text: pottor - Unregistered September 11, 2012 9:58 AM In old money it is just over 30 points down with 7 races to go, ehhhh, hello, plenty of races left, just ask Kimi.... Simple fact is, why the hell would button want to help HIS number 2? Im not a Hamilton hater, or certainly not a fan, but to put it fairly simply, Button is just more deserved, he works harder. Nothing was handed to him in F1. The brand Hamilton is brand "BLING", the brand Button is brand "NORMAL BLOKE" workin his ass off. I know which one i respect. 54 agree 33 disagree


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Photographers recently captured the first photos of a 2019 GMC Sierra prototype testing at GMs Proving Ground. According to the photographer who captured the images, the camouflage on this truck looks similar to what was on Silverado prototypes caught in February. GM has tried to get clever and disguise its next-gen full-size trucks to look like camouflaged Ford F-150s, but this is in fact a GM and no Ford.
These new images nicely show the GMC grille design and leave little doubt about its identity. We can also see that this truck has a different LED signature in its headlights compared to the earlier shots of the 2019 Silverado.
Sources at AutoPacific tell us that this new Silverado is looking to implement an aluminum-intensive body to match the Ford F-series trucks. The next-gen truck, which is reportedly being developed with the internal code name T1XC, will reach the market by late 2018 as a 2019 model. Our sources tell us that GM has made great efforts to refine its production processes with these lightweight materials, and promises a lighter, stronger, and more efficient truck than its competitors.
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Eco-design to reduce e-waste and enabling policies highlighted Geneva, 5 June 2012 – Participants at the 7th ITU Symposium on ICTs, the Environment and Climate Change have issued a Declaration that encourages ICT manufacturers to make their products more easily upgradable without need for replacing the entire device. The call to promote a life cycle approach in the design of ICTs (eco-design) also means better taking into account how components in a device can be recycled. Reducing e-waste and providing incentives and encouragement for e-waste take back schemes were just some of the issues included in the Declaration issued at the end of the event on Friday, 31 May.
The Declaration adopted by the approximately 150 participants at the event also called for enabling policies to encourage investment in smart technologies and ICT based clean technologies (cleantech) as a way of promoting green growth and sustainable development. In addition the support of ITU methodologies to measure the impact of ICT and a recommendation to ramp up research and development on the use of ICTs for monitoring, mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change are mentioned.
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Reader: I work for a small nonprofit. Our human resources manager eats lunch fairly often with a regular group of employees — to the point where other people entering the lunchroom have felt unwelcome — and has maintained a close friendship during and after work with another manager. Normally, I don't care who's friends with whom. However, several of the regulars who eat lunch with the HR manager have been promoted, and recently an employee who reported to HR's manager friend was let go. Should HR be forming friendships with employees?
Karla: HR professionals, in my limited experience, are human, and most humans like having friends. The snag is that your HR manager's friendships seem to be creating a culture — or at least the appearance — of favoritism.
"Naturally, HR wants to have friends at work," says Deb Keary, vice president of human resources for the Society for Human Resource Management. "But I would never eat with the same people every day; I would never want to create a clique." And with those work friends, says Keary, "it's all about boundary-setting" and keeping confidential information off-limits.
But let me challenge your assumptions about how much influence HR professionals have. Although they are in charge of "setting up the structure" for and may be consulted on personnel actions, says Keary, they don't generally decide who gets bumped or dumped. Call me a naïf, but it's possible your co-workers earned their promotions and pink slip all on their own.
Nevertheless, if workers don't feel they have equal access to the HR department, that's bad for morale and thus bad for the company. You could reasonably express this concern to your boss, who could take it up — naming no names — with the HR manager's boss. Just focus on the general welfare, not on details of who's sharing fries with whom.
If it ducks like a quack. ... Readers, including legions of annoyed registered nurses, caught me practicing bad medicine in my Jan. 20 response to the "RN manager" who was not an RN. Although the letter writer's job did not involve patient care, she was worried about her lack of a license. I blithely told her not to fret, because the employer had hired her knowing she was not an RN.
But knowledgeable readers have informed me that many states prohibit labeling workers RNs if they have not earned the license — regardless of the job. I still believe the letter writer is not at fault, but that wouldn't protect her legally. I'd now advise her to lobby for a new title.
Thanks, and heartfelt apologies to the RNs I offended. I'm hanging up the lab coat.
Karla L. Miller is ready to hear your work dramas and traumas. Send your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also find her on Twitter, @KarlaAtWork, or Facebook.


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Terrified Terrapins tremble at terrible thunderclaps.
Why, yes, "turtle" does begin with the letter T, but "terrapin" goes better with "terrified". Also, everybody's doing turtles. I wanted to do something different. ;-)
4 colors on blue. Note the economy of color. And yet, somehow this itty-bitty drawing is 77 megabytes on my hard drive. What's up with that?


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In the latest ITU blog, Miguel Raimilla, Executive Director of the Telecentre.org Foundation, writes on accessibility differences faced by today's youth. One of the subjects of the next Global Youth Summit in Costa Rica. More
Living in a converged world – impossible without standards? That's the question posed as the title of the sixth ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference. Kaleidoscope 2014 will be hosted by Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications (SPbSUT), Russian Federation, 3-5 June 2014.
Kaleidoscope events are peer-reviewed academic conferences that increase dialogue between academics and experts working on ICT standardization.
Kaleidoscope 2014 is calling for academic papers offering innovative approaches to research on the role of ICT standardization in today's global economy characterized by accelerating convergence of industry sectors and technologies.
The conference will uncover ideas to leverage this convergence in service of the public interest. It will highlight areas where ICT standards will improve energy efficiency and ease the introduction of new services in fields spanning healthcare, education, transport, banking, energy and more. The event will also explore means to enhance the inclusivity of the Information Society; addressing the demands of people with disabilities, and the need for standards to be accessible to people of different countries and languages.
Kaleidoscope 2014 is being organized by ITU with the technical co-sponsorship of the IEEE ComSoc, the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) of Japan and the Popov Society of the Russian Federation. Partners in the organization of 2014's event are the Ministry of Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation; Waseda University; the Institute of Image Electronics Engineers of Japan (I.I.E.E.J.); the European Academy for Standardization (EURAS); the University of the Basque Country; and Tampere University of Technology.
A Call for Papers has been issued and invites submissions until 25 November 2013. A prize fund totaling $10,000 will be awarded to the three best papers. Selected papers will be published in the conference's proceedings and in IEEE Xplore. The best papers will be evaluated for potential publication in IEEE Communications Magazine. In addition, selected papers will be considered for publication in the International Journal of Technology Marketing or the International Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research. Young authors presenting a paper at the conference will receive Young Author Recognition certificates.
For sponsorship opportunities, please contact the ITU-T Kaleidoscope secretariat at email@example.com.
For additional information, please see Kaleidoscope 2014's webpage here.
Lucía Ramón Torres, a Mexican lawyer working as an advisor to the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the UN and other International Organizations in Geneva, has written an ITU blog post illustrating how ICTs are the key tool for performing her professional work, and how they can be the key for the full digital inclusion of thousands of persons with disabilities around the world.
Read the full text on ITU blog here.
Ahead of the United Nations General Assembly's High Level Meeting on Disability and Development, 23 September 2013, stakeholders are encouraged to participate in a global consultation aimed at building an inclusive Information Society for all.
The consultation is a joint initiative from the Broadband Commission, the Global Initiative for Inclusive ICTs (G3ICT), the International Disability Alliance, ITU, Microsoft, the Telecentre.org Foundation and UNESCO.
Read the full story on the ITU blog by Ambassador Luis Gallegos Chiriboga, Permanent Representative of Ecuador to the United Nations Office in Geneva and Chairperson of G3ICT.
"It is with the deepest regret that I announce the death of my colleague and close friend, Dr. Cynthia Waddell, a lifelong advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities and a world-renowned expert in disability rights law, public policy and electronic and information technology.
The improving accessibility of technologies, the built environment and the job market owes an incredible amount to Cynthia's achievements over a lifetime dedicated to enhancing social inclusion for the roughly 650 million people across the world living with some form of disability.
Cynthia was held in the highest esteem by all those fortunate enough to have worked with her. She will be sorely missed by her colleagues, friends and the millions of people around the globe to have benefited from her tireless advocacy and activism."*
*This is an extract from a blog piece in tribute to Cynthia Waddell. Entitled "Accessibility Loses a Great Champion", the article is authored by Andrea Saks, Convener of ITU's Joint Coordination Activity on Accessibility and Human Factors (JCA-AHF) and Coordinator of the Internet Governance Forum's Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (DCAD).
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ITU is calling for contributions to a workshop on relay services for persons with disabilities. The event will take place at ITU Headquarters, Geneva on 25 November 2011.
Relay services allow people with disabilities to communicate with standard telephone users. Communication may be made by speech, text, video or any combination. Video connections are particularly important for those who wish to use sign language. Modern relay services are making increasing use of the Internet, which permits a much wider range of communication terminals for users with disabilities. Smartphones, laptops, tablets and normal desktop PCs have all been used and more devices will appear in the future.
Article 9 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) promotes the use of ICTs to enable full participation of persons with disabilities in all aspects of life, on an equal basis with others. It requires governments to ensure that persons with disabilities have equal access to communications and information technology. The increasing number of countries adopting the UNCRPD will need advice on the provision of relay services and this workshop aims to meet that need. ITU-T Question 26/16 is currently studying relay services with an aim to advise in those areas through ITU-T Technical Papers and Recommendations. In this context, the workshop is intended as a forum where ideas, problems and good practices can be shared. Existing and future relay service suppliers will be able to share experiences with governments, regulators, standards makers, user groups and users; the outcomes will be fed into the Q26/16 studies.
This workshop will address the following topics:
Anyone wishing to make a presentation during the event should contact the organiser, Bill Pechey, (email@example.com, +44 1491 681236) by 31 August 2011 at the latest. Requests will be honoured based on speaking slot availability and thematic consistency. Contributions on other topics relevant to the theme may be accepted.
Strong commitment to leveraging the potential of the web and advanced communication tools to empower persons with disabilitiesGeneva, 15 February 2010 — ITU has again demonstrated its commitment to improving access to the information society for all, through a joint workshop aimed at promoting awareness of the importance of taking accessibility principles into account when developing websites within the UN system.In 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which obliges its signatories to provide public information in formats and technologies appropriate to different kinds of disabilities. Universal Design principles which make new technologies accessible for persons with disabilities are now becoming more of an imperative, with the wide adoption of the Convention.Organized jointly with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and held from February 2-5, the workshop was designed to help UN technical staff engaged in web design better meet the needs of disabled users.Speaking at the opening session, Malcolm Johnson, Director of ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, highlighted the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to improve access to information for persons with disabilities, noting that ITU has been "embracing the challenges of accessibility through standardization efforts, and has long championed the principles of inclusion and Universal Design enshrined in the UN Convention." Johnson also stressed that ITU practices what it preaches, and is working hard to make itself more accessible to the disabled.WIPO Director General, Francis Gurry, underlined the general importance of accessibility and reaffirmed WIPO's commitment to establishing a web environment that promotes easy access to intellectual property information. This, Gurry said, is in line with WIPO's visually impaired persons (VIP) initiative, launched in 2008, which is exploring ways to facilitate and enhance access to literary, artistic and scientific works. He noted that only five per cent of all published works are currently available in formats accessible to the VIP community. A first web accessibility workshop was hosted by WIPO in May 2009, following a request from the VIP community. This year's workshop brought together leading experts in the field of accessibility from around the world, including the World Wide Web consortium, the Mobile Web Initiative, Yahoo!, Adobe Systems, and the Royal National Institute for Blind People. It also featured a full day of training sponsored by Adobe.In the field of accessibility, ITU focuses on strategic issues ranging from the rights of the disabled, to ensuring that new ICT technical standards incorporate accessibility principles, to providing education and training on accessible ICTs. An estimated 650 million people live with disabilities worldwide.This year's participants agreed on the need for an annual workshop to keep abreast of technological developments and to share knowledge and experience within the UN system. "There is no better place to demonstrate our accessibility than the online resources that act as our window to the world. This is why this workshop has been so important," concluded ITU's Johnson.For further information please contact:Sarah Parkes Senior Media Relations OfficerITUTel: +41 22 730 6135Mobile: +41 79 599 1439E-mail: mailto: email@example.com
Toby JohnsonSenior Communications OfficerITUTel: +41 22 730 5877Mobile: +41 79 249 4868E-mail: mailto: firstname.lastname@example.com
ITU together with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) will host a Web Accessibility Workshop for United Nations systems and other international organizations 2 – 5 February at WIPO headquarters, Geneva.
The objective is to promote encourage webmasters within the United Nations system and other international organizations to take accessibility into account in their daily work. Specifically, it aims to promote article 9 of the recent United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities which requires that measures are taken to ensure that accessibility is taken into account in the design of new information technologies and systems.
More information available at http://www.wipo.int/meetings/en/2010/wipo_itu_wai/
ITU-T Workshop on "The impact of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the work of the ITU-T"
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A Declaration on Internet Accessibility was adopted by the Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability at the recent Internet Governance Forum (IGF) held in Hyderabad, India. DCAD counts ITU as one of its founder members.
ITU took part in twelve sessions at the IGF, organizing seven of them. As well as opening remarks from the Secretary General, and various addresses from the Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, six other ITU staff participated. In addition ITU sponsored the participation of 39 people (27 from developing countries).
DCAD aims to facilitate interaction between relevant bodies and ensure that ICT accessibility is included in the key debates around Internet Governance in order to build a future where all sectors of the global community have equal access to the Information Society. It held its first face-to-face meeting on 6 December 2008 during the third Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Hyderabad.
The Declaration urges all governments to support the process of adoption, ratification and implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It also "strongly urges" that the needs of persons with disabilities be included in all aspects of designing, developing, distributing and deploying of appropriation strategies of information and communication technologies, including information and communication services, so as to ensure accessibility for persons with disabilities, taking into account the universal design principle, existing standards, and the use of assistive technologies.
The Coalition has also approved an "Action Plan" for activities to be carried out in 2009.
Organizations that are members of the DCAD include ACMA, Council of Europe, DAISY Consortium, Digital Accessible Information System Consortium, G3ict, ICDRI, ISOC, ISOC-AR, Mais Diferenças, NCC, People Who, UNESCO, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. A new member joined during the IGF: the Indian "Centre for Internet & Society".
Also during the IGF, ITU, in collaboration with DCAD members organized a workshop "Including Accessibility and Human Factors in the Universalization of the Internet - How to reach persons with disabilities, the 10% of the next billion". Most of the panelists were persons with disabilities who brought varied experiences of Internet accessibility from various perspectives.
The DCAD, lead by ITU, will continue to facilitate inclusion of the needs of persons with disabilities in the global information society.
Following an ITU-T workshop on accessibility last year at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio, a Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability (DCAD) has been established by ITU-T.
The DCAD will facilitate interaction between relevant bodies and ensure that information and communications technologies (ICT) accessibility and tools to facilitate it are included in the key debates around Internet governance.
DCAD aims to help build a future where all sectors of the global community have equal access to communications and online information as well as the ability to participate in IGF discussions and seminars. The initiative takes into account the fact that all communities can benefit from ICTs and improve their quality of life, a view supported by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The coalition is currently composed of eight organizations, and is open to any entity or individual working in the field. If you wish to be part of this effort please contact the Dynamic Coalition Secretariat.
Further information on ITU and ICT accessibility can be found here.
ITU will host a tutorial on how to improve websites and meeting facilities, in order to meet the requirements for an accessible ICT infrastructure. The event will take place 22 April 0900 – 1300, at ITU headquarters in Geneva.
Accessible ICT is one of the key obligations of the United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Recently, a Joint Coordination Activity on Accessibility and Human Factors (JCA-AHF) has been established by ITU-T's Study Group 2 to coordinate standardization activities in the field. See previous story on ITU's latest work in the field of accessibility.
The tutorial is aimed at ITU staff but open to staff of similar organizations working on public policy, web content management, web development and conference organization.
The event will provide a high-level overview of the delivery of accessible content on the web, including a discussion of the problems of inaccessible web content, markup of images, online forms and PDFs, as well as the solutions for addressing these barriers. Public policy benefits will also be addressed including the benefits of the accessible web for people without disabilities. Emergence of technical standards for the accessible design of ICTs will also be covered. Practical demonstrations of remote web captioning will be conducted and free resources for checking websites for accessibility will be highlighted.
See the event's website for more information. The tutorial is free of charge, if you need assistance to obtain access to the ITU premises in order to attend please contact the JCA-AHF Secretariat at: tsbjcaahf[at]itu.int
ITU together with G3ict is holding a joint Forum to review areas of challenges and opportunities for international ICT accessibility standards in light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The event will take place at ITU Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday, 21 April 2008. See previous story on ITU's latest work in the field of accessibility.
The Convention has been signed by an unprecedentedly high number of UN Member States in a relatively short time – 126 since 30 March 2007. This makes it all the more urgent to promote ICT accessibility standards that will support a better and faster implementation around the world of the many dispositions of the Convention regarding ICTs.
For the first time since the Convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly, an international group of experts from industry, standards development organizations, NGOs representing persons with disabilities, international development institutions, governments and academia will examine in detail its many implications for ICT accessibility standards. Proceedings will be edited to serve as a reference for future accessibility standards developments.
The event will review existing and in-progress technology standards and standardization of product development methodologies; discuss the role of public policy and procurement in support of standardization and the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and identify follow-up actions to facilitate its implementation.
"Increase productivity, save time and money while reducing your company's carbon footprint"; this is the ambitious sales pitch for a new family of tools that promise to offer the 3Cs - communication, collaboration and coordination - without the requirement for physical travel. For ITU-T, whose basic mission is to encourage collaborative work among a global membership on the development and adoption of international standards, remote collaboration is a daily necessity.
A new report, the fifth in a series of ITU-T Technology Watch Briefing Reports, describes how Remote Collaboration Tools can facilitate collaboration with colleagues, and support businesses in overcoming the geographical limitations of everyday work. Remote collaboration tools can be used alongside, or integrated with, traditional office applications (such as e-mail, word processing, spreadsheets) or as an enabler of collaboration, communication and coordination. Using online meetings, collaboration that might not have occurred otherwise (as a consequence of tight schedules, long distances, or the high cost of business travel), may now take place.
For developing countries, remote collaboration tools can thus be seen as a helpful instrument in overcoming the digital divide and for "Bridging the Standardization Gap", an ITU initiative to facilitate the participation of developing countries in the standards development process.
Furthermore, replacing long-distance travel by online meetings makes remote collaboration tools a clean, green technology, which is particularly important in the context of current global concerns over climate change. In 2007, ITU-T organized and provided logistical and secretariat support for some 85 meetings/workshops, representing a total of 339 meeting days, as well as numerous smaller informal meetings, such as rapporteur groups of steering committees. Holding even a small number of those meetings online would reduce travel and therefore have a significant impact on ITU-T's carbon footprint.
Two upcoming ITU Symposia on ICTs and Climate Change (April 15-16 in Kyoto, Japan, co-organized and hosted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) and 17-18 June 2008 in London, supported and hosted by BT) will be available as a webinar in order that remote participants can see and hear presentations from wherever they are in the world. Provision will also be made for remote participants to submit comments and questions.
Download Technology Watch report on Remote Collaboration Tools
The website for a new group to coordinate standardization activities on accessibility and human factors issues has gone live. The joint coordination activity on accessibility and human factors (JCA-AHF) is open to experts working in the field to improve access to the information society by people with varied capability of handling information and the controls for its presentation. Participation will be mainly by electronic means – to take part simply send a mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
ITU has been active in accessibility and human factors for many years. Two of the best known standards are one relating to the designation of a "tactile identifier" - the number five on a telephone keypad - for easy identification for those with impaired sight (ITU-T Recommendation E.161) and a standard for text telephony (ITU-T Recommendation V.18). Recently accessibility guidelines have been drawn up to ensure that new standards are developed with the needs of those with disabilities taken into account (see previous newslog entry here).
JCA-AHF has organized a tutorial session on web design, web conferencing and real time web captioning to improve current ITU practices. It will be held in Geneva on 22 April. Details will follow.
For more detail on ITU-T's work on accessibility see here.
Another ITU initiative related to the topic is the Dynamic Coalition on Accessibility and Disability which has been created under the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). See here. More details will follow.
The quadrennial event that defines the future direction for the ITU's Standardization Sector (ITU-T) – the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (WTSA) – will take place for the first time in Africa in 2008. It will also be the first chaired by a woman (Ms Lyndall Shope-Mafole, Director-General of the South African Department of Communications), and for the first time is preceded by a Global Standards Symposium (GSS). WTSA-08 will be held 21 - 30 October 2008, at the Emperors Palace, Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.
An official 'Circular' letter has been issued encouraging Member States and ITU-T Sector Members to participate in discussions on the future structure of the Sector: the study groups (including regional tariff groups under Study Group 3); and the Telecommunication Standardization Advisory Group (TSAG). WTSA-08 will also be unique in that the term limit for chairmanships agreed at the WTSA-2000 will apply for the first time and many of the current chairmen and vice-chairmen will retire. Although this will mean the loss of much experience, it does offer the opportunity to consider a major restructuring of the Sector. Member States and ITU-T Sector Members are therefore advised to await the outcome of the next TSAG meeting in July, when a new structure for the Sector should be clearer, before submitting candidatures for chairmen or vice-chairmen.
The Global Standards Symposium (GSS) will be held at the same venue on 20 October 2008. It will see leading figures in the telecom/ICT field, both from government and the industry, give their vision of the future, and suggest ways of increasing the involvement of developing countries in the development and implementation of standards (bridging the standardization gap). Additionally the event will examine global ICT standards challenges, such as accessibility, climate change and collaboration among standards development organisations (SDOs). Although not formally a part of the WTSA-08, the GSS will provide a report to the WTSA for information and action as appropriate, giving participants a unique opportunity to provide input to the event that decides the future direction for ITU-T.
ITU is holding a workshop - Making accessibility a reality in emerging technologies - at the second meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro, 13 November, 1430-1600.
ITU's standardization arm - ITU-T - has a long history of providing standards in the field of accessibility. It started in the early 90's with the international text telephone standard, ITU-T Recommendation V.18, which ties together text telephone protocols allowing different textphone types to communicate.
ITU-T's accessibility experts have helped to incorporate accessibility needs into standards for multimedia, network interoperability, multimedia service descriptions and multimedia conferencing.
The latest work has focused on taking accessibility needs into account in the development of all standards. For this reason an 'Accessibility Checklist' has been created for the makers of standards to ensure that they are taking into account the needs of those to whom accessibility to ICTs are restricted, the deaf or hard-of-hearing for example. Experts say that such a list will help to ensure that accessibility needs are taken into account at an early stage, rather than 'retrofitted'.
An area of current intensive standardization activity is that on the next generation network (NGN). Accessibility features have been included at the first stage of standards work where requirements are defined. However it is important that these needs are taken into account as work progresses.
This workshop, organized by ITU, as part of the Internet Governance Forum brings together experts from around the world to examine how best to take into account accessibility needs in emerging technologies.
Further information here (ITU page) here (IGF page).
Standards that will ease the wide spread rollout of video over IP networks took a step forward in January.
IPTV architecture and requirements, two fundamentally important areas in standards work were progressed at a recent meeting of the ITU-T Focus Group on IPTV. There was general consensus in the meeting that FG IPTV will successfully develop documents which will accelerate introduction of IPTV to the global market. Setting the architecture and requirements in stone allows the rest of the work to continue with greater ease.
Meeting at the Microsoft conference center, Mountain View California, at the invitation of the Alliance for Telecom Industry Standards (ATIS) the group saw a record number of contributions and experts worked often late to keep up with the workload. Nearly 90 documents were dealt with in the fields of architecture and requirements alone.
Malcolm Johnson, newly elected Director of ITU's Telecommunication Standardization Bureau said in a message he sent to the event: "The excellent cooperation between ITU-T and ATIS is an example of the spirit of cooperation that I believe now pervades in the standards world... From what I have seen there is a great deal to be satisfied by in terms of the progress that FG IPTV has achieved so far."
In opening comments, ATIS President & CEO Susan Miller shared with the 200 meeting attendees that IPTV is serving as a "change agent" for the industry, and "as both the business case and principal driver for accelerating deployment of the next generation network." Miller noted that for North American service providers in particular, "IPTV is a critical ingredient to bundled service offerings that encompass television services, mobile services, Internet access, and much more. We have seen in the last decade, enormous investments in broadband, and fiber deployments to the home and to the premise," said Miller.
Also important a document outlining terms and definitions in the field was created. While seemingly mundane this work is crucially important in ensuring consistency of comprehension in an area where many standards outlining different aspects of IPTV will co-exist.
Further discussion is expected on whether and how to treat the issue of redistribution of content to a point past an IPTV terminal device, and, in particular, how content protection and content management functions can or should apply in a home network environment.
Other issues examined and progressed were accessibility issues for people with disabilities, AV codecs and content format requirements. Output (and other) documents can be seen here.
The next meeting of FG IPTV will be held from 7 to 11 May 2007 in Bled, Slovenia.
Study Group 16's standardization work in the field of
accessibility aims to ensure that all sectors of the global community have
equal access to communications and online information. This effort goes back to
the 1990s with V.18 (an ITU-T Recommendation on a multi-function text
The work takes into account the fact that users
of ICTs have a varied capability for handling information and the controls
for its presentation. The source of this variation lies in cultural and
educational backgrounds as well as in age-related functional limitations, in
disabilities, and in other natural causes. Everyone can benefit from this
accessibility standardization work as anyone can be permanently or temporarily
disabled due to physical, environmental (e.g. a phone call in a noisy
environment) or cultural (e.g. spoken language diversity) conditions. Moreover,
we will all grow old and lose facilities that we take for granted now, thus
enlarging the part of the population that benefits from accessible
The most important goal of ITU-T's accessibility
activity is to make sure that newly developed standards contain the necessary
elements to make services and features usable for as broad a range of people as
possible. Standards describe how equipment should interact and what
quality is necessary for media to be usable for all, additionally suitable
methods of media delivery for people with disabilities are described.
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Hartford Court Russian River Pinot Noir 2010
Pinot Noir from Russian River, Sonoma County, California
Winemaker's Notes
The wine's nose is elegant and complex with effusive black cherry up-front and underlying notes of violet, pain grillé, cumin and faint notions of freshly plowed earth. Flavors in the mouth are berry, cherry, sweet dried cranberries, clove and allspice. Texturally, the wine is silky with nice acidity and a minerality that drive the wine's finish. Our Green Valley Vineyards provide the wine's complex and effusive fruit and brown spice impressions. The Sebastopol Hills brings keen acidity and minerality and the Laguna Ridge red and dark fruit and the faint notes of cumin and loam.
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Decanter - "Muted cherry nose, but stylish. Fresh and zesty, sleek and elegant, with delicious fruit on a slender frame. Good length. "
Hartford Court Winery
Hartford Family Winery was founded in 1993 as a result of Don and Jennifer Hartford's appreciation for the wines, the people, and the unique vineyards near their Russian River Valley home. Located in the Sonoma County town of Forestville, the winery is about 15 miles from the cool Pacific Coast.
Making delicious wines of high personality is directly related to the difficult locations of the Hartford family's vineyard sources, the limited production of their bottlings and the varietals they use. "Character through adversity" is an expression that the Hartford family believes to apply to both people and grapevines, and they feel that surviving adversity builds character, and personality, in both.
The Hartford Family makes wines under two marks, one of which is Hartford Court. Hartford Court bottlings are small lots of high-personality single vineyard Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays that express the distinctive qualities inherent in each vineyard's terroir - the interplay of soil, slope, exposure and climate. The fruit is sourced from the Russian River Valley, Green Valley and Sonoma Coast appellations. View all Hartford Court Wines
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The Russian River Valley is named as such due to its proximity to the Russian River, the river itself named for the Russian fur traders who came down from Alaska in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The Russian River is agricultural land. While there is a focus on wine, beyond the vineyards are many small, family-owned farms cultivating everything from cattle to Christmas trees.
Notable FactsThe proximity of this cool river and the rolling fogs from the Pacific Ocean make the area amenable to cool-climate grapes like Pinot Noir and Chardonnay. In fact, the region is quite known for its full-bodied, yet elegant Pinot Noir, as well as their ripe, yet lean Chardonnays. Within Russian River Valley lie the smaller appellations of Chalk Hill and Green Valley. Chalk Hill is the warmer of the two and furthest from the ocean, while Green Valley is cooler and closer to the water.
About CaliforniaIt's not rare to see a wine's country of origin listed as "California." A country unto itself in the wine world, California makes enough varieties and styles to match many European wine countries. It produces a diverse range of wines that span the quality spectrum.
The most famous of the California wine regions is Napa Valley, and these wines are certainly outstanding – but it's not as broad and diverse as its larger neighbor, Sonoma County. Down south, Santa Barbara's Santa Maria Valley is well-known for its Rhône blends, as well as cool-climate varieties like Pinot and Chardonnay. The Central Coast, the largest California AVA, has many different microclimates that lead to a wide range of wines with many sub-AVAs.
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Hi guys,
I'm planning on making my '02 330ci with 245.000 km on the clock track ready.
My budget is limited because I just started working a real job but for for e.g. the suspension i know that you can't settle for a 300 euro coilover set because the gas pistons will be rubbish. However, I really don't know which brands are really good value for money. Yes, I do know brands like Eibach and Bilsteiner but I lack the experience, so I hope you guys can help me.
What I'm planning to do:
- 1. Strip the car
- 2. Racing seats (sparco?)
- 3. Roll cage (Fabricate it my self with some help from friends)
- 4. Change the clutch --> But do I need a performance one? Or is a regular stock replacement good enough? Will also replace the flywheel and pressure plates.
And while I'm at it, put in a short shifter + tranny will be cleaned by a professional
- 5. Really need new suspension (don't have M package so suspension is ****) But what brand? (budget +/- 1000 euro) --> Will probably also install better sway-bars but again --> What brand?
- 6. Brakes, (Disk, callipers and pads) --> Any advise? My dad has a 911 with PCCB and those brakes are phenomenal but I don't have a 10k budget for brakes I prefer re-using as much as I can from the stock braking system (due to budget reasons)
- 7. Racing steering wheel of course
I'm planning to keep the car street legal to begin with because I need to drive it to and from the track due to me not having a licence to have a trailer attached to the car (Dutch law bla bla).
I also read something about the oil pump nut? Whats all that about?
Final remark, in a year or 2 I want to participate in a Dutch competition so I need FIA certification for seats, roll cage etc. And of course I need to cut corners due to my budget restrictions but when I need to invest 25% extra in order to get a lot more safety or way better performance, I will do that of course.
For people that think why would you use an engine with 245k on the clock? Here is the story:
It was originally bought by my dad back in 2004 (2nd hand with 40.000 km) and used as a daly driver. When I turned 18, me and my sister were using it as 'our' car but she stayed near my parents and I went to the university in another city so it turned in to 'her' car. So although it has a lot of milage on it, it were easy miles because my sister drives like a 80 year old.
I finished my master and my dad initially wanted to sell it because the clutch needs fixing and for european standards the fuel economy is not economical at all. However, I told him I would like to have it and convert it to a track car. I've been go karting since I'm 8 years old so it was an easy yes
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I think you're putting the car before the horse. Buy yourself a new OEM clutch (you don't need a fancy clutch), decent brake pads, stainless brake lines, and brake fluid. OEM brake rotors are fine. Check all your bushings and ball joints and replace as necessary. Change and top-off all your fluids. Save the rest of your money and spend it attending track days. Do NOT strip your car. You should keep the factory steering wheel so that you can retain the air bag. Do NOT remove any of your air bags. Not only is removing factory safety equipment unsafe for you, it is unsafe for your passengers.
If you want a better suspension, order up some Bilstein shocks, some springs, some sway bars, and some sway bar end-links. That's more than what you'll need.
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@Bayerische E46,
Thanks for your concerns. However, I maybe didnt make it clear in my story but I'm not going to use it as a daily driver. I will only use it to drive it to and from the track. (about 5km)
Yes I'm not a very experienced cart driver. I only drive 10 or 15 times a year on indoor tracks. However, on every go-kart track I go I drive within a second of the track record eventhough I'm 90kg (Does that say something about me or the other people on the track.. yep thats a valid argument). Nevertheless, I simply didn't have the funds when I was younger in order to do competitive cart driving. And my dad wouldn't let me have it otherwise I would turn in to a spoiled brat
Again, thanks for your concerns however I do think you have some frustration regarding previous guys stating that they could drive or something and crash in to you (I don't know). I just posted this because I thought there must be a lot of knowledge on this forum regarding experiences and little tips and tricks. And I could benefit from it.
And yes I want to go in competitive racing (in 2 years) so I have time to learn on trackdays. Also racing on a budget is always possible, maybe my budget is 500,000 euro?? Of course it isn't but everybody has a budget. Mine is around 5,000 euro and growing each month.
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BayerischeE46 is right, you don't ahve to make all the mods you are talking about to have a good track car. Sure, if you don't have to drive it on the street very much, you can strip it some, even install racing seats, but I wouldn'tt spend any significant money doing that. The stand brakes are fine until you get to the all-out racing point. Just put some good track pads on and go with the standard rotors. The brakes on 330s are really oversize for the car. For suspension, springs (H&R Race are good, but you could go stiffer if you don't have to srive on the street very much). Blisten shocks/struts go well with the stiff springs. Definitely stiff sway bars front and rear. Obviously, a high temp brake fluid is needed. I wouldn't put in a full roll cage until needed for real racing. You should, however, put in some form of 4 or 5-point harness; it is amazing how much better driver a good harness will make you. I assume you currently have poor street tires and either smaller wheels or the staggered set-up. You wil probably want a set of good wheels and some good rubber to put on them. If you can, resist the temptation to go directly to R-Comps; you will learn better and faster on some good summer street tires. Wear out a set of stree tires, then go to the R-Comps.
Your 330 is much more capable than you probably realize. Carts are a good training ground, but cars doing 130+ MPH on a track is much different. You will need some time to adjust.
By the way, you mention only having to drive 5km to the track. I don't know anyone half serious about driviing who is satisfied with just driving at one track. I'd suggest you leave your car streetable enough that you can stand to drive it to more distant tracks.
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Indeed, I currently have poor wheels, just the stock 17 inch rims with continental sportcontact 5 rubber. I'll be using those until they aren't street legal anymore. You're also right about the more distant tracks However, I do have 2 questions, If you don't have a roll cage, how can you easily secure the 5-point harness to the car? The other question I have is regarding the clutch, should I keep using the stock clutch?
Thanks so far!
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As far as the harness goes look for a Schroth Ralleye 4 point harness. It's what I use and it is extremely popular here. It attaches using factory locations, so no need for a roll cage.
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I have the Schroth Ralleye 4 point harness also and love it. It is not a full 5-point, but I think it does a great job. I'd use the clutch until it fails. The clutch will handle the power just fine, but for top performace driving you probably want to go to a lighter clutch/flywheel combination to give you a little quicker response, such as when blipping for a downshift. If noone has already done so, you probably want to remove or disable the Clutch Delay Valve, it will give you much betterr clutch feel.
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Both lejeunebimmer and GrayGhost, thanks for the info!
But my clutch is almost gone because it is still the factory clutch that came with the car back in 2002 so it has done 245.000 kilometers. I'm not quite sure how to say this in english but the clutch only engages when the peddle is almost in its 'resting' position. You barely have to touch it (compared to 4 years ago). So do you guys know a good brand which is better capable to handle harsh gearshifts? I've read some topics about the UUC clutch/flywheels and pressure plates but I'm not familiar with that brand.
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I have the UUC lightweight flywheel and e36 M3 BMW Motorsport clutch in mine; however if I were to do it again, I would go with a JB Racing lightweight flywheel.
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I still have my stock/origional clutch (65K Miles) so I cannot comment from my own experience. I have heard good things about the UUC combination. I don't think you would go wrong with it, but if lejeunebimmer has other recommendations, I would listen closely.
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Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition (XBLA) Review
Game: Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition
Genre: Action and Adventure
Players: 1-2 with online and local support
Developer: ACE Team
Publisher: Atlus U.S.A., Inc.
Rated T for Teen
Zeno Clash is the story of a young man named Ghat, who has recently turned on his hermaphroditic parent, Father-Mother, and has aroused the anger of his massive and influential family. Zeno Clash is also probably the only game that features a hermaphroditic character, so points for that. While that is a bit different in its own right, the game gets even weirder when you realize Father-Mother is some deformed creature that clearly must be from hell itself and your family consists of several different species of life. Ghat and his friend Deadra flee from town to escape from Ghat's family, who are determined to kill him for harming the Father-Mother.
After you get past the rather odd story you enter an even stranger world populated by human-animal hybrids, dinosaurs, and some downright weird creatures…the majority of whom would like to see you dead. The world itself is filled with strange scenery and it appears as though the rules of our world are far different from Zenozoik. Zeno Clash creates a vivid and strange world that also manages to capture some beauty in its beast-like appearance. You'll definitely spend some time just wandering around looking at everything the game has to offer.
Like this horrible abomination from the worst of your nightmares
The story is entirely linear though engaging. It's a slightly familiar plot with some unique twists to it, and the ending it definitely surprising. Ghat and Deadra spend most of their time exploring the world and running into a variety of angry creatures, which leads to combat. Deadra rarely helps you out in these battles, so most of the time it's you against two to three enemies.
Combat is primarily hand to hand, and considering this is a first person game, it's difficult to adjust at first. The camera shakes with each blow and even though you can lock onto your targets sometimes it's hard to tell if that punch is going to connect or not. Thankfully, the game provides several tutorials throughout the early portions of the plot that allow you to master the techniques quickly. Outside of your standard brawling abilities, you can also parry and counter your enemy's attacks, though my favorite move is the running elbow to the face. There are a lot of skills to master in Zeno Clash, though you won't have to rely on them too much due to the relatively easy gameplay.
Punching this guy? Easy.
In most battles you will also be able to find a handy weapon or two, which range from the fish gun to a good old fashioned hammer. The aiming for the guns is haphazard and most of the time you'll want to go back to using your fists, though some enemies require the use of melee weapons to take them down. Ghat can also pick up skull bombs littered throughout the world, which cause a small explosion to take down enemies.
While the story will last most gamers anywhere between four to six hours, the game also offers co-op for pit and tower challenges, which has you taking on enemies as quickly as possible as you descend (or ascend) the stage. I found the experience to be laggy at times, but nothing that took away from the game. There's also a Zeno Rush mode, which has you replaying parts of the single player campaign in the fastest amount of time possible.
The 411
Zeno Clash: Ultimate Edition is a unique brawler set in a beautiful world filled with strange creatures that provides a one of a kind experience that should be tried by any gamer. There are points where the game drags due to the repetitive nature of the fights, but the story is interesting enough to keep you going and some of the battles are really fun (the fight with the Hunter springs to mind).
-Unique premise and engaging storyline
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Although he was pitching for the Chicago Cubs of manager Leo Durocher at the time of his last appearance in a major league uniform, everyone knows Robbie as the quintessential Whiz Kid of the Philadelphia Phillies. Twenty-three years old and in his third major league season in the summer of 1950, Roberts led the Whiz Kids to the Phillies' first National League pennant in 35 years by defeating the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-1 in 10 innings in the final game of the year, in the process also winning 20 games for the first of six consecutive seasons. Robin Roberts was, quite simply, the finest pitcher to ever come out of the Phillies' farm system.
Roberts also has another distinction. Out of the 46 pitchers who have won 200 or more games in the majors since the end of World War II, he is one of very few who did not struggle at some point early in his career. While it may be a matter of "common knowledge" that "young pitchers will break your heart," this is one nugget of wisdom that is actually true. Even the great starting pitchers, and winning 200 in the post WW2 Era qualifies as at least very good, usually struggle at some point early in their careers. In addition to Roberts, just four other 200-game winners can be said to have NOT had a hard time in their first three seasons. And it's quite a list…
Name (Rookie Age) Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Tom Seaver (22) 122 137 166 Steve Carlton (22) 110 97 164 Whitey Ford (21) 153 123 121 Frank Tanana (20) 111 136 137 Robin Roberts (21) 124 107 135
As their Adjusted ERAs indicate, these guys were all good from the start. (Although Carlton was slightly above the league average ERA in his second year – 1968 – his peripheral stats were excellent.) Seaver, Carlton, Ford and Roberts won't come as a shock… they're all in the Hall of Fame… although some may forget just how good Frank Tanana was before he blew his arm out during the 1978 season at the ripe old age of 24. What may be a shock are some of the pitchers from this time frame who weren't great right from the start.
Roger Clemens (21) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 1984 9-4 133 146 29 126 4.32
A case could be made for qualifying Clemens as the sixth man to the group listed above, but he did give up a lot of hits. Adjusted ERA was 96.
Nolan Ryan (21) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 1968 6-9 134 93 75 133 3.09
Looks pretty good, right? Compare him to Carlton's 1968. Lefty was better… note the K/W ratio. Ryan's reputation for wildness was justified.
Year W-L IP H W K ERA 1968 13-11 232 214 61 162 2.99 Gaylord Perry (23) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 1962 3-1 43 54 14 20 5.23 1963 1-6 76 84 29 52 4.03
Of course, this was before he learned to throw the spitball.
Bob Gibson (24) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 1960 3-6 87 97 48 69 5.61
This was actually Gibson's second year. He'd gone 3-5 with a 3.33 ERA in 76 innings in 1959.
Jim Bunning (23) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 1955 3-5 51 59 32 37 6.35
That's an Adjusted ERA of 60.
These are just a few examples. Don Sutton's Adjusted ERAs in his first three years (ages 21-23) were 110, 79 and 107. Jack Morris' were 115, 90 and 133 from ages 22 to 24. And then there are the much-remarked upon careers of Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine. Maddux went 74, 77, 114 from age 20 to 22, and Glavine went 79, 81, 99 from age 21 to age 23.
Although there's lots of room to argue what constitutes a "great" pitcher and what constitutes "struggling," the point is that, to one degree or another, practically all young (let's say age 25 and younger) starting pitchers are going to go through some difficult patches at some point early in their major league careers.
Which brings us to the 2006 season, and one of the major on-going stories of the current campaign… the plethora of hot young arms. And, not only does there seem to be a potentially great young pitcher on practically every major league staff, but a bunch of young guns are also leading the respective staffs towards the post season – Justin Verlander, Jeremy Bonderman, Jered Weaver and Francisco Liriano come immediately to mind. Knowing what we know about even great pitchers struggling, and with an eye towards both the immediate future (the next six weeks of the regular season) and the more distant future (the next couple of years), it may be instructive to look at the records of some of the young pitchers who have been much-ballyhooed over the past couple of years.
Possibly the most interesting of this lot is Bonderman. For those with a short memory, recall that he was used for batting practice by the American League during the Tigers' fabled 43-119 campaign of 2003. As a 20-year old rookie during that memorable year, Bonderman came very close to losing 20 games. In fact, he only avoided the stigma that was attached to teammate Mike Maroth because then-manager Alan Trammell pulled him from the starting rotation for a while in September. Here then is the now-23 year old Bonderman's record up to the present…
Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2003 6-19 162 193 58 108 5.56 2004 11-13 184 168 73 168 4.89 2005 14-13 189 199 57 145 4.57 2006 11-5 166 149 46 159 3.69
Bonderman's progression is clear and obvious… he's pretty much gotten better every year, and, more importantly, the beating he took in 2003 didn't ruin him. Another Greg Maddux or Tom Glavine? Possibly.
However, Bonderman's fairly linear progress is not the norm. Indeed, among the current young guns, only the Devil Rays' Scott Kazmir can show a similar progressive track. Although he was cruelly treated (most due to his own wildness) in 33 innings as a 20-year old first-time major leaguer in 2004, he has also come around nicely, making the Mets squirm almost every time he goes to the mound.
Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2004 2-3 33 33 21 41 5.67 2005 10-9 186 172 100 174 3.77 2006 10-8 139 128 51 155 3.37
Although he still had some control issues in 2005, Kazmir has dramatically improved his K/W ratio this year, as well as successively lowering his ERA. An whatever happened to Victor Zambrano, anyway?
While Bonderman and Kazmir may no longer be as green as they once were, there's a good chance that the Pittsburgh Pirates are green over their success. Remember just last year? For that matter, remember during Spring Training of this year? Everyone was talking about the Buccos' young pitchers. Zack Duke, Paul Maholm, Oliver Perez, Ian Snell. Well, a lot of people are still talking… but for the wrong reason.
Zach Duke (23) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2005 8-2 86 79 23 58 1.81 2006 8-10 159 193 55 89 4.99 Paul Maholm (24) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2005 3-1 41 31 17 26 2.18 2006 5-10 141 167 65 91 4.58 Oliver Perez (24) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2002 4-5 90 71 48 94 3.50 2003 4-10 128 129 77 141 5.47 2004 12-10 196 145 81 239 2.99 2005 7-5 103 102 70 97 5.85 2006 2-10 76 88 51 61 6.63 Ian Snell (24) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2004 0-1 12 14 9 9 7.50 2005 1-2 42 43 24 34 5.14 2006 10-8 139 152 52 122 4.67
If anyone would have predicted prior to the start of the current season that Ian Snell would become the Pirates' de facto ace by August, and that Oliver Perez would be sent to the minors and then unceremoniously shipped off to the Mets… well, no one would have predicted that, even given the realization that young pitchers are erratic and unpredictable. Although the odds would seem to be against four young pitchers all struggle at once, the fact that they have struggled isn't a shock. Now that's not to say that Duke, who has shown some signs of coming around, won't become a long-term good pitcher. Or that Perez will make the Mets look good, and the Pirates look bad for getting tired of his roller coaster approach to pitching and giving up on him.
This may seem like picking on the Pirates, but they're just the most notable example of this phenomenon during 2006. At least four more young pitchers who had some noted success in the past have also had a hard time this year.
Dontrelle Willis (24) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2003 14-6 162 148 58 142 3.31 2004 10-11 197 210 61 139 4.02 2005 22-10 236 213 55 170 2.63 2006 7-10 165 185 63 114 4.14
For all the fuss that was raised almost from the start of the 2006 season regarding whether or nor Willis was on the trading block, the fact is that he's been just like most young pitchers, erratic, throughout his three plus years in the majors. Maybe it's good that some other team didn't give up the farm to the Marlins for him. And maybe it isn't.
Jake Peavy (25) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2002 6-7 98 106 33 90 4.52 2003 12-11 195 173 82 156 4.12 2004 15-6 166 146 53 173 2.27 2005 13-7 203 162 50 216 2.88 2006 6-12 150 144 46 162 4.55
After a two-year learning curve, it looked like Peavy was on his way to becoming one of the National League's aces in 2004 and 2005, to say nothing of being the Padres' ace. Oops! His hits per inning has gone up in 2006, and he's already given up more home runs (19-18) than he did all of last year.
Zack Greinke (22) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2004 8-11 145 143 26 100 3.97 2005 5-17 183 233 53 114 5.80
A fine rookie year, followed by a disaster of a second year. A disaster that may have affected him a lot more than Jeremy Bonderman's rough first year. After going on the DL for psychological reasons in Spring Training, Greinke has yet to return to the Royals. He's currently 7-2 with a 4.36 ERA (82:21 K/W ratio) with the Double A Wichita Linemen (or whatever the Royals' Texas League team is called). As to when he'll be back in the majors., it's hard to say since the Royals were apparently desperate enough for starters to resort to signing Adam Bernero.
Felix Hernandez (20) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2005 4-4 84 61 23 77 2.67 2006 10-10 142 143 51 130 4.50
Last season, everyone knew this kid was going to be the next great pitcher. And maybe he is. But, he's still got some learning to do. Let's see… his hits per inning has gone way up, his strikeout/walk ratio has gone down, and his ERA is almost two runs per game higher. Sounds like a 20-year old pitcher… which actually is one of his best points. Anyone who can pitch that well in the majors at the age of 19 should have a pretty good future, if he stays healthy (always a concern for young pitchers).
There are at least a half dozen team in the majors for whom these tales should stand as a caveat emptor, those being the Tigers, Twins, Angels, Cardinals, Marlins and Phillies. All six have young starting pitchers who have basically not pitched in the majors before this year, and who have shown signs of greatness. Most remarked upon of these are the Tigers' Justin Verlander and the Twins Francisco Liriano.
Justin Verlander (23) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2006 14-6 146 138 45 98 3.14
Although his stats don't position him as a dominating pitcher, he has been very effective. However, the Tigers also felt it necessary to rest him earlier this month for a "fatigued "shoulder." Not a good sign. The Tigers also have another young pitcher who could be mentioned in this discussion, 24-year old Zach Miner (7-3, 4.25 ERA in his first major league season.)
Francisco Liriano (22) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2006 12-3 119 88 32 142 2.19
Liriano is the 2006 version of Felix Hernandez. Except that he's currently on the DL with a muscular inflammation of his elbow, and the Twins don't know if he'll be back to pitch at all this year… although they sure hope so. (This is sometimes called "whistling through the graveyard.") Verlander's and Liriano's problems are indicative of one of the pitfalls of depending on young starters… the attrition rate is very high.
Both Liriano and Verlander threw a few innings in the majors in 2005, as did the less-heralded Marlins' Josh Johnson and the Cardinals' Anthony Reyes.
Josh Johnson (22) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2006 11-6 127 105 59 111 2.84
To the surprise of almost everyone but his mother, Johnson is not only pitching better than the aforementioned Dontrelle Willis, but is also leading the National League in ERA. Of course, he only has to look across his own lockeroom to be cautioned on the fragility of such early success.
Anthony Reyes (24) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2006 4-6 65 58 27 44 4.73
Although Reyes has struggled some, and didn't actually start the year with St. Louis, Brian Walton of The Birdhouse (http://stlcardinals.scout.com) files this report on how the year has gone for another young pitcher whose team is depending on his for the postseason.
"One prevailing theory was that he could dominate with a four-seamer in the minors, but not in the majors. So, La Russa and Duncan insist he also uses a two-seamer to keep the ball down. That was supposedly why Reyes didn't make the team out of spring training - to go back to Triple-A to master the two-seamer. That and the big tub of goo also known as Sidney Ponson."
Walton is, if you haven't guessed, your classic proponent of advocacy journalism.
There are also two "pure" rookie starters, who had not appeared in the majors prior to 2006, who are worth mentioning.
Jered Weaver (23) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2006 8-0 71 50 19 58 2.14
Thus far, he looks like the greatest thing since sliced bread, having, among other things, sent his brother Jeff packing to St. Louis (another indication of the Cardinals' need for a good performance out of Reyes.) The main question at this point is, why in the world did the Angels send him back to the minors after he won his first five starts?
Cole Hamels (22) Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2006 5-6 84 71 32 96 4.50
We've come full circle, back to Robin Roberts. Because Cole Hamels is the best pitching prospect to come out of the Phillies' farm system since Robin Roberts. And, no, he's not the only pitching prospect to come out of said system since 1948. He's a better prospect than were… Curt Simmons, Jack Sanford, Art Mahaffey, Chris Short, Rick Wise, Dave Downs, Larry Christenson, Dick Ruthven, Tom Underwood, Bob Walk, Marty Bystrom, Tony Ghelfi, Kevin Gross, Bruce Ruffin, Marvin Freeman, Pat Combs, Andy Ashby, Tyler Green, Randy Wolf or Gavin Floyd. (A lot of prospects… not many of them panned out.) Note the strikeouts per inning. Only Liriano and the early version of Oliver Perez among all of the other young pitchers under discussion can match it.
His minor league record, stretching back to 2003 when he was 19, is so good that he could have been declared illegal. (And what you can't see from this line is that he gave up exactly two home runs in those 201 innings.)
Year W-L IP H W K ERA 03-06 14-4 201 117 74 276 1.44
The three games he pitched for Scranton/Wilkes-Barre this year in Triple A had the International League petitioning the Phillies to get him out of the league.
Year W-L IP H W K ERA 2006 2-0 23 10 1 36 0.39
So what's the story? Why wasn't he in the majors at 19 like Felix Hernandez? Why isn't he as acclaimed as Liriano and Verlander? Injuries. Some baseball related (elbow), some non-baseball-related (back, upper arm, hand). In fact, the Phillies put him on the DL earlier this year after he felt a pop in his shoulder while long-tossing between starts. Prior to the 2006 season, the most innings he had thrown in a single season as a professional was 101, back in 2003. With three stops in the minors in 2006, he's now thrown 133 innings so far this year. And the Phillies will have to continue to be careful with him… something that may be difficult to do, given the Phillies' pitching shorts, and his record in his last four starts.
And that's not taking into account the 25 he struck out in the 16 innings in his three starts prior to that.
Hamels, a young left-hander who already has good control and who throws a low-90s fastball, a good and improving curve that he's making better use of, and one of the most devastating change-ups seen in many a year (he struck out Ken Griffey, Jr., looking with it in his first game), went through some rough times in June 2006. And, he's very likely to go through some rough times in the future. However, if he stays healthy, given his minor league record and his ability to make batters miss, he could well be the best since Robin Roberts.
A member of the Society for American Baseball Research, John Shiffert's background includes serving as a sportswriter, as sports information director for Earlham College and Drexel University, and as publisher of the Philadelphia Baseball File. He's been director of University Relations at Clayton State University since August 1995.


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SYTYCD Recap: SYTYCD Returns with Hot Tamales and Lap Dances and Bieber, Oh My!
No one denies that shows like THE VOICE, THE AMAZING RACE, and American Idol have a larger cultural cache, but for fans who enjoy honest, artistic creativity, there is nothing on television like SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. Each year, SYTYCD routinely turns out some of the most impressive and moving performances you will see anywhere. With changes to the format this year, including returning to a single winner, the introduction of dance crews, and a young up-start named Justin Bieber, Season 11 could just be the most exciting yet.
When I spoke to Executive Producer and judge, Nigel Lythgoe, last week, he spoke about how important this season's ratings will be to the show's future, so if you love the fact that quality dance, theatre, and art has a home on network television, watch the show, and tell all of your friends to watch as well. Oh, and tell them to read my recaps after every episode too!
The show opens with a nice package previewing the new season to come. The craziest part of the open was when host Cat Deeley reminded us that the show has been on the air for a decade; as if I needed another reason to feel old.
The first section of auditions came from New Orleans and featured special guest judge Wayne Brady, and the second stop saw Jenna Elfman judge from Chicago. Since we see so little from each performer, I am simply going to give a Three-Word Review for the contestants that we see a full solo from.
The only disappointing thing about the first week was that they apparently moved the callback round from Las Vegas to LA. Every show does their next round in Hollywood; I liked that SYTYCD had a little niche with Vegas. Oh well, if this budget cut means they have a better shot at Season 12, I can deal.
Now onto the performances:
Shelby Rase
Covington, LA
Style: Contemporary
Three-Word Review: Powerful, captivating, intense
Result: Ticket to Callback
Unnecessary Parental Dancing Alert: Shelby's dad did his "patented bottle dance", sans the six-pack that normally precedes it. Fortunately, Shelby did not inherit her father's skills. Why does SYTYCD think awkward parental dancing is good television? Please make it stop, Nigel.
Tanisha Belnap
Payson, UT
Style: Ballroom
Three-Word Review: Sexy, Nigel blushed
Result: Ticket to Callback
Shelby (Skip) and Shane Skipper
New Orleans, LA
Style: Wallace Bounce
Three-Word Review: Fun, not incredible
Result: Skip to Choreography (He dropped out mid-choreography round), "No" to Shane
Megan Marcano
Houston, TX
Style: Contemporary
Three-Word Review: Elegant, Quirky Fun
Result: Ticket to Callback
Unnecessary Parental Dancing Alert: After a second dad came up on stage to dance, Mike Rase decided to issue a challenge, and we were subjected to watching the battle on the nation's premiere dance competition. I guess nothing on FOX could be completely pure and idiocy-free. This is the network that is currently airing I WANT TO MARRY, HARRY after all.
Trevor Bryce
Orlando, FL
Style: Contempo-Hop?? (I just made that up)
Three-Word Review: One-ofa-Kind
Result: Ticket to Callback
Courtney Barnes
Jackson, MS
Style: I have absolutely no idea what that was
Three-Word Review: Double Jointed Weirdness
Result: Choreography (Eventual "No")


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Tuesday, February 6, 2007
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Angel group the Keiretsu Forum said Tuesday that it participated in the recent funding of Seattle-based CleverSet. The Keiretsu Forum said Tuesday that it was part of the announced $2M angel funding in CleverSet, which provides merchandise recommendation services. Barry Gilbert, former CEO of Smith & Hawken and former COO of Sharper Image, joined CleverSet's board of directors as part of the funding, and is a member of the Keiretsu Forum.


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A new president has been elected in Iran and his initial comments offer both hope and uncertainty. He insists "the Syrian crisis must be resolved by the people of Syria. We are against terrorism, civil war and foreign internvention." OK, we agree. I assume this means Russia and Iran will cease providing arms and planes and troops to assist President Assad. How can any sane person oppose allowing the people of Syria to determine their future. This would require a free election. Anyone in Iran for that idea?
Newly elected Hassabn Rowhani emphasized his desire for resolution of the conflict over nuclear weapons with western nations. There is a solution. Iran is supported in its efforts to develop a nuclear industry and it agrees not to build atomic weapons. It IS time to end threats and engage in negotiations based on the right of Iran to have a nuclear industry.


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