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Posts by Ben M
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Eric Schmidt defends Google's teeny UK tax payouts - again
Re: There's a bigger problem than Google
Google's 'tax havens' for European revenue are Ireland and the Netherlands.
From El Reg, no less:
"Schmidt is "very proud" of the corporate structure Google set up to divert profits made in European countries, such as the UK, to its firms in the low-tax havens of Ireland and The Netherlands, thus minimising its tax bill."
Bermuda is for their IP - hardly something the UK has a moral right to tax.
There's a bigger problem than Google
If it's bad to minimise tax through off-shore havens, why is the EU positively encouraging it?
From the 2011 announcement of the EU's Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base:
"The European Commission has today proposed a common system for calculating the tax base of businesses operating in the EU. The aim of this proposal is to significantly reduce the administrative burden, compliance costs and legal uncertainties that businesses in the EU currently face in having to comply with up to 27 different national systems for determining their taxable profits. The proposed Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB), would mean that companies would benefit from a "one-stop-shop" system for filing their tax returns and would be able to consolidate all the profits and losses they incur across the EU. Member States would maintain their full sovereign right to set their own corporate tax rate. The Commission estimates that, every year, the CCCTB will save businesses across the EU €700 million in reduced compliance costs, and €1.3 billion through consolidation. In addition, businesses looking to expand cross-border will benefit from up to €1 billion in savings. The CCCTB will also make the EU a much more attractive market for foreign investors."
They actually want companies to save money by lowering their tax bill. They want profits and losses to accrue in only one EU country.
If people have a problem with that, their attentions should be directed towards Brussels, not the Chocolate Factory.
See also here: http://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/taxation/company_tax/common_tax_base/#ccctb
Wind now cheaper than coal in Oz: Bloomberg
"Let the market decide"? Really? Tut tut, Mr Chirgwin
I thought free-marketers were also climate change "deniers". Weren't you the one who passed on those very "scientific findings" without a shadow of disblief, doubt or outright incredulity?
The ink has barely dried on your report, but now you're all for using free markets to decide between renewables and fossil fuels. How quickly you forget.
You do realise that your (new?) support of free markets is a predictor that you hold other anti-science attitudes. I wonder which ones though? If I had to guess, I'd say you'd deny the link between HIV and Aids. Yes? If that's wrong, then you'd deny that smoking causes lung cancer. Which is it? You can be honest and tell us.
From the abstract of the Lewandowsky paper you reported on so gloatingly in September 2012:
"... we find that endorsement of a laissez-faire conception of free-market economics predicts rejection of climate science (r @ .80 between latent constructs). Endorsement of the free market also predicted the rejection of other established scientific findings, such as the facts that HIV causes AIDS and that smoking causes lung cancer."
Oh - and by the way - where is that paper? Psychological Science hasn't published it.
Perhaps now you'll admit the paper was rubbish to begin with, should never have been submitted for publication, should never have been sent out for peer review (no evidence that it passed - thank god), and never ever ever should've been reported on El Reg by anyone except the "You just can't make this stuff up" desk.
City heat leak can disrupt high-altitude winds
Irrespective of how you interpret what I've said, this study undermines the IPCC's attribution argument.
The IPCC claims the effects of urbanisation account for only 0.006C each decade in the temperature records (at the hemispheric and continental scale). But as it's only a low (unmeasurable?) portion of the total recorded rise each decade, the IPCC allows itself plenty of room to blame emissions of CO2 for the rest. That effect is extrapolated into the future; a hundred years out and we're all doomed.
This new study tries to explain why the models and reality haven't matched of late. The culprit? Urbanisation. The authors suggest the effects of urbanisation can be detected thousands of miles away. At the continental scale, it will increase recorded temperatures by as much as 1.0C (or 1K if we're being pedantic) during autumn and winter months? (They studied 1956 - 2005 so I assume it's a trend of 0.2 per decade.)
So which is it?
Urbanisation has the "negligble" impact of 0.006C, and therefore allows CO2 to take the blame for the rest?
Or it has an enormous impact of 0.2C, leaving CO2 largely off the hook - but at least the models are explained?
Nonsense, NomNomNom. UHI has been treated in the great, time-honoured tradition of activists: "Nothing to look at here. Keep moving."
Exhibit A: from Real Climate:
"There are quite a few reasons to believe that the surface temperature record ... is essentially uncontaminated by the effects of urban growth and the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. ...This and other information lead the IPCC to conclude that the UHI effect makes at most a contribution of 0.05°C to the warming observed over the past century."
Exhibit B: The IPCC's fourth assessment report, chapter 3
page 237
"Urban heat island effects are real but local, and have not biased the large-scale trends. A number of recent studies indicate that effects of urbanisation and land use change on the land-based temperature record are negligible (0.006ºC per decade) as far as hemispheric- and continental-scale averages are concerned because the very real but local effects are avoided or accounted for in the data sets used. In any case, they are not present in the SST component of the record"
page 244
"Thus, the global land warming trend discussed is very unlikely to be influenced significantly by increasing urbanisation. ... Accordingly, this assessment adds the same level of urban warming uncertainty as in the TAR: 0.006°C per decade since 1900 for land, and 0.002°C per decade since 1900 for blended land with ocean, as ocean UHI is zero"
page 249
"In view of Section 18.104.22.168 and the dominance of the globe by ocean, the influence of urbanisation on these estimates is estimated to be very small."
You cannot suddenly find the signature of a city's heat thousands of miles away yet pretend it doesn't exist in and around that city.
UHI is a double-edged sword
If they want to factor in UHI, then fine. If cities can affect temperatures in the upper atmosphere thousands of miles away, then clearly they can affect temperatures recorded in and around cities.
So this study has to cut both ways. If UHI should be taken into account when making modelling future temperatures, it has to be taken into account when analysing the historical record.
Yet AGW supporters have fought tooth and nail against recognising there is an urban heat island effect in the historical record. If UHI is real, it might explain a significant portion of the warming seen over the last 150 years. It undermines attribution: the whole "we can only think of CO2" malarkey.
So if CO2 emissions have had a smaller effect on the historical record, they'll have to have a reduced forcing factor for the models. Future temperatures suddenly plunge. CO2 cannot be bringer of thermageddon.
UHI might be a useful sleight-of-hand for explaining the discrepancies between models and reality, but it fundamentally undermines AGW.
Last month ties for WARMEST September on RECORD
My my my. Scary trendline
That slope is awfully steep. Look like we're going to become barren like Mars in no time at all.
But hang on, that slope gets steeper and steeper every time these updates are issued. Which is odd when there's been no change in global temperature since the last report was produced... and the report before that... and the report before that. Yet the trendlines get worse and worse.
It couldn't be an Orwellian revision of history, could it? Surely not.
That would involve the keepers of these records to revise the older temperatures downwards, while leaving current temperatures untouched. I suppose that would increase the slope. But how easy would it be to adjust those older records? They're of course going to need some kind of adjustment anyway, so who's to say where reasonable-type adjustments stop and activis-type adjustments start? I wouldn't want to to cast doubt on those who work in this field. They surely wouldn't have thought to tap this as an ingenious way of producing ever-scarier trendlines with all the media coverage that goes with it, regardless of whether the climate misbehaves and temperatures stay the same for over a decade.
I mean, it's not like CRU already do this.
GISS certainly wouldn't do it.
Did GM food cause GIANT TUMOURS IN RATS?
Is this the same Richard Chirgwin...
...hack who wrote "Climate denier bloggers sniff out new conspiracy" here at El Reg?
Surely not. It couldn't be.
A paper is accepted for publication "proving" that all 'climate deniers' think the moon landing was faked, MI5 killed Lady Diana, and that our soon-to-be one-world-government overlords are in the final throes of arrogating to themselves all power in the known universe ... and one Mr Richard Chirgwin shows not the slightest curiosity or skepticism. Not an ounce of investigative instinct. Instead, this Mr Richard Chirgwin dutifully takes up his position around the wagon. 'Climate deniers' are shot down in an instant before their evil words can even come out of their mouths. Their questions are dismissed out of hand - and for good reason. The mere fact they're asking questions is evidence of their conspiratorial mindset.
Nothing to look at here, folks. Keep moving. Three cheers for that Chirgwin fellow.
Never mind that those 'deniers' were asking how the data was gathered, and whether that data (even if taken at face value) supports the conclusions drawn by the authors.
And then we have this report from one Richard Chirgwin. A two-year controlled study using actual rats (as opposed to using unknown trolls pretending to be rats...errr, I mean, pretending to be 'deniers') shows a positive link between GM food / drink and tumor growth.
And how did Mr Chirgwin present this article? By shooting the doubters? By shutting down debate? No, the reader is all but forced to assume the study is utter rubbish. It begins with a headline that manages to both question and mock the entire study. The results are said to be terrifying "if true". Readers are astonished to learn that the study did not find a positive link between GM and tumors in every single test group (which must surely be grounds having the study retracted, no?).
And then we are invited by Mr Chirgwin to peer closer - to see the mysterious events which move like shadows around the study. There's the behaviour of the authors who, against all known rules of publication, demanded an NDA be signed before issuing anyone a pre-print copy. And there's the timing of this paper. It is highly suspect, to say the least: Californians are due to vote on GM food. (No evidence need be given, because of course everyone knows that Californians are vulnerable to whatever happens to be the the latest science-by-press-release on the day of voting.)
And look!, Chirgwin writes. See how the French Government has reacted to the paper? They picked this paper and ran for the hills. They took it - hook, line and sinker. There must be something going on here. There simply must. It all points to a ... ummm... what's that word... conspiracy?
Care to take Lewandawsky's Climate-Change-Denial-Is-Proportional-To-A-Person's-Susceptibility-To-Conspiracy-Theories questionnaire , Mr Chirgwin?
Climate denier bloggers sniff out new conspiracy
Re: This could've been an interesting take on the story...
Lewandawsky's attention-grabbing headline was an express link between "climate change deniers" and "moon landing deniers". Or as he put it so well for roll-out in the media:
NASA faked the moon landing, Therefore (Climate) Science is a Hoax: An Anatomy of the Motivated Rejection of Science
He may have received 1100 responses in total, but according to his data, only 10 responses came back with "somewhat agree" or "strongly agree" that the moon landing was a hoax.
Firstly, that's a rubbish sample size.
Secondly, when tracking those 10 responders' answers, it reveals only 4 "denied" Lewandawsky's version of the consensus. The other 6 agreed with (or strongly agreed with) his version of the climate consensus.
But of course, you can disregard all of this because it must be written by a conspiracy theorist.
This could've been an interesting take on the story...
But it wasn't. It was so full of promise to begin with, yet it ended up playing "got your nose" with El Reg readers as if they're a 4-year-old.
It was almost orgasmic to read your wickedly insightful link between those who were crying foul over being labelled conspiracy theorists by claiming this study was a conspiracy. A delicious irony if ever there were one.
But this El Reg hack must think we're idiots. Labelling someone a conspiracy theorist isn't a legitimate way to shout them down. It's the equivalent to putting your hands over your ears and singing "My Favourite Things".
Your article could've done more than defend Lewandowsky's refusal to hand over names of blogs asked because that would breach protocol. It could've asked how any meaningful conclusions could be drawn from a sample size of 10 who said the moon landings were faked.
Dig a little deeper and there's perhaps an even more delectable twist of irony. Of those 10 who thought the moon landing was staged in a Hollywood studio, only four answered the rest of the survey in a way indicating they were "denialists".
The other six were "alarmists".
Surely the lesson to be drawn is that more alarmists believe the moon landing was faked than do denialists. No?
Techies cook up Minority Report-style video calling
All very well and good...
But isn't this trying to hold back the tide?
The point of the telephone was to talk to someone who's not standing next to you. The point of the mobile phone was to do that even when you're on the move. That was nice for a while, but the novelty's worn off. We're using voice data less and less each year. It turns out we don't really want to talk to each other - at least not in real-time. It's infinitely better to chat via text messages, voicemail, status updates, IM, tweets and what-not.
So why do academics think we want to *see* the other person when we're talking to them, when actually we don't even want to talk to them in the first place?
If they want us to talk to each other and have 'real' interactions more, they should start by banning caller-id - particularly for mobile phones. But until then I'm quite happy with the status quo, thankyouverymuch. It suits me just fine to know who's calling, and that they'll leave me a voice message, and that I can get back to my dinner in front of the telly in a bit of peace and quiet
30-year-old global temperature predictions close to spot-on
Climate models from the 80s?
And yet this paper from 1980 said we wouldn't get to a 4C increase unless we added 4x the amount of CO2.
Who to believe? Who to believe?
Net economy bigger than Ben Hur
The last paragraph makes a whole lot of assumptions:
"But if the report is even ballpark-accurate, then the household benefits it accrues in a single year are greater than the price tag put on the National Broadband Network. Over the lifetime of the project, it really should justify the spend – even ignoring the business benefits."
Firstly, the NBN isn't the first 'internet' in Australia. It is simply a faster network that will (hopefully) reach more places. So it is absurd to assume that the NBN will bring in $50bn of benefits a year. They already exist under the old networks.
So what value will the NBN bring in? Well, that requires a lot of assumptions. How many people will use it? How much faster will it be? How many more transactions will occur solely because of the NBN? Conversely, how many transactions would have occurred without the NBN. We know the answer is at least $50bn (and growing), because that's what's already occurring. My guess is that the NBN won't make that much of a difference to the 'internet economy'. At least not until people start finding uses for 100G speeds for transactions.
Secondly, it assumes that people will only use the NBN for the internet economy for the "lifetime of the project". It's a long project. With people spending more and more money via apps on mobile devices, it's not exactly clear that the NBN will be the sole provider for the 'internet economy' for its entire lifetime. Indeed, by your logic, surely the trend of spending increased amounts of money on mobile devices argues for greater investment in mobile infrastructure, no?
Isolated human genes can be patented, US court rules
Court v Parliament
This is something Parliament should legislate on. Courts can only look at existing law (common law and statute) when deciding on something novel.
Whereas Parliament can take into account multiple factors when making new laws. Parliament (whether it's full of idiots or not) is best placed to balance the need to encourage and protect R&D against what is sensible and good for the population as a whole.
Parliaments everywhere need to act before the court rulings become the default position.
Multinationals out themselves as big Aaas fans
Yes - accelerating exponentially
Ah, Mr Miller. You've committed the classic schoolboy error of looking at output of things which are not derived from information technology. Yes, 40 years ago we could do wonderful things. 100 years ago we could do just as many marvelous things. Tut tut, we haven't really changed that much, right?
Go back to anytime in recorded history, and you'll probably find things that haven't changed that much. Consider the height of buildings. Although we have billions times more processing power at our fingertips, our buildings aren't billions of times taller. Nor are our trains or planes billions of times faster. Nor are our lives billions of times longer.
But we're not talking about output. We're talking about information technology and its exponential growth. Anything which is inherently an information technology does grow exponentially, whether we like it or not. DNA, communication, computing power, photovoltaic cells. Once we start to treat something as an information technology, it will improve in price-performance exponentially.
Moore's law rightly described the exponential grown of the price-performance of integrated circuits. However it was the fifth exponential growth in computing power. We are currently on the cusp of the 6th phase of exponential growth, all of which has followed seamlessly as expected. (For information, the first was electromechanical calculators, cicra 1890; the second was Turing's relay-based Robinson machine; the third was vacuum tubes; the fourth was transistors; the fifth was integrated circuits; the sixth will be 3 dimensional circuits).
In terms of your examples - storage (of information technology) has in fact seen exponential growth. Consider how much it costs you to save 1 MB of data in an external hard drive now, versus 20 years ago.
In terms of transport - well, that is not an information technology. Its purely mechanical - at the moment. Although you could look at certain aspects of transport which are I.T. For example, consider how much it costs to transport 1MB of information electronically - now, versus 20 years ago.
And for power generation, well, we're still in a mechanical phase for most of our power generation. Even something like solar (concentrated solar) is just a mechanical process (heating water to create steam to turn a turbine). However, photovoltaic cells are an information technology, as we're dealing with electrons and light. Solar P.V. is following a predictable exponential growth in price-performance. But because we're still in the very early stages, it's hardly noticeable. But it's growing just the same (see http://bigthink.com/ideas/31635). The growth rate is a doubling every 2 years (as opposed to every 18 months for processing power).
Australia cuts solar subsidies, and not before time
Perhaps the subsidy had nothing to do with it.
Photovoltaic panels are inherently an information technology (as opposed to wind turbines and/or concentrated solar which are both purely mechanical).
Therefore PV should (and somehow does) follow the same trend as all other information technology trends. Its price-performance improves exponentially.
Perhaps subsidies are irrelevant, and the industry was always going to grow on its own. But it's certainly time to wind back the subsidies from now on.
Antarctic ice breakup makes ocean absorb more CO2
RE: The dumbest thing I've read in a long line of very dumb things
Calmed down yet? I'm guessing by the exclamation marks and the CAPS that you were a little worked up.
Excluding the methane bit at the end (for we can all throw in our own favoured feedback, as if that were a good enough distraction from the aforementioned rant)...
In your comment, you set up a straw man, then proceeded to tear it down. Hardly very bright. You assumed that Lewis' point (or sub-text, as you called it) is that there is no global warming. Then you use the NSF study to prove that there is global warming. Ergo Lewis is an idiot.
That may work in your world, but doesn't stand up to sensible, reasoned, non-exclamation-marked, non-CAPS-ed review.
I think you'll find the point of the article is this: should global warming be caused by man's emissions of CO2 (a huge assumption which Lewis does not challenge here), then the end result might not be as catastrophic as the IPCC pretends. A new feedback has been found. It is negative. Therefore the net feedback of earth's bisophere needs to be revised towards the negative.
Your point about methane is not new. It has already been accepted, and taken into account when assessing the net feedback of the climate system.
Next time: no CAPS, fewer exclamation marks, more thinking.
Big new wind turbines too close together, says top boffin
A Rather Frank Admission?
It's nice to see they're finally admitting the dream doesn't quite match the reality. Wind farms underperform. They're being oversold.
It's better to acknowledge the reality and seek ways to improve performance... rather than try to fudge the data and hope no one notices the gaping holes.
(Tree rings, anyone?)
Raygun dreadnought project reports 'remarkable breakthrough'
Totally different weapons
These lasers are presumably line-of-sight only (unless they've been able to make light bend). Thus they'd only be useful for defence and 'close' (up to the horizon) combat.
The projectiles cover much greater distances. 200 miles at Mach 5. Over-the-horizon stuff. More useful in attacks.
Google drops nuke on 'objective' search engine utopia
Opinion v Assumption
Google would've been safer if they'd called them "assumptions". That is, they "assume" certain things about websites and their relative importance.
Of course, it's ridiculous to assume that the search results are going to be totally / strictly / technically objective. Some oompa loompa still has to create the algorithm... until our AI overlords arrive, that is.
But by calling them "opinions", I think Google is going to have trouble in the EU.
BURNING LUST for SEXY BUSTY BLONDES - Science explains
I was expecting him to be referred to as a "trick cyclist"
Glacier boffins rubbish IPCC apocalypse claims
Business as usual
The point of this article - and the point of the study itself - is not to do with the existence (or otherwise) of global warming. It is all about the effects of warming. It's about the alleged catastrophe that we're told will follow our continued emission of CO2.
The catastrophe storyline included the melting of glaciers and the result that billions would be without water. A horrific storyline... if true.
But the study shows that it's not true. That storyline is a work of fiction. It belongs up there with The Day After Tomorrow...Core... and An Inconvenient Truth. All works of fiction.
So 'global warming' will not deprive billions of people of water. Well, at least not by glaciers melting.
So where's the catastrophe again?
And if there's going to be no catastrophe, there's very little reason to act. Better to continue with 'business as usual' and deal with the minor effects... if they ever materialise.
Hefty physicist: Global warming is 'pseudoscientific fraud'
Actually, the letter has plenty of facts supporting the main theme: the reasons he is leaving the APS. He describes plenty of things wrong with the Society. Lots of facts.
What he doesn't list are those facts he presumably would've mentioned at the Topical Group, had it been properly called.
In all, it's a very well written letter, with plenty of facts supporting the main proposition.
Android rebellion: How to tame your stupid smartphone
This article should've started with the disclaimer: "this is my experience only"
Can't say I've had any of the listed problems on the Dell Streak.
Much of recent global warming actually caused by Sun
back to the drawing board...
When you drill down on catastrophic AGW arguments, there are several crucial but highly suspect assumptions. One is called "attribution". Why did the 20th century warm up as much as it did?
And even the high priests of AGW will say that CO2 is the culprit BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT ELSE IT COULD HAVE BEEN... Well, chaps. Back to the drawing board. Call me when you have perfect knowledge of the way everything works in our universe. Then you can blame CO2 by elimination.
London Transport plans Oyster bypass
El Reg should charge TfL
El Reg should charge TfL for the great comments put up on this article. TfL is probably paying a fortune in consultancy fees, and I bet they don't identify nearly half the problems that the commentards have identified here.
Schmidt: Google is the 'inverse' of Apple
Open v Open
I think Schmidt uses the term 'open' in the sense of 'not locked down'... 'open house' style.
I don't think he's ever used it (and nor should he) in the sense of 'transparent' or 'everything is visible to the public'. Google's inner workings are trade secrets with enormous monetary value. Those are never going to be public information, and nor should they be.
But it doesn't detract from the other type of 'openness'.
French website surrenders on Bastille Day
Servers are 100% French?
They're probably on strike then.
Dell Streak Android tablet phone
Loving my new phone
I've had the Streak now for a couple of weeks, and I love it. No, I more than love it. I adore it.
In fact, I've just converted an iFan - he wanted to upgrade to the iPhone 4, but after seeing the Streak in action, has decided to go with Dell.
It's the screen that does it. It's absolutely gorgeous, in all it's 5-inch glory. I could NEVER EVER go back to 3.5-inches. Never.
Apple, Google, Microsoft – are you a Brand Taliban or Brand Evangelist?
Methinks he's taken one example and extrapolated that across the whole of society.
Sure it applies in some situations, and to some entities. For example, the giants of the world:
BP, Exxon,
Microsoft, Google, Apple
Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, Eric Schmidt
USA, China, Russia
But the same feelings aren't aroused in other situations, or by other entities. Take cars, for example. Car lovers may be mild-tempered Brand Evangelists, but most aren't Brant Talibans. And I can't remember the last time someone ranted against IBM... LG... Whirlpool.. or Fiji.
Maybe it has something to do with the tall poppy syndrome.
And in any event, we all know what happens when you extrapolate from a tiny sample.
Lightning bolt smites 60ft Jesus statue
$700,000? Seriously?
Sounds like another ill-fated statue... one golden calf circa 1500BC, perhaps?
Well God sure showed them... again.
Apple in shock talks with Reg reader
Sense of humour
Someone from Apple giggled? Really? Who knew anyone in Cupertino had a sense of humour.
Tories go nuclear, promise to prop up carbon price
Looking after their own?
Setting a price on carbon
= providing certainty for the market
= looking after their own (banks, investors, big business, old money)
Never mind that it's a market made of thin air. (Pun intended, of course.)
Why are they doing this? Because the Eurocrats in Brussels told them to do it... Makes you wonder where the Tories' Euro-scepticism went?
Google gets all Minority Report with Street View
Cade Metz does Tom Cruise
Methinks the reference to Minority Report was freudian. Let's not forget the whole concept of that B-grade movie: pre-crime. Could Cade be guilty of passing judgement on Google before it's done anything? Perhaps El Reg is secretly squirrelled away, penning the sequel behind closed doors. I can see it now. Minority Report 2 - Vulture Central saves the World. El Reg hacks break into the Chocolate Factory only seconds before the axis of evil (Sergey, Larry and Eric) commits its next crimes against humanity... like putting barcodes on photos it took. Not for the squeamish or faint-hearted.
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The remedy for everything it seems that you are
The truth itself because nothing else can take me so far Jhene Aiko – Blue Dream
Proud to say that I originally tated the production on NY State Of Mind.
Before being called Capital STEEZ, he went under the moniker Jay Steez. Most of his music before Joey Bada$$' 1999 was under Jay Steez.
Tinashe is a model. You don't forget a model.
Throughout this song and evident in the hook, Tinashe stunts on the other girls, as no one really comes close to her. As the mood changes, she recognizes the fact that she stunts on everyone else and uses those words to arouse thoughts that never left his mind. He never stopped thinking about her.
In reference to the previous line, Parks & Rec wasn't well-received in Season 1. The very next season, it stuck back and conquered the minds of the critics, and has been regularly well-received ever since.
This song features a soft, harrowing piano on which a complex drum combination is laid over.
Black Metaphor effectively isolates the drums part of your typical 'banger' song and inserts the ominous, barely noticeable piano, both of which are sampled from Ahmad Jamal's instrumental composition Dolphin Dance, dating back to 1970.
By doing this, Metaphor essentially combines two themes that are prevalent throughout the song. The live fast, die young lyrical description (evident in the drums), and the somber, retrospective view of that very kind of living (evident in the equally somber piano usage).
Sherman also regularly considers himself the best cornerback in the game.
Statistics support this.
20 Interceptions since 2011 (most in the league)
47.3 Passer Rating Allowed this Season (lowest in the league)
8 Interceptions This Season (most in the league).
Mike WiLL (similar to Just Blaze) has a hallmark of saying his name through a synthesized voice at the beginning of the songs he produces. Due to Mike WiLL sounding off at the beginning of his songs, you know when a beat is made by him.
A drug reference from the previous line, the fire from the previous line is used to heat compounds to create what we know as crack.
Also a reference to Breaking Bad, a show based around making drugs via the same method that STEEZ describes.
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Bush at the jamboree: Please tell me it was all just a bad dream
Date published: 8/5/2005
Editor's note: The following column is an Opinion column published in the Editorial pages of The Free Lance-Star.
SOMEBODY PLEASE tell me Im not the only one who saw the coverage of the Boy Scout Jamboree arena show Sunday night and thought: Yikes, thats a bit too much like some of the scary weirdness that torments me in my sleep.
I mean, isnt there something nightmarish about our misleader swooping down on a steaming pit of sweat and testosterone and whipping a throng of brown-shirted youths into a nationalistic frenzy?
And whats not surreal about the author of an unnecessary, costly, and wholly counterproductive war claiming that his policies are laying the foundations of peace for decades to come?
But President Bushs appearance at the jamboree was more than just a bad dream. It was one of those grandiose expressions of state power that, at least briefly, transforms a bumbling and dishonest politician into protector of all that is good and true in the fatherland.
Despite the patriotic fervor, theres actually little about these kinds of events that marks them as distinctly American. Swap out the little American flags for little Cuban flags, and Bushs visit with the Scouts would have seemed a lot like one of those government-orchestrated rallies in Havana over which Fidel Castro presides (although if el jefe had been speaking Sunday, hed have gone on for hours and hours, precipitating another rash of heat-related illnesses at the jamboree).
The extravaganza featuring our commander in chief felt especially creepy coming on the heels of a weeklong effort by the military to turn the jamboree into one big recruitment fair.
But I guess its fitting that this president would be flown in to wrap up the recruiting blitz. Its thanks to him that the military is in such desperate need of warm bodies.
And theres always more democracy-spreading to be done. Its no secret that some of the ideologues who whisper in the presidents ear subscribe to the notion that everyone wants to go to Baghdadreal men want to go to Tehran.


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§ Wednesday, May 12, 2010 - 5:00pm - President's Dining Room, Lowenstein 12th Floor (Lincoln Center)
The Literary Studies May Colloquium:
Film and the Humanities
P. Adams Sitney
(Princeton University),
Dan Streible
Lynne Tillman
(Writer-in-Residence, the University of Albany). Respondent:
Mark Street
(Fordham University).
P. Adams Sitney, "Virgilian Cinema"
I will talk about the Tavianis'
Padre padrone
(1977) as a didactic spectacle. I will attempt to situate the film in its historical context and to show how the filmmakers embedded the narrative of Sardinian shepherds' self-education in a larger context of European literary culture. In so doing, I would hope to suggest how such cultural history plays a role in the teaching of cinema.
Suggested readings:
- Padre padrone
directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (1977).
New York: Fox Lorber, 1998.
- Millicent
"The Tavianis' Padre padrone: The Critical Acquisition of Codes."
Filmmaking by the Book:
Italian Cinema and Literary Adaptation.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.
Dan Streible,
"Archival Moving Image
Revival and the History of Everything"
The orphan film phenomenon has been one part of an archival revival apparent in the film world in the last decade. The orphan film project to identify, save, and exhibit neglected works overlaps with newer research interests among historians of film and of everything filmed. Nontheatrical genres represent an object of study not yet integrated into broad histories of the medium. To vivify the transformative potential of such material, we will view a five-minute outtake from a newsreel story
NYC Street Scenes and Noises
(Fox Movietone News, 1929).
Suggested readings:
- Dan Streible. "The State of Orphan Films," editor's introduction,
The Moving Image
9.1 (Spring 2009): 1-13.
- Dan Streible. "The Role of Orphan Films in the 21st Century Archive,"
Cinema Journal
46.3 (Spring 2007): 124-28.
- The Orphan Film Symposium website, www.nyu.edu/orphanfilm. Click through to read descriptions of films and presentation.
- Information also at http://orphanfilmsymposium.blogspot.com.
Lynne Tillman, "Untitled"
Suggested reading:
-Lynne Tillman, "Other Movies"
[This event is co-sponsored by Literary Studies, Women's Studies at LC, and the Fordham College Lincoln Center Dean's Women's Studies Challenge Grant.]
§ Wednesday, April 28, 2010 - 5:30pm - Modern Languages and Literatures Conference Room, Faber Hall 5th Floor (Rose Hill)
The 2009-2010 Comparative Literature Senior Project Roundtable
Students presenting
Jared Magee
, "
Homo Narrans
: Creative Force and Fabled Life" -
Nina Skorupski
, "The Seduction of Sensationalism: Sarah Baartman and the Hottentot Venus" -
Elizabeth Walle
, "The Problem with Qualities: Questions of Truth and Self from Musil to Facebook".
§ Monday, April 26, 2010 - 4:00pm - South Lounge, Lowenstein (Lincoln Center)
"The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam"
A talk by Dana Sachs
Dana Sachs
is the author of
The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam
(Algonquin, 2000), the novel
If You Lived Here
(William Morrow, 2007), and
The Life We Were Given: Operation Babylift, International Adoption, and the Children of War in Vietnam
(Beacon Press, 2010). With Nguyen Nguyet Cam, Sachs compiled
Two Cakes Fit for a King: Folktales from Vietnam
(University of Hawaii Press, 2003). With Bac Hoai Tran, she translated
The Stars, the Earth, the River: Short Fiction by Le Minh Khue
(Curbstone, 1996). Her essays, articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications, including
National Geographic
The International Herald Tribune
, and
The Huffington Post
. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the MFA program at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, she is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. She teaches at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
[This event is co-sponsored by the Programs in Literary Studies, Women's Studies at LC and American Studies, the History Department, and the Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs (
§ Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 4:00-7:00pm - Lowenstein Room 309 (Lincoln Center)
Presentation of
Italian Poetry Review
) and bilingual poetry reading (in English and Italian)
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[This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, the Literary Studies Program and the Arts & Sciences Faculty at Fordham University, and the Department of Italian and the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University. In collaboration with Poets Out Loud (Fordham University).]
§ Thursday, April 15, 2010 - A Different Book Presents:
James McBride,
The Color of Water
12:00-1:30pm, Cafeteria Atrium (Lincoln Center) -
Student address and Q&A
5:00pm, Flom Auditorium, Walsh Library (Rose Hill) -
Reading & Book Signing
James McBride
is a writer and composer. His memoir,
The Color of Water
(Riverhead/Putnam), is an American literary classic. It was on
The New York Times
bestseller list for more than two years, and is read in colleges across America. He is also the author of
Miracle at St. Anna
(Riverhead 2003), a novel. He is a former staff writer for
The Wilmington (Del.) News Journal
The Boston Globe
People Magazine
, and
The Washington Post (Style Section)
. His work has appeared in
The New York Times
Rolling Stone
. He holds several honorary doctorates and has lectured at various venues across America.
[This event is made possible through the generosity of Kenneth and Frances K. Reid and the sponsorship of the English and African & African American Studies Departments, and the Creative Writing, American Studies and Literary Studies Programs at Fordham.]
§ Monday, March 22, 2010 - 1:00pm - Keating Hall 116 (Rose Hill)
"The Unspeakable Past": Sex in American Literature Before Wilde
A lecture by Peter Coviello (Bowdoin College)
Peter Coviello
is Associate Professorof English and Chair of the English Department at Bowdoin College. He is the author of
Intimacy in America: Dreams of Affiliation in Antebellum Literature
(University of Minnesota Press, 2005) and editor of Walt Whitman's
Memoranda During the War
(Oxford University Press, 2004).
[This event is co-sponsored by the American Studies Program, the English Department, and the Literary Studies Program.]
§ Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 5:30pm - Dealy Hall 201 (Rose Hill)
"Repackaging the
: Malik Chibane's Urban Trilogy"
A lecture by Vinay Swamy (Vassar College)
Vinay Swamy
's research focuses on French and Francophone literary traditions and their intersection with political and cultural histories, as well as the construction of social identities in contemporary France. His articles on literature and cinema have appeared in
Contemporary French and Francophone Studies
Yale French Studies
Comparative Literature Studies
, and
Studies in French Cinema
[This event is organized by Literary Studies, and co-sponsored by the Middle East Studies Program and the Modern Languages & Literatures Department,in conjunction with the French course "Francophone Voices from North Africa" taught by Dr.
Lise Schreier
at Rose Hill.]
§ Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 5:00pm - 12th Fl. Lounge, Lowenstein (Lincoln Center)
"Dante and Boccaccio: Mythographers of Modernity"
A lecture by Pier Massimo Forni (Johns Hopkins University)
Pier Massimo Forni
is professor of Italian at JohnsHopkins. He has edited and written extensively on the works of Giovanni Boccaccio, Dante, Petrarch, and on modern Italian poetry. He was a co-founder and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Civility project and continues to publish on the topic of
. His major contributions in this area include
Choosing Civility: The 25 Rules of Considerate Conduct
(St. Martin's Press, 2002) and
The Civility Solution: What to Do When People Are Rude
(St. Martin's Griffin, 2009).
[This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies, the Literary Studies Program, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. Funds generously provided by the Dean of Arts & Sciences Faculty.]
§ Friday, February 12, 2010 -4:00pm- 12th Fl. Lounge, Lowenstein (Lincoln Center)
"Sex is Deadly Boring"
A conversation with
Simon Critchley
(New School)
This presentation is part of the Graduate English Association (GEA) conference on
Sex, Death, and Boredom
§ Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 3:00pm - Lowenstein Room 502 (Lincoln Center)
"The Talented Miss Highsmith"
A book talk with Patricia Highsmith biographer,
Joan Schenkar
"Desire, duplicity, guilt - Schenkar plots her innovative biography around the obsessions that mark Highsmith's life and work. This event is a must for fans and writers of crime fiction and biography alike" (from the event poster).
[This event is co-sponsored by the programs in Literary Studies and American Studies, and the English Department.]
§ Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 3:00pm - University Commons, Duane (Rose Hill)
Panel Discussion: "On Krzysztof Kieslowski's
with Moshe Gold and Joseph Kickasola. Moderated by Eva Badowska.
Moshe Gold
is Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Writing Program at Fordham University (Rose Hill). He is the co-editor of
Joyce Studies Annual
and has published in
Joyce Studies Annual
James Joyce Quarterly
, and
Joseph Kickasola
is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Baylor University and the Director of the Baylor Communication in New York program in New York City. He is the author of
The Films of Krzysztof Kieslowski: The Liminal Image
(Continuum, 2004). His articles have appeared in
Quarterly Review of Film and Video
The Journal of Moving Image Studies
[This event is organized by the Literary Studies Program in conjunction with the capstone seminar in Comparative Literature, COLI 4125-Kieslowski in Theory and History, taught by
Dr. Eva Badowska
at Rose Hill.]
§ Wednesday, November 11, 2009 - 3:30pm - University Commons, Duane (Rose Hill)
If you are thinking of going to graduate school, join us for the
Graduate School Workshop
and meet faculty members from Yale, U Conn and Fordham, and Fordham alumni. They will give you expert advice and answer various questions on the application process. Panelists include
Maria Farland
(English, Fordham University),
Pericles Lewis
(English and Comparative Literature, Yale University),
Daniel Soyer
(History, Fordham University),
Theodore Van Alst
(Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut-Storrs) and
Tom Callahan
(FCRH '07, M.A. Candidate in Russian and Slavic Studies, NYU).
[This event is organized by the Literary Studies Program. Funding generously provided by the Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill.]
§ Wednesday, November 4, 2009 - 3:00pm - Flom Auditorium, Walsh Library (Rose Hill)
Film Screening: "My Father My Lord," directed by David Volach (2007) - 72 min., in Hebrew with English subtitles.
Introductory remarks by
Moshe Gold
, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Rose Hill.
[This event is organized by the Literary Studies Program in conjunction with the seminar in Comparative Literature on Krzysztof Kieslowski's
§ Friday, October 30, 2009 - 10:00am - University Commons, Duane (Rose Hill)
"Global Latin America: Writers in Conversation" with
Mayra Santos-Febres
Fernando Iwasaki
Cristina Rivera Garza
Selected readings will be circulated beforehand. Please email
for PDF copies. Event in Spanish.
[This event is co-sponsored by the programs in Latin American & Latino Studies and Literary Studies, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures with support from the Dean of Arts and Sciences Faculty and theFordham College Rose Hill Dean's Office.]
§ Wednesday, October 28, 2009 - 1:00pm - Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center (Rose Hill)
"White Gypsies: Racing for Modernity in Spanish Popular Musical Film"
A lecture by Eva Woods Peiró (Vassar College)
Eva Woods Peiró
is assistant professor of Hispanic Studies at Vassar. Her research focuses on race, identity and cultural representations of ethnicity in 20th-century Spain.
[This event is s
ponsored by the programs in Literary Studies and Latin American & Latino Studies, and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.]
§ Thursday, October 8, 2009 - 5:00pm - O'Hare Special Collections, Walsh Library (Rose Hill)
"Battling the 'Cambodian Syndrome': Cambodian/American Memory, Politics, and Youth Activism"
A lecture by Cathy Schlund-Vials (University of Connecticut, Storrs)
Cathy Schlund-Vials
is assistant professor of English and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut. H
er research and teaching interests include immigrant and refugee narratives, Asian and ethnic American literature, 19th century American literature, Asian American/ethnic/cultural studies, American realism, and modern and contemporary American literature and drama
[This event is sponsored by the programs in American Studies and Literary Studies, and the Departments of African and African American Studies, English and History.]
§ Monday, October 5, 2009 - 6:00pm - Plaza View Room, Lowenstein 12th Floor (Lincoln Center)
"On Making Literary History: The Case of Lafayette's Impossible Princess"
A lecture by Nicholas Paige (University of California, Berkeley)
Nicholas Paige
is associate professor of French at Berkeley. He teaches courses ranging from Classical comedy and early modern conceptions of selfhood to detective fiction and films of the New Wave. His publications include: "Permanent Re-Enchantements: On Some Literary Uses of the Supernatural from Early Empiricism to Modern Aesthetics" (in
The Re-Enchantment of the World: Secular Magic in a Rational Age
, Stanford 2009);
"Proto-Aesthetics and the Theatrical
Papers on Seventeenth-Century French Literature
69 (2008); "Rousseau's Readers Revisited: The Aesthetics of
La Nouvelle Héloise
Eighteenth-Century Studies
42.1 (2008);
Lafayette's Zayde: A Spanish Romance
, (trans., University of Chicago Press, 2006);
Being Interior: Autobiography and the Contradictions of Modernity in Seventeenth-Century France
(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
[This event is co-sponsored by the Literary Studies Program and the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures.]
§ Friday, September 18, 2009 - 2:00-4:00pm - Faculty Lounge, McGinley Center (Rose Hill)
Creative Writing Orientation and Ice Cream Social
This event is sponsored by the
Creative Writing Program
of the English Department and
, the student journal of the Literary Studies Program
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O wow, he doesnt have naturalist. that would be why he cant hold threat.
Drop the 3 points in king of the jungle and only put 3/5 in furor giving you the 5 you need to get naturalist. Then move the 1 from shredding attacks into MSS to max that out as well. Use glyph of mangle instead of maul.


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Monday, September 27, 2010
I'll be there, will you?
I'm very excited about this very first ever Aussie Bloggers event.
At first I didn't think I'd make it.
I looked at my budget and my heart sank faster than a lump of concrete thrown into the ocean.
I did a little figuring. Tried a bit of the "rob Peter to pay Paul" type of thing.
Checked the calendar for future incoming bills, like gas, electricity.
Uh-Oh, two of each due between now and March.
Damn. Bugger. Oh Dear.
Then I remembered my last resort option. If I could manage half of the cost, maybe R (brother) could help with the rest?
We don't stay in touch as much as we could, both of us being shy, and having spent much of our childhood apart, we don't really know each other.
Add to that, he lives in WA, and he is away from home a lot, working in remote areas.
I emailed him, crossed my fingers and hoped he would read his emails.
He answered this morning. Oh joy!! He can help!
I'll be at the conference.
I'm looking forward to meeting my internet friends.
I'll be the quiet, shy one sitting in a corner.
9 comments:
- Jayne said...
That will be so exciting for you! :)
- September 27, 2010 at 7:15 PM
- River said...
Jayne; I'll be nervous too, really stepping out of my comfort zone, but meeting my bloggy friends will be worth a little sweaty-palm anxiety.
- September 27, 2010 at 9:02 PM
- Kim (frogpondsrock) said...
You wont be sitting in the corner at all. You will be sitting with me or with any of a number of other bloggers that you have been reading for ages.You should submit one of your posts to be read out at the live blog reading as well. :)
- September 28, 2010 at 5:27 AM
- Kath Lockett said...
Go for it, River. You've been a blogger for way, way longer than this post - as a regular commenter you in fact wrote 'blogs' and made friends, gave great advice and told us about yourself. There will be loads of people there who will want to meet YOU. Yes, you!
- September 28, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Achelois said...
I'll be sitting in the UK sulking.... I hope you have a brilliant time.
- September 28, 2010 at 10:40 AM
- River said...
Kim; but I'm so good at corners! Submit a post you say? Hmmm, as long as I don't have to read it out myself.....Now, which one should I choose?
Kath; L'il ol' me? Aww shucks....
Achelois; We'll be thinking of you and there'll be lots of stories and photos on the blogs of everyone who goes, so you can experience it all vicariously. I myself have just today bought a 2GB memory card for my camera.
- September 28, 2010 at 3:34 PM
- Ann O'Dyne said...
gosh. I had to put -
"bloggers conference"+australia -
into the searchbox.
Then I saw the food bloggers have done it, and the wine bloggers, and the mummy bloggers ...
sunny Queensland is it? I do hope you have a wonderful time.
- September 28, 2010 at 5:41 PM
- Veronica said...
I am really REALLY looking forward to meeting you!
- September 28, 2010 at 6:20 PM
- River said...
Ann; it's in Sydney, why don't you join us? There's a link on Veronica's blog for information and probably on several other blogs too.
Veronica; I'm looking forward to meeting you and your Mum! And everyone else, of course.
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Felice Bogus of Raleigh, NC took third place at the national cornbread cookoff with this great recipe
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Ingredients for Cornbread
- Crisco® No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 1/2 pound applewood smoked bacon, cooked and crumbled, reserve drippings
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon butter, melted
- 1 cup shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
- 1 (6 oz.) package Martha White® Cotton Country® Cornbread Mix
- 1/4 cup roasted red pepper, drained and chopped
- 1/4 cup chopped green onions
Ingredients for Shrimp
- 1 tablespoon Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
- 1 1/4 pounds uncooked shrimp, shelled and deveined
- Salt and pepper
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups sliced mushrooms
- 1/4 cup chicken broth
- 1-1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- Hot Sauce
- Green onions for garnish
Preparation Directions
- Heat oven to 400°F. Return 2 tablespoons bacon drippings to 10-1/4" cast iron skillet. Stir together egg, milk, 1 tablespoon bacon drippings, butter, cheese, and cornbread mix in medium bowl until well blended. Stir in half the reserved bacon, red pepper and 1/4 cup green onions. Pour into prepared skillet and spread evenly. Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until golden brown.
- While cornbread is baking, heat 1 tablespoon bacon drippings and oil in a 12" cast iron skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Add shrimp. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook until shrimp turns pink, stirring occasionally, about 2 minutes. Stir in garlic and mushrooms. Cook 2 to 3 minutes. Add broth and lemon juice and cook, stirring, about 1 minute. Stir in hot sauce to taste.
- Top cornbread with shrimp mixture. Sprinkle with remaining crumbled bacon and 1/4 cup green onions. Serve immediately.


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Wednesday Morning Hive Weighs in on the BCS Rankings
G'day readers, I hope everyone is having a good week. On Sunday the first BCS rankings for the year were released and it was no real surprise that the SEC dominated the rankings while the Big Ten didn't show up in the top 25. Of course the BCS rankings always manage to generate some controversy and one of the annual talking points among sports fans and the media is the difference between the human and computer polls. This year's initial ranking showed perhaps the biggest difference ever between the human and computer polls. While Florida ending up as number 2 in the overall rankings due to the computer polls has generated a good deal of attention, it is only a shift of one or two positions and isn't that big of a deal. The more notable differences occur farther down the rankings, the first incidence occurring at the 14th position occupied by Florida State; the Seminoles are ranked 8th and 10th in the Harris and USA Today polls but are unranked in the computer polls. Similarly Clemson was ranked 13th in both human polls but fell to 19th in the BCS thanks to their being unranked by the machine. Conversely Texas Tech enjoyed some computer love, being boosted to 17th after being ranked 20/21 in the human polls thanks to being ranked in a tie for 6th place by the computers.
There has always been dislike between sports fans and the people who write computer programs, dating back to when a jock first shoved a nerd into a high school locker. Many sports fans bemoan the fact that computer polls are part of the BCS, complaining that the programs are written by nerds who don't understand sports and the programs themselves don't watch the games and see how they are played. Conversely those behind the computer polls argue that the human pollsters are inherently biased and swayed by unimportant aspects of the games. Both sides are correct in many ways. The computers obviously do not watch the games and instead base their ranking on the win/loss record of the teams and the strength of schedule. The computers are unaware of how the game actually went, whether a victory is the result of a team playing well or their opponent making mistakes or even a series of lucky breaks. Some of this is a natural handicap of the computers while part of it is also dictated by the rule that the computer polls cannot take margin of victory into account; this is a major mistake by the BCS organizers. At the same time human pollsters are biased, easily swayed by flashing performances and big names; how often do people complain about Notre Dame being overrated due to their name, the complaint in and of itself showing a human bias as the complainers are taking into account previous years performance in evaluating this year's team. There is also the issue that human pollsters don't watch every game and end up making many of their decisions based on just looking at the results, like the computers do.
The disconnect between the human and computer rankings for Florida State and Clemson can easily be explained. While it is hard to know exactly why the human pollsters ranked teams in certain places, the flashy offensive performances by the Seminoles and Tigers likely helped boost the rankings of these two teams. Both teams have scored more than 30 points in all but one of their games this season and with how offensively focused college football has become recently, putting up high scores is often seen as a sign of top team. Computers didn't get to watch these flashy performances though, nor even consider the margin of victory involved, instead they based their ranking solely on the win/loss record of the two teams and who those wins and losses came against. The only division I-A team with more than two wins that Clemson has beaten was 4-3 Ball State while the only I-A teams with more than two wins that Florida State beat were Clemson and 3-3 Wake Forest; taking these facts into consideration it is easy to see why the computers aren't loving these two teams.
The college football season is only half over and BCS standings at this point are pretty much meaningless. Both the human and computer polls have their strengths, the human polls can consider more aspects of how the game was played while computer polls avoid most of the subjective biases that come with any human voter. Despite the huge differences between how humans and computers go about coming up with their rankings they have one thing in common, they both get better with more data. As the season goes on the polls will most likely agree with each other more and more, and we will forget what currently looks like remarkable differences between then, unless remembering them serves our purposes of complaining about the fate of a team we like/dislike.
Women's Volleyball Returns Home
After two straight weekends on the road, the 19th ranked Ohio State women's volleyball team returned home to take on a pair of teams from the state just to the west. On Friday, the Buckeyes squared off against Indiana and the match did not start off well as OSU dropped the opening set 25-23. The Buckeyes bounced right back, winning the next three sets 25-22, 25-12, and 25-17 to earn the 3-1 win. Senior Emily Danks led both teams with 18 kills and added seven digs while fellow senior Mari Hole recorded her 9th double-double of the season with 15 kills and 15 digs. Sophomore Taylor Sherwin played her best match of the year, leading both teams with 50 assists.
Saturday saw OSU take on 17th ranked Purdue and once again the Buckeyes started off the match in a hole as the Boilermakers easily won the first two sets 25-19 and 25-15. The Buckeyes woke up after intermission and won the third set 25-20. The fourth set was a back and forth affair but unfortunately OSU came up short, dropping the set 25-23 to lose the match 3-1. Hole recorded her 10th double-double of the year with 13 kills and 10 digs.
The weekend has to be a disappointment for the Buckeyes who started off both matches slowly. OSU was able to recover and easily beat Indiana but Purdue was too good for that. While the Boilermakers were ranked slightly ahead of the Buckeyes, it was a home match and an experience OSU squad should have put up more of a fight; the pollsters agreed and dropped OSU one spot to 20th. The Big Ten is an amazingly difficult conference and hopefully this performance doesn't indicate that the Buckeyes are wearing down. This week gets a bit tougher as Ohio State hosts top ranked Penn State on Wednesday for a rare mid-week game before traveling to East Lansing on Saturday to take on Michigan State, who are receiving votes but are not ranked.
Women's Hockey Looks to Stay Ranked
A week after pulling of a pair of road wins against a ranked team to earn their way to number 10 spot in the ranking, the Ohio State women's ice hockey team hosted a weekend series against 6th ranked North Dakota. The Buckeyes came out of the gate hot on Friday night, scoring a pair of goals in each of the first two periods to take a 4-0 lead. The Sioux weren't impressed though and scored three straight goals to make it a one goal game until the Buckeyes hit an empty netter to ice the 5-3 upset. The win improved OSU to 5-0-0 on the season, marking the first time in program history that the team has won its first five games.
Saturday didn't go so well for OSU as the Buckeyes were beset with penalty issues, getting called for eight. The time on the penalty kill hurt the ability to get into a rhythm on offense and OSU could not find the back of the net as they fell 2-0 to the Sioux.
While Saturday's loss was disappointing, OSU is still off to the best start in program history which features three upsets of ranked teams, two of which were on the road; the loss also did not hurt Ohio State in the polls as they moved up to 6th place. The road gets more difficult for the Buckeyes as they travel to take on top ranked and undefeated Minnesota.
Men's Hockey Also Takes on a Ranked Opponent
The Ohio State men's hockey team also wanted to get in on the fun of taking on a ranked opponent as they opened the season with a trip to 12th ranked Minnesota Duluth. The scoring came early on Friday night as each team found the back of the net in the first three minutes of the game before Minnesota Duluth scored three straight to take a 4-1 lead at the end of the first period. A Buckeye goal in the second briefly gave the team hope but a pair of Bulldog goals in the third ended that hope and gave Minnesota Duluth the 6-2 win.
Saturday saw Ohio State get off to a hot start as they jumped out to a 2-0 lead at the end of the first period. Minnesota Duluth roared right back with a pair of power play goals in the second period to knot the game up and seize the momentum. The Buckeyes weren't done though and sophomore Max McCormick hit the gamewinning goal in the third to give OSU the 3-2 upset. After watching senior Brady Hjelle start on Friday, freshman goalie Collin Olson made his first collegiate start and he had a good night, making 26 saves while earning the victory.
Battling back to pull off a road upset is always great to see but Buckeye fans will likely remain cautious as memories of last season's hot start, featuring several huge upsets as the team climbed up the rankings, turning into an epic post-New Year's collapse that saw OSU only win two more games remains fresh in their mind. The solid performance of Olson in net is encouraging though and is a good sign as the Buckeyes look to replace graduated goalie Cal Heeter from last year. Ohio State goes on the road again this weekend with a trip to Hampden, Connecticut to face Quinnipiac.


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Vestas Wind Systems says it is is planning to hire "at least" 100 more people — including 75 experienced welders — at its wind-turbine tower manufacturing plant.
Vestas already added 100 people at the Pueblo plant during the first quarter, spokeswoman Susan Innis said Tuesday.
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VESTAL, N.Y.—Binghamton men's tennis captured its sixth straight match with a 6-1 win over visiting Niagara Wednesday afternoon from the Bearcats Sports Complex. The Bearcats (14-9) have won nine of their last 10 matches.
Niagara seized the doubles point as BU started a bit sluggishly with losses at the top two positions. But the Bearcats returned to form in singles, winning the first three completed matches in straight sets and clinching the win with a three-set victory at No. 3.
Freshman No. 1 Sid Hazarika posted a 6-3, 6-3 win - his team-high 20th dual win of the spring (20-3). Hazarika is 9-1 since moving into the top singles position.
Junior No. 5 Ruben Haggai ran his win streak to 12 with a three-set win. Haggai (20-9 overall, 15-6 duals) dropped his opening set before roaring back for a 5-7, 6-2, 6-1 win.
"Give credit to Niagara ... they played better than us in doubles," head coach Adam Cohen said. "It was good to see us come back and win five first sets in singles after giving up that doubles point. That gave us the momentum. We dropped a few second sets in the middle when we were in position to close out some matches so that's something we will have to continue to work on. Robin (Lesage) and Ismael (Dinia) finished on better terms though, which was good to see. We now look forward to one more home match before the conference tournament next weekend,"
Binghamton will conclude its regular season with a home match against America East foe Boston University at 11 a.m. on Saturday. The team will then prepare for the upcoming America East Championship, April 27-28 at UMBC, where BU will be aiming for its sixth consecutive conference title and accompanying NCAA berth.
Binghamton 6, Niagara 1
1. Raymond/Dufour-Coursol (N) def. Bastian Bornkessel/Hazarika (BU), 8-5
2. Schwojer/Elortegui (N) def. Eliott Hureau/Aswin Nambi (BU), 8-4
3. Lesage/Dinia (BU) def. Lacasse/Gallegos (N), 8-4
Order of Finish: 1,3,2
1. Sid Hazarika (BU) def. David Raymond (N), 6-3, 6-3
2. Alexander Maisin (BU) def. Michael Elortegui (N), 6-4, 6-2
3. Robin Lesage (BU) def. Olivier Dufour-Coursol (N), 6-4, 4-6, 6-2
4. Ismael Dinia (BU) def. Lorenz Schwojer (N), 6-4, 5-7, 6-1
5. Ruben Haggai (BU) def. Brandon Gallegos (N), 5-7, 6-2, 6-1
6. Florian van Kann (BU) def. Mathieu Lacasse (N), 6-0, 6-3
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A witness heard an aircraft fly overhead but was unable to see it due to low clouds and misting precipitation. Another witness saw the airplane break out of the bottom of the overcast, accompanied by increased engine sounds and falling parts, which had separated from the aircraft. He estimated the ceiling to be about 400 feet above ground level. The aircraft was not equipped for IFR flight and the pilot did not possess an instrument rating. The right wing separated from the aircraft and was located approximately 100 feet from the main wreckage. The empennage section also separated from the fuselage, and, the horizontal and vertical stabilizers had separated from the empennage. Examination of the wreckage disclosed that the fracture surfaces exhibited overload characteristics, and no preimpact malfunctions or failures were found with the control system. The pilot's toxicological results were positive for quinine. The side effects of quinine can include disturbances of vision, hearing, and balance. Disturbances of balance have been noted even at low doses, and the use of quinine by pilots is usually contraindicated, as it may contribute to spatial disorientation under some conditions.
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Whilst surfing around this morning I stumbled across this great set of slides put together by Bright One and Charity Comms. The slides see charity communications experts give their insights into what they believe lies ahead of us in the next 10 years.
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|Will is a pit bull mix. Chance is a shepherd mix. They were "evidence dogs". BaRNI saves other breeds too.
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Close to a dozen restaurants have come and gone from the beleaguered Beauvallon project, but there are new signs of life at 925 Lincoln Street, the spot that Aqua left three years ago. A sign on the door reads: "Local, a new concept." The concept is coming from Ryan DiFranco, a native of Niagara F ... More >>
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For growth initiatives, many companies are looking to innovate by ramping analytical, mobile, social, big data, and cloud initiatives. For example, GE is one growth-oriented company and just announced heavy investment in the Industrial Internet with GoPivotal. One area of concern to many well-established businesses is what to do with their mainframe powered applications. Mainframes are expensive to run, but the applications that run off of them are typically very important and the business can not afford to risk downtime or any degradation in service. So, until now the idea of modernizing a mainframe application has often faced major roadblocks.
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With underwater cameras getting cheaper and more accessible, many divers have taken a giant stride into the world of underwater video. Here are some useful tips.
Tip #1 Get the right accessories
Don't use the generic GoPro accessories like the head or chest strap. Strap a camera to your head and you're bound to get jerky footage with poor composition.
A red filter or a dive light made for photos/video is a must. Call your dive center and get one of these items before you put one toe in the water. If you get a red filter, don't forget to take it off when shooting topside (see photo below).
A "tray" with a handle will also serve you well. The goal is to get as steady of a shot as possible. Being able to hold a large object with two hands (versus a teeny camera with one hand) will improve the steadiness of your shot and make your video look more professional. Not to mention, a tray with a handle makes for a more secure hand-off to the Divemaster. An extending pole is another useful item as it allows you to get closer to marine life such as eels slowly and from a respectful distance.
Tip #2 Tell a Story
Do you have any goals for the trip? Tell us upfront either as a video testimonial or using subtitles. That final scene with a whale shark, or 1,000th dive celebration will make your video more meaningful.
Collect shots of the boat, your hotel, interesting topside life or interesting buildings. Use these to create an intro montage to establish a sense of place.
Tip #3 Dive and Shoot Within Your Limits
When you're just starting out: choose stationary or slow-moving subjects. Film tires, coral heads, wrecks, a turtle scratching its butt, etc.
Good buoyancy skills are essential. If your buoyancy is poor, your video viewers will know – your footage will be uneven. You also won't be able to film interesting creatures that require a slow and steady approach. If you feel the least bit in doubt about your skills, enroll in a buoyancy class (you won't regret it).
Tip #4 Include Other Divers – Most Importantly Yourself!
Other divers can both make and mess up your videos. If diving in a herd, try to get in front. Divers swimming toward you are more interesting than those swimming away. Bonus: you're more likely to get the cool critter shot before someone else scares it away.
If you encounter a large critter or sponge of remarkable size, try to film your dive buddy next to it. Lastly, keep in mind the main audience for your video will be friends and family; and to them, you are a star. They want to see footage of you. Have your buddy capture you swimming near some cool marine life, or if you're diving from a dinghy, go for the back-roll selfie!
Tip #5 Post-production
If you're interested in some royalty-free music, Youtube has libraries of free music. If your video takes place in another country, ask your dive crew or taxi driver about popular local bands and spice up your video with local sounds.
Less is more! Trim each clip to about five seconds – unless your shot is really, really amazing (like a whale shark or a seahorse giving birth). Aim for a total video length of no more than three minutes. Two minutes is ideal.
If you've got a long clip where something interesting happens in the beginning and the end, the best thing to do is to break them up into two clips. If this isn't possible, break up a lackluster middle section by throwing in some interesting facts or trivia about where you're diving. This can be done in iMovie or in youtube.
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