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News Clips - January 26, 2007
From January 19 to January 25, Carnegie Mellon Media Relations counted 316 references to the university in worldwide publications. Here is a sample.
Special Section: Traffic STATS
Carnegie Mellon website measures risks on the road
KDKA (CBS) | January 22, 2007
When you get in your car for a drive, the odds of an accident are very small; but it can happen. Now, a new website created by
Carnegie Mellon
University can measure the actual risk you face on the road. If you think your safety when traveling on America's roads is all just a matter of luck, think again. Your age, gender, even what part of the country you're driving in all play a part in how safely you'll arrive, according to a new study from Carnegie Mellon for the American Automobile Association." What we've really strived to do here is to make accessible to everybody -- the risks associated with travel," explains Carnegie Mellon Professor
Paul Fischbeck
. "They can, in fact, use that information to convince their teenage children to drive at different times, or maybe take the school bus.
Site calculates risk factors for travelers
The New York Times | January 21
A middle-aged male pedestrian is four times as likely, on any given trip, to be killed by a car as is an elementary school student, according to a new interactive Web site that lets people compare travel risks. ... The site was put together by researchers at
Carnegie Mellon
University, with support from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. It is being presented at the Transportation Research Board's annual meeting, which begins Sunday, and is going public then, at hope.hss.cmu.edu. ... "What surprised me most is that there were lots of surprises," said
Paul S. Fischbeck
, the director of the Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation at Carnegie Mellon and a professor of engineering and public policy.
Beware of sunny days: Study IDs traffic risks
ABC News | January 21
Forget icy roads and traffic jams: A new study says that sunny skies and open freeways are more common conditions for fatal traffic accidents. ... About 42,000 people die on America's roads and highways every year, but traffic experts say Americans know startlingly little about the risks. A joint project between the
Carnegie Mellon
University's Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation (CSIR) and the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety hopes to change that. ... There have been terrifying reports recently of school bus accidents. Dr.
David Gerard
, the executive director of CSIR who helped develop a database says many parents watched those reports and decided to keep their kids off the bus. But, he says, statistics show your child is safer on the bus than with you in the car. And, he adds, "it's probably 100 times riskier to have your child drive with their teenage brother.
Risk of death higher for male drivers
Fox News (AP) | January 18
That age-old stereotype about dangerous women drivers is shattered in a big new traffic analysis: Male drivers have a 77 percent higher risk of dying in a car accident than women, based on miles driven. And the author of the research says he takes it to heart when he travels--his wife takes the wheel. "I put a mitt in my mouth and ride shotgun," said
David Gerard
, a
Carnegie Mellon
University researcher who co-authored a major new U.S. road risk analysis. The study holds plenty of surprises. ... "We are finding comparisons that are surprising all the time," said study co-author
Paul Fischbeck
, a Carnegie Mellon professor of social and decision sciences. "What is necessary now is to go through and do that second level of analysis to figure out why some of these things are true.
Hold off on net neutrality
Washington Post | January 19
The Internet needs a makeover. Unfortunately, congressional initiatives aimed at preserving the best of the old Internet threaten to stifle the emergence of the new one. The current Internet supports many popular and valuable services. But experts agree that an updated Internet could offer a wide range of new and improved services, including better security against viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks and zombie computers; services that require high levels of reliability, such as medical monitoring; and those that cannot tolerate network delays, such as voice and streaming video. To provide these services, both the architecture of the Internet and the business models through which services are delivered will probably have to change. ***This article was written by
David Farber
and Michael Katz. David Farber is a professor of computer science and public policy at
Carnegie Mellon
Plextronics receives technology funding
Forbes | January 23
Nanotechnology startup Plextronics Inc. said it has received $750,000 from the Sustainable Energy Fund of Central Eastern Pennsylvania to further develop technology for organic solar cells. ... Plextronics was created by
Carnegie Mellon
University in 2002 to commercialize scientific breakthroughs from the university.
Education for Leadership
Student selling his skills on eBay
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 24
With a 3.88 grade point average at
Carnegie Mellon
University and a resume jammed with computer programming honors, 21-year-old Andrew Warshaver thinks he would be very valuable to a company looking for a summer intern.
Just how valuable? Mr. Warshaver has turned to eBay to find out. ...
Judi Mancuso
, associate director of Carnegie Mellon's career center, said students today are more open about letting employers know exactly what they want to get out of internships, rather than just serving at a company's beck and call.Still, a first glance at Mr. Warshaver's eBay posting left her nearly speechless."It's definitely not something that I think one of our career counselors would suggest," she said. "However, we do encourage students to look at all avenues to find employment."
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 23
Katie Guernsey. Age: 29. Residence: Squirrel Hill. Family: Single. Education: Pursuing master's degree in arts management,
Carnegie Mellon
University; bachelor's degree in computer science from University of California, Santa Barbara. Career aspiration: Technology consultant for arts organization. Background: With a talent for math but a love for art, Guernsey has been trying to combine the two. After getting a computer science degree, she took an internship with an Internet company in Ecuador, then volunteered at the city museum in Quito designing educational materials. She has managed databases for the Museum of Latin American Art in California and organized a Carnegie Mellon conference on technology in the arts.
Arts and Humanities
Understanding of autism grows as Pittsburgh researchers track brain action
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 24
People with autism have been described as being cut off from the world around them. But a series of studies done at
Carnegie Mellon
University and the University of Pittsburgh have now shown that in a very real way, autistic people are also cut off from themselves. Scans done by Carnegie Mellon's Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging show that various regions in the brains of high-functioning autistics don't communicate with each other as well as they do in typical people's brains. ... After examining how water flowed through the connective white matter that makes up about half the brain, researchers discovered that those brain cells were much more poorly organized in people with autism. The white matter sends electrical signals from one part of the brain to another, said
Marcel Just
, director of Carnegie Mellon's brain imaging center.
Artist satirizes how big business markets 'urban' without the culture
The Examiner | January 20
One artist pokes fun at how corporations hijack black culture, call it "urban" and sell it back to everyone. "I'm concerned with the way 'urban' is used to talk about cultural production," said
Ayanah Moor
, an artist and professor of print-making and painting at
Carnegie Mellon
University in Pittsburgh. "There isn't honesty in the definition." Her exhibit, "Our Radio is Bigger than Yours," opens Tuesday at McDaniel College in Westminster. "Urban" is code for blackness and "mainstream" means whiteness, she said, and her art, using exaggerated colors and hip trends, satirizes how retailers sell shirts for $40, even though it looks like it's from a thrift store. "So often [college students] have on brand-new clothes that look old," she said. While some have called her work "hip-hop art," Moor shuns labels. Her message speaks to everyone, she said, because everyone is a consumer. "Everyone wants to be 'ghetto,' but no one wants to be poor," according to an explanation of the exhibit.
Information Technology
Getting your geek on
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 25
Attention all hackers, podcasters, circuit tinkerers, backyard roboticists, contraption constructors and electrical conductors -- you're not alone. Maybe your friends and family don't understand why you think writing code is more relaxing than watching "Grey's Anatomy." Maybe your neighbors are suspicious of the strange lights flickering in your garage late at night. Maybe your significant other calls you "Dr. Frankenstein" under her-- or his -- breath.If this sounds like you, you might want to check out Dorkbot tonight at Brillobox, in Bloomfield. "The official tagline of Dorkbot is 'People doing strange things with electricity,'" says
Golan Levin
, a professor of electronic arts at
Carnegie Mellon
University and co-founder of the local chapter. "It's basically a community for people doing weird stuff with art, technology and electricity." ... It's a fun venue for giving a talk because everyone is happy to be there to be entertained and educated," says
Garth Zeglin
, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, who made a presentation in November.
Carnegie Mellon hopes 'Boss' gets the job done
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 24
Carnegie Mellon
University's latest entry in a $2 million robot race, drove more courteously in a demonstration Tuesday than many cars in a parkway traffic jam. The 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe named after Charles F. "Boss" Kettering, the late founder of Delco and vice president of GM Research Corp., ran a quarter-mile track at the former LTV site in Hazelwood at 20 mph. The robot properly stopped at intersections and allowed manned vehicles to cross ahead of it if they arrived first. ... "We're creating robots to develop the world, secure the world and feed the world," said team leader
William "Red" Whittaker
, Fredkin Research Professor of Robotics.
Regional Impact
Bush energy focus could juice up region
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 25
President Bush's focus on energy -- especially coal and nuclear power -- in his State of the Union address plays to the Pittsburgh region's strengths and could lead to new jobs here, some experts believe. "Any time you get a mention in the president's State of the Union speech, it's of great significance," said
Jay Apt
, a professor in
Carnegie Mellon
University's engineering and public policy department and executive director of the university's Electricity Industry Center. "It indicates the president has thought about it, and probably there is some money behind it.
Police chief claims cameras at red lights would help police
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 24
Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper endorsed the concept of putting enforcement cameras on traffic lights yesterday, saying automated ticketing could help the bureau "do more with the amount of officers we have." Chief Harper spoke at a public hearing on legislation proposed by Councilman William Peduto, which would have the city ask the state for permission to use the cameras, which are now allowed only in Philadelphia. ...
Carnegie Mellon
University History and Policy Professor
Joel Tarr
said data collected by his student researchers shows 79 deaths from car-on-pedestrian or car-on-bike accidents in the city from 1994 through 2005, or nearly seven per year. Another set of data shows 2,679 accidents involving pedestrians since 1997, including fatalities.
Carnegie Mellon may ban smoking indoors or outdoors
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 24
Smokers accustomed to lighting up on the
Carnegie Mellon
University campus may want to ingest this news slowly. A campus task force is recommending that smoking be banned indoors and out across the 10,000-student campus by 2010 and that sale of tobacco products and placement of tobacco-related ads in school publications be prohibited. The idea is in its early stages of discussion and already is sparking a range of reactions. If adopted, the new policy would go well beyond those of the city's other major universities and would put Carnegie Mellon among several dozen campuses nationwide that have enacted complete bans. A 25-member task force on campus health created by Carnegie Mellon President
Jared Cohon
last year looked at issues including a June finding by the U.S. surgeon general that secondhand smoke is a clear health risk. "Certainly, we want to protect nonsmokers from exposure. But there are other issues there," said
Anita Barkin
, director of Carnegie Mellon student health services, who chairs the task force.
Cadaver exhibit is 'Burgh bound
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | January 23
The Carnegie Science Center this fall will host a traveling exhibit featuring preserved cadavers that has caused worldwide controversy because the Chinese people in it did not consent to having their bodies put on display. Science Center officials on Monday declined to speak about "Bodies ... The Exhibition," saying they would release details and answer questions today. ... Bioethicist
Alex London
, who is on the faculties of
Carnegie Mellon
University and the University of Pittsburgh, said there is an ethical problem if those featured in the exhibit did not volunteer their bodies. "Medical schools have grappled for a long time with the use of cadavers," London said. "The challenge is to inculcate a deeper respect for actual cadavers as people recently deceased who have families. Citizens have to be convinced that it is worthwhile to donate their bodies to science, that they'll be treated with reverence.
Work zone: Workers admit to goofing off on the job
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | January 22
How much time do you spend goofing off on the job? Workers in one recent poll admitted to wasting an average of nearly two hours a day on company time. ... People who really like their jobs tend to do less loafing than people who aren't all that fond of their work and are "just putting in time," said
Robert Kelley
, adjunct professor of organizational behavior and theory at
Carnegie Mellon
University. "People who come to work with a purpose are less likely to be distracted," he said. The most time gets wasted in situations where "the job and the person are not a good match."
Street dogs: Brain study shows what drives buying decisions
allAfrica.com | January 19
Stanford neuroscientist Brian Knutson and economist colleagues at
Carnegie Mellon
George Loewenstein
) and MIT (Drazen Prelec) set out to discover the brain areas that drive purchases of consumer items. They recently published their findings in the neuroscience journal Neuron in an article titled, Neural predictors of purchases.


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The outspoken executive chairman of Aussie, which has since grown into a powerful mortgage broker and financial services group with annual profits of more than $50 million, has now joined forces with one of the banks he once fought against.
Symond's decision to let
He sold a 33 per cent stake in Commonwealth four years ago for a rumoured $30 million and there has been speculation for months the major bank would move to a controlling stake.
Symond, who turned 65 this year, recently hosted his annual soiree for corporate leaders and journalists at his four-storey mansion on Sydney Harbour. Despite reaching retirement age, the deal announced this morning does not mean he is about to sit back and enjoy the view from Point Piper.
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There is a new bit of legislation which will help you. Lots of other people are annoyed about it but it will help you. It is called the Protection of Freedoms Act which was enacted on 1 October last year.
This is the act that says that private land charges are now enforceable against the registered keeper of the vehicle. Basically if you over stay in the supermarket car park, they can charge you for parking and enforce it in the cart court.
I would write to the neighbour and tell him to remove the boat within the next 24 hours failing which you reserve the right to either take him to court for an injunction to compel him to remove the trespass and ask the court to award costs against him, or to pursue him for a charge for leaving anything there, in the Small Claims Court.
Put a big heading on the letter which says "Parking charge Agreement, Immediate Attention Required"
Tell him that if he leaves the boat there or parks any car there once 24 hours have elapsed from when he gets the letter, he is agreeing to pay you a parking charge of £100 per day, payable within seven days from the date of parking or leaving anything there.
Tell him that if he does not pay within seven days from the date of parking or leaving anything there, he agrees to pay a further charge of £40 per day in addition to the £100, and that by leaving whatever it is there, he has agreed to that.
Tell him that this is enforceable under the Protection from Freedoms Act and you will have no hesitation whatsoever in taking him to the Small Claims Court.
Tell him that notwithstanding that this will be a small claims matter, tell him that by continuing to park or leave anything there, he agrees to pay your costs of enforcing the terms of this notice.
The final paragraph means that even though it is small claims court, you can still claim legal costs!
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I am working on a widget which displays social connections(friends, followers, subscribers, etc..)
And i am having an incredibly hard time with different API's. In any case, for a user to show his Google+ friends, he has to create an API key and so on.. I mean, it's harder both for the user(novice users will have to create facebook/google/linkedin/etc applications and api keys) both for me..
So in this case, is scraping a good approach?
Yes thats very painful. For example, if you want to get any info from facebook graph (except very basic), your widget would require that the user creates the facebook app, and set some specific privacy settings so that you are able to get the required settings. Most of the users face a lot of difficulties in that and end up complaining that it doesn't work.
And no, scrapping is not good approach at all.
I think you need a service similar to http://singly.com (guess they handle only mobile apps).
twitter did the same thing, you can no longer fetch latest tweets without oauth/apikey and also required to store the content (because the per hour fetch limit restrictions) so a js only solution is out of question.
item support is already hard enough so we decided to just remove all social related custom widgets from our themes and buyers will have to rely on 3rd party plugins for this kind of features.
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item support is already hard enough so we decided to just remove all social related custom widgets from our themes and buyers will have to rely on 3rd party plugins for this kind of features.
I found a social widget which is scrapping(it only shows the number of friends/fans/etc..).. This is what i'm also looking for, but don't know if i should include it or not..
RubenBristian saidregexping the html is too prone to errors, any random markup change would break the plugin. I'd avoid it
I found a social widget which is scrapping
Imagine all the support requests coz html changed. And you have to debug it. Every time. The users would be angry if you disable the feature.
In addition, its simply against the terms of service of most of these sites.
Scraping is not a good idea and as crossroad said it's against their ToS for sure.


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- "Competition is of course a good thing. It keeps us all on our toes and ultimately makes the games better. It's healthy. But it's one thing to want your game to succeed and another thing to actively, publicly say you want other games to fail"
- — Eric Hirshberg at his keynote
Speaking at his GamesCom keynote address, Activision Publishing boss Eric Hirshberg has said that publishers should ultimately be supportive of one another's games and that general success grows the market for everyone.[1]
Activision's attitude can be seen in interviews with Robert Bowling, community manager of Infinity Ward, who has said many times that people should buy both Activision's Modern Warfare 3 and Electronic Art's Battlefield 3. Part of EA and DICE's marketing, however, includes slamming the Call of Duty series, going as far as having EA CEO John Riccitiello say he wants the Call of Duty series to 'rot from the core', and describing the series as a 'Disneyland abstraction of a war game.'[2]
- "This isn't politics. In order for one to win, the other doesn't have to lose. This is an entertainment industry, it's an innovation industry and, at best, it's an art form. But we're still a young art form. If we were the movie industry the movies wouldn't even be talking yet. We shouldn't be tearing each other apart fighting for a bigger piece of the pie – we should all be focused on trying to grow a bigger pie. If we as an industry act like there's a finite number of games in the world, then there will be."
- — Eric Hirshberg
Despite EA's marketing campaign, Modern Warfare 3 remains ahead of Battlefield 3 in the pre-order sales, with most people getting Battlefield 3 still getting Modern Warfare 3.
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I ordered my tickets thru the pre-sale and have not gotten my seat assignments or tickets in the mail yet. Does anyone have any news on this? Anyone else going to the show? Anyone receive their tickets/seat assignments?
Thanks for the help!
If you log into your Sandbag account under "Track Tickets" (or whatever they label it!) - you should be able to see your seating assignment. They added this information about a week and a half ago.
Thanks for the help everyone in figuring out the scoop with the tickets to the NYC Show in January! The tracking information is indeed listed under your sandbag account and tickets. Thanks again!
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Microsoft announced the Surface Pro 3 yesterday at a press event in New York. It's a 12" tablet with a resolution of 2160 x 1440. It's 9.1 mm thick and weighs 800 grams. It comes with an i3, i5 or i7 processor with 4 or 8 GB of RAM and storage from 64 GB up to 512 GB.
I wasn't at the event but I watched the livestream; a full hour devoted to this single product. Presenter (and Surface chief) Panos Panay is a real asset for Microsoft; he had me drinking the Kool-Aid, at least while the event was in progress. The angle this time was that the Surface Pro 3 (and the Surface Pro 3 Type Cover) could replace your Mac Book Air. It is (says Microsoft) a tablet that can also do the duties of a laptop.
Aside from being thin and light, the kickstand on the Surface Pro 3 acts like the hinge on a laptop in that it doesn't have one or two set positions; you can fold it back as far as you want until it's nearly laying flat. The included pen is supposed to feel very much like writing on paper; I will say that it was pretty impressive how quickly Panay could write on the thing. A neat trick is that you can click a button on the pen to wake up that tablet, and it'll wake up already running Microsoft's OneNote; the idea is to make the device a way to quickly jot down notes without any delay in the process.
It was a good presentation for sure. But something felt a little off about it, and I can't quite put my finger on it. Maybe it was a little too scripted. The way Panay held things was at times awkward (but showed off the product well) and some of the 'solutions' seemed quite specific. But what really shattered the dream came at the end. After Panay told the audience that everyone was going home with a Surface Pro 3, he concluded his presentation, thanked the audience and left the stage.
The stream probably should've ended then. But instead, someone came up on stage and started barking orders at the audience, telling them how the device hand-out was going to work. It sounded to me like a handful of specially invited guests would be given a Surface Pro 3 to own, but most of the audience were getting loaners. Now this didn't impact me at all but still I felt like a bubble had burst. This wasn't the Oprah show or even Google I/O. This was Microsoft implying one thing but then doing something else.
During the event Panay told us prices started at $799. That's for an i3 model with a 64 GB of storage, but the Tech Specs say that ">36 GB" of that is available. I'll take that to mean more than 36 GB but less than 37 GB; in other words this SKU is pretty anemic when it comes to storage space. So really, you probably want to bump up to the next tier, which is the $999 i5 with 128 GB of space (>96GB available). In all, there are 5 models available for pre-order with the top end i7 with 512 GB (>450GB available) going for $1,949.00.
The stylus does come with the Surface Pro 3 but the Type Cover does not. You'll probably want one, and it's another $129.99. And here's where the Surface Pro loses me. For the $1128.99 that it would cost me for the i5 Surface Pro 3 and the keyboard, I could buy a decent laptop and a nice tablet. Sure I'd have two devices and that's exactly Microsoft's point: why carry two things? And I'd agree with them if money was no object. I want one of these things; I have a serious case of geek lust for it. But I just can't justify the cost.
The good news, I thought, was that the introduction of the Surface Pro 3 would knock down the price of last year's model, the Surface Pro 2. But Microsoft has quietly pulled that from their online store. The Surface 2 is still for sale, and there are still comparison charts showing the differences between the Surface 2 and the Surface Pro 2, but the Pro 2 is nowhere to be found. Bummer.
If unlike me you can justify the cost of the Surface Pro 3, pre-orders are supposed to start tomorrow and ship dates are listed as 6/20/14 for the i5 models, and 8/31/14 for the i3 & i7 models.
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Always Act and Think Responsibly
Each member of this organization will:
- Be punctual, attend and participate fully in regularly scheduled rehearsals and performances;
- Learn all assigned repertoire as scheduled bi-weekly, through independent studio practice, group studio practice, sectional rehearsal and independent listening;
- Cooperate fully with the director and her designee(s) in both preparation and performance;
- Maintain and bring to all scheduled rehearsals a current repertoire folder (black), pencils and calendar;
Properly care for all music materials, attire and equipment;
- Please launder with care
- Smoking is prohibited while wearing uniform
- Maintain the highest degree of professional decorum as a choir member and emissary of the college, both on and off campus;
- Attend a minimum of one live or two recorded choral performances in which he/she is not a participant and present a written critique;
- Maintain at least a 2.0 GPA or better in order to travel with the ensemble;
- Leave food, gum and beverages (with the exception of bottled water) outside of all rehearsal areas;
- Perform wearing appropriate (properly laundered and presentable) attire, excluding earrings, necklaces, and bracelets for men and dangling earrings, necklaces, bracelets and headdress for women.
- Refrain from spraying cologne, perfume, air-freshener and hairspray into enclosed areas while rehearsing, traveling, or performing with the ensemble, as it may cause individual sinus problems or allergic reactions.
(See also BC Catalogue and BC Handbook)
Infractions upon these expectations will result in fines, performance probation or dismissal.
As Always, "No Excuses Given, No Excuses Accepted"
Rehearsal Time/Etiquette
- Rehearsal begins promptly at 2:00 p.m. and ends at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Please be Punctual.
- Please be mindful that concerts/tours are swiftly approaching and time set forth for rehearsal is very precious. Therefore, it is crucial that each member conducts him/herself in a manner conducive to rehearsal productivity. Members not meeting this expectation will not travel or perform with the choir.
- Please turn off cell phones, pagers, and other electronic devices during rehearsal.
- Three tardies are considered one absence.
- Two unexcused absences will result in performance probation. Three unexcused absences result in cancellation of scholarship or withdrawal from the course.
- Unattended performances/rehearsals will result in performance probation unless a written excuse is provided at least two weeks in advance.
The following actions may result in receiving a fine:
- Excessive talking during a performance/rehearsal
- Blatant disrespect towards the director, designated appointees, any choir officer or choir member
- Chewing gum or candy during a performance/rehearsal
- Bringing food or liquids (other than bottled water) into the choir room
- Late return of attire
- Officers not attending scheduled meetings without valid excuses
- Not turning in music within the specified time
Lost or damaged music = $15.00
Officer Fine = $5.00
Member Fine = $2.00
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The Chilean government has voted almost unanimously to scrap film censorship in the country, with 125 votes in favour and eight abstentions. However, the senate has asked to delay the vote's implementation until the approval of a bill presented by the newly appointed members of the ratings/censorship board, the Consejo de Calificacion Cinematografica (CCC).
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Looking forward to trying this out!
Could you use bread and cut them into smaller pieces?
I think using bread dough cut into smaller pieces would work just fine!
I have made these using the Rhodes bread loaves. Just cut off the rounded ends, then slice the loaf in 8 equal slices. Dip in butter, then sprinkle with the parmesan and let rise. I think they're just a bit bigger than using the roll dough.
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Many great minds of the world come up with their best ideas in a relaxed environment with friends and maybe a few glasses of their favorite tipple. This was certainly the case at Tropical Bert's over two years ago when Bert along with Gez Tracey thought about raising some money for charity by hosting a golf tournament on St Georges Day.
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text: Dear Jim, Francois, Hitoshi, Nobu Toge from CCB/ILC-GDE here. I am writing to ask your comments and remarks as leading members of WWS and/or MDI with regards to CCR#23 (one-IP, push+pull) that CCB received from A.Seryi today. Information is available at http://lcdev.kek.jp/ML/PubCCB/msg00130.html with links to related documents and reports. What CCB is particularly interested in is your assessment on the physics research potential from the luminosity availability stand-point. a. In case of two-IR, although an instantaneous switch-over is not a possibility, it is expected possible to switch delivery of colliding beams from one IR to the other within a time scale compatible to ~ one day. b. In case of single-IR, the detectors have to rolle-out and in, and all the associated re-plumbing and interlock rewiring etc are needed. So the time-scale of the switch-over could be substantially longer unless careful planning is made with well-prepared hardware designs. The report "Push-Pull Interaction Region Issues" by M.Breidenbach and B. Richter Sept. 29, 2006, as referenced by CCR#23 indicates that the switch-over and the beam recovery with case b could be done within 24hrs. CCB in particular would like to understand - if the report above (feasibility of 24hr turn-around) has a concurrence of relevant parties in HEP community around ILC then, - how your concurrence (or other) on CCR#24 is contingent on the statement given by this Breidenbach-Richter report CCR description document by BDS AG leaders refers to "the meaning of push-pull" by M.Breidenbach. CCB would like to access this document as soon as it becomes available, too. Also CCB would be interested to hear additional remarks or comments, if there are any, on this CCR from representatives of WWS, MDI as well as representatives of SiD, LDS and GLD. CCB would appreciate hearing your response (if possible) before the end of Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2006, PST. Thank you, in advance, for your attention and help on this matter. Sincerely, - Nobu Toge (KEK, Accelerator Lab) email: toge@xxxxxxxxxxxx voice: +81-29-864-5224 fax: +81-29-864-3182


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Late last year, a handful of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs were unveiled to the public in a new home just a mile upriver from where most of the works were originally created: Columbia Hills State Park (formerly Horsethief Lake State Park). Thousands of these treasures had been drowned by rising waters when The Dalles Dam was completed on the Columbia River in 1957; the ones now shown were pried from the rocks and tucked away at the dam for safekeeping.
Walk the park's Temani Pesh-wa Trail to see 41 rock-art images, arranged as closely as possible to their original orientation. The 0.5-mile She-Who-Watches Trail leads to more petroglyphs in their original setting, but access is by guided tour only (10 a.m. Fri-Sat; reserve well in advance by calling 509/767-1159).
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Columbia Hills State Park (open daily through Oct 31; $5 per vehicle; www.parks.wa.gov or 509/767-1159) is off State 14, 5 miles northeast of The Dalles, OR.


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More insight for this sstable: the ArrayList for IndexSummary has 644195 entries, so total number of entries for this sstable is: 644195*128=~82mil. The problem is that the total bits for its BloomFilter (long[19400551] inside BitSet) is 19400551*64=1241635264, which means each key is taking ~15bits. This seems to be inline with the number of buckets in sstable writer. I'm making changes to make this bucket number to be configurable so as to have more control about memory usage.
BloomFilter is not redundant, because it stores information about
_all_ keys while the index summary stores every 1/128 key.
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Weijun Li <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> We stored about 47mil keys in one Cassandra node and what a memory dump
> shows for one of the SStableReader:
> ĀĀĀ SSTableReader: 386MB. Among this 386MB, IndexSummary takes about 231MB
> but BloomFilter takes 155MB with an embedded huge array long[19.4mil].
> It seems that BloomFilter is taking too much memory. If this is the case
> BloomFilter seems to be redundant comparing to the size of index.
> So is this desired behavior? Is there a formula to estimate the size of
> needed memory for BloomFilter?
> Thanks,
> -Weijun
Jonathan Ellis
Project Chair, Apache Cassandra
co-founder of Riptano, the source for professional Cassandra support


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With new data for six Zeiss models we now list more than 100 lenses on DxOMark!Wednesday January 19 2011
Six month after we started image quality data for lenses, we now have 105 lenses being measured on DxOMark. Each lens being evaluated for many compatible cameras that is more than 1,000 camera/lens combinaisons available!
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Also found in: Dictionary, Thesaurus, Medical, Legal, Financial, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia.
wooden mare
An ancient torture device involving a wooden horse, typically used for military punishments. I was so terrified of what my parents would do when they found out I'd failed my exam that I had visions of them making me ride the wooden mare.
mare's nest
A difficult, complicated, or confusing situation. The tax laws in this country are a mare's nest that nobody fully understands.
See also: nest
ride shanks' mare
To walk. "Shanks" refers to one's legs. The store is close enough that we don't need to drive, we can just ride shanks' mare.
by shank's mare
Fig. by foot; by walking. (Shank refers to the shank of the leg.) My car isn't working, so I'll have to travel by shank's mare. I'm sore because I've been getting around by shank's mare.
shank's mare
Fig. travel on foot. You'll find that shank's mare is the quickest way to get across town. Is there a bus, or do I have to use shank's mare?
a mare's nest
a very confused situation The law on restrictive trade is a mare's nest that scarcely anyone can comprehend.
See also: nest
Shanks's pony(British, American & Australian old-fashioned) also Shank's mare (American old-fashioned)
walking as a method of travel I missed the last bus and had to get home on Shanks's pony.
See also: pony
shank's mare
n. foot travel. (Old. Lacking a horse, one uses the legs. This does not refer to a person named shank.) You'll find that shank's mare is the quickest way to get across town.
the old gray mare
The passage of time. A folk song attributed to Stephen Foster and supposedly referring to a 19th-century harness-racing horse named Lady Suffolk begins, "Oh, the old gray mare, she ain't what she used to be . . . Many long years ago." Unkind people used the image to refer women "of a certain age" (or older), although when used by themselves about themselves, it has an air of self-deprecating resignation. For example, a middle-aged woman who leaves the dance floor short of breath after a vigorous jitterbug may wipe her brow, reach for a cold drink, and exclaim, "The old gray mare ain't what she used to be."
shank's mare
Walking. "Shank" is another word for shinbone. By extension, its use in the phase refers to our legs. "Mare" here is equine transport, and when we walk, we "ride" on shank's mare.


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Celebrities Tweet about Prop 8! (PHOTOS)
As news broke this morning that Prop 8 was declared unconstitutional, celebs couldn't help but voice their opinion on Twitter!
It's been a hard battle in the same-sex marriage debate, and finally this morning word spread like wild fire about the uplifting news! Judge Stephen Reinhardt, one of the court's more liberal judges, stated: "Proposition 8 serves no purpose, and has no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California."
Former boy bander Lance Bass, Kelly Osbourne and Ellen Degeneres had nothing but positive things to say! Check out who else voiced their opinion about this controversial topic!
As many new marriage opportunities open up for same-sex couples, the controversial law could be well on its way to reaching the U.S. Supreme Court! He's what some of our fav celebs had to say:
Lance Bass couldn't help but state the obvious in his tweet this morning
Well duh!RT @HuffingtonPost: Prop 8, California's same-sex marriage ban, declared unconstitutional huff.to/yRhmYy
— Lance Bass (@LanceBass) February 7, 2012
Talk show host and ever lovable Ellen Degeneres couldn't be happier!
Today we took another step towards equality. #Prop8 was found unconstitutional again. I couldn't be happier. — Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) February 7, 2012
Kelly Osbourne cried tears of joy for this momentous day!
Are my ears hearing this corectly? If so my eyes are filling with tears of joy! thank you lord #Prop8IsUnconstitutional!
— Kelly Osbourne (@MissKellyO) February 7, 2012
Olivia Wilde seemed just as pumped about the news.
Woohoo!! Die Prop 8 Die!!!! 9th Circuit just ruled you unconstitutional. Next step Supreme Court! — olivia wilde (@oliviawilde) February 7, 2012
Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson declared he won't stop until everyone is free to marry!
Historic! #Prop8 is unconstitutional. @AFER & I won't stop until ALL Americans are #free2marry. Sign> bit.ly/pledge8 & RT
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson (@jessetyler) February 7, 2012
We're sure more celebs will have tons of things to say and will stay hopeful for more positive Prop 8 news! Let us know your thoughts and reactions and make sure to check out the NoH8 campaign gallery!


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There will be firefighter demos, a chili cook-off, a live auction, and a prize drawing at the event, intended to bring together fire district residents and staff, said foundation board member Lorrie Duval.
There will also be live music, children's fire muster activities, self-guided sculpture tours, and family-style barbecued fare courtesy of Bianchini's Market in Portola Valley.
Adolph Rosekrans, foundation board member and host at Runnymede Farm, says in a press release: "I am delighted to help spread the word about the foundation and look forward to seeing old friends and making new ones."
Event invitations were mailed to all Woodside Fire Protection District residents in mid-August, Ms. Duvall said. Tickets — at $35 for adults and $15 for children under 12 — cover food, drink and activities. The foundation's 1st Alarm Chili Cook-off and BBQ in 2011 sold out.
Sponsors, contributors, and supporters include Bianchini's Market (Portola Valley and San Carlos); Dr. Eric L. Weiss, M.D./The Village Doctor (Woodside); Joe and Ginny Kavanaugh of Coldwell Banker (Portola Valley); A-1 Party Rentals (Redwood City); The Signworks, (San Carlos); Adolph S. Rosekrans Inc. Architects (Woodside); Mike Putterman; Bill Butler; Michael Hedlund; Sarah and Doug Rivers; Margot Lockwood, Coldwell Banker; TJ and Valeta Rogers; and The Bicycle Outfitters (Los Altos).
Created in 2009, the Woodside-Portola Valley Fire Protection Foundation ([http://www.FireDistrictFoundation.org www.FireDistrictFoundation.org]) raises money for fire district equipment, facilities, fire prevention education, and training.
Visit FireDistrictFoundation.org for more information.
Peninsula Bridge breakfast in Menlo
"Sailing to Success" is the theme of the 10th annual benefit breakfast for the Peninsula Bridge program to be held from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 9, at the Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club, 2900 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park. Doors open at 8 a.m.
Peninsula Bridge has a summer program that brings motivated middle-school students from lower-income families onto such campuses as Menlo School, Sacred Heart Prep and Menlo-Atherton High School for academic courses and enrichment activities.
Since the program began in 1989, more than 5,000 students have been involved.
The breakfast is free. A donation may be made at the end of the event. Call 473-9461 to attend.
Arts & Crafts Fest
The Menlo Park Sidewalk Arts and Crafts Fall Fest will take place Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 27-29, on Santa Cruz Avenue in downtown Menlo Park.
The hours are from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (on Sunday, it closes at 5 p.m.).
The sale will feature original works by more than 90 artists and craftsmen, including paintings, jewelry, photography, wood items, clothing, toys and more. For more information, contact the Menlo Park Chamber of Commerce at 325-2818.
Project Read
Registration is now open for Project Read-Menlo Park's next tutor training program, which begins Wednesday, Oct. 9, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Menlo Park Library, 800 Alma St. in Menlo Park.
Training continues from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, with a final meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 20. Participants are expected to make a minimum commitment of six months. Most students need 90-minute sessions twice a week.
Online and DVD training is available for those unable to attend the training sessions.
For the past 27 years, Project Read-Menlo Park has been changing lives by helping adults improve their reading and writing. The program currently has many learners waiting for tutors.
For more information, email Roberta Roth at firstname.lastname@example.com or call Project Read at 330-2525.
Habitat for Humanity
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage Community Foundation has launched its 15th annual Habitat for Humanity fundraising campaign, a month-long raffle through Oct. 18 in all 57 of its Northern California offices.
All donations collected will be used by local Habitat for Humanity chapters to build homes in 2014. Operators have set a goal of raising $356,000. Raffle tickets are $2 and the public is invited to participate.
Habitat for Humanity says that since its founding in 1976, it has built some 600,000 houses worldwide, providing shelter for about 3 million people.
Skin screening
The Village Doctor will hold its 6th annual skin screening event from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 1, at its office next to the Village Pub at 2979 Woodside Road. People are invited to have a free skin screening examination by Stanford dermatologists, says Louise Marquino of the Village Doctor.
Email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 851-4747 for more information.


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Stephens Co. School System Still Working on Charter System Application
The Stephens County School System continues to work on its charter system application.
Stephens County School Superintendent Sherrie Whiten said that school system officials have held numerous meetings and met with individuals in the community.
Whiten said that the school system staff is now preparing the charter system application that will go to the state.
"We have a pretty clear picture of where we want to go with this charter application and it all revolves around some opportunities for kids in high school to work on dual enrollment and have certain types of certifications when they get out of high school," said Whiten.
Whiten went on to say that the goal is to have the draft application ready soon for the Board of Education to hopefully review and consider this Fall in order to have it to the state by November.
The Stephens County Board of Education voted to pursue charter system status with the state back in January.
According to Whiten, a charter system means that a local Board of Education reaches a contract with the state Board of Education about the operation of the school system.
She said that in that contract, a school system spells out what it wants to do differently for students in exchange for relaxation of state rules while in return, the state spells out the student achievement goals that the school system will be held accountable for.


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Travel Guide Asia Japan Honshu Kanto Nikko
© All Rights Reserved Peter
In the 8th century, the Buddhist priest Shōdō Shōnin founded the first temple at Nikko, the temple of Rinnō-ji, on his way to Mount Nantai. The village became a renowned Buddhist-Shinto religious centre, leading the renowned warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu to choose it as the site for his mausoleum. His grandson, Togugawa Iemitsu, had his shrine-mausoleum, Tosho-gu built in 1634, ensuring it would impress on any rivals the might of the Tokugawa clan. Iemitsu's own mausoleum, Taiyun-byo, is also located in Nikko, in a sublime setting of Japanese cedars. These shrines and temples make it a popular destination for travellers.
To get access to the main sights in Nikko's temple area, the most sensible option is to buy the combination ticket (¥1,000), which covers most of sights at the Tosho-gu and Taiyun-byo shrines and the Rinno-ji temple.
A guide can be hired for two hours for ¥5,500 for groups of up to 20 people.[1]
The Tosho-gu Shrine is the burial place of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the dynasty that ruled Japan for 250 years. The shrine is a dazzling display, created by his grandson Tokugawa Iemitsu. Some 15,000 artisans worked on the shrine for 2 years, decorating almost anything that could be decorated.
Open: 8am-4:30pm daily (3:30pm Nov-Mar). Ph: (0288) 54-0560
© All Rights Reserved Peter
The Taiyun-byo Shrine, completed in 1653, is Tokugawa Iemitsu's mausoleum. Several ornate gates ascend to the sanctuary (Haiden) and inner sanctuary (Honden). The shogun's ashes are beyond the final, sixth gate.
Open: 8am-4:30pm daily (3:30pm Nov-Mar). Ph: (0288) 53-1567.
Japan has countless traditional festivals and holidays. Then when you add the local festivals that number just grows and grows. Here is a list of the few major national traditional festivals.
The train is the most convenient way to access Nikko. The cheapest, most direct connection is on the Tōbu Nikkō Line (東武日光線) from Tokyo's Tobu-Asakusa station. The total journey should take about 1 hour and 50 minutes.
If you have a JR Rail pass, you can take the Tohoku Shinkansen from Ueno or Tokyo Station to Utsunomiya and then connect to the JR Nikko line. The total trip will can take from 1 hour and 40 minutes to over 2 hours, depending on the connection in Utsunomiya. Be sure to stop and admire the JR Nikko Station building itself, which was designed by renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
Check the Japan Railways website for more information about schedules and prices.
Several bus routes run through Nikko. Tobu Railway offers two passes covering rail transport from Asakusa to Nikko (see above) and unlimited hop-on-hop-off bus services around Nikko.
The All Nikko Pass is valid for four days and includes buses to Chuzenji-ko, Yumoto-Onsen and other regional destinations. The World Heritage Pass (Sekai-isan Meguri Pass, valid for two days) includes buses to the World Heritage sights, plus admission to Toshogu, Rinno-ji and Futarasan Jinja. Purchase these passes at the Tōbu Sightseeing Service Center in Tokyo-Asakusa station.
If you've already got your rail ticket (railway pass for example), two-day bus-only passes allow unlimited rides between Nikko and Yumoto Onsen or Nikko and Chuzenji Onsen, including the World Heritage sites. Alternatively, the Sekai-isan-meguri (World Heritage Bus Pass) covers the area between the stations and shrine precincts. Buy these at Tobu Nikko station.
Most of the main sites in Nikko can easily be reached on foot, although the landscape is hilly, so you can expect to get somewhat worn out.
|Hotel Asian Garden
|2478-25 Cyuguusi Nikko City Tochigi-Ken
|Hotel Lake Garden
|2484 Cyuguusi TOCHIGI-KEN
|410 Kinugawa onsen taki Nikko Tochigi
|Minshuku Narusawa Lodge
|1462-22 Tokorono
|Minsyuku Rindo-no-ie
|1462 Tokorono
|Nikko Cottage Inn FU-SHA
|8-22,Takumi-cho,Nikko City,Tochigi
|Nikko Inn
|333 Koshiro
|Nikko Park Lodge
|2828-5 Tokorono
|Nikko Suginamiki Youth Hostel
|2112- Kiwadashima Tochigi Prefecture sunlight city
|VIVA Nikko
|258 Matsubara-cho
|Annex Turtle Hotori-An
|8-28 Takumi-cho
|Turtle Inn Nikko
|2-16 Takumi-cho
|Nikko Daiyagawa Hostel
|1075 Nakahatsuishi-machi
|Nikko Shi Koryu Sokushin Center
|Hotel Kanaya
|1300 Kamihatsuishi-cho
|Nikko Condo
|2828-5 Tokorono Nikkou-city Tochigi
|Nikko Park Lodge(Tobu Nikko Station)
|11-6 Matsubara-cho
|Nikko Guesthouse Sumica
|5-12 Aioi-cho, Nikko-city, Tochigi, Japan
|Zen Hostel
|Minami Okorogawa 2254 Nikko
|1107 kamihatsuishimachi nikko city
Manga cafes are dotted along the streets of almost every city in Japan. For a very reasonable price (about ¥100 per 15 minutes), you receive a private cubicle with a PC with internet access at blistering Japanese internet speeds. The chairs are incredibly comfortable (making them an excellent place to sleep for the cash-deprived), and you can even order snacks and drinks from the staff.
A number of business hotels have Internet access available if you have your own device, sometimes for free. It is also possible to find Wi-Fi "hot spots" around many large cities in Japan, especially near tech-related businesses and large corporate buildings with unsecured wireless networks. 3G Wireless Data and Pocket Wifi are other options.
See also: International Telephone Calls
Payphones (公衆電話 kōshū denwa) are easily found, particularly near train stations, although with the popularity of mobile phones, public pay phones are not quite as numerous as they once were. Gray and green pay phones accept ¥10 and ¥100 coins and prepaid cards. Be aware that not all places with public telephones have phones that accept coins, so it may be worthwhile to buy a phone card for emergency use. Some of the gray phones, as indicated on the display, can make international calls. Pre-paid cards can be purchased at convenience stores, train station kiosk stores and sometimes in vending machines next to the phone.
Modern Japanese mobile phones (携帯電話 keitai denwa or just keitai) tend to operate on unique cellular standards not always compatible with the rest of the world. 3G phones using the UMTS/WCDMA2100 standard and equipped with a 3G SIM card will most likely work. If your phone is up to spec, double-check with your carrier if they have a roaming agreement with either SoftBank or NTT DoCoMo. Coverage is generally excellent, unless you are heading to some remote mountainous areas. If you have no 3G phone but still have a 3G-compatible SIM card, you can rent a 3G phone in Japan and slot in your card, allowing you to keep your home phone number in Japan. For a longer trip, you can also purchase a phone, but doing this legally requires an Alien Registration Card (or an obliging Japanese friend willing to front for you).
The easier way is to get a prepaid phone. Prepaid phones are sold in most SoftBank and AU stores. If you already have a 3G phone, go with Softbank as it can sell SIMs as opposed to au whose prepaid service is phone-based like most CDMA carriers. Prepaid phones use a "card" with a pass key to "charge" a phone with minutes. These prepaid calling cards, unlike the phone itself, can be found in most convenience stores. A prepaid cell phone is available for as little as ¥5000 plus ¥3000 for a 60-90 day call time package, which will get drained at a rate of ¥100 per minute (¥10 per 6 seconds for AU's prepaid service). Both SoftBank and AU offer prepaid phones.
The Japanese postal service is excellent! Domestic and international mail service is very quick and reliable. The prices for sending letters, postcards and parcels vary depending on where you send if from and to which country you send it too, and of course depends on weight as well, so check this calculation page of Japan Post for more details. Post offices generally are open from 9:00am to 5:00pm on weekdays, closing at weekends and also on national holidays, though a few open on Saturdays from 9:00am to 3:00pm. Central post offices are sometimes open until 7:00pm, open on Saturdays from 9:00am to 5:00pm and on Sundays and holidays from 9:00am to 12:30pm. There are post offices in every major city and minor town. Another thing to remember is that the post office is one of the few places in Japan that is guaranteed to have ATMs that take international cards.
We have a comprehensive list of accommodation in Nikko searchable right here on Travellerspoint. You can use our map to quickly compare budget, mid-range or top of the range accommodation in Nikko and areas nearby.
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It was three in the morning Saturday on the East Coast when Bob Arum delivered the bad news. The 78-year-old chairman of Top Rank, boxing's preeminent promotional company, called a news conference in the middle of the night to tell the world that there was no deal for Manny Pacquiao to fight Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Sadly, if there is going to be one, it almost certainly won't be until May 2011. A Top Rank-imposed deadline of 11:59 p.m. Pacific on Friday for Mayweather to accept an offer on the table for a Nov. 13 fight with Pacquiao passed with nary a peep from Mayweather or his representatives.
The deadline, Arum said, was simply the end of an exclusive negotiation period for a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight.
He'll begin to work later Saturday on reaching a deal for a Pacquiao fight with either Antonio Margarito, the former World Boxing Organization welterweight champion who in 2009 was suspended from boxing for a year by the California State Athletic Commission after getting caught with a plaster-like substance slipped into his hand wraps before a fight with Shane Mosley, or Miguel Cotto.
Neither fight will come anywhere close to creating the kind of sizzle and excitement that a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would have created. Mayweather and Pacquiao have lapped the field and are the two best fighters and the two biggest stars in the world by a wide margin.
A fight between them could have sold three million pay-per-view purchases and made each man upwards of $60 million.
Pacquiao is going to have to take a significant pay cut to fight either Margarito or Cotto, which he can't be pleased about. He likely wouldn't make any more than about a quarter of what he would have made if he were fighting Mayweather, though Arum said on the call that he wouldn't discuss that until after he speaks with Pacquiao.
The possibility of still doing a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight has to be one of the primary reasons that Arum struck an unusually conciliatory tone on Saturday. He urged the media not to lash out against Mayweather for failing to respond.
He speculated that the reason Mayweather may not want to make a decision yet is because his uncle, Roger Mayweather, goes on trial in a Las Vegas court room on Aug. 2 on charges that he assaulted a female boxer he once trained.
Roger Mayweather has been his nephew's primary trainer for the last 10 years, and Arum conjectured that Mayweather wouldn't want to fight without his uncle preparing him.
"Without knowing, I am sure that there is a very, very good reason that Floyd Mayweather has for not committing to a fight at this time," Arum said, softly. "I really and truly believe that. Now I'm speculating, but one of the reasons could be the uncertainties regarding Roger Mayweather.
"People may not know Roger Mayweather is scheduled to go to court in Nevada regarding criminal charges. I know Manny would not want to go into a fight without the services of Freddie Roach. Presumably, Floyd feels the same way about going into a big fight like this without the services of his Uncle Roger."
Nobody knows, though, because Mayweather has been silent. He hasn't spoken publicly about the potential of a Pacquiao fight in months. Nor has his advisor, Al Haymon, who engaged in a bizarre negotiation with Arum in an attempt to make the fight despite the fact that neither man spoke to the other.
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HBO Sports president Ross Greenburg was the middleman. Arum would speak to Greenburg, and Greenburg would carry Arum's message to Haymon. In turn, Greenburg then delivered Haymon's thoughts back to Arum.
Arum and Haymon ultimately came to a deal. Or at least Arum said they did on June 30, when he declared that there were no outstanding issues and that the only issue remaining was whether Mayweather would fight Pacquiao in November or in May 2011.
"I never talked to anybody from the Mayweather side and I never spoke to Floyd Mayweather," Arum said. "I only spoke to Ross Greenburg, who reported to me certain things he had gotten from talking to Al Haymon."
It didn't matter if Arum agreed, or if Greenburg agreed, or if Haymon agreed. It only mattered if Mayweather agreed and, alas, not even the countdown clock that Top Rank president Todd duBoef decided to splash across the top of the company's webpage on Thursday could force him to budge, or to even speak.
Arum said the deadline related to an exclusive negotiating period with Mayweather, so the essence of the 50-minute call was that a Mayweather fight could conceivably still happen this year. Don't bet on it, though.
The promoter will speak with Pacquiao within the next several days to see who Pacquiao would prefer to fight. He'll then begin to negotiate a contract with the opponent of Pacquiao's choice. He said he thought he could reach a deal with either Cotto or Margarito within 10 days of opening talks.
He said he'd be open to a Mayweather fight if Mayweather came to him and accepted a deal before he reached terms with either Cotto or Margarito, but said that once he has a commitment from either Cotto or Margarito to take the fight with Pacquiao, a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight for 2010 would officially die.
Arum left open the door for a fight between the two in May 2011, assuming Pacquiao wins his November fight.
The whole thing had a funeral feeling about it.
Instead of seeing the two biggest stars and best fighters in the sport compete for the largest pot of money in boxing history, we'll be left with either a rematch of a one-sided fight or with a bout against a guy who was caught trying to load his hand wraps.
Listening to Arum speak on the call knowing all this, it felt like boxing's version of the Colts' middle-of-the-night move in 1984 from Baltimore to Indianapolis.
The MGM Grand Garden Arena will almost certainly be the venue for bouts with either Margarito or Cotto. Arum said he has a venue in Monterrey, Mexico, lined up if Margarito can't manage to get a boxing license in Nevada because of the incident with the hand wraps.
If Pacquiao chooses to fight Cotto, it will either be in Las Vegas or Cowboys Stadium in suburban Dallas.
As Arum ran through Pacquiao's options without Mayweather, it occurred to me that, for fans, it would be like trying to buy tickets for a Yankees-Red Sox series with the division title on the line in September and winding up with seats to a Pirates-Astros game instead. It's not a fair trade.
In boxing, it's usually the fighters who take the punches, but not seeing a Mayweather-Pacquiao fight in November is going to feel like a punch in the gut for tens of millions of boxing fans who had hoped that maybe, just maybe, boxing would get it right for a change.


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Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Wordless Wednesday
Labels: charities, Christmas 2012, dancing, Festival of Trees
2 comments:
- Patty Woodland said...
That looks like one BIG tree!
- December 12, 2012 at 2:35 PM
- Cheryl said...
It is. That's the tree in the lobby of Tower Square in Spfld, MA. The girls dance for charity there each year.
- December 12, 2012 at 4:07 PM
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