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I came across an article today which mention a PowerShell command to rejoin a computer to the domain without restarting it. More from the article :
"We've all been in the situation where we have signed on to a computer only to find that its security relationship with the domain has failed. In the past we'd have to remove the computer from the domain and then join it back again to reestablish the relationship.
This involved two reboots (one to leave, one to join). If it was a server that took a while to boot, the process could take so long that we might even forget why we sat down to sign on to the computer in the first place.
Test-ComputerSecureChannel is one of those cool little PowerShell cmdlets that doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Running the cmdlet by itself checks whether the relationship with the domain controller is still good. If it comes back True then everything is okay. If it comes back False then the relationship needs to be fixed.
Using Test-ComputerSecureChannel with the –credential –Repair options allows you to repair the relationship with the domain without any restarts. You run the command, sign out and then can sign in with your domain credentials. For example, to repair the relationship with the WINDOWSITPRO domain, issue the command:
Test-ComputerSecureChannel –credential WINDOWSITPRO\Administrator –Repair
When signed on as a local administrator.
Test-ComputerSecureChannel has been around since Windows Server 2008 R2."


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Saturday, Feb 29, 2020 at 7:30pm
Twice a national finalist at the prestigious HBO Comedy Festival, Troy Baxley is already well-known in comedy circle.
The best restaurants are those where chefs dine on their nights off. Troy Baxley is the comic that other comics, from open-mic'ers to top A-List comedians watch every chance they get. Even Letterman talent scout Eddie Brill calls himself a "huge Troy Baxley fan." Word.
Others are catching on too. The Onion points out that "…only recently has [Baxley's] weird brand of impish comedy started to penetrate the mainstream…" and from the way people turn out to see him every time he plays a gig, well, tru dat, yo!
Baxley's act mirrors the thoughts and attention spans of America's largest demographic: Lifetime "C" Students. A lifetime "C" student himself, Baxley knows a thing or two about overachievement by way of shortcuts. Remember that annoying kid in grade school who would always remind the teacher to assign homework? Well Baxley was the kid who heckled that kid; and he hasn't stopped since. Word up, party people.
Sometimes the best acts are the hardest to describe. How do you describe a comic who goes on a five minute love-rant about his girlfriend's beautiful jacked up buck teeth, then waxes poetic about a side-street meat-jones trying to get some cross-town she-hobo? Hilarious.
Don't worry, he doesn't know what it means either, but that's half the point, and why the Las Vegas Sun said "Don't let the rational and mild mannered shell fool you, Baxley can get as twisted as they come."
You simply have to see it firsthand to get the slightest idea of what is going on inside his insanely-funny mind. And people see him again and again. Everywhere he performs, fans return, requesting their favorite bits – which are constantly changing and evolving from the last time they saw Troy Baxley "kickin' it street."
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consumer attitudes in UkraineSangwan, Sunanda; Golovkina, Natalia (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6522
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The Challenge of Social MediaHvass, Kristian A.; Munar, Ana María (Frederiksberg, 2010)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Over the years online marketing has grown in importance in the airline industry. This media space offers airlines numerous marketing tools, one of the most recent being social media. Social media allows airlines to interact directly with customers via various Internet platforms, and monitor customer opinions and evaluations of services. This exploratory paper studies airlines' use of social media on Facebook and Twitter for a defined period of time. The paper analyses the content of social media posted by airlines and provides a categorization of the content according to the promotional marketing mix. A netnographic method has been adopted for the examination of these social media platforms. Study findings show that there is poor strategic perspective and a lack of continuity in the use of social media. Results may aid marketing departments in their marketing and social media communication strategies, while at the same time complementing current marketing research. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8968
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Håkanson, Lars; Ambos, Björn (København, 2008)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This study investigates the antecedents of psychic distance. Building on original data in 25 of the world's largest economies, we investigate potential drivers of the perceived distance among a given pair of countries. Results confirm that psychic distance is indeed a multifaceted construct which is determined by cultural, geographic and economic factors. Furthermore, our results indicate that geographic distance accounts for the largest share of the explained variance, suggesting that future studies should attribute geographic distance a more prominent role when it comes to empirically investigating international business decisions for which psychic distance perceptions may be important. They also suggest that, used in isolation, cultural distance – as measured by the so called Kogut and Singh index – is a poor predictor of distance perceptions. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6583
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the japanese experience in international comparisonHutchison, Michael; McDill, Kathleen (Cambridge, Mass., 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6542
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Håkanson, Lars (København, 2005)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: All knowledge is context dependent. The relevant context is the social community where it resides, i.e. the 'epistemic community' formed as groups of people define and legitimize the knowledge they possess. In the mutual engagement in a common enterprise, epistemic communities develop, maintain and nurture the codes, tools and theories that provide the basis of their practice. Commonalities of code, tools and theory facilitate both voluntary transfer and involuntary imitation of knowledge within communities, also ones spanning organizational boundaries. Conversely, knowledge transfer between different epistemic communities, whether desired or unintended, is often cumbersome and fraught with difficulties. In order to achieve effective integration and cooperation between its various professional communities and subcultures, firms must therefore undertake investments in boundary-spanning mechanisms. Since these investments are specific to the context in which they take place and to the transactions that they enable, they cannot easily be organized through arm's length contracts. Firms exist because they have a relative advantage over markets in the integration of diverse knowledge. However, the associated capabilities need not translate into a relative advantage also in the transfer of knowledge, i.e. knowledge exchanged between members of the same epistemic community. Within communities, knowledge disseminates with relative ease both intentionally and through emulation. Knowledge thus acquired can generally be applied also outside the context of the exchange and the effort or investment expended in its acquisition is not transaction specific. The governance mode applied in such exchanges is therefore determined by strategic and contextual factors, including those of traditional transaction cost logic. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6581
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Li, Xin (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: All of the three major theories of the firm, i.e., the transaction cost theory, knowledge-based theory and the entrepreneurship theory, offer some insightful analyses of the nature of the firm. However, they all have limitations and weaknesses in answering the fundamental question of the existence of the firm. In addition, they are all partial due to their particular focus on the multifaceted phenomenon of the firm. We argue that it is necessary and sufficient to develop a comprehensive yet integrative theory of the firm that combines the three competing yet complementary logics. Toward this end, we propose an aspirational community theory of the firm (ACT) as a candidate theory by conceptualizing the firm as an aspirational community, the core of which is a group of like-minded people sharing similar or same aspiration/vision. To explain the existence of the firm, we make a distinction between contractual labor and aspirational labor, the former being defined as services provided by a laborer in fulfillment of a contract while the latter as services provided by a laborer in pursuit of an aspiration; and argue that firms exist because while the market may be effective and efficient for allocating contractual labor it is less effective and efficient than the firms for allocating aspirational labor. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8382
Files in this item: 1Xin Li_INT working paper wp2-2011-xl.pdf (433.7Kb)
Expo 2010 – Performing and regulating 'Danishness'Ren, Carina; Ooi, Can-Seng (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Using the concepts of auto-communication and micro-orientalism, this article argues that nation branding at World Expos produces and propagates notions of difference and otherness. By use of the Danish 'Welfairytales' pavilion at the 2010 Expo in Shanghai, we show how national Self is performed in two versions. One attempts to communicate 'the good Danish life' to the Danes themselves, while the other claims Occidental superiority. The case shows how the Danish exhibition is performed and regulated as sustainable and authentic and how in spite of its seemingly dialogical and interactive layout, a number of auto-communicative and micro-orientalist practices are enacted. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8557
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Hvass, Kristian (Frederiksberg, 2012)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Research in business model innovation has identified its significance in creating a sustainable competitive advantage for a firm, yet there are few empirical studies identifying which combination of business model activities lead to success and therefore deserve innovative attention. This study analyzes the business models of North America low-cost carriers from 2001 to 2010 using a Boolean minimization algorithm to identify which combinations of business model activities lead to operational profitability. The research aim is threefold: complement airline literature in the realm of business model innovation, introduce Boolean minimization methods to the field, and propose alternative business model activities to North American carriers striving for positive operating results. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8403
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Pedersen, Torben; Thomsen, Steen (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6537
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a brief story of India's software industry and policy implicationsPatibandla, Murali; Kapur, Deepak; Petersen, Bent (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6566
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The Causal Relationship Between Insider Ownership, Owner Identity, and Market Valuation Among the Largest European CompaniesPedersen, Torben; Thomsen, Steen (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: The causal relationship between insider ownership and market valuation is tested by simultaneous estimation of the causes and effect of insider ownership among the largest continental European companies. Controlling for nation and industry effects insider ownership (measured by the fraction of "closely held" shares) is found to have a positive effect on market valuation (market-to-book values). And market valuation is found to have a positive feedback effect on the level of insider ownership. The findings provide empirical support for a theoretical model proposed by La Porta et al (1999). But the results are also found to be sensitive to owner identity: while a higher level of financial and corporate insider ownership is found to increase market valuation, family ownership has no significant effect, and a higher level of government ownership is found to reduce market valuation. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6535
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Gammeltoft, Peter; Tarmidi, Lepi T. (Frederiksberg, 2011)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: China"s increasing integration with the world economy is met with much anticipation and much anxiety in the Southeast Asian region. In Indonesia, there is intense interest in Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI), not only among academics but also among policy makers, industrialists and the general public. So much more surprising is the fact that no systematic study of Chinese FDI in Indonesia has been undertaken to date. The current paper contributes to filling this gap and analyses the current composition as well as the historical evolution of Chinese FDI in Indonesia. Relying on a survey conducted in 2008 among Chinese invested enterprises supplemented with available official statistics and secondary data, the study finds that Chinese FDI in Indonesia is performed by mixed entities: some are owned by central government, some by regional government and some are private firms. In the case of joint ventures, their local partners are mostly local Chinese, except in the infrastructure, mining and energy sector where their local partners are Indonesian state-owned enterprises. Where the local developmental effects are concerned, a picture emerges where Chinese investments, at this early period of their internationalization, are likely to give rise to a more modest extent of positive spillovers than investor from more economically advanced countries. This stems from the sectors, investment motives and operational strategies of Chinese investors, the heritage of ethnic tension and segmentation of the economic system along ethnic lines in Indonesia, and the likelihood that Chinese MNCs as latecomers are more vertically integrated than their developed-country counterparts. Finally, considering the evolution of Chinese investments in Indonesia over time, investments have evolved from being individual and isolated projects to acquiring more systemic properties. Chinese companies have acquired a broader sectoral presence in Indonesia and Chinese invested companies in e.g. extractive or manufacturing activities can increasingly rely on complementary Chinese investments in logistics, travel, finance etc. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8397
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Evidence from EstoniaJones, Derek C; Kalmi, Panu; Mygind, Niels (København, 2003)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: In this paper we use rich panel data for a representative sample of Estonian enterprises to analyse diverse issues related to the determinants of ownership structures and ownership changes after privatisation. A key focus is to determine whether ownership changes are related to economic efficiency. While employee owned firms are found to be much more prone than other firms to switch ownership categories, often "employee owned" firms remain "insider-owned" as ownership passes from current employees to managers and former employees. Logit analyses of the determinants of ownership structures and ownership changes provides mixed support for several hypotheses. As predicted: (i) wealth and resource constraints play a crucial role in the determination of ownership, with foreigners buying firms with the highest equity levels and insiders buying firms with the lowest equity valuations; (ii) risk aversion explains subsequent ownership changes, especially away from employee ownership; (iii) allocation of ownership depends on the pre-privatisation origin and location of the firm, and these factors also influence subsequent ownership changes. Finally we compare our findings with those achieved by using more conventional approaches to analyze efficiency that use very similar data. Reassuringly the evidence presented in this paper is consistent with the view that efficiency considerations drive ownership changes (while earlier analysis for Estonia and for many other transition economies has identified the impact of ownership on economic performance.) However, the findings in this paper also establish that there are important influences besides economic efficiency that affect enterprise ownership and ownership changes. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6610
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a dynamic extension of the existing typology of acquisition motivesGammelgård, Jens (København, 1999)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6587
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Nebenzahl, Israel D.; Jaffe, Eugene D.; Kavak, Bahtisen (København, 2000)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6604
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Different Learning PathsPetersen, Bent; Pedersen, Torben (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Much has been written about how international firms create and sustain firm-specific advantages that offset their liability of foreignness. Less attention has been devoted the question of how international firms can reduce their liability of foreignness. Looking for different paths of learning our study explores the dynamics of firms' liability of foreignness. A sample of 494 international firms from Sweden, Denmark and New Zealand is clustered along three structural dimensions of liability of foreignness: (1) perceived lack of knowledge about the foreign market, (2) the longevity of operations in the foreign market, and (3) international experience of the entrant firm. The four clusters that precipitate represent different learning path positions. One group of firms can be identified as pre-entry learners, another group as post-entry learners. A minor group of firms is characterized by perceiving a persistent lack of knowledge about the foreign market they are operating in. One might speculate if these firms engage in any learning about the foreign business environment. Furthermore, the data suggest that firms with extensive international experience are more capable in familiarizing with the foreign business environment than are firms with little international experience. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6893
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different learning engagements of entrant firmsPetersen, Bent; Pedersen, Torben (København, 2001)[More information][Less information]
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6579
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Theory and Evidence from the BalticsJones, Derek C.; Mygind, Niels (København, 2004)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: We begin by identifying a typical governance life-cycle, defined as changes in ownership structure, and including both the identity of the major owner and ownership concentration. The cycle is marked by key events and phases including start-up, initial growth, mature growth, and possibly a crisis and restructuring stage or exit stage. The governance cycle for transitional countries reflects some specific characteristics –e.g. often privatization produces specific initial ownership structures, with an unusually high proportion of insider, especially, employee ownership. Subsequently pres-sures for restructuring produce strong impulses for ownership changes. There is limited possibility for external finance because of the embryonic development of the banking system and the capital markets during early transition. The governance cycle is also influenced by specific features of the institutional, cultural and economic environment in a country. The varying importance of these fac-tors is expected to produce differences in key features of ownership cycles such as the speed at which particular ownership changes occur. To provide simple hypothesis tests, we use new and rich enterprise panel data sets for the three Bal-tic countries. The data enable various measures of ownership to be constructed (including the iden-tity of major owners and ownership concentration). The empirical analysis covers the ownership cycle with emphasis on initial ownership and subsequent changes. Our key method is to assemble a series of transition matrices showing both starting and final ownership configurations for sample enterprises and to simultaneously provide information on changes in concentration for the largest single owner. For Estonia this is supplemented with an analysis of the frequencies of different own-ership-cycles including intermediary stages of ownership. In spite of important differences in insti-tutional development, especially concerning the privatization process, we find that governance cy-cles are broadly similar in all countries. Employee ownership is rapidly fading and mainly being succeeded by managerial ownership. There are changes back and forth between manager and do-mestic external ownership, while foreign ownership is quite stable. Ownership concentration is mostly increasing after privatization, which included diversification both to employees and external owners. Since ownership diversification did not sit well with the slow development of the institu-tional framework, as expected we see a subsequent concentration of ownership on both managers, external domestic and foreign owners. However, variation in institutions, there are also important differences across countries. The adjustment of ownership structures is faster in Estonia and this can be explained by the relatively fast pace of institutional change and evolution of important gov-ernance institutions, including tough bankruptcy legislation and advances in the financial system. JEL-codes: G3, J5, P2, P3 Keywords: corporate governance, life-cycle, privatization, ownership change, transition econo-mies, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania . URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6611
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A Dynamic AnalysisHobdari, Bersant; Jones, Derek; Mygind, Niels (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: New and rich panel data for a large and representative sample of firms are used to estimate the sensitivity of access to capital to differing ownership structures. The investment behaviour of firms is examined in a dynamic setting in the presence of adjustment costs, liquidity constraints and imperfect competition. The empirical work is based on the derivation of Euler equations in the presence of symmetric and quadratic adjustment costs and both debt and equity constraints. Whereas the norm is to use ad hoc approaches to model these constraints, our alternative and more consistent leads to the inclusion of financial variables in investment equation in first differences rather than in levels. Our GMM estimates confirm the importance of financial factors in determining investment rates and suggest that firms owned by insiders, especially non-managerial employees, are more prone to be liquidity constrained than are others. Among the other groups, somewhat surprisingly, only domestic outsider owned firms display sensitivity to both measures of the availability of finance, with manager owned firms being sensitive to the availability of external finance, while state owned firms being sensitive to the availability of internal finance. Corporate Investment, Corporate Governance, Adjustment Costs, Liquidity Constraints, GMM Estimates, Transition Economies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6585
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A Dynamic AnalysisHobdari, Bersant; Jones, Derek; Mygind, Niels (København, 2007)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: New and rich panel data for a large and representative sample of firms are used to estimate the sensitivity of access to capital to differing ownership structures. The investment behaviour of firms is examined in a dynamic setting in the presence of adjustment costs, liquidity constraints and imperfect competition. The empirical work is based on the derivation of Euler equations in the presence of symmetric and quadratic adjustment costs and both debt and equity constraints. Whereas the norm is to use ad hoc approaches to model these constraints, our alternative and more consistent leads to the inclusion of financial variables in investment equation in first differences rather than in levels. Our GMM estimates confirm the importance of financial factors in determining investment rates and suggest that firms owned by insiders, especially non-managerial employees, are more prone to be liquidity constrained than are others. Among the other groups, somewhat surprisingly, only domestic outsider owned firms display sensitivity to both measures of the availability of finance, with manager owned firms being sensitive to the availability of external finance, while state owned firms being sensitive to the availability of internal finance. Corporate Investment, Corporate Governance, Adjustment Costs, Liquidity Constraints, GMM Estimates, Transition Economies. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6585
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Meat Mitch Whomp! BBQ Sauce
This sauce is all about the sweet and spice, it is a Kansas City Style through and through. It is a sauce that is great on just about everything. Meat Mitch Whomp! Competition BBQ Sauce is sweet, with a combination of brown sugar and ketchup as the primary ingredients, with a spicy kick to it. The vanilla extract is somewhat the secret to this and not what you would normally find in barbecue sauce. When we tasted it, you can recognize a very subtle, sweet vanilla flavor that comes along with the spice kick. As a competition sauce we have a lot of hopes for it as it will definitely raise some eyebrows. This is the one to get if you like a little heat on the tongue, and the flavor profile is something that will differentiates this from other KC style sauces we have tried.
Meat Mitch Naked Whomp! BBQ Sauce
This one was a great find, we are always looking for sauces and rubs that are All Natural. We find them to be a welcome change and have a unique flavor that only comes from less chemicals and more goodness. If you have someone in your family or you yourself has food allergies this is the sauce you should try! Meat Mitch Naked Whomp! BBQ Sauce is a refreshing new product to see in the world of BBQ Sauce. It is a truly ALL Natural High Fructose Corn Syrup Free or HFCS Free and 100% Gluten Free. Mitch puts it well on the label "No Fruc'n corn syrup" which is the first of it's kind at BBQ Pro Shop. This the sweet and lovable brother of the Meat Mitch Whomp! BBQ Sauce is all about sweetness and natural goodness. The story behind this is that a local store decided to ban HFCS from it's shelves and Mitch rose to the occasion. He made the decision to create a barbecue sauce that they would be able to carry and got his sauce back on the shelves.
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A plan to run a streetcar between Fairfax and Arlington counties has received a boost after state officials announced they will increase funding for the project by up to $65 million.
Plans for the $333 million project have been questioned in Arlington as cost estimates have risen and critics have derided the streetcar as too expensive.
Most of the proposed five-mile line would run in Arlington, connecting Pentagon City to the Skyline section of Fairfax County.
On Friday, Virginia Transportation Secretary Aubrey Layne notified the counties that the state will boost its contribution by up to $65 million, meaning the state will pay for nearly half of the project.
The funding also accelerates the planned timetable by a year, and the compressed scheduled shaves $25 million off the project costs.


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It was midmorning on April 26, 2012, and Grace Chimezie, an intern in the newsroom of the Nigerian daily ThisDay in the capital Abuja, was checking email and reviewing newspapers for the next editorial meeting when an explosion ripped through the office complex. "I found myself on the floor, groaning in pain," Chimezie recalled in a story in her paper. In a split-second move that probably saved her life, Chimezie evaded a chunk of debris that came crashing down on her laptop. The explosion killed five people; Chimezie was among at least eight injured.
The blast was one of two simultaneous bombings that targeted the offices of three newspapers, in Abuja and the northern city of Kaduna. The militant Islamist sect Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati Wal-Jihad, popularly known as Boko Haram, claimed responsibility for both. "We have just started this new campaign against the media and we will not stop here--we will hit the media hard," warned Abul Qaqa, a spokesman for the group.
Journalists have long been caught in the crossfire, literally and figuratively, between opposing sides in armed conflict and where nonstate actors such as insurgents or criminal groups operate: Afghanistan, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Mexico are powerful examples of the past decade. But with the rise of mobile Internet technology and social media, both insurgent groups and the governments they are fighting have become more cognizant, and apparently more sensitive, to how they are portrayed. The result is increased danger for journalists, who are squeezed between threat of violent attack from one side and pressure of censorship or prosecution from the other. At the same time, nonstate actors are trying to leverage social media for themselves, bypassing traditional journalists to disseminate their messages directly.
"One of the most potent modern threats to emerge against journalists is the rise of extremist groups who deliberately target journalists," Peter Bouckaert, emergencies director of Human Rights Watch, told CPJ by email. "The changes in technology and accessibility of media over the Internet also mean that human rights abusers are much more aware of what is being written about them, and that can result in more direct and immediate threats against the journalists who are writing critically about these individuals or groups."
The problem has gained attention at the highest international levels. In September 2012, the United Nations Human Rights Council expressed "concern that there is a growing threat to the safety of journalists posed by nonstate actors, including terrorist groups and criminal organizations."
The menace of terrorist groups grew exponentially for the press in Mali and Nigeria in 2012, as these two nations battled violent Islamists in their respective northern regions. Brutal actions by the militants forced some journalists into hiding and induced others to self-censor--a cycle of intimidation already familiar to reporters covering some of Africa's longest-running conflicts, such as in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia. "West Africa is confronted with a new wave of challenges to governance, peace consolidation, and conflict prevention," Said Djinnit, the U.N. special representative in the region, said in July.
Journalists in Mali--a model of stability and democracy for more than two decades--were subject to a record number of attacks by insurgents and government security forces as the country slipped into instability. After the military ousted the elected government, having criticized its handling of a separatist Tuareg rebellion in the vast Saharan north, the rebels allied with radical jihadi militants and seized northern town after town. Separatists, particularly jihadi militants, accounted for the overwhelming majority of attacks on journalists, according to CPJ research, as they imposed draconian censorship measures and brutal intimidation tactics. Speaking of the insurgent groups, Yéhiha Tandina, a journalist based in the fabled northeast town Timbuktu, said, "They don't like to see photos of child soldiers among them or anything portraying their fighters in a bad light."
In the northeastern town of Ansongo, militants from the Salafist group Ansar Dine took over Radio Soni in April and forced the station to replace its female editor, Fatoumata Abdou, with a man and limit its programming to Quranic recitations. In the town of Gao, on at least two occasions, fighters from the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa dragged the Radio Adar Khoïma host Malick Aliou Maïga away from live programming at gunpoint and assaulted him for reporting on public discontent with the brutal rule of the Islamists. Across northern Mali, radio stations were forced to drop any musical content, including jingles, local journalists told CPJ. "When you want to cover an event, you must present a letter [to the militant groups] with your questions in advance," Tandina said.
At least two journalists fled northern Mali in 2012 because of direct intimidation, and many others have left because they were unable to carry on their professional duties, according to CPJ research. Towns of the sparsely populated region have limited electricity and mobile network coverage; radio is the most widely available medium. As a result of the censorship and intimidation, residents have been stripped of discussion platforms and forced to rely on international radio broadcasts for independent information.
"The human rights situation in West African countries affected by political instability and insecurity, such as Mali ... and in those affected by the growing threat of terrorism, such as Nigeria, remains a source of concern," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted in a report to the Security Council in June 2012.
In Nigeria, Boko Haram has been waging war on the federal government since 2009 in an effort to impose Shariah law in the country's northern, predominantly Muslim states. In the conflict, "the mass media have been very crucial to publicizing the violent activities of nonstate armed and terrorist groups in Nigeria and state security measures to contain them," Olusola Isola and Michael Akintayo wrote in the October 2012 edition of International Journal of Social Science Tomorrow. In October 2011, Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the murder of Zakariya Isa, accusing the state media cameraman of spying. In May, Boko Haram followed the twin bombings in April 2012 with a chilling video released on YouTube that singled out three international news outlets and 11 Nigerian papers for attacks. In the same video, which registered more than 86,000 views, the Boko Haram spokesman Qaqa accused ThisDay of inaccurately attributing to Boko Haram attacks it did not carry out. News outlets "should understand that for us there is no difference between those fighting with arms and with the pen," Qaqa said in August, accusing the media of taking sides.
Boko Haram accounted for only one-fifth of attacks against the press in Nigeria in 2012--most were committed by government forces and officials, according to CPJ research--but the group's brutal tactics caused much greater fear. "To say there are increased security risks facing journalists this year compared to previous years is an understatement of the fact," said Aishatu Sule, deputy president of the Nigerian Guild of Editors.
Boko Haram did not immediately follow through on the threats in its May video, but the open-ended warning prompted many news outlets to pull their correspondents out of the group's strongholds in northern Nigeria. Some reporters have gone underground or suspended work altogether, while others have simply adapted their reporting to the group's demands, local journalists told CPJ.
"Generally, there is a shift on the part of the media from blaming all attacks and killings on the group unless it claims responsibility. So, you now find the media using 'gunmen' and 'attackers' to describe suspects of attacks that are without clear signatures of the insurgents," Daily Trust investigative editor Nuruddeen Abdallah told CPJ in an email. "We are now being more careful with all the information," he said, and that includes "the usual security agencies' spins on their 'successes' in tackling the militant group."
Government responses to coverage of the insurgents put further pressure on journalists. In a September 2012 keynote address at the All Nigerian Editors Conference, Presidential National Security Adviser M. S. Dasuki urged media to play down reporting of Boko Haram attacks and refrain from embarrassing the government. "This is particularly important in the advent of social media and the Internet, when all your newspapers are being read around the world almost as instantly as you finish your columns," he said. "Bad press about Nigeria affects the ability of our nation's level of entrepreneurship and job creation."
In Mali, the government resorted to blocking websites and phone numbers belonging to the Islamists. According to Diakaridia Dembélé, a freelance reporter based in the capital, Bamako, a call to spokesmen for the militants on one of the country's largest mobile networks yielded this voice recording: "You are not authorized to call this number because it belongs to persons with bad intentions."
Though insurgent groups are a relatively new menace for the press in West Africa, they have long established a trail of censorship and journalists' blood in Somalia, Africa's deadliest nation for the press. At least 20 journalists have been murdered in Somalia since Al-Shabaab militants emerged in the country in 2007, according to CPJ research--more than the number killed in the prior 14 years of civil war. Al-Shabaab, which is affiliated with Al-Qaeda, has claimed responsibility for only five of the murders, and while it is possible that other criminal or political groups could be behind some of the deaths, the hard-line jihadi group represents the most fearsome threat. Somali authorities have never brought to trial any suspect in the murder of a journalist, affording killers total impunity.
Governments in Nigeria and Mali have not done much better. In the twin bombings in April, the Nigerian police arrested one of the bombers, but have not brought anyone to trial, according to local journalists. Frank Mba, Nigeria's federal police spokesman, referred questions about the government's efforts to ensure the safety of journalists to the press itself. "If you speak to the Nigerian media, they'll tell you the steps we are taking," he said. "We don't go about telling the whole world what we are doing." He added that police don't treat the press differently than any other sector of society. In response, Sule of the Nigerian Guild of Editors noted that the press constitutes a particularly vulnerable group, which should merit commensurate police attention. She also said authorities generally refuse to make exceptions for journalists and media workers during curfews related to terror attacks, making it difficult for them to work.
In Mali, where the insurgency and the coup have divided the country in two, with both halves in chaos, journalists have little more to rely on than their wits. Veteran reporter Moussa Kaka, who has been reporting on Islamist militants in Mali, said he relies on his extensive experience as a reporter to keep himself safe and circumvent limitations. Ultimately, however, "you must establish total trust" with your subjects, he said.
Governments, however, can be quick to arrest journalists like Kaka who secure interviews with insurgents. Kaka was once imprisoned in his native Niger for more than a year on anti-state charges, based on recordings of his phone conversations with Tuareg rebels. In June 2012, a court in Burundi sentenced radio reporter Hassan Ruvakuki to life in prison on terrorism charges based on his embedded reporting with a new rebel movement.
Though the Nigerian government hasn't arrested journalists for reporting on Boko Haram, reporters told CPJ they believe their actions are being closely watched by the authorities. "Most of us know that our phone lines are bugged by the security agencies. We are operating between the devil and the deep blue sea," said Daily Trust's Abdallah. Freelance journalist Ahmad Salkida, who has extensively covered Boko Haram, reported in March 2012 that he had been put under surveillance and had received threatening phone calls from suspected state security agents. He went into hiding.
To some extent, journalists can take advantage of technology to reduce the hazards of reporting on armed groups. "The electronic nature of social media and mobility of modern telephones makes it relatively easy to communicate from a safe and remote distance," said Judith Matloff, a veteran international correspondent and journalist security consultant. One Nigerian journalist, who did not want to be named for fear of reprisal from Boko Haram, said, "It is very common to see a journalist writing about Maiduguri," a northeastern city badly afflicted by the conflict, "from Abuja, Kaduna, Lagos, or even Port Harcourt because it is suicidal to stay in one place."
Yet, even as insurgent groups like Boko Haram intimidate journalists in a bid to influence coverage, they also bypass the mainstream media by disseminating their own messages via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, the M23 rebels, a group of army mutineers who seized key towns in North Kivu in 2012, displayed one of the most innovative media operations of any of the multitude of armed groups operating in restive eastern Congo. The group disseminated videos of their communiques on YouTube and boasted a Facebook page that garnered nearly 7,000 likes. Facebook eventually shut down the page after numerous complaints. At least three journalists were forced to relocate from the restive North Kivu province after enduring direct threats and intimidation from the rebels for reporting on their alleged abuses, according to CPJ research. In their research paper, Isola and Akintayo wrote that insurgent groups "deliberately use the new media to intensify the fear they create among the public and to reach the elite and younger elements of the population who may not be too exposed to the traditional media."
This dual strategy to control information is a striking contrast to the insurgencies of previous decades, when the press served as a conduit at times in delivering the messages of militant groups.
"It's funny to think back to the 1980s, before we had readily available cellphones or social media," Matloff said. "Fax was the main form of communication, and it was rare to find a Mozambican or Angolan rebel who could quickly send a message from the jungle." Digital connectivity means insurgents can "be their own media," said David J. Betz, an expert on counterinsurgency and information and professor of War Studies at King's College London. Betz told CPJ by email, "News editors who once played a very important role as gatekeepers are not nearly so powerful as they were."
To the insurgent and criminal groups operating today, the press is instead a rival in disseminating information--and events in Nigeria, Mali, and Somalia make plain that journalists are vulnerable as a result.
Mohamed Keita is advocacy coordinator for CPJ's Africa Program. He regularly gives interviews in French and English to international news media on press freedom issues in Africa and has participated in several international panels.


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Final - #1 TheBodyGuard beat #3 Fine 6-3 - BodyGuard continued his domination in this league and won out. A close matchup and Fine did well, but just fell short. Congrats to BodyGuard for winning this league, as well as the other one, and in his first year with us. Well done Fine for getting second.
3rd place - #5 migya beat #2 Pawno 6-3 - I got Pawno in this league, so we're even. Close matchup as well and it came down to the end. Pawno really improving this year and good to see.
Consolation Playoffs -
Final for 7th place - #8 Reg beat #7 TMC 7-2 - Reg wins out by beating last year's champ. Close matchup though, with Reg winning steals and blocks by one. TMC falls pretty hard from last year and might have to come roaring back next year.
9th place - #9 Always beat #11 Eman 7-1 - Both didn't rotate their teams, but Always still won out easily. EMan didn't make much of an appearance this year and hopefully we'll see much more of him next year.
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Now my manager and some others have read it and they want me to come to their book club to lead a discussion! If you have any ideas to lead me into this land of discussing this with upper management who just happen to be members of this book club please let me know. I need to keep my job!
Hmm. Tough one. Perhaps, "What I got out of this book was a deep, abiding relief that our company is nothing like this. That's why I hand it out to people at work; everyone enjoys stories that have nothing to do with their own lives. It's pure escapism!"
One of the interesting things about corporate workplaces is that they turn otherwise decent human beings into… well, management. They're not like that because they're petty, deceitful scumbags. I mean, obviously that helps. But it's the environment that encourages those personality traits. This could be a cry for help from your boss, who in a flash of self-discovery has thought, "My God, what have I become?" Your job at this book club, then, is clearly to reassure him/her that it's only the other managers who are like that, and gather information that will be politically useful at your next performance evaluation.


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2010 Audi A6
The Audi A6 is a comfortable, stylish luxury sedan that delivers dynamic excellence. The A6 is packed with technology that enhances convenience and safety. Attention to detail inside and out is impressive; Audi is often a benchmark for automotive interior quality.
The A6 cabin is airy and comfortable, with firm, supportive seats and plenty of room for four. Its styling is a crisp, clean and modern interpretation of the aerodynamic sedan Audi debuted more than 30 years ago.
Underway, the A6 boasts precise steering, fluid engines and transmissions, stout brakes and a firm but comfortable ride. In high-speed corners the quattro models feel like they're on rails, a benefit of Audi's superb all-wheel-drive system. Braking and handling are excellent, whether on dry pavement or hurtling through a torrent of rain.
The A6 is available as a sedan or a wagon and both are among the sleekest designs in the class. The wagon is called the Avant, and it's a sporty vehicle, powered exclusively by Audi's newest 3-liter supercharged V6 engine.
The sedan offers two V6s, a V8 and a V10. All A6s except the entry model come with quattro all-wheel drive.
The standard 3.2-liter V6 is all-new for 2010, with more horsepower (265 hp, an increase of 10 over 2009) and better fuel economy than before. Backed by a continuously variable automatic transmission, the new 3.2-liter V6 delivers sufficient performance for any purpose. The supercharged 3-liter brings 300 hp and nearly as much torque as the V8, for similar performance on less fuel. The V10-powered S6 is for serious drivers who don't mind trading comfort for high performance.
Also new for 2010 are revised Sport packages and a third generation of MMI, Audi's Multi-Media Interface. These changes follow 2009's updates to bumpers and lighting and refinements to the suspension and all-wheel driveline.
The A6 competes primarily against the BMW 5 Series and Mercedes-Benz E-Class. Other contenders include the Acura RL, Cadillac CTS, Jaguar XF, and Lexus GS.
Model LineupAudi A6 3.2 ($45,200); A6 3.0T ($50,200); A6 Avant 3.0T ($53,310); A6 4.2 ($60,950); S6 ($76,100)
Walk Around
The Audi A6 is a study in excellent design. Flowing lines give the A6 sedan the sleekness of a coupe without the quashed windows and head-enveloping window line. There's simplicity to the upswept door trim and shoulder crease blending into a subtle rear spoiler that suggests elegance and strength. Jewelry and adornment are kept to a minimum; as with an attractive person no additional cosmetics are needed.
A trapezoidal grille and substantial interlocked rings highlight the front end, so that the grille pattern continues top to bottom, eliminating the flat license-plate section that spilt the opening on pre-2009 models (although in states that require a front plate, there really isn't any other place for it go). Rectangular fog lamps enhance the front styling, and a strip of LED running lamps underlines the headlight housing. At the rear of the A6 are sleek, oblong LED taillights.
The A6 Avant is an especially sleek-looking wagon, distinguished by dark center pillars, very mildly tapering side windows and sloping roofline with discrete spoiler incorporating the center brake light. The hatch glass angle is more crossover-like, as opposed to a Volvo wagon's upright box rear end; the defroster will quickly shed snow.
Body panels fit closely together on the A6, around the doors, hood and trunk lid, along lamps and door handles. It's the look of quality, of close tolerances, as is the reassuring thud when you close anything. You won't even find a rubber strip at the top of windshield, nor strips on the sides of the roof. Door jambs and the trunk and hatch openings are all well-finished, and there are myriad seals to keep dirt and wind noise out. Audi is superior to Mercedes at these sorts of details.
A large color palette and multiple wheel styles and sizes (17-19 inches) help buyers personalize each A6. The 19-inch wheels on the Avant lend the appearance of Audi's 174-mph RS6 superwagon.
The S6 is distinguished from its less-powerful stalemates by special exterior and interior elements. Most noticeably, it retains the old-style split grille, albeit overlaid with a grid-like pattern. A different front bumper feeds more cooling air and moves the LED daytime running lights to the top of two lower cooling ducts. The front foglamps are incorporated into the headlight housings with tinted covers, the lower door trim is more pronounced, and the integrated trunk spoiler is a bit larger. The aluminum trim surrounds rearview mirror housings. The S6 also has black brake calipers, dual tailpipes each side, special 19-inch wheels with fat tires, and the requisite S6 and V10 badges. Paint choices are limited to a more discrete palette, a good move as the exhaust note attracts enough attention.
The Audi A6 cabin is spacious, very well finished, and bathed in daylight. While no one builds the perfect interior, Audi is frequently recognized for its interiors.
Valcona leather upholstery is standard across the A6 line, including a very attractive combination of amaretto and black. The amaretto on the seat centers is surrounded by black, and on the door panels makes a nice counterpoint to the also-standard wood trim. By making the dashboard black to avoid reflections and the carpet black to minimize showing dirt, they've made an elegant cabin that's four-season functional as well.
Metallic trim on the dash, air vents, door pulls and many controls is a matte aluminum finish that produces no glare; chrome is used very sparingly. Everything is illuminated, even the door armrests with light pipes hidden under the wood trim. Each door, the area above the glovebox, and the center console are finished in wood, our only concern that the side edges on the console may be more vulnerable to scuffs than leather or vinyl.
The front seats are comfortable, supportive and offer good power adjustment range; fatigue should never be an issue even with the A6's 500-mile cruising range. Wind, road and engine noise are quelled so conversation is easy, even when driving quickly.
The rear seats are comfortable, too. Head and leg room are expansive enough to tote around two clients in comfort even if you and they are all six feet or taller. Getting in and out of the back seats is relatively easy thanks to a back door much taller than most sleek sedans, space between the seat and door post that shames most full-size SUVs, and a foot space big enough to slide under the front seat. There are three adjustable headrests, reading lights that can't be seen in the driver's mirror, front seatback storage, and a split rear seatback that folds down with the narrow section behind the driver.
Up front, everything is oriented around the driver. The driver benefits from a nice four-spoke steering wheel or a nicer, sportier three-spoke wheel; both have thumbwheels and buttons for redundant control, and a clear view of analog instruments, but only the four-spoke wheel can be heated. The center dash, including the navigation screen, is slightly angled toward the driver. Climate controls are located at the bottom, sophisticated but straightforward and easy to operate. At the top of the stack, above the vents, is a crisp seven-inch screen that displays navigation and other functions. The standard trip computer and Driver Information Center features a digital speed indicator.
Audi's Multi Media Interface, or MMI, features a large knob and 15 buttons set horizontally on the center console to control most interior and many exterior functions. This eliminates a lot of switches, making for an uncluttered dash. Logical grouping eases the acclimation process, yet a few days and familiarization with the owner's manual will you allow you to master MMI quickly and appreciate what you can do with it. As with many new cars you can't just press-and-hold to program a radio preset but it does have a regular round volume knob. The main controller and buttons fall easily to hand right behind the shifter but are not accidentally bumped as on some such system. To ease access by the driver, the glovebox door button is located on the center of dash next to an Off switch for the screen.
High technology can also be found in what have been traditionally mundane controls. The parking brake is electronic; pull the switch up to set it, press to release it. The hood release operates only when the door is open, good to know. The wipers are speed sensitive. A Bluetooth-enabled interface integrates compatible equipment. The rear camera is predictive, showing where the car will go as the steering wheel is turned. And the trunk and fuel door release buttons are in the door pocket and since you have to lift, not push them, there are no mistakes dropping your phone or sunglasses case in the pocket.
The A6 does not offer many places to put stuff, an inconvenience. The glovebox is small, especially with the available CD changer and the center armrest storage isn't capacious, but door pockets help. The cup holders are positioned well and contain beverages in spirited driving.
The trunk is deep enough for a 24-inch roller suitcase. Luggage capacity is nearly 16 cubic feet, more than a BMW 5 series or Acura RL and comparable to the Mercedes E-Class, and it is shaped like most suitcases, with 90-degree angles. Details include plenty of tie-down points, bag hangar hooks, a strap to hold the floor up for access, and a rarity these days, a full-size matching spare alloy wheel and tire.
The Avant sport wagon offers essentially the same floor layout as the sedan but with the added space afforded by the extra height. An overlooked side benefit of the wagon is that the rear window doesn't fog up as quickly. The luggage compartment offers a variety of configurations and features two securing rails recessed into the floor and four D-rings adjustable over the rail length. The cargo area cover also has a roll-up net to keep cargo or the dog separate from the passengers, and light is sufficient for night loading. Various nets, hooks, straps and posts handle cargo retention duty. The load floor can be folded up and locked in several ways, which provides access to a lower load area lined by a plastic tray, an ideal cubby for stowing wet or muddy gear, and again, a full-sized matching spare.
The rear hatch opening of the Avant is roughly 42 inches wide by 29 high, and with the rear seats folded the cargo bay is more than six feet long. Powered hatches may be programmed to stop at any height, such as in low-ceiling residential garages, and a groove to grab the bottom of the hatch runs the entire width of it, rather than just one or two hand pockets.
The S6 cockpit features integral-headrest, heavily bolstered sport seats upholstered in Nappa leather. However, the standard seats in Milano leather are available for folks who might find the sport seats too confining. The three-spoke, power-adjustable sport steering wheel is trimmed in smooth leather and has a color-contrasting double-stitch. The S6 features unique instrument graphics and badging. Aluminum shift paddles and console shifter knob provide a high-tech contrast to the standard gray birch trim or optional carbon fiber inserts. The S6 offers the same cabin and trunk space as an A6 sedan.
Driving Impressions
The Audi A6 is every bit as capable as the lithe, athletic look implies. A solid structure, good suspension tuning, and free-revving engines deliver excellent performance, and all but front-drive 3.2-liter model benefit from the most recent iteration of Audi's quattro all-wheel-drive system.
The A6 ride is firm but elastic, with large dips and sharp speed bumps managed well. It's among the best in class in comfort and near the top of its class in handling, notably bettered only by a rear-drive BMW. Regardless of which model you choose and its ultimate level of grip, predictable handling characteristics provide confidence.
Ride quality varies with tire choice, with the optional 19-inch wheels less forgiving over sharp bumps, lane divider dots and so on. We prefer the 18-inch wheels and tires and do not advocate the 19s for year-round driving in the Rust Belt.
The Servotronic steering allows precise control and the A6 goes exactly where the driver wants it. Grip is excellent. Drive the car to its limit and you'll encounter a small amount of understeer. The Avant exhibits the same characteristics though enthusiast drivers often feel the extra rear weight better balances the car. The highly rigid chassis gives the car the feeling of being carved from one block of material. This rigidity allowed Audi engineers to precisely tune the suspension. The A6 uses Audi's proven four-link front suspension and the self-tracking trapezoidal-link rear suspension adapted from the A8.
The new-for-2010 3.2-liter V6 (replacing the previous 3.2-liter) is all-aluminum in construction and fueled by direct injection. Aided by Audi's Valvelift system (continuously variable valve timing, with two-stage intake valve lift) it develops 265 horsepower, 10 more than its predecessor, while squeezing one more highway mile out of every gallon of Premium. Peak torque remains the same, 243 pound-feet at 3250 rpm, so the A6 3.2 retains its edge over BMW's lighter 528i, which rates just 200 pound-feet, albeit at a lower 2750 rpm. Audi says the 2010 A6 3.2 can accelerate from 0-60 mph in 6.9 seconds, same as the 2009 model. The CVT may initially feel or sound odd to those unfamiliar with one, but it's ideal for the best blend of performance and fuel economy.
The 3.0T 3.0-liter supercharged V6 gives up just 2 mpg EPA highway to the 3.2, but adds 35 horsepower and 67 pound-feet of torque and delivers the torque over a broad range, 2500-5100 rpm. This would be too much for front-wheel drive to cope with, hence all 3.0T models employ quattro all-wheel drive.
The quattro system, revised for 2009, has a more rear-bias nominal power split of 40 percent front/60 percent rear to make the all-wheel drive feel and respond more like a rear-wheel-drive car. Still, the A6 never feels nor responds exactly like a rear-drive car.
The added power translates to a one-second drop in 0-60 mph time, which Audi quotes at 5.9 seconds. The engine is as smooth and quiet as the 3.2, so you find yourself inching up the speedometer more easily. Perhaps just as important, the 300-horsepower, 310 pound-feet ratings put Audi on par with BMW's 300/300-rated twin-turbo 3-liter in the more-expensive 535xi sedan and wagon.
The silky 4.2-liter V8 produces 350 horsepower and 325 pound-feet of torque, and comes with larger brakes to go with it. The 4.2 is just 0.1 second quicker to 60 mph than the 3.0T because of extra weight in features and equipment and only slightly better torque than the 3.0T. Still the 4.2 gives up 2-3 mpg to the 3.0T.
All transmissions offer three shift modes. The standard mode is more than adequate for the majority of circumstances, and ideal for inclement weather. Sport mode is best for those more concerned with performance than economy or for limiting shifting over undulating and winding roads. Manual mode lets the driver choose gears, although it will still upshift or downshift automatically if you reach the engine's limits; that strategy may not satisfy purists, but it's handy when you forget you've left it in Manual mode. All the gearboxes shift smoothly and rev-match downshifts under certain circumstances.
The S6 features a 435-hp version of the 5.2-liter V10 engine used in the S8. With nearly 400 pound-feet of torque across the middle rev range and quattro to put the power down, we've done 0-60 mph in an S6 in less than 5 seconds, in the rain. Fuel economy ratings drop to 14/19 mpg, however.
The S6 gets massive brakes, nearly 1.5 inches larger in diameter than the already arresting 4.2 V8, sticky 265/35ZR19 tires, firmer suspension, aerodynamics to keep it grounded at 150 mph, the best lights, and seats to keep you in place while you use it all. And while the S6 is certainly firm, the kind of firm where you would rather be the driver than the passenger, it is docile enough to drive everyday, in traffic, if necessary.
The S6 competes with the BMW M5, Mercedes E63 AMG, and with the Lexus IS-F, Jaguar XFR, and Cadillac CTS-V. The ride and handling prowess of an M5 doesn't come cheap, with a base price $10,000 beyond the S6, while the CTS-V offers the best bang for the buck. Many of the other cars are faster and handle better, but none of them offer the space of the S6 nor the all-wheel drive that will put the power down in poor conditions.
The Audi A6 is a driver's sedan that never forgets it's a luxury four-door. It's a wonderful car for quick commuting, long-distance high-speed travel, and spirited driving. It's smooth, quiet, polished and has all the requisite amenities. It competes with the Mercedes-Benz E-Class and BMW 5 Series in terms of efficient performance and safe and secure motoring, particularly when weather enters the picture. And in this class it's a decent value proposition as well, typically undercutting its primary competitors on price but not content.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent G.R. Whale filed this report after his test drive of the complete A6 line (3.2, 3.0T, Avant and S6 in Los Angeles, and 3.0 TDI and RS6 Avant in Germany), with Mitch McCullough reporting on the A6 from Milan, Greg Brown reporting on the A6 from Italy's Dolomites, and Kirk Bell in the S6 in Chicago.


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For miles and miles, you can walk through the city of Hong Kong without ever once putting a foot on the ground. All day you can get everywhere you need to go, taking care of any errand you might have on your list, all while separated from the streets and surface of the city. This is possible thanks to the network of elevated walkways and underground tunnels that have gradually developed in the city – both formally and informally – over the past 50 years.
It's an impressively widespread pedestrian infrastructure, linking people to the waterfront city's wide array of transportation options. And as a forthcoming book contends, it's also a new kind of civic space and even a new form of citymaking. Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook, out in September from ORO Editions, considers the city through the lens of these above- and below-ground walkways, creating the first-ever maps showing the extent and variety of these networks.
Co-authored by Adam Frampton, Jonathan D. Solomon and Clara Wong, architects and academics who spent time living and working in Hong Kong, the book comprehensively documents the walkways through highly detailed drawings and 3D models. Mostly visual, it presents a different kind of city guide, showing both how to get around within these networks and how they've developed and grown despite any formal planning or blueprint.
"It's an exciting urban experience," says Solomon, now associate dean at the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. "You're constantly shifting from underground to above ground, from interior to exterior, from air-conditioned to non-air-conditioned, from public to private, and the dimensions are constantly going from large spaces to tighter spaces."
The walkways are so varied because they were all developed at different times and by different people. The first was built in the 1960s by the Hongkong Land company, one of the main developers in the region, to connect a high-end hotel to the second-story of a shopping mall. Gradually they began to see that they could rent out the walkway-accessible second story retail space in the mall for as much or even more than the ground floor space, and so the company started building more and more walkways connecting their various properties.
"And then the government saw it and said, 'Hey this looks like a good way to circulate people without getting in the way of the movement of cars.' So they start building bridges to link the ferries and the trains and the buses and everything into the center of the city," Solomon says.
There are now miles of walkways and usable space that create connections throughout some of the most crowded and central areas of the city. "It's bits of private development, bits of public development, a little bit of city streets, a little bit of foot bridge, a little bit of train station, corporate lobby, hotel, et cetera, all kind of strung together ad hoc into a continual civic space," Solomon says.
It's all unplanned, Solomon says, and unexpected. He calls it an aformal urbanism – neither formal nor informal.
"It's a collaboration between top-down government planning and kind of bottom-up market emergence that really wouldn't function without the participation of the other," Solomon says.
If one property owner or the government were to shut down its segment, the system would cease to function. So no one does and the crowds continue to flow. And overflow. The walkways next to restaurants also serve as seating areas, and repair shops located along the way also spill out into the space. People sit and play mahjong, or hold political protests or display art exhibitions. Cities Without Ground suggests that all this activity taking place in such an aformal setting shows that there is a new kind of public space developing – one that's new and different from the plazas and squares Westerners might typically think of as urban public spaces.
"Any activity that you would expect to find on a street or in a public square," Solomon says, "you would find somewhere in this network."
On Sundays, some of these spaces are practically taken over by thousands of foreign domestic workers who gather together on their weekly day off. In long rows they sit out, on blankets or lounged on the concrete, chatting and eating and sleeping and sewing, like a stationary parade of picnics. Without formal residency rights, they leave the rooms their employers provide on Sundays to make the public spaces of this special administrative region their living room for the day.
Even Hong Kong's Occupy Wall Street demonstrators gather within this network, sitting in the atrium of the HSBC bank building. The public spaces of the city aren't fully public nor fully private. And it doesn't seem to matter. Solomon says these walkways are incredibly vibrant parts of town, and represent a new method of providing usable space within a city. The maps in Cities Without Ground seek to show that this system of walkways – messy and aformal and almost completely separate from the actual ground of the city – is just as important to Hong Kong as the sidewalks and public spaces of any other city.
"These networks function in the same way that ground functions, they're just in three dimensions," Solomon says. "And they're much less predictable."
Maps courtesy Adam Frampton, Jonathan D. Solomon and Clara Wong. Photos by Adam Frampton.
Will COVID-19 change how cities are designed? Michele Acuto of the Connected Cities Lab talks about density, urbanization and pandemic preparation.
What do we know so far about the types of places that are more susceptible to the spread of Covid-19? In the U.S., density is just the beginning of the story.
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The Strokes rocker Albert Hammond, Jr. has opened up about his drug hell, confessing he spent years hooked on heroin and cocaine at the height of the band's success.
The guitarist checked into a rehabilitation clinic in 2009 to wean himself off a drug habit but has never spoken in depth about his issues, making only vague references to his addiction demons.
Now the 33 year old has detailed a horrifying life of taking heroin and cocaine up to 20 times a day and wearing long-sleeved tops to hide the grotesque needle marks on his arms.
Hammond, Jr. says his heavy drug habit began in 2006 following the release of The Strokes' third album, First Impressions of Earth, and continued until he went into rehab four years later.
He tells NME magazine, "Around the second album (2003's Room on Fire), I'd say, I was in a dark place, dude. I was in a very dark place. I'm just now being able to understand or speak about that time, and it's been almost four years… It was, like, (painkiller) oxycontin and cocaine at (the ages of) 24, 25, 26. And then I became (addicted to) heroin around then. So from (the ages of) 26, 27, 'til 29…"
Detailing how his lifestyle became dictated by his addiction, he adds, "It's not so much that I wasn't in a happy place; I was just… God knows where I was. I was just very high. That's where I was… I mean, do you want me to get specific? I don't mind, but yeah, I used to shoot cocaine, heroin and ketamine. All together. Morning, night, 20 times a day.
"You know, I was a mess. I look back and I don't even recognize myself. I did my own thing. I mean, you have moments when you're fine. And if someone meets you, you seem fine. But I remember when I was showing someone some music and I was wearing a short shirt and… there were just purple (needle track marks) all the way down (my arm). And then they would call someone – 'Did you see Albert, he looks crazy?'. That's where I learned to wear long sleeves. I've had these tattoos forever and I have people coming up (saying), 'Oh, you've had new tattoos?'. I'm like, 'No, you just haven't seen me with a short shirt on…"
The rocker also insists he turned his back on his addiction as it was stopping him from moving forward: "I think drugs were a great way to get out of your head. You enjoy that for a while, it helps you to go to new places. But then it stops you from growing and puts you in a place where you're just not as good as you could be – for me. I'm not judging. I did it hard and for a long time, so I'm in no place to judge, nor would I. Something clicked one day, and I got out of it."
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It's very fitting that two new solo albums are being released from the Glimmer Twins of country music. Buck Owens and Don Rich were the Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of country, the original Telecaster cowboys from Bakersfield.
Nobody rocked country back then like Buck and Don.
And theirs was a great man-man friendship, back when the insipid term "bromance" didn't exist. Like Mick and Keith and John and Paul, they finished each other's sentences and songs and had the same sort of hotwiring on the same brain wavelength.
Just as Bill Monroe 's revolutionary bluegrass music in the late 1940s was described as "folk music in overdrive," Buck and Don's Bakersfield Sound could be seen as country music at warp speed.
They had little use for Nashville. Truth be told, they didn't need Music City. They had their own country music cathedral in the TV program The Buck Owens Ranch Show, they had many clubs and casinos to play in the West and they had Capitol Records in the fabulous round building at Hollywood and Vine with the great record producer Ken Nelson ready to record them. (The Capitol building, built to resemble a giant stack of 45 RPM records, is still there.)
The new releases are Don Rich Sings George Jones and Honky Tonk Man: Buck Owens Sings Country Classics. Both are set for release Tuesday (Jan. 22).
Owens' history and biography is well-known, but Rich, who died young (at 33) has been tragically overlooked. As a songwriter, singer, bandleader and lead guitarist, he was hugely influential.
Rich, whose last name was actually Ulrich, was born in Olympia, Wash., in 1941 and was a child prodigy on violin. As a teenager, he formed a rock 'n' roll band. Owens saw him play in Tacoma and hired him to play fiddle. At the time, Owens played a Fender Telecaster and worked dates with pick-up bands.
Rich learned Owens' high-octane guitar style and shifted to lead guitar — allowing Owens to concentrate on singing. Rich first played lead guitar on "Act Naturally" in 1963. It became their first No. 1 song.
The Buckaroos became a tight unit, with the premier lineup being Owens playing acoustic guitar, Rich playing a Fender Telecaster and singing harmony. For a while, Merle Haggard was in the group in the early days. The band's premier lineup included Rich on lead, Doyle Holly on bass, Tom Brumley on steel guitar and Willie Cantu drumming. Owens referred to the Buckaroos' high-energy guitar-heavy sound as his "freight train" sound, but the world soon knew it as the Bakersfield Sound.
After Owens joined the TV show Hee Haw, the Buckaroos became the show's house band, with Rich as music director.
The Buckaroos' artistic peak was captured on their 1966 live album recorded at New York's Carnegie Hall. It is probably the best live country recording ever. It fairly crackles with high energy.
Rich was killed in July 1974 when his motorcycle struck a center divider on Highway 1 in Morro Bay, Calif. He had just left Owens' recording studio in Bakersfield.
After Rich was killed, the life force and spirit seemed to leave Owens.
"He was like a brother, a son and a best friend," Owens said years later. "Something I never said before, maybe I couldn't, but I think my music life ended when he died. Oh, yeah, I carried on and I existed, but the real joy and love, the real lightning and thunder is gone forever."


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In the beginning of his dragster career, from 1992 through 1999, Bill, his wife Gloria and their son, Andy, ran one of the best supercharged cars in the class. Then, in 2000, they switched to the fuel injected, nitro car. "We just thought it would be the way to go in the future. Of course, after that first year, we weren't so sure that we made the right decision." The record shows that, at the eight national events that the team went to in 2000, they won a grand total of four rounds. And, to make matters worse, they failed to qualify at the last Division 2 points race of the year. "We went to Bristol needing to make the show to finish tenth in the division that year," Bill said. "If you're not tenth, you have to pay to get into the events and that's a big thing. Well, we didn't qualify at that race and didn't make the top ten in the division. That was a long, quiet ride home." Still, he added, he thought that they had made the right decision. "Jeff Wilson came up to me after the year and asked me what I thought and I told him that I was determined to make it work." And he did. In fact, one of the keys to Bill's success is the determination that he has, the determination to make his car the best in the class. "I knew I could do it, and I knew that if we stuck with it we could make the car work." Another thing that has been a major factor in Bill's success over the past few years is the fact that he has learned how to make the car run in the hot weather. "You can't win if you're not competitive at half the races you go to. We couldn't seem to get the car to run when it got hot outside and that was at about fifty percent of our races. Well, we worked that out and now we can be competitive at any track under any condition. My son, Andy, who doesn't come to all the races now, is a huge help with the car. We talk between every run and every round and he gives me his input as to what to do. Since he isn't at the track he doesn't get caught up in the emotion of the moment. To him, it's all black and white, he looks at the numbers and tells me what he thinks. He's such a big part of the team." And so is Bill's wife, Gloria, who is there with him at every race and enjoys the racing as much as he does.
Over the years Bill has had the support of some fine companies, like Bar's Leaks and their Rislone brand, Lane Automotive, All Star Performance Products and NGK. "It makes it a lot easier to have the support of these great companies and all of them have told me that they are solidly behind me no matter what I do next year," he said. "I'd like to add some more sponsors and I think I have something nice to offer them." Yeah, like a couple of national championships and the best car in the class. If I were a sponsor, that's the kind of team I would like to be on....and not racing against.


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By CCT Staff | March 2, 2009
Damian Hollis (Jr.), George Washington
Hollis had a memorable week in what has been a rather forgettable season for the Colonials, averaging 20 points and 14.5 rebounds over two contests. The junior led GW to two wins, as he scored 25 points and pulled down 13 rebounds against Charlotte and then tallied 15 points and hauled in 16 boards against Richmond. The junior showed off his hot hand by shooting 57% over the two games, connecting on 12-for-21 from the floor. Hollis also was efficient from deep, hitting three of his five attempts from behind the arc.
HONORABLE MENTION: Ahmad Nivins (Sr.), Saint Joseph's; Kahiem Seawright (Sr.), Rhode Island
(Note: College Chalktalk's week runs from the previous Monday through Sunday, given the release of 'This Week in the A-10′ each Monday morning.)


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