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Discussion in 'Preseason 2005/6' started by Superstarov, Oct 2, 2005.
I didn't know the heat wpuld look so bad.
Darko and Shaq Watching the game now. We were out and I taped the game. For all of you who think Darko will not be able to play with Shaq, just check out between the 5 1/2 and 6 minute remaining mark in the first half. Darko was keeping Shaq from going deep and while doing so, reached around him and batted the ball out so that we got a fast break. Right after that, when Shaq bulldozed him, he came right back and bulldozed Shaq, but of course, got a foul called on him. He played Mourning tough, too. Not a star but will be competent this year - - - this year!! The whole Piston team looks more like a team, like ten times more, than Miami. They have a lot of work to do. Bet they don't get it done, either. Detroit wins home court in the east, all the way. I know this is just a pre-season game. I know. But I think the Pistons will build up a lead and not relinquish it. Davis is playing well as is Evans. Sheed and Rip. Heck, they all are.
Sheed Does Sheed have FatWanes number, or what!! He is flat-out locked down.
reply to TBird TBird, you took what I wrote not as I intended. No, decisions are not made on one game. But from what we saw from this game, if that were all we had to go by, then we could leave Hunter off the roster. Miami simply, for this game, looked like no threat at all to us. I meant to say no more than that.
Lee, using your logic then I guess based on THIS game Miami can leave Wade off the roster too.
thanks Lee256 Seriously Lee, thanks for the recap. I've got League Pass but it seems that any exhibition game that's not carried by Fox Sports gets blacked out when there's a local (Celtics) game on. Good to read some game action. Is Delfino going to be running that baseline scam on free throws all season? He was doing it in the early exhibition games and I thought the opponents would eventually catch on.
PS: check out the photo here. The camera perspective makes Gary Payton looks like a cartoon dwarf trying to pass around Darko. http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/basketball/12974672.htm
darko showed that he can play shaq and play zo. i was at the game and darko posterized zo on that pick and roll. it was wiped off because of a charge call but it sent a clear message to zo. darko did not back down to shaq or zo. shaq thought he was going to just bowl darko over but darko didn't budge and gave shaq a bit of a hit right back. he just doesn't have the respect right now so he got the call against him. also the shaq didn't have to play darko in the pick and roll. but during the regular season if you put sheed in with darko shaq should have to guard the pick and roll every time down the court. i'm hoping as the season progresses that darko can play the role of shaq stopper that ec played last year.
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Wow THat was a great stuff by Delfino on the freethrow putback.
I guess we are losing the exciteent of the preseason. We were posting video of the wack games, but as the preseaon progresses we don even get the usual recap and we played the almighty Heat. What gives???
What's this "we" stuff? I missed your recap and video contribution. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth bro.
damn, Diesel becomes more and more fat each year. Been some years he looked like this or am I am wrong?
I needed to see for myself what the Heat looked like before I could really say what I thought, and I was right. Those were bad trades first of all the Joneses could make the outside shot consistantly, and Antione Walker, Posey, Williams, and Payton can't shoot for crapp. Eddie and Damon are pretty young, and they traded them off and got older. this team has no future except Wade and he can't do it all by himself, Shaq is going to be gone soon so take away those 28 points he had yesterday and look what you have. Who did Tay gaurd yesterday? I know he didn't gaurd Wade because Rip did and he did a hell of a job, Rip's getting a lot better on defense.
I think we still had some great recaps of the game. Thanks Lee. I don't know why people keep busting on him for his opinions in this section. Miami poses some interesting scenarios. They have talent but lack chemisty. Some people expect them to gel later. But how long until SVG get PR's shoe tattoed on his backside? Then they have to adjuct to the coach. I am not going to believe that this team is going to knock themselves out of contention. That would be too easy.
If the Pistons play as well as they can in my opinion the Heat won't be able to beat them in a 7 game-series.
Miami Article That articles sheds some serious insight into the the state of the Heat right now. Reading between the lines, it seems that D Wade is extremely unhappy having to be the 2 guard. The question is, if they do start putting the ball in his hands as the PG, who does that leave at the 2? PAyton and J Will cant shoot, and maybe they throw Posey as the 2 and Walker the 3? Either way, the Pistons should feast on those mismatches.
More range for way downtown Anyway what I really liked last night was the fact that Delfino and our very much slept on FA pick up Evans are going to definitely improve our 3pt shooting. It's no longer just Chauncey alone along with Sheed knocking one down every now and then. This season if Tay can continue to consistently knock some treys down (as he did last night) along with CD and Evans stretching defenses off the bench for us it will no doubt be a good look for Detroit. As much as many of us wanted to pick up a pure shooter over the summer I can truly see now that we didn't acquire an exact pure shooter... But we clearly have improved our overall team range from downtown, perhaps if Delfino was able to make it through the season last year he could of helped us in that dept then as well. Hopefully CA continues to shot the ball when he's open because I do believe he is a decent shooter as well. If he could evolve into a 3 point threat as well our squad would be even that much more dangerous! BTW that charging call on Delfino was pure BS to say the least. He set up DMC beautifully (pick&roll) for the sweet SLAM over zo, to call a charge on CD well after he's passed the ball and is not even going towards the basket was just a bad call. Nothing worth crying about though, our squad did their thing anyway. GO PISTONS!!!!!!
You guys should of seen shaq on the bench last night he was probably saying " I wasted all this money for this BS." We have a rematch against Dallas this Tuesday.
Shaq's Money He got plenty to waste. I wouldn't cry for him.
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In 1989, the schools in Union City, N.J., an impoverished Cuban enclave along the Hudson River across from Manhattan, were among the nation's worst. They received failing marks in 44 of the 52 categories New Jersey used to assess schools, and state officials warned they would seize control if Union City didn't shape up. The threat prompted many changes in Union City, including a technological transformation of its entire educational system. Aided by Bell Atlantic Corp., officials equipped the schools and students' homes with a network of computers, creating "one of the most, if not the most, wired urban school district in the U.S.," says Margaret Honey, director of the Center for Children & Technology in New York City.
But Union City did far more than simply buy computers. The school day was restructured into longer classes; teachers were given 40 hours of training a year, up from 8; the district's school budget more than doubled; and the traditional curriculum, emphasizing rote learning, was scrapped so students could work on joint projects such as researching a report on inventions. "The dynamics have changed tremendously," says Mary Ann Sakoutis, a 37-year veteran social studies teacher at Union City's Emerson High School, whose U.S. history students now spend much of their time on the Net researching such events as the Spanish-American War. "The kids are more involved, and I am no longer force-feeding them." It shows. Last year, Union City topped all New Jersey cities on state tests. The number of graduates accepted at top institutions such as Yale University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology has jumped from 8 in 1997, the last class taught the old-fashioned way, to 63 in 1999.
BLUEPRINT. True, Union City is hardly typical, now that it's on the cutting edge. Most of America's 53 million children in kindergarten through 12th grade still attend schools designed for the industrial, if not the agrarian, era. Everything from the school calendar, which still reflects the rhythms of farm life, to chalk-and-textbook instruction are better suited to preparing kids for the past than the future. But from Union City to the suburbs of Silicon Valley and the hollows of West Virginia, dozens of state-of-the-art schools have used technology as a catalyst to reinvent themselves in many ways, creating the blueprint for a new type of American school.
Call them schools for the New Economy. Over the next 5 to 10 years, the same technologies that have forced corporations to remake themselves for e-commerce hold the potential to similarly transform U.S. education. With many of America's schools, especially in urban areas, failing to properly educate many of their students--and often literally falling apart--it's hard to believe such a grandiose vision could ever come to pass. But a decade or so ago, "we had the same controversy about whether the computer would transform work, and critics argued that all those investments were a waste," recalls Harvard Business School Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Today, with the New Economy shredding old assumptions about productivity and growth, "it's hard to imagine anyone saying this," she says.
Of course, reinventing America's schools will involve far more than buying expensive gadgets. Just to keep classrooms staffed, the nation will have to hire and train 2.5 million new teachers over the coming decade. Given record low unemployment, recruiting quality replacements will require better-paid and better-trained teachers. And that's just the beginning. Schools increasingly will be ratcheting up standards for graduates. Thousands of school buildings will have to be repaired or replaced altogether. And radical structural reforms, including a healthy dose of competition from for-profit and charter schools, which are publicly funded but allowed to operate independently, will surely be shaking up resistant local bureaucracies across the country. Both Presidential candidates are running hard on promises to fix education. Al Gore would spend $115 billion over 10 years, more than twice the amount George W. Bush would, but both would give Washington a larger role.
MOM'S WATCHING. Still, as Union City shows, technology can be a crucial tool to spur change. Just as the Net has allowed companies to tailor products for individuals, the Web can be harnessed to individualize instruction. Where e-mail has allowed people to work far more effectively with distant colleagues, so it can allow teachers to pool their knowledge online with colleagues around the country. Similarly, emerging technologies will allow parents to plug into their children's lives as never before, by exchanging e-mails with teachers and even watching Webcasts of their kids at school. And in the same way that e-business has slashed corporate overhead, technology can attack the administrative costs that now eat up so much of school spending.
The impact on the quality of public education could be profound. Today, with few exceptions, kids in wealthier neighborhoods tend to get the best education. But "the Internet will democratize education," predicts Jonathan Carson, CEO of the K-12 division of Learning Network, a unit of Pearson PLC, giving students even in poor communities access to the best libraries, to instructors from around the world, and to a far richer menu of courses, many of which will be delivered over the Web.
Technology could also help make education more relevant. Today's schools generally "do not prepare students to prosper in tomorrow's workplace," according to the CEO Forum on Education & Technology, a group of business executives and educators pushing for high-tech schools. But the new "digital learning environments" will be geared toward such vital New Economy skills as rapidly finding and assessing information and working in teams to solve problems.
Make no mistake: Tremendous obstacles must be overcome before technology can deliver on such high-flown promises. Yes, educators have moved with surprising speed to join the high-tech revolution. Some 95% of public schools are wired to the Internet, vs. 35% in 1994 (chart, page 126). And the computer-to-student ratio has doubled since 1996. But the ratio is still just 1 to 5. The average school spends $133 a year per student on technology, less than 2% of the $360 billion annual public education budget--hardly enough to make a huge difference. The average student uses a computer less than an hour a day in school. "We're still in the dabbling phase," asserts America Online Inc. CEO Stephen M. Case, whose new AOL@School aims to guide teachers through the explosion of digital content. "Teachers have added the Internet like they're adding salt to a dish."
Indeed, training teachers to use the new technology is one key problem. Only 30% of teachers require students to use the Internet to do research, and just 16% use it for lesson planning, according to a recent report by the CEO Forum. And schools devote just 8% of tech spending to training teachers how to navigate with the new tools. Even Bob Chase, head of the National Education Assn., the largest teacher's union, estimates that just a third of all teachers are well-prepared to use technology effectively. Warns IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr., who sees education as a huge growth opportunity for his company: If we "simply parachute computers and broadband into the schools and then walk away, there would be no real progress."
DEARTH OF RESEARCH. And even if all the hurdles can be jumped, some critics question whether high tech is the best answer for America's schools. "Boosters have been claiming technology will make learning fast, fun, and easy" for decades, says William L. Rukeyser, chief coordinator of Learning in the Real World, a group of education-technology critics in Woodland, Calif. Yet so far, argues Stanford University education professor Larry Cuban, "there is no substantial body of evidence that computers have transformed teaching or learning."
One worry is about the learning process itself, particularly among young children. "Sitting still and looking at a screen is not a very effective way of learning" in elementary school, says Joan Almon, coordinator of the Alliance for Childhood, a group of critics based in College Park, Md. And although Edison Schools, a for-profit education company, gives every student in its 133 schools a computer beginning in third grade, Chief Information Officer Donald Sunderland agrees that "reading, writing, and arithmetic can't be turned entirely over to a machine. We're considering deemphasizing computers in kindergarten through second grade."
The fact is, little research has been done on the effects of computers on learning, so most educators are only guessing. One 1998 study by Harold Wenglinsky of Educational Testing Service found that "drill and kill" programs, those repetitive drills used for decades, lowered math scores. In contrast, students who used the computer for more sophisticated math games and simulations registered solid improvements. But the studies are few. "If this were a new drug, you'd have a fairly hefty percentage of the costs spent on research and development," says Rukeyser. "But that has not happened with education technology." Indeed, less than 0.5% of K-12 spending has gone into research.
Still, the vast majority of the education Establishment--from the teachers' unions to administrators to the Education Dept.--is jumping on the bandwagon, if for no other reason than the sweeping impact technology has already had on society. And action is urgent. A decade after the nation set ambitious education goals, only 40% of high school seniors are proficient in reading. Seniors rank below most other industrial countries in math and science. "We need a leap forward comparable to the G.I. Bill," which gave World War II veterans a college education, asserts Senator Bob Kerry (D-Neb.), chair of the Congress-appointed Web-Based Education Commission.
It's no surprise that high-tech corporations are cheering educators on. Annual school technology spending has tripled, to $6.2 billion since 1992 and is expected to at least double again within four years. To tap the vast new market, IBM has marshaled top research scientists into its Reinventing Education project. Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. are teaming up to train 100,000 U.S. teachers--and 400,000 worldwide--on how to use technology. Intel alone plans to spend some $100 million on the project.
The lure of riches has also spawned a host of startups, attracting nearly $1 billion in venture capital since early 1999, figures Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst Michael T. Moe (table, page 120). To push the high-tech agenda, Apple Computer Inc., America Online Inc., and more than 20 other companies formed the CEO Forum on Education & Technology in Washington, D.C. In part, these companies are banking on a revolution in computing technology, from broadband to voice recognition and the wireless Web. Before the decade is out, "every student will have multiple devices to access the Net anytime, anywhere," predicts Toby Richards, director of education for Microsoft. And many of the new devices--from eBooks to Palm-like portables--will be cheaper and easier to use than today's PCs.
In turn, ubiquitous access to the Net could spark the greatest revolution in education since the Gutenberg press mass-produced books, argues futurist David Thornburg. The old classroom standby--the textbook--will morph into a digital version that can be constantly updated. It will be supplemented by oceans of content. "The biggest change is that information now comes from the entire world" rather than being limited to what's in the school library, says Linda Roberts, head of education technology at the U.S. Education Dept.
Consider how the world opened up to the 144 students at Hundred High School, in Hundred, W.Va., a remote hamlet of 350 residents. Just two years ago, the school relied on a tiny school library where some books dated from the 1930s, says Andrew Hunt, who graduated from Hundred in June. But in 1998, Hundred hired NetSchools to give every student a rugged laptop with wireless Net access. Before, "these students would have been victims of the Digital Divide," says Superintendent Martha Dean, who won government grants to pay for most of the $450,000 cost of the NetSchools program. "Now, they've got access to up-to-date information anytime." For example, agricultural students use their laptops for everything from "managing the school's commercial greenhouse to studying the latest university research on plant and animal diseases," says teacher Virgil Wilkins. And it's paying off. Last spring, students at Hundred "scored higher and ranked above the national mean in every subject" on the SAT-9 national skills tests, says Dean.
VIRTUAL HIGH. Being wired also makes possible all sorts of collaborations among educators. Virtual High School, the nation's largest Web-based school, based in Concord, Mass., recruits top high school teachers to offer courses over the Net. In return for their services, each participating school can enroll up to 20 students for each course a teacher at that school contributes. Hudson High outside Boston signed up in 1998. The school has only 900 students, but through VHS it has added 200 courses, from anatomy to the history of the Vietnam War. "Students have to be self-motivated to succeed," cautions Peggy Collins, who combines her regular job of teaching physics at Hudson with teaching astronomy through VHS. But it's a gold mine for bright students such as Nick Servio, who graduated from Hudson last spring with an interest in marine biology. He was able to take an evolution seminar with a Cleveland-based teacher who had been to the Galapagos Islands three times. VHS expects to sign up more than 4,000 students in 30 states this fall, up from about 300 three years ago.
Distance learning will also help cash-strapped schools fill in some holes. Up to 40% of public schools can't afford to set up advanced-placement courses, so Bellevue (Wash.)-based Apex Learning Inc. sells virtual AP classes to 165 schools. And when kids need tutoring, there will be an expanded universe of experts to learn from. "Students will get tutorials from graduate students and retired people from all over the world," says Stanford University education professor Mike Smith.
Used appropriately, technology can also help change the way children learn by facilitating a shift from passive learning to a more ambitious, project-centered approach that combines various disciplines. At Mantua Elementary School in Fairfax, Va., sixth-graders this year were asked to compete on a new design and use for an unsightly school courtyard. Working in teams of four, students spent two weeks doing everything from interviewing landscapers to visiting Home Depot Inc. and doing research on the Web. The precocious 12-year-olds prepared Web pages, videos, and Powerpoint presentations to explain their proposals to a jury of outside adults. Now, Mantua hopes to obtain a grant to build the winning idea--an outdoor amphitheater for school performances.
Or look at Kanawha City Elementary School near Charleston, W.Va., where fifth- and sixth-graders use the Net to build Web pages about arthropods; each student chooses a different one, from lobsters to centipedes. "A textbook would not have offered anywhere near as many choices," says computer teacher April Bowles. Similarly, the New York-based Center for Children & Technology is working with the Library of Congress to help teachers use its digitized collections--from Civil War photographs to recorded oral histories--to immerse students in the raw material of U.S. history. "It's helping kids do history, not just learn the facts," says the Center's Bill Tally.
"ALMOST LIKE A FAMILY." The real question, though, is whether students learn anything more than they do with paper and pencils. So far, computers have hardly produced a huge national payoff, in part because they're used so sparingly--and often as a stand-alone--in many schools. But in places where educators use technology to change the way they teach, they're discovering how it can help to engage students from even the poorest families, where motivation tends to be lower. At the Accelerated Learning Laboratory, a public school in Worcester, Mass., kindergartners use a state-of-the-art television studio to help produce programs seen by parents and peers alike. Principal Carol A. Schilinsky says that parents, some of whom are so poor that 80% of kids qualify for a free or reduced-price lunch, have told her: "I didn't like school, but I would have if I'd had this."
Similarly, half the AP English students at Gilroy High School, in Gilroy, Calif., used to drop the course, says teacher Teri Freedman. So last year, she required them to build a Web page to post their work. "They got a lot more involved as they began getting feedback from fellow students," she says. The result? This year, 39 students took the AP exam, up from three just five years ago. And 100% were accepted at four-year colleges, up from 75% before the program.
High tech also holds promise for boosting parental involvement, which virtually every study shows is a vital predictor of how well students will do. Most parents do little but meet with their child's teachers a few times a year. But look at what has happened at Roosevelt-Edison Charter School in Colorado Springs, Colo. In 1997, the school put computers in the homes of nearly all 650 students (except a few who declined) and wired them to an intranet run by Edison Schools. Now, teachers post homework and messages, and parents debate such issues as school uniforms. The level of communication is "almost like a family," says Angela Haig, who has a child at Roosevelt-Edison. Volunteerism at the low-income school has skyrocketed 1,000% since the program began, says Principal Vicki Axford, "and 98% of our parents attend teacher conferences."
Teacher quality is even more important to student success. "But traditionally, teachers have been incredibly isolated," says Stanley Litow, who oversees IBM's Reinventing Education Project. Like most teachers, "I had to do all my lesson plans by myself," says Nora Dotson, an English teacher at Sherman Junior High in Seth, W.Va., a poverty-ridden backwater in the region's coal country. Then, Dotson got involved in an IBM-supported project to develop lessons online with 11 other English teachers from around the state. She drafted a three-week literature unit, online colleagues suggested changes, and then they tested the plan before submitting it to a jury of master teachers. The final product was posted on the Web, where it and others like it are expected to be used by thousands of teachers statewide this year. "Now, I have access to the best practices of other teachers," says Dotson. "And I have grown enormously."
Think about the possibility of reviving education's often sclerotic bureaucracies. Most school administrators manage with scant data about what goes on in their classrooms. But that's changing, too. IBM has zeroed in on this market, in particular. In 1996, IBM began helping Florida's Broward County computerize its school administration. At the time, administrators still manually reviewed tests scores of all 250,000 students. They were always months behind, and even then they could do only crude analysis. But since IBM installed a data warehouse, "we get just-in-time data about how the kids are performing," says former Broward County Associate Superintendent Carmen V. Russo, who recently became the chief of Baltimore City Schools. "Problems show up sooner, and we address them sooner." Such intervention was one factor that helped to remove all 25 county schools on Florida's list of failing schools within three years, she says.
POCKETS OF SUCCESS. Even critics acknowledge that the best high-tech schools have achieved some remarkable results. Perhaps most impressive is West Virginia, which in 1990 launched a statewide effort to use technology to improve its struggling schools. Computers were gradually integrated into classes, beginning with the earliest grades, while teachers received extensive training. The result? "Over seven years, they made more gains than any other Southern state," says Dale Mann, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College who led a 1999 study of the West Virginia effort. West Virginia jumped to 11th, from 33rd, on national achievement tests, even as the state remained mired near the bottom economically.
But while the U.S. has pockets of tech education excellence, "the real challenge is how to extend these state-of-the-art approaches to every school," says John Anderson, vice-chairman of New American Schools, a school-reform group in Washington, D.C. Problem No. 1: money. A 1997 Presidential report called for devoting 5% of K-12 spending to technology. That would require nearly tripling current spending, to some $18 billion annually. It would also require a major shift in spending priorities at a time when many schools still have crumbling infrastructure. Many model schools have skirted difficult choices by finding new revenue. For example, Virginia's Mantua Elementary School went high tech after a financial settlement from a nearby oil spill.
Critics worry that more schools may turn to advertising as a way out. ZapMe! Corp. in San Ramon, Calif., offers schools free computer labs, complete with satellite Net access, in return for showing ads on the computers. ZapMe! has labs in 2,200 schools, up from 200 in 1999, and a waiting list of 2,000 more. "They're turning schools into advertising delivery factories," fumes Gary Ruskin, head of Commercial Alert, which opposes commercialism in schools. ZapMe! CEO Rick Inatome responds that "when you go to the Net, you get banner ads anyway."
Over time, technology itself could help ease the cost issue. It's not just ever-plunging hardware costs. At present, nearly all of the nation's 16,400 school districts rely on archaic, paper-intensive systems to buy supplies. "They're in the Flintstone Age," says Amar Singh of Simplexis, a company founded by former GOP Presidential candidate Lamar Alexander to tackle the problem of streamlining purchasing. Singh figures schools could cut the cost of supplies by 10%--$8 billion a year--by automating the order process and pooling purchases.
Other barriers, such as inadequately trained teachers, will be harder to overcome. Colleges, which must turn out more than 2 million new teachers in the coming decade, need to be reinvented "to place technology at the center of new-teacher training," says Forum Executive Director Ken Kay. Big cultural shifts are also needed. Today's pencil-and-paper tests should be replaced with computer-based assessments that do a better job of measuring student performance on complex tasks. The school calendar, designed to make sure that students were available to help out with farm chores, needs to be lengthened to meet the demands of the New Economy.
For all the obstacles, "we've just begun to use these [digital] tools" to transform education," says Apple Computer Inc. CEO Steve Jobs, whose company has long been the leading supplier of computers to schools. Says Stanford's Smith: "We're going to see radical changes in American education for the first time in over a century." The question isn't so much whether computers can help to improve education. Rather, it's how long U.S. children must wait before their schools leave the Industrial Age to join the New Economy.


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Verizon: Good News And Bad
The strike against Verizon Communications has been portrayed as a referendum on the place of unions in the New Economy. What role can they play in the frenzied 24/7 world of options-driven work incentives? With most, but not all, of Verizon's Communications Workers of America members returning to work, it's time to parse the new contract. And the news for the New Economy is not good.
Not for the obvious reasons. The pay hike negotiated, 12% in wages over three years, goes to workers who are already the best paid in the telecommunications industry. But it is in line with probable productivity gains and is therefore not inflationary. Union workers will also receive a grant of 100 stock options, tying a bit of their compensation to the long-term performance of Verizon. That's good.
The union won five 30-minute breaks each week for stressed-out customer reps. That's good, too. Be it mass customization, the explosion in product choice, or the drive to build brands, companies are striving as never before to satisfy increasingly finicky consumers. This is putting tremendous strain on employees.
The union also won the right to try to organize in the fast-growing nonunion wireless divisions of Verizon by using a simplified way for employees to decide to join or not. This is perhaps the most important test for labor's future in the New Economy. It, too, is good, for now old-style unions will get the chance to persuade workers in the fastest-growing segments of the high-tech economy that they can offer them something special. Will a focus on work-related stress, job security, and benefits outweigh the wired world's nonunion attractions of high pay, big options, technology training, and job mobility? It's time to see.
The bad news for the New Economy in the Verizon settlement comes from labor's victory on job stability. Only a tiny percentage of employees can be transferred from one region to another as a result of the Bell Atlantic-GTE merger that produced Verizon. This job rigidity undercuts Verizon's competitiveness and could ultimately result in the very thing it is designed to stop--big layoffs. Saving Old Economy jobs by freezing them in place has crippled European economic growth for decades. It's a terrible precedent, and it outweighs much of the good that comes out of the settlement.
The CWA and other unions should be training their members to have the skills to be mobile and more productive, not using strikes to force companies to keep uncompetitive workers in place. Labor flexibility is a major reason behind America's successful transition from an industrial to an information-based economy. It boosts productivity and growth. The Verizon contract inhibits that flexibility. That's not good.


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Update: :-( I haven't heard from Ollie Hancock for a very long time, so sadly, I don't think the movie is gonna happen - pity, I think he would have done a great job, and I'm hugely flattered that he chose my book in the first place. If I'm wrong, and it is still happening, Ollie, get in touch and let me know.
Look out for new promotions on Blood and Snow - right now it's only £2.40 on Amazon Kindle :-)
Name: Sarah Wray (before I was married it was Sarah Green, also I have a middle name - Rachel)
Born: 12/06/1969 Grew up in Formby in Merseyside. I went to Woodlands Junior school and Range High School.
Educated: I did my A levels at Kitson College in Leeds, and then went to Queen's University Belfast and did Genetics, then went back to Queens to do a PGCE in 1992, and in 2011 I went back again and did a masters in Early Childhood.
Married: I met my husband Paul at University, and stayed in Belfast to marry him in 1991
Kids: I have three kids - Becca Joy (born 1994), Danny (born 1995) and Christy (1997). Here's a family photo taken by my brother, ace photographer, Steve Green at my parents Golden Wedding Anniversary in 2013
Job: I am currently working as a supply teacher in Nursery and Primary schools. I would love to get a job as a full time nursery teacher, but teaching jobs are hard to come by here in Northern Ireland.
Favourite Movie: Moulin Rouge, now closely followed by Mamma Mia, oh, and I like Amelie too, and anything with Johnny Depp in it. If they made a movie of The Forbidden Room, Johnny Depp would have to play John Holland. Or I'd have a hissy fit. (And Johnny Depp would also have to be in the movie of The Trap - he could be Drew.) For an update on my feelings on Johnny Depp, see the very bottom of this page...
Favourite TV Shows: At the moment I'm loving Game of Thrones, Big Bang Theory, Dr Who, Modern Family, all Nordic Noir, Mr Robot, Orange is The New Black and Masterchef Australia (oh, and Bake off, of course!)
Favourite Book: Too many to mention (see my life is a booklist), although an enduring favourite is Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
Currently Reading: The Power -Naomi Alderman
(If you want to know what I've read recently, and what I thought of it, check out the I just read... page.)
Favourite food: Chinese Hot and Sour soup (mmm mmm mmm!) and everything else except shellfish and sushi (yuck!)
Various Pets Alive and Dead:We have a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel called Roxie, a cat called Lucy, several goldfish and minnows, Rebecca has a rat called Gomer and Christy now has a new corn snake called fluffy! Ooh - fluffy just shed his skin for the first time - how exciting! (Gomer the rat passed away 28/09/09 - RIP Gomer)
Update on fluffy: Christy sold Fluffy the snake (!!) in July 2010 because he wanted money to buy a PS3. I have mixed feelings. I was quite fond of Fluffy, although never completely happy with having him slithering on me. I think he's gone to a better home though - the family we sold him to have had snakes before and were much less wussy with him than we were. Roxie, Lucy and the fish are still doing well :-)
update - Lucy sadly passed away on Monday 8th April 2013, we'll probably get one or two new cats in the summer, so watch this space!
The new kittens have arrived! A boy called Dexter and a girl called Misty. See photos in my Wall of Various Pets Alive and Dead.
The kittens are now cats, but wee Dexter hasn't been home for more than three weeks now (23/07/2015) and we're sadly giving up hope. He was (is?) a lovely furry purry cat and we all miss him :-(
Update (16/08/2016) We recently got a new puppy - a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel called Chester, we've still got Roxie and Misty, I wish I could add a photo of Chester who is a total cutey, but I still haven't figured out how to add more pictures to my site. You can see pics on my facebook page though.
Bibliography: I've written loads of books(see The I Wonder Years), but most of them didn't get published . The first book that did get published is THE FORBIDDEN ROOM, my second book is THE TRAP and my third book, out now as an Amazon Kindle ebook is Blood and Snow . I'm not writing at the moment, there's a limit to how much rejection a person can face in one life, and I had to get a real job to pay the bills, so I'm back to teaching. I would love, love, love to write again and I'm sure I will one day.
The cover of Blood and Snow was designed by Sandra Giles
Hobbies: I like reading (see My Life is a Booklist), writing (well duh), going for walks with the dogs, watching movies (I like foreign movies with subtitles), doing word and number puzzles (yeah, okay, I'm a bit of a nerd) and embroidery (worse than nerdy - but I like it). I just won a box of artist pencils that turn into watercolours if you add water, so I'm about to become a renowned artist.
If I ever get rich and famous, my hobbies will change to: Shopping, eating out, going to premieres, taking trips on my private yacht, house buying, world travel, dinner parties with Johnny Depp, I could go on... (I'll stop typing now though because I'm in a happy little make-believe world...mmm Johnny Depp....)
Do you know what? I've kind of gone off Johnny Depp recently - he's got too weird (and I normally like weird) Now who will I pick to play John Holland when the Hollywood people ask for my casting advice?(yeah, still dreaming!)


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With its listless pace, North will send Elvis classicists running for Trust—an album that challenges the definitions of jazz-pop, but unlike North has great hooks and staccato wordplay. It's not that North isn't worth the price, but buyer beware: This album's for wooing your love on crisp autumn nights with wine, roses and a DVD of Casablanca, not for jumping up and down shouting, "I wanna bite the hand that feeds me/I wanna bite that hand so badly/I wanna make them wish they never seen me!" (Jed Gottlieb)
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It's eyebrow-raising at least that a folk singer who turns out such hackneyed studio albums can turn around and release one of the greatest live albums of the young millennium, but that is exactly what Todd Snider has done on Near Truths and Hotel Rooms. Unlike his canned releases, the stage gives Snider room to tell the stories behind his songs, and the yarns truly enrich the listening experience. We're not talking Bon Jovi on "VH1 Storytellers," letting the camera know that he "wrote this one when I was really hung over at this hotel in France," but actual intriguing stories from Snider's 15 years on the road. From the teachings of wise old barkeep Ms. Virgie to the time he met his wife at a rehab clinic, Snider lets us inside his world, and in doing so, lets us feel as if he's right there in our living room, shooting the breeze. Unlike the over-layered studio stuff, we find Snider stripped down to nothing more than an acoustic guitar, three or four chords, a harmonica and a cigarette-raspy voice. The songwriting is often funny, sometimes sad, and entirely original. A winner. (Mike Keefe-Feldman)
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Between Big Boi's Speakerboxxx and Andre 3000's The Love Below—essentially two solo albums packaged as an Outkast double album—every pop genre is absorbed, exploited or riffed on. Like the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique, this album has no use for the simple, repetitive bass-heavy beats that dominate most hip-hop. Along with the required '70s soul samples, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below uses grand and electric pianos, thrash metal and smooth jazz guitars, and Latin, swing and gospel beats. On his disc, Big Boi rhymes over modern, hook-filled R&B without losing his edge—as if to prove he's still hard, he's got his kid in the booth saying "motherfucker" as he laughs "all right, let's do it, baby." Andre 3000's contribution is less cohesive, filled with his best Bootsy Collins/Prince impressions. But, like most of Prince's later work, The Love Below fluctuates between exsquisite pop-funk and long, boring sexual narratives. The album does provide one perfect single in "Hey Ya!" If you haven't heard it yet, just wait—you'll hear it a dozen times on Top 40 radio before Thanksgiving. (Jed Gottlieb)
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In a recent Indy interview with Ben Kaufman, the bassist for Yonder Mountain String Band defined bad bluegrass as "people playing bluegrass with drums." And for the most part, he's right. The metronomic clang of your typical bluegrass drumbeat is not as alluring as the natural rhythm created by non-percussive instruments. But there is an exception to every rule, and when it comes to bluegrass with drums, that exception may well be Shanti Groove. On this optimistic debut, Shanti unleashes several jamgrass originals on which drummer Chris Carland reveals a jazz background that adds considerable pepper to the bluegrass sound. The band also offers a particularly rousing rendition of John Hartford's "Julie Bell Swain." The production leaves something to be desired, as the vocals are occasionally muffled and the harmonies buried, but one can attribute these minor irritations to a shoestring budget, and the shortfall isn't bad enough to detract from the album's endearing qualities. Contrary to Kaufman's stance on bluegrass with drums, fans of Yonder Mountain should be most interested in this disc. (Mike Keefe-Feldman)


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Improvise Timing Faster & Dynamic Animation Improve Typeface Animation should react to one Another Improve background Focus on the Animation
My next project will include all of this written above.
Thanks for your Time and suggestions. Best Wishes Tj
Thanks a lot Ghos Team sir, One more thing i wanna ask, Is the the concept of script, good for the project. or we should use the text like " this place is for this". etc.
Best wishes, Tj
Thanks a Lot, You are right, Here i was confused, i have done unnecessary animation and out animations.
Thank You Sir.
Timing means, Is it slow or not going with the music. What i felt after it was rejected is maybe the transitions are simpler and are same.
Thanks Tj
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I need your opinion on my latest project, I have worked hard for this project but because of quality reasons, it was rejected. As i want to improve this project, I need your suggestions. Please guide me. Below is the link.http://youtu.be/njQ0RuXICv4
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Thanks for your reply. I find that the agreement with the author is the correct way.
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Find a big and tall store in your area and buy a shirt made for someone 6'5" or 6'6". I have a friend about your size and this is exactly what he does for everyday clothes. I'm sure it would work for OWB.
This is a discussion on OWB/Shirt within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Right now I weight about 300lbs I am 6'2", even when my weight is lower I have trouble finding shirt long enough for OWB, I ...
Right now I weight about 300lbs I am 6'2", even when my weight is lower I have trouble finding shirt long enough for OWB, I tried IWB but that is not just comfortable for me right now. What is some options for shirts so I can carry owb.
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Find a big and tall store in your area and buy a shirt made for someone 6'5" or 6'6". I have a friend about your size and this is exactly what he does for everyday clothes. I'm sure it would work for OWB.
Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.
- Mike Tyson
Personally, I think you should look into a better holster for what you typically wear for a shirt. This may alleviate some of your concerns. You did not specify what you carried and what holster you're currently using. Granted.....the clothing may be your least costly replacement at this time. But it all works together my friend. If you can't find an answer in the clothing department, there's a couple of other things to consider. Don't shoot the messenger. Giving you my best.
RamRod are you saying a holster for owb? I have decided this is my preferred way to carry. I have been spoiled this summer carrying the P3AT with a High Noon pocket holster. I am embarrassed to admit the holsters I have tried use for IWB and OWB. Oh and I will mostly be carrying the SR9C with some 709 tossed in now and again.
Springfield 1911
Windham AR SRC
Kel-Tec P3AT
Walther P22
Big and tall section and tall clothes are your friend. I buy the XLT's and get the shirt tails down to the bottom of my pockets. Prints, Hawaiians, dark T-shirts.
An enemy of liberty is no friend of mine. I do not owe respect to anyone who would enslave me by government force, nor is it wise for such a person to expect it. -- Isaiah Amberay
Yes......(if I'm understanding you correctly)....OWB holster. That's what you want right? The P3AT? Why not? Could be the pocket holster you wear outside of the pants or tucked in between your belt and body. You know.......thing is.......I personally think you're reading way more into carrying concealed that what you are willing or able to do at this time. Lot's of folks get 'grounded' with the idea and they won't easily adapt because they loose their focus. It makes no matter what your physical characteristics are. You want to carry, and then you shall. Nothing should stand in your way.
Can you get a shirt at big & tall that is less big and more tall? I wear an XL for my body which covers just okay if I stretch them down a tad. Then I bought a 2XL and immediately washed it in hot water. The length is good but the armpits hang way down.
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Thanks for the links Tx!
Springfield 1911
Windham AR SRC
Kel-Tec P3AT
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I am 5'7" and 220 lbs. I wear a XL shirt and sometimes they are a little short. I use an OWB holster and I really don't bother if I print or it shows a little. Been carrying for years with no problem.
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You are only paranoid until you are right - then you are a visionary.
I bought some of these "plumber's crack" extra long tail -t-shirts from Duluth Trading andf I'm happy with them:
I'm 5'9" and I've had my share of busicuits and gravy. I like a good old fashioned tacky short sleeve button up flower covered Hawaiian shirt (Magnum PI, the later years....much later...like bursitis, bald, beer gut, and no Ferrari later). The tackier the better. The best cover shirt I've ever found for summer. I bought them at Wal Mart at the beginning of summer and they were cheap too. Even if they only last one summer, I still did ok. I've been carrying a Ruger P95 (and they're not small by any stretch) and you can't even begin to see it. The colors and patterns break up any shapes. I used to think the P95 was too big to carry concealed...not so much anymore. I actually like carrying it. Might do so more often. Will I be taking it too far to wear them in the dead of winter with snow on the ground?
Know Guns, Know Safety, Know Peace.
No Guns, No Safety, No Peace.
I'm 5-7 and am a bit portly. I buy L or XL golf shirts, which I wear out, not tucked in. This conceals my IWB mustang very well. While
travelling, I wear a button down hawaiian shirt out, and a Uncle Mikes super slide holster with a 9 MM which is not compact. Its not noticible, but has a bit more firepower.
Try going to the Salvation Army or simular charity thrift stores. I find shirts there for $5-10. Hey, I'M saving some $$$ and helping a worthwhile charity.
I don't think anyone knocks you for shopping at the Salvation Army. I shopped at the Goodwill Store last week and found 4 nice shirts in my size with the original store price tags still attached. Price - $3.00 each. I used to haunt the thrift stores when I worked plainclothes. I have bought new sport coats for $7.00. People buy clothes and gain or lose weight without ever wearing them. Some wind up in the thrift shops.


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There is no federal law. When driving a commercial truck the driver must follow the laws of the state they are in. If you have a permit/license that is valid in that state then you can legally carry your firearm on you. Now your company might have rules against it but you are not breaking a law but their rule and they can fire you for that. This letter is on Handgunlaw.us.
You can read it and print it and show it to your instructor and then look him straight in the eye and just state. What Federal Law or Regulation states it is illegal for me to carry a personnel firearm in my vehicle. There is no such federal law or regulation. HE can say what he wants but tell him to just show me the law.


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Bring Market Insights Out Of The Shadows
Posted by Andrew McInnes on November 1, 2011
I recently had a discussion with my colleague Richard Evensen about how customer experience (CX) pros draw on the work done by market insights (MI) departments. Our conclusion: In most cases, they don't. Instead, we often find CX teams doing their own research to understand and improve the experience. This represents a broader phenomenon that we call shadow MI — research commissioned or executed inside of a company without the approval or involvement of MI professionals.
Why do CX leaders rely on shadow MI rather than engage their MI departments for help? Based on our conversations with clients, it's because MI departments are seen as:
- Not fast enough. CX pros need quick and continuous feedback from customers in order to actively manage the experience. MI teams aren't traditionally built to operate at that tempo, and many aren't comfortable doing so.
- Not focused on the experience itself. Naturally, CX leaders care most about customers' interactions with their organizations, but MI teams often focus on other areas, like product development and marketing.
- Not action-oriented. Due to the previous two points, CX pros often see MI as unable to drive action. In a recent discussion in our online customer experience community, one contributor said, "Customer experience feedback is more operational and immediate than market research." This perspective leads many CX leaders to treat the two areas as fundamentally different.
Regardless of its causes, shadow MI introduces a number of risks for CX leaders and organizations in general, including:
- Overtouched customers. When feedback efforts are disconnected, companies have a hard time managing when and how often they touch customers. The result: customer irritation.
- Fragmented knowledge. Distributed research activities are hard to compile into a full understanding of customers, competitors, and markets. That's a problem for CX leaders who want to "bring it all together."
- Misleading insights. Poorly selected or designed research techniques can lead firms to draw inaccurate or incomplete conclusions from customer data. While CX leaders tend to worry less about precision than their MI counterparts do, they nonetheless need appropriate levels of precision to make smart decisions.
- Higher insight costs. Individually negotiated research efforts undermine potential volume discounts.
Shadow MI doesn't just threaten CX leaders. Over time, lack of involvement in key business decisions will reduce MI's perceived value and influence, just as the MI field is trying to reinvent itself as a key enabler of effective decision-making.
CX leaders should take this opportunity to help bring MI out of the shadows. How? By inviting MI pros to provide input on existing customer feedback activities like VoC surveys, pull together other existing insights that will help put feedback in context, and develop recommendations for future studies or programs. The point is not to transfer "ownership" of customer insight. It's to ensure that CX pros benefit from MI pros' expertise while MI pros benefit from having knowledge of and influence over additional activities. The entire organization will ultimately benefit from having better insight.
As always, we would love to hear your thoughts and hear about your experiences.
Merging the two
Comment from Tabitha Dunn on Wed, 11/02/2011 - 11:15
I think the reasons listed here is a big part of why we merged the two functions in our business. I am responsible for customer insights, which includes feedback channels, customer rention, market research/insights, journey mapping, mystery shopping and driving improvements. The concentration of those functions has really helped raise the level of quality and speed for all the work involved.
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We just gutted all the tile from our dining room and revealed a stamped concrete floor underneath. The pattern isn't bad but the color is an awful pepto bismol color. We wanted to paint it with an epoxy paint but the only colors readily available are green red and white. I was wondering if I could use the white paint and add either a liquid or powder concrete color pigment to achieve a desired color with out compromising the integrity of the paint.
Have you tryed a real paint store?
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The governor was joined by representatives from several trade associations and worker's unions, including the Texas Apartment Association, Texas Chemical Council, Texas Oil and Gas Association, Texas Travel Industry Association, Air Line Pilots Association, Associated General Contractors, and Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union.
The diversity of Texas' economy has prepared the state to withstand the current instability in the national economy, and stronger guidelines for home equity borrowing and lending have resulted in Texas retaining some of the lowest levels of mortgage defaults among the nation's top 10 most populous states.
Thanks to disciplined, principled policies of limited growth in spending, low taxes and a reasonable regulatory climate, Texas continues to be a leader in job creation. From October 2007 to October 2008, the U.S. lost over 1.1 million net jobs while Texas created more than a quarter of a million net new jobs. Texas' unemployment rate is nearly a full percentage below the national average, and the Lone Star State is home to more Fortune 500 headquarters than any other state in the nation.
While Texas remains in a substantially better economic position than other states in the turbulent national economy, Gov. Perry continues to work with the public and private sectors to identify opportunities to maintain and enhance Texas' economic edge and competitive position in the global marketplace.
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The Cheesehead Radio gang are joined by the Green Bay Press-Gazette's Wes Hodkiewicz, who is well-positioned to let us know what's happening behind 1265 Lombardi's doors, as well as his insights as to what Ted and Mike have in their long-range plans this offseason.
The Green Bay Packers are in the playoffs! Next up: The 49ers return to Lambeau Field. They've had the Packers number recently, so this will be an intense game. Our special guest is Packer safety Sean Richardson.
Join the CHR gang for a post-holiday mash-up where we talk you through everything to do with the Packers.
The Green Bay Packers are suddenly in control of their own destiny for the playoffs again, and we will be joined by one of our very favorite guests, JSOnline's Lori Nickel. She'll help us get the the bottom of this incredible week for Packer fans everywhere!
Just when it all looked darkest, as the Packers were booed off the field at halftime, Matt Flynn led the Green Bay Packers to a surprising comeback victory over the Atlanta Falcons. But the hero of the game had to be....Jarrett Bush? We'll be talking the improbables and impossibles with none other than the Green Bay Press-Gazette's Sports Legend, Mike Vandermause (@MikeVandermause).
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s2k and rx-8 are not similar performing cars.
This is a discussion on wrx vs s2k?? who wins? within the Comparison: WRX vs World forums, part of the Community - Meet other Enthusiasts category; s2k and rx-8 are not similar performing cars....
s2k and rx-8 are not similar performing cars.
haha you said rx8 and perform in the same sentence.
lmao.Originally Posted by BrianHI ran an pre-2.2L (maybe a 2003?) one from 90km/h or so, starting in 3rd. I put a lot of distance on it (3 cars or more.)Originally Posted by Jayhawker
I'm just waiting for a chance to run one on a road course. Hopefully this summer or fall.
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1) Yes a TBE does a make a decent difference. With a skilled driver it can take off upto .3s in the 1/4 and up a trapspeed by 2mph. Not to mention about 20+whp gain.Originally Posted by wrxracer87
2) S2k is a MUCH better performance car than the RX8. it is faster, traps higher, handles better, etc...OMGOriginally Posted by BrianH
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drag racing a rally platform car?????Originally Posted by DTR rex
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no, talking about an S2k and a WRX racing and than saying "what if they raced on a rally stage" has no relevanceOriginally Posted by EvilD
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my best friend has a 01 s2k with headers back exhaust, i have a 03 wrx with catless tbe and catless up pipe. we have gone at it many times and i have never lost, from the lauch to roll ons. we are yet to do any high speed interstate pulls though, so i am not sure what would happen there
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Go figure! Game victory seen as artificial intelligence milestone
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - You can chalk it up as another victory for the machines.
In what they called a milestone achievement for artificial intelligence, scientists said on Wednesday they have created a computer program that beat a professional human player at the complex board game called Go, which originated in ancient China.
The feat recalled IBM supercomputer Deep Blue's 1997 match victory over chess world champion Garry Kasparov. But Go, a strategy board game most popular in places like China, South Korea and Japan, is vastly more complicated than chess.
"Go is considered to be the pinnacle of game AI research," said artificial intelligence researcher Demis Hassabis of Google DeepMind, the British company that developed the AlphaGo program. "It's been the grand challenge, or holy grail if you like, of AI since Deep Blue beat Kasparov at chess."
DeepMind was acquired in 2014 by Google .
AlphaGo swept a five-game match against three-time European Go champion and Chinese professional Fan Hui. Until now, the best computer Go programs had played only at the level of human amateurs.
In Go, also called Igo, Weiqi and Baduk, two players place black and white pieces on a square grid, aiming to take more territory than their adversary.
"It's a very beautiful game with extremely simple rules that lead to profound complexity. In fact, Go is probably the most complex game ever devised by humans," said Hassabis, a former child chess prodigy. Continued...


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Let's be frank. Father's Day gets short shrift. Maybe it's because it's harder to pick out a cool gift (those old jokes about soap on a rope are there for a reason) or some papas were rolling stones or because Moms are so much better with playing the whole "I endured 16 hours of labor and yet you still won't call" card, thus inspiring her kids to get something nice.
But we digress. The important thing is that we here at Republic think that moms and pops deserve props; and here are some of our favorite artists reflecting on fatherhood. Happy Father's Day!
"My father always said I would do something big one day.' I've got a feeling about you, John Osbourne,' he'd tell me, after he'd had a few beers. 'You're either going to do something very special, or you're going to go to prison.' And he was right, my old man. I was in prison before my eighteenth birthday." – Ozzy Osborne, I Am Ozzy
"That's where I am. I'm at every game. I'm the dad with the hat on. The jersey. That's me." – Lil Wayne, GQ
"Our dad was kind of like our very first radio…we can probably credit our love of music to dad." – The Band Perry, CountryWeekly.com
"There ain't no love like father like son." – Birdman, "Like Father like Son"
"My father decided early on to get me the best education money could buy. He wanted me to have the opportunities that were denied to him." – Jay Sean, Independent UK
"Whenever my dad wanted to make sense of his life, he looked to the sea. Now I do the same." – Jack Johnson, Mail On-Line
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WEST GLACIER, MONT. – Yesterday, Glacier National Park Rangers euthanized a black bear in Apgar Village, a populated area of the Park, after several reports in which the bear exhibited apparent food-conditioned behavior.
On Tuesday, June 7, the same bear was involved in an incident at Fish Creek Campground in which the bear grabbed food out of an open vehicle trunk at an occupied campsite while campers were eating at a picnic table a few feet away. The bear consumed the food and left the area. Park rangers set a trap for the bear but the bear was not caught.


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A symphony of a city in white, mint, and red: Designed by the renowned Berlin designer Mark Braun, Metro Datum Gangreserve is young and sophisticated, straightforward and slim. The clear minute indexes, hands as fine as quill tips, and a slim case makes this watch flattering to the wrist, the arm, and the eyes. And despite all its metropolitan credentials, Metro Datum Gangreserve is still Glashütte through and through: Equipped with a power reserve indicator and date function, a very special heart is ticking away inside—the exquisite NOMOS caliber DUW 4401 with the in-house built NOMOS swing system.
Casestainless steel, bipartite; domed sapphire crystal glass; diameter 37 mm; sapphire crystal glass back, height 7.65 mm
Dial galvanized, white silver-plated, hour indexes at three, nine, twelve o'clock and power reserve wheel mint green, indicator red/white
Hands black oxidized, seconds hand red
Strap Horween Genuine Shell Cordovan black, lug width 18 mm
Water-resistant to 3 atm
Reference number 1101
Many are dreaming of this watch lately: Metro has already won nearly all the major design prizes—from the Good Design Award to red dot, iF, and German Design Award. Created by the renowned Berlin-based designer Mark Braun, this timepiece is refined and slender, and was the first to feature the NOMOS swing system. The designer explains this timepiece's appeal—and what makes each Metro model so special—in this short film. Mark Braun is not the only one who reckons that "Metro has really proven itself as a watch."
DUW 4401—in-house built NOMOS caliber with manual winding, date and power reserve indicator; NOMOS swing system with tempered blue balance spring. (DUW stands for NOMOS Glashütte Deutsche Uhrenwerke.)
Diameter14 ¼ lines (32.1 mm) including movement holder
Movement height2.8 mm
Power reserveapprox. 42 hours
CharacteristicsDecentralized seconds, patented power reserve indicator, stop-seconds mechanism, Glashütte three-quarter plate, 23 jewels, Glashütte stopwork, Incabloc shock protection, adjusted in six positions, tempered blue screws, rhodium-plated movement surfaces with Glashütte ribbing and NOMOS perlage, ratchet and crown wheel with Glashütte sunburst
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Pedal Steel Guitar
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The Big E: A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons
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UK: 26 Aug 2013
Country music stars such as Vince Gill, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell, and others acknowledge Buddy Emmons as one of the "World's Foremost Steel Guitarist", as he used to be billed. Emmons helped create (as an inventor) and popularize (as a player) the steel sound most people think of when they think of classic country music. The 16 newly recorded tracks on this tribute disc, The Big E: A Salute to Steel Guitarist Buddy Emmons, reveal Emmons profound influence. The 16-page booklet, full of photos and minuscule detailed texts and diagrams, explains Emmons' seminal contributions. While this may matter to the country music historians among us, for the rest of us—who cares?
As one might imagine, the disc is rich in pedal steel guitar music. This is not for the casual fan who would soon grow bored with the sound of so much picking. The disc is for the discerning listener who cares about how different instrumental maestros, including Greg Leisz, Jaydee Maness, and Dan Dugmore, deal with (the still alive) Emmons' rich legacy. The material includes a diverse range of music associated with Emmons, including his work with Gram Parsons, Judy Collins, and John B. Sebastian, as well as more traditional country folk such as Roger Miller, Little Jimmy Dickens, and Ray Price. The performances are universally clean. One can hear the silence between the notes as well as the notes themselves.
The most unusual track is Willie Nelson on vocal and guitar with harmonica player Mickey Raphael taking on the Nelson/Emmons 1963 composition, "Are You Sure". According to the liner notes, Emmons recalled that Nelson wrote the tune based on a statement Emmons made to a stranger at a bar. Nelson insisted Emmons get half credit because "an idea is as good as a song." While this may or may not be true, Nelson terrifically wrings the emotions out of the composition without ever getting maudlin. Raphael adds just the right touches to deepen the effect. There may be no steel guitar here, but the song provides a fitting tribute to the man who made the steel sound like a person on the verge of crying—the reason why one thinks of country music as so sad.
Even on tracks like Albert Lee's take on "Rainbows All Over Your Blues", the pedal steel provides a melancholy contrast to the happy lyrics. And on sorrowful instrumentals such as "Invitation to the Blues" and "This Cold War With You", the steel speaks eloquently of heartache without getting maudlin. If this seems depressing, well—this is tear-in-your-beer music. For the most part, the music dares one not to well up.
That said, there are exceptions—such as Vince Gill's western swing take on "Country Boy" and the a capella take on the traditional "Shenandoah" by Gary Carter on pedal steel and Kevin Adams on piano that sounds as noble as the river itself. But like the blues, pure country music such as this is most frequently associated with pain. One doesn't need to be a masochist to appreciate it, but as the old joke goes, it doesn't hurt.
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by CaluluA few weeks ago I was witnessing internet wide that one thing is certain. Just about everyone has a strong reaction to the news that Michelle Duggar is enceinte again. Of course I snicked like the sarcastic wise-cracking gal I am and some of us tossed around those hoary old chestnuts we always say when discussing Duggar child bearing. "It's a vagina not a clown car" and "Looks like Jim Bob tossed the hotdog down the well again"In most of the online discussion of how dangerous her playing maternal Russian roulette actually is no one seemed to hit upon my first thought, how quickly would Jim Bob replace her with a newer, younger, prettier model.I mean, really, it's like sho … [Read more...]
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Excerpted from Dulce De Leche:All of the recent news about the Duggar's newest baby spawned a number of online arguments. One of the most frequent comments was about how cheerful their family is, especially the children. How Michelle is a great mom who doesn't yell. It must be working for them, because the kids are well behaved and look happy. Sounds reasonable, right?I might believe it, if I didn't know what I know of Gothard/ATI and the Pearls. The Duggars are deeply enmeshed in ATI, and ATI takes allegiance very seriously. It isn't a vague Statement of Beliefs that you sign so your kids can take the courses. It is several pages of in depth info that covers what kind of music … [Read more...]
Maternal Martyr, Michelle Duggar, Willing to Risk Life for Baby #20
by Vyckie GarrisonMega-family parents, Jim Bob & Michelle Duggar of TLC's "19 & Counting" fame announced on TODAY they are expecting baby #20 - due in April 2012.Despite a difficult pregnancy and premature delivery of now-23-month-old, Josie, Michelle told TLC viewers she is willing to "lay down her life" for another baby."We do not take for granted the wonderful blessings of life that God has bestowed upon us!" writes Michelle on The Duggar Family website. "Many years ago, Jim Bob & I gave this area of our lives to God, allowing Him to grant life as He saw fit."The flip side of the Quiverfull ideal of "trusting the Lord with our family planning" which Jim Bob … [Read more...]
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Concerning Technology Adoption and Inequality
Lahiri, Radhika & Ratnasiri, Shyama (2007) Concerning Technology Adoption and Inequality. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)
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Empirical evidence suggests that there has been a divergence over time in income distributions across countries and within countries. Furthermore, developing economies show a great deal of diversity in their growth patterns during the process of economic development. For example, some of these countries converge rapidly on the leaders, while others stagnate, or even experience reversals and declines in their growth processes. In this paper we study a simple dynamic general equilibrium model with household specific costs of technology adoption which is consistent with these stylized facts. In our model, growth is endogenous, and there are two-period lived overlapping generations of agents, assumed to be heterogeneous in their initial holdings of wealth and capital. We find that in a special case of our model, with costs associated with the adoption of more productive technologies fixed across households, inequalities in wealth and income may increase over time, tending to delay the convergence in international income differences. The model is also capable of explaining some of the observed diversity in the growth pattern of transitional economies. According to the model, this diversity may be the result of variability in adoption costs over time, or the relative position of a transitional economy in the world income distribution. In the more general case of the model with household specific adoption costs, negative growth rates during the transitional process are also possible. The model's prediction that inequality has negative impact on technology adoption is supported by empirical evidence based on a cross country data set.
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Yield: 4 sandwiches
1 pound twice-ground beef
1 tablespoon dried onion flakes
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
2 teaspoons prepared yellow mustard
1 (12-ounce) can or bottle of beer (do not use "lite" beer)
Loosemeat (see above)
4 hamburger buns, toasted if desired
Fresh onion, chopped
Prepared yellow mustard
In a medium frying pan, brown the beef over medium-high heat, then drain it in a colander. Return beef to the pan and stir in the onion flakes, pepper, salt, sugar, mustard, and beer. Simmer, partially covered, over medium heat until liquid is evaporated, about 30 minutes.
Spoon beef into buns and serve immediately with condiments. Be sure to give everyone a spoon so they can scoop up any stray beef that escapes!
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