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Thursday, January 17, 2008
At least they didn't give it to Mittens
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I laughed out loud when I read your fair and balanced comment at the end of this article. Clearly the writer or editor who gave you the last word appreciated it as well.
- 5:11 PM, January 17, 2008
It's a bit of a controversy inside my own head; I love his books in part for their impassioned humanism, but sometime in between Speaker for the Dead and Ender's Shadow, he seems to have become the most boring sort of ornery bigot, so much so that those earlier texts seem barely to belong to him. Songmaster is I suppose the bridge; it's deeply anxious about queerness but ultimately sympathetic to what it perceives as the victims of same.
- 5:14 PM, January 17, 2008
My issue with his winning the award is that he's not a young adult author. Is everyone who publishes adult books with young protagonists now eligible?
- 5:41 PM, January 17, 2008
- Farah said...
Anonymous is correct. Card's older books have been repackaged for teens, but he has never to my knowledge set out to write for teens (and I've heard him speak several times).
I am afraid, fan of his work that I am, I also share Levithan's feelings that here is someone who holds views about me and mine, that if they were concerned with my religion rather than my sexuality would be abhored by the same committee as has just presented him an award. It's rather shameful that hate speech against gay people is defended under "freedom of speech". Card is indeed free to say such things, but we are also free to point out their repulsiveness, and no one is obliged to ignore them.
- 5:53 PM, January 17, 2008
I've just gone and read the article with Roger's comment, and I think what I feel funny about is that it's a lifetime achievement award. It's not like this issue is completely nontextual; are we just not counting all his overtly homophobic novels?
- 6:21 PM, January 17, 2008
- Roger Sutton said...
I've chaired this committee and the terms are a little weird. It's called a lifetime achievement award (although I think that might be language of more recent vintage than my tenure) but it is awarded for specific books. Judy Blume only won it for Forever, for example. It's kind of a contradiction. But from the beginning, authors for adults who have a significant YA readership have been eligible; the most obvious winner would be J.D. Salinger, but in that case another criterion proves an impediment: you have to agree to accept the award in person. (I hate that rule; it makes the award look like a fancy way to get a lunch speaker.)
- 6:44 PM, January 17, 2008
- steve said...
oh, so you mean that librarians will have the opportunity to protest the selection then, since Mr. Card is required to show up in Anaheim... sounds promising.
- 6:55 PM, January 17, 2008
- Laura (Pinot and Prose) said...
KT Horning mentioned it over at her blog, but I haven't heard anything else about it. I don't know...it seems alarmist to be up in arms about this. Your comments about "being an idiot in real life" were completely on point.
- 7:41 PM, January 17, 2008
My concern is that the specific terms of the Edwards award concern honoring books that "...should enable [young adults] to understand themselves, the world in which they live, and their relationship with others and with society..." and the committee is required to take into account whether the book(s), among other things, help adolescents to become aware of themselves and to answer their questions about their role and importance in relationships, society and in the world.
Given that criteria and context, Mr. Card's world view is relevant, especially in light of how that world view and his other writings might impact the interpretation and impact of the cited works.
- 12:41 AM, January 18, 2008
This will cause a rumble in the SF world. Card was the Guest of Honour at a convention in Boston a few years ago, and their attendance dropped significantly that year. I was there on business and took my opportunity to meet Card and judge for myself. He is a very charming bigot. This award condones that.
- 2:49 AM, January 18, 2008
- Farah said...
I have just been reminded that Card has made some pretty vicious comments about Islam as well. What *were* the committee thinking of?
- 3:36 AM, January 18, 2008
I wonder that myself. The quote in the SLJ article makes it seem that they were entirely unaware of Card's views. If so, that's embarrassing. It feeds a stereotype of a children's librarian-- that they never read anything but children's books and subsequently have the worldview of . . . children. Being so clueless about your honoree seems unprofessional.
- 10:01 AM, January 18, 2008
I'm not a huge fan of Orson Scott Card's fiction, but after reading one of the essays posted as proof as to why he shouldn't win the award, I feel people are attacking him mainly for his religion and religious beliefs (as opposed to the quality of his fictional works, like Ender's Game). Has anyone here ever read Tolstoy? Although I don't agree with Tolstoy's beliefs and attitudes toward women and femininity, War and Peace is still one of the best novels in existence. Tolstoy's beliefs, of course, are interesting to literary fans and critics, but are not central to enjoying the novel.
- 4:19 PM, January 18, 2008
The difference between criticizing Leo Tolstoy for his views on women and criticizing Orson Scott Card for being a homophobe is that Tolstoy lived at a time when his views were the accepted societal norm. Card's are not for a growing number of people, and he's not shown the slightest interest in any scientific or sociological evidence showing that homosexuality is anything but nasty, evil, and sinful.
Furthermore, despite his popularity with young readers (which I was unaware of; most of his readership seems to be male SF fans in their 30s and 40s), he's not a YA author. I don't think he should have given this award on those grounds alone. Add in that he's a bigot and a mouthy one at that, and there you have it....
- 11:49 AM, January 20, 2008
I'm concerned that an award of this nature would be given to a bigot like Card, but I'm also concerned that it's mainly his homophobic worldview that is mostly the subject matter that throws a wrench into his being given the award. His work also glorifies children as heroes of war, and despite some of the moral lessons they learn about what is right in war, it's still essentially fiction that young people are given models for participating in war and destruction. Is this a "positive" impact on teens? Or is it propaganda?
- 12:07 PM, January 20, 2008
- Roger Sutton said...
I've only ever made it through Ender's Game (I was on the BBYA committee when that came out and I remember the hardcore SF members sneered at it) and Speaker for the Dead, but I recall a definite horror at the cost of war. Not so?
- 12:36 PM, January 20, 2008
- SG said...
The trouble with Ender's Game, as I read it, was that the children-as-heroes-of-war concept was distinctly linked to an idea of 'oh, you didn't realise you were committing REAL atrocities, therefore you can be technically absolved of any real responsibility and/or guilt for it'. All of the accolades with little of the consequences. Sounds like a fine lesson to be teaching on the whole, regardless of whether the books count as YA fiction.
- 1:13 PM, January 20, 2008
- NATHANIEL R said...
bigotry towards queer folk is part of the Mormon character so I'm not surprised although i am surprised that this is news to anyone.
- 5:08 PM, January 20, 2008
- Lisa C. said...
I already said my piece on KT's post, but I have to defend Ender's Game to SG... Guilt and shock over decimating the Bugger population haunts Ender beyond the end of Ender's Game and into future books of the series as he saves a Hive Queen and brings her to a new planet. I have never seen the book as excusing Ender's actions so much as showing him as a pawn in a much larger game.
- 5:51 PM, January 20, 2008
- jamie said...
Remember just a mere month ago when we as a profession were defending Pullman's right to be an atheist, by claiming that his views didn't change the fact that he wrote a great book? If Pullman gets to be an atheist, Card gets to be a homophobe.
We need to be consistent. I personally find homophobia abhorrent, but the award is not for character but for a body of writing work that has spoken to teens.
- 6:14 PM, January 20, 2008
The peculiar thing is that Scott Card (who I know quite well) is actually very close friends with a very well known lesbian singer/songwriter and went to her wedding. She defends him, loves him, and has told me so. (I don't feel at liberty to say who she is.)
So Scott the man and Scott the Mormon and Scott the writer of novels are three very distinct personalities. I believe his homophobic essay (I have only read the one and it's a very nasty piece of business) has been confined to his LDS writings.
- 8:18 PM, January 20, 2008
But being an atheist and being a homophobe are really not the same thing. Being an atheist is a fairly personal thing; no one is being oppressed or harmed because of it. The Christian church is not going to collapse because Pullman doesn't believe in organized religion. But Card's unsettling writings in which he states, for instance, that gays should not be able to marry, are direct attempts to keep people he doesn't like from gaining the same rights he has as a Mormon man.
I'm not saying this should keep him from winning an award, but my distaste for him as an individual has made it impossible for me to read him anymore.
- 12:56 AM, January 21, 2008
Clearly, Orson Scott Card and David Levithan (who objects to this award in the SLJ article) are at polar ends of the gay rights spectrum. But I have to wonder if their roles were reversed, if David Levithan was winning the Edwards Award, would Orson Scott Card say that Levithan was unfit for the award based on his politics, his sexual orientation? I have a hard time believing that he would.
- 10:34 AM, January 21, 2008
- Debbie Reese said...
Related, sort of...
Have any of you seen Sherman Alexie's film, THE BUSINESS OF FANCYDANCING? The protagonist is gay, a poet, living in the big city.
- 10:46 AM, January 21, 2008
- Roger Sutton said...
To the latest Anon.: I don't think orson Scott Card would have anything to say about David Levithan winning the Edwards Award because a) I don't think Card had ever heard of the award before he won it and b) this is largely a controversy among insiders (liberal YA lit-types) confronted with an outsider (Mormon author of books published for adults).
Three out lesbian authors (Kerr, Garden, Woodson) have won the Edwards Award with no fallout that I'm aware of.
- 10:48 AM, January 22, 2008
"The award is not for being an idiot in real life.."
My big brother is so frickin cool.
- 1:31 PM, January 22, 2008
OK - someone's got to admit to ignorance. What is (or was) MITTENS?
- 8:39 PM, January 22, 2008
- Roger Sutton said...
It was the drag name of a certain former governor, but I hear he's changed it. Again.
- 9:26 PM, January 22, 2008
There were plenty of people during Tolstoy's time who found his views on women repellent. These people included his daughters, whose lives were ruined by him. It's acceptable in the general population to view women as less intelligent overall to men. Many women will even admit they never want a female boss if they have the choice. It's just not acceptable to say so among the Ivy League/liberal arts elite. Still there are exceptions: Norman Mailer and Philip Roth aren't exactly considered sympathetic to female readers, yet their books are constantly reviewed in all the major literary reviews. In the end, the skills of the writer almost always overcome whatever personal "demons" or defects that writer has.
- 9:27 PM, January 23, 2008
Mitt Romney was a drag queen??? Oh, I'm so confused ...
- 10:06 PM, January 24, 2008
- Yonmei said...
I think I know which famous lesbian singer/songwriter you mean.
If so, literally within months of her marriage and Orson Scott Card's attending her wedding, Card wrote:
But homosexual "marriage" is an act of intolerance. It is an attempt to eliminate any special preference for marriage in society -- to erase the protected status of marriage in the constant balancing act between civilization and individual reproduction.
So if my friends insist on calling what they do "marriage," they are not turning their relationship into what my wife and I have created, because no court has the power to change what their relationship actually is.
Instead they are attempting to strike a death blow against the well-earned protected status of our, and every other, real marriage.
They steal from me what I treasure most, and gain for themselves nothing at all. They won't be married. They'll just be playing dress-up in their parents' clothes. link
So was he being a complete hypocrite when he wrote the above - or is that his honest opinion, and he despises someone who "loves and defends him" that much?
- 7:40 PM, January 28, 2008


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I have to cook between 60-90 bacon wrapped hot dogs this Friday. The problem is I have limited grill space. I am looking for ideas how to speed up the process a little bit.
In the past, I would just wrap the bacon around the dogs, and skewer them with three toothpicks each. The good news is the bacon stayed on the dogs. The bad news is that since I was doing this on a grill, even though it was well-oiled, they would either stick, or even at lower temps some of the bacon would get well done, and some not so much. Plus I am constantly either reminding people to take out the toothpicks.
I read over the summer that some folks cook them in pans on the grill. The pan and tension of the other dogs keeps the bacon on the dogs without using toothpicks. The bad news is this seems to slow the cooking process, and the pans take up a lot of valuable grill space.
One way to speed up the process I thought about par cooking the bacon say 250 degrees in the oven for five to ten minutes. Then chilling the bacon, wrapping it around the dogs, and finishing them in the grill pans on the grill the next day. I am leery about par cooking anything, but especially meat. Does anyone know if this would be ok? Does anyone have suggestions for speeding up the cooking process, but not serving raw and/or well done dogs?

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>General Running>Holiday Running Streak
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Done, and still going. 774 days. Average 4.2 miles per day. I hope to inch that average up over 2013.
Hoodoo Guru
I have been running averaging just over 3 miles a day during this streak, but went out and ran 13 miles on 12/30. I have never had a streak anywhere close to this before, so I have been very pleased. New Year's eve was a busy day that started early, so I decided that the 13 miles the day before would be a fitting end to my streak. So I failed, but am still happy with what I accomplished. I will take a couple of days off to let my foot, knee and heel bruise recover before I hit the roads in 2013. Thanks Sean for starting this. It was fun to streak with ya'll.
The tangents are moot.
Squidward Bike Rider
5K done on the TM to complete the holiday streak!
43 days, 318.4 miles total, only one race the whole time, and I PR'd it!
Congratulations to everyone who completed the streak! I'll be updating the list on the first page tomorrow, can I get a roll call of how everyone did?
Made it to the 41 days and I think I'll take a little break now - my weekly mileage during the streak wasn't all that different from a typical week, but I'm normally a 3 or 4 days/week guy and think my legs could stand a little rest..
Got 127 miles in during streak and also managed to convince my wife to do the streak with me, which was a huge accomplishment on its own. The streak, for me, was 9 days longer than my previous best and also helped me get to 1100 miles total for 2012.
Congrats to all!
I bailed on the streak due to bronchitis. Congrats to all who stuck it out.
"When a person trains once, nothing happens. When a person forces himself to do a thing a hundred or a thousand times, then he certainly has developed in more ways than physical. Is it raining? That doesn't matter. Am I tired? That doesn't matter, either. Then willpower will be no problem." Emil Zatopek
Completed! 47 days, 167 miles and still +3 pounds :-D
---Gaining muscle perhaps???
The Plan '15 → /// "Run Hard, Live Easy." ∞
haha, not likely. I think it has to do with holiday beverages, eating out more, and having less stress while on break from school!
---Gaining muscle perhaps???
My daily streak ended due to time pressures but I completed the one I was really aiming for. 2,000 miles or more for the fifth year in a row.
Good going peeps.
Streak completed! It worked out really well for me, in spite of holidays, travel, and weather. Probably the first time I have streaked longer than about ten days, and still going.
I must post this image of the backdrop for my New Years Day run with DD:
Well at least someone here is making relevance to the subject. - S.J.
Streak completed! It worked out really well for me, in spite of holidays, travel, and weather. Probably the first time I have streaked longer than about ten days, and still going.
I must post this image of the backdrop for my New Years Day run with DD:
Love it. Looks so beautiful and peaceful.
Run, Walk, Crawl, just Finish.
Love it. Looks so beautiful and peaceful.
You're right, it was awesome. The stillness over the valley after a new snowfall is something that can't be imagined from the city viewpoint. It's therapeutic. Also, it was a good introduction to running at 8000+ feet altitude.
well, I completely planned on stopping a day early because I have been feeling pretty tight/sore. I think I may actually have been fighting a virus. Anyway, I ended up running yesterday and again today... I guess that's how it goes with these things, once you start, you don't want to stop?
Tomorrow will be 50, well beyond my previous best of 13. Anyone else having similar thoughts now, too?
Queen of 3rd Place
Umm...sorry I missed this, 47 days, average 9.5 mi/day, as of today.
Ex runner
Maggie & Molly
so, I'm being nit picky but Sean, you get an * next to your "completed" because you did the length required but not the actual set timeframes. Ok, that's cool. I stopped because I was on death's door and I don't get an explanation, nor does anyone else that stopped for valid reasons. Just doesn't seem right. What's fair is fair I would think. That's all. Rant over.
"It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop."Wisdom of Confucius


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A federal cabinet minister has praised the West Australian Liberal government's management of hospitals a week from polling day.
The West Australian Labor opposition has declined to ask Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her ministers to join its election campaign.
But with Colin Barnett's minority Liberal government facing the voters on March 9, federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek has offered his team some praise.
"The West Australian government have been good when it comes to emergency waiting times," she told reporters in Brisbane on Thursday.
Western Australia had the country's best hospital emergency care, with 78.5 per cent of patients treated within four hours, up from 71.3 per cent in 2009/10, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare figures show.
Ms Plibersek was critical of Victoria's coalition government, with just 65 per cent of patients treated within four hours last year, down from 65.9 per cent.
"Victoria has been going backwards this whole time," she said.
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Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the biggest quantitative easer of all? Brazil has long accused governments in the developed world of using loose monetary policy to pump up their economies and get a competitive edge. But it may be time for Brazil to reflect on its own actions over the past five years.
During that time, Brazil has received huge capital inflows, pushing its foreign reserves from about $80bn at the end of 2006 to about $380bn today (see chart below). The central bank says it has "sterilised" those potentially expansionary and inflationary inflows by selling government bonds – standard practice at central banks around the world.


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Former Raiders strength and conditioning coach Matt Ford says he took a conservative approach to sport supplements and can guarantee the club was not involved in any form of systemic doping.
Ford, who resigned from the Raiders at the end of last season, said he had been in charge of endorsing all the club's supplements during coach David Furner's tenure.
Ford was so confident in the club's process, he chose to speak out after it was revealed the Raiders were one of six NRL clubs implicated in an Australian Crime Commission report into sports doping and corruption.
''I can guarantee that there was no regime of any kind of doping, I can vouch for that,'' Ford said.
''The fact the Raiders have been named in this report, who knows in what context? That's the thing that's really frustrating because there's been no specifics divulged.''
Ford said he ensured all club supplements passed Australian and world anti-doping protocols. He said players were consistently warned about the dangers of buying their own products outside the club.
''I was very conservative and had to be very well convinced before any type of supplement was distributed to the players,'' Ford said. ''I'm really happy with how the club managed the whole supplement program and everything was above board.
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THE new £2.3million community athletics facility in Blackburn's Witton Park has been unveiled.
The indoor arena, which opens on April 28, will be the new home for Blackburn Harriers Athletics Club.
It includes a 60-metre six-lane warm-up and training track, improved changing facilities, covered outdoor spectator terracing, and a club room.
It means the Harriers will be able to use the park as a year-round training facility.
Coun Damian Talbot, the borough council's leisure executive member, said: "I am very excited about the opening of the new athletics arena.
"It will transform athletics in the borough, not just for the hundreds of young people who already take part in the sport, but we hope it will encourage even more to take it up.
"Blackburn Harriers has worked closely with the council to ensure that the investment creates a first-class venue that will benefit our residents for years to come."
As part of the council's Join One Join All membership, people will be able to use the Witton Park Arena, as well as the borough's six leisure centres and four community-use schools.
Witton Park Arena will also include a 45-station fitness suite, with views across the park, associated changing facilities, and a fitness studio for spinning and exercise classes.
The group fitness programme will make use of the park setting, introducing new outdoor fitness sessions as part of more than 29 classes per week.
The arena will also expand the offer to younger people, with regular junior gym sessions during the week.
Opening times will be from 6.30am to 9pm from Monday to Friday, and 9am to 4pm on Saturday and Sun- day.
Meadowhead ward councillor Ashley Whalley added: "This will be a great facility for Blackburn and is long overdue. Hopefully, it will contribute to the future production of world-class athletes."


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HOUSTON - Arian Foster ran for 140 yards and a touchdown, and the Houston Texans used a stifling defensive effort for a 19-13 win over the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday in an AFC wild-card playoff game at Reliant Stadium.
Texans kicker Shayne Graham scored a 48-yard field goal to give the Texans a 3-0 lead with 7:49 left in the first quarter. J.J. Watt had his first sack of the game in the first quarter, resulting in a loss of nine yards on the play.
A 27-yard field goal with 13:07 remaining in the second quarter added to the Texans lead of 6-0.
The Bengals got on the scoreboard when cornerback Leon Hall intercepted a pass intended for James Casey by Matt Schaub and returned it for the Bengals first touchdown. The Bengals had a 7-6 lead with 9:30 left in the second quarter.
With 2:19 left in the first half, a 22-yard field goal by Graham gave the Texans a 9-7 lead.
Houston scored its first touchdown with 10:31 left in the third quarter when Arian Foster scored a one-yard touchdown run. The Texans widened the lead to 16-7. The drive went six plays, 51 yards and lasted 3:20. Foster became the first player in NFL history to have 100-yard games in each of his first three playoff games.
A 34-yard field goal by the Bengals' Josh Brown resulted in 16-10 Texans with 7:48 remaining in the third quarter.Texans Scoreboard
Early in the fourth quarter, a 24-yard field goal by Graham widened the Texans lead to 19-10.
Brown connected on a 47-yard field goal to bring the score to 19-13 Texans with 9:03 left in the game.
For Houston, the win turned around a disappointing end to their impressive regular season. Houston lost three of its last four games after winning 11 of 12 games.
"We found a way to win a close football game and that was our goal from the get-go," Texans coach Gary Kubiak said. "These guys stayed the course. Nobody on this team panics. They've got a lot of class and they battled."
"It's excitement. It's just a great feeling to come away with a win. We just had to rally around each other and we did that," Schaub said.
"All it takes is one week to turn things around in the NFL and we did that. Every Sunday, you have to come around and bring your best," Foster said.
"It was a full defensive effort," Watt said.
Cincy had a strong finish to the regular season with wins in its last three games.
Cincinnati strong safety Chris Crocker was inactive for the Bengals. Crocker missed practice all week with a thigh injury. Nate Clements started in his place.
Houston's Barrett Ruud started at inside linebacker for Tim Dobbins, who was placed on injured reserve Friday with an ankle injury. Cornerback Alan Ball was active for Houston after missing the last five games with a sore foot.
Houston's inactive players were cornerbacks Roc Carmichael and Stanford Routt, fullback Tyler Clutts, guards Cody White and Antoine Caldwell, tackle Andrew Gardner and nose tackle Terrell McClain.
Other inactive players for the Bengals were cornerback Jason Allen, defensive tackles Brandon Thompson and Devon Still, tight end Richard Quinn, running back Daniel Herron and receiver Dane Sanzenbacher.
The Texans finally made the playoffs for the first time last season. The second trip was very similar to the first with Houston hosting and beating Cincinnati in a wild-card game. Cincinnati hasn't won a playoff game since 1991, the league's longest current losing streak.
Officials said 71,738 fans were in attendance at Saturday's game in Reliant Stadium.
The Texans will next play at New England on Jan. 13.
Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Purple reign: Fiat 500 v Vauxhall Adam
In 1957, Fiat introduced the 500. Cute and affordable, it was an instant hit, shifting nearly four million units and mobilising a post-war generation. More than that, it defined a genre of city cars for decades to come, encapsulating an effortless, Italian chic that no car has matched since.
In 1957, Vauxhall introduced the Victor. Apparently, it was OK, but everyone was too busy admiring the 500 to notice.
Such is the weight of history Vauxhall faces with its new Adam. By setting its sights on the all-conquering 500, it is attempting to overhaul not only the metrosexual market leader, but 56 years of history. The new 500 has been such a cash calf for Fiat, not simply because it's a fine little city car but because it allows feckless urbanites to buy into that whole La Dolce Vita, ciao bella thing. The Adam has no such recognisable image on which to trade, so it's attempting to catch the 500 from a standing start.
Can it? To find out, we're in London's reassuringly expensive Shad Thames district to conduct the most purple twin test in history. Going face-to-face are the Adam Glam and Fiat 500 TwinAir, decked out in colours to resemble, in the words of passing Londoners, either "some lovely aubergines" or, more prosaically, "a pair of plums". Officially, the 500 is painted Chillout Purple, while the Adam is wearing Purple Fiction. The latter should give you some idea how Vauxhall is marketing its latest creation: a combination of quirky branding and appalling puns. You want colours? How about The Greyfather (grey)? Or Sweet Greens (yep, green)? And why not a contrast roof in White My Fire with Red 'n' Roll spoke clips on your alloys?
Point is, the Adam is a) very annoyingly branded and b) truly, extraordinarily customisable, making the lurid paint and decal options available on the 500 look veritably pallid in comparison. You can have colour-coded wheel inserts, decals and stripes galore, foil-overlay dashboards, or, most inadvisably, clouds-and-blue-sky headlining replete with LED "stars". Unless you are Katie Price, you must under no circumstances spec your Adam with the last of these options.
But peel back all the branding and punnery, and the Adam turns out to be – shock horror – a car. A decent one. With a wide footprint, it hangs onto the road nicely – hardly an eye-widening sports car but a more-than-acceptable thing to punt down a B-road. We're driving the first Adam to get Vauxhall's UK-specific dynamic tweaks, which have focused on the Adam's steering software to add more weight and improve the feeling of connection to the front tires. The Brit boys have done a good job. The steering on Euro Adams felt over-light, but the new UK set-up is much heavier and more progressive. So the Adam steers well and doesn't ride badly, even on the sports suspension that's standard with 17- or 18-inch wheels. It's compliant enough, only turning a little crunchy on truly bad roads, but we suspect the comfort chassis with 16in wheels might be the sweeter set-up.
Stepping from the Adam into the 500 is like unclipping your leash from an obedient poodle and attaching it to a hyperactive cocker spaniel. It is decidedly boingy (not a word? Should be), springing and burbling about in a fashion that immediately turns you into the goodie in a Seventies car chase.
It topples more through the corners, the 500, feeling taller than the Adam. That's because it is, at least proportionally: though 15cm shorter and nine centimetres narrower than the Vauxhall, the Fiat is the same height. It's softer-sprung, too, making it less harsh over potholes but bouncy over bigger undulations.
With road-tester hats on, we'd concede the Adam handles more tidily than the 500, but there's an ineffable zing about the Fiat. Yes, you'd be more comfortable going fast down a greasy road in the Adam, but the 500 puts a bigger smile on your face.
The lovely TwinAir engine helps. If you like engineering and you like old motors – and if you don't, may we please direct you down the WH Smith magazine shelf towards Lincolnshire Caravanning Monthly – you can't help but adore the 500's bubbly two-cylinder. Even at idle, it emits a cheery array of splutters and pops, climbing to a chuntering buzz as you rise through the revs. It sounds wonderful – albeit a mite intrusive if you don't appreciate the noise of a small scooter with a hole in the exhaust – and produces a surprising amount of shove. But the twin is a long way from perfect: with no low-end power to speak of, you have to work through the gears to find its sweet spot.
Our mid-spec Adam makes near-identical power to the Fiat's twin, but through far more conventional means: a four-cylinder, non-turbo petrol making 86bhp (there's an entry-level 69bhp 1.2-litre four-pot and a 100bhp version of this n/a engine, too). Against the chirpy TwinAir, this 1.4 feels firmly, resolutely… like an engine. Press the throttle, and it goes faster; release the throttle, and it goes slower. And that's about it: nothing exciting to report in the noise or fizz department. But it does its job, hauling the Adam up to pace with minimal drama and a hint of drone. It's easier to balance throttle and clutch here than in the peaky, long-geared 500, which requires revs to get it spinning.
We struggled to top 40mpg in either: not so criminal for the Adam, which quotes 55.4mpg, but more worrying for the '71mpg' 500. And it's not just our hammer-footed driving: consensus from owners is that the Fiat falls far shorter of its claimed mpg figures that most. But, with CO2 emissions of 92g/km, at least it escapes VED – the Adam, even with stop/start, coughs out 119g/km.
But park up and start poking buttons, and the Adam claws back. The Vauxhall serves up a host of goodies more commonly associated with cars twice its price: a self-parking system and blind spot indicators (£450), even DAB radio as standard. The 7in colour screen is a £250 option and well worth it, syncing with your smartphone to run a dedicated nav app, display photo galleries and, no doubt, update your Facebook status on the move.
Elements of the Adam's interior make you wish Vauxhall had gone further to differentiate it from its more pragmatic offerings. The dials are lovely, lighting up like chunky, luminescent watch faces, but between them lies a tatty dot-matrix display borrowed from the Corsa, sitting ill against the slick hi-res central screen. Similarly the steering wheel, though wrapped in smart colourcoded leather on even the base versions, looks suspiciously like it's been borrowed from an Astra. These anomalies are all the more apparent because, for the most part, Vauxhall has done a fine job of disguising the Adam's utilitarian underpinnings.
Similarly, the 500 avoids the grey drudgery that afflicts most city-car cabins, but it's feeling a bit spartan nowadays. What little there is of it is all very nice, but there's not the array of tech you'll find in the Adam. The 500 suffers a few ergonomic flaws, too. Approximately an inch to the right of the 500's handbrake is a lever to adjust the tilt of the driver's seat squab. This lever is shaped very much like a handbrake. This may cause confusion and/or mild crashing. And, no matter how far you lower the seat, you still seem to sit on the 500 than in it. The Adam, by comparison, feels much more… like a car: you perch lower, in better seats, behind a bigger wheel, with a proper footrest beside the clutch. The Adam feels a touch larger inside, a function of both its longer sunroof and, er, the fact it's a touch larger. That said, only the most optimistic dwarf could call either car a 'four-seater' with a straight face. If you are a person with head and limbs, you won't want to be trapped in the back of either for anything but the shortest journey, the high beltlines and fat C-pillars amplifying the claustrophobia.
But assuming you have neither children nor many friends, which one should you buy? We're going to have to declare this one a score-draw. The Adam drives tidily, offers mountains of kit and does a fine job of appealing to those people – and by 'those people' we mean 'men' – who find the 500 too effeminate. Granted, they probably wouldn't spec their Adam in purple with matching leather and a white roof, but go for a less campy colour scheme, and the Vauxhall can be made more masculine than the bubblesome Fiat. It's a pity Vauxhall couldn't find any interesting powerplants for the Adam, but engineers have confirmed it'll be the first to receive GM's new three-cylinder turbo, expected to arrive in a year or so. They've also hinted heavily that there are hotter versions on the way: the Adam shares its front subframe with the Corsa, meaning there's plenty of room in the engine bay for, say, the 1.6-litre turbo from the Corsa VXR, a unit that'll easily run towards 200bhp. An Adam with Clio RenaultSport pace? Now you're talking.
The 500, of course, has its hot Abarth versions, but even this tiny-engined TwinAir has soul in spades, and is still turning heads more than any other city car even after five years on sale. It's less rounded, less complete than the Adam, but has more… er, what's the Italian for joie de vivre? The Vauxhall is a neater fit for modern Britain, but we've a sneaking suspicion the Fiat will be the one that people will remember in the year 2069.
This story originally appeared in the February 2012 edition of Top Gear magazine.


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The Jacksonville Jaguars and Tennessee Titans have been so bad in recent years that each sees the other as an opportunity for a rare win.
In the woeful AFC South, Thursday night not only offers the lone prime-time opportunity this season for both teams, but the chance for a huge step up in the division.
"This is important ..." Titans coach Mike Mularkey said. "We've got to win a division game and stay in the pack, and hopefully come out of it at some point."
The Jaguars (2-4) may have just gotten a visit from worried owner Shad Khan , but they at least have an AFC South win. The Titans (3-4) still are looking for such a victory, yet are only a game in back of Houston for the division lead.
A popular pick to win this division before the season started, the Jaguars were routed 33-16 by Oakland on Sunday to end a two-game winning streak. They are trying to remain undefeated inside the division, though is just Jacksonville's second AFC South game.
"That is the biggest goal right now," Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles said. "You treat every week like a one-game season, and it is the most important game we ever played."
Jacksonville is the only team the Titans beat in Nashville each of the past two seasons, and they want to wrap up a three-game home stand by adding the Jaguars to a list of home wins that includes only winless Cleveland after losing 34-26 to Indianapolis on Sunday.


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Keola Beamer is one of Hawai'i's premier singer/songwriters, arrangers, composers and Master Of The Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar. His well of talent springs from five generations of Hawai's most illustrious and beloved musical families. The Beamers trace their roots to the 14th century; among their ancestors are Queen Ahiakumai Ki'eki'e and Ho'olulu, a child of the favored wife of Kamehameha I.
Born in 1951, Keolamaikalani Breckenridge Beamer was raised in Kamuela, on the Big Island, surrounded by the beautiful open pastures of his Grandfather's cattle ranch.
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Keola was one of Hawai'i's first recording artists to integrate Hawaiian chants and instruments, like the tiny gourd whistle and the nose flute, with contemporary forms of music. "A lot of musicians in the past treated the nose flute as a frame," he says. "They played it at the beginning and the end of a piece. Through experimentation, I managed to integrate it into the piece. It has a gorgeous sound, a gorgeous texture."


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The Silver Orange Bistro prepares gourmet picnic hampers on request and hosts regular wine-tasting events.
The Silver Orange Bistro is the realisation of a long-held desire by chef-patron Leon Nel to own his own restaurant.
A classically trained chef, Nel completed his hospitality studies at the Pretoria Technikon and gained five-star experience working in some of the city's top boutique hotels before converting his grandparents' farmhouse in the Hartbeespoort area into the 60-seater Silver Orange Bistro in 2004.
Google the Silver Orange Bistro, and you'll find unscripted reviews from diners that only praise the restaurant's friendly, well-informed service, exceptional food and award-winning wine list.
Visually striking plates of food (that taste as delectable as they look) are a signature element of the bistro. Nel considers food preparation to be an art form, but his dishes are never contrived or pretentious. Instead, each plate is a dialogue using tastes, flavours and textures to unlock diners' emotions.
His attention to detail and use of mostly local and seasonal ingredients sees his menus, which change bi-weekly, feature starters such as roasted artichoke and butternut squash salad, seared tuna tataki or duck and fig samoosas.
Main courses include sophisticated comfort classics like slow-braised springbok shank, Scottish salmon and a Thai seafood curry – all of which elicit groans of gustatory delight.
Silver Orange Bistro's desserts change every 2nd day and are all freshly made, with natural, preservative-free ingredients. Regular diners know to request the homemade ice creams and sorbets, while one food critic described Nel's traditional malva pudding and custard as 'deeply restorative'. The frozen peanut fudge ice cream bar is so popular it has been on the menu for over seven years!
The restaurant's wine list, with over 180 wines, has been awarded Diamond status by Diners Club, the ultimate wine accolade for a restaurateur. The wine-list selection – featuring mostly local red and white wines, 11 local Cap Classiques and nine French champagnes – is personally overseen by Nel, assuring diners the best quality and value.
The Silver Orange Bistro is a gourmet interlude not-to-be-missed by epicures travelling through the North West province or who'd like to take a drive of an hour or so from Johannesburg or Pretoria.
Leon Nel succeeds in serving comfort food that is classy, modern and which reflects the terroir-specific identity of the chef and his restaurant.
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From Johannesburg, take Malibongwe Drive towards Lanseria. Continue until the R512 turn to Hartbeespoort. Follow this road until the T-Junction. Turn left and follow the road past Pecanwood Golf & Country Club until the Brits/Sun City turn-off. Turn right towards Brits and follow the road over the bridge crossing the dam. At the next T-junction turn right. Follow the R513 road past Kosmos until the four-way stop. Cross over the four-way stop. The Silver Orange Bistro is 400m on the left.
Best time to visit
The Silver Orange Bistro is closed on Monday, and open for lunch from Wednesday to Sunday, and dinner from Tuesday to Saturday. Breakfast is served on weekends.
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The Silver Orange Bistro is only a few minutes' drive from attractions like the Chameleon Craft Village and the Welwitschia country market. Nearby, visit the Hartbeespoort Dam wall, a mampoer distillery, the Elephant Sanctuary and the Bush Babies primate rehabilitation sanctuary.
Tours to do
You can visit the Ann van Dyk Cheetah Centre (tours must be pre-booked), Margaret Roberts Herbal Centre and Lesedi Cultural Village.
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The Emerging Markets Institute at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University has announced the winners of its fourth annual research grant competition. Faculty and Ph.D. students were invited to submit proposals for academic research on the growing role of emerging markets in the global economy. The goal of the competition was to produce articles that could be published in the top-tier, refereed academic journals in a variety of management disciplines.
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"We have seen an improvement in quality every year we have held this competition. We are very pleased with these submissions," said Andrew Karolyi, Academic Director of the Emerging Markets Institute. "Through the generous gifts of two alumni, Roberto Canizares BS '71, MBA '74 and James Morgan BS '60, MBA'63, we have been able to expand this program and offer even more funds for research".
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It was a day I had been waiting for ... and to be quite honest, I didn't think it would ever come. I don't mind telling you I'm sharing this long-awaited discovery in hopes it offers others the same sense of peace it gave me.
Most of you know I heard the word "cancer" uttered from my doctor's mouth. The actual words I remember were "cancer, serious and malignant." I remember walking out of that doctor's office more of a woman than I had walked in.
Those three words carved a hole in my soul, never to be forgotten. Never. It's difficult to believe I first heard those words seven years ago, and like other cancer survivors, those words have continued to haunt me on a daily basis. They come and go, but they never leave. In fact, they resurface several times a day — usually without warning, and I'm left to decipher and attempt to deal with them.
Once you hear the word cancer — and I've said this before, your world changes forever. Nothing is the same again, and life is different. If a cancer survivor/patient tells you otherwise, I need to learn their secret because the words, the worry, the unknown will forever etch themselves in your mind, your heart, your soul, your dreams and your waking moments.
That's right. You remember the day you first heard the word. The exact date, the exact time. You remember the number of chemotherapy treatments you had, and you remember how many radiation treatments you underwent. You never forget the exact day of your surgery. You don't forget all the days you went back for check-ups, hopeful everything was OK. You rehash, remember and recall. It's just part of it.
Much to my dismay, I've resigned myself to those facts. I will always carry around the emotions, the worries, the trepidation and everything else that goes along with that diagnosis. Whether the cancer is gone or not, one still lives with the word and everything that accompanies it. It's just that simple. It's just that convoluted.
And so it was the other night ... The clock was nearing midnight, and as I laid awake in my bed ... the darkness swirling around me ... my mind was busy preparing for the next day and what needed to be accomplished. I spend a lot of time with my thoughts on those late nights — not that I accomplish a lot, but I attempt to sort out a variety of situations, issues, ideas, etc. In my crazy world, it's a peaceful time I cherish more than most will ever know.
And then it hit me. Wow! My eyes popped open like a child startled by a loud noise in the middle of the night, however, this "noise" was something I hadn't planned on hearing — or should I say not hearing. You see, it was the late evening hours of March 5 — the day I first heard the word "cancer" associated with my own body seven years ago. As the clock neared midnight, I realized that fateful day in my own personal history had nearly passed me by without even the slightest remembrance.
As a matter of fact, as I contemplated my late-night discovery, I realized I hadn't thought about the cancer for quite a few days. What? How did that happen? How did I forget such a horrifying and awful experience? What changed? Why did I miss that all important anniversary date? Why hadn't the thought of cancer crossed my mind for a while?
I guess my point to all of this is that old saying that, "Time heals all wounds," might just literally be right. There was a point in my life when the word "cancer" plagued my world, and now, I'm happy to report that while I still think about it a lot, time has allowed me to forget now and then. That's a pleasant discovery, and if you've walked in my shoes, I know you understand.
Time ... from both perspectives ... well, I guess that's what it's all about, my friends.
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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
Did you know that the majority of buyers believe they are at least 60 percent done with their buying process before they seek out a salesperson? At least, that's according to a slew of recent research from top-tier industry analysts. But beware — if you buy into these results, you could be misled regarding the messaging and training support that marketing and others need to provide salespeople.
The picture painted by this research is that salespeople are relegated to the last one-third of the buying process (see Graphic 1). This would mean that the enablement required for salespeople should focus on the conversations and activities bringing up the rear of the sales cycle, those mostly focused on competitive differentiation and negotiations, right?
Wrong! You are at risk of playing right into the commodity trap so many companies are trying desperately to avoid. Consider these contradictory findings:
• Sales Help Wanted
In another recent survey, the IT Sales and Marketing Association (ITSMA) published findings stating that 70 percent of buyers want to engage with sales reps before they identify their shortlist — suggesting earlier research may be exaggerated at best, and misleading at worst. Instead of being relegated to the very last moments of a purchase decision and abdicating the majority of the buying cycle to marketing, ITSMA's research indicates salespeople are becoming even more crucial when it comes to helping buyers make a decision.
• Business Knowledge Desired
Research from SiriusDecisions identified that executive decision makers prefer salespeople who provide business and industry expertise versus those who deliver primarily product knowledge. In fact, they prefer these insight-driven conversations four times more than product presentations. Executive buyers believe that you and your reps see more people who look like them than they do, and you have experiences they want you to share.
• No Decision Contradiction
At the same time buyers say they're waiting to contact a salesperson, there is documented evidence that 60 percent of qualified leads end the sales cycle in "no decision," sticking with their status quo and buying nothing. The key takeaway for you as a marketer and sales enablement professional is that the majority of buyers who say they are almost done with their purchase decision are not even ready
to change, let alone choose a specific company.
Support Both the "Why Change?" and "Why You?" Conversations
Based on these three examples, arguably, the majority of your prospects and customers still need the help of a salesperson to make the decision to change, and to choose you. As a result, it's still your job to equip and enable your field representatives to conduct both the "Why Change?" and "Why You?" conversations (see Graphic 2).
Unfortunately, most companies invest the majority of their sales enablement dollars and time in the late-stage, product-centered conversations and negotiations to the right in this graphic. With that in mind, here are some quick ideas for balancing your sales enablement strategy to fill the content gap and make your salespeople more effective in the early stage dialogues.
• "Why Change" Campaigns
You need to develop campaigns based on prospects' problems or missed opportunities they may not even realize they have. In the hands of your salespeople, these campaigns will help them with their hardest job — breaking through to get a meeting. Most prospects won't take a meeting just because you have a new product, yet most campaigns are based on new product launches. However, prospects do want to know if they or their objectives are at risk due to unconsidered needs, problems, challenges or market issues. Helping your salespeople loosen the status quo to capture that all-important first meeting is an often overlooked marketing step.
• "Why Change" Conversations
Once they get the meeting, your salespeople need to nail it. This doesn't happen by accident. Winning companies are developing conversation aids such as whiteboard stories to drive these early stage, executive dialogues when the buying vision is being created. Most executive buyers prefer conversations — not presentations —
so be sure to provide your salespeople with provocative stories that can be told with simple, concrete visuals. This is a great way to position them as consultative sellers with relevant, valuable insight to share.
More than showing up
It's not just about where you show up — it's about what you say when you get there. In addition to missing the early stage conversation sales enablement opportunities, many marketers believe their top responsibility when it comes to sales enablement is to provide leads through demand generation programs.
However, in most B2B companies, salespeople often have well-defined territories with named accounts — they know where to show up and they aren't waiting for marketing leads to make a call on these targets. Their bigger concern and need is what to say to get a meeting, and what to say when they get there. Make sure you are providing the right sales enablement support across the entire buying process to ensure the success of your sales team's performance — both before and after the "big meeting."
With more than 20 years of marketing and sales experience, Tim Riesterer, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Corporate Visions, Inc., is a recognized thought-leader, practitioner and author. You can find out more about Corporate Visions at CorporateVisions .com.


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Kingmax Hardcore Memory: Tiny BGA Reaches For Top Speedby Wesley Fink on 3/9/2004 11:12 AM EST
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bldkc - Friday, March 12, 2004 - linkBy the way could you guys please start highlighting the item being tested in the graphs with a different colored bar or even different color text for the name (or both)? It makes it very difficult to find the product you are testing if I have to read every name on the graph just to find one of them. Reply
bldkc - Friday, March 12, 2004 - linkWow, don't buy the DDR466! On page 6 it took 1114 seconds to complete! Okay, it's a typo, but still.
#10-If you wear a thinner coat outside you won't stay as warm as if you wear a thick one. The same thing with chips. Reply
Wesley Fink - Thursday, March 11, 2004 - link#11 - Corrected.
#10 - BGA chips are both much smaller and thinner than TSOP chips. The electrical connections are also much shorter, generating less heat to start with than TSOP chips. I have seen data supporting 80 to 85% heat dissipation with BGA chips. Reply
Shalmanese - Thursday, March 11, 2004 - linkI sure hope Kingmax didn't provide you with 512K chips of RAM ;). (top of pg3) Reply
ViRGE - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - linkWhat is it exactly about BGA chips that make them run cooler than TSOP chips? There's the size difference of course, but that doesn't account for the temp difference, does it? Reply
Jeff7181 - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - linkIt's good to see this from Kingmax... I've been wondering for quite some time now why video cards have had DDR500 memory for a few years, and it hasn't made it's way into system RAM. Now we have RAM on video cards capable of DDR1000... why can't we get similar results with system RAM? Reply
Inferno - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - linkSomething everyone may want to note, if you decrease voltage on the Kingmax sometimes that yeilds better O/Cs then raising it. I have owned alot of Kingmax TinyBGA and it usually responds negativly to more voltage. They also do benifit from heat spreaders when pushed hard and kept at default voltage. Reply
Pumpkinierre - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - linkGood article but still more of the same. It seems like 18month old Winbond BH5 and now these BGA chips are the fastest at DDR400-433. However, are there any hints of a DDR466-500 at low latencies (CAS2) out there? I mean graphics cards have got 256Mb of <3ns DDR (dont know the latencies) so why arent the memory manufacturers using that?
Xtreme DDR have got some PC3700+ at 2-3-3-6 using picked 5ns Samsung chips (http://www.xtremeddr.com/products/x_pc3700+.shtml)... They quote 2T command rate and some i875 mobo compatibility, which is counter to the Mushkin website advice that intel dual bank chipsets force 1T timings, and memory rated above 1T could be unstable. Perhaps you might get a coupla sticks of that and put them through your test procedure?
KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - linkEvan,
We have achieved ludicris speed, overshot the winnebago, and gone to plaid.
Kristopher Reply
KristopherKubicki - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - linkBGA is the new standard on DDR2. I welcome the change.
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Souka - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - linkBGA modules have been on Laptop Memory modules for sometime.
I will say that the BGA's run cooler, which means better battery life. How much? Maybe 10seconds, maybe 10minutes (based on a 4hr battery in my IBM T41)....I just don't have the time to do a fair test.
My $.02
Evan Lieb - Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - linkWe're going at ludicrous speed. ;) Reply
PorBleemo - Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - linkI agree AgaBooga, the AT staff has shifted into 6th gear. :) Reply
AgaBooga - Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - linkGood article, glad to see how fast you guys are crankin out articles :D Reply


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For More Information about Clean Rivers Education
For schools north of Burnside Street, contact Megan Hanson at 503-823-7185.
For schools south of Burnside Street, contact Christa Shier at 503-823-4985.