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Jim Harper, the individual chosen to be interviewed for the headline article in the Monday BND, was a poor choice to illustrate any negative conditions for a military retiree in Illinois.
In 2008, an active duty colonel (O6) like Harper had basic pay and allowances of more than $124,000 per year. At retirement of 24 years or more, this retired colonel makes 50 percent to 75 percent of his basic pay of about $107,000, which would amount to about $80,000 today with annual cost-of-living increases. This, added to the fact that Illinois residents pay no state income tax on their government retirement and free medical services and commissary are available at Scott Air Force Base, makes life seem a lot better than for most citizens.
I question why someone making $80,000 per year needs to find a job after retirement to make enough to survive when most people will never make that much in their lives. I fail to see any hardship here.
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On July 1 Larry Summers--the Wunderkind economist who ran the Treasury Department under President Clinton--takes over as president of Harvard University. "A fitting choice," editorialized the New York Times. But fitting in what way? So far, Summers has maintained an eloquent silence on the activists who seized his future office for three weeks to demand a living wage for Harvard service personnel. Harvard may have an endowment of billions at its disposal, but Summers, who failed to respond to my requests for an interview, is unlikely to embrace the living-wage drive.
After all, if everyone were paid a living wage, where would we store hazardous waste? A decade ago, while chief economist of the World Bank, Summers put forward arguments for a "world-welfare enhancing trade in air pollution and waste" in an internal bank memo that expressed the value of a human life as the sum of its future earnings. "The costs of health-impairing pollution depend on the foregone earnings from increased morbidity and mortality," Summers wrote. So if pollution takes five years off the life of the average, well-paid American, that is more significant than the same pollution prematurely killing off the average someone in Mexico or some other lower-wage country. Wrote Summers, "The economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable, and we should face up to it."
Yes, it's a ten-year-old memo, and Summers has apologized for his suggestions, saying they were ironic and intended to push colleagues to think outside the box. But don't feel bad about asking him whether "impeccable logic" dictates that the death of a Harvard janitor paid $6 an hour matters less on some level than if the janitor is making $10.25. That's just one of the harsh questions Harvard's braver souls ought to be asking.
Here's another: Why did Summers, while he was a top official at Treasury, so ardently embrace the corrupt sell-offs of Soviet industries? Russia's privatization czar, Anatoly Chubais, oversaw "auctions" of the oil companies, nickel mines and other crown jewels of Soviet industry that were openly rigged. How openly? The privatizers invited some of Russia's newly minted tycoons to organize the auctions--and then let those tycoons reject high bids and crown themselves the winners.
Long after those rigged auctions were over, Summers was praising their organizers as an "economic dream team" and was on a friendly first-name basis with them in official letters. That was consistent with the Clinton Administration's see-no-evil approach to Boris Yeltsin's boys--one that Summers helped design.
Summers's critics may find new ammunition in a Justice Department lawsuit brought against Harvard over its work on Russian privatizations. In United States of America v. the President and Fellows of Harvard College, Andrei Shleifer, Jonathan Hay, Nancy Zimmerman and Elizabeth Hebert, the Justice Department accuses a team from Harvard of having "defrauded the United States out of $40 million"--the amount paid to Harvard's Institute for International Development to work on Russian economic policy in tandem with reformers like Chubais. The Justice Department says that Shleifer and Hay, who ran Harvard's Russia project, secretly bought large personal stakes in Russian oil companies and in "GKOs"--wildly high-interest Russian treasury bills. Harvard University's endowment, by the way, was also heavy in GKOs. In other words, Harvard and its representatives were investing in areas they were being paid to help design and regulate.
Justice's ninety-eight-page civil complaint also says the Harvard team arranged for USAID to pay hefty salaries to people who worked on Hay's or Shleifer's private business projects (or those of their wives, Zimmerman and Hebert); some of those people rarely showed up for work "other than to collect their pay or for the free lunches." And the complaint says that "numerous" Harvard officials knew of these and other abuses, but those who complained were either ignored or, if they worked under Shleifer and Hay, bullied into silence.
Summers does not figure in the Justice Department's complaint, but he has for decades been a mentor to Shleifer. As an MIT professor, he hired Shleifer, then a Harvard undergraduate, as a research assistant, beginning what the Journal of Economic Perspectives described as "a long period of close friendship and mutual education." Even after Shleifer's work in Russia had come under investigation, Summers continued to embrace it--for example, writing in a blurb for a book Shleifer co-wrote on privatization that the authors had done "remarkable things in Russia." Now, as Harvard president, Summers will have to deal with the fallout from the legal case involving Shleifer--who still holds tenure at Harvard--and whatever further embarrassing details it may reveal.
Even then, the lawsuit involves only a portion of the Harvard-Russia relationship. Of equal interest is how the Harvard project and the Russian reformers cooperated to win control of the US government's aid money. And this is a story Summers should know intimately--the ins and outs of Russian economic policy-making were a major part of his brief at Treasury, while the Harvard-reformer nexus involving his friends Shleifer and Chubais has been chewed over by Congressional and General Accounting Office investigators.
Government money is usually handed out through a bidding process, but according to a GAO investigation, aid money to Russia broke that model. The GAO--the budgetary watchdog of Congress--says Harvard not only received tens of millions without any bidding, it also won "substantial control over the U.S. assistance program [for Russian economic policy-making]." Here's how it worked: The Harvard team befriended "reformers" like Chubais. (Friendship in action: When Yeltsin briefly fired Chubais over the rigged oil company auctions, the Harvard team used USAID money to hire Chubais, paying him $10,000 a month to be a "consultant.") USAID approvingly noted the "deep relationship of trust" between Harvard and the reformers and cited it as a reason to give Harvard more aid money while sidelining projects run by other institutions. On rare occasions when USAID did dare to award money to a non-Harvard-approved organization, the reformers would nix it: For example, when a team from Stanford won a USAID competition to work with Russia's Federal Commission on Securities--a commission designed by Shleifer and Hay--the "reformer" heading that commission balked. Stanford lost that contract, and later Harvard was given money to do much the same work.
Rigging the game so that only Harvard could win sounds like the sort of crony capitalism associated with... well, with Russian privatization. But the Justice Department is going after only the personal behavior of Shleifer, Hay & Co., not the larger issue of how their superiors winked so long at cronyism in Moscow and Washington. Why were the Russian reformers allowed to play Harvard, and Harvard to play Washington, like a yo-yo? That's another question no one should feel bad about asking Summers--who, in one of those quirky ironies of fate, will also technically be on trial if United States v. the President and Fellows of Harvard goes forward.


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Fun place to sail to as there area few places to anchor or pick up moorings.
Who wants to live on a desert island where your mode of transportation is a golf cart. Nothing grows here. Big tourist trap.
Nice place to visit for a few days. Restaurants very average but they have a captured clientel so they dont have to be good. Only one I thought interesting was the wine shop with all the cheesecakes. Tons of T shirt places and estate jewlelry shops. Great Zip line. After a few days youll get bored or feel isolated. Everything comes by barge so choices are limited.
Everyone should visit Catalina once to say youve been there, but there are so many nicer places to live and stay in Southern California on the mainland
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The situation is far from being resolved. Despite the agreed cease-fire, fighting continues in Eastern Ukraine and the EU has already announced further sanctions.
This week the European Union imposed further sanctions on Russia. This decision followed months of destabilisation of Ukraine by Russia, and months of political and diplomatic efforts to restore peace and stability.
September is not just a time when trees start shedding their leaves and university students dust off their books, it's also when the European Parliament returns from the summer recess and starts work on legislation that will affect the lives of everyone living in the European Union.
So, next week the Scots will decide if they want to be independent. Let me start by declaring a lack of interest in this issue. A complete lack of interest. I think may be one-eighth Scottish but I really don't care if I have Scottish blood coursing through my veins. It hasn't affected my life either way.
Is there life after (out of) the EU? Well, of course there is. Those among us who are worried about losing the benefits of EU membership, or fear Great Britain becoming an insignificant mid-range power that nobody listens to need not fret, according to the newest report by eurosceptic think-tank Civitas.
Ed Miliband believes Britain should play a lead role in the EU, and in the coming months he will have to articulate Labour's vision for Europe and the wider world. When Ed becomes prime minister next May he will have to make that vision a reality, working with other EU leaders towards a stronger Europe...
We will always remember what happened on 31 August 2014, as we will always cherish memories of 1 May 2004 when Poland became a member of the EU. When Herman Van Rompuy said on Twitter "The European Council has elected prime minister Donald Tusk as the next president of the European Council and Euro Summits,"
How could a man so widely praised for his "principles" play party political games and indulge in distracting political theatre at a time when we face some of the biggest global threats since the Cold War?
We now have only 20 days before we make the biggest ever decision for Scotland. It is not one that will have an impact only this year, or for the next five years, but one that will decide the futures of our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren and many generations to come.
I'll tell you what I know about war in Ukraine, and life there. Some of you will scream "you are not there!" and that's right, I'm not in Ukraine but in France, and the war is not where I am but in Ukraine. However, as are all Ukrainians, I'm living this war too, even though I'm far away from it. It's like a long-distance relationship, and I know those very well.
Why a food ban? Quite simply, it will hurt the EU nations, and far more severely than any sanction that has been imposed on Russia by the EU so far... little notice has been paid to Edward Snowden, the whistle-blower and current rector of Glasgow University, who has been granted a 3 year stay in Russia, and will not be extradited back to America.
The facts on the ground have not really changed from Boris' initial assessment of the pros and cons of membership last year. Maybe we are just one year closer to an election in which Boris needs to position himself as the tough-talking Eurosceptic reaching out for an uncompromising deal.
The current nine female commissioners have called for 10 or more women in the new team, while Juncker himself called gender balance 'a political must'. With 37% women among its own ranks, the European Parliament will be in no mind for compromise.
After months of fraught relations between Russia and the West which have seen a flurry of tit-for-tat sanctions triggered by the growing unrest in Ukraine, the final straw seemed to come with the suspected downing on 17 July of flight MH17 over Ukraine by pro-Russian separatists.
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She doesn't want to tell me why she's so dog-gone determined that the kids who come to the Orangewood Children's Foundation get every single possible thing she can give them before they step out the door again.
She doesn't want to tell me why she knows that when people use the expression "I saw stars" after they've been hit, it's true, they literally have seen stars.
She doesn't want to tell me about divorce, about being a single mom raising three kids, about having to work long hours for so many years and the regret that lingers from having to be gone from her own children. She doesn't want to tell about being so broke, she asked her kids if it was all right if they shared a yearbook because it would cost too much to buy three.
She doesn't want to tell me any of this because she says if she does, she'll cry.
She cries anyway.
"Oh, there I go," she says, wiping the corner of her eye with a quick, efficient motion, as if she's annoyed the errant little tear snuck out.
Just that tells me a lot.
But Lupe is a people person who can't keep from telling all that needs to be said. She will tell me enthusiastically about how much she loves being the in-kind gift manager for the past decade at Orangewood, providing transitional housing, job counseling, vocational training, emergency assistance and a host of other support for young adults who have aged out of the foster care system. About how great it is to provide beautiful prom gowns and self-esteem classes to girls who've never had a dress, so that when they go to the prom, "they really feel like the belle of the ball."
She will tell all about the car-seat giveaway a few weeks ago, and how she watched these teenage moms, and some dads too, be so loving with their own kids and how hopeful that made her for the future. "It changes everything, when kids see there is somebody there for them," she says.
She will tell me how much she loves her 12-year-and-counting volunteer efforts with the National Latino Police Officers Association, helping with fundraising and mentoring at-risk kids, earning the friendship and respect of people like Los Angeles County Sherriff Lee Baca.
She will tell me she loves basketball. You don't want to mess with her on a court, no-sir-ee.
She will tell me how much she loves her three grown kids and how much she gets in trouble for spoiling her granddaughters, Alyssa and Athena, both age 4.
She will tell me that when her brother, construction company CEO Manny Montanez, informed her that he'd nominated her to be in this article, she rolled her eyes and said, "Manuel, what have you done now?"
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The Perseids Are Coming
Earth is entering a stream of dusty debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle, the source of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Although the shower won't peak until August 11th and 12th, the show is already getting underway.
Don't get too excited, cautions Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "We're just in the outskirts of the debris stream now. If you go out at night and stare at the sky, you'll probably only see a few Perseids per hour."
This will change, however, as August unfolds.
"Earth passes through the densest part of the debris stream sometime on August 12th. Then, you could see dozens of meteors per hour."
For sky watchers in North America, the watch begins after nightfall on August 11th and continues until sunrise on the 12th. Veteran observers suggest the following strategy: Unfold a blanket on a flat patch of ground. (Note: The middle of your street is not a good choice.) Lie down and look up. Perseids can appear in any part of the sky, their tails all pointing back to the shower's radiant in the constellation Perseus. Get away from city lights if you can.
There is one light you cannot escape on August 12th. The 55% gibbous Moon will glare down from the constellation Aries just next door to the shower's radiant in Perseus. The Moon is beautiful, but don't stare at it. Bright moonlight ruins night vision and it will wipe out any faint Perseids in that part of the sky.
The Moon is least troublesome during the early evening hours of August 11th. Around 9 to 11 p.m. local time (your local time), both Perseus and the Moon will be hanging low in the north. This low profile reduces lunar glare while positioning the shower's radiant for a nice display of Earthgrazers.
"Earthgrazers are meteors that approach from the horizon and skim the atmosphere overhead like a stone skipping across the surface of a pond," explains Cooke. "They are long, slow and colorful""among the most beautiful of meteors." He notes that an hour of watching may net only a few of these at most, but seeing even one can make the whole night worthwhile.
The Perseids are coming. Enjoy the show.
By Dr. Tony Phillips, Science @ NASA
Image 1: Brian Emfinger of Ozark, Arkansas, photographed this early Perseid just after midnight on Sunday, July 26th. "I used an off-the-shelf digital camera to capture this fireball and its smoky trail," says Emfinger. "It was a bright one!" he said.
Image 2: Looking northeast around midnight on August 11th-12th. The red dot is the Perseid radiant. Although Perseid meteors can appear in any part of the sky, all of their tails will point back to the radiant. Image copyright: Spaceweather.com, used with permission.
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Most HomePlug devices point downwards from the mains power socket so that the Ethernet cables trail straight down onto the floor and can be tucked out of sight. Visit Devolo dLAN 200 AV Wireless N review.
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Linksys has placed the single Ethernet port right on the top of its adaptors, which means that the Ethernet cables protrude upwards for several inches in a rather unsightly fashion. However, this could be an advantage if your mains sockets are close to the floor. See also D-Link W307AV PowerLine Homeplug AV Wireless N Starter Kit review.
Of course, design doesn't affect performance (or shouldn't anyhow), and the PLWK400 was able to back up our 1GB test file at 60.2Mbps. That's not the best we've seen by any means, but it's respectable for a HomePlug AV kit.
There's a 'Simple Connect' button that allows you to automatically create a secure link between the two adaptors, and to quickly add further adaptors as well. There's a similar security button for the built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi too, but as we've said in other reviews, the WPS system can easily be compromised so don't choose a kit because it has push-button security.
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Maninarakorn Hotel - Chiang Mai
99 Sridonchai Rd. T. Changklan A.Muang - Chiang Mai1-877-662-6988
An outdoor pool and free Wi-Fi are just some of the great amenities you'll find at Maninarakorn Hotel, an excellent choice for those looking for business-friendly hotels in Chiang Mai that are also in the entertainment district.
Enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner at this 3-star Chiang Mai hotel's restaurant where you're sure to find something to suit your taste. If you are in need of rest and relaxation you can find a fitness center, a sauna and a steam room on offer. Outfitted with a bar/lounge, you'll find the perfect place to have a drink.
Multilingual staff are available at the front desk 24 hours-a-day and can provide tour/ticket assistance. The lobby offers a TV, free newspapers and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Planning a meeting? This hotel has 4 meeting rooms, as well as a business center. Other amenities include a hair salon, gift shops/newsstands, dry cleaning/laundry, ATM/banking and shopping on site.
Good location , Nice staffVenere Guest, Thailand
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Breakfast at Maninarakorn Hotel
A buffet breakfast is served between 6 AM and 10:30 AM for a fee.
Facilities at Maninarakorn Hotel, Chiang Mai
- Business Center
- Meeting Room
- Conference room
- Bar
- Restaurant/Dining
- Laundry service
- Room service - limited hour
- Hairdresser
- Gift shop
- Shops in the hotel
- Minimarket
- Limousine service
- Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
- Free parking
- Gym
- Outdoor swimming pool
- Children swimming pool
- Multilingual staff
- Newspapers
- Front desk - safety deposit box
- Front desk - 24 hour
- Luggage room
- City tour
- Sauna
- Steam bath
- Internet/Email services
- TV Lounge
Know before you go
- This property offers transfers from the airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
- No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.
Check-in: after 2 PM.
Check-out: before noon.
PolicyExtra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
City tax and/or any other fees charged by the hotel
The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
- Fee for buffet breakfast: THB 250 for adults and THB 150 for children (approximately)
- Airport shuttle fee: THB 120 per person (one way)
- Rollaway bed fee: THB 650 per night
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
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Good location , Nice staff
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I loved staying here - great location, beautiful pool & gym - my only issue was that the wifi was unreliable and simply did not work in the bedroom of my apartment, meaning any conversations or online interaction had to be done in the hallway. The staff were very friendly but spoke limited English, making communication a little bit difficult at times. Would definitely recommend though!
- November 2013
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This room was in the main body of the hotel (it has and annexe called the residence - older). The room was ok and reasonably good value for money. Breakfast buffet was ok but as usual the coffee and tea were terrible - as we found with all hotels we stayed at in Thailand. We booked via Agoda and got a great price.
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- Australia
This room was in the cheap and cheerful side of the Hotel. They call this the 'residence'. The rooms are old but have been painted up. There is a lounge room, bathroom and bedroom. Luxury hotel this is not but is in a handy location with plenty of travel offices downstairs.
- September 2014
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Book your business-friendly accommodation at the 118-room Maninarakorn Hotel. Guests can unwind at the end of a long day and enjoy LCD televisions with cable channels. Business travelers will have access to free wireless high-speed Internet access as well as desks and phones during their Chiang Mai visit.
For comfort and convenience, each guest room comes with a separate sitting area. Private bathrooms are outfitted with showers and slippers. Refrigerators, minibars, coffee/tea makers and complimentary bottled water are supplied in each room to facilitate basic travel needs. Rooms also include air conditioning and blackout drapes/curtains.
Irons/ironing boards and hair dryers can be provided on request.
Accommodation Services
- Air conditioning
- Telephone
- Mini bar
- Mini fridge
- Extra beds
- Coffee and tea maker
- Ironing facilities on request
- Desk
- Hairdryer on request
- LCD flat screen TV
- Cable TV
- Wireless Internet access
Distances from Maninarakorn Hotel, Chiang MaiChiang Mai Night Bazaar - 0.6 km / 0.3 mi
Wiang Kum Kam - 0.7 km / 0.4 mi
Chiang Mai Gate - 0.7 km / 0.5 mi
Tha Phae Gate - 0.8 km / 0.5 mi
Central Chiang Mai Memorial Hospital - 0.9 km / 0.6 mi
Pratat Chedi Luang Temple - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Warorot Market - 1.1 km / 0.7 mi
Wat Chedi Luang - 1.2 km / 0.7 mi
Sunday Walking Street Market - 1.2 km / 0.8 mi
Wat Si Supan - 1.3 km / 0.8 mi
Wat Sri Suphan - 1.3 km / 0.8 mi
Three Kings Monument - 1.3 km / 0.8 mi
Chiang Mai City Arts & Cultural Center - 1.4 km / 0.9 mi
Wat Gatekaram - 1.5 km / 0.9 mi
Wat Chiang Man - 1.6 km / 1 mi
The preferred airport for Maninarakorn Hotel is Chiang Mai (CNX-Chiang Mai Intl.) - 3.2 km / 2 mi.
Distances are calculated in a straight line from the property's location to the point of interest or airport and may not reflect actual travel distance.
Distances are displayed to the nearest 0.1 km and mile.
Transportation services Maninarakorn Hotel
- Limousine service
- Shuttle service from and/or to the airport
- Free parking
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If Franzen works hard during the regular season I would be very comfortable with that lineup. Each line has a shooter and a setup man. I think having one player on each line that is huge for the sake of being huge is a waste of time - you need to give the best players the top minutes and get them out there as much as possible together. Also, chemistry is chemistry so if something that looks weird on paper works then go for it.
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Is Jimmy Connors actually underrated?
I've been watching some old videos of Jimmy Connors recently and it amazes me even now how purely he hits the ball, how beautiful his preparation was and the power, consistency and depth of his shots.
In a way I often think Connors is very underrated. The man won 140 plus tournaments in his career and many majors. That's more total tournaments won than Nadal, Federer and Djokovic combined to put it in perspective. And yes I know Connors "officially" won 109 tournaments in his career but the ATP doesn't count many WCT tournaments and other tournaments he won in his career. He played at a very strong level up to a very late age in tennis. He is arguably the best pure ball striker in the history of tennis with super mobility and he is also arguably the greatest service returner in the history of tennis. He also had arguably the greatest backhand in history.
One of the reasons I think he is underrated is his relatively small majors total considering how great he was. One of the reasons is that I believe some of the majors were not as important as it is considered today. He didn't played the Australian and the French for many of his prime years but he won tournaments that essentially were majors like the WCT championship and the Year End Masters tournament.
Connors won about 82% of his matches for his career. That's incredible considering how many years he played past his best years. He was number one in the world for five years in a row plus he was top ten in the world from 1973 to 1978. He won over 90% of his matches over a five year span and if you don't think that's impressive, Pete Sampras never won 90% of his matches in any ONE year.
Connors also played in an extremely competitive time, against older legends like Rosewall, Newcombe, Ashe, Smith and Nastase. He played younger legends like Borg, McEnroe, Lendl, Cash, Edberg, Wilander, Agassi and even Sampras.
Do I think Connors is the greatest ever? No I do not but he is one of the few who has a record that you can at least argue reasonably that he is the greatest ever.
Please discuss.
Connors was always my favorite player growing up. If it wasn't for the fact that Borg completely dominated him after 1976, Connors would have been better respected in tennis history. Look at what happened right after Borg retired. His competitveness and the way he hit the ball with such precision are this trademarks. Most of us cannot emulate his unorthodox straight flat style, but certain fundamentals of the game like footwork, concentration, bending your knees, court sense and anticipation are all things we can learn from him.
Still, I would have to put him behind Borg and McEnroe among his contemporaries. It's hard to really put him among the all time greats when there were 2 players who were better during his time. It's unfortunate.
Yes, sometimes it seems that he is underrated - in an age, where only the majors count. Like Mac, Borg or Lendl, Connors has great numbers in overall titles, win-lost -percentages, years at the top, and like them his major count is relatively small, compared with those overall numbers. As pc 1 wrote, in those early open years the whole tour counted, not only the majors segment. Maybe also his negative head-to-head records against Borg, Mac and Lendl, which are to be studied very closely, have a negative effect on his standing.
In open era Connors is by far the most consistent performer over the longest stretch, in history only Tilden, Rosewall and maybe Gonzalez have comparable careers. In a scientific study this year (with emphasis on top matches played), Connors was indeed named the greatest of the open era. Ashe called him the most significant player of all times. Like nobody else, he changed the perception of tennis as a popular sport in the Tennis Boom years.
I saw him play, and that year in '74 where he won 3 Slams, wasn't allowed to play the French, and twice slaughtered Rosewall in winning two of them, was something to see; on the other hand, he was victim to two of the sport's greatest upsets, at Wimbledon '75 vs Ashe (who was president of the organization that he, Connors, had sued, so there were other factors besides "only" winning a Wimbledon final), and a few months later to Orantes (for the latter's one and only Slam) in one of the dumbest losses ever-plus, he was dominated by two other players, Borg, and Lendl, so I think he was only slightly underrated, if he was underrated at all.
I wrote, that those head to head are to be studied closely. Age is a factor, Mac and Lendl were younger than Connors, and got the better of him, when he was declining. In big matches, he won over Lendl on Lendl's best surface at the USO 82 and 83. With Mac he was quite on par if not shlightly better until 1984. In his historical standing, i would rate him behind Borg, but a fraction ahead of Mac and Lendl. It can be also argued, that he would have won 7 USOs, if hard courts would have been implemented earlier.
McEnroe's longevity was not as good, and you do have a point. My heart was always for Connors because I admired his tenacity. The reason I put McEnroe ahead is simply because if McEnroe was playing his A-game, I just can't imagine Connors beating him no matter where they played or how well Connors was playing. Mac was just that good.
My take on it is that the difference between Connors and the top 5 all time GOATs was his serve. He had every other shot, arguably the best backhand ever, was doggedly competitive, was a great natural athlete, and was lucky to be as healthy as he was. If his serve was a weapon, like Federer, Sampras, Gonzales, Borg or even Laver, then, IMO, he would have been regarded in that tier. In any event, once again, IMO, he's still a top 10 all time great along with Lendl and Mac. It's hard to think of a top ten GOAT as underrated.
Whether Connors is the greatest or not, he did as much, or more, to popularize tennis than anyone.
I saw him play live numerous times in the 70s, and his return was awesome. His footwork is still as good as I've ever seen, and his intensity up close was almost scary.
Got to string for him at a tournament in 87, and really enjoyed his company.
I agree that Mac very best tennis, surpassed Connors, but day in day out, for their careers, Connors is better and when i look at champions, I look at their best days and their worst and everything in between. Connors is right behind Borg and equal to Lendl better than Mac or Wilander.
Yes, he is underrated, especially when people compare him to Agassi and say that they're in the same tier. I'm an Agassi fan, but Connors is easily top 5, not Agassi.
I would personally rank Connors above Lendl. Lendl never won a major on grass, and Connors won majors on all 3 surfaces. Lendl only started beating Connors when Connors was on the decline. When they were both good, and it counted, Connors came out on top.
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Trek Lush 29er Womens
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Product DescriptionYou love nature, adventure, tackling singletrack with friends, seeking new challenges. So does Lush. It's a perfect match.
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Date Reviewed: February 14, 2013
Strengths: good components for the price point,
Women Specific Design simply WORKS for a petite woman
suspension tuned to a woman's weight
Weaknesses: slooooow on the flat... but that's not why you bought a full suspension, is it?!
Bottom Line:
I was all excited to try it out, despite the flatness of Bangkok, so I took it out with a local group who rides the trails around the rice paddies outside of town, which turned out to be almost as hard packed as the tarmac roads we took to get to them. I found myself at the tail end of the group the whole time- all of whom were riding hard tails with smooth, skinny tires - which was a bit embarrassing, really.
But then I took it home, to Kathmandu...
Suddenly I went from the back of the pack to charging up hills, passing the best of our group, and flying down singletrack like I had wings. I felt like Superwoman!
The big knobbly tires, which slowed me down on the flat hardpack in Thailand, grip the mud and layered dust of Kathmandu like glue. The plush suspension takes the drops and rocks and ruts like they weren't even there, the derailleurs shift the chain along the 3X10 rings like silk, and the slack overdrive headset steers like a dream.
The real difference with this bike, for me, is the geometry. I am 5 foot nothing, with relatively long legs and short arms- kind of a typical woman, really! I ride the 14.5 Lush S, which puts me much closer to the handlebars than my hard tail (also a Trek, but not WSD). The different angle makes my pedal stroke a lot more efficient too, which is how I find myself powering up hills about twice as fast as before, despite the rear suspension. This is also the first bike I've ever owned where I actually have the recommended stand over height! The suspension is also well designed for a lighter woman, making even the front fork significantly more cushy than my HT, while never being in danger of bottoming out- giving me a lot more control, not just a smoother ride.
The one thing I'm still getting used to is the totally different center of gravity. While it makes me feel more in control and confident on the downhill, I feel much higher off the ground than on my HT, and therefore a bit tippy. This is particularly true when I'm headed up a short very steep bit of trail- I often feel like i'm going to tip over. This is more a technique issue than anything else, and I'll get used to it soon, but I thought I'd mention it in case other people feel the same way. The steering is also much more sensitive than on my HT, so I had a bit of trouble at first on particularly skinny "half tracks" like those between the Nepali rice paddies (the Thai paddies have tractor roads between them), I felt like I was in danger of accidentally over steering and falling off the track. Again, this is just something to get used to.
Finally, it is a bit shallow, but I do have to say I love the color, and I've gotten a TON of complements on it. The powder blue and navy is just striking, and the gold accents are a nice touch!
If you want an idea of what kind of riding I do in Kathmandu, look up "colors of Kathmandu" on YouTube.
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Purchased At: ProBike, Bangkok
Bike Setup: Factory
Date Reviewed: May 17, 2012
Strengths: not carbon! a good value. many frame improvements from the Trek Fuel WSD. handles well with excellent suspension properties. 2012 Lush SL has decent color. decent weight.
Weaknesses: oem crankset on the 2012 Lush SL. not compatible with water bottle cages. 2012 color options are hideous (except for Lush SL which is decent) and will not match well with most prospective upgrades that are dominated with red, gold, etc unfortunately, color coordination is a big thing among most ladies
Bottom Line:
For comparison among women's bikes, i have also researched the Specialized Safire Pro, Giant Trance XW, Norco Sight Forma 2 and Forma 3 and the Pivot Mach 5.7 Carbon.
The Trek Lush rides very well. Suspension has minimal bob when pedaling but descends very well. Its ABP system works well and allows suspension to remain active even during panic braking. The price value is one of the best and second only to the Norco Sight Forma. Compared to last years model (its predecessor) 2011 Trek Fuel 8 WSD, the Lush has improved with lower standover height and a better riding experience.
the Lush has less travel with 120mm compared to the Norco Sight Forma at 140mm and the PC Mach 5.7 carbon at 140/150mm. However my girlfriend is upgrading from a 80-100 fork hardtail so i think the 140 is overkill (at least for now). the difference in travel was therefore inconsequential.
The price was great and i really wanted to settle with the Lush. Unfortunately, there were two things that were simply unacceptable in this bike:
1. color. the colors of their bikes are far from attractive and clashes with most upgrades that i wanted to add. for example, i intended to add a better wheelset which had red stripes (as most mtb components have)... with so many other colors the bike starts to look like a rainbow or clown in bad way. although color is not a big issue to me, it was an issue with my sister and my girlfriend and since i was already spending that much money, i wanted a good looking bike. The outgoing 2011 Trek EX 8 WSD (was on sale) looked great but was not the right size.
2. you cannot attach a water bottle cage on it. the bike decision basically came to this. as an avid mountain biker, we go 3-4x a week but each ride is less than 2.5 hours long. most of the female bikers including my sis and girlfriend rarely ride more than 2 hours and would rather use water bottles for non-epic length bike rides. they don't want to wear a sweaty camelback that needs to be washed each week and requires extensive preparation beyond filling a clean water bottle that they could wash in the dishwasher.
in the end, no matter how i tried to convince myself about the Lush, it simply didn't cut it. by lowering the standover height (which was already sufficiently low in the previous Fuel EX WSD) they made the frame triangle too small to allow a water bottle cage and thus didn't even try to put bolts/receivers on the downtube. if this was a freeride or downhill bike, i would understand the lack of water bottle cage bolts/receivers but this is a trail bike!
nearly went with the Specialized Safire Pro but it looks hideous and the suspension design was not inspiring. i ended up settling with the Pivot Cycles 5.7 Carbon (the aluminum did not allow water bottle cages either) and built it with Shimano XT at competitivecyclist.com. it is a sweet bike although i ended up spending nearly 2x more than i intended to when i was looking at the Trek Lush
Date Reviewed: March 18, 2012
Strengths: smooth ride. easy too handle, corners great,and climbs like crazy! pretty paint job. solid, light,traction is top notch..fits my body correctly and 27 inch stand over.pretty girly looking paint job seems to cleean easy. appears to reject mud.good price was out the door.
Weaknesses: none...... just be sure if you move brake levers in for one finger,that the rear brake cable might need slack re dispursed. this is because handle bars are not wide.24" (white grips are no problem they windex back to pure white anytime...)
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $2000.00
Purchased At: sunbaum
Similar Products Used: my husband has a trek remedy 7
Bike Setup: this is the base line lush it has rock shock 120mm fork, drcv rp2 rear,a cute EVO, bontrager xr4 knobies.shimano 6" disc brakes,comet crank and shimano shifters.at 850 bontrager wheels.stock just like Treks website.
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I always dig up the movie Hoosiers and watch it this time of year. Everyone who knows me knows it's my favorite sports movie. I've seen it 30-something times, and I still get goosebumps when Ollie hits that free throw.
Might not watch it this year.
No need to.
I've been living it for the past two weeks, well close enough to it. Close enough to Terrell County to taste a little of it -- and nothing tastes sweeter.
It's always like that when the kids who aren't supposed to win just keep winning, just keep tugging at your heart, and just keep making you dizzy with the magic that comes with a state title run.
I may be the biggest cynic in the world, but when it comes to high school kids, I'm a soft touch. I still believe in that corny Hoosiers storyline and will always want to believe that little guys somewhere are toppling bullies as we speak.
Nobody slays giants like the kids from Dawson, and there's not a whole lot out there that's more fun than watching them do it. Don't tell The Albany Herald, but I would cover these games for free.
I was even a cynic about this team. Last summer, I ran into Terrell County coach John Davis, and joked with him, asking him point blank: "How are you going to get a rebound this year? You lost your big man Alre'k Brown, who was the Bill Russell of Southwest Georgia. You bring back four guards, but how are you going to get a rebound?''
Davis, a man of faith and conviction who knows the Bible better than he knows basketball (and Lord knows he knows basketball), smiled and said. "I've got a plan.''
"So what's your plan,'' I said, laughing.
"We're not going to miss,'' he said.
Well, here they are -- the Dreamwave -- those Greenwave players who dreamed of making all this happen and then made the dream come true. They're playing for the Class A state title at 12:45 p.m. today against Wilkinson County, the biggest giant of them all.
You know how we got to this point: Wilkinson smashed everyone last year and was ranked No. 1 in the state and unbeaten on the night Terrell County crashed the party with a 51-50 win in the Elite 8 that sent echoes across the state. Wilkinson County hasn't lost since, and arrives today with a 56-1 record during the past two years -- all this after beating four playoff teams by a total of 93 points.
The Warriors are big and fast and -- after what happened last year -- are ready to take Terrell County's head off. Were they thinking about Terrell County? Not much. Wilkinson County's coach Aaron Geter came to Albany on a night when his team was playing to watch Terrell County beat Westover in the Civic Center this season.
Oh, they want the Greenwave -- want to beat them so bad it's in their bones, and you can't blame them.
But listen to Davis.
"I've had good teams, and I've had great teams,'' he said Thursday. "But I've never had a team this hungry.''
They play like they're starving.
The big man is Dekoven Ware, who stands at 6-feet. Whitefield Academy, the team TC beat in the state semifinals, 66-63, on Wednesday, started two guards who were each 6-3 and a big, physical 6-4 brute at center. Ware had 16 points and 10 rebounds.
Ware, a junior, has grown up right before their eyes in Dawson, and they love him. They love all these kids, a community wrapping its arms around a basketball team and then sailing 10 feet off the ground with it as the ride just gets better and better.
But not easier.
"Wilkinson County is a lot bigger than us, but so is everybody else we play,'' said Davis with the same ease he would have ordering a cup of coffee.
The Dreamwave are the shortest team in the entire playoffs, but nobody in this group cares about that because they're too busy caring about each other. They pass the ball like poetry and the chemistry between them flows like the Mississippi.
"Size doesn't matter,'' said 5-10 Terel Hall, who could probably leap over the Sears Tower if Davis asked him. He's that kind of kid. Is there a bigger player in Southwest Georgia? No, no, no. Not even close. If we're picking teams, and I can take any kid down here, I'm taking Hall with my first pick.
He is the heart and soul of this team, and I don't care how many times they knock him down, or grab his jersey or whack him from behind -- this kid never gives in. I can't tell you how Hall will beat Wilkinson today, because I've seen him beat teams in every imaginable way -- and sometimes with plays I could have never imagined.
The whole group has a resilience that's impossible to define. I have seen teams beat them up and pound them inside -- physically beat them to a pulp -- and they just keep coming. There was a playoff game last week, and the opponent beat Terrell County up so badly under the basket that Davis told me later that, "We were getting beat up so bad under there that I was afraid it would get to them mentally.''
No chance. Not with this group. Dreamwavers just don't waver.
Davis calls it mental toughness. But it's beyond that.
It's what you want to give to your children, a gift that will make them ready for anything the world throws against them.
Terrell County has it, and no one can take it.
"This team has a lot of heart,'' Ware said.
Yeah, lots and lots of hear ...Nope, don't think I'll need to watch Hoosiers this year.
I'm getting goosebumps just thinking about today's game.
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Richard Steier, editor of The Chief, the weekly paper read religiously by civil servants and municipal union officials, said that despite Ensley's large bloc of votes, the contest is far from over. "Don't count out the sentimental factor or the power of incumbency," he said. Adds Deidre McFadyen, the Chief reporter who has broken many of the stories about misdeeds within the council, "This union is much too fluid for anything to be wrapped up yet."
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It is still debatable to what extent structural plasticity in terms of synaptic rewiring is the cause for lesion-induced or experience-dependent cortical remapping [1]. Recent two-photon laser imaging studies demonstrate that synaptic rewiring is persistent in the adult brain and is dramatically increased following brain lesions or after a loss of sensory input (deafferentation). We use a recurrent neural network model [2] as a vehicle to study structural plasticity; to study the time course of synaptic rewiring following a lesion, we represent the synapse as consisting of axonal (terminals/varicosities) and dendritic elements (spines). Independent development of both pre- and postsynaptic elements allows for modelling synapse formation, pruning and synaptic turnover as distinct processes. Model neurons increase and decrease axonal and dendritic elements in an activity-dependent fashion. Hence, synaptic rewiring is subject to shifts in the excitation-inhibition equilibrium. We apply this model to recent experimental data from Keck et al. [3] on cortical remapping following focal retinal lesion. The model could also be applied to somatosensory deafferentation. In this study we demonstrate that maintaining network homeostatis and rebalancing deafferented neurons by synaptic rewiring can result in post-lesion cortical remapping. Thus, the model bridges the gap between activity-dependent morphological changes on the neuronal level and a changing connectivity of cortical maps on an anatomical level. These theoretical results could have large consequences for neurological rehabilitation after stroke.
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