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I am sorry you had so little time, [Under Secretary of the Navy] Jerry [Hultin], for that introduction. [Laughter]. [You are] far, far too effusive but you're very kind. I am reminded of what Lyndon Johnson once said. He was introduced with a very lovely introduction and he said, "I only wish my parents were still alive and they could have heard that." He said, "My father would have enjoyed it, my mother would not have believed it." [Laughter.] And I think I'll say the same.
I am grateful and a bit surprised that you would let the lame duck come to talk to you tonight. I would be less than honest if I didn't tell you that I've noticed a subtle shift in the last five days since I have announced I was leaving. It's amazing how quickly you die in office [laughter] and all of that rapt attention that you get when you are still the boss seems to dissipate a bit as soon as you say you're going to leave. And so I say that really more than anything just by way of a warning to myself that if I see half of you get up and leave, that's not personal. [Laughter.] It's institutional, and I recognize I am here with you on borrowed time.
And I do thank you, Jerry, for not just including me on the program and inviting me here to be a part of it, but frankly for holding this entire conference. We didn't do this until you came along, and I think it is so important to have had this. We have spent some time talking at my table this evening that -- and I will try to make this case -- that if anybody is on the front line of defending this country in ten years, it [will depend on] how well you do in the next three or four years. We won't be able to defend this country very well if you are not successful. And I think we need to talk about that.
I've met a lot with business [leaders] and I often find myself on the defensive. It's too easy, to slip into apologia, "You know, we're not really as bad as you sometimes think." Of course, we know how bad we really are when it comes to a lot of our business practices, but we tend to think of ourselves and compare ourselves in the context of what these companies do on a day-to-day basis, and we look rather pale in comparison to them.
I don't know how many of you are familiar with this latest trend in business management called Six Sigma. How many of you have heard of Six Sigma? [Members of audience raise hands.] Oh, a lot of you. Okay. As you know, it really started when Motorola bought it to build a pager that would never break down in its lifetime. And, of course, they did. It's a remarkable piece of equipment. Whose pager stopped? I mean, these are really remarkably reliable pieces of equipment. And Six Sigma refers to those numbers of items where there is a failure. So if one out of ten million or a hundred million would fail, you are Six Sigma company. It's extraordinarily high quality, exceptionally high quality.
Most American companies produce somewhere between three Sigmas and two Sigmas in terms of reliability. There are very few companies that produced better than four, and a few are at five. Probably only one or two divisions of companies in America produce at Six Sigmas.
And I use this as an analogy. We tend to be defensive about how we run the [Defense] Department. But in our primary line of work -- which is fighting and winning America's wars -- we are a six Sigma outfit. I mean, nobody is as good as we are. Nobody. Nobody even comes close. And we're going to get a lot better over the next five years. The innovation that is underway inside the Department of Defense for our primary work product, fighting wars, is breathtaking. It's spectacular. There are enormously talented people thinking creatively about the problem and we're bringing the very best minds together to produce the kind of hardware and technology to do that. It is, well, spectacular, and we should all be very proud of that.
Yet I see inside this organization that does not tolerate anything less than world-class standards when it comes to our primary business, fighting wars, living with second Sigma operations when it comes to support activities. I don't understand this, to be honest. I don't understand an organization that enshrines and embodies excellence across the board in what it does in its primary output, but then lives with second and third best in what it takes to support it.
That is why you are all here. I know from what Secretary Hultin told me, that [the organizers] went out of the way to find the superstars of the next ten years, to have them come to this conference, to tackle the problem that we have as a Department; and [to ask] why we are living with second-best when it comes to supporting our infrastructure. And I'd be honest with you, we're on borrowed time, [as far as] how long we can do that.
I hate saying it, but I think the American public is spending just about as much on defense as it wants to. And I don't think there will be major changes. I think it was a remarkable thing last year when Secretary Cohen and the Chiefs were able to convince the President that it was very good idea to increase our budget by $112 million. It was a great tragedy that we could not get an agreement with the Congress to embody that in a budget resolution last year, so we are still a little bit on borrowed time. We don't have that in the bank at all. I think we will get it over time, but I think it is likely to be the upper bound. And I will tell you right now -- you don't know this -- but adding that $112 million did not get us out of the hole. We do not have the capitalization rate it is going to take to have a first-class fighting force across the board in 2010. You all know that.
So, we have to do something about that, and we can't afford to keep spending money on support activities that are substandard in terms of what they could be, and then take dollars away from the front-end fighting forces to be able to do that. I think that's where we are right now. And that's, of course, why you are here.
There isn't a problem that we have in the Department, not a single problem that we have in the Department, that cannot be fixed by some place in the Department. There is a solution to every problem we have. I'm convinced of that. Our problem is that we can't find a way to get [those solutions] widely known and institutionalized among people, and again, that's why you are here. You are here, I believe very firmly, to share these ideas about these solutions that have been invented. I state again, we have so many clever people and talented people and dedicated people in this Department. We know how to fix these problems, but we certainly don't know how to institutionalize them well enough. And that's what you here for; it's to not only share with each other what those solutions are, but then to find ways to embed it into the institution, to change the incentives.
You know, over the years, the way you marked progress is how many people you had working for you. The goal in our world has to be how few we can have working for us to get the job done. It's not how many people we have; it's not "I don't get to be a GS-15 if I don't have 80 people or whatever the number is or magic formula that's out there to support grade structure." It's going to have to be very different. We have to enshrine this as a goal for all of us: getting by with much fewer assets and still getting the job done. And that cuts against the bureaucratic grade.
One of the hardest things about these seminars or retreats that you are hosting is to see whether you are all ready for a transformation. I mean after all, you have [reached] this position and you are recognized as being exceptional leaders because you are probably the best bureaucratic turf fighters in town. I mean, that's after all what we do, we've made an art form out of the tug of war.
There are only two sports in the world where you win by backing up [laughter], a tug of war is one of them. And we're really good at that at the Defense Department. We're always pulling against each other. The other one is, of course, competitive rowing, where everybody is facing the same direction, backwards in this case, and pulling like crazy in order to get the entire boat and to beat the competition.
And so the real question, I think, in Jerry Hultin's mind is, "Are we going to get these people who are moving backwards out of one sport and into another? Are we going to get away from tugs of war?" In other words, [is the prevailing view among leaders going to be] "I am powerful because I can make you come to my point of view," or "Are we going to be the fastest boat in the competition because we found ways to pull together?" That is what this conference is all about.
There is going to be an awful lot of ideas which we shall throw out and half of them we don't. But it would be a crying shame if you didn't put it on the table for everybody to go about with because that's how we learn. And most of these ideas have a gem in them that can be used in another application. You will do a disservice if you don't share that with others around you.
I think there are reasons to be very hopeful. I see some remarkable things going on in this Department, genuine insightful innovation. I spent a day with Admiral [Archie] Clemins [Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet] out in Hawaii. Some of the things he was doing are very exciting. He was a rare four-star to do it. You all know that, very rare, because most of those guys don't get to those positions by worrying about the support establishment. And if there is anybody who is going to make a better Navy in ten years than Arch Clemins? No. That is a signal accomplishment and that's what we're asking you all to do.
So, I guess I am looking forward to hearing what comes out of this, Jerry. I think, it is not just for the Navy and the Marine Corps. The ideas that you are going to promote are ones that we will want to take across the Department. But it has to start with you, and this is about war fighting. Let's not kid ourselves. How well we are going to do in ten years, in 15 years sits squarely on your shoulders, and what you are going to come up with today.
I've also learned in this process that this not about inventing new ideas. It is not about inventing new technology. It is really about leadership. It's about the most basic things that we value in the military -- the ability to motivate and lead men and women into a struggle and to win. That's the key. That's again why the organizing precept for this conference was to find the men and women who are already clearly the potential winners and to give them a new assignment so that you can take and be that role model that will help others see what has to happen. And all the children of Israel never crossed the Red Sea by reading theology. They crossed the Red Sea by following a leader, and that's what it's going to take for us all to make this work.
Let me close. You don't need a long speech tonight and, frankly, I didn't write one, so you heard as much as I have. But I do want to conclude, and I plan on doing this for the ten weeks or so I have left with all of you. I must confess that I am having some difficulty leaving. It's been the greatest experience of my life, to be with all of you. I know some of you much better than others. Of course, I have an opportunity to work with some of you on a daily basis or on weekly basis and so I've been lucky in that sense for some of you. But I must say for everybody, it's been a real joy.
I think there are two kinds of people in the world. I think there is one group that gets up in the morning, goes to work and looks at that pay stub every two weeks to figure out what new things they can buy, what new pleasures they can seek. And I think there's another group of people that somehow see their lives in bigger terms than that, living a bigger life that you could live by just trying to remunerate yourself. And that's what I love about this organization, about this Department. It's filled with people who see themselves in a much bigger way. You could say that the average Americans go home at night and they think about how their net worth advanced during the day.
But most of you will go home to that $80,000 house you paid $270,000 for [laughter] and try to figure out how much longer you can keep the old furnace running before you need to replace it. You'll wonder how you're going to get the money for braces for your oldest daughter. But at the end of the day when it's quiet and you think about it, you can say, "Well, at least today I defended the United States of America. I am very proud of that." I am very proud of all of you. And I am going to miss it, and miss it a lot.
I'm not dying, but it feels like that right about now. [Laughter.] But I want you to know that I leave with a great sense of pride. This is really the century for America. Everybody says that the 20th Century was the American Century. It ain't nothing compared to what it's going to be in the 21st Century. It's going to be just spectacular. But the country is going to be safe because all of you and I want to thank you for it.
Thanks very much, Jerry. [Applause.]

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Teachers on the lowest end of the scale, with a bachelor's degree and one year of experience, will receive $25,000 a year, according to the document.
Teachers on the highest end of the scale, with a bachelor's degree and 30 years of experience or more, will not receive more than $40,000 a year. A master's degree tacks on an extra $2,000 annually.
Sandusky Central Catholic School awards all its employees a one-year contract each year.
Any Sandusky Central Catholic School teacher who received more than $42,000 in the current school year will receive a pay cut, effective for their upcoming contracts.
The teachers who spoke with the Register said they wonder if the new pay structure is designed to drive out older, more experienced teachers.
Comparatively, an average teacher salary in Erie County's five public schools is $59,046, according to the Ohio Department of Education.
Tad Windau, the school's chief financial officer, as well as other school officials, allegedly gathered the teachers in the school chapel May 29 to deliver the unanticipated news of pay cuts.
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In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the opening of Cafe Gallery and the 15th anniversary of the opening Dilston Grove, CGP London has, for the very first time, commissioned a single artist to present works across its two venues. At Cafe Gallery, Mark Titchner presents a new series of wall drawings specifically conceived for the space.
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As a self-described theatre geek and culture vulture, Maia is always partaking in the arts. This will be the place to hear about what she's seen and her recommendations on what you should behold; in the theatre world and beyond.
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"Lucia di Lammermoor" hits a high note at Seattle Opera
Please indulge me with the cliché word choice for the title of this post, but Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (pronounced Lu-chi-a) really does hit a high note, literally and figuratively! I still very much consider myself an opera novice (Lucia makes my seventh) but I'm going to rank this bel canto Donizetti right under Verdi's Aida as my favorite thus far. Apparently I've got a thing for Italians. [Read More]
World Premiere Libretto "Amelia" takes flight at Seattle Opera
Amelia is the first world premiere commissioned by Seattle Opera and General Director Speight Jenkins in his 27 year tenure. He explains, "Commissioning a new work is one of the most important responsibilities any leader in our filed can undertake and I firmly believe we must renew our 400-year-old art form if it is to survive." I read Mr. Jenkins' quote in a press release before the show and it stuck with me throughout the performance. [Read More]
Seattle's Opera Buffa: "The Marriage of Figaro"
Call it what you will – a farce, comic opera (opera buffa), drollery, Seattle Opera's The Marriage of Figaro lives up to the laughs. With mistaken identities, indecent proposals and a plot with more schemes than a Southern politician, the shenanigans surrounding Figaro's nuptials were the kind I could get behind. [Read More]
Get Out: Seattle Opera's Young Artists perform Britten's "A Midsummer's Night Dream"
10 reasons you (especially students) should see Seattle Opera's Young Artists perform A Midsummer's Night Dream at Theatre at Meydenbauer Center. Fri, Apr 3, 2009 7:30 PM, Sat, Apr 4, 2009 7:30 PM, Sun, Apr 5, 2009 2:00 PM. [Read More]
Seattle Opera's "The Pearl Fishers"
In my enduring goal of becoming an opera lover, I caught Seattle Opera's The Pearl Fishers last Sunday. [Read More]
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Video:Differences Between a Copper and Zinc Pennywith Jesse Blanchard
A penny may either be made of copper or zinc and there are several ways to determine the penny's material. Watch this video so you can accurately identify a copper and zinc penny.See Transcript
Transcript:Differences Between a Copper and Zinc Penny
Hi, my name is Jesse Blanchard and I am going to show you the difference between a copper and a zinc penny.
A copper penny is made of 95% copper whereas a zinc penny is made of 97.50% zinc. Currently, a copper penny is worth 3 cents in copper bullion. There are three ways to tell the difference and I am going to go over all three.
Weigh the Penny
The most accurate way to test is to weigh them. A copper penny ways 3.11 grams and a zinc penny weighs 2.5 grams. However, if you're like me and you don't have a scale that accurate their are two other ways to tell.
Check the Date on the Penny
The first is the date. The mint changed from copper to zinc in 1982. So, all penny's made before then are copper and all after are zinc. But what do you do for those made in 1982?
Perform the Penny Drop Test
There's one other test, it's called "the drop test."You'll need two penny's a know copper penny and a known zinc penny. Just check the dates to make sure. There is a subtle difference in sound between the two. Here's the copper penny. And here's the zinc penny.
You'll have to drop them several times before you can tell the difference but eventually your ear will hear it.
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38 percent of businesses not complying with D.C. 5-cent bag fee
May 25, 2011 - 11:39 pm
It's been nearly 18 months since the District started enforcing its controversial bag tax, requiring a five-cent fee for each paper or plastic bag provided to customers.
Since the law began, a ''secret shopper'' has randomly inspected businesses to see if they're charging that fee.
And 38 percent of them are not.
Out of 208 businesses inspected across the District, the department gave 80 of them warnings for not charging the fee.
And when businesses were reinspected, 27percent were repeat offenders. Resulting in a fine of up to $100.
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Get out foul spirit !! -- Death to the Infinite Loop !!
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I've got the infinte loop blues. TV card + Vid Card = Inf. Loop
Hello All,
I'm a newbie to this forum. I just did a quick search looking for other info regarding the infinite loop problem I am having, and I came accross Rippers post, "Get out foul spirit -- Death to the Infinite Loop (and DET 40 comments)".
I'm not 100% sure if I am experiencing the same problem, so here is a quick description. My crash is precipitated by running my wintv2k application, which is the application for displaying TV on my computer from my Hauppauge Wintv PCI card.
While just running wintv2k has caused a crash, the sure-fire way to lock up the system is after launching wintv2k, to resize the TV window with any speed at all. The display would then freeze, though the audio would continue to play through. After approximately a 10 second delay, windows XP would come back and refresh into a "safe mode looking display scenario," and say it had recovered from as serious error (giving me an opportunity to save any open work and restart my computer.)
I didn't get any error reporting wizard after restarting which sort of surprised me, but when checking the event viewer system log I found the following, which I have copied and pasted:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: nv
Event Category: None
Event ID: 108
Date: 9/16/2002
Time: 2:29:01 PM
User: N/A
Computer: EL-MACHINO
The driver nv4_disp for the display device \Device\Video0 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.
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I know the error occurred with version 30.82 straight from nvidia, as well as the 30.87 off microsoft-update. The same problem also plagued the latest release from my hardware manufacturer MSI. The 30.00 driver here
which I assume are an nvidia reference driver with some additional display control panel tabs for overclocking etc. I'm not sure which other driver versions get me in trouble with this infinite loop, but remembering that 21.83 was a stable driver, I rolled back to that one, and the problems are solved. Looking at the forums here, I see 4x.xx driver versions, which I haven't tried and didn't know existed. Are these known to fix the inf. loop problems? I guess my REAL question is, does Nvidia already know about my problem, and have they addressed it, or am I dealing with hardware that is falling off the edge of what they support? Each new driver version I try has the same problem, is there a fix for this in a future release, or am I stuck using the older 21.83 because they introduced some feature that causes me grief, that they have no intentions of removing? Basically Im dealing with an issue where using my TV card (Model 61201 Rev. B226 BT878) causes my video card (MS8807 TNT2 16meg) to crash the system with the newer general release WHQL drivers. Is there really no way to report driver bugs directly to nvidia? It looks like bug submission is only through the hardware manufacturer (MSI for this card)? Ive reported the problem to them, but received no reply.
Here is my full hardware config:
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CPU Type = Pentium III 450
Motherboard = AOpen AX6BC
BIOS/Firmware = R2.57
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Sep 22, 2011 Bank of America says it'll resume foreclosures in almost two dozen states this week. The bank had halted foreclosures nationwide after discovering problems with paperwork. Marketplace's Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.
Who should sign off on the foreclosure mess?
Sep 22, 2011 The latest foreclosure mess is bringing everyone to battle. Kai Ryssdal speaks to Peter Swire, a former White House advisor on housing and foreclosures, about why he thinks someone needs to sign on the dotted line of blame.
Banks trying to move from fees to profit
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Sep 22, 2011 In light of the foreclosure paperwork fiasco, investors at private funds and mortgage-investment giants are looking to get their money back. And as Bob Moon tells Kai Ryssdal, they may just be able to, thanks to something called a "put back."
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Is the foreclosure crisis a case of systemic fraud?
Sep 22, 2011 There's no doubt that in light of the faulty paperwork by banks, the foreclosure crisis has become a huge tangled mess. Who's to blame and how much punishment is deserved? Kai Ryssdal talks to Congressman Alan Grayson about how much of it may have been deliberate systemic fraud.
Can Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac work out foreclosures without more debt?
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Crossing Boundaries
The distinguished British theatre director Declan Donnellan has staged the Bolshoi Ballet's new production of Romeo and Juliet.
by Brendan McCarthy
Declan Donnellan has a reckless gene. He has faith not so much in his own creativity as in his sense of curiosity. Creativity follows curiosity, he argues, and with good reason. He first became fascinated with theatre when he was 16. He describes an 'epiphanic moment' after seeing Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet and Peter Brook's A Midsummer Night's Dream. MacMillan's choreography had a powerful impact and he repeatedly returned to see it. "That experience gave me a sense of release – for which I am terribly grateful – and I always wanted to return to that moment and to engage with it in a more vital way." Now he has.
Along with his partner, the designer Nick Ormerod, Donnellan directs the ensemble Cheek by Jowl, celebrated for its innovative approach to the theatre classics and - in particular - to Shakespeare. It was scarcely a surprise when the Bolshoi invited him to Moscow to direct an opera; Donnellan has often worked in Russia and his work is greatly respected there. Also, the director's path from the theatre to the opera stage is a well-trodden one. What surprised the Bolshoi was Donnellan's reply – that he would rather direct a ballet. Astonishingly, it agreed. Within months Donnellan was rehearsing dancers in his own Romeo and Juliet. Russian critics applauded the Moscow premiere last December, Kommersant praising its 'penetrating intensity', with Izvestia noting that the dancers "cast away their pointe shoes and achieved real freedom." This week London audiences can judge for themselves at the Royal Opera House.
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With Nick Ormerod now also on board, the team began to unpack the Prokofiev score - often unspecific in dramatic terms - and to create the mise-en-scčne. "We went right back to the mythic heart of Shakespeare's text. Not all the stories are choreographic. But we tried to get at the heart of the story in a way different to telling it through pantomime." The image of the balcony is central to Donnellan's Romeo and Juliet. He is struck by the fact that this great emblem of romantic love is one, not of intimacy, but rather of separation. Donnellan gives the balcony human form – with the corps de ballet representing the forces that divide the lovers. Deep in the human condition, says Donnellan, is the notion that there is no love without separation, "and we don't like that."
Donnellan did have some problems at the Bolshoi, which mirrored those experienced by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer when they staged their Rite of Spring reconstruction for the Kirov Ballet. The Bolshoi dancers were cast in as many as twenty-eight ballets a month. Co-ordinating the Romeo rehearsals with the dancers' other commitments was "really quite hairy". Donnellan does not speak much Russian, but he soon learnt to recognise an ominous word - ksojelenio – 'unfortunately': invariably the prelude to a new setback. Nonetheless, rehearsals were relatively smooth, even if dancers arrived in studio wearing costumes from Don Quixote or La Sylphide. Importantly, the artistic path was clear. "The company was so up for change that I had no persuading to do. It was important I was not an expert. That was my strength. I did not know what traditions I was throwing over. It was natural to me that girls would not dance on pointe."
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Maria Alexandrova, who will dance the role of Juliet at Monday night's opening at the Royal Opera House, told Dance Europe magazine that "sometimes we even felt that we don't have enough steps, we have to express emotions, and the scene is continuing, but we don't have enough steps." Recalling WB Yeats' question, "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" Donnellan asserts that the dance exists not in the body, but also in the imagination. While Juliet may not move, "that forward energy is still inside her when she sees the terrible outcome of having to marry Paris and not be with Romeo."
I asked Donnellan if he directed his dancing Juliet rather as he would have done an actress working with Shakespeare's text. "Not really", he answered, " I spent a lot of time getting people to see things rather than to show things. That matters, because it is very important in theatre that what you see is more important than what you show." He was powerfully struck as a teenager by Lynn Seymour's portrayal of Juliet in MacMillan's ballet; and how she sits at the bed while the music surges. "That is a wonderful moment in ballet when she just does not move. Of course we could not do that because it has already been done. And we have another solution to that moment."
Donnellan believes in the Wagnerian concept of the gesamtkunstwerk, the total artwork, and in theatre as a collaborative union of different art forms. In the twentieth century this belief was embraced by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Since he died, ballet has lapsed into autism, lacking in contact with the other forms. Donnellan finds it remarkable that although he had worked in the theatre for 25 years, he had met five ballet dancers in that time. Now, he says, he understands why. "Dancers actually do work harder than anyone else I've ever met. Lawyers work hard – so do teachers and nurses and doctors. But dancers work harder – and there is something intrinsically isolating about that."
Last year, when Donnellan was rehearsing in Moscow, I asked several British choreographers if they would have been prepared to cede their leadership of the creative team for a new ballet to a theatre director. None would. "There is room for a dramaturge", one told me (and the other choreographers agreed), "but if we had fisticuffs about something, I
Donnellan would not be drawn on questions about 'the state of ballet' or whether the art was 'stuck'. But, he pointed out, many of the greatest theatre-creators have been humble enough to take things from the outside world - and this had also been true of Diaghilev and MacMillan. There was a danger for any art form that was too enclosed. "Various laws of physics show that circuits which are completely closed to outside energy die."
I wondered if Donnellan might have preferred to work with contemporary dancers, less constrained by grammar. On the contrary. It is ballet's highly specified language that attracts him, just as he is also drawn to another stylised form, French classical tragedy. "The cage is there to hold in - to give pressure to an animal instinct that wants to come out. I feel very much in ballet that you are not just watching an elegant move: that you are watching an animal moving in this way that the rule is generating something that's bigger inside. And that's fantastic."
But a stylised form repels him when it is lifeless. A singer's top C or top F may be technically faultless, but empty virtuosity is 'boring'. "An artist's virtuosity is only there in order for life to be able to pass through in an extraordinary way. That is what is great about great dancing – that you are in the presence of life; it just comes to you in a very stylised way. You do very often discover that when people can do these extraordinary things, that they often have the ability by grace to transcend them."
The Bolshoi has asked him back. This week Donnellan will discuss a possible
new work with the company's artistic director Alexei Ratmansky ("It is nice
to have another career!") He has no set ideas about what that new work might
be. First, he says, he needs research time with dancers, and that might be
more practical in London.
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Recently, developers released an application that promises to remotely unlock, start and warm your car from almost anywhere in the world.
Called Viper SmartStart, the app was launched earlier this week by Directed Electronics, a vehicle security and remote start systems designer, and can be downloaded for free from Apple's App store.
Using an existing remote car starting system from Viper, with a tap of a few buttons on your iPhone, your car can be started, warmed up and humming, just waiting for you to hit the road.
Although remote starting systems for cars usually have a limited line-of-sight range, Viper says its system has "virtually unlimited range" since your iPhone, not the original remote, communicates over cell networks with your car.
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Once the Viper SmartStart hardware is professionally installed in the car, the iPhone can also be used to defrost windows, cool down the vehicle in warmer weather, unlock the trunk or activate a panic alarm.
But though the app is free, the hardware that will actually make it work with your car is quite pricey.
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Sleaze ball or sweetheart? A new iPhone app claims it can help singles tell the difference.
Launched in September by information commerce firm Intelius, Date Check lets users perform instant background checks on potential dates from their mobile phones.
Once it's downloaded on an iPhone, the application only needs a name or cell phone number to search publicly available records.
If you activate the app's Sleaze Detector, it scans criminal records to determine if anyone with that name has been charged with drug possession, assault and battery, sex crimes, DUI and other offenses.
If you click Net Worth, it looks for information about home ownership and property value.
It can also check social networking sites, such as LinkedIn to provide employment and education information.
"Date Check is like having a private investigator in your purse," John Arnold, co-founder of Intelius and executive vice president of business development, said in a statement. "Letting a stranger into your life is a huge risk, and in the age of Internet anonymity, a simple online search isn't enough to tell you everything you need to know. "
This application, the company said, "gives singles a safer way to mingle."


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1. Overview & summary: survey of the major issues of abuse as well providing a concise summary of practical concerns. It includes an Introduction, Practical Guide, Protocols of Orthodox Organizations for dealing with abuse and a Synopsis of the halachic and psychological issues that was reviewed and annotated by Rav Sternbuch. It also has chapters describing a number of actual abuse cases – including those written by survivors of abuse.
2. The Essays provide in depth analysis of a variety topics by experts (rabbis, psychotherapists and lawyers) who share their knowledge and experience on critical issues.
Among those essays is one I wrote on "Watering our Weeds – Changing the System" (very much expanded from the blog entry by that title). My focus is on the question of why the Torah-observant community is not so much holier and more ethical than communities that do not follow the Truth that any differences in the magnitude of such problems (abuse, fiscal malfeance, etc..) aren't self-evident. My emphasis is on how we as a community can change that. But I also wrote it with an eye to someone who is reading the book because they are themselves an abuse victim, and they may need help separating the authority figure — father, rebbe, synagogue rabbi, principal, etc… — from causing disenchantment with the religion they are supposed to represent.
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4. Rabbinic Sources section is comprised of more complete citations of the material cited in the book. They are arranged by name rather than by topic. They are presented here for convenience of those who remember the author of the citation but not the section where the citation is quoted. It is also valuable because often only a part of the material was mentioned in the book.
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Carol McGruder: Big Tobacco is the Mack Daddy of all corporate pimps and while many people might wince at the politically incorrect analogy, it certainly does get your attention. It is the one industry, that no matter how often it is sued, taxed, regulated, or maligned, always manages to come out on top, selling its deadly products at all cost and raking in billions in profits.
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Tina Dupuy: 40% of Americans actually make New Year's resolutions. Sure, I did it once – five years ago this week I reluctantly quit smoking. How did I quit? Arctic turkey. I simply didn't smoke. People who have never smoked think this is the moment of triumph. I went from heavy smoking to heavy sobbing.
Please Investigate War Crimes Now: Please
The Obama Administration is beginning to remind me of a woman I dated some years ago who developed a drinking problem. Not only did she refuse to admit having trouble, discussing her addiction was taboo, off-the-table, "it's not up for discussion" and, once, even pleading with me, "Let's just think about the future." But her […]
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Gary Coseri: I hacked the computer of Barack Obama. "Mr. President," I wrote, "this can't be happening. This can't be right. Didn't you say something about 'hope' and 'change'; no more politics as usual? Wasn't that you?" He wrote back that he was always glad to hear from "the People." And that the FBI would soon be knocking on my door. Which is what happened. And it was true: They wear bad shoes!


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Gynecologic Cancer Foundation http://www.wcn.org/
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Why You Use So Much Air
...and What to Do About It
By Lynn Laymon
When I top off my car's gas tank it seems like an eternity before the fuel gauge moves off the full mark. Three-quarters of a tank later, however, when the needle reaches one-quarter of a tank it's as if the next time I look it's sitting on empty. Does that happen to you?
Some divers, especially inexperienced, infrequent ones, experience that same increased-consumption sensation when their air supply begins to run low. Once they dip into the triple digits below 1,000 psi tank pressure seems to decrease more rapidly.
The fuel tank that appears to go from one-quarter to empty in just a few miles is a function of gauge calibration. Dissimilarly, however, when a diver's air supply seems to be disappearing faster the closer he gets to running out, there is a good reason why.
Understanding Air Consumption
Air consumption is an interesting phenomenon. The more a diver huffs and puffs, the quicker his air supply is depleted. Air supply is expressed in pounds per square inch (psi), or bar (unit of pressure), but when you get right down to it, divers are more interested in how many breaths are in the tank or how long it is going to last. Of course breaths per tank is not a constant measurement, because divers do not breathe at the same rate.
The amount of air a diver uses begins with the diver's physique. Generally speaking, the larger the diver, the more air he or she consumes. Smaller divers tend to use less air. This is not always the case, but the majority of the time it holds true.
If two divers sit on shore breathing from same-size, equally filled scuba cylinders, after a few minutes both will have reduced the psi remaining in their tanks, but one will have used more air than the other. Air consumption is an individual matter; even out of the water, each diver uses his air supply at a different rate.
Having established that fact, let's go diving. The deeper in the water column a diver descends, the more air he will use. This is because as a diver descends the ambient pressure the pressure that surrounds him increases. As all divers learn during their initial scuba certification, at 33 feet (10 m) the ambient pressure is double what it is at the surface; at 66 feet (18 m) it's three times greater than at the surface.
Consequently, at a depth of 33 feet (10 m) divers consume twice as much air as they do on the surface. At 66 feet (18 m) they consume three times as much as when sitting on shore breathing from the regulator. So, our air consumption is affected by depth the deeper we dive, the more air we will consume.
The third factor that affects a diver's rate of air consumption is physical exertion. The harder a diver works while underwater, the more air he will use. I use the word work in the context of the physical demand that is placed on the diver's body. The greater the demand, the more air the diver will require to sustain normal body functions.
Physical demand is created in a number of ways. Similar to walking rapidly versus moseying, swimming fast as compared with leisurely taking one's time exploring the reef places more demand on a diver's body and thus requires more air.
Swimming against a current is comparable to running uphill. Struggling to free a stuck anchor is like changing a tire on a car. Improper body alignment not being streamlined increases drag and resistance in the water. All of these activities place greater physical demand on your body and thus require more air, whether you are on land or at depth.
Physical demand affects each of us differently. An Olympic athlete may not find any of the above tasks physically demanding, but on the opposite end of the spectrum a person in poor physical condition may find that even the slightest task raises his breathing rate.
A diver's physical conditioning is important, but even the best-conditioned athlete must face the psychological side of diving. This, too, can have a profound effect on the amount of air a diver consumes.
Think about the last time you were nervous over something. Nervousness triggers a host of physiological responses, including an increase in pulse and respiration rates. Divers who are apprehensive and nervous use more air than someone who is confident and relaxed.
The last major factor that influences a diver's air consumption is what I call "the fidgets." A diver with the fidgets is constantly exercising his buoyancy compensator's (BC) inflate/deflate mechanism. Add air, let it out. Add air, let it out. Establish neutral buoyancy, become slightly negative, become too positive, etc. The more a diver fidgets with his buoyancy control, the more air he is going to waste and therefore, the more air he uses. Constantly clearing a mask also uses additional air.
The key things to remember about air consumption: 1. Everyone does not consume air at the same rate while using scuba; 2. The deeper you go, the more air you use; 3. The greater the physical demand on your body while diving, the more air you'll use; 4. Physically fit divers tend to use less air than those who are out of shape; 5. If you are apprehensive about using your air quickly, you probably will; 6. Fidgeting away air wasting it contributes to poor air consumption.
Taking Control
Many divers don't worry about air consumption. When they begin to run low on air they simply surface and end the dive. But wouldn't it be fun to stay down longer to surface because you are nearing the no-decompression limit instead of because you are running low on air? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to stay with the guided group for the entire dive, and not be the one who cuts the dive short because he has depleted his air supply? The vast majority of divers would prefer to stay down longer, if at all possible.
Well, it is possible. Taking control of air consumption should be a priority for every diver as soon as possible after becoming certified.
The first step in taking control of your air consumption is determining your surface consumption rate (SCR). SCR is how much air you breathe while resting on the surface.
There are two ways to determine SCR. As described earlier, you can sit on shore or on board a boat and breathe from the regulator for a few minutes. Note the exact tank pressure and time when you begin this exercise and note the same when you finish. If the tank pressure decreased by 200 psi in 10 minutes of breathing, your SCR is 20 psi per minute: 200 psi divided by 10 minutes = 20. You have room for improvement.
The other and more common way to determine SCR is to go diving. Descend to 33 feet (10 m) and note the beginning tank pressure and time on a dive slate. Dive normally at a consistent depth of 33 feet for 10 minutes. At the end of the timed period note the ending tank pressure and the duration of the exercise (10 minutes) on the slate.
Back on the surface following the dive, subtract the ending pressure noted from the beginning pressure to determine air used during the period. Now, divide the air used by the number of minutes of the test. The quotient is how much air you used per minute at a depth of 33 feet, not your SCR. To determine SCR, divide by two the consumption rate at 33 feet. The answer is your SCR.
If you use 500 psi in the 10-minute test, your SCR is 25 psi per minute (500 psi ÷ 10 minutes = 50 psi per minute at 33 feet ÷ 2 = 25 psi SCR).
Calculating SCR by sitting on the surface breathing from the scuba unit gives you a resting consumption rate. Monitoring your consumption at depth and then mathematically calculating what it would be at the surface gives a more realistic reading because it reflects the additional air used when actually involved in diving activities.
There is nothing magical about monitoring usage for 10 minutes. Any period of time will work, but 10 minutes or longer provides a more accurate representation, and using 10 minutes facilitates the math.
There also is nothing special about 33 feet other than 33 feet represents the depth of two atmospheres, where pressure is twice what it is on the surface. Performing the consumption rate monitoring at exact atmosphere depths 33, 66, 99 feet (10, 20, 30 m) also facilitates the math; it is easier to divide by a round number than to calculate decimals.
Regardless of the depth you choose for your air consumption test, it is important to maintain that depth throughout the timed monitoring period and swim at a leisurely pace.
You Know Your SCR, So What?
Few experienced divers worry about air consumption as long as they are diving a familiar environment and using their normal equipment. They have completed the learning curve and have fine-tuned their consumption rates in every way possible.
But to new, inexperienced and infrequent divers air consumption should be a concern. That is where your SCR comes in handy. Simply knowing your SCR, however, is of little use unless you apply it to a real-life diving situation.
When I led dives in Molokini Crater in Hawaii, during the dive briefing we would explain that the guide and group would follow a carefully planned route that took them from the anchor line, across a sand channel, past a few coral heads to a ledge where a family of eels normally hung out. Then we would proceed to another slightly deeper ledge where four out of five dives we would encounter several white tip sharks. At the shark ledge we would turn around and make our way back to the boat.
We also explained that when the first diver reached 1,000 psi remaining in his tank, the entire group would reverse course and head back toward the boat, even if we had not yet reached the eels or sharks. Following that statement we could immediately tell from their expressions which divers normally used a lot of air. The thought of being the one who would cause the entire group to return to the boat before reaching the eels and sharks cast concern across a few faces.
This is a situation in which knowing SCR comes in handy. The maximum depth of the Molokini dive was 60 feet (18 m) and the planned bottom time 45 minutes. One of those concerned divers could have quickly done the math and determined that, "Yes, I can do that profile and still have 500 psi remaining upon surfacing" or "Whoa! I will be low on air 20 minutes into the dive."
Here is how. If a diver knows his SCR he can estimate his consumption rate at depth. The maximum depth on this dive is 60 feet (18 m); that is just short of three atmospheres. At that depth a diver consumes three times more air than at the surface. Assuming a SCR of 30 psi, he multiplies his SCR by three and estimates that his consumption rate at depth will be about 90 psi per minute. So, how long can he stay down?
Assuming the tank he is using is the same size as used when he calculated his SCR, estimated bottom time is determined by dividing the tank pressure, 3,000 psi in this example, by his estimated consumption rate at depth of 90 psi per minute (3,000 ÷ 90 = 33). A rough approximation is that this diver will not be able to stay down beyond 33 minutes.
But wait. He doesn't want to breathe the tank dry, does he? Since he has been instructed to surface with at least 500 psi remaining in his tank, that margin of safety should be deducted from the available air supply, before calculating how long his tank will last at 60 feet (18 m). The calculation looks like this: 3,000 psi 500 psi (safety margin) ÷ 90 = 27 minutes. This is how long he should be able to stay at 60 feet before reaching the 500-psi benchmark.
Using tank pressure (psi) to estimate how long the air supply will last is only valid if the tank being used is the same size (cubic feet) as the one used when calculating DCR and SCR. If it is a different size, estimated air time must be calculated using cubic feet per minute (CFM) (see sidebar).
We have determined that this diver will not be able to dive with the group. Or, based on the parameters presented in the briefing, he will cause everyone to reverse course and return to the boat when he reaches 1,000 psi, about 22 minutes into the dive. It must be noted, however, that this diver's estimated consumption rate is based on a constant depth of 60 feet; he will not be at 60 feet for the entire dive. The first few minutes will be spent descending, the last few ascending; he won't be breathing 90 psi per minute during those times. Even considering that, this diver faces an air consumption situation. Is there anything he can do to extend the life of his air supply?
With the concurrence of the dive guide, possibly this diver and his buddy could stay with the group but remain at a shallower depth. Once the group reaches the eels and sharks the shallower buddy team could drop down to 60 feet for a short period and then return to a shallower depth for the swim back to the boat.
If you find yourself in a situation where your estimated air consumption rate at the planned depth hints that your air supply will not last through the profile, be upfront about it. Discuss it with the divemaster. There may an alternative that will keep you both safer or at least he can keep a close eye on you during the dive.
The first time you calculate your SCR shouldn't be the last. Periodically calculate your SCR because as you gain experience and your comfort in the water increases, your air consumption will improve naturally. There are, however, a number of things you can do to accelerate the process.
Improving Air Consumption
I have not known a new diver whose air consumption did not improve with experience, either as he became more comfortable at depth or through overt changes in his diving technique. There are a number of ways to improve air consumption, many of them interrelated. Let's examine them.
The one sure thing that any diver can do to improve air consumption is reduce drag. Drag is the resistance encountered as you move through the water. The greater a diver's drag, the more effort he'll expend. Increased effort means increased air demand. And there goes your air consumption.
A streamlined diver has minimized drag. Begin by securing all accessory gear close to your body. Fasten up your gauge console and octopus. Place your slate inside a BC pocket. The goal is to make your underwater profile like that of a dolphin sleek and smooth.
Once your equipment is streamlined, focus on your swimming technique. Streamlined divers take the form of a torpedo. Their head, torso, legs and fins are on the same horizontal plane, here again, sleek and smooth. Their arms are at their sides or folded across the torso.
Energy-efficient divers cut through the water slowly. They employ an efficient kick and breathe long, slow and relaxed breaths. Every movement is deliberate and designed to generate propulsion using the least effort. They adhere to the planned profile and go no deeper than is necessary to accomplish their objective.
Energy-efficient divers do not fidget with their inflation/deflation mechanism. Once neutrally buoyant at the planned diving depth, they often use variations in lung volume to keep their depth constant. If they must rise a few feet to pass over an obstruction they simply breathe a little deeper. They then breathe shallower to return to the original depth. Fidgeting with the inflate/deflate mechanism is not something normally done by divers who have better than average air consumption.
Reducing the amount of weight you wear is another first step to reducing air consumption. A properly weighted diver has a horizontally oriented position in the water column, not a diagonal one in which the head and upper torso are higher than the legs. Overweighted divers plow through the water diagonally as compared with gliding horizontally. It takes much less effort to glide. To achieve neutral buoyancy, overweighted divers must add extra air to their BC. This buoys up their upper body and makes plowing that much more physically demanding. Weight yourself properly and your air consumption will definitely improve.
Using the proper equipment for the environment is another way to avoid quickly sucking down your air supply. Wear the proper thermal protection. Cold divers use more air because their bodies have to work harder to maintain core temperature. Stay warm and your air will last longer.
One air conservation technique that is easier to talk about than to achieve is relaxation. The more comfortable you are underwater, the less air you use.
Slowing down, breathing slowly and making every movement count will help you relax. Once you reach the bottom, stop, close your eyes and spend a moment or two breathing evenly.
Knowing that air consumption increases when demands are placed on your body, being in good physical condition raises the bar on what qualifies as a demand. Divers who are physically fit react to demand better than those who are not. If you are in good physical condition, you are going to have better air consumption.
Even experienced divers can benefit from these techniques to monitor and improve air consumption, so don't be embarrassed if you run low on air before your buddy. Start experimenting with these consumption-lowering techniques on your next dive. You'll be glad you did.
The first time you calculate your SCR shouldn't be the last.
Periodically calculate your SCR because as you gain experience and your comfort in the water increases, your air consumption will improve naturally.
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