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Given a set $S$ of non-zero vectors in $\mathbb{R}^n,$ and a subspace $L,$ consider $f(S,L)=\max_{s \in S}\frac{\|Ps\|_2}{\|s\|_2}$ where $Ps$ is the orthogonal projection of $s$ onto $L.$
Specifically, consider the set $X$ consisting of the $2^n-1$ (nonzero) vectors with all coordinates $0$ or $1$.
A recent question concerns criteria which might show, for a given subspace $L$, that $f(X,L)$ is small. Here I am concerned with choosing the subspace:
For each $n$ and $d<n$, what is the minimum over all $d$-dimensional subspaces of $f(X,L)?$
If that seems too broad, then the case $d=1$ would be of interest.
Summary There are several good answers here. It is a toss-up which one to choose. I'm going to repost the $d>1$ case as a new question.
Here is a somewhat selective review, all for the case $d=1.$
Gerhard mentioned that $(1,-1,0,0,\cdots)$ attains $\sqrt{1/2}.$
Seva suggested that $(1,1/\sqrt{2},1/\sqrt{3},\cdots)$ is asymptotically optimal attaining $O(\sqrt{1/\log n}).$ This is indeed better but the smallest $n$ for which it beats $\sqrt{1/2}$ is (by my calculations) $n=1203.$ The nice optimality proof references $(1,\sqrt{2}-1,\sqrt{3}-\sqrt{2},\cdots)$ This is actually a better choice, it first beats $\sqrt{1/2}$ for $n=56.$ The two choices are comparable (up to scalar multiple) because $\sqrt{k+1}-\sqrt{k} \approx 1/2\sqrt{k}$. The approximation is pretty good, except for $k=0.$ As this is the largest entry, it takes longer to beat $\sqrt{1/2}$.
Denis essentially does mention $(1,\sqrt{2}-1,\sqrt{3}-\sqrt{2},\cdots)$ and, at least in one edit, suggests reflecting in the center: So for $n=6$ use $(a_1,a_2,a_3,-a_3,-a_2,-a_1)$ where $a_k=\sqrt{k}-\sqrt{k-1}.$ This is superior at $n=4$ and even at $n=3$ with the right rule for the center: It seems obvious that there should be symmetry and entries summing to $0$, but actually $(1,\sqrt{2}-1,-1)$ is the best choice for $n=3$.
Emil nicely lays this out in a comment. Here is my somewhat informal explanation (with some minor details skipped) , in case another perspective is useful. I suggest at the end that this should remind one of linear programming.:
There is no harm in assuming that the subspace is generated by a vector $v=(v_1,v_2,\cdots,v_n)$ with $v_1 > v_2 > \cdots > v_n$ (actually, only $\ge$ is clear, but I will ignore that in the interests of brevity.). By a mild abuse of notation, for $j>0$ let $x_{j}$ be the vector whose first $j$ entries are $1$ and the rest $0$ while $v_{-j}$ has first $n-j$ entries $0$ and the last $j$ equal to $1$.
Given $v$, Let $B \subset X$ be the set of vectors in $X$ which attain the maximum of $\frac{\|Px\|}{\|x\|}.$ I make two claims about $B$:
- Every vector in $B$ is $x_j$ for some $j$ with $v_j > 0$ or else $x_{-j}$ for some $j$ with $v_{n-j} < 0$ (think about why any other vector with $j$ entries equal to $1$ will be worse.)
- Unless $B$ is a basis of $\mathbb{R}^n$, There is a $v$ which gives a better ratio. (Because otherwise we should be able perturb the entries of $v$ in such a way as to lower $\frac{\|Px\|}{\|x\|}$ for the vectors already in $B$ (simultaneously keeping them equal and maximal) while raising that ratio slightly for some $x_j$ not yet in $B$.
Together these tell us that $B=\lbrace x_{1},x_{2},\cdots x_n\rbrace$ or else $B=\lbrace x_{1},x_{2},\cdots x_q;x_{q-n},\cdots,x_{-2},x_{-1}\rbrace$ where $v_q>0>v_{q+1}.$ Since the various ratios must all be the same, we deduce that $v=(\alpha a_1,\alpha a_2, \cdots,\alpha a_q; -\beta a_{n-q},\cdots,-\beta a_2,-\beta a_1)$ for the $a_k$ as above. Here $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are positive constants. A bit of reflection shows that they must be equal and hence can be taken to be $1$. Finally, $q$ should be $ n/2 $ (rounded if needed).
Comment: (disclaimer: I am an optimist but not an optimizer so the following may inexact.) Here we have the convex optimization problem of choosing $v$ so as to minimize the largest of $\frac{\|Px\|_2}{\|x\|_2}.$ Had it been $\frac{\|Px\|_1}{\|x\|_1}$ we would have been able to use linear programming. My argument above has the feel of linear programing, perhaps using duality. Perhaps a similar method could uncover optimal subspaces of dimension $d \ge 2.$


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Oil climbs on positive signs for Europe economy
Oil rebounded Wednesday from 12-month lows on signs that financial leaders will move to bolster struggling European banks and on positive U.S. economic news.
Benchmark crude jumped $4.01, or 5.3 percent, to finish at $79.68 per barrel in New York, while Brent crude rose $2.94, or 3 percent to end at $102.73 in London.
Prices earlier in the week dropped to the lowest level since September 2010 as Europe's financial crisis festered. Greece warned that it would run out of money in November, and a future bailout was in doubt since it failed to meet spending targets.
There was news Wednesday that the International Monetary Fund is pushing for changes in the way Europe's debt crisis is handled. The pressure from the IMF and word of a possible plan to recapitalize troubled banks encouraged investors and traders, who have kept a wary eye on Europe as several countries wrestle with debt problems. Massive spending cuts throughout the eurozone would depress energy demand in the region, and experts are concerned that if Greece fails to pay its bills, it will spark a financial meltdown similar to the U.S. banking crisis of 2008.
"Nobody knows whether Europe is on the cusp of a (meltdown) or something that's much more minor," said Tom Kloza, publisher and chief oil analyst at Oil Price Information Service.
Payroll company ADP reported that the private sector created more jobs than expected in September. That bodes well for the government's monthly jobless report, due on Friday.
A private research firm also said hotels, restaurants and other parts of the service industry expanded in September - but at a slightly slower pace than the previous month - suggesting that the economy continues to grow.
Oil prices got a boost from an Energy Department report Wednesday that showed crude and gasoline supplies dropped unexpectedly last week. Supplies shrank mostly on the Gulf Coast, as refineries reduced capacity and cut back on crude imports.
At the pump, gasoline prices lost nearly a penny for a new national average of $3.3989 per gallon, according to AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. The national average has dropped almost every day for a month, and analysts say it could fall as low as $3.25 per gallon this winter.
Drivers are expected to pay more on average this year than ever before. The average price per gallon is $3.56 so far this year, up from a 2010 average of $2.78.
In other energy commodities trading, heating oil rose 5.32 cents to finish at $2.7766 per gallon and gasoline futures rose 8.08 cents to end at $2.5692 per gallon. Natural gas lost 6.8 cents to finish the day at $3.5700 per 1,000 cubic feet.

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Global-Achievement Study Casts U.S. Scores in Better Light
U.S. student achievement looks more favorable on the global stage when comparisons take into account the especially large share of American adolescents who come from disadvantaged social backgrounds, concludes a study released today by the Stanford Graduate School of Education and the Economic Policy Institute. The gap, for instance, between U.S. students and those from top-scoring nations on one prominent global assessment would be cut in half in reading and by at least one-third in math, the study says, if statistical adjustments were made for social class.
In addition, the study finds that while the achievement of disadvantaged U.S. students has been "rising rapidly over time," test scores for such students in some nations to which the United States is frequently compared, such as Finland and South Korea, have been "falling rapidly."
The research, which draws on reading and math results spanning a decade or more on two high-profile international assessments, seeks to go beyond the average national test scores widely discussed and debated to better gauge how countries are educating particular groups of students, especially those who tend to face the biggest academic challenges.
"Education reformers frequently invoke the relatively poor performance of U.S. students to justify school policy changes," write co-authors Richard Rothstein of the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, and Martin Carnoy, an education professor at Stanford. But those conclusions draw on comparisons that are "oversimplified, frequently exaggerated, and misleading. They ignore the complexity of test results and may lead policymakers to pursue inappropriate and even harmful reforms."
Central to the new research is the premise that, in every country, students at the bottom of what the researchers call the "social-class distribution" perform worse, on average, than students higher in that distribution. And so, the U.S. average is brought down relative to some other nations with which the United States is frequently compared "because we have so many more test-takers from the bottom of the social-class distribution."
The study focuses on achievement in the United States and six other countries. They include three high-fliers on global comparisonsCanada, Finland, and South Koreaas well as three "similar post-industrial countries": France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
The study comes as a fresh batch of international achievement data was issued in December on TIMSS, the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, and PIRLS, the Program for International Reading Literacy Study. Here's the EdWeek coverage on the new global data.
The authors say that "social-class inequality" is greater in the United States than in "any of the countries with which we can reasonably be compared." As a result, the relative performance of U.S. adolescents is "better than it appears when countries' national average performance is conventionally compared."
Before I proceed, I want to briefly explain how the authors examined social status. They did not draw on family income, race/ethnicity, or parent education level to distinguish social-class groups. Instead, they relied on the number of books in adolescents' homes. "We consider that children in different countries have similar social-class backgrounds if their homes have similar numbers of books," they explain. Although the authors concede that the measure may be imperfect, they contend that this "indicator of household literacy is plausibly relevant to student academic performance, and it has been used frequently for this purpose by social scientists." They ultimately divided the population into six social-class groups, from least to most advantaged.
"This is the first time I think anybody has done a cross-country comparison with social-class disaggregation," Rothstein told me.
On PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment, the analysis found the picture for U.S. 15-year-olds improved considerably when taking into account social class. As mentioned above, the gap with top-scoring nations, in this case Canada, Finland, and South Korea, closed by half in reading and about one-third in math. However, the data do not change the global picture altogether. At all points in the social-class distribution, U.S. students perform worse, and in many cases substantially worse, than students in Canada, Finland, and South Korea, the study says. (You can find EdWeek's overview of the 2009 findings here.)
"Although controlling for social-class distribution would narrow the difference in average scores between these countries and the United States, it would not eliminate it," the study says.
A table in the study illustrates the differences in social-class distribution across the seven countries on PISA in 2009. It finds that 20 percent of U.S. students were in the lowest social-class group, below all others. Here's the data for the rest: Canada (9 percent), Finland (6 percent), South Korea (5 percent), France (15 percent), Germany (12 percent), and the United Kingdom (14 percent).
The authors also identify what they call an "apparent flaw" in the 2009 U.S. PISA sampling methodology that "probably reduced the reported average score of students in the bottom social class." Rothstein told me that officials from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which oversees PISA, were consulted about this situation and did not dispute it. As Rothstein explained to me, 40 percent of the U.S. sample for PISA in 2009 was drawn from schools in which at least half of all students are eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch. In other words, the U.S. sample included what the report calls a "disproportionate number of disadvantaged students who were enrolled in schools with unusually large concentrations of such students." (That said, the U.S. sample did include disadvantaged students in "appropriate proportion to their actual representation.")
[UPDATE: (3:45 p.m.) Since I published this blog post, I heard from an official at the National Center for Education Statistics, who said there was no sampling error as described above on PISA, and who also disputed how Rothstein characterized the reaction from OECD to this matter. OECD officials "refuted Rothstein's mistake very strongly," said Daniel McGrath, the director of the international-activities program at the National Center for Education Statistics, in an email. McGrath said Rothstein and Carnoy did not use the right data sources in making their claim about the extent to which students in high-poverty public schools were tested. "They had the wrong year and they compared mismatched data sources," McGrath writes. "The PISA sample did not have a disproportionate number of high-poverty schools." McGrath said there are "myriad other problems with this paper," which are addressed in a six-page letter the OECD sent to the authors. Since McGrath contacted me, I also heard back from Rothstein, who shared this response to the OECD letter.]
The researchers paid special attention to educational achievement in Finland, a nation that has been heralded as a global leader in schooling for its strong performance on PISA. (As I recently discovered, however, Finland's results are not as strong on TIMSS in math. In fact, in that subject, the national average is not statistically different from the United States'.)
Although the study finds that math and reading scores in Finland are higher for every social-class group than in the United States on PISA, its scores have been falling for the most disadvantaged students while U.S. scores have been improving for students from a similar social background.
"This should lead to greater caution in applying presumed lessons from Finland," the study says.
There is a ton of data and analysis to mine in this new report, and my blog post only scratches the surface. I'll close by returning to the issue of methodology. In the end, the authors concede that some dimensions of their research strategy, with its focus on disadvantaged students as judged by their access to books at home, may be debated.
"Scholars and policymakers may choose different approaches," they write. "We are only certain of this: To make judgments only on the basis of statistically significant differences in national average scores, on only one test, at only one point in time, without regard to social-class context or curricular- or population-sampling methodologies, is the worst possible choice. But, unfortunately, this is how most policymakers and analysts approach the field."


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Rick Warren Councils Jewish Leaders On How to Recruit Congregants
"Megachurch pastor Rick Warren attended a large Reform Jewish gathering last week to share tips on how to build a community….The "Purpose-Driven" pastor spoke to thousands of Jewish leaders Thursday night at the Union for Reform Judaism's biennial convention in San Diego.With the holiday season in mind, Warren urged clergy to take advantage of crowded events to publicize other programs so people can get involved in the community through smaller groups."There are some principles that apply regardless of our faith, if it's Jewish or Christian," he said at the convention….After Warren spoke a few minutes at the podium, he sat alongside two popular Southern California rabbis for a casual talk about strengthening congregational life."
Am I missing something here? I've been working from the notion that Jesus Christ is the ONLY way of salvation and that we as the church are called to make disciples through the preaching of Christ Crucified for sinners. With that being the case, I don't see any freedom given by God in His Word for a Christian pastor to help Jewish synagogues recruit people.
Have I completely missed the boat here? Are non-Christians now saved? Is the only thing that matters to God is that people go to "A" house of worship regardless of whether it is Christian, Jewish, Muslim or 'other'?
How is what Rick Warren did NOT a complete betrayal of Jesus Christ? ~ Chris R.
Now honestly I did not get it at first, so I began to dig further and my superior discernment let me see what Chris R was saying and possibly left out!
1. "There are some principles that apply regardless of our faith, if it's Jewish or Christian," he said at the convention.
One of his principles: "Just be nice to people. Smile."
Oh dear Lord! How dare Rick say we should be nice to people! Then to tell the Jews to do the same thing! What does light have to do with darkness?
2. Other advice given by Warren included looking at everything from an outsider's viewpoint, such as simplifying worship terms, making strangers feel welcome, and encouraging interaction.
This is truly an abomination! I mean Jesus never tried once to look at the outsider's viewpoint so why should we follow Pope Rick's advise! Simplifying worship terms? I am not ever sure what that means, but I am sure it is semi-Pelasgian! Making strangers welcome? Sure as long as they are not sinners! And who needs interaction? We need doctrine! I bet Satan just loves all this emergent influences that Rick peddles!
He is an apostate rump roast for hell!
Enjoy the smoking section heretic!
At least some of us are here to protect God and His truth for Him…
In Christs love,
I. Todyaso Mdiv


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Almost Elvis
One man's alter-ego brings joy to those
who fondly remember "The King"
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Dan Smith steps onto the 40-foot-long 1956 motor coach parked in his Williamsburg yard. Moments later, his alter-ego emerges, decked out in his wide-collared black polyester-bejeweled jumpsuit and large gold-framed sunglasses with his guitar in hand.
Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis lives — or at least one incarnation of "The King" is alive and well and living in rural Callaway County.
For more than six years, Dan has impersonated the King of Rock 'n' Roll when he's not working his day job of 16 years for a paper distributor. He gives a co-worker the credit for getting him started in his side gig.
"A co-worker's sister was having a 50th birthday, and she wanted to hire an Elvis impersonator for the party," says Dan, 43. "I was like, 'I know a place where you can rent one — or, well, I could do it.'"
So Dan rented an Elvis suit, slapped on fake sideburns, brushed up on his gyrations and did the birthday gig. He was an immediate hit. And that's how Elvis Grace Dan ("Grace Dan" is a reference to Graceland, Elvis' home) was born.
Dan, who performed for 20 years after high school with his band, Timber River, is used to playing guitar and singing for audiences. The band, now defunct, would occasionally do an Elvis tune if the crowd requested one, but it wasn't their forte.
The store where Dan rented his Elvis suit thought he played "The King" so well they helped him book more shows. Eventually, Dan's reputation as Elvis preceded him, and people starting calling him directly for jobs.
"I finally bought some jumpsuits and let my hair and sideburns grow out. Everybody remembers Elvis' look, especially his hair and sideburns, a certain way. I'm always experimenting with that," says the Callaway Electric Cooperative member, running a hand through his mop of black hair.
If you're an Elvis fan, you've probably seen a gamut of impersonators who portray "The King". There are those who look so much like Elvis you'd believe he truly is still alive — then there are the flying Elvi, four-year-old Elvi, women Elvi and bearded Elvi. There are Italian, Greek, Mexican, Jewish and African-American Elvi. And they portray Elvis from his early years to the 1970s, when he died overweight and in bad health at his Graceland home on Aug. 16, 1977.
"I always say I can only be the '70s Elvis," says Dan, with a hearty laugh from his 295-pound frame.
The tribute artist keeps everyone "all shook up" by performing for family reunions, birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, class reunions, business openings and corporate parties across the state. He even received an online certification to perform weddings, in case someone wants to say they were married by Elvis.
"Elvis goes with every occasion," says Dan in his best Elvis voice.
Through the years, Dan has received Elvis memorabilia from fans. One of his most prized possessions is the copy of the book "Elvis By the Presley's", which includes a personal note written to Dan, thanking him for "keeping the memories alive" and signed by Priscilla Presley. A friend of Priscillas shared a video of Dan's performance with her. She had her friend deliver the book to Dan months later.
"It makes me feel pretty good to think that Priscilla thinks I'm doing Elvis' memory justice," says the performer.
Although he impersonates Elvis, Dan never had the chance to see him in concert. He finds that imitating "The King" comes to him without much practice.
Dan's son, Brandon, is a senior at North Callaway High School, and he's used to his dad being Elvis.
"I'm quite a sight when I attend his football games because I always wear my Elvis jumpsuit that's in his school colors," says Dan.
Dan's most requested songs are "Kentucky Rain," "Jailhouse Rock," and "Blue Suede Shoes," but his favorites are "My Way," "Suspicious Minds" and the live version performance of "An American Trilogy" ("Dixie," "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "All My Trials.")
"Songs like 'My Way' or 'An American Trilogy' are songs where I belt my lungs out and half of somebody else's, but I love to perform them," says Dan.
According to Dan, no event is too small to book and prices begin at $65 plus mileage. Valentine's Day is one of his busiest days of the year, where he often works from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. delivering greetings of love as Elvis.
"I usually do about 40 to 50 gigs a year," he says. "That, and my day job, keep me pretty busy."
Jeff Young, a friend and colleague of Dan's, is helping the performer promote what they're calling the "D-Tour," which begins Nov. 30.
"Dan's plan is to perform at 25 different nursing or retirement homes across Missouri," says Jeff.
The holiday concerts will be funded solely by contributions, as Dan wishes only to give the gift of music, as Elvis did during his lengendary 1975 Christmas tour.
"Dan's got a huge heart and he is doing this for the people's enjoyment, not the money," says Jeff. "He could be making $1,000 or more per performance during the holidays, but he wants to give back to his fans."
While Dan loves imitating the "hunka-hunka burning love," he can't believe he's been performing for as long as he has been.
"I thought I'd do a few birthday and anniversary bashes and be done," says Dan, "but the Elvis opportunities are endless and I'm still having a lot of fun with it.
"Think about it — you can buy somebody a gift they'll probably never use, or you can invite Elvis to their party."
To find out where Dan is performing on his D-Tour or for bookings call 573-642-9869.


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Ok, I've had XCode for a while, but recently I moved it from it's regular folder to my apps folder. I don't know what folder this was, I just had always used finder to search it when I wanted to use it. All of the sudden, when I run it it doesnt work... Is this because I moved it? If so, does anyone know where to put it back to? I really don't want to reinstall it (VERY LONG installation!)
Xcode is installed in the folder 'Developer' on the root of your harddrive. The application Xcode itself is installed in /Developer/Applications/.
The moving can affect projects and application because it can't find it's sdk's and other resources that is needed or compile the application.
Thank you so much man! That fixed it I never would've thought they all had their own different folder... Lol, ok, now I just dragged it to my dock to make it more accessible and it's good.


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US judge to rule on Pennsylvania gay-marriage ban
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gay rights activists should know within hours whether Pennsylvania's ban on same-sex marriage will be overturned.
A federal judge in Harrisburg is expected to rule Tuesday on a challenge to the state's 1996 ban.
The plaintiffs include same-sex couples, their children and others who say the marriage ban deprives them of legal and tax benefits.
Gov. Tom Corbett's office has been defending the law.
A court website says U.S. District Judge John Jones will issue his ruling this afternoon.
He could put his order on hold to give time for the losing side to appeal.
State marriage bans have been falling around the country since the Supreme Court's "Windsor" decision last year. The landmark ruling struck down part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
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National Commerce, Clark County Bank Seized by U.S.While certainly not as big as Washington Mutual (we won't count *that* one), it was in my own state of Washington…
By Ari Levy
Jan. 16 (Bloomberg) -- National Bank of Commerce in Berkeley, Illinois, was seized by regulators, the first bank shut down in 2009, as a deepening recession and record foreclosures extend the housing slump into a third year.
Bank of Clark County in Vancouver, Washington, was also closed today by authorities.
National Commerce, with $430.9 million in assets and $402.1 million in deposits, was shut by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was named receiver. Republic Bank of Chicago in Oak Brook, Illinois is assuming ownership of the failed bank's two offices as of tomorrow, the FDIC said.
"Deposits will continue to be insured by the FDIC, so there is no need for customers to change their banking relationship to retain their current deposit coverage," the statement said.
Regulators closed 25 banks last year, the most since 1993, draining money from the FDIC deposit insurance fund, which had $34.6 billion as of Sept. 30. The FDIC last month approved a budget for the coming year that almost doubles spending to $2.2 billion from 2008 to hire staff for handling bank closures. As much as $1 billion was allotted to manage failed banks.
Republic Bank will assume all the deposits and buy $366.6 million in assets at a $44.9 million discount, with the FDIC holding the remaining assets for later disposition.
The FDIC was also named the receiver for Clark County, which had $446.5 million in assets and $366.5 million in deposits. Umpqua Bank of Roseburg, Oregon, is assuming Clark County's insured deposits.
Clark County is the first Washington bank to fail since Seattle's Emerald City Bank went under in 1993.
Emergency Lifeline
The FDIC today joined the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve in announcing a $138 billion emergency lifeline to Bank of America Corp., the largest U.S. bank by assets, to support its acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co. Citigroup Inc. today posted a fifth straight quarterly loss and announced plans to split in two.
The FDIC and OCC have taken steps to stem failures, such as allowing private-equity firms and other bidders to buy assets and deposits of lenders running out of cash. IndyMac Bank, the fourth-largest U.S. lender to fail last year, was the first institution sold to a private-equity investor, for $1.3 billion on Jan. 2. The sale was led by Steven Mnuchin of Dune Capital Management LP.
The FDIC oversees 8,384 institutions with $13.6 trillion in assets and insures as much as $250,000 per depositor per bank. The agency last month doubled premiums charged to banks for coverage to replenish its reserves amid agency forecasts that bank failures through 2013 will cost almost $40 billion.
Problem Banks
The FDIC classified 171 banks as "problem" in the third quarter, a 46 percent jump from the second quarter, and said industry earnings fell 94 percent to $1.73 billion from the previous year. The agency doesn't identify problem banks by name.
Washington Mutual Inc., formerly the biggest savings and loan, was seized Sept. 25 and its branch network sold to JPMorgan Chase & Co. after customers drained $16.7 billion in deposits in less than two weeks. Wachovia Corp., the sixth- biggest bank, was pushed by regulators into a sale and snapped up by Wells Fargo & Co. for $12.7 billion.
Vancouver, Washington is just across the Columbia River north of Portland, Oregon. While it wasn't right down the street, it's hitting close to home.
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Full body scanners that have stirred controversy for producing virtually naked images of airline passengers are coming to airports near you next month.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced that the hotly debated machines will be installed at Newark Liberty, John F. Kennedy and LaGuardia international airports in September. TSA officials contend that the technology allows security screeners to see non-metal weapons like explosives that go undetected by existing metal detectors.
In March 2010, the agency started sending out 450 machines, which were bought with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Forty-one airports across the country already have the imaging technology installed at security checkpoints, according to the Transportation Security Administration.
While the TSA calls the technology less invasive than a pat-down, the Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center is suing the Department of Homeland Security to stop the use of the machines, charging that the scanners are unconstitutional.
"Body scanners produce detailed, three-dimensional images of individuals," the group states on its Web site. "Security experts have described whole body scanners as the equivalent of 'a physically invasive strip-search.'"
Only passengers that are flagged for extra security screenings are asked to go stand in the machines for imaging.
The TSA has tried to allay the public's privacy concerns by stating that the scanners cannot store naked images of travelers, but through a Freedom of Information Act request EPIC found that one of these machines at a courthouse in Florida had stored 35,314 images.
Acting director of the TSA, Gale Rossides, said in a letter to EPIC, "It seems that though the machines at airports are manufactured with the capability to store images, that capability is used in 'testing mode' only – and not at airports."
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Feb 27, 2010 Abandoned Russian tanks MOSCOW - SOME Russians were amazed to discover dozens of T-80 battle tanks seemingly abandoned in a forest, but army officials insisted there was nothing unusual about it. The tanks - nearly 100 in all - were found near the Elanovskaya railroad station about 100km outside the Urals Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, the Kommersant daily reported on Saturday. Their presence was revealed after a local news website posted a video of the tanks, covered in a deep layer of snow and resting peacefully between the railroad and the woods with no military personnel in sight. 'There are tanks all over the forest, abandoned. (...)A spokesman for the Volga-Urals Military District, the branch of the Russian army which oversees the area, said the tanks were being transported to a storage site aa part of a routine logistical operation. (...)'It is entirely possible they could have been filmed on video. This is not a military secret, and placing a guard next to each vehicle is impossible.' -- AFP
Former air force chief: Russia's air defenses weakBy VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV (AP) – 13 hours agoMOSCOW — Russia is lagging 25 to 30 years behind the United States in developing prospective air defense weapons because of a meltdown of its defense industries, a former Russian air force chief said Thursday.Retired Gen. Anatoly Kornukov said Russia has only a reduced capability to protect itself from an enemy attack — a statement that contrasted sharply with the government's claim that the nation's military are getting stronger following a post-Soviet decline.The Defense Ministry has boasted about developing new S-400 air defense missile systems and proudly displayed some of them in Sunday's massive Victory Day parade on Red Square.But Kornukov said that the military now has only two such systems, each including a radar, several launchers and support vehicles, and it was supposed to have 15.He said the Soviet-designed S-300s have strong capabilities but are approaching retirement. "Their lifetime can't be expanded indefinitely," he said at a news conference.Another component of the nation's air defense, fighter jets, have been increasingly grounded for lack of engines and parts, Kornukov added."Regrettably, our air defense forces only have a limited capability to protect the nation's security," Kornukov said.Compared to the Soviet times, when the nation's air defense forces were capable of shooting down up to 98 out of every 100 intruding enemy planes, now it would only intercept 20 out of 100, he said."The situation is simply terrible," Kornukov said.Asked whether the military is capable of fending off an attack from Iran or North Korea, he said that the Russian forces would likely find it difficult to shoot down a short-range missile fired by one of them.Kornukov said Russia has fallen 25 to 30 years behind the U.S. in air defense technologies and would find it difficult to narrow the gap because of a meltdown of its defense industries which have been plagued by the loss of qualified personnel and key technologies."The industrial plants producing high-tech weapons are in a pitiful condition," Kornukov said.Retired Col.-Gen. Anatoly Sitnov, who formerly was in charge of weapons procurement for the Defense Ministry, said the nation has lost up to 300 key industrial technologies in aviation and air defense. He said that Russian industries are increasingly falling behind in developing new materials, such as heat-resistant graphite needed to build new faster missiles.Kornukov and Sitnov harshly criticized the government's military reforms, saying they have further crippled the nation's air defense capability by weakening coordination among different branches of the military.The government has insisted that the reforms helped bolster the nation's military capability.Kornukov said Russia's five-day war with Georgia in 2008 highlighted the weakness of the Russian military. Russian media said the military accidentally shot down at least one combat jet of its own in the conflict because of confusion and the lack of coordination between forces.
Powerful,no...broke yes! Poor could equal tough, but not powerful. Their will is strong, and the spirit may be too, but the national fervor is not the same as it was twenty-five years ago. My Ubique.
Interesting to see what they have on offer. Thanks.
With out new fur hats, some old greatcoats and CF Green Wedges we could start our own MRR. hmmmmmmmmmmm
Let's have a look at the military equipment of the 18th motorized rifle brigade dislocated in Georgia.
"The Armata will be unveiled during a closed showing at the Nizhny Tagil arms expo," Rogozin said on Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio. "Several prototypes will be shown exclusively to the Russian leadership."The Armata's design incorporates aspects of other projects, including Object 195 and Black Eagle, according to manufacturer Uralvagonzavod.
The tank, dubbed Armata, is being developed by tank manufacturer Uralvagonzavod in Russia's Urals region. The Defense Ministry earlier said the field testing of the MBT was expected to start in 2014."Uralvagonzavod tells us they will supply a first prototype under the Armata project for testing 10 months ahead of schedule," Sukhorukov said.The first deliveries of the tank to the Russian Armed Forces are scheduled for 2015. A total of 2,300 MBTs are expected to be supplied by 2020.
From the interwebs, an artist's rendering of said tank:
The prototype of Russia's next generation Armata main battle tank is ready for testing, which will begin by November, the head of the Russian Tank Forces said Saturday."The prototypes will be unveiled soon at an exhibit in Nizhny Tagil, and their tests will kick off within a month or two, I believe," Lt. Gen. Alexander Shevchenko said on Echo Moskvy radio.The biannual Russian Arms Expo will run in the Urals city in September 25-28 this year. Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said in July that the country's leadership will get a sneak preview of the new tank during the arms fair.An unmanned version of the Armata main battle tank is also on the cards, Shevchenko said.Armata is a universal combat platform that is to be utilized for production of various armored vehicles. Shevchenko said on Friday that prototypes are already created for an Armada-based main battle tank, heavy infantry fighting vehicle and armored recovery vehicle.The combat platform, named after a 14-century Russian cannon, is being designed since 2009 by the state-run corporation Uralvagonzavod, headquartered in Nizhny Tagil.........RIA
ITAR-TASS reports that a third manoeuvre regiment will join existing airborne divisions and brigades, and entirely new formations will also be established. The airborne's current Spetsnaz regiment will be expanded to a brigade before the end of this year.Meanwhile, the commander of the Airborne Troops, Colonel General Vladimir Shamanov, told news agencies on 1 August that his branch intends to acquire more than 1,500 new BMD-4M airborne infantry fighting vehicles, and 2,500 BTR-MD/BTR-D3 Rakushka troop transporters by 2025.Four thousand new combat vehicles would more than fully re-equip the airborne's current manoeuvre battalions. As recently as 2009 he believed only 200 of the new tracked BMD-4Ms would be purchased.Gen Shamanov said that in 2015 the airborne will receive two "battalion sets" of 32 BMD-4Ms, along with more than 20 Rakushkas. Airborne units are currently field-testing both new combat vehicles.
Russian Troops Hold Drills in Serbia(...SNIPPED)The "anti-terrorist' drill on Friday — the first such by the Russians outside the former Soviet Union — of elite Russian troops in northern Serbia, not far from NATO-member Croatia, has stirred controversy both here and abroad."Serbia's government wants to try and keep everyone happy," said prominent Balkan political analyst Tim Judah. "So, the U.S. helps finance and modernize Serbia's army while now Serbian soldiers train with Russians. In normal times there would be little to say about this, but post-Crimea, these are not normal times anymore."Although Serbian officials say they respect Ukraine's territorial integrity and do not support Russia's annexation of Crimea, they have refused to impose sanctions against Russia like the EU and the U.S. have. Russia and Serbia have traditionally close historic and cultural ties, and Moscow has backed Belgrade's bid to maintain its claim over Kosovo — a former Serbian province that declared independence in 2008 with the support of Washington and its allies.(...SNIPPED)
The "Armata" Universal Combat Platform is a Russian advanced next generation heavy military tracked vehicle platform. The "Armata" platform is intended to be the basis for a main battle tank, a heavy infantry fighting vehicle, a combat engineering vehicle, an armoured recovery vehicle, a heavy armoured personnel carrier, a tank support combat vehicle and several types of self-propelled artillery under the same codename based on the same chassis. It will also serve as the basis for artillery, air defense, and NBC defense systems. The new tank is under development at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil. The first deliveries of the tank to the Russian Armed Forces are scheduled for 2015 and mass production is due to begin in 2016. A total of 2,300 MBTs are expected to be supplied by 2020, modernizing 70 percent of the Russian tank fleet.According to the General Director of Uralvagonzavod the first vehicles will be shown in the 2015 Victory parade.
Russian Paratroopers in Drills on Border with Estonia, LatviaMOSCOW — Up to 2,000 Russian soldiers took part in drills in the country's west on Wednesday as Moscow conducted an inspection of its paratrooper units in the latest show of strength likely to alarm its neighbors.Some 500 units of equipment were also to be included in drills in the western Pskov region which borders EU members Estonia and Latvia, defence ministry spokeswoman Irina Kruglova told AFP.The drills, which will see some 1,500 paratroopers parachute en masse, were to continue until Saturday, she said, adding that soldiers would also capture and destroy a fictional enemy's airfield.(...SNIPPED)
Twenty Russian T-14 Armata main battle tanks delivered in February and review of Armata variants The first 20 T-14 Armata main battle tanks were handed over to the military earlier in February. It was initially thought that the new tank would be revealed then, but authorities decided to keep the tank's details a secret. The T-14 (Object 149) main battle tank is based on the Armata platform, which has been in development at Uralvagonzavod since 2009. Other than the tank, the platform will be used for armored fighting vehicles (AFVs), self-propelled guns (SPGs), engineering vehicles and other uses. The Armata tank will reportedly feature a remotely controlled gun and fully automated loading, as well as a separate crew compartment made from composite materials and protected by multilayered armor. The tank will go through state trials in 2016, and it is expected that by 2020, over 2,300 tanks on the Armata platform will be supplied to the military. The platform's chief tank (T-14) sports an unmanned remotely controlled turret armed with a brand new 125 mm 2A82-1M smoothbore cannon. Its muzzle energy is greater than one of the world's previously considered best cannons: the German Leopard-2 Rheinmetall 120 mm gun. The 125 mm gun has 15-20 percent improved accuracy and its rolling fire angular dispersion has improved 1.7 times. According to Russian media, the Armata tank might also come with a specially developed 152 mm gun, the most powerful ever cannon to be mounted on a main battle tank.The Armata is designed as a modular universal combat platform that could be used as a basis for a variety of combat vehicles, including main battle tanks, fire support, mine clearing, heavy flame throwing and bridge laying vehicles, according to Russian state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport. Variants that will use the Armata chassisThe "Armata" platform is intended to be the basis for a main battle tank, a heavy infantry fighting vehicle, a combat engineering vehicle, an armoured recovery vehicle, a heavy armoured personnel carrier, a tank support combat vehicle and several types of self-propelled artillery under the same codename based on the same chassis According to preliminary reports, the new tank designated T-14 will be less radical and ambitious than the canceled 'Object 195' or T-95, it will weigh less, therefore, become more agile and will be more affordable, compared to its more ambitious predecessors. Additionally, the Kurganets-25 tracked armored vehicle provides high degree of commonality with the new Armata tank. The Kurganets-25 will evolve into various models, gradually replacing BMP and BMD and MT-LB and other types of tracked armored platforms. The Kurganets-25 will have modular armor that can be upgraded for specific threats, be armed with a 2A42 30 mm autocannon, and have four Kornet-EM anti-tank guided missile launchers. The Armata will use a new type of lightweight armor designated 44S-SV-SH, developed by Steel Scientific Research Institute enterprise. This armor does not lose its qualities when used in extremely low temperatures, an indication of Russia's military interest in the Arctic. The Armata tank will have a remote weapon station turret and an automated control system, with the crew protected by an armored capsule. It will have an externally mounted 125 mm gun with 32 rounds of ammunition; in addition to tank rounds, a new laser-guided missile able to be fired from the main gun with a tandem anti-tank warhead and a range of 5,000 m (16,000 ft) is planned to be created. The secondary armament will consist of a 30 mm cannon and a 12.7 mm machine gun. (Interpolation by me: Many early reports suggested the secondary weapon would be a high velocity grenade launcher. It is interesting to note they have not copied the Israeli practice of mounting a 60mm mortar on the vehicle) Kurganets-25: Tracked infantry fighting vehicle Strategy Page indicates in 2014 Russia began testing the newly built prototypes of its new Kurganets 25 IFV (Infantry Fighting Vehicle). This is based on the Armata chassis and will eventually replace all the existing BMP and BMD IFVs. The 25 ton Kurganets 25 will have a front mounted engine, a crew of three and carry six or seven infantry. Two other variants BREM-T T-16: recovery vehicle BM-2 (TOS-2): short range rocket artillery, similar to flamethrower system TOS-1 Buratino SOURCES - Sputnick News, Wikipedia, youtube, military-today, Strategy page, rt.com


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As far as Bellator middleweight champion Hector Lombard (30-2-1 MMA, 7-0 BFC) understood it, Renato "Babalu" Sobral (36-9 MMA, 0-0 BFC) wanted to fight him at 205 pounds.
Whether or not that's the case, Lombard told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) he's up for the challenge.
Apparently, so, too, is Bellator CEO and chairman and Bjorn Rebney, who hopes to book the non-title fight for a Nov. 19 Bellator 58 event in Hollywood, Fla.
"I got a call from Bjorn … and he talked to me about the situation that 'Babalu' wanted to fight me," Lombard told MMAjunkie.com on Friday night. "He wanted the fight at 205 pounds."
The Cuban-Australian judoka considers himself a smaller middleweight, and he hasn't competed at light heavyweight in more than five years. But the fighter, whom Rebney has said even expressed interest in fighting at 170 pounds, said he is willing to move up for Sobral, a former Strikeforce light-heavyweight champion who's long competed at 205 pounds.
Lombard, though, isn't sure why Sobral hasn't officially accepted the fight. MMAjunkie.com could not immediately reach the Brazilian's representatives for comment.
Rebney today said that Sobral's team initially pursued the fight aggressively. The fight executive said he agreed to all their demands: the fight taking place at 205 pounds, the compensation for the bout, and the amount of time for a two-month camp.
"I've been a big 'Babalu' fan for a lot of years," Rebney said. "They weren't really on our radar, but then they reached out to us and opened the door and asked for a few things. We agreed to all of them. … But now we're siting back and waiting.
"We haven't heard anything back from them … in three or four days."
Lombard is getting anxious, as well.
"I said, 'I'm here to fight. Let's just make the fight happen as soon as possible,'" he said. "It wouldn't be one of the easiest fights of my career. But he's got a good name."
He said he's now just waiting for his would-be opponent to green light it.
Such a fight would be a major coup for Bellator. The organization has a policy that only tournament winners get title shots, and currently, no tourney champions are on deck for Lombard, who's the top-ranked 185-pounder not under contract to the UFC or Strikeforce. As in past seasons, officials then book their titleholders for non-title "super fights" to keep them active.
But the middleweight division hasn't exactly produced big-name opponents for Lombard's bouts. After winning the season-one tournament, Lombard has defeated Jay Silva (a late replacement for MIA Paulo Filho), NFL vet Herbert "Whisper" Goodman and veteran Falaniko Vitale in non-title fights.
Although Sobral hasn't fought since a December Strikeforce loss to Dan Henderson, he would be a credible threat to Lombard. And that's been the biggest complaint about Lombard, whose current 24-fight win streak features many solid opponents but few households names.
For more on Bellator 58, stay tuned to the MMA Rumors section of the site.
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The Large Electron–Positron Collider (LEP) was one of the largest particle accelerators ever constructed.
It was built at CERN, a multi-national centre for research in nuclear and particle physics near Geneva, Switzerland. LEP collided electrons with positrons at energies that reached 209 GeV. It was was a circular collider with a circumference of 27 kilometres built in a tunnel roughly 100 m (300 ft) underground and passing through Switzerland and France. LEP was used from 1989 until 2000. Around 2001 it was dismantled to make way for the LHC, which re-used the LEP tunnel. To date, LEP is the most powerful accelerator of leptons ever built.
LEP was a circular lepton collider – the most powerful such ever built. For context, modern colliders can be generally categorized based on their shape (circular or linear) and on what types of particles they accelerate and collide (leptons or hadrons). Leptons are point particles and are relatively light. Because they are point particles, their collisions are clean and amenable to precise measurements; however, because they are light, the collisions cannot reach the same energy that can be achieved with heavier particles. Hadrons are composite particles (composed of quarks) and are relatively heavy; protons, for example, have a mass 2000 times greater than electrons. Because of their higher mass, they can be accelerated to much higher energies, which is the key to directly observing new particles or interactions that are not predicted by currently accepted theories. However, hadron collisions are very messy (there are often lots of unrelated tracks, for example, and it is not straightforward to determine the energy of the collisions), and therefore more challenging to analyze and less amenable to precision measurements.
The shape of the collider is also important. High energy physics colliders collect particles into bunches, and then collide the bunches together. However, only a very tiny fraction of particles in each bunch actually collide. In circular colliders, these bunches travel around a roughly circular shape in opposite directions and therefore can be collided over and over. This enables a high rate of collisions and facilitates collection of a large amount of data, which is important for precision measurements or for observing very rare decays. However, the energy of the bunches is limited due to losses from synchrotron radiation. In linear colliders, particles move in a straight line and therefore do not suffer from synchrotron radiation, but bunches cannot be re-used and it is therefore more challenging to collect large amounts of data.
As a circular lepton collider, LEP was well suited for precision measurements of the electroweak interaction at energies that were not previously achievable.
When the LEP collider started operation in August 1989 it accelerated the electrons and positrons to a total energy of 45 GeV each to enable production of the Z boson, which has a mass of 91 GeV.[1] The accelerator was upgraded later to enable production of a pair of W bosons, each having a mass of 80 GeV. LEP collider energy eventually topped at 209 GeV at the end in 2000. At a Lorentz factor ( = particle energy/rest mass = [104.5 GeV/0.511 MeV]) of over 200,000, LEP still holds the particle accelerator speed record, extremely close to the limiting speed of light. At the end of 2000, LEP was shut down and then dismantled in order to make room in the tunnel for the construction of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
The Super Proton Synchrotron (an older ring collider) was used to accelerate electrons and positrons to nearly the speed of light. These are then injected into the ring. As in all ring colliders, the LEP's ring consists of many magnets which force the charged particles into a circular trajectory (so that they stay inside the ring), RF accelerators which accelerate the particles with radio frequency waves, and quadrupoles that focus the particle beam (i.e. keep the particles together). The function of the accelerators is to increase the particles' energies so that heavy particles can be created when the particles collide. When the particles are accelerated to maximum energy (and focused to so-called bunches), an electron and a positron bunch is made to collide with each other at one of the collision points of the detector. When an electron and a positron collide, they annihilate to a virtual particle, either a photon or a Z boson. The virtual particle almost immediately decays into other elementary particles, which are then detected by huge particle detectors.
The Large Electron–Positron Collider had four detectors, built around the four collision points within underground halls. Each was the size of a small house and was capable of registering the particles by their energy, momentum and charge, thus allowing physicists to infer the particle reaction that had happened and the elementary particles involved. By performing statistical analysis of this data, knowledge about elementary particle physics is gained. The four detectors of LEP were called Aleph, Delphi, Opal, and L3. They were built differently to allow for complementary experiments.
ALEPH stands for Apparatus for LEP PHysics at CERN. The detector determined the mass of the W-boson and Z-boson to within one part in a thousand. The number of families of particles with light neutrinos was determined to be 7000298200000000000♠2.982±0.013, which is consistent with the standard model value of 3. The running of the quantum chromodynamics (QCD) coupling constant was measured at various energies and found to run in accordance with perturbative calculations in QCD.[2]
DELPHI stands for DEtector with Lepton, Photon and Hadron Identification.
OPAL stands for Omni-Purpose Apparatus for LEP. The name of the experiment was a pun since some of the founding members of the scientific collaboration which first proposed the design had previously worked on the JADE detector at DESY in Hamburg.[3] OPAL was a general-purpose detector designed to collect a broad range of data. Its data were used to make high precision measurements of the Z boson lineshape, perform detailed tests of the Standard Model, and place limits on new physics. The detector was dismantled in 2000 to make way for LHC equipment. The lead glass blocks from the OPAL barrel electromagnetic calorimeter are currently being re-used in the large-angle photon veto detectors at the NA62 experiment at CERN.
L3 was another LEP experiment.[4] Its enormous octagonal magnet return yoke remained in place in the cavern and became part of the ALICE detector for the LHC.
The results of the LEP experiments allowed precise values of many quantities of the Standard Model—most importantly the mass of the Z boson and the W boson (which were discovered in 1983 at an earlier CERN collider [the Intersecting Storage Rings project]) to be obtained—and so confirm the Model and put it on a solid basis of empirical data.
Near the end of the scheduled run time, data suggested tantalizing but inconclusive hints that the Higgs particle of a mass around 115 GeV might have been observed, a sort of Holy Grail of current high-energy physics. The run-time was extended for a few months, to no avail. The strength of the signal remained at 1.7 standard deviations which translates to the 91% confidence level, much less than the confidence expected by particle physicists to claim a discovery, and was at the extreme upper edge of the detection range of the experiments with the collected LEP data. There was a proposal to extend the LEP operation by another year in order to seek confirmation, which would have delayed the start of the LHC. However, the decision was made to shut down LEP and progress with the LHC as planned.
For years, this observation was the only hint of a Higgs Boson; subsequent experiments until 2010 at the Tevatron had not been sensitive enough to confirm or refute these hints.[5] Beginning in July 2012, however, the ATLAS and CMS experiments at LHC presented evidence of a Higgs particle around 125 GeV,[6] and strongly excluded the 115 GeV region.
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WASHINGTON – U.S. home construction has risen steadily in the past year, fueled by more buyers and a scarcity of houses for sale.
An increase in permits and growing confidence among builders suggest the pace of construction strengthened in May, providing more support for economic growth.
The Commerce Department will report on May housing starts and permits at 8:30 a.m. EST Tuesday.
In April, builders started work at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 853,000. That was down from March, when the pace topped the 1 million mark for the first time in five years.
Still, most of the decline was in apartment construction, which tends to vary sharply from month to month. And the pace of home construction was still 13.1 per cent higher than in April 2012.
At the same time, applications for building permits, a gauge of future construction, rose 14.3 per cent in April to a rate of 1.02 million. That was the most since June 2008 and suggested builders would step up homebuilding in the coming months.
The housing recovery appears to be sustainable and is helping the economy grow, offsetting some of the drag this year from higher taxes and federal spending cuts.
Steady job growth and low mortgage rates have encouraged more people to buy homes. The increased demand, along with a tight supply of homes for sale, has pushed home prices higher. That's also made builders more optimistic about the market for newly built homes, leading to more construction and jobs.
The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo builder sentiment index released Monday rose to 52 this month, up from 44 in May. That was the highest reading in seven years and the largest monthly increase in more than a decade.
A reading above 50 indicates more builders view sales conditions as good, rather than poor.
Many of the nation's major homebuilders have reported strong annual growth in sales during the spring home-selling season. The increased demand has paved the way for builders to raise prices and ramp up construction of more homes, despite lingering concerns over rising costs for land, building materials and labour.
Though new homes represent only a fraction of the housing market, they have an outsize impact on the economy. Each home built creates an average of three jobs for a year and generates about $90,000 in tax revenue, according to NAHB statistics.
The overall economy grew at an annual rate of 2.4 per cent in the January-March quarter. Analysts believe growth has slipped to about 2 per cent or less in the current April-June quarter, reflecting the government cuts and higher taxes. But many expect growth will pick up again in the second half of the year.
Residential construction contributed to economic growth last year for the first time in five years. Many economists predict housing will strengthen this year.


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SarangHaeYo Shinhwa!
Avi featuring the beautiful Han Ga In! Current Obsession.
can anyone tell me if there is a thread for : lethal weapons of love and passion (tvb series)...i cheaked but i can't find it....
i have a question???????????????
is this only open to asian actors??????????
please answer this question
Is there a thread on Donnie Yen?
It'd be a good idea to index the actors like in the Actresses forum so that lazy people like me won't have to stop slacking and type this question.
You can do a search or view the actors' threads in archive format (scroll to the bottom and look to the right) to find out. The mods in this forum seem to be very busy these days so I doubt they'd have time to create and continuously update an index of all actor threads in this forum.Originally Posted by IcyFox
Originally Posted by Lady Zhuge
Didn't yield any results. I guess there isn't one. Thanks anyway.
It's difficult for me to search anything here becoz I have to scroll down, it's not automatically can be found anytime. Perhaps we should do something to solve this problem.
yeah there is one...in the tvb series section!Originally Posted by 1girl
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there is now(a donnie yen thread). but its relatively new...someone started it a few weeks agoOriginally Posted by IcyFox
Does anyone know the name of the actor who played Jang Nara's older brother in My Bratty Princess is? He almost resembles Huang Xiao Ming, but not really. There's another actor who looked like Benny Chan Ho Man but isn't him.
Never mind, I found out his name is Lin Jiang Guo. Nice name. Anyone have information on him?
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|Beaconsfield, England
|Techno, house, ambient house, IDM, ambient techno, breakbeat
|Years active
|Creation, Strange Fruit, Circa, Astralwerks, Appalooso, One Little Indian
|Mike Bryant
Jon Fugler
|Past members
|Julian Nugent
Rachel Stewart
Mike Tournier
Fluke are an English electronic music group formed in the late 1980s by Mike Bryant, Jon Fugler and Mike Tournier with Julian Nugent as the band's manager. The band's conception was influenced by the members interest in the burgeoning acid house music scene and particularly the work of Cabaret Voltaire and Giorgio Moroder.
The band are noted for their diverse range of electronic styles spanning the house, techno, ambient and blues genres; for their reclusivity, rarely giving interviews; and for lengthy timespans between albums. Many listeners know of Fluke only through the inclusion of their music in many blockbuster film soundtracks—most notably The Matrix Reloaded and Sin City—as well as featuring prominently on the soundtracks to Need for Speed: Underground 2 and the Wipeout video game series. The film The Experiment uses their song "YKK".
To date Fluke have produced five original studio albums, two "best of" compilations and two live albums. Throughout their career they have made several changes to their line-up with credited appearances attributed to Neil Davenport playing guitars, Robin Goodridge on drums and Hugh Bryder as a DJ. When Fluke were touring for Risotto they were joined on stage by Rachel Stewart who acted as a personification of the band's official mascot, a character from the Wipeout series named Arial Tetsuo. Stewart continued as lead female vocalist and as a dancer for all of Fluke's live performances between 1997 and 1999.
After Risotto, Mike Tournier left the group to form Syntax with Jan Burton. Mike Bryant and Jon Fugler went on to produce Fluke's latest studio album without Tournier's help and the pair have subsequently engaged in projects under the name 2 Bit Pie, with their debut album 2Pie Island released on September 4, 2006. The musical activities of Mike Tournier remain unknown at present.
Prior to forming Fluke, Jon Fugler and Mike Bryant had previously played in two punk bands together named "The Leaky Radiators" and "The Lay Figures" respectively. The third member of Fluke, Mike Tournier, was introduced to the group when he undertook work on a collaboration with Jon Fugler entitled "Skin".[1] It soon became clear that all three shared musical tastes, having a shared interest in the acid house scene and the more experimental electronic sounds of Cabaret Voltaire and Giorgio Moroder.[2] Finally, with the casting of Julian Nugent in a managerial role, Fluke was born.[3]
Fluke's first single, released in 1988, was a white label vinyl entitled "Island Life", pressed on a clear blue 12" vinyl record.[1] Although a commercial failure, as well as being very different in sound to the band's later works, the group persisted and released a further two white label vinyls; "Thumper!" ( sample (help·info)) in 1989 and "Joni/Taxi" in 1990, a song that sampled Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi".[4] The attention that these records received successfully gained the band a record deal with Creation Records with whom they released their first CD single "Philly" in the same year.
The following year saw the release of Fluke's first album, The Techno Rose of Blighty which was swiftly followed by the single "The Bells" and a live album entitled Out (In Essence). For the release of Out (In Essence) Fluke abandoned their deal with Creation Records and signed instead with Circa Records, an offshoot of Virgin.[4] Along with the releases of these first two albums, Fluke also began their career-spanning tradition of releasing work of a different nature under various monikers. The first of these, the industrial single "All Aboard" was released in 1990 under the name The Lucky Monkeys.[5]
The band realised at this early stage in their career that they would experience the greatest artistic freedom if they possessed their own recording studio. They therefore took it upon themselves to obtain their own premises. This was an asset which, according to Jon Fugler, proved invaluable in coordinating the "wider pool of people—musicians and friends—that we draw on to help."[6]
After a two year break Fluke returned with what was to be a breakthrough into mainstream popular music when, in 1993, they released the single "Slid". This single became an instant club classic when it was picked up by DJ Sasha who liked it so much that he included three separate remixes of it on his Renaissance album.[7] This burst of success was followed by a rush of two further singles, "Electric Guitar" ( sample) and "Groovy Feeling", and, in the same year, the release of the group's second album, Six Wheels On My Wagon.
This new album was a distinctly house production, featuring uplifting riffs and ambient effects, as opposed to the eponymous techno style of their previous release. The album was structured so that the more accessible 'pop' tracks were to be found at the beginning of the album and the more ambitious ambient works were located towards the end. Though this could have produced a stagnating effect, it was received favourably by critics, with Billboard magazine labelling it as "groundbreaking".[8][9] Other reviewers went even further, with The Independent suggesting that Fluke were to become the next big thing in Europe:
|Fluke's Six Wheels On My Wagon represents the current high-water mark of modern ambient-groove music, showing that although this mode has effectively become the future sound of Europe, it's rarely done as well on the continent as in Britain. Though born out of the groove, the pieces on Six Wheels On My Wagon have a melodic flow which manages to combine elements of surprise and innovation with a hedonistic serenity.[10]
In 1994 Fluke released The Peel Sessions, recorded for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel. This CD was a selection of tracks from two live sessions recorded on 18 November 1990 and 10 December 1991.[11][12] The CD also included one new song, Time Keeper, and several tracks which had previously been released on vinyl only. Fluke were invited to perform two further, unreleased, Peel Sessions after this CD. One broadcast on the 10 November 1996 and the other performed live on the 8 December 2002.[13][14]
The following year Fluke released their third album, Oto, which is the Greek for "of the ear". In terms of style, Oto was somewhat darker than Six Wheels on my Wagon, focusing on the downbeat ambient effects which were present in the second half of Six Wheels, and the band completely removed the uplifting house style that characterised their previous work. Owing to the decreased accessibility of the album as a result of this, only three singles were deemed suitable for release from Oto; "Bubble", "Bullet" and "Tosh". In spite of this, "Bullet" was chosen by Dominic Pride of Billboard magazine as one of his top ten picks of 1995.[15] These singles were also the first of Fluke's releases to gain mainstream top 40 chart positions in the UK.[16]
In 1996 Fluke released "Atom Bomb", a single that reached #20 in the UK charts.[16] Originally created as a track for the video game Wipeout 2097 (Along with "V6"), it was to become the centrepiece of their next album, Risotto.[17] The track was also released as a single from the sountrack album Wipeout 2097 The Soundtrack, which featured tracks from The Chemical Brothers, Future Sound of London, Photek, Underworld, Daft Punk, Leftfield and The Prodigy.[18] Of all their productions, it is Fluke's fourth studio album which is most widely known, primarily because it represented the pinnacle of Fluke's mainstream chart success with the singles "Atom Bomb" and "Absurd" ( sample). The album was named Risotto after the food dish of the same name because, like its culinary counterpart, it contained a mix of "ingredients". These included the pre-released singles "Atom Bomb" and "Absurd", new tracks "Goodnight Lover" and "Kitten Moon", the post-album single "Squirt" and reworked older tracks such as "Mosh", a remix of "Tosh" from Oto. Risotto was perhaps the most favourably reviewed of all Fluke's albums with David Bennun of The Guardian writing:
|Risotto pushes forward Fluke's slick, sophisticated techno at a relentless pace. Sometimes, on Absurd, Atom Bomb and especially the top-notch Squirt, it takes a terrier-like grip on your concentration, with the muted vocals hissing in your head like Martian broadcasts arriving through your fillings.[19]
At this stage in time the band also saw fit to re-use the Lucky Monkeys moniker for the release of "Bjango", a single which included a remix by Fluke themselves.[5]
After touring for a year with Risotto on the American, "Electric Highway Tour", and having made two appearances at the Glastonbury festival in 1995 and 1998, Mike Tournier elected to leave the group to pursue a different project named Syntax, with the band's long standing friend, Jan Burton.[20][21][22] The pair produced just a single album, Meccano Mind in March 2004, which in turn spawned two moderately successful singles and a live tour supporting Scissor Sisters, before the pair decided to go their own ways in 2005.[23]
With the group split it was seen fit to release two "Best Of" albums entitled Progressive History X, a compilation spanning their entire ten year producing history, and then in 2001, Progressive History XXX, a three CD box-set including many rare and hard to find mixes. Both releases were packaged with the artwork "Just Your Average Second On This Planet" 1997-1998 by David Bethell The box-set contained black, red, white and blue versions of the same original cover art, and also came with a poster of the silhouette image on one side and all other album covers on the flip.
2002 saw the formation of The Fluke DJs, a live-show pairing of Jon Fugler and Hugh Bryder. Bryder was a DJ who had assisted Fluke in their live performances since 1993 as well as working with other DJs such as Seb Fontaine while holding a DJ residency at MTV's special event parties.[24] This seemed to indicate further rifts amongst the band as this DJ combination included neither Mike Bryant nor Mike Tournier.[7] However, Jon Fugler denied these rumours shortly after they surfaced claiming that the band merely needed some time away from each other after their intense work on Risotto.[25]
Even with the release of the "best of" albums, there were still signs of life in Fluke's production studio when, in 2000, they produced a promotional CD named The Xmas Demos. This included many of the tracks intended for the album Puppy, with only the track Liquid in the end being excluded. Speculation about a new album was furthered when, after a break of 6 years, the remaining members of Fluke put out two singles forming the basis of this next album.[26] Though the aptly titled "Slap It: The Return" signalled a break from the past, with the writing credits listed simply as "Bryant/Fugler" under the Appalooso label, "Pulse" exemplified a much darker style and was released on the One Little Indian label. It was in 2003 however that Fluke finally demonstrated their ability to survive without Tournier when they released their fifth studio album, Puppy, six years after Risotto. The name of the album was inspired by Jeff Koons' fifty foot sculpture of a puppy that stands outside the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.[27] This album proved to be similar to the earlier Risotto tracks in tempo and mood, but with the introduction of some new ideas, such as the inclusion of a blues track, "Blue Sky" and the addition of a very dark techno orientated bonus track, Pulse.
The album was not received well critically with most of the criticisms labelling the album as dated. Andy Gill of The Independent wrote:
|Surely the longest-serving of UK dance outfits, Fluke have been a fixture on the national house scene for more than a decade now ... With their endlessly cycling layers of fizzing synths and those big filter-sweeps that were de rigueur a few years back - when the music recedes to nothing, then surges back again - tracks such as "My Spine" and "Hang Tough" could have been made at any time in the past six or seven years. Maybe they were; whatever, they sound a tad cumbersome compared with the leaner garage beats favoured now. In "Snapshot", the juddering synth riff is the techno equivalent of the 12-bar blues, a standard form that has become all too easy for lazy musicians to slip into. Fluke may sing, "It's easy to change/ Go out and get a new name/ Forget yesterday" in "Switch/Twitch", but it is clearly not proving that easy for them to develop beyond their old house style, notwithstanding odd moments such as the freeway glide of "Baby Pain" and the soulful choir on the closing, chill-out number, "Blue Sky". It's Nineties music for a Noughties world.[28]
The only single to be released from Puppy after the album's release was "Switch", which was put out in CD and vinyl format. The track was also featured on the soundtrack for the Electronic Arts video game Need For Speed Underground 2 but achieved nowhere near the critical or popular acclaim of the singles from Risotto, not even clocking an appearance in the UK top 40.
In late 2005, Mike Bryant and Jon Fugler teamed up with Jan Burton, Wild Oscar, Robin Goodridge, Dilshani Weerasinghe, Marli Buck and producer Andy Gray to form 2 Bit Pie with a limited release of "Nobody Never". This track retained the rough vocals and electronic feel that was by now characteristic of Fluke, but had a stronger emphasis on live playback and real instruments.[29][30] In May 2006 there were club previews of two new 2 Bit Pie songs, "Little Things" and "Here I Come" ( sample).[31] A further 2 Bit Pie song made its debut at the Afterhours club event at KROQ-FM on the 17th June 2006, entitled "Fly".[32] Finally, on September 4, 2006, 2 Bit Pie released their debut album, 2Pie Island, in the UK to minimal critical attention.
Although Fluke have been producing music for the best part of two decades they remain relatively unknown to a large scale audience and the band members themselves are even less recognisable. Jon Fugler insisted in an interview with The Independent that the band's reclusivity was "less about selfish hedonism than the revival of 'a communal attitude that had long been forgotten'".[33] The main sphere of influence where the band has had success is through their inclusion in advertisements, film and video game soundtracks.
Amongst the more prominent of these appearances was the 2003 film, The Matrix Reloaded, using the Fluke track "Slap It" renamed to Zion for compatibility with the film.[34]
Fluke's 1997 hit "Absurd" was featured in the trailer for Get Carter, in the strip club sequence of the 2005 film Sin City and the 'Whitewash Edit' is included on the Lara Croft: Tomb Raider soundtrack which tied in with a commercial deal for Ericsson who sponsored the film and then went on to use "Absurd" in its commercials.[35][36] In addition, it was featured in the video game series NFL QB Club until its discontinuation in 2002. The "Knight to King's Pawn" episode on the 2008 series of Knight Rider, the song "Absurd" was used by KITT to hide a secret message. Where possible Fluke's licensing agent, David Steel at V2 Music, tries to ensure that when their tracks are used in films they also appear on the soundtrack album:
|Steel acknowledges that he "licensed the track for use in the film on the condition that it would also be included on the soundtrack." In this way, notes Steel, the song "earned significantly more money than if it had just been in the film".[37]
This kind of exposure was welcomed by members of the band, as Jon Fugler said in an interview with Billboard:
|A band's success is based on what they do, not what their music is used for. I can only speak for the UK, but I'd find it very surprising if anybody listened to an ad for any kind of normal piece of product and went, 'Oh, I'm gonna take that as being minus points against this band or this composer or this act, because they're selling out.' I don't think anybody views it like that anymore.[38]
In 1997 Fluke's US sales totalled 14,000 which was modest compared with the 200,000 copies of Dig Your Own Hole that The Chemical Brothers sold.[39] In an interview with Billboard magazine, Fugler stated that he felt that predicted figures for the US electronica boom were overhyped by people who were out of touch with the music scene; "The expectations came from the people who [had] nothing to do with the music, it came from the business level, people not involved with it."[39] This lack of commercial success has not dampened the spirits of the band however, Fugler going on to say "It's not about being on the cover of a magazine".[7]
Fluke's live shows are in many respects similar to the live performances given by The Chemical Brothers in that both these artists employ stunning visual effects combining lasers and projected displays.[40] Furthermore, Fluke's performances come in two varieties of show; performances as Fluke where the shows consist of entirely original Fluke material and shows under the alias "The Fluke DJs" whereby a combination of Fluke tracks are mixed with others in the style of a DJ Set. Unable to attract major crowds, Fluke resorted to "festival-style" tours along with other acts to draw in a sizeable audience as was seen with their participation in the "Electric Highway" tour in 1997 where they were joined by The Crystal Method and the "Pukkelpop" festival where they headlined along with Metallica amongst others.[41][42]
Contrasting with many other electronic acts, however, Fluke's members were never entirely relegated to standing behind consoles. This was due to their conscription of session musicians to play guitar (Neil Davenport) and percussive elements (Robin Goodridge) live on stage. From 1997 onwards their shows were further enhanced with the inclusion of the dancer and singer Rachel Stewart as a real-world incarnation of the band's mascot Arial Tetsuo.[24][43] Originally a character from the Wipeout 2097 video game, Tetsuo was subsequently adopted as the band's "fourth member" following "Atom Bomb"'s inclusion in the Wipeout 2097 soundtrack. This also gave the perfect excuse to incorporate a female vocalist to counter Fugler's deep and somewhat monotonous spoken vocals. While Bryant and Tournier were indeed behind synthesizers, Fugler and Stewart were able to entertain the crowd visually with dancing and singing while Fluke's resident lighting technician, Andy Walton, provided a suitable technology-driven accompaniment to the music.[44] In 2004, Stewart parted ways with Fluke indefinitely, instead focusing on a new project with ex-EMF band member James Atkin, named Beauty School.[45]
|We threw ourselves into being a live band, but it was always important for us to give people a real show rather than just stand there twiddling knobs.[6]
The number of Fluke's live shows decreased significantly after the release of Puppy owing to their personal commitments to young families.[6] However, in the few shows they have played since, they have opted for the Fluke DJs setup, which utilises "a battery of laptops and the odd deck" rather than focusing on their live stage band, an approach which Jon Fugler subsequently referred to as "good fun, but ultimately flawed for the dancefloor."[25]
In 2009, Fluke began to perform live again, including all three members, with a show scheduled for the 10th of October, 2009 at The Tabernacle in London.[46]
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Caponata di Carciofi (Caponata of Artichoke), Courtesy of Chef Laura Frankel, author of Jewish Cooking for All Seasons
This caponata does not have the usual tomatoes and eggplant. Caponata is a relish of vegetables and can really include anything in season. This version is a concoction of early spring and late winter vegetables. I serve it with roasted chicken, duck and even fish. It adds springtime flair to any table and for Passover we drizzle our matzah with olive oil and herbs and then dollop some of this caponata on top of it for a crunchy snack.
Yields about 2 cups
1 pound baby artichokes or frozen artichoke hearts
1 fennel bulb-julienne (save fronds for garnish)
2 leeks-white parts only, chopped
3 cloves garlic
1 tablespoon tomato paste
½ cup white wine
½ cup golden raisins (optional)
¼ cup pine-nuts
¼ cup fresh mint-torn or cut into thin strips (chiffonade)
½ cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
2 tablespoons chopped fresh thyme-
Salt and pepper
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Directions cont'd
- To clean the artichokes, use a paring knife to cut the outside leaves free from the body of the vegetable. Continue turning your knife around the artichoke until you have an equal amount of green leaves with yellow tops. Be sure to leave the stem intact. You can peel some of the tough green fibers from the outside. The stem gives the artichoke a pretty shape! Cut the artichoke in half lengthwise and scoop out the choke (if any) with a melon baller. Place the artichoke pieces in a bowl of cold water with lemon juice squeezed into it to keep the artichokes from turning dark.
- Place a large sauté pan over medium high heat and coat the bottom lightly with olive oil. Add the fennel pieces and leeks. Sauté the vegetables until they are lightly browned and have softened. Add the garlic, tomato paste raisins and white wine. Stir together.
- Transfer the mixture to the insert for the slow cooker. Cover and cook on high for 3 hours.
- Place a small sauté pan over medium heat and add the pine-nuts. Toast the pine-nuts until they are lightly browned. Watch them carefully as then can burn quickly.
- Add the pine nuts, artichokes and fresh herbs to the mixture to the mixture. Salt and pepper to taste. Cover and continue cooking for an additional on HIGH.
- Serve the caponata warm or cold. The caponata can be made three days before serving and stored covered in the refrigerator.
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