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Joost Bruijsten <email@example.com>
st: spatgsa and converting coordinates from shp file
Sat, 19 Jun 2010 08:06:42 +0000
Dear Statalisters,
my problem is about Moran's I (command: spatgsa) en the Weights matrix (spatwmat).
I use Stata/SE 11.0 for Windows (32-bit).
Born 21 October 2009
First of all, I am analyzing the urban structure of the Veneto region in Italy using commuting flows.
I want to use Moran's I to see if employment is concentrated. Employment is defined in my study as the total number of working persons that commute into a region or municipality.
Using shp files (from istat.it/ambiente/cartografia) I made the map of Veneto and the provinces and municipalities (using spmap).
Then I took the coordinates that the spmap command uses (using shp2dta) of every municipality and used the mean of the x and y coordinates for every municipality in a new dataset with the total number of ingoing commuters into a municipality. Beneath you see an example I used.
destinationprovince destinationmunicipality totalpersons x y
23 3 892 1630494 5007893
23 8 686 1633549 5013109
23 9 538 1641141 5030001
23 10 489 1648422 5032311
23 19 2463 1649542 5041687
23 20 1882 1652473 5044176
23 25 8405 1660123 5045447
23 29 471 1662310 5047371
23 44 15613 1667065 5051641
23 48 1870 1668117 5052971
23 72 1834 1668861 5053562
23 85 676 1670068 5056730
23 95 1607 1681036 5057435
I performed the commands for spatwmat and spatgsa (see beneath), although I changed the band width from a very high number (35000+) to the largest minimum distance the spatwmat command gave:
spatwmat, name(test7) xcoord(x) ycoord(y) band(0 10991)
My first question is: What is the best way with these sort of coordinates to set the band width? Or is there a way to convert these coordinates to real latitude and longitude variables? The last would actually be my preferred solution.
I then used this command to calculate Moran's I:
spatgsa totalpersons, weights(test7) moran
This gave me a result, however I do not know whether these are good given the problems. Below you see the output.
My second question is: should I standardize the spatwmat command, or use binary? I could not find in the help files what these do, in 'real' explanation.
Thanks for your consideration,
Joost Bruijsten
. spatwmat, name(test7) xcoord(x) ycoord(y) band(0 10991)
The following matrix has been created:
1. Inverse distance weights matrix test7
Dimension: 13x13
Distance band: 0 < d <= 10991
Friction parameter: 1
Minimum distance: 950.2
1st quartile distance: 11229.2
Median distance: 21674.2
3rd quartile distance: 36380.2
Maximum distance: 70773.6
Largest minimum distance: 10990.63
Smallest maximum distance: 38792.54
. spatgsa aantalpersonen, weights(test7) moran
Measures of global spatial autocorrelation
Weights matrix
Name: test7
Type: Distance-based (inverse distance)
Distance band: 0.0 < d <= 10991.0
Row-standardized: No
Moran's I
Variables | I E(I) sd(I) z p-value*
aantalpersonen | -0.189 -0.083 0.211 -0.499 0.309
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The Kokuyo Roll Table is a clever alternative from Kobe Ishou Sourenjo is a very clever way to package and dispense rolls of kids' drawing paper. It seems like it would be tedious to re-fill, though -- but if you're game for it, it should be simple to make your own for your playroom with four pieces of MDF (or pine, if you're fancy!) and some screws.
Since 2002, Kokuyo, purveyor of fine stationary supplies, has hosted an annual design award with varying themes. It's actually one of my favorite awards in Japan and has produced some fantastic products. In 2011, the Roll Table took first place. The creators were given an award, as well as a promise that their design would become commercialized. After much tweaking and optimizing, it finally happened. Earlier this year Kokuyo produced a limited edition of 50 Roll Tables priced at around 17,000 yen (about $165). The initial run quickly sold out.
While we wait for the next run, the 2014 Kokuyo Design Awards are underway. In fact, the deadline of 6/30 is approaching. If you want to see your idea commercialized, head to their website and submit your proposal!
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Excellent accomodations. The staff was very courteous and helpul. This Parador is centrally located, and only a short walk to the historical and shopping areas.
The balcony and view from room. The restaurant was a bit lacking in ambience
lovely building and good views from the hotel balcony. good food which is just as well as few places to eat in town there is not much to do in the town of Benavente so would only recommend it as a stop over on the way to somewhere else. I would not stay here again as it is a bit isolated.
The hotel was in a very nice position with wonderful views over the countryside. The room was nice, clean and quite. My wife and I had a meal in the hotel wich was excellent as was the service.
A stunning Parador in a stunning building The plumbing in our room left something to be desired.
Excellent location for an overnight stay. Swimming pool was the main attraction. No
For a 3 star this is an excellent hotel. Nice friendly reception staff - helpful with secure parking very very close. Room and bathroom was well equipped even with robes and slippers, Very nice hotel in the centre of town. Breakfast was limited in range of products. Girl on duty was a bit of a misery.
The staff very helpfull There was poor (if any) ventilation into the shower room and a bit of a smell.
The staff were most helpful.The room was very comfortable. The hotel was nicely situated for exploring the little town.
Excellent Hotel, very friendly staff, offered more suitable room as I might never have got out of the sunken bath. Restaurant was excellent for supper and breakfast. Was not easy find a few more signs would help.
The staff & the food - great The location is very problematic to find, the roon is very small
Beautiful double storey family room with luxury bathroom. Excellent food. Very helpful owner. Spa pool was a small swimming pool and cost 10 euros per person.
The room & Spa
everything - historic roast lamb hard to locate
Very well designed and appointed hotel and very comfortable facilities. The owner/hotel keeper Francisco could not have done more for me - he was really kind and helpful. I was travelling by motorbike and the hotel provided secure parking
The owner, was always on duty and no matter how busy he was, he always seemed pleased to help No
The hotel itself was lovely and the fact there was a spa was a bonus. We felt that it was a bit of an effort for the owner to get the spa ready if you wanted to use it? So we didn't bother! The village the hotel was in was a bit strange and not very attractive. Although we went and had a drink in the plaza it was not somewhere you would want to stay for long. We think perhaps some info. Should be included in the description of the location.
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noisy room and minimal breakfast facilities
Motorway access and parking excellent. Clean and well apointed. View! No English spoken. Very poor breakfast.
Lockable garage attached to room.
Acceptable as a 'roadside' overnight stop.
Great location to break up our drive with two children to Santander. Room was big enough for camp bed and cot and having the garage below the room was a bonus to pack and unpack. Staff were not the friendliest and the facilities were basic, but functional.
No complaints We had to have breakfast in the cafe not the hotel restuarant. Perhaps we should have booked breakfast on arrival. Not advised of this.
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Bob Shafer, a versatile and popular sportswriter and editor in a long career with the Pasadena Star-News, Santa Monica Outlook and Los Angeles Daily News, died July 10, 2013, in Simi Valley.
He was 87 and had Alzheimer's disease.
Shafer discovered his talent for writing in high school and started in newspapers in his hometown with the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal. He went on to cover virtually every sport, but by time he retired in 1989 after more than a decade with the Daily News, he was best known for his columns about auto racing and hunting and fishing.
"He loved covering the Rose Bowl and the Indianapolis 500," said Becky Counts, Shafer's daughter.
In one of his last outdoors-sports columns for the Daily News, Shafer mused about the frustrations of fishing: "You have to figure this whole game is fraught with contradictions. Fishing is supposed to be a wonderfully relaxing endeavor. But show me the angler who is satisfied sitting around a lake all day without experiencing one strike. That's relaxing? No way."
Shafer was recalled fondly by former Daily News colleagues.
"His staff consisted largely of journalists in their 20s," baseball writer John Lowe said by e-mail Wednesday. "I never heard Bob speaking to any of us in a scolding or bossy way. He treated us with respect and sought our judgment, even though on some nights he must have had more experience than everyone else in the office ... combined.
"He was a model for all of us on how to stay cool and have a sense of humor amid the nightly pressures of deadline."
Shafer, who spent his retirement in Alabama and Simi Valley, is survived by his wife of 67 years, Jeanne; two daughters, five grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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This installment will focus on the De Lisle Carbine, one of the quietest firearms ever made.
This series of blogs focuses on weapons, should you acquire some please OBEY ALL NATIONAL/REGIONAL LAWS PERTAINING TO SUCH DEVICES, THESE DEVICES ARE DESIGNED TO KILL
Technical Specs
Barrel length: 8.27 in (210mm)
Cartridge: .45 ACP
Weight: 8 lb 8.85 oz (3.74 kg)
Action: Bolt Action
Effective Range: 200 Yards
Capacity: 7-11 rounds (Used 1911 Magazines)
The De Lisle carbine was initally designed as a small game rifle in .22 by William Godfray DeLisle ("Godfray"), who was an engineer for the Air Ministry. In 1943, he approached Sir Malcom Campbell of Combined Operations about his rifle. They informally tested it by firing it off of a rooftop on the New Adelphi Building in London into the Thames River. They wanted to see if people on the street would hear the gunshot, they did not. As a result Combined Operations was impressed and they ordered a 9mm version. However it was a failure, and a .45 ACP prototype was produced. This prototype was much more successful, as it was inaudable at ranges at 50 yards.
Combined Operations then produced an initial batch of 17 carbines, which were immediatley put into service with the British Commandos. Sterling Armaments Company was given an order of 500 of such weapons in 1944 but were only able to produce about 130 firearms. The Sterling version had a folding stock whereas previous versions had a solid wooden stock.
De Lisle Carbines were primarily used by British commandos and Britain's Special Operations Executive (basically spies) in World War 2, The Korean War, The Malayan Emergency and reportedly in the Northern Irish Troubles.
SIlence, this firearm is actually quieter than most modern guns with suppressors, 85.5 decibels to be exact. Modern suppressed handguns produce 117 to 140 db, depending on make and model of gun and suppressor. This is primarily due to the fact that it's a .45ACP, a subsonic round (that still hits like a ton of bricks). It has greater reach than a handgun, but still packs that famous .45 ACP punch. The suppressor is integral and suprisingly durable, lasting hundreds of shots before it needs cleaning. The firearm also emits no visible muzzle flash.
To demonstrate how silent this gun is let's go to the Youtubes!
It doesn't have the reach or accuracy of a rifle (though it's still reasonably accurate at a good distance, for a .45 ACP anyway). The bolt action also makes it innefective against multiple targets compared to a semi or fully automatic weapon.


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Pod Pack International, a Baton Rouge-based coffee and tea products manufacturer, is kicking off a $10 million expansion over the next three years.
The announcement was made by Mayor-President Kip Holden and Baton Rouge Area Chamber President Adam Knapp along with Pod Pack Executive Vice President Tom Martin on Wednesday morning.
The expansion will create 19 new jobs with an average salary of $30,100 plus benefits. It will generate an additional $600,000 in payroll, officials said.
Pod Pack started in New Orleans in 1996, but moved to the Baton Rouge Industrialplex in 2000. Pod Pack currently has about 25 employees, Martin said.
The expansion will be located within the same area and require a new, 75,000-square-foot building for new equipment.
"This expansion is a big win for all of our small businesses," Holden said, adding that there is often a misconception that economic development efforts only target big business. "When you look at the states of who creates jobs, it's small businesses. So we don't ever want to get to the point where we ignore the role small businesses play in our economy and what they're doing to employ millions of people." Pod Pack creates espresso pods, one-cup coffee pods and other single-cup coffee systems for offices, hotels, restaurants and home brewing.
Martin said the demand for single-cup production is skyrocketing. He said 4 percent of coffee drinkers used single-cup brewing in 2010, compared to 29 percent of drinkers this year.
"Single-cup brewing has grown tremendously, and we're in the position to be there and to take advantage of it," Martin said.
Martin said 95 percent of the company's business is done out of state, with major labels like Folgers, but he said it also does work with local coffee purveyors like PJ's and Community Coffee.
That means Louisiana and Baton Rouge will miss out on much of the sales tax benefits from the business. When merchandise is sold and shipped out of the state, sales taxes are paid to the location where the delivery is made, not the seller's location.
BRAC and the Louisiana Economic Development targeted Pod Pack earlier this year in an effort to identify incentive packages for the company.
The expansion is being made possible with an incentive package offered by LED, which includes a $760,000 performance-based award from the Economic Development Loan Program. The company also will utilize the state's Quality Jobs and Industrial Tax Exemption programs.
Holden foreshadowed the announcement last week during a debate about the proposed city of St. George at the Metro Council meeting. He was trying to demonstrate that he is an advocate of the entire parish, not just the city of Baton Rouge.
"This will be built in the proposed St. George area. This is bringing more jobs there and there will be other jobs that come there generating a lot of income," Holden said in an interview. "Across the whole parish, we are very transient. Therefore, we need to make sure in all places we have in East Baton Rouge Parish, we have people willing to go and accept these jobs."
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Tina McElroy Ansa
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Tina McElroy Ansa (born November 18, 1949)[1] is an African-American novelist, filmmaker, teacher, and journalist.
Life and career[edit]
Born Tina McElroy to Walter J. and Nellie McElroy in Macon, Georgia, where she grew up in the Pleasant Hill neighborhood. After graduating from Spelman College and working for several years in a variety of positions at the Atlanta Constitution, she has written several novels and has been a frequent contributor to numerous periodicals, including the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. She has also been featured on the television segment "Postcards from Georgia" on NICK@NITE News Sunday Morning. She instructs writing workshops at Spelman College, Emory University, and Coastal Georgia Community College. She lives with her filmmaker husband Jonée Ansa on St. Simons Island, Georgia where they collaborate on making movies and are active in community events to promote the arts.
Ansa's fiction portrays a variety of Black women in the recent and modern American South, with a blend of the supernatural and traditional superstition. Her first novel, Baby of the Family, was named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times. Baby of the Family was also on the African-America Best-seller List for Paperback Fiction. In October 2001, Baby of the Family was chosen by the Georgia Center for the Book as one of the "Top 25 books Every Georgian Should Read." The book was selected for the American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults in 1990, and won the 1989 Georgia Authors Series Award.
She and her husband are currently adapting Baby of the Family for the screen in a feature film starring Alfre Woodard, Loretta Devine, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Vanessa A. Williams, Todd Bridges, Pam Grier.
- Baby of the Family (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. ISBN 0-15-610150-5)
- Ugly Ways (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Co., 1995. ISBN 0-15-600077-6)
- The Hand I Fan With (New York: Doubleday, 1998. ISBN 0-385-47601-9)
- You Know Better (New York: William Morrow, 2002. ISBN 0-06-019779-X)
- "Rachel" in Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers, Rosemarie Robotham, editor (New York: BasicCivitas Books, 2003. ISBN 0-465-07062-0)
- ^ Ted Wadley. "Tina McElroy Ansa (born 1949)", The New Georgia Encyclopedia. 28 October 2005.


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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Ash from an Icelandic volcano moved over Greenland and forced the cancellation of a single flight there on Monday, but the most of the plume was expected to blow north of Scandinavia and disrupt few, if any, flights over Europe.
Danish air traffic officials said the ash from the Grimsvotn (GREEMSH-votn) volcano reached eastern Greenland, a semiautonomous Danish territory. Air Greenland said its Monday flight between the island's main airport and Copenhagen was canceled as a result.
Aviation officials in Norway said the cloud might also affect flights to and from the Arctic islands of Svalbard on Monday.
Britain's Met Office said the ash may reach British airspace later this week but the European air traffic control agency said it was not expected to move further than the western coast of Scotland.
In April 2010, the Eyjafjallajokull eruption prompted aviation officials to close Europe's air space for five days out of fear that the ash could harm jet engines. Thousands of flights were grounded, airlines lost millions of dollars and millions of travelers were stranded, many sleeping on airport floors across northern Europe.
Eurocontrol's models of ash concentration on Monday showed the main plume of ash at heights from 20,000 feet to 35,000 — the normal altitudes for passenger airliners — gradually extending northward from Iceland over the next two days. The cloud is predicted to arch its way north of Scandinavia and possibly touch the islands off the northern Russian coastline within the next two days.
A smaller plume could reach as far as the western coast of Scotland during that period, and the eastern coast of Greenland.
Iceland shut its main airport after Grimsvotn, about 120 miles (200 kilometers) east of Reykjavik, erupted Saturday. The airport remained closed Monday morning, but officials hope to reopen it later in the day.
Neither plume is projected to reach the European mainland. They are also not expected to affect trans-Atlantic flights, whose eastbound and westbound tracks are located further much south of the projected ash dispersal.
"We are not in a position to say as yet as to whether there would be any disruption of European aviation," said Brian Flynn, deputy head of operations. "In any event, we are very confident that if there were to be some disruption it would be at a much smaller scale than that we witnessed last year."
Some airline chiefs complained that regulators had overreacted last year. But a study last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences concluded the shutdown had been justified. It said the hard, sharp particles of volcanic ash blasted high into the air could have caused jet engines to fail and sandblasted airplane windows.
The Eyjafjallajokull eruption was more problematic because a combination of factors — including the ash distribution pattern and unusual weather patterns — conspired last year to make travel difficult. Meteorologists in Iceland and in Britain have more specialist equipment that enables them to measure the density of ash in the atmosphere — the key factor in whether a plane should be grounded.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said he did not believe volcanic ash would disrupt air traffic as extensively this time.
"We are better prepared and we'll have far better information and intelligence which allows us then to adjust things without necessarily the blanket bans on flights that we saw last year," he said during a visit to Brussels.
Meera Selva in London contributed.


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"Another very enjoyable stay. We have been many times before and hope to be back many times in the future.Many thanks"
"Great holiday, super cottage - home from home, lovely and clean and fresh with all the mod cons. We have enjoyed touring the area, so much to see and do and great to come back to the patio for an evening drink - Thanks again and hope to be back!"
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As an extra plus, the weather was good too!"
"Loved every moment. Have rarely found such a well-equipped and comfortable cottage. Scenery beautiful, castles and gardens outstanding. Great hosts! Thanks."
"Thanks for the hospitality shown - we'll certainly recommend it to our friends. But not too many as we will want it available for a return stay ourselves."
"We found the cottage first class with all the facilities and comforts for a splendid holiday."
"A lovely cottage with a lot of personal touches to make it feel like home."
"The cottage is beautiful and so cosy. The area is fantastic and very pretty."
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"Fine, well-equipped cottage in beautiful scenery. A very relaxing break to recharge batteries for the winter."
"We have so much enjoyed our week here. A beautiful area with so many places to explore. Cottage first class in every way."
"Lovely comfortable cottage with a 'homely' feel."
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Reservations for accommodation are accepted subject to the following Terms & Conditions.
1. Contract.
The Contract of Hire shall be between the Hirer and the Property Owner and subject to the Terms & Conditions.
2. Payment.
Bookings made within 8 weeks of your holiday date must be paid for in full including any additional charge for pets. For a booking made more than 8 weeks before your holiday starts a deposit of one third of the total rental is required. The balance is due 8 weeks prior to the holiday starting date. We cannot accept bookings from persons under 18 years of age.
3. Cancellations.
In the event that you have to cancel your confirmed booking, please advise us as soon as possible so we can do our best to re-let the cottage. If this is successful we will refund all monies received less a £20.00 administration fee. However if this is not possible, then we reserve the right to retain the full rental due. As cancellation can be a very distressing event, we advise that you insure against it.
4. Availability.
The Hiring Contract is made on the understanding that the property and its facilities are available for the dates stated. In the unlikely event that the property is not available through events arising beyond the control of the owner, then the booking may be subject to cancellation. The hirer will be advised of any such circumstances as early as possible and we will make a refund of all monies paid in full but the hirer will have no further claims against the owner.
5. Occupation Times.
You are welcome to arrive after 3pm (unless specifically arranged otherwise with the owners) on the commencement date of the tenancy and vacate at 10am on the termination date to allow sufficient time for cleaning.
6. Sleeping Capacity.
The maximum capacity is for four persons plus one infant in a cot. The cottage can accommodate either two couples or one couple and two singles. Please advise as to which combination is required when booking.
7. Linen.
The property is provided with bed linen: sheets, pillowcases and duvet covers. Towels are not provided and you should bring your own supply with you. Cots and linen and blankets for cots are not supplied and should be brought by the visitor.
8. Pets.
There is an extra charge of £20 per week or short break. In making this service available we are relying on you to respond by keeping your pet under strict control at all times. Please bring your own pet basket and do not allow your pet on furniture or go upstairs. A pet must not be left unattended in the property at any time. Hirers will be responsible for any damage caused by pets. Please dispose of any mess left by your pet.
9. Damage.
All bookings are accepted on the condition that the property is left clean and tidy, and the person who made the booking will pay for breakage and/or damage.
10. Access.
The Property Owner or his representatives shall be allowed access to the holiday accommodation at any reasonable time during any holiday occupancy.
11. Motor Car and Personal Belongings.
Baggage and personal belongings are at the Hirers risk at all times, and no responsibility can be accepted for loss or damage to any vehicle or its contents.
12. Smoking.
For the comfort of all our guests there is a no smoking policy in the cottage.


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By Chris Woodyard, USA TODAY
IRVINE, Calif. Like any other working stiff, Jason Isley commutes to the office in his sporty coupe during the week.
But come Friday, he wrestles the baby carrier out of the back seat of the Mazda RX-8, wrenches on a set of extra-grippy tires and slaps some magnetic racing numbers on the sides. Plop on a helmet, and the transformation is complete: family man to top-performing race car driver.
Isley and his wife, Jennifer, are among the nation's thousands of amateur racers. And automakers are increasingly paying more attention to Walter Mitty types such as the Isleys.
Auto companies offer discounts, prize money, free technical advice and sometimes even cars to amateur racers, not just professionals. While club racers don't generate the headlines of the professionals, their competition creates lots of goodwill, brand loyalty, positive word of mouth and the envy of their more pedestrian workmates — all of which helps sell cars and burnish brand image.
Few automakers are as deeply involved with amateurs as Mazda.
"We're here to help people race," said Robert Davis, a senior vice president for Mazda's North America operation, at a press event here last month. "Our core values are to have as many people racing Mazdas as possible."
Mazda claims 9,000 racers and says more of its cars zoom around road-race tracks on any given weekend than any other nameplate.
"It sells cars. There's not a doubt that Mazda is the predominant car out there," says Isley, 34, who works as an editor for SportsCar magazine during the week.
Isley started racing in 1993 after he traded in his Pontiac Firebird for a Chevrolet Corvette. He eventually turned to a Sports Car Club of America series called autocross, which involves racing against the clock through a cone course rather than against other drivers.
Along the way, he met his future wife when she came to race her Mazda Miata in 1994. They and daughter Jessica, 2, live in the Ladera Ranch section of Orange County, Calif.
Autocross rewards driving finesse and the car's handling more than flat-out power. Isley says his wife has beaten him three times in events in which they have both participated.
He says Mazda supports the couple's racing efforts by giving them about a $3,000 break from the price of a new RX-8 and discounts on parts. Occasionally, Mazda helps bankroll their racing. He received about $800 for each of his three autocross national championships (2005-2007). Jennifer won $800 for a women's title last year.
Certainly, that's small by NASCAR standards. But Isley says that since his competition class requires few car modifications, the family racing budget is only about $6,000 for the year — mostly entry fees and travel as far as the Midwest. In the past few years, about half has been covered by awards purses, discounts and sponsorships.
Deeper into racing is Laura Olson, 46, an operations manager for a health care provider, who competes on tracks in a Mazda MX-5.
Olson, who is also based in Orange County, says her hobby takes about three-quarters of her spare time, and the cost this year approaches $100,000.
"If I don't find funding this year, I will pull it out of savings," she says. Most of the budget goes to transporting her race car to tracks around the USA and Canada.
She has her own racing shop and subleases to two other drivers. She credits Mazda officials for helping her with price breaks on cars and parts. "Each year I say, 'I don't know how I can do this another year.' "
Yet, she always does. "You meet a lot of really great people," Olson says of her motivation.
While Mazda's program may have more participants, other automakers say they also are involved in helping amateurs:
•Ford Motor. (F) The Detroit automaker sells sprint cars with Ford engines and three levels of race-ready Mustangs. It even offers whole cars through its racing parts catalog.
They range from the 325-horsepower Mustang FR500S for $75,000 to a 550-horsepower FR500GT for $225,000. The S, with 77 built to date, is raced through a program at the Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah.
•Porsche. Dozens of Porsche clubs around the country offer amateur racing, says Andy Schupack, spokesman for Porsche Motorsport. Porsche offers its racers free consultations with factory engineers.
•Honda. (HMC) From off-roading to drag racing, Honda says it has a broad-based program to support many forms of amateur racing. Honda gives worthy participants prize money and racing parts. "It's important from a corporate standpoint because racing is part of the DNA," says Honda spokesman T.E. McHale. "We want to be supportive of people who come through the ranks, who give their weekends to racing Honda products."
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The Brussels-based airline's chairman, David Hoare, said he had become concerned about Ryanair's promotions since the Irish rival opened a base at nearby Charleroi Airport two years ago. He said Virgin Express was happy to compete against any airline in open competition but Ryanair's pricing policy "does not look normal or right".
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Virgin Express's pre-tax profits for the three months to September dropped from £4.6 million ($10.83 million) to £1.7 million. The airline, 89 per cent owned by Virgin, said it was being squeezed by low-cost rivals and by a price war on routes to southern Europe with airlines such as Alitalia, Olympic and Iberia.
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When I spoke to Anthony Hopkins, he talked a bit about the way Branagh has always been a target, in no small part because of the way he appeared on the scene with so much hype behind him. In the world of theater, and particularly among Shakesperean experts, Branagh was seen as an upstart, and people were gunning for him. When he moved into film, his "Henry V" was heavily praised, the sort of praise that almost guarantees people are going to want to go after something. And throughout his career, he tends to make big choices like a four-hour-long "Hamlet" in 70MM, that make him seem like he's positively dripping with hubris.
But if you can deliver the goods, is it really hubris?
That word is the main focus of "Thor," thematically speaking, and moving from something as small as "Sleuth" to a giant mainstream Marvel superhero film with action sequences that are unlike anything he's staged before, seems like another of those Branagh moves designed to put him in the crosshairs, and sure enough, people have been gunning for "Thor" ever since it was announced.
That had to make it extra-special for him as the film finally started screening for critics and reviews started coming in, because he seems to have made a movie that is really connecting with audiences, and the fact that people who have no experience with the character at all are walking away as fans is a huge testament to just how carefully Branagh negotiated a very tricky tone.
I enjoyed sitting down with him, and our conversation was a solid one. I may not love every movie he's made, and there might even be a few that I really dislike, but I'll give him this: he suffers those slings and arrows of outrageous fortune as well as anyone I've ever seen, and when he connects, the results can be wildly entertaining.
"Thor" is now playing in theaters everywhere.


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The following day, ABC's Good Morning America on Sunday ran a sympathetic piece on Potter's "personal journey from health industry insider to outsider" that treated him as a subject of a human interest story. Despite reporting on the fellow's "loss of income, status, position and colleagues," correspondent Ron Claiborne omitted Potter's new liberal affiliation.
During his Saturday morning interview, Gupta introduced Potter as "a former insurance company executive...once the chief spokesman for the Cigna Insurance Company. He's now a senior fellow at the Center for Media and Democracy." Despite not labeling the political leanings of this organization, the CNN anchor gave a hint of Potter's views in his first question to the fellow: "Now, in the name of transparency, I should point out that you are pro-health reform and pro- a public insurance option as well. Is that fair?" Potter confirmed that this was the case, called the so-called public option a "vital part of health insurance reform."
Gupta followed up by stating that the public option "maybe gasping its last breath. Some of the blue dog Democrats are coming out and saying it just doesn't look this is going to happen. What is your reaction to that?" The former Cigna spokesman turned left-wing industry critic repeated his earlier point: "I think that they need to take another look at it because I think it's vitally important, and I think...they may be saying that because they're just not realizing the importance of having a public option."
Later in the interview, the CNN anchor asked a seemingly leading question about the health care industry's supposed backing of the campaign against ObamaCare:
GUPTA: ...I have these patients at Grady who can't get their operations and I hear about these insurance executives like you used to be flying around in private jets and living in these towers that are huge and making millions and millions of dollars. It really- I've got to tell you- it breaks my heart. It really- it really is hard to think about. But what is the biggest secret that you think health insurance companies don't want us to know?
POTTER: That they are really behind the efforts to kill reform and to gut it. They are really behind the effort to make sure we don't have a public option.
CNN omitted Potter's new position at the Center for Media and Democracy during its previous two reports- one on July 2 and the second on August 12.
The next morning on Sunday's GMA, Claiborne's report on Potter echoed CNN's August 12 report. Anchor Bill Weir introduced the report and gave the former Cigna spokesman the same "whistleblower" label that CNN used.
BILL WEIR: Let's turn to a man who was, until recently, a top executive at one of the biggest health insurance companies in the nation who has now turned whistleblower, and is one of the industry's most outspoken critics. And Ron [Claiborne] actually went to visit with this man- see how it's changed his life.
RON CLAIBORNE: Well, that's right Bill. For years, Wendell Potter worked his way to the top of one of the largest health insurance companies in the world- as you said, this was Cigna. He was Cigna's media strategist- its advocate and defender until he underwent a crisis of conscience. I spoke to Potter about his personal journey from health industry insider to outsider.
CLAIBORNE (voice-over): Wendell Potter spends most of his time at home these days. The big office, the big salary, the big job- they're gone. He used to be the top public relations executive at one of the leading health insurance companies. Now, he's an outspoken critic of the industry in which he worked for 20 years.
WENDELL POTTER: If I can do anything about it, I'm going to speak out.
CLAIBORNE: The transformation of Wendell Potter began two years ago during a visit to his hometown in rural east Tennessee.
POTTER: I went to what I'd read in the newspaper about- some kind of a health care expedition that was being held across the state line in Wise [County], Virginia. And out of curiosity, I went there.
CLAIBORNE: What he saw shocked him. Hundreds of people lined up at a fairgrounds, waiting to see doctors in an annual free clinic. Many waited outside in the rain to be treated in animal stalls.
POTTER: To see it in the way I saw it was just a sudden realization of what really happens to so many people in this country because they don't have insurance. And it was just like, something rushed at me. I just felt that I had been hit by lightning or something.
CLAIBORNE: Then in late 2007, seventeen-year-old Nataline Sarkisyan needed a liver transplant. But Cigna declined to pay for it. Potter was the company's frontman as the controversy raged. Eventually, the company relented, but it was too late to save Nataline.
CLAIBORNE (on-camera): How did that affect you personally?
POTTER: It was just- just awful.
ALEX POTTER, SON OF HEALTH INSURANCE WHISTLE BLOWER:He said to me, Alex- you know, I'm not very proud of what I'm doing.
CLAIBORNE (voice-over): Soon after, Potter quit Cigna. He was 56 years old and did not have another job lined up. Potter's wife Louella worried about how they would get by.
A. POTTER: She was nervous. You know, she was-
CLAIBORNE (off-camera): She was worried about it.
A. POTTER: Of course, of course- yeah. You know, she supports my Dad- you know. But she was worried- yeah.
CLAIBORNE: For a year, Potter said nothing publicly that was critical of the health care industry until the Obama health care reform plan, and what Potter perceived as the health care industry working furiously to stop it. Last month, he testified before Congress.
W. POTTER (from June 24, 2009 Senate testimony): And I saw how they confused their customers and dumped the sick. So all they- so also, they can satisfy their Wall Street investors.
CLAIBORNE: Potter says his friends have stood by him. But he's paid a price- loss of income, status, position and colleagues.
W. POTTER: The price is high. It's- it's hard to do this. I'm glad I did it. I have no regrets at all.
CLAIBORNE: And we asked Cigna for a response to Potter said. We got a written reply from an insurance industry trade group which told us that it supports health care reform, but not a government plan that would, it said, dismantle employer coverage, bankrupt hospitals, and increase the federal budget. And I should point out that Cigna manages ABC's health care plan.


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National Tour of The Color Purple Arrives in Fine Fettle
Also see Bob's review of Two Jews Walk Into a War ...
Whatever the literary and artistic merits of the original novel, the musical is a ripe, sexually explicit melodrama with all the pleasures of women's fiction. Add the lively, entertaining, if generic, music which cuts across any number of popular styles, a strong, lively and dedicated cast, and more than its fair share of solid humor rooted in plot and character, and you have a rousing, involving musical entertainment.
The story covers a period of forty years, from 1909 to 1949, although projecting a clear time frame is not one of the musical's strengths. It is only when music and clothing styles are brought into the forefront as the story rushes to its climax that we are made aware of the time frame of the story and that most of the music has not defined the earlier periods of it. Set largely in rural Georgia, The Color Purple introduces us to its main protagonist Celie when she is fourteen years old and pregnant for the second time with the child of the man whom she knows as her father. She is shortly thereafter forced by her father to marry Mister, a cruel farmer who beats and abuses her. Celie achieves emotional and intellectual growth, eventually prospering with the help of a large number of admirable, clearly defined women who enliven the stage with their bravery, humanity and talent. It is delightful to watch the performing skills of the featured cast and the strength and humor of the Alice Walker characters whom they portray (transformed to stage life by playwright Marsha Norman) together form their on-stage personae.
Under the direction of Gary Griffin, the performances are vivid and dynamic. Kenita R. Miller (one of Broadway's Celies) brings a sparkle and sense of inner strength to Celie even when her only determination is to yield to the abuses of Mister. She is convincing whether playing fourteen or fifty. Miller brings both musical and dramatic heft to "What About Love?," her duet with Shug Avery, her husband's mistress, sung when the two women fall in love. In entering into this relationship, Celie begins her transformation from a woman who embraces her fate to one who is master of it.
The richness of the performances of Angela Robinson (Shug), Felicia P. Fields (Sofia), La Toya London (Nettie), Felicia P. Fields (Squeak) and Kimberly Ann Harris, Virginia Ann Woodruff and Lynette DuPree (the three church ladies) attest to the excellence of this company. There is power in the meanness of the portrayals of Rufus Bonds, Jr. (Mister) and David Aron Damane (Pa), and complexity in the essential sweetness of Stu James (Harpo). Donald Byrd's limited choreography is lively and generic. The reduced for touring version of the sets by John Lee Beatty is fully satisfactory and at times beautiful and evocative. Paul Tazewell's costumes add much flavor to the proceedings, particularly in the African sequence and the 1940s era.
The novel on which this musical is based is largely epistolary with letters written by Celie constituting its greatest part. As we enter the theatre, we see her first letter projected on the curtain. It is a striking example of how a good writer makes one character's very specific situation extend to illuminate all of our lives. It reads, "Dear God, I am fourteen years old. I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me." If you have never sought such an answer, you have lived either an unusually charmed or unexamined life.
I would hazard a guess that the touring The Color Purple has been pruned here and there as it now plays better than it did when it opened on Broadway. It feels less overstuffed and awkwardly cobbled together. While it lacks the brilliance and creativity of the great American musicals, more than before, The Color Purple is an intelligent, arousing and fun filled entertainment. Given the harsh events depicted here, this musical is certainly transformative.
The Color Purple continues performances (Thursday & Sunday 7:30 pm/ Friday & Saturday 8pm/ Matinees on Thursday 1:30 pm/ Saturday, Sunday 2 pm) through December 19, 2009 at NJPAC (Prudential Hall), One Center Street, Newark, NJ 07102. Box Office: 888-466-5722; online www.njpac.org. For more information on the tour, visit www.colorpurple.com.
The Color Purple book by Marsha Norman; music and lyrics by Brenda Russell; Allee Willis; Stephen Bray


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The Australian sharemarket closed out its best financial year since 1997 yesterday, gaining some 16 per cent over the year with the share price of its three best-performing stocks each rising more than 200 per cent.
The ASX 200 benchmark index gained 494.3 points over the year to close at 3532.9 points and remain within reach of last week's all-time highs.
Oil and natural gas producer Hardman Resources was the top performing stock on the ASX 200 for the year, gaining 268 per cent spurred on by its involvement in a successful exploration off the coast of Mauritania in western Africa.
Hardman's share price closed at $1.92 up from 52¢ a year ago with the outlook still favourable given the Chinguetti strike has been given the production go-ahead by Hardman's partners.
David Cassidy, chief strategist at UBS, said the Australian share market could continue its recent run in the next three to six months but would then slow.
The benchmark can gain "between 5 and 10 per cent" over the next 12 months, Mr Cassidy said, with resource stocks expected to continue performing. The performance of energy and insurance stocks has buoyed the market in recent months, he said.
The stock posting the biggest share price loss of the financial year was transport ticketing systems provider ERG, down 33 per cent. The company, with contracts including the smart card ticketing project designed to integrate Sydney's transit system, is expected to return a net loss for 2004.
The share price ended the year at 54¢, down from 81¢.
Other big winners of the financial year included gaming machine manufacturer Aristocrat Leisure, whose stock soared 261 per cent to close at $4.84 from $1.34 having turned around its performance.
"The great irony is that in the 2002-03 financial year it was the No.1 loser falling (around) 75 per cent, so in just 12 months the stock has gone from heaven to hell and back to heaven," Goldman Sachs JBWere traders wrote in a briefing note yesterday: "That is one wild bungy jump."
The market can continue its recent run in the next three to six months but will then slow.
DAVID CASSIDY, UBS strategist
The company has forecast a return to profit in the first half after last year's record loss, boosted by sales of a new game in Japan .
Caltex Australia's share price jumped 210 per cent over the year buoyed by higher margins from its refineries.
Strong demand for oil from China and the US are also seen benefiting the stock which closed at $9.23 up from $2.98 a year ago.
Rounding out the top performers of the year, forestry group Great Southern Plantations rose 180 per cent to $2.88 from $1.03 and nickel miner Minara Resources stock rose 137 per cent to $2.35 from 99¢ after last year's restructure.
However, hearing device manufacturer Cochlear saw its share price dive 29 per cent to $22.72 from $32.13 after issuing two profit warnings in two months with sales growth to be slower than expected.
The other big underperformers of the year were goldminer Lihir Gold which lost 26 per cent to 99¢ from $1.34, pharmaceutical researcher Peptech which lost 24 per cent to $1.32 from $1.73 and pharmaceutical company Chemeq which lost 23 per cent to 99¢ from $1.34.


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On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Joe <j dot commisso at verizon dot net> wrote:
> Fred,
> I removed the nic setting and now it is back to defaulting to
> half-duplex.
Fred is 100% correct. I bet if you go look at Status -> Interfaces, if
you haven't already rebooted the box, you'll see your collisions went
up exponentially after you did that. Except these were late collisions
(m0n0wall doesn't differentiate, some managed switches do) which means
duplex mismatch, and is vastly worse than the normal collisions on
Never force speed and duplex. If you have to, make sure it's done on
both the switch and the device. You can never force full duplex with
unmanaged switches, they require autonegotiation and will fall back to
half duplex if they don't get it. That's a requirement of nway
autonegotiation, to retain backwards compatibility (old gear that
doesn't autonegotiate is half duplex).
Assuming you have just a two interface, LAN and WAN firewall, it's of
no consequence which side you use for the 10 Mb card. I'd leave it as
is until you can upgrade the hardware to something made in this
decade. ;)


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Boston MA (SPX) Mar 27, 2014
Computer chips have stopped getting faster: The regular performance improvements we've come to expect are now the result of chipmakers' adding more cores, or processing units, to their chips, rather than increasing their clock speed.
In theory, doubling the number of cores doubles the chip's efficiency, but splitting up computations so that they run efficiently in parallel isn't easy. On the other hand, say a trio of computer scientists from MIT, Israel's Technion, and Microsoft Research, neither is it as hard as had been feared.
Commercial software developers writing programs for multicore chips frequently use so-called "lock-free" parallel algorithms, which are relatively easy to generate from standard sequential code. In fact, in many cases the conversion can be done automatically.
Yet lock-free algorithms don't come with very satisfying theoretical guarantees: All they promise is that at least one core will make progress on its computational task in a fixed span of time. But if they don't exceed that standard, they squander all the additional computational power that multiple cores provide.
In recent years, theoretical computer scientists have demonstrated ingenious alternatives called "wait-free" algorithms, which guarantee that all cores will make progress in a fixed span of time. But deriving them from sequential code is extremely complicated, and commercial developers have largely neglected them.
In a paper to be presented at the Association for Computing Machinery's Annual Symposium on the Theory of Computing in May, Nir Shavit, a professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; his former student Dan Alistarh, who's now at Microsoft Research; and Keren Censor-Hillel of the Technion demonstrate a new analytic technique suggesting that, in a wide range of real-world cases, lock-free algorithms actually give wait-free performance.
"In practice, programmers program as if everything is wait-free," Shavit says. "This is a kind of mystery. What we are exposing in the paper is this little-talked-about intuition that programmers have about how [chip] schedulers work, that they are actually benevolent."
The researchers' key insight was that the chip's performance as a whole could be characterized more simply than the performance of the individual cores. That's because the allocation of different "threads," or chunks of code executed in parallel, is symmetric. "It doesn't matter whether thread 1 is in state A and thread 2 is in state B or if you just swap the states around," says Alistarh, who contributed to the work while at MIT. "What we noticed is that by coalescing symmetric states, you can simplify this a lot."
In a real chip, the allocation of threads to cores is "a complex interplay of latencies and scheduling policies," Alistarh says. In practice, however, the decisions arrived at through that complex interplay end up looking a lot like randomness. So the researchers modeled the scheduling of threads as a process that has at least a little randomness in it: At any time, there's some probability that a new thread will be initiated on any given core.
The researchers found that even with a random scheduler, a wide range of lock-free algorithms offered performance guarantees that were as good as those offered by wait-free algorithms.
That analysis held, no matter how the probability of thread assignment varied from core to core. But the researchers also performed a more specific analysis, asking what would happen when multiple cores were trying to write data to the same location in memory and one of them kept getting there ahead of the others. That's the situation that results in a lock-free algorithm's worst performance, when only one core is making progress.
For that case, they considered a particular set of probabilities, in which every core had the same chance of being assigned a thread at any given time. "This is kind of a worst-case random scheduler," Alistarh says. Even then, however, the number of cores that made progress never dipped below the square root of the number of cores assigned threads, which is still better than the minimum performance guarantee of lock-free algorithms.
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Montgomery County Government
Montgomery County was recently
named a leading Digital County
in the U.S. in 2016 by the Center
for Digital Government and the
National Association of Counties.
Accepting the award on behalf of
the County was Dieter Klinger
(pictured, center), Chief Operating
Officer of the County's Department of
Technology Services. For additional
information about this award, please
read the County's press release.
Montgomery County CIO Sonny
Segal and ultraMontgomery
program Director Mitsuko Herrera
joined County Executive Ike Leggett
and Councilmember Hans Riemer
to celebrate the partnership
between USA Fiber and White Oak
data center Bytegrid, which
represents a new milestone in the
creation of the Ashburn Fiber
Montgomery County will use information technology to:
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