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Steven Schletker Esq
Covington, KY Maritime Law Lawyer with 37 years of experience
(800) 254-7487 50 E. RiverCenter Boulevard
Suite 425
Covington, KY 41011
Suite 425
Covington, KY 41011
Free ConsultationMaritime, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
University of Kentucky College of Law
University of Kentucky College of Law
Ty Smith
Louisville, KY Maritime Law Lawyer
(502) 912-5955 420 W. Liberty Street Suite 260
Louisville, KY 40202
Louisville, KY 40202
Maritime, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
University of Kentucky College of Law
University of Kentucky College of Law
Daryl T Dixon
Paducah , KY Maritime Law Lawyer with 20 years of experience
(270) 442-3246 535 Broadway
Paducah , KY 42001
Paducah , KY 42001
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Daryl Thomas Dixon started practicing Kentucky Personal Injury Law in 2000. Daryl has been on the front lines of Serious Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Law battling for these injured victims and their families for over eleven years. Daryl focuses his practice to those Injured and Wrongful Death Cases from: Auto, Semi-Truck and Motorcycle Accidents Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Asbestos and Mesothelioma Litigation Railroad, River, and Boating Accidents Plane Crashes Daryl T. Dixon is a member of the Florida and Kentucky Bar Associations with a license to practice law in both Jurisdictions as well as the United...
Edward Kyran Box
Paducah, KY Maritime Law Attorney with 21 years of experience
(270) 442-3555 517 Broadway, Suite 100
Paducah, KY 42001
Paducah, KY 42001
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University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
Jan Dwornig
Düsseldorf, KY Maritime Law Attorney with 17 years of experience
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Coca-Cola's next 'real thing'
Posted by TheShot on 02 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Consumer Trends, Restaurant Coffee
So Coca-Cola finally revealed some of what they've been up to with their recent patent frenzy (as reported here in January): Coca-Cola's next 'real thing': lattes – Sep. 1, 2006. Next Wednesday in Toronto, Coca-Cola plans to formally announce their foray into "premium" brewed tea and coffee.
The brand is called Far Coast (the corresponding Web site also appears poised for a launch), and they're planning to roll it out first in Canada for hot drinks such as coffee, tea, and lattes. But instead of Coca-Cola's usual retail play to consumers, its focus instead appears to be on a pod-based system for restaurants to brew individual cups.
Given Coca-Cola's declining sales in the soft drink market, coffee, like bottled water, looks like another hopeful attempt at revenue diversification. Furthermore, it is undoubtedly a defensive strategy to stave off brand erosion, and their erosion of consumer top-of-mind, to the likes of Starbucks.
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[…] Given the perishable inventory and training requirements for coffee, handling multiple varieties may be a much lower maintenance option for tea. But before we all go following the trend towards Monkey Picked Tieguanyin Oolong tea like lemmings, will somebody please at least humor me with a choice of either Ethiopian or Costa Rican when I order a cup of coffee? I'm not even asking for Jamaican Blue Mountain. Is that really too much to ask? (And please — none of those crappy pod systems either. Even though that would still be an improvement.) […]
[…] Not to be outdone by Coca-Cola's Far Coast and CHAQWA announcements earlier this month, Big Four junk coffee giant, Nestlé, says "me too!": Coke, Nestlé Take Aim at Starbucks (Advertising Age). […]
[…] ChannelNewsAsia published an article today on Coca-Cola's venture into coffee distribution in Singapore: Channelnewsasia.com – Coca-Cola ventures into premium specialty coffee. Coca-Cola has been investing in coffee service for quite some time. In previous posts here, we've covered their development of Far Coast pod systems — among other patents. As one of Wall Street's darling growth stocks, and a stock represented in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, Coke continually seeks out new revenue streams to keep the party train going. […]
[…] We've been monitoring Coca-Cola's murky interests in the coffee business for some time now. The most obvious example being their patent filings in recent years, which have lead to — among other things — their launch of Far Coast coffee pod and machine systems for food service retailers. […]

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Kozma gets crafty to snap out of slump
CHICAGO -- Pete Kozma came into the Cardinals' series finale against the Cubs ice cold at the plate and searching for any kind of hit he could get.
After lining out in the second inning to extend his hitless skid to 28 straight at-bats, Kozma finally broke through in the third. His two-out bunt single toward third base was his first hit since June 25 in Houston and put the Cardinals ahead, 2-1, after Yadier Molina scored from third.
If anybody on the Cardinals' roster needed something like that to happen at the plate, it was Kozma, who has continued to play superb defense through an offensive slump that sunk his batting average from .244 to .228 in just seven games this month.
"At bat, you've got a lot to think about, and then on defense, you've got the same thing," Kozma said before the game. "You've got the hitter to think about, the pitches, even the playing surface. It's just a mindset. You've got to separate the two. If something bad happens on defense, you can't take it to the plate with you. If something bad happens at the plate, you can't take it on defense with you."
Understandably, Kozma said he's looking forward to getting a few days off during the All-Star break and then coming back rejuvenated for the rest of the regular season. Getting the big bunt single in this game also can't hurt his confidence level.
"It's [going to be] the second half," Kozma said. "The first half is over, so we can start with a clean slate and go from there."


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This is the little note card box I made my mom for her birthday. She was soo cute and told me she wasn't going to give them away! I told her she had to otherwise what was the purpose of having them! LOL.... I could tell she really enjoyed them and of course that just thrilled me. She told me if she had to give them away they were to only going to extra special people... I received one as a thank you!! LOL.... gotta love your moms!
I also made one for my friend Laura from Sweden, but I failed to take a pic of them... it was just as cute.
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Content Rules Paperback Now OutPosted 8 years ago by C.C. Chapman | 3 Comments
Sorry we haven't been sharing as much around these parts, but it isn't because Ann and I don't still love you because we do!!!
We once again want to thank everyone for buying, sharing, reviewing and using Content Rules.
Everywhere we go people are talking about it. Professors keep telling us how they are using it in their classrooms just as much as businesses are thanking us for the advice. I can even now confirm that there are several copies in Ghana where I recently traveled.
But, besides saying thank you, the real reason I wanted to write this post is to let you all know that the paperback edition of Content Rules is now out.
It has been updated and revised and the best part is that it now includes our favorite robot Lugnut (above on the left) as well.
While we wrote the book to stand the test of time, we did want to update numbers and add some details on social photography and mobile. We are excited about it and we hope you are as well.
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SALT LAKE CITY — A section of whitewater rapids tucked between high cliffs, little-changed since explorer John Wesley Powell boated through in 1896, and a canyon decorated with thousands of ancient rock art panels have been pulled off the auction block by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
For the second time in a week, the bureau announced late Tuesday that it was pulling auction parcels from an expanded oil-and-gas leasing program in Utah. The latest tracts include land inside Nine Mile Canyon and Desolation Canyon on the Green River.
The bureau didn't say why it was pulling the lease tracts, but the prospect of drilling near Utah's scenic treasures brought condemnation from conservation groups.
Together with previous deferrals, the BLM has pulled nearly 100,000 acres from an auction set for Dec. 19, leaving more than 276,000 acres up for bid.
Last week, the BLM pulled drilling leases that were located on and near the borders of Arches National Park, Dinosaur National Monument and Canyonlands National Park, all in Utah.
The additional deferrals were announced after business hours Tuesday. BLM spokeswoman Mary Wilson said the agency would remove lease parcels from the "canyon bottoms" in Desolation and Nine Mile canyons, while leaving for auction other parcels on bluffs overlooking those canyons.
The BLM never intended to allow drillers to set up rigs inside the canyons, she said. It would have required drillers to reach the parcels from another pad, using directional drilling, she said.
'Rush job'
A quick analysis by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance showed the BLM still planned to auction parcels atop plateaus populated by big game around Nine Mile Canyon, a tributary of the Green River.
Stephen Bloch, an attorney for the environmental group, said the BLM's second reversal in a week showed its original auction list was a "rush job." Bloch said his group still planned to file protests by a Thursday deadline.
The BLM also plans to auction 146,339 acres in Utah later this month for geothermal development.
The bureau made clear it was pulling lease parcels only for the time being and might later decide to auction off the parcels inside the canyons with restrictions on noise, lighting or surface occupancy.
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Van Cleef & Arpels has always been inspired by the unique creative energy of love, for it was love which brought the Maison into being.
Towards the end of the 19th century, a young girl named Estelle Arpels – the daughter of a dealer in precious stones – met a boy named Alfred Van Cleef, the son of a stone-cutter. It was the beginning of a love story like no other, a great adventure beyond expectation.
In 1895, they were married. The young lovers had much in common: youthful enthusiasm, a pioneering spirit, an ethic of family solidarity, and a passion for precious stones.
Charles Arpels
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But above all, they were inspired by the desire to create something lasting together. That desire led them to found the Maison of Van Cleef & Arpels. In 1906, Alfred set up in business with Estelle's brother Charles, a talented salesman who managed their new boutique in Paris' Place Vendôme. Two years later, Estelle's brother Julien joined the firm; they were joined in 1912 by her third brother, Louis.
Over the years that followed, they succeeded in making Van Cleef & Arpels synonymous with the most exquisite jewelry in the world. With that achievement, the love which first brought Estelle and Alfred together lives on to this day through the many enchanting love stories of the Maison.


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Testimony continues in trial of woman accused of starving child
Christina Thomas faces first-degree assault charge
"Terrifying" and "horrific" are the words a witness used to describe the treatment of a boy and his mother at the hands of a New Durham woman.
Christina Thomas has been charged with first-degree assault. She is accused of depriving the boy of food and forcing him at times to stay in a dog cage in the basement of Thomas' New Durham home.
Prosecutors said the incidents occurred between 2006 and 2010 when the child was 3 to 6 years old.
Crystal Dufault testified Thursday that she lived at Thomas' home for several months in 2008 and at one point saw the child in a cage in the basement. Dufault described the treatment of the child and his mother as "terrifying" and "horrific," testifying that she saw the child only eat toast, water and some sort of shake drink.
Dufault said she thought the boy was getting cared for during frequent doctor's visits and was getting the proper nutrition treatment at that time.
Under cross examination, Dufault testified that she gave a police interview on the same day that Thomas kicked her out of the house.
Jeff Strouth, who had a relationship with Thomas' cousin, testified that Thomas treated the boy's mother like a "slave" and said Thomas would verbally abuse the child.
The boy's mother testified earlier in the week that when the boy was 6 years old, he weighed 23 pounds. Prosecutors said the boy is now with an adoptive family and has grown and put on weight.
Testimony is expected to last at least another two weeks.


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Retina display. Multimillion-pixel view.
When you pack so many pixels into a display — over 5 million on the 15-inch model — the results are positively stunning. The pixel density is so high, your eyes can't discern individual pixels. Images take on a new level of realism. A spectacular 2880x1800 resolution on the 15-inch MacBook Pro lets you see more of your high-resolution images with pixel-for-pixel accuracy. And text is so sharp, you'll feel like you're reading email, web pages and documents on a printed page. The Retina display reduces glare while maintaining incredible colour and quality. Its high contrast ratio results in blacker blacks and whiter whites. And everything in between is rich and vibrant. IPS technology gives you a wide, 178-degree view of everything on the screen, so you'll see the difference at practically any angle. And you're going to love what you see.
The Force Touch trackpad. Press a little deeper, do a lot more.
The new Force Touch trackpad takes all the capabilities of Multi-Touch and adds force sensors that detect subtle differences in the amount of downwards pressure you apply. This lets you have a deeper connection to your content, bringing more functionality to your fingertip. It also introduces haptic feedback to MacBook Pro — allowing you not just to see what's happening on the screen, but to feel it.
802.11ac Wi-Fi. The definition of fast.
Meet the ultimate mobile creative studio — with the emphasis on mobile. Equipped with 802.11ac Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 wireless technology, you're free to unplug and still stay connected — to your network, to your wireless peripherals, and to the world. With AirPlay and Apple TV, you can wirelessly play video, show off photos and enjoy music from your MacBook Pro, all on your widescreen TV. And when your MacBook Pro connects to an 802.11ac Wi-Fi base station, such as AirPort Extreme or AirPort Time Capsule, your wireless performance is up to 3x faster.2
Thunderbolt 2. The world's most advanced I/O.
Fast and versatile, Thunderbolt 2 provides up to 20 Gbps of bandwidth to each external device. So you're more than ready for the next generation of high-performance peripherals and displays. You can connect massive amounts of storage and add a PCI expansion chassis. And since each Thunderbolt 2 port allows you to daisy-chain up to six peripherals, you can go all out by plugging in up to 12 external devices via Thunderbolt alone.
High-performance graphics. A flawless onscreen performance.
The 15-inch MacBook Pro has a phenomenal display — with the graphics power to match. Its fourth-generation Intel Core i7 processor features Iris Pro Graphics with 128MB of embedded memory, which accelerates demanding graphics tasks by acting as an ultra-fast cache.
Advanced Intel mobile processors.
The 15‑inch MacBook Pro with Retina display has the power to do even more amazing things. Fourth-generation quad-core Intel Core i7 processors let you make quick work of even the most complex tasks in professional apps like Final Cut Pro X, thanks to speeds up to 2.8GHz, 6MB of shared L3 cache and Turbo Boost speeds up to 4.0GHz. And every model comes as standard with 16GB of super-fast memory. All of which means the 15‑inch MacBook Pro is ready to take on whatever you can dream up, wherever your travels take you.
Faster flash storage. There's a reason they call it "flash".
Thanks to the super-fast read and write performance of the PCle-based flash storage, you'll notice a difference in whatever you do. Starting up is really fast, apps launch quickly, and navigating the desktop feels fluid and responsive. On the 15‑inch model you get up to 2.5x faster flash storage3 — with up to 2.0 GBps throughput — that works with quad-core processors and high-performance graphics to make quick work of even the most demanding Final Cut Pro X editing tasks.
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The 15‑inch model lasts up to 9 hours between charges, an hour longer than previously. That's impressive battery life for any notebook. But for a high-performance notebook with an ultra-high-resolution display, state-of-the-art processors and graphics, and a super-slim design, it's absolutely remarkable. The built-in battery gives you up to 1,000 full charge and discharge cycles.4
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Game Within a Game
Colorado Avalanche's Ryan O'Byrne, left, checks Vancouver Canucks' Maxim Lapierre.
Photograph by: Darryl Dyck , THE CANADIAN PRESS
ONE – Roberto Luongo, Canucks. Bobby Lou back in top form. Finished with 24 saves and 61st career shutout.
TWO – Max Lapierre, Canucks. One goal, plus-1, two hits, three takeaways, 6-for-10 on the draw.
THREE – Jason Garrison, Canucks. One goal, plus-2 and looking far more comfortable.
PIVOTAL POINT: With the Canucks up 2-0 but down two men late in the second period – both Keith Ballard and Chris Tanev were in the box – their much maligned penalty killers held the Avalanche to just one shot during a span of 1:25. The Canucks took it home from there.
The Canucks' record when leading after two periods improved to 2-0-2... The Avs' road record sunk 0-4-0. They've been outscored 15-3 in their four road losses... The Canucks power play broke an 0-for-15 drought when Zack Kassian steered home a perfect Dan Hamhuis feed on Vancouver's fourthvchance of the night... Canucks out-hit the Avs 23-22.
SAVE OF THE GAME: Early in the third period, with the Canucks on a power play and still clinging to a 2-0 lead, Avalanche centre Matt Duchene got behind the Vancouver defence pairing of Dan Hamhuis and Alex Edler, raced in alone on Luongo but Bobby Lou gave him nothing. Five minutes later, Kassian put the game away.
DID YOU NOTICE? When Canuck defenceman Keith Ballard delivered a text-book hip check to Avalanche winger Cody McLeod in the first period, McLeod came up seeking any Canuck scalp and finally settled on Dale Weise, who was nowhere near the play. Weise obliged McLeod nonetheless and the two fought.
IN THE CIRCLE: Canucks were 6-for-17 in the first period but rebounded in the second, going 17-for-27. Manny Malhotra and Max Lapierre were a combined 13-for-17 on the draw in the middle period. The Canucks wound up with a 31-27 edge, led by Malhotra's 10-for-13 night.
IN THE PRESS BOX: One-time Canuck defenceman Shane O'Brien was a healthy scratch for the Avalanche for the fifth time in six games. Also scratched for Colorado was blueliner Matt Hunwick. New captain Gabriel Landeskog (head, knee) and abrasive winger Steve Downie (knee surgery, out for the season) were unhealthy scratches... Andrew Ebbett, Andrew Alberts and Cam Barker sat out for Vancouver .


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13 February 2013 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Good news for individuals looking to get organ transplants - Researchers at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, develop pioneering 3D bioprinting technology
Singapore: A team of researchers from Scotland's Heriot-Watt University have developed a 3D printer that can print human embryonic stem cells, using which three dimensional human organs can be produced, thus ensuring reliable and animal-free drug testing. The technology will also enable the provision of organs for transplant-on-demand without the need for donation.
The research, which has been published in the journal Biofabrication, has been hailed as the greatest breakthrough in 3D bioprinting yet achieved. The researchers have shown that their 'valve-based' 3D printer is capable of printing human embryonic stem cells (hESCs).
Team member Dr Will Wenmiao Shu predicted that, "Human organs can be cloned without the problems of immune suppression and potential organ rejection. In the foreseeable future, a small amount of human cells required for biopsy will be 3D-printed."
Dr Shu added that, "This method is gentle enough to maintain high stem cell viability and, most importantly, 99 percent of the printed hESCs maintained their pluripotency, whcih is the ability to differentiate into any other cell type."


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Black smoke from refinery is non-emergency, officials say
Black smoke billowing into the sky in the Wilmington area Saturday afternoon was the result of a non-emergency flaring operation at the Conoco Phillips Refinery and did not require a response from fire personnel, according to Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey.
The smoke could be seen throughout the area, prompting calls from concerned residents.
Betsy Brien, a spokeswoman for Phillips 66, which operates the refinery, said the plant "had a complete loss of power" and the refinery had been shut down.
Brien said the smoke was the result of "some product left in the line," adding that there was "nothing to worry about."
Long Beach resident Deborah Schoch, a former Times staff writer, was one of those who saw the smoke.
"People on the beach here have been speculating that it's a ship or oil tank," she wrote in an email.
Rustic Canyon fire grows to more than 30 acres
Fireworks debris at Hollywood Bowl caused minor injuries
Sweltering heat expected Saturday across Southern California
-- Ann M. Simmons
Photo: Smoke billows from the Conoco Phillips Refinery in Wilmington. Credit: Eddy W. Hartenstein / Los Angeles Times


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Dr. Christopher Busby calls Monbiot's claims "total nonsense," challenges British environmentalist to television debate
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Monday, March 28, 2011
Prominent nuclear and radiation expert Dr. Christopher Busby has slammed British global warming alarmist George Monbiot as being "criminally irresponsible" for writing a series of articles for the Guardian in which Monbiot downplays the threat of radiation from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in a bid to shore up his claims about man-made climate change being a far deadlier concern.
In the wake of Fukushima, we have seen numerous self-proclaimed environmentalists who are normally so quick to raise the alarm about devastation caused by man-made global warming, actually downplaying the environmental concerns attached to the Fukushima crisis, radiation, and nuclear power in general.
Chief amongst them is prominent British environmentalist George Monbiot, who in an article for the London Guardian last week entitled, Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power, wrote that critics of how Fukushima is being handled had, "wildly exaggerated the dangers of radioactive pollution".
"As a result of the disaster at Fukushima, I am no longer nuclear-neutral. I now support the technology," added Monbiot.
Monbiot's bizarre nuclear "kool-aid" moment was perhaps written in haste at a time when he believed Japanese claims that the crisis was diminishing. But in the past few days, the situation at Fukushima has worsened considerably. Officials hastily retracted numbers yesterday which suggested that radiation levels in the containment building of reactor number 2 were an astounding 10 million times above normal. In addition, water purifications plants across Japan have been told to stop taking in rainwater as radiation levels in the atmosphere continue to rise.
Monbiot's rhetoric is a stark reminder that many leading environmentalists don't give a damn about real threats to the environment, preferring instead to spend all their time obsessing about carbon dioxide emissions and thinking up new ways to exploit global warming fearmongering as a means of controlling every aspect of our lives.
While weaving terrorizing scenarios about man-made climate change making whole areas of the planet uninhabitable, most notably the island of Tuvulu, which global warming alarmists already claim has been abandoned due to rising sea levels when in fact its population has doubled in the past three decades, alarmists like Monbiot don't seem to be too fussed when real environmental catastrophes like Chernobyl really do make entire regions uninhabitable.
Indeed, others have gone even further. Columnist Ann Coulter appeared on Fox News to ludicrously proclaim that exposure to radiation was "good for you". Given that she's so enamored with the apparent health benefits of radioactive fallout, which new studies blame for nearly a million cancer deaths in the 25 years since Chernobyl, we offered to send Coulter on an all-expenses paid holiday to Fukushima. We've not heard back from her.
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During an interview with Paul Joseph Watson on The Alex Jones Show, nuclear expert Dr. Christopher Busby savaged Monbiot for dismissing the innumerable health and environmental threats posed by radiation exposure. Busby is a British scientist and former Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risks.
"I have to say that I know George Monbiot and he doesn't know anything," said Busby, adding that Monbiot's claims were "total nonsense," "tosh," and that it was "criminally irresponsible for him to write what he writes given that he doesn't know anything."
Busby also explained how Monbiot had approached him two years ago for information about the effects of low dose radiation and how he had gone to some length to write an article for Monbiot which he subsequently ignored. "He's quite ignorant, he's an ignorant person when it comes to this," said Busby.
"The nonsense he is writing now is much more dangerous because it's in the middle of a crisis when people are being exposed to these radionuclides and becoming contaminated," said Busby, before predicting a "very large and measurable increase in cancer and other ill health after this accident," for people living in northern Japan and Tokyo.
Busby, who warned that the situation at Fukushima was already worse than Chernobyl, openly challenged Monbiot to a live television debate on the issue.
"I do court cases on this issue and win them, so the evidence is just massive that he's wrong," said Busby, adding, "I've researched this stuff for 20 years, I've written two research papers on it, I've studied epidemiological correlations between radiation and health – I know what I'm talking about, these people don't know what they're talking about," he said.
Watch the full interview below. The comments about Monbiot begin after the 13:30 mark.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a regular fill-in host for The Alex Jones Show.
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Commenter EcksJay22 wonders if video games will hold up as well as the classic films of yesteryear in today's Speak-Up on Kotaku.
I was playing some Splinter Cell yesterday and remembering how jaw-droppingly amazing it's graphics were at the time. They were still okay, but a lot of the initial wow factor the game had was naturally, and understandably lost.
This got me to thinking, will games age as gracefully as other media? Great art is great regardless of its age, great music or literature is timeless, and great movies remain amazingly watchable on their own merits, regardless of technological advances.
Games, though, are certainly much more heavily reliant on technology. This is a relatively unique position. Old black & white movies were technologically limited, but great ones stand on separate merits. We can appreciate and love old games, sure, but 'old' games are only 20-30 years old. We aren't at a point where avid gamers are a generation removed from early works. Mario is 20-30 years old, the Wizard of Oz is 75+.
Obviously we can't know how this will play out, I just thought the technological reliance of the medium will create some interesting and unique dynamics as years turn into decades.
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The abrupt departure of Vikram Pandit as CEO of Citigroup (C), as well as the retirement of COO John Havens on Tuesday "shocked all of us in the banking community," said Nancy Bush of SNL Financial, which sells banking data and news worldwide, on Wednesday.
Still, Bush adds, from her blog on the SNL website, while the shifts appear sudden to outsiders, they should not be viewed as a "disorderly transition."
"Quite the contrary — a disorderly transition would have been one in which there was no new CEO waiting in the wings and in which Citigroup Chairman Michael O'Neill would have had to step into the breach as interim CEO or other temporary arrangements would have been made," explained the veteran analyst.
Bush gives the example of Brian Moynihan, CEO of Bank of America (BAC), as a chaotic transfer of power, in which "several candidates are entertained but not hired and then the board decides at the last moment that the 'ideal candidate' is already in the management structure," she said.
"I'd venture that Moynihan continues to suffer somewhat from the sloppy and arbitrary nature of his ascendance to the top spot, and Citi's new CEO, Michael Corbat (who looks like he came from banking central casting) will happily have no such burden from the outset of his tenure," the analyst stressed.
Looking back at Pandit's history at Citigroup, "I would first point out that he was an 'accidental CEO.' "
After kicking out the "hapless" Chuck Prince when the financial crisis began, the bank "essentially turned to a hedge fund manager without banking experience" into a top executive with "a nightmarish job."
In his early days as CEO, Citi lost out on a deal with Wachovia to Wells Fargo (WFC). And Pandit had "epic clashes with FDIC head Sheila Bair." In other words, he "did not move on easily from there to fit into the bank CEO mold," explains Bush.
More recently, Pandit led an "abortive promise" of a dividend increase to the Citi shareholders, which was reportedly nixed by the Fed. He also saw his pay package rejected by shareholders and Morgan Stanley acquire more of the Smith Barney joint venture.
These issues, along with a lagging share price and "the perceived slow pace of the shrinkage of Citi Holdings," soon led the board to conclude that an executive with more bank "operational experience" was needed, Bush explains.
Unlike others in the industry, Pandit's legacy is not that of "a really bad CEO" or of "a visionary and indispensable" top executive, she notes: "Instead, he was a crisis-era fixer who steadied the company and placed it on its present trajectory, and now it's time to move on to the next chapter."
The leadership transition is a signal that Citigroup's board "finally awoke from its torpor and started listening to the demands of its shareholders," says Bush. "This is a huge development in a normally complacent industry, and this is sure to be noticed by directors of banks both large and small."
The analyst also argues that it represents "that the era of crisis has passed and that we have moved into an era that will prize operational skills over strategic 'vision,' and we can all thank God for that."
Yes, this shift means a "new era" of bank leaders and "boring" industry results, Bush concludes.
"The departure of Pandit, while certainly newsworthy, may mark one of the last of the paroxysms of 'shock and awe' among the major banks."
Can investors and observers live with "a banking industry that's not going to blow itself up every seven years or so?" she asks.
The future is likely to mean less volatility, lower dividend growth and so forth, Bush says. "This is all ahead of us now, but I can say that in the wake of the events of the past five years, boring is looking pretty good to me."


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When Facebook announced its Facebook Home interface for Android phones on Thursday, there was immediate concern — especially from GigaOm's Om Malik — about the privacy implications of a Facebook app that's always on and which might be able to monitor your location at any time.
Facebook has now responded:
Since the announcement of Home yesterday, we've received a few questions about how Home works with privacy. Home is software that turns your Android phone into a great, living, social phone. Home doesn't change anything related to your privacy settings on Facebook, and your privacy controls work the same with Home as they do everywhere else on Facebook.
It's pretty standard: Facebook has an event to announce something new and doesn't really address privacy issues during its announcement. Which causes people to fear the worst. And even once Facebook has clarified matters, it's tough to totally eliminate suspicions which some people might have, once they've had them.
I think everyone involved might be happier if Facebook made a good-faith effort to anticipate what sort of concerns a new feature or product might prompt — and then forthrightly discussed them at the original event rather than after the fact.


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Managers at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) condoned and even participated in manipulation of LIBOR rates, according to a Bloomberg investigation. The behavior, said employees and others, extended beyond the four traders who were fired earlier in the year for their role in the practice.
Bloomberg reported Tuesday that employees, attorneys and regulators indicated that the practice was commonly accepted. Between 2007 and 2010 it was common for not just RBS traders but their managers as well to push the rate up or down to boost derivatives profits.
"This kind of activity was widespread in the industry," said David Greene in the report. Greene, a senior partner at the law firm Edwin Coe in London, added, "A lot of the traders didn't consider this behavior to be wrong. They took it as the practice of the trade. This is how things operated, and it seemed harmless."
Two people familiar with the interchange were cited saying that in 2007, Jezri Mohideen, who then headed the Singapore yen products area, used an instant message exchange to tell U.K. colleagues to lower the bank's submission of LIBOR on a particular day. He gave no reason in his message for the request, according to the sources, but the person on the other end complied and provided the figure that Mohideen had asked for.
Mohideen has denied that any such exchange took place, and was quoted in the report saying, "That didn't ever happen." Other managers who, along with Mohideen, were named in a lawsuit filed by one of the fired traders, Tan Chi Min, are also alleged to have taken part in LIBOR manipulation. Tan brought suit in the Singapore High Court against RBS in December, saying that he was wrongfully dismissed and alleging that rate manipulation was accepted at RBS, involving traders and managers throughout the company.
Regulators, according to two unidentified sources, are examining several parts of the bank's fixed-income division, including Swiss franc, yen and U.S. dollar sales and trading. The bank itself began an internal investigation more than two years ago; it is still ongoing.
The sources said that swaps, foreign exchange and inflation trading teams are under the microscope along with money-market traders making daily LIBOR submissions. Email, phone and instant messages are all under scrutiny.


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(CNN) -- Hollywood actress Ellen Page, known for her role in the movie "Juno," announced she is gay, in a very public way.
Page broke the news during an emotional speech Friday in a crowded conference hall in Las Vegas, her publicist confirmed to CNN.
"I'm here today because I am gay. And because... maybe I can make a difference," Page told a crowd at an event called Time to THRIVE, a conference to promote issues of the gay community.
The Canadian star got a standing ovation during the speech.
"I am tired of hiding and I am tired of lying by omission," Page told the crowd. "I suffered for years, because I was scared to be out."
Page, 26, spoke about football star Michael Sam, a man she called a "hero."
Sam, an All-American defensive lineman from the University of Missouri, also publicly revealed that he's gay this week.
Sam's announcement creates the possibility he'll be the first openly gay player drafted by the National Football League.
Page, who is set to star in an upcoming X-Men movie, said she had learned a lot from others who have publicly announced their sexual orientation.
"We deserve to experience love fully, equally, without shame and without compromise," she told the crowd.
Human Rights Campaign, an organizer of the conference, praised Page on Twitter.
"Congratulations, @EllenPage for taking the steps to live openly and come out as lesbian. #comingout," the organization tweeted.
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Young, male or indigenous more likely to suicide: report
DIVORCE, alcohol use, and the number of jobs in agriculture were three of the main factors driving the suicide rate in regional and remote Australia, a new report from the National Suicide Prevention Strategy revealed on Tuesday.
And regional Australians who were young, male or indigenous were much more likely to suicide, the 105-page report showed.
The report was completed by a team of researchers at Griffith University for the Department of Health and Ageing, in order to better inform the government's response to suicide in regional and remote areas.
Researchers found male suicide rates in remote areas of Queensland averaged 36.32 per 100,000 men - nearly twice the rate in metropolitan areas, at 18.25 per 100,000 men.
"What is clear from the findings of the present report is the importance of recognising the unique experience associated with suicide in rural Australia," the report reads.
"Certainly, not all suicide risk and protective factors are unique to one region, locality or context; however, there were factors which appeared to impact more significantly in rural areas.
"Although not examined in this report, there is a need for further research into the past and continuing impacts of natural disasters, such as droughts and floods."
Mental Health Minister Mark Butler said the report highlighted the "unique challenges" of addressing suicide in rural and regional areas.
"Suicide is devastating for families and communities, and we know that rural, regional and remote communities face rates of suicide around 20-30% higher than in metropolitan areas," he said.
"It's important that we have up to date and comprehensive research to help inform the policy initiatives being rolled out on the ground in these communities."
Mr Butler did not announce any new initiatives to tackle rural mental health or suicide, but said the government had already committed $14 million for rural and remote areas, of the total $292 million national prevention strategy.
The report also found farmers were particularly likely to commit suicide, with a job associated with the natural elements, easier access to guns and the "stoicism" of men on the land likely to play a role.
But divorce in couples living in regional and remote areas was one of the leading causes of suicide, with the loss of family connections, loss of income associated with a divorce and legal proceedings factors more likely to lead to suicide.
The report also found religious people, those taking anti-depressants and better educated rural people were less likely to commit suicide, but still more likely than similar people in metropolitan areas.
Income was also a likely factor in suicide, with remote and regional men earning less than their metropolitan counterparts.
Report authors recommended more support be provided to people in difficult circumstances in rural areas, improving education and lifestyle in rural and regional areas.
It also found more research needed to be done into the area, with large gaps in the public knowledge about suicide, its causes, and how to prevent it.
People in need have various services they can contact for help.
You can call Lifeline on 13 11 14, beyondblue on 1300 22 4636; Kid's Helpline on 1800 55 1800; Parentline on 1300 30 1300 (in Queensland) or 1300 1300 52 (in New South Wales).
- More recognition of the potential stressors associated with living and working in rural contexts from all governments, health service providers and the academic community
- Providing greater social and economic support to persons experiencing difficult circumstances (e.g. drought, floods) in rural areas. This could help in alleviating financial stress
- To facilitate further education and training of persons in rural contexts. Expanding the skill-base of persons residing in rural areas can allow greater social mobility and increase employment opportunities
- Addressing the lifestyle risks associated with suicide in rural localities, including problems in balancing the competing demands of work and family, the inappropriate use of alcohol, and recognising and seeking help for mental or physical signs of stress
- Encouraging the development of culturally appropriate and flexible sources of support


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Congratulations to you all on your excellent sleuthing!
Over the past couple of days you've sent pictures and written in about fake (or at least seriously questionable) Apple stores from Croatia to Colombia, Burma to Venezuela, Slovenia to Spain, and in a dozen locations right here in China. (I also appreciate the hilarity of the fake Hard Rock Cafe in Ho Chi Minh City and the fake Hooters in Cancun, but let's stay focused here.)
The most elegant and accomplished ripoff documented was a fake Apple store in Xi'an, China, sent in by numerous readers. Here it is:
Honorable Mention goes to the following examples of shanzhai – obviously they're not fooling anyone, but they won me over with their randomness and charm.
If anything totally outrageous happens on the "Apple Stoer" front (or if Steve Jobs ever emails me back), I'll be sure to let you guys know. In the mean time, I'm probably going to get back to my regularly scheduled blogging, which, it may shock you to hear, does not generally deal with a certain Cupertino, CA-based electronics giant. Hope you'll stay with me.
Thanks for coming along on this wild ride! It's been a blast.
Video courtesy of Next Media Animation.
ETA: The reader who sent in the picture from Zagreb was under the impression that the Apple store depicted was a fake. Several readers have now written in saying that it is, in fact, an authorized reseller. I still like the photo, so perhaps the store in Zagreb will forgive me for keeping it up and consider it a bit of free advertising.


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Story highlights
- Bill Clinton was once the most famous aficionado of Big Macs and other high-calorie offerings
- He and McDonald's say they are now joining efforts to help fight obesity
- McDonald's will soon offer a fries substitute: Side salad, fruit or vegetable
- Center for Science in the Public Interest offers limited applause for the move
Back in the day, Bill Clinton was the highest-profile devotee of the highest-calorie items on the McDonald's menu.
What a difference a few years -- and a quadruple-bypass surgery -- can make.
The fast food giant and the former Big Mac fan-in-chief announced they were coming together Thursday to help fight the scourge of obesity.
Instead of just French fries to go with your value meal, McDonald's soon will offer you a choice of a side salad, fruit or vegetable as a substitute.
They also pledged to promote only water, milk and juice as the beverage that comes with a Happy Meal and to use Happy Meal packaging to "generate excitement" for fruits and vegetables.
"If we want to curb the catastrophic economic and health implications of obesity across the world, we need more companies to follow McDonald's lead and to step up to the plate and make meaningful changes" Clinton said in a McDonald's press release. "I applaud them for doing it."
But not everyone was popping the Champagne after the announcement -- or even the water, milk, or juice.
"Ronald McDonald's slow march toward healthier meals made a major advance today, but a long road lies ahead for the company" said Margo Wootan of the Center for Science in the Public Interest. It's something even McDonald's acknowledged.
"And we know there's more to do" CEO Don Thompson said in a statement. "We will continue to use our size and scale around the world to help educate, empower and encourage our customers to make informed choices so they can live a balanced and healthy lifestyle."
McDonald's said these new changes will come to 20 major markets around the world and will be fully implemented by 2020.


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'American Idol' Shakeup! Simon Cowell Might Be Replaced By … Shock Jock Howard Stern??
Would you watch someone as controversial as Howard Stern on THE most popular reality TV show in America?
We thought Simon Cowell was a tough judge, but shock jock Howard Stern would take "critical" to a whole new level. The notoriously political radio host is rumored to be in talks with Fox to replace Simon on American Idol next year, but can you really imagine him perched behind a table with Randy Jackson and Ellen Degeneres?
It's an [insert 'what the heck are they thinking' adjective here] thought and that's why the bigwigs love the idea of replacing Simon — who makes an alleged $50-million a year on Idol —with the highest paid and incredibly controversial dude in town.
"They know he would be great TV and would clash with the other judges such as Ellen DeGeneres and the contestants. Idol will do what it takes to sign him," an insider dished to the New York Post. "It's one of the few shows that could compete with Stern's $100 million-a-year Sirius contract, and Idol bosses think he'd be even nastier than Simon."
Yeah, you think? Howard Stern, 56, makes Simon Cowell, 50, seem like a sweet, unassuming kitty in comparison.
Even though Fox is after him big time, Howard isn't totally on board with the idea of judging wannabe rock stars.
"I was approached by a major TV network to take over a TV show and leave here and do that next year — and I did turn it down," the host told audiences on his Sirius XM Radio show recently. "I'm not even sure if I want to be working. I'm waiting to see what happens."
An alleged 100,000 contestants auditioned to be on American Idol season nine, but if Howard Stern becomes a judge, we bet that number drops. He's freaky scary!
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An East-Western Love Brawl
Mahfouth, a Tunisian immigrant, does not believe in love. He leads the life of a loner in Paris, roaming the city by night like a modern-day heir to Hermann Hesse's "Steppenwolf". By day he teaches Arabic literature at a university, but the nights draw him outside to wander the abandoned streets in a restless odyssey, until he arrives at the hotel where he earns a living as a night porter.
One day, however, he meets the love of his life. He comes across her – where else in Paris – in a café, sitting alone at a table. First glances are quickly exchanged, followed by a few banal words. Mahfouth pulls his chair over to Marie-Claire's table – as Selmi puts it, he does not even have to stand up: "a slight twist was enough to sit opposite her," and their initial intensive flirtation blossoms into a love story.
It seems as if Mahfouth could not have met a better woman. Marie-Claire, a rather commonplace but lovable Parisian with great joie de vivre, dreams of the big wide world. She candidly admits that she met many "great boys", men from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Algeria, during her two years at university (she dropped out because she did not want to become a teacher). She has read "the most wonderful foreign novels" and toured around several countries. Mahfouth instantly falls in love with this spirited woman, and it appears to be a win-win situation for both of them when Marie-Claire gives up her attic flat and moves in with Mahfouth a few months later.
Cultural gap or everyday relationship problems?
Yet Mahfouth has trouble coming to terms with his new role in a long-term relationship. To begin with, he enjoys Marie-Claire's presence, is crazy about her body, her scent, her charisma. Marie-Claire turns his life on its head, redecorates his apartment, which she finds old-fashioned, removing the wallpaper and carpets and buying modern furniture to create a home for the two of them. But then come the first problems, a series of arguments and jealous tiffs, and the reader wonders whether these difficulties are down to the cultural gap between them or merely "normal" relationship problems that crop up everywhere in the world.
Habib Selmi's seventh novel, shortlisted for the Arab Booker Prize in 2009, investigates the possibilities for a stable Arab-European relationship – in a light and entertaining manner. With a precise and subtle eye, Selmi observes the diverging perceptions on either side, the different approaches to life. Rather like an experiment to establish the dynamics of a bi-cultural couple, the novel closely follows the process of attraction and repulsion in a contemporary relationship, which begins in euphoric intoxication and ends in misery.
The narrator's portrayal of Marie-Claire is sensitive and precise. Not only her love of plants, but also her pleasant sensibility as a whole make her a likeable character. Her interest in Mahfouth's life is genuine and honest, and she is very willing to take a back seat to his wishes.
Melancholy earnestness
Despite his cultural background, Mahfouth in contrast, the first-person narrator, by no means fulfils the cliché of the Arab lover. He is a reserved, introverted man lacking the characteristics of a dominating daredevil. All the more painful for him, then, that the relationship that began with great romance ends in failure. As if the narrator were aware of this himself, he seeks the reasons for that failure as he tells his story.
In painstaking detail, almost as if taking minutes, he focuses a microscope on the couple's life together, describing the ups and downs, the passing of days and months. Things come to a head during a camping holiday on Crete, with Mahfouth's unbeatable ineptness lending the episode an air of the grotesque. Touches like these give the novel its comic sides, despite its overwhelming sense of melancholy and earnestness.
Ultimately, the differences between Mahfouth and Marie-Claire seem too great; both on the personal level and also before the backdrop of their different origins, their problems seem irreconcilable. Mahfouth, the immigrant with a village upbringing plagued by loneliness, cannot find harmony with the confident, thoroughly Western urban woman. Their silence and mutual misunderstandings become ever greater.
Love as an unfathomable puzzle
Habib Selmi also provides very detailed descriptions of the couple's sex lives, perfectly demonstrating how to tackle the subject in literary form without drifting into embarrassment. It comes as no surprise that their gradually crumbling relationship fails in the bedroom too. While sensuality and sexuality are initially a source of great happiness for both of them, as the book goes on they turn into a frustrating lack of fulfilment that finally comes to a head in an éclat.
One evening, a drunk Mahfouth loses control of himself and tries to force Marie-Claire into sex. Although he does not actually rape her, he ends up calling her a whore in the ensuing argument. She cannot forgive this insult plucked out of thin air, and the end of their relationship is now inevitable.
This failure no doubt reveals a fundamental conviction on the part of the author, who – as he writes in the afterword – considers love an unfathomable puzzle, its coming and going remaining concealed from our understanding. It is not least this assessment that brings Selmi's quiet novel close to the great romance stories of world literature.
Volker Kaminski
© Qantara.de 2010
The Scents of Marie-Claire: A Modern Arabic Novel, translated from the Arabic by Fadwa Al Qasem. American University in Cairo Press 2010, 172 pages
Habib Selmi, born in Kairouan/Tunisia in 1951, is a university lecturer of Arabic and has lived in Paris since 1983. He has published novels and short story collections and is widely regarded as one of the most important Tunisian authors writing in Arabic.
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de
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In his latest novel, the French–Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun writes about an old Moroccan man who returns to his homeland after 40 years in France and finds himself torn between two cultures. Kersten Knipp spoke to Tahar Ben Jelloun
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In Yasmina Khadra's new novel, years of unfulfilled desire between a French woman and an Algerian man reflect the dramatic relationship between the Occident and Orient; two worlds that bring so much suffering upon each other yet struggle so desperately for reconciliation. A review by Volker Kaminski
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The winner of the first Arabic Booker Prize was no great surprise. The Arab-British jury chaired by the Iraqi writer Samuel Shimon decided in favor of Sunset Oasis by the Egyptian novelist Bahaa Taher, the most prominent of the six finalists. Mona Naggar reports
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This small, lightweight Police Strength Pepper Spray, for Self-Defense with Keychain for Women and Men, is equipped with a flip top lid that eliminates target acquisition difficulties while still preventing accidental discharges. It is easy to carry and can easily be tucked away into purses, bags, or pockets. The keychain makes it convenient to hook onto a key lanyard or ring, making it easily accessible when you need it, should you encounter a threat while walking, travelling, or running errands. This FIRE-HOT formula is the same used by law enforcement and can shoot a stream spray pattern up to 10 feet.
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Energy security is pretty easy to get a handle on—don't buy oil from the Middle East, Russia, Nigeria and Venezuela. We don't need it anyway. We have plenty of energy right here in good old North America. The problem is that it is not cheap energy and it is not clean energy. We can make it clean, and we will, but it will be even more expensive. And actually that is good because we won't waste it when it is expensive.
To be perfectly clear we don't have an energy crisis we have a cheap oil crisis. We are running out of light, sweet, Arabian crude (Figure 1 and Figure 2). And guess who has the oil (Figure 3)? The sooner we run out of it the better. As soon as the price of oil gets high enough we will change over to another energy source.
Figure 1: "King" Hubbert—When a modified Hubbert approach is applied to world oil production we see that either "peak oil" is here already or very close. M. King Hubbert was a geoscientist who worked for Shell Oil in Houston who predicted correctly that US oil production in the lower 48 states would peak in 1972. Dr. Hubbert predicted this in the 1950's. Graph is from the Uppsala Hydrocarbon Depletion Study Group.
Figure 2: Where Have All the Dinosaurs Gone… Long Time Passing?—Oil comes from dead dinosaurs (according to the Fred Flintstone school of geology) and there aren't no more dinosaurs around to die….we aren't growing more dinosaurs. Let me translate. There is only a fixed amount of oil to find and that amount is a function of our Planets geologic history. When you are using twice as much as you are finding you will run out. I see a pattern developing here between current Government energy policy and current Government economic policy…Only a Government can spend twice as much as it collects. Graph is courtesy of Chevron Oil.
Figure 3: Who Has The Oil? Nice, stable governments. Graph is courtesy of British Petroleum.
Here's the way I see it. The first thing you have to understand is that energy security is first and foremost a car-truck-transportation problem that—as it gets solved—will change the rest of the economy—for the better I might add. In fact we have already solved the transportation problem although most folks don't appreciate it. The good news is that the Government didn't do it and couldn't do it. The bad news is that Government might yet still screw it up. I want the marketplace and innovation to sort it out. The only thing we need from government is a modicum of environmental protection so we don't pee in our collective planetary bed while this gets sorted out. I think we can count on that—the environmentalist's heads would otherwise explode run the vehicle using juice we get from the grid rather than juice we get from the gasoline. As we transition current hybrid vehicles from nickel hydride to lithium ion battery technology we are going to be able to plug-in the vehicle and get 50 to 75 miles between charges. This is a big deal because this is the distance of the average commute. And we don't have to worry about running out of battery power because we still have the gasoline there to take over when we run the battery down.
It gets even better when we dilute the gasoline with ethanol—and boy can we dilute it—up to 85 percent (E85 ethanol is 85 percent ethanol, 15 percent gasoline)—and presto—end of transportation energy problem, hello energy independence. The vehicles will have all electric drive1—gasoline/ethanol will be burned only to run a generator to charge the battery packs.
Will the vehicles get smaller? What are you on crack? This is America—the land of the 60 oz. Slurpee and the 40 oz. bladder. We are a nation of big assed Americans with big assed cars and trucks. We are going to go for high performance and size. How do you say 500 brake horsepower in kilowatts? Do you have any idea what torque you can get with series-shunt electric drive? We don't have the tire technology to take the stress. Electric dragsters will leave the nitro burners in the dust.
So what is this transition of the transportation sector from petroleum to electricity and ethanol going to do to the rest of the economy? Well, electricity is going to get expensive—very expensive. And so is natural gas, because we make electricity from natural gas. Oh, we make electricity from coal too, but coal is dirty, and we are going to have to make it clean and that will make it expensive. So we will have expensive electricity made from natural gas and from clean coal. What about Nuclear? It will be cheaper to make the electricity out of clean coal than with Nukes. The big problem with Nuke is what to do with the waste. We were going to stick it in Nevada, but too many people live there now and the Congressional representation is now strong enough to kill that idea. So where to put it? What's a big state with no people and weak Congressional representation? I pick Montana.
With the plug-in hybrid I bet the cost of electricity will go to 35 cents/kilowatt and the cost of natural gas will double. At 35 cents/kilowatt that translates to 75 cent/gallon gasoline. Peanuts, nothing, zip, zilch. Electric plug-in hybrid vehicles win. The American Dream lives on—we do love our cars. Now, with winners, there are often losers.
Who loses? Pay attention here, now comes the fun part. Buildings consume 40 percent of all energy in the US economy (Figure 4)—more energy than the transportation sector (which pushes 30 percent). We cool our buildings with electricity and heat our buildings with natural gas. Folks, we are going to triple the cost of air conditioning and we are going to double the cost of heating. The transportation sector is going to compete with the building sector for the same energy and the transportation sector is going to win.
Figure 4: Energy Flow In the US Economy—Neat graph—energy "input" into the economy on one side and where it goes—the "output"—on the other side. Note that the building sector currently uses the most energy—more than transportation and more than industry. The transportation sector will compete with the building sector for the same energy. Guess who will win? Graph is from the US Energy Information Agency.
A rational person would say, OK, just make the buildings smaller, with smaller windows, and smaller appliances. I remind you this is America. Twiggy is an European icon. Anna Nicole is an American icon. Next question. We are not going to get smaller buildings but we are going to get ultra efficient buildings. We are going to double and triple the amount of thermal resistance in the typical building enclosure. We are going to insulate, and we are going to insulate big time.
Now this is both good and bad. Good for energy security, bad for building durability. Insulation reduces energy flow and here is a good time to remind everyone that there is no such thing as a free thermodynamic lunch. As the energy exchange across building enclosures reduces, drying potentials reduce and this means we are in for a world of hurt in the coming years in terms of corrosion, decay, mold and other moisture induced deterioration as we change our building technology to take into account the new energy cost realities. It gets ever worse, or better, depending on who profits from the problems, when you consider that over 80 percent of the buildings that will be around in 2035 are already here and they will have to be insulated as well (Photograph 1 and Figure 5). Who knows how to do that? I can tell you who does not: the info babes and male models on cable TV doing renovation shows.
Photograph 1: 1912 Sears Craftsman House Retrofit—Super insulated retrofit done to an existing century old building in Concord, MA. Section shown in Figure 5. This is what the future for existing buildings looks like.
Figure 5: Super Insulated Retrofit—R-60 roof, R-40 walls, R-20 basement wall insulation, R-10 basement slab insulation. Reduces total energy consumption to 65 percent of that of a similar building constructed to the 2003 Model Energy Code.
Building science and building diagnostics and building technology and building rehabilitation are going to boom because things are going to bust. Can it get even better? Yes. They can't out source the jobs offshore to Bangalore, India. This has to be fixed by Americans right here in America. The future is not in plastics, my boy, the future is in construction. Actually, the future is in fixing construction.
Lets now go back a step and look at the ethanol part of this a little bit more closely. Where are we going to get the ethanol? Look around Grasshopper. The politicians are meddling. Corn is not the right play for the ethanol source, but that is where the subsidies are going. It is never smart to trade food for fuel. The price of corn is going way up. That means beef prices go up too—the Big Mac price index is in for a ride. Yes, food prices are going to go up because the politicians are meddling. Cellulosic ethanol is the answer, but we will get corn ethanol in the short term until this silliness gets sorted out.
Now, this is not the key point for us in the construction industry, entertaining as it may be. This ethanol thing is going to affect us in a big way once the marketplace figures out that cellulosic ethanol is the right play. One of the dominant building materials we use is cellulose fiber. It is likely to be a winner in the future as well. However, it does not make sense for us to get this cellulose fiber by cutting down 1,000-year-old trees in Washington State. We should be growing and harvesting our fibers in Iowa, and Nebraska and Mississippi and Alabama on plantations.
And we are beginning to do so. The days of 2x10's and dimensional lumber are over. The rise of engineered wood, OSB, hardboard, particleboard, fiberboard and laminated paper composites has arrived. All of these products are cellulose fiber based. All will be in competition for the same cellulose fibers that the transportation sector also covets. Cars will be competing with buildings for the same energy and raw materials. We know who will win. The car always wins. That means that the fibers the building sector will get will be second rate and expensive. And none of the engineered wood products are as durable as the real thing—wood. We will be adding stuff to the fibers to make the stuff work. I predict the stuff won't stay in the stuff and we will have environmental issues right along with the durability issues. Damage Functions and the Arrhenius2 Equation here we come.
The steel industry and the concrete industry and the glass industry are going to take their lumps in all of this. Steel and glass and concrete architecture may win design awards, but you can't build energy-efficient structures out of steel and glass and concrete—unless you reduce the amount of glass and insulate the rest on the outside.
We are going to have fun boys and girls. Think about what lies ahead? Less robust materials in highly insulated building enclosures with low drying potentials. Stuff is going to stink, rot, break and otherwise annoy. This process has already begun, with part load humidity problems and mold. There are going to be a lot of mistakes in the next decade as we get all of these things sorted out. But I wouldn't trade this for anything else in the world. Because our country needs us to clean up the mess from the energy security ethanol hangover we are going to have.
The General Motors "Volt" is an impressive piece of work.The internal combustion engine runs only a generator to keep the battery pack charged. It is all electric drive. I had my doubts about GM—I still do—but they could actually pull this off. I can hardly wait for 2010 when it rolls out. This vehicle could change everything. Detroit could get its Mojo back—and help the Republic as well.
Svante Arrhenius. Dead, European, Nobel Prize Winner, no longer fashionable to study. Dr. Arrhenius showed that every 10 degree Kelvin rise in temperature "doubles the badness" for materials. Same for relative humidity and ultra-violet radiation. The Arrhenius Equation addresses the effect of the temperature, relative humidity and UV damage functions on building materials. He also "invented" the "Greenhouse Effect." It wasn't Al Gore—Mr. Gore was too busy inventing the internet…


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Do yourself a favor. The moment you grab a copy of the new The Ecstasy of Defeat: Sports Reporting at Its Finest by the Editors of the Onion – a collection of the best articles Onion Sports has to offer – flip immediately to the Forward, and then the Acknowledgements.
You'll have plenty of time for fantastic Onion Sports pieces like "Brett Favre Demands Trade to 1996 Packers," and "Barry Bonds Took Steroids, Reports Everyone Who Has Ever Watched Baseball" – just make sure you stretch out first with the Forward by Anabolic Steroids. Follow the exhilarating journey of this little performance-enhancer as it conquers the World Series, horse races and little league championships. "They say my time has come and gone, a brief violent explosion of human potential and shattered records, of strained connective tissue and ever-thicker necks, of towering home runs and unstoppable defense linemen," explains Steroids. "Not a bad career for a simple synthetic hormone with relatively humble aspirations."
The Ecstasy of Defeat is the first book presented by Onion Sports – and it has been a long time coming explains head writer and associate editor, Seth Reiss. "We've been working hard at it for a while," Reiss says. "And it's kind of cool to see the content that the editors like – and want to put in – all in one package."
Reiss actually got his start at The Onion as a writer for Onion Sports. Now, aside from editing riffs on current events, Reiss contributes to McSweeney's, and performs in his sketch comedy group Pangea 3000. (FYI, Pangea 3000 are Sound of Young America alums and Reiss is a loyal donor). As far as The Ecstasy of Defeat goes, Reiss has few qualms about kicking the pedestal out from under major sports figures. "They're so larger than life that it's already so silly anyway, so its kind of funny to just bring them down a little bit," Reiss says. "Even if a sports figure is known for being really nice, it's funny to make him do really awful things."
Reiss says he is a sports fan, "[b]ut I feel like my in-depth knowledge ends at about 1998." Reiss grew up in Connellsville, Pennsylvania – a sports heavy environment just 45 minutes south of Pittsburgh – where football, hockey and high school wrestling were all huge. When asked if he was ever an athlete, Reiss answers, "I played basketball in 9th grade, and I played golf throughout high school, but overall no," he says with a laugh.
Speaking of back home – Reiss contemplates what Ecstasy of Defeat story his mom might like best, or rather, what he might show off to convince mom her son is a funny human being. Reiss settles on "Kobe Bryant Scores 25 In Holy Shit We Elected A Black President" and maybe "Mr. Met Having Trouble Sleeping in New Home." With Dad? "It's even worse – he thinks I'm less funny than my mom," Reiss says. "Anything that has to do with Pittsburgh or the Steelers he'll probably like." Reiss decides upon "Michael Vick Fails To Inspire Team With 'Great' Dogfighting Story."
The sports world is always a whirring beehive of events and scandals, and now Ecstasy of Defeat has been added to the mix. "People are so passionate about their teams and their favorite players that it really is always a good time for sports," Reiss says. "Because to some people sports is one of the most important things in the world."
Well said.
This review and interview was created by intrepid MaxFun reporter Lauren Cusimano.


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Jack Brighton is a British author who specialises in M/M erotica - most of which, but by no means all, falls into the category of BDSM - a way of life that he has rich experience of. There are romantic overtones in some of his work, but you tend to get what it says on the label. All the books fall under the banner 'Flaming Hot Gay BDSM' or 'Flaming Hot Gay Erotica', so don't expect anything else. But do expect them to be flaming hot, with plenty of storyline and character development. A dry sense of humour also features, and a very vivid imagination. He is best known for his 'Tales from The Wild Side' series, where that imagination runs riot.
Jack was brought up in a mining community in the west of Scotland, took his degree at Stirling, did a year's post- graduate in Edinburgh, then moved south to London, where he taught for a few years before moving into the finance sector, based in The City. Many of his stories draw on this background - as a gay man trying to find himself in what was more often than not a hostile environment.
Having given up the rat race, Jack became a full time writer in 2010. He now lives in Brighton with his long term partner.
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It seems like ages since I last posted anything on this blog. Once again I've been caught up with school and also....I have a new blog that has been consuming all of my time lol. As of right now, I still want to keep this blog because it was my first blog and it really kept me focused on Islam. Limiting myself to mainly write about Islam helped me to increase my knowledge alhamdulilah, so slowly I want to get back into it. Also, if you want to get the link to my other blog on Tumblr, please email me at email@example.com or leave your email and I'll send it to you. I blog so much more on there so let me know if you want to keep in touch.
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