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Predictions for 2013 EDA/IP
What do people in the EDA and semiconductor industries expect to happen in 2013? This clearly establishes the directions that they intend to focus on and where they will place their dollars...
Ravi Ravikumar - Vice President Marketing, ICScape Inc.
Based on all the early productization work that has gone into the creation of 20nm test chips and flow, it is clear that a tighter EDA-foundry-design information exchange loop will be required to create successful silicon.
This tighter information exchange loop calls for add-on EDA capabilities – like increased model accuracy, double pattering/coloring, handling of DFM/litho/DFY issues, and larger data sizes – thereby creating a point of disruption at 28nm.
2013 will also be the year when distinct sub-28nm tools, flows and deployment models begin to emerge, which will monetize the cost of add-on development.
Shawn McCloud - V.P. Marketing, Calypto Design Systems
Power consideration will become critical not only for mobile applications but also for plugged-in devices as the cost of power consumption and cooling is getting prohibitive. Designing for Power will play a bigger role at 28nm as thermal and supply integrity force engineers to design for low power earlier in the design cycle. Porting legacy RTL to smaller technology nodes means more designers will opt for automatic optimization and let the tool do the power optimization for them. Automatic power optimization tools will become a precursor to synthesis and in fact, there will be a need for tighter collaboration between RTL power optimization and logic synthesis tools.
Lip Bu Tan – CEO, Cadence
The need for mixed-signal design capabilities will broaden as more SoCs integrate analog functionality for both traditional user interfaces and high-speed data interfaces. Low-power design will be essential for mobile devices and large data centers. The pressure for performance and functionality will lead semiconductor companies to move to advanced process nodes, including 14nm FinFET technology, and this will require improvements to design tools and flows along with deep collaboration throughout the semiconductor design ecosystem.
Designers will be faced with increasingly complex chips and systems, but time-to-market pressures will not ease. This will drive EDA tools to support higher levels of abstraction and to facilitate hardware/software co-development. Functional verification tools and methodologies will need to handle large mixed-signal SOCs.
And the growing use of third-party IP will place increasing demands on IP verification methodologies and support.
Brett Cline - VP of Marketing and Sales, Forte Design Systems
IP reuse has long promised great productivity benefits. However, the functionality of the existing design rarely is exactly the same as the specification for the new design. Add in new process technologies, clock speeds, and quality metrics and witness the quick demise of a well laid-out RTL reuse plan.
The trend toward higher levels of abstraction will push further into IP development in 2013 because the cost of creating, verifying and maintaining hardware blocks as RTL code is prohibitive. Designs modeled at higher levels of abstraction are easier to develop and maintain, making functional IP reuse much easier. When combined with high-level synthesis, these models can be retargeted to new process nodes to meet more aggressive performance targets. Most important, designs can be optimized quickly for area, power, and performance from a single source –– something just not possible with RTL code.
Design teams worldwide continue to be concerned about power management, power efficiency and low-power design. The EDA industry will unveil new power-reduction tools in 2013 and higher-level power optimization strategies will continue to gain steam.
Trent McConaghy - CTO and co-founder, Solido Design Automation
Designers moving to handle double patterning parasitics, FinFET model sets that go beyond fast fast / slow slow corners, more power modes, more loads, and more parasitics, will cause PVT corner count to go from a dozen, to 10^3 to 10^6 corners. Bleeding-edge designers have already discovered this issue. In response, tools that can perform fast, trustworthy verification across 10^3 to 10^6 corners will become mainstream, as they get mandated into signoff flows. Mismatch-aware design will become more widespread and less ad-hoc, as designers learn to leverage tools that allow them to continue doing corner-based design (but now with corners that include local variation).
Statistically-aware memory design at the array level will also become more widespread to better connect chip-level tradeoffs with cell-level design. Post-silicon calibration and trimming have been around a while to help manage variation, but its complexity has grown literally exponentially, and ad-hoc methodologies are starting to break. Thus methodologies that reconcile calibration and variation-aware design in a more rigorous fashion will become more widespread.
Finally, since this all requires simulation, the simulation wars will continue to be hot, but the lynchpin will be in the smart selection and management of simulations by task-oriented variation design tools.
Shiv Sikand - co-founder and VP engineering, IC ManageWhen IP blocks are distributed and reused, they change in an incremental fashion. Dependency management is needed for communication through this space of IP derivatives. By retaining and encapsulating the relevant properties, bug information, and design history with the IP, these attributes can then be propagated throughout the IP's of versions across the design and design derivatives across the enterprise. For example, with today's complexities, the context of where the IP is used in a design can be nearly as important as the IP itself; you cannot expect an IP placed at one design location to necessarily behave identically to the same IP placed elsewhere. Thus companies must ensure they have the infrastructure to promptly communicate such newly discovered information about the IP, such as general bugs and when the IP doesn't function as expected under a certain condition.
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This Valentine's Day a heartfelt invitation is going out to all Lynn women urging them to enter Cancer Research UK's Race for Life.
Event organisers are asking all women to join the army of runners determined to take on cancer by entering a Race for Life 5k event at Houghton Hall, on July 22.
Race for Life, is an inspiring women-only 5k run that is held all over the UK.
Last year, 1,877 women took part in Race for Life at Houghton Hall and raised £86,058.
This year, Cancer Research UK are seeking 2,000 women and girls to stride out to help realise a target of £94,375.
Rachel Parratt, Cancer Research UK's East Anglia events manager, said: "Valentine's Day is a great opportunity to spend time with the people we love. And for that reason it's also the perfect date to enter Race for Life."
To enter visit www.raceforlife.org or call 0845 600 6050.
Rachel said: "Race for Life events are not competitive. They are not about being fit or fast. Instead, they are an amazing way to celebrate life but also remember those who have been lost to the disease.
"Participants may be walking or running but what's inescapable is the power and strength that comes from thousands of women joining together to confront cancer."
Cancer Research UK receives no Government funding for its ground-breaking work but with help from the people of West Norfolk the charity intends to beat cancer sooner.

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San Francisco police have seized three assault weapons in two separate arrests on June 19 and 23. In the first arrest, police at Hahn Street and Sunnydale Avenue followed the driver of a car who began eluding police. On Rey Street, the driver stopped his car, jumped out and began running. The suspect was later found in a backyard on the 400 block of Argonaut Street. Officers found an assault weapon that the suspect had been carrying and that he had ditched in the backyard. Taken into custody was Edmund Burch, 27, of San Francisco.
In the June 23 incident, police responded to a report of two persons with guns on Kiska Road in the Bayview district. Officers began searching the area and saw two males running towards Oakdale Avenue. Police finally located the suspects on the 1300 block of Ingalls Street and took them into custody. The suspects, both juveniles, were each in possession of an assault rifle.
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Staples-Motley to take on Sauk Centre in 6AA final
Staples-Motley advanced to the Section 6AA girls' basketball final by defeating Benson Tuesday in the West championship. Meanwhile, Sauk Centre downed New London-Spicer in the East on the way to Friday's title game at St. Cloud State's Halenback
Staples-Motley 57
Benson 53
Staples-Motley defeated Benson 57-53 Tuesday at the University of Minnesota, Morris to win the Section 6AA-West title.
In the last 14 minutes of the second half, neither team had more than a six-point lead, which belonged to the Braves. In the final 6:20, the biggest lead was four.
It came down to one key sequence: a jump ball call to Staples-Motley with 48 seconds left and the subsequent basket by eighth-grader Jaelin Beachy to break the tie.
The Braves had spent the last two minutes trailing the Cardinals, when Emily Auch completed a 4-0 run to tie the game.
The Cardinals counterpunched with Nikki Pearson's three-pointer with 1:50 left to take a 53-50 lead. But Benson came right back with Julia Ahrndt's three-point hook to tie the game.
After a Benson timeout, a Staples-Motley player slipped in to tie up the ball with 48.2 seconds left. With the possession arrow not pointing in the Braves' direction, the Cardinals gained the advantage.
Fourteen seconds later, Beachy, the daughter of Staples-Motley head coach Arden Beachy, made the shot to give the Cardinals the lead. Abby Smith made two free throws to seal the win.
Benson controlled most of the first half and held a 24-18 lead at halftime. To start the second half, the Braves went on a 9-0 run to take a 29-20 lead. Staples-Motley rattled off seven straight points to reel Benson back in. Later, the Braves had two 6-point leads, only to have the last one cut in half by Jasmine McGillvray's three-pointer.
Pearson led Staples-Motley with 14 points, followed by McGillvray with 12, all on three-pointers.
Auch led all scorers with 17 points and Ahrndt had 14, including four 3-pointers.
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New London-Spicer 32
Maren Greenwaldt drained four 3-pointers on the way to 18 points and Kali Peschel added 17 points as Sauk Centre defeated New London-Spicer 45-32 for the Section 6AA-East title Tuesday night at St. John's University.
Greenwaldt and Peschel alone outpointed the Wildcats' offense, which made 13-of-44 shots (29.5 percent) and coughed up the ball 13 times.
This was the rubber game of three meetings between the West Central Conference North co-champions and the one that mattered most.
The Wildcats upended the Mainstreeters 45-41 in New London on Feb. 23, Sauk Centre's first loss after 23 wins to start the season. Sauk Centre had won the first meeting 63-58 on Jan. 19.
The No. 1-ranked Wildcats led only once, 3-2, on Justine Dammermann's trey at 15:17. It was a good start, but New London-Spicer would sink only one more three-pointer and trailed 23-17 at halftime.
Out of the locker room, Karli Wendlandt, the Wildcats' senior forward, busted inside for a pair of baskets to close the gap to two points, 23-21. But Peschel, a 6-foot sophomore guard, answered with three straight baskets on equally aggressive moves to pull ahead 30-21. Greenwaldt drained a three-pointer for a 10-point lead.
The Wildcats, who were seeded behind Sauk Centre in the sub-section, never got closer than eight points the rest of the way.
Long-range shooters Taylor Thompsen, Dammermann and Cassie Ziemer got few good looks from beyond the arc.
Wendlandt finished with 12 points, Abbey Knisely and Dammermann had seven each. Ziemer and Wendlandt each grabbed seven rebounds.
The Wildcats got to the line just seven times and made four.
Sauk Centre returned four starters from the squad that lost to the Wildcats at this same juncture a year ago on this court, 51-29. New London-Spicer went on to place third at the state tournament.


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Senator Fuschillo Sponsors Free Prostate Cancer Screening Program
New York State Senator Charles J. Fuschillo, Jr. (R-Merrick) recently partnered with the Integrated Medical Foundation and Bostwick Laboratories to offer a free prostate cancer screening program at the Massapequa Library.
"The best way to successfully treat prostate cancer is by detecting it early, which is why it's so important that men get screened. I'm pleased so many residents were able to take advantage of this important screening program, and I thank the Integrated Medical Foundation and Bostwick Laboratories for partnering with me to provide this service," said Senator Fuschillo.
Prostate Cancer is the second most common cancer in men, with approximately one in six men being diagnosed with it in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. Early detection is vital to successfully treating prostate cancer.
Men who were unable to participate in the screening program but would like additional information about free prostate cancer screening programs can call Senator Fuschillo's office at 516-882-0630.
Senator Fuschillo (center) is pictured at the recent prostate cancer program he sponsored with (l-r) Rhonda Samuel, Executive Director of the Integrated Medical Foundation, IMF Board members Dr. Marc Schumer and Dr. Michael Ziegelbaum, who performed the screenings, and Mary Rogers of Bostwick Laboratories.


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BTD buys Miller Welding, to focus on wind energy
BTD Manufacturing, Inc., Detroit Lakes, announced recently that it has acquired Miller Welding & Iron Works of Washington, Ill.
BTD Manufacturing is an operating company of Otter Tail Corporation.
The transaction, the terms of which were not disclosed, involved an exchange of cash for assets.
Miller Welding employs 120 people and generated annual revenues of approximately $26 million in 2007.
BTD Chief Executive Officer Chuck Hoge, who is also the manufacturing platform vice president at Otter Tail Corporation, said the acquisition will open up opportunities to expand in existing and new markets.
"This is welcome news for the respective customers of BTD and Miller Welding. The complementing production capabilities greatly expand the scope and capacity of what both companies can now offer," Hoge said.
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Founded by Richard Miller in 1965, Miller Welding is a custom job shop fabricator and finisher. The company manufactures parts, metal fabrications and machined parts for off-road equipment, mining machinery, oil fields and offshore oil rigs, wind industry components, broadcast antennas and farm equipment.
Based near Peoria, the company serves several major equipment manufacturers in the region and nationwide, including Caterpillar, Komatsu and Gardner Denver.
With the transition to BTD ownership, Richard Miller will retire as president and continue on as a consultant. Sam Miller, currently the vice president, will be appointed president of Miller Welding. tall, graceful and artistic; the other, athletic, perky and cute.
As a complete one-stop shop, BTD offers design, engineering, prototyping and short-run functions, metal stamping, robotic and hand welding, spot welding, finishing machining, riveting, assembly, plating, heat treating and special packaging.
With this acquisition, BTD now employs more than 580 people across its three Minnesota locations and in Illinois. For more information, visit the company's website at www.btdmfg.com.
Otter Tail Corporation has diversified interests, including an electric utility, manufacturing, health services, food ingredient processing and infrastructure businesses which include plastics, construction and transportation. Its stock trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the symbol OTTR.


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Customer assurance of transportation throughput through the
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Randy White, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, is visiting conservative churches and organizations to gather support for his second run for office.
The former write-in candidate in 2006 is an advocate for Second Amendment rights, tax reform, local jobs, education reform, veteran care and honesty in politics.
Before deciding to work in politics full-time, White was an active member in two churches as a pastor. According to his campaign message, White believes he was called to a political life by God.
He received a Bachelor's of Science degree from St. Louis Christian College in 1998; majoring in Christian Ministry. He has worked with the Illinois State Police Academy, the National Guard Enduring Families program in Iowa, as well as 9/11 and Sri Lanka tsunami victims.
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MTV Lebanon's hit talent show X Factor Arabia [2] is getting even more of the star treatment as it enters its third round, with judges calling on their celeb pals to help them make their final team selections.
Offering fans of the show an exclusive sneak peak into the glamorous houses of the star panel, this part of the grueling selection process will see favorites from the Arab celebosphere popping in to lend a hand.
According to online magazine, Sayidaty.net, UAE star Hussein Al Jasmi [3]will be calling on popular Saudi singer Mohammad Abdo to help him make his pick. On the ladies side, Lebanese lovely Elissa has asked Moroccan singer Fudel for some help while Carole Samaha [4]has called on Egyptian BFF Ahmad Makki.
But perhaps most exciting of all, Lebanese superstar Nawal Al Zoghbi is set to make her first ever TV talent show appearance as she offers some support to Wael Kfoury.
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* Analyst says company likely to be broken up
* CEO: Too soon to say if firm will shrink
* Shares tumble 24 percent
* Investors get 70 percent-plus in company
* Analyst says company likely to be broken up
* CEO: Too soon to say if firm will shrink
* Shares tumble 24 percent
By John McCrank and Angela Moon
NEW YORK, Aug 6 (Reuters) - A group of investors rescued
Knight Capital Group Inc in a $400 million deal that
keeps the embattled leader in U.S. equities market-making in
business, but comes at a huge cost to existing shareholders.
Chief Executive Tom "TJ" Joyce told Reuters the new
investors supported him and his management team, but it was too
early to tell whether the firm would shrink or keep the same
strategy it had before last week's losses.
Yet there were immediate signs the rescue gave Knight back
some of the market confidence it had lost, as two large
brokerages resumed routing orders through the company and new
data showed volumes picking up from last week's lows.
Blackstone Group LP, rival market maker Getco and
financial services companies TD Ameritrade Holding Corp
, Stifel Nicolaus, Jefferies Group Inc
and Stephens Inc purchased preferred shares for what works out
to be a 73 percent stake in the company, Knight said.
Knight was the largest U.S. provider of retail market-making
in New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq-listed stocks, buying and
selling shares for clients. It also provides liquidity to equity
markets by stepping in to buy and sell stocks, using its own
capital to ensure orderly activity.
Knight shares closed down 24.2 percent at $3.07. Those who
held Knight shares before Monday will feel the pain of the
company's rescue the most acutely. The massive dilution that
accompanies the deal means their stakes are worth just a
fraction of what they were days ago.
Roger Freeman, analyst at Barclays, said the dilution due to
the new investment would imply Knight's value is about $1 a
share. He has a $3 price target on the stock, but said it was
too early to estimate how earnings would be affected in 2013.
The rescuing companies will buy preferred stock convertible
at $1.50 each with a 2 percent dividend to save Knight, which
was brought to its knees last week by a software glitch that
caused errant trading in dozens of stocks.
The preferred shares are convertible into about 267 million
common shares, Knight said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission filing.
"As a financial investment, Knight is a very valuable firm,
but it needed liquidity and if it didn't have liquidity, a lot
of that value was going to go away," Getco CEO Daniel Coleman
told Reuters in an interview. "So we thought it was a pretty
good bet that by providing liquidity we could preserve that
value and perhaps increase it."
Stephens Inc Chief Operating Officer Curt Bradbury, in an
interview, said he was long-time friends with Joyce and that his
firm approached Knight in that vein on Friday. He said that
while there may have been some negotiations by others on terms,
Stephens was fine with the term sheet as it was presented.
As part of the deal, the investor group will take three
board seats, with TD Ameritrade and Blackstone expected to get
one each, a source familiar with the situation said, adding that
details were still being worked out.
JP Morgan analyst Kenneth Worthington, in a client note
after the initial reports of the rescue on Sunday night, said
the deal presaged Knight's eventual breakup.
"We don't expect investors to value Knight as an ongoing
entity given its technology glitch generated a pretax loss equal
to (about) 30 percent of shareholders equity and nearly wiped
out the company in just 30-45 minutes of trading," he said.
Worthington cited the reverse mortgage lender Urban
Financial and foreign exchange platform Hotspot FX as assets
that could draw interest, but Joyce said it was too soon to say
what would happen to the firm's assets.
"Right now we kind of like our footprint and we will
continue to execute on the strategy we had before the error took
place, but as we kind of get back to business and do our annual
budgeting and strategic reviews at the end of the year, that
will be something that we will have to address," he said.
The New York Stock Exchange said it would temporarily
transfer Knight's market-making responsibilities on more than
500 stocks -- and related Knight employees -- to Chicago-based
Getco, until the recapitalization is complete.
The NYSE consulted with securities regulators about
transferring those responsibilities, according to people
familiar with the matter, amid regulators' intense focus on
ensuring the markets were not more broadly impacted. The sources
declined to be named because they are not authorized to speak to
the media.
Vanguard Group, one customer that pulled orders from Knight
last week, said Monday it was again routing there, as did
E*Trade Financial Corp.
But even if Knight has been saved for now, the company could
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LOS ANGELES -- When Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez kept Tyler Pastornicky out of the starting lineup for three consecutive games, the rookie shortstop did not allow the decision to shake his confidence. Instead, he took advantage of an opportunity to clear his head and refine his swing mechanics. The results proved promising, as Pastornicky returned to the Braves lineup on Tuesday night and produced the first three-hit performance of his young career. His ninth-inning leadoff single against Dodgers closer Javy Guerra put him in position to score the game's decisive run. "It's one of those things where I kind of put myself in that slump," Pastornicky said. "I don't think it was one of those physical things that I changed or did. I think it was just pressing. I thought I swung the bat well in the first week and then I think I started to try to do too much after that, rather than just going out there and letting it happen."
Before Pastornicky raised his batting average from .171 to .227 (10-for-44) with Tuesday's 3-for-3 performance, Chipper Jones told him to just play the game the way he had during his Minor League days. The 22-year-old shortstop had never played in the Majors before this year. "All a kid like that needs is confidence," Jones said. "Hopefully [Tuesday night] will propel him."


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If signed by the President, the bipartisan measure would replace requirements for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to accept specific media types, such as audio and audiovisual records, with a generalized requirement to receive "recorded information." It would also add digital reproductions to the categories of authorized reproductions for federal agency recordkeeping, authorize NARA to create centers to digitize records, and add deletion, corruption, and erasure to the current list of allowable methods for destroying federal records.
"Despite the rapid migration over the last several decades toward electronic communication and recordkeeping, federal recordkeeping laws are still focused on the media in which a record is preserved, not the information that constitutes the record itself," wrote the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in its report to the House. "To correct this flaw, this legislation will shift the onus of recordkeeping onto the record and not the media it is contained in as a way to better enable NARA, and other agencies, to handle growing amounts of electronic communication."
The legislation also addresses a number of potential records security issues by further restricting access to presidential records for those convicted of an archives-related crime and by explicitly codifying requirements for federal employees to file electronic communications regarding official business done through personal messaging accounts with their agency.
Separate from the management of electronic communications, the legislation also allows a former president to request that an incoming president maintain the privileged status of records that would otherwise be made public by the National Archives.
In the absence of this legislation, "the process for dealing with claims of privilege by a former president has been left to the discretion of each incoming president through the issuance of executive orders," government transparency groups wrote in a 2011 letter to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. "Those orders have varied widely, and have had an impact on the public's access to presidential records."
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MFDoomand DangerMousemight have conquered TheNewYorkTimes,but their combined superpowers are still no match for the mighty Internet, which leaks a track from the mysterious Dangerdoomcollaboration a week ago today. Doom's last two releases (Madvillain with Madlib and MM..Food?)and Danger Mouse's infamous Jay-Z/Beatles GreyAlbumare a strange (and daunting) setup for an even stranger project, apparently now absorbed by the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim: a hip-hop cartoon with a guy named Dangerdoom (an unstoppable masked copyright violator with a fantastic elastic beer belly) that's apparently a stonier American answer to the Gorillaz. Leakee "Mince Meat" is a spacey, simple song that bridges the stylistic gap between Doom rapping about things you can eat and drink (cognac, rum, chicken pot pie) to things you might see in cartoons (Bugs Bunny, Sylvester the Cat). So the world remains eager to hear more, especially with the resources that must have backed up this collaboration: like Doom says, anything they wanted, they took.
So, no, they're not playing. But pretend they are, and leak your own secret tracks in the men's room at the Blue Caf with DJAtrochezat club AudioOne.
The original ProjectBlowedalbum avoided the LA-compilation curse—under which this writer still labors; contact firstname.lastname@example.com if you would like 1 billion unsold copies of a record featuring the Rolling Blackouts' first non-Stone-Temple-Pilots-sponsored studio sessions—and established a benchmark of independent West Coast hip-hop. Ten years later, with the new anniversary 2xLP out now on DeCon/Project Blowed, the new voices match easily with the old—like CustomerService,who wiggle in with the heavyset "Live @ the Blowed" ("I'm a problem/With no solution!") or Subtitle,who helps rap about uploading JPGs as he waits for his new YoungDangerousHeartLP to come out. That's a real credit to Project Blowed, with its hip-hop that really don't stop—in fact, longtime vets like Aceyaloneand Busdriverdeliver some of the hairiest verses on the comp, over beats that flip from baked to blown-out and back. The celebration tour at the GlassHousegrabs Aceyalone and Busdriver as well as DJDrez,Medusa,HipHopKclan(featuring EllayKhuleand hopefully Pterrodacto),CVE,Customer Service, AbstractRudeand probably more; whatever oxygen-poor part of your brain makes you go to cattle calls like the Hootenanny needs to send you out to this instead. Like the man says: "This is not classical music, so don't be afraid to vibe with it!" Related: Have you looked at Jeff Chang's Can'tStopWon'tStophip-hop history book yet?
ALSO: Take a negative approach to Detroit rock shocktroopers EasyActionat Alex's;BadReligionpicks up Suite VI of their operetta BillyGnosis:IntotheUnknown,so see them feel them touch theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem at HOB.
Wistful bro-folkie (from, like, Costa Mesa, not Muskogee) MattCostadoubles up for shows at the CoachHouseand Long Beach's spectacular TourDesArtistes,which ropes in several blocks of the East Village for Costa, Dramarama(!?!), WaxApples,the Weekly-loves-themGreaterCalifornia,a Boliviandancetroupe,an experimental band called Xn,and best of all, the Soundwalk2005Party-Til-You-Reconsider-The-Effect-Of-Manipulated-Sound-On-Your-Immediate-Environmentbus(repeat: an actual Long Beach Transit Bus evolved into a sound-art installation). Costa is set to remora on to an arena tour with neo-James-Taylor megastar Jack Johnson uncomfortably soon, yet tonight, he is all yours. Contacted at his current job working security for a Seal Beach junkyard, Weeklyfreelancer Rex Reason remembers why he always predicted Costa would get famous: "He hits all the best sonic territory that the Monsters of Folk ran around about 40 years ago, but he manages to do it without too much fey nostalgia or hippy-drippy lyricism, and once in a while brings something like some bad-assed slide guitar to his sound. And if anyone needs a left taillight for a '64 Ford Falcon, let me know."
AND: The SugarHillGangas part of the Freestyle Explosion tour at the ArrowheadPondwith Miami cheese-machine StevieB("Party Your Body") and LisaLisa(sans Cult Jam?) and the CoverGirls(actually Svengali-ed by infamous producers the Latin Rascals, whose mixes we just featured on the brutally neglected RadarOrangeblog). 1998 wakes up from its sugar coma with a lot of brightly colored clothing and songs that rhyme "love" with "above."
ALSO: DJRockyRock(at Detroit)wins awards, helps kids and collects mechanical royalties from a remix of a Black Eyed Peas song; Kasabian(at the Galaxy)sacrifice their creative integrity to remind us that Primal Scream ruled.
Sad when your interview with BrightEyes'ConorOberstdoesn't work out; worse when your interview with Conor Oberst's quasi-employed second cousin living in Queens doesn't work out either. So this is all we got: ITEM! Conor was really moody at family reunions in Iowa during the late 1990s and sort of kept to himself and ITEM! When Conor Oberst made Time magazine (as "Indie Rock's Dark Prince") in January, certain well-meaning aunts would send copies of the article to certain second cousins—second cousins then so broke they were considering selling homemade CDRs of their own inept blues guitar in the NYC subway with stickers reading "FROM THE SECOND COUSIN OF BRIGHT EYES' CONOR OBERST!" to make beans-and-rice money—and include little notes asking, "So don't you play some kind of music too?" With the Faintas Oberst's digitized backing band at the Grove.
ALSO: Godspeed You Black Sonic Youth with the Antarcticans'guitarkestra at the GlassHouse.
We are reminded by fed-up fans that Roberto from the NewFidelityneither drinks like a longshoreman, comes from Cleveland nor plays guitar ("Meet a Need," June 3); instead, he enjoys blank-verse poetry, cultivating bonsai and playing 20-minute slap-bass solos for his lovely wife. At Detroit.
New Release Day! So buy something old: the re-reissued SoulDrums,by Bernard"Pretty"Purdie,the dapper drummer who set a standard for funk and soul percussion on this unrelenting '68 LP. Besides session work with James Brown, jazz sax player King Curtis, Louis Armstrong and—contentiously, after an unproved 1993 claim—the Beatles, who supposedly dubbed over Ringo's lackluster tracks, Renaissance man Purdie also scored Lialeh,the porno now known as the "black DeepThroat"(and that sleazy soundtrack is out now on Seattle's excellent Light in the Attic label). SoulDrums'monstrous production and Purdie's ferocious style make for a widely recognized but rarely available classic. Find it if you mind it.
The Strokes stole the vocals off the BlueVan'sretro-rock and then the Hives stole their whole career—how many Scandinavian Standells fans can one hemisphere be expected to take? Sad that the Van missed the party, too, since they showed up in such great costumes: this Who/Creation/Animals drag with soft-like-a-vintage-T-shirt vox is so lovingly done that, with worse production, the Blue Van could have maybe faked their way into history, like Texas's Uncalled 4, who convinced collectors they were a punk band from 1979 even though they were really a bunch of fakers from 1985. At HOBwith bad-news hair-wavers HotHotHeat.
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ALSO: MeanRedsand WiresOnFirerescue sassy hardcore from the oldies in the Blood Brothers and Das Oath and return it to the classically trained high school kids from whence it came. At ChainReaction.
RollingStonecribs everything Chris Ziegler ever wrote for today's article on the Willowz,yet fails to report how the Willowz recently soaked Chris for $200 worth of sushi at an Anaheim Benihana's, claiming, oh, no, don't worry, man, we'll only get appetizers, and then they'd order Alaskan snowball tuna cheeks and four pitchers of Asahi when Chris would get up to use the restroom.
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It hasn't been much of a beginning for the NBA's Atlantic Division. The Atlantic was created last summer when the league pushed the number of divisions in the Eastern and Western Conferences to three from two.
The inclusion of the expansion Charlotte Bobcats into the East made for a handy 15 teams and three five-team divisions for both sides. That meant three division winners per conference with another five post-season spots taken up by the teams with the best records.
Problem is, the Atlantic has been more like the Titanic. The NBA's new baby included four teams, the Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers, New York Knicks and Toronto Raptors, that posted losing records last year. With New Jersey's freefall from NBA finalist in 2003 to typical Atlantic doormat, the worst division in team sports is at least keeping most everyone, mathematically at least, in the playoff race.
No NBA team over the last decade has won a division with a record as poor as the frontrunning 33-29 Celtics.
Does that make the Atlantic the worst division in NBA or even sports history?
Nah. There have been NBA and NHL seasons where entire divisions have been in the red.
The 1975-76 Milwaukee Bucks, having erred slightly in trading Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Los Angeles for no one of consequence in the previous off-season, won the Western Conference's Midwest Division despite winning only 38 of 82 games (.463).
Four seasons before, the Baltimore Bullets used precisely the same number of wins to claim the East's Central Division.
Only on one other occasion has a losing team, the 1956-57 St. Louis Hawks, a 34-38 outfit, captured a division with a losing record.
With a stricter standard for post-season play in place for baseball, it's no wonder that no team with a losing record has ever claimed a division title.
The closest was the 1973 New York Mets who won the National League East with an 82-79 mark. Bob Rosen of the Elias Sports Bureau pointed out that one team, the 1994 Rangers seemed destined to be the first. The Rangers stumbled to a 52-62 record when baseball went on strike. The season and the World Series were wiped out by the work stoppage so while the record is final, it's not admissible for our study.
There has never been a division-winning NFL team with a sub-500 record,Rosen said.
Closest was the 1985 Cleveland Browns who won the AFC Central crown with an 8-8 record.
Only twice since the CFL went to two divisions in 1936 has a .500 team managed a division title. The Edmonton Eskimos won the West in 2001 with a 9-9 record. Hamilton and Montreal finished with 8-8 records atop the Eastern Conference in 1985. The Ticats were awarded first place in a tiebreaker.
The 1968 expansion created the NHL's Western Division, a collection of six expansion teams that in its first three years produced only two winning teams.
There have been worse. The top team in the spectacularly bad Smythe Division in the 1976-77 season was the 32-39-9 St. Louis Blues. Worse yet was the Smythe in 1978-79, winners of the bad division trifecta.
Not only were none of the four Smythe teams, Chicago, Vancouver, St. Louis and Colorado unable to manage a winning record, the entire division won fewer games (87), than the Islanders and Flyers, the top two winners in the Patrick. For good measure, no Smythe Division player was able to crack the league's top 10 scorers.
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Natasha Hamilton: Don't Call Me 4x4
As derogatory terms go, the phrase '4 x 4' to describe a woman who has four children with four different partners is particularly nasty in my view.
So it's little wonder that Natasha Hamilton has spoken out about her experience of being called this nasty nickname - and specifically about the trickle effect it's having on her kids.
The Daily Star reports:
The Atomic Kitten singer recently split up from partner Ritchie Neville, who she had a baby with.
Speaking on This Morning, Natasha says people have been "trolling" her and her children because she has four kids with four different dads.
She said she could deal with the cruel comments but they have now started "trickling down" to her children.
My heart sank when I read this story because it seems unfathomable to me that in this day and age people see fit to have a pop at mothers over the parentage of their children.
And, as This Morning host James Martin pointed out, men who father children with several different partners are rarely - if ever - subjected to the same degree of abuse.
"Hugh Grant had two kids in one year with two different women," Natasha added.
What's worse than the idea of any mum in the public eye having to tolerate and protect her kids from this kind of trolling is the fact that people took to Twitter to berate Hamilton for complaining about her lot.
Will we ever reach the age of live and let live when it comes to parenthood?
What's your view on this story? Do you applaud Natasha Hamilton for speaking up about the issue? Or are you on the side of those who criticise her for her the shape and size of her family? Share your thoughts by leaving us a comment or joining the debate on our Facebook page.
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- Claire R.
It's no one else's business other than hers and the fathers to her children.
- Beverley S.
Think 4 children by 4 different men will always attract negative publicity.
- Rach H.
Is has nothing to do with anyone else though. So it shouldn't really matter for others to comment on.
- Beverley S.
Not saying it's right. Personally, the thought of 4 of my children having different fathers would fill me with shame. That's what I judge this on.
- Samantha H.
But it would have been your choice to have four children to four different fathers tho wouldn't it? So why do that if you would feel ashamed. In this day and age I still can't believe how judgemental people are
- Beverley S.
As above. My personal opinion.
- Samantha H.
Does it matter tho as long as the kids are happy loved and healthy?
- Beverley S.
Not at all. X
- Carrie G.
There's no need for any of this! As long as her children are loved and cared for who cares who their fathers are. People need to concentrate on their own lives (which I doubt are perfect!)
- Susan H.
What does it matter? The children are healthy, looked after and well loved, leave her be!
- Sarah D.
I'm pretty sure she didn't plan to have 4 kids to 4 fathers, but you know what, life rarely goes the way we plan it. She's a mother of 4 it's as simple as that. So long as she loves and cares for her kids, the fact that they have different dad should never be an issue.
- Lisa K.
Thank you, I couldn't have put that better myself.
- Amy E.
Stupid , Ive 4kids to 3men i can tell you i didn't friggin want that to happen but that's life ,shit happens . As long as she is a great parent nothing else matters x
- Kaz C.
And it works both ways, why do we never focus on the men, always the women. Such a sexist society that always looks to shame women
- Melanie A.
What difference does it make as long as her kids are happy, healthy, loved and are raised to be there for each as they grow up and are treated the same then it doesn't matter if she has 10 kids by 10 different fathers X
- Jenny R.
Does it matter as long as the kids are happy
- Lisa L.
At the end of the day she's a mother and derogatory remarks will harm and hurt her children.....would you really be proud of yourself if you did that?
- Helen Y.
I think it's more the fact that she was with some of the fathers for a very short time before having a child with them.
- Rachael S.
And what does it matter. I would rather my kids have different fathers and be happy with our life then have 3 kids with the same man and be stuck in a unhappy relationship.
- Helen Y.
It matters because children should be brought into a secure stable relationship, not someone you've been with with for 3 months!! That's what happened with the last guy from five. Plus, I never said she should have stayed in an unhappy relationship, just that she probably should have gotten to know them better before bringing children into the equation.
- Dani M.
I fell pregnant 3 months into my relationship with my boyfriend. 8 years later we have another 2 children and he is now my husband
- Helen Y.
I'm not knocking people who have done that Dani, however it's something that she has repeated time and again. I'm well aware that hundreds of people fall pregnant early in a relationship and stay together but that's not what happened here.
- Dani M.
Fair point
- Rachael S.
people are bringing children into this world without fathers or mothers anymore through ivf and surrogacy. It doesn't make a child's life unstable because they have different dads or how long you have known the father. The child knows no different.
- Laura M.
Who r we to judge. X
- Laura F.
my auntie was the same, 20odd years of marriage later they're still together. If they had've split up she could be in a similar situation as when you're with someone you do tend to think it's for keeps at the time but then shit happens haha x
- Rachel D.
there is quite a bit of research around that suggests it does make a child's life unstable whether it's all they've known or not.
- Rachael S.
I don't believe it's the fact they haven't got a father living with them though I think it's the fact that a lot of the time the parents don't get along which does cause the child stress and anxieties.
- Rachel D.
Rachael Spencer Slater very true, yes an abusive relationship is very stressful for children to witness but her children are not witnessing a loving relstionship, they aren't seeing how in a secure, committed relationship disagreements happen but they are resolved in a caring and respectful way-they are seeing that the minute mum and mums new boyfriend don't get along they split up..........that's incredibly damaging, unsettling and anxiety inducing for children.
- Katie T.
I've two friends who are '4×4' both of them have happy well adjusted children who are all achieving highly in education (in two of those 8 children thats despite having autism, aspergers and the associated ocd and other fixations) and life in general, father present and envolved or not. By your measure any child who looses a parent to terminal illness is being done badly by their remaining parent. I'm a '3×2' and I promise you, kicking out the eldests alcoholic father was not taken lightly. And what's to say that it is her leaving the father and not the father leaving her? It's not always the woman's doing and if women still are carrying the attitude you have to the family unit it's unsupprising that domestic abuse, rape, and general misogyny is still so prevelent in today's society. Everyone, no matter how independent, self assured and rock'n'roll they are, wants to have that person in their life that is always there, it's just sometimes you think it's that person in front of you and it's not.
- Emma S.
Why is the comparison here with abusive relationships not long term, stable, loving relationships? Couldn't care less how many kids she has by how many dads, none.of my business but it's interesting how people swoop on abusive relationships to reason.
- Rachel D.
Katie Turnbull I don't think anyone should stay in an abusive relationship, and I have every respect and support for men or women who are raising children on their own. I'm not suggesting that a single parent does a lesser job than two parents. I have friends who are raising children alone and do a much better job than I do! And your comment about loosing a parent isn't part of this debate. I met, dated, lived with then married my husband 8 years before deciding we would bring children into our lives-we knew each other inside out, any problems we encounter we know we can resolve together. I want our children to see that and that be the norm for them-to feel secure and look for that type of relationship when they are older. I'm not saying that marriage is perfect but if we can teach them respect by example I'm hoping if they find themselves in a disrespectful relationship they will recognise it and not decide to bring children into it.
- Rachael S.
Not every bodies life works out to plan, my 1st child her dad walked out when I was pregnant, my 2nd child his dad decided to turn to drugs and alcohol and make our lives a living hell, so I had to leave and make a better life for my kids. My 3rd child me and his father are now married and all my children see a very loving relationship every day and he is a great father to my other 2 children also. Obviously you go into a relationship thinking it will last but thankfully not all do else I wouldn't of had my other 2 children.
- Katie T.
It's not that it is a reason, it's just that it could be. As I said, the father of my eldest is an alcoholic. I realised the dire situation I was in just before my child was born, it took a couple more months for me to pluck up the courage and get arrangements in place to leave him and several years longer to pay off debts he'd run up in my name. You can't say that he was abusive exactly, but he did punch me in the face, while I was holding a 2 month old child, because he was drunk and I wouldn't give him money to buy more beer. He also in a drunken rage flipped over a sofa I was sitting on at 7 months pregnant. But I didn't view it as abusive at the time. I still don't really now, although it was, 8 years later, but he did emotionally and financially abuse me constantly the whole time I was with him. I don't think it's a comparison to abusive relationships, I think it's a point being made that having one parent in the home is better than a home where a child is subjected to daily arguments between the mother and father/step parent/boyfriend. Personally, I salute Natasha Hamilton for making hard choices that put her kids having a happy home environment over her desire to have a man in her life.
- Rachel D.
Rachael Spencer Slater you sound like you have found your happy ever after and are really settled and of course you are going to be thankful for all your children. We have 2 beautiful girls and my main point is I want them to recognise that children are a precious privilege, as parents we make huge decisions on their behalf-we don't always get them right but every decision we make we put their welfare first. I can't imagine what you went through when your first boyfriend left you whilst you were pregnant, I wouldn't ever want that for my girls. It's true that not all relationships work out, people change. I got to know my husband over those 8 years before we had children, I knew his morals, his hopes and fears and I knew he wouldn't leave me whilst pregnant. It takes a long time to get to know someone but if you do put the time in then statistics show that those awful things that happened to you are much much less likely to happen.
- Michelle S.
Sorry, but first off, it's no-ones business. Secondly, if you are so set on the welfare of kids being put first then keep your judgements to yourself. No child needs to hear their mother and the personal circumstances surrounding their parentage criticised. Last, but not least, knowing someone for 8 years does not mean you know how they will react to being a parent. I knew the father for my child for 15 odd years and he still ditched his responsibility as a father.
Live and let live is the example you should set for your kids. Otherwise they will end up judgemental , arrogant and sanctimonious!
- Heather B.
Nobody wants their relationship to fail regardless of how long they've been together! I met my partner & fell pregnant straight away...2 kids later we're married!! I find ur comments very judgemental & wrong!!....You can be with someone for yrs & still not know them!!
- Rachel D.
Heather Brennan of course you can't but evidence proves you are much more likely to know them after a longer period of time.
- Linda M.
I have 6 daughters by 3 diffrent dads... no I didn't plan my life to be like that, but unfortunately that's what happened... so I had a relationship at a young age fell pregnant at 19 then 22... that relationship didn't work because he was cheating ect.. so then I was with the next one for 11years have 3 girls.. then we wasn't happy. & now I have a daughter with a top guy girls couldn't be more happy now then they have ever been... so if u want to judge ppl b for you even know there life stories makes ur life even sad!!! X all that matters is as long as the children are in a happy family home then a sad unhappy one :)
- Rachel D.
Love hearing about people's life stories and love even more a happy ending, we are all looking for that however many twists and turns we take on the journey. Natasha hasn't found that though, that's why I feel for her, she's unhappy and has to pick up the pieces with her children being bullied daily now they are older and aware of the situation. I saw her interview and saw her inner lioness come out to protect them. She's been through so much, I hope she finds her happy ever after.
- Rachael S.
I have 3 kids to 3 different dads and i couldn't care less what others think. I am proud of every single one of my children.
- Joanne R.
She loves her children end of!! :)
- Katie T.
I've 3 kids and two fathers. Life would be easier without the first father as he's currently making sure my eldest knows #2 and #3 aren't 'really' her siblings. Because of my situation I kinda think, once bitten twice shy, but who really cares? She was with someone, got pregnant had a child. She's obviously quite a fertile girl, who is in the lucky position financially to be able to support her kids, bloke in the house or not, and made her choices. And that's exactly what it is. Her choice to have a child, whether single, in a shakey relationship or married it is HER choice. It has no impact on my life or anyone else's, so why the need to pass comment?
- Cerie A.
What a nasty man... Same dad or not they are still brothers and sisters....
- Katie T.
Yeah. But in his case I know of one definite and three other possible children of his. Non of which he mentions or has anything to do with so it's not exactly unexpected. He ditched one at 6 years old. Apparently it was really boring visiting him in a sealed room wearing gown, gloves and a face mask so he didn't die from secondary infection during leukemia treatment, and I'm pretty sure the 3 possibles know him as 'mum's friend' if they know him at all? Not sure why my child gets special attention? But such is life. If only I'd followed my gut instinct to not tell him I was pregnant. I swear to god, if I had one wish or one opportunity to go back in time, I'd break all the rules of time travel and go have a word with myself around January 2007! But as they say, a life live with no regrets, is a life not lived!
- Faye P.
Honestly! There are children in this country that are abused and neglected everyday. Why do people care about this woman who cares and loves her children? Priorities are so screwed up.
- Nicola C.
No one elses business but i would love to know how she managed to have time meeting these men coz ive been out once for 3 hrs in two years and thats with my partner?
- guest
4x4?! Omg iv not heard that term before think I would also object to being called a car kids healthy? Loved? Cared for? Yes? Then who gives a toss if they are full siblings or not. And if you do care...get a grip love!
- Laura J.
I have - Ulrika Johnson lol. Cruel though x
- Penny B.
she went down in my estimations when I heard about Sven. I mean honestly love! Urgh! maybe he had a huge...car?
- Katie D.
I'd have thought Atomic Kitten would've been more of an issue lol. Many people end up with children to different dads. Why should it matter? If the children are loved and cared for then nothing else matters!
- Emma L.
Who cares and who's business is it anyway! As long as she is a good mam to her kids!
- Persephone-Rebecca S.
if you have kids with a guy you've been with for 5 mins instead of planning it and creating a stable home which doesn't mean he has to be present but not one with constant changes, then yes your going to get judged for that behaviour whether it was intentional or not
- Laura K.
do these people calling her a 4x4 mother not have anything better to be getting on with. who cares how many kids or how many dads there are. if they are cared for loved and she is paying for them let her live her life how she sees fit. X
- Michelle K.
Who cares how many kids she's got to different men. It doesn't affect your life so why are people so bothered. People should concentrate on their own lives rather than be so quick to judge other people's!!
- Laura K.
For all we know she set out to have four children in her life and wasn't fussed about staying in a relationship. It's none of our business but if asked, as long as she can financially and emotionally support her children why judge? Surely it's similar to using sperm donation to become a mother? Fair enough I know this probably isn't what she has set out to do but that's the point. We don't know and I for one don't want to know. She's blessed with four healthy children-lucky lady!
- Lauren R.
It is possible to sleep with different people & not get pregnant!!! It's not a side effect, it's a choice if you choose not to use contraception!! It's not giving your kids a good role model - will her kids think it's 'OK' to just go out and get multiple girls pregnant?? Probably, because she's shown them the way...
- Dani H.
She works hard and looks after her kids. Yea shes a terrible role model
- Cheryle C.
Sexist comment and women backing it up should be ashamed of themselves, you're helping keep the rights and equality of women down by agreeing with these derogatory comments. Women can be their own worst enemy at times. We should be standing together as mothers against these kind of comments for our daughters to be free to do what they like and make empowered decisions about their lives, not thinking we're better than others. Bloody mindless!
- Laura M.
I've got 5 kids by 3 men! And what?
- Laura M.
By the way, so it's alright to judge women with kids by different men but what about the men who put it about and have loads of kids by loads of different women???
- Tracey D.
wow... how pretentious are some folk!!! she is now a single WORKING mother, so that makes me a 3x3, i also provide for my kids always have, even through the time i was a single parent and could of taken the financial pressure of myself and stayed at home, high five to you Natasha, you doing a grand job, its better than styaing with a bloke cos hes bringing the money in even though he maybe playing the field too!!!!
- Heather B.
How many of us on here can honestly say their life has turned out how we planned it from the princess wedding dress to the Mr Darcey u were going to marry & lovely kids & big house u were gonna live happly ever after... It's fairytale!! How many of us are traumatised because we didnt get it?! We're just happy to be blessed with what we have!!....Every child is a blessing & should treated as such. I bet my life those kids dont have a problem with their DNA!!
- Shaleina K.
Oh yeh because I'm sure it was her wish to have 4 different dad's to her kids. Some people aren't so lucky to find there true love straight away. She obviously loves deeply n I'm sure her kids get that love also. I love to see the person who has the perfect life without any mistakes
- Linda M.
Who cares has long as the children are happy loved & cared for!! That's all that matters.... ffs ppl need to get a grip & stop judging other people's life's & consontrate on there own life's!!!!!
- Linda M.
That makes me a 6x3 my children are happy loved & cared for!!! What's the bloody problem? It's the way life turns out not how I planned it...... but I wouldn't change my kids for the world... so you negative people need to sit back and look at ur own life's,,, :) X
- Claire D.
She is able to provide for them herself more than most can and she genuinely seems to be a good, caring so who cares!! Sometimes things just don't work out in relationships, granted that children happened early in some of the relationships but it doesn't make her a bad Mum (possibly bad judge of men though!)


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WASHINGTON - Unless there is some sort of across-the-board federal budget cutting measure which some legislators have discussed of late, supporters of the U.S. Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund say that the Fund should receive the same $55 million funding level that it received last year. "Right now we are cautiously optimistic about the CDFI Fund receiving the same amount of funding as last year," explained Jennifer Vasiloff, executive director of the CDFI Coalition, a group of CDFI Fund supporters. "I feel confident that even if there is an across-the-board budget cut there will not be a move to single out the CDFI Fund for cutting." Vasiloff explained both the House and Senate have passed the funding bills, which include the CDFI Fund, and now need to reconcile any differences between them. But since both bills fund the CDFI Fund at $55 million, there is nothing about the CDFI Fund to reconcile, she said. She also noted that no authorizing legislation to close down the CDFI and roll its funding into an initiative directed by the U.S. Commerce department was ever introduced, reflecting the opposition from both Republicans and Democrats to the idea.


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FO3 was not underrated - it simply didn't contain enough drugs, alcohol, sex and thousands of quests like FO1 and FO2. Hell there wasn't a single memorable NPC like in previous games. For example I hated the Vault City chief bitch in FO2, I mean I hated her behavior and praise designers who made her that antipathic. Not to mention that she accepts only geniuses, while (if you rob her) you learn that she's heavily using mentats and without those, she's probably just plain stupid. Etc. etc, on every location there was some story to get hooked on and usually it got wider more you dig. In FO3… Comparing to predecessors of course, stories were crap.
Apart from that, FO3 is still a fun game. Definetly not boring as Oblivion was, so calling it Oblivion with guns was a pure insult.
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