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Arnie's back!Arnold Schwarzenegger is making a brief return to acting.
The Hollywood star, now the governor of California, has announced he will make an appearance in new comedy 'The Kid and I'.
The movie will be produced by long-term friend and 'True Lies' co-star Tom Arnold.
Schwarzenegger revealed his plans on Fox TV's 'The Best Damn Sports Show Period', which he co-hosts.
It is the action star's first movie since he made a brief cameo in 'Around the World in 80 Days' - the actor-turned-politician will be reunited with two of his former co-stars, Linda Hamilton and Jamie Lee Curtis, in the upcoming film.
Shooting on the movie - which also stars Shannon Elizabeth, Joe Mantegna and former 'Happy Days' actor Henry Winkler - will begin early next year.
Earlier this month, Schwarzenegger claimed to have been cured of his "inappropriate" sexual behaviour towards women.
The star has had sexual harassment lessons for the past few months, to learn how to behave correctly with women.
He revealed: "I learned my lesson. I know now what can and can't be said. Now I would not even tell someone I like their outfit, it could go south."
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May 17, 2011A Rockland, Maine, renovator is facing penalties for allegedly violating lead safe work practice requirements under the Environmental Protection Agency's Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule. The agency reports it is the first time such a case has been filed since the regulations, designed to protect children from exposure to lead-based paint during painting and other renovation activities, went... more »
May 13, 2011The Window and Door Manufacturers Association is commending Rep. Bob Latta (R-Ohio) and a bipartisan group of 22 other members of the U.S. House of Representatives for urging EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to halt plans to expand its lead paint rules to include "clearance testing" requirements and extend coverage to commercial and public buildings. In a May 10 letter to Jackson, the... more »
May 10, 2011The Window & Door Dealers Alliance has secured a meeting next week with the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to discuss the lead clearance testing requirements for the Renovation, Repair, and Painting rule scheduled to take effect this summer. WDDA representatives will be asking regulators to stop implementation of the Environmental Protection Agency's proposed rule. The new rule... more »
May 3, 2011The United States International Trade Commission has reached a final determination in its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of imports of aluminum extrusions from China. Agreeing with U.S. Department of Commerce findings that these products are subsidized and sold in the United States at less than fair value, ITC officials have cleared the way for preliminary duties imposed last... more »
April 28, 2011Window World of Omaha, Neb., has agreed to pay a $3,976 civil penalty to the United States to settle allegations that it failed to notify owners and occupants of at least eight Omaha residential properties built before 1978 of lead-based paint risks prior to performing renovation work at those location, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This is the third such settlement in... more »
April 14, 2011A contractor specializing in spray-on vinyl siding and replacement windows and doors has agreed to pay $30,702 to settle claims by the New England office of the Environmental Protection Agency that it failed to provide lead hazard information to homeowners or occupants before doing renovations that may have disturbed surfaces coated with lead-based paint, EPA reports. The settlement resolves... more »
April 7, 2011Looking for a "seat at the table," Window & Door Dealers Alliance representatives visited the Department of Energy yesterday to learn more about the agency's plans for the Home Energy Score program. "By providing homeowners with a home energy efficiency rating, the program is designed to encourage energy efficient upgrades," explains David Walker, WDDA VP.... more »
April 5, 2011The National Association of Home Builders and Window & Door Manufacturers Association are among the groups applauding the Senate's passage today of the repeal of the Form 1099 information reporting expansion that would have been required as part of the health care overhaul bill passed last year. The repeal bill, which now goes to President Obama for his signature, was already passed by... more »
April 1, 2011Window World of St. Louis Inc., has agreed to pay a $19,529 civil penalty to the United States to settle allegations that it failed to notify owners and occupants of at least 20 St. Louis-area residential properties built before 1978 of lead-based paint risks prior to performing renovation work at those locations, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. According to an administrative... more »
March 31, 2011The U.S. Department of Agriculture is implementing a new strategy to promote the use of wood as a green building material. "Wood has a vital role to play in meeting the growing demand for green building materials," says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. "Forest Service studies show that wood compares favorably to competing materials." The new plan includes the following parts... more »

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This site has not been operative for some time. However, it will shortly re-open as a resource for those interested in my current work, in particular my paper in the volume of essays to be published in honour of Rick Abel, and edited by Scott Cummings.
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Proposed algebra mandate gets an early start in county
A recent lesson in teacher Mike Taliana's algebra class at Oceanside's Lincoln Middle School: Write the equation of the line with y intercept = 3 and perpendicular to y = ½x + 4.
Anyone still there?
Your average adult may be running scared, but the state Board of Education wants all California middle school students to take algebra and pass a proficiency exam that includes similar questions by the end of eighth grade.
If San Diego County is an indicator of what's to come, good luck. In the Oceanside Unified School District, virtually every eighth-grader not in a special-education program took algebra last year, but only 36 percent scored at a proficient level on the state exam. In Borrego Springs Unified, almost all eighth-graders took the test, but no one passed it. In Santee, where nearly every eighth-grader took algebra last year, less than half passed the state test.
School officials are not apologizing for the low scores. Many educators say assigning eighth-graders to algebra class is critical because it exposes them to the rigor of a high school-level course. It also sets high expectations, and is leading to a beefing up of math instruction in elementary school.
"If we don't introduce them to that level of rigor, I think there are way too many opportunities not to get kids into algebra," said Larry Perondi, superintendent at Oceanside Unified. "I'd rather challenge them to a higher level."
Perondi said rising expectations already are leading to higher performance. At Lincoln Middle School, for example, the percentage of eighth-graders who scored proficient on the state's Algebra I exam has more than doubled from 17 percent in 2006 to 35 percent last year.
Algebra is typically the first branch of mathematics that requires students to think abstractly. Letters are used to represent quantities. Students learn to manipulate the relationship between two sides of an equation and to represent that equation visually in a graph.
Algebra is used often in daily life and in many high-paying professions. Equations can help calculate the distance of a car trip or chart the cost of a mortgage interest rate. It is essential for engineering, architecture, chemistry, physics and myriad other fields.
The state Board of Education voted last summer to require all public school students to take and be tested in algebra by the end of eighth grade, in part to help comply with federal mandates under the No Child Left Behind Act. In the past in California, Algebra I was chiefly part of a sequence of high school courses, followed by geometry and Algebra II.
The new eighth-grade algebra requirement was to go into effect in 2011, but a Sacramento County judge blocked the plan in December, saying the board acted without public input and may have overstepped its authority. Vowing to appeal, board President Ted Mitchell called the decision "a roadblock to higher academic achievement in California."
Many schools and some districts in San Diego County already require eighth-graders to take algebra. And the challenges are many. At Lincoln Middle School, for example, about half the students come from low-income families, and about one in four is still learning English. The language barrier is a significant obstacle to learning a subject steeped in technical terms such as "absolute value," "distributive property", "coefficient" and "perpendicular."
Taliana spends most of the day on his feet jumping from desk to desk, breaking kids into small groups and dragging them onto the blacktop to create human graphs on X and Y axes drawn in chalk. He says a big part of his job is to keep his students motivated.


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Williams was becoming a good source on recruiting - providing information not available from the U. Based on the by-lines, I guess he is gone? La Gesse is, I think, from Illinois? Has there been any information on what to expect from him?
Weve got a pretty good football conference, and weve got a pretty good conference overall. Were still walking around with our heads held high and our chest out, about that. Paul Rhoads
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To clarify Bobby La Gesse is a sports writer for the Ames Trib ( I thought the way it was worded he was a recruit from Ill). BL has been here for a month and has not written any acticles on recruiting that I have noticed (38 articles online). I would guess that niche will go unfilled if Chris Williams is not doing it.
ChrisMWilliams, byline Ames Trib and GoCyclones was a frequent and informative poster - last thread October 20, 2007 and no articles of late that I've seen.
Bobby La Gesse' farewell to Illinois is about 2/3 down this page:
Most (all?) current articles at GoCyclones are by La Gesse.
La Gesse said football; Chris homed in on basketball.
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Kennal Vale is a 20-acre nature reserve which occupies a steep-sided granite
boulder-strewn valley through which runs the River Kennal. The site is leased
and managed by the Cornwall Wildlife Trust.
In the past the valley was used for the commercial production
of gunpowder. Kennal Vale gunpowder factory started production in 1812 and
by 1860 employed around 50 men. On May 10, 1838 the valley was rocked with
explosions as five mills blew up in succession. Amazingly, only one man
was killed and another seriously injured. There is an interesting report
of the incident on worldheritage.cornwall.com.
The gunpowder factory ceased production around 1914 due to
the increasing use of gelignite and dynamite. Many of the old buildings
remain, as do the leats which diverted water from the river to power the
mills. The trees in the valley, which include beech, ash and sycamore, were
originally planted by the gunpowder company to help retain a damp atmosphere.
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Im moving to Lawrence, KS sometime next week and am curious if anyone has advice, tips, or knows of cool things to do in Lawrence. Also, does anyone know of any Cyclone-friendly places in Lawrence or in the Kansas City area outside of Kellys Westport?
Cyclone-friendly and Lawrence Kansas don't seem to go togather....
Buy a gun
Make sure all your vaccinations are current.
A bird feeder filled with arsenic.
Hope you like banging farm animals.
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Hope you like banging farm animals.
That's Manhattan, not Lawrence.
The Outhouse isn't far away
Are you a member?
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Lots of great advice in the posts above.
Check out Massachusetts Street. Good places to hit up there. I like The Burger Stand which is in The Casbah.
Buy tickets for January 29 at Allen Fieldhouse.
Buy season KU tickets and where an ISU shirt to every game. Thats what id do. Then id throw a ball over the mountains'
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2010 is America's Thermopylae
If you saw the movie 300, you essentially know the computer-generated and highly-stylized story of the Battle of Thermopylae. However, it is the real story of the Battle of Thermopylae that is far more inspiring. It has been argued that, were it not for this battle and, ultimately, the defeat of the hordes of the Persian Empire at Salamis and, later, at Marathon, the nation-states | Read More »


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Brand new car models recalled more often
Looking for a hassle-free new car? You might want to avoid brand-new models.
A Global News analysis of vehicle recalls in Canada shows that newly-introduced and redesigned models top the list of the most frequently-recalled consumer vehicles in Canada.
Global News analyzed vehicle recall data from Transport Canada for model years since 2000 to come up with lists of the most-recalled vehicles in the car, sport utility vehicle and light truck/van categories.
In each case, the most-recalled vehicles are models that were either just introduced to the market that year, or that had just undergone a major redesign.
Among cars, the top spot is held by the 2000 Ford Focus, which has been named in 10 separate recalls over the years. In second place is the 2000 Ford Taurus, which has been named in eight recalls.
The Ford Focus was an all-new design that year, said George Iny, President of the Automobile Protection Association, a consumer advocacy group. "It hadn't existed in North America before 2000. And Ford had a lot of quality issues the first two, three years the car was out. There weren't just recalls, there were other issues as well."
However, these quality issues didn't last. "By 2003 they had fixed it," said Iny.
Similarly, the Ford Taurus, which was redesigned in 2000, the year where it appears near the top of the list, "eventually became a very reliable car," according to Iny.
A similar phenomenon is seen in the SUV category, where the 2002 GMC Envoy had 14 recalls as a newly-introduced vehicle, and to a lesser extent in the light truck/van category where the redesigned 2003 GMC Savana/Chevrolet Express had 11 recalls.
"What it tells you is first year vehicles get more recalls. And so if you're buying in the first year, you probably want to avoid, based on this, Ford or GM. I think that's legitimate to say that," he said.
"If you're thinking of buying a GM or Chrysler or Ford that's all-new, we often tell people to wait for a year."
Regarding its 2000 Taurus and Focus models, a spokesperson for the Ford Motor Company of Canada said that recalls on these decade-old vehicles are "not indicative of any quality issues in the vehicles we produce today," and that Ford's development and quality process have changed substantially since the vehicles were built.
Recalls don't tell the whole story either. According to Maryse Durette, spokesperson for Transport Canada, "The number of recalls on a given vehicle make, model and model year is not a reliable indicator of vehicle safety. The most important indicators would likely be the relative frequency with which a vehicle is involved in collisions, the severity of those collisions, and the number and severity of casualties that occur as a result."
"You can't really rely just on the numbers," said Iny. He gave a hypothetical explanation. "If (an automobile maker's) car has one recall that happened after eight years and 14 deaths and 200 incidents, that wasn't a very safe car. But you'd only see it as one recall."
More than that, he said, some manufacturers are quicker to announce a recall than others. "Ford tends to be more diligent about announcing recalls than say GM, or Chrysler or Toyota, which never did for many years."
With the Ford Focus and Taurus, "They didn't wait until those safety issues had caused injuries. These were recalls that occurred for the most part quickly in the early years of the vehicle," he said.
Ford Canada said that customer safety and satisfaction are top priorities for the company. "When we identify a potential issue, we respond quickly to do what is right for our customers."
"It is very difficult to attribute a level of importance to a recall, as in many cases, although the implications of the safety-related defect may be severe, the actual number of occurrences may be very low. Recalls with less severe implications, where the defect occurs more frequently, could pose equal or greater risk," said Durette. "For this reason, the departmental position has always been that ALL recalls are of great importance and to encourage Canadians to always have safety defects corrected."
Vehicle manufacturers are required under the Motor Vehicle Safety Act to notify owners if their vehicle is subject to a recall. But they find out who the owner is through warranties and provincial vehicle registration records, which means that their information might be a bit out of date.
When buying a used vehicle, both Transport Canada and the Automotive Protection Association recommend checking the Transport Canada recalls database to see what recalls apply to that model.
Then, said Iny, "Call the service department of a dealer or the automaker's customer service to be recorded as the owner of record in the event of future notifications. It's easy for them to check for outstanding recalls with the vehicle serial number. You may also learn there are additional non-safety recalls that are not on the government database."
Manufacturers are not required to conduct recall repairs free of charge, said Iny, but in practice most will.
And just because a used car has had many recalls, it doesn't necessarily mean that you shouldn't buy it, he said. When asked if he would consider purchasing a 2000 Ford Focus today, Iny said he would.
"They're great purchases, even though there's 10 recalls. Because all the known problems with the Focus in 2000 and 2001 have fixes now." If the car was in good shape and all the recalls were performed, it would be a good buy, he said.
The most-recalled vehicles in Canada
Interestingly, when all vehicle categories are included in the recall analysis, the most-recalled vehicles in Canada are not consumer cars and vans, but instead transport trucks and school buses.
The data shows that the 2008 Freightliner Columbia is the most-recalled vehicle in Canada, named in 25 separate recalls. A bus, the 2007 Thomas built Saf-T-Liner C2 School Bus, has been named in 19 recalls.
However, according to Transport Canada, these numbers are less shocking than they might appear at first glance.
Transport trucks and buses are purchased differently from regular vehicles, said Maryse Durette, spokesperson for Transport Canada. "When a truck or bus is bought, the buyer can choose from a number of different options including different types and sizes of engine, configurations of transmissions, brake systems and axles, wheels and tires." There could be thousands of different configurations of a given model, she said.
"The majority of recalls will apply to a small portion of the possible configurations and overall production – a relatively small number of vehicles sold," she said. So while there are many recalls of these large vehicles, they generally only affect a few specific trucks or buses. Counting the number of recalls for each model is therefore not the best way to get an overall impression of recalls on large trucks and buses.
The tables below show the top five most-recalled vehicles for selected categories. Highlighted entries indicate where the vehicle was either a new model or had been newly-redesigned.
This data includes only recalls on model years 2000 and up, and is current as of March 19, 2012.
Top three most-recalled cars
Note: The Nissan Sentra newly redesigned model was given the 2001 model year designation only in Canada.
Top three most-recalled light trucks and vans
Note: The GMC Savana and Chevrolet Express are twin vehicles. The GMC Sierra and Chevrolet Silverado are also alike.
Top five most-recalled SUVs
Note: The GMC Envoy and Chevrolet Trailblazer are similar vehicles.
Editor's Note: Story updated at 5:38 PM on June 20, 2012 to add comments from the Ford Motor Company of Canada.


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St Albans Centurions return to action this Sunday - February 29 - when they take on St Ives at Woollams at 2pm. Admission is free to see the first game in the Eastern Group of the RLC Cup, a pre-season competition in which St Albans play Hemel Stags and St Ives home and away. Cambridge have withdrawn from the tournament, leaving a blank weekend next week.
The National League begins on May 1 when St Albans make the mammoth trek to face last season's runners-up, Teesside Steelers - by far the longest journey the club have made and a reversal of last season's historic NL3 opener at Woollams!
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Chuck Hudson of Surprise lifted more than 700 pounds during a Hospice of the Valley powerlifting competition and fundraiser in April in Peoria.
The event, organized by Hudson, raised nearly $11,000. The USPA Southwest Desert Classic drew 70 competitors and about 300 spectators to the Peoria Sportsplex.
Hudson, a powerlifter for nearly a decade, personally raised $5,400 in donations for the agency and also set a state record at the event, recording a 733-pound bench press in his weight class.


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I have a special place in my heart for Fantastic Fest because it was the first film festival I attended and covered professionally, for Cinematical back in 2005, the year the fest started. The 2005 fest was a long weekend of genre films, attended by a small enough crowd that you felt you knew everyone there by the time it was over. Since then, Fantastic Fest has expanded to nine days, added all kinds of crazy parties and events, become notorious for "secret screenings" that premiered films such as Southland Tales and There Will Be Blood, and introduced filmgoers to any number of international science-fiction, horror, animated, and other "fantastic" films.
In its fourth year, Fantastic Fest has grown so large and popular that its opening-night festivities moved from the genre festival's traditional Austin venue, the Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar, over to the Paramount, a hundred-year-old theater in the middle of downtown that seats about 1200 people. The theater was packed for the opening-night film, the U.S. premiere of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, and writer-director Kevin Smith was also on hand.
The venue may have been the Paramount, but the minute the lights went down and a vintage trailer for Thunder Cops appeared onscreen, it felt like Fantastic Fest. Festival co-founder Tim League appeared onstage in a bright kimono, with a giant gong next to him, and announced, "With a stroke of this gong, I am about to declare this festival ... awesome!" Kevin Smith then introduced his film with a long and bizarre story about how he recently broke a toilet, then confessed that this had nothing to do with the film, he just wanted to tell the story. span style="font-style: italic;">Cinematical will have a Zack and Miri review available soon, but for now I'll just say that I enjoyed it a lot, in the same vein as Clerks 2. Once again, Smith took a sweet old-fashioned romantic story and wrapped it in as much nasty-ass humor as he could get away with ... and it worked for me. The audience seemed to love the film too, and I felt a little sorry for the festgoers who jumped out of their seats the minute the credits started to head to Alamo Drafthouse for another film ... because there were still about 5 minutes left in the movie. Remember that when the movie hits theaters next month.
After the credits rolled, Kevin Smith reappeared on stage with Scott Mosier, who has produced all the films Smith has written/directed, for a Q&A. This was a pretty short session as Kevin Smith Q&As go, with a minimum of irrelevancy or audience abuse. In fact, the audience nearly abused Smith when he told a story about watching Slacker and feeling impressed that Richard Linklater had made a movie in "f***ing Nowheresville, USA."
And then we had ... the World Air Sex Championships. At the Paramount. You have to understand that the Paramount is one of those historic legendary buildings in Austin, and normally serves as a venue for more highbrow entertainment, or classic movies, or things you could bring your grandma to see without her fainting. (However, both Clerks 2 and Grindhouse had big splashy Austin premieres in the theater.) I'm telling you this so you can get an idea of how I felt while watching contestants hump the air around them, mime all kinds of perverse and salacious activities, and occasionally strip down to the skimpiest of underthings onstage. Imagine someone performing Rocky Horror at your grandparents' house. Like that.
I didn't make it all the way through the Air Sex Championships -- after I saw a tableau involving an inflatable pig and people dressed as Sarah Palin, John McCain, a Secret Service agent and a giant moose, I figured I'd really seen all there was to see. Over at SpoutBlog, Kevin Kelly has some video footage from the event, which will give you a much better idea of how things worked than I could ever describe.
I sat outside the theater for a few minutes before leaving, with Cinematical colleague Will Goss. Here's his take on the evening: "Tim League banged the gong and got it on (as T-Rex might say); Zack and Miri may have made a porno (that everyone else seemed to dig a bit more than I); and Bill Pullman and I shot the breeze for a bit, which -- all name-dropping aside -- is a swift and singular testament to how smoothly and low-key things go down at Fantastic Fest, and how they look to over these next few days.
"(Oh, and air sex is a lot like real sex: great in theory, fun in bursts, and downright lamentable from time to time.)"
And here's what our Managing Editor Scott Weinberg had to say -- and I notice he doesn't mention that every single person he's encountered at the festival has ragged on him about his new beard:
"I arrived at the airport and bolted over to the Paramount so I could catch the big gala screening of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, which is a VERY funny flick -- but it also falls into the same trap as many of the most conventional rom-coms. Specifically, it gets halfway stuck in a third-act 'misunderstanding' that simplistically prevents our two leads from obtaining a happy ending. But that's a pretty small complaint to make in the face of a movie that made me laugh very hard and very often. It's pretty clear that Kevin Smith wants this to be his Apatow-style 'mainstream' breakout, and it just might be. The flick's best asset (by far) is not the sexiness or the nonstop vulgarity, but the strong ensemble that Smith's put together: Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Craig Robinson, Traci Lords (!), Jeff Anderson, Jason Mewes (along with a few others) make for a very likeable comedy unit.
"Then I hung around the first annual World Air Sex Competition before chatting with a few journalists and filmmakers who somehow like me. Then it was back to the hotel -- as I hadn't slept in 31 hours -- but before sleep I watched, yes, another Fantastic Fest flick on my computer. Since that flick hasn't played yet (and I really disliked it) we won't get into it just yet.
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Finishing touches are underway on brand new buildings at Heritage University. Flashback to two years and you wouldn't believe this building was destroyed by a fire.
"One minute the university was a whole and the next thing you know, part of the building is in little pieces," said student Cristal Reyes.
"A lot of memories," said student Alex Gutierrez. "A lot of history was made in that building."
Investigators determined the fire started in the attic space above the kitchen at Petrie Hall. But it wasn't clear what actually started the fire. Thankfully, no one was hurt.
"You may notice some of these bricks on this building are a different color," said KIMA. "That's because the university saved bricks from the old building that burned down and wanted to make it a part of this new building.
"From a tragedy has sprung now what has turned into tremendous opportunity," said Heritage University Vice President of Marketing and Communications David Wise.
The new building replacing Petrie Hall will have classrooms and offices. A new IT building was also built. As well as a new dining commons and bookstore building.
The cost for the projects? $12.5 million. A third is covered by an insurance payout from the fire. The rest will be from fundraisers. Any shortfalls will come from a privately financed bond.
"With the new buildings, it kind of made it a little bit more easier to cope," said student Harli Moran.
"It's exciting to know that we lost a building, but we gained three more," said Cristal.
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RICS economies grappling with midlife crisis, says Roubini
Jan 25 2014 , Davos
"Are the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and, its most recent member, South Africa) in the midst of a midlife crisis? Based on recent data, this would appear to be the case," said Roubini, who anticipated the collapse of the US housing market and the global recession which started in 2008.
The economist said in the World Economic Forum blog that China grew at a rate of over 10 per cent for 30 years but its growth rate has now slowed to around 7 per cent, and it may fall further.
Talking about India, he said the country grew rapidly earlier this decade but its growth rate slumped to 5 per cent in 2013 and may only modestly pick up this year.
The other BRICS are even "worse": in 2013 growth was 2.5 per cent in Brazil, 1.3 per cent in Russia and 1.9 per cent in South Africa, Roubini said, adding that this year things will not be much better.
"Three of the five BRICS (Brazil, India and South Africa) are now part of what investors consider the Fragile Five emerging market economies (the other two being Turkey and Indonesia).
"These fragile emerging markets share weaknesses, such as large current account deficits, large fiscal deficits, falling growth, rising inflation and political and policy uncertainty, and they all face parliamentary or presidential elections this year," he said.
Listing out major reasons behind the problems affecting BRICS, Roubini -- professor of economics and international business at New York University -- stated the countries failed to implement second-generation structural reforms that are more micro-based and boost productivity growth.
"As a result, their potential growth rate has fallen."
Secondly, not only did these economies fail to implement market oriented reforms, they moved towards a growth regime based on state capitalism, wherein there is an excessive role of state-owned entities in the economy, he added.
Third, the commodity super-cycle is probably over – for a variety of reasons – and this hurts the BRICS that are commodity exporters: Russia, Brazil and South Africa.
"Given the slowdown of China, after years of high prices, commodity prices may fall further, hurting the growth of the commodity oriented BRICS," said Roubini, well known for his bubble warnings and doom scenarios.
Fourth, in the boom years for BRICS and for emerging markets, macro policies became too loose, leading to overheating.
"Deterioration of macro policies was serious in Brazil, India and South Africa but even in China credit fuelled investment has led to a surge in public debt that will burden the official and shadow-banking system," he said.


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Libya: An opposition group called "Opposition For Freedom" and the situation of its members (1997-98)
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Africa Events [London]. Monthly.
Africa Report [Denville, NJ]. Bimonthly.
Africa Research Bulletin [London]. Monthly.
Amnesty International. Amnesty International Annual Report.
Fédération Internationale des Droits Humains [Paris].
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Reports.
Keesing's Record of World Events.
La Lettre du Continent [Paris]. Bimonthly.
New African [London]. Monthly.
News from Africa Watch [New York].
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Sounders FC players Eddie Johnson and Brad Evans were called up to the U.S. team and Seattle teammate Mario Martinez was called up to the Honduras national team for the FIFA World Cup qualifier on Wednesday between the teams.
The MLS season is still weeks away, but a FIFA World Cup qualifier Wednesday between the U.S. men's national team and Honduras could see up to three Sounders in big-game action.
Forward Eddie Johnson and midfielder Brad Evans were called up to the U.S. team by coach Jurgen Klinsmann, the federation announced Monday. They'll face their Seattle teammate, Mario Martinez, who will be on the Honduran squad for the 1 p.m. game in his hometown of San Pedro Sula.
Wednesday marks the first of six games in the final round of qualifying for countries in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. The top three of six remaining teams — the U.S., Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama and Jamaica — will advance to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
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Evans, on the other hand, has never played in a World Cup qualifier, but he appeared to benefit from his versatility. The 27-year-old played as a right back for the U.S. in the second half of last week's exhibition against Canada and is listed as a defender on the national team's 24-man roster (only 23 will dress for the game).
Klinsmann explained on a conference call Monday that Evans "had a very, very impressive three-and-a-half weeks" in the national team's January training camp.
Another Sounder who will be serving on international duty Wednesday is Adam Johansson. The defender was called in by Sweden for a home exhibition against Argentina.
Johnson, Martinez, Evans and Johansson will join Sounders' preseason camp after their games.
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Reign FC announced the signing of four free agents Monday as NWSL teams continue to construct their rosters. Midfielder Jess Fishlock (captain of Welsh national team), defender Kate Deines (Issaquah native and former UW star) and forwards Tiffany Cameron (Canadian international) and Lindsay Taylor (former All-American at Stanford).
Seattle has 15 players on its roster following last month's allocation of seven national-team players and draft of four college seniors, though forward Amy Rodriguez is pregnant and will miss the 2013 season, while Megan Rapinoe and Teresa Noyola will start the year playing on loan in Europe.
A six-round supplemental draft will be held Thursday, and Reign FC owns the No. 2 overall pick. NWSL teams can have 18 to 20 players on their rosters.
• Kickoff for Sounders FC's preseason game Tuesday against Portland in Tucson, Ariz., has been moved to 9:30 a.m. Schmid indicated last week that newcomers and non-contract invitees would see the bulk of the playing time for Seattle.
• Former Liverpool defender Djimi Traore, who played in the 2005 UEFA Champions League final, and MLS veteran Shavar Thomas, a Jamaican international, joined preseason camp as invitees. Supplemental draft pick Will Bates also joined the team but will be out of action the next few weeks after undergoing knee surgery last month.
• Forward Fredy Montero, who is on loan with Colombia's Millonarios for 2013, scored a goal and had an assist in a 3-1 season-opening win Sunday against La Equidad.
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As for the bikes chosen Ducati 900SS?? never been seen on any trackday I have been on so it cant be that good as more would use them. For twins SV650's and SV1000's and even a Ducatic 748 can scrape under the £2K budget. NC30 good for the road but the ZXR400L is a better track weapon. TT600 again very rare to see on a track when you can get a ZX6R G/J for cheaper money which is just as good.
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Honeybees in their hive. A research study found that some honeybees are more likely than others to seek adventure. The brains of these novelty-seeking bees exhibit distinct patterns of gene activity in molecular pathways known to be associated with thrill-seeking in humans. These bees are more likely to scout for new food sources and nesting sites.
Previously, honeybee hives were thought to be highly regimented colonies of seemingly interchangeable workers taking on a few specific roles, such as nurse or forager, to serve their queen. But findings from the study, by Gene Robinson, a University of Illinois entomology professor and director of the Institute for Genomic Biology, and colleagues, show that individual honeybees actually differ in their desire or willingness to perform particular tasks, possibly due in part to variability in the bees personalities.
"There is a gold standard for personality research and that is if you show the same tendency in different contexts, then that can be called a personality trait, Robinson said. Not only do certain bees exhibit signs of novelty-seeking, but their willingness or eagerness to go the extra mile can be vital to the life of the hive," he adds. "Our results say that novelty-seeking in humans and other vertebrates have parallels in an insect. One can see the same sort of consistent behavioral differences and molecular underpinnings."
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Well, has she or hasn't she? Danielle Staub of the Real Housewives of New Jersey felt compelled to address rumors that she'll be shut out for Season 3 of the hit show, but her response brings more questions than answers. (Personally I think Teresa Giudice should stop doing the jig in her tacky McMansion until Bravo confirms the rumor.)
"Actually, I'm not even thinking about season 3 right now as I am considering many incredible options that have been presented to me," she says in a statement. (Note to Bravo: for the love of all things holy, don't give this woman her own show a la Bethenny Frankel. We beg you!) "Right now I just want to let fans know that we have a fantastic finale coming up next week and explosive reunion shows …"
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Throughout history, those at the helm of culture, innovation and power were those holding the currency of intellectual and scientific commerce — be it papyrus or movable type or Java. To have power in society, Douglas Rushkoff argued in a Tulane lecture, is to be fluent in the language and the systems by which society structures itself.
Rushkoff, a media theorist and author whose most recent book is Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, noted the primacy of digital information means that "programming… is the vernacular of this era." He spoke on Wednesday (Feb. 23) in Dixon Hall for the 2011 Newcomb-Tulane College Lecture.
In his talk, Rushkoff encouraged his audience — at a bare minimum — to understand that programming exists and how it works. He said it's important to contemplate the way in which technologies that propel us further into modernity are not simply elements of the landscape to be observed and interacted with naively. Rather, they are creations of human actors with goals and motivations of which we may be unaware.
From the invention of the remote control to the Nintendo joystick to the mouse and keyboard, Rushkoff chronicled a trajectory of media that bestowed upon media consumers the agency to control and create their own media experience.
In the rapid evolution of the Internet, however, Rushkoff sees a trend of media re-mystification and a widening gap between consumers and the ability to actively control their technology. Consumers are affected by advancements such as operating systems with preset menus and social media tools so pervasive and opaque that users forget there are men and women programming them with certain interests in mind.
Rushkoff warns that if we are not at least aware of the presence of other people in the sites and utilities we use in our interactions, we are susceptible to becoming objects that are programmed for certain ends — not necessarily malicious ends, but ends not of our own choosing or design.
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Car Stolen With Kids InsideBrett Singer
A mom in Georgia went through an unimaginable nightmare. During a robbery at her home, her car was stolen with two of her children still inside.
The kids are OK now.
Here's what happened:
Alicia Cabrera arrived home and saw a vehicle she didn't recognize in her driveway. Two men were there to rob her. They fired a gun in her direction but missed. Then they stole her car, a Range Rover. Her 5 year old got out before they drove off, but her other two children, ages 2 and 8, were still inside.
After what must have been 20 very harrowing minutes, Cabrera's husband found the car, abandoned, with the kids still inside. The article doesn't mention that they were injured in any way, at least not physically. Mentally I can only imagine. Although maybe the 2 year old is young enough to forget this ever happened.
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Midnight's Children is a novel by Salman Rushdie. It deals with India's change from British rule to independence and touches upon the themes of the partition of British India.
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Saleem Sinai is born at Midnight, on India's first Independence day. He has telepathic powers, and soon discovers that all children born at midnight have similar powers. Saleem assembles a Midnight Children's Conference to reflect on the issues India faced in its early statehood. As a telepathic conduit, Saleem brings hundreds of geographically disparate children into contact and discovers their gifts. The magical realism in the novel examines liberalism and recalls indigenous Indian culture. It runs headlong into the moment of the emergency and shows how the children deal with the episode.
About Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie is an Indian British novelist best known for writing: the Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, The Enchantress of Florence, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet.
Rushdie was appointed Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France and knighted for services to literature in the Queen's Birthday Honours. He has also won the Booker Prize for Fiction, Booker of Bookers, The Best of the Booker, Whitbread Novel Award, and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Children's Fiction.
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Story Telling at its Best1993 Man Booker prize winner, and Best of the Booker really deserved that. Perfectly crafted beads converted into a great story. And the way Salman tells the story is really marvelous. The story has its own turns, ups and downs but everything creates more interest than earlier. As soon as you start feeling comfortable with the story and start guessing the next, story turns and take you to whole new world of Saleem Sinai's (main character of the book) life.
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READER BEWARE!Do not, I repeat DO NOT read if you are young or a beginner. I'm just 15 and was getting cocky at my collection(which includes the godfather,a few by crichton,all of dan brown and chetan bhagat,and a few classics from here and there,not to mention a couple of agatha christies).
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Jun 27, 2012
At Midnight rose, the Promiscuous Twins!!Well, if Saleem Sinai were a living contemporary of mine, I would have been as ashamed of having to live along with him as would have been with living in that sort of a land itself. But the very cruelty of this thought comes pinching you in the ass when you realize that what Saleem Sinai was cursed into becoming was not the result of Salman Rushdie's pessimistic view of an India or his convulsive magically realistic blasphemy of its dogmas, but because of the very truth that, this originally is contemporary India and you cannot discard the epiphany. Salman Rushdie is the mesmerizing author… (Expand)
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Jun 26, 2011
The best among bookersWhen reading the book for the first time, I had to resort to a word dictionary at my side, despite the intricate language the conveyed story as the shared history of India through the protagonist Salim Sinai was the best fiction reading I had at the time. If he doesnt eventually get a Nobel prize for this book, who else will get it?
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It simply blew my mind.I am a teenager and this was my first Rushdie novel. Initially, I found the book a little tough to read but after 30 pages or so, I totally fell in love with the characters and the brilliantly woven story. Midnight's Children truly deserves the accolades it has received.
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Feb 6, 2012
An unmistakable masterpiece from Salman RushdieMidnight's Children is in a class of its own. The beginning is a bit dreary, but once you're past page 65-70, it holds the reader in a vice-like grip. Sometimes, I wonder how authors like Salman Rushdie come up with books like these. I mean, one cannot help but give credit to authors who have the ability to come up with a bizarre yet fascinating premise, and turn it into 530 pages of pure art. The genius is all fire and air in involving India and its children, weaving history with magical realism.
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The booker of Bookers! Outstanding book! Loved it to the core!People would have cursed me all right if I had said that I hadn't read Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. I cursed myself too for having delayed reading one of the most profound books of my generation. The book changed the entire course of Indian writing in English. After the publication of Midnight's Children, the Indian writing became what it is known today: a world to watch out for. Maybe, this is an incorrect viewpoint, but it did wonders all the same. We always had produced great works of grandeur but one has to give it to Sir Salman for having changed the course of the river of Englis… (Expand)
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Clever.The whole plot is a sequence of intriguing events,described in a ruefully semirealistic way.It takes up your total attention inorder to get the full sense and brilliance of the book.One of the best piece inspired by India and its turbulant past.
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Tasco Model 11T Reg#511300 Working on it.
Posted 14 February 2008 - 10:33 PM
It is a Tasco D4.5 F900. Model 11T Reg#511300
I have only been able to find one picture of it on the net.
Other than that I don't know much about it. She is asking $100.00 for it. I am sure I can talk her down a little bit.
Does anybody know of this model? Was it a good scope back than?
I do have an 8" Orion Dob and a Celestron Nexstar114GT. I do not have an EQ mount though. If I purchased this scope I could add an old one to the collection and have another mount. Does anybody know the going price for this setup?
Posted 14 February 2008 - 11:37 PM
Everyone has a different angle on older scopes like this. I would guess that optically it is beter than the Nexstar 114GT as it should be a standard Newtonian. The mount will work but be kinda wobbly. The eyepieces are not so hot by today's standards.
The deciding factor for me with these older scopes is the focuser, if they have a 1.25 inch focuser so I can easily use my collection of eyepieces, I will consider it.
As far as the price, it's more than I would pay.
I am sure someone with more experience than I will chime in and tell you if it Chinese or Japanese.
Posted 15 February 2008 - 12:16 AM
I wonder If I can modify this with a 1.25" focuser? I am a machinist so doing any type of modification would not be a problem. I have not done any telescope mods though.
I am going to go take a look at it tomorrow and get more of an idea and will post back more results. I am assuming the mirror is probably filthy. Hopefully it is in some kind of case.
Posted 15 February 2008 - 09:33 AM
It sits on an EQ2 and all of the accessories for that mount will work, ableit with a little modifcation. A 1.25 focuser is definitely recommended as is a better finder. These are fairly easy mods to do.
The user must consider the costs of upgrading into account. I'd offer her $50 and see if she bites, I wouldn't go any higher than 75.
Posted 15 February 2008 - 09:35 AM
The important thing is to make sure that it is standard Newtonian and not a short tube Newtonian, some of the Tascos were Shorttube I think. A standard 4.5 inch F/8 should be about 36 inches long.
It is worth a look, take your camera and shoot some photos and if you have questions post them (the photos and the questions) here and let the crew help you.
Posted 15 February 2008 - 04:11 PM
Posted 15 February 2008 - 11:48 PM
The legs are wooden and need some minor hardware. They are
in good condition though for being that old. Not wood rot at all. I can make some little solid pier mount at work to make it real solid.
The mount has a tag on the bottom that says "Japan". The mount is very smooth and tight. No chips at all on it. The crinkle paint finish looks brand new actually.
The tube has very minimal scuff marks that I would not even call scratches. No dents or dings.
It does have that small eyepiece focuser. I will have to put a new one on there. It did come with an extra finder scope and finder scope mount. It also has a 2x Tasco barlow and a Tasco Zoom Eyepiece model #6621. It zooms 6 8 12 15 and 18mm. The zoom EP and the barlow are about 9 inces long when put together. It also came with 2 EPs that has H12.5mm Japan and H6mm Japan printed on the top. They have cases too.
The Mirror looks great. Just a little bit of dust on it. She said It has been stored in some bags most of its life. Overall I am pretty happy. As I said I do not have a mount like this and I really wanted to get one. I think it is a pretty good deal for 60.00 what do you think? Other than dropping money on a new focuser and making a pier mount it seems pretty good.
Here are some pics of the mount and scope...
Well there she is.
Any suggestions on a focuser for 1-1/4 EPs? I have no idea about doing this. I assume I need to buy one for this size diameter tube. Should I just get one from Orion? Thanks for looking and comments.
Posted 15 February 2008 - 11:57 PM
Posted 16 February 2008 - 05:56 AM
Since you are a machinist, I would first just see if I could make an short adapter that would allow me use the 1.25 inch eyepieces with the 0.965 inch focuser, it's worth a shot and it would keep the scope stock which would be nice. You would get some vignetting with widefield eyepieces but it would probably be not too noticeable. You may have inward focus travel issues but you should be able to figure that out beforehand.
Posted 16 February 2008 - 05:57 PM
Posted 17 February 2008 - 03:15 AM
I did disassembled the entire scope to get every little piece of dust out of all the hardware. I wanted to make sure there was no rust situations going on. All was good in that department. When I took out the mirror and had a good look at it I noticed the towards the outer area of the mirror it was nice and clean. Than about 10-15mm in the mirror was real hazy looking. Kind of like a fog. Well I decided to clean it. I used the method at this site. http://www.arksky.org/asoclean.htm Mirror cleaning is on the bottom half of that page. It went very smooth and the mirror looks flawless. I do not have a center mark on it for collimation. I did buy a Orion laser colimator and have the round collimation stickers. Would I want to put one on this mirror? I understand how you trace the mirror and cut and fold the template procedure. Well I have the tube apart still. I was thinking about flocking the tube also since I have it all apart. I have been reading up on that. Seems pretty straight forward.
When I get the 1.25 focuser do I need to get a larger secondary mirror? I noticed my Celestron secondary (D4.5) is about twice the size as the Tasco's secondary.
I will be learning a lot with this little scope project. I am somewhat excited about getting this scope tuned up and working.
Posted 17 February 2008 - 03:43 AM
I just went through with my 4.5 Japanese scope, what you are about to do with your scope. It was a bit of a process to find the right height and tube dimension for the focuser. I also did not want to drill or modify the OTA.
I eventually got a used Cave focuser sent to me (thanks Larry) but I also had 2 other possibilities if that didn't work out.
If you want to PM me with your email, I can tell you what was needed for a 1.25 focuser to work on that tube, so no adjustments would be needed for the OTA or the mirror.
Posted 17 February 2008 - 02:30 PM
Well there is another part to my journey. I have now cleaned a mirror and a tube assembly. Now to find the focuser for 1.25 EPs.
Posted 24 February 2008 - 08:51 PM
Will try to add a photo.
John Briol
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Posted 24 February 2008 - 10:15 PM
Your scope looks beautiful. Did you stain the legs? Did you sand them down at all? I was thinking about just cleaning them up and running a dark stain on them.
Oh yeah... and Welcome to CN forums.
Posted 25 February 2008 - 07:43 PM
You can get quality .965 eyepieces from islandeyepiece.com I got a 20mm and 7.5mm plossls. The 20mm came in a longer design and I shortened it by removing the outer grip jacket and glued a barrel on to the eyepiece housing. There wasn't enough downward travel in the focuser. The 7.5mm eyepiece works fine. I also added an extra 2.5lb weight.
Posted 28 December 2009 - 09:57 PM
I've just acquired a Tasco 11TR identical to the pics you've posted. The flexible control for the declination axis is not installed and I just cannot figure it out. Would you be able to walk me through installing it, and if possible post close up pics of your declination control ?
Many thanks
Posted 28 December 2009 - 11:52 PM
Posted 29 December 2009 - 12:05 AM
The glass really looks to be in excellent shape . I would leave the original focuser alone & just use an adapter for 1.25 " oculars . Hands on still shows .965 Antares Plossls for 20 bucks a piece too .


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Deschutes Brewery displayed such a prowess for the hamburger on my first visit that it now seems inevitable that I would eventually be the Chef there. It was in the spring of 2002 and a perfect Central Oregon day. It was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The room was lively but not overcrowded, (A great time to visit if you love the beer and food but want to avoid the crowds). The sun shone through the windows illuminating a room that is reminiscent of an English Pub. The smell of malts and barley steeping in the mash filled the air as the brewers worked their magic.
I dressed my cheeseburger and bit in. My teeth made their way through a soft bun smothered with Brewers Mustard, ketchup, and mayo. I felt the crunch of lettuce and onion. I tasted the onion's sweet heat as I tore through tomato and beef. I could taste the juice of the Borlen Beef as it coated my tongue with its rich, natural goodness, and I knew. This burger had been cooked perfectly. The cooks had readied my repast to perfection. I wiped the juices from my chin and washed down my bite with a pull of Mirror Pond Pale Ale. My tongue was in bliss. Even the simplest dishes are elevated to the sublime when executed with respect and precision. This meal set the bar for such execution. It is the standard I use in leading an amazing team of cooks at Deschutes Brewery.
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According to a story published by the New York Post, Jay-Z will perform songs from his new album on top of the Ed Sullivan Theater's iconic marquee. Jay-Z is going Macca!
Before the private concert is confirmed, Jay will need permission from the city of New York to shut down surrounding streets like Broadway, West 53rd to 54th.
Word of Magna Carta Holy Grail first surfaced in a Samsung Galaxy S4 commercial, featuring the rapper writing lyrics and creating new songs with help from legendary producer Rick Rubin.
Jay-Z hasn't been shy previewing songs from the new album's tracklist.
In the new song Blue, Jay raps about the "paranoia of not being a great dad," citing his father abandoning him when he was young as a source of fear.
In Heaven, Jay-Z believes in a just God that wouldn't force humans to burn because of their sins.
Other songs like Oceans featuring...you guessed it Frank Ocean, and a duet with his wife Beyonce on Part II (On the Run). On Holy Grail Jay teams up with Justin Timberlake. The two will co-headline the Legends of the Summer 2013 Tour.
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Well said, Dan - I agree wholeheartedly :-)
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The Complexity of Flight Software
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NASA has just released its report on the complexity of flight software. Dan Dvorak, the editor of the report, noted in a message that "The report presents 16 recommendations, four of which are about architecture and architecting, reflecting the fact that good architecture is the best defense against unnecessary complexity in software-intensive systems."
Well said, Dan - I agree wholeheartedly :-)
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Theology And Virtual Worlds
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I'm on the board of the Iliff School of Theology. This morning, I had a conversation with Jeffrey Mahan, their Dean of Faculty, discussing the confluence of technology and theology. Among other things, I pointed Dr. Mahan to the work by Rita King and Joshua Fouts on Understanding Islam Through Virtual Worlds.
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Another interesting site here regarding the future of things. Speaking of the future Vint Cerf is interviewed here and offers some thoughts regarding the web and robotics. While I'm still waiting for my personal jet pack, I am happy that I don't have to clean the inside of my home with a water hose as once predicted.
Still, I hope Santa brings me a personal fabber this year. I'll try to be really really good.
Not all is happy squirrels and dancing rabbits, however. Due to limited global supplies of indium, zinc, gallium, and havnium we may be back to paper and pencils, and even then, we might not be able to read the digital artifacts created in this generation.
If you are not totally bummed by now, there are lots of predications about how humanity will end.
And now back to your regularly scheduled program...
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If you've been following my blog feed on developerWorks you will have been profoundly bored, for there's nothing that's been posted since September of last year.
Let me gently remark that this is why sound configuration management mechanisms are important: the script I'd used to cross post from my primary blog was broken during some innocent maintenance on the dW site. The good news is that the mechanism is now working, and so you'll see fresh posts on the dW blog regularly. If you want to read the posts I'd created since September, go here or snag the RSS feed here.
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Enough of the serious geeky topics; time for some fun geeky topics. If I want serious, I'll plot the steady decline of my investments, watching as their value approaches zero.
There's the widely distributed Dilbert of course, but I also track User Friendly and The Joy Of Tech. I get a daily fix of all three. From time to time I'll stop by Wired and ValleyWag; here's a bit from Wired on doomsday machines and another from ValleyWag on goofy computer ads.
Then there's Oxford's list of the top ten irritating phrases as well as a collection of sounds from failing hard drives.
Apparently there is a proven correlation between success and facial hair as demonstrated here.
The web is a wonderful repository of old commercials, such as EDS's airplane commercial, a futuristic set from AT&T, and also IBM's Magic Box (I love the music therein). Lots and lots of old IBM ads may be found if you poke around a bit.
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That's impressive.
Now that MBB is back, do we still have to pretend that WBB matters?
Just shows how bad PSU want to be good at wrestling. College Wrestling changed forever yesterday and will never be the same. I'm afraid ISU and Iowa may be on the outside looking in.
That is impressive. Imagine all of that for a program that hasn't been competitive for chamionships. I guess the only thing they were missing was a championship coach. We'll have to see if Cael is that coach.
Will will win!
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Like I've been saying all day. Brand new $4 million dedicated wrestling facility.
You can't tell me this didn't have anything to do with Cael's decision.
Does wrestling make money? I would think between coaches salaries, scholarships, travel expenses etc... ticket revenue would never cover the costs.
Originally Posted by superfan
Like I've been saying all day. Brand new $4 million dedicated wrestling facility.
You can't tell me this didn't have anything to do with Cael's decision.
Ask Clones85...it doesn't.
Originally Posted by IcSyU
Ask Clones85...it doesn't.
Ask IcSyU: He's getting $500k a year.
Originally Posted by clones_jer
Ask IcSyU: He's getting $500k a year.
While I was originally ******, I understand why he left now. Penn State has nearly every wrestling advantage over Iowa State with the exception of tradition. Their facilities are better, their budget is bigger, the recruiting is easier, and according to most reports, he's getting a raise. Our hands were unfortunately tied. Money talks, and we all have our price.
Wrestling loses money.
And to be honest in 20 years I don't know if it will even be a NCAA Sport. There is only like 85 D1 Teams left out there and they are dropping like flies because.........
A: No Money
B: Have to provide more womens programs
C: A lot of people don't like wrestling.
You can put lipstick on a turd (Penn State Wrestling other than new facilities) but its still a turd.
I personally want Cael and Gene to fail and that is my opinion. That way they might think....man I didn't have it so bad. I do appreciate what he did at ISU though.. That being said it would be hard to turn down a ton of money no matter who you are. I also wouldn't be surprised to see him back someday.
It doesn't matter is Wrestling makes $$$ or not. All you need is (1) Sugar Daddy that is willing to cough up Huge chunks of Cash. Pennsylvania is Big Wrestling State so you have a good base to work with.
Boy, $4 million doesn't go as far as it used to.
If $500k/year is correct, you can not blame Cael for Leaving and you can not blame Pollard for letting him go.
Maybe Penn State doesn't win much because of posh stuff like that. It makes them soft. I know when I wrestled in junior high I used to love going down into the dark and dingy wrestling room and sweating like a pig. Made me feel dirty, mean, and nasty.
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Date: January 10 2013
German tennis star Philipp Kohlschreiber continued his love affair with the Auckland Open on Thursday by reaching the semi-finals for the fourth time.
The tournament second seed, had a comfortable if unspectacular 7-6 6-4 quarter-final victory over Belgium's Xavier Malisse.
Both players served well in the first set, with Kohlschreiber the only player to face a break point on his serve, but the German took his chance in the tiebreak to win it eight points to six.
Kohlschreiber improved in the second set, producing some impressive forehand winners as Malisse's first serve dropped to 50 per cent.
It was enough for the German to secure the vital break of serve, and he closed the set out 6-4.
Kohlschreiber has been more successful in Auckland than any other tournament outside his home country, winning in 2008 and making the semi-finals on two other occasions before this year.
He will play Sam Querrey of the United States or Canadian Jesse Levine in the semi-finals.
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Time for another report on one of my latest travels. Since LA was operating a inner-European stretch on their A340-300, is wanted to fly on this aircraft. Until then, the A340-300 was still missing in my log (only few the A346 twice before), and LA is an interesting carrier as well. Timing of the flight, to combine it with other flights on a one-day-trip was good, and I looked into my possibilities, for a reasonable budget of course.
Booking of the LAN flight was done easily on their convenient website. Connecting flights were too expensive so I grabbed my hands on some oneway staff tickets via my employer.
The travel took place on July 22, 2008. Checked the early morning flight on KL, being quite full and therefore a risk to be offloaded. IB was full too, only C class available. Let's take the chance on their A321. Since I travelled IB not too long ago before (sorry guys, tripreport will come online later), I know that the legroom on IB is pretty good in Y.
I listed myself on IB, went to their check-in counter at 0730 hours and got a boarding pass without seat assignment. This is quite usual, when travelling as sublo.
Security was convenient, I have to say. Can be different some days at AMS. Without stopping at the taxfree shops or Starbucks, I went to gate B12. The A321 was already boarding.
I called at the desk, mentioned my intentions to travel on this flight, and got seat 28B assigned. Such a bummer, in a middle seat in the back of the A321. I don't like A321's in the rear cabin. They can be quite uncomfortable when you ask me.
I requested any other seat, got the reply that the flight was full, but nevertheless the lady printed another boardingpass with seat 8E, 'window seat' on a 2 seater-row. Flight attendant would be my neighbour in opposite direction. I was happy again
Boarding was done in a minute, my neighbour was a 4 year old boy (his mother was in row 10B). He was doing fine, only interested in his PSP and sometimes asking me questions about the aircraft and the flight to me. Doors closed, newspapers (also Dutch ones) distributed and staff was overall very friendly.
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Everyone at Hoffman Estates High School will read and experience a book this summer!
Hoffman Estates High School students are reading again this summer, 2012. Our reading program, known as "One Theme, One School," as implied, is theme based. This year, our program centers on the theme of coping. We are providing book choices which offer an authentic landscape of high school students dealing with the stresses and challenges of life.
Underwater by Alex Flinn (Fiction)
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father. L510
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Because these books deal realistically with the topic of coping, there may be situations and language in them that sensitive readers may find objectionable. However, the books provide an authentic landscape where high school students are faced with some tough challenges and can serve as a springboard to problem solving.
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