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let's sit down together by Doug Seidel & Todd Tuttle
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Released:November 9th, 2012
1. hey buddy
T. Tuttle: Frame DrumTony: GreetingRoadie: vocal (barking)D. Seidel: piano, singing with autotune, oscillator driven by Ian Fritz chaos circuit with fuzzbox feedback
2. how to lose
T. Tuttle: singing, poetics, drums, wobbly gas station signD. Seidel: percussion, guitar, bass, harmonium, oscillations and feedbackM. Seidel: singing
3. one size too small
D. Seidel: feedback, percussion, piano, electronics, banjo, bass, guitar, drumsT. Tuttle: kitchen sounds
4. I can't say
T. Tuttle: cow bellD. Seidel: other percussion, fuzzbox and wah wah feedback, electric lap guitar, banjo, harmonium, turntable.
5. check the map
D. Seidel: harmonium, banjo, feedback, organ, metal, audio resulting from ultrasonic feedbackT. Tuttle: voices, percussion, walking, wobble, zither, other sounds
6. I forgot you
T. Tuttle: percussionD. Seidel: bass triggered by percussion, kick drum, rusty zither, violin, electronics and fuzz, singing
7. new pedometer
T. Tuttle:walking along a snowy ice age trail in the northern unit of the kettle moraine, clay pot percussion, singing, talking.D. Seidel: kick drum, clapping, tape loop feedback, electronics, electric zither, banjo.
8. reverse amnesia, cow
T. Tuttle: moog VCO, frequency, some hand percussion, high pitched noises were made by biting down on my bottom lip while drawing in air.Jack: replaying sections of unremembered online contentD. Seidel: peepers, electronics, trombone, drums, barbie drums, banjo, bass
9. let's sit down together
D. Seidel: jews harp, oscillators, overheard conversation, birds and other fragments, banjo, guitar, drums, more sine waves.Anonymous young soul: piano recital excerptT. Tuttle: wooden frog call and homemade kalimba
Production: Doug Seidel
Cover design: Todd Tuttle
Mastered by Ray Andersen at Laughing Baby Music
All songs recorded in 2012
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Seth Meyers spoofed "Mad Men" in a skit on "Late Night," revealing a clip of himself dressed as Don Draper in a phony AMC spinoff entitled "Bad Men."
Meyers began by saying he was unhappy that the show is coming to a close. The first episode of the seventh and final season will air on Sunday, April 13.
"I have to admit I'm very sad that this is will be the show's last season but I'm excited to announce that AMC has a brand new show about advertising in the '60s," Meyers said. "They've sent us a sneak peek. I love Jon Hamm but I do think the lead actor of this new show, he's a little bit better."
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Then, a clip played of Meyers dressed like Draper, pitching to executives the idea of Hershey's chocolate bars.
"When you hold a Hershey's chocolate bar in your hand, you're holding the promise of happiness of joy, of youth," Meyers explained in Draper's style. "But you realize something. When you eat that Hershey bar, all that happiness, all that joy is gone."
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Stephen McLoughlin and Lena Thompson went to Champion Elementary School to see if there was clothing they might be interested in taking.
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text: A VW van, a portrait of Trump or a Stormtrooper (pictured): Michele Baldini has taken playing with your food to the next level. The Mexican student separates the yolk from the white and cuts the sizzling mass into different shapes. Baldini's work is documented on his Instagram account The Eggs-hibit, which has over 36 000 followers.


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Road construction season is upon us, and motorists all over the city will need to be mindful of crews, from Lovejoy and Kaisertown to Fillmore Avenue and Humboldt Parkway.
Construction on new streetscapes on East Lovejoy and Clinton streets, and beautification of a public parking lot on East Delavan Avenue are set to begin in August, Mayor Byron W. Brown said Monday.
Concrete Applied Technologies Corp. was awarded a contract for $2.36 million for the three Lovejoy District projects. The city borrowed for the project as part of its capital plan, and state highway funding will cover $300,000 of the project cost.
The city already spent an additional $175,000 for engineering consulting work.
New lighting on East Lovejoy Street from Longnecker Street east to the city line and Clinton Street from just east of the I-190 to the city line will be brighter and more energy-efficient, an attempt to reduce the city's $14 million annual electric bill. Those streets also will see new pavement, curbs, sidewalks, drainage systems and accessible walkways.
On East Delavan Avenue, a city parking lot at Harriet Avenue will be improved with paving, new fencing and possibly a new clock, to create more of a public square, said Council President Richard A. Fontana.
Borrowing for capital projects went a little differently this year, as the comptroller's office and the Brown administration had a difference of opinion on how much the city should borrow for major construction projects.
Comptroller Mark J.F. Schroeder borrowed less for capital projects than the administration had requested, because the city historically has not used all of the borrowed funds within the year, incurring unnecessary interest, Schroeder said.
In April, Schroeder borrowed only $17.8 million for capital projects, instead of $21.3 million, which was approved by the Common Council.
"We're going to be working to demonstrate to the comptroller that we're ready to move these projects," Brown said on Tuesday.
When all of the projects are ready, money will be made available, Schroeder said.
The Lovejoy District improvements, which are expected to be finished in a year, are just a fraction of the road projects in some stage of development in the coming months.
Construction also is planned for Humboldt Parkway, where $900,000 will be spent from Main Street to Martin Luther King Park; Fillmore Avenue, which will get a $2.2 million makeover from North Parade Avenue to East Ferry Street; and the Fruit Belt, which will see $3.2 million in work around Carlton Street.
The city's cars on Main Street project reached a new phase last week when the Common Council approved a $15.8 million bid from Mark Cerrone Inc. for the 500 block, which begins at Huron Street.
Work on Elmwood Avenue near SUNY Buffalo State is expected to be completed in late June or early July, and work on Delaware Avenue south of North Street is nearly completed and will end this week, according to the city's engineering department.
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10 Actors Who Died Before Their Final Film Was Released
For many actors, their work in film and television makes them immortal. Long after they've passed away, they enter our lives as entertainment when we pop in a Blu Ray or turn on Netflix. Not only is it hard to sometimes remember that these stars are gone, but that several of them died before their last film even hit theaters.
Phil Hartman in "Small Soldiers"
On the evening of May 27, 1998, Phil Hartman reportedly got into a heated argument with his wife Brynn over her drug use, threatening to leave her if she started doing drugs again. At 3 a.m., Brynn, intoxicated and having recently consumed cocaine, entered their bedroom where Phil was sleeping and shot him three times, twice in the head and once in the side. Brynn went to a friend's house and admitted to the murder, but wasn't believed. Her friend Ron Douglas accompanied her home and found Phil's body just after 6 a.m. and called 911. The police arrived and escorted the two Hartman children and Douglas from the house, by which time Brynn had already locked herself in another bedroom and shot herself in the head. Phil's last film Small Solders was released two months later and dedicated to his memory.
Brandon Lee in "The Crow"
Nearly 30 years after the death of his father, Brandon Lee was working on the comic book adaptation of The Crow, playing the lead character Eric Draven who seeks revenge for his murder and the rape and murder of his fiancé. Earlier in the production, a real bullet was used to create a dummy bullet, having the slug removed, the gun powder emptied, and the slug replaced. However, the firing cap was not properly discharged. While the dummy round was being used in a second unit close up shot, the firing cap was triggered, causing enough of a blast to dislodge the slug, leaving it in the barrel of the prop gun. The same gun was not properly inspected before it was loaded with a full blank, usually packed with two to three times the normal amount of gun powder and no slug to create a loud noise on set. The gun was then used to film a flashback scene where Lee's character returns home to find his fiancé being raped, and is shot by Fun Boy, played by Michael Massee. The gun powder in the blank shot the slug out of the barrel of the prop gun, striking Lee in the chest. Lee passed away after six hours of surgery attempting to repair the damage. The film was later completed with stand-ins and CGI effects inserting Lee into unfinished scenes, most noticeably in the scene where Lee returns home after his resurrection and applies the Crow make-up. Contrary to popular belief, the footage of Lee's shooting is not in the final cut of the film. The footage was used in the wrongful death lawsuit brought on by Lee's mother, but per the terms of the lawsuit, the footage was immediately destroyed. Michael Massee expressed a deep regret for his role in Lee's death, taking a year off and reporting nightmares about the incident more than 10 years later.
Bruce Lee in "Enter The Dragon" and "Game of Death"
In May of 1973, Bruce Lee collapsed while working on dubbing audio for his film Enter the Dragon, suffering from seizures and headaches as a result of a cerebral edema. Two months later on July 27, the symptoms returned and Lee passed away in his sleep as a result of a swollen brain and an allergic reaction to a painkiller Equagesic. Enter the Dragon was released shortly after Lee's death to wide acclaim, being considered Lee's best film. But Lee's passion project, Game of Death, was left largely unfinished because Lee put the project on hold to work on Enter the Dragon. Game of Death, designed to be an exhibition of Lee's martial art style of Jeet Kune Do, was later pieced together with existing footage and stand-ins to finish the scenes Lee was unable to. Footage of Lee's actual funeral was used in the 1978 edition of the film, being a plot point and reason for the change in the lead character's appearance.
Aaliyah in "Queen of the Damned"
After completing her scenes for Queen of the Damned, Aaliyah traveled to the Bahamas to shoot a video for the single "Rock the Boat". After completion, Aaliyah and her crew decided to return to Florida immediately and chartered a plane to Florida. After loading the passengers (one passenger over the plane's limits) and 700 lbs over the maximum weight, the plane crashed shortly after takeoff, 200 feet from the runway. Coroner's reports Aaliyah died of head trauma and burns, noting that she was in such a state of shock that recovery would have been unlikely if she had survived the crash itself. The pilot's autopsy showed alcohol and cocaine in his system. Aaliyah died before finishing all additional dialogue recording for the film, so her brother was brought in to mimic her voice in the necessary recording. Queen of the Damned was released in February of the following year to bad reviews, but praise for her performance.
Heath Ledger in "The Dark Knight" and "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnasus"
On January 22, 2008, Heath Ledger passed away from acute intoxication from oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine. At the time of his death, Ledger had just completed filming of The Dark Knight, but left The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus incomplete. Director Terry Gilliam considering scrapping the project since Ledger's involvement was crucial for financing, but later came up with the idea of using CGI to alter Ledger's appearance into other actors for various scenes. Gilliam kept Ledger's filmed scenes and used Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell, and Jude Law to replace Ledger as transformed versions of his character in other magical realms, with Ledger being the "real world" version of his character. Depp, Farrell, and Law all donated their paychecks from the film to Ledger's daughter. Ledger went on to become the second actor to be awarded an Oscar posthumously, the Best Supporting Actor award for The Dark Knight, which was accepted by his father and sisters and given to his daughter.
Bernie Mac in "Soul Men"
In 2005, comedic actor Bernie Mac admitted that he had been suffering from sarcoidosis, a disease that causes inflammation of tissue, attacking the lungs in Mac's case. In August 2008, Mac's condition was reportedly in remission when he was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia complicated by his sarcoidosis. After a week of unsuccessful treatments, Mac passed away on August 9th from cardiac arrest, a day before his Soul Men co-star Isaac Hayes died. Soul Men was released the following November and was a box office failure, making just over $12 million with a budget of $40 million.
Chris Farley in "Almost Heroes" and "Shrek"
After years of struggling with drug abuse, Chris Farley was found dead in his apartment on December 18, 1997. An autopsy report indicated Farley died as a result of a cocaine and heroin overdose, the same drugs that killed his idol John Belushi at the same age, 33. Farley's drug abuse resulted in one of his final completed films Almost Heroes to be held up a few times so Farley could attend rehab. The film was finally released in May of the following year to poor reviews.
Farley had another film that was released after his death, but with another actor in the role. Farley was the original voice for the title character in the film Shrek, but died with reportedly 80 to 90% of the necessary dialogue recorded. Farley was replaced by SNL co-star Mike Myers.
Raul Julia in "Street Fighter"
Possibly best known for his role of Gomez Addams, Raul Julia dealt with a number of illnesses a year after "Addams Family Values", including food poisoning and rumored stomach cancer. On October 16, 1994 Julia suffered a stroke and fell into a coma four days later and was put on life support. Four days after that, Julia succumbed due to complications from the brain hemorrhage, leaving behind a notorious final performance. Released two months after his death, Street Fighter was dedicated to Julia's memory with the line "For Raul. Vaya con Dios." in the credits. Though Street Fighter was panned by fans and critics, it has since gained a cult following, and is spoken of favorably when compared to the latest Street Fighter film starring Kristen Kreuk. At the time of Julia's death, he was set to appear in two films with Antonio Bandares; Desperado as the main villain, El Mariachi's brother Bucho, and The Mask of Zorro as original Zorro, Diego de la Vega, a role Sean Connery was attached to as one point.
John Candy in "Wagons East" and "Canadian Bacon"
Famous for his role on SCTV and films like Uncle Buck and The Great Outdoors, John Candy was in an unfortunate career slump in 1994 while working in Mexico on the film Wagons East, about Western settlers fed up with frontier life and moving back to the east. Candy, who had just announced he was placing his Canadian Football Team up for sale, passed away in his sleep of a heart attack on March 4. Enough of Candy's role in the film had been completed that his part did not need to be recast, and Wagons East was released in August to terrible reviews. A month later, Candy's final film Canadian Bacon was released, having been filmed two years prior. Like Wagons East, Canadian Bacon was released to poor reviews.
Whitney Houston in "Sparkle"
The night before the 2012 Grammy Awards, Whitney Houston was found dead in her hotel room in Beverly Hills, apparently drowned in the bathtub. Houston was honored and featured prominently in the awards show the next night. The following month, a coroner's report ruled Houston's death as an accidental drowning caused by atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use, which Houston apparently used just prior to her death. Her final film Sparkle was released in August of that year, a week later than intended due to Houston's death. Houston, though only appearing in six feature films in her lifetime, was one of the heavily featured actors in the "In Memoriam" montage at the Oscars for that year.


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Checking In On… the Big WestPosted by Brian Goodman on January 2nd, 2012
David Gao is the RTC correspondent for the Big West Conference. You can also find his musings online at Zotcubed, a UC Irvine blog, or on Twitter @dvdgao.
Reader's Take
The Week That Was
- Long Beach Takes Down Another Ranked Opponent: Long Beach State continued its strong nonconference play at the Diamond Head Classic, beating then-#14 Xavier as well as Auburn to reach the tournament championship game against Kansas State, where it fell to the Wildcats. At the beginning of the season, the 49ers knocking off two ranked opponents would have been seen as a gigantic accomplishment, but now the two wins look somewhat less impressive given Pittsburgh's and Xavier's struggles. Xavier was missing starters Mark Lyons and Dezmine Wells, and would fall to a very mediocre Hawaii team the following day. Nonetheless, still a very good showing in Honolulu for the 49ers.
- Santa Barbara Goes Cold: Long Beach State's consensus biggest Big West threat at the beginning of the season sputtered to an ugly finish in the nonconference portion of their schedule, getting walloped by both Cal and Brigham Young on the road. UCSB went into overtime against both San Diego State and UNLV earlier this season, but seemed to shrink on the road. Beyond the Gauchos big three of Orlando Johnson, James Nunnally, and Jaime Serna, the UCSB bench has been uninspiring. New Mexico transfer point guard Nate Garth has also struggled recently, being relegated to the bench against BYU where he committed four turnovers in just 10 minutes. Colorado transfer Keegan Hornbuckle has also been a non-factor.
- Big West Action is Here: In recent years, the Big West has been one of the most closely fought, anyone-can-win-on-a-given-night conferences. Even though Long Beach State went 14-2 last year en route to the regular season title, they lost to eight-seed UC Irvine in the regular season and lost to No. 5-seed UC Santa Barbara in the conference tournament. Although there figures to be more of a divide in the contending teams and the rebuilding teams this year, extremely hard-fought close battles are still to be expected. How teams match-up with each other, coaching strategy, home court advantage and coming up with clutch shots late will determine a number of games. Already, streaking Cal State Fullerton had to squeak out a win against cellar dweller UC Davis, who has yet to claim a win against a Division I opponent this year. These are coaches and players who know each other very well, bringing a whole new element to games with an increase in intensity a likely by-product.
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- Long Beach State (7-6) – Despite coming up short against Kansas State in the Diamond Head Classic championship game, Long Beach State still had a tournament they could be proud of, beating No. 14 Xavier by 10 and Auburn by 21. In addition to notching wins over Atlantic-10 and SEC teams, Long Beach State also gained more national exposure with a couple games on ESPN2 and the Xavier win on ESPNU. All positive things for a program that is trying to take it to the next level. Senior Larry Anderson was named to the all-tournament team for scoring in double figures all three games, while freshman point guard Mike Caffey emerged as an exciting player for not only the future but for this season as well. The 6'0" Riverside, California native poured in 14 points against Xavier, exciting fans with his energetic yet composed play. Read the rest of this entry »


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Procter and Gamble CIO Shares Outlook for 2011By Don Reisinger
Procter and Gamble CIO Shares Outlook for 2011
The Great Recession has been jolting companies around the world. Budgets are reduced, employees have experienced layoffs, and the average person still goes to work each day not knowing whether or not their job will still be waiting for them. The past few years have been particularly tough for CIOs. Like so many other top-level executives, you've been forced to cut those budgets and layoff those people. And all the while, your CEO has been expecting at least the same level, if not even more, productivity from your staff.
In order to be successful, CIOs have had to change their strategies, and this will become even more important in 2011. With less money to go around, every element of an operation is expected to turn a profit and add value to the company.
"We don't just offer IT, but information that delivers useful systems for the entire company," says Procter and Gamble CIO Filippo Passerini in a recent interview with CIO Insight. "We want [the IT component] to become change agents for Procter and Gamble and transform the way business is done."
Keep Costs Down, Drive Innovation
Indeed, P&G's CEO, Bob McDonald, has made it a mission of the firm to become the "best tech-enabled company in the world," in order to achieve its business goals, Passerini says.
Even for a CIO in a small- or medium-sized firm, this kind of thinking could be exciting. The strategic examples set by big, successful companies with cash to spend oftentimes serve as jumping off points for IT leaders of all stripes. So, what's the best strategy for 2011? "What is important is to drive costs down and drive innovation," Passerini says.
Passerini relies on several strategies for innovation. P&G has employed video to help line-of-service employees in different offices around the world collaborate effectively on product development. He has also engaged in a cloud-computing push within the company to save costs and stand as a leader in innovation.
P&G's proprietary cloud-based service allows the company's top executives to meet each week, go over performance reports, and "look at data in real time." The cloud initiatives and other innovation have, collectively, has enabled P&G to save "$800 million in costs, [while] innovating three times as much" as it once did, says Passerini. "Our model works," he adds. "It's one of leadership, innovative progress, and business focus."
IT Outlook for 2011
Passerini is optimistic about 2011. He believes that P&G has found the sweet spot between value and cost-cutting that is required in this uncertain economic environment. And his advice for other CIOs is to do the same. "The future is completely in our hands," Passerini says. "If we become a commodity, we're about cost. If we drive distinct value, life will be very pleasant and interesting."
This doesn't necessarily mean that Procter and Gamble (or any other firm for that matter), will be adding IT staff to its roles next year. The future may be bright for IT but, as Passerini indicates, companies need to be agile when it comes to staffing. And he plans to "adjust and anticipate" as well as he can to determine what his staffing needs will be. For now, he's taking a "wait and see" approach to IT hiring next year.
Still, the quality of an enterprise's information and data management, and the accompanying technology choices to leverage these, will only play a greater role in the success or failure of a firm as our economy lurches toward recovery. "I always worry," Passerini says, but at the same time his outlook on the future "is very, very bright."


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Apollo lunar surface exploration was a race against time. The Lunar Module (LM) carried only so much cooling water for its avionics, only so much breathing oxygen and carbon dioxide-absorbing lithium hydroxide for its crew, and only so much electricity in its batteries. The Portable Life Support System (PLSS) backpack each Apollo astronaut carried on his back while outside the LM could be recharged, but could carry only so much breathing air and cooling water at one time.
The longest Apollo lunar surface stay and longest period astronauts spent in their space suits on the lunar surface occurred during the J-class Apollo 17 mission (7-19 December 1972), the last manned moon voyage. During the second of three surface traverses astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt conducted during their three-day, three-hour sojourn on the lunar surface, the two men remained outside their LM, the Challenger, for seven hours and 37 minutes.
Operational constraints and conservative mission rules further limited what Apollo moonwalkers could do with the resources at their command; for example, during their travels in the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), the four-wheeled electric car designed to expand the area they could explore and the mass of the lunar samples and tools they could transport, Apollo astronauts could not stray beyond a "walkback limit." As the term implies, this was the distance beyond which they could not return on foot to the LM before they expended the life support expendables in the PLSS.
The walkback limit meant that Apollo lunar surface crews drove to their planned greatest distance from the the safe haven of the LM at the start of each LRV traverse, then worked their way back to the LM through a series of pre-planned traverse stops. As they drew nearer to their base camp, the quantity of expendables available in their PLSSs would decrease, but then so would the distance they would need to hike if the LRV broke down.
During Apollo 15 (26 July-7 August 1971), the first J-class mission, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drove a straight-line distance of five kilometers from their LM, the Falcon. Apollo 16 (16 April-21 April 1972) saw astronauts John Young and Charles Duke drive 4.5 kilometers from the LM Orion. For Apollo 17, the walkback limit rule was relaxed slightly, so Cernan and Schmitt were able to reach a point 7.6 kilometers from Challenger.
The limited endurance of the Apollo LM and PLSS, combined with the walkback limit, helped to dictate the list of landing sites the Apollo astronauts would explore. During the mid-1960s, proposed Apollo landing sites with scientifically interesting surface features spaced too far apart for "early Apollo" exploration were transferred to lists of candidate targets for more advanced follow-on expeditions. These would, it was expected, be carried out in the mid-to-late 1970s within the Apollo Applications Program (AAP).
On 31 July 1967, four years to the day before Apollo 15 touched down on the moon, lunar scientists had gathered in Santa Cruz, California, "to arrive at a scientific consensus as to what the future lunar manned and unmanned exploration should be." Soon after their two-week conference, they released recommendations. In their 398-page report they wrote that
The most important recommendation of the conference relates to lunar surface mobility. To increase the scientific return. . .after the first few Apollo landings, the most important need is for increased operating range on the Moon. On the early Apollo missions it is expected that an astronaut will have an operating radius on foot of approximately 500 meters. It is imperative that this radius be increased to more than 10 kilometers as soon as possible.
With this in mind, participants in the Santa Cruz conference recommended "that a Lunar Flying Unit [LFU] be developed immediately to be used in AAP and, if possible, on late Apollo flights to increase the astronaut's mobility range." The workshop participants expected that the LFU would have a range of from five to 10 kilometers, which they acknowledged was "a considerable improvement over the present capability, but not nearly enough."
As space scientists met in Santa Cruz, however, Congress in Washington debated deep cuts in NASA programs. In part as a form of "punishment" for the Apollo 1 fire (27 January 1967), on 16 August 1967 AAP's Fiscal Year (FY) 1968 budget was slashed from the $455 million President Lyndon Johnson had requested in January to just $122 million. The President, faced with an unpopular war in Indochina, unrest in U.S. cities, and an increasing budget deficit, begrudgingly acquiesced to the cuts.
In his preface to the Santa Cruz conference report, NASA Associate Administrator for Space Science Homer Newell explained that its recommendations had been "prepared under guidelines. . .developed prior to the 1968 Appropriations Hearings by the Congress." Because of this, the recommendations were "optimistic in outlook" and "exceed[ed] the capability of the agency to execute." Newell stressed more than once that the report was "NOT an approved NASA program for lunar exploration."
The Santa Cruz blueprint for lunar exploration died as it was born, yet the LFU concept it touted remained alive. In January 1969, NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston, Texas, issued a pair of seven-month LFU study contracts. In June 1969 - a month before Apollo 11 (16-24 July 1969) carried out the first manned moon landing - the two competing contractors, Bell Aerosystems Company and North American Rockwell (NAR), presented their final briefings to MSC and NASA Headquarters officials.
Bell had studied a "rocket belt" - in reality, a rocket-propelled backpack - under contract to the U.S. Army in the late 1950s. The rocket belt used a catalyst bed to decompose hydrogen peroxide into high-temperature steam which it then vented through a pair of exhaust nozzles to generate thrust. In 1966, Bell demonstrated the rocket belt for U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) lunar scientists among the volcanic Hopi Buttes east of Flagstaff, Arizona. Eugene Shoemaker, chief of the USGS Branch of Astrogeology, witnessed the demonstration. The following year he co-chaired the Santa Cruz conference's Geology Working Group, from which emanated the conference's mobility and LFU recommendations.
The Bell LFU (image at top of post) was a platform with splayed legs and small (7.5-inch-wide) footpads, not a backpack, but it applied many of the rocket belt's design principles and had, by 1969, been Bell's favored configuration for several years. The astronaut would fly standing, stabilized as he flew by his grip on a pair of handlebar-type control handles linked mechanically to twin side-mounted rocket nozzles. The handles would use the Apollo LM hand controller design. Though safety belts would help to prevent side-to-side motion, the astronaut would be able to flex his knees, allowing him to absorb the pressure of acceleration and the jolt of touchdown. The Bell LFU's landing legs would include no shock absorbers.
Bell envisioned that its LFUs would always reach the moon in pairs. The company proposed that one 235-pound LFU and Apollo astronaut should stand by at the LM, ready to mount a rescue, while the other LFU and astronaut flew to an exploration target from 10 to 15 miles away from the LM. Until the mid-point of the LFU study, NASA had asked Bell and NAR to assume that the LFU could carry 370 pounds of payload, and thus could rescue a 370-pound space-suited astronaut stranded by LFU failure.
At the mid-term briefing, NASA directed Bell to design its LFU so that it could carry 100 pounds of payload, and Bell complied. The company noted that, if the LFU payload capacity were indeed fixed at 100 pounds, then the second LFU and astronaut could still serve a life-saving, walkback limit-extending function; they could resupply the grounded LFU pilot's PLSS with oxygen and water as he walked back to base.
In keeping with NASA ground rules for the study, Bell designed its LFU to burn leftover propellants scavenged from the LM descent stage. Grumman, the LM prime contractor, had estimated that from 300 to 1500 pounds of hypergolic (that is, ignite-on-contact) propellants would remain in the descent stage after the LM landed on the moon. The astronauts would use three twenty-foot-long hoses - one for nitrogen tetroxide oxidizer, one for hydrazine fuel, and one for helium pressurant - to fill tanks in the LFUs. The hoses and helium would form part of an LFU "support equipment" payload in the LM descent stage with a total mass of 90 pounds.
The Bell LFU would carry up to 300 pounds of propellants in its twin tanks, bringing its total mass with a space-suited astronaut and a 100-pound payload to about 1000 pounds. Helium would drive the propellants into the twin throttleable rocket engines, which would each produce from 50 to 300 pounds of thrust. Thrust chamber temperature would peak at about 2200° Fahrenheit (F). Bell assumed that during each LFU sortie actual flight time would total about 30 minutes, with the LFU flying at speeds up to 100 feet per second (about 70 miles per hour).
Bell assumed that NASA would fly a total of 10 Apollo lunar landing missions through the end nof 1973. It envisioned a staged LFU flight program. An early hydrogen peroxide-fueled LFU would draw on experience gained from the Bell rocket belt, which, the company stated, had flown more than 3000 times on Earth. This would permit short-range test-flights on the moon with minimum development risk beginning in 1971, during the fifth Apollo lunar mission.
During early hypergolic-propellant flights - in Bell's plan they would commence in mid-1972 - the LFU pilot would fly relatively short distances and climb no higher than 75 feet above the moon. His flight path would conform to the lunar terrain; Bell saw this as a means of avoiding any disorientation exotic lunar flight conditions might cause. Later missions might see high-flying, propellant-saving ballistic trajectories that would extend the LFU's range beyond 15 miles.
Bell had other big plans for its LFU. It wrote that, with a special 500-pound propellant package attached, the LFU could climb to lunar orbit. If NASA flew Apollo missions that lasted much longer than the three days of planned for the J-class missions, its LFU might fly up to 30 times. It might also be flown by remote control or, with engine uprating, propel astronauts through the skies of Mars.
NAR, the other 1969 LFU study contractor, was a relative newcomer to the world of rocket-powered personnel flyers. In 1964, the company had proposed a compact, foldable LFU basically similar to favored Bell designs; that is, the astronaut would stand upright on a small platform and grip control handles. The 1964 NAR LFU also featured an "auxiliary payload/rescue tray" for transporting equipment or a recumbent stranded or injured astronaut and add-on spherical auxiliary propellant tanks for increased range.
Perhaps because NAR was starting with a relatively blank slate, its 1969 LFU was very different from either its 1964 design or its 1969 Bell counterpart. NAR rejected an LFU in which the astronaut stood, having found that configuration to be unstable in flight and likely to tip over during landings. It proposed instead a design in which the astronaut sat on the LFU at its center of gravity, much like the recumbent astronaut in the 1964 design, in a seat tipped forward slightly to enhance visibility. He would fly strapped in with his feet on a foot rest that would hinge out of the way to allow easy access to the seat. The NAR LFU would rely on shock absorbers in its landing legs to attenuate landing shocks, not the astronaut's knees.
The 1969 NAR LFU design had a cross-shaped cluster of four throttleable rocket engines, each with a maximum thrust of 105 pounds, centered directly under the astronaut. This would, the company argued, offer enhanced in-flight stability and redundancy in case of single-engine failure. The Bell design would become unflyable if one engine failed; if the NAR LFU lost an engine, the pilot would shut off its opposite number to maintain stability and fly back to the LM using the two remaining engines. Engine redundancy, a seat, and shock absorbers contributed to the NAR LFU's greater mass - 304 pounds without propellants and about 1075 pounds with 300 pounds of propellants scavenged from the LM, a space-suited astronaut, and a 100-pound payload.
NAR's choice of engine position added to its LFU's operational complexity. The low-mounted engines would tend to blast debris from the lunar surface in all directions during LFU landing and takeoff. Dust and rocks thrown out from the LFU might damage the LM, the astronaut's suit and PLSS, and the LFU itself. Because of this, the NAR LFU would take off and land no nearer than 40 feet from the LM. As an added assurance that it would cause no damage, it would take off from and land on a fabric target unrolled on the lunar surface.
Following deployment from a compartment in the LM's side, the astronauts would drag the NAR LFU to the center of the target, then use 40-foot hoses to fill its twin modified 20-inch-diameter Gemini spacecraft propellant tanks with scavenged LM propellants. NAR estimated that, on average, mission planners could rely on the LM to contain 805 pounds of left-over propellants; that is, enough to fill its LFU's tanks nearly three times. Helium from an Apollo reaction control system tank roughly the size of a basketball would push the hypergolic propellants from the Gemini tanks into the four engines.
After loading the LFU's two payload racks with equipment, an astronaut would back into the LFU seat, position the foot rest and swing arm-mounted control panel, and fasten his seat belt and shoulder straps. After a pair of half-mile, 200-foot-high test hops during which the astronauts would each become familiar with the LFU's flight characteristics under lunar conditions, one astronaut would fly the LFU at an altitude of up to 2000 feet to a science target up to 4.6 nautical miles from the LM.
This distance was, of course, dramatically less than the 10-to-15-mile operational radius claimed for the Bell LFU; this was, however, just as well, since NAR envisioned only one LFU per Apollo mission. Its pilot would thus not be immune from the walkback limit. The company calculated that adding 100 pounds of propellant would increase to 7.8 nautical miles the distance its LFU could fly. NAR also noted that the LFU could make science sites high up on the slopes of mountains accessible to Apollo explorers.
During sorties away from the LM, the LFU would land on unprepared lunar ground. This raised the specter of possible damage from engine-tossed debris. To avoid this, NAR proposed turning off the engines some unspecified distance above the surface. This would, the company explained, also decrease the likelihood of tipping; the LFU would land firmly on its four shock-absorbing legs, not slide or skip during touchdown. It acknowledged, however, that accurately judging height above the surface before switching off the engines might be problematic.
The astronaut would unfold a fabric launch pad and drag the LFU onto it before igniting its engines for return to the LM. Between flights, the crew would refill the LFU's propellant tanks, but not the empty helium pressurant tank; instead, they would replace it with a new one stored in the LM descent stage.
Though the NAR LFU would reappear in a 1971 lunar base study, the 1969 studies were the LFU concept's last hurrah. In May 1969, as the Bell and NAR study teams completed their final reports, NASA Headquarters announced that the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, would direct industry development of a two-seater Apollo LRV. MSFC put out a Request for Proposals in July 1969, about a month after NAR and Bell engineers briefed MSC and NASA Headquarters officials on their LFU designs. On 28 October 1969, NASA formally opted for wheels over rocket belts by selecting Boeing as the prime contractor for the LRV.
"Lunar Surface Exploration Gear Analyzed," Aviation Week & Space Technology, 16 November 1964, pp. 69-71.
One Man-Lunar Flying Vehicle Study Contract: Summary Briefing, Space Division, North American Rockwell, July 1969.
Study of One Man Lunar Flying Vehicle: Summary Report, Report No. 7335-950012, Bell Aerosystems Company, July 1969.
1967 Summer Study of Lunar Science and Exploration, NASA SP-157, NASA Headquarters Office of Technology Utilization, 1967.


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Electrical engineering
All spacecraft systems rely directly on electrical energy to activate and control them: Without electrical power, a satellite becomes nothing more than an inert piece of space junk.
The challenge of electrical engineering for space is that, apart from a few manned missions, all electrical systems must operate for sustained periods of time - sometimes up to 15 or 18 years - without any maintenance in the hostile environment of space.
To put this requirement in perspective, think how long a television set or a mobile phone lasts these days… For manned missions, where maintenance is at least partly possible, there is the additional issue of ensuring safety of life.
Key systems requiring electrical engineering on board a satellite - apart from the power supply itself based in most cases on solar arrays supported by batteries - are the intelligence of the satellite located in its processor and associated memory, the complex attitude control system with all its sensors and actuators, the telecommunication system exchanging commands and signals with the ground, including its antennas, and often a navigation system to precisely control the satellite's position in space.
Most often a satellite's scientific or commercial payload is also fully dependent on electrical power whether it be a radar, an altimeter, a sounder, a telescope or simply communication amplifiers for direct TV broadcasting.
Related engineering skills required, - apart from the design skills needed for all the elements mentioned above - also include a detailed understanding of varied facets of the space environment. These include radiation, cosmic rays, electrostatic charging and plasma effects as well as electromagnetic compatibility between electrical equipment, but also the effects of the terrestrial atmosphere and surface environment on the propagation of electromagnetic waves. ESTEC's 200-strong Electrical Engineering group provides support to ESA projects across these fields and also performs research and development to develop electrical technologies to enable future missions and anticipate their requirements.


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Study: Asthma Rates and Costs from Air Pollution Higher than Perceived
The cases of asthma, and the costs related to traffic related air pollution, are much higher than generally perceived, according to a study published in the early online version of the European Respiratory Journal.
Resource economist Sylvia Brandt, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, along with colleagues from California and Switzerland, revised the cost burden for asthma cases. For the first time they included childhood cases, and showed how many of these childhood cases were linked to air pollution.
The study was conducted in communities within Long Beach and Riverside, California, with high regional air pollution levels and large roads near residential neighborhoods.
The research team found that asthma caused by air-pollution in these neighborhoods, were about $18 million per year, and half of that amount was due to new cases of asthma caused by pollution.
Study results also revealed that a single episode of bronchitic symptoms cost an average of $972 in Riverside and $915 in Long Beach. Additionally, researchers say that those also living in large cities may share the same numerical outcome, compared to those people living in smaller cities that have less areas with pollution.
The overall annual cost for a typical asthma case was $3,819 in Long Beach and $4,063 in Riverside. "The largest share of the cost of an asthma case was the indirect cost of asthma-related school absences,"the authors write. "School absences are an important economic consequence, they add, because they often lead to parents or caregivers missing work."
Brandt states that families with children who have asthma are most impacted by these exorbitant costs.
"Families with children who have asthma are bearing a high cost. The total annual estimate between $3,800 and $4,000 represents seven percent of median household income in our study in these two communities. This is troublesome because that is higher than the five percent considered to be a bearable or sustainable level of health care costs for a family," said the authors, in a statement .
Both Riverside and Long Beach make up nearly seven percent of California's total population, said the authors. This further proves how "truly substantial" the costs of asthma really is, especially those cases related to air pollution.


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The DY-500 was a type of Earth starship that was utilized for early deep space exploration and colonization during the 22nd century. In use as early as 2102, this class was considerably more advanced than the older 20th century DY-100-class. (TOS: "Space Seed"; TNG: "Up The Long Ladder" okudagram)
The gross vehicle mass of these ships was 3,000 metric tons. These ships were equipped with Yoyodyne pulse fusion warp drives for propulsion, with a net delta-vee of 3.7 ×107 NVP. (TNG: "Up The Long Ladder" okudagram)
In 2267, Captain James T. Kirk mistook the DY-100-class SS Botany Bay for a DY-500-class vessel, but was corrected by Spock. (TOS: "Space Seed")
At least three sub-classes of this design were in service during the 2120s:
- The DY-500 subclass: The SS Mariposa was of this subclass
- The DY-500-B subclass: The HMS Lord Nelson was of this subclass
- The DY-500-C subclass: The SS Hokule'a was of this subclass
|DY-class starships
|DY-100: SS Botany Bay
|DY-245: SS Hatteras • DY-430: SS Urusei Yatsura
|DY-500: SS Mariposa · HMS Lord Nelson (DY-500-B) · SS Hokule'a (DY-500-C)
|DY-732: VK Yuri Gagarin · HMS New Zealand (DY-732 [N])
|DY-950: DEV Eagle Valley • DY-1200: VK Velikan
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The name of this ship type was mentioned in a list of ships that were launched from Earth, with destinations in or near to the Ficus sector, between the years 2123 and 2190. This list was displayed on Jean-Luc Picard's desk monitor in his ready room aboard the USS Enterprise-D. A legible version of the by Michael Okuda-created okudagram first appeared in the reference book Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission. The list became legible to viewers with the remastered "Up The Long Ladder".
Star Trek Maps states that the Woden was a DY-500-class ship. The side of the ship's hull was labeled SS Woden DY-504.
The 1979 reference book Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology depicts two 21st century spaceship versions of the DY-500-class ships, both of them designed by Rick Sternbach. There, they were also called the Wheeler class, and were described as an extensive upgrade to the DY-100 series. They were both similar to the canon 22nd century version, the so called "uprated" one, the most. In the book, these older sublight explorer ships were in use from 2019 to 2055, and powered by advanced fission.
Notwithstanding referenced to in Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission (p. 85) as being a homage to the DY-100-class of the original series, the DY-500 designation had already been used and depicted in The Spaceflight Chronology, and Okuda's interpretation of ten years later, was such a very close approximation of the (uprated) one depicted in that book (p. 35), that a homage to that work, as courtesy to friend and close co-worker Sternbach, can be considered the more likely explanation.
Given that the class predates the breaking of the warp 2 barrier in 2143, it was presumably slower than warp 2.
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The novel Prime Directive states that the main hulls of DY-500s were surplus submarine shells reconfigured to transport cryogenic cargo in space.
External link Edit
- DY-500 class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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PARIS, July 16 (UPI) -- The laser terminal guidance version of French company Sagem's air-to-ground Hammer weapon system has completed its first qualification firing test.
The Hammer air-to-ground modular weapon is comprised of various guidance and range-extension kits attached to a dumb bomb.
In the test, a Hammer weapon was dropped from a Rafale fighter. Its target was a bridge 31 miles distant, which was illuminated by an airborne illuminator in last few seconds of the bomb's flight, Sagem said.
"The AASM Hammer's guidance was deliberately initialized by offsetting the target's GPS coordinates by over 164 feet," Sagem said. "Thanks to its navigation, laser spot detection and terminal guidance algorithms, the AASM hit its target to within 3 feet."
The weapon was developed under a contract from the French defense procurement agency DGA.
Two other guidance versions of the weapon have already been qualified for deployment on Rafale fighters and delivery of the units is to begin this year.


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Gordon, Perez, Hosmer win Gold Glove Awards
Left fielder claims third in a row; backstop and first baseman first-timers
KANSAS CITY -- It's a historic first for the Royals as they celebrate three Rawlings Gold Glove Award winners -- catcher Salvador Perez, first baseman Eric Hosmer and left fielder Alex Gordon.
Gordon is on the American League squad of top defenders for the third straight time. Perez and Hosmer are first-time honorees. The winners were announced during Tuesday night's awards show on ESPN2.
Never before has the Kansas City franchise had three Gold Glove winners in one year. The Royals have had two on three occasions.
Two of the Royals' five 2013 nominees were not chosen. Shortstop Alcides Escobar and center fielder Lorenzo Cain each lost to repeat winners from the Orioles -- J.J. Hardy and Adam Jones, respectively.
The Royals and the Orioles each had three Gold Glove winners, the Red Sox two and the Blue Jays one.
Hosmer became the first player in Royals history to win a Gold Glove as a first baseman. Gordon joins Amos Otis (1971, 1973-74) as the only Royals outfielders to win three Gold Gloves. Perez is only the team's second catcher honored, joining Bob Boone in 1989.
"The thing that impresses me so much is I think these kids are only going to get better and better defensively," said Royals manager Ned Yost.
This is Gordon's third straight Gold Glove, making him just the second player in franchise history to win three years in a row. Second baseman Frank White won six straight years, 1977-82.
Gordon led AL left fielders with 341 total chances but made only one error. He led the AL with 17 outfield assists and now has a Major League best of 54 since 2011. Typical of his throws was a toss on Sept. 14 to Escobar, who relayed to Perez to nab the Tigers' Prince Fielder and end a 1-0 victory. Gordon tabbed that as his favorite play of the year.
"Just because we were in the middle of the chase in the Central Division ... it was a pretty special play for everyone, I think," Gordon said.
Diving catches and grabs against the wall also have become Gordon standbys. After breaking into the Majors at third base, he didn't switch to the outfield until 2010 during a stay with Triple-A Omaha.
The other AL candidates in left field were Oakland's Yoenis Cespedes and Detroit's Andy Dirks.
Hosmer succeeds 2012 winner Mark Teixeira of the Yankees, who missed most of the season with an injury.
Not only did Hosmer make just eight errors while handling 1,335 chances, second most in the AL at the position, but he led the league with 122 assists. That was 24 more assists than runner-up James Loney of the Rays and only the Orioles' Chris Davis had more total plays. They were the two other finalists at the position.
Digging throws out of the dirt is Hosmer's passion.
"The favorite thing for me is for Escobar to go in the hole and jump and throw it and then I dig it out to complete the play," Hosmer said. "The same with Moose [third baseman Mike Moustakas ] or any of the infielders. The infield itself prides itself on saving the pitchers runs and doing what we can so it's always a good feeling to see the teammate next to you make a good play and be the one to finish it off."
Perez led AL catchers with 71 assists and stymied 23 basestealing attempts for 35.2 percent. Pitchers had a 3.36 ERA when he was behind the plate and he added the ninth career pickoff of his career.
"You try to look at the catcher position as a quarterback for the team and he does a great job of calling the game," Yost said. "I'm just extremely pleased that he had the opportunity to win the Gold Glove. There were some great candidates that he beat out and it shows you where this young player is in his development."
A first-time All-Star along with Gordon this year, Perez had the honor of catching legendary closer Mariano Rivera's farewell to the Midsummer Classic. He won over previous winners Matt Wieters of the Orioles and Joe Mauer of the Twins.
Perez was traveling in Spain and couldn't join in a conference call with reporters.
In addition to the three Royals, Hardy and Jones, the AL team included second baseman Dustin Pedroia and right fielder Shane Victorino of the Red Sox, third baseman Manny Machado of the Orioles and pitcher R.A. Dickey of the Blue Jays.
The Royals have had more than one winner in the same year three times -- 1977, White and outfielder Al Cowens; 1980, White and outfielder Willie Wilson, and 1989, Boone and pitcher Bret Saberhagen.
All three of the Royals' winners this year came up through the team's Minor League system.
"Kansas City is a small-market team but for all these guys to be recognized like this just shows how good of a baseball team we have and how hard these guys work," Hosmer said.
As always, Major League managers and coaches did the Gold Glove balloting (they couldn't vote for their own players) but this year a new element was added. A sabermetrics statistical analysis of players' defensive abilities accounted for 25 to 30 percent of the decision making, according to Rawlings.
Fans now can vote online for each league's best top defensive player at www.rawlings.com with the Rawlings Platinum Glove winners to be announced Nov. 8 in New York.


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The late conservative writer William F. Buckley Jr. once said that "idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive."
That seems to be the political calculation being made by President Obama and his campaign team when it comes to opposing superPACs.
Team Obama reversed course late Monday when campaign manager Jim Messina urged donors to help pro-Obama superPACs raise supermoney, and said administration officials will be free to help with the fundraising.
The math was an apparent wake-up call for Democrats: Priorities USA Action, which was founded by two former Obama aides, pulled in just $4.4 million last year, while the superPAC supporting GOP front-runner Mitt Romney raked in nearly $18 million.
More broadly, new fundraising reports show pro-Republican superPACs have pulled well ahead of those supporting Democrats. The biggest GOP groups raised more than $50 million last year, while Democratic groups — including Priorities USA — garnered less than $20 million.
Obama's campaign had formerly kept Priorities USA at a distance as the president himself railed against the superPAC establishment.
The climb down from that perch has been a steep one.
Days after the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision that abolished some limits on campaign donations, Obama said in his State of the Union address — as the black-robed justices looked on — that the ruling had "reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections."
Six months later, as Obama pushed a bill that would have barred foreign funding in federal elections and firmed up disclosure requirements, he was even more explicit in his opposition, saying the court's ruling allowed the purchase of millions of dollars in political TV ads with no disclosure on who was paying for them.
"Now, imagine the power this will give special interests over politicians," he said. "Corporate lobbyists will be able to tell members of Congress if they don't vote the right way, they will face an onslaught of negative ads in their next campaign. And all too often, no one will actually know who's really behind those ads."
But Monday's missive from Messina said Democrats couldn't afford to "unilaterally disarm" as the GOP nominee enjoyed the fruits of unlimited spending. "Therefore," he wrote, "the campaign has decided to do what we can, consistent with the law, to support Priorities USA in its effort to counter the weight of the GOP Super PAC."
Obama himself laid the groundwork for the reversal during an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer that aired earlier Monday.
"If you ask me, would I love to take some of the big money out of politics, I would," the president said. "Unfortunately, right now, partly because of Supreme Court rulings and a bunch of decisions out there, it is very hard to be able to get your message out without having some resources."
In the end, there was essentially zero political upside to standing on principle and not trying to maximize campaign cash, says Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
"It was inevitable," he says. "As we begin to see the Romney general election take shape and the willingness of donors to contribute in denominations of millions of dollars to that effort, you can't ignore that reality.
"I would say this is all about pragmatism and political expediency."
While the superPAC about-face opens the president up to accusations of hypocrisy, it's more likely to hurt him with Democrats than Republicans, says Nathaniel Persily, a Columbia University professor who specializes in election law.
"It's not that [Obama] will pay a price from his Republican rivals, but that the good-government groups that otherwise support Obama might be uncomfortable with this."
Updated 3:15 p.m.
On Tuesday's All Things Considered, NPR's Peter Overby also notes that good-government groups have found "a bright spot" in the Obama campaign's statement that the president would back a constitutional amendment to undo Citizens United.
Overby also raises another question: "Will wealthy donors deliver" for Obama?
"There is this self-loathing relationship that Democrats seem to have with outside independent activity that has got to have an impact ... on donor attitudes," says Steven Law, head of American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, organizations founded by GOP strategist Karl Rove. The groups spent millions last year attacking Obama's policies.
As Overby notes, "it's those attitudes that the Obama campaign hopes to reverse, just nine months out from the election."
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Audie Cornish. President Obama and his re-election team have reversed course. They're now encouraging big donors to finance a pro-Obama superPAC. The president has, up to now, scorned the unregulated money that superPACs have been able to raise since 2010 and the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision.
NPR's Peter Overby reports that the change came in response to conservative groups raising tens of millions of dollars for the presidential election.
PETER OVERBY, BYLINE: Ben LaBolt, the Obama campaign's press secretary, said the campaign couldn't fight a battle with two sets of rules.
BEN LABOLT: In which the Republican nominee benefits from unlimited spending, and Democrats unilaterally disarm.
OVERBY: He took a swipe at two conservatives in particular, billionaires David and Charles Koch. They've been rallying other wealthy donors for an anti-Obama effort.
LABOLT: We can't allow oil billionaires to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on TV attacking the president so that they can maintain their tax breaks and their subsidies for themselves.
OVERBY: One group supported by the Kochs, the Tax Exempt Americans for Prosperity, ran nearly $6 million worth of TV ads in 2011. And serious money also flows to the superPACs in multiples of 500,000 or a million dollars from the wealthy, corporations and unions. But the pro-Obama PAC hasn't been a player. Last year, Priorities USA Action raised just $4.4 million.
Two-thirds of the cash came from two donors, film producer Jeffrey Katzenberg and the Service Employees International Union. But the rules that keep campaigns and superPACS from coordinating their ads don't apply to the fundraising side and now, the Obama campaign's finance team is free to help Priorities USA Action. Administration officials are being called on as well although the president, vice president, and their wives will keep their distance.
Again, Ben LaBolt.
LABOLT: Let me be very clear on what campaign officials and White House officials and Cabinet officials will be doing. They will not be soliciting funds. They'll solely be expressing support for the Priorities superPAC and its mission, which is to re-elect the president.
OVERBY: Pragmatic as it may be to embrace the superPAC, it runs counter to a position that President Obama took in 2010. That was when he blasted the Citizens United decision. It came in a State of the Union address, with several Supreme Court justices sitting there just weeks after they had handed down the ruling.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people.
OVERBY: Mr. Obama is a longtime advocate of tighter rules for political money, but four years ago, he rejected public financing, the first major party nominee ever to do so. His would-be allies in the reform fight today expressed disappointment.
DAVID DONNELLY: We think this was an inevitable move, although not a great one.
OVERBY: David Donnelly is director of the Public Campaign Action Fund.
DONNELLY: I think President Obama's record on reform issues has fallen short from the rhetoric that he laid out in his campaign in 2008. There's no question about that.
OVERBY: The good government groups did find a bright spot. The campaign says Mr. Obama would back a constitutional amendment, quote, "if need be," unquote, to undo Citizens United. At the campaign, Ben LaBolt says grassroots supporters want a superPAC to counter big spending conservative groups. But here's another question. Will the wealthy donors deliver?
At least one fundraising expert is skeptical. Steven Law is head of American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, organizations co-founded by GOP strategist Karl Rove. Crossroads GPS spent millions last year attacking Mr. Obama's policies. Law said this in an interview last week.
STEVEN LAW: There is this self-loathing relationship that Democrats seem to have with outside independent activity that has got to have an impact, I think, on donor attitudes.
OVERBY: And it's those attitudes that the Obama campaign hopes to reverse just nine months out from the election. Peter Overby, NPR News, Washington. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Deborah Rubin, program assistant, at Penn State, The Lancaster Center, was honored with a Commission for Adult Learners Annual Recognition for her work with adult students at Penn State, The Lancaster Center. Rubin received the award during the 2014 Hendricks Best Practices Conference held last month in the HUB – Robeson Center at the University Park campus.
Rubin was nominated for the recognition by Karen Sheehe, director of continuing education at Penn State York and The Lancaster Center.
"Debbie Rubin has shown exceptional student-centered work in her career at Penn State, The Lancaster Center." said Sheehe. "She has been instrumental in the very long-term support (more than 10 years) of a group of part-time adult learners in Lancaster, who have completed their associate degree in business at The Lancaster Center, and are now on the path to complete their bachelor of science in business degree."
Rubin scheduled courses, provided basic advising, personally delivered textbooks, and basically served as the single point-of-contact at Penn State for this group of adult learners, who began their academic career taking courses on-site at Alcoa in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Alcoa is a leader in the production of common alloy products, specializing in aluminum sheet and cast plate.
At the commencement ceremony at Penn State York where these students received their associate degrees, each one personally thanked Rubin at the microphone for her help and friendship.
In addition to working with this group of students from Alcoa and completing a variety of office duties, Rubin also provided support to other adult learners taking both credit and noncredit courses.
According to Sheehe, Rubin contacted students to remind them to register for courses and kept in touch on a regular basis to encourage them to complete a degree.
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Diego Maradona says: "Believe In God. Invest In Gold".
Kind reader KF sends in a cutting of the Gulf Times newspaper dated January 14th 2014.
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He also sends his love. All told looks like Diego is enjoying his time over there, fringe benefits and all. Here's the page with the date/time and the top of the same ad, for reference purposes:
This weekend...
...The IKN Weekly will propose three trades to its subscribers, including the world's most obvious mining short. And as from Tuesday, the blog will be back to its normal schedule. That's all.
Carpathian (CPN.to) lays down a marker for 2014 Junior News Release of the Year Award
The truly great NRs from juniors, which set them apart from the mere ridicule-worthy, should have style (i.e. corporate bullshit right to the end) and substance (i.e. plenty of things disclosed that the company would much rather keep away from public eyes). This morning's from Carpathian Gold (CPN.to) is an excellent example of its genre. Personally, I think the highlight is the way that the CEO's resignation is first mentioned in paragraph ten, but there are so many jewels in this one that it's tough to keep up.
I'll be reading this link several times. Thanks guys, you've made my Friday.
UPDATE: Impressively, CPN is only down 22% on the open. This implies there are enough people out there that think this company's still worth nearly $50m in market cap, which should probably be attributed to the true triumph of human imagination over the planet's sometimes harsh reality. It's evolution, baby.
UPDATE: Impressively, CPN is only down 22% on the open. This implies there are enough people out there that think this company's still worth nearly $50m in market cap, which should probably be attributed to the true triumph of human imagination over the planet's sometimes harsh reality. It's evolution, baby.
In other news
100% agreed with VancVenture on Timmins Gold (TMM.to) (TGD). In the same vein, I chuckled at Torex (TXG.to) and its A-Team of Canadian rockstars grasping at the first window to pull in their favours with BMO and run a $125m bot deal yesterday.
Iwnattos guesses at the price that Rio Alto (RIO.to) (RIOM) might pull back to now that the hot money jocks have had their fun. Personally I don't have the slightest clue, but his at least sounds logical (in that special charty way).
Biiwii had a darned good rant this morning about the new crop of stupid goldtalk coming from the mainstream. Well worth your time, a reminder of just how little the market movers know and why it pays to listen to them...then fade the dumbasses.
Lastly, the important stuff: Here's a photo taken by your humble scribe last week of cocoa beans drying in a tinytown main square, northern Peru.
It was a hot day.
I thought First Majestic (FR.to) (AG) was underperforming the market, but...
...it's not really.
Sitting in a park and the kids are doing an Arabian Dance workshop, which has given your humble scribe a pleasant and sunny little catch-up time with the market. I had this impression that First Majestic (FR.to) (AG), for so long a leading junior producer, was underperforming somewhat in this sector rebound but as things turn out (I hope that chart is representative enough) it's not doing that badly as it depends more on what you're comparing it to. Tinycap producers such as IMPACT Silver (IPT.v) have bounced hard and Fortuna (FVI.to) (FSM) is flavour of the week all of a sudden (sidebar: now looks overbought). Then come a raft of names and then the GDXJ junior producer ETF. Only then do we have FR.to, but check out the other company that's performed virtually identically, Pan American (PAA.to) (PAAS). And +15% may not be as stellar as FVI, but it's still nothing to be sniffed at after less than a month's action.
There's the rub, methinks: This market has changed its attitude towards FR.to and these days it's being counted amongst the big and established silver producer names, not the growth or smallcap end of the sector. Or put more simply, First Majestic Silver is all grown up.
By the way I didn't include Argonaut Gold (AR.to) on that chart, now negative 3% on 2014 year-to-date. Toldya it sucked.
The only chart you need to understand junior mining newsletter writers
IKN yet again puts in front of its esteemed readership the only chart you need to remember when reading or listening to the opinions of the good for nothing bunch of market parasites and charlatans known to the world as junior mining newsletter writers:
And don't you ever forget it.
Argonaut Gold (AR.to) is the best indication of the sudden bullishness in juniors
That's because even its pisspoor 4q13 and woeful guidance for 2014 only dropped this wildly overpriced gold stock by 4.89% today. Two weeks ago they'd have been lucky to get away with minus 20% on the session. Seriously crappy quarter from AR.to.
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Thursday, January 29, 2009
RISD Lecture
First of all, I made it onto Lines and Colors, one of my favorite blogs. It was a very nice e-mail to come home to after a very long day. Thank you to Mr. Parker for helping to promote my upcoming lecture. It is truly an honor.
Thursday was busy. It was one of those day where you don't realize how much you've packed into your schedule until you take your shoes off upon entering your home. I had the privilege of accompanying my roommate, R. Kikuo Johnson, to the Rhode Island School of Design (where we originally met). He is currently teaching a wintersession comics class and invited me to give a lecture and demonstration, which was a wonderful experience. The kids (mostly freshmen) were eager and talented, and seemed to really enjoy the class. Because of the intimate environment, the small group also served as a sounding board for my talk on color, which I'm still composing.
Included in my slideshow was the above image, something I completed at the same point in my life: wintersession of my freshmen year (a whopping 9 years ago). The heavily Photoshopped illustration was the first thing I did for Jim Krueger, who put a lot of faith in me very early on. I actually just talked to him just the other day and am looking forward to seeing him again at the New York Comic Con.
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- AnonymousTuesday, February 03, 2009
Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but isn't the chick who is getting healed my roommate Vicky? It looks just like her.ReplyDelete
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Christina, you are absolutely right! I probably still have the photo reference somewhere. There are some other familiar faces in there as well. Recognize anybody else?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousWednesday, February 04, 2009
Snejina (sp?) on the far left and your freshman year roomie (gah, I can't recall his name, I want to say Jeremy) on the right. I feel like a weenie for not remembering exactly, but of course I remember that Vicky said he looked like Ricky Martin. Correct me if I'm wrong!ReplyDelete
You are right on all accounts. It's Anthony, by the way, and yes, as soon as I met him, I thought he looked like Ricky Martin.ReplyDelete
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Whenever Apple runs a big iTunes promotion, like the Pepsi or Starbucks promotions, you can bet that we're all going to hear about it. Apple also runs a number of smaller promotions that you may never hear about, such as its fairly recent Japanese iTunes promotion or an older Piccadilly Circus one. One area where the company hasn't done a lot of partnerships is education, although that seems to be changing. Stanford University's Lively Arts is partnering with iTunes to provide free music to the Stanford community.
According to the announcement, Lively Arts will be providing a 10-song sampler card to anyone attending one of its performances between January 25 and March 15. The group is planning to mail sampler cards to faculty, staff, and students, and will also make them available to customers at various campus stores (although with textbook prices these days, they should be giving away more than 10 songs). The track list for the samplers is pretty cool, and includes music from Wynton Marsalis and Blind Boys of Alabama.
Lively Arts seems to be hip to the new technology, and even brought in an artist who uses iPods as part of his performance. The Lively Arts giveaway isn't the first of its kind, however: The University of Illinois' performing arts center ran a similar promotion in 2007. Even so, these sampler cards seem like a good way to get more people listening to the group's music. It's hard for students to resist free stuff (although I drew the line at a few of those Facebook downloads), especially if they can get it from a source they probably use already, and the cards are a nice bonus for patrons as well. Let's hope more schools follow Illinois' and Stanford's leads.


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Wabash earned three first place votes and were picked to finish second in at the end of the 2005 North Coast Athletic Conference football standings by the NCAC coaches and media.
The Little Giants, coming off of a 4-3 conference mark and 6-4 overall in 2004, received 83 votes in the coaches poll. Wittenberg (7-3, 5-2 in 2004) picked up 96 points, including six first place votes, to earn the top spot in poll. Ohio Wesleyan (5-5, 5-2) took the final first place vote to finish third with 76 points. Defending conference champion Wooster (11-1, 7-0) was selected fourth (71 points). Allegheny (5-5, 4-3), Denison (6-4, 4-3), Earlham (4-6, 3-4), Oberlin (1-9, 1-6), Kenyon (2-8, 2-5), and Hiram (0-10, 0-7) round out the poll.
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After both ballots were released, Little Giant Coach Chris Creighton said his team's seniors will be the key to the Wabash season. "I really believe they can be the difference," the fifth-year coach said. "We have almost all of our starters returning on the offensive line. We have a talented receiving corps, and great quarterbacks coming back along with nine starters on defense.
"Our concern is we're coming off a tail spin, losing four of our last five games last season, so we're going to empower our juniors and seniors to get us off to a good start."
Wabash opens the 2005 football season September 10 at home against Kalamazoo College.
2005 NCAC Football Coaches Poll
1. Wittenberg (6)...............................96
2. Wabash (3)...................................83
3. Ohio Wesleyan (1).........................76
4. Wooster........................................71
5. Allegheny......................................68
6. Denison........................................48
7. Earlham........................................43
8. Oberlin.........................................28
9. Kenyon.........................................25
10. Hiram...........................................12
2005 NCAC Media Poll
1. Wittenberg (21)............................255
2. Wabash (2)..................................219
3. Ohio Wesleyan (3)........................210
4. Wooster.......................................183
5. Allegheny.....................................163
6. Denison.......................................127
7. Earlham.......................................100
8. Kenyon..........................................75
9. Oberlin..........................................66
10. Hiram...........................................32