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We have been reviewing potential daytrips from Perugia and it appears just about every one is a test of our ability to walk up and down hills a good part of the day.
We're thinking of changing the focus of the trip from Umbria to "some of Umbria".
We could spend a couple of days in Rome (we've been there twice before but not for quite a few years) and then go to two Umbrian towns.
The first would be Orvieto where we'd probably sleep over a night or two.
Then we could go to a second either as a day trip from Orvieto (preferred) or as an overnight.
After that we could go on to Venice (we've been there twice before but not in quite a few years) for a few days and do one or two daytrips (Verona, ?).
I'm looking for suggestions for the second Umbrian daytrip and a second daytrip from Venice.
Logistically, Perugia would fit however I keep thinking of it as more of a city and a good base rather than a destination. I may be wrong. I we went to Perugia we'd probably sleep there as it's on the way to Venice.
Or. . . . am I incorrect in being concerned about all of the hill towns.
We'll be travelling by train and bus.
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Umbria Trip - Possible Change in Itinerary
We have been reviewing potential daytrips from Perugia and it appears just about every one is a test of our ability to walk up and down hills a good part of the day.
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Perhaps somewhere else would work better as a base than Perugia such as Foligno which is on the train line and has good bus access.
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Should we decide on only two places in Umbria, what would be a good second?
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I loved Assisi. Especially at night after the day trippers left.
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Italy is so full of beautiful and interesting flat places, have you considered re-doing your itinerary to see them instead of struggling to make Umbria work for you?
Perugia itself is very steep. Sure, you can stroll the long Corso Vanucci, and yes, there escaltors at the periphery that will take you from the top to the bottom of the hill, and conveyences to the train staton as well -- plus taxis. But unless you want to restrict yourself to a very small part of Perugia, you need to climb lots of stairs to go places.
I clicked on your name to learn your original itinerary and noticed that another of your concerns was the possible same-ness of all the Umbrian towns. While it is true that that they all have one-of-a-kind features, the Renaissance towns of middle Italy are pretty much all the same design and style. The Renaissance was a big hit! Widely imitated.
There are beautiful towns in the Emilia-Romagna like Parma, or Modena, flat as a pancake with glorious food and very good train connections to other places. Actually, Bologna is another university town that is not much bigger than Perugia, although you should make sure you stay inside the historic pedestrianized zone. The train connections in all directions from Bologna are fabulous, and it is very easy to get to from Orvieto (or Rome) by train. You can see Ravenna, Parma, Modena, Ferrara, Florence, Milan (I think Mantova too). All by train. Plus Bologna itself. All these places are flat.
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You asked for other easy day trips from Venice:
Padova, Ferrara, Treviso -- and of course the island of Torcello if you have not been, and include Burano if it appeals to you.
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One more thing about the Emilia-Romagna, and then I'll drop it:
The towns buildings are very colorful - Parma is yellow, Bologna is red, Ravenna sparkles with mosaics, (then you get to go to Verona, where it is pink). And the food is really different from town to town. So even if though the town centers looked the same (unlikely), the minute you had lunch you'd be in another world.
If you think shady Bologna might be to big for you, consider Parma. By train you can visit Modena and Pontremoli -- a pretty little Tuscan town with Liberty architecture that eats pesto. You can take a bus to Busseto, where Verdi hails from and see its lovely town square. If you are really motivated, you can make it to le Cinque Terre for lunch from Parma by train.
Parma itself is just gorgeous. Check out the Parizzi apartments for a multi-night stay, and there are probably other possibilities.
I have nothing against Umbria, but there a only a very few towns that are flat and the food doesn't wow me like the food in Emilia-Romagna does.
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We are not really fixated on Umbria although I'd like to see Orvieto if possible.
Also, though we are starting to get older, we are not restricted physically. We just didn't want the trip to become a hill-climbing marathon.
I will look ino som offthe places you suggest and ee if we shouldn't movee the whole ittinerary a litle north. Or at lest part of it.
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I don't recall if you have already visited any of the Italian lakes. How about 1 or 2 of them? Getting around by boat is easy and you can enjoy the scenery while limiting yourself to how much up/down by the lakeside you want to do.
And what about the Dolomites? Been there? INCREDIBLE scenery, and you can see a lot of it going up and down via trams/lifts.
Just a thought!
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We've been to Lake Como twice. Spent time in Como and Lugano on the Swiss side and visited Varenna, Bellagio, Menaggio and Tremezzo.
I just looked at my response to pporter's posts.
Wow!!! I've never seen so many typos in such a short response.
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You will see that many from me if I am trying to type on my smart phone. The thing is just so touchy!
Just go for Umbria. I really don't think most of the towns will be too hilly for you.
Umbria is wonderful, buon viaggio!
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You can look on Google satellite views and street views to see how hilly towns are. You can often get a taxi from the train station to the top of the hill and walk down.
You could spend an extra night in Rome and see Orvieto as a day trip from Rome and then take a fast train north if you prefer to move your itinerary north. You can even just make a long stop in Orvieto, to have lunch and see the cathedral, and then get back on the train and go north. There used to be hotel or restaurant that would keep your luggage, but I don't know the name. Maybe there is now left-luggage at the station. (There didn't used to be.)
There are other day trips you can take from Venice, like Vicenza or going down the Brenta Canal.
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At least you have an excuse for any typos. I'm typing on a full computer keyboard. What's my excuse?
Due to other conflicts, mid-June to early July as well as the first half of August are out.
So we're left with the first half of June, the last half of July and late August to early September.
I normally try to schedule a trip for the longest days and least chance of rain. However, since we do a lot of walking on trips I'm trying to keep walking up and down hills in hot weather to a minimum or reasonable number of towns.
Also, as we get older I've been trying to reduce the number of hotel changes.
I don't mind repeating some places that we've been to as long as a good part of the trip is places we haven't visited.
And of course, we've always gotten around using trains and buses with one minivan tour.
I can see a trip with a couple of days in each of the following with one or two day trips from each:
Venice - been twice but always more to see - day trips could be the islands, Treviso, Verona, Padova
Bologna - day trips could be Parma, Ferrara or Modena
Perugia - one of several towns - Spoleto, Spello, Gubbio
Rome - been twice but always more to see and do. Day trip to Orvieto
I think that's one more base than I'd like but if we spent 2-4 nights in each it might work.
If we skip Perugia we might add a Spoleto day trip from Rome. However, I think Perugia might add something on its own to the trip.
The same could be said for any of the potential bases.
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My theory is that people tend to like best the towns/cities they actually stay in. I think you just get a different feel when you are there for those more "local" early mornings and nights.
Orvieto is one place you should really, really stay at least one night. Everyone says "oh you can see Orvieto in a couple of hours, or it's an easy day trip", and that is true due to the short train trip. But - it's beautiful, atmospheric, and very, very local in the evenings. The Orvieto evening stroll is really the most delightful I've experienced in Italy.
There is easily enough to do and see there for a full day and night. Highly recommend.
At any rate, have fun! And have some Orvieto Classico for me
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I agree with Dayle about Orvieto, but I would stay two nights! There is a lot to see/do and nice views in all directions, and you want to catch the front facade of the Duomo in full sunlight. It's just spectacular.
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Thanks so far.
I'll have my wife review the list of potential towns and she what she thinks.
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It's funny, but I've never warmed up to Orvieto. I find it severe. To me the cathedral is unmissable, but the rest of the town is missable.
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Here is what I would do in the first part of June, although I would start in Rome and move north. (My second choice would be end of Aug/beginning of Sept, starting in Rome).
Train to Orvieto for lunch, continue to Spoleto
Spoleto - with a day trip to Perugia and Bevagna (flat, or another nearby flatter town than Spello. Narni?)
Bologna -- with a day trip that includes both Parma (in the Morning) and Modena going back
If you have not seen Ravenna, it is spectacular mosaics are a daytrip from Bologna.
Head to Venice, but I would stop in Padua on the way to arrive in Venice when the daytrippers are leaving.
Venice - with day trips to Verona and the islands of the lagoon
So you'd have 4 bases: Rome, Spoleto, Bologna, Venice. If your trip is a few days more than two weeks, that's really not such a rush.
However, if you've seen Rome many times, the efficient thing to do, especially if you have only 2 weeks, go straight to Orvieto from Rome airport, and see Spoleto as a day trip from Orvieto. Then you have 3 bases: Orvieto, Bologna, Venice.
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Spello is a lovely town. Do not obsess about it being too hilly -- I really don't remember it being a problem. I am 63 and my DH is 69 and we had no problems at all. As long as you wear decent shoes (not flipflops...don't laugh, we saw them) you will be fine.
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In both the placebo-controlled, 24-week, randomized, double-blind studies, LAMA/LABA showed a statistically significant benefit over VI, UMEC and placebo. In the first head-to-head comparison with Spiriva, LAMA/LABA showed a statistically significant improvement. However, in the second study, LAMA/LABA failed to do so although it demonstrated numerical difference.
Currently, a 52-week safety study and two replicate 12-week crossover exercise studies are ongoing for LAMA/LABA. Glaxo plans to submit regulatory applications for LAMA/LABA towards the end of 2012.
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My dad, his stupid cat and a house full of memories
Greetings from Lancashire, where I'm visiting my dear old dad for the fifth time in a year. Although I've lived in Northern Ireland since 1990, I've been back home over a hundred times and with each trip I notice something new or changed about the family home and its occupants.
When we moved into this big old house almost 50 years ago I was just a newborn baby. With five kids – and counting – my mum and dad needed a lot more space than the three-bed bungalow we'd had before then, so when a five-bedroom home with a big garden came on to the market just down the road (for a princely £3,000, which was a fortune in those days) they went cap in hand to the bank and, after much bowing and scraping, Edgehill House was theirs.
By the time the family was complete in the late Seventies, there were 10 of us living here. Mum and Dad, John, Louise, Chris, Jim, me, Marie, Rachel and Lucy ... and that was just the humans.
Then there was Twitchy the rabbit; Spats the cat; a stick insect that my brother 'borrowed' from biology; assorted goldfish won at the fair; a random lobster that my sister Lucy saved from death row at a restaurant and a flock of white fan-tailed doves that were my very own pride and joy but drove my dad mad because they nested (and therefore crapped incessantly) directly above his car in the garage.
I'd like to say it was in perfect harmony, but that would be stretching nostalgic leeway a bit too far. In fact, it was complete chaos a lot of the time, especially at the weekends and school holidays, with so many kids and their friends and cousins and neighbours and pets often all noisily present at any given time.
With the prominent statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus always on display in the front window (still there to this day) passers-by often mistook it for a Catholic orphanage. But for me the best way to describe it was like the Von Trapp family in The Sound of Music, but without any of the discipline.
Apart from Tuesday nights between 7 and 9pm (High Chaparral followed by Star Trek) Thursdays at 7.30pm (Thunderbirds plus Top of the Pops) and Friday tea time ("It's Friday, it's five o'clock; it's Crackerjack!"), when we'd assemble in front of the telly as regular as clockwork, the rest of the time was wall-to-wall noisy mayhem.
My own favourite memories, though, all took place in the sprawling back garden, which included a large lawn fringed with orchard fruit trees, a vegetable garden, a greenhouse, a converted stable and assorted outhouses. Apples of various varieties, plums, damsons, pears and figs all grew in abundance in the sun-trap between the high hedges separating us from a vicarage next door on one side and a nursery school on the other.
I'd often slip away for some scant solitude and end up spending hours lying in the dappled sunlight under a canopy of leaves, or sitting among the boughs with my beloved white doves, watching the passing birds and grazing on the fruit as it fell off the heavy branches.
In distant retrospect it was such an idyllic setting. I now realise how lucky I was to have all those multi-coloured, multi-faceted, multi-populated memories to look back on as I grow older and my own kids are almost too old to run around in the same spaces enjoying all the same simple pleasures.
Today, though, everyone has gone their separate ways and the house is virtually empty most of the time except for Dad and the un-named ginger cat he bought three years ago in order to catch a mouse and decided to keep for company. He's had it for three years, but because no one ever knew what sex it was, he never bothered to give it a name and just calls it "that cat" or "that stupid bloody cat", depending on how fussy it's being about food.
As I drove up the driveway, there between the trees was dad sitting on a deck chair with the Times crossword on one knee and that cat on the other. As he stood up to greet me an apple fell from a branch above his head and narrowly missed the cat, who ran off into the hedge squealing.
"Stupid bloody cat," he said.
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|9th January 2012, 04:10 PM
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Its realy difficult..
Of course the HIFI in another room is reality..with all the sonic distortions..
I guess the problem is we are trying to make one location sound like another..
Perhaps thats why the HIFI can't do this it has to be tuned to the room acoustics..If you move it it will sound out of "tune"..
We are back to the Bass & treble controls...
So if we make an amp or system flat and have zero distortion its flat with reference to what...
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|9th January 2012, 04:16 PM
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Its perhaps this that is the difference,
The distortion is zero so its sterile...mixing with room acoustics..
If a whole system was zero distortion from source to speakers with a non reactive room we might get close..or would we...
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|9th January 2012, 04:22 PM
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So final thought..
We need the correct distortions to fool us into thinking its reality and if its loud enough to overcome the room acoustic..then its realy only head phones..
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|9th January 2012, 04:23 PM
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Our brain knows what sounds normal and eventually over time it "rebells" against it, whether it be by listening fatigue, or by attempting to psycho-acoustically compensate for the error - eg learning the error through constant exposure to it across all music types, and then factoring it out - which is something I'm sure that happens with bass response peaks and dips caused by room modes, which we eventually don't notice nearly as much with time. If we move the speakers thus re-arranging the peaks and dips it then throws them into stark relief, until we get used to the new arrangement.
Prolonged exposure to music on speakers that are tonally unbalanced I find gradually shifts my sense of what sounds balanced. For example too much bass eventually sounds more balanced, which then makes you feel like the bass needs turning up again to reach the previous perceptual balance etc...and can cause a slippery slope effect.
On the other hand prolonged exposure to a tonally balanced system doesn't seem to have that effect, at least on me - my perception of balance doesn't shift much at all even after hours of listening. This whole shift of perception / acclimatisation thing that happens with our hearing is an excellent reason why even if we're judging subjective quality through listening we still need measurements as an anchor to stop us sliding down the slippery slope...
Frequency response is of particular interest when it comes to "deliberate errors that might or might not sound pleasing" because some flaws in audio quality are irreversible and cumulative (like distortion and noise, dynamic range compression, excessive room reflections etc) whilst frequency response errors can be corrected by complimentary errors elsewhere in the reproduction chain.
It could be that someone that prefers a certain small "tweak" to the frequency response is actually unwittingly correcting for a complementary error elsewhere in the chain, rather than genuinely liking a non-flat end-to-end response. Because of the circle of confusion and the amount of processing that goes on in most recordings its very hard to know for sure though.
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|9th January 2012, 04:57 PM
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If room acoustics are the problem..
What are the frequencies required to Null room sound or what frequencies will over come room acoustics (I know you can't remove them).
How do you create a flat frequency response that will remove room "sound"..
Then again what is needed to fool the ear into the close to reality sound..
Distortion....Humm an open window with a lorry driving by....we can tolerate some distraction<<<is this why after a point distortion is not a problem..Then again the ticking clock comes to mind removed by the mind after a point so you only notice when it stops... As long as the distortion is constant..with no change can the mind remove it like the clock..
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|9th January 2012, 05:21 PM
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How would we expect an audio amp to perform if the max power THD spec were given as 20W p/ch @ 5% THD with an asterisk that noted we really mean 20W p/ch @ 0 to 10% THD except every 20th song, in which case it will be [some value] greater than 10% up and including 100%?
Or, alternately, a panel of listeners consistently gave the amp high marks but every 20th time the same group listened it induced nausea?
" ... Go back to the beginning of a technology before the priesthood was established; that was the time when people were communicating information, not proving why there needs to be Priests. This is why the old texts tend to be so good. ..."
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|9th January 2012, 05:32 PM
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One other analogy..
The aeroplane...do you design a plane and not wind tunnel test it..
Test the wings separate the fuselage and tail plain all made with different people with a different plane in mind...then bring it all together and hope it works..
If you only test each HIFI component on its own and bring them all together..They have got to be flat response to work any thing else forget it..<<measurement
So how do you tune the HIFI? (with mods) or adding components that shape the sound.. adding and removing distortions and of course selection of components..and what transports work best with....<<<wind tunnel test..
M. Gregg
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|9th January 2012, 05:33 PM
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I would dearly love to see some suite of measurements that DO give us a good indication of sound quality. But I need to do a lot of thinking before I post any more nonsense.
My business is images and they are a lot easier to judge. Not without problems and subjective debates, tho - even there.
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|9th January 2012, 05:43 PM
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This is different from audio amplifiers (etc) where there may be an issue with the amplified performance that is absent from the live one, and the goal is to eliminate the issue with the amplifier.
Similarly, our brains smooth over many inputs ... otherwise merely sitting at the keyboard and typing this sentence would be impossible. Without this ability, is doubtful even the act of listening to a hifi would be possible at all. So, this is not only normal, it's necessary.
We don't expect the same fidelity from an office radio than we do from a hifi, and much of that is due to the fact we are deliberately listening to the hifi rather than allowing our brains to essentially ignore the details and giving us the smoothed over result only, as with the office radio. Indeed, if everyone actually critically listened to the radio, the purpose of being in the office ... get some work done ... would be the task that is smoothed over, done without thinking.
If the average office radio were all we wanted, there would be no hifi industry at all and the whole discussion would have no earthly use; an adequate modern office radio that serves as a background to the primary task of work is a done deal and needs no further refinement.
Although room problems and sensory distractions are an everyday fact of life, they are not reasons to say we've done all we can do with regard to hifi reproductive quality, nor are they excuses for failure to continue to seek improvement. That they are issues with overall reproductive quality is undeniable; that they are significant to the point where no further work on amplifier distortion is needed is giving them too much credit.
Since an amplifier can create distortions that no room could, we should be trying to eliminate (or find a metric to measure) those specifically. Maybe those that are left once that set is solved or determined, are benign and don't matter as much. It is in that sense the issues you raised have their value. For example, there are some who say flat frequency response is not so important compared to other forms of distortion; perhaps the typical room problem, which introduces alterations in flat response yet is not necessarily bothersome, is illustrative of why; it's a normal, natural issue we tolerate well.
" ... Go back to the beginning of a technology before the priesthood was established; that was the time when people were communicating information, not proving why there needs to be Priests. This is why the old texts tend to be so good. ..."
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|9th January 2012, 05:49 PM
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Musicians here on the forum understand well that they would sound in different rooms differently. Like, in one hall they sound nice, in another like a cat's cry. Why should we expect the same real sound in different rooms? And is equipment guilty if in bathroom the orchestra sounds like an orchestra in bathroom?
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This is in response to a Congressional request that the General Accounting Office prepare a comparison of the program that would be created by S. 1125, the "Fairness In Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2003 (FAIR Act)," recently reported in the Senate, and the existing National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and Black Lung Benefits Program. The Chair, Senate Committee on the Budget, also asked that we comment on the borrowing authority in S. 1125.
B-301397, Fairness In Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2003, September 4, 2003
September 4, 2003
Fairness In Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2003
The Honorable Don Nickles
Chairman, Committee on the Budget
United States Senate
Dear Mr. Chairman:
This is in response to your request that the General Accounting Office prepare a comparison of the program that would be created by S. 1125, the Fairness In Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2003 (FAIR Act), recently reported in the Senate, and the existing National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program and Black Lung Benefits Program. You also asked that we comment on the borrowing authority in S. 1125. Enclosed is a chart comparing the two statutory programs and S. 1125. In response to your second request, we offer the following observations regarding the borrowing authority in S. 1125.
FAIR Act
Subsection 223(c) of the bill provides as follows:
(c) BORROWING AUTHORITY—The Administrator [of the Office of Asbestos Injury Claims Resolution] is authorized to borrow, in any calendar year, an amount not to exceed anticipated contributions to the [Asbestos Injury Claims Resolution] Fund in the following calendar year for purposes of carrying out the obligations of the Fund under this Act.
commercial See also id
A Glossary of Terms Used in the Federal Budget Process See generally Budget Issues: Inventory of Accounts With Spending Authority and Permanent Appropriations, 1996 [1] see Principles of Federal Appropriations Law
See See e.g.
See e.g.
[2] see create any obligation of funding from the United States Government. [3] See S. Rep. No. 108-118, above, at 57. To ensure that the government incurs no liability for repayment of borrowing under the act, Congress may wish to explicitly state that repayment of borrowing is limited solely to amounts available in the Fund.
[4] See e.g.
National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. (42 U.S.C. 300aa-10
et seq.)
Black Lung Benefits Program (30 U.S.C. 901 et seq.)
S. 1125, 108th Cong. (as reported July 30, 2003), Fairness in Asbestos Injury Resolution Act of 2003.
Type of Benefits Payable
For an injury: past and future unreimbursable medical, custodial care and rehabilitation costs, actual and projected pain and suffering and emotional distress (capped at $250,000), lost earnings, and reasonable attorneys' fees and costs.
For a death: payment capped at $250,000. 42 U.S.C.
Monthly income maintenance payments (augmented based on beneficiary's number of dependents) and medical benefits related to treatment for black lung disease. 30 U.S.C. 922.[6]
Cash award, payable over 3-4 years, derived from benefit table based on medical condition. 131, 133.
Medical monitoring costs for patients with nonmalignant disease and minimum exposure criteria, 132.
(Report[7] at 43-44.)
Benefit Eligibility
Petitioners who can prove that (1) an injury listed on the Vaccine Injury Table occurred within the applicable time period, (2) the vaccine significantly aggravated a preexisting condition, or (3) the covered vaccine caused the condition. 42 U.S.C. 300aa-11(c).[8]
Miners totally disabled due to pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) or related disease and their survivors. 30 U.S.C. 902, 931-32.[9]
Any individual who has suffered from an eligible disease or condition that is believed to meet the requirements. 111. See Medical Criteria Requirements, 121; Essential Elements of Eligible Asbestos Claim, 113.
(Report at 36-43.)
Source of Benefits Funding
The Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund.[10] Claims may be paid only from the Fund. See 26 U.S.C. 9510(d)(1).
Claims are funded by responsible operators, i.e., mining companies, or by the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund when the employment was before Jan. 1, 1970 or when no coal mine operator can be held liable.[11] 26 U.S.C. 9501(d), 30 U.S.C. 932.[12]
The Asbestos Injury Claims Resolution Fund. 133. All claims must be paid from the Fund. 133(a)(1).
(Report at 44.)
Trust Fund Established
There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the 'Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund'
. . . . 26 U.S.C. 9510(a).
There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the 'Black Lung Disability Trust Fund'. . . . 26 U.S.C.
There is established in the Office of Asbestos Injury Claims Resolution, the Asbestos Injury Claims Resolution Fund . . . . 223(a).
(Report at 53.)[13]
Sources of Fund Income
An excise tax of 75 cents is collected on every dose of covered vaccine purchased. 26 U.S.C. 4131.
Upon payment of compensation to a petitioner, the Fund is subrogated to all rights of the petitioner. Collections under this provision are deposited in the Fund. 42 U.S.C. 300aa-17.
Interest income. 26 U.S.C. 602(b)(3).
Excise tax on coal mining companies based on each ton of coal mined, amounts recovered from responsible operators, and certain penalties assessed under the Act. 26 U.S.C. 4121.
Interest income. 26 U.S.C. 9602(b)(3).
Assessments of contributions from defendant participants ( 202(a)(1)) and from insurance participants. ( 212(a)).
Additional contributions from asbestos-related civil trusts. ( 402)
(Report at 29, 56.)[14]
Investment of Funds permitted or required?
Yes. Treasury is required to invest funds not required to meet current withdrawals only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States. 26 U.S.C. 9602(b).
Yes. Treasury is required to invest funds not required to meet current withdrawals only in interest-bearing obligations of the United States. 26 U.S.C. 9602(b).
Yes. The Administrator is required by section 222 to invest the assets of the Fund consistent with a prudent person standard. 222(a), (b).
(Report at 53.)
Specific limitation of government liability for claims?[15]
Yes. Claims may be paid only out of the Fund. 26 U.S.C. 9510(d)(1).
Yes. The Fund is specifically designated as the source of benefit payments, making other sources unavailable.
26 U.S.C. 9501; 30 U.S.C. 932(a).
Yes. The bill specifically provides that nothing in it may be construed as creating a cause of action against the United States or construed to create any obligation of funding from the United States Government. 405. (Report at 29, 60.)
Other costs payable from Fund?
Expenses incurred by the federal government in administering the program, capped at no more than $9,500,000 for any fiscal year. 26 U.S.C. 9510(c)(1) (B).
Administrative costs incurred by agencies that administer benefits and operate the trust fund.
26 U.S.C. 9501(d)(5).
Principal and interest on borrowings and administrative expenses necessary to carry out activities of the Office of Asbestos Injury Claims Resolution and the Asbestos Insurers Commission. 217, 223(a).
(Report at 53.)
Explicit[16] fiduciary responsibility?
No. But see 26 U.S.C. 9602, Management of Trust Funds.
No. But see 26 U.S.C. 9602, Management of Trust Funds.
Yes. Fund is to be administered in a fiduciary capacity with care, skill, prudence, and diligence, to a prudent person standard. 222(a), (b).
(Report at 53.)
Borrowing Authority
If tax revenues are insufficient to cover expenditures, Congress may appropriate repayable advances to the Fund. Such advances are repayable with interest. 26 U.S.C. 9501(c).
The Administrator is authorized to borrow, in any calendar year, an amount not to exceed anticipated contributions to the Fund in the following calendar year for purposes of carrying out the obligations of the Fund. 223(c).[18]
(Report at 29, 53.)
Filing and Processing Procedures
Individual files a petition for compensation with the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. A Health and Human Services physician conducts a medical review of the petition and makes a recommendation. A Justice attorney reviews the petition to determine whether it meets the legal requirements for compensation. These reviews are provided to the Court. The HHS position is represented by a Justice attorney in hearings before a special master, appointed by the Court. 42 U.S.C. 300aa-12.[19]
Miners and their survivors apply to the DOL for benefits. DOL obtains a medical and employment history and identifies operators who may be liable for the claim and makes an initial determination. Parties, including claimants or operators, may appeal and submit additional evidence. Informal conferences may be held to try to resolve differences. DOL then prepares a proposed Decision and Order which is subject to appeal as set forth below. [20]
Claims system will be administered by the Court of Federal Claims, which will establish an Office of Special Asbestos Masters to process and make initial decisions on claims. Claims filed under the bill will be referred to claims examiners for an initial review. Once a claim is complete, a special asbestos master has 60 days to determine the amount of any award. 111-115.
(Report at 30, 36-7.)
No Fault claims process?
Yes. The petitioner is not required to show that a particular vaccine manufacturer or administrator was negligent. 42 U.S.C. 300aa-11.[21]
Yes, although the Act contemplates that responsible operators will be the primary funding source. 30 U.S.C. 932. Claimants or mine operators dissatisfied with the initial DOL decision can appeal. The appeals process is adversarial.[22]
Yes. Claimants shall not be required to demonstrate that the asbestos-related injury for which the claim is being made resulted from the negligence or other fault of any other person. 112.
(Report at 36.)
Appeal of Decisions
The decision on entitlement or compensation by the special master may be appealed to the Court of Federal Claims and subsequently to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court. 300aa'12(e), (f).
Decisions can be appealed to the Office of Administrative Law Judges at DOL, to the independent Benefits Review Board at DOL, to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals with jurisdiction where the miner was exposed to coal mine dust, and finally to the Supreme Court. See DOL Employment Law Guide. [23]
Decisions of the special master' on claims may be appealed to a U.S. Court of Asbestos Claims, which would be a three judge court established by the Court of Federal Claims. 141(a), (b). Decisions of the Asbestos Court could be appealed to the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court. 301. (Report at 44, 55.)
Alternate avenues of redress available?
Yes, although under the Act an individual alleging a vaccine-related injury or death must first file a claim before pursuing a tort claim. After pursuing a petition under the Program, a petitioner can elect to bring a suit in civil court by 1) withdrawing the petition under certain conditions or 2) electing to reject the decision and judgment of the Court. 42 U.S.C. 300aa-21. If the petitioner does elect to bring suit, the Act limits the claims the petitioner can make against the manufacturer. 42 U.S.C.
300aa-22, 23.
Yes. There is no explicit provision in the Black Lung legislation prohibiting tort lawsuits by miners afflicted by Black Lung disease.[24]
No. Section 403(c) provides that Act is the exclusive remedy for personal injury asbestos claims. No asbestos claim may be pursued in any Federal or State court, except for enforcement of claims for which an order or judgment has been duly entered by a court that is no longer subject to any appeal or judicial review . . . . 2(3); 403(c)(1).
(Report at 56-57.)
Provision for early termination?
Under section 404, Administrator must certify annually that 95 % of eligible claimants who filed claims during the prior calendar year have received compensation to which they were entitled and 95% of the obligations of the Fund owed to eligible claimants in the prior calendar year have been paid. If Administrator cannot so certify, he or she has a 90 day period to remedy this situation. Otherwise, program sunsets and claimants may litigate claims.
(Report at 57, 61.)
Current Status of the Fund
The Fiscal Year 2004 Budget indicated that the estimated balance of the Fund at the end of Fiscal year 2003 was $1.907 billion. See FY 04 Budget at 409.[27]
Coal taxes have been chronically inadequate to cover expenditures and the Fund has borrowed extensively from the General Fund.[28] The outstanding debt at the end of FY 2003 was estimated to be over $8 billion. See FY 04 Budget at 653, 665-667.
[1] See et seq. See Financial Audit: Federal Financing Bank's 1993 and 1992 Financial Statements See also
[2] See e.g. See also Budget Issues: Agency Authority to Borrow Should Be Granted More Selectively
[4] Under section 2286 of Title 12, U.S.C., the prior approval of the Secretary of the Treasury is required with respect to methods, source, timing and financing of obligations issued or sold by any Federal agency. Whether this section would be applicable to borrowing by the Administrator is open to question due to an explicit exception in the statute for obligations issued or sold pursuant to an Act of Congress which expressly prohibits any guarantee of such obligations by the United States. 12 U.S.C. 2286(a); see also, 12 U.S.C. 2288(3) (definition of guarantee as any guarantee, insurance or other pledge with respect to the payment of all or part of the principal or interest of any obligation . . . .). As indicated above, section 405 of the bill create any obligation of funding from the United States Government.
[5] See See
[6] See Employment Law Guide
[8] See
[9] Black Lung Deskbook
[10] See Vaccine Injury Trust Fund: Revenue Exceeds Current Need for Paying Claims See also Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2004
[11] Black Lung Program: Further Improvements Can Be Made in Claims Adjudication
[12] See
[13] See Federal Trust and Other Earmarked Funds: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions see Principles of Federal Appropriations Law A Glossary of Terms Used in The Federal Budget Process: Exposure Draft See also
[14] See e.g.
[15] See e.g. see
[16] United States v. Mitchell
[17] See
[18] See
[19] See Vaccine Injury Compensation: Program Challenged to Settle Claims Quickly and Easily
[20] See See also
[21] See
[22] See
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[25] See
[26] Elliot Coal Mining, Inc. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs See also
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Day 1: Arrive Stockholm. Arrive Stockholm Airport. Transfer to hotel in connection with your flight arrival. Dinner and accommodation at Clarion Hotel Sign, a first class hotel ideally located in the center of Stockholm.
Day 2: Stockholm. After your first Scandinavian buffet breakfast, start of 4 hour guided tour of Stockholm. Famous sights on the tour include the Royal Palace, the Parliament Buildings, the island of Djurgården and the Old Town (Gamla Stan), with its narrow cobbled streets and numerous antique shops. Highlight of the tour is a visit to City Hall with its famous Blue and Golden Halls, where the Nobel Prize Banquet is held each year. Afternoon free in Stockholm. Your tour escort will be happy to arrange optional canal tours or the famous Vasa Museum on request. Dinner on your own. Accommodation at Clarion Sign Hotel.
Day 3: Stockholm–Helsinki. Morning free in Stockholm for exploring this beautiful city, often called the Venice of the North because of its many canals and waterways. Afternoon coach transfer for embarkation on a luxurious cruise of the Silja Line at 5:00 pm. Start of your cruise to Helsinki, sailing slowly down the Stockholm archipelago past numerous small islands. Buffet dinner on board. Choice of entertainment, shops, casino, bars on board. Accommodation is in 2-berth outside cabins (seaside) with shower/WC.
Day 4: Helsinki–Stockholm. Enjoy your buffet breakfast, as you sail into Helsinki. Morning 3 hour guided tour of the Finnish capital. Famous sights include the Senate Square, Uspenskij Cathedral, Parliament House, Finlandia Hall, New Opera House, Sibelius Park and Monument, Underground Temple, etc. Afternoon free for shopping or exploring this bustling city on the Baltic. At 5:00 pm sail on Silja Line ferry for return cruise to Stockholm. Dinner and accommodation on board.
Day 5: Stockholm–Copenhagen. After a delicious buffet breakfast on board, arrive back in Stockholm at 9:30 am. The tour continues by coach through the pleasant countryside of Southern Sweden to the city of Jönköping, beautifully situated at the southern end of Lake Vättern. Lunch. After lunch continue through the provinces of Småland and Skåne to the city of Malmö. Cross over the new Øresund Bridge to Denmark. Arrive in wonderful Copenhagen during the early evening. Dinner and accommodation at Hotel Admiral.
Day 6: Copenhagen. The day starts with a 3 hour guided tour of the city. During the tour you will see the Amalienborg Palace, Christiansborg Palace (seat of the Danish Parliament), Hans Christian Andersen's statue, Gefion Fountain, the old harbor of Nyhavn, the famous Little Mermaid and many other popular sights. Afternoon free in Copenhagen. We can recommend a walk down the popular pedestrian shopping street - Strøget, or maybe a canal tour. Your tour escort will be provide you with entrance tickets for the famous Tivoli Gardens. Dinner on your own. Accommodation at Admiral Hotel
Day 7: Copenhagen–Oslo. After a tasty Danish buffet breakfast, morning free in Copenhagen for shopping and sightseeing. Afternoon transfer by coach to DFDS Seaways terminal for your overnight cruise to Oslo, departing at 5:00 pm. Enjoy a delicious Scandinavian buffet dinner as you cruise gently up the Kattegat on your way to Oslo. There is dancing and entertainment on board, or you may prefer to sit out on deck and watch the sunset. Accommodation is in 2-berth outside cabins with shower/WC.
Day 8: Oslo. Scandinavian buffet breakfast is being served on board, as you sail up the exciting Oslo Fjord to reach the Norwegian capital at 9:00 am. After disembarkation, this morning's 3 hour guided tour of Oslo takes you to see the world-famous Viking Ships, the Polar Exploration ship Fram, the amazing Vigeland Sculpture Park and other famous sights. Afterwards you will be taken by coach to Holmenkollen for a birds eye view of the city and fjord far below. Dinner and accommodation at Radisson Blu PlazaHotel, centrally located.
Day 9: Oslo departure. Transfer to Oslo Airport to coincide with individual flight departures. Or, continue on "The Fjords of Norway" extension.
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari on Wednesday reiterated his country's keenness on closing file of the remaining compensations that should be paid to Kuwait.
Iraq is keen on thrashing out remaining issues with Kuwait "and closing the file of the compensations [2]," Zebari was quoted as saying, according to a statement released by Iraqi Foreign Ministry.
The official statement indicated that Zebari held a meeting with Executive Director of the Compensation Commission at the United Nations Trevor Raja "Iraq's efforts are noticeable with regard of honoring its obligations [3]regarding the payment of the remaining compensations," he said.
According to the statement, Raja praised Iraq's efforts for "closing the file of the remaining compensations for Kuwait [4]."
[1] http://www.syndigate.info
[2] http://www.albawaba.com/business/kuwait-claims-more-168-billion-war-damages-iraq
[3] http://www.albawaba.com/news/un-commission-approves-compensation-package-kuwait
[4] http://iraqidinar.forumotion.com/t5138-unami-iraq-paid-11-billion-dollars-in-compensation-residual-of-kuwait-will-close-the-outstanding-issues-between-them
[5] http://www.kuna.net.kw/NewsAgenciesPublicSite/NewsCastPage.aspx?Language=en


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MOUNT CLEMENS (WWJ) – A child custody hearing for Joseph Gentz, the handyman who reportedly confessed to the murder of a Grosse Pointe Park woman, has been adjourned for two weeks.
WWJ Newsradio 950's Beth Fisher reports that the 48-year-old Gentz, who was not present in court on Friday, will still not be allowed his one-hour weekly supervised visits with his developmentally disabled daughter.
The Assistant Prosecutor Mark Richardson and an attorney for the 10-year-old girl are concerned that Gentz, who is also developmentally disabled, will discuss the Jane Bashara case with his daughter. They say that would upset the child.
Richardson pointed out that Gentz is linked to a murder. But Gentz's attorney argued that his client has not been charged with any crime, calling the allegations a "feeding frenzy" in the media.
Macomb County Judge Kathryn Viviano wants to hear from the child's therapist.
Gentz faces a termination of parental rights hearing in April.
Meantime, no charges have been filed in the death of 56-year-old Jane Bashara, found strangled in her car last month. Gentz allegedly has told police that Bob Bashara paid him to kill his wife.
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In these post-Sondheim, pro-revival days, it's sometimes difficult to find the why and wherefore of the Broadway musical. On the one hand, Times Square overflows with new productions of Grease and Saturday Night Fever and the self-perpetuating Cats, as though the industry were one gigantic broken record. On the other hand, some revivals (Carousel, Showboat, and Cabaret) have been infused with more sophistication than their original versions. When a work like the current dance musical Contact comes along, we wonder if the form has extended its reach yet again or if the hit is just the proverbial flash in the pan. How many choreographers are there, after all, who can imagine and then sustain such an intricate story?
The assassination of the musical theater by the great enemy television has been well documented, but more-recent events have prevented a true rebirth. As much as any art form, the Broadway musical has been affected by the AIDS crisis, most directly with the loss of Michael Bennett (A Chorus Line) in 1987. For a short while in the '80s, until Howard Ashman (Little Shop of Horrors) died from the disease in 1991, it seemed like the form's choicest elements were going to be permanently available as Disney animation, in the great Menken and Ashman scores of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast. One non-AIDS-related early death, that of Jonathan Larson in 1996 just as Rent was about to become a smash, has made many wonder what might happen if someone could continue to make the musical theater inviting to people under the age of 35.
Chances are you need to be over 35 to even remember your parents humming along to the wonderful score of Finian's Rainbow, now receiving a much-heralded, Broadway-bound revival at the Coconut Grove Playhouse. "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and " Old Devil Moon" were unceremoniously removed from most jukeboxes about 20 years ago. The truth is, though, the Burton Lane-E.Y. Harburg score of this 1947 gem is as lovely as they come. I'm the first to admit that, when I heard about this project, my first thought was "Do we really need a revival of Finian's Rainbow?" But the Coconut Grove production, starring Austin Pendleton and the great Brian Murray, has won me over.
Finian's Rainbow
Coconut Grove Playhouse, 3500 Main Hwy., Miami, 305-442-2662
Book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy (revised by Peter Stone). Music by Burton Lane. Lyrics by Harburg. Directed by Lonny Price. Choreographed by Marguerite Derricks. Musical direction by Eric Stern. Starring Austin Pendleton, Brian Murray, Kate Jennings Grant, Denis O'Hare, J. Robert Spencer, Tina Ou, Don Stephenson, and Joseph Webster. Through November 21.
The show, which originally appeared on Broadway the same year as Brigadoon, is set in its own magical kingdom -- the fictional state of Missitucky -- where black and white sharecroppers work side by side. The cast features an Irish immigrant (Murray) and his daughter, as well as the leprechaun who followed them from their hometown, a bigoted U.S. senator, a folksinger, and the singer's sister, an elfin girl who dances rather than speaks. A fable about racial prejudice with some love songs thrown in for good measure, Finian's Rainbow is a pastiche of postwar Americana. It celebrates a time when Irish culture was still predominant. "What's the difference between America and Ireland?" Finian asks Sharon. "There are more Irishmen here," she replies. In Woody Mahoney, the Woody Guthrie-inspired folksinger who wants to travel 'round the country and change the world, it celebrates our naive postwar optimism. (The appealing J. Robert Spencer is so wholesome, he seems born to wear an Eisenhower jacket.)
Thanks to its appealing story, in which the baldly racist Sen. Billy Bob Rawkins (Pendleton) finds himself transformed, à la leprechaun, into a black man, Finian's Rainbow now reappears on stage as both a museum piece and contemporary tall tale. Although the face of modern racism is multifaceted beyond anything imagined by Harburg and Saidy's book (updated here by Peter Stone), the show gives us an entirely satisfying confrontation between the racist senator and his own blind bigotry. Directed by Lonny Price, this production reaches its emotional high points when the senator is stupefied to realize that, thanks to his black skin, he has lost every privilege -- from physical safety to common respect -- afforded him as a white man. Pendleton (who played the medical examiner on NBC's Homicide: Life on the Streets last season) gives a nimble and compelling performance as a great mule of a bigot.
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Indeed Finian's Rainbow is the rare Broadway show in which the love story is delicately and successfully wrapped inside a political statement. (To understand what an accomplishment this is, consider the recent failure of Alfred Uhry -- whose lighthearted but intelligent touch with matters of bigotry is as good as any -- and his Parade lyricist Jason Robert Brown to make a musical out of the Mary Phagan-Leo Frank tragedy.) To borrow a term from the movies, the romance between Sharon and Woody in Finian's Rainbow is a MacGuffin, a mere distraction from the issue of whether or not the senator will be changed on the inside by the startling change to his skin color. According to It's a Hit! (David Sheward's Broadway history), attempts to turn this stage show into a movie directly after its Broadway success were waylaid by the antiliberal atmosphere of McCarthyism. Not until 1968 did it come to the screen, with Fred Astaire as Finian. By that time the twee story seemed quite unthreatening compared to the very real civil rights battles, none of which could be put right by leprechauns.
At the Playhouse, Loren Sherman's set is the first star to make an appearance. The rainbow of Rainbow Valley constructs itself in front of our eyes as overlapping pastel bedsheets appear in a patchwork pattern in the sky. (Phil Monat's lighting design in this scene alone gets my Tony vote.) The huge tree in which Finian and Sharon hide themselves to eavesdrop on the troubled citizens of Missitucky is the predominant piece of scenery. Paul Tazewell's inventive and playful costumes get their own production number, in the delightful "When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich," which is marvelously complemented by choreographer Marguerite Derricks. She stages a fashion show put on by the sharecroppers, who have just donned fancy duds, thanks to Finian's new line of credit at Sears, Roebuck and Co. (The choreographer's recent credits include Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.)
Although the show is best known for its ballads "Old Devil Moon," "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" and the goofy "If This Isn't Love," two novelty songs, "Necessity" and "The Begat," provide the musical equivalent of Finian's pot of gold. Showstoppers in the old-fashioned sense, the numbers are performed by a trio of African-American women and men respectively, and more than any other aspect of Finian's Rainbow, they return the civil rights message back to its rightful messengers. An uproarious up-tempo ditty sung by the maids in the senator's plantation house, "Necessity" speaks of the ways in which blacks have had to accommodate the white world in order to survive. "The Begat," on the other hand, sung by the three wandering performers, celebrates the gospel tradition that helped African-Americans endure centuries of hardship.
Brian Murray's performance as Finian is also golden, nodding as it does to the tradition of Irish actors from Barry Fitzgerald to Jackie Gleason. He's wonderfully acquitted by Kate Jennings Grant as Sharon, a role that requires little more than a lovely voice. Luckily for us Grant also possesses a sense of humor, the better to pull of "If This Isn't Love," the duet she sings with Og, the leprechaun. ("If this isn't love," she trills, "I'm Carmen Miranda. If this isn't love, it's Red propaganda.") J. Robert Spencer, who plays Woody, is less charismatic but not less talented. As Susan Mahoney, Woody's mute sister who uses dance to communicate, Tina Ou has the thankless task of playing second fiddle to the show's other sprite, Og, but her movements are exquisite. Finally, as the embodiment of human folly, magic, and mortal love, Denis O'Hare's Og is the true star of the show, as a leprechaun should be. Thanks to all of them, Finian's Rainbow is, to borrow Og's phrase, something sort of grandish indeed.


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PI: Sergio Dieterich, Georgia State University, firstname.lastname@example.com
Address: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Atlanta, GA, 30302, USA
CoI: Todd Henry, Gerogia State University
CoI: David Golimowski, Space Telescope Science Institute
Title: GJ 433: Resolving a Suspected Binary Near the Stellar/Substellar Boundary
Abstract: We propose to obtain high resolution images of the suspected very low mass binary GJ 433 AB using NIRI+ALTAIR on Gemini North. The duplicity of GJ 433 was first indicated by a perturbation in Hipparcos data, and later by speckle observations (Bernstein, 1997). Our own HST/NICMOS observations revealed the companion but the 75 mas pixels do not allow us to measure an accurate separation or position angle. The combination of Hipparcos astrometry, the single IR speckle measurement, and tentative NICMOS photometry indicate that the B component has a mass very near the hydrogen burning mass limit, between 0.122 and 0.088 solar masses. Although much work has been done in the field of brown dwarfs during the past decade, the fundamental question of where the exact boundary between stellar and substellar object lies is still largely not addressed due to the lack of reliable observational tests that discriminate between the most massive brown dwarfs and the least massive stars. Characterizing objects near this boundary is a fundamental aspect of the PI's doctoral thesis. Here we propose to observe GJ 433 twice to obtain J, H, and K photometry and begin mapping the orbit, which has a period of about 1.5 years from the Hipparcos data, to provide a crucial point in the Mass-Luminosity Relation near the end of the stellar main sequence.
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Bethesda: Skyrim Trailer "Was a Mix" of Platforms
Way back in February it was confirmed that the initial Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim trailer was captured entirely on Xbox 360. Multiple sources at Bethesda confirmed this in February, including Community Manager Nick Breckon.
Now, a mere 10 days before Skyrim's release it looks like this may not have been entirely true. As it turns out, Bethesda's VP of PR and Marketing Pete Hines got into a little verbal scuffle with some fans on Twitter when it was revealed that the initial Skyrim trailer was created using a mix of consoles! *dun dun dun*
The accidental spill came when a fan asked why we haven't sen any PC footage of Skyrim and Hines referred tot he initial trailer and said, "There you go. PC footage." This is in sharp contrast to what Bethesda reported earlier, but Hines continued, "Trailer wasn't all one platform. It was a mix."
Commence the "Skyrim looks better on (insert platform)" argument. The platform police immediately took to Twitter and called out Bethesda for initially saying the trailer was Xbox 360 footage.
Hines calmy responded to the situation, "dunno who actually said it but the trailer is both. So you can calm down now and understand misinfo doesn't equal lies." Hines did reiterate that the "three part (20 min) demo is 100% 360."
It's easy to see why some fans are little on edge about Skyrim on different platforms. The age-old argument about which platform it would look best on is a touchy subject for console fanboys. Fans are especially wary of Skyrim's graphics on Xbox 360 and PS3. They want the best gaming experience possible and want to ensure they won't be shafted on the magnificent graphics Skyrim has to offer by getting it on console. The especially small 3.8 GB Xbox 360 install size didn't do much to quell the fears either. Many wonder how such a massive game can be so small in size, despite Hines constantly reiterating that a "new engine & we're much better at compression (art/voice/data)" has led to better optimization and a smaller size.
At this time, what platform the initial trailer captured on is a moot point. It's been proven with videos, demos, screenshots that Skyrim will look fantastic on all platforms. I think fans are more upset with the fact that they feel they were initially lied to when Bethesda claimed the trailer was recorded on Xbox 360. Still, it's nothing to get upset over since Bethesda has since released TONS of gameplay footage on the Xbox 360, including this 3 part demo. Honestly, can you even tell the difference between this and the PC version?
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is set to release on November 11 for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. And despite these recent revealings, it will look fantastic on all three platforms. Judging from our recent Skyrim graphical comparison to Oblivion, you are in for quite a treat, no matter what platform you get it on.