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Maserati GTC
If a Ferrari or Lamborghini is over the top for your wallet, there's always the other Italian exotic. Maserati is as fabled a name, and it predates by half a century the oft-told exchange in the early 1960s when Enzo Ferrari allegedly dismissed a demanding and outspoken customer by the name of Ferruccio Lamborghini as a builder and driver of farm tractors, thus cementing one of the auto world's enduring rivalries.
The Maserati is meant for people who find a Ferrari or Lambo too hard-edged. It offers spirited rather than neck-wrenching performance and the comforts whose absence makes a 458 a Ferrari and a Murciélago a Lambo. The Maserati in question here, the GranTurismo Convertible, looks no less an Italian exotic-Sophia Loren to Lambo's Darth Vader-and under its hood is a 90-degree V8 engine built by Ferrari.
The engine certainly sounds as potent as the Ferrari F430's, but rather than the rosso rocket's harsh, resonant snarl, the Maserati engine emits piercing trumpet blasts when the exhaust baffles open with selection of sport mode. In the days I had the car, I learned to play trumpet in the band between 3200 and 5500 rpms with my right foot. Trumpet practice dragged the test mpg south of 10 from EPA figures of 12 city/20 highway/15 combined, but this engine thrives on revs and really hits its stride when the tach moves through 5000.
What the car might lack in blistering Italian performance it makes up for with the Wynton Marsalis music from its four tailpipes, the comfortable appointments and the mesmerizing curves of its Pininfarina-styled body. The GTC's 433 horsepower is nothing to sneer at, and 5.3 seconds to 60 means the car is no slouch, but the unavoidable reality is that the comfortable accoutrements and soft-top engineering of the Maserati add weight, and its power loading of 10.1 pounds per horsepower puts a significantly bigger burden on the V8 than does the F430's 6.7 pounds per horsepower.
The GTC Looks stunning from nearly every angle. To some eyes the hang-dog snout might appear a tad droopy, but a low-slung air intake mouth is a historic feature of the marque and clearly evokes the face of the mid-1950s Maserati 200SI racecar. (This company's racing heritage began with victory in the 1926 Targa Florio.)
The GTC's hood line also provides evidence of the aft placement of the engine, which in modern parlance is mounted mid-front like the V12 of the Ferrari 599. (See our October-November 2010 issue for a review.-Ed.) That Ferrari, too, wears Pininfarina robes and has a relatively steep slope where the hood pitches downward to a low-slung intake mouth. On both cars, the entire engine is aft of the front axle line for weight distribution that makes for aggressive and sure-footed turn-in in cornering. The GTC's weight distribution is 49 percent front/51 percent rear with the soft top up and 48 percent front/52 percent rear when it's down and stowed behind the rear seats.
Unlike many convertibles with four "seats," this one genuinely has room for four adults with legs. If the two people riding in the back don't like what they see ahead, they can take some comfort from knowing that two hefty pillars sit poised in the tonneau cover behind the rear-seat headrests to extend in 190 milliseconds for rollover protection if so commanded by the airbag control system. Rear-seat passengers also are spared the vertical backrests that on some alleged four-seat cars are part of the squeeze-to-fit process. On the GTC they lean backwards at 22 degrees.
The soft top cycles in 24 seconds and can be closed in motion at up to 20 mph if rain surprises, but the penalty of open-air motoring for four is the lid stowage bay's encroachment on trunk space, which is a mere 6.1 cubic feet. The soft top is suitably sturdy to cope with the car's 176-mph top speed. It has three layers-outer canopy, insulation and headliner-weighs 143 pounds and comes in six standard exterior colors (black, blue, burgundy, chocolate, titanium grey and java beige) and three headliner colors (black, beige and beluga grey). A nice touch for hot days is the "summer opening feature" of the soft top. By inserting the key in the door and holding it to the right for two seconds, the driver can make the top fold down and stow, thus avoiding the need to enter a heat-soaked car to let the sweltering air out. Overall, the convertible weighs 221 pounds more than the hard-top GranTurismo coupe.
The driver sits downwind of a 14.8-inch-diameter old-fashioned round steering wheel that is nevertheless equipped with the usual modern selection of heads-up buttons. Like the Ferrari, the Maserati has fixed, column-mounted gearshift paddles as opposed to wheel-mounted ones that are captive to the gyrations of steering. The interior is generally unfussy and attractively and functionally laid out, and the leather and wood is all put together well.
For times when the rear seats are unoccupied, an optional mesh windstop reduces the flow of air inside the cabin with the top down. According to Maserati, wind-tunnel testing shows that it cuts airflow from the rear by 70 percent and overall airflow in the car by 50 percent, thus reducing the wind buffeting Ms. Loren's hair. A 30-GB built-in hard drive can store 180 hours of the occupants' favorite sounds, played through a Bose 12-speaker audio system with AudioPilot, which optimizes its output for both top-up and top-down motoring. I have to admit I never switched it on, deriving far more entertainment from the tailpipe tunes at the beck of my right foot.
The GTC's body is made mostly of steel, with the hood and bumper reinforcements made of aluminum. The test car was a Eurospec model, and in fact the very same vehicle that was unveiled at the 2009 Geneva motor show. It had led a hard life as a press car in Europe and in film appearances, I was told, and 15,000 kilometers were on the odometer when I picked it up. It still drove well and felt solid.
The car's unibody, says Maserati, sets a new industry benchmark with its torsional rigidity frequency of 27.2 Hz, an indication of how resistant the structure is to twisting under load. The GTC features aluminum gas shock absorbers equipped with what Maserati calls the "Skyhook damping system." Acceleration sensors measure the movements of each wheel and the car body, and the system processes this information to interpret the driving and road surface conditions and adjust the damper settings accordingly. The driver can still choose between normal and sport modes, the latter offering a tighter ride with reduced roll and load transfer.
Unlike the V8 in the F430 (4.3 liters, 479 hp at 8500 rpm, 343 lb-ft at 5250 rpm), the GTC's V8 (4.7 liters, 433 hp at 7000 rpm) has a wet sump. It also has higher low-end torque, with 82 percent of its 361 lb-ft available from 2500 rpm, which is 700 rpm before the tailpipes find their full voice. However, as already noted, the Ferrari's lower power loading and savage temperament mean the two cars offer distinctly different driving experiences.
With a price tag of approximately $150,000, the Maserati GTC is a jump up from more mainstream four-seat convertibles (but far short of the Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead, which commands a cool half million) and most people seeking four seats under the sun will find its performance more than adequately exhilarating.
Maserati is back, the old tooling in its Modena factory having been discarded and replaced in 2001 during a spell of Ferrari ownership. Ferrari remains a sister company under the ownership of Fiat, and Maserati has found a niche with not only the GranTurismo but also the Quattroporte sedan, another masterpiece of Pininfarina design.
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2001 Audi A4 Ratings, Reviews and Analysis
Pricing Trends
Average price by trim:
- 1.8T Avant quattro $5,763
- 1.8T quattro $5,037
- 2.8 $5,816
- 2.8 Avant quattro $5,404
- 2.8 quattro $5,252
Safety Ratings and Recalls
Recall Notices
2001 Audi A4 (3/7/2014)
Campaign Number: 14E007000
Component Name: ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING:ENGINE
Manufacturer: Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
Description: The Gates Corporation (Gates) is recalling certain aftermarket Tru-Flow Water Pumps, part number TFW 41127, sold at certain NAPA Auto Parts and/or installed by automotive service technicians after November 1, 2013 (and manufactured August 2013 through October 2013) that have a black-colored pulley/sprocket or do not have 'US9377' stamped on the water pump housing. These service replacement parts were sold for use in model year 1999-2005 Audi A4, 2000-2006 Audi TT, 1998-2005 Volkswagen Beetle, 1999-2006 Golf, 1999-2008 and 2011-2013 Volkswagen Jetta, and 2000-2005 Volkswagen Passat. In the affected water pumps, the pulley or sprocket that turns the timing belt may develop microfractures causing the timing belt to fail.
Defect: A failure of the timing belt may cause the engine to shut down, potentially increasing the risk of a vehicle crash.
Corrective Action: Gates will notify owners, and dealers will replace the water pump, free of charge. The recall began during May 2014. Owners may contact The Gates Corporation at 1-303-744-1911.
2001 Audi A4 (5/24/2006)
Campaign Number: 06E049000
Component Name: EXTERIOR LIGHTING
Manufacturer: Volkswagen Group of America, Inc.
Description: CERTAIN CK MOTORSPORTS COMBINATION HEADLIGHTS, CLEAR CORNER, BUMPER, AND SIDE MARKER LIGHTS SOLD AS REPLACEMENT LAMPS FOR USE ON THE PASSENGER VEHICLES LISTED ABOVE. SOME COMBINATION LAMPS THAT ARE NOT EQUIPPED WITH AMBER SIDE REFLECTORS FAIL TO CONFORM TO FEDERAL MOTOR VEHICLE SAFETY STANDARD NO. 108, LAMPS, REFLECTIVE DEVICES, AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT.
Defect: WITHOUT THE AMBER REFLECTORS, THE VEHICLE WILL BE POORLY ILLUMINATED, POSSIBLY RESULTING IN A VEHICLE CRASH WITHOUT WARNING.
Corrective Action: CK MOTORSPORT WILL NOTIFY OWNERS AND REPLACE THE NONCOMPLIANT LAMPS FREE OF CHARGE. THE RECALL BEGAN ON JULY 1, 2006. OWNERS MAY CONTACT CK MOTORSPORT AT 1-909-610-7211.

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IAJE Evening 3 - Q Music, Rol' Blue Eyes
January 12, 2008. Posted by Joshua Jackson.Add new comment | Filed under: arranger, ceremony concert, chairman of the board, great cat, IAJE 2008, jazz master, jazz masterworks orchestra, josh jackson, kurt elling, Live Music, luck be a lady, Masters, masterworks, midnight sun, pleasure, quincy jones, sinatra recordings, smithsonian jazz, unenviable position, wee small hours
If you've ever listened to Live at the Sands, you've heard Quincy Jones' work with Frank Sinatra. Quincy was, in fact, the arranger for a number of Sinatra recordings. At the NEA Jazz Master Awards Concert, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra had the pleasure of playing some those charts. Kurt Elling had the unenviable position of Chairman of the Board.
Check out what they did together:
Kurt Elling and SJMO - Luck Be a Lady / The Midnight Sun Will Never Set
Kurt Elling and SJMO - You Make Me Feel So Young / In The Wee Small Hours
Kurt Elling and SJMO - I Only Have Eyes For You
Kurt is such a great cat. I watched him backstage, pacing back and forth before the set. Hope he's relaxing now.
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Galilei, Galileo
Galileo Galilei 1564–1642
Italian astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher.
Galileo is regarded as one of the greatest scientific thinkers of the Renaissance. His questioning of Aristotelian and Ptolemaic concepts of physics and astronomy, his studies of motion, his refinement of the telescope, and his subsequent discoveries about the universe were to have far-reaching, influential effects on the way people think about the earth and the heavens. Galileo's ideas also got him into trouble: condemned by the Inquisition for espousing a heliocentric world system, which violated Catholic Church teachings that the Earth was the center of the universe, he spent the last years of his life under house arrest.
Biographical Information
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa in 1564 to a cloth merchant/musician and member of the minor nobility. In 1581 he enrolled at the University of Pisa as a medical student, but his interests soon turned to the field of mathematics, and he received a teaching position at the University in 1589. From the beginning, Galileo's strong disagreement with popular Aristotelian theories of motion and gravity led him into conflict with his academic peers, and he was eventually forced to resign as Chair of Mathematics at Pisa. In 1592, however, he was appointed Professor of Mathematics at Padua. On vacation from the University of Padua in 1605 he tutored Cosimo, the Prince of Tuscany. Cosimo was later to become the Grand Duke of Tuscany and Galileo's patron. And it was to the Grand Duke's mother, Christina, that Galileo wrote his fateful Lettera a Madama Cristina de Lorena (written 1615; published 1636; Letter to Madame Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany), in which he unsuccessfully attempted to reconcile the Church and Biblical exegesis with the Copemican heliocentric system. Well before this disastrous event, however, a supernova occurred in 1604; it was visible to the human eye and drew Galileo into a heated debate with those who believed in Aristotle's theory that the heavens were immutable. Galileo's life took a decisive turn in 1608 with the invention of the telescope in Holland. A year later, Galileo made refinements to the telescope which allowed him to view not only the stars in the Milky Way but also four moons around Jupiter, spots on the sun, and the rugged and uneven surface of the earth's
moon. Galileo published these findings in Sidereus nuncius (1610; The Starry Messenger) in which he began to think seriously about the likelihood of a Copernican universe. The Starry Messenger was well-received, but a later, more candid discussion of Copernicanism, published in 1613 as Historia e dimonstrazioni intorno alle macchie solari (Sunspot Letters) was condemned by the Church as an outspoken defense of heliocentrism. In 1625, Galileo began working on a discourse entitled Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo—Tolemaico e Copernicano (1632; Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems). This venture initially received Pope Urban VIII's blessing as a measured discussion of the compatibility of Church doctrine and the Copernican system. After it was written, however, the Pontiff criticized the Dialogue for two reasons: first, he felt that he himself had been portrayed as an object of ridicule in the discourse; and second, he was notified of the apparent existence of a document signed by Galileo in 1616 promising never again to advocate or even discuss Copernicanism. Events happened fairly quickly after that: In February of 1632, the Dialogue was published; in October of that same year, Galileo was ordered to come to Rome to answer before the Inquisition. In June of 1633, Galileo was compelled to repudiate the Dialogue on his knees before his accusers. He was sentenced as a heretic and condemned to imprisonment for life—a sentence that was softened to house arrest with the understanding that Galileo would never again publish his writings. When he died in 1642, he was blind but still publishing—although outside Italy. To the end of his life, Galileo insisted that there was no conflict between Copernicanism and his own devotion to the Church.
Major Works
Galileo's major works include The Starry Messenger, which generated much positive excitement when it focused people's eyes for the first time on what was actually happening in the sky. His Sunspot Letters, on the other hand, are notorious. As Stillman Drake points out, Galileo wrote these Letters in Italian rather than in Latin (a scholarly and liturgical language that was universal only to those who were educated); by contrast, the colloquial Letters were accessible to "practically everyone in Italy who could read." Significantly, the arguments contained in them described a Copernican or heliocentric universe rather than the Ptolemaic or world-centered universe advocated by the Church. Galileo's most famous work, the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, is well-known not for its rigid defense of the Copernican against the Ptolemaic system (for it was meant to consider the two impartially); instead, it is infamous because Galileo wrote it after he had apparently been forbidden to write or teach anything at all about the Copernican system. Thus the Dialogue was catalyst for Galileo's appearance and conviction before the Inquisition. Ironically, as Jean Dietz Moss points out, it is the Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina where Galileo unequivocally advocates the Copernican system. Yet he does so while trying to prove that heliocentrism and the interpretation of the Bible are not at odds. Thus, it has "become a classic in literature relating to the conflict between science and religion," and "passages [from it] are often quoted for the sheer power of their expression and the acuity of their observations."
Critical Reception
Today, experts on the life and works of Galileo are increasingly coming to believe that he was a victim not of his ideas, but of politics. Several scholars have called into question the very existence of the document of 1616 in which Galileo was supposed to have promised never to teach or write about the Copernican system. Instead, some specialists now argue that the sharptongued and not always diplomatic Galileo became a convenient pawn in a power struggle between members of the Church of Rome as a result of the Counter-Reformation—a time when the Catholic Church was trying to reform itself in response to the Protestant Reformation. As Maurice A. Finocchiaro observes, Galileo's trial occurred "during the so-called Thirty Years War between Catholics and Protestants…." At that time "Pope Urban VIII, who had earlier been an admirer and supporter of Galileo, was in an especially vulnerable position; thus not only could he not continue to protect Galileo, but he had to use Galileo as a scapegoat to reassert … his authority and power."
Principal Works
De motu [On Motion] (originally untitled treatise) 1589?
Sidereus nuncius [The Starry Messenger; also translated as The Sidereal Messenger; or as Astronomical Announcement] (essay) 1610
Discorso intorno alle cose che stanno su l'acqua [Discourse on Floating Bodies; also translated as Discourse on Bodies in Water] (essay) 1612
Historia e dimonstrazioni intorno alle macchie solari [Sunspot Letters; also translated as Letters on Sunspots] (letters) 1613
Lettera a Madama Cristina de Lorena [Letter to Madame Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany; also translated as Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina; or simply, Letter to Christina] (treatise) written 1615; published 1636
Il saggiatore [The Assayer] (essay) 1623
Dialogo dei due massimi sistemi del mondo—Tolemaico e Copernicano [Dialogue on the Two Principal World Systems—Ptolemaic and Copernican; also translated as Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems; also referred to as Dialogue] (dialogue) 1632
Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze … [Mathematical Discourses and Demonstrations, Touching Two New Sciences … ] (essay) 1638
Sir Robert S. Ball (essay date 1895)
SOURCE: "Galileo," in Great Astronomers, Isbister and Company, Ltd., 1895, pp. 67-95.
[In the following excerpt, Ball gives a nineteenth-century perspective of Galileo's life and career, focusing in particular on letters from his daughter Sister Maria Celeste.]
Among the ranks of the great astronomers it would be difficult to find one whose life presents more interesting features and remarkable vicissitudes than does that of Galileo. We may consider him as the patient investigator and brilliant discoverer. We may consider him in his private relations, especially to his daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, a woman of very remarkable character; and we have also the pathetic...
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Albert Einstein (essay date 1953)
SOURCE: Foreword to Galileo Galilei: "Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic & Copernican," by Galileo Galilei, translated by Stillman Drake, with the foreward translated by Sonja Bargmann, University of California Press, 2nd ed., 1967, pp. vii-xix.
[In the following essay, originally published in 1953 and reprinted in 1967, Einstein expresses his admiration for Galileo's creativity and remarks that the theme of "Galileo's work is the passionate fight against any kind of dogma based on authority."]
Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is a mine of information for anyone interested in the cultural history of the...
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Giorgio de Santillana (essay date 1964)
SOURCE: "Galileo in the Present," in Homage to Galileo: Papers Presented at the Galileo Quadricentennial, University of Rochester, October 8 and 9, 1964, edited by Morton F. Kaplon, The M.I.T. Press, 1965, pp. 1-25.
[In the following essay, first presented as a paper in 1964 and published in 1965, de Santillana argues that Galileo was the first to combine the study of science with the usefulness of technology, or "technique," in order to find out the "how" of things in nature.]
Galileo has by now moved out of history into myth. He is more than the creator of an era. He has become a hero of civilization, the symbol of a great adventure like Prometheus, or rather like...
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Stillman Drake (essay date 1970)
SOURCE: "The Effectiveness of Galileo's Work," in Galileo Studies: Personality, Tradition, and Revolution, The University of Michigan Press, 1970, pp. 95-122.
[In the following excerpt, Drake asserts that Galileo was revolutionary for being the first to integrate the heretofore separate disciplines of mathematics, physics, and astronomy in scientific thought.]
Until the present century it was customary to call Galileo the founder of modern physical science. Ancient science was thought of as having ended with the decline of Greek civilization, and no real contribution to scientific thought was known to have been made during the long ensuing period to the late...
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Pope John Paul II (essay date 1979)
SOURCE: "Epilogue: 'The Greatness of Galileo Is Known to All,'" in Galileo Galilei: Toward a Resolution of 350 Years of Debate—1633-1983, edited by Paul Cardinal Poupard, with the "Epilogue" translated by Ian Campbell from a speech given in 1979, Duquesne University Press, 1987, pp. 195-200.
[In the following essay, first presented as a speech in 1979 and reprinted in 1987, Pope John Paul II undertakes to reconcile the views of the Catholic Church with those of Galileo, arguing that Galileo was not in fact in opposition to the Church.]
During the centenary commemoration of the birth of Albert Einstein,1 celebrated by the Pontifical Academy of the...
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Jean Dietz Moss (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: "Galileo's Letter to Christina: Some Rhetorical Considerations," in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. XXXVI, No. 4, Winter, 1983, pp. 547-76.
[In the following essay, Moss argues that Galileo's letter to his patron's mother, the Grand Duchess of Tuscany, in which he defends his position on Copernicus would have been more likely to save him had it stayed within his own area of expertise—mathematics—rather than strayed into theology, the specialty of his accusers.]
The year 1982 marked the 350th anniversary of the publication of Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, a work that was to have a tragic impact on the astronomer's life,...
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Richard S. Westfall (essay date 1985)
SOURCE: "Science and Patronage: Galileo and the Telescope," in Isis, Vol. 76, March, 1985, pp. 11-30.
[In the following essay, Westfall argues that the heavy reliance upon and competition for patronage in the seventeenth century might have affected the truthfulness of some of the scientific conclusions and discoveries made by scientists of that period, including Galileo.]
Sometime late in 1610, probably near 11 December, Galileo received a letter from his disciple Benedetto Castelli:
If the position of Copernicus, that Venus revolves around the sun, is true (as I believe), [Castelli wrote], it is clear that it would necessarily...
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Charles E. Hummel (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "Galileo: Physics and Astronomy," in The Galileo Connection: Resolving Conflicts between Science and the Bible, Intervarsity Press, 1986, pp. 81-102.
[In the following excerpt, Hummel outlines Galileo's early years, and describes the steps in Galileo's own particular scientific method.]
Renaissance Italy was a collection of states with a wide variety of governmental structures. In one the people might hold power; another would have a hereditary ruler. Such diversity fostered the idea that there could be more than one way to govern. Differences of opinion on economic and social issues flourished. In that relatively open society, ready in many areas to consider...
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William R. Shea (essay date 1986)
SOURCE: "Galileo and the Church," in God and Nature: Historical Essays on the Encounter between Christianity and Science, edited by David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers, University of California Press, 1986, pp. 114-35.
[In the following essay, Shea details the theological, political, and scientific temper of the era and country in which Galileo lived, and argues that Galileo was more a victim of politics than of inflexible beliefs.]
The condemnation of Galileo (1564-1642) is perhaps the most dramatic incident in the long and varied history of the relations between science and religious faith. Honest seekers after truth have been shocked by the attempt to suppress...
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Richard S. Westfall (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: "Bellarmino, Galileo, and the Clash of Two World Views," in Essays on the Trial of Galileo, Vatican Observatory Publications, 1989, pp. 1-30.
[In the following essay, Westfall summarizes the backgrounds of Galileo and his adversary, Cardinal Bellarmino (also known as Bellarmine), and argues that their conflict regarding Galileo's officially heretical belief in a Copernican or heliocentric universe began as early as 1610 with the publication of Sidereus nuncius (The Starry Messenger).]
And because it has also come to the attention of the aforementioned Sacred Congregation [the final paragraph of a decree of 5 March 1616 by the Congregation of...
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Maurice A. Finocchiaro (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Introduction to The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History, edited and translated by Maurice A. Finocchiaro, University of California Press, 1989, pp. 1-46.
[In the following excerpt, Finocchiaro describes Galileo 's personality as it clashed with the tenor of the times, and explains Copernicus 's heliocentric theory as well as its limitations, showing how, thanks to his improvements on the recently invented telescope, Galileo was able to eliminate most of those limitations.]
Nonintellectual Factors
Beginning with personal or psychological factors, it is easy to see that Galileo had a penchant for controversy, was a master of wit and...
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Eileen Reeves (essay date 1991)
SOURCE: "Daniel 5 and the Assayer: Galileo Reads the Handwriting on the Wall," in The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring, 1991, pp. 1-27.
[In the following essay, Reeves portrays Galileo's Assayer as a witty and rigorous linguistic attack against scientific ignorance and vanity.]
In that great catalog of wit and invective which Galileo Galilei published in 1623 as the Assayer, the rather unlikely issue of Babylonian cookery is singled out as particularly deserving of ridicule. The matter arose in the course of the debate over the comets of 1618—the ostensible subject of the...
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Annibale Fantoli (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: "The Storm Breaks Loose: The Trial and Condemnation of Galileo," in Galileo: For Copernicanism and for the Church, translated by George V. Coyne, S. J., Vatican Observatory Publications, 1994, pp. 369-462.
[In the following excerpt, Fantoli provides transcripts of Galileo's questioning by the Inquisition and his testimony concerning the publication of his Dialogue.]
6. The Trial of 1633 and Galileo's Defense
Finally the two-month long uncertainty came to an end. [Francesco Niccolini, Ambassador of the grand Duke of Tuscany to Rome's Holy See and spokesperson on behalf of Galileo,] was summoned by Cardinal Francesco Barberini, who...
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Further Reading
Broderick, James. Galileo: The Man, His Work, His Misfortunes. New York: Harper and Row, 1964, 152 p.
Traces the life of Galileo as a man of "genius" forced to struggle against the outmoded ideas of Aristotle and of Ptolemy, as well as with the implacability of the Inquisition.
Drake, Stillman. Galileo at Work: His Scientific Biography. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1978, 536 p.
Looks at Galileo's life from the point of view of his publications, with a particular focus on his lesser known writings.
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lay off my last beer
Akron police say a wrong-way driver ended up behind bars Tuesday.
Police say Dalton B. Evans, 18, of South Main Street in Magnolia, initially was pulled over for a traffic violation on West Cedar Street.
When officers discovered an open container of beer inside the car, Evans attempted to run away and ''punched'' an officer in the process, according to a police report.
Police say they found Evans hiding in bushes by a building at 200 W. Exchange St., where he struck two more officers before he could be restrained.
Evans faces charges of open container in a motor vehicle, underage possession, misrepresentation, obstructing official business, resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer.
The family the makes meth together stays together
Do the deed then hide the glove in the cruiser. this is what happens when you don't have enabling cops on your payroll and don't play QB for Pittsburgh. nasty
Really? The dog, too?
And outside the rowdy, keepin up....
When Keepin; it real goes wrong -I said NO PICKLES bitch!
And last but not least, gilrs gone wild kickin it at the Harriett Tubman exhibit:


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Student Media
Connect at TECH DAY
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Chuck Dziuban is a distrubuted education expert from the University of Central Florida in Orlando. He will deliver a keynote address during the Jan. 8 TECH DAY '09 in Atwood Memorial Center.
Faculty and staff will collaborate Jan. 8 in a day of technology-focused exploring, sharing, teaching and learning.
TECH DAY '09 is hosted by the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) in partnership with President Earl H. Potter III, Provost Michael Spitzer, the Center for Continuing Studies, the Center for Information Systems and Learning Resources & Technology Services.
The activities will be held in Atwood Ballroom and four other Atwood Memorial Center rooms.
- View a video about TECH DAY '09
- Listen to President Potter talk about TECH DAY
Participants will explore the fundamental question: What is the role of technology in teaching and learning at St. Cloud State University? Interactive sessions, demonstrations, a keynote address, focus groups and roundtables will help participants wrestle with that question.
Delivering the keynote address is Chuck Dziuban, director of the Research Initiative for Teaching Effectiveness at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. His address is titled "The Net Generation, Learning Styles and Technology-Enhanced Education: Opportunities and Challenges."
Dziuban's research has been published in Multivariate Behavioral Research, the Psychological Bulletin, Educational and Psychological Measurement, the American Education Research Journal and the Phi Delta Kappan.
Dziuban, who holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin, has received funding from several government and industrial organizations including the Ford Foundation and the Centers for Disease Control.
TECH DAY is part of the Jan. 6-9 Faculty Workshop Days.
Summary of the TECH DAY '09 schedule:
Full breakfast (provided)
Keynote Part I (20 minutes)
- A day in the life of a student
- Social networking
- Students as creators of content
- Open content
Keynote Part II (50 minutes
Lunch (provided)
Afternoon activities (2 hours
- Roundtables/Focus Groups
- Demonstrations
- Interactive Games
TECH DAY '09 is open to faculty and staff. The event does not include vendors.
For more information, contact Dan Wildeson, CETL director, at 320-308-5282.
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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - Students in the Coeur d'Alene School District will soon see more police presence on campus. The district and Coeur d'Alene Police announced Monday a plan to increase officer patrols district wide.
The district and police met over the holiday break to discuss recent school violence, specifically the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting last month. The district cancelled school the Friday before break because of a rash of threats that had students and parents feeling uneasy.
According to a news release sent Monday, "A mutual decision was made to immediately fill the vacant Canfield Middle School Resource Officer position. The assignment of an officer to Canfield will bring the total number of officers in our high schools and middle schools to six."
Those officers will also be used to show an increased police presence at the district's elementary schools.
The news release included a statement from Superintendent Hazel Bauman, who said, "We've appreciated the longstanding support of The Coeur d'Alene Police Department and the effective use of a School Resource Officer model in our school district. We are happy to begin immediate implementation of increasing our SRO presence not only at Canfield but across our district."


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let's get rid of _all_ forums and instead just have one big one. this way the forest bb is more like the email lists, where we know that debates rage like forest fire! basically, the bb divided up into many forums as it is now is too difficult to navigate and would only serve a purpose if we were crowded with discussions. easy of access is all important. one click from the forest front page should bring you straight into the discussions. i think it is fine to have them all laid out in one long list that you can quickly scan and follow any interesting threads.
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Skip to comments.Boehner to members: Leadership is watching your voting patterns
Posted on 12/05/2012 3:35:23 PM PST by Windy City Conservative
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It's amazing, this guy is such a wimp. All he ever does is back down and concede. But all the sudden he is Mr. Tough guy with his own base.
Conservative group launches campaign to depose Boehner from speakership
Boehner: RINO's welcome.
The enablers will be around in a bit to excoriate people with 'principles'.
The conservatives in the house need to band together and refuse to vote for Boner as speaker...even if that puts Pelosi back in.
Time to play hardball with this ahole!
I don't like dictators. Period
Nazi Bonehead can't let some conservatives stand in the way of his Grand
Bargain with Obama. You know the deal that raises taxes and doesnt cut spending...So this jack booted thug starts his purge. What goes
around, comes around Bonehead.
If this hack is willing to raise taxes, is amnesty far behind?
Seems to me this is how it's often done.
Unless you have an extremely popular and well-known Rep (which these four are not as they haven't been heard of until this week).
Time to play hardball with this ahole!
Time to start digging for bones in this 20 year DC hacks closet and scandal his
a$$ out.
As Levin says, Bonehead is a munchkin.
I'll be glad when the GOP has gone the way of the Whigs.
Oh my.
So now voting patterns should not be considered in future.
Got it.
Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
That's what GOP apologists have brought to the party.
Call the Boner's office and tell him his influence, and his Party, is getting smaller by the day. Republicans better pull the plug on him before they all go over the political cliff.
Bonehead needs to be kicked out of the leadership ASAP. If the rest of the republicans in the house don't remove this jackass then they too are just as complicit as he is with the obozo in the sinking America. Oh, what am I saying, the NDAA was passed over whelmingly by these same folks.
Thanks for the link Mike.
Interesting that it would only take 16 conservative votes against Nazi
Bonehead to keep him from leadership. Are there 16 conservatives who
are willing to send Bonehead a message?
I hope so.
[...Leadership is watching your voting patterns]
...and we are watching him watching Conservatives,...ooops he just spilled his drink, oh crap now his face is scrunching up to cry.
If House conservatives can't challenge John Boehner then they have no business being there and they are certainly not up to challenging democrats. Where are the conservatives? Why wasn't there even ONE person to challenge John Boehner for the speakership?
If we conservatives can't take out John Boehner within the wimpy Republican Party then we don't deserve to run the nation. Where is the action is to get Boehner out of there?
Not so much. That's the 'how it's done' I want gone.
Along with the GOP.
Elections have consequences.
Misread them... and weep.
Welcome to the end game of conservatives vs gop.
Totalitarians R Us...it's not what the "representatives" constituents want.
Yes, and voting are of course taken into consideration when committee spots are assigned.
Why wouldn't they be?
You want someone who votes in favor of global warming on the Energy Committee?
That would be OHIO, not Iowa; the fat, boozing crying guy from Iowa was me at about 8:00 CST on election night.
Mr. niteowl77
LOL! You don't get it, do you?
In what part of Art 1, Sec 8 of the Constitution does congress get any authority over Energy?
Most of what goes on in DC is Unconstitutional. You accept it as business as usual.
If you aren't part of the solution.. you are part of the problem.
Wait, let me get this straight...it was okay for the spay on tan cry baby to be a thug with the Ron Paul delegates in Tampa last August, but it's not cool when he's goring your ox?
In any event, I don't think your going to get 16 people in the house to oppose him. No one in DC gets near any real power without being thoroughly compromised and blackmailed. You don't think these guys are kept in line with loyalty and principles, do you? Hardly. The establishment has files full of dirt on enough of seat holders to keep from being deposed.
Pretty much the same ox.
Oh Yeah: Boehner is a bad Sumbi!ch with his own people, but he bends over and grabs his ankles for Obama and the Dems.
Nothing like pissing off your own base when you will need them, Wait-—wait—I am wrong, what does Boehner need them for? He can give away the store without them.
He just gave away 800 Billion dollars without notifying his base.
You want someone who votes in favor of global warming on the Energy Committee?
He is like a lot of GOP-E: He hates the conservatives and likes the Democrats. Think McCain, only with tears...
Thanks for the link Mike.
Interesting that it would only take 16 conservative votes against Nazi
Bonehead to keep him from leadership. Are there 16 conservatives who
are willing to send Bonehead a message?
I hope so.
That's what I found so interesting as well...let's see if there are at least 16 with the stones for a leadership fight.
Guess what? Your liberal lost. Your liberals are losing. And losing it. Publically. It's a media nightmare.
We'll see who laughs last.
"The conservatives in the house need to band together and refuse to vote for Boner as speaker...even if that puts Pelosi back in."
I don't believe you said that....
Get outta here.
Boehner has been speaker for a while now, has he used this power in the past? What were his reasons?
(not trying to trap you, I really don't know. I tried google but didn't get anywhere.)
True to form for every establishment republican: absolute dictatorial hardass with conservatives, but polite and conciliatory and compromising with democrats and liberals.
Because conservatives are the enemy to both democrats and republicans. They are for limited, constitutional government i.e. limiting power. And the powerful don't want their power limited.
Maybe Bonehead will purge 12 more and there is the 16 present votes.
12 plus the recent 4
Now why on earth would I do that?
My topic is general voting patterns. You don't seem to think our leadership should any longer take voting patterns into consideration.
I imagine he has.
The Speaker of the House assigns and re-assigns.
No mystery really.
Uh no.... Those who can't see a difference between Pelosi and Boner need a head transplant. Let's keep our wits about this and methodically push for a replacement.
You obviously don't.
I imagine he hasn't. So I'm going to say he has NEVER removed someone from a committee for having a too liberal a voting record and challenge someone to prove me wrong.
And we're watching your actions, Boehner. I don't like what I'm seeing.
Mr. Boehner, we are watching the votes too (for a long time)
Updated Congressional Vote Scorecard
I did my original vote scorecard some time in 2008.
Note the yellow highlighted votes on key issues.
I don't think so:
This article has info about new members who are fighting the fight. Do not look for Boehner to get credit for appointing these members, however.
Apparently Boner does. Time to deny him the Speakership, no matter what it costs.
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The Audubon Center & Sanctuary's 2013 Snowflake Festival will be held Saturday, Feb. 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Outdoors will be snowshoe demonstrations by Evergreen Outfitters, cross country skiing, dog sled demonstrations and the Fluvanna Boy Scouts Troop 169's outdoor cooking and free food samples. Audubon naturalists will guide hikes, and horse-drawn sleigh rides will be offered in the afternoon.
Siberian huskies, alpacas, reptiles and amphibians, and perhaps some cats and dogs will be some of the live animals present. Festival goers can also get a behind-the-scenes tour of Liberty, Audubon's resident non-releasable Bald Eagle.
Indoors, there will be presentations of live birds of prey, such as hawks and owls, at 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., a gardening for wildlife program as well as bluebird house building and children's crafts.
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Festival sponsors to date include United Refining, Herbs R-4-U, Carroll Rod & Gun Club, Randy Ordines – Courier Capital, James M. Smith, Gary's CARSTAR, Lakeshore Savings Bank, Acorn Naturalists, Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy, Dun Roving Farm Alpacas, Franklin's Honey and Apples, Miller's Grove, Second Season Mittens, Stedman Corners, Frantz and Russell, Klinginsmith Plumbing and Heating, Segel and Sons Metal Recycling and Media One Group.
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The Philadelphia Phillies are going to miss Carlos Ruiz at the start of the 2013 season
33-year old righty swinging catcher Carlos Ruiz has been suspended for the first 25 games of the 2013 season after he tested positive for PEDs. Ruiz played in 114 games for the Phillies last year and he was 121 of 372 (.325 avg, .935 OPS) with 56 runs scored, 16 homers, 68 RBIs and 4 stolen bases. Ruiz played in 106 games (95 starts) behind the plate for the Phillies last year and he had 6 errors and 5 passed balls. Ruiz also threw out 21 of 85 (24.7%) runners trying to steal on him last year and Phillies' pitchers had a 4.12 ERA with him behind the dish. Ruiz has now played in 733 games in his first 7 years with the Phillies and he is 616 of 2,238 (.275 avg, .781 OPS) with 274 runs scored, 52 homers, 299 RBIs and 15 stolen bases. 32-year old Erik Kratz will likely be the Phillies' starting catcher until Ruiz is ready to return to action. Kratz played in 50 games for the Phillies last year and he was 35 of 141 (.248 avg, .809 OPS) with 14 runs scored, 9 homers and 26 RBIs. He played in 41 games (38 starts) behind the dish for the Phillies last year and he had 1 error and 3 passed balls. Kratz threw out a very impressive 12 of 30 (40%) runners trying to steal on him last year and pitchers had a 3.43 when throwing to him. Kratz has now played in 61 games in his first three years in the majors and he is 41 of 181 (.227 avg, .712 OPS) with 16 runs scored, 9 homers and 27 RBIs. The Phillies hope that Kratz can handle a heavy workload until Ruiz returns to action. 33-year old righty swinging Humberto Quintero played in 43 games for the Royals last year and he was 32 of 138 (.232 avg, .598 OPS) with 7 runs scored, 1 homer and 19 RBIs. He played in 43 games (40 starts) behind the plate for the Royals last year and he had 5 errors and 2 passed balls. He threw out 11 of 43 base stealers (25.6%) last year and Royals' pitchers had a 4.11 ERA with him behind the dish. Quintero will likely be Kratz' backup until Ruiz returns to action. 22-year old righty swinging Sebastian Valle came into last season as the Phillies' #3 prospect heading into the 2012 season according to Baseball America. He played in 105 games in AA+AAA-ball last year and he was 98 of 388 (.253 avg, .699 OPS) with 38 runs scored, 17 homers and 58 RBIs. Valle has now played in 510 games in his first six years in the minors and he is 502 of 1,875 (.268 avg, .735 OPS) with 220 runs scored, 49 homers, 270 RBIs and 8 stolen bases. Valle c0uld beat out Kratz for the starting job to start the 2013 season for the Phillies, if he has a really strong spring. But, they won't let him sit on the bench. If he doesn't beat out Kratz, he will start the 2013 season in AAA-ball.


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Let's Draft Our Kids, writes Thomas Ricks, a fellow at the Center for a New American Security, in a New York Times op-ed. His goal is to discourage wars by putting the children of the powerful at risk — and to provide cheap labor for the government.
A revived draft, including both males and females, should include three options for new conscripts coming out of high school. Some could choose 18 months of military service with low pay but excellent post-service benefits, including free college tuition. These conscripts would not be deployed but could perform tasks currently outsourced at great cost to the Pentagon: paperwork, painting barracks, mowing lawns, driving generals around, and generally doing lower-skills tasks so professional soldiers don't have to. If they want to stay, they could move into the professional force and receive weapons training, higher pay and better benefits.
Actually, mowing lawns or pushing paper on an Army base — with no chance of deployment — isn't "military" service and won't put anyone's kids at risk. The military already uses civilian workers for many routine jobs to avoid wasting the time of highly trained soldiers.
Those who don't want to serve in the army could perform civilian national service for a slightly longer period and equally low pay — teaching in low-income areas, cleaning parks, rebuilding crumbling infrastructure, or aiding the elderly. After two years, they would receive similar benefits like tuition aid.
Teaching in low-income areas!?! These are teen-age conscripts with no training. For that matter, rebuilding infrastructure? With no training?
And libertarians who object to a draft could opt out. Those who declined to help Uncle Sam would in return pledge to ask nothing from him — no Medicare, no subsidized college loans and no mortgage guarantees. Those who want minimal government can have it.
Many Americans would pledge to take only minimal government help in exchange for minimal taxes, but that's probably not what Ricks has in mind.
The high cost of finding some sort of work for unskilled 18-year-olds would be offset by providing a "pool of cheap labor" which could be loaned to states and cities, he argues. Ricks imagines unions would let $15,000-a-year (plus room and board) teen custodians do work otherwise performed by professional custodians earning $106,329, the top base salary in New York City. Those construction workers who'd otherwise be rebuilding infrastructure wouldn't mind if draftees took their jobs.
Even if it were fair to "put millions of innocent people in involuntary servitude so that their parents would become politically active, it won't work, writes David Henderson. Conscription won't reduce support for war.


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Hello everyone!I'm quite new into the making of pizzas, but I've managed some fine doughs and I've managed to get my pizzas okay in my electrical oven. (285*C or 545 fahrenheit)I have decided to invest in a pizza stone or pan, but I have not a single idea of what to buy! It is so many different things too choose between. Stone, cement, tiles, steel. I wondered what you guys would recommend me..? I have read nice things about Fibrament (costs about 100$ shipped to Oslo) and Emile Henry, but what do you experts think? It is mainly or only thin, Italian, Neapolitan pizza I'm going to make.Thank you so much!
What type of still is the best type to use? Is it corrosion resistant steel or plain steel? Someone talked about the US' A36 standard, Wikipedia explained it as carbon steel..? I would be glad if someone linked me to the right thread to read. I would also be glad to read the cons and pros about the different types.Thank you!
But the problem with buying a baking steel from europe is that the postage is 100 dollars. I'm in Denmark and im too looking for a good stone/steel, since i just cracked 2 baking stones in 2 weeks I've tried asking for A36, but no one has it and i have even been told that it's not recommended for using in cooking as it releases hazardous fumes.Since everyone says that steel is superior heat conductor than stones and cast iron, i looked at the thermal conductivies of metals (Wikipedia). Thermal conductivities:Steel, carbon: 54Cast iron: 55Brass Cu63%: 125Aluminium, pure: 204.3-250Diamond (): 3,320-41,000So why is it that steel is preferred? Wouldn't it be way better to use for example Aluminium? Would also be nicer, since it weighs less.How important is the thermal conductivity of the plate really?
Aluminum doesn't hold/saturate heat...passes right through it. Steel holds heat and is also a big aid if you are doing multiple pizzas.
Nope, that isn't true.Heat capacity:Iron: 0.450Steel: 0.466Aluminium: 0.897Brick: 0.840A higher number means that it will take longer to heat up and to cool down.EDIT:A problem with using aluminium is that it has a lower density than iron/steel, so it would have to be bigger to have the same mass.Please correct me if im wrong, i haven't looked at physics since high school
You're right. The units for the quantities you cited is J/(g*K). The heat capacity of Al is almost double Fe, so you would only need ~50% of the mass to hold the same amount of heat.
Interesting right?The mass of the modernist cuisine baking plate is 10 kg, to get a plate in aluminum of half the mass, but with superior thermal conductivity, you would need a plate of the dimensions 41x36x1.2 giving it a weight of ~5kg
Dang, that is very interesting. And I thought aluminum heat sinks were used in electronics because they can wick away and then lose their heat fast.
So, a 1/4 in. alum. plate should cook as good as a 1/2in. steel plate? Hmmm.....
Nope, that isn't true.Heat capacity:Iron: 0.450Steel: 0.466Aluminium: 0.897Brick: 0.840A higher number means that it will take longer to heat up and to cool down.
OK thanks Craig; think I'm starting to understand this a little better.Is there a simple way of explaining "heat capacity" and "saturation" ?
The heat capacity is how much heat (energy - in joules) do you have to put into 1 gram of something to raise the temperature 1C (or K - same thing). It does not speak to how fast the heat goes in and out. That's conductivity.I don't think "saturation" is a technical term, but I take it to mean "full of heat." It doesn't matter what you put in the oven, at some point it's going to have as much heat as it can hold - a function of the mass, temperature, and heat capacity of the material. With respect to the quantity of heat when fully "saturated," the type material doesn't matter; you just may need more or less mass.
OK great. I have been confusing saturation for conductivity.What is it called that I can get my stone to 640+ degres yet my oven dial only says 550....
Time to get your oven thermostat calibrated?
I seriously thought people buy pizza stones because they can get hotter than what the actual oven puts out(besides it's even cooking qualities). That's sorta why I was hung up on the "saturation" thing...You're not just mess'in with Bob's mind here are you Tex?
It can get hotter if you stick it under the broiler, right? If you oven heats from the top or the bottom, the stone is going to block and absorb much of the radiant heat that would otherwise be heating the other side of the oven. I might make sense that the stone heats faster than the rest of the oven because of this and will in fact get hotter above the air temp - for a while. After a suitable period of time, everything will equalize to about the same temp as heat from the stone replaces heat lost from the oven to the external environment. I would think this is most likely if your heat comes from the bottom and the thermostat in on the top or vice versa. Or maybe your oven really isn't calibrated?


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Countrywide Financial may have made more subprime housing loans than any other institution before the housing bubble burst, but that certainly didn't scare away investors from the public market debut of Countrywide II, formally known as PennyMac Financial Services
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That seems to have been the thinking of investors, anyway, who bid up shares of PennyMac more than 6% on its first trading day Thursday, and had added another 5% as of 12:19 p.m. on Friday. BlackRock
PennyMac's business includes both servicing and originating mortgages, an area that has been hugely popular of late, with stocks like Ocwen Financial
Specialty servicers such as PennyMac, Ocwen, Nationstar and Walter are essentially debt collectors. Lots of new business has come their way as big banks like Bank of America
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Advanced Micro Devices late on Thursday updated its quarterly guidance and said that instead of revenue increase, it would see sequential decrease of revenue. The company blamed slow sales of notebooks in mature markets for its problems.
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Killed in the crash was Ryan Robert-Raymond Harper, 23, of Rapid River. Injured in the crash was Ricky Dale Moulds, 57, of Escanaba.
Preliminary findings show that the vehicle driven by Harper was westbound on U.S. 2 near JJ.5 in Delta County's Nahma Township when it crossed the center line and was struck broadside by the vehicle, driven by Moulds, going eastbound.
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N.Y. Power Authority Trustees Approve 2012 Operating Budget: Reduces Overhead Costs While Providing For Essential Capital Investments In Generation And Transmission Facilities And Energy Efficiency
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December 15, 2011
WHITE PLAINS—The New York Power Authority (NYPA) Board of Trustees Thursday approved an operating budget for next year that provides for necessary capital investments in the Authority's generation and transmission facilities, primarily located in upstate New York, and increased financing of energy efficiency and clean energy technologies statewide. At the same time, it provides for the implementing of measures for holding down the overhead costs of the public power utility.
The 2012 Operating Budget sets forth NYPA's expected revenues and expenses for next year. The plan is consistent with Governor Cuomo's emphasis on a fiscally disciplined, streamlined government that also gives importance to preserving and upgrading aging infrastructure and creating jobs from capital investments. The Power Authority's contracting with engineering and construction firms and other entities in support of the operating plan is expected to help spur the creation of more than 1,000 private-sector construction jobs around the state.
"The Power Authority trustees have adopted a fiscally sound and balanced operating budget for next year that reflects a hard look by the Authority's management at the organization's priorities and costs," said Michael J. Townsend, NYPA chairman. "The tough economic times call for sharper focus on optimizing productivity and making every dollar count. At the same time, we are making sure that our more than $3 billion in generation and transmission assets continue to bring great value to future generations of New Yorkers in providing clean, reliable and economical power to our various categories of customers. That's what this budget is all about."
"I want to commend NYPA's senior management, led by Acting President and CEO Gil Quiniones, for putting together an operating budget that is suitable for these fiscally challenging times," said John S. Dyson, a NYPA trustee. "Governor Cuomo has set a yardstick for all state agencies to work toward reducing costs while making the most of the available resources for maintaining and improving the state's critical infrastructure. The 2012 NYPA budget is aligned with this pragmatic approach to the current fiscal realities and includes significant initiatives for supporting future economic competitiveness and growth in the state."
The 2012 Operating Plan includes an Operation and Maintenance (O&M) Budget of $345 million and Capital and Energy Services Budgets totaling $367 million. Among the key O&M elements are the performance of nonrecurring maintenance work at various NYPA facilities, for $37 million, and scheduled maintenance outages, for $13 million; development of a life extension and modernization plan for refurbishing and upgrading the Authority's decades-old transmission assets; the launching of Governor Cuomo's Recharge New York Power Program, a new statewide economic development initiative; and $3.1 million in overhead cost reductions, offsetting increases in New York State pension and medical insurance costs.
The overhead reductions include cuts in NYPA payroll, by $1.3 million; in contract and consulting services, by $1.2 million; and in contributions, sponsorships and other miscellaneous costs, by $600,000.
The Capital Budget, one of the other major components of the 2012 Operating Plan, accounts for nearly $167 million. Approximately 70 percent of the Capital Budget will be in support of NYPA's more than half-century-old Niagara and St. Lawrence-Franklin D. Roosevelt hydroelectric projects near Niagara Falls and in Massena, respectively, and for investments in the Authority's statewide transmission system, a network of power lines that accounts for approximately one-third of the state's high-voltage grid.
The capital expenditures include the start of a nine-year $460 million life extension and modernization (LEM) initiative at NYPA's Lewiston Pump-Generating Plant at the Niagara Power Project; a continuing $281 million LEM project at St. Lawrence-FDR, scheduled for completion in 2013; and the carrying out of commitments under the successful federal relicensing several years ago of the two large hydroelectric projects, including ongoing recreational and environmental enhancements of public-use areas. In addition, the Capital Budget provides for initial costs of $2.6 million for startup tasks related to the relicensing of the NYPA's Blenheim-Gilboa Pumped Storage Power Project, in the northern Catskills, whose operating license expires in 2019.
Consistent with Governor Cuomo's clean energy focus, the Energy Services Budget, providing energy efficiency retrofits to public buildings and schools, at $200 million, represents a more than 30 percent increase over the 2011 level. With the investments in energy efficiency and clean energy projects recovered from customers over a multiyear period, the Power Authority shares in the savings of the public facilities and other entities receiving the installation upgrades until the costs are paid off over several years, after which the customers retain all of the savings.
The typical investments on new energy-saving equipment have included high-efficiency lighting; heating, ventilating and air-conditioning systems; electric motors; automated energy management systems; and more efficient boilers and chillers. Other clean energy technologies that NYPA has partnered on with public facilities in various parts of the state have ranged from fuel cells to solar power photovoltaic installations to introducing electric vehicles in government automotive fleets.
Over the last two decades, the Power Authority has financed nearly $1.5 billion on energy efficiency and clean energy initiatives at more than 3,800 public facilities, resulting in current annual savings to those tax-supported facilities of nearly $136 million and reduced greenhouse gas emissions of 826,000 tons a year. NYPA expects its investment this year in these energy services will surpass the $175 million amount that it undertook in 2010, reducing energy consumption by a projected 75,000 megawatt-hours per year. This would establish a record for the third consecutive year for the Authority's annual expenditures on these initiatives, with 2012 expected to be another pace-setting year.
The Energy Services Program, which NYPA currently funds from the sale of commercial paper notes, is supportive of the state's goals to reduce electricity use by 15 percent below projected levels by 2015 and to increase the proportion of electricity from renewable power sources to 30 percent of the total consumed in the state by the same year.
"The 2012 Operating Budget adopted by the NYPA trustees is a multidimensional plan supporting the Power Authority's contributions to the energy, economic development and environmental goals of the Governor," said NYPA Acting President Quiniones. "This detailed plan of action will help to enhance the reliability of the generating and transmission facilities under our stewardship and provide for continued increased investments in energy efficiency and clean energy technologies for making a real difference in lowering the state's energy costs in meeting future energy demand. All of this is being undertaken with a vigilant eye on using our public resources as wisely and prudently as possible."
The Power Authority trustees on Thursday also approved a four-year financial plan for the period 2012 through 2015, with the 2012 Operating Budget as the first year of the plan, and preliminary forecasts of revenues and expenditures provided for the remaining three years.
The four-year financial plan, which is being submitted to the Office of the New York State Comptroller as provided for under state regulations, is also available on the Power Authority Website.
About NYPA:
■ The New York Power Authority uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity. ■ NYPA is a leader in promoting energy efficiency, new energy technologies and electric transportation initiatives. ■ It is the nation's largest state public power organization, with 17 generating facilities in various parts of New York State and more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. ■ Approximately 80 percent of the electricity it produces is clean renewable hydropower. Its lower-cost power production and electricity purchases support hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the state. ■For more information, www.nypa.gov.