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Listening to BBC Radio 4's Start the Week this morning I heard Pamela Yates talk about her new film Granito, which sounds like a superb documentary film. But I am attracted by Yates use of granito (tiny grain of sand,) which she says is a "Mayan concept that each of us have our small bit to contribute to positive social change."
I was reminded of the images coming out of Libya and Egypt. The Libya images are short films (as I write the still images are yet to appear) on our 24 hour news showing what has been, usually with a presenter telling us what is going on – thus anchoring the meaning for us. We see a ruined building and are told by the talking head that it is either a command center or an administrative building in a fleeting moment the image has gone. We have a sense of history but sometime that taste that is left is more about the presenters career.
Going onto Egypt were we, in the West, are now mainly left with still images. I am drawn to Laura El-Tantawy pictures from 11th Feb in Cairo's Tahrir Square seem on David Allan Harvey's Burn Magazine site. Her images were also discussed in an Open-i webinar last Sunday, 20th March (if you want access to Open-i I am happy to invite you, the rest of the images from the webinar are also here.)
The symbolism of this photograph is extremely powerful, the man is putting his life, his body on the line for social change, the man to our right is wrapped in the Egyptian flag. They are both bloody and show us that change is hard…
On looking from this image (to check the caption etc), I found many images of tanks and people sleeping on them. These pictures tend to be straight forward – we see the men who sleep on the tank.
But Laura El-Tantawy success here is in making her images metaphoric – this could be us – but these men are Egypt. They are using their granito.


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A lover of the arts and proud Cape Town fanatic, Fazielah began her writing career by spending many hours as a child conjuring fantastical stories that featured independent heroines from faraway lands who saved the Prince instead. This Capetonian princess has enjoyed stints as a magical arts PRO and TV publicist before finding her calling as a travel writer.
When not waxing lyrical about the Fairest Cape's most loved attractions and activities and embarking on unexpected adventures, Fazielah can usually be found taking in a show at one of the City's fabulous theatres.
Hot live musical acts, 400 fabulous wines up for tasting and a vibe like no other made the second TOPS Gugulethu Wine Festival on May 25 and 26, a roaring success.
Hundreds of wine lovers descended on the rooftop of The Square Mall in Gugulethu for this popular event to feast on the premium wines, including Nederberg, Naughty Girl, Boekenhoutskloof Winery, and Four Cousins ;and enjoy the party atmosphere.
With top radio and TV personalities Unathi Msengana, Irma G and Diggy Bongz as MCs in the VIP and general hosting tents as well as local super stars Gugulethu Tenors and Amazink performing for the crowd, while Mzoli's Meats kept everyone well fed, this was the event to be at this past weekend.
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Betty White - aka 'Lipstick' - hangs out with gorillas
Believe it or not, Betty White hangs out with gorillas in her spare time. One in particular, an ape name Koko who talks through sign language.
"Oh, Koko is my girl," the " Hot in Cleveland" actress and author remarks at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books on Sunday (April 22). "She's this enormous girl and she is so beautiful. The lady who raised her...lives with Koko up in Koko's own house in Northern California. So, I go up and see her once in awhile."
White continues. "She calls me 'Lipstick.' That's my name. Because not too many people who come to see her wear lipstick."
The 90-year-old comedian spoke at the festival to discuss her recent book release, " Betty and Friends: My Life at the Zoo," along with her passion and altruistic endeavors for animals. Quick to the punchline and utterly cool, per usual, White advocated against both breeding animals and keeping exotic pets, recalling a negative childhood memory of owning a duckling she named, "Skippy."
While the actress wouldn't specify a preference for any one kind of critter, she did say she embraces, "anything with a leg on each corner. I find them all fascinating. If they have more than four legs, I'm not quite enthusiastic."
The actress was also asked about the "zoo" that she's lives in now -- Hollywood.
"Oh speaking of zoos...," the former "Golden Girls" star laughs before disclosing her secret to success. "I think it's honesty. I've been, as I say, 63 years in the business, and a lot of the kids today still relate to me because they grew up, well they know me now, but their parents grew up knowing me, and in many cases, their grandparents grew up knowing me. So I think, it's the fact of familiarity. 'Oh yeah, that's Betty, we know her'...It's a deep privilege. I never take it for granted."
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Draft Charter of Good Governance
of the INGOs holding participatory status with the Council of Europe
This charter shall apply to INGOs recognised by and maintaining relations with the Council of Europe, and may also be taken up by any other NGOs wishing to demonstrate and express their commitment to good governance. As a "code of good conduct" for the members of the Council of Europe's Conference of INGOs, this charter is fully in line with the Council of Europe's Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. This charter seeks both to clarify the approach which properly accountable NGOs should take and to indicate the type of relations which can develop between NGOs and third parties, as well as the relevant accountability factors.
I. Considerations
The INGOs holding participatory status with the Council of Europe wish to demonstrate their adherence to the following ideas:
§1 INGOs have a social role and a duty to act as watchdogs
It is in the interest of States to see strong and independent NGOs develop, "watchdogs of civil society", not only so that the public can participate in and make constructive contributions to the life of society, but also so that society can benefit from services and know-how which can optimise the quality and effectiveness of public services and parliamentary work.
§2 The Conference of INGOs has a duty as the fourth pillar of the Council of Europe
Because of its position and official status as the fourth pillar of the Council of Europe, the Conference of INGOs, which currently brings together around 400 INGOs at the Council of Europe has a duty to propose and clarify the tasks and responsibilities of these INGOs.
II. Principles
The INGOs holding participatory status with the Council of Europe affirm their commitment to act in accordance with the following principles:
§3 Independent functioning
NGOs have a vital role to play but they can only do so properly if their independence from international organisations, political authorities and administrations and private groups is recognised and upheld. There can be no genuine democracy without recognition and acceptance of the specific role which organised civil society can and must play.
§4 Duty to set an example
The status of INGOs obliges them to act in an exemplary manner in their managing of volunteers and paid staff and with regard to the nature of their relations with outside service providers, and also to ensure a more balanced ratio of men to women particularly within governing bodies. In this respect, it is essential that NGOs choose their partners on the basis of strict criteria involving integrity and responsibility.
§5 Professionalism and clarity
The fact that an NGO is not a profit-making body does not mean that the way it operates should lack rigour, efficiency or transparency. The governance structure of each INGO should be clear and should be based on statutes which stipulate precisely the methods of appointment, levels of responsibility and the nature and length of the terms of office of its directors.
§6 Transparency
Both the nature of the tasks and also the support provided by donors demand genuine transparency, in terms of demonstrating that the resources provided contribute to sound and strict management of the organisation and also, and above all, that they are used for projects related to the declared objectives – especially when the funding sources are public bodies.
§7 Supervision / Evaluation
While supervision and practical evaluation of the projects undertaken are desirable, they must be carried out without creating a subordinate relationship, which, ultimately, could only make the action of the NGOs less flexible and indeed deprive them of their capacity for innovation.
§8 Humility / Realism
In order to deal responsibly with the real problems, NGOs need to see the world as it is and not as they would like it to be. Just because they think they are acting correctly does not mean that they are doing things well. Even in a humanitarian sector, they can be incapable of understanding the particular nature of a context and end up offering unsuitable assistance and also, and above all, making assessments and value judgements based solely on their "charitable certainties".
III. Commitments
Each INGO holding participatory status with the Council of Europe undertakes the following:
§9 Activity report
Each INGO holding participatory status with the Council of Europe undertakes to publish their commitments and to make available to the Conference an annual activity report.
§10 Participation
Each INGO holding participatory status with the Council of Europe undertakes to participate in the activities of the Conference and to place all their expertise and know-how at the disposal of the Council of Europe.
IV. Sanctions
Whereby the Standing Committee becomes aware of a flagrant and repeated disregard for the rules and the principles of engagement as stated in the charter by an INGO, it can recommend to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe to withdraw the participatory status of the concerned INGO.


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Thom can be too negative.
Chris is a cornball.
Jim is still new to us and dry.
Marty is arrogant.
Jeff is country and slow when doing PBP.
Nuxy talked about his garden.
Grande is too happy.
Hoard is boring.
Did I get all that right? It is hard to believe that we have/have had some of the best broadcasters in the nation. Best in my opinion, after listening to other teams on XM and MLB network. Best in others' opinions based on Marty being in the HOF and Thom doing a lot of national work for Fox.
Fox's technical coverage of the games is bad, but improving. I also believe that later this year when Fox really tries to take on ESPN (if you haven't read about it, it is coming http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story...network-030513 )the coverage will be better and more uniform between all the Fox affiliates throughout the nation.
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The Aston team was so confident in its lead that it began "single stinting" its tires-that is, putting on fresh rubber at each pit stop. The Corvette team tried cutting down the Aston lead by double-stinting tire and driver replacement, thereby saving elapsed time each hour a pit was required. The strategy helped some, but it was becoming increasingly clear that the lead DBR9-now up by a full lap-would be extremely difficult to catch.
Meanwhile, disappointed members of the No. 64 C6.R crew sublimated their frustration by pitching in with tire preparation and other duties on No. 63. Crew chief Gongla and company even helped members of the Luc Alphand Corvette team rebuild the gearboxes in their C6.R and C5-R. While the French team was very grateful for the unanticipated help, all the extra toil throughout the night took a heavy toll on Gongla and the rest of his crew.
By midday Sunday, it was becoming apparent that the race finish was to be drenched in rain. A look at the on-line weather site the team was using revealed that everything west of Le Mans was completely socked in by foul weather, with heavy precipitation moving directly toward the Loire Valley. Although the meteorological shift presented a challenge, team members also felt the rain might provide their only chance of catching the Astons.
When the downpour did come, it was relentless. Ron Fellows, a highly experienced foul-weather driver, capitalized on the change in conditions to gain from 8 to 15 seconds per lap on the GT1-leading 009 Aston. With time winding down, the hope was that the Aston driver would be forced to quicken his methodical pace and perhaps make a costly mistake on the slick track surface.
Sadly, it was not to be. With only 30 minutes remaining, the ACO decided to bring out the safety car and hold the field in position throughout the completion of the race. In the end, the No. 63 Magnussen/O'Connell/Fellows C6.R took Second in class and Sixth overall, finishing 6:08.031 behind the GT1-winning 009 Aston. While it was not the result Corvette Racing had hoped for, it was an admirable showing under the circumstances.
"There's disappointment in not winning, but this is an impossible race to win," said Corvette Racing program manager Doug Fehan. "Just the honor of competing with the world's best sports car teams and finishing on the podium is a huge reward. There's no shame in finishing second. We've actually finished second here before and lived through it."
Aston's strong showing at Le Mans only stoked rumors that the factory-backed DBR9s would return to ALMS racing full-time at some point during the '07 season. Assuming the Astons are finally ready to compete with their Corvette nemeses on an equal footing, that's one heavyweight showdown we'd love to see.


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There were critics who would say this was all trivial tinkering, modest stuff of marginal utility.
Per-page marginal utility, it's true, is unusually high.
The company was based on economic theory-specifically, on the idea of declining marginal utility.
Because of diminishing marginal utility, income redistribution from the rich to the poor is a key part of the utilitarian's plan.
If prices are above marginal utility, they will eventually revert.
Bottom line: hiring will only occur when the marginal utility of labor inputs exceeds the marginal utility of capital inputs.
When prices inevitably revert to marginal utility, those who leveraged to buy the top lose.
As she reckoned it, my marginal cost was tiny compared to her marginal utility.
In other words, the marginal utility curve of increased inputs into education is nonlinear and probably haystack shaped.
There are few better illustrations of the law of diminishing marginal utility.
Even at that pay level the marginal utility is minimal you will have to cut corners to make ends meet.
The marginal utility of everything decreases as you get more of it.
It boils down to the tipping point of marginal utility.
One thing that upsets me is that no one talks about the diminishing marginal utility of money.
All the inclusion of more brackets does is reflect the declining marginal utility of wealth.
It's a discussion about relative value, and the marginal utility of living in different communities.
The best military strategists prior to that only had above average marginal utility for their individual clan.
Alternatively, you could go to your local econ department and ask pretty much anyone about the concept of marginal utility.
The term denotes the marginal utility of one unit of goods' wealth.
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Becher, Bernhard [Bernd] & Hilla.
Anonyme Skulpturen: A Typology of Technical Constructions.
Dusseldorf: Art Press, 1970. First edition of the Becher's first major photobook with 194 black-and-white photogravure plates. Quarto, original blue cloth. Signed by both Bernd and Hilla Becher. Fine in a bright near fine dust jacket that shows only a hint of rubbing. Housed in a custom made box. Text in German, English, and French. An exceptional copy.
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The Outlier
Although western subjects remained a staple throughout Frederic Remington's highly successful career, his late pictures reflect a drastic shift in mood and style. In contrast to his earlier scenes of blazing battles between Indians and cowboys or cavalrymen rendered in a crisply detailed realism, The Outlier depicts a solitary figure riding through a nocturnal landscape in loose, impressionist brushwork. Remington struggled with the execution, noting in his diary, "I modeled and laid in the 'Outlier' for the 10th time. I will not be licked." Despite the painting's progressive style, its subject of a Native American warrior is steeped in nostalgia: by 1909, the wars for U.S. control over Indian territories had been over for nearly twenty years.
- Artist: Frederic Sackrider Remington, American, 1861-1909
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dates: 1909
- Dimensions: 40 x 27 1/16 in. (101.6 x 68.8 cm) Frame: 51 1/2 x 38 1/2 x 2 in. (130.8 x 97.8 x 5.1 cm) (show scale)
- Signature: Signed lower right "Frederic Remington / 1909"
- Collections:American Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, Centennial Era, 5th Floor
- Accession Number: 55.43
- Credit Line: Bequest of Charlotte R. Stillman
- Rights Statement: No known copyright restrictions
- Caption: Frederic Sackrider Remington (American, 1861-1909). The Outlier, 1909. Oil on canvas, 40 x 27 1/16 in. (101.6 x 68.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Bequest of Charlotte R. Stillman, 55.43
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Musicals - SeasonsOfLove - 12-10-2012 04:24 PM
Anyone else on this forum into Broadway musicals?
I'm obsessed with all things musical! haha! Here are some of my faves:
Next To Normal
Les Miserables
The Book Of Mormon
RE: Musicals - puckleberryftwx - 12-12-2012 05:34 AM
I like musicals but in England we have the west end in London. I've seen Joseph and his technicolour dreamcoat, fame, lion king and wicked. I want to see phantom of the opera and les miserables
RE: Musicals - SeasonsOfLove - 12-12-2012 04:23 PM
I saw Les Miserables in the West End. It was amazing. The Lion King and Wicked are coming to Dublin,I've seen both but they were ages ago!
I'm hoping to go to London again to see The Book of Mormon when it opens!
RE: Musicals - teamnoelftw. - 12-12-2012 08:29 PM
I've seen The Lion King just this month when their national tour came here. We caught the last show on the very last day and oh my gosh, was it AMAZING!
The costumes, the songs, the humor! I was totally immersed in it! Felt like I was right there in the Pride Lands!
RE: Musicals - SeasonsOfLove - 12-13-2012 06:00 PM
It is fabulous but so sad!


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I came here for the racquetball court / lessons. After a few months, they took it away, thus in my eyes they breached their contract, and I wasn't happy about that. Now it's back so I'd have no complaints.
OH! and… Full Review ▶
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Lived here about two and a half years now, and it's a nice place, especially considering the low price.
The place is well-maintained on the whole. The exercise room was recently renovated. When I put in work orders, they always respond quickly,… Full Review ▶
I never can understand why people -----. I've never had a problem here and I've been here for about 2 years. The ammenities are great, staff is excellent and I love all the landscaping on the property. Definitely recommend to others… Full Review ▶
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The staff is short w/ their clients. There are bug problems from the scattered hot tubs. The cabinets are old & cheap (no handles) and come off hinges easily. Be prepared to receive no return on downpayment, they are very analytical.… Full Review ▶
My roommate and I interned in Austin for the summer and wanted a nearby place. Champion's Crossing was excellent based on location. The staff wasn't the most professional; rarely did anyone answer or return our phone calls, and sometimes the staff… Full Review ▶
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I lived at Champion´s Crossing for a year
The grounds are nice and the tenants are nice
But the staff was rude and snooty
The apartments are very nice but very over-priced
I would not recommend these apetments to anyone Full Review ▶
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I enjoy living here. The staff was very helpful, and understanding of my move-in situation. The staff and service technicians are there when I need assistance.
Parking is not a problem here.
The property is nicely kept, and the grounds look… Full Review ▶
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Video: Software transforms a phone's message inbox or battery life into box of balls or a virtual liquid fuel tank that sound and feel like the real thing when shaken (Video: Glasgow University)
Cellphone users could soon tell when their handset is running low on juice or laden with new messages simply by reaching into their bag or pocket and giving it a quick shake.
A new system uses a phone's speaker and vibrator to make a device feel and sound like it contains liquid when it is running out of power. The same technique can be used to indicate when new messages have arrived, by simulating the sense of balls rattling around inside a box.
Both tricks let a user check the state of their device quickly and without having to actually look at it. A video (top, right) shows the system - dubbed Shoogle after a Scots-English word meaning to shake - being demonstrated.
"It allows you to feel and hear the state of your phone, instead of having to look," says John Williamson at Glasgow University researcher who developed the system with colleagues Rod Murray-Smith and Stephen Hughes.
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To represent number of messages in a phone's inbox, Shoogle models the movement of the equivalent number of balls, as if anchored by a spring inside a box.
And different sounds could be set to correspond to different people, says Williamson. The sounds used range from metallic clinks (.wav format) to wooden thuds (.wav format).
Similarly, Shoogle lets you "feel" the amount of battery power left in the cellphone, by having the phone simulate a reducing volume of liquid sloshing (.wav format) inside a virtual container.
A phone running the software knows when it is being shaken by using accelerometers to sense the handset's movement. The software has so far been tested on a PDA with accelerometers attached and on Nokia phones with the devices built in.
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As more phones with accelerometers are released for sale, Williamson expects to see more novel ideas that make use them. "Nokia has released a programming kit to help people develop software to use the accelerometers in their phones, making applications easier to develop," he says.
Informal user testing suggests people get on well with the idea, but larger-scale tests are planned, Williamson says. "We may also make a release of the software publicly," he adds.
The team also hopes to make the system more sophisticated. "We can discriminate between shaking in different directions," explains Williamson, "so left-to-right could check for just high-priority messages and another direction for other messages."
Shoogle was presented at the Computer/Human Interaction 2007 conference held in California in 2007.
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| Inspired by the upcoming Disney·Pixar animated film, Cars 2: The Video Game lets players jump into the Cars 2 universe with some of their favorite Cars personalities in exotic locations around the globe. Play as Mater, Lightning McQueen, and other brand new characters as players train to become world-class spies in the international training center - C.H.R.O.M.E. (Command Headquarters for Recon Operations and Motorized Espionage). Take on dangerous missions, compete to become the fastest racecar in the world, or use spy skills in exciting, action-packed combat racing and battle arenas. Players can race against friends and family in either single or multiplayer modes with up to four players to unlock challenging new tracks, characters, events and thrilling spy missions.
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|Lightning McQueen sets off to Japan, Italy and England with Mater in tow for the World Grand Prix. But competing against the fastest cars in the world tests more than his racing skills when Lightning realizes his wide-eyed best friend may not be the pit chief nor ambassador he needs to navigate the unfamiliar international terrain.
|Mater, the rusty old tow truck, leaves Carburetor County for the first time ever and falls into an intriguing adventure when he gets mistaken for an American secret agent. Caught between supporting his best friend Lightning McQueen in the World Grand Prix and his new role in international espionage, Mater ends up in an explosive chase through the streets of Tokyo and Europe.
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I've enjoyed O'Rourke's off-the-wall writing going back to his Harvard Lampoon days. In his collaborations with Douglas Kenney, he helped birth the subversive humor of the 1970s — before going solo with pieces for Vanity Fair, Playboy and an especially long association with Rolling Stone.
Indeed, his transition from lampooner of the stuffy to conservative patriot is one of the more vexing turns of the past 2,000 or so years. Court jesters should mock the king, not the serfs.
Fortunately, he continues his prolific outpouring of solid humor writing with the new "Holidays in Heck," the follow-up to the bestselling "Holidays in Hell."
This is a collection of magazine travel pieces — the title refers to the European notion of "holidays" as vacations, as opposed to the period of celebration we're now in. And this time the former war correspondent has the family along for much of the ride, which takes him to a terrific assortment of outposts near and far.
Oddly, his weakest piece — and it is gushingly annoying — is the opener, in which he and a bunch of Texans head off to the Galápagos Islands to ridicule the locals (the wildlife) and speculate on how some of the rare beasts may taste.
Predictable and clownish, it made me want to hurl the thing into the fireplace, and not for the political orientation, for I am all over the map on this stuff myself. As with his talk-show appearances, he just seemed to be trying too hard.
But that soon gives way to some very fine travel writing, the best of which is wickedly droll — O'Rourke at his very best.
"There were three package tours of Europeans on board, mostly British of a certain age and divided between the earnestly dull and the simply dull," he writes of an excursion to the Yangtze River. "The earnestly dull were deeply concerned with the fate of the Yangtze sturgeon. The simply dull were like a house party in an English murder mystery without the murder."
Another O'Rourke winner is his study of the now ubiquitous Airbus A380, just as the gigantic airliner was being unveiled. The essay captures O'Rourke's gift for technical explanation with wry twists.
"A million-and-a-quarter-plus pounds is roughly the heft of 275 full-size SUVs," he writes of the plane. "And, at approximately 90.5 miles per gallon per passenger, the A380 gets much better gas mileage than my Chevrolet Suburban unless I have a lot of people crammed together in the rear seats (as the A380 doubtless will)."
Where does O'Rourke rank in the hierarchy of American humorists? There are the invariable comparisons to H.L. Mencken, which are probably a bit generous. I'd be more likely to add him to a team consisting of Dave Barry, S.J. Perelman, Jean Shepherd, Max Shulman — fine company indeed.
Were they ever allowed in the same tavern together, it would make for the ripest happy hour of all time, an Algonquin Round Table of humor assassins. Lord help the hired help. And O'Rourke and Barry as well, when the others noticed that they seem to have the same head of hair.
Poignant is not necessarily O'Rourke's thing, but there is that in this book as well. In fact, probably the most memorable piece deals with O'Rourke's cancer diagnosis several years ago.
"I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps the slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttock pillow."
And then:
"I can't be the only person who feels like a jerk saying, 'Please cure me, God. I'm underinsured. I have three little children. And I have three dogs, two of which will miss me. And my wife will cry and mourn and be inconsolable and have to get a job. P.S. Our mortgage is subprime.'"
At this writing, all seems well with O'Rourke's health, a particular relief to anyone who has followed the American humorist through the decades.
Here's hoping there's another 15 books still to come.
"Holidays in Heck"
By P.J. O'Rourke
Atlantic Monthly Press, 288 pages, $24


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See a gallery of Martian pedestal craters, which may have formed during times when the Red Planet's poles were tilted more towards the sun
Craters embedded on pedestals that tower above the Martian landscape like giant egg cups could be used to trace the planet's climate history, a new study suggests.
'Pedestal' craters were gouged out by impacts, like other craters, but stand out because they sit atop plateaus that loom an average of 50 metres above the Martian surface.
It's not clear exactly how the pedestals formed. One idea is that wind simply eroded the area around the plateaus, but critics say the wind would have had to have acted very symmetrically to produce the structures.
Now, a comprehensive catalogue of the objects is lending weight to the idea that the pedestals may conceal ice-rich soil from previous eras, when the planet's spin axis tilted at a different angle than it does today.
Seth Kadish of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and colleagues identified 2696 pedestal craters in the planet's mid- and low-latitudes from images taken primarily by the thermal imager aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
Barren equator
The craters seem to be concentrated at the mid-latitudes, with very few found at the planet's equator. About 3 per cent of them have depressions around their bases that resemble areas in Antarctica where permafrost ice vaporises, creating pits in the soil left behind (see image).
The team says that strengthens the hypothesis that the pedestals were created from soil that was enriched in ice during a period when the Martian poles pointed more towards the sun and its mid-latitudes were colder. Because Mars does not have a massive satellite that stabilises it, like Earth's moon, the tilt of its axis is thought to change regularly on scales of tens of thousands of years.
When the planet is tilted most drastically on its side, the planet's poles receive a lot of sunshine. Any water locked in ice there is thought to vaporise and move towards the equator, where it falls as snow. Tens of metres of snow are thought to be deposited on the planet's mid-latitudes during these episodes.
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Pedestal craters may preserve regions with this ancient snow. The researchers suspect the impact of the meteorite that created each pedestal crater could somehow 'armour' the ground in the area, producing a top layer that protected ice from sublimating into gas during warmer periods.
But it is unclear exactly how this layer might form. "Our best guess is that when the impact occurs there's basically a shock wave, a combination of an atmospheric blast with really high-speed winds and a thermal pulse that travels through the upper layer of soil," Kadish told New Scientist.
Although the heat of the impact could cause the ice in the upper centimetres of soil to sublimate, winds from the violent event could then compact the remaining material. That could protect underlying ice from the sun, since the compressed soil would block sunlight and make it difficult for water vapour to find pores to escape to the surface.
The unprotected ice surrounding the armoured area, however, would eventually disappear when the planet's tilt changed and the area warmed. That would leave behind the modern-day, ice-laden pedestals that can be more than 100 metres thick. "These pedestals represent almost like a cookie-cutter section of past icy, dust-rich layers," Kadish says.
Wobbly planet
Because pedestal craters are so numerous, they probably formed over different tilting episodes in the planet's past. Images of the Martian surface have also revealed evidence of pedestals stacked on top of pedestals, suggesting multiple rounds of egg cup crater formation.
Using the high-resolution HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter could help count the craters on top of pedestals to date when the pedestals may have formed, since pedestals with fewer craters likely formed more recently. That could help trace out the planet's past wobbles, Kadish says.
"It's an interesting part of the puzzle, but the quest [to understand pedestal craters] continues," says Peter Mouginis-Mark of the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.
He says the study raises a number of unanswered questions, including whether armouring actually occurs. If the ground around 'ordinary' craters also shows evidence of soil that was altered by impacts, it would show that armouring is a universal process that only produces pedestals in ice-rich areas, he says.
See a gallery of Martian pedestal craters, which may have formed during times when the Red Planet's poles were tilted more towards the sun
Journal reference: Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets (DOI:10.1029/2008JE003318, in press)
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Peter Odemwingie increased the pressure on Southampton boss Nigel Adkins as his two goals propelled West Brom to a 2-0 win over the Saints and into fifth spot in the English Premier League.
Adkins' side remain rooted to the foot of the table after a fifth successive away defeat and they have now conceded 28 goals in ten league matches. But these are halcyon days for the Baggies and they bounced back from heartbreaking injury time defeats against Manchester City and Newcastle thanks to a goal in each half from Odemwingie.
It was their fifth victory in six home matches and, although not at their best, they still contained too much firepower for the Saints. "This was a good response from a good team," said Nigeria international Odemwingie. "We needed a bit of luck and it is simple, if you keep shooting you will score, we are happy with the three points."
Odemwingie and the tireless Shane Long posed plenty of problems up front while Youssouf Mulumbu bossed the midfield department.
Albion fans taunted Adkins, who has led Southampton to successive promotions, with chants of 'you're getting sacked in the morning'. And, although the visitors showed plenty of promise in spells, their leaky defence is undermining their attacking threat.
Albion began positively and a fine pass from Odemwingie picked out the run of Long into the Saints box. But the Baggies leading scorer opted to cut the ball back across the danger area rather than shoot.
Billy Jones became the first player to be yellow carded after ten minutes for a high challenge which caught the back of Southampton skipper Adam Lallana. Rickie Lambert had the first attempt on goal and his low drive from a narrow angle contained plenty of power but was held onto by West Brom keeper Ben Foster.
Albion retaliated and a low shot from Odemwingie took a deflection off Zoltan Gera and flew over the Saints crossbar.
The home side started to look more threatening and it needed a last-ditch tackle from Morgan Schneiderlin to deny Long after Jonas Olsson headed a Graham Dorrans free-kick back across goal.
West Brom strike first blood
Odemwingie flashed a low 25 yard shot inches wide in a swift Albion counter-attack after Foster had gathered Lambert's header from a Gaston Ramirez centre. But the Nigeria international broke the deadlock in controversial fashion in the 36th minute.
The impressive Mulumbu released Odemwingie whose left-footed shot contained plenty of power, but took a deflection off Maya Yoshida as it flew past Saints keeper Paulo Gazzaniga. TV replays seemed to indicate that Odemwingie might have handled the ball in the build-up.
Gazzaniga did well to block a close-range effort from Long and Albion appealed in vain for a penalty for handball when Schneiderlin blocked the follow-up attempt from Odemwingie.
Southampton started the second half on the offensive and a shot on the turn from Lambert struck the bar with Foster well beaten. Foster cut out a dangerous cross from Daniel Fox as the visitors pressed for an equaliser.
But after 60 minutes Odemwingie doubled Albion's lead with a clinical finish. Left-back Liam Ridgewell's long pass found Long who held the ball up, cut inside and floated over an inviting centre which Odemwingie headed home from close range.
The Baggies could have increased their lead with skipper Chris Brunt volleying just wide at close range from a cross by fellow substitute Romelu Lukaku. Yoshida headed just wide in a late Southampton rally but Albion held on for a comfortable win.


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"Gertrude" is finished, thanks Jay...........
Howdy All,
It has been a LONG slog to get my GS hacked, I started sending parts, the final drive and drive-shaft to "Bruno" up in Canada back in April of this year ( 2011 ); Bruno got sick and it took months for him to get the parts back to me so that I could reassemble the bike and deliver it to Jay so he could work his magic. Jay got the bike in July, scheduling problems prevented him from getting it done until late August, then the problem of the paint scheme on the tub caused further delays so I received the finished rig about a week ago.
I have been riding the rig off and on over the last week when the weather was semi-decent; I am VERY happy with the way it finally turned out. The only thing left to do is replace the front shock, I am going to have the Olines shock now on the rig rebuilt using a main shaft that is about 2 maybe 2.5 inches longer and with a stiffer spring. As it is now the rig sits and handles well but the front end because of the steering mod sits lower then I like and this becomes noticeable under hard braking with a passenger in the hack.
Here's Jay with the bike the day I dropped it off at his shop back in July.
This is a sketch I made of how I wanted the paint on the tub to look, because the tub and the gas tank are so different in size and shape this is the best design I could come up with to make them compliment each other.
Here Jay is standing out side of his shop in the RAIN the day I picked the rig up, here you can see the new hack paint pattern, I think it turned out quite well.
YES, I know the rig is dirty, I ride my bikes and rigs I don't spend a lot of time washing and polishing, this is probably about as clean as you'll ever see it. As you look at the photos you'll notice baked on mud and calcium chloride that I couldn't get off from the trip up to Purdue Bay back in July of 2001. Here's bunch of photos taken from different angles.
Detail of the external fuel filter and the sidecar brake master cylinder. I choose to go with ONE brake pedal working the rear wheel of the bike and the disk on the sidecar. As this rig will NOT be used in hard off road riding I didn't feel the need to have a separate sidecar brake pedal.
Detail of the adjustable proportioning valve used to dial the sidecar brake in so that it works with the ABS. I have tried a couple of panic stops and this works very well, the rig stops straight, the hack wheel doesn't lock up and pull the rig to the right.
Detail of the heavy duty sub-frame and skid plate. The skid plate is EASY to remove for oil and filter changes. Note how Jay custom built the sub-frame to incorporate the Tour-A-Tech crash bars.
Showing the mounting struts from the front. Note the tow-tie down hooks on the front and rear of the sidecar frame.
Showing the mounting struts from the rear.
Thanks Jay for building my rig, thanks for putting up with my no so sociable "Cob" self when things went wrong, THANKS for making it right.
Cool Jigger.
Cobs cool jigger. I hope you get to wear the wheels out. Cheers Bruce: clap
Very nice Dave, :clap
Now you have a rig you have to wash and wax. :evil
Lookin' sharp, Cob!
Any details on that proportioning valve, such as a part number? Looking at doing a similar setup on my outfit.
Go stand in the corner for speaking such blasphemy............:lol3
I don't have a clue what brand the valve is or its part number is, contact Jay I am sure he can fix you up with everything that is needed.
neat o....
Super! Love the paint! I'm envying that brake proportioning valve.
As a fellow 1150GS-DMC guy, your rig is pretty familiar to me. About the longer front shock--are you sure you want top do this? Why not just beef up the spring to reduce dive and leave the length alone? I ask this because of the tendency for the front wheel to get too light in left handers especially when accelerating out of a turn. If you make the front shock longer, won't the rig tend to sit back on its haunches more than desirable?
I have the HUGE 10.9 gallon fuel tank on my rig, when I fill the tank and sit on the rig it drops and drops a lot more in the front. I am thinking that making the front shock 2-2.5 inches longer will raise the front of the rig about an inch and a half, I can then crank some more pre-load into the rear shock which will level it out when the tank is full, a rider and a passenger are on the rig. After adding the large fuel tank, the bike sat level when I had the 21 inch front wheel-tire on it, with the stock 19 inch front wheel-tire it sat lower in the front. Now with the steering mod it really sits low when topped up with gas and a loaded sidecar.
finally she is back with you
and the paint... LOOKS PERFECT
glad for the thread
congrats, once again
can't wait to see her get all dirty this winter.. even though you aren't sure you're going to let her
I'll be riding the rig this winter, I just WON'T be abusing it. :deal
Dave, beautiful looking outfit :clap
Jay does great work. :thumb
Looking good!
Hey Dave, looks like you got it right. I'm planning on catching up to you on the road at least once this coming summer. Maybe in Coeur d'Alene if you're coming this way?? You'll always have a place to stay here in Spokane on your way through town.....
Still working on rebuilding the Bings for my '82 hack. Yes, you, Roger, and Tony really, really got me hooked! Fiona will be up and running by the time the snow melts this spring.
Dale, the Old Fart
Very nice rig, congrats !!
@ Motoblag, the brand is Wilwood ( like ageent Wayward says ), don't know the partsnumber, but here are few on their website CLICK
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