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LEXINGTON, OHIO (JUNE 19, 2009) – Qualifying for Saturday's EMCO Gears Classic presented by Key Bank, Round 6 of the 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series presented by Crown Royal Cask No. 16, nearly came down to a dead heat before Jon Fogarty put down a tie-breaking lap of 1:18.059 (104.136 mph) Friday at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Fogarty and Alex Gurney will be seeking a record third consecutive victory at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, in Lexington, Ohio, in the No. 99 GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing Pontiac Riley in. The two-hour, 45-minute race takes the green flag at 5 p.m. ET Saturday (SPEED, live).
In GT qualifying, Eric Lux was awarded the pole position with a lap of 1:25.892 (94.640 mph) in the No. 86 Farnbacher Loles Racing Porsche GT3. Teammate Leh Keen led qualifying with a lap of 1:25.257 (95.344 mph) in the team's No. 87 car, but the time was disallowed in post-qualifying inspection.
With time winding down in the 15-minute Daytona Prototype session, Fogarty and Memo Rojas were tied with identical laps of 1:18.439 (103.632 mph). Fogarty broke the logjam on his penultimate lap to earn his ninth career pole, but first since 2007 in Infineon Raceway.
"It was pretty crazy, turning identical times, but I think Memo did his fast lap first so the pole would have gone to him had the tie been maintained," Fogarty said. "I pushed a little bit harder. The car seemed to be getting better as the run went along, so it came kind of naturally. I didn't have to take a whole lot of risk for the time to come down. It's interesting, because usually that isn't the case. Quick times are generally turned in earlier in the session."
Gurney and Fogarty currently lead the Daytona Prototype competition with two victories this season in the No. 99 GAINSCO Pontiac Riley. Rojas and co-driver Scott Pruett won their first race of the season in the No. 01 TELMEX Lexus Riley in the most recent race at Watkins Glen International to gain a share of the Daytona Prototype point lead with Brian Frisselle and Max Angelelli, co-drivers of the No. 10 SunTrust Ford Dallara, with 140 points.
Rounding out the top 10 qualifiers were Mark Wilkins, Brian Frisselle, Nic Jonsson, Romain Dumas, Guy Cosmo, John Pew, Mark Patterson and Darren Law.
Eric Lux Captures Second GT Pole After Teammate Disallowed
Lux was awarded his second career Acxiom GT pole when teammate Keen's record-eclipsing lap was disallowed due to a height infraction. The two drivers teamed to win last year's GT race at the 2.258-mile circuit, but are driving different cars this season. Lux will share the team's No. 86 Porsche GT3 with Dominik Farnbacher, while Keen currently shares the GT point lead with Dirk Werner after the pair won two races this season in the team's No. 87.
"It was really difficult trying to get the car ready for qualifying today, with rain in our first session today," Lux said. "We were still struggling with the car at the end of practice, so the team and (chief engineer) Lars Giersing did a great job guessing on the setup, and it worked. I cooked the tires before the black flag midway through the session, and was worried we wouldn't be able to go faster after it went back to green. So I gave it everything I had to try to be on the front row, and I guess it was just enough."
Rounding out the top 10 were Tom Sutherland, Andrew Davis, Kelly Collins, Justin Marks, Nick Ham, Emil Assentato, John Potter, Duncan Ende and Patrick Dempsey.
Rolex Series competitors will have a final 30-minute practice session beginning at 9:40 a.m. Saturday. Activities also include a Grand-Am KONI Sports Car Series Grand Sport race at 1:45 p.m. The weekend also includes a KONI Challenge Street Tuner race at 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
The Ford Racing Mustang Challenge was also on track Friday with Andrew Caddell securing the top spot in qualifying after posting a lap average of 84.947 mph. Caddell's time was a new Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course track record. Ted Anthony, Jr. will flank Caddell on the grid, turning in a lap of 84.353 mph.
The clean-diesel burning machines of the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup will hit the track for their qualifying session Sunday at 8:30 a.m.
A comprehensive motorsports facility, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course features a permanent road-racing circuit with two primary configurations: a 2.4-mile, 15-turn, and a 2.25-mile, 13-turn circuit. The park-like, 330-acre complex in Lexington, Ohio also features an amateur motocross venue. Located 60 miles north of Columbus and 75 miles south of Cleveland near Mansfield, the track has been called the most competitive in the U.S. and annually hosts a diversity of locally, regionally and nationally sanctioned racing events for amateur, club and professional drivers and riders. Tickets are available online at www.midohio.com, by phone 1-800-MID-OHIO or at the gate.


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Kevin Harper made a decision a few years ago that has taken him a long way, and it will soon propel him even further. The 16-year-old boxer will be part of a 32-man field that competes for the 114-pound National Golden Gloves title April 25-30 in Indianapolis, Ind. Harper, who lives north of Bluffton, attends high school in New York Mills and competes with the Wadena Boxing Club, took top honors in the Upper Midwest Regional last Sunday in Walker by decisioning 21-year-old South Dakota fighter Mark Pogorelski.
Region IV's Kevin Harper defeated Mark Pogorelski of Region II at Northern Lights Casino in Walker last Sunday to claim his first berth in the Golden Gloves National Tournament. The 114-pound Wadena fighter is now qualified for a trip to Indianapolis, Ind. April 25-30. "He was hungry," Wadena Boxing Club coach Bob Tubandt said.
Whitetail Run Golf Course opened Monday for the 2011 golfing season. The 18-hole, 5,266-yard layout, located five miles north of Wadena on U.S. Highway 71, is a par-72 course. Manager Kevin Ross called the timing of the 2011 opener a typical one for the Wadena County course. Last year's March 18 opening was one of the earliest in the club's history. "Our greens came through the winter pretty good," Ross said. The course operates seven days a week from 8 a.m. until dark. Carts are in use but winter rules are in effect as conditions on the ground are still damp.
Wadena-Deer Creek veteran Bryan Silvers fired an 81 Wednesday to grab a piece of fifth place in the Detroit Lakes Invitational at Wildflower. Silvers tied Duluth Central's Brandon Adamski and Grand Rapids' Matt McClure. Silvers was helped in earning a 10th place finish for the Wolverines by teammates Michael Wing (97), Tyler Fix (86), Duke Harrison (101) and Nick LeTourneau (96). Duluth Central took top honors with a 325 while the Detroit Lakes Red grabbed second with a 329 and Staples-Motley took third with a 331.
The Verndale Pirates earned their first fastpitch victory of the season Tuesday in splitting a Park Region Conference twinbill with Parkers Prairie. Teresa Moenkedick and Jackie Swenson each collected two hits and Kristen Korfe scored twice as the Pirates evened their season record in Game 1 by topping Parkers Prairie 5-2. Kristen Korfe doubled and scored twice for the Pirates. Jenny Swenson went all the way for the Pirates for her first pitching win.
Logan Meyer, Rachel Craig and Keiann Steward led the way for Wadena-Deer Creek's track and field squads Tuesday in the Browne Invitational. Meyer racked up his third straight shot put title with a throw of 47-9 and added a first in the discus with a toss of 120-9. Craig put the shot 33-11 for top honors and followed that up with a second place toss of 99-4 in the discus and a third place time of 18.19 in the 100 hurdles. Steward ran a 14.7 in the 100 dash and picked up a third place finish in the 200 with a time of 28.91. Shaye Blessing had a strong meet with a runner-up finish of 6-6 in t
Amanda Perkins went 3-for-4 with three RBIs as Wadena-Deer Creek trounced Breckenridge 19-1 Tuesday in their season softball opener. Katelyn Peters and Melissa Moenkedick combined for four hits, four runs and three RBIs. Perkins chalked up the pitching win in the five-inning game. She surrendered four hits and three walks while fanning three. "Perkins kept the ball around the strike zone and the defense allowed only one error on the day," WDC head coach Craig Klawitter said. Breckenridge 000 10 -- 1 4 4 WDC 383 5x -- 19 11 1 WP-Amanda Perkins; LP- Alyssa Cliff
You might think Deon Roth was handling plutonium with the precautions he takes in running his operation. It is not radioactivity that Roth concerned, it is viruses in his hog barns. Modern livestock production relies on volume, and volume is increased with a good, safe environment. Roth's Pigs-R-Us hog operation near Wadena is geared to producing breeder-feeder-gilts. His two hog barns are built to house 5,000 hogs at one time. In a normal year, 30,000 hogs are shipped to commercial pork producers.
What is going on out there? "It's changing all of the time," Leaf River Ag Service manager Scott Dau said of the agricultural scene in Wadena County. The days when a family could live on a quarter section of land by having a dairy to go along with it had plenty of charm -- and a fair amount of hard work. These farm families may not have piled up big bank accounts but they became part of the land and they shared the good times and the bad.
Whitetail Run Golf Course opened Monday for the 2011 golfing season. The 18-hole, 5,266-yard public course, located five miles north of Wadena on U.S. Highway 71, is a par-72 layout. Club pro Kevin Ross called the date of the 2011 opener a typical one for the Wadena County course. Last year's March 18 opening was one of the earliest in the club's history. "Our greens came through the winter pretty good," Ross said. The course operates seven days a week from 8 a.m. until dark. Carts are in use but winter rules are in effect as conditions on the ground are still damp.

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• AT SCHOOL: Student government, National Honor Society, tennis, Rotary International youth ambassador.
• OFF CAMPUS: Hula olapa dancer, theater, AYSO assistant soccer coach.
• BEYOND HIGH SCHOOL: Plans to study theater arts at Chapman University in California; after that, she hopes to get a regular spot in a theater department.
• WHO IS YOUR PERSONAL HERO AND WHY? "My sister, hands down. Typical, I know, but she has accomplished so much and she's so organized and handles situations like nothing. And she's only 21. My sister has been the pioneer of a lot of my own life decisions. Because of her, I have taken up hula, theater (now my biggest passion) and even foreign exchange. All decisions have had such an impact on my life and character, definitely for the better. She's always there if I need to talk or wrestle; she knows just what to say and what move to make. All in all, she knows me the best and has an organized grip on life. Oh, and, duh, she's gorgeous!!!"
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European media outlets are reporting that more than 100 angry air passengers staged a sit-in on board a Ryanair plane that was supposed to take them to France Tuesday night but instead landed in Belgium.
The U.K.'s Daily Mail reports that the passengers, mostly French tourists who had been vacationing in Morocco, demanded to be taken to an airport near Paris:
Reda Yahiyaoui — travelling with his wife, 3-year-old daughter and two-month old baby — said: 'We were all tired after a long journey and angry at being dumped 200 miles away in Belgium.
'But they just parked the plane then turned off the lights and locked the toilets and left us with no food or water.
The French news service AFP reports that bad weather had delayed the plane's departure from Morocco for over three hours and by the time the plane could land, the airport in Beauvais, France, was closed, so the plane was diverted to Belgium:
After several hours of negotiations with furious passengers, officials convinced them to leave the plane and wait inside the airport for buses that would take them to their original destination, a firefighter told AFP.
"The negotiation was so difficult that we weren't sure they would come out . . . People are obviously outraged. I'm just trying to look out for their well-being," he said.


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Are there any Vietnam War-era POWs still alive in Laos? – A trip to Sam Neua and Vieng Xai Caves.
Above Photo: Satellite photo of a 'Walking K' sign in a rice field in northern Laos by a US Satellite in 1988. (US Govt. Photo)
I am writing this in a tiny town in Northern Laos called Sam Neua, where I have come to do some research on the Vietnam War for a novel I'm writing about a Special Forces mission to the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Southern Laos, interwoven with a modern-day backpacker jungle story, which I feel eminently qualified to write, given the experiences I usually have on these trips.
As part of my book research I have been reading with great interest the online debates about whether there were any American prisoners of war left behind in Laos after the US pulled out in 1973, and if so, whether any of them are still alive today.
It remains a fact that no POW taken by the Pathet Lao was ever released by the Laotian government. A couple escaped from captivity, some, who had been sent to North Vietnam, were released in Operation Homecoming in 1973, but what happened to the rest, and how many were there?
That is what much of the online fighting is about.
Were any left behind alive?
Signs and signals such as the one at the top of this article (which I discuss below), have been spotted over the years in Laos, communications have been intercepted, and while there are many claims, sightings and rumours of men who were left behind and living in captivity in the Laotian jungle after the war, the official US position, for example the findings of the Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs, seems to be that there has been no concrete evidence produced to back up these claims. To which, opponents inevitably cry, "Cover Up!"
Whilst there may be no irrefutable, concrete proof, to my mind there is plenty of circumstantial evidence indicating that some people were left behind, and that they were alive into the late 1980s, but when you start trying to sift through the evidence and begin reading the claims and counter-claims, you usually end up bamboozled on swivel-eyed conspiracy theory websites, not really sure who or what to believe.
As of 19 September 2012, the Defense Prisoner of War – Missing Personnel Office of the Department of Defense gave a figure of 314 Americans still 'unaccounted for' in Laos.
I'm going to go with that figure. It is made up of 108 Army, Navy and Marine Corps personnel, and 200 members of the Air Force, reflecting the extensive use of air power over Laos in the war.
Just because there are 314 'unaccounted for' servicemen in Laos doesn't mean they were alive after becoming unaccounted for, or that they were ever alive in the hands of Laotian forces, either before or after the war ended.
Some will have fallen into North Vietnamese hands, as they controlled much of Laos. Others will have died in plane crashes, firefights, ambushes, or while evading in the jungle, but their bodies have not yet been recovered. Yet more will have been quickly killed by their captors, a common fate for some Special Forces' units.
I think some people mistakenly assume this 'unaccounted for' total is the number of servicemen somehow left behind alive in Laos.
Personally I believe some men were left behind, partly from my own hearsay conversations with people in Laos, and for me at least, simply on the balance of probabilities.
I cannot believe every living POW was handed over by the badly organized Pathet Lao to the North Vietnamese in 1973. The US were in a rush to disentangle from Vietnam, it was trying to deal with the North Vietnamese, and through them, the Pathet Lao, who themselves can't possibly have known what was going on in every corner of the far-flung jungle, and where every POW was at that time. They hadn't even taken control of the whole country themselves by then.
In such circumstances it cannot be unreasonable to believe that some men were left behind in Laos at the end of the war.
How many were left behind?
Who knows, but probably not the hundreds I sometimes see quoted, which may simply be the result of a mistaken reading of the 'unaccounted for' figures I mention above. The real figure is anybody's guess.
Even one man left behind is a terrible statistic, considering the fate of anyone abandoned in Laos after the war, and I'm pretty sure there were a lot more than one left behind in that jungle.
Some commentators such as Joe Schlatter, a retired US Army colonel, in this entertaining, robustly-written, highly abrasive but well-researched and well-argued site, http://www.miafacts.org/ have comprehensively rubbished the view that ANY servicemen were 'left behind' alive in Laos or anywhere else for that matter.
His is the best site to go to for debunking some of the more bizarre conspiracy theories about POWs in Laos, although he admits himself he writes in a controversial style, which some may not appreciate, and which may sometimes prevent his message getting across to a wider audience.
Other sites exist where all kinds of claims are made and documents produced by people who genuinely and sincerely believe that many men – perhaps hundreds – were indeed abandoned by the US in Laos, and that official cover-ups have gone on ever since.
I provide links to three of these sites below, two of which coincidentally contain claims about two of the POWs I feature later in this article, when I talk about my Vieng Xai Caves visit.
I don't endorse these sites; I just offer them as examples of sites where strong claims are made by committed people that POWs were left behind in Laos after the war, and that many sightings occurred, especially in the 1970s and 1980s, and that some may still be alive today.
These sites are:
Are they still alive?
As convinced as I am that some men were left behind in Laos after the Vietnam War ended, regrettably I believe there are now absolutely NO POWs remaining alive in Laos, or none that the Laotian government knows of, which is a very important qualification, as I witnessed something here on my present trip which strongly supports this view, and which I will write about once I have done more investigating and research into it.
It is true to say that the US still regularly receives reports of sightings of foreigners, alleged to be POWs, in the jungles and prisons of Laos and throughout south-east Asia. Upon investigation they often turn out to be real people, only not real POWs. They are found to be convicts, missionaries, aid workers or recluses living in the jungle.
Unfortunately there have been no recently reported credible sightings of alleged POWs still alive in Laos; you have to go back to the 1980s or early 1990s for the 'latest' ones I am aware of, and, as I say, I am now convinced none remain alive, or none the Laotian government knows about, at any rate.
Sam Neua and the Walking K Sign
Where I am now, in Sam Neau, Laos, is where some of the last credible evidence of POWs still alive long after the war was seen, and having journeyed here, I can see how that might have been possible, because Sam Neua is a remote, mountainous, inaccessible province, much of it covered in dense jungle.
To get here took a nine hour bus ride across mountains from the nearest main town, Phonsavan.
It was in Sam Neua that the above photograph was taken by a US spy satellite in 1988, fifteen years after the US had ended its involvement in the war. Etched into a rice paddy, this enormous sign contained the words 'USA' as well as a highly classified code, a 'Walking K' which would have only been known to US servicemen. It was built to be seen from the air, the 'USA' figures measuring 37.5 feet wide and 12.5 feet long.
It was only identified a year after the photograph was taken, and in the Report of the Senate Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs, issued in 1993, it was suggested it might have been the result of a child fooling around in a rice paddy and copying lettering he had seen on a stamp sent from his relatives in the USA, which is what a farmer and his son allegedly said when a team allegedly visited the site in 1992 and allegedly talked to locals.
One thing I can say with some certainty following my visit here is that farming kids in this dirt-poor province wouldn't be able to write English that well, and they certainly wouldn't be messing around in a rice paddy; they'd be working in it and getting their arses kicked by their parents if they tried to execute such pointless artistry when they should be doing something more economically productive to keep the family alive.
Such foolish desecration of a rice paddy by a child, as suggested in the Report as an explanation for this sign, is ludicrous and absolutely impossible for me to believe, having been here.
I have no doubt at all, that sign was a genuine cry for help from a POW who was alive long after the war and who was incarcerated in remote Sam Neua Province.
Can I prove it? No. But I have no doubt about it at all.
POWs in Vieng Xai Caves
On this trip I wanted to get a feel for both Sam Neua and also the Pathet Lao cave complex at Vieng Xai, in Houaphan Province, where downed US pilots were actually held during the war.
The impressive cave complex in Vieng Xai lies about 30km away from Sam Neua. Set in karst mountains, at the head of a beautiful rice-growing valley, the caves housed the headquarters of the Pathet Lao forces in the war, as well as the Pathet Lao government.
There are hundreds of caves in the mountains, but only a few have been opened for tourism, including a barracks cave, a vast complex which could house 2,000 troops. The caves were bombed by US planes every day for nine years.
Vieng Xai interested me after reading well-documented reports of POWs being held in the caves during the war.
The commentary said Pathet Lao forces had captured an "English-speaking bomber pilot" who told them his mission was to look for ducks and chickens and to bomb wherever he saw them. As a result of this, the Pathet Lao ordered all ducks, and white and red chickens to be killed around Vieng Xai, believing they could be seen from high above and bring down bombs on them (the fact the caves were well-known and bombed every day in any event seems to have escaped them).
The commentary continued: "He answered our questions truthfully," so, given no POWs were ever returned from Laos, you have to wonder what they did to him and what happened to him.
And, of course, who this anonymous pilot was.
Well-Known POWs in Vieng Xai's Caves
It is well-documented that some downed US fliers were held in the Vieng Xai caves. Captain (as he then was) Charles Ervin Shelton for one, about whom you can read more details here (http://taskforceomegainc.org/s134.html) and (as he then was) Captain David Louis Hrdlicka (http://taskforceomegainc.org/h102.html). I can't vouch for all the information and claims on these sites, but they give a good account of how the pilots were shot down and captured, then held in the caves.
I asked the guide what they did with captured pilots during the war and he said they were held in a prison cave in the Vieng Xai complex, close to the Vietnamese border.
Again, none were ever returned, and I wonder whether US forensic teams have ever identified the prison cave and been into it to do whatever they can, if anything, after all this time, to ascertain if any DNA traces or other evidence remains of people who were incarcerated there.
I went into a concrete emergency room in one cave, protected by two thick steel blast doors, and asked to be closed in. Standing alone in total silence in the clammy, damp darkness of that confined space inevitably made me think of those who had spent much longer locked up in the caves of Vieng Xai, and I was much relieved to be let out.
Others weren't so lucky.
Final Reflection on Sam Neua
Tonight is our last night. Earlier we walked through the centre of town. It was 9pm and everything was closed, most people were in bed, and nobody else was walking around.
Out of nowhere we were surprised to see a small flower boat with a candle flickering on it, sailing down the river which runs through the centre of town. The small candle flame stood out incongruously against the massive blackness of the fast-flowing river.
We stopped to watch it sail by, then float out of sight, the weak light still flickering in the darkness as it disappeared.
It felt like a very poignant end to our trip.
For a modern-day take on the Vietnam War and Adventure Backpacking into the jungles of Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, see: http://peteralanlloyd.com/back-part-2/backpackers-meet-the-vietnam-war-back-screenplay-finally-finished/
I have also posted a video of my visit to the Vieng Xai caves here:
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EAST LIVERPOOL - The good news and the bad news appear to be the same in regard to finances for the city school district since last fall, the board of education learned Tuesday from Treasurer Todd Puster.
The board approved a recommendation authorizing Puster to submit an updated five-year forecast to the Ohio Department of Education as required by law, and he offered some comments regarding the district's financial situation.
Puster said there has been little change in finances since October, which he said was good news and bad news but predicted a slow deterioration in the forecast over the next five years, saying, "We will have to make some decisions how to address that."
The board is asking voters to renew an emergency levy on the November ballot, which Puster said is "very important to the district," and outlined some areas where costs are overshadowing revenue, such as special education support services, curriculum materials and health care.
According to Puster, one area that needs looked at for possible reclaiming some revenue is school choice - that is, East Liverpool students choosing alternates to East Liverpool classrooms, such as open enrollment, cyber schools and voucher programs which take dollars away from the school district.
If just 10 percent of those students can be brought back into the district, $241,290 in revenue would return with them, Puster pointed out, saying that with the district's arts, vocational program and academics, "We have a magnificent product to offer. This is a ship that can be righted."
The board again tabled action on a request to purchase band uniforms, with the Band Boosters asking that the board pay the $27,313 up-front cost of 65 uniforms, with the boosters to reimburse half that cost.
Although a letter from the Band Boosters indicated that is how football uniforms are purchased, Athletic Director Robert Shansky said that was not accurate when asked by board member Bob Estell.
Puster said the board does have legal authority to spend money on extra-curricular activities but that the district historically has not because it cannot afford to do so.
He said the boosters pay for certain expenses, such as instruments and sheet music, which the board could assume, freeing up the boosters to pay for the uniforms, saying, "You would have the same end results."
It was agreed that Puster will discuss the matter further with the boosters before any action is taken.


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Consistent with those gains, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) (VOLATILITYINDICES: ^VIX ) , Wall Street's "fear index," fell 8%, to close at 14.89, its lowest closing level since May 30. (The VIX is calculated from S&P 500 option prices and reflects investor expectations for stock market volatility over the coming 30 days.)
Dell: The heat is on
I have continued covering Michael Dell and Silver Lake Partners' plan to take Dell (UNKNOWN: DELL.DL ) private, but had come to the conclusion that the duo had this deal sewn up despite activist investor Carl Icahn's gesticulations. We're now in the home stretch, with a shareholder vote scheduled less than two weeks from now, and it appears that I may have underestimated the impact of Mr. Icahn's efforts.
In fact, the legendary investor has reduced Dell's board to "playing both sides." On the one hand, they're now trying to scare investors with the risk that the stock could decline if the Michael Dell-Silver Lake acquisition is voted down (i.e., you're being offered more than the stock is worth). According to the Wall Street Journal, the board produced today a presentation that painted an unfavorable picture of the company, including one slide that states point-blank "H-P's [Hewlett-Packard] recent performance has been superior to Dell."
As they talk the company down out of one side of their mouths, the board has gone back to Mr. Dell to ask him to raise his offer (i.e., your current offer undervalues the shares). According to the Financial Times, this follows a round of consultations with investors, which revealed a distinct lack of enthusiasm for the current $13.65 per share offer.
Finally, multiple outlets are reporting that Michael Dell has no intention of raising his offer, and neither does Silver Lake. (Mr. Dell personally financed the final price increase during earlier negotiations.) No wonder the shares closed at their lowest level since the acquisition was announced on Feb. 5.
Given my record commenting on this situation, I will no longer predict what the outcome will be. I will say, however, that now, this situation ought to be the preserve of merger arbitrageurs or long-term shareholders who see value in Dell. In general, I don't think individual investors should "trade" stocks; this is precisely the type of situation which could end up demonstrating how painful that could be.
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This summer has been out of control hot. Hot enough to make even brain-dead Republicans believe that Global Warming (or Climate Fuck as I prefer to call it) isn't a hoax. The best way to beat the heat? Delicious cold beer, good beats & a nice barbecue. This is basically the soundtrack you'll need for it. It's a nice long eclectic mix ranging from rare grooves, jazz, funk, disco, soul & house. Pop open a refreshing beer & enjoy!
162 Minute Live Mix (recorded 8.14.11 Live @Maduro, 117 E. Main St. Madison, Wisconsin)
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John Miles - Stranger In The City (Pilooski edit)
Nicolas Jaar - Work It
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Down By The River (Ole Smokey's Down By The Edit)
Marvin Gaye - I Want You (Danny Krivit Alternative Vocal Mix)
Steve Miller Band - Shu Ba Du Ma Ma Ma (scratchandsniff re-rub)
Kaleta & Akoya Afrobeat - The Spirit of Fela is Alive & Well! (Guynamukat Edit)
The New Mastersounds - On the Border
Mayer Hawthorne - A Long Time
Deadly Sins - You Can Be (Deadly Sins B Boy edit)
Stephanie Mills - Put Your Body In It (DJ Butcher's extended version)
First Choice - The Player (Mousse T & Boris Dlugosch Classic 12")
Vincent Montana Jr. - It Looks Like Love ft. Goody Goody (Dims Compiled Edit
Jesse Rose - Day Is Done (Hot Chip Remix)
Bobby Konders - The Poem (LW Intro Version)
The African Dream - Makin' A Living
Martin Brew - Galactico
Mari Boine - Vuoi Vuoi Me (Henrik Schwarz remix)
Tracey Thorn, Tevo Howard - Without Me (Marcus Worgull Vocal / Dixon Edit)
Moodyman - Don't you want my love-
Le Pamplemousse - You Can Get Off On The Music (Fat Camp Edit)
Chic - Good Times (Fat Camp edit)
Yello - Lost Again (Greg Wilson Edit)
Amp Dog Night - I'm Doing Fine
Donny Hathaway - The Ghetto (Live)
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Creative Source - Who Is He (And What Is He To You)


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n. a person whom has such extreme abilities, that they are said to be sent from God. This person is freakin' amazing at what they do, and out do anyone who think they can do it better.
Holy Shit! That girl just scored the winning goal with 5 seconds left!! No doubt she is a God Sent!
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Best Seller Express
Part of offering library services is asking for, listening and responding to feedback from the community. One comment we hear often is that the wait is long for the new and popular materials.
We hear ya. This spring, MCPL started offering a new feature called Best Seller Express in our Movies and Music department. Patrons who came to the Main library or Ellettsville were able to check out one brand new DVD. The catch is that they aren't holdable, you can't renew them and they only check out for three days. Despite these limitations, the new service has proven to be extremely popular. We've heard from patrons that they love coming to the library and seeing a DVD on the shelf that they might have been on a very long wait list for.
This week MCPL is offering books as part of the Best Seller Express service. If you stop by the New Books section at the Main library, you will see a shelf with new books - some of which have over 100 patrons on the wait list! Just like their DVD counterparts, these books aren't holdable, are non-renewable and only check out for 7 days. Yesterday morning, there was a copy of The Help on the BSE shelf (which we realize isn't new, but with the movie coming out still has over 100 holds). Also available was George R. R. Martin's newest, A Dance with Dragons (over 25 holds) and Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner (23 holds) among others.
Stop by the library sometime soon - you never know what new book or movie you might find waiting for you on the shelf!
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For our website, SchoolBusFleet.com, the new year has already brought some new records.
Each month, we get Google Analytics reports on our site's traffic, and the January 2011 report was full of positive statistics.
January marked the first month that the total number of page views on the site broke 200,000. And we brought in the highest totals of unique visitors and overall visits to the site that we've ever had in a month: just under 35,000 and over 55,000, respectively.
These growing numbers are encouraging, because they show that more people are coming to our site and finding more information that can help them do their jobs better.
Seeing the record-breaking stats led me to think about how far SchoolBusFleet.com has come.
We launched our online community way back in 1997, when President Bill Clinton was inaugurated for his second term, the price of a gallon of diesel wasn't much more than a dollar, and the legendary Frank Sinatra was still living.
Back then, Google was just getting started, and social networking juggernauts like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter were a long way off.
By today's standards, that initial incarnation of SchoolBusFleet.com may be considered a bit rudimentary, but it was groundbreaking in how it gave pupil transportation professionals quick access (well, as quick as their dial-up connections could take them) to a bevy of resources specific to our industry.
The original version of the site had some of the key features that we still have today: breaking industry news, exclusive SBF research, an archive of articles from the print magazine, industry contacts and events, and a forum for discussing a variety of pupil transportation topics.
Some of you may also remember the distinctive design that graced the top of the site for many years: an illustration of a school bus cresting a hill, looking out over a picturesque town by the sea.
As we wrote in an editorial when the site was launched, "This is a work in progress. Like any community, SchoolBusFleet.com will evolve." And it certainly has evolved in many ways over the past 14 years.
Now, visitors to our website can browse through a variety of "channels," each of which focuses on a specific, important aspect of pupil transportation — safety, maintenance, special needs, regulations, etc.
We have a videos section, which currently hosts about two dozen clips. The offerings include conference videos shot by our editors, public service announcements on school bus safety, and interesting demonstrations (a dad crafting a school bus-shaped sandwich, for example).
Another feature that shows how far our online technology has come since the early days is the digital magazine. It lets you "flip" through all of the pages of our recent print issues, search for keywords in those issues, and click on links in articles and advertisements. For those who don't get the print magazine, or for anyone who can't find their copy of a particular issue, this is a great tool.
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5 girls in one night?! You're the mack daddy!
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A pimpalicous man who gets anything he wants (ie, sex, money, clothing, cars etc).
Dawg!! did you see that pimpalicous mack daddy ova therr??? He's da man!!!
作者 lauren and sadie 2004年1月04日
Mack Daddy- A Male of supperior looks. A player of players. A romantic lady killer. One of many model looking girlfriends.
Comes from old American dating back to early High School days of 1990's.
Comes from old American dating back to early High School days of 1990's.
Brian AKA- -=BIA=-Sniper_Bait
作者 Brian 2005年1月14日
Guy who suddenly is attractive to women and scores regularly.
Can you believe it? That William Hung is a big Mack Daddy after his success on American Idol.
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a really good pimp; a player who is good at "what he does"
all the girls roll with me, i am the mack daddy
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A player whose pimp game is internationally known.
That O.G. has been a Mack Daddy since 1986!
作者 Travis W. C. 2009年2月03日
a man who has a way with women...a sort of harem collector. Gangsta term, used especially in rap music and in da 'hood.
Famous mack-daddys: Sir-Mix-A-Lot, Billy Dee Williams, Eminem
Famous mack-daddys: Sir-Mix-A-Lot, Billy Dee Williams, Eminem
He's so smooth, a real player with the ladies, a real mack-daddy.
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The only hit I could find in the Knowledge base indicates (in a round about way)
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Location: Burlington, Vermont
Website: http://www.uvm.edu
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Federal Circuit: 2nd Circuit
University of Vermont has been given the speech code rating Yellow. Yellow light colleges and universities are those institutions with at least one ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application. Read more here.
Speech Code Category: Protest and Demonstration Policies
Last updated: November 9, 2015
Prior registration is generally not required for casual forms of non-commercial solicitation, such as leafleting, that do not involve the dedicated or exclusive use of University buildings, grounds, or facilities, provided that access to, or the use of buildings, grounds or facilities may be subject to restrictions designed to protect safety, or to avoid undue disruption of customary campus activities.
Unless they have already been reserved, lawful non-commercial solicitation may occur without prior reservations at the following venues:
a Royall Tyler Theatre plaza
b Davis Center Oval
c Davis Center Outdoor Stage area
d Bailey-Howe quad area
e the University Green area south of the Ira Allen statue
f Waterman main (east) entrance plaza
g Waterman College Street (south) entrance plaza
"Noncommercial solicitation" includes, without limitation, petition drives, public opinion polling, membership drives for recognized groups and organizations, preaching, proselytizing, political organizing, political canvassing, and political campaigning. It also includes charitable fundraising for the benefit of the University, University-recognized groups and organizations, or other nonprofit or charitable organizations.
Student Alcohol and Other Drug Policy
Speech Code Category: Posting and Distribution Policies
Last updated: November 9, 2015
The sponsoring organization is responsible for any publicity, advertising, marketing, or promotion that is disseminated in conjunction with the event and must ensure adherence to the following guidelines: … Advertisements should be consistent with University policy discouraging the demeaning sexual or discriminatory portrayals of individuals or groups.
Sexual Harassment & Misconduct – Interim
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: November 6, 2015
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal, written, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature constitute sexual harassment when one or more of the following occur: … the conduct has the purpose or effect of substantially undermining, interfering with or detracting from an individual's educational or work performance, access to University resources, or creating an objectively intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.
Examples of sexual harassment may include, but are not limited to, unwelcome sexual propositions, sexually graphic comments about a person's body, unwelcome touching, patting, pinching or leering, persistent, offensive and unwelcome sexual jokes and comments, and unwelcome displays of sexually graphic pictures.
Bias Response Program: What is Bias?
Speech Code Category: Policies on Bias and Hate Speech
Last updated: November 9, 2015
Bias is a personal inclination or temperament based on unreasoned judgment or belief. Bias may be reflected in behavior (verbal, nonverbal, or written) that is threatening, harassing, intimidating, discriminatory, hostile, unwelcoming, exclusionary, demeaning, degrading, or derogatory and is based on a person's real or perceived identity or group affiliation, including (but not limited to) race, age, disability status, gender, gender identity/expression, national origin, sexual orientation, veteran status or religion.
Depending on the nature and severity of the behavior, the associated bias, and impact, incidents will be addressed as appropriate through interventions such as: education, restorative practices, community dialogue, and formal processes through institutional offices (e.g., review, investigation, resolution). Not every incident will be a violation of university policy or law, however all reported incidents will be reviewed for an appropriate response.
Note: This definition of a bias incident is intentionally broad to reflect our values to create and sustain an inclusive, safe, and productive community for all of our members.
Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities: Offenses Against Persons
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: November 6, 2015
Prohibited conduct includes physical harm or words or behavior that has the purpose or effect of creating an intimidating, hostile, or demeaning environment that substantially interferes with another's ability to participate in or realize the intended benefits of educational or employment opportunities, peaceful enjoyment of residence, or physical security and which is not protected by the First Amendment.
Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities: Student Rights
Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: November 6, 2015
[T]he University of Vermont considers freedom of inquiry and discussion essential to a student's educational development. Thus, the University recognizes the right of all students to engage in discussion, to exchange thought and opinion, and to speak, write, or publish freely on any subject, in accordance with the guarantees of the United States and Vermont constitutions. This broad principle is the cornerstone of education in a democracy.
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Speech Code Category: Advertised Commitments to Free Expression
Last updated: November 6, 2015
Fundamental to our entire philosophy is our firm belief that rights guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, including rights to freedom of speech, peaceful assembly, petition, and association must be protected on the campus as elsewhere, and that local, state, and federal laws must prevail on the campus.
Harassment: Students
Speech Code Category: Harassment Policies
Last updated: November 6, 2015
A. "Harassment" means an incident or incidents of verbal, written, visual, or physical conduct based on or motivated by a student's or a student's family member's actual or perceived race, creed, color, national origin, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, or disability that has the purpose or effect of objectively and substantially undermining and detracting from or interfering with a student's educational performance or access to school resources or creating an objectively intimidating, hostile, or offensive environment.
B. "Harassment" includes conduct which violates subdivision (A) of this definition and constitutes one or more of the following: B.1. Sexual harassment, which means conduct that includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors and other verbal, written, visual, or physical conduct of a sexual nature when one or both of the following occur: B.1.a Submission to that conduct is made either explicitly or implicitly a term or condition of a student's education. B.1.b Submission to or rejection of such conduct by a student is used as a component of the basis for decisions affecting that student. B.2 Racial harassment, which means conduct directed at the characteristics of a student's or a student's family member's actual or perceived race or color, and includes the use of epithets, stereotypes, racial slurs, comments, insults, derogatory remarks, gestures, threats, graffiti, display, or circulation of written or visual material, and taunts on manner of speech and negative references to racial customs. B.3. Harassment also includes verbal, written, visual, or physical communications and/or conduct based on or motivated by a student's age that has the purpose or effect (1) of substantially interfering with a student's educational performance or access to University resources or (2) of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive learning environment. Harassment may include the use of epithets, stereotypes, slurs, comments, insults, derogatory remarks, gestures, threats, graffiti, display, or circulation of written or visual material, taunts, and negative references related to age.
Speech Code of the Month: University of Vermont
September 21, 2016
FIRE announces its Speech Code of the Month for September 2016: the University of Vermont (UVM). Like many universities, UVM has a Bias Response Program in place so that students can report incidents of biased behavior—including speech—to the university administration. UVM uses a very broad definition of bias: Bias* is a personal inclination or temperament based on unreasoned judgment or belief. Bias may be reflected in behavior (verbal, nonverbal, or written) that is threatening, harassing, intimidating, discriminatory, hostile, unwelcoming, exclusionary, demeaning, degrading, or derogatory and is based on a person's real or perceived identity or group affiliation, including (but not […]» Read More
Student Papers at U of Alabama, U of Vermont Demonstrate the Value of a Free Press
February 27, 2014
In case Torch readers wanted more examples of the value of a free student press on college and university campuses, recent columns in student newspapers at the University of Alabama (UA) and the University of Vermont (UVM) fit the bill.» Read More
Harvey Silverglate on Campus Isolation: 'Tear Down this Wall'
September 13, 2007
FIRE co-founder and board chairman, Harvey Silverglate has written a truly insightful post on The Phoenix's "Free for All" blog about the University of Vermont's new mega-student center/administrative headquarters/hive complex in Burlington and what it says about the problems of modern campus culture: The tendency of colleges—in Burlington, Cambridge, and just about everywhere else—to turn the campus into a company town of sorts, and keep the students penned in rather than out on the town, surely helps preserve the oddly isolated culture that has afflicted American campuses of higher education, where the values and practices of the "real world" grow […]» Read More
'Free Speech…With Permission Only'
April 18, 2005
Check out this excellent article by Ron Jacobs of the University of Vermont (UVM) in CounterPunch's weekend edition about free speech on campuses including UC Berkeley, Harvard University, Emerson College, and UVM. Here's an excerpt: There is currently a regulation on the books here at UVM (where I work) that demands that any group—whether student or not—get a permit to espouse their philosophy on campus. Why? What is the university afraid of? Communists? Out of control religious zealots? And who made them the arbiter of who should be allowed to have freedom of speech and who should not? These regulations […]» Read More


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Everyone wanted to pretend like they weren't going to watch the soap opera shenanigans of 'Revenge,' a show that traces one girl's quest to exact, you got it, revenge on those who ruined her life. Now the weekly dose of fights, murders and makeouts is all anyone can bring themselves to talk about.
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The daughter of Ozzy and Sharon, Kelly has branched out and accomplished quite a lot since 'Meet the Osbournes.' She has released an album, written an autobiography, appeared on 'Dancing with the Stars,' and will star in the upcoming film 'So Undercover.' These days you can find her dishing out fashion advice, and critiques, on E!'s 'Fashion Police.'
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Born in Yugoslavia and raised in Serbia and Australia, Andrej Pejic is the androgynous male model who has taken the fashion world by storm. Scouted at age 17, Andrej has been highly successful modelling both men and women's fashion. Most recently, Andrej modeled the men and women's lines for Jean-Paul Gaultier and the men's line for Marc Jacobs.
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He was great in 'The Kids Are All Right' and has the 'Red Dawn' remake on the horizon, but expect this teen to make R. Patz like waves with his role as Peeta in 'The Hunger Games.'
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Canadian Nadia Giosia first started out with a small comedic web series, which turned into 'Bitchin' Kitchen,' a quirky Canadian cooking show. Now on the Cooking Channel in the US, Nadia cooks up fatty food better suited for a hangover than fine dining. Barefoot Contessa she is not.
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The baddest bitch at McKinley High, this girl can act, sing and look amazing while doing it all. A triple threat if ever there was one.
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The initials standing for both "Good Christian Bitches" and "Good Christian Belles," this new dramedy stars Broadway and TV-favorite Kristen Chenoweth as the "GCB Queen" who resides in Dallas, where she grew up, alongside her high school friends.
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Like her fellow crooning countrywoman Lily Allen, Neon Hitch used MySpace to get her music out there. She soon grabbed the attention of Benny Blanco and managed to score a hit when she sang with Gym Class Heroes on their song 'Ass Back Home.'
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An epic collaboration between Marvel and Disney, this upcoming blockbuster stars Robert Downey, Jr., Mark Ruffalo, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, among others, and is written and directed by sci-fi wiz Joss Whedon.
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"Feeding your bloodlust since 2009," this is the place to be whether you're looking for more info on the show, the books, or just simply wanting to chat with other avid fans on a forum.
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They're pretty attractive, everyone's super nice, and there's a great mix of people in terms of their dress, social life, interests, etc.
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Everybody is so diverse and very accepting.
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Generally speaking, the student body here is ridiculously attractive. Everyone seems to have their own sense of personal style, and most students dress very well (including the guys).
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There are plenty of good looking girls and guys at the school but looks aren't everything. Most tend to be really friendly and you can hang out with anyone.
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Since McGill has such a diverse student body, you can find just about any type, and if not, then Montreal as a university city (city, not town) has many universities, colleges and a young working population, so there is an endless supply of girls and guys.
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McGill, and Montréal in general, has some of the most beautiful women in North America. Maybe it's the French influence, but it seems that there are an unusual amount of thin, well-dressed women. The city and the campus are very fashionable, and that ups everyone's appearance. Potential suitors beware: the club scene makes even the most naïve ingénue a seasoned cynic, so half-assed lines will not get you anywhere. Guys and girls do hook up in bars, but that is generally under a whole lot of influence. In the summer and nice weather, McGill is a parade of short skirts and tank-tops; however, the freezing weather of winter usually hides most of the campus's assets.
Guys at McGill are another story. The ratio is not in favor of women at all, and the men are much less attractive. Sure, there are plenty of good-looking guys, but it's not unusual to find an attractive girl with a mediocre-looking guy. Clubs tend to bring out the sleaze factor in even the most reputable man. The guys here do a pretty decent job of dressing up, too; a lot of them really try to look good. The one place to avoid if you're looking for attractive men is the engineering department. They are mostly pretty twitchy and weird. Overall, McGill has a pretty good-looking student body, even if it is distributed unevenly.
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The crew of the TRG-AMR team adds fuel to and changes tires on the Aston Martin Vantage GT3 (007) during a pit stop in the IMSA 24-hour auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
The Ford GT40 Was America's Greatest Supercar And Its Successor Races Today
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Hey America — Get Excited For Your Rolex 24 Hours Of Daytona Spotter's Guide
You there! What are you doing this weekend? The answer had better be "watching the ENTIRE Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona without sleeping, duh" or else we can't be friends anymore. And with this handy guide from our friend Andy Blackmore, now you know who to look for.
Experience The 24 Hours At Daytona Through The Eyes Of A Racer
This is what it feels like to be a top driver in the grueling Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona. Watch the whole race weekend unfold as reigning GT Champion Leh Keen fights for the lead in his Brumos Porsche GT3 Cup.
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The 50th Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona this weekend was one of the best ever, even if everyone didn't get to go home with a shiny watch. Our friends at MotorSportMedia were there to bring you photos from the race. — Ed.
Watch The Daytona 24 First Lap From Inside A Camaro GT.R
No less than 60 cars raced in this year's Rolex 24, and you can see them all hammering away from the seat of Stevenson Motorsports's Camaro GT.R.
Screaming Wife Takes A 185 MPH Ride Around Daytona
Joao Barbosa finished ninth overall at the Rolex 24 over the weekend, piloting the third fastest Corvette prototype. Judging by the screams, tears and flailing arms of his wife, he's definitely fast enough.
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This weekend marks the 50th Anniversary of the Rolex 24 Hours at Daytona and Jalopnik is again teaming up with MotorSportMedia to bring you the best video and photography from the week of events. First up we've got photos from Thursday's practice. — Ed.
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When a collaboration between Millenia Fine Art and Terra Firma/Zotz Racing first came across our radar, we immediately thought: kitschadelic. After all, what business does an art gallery in, of all places, Orlando, have decorating Porsches for competition racing? Visions of some hand-painted travesty better suited to…


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The Jaipur Foot's Standing Dilemma
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evendra Raj Mehta was a career bureaucrat who rose to the top, advising prime ministers as the deputy governor of RBI and taking on big corporate names during his stint as the Sebi chairman. But as one sits in his 'office' of over a decade, at the Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) in Jaipur, the absence of any trappings of power from that 40-year career is striking. Mehta himself arrives in a modest hatchback and carries his bottle of water as he enters the office, which is also not his alone.
The room has two long tables joined as one, and half-a-dozen chairs around it. Mehta dictates mails to his secretary Khaleel, who types away at a laptop. Soon, his pet dog enters and nonchalantly climbs on to a corner chair and gets comfortable. Khaleel hands over a bunch of envelopes and papers to Mehta. These are cheques from donors, proposals from prospective partners and official communication from the local administration.
Every few minutes, there is a stream of people. They don't need to knock or ask for permission to enter the room. They are all in need. Mehta addresses each of them and assigns his staff to help the visitors out.
"I'm sorry, we can't serve you tea. You see, we want to use each rupee for the poor. We don't even have tea during our board meetings unless a director sponsors it," says Mehta, the founder and chief patron of BMVSS, which is better known for its product—the Jaipur Foot. One of his associates later added that to cut costs each of them even gets water from home.
Over the past 38 years, parsimony has been one of the reasons why BMVSS has been able to provide limbs to 1.3 million people for free. It has also developed a model that impresses many, entrepreneurs included, with its simplicity. "I have always read in management books that the best way to have an efficient operation is to keep it simple. But, as an entrepreneur, I realised it is very tough. But Mehta has done it very successfully," says Praveen Kankariya, an NRI businessman from the US and a donor at BMVSS for the past three years.
The accolades continue to pour in. "The Jaipur Foot represents Gandhian or frugal engineering. Along with the Nano car, it shows that the best of technology can be brought to the customers at the bottom of the pyramid," says eminent scientist RA Mashelkar. "There may be other places in the world where compassion is that tangible; it is just that we had not seen any," says Armand Neukermans, an American entrepreneur and scientist who has tracked BMVSS through the last decade.
But even for an optimist who habitually looks at the brighter side, Mehta realises that the organisation he nurtured over four decades is today facing key existential issues. Can BMVSS survive after Mehta?
Tasneem Raja of Tata Trusts, the country's largest philanthropy organisation, says, "One reason why the Jaipur Foot can't be replicated is because it is driven by the passion of one man." Adds Neukermans, "They [BMVSS] are not going to find a person with the same charisma and stature."
The 75-year-old Mehta also has a financial problem. Though BMVSS is able to meet its annual budget of Rs 15 crore thanks to government grants, interest from its corpus and donations, once in a while Mehta has to dip into the organisation's corpus to cover expenditure. The grants, which help meet almost one-third of the budget, have been erratic in the past and are unpredictable. With the number of patients hovering around 60,000 for the last three years, Mehta now needs more money to take the Jaipur Foot to the interiors of India and also enter more international markets.
This has led well-wishers, like Mashelkar, who is also on BMVSS' Global Advisory Council, to call for a change in the free-for-all model. The former director general of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) doesn't see any wrong in "making a business out of doing good".
Neukermans adds, "The way to develop the company is not by keeping the services free but by setting up a sustainable business." In other words, Mehta should start charging at least a nominal amount for his product, which costs about Rs 2,500 to produce.
Charging for the product might help Mehta to also fund R&D in improving the Jaipur Foot—despite its collaborations with Stanford University and MIT, which are on a voluntary basis. R&D becomes necessary as the product is still to pass muster internationally, despite there being significant improvement over the years. Past attempts to foster partnerships with international bodies, like USAID and Red Cross, have faltered because of issues with product quality.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP),India
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"You can say what you want about Gaddafi," remarked a work colleague a few days ago, "but at least he was able to give his people free medical care and free education. America can't do that." My fellow worker, who we shall for the sake of argument call 'Michael', had surprised me. He had surprised me not because he had made a clever observation about Gaddafi's regime that I had somehow failed to take into account, but rather the surprise lay in the fact that he was someone who I thought would have known better. Clearly not.
But with the comment from 'Michael' came a strange sense of déjà vu. This was not the first time I had heard this little line about health and education used in relation to totalitarianism. Yes, I had heard it said about the Gaddafi regime in the Morning Star a few months previously but it goes back way before that. In his amusing autobiography Reasons to be Cheerful, Mark Steel tells an anecdote from the eighties about how a Communist Party member in Britain once told him of how Russian hospitals had performed a new pioneering operation to remove cataracts. All well and good said Steel, but it didn't exactly make up for the slaughter of Hungarians in 1956, did it?
My first recollection of this defence of ugliness came when a secondary school teacher was speaking about the USSR (yeah, fair enough, the Soviet system was a nasty piece of work but the sick weren't charged and the kiddies were educated... or something like that). It came up again during the NATO campaign in Kosovo in 1999 when a crusty old Stalinist remarked to me that for all Milosevic's failings he did at least operate Europe's only "anti-market economy" (really?) as well as provide his people with, you guessed it, free health and education.
When Iraq's Ba'athist dictatorship was toppled four years later the free-health-and-education guff seemed to go into overdrive. Even though I was an opponent of the campaign to oust Saddam and his family back in 2003, I did cringe when fellow anti-war comrades would seem to have to go one step further and highlight the benefits of the Ba'athist regime, like the nice if naive Canadian lady who pointed out to me that the country prior to the invasion had some wonderful museums and art galleries which were open free to the people. The citizens of Halabja were just so ungrateful, weren't they?
There is a far right equivalent to all of this. You will be familiar I'm sure with the man who claims that 'Hitler had some good ideas' and that the Führer did well to create full employment in Germany prior to the war, or perhaps you will be acquainted with the individual who notes how Mussolini made the Italian trains run on time. But on the left the obsession does seem to be with the free health and education that despots sometimes operate alongside concentration camps and mass graves. It can in an odd way be darkly funny, though the humour wears off slightly when you hear a member of the crackpot CPGB (M-L) praise the social services currently offered in North Korea.
I wonder do these people actually check to see if the dictatorships they so happily rush to holler the benefits of even possess these things. Did Saddam really allow free entry to art galleries in Baghdad? Does Harpal Brar have an in-depth knowledge of Pyongyang's school system? Do such people even care? Of course not. The point of these protestations is less a defence of sickening totalitarian governments and more a bizarre unwillingness to accept that the United States and it's allies in the democratic world are, finally, in the right. When all situations are analysed from the point of what you are against rather than what you stand for, you will inevitably find yourself in bed with all sorts of strange creatures.
Nevertheless, it is still encouraging to see at least one organisation on the Marxist left in Britain still prepared to offer no defence of the Gaddafi era whatsoever and welcome it's total destruction. As the tiny AWL put it in their newspaper:
If working-class organisation is our starting point, then the fundamental question must be whether that organisation is more or less possible, easier or harder, without the crushing, murderous Qaddafi regime. The answer is that it is infinitely more possible. And that alone is cause for celebration and hope.
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Talavera is the word that is used to describe religious reproductions of China and its earthenware that is made in the Spanish village of Talavera de La Reina, whose craftsmen have contributed enormously to the worlds knowledge of fine ceramics throughout the centuries. Mexican wall and floor tiles are made from earthenware in a form of Majolica, that refers to all kinds of handmade enamelled earthenware. It was first developed in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt and further refined in China where it became very popular. The craft of the Mexican tiles was used in Spain in the thirteenth century where the development was influenced by centuries of Moorish rule. In Mexico, this style dates back to the sixteenth century colonial era when it was first introduced to Mexico by the Spanish guild artisans. Today, the Mexican talavera tile alludes to the diverse cultural heritage from the east.
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