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Recent studies indicate that humor is an effective stress reducer and that it may actually increase antibody production, which means a stronger immune system. In 1964, Norman Cousins, then editor of Saturday Review, helped to heal himself from a life-threatening disease through a regimen of vitamin C, renewed self-responsibility, and humor. His reading of several classic books on the subject of stress convinced him that disease was fostered by chemical changes in the body produced by emotions such as anger and fear. He wondered whether an antidote of hope, love, laughter, and the will to live would have the opposite effect. Encouraged by watching Marx Brothers movies and Candid Camera TV sequences, reading humorous books and stories, and listening to jokes, he found that short periods of hearty laughter were enough to induce several hours of painless sleep. Years later, Cousins recommended laughter to others, claiming that this "inner exercising" was beneficial in stimulating breathing, muscular activity, and heart rate.
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Worldwide interest continues to grow in establishing the benefits of laughter and humor in health, supported by wide-ranging scientific research. The Humor Project Inc., based in Saratoga Springs, New York, one of many associations dedicated to tickling the funny bone, publishes Laughing Matters Magazine in twenty countries, and offers Daily Laffirmations through its Web site, www.humorproject.com.
Raymond Moody Jr., MD, the author of Laugh after Laugh: The Healing Power of Humor, has used this approach with his patients for many years. Humor works, he claims, because laughter helps take your mind off pain and problems, and catalyzes the basic will to live.
The arrival of a good clown exercises more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than twenty asses laden with drugs.
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Look in the mirror and make the wildest, most distorted face you can make. Now make an even wilder one.
Throw away your troubles. Stand up right now. Form your hands into fists and bring them together at the center of your chest. Raise your elbows on a line with your fists. Thrust your shoulders and elbows back sharply, as if you are trying to shake something off your back and shoulders. After the thrust, let your fists come together again at the level of your chest, and thrust your shoulders and elbows back again. Do this six to eight times in rapid succession, saying "get off my back" each time you thrust back. Release whatever is burdening you.
Read the comics in today's paper. Forget the front page for a while.
Put on a comedy video, if you have one. Cue it up to your favorite funny part, and play it and replay it
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On this DVD Alan "Ace" Greenberg demonstrates and teaches his rendition of three classic Jack Miller routines using the Hold Out. You will learn: The Ball Silk and Wand Routine and the Sensational Rope Cut. You will also learn how to quickly make a Jack Miller style Hold Out using items that can be easily acquired. Includes footage of Miller performing as well as commentary by others.
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'A Nation Forsaken' author to address topic at Heritage Foundation
WASHINGTON – Even a tinpot dictator with access to a missile and a crude nuclear device could bring the U.S. to its knees, causing a multitude of deaths and shoving the nation back into the 19th century.
The threat of an Electromagnetic Pulse, or EMP, will be the topic when "A Nation Forsaken" author F. Michael Maloof speaks Feb. 5 at noon at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.
WND-TV will live-stream his presentation on the EMP threat to the nation's energy grid
Maloof also will address the federal government's inaction in preparing for the threat, which could come from either a natural solar flare or an enemy's crude nuclear device.
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Maloof's "A Nation Forsaken – EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe" covers the issue in detail.
Maloof, a former senior security policy analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and senior writer for WND, will discuss how leading scientists and other experts have warned for years that the nation's electrical grid system and other critical infrastructures are vulnerable.
Yet, policymakers continue to delay taking preventative action against what could be the biggest threat to U.S. national and economic security in a lifetime.
In "A Nation Forsaken" Maloof breaks down the threat.
A few years ago, a congressional commission raised questions about the consequences to the nation's electricity-dependent infrastructures. Not only would the power grid itself be threatened, but also telecommunications, the banking and finance system, the transportation system that delivers food and water and the fuel needed for homes as well as the military systems that maintain national security.
Congress, however, essentially has ignored its own commission report, wasting valuable time in confronting the threat.
Maloof will argue in his talk that while an EMP event on civilian infrastructure could be serious, it can be managed if government at the federal, state and local levels gives appropriate priority to preventative action.
The event – at the Heritage Foundation's Lehrman Auditorium at 214 Massachusetts Avenue, N.E. – is open to the general public along with being live-streamed by WND-TV.
Maloof has almost 30 years of federal service in the U.S. Defense Department and as a specialized trainer for border guards and Special Forces in countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
While with the Department of Defense, Maloof was director of technology security operations. He headed a 10-person team that halted the diversion of militarily critical technologies to countries of national security and proliferation concern and sponsors of terrorism.
His office was the liaison to the intelligence and enforcement community within the secretary of defense's office in halting transfers and using cases that developed from them as early warnings to policy-makers.
Following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the United States, Maloof was detailed back to report directly to the undersecretary of defense for policy to prepare analysis of worldwide terrorist networks, determine their linkages worldwide and their relationship to state sponsors.
Maloof notes that the sun is entering a period of maximum solar flares, of which several significant events already have been reported. The other threat would be from a nuclear explosion in the atmosphere over the U.S., an event experts fear even a Third World dictator might accomplish given access to a military missile and a nuclear bomb.
Here's the documentation of the danger: "A Nation Forsaken – EMP: The Escalating Threat of an American Catastrophe."
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The Zero DS is built on the foundation of the Zero S and incorporates technology from Zero's highly durable off-road motorcycles. The wheels are designed to be particularly lightweight and strong. In the dirt or on the street the dual sport tires maintain a tight grip and a specially engineered suspension system absorbs the bumps. The result is a dual sport motorcycle that is ready for any surface you can throw at it.
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The 2014 Zero DS leverages an advanced battery cell chemistry and configuration. Not only does the ZF11.4 power pack enable you to go beyond 120 miles, it is also designed to last the life of the motorcycle. The result of cutting edge research and development, each cell in the power pack is individually controlled and monitored at all times to ensure maximum health. The integrated onboard charger minimizes charge time and can work in parallel with Zero's quick charge systems. What's this all mean? Simply put, the Zero DS is a leader for production electric motorcycles in acceleration, range, recharge time and longevity.
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We all have to start somewhere and for Tony Taormina that was when he spotted a 1932 Ford roadster pickup at a car show way back in 2003. One of the most rare body styles Ford offered that year (some production estimates put the number around 600 units), they are seldom found for sale, which is why Tony, who lives in Reno, Nevada, had such a tough time locating one to purchase. He was, however, able to buy the cowl to a Deuce roadster pickup in Oregon, but there was much more to find.
What he especially liked about them was the cool beltline that ran just under the top edge of the cab—a unique and identifying mark. Looking into it a bit more, Tony happened upon the Benson Ford Research Center in Dearborn, Michigan. Benson Ford is part of The Henry Ford, which includes the Henry Ford Museum and other Ford-related attractions, and it also holds historical records (books, photos, catalogs) of the Ford Motor Company. He ordered a set of original drawings from the Center and, during a five-day seminar in 2004 that was offered by metalbender Fay Butler, he was able to create a set of doors for his project using a Yoder powerhammer.
Tony had great fun working with Butler, whom he believes is not only a true craftsman, but an incredibly patient teacher as well! So after Tony had his doors and his cowl, he still needed the cab, so he contacted Butler to see if he was interested in building one for him. Butler agreed, and soon Tony was on his way to having his dream car.
In 2008, Tony saw the Nov. '08 issue of STREET RODDER that featured Old Speed Hot Rods' roadster pickup on the cover. Slammed on the ground, it was everything Tony wanted for his ride, too, and he contacted Old Speed to build a chassis. Unfortunately, the company went out of business before finishing the car's underpinnings, so Tony turned to Dave Davidson, a racing buddy who owns Vintage Hot Rod Design & Fabrication (VHR) in Chico, California. VHR is serious about their lakes racing heritage, and Dave is a member of both El Mirage's 200 MPH Club and Bonneville's 300 MPH Club.
After meeting to discuss Tony's concept for the pickup, the project started with a strong base: with a 0.120-wall 2×4 custom frame designed and built at VHR. Pegged on the ground, the frame accommodates a '39 Lincoln rearend located with coilovers and long ladder bars as well as a drilled I-beam axle set up with a transverse spring and laid-down shocks (nearly parallel to the ground) that operate via a mini rocker arm assembly. Steering is accomplished with the aid of a Schroeder box whose output shaft pokes out of the side of the cowl. Lincoln brakes are used out back while '41 Ford drums were used up front. To make it a roller, black 16-inch steelies were shod with Firestone rubber (6.00 and 7.50) and then topped with chrome Ford caps.
There are many unique aspects to this hot rod, but one of the best is the Lincoln V-12 engine located up front. First found in 1936 Lincoln Zephyrs, the '36-39 V-12s were 267 inches making 110 hp, which gave the car a top speed of around 90 mph—not bad for a big car in 1936 (later years produced a 292 V-12 as well as a 306-incher).
Running the machine shop end of the business for VHR is John Beck, a longtime lakes competitor and record holder in his own right. Beck assembled Tony's V-12 with oversize (0.030) Egge pistons, a 7.5:1 compression ratio, a custom-ground Isky camshaft, as well as Isky springs and Egge valves. A custom intake for the three Stromberg 97 carbs was made for the motor, and other one-off items were made (such as the fan shroud for the electric fan and the exhaust system) before the S-10 T5 transmission was bolted up.
Bodywork, handled chiefly by VHR's Andrew Calkins, was next and before VHR's David Sapp sprayed out the PPG semi-satin green acrylic urethane over the body and bed, the grille shell was shortened for proportion. To give the ride the look of nose art from a World War II bomber, Nick Knezic (Paradise, CA) was tapped to add the bomb-riding hottie to both sides of the cowl as well as the pinstripe on the hubcaps and around the car.
The handcrafted body and V-12 might be enough for some people, but the interior in Tony's ride merits acclaim all by itself. Carrying on the World War II bomber theme, the roadster pickup boasts more than 4,000 aircraft rivets laid out across various parts and interior pieces.
Among the areas adorned with rivets is the pocket-and-heel step sectioned into the trans tunnel, the door panels and cab back, and around the gauge cluster on the dash. Individual bomber seats are sprayed with flattened green paint, and simple leather upholstery from Don Higgins Upholstery in Chico, California, is used on the seat's base and backpiece. Under the dash is a vintage Sun tachometer and wiring by Jerry Bermudez, and the four-spoke steering wheel was wrapped at Paul's Quality Upholstery in Chico.
After the pickup was completed, it made its debut at the 2012 Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, California, where it won first in the Altered Rod Truck, Pre-1935 class. But a show winner or not, the car turned out the way Tony wanted it to and, after being involved in the hot rod hobby for 50 years, that certainly made it a winner in his eyes.
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Year: 1932
Make: Ford
Model: Roadster Pickup
Owner: Tony Taormina
State: Nevada


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MILPITAS, Calif., July 23, 2014 - SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash storage solutions, today announced it has completed the previously announced acquisition of Fusion-io, a leading developer of flash-based PCIe hardware and software solutions that enhance application performance in enterprise and hyperscale datacenters.
"I am delighted to welcome the employees of Fusion-io to SanDisk. The tremendous engineering and go-to-market talent of the Fusion-io team will accelerate our efforts to enable the flash-transformed data center," said Sanjay Mehrotra, president and chief executive officer of SanDisk. "Together we will offer our customers the broadest set of enterprise flash solutions in the industry."
Under the terms of the agreement, SanDisk completed the acquisition for $11.25 per share for the outstanding shares of Fusion-io, and assumed unvested, in-the-money equity awards, for a total aggregate value of approximately $1.1 billion, net of cash assumed.
SanDisk's third quarter financial results will include the results of Fusion-io from July 23, 2014 through September 28, 2014. SanDisk expects to exclusively use non-captive memory for the Fusion-io business for at least the next several quarters.
SanDisk's GAAP P&L results will be impacted by:
SanDisk's non-GAAP P&L results will be impacted by cash-related charges for transaction, restructuring, and integration costs as well as the reduction of support and maintenance revenue due to the effects of purchase accounting. SanDisk expects the acquisition to be dilutive to non-GAAP earnings in the near term primarily due to charges for transaction, restructuring and integration costs, which are expected to be approximately $35 million in the third quarter of 2014 and approximately $15 million in the fourth quarter of 2014, as well as operating losses from Fusion-io partially offset by modest near-term synergies. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to non-GAAP earnings in the second half of 2015.
The acquisition was effected through a tender offer followed by a merger. The tender offer for Fusion-io's stock, which was made at $11.25 per share, net to the seller in cash, without interest thereon and less any applicable withholding taxes, expired at 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of the day on July 22, 2014. As of the expiration of the tender offer, a total of 66,901,782 shares, representing approximately 61.02% of Fusion-io's outstanding common stock, were validly tendered into and not validly withdrawn from the tender offer. In addition, notices of guaranteed delivery were delivered with respect to 6,879,953 shares, representing approximately 6.27% of Fusion-io's outstanding common stock. All validly tendered shares have been accepted for payment, which will be made in accordance with the terms of the tender offer.
SanDisk and Fusion-io subsequently completed the acquisition by merging a subsidiary of SanDisk with and into Fusion-io, with Fusion-io continuing as the surviving corporation. In the merger, each share of Fusion-io's common stock issued and outstanding immediately prior to the effective time of the merger, other than shares held by SanDisk, Fusion-io, and Fusion-io's stockholders who properly perfect their statutory appraisal rights under Delaware law, was canceled and converted into the right to receive the $11.25 per share offer price in cash, without interest thereon and less any applicable withholding taxes.
As a result of the completion of the merger, Fusion-io has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of SanDisk. Fusion-io's shares ceased trading on the NYSE at the close of market on July 22, 2014, and will no longer be listed.
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage, providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the electronics industry. Today, SanDisk's quality, state-of-the-art solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data centers, and embedded in advanced smart phones, tablets and PCs. SanDisk's consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
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That's it, you guys. This is why we can't have nice things. You find out about one cool Bane mask that some poor Etsy seller painstakingly made, and you have to go and order it in droves. That's cool, that's cool… But now we have to wait around 4 months to have one.
And we will. We will, because frankly, $93 is still darn cheap for what has got to be one of the coolest ways to stay warm.
And if $93 is too rich for your blood, or walking around in garb that could scare old ladies isn't your thing, then at least head on over after the break for more pictures of the thing.


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Toshiba has signed a memorandum of understanding with Unison that will see the Japanese company invest $36.5 million.
The deal will see the two companies cooperate on the development of wind turbine generators. Toshiba will also be given worldwide distribution rights for Unison's generators.
Toshiba said the projected worldwide growth of wind energy up until 2020 prompted its decision to enter the wind industry.
Regulatory approval is required before the deal can proceed.
Although Toshiba has interests in renewables companies, much of its energy activity has been based around nuclear power.
The Unison deal is Toshiba's first step into the wind sector. In 2002, Toshiba linked up with Gamesa to buy the Spanish manufacturers turbines and manufacture its towers.
In 2006, Gamesa supplied Toshiba Plant Systems with 10 G80 2MW wind turbines to be installed at Kashima, Ibaraki Prefecture, north-east of Tokyo. And in 2003, Toshiba also designed a 400kv vertical axis turbine, dubbed Wind Flower.


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As I approach the homestretch of the final semester. I enter into coloring and editing. I'll have a rough cut and colored animation prepared soon.
Rough cut – end of the week
Colored Progress – February 25
When I look at my production, I think this video may end up having two releases. The first will be for school completion, but I'll want to redo the background art and add a second layer of color animation. This debut music video must rock all of the socks.


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LAN parties on the go could be coming to Ford vehicles this year, the company announced at CES today.
Ford's new MyFord Touch driver connect technology and second generation SYNC system features a WiFi signal receiver that gives passengers wireless internet access in the vehicle. The system lets you plug a compatible USB mobile broadband modem into SYNC's USB port to produce a secure wireless connection that will be broadcast throughout the vehicle.
The system also includes an 8-inch touchscreen that can browse the internet when the vehicle is parked.
Ford doesn't detail what protocols they will be using for the wireless signal, but I'd like to think it's at least 802.11g, though 802.11n is where the real action's at. Of course, all of this will be riding on a cell signal, so don't expect blistering speeds.
Now they just need to add a trackball and a couple of mouse buttons on the gear shifter and we'll be set.


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Economist Anne Osborn Krueger coined the term "rent-seeking" in 1974, the year in which Jerry Brown was first elected governor.
There is a connection between those two events.
"Rent-seekers" came to mean those who use government to enhance their ostensibly private investments.
Halfway through his second stint as governor, Brown has become the rent-seekers' friend, eager to give hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies from the state treasury and consumers' wallets to a favored few.
At Brown's behest, the Legislature abolished two long-standing subsidy programs that had been largely controlled by local governments, redevelopment and "enterprise zones."
The rationale was that they had become expensive boondoggles that rarely, if ever, resulted in the private, job-creating investment and urban renewal they were supposed to produce.
They were to be replaced, although it wasn't apparent at the time, with state-controlled "incentives" for investment, including a sales tax break for manufacturing equipment and a special pot that Brown could use to lure and/or retain business.
Simultaneously, the state was embarking on a massive overhaul of its electric power system, aimed at replacing fossil fuel and nuclear generation with "renewable" power and providing billions of dollars in subsidies, either from taxpayers or utility ratepayers. And it also was pushing alternatives to gasoline-powered cars, such as electric vehicles, again with subsidies.
With countless billions of dollars floating around, rent-seekers have proliferated and none has benefited more than Elon Musk.
Musk is building Tesla electric cars, his Solar City has become the state's leading installer of photovoltaic electric panels, his SpaceX firm aspires to be the nation's leading conveyor of satellites, and he's planning an immense battery factory.
Each of these activities has benefited from direct and indirect state subsidies, including direct injections of money into Tesla and zero-emission credits that Tesla sells to other firms.
This year alone, Brown signed one budget "trailer bill" that extends subsidies for solar panels, another that exempts some SpaceX property from taxes, and a third that was supposed to subsidize construction of a new strategic bomber but includes an obscure amendment that would also subsidize a battery factory.
Legislators were never told about the battery factory provision. After enactment, the Associated Press reported on its existence, clearly aimed at winning the Musk project.
Finally, Brown's administration is dickering with legislative leaders on provisions of a more straightforward battery factory "incentive." The bill, carried by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, is just an empty shell now, but it could be filled at moment's notice during the session's hectic final days in August.
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As part of the ML-CIRRUS mission, HALO will complete a total of 12 measurement flights by the end of April 2014. Between now and 2018, a further eight major scientific missions are scheduled for HALO, and these will either be funded by the DLR or supported by them as a partner.
HALO carries one of the world's most modern sets of cloud research instrumentation. The 'underwing stations' carry the PMS probes – particle measurement instruments for sampling cloud droplets and ice crystals.
To precisely record the properties of cirrus cloud and vapour trails, the HALO research aircraft is equipped with a lidar system. This image shows the 'optical window', seen from outside the aircraft.
Unanswered questions about the formation of clouds and their impact on the climate are currently setting limitations on the validity of global climate forecasts. To make a detailed analysis of the climate effects of natural ice clouds and the vapour trails created by air traffic, the HALO (High Altitude and LOng Range) research aircraft embarked on the first of a total of 12 measurement flights on 24 March 2014. For four weeks, as part of the ML-CIRRUS (Mid-Latitude Cirrus) mission, ice clouds (also known as 'cirrus') will be measured at altitudes of between eight and 14 kilometres above Europe and the North Atlantic. Under the auspices of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), a team of around 100 scientists from various atmospheric research institutes will be studying the formation, lifecycle, and climate effect of both naturally occurring cirrus and vapour trail cirrus clouds.
The scientists will be paying particular attention to the long-lasting vapour trail cirrus created by air traffic. To date, the extent to which the properties of these anthropogenic clouds differ from natural cirrus remains unknown. "New findings indicate that the climate-warming effect of vapour trail cirrus may be greater than that of the carbon dioxide emissions from aircraft," explains campaign manager Christiane Voigt, a scientist at the DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics and the University of Mainz. Locally, there are massive differences. "With HALO, we will collect a comprehensive set of measurement data, which will allow us to build better models and reduce the existing uncertainties," Voigt continues.
Three tons of state-of-the-art measurement technology on board
The atmospheric researchers on board HALO will be supported in their work by a set of innovative instrumentation. "To prepare for ML-CIRRUS, we have been developing new methods for several years to take very precise measurements of the properties of cirrus clouds and vapour trails," reports Andreas Minikin from the DLR Institute of Atmospheric Physics, who is co-directing the research campaign along with Christiane Voigt. "HALO will now be flying with one of the most modern sets of cloud research instrumentation in the world – altogether, the experimental payload weighs just under three tons." Besides the lidar (a laser experiment for remote cloud sensing), the equipment on board this research aircraft includes nine different cloud probes mounted under the wings and a complex set of aerosol, water vapour and trace gas instrumentation in the cabin.
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When the weather is clear, thin cirrus clouds and vapour trails can regularly be seen in the sky. They wrap around the Earth like a warming scarf. The actual strength of their warming effect is the subject of current research and depends on many parameters such as the size and number of ice crystals in the clouds, the altitude of these clouds, and their lifespan. The shape of the ice particles also influences their radiation effects: "There is a veritable menagerie of ice-crystal columns, platelets and complex branching structures waiting to be explored by our instruments," reveals Voigt. Under certain conditions, ice clouds can actually have a cooling effect. To gain a better understanding of the multiple effects of cirrus clouds and vapour trails, the scientists need accurate data about the number, shape and size of these ice crystals, which can vary from one thousandth of a millimetre to several millimetres in size. This is why HALO is equipped with a wide variety of complementary measuring instruments. At the end, the collected cloud information will be fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle to give a complete picture. After the measurements have been carried out with the HALO research aircraft, the scientists will compare the results with sets of measurement data obtained from ground-based remote sensing stations, and assess global satellite data. The results will provide the basis for detailed process models, which will help improve global climate forecasts.
ML-CIRRUS – a collective mission involving many research institutes
The extensive cloud measurement campaign conducted by German atmosphere researchers is sponsored collectively by DLR, the Universities of Mainz, Leipzig, Frankfurt, and Heidelberg, the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, as well as the Jülich Research Centre, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the Leibniz Institute of Troposphere Research in Leipzig, the German national metrology institute (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt; PTB), the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. The DLR Flight Experiments Facility is responsible for operating the HALO research aircraft, which is a converted and heavily modified Gulfstream G550. "HALO is one of the world's most modern atmospheric research aircraft," says Oliver Brieger, Director of DLR the Flight Experiments Facility. "Between now and 2018, HALO is scheduled to take part in another eight major scientific missions."
About HALO
The HALO research aircraft is a collective initiative by German environment and climate research bodies. HALO is funded by contributions from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung; BMBF), the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; DFG), the Helmholtz Association, the Max Planck Society, the Leibniz Association, the Free State of Bavaria, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum; GFZ), the Jülich Research Centre (Forschungszentrum Jülich) and the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR).
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BURNET — Add one more reason to visit or revisit Longhorn Cavern State Park this summer other than its constant 68-degree environment. Workers have rewired the National Registered Landmark and replaced decades-old incandescent lights with hundreds of energy-saving, 12-volt halogen lights to better illuminate the cavern's most outstanding natural features.
"We've instituted a new slogan: 'See Longhorn Cavern in a whole, new light,'" says Michelle Devaney, who along with her husband Shawn, manage the 645-acre state park for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department as concessionaires. "Even people who have visited the cavern before should return to see the eye-popping difference the new lighting has made."
TPWD spent approximately $700,000 in voter-approved park bond funds during the nine-month capital repair project to replace the old lighting system installed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, and to lay more than two miles of wiring and install a sophisticated switching system. Cavern visitors will be able to see the contrast between the old and new lighting systems in the Indian Council Room.
An official "reopening" of the revamped Longhorn Cavern lighting system will feature a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony, as well as cave tours, live music and a chance to meet the people who made the project possible. It is scheduled from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Thursday, July 19. The event is open to the public by advance reservation only and.tickets are available online at: www.longhorncaverns.com .
The old CCC-installed lighting was designed to create an ambient glow through the use of incandescent lights shielded by manmade enclosures. The guiding principal of the new lighting system design by Rodney Horrocks of Hot Springs, S.D., was to wow visitors by directly illuminating the cavern's prominent natural features, such as the Queens Throne and Hall of Gems, according to Mark Winford, TPWD's cavern renovation project manager.
"Much of the new lighting focus is upward and around, rather than down at the floor," Winford explains. "Visitors will be able to see for the first time such speleothems (rock formations) as an impressive flowstone that starts at the ceiling and pours down the wall that hadn't been lighted before. It is quite impressive."
Winford notes that the new low-voltage lights produce very little heat and therefore do not contribute to algae growth like the older lights did in the high-humidity cave environment. Miles of new cabling are ingeniously hidden in cracks and crevices, and masked by earth-colored grout. A newly installed intercom system allows tour guides to stay in touch with personnel on the surface.
Longhorn Cavern's cultural history rivals its natural history. Its first visitors were prehistoric creatures such as mammoths, giant bison, bear and a host of smaller animals. The first evidence of human presence dates back to a time when Native Americans sought refuge in the cavern. Local legend holds that the Comanche held council meetings in the cavern's largest room. Early Texas frontier settlers, Confederate soldiers, Wild West outlaws, Roaring 20s "party animals" and the CCC frequented the cavern in ensuing years.
The "boys" of the CCC Company 854 spent eight years (1934-1942) carving the park out of the rugged Hill Country terrain and transforming the silt-filled cavern into a show cave that draws more than 40,000-plus visitors a year. They used much of the 2.5 million cubic yards of extracted materials to build Park Road 4, explored and lit two miles of cavern walkways, built limestone walls and arches, and erected various park structures, most of which still stand today.
Unlike Texas' other show caves, Longhorn Cavern is the only one formed not just by the seepage of surface water through porous limestone and seeps, but also by calcium carbonate-rich underground rivers that surged through cracks and holes several million years ago, dissolving and eroding solid limestone during the downcutting of the Colorado River. The result is a wonder world of odd-shaped rock formations, smooth-domed ceilings, gaping sinkholes, tight crawlways, rock carvings resembling animals and human faces, rooms of sparkling crystals and alabaster halls of dolomite reminiscent of exquisite Italian marble.
The park offers daily guided tours that last approximately an hour and a half for the approximately 1.5-mile round trip. Visitors should wear low-heeled shoes with rubber soles for safety since some passageways may be damp. The Visitor Center opens at 9 a.m. except Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. For ticket and schedule information, visit www.longhorncaverns.com or call (830) 598-CAVE (598-2283). For Longhorn Cavern State Park information, visit: http://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/longhorn-cavern.
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But then again, it is always equally disturbing to most editors when they discover that advertising in business publications such as our own ALWAYS ranks higher than editorial content whenever readers are asked to rate their most valued sources of new product and service information. So, if you get the opportunity and feel so inclined, please let these vendors know that you appreciate their efforts to provide you even more information about their plans for the year within these pages.
We also decided to do something a bit different this year. We decided that, as long as we already had their attention as part of the Annual Reports issue, we would try to dig a bit deeper into the minds and plans of the top executives across the helicopter industry. So instead of asking everyone to answer a single, very broad question about what they see on the horizon for the coming year, we instead approached this in much the same manner that we might approach any CEO interview during the year—with just a bit of a twist.
As we embark on another new year filled with promise and uncertainty, we decided to ask three questions: • "What are the most interesting projects that your company is working on for next year?"
• "What are the new and emerging opportunities for rotorcraft operations in 2012?"
• "What issue or issues concern you most about the immediate and long-term future of the rotorcraft industry?
We sent three different questions to our participants and asked them each to answer at least two. But the "twist" is that we instructed our participants to keep their answers in total to under 500 words. We then handed those answers over to our editorial staff and asked them to review the answers, provide additional context or insight if necessary, and present them mixed together in an interview format, rather than in the format we have used in this issue in recent years, which we referred to as the Executive Outlook section. And thus, the 2012 Rotorcraft Outlook Panel is born.
By expanding the format to include additional questions and topics this year, I believe we are able to provide a great deal more insight into what we might all expect to see in the coming months. And of course the comparison and contrast of the answers provided by CEOs and managing directors of very large multi-national corporations, juxtaposed with the answers from the top management and owners of somewhat smaller companies, all taken within the context of the wide range of organizations represented, provides very interesting forecast fodder, when taken as a whole.
We will continue to tweak and evolve this format in coming years based on the feedback you provide us, and I'm very excited and pleased to provide this new forum, and to see where it goes from here! — Randy Jones, Publisher, Rotor & Wing
Predicting the future is kind of like throwing a game of darts. Every once in a while you hit the bull's eye (for the majority of the non-professionals among us), but most of the time it's just blind luck whether you're accurate, get somewhere near the intended target, or miss altogether. Successful strikes go up dramatically with professionals, as with almost any field of work. With that in mind, think of the 14 executives that participated in our 2012 Rotorcraft Outlook Panel (starting on page 25) as the experts—with a significantly higher chance of predicting what the future of the industry holds.
"Right now the global economy as a whole is unstable and, like every other industry, lack of direction in the stabilization is our concern," observes Jim Sensale, president of Aviation Instrument Services.
"Many segments of the rotorcraft industry will feel significant financial pressures in 2012, which will impact the purchase of new helicopters as well as fleet retrofits," says David Ashton, vice president of Cobham Commercial Systems. "Global military spending is likely to remain flat or decline."
Mark Tattershall of Kaman Helicopters notes that beyond unmanned opportunities, "we see demand growing for small ship maritime helicopters that provide nations with a cost-effective capability. This is driven primarily by territorial disputes, anti-piracy operations, submarine concerns and drug and other smuggling operations."
Presagis is seeing "a significant increase in demand from the defense side and from commercial applications related to offshore and remote area operations," according to President Guillaume Hervé.
"On the defense side, the drive is for highly accurate and effective training and mission rehearsal solutions in single and multi-domain environments. On the commercial side, the demand is for easily deployable and accessible solutions that will help the industry reduce the current excessive levels of accidents and incidents," he adds.
Curtis Reusser, president of Goodrich's Electronic Systems segment, notes that "mission readiness, improving performance and reducing operational costs" are among the chief concerns for the company heading into 2012. "Current budgetary limitations have surfaced at a time when we see an unprecedented combination of an increasing need for helicopter operations and services, global cost-saving initiatives, and ongoing political instability."
Precision Aviation Group "continues to believe that energy exploration and support will remain a growth area for helicopter operations," notes President & CEO David Mast. "The Australasia market has continued to be an area of expansion for our companies in the rotary wing market. Our support of government programs presents an increasing opportunity for growth," he adds.
George Ferito, director of Rotorcraft Business Development for FlightSafety International, points out that a "succession of industry and government-sponsored task forces have, in recent years, offered a number of proposals to improve helicopter operational safety. While these have been wide-ranging and, in some cases, far-reaching, they share a common denominator: they all recommend increased training as a fundamental and essential step."
Aviall CEO Dan Komnenovich explains that the company is preparing for "emerging opportunities this year in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China), the Gulf of Mexico, and operations around the globe." He adds that other issues facing rotorcraft operators include aging fleets and the growth of the practice of "just-in-time" inventory deployment.
"The economy and the existing instability in the U.S. and across Europe remains a major concern for all of us," notes Markus Schmitz, CEO of Becker Avionics. "We believe that 2012 will stay flat for most of the year but hopefully we will see improved economic conditions thereafter that will allow for stronger demand of goods and services. In any case, it will be a slow recovery to pre-recession levels."
Aero Dynamix General Manager Dennis Trout sees airworthiness certification, specifically FAA N8900.152, as a major issue heading into 2012. "Many of these provisions were in effect previously, but enforcement has been sporadic and uneven across the country. The robust inspection and enforcement of these new standards will severely challenge many of the NVIS product suppliers and integrators."
Mike Scimone, president of Donaldson St. Louis, notes that "recent history has shown the rotorcraft industry has been secure. The unique ability of rotorcraft to meet many needs, especially with the military, has allowed us to weather some rough times. But the reality of reduced spending on both the commercial and military side will have its effects."
Aspen Avionics President & CEO John Uczekaj points to standardizing the approvals process as an obstacle ahead. "The rotorcraft industry needs to address how to gain federal acceptance of standardized processes in certification and implementation of new technologies in a timely fashion," he says. "Without it, game-changing ideas will not be available to this market."
Cost containment "is a major challenge as we look to the future of the rotorcraft industry," notes Dave Marone, a vice president with BLR Aerospace.
"Despite the efforts of industry groups and government regulators, significant improvement in safety seems elusive, and the result is an ever-increasing cost to insure rotorcraft assets and operations. … All factors combined, if left unchecked, will result in a greater number of helicopter missions that are no longer economically viable." — Compiled by Rotor & Wing staff


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WASHINGTON — The chief executives of Detroit's Big Three automakers and the president of the United Automobile Workers union are scheduled to meet Thursday with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi about emergency financial aid for the companies, according to three people with knowledge of the plans.
The meeting would come just hours after the Energy Department said late Wednesday that the auto companies would be able to apply as soon as next week for $25 billion in low-interest loans to develop more fuel-efficient vehicles. But that loan program seemed unlikely to meet their needs, and some of the money could go to Asian carmakers with plants in this country.
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The Energy Department said Wednesday that it had rushed through rules on how to process loan applications and was prepared to begin evaluating them next week.
But the money could only be used for expenses incurred after the application was filed, and not for general expenses or for expenses incurred so far.Continue reading the main story
Still, the first reaction of the automakers was positive. A spokesman for General Motors, Greg Martin, said G.M. was "very pleased" by the accelerated release of the loans.
The Energy Department usually takes more than a year to write rules; Congress gave it 60 days but it completed the work in about 30. The program, hurriedly passed by Congress as part of the budget for the fiscal year that began on Oct. 1, was given to the Energy Department because it is intended to finance the development of high-mileage car models or components for them.
Asked about whether the program would satisfy the automakers' needs, David Hill, the department's general counsel, said in a conference call with reporters that "we've done the best we can," within the constraints of the legislation.
Processing a loan application would ordinarily take months, because an environmental evaluation is required. But if the White House declared an emergency, department officials said, some money could flow by the end of this year. The money would be doled out in "progress payments," as expenses where incurred, the officials said, in a teleconference with reporters Wednesday evening. Under the ground rules laid out by the Energy Department, most of the officials could not be quoted by name.
Another complication is that before it can lend money, the Energy Department must conclude that the borrower has assets that exceed its liabilities, and is likely to be able to repay the principal and interest.
The rate would be at the Treasury's cost of funds, which Energy Department officials said was about 4 percent a year. The term of the loan would be the shorter of 25 years or the life of the improvement being financed. It was not immediately clear if that meant the expected lifetime of a new car model.Continue reading the main story


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Rebeca Grynspan: Remarks on the Launch of the World Centre for Sustainable DevelopmentJun 24, 2013
International Seminar: "Towards implementation of the Rio+20 Conference: the Sustainable Development Goals"
Opening Remarks by
Ms. Rebeca Grynspan
U.N. Under-Secretary-General and UNDP Associate Administrator
Rio de Janeiro
24 June 2013
I would like to begin by thanking the City and State of Rio de Janeiro and the Government of Brazil for their hospitality, is always a pleasure to come to this friendly country and this beautiful city.
Let me also thank Brazil for its leadership. Brazil has gained a special place in the global discussion towards a sustainable develoment agenda. Ministra Teixeira, Ambasador Correia do Lago, let me take this opportunity to recognize once again your contribution: the sustainable development discussion will determine the world's own ability to achieve human development and wellbeing for all.
Let me also thank our UNDP Office in Brazil, Jorge Chediek our Resident Representative and UN Resident Coordinator and his team, and all the partners of the Centre who have believed in this idea.
Warm thanks go also to COPPE of the Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro for generously providing us with an incubator office and of course to Dr. Rômulo Paes the Manager of the Centre and his Deputy, Ms. Layla Saad, for taking on this responsibility.
More than twenty years ago at the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, leaders set out what today is conventional wisdom: human well-being — both social and economic — cannot be divorced from environmental protection. Unless they are advanced together, all will flounder or fail.
Last year world leaders and thousands of representatives from civil society, the private sector, governments, and a huge diversity of interested groups came together again here, at the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development, to debate, advocate, and commit to the implementation of a sustainable development agenda. The Conference was key because before it took place there was a general feeling that progress was very slow and we were losing the steam and commitment required.
The outcome document approved at Rio + 20 reasserted the inextricable link between economic, social and environmental policies for the achievement of sustainable development. It brought about consensus on the need for and commitment to poverty eradication, changing unsustainable patterns of consumption and production and protecting and managing the natural resource base of economic and social development.
Human Development is only possible where we act to protect the environment while meeting the needs of the hundreds of millions of people that still live hungry and in extreme poverty.
In order to put the world on the right track, Rio+20 made the creation and adoption of Sustainable Development Goals - a priority on the international agenda and calling for them to be coherent with / and integrated into the United Nations development agenda beyond 2015.
Now that the High Level Panel of the U.N. Secretary-General has handled their report and that the Open Working Group held its fourth meeting last week we also need to celebrate the inauguration of this Center agreed in June 2012, that is a clear sign of concrete steps forward and an important landmark to make the Conference outcome document "the Future we Want" a guiding force for action.
The Rio+ Centre has emerged at a unique time in history, amidst an animated global political debate on sustainable development, poverty eradication, human rights, and social justice. This is clearly a precious opportunity to shift paradigms and trigger transformative change.
This Centre was established to create something new, to redefine what is possible and to break the rules that no longer serve the good of people and communities.
The Center is designed to expand the frontiers of Knowledge on sustainable development, promote innovation and international debate and enlarge the participation of actors facilitating the exchange of resources, skills and expertise.
Let me summarize the Centre's contribution in 5 short points that show how the Centre will be a key actor in connecting issues, countries, actors and time!
1. First, it will connect the three dimensions of Sustainable Development, the social, economic and environmental, and will help change the discourse from focusing on the trade offs to focusing on the triple wins. We don't believe that environmental sustainability is a limit or obstacle to growth or to poverty reduction. If we focus on making wise and informed choices we can help accelerate economic and energy transformations, drive advances in technology, and spur the creation of new production models creating new goods, services, jobs and exports.
More and more evidence points to the fact that unless we seriously address inequality and environmental sustainability, we won't be able to replicate in the next 2 decades the progress we have been experiencing in Human development in the last 20 years.
In the Human Development Report of 2011 and 2013 we provide sound projections and scenarios that attest to these facts.
We also know that it is usually the poor and the vulnerable that are most affected, especially women, not only by recurrent and more severe natural disasters related to climate change, but also by ecosystems degradation. These ecosystems provide a safety net for 1.2 billion people living in extreme poverty around the world.
Biodiversity loss, ecosystems degradation and recurrent natural disasters are undermining hard-won development gains, taxing societies and saddling the international community with extremely high costs.
UNDP's core mission is to contribute to the eradication of extreme poverty and the reduction of inequality and exclusion: if this is to be achieved, the integration of environmental sustainability and natural resource management into the development and poverty reduction agenda is indispensable.
The good news is that solutions can be found. We have the examples of Bolsa Verde in Brazil, the contributions of the Equator Initiative for example, the winning 2012 program in Bali in Indonesia that created 70 artificial Biorock reefs which have restored fish stocks, marine biodiversity, incomes and jobs, and as this one many others. What we need is to scale up efforts and remove the obstacles and dis-incentives to do so.
2. Second, to connect the three dimensions of Sustainable development we need to connect the three communities of practice and the sectoral agendas.
This is simpler to say than to do. Sustainable development will require much more interaction, understanding and common research and innovation.
Although progress has been made in bringing economist and social scientists, including political scientists to dialogue and build together, and the environment and economic practitioners and scientists are working more than before on climate change, externalities and determinants of long term growth, much more has to be done. Especially in connecting the poverty and environmental professional communities and practices. We need to bring the Ministers of finance with the Ministers of the Environment because the discussion is essential to obtain the objectives of both! The Center can make a contribution in this direction.
3. Part of the success of this agenda will depend on how well we are going to be in connecting the short and the long term.
If we look at the horizon, shifting away from practices that achieve relatively short term economic growth at significant cost to long term development in natural capital, poverty reduction and growth itself. Finally we need to understand that the short and the long term start at the same time.
4. The centre has to connect countries and global experiences, bringing the different contexts, paths and policy options that can help define and drive sustainable development. They need to network with the different institutions and centres around the world.
5. And finally it has to bring together the Private, Public and Civil society partners, and it has to do so at the global, regional national and local level. The transformation that is needed will not happen if we don't bring the business community and change the content and pattern of investments, if Governments at the global, national and local levels don't assume their responsibility and if civil society and communities cannot contribute to a positive agenda with voice and participation. What we do is important but how we do it is also key.
That is why one of the first actions of the Centre Rio+ will be to reactivate the Rio Dialogues that successfully engaged over 12,000 people in the lead up to Rio+20 last year. It will also stand ready to contribute to, and advocate for, the adoption of ambitious and universal Sustainable Development Goals articulated with a post 2015 agenda.
The UN-led global consultations on Post-2015 have also a lot to contribute to this global conversation. So far, over 560,000 people from 194 countries have participated and have voted for the issues that would make the most difference to their lives. In Brazil, more than 16,200 people have voted until now, being the country in Latin America with the highest participation and with nearly as many votes as in the United States of America.
An analysis of preliminary findings of those results shows that participants believe overwhelmingly that sustainable development needs to be approached in an integrated way – addressing the economic, social, and environmental aspects simultaneously. They call for the universality of the goals, to governance, human rights and civil society involvement.
There is an emerging consensus that we need one framework aimed at achieving poverty eradication within the context of sustainable development.
In a context of shifting geopolitics; where global citizens create and use sophisticated networks to swiftly mobilize around issues and demand accountability, in a world where planetary realities are increasingly revealing the intertwined nature of environmental health, poverty, and social stability; it is clear that we all have the responsibility to urgently rethink the way we conduct business. UNDP is convinced that this Centre will be a powerful and positive force in bringing action and radical change.
In closing, I would like to take a minute to turn your attention to the new visual identity of the Centre Rio+ which has been designed by a prominent Brazilian designer. It is a unique and contemporary design that juxtaposes the three letters of -RIO- drawing on the idea that we need integrated approaches when talking about sustainable development and we need to connect and join efforts beyond the classic boundaries that separate us in order to make it happen.
The world expects no less! Thank you.


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I am hoping the 2013 season will be smoother than last season with the crosswalk issue. As I drive down Estero the crosswalk signs are inconsistent & need to be fixed. Some only have a sign on 1 side of the road so you do not notice there is a crosswalk, depending on which direction you are driving. Some need signs back-to-back as some are missing. I would hate to have a visitor hit by a car again! Flashing lights above each sign would be help. Public info should be printed at the top of ALL tourist flyers so that visitors know the law is cars stopping in crosswalks,,,,not whenever someone crosses anywhere! I had a guy YELL at me for not stopping for him when he darted across outside of the crosswalk! Signs on McGregor which can be read while creeping along would help. ALSO MANY signs urging people to use the LEFT LANE before the bridge so that you don't have the jerks driving in the right lane passing everyone & then trying to barge into the left lane would help!
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GULLANE, Scotland — What will happen if a storm hits?
On a day when Lee Westwood made bogey on three of his final six holes and still managed to tie for the day's lowest round, a 68, the British Open became a survival test — with Muirfield Golf Club clearly holding the upper hand.
One by one the leaders fell on another bright, relatively tranquil day off the Firth of Forth, with the firmness and speed of the course and the severity of the pin placements being the main impediments to good scoring instead of the usual inclement weather that regularly strikes this part of Scotland.
TIGER WOODS: In the hunt after grinding 71
With every player on edge whether on the tee of this baked-out links, or in the yellow and brown fairways, or on the greens that Phil Mickelson said were running faster than those at Augusta National during the Masters, Miguel Angel Jimenez, who at 49 is trying to become the oldest player to win a major, took the lead Friday after 36 holes in the oldest major championship in golf.
LEADERBOARD: 142nd British Open
Jimenez, nicknamed the Mechanic and dubbed the Most Interesting Man in the World for his free-spirited ways that usually involve cigars and wine, shot an even-par 71 to stand alone at 3 under 139. He leads a group of some of the game's best players by one shot — world No. 1 Tiger Woods (69-71), Westwood (72-68), Dustin Johnson (68-72) and Henrik Stenson (70-70).
"I think it's one of the most difficult tests that we've had," said Mickelson, who had a four-putt on No. 15 en route to a 74 that left him at 1 over.
And the first two rounds might be the easiest the players will see the course this week. The forecast calls for two more days of dry heat that will burn out the course even more. Yet to be determined is how much water tournament officials will put on the greens, if any.
"This course will get nothing but tougher and tougher," said Graeme McDowell, who is 4 over after a 71. "Literally anything a little under par could win at this point. We saw how difficult it can be (Thursday). After (Friday), I'd imagine they can sort of let the hand break off and let the golf course accelerate away from us. It will be interesting to see what happens this weekend, but I don't expect the scoring to be much better.
" … But it's supposed to be tough."
It's been plenty tough the first two days. In the first round, 20 players broke par. Now, only nine remain in red figures. Making a birdie was cause for mini-celebrations throughout the day. Woods forcefully thrust his left hand into the air as the ball disappeared for a birdie on the 18th hole for a climactic ending to another difficult battle, where shooting even par left him pleased. Despite missing two putts inside 4 feet, Woods, seeking his first major title in five years, was right there again in a major championship after 36 holes.
THE NEW LOOK FOR GOLF: What if Jimenez wins?
"I'm in a good spot. ... (I'll) just continue plodding along. Just continue just being patient, putting the ball in the right spots," Woods said. "We're not going to get a lot of opportunities out there, but when I have, I've been able to capitalize, and hopefully I can continue doing that.
"I've put myself there (in majors), I just haven't won. I've had chances on the back nine on many of those Sundays. It's just one of those things where I haven't gotten it done."
Overnight leader Zach Johnson didn't get much done in the second round. After making one bogey during his opening-round 66, he made six bogeys and a double-bogey to shoot 75 and is 1 under. He twice made birdies to get into the lead at 5 under only to go backward each time, first with consecutive bogeys, the second time with a bogey and a double-bogey when he three-putted from 12 feet.
"It was a grind from the first shot to my last 3-, 4-footer, whatever it was, on 18," Johnson said. "Just trying to pick the right club, trying to pick the right target, with the right shot was very difficult. You don't want to over-think it, so you've got that going through your mind as well. And truly, I mean, for the most part the entire day I'm trying to two-putt from 15 feet and beyond.
"There are not many pins you can get at. So if you make a putt, you just go to the next tee, you just get out of there. … Every major championship can be humbling. I mean, to be honest with you, I played pretty good today. I didn't hit that many bad shots."
Brandt Snedeker four-putted the 15th hole and fell off the first page of the leaderboard with a 79.
"I don't know what we're supposed to do to hit a green," he said. "I don't know if it's fair or not. We all had to play the same golf course. They need to put some water on it. Everything is dead. You've got fairways that are running 15 in some spots. You can't stand up, you can slip. It's just really, really firm.
"You're just going to have to deal with that in a major. Some guys shot under-par scores or around par. I think anything around par was a good score. You can't complain about it. Guys survived it, so it's not like it's unplayable."
Those who won't be playing any more golf after missing the cut of 8 over were world No. 2 Rory McIlroy (79-75), reigning U.S. Open champ Justin Rose (75-77), Luke Donald (80-72) and Rickie Fowler (78-76).
As for Jimenez, he's just ecstatic to be playing golf after breaking his leg while skiing in January. He was itching to get back to the golf course before the cast set. While his leg has healed, his good humor also has remained intact. When asked how he is able to lead the tournament at 49, and if he were to win he'd be the oldest to win a major championship, Jimenez wasted little time putting the questionnaire on the spot.
"Why? I have not the right to do it? Only the young people can do it?" he said. "I'm fine. I keep playing golf and still get myself on the golf course, and that's the secret. Enjoy yourself what you do in life. That's what I'm doing. I feel relaxed. And I tell you, I love what I'm doing. I play golf. I do this for a living. And I've (kept) doing the same thing for 25 years. Probably sometime you say if I think maybe it's too many years, but you're wrong. It's the only thing I like to do in my life. And then I enjoy myself. I keep elastic and flexible. I'm still training and walking and still able to shoot low
"Tomorrow if I cannot shoot low, then I will not be here, you don't worry. I wouldn't waste my time moving around the world kicking my ass."
Jimenez said the key to his rounds had just as much to do with making birdies as it did with avoiding bogeys.
"It's much better to feel when you were on the top of the leaderboard than when you were somewhere else on the leaderboard, no?" Jimenez said. "Obviously it's much nice, no? I have been playing very well, feeling solid and consistent on the golf course. This condition is tough. The golf course is very hard. Some of the positions, the pin positions, they are very tough. And then of course even when you play well, you're going to miss some greens, you're going to miss some fairways. But the game at the moment is consistent, all parts of the game. I made some recoveries.
"To play the golf course in this condition, that's one of the keys."


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Back when the Three Kings were the rejuvenating rage, Miami Heat spokeswoman Lorrie-Ann Diaz said, "We couldn't get [the ticket-sales staff] to go home!'' Until Friday. When 30 of them were laid-off since there were no tickets left to sell.
In its six-sentence statement, the Heat did not release details of the staff dismissals.
"While the decision to release part of our sales force was a difficult one, we greatly appreciate their contributions to the company. We have also hired a placement service to assist those individuals find new employment. Should any season tickets become available, they will be handled through our season ticket deposit program. We thank those employees for their time with the company and wish them success in their future endeavors.''
Question 1: Why'd they have a sales staff of 30 in the first place?
Question 2: The anti-Lebron fury seems like it's starting to fade? The anti-Lebron fury seems like it's starting to fade.
Miami Heat fires sales team after season tickets sell out [Miami Herald]


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