teachers and college professors and lots of other people still talk about poems as if they were full of "symbols," arcane "references," and "hidden meanings." Thick with metaphor and lousy with similes, poetry is presented as buried treasure without a map. But most of the valuable stuff is scattered around the surface and not concealed in the depths.
I want to take the opportunity of my first monthly column on Jewish poetry to talk about two very different recent volumes by two very different, well-established, and frequently published poets: Philip Levine and Hank Lazer. Levine, at 81, has published 19 books and has won both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. His newest volume, News of the World, appeared this fall. Prolific, but less well known, is Lazer, whose most recent book, Portions, came out this summer. While both poets take risks in the ways they try to solicit our attention, Levine tells readers real life stories, while for Lazer, the poems are the stories.
Levine makes a point of his clarity and sympathy. Here is the end of "My Fathers, the Baltic":
Yusel Sprickulnick,
I bless your laughter
thrown in the wind's face,
your gall, your rages,
your abiding love
for money and all
it never bought,
for your cracked voice
that wakens in dreams
where you rest at last,
for all the sea taught
you and you taught me:
that the waves go out
and nothing comes back.
Levine belongs to that school of writers who tailor the length of their lines to their syntax and their syntax to the length of their lines. This regularity allows him to spring some neat and subtle surprises: Yusel's abiding love is not for family or country but for money, even though it turns out that either he never got the money in the first place or never had a chance to spend it.
This subject matter is also typical of Levine. He mostly writes about the petty degradations and despairs that the poor have to survive and the quiet dignities that pull them through. Levine, who comes from Detroit, served his time in industrial jobs. He tells stories about workers and their families. He has written that this has everything to do with being Jewish, although he has left behind the Orthodoxy of his youth: "This was my Detroit Jewish heritage…If I betrayed my loyalty to the people I worked with, regardless of their race or position, I would be despised in God's eyes."
Some God. "My Fathers, the Baltic" allows no space for providence and no place for redemption. The elemental forces of this world show nothing but indifference. Hence Levine's yizkor books of the downtrodden and his feeling that if he did not write about them, they would be lost forever. He wants his poems to be acts of solidarity. His is a leftism of the heart.
In the end, Levine's Yiddishkeit is tied to the relative simplicity of his diction and his fascination with what he calls "the stubbornness of things":
They are so simple and true
they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme,
they must be laid on the table beside the salt shaker,
the glass of water, the absence of light gathering
in the shadows of picture frames, they must be
naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.
The common clutter of everyday life has to stand for itself because, like the people who made the table, the salt shaker, the glass, and the picture frames, it stands by itself. The things of this world all display the same mixture of toughness and vulnerability. And justice demands that they not be forgotten.
Levine's sentiments (and his on-again, off-again sentimentality) have led to a consistent body of work. His poems refer directly to the world outside the text. They retail events and then comment on them. In the end, they are well-constructed reflections of and on experience.
Hank Lazer's poetry is more elliptical than Levine's; simplicity and a reliance on anecdote are not for him. Lazer traces his roots to the avant-garde and to the heterodox, to earlier Modernist writers like Gertrude Stein, George Oppen, Louis Zukofsky, and Paul Celan. Lazer does not write about an experience that has already taken place. He claims that poems are "primary objects," that they are themselves the experience they seek.
Taking the number of parashot—the cycle of Torah readings over a year—as his guide, Lazer has limited the poems in this book to 54 words each, setting for himself the task of maximizing meaning in minimal spaces. Instead of Levine's straight-ahead sincerity, Lazer's Portions depends on enigma, fleeting reference and the sense of many things happening all at once. The breaks within lines as well as between lines attempt to wrest forth as many connections and dislocations as they can.
Like Levine, Lazer—in this book at least—relies on a very short line of no more than three words. But though his syntax can be rather gnarly, it makes an odd and often compelling music. Read the poem "Exiled" out loud:
When exiled from
same when here
evokes difference to
say jew &
to explain miracle
of light wind
horizon tug guiding
container ship to
harbor coral reef
exposed at low
morning tide why
i am not
with them in
temple inventing here
a form of
prayer as others
in morning travel
word for word
We can worry the grammar of the last stanza and ask who those others are who travel "word for word." Or perhaps it is the poet himself. Or maybe he invents, word by word, as they travel. In the end, readers do not have to choose between these readings. Rather we are supposed to allow the ambiguities pile on each other.
By the same token, the poem stakes its claim as a form of prayer, one that stands in for the morning service. Lazer tells us that he is not in temple (a nice American Reform touch, that word) and his spirituality is Jewish in its identifications but not in its ritual engagements. He makes the same case in a section of his poem "Religion:"
in hebrew i
am told there
is no word
that means "religion"
for how or
why extract that
experience that emotion
from the surroundings
of everything else
Religion as Lazer describes it is both an experience and an emotion that cannot be separated from everything around it. It is part of any thick description of life, or, to take this further, it is indistinguishable from life.
Just as the best of Levine's qualities—his verbal and rhetorical solidity—cannot be divorced from his loving struggle with that "stubbornness of things," so Lazer's strengths—the music he draws out of equivocations and a lyrical stuttering— derive from his desire to draw poetry as close as he can to religion by laying as much stress as he can on experience.
Lazer is no more playing hide-and-go-seek than is Levine; both are betting, but the two poets' wagers are different. Levine doubles down on his sense of justice and hopes that the relative simplicity of his writing and the single-mindedness of his passion for commemoration won't drive the reader away. On the other hand, Lazer risks alienating the reader through his syntactical complexities and unorthodox opinions in order to turn the poem into an occasion for thought, for playing with possibilities.
You don't really have to go digging with these poets. We don't need interpretive shovels. Sure, there are references and symbols, but they're not the important thing. The depths are there on the surface, ready for the taking.
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Wednesday 1 September is not only the beginning of Spring (or Fall if you're in the wrong end of the hemisphere), it's international "Ask a curator..." day!
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Museullaneous, Date:
31 Aug 2010
Here's a summary of findings from the Life Beyond the Tomb 2005 exhibition evaluation
Here's a summary of findings from the Life and Death Under the Pharaohs 1998 exhibition evaluation
The Frill Shark normally lives in oceanic waters at depths from 120 m to 1500 m. This fish was filmed alive (although most likely moribund) by Japanese divers.
Mark McGrouther,
Science, Date:
29 Aug 2010
The movie shows an underwater encounter with a rare Megamouth Shark.
This week we show footage of Marlin, whales and seals feeding. There is also great footage of sharks and an Oilfish from the Coral Sea.
Mark McGrouther,
Science, Date:
27 Aug 2010
For the most part, coporate/museum Facebook pages are pretty much the same: conversations among visitors or inserted opinons. However, there are those out there that are coming up with clever ways of engaging with their audience, you just have to do a lot of sifting. How could we apply these ideas to our Birds of Paradise exhibition currently in development?
Jennifer Miller,
Museullaneous, Date:
27 Aug 2010
The second post about designing an exhibit. Twenty students and their teachers arrived on 23 August to help the Museum design their up and coming Birds of Paradise exhibit. What a wonderful day for all of us! Read on to find out what happened during the workshop.
Two schools recently joined the Australian Museum in helping design the up and coming exhibition Birds of Paradise. This was the first day we met with the schools, and being new myself, I was excited to see what the students thought about the coming workshop.
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I am interested in the behavioral ecology of arthropods, especially behavior used in social interactions and sexual competition. Traits that function in these contexts provide some of the best examples of rapid diversification and elaboration. Besides the sheer fascination of this topic full of byzantine form and behavior, studying these traits brings insights into the processes of selection, adaptation and divergence.
Selected Publications
Rodríguez RL, Araya–Salas M, Gray DA,Reichert MS, Symes LB, Wilkins MR, Safran RJ & Höbel G. (In press) How acoustic signals scale with individual body size: common trends across diverse taxa. Behavioral Ecology
Rodríguez RL, Briceño RD, Briceño–Aguilar E & Höbel G. (In press) Nephila clavipes spiders (Araneae: Nephilidae) keep track of captured prey counts: testing for a sense of numerosity in an orb–weaver. Animal Cognition
Rebar D & Rodríguez RL. 2014. Genetic variation in host plants influences the mate preferences of a plant-feeding insect. American Naturalist 184, 489-499
Rebar D & Rodríguez RL. 2014. Trees to treehoppers: genetic variation in host plants contributes to variation in the mating signals of a plant-feeding insect. Ecology Letters 17,203–210
Rebar D & Rodríguez RL. 2013. Genetic variation in social influence on mate preferences. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 280, 20130803
Rodríguez RL, Boughman JW, Gray DA, Hebets EA, Höbel G & Symes LB. 2013. Diversification under sexual selection: the relative roles of mate preference strength and the degree of divergence in mate preferences. Ecology Letters 16, 964–974
Rodríguez RL, Hallet, AC, Kilmer JT & Fowler–Finn KD. 2013. Curves as traits: genetic and environmental variation in mate preference functions. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 26, 434–442
Fowler–Finn KD & Rodríguez RL. 2012. Experience–mediated plasticity in mate preferences: mating assurance in a variable environment. Evolution 66, 459–468
Rodríguez RL. 2012. Grain of environment explains variation in strength of genotype ´ environment interaction. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25, 1897–1901
Rodríguez RL, Haen C, Cocroft RB & Fowler–Finn KD. 2012. Males adjust signaling effort based on female mate–preference cues. Behavioral Ecology 23, 1218–1225
Rodríguez RL. 2009. Trait duplication by means of sensory bias. Behavioral Ecology20, 1376–1381
Rodríguez RL, Sullivan LM, Snyder RL & Cocroft RB. 2008. Host shifts and the beginning of signal divergence. Evolution 62, 12–20
Rodríguez RL, Ramaswamy K & Cocroft RB. 2006.Evidence that female preferences have shaped male signal evolution in a clade of specialized plant–feeding insects. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 273, 2585–2593


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AFP to get more equipment, aircraft next year – Aquino
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MANILA, Philippines — The Armed Forces of the Philippine will receive more equipment and aircraft by early 2013, President Benigno Aquino III said Monday.
In his third state of the nation address at the House of Representatives, Aquino said that by the end of the year, the Armed Forces will receive 21 refurbished UH-1H helicopters, four combat utility helicopters, radio and other communication equipment, rifles, mortars, mobile diagnostic laboratories and station bullet assemble.
He added that by January 2013, BRP Ramon Alcaraz– the country's second Hamilton Class cutter– will arrive in the Philippines.
"Di na bangkang papel ang ating ipapalaot; ngayon, mga hi-tech at de kaledad na barko na ang tatanod sa 36,000 kilometers nating coastline," Aquino said.
(We are not sending paper boats out to sea. Now, our 36,000 kilometers of coastline will be patrolled by more modern ships.)
The BRP Ramon Alcaraz is a 45-year old vessel retired from service by the United States Coast Guard.
Likewise, $30 million funds from the United Stated for the Defense Capability Upgrade and Sustainment of Equipment Program for the AFP has also been approved.
"Bukod pa po ito sa tulong nila upang pahusayin pa ang pagmanman sa ating mga baybayin sa ilalim ng itatayong Coast Watch Center ng Pilipinas.
(This is in addition to their assistance in improving the way we patrol our shores under the Coast Watch Center of the Philippines, which will soon be established.)
He added that by 2013, 10 more attack helicopters, two naval helicopters, two light lift aircraft, one frigate and many force protection equipment are expected to arrive, Aquino said.
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Except for movie night, Calipari having a ball
ATLANTA John Calipari is having a ball coaching Kentucky.
Well, except for movie night.
Calipari has avoided watching other games during the NCAA tournament, and he wants his players to do the same. His message: Focus on us and don't worry about everyone else.
To drive that point home, the top-seeded Wildcats usually head to the movies when they're on the road, so they're not tempted to flip on hoops at the hotel. After arriving in Atlanta, they went to see "21 Jump Street."
Calipari was not impressed.
"The movie was awful," he said. "But it did get us out."
Other than a debatable choice in flicks, Coach Cal's tunnel-vision approach is working just fine. Kentucky is one win from a return trip to the Final Four, facing Baylor (30-7) in the South Regional final on Sunday.
"We're a good basketball team," Calipari said on the eve of the game. "Let's just play basketball. I don't care what else is going on in the tournament. I'm not watching any other games. Why do I care?"
Clearly, he's not one of those poor-mouthing coaches, making an opponent sound like the Miami Heat while pointing out every little weakness of his own team. Calipari is fully aware that he's got at least a half-dozen players on his roster who are likely to wind up in the NBA, a team that could go down as one of the greatest in college basketball history if it wins three more games.
Even The Onion, a mock news service, weighed in with a faux story on Kentucky's seemingly unstoppable march to its eighth national championship. The headline: "Kentucky Going To Stick With Strategy Of Having Far-And-Away Better Athletes At Every Position."
Yuk it up, everyone. Calipari doesn't mind a bit.
He's enjoying the ride, and he wants his players to do the same.
"We're very confident," freshman point guard Marquis Teague said. "We have a lot of talent on this team, so we feel like if we come out and compete at a high level and defend, it will be tough for teams to beat us."
Baylor, the No. 3 seed, is a clear underdog but hardly some overmatched Cinderella.
Bouncing back from one of the most shocking scandals in NCAA history, the neon-clad Bears have pushed their way into the regional finals for the second time in three years. They have a couple of players who are likely first-round picks and certainly believe they have the talent, skill and work ethic to compete with the mighty Wildcats.
"We just want to show the world what we can do," senior forward Quincy Acy said.
None of the players were around in 2003 when stunning revelations nearly brought down the Baylor men's program. It all started when a player was murdered by one of his teammates. Soon after, there were allegations of drug use and illicit payments and a widespread cover-up. When all the dirty laundry was aired, the NCAA came about as close to imposing the death penalty as it could: a lengthy probation and heavy sanctions, which included a shortened season without any non-conference games.


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Woman Attacked In Brooklyn, Could Be The Work Of A Serial Groper
Police fear that a serial groper may be targeting women in Brooklyn. A woman was groped on Wednesday on 16th street in Park Slope, across the street from where another woman was groped fourteen months ago.
Police Hunt Jackson Heights Serial Groping Suspect
It's the latest in a series of groping incidents in the borough — a man was busted last summer then another was sought in the fall.
Police Search For Bronx Groping Suspect
Police said the victim, a 25-year-old woman, was walking up the stairs to the downtown "D" subway train platform at East Kingsbridge Road and Grand Concourse when she was approached from behind by the suspect.
Police: Victim Snaps Photo Of Suspected Jamaica Groper
Police said the suspect walked up behind the woman and grabbed her buttocks last Friday around 11:15 a.m. in Jamaica.
Victim Snaps Photo Of Alleged Times Square Groper
The 20-year-old woman, who authorities said was grabbed from behind, told police the suspect touched her breast and buttocks as she walked near Broadway.
You Go Girl: Quick-Thinking College Student That Snapped Pic Of Groper Speaks Out
She's a fearless college student who bravely took on a subway groper! Shyane DeJesus turned the tables on him by not only fighting back, but also by snapping a picture of him.
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New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and council member Jimmy Van Bramer held a news conference to bring attention to a sexual predator who has attacked women – and a 12-year-old girl – in Queens.
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On Friday, the NYPD was canvassing Windsor Terrace, where another sex assault bumped the total to 20 in Brooklyn since March.
Adolfo Martinez Confesses To Groping Incident In Sunset Park
Martinez allegedly grabbed a woman from behind and groped her as she was walking near 36th Street and between Fourth and Fifth Avenues early Monday morning.
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Officers are ramping up the search for the suspect after another incident this weekend. The latest assault occurred Saturday afternoon inside the 59th Street and Lexington Avenue subway station.


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BBB: Dragons rally falls short at Greenwood
March 1, 2014By Andrew Smith of New Palestine High School
New Palestine rallied from 10 and 8-point deficits, but the last one fell short in a 60-58 loss at Greenwood Friday night.
The Dragons saw Greenwood go on a 21-4 run in the opening half to open up a 27-17 lead, hitting five 3-pointers in the opening quarter. But New Palestine scored seven straight points to cut the deficit to three, and then opened the second half with eight straight points -- three baskets by Seth Cox and a hoop by Connor Roach -- to take a 32-29 lead.
Greenwood's Jaron Hornbeak answered with a 3-pointer that tied the game, and Greenwood would seize a 38-36 lead after three. The Woodmen scored the fourth quarter's first five points to go up 43-36, and eventually led 50-42 and 52-44 before another Dragon rally in the closing minutes. This one was led by seniors Keegan Lytle and Samson Haynes, who hit three 3-pointes. Haynes also had a conventional three-point play in the run.
Back-to-back 3s by Lytle cut the deficit to 59-55 in the final minute. Greenwood split two free throws, but was able to force the Dragons to take enough time on the final possession that just 1.2 seconds remained when Haynes banked in a 3-pointer out of the corner -- his second 3 of the season -- to cut the deficit to two. NP was unable to force a turnover on the inbounds pass, allowing the Woodmen to hold on for the win.
Cox scored 16 points -- his third straight game with 15 or more points -- to lead the Dragons. He had eight in a third quarter that saw the Dragons briefly take a lead. Cox added seven rebounds and three blocked shots. Brandon Jonas tallied his fourth career double-double with 10 poitns and 10 rebounds. Ryan Curry had eight points and seven boards, to go along with three assists, a steal and two blocked shots.. Roach added seven points and 11 rebounds, tying his career-high on the glass. Haynes had six fourth-quarter points, five assists, five rebounds, two steals and a blocked shot.
Jaren Hornbeak led Greenwood with 22 points. Spencer Isenthal scored 10 oif his 17 in the fourth quarter.
The Dragons fell despite outrebounding Greenwood 42-18. NP shot 42 percent from the floor (22-57), including 6-18 from 3-point range, but was 4-13 from the line. Greenwood shot 45 percent (20-44), including 8-20 from 3-point range and 12-20 from the line.
The Dragons finish the regular season 10-10, their fifth straight 10-win season, tying the second-longest streak of double-digit wins in school history. The postseason begins Tuesday at Center Grove against Franklin. Tip is 6 p.m. Broadcast of all New Palestine postseason games will be at HancockCountySports.com.
The Dragon JV won 39-35 to finish its season with a 13-7 record.


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This invention relates to an electronic golf ball comprising a central resilient sphere, a mass of elastic material surrounding the sphere and an outer casing, the central sphere including an electric squegging oscillator circuit, a battery therefor and a transmitting coil, all enclosed in a spherical mass of a set resin which forms a solid core, the spherical mass being located with close fit in a hollow spherical cavity formed in the central resilient sphere. The battery is a mercury cell located within the transmitting coil, as are the other components of the squegging oscillator circuit. The electrical circuit may include components which permit the oscillator to be turned on and off when the golf ball is brought into and then moved out of an A.C. magnetic field having a predetermined frequency.
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Horchler Jan. 1,1974
[ GOLF BALL [75] Inventor: Stephen Alexander Horchler,
Eskbank, Scotland [73] Assignee: Euronics Limited, Edinburgh,
Scotland 22 Filed: Dec. 2, 1971 21 Appl. No.: 204,109
OTHER PUBLICATIONS Radio-Electronics, June 1956, page 79 273-213 (NPN TRANSISTOR (miner-roe f, I
r (RESISTOR) Primary Examiner-George .l. Marlo Att0rneyMichael S. Striker [5 7] ABSTRACT This invention relates to an electronic golf ball comprising a central resilient sphere, a mass of elastic material surrounding the sphere and an outer casing, the central sphere including an electric squegging oscillator circuit, a battery therefor and a transmitting coil, all enclosed in a spherical mass of a set resin which forms a solid core, the spherical mass being located with close fit in a hollow spherical cavity formed in the central resilient sphere. The battery is a mercury cell located within the transmitting coil, as are the other components of the squegging oscillator circuit. The electrical circuit may include components which permit the oscillator to be turned on and off when the golf ball is brought into and then moved out of an A.C. magnetic field having a predetermined frequency.
9 Claims, 5 Drawing Figures Pmmmm 1 m4 3,782,730 SHEET 16F 2 (NPN TRANSISTOR LCI'RANQMITTING eon.)
C2(0APAclTOR) (Msrzcuzv CELL) GOLF BALL This invention relates to a golf ball containing an electric oscillator circuit which assists in the recovery of golf balls lost during a game of golf. It is a well known fact that many golf balls are lost due to the fact that during, play the golf ball lands in a particularly overgrown area of the golf course. The loss can occur even though the'ball may have been visible during its entire flight and the approximate region of the landing of the ball is known. The loss of a golf ball not only entails financial loss to the player it also means that the player is put at a disadvantage as far as that game is concerned. The present invention reduces the occurrence of lost golf balls and players employing golf balls which can be recovered are at an advantage both financially and by not losing unnecessary points over lost balls.
According to one aspect of the invention of golf ball comprises a central resilient sphere, a mass of elastic material surrounding the sphere and an outer casing, in which the sphere includes an electric oscillator circuit and a battery therefor, and is characterized in that the oscillator circuit, a transmitting coil and the battery are enclosed in a spherical mass of a set resin to form a solid core, the spherical mass being located with close fit in a hollow spherical cavity formed in the central resilient sphere.
Conveniently the oscillator circuit is tuned to a particular frequency and generates an induction field at that frequency, the oscillatory circuit squegging so that its output comprises bursts of oscillation at the desired frequency interspersed by longer periods of nonoscillation. The duty ratio (i.e. the ratio between the periods of non-oscillation (off periods) and the periods of oscillation (on periods)) can be chosen at will, but is preferably within the range 100:1 to 1,00011. The bursts of oscillation can be kept stable and the repetition of these bursts appear in a detector unit (which may be a' simple radio receiver tuned to the frequency of the oscillator circuit) as a modulation frequency characteristic of the oscillator circuit employed. By filtering this pulse repetition frequency the detector unit can respond to different frequencies making identification of different golf balls possible.
A suitable frequency range for the oscillator circuit is between kilohertz and 10 megahertz since in this frequency band it is easy to arrange for there to be a negligible component of radiated energy.
The on period can beas long as a fraction of a second (e.g. 0.1 second) or as short as a few tens of microseconds, the only requirement being that the burst of oscillation should be sufficiently long to enable it to be reliably detected by the detector unit. By utilising a large duty ratio, it is possible to employ an oscillator operating at a carrier frequency as high as 10 megahertz (where a significant proportion of the energy will produce an induction field from a coil of only a few millimeters in diameter) and have a mean radiated power output of the order of microwatts.
Preferably the transmitting coil is wound into a short cylinder and is positioned in the spherical mass of resin so that a median plane of the coil normal to the axis of the coil lies in a diametric plane of the spherical mass. A cylindrical mercury cell makes a suitable battery and this may be positioned so that the axis of the coil is normal to the axis of the battery, the other component parts of the oscillator circuit being disposed on either side of the battery to lie within the transmitting coil.
. The oscillator circuit may operate in the same manner from the time the circuit is completed until the battery is finally spent (it is not difficult to arrange for a lifetime of several years using conventionally available batteries) but a modified oscillator circuit can be used which can be switched on and off before and after playing a round of golf. With this latter arrangement it is possible to increase the strength of the induction field and still obtain acceptably long lifetimes for the battery.
Embodiments of golf balls in accordance with the invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 is a partially sectioned golf ball,
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the spherical mass within the centre of the golf ball shown on an enlarged scale,
FIG. 3 is one form of circuit suitable for employment in the golf ball of FIG. 1, and
FIGS. 4 and 5 are two alternative forms of circuit.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2, the golf ball shown in the drawing comprises an outer casing 1, a wound mass of elastic filament 2 and a central core 3. In a normal golf ball the core 3 is a sphere of rubber with a liquid centre. In a golf ball in accordance with the invention the rubber core 3 contains a spherical recess 4 in which is located a spherical mass 5.
The mass 5 is of hard set resin material (catalytically hardened resin) of a diameter of 0.625 inch (15.9 mm) which with its electric components weighs 3.5 grammes. The outside diameter of the core 3 is 1.00 inch (25.4 mm), the core 3 being divided along a diametric plane to allow the mass 5 to be located within the recess 4 before the core 3 is incorporated in the mass 2 and casing 1 in a manner wholly conventional in the production of golf balls.
No alteration whatever is necessary in the components l and 2 shown in the drawings but the core 3, as well as having a solid centre rather than a liquid-filled centre, is fabricated from a softer rubber than normal, the hysteresis of the rubber being chosen so that the ball containing the mass 5 behaves in a similar manner to a ball' having a liquid-filled centre.
A simple circuit for incorporation in the mass 5 is shown in FIG. 3 and includes a transistor T (a Texas Instrument 2N3708), a battery B (a mercury cell) a resistor R (560K ohms), two capacitors C1 (1,500 p8) and C2 (0.1 p. F) and an intermediate-tapped coil L. The circuit components cause oscillation at a frequency determined by the natural frequency of the resonant circuit C1 L at a duty ratio determined by the components C2 and R. The coil L has a turns ratio 4:1 and is formed into a short cylindrical coil of diameter 0.60 rhtl-pfl lr,
The relative post spherical mass 5 is important to ensure that the centre of gravity of the components is roughly at the centre of the spherical mass.
The components shown within the dotted line in FIG. 3 can be combined in an integrated circuit, to which are added the coil L, the battery B and the capacitor C2.
The circuit shown in FIG. 3 operates in the same manner from the moment of its completion to the moment the battery has run down. This means that in tioning arise" components in the i order to ensure a life of several years, the average power output must be exceedingly low and in turn this means either a limited range at which a simple radio receiver will detect the induction field or the use of a highly sensitive detector unit. FIGS. 4 and show alternative circuits which although somewhat more complicated in their design do have the advantage of being able to be switched on and off so that higher means power outputs are obtainable during the on periods whilst still providing a useful working life from a small mercury-cell.
Referring to FIG. 4, under quiescent conditions the base of a transistor T2 is connected to its emitter via a resistor R2 so there is no collector current flowing, other than the negligibly small reverse current of the collector-base diode, hence there is no bias current to remove the transistor T1 from its cut-off condition. Also, the voltage developed across the dc. collector load of the transistor T2 (V,') is approximately zero.
The tapped resonant circuit in the collector of the transistor T1 resonates at a frequencyfi 1/2 11' V LC3 wher e L is the total inductance of the two primary sections of the coil, P1 and P2. If the golf ball is placed temporarily in the magnetic induction field of an external exciting coil fed from an oscillating source of frequency f an oscillating voltage will appear across the resonant circuit inductance P] P2 and a smaller voltage will appear across the secondary S. If the secondary voltage is large enough, it will turn the transistor T1 ON into a Class C mode of operation, the necessary negative voltage across the capacitor C4 being developed by the rectifying action of the base-emitter diode of the transistor T1. (The maximum peak-to-peak amplitude of the oscillation is limited to twice the battery voltage across the coil P1, and to about 9 volts across the secondary S, the 9 volts being the usual BE Zener breakdown voltage of most silicon transistors, and the lowest value of the voltage on the capacitor C4 is about half the 9 volts.) However, due to the large feedback ratio S/Pl, and due to the fact that the time constant R1C4 of the base circuit is much larger than the oscillation period, the oscillator will start to squeg immediately, thereby turning itself 05. The next burst of oscillation (in the absence of the external exciter) will occur when the voltage on the capacitor C4 is charged to about 0.6 volts through the resistor R1, but this can happen only when V* is large than 0.6 volts.
On the first turning on of the oscillator, the transient decreasing voltage on the capacitor C4 will pull down the base voltage of the transistor T2 via the capacitor C6, and this capacitor will supply a base current pulse if the transient voltage step exceeds 0.6 volts. The base current pulse, amplified by the current gain of the transistor T2, charges up the capacitor C5 to a voltage V* near the battery voltage. Hence the continual turningon of the transistor T1 after the initial switch-on is assured.
If the exciter voltage is kept on for a time longer than necessary for start-up, the oscillator will start its successive bursts even before the voltage on the capacitor C4 exceeds 0.6 volts. Hence the transient step is reduced, and if it is reduced below a certain critical level it is not capable of driving the transistor T2 and V* drops to a negative value (approximately 4 volts). On the sudden removal of the exciter voltage the oscillator will not be able to start again and the golf ball therefore will be switched OFF.
Switching ON or OFF therefore uses the same exciter, which could be a part of the radio receiver used as the detector and could be activated by a push-button switch. The exciter could even be the ferrite aerial coil of the receiver, connected as an oscillator while the push-button is depressed. The actual ON or OFF operation would then be as follows:
Ball brought near (not too near) exciter and slowly removed SWITCH ON Ball brought very near the exciter and quickly removed SWITCH OFF FIG. 5 shows an alternative version of circuit. In this Figure a capacitor C7 stores the bias voltage for a transistor T3 which is charged up via a diode D. Squegging occurs with a time constant R3 C8 and bias current flows out of the capacitor C7 through the resistor R3. Switching ON and OFF is done with an exciter as before. On switching ON the capacitor C7 charges up to 4% volts during the first rf burst. On switching OFF, as the pulse repetition rate is increased, more current is drawn from the smoothed supply and the supply voltage V, is reduced, thereby reducing the oscillating voltage on P1 and therefore on S, which in turn does not keep V* at its previous high value of 4% volts, and the oscillator stops without the help from the external exciter.
In the circuit of FIG. 5, C9 must be a large capacitor, while in the circuit of FIG. 4 the values of the capacitors are small, enabling the circuit shown in FIG. 4 to be produced in Integrated Circuit form.
The circuit shown in FIG. 4 would conveniently employ components as shown in the following Table:
TABLE B 1.4 volts P1 8 turns P2 turns S 30 turns C3 3,000 pF C4 1,000pF C6 200pF R1 1,000k R2 100k T1 n.p.n T2 p.n.p
The circuits shown in FIGS. 4 and 5 can be potted in a spherical mass of set resin in a similar manner to that employed with the circuit of FIG. 2, the component parts being positioned to give a centre of gravity as close to the centre of the mass 5 as possible.
The circuit of FIG. 5 can be modified by placing the coil S, the diode D and the resistor R4 in series with the emitter of the transistor T3 and connecting the resistor R3 and the capacitor C8 to the base line.
What is claimed is:
l. A golf ball comprising an outer spherical casing; an elastic spherical mass inwardly of said outer spherical casing; and squegging oscillator means accommodated with said elastic spherical mass and including an inductor serving as a transmitting coil, said oscillator means being operative for intermittently generating an oscillating magnetic field for periods of time which are shorter than the periods of time during which said field is not generated.
2. A golf ball as defined in claim 1, wherein said squegging oscillator means comprises a source of electrical energy.
3. A golf ball as defined in claim 2, wherein said source of electrical energy is a mercury cell.
4. A golf ball as defined in claim 1, and further including a resilient spherical central core inwardly of said eleastic sherical mass and having an internal spherical cavity, and further including a spherical mass of set resin material inwardly of said central core and tightly fitted within said cavity, said squegging oscillator means being embedded within said spherical mass of set resin material.
5. A golf ball as defined in claim 4, in which said transmitting coil is wound in the form of a cylinder and positioned in said spherical mass of resin material so that a median plane of said coil normal to the axis of said coil lies in a diametric plane of said spherical mass of resin material.
6. A golf ball as defined in claim 5, in which said squegging oscillator means comprises a mercury cell having a central axis of symmetry and serving for the supply of electrical energy and positioned in said spherical mass of resin material and inside said coil so that the axis of said coil is normal to the axis of said mercury cell, and wherein said squegging oscillator means includes a plurality of other electrical components located to either side of said mercury cell and also located within said coil.
7. A golf ball as defined in claim 1, wherein said inductor constitutes a transmitting coil, and wherein said squegging oscillator means comprises a npn transistor having an emitter, a collector and a base, a capacitor connected in parallel to said transmitting coil to form a parallel LC circuit having a predetermined resonance frequency, and a battery connected between an intermediate tap of said coil and said emitter, a parallel RC- circuit connected to said base, the ends of said parallel circuits not connected to said transistor being connected together and the resonant frequency of the RC circuit being a fraction of said predetermined resonance frequency.
8. A golf ball as defined in claim 1, wherein said squegging oscillator means includes magnetic-field responsive means operative for terminating operation of said oscillator means when the golf ball is brought into and then moved out of an AC. magnetic field.
9. A golf ball as defined in claim 1, and wherein said squegging oscillator means includes magnetic-fieldresponsive means operative for terminating operation of said squegging oscillator means when the golf ball is brought into and then moved out of an AC. magnetic field having a predetermined frequency.
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List of Top Singing and Voice Colleges
Learn about your choices for studying singing and voice at a top college. Discover the degree options, the school rankings and the locations to make an informed education decision.
School Overview
While a degree in singing and voice is not required for a singing career, students in a degree program can learn the technical skills needed by most professional singers. A program in singing and voice includes coursework in music theory, history, conducting and performance. Most programs encourage students to learn a musical instrument in addition to voice, and vocal recitals are usually required to graduate. Read on to find out more about the possibilities for studying voice at good colleges.
Best Colleges for Singing and Voice
1. University of Southern California in Los Angeles
University of Southern California (USC) is located in the center of Los Angeles, where students have opportunities to work with organizations like the Los Angeles Opera, the GRAMMY Foundation and the Recording Academy. U.S. News & World Report ranked USC the 23rd best national university for 2011 and the 37th best graduate fine arts program in 2008. USC is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASAM).
USC features undergraduate and graduate-level programs in classical voice and opera. The Bachelor of Music (B.M.) in Vocal Arts program stresses strong technique and offers classes in diction, music theory and conducting. A Master of Music (M.M.) in Vocal Arts program focuses on ensemble, cantata and oratorio, vocal literature, music history and pedagogy. Earning the Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) in Vocal Arts requires performing four recitals.
Rock, pop, R&B and folk, Latin and country performance are featured in the B.M. in Popular Music program. Coursework includes songwriting, keyboard and harmony. A Bachelor of Arts in Choral and Sacred Music is also available.
2. Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Temple University is located in downtown Philadelphia and houses the Temple Performing Arts Center. Temple was ranked 14th among graduate fine arts programs in 2008 by U.S. News & World Report and 132nd among national universities for 2011. Temple is accredited by the NASAM.
The Boyer College of Music and Dance offers the B.M. in Voice Performance and the B.M. in Jazz Voice Performance. The former program focuses on choral music and opera, while the latter centers on jazz studies. Both degree programs prepare students for careers in performance and vocal education. Classes include ensemble, piano, music theory and conducting.
Earning an M.M. in Voice prepares students for professional performance or further doctoral study. Specializations are available in musical style and performance, vocal literature, language and diction skills, acting technique and music theory. The D.M.A. in Voice program is ideal for those who want to further specialize and attain the highest level of skill in vocal performance. Classes include chamber music, music history and pedagogy. Students must perform with an orchestra or perform a major role in an opera to graduate. An M.M. and D.M.A. in Opera are also available.
Good Schools with Singing and Voice Programs
|College/University Name
|Boston University
|Master's degree music performance students at BU are each assigned to a single faculty member
|Boston, MA
|Carnegie Mellon University
|Students in the vocal performance program are taught the classical bel canto technique; acting, dance and language training along with full productions each year supplement the voice training
|Pittsburgh, PA
|The Juilliard School
|This exclusive school enrolls fewer than 1,000 students, and offers undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees as well as artist diplomas
|New York, NY
|Northwestern University
|The Bienen School of Music offers performance and dual degrees, double majors and ad hoc options as well as on-campus auditions for opera companies; all doctoral students receive a full-tuition stipend
|Evanston, IL
|Portland State University
|Students participating in the PSU Opera Workshop perform opera scenes on-campus and off-campus
|Portland, OR
|Temple University
|U.S. News & World Report ranks the Boyer School of Music in the top 30 music schools
|Philadelphia, PA
|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
|Voice students at the U of I put on three fully-staged performances along with recitals, opera scenes and choral works
|Champaign, IL
|University of Southern California
|USC has ten different performance halls, theaters and venues, ranging from a coffee house to a 1,200-seat performance hall
|Los Angeles, CA
|University of Washington - Seattle Campus
|Seven choirs, four different degrees and a full-scale opera production are offered by the School of Music
|Seattle, WA
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I learned a lot during my first year at Ohio University. However, most of what I learned came from being outside of class because the classes themselves just serve to introduce and provide overviews of the courses. First year students typically are taking the general education tier requirements and a lot of the information will be similar to what was learned in high school.
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If you plan to go to Ohio University, you will feel as though you are at home. Just the vibes in the air that this school radiates boosts ambitions and moods of anyone in town. At Ohio University you will receive the best education, have a great social life and never be happier.Read More
I transferred to OU from Marietta College and I believe it was one of the best decisions I've made in my life. I had much anxiety being a minority student on a campus with about 30,000 students but OU offers so many organizations that cater to the needs of students of color. I also love that the campus offers 100+ organizations so getting involved was not difficult at all.Read More
I have met some of the best and smartest people in just the few short months I have attended Ohio University. There are so many activities available to participate in, from organizations, to clubs, to volleyball games on south beach, and even carnivals. Almost anyone you meet at OU will go out of their way to make sure you succeed and have everything you need, because we're bobcats, it's what we do.Read More
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Ohio University is my home. I feel like I belong here and I finally found my niche. I love being a student and I love being a bobcat.Read More
A compassionate school dedicated in providing all the resources for the students to reach for success. The community consists of a friendly and welcoming community where students will lend a hand to anyone in need. Ohio University's town-campus is in tune with nature and a great place to learn.Read More
The people at Ohio University are great! You can easily get involved at Ohio University. Ohio University is like a Utopia. Not exaggerating.Read More
When many people hear the phrase Ohio University, they automatically tie the phrase party school to it. Actually, OU is a very academic school, and many praise it for it's stress on writing. Communications-related programs are very emphasized here.Read More
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Can a Cirkut #6 be made to use 60mm or 70mm film, with appropriate lenses of course? If so, that would at least keep the small Cirkuts desirable.
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When I finish a book or a movie, I like to write down my thoughts about it, and I'm looking for an iPhone app to organize my reading and watching notes. My particular picky bookworm/filmgeek requirements inside. [more inside]
How do I get my photos onto somebody else's iphone?
I'd like photos that I take on my iPhone to automatically turn up on my mom's iPhone. I'd prefer to do this without setting up my iCloud account on her phone, since we don't need to share contacts, calendars, etc. Ideally the solution would be completely transparent for her, and require little or no ongoing effort from me once it's set up. Any tips on the best way to do this?
Self-improvement via iPod
I'd like to find a use for my iPod touch that will, in some way, enrich my life more than just playing endless games of Drop7. Some ideas I've had: reading great literature in ebook form; memory training; becoming more virtuous; studying a foreign language. What other things can I do?
Which free iPhone case should we get?
As a new iPhone owner, my wife can choose from one of seven different free cases, but she has no idea which one to pick. Any advice? Which case do you use, and are you happy with it? (Obviously the best thing would be to stop by the Apple store and try them all out, but she's not sure she's going to have the chance to do that before the free case period runs out.)
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implanting large numbers or of offering a clinical service. They saw themselves (and indeed continue to see themselves) as a research team.
By the end of the 1970s, cochlear implantation was becoming a respectable topic of discussion. Gradually, it was acquiring a degree of credibility in professional otological circles. The results of an independent assessment of House implantees, which showed modest but definite benefit (Bilger et al., 1977), contributed significantly in this respect. Also in 1977, the British department of health invited a group of three experts (two ear surgeons and a neurophysiologist) to review current efforts in the area of electrical stimulation of the inner ear and to make recommendations as to what British commitment to the area should be. In October 1977, these experts visited all active U.S. centers including, as already mentioned, the House group and the Stanford group. Their report (Ballantyne et al., 1978) is in fact critical of the overall effort in a number of respects,11 while nevertheless accepting the promise of the technique. Viewing full-scale clinical provision as premature, Ballantyne, Evans, and Morrison in 1978 thus recommended a cautious approach in Britain, starting with a careful evaluation of the single-channel implant.
In the period 1978–1982, however, industrial corporations were beginning to become interested. A recent analysis of the growth of industrial involvement in cochlear implants speaks of "a period of trial and negotiations between 1978 to 1982 as firms and academicians attempted to enter into licensing agreements" (Garud and van de Ven, 1989). These beginnings of an "inter-organizational field" were not easy, and a number of attempted collaborations soon foundered.12 There is no doubt, however, that by 1982 a new era in the history of cochlear implantation had begun. Ballantyne, Evans, and Morrison bear witness to this. In 1982, these British experts published an update of their earlier report
"There seems to have been inadequate appreciation and application of the basic physiological and psychophysical information already available, on the processing of speech sounds at peripheral levels of the auditory system, by many of those controlling the implant programs. This has meant that the expected information-carrying capabilities of single-channel stimulation (e.g., prosodic and voicing cues) have been but little exploited … It is surprising and extremely disappointing to note that unequivocal quantitative data on the benefits of cochlear implantation [compared to high-powered hearing aids and vibrotactile aids] are as yet not available …".
Thus in 1977 3M was approached by Graeme Clark's group at the University of Melbourne, which was interested in commercializing its cochlear implant technology. This proved abortive and Clark, with major support from the Australian government, turned elsewhere. Between 1978 and 1982 3M worked with Michelson at the University of California, San Francisco. A UCSF-3M device was developed and implanted into two or three individuals in 1980–1981. When this agreement was terminated in 1982, UCSF went elsewhere, while (in 1981) 3M entered into licensing agreements with both House and a group at the University of Vienna.


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Letter to the Editor: Bring troops home
Barbara Moser, Wichita Falls
I for one am not tuned out and I want to know where is the outcry to bring our troops out of the hell hole called Afghanistan?
Anyone who read a recent article in the Times Record News, "As Afghanistan battle rages on" ..... and then reads the article immediately above it, "Vows to support and defend the Constitution," cannot help but be tuned in.
These are our sons, daughters, grandchildren, fathers, mothers who are returned to us, if not in a coffin, then maimed for life.
Ten years is more than enough time to try to fix whatever we are trying to fix. I ask again, where is the outcry?
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Over the course of the last 12 years, 500 Fellows of the Environmental Leadership Program have received training to increase their leadership capacity and create significant and positive impacts on their organizations, agencies, institutions and businesses. This project will provide the opportunity for those Fellows to come together and create a strategic vision and action plan for the incredible impacts they can make collectively through the Environmental Leadership Program.
What is the issue, problem, or challenge?
The complexity of the environmental issues in our communities and around the country cannot be solved by individuals alone, but must be addressed through collaborations of diverse leaders from a broad range of disciplines and across sectors. For nearly 12 years the ELP has provided training to nearly 500 emerging leaders who have made the leap from good leadership to great leadership. We are now striving to bring these leaders together to move their work towards collective action.
How will this project solve this problem?
Imagine bringing together 100 of the most innovative and passionate emerging leaders in the environmental field, providing them with a platform to engage one another across issues, and creating a space for them to develop a 20 year strategic vision of what they could achieve if they harnessed their talents collectively. From Oct. 14 - 16, 2011, the ELP will do just that - for the first time ever we are creating a venue for our Senior Fellows to dream, create and act together.
Potential Long Term Impact
ELP trains up to 40 emerging leaders annually in its Fellowship Program - as our network continues to grow each year, we have the opportunity to leverage the collective talent of our Fellows to create significant impacts locally, nationally and globally. This project will provide the opportunity for 100 of our 500 Fellows to come together and create a strategic vision and action plan for what they can achieve together by harnessing their innovation, broader networks and commitment to results.
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Hockenheim's managing director has declared he is "1000 per cent" sure that the German Grand Prix will return in 2016.
Hockenheim boss Georg Seiler insists the circuit is not responsible for the demise of this year's German Grand Prix.
The German Grand Prix looks set to be absent from the 2015 Formula One calendar after Hockenheim ruled out a deal to host the race.
Bernie Ecclestone has suggested the matter of the embattled German Grand Prix is purely financial.
Some news that certainly won't sit well with German Formula One fans.
Hockenheim's circuit boss has warned that a deal to host the German Grand Prix this year has not yet been reached.
Bernie Ecclestone has not concluded a deal with the Nurburgring track.
Robertino Wild responded by suggesting that Hockenheim's alternating scheme may need to be respected
"It certainly didn't really help that Sebastian in his frustration about the new F1 and his car gave loads of interviews" - Katja Heim, the Hockenheim circuit advisor.
Marco Mattiacci has hit back at suggestions Ferrari could or should plan its revival for the 2015 season without Kimi Raikkonen.
The unpopularity of the Hockenheim race should be ringing alarm-bells for F1.
The E22 ran for the first time without the suspension hydraulically linked from front to rear.
Mercedes is once again the team to beat this weekend in Germany.
Mercedes drivers completed a total of 131 laps on Friday practice for the German GP.
Jo Bauer confirmed that "no car is fitted with a (Fric) system of any sort".
After nine rounds, Mercedes teammates Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg are separated by just four points.
Nico Rosberg has modified his proposed world cup-themed helmet ahead of the German Grand Prix.
"The fact is that Capricorn issued this message, not Bernie Ecclestone" - Bernie Ecclestone.
Nico Rosberg will wear a special helmet in celebration of Germany's victory in the World Cup.
"Every team can ask the stewards for their opinion, that would be not a protest, but a clarification" - Andy Green.
Drivers prepares for the track missed for two years.
Bernie Ecclestone revealed he has been negotiating exclusively with the Nurburgring regarding 2015 and beyond.
"I'm just focusing entirely on the first free practice on Friday" - Giedo van der Garde.
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Consistent with the provisions of G.L. c, 32, § 4(1)(o) which was enacted by the passage of Chapter 21 of the Acts of 2009, §5, employees who earn less than $5,000 in a position shall be precluded from membership in the Quincy Retirement System.
The Quincy Retirement System will not accept liability under M.G.L. Chapter 32, § 3(8)(c) from the date of the acceptance of this supplemental regulation, and going forward into the future.
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This article reveals how the title to a small tract of real property once owned by the people of Bakersfield has become vested in a bank owned by a global corporation that didn't pay a cent to acquire it.
On May 15, 1992, the city of Bakersfield privatized one-half acre of land located in Beach Park by selling the land and a building containing racquetball courts to an individual in exchange for $300,000 in lawful money of the United States, provided by 10 racquetball players who wanted to make sure that they and other Bakersfield racquetball players had a social environment in which to enjoy the sport. The deed provided that "The uses of this property shall be in compliance with those uses generally permitted by applicable zoning regulations or those uses specifically permitted by Conditional Use Permit No. 5306." Beach Park is zoned recreational.
On May 20, 1992, the individual transferred title to a California corporation incorporated by the buyers. On June 25, 2002, the corporation sold the property in exchange for credit valued at $570,500, provided by a bank, to a buyer who continued to operate it as a racquetball facility until Dec. 15, 2006. At that time, he sold the property in exchange for credit valued at $700,000, provided to the purchasers by UPS Capital Business Credit, a bank owned by shipping giant United Parcel Service. The borrowers also continued doing business as a racquetball facility, until the economic downturn forced them into bankruptcy.
The bank foreclosed on the borrowers' mortgage, and, on Jan. 31, 2012, the property was sold at public auction. The bank was the highest bidder and the trustee's deed upon sale states that the bank "became the purchaser of said property for the amount bid being $555,000 in lawful money of the United States, or by credit bid." The bank chose to pay with credit.
What is the difference between lawful money and credit? Lawful money consists of the Federal Reserve notes that the bank promised to loan to the borrowers in return for the borrowers' promissory note that obligated them to repay the bank with lawful money. I contend that, like banks everywhere, the UPS bank did not keep its promise; it never loaned the promised lawful money to the borrowers. Instead, without the borrowers' agreement, it turned the promissory note into a deposit owned by the bank, used the deposit as backing for a line of credit generated by the bank out of thin air, loaned this credit to the borrowers, and charged them interest for its use.
When the financial system deliberately crashed the economy and made it impossible for the borrowers to repay with lawful money, the bank used the same line of credit to purchase the property that the borrowers had pledged as collateral for the repayment of the lawful money they thought they had borrowed.
Since UPS is part of the financial system responsible for the lucrative but potentially destructive practice of substituting credit for lawful money, it should suffer the consequences of its deceptive actions. Therefore, I suggest that the city return ownership of the property to the people by offering to reimburse the bank for the amount of any lawful money the bank can prove it loaned to the borrowers, or negotiate a settlement.
Then, the city should do what it did in 1976, that is, offer a long-term ground lease upon terms that reflect the state of the economy, conditional upon the leaseholder repairing the building's roof, estimated to cost $125,000, and operating the facility as mandated in the deed dated May 15, 1992, thereby creating a source of income for the city.
In other words, the buyer of the lease will do it for the same reason the 10 individuals bought the property in 1992, namely, to provide a social environment for racquetball players and health enthusiasts that has to be enjoyed to be appreciated. By doing so, the people will recover what should never have been sold, and the people's representatives will go to bed at night knowing they have done the right thing by reversing a decision that should never have been made.
John Turnbull of Bakersfield is a retired attorney and former candidate for the Kern High School District board of trustees.