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Which is better?: Bayerische Motoren Werke: 3 Series or Svenksa Aeroplan Aktiebolaget: 9-3 i have to say i don't like Svenka's interior and though it is GM, it doesn't have available OnStar.But I like Svenska's logo and they just started flaunting their heritage (which is much different from Bayerische Motoren Werke's) with the slogan: "Born from Jets"now both companies could use that, but Svenska got to it first.
This is certainly an interesting comparison...the 9-3 and the 3 series are very unique vehicles each with their own traits and characteristics. When I first saw this, I thought for sure the 3-series would win hand down. But when you look at bang for the buck...I am comparing a BMW 330i, which starts at $36k, with a 9-3 Aero which starts at $32k. Lets start with power. Both cars make around the same HP, but the Saab has 38 more ft. lbs of torque. The Saab has a few options, such as leather, standard that are optional on the BMW. And I can tell you that the 9-3 is fast. 6.7 to 60 MPH. But the 330 is fast too. 6. 6 to 60. You get more value with the Saab, but what about quality? BMW practically invented the sport sedan, and has been on top of the market for years. It is an extremely high quality vehicle. But so is the Saab, with its snazzy, modern yet comfortable interior. I don't think there is a real winner here, at least not in my eyes. But if I had to pick one, it would be the Saab, because it performs as well as the BMW for a lower price.
one thing I love about these two brands is the heritage.they both used to make airplanes, but Svenska lets you know. and since its a struggling brand, (it sold less than 1800 9-2X's last year and only 15 last month) the new sporty image it gets from the new slogan should help it compete with Bayerische Motoren Werke.Svenka's old slogan: "The State of Independance" says nothing about the sport qualities of the company."Born from Jets" notes heritage and sport qualities.
Oh benji, you're just so creative with your subject titles
also Saab looks good in black where as the body styling of BMW 3 DEMANDS the metallic option that cost about $400 extra
Very hard decision. But bottom line, BMW has literally invented and improved the sedan/sports sedan. Being a BMW owner, you would probably expect me to say this.
i agree. the 3 series inspires more confidence in the car and makes you feel as though you can do more. the other issue is that saabs quailty has suffered since the gm takeover. i would take the 3 series and with it the added benifit of no turbo lag.
the only reason i would consider the saab was because BMW has iDrive and i have only heard bad things about iDrive. i need to just see for myself if it is really that bad.
I've always had a soft spot for Saabs(Even though I grew up with a Volvo ) even before the GM take over. I still think the 9-3 is one of the best looking vehicles on the road. If we were comparing the E46 with the 9-3 I'd almost certainly say 9-3. But the new E90(forgive me if I messed up the designations) I believe I'd take over the 9-3.But I shall cling to hope of this all changing once the 9-3 gets a redesign...ain't it kinda due for one anyway?
Quote:the only reason i would consider the saab was because BMW has iDrive and i have only heard bad things about iDrive. i need to just see for myself if it is really that bad.
mabey its like AOL...it is supposed to be a all-in-one thing, but it so unbelievably slow, that's its not worth using.
I believe the Idrive system allows the driver/passenger to control the heat, A/C, Nav., Radio, etc.. through one center console, usually electronic, working on a screen. My friends 525i has it. He said he had difficulties at first, but got used to it. The center controls were hard to work with, I tried it myself.
i heard that if you choose nav system then you get the iDrive whether you choose to have it or not.


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We must now be an exporter of music. The Portland musical brand is built with every success story that travels the country spreading the Maine gospel. Talk about the creative economy: What's the gross domestic product of Portland as measured in kick-ass music? At least eleventy-billion.
I know that sounds horribly boosterish, but I can't stand in the newly renovated State Theatre, in front of the iconic curtain featuring a painted pirate ship cruising toward a jutting island, alongside 700 folks at Greendrinks marveling at the new surroundings, without getting a little bit high on what we've got going on here.
It doesn't hurt that a look back on the year's best recordings makes for a lot of tough choices. These are some great records — and there are great records that just couldn't make the list. I have some sympathy for the NCAA Tournament selection committee. There's always a deserving album that has to be left out.
Criteria? Same as always: Albums are ranked by originality, musicianship, how long something from the disc lasts in my head, the number of plays they got on the iPod, whether they contain a truly outstanding song, and some consideration for production value and the quality of the listening experience.
Where's Ray? In Massachusetts, apparently. He's no longer local (despite the fact that I'd like to claim a Grammy nominee for the local scene). Where's Spose? Well, "I'm Awesome" is pretty clearly the sensation of the year, but he didn't actually release an album in 2010. Where's Space Vs. Speed? I'm not saying they would have made the top 10, actually, but I'm waiting to review the disc until the release show February 4, and I'm going to count it as a 2011 disc.
Covered in Bees are perfectly raw, as raw as Phantom Buffalo are shimmery and polished. Put on CiB if you want to get fired up about how shitty things are when they could be better, then spin Phantom Buffalo so that you really don't care.
Unlike the top-40 pap that continues to dominate mainstream-media discussion, these are albums built for the long haul and with a long view.
Like Roy Davis sings, "I'm not gonna fight you in a stranger's house."
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My lovely bride and I had dinner with Lomas Brown last night at Carbone's in Hartford last night. (BTW..one of the best Italian restaurants I've ever eaten at) I finally asked him about Steve's. He looked at me very puzzled and then he said...."wait a minute...Is it kind of a dump?".. I said.."Thats the place". Evidentally his O line coach took him there once. "Kind of a dump!!" I loved it.

Lomas wants to start a radio show with Good Ol' Morehead. Maybe at ESPN. He likes my idea of having a fans perspective instead of ex players and other talking heads.

"Lomas and Morehead"........ Fanfriggintastic!!!

We were talking about starting at tailgate parties at the stadium.

sounds fun. i'd like to be a special guest, where I just dispute everything you say =]

Meyerbud has to be our first guest.

I am flattered, but ur too good of a friend to dookie on you on national TV
In a battle of wits with Morehead....You are unarmed.

if its a battle of wits, my sarcasm scope already has a red dot on your head
But you have no bullets.

I think Lomas was especially impressed with the opinions that we share that Eli has improved substantially this season, and that the Giants don't play an offense that resembles the run and shoot in any way.

Oh Yeah.....And that Steve's is a dump.

Kevin Gilbride designed this offense coming out of being "THEE" run and shoot guy. Plenty of significant characteristics from the run and shoot.
Although one thing I will say, over the past year or so we have using the multi motions as much. It use to be EVERY play we had like 5 guys moving.
like I said we have a balanced/hybrid run and shoot game
I'll arrange a meeting with the guy who disagrees with you completely AND who played in the run and shoot for many, many years.

Its that kind of comment that makes me want you on our show.

thats fine, i'd love to debate it with him
i just love the fact that you really think your going to get a show lol
Lomas was more pumped up than I was. He knows talent when he sees it. He said he knows people who can develop it.

Maybe you should get my autographnow before I'm too big to give you the time of day.

Pappy mickey'd his drink
I WISH he could of been here to see how you morph EVERYTHING about Eli. Your more inconsistent than Mark Sanchez
I told him exactly what I told you at the Buffalo game. Eli is a much better player this season. He and essentially every other person other than you who has seen him play agrees with me.

and like i've told you countless times
Eli progresses EVERY year, that is nothing new. The degree that you THINK hes improved really isn't realistic.
Alot of things you ragged on him for last season, he still does this year. Your just judging off of the end result of the play and not the player himself - regardless of what u say.
He still throws into crowds like he did last year, you use to CONSTANTLY ***** about that. I pointed out how he gets balls into sick windows.
We talked about a comfort level of WRs being onthe same page and seeing the same thing eli says, your response: your an eli homer.
Throwing off his back foot? Stop it pappy, it still happens.
High interception rate? Its CONSTANT in a Kevin Gilbride offense (because the passing game is based around the run n shoot). He still had 16 INTs this year. Take away the god awful tipped INTs last year and he would of been on par with the same type of ACCURACY performance.
Not only that, this year he has Victor Cruz who is making his performance look EVEN BETTER than it actually is. Cruz has completely opened up the whole offense and has turned small plays into huge plays...
Sorry pappy, everybody that has witnessed our debates knows your wrong. But on the bright side, because of that argument I do believe your a perfect fit for ESPN. You can't admit your wrong, backtrack and sidetrack to just take the heat off yourself, and everything you base your opinion on is stats and not actually watching the game
Getting you to type thisranting post is all the validation I need. You have become Daven.

I am the puppetmaster.

Dance Meyerbud!!!!!!!


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Former Arsenal player Siggi Jonsson has been appointed coach of Swedish First Division side Djurgardens.
The ex-Iceland midfielder will take over the reins next month from temporary coach Anders Gronhagen, who has been in charge since Kjell Jonevret quit in September.
The 40-year-old, who endured an injury-ravaged career at Highbury, also had spells in Britain with Sheffield Wednesday and Dundee United.
Since retiring as a player in 2001, Jonsson has coached Icelandic clubs FH, Vikingur and Grindavik. His new side won the Swedish championship in 2005 but finished sixth in the First Division standings this year.
Djurgardens is the club from which former Arsenal goalkeeper Rami Shabaan signed in August 2002.
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Pianist Angela Chang performs at UTSA April 13
By Kris Rodriguez
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(April 9, 2009)--As part of the Monday Night Artist Series, the UTSA Department of Music will present a performance by pianist Angela Chang at 7:30 p.m., Monday, April 13 in the Arts Building Recital Hall on the Main Campus.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
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Chang will perform works by Haydn, Beethoven, Shubert, Louie and Schumann. She has won numerous awards including the 1986 gold medal of the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition. She has been a soloist with virtually every Canadian orchestra, as well as the Israel Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic and symphonies in Syracuse, St. Louis, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Houston, Colorado and Utah.
A native of Hong Kong, Chang received a master of music degree from Indiana University and a bachelor of music degree from Juilliard. She received stunning reviews for her debut recording of two Mozart concertos with Mario Bernardi and the CBC Vancouver Orchestra. At Indiana University, Chang studied under Menahem Pressler, an honored musician whose international career spans five decades beginning with the award of first prize at the Debussy International Piano Competition in 1946.
Chang will play on the UTSA music department's Steinway "D" concert grand piano purchased in September. The newest addition to the department, the Steinway was selected at the New York Steinway factory by David Frego, professor and chair of the Department of Music, and Kasandra Keeling, associate professor of music.
"Having a Steinway on our stage puts us on the right path toward achieving our goals as a department and serves the community at large," said Keeling.
Tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for students with identification. For more information, contact Cynthia Solis at (210) 458-5685.


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BEND, Ore. - Following an incredible response to a call for presentation ideas, we are pleased to announce the speakers that have been selected for Ignite Bend 11. We hope that you will join us at this outstanding community event!
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- Chela Sloper — The Hot Dog Defense for Marriage Equality
- Emilie Cortes — Peak Performance
- Robert Kieffer — The Life of a Bitcoin: Explaining the Most Controversial Currency Ever Invented
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General admission tickets for Ignite Bend 11 are free and will be available at www.ignitebend.com beginning at noon on October 11, 2012, and at the door beginning at 6:30 PM the night of the event. Ignite Bend 11 will also be webcast live thanks to our multimedia partner, Hand in Hand. Presentations may also be selected for inclusion in the O'Reilly "Ignite Show" which highlights a different talk from Ignite events around the world for weekly broadcast at their site.
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Boxer Mike Tyson credits his career to his trainer. In his new book, "Iron Ambition," Tyson talks about is legendary trainer and their complicated relationship.
Senior Field Correspondent Nick Blumberg joined KJZZ in 2010. His reports can often be heard during KJZZ's Morning Edition and on newscasts throughout the day. He also serves as an on-air host and in key roles behind-the-scenes.
Blumberg covers a wide variety of topics, including (but not limited to) politics, health care, immigration, and local government.
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Blumberg was part of the team that won an APTRA and a 2011 regional Edward R. Murrow award for SB 1070 coverage. He was nominated for a Rocky Mountain Emmy for the documentary The Keepers, which he co-produced during his senior year at Arizona State University.
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What the F***!
I can't believe Matthew was killed off!!! We barely got used to Mary and Matthew being together.
We didn't get to see their wedding, reception, or honeymoon and barely got to see them kiss.
Now he's gone. I was so shocked I couldn't go to sleep last night! I realize the story needs to stay interesting but Matthew was a main character. Not a good story move as far as I'm concerned.
Not sure I'm going to watch it next season.
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Hello Firefall Fans,
Welcome back to another edition of the Firefall Development Update. Last week was a short week for all of us here at Red 5 due to the Thanksgiving holiday. We hope that those you that celebrated Thanksgiving had a great time and were able to reconnect with family and friends. We are rolling into the last few days of development for this milestone and going into what we call Feature Lock-Down. As such, this is a great time to talk about development process at Red 5.
Some of you may not be familiar with what we mean when we talk about "milestones" and how that affects you as a player of the game. A milestone is generally a collection of features that the entire team is working on for a major patch release. Over the last few months, we've been working towards asynchronous milestones meaning that we can release more features more often as they are not waiting for every task to be complete from all teams before the patch can be released. Some features have dependencies that require us to hold them back until the entire feature set is complete, but our hope is that we can release content on a more consistent basis through our two-week patching cycle.
The current milestone that we are working on is scheduled for release in January, but we are in Feature Lock-Down in December.
Feature Lock-Down
We go into Feature Lock-Down to ensure that we have enough time to polish and stabilize the game before it goes out. This lock-down means that all features we plan to ship at the end of the milestone are in our internal build; fully testable; with all art assets, sounds, and content included. It is important that all content is in the game and does not require any special commands or dev cheats in order to access. We should be able to play through the entire experience just as a player would.
This lock-down does not necessarily mean things are completely bug free. After we lock down the build, the entire team goes into bug bash mode. We all play the game as much as possible to find as many bugs as possible and then spend all our time prioritizing and fixing those bugs to prepare the build for launch.
Bug Bashing
After we're able to get the bug count to a reasonable level or at least the critical and higher bugs down, we generally branch the build into a separate environment so that any members of the team that don't have bugs they can work on can continue with whatever work they need to do while everyone else keeps pounding away at the milestone build. This process can take weeks depending on the complexity of the features, the amount of content, and the number of bugs.
We then try to release it to our Public Test Server environment to make it available for all of you to help find any major issues we just weren't able to discover on internal servers.
With the Christmas and New Year holidays coming up between now and the milestone release, many people will be taking some well-deserved vacation time. However, a good number of people will be volunteering to stick it out through the holidays to put the finishing touches on everything. When we return from break, we'll continue our bug bash process until we're confident that the build is ready for the production environment.
This milestone includes a lot of new features and new systems that will make 2014 a very exciting year for Firefall. We're finally reaching the point where our tools and understanding of our capabilities and limitations puts us in a good place to focus on content creation. The start of our story-based campaign will be coming online, followed shortly after by the expansion of Diamondhead, and the introduction of new wandering encounters and the Arc System mentioned a few updates ago.
It's been a roller coaster of a year for Red 5 and Firefall. There have been a lot of laughs, a lot of screams, and a little bit of crying. 2014 does not signify the end of the ride by any means. Things will hopefully get smoother, but the thrills will get more intense. We have a lot left to do and we want to thank each and every one of you for being a part of this adventure. Now it's time to get back in line for the next run.


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still interested.
I have some of these from awhile back, and I have to say they are VERY nice. They really add a quality detail to my costume.:thumbup If anyone's on the fence about these, you will not find any better.
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Several tallies, one conclusion on Turkish press freedom
Press freedom in Turkey is under assault. Thousands of criminal cases have been filed against reporters, the Criminal Code and Anti-Terrorism Act are used routinely to silence critical news coverage, and Kurdish journalists face constant persecution.
Today CPJ released its annual prison census, which tracks cases of journalists jailed for their work globally. (The list counts those who were incarcerated at midnight on December 1, 2011, but does not include the many journalists imprisoned and released throughout the year.) Since 1990, when we first began compiling this census, Turkey has appeared regularly on the list; in the mid-1990s, it was the world's leading jailer of journalists. Some Turkish journalists have written us to inquire why CPJ's 2011 census lists eight imprisoned journalists in Turkey, while other organizations list as many as 64.


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Roald Hoffmann
The life-giving ideas of chemistry are not reducible to physics. Or, if one tries to reduce them, they wilt at the edges, lose not only much of their meaning, but interest too. And, most importantly, they lose their chemical utility—their ability to relate seemingly disparate compounds to each other, their fecundity in inspiring new experiments. I'm thinking of concepts such as the chemical bond, a functional group and the logic of substitution, aromaticity, steric effects, acidity and basicity, electronegativity and oxidation-reduction. As well as some theoretical ideas I've been involved in personally—through-bond coupling, orbital symmetry control, the isolobal analogy.
Consider the notion of oxidation state. If you had to choose two words to epitomize the same-and-not-the-same nature of chemistry, would you not pick ferrous and ferric? The concept evolved at the end of the 19th century (not without confusion with "valency"), when the reality of ions in solution was established. As did a multiplicity of notations—ferrous iron is iron in an oxidation state of +2 (or is it 2+?) or Fe(II). Schemes for assigning oxidation states (sometimes called oxidation numbers) adorn every introductory chemistry text. They begin with the indisputable: In compounds, the oxidation states of the most electronegative elements (those that hold on most tightly to their valence electrons), oxygen and fluorine for example, are –2 and –1, respectively. After that the rules grow ornate, desperately struggling to balance wide applicability with simplicity.
The oxidation-state scheme had tremendous classificatory power (for inorganic compounds, not organic ones) from the beginning. Think of the sky blue color of chromium(II) versus the violet or green of chromium(III) salts, the four distinctly colored oxidation states of vanadium. Oliver Sacks writes beautifully of the attraction of these colors for a boy starting out in chemistry. And not only boys.
But there was more to oxidation states than just describing color. Or balancing equations. Chemistry is transformation. The utility of oxidation states dovetailed with the logic of oxidizing and reducing agents—molecules and ions that with ease removed or added electrons to other molecules. Between electron transfer and proton transfer you have much of reaction chemistry.
I want to tell you how this logic leads to quite incredible compounds, but first let's look for trouble. Not for molecules—only for the human beings thinking about them.
Iron is not only ferrous or ferric, but also comes in oxidation states ranging from +6 (in BaFeO4) to –2 (in Fe(CO)42–, a good organometallic reagent).
Is there really a charge of +6 on the iron in the first compound and a –2 charge in the carbonylate? Of course not, as Linus Pauling told us in one of his many correct (among some incorrect) intuitions. Such large charge separation in a molecule is unnatural. Those iron ions aren't bare—the metal center is surrounded by more or less tightly bound "ligands" of other simple ions (Cl– for instance) or molecular groupings (CN–, H2O, PH3, CO). The surrounding ligands act as sources or sinks of electrons, partly neutralizing the formal charge of the central metal atom. At the end, the net charge on a metal ion, regardless of its oxidation state, rarely lies outside the limits of +1 to –1.
Actually, my question should have been countered critically by another: How do you define the charge on an atom? A problem indeed. A Socratic dialogue on the concept would bring us to the unreality of dividing up electrons so they are all assigned to atoms and not partly to bonds. A kind of tortured pushing of quantum mechanical, delocalized reality into a classical, localized, electrostatic frame. In the course of that discussion it would become clear that the idea of a charge on an atom is a theoretical one, that it necessitates definition of regions of space and algorithms for divvying up electron density. And that discussion would devolve, no doubt acrimoniously, into a fight over the merits of uniquely defined but arbitrary protocols for assigning that density. People in the trade will recognize that I'm talking about "Mulliken population analysis" or "natural bond analysis" or Richard Bader's beautifully worked out scheme for dividing up space in a molecule.
What about experiment? Is there an observable that might gauge a charge on an atom? I think photoelectron spectroscopies (ESCA or Auger) come the closest. Here one measures the energy necessary to promote an inner-core electron to a higher level or to ionize it. Atoms in different oxidation states do tend to group themselves at certain energies. But the theoretical framework that relates these spectra to charges depends on the same assumptions that bedevil the definition of a charge on an atom.
An oxidation state bears little relation to the actual charge on the atom (except in the interior of the sun, where ligands are gone, there is plenty of energy, and you can have iron in oxidation states up to +26). This doesn't stop the occasional theoretician today from making a heap of a story when the copper in a formal Cu(III) complex comes out of a calculation bearing a charge of, say, +0.51.
Nor does it stop oxidation states from being just plain useful. Many chemical reactions involve electron transfer, with an attendant complex of changes in chemical, physical and biological properties. Oxidation state, a formalism and not a representation of the actual electron density at a metal center, is a wonderful way to "bookkeep" electrons in the course of a reaction. Even if that electron, whether added or removed, spends a good part of its time on the ligands.
But enough theory, or, as some of my colleagues would sigh, anthropomorphic platitudes. Let's look at some beautiful chemistry of extreme oxidation states.
Recently, a young Polish postdoctoral associate, Wojciech Grochala, led me to look with him at the chemical and theoretical design of novel high-temperature superconductors. We focused on silver (Ag) fluorides (F) with silver in oxidation states II and III. The reasoning that led us there is described in our forthcoming paper. For now let me tell you about some chemistry that I learned in the process. I can only characterize this chemistry as incredible but true. (Some will say that I should have known about it, since it was hardly hidden, but the fact is I didn't.)
Here is what Ag(II), unique to fluorides, can do. In anhydrous HF solutions it oxidizes Xe to Xe(II), generates C6F6+ salts from perfluorobenzene, takes perfluoropropylene to perfluoropropane, and liberates IrF6 from its stable anion. These reactions may seem abstruse to a nonchemist, but believe me, it's not easy to find a reagent that would accomplish them.
Ag(III) is an even stronger oxidizing agent. It oxidizes MF6– (where M=Pt or Ru) to MF6. Here is what Neil Bartlett at the University of California at Berkeley writes of one reaction: "Samples of AgF3 reacted incandescently with metal surfaces when frictional heat from scratching or grinding of the AgF3 occurred."
Ag(II), Ag(III) and F are all about equally hungry for electrons. Throw them one, and it's not at all a sure thing that the electron will wind up on the fluorine to produce fluoride (F–). It may go to the silver instead, in which case you may get some F2 from the recombination of F atoms.
Not that everyone can (or wants to) do chemistry in anhydrous HF, with F2 as a reagent or being produced as well. In a recent microreview, Thomas O'Donnell says (with some understatement), "... this solvent may seem to be an unlikely choice for a model solvent system, given its reactivity towards the usual materials of construction of scientific equipment." (And its reactivity with the "materials of construction" of human beings working with that equipment!) But, O'Donnell goes on to say, "... with the availability of spectroscopic and electrochemical equipment constructed from fluorocarbons such as Teflon and Kel-F, synthetic sapphire and platinum, manipulation of and physicochemical investigation of HF solutions in closed systems is now reasonably straightforward."
For this we must thank the pioneers in the field—generations of fluorine chemists, but especially Bartlett and Boris Zemva of the University of Ljubljana. Bartlett reports the oxidation of AgF2 to AgF4– (as KAgF4) using photochemical irradiation of F2 in anhydrous HF (made less acidic by adding KF to the HF). And Zemva used Kr2+ (in KrF2) to react with AgF2 in anhydrous HF in the presence of XeF6 to make XeF5+AgF4–. What a startling list of reagents!
To appreciate the difficulty and the inspiration of this chemistry, one must look at the original papers, or at the informal letters of the few who have tried it. You can find some of Neil Bartlett's commentary in the article that Wojciech and I wrote, and in an interview with him.
Chemists are always changing things. How to tune the propensity of a given oxidation state to oxidize or reduce? One way to do it is by changing the charge on the molecule that contains the oxidizing or reducing center. The syntheses of the silver fluorides cited above contain some splendid examples of this strategy. Let me use Bartlett's words again, just explaining that "electronegativity" gauges in some rough way the tendency of an atom to hold on to electrons. (High electronegativity means the electron is strongly held, low electronegativity that it is weakly held.)
Bartlett writes:
It's easy to make a high oxidation state in an anion because an anion is electron-rich. The electronegativity is lower for a given oxidation state in an anion than it is in a neutral molecule. That in turn, is lower than it is in a cation. If I take silver and I expose it to fluorine in the presence of fluoride ion, in HF, and expose it to light to break of F2 to atoms, I convert the silver to silver(III), AgF4-. This is easy because the AG(III) is in an anion. I can then pass in boron trifluoride and precipitate silver trifluoride, which is now a much more potent oxidizer than AgF4- because the electronegativity in the neutral AgF3 is much higher than it is in the anion. If I can now take away a fluoride ion, and make a cation, I drive the electronegativity even further up. With such a cation, for example, AgF2+, I can steal the electron from PtF6- and make PtF6.... This is an oxidation that even Kr(II) is unable to bring about.
Simple, but powerful reasoning. And it works.
Finally, a recent oxidation-state curiosity: What is the highest oxidation state one could get in a neutral molecule? Pekka Pyykkö and coworkers suggest cautiously, but I think believably, that octahedral UO6, that is U(XII), may exist. There is evidence from other molecules that uranium 6p orbitals can get involved in bonding, which is what they would have to do in UO6.
What wonderful chemistry has come—and still promises to come—from the imperfect logic of oxidation states!
© Roald Hoffmann
I am grateful to Wojciech Grochala, Robert Fay and Debra Rolison for corrections and comments. Thanks to Stan Marcus for suggesting the title of this column.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/hi-o-silver/6
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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by SamuraiK, Jun 26, 2012.
It's too bad then that Nancy Kerrigan was recorded after her crushing OLY defeat.
Even if that last statement were true, which, as we have seen, it isn't, can't you see the difference between declining to be interviewed and stomping around in public like a sore loser?
Just put bartek on ignore. The Kwan hate from them is such they can't be objective about anything.
Can't confirm, but I'm pretty sure is was a cheesburger, not a hamburger.
Don't forget about the catty comment about Michelle's choice of music and dress for her Fields of Gold exhibition.
Looking back at it, Irina's diva behavior was pretty amusing. Don't get me wrong, at the time she came across as an ungracious and unsportsmanlike poor-sport. But come on guys... she was just being Russian! Everybody loves a Russian diva!
Even though she had her moments, I never got a malicious or mean-spirited vibe from Irina. Totmianina on the other hand....
Or maybe you're thinking of the cheesefest she won and then said it was like she won US nats
What did Irina say about Michelle's dress and music?
Also what did Totmianina do?
I always thought it was odd how Irina's experience seem to follow in kwan's footsteps. In 98 Kwan was a co-favorite but had to settle for silver in a close comp. In 02 irina was a co-favorite but had to settle for silver in a close comp. In 02 Kwan was again a strong favorite, but made errors and ended up with bronze, gold going not to her closest rival but to the dark horse 3rd pick. In 06 irina was again a strong favorite but made errors and ended up with bronze, gold going not to her closest rival but to the dark horse 3rd pick. Key twilight zone theme music....
Also, the triple flip was an iffy jump for them in both Olympics...
I noticed that connection immediately after Slutskaya got bronze. Their bronze medal-winning freeskates were also pretty similar in terms of mistakes made.
Off a tangent - I can't help to notice that Eldredge and Butyrskaya had similar Olympic histories as well. They were both World Champions, but the Olympic medal was elusive to them. They both were 3rd after the '98 short, then barely missed the podium. In 2002, they both messed up one of their programs and ended up in 6th (Eldredge's short, Butyrskaya's free).
I've never heard Irina say anything negative about Kwan like that before. It's a bit shocking to me, they were always described as close friends.
I am far from being a Kwan hater. I just defend Irina.
The last statement is true. I guess you are a big Michelle fan so you probably watched the whole performance with kiss and cry and everything. Then you should very well know about that: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GkLbzBQitg#t=8m42s
Miuchelle's behaviour was totally understandable for me though. She felt heartbroken and didn't want to talk with journalists. Irina felt terrible after her loses at the Olympics and it's not surprising at all either.
The triple flip has been a problem for every bronze and silver medalist at the Olympics for the ladies since 1994 IMO.
For example: In 1994, Kerrigan doubled hers and Lulu put a hand down on hers.
In 1998, Kwan had an off landing on hers and Lulu stepped out of hers.
In 2002, Irina was way forward on hers and Kwan fell on it.
In 2006, Sasha stepped out of hers and Irina doubled hers.
In 2010, Mao underrotated hers and Joannie stepped out hers.
If Michelle declined an interview, then what was that link Triple Butz posted here?
Firstly she declined it but after calming down and catching a breath she agreed. Maybe she talked with her coach and/or family and they helped her calm down and suggested her being interviewed.
How do you know? Were you there? Maybe she was composing herself. Maybe she was taking a piss. Maybe she was blowing her nose. She did not decline an interview, she just wasn't ready to give one when the media wanted her to. For all you know, she fully intended to give one all along, just not at the moment Lesley Visser wanted.
What is it with that jump and the Olys? Not only the ladies, but that jump cost Kurt a lot in 94. Any other men?
Orser stepped out of his in Calgary FS, IIRC.
Lysacek doubled his short program flip in Turin, receiving just .7 for that element. By itself, full credit for a clean triple flip wouldn't close the gap between him and Jeffrey Buttle (7.46 points overall), but missing a jump element probably hurt his PCS slightly in that phase. In addition, missing the final group couldn't have helped his score in the free skate.
Maybe that's why Lepisto and Ando left it out of their free programs in 2010
^ Like Laura can even do a flip... Has anyone seen her do it before in practice?
Not to mention Slutskaya would probably have medalled in 1998 if she had landed her 3flip clean (she put her hand down and turned out of landing).
Interestingly, not even the OGMs had great 3flips. Baiul 2 footed hers in 1994, Hughes cheated hers in 2002, and Arakawa heavily lipped hers. Lipinski narrowly escaped fate in 1998 and fell on it first at Nationals 6 weeks earlier and Kim deferred her flip problems to Worlds 6 weeks later.
The good 3flips were all taken in 1992 when the top 5 in the free skate all landed great ones. The 2 year skip must have affected the 3flip karma.
I was thinking the same thing! If we want clean 3 flips in the top six, we have to move the olympics again to the "true" cycle.
In terms of the OGM, you are right, except that Tara's 3 flip was usually very good for her, including the one she did in Nagano in the LP. Sure, like you said, she fell on it at Nationals, but mostly it was a really great jump for her.
Here is an excellent one from the 1997-98 Champion Series (later Grand Prix) Final:
I have ever heard that 3F is a jump easy to make a mistake at a nervous situation.
Maybe a matter of the jump mechanism??
Wasn't Yagudin's 3F in 02 Oly non-perfect as well?
I've been saying for years that while the lutz might be harder to _learn_, the flip is probably harder to _do_ in high stakes competition.
A couple of years ago someone did some counting and concluded that the flip has a significantly higher failure rate in competition than does the lutz.
I think it's probably because the flip requires trickier timing and is less forgiving of mistakes than the lutz.
One might presume that the ISU have a stastician or two around to tweak the point values based on this kind of idea. But I'm afraid one would be terribly disappointed....
Losing one's cool because they did not peform as well as they wanted to after an important competition is totally understandable and that interview of Michelle is just heartbreaking. (Though of course, if that disappointment is turned to b****ing about other skaters, I do wonder about that person's integrity.)
For me, the kind of behavior that diminishes the skater as an athlete (as someone who is supposed to have sportsmanship) is when they e.g., glare at a rival throughout their official practice to unsettle them (like Katerina Witt was meant to have done) or purposefully get in their way during practice.
A far more reprehensible behavior is when a skater makes a false allegation that other skaters got in THEIR way during official practice. That's just totally out of order and fills me with disgust.
Yes... it was clean, but he had to will himself not to put a hand down.
Another example: Plushenko doubled his flip in Torino!
I'm not chiming in to pass judgment in any direction, but to point out a fact: Terry Gannon said on the ABC video that was linked: "And Michelle Kwan backstage... we tried to get her for an interview, she has declined..."
What's all this criticism on Irina for showing privately how she really felt. How can anyone truly criticize someone for being emotionally honest and invested in what they do. If I had worked so hard for so long and for something I so wanted and failed, I'd reserve the right to bawling my eyes out and even throw a tantrum or two in my private locker room without judgement. There's nothing right or wrong about it. Nobody can truly understand it unless they have walked in their shoes (or skates in this case). I am curious of those who are s readily handing out criticisms, have they ever worked so hard for something so long and failed before? If so, maybe a little understanding and empathy are in order.
I personally think it is a cultural indifference. Some Russians to my mind are very emotionally honest and passionate people. They feel everything and they are unafraid to externalize it. Certain people however really are too obsessed with the appearance of political correctness. These self-appointed guardian of good behaviour/good sportsmanship which are just nicer kinder words for false pretences. It doesn't mean the feelings are not there. They are just better at self-anethesia it.
Like it or not, competitive figure skating are not always about niceties and fairness, that is a fact. These skaters trains for years busting their blood, guts, suffering for a sport that is constantly marked by certain political trickery and influences that are far too hush hush. One does not survive by being nice and sweet about it whatever the media say. That is another reason of my appreciation of Johhny Weir and understand why he feel Russian at times. He is one of the few skaters unafraid to show how he feel, speak up for himself and being unafraid of being un-pc about it. No wonder it made him very unpopular with certain people.
My vote goes to Shizuka on the other hand. I think she is a beautiful skater with insane ina bauer, but I watch skating for fully realized programs and performances more than individual skills and (maybe) even medals. Lulu provided me with unforgettable programs that lasts to an eternity, so she get to stay.


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The Ethics of "Stealing" a WiFi Connection
Network security firm Sophos recently published a study on what it terms WiFi "piggybacking," or logging on to someone's open 802.11b/g/n network without their knowledge or permission. According to the company's study, which was carried out on behalf of The Times, 54 percent of the respondents have gone WiFi freeloading, or as Sophos put it, "admitted breaking the law [in the UK]."
Amazingly, accessing an unsecured, wide-open WiFi network without permission is illegal in some places, and not just in the UK. An Illinois man was arrested and fined $250 in 2006 for using an open network without permission, while a Michigan man who parked his car in front of a café and snarfed its free WiFi was charged this past May with "Fraudulent access to computers, computer systems, and computer networks." On top of that, it's common to read stories about WiFi "stealing" in the mainstream media.
It's time to put an end to this silliness. Using an open WiFi network is no more "stealing" than is listening to the radio or watching TV using the old rabbit ears. If the WiFi waves come to you and can be accessed without hacking, there should be no question that such access is legal and morally OK. If your neighbor runs his sprinkler and accidentally waters your yard, do you owe him money? Have you done something wrong? Have you ripped off the water company? Of course not. So why is it that when it comes to WiFi, people start talking about theft?
The issue is going to come to a head soon because more and more consumer electronics devices are WiFi-enabled, and many of them, including Apple's iPhone and most Skype phones we've used, come ready out of the box to auto-connect to open WiFi networks. Furthermore, as laptop sales continue to grow even beyond desktops, the use of open WiFi is only going to grow along with it.
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Typically, when we are introduced to one of them as he enters, the scene freezes and Phillips, our narrator, tells us how their career began and the singer belts out a ditty associated with him. And there are such convincing renditions. When we hear Cash rumbling out "Folsom Prison Blues," we're practically there at that famous prison concert. When Presley softly sings "Memories Are Made of This," we understand how early on he wanted to be a crooner like Dean Martin. When we hear Perkins covering Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love?" we perceive the difference between musical finesse and the primitive pounding delivery that drove the original up the charts.
As time traveling goes, this is about as good as it gets. You can have your Gettysburg Address or even Sermon on the Mount. I'll settle for closing my eyes and pretending that I'm hearing Johnny Cash sing that Merle Travis workingman short story "Sixteen Tons" for the first time.
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I occasionally receive notice that publications of mine on the subject of evolutionary theory have been quoted to promote an anti-evolutionist, creationist agenda: Recently it was the so-called Discovery Institute using my work in an attempt to limit the teaching of evolution in Ohio schools. At such times it is difficult to know whether to laugh or cry. These people read science so assiduously only to use it against us. But ultimately they are engaged in a deeper struggle for our hearts and minds that will never really go away: Is the universe totally explainable in scientific terms, or is there an ultimate, unknowable "mystery"?
One of the people who helped launch our evolutionary age was Robert Hooke (1635–1703). Hooke was a luminary in a brilliant age; his contemporaries were men like Robert Boyle, Christopher Wren, Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and of course Isaac Newton. They worked under the influence of Francis Bacon (1561-1626) who had decisively broken away from the medieval approach to science. The truth, whatever it might be, and however elusive, was not to be sought through Biblical revelation or Episcopal exegesis, nor in the authority of the ancient scholars such as Aristotle. Instead, for the modern scholar "all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are."
In some regards, Hooke is best known as half of one of the great "odd couples" of science. Coming from a poor family, as a student at Oxford Hooke had to work as a servant. Robert Boyle was the wealthy son of the even more wealthy first Earl of Cork and never went to university. When Boyle settled in Oxford between 1656 and 1668, he employed Hooke to help him conduct his philosophical investigations on the nature (and laws) of gases. Hooke was his inventor-engineer, performing the famous air-pump experiments that proved the existence in air of some factor (later discovered and named oxygen) necessary for animal life.
In his later career, Hooke's creativity extended from clock mechanisms to the universal joint. He became surveyor to the City of London when Christopher Wren was the chief architect, and together they rebuilt the city after the great fire of 1666. Hooke and Wren experimented with microscopes, and from his observations of crude thin-sections of cork, Hooke devised the concept of (and the word) "cell."
In his great work Micrographia (1665), Hooke also published some of his most important thoughts about fossils, concluding, with Leonardo da Vinci and many ancient authors, that they must be the remains, variously trans-substantiated into rock, of once-living organisms. Then, with Lectures and Discourses of Earthquakes and Subterraneous Eruptions (1668–1700), he opened up a whole world of scientific explanation concerning the history of the earth and even outlined the basics of a rock cycle, thus preceding James Hutton by more than 100 years.
How, we might ask, could anyone in Restoration England get away with promoting such dangerous ideas about fossils and the earth? Part of the answer, of course, is that ideas alone are not a threat unless someone makes them so. Hooke's geology was not mature enough, and the context in which it was written was not supportive enough, for the forces of religion to do more than stir restively and warily. Today, the fact of an ancient and changing earth is so firmly established that its corollaries in terms of the evolution of life on earth seem almost irresistible. The stridency of modern anti-evolutionists surely arises not only from their subscription to a particular branch of religious fundamentalism, but also from the fact that evolution is now a full-blown science, no longer vulnerable to the charge of being a "hypothesis."
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NOW AVAILABLE: MP3 audio of the first Week to Week program
Big thanks to everyone who attended our first Week to Week news discussion program today!
You can now download 99-cent MP3 files of the program. It's an entertaining and informative hour-long conversation with Debra Saunders, Dr. Larry Gerston, film critic Michael Fox, and our great audience. If you like politics, if you like culture, and you follow the news and you even want our little news quiz, this program was made for you!
This Week at The Commonwealth Club of California Feb. 21-24, 2012
This week at The Commonwealth Club of California:
TUESDAY: Dr. Landry Signe: Emerging African Markets, a Golden Opportunity for the Golden State; Dr. David Agus: The End of Illness.
WEDNESDAY: Thomas Donohue, CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce: The State of American Business 2012; Wyming P. Sun: The Elements of Classic Feng Shui.
THURSDAY: Architecture Walking Tour (sold out); George Shultz, Sam Nunn, William Perry; The Nuclear Chessboard 2012.
FRIDAY: Week to Week
For details and to reserve tickets: http://www.commonwealthclub.org/
Commonwealth Club Launches News Review/Commentary Program, "Week to Week"
The Commonwealth Club Launches New Current Affairs Review Program "Week to Week" Fridays 12 Noon
featuring News Gurus Debra Saunders, Larry Gerston and John Zipperer
SAN FRANCISCO (Feb.13, 2012) – On Friday, February 24, 2012, The Commonwealth Club will host the first in an ongoing series of current events news programs called "Week to Week." The inaugural panel will feature Dr. Larry Gerston, Ph.D., emeritus professor at San Jose State University and a political analyst at NBC 11; Debra Saunders, columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle and occasional commentator on CNN's "Reliable Sources," and moderator John Zipperer, vice president of media & editorial for The Commonwealth Club of California. The three will engage the audience in a lively, informative, and fun review of the week's news events, exploring issues from their unique and at times opposing perspectives; the program will also feature another guest to go in-depth on a topic in the news, plus a news quiz and a quick look at the week ahead.
Says the program's creator and moderator Zipperer, "We are going to offer a fresh experience from The Commonwealth Club, a recurring program offering timely insight and commentary on the news of the world, the nation, and the Bay Area." He says that topics will include politics, the economy, cultural news, and other hot topics of the week.
"Week to Week" is launching with a semi-monthly (twice a month) frequency, but it will soon increase to weekly frequency.
Dr. Larry Gerston is a political science professor emeritus at San Jose State University, where he examines the public policy making process at the national and state levels. His book Recall! California's Political Earthquake (with Terry Christensen), was selected as "outstanding academic book of 2004" by the American Library Association. His other books include American Federalism: A Concise Introduction and Retreat from Reality: Ten Problems Threatening to Implode American Society (and How We Can Fix It). His eleventh book,Not So Golden After All: The Rise and Fall of California, will be published by Taylor & Francis in April 2012. Dr. Gerston is the political analyst at NBC11 (the Bay Area NBC station) and is a frequent commentator in print and broadcast programs.
Debra Saunders is a popular columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and the author of SFGate's "Token Conservative" blog. Her pieces, which have been syndicated by Creators Syndicate, appear three times a week and are carried by newspapers throughout the country and on townhall.com. Between 1987 and 1992, Saunders was a columnist and editorial writer for the Los Angeles Daily News. Her articles have been printed in The Wall Street Journal, National Review and Readers Digest, and her book The World According to Gore was released in 2000.
John Zipperer manages The Commonwealth Club's media and editorial departments, including editing its members magazine The Commonwealth. He is a frequent contributor toNorthside San Francisco and The Marina Times.
Attendees are invited to suggest topics for the panel to discuss at the W2W page: http://www.commonwealthclub.org/w2w
The "Week to Week" programs will take place at the SF Club Office Blue Room, located at 595 Market St, 2nd floor in downtown San Francisco. They will be free to Commonwealth Club members, $10 for nonmembers; premium tickets (including lunch) will be available for $12 for members and $22 for nonmembers. Get details
This Week at The Commonwealth Club of California 2/13-17/12
This week at The Commonwealth Club of California:
MONDAY: Cruising 55; Ralph Richard Banks (Marriage in the 21st Century); Sebastian Seung (Connectome).
TUESDAY: Jena LaFlamme (The Key for Finding & Keeping Love); David Callahan (this event rescheduled to April 23).
WEDNESDAY: Adam Lashinsky (Inside Apple); Science & Technology Planning Meeting.
THURSDAY: Russian Hill Walking Tour; Ambassador David John Scheffer (The End of Impunity); What It's Like to Be the Muslim Next Door in Silicon Valley; Meet & Eat with SF's Hottest Culinary Crew.
FRIDAY: The Rise of Turkey.
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Submit Questions for Today's Teleconference with Kennette Benedict
In the early days of the new year, the famed Doomsday Clock moved one minute closer to midnight, indicating a worsening threat to mankind of nuclear armageddon and other disasters. The clock, maintained by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is a widely watched sign of the world's vulnerability to man-made catastrophe, and this latest change moved the clock's hands from six to five minutes before midnight.
Just two years ago, the Bulletin had moved the hands from five to six minutes, signaling hope that the world was making serious efforts to tackle its problems. The 2012 move was made because "that trend has not continued or has been reversed," according to the Bulletin.
Kennette Benedict, the executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, will join Commonwealth Club President and CEO Dr. Gloria C. Duffy for a members-only teleconference on February 9 to discuss the Bulletin's January 10 Doomsday Clock announcement, and how the public and media responded to the news that it now stands at 5 minutes to midnight. Benedict will also describe how her organization's board members and experts assessed current risks related to nuclear weapons, climate change, nuclear energy, and biosecurity at the 3rd Annual Doomsday Clock Symposium, which preceded the announcement.
From 1992-2005, Benedict directed the international peace and security program at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She also established and directed the foundation's initiative in the former Soviet Union from 1992-2002. Before joining the foundation in 1987, she taught at Rutgers University and at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Duffy was U.S. deputy assistant secretary of defense and special coordinator for cooperative threat reduction from 1993-1995. In this role, she negotiated agreements with former Soviet countries to dismantle their weapons of mass destruction, and she coordinated U.S. assistance to these countries to meet those goals.
Join these two security experts for this timely program. Members were sent information via email on how to access this members-only program.
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This Week at The Commonwealth Club of California
TUESDAY: Dan Roam (What to Do When Words Don't Work).
WEDNESDAY: David Zetland (California's Water Future); Book Discussion (The Brothers Karamazov -- this event is sold out); Robert Reich (Where Is America Headed? -- event is sold out).
THURSDAY: Chinatown Walking Tour (event is sold out); New Member Open House and 109th Birthday Party.
FRIDAY: Dr Jennifer Berger Garvey: Developing Leaders for a Complex World; Power Plays -- Media Roundtable.
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Jackett in middle of "very important week"
Kenny Jackett has challenged his players to aim to continue combining good football with positive results as they face up to a tough test against Oldham at Boundary Park this evening (7.45pm).
Wolves have produced two of their most flowing performances of the season against Preston and Bristol City, but must now aim to do it on their travels against a Latics side who shaded an epic nine-goal encounter against Peterborough at the weekend.
Jackett has vowed there can be no let-up as Wolves continue to try and chase Brentford and Leyton Orient at the summit of the Sky Bet League One table.
"We're in third place at the moment chasing the top two and are in the middle of a very important week," says the Head Coach.
"Now it's Oldham who are a side we know very well having played them twice in the cup and once already in the league.
"We know it will be tough to go to Boundary Park but we need to keep picking up points and keep putting pressure on the top two.
"As well as we can look back on Saturday we've now got to really concentrate on this away game and make sure every single player is at his maximum to get the three points that we need.
"We do want to try and play the same way away from home.
"Passing the ball out from the back is something I have said I wanted to do from day one.
"You have to try and control the play to be a good team.
"To overcome different conditions at different grounds and produce the same product home and away is the challenge for myself and my staff.
"Oldham have some good young players and having come back from 3-0 down on Saturday to beat Peterborough they have a very good spirit.
"They have made some additions, the lad Worrall on the right wing on Saturday had a very good game, which adds to a forward line that has been very competitive."
Jackett is confident Wolves are continuing their process of gradual improvement in terms of the quality of their football, but has warned that it's all about the present, and not what has gone before.
"Saturday was the first time since the start of November that we've had back-to-back wins so that's great," he added.
"We need to do that because we're in third place and chasing the top two.
"We need to keep concentrating and working and, as a team, just keep improving.
"For me now it's not about Bristol City, it's about Oldham – judge us on Oldham.
"League One is a good league with some good football played in it and some good sides who play with different systems and play in different ways.
"You can come across different challenges which I think makes it good for supporters."
Jackett will select from the same squad of 20 as against Bristol City with Matt Doherty continuing his comeback by featuring in a behind-closed-doors friendly with Port Vale at Compton yesterday.
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Greenbelt geese become issue for Idaho Falls
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - Although the geese that live on the Idaho Falls Greenbelt seem cute and harmless, they are actually a big problem.
The issue is tied to the number of geese – in the hundreds – living on the Greenbelt. People feed the geese, which makes the birds want to stick around here and not move south, creating an unnatural environment for them that has some serious consequences.
Geese are considered migratory water foul, but the ones at the Greenbelt consider Idaho Falls their permanent home.
"What we've done here is create a situation where these birds have become stationary, resident birds. It's not good for the birds, and it's not good for the residents and their activities," said Gregg Losinski of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.
It's against state code to feed geese, but its something that's not heavily enforced. Take a walk along the Greenbelt, and you'll notice the birds get plenty of bread from passers-by.
"Just feeding a bird bread is not a healthy diet," said Losinski. "You're habituating them to a food source that isn't natural."
People's main complaint is not the geese themselves, but what they leave behind.
Bill Kimmel went for a stroll on the Greenbelt on Tuesday. He said the geese are taking over the area and creating a mess on walking trails.
"Basically it's uncontrolled feces. It creates a mess, it's hard to maneuver and get around," said Kimmel.
If the Greenbelt gets too populated with geese, Fish and Game will step in and do a round-up.
"The adults, which are habituated to the site, we'll take to a processor for urban poultry and they are then given to the needy," said Losinski.
During those round-ups, the goslings will be taken to another area, where they can hopefully learn how to migrate.
And it's not just the geese. Idaho Fish and Game said some of the ducks couldn't leave if they wanted to because they're so overweight, they can't fly.
And while you're down there, you may have noticed one particular goose on the Greenbelt with a blow dart in its neck. Fish and Game says it has been aware of the goose for a few weeks. Game officers have tried to catch it, but aside from the dart in the neck, it appears healthy.
The shot appears to have missed the bird's windpipe and gone through the neck muscles, but the bird seems to be adapting well. They will still try to catch it.
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A can fairy is an older asian lady who collects beer cans in the wee morning. The can fairy can also show up in the middle of your backyard/patio party to forstall the other can/bottle fairies in order to win in what they call 'the game of life'.
我想所有的罐请. 我想所有的罐请can fairy我想所有的罐请???
by AdriMari July 09, 2012
A Can Fairy is a not so mythical creature that comes and cleans up any of your empties that found their way onto your lawn, into the street, and in some cases even cans that are on your porch. The Can Fairy is usually homeless but occasionally can be a normal person just doing community service.
Before leaving for the bars we all shotgunned beers and left them in the yard, when we got back we saw that the Can Fairy had been through.
I think I heard the Can Fairy come this morning.
I think I heard the Can Fairy come this morning.
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Look at the comments, it's comical. Are there people on this board who really think this pick means the end of Eli Manning? People are comparing this as when we drafted Eli and had Warner..they're comparing Eli to Warner and Nassib to Eli when we drafted Eli..makes no sense.
Do people not realize that the only backup we've had that was good was Carr and he's older than Eli? It's only being over looked because of the fact that it was a 4th round pick. If we had signed a QB in the free agency who wasn't well known, it would be nothing. And yes, I'm Mike Basciano on there, deal with it.


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The hardest certification you have ever done?
With so many courses and certifications available, what would be the hardest one you have ever done? I know we're all different, and on different levels of skill, area of expertise, and so forth.
But completely honest, I'd like to hear what you think was the hardest for you.
Mainly because, I'm going for the hardest courses available. I like a good challenge
I think OSCE was insane, challenging, fun, and a very good learning experience, but I want to know if there's other practical courses and / or certifications just as challenging or close to. I know OSCP could probably be challenging too, but I was wondering about the other providers of InfoSec courses and certifications.


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Top photo: HemisFair guides on the River Walk extension
Second photo: HemisFair logo
Third photo: Texas exhibition building, now ITC, under construction
Fourth photo: HemisFair monorail
Bottom photo: Voladores (fliers), who performed acrobatics from
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Institute of Texan Cultures opens nostalgic HemisFair 1968 exhibit
By James Benavides
Public Affairs Specialist
(March 24, 2008)--Along with the NCAA Final Four festivities, San Antonio will celebrate the 40th Anniversary of HemisFair 1968 on Sunday, April 6 at HemisFair Park in downtown San Antonio.
Festivities begin 40 years to the day after the opening of the world's fair that many say began San Antonio's modern era. The City of San Antonio, the HemisFair executive committee and UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures invite the San Antonio community to attend a commemorative ceremony at 12:30 p.m. April 6 at the Big Dance stage at HemisFair Plaza on South Alamo Street.
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Tom Frost, UTSA Development Board member and chairman of Frost Bank, and a member of the HemisFair executive committee, will emcee the event, welcoming dignitaries including City Councilwoman Mary Alice Cisneros, Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff and City Manager Sheryl Scully. San Antonio Spurs owner Peter Holt will speak on the changes, such as the establishment of the San Antonio Spurs, that came out of HemisFair.
A video from Say Sí will recapture memories and nostalgia from the 1968 event. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band and Folklóric Ballet Mexicanidades will provide entertainment. Immediately following the ceremony, dance troupe Urban 15 will lead a procession down Old Goliad Street past the Tower of the Americas to UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures. At ITC, the Lion Dance Association of San Antonio and numerous Texas Folklife Festival participants in their cultural dress will welcome guests.
At 2:15 p.m. April 6 at the foot of the bridge leading to UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures, UTSA President Ricardo Romo will host a ribbon cutting ceremony, honoring the museum's legacy as an original tenant of HemisFair Park and opening the museum's new exhibit, "HemisFair 1968: San Antonio's Introduction to the World."
Through the generosity of community partners, admission to the museum will be free April 6. A new HemisFair dome show will premiere at the museum at 2:45 p.m. Festivities begin a yearlong exhibit at the museum. Regular museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Tuesday-Saturday; noon-5 p.m. Sunday, closed Monday. Admission is $7 for adults; $4 for children, seniors and military with I.D., and free with UTSACard. For more information, call (210) 458-2330 or visit the Institute of Texan Cultures Web site.
UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures is San Antonio's cultural experience museum. Established as the Texas State Exhibits Building for HemisFair 1968, it later was designated as a campus of The University of Texas at San Antonio. The museum tells the stories of Texas' diverse citizens and multicultural heritage. Home to the Texas Folklife Festival, Asian Festival and other cultural events, the ITC seeks to entertain, inform and inspire those who seek a greater understanding of the influence of multiculturalism in the Lone Star State.
Many people helped make HemisFair 1968 a reality, and a number of them will be honored at the Sunday, April 6 ceremony. Guests will include:
- Bill Sinkin, vice chairman of the board, HemisFair 1968
- Tom Frost Jr., vice president of international participation, HemisFair 1968
- Flo Crichton, executive committee member, HemisFair 1968
- Jessica Catto, ex offficio member, HemisFair 1968 Executive Committee
- Mary Jane Houston, ex officio member, HemisFair 1968 Executive Committee
- David Straus, ex officio member, HemisFair 1968 Executive Committee
- Red McCombs, past member, HemisFair 1968 Executive Committee
- John Daniels, past member, HemisFair 1968 Executive Committee
- Lila Cockerell, 1968 San Antonio City Councilwoman
- Winston Martin, 1968 director, San Antonio Development Corp.
- Cosmo Guido, contractors representative, HemisFair 1968
- Carlos Freymann, director, Visitor and Exhibitor Relations Department, San Antonio Fair Inc.
- Jack Trawick, comptroller, San Antonio Fair Inc.
- Rosemary Kowalski, caterer, HemisFair 1968