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Over 1.5 million votes have been registered to select the "fan vote" semifinalist for the upcoming 2012 MISS UNIVERSE to air on Telemundo on Wednesday, December 19 at 8pm ET from the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. For the first time ever, Telemundo and Miss Universe partnered to offer online users with a valid email address the opportunity to select their favorite semifinalist by voting on www.Telemundo.com/MissUniverso, until Tuesday December 18 at 6pm. The contestant with the most "fan votes" will be announced during the Miss Universe live telecast as she joins the 15 semifinalists on stage on the way to the Miss Universe crown.
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Telemundo.com/MissUniverso features interviews, pictures and videos from the Latin American contestants and offers an open forum for the Miss Universe fans to make comments about their favorite delegates, as well as share their opinions on controversial issues. Main trending topics in Telemundo social media accounts are led by fans from Venezuela and Puerto Rico, the two Latin American countries that have collected the most Miss Universe titles. Heated discussions on Telemundo.com relate to the controversies surrounding Miss Colombia's comments about the new Miss Colombia not wearing underwear and Miss Salvador's opinions about the firing of sign-language interpreter in New York. Other trending topics include Miss Peru's statements about her successor Cindy Mejia's comments on homosexuality and the debate about the contestants not been born in the country they represent, such as Miss Puerto Rico, born in Holland of a Dutch father and a Dominican mother; Miss Nicaragua, who is from Monterrey, Mexico, and Miss Dominican Republic, who represented Italy in Miss World 2009.
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Around 10,000 students were accidentally purged from the rolls at East Tennessee State University Monday, leading to problems with access to online courses, according to a school spokesman.
Nearly every student who was not supposed to be dropped from school had been reinstated in the computer system as of 1 p.m. Tuesday, but some remained off the roll. ETSU reported more than 15,000 students were attending the school this fall.
Students at the James H. Quillen College of Medicine and the Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy were not affected by this purge.
ETSU spokesman Joe Smith said a routine purge of students who had not paid tuition was being performed Monday but an incorrect code in the purging command began eliminating everyone.
The purge took people off the GoldLink system used to track student records, including bill payment, course schedules, personal information and grades. When the students were no longer recognized in the GoldLink system, they were also no longer recognized in the school's online course administration program called D2L.
"We apologize for this inconvenience," Smith said Tuesday afternoon. "Everyone was patient with us and we really appreciate that as we get all this resolved."
The school activated an alert about the situation, because students who depend on D2L to submit assignments and get new ones were unable to do so. ETSU President Brian Noland sent an email to all students explaining the situation Monday afternoon and offering his apologies.
Smith said work began to reinstate students as soon as the error was discovered.
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December 12, 2006 11:27 AM PST
U.K. developing unmanned fighter jet
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It has awarded a $242 million contract to BAE Systems to develop unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology for "Project Taranis," with BAE leading an industry team that includes Qinetiq, Rolls-Royce and Smiths Aerospace. Taranis is the Celtic god of thunder.
The program will explore how cutting-edge technology can be used to deliver a new front-line UAV capability.
The project's resulting Taranis UAV--one of the world's largest, at about the size of a Hawk jet--will integrate stealth technology around an "intelligent, autonomous system." It will also test the potential to carry ground attack weapons.
Lord Paul Drayson, the British defense minister, said the project will test cutting-edge technology for a new generation of front-line equipment.
The project aims to build one flying technology demonstration vehicle, with flight trials provisionally planned for later this decade.
The test jet will integrate off-the-shelf technologies and help increase understanding of the risks and compromises required to successfully integrate key strategic unmanned air vehicle technologies, the Ministry of Defence said.
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Passing the baton
I had the great honour and pleasure of explaining to Enfant Terrible No. 2 this afternoon how a record player works – and indeed how a record works. "So if you turn it over are there more songs on the other side?"
It reminded me of the time the four of us were in the car listening to a Sherlock Holmes story and I had to pause the tape to explain what a 'typewriter' was, as the mystery revolved around a typewriter with a dodgy E.
So I walked down to Alan's record shop on our high street with the ETs and No. 2 bought his very first piece of vinyl, a Rolling Stones (later) hits LP – he was after the track Wild Horses. He asked me to show him how to play it in the shop. I demoed on the knackered old deck. "So the lines are different songs?"
I showed him how to check the record for blemishes, how to handle the disc, how to check the weight/thickness.
It's interesting how they came to this place, to the point of being introduced to Alan as customers after one and a half decades of just being local kids. After years of wall-to-wall rap the younger one recently got into reggae, then Dylan and The Stones; the older one into The Doors and Dylan. When Snoop Dogg put out a reggae album as Snoop Lion he provided the bridge for ET2 into the rasta world. And Yelawolf's Nashville connections prompted thoughts in the head of ET1 of Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan. After years of Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa how amazing to get a text saying: "Just been listening to Bob Dylan's song 'Hurricane' – the man's a genius".
What's also interesting to see is how all the musical education/indoctrination did actually get in and get noticed. I used to make them tapes for their birthdays based on what they were interested in – so at 4 for example it was cops, robbers and superheroes – cue Police & Thieves, The Batman theme (The Jam), etc. Now tunes like Riders on the Storm (from the cowboys & Indians phase) are resurfacing in their consciousness.
This afternoon's lads' trip down the road was a real landmark and a deep pleasure.
Music and Writing (Day 26)
A much more productive day than yesterday though still a tester of resilience with various things going wrong from hardware to software to children to somehow having gotten myself involved in a speaking engagement with some very daunting people on the panel (one of whom recently referred to Channel 4 commissioning editors as wanking monkeys – that should make for a fun encounter). But I set up five interviews with people connected to Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop. And had a good writing burst in the afternoon fuelled by a rather good playlist I made for a party recently.
It's funny that thing of writing or working to music. I was listening to Daniel Kahneman (the Israeli-American psychologist, winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Economics) on a Desert Island Discs podcast when jogging the other morning and he was saying how he only discovered in recent years that he worked much better without music, after a lifetime of writing with music playing in the background. In the morning I worked with some tranquil classical music which is the half-way house for me between silence and working to Music – I don't resort to it often. I generally play non-Classical instrumental music when writing. For years I worked to Kind of Blue on a daily basis when I had my own non-open plan office. Never tired of it, often inspired by it. So yesterday's session did hit that 'flow' state a couple of times on the back of some 60s soul and the like, one of my rarer non-instrumental sessions. This morning I'm going non-instrumental too – Strange Days by The Doors (carefully skipping Horse Latitudes which only a maniac could write to). Let's see where the spirit of Jim takes us…
In the meantime, any suggestions for music conducive to writing, favourites that work for you?
Shelter from the Storm
Walter Pater, the art and literary critic much admired by Oscar Wilde, wrote that "All art aspires to the condition of music." I read that as other arts striving for the direct impact music has on the heart and spirit without recourse to any physical medium and being able to by-pass the intellect. Much though I love music I've never tended to listen to the lyrics of songs in a coherent and systematic way. Phrases and lines emerge over time in their own way and hook themselves into the brain.
I was jogging along yesterday morning listening to a podcast of the evergreen Desert Island Discs when a Bob Dylan song came on and a line really resonated for me as a perfect expression of what women mean to men. When I got home and sat down in front of my machine for the first time that day I whacked the line into Quotables for posterity – and to look at it on its own for a moment.
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"
Not particularly poetic. Quite ordinary really. But in its context perfect and to the heart of the matter, to the matter of the heart.
So I felt inspired to pick out 10 great lines from songs that are worthy of the condition of music, that have the resonance and penetrative power of the supreme art. I tried being strict about one stand-out line per song only (only cracked once with a couplet).
1. Bob Dylan, Shelter from the Storm (1974)
"Come in," she said, "I'll give you shelter from the storm"
2. John Lennon, Oh Yoko! (1971)
In the middle of a cloud I call your name
A powerful yet simple expression of romantic love.
3. John Martyn, Couldn't Love You More (1977)
If you kissed the sun right out of the sky for me
Song lyrics straining to capture Love (is there a theme emerging?)
4. Jimi Hendrix, Purple Haze (1966)
'Scuse me while I kiss the sky
This could be love or drugs that's fogging Jimi's brain – either way it's a great line.
5. The Clash, Garageland (1977)
Back in the garage with my bullshit detector
A spirited (spirit of Punk) response to an early bad review (of a gig with The Sex Pistols at Islington's Screen on the Green): "The Clash are the kind of garage band who should be returned to the garage immediately, preferably with the engine running". [Charles Shaar Murray – what did he know?]
6. Bruce Springsteen, Atlantic City (1982)
Well now everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back
Reckon there's a load of philosophy buried in this couplet.
7. David Bowie, Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (1969)
As I am unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed
Loved this phrase for a long time, the "somewhat" is just what's needed to throw it off kilter.
8. The Doors (Jim Morrison), The Wasp (1968)
Out here we is stoned – immaculate
One of those lines that throws a word into a whole new light.
9. John Coltrane, Acknowledgement (1964)
A Love Supreme
Sometimes you don't even need a whole line or clause – this is a transcendent chant. They're the only words in this track and all the more striking for that.
10. Well, why don't you add this one? What song words do it for you?…
[I'm treating this as a work in progress – going to be putting some more bath time into it]
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After some more bath-time reflection here are some other stand-out lines, plus some picked out by commenters below that strike a chord with me too:
Michael Franti & Spearhead, Oh My God (2001)
I slept with Marilyn she sung me Happy Birthday
Magazine, Song from Under the Floorboards (1980)
I am angry I am ill and I'm as ugly as sin
The Passenger, Iggy Pop (1977)
We'll see the city's ripped backsides
Marvyn Gaye/Dick Holler, Abraham Martin and John (1970)
Has anyone here seen my old friend Martin?
PJ Harvey, Let England Shake (2011)
England's dancing days are done
You seem confused by your own ideals
You will not be able to stay home brother
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
It took it 3.5 billion years to decide that you live just where you live [it = the universe]
4 of the best
This week I'm staying in S. Agata, on the coast about an hour south of Naples, and today I'm off to see for the first time Pompeii, so buried stuff is on my mind. It's in the nature of a blog that stuff gets buried – this post is me resurrecting 4 of my favourite posts from this blog:
on titles, jazz, Dylan Thomas and Joyce's Ulysses
on Buffalo Springfield, Belsen and what's of true value
a survey of the Daily Mail, anxiety and sex
4 In the beginning of the End (serpent mix)
a remix of The Doors' The End and the first chapter of Genesis (the bible book not the band)
And on the subject of great songs, the soundtrack for today (fortunately it's on the ol' iPod) must be Siouxsie & the Banshees' Cities in Dust – after all these years it's going to come into its own:
"Water was running, children were running
We found you hiding, we found you lying
Your city lies in dust
Ohh oh your city lies in dust, my friend
Hot and burning in your nostrils
Pouring down your gaping mouth
Your molten bodies blanket of cinders
Caught in the throes
Ohh oh your city lies in dust, my friend
Ohh oh your city lies in dust, my friend"
Long Players
After playing the 100 Greatest Songs of all time parlour game with my friend Doug Miller over Christmas (me in the North of London, him in the South of France) he came back with the 50 Greatest LPs of all time challenge (no compilations, only one record per artist/band). I failed miserably – couldn't boil it down to less than 75. So here they are – the 75 best LPs ever (of course, I'll be popping back from time to time to make the odd sneaky change):
Beauty Stab – ABC
The Stars We Are – Marc Almond
The Last Waltz – The Band
The White Album – The Beatles
Post – Bjork
Go Tell It on the Mountain – Blind Boys of Alabama
Plastic Letters – Blondie
Space Oddity – David Bowie
Love Bites – Buzzcocks
The Clash – The Clash
A Rush of Blood to the Head – Coldplay
* A Love Supreme – John Coltrane
Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me – The Cure
* Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
Don't Stand Me Down – Dexy's Midnight Runners
Hot August Night – Neil Diamond
The Doors – The Doors
Pink Moon – Nick Drake
Blood on the Tracks – Bob Dylan
Bill Evans – Conversations with Myself
Tiger in the Rain – Michael Franks
* Stay Human – Michael Franti & Spearhead
The Score – The Fugees
* What's Going On – Marvin Gaye
Flesh – David Gray
Guys & Dolls movie ST
Are you experienced? – Jimi Hendrix
The Miseducation of – Lauryn Hill
Yarona – Abdullah Ibrahim trio
All Mod Cons – The Jam
Jesus Christ Superstar
Unknown Pleasures – Joy Division
On Song – Brian Kennedy
Led Zeppelin IV – Led Zeppelin
Imagine – John Lennon
Cinquieme As – MC Solaar
The Snake – Shane MacGowan & the Popes
Madness – Madness
Correct Use of Soap – Magazine
Exodus – Bob Marley & the Wailers
* Solid Air – John Martyn
New World Order – Curtis Mayfield
Monk's Dream – Thelonius Monk quartet
A Night in San Francisco – Van Morrison
Blues and the Abstract Truth – Oliver Nelson
Throw Down Yours Arms – Sinead O'Connor
Meddle – Pink Floyd
Dummy – Portishead
Metal Box – Public Image Ltd (in the metal box)
O – Damien Rice
Some Girls – The Rolling Stones
Stranded – Roxy Music
Rumblefish OST (Stewart Copeland)
The Crack – The Ruts
Abraxas – Sanata
Gymnopedies – Eric Satie
Never Mind the Bollocks – The Sex Pistols
* Songs for Swinging Lovers – Frank Sinatra
The Scream – Siouxsie and the Banshees
Six Days in June
Easter – Patti Smith
The Specials – The Specials
The Rising – Bruce Springsteen
We'll Never Turn Back – Mavis Staples
Tea for the Tillerman – Cat Stevens
Brilliant Trees – David Sylvian
Remain in the Light – Talking Heads
Sweet Baby James – James Taylor
Stan Tracey – Under Milk Wood
Joshua Tree – U2
Signing Off – UB40
Live in Leeds – The Who
Talking Book – Stevie Wonder
Harvest – Neil Young
*Road to Freedom – The Young Disciples
And in case you've ever lain awake at night wondering what the top 7 LPs of all time are in order, here you are:
1 Kind of Blue – Miles Davis
2 What's Going On – Marvin Gaye
3 A Love Supreme – John Coltrane
4 Songs for Swinging Lovers – Frank Sinatra
5 Solid Air – John Martyn
6 Road to Freedom – The Young Disciples
7 Stay Human – Michael Franti & Spearhead
Doug's top 50 is somewhat more sophisticated as befits an international man of mystery:
1. Mariano/Vant'hof/Catherine – Sleep My Love
2. Garbarek/Gismonti/Haden – Folk Songs
3. What's Going On – Marvin Gaye
4. Songs in the Key of Life – Stevie Wonder
5. Beyond Skin – Nitin Sawhney
6. Soro – Salif Keita
7. Leftfield – Leftism
8. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
9. Airto Moreira – Seeds on the Ground
10. Khomsa – Anouar Brahem
11. Santana – Caravanserai
12. Edu Lobo – Cantiga De Longe
13. Remain in Light – Talking Heads
14. Eastern Sounds – Yusef Lateeef
15. Devotional Songs – Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
16. The Velvet Underground and Nico
17. Gabor Szabo & Bobby Womack – High Contrast
18. The Isley Brothers – 3+3
19. This Is My Country – The Impressions
20. Pharaoh Sanders – Journey To the One
21. Miles Davis – In a Silent Way
22. DJ Shadow Entroducing
23. Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert
24. Sigur Ros – Takk
25. Let it Bleed – The Rolling Stones
26. Brian Eno/Harold Budd – The Plateau of Mirror
27. Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
28. Tabula Rasa – Arvo Part
29. Mothership Connection – Parliament
30. Lou Reed – Transformer
31. Led Zeppelin – 2
32. David Sylvian – Secrets of the Beehive
33. Free Will – Gil Scot Heron
34. David Crosby – If I Could Only Remember My Name
35. Spirit – 12 Dreams of Dr Sardonicus
36. Jdilla – Donuts
37. Five Leaves Left – Nick Drake
38. Clube De Esquina – Milton Nascimento
39. Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
40. Lonnie Liston Smith – Expansions
41. Anthony and the Johnsons – I am a Bird Now
42. TheInflated Tear – Rahsan Roland Kirk
43. Blue Camel – Rabih Abou-Khalil
44. What Colour is Love – Terry Callier
45. Fat Albert Rotunda – Herbie Hancock
46. Diamond Dogs – David Bowie
47. Assagai – Afrorock
48. Biosphere – Sub-Strata
49. Ein Deutche Requiem – Brahms (Simon Rattle)
50. The Nordic Quartet – Rypdal/Surman/Storaas.Krog
Feel free to join in…
100 Greatest Songs
Ever wondered what the 100 greatest songs of all time are? Well trouble yourself no longer – here they are…
(only one song per artist/band; songs with words, not instrumental)
Hells Bells – AC/DC
The Stars We Are – Marc Almond
Uptown Top Ranking – Althea & Donna
Ventura Highway – America
The House of the Rising Sun – The Animals
What a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong
Across the Universe – The Beatles
Harrow Road – Big Audio Dynamite
Hyperballad – Bjork
The Last Month of the Year – Blind Boys of Alabama
In the Sun – Blondie
Everything I Own – Ken Boothe
Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed – David Bowie
ESP – Buzzcocks
Folsom Prison Blues – Johnny Cash
White Man in Hammersmith Palais – The Clash
Do you really want to hurt me? – Culture Club
Ninety Nine and a Half – Dorothy Love Coates
Alison – Elvis Costello
Just Like Heaven – The Cure
Eloise – The Damned
Knowledge of Beauty – Dexy's Midnight Runners
Soolimon – Neil Diamond (from Hot August Night)
The End – The Doors
Fruit Tree – Nick Drake
Ballad of a Thin Man – Bob Dylan
That's Alright Mama – Elvis
This is the house that Jack built – Aretha Franklin
Sometimes – Michael Franti & Spearhead
Inner City Blues – Marvin Gaye
My Sweet Lord – George Harrison
Sonny – Bobby Hebb
The Wind Cries Mary – Jimi Hendrix
Winter in America – Gil Scott Heron
A Town Like Malice – The Jam
Jerusalem – hymn
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
Atmosphere – Joy Division
Danny Boy – Brian Kennedy
Batonga – Angelique Kidjo
Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
In My Time of Dying – Led Zeppelin
Oh Yoko – John Lennon
Freebird – Lynyrd Skynyrd
Jealousy – Geraldine MacGowan [County Clare's finest]
Fairytale of New York – Shane MacGowan & Kirsty MacColl
The Snake with Eyes of Garnet – Shane MacGowan & the Popes
The Prince – Madness
Like a Prayer – Madonna
Shot by Both Sides – Magazine
My Little Empire – Manic Street Preachers
Natty Dread – Bob Marley & the Wailers
Don't Want to Know – John Martyn
Wandrin' Star – Lee Marvin
Move On Up – Curtis Mayfield
Amazing – George Michael
Monkees theme – The Monkees
Moondance – Van Morrison
Police & Thieves – Junior Murvin
Jerusalem the Golden – Effi Netzer singers
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
Raglan Road – Sinead O'Connor
West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
Julia Dream – Pink Floyd
Public Image Limited – PIL
Fanciness – Shabba Ranks & Lady G
Try a Little Tenderness – Otis Redding
Cold Water – Damien Rice
Sympathy for the Devil – The Rolling Stones
Chase the Devil – Max Romeo & the Upsetters
Street Life – Roxy Music
In a Rut – The Ruts
Anarchy in the UK – The Sex Pistols
If I Was a Bell – Jean Simmons (in Guys & Dolls movie)
One for my baby – Frank Sinatra
Icon – Siouxsie and the Banshees
Because the Night – Patti Smith
Ghost Town – The Specials
For What it's Worth – Buffalo Springfield
Atlantic City – Bruce Springsteen (MTV Plugged session 1992)
Down on Mississippi – Mavis Staples
Father & Son – Cat Stevens
Runaway Boy – The Stray Cats
You're the Best Thing – The Style Council
Forbidden Colours – David Sylvian & Ruichi Sakamoto (from Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
No Scrubs – TLC
Listening Wind – Talking Heads
Fire & Rain – James Taylor
Treason – Teardrop Explodes
Ain't Too Proud to Beg – The Temptations
The Boys are Back in Town – Thin Lizzy
One – U2
Ivory Madonna – UB40
Mannish Boy – Muddy Waters
My Generation – The Who
Armagideon Time – Willie Williams
That Girl – Stevie Wonder
Old Man – Neil Young
Freedom Suite – The Young Disciples
In the Beginning of the End (serpent mix)
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end of our elaborate plans
The end of everything that stands
The end, no safety or surprise
The end
I'll never look into your eyes… again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free?
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land
In the beginning
God created
The heaven
And the earth
And the earth
was without form
and void
and darkness was upon the face
of the deep
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain
And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake is long, seven miles
Ride the snake
He's old, and his skin is cold
And God said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly
The moving creature that hath life
And God created every living creature that moveth
Be fruitful and multiply
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind
And cattle after their kind
And every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind
And God saw that it was good
Now the serpent was more subtle
Than any beast of the field
Which the Lord God had made
The Lizard King
King of the universe
So God created man in his own image
In the image of God created he him
Male and female created he them
Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the East
In Eden
And there he put the man he had formed
The West is the best
The West is the best
Get here and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is callin' us
The blue bus is callin' us
Driver, where you takin' us?
And God said: Behold
I have given you every herb
And the earth brought forth grass
And God said: Let there be light
And there was light.
And God saw the light, that it was good
And God divided the light
From the darkness
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Divide the light from the darkness
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
"Yes, son"
"I want to kill you"
"Mother… I want to… fuck you"
And God blessed them
And God said unto them
Be fruitful and multiply
And replenish the earth
And subdue it
C'mon, baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, on a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock, c'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
What have you done?
In the middle of the garden were the tree of life
And the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
The voice of your brother's blood
Cries to me from the ground!
This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
He made the stars also
Let me tell you about heartache and the loss of God
Wandering, wandering in hopeless night
Out here in the perimeter there are no stars
Out here we is stoned
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end.


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At least the Brits admit there's a problem.
Click here to listen to the broadcast of You Tell Me on KTBB AM 600, Friday, March 2, 2012.
Liam Byrne was the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, kind of the number two treasury official in Great Britain behind the Chancellor of the Exchequer. According to a story in the Telegraph of London, as he was leaving office in 2010, he left his successor a note that simply said, "Dear Chief Secretary. I'm afraid to tell you there's no money left."
(So sorry, old boy.)
There's no money left in the U.K. and there's no money left here. The only difference is that the coalition government is admitting as much in Britain while politicians on both sides of the aisle here in the U.S. talk of our dismal finances only in oblique terms.
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer customarily presents the budget to the public in a speech to the House of Commons on Budget Day, almost always a Tuesday in March.
In his budget speech this month, the current Chancellor, George Osborne, is expected to say officially what he has been saying informally since taking the office — that that the U.K. can no longer afford its social programs, cannot afford to cut taxes and can do little to stimulate the economy.
"The British Government has run out of money because all the money was spent in the good years," said Osborne. "The money and the investment and the jobs need to come from the private sector."
Osborne is a member of the Conservative Party and holds the job of Chancellor of the Exchequer under a coalition government in which Conservatives hold more seats than the Labour Party but nevertheless lack a majority. Predictably, the members of the liberal Labour Party take exception to Mr. Osborne's assessment. They don't believe that reliance on the private sector is the only hope for avoiding fiscal Armageddon and, like Democrats in the U.S., believe that government spending must play a major role in reviving the flagging British economy.
The riots that took place in London last year as a result of the government even mentioning raising the out-of-pocket cost for college is evidence that consensus on what to do about Britain's poor financial condition remains as elusive as the debates are contentious.
But at least credit the Brits with this much. Aside from the unavoidable extremists and wingnuts, reasonable people on both sides in the U.K. at least recognize that the country is, in fact, out of money. Which is more than can be said for our government.
Worse, it's apparently more than can be said for our Republican candidates for president.
That the country is broke, and can no longer afford even its existing social programs, such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, let alone expansions such as Obamacare, is an admission that will never come from the Obama administration.
But let me ask you, how directly have you heard this stated by Santorum, Romney or Gingrich? (And please spare me your emails. I know that Ron Paul has gotten somewhere close to the core of this issue, but he will never be president.)
To my ear, of the current frontrunners, Romney is parsing every single vote that Santorum ever took in the Senate in the hope of making political hay while Santorum is apparently stuck on the tar baby subject of contraception.
Neither is actually saying out loud in plain English that the country is broke, will be unable to borrow to meet its cash needs for much longer and that unless dramatic changes are implemented by the next administration, could soon find itself past the point of financial return.
The Brits are at least saying it out loud, which is progress.
I fear that our politicians never will.
They redily admit there is not money here, too. They just don't give a damn! America has lived on credit for so long that they know nothing else…I did, went bankruput…now live out of my pocket and couldn't be happier.
The administration of Obama-the-Great has hastened our decline as a nation on all fronts: cultural, moral, educational, financial, defense and international. This is clearly a deliberate move to create despair among the informed, Conservative, anti big government voters while appealing to the Marxist/Socialist Democrats and unwitting citizens that are looking for more welfare handouts.
I'm afraid that a disillusioned country that is near bankruptcy will be easy pickings for the tyranny that Barry and his autocrats have been planning for decades. They HATE the Constitution and now they see a way to gain dictatorial control over each citizen as stealth financial ruin of the economy and our currency takes place. This will continue to happen since Congress (Republican House) has shown itself incapable of taking the extreme steps that could stop this demise. Ogama is determined to bypass anything that Congress would try, anyway. His defeat is our only hope to begin a genuine recovery. Are the Republican Presidential candidates willing to fearlessly sound the alarm with conviction and persuasion?
What is so maddening is the constant propaganda by Barry and his slavish media to promote the LIE of good economic news of a slow, steady recovery. The seeds of disaster are already sprouting: green energy (kill fossil energy) and Obamacare (kill private health care system). Capitalism will not survive if the Energy and Healthcare systems are essentially nationalized by regulation as autocrats smother all forms of innovation and dictate government approved Socialist solutions.
It is easy to see how helpless each typical family will become as they loose faith in Capitalism as their financial plight worsens (without knowing why). Initially, the Big Government Safety Net will look very attractive. This will hasten total dependence on government mandates as the regulators (masterminds) struggle to maintain their facade of superior intelligence. We all know that the country will collapse as the inevitable confiscation of all personal wealth occurs in order to keep the masses happy.
At that point the Socialist States of America will join the historical heap of all tyrannies. Before this becomes fact, the wise among us had better be prepared to seek a home in another country that has already started to back away from this abyss. History is only repeating itself. Remember Ellis Island, anyone? We are not immune from the fiscal and moral laws of nature!
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, ME wrote:
> > Hmmm. Your use of the word limit in quotes comes dangerously close to
> > being condescending, but I'll assume that's not how it was meant.
> It was not at all an attack. It is meant to highlight a theme in the
> response-- that of choice vs. limits. It was not a comment on you or your
> question. It was an emphasis to my content.
This was only to point out that sarcasm (or any form of levity) can often
be misread. I'm more guilty of this here, so I'll apologize too. This
was not meant to insight, but just to defend my right to ask a question.
Reading your comments below, it looks like no 'defense' was necessary.
So thanks, and sorry.
> I thought an example was obvious and omitted at least one example for
> this, but here is at least one: The person who owns the laptop may want to
> also use windows too, another? it is not their own personal laptop, but
> provided by their work, and they are required to use Windows-only apps in
> the field.
I struggle with this at work (which is very much a Windows world). I
solve this problems with rdesktop (love that program) and a powerbook that
runs the Mac remote desktop client, but again, not everybody's solution.
> I did not make the assumption the machine was a single-user machine. Since
> such archives are available for peer review, I'd rather have an answer
> that may provide someone (and others) with advice that could be used in
> the general case rather than a specific implied case based on the content
> of the thread. The solution I provided is a very good one for servers and
> for single user systems. The directions for making it work for both are
> the same.It is a very useful system. Nobody else pointed it out in the
> thread so I added it. It is archived for people to find with google. It
> has many advantages-- including teaching single user system admins a
> method they can apply if they should ever decide to grow into a server
> with multiple users.
good point. the archive does become a working searchable helpdesk (or
whatever), so answering the question from more than one angle can't hurt.
i maintain that yours was the best (in my opinion) way to do the fstab
> DOS is sufficient. Windows 9X is sufficient. You only asked for examples.
> Whether the users's preference is Windows or DOS does not matter, A
> reason is still provided-- Several reasons actually. Some people may
> prefer to have the windows interface instead of DOS. All it takes is at
> least one person who does this to choose windows instead of dos for their
> solution to be an example of a case where someone would want to dual boot
> windows and linux on the same multi-user system.
i suppose i'm too eagerly defending 'the way i would do it'. linux gives
us the freedom of no single or correct way to day anything. i'll qualify
the whole thing. FOR ME, dual booting a multi-user system still doesn't
make much sense... but, that statement doesn't help anybody solve their
problem, though, so it's almost useless to say.
> You can only grow out of it to the point where your vendors of hardware
> permit it. If the hardware vendor you use does not provide a Linux path
> for resolving the examples listed above, then there is little opportunity
> to outgrow it- unless you have the time and resources to reverse engineer
> the missing tools and build them.
> For future hardware purchases, the consumer can take the time to buy
> hardware which is better supported, but the existing older hardware still
> exists and may be used.
we're all hoping this is increasingly less of a problem, but yes, it is a
> does not encourage me to answer questions you have. I do not want to have
> my text viewed as an attack or harmful. It is possible that you will view
> this reply as harmful, and this is also not an intention. :-/
not at all. i read the above 'think about it' as 'i don't need to
bother answering that'. i took that as a blow off (which i obviously
shouldn't have - you've given plenty of answers to my original question).
on the other hand, i was trying to say 'if there are so many good reasons,
let's see them', but re-reading that, it doesn't convey that. so again, sorry.
this is one of those situations where if we were having this conversation
in person, things might have gotten enthusiastic, or maybe even
'heated', but never 'nasty'.
> Where is the reward for taking the time to provide an answer to a question
> when you feel your words are being read in such a way to sound offensive?
> Look at the archive of messages written here by me. Have I been abusive?
> Do my replies look negative or suggestive?
> People wonder why my responses are often long; it is because people tend
> to read things into the text. There comes a point, where choosing not to
> answer a question is more rearding than the pleasure gained in helping
> fellow Linux users. If you don't like what I write, or I offend you, let
> me know-- preferrably in private so that I can appologise in public and in
> a personal letter.
> Consider how you treat people who take the time to reply to you. I do not
> think I deserved your response. Others may be critical of how you treat
> people who take the time to answer you based on how you are treating me.
> My original reply was not negative or sarcastic. I did not make fun of you
> or your question. Why take offense? Relax. Know that I am not attacking
> you or making fun of you.
agreed. like i said above, i assumed you were blowing off my question.
even if you really were, i could have just deleted the e-mail, instead of
shooting off more potentially offensive messages.
> If you were offended by my response, please accept my appology-- I have no
> intention to cause you harm or suggest anything negative about you.
> Sorry,
> P.S.: You needed more examples: Citrix, vmware, netboot windows served
> from Linux, Small projects (3-5 people) who use their own machines as
> servers (cvs and the line) who mke apps for windows and also use their own
> machines for testing in Windows...
These are all fantasic examples, but for each of these I'd want a windows
machine, not a dual boot. I can't wait for a reboot to test code, just to
reboot and recode. But those are the semantics you discussed above.
Everybody has whatever resources they have. My hypothetical extra windows
box may not be everybody's luxury.
> And there are even more! Just take some some and consider them.
No YOU consider them! Just kidding...
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This past Tuesday was an ordinary Tuesday.
But at the Forsk, there were many faces, some folks I never saw before. Much welcome! Lots of activity. This is a partial log of events, to give you a feel for what you missed.
One tall young long-hair (haha) helped out cutting and stripping cable pieces for a huge project StG is diligently working on. He said: "I program Java and C. And I tried Processing, and mostpixelsever (that multi-screen addon). And I tried openframeworks." I did not see if he had brought a computer. Moral: always bring gear. And, dear long-hair, bring a computer with some code next time, and explain some stuff. It'd be cool. You have lots to contribute.
For myself, I had brought nothing. So I helped strip cable. Hrm.
Annika brought a small project soldering some cable headers onto individual cables in a computer board with a power switch and two LEDs (harddrive and power). "I've had this multimeter since I was 14." and "It was ten years ago since I last soldered anything." For those who read previous details, she's a veteran of Malmö Uppfinnarförening (Inventors' Association of Malmö).
Web hacker Oscar came to the Forsk for the first time, and had brought some software projects with him. "I want to test stuff in Rhino and in V8", he said on the phone, when he asked me if anyone was there. Minutes later, he was in a couch, explaining the finer points of jspec, a JavaScript testing framework written in Ruby. He and I sat down with laptops and explained stuff to each other. I wanted to make better testing for MailControl, which is a kind of "MVC for email". You could wire it up to remote control your programs via specific email addresses and commands in the Subject and Body sections of the email. PB stopped by and brought candy and crisps, and had some questions he needed answers for. One was about a small job, and another was "which CMS is a good backend for a full-Flash website solution?" Ease-of-install and previous knowledge led him to use PHP-based Typo3. "Find their RSS plugin, and fiddle with it, to get a simple XML export, that might please your Flash masters."
kopimi passed by, as did Hanne. qzio was not feeling well, and stayed home.
Teddy was concentratedly talking on a headset, probably networking about networks. (So much activity is going on that it's hard to keep up with projects. And much of the activity can be a bit quiet, so you need to poke your nose into it.)
faidros had found one of those "joystick with games in it" and hooked it up to an existing TV set. The sounds of ancient games filled the room. Those sounds are quite wonderful/annoying.
phrst was building a mechanical machine that was using the drill-press to make holes in a CD, and used a part of an old harddrive and some wooden board with holes in it. He demonstrated its parts and people wowed.
omni came by and handled some hardware. He treated me to a late-night post-Forsk falafel in Möllan.
This past Tuesday was an ordinary Tuesday. But at the Forsk, there were many faces, some folks I never saw before. Much welcome! Lots of activity. This is a partial...
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David says:
I have a feeling that I know, but it might be a good idea to mention somewhere who "me", "myself" and "I" is?
Olle Jonsson says:
It is me, me, me!
Philip Linde says:
Oh, hello there! Young long-hair guy here. I would bring my computer tomorrow to show you some stuff, but I've caught a nasty fever! I'll definitely come by next Tuesday, though, and then I'll show you some of my 1 000 000 on-hold processing projects/C64 stuff, and maybe some stuff I did in school (I study "interactive sound design" – flum+skoj).
… then I guess I'll continue cutting cables and absorbing the nice atmosphere
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2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 - The Boss Is Back
Ford Did Its Homework To Come Up With A Worthy Successor To The Legendary '69-'70 Boss 302
The Boss camshafts are also revised with a more aggressive grind and feature twin independent variable timing to provide maximum high-rpm horsepower without sacrificing low-rpm torque, a frequent complaint about the '69-'70 Boss 302. Valvetrain components have been lightened for improved dynamics at high engine speeds.
With its 7,500-rpm redline, the new Boss 302 takes a cue from its earlier namesake with strengthened short-block components. In addition to race-spec crankshaft bearings, the bottom end is fitted with forged aluminum pistons and sinter-forged connecting rods. Revised oil pan baffling improves oil control during cornering loads.
The 440 horsepower-the most ever from a naturally-aspirated production Ford engine-is delivered through a six-speed manual transmission, with a short-throw shifter, to a 3.73 rear axle with carbon-fiber plates in the limited-slip differential. A torque-sensing Torsen limited-slip differential is available as an option, coupled with Recaro seats.
With a mandate to produce the best handling Mustang ever, Boss engineers refined the Mustang GT suspension with higher rate springs, stiffer bushings, larger rear stabilizer bar, and a slightly lower stance. The real key to handling, however, is the adjustable struts and shocks with five settings. Instead of relying on electronics, the engineers have made the adjustment manual, with easy accessibility under the hood and inside the trunk. A small flat-head screwdriver is all that's needed to make adjustments from setting One for the softest position to setting Five for improved track response.
Working with the suspension are Pirelli PZero tires, 255/40ZR-19 on the front and wider 285/35ZR-19s on the rear. Unique lightweight wheels are also staggered with 9-inch rims on the front and 91/2-inch versions at the rear. According to Ford, the combination of suspension package and tires makes the '12 Boss 302 the first non-SVT Mustang to achieve over 1.0g of lateral acceleration.
On the Boss 302, the speed-sensitive electronic steering has been retuned to maximize road feel for the driver and includes fine-tuning via the instrument cluster menu for comfort, normal, and sport modes. The Boss also gets a unique traction control system and electronic stability control. Both can be completely disabled for maximum performance driving.
For braking, the Boss 302 comes with Brembo four-piston front calipers and 14-inch vented rotors up front, while standard Mustang GT rear brakes are upgraded with Boss-specific pads. To address brake pedal feel, low-compressibility brakes lines are utilized.
Perhaps the most unique aspect of the '12 Boss 302 is its quad exhaust system. Two outlets exit at the rear, similar to the Mustang GT, while another pair of outlets exit to either side of the crossover to send exhaust through a set of metal attenuation discs that act as tuning elements before the pipes terminate in front of the rear wheel openings. Visually subtle, the side pipes flow very little exhaust but add to the sonic experience-described by one source as "quadraphonic." The discs are removable and engineers even made sure they were sized so owners could add aftermarket dump valves. "If an owner wants to add a set of electric valves, they can just undo two bolts on either side to remove the discs and spacer," explains Mustang NHV engineer Shawn Carney. "Then the dump valves can slide right in."
Due to the side exit exhaust and a retuned sound tube in the induction system, the new Boss 302 has an exhaust note all its own.
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"We approached this as curators of a legend," said chief designer Darrell Behmer when talking about the new Boss 302's exterior graphics. "Taking cues from the '69 Boss street car and the Bud Moore race cars, we updated them to give the '12 model the proper bad-boy attitude that is unmistakably a Boss Mustang."


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A DURABLE material made from pigskin may one day be used to repair wounds and injuries that can't heal on their own. Surgeons are already using it to help skin heal and it could potentially be used to fix damaged bone and cartilage too.
"The stuff looks like a sheet of chewing gum," says tissue researcher Ian Kill of Brunel University in London. The material is made of a matrix of nearly pure collagen, created by removing all the cells from pigskin during a six-week process. When implanted into a wound it forms a permanent three-dimensional scaffold that cells and even blood vessels grow into.
Since different animals produce collagen that's very similar, there's no concern about patients rejecting implants, Kill says. And the material, called Permacol, is an improvement on other collagen matrices, he says, because it isn't broken down in the body.
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Graphic Video: Iranian Woman Killed In Protest June 20, 2009
Saturday in Tehran, Iran and Iranian woman was shot to death, and the event was captured on video and uploaded to youtube.
We have to stand up and show our support for the Iranian Opposition Protest. A young woman was killed today by authorities while exercising her freedom of speech and her right to protest. This video is sad, and very graphic, but it's reality. Why is it important? Remember what our aunts, uncles, and grandparents went through during the Civil Rights Movement. Well a movement may be on the way in Iran with Mir-Hossein Mousavi supporters, and if you have a voice you need to show your support, and encourage the young leaders to fight for what they believe in.
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UPDATE: The girl in the video was named Neda. She was only 16 years of age, and was attending the protest with her father. She died from a gun shot wound to the heart fired by a member of the Iranian Basij militia.Read More
Usher's Got Milk!
Usher sure's been happier these past few days! Unusual for someone who just filed for divorce. I guess he should have listened to his momma! Momma always knows best and she did tell him Tameka was not the one! SMH.
Check out his latest Got Milk Campaign. Mr. Raymond seem to be all smiles.
The Dream Defends Wife To Be Christina Milian!
( Christina Milian visibly showing off her 5 carat engagement ring)
When news broke that Christina and The Dream hooked up, rumors began circulating that Milian was only f*cking for tracks (excuse my french) in order to reboot her career. In her defense, fiancee , The Dream had this to say!
"She has a lot of stuff going on in the movie world and actually on TV. Somebody just gave her a lot of bread, and you don't make enough money in the radio and R&B world, you know when it gets to that particular point. Somebody show up in her house with 10 million [dollars], and then you got a blog full of haters that's trying to make sure that your sh*t don't come out, it's like what you gon' do? Let me see, Paramount Pictures wants to give me 10 million, or I got to try to beat my head in the ground to prove something to the n*ggas that are going to give me five dollars. You gon' take that $10 million and ride out. 'Cause I need a new Phantom, so I want her to take that 10 million."
Props to him for wanting to defend his woman! However, he could have been a little more tactful and not reveal how much she's getting paid!
The couple is said to be planning a engagement party to take place in the Bahamas!Read More
Rihanna Is Ready To Tesify On Monday; Singer Not Nervous
The judge in the Chris Brown & Rihanna case has decided on Thursday that she would ban cameras from the courtroom on Monday, June 22. Only a sketch artist will be allowed to capture the moment. Although there won't be cameras inside the courtroom there will be paparazzi outside the courtroom; it is L.A. after all. Anyway, E! News spoke with Rihanna's lawyer Donald Etra, and when asked if the pop singer was nervous, he said:
She's fine. She's fully expecting she'll be required to testify. She will answer all questions asked of her truthfully.
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Players who "play to win" wonder why some folks in game try to play by "fictitious rules" -- why not do some arena matching, or why not jump on an opponent on a PvP server when they're almost dead from fighting a mob? If there's a mod that will let you "cheat" on a boss, or a macro that will let you target opponents in the arena, why not use it? But just as the person writing this article about scrubs sees those as "fake rules" (because the game doesn't actually keep you from doing those things seen as "cheap"), many players do see things like honor and discipline in the game.
In the end, it's each to his own -- we all play this game for different reasons, and not everyone does play to win: some play for fun, some play to relax, some play just because they want to follow those "fake rules" (and any others they come up with -- pacifist players, Arena masters, or naked trolls). Players play by their own rules all the time, but that's no reason at all to call them "scrubs."


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BACK WHEN IT WAS HOUSED in a bright pink Foursquare, tucked away between N Mississippi and N Interstate Aves, Lovely Hula Hands almost had it right. The shabby-chic décor was invitingly homey and the service hospitable, but the fusion food just didn't quite gel.
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While the Minnicks have managed to replicate the chintz-charming ambience of their former digs, MacLarty has infused the small menu with a Chez Panisse-inspired passion for seasonal ingredients. Which means that by sautéeing a dozen tiny, green and mild padron peppers from Viridian Farms and sprinkling them with fleur de sel, MacLarty makes them (and other such ingredients) taste more like the earth they came from than when they were picked.
It also means that in August, his signature creamy soufflé is made with sweet corn, summer chanterelles, bright green spinach and cippolini onions; and that in the fall, it contains buttery leeks, roasted cauliflower and celery root. A simple chicken breast paillard comes with a salad of cherry tomatoes, roasted corn, mozzarella and avocado in September, but come December it's breaded and fried, served over a Moroccan-style chickpea and broccoli ragout.
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New St-Laurent joint Robin des Bois steals from no one, but gives to all
Finally you can order dessert guilt-free! The calories may still count, but you'll rack up the brownie points. That's because when you eat – or volunteer – at Robin des Bois, a chic new bistro on the Plateau, 100 per cent of the profits (and tips) go to charities in the city like Santropol Roulant, La Maison Doris, Cactus and Sun Youth.
The restaurant is staffed almost completely by volunteers. Only the cooks and managers make a small salary. Volunteers from every age group and walk of life wait and bus tables, wash dishes and tend to the herb garden in the back, and in return for their four-hour shift all they get is a bowl of lentil soup, in keeping with the eastern tradition of baksheesh, or the giving of alms. That, and the sense of having done something wonderful for their community.
The idea was born several years ago when Judy Servay, the restaurant's founder, worked in the advertising industry. She ran a small production company back then and came upon a novel way to entertain her clients for the holiday season: She hosted a cook-off. Servay had her clients come in and cook together, after which all the resulting food was delivered to soup kitchens around town. "It was the only Christmas party where you felt good the next day!" she says grinning.
The project was so successful that Servay and partner Philippe Fehmiu (of Loft Story) started thinking about a way to create a forum where that spirit of giving with no expectations could live all year round. They spoke to friends, formed a board of 13 directors, and on Aug. 3 – just a month ago – Robin des Bois opened its doors to the public.
The restaurant took about a year to build. More than 500 volunteers contributed time, money and materials to the project. "It was amazing," says Fehmiu. "We did no advertising or promotion at all. It was purely through word of mouth that people kept coming in the door."
Robin des Bois's primary objective is to make volunteering cool again – something fun for a group of friends to do on a weekend afternoon. They want to rid society of the notion that doing something good has to feel like a sacrifice. And in keeping with their theme of social awareness, they're eco-friendly too. All their cleaning products are environment-safe, their takeout containers are compostable, and they recycle everything they can.
One volunteer, Jayne Engle-Warnick, speaks of why she's chosen to get involved. "By supporting a place like this, you're investing in much more than a restaurant. It's a holistic way of looking at the community and a way to be part of something bigger."
Or as another volunteer, Martin Cloutier, says, "Come try it. If you like it, come back."
But if you currently lack the time or inclination, simply come and taste one of chef Myriam Pelletier's delicious creations. Good for the tummy and even better for the soul.
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LAKE ELSINORE: Historical panel to discuss forming formal commission
A Lake Elsinore committee supports creating a formal historical preservation commission within the city and is scheduled Tuesday to discuss how that panel should be set up.
The meeting starts at 1 p.m. in Conference Room A at City Hall, 130 S. Main St.
Committee Chairwoman Joyce Hohenadl said Friday the group is poised to make several recommendations in fulfilling the tasks mandated by the City Council.
Going on its 125th year as a city, Lake Elsinore has numerous buildings and sites around town that date back many decades and have historical significance. Yet, the city lacks a formal process for deciding which are of historical value and worthy of preservation.
So the council earlier this year formed a five-member committee of area residents with historical interests to look at the issue. The group's first meeting was in August.
"Our city has a treasure chest of historical buildings and we need to do something to preserve (them) now," Hohenadl said. "A lot of them are slowly disappearing."
The city has been able to obtain formal recognition for such structures as the 88-year-old Cultural Center building on Main Street and the old Santa Fe train depot on Graham that dates back to the 1880s. Others, however, have been lost, including the old Masonic lodge, another 88-year-old building that was severely damaged by fire last December and subsequently torn down.
Against that backdrop, Hohenadl said, the committee's work has been progressing steadily with the help of Lake Elsinore Senior Planner Richard MacHott and should wrap up its work in April.
"We're trying to do the best we can, and I must say that Richard MacHott has really helped us," she said. "We're not like other ad hoc committees where we have the city staff helping us to do everything. We're pretty much on our own."
Based on work that has been done, the committee expects to take some significant actions Tuesday.
The committee is supposed to discuss how many members that a Historical Preservation Commission should have, what their backgrounds should be, how long they would serve and what specifically they would do.
The group decided earlier this year to recommend that the City Council form the commission as its own entity rather than add such a responsibility to the Planning Commission, which is responsible for reviewing development proposals.
"(Planning commissioners) have all kinds of issues that are presented to them that are not necessarily about historical preservation and that would take even more research on their part," Hohenald said. "We felt if we have a separate commission, it could zone in on specific historical preservation issues and research it, and get back to the Planning Commission."
Also, the committee's agenda Tuesday calls for committee members Ruth Atkins, who is the Lake Elsinore Historical Society's president, and Tim Fleming to report on the city of Corona's historical preservation ordinance. The committee is expected to vote on which aspects of that city's ordinance should be used in forging Lake Elsinore's own regulations.
"Ruth Atkins was researching Corona's ordinance and found it to be very well written and very well done," Hohenadl said.


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Shoshoni Labor Day Rodeo gets going Saturday evening
Aug 30, 2013 - By Alejandra Silva, Staff Writer
The 11th Annual Shoshoni Labor Day weekend rodeo, complete with wild cow milking and ribbon roping, starts at 5 p.m. Saturday at the arena in Shoshoni.
Other events include trailer loading, team doctoring, team branding and bronc riding Saturday. Events will begin at 7 p.m. Sunday.
The competition is a Wyoming Rodeo Association co-sanctioned event and will award buckles for winners.
Name change
A special dedication ceremony will take place at 7 p.m. Sunday for Art Shanley, an active community member who died Aug. 19. The Shoshoni Activities Association voted Tuesday to change the arena's name from the Shoshoni Activities Association Arena to the Art Shanley Memorial Arena.
"He was one of the driving forces behind getting the arena going," said his grandson CJ Vandermeulen. "He would spend hours down there working the grounds."
Vandermeulen added that his grandfather continued riding saddle bronc and herding cattle up until his death at the age of 83.
Shanley retired from the Wyoming Highway Department and was a volunteer fireman and emergency medical technician for more than 20 years.
He served for several years on the Shoshoni school board and Shoshoni and Fremont County recreation boards, and he was known for his involvement at the senior center, in the ranching community, and for hand-braiding halters and lead ropes.
"He was on the crew that built the arena, helped with events over the years and maintained equipment. (He) has been instrumental in helping the association obtain funding for upgrades and equipment at the rodeo grounds," said Dawn Marie Thacker, president of the association. "Art was always more than willing to help where needed and we, the Shoshoni Activities Association, can't think of a better way to honor his memory."
A celebration of life service took place Sunday at the Missouri Valley Meeting Hall with an attendance of more than 300 people, Vandermeulen said.


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Video: As new ways to test how well machines can match aspects of human intelligence are dreamt up, they are getting closer to beating them.
It may have been dreamt up in 1950, but the Turing test - a simple way to tell if a machine can think - still holds powerful sway over many researchers striving to produce a machine at least in some respects equal with a human.
Nowadays, although UK mathematician Alan Turing's test is still relevant, and unbeaten, new forms of it have evolved. In this online special, New Scientist discovers the different ways in which machines can be tested for human-like abilities - and how close they have come to passing as one of us.
I chat, therefore I think
Turing's biggest insight was that it is impossible to know for sure if a machine - or indeed another person - is actually thinking. So he rephrased the question to one that is much easier to answer: Can a machine act like it is thinking?
His test has a human judge engage in two, separate conversations using only text - one with a human and one with a machine. If, after a few minutes of conversation, the judge can't distinguish the two, then the machine is deemed to have passed the test.
A major turning point in the field was Joseph Weizenbaum's chatbot ELIZA, developed in 1966. It achieved impressively "intelligent" results simply by rephrasing what a human said to it:
Human: My boyfriend made me come here.
ELIZA: Your boyfriend made you come here.
Human: He says I'm depressed much of the time.
ELIZA: I am sorry to hear you are depressed.
Human: It's true. I am unhappy.
ELIZA: Do you think coming here will help you not to be unhappy?
That technique was modelled on the way psychotherapists attempt to draw out a patient.
"If, for example, one were to tell a psychiatrist 'I went for a long boat ride' and he responded 'Tell me about boats', one would not assume that he knew nothing about boats, but that he had some purpose in so directing the subsequent conversation," wrote Weizenbaum in his 1966 paper.
He realised that relatively simple strategies can convince a human they are talking with another intelligence - some people found it very difficult to believe that ELIZA wasn't a human.
The 2008 winner of annual Turing test contest the Loebner Prize also won using a brilliantly simple strategy that Turing didn't foresee. Elbot convinced three of 12 humans it was just like them by acting like a human pretending to be a robot.
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Turing lived in an age when machines were room-filling boxes, but today's robotic creations are edging towards looking passably human. In fact, they are solidly inside what is known as "uncanny valley", a phrase that describes the creepy look of objects that look close, but not close enough, to being human.
The first artificial humans to emerge from the valley are likely to be creations of computer animators; but even they all too easily get uncanny results when using the latest tools. Last summer, though, US animation company Image Metrics and Paul Debevec at the University of Southern California produced a character some claimed had truly pass a visual Turing test (see video above).
Actress Emily O'Brien's skin was scanned in high-resolution as she changed her facial expressions. The results were turned into an animated version of O'Brien's face that was detailed enough to show facial pores and fine wrinkles. It was overlaid onto video of her real body to make a short movie realistic enough to defy the uninformed viewer.
The line between reality and animation is blurring, and improved models of the muscles and tendons of the real human body will accelerate the process.
Hiroshi Ishiguro, a roboticist at Osaka University in Japan, may be the person closest to traversing uncanny valley physically. His androids include creepily accurate replicas of himself and his daughter, complete with sensitive skin made from shape-memory plastic and plaster.
His doppelganger - Geminoid - travels with him to conferences and even lectures in his place. Its looks, combined with its ability to fidget like a human, have proved enough to fool some people it is one of them.
Ishiguro asked 20 volunteers to watch a curtain rise in front of them, and note the colour of a piece of cloth behind it. To their surprise, the opening curtain also revealed one of Ishiguro's androids, sat motionless. Most of the participants - 70% - reported afterwards that the figure was artificial.
But when the humanoid reproduced the tiny "micro-movements" produced subconsciously by a seated human, and the test was repeated with more volunteers, 70% of them believed the figure was a person.
Future robots may use other strategies to look real. Seth Goldstein at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, last year took the first speculative steps towards creating swarms of tiny robots that cling together using electrostatic forces to take on any form - technology that has been dubbed "claytronics".
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GS911 - What does it really do?
I do my own maintenance. I have the RepRom Service Manual (sure makes me long for the days of paper service manuals) and JVB DVD's. Gettin' pissed at that wonderful "reminder" telling me my service is overdue. Makes me want to get the GS911 but it will be over 60K of services before I break even with just having my dealer reset it. I really like having my throttle bodies in sync, but do you really have to calibrate the steppers very often or lock them when you check sync with your TwinMax??? I see a lot mentioned about ABS and the GS911 but the user's manual on their website doesn't tell you much about that. Neither does JVB's DVD's. Pretty much all I see is that you bleed the brakes like a non-ABS bike. What am I missing here???
You pretty much have it covered. For a single individual who doesn't ride too much, and doesn't do any repairs, the GS911 may not be worth the investment alone. However, it would be worth having a few friends go in together on one. The usefulness is more than just what you mentioned, especially if you have any issues.
Check out the GS911 web site for information on all that it does. It is really an amazing piece of technology!:deal
Jim :brow
PS No, I do not have a stake in the company.
The three best service tools I have are the JVB DVDs, the GS-911 and the LC-1 Wideband controller.
The GS-911 let's you see what data the Motronic or BMS-K is measuring from all its sensors. Below is the R1150 list, the R1200 list is longer. It also lets you see a graphic display of O2 sensor performance, helps with TPS adjustment, brake bleed-down, read error codes, clear error codes, read ABS info (haven't used this yet), test fuel pump, tank purge, and some other things that I've probably forgotten.
One problem it helped another guy solve was a drifting upward RPM issue. He would open the throttle to 2500 rpm and it would drift up another 1000 over several seconds. What was happening was that the TPS was opening something like a couple degrees. No way to see that with the eye. So if you need it it's a good tool.
As JVB suggested each personal unit is good for 10 motorcycle VINs so it could be shared.
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I have owned one for 3 yrs now and I have used it 3 times and i do my own maintenance. Meaning valve adjusts and fluid changes. I also bought a twin max and used it once to check things out and all is well. My point is my bike hasn't needed any adjustments other than the service reminder, so this tool is probably not for me but I do have one.
They are a charm
Its only when you don't have the tools that you need them. They ward off problems by simply owning them :evil
There is one item that spawned this thread. ABS, I know you can read error codes, but is there any wizardry it does when you swap brake fluid or something like that with the ABS controller?
It's a diagnostic tool, with a few utilities on it. You seem like you want someone to talk you into one.
Either it's worth it for you or it's not. Some people just like to be prepared. Otherwise, they're on here asking if they can borrow one.
Here's a run down of the GS-911 from the MOA site.
Jim :brow
It was worth the price of admission for me
I hate paying rent. Sure, I might have to drive another 60K to get my money's worth, but I plan on doing that, anyway. After that, somebody the flea market will PayPal me some frog skins.:clap
Best thing, though, is instant gratification. Don't have to wait for someone else to show up to work, and I get to tinker and compare, over and over and over and over . . . .
It's $300 and it works on 10 bikes. If you have multiple BMW's or a friend or two who'd share it's a great deal. I wonder if those of us with a GS911 will be able to utilize it on the new GS coming out this year?
Jim :brow
Last question, honest :D. When you load the software on your laptop, does it have more "user manual" type information than what is on their website?
Jim :brow
Hi all,
I bought the gs911 mainly for 2 reasons:
1. I do as much of my own servicing as possible, and this tool ( yes, it is just a tool) :rofl gives me the opportunity to do just that.
2. How good, no, make that great is it to be out in the middle of nowhere, and be able to diagnose and fix a problem on the side of the road, and continue on with your trip, as opposed to calling for the nearest tow truck ( if your phone works )and having your bike taken to the nearest dealer, who is more than likely a million miles away, therefore ruining your trip.
These things are worth their weight in gold if you ask me, and it lives in my toolkit with all of the other essentials you need when out on the road.:D
For the sake of a few hundred bucks, it sure does give you peace of mind.
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As someone who has never watched TNA I fail to see how you can give a fair judgement regarding how much certain of their hired wrestlers have contributed or not except for what you've read on the dirt sheets. Aside from that I agree that with Melina's history she'd likely be trouble if hired.
I don't read into the behind the scenes stuff so much, but I watch TNA Impact every week. And I fail to see where Angle, Hardy, and Gail Kim have been bad for them? Hardy is the top face for them right now. Angle has just turned face and has been over as a face and heel for them. And Gail Kim has been the Knockouts champ forever now, playing a great heel role.
Whether Melina is a problem child or not, if signing her will bring John Morrison there and keep him happy, then do it.
Honestly, they just signed The Brookester Brooke Hogan. Signing Melina would honestly be a step up from that.
You write you never watch TNA, but you've judged that Angle, Hardy and Kim are nutty signings.
Ignoring both of their personal troubles in the past, in-ring Angle and Hardy have been a success for TNA.
In fact, Hardy has improved since his WWE days and learned to talk decent enough on mic.
Kurt Angle is Kurt Angle and puts on excellent matches, he helped build Roode up to the level he is now and himself and AJ Styles had an good match at the last PPV.
Gail Kim gets to wrestle decent length matches and I'd much rather her be champ than Mickie James. Maybe you would feel the same if you actually watched the show.
Also, of course TNA would give her most of the time on TV, she's the champ!
They could book the Knockouts a bit better and spread out the wins, but they only get one show a week, and so the Knockout time has to focus on the champ and next contender. It pretty much means they will be the only two women winning matches for the couple months a feud lasts.
I'm happier for Melina not to sign as well, I don't think she's worth the hassle and the pay when there's enough female talent there for the small spotlight they have.
But this blog makes it look like you don't know what you're talking about when you write that Kim is a nutty signing for TNA.
Give the show a go and maybe you'll change your mind on a few things.
You're missing a major point: Lack of capable talent.
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Riverway riding high after week off
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AFTER a week off, Riverway FC made the short trip to Rocester to face JCB Vibromax in the round three of the Staffordshire Challenge Cup on Saturday and emerged impressive 6-0 victors.
With several key players still unavailable Riverway were fortunate enough to be able to recall Earl Grant and hand a full debut to Dave O'Grady.
The game was played on a heavy pitch and it was soon evident that both sides would find it hard going in the conditions.
Riverway started pressing early on and Jay Arnold was unfortunate not to open the scoring after four minutes when his header was saved by the home goalkeeper after excellent work from Martyn Wheeler.
The visitors piled on the pressure and on 18 minutes O'Grady struck Matt Rhodes' corner on the half volley into the roof of the net.
Four minutes later Riverway's top goalscorer Thomas Duffy got in on the action when, after a goal mouth scramble, he managed to pivot and fire home.
The hosts responded by pushing up slightly more but found Chris Hall, Ben Roberts and Simon Dawson resolute in front of Steve McCabe's goal.
On 42 minutes Riverway netted a third goal when a Rhodes corner was met by Roberts who headed home from close range.
After the break Riverway were made to wait to get their fourth after spurning several chances. On 55 minutes Riverway regained their scoring touch when birthday boy Rhodes fired home.
Riverway saw this as an opportunity to makes changes as Duffy and the excellent Charlie Marshall gave way for Alex Peatfield and Tom Lane. It was the latter though whose industry really started to open up the hosts.
The fifth goal came after 69 minutes when Grant, Arnold and Rhodes linked up in a slick move which saw Rhodes find the net again.
It was Rhodes' afternoon when Lane's silky run led to him being upended in the penalty area.
Rhodes stepped up to take the resultant spot kick and completed his treble and secured a quarter final spot for the Stafford side.
Riverway's next match is against Ettingshall, at Rowley Park, on December 22 (2pm).


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