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It was cancelled due to water temperature rather than bad weather per se last year (not that it was the nicest of days!!) so I don't know what it would be like I'm afraid but from the banks it looked pretty benign!
I've done the swim at M'man a few times. it's a gravel pit so no currents but there could be chop if it's windy although it's pretty sheltered with waterside shrubbery and banks.
the water will be cold - accept that - but hopefully not as cold as last year when it was sub-11C. I was one of the officials on the day and despite all attempts we couldn't find anywhere where it was above 11C so we had to cancel the swim under BTF rules. most competitors were happy with that as the air temp was only about 7C and it was also pissing down!
in the year's I've done it the water was c14C - cold but tolerable
this year I'm hoping to race on Saturday and officiate on Sunday so should be there again
cool. Thanks for the responses. Being a cold swim is fine (trusty wetsuit) and the rest sounds okay. Looking forward to it - weather permitting.
x2 what FB says - I did Marshman last year and it was freezing and wet. Also did Windfarmer Oly at same venue in July and water was warm enough (2.5 months later, granted), also clean enough from what I remember
As a newbie to tri I was very pleasantly suprised when I saw the Marshman bike route goes straight past my house. I'll be there with a cup of tea and breakfast cheering everyone on as they ride past.....
I also suppose seeing as its so close to me I have no excuse not to plan to do it next year
for anyone doing this year's race - it's been postponed to the weekend of 25/26th May. because of the ongoing cold weather they reckon that there's not enough time for the water to warm up sufficiently for the swim to go ahead, so a 3 week delay should help - assuming we get some warm weather in the interim!!
I salute that decision, it's the right one, especially after last year. Hope everyone can make it.


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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A one-of-a-kind NASA rocket soared into the Florida sky Wednesday in a brief but critical test flight of a new booster slated to launch astronauts into space and, eventually, toward the moon.
NASA's Ares I-X booster, an unmanned prototype of the planned Ares I rocket intended to carry astronauts after the space shuttle fleet retires, blasted off on an experimental mission from the seaside Launch Pad 39B here at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
"I can't tell you how proud I am of all of ya," KSC director Bob Cabana told the launch team after liftoff. "That was just unbelievable, it was spectacular. I got tears in my eyes."
After several false starts due to bad weather, the rocket took advantage of a brief break in the clouds to loft at 11:30 a.m. EDT (1530 GMT). Foul weather and a series of unlucky events foiled its first launch attempt Tuesday. NASA required good visibility for this first flight of the untried rocket.
"Think about what we just did," said launch director Ed Mango after the liftoff. "Our first flight test and the only thing we're waiting on was weather. That says you all did frickin' fantastic," he told the team.
The rocket lifted off despite a bout of thunderstorms that passed over it Tuesday night. About 150 lighting strikes were seen to fall near the site, with four lightning impacts within about a half mile of the launch pad. The countdown toward liftoff was delayed Wednesday morning while ground crews checked out the vehicle to make sure it suffered no lightning damage; luckily, the tests showed Ares I-X was safe to fly.
"We looked at all the systems that could have been affected by this and all the data indicates that there was absolutely no real effect," Ares I-X deputy mission manager Jon Cowart said Wednesday morning.
The towering white booster rose into the sky toward the east, peaked at about 28 miles (45 km) altitude, then dropped into the Atlantic Ocean, with parachutes softening its fall. By all appearances, the launch ? which was aimed at demonstrating the rocket's design - was successful.
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The mission is expected to return a wealth of data - readings from more than 700 onboard sensors as well as visual evidence from cameras on the ground and borne by flying aircraft. NASA engineers will pore over the information to study the rocket's trajectory and performance to help confirm and shape the design of Ares I.
"It's a huge amount of data," said Bob Ess, Ares I-X mission manager. "It's reams and reams of data that will take at best months to go through and understand."
The teams plan to release periodic reports over the next three months to share the results of the fact-finding test flight. "We'll come back and tell the agency and the public what we learned from the flight," Ess said.
Tuesday's launch plans were stymied by clouds, winds and the threat of rain. If the rocket travels through high clouds it runs a risk of triggering "trioboelectrification" - static electricity that could interfere with sensitive onboard instruments. In addition to weather concerns, a stuck cover on one of the rocket's probes stalled Tuesday morning, further delaying the countdown, and a freight boat later strayed into restricted waters close to the launch pad, thwarting one launch attempt.
The Ares I-X rocket was composed of a real first stage, with four tuna can-shaped solid-rocket segments and a dummy fifth segment on top. It also carried a simulated upper stage and crew capsule to mimic the intended size and mass of a full Ares I booster. At 327 feet (100 meters) high on the launch pad, it was the tallest rocket in service today, however brief its two-minute flight lasted.
The solid-rocket elements were based on, and utilized hardware from, the solid rocket boosters that help lift space shuttles into orbit.
After liftoff, the rocket's two stages separated as planned about two minutes into the flight when an explosive device along their boundary fired on schedule. The first stage sank under parachutes to be collected by boats from the sea so that its onboard data could be retrieved. The dummy second stage was left to sink into the Atlantic Ocean.
Uncertain future
Despite the apparent success of Ares I-X's flight, the ultimate future of the Ares I rocket is uncertain.
The booster was originally designed to replace the space shuttles as a vehicle to ferry crews to the International Space Station. But the station is set to be de-orbited around 2016 and Ares I is not likely to be ready before 2017, defeating much of its purpose, some experts have said.
Last week, an independent review team appointed by U.S. President Barack Obama released a report detailing the status of America's human spaceflight program, and outlined possible alternate visions for NASA's future.
The president is currently reviewing the report and is expected to make a decision soon about whether to proceed with the Constellation program, which includes Ares I, or take the agency in a new direction. The report suggested that President Obama consider giving up on Ares I and instead urging private industry to step in and design a low-earth orbit vehicle for humans. That way, NASA could focus on building a heavy-lift vehicle to take people to the moon and Mars.
Despite the doubts hanging over the program, and the perhaps unfortunate timing of the panel's report being released less than a week before the Ares I-X launch, mission managers say they are focusing on the task at hand.
"The timing is what it is, but the test is significant and it's one that we fully back," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator of NASA's exploration systems.
Mission managers said that even if NASA does not go forward with Ares I, Tuesday's flight test provided useful data, not just about that particular rocket, but about the process of designing and building new rockets in general.
"The data were going to get and the objectives we're going to get are really germane to a whole class of launch vehicles," Ess said.
- Video - Ares I-X Rocket Rolls to Launch Pad, Test Flight Plan
- The Strangest Moments in Space Launch History
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SPACE.com is providing full coverage of NASA's Ares I-X test flight with Staff Writer Clara Moskowitz in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and Managing Editor Tariq Malik in New York. Click here for mission updates.


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Sorry for the multiple comments. Somebody who is in charge please save me from my embarrassment.
People, don't forget this is not about Cindy Sheehan. Yeah, she got this protest going by being braver than most of us, but now she has something else to do that's just as important. For the rest of us, it's about America, and who's running it, and if you don't agree with what they're doing, this could be your chance to change that. Keep focused on that.
You can just hear Bush now: "Thank God. The heat's off for a while! Karl couldn't have done it any better!"


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For those of you citing the 16th amendment, perhaps you should read it a little more thoroughly before using that as an argument, as it directly contradicts it's own constitutionality.


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The Ford Mustang at 50 [interactive]
Lee Iacocca's job was on the line.
Would his new Ford baby prove to be a brilliant innovation — or another Edsel?
The question was in the air that April day, 50 years ago, when Iacocca, then Ford's general manager, addressed the press at the soon-to-open 1964/65 World's Fair in Queens. At the end of his speech, Iacocca announced with a showman's flair:
"Ladies and gentlemen — the Mustang!"
Four days later, on April 17, 1964 — now considered the birthday of the Mustang — Ford officially introduced its new pony car to the American public, running prime-time commercials on the TV networks and unveiling the cars at Ford dealerships.
Interactive: Ford Mustang at 50
Would Lee Iacocca's new Ford baby prove to be a brilliant innovation — or another Edsel?
Over that World's Fair's two summer seasons, tens of millions of visitors to the Ford Pavilion got to check out a number of Mustangs on display. (They included a white convertible with a black top, on a platform above an indoor pool with fountains.) Fair-goers could even take a spin in engine-less Mustangs and other Ford cars that ran on a track, like an amusement-park ride.
The Mustang was an instant hit.
"That first year, they wanted to sell 80,000 Mustangs — that was the goal, 'cause [his bosses] told Lee Iacocca, 'If this doesn't go, you lost your job,'" says longtime Mustang owner John Pestrichelli of River Edge, a member and past president of the Garden State Region Mustang Club. "Well, the first day the car became available, they sold 22,000 Mustangs that one day. At the end of four months, they sold 100,000 Mustangs, and at the end of that year, they sold 418,000 Mustangs. So, Lee Iacocca is known as the father of the Mustang."
Over the half-century that the car has been in continuous production, more than 9.2 million
Mustangs have been made and sold. Appearances in hundreds of movies, including "Goldfinger" (1964), "Grand Prix" (1966), "Bullitt" (1968) and "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971), have cemented its status as a pop-culture icon.
The Mustang, they say, is more than a car. It's a state of mind.
Those who love Mustangs are a passionate lot. They can tell you about each of the six generations of Mustangs — from the "1964½" that kicked off the first wave to the upcoming 2015, due this fall, which will lead the newest generation. And they can talk at length about their own Mustangs, as they could about their own children.
The Mustang, they say, is more than a car. It's a state of mind.
"I guess it's a little bit of a freedom thing that you get from driving the car," says Mike DeLiberto of Wood-Ridge, a co-founder and current president of the Garden State Region Mustang Club, one of the two Mustang Club of America chartered clubs in New Jersey. He notes that many older members say driving a Mustang, especially a convertible, makes them feel younger, as if they can "set out onto the open road … go anywhere and have fun doing it, really. More often than not you can't, but at least you feel that way."
This week, the Mustang Club of America is holding two big 50th birthday parties — in Charlotte, N.C., and Las Vegas. Ford has also planned a number of events across the country, including a gathering today for local Mustang owners at Flushing Meadows Corona Park, site of the World's Fair.
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DeLiberto, who was born the same year as the Mustang, plans to be at the Queens event — in his 1995 forest-green Mustang GT convertible with a tan interior.
It's actually the seventh Mustang in DeLiberto's life.
The first was a Sauterne Gold '66 Mustang hardtop, which his father bought from his Aunt Lucille. She had purchased it new, as a 19-year-old recent high school graduate who needed a car for work. "At that time, the Mustang was the car and it was small, which was good, 'cause I'm small. And it was sporty,"
Lucille Calabrese, now of Hackensack, says of that first in a line of Mustangs she has owned.
After about five years, Calabrese sold her original Mustang to her brother-in-law, DeLiberto's father.
"It wasn't really the family car, but I do remember one year when our other car wasn't working and we actually piled the whole family in it and went and got a Christmas tree," DeLiberto says, in an interview at his home. "That tree was hanging out the back, and we must have had five people in it. This was the age before mandatory seat belts."
In 1982, as a high school senior, DeLiberto purchased his own first Mustang — a 1965 coupe. Subsequently, he sold that and a 1968 Mustang convertible he had bought so he could get a brand-new 1985 Mustang as a college-commuting car. Soon after he married his wife Louise in 1990, the couple purchased another Mustang — a '65 Mustang fastback. Eventually, those two cars got replaced by the '95 convertible, which DeLiberto shelters in his garage. "It's a reliable, powerful, fun car," he says.
In 1993, DeLiberto co-founded the Garden State Region Mustang Club, which meets monthly in Whippany. Besides putting on three shows a year — the next one is May 17 — the club raises money for a number of charities.
Pestrichelli, a club member since the mid-1990s, owns two Mustangs, both of them now award-winning show cars.
He and his wife, Anelle — who planned to be at the Charlotte Mustang celebration today — actually saw the "64½" Mustang at the World's Fair, when they were dating.
But his Mustang love affair really began in 1973, when the by-then-married couple were living in Atlanta and about to have their second child. His wife couldn't picture putting two babies into the Ford convertible she was then driving.
"So, she called me up one day and said, 'I saw a cute little car and it's got white letters on the tires and I really like it,'" says Pestrichelli, in an interview at his home. "Well, it was the Mustang that's sitting in my garage."
He bought that 1973 Mustang for about $3,500 and gave it to his wife for Christmas that year.
Over time, it was relegated to spare-car status.
Exposure to the elements caused rust, though the car still ran. In 1976, the Pestrichellis moved to River Edge. In 1990, a neighbor and fellow car enthusiast, John Pyrros, suggested that the two men rebuild the old Mustang. It was a long process.
"We started with the engine, did work on that, then we had body work done, got the car painted back to its original color, Blue Glow," says Pestrichelli, as Pyrros stands nearby. "It was non-stop. And to get it to the condition it's in right now, I guess it was over about 15 years, and we don't talk about cost. We do not talk about cost at all."
When Pestrichelli retired from his job as regional security manager for Rite Aid Pharmacy in 2006, he had to give back his company car. "My wife said to me, 'You've always wanted a convertible. This is your shot,'" he recalls.
That's when Pestrichelli bought his second Mustang — a 2007 limited-edition convertible GT California special in a color called Red Fire. And that's the one he planned to take to Charlotte for the 50th anniversary party. (His beauteous '73 is an "awful ride," he says. "You drive that car for 300 miles, you think you've been beaten with a stick.")
On this day in River Edge, Pyrros, who owns a classic Thunderbird and a '56 Chevy, kids Pestrichelli that a middle-age crisis was what prompted him to buy the convertible.
"I was a little beyond middle age, but basically, he's absolutely right," Pestrichelli says. "It's a sign of freedom. It's a sign of being cool. I am 17 when I drive it. … When you have a Mustang, you feel special."
Part of that has to do with the car's iconic status, he says.
"There isn't a show that I go to where somebody doesn't walk up to me and go, 'My father had one of those,' or 'My aunt had one of those,' or 'I had one of those when I was in high school,'" Pestrichelli says. "I think somebody in every family in this country has owned a Mustang at one time or another."
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Exploratory Meeting for Collaborating on a
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Exploratory Meeting to Discuss Opportunities for Collaborating
on a National Agricultural Outreach Information System
Phoenix Airport Marriott
February 18, 2004
Meeting Summary
This meeting brought together thirty-four participants representing USDA, the National Agricultural Library, land-grant library and extension directors, the University of Arizona (UA), as well as the Agriculture Network Information Center (AgNIC), e-Extension, CYFERnet, and the Plant Management Network. The purpose was to explore opportunities for collaborating on developing a national agriculture-related information system that will provide an interactive learning environment to facilitate changes in knowledge, education, and behavior.
Introductions were provided by UA Cooperative Extension Director, Jim Christenson, and UA Vice Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), Colin Kaltenbach. Opening presentations were given by USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics Rodney Brown; CSREES Administrator Colien Hefferan; UA Vice Provost and Dean of CALS, Eugene Sander, and UA Dean of Libraries, Carla Stoffle. After a review of the agenda and meeting goals by Peter Young, Director of the National Agricultural Library, presentations were given on AgNIC, e-Extension, and CYFERnet. The meeting then broke into smaller groups to discuss four topics:
- Outline needs and expectations of extension and information services audiences
- Consider opportunities and challenges offered by network information technology
- Explore Federal, State, and institutional roles in possible collaborations
- Identify areas for potential collaboration and partnership
The results of the discussions were presented by a designated member from each group (details provided below). Although the final expectation was to conclude by shaping a shared vision of the future for agriculture information and outreach, time constraints prevented this closure. Final remarks by Dr. Brown summarized the consensus of the group in saying, "we need to have our information used". He challenged the group by asking: How will we spend our limited time and resources in the future? We can't build a new system and keep the old one. He also called for a smaller planning meeting to be organized where specific details for a collaborative system could be discussed and developed.
Summary of Discussion
There was much consensus on the common purpose of all the groups represented:
- Education not just information
- Need to make local connections by customizing information
- System should be easy to use with ready, 24/7 access
- Local branding is essential
- Need to provide answers based on topic or life event, not on provider
- A communication tool for our customers and for ourselves
- A system that is proactive, not reactive
Summary of Follow-On Suggestions
In addition to Dr. Browns's call for another more focused planning meeting, participants expressed a general need to continue to develop partnerships between libraries and extension, other agencies, other cultural groups, and distance education colleagues. It was suggested that Extension directors ask NASULGC to facilitate this conversation. It was also suggested to bring this issue to the attention of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) land-grant library directors. Action steps and a timeline need to be elaborated.
Group Discussion Notes
Question no. 1: outline needs and expectations of extension and information services audiences
Lyla Houglum, Extension Director, Oregon State University
Quick, fast, immediate, get what I want fast
Reliable, quality, research based information
Urban and rural information and resources
Families, communities, professionals – internal and external
Anticipate issues – being pro-active
Customized to local environment/situation
Local community identification
Interactive learning environment that leads to application
Responsive to client needs no matter how obscure
Fran Wolak, Associate Dean of Extension, Clemson University
Need 24/7 access to information and resources that are packages to provide answers, not just information
Need to provide accurate information from a source trusted by users
How do we expand the local trust to a 'national technical model'?
All the players at the meeting bring credibility
Elaine Edwards, Extension Director, Iowa State University
People want information 24/7 from home, offices, etc.
One stop shopping
Trusted sources
We need to differentiate between information and education
Expectations are for immediate access
Still want one-on-one consultations, local connection
#1 thing people want is face to face, which is a dilemma of the old model
Clients want it all - Internet and access to experts
We need to have COURAGE - here is where we are headed and refocus our efforts
We need a system that is easy to use to take in all the questions, put them through a filter, answer some of them through a knowledge-based format, others referred to experts
We need to acknowledge the generational differences of audiences; educational needs are different
Question no. 2: consider opportunities and challenges offered by network information technology
Lyla Houglum, Extension Director, Oregon State University
Getting people to your site; marketing
Name that is easily recognized – brand recognition
Need to talk with Google about how to get ranked at top of search lists; ex: arthritis goes to WebMD
Fran Wolak, Associate Dean of Extension, Clemson University
Rapid change of technological changes
Where are the software/hardware standards?
Need technology enhancement of our technical expertise
"Disadvantaged" institutions – how will they be involved? Both users and providers
Elaine Edwards, Extension Director, Iowa State University
We are getting more sophisticated questions and need to be able to answer them
Advantage…we are knowledge trusted source
Rural constituents, access is still an issue in some states and for some county offices
Variety of expectations
Teach information literacy
Evaluate information
Take advantage of technology to automate the information, facilitate the access and have more to time deliver and develop educational program
One stop shopping
Label is important, people expect local
Need immediacy of response
Provide customer service
Need to be able to focus information via topics
Refer new research/information to those communities of interest
Valid point of reference—need to maintain
Design a system that touches people/meet their needs in technology
Questions no. 3 and 4: explore federal, state, and institutional roles in possible collaborations; identify areas for potential collaboration and partnership
Lyla Houglum, Extension Director, Oregon State University
Library and extension talking with one another to take advantage of one another's expertise
More national and regional sharing rather than publishing in every state
Question no. 4
NASA/HHS/DOE – many potential agency partnerships; difficult coordination at federal level
Cultural gaps – not just translation
How to assure this is not the last conversation with have with libraries?
Need to involve distance education initiatives
Ask NASULGC to convene a "partners" session
Fran Wolak, Associate Dean of Extension, Clemson University
People look for topics not providers
Are we bringing the pieces together? Or are we building something new?
How do we track credit?
Elaine Edwards, Extension Director, Iowa State University
Branding and recognition is important; combine branding with a broader network
Metadata/search capabilities at the broader site
Peer review is an important
Someone has to do the work!
Resource issues, focus on an identified needs so we can move forward
Audience levels vary, information should be filtered and repackaged for different audiences (k-12, students at universities, researchers, lifelong learners)
Archival functions are important


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Will 305 Heads Work On A 350 Or 400 Sbc ??
I have a 305 motor that was out of a boat and was wondering what info would be needed to see if these 305 heads would work on a 350 or a 400. The motor froze and cracked the block but I would like to reuse the heads on another motor. Also, does anybody know if I was to weld the 305 block back together if it would be worth using ?? I don't think boat motors have pressurized coolant systems like cars because it simply pumps water from the river and right back into the river. I am looking for a 350 to put back into the boat but if possible I would like to reuse the heads to cut costs. Any info would be appreciated. Thanks. :thumbup:
Yes you can but you will run out of power above 4000-4500RPM and your compression would become very high.
I wouldn't, as your compression would skyrocket. I'd just fetch some cheap stock 350 heads from somewhere, if youre really strapped for cash, and just save the hassles.
dont do it
I had that combo on a 350 chevy in one of my race cars because I figured more compression more hp, I was doing fine until the tops of the pistons got sucked right out of the exhuast from the horryfing ratio , so dont do as I did.
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Hello, I am a 20-year-old Asian female. I have a wide alar base with a bulbous tip and an average Asian dorsal bridge, which is the typical eastern Asian nose, I suppose. I want to make it narrowed and more defined. Since Asian rhinoplasty is different from Caucasian rhinoplasty in many aspects, I wonder who is the best plastic surgeon in LA when it comes to Asian rhinoplasty? Thanks!
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Traffic delays are testing the patience of motorists in Waikato as holidaymakers head home after the long weekend.
Elsewhere, traffic was heavy but steady on Auckland's motorway network, while Wellington drivers faced a slow crawl from Ohau, near Levin.
Police say there were no major crashes, and long tails of traffic were simply caused by the volume of cars on the road.
"We've had one complaint about a cheeky driver trying to go up the shoulder of the expressway and trying to pass cars,'' said Senior Sergeant Rupert Friend of Hamilton police.
"For the huge number of motorists out there, most of them have been pretty good, but we've still got a lot of complaints about peoples' behaviour.''
Mr Friend said some of those calls were about people drifting across lanes, possibly as fatigue set in.
He said Waikato traffic was peaking about 6pm, as crawling queues of traffic around Cambridge stretched for 3 or 4 kms.
There were also large delays on State Highway 1 around Taupiri and Huntly, long tailbacks on SH1 and SH1B where the new section of the Waikato Expressway ends and delays at the SH2/25 intersection at Rangiriri.
Mr Friend said motorists needed to be patient and allow plenty of time for their journeys.
He asked for people to "drive social'' and allow room to stop suddenly because many of the tails were in places where motorists would not normally see them.
"Allow breathing space for the vehicles around you and everyone will get home safely,'' he said.
"This is not a time to be overtaking vehicles, just be patient and travel with the flow of traffic.''
Police said traffic was heavy around Auckland motorways but there had been no major incidents, as was the case on the roads heading into Christchurch.
Inspector Chris Tate, shift commander of police central communications, said there had been a few complaints about campervans not pulling over and letting other vehicles pass in the lower North Island.
Although once drivers hit the queue at Ohau that wouldn't matter as traffic from there was "crawling''.
"There's actually been quite a few complaints about various driving behaviour, but that's not unexpected because there's more people on the road and less patience being exercised.''
The Easter holiday period on the road officially ends at 6am tomorrow. Four people have died so far, one more than last year.


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Does anybody here have any suggestions as to what to do? Or do you have suggestions on how to fix Outlook so that it runs smoothly? He's running Windows XP SP2 at least, most likely SP3.


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The most populated of the three Canadian Prairie Provinces, Alberta has become a poster child success story with its per capita GDP at an astounding 61%, the highest in country and higher than the national average. (CDN $74,865 according to recent Stats Can data).
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Although rich with industry (so much so that residents pay no provincial sales tax), Alberta has maintained its status as one of the most beautiful provinces in Canada. Four major national parks— Banff, Dinosaur, Elk Island and Wood Buffalo—keep natural beauty intact. For the third consecutive year, according to a study conducted by the Baxter Travel Group, Banff National Park was selected as the favourite domestic attraction of travel agents across Canada. Lake Louise is another scenic marvel, an emerald-coloured glacial lake located very close to Banff.
Amazingly, Alberta is also a great place for a party. Arguably the best Canadian event each year is the July Calgary Stampede, known as "the greatest outdoor show of earth." Every year more than one million people attend the stampede, and the city of Calgary shuts down to all activities except this authentic cowboy party.
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If you are getting 24 miles a day in on the bike that is pretty good. I assume you are counting that as part of your training effort. You do need to get a longer ride in though if not 2. Could you extend the ride home one night to make it more like 25 miles? Then get a long ride in over the weekend.
If I had to chose I would select HR zone to work to rather than speed but I dont see why you need to do either. Just bike it.
imo you either make it worth counting or dont. what i mean is one day do it as intervals - 1 mile on, 1 off or something like that or just take it easy and dont count it. if you just bike it like JB says i think you arent getting a specific work out but it may also take a little bit out of you so that you dont perform when you have to do an interval or TT workout. you only need to rag it twice if you plan cleverly and take it easy the other 3 days or vice versa
Good question
I think commuting gives you lots of time on the bike, and can make you pretty strong, (especially if you treat lights as interval sessions
I used to ride both ways 4/5 days, and found I got pretty tried by the end of the week - the weekend ride is the most important one so if you are too tired and miss that then its a bit self defeating.
I am in london so my solution was easy....
I ended up
hope that helps
How ling have you commuted on the bike. If it is a long time then it can be considered as additional to the training load. The same as if you have a manual job.
If recent then consider it to part of your training otherwise you will burnout.
If you striucture the ride to meet the workout goals of the day then consider it as part of your training load regardless.
I know a lovely female landscape gardner. Hard as nails but lovely (just in case she reads this). Early on in the IM schedule she found it easier to cope than other beginners due to her natural hard-as-nails fitness levels. Later on as the volume ramped up the training load and work load started to really take its toll- she wasjust knackered.
Think of your commute as a manual job. It helps with background fitness but ultimately will contribute to overall tiredness. If you aren't getting the specivity of training from the commute and it is stopping you from trainingdue to tiredness then it isn't beneficial.
Hope this helps.
I commute 6 miles each way , fairly hilly and Definately part of my aspirational 10 hours per week training plan


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Re: st: xtlogit - lagged dependent variable as independent variable
Andreas Schiffelholz <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Re: st: xtlogit - lagged dependent variable as independent variable
Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:03:29 +0200
thanks a lot for your fast and detailed answer.
One short question just to make sure:
As I understand from your answer there is no further adjustment -
comparable to the Arellano-Bond adjustment - needed when using a lagged
dependent variable (given my dataset characteristics and the fact that I
use -xtlogit, re- and not a linear regression model). Does this stand
true if I add more than one lagged variable?
-xtlogit strategy L.strategy L2.strategy L3.strategy L4.strategy company_age company_size industry, re-
I want to use this model to check how many years back have an influence
on the choice of the strategy in the current period.
Thanks a lot and best wishes
Andreas Schiffelholz
Am 22.04.2013 22:51, schrieb Jeremy Wells:
There is a pretty intense debate over how to model autocorrelation,
especially within political science. I would suggest work by Beck and
Katz, especially in the Annual Review of Political Science (2011,
vol. 14: 331-352). They prefer lagging the dependent variable, but there
are other methods.
I would also suggest using the time-series operators built into Stata to lag
your DV, so your command would look like this:
-xtlogit strategy L.strategy company_age company_size industry, re-
(I also took out the year variable, because I am not sure how well that would
factor in with a lagged DV and the company age variable, though it may not
be problematic or they may be unrelated, but I would bet there would be a lot
of multicollinearity there.)
Jeremy Wells
Ph.D. Student
LSU Dept. of Poli. Sci.
324 Stubbs Hall
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Sorry, the Stata command mentioned below got messed up:
- xtlogit strategy strategy_lag1 company_age company_size industry year, re -
Am 22.04.2013 20:15, schrieb Andreas Schiffelholz:
I'm currently working with a company dataset in the form of an unbalanced panel (overall sample size: 1.300 company years, T: 10, X: ~170 different companies). One of two strategic types was assigned to each of the company years. To get a better understanding, why companies are pursuing a specific strategic type, I am using a random effects model -xtlogit, re-:
- xtlogitstrategystrategy_lag1company_agecompany_sizeindustryyear, re -
with "industry" and "year" being a set of dummy variables.
Part of this model is the independent variable "strategy_lag1" which is the strategic type (dependent variable) of the previous year. This variable is added to get a better understanding of the stability of the strategic type in terms of time. As far as I know there is an adjustment of the model needed when adding lagged dependent variables to the model. I did find the -xtabond- command for linear models, which is using the adjustment procedure suggested by Arellano, Bond (1991). For the xtlogit model I did not find a comparable command.
Given the characteristics of my data set, is there an adjustment of the standard -xtlogit, re- model needed? Does the answer to this question change if I add additional variables with longer lags to the regression (strategy_lag2, strategy_lag3, …)? If so, is this adjustment implemented into Stata or does anybody know a user programmed command dealing with this issue?
Thanks very much,
Andreas Schiffelholz
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Cairo's homosexuality posed one of the biggest obstacles to securing overall approval of the picture. Hammett didn't mince words in the novel. "This guy is queer," says Sam Spade's secretary as she hands him an engraved card bearing his name - Mr Joel Cairo. He speaks in a "high-pitched thin voice," carries "gaily colored silk handkerchiefs fragrant of chypre," and walks in "mincing, bobbing steps." … Hal Wallis realised that American audiences - not to mention the Hays Office - were not ready for a candid look at homosexuality, which traditionally drew laughs and jeers out front.
After seeing Lorre's first day's work, Wallis dashed off a memo to Huston: "Don't try and get a nancy quality into him, because if you do we will have trouble with the picture." Huston bent to Breen's will. In the scene, Effie presents Cairo's calling card to a bemused Spade, who holds it to his nose.
"Gardenia," says Effie.
"Quick, darling, in with him," replies Spade.
The rest Huston left to Lorre's subtlety and the viewer's imagination.
The svelte 137-pound Lorre who stepped before the camera seemed younger, fitter, swifter. More was asked of him and he asked more of himself. The role was the best of its kind to come his way in years and Lorre knew it.
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But then I would see it on the screen in rushes and discover it to be far better than what I had perceived on the set. Some subtlety of expression was seen by the camera and recorded by the microphone that the naked eye and ear did not get. He'd be doing little things that the camera close on him would pick up that standing a few feet away you wouldn't see. It was underplaying; it was a play that you would see if you were close to him, as a close-up, as a camera is close. Things would flicker there and burn up slightly, like a lamp, and then dim down, and come on again. You're watching something as if it were in motion.
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Kevin DrumOct. 26, 2011 10:52 AM
Bloomberg takes yet another crack at the idea that the Obama administration has unleashed a tsunami of regulations that are crippling the American economy:
Obama's White House approved 613 federal rules during the first 33 months of his term, 4.7 percent fewer than the 643 cleared by President George W. Bush's administration in the same time frame, according to an Office of Management and Budget statistical database reviewed by Bloomberg.
....The average annual cost of regulations under Obama [is] about $7 billion to $11 billion, compared with the $6.9 billion average from 1981 through 2008 in current dollars, according to the OMB data....Those numbers [...] encompass the expense of new regulations, and do not take into account the economic benefits of healthier children, safer roads or fewer industrial accidents.
....Of the 7,247 mass layoffs last year -- those involving at least 50 workers -- 18 were the result of government regulation, according to department data. Of the 3,114 mass layoffs in the first half of this year, 11 were related to government regulation. By comparison, 1,053 mass layoffs were attributed to business demand.
...."This is a perennial problem," said [Sally] Katzen, a senior adviser at the Podesta Group in Washington, said in an interview. "When the Democrats are in the White House, the Republicans complain that there are too many costly, burdensome regulations inundating them."
Obama's White House approved 613 federal rules during the first 33 months of his term, 4.7 percent fewer than the 643 cleared by President George W. Bush's administration in the same time frame, according to an Office of Management and Budget statistical database reviewed by Bloomberg.
....The average annual cost of regulations under Obama [is] about $7 billion to $11 billion, compared with the $6.9 billion average from 1981 through 2008 in current dollars, according to the OMB data....Those numbers [...] encompass the expense of new regulations, and do not take into account the economic benefits of healthier children, safer roads or fewer industrial accidents.
....Of the 7,247 mass layoffs last year -- those involving at least 50 workers -- 18 were the result of government regulation, according to department data. Of the 3,114 mass layoffs in the first half of this year, 11 were related to government regulation. By comparison, 1,053 mass layoffs were attributed to business demand.
...."This is a perennial problem," said [Sally] Katzen, a senior adviser at the Podesta Group in Washington, said in an interview. "When the Democrats are in the White House, the Republicans complain that there are too many costly, burdensome regulations inundating them."
I'm not sure how many ways it's possible to debunk a single meme, but in this case it's a helluva lot. It turns out that (a) Obama has issued fewer regulations than Bush, (b) adjusted for inflation, they cost about the same as the average over the past 30 years, (c) this doesn't take into account the benefits of any of his regs anyway, and (d) only about 0.3% of mass layoffs during the Great Recession were related to new regulatory issues.
In other words, Sally Katzen is right: this is just something Republicans routinely gripe about whenever a Democrat is in the White House, much as they gripe about deficits and domestic spending, but only when a Democrat is in the White House. It's just a partisan scam. Time to move on.
UPDATE: I misread the Bloomberg piece and adjusted for inflation incorrectly. The Obama regs cost slightly more than the 1981-2008 average, not less. The text has been corrected.
Kevin DrumOct. 26, 2011 10:34 AM
From Matt Yglesias:
What if Mickey Kaus held some kind of patent on policy blogging?
What if Mickey Kaus held some kind of patent on policy blogging?
The mind reels. I suppose we'd all owe him royalties and be forced to write a certain minimum quota of anti-union posts every month.
More realistically, of course, blogging never would have taken off and the world would have to continue making do with the likes of Tom Friedman and George Will. All of which is an excellent argument for not allowing the patent office to issue patents for vague, moderately obvious evolutionary trends expressed via software. Congress should get on that, since they don't really seem to have anything better to do at the moment.
Tim MurphyOct. 26, 2011 8:24 AM
Mississippi gubernatorial candidate Johnny DuPree (D).
The New York Times has a story on something we've written about a bit before—the push to pass state-level constitutional "personhood" amendments to ban abortion (among other things) by defining life as beginning at conception. Previous initiatives have fallen short, but Mississippi's personhood movement, which was initiated by a one-time Christian secessionist who backed a plan to create an independent theocracy in upstate South Carolina, has a decent chance of passing this November—at least if its high-profile endorsers are any indication:
Mississippi will also elect a new governor on Nov. 8. The Republican candidate, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, is co-chairman of Yes on 26 and his campaign distributes bumper stickers for the initiative. The Democratic candidate, Johnny DuPree, the mayor of Hattiesburg and the state's first black major-party candidate for governor in modern times, says he will vote for it though he is worried about its impact on medical care and contraception.
Mississippi will also elect a new governor on Nov. 8. The Republican candidate, Lt. Gov. Phil Bryant, is co-chairman of Yes on 26 and his campaign distributes bumper stickers for the initiative. The Democratic candidate, Johnny DuPree, the mayor of Hattiesburg and the state's first black major-party candidate for governor in modern times, says he will vote for it though he is worried about its impact on medical care and contraception.
Yes, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee supports the measure, which would ban abortion even in cases of rape. DuPree fleshed out his views a bit at a debate at the Mississippi College School of Law:
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Stephanie MencimerOct. 26, 2011 6:23 AM
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has been crisscrossing the country over the past year touting the benefits of virtual education for elementary and secondary students—and for cash-strapped state budgets. (I wrote a lengthy story about that enterprise here.) Earlier this month at a summit he convened in San Francisco, his new advocacy group, Digital Learning Now, outlined the steps he thinks states should take to expand digital learning in public schools. Among the requirements are such controversial things as repealing teacher-student ratio requirements or teacher credentialing mandates, as well as letting more for-profit providers have a crack at public school money. He also recommends that states mandate that proficiency tests be taken online or digitally. Bush will be checking up on the states over the next year and "grading" them on how well they follow his recommendations. One thing Bush's education summit and state report cards don't address, though, is what states ought to do to prevent cheating in online classes, which has become a chronic problem.
Even as states rush to embrace Bush's vision of "21st-century learning," the National Education Policy Center this week released a new policy paper on virtual K-12 education. Researcher Gene Glass and colleagues noted that one of the biggest issues dogging virtual K-12 education is "authenticity of student work." That cheating would be a problem in classes where there are only computers and no teachers seems sort of obvious. Anyone could be doing the work and taking the tests in those classes, after all. And there's little to prevent kids from simply Googling their way to an A.
Glass cites a school in Ohio run by K12 Inc., a large for-profit online provider, in which about half the students were discovered not to even own a computer, raising serious questions about how they were completing all the work they'd supposedly done. They also highlight the case of North High School in Denver, which earlier this year was profiled by the alt-weekly Westword in a story that suggested the school was allowing students to cheat on online classes for "credit recovery" that allowed them to graduate and boost the school's dismal profile.
In 2010, the school's graduation rate, previously among the worst in the state at 48 percent, soared to 64 percent after the online credit recovery classes had been implemented. But Westword didn't find that the online classes were just so fabulous that kids embraced them and suddenly succeeded where they'd failed in a regular classroom. Instead, they found multiple instances where the students weren't doing any of the coursework in the classes at all but were passing their final exams with flying colors.
Former school staffers reported that students were using their iPhones to find the answers to the multiple-choice questions. Others simply took the tests over and over again (which they could do online) until they figured out the right answers through the process of elimination, and then passed the answers on to friends. The company providing the online classes at North High? Apex Learning, one of the major donors to Jeb Bush's digital-ed lobbying campaign. Is it any wonder Bush doesn't want to talk about cheating?
Tasneem Raja and Dave GilsonOct. 26, 2011 6:00 AM
If you're looking for stats on the growing gap between the 99 percent and the 1 percent, the Congressional Budget Office is a good place to start. The staid bipartisan number-crunching agency is the source of some of Mother Jones' ever-popular (and poster-izable!) income inequality charts. Now the CBO has a new report full of data whose takeaway, Kevin Drum notes, is pretty simple: "The rich are getting richer, the rest of us are just kind of drifting along."
Here are a couple charts that illustrate the trend. First off, a look at how wealth has been steadily redistributed upward over the past 30 years (hover over a column to see more data):
Hover over a column to see more data.
The richest Americans have seen a nearly 120 percent increase in their income since the late '70s. Meanwhile, the middle quintile of earners have seen their incomes grow 30 percent (hover over a column to see more data):
Hover over a column to see more data.
Want more charts like these? See our charts on the secrets of the jobless recovery, the richest 1 percent of Americans, and how the superwealthy beat the IRS.
Julia WhittyOct. 26, 2011 6:00 AM
Tsunami debris afloat in the Pacific after the 11 Mar 2011 earthquake and tsunami off Japan. Credit: US Navy/ Specialist 3rd Class Alexander Tidd.The International Pacific Research Center (IPRC) in Hawaii reports that somewhere between 5 and 20 million tons of tsunami debris from the March earthquake and tsunami in Japan is migrating quickly across the Pacific Ocean.
Crew from the Russian tall ship STS Pallada spotted furniture, appliances, and a fishing boat with the home port 'Fukushima' painted on it after passing the Midway islands, part of the Hawaiian Island Archipelago, last month. That's 2,000 miles from the epicenter of the quake.
This is the first confirmed sighting since shortly after the disaster, when the massive floating remnants of coastal Japanese towns—more than 200,000 buildings—simply disappeared from view.
Credit: IPRC.
The image above shows the likely path of tsunami debris as of 25 Oct 2011. The IPRC research suggests this path based on 678,305 tracers released from the northeast coast of Japan beginning 11 March 2011, the same day as the quake.
You can watch an animation of the full dispersal here. The fluid dynamics are beautiful.
As you can see from the video, the debris, after bouncing off the west coast of North America, is likely to get trapped in the North Pacific Gyre along with all the other garbage collecting there. The plastics will last close to forever.
As an interesting aside, monstrously huge rafts of tsunami debris may well be one of the mechanisms by which life originally dispersed to the Hawaiian Islands.
Pallus' rosefinch, Carpodacus roseus, native to China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia. Credit: M. Nishimura via Wikimedia Commons.
A new analysis of the genome of Hawaiian honeycreepers reveals they're not descended, as thought, from the honeycreepers of the Americas, but are instead a sister taxon to the Eurasian rosefinches of the genus Carpodacus.
Based on a genetic analysis, the precursors of Hawaiian honeycreepers probably arrived on Kauai and Niihau about 5.7 million years ago and continued to diverge into different species after Oahu emerged from the sea.
ʻIʻiwi, or scarlet Hawaiian honeycreeper, Vestiaria coccinea. Credit: Paul Banko, NPS.It's possible that huge floating mats of tsunami debris—perhaps from Japan—brought the ancestors of Hawaii's present-day honeycreepers to the islands.
Those of you who've spent time at sea know how land birds get blown off course and will rest on any platform at sea—ship, boat, raft, the backs of sleeping whales—as they fight to stay alive.
Maybe the current tsunami debris will transport some newcomers to the Hawaiian Islands.
Townsend's warbler rests on boat. Credit: Andrew Revkin via Flickr.
Would we recognize them as naturally-delivered refugees? Or would we try to exterminate them as human-introduced aliens?
The papers:
Nikolai Maximenko and Jan Hafner. Marine Debris. IPRC Climate, vol. 8, no. 2, 2008. pdf.
Heather R.L. Lerner, Matthias Meyer, Helen F. James, Michael Hofreiter, and Robert C. Fleischer. Multilocus Resolution of Phylogeny and Timescale in the Extant Adaptive Radiation of Hawaiian Honeycreepers. DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2011.09.039.
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US Army Spc. Phillips, 2nd Squadron, 38th Cavalry Regiment talks with a young boy in the Matekzi Village, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, Sept. 30, 2011. (Photo by Spc. Kristina Truluck, 55th Signal Company - The US Army)
—By the Mother Jones news teamOct. 26, 2011 12:37 AM
Occupy Oakland the night of Wednesday, October 26th. j_sight/yfrogThe Occupy Oakland protests turned violent Tuesday evening when police officers cracked down with rubber bullets [OPD denies but said it could not speak from 15 other agencies on scene, see more on this below], tear gas, and flash-bang grenades on protesters marching through downtown Oakland. Around 75 people were arrested Tuesday morning when police dismantled the Occupy Oakland encampment in Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. A crowd is gathered there again tonight. What follows is a Storify roundup of news and eyewitness accounts, including from our own Gavin Aronsen (@garonsen), Tim McDonnell (@TimMcDonnell), and James West (@jameswest2010), who are on the scene.
NOTE: Because of some code updates at Storify, we haven't been able to update the live blog below. So here's the latest:
10:55 p.m. It was a peaceful night in Oakland. At a press conference, Mayor Jean Quan promised a "light police presence" for the next few days, to allow an opportunity for "dialogue" with the protesters. Shortly afterward, the Occupy Oakland General Assembly passed a proposal to organize a general strike November 2. (Historically, a general strike has meant that everyone participates—not just people in a particular union or industry, not even just workers. Students might stay home, cab drivers might park their vehicles, and so on. What this would look like in 2011 America has yet to be determined; as Gavin notes below, our last general strike came just after WWII. In Oakland.
As we write this, what's left of the protest crowd, still several hundred strong, is march-dancing down Broadway to the strains of classic pop. Meanwhile our reporters (whom you can follow on Twitter for live updates: @garonsen, @jameswest2010, and @timmcdonnell, having found the downtown Oakland BART station closed, are headed over to San Francisco in our editorial web producer's (@DireWolf11) car. Josh Harkinson, who covered Occupy Wall Street for us for the past few weeks, is there as well. So are several San Francisco supervisors, trailing conspicuous entourages.
Earlier tonight, James filmed protesters pulling down the fence around their former encampment. Says one: "You know, I gotta be honest, I think there's got to be some cooler heads in this conversation somewhere, and I welcome protesters saying that. But I'm not one of those people. I'm upset. I'm upset enough that I'm going to pull down some fences in city park that I helped pay for. You know what I'm not gonna do? I'm not gonna spit on anybody, I'm not gonna curse, I'm not gonna denigrate anybody."
James also interviewed the "Notorious Irish Guy," who shows off what he says is an injury from a rubber bullet (plus the bullet itself).
Now back to our roundup of events up to about 7:45 p.m., via Storify:
View "Oakland Police Turn on #OWS With Rubber Bullets, Tear Gas, Flash-Bang Grenades" on Storify
A woman in a wheelchair is teargassed as police disperse protesters at Occupy Oakland. @Adreadonymous/Twitter
Kevin DrumOct. 25, 2011 11:47 PM
Yesterday I proposed that we all spare a thought for whichever poor analyst at the Tax Policy Center got drafted to make sense of Rick Perry's flat-tax plan. Now we have a name: Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at TPC who crunched some numbers at the behest of the New York Times' Catherine Rampell. The chart on the right summarizes his handiwork.
As you can see, low-income taxpayers mostly do better under the current tax system. Middle-income taxpayers vary. High-income taxpayers mostly do better under Perry's plan. And very high-income taxpayers make out like bandits under Perry's plan.
No surprise there. What's underappreciated, though, is that this means the rich not only pay lower taxes, they also benefit from having simpler taxes. They do so much better under Perry's plan that they'll almost all just fill in his postcard without even bothering to calculate how much they might owe under the current regime.
Low and middle-income taxpayers, however, have no such luck. There's a pretty good chance they'll do better under the current system, which means they need to fill out Perry's postcard and fill out a current 1040 to see which one comes out better. No simple taxes for them.
In more ways than one, it's good to be rich in Rick Perry's America.
UPDATE: James Pethokoukis passes along a revenue analysis from John Dunham and Associates that was commissioned by the Perry campaign. It that says Perry's tax plan would raise $4.7 trillion less than current law over the six years from 2014-2020. Hello, bigger budget deficits! Under a dynamic scoring method that assumes Perry's plan would supercharge the economy, it would raise $1.7 trillion less. Of course, dynamic scoring is mostly a scam, so something in the range of $4 trillion is probably in the ballpark.
Tim MurphyOct. 25, 2011 10:03 PM
Elizabeth Warren (right) is the front-runner to take on Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) in 2012.
Elizabeth Warren isn't backing down from her support for the Occupy Wall Street movement, even as conservatives look to turn the nationwide protests movement into an electoral wedge issue. Speaking to reporters after an event in Framingham, Massachusetts on Tuesday, the Senate candidate downplayed her comments to the Daily Beast, suggesting that she had created the movement—but pointedly embraced their anti-Wall Street message and cast them as kindred spirits against a "rigged" economic system.
The controversy began when the Daily Beast's Samuel Jacobs published a profile of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau architect, in which Warren was quoted saying of Occupy Wall Street: "I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do." Conservatives pounced—the National Republican Senatorial Committee released a statement noting that "the Boston Police Department was recently forced to arrest at least 141 of her Occupy acolytes in Boston the other day after they threatened to tie up traffic downtown and refused to abide by their protest permit limits." The Boston Globe moved Warren's comments closer to Al Gore-and-the-Internet territory, headlining its piece, "Warren claims credit for Occupy Wall St. protests."
So after an event in Framingham on Tuesday, Warren tried to clear things up a bit. She stood by her suggestion that her anti-Wall Street work had influenced the movement, while emphasizing that she believed Occupy Wall Street was a separate grassroots movement. Here's what she said when informed by a local reporter that her comments had not gone over well at Occupy Boston:
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Thompson finds path to NFL success
Team has added top-flight talent since 2007 title game
Green Bay — Many people thought the Green Bay Packers were more than a one-year wonder in 2007, when they sprang out of nowhere and rolled to a 13-3 record, NFC North title and a berth in the NFC Championship Game.
True, they had a quarterback in his 17th year who wasn't getting any younger, but the guy had just had his best season in a decade and the player behind him was a first-round pick with three years of seasoning under his belt.
What's more, the average NFL experience on the roster the Packers took into the championship game against the New York Giants was just 3.07 years. This was a young team - officially the youngest in the league at the start of the season - with lots of room to grow into a better team.
"You know, boy, at that time in 2007, I thought we were the best team left and couldn't get it done here at home at Lambeau, and that was tough," cornerback Charles Woodson said last week. "But going into that game, you couldn't have told me we were going to lose."
The reality was a little different, however.
The team that lost to the Giants, 23-20, in overtime was nowhere near the finished product of general manager Ted Thompson. Rather, the Packers were in a transition period and they rode a wave of good fortune, excellent quarterback play and an easy schedule to get within one game of the Super Bowl.
Thompson took over the team in the off-season of 2005 and began the process of implementing his draft-first team-building philosophy. By the end of the '07 season, he had added many of the players who would make up the core of the team that will compete for a Super Bowl berth Sunday against the Chicago Bears.
But he was nowhere near finishing the project.
What got the Packers to the position they're in now is the confluence of two natural actions in the Thompson system: the maturation of young players into good players and the natural selection process of replacing good players with better ones.
In theory, what you should have is a roster blossoming at the top and budding at the bottom. Whenever a blossom falls, there's a bud ready to bloom and take its place.
"I think it's maturing," said tight end Donald Lee, who was a starter on the '07 team but is a backup now. "Guys have gotten more experience and they're playing behind good guys. Once you play behind a good player, you're going to advance that much quicker because you're going to see how they're doing it."
An easy explanation for how the Packers got to where they are now would be that quarterback Aaron Rodgers has filled the void Brett Favre left after the '07 season.
But if it were just Rodgers, then how would you explain the Packers being able to withstand six starters and five key reserves going on injured reserve during the course of this season?
It has been the Packers' ability to replace linebacker Nick Barnett with Desmond Bishop, cornerback Al Harris with Sam Shields, safety Morgan Burnett with Charlie Peprah, tackle Mark Tauscher with Bryan Bulaga and linebacker Brad Jones with Frank Zombo and Erik Walden that has defined the team.
There are 30 players on this roster who weren't on the '07 roster.
Thompson had an extraordinary 2010 rookie class that has seen Burnett, Shields, Bulaga, Zombo, running back James Starks, tight end Andrew Quarless and defensive end C.J. Wilson step in and play significant snaps.
But it follows an equally extraordinary class that featured impact players Clay Matthews and B.J. Raji. The '10 class might be filling in holes, but the addition of a pass-rushing linebacker and a rapidly improving nose tackle strengthened the core to a championship level.
Think about the number of top-flight players the Packers have now compared with three years ago.
On the '07 team, Favre, running back Ryan Grant, receiver Donald Driver, end Aaron Kampman and cornerback Charles Woodson were the cream of the crop.
On the current team, you could argue that Rodgers, Jermichael Finley, Matthews, Raji, Woodson, receiver Greg Jennings, guard Josh Sitton, cornerback Tramon Williams and safety Nick Collins are in the top 10 - and in some cases, top five - of NFL players at their position. That's nine players compared with five three years ago.
This team has matured and gotten better at the same time.
It failed to make the playoffs in '08, lost in the first round in '09 and has won two on the road heading into this game. The average years of experience on this team is exactly the same as the '07 squad, but this core of players has been building toward this since that loss to the Giants.
"This is as much confidence as I've seen from these guys," quarterback Aaron Rodgers said. "We're a different team. Every year is a different group of guys. I've enjoyed this group as much as any I've been around. I think we're in a good place."
No one could argue that the addition of defensive coordinator Dom Capers hasn't made a huge difference in the Packers' championship run. Former coordinator Bob Sanders was fired a year after the team lost to the Giants and within two years Capers had turned a wayward unit into one of the best.
Just like the players who remain from '07, the defense that was implemented last year has matured.
"I thought there was good talent here," Capers said. "You never know how you're going to make the transition (to a new defense). You know, that's a process you go through and it's kind of a step-by-step process.
"I think anybody that's followed our defensive team over the last two years, I think it was significant. The first half of the season last year we were a different team than we were the second half."
Next year, the Packers might be an even better team. The return of Grant, Finley, Barnett, Burnett, end Mike Neal and linebacker Brandon Chillar, just to name a few, will offset any losses the team faces in free agency.
But just as the '07 season begat a 6-10 year in '08, the Packers can't be sure of anything next year. They blew an opportunity in '07 and don't want to do it again.
"That's one thing you have to take with you, the feeling you had or we had coming off that field at home and seeing another team celebrating on our field, on our turf," Jennings said. "Obviously, the window of opportunity is not always open and it doesn't come each and every season.
"It's been three years since we've been in this position and we're fortunate to be in this situation and we'll try to make the best of it."
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∞-Lie theory (higher geometry)
super ∞-groupoid, smooth super ∞-groupoid, synthetic differential super ∞-groupoid
Where a vector specifies a direction and a magnitude , a bivector specifies a plane and a magnitude.
For a vector space, a bivector in is an element of the second exterior power of .
This is canonically identified with an element of degree 2 in the Grassmann algebra .
If is equipped with a non-degenerate inner product then the space of bivectors is also canonically identified with a subspace of the Clifford algebra .
If we write for the CLifford algebra element corresponding to a vector , then this identification is given by the map
(The inverse of this map is called the symbol map.)
Under the commutator in the Clifford algebra bivectors go to bivectors and hence form a Lie algebra. This Lie algebra is the special orthogonal Lie algebra of .
Discussion of Clifford algebra and exterior algebra that amplifies the role of bivectors is notably in the references at Geometric Algebra .
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Cisco Routers running Internetwork Operating System (IOS) that supports Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) are vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on MPLS disabled interfaces. A system that supports MPLS is vulnerable even if that system is not configured for MPLS.
The vulnerability is only present in Cisco IOS release trains based on 12.1T, 12.2, 12.2T, 12.3 and 12.3T. Releases based on 12.1 mainline, 12.1E and all releases prior to 12.1 are not vulnerable. Cisco has made free software available to address this vulnerability. There are workarounds available to mitigate the effects.
Affected Products:
Vulnerable Products
Only the following products running a vulnerable version of IOS that support MPLS are affected.
* 2600 and 2800 series routers
* 3600, 3700 and 3800 series routers
* 4500 and 4700 series routers
* 5300, 5350 and 5400 series Access Servers
Products that are not listed above are not affected.
Software Versions and Fixes and Workarounds in http://www.securiteam.com/securitynews/5OP0P1PEKQ.html