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For Further Reading
Brandeis Alumni Admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States
President Frederick Lawrence and Ethics Center Director Dan Terris recently attended a session admitting Brandeis Alumni to the bar of the Supreme Court. President Lawrence himself presented the motion for their admission for the second year. He notes that Brandeis is the only university without a law school in the country to organize the admission of alumni before the Supreme Court in his remarks on his blog, which can be read here.
Learning from the Past: the Judicial Philosophy of Louis Brandeis
Richard Gaskins, director of the Brandeis University Legal Studies Program, academic program director of the Brandeis in the Hague program and member of the Ethics Center's Faculty Advisory Committee, reflects on the University's namesake, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Louis Brandeis, and his relevance to national and international law today. From the 2012 BIIJ report, accessible here.
Law and Justice at Brandeis
The University has established a wide array of law and justice programs, both on campus and off campus, that reflect the spirit of our namesake, Supreme Court Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis. Many Brandeis alums go on to study and practice law.
Brandeis University's law and justice programs include:
This interdepartmental program presents law in the broad context of history, economics, politics, philosophy, literature and the sciences, and traces law's impact within the fields of health, business, environment and creative arts. The scope of legal concerns ranges from the local to the national and global.
Brandeis Institute for International Judges at the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life
Brandeis University and the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life have become known in the international legal field for innovative work with the international judiciary, particularly the Brandeis Institute for International Judges (BIIJ). Brandeis undergraduates may serve as interns with the BIIJ. The Center also sponsors programs for judges and legal practitioners worldwide, including the Brandeis Judicial Colloquia.
International Justice in the News
The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life publishes the monthly e-letter International Justice in the News. Brandeis undergraduates serve as assistant editors.
This intensive study abroad experience was the only one of its kind for undergraduates. While in The Hague, students studied a wide range of global concerns, combining classroom study and immersion in the international law networks associated with this famous "International City of Peace and Justice."
The Justice Brandeis Innocence Project
Housed at The Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project was established to make a contribution to resolving the untenable ethical, civil and human rights issues created by wrongful convictions. It is one of the few innocence projects around the country that uses journalistic methods as a primary tool.
The Advocacy for Policy Change Initiative
The Advocacy for Policy Change initiative, supported by generous multi-year commitments from International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life board member Norbert Weissberg and his wife, former board member Judith Schneider, is designed to encourage citizens to bring moral and ethical insights to the process of making and revising laws. The centerpiece of this initiative focuses on Brandeis undergraduate students, through "Advocacy for Policy Change" (LGLS 161b), a Legal Studies Program course that combines an investigation of the ethical dilemmas that arise in the process of lawmaking with hands-on advocacy work with entities seeking reform.
The HBI Project on Gender, Culture Religion and the Law
The Hadassah-Brandeis Institute Project on Gender, Culture Religion and the Law (GCRL) supports research that seeks to reconcile women's' rights to gender equality and discriminatory practices justified by religious law. The Project uses campus events such as annual conferences, weekly seminars and the annual Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights to study and research these themes across many religions. The Project also brings visiting scholars, activists, lawyers and judges to Brandeis to discuss their inspiring work. The GCRL hosts graduate and undergraduate summer interns and sponsors an annual student writing prize on Jewish gender studies.
Louis D. Brandeis Legacy Fund for Social Justice
Since its establishment in 2006, the Legacy Fund has sponsored a series of initiatives designed to help students, enrich the University community, and address social justice concerns on and off campus. The Louis D. Brandeis Legacy Fund for Social Justice WOW (World of Work) Fellowships provide 30 students a year with generous stipends to alleviate costs associated with unpaid, full-time summer internships within agencies whose missions address issues of social justice.
Environmental Health and Justice - A Justice Brandeis Semester program
In this hands-on, multi-disciplinary, community-engaged learning Justice Brandeis Semester program, students become deeply immersed in the law, policy, social impacts and science of current environmental health issues challenging individuals, families and communities today. Students work directly with low-income, diverse populations most affected by environmental challenges - toxic exposures in food, soils, air and water; decisions about location of hazardous waste facilities; access to environmentally safe and affordable housing and others. Along with strong grounding in the academic material, participants spend much of the time in the field and in the community, acquiring real skills for real neds to engage in these issues first-hand: legal training, negotiation, advocacy, interviewing and counseling, environmental field monitoring and assessment, study design, sampling methodology and analysis, oral presentation and more.

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The old London Routemaster bus is as much a British icon as a bowler hat or an MG TC. A radical new version of the classic has just been unveiled, bringing a serious dose of modern design to Trafalgar Square.
The bus is still a red double-decker, but the shape — all angles wrapped around curves — could hardly be more different than the classic Routemaster. The design was based on submissions by Aston Martin's styling crew and architect Norman Foster, and finalized by the avant-garde Heatherwick Studios. Wrightbus will build the new hybrid-powered people mover in Northern Ireland. Limited service is scheduled to start in time for the Olympics this summer.
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Revolution's seventh episode was one of those where the flashbacks far outshined the main story line. "The Children's Crusade" finally gave us a much-awaited glimpse at the story behind the notorious blackout. Check out what we learned and seven other burning questions. [Spoilers ahead]
Where it all began: Creator Eric Kripke wasn't joking around when he said he'd answer questions quickly. Only seven episodes in and Revolution has already revealed the cause behind the blackout (well, to an extent).
Through flashbacks, we see that Ben (Tim Guinee), Rachel (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Grace (Maria Howell) were part of a start-up the couple conceived to attempt to generate clean, low-cost electricity. But, lo and behold, they accidentally discovered a way to inhibit all electricity! (Those crazy scientists. Can't they get anything right?)
Revolution: Is the Militia Really That Evil? We Aren't Buying It!
In a moment dripping with irony, Ben insists to Rachel that a contract with the Department of Defense is the only option for the struggling company. "Another month, we won't be able to keep the lights on," Ben tells his wife, thankfully unable to hear my amused chuckles.
And though Rachel resists selling the technology to the government, it appears her opposition didn't last too long.
Is a conscription cruise all inclusive? In a reveal that made me even more sympathetic towards the militia's low-level soldiers, we learn the organization has made a habit of taking children and teens against their will to gather them onto a huge boat. But this isn't your average cruise. Instead of unlimited booze and "Copacabana" covers, all the conscripted kids get is a whole lot of brainwashing! Can we really blame them from becoming sadistic soldiers after that kind of adolescence?
Who Is Rachel? Revolution's Elizabeth Mitchell Opens Up About Her Mysterious Character
You can't save everyone (but sometimes you can save one): Charlie (Tracy Spiridakos) finally rescues a brother from the militia! It's not her brother, but it's still better than no brothers, right?
After stumbling upon a community of orphaned children, the plucky protagonist convinces Miles (Billy Burke) to help them rescue their leader Peter from the militia's kiddie cruise. But don't think just because Miles agreed to this mission he's gone soft on us. The former militia man is only trying to alleviate his own guilt since the children were orphaned under his rule.
Rachel really stepped in it this time: Rachel's morals have always been questionable, but Monday's episode didn't pack any punches when painting the matriarch in an unflattering light. In order to save Danny, Rachel continues doing her best to help Monroe, all the while trying to keep collateral damage to a minimum. Unfortunately, this strategy backfires when she tries to save one of her old co-workers Brad, only to have the militia take his daughter hostage. In a moment that had me cheering, Brad was able to get a few choice words in before Neville had him hauled him off. "There's worse things than dying," Brad scolds Rachel, "like betraying all your friends." Oh, snap! Can't say she didn't deserve it though.
Marked for life: In one of Revolution's most cringe-worthy scenes yet, poor Charlie is branded with the militia's mark while undercover. But hey, that might prove useful in the future the next time she encounters some random soldiers on the road! Just trying to stay positive here.
Revolution: The Trouble with Charlie
And on the seventh day, Aaron said "Let there be light(house):" Remember in "Sex and Drugs" when Aaron (Zak Orth) showed he isn't completely useless? Apparently, that was a fluke. In "The Children's Crusade," Aaron was back to his old doltish ways after accidentally turning on the pendant while hiding out. But instead of turning on some Marvin Gaye or Maggie's iPhone, he caused an entire lighthouse beacon to spring to life! How are you going to explain that one to the neighbors?
Just blame Danny: Charlie and Rachel's entire lives post-blackout seem to be about saving Danny from the militia, sickness, and everything else under the sun. And from what we've seen, this hasn't gone too well for anyone involved. On Monday, we learned that Danny's been making a habit of wreaking havoc all the way since the womb.
After a worrisome diagnosis from the doctor, Rachel's afraid her unborn son won't survive. Unfortunately for her (and apparently the entire world) the Department of Defense jumps at the chance to manipulate what we can only imagine is a contract for the blackout-inducing technology from the distraught mother.
Randall revealed: In a not so shocking reveal, we learn Grace's mysterious kidnapper Randall is none other than the slimy Department of Defense secretary mentioned above. And though I'm not shocked at who Randall turned out to be (the dude screamed evil in flashbacks), I am excited to watch the series connect the dots from the impending contract to the current hostage situation.
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Policy on Acceptable Use of the Amherst College Electronic Environment
The College maintains an electronic environment that includes a network, server systems, telephones, voicemail, and computers for faculty, staff and students. This environment is maintained to further the academic and administrative work of the College, and those uses take precedence over any others.
Restrictions on Use
The College's Electronic Accounts Policy defines the conditions under which individuals are given the privilege of using this environment. In general, users are expected to conform to the same standards of conduct when using this environment as are applicable to the use of other College facilities. The examples given below are illustrative, and are not intended to cover all possibilities. There will be a need for exceptions in some circumstances. Consult the Director of Information Technology with questions about specific activities or exceptions. Each account is provided for the use of a specific individual, and may not be shared with or lent to others. Individuals are expected to take reasonable precautions to prevent others from using their accounts. Examples of violations include
- giving an account password to another person,
- logging in to one's account at a public computer, then leaving without logging out, and
- providing access to the campus network to others.
The Statement of Intellectual Responsibility and the Statement of Respect for Persons apply to the use of the electronic environment. Examples of violations of those standards include
- sending harassing or threatening messages,
- using the network to participate in plagiarism,
- interfering with another person's files, accounts or coursework, and
- sending "junk email" - email sent to large lists of people without a reasonable expectation that they wish to receive it.
Use of the electronic environment may not violate federal, state, or local law, including the laws of defamation, forgery, copyright/trademark infringement, and harassment. Examples include
- installing copyrighted software on a College computer without paying the required fees, and
- distributing copyrighted work without permission.
Use of the College's electronic environment for commercial purposes not relevant to the mission of the College is prohibited, unless specifically authorized in writing by the Director of Information Technology. Examples include
- operating a business from a dormitory or office that uses the College's electronic environment,
- fund raising and advertising using the College's electronic environment by groups or individuals other than officially recognized campus organizations, and
- creating a website on the College server that sells items for personal profit.
Account owners may not engage in any activity that may reasonably be expected to be harmful to the systems operated by the College or a third party, or to information stored upon them. Examples include
- participating in the breaking of security on a computer system regardless of whether it is owned by the College or by some third party, and
- disrupting service on a computer system by sending automated messages which tie up the computer.
Common resources, such as network bandwidth, are to be shared by all members of the College community. Individuals may not engage in activities that might reasonably be expected to cause congestion of the network, or prevent others from making reasonable use of the College's electronic resources, or incapacitate, compromise, or damage the College's electronic resources. Examples include
- operating network servers that consume more than a fair share of bandwidth,
- funning programs that cause network congestion, and
- sending "junk" email.
Enforcement Provisions
Violations of these conditions for the use of this environment are subject to the investigative and disciplinary procedures of the College, with the Director of Information Technology acting in an advisory role. The Office of the Dean of Students usually handles complaints against students. The Office of the Dean of the Faculty usually handles complaints against faculty. Complaints against staff and administrators are usually handled through supervisors and Human Resources. The Electronic Accounts Policy does provide for a small number of accounts for individuals who are neither students nor employees of the College; the Director of Information Technology will handle these cases, with consultation with the College administration as appropriate.
Limitation of Privileges Pending Judicial Process
In addition, in some cases, the College must act more immediately to protect its interests and resources (including the electronic environment and the data stored in it) or the rights and safety of others. The Director of Information Technology, or in his or her absence a delegate within Information Technology staff, has the authority to suspend or limit account privileges and access in those situations. When an account is suspended in this way, the Director of Information Technology or the delegate shall notify the appropriate office who will handle the complaint, and will attempt to notify the account owner. Account suspension under these conditions is temporary while the complaint is handled through the normal investigative and disciplinary procedures of the College.


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London Producer Ben Macklin is having a really prolific six months. Not only has his main outfit, Cassette Club come back in style, but this new solo release, featuring the vocals of Yota (Lifelike/Zoo Brazil/DLG), come hot on the heals of his Sometimes collaboration with Vern. His latest single, Controller, also comes with a reMix by the aforementioned Cassette Club, which he is generously giving away for free.
The Cassette Club reMix of Controller is a lush slice of urban Dreamwave. A warm, dreamy Disco track with a smokey, inner-city vibe, the track rolls along intertwining Yota's ethereal vocal with vintage pads and razor sharp leads atop a sturdy dancefloor groove. As well as a slightly Italo Funk, this tune has a mysterious quality to it. One that captures all the promise of summer nights in the city with it's infectious bassline and it;s beat that won't sleep. One for the nightowls.
♫ Ben Macklin & Yota – Controller (Cassette Club Night reMix)
Controller is out soon and also features a reMix from Popular Computer.
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It feels like Christmas for the country's legal marijuana stores today. Not only Christmas but all other holidays rolled in to one one smoky party known as 420.
April 20 has for a long time been a day full of civil disobedience by marijuana users, who assemble in public to light up weed at 4:20 p.m. The phrase "420" is a longtime code for marijuana users, who work it into dating profiles or post it on signs to show their common interest. But while it used to be a celebration held using a particular degree of furtiveness, the swiftly growing legalization of cannabis means an increasing number of Americans no longer face critical, if any, punishment for smoking weed.
All states that have legalized medical or recreational marijuana also have prohibited public consumption, but those rules in many cases are dismissed on April 20, when crowds assemble on college campuses and central parks to light up. That means huge sales days for shops, particularly in states with operating marijuana marketplaces: Washington, Oregon and Colorado, which could see single-day 420 sales of $20 million.
One of Colorado's largest marijuana stores, the Medicine Man, anticipated to see more than double the regular number of customers each day Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
Legalization activists usually stage stunts along with the 420 celebrations.
In Washington, D.C., for example, activists are planning to give out 1,000 marijuana cigarettes to Capitol Hill workers and members of Congress, and then hold a mass "smoke-in" on the Capitol steps Monday. They're attempting to convince Congress to reauthorize a law prohibiting federal prosecutors from interfering with state-level medical marijuana programs and are also seeking clarity on the way in which the Trump administration will approach voter-approved recreational weed.
While the District of Columbia's voters have approved recreational marijuana, Congress has prohibited the district from creating any kind of system to allow taxable sales.
In Washington state, marijuana sales are anticipated to easily top last year's quantity of $4.8 million from April 20, 2016. And the 2016 numbers themselves represented a staggering 200% increase over 2015. According to New Frontier, making a year-to-year comparisons of marijuana sales is challenging since the industry is very fresh and growing so rapidly and because people frequently celebrate 420 on the weekend closest to it, as opposed to the actual day.
But for a lot of customers, there's an undeniable appeal to say that they purchased legal marijuana for that special day. In Colorado's cannabis shops, the demand was evident Wednesday: lines snaking through receptions and guards accumulating cash as harried workers raced to complete orders. Many hotels in Denver are sold out, and cannabis tourists were pouring into the state for free concerts and then a gigantic rally outside the Statehouse.
In Nevada, which recently legalized recreational marijuana, even if they still only have stores for medical marijuana, business was likewise expected to be lively.
In Oakland, Calif, marijuana-infused sweets manufacturer Kiva made 60,000 special-edition samples of the company's low-dose Petra mints and plans to hold 55 sampling occasions around the state this week. And in Tulare County, Calif.'s, only dispensary, Canna Can Help, workers have purchased 1,000 tacos for their planned customer appreciation day this weekend.
Back inside the Medicine Man in Denver, first-time cannabis tourists pronounced themselves astounded at the available variety and choices. Grams of popular forms were selling for $17 plus tax, and like many shops, Medicine Man was offering 420 specials intended for tourists, including pre-rolled joints.


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Home > All celebration cakes. > Formal occasions. > Flowers / Roses - Click on picture for more info
CPI-791 -Topped with Roses
This cake looks wonderful at any celebration.
You can choose a colour theme for the flowers..
This is a fondant iced cake so you can choose your own colours.
Price includes writing a message on the board and up to ten candles.
This cake will keep for 2-3 days from purchased and should not be stored in the fridge.
Deliveries are Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm
The cake can be ordered for delivery on Friday and will keep fresh all weekend.
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We only use free range eggs.
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There is no doubt that the proliferation of computers and especially data centers containing hundreds or thousands of servers has dramatically increased energy consumption around the world over the past fifteen or twenty years. It has been reported that some data centers are not able to expand due to a lack of power, especially in California, where energy costs are high.
In a previous post on the subject of the Microsoft Update process, I wrote that we have the employees in our company always leave their computers on. I explained that there were at least three reasons for this:
- To facilitate the Microsoft patch update process
- To allow the weekly Symantec anti-virus scans to run
- To ensure that IT staff can access the computers via Remote Desktop
A Tech Republic subscriber, Michael Burgess suggested that a policy of leaving computes on 24/7/365 is simply not environmentally friendly. He wrote: "I am concerned that when you leave your computers on; do you leave them on all of the time or just when you are doing an update? Doing this consumes a ton of power, ac, not to mention security issues." I concur that leaving computers on like this all over the world consumes a lot of power.
As I replied, "This has been a major argument, and I mean argument, for as long as I have been supporting computers. There are two camps on this issue. The subject is worthy of a well-researched post, which I may just do if I can't find one already written here on Tech Republic." I have researched the subject on Tech Republic and found a few posts.
- Andy Moon wrote about Tech giants going green back in June of 07. The post received two comments.
- Arun Radhackrishnan wrote that Green is the flavor of the season also in June of 07. Four comments.
- Arun pointed us to an Online carbon footprint and power consumption calculator in Dec 07. No comments.
There are a few other posts but that's typical of the response to green computing posts - just not much interest. So unless you have something to add about the environmental impact of leaving computers on all the time, I would prefer to direct the dialog to answer this question: "Is it OK to leave my computer on all the time?"
Take a minute to familiarize yourself with the arguments from both camps as found in the article above or this one. Now think about each of these components involved: heat generation, fans, ball bearings, lubrication, power supplies, sleep mode, boot-up time, CRT vs LCD, hard drives, lightning, surge protection, chip temp, electricity.
Now convincingly argue your side. I am on the side of leaving computers on all the time. I have already given you my main reasons at the beginning of the post. There are others. More facts: We have a dozen servers and about 120 computers. I think this is typical of a small business but I am curious about the policy in large business. Ready? Go!


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Crime Prevention:
Conflict Resolution
Bullies: A Serious Problem for Kids
Bullying behavior may seem rather insignificant compared to kids bringing guns to school and getting involved with drugs. Bullying is often dismissed as part of growing up. But it's actually an early form of aggressive, violent behavior.
Conflict Management
Frustrated? Irritated? Angry? Ready to explode? You're not alone. Whether it's an argument with a friend, aggravation because a driver cut in front of you, or rage because your ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend is going out with your best friend, conflict is part of everyday life. Anger leads to conflict, produces stress, hurts friendships, and can lead to violence. We can't always avoid anger or conflict, but we can learn to manage it without violence.
Power Tripping
Bullying is repeated and unnecessary aggressive behavior, or quite simply, unprovoked meanness. It's a form of intimidation, behavior designed to threaten or frighten or to get someone to do something they wouldn't normally do. Bullies have learned that bullying works. They do it to feel powerful and in control. There are things you can do to deal with the situation without making things worse.


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Gaming SDK. Create ActionScript games.
The Adobe Gaming SDK provides an essential collection of frameworks, code samples and learning resources that work together to help developers create and deliver ActionScript games across multiple devices.
Open source frameworks
- Starling (ActionScript 3.0 open source library for optimised performance)
- Feathers (lightweight, skinnable and extensible UI comps powered by Starling)
- Away3D (open source 3D graphics engine written in ActionScript 3.0)
- DragonBones (2D skeleton animation framework)
iOS native AIR extensions
- Game Centre, Stage Ad, Social, In-App Purchase and Beta Testing
Away Builder workflow tool
- A visual workflow tool created for both designers and developers
- Simplifies the creation of complicated 3D scenes
- Companion application for the open source Away3D framework that allows for importing and staging of 3D assets including models, materials, effects and more
ATF tools
- Customised file format used by Stage3D to utilise compressed textures
- Memory optimisation on desktop and mobile devices
- Especially valuable for Stage3D developers
- Framework for Adobe AIR APIs
- Game controller input APIs
- Template for the Adobe AIR application instal badge
- Command-line Adobe AIR Debug Launcher (ADL)
- Command-line Adobe AIR Developer Tool (ADT)
Documentation and samples
- Code and project samples to help you to learn how to use the tools
- Documentation of the APIs for the iOS native extensions
Get started with the Gaming SDK.
Find video tutorials from experts at Adobe and our learning partners. Explore our collection of hundreds of Adobe Creative Cloud tutorials. Learn core skills, stay current with new features and discover advanced techniques.


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This year we will see both state and federal governments flip from having huge surpluses to having deficits.
Bear with me for this one issue while I go off on a non-agricultural tangent. Growing up on a farm in Indiana, now some 30 years ago, I can still remember my father and neighbors talking about how the "rich" avoid paying taxes. With the tax laws of that time, that was, to a large extent, true. But changes in tax laws in recent years, such as reducing accelerated depreciation schedules and eliminating investment tax credit, no longer allow the wealthy to avoid paying taxes. In fact, as the table shows, the opposite is the situation today.
When looking at the table, two interesting facets of the recent presidential campaign quickly come to mind. Gore was attacking Bush for wanting to give tax cuts to the wealthy, and both were debating on what they were going to do with the huge government surpluses.
To begin with, if any tax cuts are given, they'll obviously have to be to the wealthy, because that is where the taxes are now being paid. It's frightening to recognize that 2% of the population accounted for 40% of the federal income tax revenue in 1998!
The other issue in the campaign that will prove a waste of time for either party to debate is what to do with the huge surpluses. If 2% of the population accounts for 40% of the income, let's be real in our analysis of where most of those profits were coming from. In the last three years (until 2000), a large share of those profits were coming from the stock market, stock options, and the high-tech and information industries.
One doesn't have to be a connoisseur of business news to know that most of those industries fell apart last year. So both federal and state income coffers are going to be a lot lighter on April 16 this year than they were last year.
If you look at the table a bit closer, you'll note that the top 15% in 1998 paid 75% of the federal income tax. Then look at the bottom of the chart. Individuals with taxable incomes of $30,000 or less — 48% of the population — accounted for only 2% of the federal income tax! Think this is a little top heavy?
By now you should be getting the drift of where I'm headed with this. With an income structure so top heavy, this apple cart can tip over in a matter of months — and I think it already has. When so much of our income taxes, both state and federal, are coming from a relatively few individuals, and the source of those profits dissipates, the income tax revenue disappears along with it. You can now see how our federal economy, as well as many state economies, can go from a period of large surpluses to large deficits almost overnight!
While I'm well aware that many of you are more than a little concerned, and should be, about input prices going up as a result of higher natural gas prices, have you ever stopped to think what this has done to state economies? Consider states like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, where the climate is extremely cold. They have huge university systems as well as enormous amounts of office space that are almost all heated with natural gas. Triple the gas bill and all of a sudden three years worth of budgets get piled into one. I think state governments in the colder states will have a nightmare on their hands come this spring, when the coffers are less full and the bills are much larger than expected.
Parting Thoughts: I know this doesn't have much to do with farming, but it does have a lot to do with the everyday lives of all of us. Farming is changing fast, and so is the world around us. It's my view that the general economy has some tough times ahead. Some of these "young whippersnappers," as Dad used to call them, have never seen a bear market in their lives. They may have a new experience ahead of them.
Richard A. Brock is president of Brock Associates, a farm market advisory firm, and publisher of The Brock Report. For a trial subscription and information on Brock services, call 800-558-3431 or visit www.brockreport.com.


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Budapestbo͞o´dəpĕst˝ [key], city (1990 pop. 2,016,100), capital of Hungary, N central Hungary, on both banks of the Danube. The largest city of Hungary and its industrial, cultural, and transportation center, Budapest has varied manufactures, notably textiles, instruments, and electronics. Budapest has well-developed commercial, transport, and communication services as well. Educational and cultural institutions in the city include Loránd Eötvös Univ. (1635), Central European Univ., the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the National Széchenyi Library, the National Museum, the National Theater, and the State Opera House.
Budapest was formed in 1873 by the union of Buda (Ger. Ofen ) and Óbuda (Ger. Alt-Ofen ) on the right bank of the Danube River with Pest on the left bank. Buda, situated among a series of hills, was traditionally the center of government buildings, palaces, and villas belonging to the landed gentry. Pest, a flat area, has long been a commercial and industrial center.
Sections in this article:
- Introduction
- History
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Long Term Photometric and Spectroscopic Monitoring of Semiregular Variable Stars
Robert R. Cadmus, Jr.
Department of Physics, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA 50112
Received September 12, 2014; revised December 8, 2014; accepted December 9, 2014
Revised Light Elements of 78 Southern Eclipsing Binary Systems
Margaret Streamer3 Lupin Place, Murrumbateman, NSW 2582, Australia
Jeff Byron18 Albuera Road, Epping, NSW 2121, Australia
Abstracts of Papers Presented at the Joint Meeting of the Society for Astronomical Sciences and the American Association of Variable Star Observers, Held in Ontario, California, June 12-14, 2014
Analysis of Great World Wide Star Count Data: 2007–2013
Jennifer J. Birriel
Jessica N. Farrell
Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY 40351
Dennis Ward
Methods for O–C (Observed Minus Computed) Diagrams and for the Determination of Light Elements of Variable Stars with Linear and Second Order Polynomial Ephemerides
Roy Andrew AxelsenP.O. Box 706, Kenmore, Queensland 4069, Australia
Received July 24, 2014; accepted July 28, 2014
Sloan Magnitudes for the Brightest Stars
Anthony Mallama
14012 Lancaster Lane, Bowie, MD 20715
Received April 8, 2014; revised June 23, 2014; accepted July 8, 2014
The Challenge of Observing the zeta Aurigae Binary Stars
Frank J. Melillo
Holtsville Observatory, 14 Glen-Hollow Dr, E-16, Holtsville, NY 11742
Received March 31, 2014; revised May 12, 2014 and June 12, 2014; accepted June 12, 2014
Recent Minima of 161 Eclipsing Binary Stars
Gerard Samolyk
P.O. Box 20677, Greenfield, WI 53220
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First Photometric Study of the Short Period Solar Type Binary V1073 Herculis and the Possible Detection of a Dwarf Companion
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text: 6th Global Conference Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship Monday 2nd July - Thursday 5th July 2007 Mansfield College, Oxford Call for Papers: Environments, Sustainability and Technologies This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary conference aims to explore the role of ecology and environmental ideas in the context of contemporary society and international politics, and assess the implications for our understandings of fairness, justice and global citizenship. In particular, the 6th Global Conference on Ecological Justice and Global Citizenship will explicitly explore the relationships between environments, sustainability and technology, the role of technology in creating possibilities for sustainable resources for the future, and the inherent problems and dangers which accompany that role. Papers, presentations, reports and workshops are invited on any of the following indicative themes; 1. GM * GM as a symbol of public perceptions of the possibilities and challenges offered by technology and public understanding of risks of technological developments in relation to the environment * Expert vs. lay knowledge; Who decides? Scientists, politicians or 'the people'? * Participatory decision-making; e.g., the 'GM Nation' debate that took place in the UK in summer 2003 * Environmental ethics; relations between humans and 'nature' * New and emerging thinkers and trends of thought * The role and place of Environmental protest; forms of resistance to GM, their significance and impact * The political economy of GM; trade, aid, justice, international dimensions * Technology and 'progress'; what counts as technological development? Which is more modern - GM food or organic food? * Developing countries and GM; the place of developing countries in the GM debate; the responsibility of the developers towards developing countries; whether patterns of development are predicated on wrong perceptions about the role of technology; the coverage of and access to alternative technologies 2. Cooperative and Sustainable Development * Human rights, state sovereignty and the global commons * The significance of the welfare state; the principle of distribution * Sustainable employment and cooperation between capital and labour * Property rights and private insurance vs. pooling of human and ecological resources * Transport and the environment; designing and delivering national and international transport systems; creating sustainable transport networks * Responsible consumption and corporate transparency and accountability * Communities taking responsibility for the local environment * Civil society and the role of NGOs 3. Environmental Education and Intellectual Health * Environmental issues and the curriculum; integrating environmental awareness and education in the primary, secondary and higher education sectors * The components of scholarship: discovery-research, teaching, integration and application * The emerging synthesis of perceptual psychology and ecological awareness * The humanistic model vs the ecological model * The role of the planning and design sciences * Teaching citizenship, identity and ethics * Designing the ecological curriculum * The integration of distinct disciplines; trans-disciplinary innovations 4. Citizenship, Technological Innovation & Sustainability * The deployment and mobilisation of technologies * How we engage with the various ways in which citizens (in lay or professional roles) can, are, or could be involved in the processes of achieving increased sustainability in the way they design, make and implement technologies * The social nature of technologies; * Developing understandings of user and community 'participation' in design and decision making processes * The need for greater multi- and trans-disciplinary collaboration and its essential accompanying characteristic of inter-disciplinary or joined-up thinking * Technology, buildings, cities and planning policies: the role of technology in designing and constructing buildings and cities to more sustainable effect; the impact of information technologies; knowledge management and the environment Papers are also solicited for sessions which deal with issues surrounding the health impacts of technological developments. For example, we welcome submissions dealing with themes exploring the notion of 'environments' (both natural, built and virtual) as a backdrop where technologies are used through thought and action to achieve sustainability, but where mismatches between environmental issues and technological solutions have experienceable effects on health which, untreated (such as non- recognition of stress, mental ill health), result in illness. Papers could also deal with the gap between environmental ills and technological and technical solutions, and the possible consequent greater probability of disease and death. Holistic solutions to health, illness and environmental issues could usefully be explored, along with citizenship issues and access to health care. Perspectives are sought from * people engaged in actor network theory, agriculture and agricultural economics, the built environment disciplines, conflict resolution and mediation, critical geography, environmental studies, human development and ecology, industrial relations and design, philosophy and ethics, political science and international affairs, public policy and advising, social sciences, sociology of science, theology, urban studies, western European studies * people in the public and private sectors who are involved in planning and project development, policy-making and implementation, and negotiation and mediation at national and international levels * people in Governmental, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations, voluntary sector bodies, environmental charities and groups, business and professional associations Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts should be submitted by Friday 9th March 2007. If selected for presentation, 8 page draft conference papers should be submitted by Friday 8th June 2007. Papers should be submitted to the Joint Organising Chairs: these should be sent as an email attachment in Word or WordPerfect; abstracts can also be submitted in the body of the email text rather than as an attachment. Joint Organising Chairs Dr. S. Ram Vemuri School of Law and Business Faculty of Law, Business and Arts Charles Darwin University Darwin, NT 0909, Australia Email: Ram.Vemuri at cdu.edu.au Dr Rob Fisher Inter-Disciplinary.Net Priory House, 149B Wroslyn Road Freeland, Oxfordshire OX29 8HR United Kingdom Email: ejgc6 at inter-disciplinary.net All papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers accepted for and presented at the conference will be published in a themed hard copy volume. Four themed volumes are in print and/or in press from previous meetings of the project. 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Mexican Eats: Anejo Tequileria
Angelo Sosa, an audiences favorite who had a win pulled out from under him in the 7th season of Top Chef, has embraced the tequilas and mezcals of Mexico at his Anejo Tequileria, a dark and noisy cantina in Hell's Kitchen. You can drink well here. The crafty cocktails, Negro Modelo on tap, and flights of spirits show off the wide range of flavors in tequila, proving that it isn't just for margaritas (though those are quite good here as well). Unfortunately, the kitchen seems to be using more simple syrup in the cuisine than in the cocktails.
The menu looks good on paper: Mexican-inspired small plates to nibble while drinking. The guacamole ($10-$12) comes as a strangely beige mash embedded with pomegranate seeds and raw tomatillo. Tamales ($10-$13) are ersatz creations, corn masa piped into banana husks, with fillings piled on top like loaded baked potatoes bulging from their skins. There's a fine dusting of queso anejo over every dish, and they're all just too sweet.
The tortillas, made in house, are moist, thin and flaky specimens that should be inhaled: first the aroma, then the corn patty itself. Queso fundido ($11), a bubbling cast iron of melted cheese, onion, and diced pepper spooned on top of one of the tortillas, is one of the better bites on the menu.
One of the pitfalls of contemporary elevated Mexican food, one that the kitchen at Anejo Tequileria trips over again and again, is that reliance on sugar. The salsas are laced with it, the braised meats taste as if they've been mopped with syrup, and the tamales are as sweet as a Paula Deen cornbread. An undetectable pinch or two to round out spiciness or acid is dexterous, but cloying levels of sweetness like this is a ploy, engaging palates where it shouldn't.
To best enjoy Anejo Tequileria: have a cocktail at the bar, then go to Guelaguetza down the street for food.
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668 Tenth Ave. New York, NY 10036 (map)
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What's News: Warren Buffett invites Doug Kass to speak at May's shareholder meeting, app store sales are booming and the White House moves to support a consumer's right to unlock their cellphones and tablets. Photo: Getty
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POLI-215 Law and Politics
Examines the law and the legal system in the United States, assessing the possibilities and limitations of the law. Studies the political basis of the law and critiques of the American legal system. Discusses the major players in the legal system, including lawyers, judges and juries. Course culminates with a mock trial. 4 SH. CC: Team Intensive.


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A Response to State Terrorism in Toronto
Six hundred arrests and half a dozen journalists have been assaulted. The excuse given for this brutality being the actions of a handful of Black Blockers. If the BB was the issue why the arrests and beatings of peaceful demonstrators? Why the assault on the media? There are two possible answers. One is that the Harpocrit wants to rationalize his squandering a billion on "security", especially at a time when he is demanding cut-backs. The other is an attempt to show to the populace what the state can really do if the people step out of line, that the velvet glove is off and Canada is as thuggish as any other country. (Of course, the First Nations knew that all along!)
A lot of effort and money will have to be spent defending the 600, even though the vast majority of charges are bogus. This is another tactic favoured by a repressive state – keep 'em tied up in court, whether the charges stick or not.
But the result will not be to drive people into passivity. The 600, their family members and friends, and all the people who will learn the truth through the alternative and social media, will be radicalized. And when you are first radicalized you become very angry at the cruelty and lies of the authorities. The mass media with their whorishness towards the state will further this radicalization. (The CBC has been little more than a propaganda outfit for the terrorists. Email them and give them hell. They should at least try to be a bit objective, after all, we are taxpayers too.).
The question naturally arises after this repression. "where should we go from here?" Now I don't claim to have any answers and could be way off base, but there is one thing I do know. The cops may love beating on skinny students and community activists, but they are scared shitless of the organized working class. I have been on big worker demos in both Vancouver and Montreal and the police are like little mice. Initially, it made sense to break off from the trade union marches and directly confront the authorities. Indeed, that tactic was what made Seattle a success. But it has become less successful as the authorities have figured out ways to combat demonstrators. I think Toronto shows such tactics to be almost suicidal.
Maybe we need to exchange minority militant actions for numbers but less militance? Let's face it, 300,000 people marching against the G8-20 would be far more meaningful than 300 fighting the cops. The latter can be written of as a fringe and "criminals", but the great mass of "ordinary folks" are harder to ignore. At the same time, activists from the various organizations could dialogue with the rank and file. There is a lot of latent anger out there and when the so-called recovery fails to materialize and more cut-backs are demanded, it could manifest openly.
For Toronto coverage see http://toronto.mediacoop.ca/
It appears that the arrests totaled 900 - which is about double during the October Crisis in Quebec, 1970! And according to the Civil Liberties Assn. the Black Bloc consisted of about 50 to 100 people. See mollymew.blogspot.com/2010/06/canadian-politics-toronto-amnesty.html
FURTHUR UPDATE – It appears that at least some of the Black Blockers were cops – like in Montebello. see:


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Meet Liz Cintron, a senior at Georgetown University and a shining example of how helping one person realize their dreams is a victory for all of us.
Liz's Path to Success
Liz is studying to become a nurse. She dreamed big and worked hard to get this far, but like each and every one of us, she also received some help along the way. Liz was able to save enough money to attend Georgetown in part because of her involvement with a Youth IDA (individual development assets) program supported by United Way of Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley. The program matches the savings of participants, while providing a combination of rigorous financial literacy training and peer support.
Liz's journey reflects the broader journey of the community she calls home. She was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, a town hit hard by the recession of the early 1990s and again with the global recession that began in 2008.
Despite all the challenges, Lawrence is a testament to the enduring belief that together we can build a better tomorrow. Nicknamed the "Immigrant City," Lawrence has always been a beacon for individuals and families looking for a better life. First came the Irish in the 1840s, driven to cross the Atlantic in search of new opportunities during the hardship of the Great Potato Famine. The wave of European immigration continued until the 1920s; four decades later, Hispanics hailing from Latin America led a new wave of immigration.
Today, nearly three quarters of the people living in Lawrence are Hispanic, and many of them speak Spanish as their first language. The language barrier can be an impediment to climbing the ladder of opportunity, but it's not the only one. That's why United Way partnered with local non-profit Lawrence CommunityWorks to connect people with services ranging from financial education and coaching to career training and job search assistance, credit counseling, English as a Second Language (ESL), free tax preparation assistance, and more – all under one roof.


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Dirk won Mr Basketball for the State of Kentucky upon graduating high school and was a high-riser in college at Kentucky. I never got to see him play there but check this out:
I've commented many times in the past just how atrocious that 1988 team's bench was. Dirk definitely didn't help the cause when he was there. He'd actually play in 61 games, starting in 6 of them and averaging 14 minutes per night. He participated in the first NBA game I ever attended (that's right folks, the A-Train himself started in place of Robert Parish that night who was out injured).
Dirk would play in 11 games in that season's playoff run. That ended his NBA career.
Most of the information you'll find about Dirk talks about his drug problems. He also had 3 children before graduating high school and today, at the tender age of 50, has 8 grandchildren. More recently, Dirk was very affected by the suicide of college teammate and former NBA player Mel Turpin last year. He said:
I suppose that could be the theme for the WTHHT segment of players. Based on that I'm surprised that Mark Acres and Fred Roberts would go back to their home states to teach.
"At one time you were a celebrity, a pro basketball player, a star," Minniefield said. "Now people are asking, 'What happened to you? Why are you working in that job?'
"It can create issues and feelings of worthlessness. It's difficult, especially in your hometown."
Dirk got away from Kentucky though and today, lives in Sugar Land, Texas. There he is involved with Wildcat Real Estate and Management Group. I had a tough time figuring out what they do. I wonder if they have the same flexibility as the company owned by Xavier McDaniel. Dirk also has been involved as a counselor in the NBA Player Assistance Program for the past 19 years. Just like Carlos Clark and Wayne Kreklow, Dirk's son Darin, is a promising basketball player.
***Addendum 6/29/12*** Looks like Dirk's gotten into a bit of legal difficulty
Dirk Minniefield has entered a federal pretrial diversion agreement stemming from 2008 conspiracy and wire fraud charges in an alleged mortgage scheme in Texas.
The 2008 indictment said that in Houston, where Minniefield was a real estate agent, he allegedly represented buyers in transactions even though he never met them and they never asked to look at the properties they supposedly were buying. Minniefield was accused of proposing language in the sales contract to increase the price of the properties to include payment for renovations even though neither the buyer nor the seller hired a contractor for home improvements. The scheme involved about $10 million in mortgage loans from November 2004 to May 2005, according to the indictment.
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Last year, EA took its long-running Need for Speed series in an exciting new direction with the release of Need for Speed Underground, a racing game that focused on making the import tuner scene the star of its arcade-style racing show. The game worked really well, combining the right level of car customization with good track design, challenging opponents, and impressive graphical effects. Now, one year later, a sequel is on the streets, adding some new race types and a big, open city to cruise around. The actual racing in Need for Speed Underground 2 is still pretty good, but unfortunately most of the stuff you do in between races keeps you away from the game's best moments.
Need for Speed Underground 2 tries to inject a story into your career mode using static-image cutscenes that pop up before some races. The effect is similar to what the Max Payne series does with its noninteractive sequences, though that game pulls it off much better than Need for Speed Underground 2 does. Dopey story short, you're sent off to a new town after getting ambushed by a rival racing crew, and you'll have to start from scratch with one car and a handful of races to get you going.
The biggest change made by this year's game is that the action now takes place in one large city. You're given free rein to drive around wherever you want, and you'll have to drive to races to drive in them. You'll also have to drive to different parts shops to customize your ride--in fact, you'll have to find most of the game's shops by cruising around the city, looking for the right type of colored lights. The game gives you an onscreen map, but shops don't show up until you've found them, and some races don't actually appear on the map, either.
On paper, this whole open-city thing sounds like an interesting idea. Someone probably sat down and said, "Well, everyone likes Grand Theft Auto, and it has an open city, so our game has to have an open city as well. In fact, let's even make it so that different sections of the city are locked away until you progress to a certain point in the career mode." In practice, driving around the city is a real drag that keeps you out of the action longer than you'd like. The game also rarely takes advantage of the open city for racing purposes, staging a majority of its events on preset tracks, rather than attempting to go for a Midnight Club-like "get there however you can" feel. There's a menu in the garage that lets you jump to a handful of different events, but most races don't show up here, and none of the shops do, either, making it completely useless.
You'll start out in some pretty slow cars, so the racing isn't very exciting until you earn enough for a full set of upgraded performance parts. But once you've done so, the racing is fun and the cars handle well. The cars are fast, and things like turning, powersliding, and proper corning technique are easy to pick-up. Like in last year's game, there are a handful of different race types: Circuit races are long lap-based events, sprints take you from point A to point B on a set course, drag racing lets you live your life a quarter mile at a time, and drift races rank you based on how squirrelly you can get on the track. New in this year's game are the street X races, which are essentially regular races that take place on drift tracks. Outrun races take place in various parts of the city--you roll up behind another racer, tap a button, and then try to pass and outrun him or her. You'll also encounter a few races against the clock, in which you'll have to get from one point in the city to another before a photographer leaves the area. Make it, and you'll get to put your car on the cover of one of the game's magazines or DVDs for extra cash. The big new race type is the "underground racing league." These races are the sort of mysterious events where you'll see most of the game's cutscenes. They mostly involve some knucklehead breaking the lock on a race track and then swinging open a gate so your street-racing posse can race on a "real" track, though you'll also bust into airports and such, too. These races are essentially circuit races with racetrack scenery instead of cityscape scenery.
Though there are three different difficulty settings for the career mode, none of them put up a particularly good fight. As a result, most of the races simply boil down to getting in front of the opposition and then doing what you can to not make a mistake. Between nitrous boosts and drafting, gaining the lead isn't very difficult, and the game doesn't seem to employ any heavy rubber-band AI routines to retake the lead from you, so you can usually stay in front without any trouble at all. When you consider that it will take you about a minute to get in front, and that some of the circuit races can last six minutes or more, this means that a great deal of your race time is spent just cruising along, dodging traffic and not paying any attention to the other cars unless you screw up and get into a wreck. In the event that you do crash, regaining the lead usually isn't too tough, especially if you've purchased a nitrous-oxide upgrade, which shamelessly lifts concepts from the Burnout series, translating powerslides and near-misses into extra boost for your tank. The opposing cars will slow down quite a bit if they take a big lead, making them very easy to beat.
Need for Speed Underground 2's crashes are laughably weak. While high-speed collisions with other cars trigger a slow-motion, cinematic shot of the crash, the game doesn't model any damage at all. It's like you're watching two plastic car models bump up against each other, accompanied by the sounds of an actual car crash. While it practically goes without saying that modeling damage in a game with licensed cars is still a tricky proposition, that fact doesn't make these wrecks look any better. Fortunately, the game's car customization features somewhat make up for this lack of visual detail.
A big part of Need for Speed Underground 2 is the ability to customize your car's performance and appearance. On the performance side, you'll purchase parts that have been organized into stages, which gives the game an easy way to lock the better parts away from you until you're ready for them. While the parts fall into different categories, like engines, brakes, tires, and ECUs, the only thing you really need to know is that you need them all to win races. The visual enhancements are a little more involved and give you a little more leeway, but ultimately you'll need to trick out the look of your cars to proceed, as having a flashy car is the only way to get noticed and end up on magazine and video covers. Each set of parts has a number associated with it, and these contribute to a meter that sums up how many pieces of flair you've bolted to your whip. Spoilers, neons, vinyls, roof scoops, spinner rims, custom gauges, and even speakers for your trunk are just some of the available modifications, and they all help your car stand out. This is especially handy online, where you can show off your stuff to the world.
Need for Speed Underground 2 is online on the PS2, PC, and new to this year's game, the Xbox. The online mode is pretty straightforward, letting you set up races in any of the game's race types, and it also features a free run mode, in case you just want to cruise around the city with other players. As you'd expect, the online mode works well over an average broadband connection, even with a full six players in a race. The game also does a good job with statistics and rankings, which can help you find evenly matched races. You can also limit races to cars of a certain rank, or just open it up and let people take their career-mode vehicles onto the track. The GameCube lacks online play, and to add insult to injury, the already-shaky frame rate gets a little shakier when you play in the GameCube version's splitscreen mode.
While Need for Speed Underground 2 is attempting to emulate an illegal scene of "underground" street racing, the game really tries to drive its product placement down your throat. Things like billboards on the sides of the roads aren't too bad (though with an ad for a financial service popping up on some signs, you have to wonder who EA's target audience for this game is), and the occasional real-life fast-food joint does its part to make the city feel a little more realistic. But basing the game's whole onscreen display around the logo for a cellular phone service provider crosses the line. Sorry, but there's nothing "underground" about forcing a bunch of non-car-related corporate logos on people. The game's hokey dialogue also adds to the counterfeit feel. The overzealous script is constantly throwing poorly placed slang at you, having Brooke Burke use her teleprompter voice to tell you that "you've got to be racing tight," constantly calling you "dawg," or being very careful to always call your money "bank."
Graphically, Need for Speed Underground 2 looks good, unless you're talking about the GameCube version, which has a wildly unstable frame rate that really gets in the way of the action in some races. But in the other three versions, the car models are sharp and the city looks fine. For the most part, the game keeps running at a smooth frame rate, even in the later stages, when you're moving much, much faster. But at the same time, it isn't quite the effects show that the last game was. You still get nice little effects, like the shaky camera used to show drag races, but the blur effects are much less pronounced now, which is too bad, because they were really well implemented last year. Now, you get blurring at very high speeds or when you kick in the nitrous oxide, but more would have been better. Like last year, the PS2 version is the heaviest on the effects, though the overall look is still a little subdued. For the most part, the different versions of the game look very similar, with the Xbox and PC versions allowing for slightly higher visual fidelity than the PlayStation 2 version, and the GameCube version bringing up the rear, but ultimately the only major differences come down to the GameCube version not having online support, the Xbox version's analog triggers being the best control scheme for the game, and the PC version not playing very well with the keyboard controls (you'll need at least an analog gamepad if you're planning on playing this game on the PC).
The game's sound rises above its lame dialogue and poorly delivered speech. The engine sounds aren't quite as deep or as throaty as you might like, but the game is great at changing the sound of your car as you purchase upgrades. Also, things like the whoosh of wind when you fly under an overpass really help sell the game's sense of speed.
Musically, Need for Speed Underground 2 is all over the place. The schizophrenic sounds start with the game's lead song, which is a remix of The Doors' "Riders on the Storm" done by prominent rap producer Fredwreck. Snoop Dogg joins Jim Morrison on the vocals here. For some people that will be blasphemy, but the remix sounds pretty good. The part that ruins it, though, is that Snoop is rapping about the racing--Need for Speed is specifically mentioned in the lyrics. Again, if you're going to have a game with "underground" right in the name, showcasing a song that does double duty as both an ad for the game and as an extreme case of exploitation of an old favorite probably isn't the best idea. Other songs on the soundtrack include "Lean Back" by the Terror Squad, "LAX" by Xzibit, and tracks from Sly Boogy, Felix Da Housecat, Paul Van Dyk, Cirrus, Ministry, Queens of the Stone Age, Mudvayne, Helmet, and more. This is a textbook case of a soundtrack that tries to appeal to too many different audiences and ends up not including enough of any one style to please anyone. Xbox users won't be able to fix the problem, either, as the game doesn't contain custom-soundtrack support. However, you'll be able to at least turn off tracks that you don't like.
Need for Speed Underground 2 starts with last year's game as a template and builds from there. Unfortunately, almost everything that has been added to this year's game detracts from the overall experience. Once you're in and racing and customizing your cars, it's a lot of fun, but there are too many obstacles standing between you and the best parts of the game.


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New York, NY - Charles S. Cohen, Chairman and CEO of the Cohen Media Group, today announced the arrival of the COHEN FILM COLLECTION - a world-renowned collection of rare cinematic gems, which will be meticulously restored and enhanced for generations to come. COHEN FILM COLLECTION (formerly The Rohauer Library), will include more than 700 films - from enduring Hollywood classics to foreign masterpieces and seminal avant-garde works - which will undergo complete digital restoration so that the best possible versions of these historic films are available across all platforms of delivery. Many of these films will be theatrically re-released, while others will join the Collection on Blu-ray and DVD.
The first release from The Collection, Tristana, is currently in theaters and will be debuting on Blu-ray and DVD this March. Coming to Blu-ray and DVD on February 19, 2013, will be The Thief of Bagdad, Douglas Fairbanks' 1924 fantasy epic that marked a new peak for action cinema during the silent era. The Thief of Bagdad has been digitally restored in 2k from two 35mm negatives incorporating color tints and tones of the original release prints. Featuring state-of-the-art sound, the Carl Davis orchestral score and accompanied by audio commentary and numerous extras, The Thief of Bagdad Blu-ray and DVD release will set the standard for the other films to come from The Collection.
The COHEN FILM COLLECTION is truly vast in scope, ranging from the silent era to sound, from musical and comedy shorts to features, and from experimental works to British and foreign-language classics. The collection contains bodies of work by a roster of singular artists such as Buster Keaton, D.W. Griffith, Rudolph Valentino, Vivien Leigh and Harry Langdon. Many titles in the collection are rare; the collection has the only known materials for some films.
Exclusive licenses and contracts bring to the Collection original nitrate elements camera negatives, prints and other materials unavailable elsewhere, to assure the best High Definitions transfers possible.
Highlights of The COHEN FILM COLLECTION include:
The General (1926). The Collection has the original nitrate camera negative of Buster Keaton's Civil War comic masterpiece and is creating, in partnership with The Library of Congress, a 4K scan from a safety fine-grain positive master newly struck for the restoration. The Collection also includes Keaton's Sherlock Jr., Our Hospitality, The Navigator, Go West and dozens of his remarkable short films.
Intolerance (1916). D.W. Griffith's awe-inspiring epic is receiving a 2K restoration that will include an orchestral score by world renowned composer Carl Davis. Other Griffith masterworks in the Collection include The Birth of a Nation (both the 1915 original and the 1930 cut), Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, Orphans of the Storm and many of the groundbreaking shorts directed by the "Father of Film."
Sudden Fear (1952). David Miller's film noir, starring Joan Crawford and Jack Palance, is receiving a 2K restoration.
L'Etoile de Mer (1928). This and other experimental shorts by the avant-garde photographer Man Ray will be released.
Hangmen Also Die (1943). The Collection is working with Britain's Pinewood Studios on a 2K restoration of this Fritz Lang film that will reinstate a short sequence not in the version currently available here.
Song of Freedom (1936). One of six films in the Collection starring the singer-actor-activist Paul Robeson.
Son of the Sheik (1926). Rudolph Valentino's last film is being restored from nitrate material held at the Library of Congress. Valentino's Blood and Sand and The Eagle are also in the Collection.
Jamaica Inn (1939). The Collection will restore this period adventure, the last film Alfred Hitchcock made in England before moving to Hollywood and his first adaptation of a tale by Daphne du Maurier (Rebecca, The Birds).
Fire Over England (1937). This historical drama marked the first screen pairing of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier and is being restored to honor, in 2013, the 100th anniversary of Leigh's birth. It's one of four Leigh films in the Collection.
The Strong Man (1926). Frank Capra's first feature film stars Harry Langdon, generally regarded as one of the quartet of great silent-screen comics along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd (all of whom are also represented in the Collection). One of 14 Langdon films in the Collection.
Douglas Fairbanks films. In addition to The Thief of Bagdad, the Collection includes such early Fairbanks titles as The Lamb and Double Trouble, both from 1915, as well as his later adventure classics The Mark of Zorro, The Three Musketeers, Robin Hood and The Black Pirate. Among the dozens of Fairbanks titles in the Collection is The Taming of the Shrew, a screen pairing of Fairbanks and his wife, "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford.
Musical shorts featuring priceless performances by Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Bing Crosby, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Hoagy Carmichael, Bessie Smith, Rudy Vallee and Ethel Merman.
The largest collection of surviving films starring the Talmadge sisters Norma and Constance, huge and powerful stars in the silent era, but largely forgotten today.
Comedy shorts with W.C. Fields, George Burns and Gracie Allen, Robert Benchley and Milton Berle, among others.
Forty years of British films, from the 1930s to the 1960s.
Under the stewardship, and guided by the vision of Charles S. Cohen, the preservation and restoration of the many classics in this unique film library will ensure that they are available to be enjoyed by generations to come. Through strategic partnerships with the most prestigious archives in the United States and abroad, titles will be selected on an ongoing basis to undergo the complete digital restoration.


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Ask a White Sox player about the team's signature catchphrase of 2013, TWTW, and you'll get a vague, if not slightly confused, response.
"It is what it is," said second baseman Gordon Beckham. "For us, it's not a motto. It's a funny thing that we think is funny and it's just one of those things you want to keep around. It's just a team camaraderie type of thing."
Ask the brains behind it, longtime Sox broadcaster Ken "Hawk" Harrelson, and you'll be taken back in time about 60 years.
"My mom started that with me when I was 11 years old," Harrelson recalled from his familiar perch in the broadcast booth at U.S. Cellular Field.
While TWTW, short for "the will to win," may have become popular in 2013, Harrelson says it originated in the driver's seat of his mother's car en route to then-young Harrelson's first Little League game in Savannah, Ga.
"I remember in the car going to Coke Field, she said, 'The most important thing honey if you're gonna play sports is you've gotta win. If some of your teammates don't wanna play hard, then you've gotta tell 'em to play hard and they've got to have a will to win.'"
His mother's advice has taken on a life of its own.
Harrelson unleashed the phrase during a televised interview earlier this season. Inspiration struck, he said, as he was driving to Chicago from his home in northern Indiana.
"I'm thinking about all these stats, the on-base percentage, the on-base-plus-slugging and all this and I said well, why don't they get a stat called The Will To Win? How are they going to measure that?" he asked, before answering his own question. "I said with TWTW. That's where it came from. I had to have a category to whereas they couldn't put a number on it. Because you can't put a number on that. It's impossible."
Harrelson's unquantifiable statistical category has become a popular hashtag on Twitter, a phrase used by other sportscasters to describe teams in other sports, even a T-shirt in the White Sox clubhouse.
When pressed, Harrelson says TWTW is the kind of stat you can measure only with your eyes.
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"Where do you put a number on, you've got me or Kirk Gibson or someone who's gonna knock [the fielder's] ass into left field on a double play, and he knows that," Harrelson said. "So I'm coming in on him, he knows he's gonna get hit. But he stands there, turns it over, makes the throw and takes the hit. How do you put a number on that?"
And in a sport so heavily predicated on numbers, Beckham says the one statistic they can't put a number on could be key to turning around the last-place squad's fortunes.
"I think we need more of it," he said.
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The Construction Operations Building information exchange (COBie) information exchange format is a non-proprietary platform for the exchange of facility life-cycle data needed by facility managers. A COBie Challenge is a public event where the production and/or consumption of COBie data are presented by the software company with an independent assessment of the results of that product's ability to meet the COBie data format and data quality requirements. The March 2013 COBie Challenge for Facility Management Software focused on the consumption of COBie data by commercial off the shelf facility management software. In this challenge, facility management software vendors imported a set of simulated facility management information for the Common BIM files project, the Medical/Dental Clinic. The specific model file used was the COBie Handover Spreadsheet V11 file (ZIP).
This page provides links to the information presented at the Challenge to evaluate the product listed against the COBie specification. The version of COBie exercised in this challenge was COBie 2.4. COBie 2.4 was introduced for this challenge for two reasons. COBie 2.4 ensures consistency between the SPie product data exchanges and COBie format. COBie 2.4 also ensures compliance with United Kingdom mandate for COBie starting in 2012. COBie 2.4 is backward compatible with previous COBie versions from 2.24 forward.
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The following table identifies which of the COBie handover information was consumed by the subject product.
To assess the quality of the imported information a series of meetings was held with each vendor leading up to the public challenge event. The objective of these meetings was to evaluate the products ability to consume the information noted in the table above using a quality control checklist developed for the Clinic building information being consumed. The completed checklist (PDF) contains the full analysis of the imports achieved by the vendor. A summary of the result is provided below with footnotes indicating any special comments made during the quality assurance process.
1. For each floor a search needs to be completed that is a bit more detailed than for total number spaces.
2. Job description is formatted as a single text block. Due to software restriction of number of characters in the cell the information displayed is incomplete. It was recommended that this was fixed or noted in the COBie Configuration Guide.
3. Task formatting had double numbers (ex: 1.1; 2.2 ), all other information consumed correctly.
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