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text: brian wrote: > Sorry Kris , still no sound for my Audigy 4 . I have a mixer and turned > the sliders all the way up - nothing . > _______________________________________________ > Testing mailing list > Testing at lists.pcbsd.org > http://lists.pcbsd.org/mailman/listinfo/testing > > !DSPAM:1,4887aee820033052217742! > > Interesting, did it work before? Can you try a few things for me? We'll need to figure out which driver it was using Try: # kldload snd_emu10kx Does that enable sound? If not, try this one: # kldload snd_emu10k1 If either of those work, I'll need to know which one it is, and I'll also need the *.diag sheet from you again, or the output of pciconf -lv. Thanks for helping out with this! -- Kris Moore PC-BSD Software http://www.pcbsd.com


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The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on last Friday to renew the mandate of its peacekeeping mission in the Sahara, the United Nations Mission for a Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), by six months. <i>Morocco Times</i> reports that the mission, which was deployed in 1991 to monitor the ceasefire between Morocco and the Algeria-backed Polisario, includes about 230 UN observers, troops and international police force.
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St. John's stuns North Carolina on walk-off home run
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) – Danny Bethea hit a walk-off three-run homer to help St. John's stun North Carolina 5-4 on Saturday night.
Bethea's shot sent Red Storm players spilling onto the field to celebrate at home plate. St. John's (39-21) can reach the NCAA tournament's super regionals with a win Sunday night.
North Carolina (45-15), the No. 6 national seed, appeared on its way to its 17th consecutive win as a regional host thanks to a two-run homer from Shell McCain and a strong performance from starter Kent Emanuel. But Jeremy Baltz had a leadoff double against reliever Michael Morin (6-4) in the ninth, and Sean O'Hare reached on an infield hit to set up Bethea's homer.
Emanuel allowed five hits and two runs in eight innings for the Tar Heels, the top seed in the Chapel Hill Regional. St. John's starter Sean Hagan allowed eight hits and four runs in 8 1/3 innings.
The third-seeded Red Storm led 2-1 until McCain followed a double from Tommy Coyle by knocking Hagan's first pitch over the left-field wall in the sixth. The Tar Heels increased the lead to 4-2 in the ninth when Parks Jordan sent an RBI double down the right-field line.
North Carolina opted to pull Emanuel after 102 pitches for Morin, who had tied a school single-season record with his 18th save Friday against Cornell.
The Tar Heels face second seed East Carolina in an elimination game Sunday.
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Carter: No! I wanna play with my airplane.
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Carter: Nooooooooooooooooooo, I don't wanna play school.
Kate: You have to play school and I AM THE TEACHER! (Yanks airplanes out of his hands.)
This is, of course, the point at which they would both come running to me with various shades of whining, complaining and tattletale-ing. But they didn't…
Carter: HEY! (starts to cry) GIVE ME MY AIRPLA–
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Wine Barrel Wine Stopper
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March 05, 2013 04:45:34 PM
We're big wine fans here at UncommonGoods, and we love products with unique reclaimed materials stories, so this beautiful bottle stopper by Erika Kendra stopped us in our tracks. Don't keep your feedback bottled up, tell us what you love about this design!
March 06, 2013 02:44:08 PM
Turning something into something else - beautiful.
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March 06, 2013 04:16:40 PM
what a great idea to stopper a wine bottle with a wine barrel!
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March 06, 2013 07:21:16 PM
not my style
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March 07, 2013 12:13:50 AM
Neat idea.
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March 07, 2013 03:28:20 PM
It's been done before.
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March 07, 2013 04:45:53 PM
Very cool! I'd buy it!
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March 08, 2013 09:33:32 AM
ALL bottle stoppers with this type stopper always pop off. Not impressed at all.
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March 08, 2013 09:51:30 AM
I love the idea of not only reclaimed materials,but of Erika Kendra's unique idea of re-purposing a wine barrel to a wine stopper! Such a unique and common thread. Good job Erica :)
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March 08, 2013 11:09:33 AM
Love that Erika found a uniquie use for old wine barrels rather than a planter!
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March 08, 2013 01:38:24 PM
fun. great craftsmanship. unique gift idea.
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March 09, 2013 01:40:18 PM
Beautiful craftsmanship. I love it.
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March 11, 2013 05:58:45 PM
We are always using wine stoppers and love the look of natural wood. I'll keep looking to for these when they go on sale. Good luck with your venture.
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March 11, 2013 11:46:16 PM
Who actually uses wine stoppers? There are but a few glasses of wine in a bottle, let alone if one is entertaining any number of guests. I have piles of wine stoppers I've never used even once. This is beautiful woodworking, just wish you would think to apply it in a different way.
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March 12, 2013 12:42:02 AM
Could you do other shapes?
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March 12, 2013 09:58:03 AM
I have seen this everywhere
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March 12, 2013 10:00:24 AM
Renee: Yep, I make lots of different shapes, out of lots of different woods.
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March 12, 2013 05:28:07 PM
Looks Great! Nice Job Well Done!
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March 12, 2013 07:55:19 PM
We would use the heck out of that in the Pack household! If you have anymore, send one to Houston! Cheers!
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March 13, 2013 10:06:59 PM
nothing new.
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The computer virus was set to bombard one of Microsoft's websites from infected machines around the world on Saturday, raising fears it would paralyse the network.
Microsoft implemented a series of countermeasures and reported "no problems" hours after the attack was due to have begun.
However, variants of the worm have already appeared and more dangerous versions are expected in the coming weeks and months, says the BBC's Kevin Anderson in Washington.
In the first phase of its attack, the worm infected an estimated 300,000 computers worldwide, causing them to reboot frequently.
Worm flawed
In the second phase, the computers were expected to fling data at the Microsoft website that helps Windows users patch their machines against viruses and other bugs.
The worm instructed computers to call up http://windowsupdate.com - which is an incorrect address for reaching the actual Microsoft website that houses the software patch that protects against the worm.
Although Microsoft has long redirected those who visited that incorrect address to the real site, the company disabled the automatic redirection Thursday in preparation for the onslaught of infected computers.
Microsoft said its countermeasures had proved effective.
"We have been through a number of time zones now with no problems and we do not expect any as the [midnight Friday] deadline passes in the UK or US", said a Microsoft spokesman.
Microsoft said customers who have not yet installed software to remove the worm were still being affected by phase one of the virus' attack.


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Birmingham-Southern College theatre to present student directed one acts
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern College Theatre will present two nights of student directed one acts May 6 and 7 in the BSC College Theatre One at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free, and limited seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Night one, titled "A Professor and Two Fast Girls Ringing a Bell in a Star-Spangled Morgue," will feature five one-act performances from plays including "Fast Girls" by Diana Amsterdam, directed by junior Liz Garrett from Trussville, "Drip Torch" by Trey Tatum, directed by senior Natalie Bonner from Cullman, "The Star-Spangled Girl" by Neil Simon, directed by senior Amanda Kramer from Alabaster, "Oleanna" by David Mamet, directed by junior Ginny Coats from Madison, and "Sure Thing" by David Ives, directed by junior Chris Hicks from Springville.
Night two, titled "A Photograph of a Long Day's Journey Wherein Two Sophisticated Barflies Discuss the Shape of Things," features four one-act performances from plays including "The Shape of Things" by Neil LaBute, directed by junior Anais Plasketes from Opelika, "Sophisticated Barflies" by Kristen Lazarian, directed by senior Anna Strandlund from Cullman, "A Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Eugene O'Neill, directed by senior Matt Adams from Hueytown, and "Fin & Euba" by Audrey Cefaly, directed by sophomore John McGinnis from Huffman.
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Come cheer on the women's volleyball team as they take on the Cowgirls from Wyoming.
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Victorians are mopping up after heavy rainfall caused flash flooding as a series of thunderstorms passed across the state over the weekend.
In one of the heaviest dumps, residents of Stawell in the state's west had be be evacuated from their homes after 74mm of rain fell late yesterday afternoon.
The State Emergency Service received about 70 calls for help from people in the area after 62mm of rain fell in two hours. Anecdotal reports included parked cars being lifted by flood waters.
Earlier, Mildura residents made about 90 calls to the SES after the north-western area received a dumping of about 60mm of rain as a thunderstorm passed through between 7am-8am.
Overall, Victorians made about 300 calls to the SES between 6am Sunday and 6am today. SES spokesman Lachlan Quick said most calls related to building damage and flash flooding as roof guttering systems and stormwater drains were unable to cope with the deluge.
''There was so much rain it was backing up into people's ceilings,'' Mr Quick said.
The main road between Stawell and Avoca was made impassable, and crews were still mopping up this morning.
Most areas of Victoria, excluding Gippsland, were affected. A moderate flood warning has been issued for the Wimmera River.
Storms reached Melbourne late last night but it was northern areas such as Macedon, Epping, Craigieburn, Whittlesea, and the Yarra Valley, which fared the worst.
While most inner-city areas received about 7mm of rain until 9am today, Epping received 30mm, Hurstbridge 28mm and Arthur's Creek 25mm. Maroondah Weir in the upper Yarra Valley region received 33mm of rainfall. Several houses in Craigieburn were damaged, according to Mr Quick.
The Macedon region north-west of Melbourne also copped a hiding. Mt Macedon received 42mm, including a 24mm dump in 30 minutes about 11pm last night.
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The issue of the Billups vs Iverson trade and how it impacted both teams will likely be a hot topic all season long. The Pistons are always at the forefront of NBA news, as any team that has made it to 6 recent conference championships should be, and Denver's high profile players tend to hover around the headlines as well.
While it's certainly too early to judge, the difference being made by Chauncey Billups on the Nuggets roster is already obvious. In spite of his poor shooting, he's gone 7-30 in his first two games with the Nuggets, the team is visibly better with Chauncey on the floor: the pace operates more appropriately to the situation, turnovers are down, assists are up, steals are up.
When Billups is removed from the game for a breather it's an immediate breakdown that takes place: shot selection degrades, ball movement degrades, focus even seems to degrade.
One of my major knocks on Coach Karl has been his lack of intensity on the floor and his inability to make in-game adjustments. The acquisition of Chauncey has already somewhat mitigated these drawbacks, and I believe his impact will only grow larger with as he has a chance to gel and grow on this team. Chauncey has embraced this role as a vocal team leader, and I have already witnessed him pulling aside junior members of the team for on-court quick conferences... even when Billups is sitting on the bench.
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Osborne House (1845-51). Listed Building. East Cowes, Isle of Wight, by Thomas Cubitt (1788-1855), with Prince Albert (1819-1861). Prince Albert "preferred Royal Engineers and builders to architects" (Turnor 86) for his building projects, most probably because he could have more control over the planning, and the two men got on well together. The original Georgian mansion on the site was demolished, and an entirely new and much bigger one built: "Albert provided the vision and exercised a strong influence on the house's design and construction in an Italian Renaissance palazzo style. The house was clad in the builder's Belgravia fashion, which conformed to the 'client's brief'" (Stewart 75). As well as the state rooms and royal apartments, the interior has a grand corridor, which functions as a sculpture gallery, providing display space for works by the Prince's favourite sculptors.
Prince Albert and Cubitt also designed the beautiful formal terraced gardens outside, which harmonise with the Italianate style of the house: "Cubitt advised on structural matters, while on style the prince had the guidance of Professor Ludwig Gruner, an artist and expert on Raphael from Dresden, who had accompanied him on his Italian journeys" (Mawrey and Groves 100).
After the Prince's death, the Queen wanted the house kept just as he left it, as a memorial to him (see York 167). But in 1891-92 a substantial addition was made — an exotic Durbar Room was added by the late-nineteenth-century architect J. R. Mann, working with Kipling's father John Lockwood Kipling, and the Sikh craftsman Bhai Ram Singh ("Osborne House, East Cowes"). Reflecting the Queen's position as Empress of India, and her keen interest in the subcontinent, it served as "an elaborate banqueting hall," with "every surface, from floor to ceiling, ... ornately embellished" ("History").
Commentary by Jacqueline Banerjee. Image Source: "[Osborne House, Isle of Wight, England]." Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsc-08987. Photomechanical print, photocrom colour, c. 1890-1900, from a series of "Views of England." [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the Library of Congress and (2) link your document to this URL.]
"The History of Osborne House: A Glimpse into the History of a Royal Palace." English Heritage. Web. 11 April 2012.
Mawrey, Gillian, and Linden Groves. The Gardens of English Heritage. London: Frances Lincoln, 2010. Print. See especially pp. 99-109.
"Osborne House, East Cowes." British Listed Buildings. Web. 11 April 2012.
"[Osborne House, Isle of Wight, England]." Library of Congress. Web. 11 April 2012.
Stewart, Jules. Albert: A Life. London & New York: I. B. Tauris, 2011. Print.
Turnor, Reginald. Nineteenth Century Architecture in Britain. London: Batsford, 1950. Print.
York, HRH The Duchess of, with Benita Stoney. Victoria and Albert: Life at Osborne House, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1991. Print.


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In May of 1985 Amaravati was officially opened by a Maha Sangha that included monks from
traditional Buddhist countries as well as from Britain. Almost the whole site had been
decorated with streamers, flags and bunting; combined with the power such a gathering
makes, the day produced an inspiring mix of auspicious devotion and festive delight.
Procession into Amaravati, May 1985.
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NYT Editor Keller Claims He Doesn't Take Stands on Wars, But Said Iraq 'Going Very Badly' in 2007
New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller's latest Sunday magazine column, "Team America," asks in the subhead: "Less than a decade after invading Iraq, the U.S. has rediscovered its missionary spirit. Should we be troubled by this?" Keller is not completely on board with Obama on what's shaping up as "regime change" in Libya. But he also claimed that as editor he doesn't take stands for or against wars, whether they are "old" wars in Iraq or "new ones in Libya." A 2007 speech suggests differently. Keller wrote on Sunday:
Eight years ago, when I was an Op-Ed columnist for this paper, I aligned myself with something I called the I-Can't-Believe-I'm-a-Hawk Club -- baby boomers whose distrust of foreign intervention, forged during the bloody mess of Vietnam, was tempered by the noble rescue of Bosnia and Kosovo, leading to a grudging sympathy for the invasion of Iraq. I'm sure the Bush administration did not need permission from the East Coast pundit chorus to go to war, but it was a high-water mark of the missionary impulse.
As editor of The Times, I don't take stands for or against wars, old ones in Iraq or new ones in Libya, lest my opinions be mistaken for the guiding doctrine of our news coverage. But it's fair to say the experience of Iraq and Afghanistan underscores the value of a certain humility about our ability to shape history.
In a November 2007 speech sponsored by the left-wing U.K. newspaper The Guardianm amidst his partisan attacks on fears stirred up by "the president's political wizard, Karl Rove," Keller opined on the war in Iraq.
And I would argue that in this clattering, interconnected, dangerous world, journalism that cuts through the noise has never been needed more. We have a war going very badly in Iraq, and another one in Afghanistan where our declaration of victory looks very premature.
Yet even as Keller was making his anti-war observation, Bush's "troop surge," announced in January 2007 and opposed by the Times' editorial page, was starting to turn things around for the better.
The paper's publisher, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., delivered an even more explicit opinion on the war in a left-wing commencement speech to graduates of New Paltz college in New Yorkin May 2006: "You weren't supposed to be graduating into an America fighting a misbegotten war in a foreign land."


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PALO ALTO ISSUESCourt bars 87 SEIU city workers from striking
If Palo Alto's largest labor union were to go on strike, 87 workers would be barred from participating, a Superior Court...Original post made on Oct. 15, 2009
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PALO ALTO ISSUESA new breed of volunteer
In the wake of an unemployment rate that has risen to 12 percent in Santa Clara County, volunteerism has also increased --...Original post made on Oct. 16, 2009
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PALO ALTO ISSUES'Hazardous' storm moving in on Midpeninsula
Midpeninsula officials and residents are bracing for the first big storm of the season tonight through Wednesday, deemed...Original post made on Oct. 12, 2009
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SPORTSRecreational Tennis?
I'm new in town and have been wanting to take some tennis lessons and perhaps join some group where I can play some recreational,...Original post made by Tennis? on Oct. 19, 2009
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PALO ALTO ISSUESRaising the blue flag
Palo Alto Mayor Peter Drekmeier (left), helps Debra Van Duynhoven, assistant to city manager for sustainability, and City...Original post made on Oct. 15, 2009
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOJoe the JOKE Smitian, Trees vs Solar Panels Joe. Is steering clear of the Cal Ave tree crime
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SPORTSStanford flying high after beating the Bruins
If there were any lingering doubts that the Stanford women's soccer team should be ranked first in the nation, they were...Original post made on Oct. 19, 2009
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SCHOOLS & KIDSElementary school students put Columbus on trial and sentence him to life in prison
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PALO ALTO ISSUESResidents fight to save sycamores at Paly
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ISSUES BEYOND PALO ALTOAtherton council members incensed at being denied report
Atherton City Council members and residents alike are agitating for the release of an investigator's report probing charges...Original post made on Oct. 18, 2009
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BOOKSKnow Knew Books could be in its final chapter
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CRIMES & INCIDENTSLocal Executives Arrested for Insider Trading
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AROUND TOWNReminder: Join the Fight to Save the Palo Alto Bowl From Demolition!
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Unbeaten Port Adelaide will lose defender Jackson Trengove for an extended stretch of the AFL season because of a broken foot.
Trengove will have surgery on Monday on a broken metatarsal bone in his right foot.
Port haven't estimated how long the key backman will miss other than "an extended period of time".
"He is having surgery today and we'll have more clarity on the length of time he'll be out after that," Port's high performance manager Darren Burgess said in a statement.
Trengove was hurt during Saturday night's comeback win against West Coast with medicos initially suspecting a minor injury.
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Spend too much time in your head and you get self-critical but you gain understanding as well.
Note about location: I'm currently in transition between the Northampton, Ma and New York areas.
I'm also a pretty fair shot where the technological arts are concerned as well..
A mix mostly trending towards fantasy and sci Fi. With a love of history and the works of Gregory David Roberts mixed in.
Star Wars Episodes IV-VI, Star Trek I-IV and IV, Serenity, Casablanca, Fifth Element, Run Lulu Run, Labyrinth, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Muppet Treasure Island
Mostly Metal with preferences trending towards power Metal and harsher stuff with clean vocals (Rhapsody of Fire, Turisas, Keldian) I do additionally have a dire fondness for odd European folk music done with a modern bent (Schelmish, Faun, Wolgemut)
Honestly? Some dorky but interesting thing I'm going over in too much detail (ask me about asexual vulcans, its fascinating)
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Yes it is true, our save the dates are complete. They are stamped, addressed and ready to be sent out. In fact, they are in the mail! I am still in the process of looking for a good photographer. We have met with a few photographers but I don't want to commit to one just yet. I am giving myself until the end of the month to make a decision. It should give me plenty of time to look at a bunch of photographers.
Also I am going to start looking into hotels around the area to book a block of rooms, so look for more information and the link to the hotels around January; I think most of you should know by then if you will be able to attend. I really hope everyone can come!
The girls and I should be going to look for dresses after Christmas when Diana and Lauren are back home. I cannot wait! oh and we will go shopping for stuff for the house!
Oh yes and our seven year anniversary is this coming Wednesday, December 10!


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Industry experts pair up to give Milwaukee a taste of perfection
Chocolate and beer?
We all love them. But, together?
"They're a natural match, since chocolate and beer are both fermented foods," says Julie Waterman, owner of Indulgence Chocolatiers. "Both are about the balance between bitter and sweet. And both are founded on similar flavors, whether they be fruity notes or deeper caramel and coffee flavors."
And Waterman believes in what she says. She has partnered with the experts from Leinenkugel's Tenth and Blake Beer Company to show how high-quality chocolate (including Indulgence's newest blackberry espresso truffle) pairs perfectly with Leinie's newest line of Big Eddy small batch brews.
"This series is a tribute to Chippewa Falls and the Big Eddy Spring, the water source for our brewery," says Dick Leinenkugel, fifth generation brewer and business development manager at the Tenth and Blake Beer Company. "It also connotes big beers ... experimental brews. The Big Eddy series is just that. They're beers with more hops, more malt, more alcohol, more character."
The first release in the series, which will also include a double IPA, a Baltic porter and a Scotch ale, is a Russian imperial stout, which will be available November through January. This dark brew is a genuinely big, full-bodied, beer-geek beer with a complex flavor profile that includes rich caramel, coffee and toffee, along with notes of dark, voluptuous fruit. So, it's really no surprise that it pairs deliciously with chocolate.
"From a flavor perspective, chocolate and beer resonate with one another," says Leinenkugel's trade brewer and flavor expert, Grant Holtackers. "They're not exactly the same, but they sort of echo in your mouth. The beer can really help the chocolate out, and the chocolate also helps the beer. Pairing them together develops a richer, more full experience."
Some of beer's more unique characteristics, including its low alcohol content and carbonation, contribute to its extreme versatility. Holtackers points to the palate-cleansing properties of beer, which mean that beer can be paired with foods like chile peppers, artichokes and asparagus, which are often challenging to pair with wine. Waterman agrees.
"Beer is one of the more natural things to pair with chocolate," Waterman explains. "It's even easier than pairing with wine. Since you're not dealing with the complication of balancing tannins and sugar, you can be a bit more loose with your combinations."
The fact is, beer and chocolate aren't so different. Malt beer is naturally very sweet and would be far less palatable without the bitterness of hops. In much the same way, the bitter cocoa flavor of chocolate is paired with the pleasant sweetness of sugar. In both cases, perfection lies at a point of balance between bitter and sweet where each reach its decadent best. The popularity of both high end chocolate and the resurgence of craft beers has also created the optimal environment for adventurous pairings.
"We're in the midst of an awesome renaissance in brewing in the U.S.," says Holtackers. "With over 2,300 breweries and some of the best right here in Wisconsin, brewing different varieties of beer, there's a very strong beer culture developing. In turn, beer lovers are really interested in looking at what's new, educating themselves, making themselves better, wiser beer drinkers."
Waterman and Holtackers offer the following tips for anyone looking to experiment with pairing beer and chocolate:
1. Taste both your chocolate and your beer at room temperature – more flavors present themselves as beer warms, so you'll get the most out of your tasting experience.
2. "Match the browns" – try matching the intensity of the chocolate and the beer. As the chocolate gets richer, match it with higher alcohol content and more intense hoppiness or deeper flavors.
3. Try contrasting flavors – match lighter fruity beers with intense, darker chocolate.
4. Gases from carbonation play off of salt – experiment with pairing chocolates that contain sea salt with your favorite beers.
5. Have fun and experiment – there are no hard and fast rules, only guidelines.
The fact is, the more you know about beer, the more flavors you'll be able to discern. And the more flavors you can discern, the more astute you'll become at the pairing process. Good chocolate, like good beer, is multi-dimensional. So, the more you taste and experience, the more qualities you'll be able to recognize.
So, the next time you sit down to enjoy a bit of delicious chocolate, consider pouring yourself a glass of a fruity Belgian sour, a malty doppelbock or a potent barrel-aged imperial stout. You might just surprise yourself.
If you'd prefer, you can also get advice directly from the experts. Look for Indulgence and Leinenkugel's Brewing Company together at a variety of upcoming local tasting events, including Wine & Dine Wisconsin on Nov. 12 and 13 at the Frontier Airlines Center.
Aardvark | Nov. 3, 2011 at 10:52 a.m. (report)
Chocolate and beer? Does this lady live under a rock? This is nothing new or strange...go try a chocolate stout like Young's Double Chocolate Stout or Southern Tier's Choklat. Groundbreaking journalism from your friendly neighborhood Aardvark.
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Reader: Without you ignorant peons it wouldn't be cool to be hip
Inside Green Russell, one of our top ten hipsters bars.
Last week we poured out our list of the ten best hipster bars in Denver. If you're a cultural anthropologist looking to observe hipsters in their element or maybe you're just new to town and looking for a hand-built bar within fixie-riding distance where you'll feel at home, these are all great hipster hives for a drink, maybe some banjo music...and composing responses to all the comments that have been posted about that list.
See also: The Ten Best Hipster Bars in Denver -- Summer 2014 Edition
Says Dave:
Absolutely embarrassed to say I've been to 9 of 10 of these.
Says Tom:
Thanks, now I know which bars to avoid when I'm in Denver next month !!
And finally, there's this from Mike:
I'm actually glad that people hate on this scene. The same kind of people that have always hated on anything that isn't tame and packaged and easy to listen to while being endorsed by the radio and your friends on the football team.. and without you ignorant peons it wouldn't be cool to be hip. So keep listening to boring music, meeting all your fancy friends for "cocks and apps" at Linger and Lola, hanging out in Wash Park on the weekends with all your frat buddies. We will continue not giving a fuck.
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NSW government agency RailCorp has awarded a $1.4 billion train maintenance and logistics contract to UniRail, with the door left open to another $900 million contract.
RailCorp chief executive Rob Mason announced on Friday that the private sector consortium comprising Australian Securities Exchange-listed engineering company UGL Limited and Unipart Rail had won the seven-year contract, which can be extended for up to five years.
Mr Mason said the consortium presented a "compelling option" and met the objectives of "value for money, the ability to support existing reform projects and improvements in fleet safety, availability, reliability and customer satisfaction".
The contract covers 1,050 passenger cars in RailCorp's fleet, but excludes the newer Millennium and Waratah fleets.
UGL Managing Director and chief executive Richard Leupen said in a statement to the ASX that the initial contract was expected to generate $1.4 billion in revenue and the extended contract up to $900 million.
The company holds the existing "MainTrain" maintenance and logistics contract, which started in 1993, and was selected with its joint venture partner from a field of three companies for the new contract.
The provision and maintenance of commuter trains are among the state government's most costly commitments.
The O'Farrell government is committed to building the 23-kilometre North West Rail Link from Epping to Rouse Hill over the next decade, which is estimated to cost at least $8.5 billion excluding rolling stock.
The maintenance contract is scheduled to run from July 2012.
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What are the top ten Reconciliation moments in the movies? I'll start with: For Greater Glory has the most recent example. Sandra Bullock's character had a great examination of conscience moment in The Blind Side. This Hoopes list on Eucharistic movie moments is my inspiration. [Read more…]
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The CFO's Guide to Navigating the Cloud
with guest speaker Paul Hamerman from Forrester Research, Inc.
Date: Thu, Apr 17, 2014
Time: 11:00 A.M. ET
Duration: 1 hour
Cost: FREE
As cloud applications mature, CFOs and their teams are considering cloud-based tools for financial performance management (FPM). The benefits of the cloud -- lower costs, more rapid deployment, greater accessibility, and improved user convenience -- provide a strong allure.
Despite the cloud's benefits and the greater availability of these financial applications, an overwhelming majority of finance departments -- more than 80 percent, according to some studies -- have not yet made the move. Why not?
During this Webcast, Paul Hamerman, Vice President and Principal Analyst with Forrester Research, Inc., will explore this question from the finance perspective. Mr. Hamerman will discuss factors that have motivated some finance organizations to move to the cloud, along with the reasons why some finance executives remain satisfied with on-premise systems. Attendees will learn:
- Pros and cons of moving financial performance management applications to the cloud;
- How to determine if this solution is right for their companies; and
- Steps to consider when making the move.
About the Speaker
Paul D. Hamerman, Vice President, Principal Analyst Serving Application Development & Delivery Professionals, Forrester Research, Inc.
As an analyst on the Applications Development & Delivery team with Forrester Research, Inc., Paul focuses on human resources management and financial applications, as well as trends and directions in the overall market for enterprise applications. His work includes analyzing market trends in technology adoption, business process best-practices, software market sizing and segmentation, competitive analysis, application deployment models (e.g., SaaS), and next-generation technologies.
Paul works extensively with both applications user clients (technology buyers) and vendor clients, internationally and across a wide variety of industries. He assists corporate and governmental user organizations with vendor selection, upgrade decisions, and business process optimization strategies. Paul advises software vendors and services providers on product strategies, competitive dynamics, product capabilities, partnering strategies, and M&A opportunities.
Paul came to Forrester through its 2003 acquisition of Giga Information Group. He has been an industry analyst for 12 years and has 30 years of overall experience in research and advisory services, management consulting, and systems integration. Prior to joining Forrester, Paul was a management consulting practice director with The Hunter Group, specializing in financial and human resources systems. He also held consulting management positions with Coopers & Lybrand and Ernst & Young, and he has served as a guest lecturer at Virginia Commonwealth University in its Executive Masters in Information Systems program for the past five years. Paul is frequently quoted in major media publications on industry trends in applications software, and is a frequent speaker on Webcasts and industry events.
Paul earned a B.A. in economics from Connecticut College and an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He is a certified public accountant (CPA) and a certified management accountant.
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Jotting Judi - He was there, All the Time
Its early morning in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and as the beautiful sunrise peaks through the trees, my mama deer arrives in the yard with her two young fawns. She gets almost up to the ceiling to floor window in order to alert me to come out and put corn in the trough because she is ready for her breakfast! She watches as I slip into my yard shoes, descend the deck stairs and head toward the shed. Each day she follows closer and closer; almost like "Mary had a little lamb." Each day I wonder if I will soon be able to touch her nose. She drops her head to eat before I have the second section filled. Back on the deck, I pause to watch her as she eats, keeps a watchful eye on those two playful fawns grazing nearby and then gracefully moves to the next yard to enjoy another course in her morning smorgasbord. The only sound I hear is a gentle rustling in the huge maple tree. As I glance toward the tree I see Mr. and Mrs. Cardinal as they swoop down from their nest to partake of their morning meal at the gazebo feeder Chalmer built for me to enjoy. Oh, what a beautiful morning!
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Vital Signs Chart: Slowing Expansion
The economy slowed its pace of expansion from the start of 2012 toward the end of the year. Gross domestic product, which measures goods and services produced in the U.S., expanded at an annual rate of 0.4% during the fourth quarter. Stronger business spending on equipment and software helped raise the pace from the government's earlier estimate for the period.


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WBUR CommonHealth, January 22, 2014
There's a grand experiment underway in Massachusetts and we are all, in theory, part of it. Here's the question: Can we actually list prices for childbirth, MRIs, stress tests and other medical procedures, and will patients, armed with health care prices, begin to shop around for where (and when) they "buy" care? One of the first steps in this experiment is a new requirement that hospitals and doctors tell patients who ask how much things cost. It took effect Jan. 1 as part of the state's health care cost control law and we set out to run a test.


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Designing for a Purpose ▪
Sasha Dzeletovic:
In the future of interaction design, I see devices created with their purpose hard coded into them. I see software that doesn't have configuration options. I see people having the balls to stand behind their design. And if it fails, throw it in the garbage, note lessons learned and make a new one.
This flies in the face of the direction most companies are going. Given all the hoopla around Twitter for iPhone 4.0, and even the recently redesigned Facebook iPhone app, you have companies attempting to converge platforms and sterilize their designs. Even Apple absolutely demolished iCal and Address book in Lion. "Normal people" (non-geeks) like my wife even complain about how bad it is. Skeumorphic design, really?
I hope the trend of bigger companies snatching up smaller companies that really focused on crafting delightful experiences, and then killing that delight will end.
There are smart designers at all these companies. Stand behind your great design.


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I just found this and the level of detail is amazing. Its basically a training map for all classes and you can customize everything in game. Really neat
Go to the website I put up to check out more!
The map features:
•An endless flow of bots, with the possibility to customize their speed, deploy time and class
•Easy to use button interface, with in-game explanation of every function
•Action for the bots. You can order them to attack, jump, dodge or strafe. Manipulate how much hit points do they have before they enter the walkway, choose when to kick or kill them or make them spam silly voice commands
•Flexible launch-pad, capable of giving random trajectories or adjustable power
•Custom console commands to control the map without the need to press a button. Useful for creating, loading and sharing game-mods
•Coding system, including variables, timers, random cases and customizable text. Create minigames, training sessions or testing areas without the need to install a mod
•Constant regeneration. The whole map is a giant resupply cabinet, players inside it don't need to heal or reload their weapons. But in walkway, the resupply is completly silent and can be turned off if needed
•Training map designed with a TF2 look in mind, with custom textures, posters, goodies and a secret easter egg
•sv_cheats is turned on, so your stats won't be saved
Attention: the .rar includes a readme with very important information about the map. It's recommended to read it.
The map is almost finished, but suggestions and opinions are still welcome
Installation instructions: Copy the tf folder from inside the rar into your C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamApps\\<YOURSTEAMID>\eam fortress 2 folder.
Instructions also in the rar.
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AMD Announces More K8L Details
Kristopher Kubicki
June 1, 2006 2:02 PM
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AMD's K8L diagram
AMD's K8L cache design
Four 16-bit or Eight 8-bit HyperTransport Links
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K8L details continue to pour in at AMD's Technology Analyst Day
During the AMD Technology Analyst Day, AMD's CTO Phil Hester rehashed the majority of the
K8L information we discussed on
several days ago
, but disclosed further details on specifics. Hester was very specific to refer to these new technologies as simply "new architecture," and never using the K8L core name.
Internally, AMD engineers use the codename
to describe the "new architecture."
A major push for AMD's K8L design is in "modular" component design – meaning everything from L3 cache to memory controllers are developed as individual components and linked together with reusable, robust designs. To some extent, processor design is already modular with libraries and designs that are developed individually. However, Hester insists this new modular approach takes this modular approach even further, claiming that the company is developing "better define the interfaces for each of these building blocks."
Additionally, Hester revealed some more information about the cache specifics on K8L. Each K8L core will have 64KB of dedicated L1 cache, followed by 512KB of dedicated L2 cache. The base models of K8L will have 2MB of shared L3 cache, but Hester also went on to claim that adding more L3 cache was in the company's roadmap. One thing AMD representatives have not particularly touched on is the cache reduction from 64+64KB (data+instruction) to 32+32KB. AMD employees have assured us this move is logical with the addition of L3 cache.
A major feature of K8L is DICE, or Dynamic Independent Core Engagement. Essentially, the ACPI layer will have the ability to dynamically adjust individual cores and crossbars on the processor. Each processor core will have the ability to enter its own power-state, or p-state, allowing a K8L processor the ability to conserve power when the system does not have enough threads to utilize the other processor cores. Intel's Core processors have the ability to enter c-states on a per-core basis, but the AMD demonstration showed a quad-core K8L processor dip individual cores into full halt.
Opteron servers right now are, for the most part, limited to PCs with eight sockets or less. Part of this is due to the fact that each processor has only three HyperTransport links. Hester announced that the next generation Opteron core will have four 16-bit HyperTransport-3 links running at 2.6GHz each. These four links can reconfigure into eight 8-bit HyperTransport links in a process called "un-ganging," which is
a fundamental feature of HyperTransport-3
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K8L is designed as a native quad-core design, although slides from the Technology Analyst Day also revealed that a dual-core desktop SKU will appear in mid-2007. So far,
has touched a little bit on the
65nm quad-core code names
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Please read the
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[This essay appears in the Spring issue of Nikkei Heritage.]
"…all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home."
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"Insecurity by Design" from After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City
Since their completion in 1976, the World Trade Center Towers were iconic, permanent fixtures of the Manhattan skyline, two giants sprung fully formed out of the ground. Once the tallest buildings in the world, the Twin Towers were symbols of U.S. dominance and the reign of global capitalism. Their demise was unthinkable.
It's ironic, if not entirely surprising, that such an enduring emblem of American economic might was designed by a Nisei, Minoru Yamasaki, who, although he was not interned, survived two of America's darkest eras: the Depression and World War II. Yamasaki's architectural vision for the Towers was an act of hyperbolic faith in the potential of American society. It also expressed a profound conviction that buildings provide more than physical shelter: they are the symbolic homes of our beliefs, values and aspirations. Oddly enough, this conviction follows the very same logic that motivated the terrorists who targeted and destroyed the Towers on September 11th, 2001.
Buildings are designed to shelter us, to protect our relatively fragile bodies from the forces of nature and each other. As such, they possess not only a physical but psychological presence; they become extensions of our bodies, part of our identity. As philosopher Bachelard noted, all inhabited buildings partake of the notion of "home." Architects orchestrate light, space and temperature to make us feel sheltered, protected and secure.
According to Columbia University professor Mark Wigley, it is precisely this sense of security that terrorists seek to undermine. By destroying our buildings, they diminish our sense of safety. More potent than the specter of lives lost is the threat the Twin Towers' destruction poses to our own homes, to our very grounding in the world. In destroying the World Trade Center, the terrorists annihilated our (misguided, prideful) belief in our own invincibility. They reduced the symbolic "home" of our economic and cultural dominance to a pile of smoking rubble.
Perhaps more than most architects of his time, Yamasaki understood the symbolic importance of the World Trade Center's design. From humble beginnings, he rose to a position of success and wealth — a real Horatio Alger hero. He was born in Seattle in 1912 to pianist Hana (Ho) Yamasaki and purchasing agent John Tsunejiro Yamasaki, and put himself through college working in Alaskan fish canneries for $50 a month. At an early age, he resolved to escape what he saw as a life of "uncompromising and personally degrading circumstances" and follow in the footsteps of his uncle, architect Koken Ito.
Graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in architecture in 1934, he moved to New York and earned his Master's degree in night classes at NYU. He then worked his way up through several blue-chip architectural firms. In 1945, he accepted a position as head designer at Smith, Hinchman & Grylls in Detroit, and in 1951 started his own firm, Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, which is still in business today (Yamasaki passed away in 1986).
His break-through commission came in 1954 when he designed the U.S. Consulate in Kobe, Japan. These trips to Japan profoundly influenced his work. He was especially impressed by the design of Japanese temples that lead the visitor through a series of distinctly different environments, incorporating changing light effects, plant life and water. He decided to create buildings that provided a series of sensory impressions — an emotional as well as physical path — and a sense of surprise. This Japanese influence can be seen in his 1958 design for McGregor Center at Detroit's Wayne State University. With its Japanese-style reflecting pools and skylights, it won the First Honor Award of the American Institute of Architects.
In the same year he visited Japan, he also embarked on an around-the-world trip. His visits to Asia, the Middle East and Europe impressed upon him the importance of the decorative and expressive elements that had been lost in streamlined modern architecture. He was especially inspired by pre-modern and religious buildings:
"I kept realizing that these qualities that we see in older architecture, such as the play of sun and shadow, which is…neglected in our modern architecture, was vitally necessary to the total experience of man in this environment…In other words, when you see a New England church steeple against the blue sky…it somehow brings about an aspirational quality, a sense of reaching for something which is terribly important…"
(Smithsonian Interview, 1959)
Although schooled in the highly reductive International Style that had dominated American architecture since the 1930s, Yamasaki's emphatic belief in the spiritual and above all expressive capacity of architecture set him apart from his contemporaries. Upon his return, he sought to transform essentially International Style buildings with references to the architecture of other cultures. He was particularly fond of Arabic arches, a design motif that eventually found its way into the bases of the Twin Towers. He covered the basic modernist cube with shimmering metals that changed colors as they reflected light from different directions, and ornate screens and ribs that added visual and tactile texture. But his interest in these decorative elements went beyond their effect as surface adornment; he also thought of them as symbols of cultural pride and heritage. His design for the Dhahran Air Terminal in Saudi Arabia used a series of low, repeated Arabic arches as a major design motif, and was so well received that its image graces the country's currency. Closer to home, he tried his hand at religious architecture, designing the soaring space of Temple Beth El in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan to evoke the shape of the meeting tents of the Israelites.
Yamasaki's "multicultural" style found many supporters in the U.S. and abroad, but it also elicited scathing critiques, mostly from the architectural critics of the day. In trying to push architecture beyond the ascetic confines of modernism, his work was derided as excessively ornamental. On the other hand, his designs for the World Trade Center were criticized for being too brutally minimalist. Caught between the end of high modernism and the birth of eclectic postmodernism — currently exemplified by the highly decorative works of Frank Gehry — Yamasaki was a pioneer in the development of today's dominant architectural style, a contribution for which he has never been fully recognized.
But Yamasaki's interest in the human and cultural aspects of architecture was not necessarily in tune with the needs and concerns of the buildings' inhabitants. His first and only foray into low- and middle-income housing resulted in one of the most maligned buildings in contemporary history, the Pruitt-Igoe Public Housing development. The complex was designed with many areas of public, communal space intended to foster tenant interaction and a sense of community. However, these impersonal, ownerless spaces quickly deteriorated into trash- and graffiti-filled zones of drug activity and violence. Yamasaki was clearly out of touch with the needs and concerns of Pruitt-Igoe's residents. His design was based on an abstract, utopian vision of community life rather than a realistic understanding of what makes a building feel like "home."
Similarly, his design for San Francisco's Japan Center Mall was intended to create a commercial and cultural home for the residents of the historic Japanese American neighborhood. True to form, Yamasaki designed an essentially modern complex with culturally relevant flourishes: facades that referred to traditional Japanese beam and post architecture, tiled roofs, and pedestrian walkways shaped like Japanese foot bridges. The Center opened in 1968, but by the 1980s had become a haphazard collection of lonely and empty shops and restaurants, totally enclosed and removed from the life of the streets and the changing neighborhood around it. The monolithic Center fell into disuse as the neighborhood's traditionally Japanese American population departed for the suburbs. Only in recent years, with an influx of expatriate and immigrant communities from Japan, has the Center been revitalized as a shopping and dining destination.
Yamasaki's buildings have often been better homes for ideas than for people. He was skilled at taking an abstract concept and giving it a grand, exterior form. Unfortunately, this grandeur was often at the expense of the building's inhabitants, a contradiction dramatically realized in the September 11th attacks. Architect Laurie Kerr goes so far as to suggest that Yamasaki's profane use of sacred Arabic design elements may have played a role in the targeting of the Twin Towers. It's a suspect argument, but one that points to the essential contradictions at the heart of Yamasaki's career. In designing a symbol of globalism, he used cultural motifs indiscriminately. In trying to humanize architecture, he created unlivable spaces. Just as America's global domination provokes violent resistance, Yamasaki's progress was the source of his undoing. In this sense, he was truly an architect of the American Dream, with all its aspirations and failures.
Additional reading on Minoru Yamasaki:
"Minoru Yamasaki, world-class architect," The Detroit News.
Divided We Stand: A Biography of New York's World Trade Center by Eric Darton. Basic Books, 1999.
Twin Towers: The Life of New York City's World Trade Center by Angus Kress Gillespie. Rutgers University Press, 1999
After the World Trade Center: Rethinking New York City edited by Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin. Routledge, 2002


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Ted Simons: Good evening. Welcome to "Arizona Horizon." I'm Ted Simons. Arizona auto sales are expected to show a 12% increase in for June. That compares to 8% growth in the U.S. over all. Both numbers would represent the strongest showing for auto sales since the great recession. I'll talk to an economist about what's behind the spike in numbers for new car sales, but first producer Lorri Allen and photographer Scot Olson look at the used car market and how it correlates to the surge in auto sales.
Lorri Allen: Used car dealer Ace Christian analyzes the numbers. Sales are up about 15% this year. The bad news?
Ace Christian: The problem is the inventories are still short. It's going to take a long time, a real long time before they get to the levels they were five years ago.
Lorri Allen: Used vehicles are in short supply all over the state according to the independent dealers association.
Dave Warkentin: Folks that have even less inventory than we do over here, they are traveling over to Arizona buying cars and shipping them back to the east coast taking our cars out of inventory, so this is driving the price of cars up. We have dealers that are going to auction that can't believe how much they are having to pay for a car to have it in their inventory.
Lorri Allen: The demands for used cars has hiked their prices, but the rise in new car sales could help.
Ace Christian: What that means for me is that more vehicles are going to be traded in. Which means more supply at the auction.
Lorri Allen: So shoppers could have more from which to choose. And they may find a kinder, gentler used car sales staff. Christian says those who survived the recession are better dealers.
Ace Christian: They got better practices. One of their practices that I have heard over and over again is that they treat the consumer like they would want to be treated.
Lorri Allen: Sean says he liked the way he was treated. He just bought a Lincoln.
Sean Whitworth: The information that they provided to us was not just, hey, come get a car, bring this, this and this much money. It was more they did a great job explaining everything. It just showed a feeling of actually caring and not just about their bottom line but in actually helping us in obtaining another car.
Lorri Allen: Industry analysts predict more people are ready to obtain another car. Pent up demand remains a factor.
T Dave Warkentin: hey drove that car as long as they really feel comfortable with and are saying, I'm going to get a new car even if maybe nothing has changed for them. They are just saying okay, we're getting a new car or getting a replacing our car, trading it in is kind of the American way.
Ted Simons: And joining me to talk about why auto sales are increasing and how that growth impacts Arizona's economy is economist Jim Rounds of Elliott D. Pollack and company. Good to see you again.
Jim Rounds: Good to be here.
Ted Simons: What's happening?
Jim Rounds: We went through a period during the downturn where individuals were uncertain about their jobs. Their housing values dropped significantly. Their retirement portfolios fell off a cliff and they didn't feel comfortable buying a new car. It wasn't even about the current income, their paychecks, but their over all level of wealth. They felt things weren't as good, so we saw periods where we were declining on a month by month basis compared to the prior year by about 35%. What has turned around, people's stock market portfolios are in good shape. Housing values are up quite a bit over the last couple years.
Ted Simons: What about prices? Let's stick with new cars. Are prices up, down, making a difference here?
Jim Rounds: Prices are starting to go up. Looked at some data just released this past week where U.S. manufacturers are about 90% capacity in terms of their production, which is very high. The segment indicated that we might have a shortage of some of the used cars. Well, it's going to take a while for car manufacturers to ramp up to this new demand, so prices are going up but they are not going up to the point where it's going to dissuade buyers. The impact from the economic recovery will outweigh that, I believe.
Ted Simons: what about the impact of interest rates?
Jim Rounds: Interest rates are starting to go up. If you look at the different rates that put the loans together it varies a lot. Now, if a car loan goes up from % to percent, that's not that big of a deal. Add another 20 bucks to the payment maybe. But if it goes from three to 6%, which it could, that's like adding another $2,000 on to the price of the car. We probably won't see that impact, the sales as much. Probably another couple years at least.
Ted Simons: What are people buying?
Jim Rounds: A few years ago the SUVs were very popular an trucks. We're still America. We're still selling a lot of trucks but there's been a shift from the SUVs to the more fuel efficient cars. That's kind of continued. Gas prices have been somewhat stable. It's not like we went from three bucks to six bucks a gallon. The ratio of the small cars to the trucks has been relatively stable but we're seeing a little bit of movement towards the more fuel efficient cars.
Ted Simons: What about gas prices and the impact on auto sales?
Jim Rounds: If it goes up significantly and right now the forecast is for it to be relatively stable for a while, it could have an impact on shifting to some of the bigger cars again. The welt effect on the consumer so consume remembers buying more cars but you could see a dampening impact. There's a pent up demand and interest rates haven't quite hit that point where it's going to dissuade buyers.
Ted Simons: We heard about pent up demand in the package as well. How much was out there? We had cash for clunkers program, other ideas to push people to buy cars. We heard at the time if you push them to buy cars now they won't buy them later. Sounds like they bought them later.
Jim Rounds: Well, they did. The cash for clunkers was really interesting. It caused a huge spike in sales. You could see it in historical data, then followed by a trough. That wasn't the best program. We got a lot of people during the downturn that couldn't afford a new car we convinced them to buy a new car. That wasn't a good plan. People have been hanging on to that car and they are ready to buy. That growth in Arizona was around 12%, it will slow a little bit. But if the long term average is around 6% but the next couple years we go up 10, 9, 8 that's still above average.
Ted Simons: Are dealers ready to sell? Have they changed their tactics, their formulas? When you go to a car lot, are you seeing a different kind of car sale?
Jim Rounds: Dealers were very willing to work with the buyer the last two or three or four years. Now that they are seeing extra demand and seeing car manufacturers hitting 90% utilization of their factories it's more difficult to get those cars, they are going to be able to negotiate on their side a little bit more and get higher prices. Their lots are not completely filled, they will be soon. Economics is wonderful. Everything adjusts within a short period of time. So these kinks will work themselves out but expect growth to continue the next couple three years.
Ted Simons: Tell us about the impact of the auto sales numbers on Arizona's economy over all. We'll stick with Arizona here. Bit of an indicator. Which direction and how much?
Jim Rounds: 12% in terms of the rate of growth for sales from the prior year. I'm expecting that to be the same this year. Then if it falls it will maybe fall to then down to eight. Probably 20, 15--20, 16 before we see things at more normal levels, but it's adding to the community sales tax collections, to state sales tax collections, so it's benefiting the state as a whole. It's still a nice signal that things are moving in the right direction and is consistent with the other economic data that we saw.
Ted Simons: It seems as though the auto industry may be more resilient than other sectors. True?
Jim Rounds: They doing well now. We have seen significant bankruptcies before. I was trying to figure out where everybody stood in terms of paying off the bailout monies. It was difficult to put together. But most of the manufacturers have paid off the bailout money. I think Ford was listed as one of the more problematic companies in terms of paying it off but everything is working out. I'm not a big fan of government bailouts but in this particular case I don't know if it was the wrong thing to do.
Ted Simons: It's interesting. You wonder where we would be and could you still find that new car if the bailout hadn't happened. You're looking at % this year, obviously a bit of easing off. It looks like it's going to be stable for a while at least.
Jim Rounds: Yes. We're going to see decent growth. It's going to match a lot of the other economic data we're talking about, so we're moving in the right direction whether it be autos or other sales.
Ted Simons: Jim, good to have you here.
Jim Rounds: Thank you.


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Dark Matter finally gets domestic deal with First Independent
First Independent Pictures has picked up Dark Matter and will release it in North American in April.The drama premiered at Sundance 2007 and won the Alfred P Sloan Award for its portrayal of a brilliant Chinese cosmology student who is marginalized when he goes to the US to study for his PhD.Chen Shi-Zheng directed and Meryl Streep, Liu Ye and Aidan Quinn star. Janet Yang, Mary Salter and Andrea Miller produced. Myriad Pictures ...
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