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Latest Champ Car
News and Commentary
Can this be Champ
Car's next-generation car?
by Mark
29, 2004
This car blows a Champ Car away
It looks and sounds very much like a F1 car, and performs
like one too. It is the perfect platform for Champ Car to sell to race promoters and
race fans worldwide who long for F1 but can't afford it. A derivative of this car,
perhaps with slightly longer sidepods and an engine that would rev to 11,500 RPM or 12,000 RPM
instead of 11,000 with a bit more HP, could form the basis for the next generation Champ Car.
The car, running with the 11,000 RPM engine,
was fast enough in recent testing at Silverstone to qualify for this
year's British GP ahead of Minardi and Jordan. Although it weighs
170 Lbs more than an F1 car (280 less than a Champ Car) it has a
performance advantage over F1 by virtue of more torque from its larger
4.0-liter engine, a wider track, slick tires, and ground-effects
downforce. When F1 goes to a V8 engine and spec tires in 2006, an F1
car will be hard pressed to beat this car on lap times. Imagine the
ramifications in the global market where F1 currently charges $40 million
per year for a race and Champ Car is somewhere around $5 million.
Especially appealing is
the normally aspirated V10 engine that runs 3,000 miles between rebuilds, making the car
far more economical to operate than the current Champ Car, which goes 1,200 miles
between rebuilds. While a V10 is slightly more expensive than a V8 to rebuild, the fact
that it has no turbo and goes 3,000 miles between rebuilds makes this engine far less
expensive to operate on an annual basis. Admittedly, if the engines turn more RPM for
Champ Car than Superfund, we are likely to see the rebuilds be every 2,000 miles instead
of 3,000, still better than the current engine. Cost containment is a key element
of Champ Car's business plan, so perhaps the current V10 engine at 11,000 RPM is just
fine as-is. It certainly sounded fantastic.
Test driver Karl Wendlinger (L), an Ex-F1 driver, talks to Paul Cherry,
Commercial Director for Force 10 Ltd, the company that designed and built the
The engine runs on
ethanol instead of methanol. Both are considered alternate fuels to gasoline, but
ethanol is much more suitable for consumer use than methanol, which is highly corrosive
and requires race engines to be pickled after each session.
While some argue that
Champ Car should retain its turbo formula because it is what defines a Champ Car, that
no longer is an important factor. Having heard this car run, it sounds like a F1
car, but because it does not turn 19,500 RPM, it doesn't have the ear-piercing shrill
that a F1 engine does. It can best be described as a cross between the current
Champ Car and F1 engines, a wonderful sound that would help bring a "wow" factor back to
the series.
Recognizing that Champ
Car has a long standing relationship with Lola, perhaps the best thing for Champ Car
would be to write specifications modeled after this platform and let Force 10 and Lola
share the customers. It is not good for Champ Car to have all their eggs in one
basket, so dividing the sales between Lola and Force 10 would be a wise decision and a
little competition is a good thing. Price caps can be set for the car and spares.
Whether Judd would sell
the engine to Champ Car is not for me to answer, but with Kevin Kalkhoven rumored to be
buying Cosworth, the best scenario would be for the Cosworth shop in Torrance, California
to rebuild and service all the engines. They have proven they can deliver reliable
engines with equal HP.
Who designed and built it?
UK based Force 10 Technology Ltd is
responsible for the design and construction of the Formula Superfund chassis.
Martin Schneider, Head of SUPERFUND Motorsport Development with
Karl Wendlinger, Development Driver, John Travis, Technical Director and Design,
Force 10 Technology LTD and Paul Cherry, Commercial Director, Force 10
Technology LTD - Presentation of the new FORMULA SUPERFUND car for the 2005
FORMULA SUPERFUND Championship
John Travis, Technical Director
2004 Concept and design of Formula Superfund 2005 race car.
2002 to Date Independent Consultant for Champ Car Teams. Newman/Haas, Team Rahal,
aerodynamic development for all Reynard
Champ Car runners. Race Engineer for GD Racing in Nissan Superfund World Series, driver
Enrique Bernoldi.
1996 - 2002 Penske Cars Limited
Chief designer
Responsible for the design and development of PC26 to PC28 Champ Cars and the
development of the Dallara IRL cars. Concept and design of the Penske PC30 IRL car.
1990 – 1996 Lola Cars Limited
Designed car that still holds lap record for Indianapolis Motor Speedway [in 1992 with
LOLA T92 and subsequently in 1995 with LOLA T95]
1994 – 1996 Chief designer responsible for
the Indy car project, concept, design and aerodynamics
1993 – 1994 Senior designer on Indy car
project. Race and development engineer with US customer Indy car teams.
1991 – 1993 Project leader and race engineer
responsible for the design and aerodynamics of the Buick engine Indy speedway cars. Race
engineer with US Buick works team.
1990 – 1991 Race and development engineer
Nissan World Endurance project.
Race and development engineer for customer teams in the European Formula 3000
championship. In addition to work at Lola and Penske cars, ran the Spirit Motorsport
Team in Formula 3000 and engineered for driver Roland Ratzenberger.
Race engineer for Madgewick Motorsport
Formula 3 Team, driver Roland Ratzenberger.
Ran a team and engineered for Gary Ayles in the first year of the Vauxhall Lotus
The car looks good from all angles
CAR SPECIFICATIONS vs. CHAMP CAR
The Formula Superfund car is a low-maintenance single-seater race car specially designed
for maximum user performance with minimal running costs.
Number of spare parts kept to minimum by making use of best suppliers in the industry.
Parts selected for their long life cycles to reduce the costs and overall weight of the
Direct contact between teams and suppliers. Technical workshops held by suppliers for
teams on use and maintenance of components
Carbon fiber monocoque, complies with 2005 FIA Formula One safety criteria
Total width is 2000mm (Current Champ Car 2007mm)
Wheelbase 3015mm (Current Champ Car 3147mm)
Overall length 4676mm (Current Champ Car 4953mm)
Specially designed for close racing, overtaking and easy handling
576kg (1270 Lbs) with oil and water, with 22kg of ballast to balance for different
driver weights (Current Champ Car 1550 Lbs, F1 car 1100 Lbs)
Judd 4 liter V10 engine at 11,000 rpm, 700 HP (Current Champ Car Turbo V8 with 750 HP at
Maximum torque of 375 lb-ft at 8500 rpm
Weight 125 kg
Rebuild every 5,000 km (3,000 miles vs. 1200 miles for current Champ Car)
Power/Weight Ratio:
0.55 HP/Lb (Current Champ Car 0.48 HP/Lb)
Steering wheel, complete with paddle shifters. Note the
push-to-pass button on the wheel.
X-TRAC semi-automatic gear box with six forward gears and reverse
Weight 50 kg
MEGALINE paddleshift
Wheels/ Tires:
Front 270/660 R13
Rear 350/660 R13
Supplied by PANKL Racing Systems
QUANTUM Dampers
EIBACH Springs
Long life carbon brakes supplied by BREMBO (Current Champ Car: Steel brakes)
The airbox is tidy and sleek looking. More importantly,
vs. the turbo car of today, it gives the car more bodywork real estate for
sponsor logos, enabling the teams to generate more revenue.
Cooling System:
Manufactured by PANKL Racing Systems
Drive Shafts:
Manufactured by PANKL Racing Systems
Exhaust System:
Manufactured by PANKL Racing Systems
The Formula Superfund car will provide pure racing for drivers with no electronic toys
such as traction control or launch control.
There will be a Push-to-Pass to provide excess power (50 HP) for a limited amount
of time during the race but this is a simple concept and racing success will be purely
up to the skill and talent of each driver.
Formula Superfund Delivery Schedule:
Cars will be delivered on a first come-first serve basis.
First wave of delivery – ten cars mid/end February 2005
Second wave of delivery – ten cars mid March 2005
Possible 2006 Champ Car Delivery
All cars delivered between June 2005 and December 2005.
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Updated: Historic Preservation Law Firm Moves to New Headquarters in Downtown Berkeley
On July 2, after 26 years in Hayes Valley in San Francisco, Rossmann and Moore, LLP, will move to 2014 Shattuck Avenue, between Addison and University, in a two story historic building whose original occupant was the architect of the Berkeley Public Library, main and several branches.
According to one source, it's the only terra cotta facade downtown. It's the Heywood Building (1917), a City of Berkeley Landmark. At the beginning, it included offices for both its architect, James Plachek, and its owner, William H. Heywood.
The firm had expected to require a year to find worthy space for their water and land use practice. Instead realtor John Gordon pointed to this immediately-available space. One look and they knew this was the place.
Founding partner Tony Rossmann said they made the move because everyone in the office lives in the East Bay, and the three attorneys will now be able to commute by bicycle, in his own case in ten minutes. This contrasts with 45 to 60 minutes door-to-door on an average BART commute.
"The move also places me ten minutes from Boalt for my teaching there as lecturer. And five minutes from Berkeley High for swim meets and lacrosse games," Rossmann said.
He told the Planet that "We believe that downtown Berkeley offers what Hayes Valley did a quarter century ago when our office moved there: an exciting neighborhood on the edge of greatness. New developments, public, private, cultural, and UC, are all promising. As lawyers who deal in historic preservation, we are confident we can help maintain our historic post office three blocks away. And the cost of both rent and lunches will be half what we are now experiencing in the city."
The firm's members include founding partner Tony Rossmann, partner Roger Moore, associate Bart Lounsbury, office manager Tiffany Poovaiah, and preservation consultant Kathy Burns.
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By Teachers, For Teachers
My school is currently piloting a program that allows students to bring their own electronic devices (iPads, Kindles, Nooks, laptops, etc.) to school. The idea has been embraced by most professionals in the district but not without hesitation. While most educators are excited by the potential opportunities these devices provide, many of us are deeply concerned that the complications and drawbacks will outweigh the benefits. While I am usually all for diving right in to new ways to motivate and engage my students, I'll admit to having my hesitations about teaching a classroom of high school students who all have access to the Internet at all times. I know I'm not alone in my concerns, so with that in mind, here are five reasons why we should be working towards embracing technology in the classroom.
Part of providing our students with the best possible education is preparing them for the workforce and the world they will enter after they leave school. In our case, this means we have to give them the ability to learn both independently and collaboratively. It means turning our focus away from the traditional model we may be more comfortable with to more real-world contexts, like project-based learning – both face-to-face and online. And it means teaching them to utilize the technology that exists today so that they will be able to comfortably incorporate it in their careers. For most of us, this means we're going to be learning right alongside our students (or in some cases, allowing out students to teach us!). It might not be in our comfort zone, but once we recognize that our students are going to need these skills in order to be successful it becomes obvious that we really can't afford to not prepare them properly.
If you read the first reason and are still thinking, "Yeah, but the thought of trying to teach 28 students or more when they all have access to the Internet on handheld devices I don't have control over sounds like the start of some of my worst nightmares!" then hang-tight. Another reason to embrace giving our students' access to these devices is the way they open new possibilities for those magical "teachable moments," that make teaching so wonderful. Imagine this, you're talking about poetry in English class and you're introducing haikus. How fun would it be to let everyone find their own haiku example from the Internet (using the school-provided WiFi that blocks inappropriate sites, of course) and share them? As you walk around and supervise you'll hear students counting syllables, finding other poems and reading them, sharing fun examples with one another – reinforcing the lesson and practicing skills in a way that is interesting and fun to them. And then you could challenge your students to go further – telling them that there are at least two other forms of poetry that are close to haikus, but not exactly the same and challenging them to break into groups and try to find them using their electronic devices. Studying the water cycle? Challenge students to find illustrations of it online. Have a student ask a question but you just aren't sure you know the answer? You'll have the resources you need right at your fingertips … and with a classroom of students who are connected with their own devices, you'll be able to share the information with them almost instantly.
As I mentioned earlier, it's obvious that whether we bring technology into our classrooms or not, our students will be digital citizens for the rest of their lives. Most of them already are – spending more time than we care to think about on Facebook, sending Snapchats, and looking at other peoples' Instagrams. Part of our job has always been to guide our students towards responsible citizenship … by introducing electronic devices into our classroom we can better help our students become responsible digital citizens. We can address cyber-bullying and build a sense of online community so that our students understand that hurtful words online are just as nasty as words said aloud. We can increase our students' ability to think critically by teaching them how to differentiate between reliable and unreliable websites. We can help our students stay safe by educating them about the dangers of trusting people they chat with online, or the information they send to one another over the Internet. By bringing this technology into our classrooms we can help our students learn the best and most responsible way to use it in their lives, something we can't do if we keep it out!
While many teachers are familiar with some of what is available on the Internet, what educations apps exist, and how we can utilize everyday tools like email, Facebook, camera phones, and others to help us in class, the world of educational technology is currently exploding. There are apps that help students balance chemical equations using hands-on, animated examples that make what they are actually doing so much clearer than it ever was on paper. Apps that help students interpret Shakespeare without dumbing it down or ignoring the amazing, yet challenging aspects of his language are practically begging to be used in English classes where students groan at the mere mention of the Bard's name. Tools that help students create presentations quickly and easily, tools that allow teachers to assess student understanding in an instant, and tools that give students additional guided practice in an engaging way are just some of the possible uses of electronic technology in the classroom. And each day, educators are coming up with more and more ways to help their students learn using a medium that they know their students will understand and be excited to use.
As a teacher who works with students with learning and emotional support needs, this benefit interested me quite a bit. We all know we are supposed to differentiate our instruction to best meet the needs of each of our students but, quite simply, it's hard to do! With an entire world of programs, apps, worksheets, websites, and other resources at their fingertips, helping our students find materials that best meet their needs suddenly becomes much more achievable! And if we embrace the idea of each student or small group of students having their own device, we can have students locating material that is right for them without it causing any disruption of class time at all. Additionally, we can begin to offer our students more opportunities to exercise independence in the classroom by allowing more student choice. Rather than having all the students complete a Power Point presentation because that's the software the school computer lab has, we can give students the learning goals they must display and allow them to choose how they want to demonstrate that they have met those goals. Students who enjoy Power Point can still utilize it, but other students might use Prezis, Google Presentation, Comic Life, create their own videos, or any other of thousands of options. Allowing students to have more self-agency in their learning will help us reach the unmotivated students and allow the excelling students to push themselves even further.
Hand-in-hand with differentiation and student choice is the issue student engagement. We all know that our students love technology. One of my biggest areas of concern regarding allowing students to use their own electronic devices in my classroom is that they will be too engaged in their own apps and I won't be able to reach them with the material I'm trying to teach. But setting aside those concerns for now (I'm planning on writing an article that deals with concerns in the near future), I just want to address how we can harness the enthusiasm students already have for technology to our advantage. Teachers have known for generations that it only makes sense to try to harness students' interests to hook them into our lessons. Activating strategies are often nothing more than getting students to "buy into" our lessons by utilizing something they are already interested in – like movies, music, or the opportunity to give their opinions about things without being right or wrong. Now, we have access to something students' love and the ability to channel it into learning. Polling apps allow us to assess our students understanding in a way they will find exciting and enjoyable in a way that – "Raise your hand if you agree." never will. Access to videos, animations, diagrams, and more make it easy for us to show students what we are talking about instead of just explaining it. If utilized properly, teachers today have an entire world of tools to engage and involve our students in learning that no other educators in the history of education have ever had. What a great time to be a teacher!
I would be lying if I said I didn't continue to have serious concerns about how to make students having access to electronic devices in my classroom work on a daily basis. I have concerns about practicality, classroom management, and what it means for me – my role in the learning process, and what it means for my lesson planning being just a few. But when I look at the potential gains for my students; differentiation, engagement, the ability to grow as individuals and become productive, positive citizens in the "plugged-in" culture they are now a part of…it just doesn't make sense not to begin working towards making technology integration a big part of my classroom routine.


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A baby born with the virus that causes AIDS appears to have been cured, scientists announced Sunday, describing the case of a child from Mississippi who's now 2 1/2 and has been off medication for about a year with no signs of infection.
There's no guarantee the child will remain healthy, although sophisticated testing uncovered just traces of the virus' genetic material still lingering. If so, it would mark only the world's second reported cure.
Specialists say Sunday's announcement, at a major AIDS meeting in Atlanta, offers promising clues for efforts to eliminate HIV infection in children, especially in AIDS-plagued African countries where too many babies are born with the virus.
"You could call this about as close to a cure, if not a cure, that we've seen," Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, who is familiar with the findings, told The Associated Press.
A doctor gave this baby faster and stronger treatment than is usual, starting a three-drug infusion within 30 hours of birth. That was before tests confirmed the infant was infected and not just at risk from a mother whose HIV wasn't diagnosed until she was in labor.
"I just felt like this baby was at higher-than-normal risk, and deserved our best shot," Dr. Hannah Gay, a pediatric HIV specialist at the University of Mississippi, said in an interview.
That fast action apparently knocked out HIV in the baby's blood before it could form hideouts in the body. Those so-called reservoirs of dormant cells usually rapidly reinfect anyone who stops medication, said Dr. Deborah Persaud of Johns Hopkins Children's Center. She led the investigation that deemed the child "functionally cured," meaning in long-term remission even if all traces of the virus haven't been completely eradicated.
Next, Persaud's team is planning a study to try to prove that, with more aggressive treatment of other high-risk babies. "Maybe we'll be able to block this reservoir seeding," Persaud said.
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This is going to be a good update because I have been picking CDs off Ebay for great prices and the local independent record chain I frequent, Newbury Comics, had their 32 Year Anniversary sale last Tuesday…..one day only, everything in the store 32% off. If the item was on sale then you either got the sale price or the 32% off the regular price depending on which was lower. Can you imagine how much money I spent! I bought a few DVDs for my kids and a Lady Gaga CD for my wife but the rest is all mine!
Newbury Comics
(I will list the price I paid rounded up to the nearest dollar and I will let you know what the original price was for comparison.)
Lynyrd Skynyrd – Gods & Guns (2009) – $16: This album was on the Wanted list in January because I missed out on it in 2009. I was not going to buy anything but the 2 CD special edition with the 6 bonus tracks so, after I missed the sale price when the record was released, I waited because the regular price was $24! I couldn't pass this CD up on such a great sale so this was the first CD I went for because I knew from my previous week's adventure that there was only one copy! Saved $8.
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand (2007) – $7 used: I have put off buying this CD for three years but I finally decided that I would pick this up during this sale. Of course I had my choice between the $15 brand new CD or the $10 used disc…..I went used to maximize my buying power. I haven't heard any songs from this album but everything I've read and everyone I've talked to said it's great. I figured that if Plant was involved then it had to be interesting and high quality. This will be a change of pace album for me, somthing different. Saved $3.
Slash – s/t (2010) – $9: This was on my list of new releases and I was going to head over to Best Buy to pick it up because it was $7.99 advertised but I bought it at Newbury Comics and gave the extra dollar to the independent store. This CD was cheaper on the sale price (reg. $15.99) so it didn't qualify for the 32% off. I'm very interested in this album because of all the guest vocalists like Ozzy, Lemmy, Iggy Pop, and Chris Cornell…..I thin the track with Fergie is going to suck but I'll save it for the upcoming review. Saved $7.
Armored Saint – La Raza (2010) – $10: I've been an Armored Saint fan since MARCH OF THE SAINT in 1984 so I don't miss a new record when they decide to put one out. It's been 10 years since REVELATION (2000) and the NOD TO THE OLD SCHOOL (2001) compilation was just a stop-gap so LA RAZA was at the top of my list for 2010. Regular price was around $14 and the sale price was $11 so I saved a extra dollar…..that's makes up for giving the store the extra buck for the Slash CD! Saved $4.
Raven – Walk Through Fire (2010) – $10: After a year since being released in Japan, Raven's WALK THROUGH FIRE finally gets a U.S. release on Metal Blade Records. I'm a huge fan of the NWOBHM, and I support a lot of that era's bands when it comes to new music, so this record was on the WANTED list as soon as I saw it was only available as an expensive Japanese import. I read a lot of good reviews on this album so I have been psyched for this album for a year! I found only one copy, at a $14 price. Saved $4.
Charred Walls Of The Damned – s/t (2010) – $11: I know absolutely nothing about this band except that Richard Christy (ex-Iced Earth) is on drums and Tim 'Ripper' Owens has the vocal spot. I've read a few reviews online and I saw Richard Christy promoting the band/album on a recent episode of VH-1 Classic's THAT METAL SHOW so I figured I would take a chance on something new. I'm not sure if there is a regular version but the one I picked up has a bonus DVD that shows the behind the scenes making of the album. Regular price was $16, sale price was $12, I got the 32% off for more savings. Saved $5.
Saxon – Destiny (1988/2010 reissue) – $11: I already have an original Japanese pressing of this CD but I couldn't pass up this reissue, with it's 6 bonus tracks, at 32% off. Saxon is one of my favorite bands so picking up the latest round of reissues is a priority, there are two other albums reissued: INNOCENCE IS NO EXCUSE (1985) and ROCK THE NATIONS (1986)…..albums I already own on CD. Regular price $16, saved $5.
Saxon – Innocence Is No Excuse (1985/2010 reissue) – $11: I already own an original Japanese pressing of this CD but I couldn't resist the 7 bonus tracks that EMI tacked on this reissue. 32% off is a good excuse to add expensive, imported reissues to the collection so I bought this and DESTINY (1988). I would have bought ROCK THE NATIONS (1986) too but it wasn't in stock! Regular price was $16, saved $5.
Gamma Ray – To The Metal! (2010) – $11: I have had a promotional copy of this album for a couple of months now but it had no booklet, artwork or information like a regular CD would so the collector in me wanted an official CD. I saw that there were two versions of this album: the regular CD and the CD/DVD combo that includes the making of the album. I was going to grab the double disc but it was $5 more so I went the cheaper route. Regular price $16, sale price $12, the 32% discount saved $5.
Riot – Shine On (1998) – $16: riot is one of my favorite band sand I spent most of the late '90s collecting every album they released. Missing in action is SHINE ON, the 1998 live record. I had plenty of opportunities to buy this album from 1998 through 2001 at my favorite record store but, when it closed it's doors, it was the last time I saw the CD. This particular version is the rarer Japanese import released by the Zero Corporation, there is another version on Metal Blade with a different cover.
Heavy Bones – s/t (1992) – $12: About 10 years ago, I could have found multiple copies of this album in used bins and clearance racks across Rhode Island and Massachusetts for $5 – $8. Now I can't even find one for the price of a regular new CD! I've been watching this CD on Ebay for a while but I was not willing to pay more than $10 for it knowing that it's in a used bin somewhere for half the price! Surprisingly, this CD was commanding high prices in excess of $20+! I happened to get an email in the early morning hours stating that this particular CD was just listed as a BUY IT NOW for $10…..I pulled the trigger immeadiately! Shipping was extremely reasonable at $2. Came with the price tag the seller bought it for…..a dollar!
Mark Free – Long Way From Love (1993/1998 – 2 CD reissue) – $22: Now this CD has been a long time coming! I like King Kobra, so when I got the Internet in 1998, I found out that King Kobra singer Mark Free had released this solo record in 1993. What made this album even better was that Frontiers Records rereleased the CD as a "Special 5th Anniversary Reissue" in 1998 with a second CD added. The second CD has 16 extra songs: a 10 song live set from The Gods Festival 1993 and 6 new studio tracks. I never dropped the $20 for this 2 CD set at the record store and, like the Riot disc above, it was gone after the store ceased operations. I've been tracking this set for years but the price always gets high because it is out of print in it's 2 disc format…..you can still get the single disc version but I didn't want that one! I've seen this reissue sell on Ebay anywhere from $30 to as high as $100 so I was definitely waiting until I found a good deal. I found this auction 2 weeks ago and I watched it closely, the end time was after 2am so I stayed awake and snatched the CD with a high bid of $25. I ended up paying $19 with $3 shipping.
Total = $146
Total (year) = $399
Total CDs (year) = 42
Total DVDs (year) = 1
Total LPs (year) = 1


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1. Listen to any of Julia Child's cooking demos, and you'll know exactly what it means to have a musical voice. She was a master at using those high and low notes to lend emphasis to certain points in her demonstrations. And if you want to know what you must pay attention to when making quiche Lorraine, that emphasis is critical.
2. In this 92nd St. Y speech, Phyllis Diller served up her trademark drawl and cackling laugh just as she did in her comedy routines. Her vocal verve was in some ways as calculated as her fright wigs and cigarette holder--all part of her plan to draw attention away from her good looks so that she could be taken seriously as an entertainer.
3. The invocation is a special opportunity for speakers to use vocal verve to carry an emotional, sometimes poetically rendered message. In this invocation for U.S. President Barack Obama's second inauguration, Myrlie Evers-Williams used a variety of cadences, inflections and tones to ensure that her words sang out to an enormous live audience.
4. Eulogies are another type of speech that may benefit from a little vocal verve, especially if the occasion is a public one. In Jennifer Granholm's eulogy for Rosa Parks, you'll hear the former Michigan governor drawing out words, popping her consonants with a preacher's snap and sighing into the mic. She led the audience through the high and low emotions of the speech with this vocal variety.
5. You might expect an actor to know how to deploy her voice with lots of differences in tone, inflection, pauses and emphasis, as Jane Fonda does in this TEDxWomen talk on "Life's Third Act." But it's her quiet, calm tone throughout that really draws her audience to her.
6. If you've ever had to read a bedtime story aloud--or better yet, had a bedtime story read to you--you know how important vocal verve is to storytelling. Spoken word poet Sarah Kay demonstrates storytelling's special vocalizations in "Tshotsholoza," a speech built around an African folk song. The best tales are told with a variety of rhythms, speeds and pauses, all of which Kay uses in this talk.
7. It's probably one of the more famous U.S. political speeches, with most people remembering then-Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards' zinger about George H.W. Bush's "silver foot in his mouth." But that line and others from her speech at the 1988 Democratic Convention went over so well because Richards delivered them in her unapologetic Texas drawl, complete with drawn-out syllables and mock-dramatic pauses. Her bark had bite, and the crowd loved it.
Freelance writer Becky Ham contributed this Famous Speech Friday post.
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Carl Nicks, one of three members of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers diagnosed with MRSA, has had surgery to get rid of the staph infection.
The 28-year-old guard had surgery Tuesday night and coach Greg Schiano said that Nicks is doing well.
The two-time All-Pro was diagnosed as having MRSA in a blister of the left side of his foot during training camp in August. He was treated with antibiotics and appeared in two regular season games before the Bucs announced last week that Nicks had a recurrence.
Kicker Lawrence Tynes also was found to have MRSA in August and is on the non-football injury list. A third case was discovered last week, but rookie cornerback Johnthan Banks has not been sidelined by the infection.
"Carl got an opinion outside of town and they decided they were going to do surgery," Schiano said Wednesday. "I don't have a timetable (for recovery), and I don't really have any more than that."
If the 6-foot-5, 349-pound Nicks winds up on injured reserve, it will be the second straight year that his season has ended because of a problem with his left foot.
An All-Pro two years ago with New Orleans, Nicks signed a five-year, $47.5 million contract with the Bucs as a free agent in March 2012. He missed the final nine games of last season with a toe injury that required surgery. The MRSA infection discovered in August sidelined him the final preseason game, as well as the first two weeks of the regular season.
Nicks returned to the lineup last month and played against New England and Arizona before learning MRSA had returned to the same location.
An infectious disease expert who was flown in for consultation last week said the infection — which is resistant to many common antibiotics — had gotten into the bone in Nicks' foot.
"The reality is that often times when MRSA gets into the bone, antibiotic therapy alone is not enough to actually cure it," Dr. Deverick J. Anderson, an associate professor of medicine at the Duke University Medical Center and co-director of the Duke Infection Control Outwork Network, said during the visit to the Bucs' training facility.
"Typically, in that scenario, that is where you try antibiotic therapy and if it continues to recur, that indicates that you may require a surgical procedure to definitively remove that infection."
In all, Nicks has played in just nine of 21 games since joining the Bucs, who are off to an 0-5 start this season.
"It's tough. He's in our prayers, and we're definitely thinking about him," defensive tackle Gerald McCoy said. "We've just got to keep him lifted at a time like this."
The Bucs have had the training facility professionally cleaned on two occasions, and Anderson spoke with the players about things they can do personally to minimize the risk of contracting MRSA, which can enter the body through cuts and abrasions and can potentially be life-threatening.
Hospital patients and workers, long-term residents of health care facilities such as nursing homes, and athletes in contact sports are among those considered high risk.
Players have been given a special soap to use and have been encouraged to — among other things — sanitize their hands as much as possible, shower after practice and/or lifting weights and avoid sharing towels and equipment.
McCoy said hearing from Anderson put players at ease.
"When you're kind of out in the blue about what it is or what has happened, when you have a specialist come in and talk to you about it, it helps," the fourth-year pro said. "You can ask all your questions, and it makes you more comfortable with the situation."
Banks was diagnosed as having MRSA last Thursday. He was cleared to play against the Eagles two days later, when the league and NFL Players Association issued a joint statement saying that he did not pose a risk of transmitting MRSA to others.
To avoid more cases and the prospect of a long-term problem with MRSA, the head of a California-based company that sanitizing hospitals said the team will have to make sure the infection is completely removed from the building.
"It's not going to go away on its own," Ed Marshall, chief executive officer, of Medizone International, Inc., said. "And conventional cleaning isn't going to do it."
Marshall said MRSA is a lot more common — and dangerous — than the general public realizes.
"This is not like having a runny nose and a cold," Marshall said. "Now you've got strains of MRSA that are highly antibiotic resistant. And there's a couple of strains that they have no antibiotics to treat."
Bucs' G Carl Nicks has surgery to get rid of MRSA
Carl Nicks, one of three members of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers diagnosed with MRSA, has had surgery to get rid of the staph infection.


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where r dickinson and mandan in those seedings?pumping1gas wrote:Does Anybody From the West Know About Williston?
From What I Heard The Seedings In The WDA are:
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But Minot has beat Bismarck 3 out of 5 Games.
P.S. Quit Talking Fargo....You Guys Aren't even Close To The Teams In The West.


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Yes, Dems did.
After 219 House Dems capped a year of raucous debate Sunday night by sending a sweeping health care bill to President Obama's desk for signature, here's what the chattering class is saying about the implications and consequences of the party's big win:
- Peter Beinart writes for The Daily Beast that Obama "found his voice and gave his party courage" by focusing the debate on individuals abused by the current system. He secured his place in history, although he never fully "overcame public suspicion" over the bill's ramifications.
- Gerald F. Seib, writing for The Wall Street Journal, compares Obama's overhaul to LBJ's Great Society legislation of the mid-1960s, which created Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, Head Start and civil rights breakthroughs. "The difference with LBJ's Great Society legislation was that those programs were enacted in an era when Americans still tended to trust the government to get things done," he writes. Not anymore. Last year, trust in government to handle domestic problems stood at 51%, down from 70% in 1972, he notes.
- Over at The New York Times, David Sanger concludes that the main casualty from the health care wars will prove to be "the promise of a 'postpartisan' Washington in which rationality and calm discourse replaced partisan bickering." "It will take years to know whether the Republicans' worst predictions, or Mr. Obama's vision of affordable near-universal care, will resemble reality," he writes. "In the meantime, Mr. Obama can lay credible claim, for the first time in his presidency, that he proved willing to risk all to turn his convictions into legislation."
- Alex Isenstadt of Politico points out: "Some members of Congress will end up with primary challenges as a result. Others may have signed their own political death warrant." Those at particular risk are Dems in GOP-friendly districts, pols who flip-flopped on their position throughout the process, and some Dems who voted no, he writes.
- "Nil desperandum" — never despair," write the editors of the conservative National Review Online. "Almost nothing about this legislation is free of dispute, but we are convinced that it will increase taxes, increase premiums, and increase debt, while decreasing economic growth, job growth, and the quality of health care," they write. "The Democrats have abused the system, ignoring both the Founders' design and public opinion. The first step toward undoing that abuse is to make them pay a political price for it."


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Sealing in savings
How to insulate an attic access coverBy James Dulley
Builders don't always insulate and seal attic access opening covers. Most often, just a piece of plywood or drywall is cut somewhat close to the correct size and placed in the opening, resting on a strip of molding. That type of cover's insulation value is less than R-1 and it leaks air like a sieve. But because the attic access is often in the ceiling of a bedroom closet or a hallway, the air leakage and heat loss/gain are seldom noticeable.
The simplest fix is to attach both insulation to the cover's top and weatherstripping underneath where it rests on the opening's lip. Measure the cover to make sure it fits the opening, with the cover overlapping the molding lip so the weatherstripping seals well. If you have to make a new one, a piece of ½-inch drywall works well and is fire resistant.
The insulation on the cover's top should be up to the recommended code ceiling R-value for your area (check yours at ornl.gov/~roofs/Zip/ZipHome.html). Going above this level will not help appreciably.
Before you add weatherstripping to the molding lip, place the cover over it and check whether it's even (for a good seal). The lip often consists of pieces nailed to the sides of the opening and aren't level.
In my own house, I first nailed a piece of ½-inch drywall to the plywood cover to give it additional weight. Next, I glued a few layers of ¾-inch polyurethane foam sheets on top of it. I added four layers to get three inches of foam insulation. I used foil-faced insulation so it would reflect the heat from the hot roof back up during the summer.
The next step: attach adhesive-backed foam weatherstripping to the top edge of the lip around the opening. Use as thick a foam as you can find to accommodate any out-of-level edges. The weight of the plywood and drywall should compress the foam weatherstripping.
If you want to install pull-down stairs or a ladder — or if your attic currently has one — buy a special insulated cover for the attic access opening. You could attempt to make one yourself, but its weight may be hazardous to open and manage when you are on the stairs.
One of the least expensive options on the market is basically a three-sided heavy duty cardboard box. It's easy to open and assemble, and then you attach your own insulation to the top and sides. It's easy to lift and handle on the attic stairs.
An efficient option is a lightweight, large, rigid-foam domed device that covers the folded stairs or ladder from above. It's strong, and the foam provides adequate insulation. Another design uses a flexible zippered insulated cover that is permanently attached to the attic floor for a good, airtight seal. The zipper provides a large opening for easy access to the attic.
How-to videos
For videos on this subject, visit energysavings.togetherwesave.com/watch-and-learn and click on the Sealing & Insulation tab, then scroll down to find how-to videos on insulating attic hatches and attic pull-down stairs. (If their click-on boxes aren't visible, move your mouse over and down past the first few video boxes until the attic ones appear.)


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If we weren't already knee-deep in orders after the gift show in Atlanta (where we were represented by our fine rep group ), you would have heard corks a-popping here at our offices this week.
Dear friends and supporters, you have helped us reach a milestone: J.Falkner cards are now being carried in 100 stores (well, actually 101 as of today!).
We're sold across America — in 25 states — and in Canada (Vancouver & Toronto), and of course we're always available .
What does reaching 100 stores mean? Well, we've run the numbers and it comes to nearly 16,000 cards — which means there are a lot of leaping zebras, soaring airplanes, and anniversary mazes (to call out our three most popular cards) criss-crossing the country.
We have so much gratitude in this success. To the stores who have taken on our line, and to the customers who have chosen our cards, thank you thank you thank you.


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Darien Shanske, a professor at the University of California Hastings law school, offers a thoughtful new approach to the California state budget in this paper at the California Journal of Politics and Policy.
His argument is complex, as anything involving the budget must be. But it boils down to this: Shanske wants policymakers to budget using "the benefit principle."
In other words, those who benefit from a particular action of government should bear the costs of paying for it.
U.S. & World
To illustrate what he's arguing, Shanske points to the $11.4 billion general obligation water bond that's due to appear on next year's state ballot. That bond would make all sorts of updates for California's water infrastructure -- and because it's a general obligation bond, all of us would pay for it. This is a political weakness, since landowners with land near strengthened levies, and other direct beneficiaries, get the most value for the water improvements.
Shanske's answer: Those beneficiaries of the water bond should pay most of the costs.
Instead, he writes, "I think that the state has made a mistake in opting to use the expenditure of general income and sales taxes to fund specific improvements that in many cases can fund themselves."
Shanske has a clever and provocative idea for how to get people to pay for this. While beneficiaries would be assessed for the government they benefit from -- Shanske also proposes allowing the beneficiaries to deduct what they pay for the benefit from their state income taxes. A few examples from Shanske: "There can be tax credits for fees paid in connection with carbon mitigation, for tuition paid to California institutions of higher learning, and for taxes paid to local government entities. A new local tax credit could be a spur for realignment and is consistent with the benefit principle to the extent that many local taxes, especially for schools, can be rightfully viewed as benefit taxes (at least in large part)."
Why would this be worth the trouble? Shanske provides a mathematical example: "There are approximately 150,000 California resident undergraduates in the UC system.62 Let us propose a California education credit along the lines of the current federal Lifetime Learning Credit.63 This (nonrefundable) credit is worth up to $2,000... At the maximum, such a credit would cost the California General Fund $300 million (150,000 x $2,000). There are two big reasons why this would not cost the General Fund this much. First, the $300 million credit will be paired with a $300 million spending cut, so at worst the credit will be a wash for the General Fund."
And, he adds, if the credit was phased out for people above a certain income level, the state could save money in the budget through this method.
In short, this approach is: cut the budget by replacing direct state support with a system that requires beneficiaries of government spending to pay most of the costs, and gives the people who need it their money back via tax credits.
The best part is political: this can be done without a 2/3 vote of the legislature, so Democrats can enact it themselves.
Shanske concludes by making the provocative argument: that this is what voters want. Polling suggests voters think the state should have all kinds of services, but they only want to pay for certain ones (presumably the ones they use). One explanation for this is voter confusion, or voter selfishness. Shanske argues that they want a system where the people who benefit from a program pay its costs.


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It has been a secret desire of mine for some time to get myself some studded snow tires for my bike, and then drive somewhere where they are actually required.
But what about those poor folks that already live somewhere where they are required. Or worse yet, those poor folks that wake up one morning to find that they are suddenly and unexpectedly required.
Don't you fret. The folks at Dutch Bike Co. in Seattle have got you covered:
No matter how much we swear we've learned our lessons, Seattle always seems to get caught by surprise by the snow. There we were, minding our own business with our feet all toasty in our sandals and socks, when the temperature plummeted and it turned into Juneau in January. While this year the City did a much better job than last year at preventing widespread carnage and destruction, we at Dutch Bike Seattle still didn't bring in studded tires because it never snows in Seattle. Even if we had stocked them, I'm not sure they'd sell because it never snows in Seattle, right?We found something else, though. Something else entirely.
You've really got to check out this idea that they have. Or rather, that they admittedly stole. It is one of those smack-your-forehead, why didn't I think of that kind of ideas. Seriously – go check it out.


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Imagine a dining experience that combines an atmosphere of classical history and elegance with a selection of cuisine that is as exquisitely unique as it is delicious. Then imagine delighting your senses with a world-class wine selection. Now imagine finding this right here in the Triangle. It's not imagination, it's Second Empire Restaurant and Tavern. Located in the beautifully restored Dodd-Hinsdale House in downtown Raleigh, Second Empire satisfies the highest of standards. Our delectable menu and polished service that have won us the AAA Four Diamond Award, the DiRoNa Award and the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence since 1998 will assure you a truly unique dining experience. Our Tavern and Atrium Room provide a more casual feel without sacrificing excellence. Simply put, a trip to Second Empire is an experience unlike any other.
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The legendary notebook of Hemmingway, Picasso and Chatwin.
The Moleskine books can look back on a long tradition: Since nearly two centuries, the books serve creative heads, artists and thinkers like Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso and Ernest Hemmingway as important companions for their thoughts and concepts.
Originally, the notebooks were produced by a little French bookbinder who sold them to interested people in Paris. Back in these days, the books didn't even have an own name. Slowly but surely, they disappeared from the market because the producer shut down his business. In the 1980s the small black books were no longer available.
Soon afterwards, Bruce Chatwin talked about the story of his notebook in his book "Dream Paths". He nicknamed it Moleskine. Moreover, Chatwin bought all books of this kind he could find afterwards. In 1998, a small Milan company took over Chatwin's idea and brought the books back onto the market - now known as the Moleskine notebooks.
Meanwhile, the name Moleskine is a well-established brand. The books, calendars and notebooks accompany people all over the world...
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MOVIE REVIEW- Holiday viewing: The good, the bad, the classic
Special to The Hook
Some see Christmas as a holiday, others as an industry. The latter group spend their summers recording Christmas albums, doing post-production on Christmas movies, or getting their Santa suits laundered to work "Christmas in July" promotions.
Retailers spend summers calculating how early they can start the "Christmas season." Now that they've broken the Halloween barrier, can Labor Day be far behind?
A few diehard traditionalists still wait until after Thanksgiving to put up decorations and sit the family down for a ritualistic viewing of a holiday classic they once enjoyed.
The newest film that can be considered a Christmas classic– and thus impervious to criticism; you either like it or you don't– is A Christmas Story (1984), which revisits old wives' tales about putting your eye out with a BB gun and getting it stuck to an icy pole. Home Alone is nearing classic status.
The others are mostly in black and white: It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol (the 1951 version with Alistair Sim), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Holiday Inn and its color remake, White Christmas.
In recent years, armed with special effects (you'll believe a reindeer can fly!) and spurred by greed, Hollywood has been putting out more and more intended perennials each year, most of them bloated overproductions that overwhelm with everything but wit and originality.
It's easy to fill a trash heap with Christmas movies, mostly recent, including this year's Fred Claus. Other musts to avoid (certainly not a comprehensive list) are:
Christmas with the Kranks - Based on John Grisham's Skipping Christmas, in 2004 it achieved the impossible task of making Surviving Christmas and Noel look good.
Deck the Halls - Rhymes with "dreck." Danny DeVito challenges Matthew Broderick for the title of "the Christmas Guy" in their small town by trying to make his decorations "visible from space."
Miracle on 34th Street - The 1994 remake proved more is less.
Mixed Nuts - Nora Ephron followed Sleepless in Seattle with this unpleasant pap about Steve Martin, Rita Wilson, and Madeline Kahn staffing a suicide prevention hotline on Christmas Eve. Who's George Bailey gonna call?
The Polar Express - Robert Zemeckis warmed up for Beowulf with this goopy spectacular in which "performance capture" enabled Tom Hanks to play most of the roles.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians - This low-budget tripe from 1964 lives on as a cult item because it features a 10-year-old Pia Zadora. Who, you ask? Perhaps it won't live on much longer.
The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause - The Santa Clause wasn't great, but it was successful enough to spawn two sequels. I reviewed "3" as "a steaming pile of recycled reindeer crap."
Santa Claus: The Movie - David Huddleston plays it straight in what's supposed to be the real legend of the holiday gift-giver.
Some of the better holiday movies (Pieces of April, Home for the Holidays) are about Thanksgiving; one of the most mediocre (Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights) is perhaps the sole Hanukah attraction.
Does anyone make good Christmas movies anymore? Finding five to recommend was harder than filling the above list with lumps of cinematic coal. Note that they're not all suitable for family viewing or guaranteed to leave you feeling warm and fuzzy, but real entertainment in the holiday genre is a rare gift.
Bad Santa - It's replaced Sling Blade as Billy Bob Thornton's signature role; he's been playing pale imitations of this wonderfully vile, foulmouthed thief character ever since.
Elf - Formulaic fun with Will Ferrell as an oversized, adopted elf who leaves Santa's workshop to search for his birth father (James Caan) in New York.
The Ice Harvest - A darkly comic guy movie that happens to take place on Christmas Eve, directed by Harold Ramis (who also made the best Groundhog Day movie) and starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton.
Joyeux Noël - A hopeful French film fictionalizes the unofficial temporary truces that took place on European battlefields in 1914, the first Christmas of WWI.
The Ref - I preferred Trapped in Paradise in 1994, but there's a devoted cult for this dark comedy that has Denis Leary kidnapping quarreling couple Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey, then serving as their mediator on Christmas Eve.


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Since 1974, the 400-strong priests of the Syracuse diocese have declined steadily and heavily. This year, that number is nearly sheared in half to 214, said Danielle Cummings, spokeswoman for the diocese. In its continuing effort to cope with the shortage, the diocese launched "Seeing Natural Bridges" in this fall to reorganize what resources are available to the 131 parishes, the newest phase as part of an organization plan begun in the 1980s.
The Rev. Paul Angelicchio is a busy man.
Between the two parishes he serves in Rome – the Catholic Churches of St. John the Baptist and the Transfiguration of Our Lord parish – he averages about 130 funerals a year. Preparing for those, weddings, daily Masses and baptisms, among other responsibilities, can take its toll.
"Thank God we don't punch a clock," joked Angelicchio of managing the pastoral duties of more than one parish. "It's really a 24-7 job."
Angelicchio isn't alone taking on additional parishes as the number of priests continues its decline. The Rev. Joseph Salerno, for example, in addition to his roles as pastor of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Utica and the regional vicar in the Utica area for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse, also is parish administrator at St. John the Evangelist Church in New Hartford.
Though Angelicchio and Salerno, who could not be reached for comment, have taken on those responsibilities, priest shortages within the diocese of Syracuse are not new.
Since 1974, the 400-strong priests of the diocese have declined steadily and heavily. This year, that number is nearly sheared in half to 214, said Danielle Cummings, spokeswoman for the diocese.
Also, according to diocesan projections, by 2020 there will be only five priests age 45 or younger, 57 ages 45 to 69, and 19 ages 70-75.
"In the '50s and '60s, families spoke about expecting that someone in their family would become a priest," she said. "Society has changed over the years, and I think that's one of the main reasons influencing those numbers."
In its continuing effort to cope with the shortage, the diocese launched "Seeing Natural Bridges" in this fall to reorganize what resources are available to the 131 parishes, the newest phase as part of an organization plan begun in the 1980s.
Instead of closing and merging churches – something the diocese did in the early 2000s and a process the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is looking into again – Cummings said the intent is to look at what resources are contained in the parishes and how they can be organized for maximum benefit.
"We have to meet the spiritual needs of our faithful and find the best ways to do exactly that," she said.
That could include clustering parishes based on their geographic location. Hypothetically, if there are five priests serving 10 parishes within a 15-mile radius, the diocese might cluster those churches together and pare down the pastors to two or three.
Right now, parishes are gathering numbers of parishioners, financial documents and other bits of information that will lay groundwork for a larger plan, Cummings said.
The diocese and local priests, however, say there is a silver lining with the priest shortage: laypeople stepping up to perform more roles.
A layperson, someone who is not ordained but takes on some pastoral duties, can be a salaried or volunteer position, which could be easier on some churches' finances, Cummings said.
Angelicchio said he has about 25 staff members taking care of finances, sitting on parish councils and managing facilities.
"I couldn't do it without them," he said. "I mean, my facilities manager alone, he's been a huge plus. A lot of people have stepped up to the plate."
The Rev. Jim Cesta of St. Mary of Mount Carmel / Blessed Sacrament Parish in Utica, said many of the Mohawk Valley's churches have had to do more with less, but laypeople have helped him as well.
Instead of a priest having to divide his already tight schedule to prepare couples for weddings or visiting the family of a sick parishioner, he said laity is doing more of those duties.
"They're taking care of the nuts and bolts, something that priests used to have to do," he said. "I think we're more than just managing."


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It's been done for Batman and Superman so now it's the Doctor's turn. Psychologists at the University of Aberdeen Face Lab have revealed a composite face of all the actors who have played the Time Lord. See the image after the jump.
David Robertson of the Face Lab told the BBC:
It's interesting that the face we have developed is not dominated by the features of any one of the actors to have played The Doctor.
Rather it represents a combination of the averaged features of each actor to have taken on the role.
Indeed, this face average could guide future casting directors in their search for the ideal actor to play the Time Lord.
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S.A. attorney accused of theft, forging judges' signatures
A high-profile attorney once known for garnering more indigent defense work than any other lawyer in San Antonio became a defendant herself Thursday — indicted on 46 felony counts that include forging judges' signatures and double-billing the county.
"It's every bad thing you can think a lawyer would do," District Attorney Susan Reed said of the allegations, describing Hilda Valadez, 51, as "a non-sterling character" at the county courthouse.
Valadez, who was an assistant district attorney in the 1990s, prior to the Reed administration, could face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
She didn't return a call to her office seeking comment Thursday.
Investigators began looking at Valadez last year, after a clerk for state District Judge Angus McGinty noticed that signatures on two reimbursement forms for her indigent defense work didn't appear to match the judge's actual signature, authorities said.
Since then, the district attorney's office said it had found similar discrepancies in the courts of state District Judge Sid Harle and retired state District Judge Sharon MacRae.
The investigation also uncovered about $120,000 in "incorrectly processed" vouchers, Reed said.
Forgery is bad in the first place, but especially so when it's done by a lawyer, considered a trusted officer of the court, she said.
"You're supposed to act nobly, not smarmy," Reed said.
In a news release announcing the indictments, prosecutors noted a 2010 San Antonio Express-News article that put a spotlight on Valadez for receiving $403,000 in reimbursements for 478 indigent defense cases in the previous three years — more than any other attorney in Bexar County. The average lawyer took on 139 cases to earn a total of $32,500, the report pointed out.
Valadez, whose indigent defense work included multiple high-profile murder cases, credited her work ethic and her ability to speak Spanish when Express-News Staff Writer Brian Chasnoff asked her about the stats.
"I'm here a lot and show up on time," she said then.
The indictment includes allegations of theft by deception between $20,000 and $100,000 and forgery, both third-degree felonies; execution of a document by deception between $100,000 and $200,000, a second-degree felony; and tampering with a government record, a state jail felony.
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Boeing 747-8
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Boeing 747-8
The Boeing 747 has inspired passengers and pilots since the late 1960s. The current 747-400 version is as modern as they get, but Lufthansa thought Boeing could do even better. So the German airline pursuaded the US aircraft maker to develop the wide-body 747-8 Intercontinental
"Isn't she beautiful?" calls Danny from his perch above the jumbo jet. Danny has every reason to be up in the air – he's a crane operator at the Boeing aircraft manufacturing plant in Everett, Washington, near Seattle. And Danny has every reason to rave as he looks down at a legend reborn, a brand-new 747-8 Intercontinental airliner on the floor of the hangar below him. The Boeing 747 is a phoenix whose powers of renewal are almost magical.
The world's largest airliner (in 1969) was enthusiastically received by both pilots and passengers when it took off on its maiden flight that year on February 9. The pilots were impressed by the 747's revolutionary technology, its outstanding flight capabilities and its standard- setting safety features. Airline passengers, however, fell in love with the shape and appearance of the giant jet that could seat twice as many people as any other long-haul aircraft of the day. The feature that elicited this spontaneous outburst of affection was the hump that arched over the main passenger deck and contained the cockpit at the front. Hump? What an unattractive word for the graceful, sweeping silhouette that distinguishes the 747 from every other passenger aircraft in the world.
Lufthansa recognized the jumbo jet's potential for winning people's hearts but was even more interested in the new wide-body aircraft's economic and engineering capacities. Which explains why Lufthansa became the first European airline to operate a Boeing 747 on long-haul flights. In fact, the very first Lufthansa jumbo jet landed at Hamburg Airport on March 30, 1970. Many variations of the Boeing 747 were built in the ensuing years. The 747-400 series represented a huge evolutionary leap, and hundreds of these aircraft, built in 1989, are operating around the world, and this model is also well loved by pilots and passengers alike. But even such a classic cannot escape the platitude that there's nothing good that cannot be made better. Back in the last century, Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) was the driving force on the customer side behind the initial development of the Boeing 747. This time around it was Lufthansa that strongly urged Boeing to develop a brand-new passenger model.
Nico Buchholz, Executive Vice-President Group Fleet Management at Lufthansa made numerous trips to Everett, near Seattle, to acquaint the aircraft manufacturers with just what Lufthansa was looking for. His powers of persuasion were evidently considerable because the decision was finally made in 2005 to develop the 747-8 Intercontinental. In 2006, Lufthansa became the first airline to order Boeing's new model and ordered 20 aircraft. In doing so, it has once again positioned itself as a leading innovator in the international aviation industry. And once again,the airline has recognized the technical, economic and, in this case also ecological advantages of the new aircraft.
"The 747-8 is new – and at the same time, not new," says Nico Buchholz. In other words, it brings to the Lufthansa fleet all the proven advantages of its predecessors but takes quality to an even higher level in response to 21st century expectations.
The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental is 76.3 meters long, 5.6 meters longer than the 747-400, and can seat around 50 additional passengers, but despite its improved performance consumes no more fuel than the 747-400.
Its consumption per passenger per 100 kilometers approaches Lufthansa's medium-term, three-liter target, and is an excellent achievement economically and ecologically in times of diminishing oil reserves and increased environmental awareness. In addition to having considerably lower operating costs, the new 747-8 reduces carbon emissions by 16 percent. Its wing construction and its GEnx-2B67 engines, newly developed by General Electric, are primarily responsible for its comparatively low fuel consumption. In fact, the US manufacturer's engines hold a second ecological advantage: Although a powerful force to be reckoned with, they are relatively quiet. The Boeing 747- 8 Intercontinental's noise emissions lie 30 percent below those of preceding models and its noise footprint, the area affected by noise pollution, is much smaller, too.
The economic and ecological advantages of the Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental, all of which can be expressed in percentages or absolute figures, are only part of the picture. For Lufthansa, the new plane is also a strategic asset. With a current seat configuration of 386, the new Boeing closes the gap within the Lufthansa fleet between the Airbus A340-600 (which seats up to 306) and the Boeing 747-400 (344 seats) on the one hand, and the Airbus A380-800 (which can each accommodate 526 passengers on long hauls). By operating different aircraft to match the precise capacity required, Lufthansa can respond even more precisely to customer needs. Not that customers particularly think about things like this when they make travel plans. They're much more interested in an aircraft that's reliable, safe and comfortable, too.
The Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental has undergone numerous uncompromising safety and reliability tests. These include extreme flight maneuvers of the kind that would never, under normal circumstances, be carried out on a commercial flight – tests that take an aircraft to the limits of what it's physically capable of, like landing in a foot of water on a flooded runway. That's something no Lufthansa passenger has ever had to contend with. The fact that the Boeing 747-8 passed all its tests with flying colors is sure to give passengers a good feeling as they board. This positive impression will be further enhanced by the comfort awaiting them in the cabin. Kent Craver, Regional Director for Passenger Satisfaction and Revenue is Boeing's man for well-being on board. He knows how important first impressions are and wants airline passengers to feel "immediately welcome" when they come on board. He is also aware that what he and his team have to work with is an adverse starting point: "By the time customers get to our product they're already in the middle of a bad day, which can overshadow the entire flying experience," he says.
Nevertheless, passengers will be able to enjoy the same sense of spaciousness that the first-generation Boeing 747 conveyed. Except that new cabin furnishings and carefully positioned lighting will make it even better. The seating in Lufthansa's 20 new long-haul aircraft is right up there with the best – as will the cabin ventilation, the low noise level and countless other details like the extra-large luggage bins overhead. Danny the crane operator can only dream of such an elevated experience as he sits behind his controls and maneuvers back and forth at dizzying heights. At least his dream might actually become reality. "My wife wants to go to Hawaii on our next vacation, but I'd rather go somewhere that involves the North Atlantic route. That way we might be able to fly with the 747-8."


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Truly beautiful and amazing! I'm very impressed, 9dragons. Did you do the letterpress work yourself?
This reminds me of the double fold albums of the old days where I would get a new release and spend the afternoon listening and looking at all the details of the art.
I've been thinking about taking a letterpress printing class offered at a place not far from here. I'd love to be able to take a different direction like that with hand-made, artisan-quality packaging and inserts for Hypnos CDs.
Mike, I highly recommend getting into letterpress as a solution for packaging. A Hypnos album packaged letterpress would be a great thing. It also can be fairly cheap to produce if you have access to a studio via classes. Fine paper tends to be the most expensive thing, but oh is it worth it. I would also recommend paying a visit to the great people at Stumptown printers. They'd probably give you a mini tour of their operations. Those guys are great.And let me know if you have any letterpress questions, I'd be more than happy to share what I've learned so far. And I'm also curious to know the name of the school you mentioned.


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Man and I visited the George Washington Carver National Monument late in the day, as we arrived at the Moses Carver Family Cemetery area the sun was low on the western horizon and cast a lovely golden color on the stones. The following photo is from park signage, showing the burial spots and other data about the family and the cemetery. As you can see, in the 1930's there were no large stones. Now there are large stones marking the burial spots of man of the family members. So, the stone photos I will share with you today would appear to be replacements, they are lovely, and done in the style I see common for the time in which they lived and died.
Moses and Susan Carver raised George and his brother after their parents died.
George Washington Carver stated in his 5 page autobiography written about 1897, that his father died shortly after he was born. His mother was reported to have been kidnapped, as was George and his sister when he was only a few months old. George was rescued, his sister and mother were not.


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Paul Ferrill has been writing in the computer trade press for more than 20 years. Paul holds both BSEE and MSEE degrees and has written software for more computer platforms and architectures than he can remember.
In Part 1 of this series, I showed you what it takes to build applications for the Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform. I covered the basic issues of setting up a development workstation, choosing a programming language, and making good choices in terms of external libraries. I also discussed issues like device emulation, the importance of working through a prototype "hello world" application, and common problems to avoid. [Editor's Note: For information on Moblin, see Dr. Dobb's MoblinZone.]
This installment gets down to the business at hand and walks through the process of designing and coding a working application. I chose a Twitter application that will report the user's current location as a way to exercise as many of the MID features as possible. Although it's a simple application in terms of what it does, it has many of the parts you'd need to build any general-purpose user application.
Design Choices
Many of the functional parts of this application are foundational to everyday applications, requiring features such as user authentication, configuration storage and retrieval, network communications, and user interaction. It's important to modularize the design as much as possible to both break the overall project down into manageable pieces and to make it easier to reuse the code.
The application checks each time it runs to see whether any user credential information has been entered. If not, it presents a typical user name/password login dialog box and stores the information in an encrypted local configuration file. A preferences dialog box makes it possible to change the user name and password after initial setup along with other program options.
For the initial release of this program, I assume that there is an active network connection. This is a bit of a stretch for the Compal JAX10 MID I tested on: It did not have an active 3G radio, so there was no "always-on" Internet connection. I was able to simulate having a consistent connection by using Wi-Fi, instead. Later versions might check for connectivity and, if currently disconnected, queue up the message to send the next time a connection to the Internet is available.
Another design consideration for the mobile form factor is deciding what happens when a button is pressed. With this particular application, there is a consequence for choosing single-key action; every time the user presses one of the action buttons, a message is sent to Twitter. If you assume the user won't inadvertently press a button or do something like put the device in a back pocket with the application running, it shouldn't be a problem. Alternatives might include adding a confirmation dialog box to each action ("Really send message?"), adding a button or a timer to lock the screen, or exiting the program by default after the message is sent.
Building a UI for the Small Screen
One of nice things about Python is the abundance of libraries to do just about anything you need to do. The Compal MID used for this project has a number of useful libraries installed as a part of the base operating system, and I chose to take advantage of them. The GTK+ user interface (UI) library contains a wealth of resources for building everything from a simple dialog box to a complex data-entry form. PyGTK is a wrapper around the GTK+ library and provides access to virtually every routine through standard Python objects.
Building a login dialog using PyGTK consists of creating a simple window with individual text boxes for username and password. You can find a good example and explanation of these techniques on the PyGTK tutorial page. In the following code snippet the pass_input.set_visibility(False) line causes the password to be blanked by a dot symbol:
def login(self): dialog = gtk.Dialog('Login', self.window, flags=gtk.DIALOG_MODAL | gtk.DIALOG_DESTROY_WITH_PARENT, buttons=(gtk.STOCK_CANCEL, gtk.RESPONSE_REJECT, gtk.STOCK_OK, gtk.RESPONSE_ACCEPT)) dialog.set_default_response(gtk.RESPONSE_ACCEPT) userbox = gtk.HBox(False) user_label = gtk.Label('Username:') userbox.pack_start(user_label) user_input = gtk.Entry() user_input.set_activates_default(True) userbox.pack_start(user_input) dialog.vbox.pack_start(userbox) passbox = gtk.HBox(False) pass_label = gtk.Label('Password:') passbox.pack_start(pass_label) pass_input = gtk.Entry() pass_input.set_activates_default(True) pass_input.set_visibility(False) passbox.pack_start(pass_input) dialog.vbox.pack_start(passbox)
Another chore for the small screen is creating a finger-friendly interface. For this application, that means buttons appropriately sized and spaced so that an adult's finger can easily press the button of choice. It is possible to code the button sizes specifically for the Compal screen size and resolution, but a more general approach would be to use the available system information to calculate the appropriate dimensions.
A second option with GTK+ is to create a table that fills the screen with a matrix of buttons that essentially takes up all the screen real estate. Although doing so might not be as visually appealing, it does accomplish the task of building a finger-friendly interface in which you can easily "click" the right button. It also provides a few more options for adding descriptive text to the button for the Twitter application. In Python, the matrix would look something like this:
def create_table(self): self.table = gtk.Table(3,4,True) # Create a 3 row by 4 column table button1 = gtk.Button("Button 1") # Create a button named button1 self.table.attach(button1,0,1,0,1) # put button 1 in location 0,1 button2 = gtk.Button("Button 2") self.table.attach(button2,1,2,0,1) button3 = gtk.Button("Button 3") self.table.attach(button3,1,2,0,1) ... button12 = gtk.Button("Button 12") self.table.attach(button12,1,2,0,1)