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Obama confidant Mark Lippert nominated for top Asia post
- By Josh Rogin
Josh Rogin covers national security and foreign policy and writes the daily Web column The Cable. His column appears bi-weekly in the print edition of The Washington Post. He can be reached for comments or tips at email@example.com.
Previously, Josh covered defense and foreign policy as a staff writer for Congressional Quarterly, writing extensively on Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, U.S.-Asia relations, defense budgeting and appropriations, and the defense lobbying and contracting industries. Prior to that, he covered military modernization, cyber warfare, space, and missile defense for Federal Computer Week Magazine. He has also served as Pentagon Staff Reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading daily newspaper, in its Washington, D.C., bureau, where he reported on U.S.-Japan relations, Chinese military modernization, the North Korean nuclear crisis, and more.
A graduate of George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, Josh lived in Yokohama, Japan, and studied at Tokyo's Sophia University. He speaks conversational Japanese and has reported from the region. He has also worked at the House International Relations Committee, the Embassy of Japan, and the Brookings Institution.
Josh's reporting has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, CBS, ABC, NPR, WTOP, and several other outlets. He was a 2008-2009 National Press Foundation's Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow, 2009 military reporting fellow with the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the 2011 recipient of the InterAction Award for Excellence in International Reporting. He hails from Philadelphia and lives in Washington, D.C.
The Obama administration late Thursday formally announced the appointment of Mark Lippert as the next assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs.
Lippert was one of President Barack Obama's earliest and closest advisors on foreign policy, having been with Obama since his days as a senator. He was a key figure in Obama's presidential campaign and served as chief of staff of the National Security Council (NSC), a position that had not existed in George W. Bush's administration but which Obama resurrected in 2009.
Lippert was pushed out of the White House after an internal struggle with then National Security Advisor Jim Jones, who blamed Lippert for a series of negative leaks to the press about Jones' mismanagement of the NSC.
"In July [2009], Jones laid out his case to Obama and others. All seemed to agree that it was rank insubordination. Obama promised to move on Lippert," Woodward wrote. "On October 1, the day of the McChrystal speech in London, the White House press secretary issued a three-paragraph statement that Lippert was returning to active duty in the Navy. The statement made it sound as though this had been Lippert's choice. 'I was not surprised,' Obama said in the statement, 'when he came and told me he had stepped forward for another mobilization, as Mark is passionate about the Navy.'"
Jones was later pushed out himself, after being blamed by top White House officials for a series of leaks to the press about the White House's top advisors, whom he called "the water bugs, the "Politburo," "the mafia," and the "campaign set," according to Bob Woodward's book Obama's Wars.
While serving overseas on multiple tours, Lipper was an intelligence officer for the Navy Seals and participated Navy Special Warfare missions in Africa.
The Lippert nomination was an open secret in Washington as early as April, but the nomination never came. The rumor was that Defense Secretary Robert Gates did not want Lippert, a close confidant of the White House clique, burrowed inside the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Now, with Gates gone, that obstacle has apparently been removed. The Cable reported in July that Lippert was never removed from the White House payroll system, although an administration official said he did not receive his White House pay and benefits while on active duty.
If confirmed, Lippert will succeed Gen. Chip Gregson, who resigned in April. Following a reorganization of the Pentagon's policy shop in 2009, Gregson's office was given a portfolio that includes China, Japan, North and South Korea, India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Gregson, who focused mostly on the Northeast Asia part of that portfolio, was known as a knowledgeable and competent official who nonetheless played a less prominent role in diplomacy than his State Department counterpart, Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell.
Privately, administration sources told The Cable that Gregson ultimately could not keep pace with the ambitious political agenda set by the State Department, which is seen as the locus of administration power in much of Asia. He is said by these sources to have fallen somewhat out of favor with Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy, a close confidant of Campbell's. Flournoy and Campbell founded the Center for a New American Security before entering the Obama administration.
Unlike Gregson, Lippert has no experience working in the Pentagon and no direct experience working on East Asian diplomacy. Chris Nelson of the Nelson Report, an insiders' newsletter on Asia policy, presented the administration's case for Lippert in his report on Thursday.
"During the Campaign, he was the principal liason (sic) between the Asia advisory team run by Jeff Bader, who became the Senior Director for Asia at the NSC, and the candidate; Second, his exhaustive, face-to-face involvement with the President, and senior NSC, State and DOD staff, on all Asia related matters during his year at the NSC," Nelson wrote, adding that Lippert "still has the deepest trust of Obama and his folks."
In April, it was reported by Nelson that when the Lippert nomination was first floated, Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) objected, "due to Lippert's well-known opposition, while at the White House, to Obama's 'surge' in Afghanistan." Neither McCain nor Graham has ever publicly expressed an objection to the Lippert nomination.
We've called around, and there aren't any Senate offices that are pledging to hold up the Lippert nomination — yet. However, one senior Senate GOP aide told The Cable in July that "Mark Lippert's nomination to be assistant secretary of defense for Asia would be tremendous hold bait and an opportunity for the Senate to get a hearing on all of the president's China and Taiwan's policies."
The Asia policy shop in the Pentagon had been run by Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Derek Mitchell, until he was tapped to become special representative and policy coordinator for Burma. Now the office is run by acting Assistant Secretary Peter Lavoy, who came over from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.


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The effects of alcohol and drugs on the user are well known to most of us. Student substance abuse is most often identified by faculty when irresponsible, unpredictable behavior affects the learning situation (i.e., drunk and disorderly in class), or when a combination of the health and social impairments associated with alcohol and/or drug abuse sabotages student performance. Because of the denial that exists in most substance abusers, it is important to express your concern about the student not in terms of suspicions about alcohol and other drugs but in terms of specific changes in behavior or performance.
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According to TxDOT, 3,089 people died on Texas highways in 2009. That's 388 fewer deaths than the year before, a drop of eleven percent. TxDOT's Kelli Petras says the decrease took the agency by surprise.
"We are very fortunate to have received this low number. We've been trying really hard to get our fatality numbers down."
Eleven percent is quite significant considering the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration puts the year-on-year decrease in Texas from 2007 to 2008 at a mere two percent. Petras says a number of factors contributed to the sharp decrease.
"We base it on basically a three prong approach, from engineering, enforcement, education."
TxDOT says people are driving safer and obeying seatbelt laws. Since 2005 TxDOT has allocated $1.2 billion from the Texas Safety Bond Program for projects specifically designed to shrink the number of crashes on its roadways. Petras says those safety projects also contributed to the decline. She says things like widening roads, adding left turn lanes, and putting up concrete barriers help curb the number of severe crashes.
"If we continue to do things to our highways that make them safer then hopefully we'll be able to decrease the 3,000 to 2,000 next year, and eventually get to the zero fatalities."
The decline in fatalities isn't unique to Texas. In its preliminary crash data for 2009, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates the amount of traffic fatalities nationwide is down almost 9 percent from 2008.
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For more information on these findings, visit TxDOT's Safer Roads Contribute to Significant Drop in Highway Fatalities and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Statistics on the Early Estimate of Motor Vehicle Traffic Fatalities in 2009.
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The Huawei U7510 is a budget touchscreen phone with 3G support that's available for a shade under fifty notes on the Three network in the UK. In the US, the phone can be picked up on the T-mobile network where it's known as the T-mobile Tap.
Most people have probably never heard of Hauwei, but it's actually one of the biggest manufacturers of telecoms equipment in the world and makes many of the USB modems that operators bundle with their mobile broadband packages.
Most operators rebadge Huawei's handsets with their own brand name, but Three hasn't done this in the UK, although the handset is devoid of any Huawei logos (despite the press photo above). The U7510 is available in either black or purple. We had the black version and in terms of looks it's a dead ringer for Samsung's Genio Touch, which perhaps isn't surprising as both devices are aimed at the youth market. The handset is relatively attractive to look at and the chrome band that surrounds the screen and d-pad controller add a touch of elegance. Build quality is good, too, as the chassis feels quite solid and not as plasticky as some other budget phones. The U7510's small size and curvaceous styling also means it feels comfortable in the hand and we like the rubberised battery cover that gives the phone a grippy feel.
As the U7510 is mostly driven via its touchscreen, there are just three buttons on the front - a central D-pad flanked by two call control buttons. There are a few extra controls positioned on the sides of the phone including a volume rocker and camera key on the right and a power button on the top, which doubles as the lock switch.
The phone's key feature is obviously its 2.8in touchscreen. This has a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, which won't exactly knock your socks off in terms of clarity, but the user interface makes good use of the space available and even the browser isn't compromised too much by the limited resolution. The screen is reasonably bright and colours look relatively rich and vibrant. It's fairly responsive to touch input, too, despite the fact that it uses resistive technology.
The U7510 runs Qualcomm's Brew operating system (version 3.1) which is the same OS as that used on HTC's Smart. However, whereas HTC has skinned the OS on the Smart to look similar to its Sense interface, the home screen on Huawei's version looks much more like the Touchwiz interface found on Samsung handsets like the Genio Touch.
In fact, it looks so similar we had to do a double take to make sure it wasn't actually running Samsung's software. The similarities really are startling. For instance, like Touchwiz, the U7510's home screen has a pull-out tab at the side that opens to reveal a column of widgets that you can drag and drop onto the screen and arrange as you like. Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery but at least Huawei offers a decent range of widgets including ones for Skype and Windows Live Messenger along with a music player, YouTube app and photo gallery. However, whereas Touchwiz offers three different home screens, the U7510 only has one so it can get crowded quickly.
Any chance of a few screenshots of the UI?
seriously, at least turn the screen on when you take the photos so we can see what the OS looks like.
Niall's a freelancer, so he doesn't take the pictures, though I do see a couple of original shots in here, which aren't always included in articles like this one.
Since the OS is the most noteworthy aspect of this phone, a screenshot or two wouldn't go amiss.
Sod their phone business. They should get to work in making that MiFi look less like an Early Learning Centre toy. Why won't any network give us the cool Novatel one?
I've had one of these for six months now, bought for £40 in Argos just before Christmas. Battery life is great and mini-USB charging is handy. the default browser is good but Opera Mini is terrific on this phone. I'd like a better interface for texting and I haven't worked out how to teach it new words but it's usable. When connected to a PC, it contains all the software required to use it as a 3G modem.
The only thing badly wrong with it is the non-standard mini USB headphone socket, it won't even work with a mototola min-USB headphone adaptor and havn't found one designed just for this phone. The built in speaker sounds bigger and better than it should when playing music.
My wife, who is Chinese, assures me that Huawei should be pronounced Wha-Whey.
I have had this phone for 12 months now. I have it for an 18 month contract- I got this phone for christmas 2009 from 3Store.
In my opinion:
the camera is excellent!
free messenger and skype comes in very handy but unfortunatly I would like to have had free internet.
the texting is good phone calls are good- I got a good deal with my tarriff, 75 minutes and unlimited texts just right for me !
The only bad thing i would say is I have had to take my phone back to 3Store for repair 2 times. The 1st time for there was a fault with the texting but they sorted it out and gave me my phone back and I noticed that when my phone had been in repair, on the top right hand side of the screen could be lifted so I went straight back to 3Store complaining and sick and tired of bringing this phone back they at first were very difficult because they thought I had done it on purpose why I would do that I don't know!
But they said they will send it off for repair again and 2 weeks later they just gave me a new phone (but the same Huawei model)
Overall I would recommend this product as all phones have minor issues!
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Kannada Review: 'Sagar' is a family entertainer
'Sagar' is a family entertainer. The film is enjoyable in parts and has a good screenplay.
A film from the banner of Ramu Enterprises is always curiously watched. That is because of reputation it has earned in the commercial flicks. 'Sagar' a story from KS Kumar is absorbing at parts.
It has a good screenplay but there is a need to showcase the power of young Prajwal, as he was indulged in deadly action scenes in the film. The film lacks in making the audience believe that Prajwal can do action. The director should have done some exercise to strengthen the role of Prajwal.Otherwise it is a good pack for the family audience.
The film has three beautiful heroines and Prajwal as the romantic lead. Gurukiran and Krishnakumar's music and cinematography raises the level of the film.
Hailing from an aristocrat industrialist Rajasekhara Murthy family Sagar (Prajwal) is forced to say a lie that he is in love with Kajal. That is when the marriage is fixed with him and Priyanka (Haripriya). They decide that Unless both fall in love they will not get married is what both decide. To keep this marriage away, Sagar comes up with an idea from. Accordingly Kajal (Radhika Pandit) arrives in the house. The family agrees on this and what happens next is the action portion because Kajal is followed by international don Sonu (Dev Gill). How Sagar saves Kajal and accept her, is the remaining portion of the film.
Prajwal suits well in a romantic role while Radhika Pandit deserved some more scope to act though she has acted fine in the given role. Haripriya looks more glamorous than all.
The terror is more from Sharat Lohitashva than Dev Gill of 'Magadheera' fame. Avinash, Vinayaprasad, Swayamvara Chandru render good support.
Modhale Eke Sigalilla Neenu is a fine melody from Gurukiran and there are two other peppy tunes. Krishna Kumar cinematography gives a feast to the eyes in every frame. Rajan in editing has worked hard.
On a whole 'Sagar' is a family entertainer.
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Having a better way to predict these events would allow astronomers to study them in their earliest stages. Astronomers wrote in the journal Nature this week that they have observed an energetic outburst from a supernova called SN 2010mc, witnessing a remarkable mass-loss event about a month before the explosion. "What is surprising is the short time between the precursor eruption and the eventual supernova explosion — one month is an extremely tiny fraction of the ten-million-year lifespan of a star," said Carnegie Institution's Mansi Kasliwal. Models showed that there was just a 0.1 percent chance that the outburst was due to random chance, which gives astronomers evidence that it and the explosion are related. These outbursts are two orders of magnitude more likely to occur in the immediate run-up to the star's explosion, than at other times in a star's life. 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Picture of the Day: Emission Nebula NGC 2467
NGC 2467 (sometimes referred as the "Skull and Crossbones") is an emission nebula with an age of a few million years at most, located some 13,000 – 17,000 light-years away from Earth in the southern constellation of Puppis (the Stern). It is moving away from us at 55.75 per second.
It is an extremely active stellar nursery, where new stars are born continuously from large clouds of dust and gas. This star forming (HII) region, looking like a cosmic ghost, contains the open star clusters Haffner 18 (center) and Haffner 19 (inside the smaller pink region — the lower eye of the ghost), as well as vast areas of ionized gas.
The image displays a striking array of features that illustrate multiple phases of star birth. Huge clouds of gas and dust are sprinkled with bright blue, hot young stars. The bright star at the center of the largest pink region on the bottom of the image is HD 64315, a massive young star that is helping shaping the structure of the whole nebular region. Toward the center, deep dark lanes of dust hide parts of the nebula that surely are forming new stars.
Haffner 18 contains about 50 stars, among which several short lived, massive ones. The massive star still surrounded by a small, dense shell of hydrogen, is called FM3060a. The shell is about 2.5 light-years wide and expands at a speed of 20 km/s. It must have been created some 40,000 years ago.
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Computer Models Explain How Galaxies Formed and Evolved
When most people think of astronomers, they envision scientists who spend time peering at stars and galaxies through telescopes on high mountain tops. Rutgers astronomer Rachel Somerville depends on those who make such observations, both from telescopes on the ground and orbiting earth in space. But her primary tool for understanding how galaxies formed billions of years ago - and how they continue to evolve in our contemporary universe - are large computers.
Instruments such as the Hubble Space Telescope peer to the farthest reaches of space, opening windows in time that reveal how galaxies looked as they took shape in a young universe. Computer modeling then helps astronomers make sense of what they're seeing and build a better understanding of how today's galaxies first formed.
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'Hungry Twin' Stars Gobble Their First Meals
Just-forming stars, like growing babies, are always hungry and must "feed" on huge amounts of gas and dust from dense envelopes surrounding them at birth. Now a team of astronomers including Robert Gutermuth, a University of Massachusetts Amherst expert in imaging data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, reports observing an unusual "baby" star that periodically emits infrared light bursts, suggesting it may be twins, that is, a binary star. The discovery is reported this month in Nature.
The extremely young object, dubbed LRLL 54361, is about 100,000 years old and is located about 950 light years away toward the Perseus constellation. Years of monitoring its infrared with the Spitzer instrument reveal that it becomes 10 times brighter every 25.34 days, Gutermuth and colleagues say. This periodicity suggests that a companion to the central forming star is likely inhibiting the infall of gas and dust until its closest orbital approach, when matter eventually comes crashing down onto the protostellar "twins."
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:Issued: 2013 Jan 31 1230 UTC
# Prepared by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce, NOAA, Space Weather Prediction Center
Solar Activity
.24 hr Summary...
Solar activity was low. Region 1663 (S09W18) produced an impulsive C1
x-ray event at 31/0434 UTC. This was the only notable x-ray emission
during the period. Region 1663 displayed modest growth and development
over the period. The latest reports from ground based optical sites
identify it as a C-type group with a beta magnetic classification. The
only other bipole on the visible disk, Region 1665 (N11E56), remained
stable and inactive during the period. A backside CME (from Earths
perspective) was observed by NASA SOHO LASCO C2 and NASA STEREO Ahead
EUVI 195 imagery at approximately 30/1336 UTC. It appears to have
originated from old Region 1660, which rotated off the visible disk a
few days ago, and will not become geoeffective. A second CME was
observed already in progress on LASCO C2/C3 imagery starting prior to
31/0750 UTC. Neither the start time nor the source location were
determined due to a LASCO tracking gap which occurred from 30/2145 to
31/0750 UTC. STEREO A COR2 data suggests that the event began after
31/0709 UTC. Based on analysis of STEREO and LASCO, this event was
determined to be front-sided with an asymmetric partial halo signature.
It is moving on a southeasterly trajectory at a relatively modest
velocity. No x-ray enhancements or associated radio were observed;
suggesting a slow event likely from a filament eruption. As more data
becomes available, additional analysis will be conducted to determine if
the event has geoeffective potential for later this week. No new regions
were numbered during the period.
Solar activity is expected to be very low with a chance for a C-class
flare from regions 1663 or 1665.
Energetic Particle
.24 hr Summary...
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux at geosynchronous orbit reached
moderate levels. The greater than 10 MeV proton flux at geosynchronous
orbit was at background levels.
The greater than 2 MeV electron flux is expected to be at normal to
moderate levels. The greater than 10 MeV proton flux is expected to
remain at background levels.
Solar Wind
.24 hr Summary...
Solar wind parameters, as measured by the ACE spacecraft, indicated
nominal conditions with speeds steadily near 300 km/s, Bz varying
between about -2 to +3 nT, and Bt ranging from 1 to 4 nT. The sector
orientation began the period predominantly negative (towards), but
displayed a definitive transition towards a positive (away) orientation
between 31/0300 and 31/0500 UTC.
Nominal conditions are expected to continue for the next three days (31
Jan - 02 Feb).
.24 hr Summary...
The geomagnetic field was quiet.
The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet for the next three days
(31 Jan - 02 Feb).
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On the way back we stoped over at BAS Coffee tasting, we didn't test the Balinese coffe only, but cacao, ginger tea, lemon grass tea, and gingseng coffe as well! They have their own way to rost the coffee beans, with some traditional way and even they packed it themselves. A lot of spices, like safron, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamone, pepper, Balinese dried chilli, star anise, ginger, vanilla, etc. Even they have a lot of massage oils, burn oils, and parfume. And a lot of other things that I even can't remember all. All the way long we had nice view of green trees, traditional villages with typical Balinese architecture, rice paddy terraces, bamboo, Balinese oranges, Jack fruit trees, flowers, durian trees, how Balinese living, attending the ceremony at the village temples, growing the rice, children going to school, even we have been so lucky to witness the Balinese wedding!
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The Rotorua Daily Post has been named Newspaper of the Year in its category at the prestigious PANPA international newspaper awards.
The awards, held in Sydney last night, saw your local newspaper take out the Newspaper of the Year up to 10,000 circulation title.
Chief photographer Stephen Parker topped a great year by winning the regional Photography Portrait of the Year with his shot of Rotorua pensioner Gavin Hayes.
The PANPA awards are open to newspapers from across Australia and New Zealand, as well as English-language papers in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
The top accolades came a day after the paper's advertising manager Janine Davy took out the supreme award for Advertising Manager/Director of the Year.
The Rotorua Daily Post was also a finalist in Digital Destination of the Year for its website while photographer Ben Fraser was up for regional News Photograph of the Year.
Mr Parker was also a finalist in the regional Features Photograph of the Year.
The awards have capped off a remarkable year for the Rotorua Daily Post.
General manager Matthew Sherry said the newspaper had gone from strength to strength, particularly since the launch of the morning compact newspaper in March.
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Racing Mania HD Rating:
Back in the day when my game console of choice was my trusty Commodore 64 computer one of the favourite games I would play was Super Sprint, a 2D top down racer that was as simplistic as they come yet had an addictive game-play that kept me coming back for more. And it was this game that instantly came to mind when I loaded Racing Mania HD for my latest gaming machine my Apple iPad.
The style and structure of the two are pretty similar. Both are top down racers with tiny cars and you can also upgrade and repair your vehicle as you progress through the 15 different tracks. It's really as simple as that, however that's no bad thing and while I still have a soft spot for the retro game Racing Mania HD is a fun little distraction too.
The game can be played in both single player mode and against a friend via the local network. The single player mode is split into Arcade and Practice modes with the 15 tracks only being able to played in Practice Mode after they've been unlocked in Arcade mode.
There are three control options to choose between, all of them use an accelerator and a break button on the right side of the screen while you get to choose your how you steer your vehicle from the option of a steering wheel, left and right arrows and the third option of using the accelerometer. All of them have there benefits but after playing with each of them for a while I settled on the left and right arrows as offering the best solution for me.
When launching the game you first need to choose your vehicle whether it's a sleek hatch back, beach buggy, SUV or mini car there is something for everyone and while the differances between them are all pretty small they do all have there own stats which will impact on how you race to a lesser or greater extent.
Each car can additionally be upgraded for quicker acceleration or a higher top speed from your bank account that gets increased depending on your success and the 3 cash coins you can pick up during each race.
Adding to the fun is the fact that you race each track against 10 other mini cars creating a frantic 3 laps of action at high speed. The speed of the game is really affective and you mini car will appear to be zooming round at great speed and that's even before you've started increasing the cars stats as you move through the tracks.
Talking of tracks when you start the game you get 5 different types of track to race around and it appears that the variety may continue into the next 10 too, however after the initial five there are two additional track styles with five course for each of them. The 5 night tracks are dark and moody and while the headlights of your mini cars look good you luckily don't have to rely on them to see where you are going and the final 5 tracks are like high speed futuristic race tracks where the speed is cranked up once more.
The key to success in Racing Mania HD is anticipating the corners and, if you can do it, not taking your finger off of the accelerator as you do. This will take a while to do especially as the tracks get more twisty and narrow. Hitting the sides or going off track will be punished and as you try to maneuver your car out of a ditch, tree or barrier you may find the other 9 cars speeding past you to take the chequered flag.
There is a local high score table to track your best scores and the local network multi-player mode definitely adds additional value to the game but I did find it relativity easy to complete the 15 tracks in under an hour. I still think that I will come back to the game but a future update to add more tracks, achievements and especially an online multi player mode would make this fun 2D racer into a long term keeper.
- High speed mini car racing
- Multiple control options
- 10 car frantic racing
- Too easy
- Needs more tracks
- No online multi-player
Price: $3.99 (iTunes Store)
Category: Games
Released: May 31, 2010
Reviewed Version: 1.0
Size: 135 MB
Language: English
Seller: Federico Bigliocca
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A Supreme Court lawyer and political pundit details the enthralling and groundbreaking story of the gay rights movement, revealing how a dedicated and resourceful minority changed America forever.
When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted--most notably at a bar called Stonewall in Greenwich Village--in the summer of 1969, most religious traditions condemned homosexuality; psychiatric experts labeled people who were attracted to others of the same sex "crazy"; and forty-nine states outlawed sex between people of the same gender. Four decades later, in June 2011, New York legalized gay marriage--the most populous state in the country to do so thus far. The armed services stopped enforcing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, ending a law that had long discriminated against gay and lesbian members of the military. Successful social movements are always extraordinary, but these advances were something of a miracle.
Political columnist Linda Hirshman recountsthe long roads that led to these victories, viewing the gay rights movement within the tradition of American freedom as the third great modern social-justice movement, alongside the civil rights movement and the women's rights movement. Drawing on an abundance of published and archival material, and hundreds of in-depth interviews, Hirshman shows, in this astute political analysis, how the fight for gay rights has changed the American landscape for all citizens--blurring rigid gender lines, altering the shared culture, and broadening our definitions of family.
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I felt like wearing something comfortable this week, and I think that this outfit perfectly reflects my weekend warrior status (or really, lack thereof).
And, ignore the ridiculous amount of hair frizz. I told you the Brazilian Blowout was gone.
Shirt: Loomstate (why is it that I never recognize how see-through an item is until someone takes a picture of me? Ugh.)
Jeans: Red Engine Burner Super Skinny in Noir
Shoes: Tahari
Bag: Calvin Klein (purchased from RowNine)
Earrings: Forever 21
If you don't own any Red Engine jeans, I can't recommend them enough. The Burner super skinny style is definitely one to try out (I raved about them in my post about the Red Engine Lookbook, but they are even more spectacular on!), and they are a must for my list of Summer Denim.
The light, stretchy fabric holds its shape, flatters the rear and feels extremely comfortable. I'd recommend sizing up (Red Engine tends to run a bit small, in my opinion), but they are a great addition – even year-round – to your denim collection.
Big thanks to Michelle from CoolMamaStyle.com for taking the photo (it helps working with amazingly awesome fellow bloggers). It's almost the weekend, kids!


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Rob Tendy, left, from Putnam Valley, playing the role of Link Larkin; Michelle Goldrich of Albertson, as Tracy Turnblad; and Matt Gaska of Endicott as Edna Turnblad, star in the Theatre Department's production of "Hairspray."
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'Hairspray' to stand out on Watters stage
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With 25 actors requiring multiple costume changes and a dozen locations that sometimes feature scene changes during song-and-dance performances, "Hairspray" is not the typical Theatre Department production.
In fact, it may be the most complex production the department has ever brought to the stage, director Anne Brady said.
"This is probably the most complicated show, but I often choose big-cast shows," said Brady, a professor in the Theatre Department. "I love tech. I love scenery. I love costumes. They all help tell the story.
"I wanted to do 'Hairspray' because it is a well-known show. I said to the design staff: 'Tell me how we can do it because I know it is big. If we need to pare things down, tell me how to make it possible.'"
Brady's version of the Tony-winning musical based on John Waters' 1988 film will come to the Watters Theater at 8 p.m. Nov. 30, Dec. 1, Dec. 7-8, and at 2 p.m. Dec. 9. Tickets are $18, general admission; $16, faculty/staff/seniors; and $10, students; and can be purchased by calling the Anderson Center Box Office at 607-777-ARTS or by visiting http://anderson.binghamton.edu.
Set in Baltimore, "Hairspray" transports audience members to 1962 and introduces them to Tracy Turnblad (played by Michelle Goldrich). She is a plump and cheerful teen who fulfills her dream of dancing on her favorite TV dance program, "The Corny Collins Show." Tracy then uses her celebrity status to help integrate the show and change the city.
For the design team, "Hairspray" has been a labor of love.
"The idea of doing a show of this scale at this University in this program has been a daunting task," said Karen Kozlowski, associate professor of theatre and "Hairspray" scenic designer. "It's taken a lot out of the department to produce something of this caliber."
Jun Han, the show's costume designer, had to not only discover the proper "retro feel" for the costumes, but the international student from China also had to learn about American culture in the 1960s.
"I did a lot of research by looking at older magazines and newspapers from that time," said Han, a senior from China. "I also looked at historical catalogs," such as Sears and Montgomery Ward.
Han and her adviser/supervisor, Andrea Lenci-Cerchiara, MA '10, would learn about the era and then work on visually defining the show's iconic characters.
"I was always asking Andrea: 'Is this from the 1970s or 1960s?'" Han said with a laugh. "Sometimes I did the research and would show (a costume idea) and people would say: 'That's what my grandfather would wear!' That helped me a lot."
Perhaps most impressively, Han sketched each "Hairspray" character and would show the costume ideas to Brady. A final sketch of Tracy Turnblad by Han revealed an amazing replication of the character, complete with colorful clothes from the era.
"I wanted a classic Tracy with skirts and blouses," Han said. "So I did a lot of research on what schoolgirls were wearing at the time."
Han often did up to six sketches per character before a final one was approved.
"Jun would do a sketch based on the character and the ideas that we wanted," Lenci-Cerchiara said. "Then the sketch was modified with real garments using period patterns. … We sat in meetings and discussed what worked, what didn't work, what told the story and what didn't tell the story. What fabrics work best? What colors work best?"
Han even sculpted and built a "fat suit/lady suit" that is worn by Matt Gaska, who plays Tracy's mother Edna in the role made famous on Broadway by Harvey Fierstein.
"We had to have that done well ahead of time so that he could have it and get used to that feeling of being in a women's suit – and being large," Lenci-Cerchiara said.
For Kozlowski and student assistant Glenn Pepe, the scenic design was just as detailed and complex.
"I remember saying to Karen that the show is about movement and it feels like the set has to move," Brady said.
Kozlowski incorporated large circular platforms that help to shift locations, especially as scenes change during musical numbers.
"It's incredibly exciting and challenging to put into the choreography some of the movements of the platforms from one place to another," Brady said.
Another challenge for Kozlowski was finding ways to have a dozen locations without using many bulk pieces.
"We have to pare down to just the essentials that dictate the scene we are in," she said. "We'll use a sign or a few pops of color to say we're at 'The Corny Collins Show' or Motormouth's Record Shop. We'll have a few stylized pieces as opposed to a full house."
It is important that the costume and scenic crews do not work independently from each other, Kozlowski said.
"I've met with Jun and Andrea as much as I've met with Anne to make sure that our historical patterns and colors work together and don't conflict," she said. "We don't want TV-test patterns onstage! There is a lot of balance and give-and-take between the different areas."
No design elements should stand out if the production teams have done their jobs correctly, Kozlowski added.
"They should blend seamlessly with the rest of the production to make a cohesive package," she said. "If one element stands out that we haven't chosen to stand out, then something did not mesh correctly in the overall development concept.
"That's one of the beauties of theater: It's a collaborative art form. It takes all of us to achieve one goal. Without one of us, it doesn't work. We have to be working together to make sure it's a functioning machine."
Kozlowski has simple hopes for how audiences might react to "Hairspray."
"We want them to say: 'That was a great version of 'Hairspray.' It was a lot of fun and it felt like the early '60s.'"
Brady, meanwhile, is anticipating a more active reaction from the audience.
"I want them to be dancing in the aisles!" she said.


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At the end of a long and arduous day, everybody needs a hug ... and Victoria Beckham is no exception.
The former Spice Girl has tweeted a picture of herself in the welcoming arms of a polar bear after a tiring day on a fashion shoot.
The designer wrote: "Finished Xmas e-commerce shoot, exhausted. Good night fashion bunnies! X vb"
Earlier in the day the 39-year-old delighted her fans by posting a picture of herself dueting with an old Spice Girls doll.
Pictured against a pink background, Victoria can be seen holding the fairy while pretending to sing into her mini microphone.
She captioned the picture with the words: 'Finally!! I found someone to duet with on my Xmas e-commerce shoot! X vb'.
Meanwhile, David Beckham has said he wants Brad Pitt to portray him in a movie about his life.
The retired football star is a fan of the Hollywood star and thinks if a film were ever made about him, Pitt, 49, would be a good choice for the starring role.
Speaking on Talksport Radio, David joked: "I think Brad would be the obvious choice. I'd like Brad to be playing me - him or Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the two. Or Bradley Cooper. They're not bad looking guys."
David, 38, finished playing in May, but says he's had plenty of opportunity to stay in shape since, as his children - Brooklyn, 14, Romeo, 12, Cruz, nine, and two-year-old Harper, with wife Victoria - keep him on his toes.
He added: "I had four months where I literally didn't do one bit of any physical activity but then I gradually started to do it, I'm chasing four kids around.
"I think Victoria is waiting for me to get a couple of tires around my waist but right now it's not happening, thankfully."
One activity David can focus on now he's retired is DIY, as he and Victoria are reportedly planning £5 million in renovations for their west London town house, which they recently purchased for £40 million. Improvements are said to include two rooms for Victoria's shoes and every bathroom to be fitted with a waterproof plasma TV.
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