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Formed hundreds of millions of years ago, the Karoo of South Africa is one of the great natural wonders of the world. Camdeboo National Park provides the visitor with insights into the unique landscape and ecosystem of the Karoo, not to mention awesome scenic beauty.
A unique feature of the 19 405-hectare park is its location, practically surrounding the town of Graaff-Reinet in the Eastern Cape.
The greater portion of the park is situated between 740 and 1480 metres above sea level on the foothills of the Sneeuberg range, while a small section of the low lying-plains is included. The Nqweba Dam lies within the park and covers about 1000 hectares when full. At some places, dolerites form jointed pillars – the best examples of which are found in the Valley of Desolation where erosion of the softer sedimentary beds has left dolerite pillars which rise to heights of 90 – 120 metres.
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OK, so you may remember that a few months back a little magazine called The New Yorker decided to make a list of 20 top fiction writers under the age of 40. Another magazine — something called "Granta" — does similar lists from time to time. But why does nobody ever make such lists for non-fiction writers? Some would say that non-fiction is rather vital right now.
So we made such a list. We asked ourselves, we asked our friends. There is nothing scientific about this list. They are in alphabetical order. Some are in fact over 40 years old, but not by much. There are more than 20 of them. We did not all agree on all of them; some of us have substantial conflicts of interest with some of them. We hope you will meet some people you had not heard of. We hope you will seek out their writing. (Nota bene: much of the research for this list was done by our fabulous intern, and rising literary star, Jeremy Lent.)
There are hyperlinks here, but you have to hunt for them with your little mousie. Make it a fun game.
• Rachel Aviv is a freelance journalist and is currently a Rosalynn Carter Fellow for mental health journalism with the Carter Center. She's written for the New York Times about off-beat educational topics, such as the death of Braille and naked parties at elite American colleges. In one of her greatest piece, she wrote about Toastmasters for The Believer.
• Eula Biss teaches and writes at Northwestern University, and she is the founding editor of Essay Press, which publishes long-form essays. After college, Biss taught in the New York City public school system before beginning to write essays and books. Her collection of prose poems, The Balloonist, was published in 2002. Notes from No Man's Land (2009) is a book of essays about race and racial identity in America, and it won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
• Tom Bissell (b. 1974) began writing after a bout of depression cut short his stint with the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan. After his return, Bissell worked as an editor for Henry Holt before going on to write travel journalism and books. The Father of All Things (2007) is Bissell's account of his father's military tour in Vietnam and a recent father-son return trip to the country. In 2003, Bissell co-authored Speak, Commentary, a book of fake commentaries on science fiction films. (The supposed commentators include Noam Chomsky, Ann Coulter and Dick Cheney.) Most recently, Bissell wrote about his more sedentary pursuits in Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter (2010).
• Dan Chiasson has published three collections of poetry and has been the poetry editor for The Paris Review. In 2007, he published One Kind of Everything: Poem and Person in Contemporary America, a collection of essays on the pros and cons of autobiographical material in modern American poetry. He frequently reviews for The New York Review of Books. Chiasson teaches poetry workshops and courses on American poetry at Wellesley College.
• Ta-Nehisi Coates (b. 1975) is a senior editor at Atlantic Monthly, where he writes about politics, race and pop culture. He also writes a popular blog at TheAtlantic.com. Coates dropped out of college after a rough ride through the Baltimore public school system, but he was hired by Time in 2005. In 2009, Coates published a memoir, The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood about his father's complicated role in his childhood.
• Joshua Cohen (b. 1980) is the author of six novels and story collections. Most recently, he published Witz (2010), a novel about an imagined future in which only one Jew remains alive on earth and yet Jewish culture is all the rage. Cohen also wrote A Heaven of Others (2008), a novel about the afterlife of a Jewish boy killed by a Palestinian child. Cohen also writes a regular column for Tablet Magazine about literature in translation. The majority of his personal webpage is written in Latin.
• John D'Agata's (b.1974) most recent work is About a Mountain (2010), a book-length investigative piece about the U.S. government's thwarted plan to store nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, near Las Vegas. D'Agata also published Halls of Fame (2003), a collection of essays. The eponymous essay explores America's nearly 3,000 halls of fame, including one dedicated to shuffleboard players. In 2009, D'Agata edited the anthology Origins of the Essay, which begins with prose selections from Sumerian and Akkadian writers in 1500 BCE, then approaches the modern era by way of Petrarch, Bacon, Swift and Woolf. D'Agata currently teaches creative writing at the University of Iowa.
• Jason Fagone (31 years old) is a freelance journalist living in Philadelphia. He writes about science, sports and culture for GQ, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, Slate and other magazines. In February 2010, he published an investigative piece in GQ about a 2008 Philadelphia shooting, possibly perpetrated by former Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison. As a result of Fagone's reporting, the Philadelphia D.A. began reinvestigating the case. In 2006, Fagone published his first book, Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream, which chronicled his journeys to 27 eating contests.
• Keith Gessen (b. 1975) is one of the founding editors of n+1, a twice-yearly journal started in 2004 that publishes articles on politics, literature and culture. Gessen has also written book reviews for magazines like New York and Slate. Gessen was born in the USSR, and although his family moved to the U.S. when he was six, some of his writing has focused on Russia. That includes a 2004 article in Atlantic Monthly about the caretakers of Lenin's tomb and a 2005 English translation of Voices From Chernobyl, an account of the nuclear disaster by the Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich. In 2008, Gessen published his first novel, All the Sad Young Literary Men, a tale of three recent college graduates, each struggling to make a life as a writer.
• Joshua Glenn (who is 42!) is the cofounder of HiLobrow, where he describes himself as a "freelance writer, editor, and cultural semiotics analyst for international brands." The blog has various contributors who write everything from fiction to posts about web technology and, of course, cultural semiotics. Glenn was an editor and columnist for the Boston Globe's "Ideas" section. In 2007, he co-edited the anthology Taking Things Seriously: 75 Objects With Unexpected Significance, a collection of first-person essays about favorite objects. In 2008, he co-wrote The Idler's Glossary, a listing of the etymology of hundreds of words and phrases used to describe people in various states of not working.
• Chuck Klosterman (b. 1972) worked as a journalist in North Dakota and Ohio before moving to New York City in 2002. Since then, he's written freelance articles for the New York Times Magazine, The Believer and Esquire, among other publications. Some of his freelance work focuses on sports: Klosterman contributes to ESPN.com's Page 2, which published his week-long blog during the 2006 Super Bowl. Perhaps best known for his nonfiction books, Klosterman has published six books since 2001. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto (2003) is a collection of humorous essays on such topics as MTV's The Real World, Billy Joel and the computer game The Sims. In 2010, Klosterman released HYPERtheticals: 50 Questions for Insane Conversations, a card game involving unusual conversation-starters. His greatest work remains his first, the memoir Fargo Rock City.
• Brendan Koerner is a contributing editor for Wired, where he writes the monthly "Mr. Know-It-All" column, responding to reader queries about 21st century ethical issues in technology, medicine, video gaming, etc. Koerner also writes feature articles for Wired, covering topics like the continuing enigma of Alcoholics Anonymous, a fungus that's threatening crops across Africa and the Middle East and the possibility that Facebook and Twitter help their users be more productive. In 2008, Koerner published Now the Hell Will Start, a biography of an African American soldier in WWII sent to help build a supply road between India and China.
• Gideon Lewis-Kraus is an American-born writer who lives in Berlin. We have no idea how old he is, but we think he is young; he writes young, and we mean that in a good way. He has contributed articles to Village Voice, The Nation, and Harper's, among other publications. In 2008, Lewis-Kraus wrote an article for Harper's called "The Last Book Party: Publishing drinks to a life after death," a first-person report from the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair and a consideration of publishing's future. The piece spawned a lot of talk. And that was because the piece was very, very good. He wrote this too.
• Dayo Olopade is currently a political reporter for the online news site The Daily Beast. She began her professional writing career at The New Republic, where she covered the 2008 presidential primaries and election. Olopade is also a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the New American Foundation. Her fellowship duties include reporting on the effect of disruptive technologies on human development, with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. In June 2010, Olopade published an article in Foreign Policy about Apple's troubling non-presence in Nigeria and surrounding countries.
• David Orr is a writer and lawyer living in Ithaca, New York. During law school at Yale, Orr began writing about poetry for various publications. In 2008, he wrote the article "The Politics of Poetry" for The Poetry Foundation, in which he used a comment made at an Ohio rally for Hilary Clinton ("[Obama's] a poet, not a fighter") to discuss the misconception that politics and poetry don't mix. He has the virtue of making people mad. Orr also writes the column "On Poetry" for The New York Times Book Review.
• David Samuels (b.1967) is older than 40, but we included him anyway. He is a contributing editor at Harper's, where he's written about such topics as Super Bowl XL, America's nuclear-testing program and Woodstock 1999 (an attempted revival of the 1969 rock festival). He writes for a lot of other magazines. In 2008, Samuels published The Runner: A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Imposter James Hogue, about a 28 year-old convicted thief who successfully passed himself off to Princeton admissions as a 16 year-old cowboy and self-taught orphan. At the same time, he published a collection of his work, Only Love Can Break Your Heart.
• Kelefa Sanneh has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 2008. Prior to that, he was the pop-music critic for The New York Times, beginning in 2002. His article "The Rap Against Rockism," which appeared in the Times in 2004, discusses a perhaps-ungrounded set of prejudices held by many "old school" rock fans. Sanneh's New Yorker articles have included profiles of lesser-known pop-culture figures and a report on Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ (led by embattled pastor Jeremiah Wright). Sanneh's work has appeared in the yearly anthology Da Capo Best Music Writing in 2002, 2005 and 2007.
• Samantha Shapiro is a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine and has also written for Slate, Mother Jones, Wired, and others. Many of Shapiro's articles deal with religion: for instance, an obituary of "Reverend Ike," a New York preacher who spearheaded the "power of positive thinking" gospel; a 2006 speech by the outgoing chancellor of the New York Jewish Theological Seminary that ruffled many Jewish feathers; a first-person account of how her atheist-leaning nephew finally got bar-mitzvahed. Here is a recent piece.
• Jake Silverstein (b. 1975) was named editor of Texas Monthly in 2008. After college and graduate work in English, Silverstein moved to Marfa, Texas, and began writing for the Big Bend Sentinel. Then, he embarked on a freelance writing career, roaming Texas and Mexico in search of magazine stories. The details of that search are chronicled in Nothing Happened and Then It Did (2010), Silverstein's first book. In 2007, Silverstein won the PEN/USA Journalism Award for a Harper's article about a deathly automobile road race in Mexico.
• Lizzie Skurnick is a critic, poet, essayist, blogger and author. She regularly contributes book reviews to The New York Times and The Washington Post. She has published her poems in The Iowa Review and The New Haven Review (among others), and in 2005, she released a collection called Check-In. Since 2003, Skurnick has maintained the blog Old Hag, to which she posts book reviews and her thoughts about various literary and journalistic matters. And if that weren't enough, Skurnick has published ten teen novels, including some in the Sweet Valley High series. She writes a weekly column about teen lit for Jezebel.com, and in 2009, she published Shelf Discovery: The Teen Classics We Never Stopped Reading.
• Zadie Smith (b. 1975) is crazy famous, deserves to be, and soon will start writing the New Books column for Harper's. If you only know her novels, check out her collection of essays.
• Touré (b. 1971) is a music writer, novelist and TV personality. Since 1997, he's been a contributing editor for Rolling Stone, where he's published cover stories on such hip-hop artists as Alicia Keys, 50 Cent and Jay-Z. He has released two collections of his magazine writing, as well as Soul City (2004), a magical-realist novel about a mayoral election in an imagined utopia of African-American culture. Touré is also the host of two music programs on Fuse TV.
• Lindy West is the film editor for The Stranger, a weekly arts and culture newspaper in Seattle. She also makes a lot of noise online, both through her blog (posted on both TheStranger.com and Telegraph.co.uk) and on Twitter. On her blog, West's bio says that she writes about "film, popular culture, lady stuff, animal attacks, and amusing garbage she finds on the ground." Her film reviews are first-person, humorous and highly opinionated. She wrote this bit of awesomeness about Sex and the City 2. We have no idea how old she is.
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StoopidNoodle says:
[...] steal the idea from The New Yorker and then borrow it from New Haven Review, which clearly stole it from The New Yorker. Ahem..not stealing or theft so much as appropriation. [...]
Dave Mastio says:
So, zero of your top 20 under 40 nonfiction writers are right of center or write for conservative publications. Lame.
Also shows how far-reaching your open minds go in looking for other perspectives.
Mark Oppenheimer says:
Dave, I think most of these people are pretty apolitical in their writing. I think maybe five or six write primarily for political mags, like Harper's. But David Samuels, for example, while he may write for some liberal mags, is not really a political writer.
In any event, how do YOU know none of them are right of center? Do you know the politics of all these writers? I don't. Methinks you are assuming a lot. What do we know, for instance, about Fagone's politics? He writes about extreme eating!
But anyway-- do you have any suggestions for us? People who are primarily identified with the right but do interesting, elegant, long-form work? Send the suggestions our way!
Yes, Dave: Send us your suggestions. Which young, right-of-center writers do you like best? I'd love to read them.
[...] Review's entire list is here. And links to some of Fagone's stories, including an investigative piece into a murder that [...]
Meredith Hobbs says:
I like the idea of a list of zippy nonfiction writers.
Two things:
--How can you write about Josh Glenn without mentioning the late great Hermenaut? Bizarre.
--Only six of the 23 writers that you list are women. What's up with that?
Hi Meredith—you're absolutely right about the lack of balance between women and men. Who would you say we missed? (Part of what makes this exercise great, of course, is in making the list longer.)
Scott Dickensheets says:
How old is Matt Labash? Looks youngish. He's conservative, and is widely considered good. He's got a recent collection out, Fly Fishing With Darth Vader.
Anne Trubek says:
Great idea, and a great list! Thanks for doing this. It is one way to get non-fiction into these kinds of discussions (whatever we think of lists, age cut-offs, etc.). t
RomeneskoShouldKnowBetter says:
It's pretty disappointing that Jim Romenesko would link to something as shallow as this........
Hey Scott: Thanks to you, I just read Labash's hilarious piece about Facebook. Then I checked my Facebook account, sad little monkey that I am.
phil anderson says:
Ummmm... Jonah Goldberg and Mark Steyn are just a couple off the top of my head. Those two always have something amusing, biting and trenchant to say about culture, world affairs, and plenty of other topics. Talk about living in a fishbowl!
Paul West says:
Lindy is twenty-eight.
Eula Biss says:
Yes, no list is ever complete, but: Amy Leach, Lia Purpura, Alison Bechdel, Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson....
Jolisa Gracewood says:
Hooray for the Old Hag, aka Lizzie Skurnick. Jessa Crispin of Bookslut is also superb. And while she's primarily identified with one book, Rebecca Skloot should be on the list, because it's one of those books you only need to have written one of.
Elif Batuman is one of the stroppiest, most idiosyncratic young non-fictional prose stylists du jour, and sure to endure.
Ta-Nehisi Coates is always a good read, too.
Mark Oppenheimer says:
I have responded to a lot of this at http://markoppenheimer.com/front-page/ten-reasons-men-like-making-top-ten-lists.html
Dan Oppenheimer says:
I nominate Meghan Daum, though I can't remember whether I liked her book of essays or not. She seems to have stature, though.
Nathan Rabin, of The Onion, has always seemed pretty remarkable to me.
Bennett Lovett-Graff says:
I try to track conservative writers and, to be honest, I haven't been thrilled by their strengths as either writers of powerful (as opposed to just nasty but humorless) prose or as investigative reporters, who are typically the kinds of folks that can master the "long article."
I've often wondered about this and I've come to believe in part it's because conservative ideology does not lend itself to investigating the kinds of things that the long article fundamentally supports: the discovery of facts about political corruption, bizarre belief systems, the stranger forms of consumerism, and alternatives ways of living.
In part this is because looking under the rocks at these things is likely to disturb the conservative worldview if it involves reckoning with such realities as the corrupting influence of capitalistic uses of money, expressing the initial and necessary sympathy needed to "get into" other belief systems that run contrary to chest-thumping patriotism or strident Christianity, reflecting on thoughtfully--and without harsh judgment--on the myriad nonmainstream ways we consume goods and services and live our lives.
wid conroy says:
Not that it matters, but eight or nine of the 20 appear to be Jewish. Does that make the group a cabal?
Mark Oppenheimer says:
Wid— That definitely makes the group a cabal. But if you pay $20 to subscribe to New Haven Review, I can gain you admission to the cabal.
DJO— I think Daum is probably mid-40s, but I agree she has done some strong stuff. Will have to check out Rabin. He would add to Wid's cabal, it sounds like.
Paul West— Lindy is 28?!?!? Wow, what a prodigy. Love her stuff...
Dan: I like Nathan Rabin a lot also. I'm now feeling a little embarrassed that his name slipped my mind when we were throwing names around for the list in the first place.
Dan Oppenheimer says:
Daum's wiki says she was born in 1970. Don't know which month, though, so she might not be under 40. Then again Josh Glenn is 42, so...
Not to mention that Meghan "American Shiksa" Daum would dilute the cabal (or maybe not; I mean, when you go around calling yourself the American Shiksa, you're kind of paying tribute to the cabal, aren't you?)
Also, while we're on the topic of counter-programming against the cabal, how could you leave Matt Taibbi off the list? I don't know if he's actually of Arab descent, or has some relationship to the Muslim faith, but a lot of people certainly think he doesn't like Jews.
JKS says:
Good list. Lewis-Krauss is a badass. Silverstein's piece on poetry competitions in Harper's is amazing.
There's also: Jeff Tietz, another Harper's contrib, whose "The Boy Who Loved Trains" [I think that's the right title], on Asperger's, is brilliant as well. And fiction star Wells Tower, who, like Bissell, slays it in both modes.
Max says:
Even though he's on the NYer fiction list, Wells Tower's non-fiction is at least as funny and surprising as his fiction. Read his pieces for Harper's, GQ and the Washington Post Magazine. Elif Batuman was definitely an oversight (which you've corrected), and Jeff Sharlet (author of "The Family"), Donovan Hohn (author of "Moby Duck", Harper's ed), Raffi Khachadourian (staff writer for the NYer) should all be included.
Max says:
JKS, good call on Tietz. He's amazing and doesn't publish often enough. Harper's has given a lot of younger writers a pretty great platform for narrative non-fiction.
lisa_emily says:
I second Raffi Katchadourian- I've been blown away by a number of his articles, don't know if he's under 40, but he must close enough.
Vernor says:
Why is Bissell on the list? He is a Peace Corps drop out that couldn't hack living abroad yet has posed as a nonfiction writer that writes about far-off places. Most of my foreign correspondent friends roll their eyes at his byline.
This guy once heavily criticized the writing style of Robert Kaplan yet he mimicked Kaplan's style in his failed Vietnam book--most of which is rewritten history passages interspersed with banal details about a tourist trip to Vietnam. It should have just been left as a simple travel essay rather than a book.
As a writer, he's a joke, but he is good at cultivating his literary patrons--just take a look at his recent letter in defense of Genoways. And now he is written a book about video games. Great.
at says:
Only six women worth mentioning out of 20?
Pete says:
Phil Anderson: Goldberg is 41 years old, but I guess small slides like that are allowed. But Steyn? He's 50.
Viki says:
ahem. Rebecca Solnit?
Max says:
Solnit's awesome but definitely over 40. But there are plenty more women. Eliza Griswold is under 40, so is Kira Salak. They are both extremely badass.
As for Vernor's mouth-foaming about Tom Bissell, I'm sure his
"foreign correspondent friends", if they exist, are rolling their eyes that he's trolling a comment board on their behalf.
Ruhee says:
I was about to suggest Alex Ross (author of The Rest is Noise, and Listen to This) but he's 42 now. Shame -- he's one of my favourite writers of all time, for sure.
Djew says:
It's crazy that Rebecca Skloot isn't on this list. But then again, lists like this are always crazy.
Tom Bissell says:
Don't worry, Vernor. My foreign correspondent friends roll their eyes at my byline, too.... I appreciate, in any event, the close, careful attention you've paid to my career.
John Williams says:
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Anne Ray says:
Many thanks, other folks, for the mention of Rebecca Solnit, Eliza Grizwold, and Meghan Daum.
However, Ariel Levy. So seriously absent.
[...] clip came via Lindy West (one of 20 under 40!), so I can't take credit for unearthing it. But because this is a dad-blog, the [...]
Danny T says:
After our conservative friends nominated their champion - Matt Labash - I decided to broaden my horizons by looking up the piece they recommended about Facebook. Unfortunately I only got as far as this stellar, dare I say it shocking, passage:
"Facebook is an online community where colleagues, friends, long-lost acquaintances, friends of friends or long-lost acquaintances, and perfect strangers find and "friend" each other based on their real or perceived affinity."
Before my brain switched off. If this is the best the right can do, it's no wonder they have an image problem (they do have an image problem).
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The solution is already available on Porche 911, watch the Mobile World Congress 2012 demo below for more details:
Acquired by RIM Blackberry in 2011, Newbay offers mobile operators a white label cloud content solution for consumers. Consumers can store your music, pictures, video, and other files in the cloud for access from anywhere. Apparently RIM will be smart enough to provide the service on their BlackBerry devices similar to Apple iTunes. Currently NewBay folks flex muscles on BlackBerry Playbook mounted in the car's dashboard to allow drivers access content through the touch screen graphical interface.
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Cheaney, McCarty back on sidelines
Former Harrison High standouts return to coaching
Evansville natives Calbert Cheaney and Walter McCarty stepped into overlapping spotlights Tuesday night when both former Harrison High basketball standouts accepted new coaching jobs.
For a few hours, a corner of the Twitterverse was theirs to share.
First, Cheaney resigned his position as director of basketball operations at Indiana University to join Jim Crews' staff as an assistant at St. Louis University.
Then, less than two hours later Tuesday evening, blog posts and Twitter feeds began reporting that McCarty, a former player for the Boston Celtics (1997-2005) during his 10 years as a pro, had been hired by the team's first-year head coach Brad Stevens.
A news release from the Celtics on Wednesday afternoon confirmed McCarty will be one of five assistants for the National Basketball Association franchise during the 2013-14 season. There was no statement from McCarty in that news release, and neither he nor Cheaney returned calls to the Courier & Press.
However, a news release from the Billikens' athletic department on Wednesday did quote Cheaney.
"I have known Jim Crews for a long time, and I'm eager to work with him and the rest of the SLU staff," stated Cheaney, who played in the NBA with five teams over 13 seasons. "This is a great coaching situation to step into, and I look forward to adding to SLU's recent success."
Cheaney, 42, reportedly had an opportunity a year ago to move into an assistant role with the Hoosiers on Tom Crean's staff, but turned it down to remain in an administrative role. He was ready to make that career move, however, when Crews contacted him about a staff vacancy at St. Louis created when Jim Whitesell left for a job at St. John's University two weeks ago.
Before joining Crean's staff, Cheaney was an NBA assistant with Golden State working for former IU player Keith Smart.
A former University of Evansville head coach, Crews has known Cheaney since he was a sophomore at Harrison and tried to recruit him to play for the Aces.
Cheaney instead signed with Indiana, playing for Bobby Knight from 1989-93 and finishing his career as the Big Ten's all-time leading scorer with 2,613 points. He was the nation's top player in 1993.
"I have had a great appreciation for Calbert as a player and person ever since I met him during his sophomore year in high school," Crews said in the release. "He is of high character and has a great combination of work habits and work ethic. Calbert is very good at transferring his knowledge to the players he coaches, and he will fit in well with our coaching staff and players."
Cheaney called leaving IU "bittersweet" after being part of a Hoosier revival that saw the school reach the NCAA Sweet 16 the past two seasons.
McCarty, 39, actually joined the Celtics last season as a community relations consultant, but left last month to become the head coach of the ABA's North Shore Tides in Nahant, Mass. Now he's back.
He has been an assistant coach at Louisville (2007-10) under Rick Pitino and with the Indiana Pacers (2010-11) for a season on Jim O'Brien's staff. He was coached by both when he played for the Celtics.
McCarty also played for Pitino in college at Kentucky, helping lead the Wildcats to the 1996 national title. He was a first-round NBA draft pick of the New York Knicks later that year. He also played for the Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Clippers.
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GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy Advanced Recycling Center (ARC)
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy's Advanced Recycling Center (ARC) is designed to produce electricity by recycling the used nuclear fuel (UNF) from current nuclear power plants and the uranium discarded during enrichment. Using PRISM reactors, the ARC will be able to extract over 100 times more energy from uranium than the "once-through" fuel cycle employed by current nuclear plants. The ARC is designed to lower the cost and engineering challenges associated with UNF disposal when compared to traditional storage or reprocessing by generating significant additional electricity from what is now considered nuclear waste.


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John Murray is the senior vice president and chief information officer at Genworth Financial Wealth Management. He is a trustee of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and a board member of San Francisco Summer Search, a support organization for at-risk youth. He is past president of the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Commission and a former member of the State Recreation and Park Commission, and served on the City's 2001 Elections Redistricting Task Force. Appointed in 2005.


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J&J Cut CEO''s Pay Nine Percent Amid 2010 Recalls
According to the Associated Press, health care giant Johnson & Johnson lowered Chief Executive William Weldon''s total compensation by 9 percent in 2010, after two years of revenue declines and an unprecedented string of recalls that have battered the reputation of medicines like Tylenol and other household brands. The New Brunswick, N.J.-based company awarded Weldon a package worth $23.2 million — including salary, bonus and other awards — down from $25.6 million in the previous year. The company disclosed the pay Wednesday in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The maker of Band-Aids, baby shampoo, contraceptives and biologic drugs saw its revenue fall in both 2009 and 2010. Previously the company had seen steady sales growth every year since the Great Depression. Much of the decline has been due to recalls involving millions of bottles of over-the-counter medicines, including Children''s Tylenol, Benadryl and Motrin. Last week federal regulators signed a legally binding agreement with the company to oversee control of operations at three plants linked to the problems.


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CloudHashing, the first cloud Bitcoin mining company in the world, is further strengthening their market leadership by offering a record price for hashing power. "Our recent merger with the advanced hardware manufacturer HighBitCoin to form the company PeerNova allows us to do things no one else can in regards to volume of hashing power and price point," said Lukas Gilkey of CloudHashing. PeerNova's new PetaOne Blade features a custom 28nm chip with an industry leading power efficiency of 0.35W per GH/s.
The mining contracts are set to go live in August and are 1 year in length. From the CloudHashing newsletter, "World Record Lowest Hosted Mining Pricing is $1.99 per GH with a limited volume available on a first come first serve basis. To take advantage of this offer, please contact CloudHashing at email@example.com or by phone at (512)758-7847."
CloudHashing is also celebrating 35,000+ bitcoins mined in the last eight months on behalf of its customers. At today's price, that equates to more than $21 million dollars.
CloudHashing is a pioneer in the Bitcoin industry and was the first to introduce cloud-based Bitcoin mining. To date, 7,000+ customers have purchased mining contracts through the CloudHashing website. By taking the technical complexities and hard work out of mining bitcoins, CloudHashing enables everyone to participate in the growth of Bitcoin. The Texas-based company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Silicon Valley based PeerNova.


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Upset about going to prison, the convicted sex offender hit himself several times in the head with his fist.
"I hate myself," said John L. McBride Jr., 29, of New Carlisle.
Moments earlier, Huron County Common Pleas Judge Jim Conway announced he was sentencing McBride to 17 months in prison. In October, the defendant pleaded guilty to an amended charge of attempted sexual battery for a July 16 incident at a Norwalk mobile home involving a 19-year-old mentally challenged woman.
"I just want to die right now. ... If I go today (to prison), I'm going to kill myself," McBride said during a recess. "I can't do Christmas without my fiancee."
Conway took a recess after McBride became increasingly upset and agitated Tuesday. During the hearing, investigator Bob McDowell, of the Huron County Prosecutor's Office, gave the defendant a hug. Huron County Sheriff's Deputy Rich Larson stood close to McBride's side, sometimes putting a hand on his shoulder to calm him down and often having to direct McBride's attention to the judge, who was advising him of his rights.
The victim in the case has the mental abilities of an 8-year-old child. McBride has the capacity of a 13-year-old.
Just before the recess, Huron County Public Defender David Longo stood up abruptly and demanded his client be allowed to withdraw his plea. After Conway later confirmed with McBride that was what he wanted, the judge said not being happy with the sentence isn't a "valid reason."
Longo said his understanding during plea negotiations with Prosecutor Russell Leffler was that the state "was going to take it easy" and was astonished to learn the prosecutor was going to "hammer" his client during sentencing. Leffler had recommended a 17-month prison term. Conway said he understands that the "full range" of sentencing would be available.
"This is kind of a complicated case," Leffler said earlier in Tuesday's hearing.
McBride "took advantage" of knowing the victim was "very slow," said the prosecutor, who noted McBride is "kinda slow himself."
"I don't see a good reason not to impose a lengthy prison term," Leffler said.
Longo, in response, said his client has received MRDD services from two counties and noted he has a "significant psychiatric history." He said McBride is "mentally retarded" and has "a history of mental illness."
"He's disabled; he's never been able to work," Longo told the judge.
"A 17-month prison term would destroy him," the public defender said. "If there ever was a case to temper justice with mercy, this would be it."
Longo also addressed the victim's allegation there was some coercion or use of force.
"The parents of the young lady were home. She did not cry out. In fact, it looks like she helped him through the window," Longo said.
Huron County Sheriff's Detective Bill Duncan investigated the July 16 incident when McBride was in Norwalk visiting his girlfriend, presumably the woman to whom is now engaged.
Deputies have said McBride entered the victim's home through her bedroom window, held her down and had sex with her. McBride reportedly left through the same window. Leffler, at Tuesday's emotional hearing, mentioned the woman may have helped McBride with getting access to a chair near the window, but didn't elaborate.
McBride talked the victim "into doing something and he should have known that she wasn't surely competent," Leffler said earlier. Longo said Tuesday the case came down to "the person who is less retarded got charged."
A sexual assault nurse examiner found evidence of trauma after she examined the woman at the Nord Center in Lorain County. Deputies collected evidence and sent it to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation for processing.
McBride, before making his first of several loud emotional outbursts, said he admits he had "a role in what happened."
"I'm extremely sorry for what I did," said the defendant, who then said he wasn't "completely to blame."
Once McBride is released from prison, he will have to register his address with the sheriff's office where he'll live every 90 days for the rest of his life. His Tier III sexual offender classification also comes with community notification. He won't be allowed to live within 1,000 feet of a daycare center, preschool or school.
McBride served 96 days in the Huron County Jail before being released on an unspecified court order; that time will be credited toward his prison term. He is expected to be on five years of post-release control.


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Argonne Supercomputer Run to Help Explain Antimatter Mass in the Universe
An international team of scientists has, for the first time, simulated the decay process of a kaon into two pions with extreme precision. The calculation took 54 million processor hours on the IBM BlueGene/P supercomputer at the Argonne National Lab and will help researchers explain why there is more matter than antimatter in the universe.
In the simulation, a technique known as lattice quantum chromodyamics (QCD) is used to carry out the computation. The parameters of the decay are input into a computer as a finite grid or lattice of space'time points. 'Using lattice QCD was tricky, as the lattice box has a finite size and this means that the quarks cannot separate infinitely,' says Sachrajda. He goes on to explain that the process the researchers considered involved the kaon decaying into two mesons with isospin 2 (a quantum number related to the strong interaction). 'This isospin has a real and imaginary part ' the real part has been predicted and experimentally verified, and our value was in good agreement with that. The imaginary part, on the other hand, is not known from experiment. This is the first time it has been experimentally determined,' explains Sachrajda.Read the Full Story.
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Is what I'm wondering.
I restored my Windows 8 PC to a system image that I made 2 months ago. Before restoring Windows, I ran File History to make sure I had an up to date backup of the files in the Photos and Documents Libraries. (I also copied some folders over manually for extra assurance).
After restoring to the earlier image, I tried to recover those photos and documents. Unfortunately, File History couldn't find them. The last backup date was listed as March 10, 2013 and not May 9, 2013. The files are on my backup drive, but they can only be restored by browsing through the Explorer directory and sifting through multiple copies of the same file--in addition, the file names have been changed as a part of File History's indexing.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get around this conflict? (Aside from "don't use File History")


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Journagan Family's support recognized with Bronze Bear
In recognition of their long-standing involvement with and support of Missouri State University, the Journagan Family will receive the 2012 Bronze Bear Award. The Journagans will be the 14th recipients of the award, which is presented to those who have exhibited "extraordinary achievement and/or outstanding support" for Missouri State.
The Missouri State University Board of Governors voted today (Oct. 26) to award the Bronze Bear to the Journagans, which will be presented at the Dec. 14 commencement ceremony at JQH Arena. The Bronze Bear Award includes a framed resolution and a 45-pound, 18-inch Bronze Bear in an upright position mounted on a base. Established in 1998, the Bronze Bear Award was designed by former Missouri State art professor Dr. Jim Hill. A 14-foot statue version of the Bronze Bear mounted on a 3-foot concrete base is located just north of Missouri State's Plaster Student Union.
The Journagan Family has been involved with Missouri State for more than 20 years and has supported the university through gifts to the William H. Darr Agriculture Center, Robert W. Plaster Sports Complex, intercollegiate athletics, KSMU and Ozarks Public Television.
"I can't think of anyone more deserving of the Bronze Bear Award than the Journagan Family," said Missouri State President Clifton M. Smart III. "They have a long history of involvement with Missouri State, and their most recent commitment of the family ranch has elevated our agriculture program to among the elite few in the country. It will be a special pleasure for me to present the Bronze Bear to the Journagan Family in December."
In 2010, The Journagan Family donated their 3,000+ acre ranch in Douglas County, which includes as many as 1,000 head of cattle (mostly award-winning Hereford), equipment and other ranch facilities to Missouri State University
Journagan Construction Company has been recognized by the Missouri Department of Transportation as one of the best highway contractors in the state of Missouri. Leo and Jean Journagan have two children, Allen and Jill, and the family owns and operates Leo Journagan Construction.
Prior Bronze Bear recipients include:
- 1998 – John Q. Hammons, international developer and philanthropist
- 1999 – David D. Glass, former president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., of Bentonville, Ark., and owner of the Kansas City Royals baseball team
- 2000 – Dr. Duane G. Meyer, president emeritus of Missouri State
- 2003 – Virginia and William H. "Bill" Darr, founder and owner of American Dehydrated Foods and related companies, and Springfield philanthropists
- 2004 – Jane and Ken Meyer, owners of Meyer Communications, Inc., and Springfield philanthropists
- 2005 – Dr. John H. Keiser, president emeritus of Missouri State
- 2006 – Thomas G. Strong, nationally-known attorney
- 2007 – The McQueary Family, former owners of a wholesale drug company
- 2008 – The Turner Family, Great Southern Bank
- 2009 – The Pinegar Family, Pinegar Chevrolet
- 2009 – Dr. Michael T. Nietzel, former president of Missouri State
- 2010 – James P. Ferguson, president of the Heart of America Beverage Company
- 2011 – Robert W. Plaster Foundation and the Plaster Family, developers and philanthropists
Recipients of the Bronze Bear are recommended by the university president and administrative council and supported by the executive committees of the Faculty Senate, Staff Senate and Student Government Association, prior to going before the Board of Governors for approval.
About Missouri State University
Missouri State University is a public, comprehensive metropolitan system with a statewide mission in public affairs, whose purpose is to develop educated persons. The University's identity is distinguished by its public affairs mission, which entails a campus-wide commitment to foster expertise and responsibility in ethical leadership, cultural competence and community engagement.
About the Darr School of Agriculture
The William H. Darr School of Agriculture integrates excellence in teaching, service and research into each of the nine undergraduate and three graduate programs. Within the school, there are four units: general agriculture; agribusiness, agricultural education and communications; animal science; and environmental plant science and natural resources. Each program has unique research facilities that allow for hands-on research.


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HTC One VX will be finally available at AT&T starting this week. Reportedly, an AT&T spokesperson said the new smartphone should be in stock "in all channels by December 7", a mid-level Android smartphone that was supposed to have been released back on Nov. 16. So if you can't wait to get yours on one as well, you're going to need a little more patience. And hope this new date plays out. The HTC VX isn't a souped-up One V, and it isn't a toned-down One S. It's something new. AT&T's taken the best of the entire HTC One Line and managed to get it into a single smartphone. Thin, powerful with the features smartphone owners demand.
The HTC One VX have a 4.5-inch Super LCD 2 at qHD resolution. The One VX has a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM 8390) processor, so that's a slightly lower clock speed than the HTC One S, but faster (and a better platform) than the One V. It's got 8 gigabytes of on-board storage, and 1GB of RAM.
HTC's managed to squeeze in a microSD card. And NFC. And a bigger battery — 1810 mAh, up from the 1650 mAh on the One S. Plus, it's got AT&T's 4G LTE, HSPA+ and other cell bands you might need, along with 802.11 a/b/g/n Wifi. Want FM radio? It's there, too.
HTC One VX has a 5-megapixel rear shooter. That's a lower resolution than the 8MP camera on the One S. But it's still go the f/2.0, 28mm lens. It's also got backside illumination (BSI) and does video in 1080p. The phone's also got a VGA front-facing camera, and the whole thing is controlled by HTC's ImageSense processor.
The One VX is launching with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, but it will be upgraded to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. Along with that, it'll get the update to Sense 4+, which brings a tightened user interface along with new camera modes, including Auto Portrait and Sightseeing, which speeds the shooting process by bypassing the lockscreen. There also will be new ways to view pictures and videos in the gallery.
Complete specs for the HTC One VX on AT&T:
- Operating system: Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Sense 4 (with an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and Sense 4+ to come).
- Display: 4.5-inch qHD Supre LCD 2 (540×960), 245 pixels per inch
- Processor: Dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 (MSM 8930) at 1.2 GHz
- Camera: Rear 5-megapixel camera with 28mm, f/2.0 aperture; smart LED flash; BSI sensor; HTC ImageSense processor; front-facing VGA camera
- Storage: 8GB on-board (OS will take up some); microSD card up to 32GB
- Battery: 1810 mAh, non-removable
- Connectivity: LTE, HSPA+/HSPA/UMTS, GSM/GPRS/EDGE
- Wifi: 802.11 a/b/g/n
- Dimensions: 133.5 x 67.5 x 9.19 mm
- Weight: 124.7 grams / 4.4 ounces
- Bluetooth 4.0
- FM Radio
- Micro SIM
- GPS/a-GPS
- 3.5mm headphone jack
- Dual noice-canceling mics
The HTC One VX is a mid-end offering that will cost just $49.99 on contract. In case you don't know yet, the One VX is an AT&T-exclusive device, so it won't be available anywhere else.


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I'm trying to create the design layed out in the image below:
As you can see, I need main content areas to be semi transparant (which is fine), but then I need the spaces between them to be fully transparant.
What I've got so far is here: www.thirdside.co.uk/site/
I'm fairly confident with Platform Pro and can usually do most things, but I can't for the life of me work out how to define these sections separately in CSS. Is it possible?
I've seen people mention building the boxes into the background, but then they either won't scroll with the content, or the background won't be fixed in place (full screen).
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Top Gear runs Heathrow Airport for a day
Another classic from 20 years of TG mag: the time we took an Aventador to our biggest airport...
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No matter. I have a radio, hooked up to air-traffic controllers in their tower. They are the eyes of this place, and nothing moves without their say so. "Speedbird five-seven to tango foxtrot sierra," someone says. "Proceed to bravo four, clear, link seven to right swinger two. Dogger out." Something like that, anyway. Slightly confused, I find second gear with the cold metal paddle and remove myself from the taxiway - obviously being careful not to exceed the 40mph speed limit - just as the Jumbo emerges from its hiding place and soars off into the soggy London sky.


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Hello everypony! I am just Brony Sponge Penguin! I just had to had + Sonic because 1) I tried to sign up before, but I couldn't log into a email, and 2) I also love Sonic! Anyways, I hope I can make new friends here!
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I earned the medal for watching every SpongeBob episode!
I earned the medal for playing the best SpongeBob game!
I earned the medal for trying so hard to create this account!
And those r my fake awards!
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"NO! Never wake a sleeping sensei! EVER!!" -Blue Ninja Penguin from CP Shorts
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If you are an entrepreneur in a startup that is currently seeking capital, and would like to present your best 90-second elevator pitch to a panel of VCs, you must register in advance and have confirmation from the program manager that you are on the list of presenters. The maximum number of presenters is limited to ten.
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It is cheaper to do this instructable than to buy a regular outdoor electric light.
Thanks for watching.
Step 1: Accesories you need to start this instructable
-Candle Light Holder, or you can make one, using some wood, but it is really cheap.
-Some electric wire, the amount of wire depends on the position you will place the lamp.
-127V E12 Light Bulb.. The image says 12V but it is 127V, but you can use a 12V and light it with rechargeable batteries.
-Socket for the light bulb
-Wire Terminal
Step 2: Tools you need
-Cross Screwdriver
-Electric Tape
-Wire Cutter to make easy the cutting
Step 3: First step. Disarming the light sockett
You will need the screwdriver for this step, because the socket has screws, and the only way taking them of is with the screwdriver.
Step 4: Placing the light bulb
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On any given Sunday, a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver could spend more than four hours in his car.
That is more than 50 times the total elapsed time a Top Fuel or Funny Car driver would spend in competition during a perfect National Hot Rod Association drag racing season — that being four, sub-four-second runs per event over 23 events.
Nothing, however, matches the pressure packed into a drag race.
"Everything has to be perfect to win," Ron Capps said this week while previewing this weekend's season-opening 52nd O'Reilly Auto Parts Winternationals at Pomona. "If the car is off a tick, if the driver is a thousandth-second slow off the line, if the car so much as wobbles, you're done."
NASCAR drivers can come back from a flat tire or a blown pit stop. Drag racers can't recover from an ill-timed blink.
Which is what makes drag racing extremely popular with the fans of the sport.
As usual, there have been changes aplenty since the 2011 season ended on the same, 1,000-foot, Pomona strip in November.
The NHRA has been promoting two of the changes, the arrival of female Funny Car rookie drivers Courtney Force and Alexis DeJoria. But the bigger news might be who is missing — the two past Top Fuel champions, former San Diego County resident Larry Dixon and reigning champ Del Worsham.
Meanwhile, the trend continues toward Super Teams. Half the field in Funny Car events this season could be filled by the four-car teams run by owner-driver John Force and Don Schumacher. Schumacher also will have three cars in Top Fuel, where he lines up against four other two-car teams.
As for Capps, he is still seeking his first Funny Car title. The popular NAPA driver has thrice finished second in the final standings and has six times gone into the season finale at Pomona with a shot at the title.
"Sometimes it bothers me," Capps said this week of his failure to win a title. "Sometimes it doesn't bother me at all."
A look at the 2012 NHRA season:
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Dixon lost his ride. Worsham retired after winning his first championship. Dixon and Worsham won 10 of the NHRA tour's 22 Top Fuel finals in 2011 for Al-Anabi Racing, which will field a new tandem of Shawn Langdon and rookie Khalid alBalooshi this season.
The three Schumacher Racing entries will be manned by points runner-up Spencer Massey (four wins last year), Antron Brown (six) and Tony Schumacher. Schumacher failed to win a race for the first time since 2001, but has 67 career wins and seven season championships, including six straight from 2004 through 2009.
Following Kenny Bernstein's decision to get out of the sport, Brandon Bernstein will be driving as a teammate to Morgan Lucas.
Funny Car
Courtney Force, 23, follows older sister Ashley as the second daughter to be driving for their dad's powerful Ford-backed Funny Car team. In addition to John and Courtney Force, the team includes Robert Hight and Mike Neff. Both Hight, who last February won the Winternationals for the third time in six years, and Neff won five races last season but faded during the Countdown playoffs.


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The end of fiscal year will be here before we know it and contracts will need to be renewed. Historically, Central Purchasing has allowed some renewals of contracts that have expired when there are extenuating circumstances while other, less timely requests have required issuance of Settlement Agreements. Renewing a contract that has been allowed to lapse is a poor contracting practice and should be avoided at all costs. We understand that there are many reasons for contract renewals to fall through the cracks so to assist in identifying and eliminating late renewals the CORE group has made available a PeopleSoft report to assist. The report is: OCP_PO_ACTIVITY_BY_DATE
Utilizing the PO activities (red arrow) link located in the Purchase Order screen you can now populate date activated reminders that will be listed when the report linked below is run. You will need to go into each purchase order, click the PO activities link and then add your note and the date (black arrow) you would like the reminder to be reported. Multiple dates and notes can be input by clicking the add button (blue arrow) in the note field.
It is our expectation that you will have your renewal requests to the Central Purchasing office 30 days in advance of expiration. Please direct questions to Steve Hagar at 405-522-3369 and thank you for your assistance.
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The working group Transport Safety uses competences and technological innovations from aviation and space research to develop new solutions for fatigue related problems associated with road and rail transport. The working group has comprehensive expertise in sleep and performance research in aviation as well as on the space station MIR. The current research and development activities concentrate on "fatigue and transport safety".
According to conservative estimates, about 20% of all fatal accidents were mainly caused by driver fatigue in Germany. These accidents are mostly very serious and often lead to severe driver injuries accompanied by extraordinary high material costs. The main causes of driver fatigue are insufficient and unrestful sleep, too many hours of work, too short rest periods and shift-work.
We summarize our activities under the term "Alertness Management". "Alertness Management" is a holistic approach which includes advice on the prevention of fatigue and also guidance on methods of promoting alertness. This approach can be applied to all aspects of transportation.
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Oil marketer Kenya Shell has denied reports that it plans to pull out of the country -- the second time it has brushed off claims that it was looking for a buyer of its East African operations.
The oil giant said it had no plans to exit from its fuel marketing and distribution business locally and 23 other operating companies under its Shell Africa subsidiary.
"We are not currently in negotiations with any third parties to sell our downstream business in Africa," said Kenya Shell in an email response to Business Daily.
Shell however, said it could in future divest from non-profitable operations while increasing its presence in upstream activities such as oil exploration.
On Tuesday, industry regulator-Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) said Kenya Shell was yet to inform them about any impending exit.
However, industry sources said talks between Shell and Libya's Tamoil in neighbouring Uganda had reached an advanced stage with a view to a sale of all East African operations.
But asked about Shell's portfolio in Africa, Kenya Shell said that it would make no comment on the rumours surrounding the firm now in its 110th year of presence in this market.
"Like any competitive business, Shell actively manages its global portfolio and is always seeking opportunities to improve profitability. We can make no further comment at this time," it said.
Should the reports come to pass, Shell would becomes the sixth firm to leave the country after Chevron which traded locally as Caltex, Mobil, Esso, Agip and British Petroleum (BP). Most of the multinationals have cited depressed profit margins as responsible for their exits.
According to George Wachira, an industry analyst, the main thrust by the multinationals is in oil exploration and production , where about 80 per cent of their profits are made .
"Fuel marketing is no longer considered an attractive investment as competition has reduced profitability".
Multinationals are also restructuring their asset portfolios globally to enable them cope with oscillating oil prices.
"For multinationals who have stringent compliance requirements Africa is a very difficulty region. Cost of compliance in safety, health, environment and business ethics are also very high, " he added.
Industry experts say Shell is known for its innovations in specialised products, development of standards and price stabilisation for the industry.
"It is the consumer that loses when more multinationals leave. Kenya Shell has been a moderating force in terms of prices," said an industry expert.
Other analysts have however, termed as 'crowded', Kenya's market of 29 players.
On Monday, news wire reports stated that Shell had opened negotiations with four firms as it prepares to quit 20 out of the 24 African countries.
By making an offer to only four partners, the group's strategy is clear, to favour the exit of the entire company in specific regions at once. In 2008, Shell left 15 African countries, saying at the time that it wished to concentrate and develop its activities in its remaining operations.


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Me too!
Every Wednesday I wake up and think "GLEE!" and then I remember that it's over. ):
I miss it.
It was my favorite, along with Grey's Anatomy, which isn't even on right now either. O:<
I can't wait until it comes back in the spring. I'm just happy I don't have to wait the whole way until fall. I think I'd die. O:


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I loved the idea of erecting truss structures in space using unwinding superconducting cables (13 October, p 20). Sometimes I indulge in an exercise called: "How complicated can we make this?"sort of "Keep it simple, stupid" in reverse. This idea is way beyond anything I have ever come up with.
As criticism without a suggestion is just a cheap shot, I suggest that instead of trusses, structures could be built of simple hollow tubes of some fibre (carbon, maybe?) and reinforced plastic that is shipped to space rolled up on a reel and inflated with very low-pressure gas. If the plastic was something that could be polymerised by UV radiation you wouldn't need the inflation gas. The resulting structure would be both light and stiffand a lot simpler than something held up by superconducting wires and huge magnetic fields.
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From Jonathan Gardner's Tech Wiki
Java sucks, a lot. Here are specific and highly relevant reasons why.
A lot of people read this article, and think I am on crack or that I am just a grouch. After all, Java really isn't that bad of a language!
The bottom line is this. I've learned more languages than I can recall. I started at 8 years old with C-64 basic, then I learned C-64 assembler, then I learned Borland C anc C++. I did Win32 and MFC programming, even making a few DLLs and whatever the heck COM was back in the day. Then I learned perl, and along with that, BASH and the entire Linux ecosystem. Then I learned Python back in 2001 or so, and never looked back. After that, I poked at Lisp and Scheme and other functional languages, which improved my ability with Python.
I picked up Java without any formal training in it. I just read the manual and went at it. I was finding features that people who had been programming Java for years at the time weren't even aware existed. Because of my background, I quickly found many of the limiting features of Java.
You, who know Java and one or two other similar languages, probably have a hard time understanding what I am talking about at all. I'm like the math professor ranting against the physics professor because he refused to care about advanced theories when the answers to his theoretical questions were all answered there. The physics professor simply can't think at that level and so the math professor is like an alien to him. If I sound alien to you, it's because you can't understand what I'm talking about, in other words. That could either be because I am a poor communicator or because you don't understand enough about programming. I would hope you err on the appropriate side.
GC Sucks So Badly, That You Should Avoid Using Memory
An in-memory cache is a very logical, sane thing to do, especially when you understand how much memory you have available and how memory is managed. In C or C++, it is trivial to implement with really good results. In perl, python, and other languages, it is not so bad as long as you understand that memory may not be freed once it is no longer referenced.
In Java, however, in-memory caches should be avoided unless they are very small or very stable. See, garbage collection (GC) has the nasty habit of FREEZING the entire Java process. This was a feature that was added to make Java more "enterprise".
In the end, it just makes it useless.
Imagine a language where you are encouraged to use as little memory as possible and to avoid constructing and destroying objects. That language is Java.
I've had a kid Java programmer tell me he never had a problem with Java's memory management. This after spending literally months day-in day-out fighting Java with the top Java programmers at the large company I worked with trying to figure out why it randomly hangs. In the end, we were randomly changing things hoping to uncover the mystery behavior's source cause. And this kid Java programmer says he has never seen Java do that. Upon pressing, he said he had seen it do it, but he was able to figure it out. Well, how did you solve it? He mumbled something about configuring some esoteric file I already knew about. What parameters? He couldn't recall. In short, he had no idea what he did to fix it, but he felt like an expert.
Gah! Don't be that kid programmer!
UPDATE: I worked heavily on an android app for a startup. It suffered from glitches, especially randomly pausing for seconds at a time. It took a while to understand why that was. It turns out it is the GC causing the problems.
Java should not be used on devices with limited memory for this reason alone.
Worst of Exceptions and Value Checking
Java's design decision to use both null and exceptions for errors means you have to do all the work in C to detect errors, plus all the work in C++ to properly declare your exceptions.
Python and Perl have it right.
- An exception can be thrown anywhere, at any time.
- Never, ever use return values for error checking. (Perl does a lot worse at this than Python.)
- If you don't like it, catch the exception and do something with it. If you don't know what to do with it, it's not your responsibility.
I would say about 30% of the Java code I write is error checking code and code to handle exceptions because Java really sucks at this.
A workaround that is actually semi-decent is to use RuntimeExceptions, or derivatives thereof, for all your exceptions. Of course, there are libraries that may throw something that isn't a RuntimeException, so you'll have to wrap every call to those libraries to convert their exceptions to a RuntimeException. But at least you won't have to write "throws Exception" everywhere.
One particular example of why, eventually, you'll end up using RuntimeExceptions everywhere is that there are very basic interfaces that do not allow exceptions to be thrown. For instance, iterators and comparators. If you want to throw an exception from there, you have one of three options:
- Change the exception to a RuntimeException and just live your life with RuntimeExceptions.
- Log the exception somehow, and check for it afterwards.
- Change the exception to a RuntimeException, detect it outside of the call, and then change it back to its original form to be rethrown.
Won't cast an int to a long
Try this:
public void myFunc(long foo) { ... } ... myFunc(0);
What do you get? An error.
name clash: X and Y have the same erasure
Try this:
import java.util.List; class foo { public void func(List<Long> listOfLongs) { } public void func(List<String> listOfStrings) { } }
What do you get?
name clash: func(java.util.List<java.lang.Long>) and func(java.util.List<java.lang.String>) have the same erasure
What does this imply? If you intend to use generics (comparable to C++ templates), forget it. You'll need different function names.
incompatible types
[javac] XYZ.java:141: incompatible types [javac] found : java.util.LinkedList<java.util.LinkedList<ABC>> [javac] required: java.util.List<java.util.List<ABC>> [javac] return DEF; [javac] ^
Apparently, interfaces are only good 1 level deep. Thus, any reasonably complicated data type makes interfaces useless.
static methods and members in a class
The reason why the singleton design pattern is so common in Java is because Java cannot handle static class members properly. It's simply absurd that you cannot override a static method or member in a derived class.
The take-away is that static functions are useless, so don't use them. Use Singletons instead.
Of course, singletons are simply a hack to get global variables. Other languages simply have global variables. Entire frameworks are written just to provide decent global variables in Java. That should be a hint that something is terribly wrong with the language.
The "class" type is an afterthought
If the "class" type behaved like any other object in Java, as it does in most OO systems (except C++), then we wouldn't have to use so many design patterns to work around Java's built-in limitations.
No control on member access
Java simply has no control over public members, unlike most other OO languages (except C++). That's why you have to write the following a billion times:
public Long getMemberName() { return memberName; }
Because, if, down the road, you decide you want to do something even remotely interesting with 'memberName', you're going to have to call a method to do it. So might as well write it now.
My wrists hurt when I write Java, even though I use ViM and type as little as possible.
"USE AN IDE!" you shout at me.
"Why are we writing programming languages that are not intended for human consumption?" I respond. Haven't we ALREADY PROVED that the CPU can do all the work in making things easy for us, the user, A LONG TIME AGO?!?
But apparently, we're supposed to live with one of the worst UI's in the world: the Java programming language.
Camel Case
One of my pet peeves with camel case is the following. Try to change "varName" to "memberName".
private Long varName; Long getVarName() { return varName; } void setVarName(Long newVarName) { varName = newVarName; }
You have to do two substitutions: once for varName -> memberName, and a second time for VarName -> MemberName.
If you used underscore case, then you'd have the following:
private Long var_name; Long get_var_name() { return var_name; } void set_var_name(Long new_var_name) { var_name = new_var_name; }
Now, it's a simple matter of a single substitution: var_name -> member_name.
Of course, I wouldn't have to do so much search-and-replace if there wasn't so much code duplication everywhere in Java. Conciseness is nice.
Whenever someone designs something in Java, particularly people that grew up on Java and C++, they have to think of everything as a class. They do not understand that functions are "things", too.
The worst example of this are classes that have exactly one method as part of its interface. This is no different than a function.
The justifications people make for this design pattern is absurd.
The cost in development time is atrocious.
Will people please recognize the lowly function as a first class citizen in the world of programming?
Iterators SUCK!
In Python, iterators have only one method: next(). The beauty of this solution is that you never have to implement a "hasNext()" method. Simply call "next()" and see if it throws an exception saying there are no more.
If you add the "hasNext()" method, then you have two entry points to iteration: hasNext() or next(). It turns out that they both need to do the same thing, so you abstract out the generation of the next item into a "generateNext()" method.
public class MyIterator extends Iterator<T> { private T theNext; private void generateNext() throws NoMoreElementsException { // generate the next value // store it in 'theNext' // throw an exception if none ... } public boolean hasNext() { if (theNext) return true; try { generateNext(); return true;} catch (NoMoreElementsException e) { return false; } } public T next() throws NoMoreElementsException { if (null == theNext) { generateNext; } T next = theNext; theNext = null; return next; } }
(The above isn't perfect. The problem with the above is that you can't iterate across 'null' value, so you have to have a additional attributes to determine whether there are any more values, whether there is a next value, in addition to what it is.)
Notice, reader, that next() and hasNext() are exactly the same for any iterator in Java. Only generateNext() will vary in the slightest.
Notice, also, that hasNext() is really pointless. All it does is catch the NoMoreElementsException and tells you that it did. You can, and really should, do that for yourself.
Notice, also, that if you wanted to throw an exception from generateNext(), that the iterator interface in Java is completely incapable of handling such a thing.
Python totally kicks Java's butt in this area, and it's not even funny.
foreach doesn't take iterators
Enough said.
Function Pointers -- Missing
One of these days, I am going to write a class that looks like this:
public class Function { public Function(name, parameters, body) { ... } public ReturnValue execute(values...) { ... } }
ReturnValue is either going to have the result or an exception.
Then I am going to implement my entire program on top of this.
Those of you who know Lisp see the joke for what it is. Except it's not a joke. If you want to have a reference to a pointer, you have to create a class or an instance of a class and pass that around.
Constructors can't call each other
So you have something like this:
class Foo { private final int bar; public Foo(int theBar) { bar = theBar; } public Foo() { bar = 1; } }
Now, this is a pretty trivial example. I want you to imagine that the "bar =" line above is actually some complicated calculation. The second constructor is really a different way to initialize bar using the same calculation but with some slightly different parameters.
The bottom line is you can't do this, at least not in any sane way. You have to copy the code from the first constructor to the second constructor, turning Java into a language where certain bits of code cannot be abstracted away.
Two possible solutions:
First, we might imagine that we can dispatch one constructor to another. This is what Python allows, mostly because it is so laissez-faire about everything. This would be the ideal solution. You have one "master" constructor that does all the smart stuff, and other constructors that would dispatch to it. Of course, this is impossible.
Second, you might imagine a third method, a private method, that would do the actual constructor work. The real constructors would just dispatch to this. Great idea, unless you have "final" attributes as in the example above. You simple can't assign to final attributes unless you are in the constructor itself.
Note: See this thread for how you can (literally) call one constructor for another. Seems simple, right? Just use "this()". Well, it's not, and it's not clear why. I mean, the whole reason you would want to have a different constructor is because you do something non-trivial before you pass control onto the simpler and more basic and common constructor.
Methods With the Same Name as Constructors
What's wrong with this?
public class Foo { public void Foo() { } }
What, you can't see it? Why, nothing's wrong, of course. The compiler accepts this just fine, creating a new class Foo with a single method of the same name.
What? You thought that was the constructor? Ha ha, joke's on you. It's not the constructor.
Run-time Dispatch: Fantasy
Let's say you have a class defined as:
public class Foo { void bar(Baz b) { } void bar(Boo b) { } }
This has two methods of the same name but different behavior depending on the type of parameter passed. This is, of course, fairly common.
But what if Boo is a sub-class of Baz? Which bar does the following code call?
... Foo f = new Foo(); Baz b = new Boo(); f.bar(b) ...
Before you give your answer, think:
- What is the most reasonable answer?
- What features of Java are reasonable and what features are unreasonable?
- Does this make Java a typically reasonable or unreasonable language?
Now, points 1 and 3 about should tell you that the answer is that it calls "void bar(Baz b)". Which is, of course, the most unreasonable answer since Java is unreasonable. Or, if you prefer, the reasonable answer since Java is a reasonable language in your universe.
No Globals means Frameworks
Java lacks globals. And because it lacks globals, every useful Java project requires a framework that gives you globals. So, in order to write the simplest app, you have to bolt-on thousands and thousands of lines of code and massive complexity just to get globals.
import is Useless
In Java, you have to name all of your classes uniquely, despite their namespace. Why? Because if you don't, you can't import them or else they will clash with another namespace's classes.
In Python, you have:
from foo import bar as baz
In Java, you only have:
from foo import bar
Which means if something.something.something.bar and something.something.something.else.bar need to be used in the same package, you're out of luck. You have to write "something.something.something.bar" ad infinitum.
No List Literals
This gets me again and again.
I want a list of integers:
[1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13]
But in order to do that, I have to write:
LinkedList<Integer> l = new LinkedList(); l.add(1); l.add(1); l.add(2); l.add(3); l.add(5); l.add(8); l.add(13);
The obvious way doesn't compile:
// Syntax error LinkedList<Integer> l = new LinkedList({1,1,2,3,5,8,13})
Inner classes Don't Work
Inner classes sound like a good idea. Until you try to use them.
Java is So Hard People Prefer to Write Code in XML, Jython, Scala, and Clojure
One of the things that continually amazes me is how many people write code in XML to avoid Java. A lot of the frameworks is really a way to allow you to write code of one form or another in Java.
In other languages, such as Python, it is rare to see people write code in anything but Python. For instance, in the Pylons framework, there is a config file, but this is the exception and not the rule. Even then, the config file is there because it makes the job of configuring a Pylons app easier, not possible. That is, you want to set the database connection string or change where files are logged. Even then, the developers freely admit that they are trying to open up the app to people who refuse to learn Python but who don't mind writing Windows-style config files.
This is also the reason why Jython, Scala, and Clojure are rapidly becoming popular. Just wait until someone tells them that the JVM gives you NOTHING.
DNS Client Implementation
The DNS client that comes with Java is horribly broken. The default is to cache DNS responses forever. You can change this configuration to cache responses for a specific amount of time for all domains. VeriSign recommends its users who happen to use Java disable caching altogether because it is horrible broken. See http://www.verisign.com/stellent/groups/www_ndscs/documents/comnet_resource/030957.pdf
In a normal programming language, you can fix this. In Java, you can't.
Why Use Java at All?
If you intend to use Java, I encourage you to write down all the reasons you'd like to use it. Then check the list of things I made above and reconsider. Once you've done that, I would ask that you consider the following languages seriously:
Once you've examined those languages, if you still feel like you should use Java, I would appreciate to hear why. Please email me at email@example.com and let me know why it is you feel like Java will make your job easier.
I've been getting about 1-2 emails a week about this article for the past month. I don't know what's inspired so many people to write, but I imagine I've hit a raw nerve.
I'll basically categorize the responses I get.
You're an idiot
Argumentum ad hominem is a logical fallacy, and those who employ it have already lost the argument.
Translation: Name-calling is a sign that you lost.
You Don't Know Java
The experiences I've had above were not experienced in a vacuum. I was working at a huge corporation with many, many Java experts. I've consulted with them in trying to resolve my issues. Every single one I approached with the attitude, "You can't be serious. I must've understood something wrong."
After having writing 10's of thousands of lines of production-quality Java, I think I qualify as an expert, regardless.
Java is Popular
Argumentum ad populum is another logical fallacy, and shows you don't have any arguments left.
Translation: "Everybody is doing it" does not make it right.
Besides, Java is not popular. It is competing in a tight market of ideas and losing out to old and new languages.
Rock On!
You too. We're in this boat together, and those of us with senior-level experience usually end up cleaning the mess that junior-level developers leave behind. So let's try to get the word out.
You Missed Technical Point X
Of all the emails I have received, I received exactly one helpful one that actually argued against my observations. I've updated the content above to reflect and correct my mistakes.


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The Monarch calendar function includes enhanced date-range flexibility and allows homeschooling parents to schedule lessons on holidays and weekends. Simply use the "Lesson Plan" calendar area. Click on a day or a student's name to make a holiday or weekend a school day for an individual student or your entire homeschool.
A Reports Tab on the main navigation bar allows easier access to student information, including the Report Card, Grade Report, and Daily Work Report.
Improved drag and drop questions within the Monarch curriculum now feature an eye-appealing design and easier-to-use functionality.
Enhanced Quiz/Test Settings give you additional feedback options. Along with "Immediate Answer Feedback," you can also choose from the following settings:
- No Answer Feedback - One attempt to answer each problem is permitted. After problems are graded, no changes can be made to the answers. Students do not see if the answers they submit are correct or wrong.
Open Page - Unlimited attempts to correctly answer questions within a single session are allowed. If students leave a quiz or test, they cannot see any other curriculum until they complete the session.
Open Book - Students have permission to read through the problems, leave the quiz or test, view already completed assignments, and return to the quiz or test. The quiz or test is not considered complete and ready for submission until "Mark as Complete" is selected.


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Archie's Awful Anger
A short story about temperament
by Wes Fessler
Archie was quick to learn any new trick,
and so clever to know what made all the world click;
but inside was a challenge that troubled his soul.
It was anger that Archie found hard to control.
Copyright © Family Fun Shop 2010 - All Rights Reserved


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Susan T. Spencer
Work in Progress
Work in Progress Contributors
About Me
I love riding my 20 year old Morgan horse that we keep at a ranch in Wyoming and try to negotiate with Anisette, her unruly 3 year old offspring, through the pristine National parks every summer. That's when all the hard work and angst of business issues instantly disappear--at least for a brief time. When you think, eat, and sleep business you can't shake it, but you can slow it down a bit. I highly recommend it.
I'm Known For...
Being the only female GM of a professional football team and the only women owner of several meat processing plants that sold millions of pounds of meat products to 4 of the top 10 fast food chains in the US including the number 1.
My Current Project
Promoting my business book, Briefcase Essentials, Discover Your 12 Natural Talents for Achieving Success in a Male-Dominated Workplace, talking to guests on my radio show, Business Buzz (Womens radio), and providing football commentary on radio shows across the country about the NFL and the current status of the 2011 season.
My Greatest Achievement
Staying married to my 3rd husband.
My Biggest Regret
No regrets only positive thoughts and energy...I never look back only forward.
I Truly Respect
Women who will genuinely help other women to succeed in business ...it's unfortunately a very small group.
Moments I'd Like To Forget
None, remembering the rough spots in your life helps you appreciate the great ones.
How I Pay For This Wardrobe
Hard work.
Blocks I've Been Around
2nd and Girard, in the Fishtown section of Philadelphia where I bought my first meat company and watched as employees loaded the company's trucks from the sidewalk while they were parked along a very busy street.
Things That Really Happened
Business Successes Business Failures Business Notoriety Business Achievements Benchmarks as a woman in business
Where I'd Like To Be 10 Years From Now
In Jackson, Wyoming in the summer riding horses or fly fishing on the Snake River.
Why Forbes
Inspired and enlightened leadership and an openness that others pretend to possess but fail to attain.
My Other Website
What I'm Currently Addicted To...
Trying to change the pace of progress for women to gain parity across the board.
This Is Annoying Me...
Giving advice about business and how to succeed and lead from writers who have never been business owners and have not experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly that business owners are able to feel, touch, and see.
This Is Making Me Worry...
Our current Federal debt and spending spree.
This Is Bringing Me Joy...
The 20 something women are not afraid to ask for what they want and are also willing to stand up and be counted in business.
I'm Running From...
More Social Media options.
This Is Helping Me Create...
An opportunity to share my observations, business experiences and opinions with a much larger audience that is diverse and curious.
This Is Making Me Think - Hard...
How I can get women to understand the importance of self-promotion.
This Makes My Teeth Itch
Can't Do Without
Insightful feedback.
Favorite Voices
The ones on my radio show.
My Most Awkward Moment
Being given a standing 10 minute BOO by all the men in the room (400 of them ) upon being introduced as the GM of the Philadelphia Eagles at a Maxwell Club luncheon.
My Secret Ambition
To go sky-diving.


text: Scott Reid joined Penn memory center in September 2013 as Coordinator/Facilitator. Mr. Reid has a master's degree in art therapy from Drexel University and has worked as a program coordinator and manager at the Alzheimer's Association since 2008 where he created, implemented, and developed social engagement programs including the two pilot program for early-stage dementia, the REC Program, and Peer-to-Peer Outreach Program. Mr. Reid is a skilled group facilitator and will teach Cognitive Fitness classes under the direction of Dr. Mechanic-Hamilton.