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A license to print money · handelsblatt global edition
007 Tourism A License to Print Money By Simon Book and Christian Wermke
James Bond, aka Daniel Craig, breezed into Berlin on Wednesday for the premiere of "Spectre." As the secret agent and his entourage continue their promotional tour, a ski resort in Sölden, Austria, hopes to cash in on its screen time in the movie. read Bond in Berlin. "Spectre" had its German premiere on Wednesday, with stars Daniel Craig (l), Naomie Harris and Christoph
Waltz on the red carpet. Source: DPA
Jakob "Jack" Falkner of the Austrian ski resort of Sölden recalls when Barbara Broccoli, the producer of James Bond films, invited him to the storied Pinewood Studios near London last January.
Mr. Falkner was supposed to be at Hahnenkamm Races, touted as Austria's greatest ski festival, but instead he found himself in a replica of his hometown Sölden in the alpine valley of Ötztal in Tyrol in western Austria. His new mountain restaurant, the Ice Q, was there too – perfectly replicated for an interior scene of "Spectre," the new 007 film. "That was totally crazy," Mr. Falkner said.
Standing in Pinewood Studios, Mr. Falkner realized that Bond could be a boon for him. He expects the latest movie in the spy series, which had its U. K. premiere on Monday and German premiere on Wednesday, to attract major tourism and business to the Sölden area.
He would not be the first. Mr. Falkner and his town are joining a long list of people, locales and businesses that have profited over the past 53 years from association with the 007 film franchise.
Director Sam Mendes, Bond actor Daniel Craig and a crew of 400 in 50 trucks descended on the alpine village. The film crew poured concrete for their own airport in the mountains and leveled a mountain road.
Ms. Broccoli and her team began scouting locations for the movie a year ago. They needed mountains, snow, fantastic buildings. And Mr. Falkner needed the next big ski-tour thing for Sölden. The businessman owns cable cars, the Central five-star hotel, and the restaurant, Ice Q, on the top of the Gaislachkogel mountain peak. As the lynchpin of local tourism, he began negotiations with Ms. Broccoli.
"We'll make everything possible for you, " Mr. Falkner told the producer. "Then we're in business," Ms. Broccoli replied.
A short time later, director Sam Mendes, Bond actor Daniel Craig and a crew of 400 in 50 trucks descended on the alpine village. The film crew poured concrete for their own airport in the mountains and leveled a mountain road. They filmed in the Tyrol for 31 days.
Local officials estimate revenues of around €10 million ($11.05 million) from that month-long period. But the really big business is likely still to come.
Few film franchises are as attractive as the British agent with his license to kill. "Spectre" is Bond's 24th outing.
Mr. Falkner hopes the millions watching "Spectre" will see his cable cars riding across the big screen, and that tourists will come in droves, wanting to eat where Bond ate, to sleep where the spy seduced women, to ski where he got away from the bad guys.
"I believe we have given an awful lot, and will also get an awful lot for it," Mr. Falkner said.
Local Sölden tourism king, Jakob Falkner, is betting on Bond to bring herds of tourists to his town. Source: Picture Alliance
So far in the Bond series, filming has been carried out at 150 locations worldwide. Five countries were used as locations in "Spectre": Austria, Britain, Italy, Mexico and Morocco. Each one hopes to benefits from "Bond toursim," just as Tokyo, Hamburg, Istanbul, Los Angeles, Beirut, Rio and the Bahamas did before them.
The Atlantic hotel in Hamburg, for example, advertises a "James Bond suite." In 1997, Pierce Brosnan jumped around on the roof of the luxury hotel in the film "Tomorrow Never Dies." In the Swiss canton of Tessin, you can bungee jump off the Verzasca Dam like 007 did in 1995 in "Goldeneye."
The island of Ko Phung Kan would be just be one of many fabulous spots in Thailand's Andaman Sea if "The Man with the Golden Gun" hadn't have been shot there in 1974. Even today, umpteen excursion boats set sail in the direction of the Bond island on a daily basis.
Even London, which isn't exactly light on tourist attractions, makes use of Bond – after all, this is his home. An exhibition of 007 vehicles, "Bond in Motion," has been running for months at the London Film Museum. For a $22 entrance fee, visitors can marvel at one of the 12 Aston Martins wrecked during the filming of "Quantum of Solace." Or slip into a tux or stick their heads through a life-size Bond film poster and have their picture taken for $11 a print.
The Bond walking tour in London is especially popular. The $110, two-hour walk includes Charing Cross underground station, which served as a prison in the latest film, and Admiralty Arch, where the inventor of Bond, novelist Ian Fleming, began his own career as a secret agent. "He was a hard drinking, hard smoking, hard womanizing man – like James Bond," one guide says.
The tours are booked months in advance. Bus tours, drives in Bond cars, VIP tours and a London tour with a studio lunch also are available. Those who are willing to pay up can even meet a former Bond star or jet around Europe on the trail of the fictional spy.
"That's what we need, too," said Mr. Falkner in Sölden. "But it could be a problem with the licenses."
Mr. Falker is preparing for negotiations about licensing rights connected to the film. He would like to go to London with an exact plan: guided tours, special menus in Ice Q. There's even talk of a 4D theater on the summit of Gaislachkogel. The official negotiations are to begin at the start of the year, when it will be clear how many millions of people saw the film. The more there are, the more expensive it will be for Mr. Falkner.
It's a far cry from the simplicity of the 1960s, when Schilthorn, a summit in Switzerland, featured in "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Back then, a four-page contract stipulated that everything that happened on the mountain could be used without any licensing fees. People there can do almost whatever they want with Bond and the Swiss have gone over the top marketing the Bond link.
Now a cable car ride at the Swiss community costs €95, including admission to Bond World. All this and other 007-related goods and services help make Schilthorn the second most expensive mountain for tourists to visit in the Alpine region. But that hasn't stopped the flow: 60 percent more tourists come today than in 2012.
No wonder then that competition to be the next Bond location is stiff and subsidies to attract the production company are the norm. Tyrol, for example, subsidized the filming of "Spectre" with €1.5 million in tax money. In Mexico, €20 million in public funds were offered to seal the deal. For that, Mexican officials were able to submit things they wanted in the script and demand that Mexico be presented as a vacation paradise – and not as the location of drug wars.
In Sölden, people are not even sure how long their mountains will appear in the new film. Mr. Falkner is hoping for at least 10 minutes of screen-time. He doesn't know if the village's name will be mentioned or if the logo of his cable car will appear. Bond's producers didn't want to make any promises.
Before the major press conference at the start of filming, Mr. Falkner told film producer Ms. Broccoli that it would be great if the name Sölden could be mentioned. Director Mr. Mendes then said to the journalists, "We're back in the snow, in Sölden, Austria." Mr. Falkner believes people took note.
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Why it matters
Cities, islands, even mountains that serve as Bond film locations can count on big bucks from tourists looking to soak up some secret-agent allure. Facts
Producers are often offered government subsidies to make movies in a given location.
Parts of the new James Bond movie were filmed in the Austrian ski resort of Sölden in the state of Tyrol.
"Spectre" film producers received tax subsidies worth €1.5 million from Tyrol but spent an estimated €10 million during a month of filming there.


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A tweet from Lance Armstrong yesterday :
"Just saw the cover of the new Outside mag w/ yours truly on it. Nice photoshop on a plain t-shirt guys. That's some lame bull****. #weak" (expletive altered)
The seven-time Tour de France champion was referring to the July issue cover of Outside magazine featuring him wearing a t-shirt bearing a profane slogan.
The blue t-shirt reads "38. BFD." The number refers to Armstrong's age and the letters are an acronym for "big [expletive] deal". Only problem is, Lance was wearing a plain t-shirt.
This is Armstrong's 8th time appearing on the cover of the magazine. Why the editors would choose to alter the cover photo and upset their favorite athlete is baffling.
There's a note on the bottom left side of the cover in small print stating that the t-shirt isn't real. So what was the point of the profane acronym in the first place?
Sadly, this happens much more than the public realizes and it just blurs the line between what is real and what is not.
Even National Geographic magazine has been guilty of such manipulation with their cover photo. In the February 1982 issue, the Great Pyramid of Giza was digitally moved to fit the magazine's vertical format. Tom Kennedy, who became the director of photography at National Geographic after the cover was manipulated, stated that "We no longer use that technology to manipulate elements in a photo simply to achieve a more compelling graphic effect. We regarded that afterwards as a mistake, and we wouldn't repeat that mistake today".
Twenty years ago, acclaimed photo critic Andy Grundberg predicted, "In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will be aware that they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated." History has given weight to his prophecy.
"The public is losing faith in us. Without credibility, we have nothing; we cannot survive," … John Long, chairman of the ethics and standards committee of the National Press Photographers Association.
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Software Glitch Shuts Down Santa Fe College Computers
Around 9 a.m. Santa Fe College officials started getting complaints about computer problems around campus. The news led to the shut down of all campus PCs. Several hours later Information Technology officials confirmed the problems were due to a McAfee Antivirus software update that labeled a normal file as a virus. That caused computers with the Microsoft XP operating system to reboot repeatedly.
"It seems to have impacted only our administrative computing systems," said Ed Bonahue, interim provost at SFC. "It impacted people's desktop computes."
Around 1300 computers were affected. Sana Fe officials said their email system, web server, and registration system were not impacted. The problem was also seen across the rest of the country at places like police stations and hospitals.
Crews spent the say going from building to building uploading a software patch that's supposed to fix the glitch. Officials said it could be several days before all computers run normally again.
Students like Ray Lall said the shut down couldn't have come at a worse time. The semester ends Friday and finals week begins April 26.
"I was supposed to pull up a take home test that was due today," said Lall. "Couldn't do that. Just kinda ruined my whole day actually."
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On Tuesday morning, HTC Corp. (
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weeks of buzzing rumors
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highly anticipated
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, the flagship 2014 HTC One (M8).
I. The Launch
The Taiwanese device maker took the wraps off the fresh metal body superphone at
a pair of 11 a.m. EST press events
in New York City and London, England.
Last year the HTC One was announced prior to top Android phonemaker Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd.'s (
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This year HTC has smoothed over its legal troubles (albeit at a cost) and smartly timed its flagship announcement to be after Samsung's February unveil
of the flagship Galaxy S5
, a device that largely underwhelmed and was met with lukewarm reviews.
The second-generation HTC One (M8) (2014)
HTC CEO Peter Chou boasts:
HTC One was the best phone of last year. We went the extra mile to do [the followup] the right way at the hardware level. The HTC One (M8) is the best phone we have ever launched
As it did last year, HTC continues to differentiate itself by adopting unique and bleeding edge hardware features. The highlight of the new phone is a shiny new 3D camera,
a technology HTC has been dabbling in the smartphone space
for some time now.
In addition to the new 3D camera, implemented by a pair of CMOS backface sensors based on ultrapixel technology, the hardware and firmware have received other serious tweaks as well.
The camera allows for non-3D images to undergo post-processing refocusing to create bokeh (background or foreground blur) artistic effects. The multi-frame high-speed shooting and selection proprietary tech is still onboard as well. For those familiar with the boxy Lytro adjustable focus digital camera, the idea is pretty much the same. While the 3D itself is somewhat gimmicky, the ability to refocus in post-processing at last arguably elevates the feature as more than a parlor trick.
The flash uses a dual-color LED for better light and tone balancing, a technology that Apple, Inc. (
) first used
in last year's iPhone 5S
. The phone trails the best of its peers like the Apple iPhone 5S and Nokia Oyj. (
) Lumia 1020 in daytime camera performance,
according to
. But with the 3D and unique post-processing options HTC arguably still remains competitive with the best daytime cameras on merits of its exclusive features.
HTC CEO Peter Chou and HTC North American President Jason Mackenzie pose at the unveil event.
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The battery has been enlarged 13 percent, which will likely be necessary to keep pace with the larger 5-inch screen (same resolution -- 1920x1080 pixel (1080p)), up from last year's 4.7-inch screen.
The phone has a faster processor and swaps the LPDDR2 found in last year's device for the faster,
more energy efficient LPDDR3
. One of the most welcome improvements is the inclusion of a microSD slot, a feature present in some international versions of the first generation One, but lacking in the U.S. release. The built-in NAND has shrunk in half, but that's a small price to pay for the inclusion of expandable memory. The phone also supports the new nanoSIM standard, which replaces last year's microSIM.
The phone's exclusive stereo speakers have improved since last year, particular in the bass department, but the overall sound quality has also benefited from a new amplifier chip and digital to analog converter (DAC).
II. The Full Spec
The full spec can be seen below. The good bits we highlighted in green, things that seem bad are highlighted in red, things that are a matter of opinion (e.g. screen size) or unchanged are left black.
III. Externals
The downsides of the HTC One are that it's grown a bit heavier and thicker with the new battery and larger screen. It remains substantially thicker than the GS5 and iPhone 5S, as well as other Android OEMs' flagship phones. But some are willing to deal with a little bit of extra weight and thickness in exchange for such an eye-and-hand-pleasing brushed aluminum metal unibody.
Given the tendency of metal-body smartphones to experience screen cracks if dropped, HTC is kindly offering a single courtesy screen replacement if the screen shatters within six months of purchase.
Externally the phone will be available in several body colors, including gold, silver, and black, all based on the same underlying brushed metal chassis.
The phone will also be paired with a unique peripheral/case, the Dot View case, which has small holes exposing some of the screen pixels, to deliver low-powered notifications in Lite Brite fashion.
As these notifications are the actual screen pixels, they're freely color capable, and there's the potential for compatible third party apps. It's unclear how HTC is selectively deactivating most of the screen and showing only some pixels, something typically only possible with OLED displays. HTC is keeping tight-lipped about the new screen, merely saying it was "LCD based". Whatever the technology it is clearly crucial to the Dot View case and it replaces the SuperLCD 3 display used in the first-generation HTC One (M7).
On the firmware front HTC is introducing Sense 6 and a new set of apps including a prettier, more efficient version of its BlinkFeed content stream UI element. Perhaps the most important firmware tweak, though, is Extreme Power Saver -- a power saving mode similar to those offered by Apple and Motorola Mobility. The mode progressive scales back processing speed and usage allowances, eventually disallowing app use when you get to a few percent of your battery. The phone can last several hours on the mode, though, allowing brief phone calls, texts, and emails to continue to stream in and be read.
By the sound of it, HTC managed to solve its battery life issues of its first-generation model with firmware, not by bloating the battery. In this regard HTC borrows one of the smartest aspects of Apple's design philosophy, a principle Samsung has largely failed to learn from.
IV. Gary Oldman Ads and Launch Dates
HTC has aired a couple of interesting commercials for the device, starring
Breaking Bad
star Gary Oldman. The commercials are a little obtuse, but in our eyes Gary Oldman being a bit obtuse is much more tolerable than those bizarre Robert Downey, Jr. commercials.
Verizon Wireless -- America's largest carrier and subsidiary of Verizon Communications Inc. (
) -- appears to be alone in having the smartphone in stock at stores today. But AT&T, Inc. (
), Sprint Corp. (
), and Deutsche Telekom AG's (
)) T-Mobile USA will all have the device in stock later this week. It is available to order on those three carriers immediately. Canada's largest carriers -- Rogers Communications Inc. (
), Telus Corp. (
), and Bell Aliant Inc. (
) -- also have the device up for order, which shipments starting this week.
The phone will be online exclusive, except at Verizon, until the first two weeks of April, when they'll arrive at carrier stores. Still this early debut gives the HTC One a 17 day sales lead on the Samsung Galaxy S5 -- a potentially dangerous scenario for the world's largest phonemaker, given the market slide in sales of the Galaxy S4 in the last six months, a slide which may signal waning consumer interest.
Release timetables for Europe and Asia were not discussed, but are expected to follow a similar format, with online sales ramping up to a full storefront launch in early April.
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Corporate America's reputation plunges: survey
By Scott Malone
BOSTON (Reuters) - Corporate America's reputation plunged in the eyes of average Americans last year, as the rush of companies to Washington for financial support soured popular support for big business.
Eighty-eight percent of respondents in a survey said business's reputation was either "not good" or "terrible," the highest in the poll's 10-year history and well above the 68 percent to 74 percent who had held that opinion over the past five years. Results of the Harris Interactive survey were set to be released on Tuesday.
Financial services companies and Detroit automakers were among the 60 best-known companies with the worst reputations among U.S. consumers, while drug, tech and consumer products companies were most admired, according to the survey.
"What was surprising in this year's study was the very clear total loss of trust in corporate America," said Robert Fronk, senior vice president at Harris. "The focus on individual rewards, the focus on greed all really added up to this incredible drop."
Respondents said the brutal recession has darkened their view of corporate America, with 75 percent reporting their opinion of corporations was lower due to the downturn. They saw little hope for economic improvement, with 43 percent expecting conditions to get worse over the next six to 12 months.
The five companies with the worst reputations were troubled insurer American International Group Inc, oilfield services company Halliburton Co, automakers General Motors Co and Chrysler LLC, and failed savings and loan Washington Mutual.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan rowing head coach Mark Rothstein announced the hiring of Krystina Sarff as assistant coach on Monday, Aug. 18. Sarff helped lead the University of San Diego rowing team to its best season in program history last season after coaching the novice program at the University of Florida from 2011-13.
"It is with great excitement that I welcome Krystina Sarff to our coaching staff here at Michigan," Rothstein said. "Krystina will bring great knowledge, enthusiasm and work ethicto the program. I remember Krystina from her days as an All-American at Central Florida and as a rower on the national team. She has done a fabulous job of transferring her rowing talent into coaching talent. Everywhere that she has been as a coach, she has had success. Most importantly, she is a great person, and she is a great fit for Michigan and for Michigan rowing."
In her role with the rowing program, Sarff will be responsible for coaching and developing the novice program, recruiting and evaluating prospective student-athletes and coordinating with the athletic communications office.
"I am incredibly honored to be given the opportunity to join such a prestigious rowing program," Sarff said. "The tradition, integrity and level of excellence expected and achieved in Michigan's athletic and academic sectors is world class. I look forward to working with Coach Rothstein and his staff to continue the winning tradition that is Michigan Athletics. Go Blue!"
Last year at USD, Sarff oversaw the development of walk-on athletes, coached the varsity crews and managed recruiting responsibilities for the Toreros. She helped USD win the 2014 West Coast Conference Rowing championship and earn the program's first top-20 ranking in the CRCA/USRowing Coaches Poll. USD earned its first bid to the NCAA Rowing Championships last season, finishing 15th overall.
Before arriving in San Diego, Sarff managed all aspects of the University of Florida club novice team. She guided the program to unprecedented success, helping the Gators reach No. 1 in the ACRA national rankings in April 2013. Sarff led Florida's WN8+ crew to victories at the 2013 SIRA Regional Championships and the 2013 FIRA State Championships. She also helped the Florida's novice eight earn a fourth-place finish at the prestigious Dad Vail Regatta, competing against NCAA Division I programs. In 2011-12, the Gators won the FIRA state championship, finished fourth at the SIRA Regional Championship and finished the season No. 4 in the ACRA national rankings.
While coaching at Florida, Sarff served as an intern in the University of Florida NCAA Strength and Conditioning office, working with student-athletes five days a week. She also worked as a teaching assistant in UF's Department of Tourism, Recreation, and Sport Management and was hired by the UF Teaching Center as a Research and Business Writing tutor for student-athletes.
A three-time All-American at the University of Central Florida, Sarff graduated cum laude in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts in interdisciplinary studies, rowing in the first varsity eight and helping the Knights earn their first appearance in the NCAA Rowing Championships. Among other athletic and academic honors during her collegiate career, Sarff was a three-year captain and CRCA Scholar-Athlete. She earned UCF's Most Valuable Rower award three years in a row.
Upon completing her bachelor's from UCF, Sarff earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship that allowed her to pursue a Master of Arts in rhetoric and composition at UCF in 2009 while competing for USRowing and earning her USRowing coaching certification. Sarff will earn her doctorate in sport management from the University of Florida this fall, writing a dissertation on gender identity development and women's empowerment in rowing.
Sarff also served as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Central Florida in 2008 and as a volunteer coach at Hillsborough High School in 2010.
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Pros - Nice, fun sound signature
Cons - Fit and durability
Design: The body of these buds are really large, especially the driver portion which I feel is fairly thick. They are comfortable if the large drivers do fit on the outer portion of your ear but people with small ears will probably experience some discomfort. The detachable cables are a dual pronged sword. Its nice that you can switch out the cables if you want to, but as I have experienced connectors shorting out on my previous pair (sent them back to onkyo on warranty to have them replaced) I found that I am hestitant to be rough with these in fear that the connector issue may happen again on this second pair. Who knows, maybe its just that one pair that had connector problems.
Highs: These have nice highs though they do not reach the highest up and lack just a little sparkle I felt that they are clear and enjoyable
Mids: Great mids, I love mid centricness which seems to be a niche group, however, these are not that mid centric (probably b/c of the bass). Vocals sound great, the singers take front stage and you can really feel the emotion on better quality tracks.
Lows: The lows are fairly powerful and are the main feature of these onkyos. Its very plentiful without being overpowering. They could be a little tighter but I'm not complaining, its great for the price range that it is in.
Soundstage/Resolution: These have a pretty wide soundstage for its type, very impressed. As for detail, they are not bad but I recommend some hifiman buds instead if that's what you are looking for.
Conclusion: The Onkyos are very good for a sub $100 iem. They are a lot of fun and I find them a good travel set as they have a shallow seal and fun signature that makes listening on public transportation very enjoyed.
I also found that these benefit greatly from amping. Even with my fiio e6 amp their resolution has sharpened and the bass has tightened up quite a bit. I have also seen many people on head fi report that they have noticed big differences with burn in.
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Villanova University Provost Patrick G. Maggitti, PhD, today announced the appointment of Michael P. Moreland, JD, PhD, as University Professor of Law and Religion. Among Villanova's highest academic honors, the University Professor recognizes distinguished faculty whose extraordinary scholarly achievement and accomplishment spans disciplines and crosses traditional college boundaries. Dr. Moreland will also serve as the Director of the Eleanor H. McCullen Center for Law, Religion and Public Policy in the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. read more
Villanova University assistant professor of Political Science Daniel Mark, PhD, has been elected chairman of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF). Mark previously served as vice chairman of USCIRF, first appointed in May 2014 by then-Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) and reappointed in May 2016 by Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI). read more
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Hundreds Turn Out To Hear About Port Plans
Rochester N.Y.- Hundreds turned out at the Charlotte Community Association meeting Monday night to talk about plans for a major, multimillion dollar re-development at the Port of Rochester.
Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren has signed off on a $70 million proposal from a Michigan developer, which would see a high rise hotel and retail space along the waterfront. The project is also to include low income housing.
Many there last night are not happy with the idea of high rise buildings going up as part of the project.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. --- Head coach Jerod Haase and the UAB men's basketball team unveiled its new state-of-the-art locker room to media members on Thursday as Haase gave reporters a personal tour of the facility.
The locker room, which now encompasses 2,246 square feet of Bartow Arena, features 16 large cherry veneer lockers, a players lounge with a gaming station and plush leather seating, five coaches lockers, seven showers with a built-in stereo system and an 80-inch Sharp Aquos flat screen television, among other features.
"This project has been phenomenal for our program," Haase said. "It has exceeded any expectations. I was very involved with the design and all the elements in it, and kept up with its development throughout. It has absolutely blown me away."
While visiting with media on Thursday, the second-year UAB coach detailed why he feels like the new facility is important for his program. According to Haase, it is all about the players and giving them a first-rate facility.
"We are stressing in our program the importance of doing everything first class, whether that means showing up to class and making good grades or doing the best in your workouts -- everything is first class," Haase said. "With this new locker room they understand there is a great commitment from the university and our staff."
The new facility, which took just over three months to complete, also features a state-of-the-art Lutron lighting system, a Creston Control System that serves as a hub for all operating systems (LED lights, televisions and the sound system). The locker room also has two, 40-inch flat-screen televisions as well as a 70-inch Sharp LCD touch-screen monitor.
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"Beer Run" by Todd Snider
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What?? I have no embarrassing music it is all cool.
Actually I have a fair amount of rap music (not ganster) the old school RUN DMC stuff. Back from my break dancing days.
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Shattered Time - Update# 5, Promotional News
In the next update for Shattered Time we get information on the games development, and marketing. As for the game it has only managed to get $2,182 of the $100,000 goal.
Game Development and Marketing
In game development there are a number of factors to achieving success. The most important factor has nothing to do with actually making a game. We've all seen great marketing can make millions off of a simple game, it doesn't even have to be any good. The same cannot be said for great development.
A game with poor marketing, no matter how great, will sit in a catalogue of several hundred thousand other games and never be noticed at all. It creates a unique atmosphere in the big name publishing industry, where the greatest success stories are not good games, but brand marketing.
The biggest successes in the industry are Marketing Companies, which just happen to have a game they are selling. For me this creates a unique challenge, as I am definitely a game developer who happens to be trying to market my game. Far more content with my head buried in 10k lines of code than trying to be heard among millions of shouting voices on twitter.
So, whether we achieve funding or not, I would like give a big thank you to all of the backers and supporters thus far. Your support is far more important than your pledges. I've been hard at work setting up an active forum over the last few days. Rain or shine the site will officially launch before the end of the campaign. Where anyone will be able keep up with the latest developments and even contribute to the future of this project.
There are many prospects ahead, this campaign is only the first. Even as it stands I consider it a success, if only for building an interest in the game. Be sure and keep an eye out on the 25th! Swinging that promotion to get more people to view this campaign won't be easy, but I've got high hopes.
Information aboutShattered Time
SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
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Did I miss it in the review? Can the zoom be changed during video recording?
Thanks for all your (usually) excellent reviews.
Love the addition of usually...
Passive aggressive much ;-)
Wasn't too impressed with the high ISO performance, but the detail looks good.
Great review. Casio seem to be the only company that puts some massive capacity batteries on there cameras which is good! The let down for me is no mic while zooming in on video mode. RRR
Well, I bought one about ten days ago, and it certainly is a very nice camera. Sits well in the hand, tough body, good lens, excellent picture quality, long battery life. Niggles? Writing RAW files takes an age, start-up time is quite slow, and its USB lead has a proprietary connector (why do manufacturers do this?). So far, I am very impressed.
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I'm also impressed with battery life though as Rob1n quite rightly says, why the heck do firms go for proprietary leads. . .
I did a lot of research into this camera and I must admit, I think I made the right choice. Haven't played around with the vid yet, will write a review for it when that happens.
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Facilitating Economic Growth in Sri Lanka, Team Dynamics
By Hanna Moerland, Master of Public Policy '15
In a lot of ways, our group was really lucky: as a four-person team who ended up working together on one project, we lucked out that our personalities and interests balanced each other out really well; our accommodations were very comfortable; we had good internet access; and we had access to real coffee (instant just doesn't cut it sometimes).
The biggest challenge for our group was our intense schedule – I think we all underestimated how rigorous it would be: conducting hours upon hours of interviews and primary research, on top of spending hours in the car each day. As there were four of us, we decided to have four areas of focus in our research – although we hadn't calculated into that equation the time and effort that goes into tracking down the experts in each of those areas, translating interviews from English to Sinhala or Tamil, and then sometimes translating between Sri Lankan English and American English. We had three main research sites, and by the third one we had a rhythm going that made it easier on each of us, but by then the primary research was done!
This project was a great learning experience. Every aspect of it was an opportunity for our group to engage and exchange information gleaned through work experience and school: everything from reviewing the policy document, focusing our areas of research, creating a policy evaluation framework, working out team communication, conducting interviews, recording data from interviews and primary research, to creating the final deliverables – a presentation and final written report.
In the end our client was impressed with our insight – noting that for outsiders who were there for just three weeks, we picked up on a lot of what is going on – and we got a lot of positive feedback on the format, structure, and findings in our final presentation. At the end of this experience, I'm really proud of all the hard work we put in as a group and the final product that we created.


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I love Bali. The people, the food, the smell of open sewerage. It's the little things which have kept me coming back for over 15 years. Over that time it's become a cosmopolitan hub of cool aussie kids and euro trash who now call it home. Hot bars, fine restaurants, 5 star accommodation its all there.
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"Volunteers are the true difference-makers to Canada's Olympic movement — from the local community coaches who mentor and encourage our future Olympians, to the members of the Canadian Olympic Committee Board and Session Members who donate their time and experience. Volunteerism touches every part of sport, right down to those who help with day-to-day tasks. When people volunteer, the Olympic Values of excellence, friendship and respect are fostered. On behalf of the entire Canadian Olympic Team, I cannot thank our volunteers enough for all they do for sport in our country."
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what's so off putting about employing a nanny with their own child??(150 Posts)
I am stuck - really stuck.... maybe you kind MNers can help me understand...
I'm job hunting due to a reduction in hours with my current families and I have my own 18 month old son. He's been coming to work with me since he was 12 weeks old - I had a very short maternity leave partyly due to my commitment to my job and he is very very easy to look after, always has been.
I returned to work to one job I had and a new job where their youngest was just 3 months older than my boy - which was very challenging, they are now the best of friends.
I love my jobs, my charges love my son - him being with me just makes my day busier and in some ways harder but I am always the professional - I am very committed to doing the same job i would do without him with him there with me and more often than not I completely over compensate having him with my by ignoring him and leaving him to his own devices while doing my job.
My charges and my bosses (who often work from home) can back this up completely.
Also my son isn't with me for 1/2 the week (approximately) as his dad works shifts and when he's off my son stays with him.
I've never taken a drop in salary, I've rarely taken time off because of my boy and have his dad and grandparents/friends on standby if I need to.
SO WHY wont you mums consider someone like me?
I appreciate you are paying for your children to be looked after, but I am doing that - I'm still the nanny I am without him - I'm just busier when he's there, he's not with me all of the time, he's just part of the package.
OR mums want a salary reduction of 50% (my latest interview where the family totally loved me but want me for 1/2 my current rate even when he's only with me half the time I'm there) yes I'm lucky to have my boy there but this isn't a nannyshare, I am still working by your rules/requests/routine/preferences etc - I don't get to do my own thing like I would if I were a SAHM
I'm now trying to find childcare for my son so I can carry on working, which given that I'm leaving my house every morning at 6:20 and I'm not home until 6:30 (and that's only if my employers trains are on time etc) its really hard.
What can I do to make myself more employable? To get parents to at least meet me so I can get them to love me rather than seeing I come with my own child and am instantly dismissed.
I'm a great person, I am excellent at my job my charges love me and my bosses give me excellent references, I'm reliable committed and professional.
Regardless of how careful you are, you can't provide the same service as a nanny with no children - you have an extra child to look after. Just as I am suspicious of people in my office who "work from home" when they have an ill child because I don't think they're doing a full day of work, I would doubt whether you can do everything a nanny without a child does to the same level of care and attention.
A 50% drop in pay seems harsh though. As others said, a smaller discount should be enough.
Harshly but succinctly....which one would you run into a burning building first for?
That's why.
(and it's not a criticism at all, because we would all do the same!)
I hope you manage to sort something out, I guess you need to be looking for a situation like the one described by Judy upthread.
id happily drop my salary but not by 50%
I can't really travel further to work I already travel nearly 50 miles a day
im completely flexibly on my days.
fwiw if a family have more than one child a nanny is faced with the 'which child do I save from a burning building' as are childminders and nurseries.
I wouldn't employ a nanny with a DC - have said no to interviewing one in the past. I have 3 small children, and consider that taxing enough on a nanny. Adding a fourth would only dilute attention for each child even further. Plus, I only choose a nanny who is happy to walk everywhere with the children (as I do) rather than use a car - having an extra baby (two of mine still in pushchair) would be difficult. There is a three-times-a-day school run to do (nursery/school) which means plenty of walking.
I sympathise with you, but a nanny is expensive, and most people choose that option, as others have said, because they want care totally focused around their children/lifestyle/timetable.
I hope you find something OP (where are you, incidentally?). I really see that having your own child could be an asset. I want my baby to have another child to play with. I find looking after the baby and his sister together easier and more fun than just one, so you probably would too. I'd look at your relationship with your child, how you interact and so on, and use that to help make a judgement.
I take my dc with me (2) and have been in the job around 9 months now. It was alot of work to begin with, but now my charge, who is the same age and my dc get on wonderfully. I work part time and have recently taken on another family with two children so am actually working full time right now. It took me five months to find my first btwm nanny position though and I earn £8.50 gross. So its no where near what others get but without childcare costs it equates to 1k pm 3 days a week, and around 1600pm full time (55hrs) (im not in London )
I am always soo worried about finding the next job when the other ends. My close nanny friend who has 16years experience struggled to find a job when her dd arrived. I was truly shocked and I am very aware how much harder it'll be the older she gets.
I do understand why families wouldn't want a nanny with their own but I wish more would be more open to it- the benefits my dc and my charges get from that constant social interaction is invaluable. I don't personally think you can liken it to a CM setting- they can be very stretched with ratios and all that paperwork, and a nurseries are just a stretched with higher ratios and 20-30 children in a room at a time. I have three in my care max inc my own and its totally manageable and they have a wonderful time.. I don't feel that the care I provide is compromised by having my own.. I have great relationships with both parents and children. I have been lucky that so far, we have been working with families that are relaxed and welcome us both as part of the family. x
I wouldn't pay the full amount for a nanny to bring a child to my house and look after them alongside mine. Nannies aren't cheap anyway, and If I'm paying full wages then I would expect my children to get full attention. I'd probably pay two thirds but no more. But if I'm going down the nanny route then really I'm looking for someone who can focus on my children, as thats what I am paying for. When I was looking for nannies there was one that wanted £12 an hour, and bring her baby to work with her too. I thought that was pretty cheeky to ask so much personally.
It's something I would definitely consider, but I would definitely expect to pay less than for a nanny without own child.
However good you are at your job, if you have your own child with you your attention will be divided. Your employers will NOT be getting your full attention for their child(ren). If there were a fire, your child would almost certainly take precedence over theirs if you had to choose whom to save. They do not know how fair you are in your handling of all the children together when they are not there. They do not know how demanding or otherwise your son is with your time (quite natural that if his mum is there he should expect attention from her). However cheerful and laid back he is, the parents are still getting a nanny share rather than a full-time nanny and you are effectively getting free childcare at their expense. People's salaries are down or stagnant anyway, there's not a spare penny in most families.
There are no other jobs in this country where people would expect to be able to take their children to work with them and still get paid full salary.
I hope the links work.
We employ a lovely nanny to look after our DSs (one is 5yo, the other is 1yo) and she is pregnant. I know that she is hoping to return to work (she hasn't even gone on maternity leave yet) when her baby is 6 months old. Our children will be 6 yo and 2yo then. I posted on MN a few months ago to ask for experiences of NWOC and rates.
I hope you find the replies helpful.
I haven't decided yet whether we would like our nanny to return with her own child after maternity leave. We are open minded about it, but I can see pros and cons. And who knows, she may decide its not for her in the end, anyway. We will all just wait and see!
50% of my salary went on childcare....
A third off the usual rate seemed about right.
Actually, way more than 50%.
I would be very reluctant to hire a nanny with own child unless my role were very hard to fill or there were special circumstances that meant that I wanted a playmate for a child. Don't know where you are in the country but when I recently recruited for a nanny there were lots of good applicants as there didn't seem to be that many nany jobs around. Given I'd view a NWOC as a negative then no reason I'd want to look in that pool with many quality alternatives available.
I certainly wouldn't pay £10 per hour (I assume you mean net which nannies seem to do) for a new NWOC. I may be more flexible if an existing nanny had a baby but for a new hire I'd be hard to get off a no.
I agree that you need to factor how much it would cost to have some one to care for your child when you were at work then think of reducing your salary slightly.
Just wanted to sympathise. I employed a nanny who had her own child when my daughter was 12 months old. She stayed through the birth or my son, for a total of four years. We all loved her and her daughter and are still in touch now. It was challenging once they started (different) schools but we made it work because she was great. Really hope you find the right family soon.
I think some people have a bit of a mental block about nwoc arrangements. The attitude that 'I want 100% of a nannies attention or a childminder' really fails to register the benefits of having what is essentially a half-way house between a nanny and childminder. A NWOC arrangement still provides many of the benefits of a nanny. The price should be reduced to reflect that the family will not get ALL the benefits of a nanny.
Nannies are just too expensive at full on market rates to offer the perk of bringing along their own child. Too many potential complications and compromises relative to the £500+ per week cost.
I would be willing to interview someone who offered a discount; agree 50% is ridiculous, that would barely be minimum wage on my rough and ready reckonings.
I'm really surprised so many people aren't keen. If we needed a nanny again, I'd look for one with their own child.
We have three children, two boys at school and a daughter at home, and our nanny had a son a couple of months older than her, both under two. I did the morning school run after she and son arrived, and she did the pick up with two in a double buggy and the boys on foot. It was lovely to know that DD had someone her own age to play with, and it meant that the nanny had time for household stuff while they entertained each other. Win-win I say!
She charged £8/hr before tax, etc.
why can't you childmind op? what's so unappealing about where you live? (out of curiosity!)
reet- think op lives in a flat/mashionette with steep steps and no garden - or something like that
i know her in real world and she is a fab nanny, just needs a nice family to give her a chance
weirdly enough there are lots of famillies/jobs in my area that will happily accept nwoc - often see ads saying that
move near me be nice to see you and ds more
don't let living in a flat put you off op! where i live (nw london) most cms do and there is no shortage of work. ofsted have no objection either. it might be the way to go until your ds starts nursery/school...
I'm a full time NWOC to two families and it works brilliantly all the children are close in age and they all play together. Both were actively seeking a nwoc so there is hope out there. I would hate to hire a nanny to look after one child how lonely for that child what better than a play friend.
I get paid 8ph nett I'm in London and the going rate is 10ph nett but I have more than enough to live on
Hi glitternanny, don't lose faith in finding something. I have a great nanny who has just started working full time for us & she has her own child. So far she has proved reliable, organised and her own child is great company for my 2. I think if the right family comes along they won't let your own child stand in the way of hiring you. Just be open & honest - it's all you can do. Good luck.
I have employed a NWOC for the last 3 years. Her youngest was the same age as my oldest. She has a slightly lower pay rate (about 20% if you're talking net) and my experience has only been positive.
Our nanny has coped brilliantly with the four children, although I think it has really helped that her children have been at school/ pre-school but locally so DS gets plenty of 1:1 interaction but also a lot of playing with slightly older children.
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If the Scorpius gets back soon, we can get the shielding before our radiation dosage has built up very high.
I've got to find nine Planeteers and get them on the Scorpius before it flames off.
If the Scorpius had landed to take on supplies of some kind, his assignment was probably not on Mars.
"The Scorpius doesn't know what's going on," Rip told his Planeteers.
The Scorpius could not maneuver while in a gravity spin, and O'Brine wanted to be free to take action if necessary.
He had to get medical attention from the Scorpius pretty soon.
Fire flamed from the stern tubes for an instant, and then there was nothing but a fading glow where the Scorpius had been.
O'Brine recalled Rip to the Scorpius and handed him a message.
The Scorpius had trouble finding the asteroid because it was just one of many sailing along through the belt.
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Tony Pulis accepts Crystal Palace will be outsiders in most Premier League games
Tony Pulis insists Crystal Palace are used to being underdogs ahead of their New Year's Day clash with Norwich.
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The former Stoke boss has guided Palace to two Premier League wins in three home games since he succeeded Ian Holloway in November, and another would lift them above Chris Hughton's side and further clear of the drop zone.
The Eagles were gallant in a 1-0 defeat to free-scoring Manchester City on Saturday, and although Pulis is attaching no extra importance to the clash with Norwich, he believes his side will be the outsiders in most of their remaining fixtures.
When asked if Wednesday's game was more significant in their relegation battle, Pulis said: "They are all worth three points.
"The Man City game has gone now so the next big game is Norwich. Every game is a cup final for us in the Premier League. We played well at Chelsea and didn't get anything, we played really well at Man City and picked no points up.
"All that we did is brilliant for confidence and everything else and gives the players a lift to go out and compete with top-class players.
"The bottom line is when it comes to Wednesday we are playing another team who have more experience than us in the Premier League and have had more years to bed down.
"We will be the underdogs again, we are the underdogs most weeks and we just have to accept that."
Pulis is expecting a tough test against the Canaries, and warned Palace fans to temper their expecatations despite the encouraging performances in the narrow away defeats to Chelsea and Manchester City.
"That (expectation) is something you have to deal with," he added.
"The players have to deal with that, there is no hiding the fact that we are playing at home and we need to win home games. We are hoping that we get some points.
"Norwich are one of the teams in the bottom half of the table who will be looking to get points as quickly as they can, much like us.
"I have a lot of respect for Chris and it is a smashing football club. I haven't seen them that much but I will watch a few games now until we play them on Wednesday."
Pulis has guided Palace out of the bottom three since taking the helm, and he has been impressed with how the squad have adapted to his methods.
"The players' attitude to what we are trying to do as a group has been wonderful," he added.
"If you look at the running stats for the wide players it is getting to a point where it should be, and I ask the full-backs to get up and support.
"The team move up and down the pitch collectively and to do that you need people who are prepared to work and, with the position we are in, everyone has to work and they have bought into it and I think they are enjoying it."


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Sony Ericsson CS8
Not official: This page is created based on leaked or rumored information. However, it seems it will never be officialy announced.
- Form factor:
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- Features:
- Numeric keypad, Soft keys (2)
- Keys:
- Right: Volume control, Camera shutter, Multimedia control
- Physical size:
- 2.4 inches
- Resolution:
- 240 x 320 pixels
- Pixel density:
Pixel density - The pixel density of a display represents the number of pixels over an area of one inch. It's measured in "pixels per inch", or ppi. The higher the number, the more detailed and good-looking the display is.
- 167 ppi
- Technology:
Technology - There are two main screen technologies currently used in phones and tablets: LCD and AMOLED. The former usually features a light source and liquid crystals, while the latter is based on organic light-emitting diodes. Newer LCD variations like IPS-LCD and Super-LCD allow for very accurate color reproduction and very wide viewing angles, where no significant image quality loss is observed. Current AMOLED screens differ in such a way that they can exhibit much more saturated colors (sometimes too much) and incredibly high contrast levels, which is due to black color being completely black in AMOLED displays.
- Colors:
- 262 144
- Camera:
- 8.1 megapixels
- Flash:
- Xenon
- Hardware Features:
- Autofocus
- Software Features:
- Digital image stabilization, Face detection, Smile detection, Digital zoom, Geo tagging
- Camcorder:
- Yes
- Features:
- Digital image stabilization
- Storage expansion:
- Memory Stick Micro (M2)
- Type:
- User replaceable, Li - Polymer
- Mirroring:
- DLNA, TV-out
- Music player:
- Supported formats:
- MP3, AAC, WMA, WAV, RA, M4A (Apple lossless), MP4, AMR
- Supported formats:
- Video playback:
- Supported formats:
- MPEG4, H.263, H.264, WMV, RealVideo
- Supported formats:
- Radio:
Internet browsing
- Browser:
- Access NetFront Browser, RSS Feeds
- supports:
- 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
- 1700/2100, 2100 MHz
- Data:
- HSDPA 3.6 Mbit/s, UMTS
- 2G Data:
- Global Roaming:
- Yes
Phone features
- Sensors:
- Accelerometer
- Notifications:
- Music ringtones (MP3, AAC), Polyphonic ringtones (72 voices), Vibration, Phone profiles, Speakerphone
- Phonebook:
- 1000 entries, Caller groups, Multiple numbers per contact, Picture ID, Ring ID
- Organizer:
- Calendar, Alarm, To-Do, Calculator, Timer, Stopwatch, Notes
- Messaging:
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- E-mail:
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- Games:
- Yes
- Other features:
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- Bluetooth:
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- Yes
- Charging connector:
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- Positioning:
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Regulatory Approval
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- 21 Apr 2009
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- Head:
- 0.34 W/kg
- Measured in:
- 1900 MHz
- Body:
- 0.54 W/kg
- Measured in:
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- Head:
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HT4100 4.1, 4.5, 4.9 Discussion, HT4100 v8 frd eldorado in Cadillac Engine Discussion; I would like to know what "TRANSVERSE" means. I see some engines say not TRANSVERSE. Don't have a clue. My ...
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I would like to know what "TRANSVERSE" means. I see some engines say not TRANSVERSE. Don't have a clue. My car needs a engine. Or maybe bottom half rebuilt. Shelled ot a rod bearing. Problem, I don't have any motor experience. Lots of computer experience, but no motor. Another question also. What they mean by radiator tablets. Thought olny thing goes in radiator is antifreeze.
I have a 1984 Eldoada 4.1 v8 FWD, car is in good shape.
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Transverse means mounted sideways, like 95% of car engines are these days. Cadillac was the only company in the world mounting V-8 engines transversely starting in the mid-80s.
However, your Eldo does not have a transverse engine. It's a traditional mounting, also called 'longitudinal.'
The radiator tablets are a sealer/supplement available at any GM dealer. They come in a blister pack of 4 or 6, depending on the application. Essentially it's Bars Leak Gold Seal Powder in a pill form, which you crush and put in the radiator each time you change the coolant. It's an essential maintenance item for all 4.x engines.
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noahsdad is right. If you have the big 79-85 Eldorado (you said an 84), you have a longitudinally mounted engine (i.e. the engine sits with its ends facing the firewall and the radiator; a transverse engine has its ends facing the fenders).
Those pellets are also a necessity on these engines.
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You may just want to go with a long block engine replacement depending on how much of an adventure you want to go on. A long block can be had for about $2000 and what you do is remove your engine, put the valve covers, oil pan, distributer, wires, plugs from your engine on it and put it in. I'm simplifying-some go on after the new engine is in but you get the idea. This has the advantage of being relatively simple compared with trying to swap another size engine. Another thing-they fixed a lot of little problems over the years so the new engines are more powerfull, smoother and longer lasting in the 4.1 size.(I sound like a commercial) Beware that the oil cooler lines are no longer made and have to be fabricated if yours are worn or damaged. Truck repair places or anybody that deals with hydraullic lines can handle fabrication of these. Take them your old ones. They go from the radiator to the oil filter bracket on the engine. Your radiator is an oil cooler, a trans cooler and a water cooler.(Seperate compartments) there is a separate condenser for the AC.


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Camp shows valley teachers how to get kids excited about math
PALM DESERT, Calif. - Teachers often find it a challenge showing kids that outside the classroom, math counts.
"The technology is so important but I don't think the kids really realize that's where it's all about," said 5th grade teacher Patricia Schoenfeld, who teaches at Hoover Elementary in Indio.
For the next four days, 70 teachers from around Riverside County will gather at U.C. Riverside in Palm Desert to take the students' places and learn how to make math exciting for young minds.
"The purpose of the academy is to inspire teachers so they can be the best catalyst for the next generation of doers and thinkers," said Pam Clute, Assistant Vice Chancellor for U.C. Riverside.
Clute began teaching math more than 40 years ago and still teaches it today. She shows her students how numbers affect their lives, and says analogies always help.
"When I talk about one billion kids drinking unhealthy water in the world that means nothing if they don't know what one billion is," Clute said. "If you made tally marks at the rate of one per second and you did that 24 hours per day it would take you 32 years to write a billion."
Teachers also get an interactive lesson in shapes and teaching kids the building blocks of science, engineering and technology.
"With five folds and a snip of paper, I can create something interesting and quite relevant because we want them to be stars of the future," Clute said as she created a star shape from the piece of folded paper.
"Working with my hands and building and knowing what I'm doing I'll be able to take back to the classroom and get kids excited about learning," Shoenfeld said.
Tools teachers hope students will use to stay competitive in our global economy.


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Lucas Debari: Dispatch 4
An Except from Lucas DeBari's Journal…
Despite our intentions of riding the captain today, we all take notice of an ever-encroaching cloud bank headed straight our way.
With no chance of riding or filming the line in anything less than perfect light, we end up going for plan B which is a 55 plus degree slope that continues right into the ocean. It has a very aesthetic AK style spine that splits the majority of the face. Having spent a good amount of time in AK this brings a bit of relativity to my mind and with this comes comfort. I'm sure that this is going to have good snow. It looks like pow and is a similar aspect to the epicness of the day sessions the day before.
A quick ride on the zodiac right up to the start of the linen and we are on slope. Its pretty crazy climbing right out of the water, ice axes in hand, and immediately right into the business. Another new element for me is that I'm wearing a life jacket as well as a Patrol 24 ABS Pack and a transceiver. Seems like overkill, but I'm not willing to lose any of my three potential life saving devices.
As we climb we notice that the snow is not quite the same as the day before, but as each footstep sinks in about a foot, I am sure it will still be quite ripable. As I'm slowly gaining confidence in these situations, I actually really enjoyed the exposed ascent of the face. With a quick little belay from our guide Tony, I am at the top of the face strapped in and ready to shred.
I ask Xavier if he prefers to ride with one or two axes in these sort of no fall situations and he says use two if it feels OK. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…dropping. I make a quick move onto the face on my toe side edge. Fuuuuuuck, its ice up here, and I quickly sink not one but two axes immediately into the face for security. Despite our feet and hands punching through the crust on the way up, our snowboards have too much surface area to do the same, and it feels like I'm dropping into the Breckenridge half pipe in mid December. Only this halfpipe wall is 60 degrees for 1000ft right into the damn ocean.
It takes me almost a full minute to traverse the face to the safety of the spine. After sinking an axe as an anchor and clipping in direct I say over the radio that first of all, this sucks, second, I think Xav should go first because if anyone can salvage a shot from this ice rink, its him. It might be extremely selfish and egotistical to say, but it was a bit of relief to see a very similar look of fear in his face as he dropped into the line a few minutes later. I've seen him ride some badass stuff in the past, and even he had quite a hell of a time making it down that 1000 ft to the "safety" of the oceanside. For me, all I could do was make a few nice turns above the steepness of the face before I diverted to the alternate route down to the ocean.
As much as I say I enjoy scaring the crap out of myself, there are some moments that might be a little too much for me. This was one of those situations where you question everything that you do in life. I know it seems dramatic, however at the time I was sure that if I didn't do everything exactly perfect with my topside edge and ice axes, I was going to be a goner.
As we made it back to the boat, the cloud bank that had persuaded us into plan B now receding back over the mountains across the bay. So with great light and no hesitation on Xavier's part, we were heading straight for the Captain. What the hell am I to do.
Earlier that morning I was so sure that I was ready to tackle this beast. Now, I was still recovering from the death ice of the first line. The captain was for sure steeper and more sustained. With only twenty minutes on the boat in between lines, I was just not ready to step back into what I knew was going to be an extremely heavy situation. So with regrets that are sure to follow me around for the rest of the season, I watch Xavier and Tony take off on the zodiac for the coast without me on board. The only thing I can do to feel useful at this point is grab an extra 5D with a 70-200mm lens, have Renan set up the correct F-stop, ISO, aperture, shutter speed or whatever, and sulk my way up to a good vantage point.
It's hard to explain how instantaneous the regret comes after backing off something like this. However as I watch Xavier climbing the last few hundred feet, I think about all of the gnarly shit he has done and how even though I'm not happy about my decision, deep down I know that it was the right call. Even though I've never filmed a line before, I figure I've seen enough shred flicks in my life to know how I want it to look. So with my ego stuffed into the snow I make sure that I film this line as best as it can be filmed.
It was pretty damn amazing to watch him descend the face. Even through the small screen on the back of the camera, it looked ridiculously steep. He absolutely nailed it. As he comes flying out of the bottom of the line, I can only imagine the excitement he must be experiencing at this moment. In the end, I really enjoyed the experience of watching someone who truly is pushing the limits of our sport, even if it was from the sidelines.
The next day was spent relaxing for the first time since we had arrived six days earlier. This was really cool, because it allowed us to be complete tourists for the first time of the trip. We were lucky enough on this day to spot some Minke whales, as well as one of the largest penguin colonies on the Antarctic Peninsula. This truly is a beautiful place, and despite my regrets from the previous day, I couldn't have been more stoked to be in this foreign land.
It was almost a full two days after The Captain before we were able to get back on slope. On the previous day we had seen a really cool spine face that got some epic evening light. The hardest part for me was having to wait around all day until it was finally ready to shred. I was a bit anxious to get back on some steep terrain and see if I could overcome the mental disaster of our last shred day. Despite my anxiety, before I knew it were skinning up to the base of the spine wall. I never can tell how my mental game is going to be until I'm fully immersed in the situation. On this occasion, I was feeling damn confident. Maybe it was due to my bailing out on The Captain, or maybe I was just more comfortable with the style of this line. Either way, I was fired up. I threw on my crampons, made a sketchy climbing move across the bergschrund, and fired the boot pack all the way to the top.
I had charged so hard up the face, that it wasn't until I though about getting my board on my feet that I realized how steep and exposed I really was. For some reason, which I will never understand, this was one of those scary situations that I completely had under control. The ten minutes that I spent on top of this line were quite enjoyable. It was 9 o'clock in the evening and the view was one for the record books. Not being scared shitless allowed me to really take it all in and appreciate how lucky I am to have these opportunities.
I had to use all of the techniques that Xav had taught me to switch out of climbing mode and get ready to drop in. I knew that the conditions would be less than perfect, but this time I was ready for it. After a deep breath and a final view of the beautiful Antarctic ocean environment, I dropped in. It wasn't quite the same style of riding I had enjoyed on our day of pow. Instead it was a very firm crust with only a few centimeters of soft snow that our edges were able to have purchase on. Either way I felt good about making a somewhat fluid descent of this steep spine wall. I had eyed up a nice schrund gap at the bottom, and nailed it perfectly as I exited the face onto the glacier.
As Xav dropped in I thought to myself how cool it was to be riding with one of the best in the game, and how much I personally had progressed even on this trip. He nailed his line, and once again we were sharing our stoke together as we rode down to the waters edge to await our zodiac ride back to the ship.
by Lucas Debari.
Above Video Leak from the trip


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The Greeks: Fotis Porfyros
Tantz_Aerine on June 15, 2010
Here's the cast entry for the first main character, Fotis.
Do you like me posting such stuff until we launch the actual comic, or shall I refrain and just keep these on hold for the cast area?
For now I only have the character profiles for the people on the cover, and I have made sure there are NO spoilers whatsoever for anyone. Nor for any situations, either.
Note: The cast list updates as the characters appear, for non-spoiler purposes, apart from these basic five. Stay tuned!


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SEOUL – North Korea has finally responded to persistent rumors that leader Kim Jong Un had plastic surgery to look like his revered grandfather, issuing an angry denial criticizing what it called "sordid" media reports.
Speculation that Kim's resemblance to the country's founder, Kim Il Sung, is not 100 percent natural has been around for some time, though with little or no supporting evidence. The rumors have been partly fed by the undeniable fact that Kim has sought to evoke memories of his grandfather in numerous ways, through his dress, haircut, gestures and public appearances.
Though there is a clear physical resemblance, Pyongyang's patience with reports of plastic surgery appears to have now run out.
"The false report . . . released by enemies is a hideous criminal act that the party, state, army and people can never tolerate," the official Korean Central News Agency said Wednesday. Insisting that the very idea of Kim, who is in his late 20s, undergoing plastic surgery is "unimaginable," KCNA flatly rejected what it described as the "sordid hackwork by rubbish media."
While the focus of the commentary's fury was the South Korean media, it seems Pyongyang's anger was triggered by a report by China's Shenzhen TV last week that cited a diplomatic source who had spoken to a North Korean official, who confirmed the plastic surgery rumors.