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Britney & Demi to Judge 'The X-Factor' – Official Announcement
Today, May 14, 2012, FOX held its annual Up Front event in New York City with Ryan Seacrest hosting! Earlier today, show executive Peter Rice and Kevin Reilly participated in a conference call — in which they revealed several details about their hit shows Glee, American Idol and The X-Factor. Also, they unveiled several shows set to premiere this fall. Check out all coverage here.
The biggest buzz-worthy news, however, was the official announcement of X-Factor judges Britney Spears and Demi Lovato. Both were in attendance at the event — which kicked off at 4 PM EST. Also making an appearance were Glee's Naya Rivera, Lea Michele, Jane Lynch, Darren Criss, Chris Colfer, Jenna Ushowitz and Cory Monteith.
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Multi-platinum, Grammy Award-winning worldwide pop icon Britney Spears and singer, songwriter and actress Demi Lovato will join L.A. Reid and Simon Cowell as judges on THE X FACTOR, the hit singing competition series returning this fall on FOX.
Spears is one of the most successful and celebrated entertainers in pop history. Her musical career boasts nearly 100 million albums sold worldwide and countless awards and accolades, including the 2011 MTV Video Vanguard Award and Billboard's Best-Selling Female Artist of the Decade (1998-2008). Spears first captivated audiences with her first single "…Baby One More Time," an international hit that is currently 14x Platinum in the U.S. So far, Spears has earned a total of five No.1 debut albums and 24 Top 40 songs in her career.
Lovato is an accomplished singer and actress with a devoted and engaged young fan base. Her single, "Skyscraper," off of her most recent album, "Unbroken," recently went platinum, while the video for her new single, "Give Your Heart a Break," already has garnered 10 million YouTube views. Her first album, "Don't Forget," debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart and her second album, "Here We Go Again," debuted at No. 1. Lovato began acting at the age of 10, and starred in the cable television series, "Sonny With A Chance." Her film credits include "Camp Rock" and "Princess Protection Program."
"I'm absolutely delighted Britney and Demi are joining us," said Simon Cowell. "Britney remains one of the biggest stars in the world, she's talented, fascinating – and I believe she knows exactly how to spot THE X FACTOR. Demi's had an amazing career in music, TV and film for someone her age. She's young, confident, and enthusiastic. I think it's really important that she speaks to our younger audience. The new panel will be dynamic and will work really well with the changes we are making to the show."
Spears added, "I couldn't be more excited to join THE X FACTOR judging panel. I'm a huge fan of the show and now I get to be a part of the action. Simon and L.A. better watch out!"
"I'm so thrilled to join this legendary group of judges on THE X FACTOR," said Lovato. "To be able to spend each week with Simon, L.A. and Britney watching the best that America has to offer is truly a dream come true."
Mike Darnell, President of Alternative Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company, noted, "Britney is an unparalleled superstar. Her success in the music industry over the last two decades makes her a perfect fit for THE X FACTOR judging panel. Demi has mass appeal and is beloved by her fans around the world. We are incredibly lucky to have them on board and we know they will bring so much excitement to the judging table for Season Two!"
"Britney Spears has done it all – she is the ultimate pop icon – and I am thrilled that she has agreed to join THE X FACTOR," said executive producer Cecile Frot-Coutaz. "Nobody embodies THE X FACTOR more than Britney – she has shown the world what it means, how to do it and how to sustain it! Demi, like Britney, was discovered at a young age. Her ambition and drive solidifies her as one of the most popular young artists today. Now they will each get a chance to share their experiences and skills with the acts that they will mentor on THE X FACTOR."
In its first season on FOX, THE X FACTOR shot to the top of the ratings as the No. 1 unscripted series of the fall and currently ranks as a Top 10 series among Adults 18-49 and the No. 1 new series among Women 18-49.
THE X FACTOR is searching for undiscovered talent 12 years old or over – both solo artists and vocal groups – who are willing to brave the panel for a chance to win a $5 million recording contract with Syco/Sony Music. Interested solo artists and vocal groups should sign up now for audition information at www.fox.com/theXfactor.
In a departure from other singing competition series, the first time contestants audition for THE X FACTOR judges, they will do so in front of an audience of thousands – raising the stakes and increasing the pressure to impress not only the judges, but also a potential legion of fans. This will be the ultimate test to prove they have the vocal ability, charisma and stage presence that it takes to win an unprecedented $5 million recording contract with Syco/Sony Music.
THE X FACTOR was created by Syco Television and is produced by Syco Television and FremantleMedia North America. Rob Wade and Siobhan Greene are executive producers for Syco Television. Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Richard Holloway and Andrew Llinares serve as executive producers for FremantleMedia North America.
About Britney Spears
In a little more than a decade, Britney Spears has sold nearly 100 million records worldwide, making her the fourth best-selling female artist ever in America. Born in Mississippi and raised in Louisiana, Spears became a household name as a teenager when she released her first single "…Baby One More Time." Her recently released album, "Femme Fatale," includes the No.1 hit "Hold it Against Me," and additional hits "Till the World Ends," "I Wanna Go" and "Criminal." "Femme Fatale" is her seventh studio album since her 1999 debut album, "…Baby One More Time," which broke sales records selling over 27 million copies worldwide and established Britney as a prominent figure in popular music and culture. Spears also recorded high-grossing albums "Oops!.I Did It Again"; "Britney"; "Blackout"; and "Circus." An artist so beloved that she inspired her own episode of GLEE, Spears began crafting her most recent album, "Femme Fatale," while on the road for "The Circus Starring Britney Spears" tour. The tour grossed more than $130 million to become the fifth highest grossing tour ever by a female. Spears has been nominated for eight Grammy Awards and won for Best Dance Recording in 2005.
About Demi Lovato
Singer and actress Demi Lovato started in show business as a pre-teen and rose quickly. By the time she was 15, she was a bona fide TV star cultivating a promising singing career. In the late 2000s, while maintaining a rigorous TV and film shooting schedule, Lovato released two massively successful solo albums, "Don't Forget" (2008) and "Here We Go Again" (2009); the former debuted at No. 2, the latter at No. 1.
She recently hit the studio with an all-star list of collaborators, including Timbaland, Jason Derulo, Ryan Tedder and Missy Elliot on her 2011 album "Unbroken." The first single, "Skyscraper," debuted at No. 1 on iTunes' chart and recently went Platinum. Lovato's new single, "Give Your Heart a Break," is cruising up the Top 40 radio charts, while the music video has reached over 10 million YouTube views, as she has some of the most engaged fans in the business. Earlier this year, Demi accepted the People's Choice Award for Favorite Pop Artist, an award chosen solely by the fans. This summer, she will embark on a 21-date U.S. tour.
THE X FACTOR launched in the U.S. in Sept. 2011 on FOX, immediately becoming the No. 1 unscripted show this fall. It was FOX's highest-rated Wednesday night premiere in 13 years among Adults 18-49. The show averaged a 4.3/12 among Adults 18-49, and averaged 12.6 million viewers. THE X FACTOR significantly improved FOX's year-over-year time period performance on Wednesday and Thursday nights among Adults 18-49 by +52% and+40% respectively. Local versions of "The X Factor" are now produced in more than 40 territories and the U.S. version of THE X FACTOR airs in over 162 countries. Artists discovered by "The X Factor" format have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including 110 No. 1, 270 Top 10 and 501 Top 50 releases. THE X FACTOR was created by Syco Television and is produced by Syco Television and FremantleMedia North America. Rob Wade and Siobhan Greene are executive producers for Syco Television. Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Richard Holloway and Andrew Llinares serve as executive producers for FremantleMedia North America.
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AMHERST, Mass. - Nebraska-Omaha's David Brisson scored just 18 seconds into overtime to hand the Massachusetts ice hockey team a 3-2 non-conference defeat at the Mullins Center. The loss drops UMass' record to 1-2-0 overall, while UNO improved to 3-3-0.
The Minutemen got on the board early in the first period on freshman Stephen Werner's (Chevy Chase, Md.) first career goal. The goal came on assists from Tim Turner (Saginaw, Mich.) and Thomas P?ck (Klagenfurt, Austria) as Turner found a wide-open Werner in the crease, who wristed a shot to the top-right corner for a 1-0 cushion.
UNO tied the game at 1-1 in the first period and then proceeded to take a 2-1 advantage early in the second period. The Minutemen, as they did in last Sunday's win over Rensselaer, rallied in the third period, tying the game just 14 seconds in. Freshman Matt Anderson (West Islip, N.Y.) scored the team's first power-play goal of the season with assists from Turner and freshman Peter Alden (West Tisbury, Mass.). Anderson beat UNO goalie Dan Ellis from close range as the Minutemen worked the puck around and found Anderson open in the slot.
However, playing 4-on-4, UNO used a 2-on-1 rush early in the overtime session and ended it as Brisson beat UMass goalie Gabe Winer (Stoughton, Mass.) from the right slot to the top left corner.
UMass will enter Hockey East play in earnest next weekend as No. 9-ranked Providence comes to the Mullins Center for a 7:00 p.m. Friday game. On Saturday night, the Minutemen travel to Northeastern for their first road game of the year.
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I see what's going on here. That's why you're so damn good, Meryl. Don't just *want* the Oscar. *BE* the Oscar!
Do I Have A Migraine? What is going on with the bottom of that dress?! Is it photoshopped?! That thing with the extra side and the peekaboo leg? Don't tell me it's real because it simply isn't. And what happened to the other strap?! I hated Inception.
Cameron, there once was a time when I would've been thrilled to see you in a white/off-white/beige dress. That time may still be now. Your face is saying what my mind is thinking: Yeah, not so much with this thing. Even the dress knows it. Those ruffles there trying to peel away and escape, the bottom frills dragging defeated on the carpet--they don't understand why the top half of that dress refuses to be a team player. Roll over and play dead is a game for puppies, not Oscar fabric.
I never believed that old story about the Yankees choosing uniforms with lines to make Babe Ruth seem slimmer because could anyone really think that would ever work? Anyone other than J-Lo channeling Hipster Ariel, of course.
I see what's going on here. That's why you're so damn good, Meryl. Don't just *want* the Oscar. *BE* the Oscar!
No honey, you heard wrong. The phrase is "Put a BIRD on it." Not a bow. It detracts from your red pantaloons.
This dress is a fine mess of cloth, fit for a supporting stepsister in Ever After. My grandmother can't get over the choice of color. Looks just like her couches from The War.


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Zack Rosen emerged as one of the great basketball players in Penn history, winning the Ivy League Player of the Year award unanimously in his senior season this past year and earning an honorable mention AP All-America. The 6'1 point guard from New Jersey is the school's all-time leader in assists, games started and minutes played and is third all time in scoring, 3-point field goals and free throw percentage.
Rosen talked to Sporting News about his career, his draft chances and his career against another Ivy League grad named Jeremy Lin.
Sporting News: You had a standout career at Penn, winning the Ivy League POY unanimously in your senior season. To this point, what are the fondest memories of your playing career?
Zack Rosen: My fondest memories of playing have to be two signature wins -- Cornell at home my sophomore year when they were ranked 22nd in the country and at Harvard my senior year. The guys really came together during those two moments and the atmosphere in the locker room after those two games signified what team sports are all about. Overall, I just enjoyed the entire process and working through all the challenges. Playing in the Palestra and the Big 5 is something special.
SN: You graduated from the Wharton School of Business at Penn. What was it like balancing such a rigorous academic program with the grind of the college hoops season?
Rosen: It was definitely a challenge, but it's something that I've done my whole life. Going to Wharton and playing ball was a choice that I made, and I committed to it. I thoroughly enjoyed my experience and wouldn't trade it for anything.
SN: Who were the best two or three players you went up against in college or high school and why?
Rosen:: Randy Foye -- so strong and difficult to defend. He can really shoot it deep and has great body control
Ty Lawson -- fastest player on the planet. Period.
SN: I have to ask the obligatory Jeremy Lin question. What was it like playing against him in college and could you ever imagine him becoming this successful in the NBA?
Rosen: You're right, you do have to ask that question. Jeremy Lin is a great competitor and one hell of a ball player. He's an underrated athlete especially laterally, and I'm personally very happy for him. There are a lot of guys who, when given the right opportunity in the right situation at the right time, can really shine and show their true abilities. To Jeremy Lin's credit, he remained focused and worked hard during his time on the bench. He was always ready. That's not the easiest thing to do, but he kept his attitude in check and I think we can all agree that it paid off.
SN: You hired famous player agent Leon Rose to represent you. What led you to make that decision?
Rosen: There were a lot of factors, but in the end, Leon is a straight shooter who identifies with my story as an underdog. He appreciates and respects my ability and work ethic. We like his honest approach.
SN: What teams have you worked out for thus far and what basketball exercises did they have you work on?
Rosen: The Sixers and Nets. I went through shooting drills, some ball handling, and a lot of competitive scenarios.
SN: What NBA team or system do you think would best fit your playing style, and what player would you compare your game to?
Rosen:: A team that plays predominately pick-and-roll ball and has shooting on the floor. The up-tempo game also caters to my strengths. I fancy myself like Goran Dragic but I think I'm more in the mold of a Luke Ridnour or J.J. Barea.
SN: If you don't make an NBA roster for next season, what's your contingency plan?
Rosen: Europe, preferably Israel. But anywhere really.
SN: Where do you see yourself in five years?
Rosen: Wherever all this hard work and dedication leads me.
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As ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on July 16, 2014
H.R. 3572 would update a map of the Coastal Barrier Resources System (CBRS) near Wilmington, North Carolina. Based on information from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CBO estimates that implementing the legislation would have no significant effect on the federal budget. Because H.R. 3572 could affect direct spending, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. However, we estimate that any net change in direct spending would be negligible over the 2015-2024 period. Enacting the bill would not affect revenues.
The bill would revise CBRS maps for several units within the system and, on net, add 764 acres of land to the CBRS. The modified maps would exclude certain private acreage, which would enable owners of about 30 structures to purchase federal flood insurance. CBO estimates that, relative to current law, enacting H.R. 3572 could increase premium collections of the National Flood Insurance Fund by less than $100,000 annually. Such collections would be offset by new mandatory spending for underwriting and administrative expenses and new flood insurance claims over the 2015-2024 period.
H.R. 3572 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments.


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Is it possible to repair a poor reputation or is it a lost cause?
After reading the details on this subject it seems as though it isn't very likely, but maybe others here have already experienced this problem and rectified it?


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An air hand held abrasive cut off saw is much faster, with less sweat.
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It all adds up
What started as a school that taught high school-aged boys arithmetic and writing has evolved into a school with high-demand majors in sciences.
With a liberal-arts education in the Jesuit tradition, the University of Scranton now offers 61 major programs, 43 minors, and 29 concentrations and tracks for undergraduate students and 25 master's programs. Adult and evening programs are also available.
The university's most in-demand majors are those in the sciences and health sciences fields, said Joseph Roback, associate vice president of admissions and undergraduate enrollment.
Students are looking at the biology, neuroscience and biochemistry fields, and pursuing a pre-medical school track, Mr. Roback said.
Occupational therapy, physical therapy and nursing are also "extremely popular," he said.
"Parents and families are not only looking at career majors that lead to jobs," Mr. Roback said. "Having a very strong liberal arts background is critical. Your ability to think, ability to write, reason ⦠those factors are so critical."
Pre-med, pre-health
The school has also seen success with its pre-medical and pre-health professional programs.
During the past 14 years, of the 563 senior applicants to health professions schools, an average of 79 percent have gained acceptance to schools of medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, podiatry and optometry. That percentage is nearly twice the national average, according to the university.
Richard H. Passon, Ph.D., who served as the school's provost from 1984 to 2000, and as a faculty member from 1964 to 1973, helped develop what is now the Panuska College of Professional Studies.
He also saw graduate programs grow and the development of some of the university's most popular majors, including physical therapy and occupational therapy.
Students also began focusing on professional programs, and if they still majored in philosophy or theology, then often double-majored in another subject, Dr. Passon said.
As the university has expanded, the number of faculty members has grown to 290 full time, and the amount of research has increased.
Students can participate in faculty-student research programs and summer research fellowships.
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Even if SPLS reports better earnings than guided (remember 60 million of last quarters earnings miss was b/c of bad weather in the N.E.)the overall market will hold us back. Unless private equity comes in for a buyout,(WMT announced that it is looking at making a run at BJs Wholesale to grow sales)things don't look good for SPLS. I'm looking to roll my Jan. 12 options which are now way out of the money...Thoughts? GL
I have noticed alot of large block after hour trades.Office Depot & Office Max each popped 15% after earnings were announced.But even only 2 weeks ago the economic climate and outlook were different than now. Lets hope for the best on 8/17...GL


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World War II German Saboteur. Born in Berlin, Germany in 1908, he had a difficult childhood, being left with foster parents at age two. Returned to his mother at age 12, he lived with her in Hanover, and as an adult he became a mechanic by trade. In 1927 went to visit his uncle in Schenectady, New York, where he attended night school to learn English and worked for General Electric for three years before being laid off. Quirin then went to New York City and worked odd jobs. In 1936 he married, and became a member of the German-American Bund and a Party member. In 1939 Quirin and his wife returned to Germany and got a job at the Volkswagen plant in Braunschweig, where he met Heinrich Heinck. After World War II began he and Heinck were recruited for "Operation Pastorius", an operation designed to slow down American war production. He landed from a U-Boat at Long Island in June 1942, but was among five others, including Heinck, who were captured by the FBI after another member of the mission informed on them. Tried by a military tribunal, all six died in the District of Columbia electric chair on August 8, 1942. These agents were buried in the potters field at Blue Plains, DC., with Quirin being buried under a wooden marker numbered 276. In 1982 a granite marker was placed at the burial site. Quirin is perhaps most remembered today for the Supreme Court decision on the military tribunal's right to try these agents during World War Two. The court decision is known as Ex parte Quirin, which President George W. Bush's military order authorizing a commission to try terrorists after September 11, 2001 is based upon.
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EDIT: Looks like it was just a problem with my personal Firefox. I reinstalled it and now works fine. Something must have gotten tripped and blocked the site on accident, though god only knows how it happened, been using this program since it came out and never had such a problem other than on sites that were specifically blocking Firefox (due to the availability of ad blockers for it). All better now. Feel free to chuck this thread in the dustbin.
I can't get on using Firefox currently. The site works fine, just the forum seems to be off-limits. I can ping it fine, get on it using IE just fine, but Firefox just idles trying to connect.
Anyone know what is up with this, or a way to get around it? I would really prefer not to have to switch to IE every time I wanted to come on here.


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A clinical phrase book in English and German: containing the usual questions & answers employed in examining and prescribing for patients, questions in asking for and buying medicines, etc. : with an English-German and German-English pronouncing lexicon of all the words occuring in the phrases, with the chief technical terms of medical writers and apothecaries : grammatical appendix, table of idioms, &c. designed to aid physicians and surgeons in hospitals, alms-house and private practice, also, druggists and pharmaceutists in dispensing their prescriptions
- Other Title(s):
- Klinisches Phrasen-Buch in der deutschen und englischen Sprache
- Publication Date:
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We've started seeing a number of computers with an annoying box that keeps popping up in Internet Explorer 8. It is the dialaog box that states:
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It gets annoying after a while. I know Microsoft is trying to keep us safe from all sorts of bad stuff, but it appears to happen on web pages more often than not.So... How do we turn off this annoying box? It's actually pretty simple.
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BOSTON It is difficult to overstate the role of the Boston Redevelopment Authority in the modern history of the city.
Its name suggests a staid, obscure bureaucracy. But the agency, birthed during the urban renewal push of the 1950s and endowed with considerable power, has had a profound and often controversial impact on the city's topography.
It razed the West End. It coaxed construction of the Prudential Center. More recently, it has played a vital role in shaping the South Boston waterfront — a raging success by some lights and a soulless expanse by others.
For a certain class of civic leader, then — politician, developer, neighborhood activist — the fate of the agency is a matter of great import.
So while issues like education and public safety grab headlines in the city's most competitive mayor's race in a generation, the future of the BRA — and of Boston development, writ large — has quietly emerged as a significant issue in the forums and living room meet-and-greets that have dominated the early stages of the campaign.
There is agreement in some areas: all of the major candidates in the 12-person field have called for greater transparency at an agency often criticized for favoring the mayor's preferred developers.
But City Councilor Felix Arroyo and Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Executive Director John Barros have gone a step further: calling for a significant restructuring of the BRA.
In most cities, planning and development are handled by separate agencies with sometimes competing priorities; there is a natural tension between the long-range work of planning and the urgency of getting projects in the ground.
The BRA owes its power, in no small part, to a state law giving it authority in both realms. And the agency, critics say, too often short-circuits the process — building first and planning later.
The result, they say, is an ad hoc approach that's yielded characterless towers in the Seaport District and an overabundance of luxury housing in Chinatown.
"It is such a good idea to include both planning and development in the same agency," said Arroyo, at a recent forum in Brighton, "that no other city in the country does it."
Arroyo and Barros say they would push for a state law stripping the BRA of its planning authority and shifting that power to a separate agency. Both argue the move would help the city engage in thoughtful comprehensive planning — and, in the process, give residents a better chance to shape their own neighborhoods.
"We need to create a more inclusive planning process in Boston so residents feel they have a seat at the table and their voice counts," said Barros.
Other candidates have spoken more tentatively of separating the planning and development functions.
Construction executive and community activist Bill Walczak told WBUR he's "open to the idea of splitting the BRA into two pieces" but has not yet decided if the agency's shortcomings are a structural issue or simply a matter of leadership.
City Councilor John Connolly said the city needs to "remove the conflict of interest" that comes with integrated planning and development. But he said it's not clear that planning must be removed from the BRA entirely.
Other mayoral candidates are skeptical of the reformist impulse — and none more than City Councilor Rob Consalvo.
"The city is at its highest standing in its history, right?" he said in a recent interview. "We have cranes all over the city dotting the skyline…So I'm confused as to what is so bad that [the BRA] is doing."
And splitting the planning and development functions would be of little consequence, he argued, since both will remain under the auspices of the mayor.
"What does that accomplish?" Consalvo asked. "It's going to be more transparent because you took [the planning function] off the ninth floor and put it on the seventh floor?"
Like Consalvo, Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley, state Rep. Marty Walsh and City Councilor Mike Ross say no structural change is required to improve the BRA. "It's very simple: you need to plan first and build second," said Ross. "It's not about creating additional bureaucracies."
BRA's emergence as a power center traces back to 1960, when Mayor John Collins recruited city planner Ed Logue to take over the new agency.
Logue's condition for taking the job: a state law that folded the city's planning agency into the BRA, giving him broad powers.
He quickly made use of them, putting one-quarter of the city's land in urban renewal districts and building Government Center and City Hall on the rubble of the old Scollay Square.
When urban renewal fell out of vogue, the agency took up its modern-day role of reviewing proposed development and serving as landlord — renting and selling city-owned property.
The BRA, which declined to comment for this story, has always been a reflection of the mayor's personality and vision. Under Kevin White, downtown took precedence. Ray Flynn pushed more control to the neighborhoods.
Larry DiCara, a lawyer and former city councilor who has represented developers before the BRA, said it's been a balance under outgoing Mayor Thomas Menino.
"But it's a perilous balance," he said, "because XYZ company can take their money and go to Atlanta or Houston or even Washington, D.C., and get stuff done much more quickly than they can in Boston."
Decentralizing power and slowing down the process even further, DiCara argued, will make Boston less competitive in an increasingly competitive national and international marketplace.
Fred Salvucci, who began his career at the BRA and went on to serve as transportation adviser to White and secretary of transportation under Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, also cautioned against a shakeup at the agency.
Good development, he said, requires sound political judgment — a mayor who can fend off neighborhood NIMBYism where appropriate and incorporate local concerns when called for.
A faceless planning board, he argued, is not nearly as accountable as a mayor elected every four years. "It's an imperfect world," he said, "and I'd rather take my chances with democracy."
Even the most critical mayoral candidates say they've seen the BRA work well in their backyards. Barros points to the agency's record in the Dudley Street section of Roxbury. And Ross lauds the planning process in the Fenway, part of his council district.
There will be outside pressure on the new mayor, moreover, to keep the BRA strong. David Begelfer, CEO of Massachusetts NAIOP, an influential commercial real estate trade group, argued that the agency is not powerful enough.
Too often, he said, developers come to an agreement with the BRA only to be knocked about by a parks department demanding more green space or neighborhood groups that can delay a project endlessly.
But it is precisely that order of operations — win approval and then go the neighborhood — that angers critics of Boston's development process.
Shirley Kressel, an urban designer and longtime critic of the BRA, said the agency needs to be eliminated altogether — "extirpated," in her words. But she doubts that the new mayor, whoever it is, will push even incremental reform.
The power the agency affords the man or woman in the corner office, she says, is simply too great.
"You can have breakfast with a developer, promise him whatever the hell he wants and go out and make it legal," she said. "It's like a miracle, enough to make you religious."


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STILLWATER — When Kansas State's Rodney McGruder went off in the second half, fueling a 73-67 win over Oklahoma State to open Big 12 Conference play, injured Cowboys guard Brian Williams sat helplessly on the bench, knowing that was his man.
"All respect to Rodney, but I don't think he would have scored 26 on me," said Williams, OSU's defensive stopper who has yet to play, after breaking his left wrist in the preseason.
Games like that only fueled Williams' desire to return to the floor, a return that creeps closer to reality.
Once deemed out for the season, Williams has rejoined practices with the Cowboys and is targeting next week for his game debut, with only a final doctor's clearance standing in the way.
"I'm hoping for next Tuesday," Williams said.
A preseason starter for the Cowboys, the 6-foot-5 swingman averaged 12.3 points during the team's four-game exhibition tour of Spain. As a redshirt freshman a year ago, he started the final 20 games, averaging 11.8 points and 3.3 rebounds in conference play. Beyond the stat line, Williams is considered OSU's best defender, able to defend guards and forwards alike.
"I'm really excited," Williams said. "I see us keep losing these games, the ones we lost by like six to eight points. I feel like I can come up with six to eight points, get a few rebounds, a few stops."
The plan for Williams is to continue practicing, go through another round of X-rays or possibly an MRI, then hope for final clearance from doctors.
How fast and how much he plays will rely on continued progress.
"They say it's healing great, I've just got to get back comfortable with it," said Williams, who has been fitted with a brace. "I practiced for the first time (Wednesday). It got hit a couple times. I had to walk it off; then I got back in. But it's better than I thought."
Cowboys coach Travis Ford said he won't rush Williams or his own expectations of a return.
"Who knows when he's going to be playing?" Ford said Thursday. "It's just a process we're going through. If he says he's ready to go, we might give him a shot. Right now, it's day-to-day."
And right now, Ford said, Williams needs work.
"He's out there. He's running around," Ford said. "But as you might expect, very hesitant. He's got a little ways to go to get ready, I think, to contribute as much as I hope he can contribute.
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After a shower, lunch, and a siesta, we did an afternoon hike that looped around to the macaw nesting area where we had gotten into the canoes on the first afternoon. This hike is usually done the morning of the third day, but Klaus took us as I wasn't able to do spend the extra day and I wanted to know as much as I could about what our clients normally experience. We didn't see many nesting macaws as it was the afternoon, but we did see several more groups of monkeys and lots of other birds. We then got into one of the canoes and we were paddled around the lake - when we saw the giant otters again!! We couldn't believe our good luck - twice in one day! Klaus motioned some other guides on the lake over with groups, but they all missed the otters. We told Klaus and Ronald they were the star guides; they said we were good luck. We also got to see a young spider monkey that was very close to our canoe trying to crack a nut on a tree, and he stayed there for a long time performing acrobatic tricks for us. Again, we were able to experience a gorgeous sunset while out on the water.


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The November 15 Environment Committee meeting at City Hall will receive three Plans coming out of the Choosing Our Future process.
One of these Plans is said to include the community greenhouse gas reduction targets for Ottawa.
Ottawans concerned about climate change should tell their Councillor that they know these are coming and that they're hoping for strong targets.
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I don't see my comment. I have grave concerns that in the hype about climate change, there is no discussion of the geoengineering or climate remediation, which is being presented as the only option to save the planet; that and taxing us still further by imposing a carbon tax. If the planes now geoengineering the atmosphere, spraying us with nano-particles such as aluminum, barium and polymers were to stop, this would allow the atmoslphere to release the build up of gases. The planes and their emissions, as well as the substances they are spraying are wrecking havoc on the environment and on people's health.
Please see http://www.agriculturedefensecoalition.org/content/geoengineering-c..., as well as aircrap.org for a primer on these issues.
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As much as I abhor today's events, is America willing to consider an alternative to its current Middle-East policy? Many Americans don't realize how much there nation is hated or at least not liked because of it's international policy. Today's events show how serious some groups are about sticking it to the US. People are willing to die to make their cause known. It all comes down to Israel. We have had many fights here in the forums on this topic. Many Americans support Israel manily because of what the media feeds them .
If this escalates to a war, will Americans start to ponder why we unconditionally spoon feed Israel?
I mean really, what has Israel done for the United States?
What vital resource does Israel hold that will lead America to sacrifice her son's & daughters?
I hate to say it but I think Sharon (Israel PM) is just as happy as those Palestinians displayed on CNN.
This will really gain support from the American public to stand by Israel.
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Cars 2 had everything going for it. It was a sequel to a massively successful film from a company that has successfully executed sequels before. The main man in animation, John Lasseter, helmed the project and co-directed it with Brad Lewis. Too much of a sure thing is sometimes just that and Cars 2 proved this with Pixars first critical failure.
To rally from the financial woes of such a crappy film, Disney Home Entertainment is using its superb marketing skills. On November 1, the company will release Cars 2 on 3D Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray, DVD and Movie Download. To sweeten the deal, the Cars 2 release will offer all kinds of packages with many different special features in the hopes one of them will get your engine roaring.
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Unless your kids are the avid Cars franchise lovers my ex-boss kids are, you might be better off not purchasing Cars 2, at all. If you want to make your Cars 2 buying short, sweet and painless, the Movie Download might be your best option. The download presents a special behind-the-scenes look at how Pixar artists and filmmakers make movies in over 40 different languages for audiences around the world to enjoy. Its a small world, after all.
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Indias offer of a $5bn line of credit to help Africa achieve its development goals over the next three years, and another $700mn to train and establish the new institutions Africa so desperately needs, is the biggest support programme the government has ever announced. That underscores how serious India is about winning African hearts. In addition, bilateral trade is projected to rise to $70bn by 2015 from $46bn now. Apart from Indian investment of $25bn so far (this includes Bharti Airtels $10bn Zain purchase) in Africa, theres help for medium-range weather forecasting, a collaborative institute for agriculture Whats important is that India is not operating in a vacuum. Given its higher GDP, the fact that it got into the Africa game earlier, the fact that it actually owns its $3tn forex reserves by virtue of large trade surpluses, China is streets ahead. Its investments in Africa are around $127bn. Indias biggest hope is that while Chinas investments are exploitative, Indias are aimed at African people. Investments in Africas mines, it can be argued, are aimed at fuelling Chinas growth, and do little to help locals The Economists cover story on Chinas Africa foray is replete with horror stories of spilled oil lakes, poor mine safety, and the lot. By contrast, lower call rates from Bharti-Zain will benefit Africas aam aadmi.
But it isnt so simple. Infrastructure that stays in Africa helps the aam aadmi starting from the 1,860-km long Tanzania-Zambia railway, the 58,000-sq mt Cairo conference centre, to a harbour in Mauritania (see Mark Mobiuss article in the adjoining columns) and a lot more, Chinas presence is overwhelming. Chinas purchase of a fifth of Standard Bank, the continents biggest bank, means its Africa influence will rise. Its bilateral trade with Africa is thrice Indias, and it even has a trade deficit with Africa. Indias hearts-and-minds strategy, and leading with private sector firms, may still windont forget Indias GDP growth will be higher than Chinas in a few years and is less resource-intensivebut will take some doing. The government track record in building infrastructure is dismal, so it is to be hoped the $300mn aid for the Ethio-Djibouti railway line will be used up by private firms. Indias track record in weather forecasting or creating agriculture institutions in recent decades is equally uninspiring. Indias best hope is its private sectorthe ICICIs, the Daburs, the Taj Group, Punj Lloyd, Ranbaxy, Cipla, Bharti Airtel They were focusing on Africa anyway, but the Prime Ministers visit has raised the hope the government will do its best to help them venture into Africathe kind of help that wasnt forthcoming when Sunil Mittal wanted the government to allow dual listing of firms, critical to the success of the MTN deal he was working on.


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Nowhere but Cannes would 2500 media urgently assemble in one place to see a movie at 8:30 AM. As Quentin Tarantino himself said at the jam-packed Inglourious Basterds press conference, "There's no place like Cannes for filmmakers on the face of the earth. It's Cinema Nirvana during this time here on the Riviera. Cinema matters. It's important. Even when people boo --out of passion--it's not just images glazing over you. All the world film press on the planet earth, America, Finland, Iceland, Greenland, even Canada--that's a country--something about them all being here, you drop the movie--bam!--at once everyone weighs in at the same time...I'm not an American filmmaker, I make movies for the planet earth and Cannes represents that."
Well, the press did not boo Inglourious Basterds. Nor, judging from my sampling of critics afterwards, are they anointing it his best. Several wanted to think about it, to figure out what if anything, is missing. "I liked it," said one American festival programmer. "It's not his best," said one French critic. "It's cynical," said another. "The women are great," said one online woman critic.
Could anything live up to the hype? Inglourious Basterds is great fun to watch, but the movie isn't entirely engaging. And it is defiantly an art film, not a calculatedly mainstream entertainment. (Likely to score far better in Europe than anywhere else, the movie may not singlehandedly generate enough boxoffice to save The Weinstein Co.) Tarantino throws you out of the movie with titles, chapter headings, snatches of music. You don't jump into the world of the film in a participatory way; you watch it from a distance, appreciating the references and the masterful mise-en-scene. This is a film that will benefit from a second viewing. I can't wait to see it again.
"It's definitely outrageous, which I was fine for," said a diplomatic Brad Pitt. "These films don't come along very often." He applauded Tarantino for getting the movie made so efficiently, only six weeks after Pitt agreed to star. The two men had been circling each other for a time, and Tarantino was delighted to have written a Pitt-friendly role. The Weinstein Co. and partner Universal International greenlit the picture last summer, after the filmmaker finally found Christoph Waltz to play the key multi-lingual role of Col. Hans Landa. Tarantino was ready to pull the plug if he didn't find the right actor, he said. "The movie was either going to be right on or not going to be at all." (Waltz and fellow German Daniel Bruhl both kissed Tarantino after he said nice things about them.) Basterds wrapped just three months ago, winding up with a running time of two hours 27.
Tarantino set out to make a World War II genre film inspired by the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone (he splashes Ennio Morricone on the soundtrack). "I like dealing in genres, all right?" he said today. "There's westerns, war movies, musicals, swashbucklers...I always liked the sub-genre of genre...a bunch of guys on a mission."
[SPOILER ALERT]Tarantino has fashioned a parallel World War II anti-Nazi fantasy that hangs on his characters. "I am God as far as the characters are concerned," he said. "I created them." But he does not play by the rules. This is a world where anyone can get killed at any moment. The movie stirs up a mixed bag of references and knee-jerk reactions to Nazis as The Basterds, a Jewish-American army troop led by L.T. Aldo Raine (a redneck broadly rendered by Pitt), set out on a mission to collect 100 Nazi scalps, each. (Yes, we see close-up scalpings.) This aspect of the movie is given somewhat short shrift (which may disappoint Tarantino's action fans) as we move onto the central plot, to destroy the entire Nazi high command at a movie theatre in one fell swoop. In this movie, as Tarantino says, "the power of cinema brings down the Third Reich."
Besides Col. Landa, the two best roles in the movie are played by French actress Melanie Laurent as the owner of a cinema and Diane Kruger as a German movie star not unlike Hildegard
Knecht Knef. Thanks to Tarantino, said Laurent, "women can be independent in a period film."
Tarantino doesn't ask us to identify with good guys vs. bad guys, he admitted at the press conference. It's more complicated than that. For example, in an ingenious scene that introduces the members of the Basterds, a relatively honorable Nazi who refuses to collaborate with Raine, for example, gets pounded to death with a baseball bat by Sgt. Donny Donowitz (Eli Roth). At the press conference, Roth described playing that scene as "kosher porn," "like performing a sex scene."
Inglourious Basterds is necessarily episodic, separated into sequences. The first, set in the countryside of Nazi-occupied France, is genius. It's a two-hander between self-styled Jew Hunter Colonel Landa and a French farmer (Denis Menochet) seeking to protect his lovely three daughters. Inspired by the opening sequence of Heaven's Gate, this is Tarantino at his absolute best.
As for the film's badly spelled title, Tarantino refused to explain his thinking. "It's an artistic flourish," he said.
Here's Michael Fleming's pre-interview with Tarantino. And my own The Daily Beast round-up of eight movies with buzz.
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Murder and gang wars in Washington, D.C., including some who make it and some who don't. Helps with understanding of how people get caught up in these activities by looking at long time relationships of people who go to grade school together, then either prison, job or college. Warning: Some coverage of dog fighting.
Wow! This is his best so far and probably the closest in sensibility to The Wire. Yet there are no cops in it. Well, a few glimpses of them but they're not the protagonists. The POVs most of the time belong to 1) Lorenzo, still on parole, working diligently for a pet rescue organization and pretty close to never going back to prison, and to 2) Rachel Lopez, his parole officer, who is privately struggling with an alcohol and possible sex addiction. Female POV is not George's strong point, which is why I give this 4 stars.
Otherwise, this is pretty damn good, better than a mere airport time killer. I'd emphasize that this isn't a police procedural or a mystery; the murders of and by drug dealers unfold before us. The second shoot-out was so well done; I was figuratively on the edge of my seat!
I spotted private eye Derek Strange once but he never appears by name. Although of course it takes place in DC, Drama City reminds me of The Wire because of the fullness of most of the bad guys' characters: They could have gone another way. Because of their broken homes, parents in jail, the temptations and material attractions, they didn't.
As in his other books, Pelecanos frequently rounds back to the turning point age for boys: that's high school, especially early high school. Maybe there was an attraction to sports, a book, a career: these boys could have gone another way or they still can but ... the odds are not so great. At near the last moment, Pelecanos even sketches how the most unredeemable character, Rico. turned so bad. He was constantly abused by his mother as a child.
Pelecanos isn't the profound pessimist that The Wire's producer and sometime writer David Simon is. OK, I haven't seen the entire TV series by a long shot but from what I've seen and heard, when you start feeling for a particular young character on the TV show, chances are good he or she will be killed or off to jail for a very long spell.
Not only Pelecanos but even some of his characters (Lorenzo and perhaps even his old drug lord buddy Nigel) see glimmers of hope and possibility. The high-school drop-out girl knocked up by her no-good boyfriend--with the help of her mother or grandmother--might go back to school, even college, and raise a good kid.
Moreover, we're seeing the world of the ex-cons in this book. Some, like Lorenzo, have vowed never to go back. You might say that prison has worked for them. Lorenzo and some of his cohorts at Narcotics Anonymous are moving to a place where they might be able to help a kid go the right way or help another ex-con. I would like to know more about those who, still "on paper", intentionally "violate" so they can go back in the can; they feel they aren't ready to do the straight world yet, so better to go back in before they do something far worse.
This book answered a question I've long wondered about: who would knowingly hire an ex-con? Well, ex-cons themselves are apparently big employers. Construction work and hairdressers, maybe restaurants and mechanics. As for the work of dogcatchers, animal rescue and pet shelters ... I never thought much about it before but I learned something. Good research, George. Of course, some dogs are like some people: because of what's been done to them, they're unredeemable and have to be put down. But the author doesn't hit you over the head with the parallels.
The author writes about the parts of D.C. that no tourist buses ever visit: the ghettos in which the drug trade is the only path to advancement. Everyone who participates knows its an ephemeral life: sooner or later you go to prison or you die. Yet, its street cred, its riches, its macho violence seems to be as addictive as the drugs being sold. Occasionally, however, someone breaks away and rejoins the parallel universe most of us inhabit. This is the story of one of those men, and the people who help him, tempt him, threaten him, uplift him. The dialogue rings incredibly true, a fly on the wall experience. This one will stay with you.
Wow, a quick read, barely over 3 hours. Almost put it down at the start as it had very tough material, animal cruelty, dog fighting in particular. However sticking with it wasn't so bad. Pelecanos used it just enough to make the point needed without it being gratuitous. It was a riveting storyline that kept me rooting for the good guy to hang in there and though things didn't turn out perfectly for all, it did have a whew, that's good ending.
This one is slow and deliberate in it's pacing. The plot is simple and straight forward. The characters are the same. The story is about inner city gangs and how they attract young men with their promise of something better where they become trapped and then die or go to jail. The central male character is trying to move past his affliation to one of these gangs. He is trying to become a part of the fabric of his community without the gang. The central female character is his PO, who in some ways is just as damaged as he is. They both need support in finding stabilty within their community. They need each other but the book is not about them saving each other; it's about being able to find the things in the real world that Lorenzo wanted when he joined the gang.
The best part of the book is twofold. The telling of the story of Lorenzo being a Humane Service Officer is really well done. It is slowly developed and seemingly secondary to the bigger story of whether he will get sucked back into the gang or not. But this story is actually just as compelling and is obviously where Lorenzo finds a place where he can be just as committted to what he does in the real world as he once was to the gang. And the second part of the book that is really well done is the NA meetings. It is somewhat of an indictment of a book to have NA meetings be the best part of the book. But it is also true that any author that can use such a simple device so effectively, is a great writer.
Pelecanos here tackles a subject that raises legitimate concerns throughout the United States. However, other writers -- and filmmakers, too -- have so thoroughly mined the inner-city drug trade that the possibility of producing new ore is unlikely. "Drama City" certainly fails to do so.
There is a fierce inevitability to the way George Pelecanos's new book unfolds. ''Drama City'' is unleashed, not simply set in motion. In the tough, imperiled parts of Washington, where his earlier books have been set, Mr. Pelecanos puts the forces of good and evil on a collision course, igniting the kind of suspense that hinges on heartbreak.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0446611441, Mass Market Paperback)The real test of an author's skill is sometimes to be found not in an unusually conceived work, but in his or her ability to create a consuming tale out of what, in outline form, might sound like an all-too-familiar or mundane plot line. In another novelist's hands, for instance, Drama City might have been a perfectly serviceable but regrettably unmemorable story of redemption and revenge set in the grittier districts of Washington, D.C. But with George Pelecanos at the reins, it becomes a poignant, profound yarn about men--the good, the bad, and the still undecided--trying to find their footing amid the centrifugal forces at play in a modern inner city.
Pelecanos's first standalone after four consecutive novels starring private eye Derek Strange (including Soul Circus and Hard Revolution), Drama City introduces Lorenzo Brown, a young, black onetime criminal enforcer who's recently returned to the streets after doing eight years in prison on a felony drug charge. Crime and criminals had always been fundamental to Lorenzo's existence. ("Y'all know how that is. I ran with some boys, one in particular, and when those boys and my main boy went down to the corner I went with 'em. They were my people, the closest thing I ever had to male kin.") Since his release, though, he's been serving as a Humane Law Enforcement Officer with the Humane Society, protecting animals from the panoply of domestic cruelty, trying to leave both the drugs and the thugs behind. This attitude has won him a few champions, notably Rachel Lopez, his striking half-Jewish, half-Latina probation officer and friend, who spends her days "telling other people that they need to stay on track," but then goes off the rails at night, haunting hotel bars, picking up inappropriate guys, always frightened by the idea of a relationship "where she was not in complete control." Of course, these delicate balances of individual behavior are only possible in the absence of the unexpected. When a seemingly inconsequential mistake incites a lethal turf battle between rival gang bosses Nigel Johnson and Deacon Taylor, and Rachel is stabbed in the chest by a volatile, hopped-up gunman, Lorenzo finds his killer instincts returning to the fore. He must decide how far he's willing to go--and how much he's willing to lose--in order to exact retribution.
A simple plot on its face, yet given high stakes and a heroic edge by Pelecanos's portrayal of Brown as a man-in-progress struggling to secure his liberty from the past, helped along by his unexpectedly sympathetic former boss, childhood friend Nigel Johnson. Less satisfyingly rendered is Lopez, whose acrobatic swings to the wild side provide merely arousing diversions, without adequate character development. Bearing soul as well as teeth, Drama City gives off the air of a Greek tragedy. You know things are going to get bad before they turn worse, but Pelecanos keeps you riveted throughout. --J. Kingston Pierce
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HMT Discussion for Tuesday 18 December 2007
HMT 12/18/2007 Forecast Discussion
Executive Summary
Forecasted precipitation accumulation in the 18 UTC 12/18 to 00 UTC 12/19 period is about 0.25" less than yesterday. Expect about 1.0" to accumuluate during this period. Light precipitation should persist through 06 UTC 12/19.
Consistent with yesterday's forecast, model guidance pegs the next heavy precipitation event to begin around 00 UTC 12/20 and to shut off abruptly after 00 UTC 12/21. Forecast amounts for the 24-hour period range 1.5"-2.0", with 2.0+" in isolated areas along ridge lines. The NAM continues to be wetter than all other models with amounts in the 2"-3" range.
Current Conditions
Precipitation began about 08 UTC.
Blue Canyon 00-12 UTC accumulation is ~0.5" and 12-16 UTC accumulation is ~0.25".
Sloughhouse 00-12 UTC accumulation is ~0.4" and 12-16 UTC accumulation is ~0.2"; freezing level is 5500 ft 12-14 UTC.
Bodega Bay freezing level is 7000 ft; PW is 1" or a tick higher.
The short-wave trough took a slightly more southern route than expected, and the base of the trough at 12 UTC was located parallel to SF Bay. At 12 UTC, it had a bit of a fractured appearance in the Canadian analysis, with stronger winds moving inland in N CA and S OR.
Water vapor imagery shows a moisture plume moved through the area between 08 and 17 UTC; another skinnier plume is moving into the area. Moderate radar echo is evident just north of ARB. SSM/I PW estimates are 2+ cm offshore.
A short-wave is positioned near 150W parallel Washington. A slug of moist air with SSM/I PW 3+ cm is associated with this trough.
0-72 hour & 3-5 day forecast
Model guidance continues to pinpoint the 18 UTC 12/18 to 00 UTC 12/19 period as the heaviest precipitation period. NAM has the highest totals during that period with values approaching 2". All other guidance puts the 6-hr total in the .5"-1.0" range, which is about 0.25" below yesterday's projection. Also, NAM has the precipitation lingering to 12 UTC 12/19, whereas other guidance suggests a light precipitation through 06 UTC 12/19 and nearly complete shutoff after that. The region has seen ~0.75", and expect another ~0.75" this afternoon.
Period of heaviest precipitation: 12 UTC 12/18 - 00 UTC 12/19
Most likely precipitation amount: 1.25"-1.75" (slightly down from yesterday's 2.0"-2.5" forecast)
Another potent wave is forecasted to hit the CA coast around 00 UTC 12/20. Model guidance has not reached a consensus on the timing of this wave. The CMC ensemble brings it onshore prior to 00 UTC; whereas, the GFS ensemble has precipitation onset after 00 UTC. Models are in agreement about an abrupt shutoff shortly after 00 UTC 12/21. Precipitation totals during this 24-hour period will likely to range 1.5-2.0" with the possibility of 2.0+" along the ridge lines.
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Most of ensemble members are focusing the short-wave track on the Pacific NW. Some ensemble members continue to have a trough pass over ARB on Monday with a PW plume extending across most of the central Pacific containing PW values >3 cm.
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Subject: Re: [OMPI users] Open MPI 1.2.4 verbosity w.r.t. osc pt2pt
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On Dec 13, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Brian W. Barrett wrote:
> But it is easy for OPen MPI to figure out whether it's statically or
> dynamically linked, as libtool compiles the code twice if building
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> static and shared and you could poke at #defines to figure out what's
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