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The expansion of the ETF universe continues to spawn innovative instruments for mainstream investors of all styles and sizes, making it easy for virtually anyone with an online brokerage account to build a truly globally-diversified portfolio. With innovation also comes complexity however, and the towering lineup of over 1,400 exchange-traded products may seem intimidating at first glance. Quratulain Hashmi, President of Razor Hedge Investment Management, is a passionate advocate for the retail investor, and her firm's vision centers around the notion of democratizing access to institutional investment opportunities. Quratulain recently took time to discuss how her firm utilizes ETFs and takes a creative approach in bringing professional investment management strategies at the fingertips of self-directed investors [see Free Report: How To Pick The Right ETF Every Time].
ETF Database (ETFdb): What is Razor Hedge?
Quratulain Hashmi (QH): Razor Hedge is an investment management firm that aims to level the playing field for the individual investor and independent advisors versus the big institutional investors. In short, we aim to democratize access to institutional investment strategies while raising the bar on transparency and integrity in the investment management process. Our innovative investment platform answers the basic questions: How to invest prudently? How to efficiently execute portfolio over time? How much to save for retirement? How much to take out in retirement? We simplify investing and help individual achieve their long-term goals.
ETFdb: Explain the basic idea behind the Razor Hedge Prudent Manager Indexes.
QH: The Prudent Manager Index (PMI) portfolios provide an appropriate long-only global asset allocation benchmark for any level of risk exposure. PMI are asset class index portfolios that are well diversified, reduce the excess volatility of stock picking and provide consistency of returns relative to the top institutional asset managers. The portfolios are allocated over a broad set of global equity, bonds and alternative asset classes that provide the most liquid investments opportunities. The index portfolios reflect the consensus view of the top 500 institutional global investment managers. This strategy reduces the idiosyncratic risk of the individual advisor that comes from their unique and divergent economic views. The PMI provides 101 portfolios that span the entire risk/return frontier from 0% to 100% allocation in risky assets, allowing the investor to choose just the right risk level based on their unique needs.
ETFdb: What was your inspiration for developing this set of benchmarks?
QH: We set out to level the playing field for individual investors who traditionally would not have access to top institutional advisors. The asset allocation strategies available to most individual investors are tied to a rule of thumb approach and may not meet the specific needs of the investor. We wanted to build an investment strategy that allowed the retail investors to achieve returns consistent with a basket of top institutional managers [see 101 ETF Lessons Every Financial Advisor Should Learn].
ETFdb: Why does it make sense to use the ETF wrapper for investors looking to pursue this sort of strategy?
QH: Index ETFs generally provide better trade off on convenience, transparency, flexibility and net returns over mutual funds. From an operational perspective ETFs provide lower trading cost, have lower portfolio churn and have lower tracking error. Accordingly index ETFs make sense for the passive long-term investor
For taxable portfolios the advantage of ETFs is even greater. ETFs generally offer more efficient tax structures than mutual funds. The lower turnover ratio of ETFs reduces the taxable gains distributed to investors. Our innovative tax managed portfolio system aims to increase after-tax returns for investors. The strategy uses ETFs tax-loss harvesting to selectively realize capital losses and rotate to other index ETFs with similar risk exposure.
ETFdb: How might this strategy fit into a portfolio? Would you consider this as a core, or more tactical holding?
QH: Our PMI asset class portfolios can serve as the core strategic portfolio for any investor or advisor. We answer two fundamental questions.
The first question is what asset classes should one use? The PMI portfolios picks just the right set of asset class indexes that can result in the most diversified portfolios for any given level of risk. We start by selecting the appropriate asset classes that represent unique risk factors in the global financial markets. We have analyzed over 1500 investable indexes and from these found that just 20 asset classes indexes are most liquid investable and explain nearly all of the expected returns of all the other indexes and global investment managers. These asset classes serve as the core building blocks of our portfolios.
The second question is how to allocate between these core asset classes? The top institutional investment managers spend tremendous amounts of financial resources in deriving their unique economic views and carefully constructing their asset allocation. Our team has developed a predictive style analysis technology that tracks the largest 500 global mutual funds and calculates their daily changing asset allocation. The PMI is able to harness the intelligence of all these top managers and provide a prudent benchmark asset allocation for any given level of risk. These benchmark portfolios can serve as the core of any long-term investment strategy.
ETFdb: Explain the basic idea behind Razor Hedge taxable portfolio management with ETF tax-loss harvesting?
QH: Our taxable portfolio management strategy seeks to maximize the after tax return. We select appropriate tax-advantaged ETFs and manage them efficiently through our proprietary system [see Tax Loss Harvesting With ETFs].
We select ETFs that minimize short-term capital gains distributions thus reducing the tax drag on the portfolio. We also shift some of the portfolio fixed income allocations to ETFs that invest in tax-advantaged municipal securities. The Razor Hedge taxable portfolio system dynamically tracks the asset class risk exposure of the appropriate target PMI portfolio. The system selectively takes advantage of capital loss harvesting opportunities when the benefit of the action exceeds the associated costs. The system takes into account appropriate IRS laws and regulations when making the decisions.
ETFdb: There are some out there who believe ETFs have gone too far from their initial intention of offering broad-based exposure to buy-and-hold investors. What's your take on the innovation in the ETF industry over the last several years?
QH: We are advocates of passive index ETFs that are tax efficient, have low expense ratios and low portfolio turnover. The biggest economic value provided by the highly liquid index ETFs is that they are the source of price discovery of various risk factors that investors have reason to care about. Importantly, these index ETFs allow retail investors to efficiently build portfolios that hedge and diversify their pre-existing risk exposure. For example, a person who works in a highly cyclical industry might want their investable portfolio to diversify away from cyclical stocks. However, we remain cautious about the exotic investment strategies behind some of the more innovative ETFs and ETNs. It is not obvious if these products are appropriate for retail investors.
Bottom Line: Self-directed investors will continue to embrace the exchange-traded product structure as the preferred "building block" for executing cost-efficient strategies over the long-haul given its inherent advantages over traditional mutual funds. Innovation in the ETF industry has undeniably democratized the investing process, opening up the doors to strategies and asset classes that were previously out-of-reach for most individuals.
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It is almost time to plant the spring garden, but it is going to have to dry out first. We still have a couple weeks before we are actually in the "tater" planting window. One of the first things we can plant in Kentucky is potatoes, and I must admit that those first new potatoes in late spring rank right up there with the first tomato and ear of corn for me.
The St. Catharine College men's basketball team (22-7) will face top-seeded Georgetown College (28-4) today at 4 p.m. in the Mid-South Conference championship game in Frankfort. Catch the action live on 102.7 WYSB, or tune in via the Internet at www.1027wysb.com to listen.
The St. Catharine College men's basketball team will be in action today, facing West Virginia Tech in the opening round of the Mid-South Conference tournament in Frankfort at the Frankfort Civic Center. Tipoff is set for 4 p.m., and the game can be heard on the radio at 102.7 WYSB FM. Catch the live stream at 1027wysb.com
Two roads in Washington County were singled out for resurfacing during Friday's regular scheduled fiscal court meeting.
Patty Dunaway, a representative with the Kentucky Rural Secondary Roads program, spoke to the court about the 2011-12 rural secondary road program recommendations for road work in Washington County.
A new policy on county employees donating sick days to each other could be in the works for Washington County.
Washington County Judge-Executive John Settles brought before the court a request to consider what he called an emergency situation on Friday during a regularly scheduled meeting.
"We have a situation that has arisen, and to be quite honest, the employee has not asked for this," Settles said. "Some of the other employees have inquired about contributing some of their excess sick days to this employee."
Just when the fire appeared to have died down, the flames could now be fanned again.
The Washington County Fire Protection Association is again looking at a deadline to stop service to Washington Countians, despite the Washington County Fiscal Court meeting the fire protection group's request to formally give it support.
This Bald Eagle was seen in Washington County recently by a local citizen who reported it to The Springfield Sun. The location of the bird is not being released for its protection. According to Kate Hayden, an avian biologist with the Kentucky Department of Fish & Wildlife, there are only 84 pairs of nesting eagles in Kentucky.
Some boys that hunt by the Beech River are trying to make it big by talking turkey.
Well, kind of.
Three friends, Brandon Coslow, Steven Yaste and Stephen Parrott, started Beech River Game Calls a few years ago, and are picking up steam in the turkey- call world.
They make turkey calls of all kinds, and have even added something new to the market.
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Jewish community shootings: Frazier Glenn Cross makes first court appearance
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – The white supremacist charged in shootings that left three people dead at two Jewish community sites in suburban Kansas City made his first court appearance Tuesday.
Wearing a dark, sleeveless anti-suicide smock, Frazier Glenn Cross sat in a wheelchair as he was escorted to a video room for the hearing. He stood under his own power to face the judge, crossing his arms and speaking only when answering routine questions from the judge. He requested a court-appointed lawyer.
Cross is being held on $10 million bond and his next court appearance is scheduled for April 24.
Physician William Lewis Corporon, 69, and his 14-year-old grandson, Reat Griffin Underwood, were shot and killed outside of the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. Both were Methodist. Moments later, Terri LaManno, a 53-year-old Catholic occupational therapist and mother of two, was gunned down outside Village Shalom, a Jewish retirement complex where she was visiting her mother.
In Kansas, one of the narrow circumstances in which capital murder cases are pursued includes the intentional killing of more than one person in "the same act or transaction or in two or more acts or transactions connected together or constituting parts of a common scheme or course of conduct."
In this case, a single charge was applied to the deaths of Corporon and his grandson because the deaths occurred in a very short period of time as part of the same act, prosecutors said. LaManno's death doesn't meet the standard for capital murder, Johnson County District Attorney Steve Howe said, but he would not provide details or evidence gathered in the case to explain why.
Federal prosecutors say there's enough evidence to warrant putting the case before a grand jury as a hate crime, but U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said Tuesday that federal charges were likely a week or more away. Cross' state case would have to be resolved before he could be moved to a federal trial.
"Our system is more nimble, we can move a little bit quicker than the federal system. We've alleged he came into the community I've been elected to protect. ... This isn't about retribution, this is about seeking justice," Howe said.
Cross is a 73-year-old Vietnam War veteran from southwest Missouri who founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in his native North Carolina and later the White Patriot Party.
Cross shouted a Nazi slogan at television cameras as he was arrested after Sunday's killings, which shocked the city on the eve of Passover and refocused attention on the nation's problem with race-related violence.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit that monitors the activities of known white supremacists, says Cross, who also went by the name Frazier Glenn Miller, has been immersed in white supremacy most of his life. During the early 1980s, Cross was "one of the more notorious white supremacists in the U.S.," according to the Anti-Defamation League.
He was the target of a nationwide manhunt in 1987 for violating terms of his bond while appealing a North Carolina conviction for operating a paramilitary camp, and federal agents tracked Cross and three other men to a rural Missouri mobile home stocked with hand grenades and automatic weapons.
A federal grand jury indicted Cross on weapons charges and accused him of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center's founder. He served three years in federal prison.
Cross also ran for the U.S. House in 2006 and the U.S. Senate in 2010 in Missouri, each time espousing a white-power platform.


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Solid state electrical circuits that behave as artificial quantum atoms are now fabricated for processing quantum information, and for addressing fundamental issues in quantum mechanics. I will describe how a simple superconducting artificial atom, the Cooper pair box, embedded in a microwave cavity just as atoms are in cavity QED physics, provides a playground for quantum mechanics and an operational quantum bit. In this talk, I will give an overview of superconducting qubit circuits, and will discuss some quantum physics experiments.
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Authorities are hoping people will take a look at pictures of the clothes that were on a human skeleton found in Piercy last fall, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff"s Office.
Sheriff"s detectives haven"t yet identified the remains, found Oct. 30 in a shallow grave on the shore of the Eel River in the Northern Mendocino community, in the 83000 block of Highway 271.
"We"re hoping to generate some new leads," said MCSO spokesman Lt. Greg Van Patten of the purpose for posting the pictures on the Sheriff"s Office website. The photos were posted at the close of business Tuesday, and can be found at www.mendocinosheriff.com/missing/coldcases.html.
The tattered shirt found on the skeleton bears a faded message that is hard to read in the photograph, but authorities determined the shirt says, "Before I started working here I drank, smoked, and used foul language for no reason at all. But thanks to this job, I now have a reason."
As of Thursday, the posted pictures had generated no new leads, according to Van Patten.
Investigators believe the person whose remains were found buried was the victim of a homicide.
Earlier this month, detectives received a report from the California State University, Chico Human Identification Laboratory indicating that the skeleton belonged to a Caucasian man between 25 and 45 years old, with a height between 5 feet, 11 inches and 6 feet, 5 inches, according to the MCSO.
Sheriff"s detectives also in recent months requested the state Department of Justice"s help in extracting DNA from one of the skeleton"s bones to build a DNA profile for the remains, according to Van Patten.
Authorities estimated the body had possibly been buried several years, according to Van Patten, but are waiting for botany testing results — which look at root structures growing around the skeleton when it was found — to give a better idea of how long the remains had been in the ground.
When the DNA profile is ready, detectives hope to enter it into the Combined DNA Index System and compare the profile against the MCSO"s active missing persons cases.
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The nightmare is over -- for all parties involved.
Following through on owner Stephen Ross' words that neither Jonathan Martin nor Richie Incognito would return to the Dolphins after the 2013 harassment scandal, the Dolphins confirm they have agreed to trade Martin to the San Francisco 49ers.
Martin thus rejoins former Stanford coach and current San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh in the Bay Area.
Terms of the trade were not immediately available. But it is likely for a low-round pick. ESPN was the first to report this story.
The Dolphins invested a second round pick on Martin in 2012.
In 2013, Martin imploded.
Plagued by depression and self-esteem issues, and tormented by poor treatment from Incognito, John Jerry and Mike Pouncey, Martin admits in the Wells Report he felt suicidal in May 2013.
In late October he left the Dolphins in the middle of the season.
Now he's left the Dolphins for good.
Martin's reaction?
"Big news," he tweeted moments ago. "Opportunities are few in the NFL. Can't wait to get to work."
He added the hashtag: 9ersempire.
The Dolphins will carry $959,734 in dead money against their cap for the Martin trade.


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My Y-DNA & mtDNA Surnames & Haplogroups
Perhaps someone will spot a connection.
My Paternal Lineage: Surname McGINNIS. Y-DNA Haplogroup is I1b2a. Apparently my brother has a rare mutation called M284.
McGINNIS (DOWNEY spouse) - Co. Down Ireland to Ontario Canada 1847
McGINNIS (KING spouse) - Wellington Co. Ontario Canada
McGINNIS (PEER spouse) - Wellington Co. Ontario Canada
My Maternal Lineage: mtDNA Haplogroup is J
This follows the female lineage only from me, my mother, her mother, her mother's mother and so on.
ANSELL- England (married in Kent England 1792)
ELVERY - Kent, England
ELVERY- Kent England
STEAD- Kent England
SIMPSON - Kent England
Do you match any of these surnames and locations? I am going to start including this list in any emails I send to connections from Family Tree DNA . So far I've not heard back from anyone regarding my mtDNA and several email addresses bounce. I'm not sure why anyone would register with a DNA site, have their DNA tested and then not keep their contact information up to date. But they do.
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Do you follow Ancestorville Genealogy? Their Facebook page posts daily chats for different states/countries etc...perhaps you could find an upcoming chat for countries you have listed and find a connection that way?
Good Luck - I'm hoping to do this testing one day as well!
- NickMGombash said...
My paternal Y-DNA is Haplogroup I, as well. Although, my paternal line is from Hungary. Pretty interesting! I'm hoping to have my mtDNA in a few weeks.. that line is from Germany.
- Rachel Johnson said...
My mtdna is J2a1a. I had autosomal done, but cannot compare with Ydna. (yet) I have an ancestor Harvey Clark who was married to a Alice McGinnis. Her father was from Ireland and Mother from England. I will check further see if any other surnames match up. If you would like to look at my tree or get a report on that line of my family, just email. Rachel Johnson


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On the map, the distance between Miami and Key West is deceptively short -about an hour-and-a-half's drive, we figured in our km/h-addled brains.
Despite the warnings of the hotel concierge that it was probably closer to four hours, we smugly set out on a road trip that actually took us five hours.
The painfully slow route through 143 miles of what seemed to be continuous road construction had us crawling along at one mile an hour at times.
Fortunately, we had planned a stop halfway, at Isla Morado and a property called Moorings Village. This 18-acre property offers 18 private cottages and homes, ranging from one to three bedrooms, on what was once a coconut plantation.
The Moorings is the perfect spot for a wedding, reunion or extended family vacation. Each residence is self-sufficient, with its own wellequipped kitchen, television, telephone and in most cases, a washer and dryer. Guests drive golf carts to the nearby town for supplies.
Fronting the residences is one of the largest and most-photographed private beaches in the Florida Keys -and possibly the world. We toured the hurricane shelter/photo studio, where dozens of worldwide magazine covers of this stunning beach cover the walls.
Isla Morado is a narrow strip of land, so the resort's café across the highway is also on the beach. Cafe Morada is a tables-in-the-sand, funky and charming break from a long drive that uses the local catch to its simplest perfection. The view, combined with our toes in warm sand and yummy food, made us reluctant to leave.
Because of our late arrival, we had to hurry through lunch and get back on the road to make Key West before dark.
Once you pass Key Largo, this straight flat stretch of two-lane highway travels over 42 bridges flanked by water that really is that dreamy shade of milky Caribbean turquoise that you see on travel posters.
We arrived in Key West just as the sun was sliding into the sea, with no clear idea of where we were and no contact number for where we were staying.
At a gas station, I realized how Canadian I am when my request for a telephone directory was met with a blank stare and then, "Oh, you mean a phone book?" Minutes later, armed with the address and straightforward directions from the gas station attendant, we arrived at the gem that is The Marquesa Inn. The small luxury property is located in Key West's historic district with 27 guest rooms and the 50-seat Café Marquesa.
In 2011 alone, it made Travel + Leisure's "500 World's Best Hotels", Condé Nast Traveler's "2011 Gold List" and the 2011 Zagat Guide to Miami/ So. Florida Restaurants: "Most Popular" and "Top Food, Décor and Service". The Marquesa Hotel and Café Marquesa have consistently maintained a 4-Diamond Award from AAA since opening 21 years ago.
This charming (circa 1884) heritage preservation award winner is in a quiet area, but still only a short stroll from the action on Duval Street and the world-renowned Green Parrot. The night we visited, a ZZ Toptype guy was playing a solo on a washboard. The music and vibe were energizing, yet laid back. Very cool.
Next day on the advice of the inn's concierge (how to get the most out of Key West in a very short time), we rode the Conch Train through this historic area and learned (among many things) that the ghostly dilapidated concrete trellises we had seen en route to Key West once supported the trains that were the only connection (other than boat) between the mainland and the Keys. What a romantic time that must have been, I thought.
Jolted back to the reality of the train I was on by the driver's insistence on blasting clips of theme music and making us all dance in our seats; I felt like the ridiculous tourist that I was and considered next time I come I'll not choose accommodation along the Conch Train route.
The hub of Key West is a bit of a zoo. With half an hour left on our train tour, we'd had enough of the cheesy banter and hopped off to find lunch and some distance from the madness. Again on the concierge's advice, we followed the harbour walk to a place called Half Shell Raw Bar. Set in the heart of the historic seaport, this former shrimp packing plant is an authentic Key West fish house.
We had to try the raved-about Conch (pronounced conk), so we paired a Conch chowder with an oyster po' boy -delicious. Great atmosphere and people watching here but once again, all too soon, it was time to race back to the inn, pick up the car and try to make the 6 p.m. rental return deadline in Miami.
Unfortunately, on the way back we hit a torrential rainstorm like few I've seen -and I've seen a few. It was as if we were plunging the car into a river.
With wipers working full speed, the road was gone from sight for long seconds at a time. When we finally emerged from under the cloud, white-knuckled and shaken, the next person we spotted was a motorcyclist in shorts and a T-shirt with no helmet. There was no way to warn him. As I crossed my fingers for his safety, I began to understand why there are so many death markers along these roads. Very few riders wear helmets here.
The 6 p.m. deadline had come and gone, but as we neared Miami it still seemed like full-on rush hour and drivers all around us were doing ridiculous things.
At one point, while I was trying to decipher the map in near dark, some yahoo cut off the truck next to us. The truck blasted a horn that sounded eerily like the warning signal of a train and I jumped out of my skin.
Fortunately, I was navigating and not driving. I'd had enough, long before we pulled into the Intercontinental Hotel parking lot and handed the keys to the valet. We didn't know or care at that point that it would cost $34 to park the car for the night. It would have been cheaper to drop it in the rental lot as we had to pay the extra $50 overdue fee anyway.
Next time we visit, we'll allow more time to get into the laid-back spirit of the Keys.
And while I enjoyed most of the drive, I think I would also opt for the Key West Express ferry. The trip is made in under four hours, in a highspeed catamaran with bar and food service and is priced from $119 US round trip.
You'll arrive in Key West in a much more relaxed state. The historic district of Key West is a flat and easy walk, but you have the option of renting an electric car, bicycle or scooter to tour this quaint and kooky village.


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This Sunday, Germantown Avenue will be a one-stop shop to learn about many local charities and nonprofit organizations and to do so in a fun environment.
"Chestnut Hill Cares Day" is Sunday, June 12, from 12 to 3 p.m. Organized by the Chestnut Hill Business Association, the free event is designed to help local charities share their missions with Chestnut Hill residents and visitors in a fun and inviting way.
From the 8100 to the 8600 block of Germantown Avenue, representatives from local charities will host tables along the sidewalks with information about their good works.
Each location will also have activities especially designed for the kids – face painting, bean bag toss, pick-the-duck pond, football throw, Frisbee pass, cookies, arts and crafts, and lemonade. These activities and treats will be free though some will be activities will request a small donation.
"We are excited to host local charities and family-friendly activities along the Avenue," said Fran O'Donnell, owner of O'Doodles Toy Store. "We hope families come and stay for lunch or dinner, visit our great community playgrounds and the many unique shops along our retail corridor."
The idea for the Chestnut Hill Cares Day came from a Chestnut Hill Business Association's Retailers' Meeting. A group of area mothers had worked with O'Donnell to host an Alex's Lemonade Stand on the Avenue in celebration of the 8th Annual Lemonade Days. The retailers embraced this idea but wanted to extend the effort to include other charities that reach out to help children in need.
"Thus the seed was planted and the flower bloomed," O'Donnell said.
Approximately a dozen charities, including Autism Speaks, Teenagers Inc., God's Child Project (Guatemala), Rotary Club and MCAP (Montgomery Children's Advocacy Project) Special Olympics and the George Fund at Keystone Hospice, will be exhibiting in partnership with TD Bank at 8600 Germantown Avenue.
Kids can enjoy free freshly popped popcorn and TD's popular green and purple lollipops. Named in honor of George Hedges Pappert, who died a week before his fifth birthday, this fund provides care and support to terminally ill children and their families.
Representatives from ConKerr Cancer will be outside of Fabrics on the Hill at 8434 Germantown Ave. Young visitors will find sewing machines set up along the sidewalk, and for a donation of $10 they can sew and decorate their own pillowcase! The goal of ConKerr Cancer is to provide hand-made, personal pillowcases to children in hospitals throughout Delaware Valley.
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A Premature Release?
Thirty-two months of blood, sweat, and flames later, Netscape released the first commercial offspring of the much-touted and highly scrutinized Mozilla product today: Netscape Communicator 6.
This is a product that has been completely rebuilt from the ground up from the older releases' code (up to version 4.76) and it is apparent right off the bat that Netscape is indeed a subsidiary of America Online. It is also pretty apparent that there are still a lot of rough edges on this product's Linux version that led me to wonder why it had to come out the door like this.
Netscape 6, while aesthetically pleasing, gets some low marks on performance and broken parts of the interface.
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Downloading Netscape 6 for Linux 2.2 is supposed to be a matter of going to their Web site and clicking a link that will (a la Microsoft) download a mini-installer tarball that will in turn handle the bulk of the installation tasks.
What struck me as peculiar that after choosing the Linux version, the link took me to another page and tried to download the mini-installer without asking. Since I was using my local account, the tarball refused to uncompress itself.
I switched to root and tried again, and now this time the FTP site would not even let me download the tarball. Irked, but not daunted, I grabbed the tarball off of the FTP site myself and, using the installation instructions, started the installer program.
The machine I did this on was my SuSE 7.0 test machine, with 96 MB of RAM an AMD K6 chip. This was much more than Netscape's published requirements: a Pentium 233 or greater box with 64 Mb of RAM. The hard drive space is pretty hefty, weighing in at 26 Mb. You should also make sure you have glibc 2.1 and libjpeg.so.62 installed.
Running the install script was easy with a nice step-by-step dialog box to walk you through what amounted to three steps: read the README, read the license agreement, and choose from one of three installation paths. The choices were Recommended, Full, and Custom. If you want to use the Instant Messenger component of Netscape 6, you need to choose one of the latter two options. "Recommended" neither installs the IM component or the Java needed to launch the tool.
I recommend "Custom," because even if you have no plans to use IM, you'll need the Java components to acquire new themes for the browser, among other things. By choosing "Custom," you can also deselect a pesky little English (U.K.) package, which, if you are in the United States, is about as necessary as a sixth toe.
Once your choices are made, the installer gets to work pulling down the packages from the FTP site, which the install engine will then fit together into one cohesive package. You hope.
The download of these packages took an interminably long time, due to incredibly long pauses between each package that made me think the thing had hung up. Now, even though I have a cable modem, I was trying to download in the middle of the day, which may have been part of the problem. Still, even after getting the packages, the installation program did freeze completely during package compilation, forcing me (after a half-hour wait) to restart the app and go through the whole thing all over. I strongly urge you to try this during off-traffic hours, particularly if you have a dial-up connection.
After the second run, the Navigator window popped up in full glory and all seemed to be fine. Immediately I received an error message that Java support, despite getting installed, still needed to be turned on. A quick trip to the Preferences dialog took care of that, but it still was time wasted.
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Good morning and Happy Easter to everyone. It's a gorgeous day. The Mets have returned home after a so-so spring.
It's always fun looking at the standings before Opening Day. Zeroes across the board. Everybody is even. That's in theory, at least.
We do know that some teams are more even than others, and the Mets are not one of them.
They still have the same pitching questions as at the start of spring training, and Carlos Beltran and Jose Reyes will begin the season on the disabled list. So will Daniel Murphy and Kelvim Escobar.
Looking at tomorrow's projected line-up, and only two players – David Wright and Luis Castillo – were starters last year on Opening Day. Not a good sign.
Opening Day is a time for optimism and hope, but with these Mets it could be hoping they don't stink that badly. You want to be positive, but it is hard when you see that rotation.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- How the Rockies fill in the rest of the story could determine whether 2014 has a happier ending than the last two seasons -- which ended up as last-place finishes in the National League West.
Despite that, the Rockies can and do dream of a turnaround, and they have vehicles that can take them there.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- How the Rockies fill in the rest of the story could determine whether 2014 has a happier ending than the last two seasons -- which ended up as last-place finishes in the National League West.
Despite that, the Rockies can and do dream of a turnaround, and they have vehicles that can take them there.
Let's assume that shortstop Troy Tulowitzki and left fielder Carlos Gonzalez -- a pair of stars any team would envy -- avoid the team-wrecking injuries that hit them last year, and valuable hitter Michael Cuddyer follows up a batting title with another strong year. Let's also say third baseman Nolan Arenado and catcher Wilin Rosario become the young stars a team with the Rockies' payroll must have. And let's give them competent starting pitching -- something quite possible given the performance of lefty Jorge De La Rosa and righty Jhoulys Chacin last year, and the belief that lefty Brett Anderson is ready to step forward after injury-filled seasons with the Athletics.
It's a lot to assume, and the uncertainty of health and pitching are among reasons it would be a stretch to predict a contending season in the second year under manager Walt Weiss, whose team went 74-88 last year. But even if all that falls into place, the Rockies have to be complete to compete.
There's no getting around the payroll rankings. According to figures reported by The Associated Press on Wednesday, the Rockies' $93.8 million payroll ranks 17th in the Majors. The NL West has teams at No. 1 (the Dodgers, at just under $235.9 million), No. 7 (the Giants, $154.2 million) and No. 11 (the D-backs at $112.7 million).
None of that means the Rockies can't or won't compete. Health from the aforementioned players could put them in position to do just that. But what could make the difference is filling their biggest offensive hole and receiving improved work from their bullpen and their depth players, all for value.
Here's a look at how those areas are being addressed:
Leadoff batter: The Rockies dealt away Dexter Fowler and his $7.35 million salary, and used that money for first baseman Justin Morneau and some less-expensive signings.
The issue is that there isn't a proven leadoff man on the squad. For now, right-handed-hitting center fielder Drew Stubbs, who has struggled with strikeouts in the past but tantalizes as a leadoff man because of his speed, and one of two inexperienced left-handed-hitting center fielders, Corey Dickerson or Charlie Blackmon (whichever makes the team), will get first crack. Second baseman DJ LeMahieu, who has hit for average but not for on-base percentage, but is a savvy baserunner, also could be part of the mix.
"I feel there are enough options where we can mix and match and we'll have a solid leadoff hitter every day," Weiss said. "We don't have Rickey Henderson on our roster. We don't have a guy that's the prototype, but we've got guys who can handle it."
With Cuddyer, who's moving from the middle of the order to No. 2, Gonzalez and Tulowitzki the next three hitters in the order, the leadoff position has to enhance rather than hamper the productive hitters behind them. Cuddyer, whose hitting style doesn't change no matter his spot in the order, said production at the top is more important than establishing a main leadoff man.
"However it's decided, it's important to be productive at the top of the order, get on base and let everybody behind them do their thing," Cuddyer said. "There's definitely a communication factor. You like to learn who likes to steal, what counts they like to steal in, when they want to run. They want to know the counts I like swinging in and vice versa. But it's not something that has to be set in stone."
Late bullpen: The Dodgers have three former All-Star closers -- Brian Wilson, Chris Perez and Brandon League -- setting up Kenley Jansen. The Giants have Sergio Romo and an established setup crew. D-backs general manager Kevin Towers has a reputation for strong bullpens, and the Padres always pitch well in their park.
To win, the Rockies have concentrated on power arms late in the game. Veteran righty LaTroy Hawkins is the closer, although lefty Rex Brothers and righty Chad Bettis (who seems to have put everything together this spring) have closer stuff, with Brothers expected to get his opportunities early. Signing established lefty Boone Logan helps the late crew. Righty Adam Ottavino has a power slider and versatility that could play in the late innings.
If the late relievers produce like the Cardinals did last year with mostly young hurlers, the bullpen could be an area of value.
"We feel good about Bettis and what he's turning into, 'Hawk' performed well in that role [closer with the Mets] the second half of the season, and Rex was dominant last year," Weiss said. "We've got some weapons. 'Otto' matches up really well against right-handed hitters. We've got the ability to put games away."
Depth: The Rockies were relevant until then-closer Rafael Betancourt was hurt and exposed the bullpen. As the season went on, injuries to Tulowitzki, Gonzalez and Fowler gave callups a chance to play, but they proved not quite ready to win those games.
Is the depth better?
The season will tell, but the difficulty of late-spring decisions suggested there were more players than spots. Chacin will be out until anywhere from late April or the middle of May with a right shoulder injury, but righty Jordan Lyles and Franklin Morales have made the choice for replacing him difficult. Some of those who started at the end of last season could be better able to contribute off the bench.
Assuming lefty Christian Friedrich completes his comeback from a back injury, the Rockies could have three former first-round picks to call upon -- Friedrich at Triple-A Colorado Springs, and fast-rising righties Eddie Butler (2012 supplemental first round) and Jon Gray (2013 third overall) at Double-A Tulsa. Former Reds setup man Nick Masset is healthy after missing two seasons with right shoulder injuries and needs work, but he could be an option from Colorado Springs.
It's simply a deeper roster.
"We not only have a lot of options, but we have good options," Weiss said.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb.


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At Testarossa, all of our winemaking expertise and experience flows towards one goal: crafting elegant, limited release Pinot Noir and Chardonnay worthy of your table.
Brosseau works both sides of the equation – in the vineyard and in the cellar - to translate the state's best Pinot Noir and Chardonnay fruit into the state's most sought-after wines. Behind our historic hand-hewn stone walls, Bill and his team employ traditional techniques and modern tools. Native yeast fermentations in sixty gallon French oak barrels for our Chardonnays. Hand sorting, extended pre-soaks, and small, custom designed stainless steel fermenters for our Pinot Noir. And everywhere, gentle, gravity-fed movement of the wines to preserve the vineyard's character and integrity.
The results speak for themselves. Testarossa has an impressive, decades long track record of accolades and ninety-plus point scores from Wine Spectator, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate, Antonio Galloni's Vinous Media, Wine Enthusiast and Connoisseurs' Guide.
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Chastain, majoring in Mechanical Engineering, has a 3.68 grade point average. He is from Mitchell, Ind.
The teams are selected by college sports information directors from across the country. District IV includes the states of Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Ohio and Michigan.
He earned All-Atlantic Sun Conference honors, the first Bisons runner to accomplish the feat, with a time of 24:56.48 in the 8-kilometer course at the conference championships. In track he was ranked second in the conference in the 3000 meters this season. He is rankled in the top 10 this season in the conference in the 800 meters, the 1,500 meters, the 3,000 meters and the 5,000 meters.
Chastain has been a team captain for both track and cross country the past two years.
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
Bring Me the Snark of Alfredo Garcia
Great news! Jacques Derrida says that my GN version of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark is "super cool and fresh!" Meanwhile, the commentary continues …
Ladies and gentlemen, please gather around this small table which I just happen to have upon me, and pay attention, you might get lucky. The name of the game is Hunting the Snark and today we'll try to find a Jubjub Bird, a beast just like the Snark but even better.
Finding one is child's play, especially for a smart operator such as you. Simply lay your money down and watch the origami cranes closely, the clue you seek is beneath one of them. Pay no attention to the young gentleman with the fieldstone head and vacant expression, he's a Polynesian exchange student studying mid-19th-century British abattoir practices and he has nothing to do with me, I assure you. The epithet of shill worries him not, it's idle speculation and his empty head is entirely innocent of such nefarious thing-um-a-jigs.
Using the Clochetic Rule of Three (known to polite society as the Logician's Variation Upon Three Card Monte) the Butcher has already won a Jubjub Bird, the lucky guy! Alas, his fellow gamester, the plucky Beaver, has lost count. Last week's byzantine labyrinth of puzzling quills and Poes and desks and birds has befuddled her pretty head; and she now is, as they say, a flummoxed castorian incapable of reckoning the amount of anything in this farrago of pictoversical sleights-of-hand.
She is, in popular parlance, a mark, and as such, quite appealing to homi-and-femicidal beasts such as Jubjub Birds! In fact, her dizzy-headed state of pixilation is the only correct strategy to defeat this nefarious, thimblerigged scheme! Dispossessed of all common sense, proudly ignorant of all logical acumen, she blithely chooses the closest origami crane — et voilà — all the fluttering, flying, flittering semioglyphs concealed therein are freed at last!
Yes, dear readers, it's all rather zenlike, most confidence games are, you know. Truth and deception, sense and nonsense, all enfolded upon themselves into origamic puzzles which, when upended, release into the wild the crypto-Jubjubian fledgings of raw meaning.
And if all the above crosstalk wracks your poor brains, then beware the Jubjub, my son, and watch the telly instead, it do the Snark in different voices!
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Lingzini necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 158 diseños de 51 diseñadores freelance.
XPULT is a small business that sells catapults for use in education. The product is sold via http://www.xpult.com. The catapult launches table tennis balls and allows the user to adjust four different parameters/variables and to observe differences in launch performance.
We have grown steadily and now need to establish a more professional web presence. To begin that process we would like to establish a new graphic identity.
Primary audience: 10-15 year-old children, mostly male, and mostly in the US and UK. These kids use the xpult mostly for school science fair projects.
Secondary audience: university and corporate instructors and students/participants in their courses.
The logo must incorporate the word "xpult" either in the logo itself or in conjunction with the logo. All submissions must include "xpult."
The logo must work well on a plain white background. It will be placed typically in the upper left corner of a plain white web page.
The logo must be easily readable and unambiguously identifiable in a relatively small size (e.g., 50 pixels high by 200 pixels wide) although it may be used in a larger size that this as well.
The logo must be delivered in vector format, preferably Adobe Illustrator or .eps.
See http://www.xpult.com for further product/brand information.
A key challenge is to appeal to a school-age boy as well as to a corporate trainer. The graphic style can certainly be "fun" but it can not communicate "toy."
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Facilitated by Colleen Zietlow, LMFT, Agnesian HealthCare Behavioral Health Services Psychotherapist, Agnesian HealthCare's Postpartum Depression group offers education and support for women who are experiencing or are at risk for postpartum depression.This group is also open to women who are struggling emotionally after childbirth and need to connect with others.
Participants will learn about adjusting to their new role as a parent, bonding with their newborn, expectations vs. reality, boundaries, social support, adjusting to relationship changes, physical demands of the newborn, emotional effects of pregnancy, childbirth and the role of hormones. This group will also give mothers the opportunity to talk, listen and share their experiences with other women experiencing similar feelings.
Mothers are invited to bring their babies to group sessions.
This support group meets the first and third Wednesday of each month from 1 to 2 p.m.
To learn more about this free group, call (920) 926-4960.
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dutra needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 38 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
We need a new website design for our brazilian rum company, DJ Cachaca. We have a live site up right now, so free feel to use it to come up with new ideas. Our site is http://www.djcachaca.com. We want some thing very modern and top of the line looking.
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DJ Cachaca is one of the best Cachacas of the world. Cachaca is known in America as rum. It is distilled from sugarcane. We need a very nice looking website that we can show our customers and future investors.
PSD Mock up is fine, but if you can also code the site it would be better. We are willing to pay extra for the coding part. But if you can only design a PSD version then lets see it!
We have a live site up right now, so free feel to use it to come up with new ideas. Our site is http://www.djcachaca.com.
We need something that is very user friendly with a nice design and different that makes our site different from all the rest.
We would prefer a darker theme but we are opened to new ideas.
If you need any addional information please message me !!! We are willing to work directly with the designer to create a great final website!
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- Home / About / Drinks / News / History / Company / History / Media / Shop, etc, etc are some of the tabs/ menus we need.
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Kirstie Alley has never had a problem talking about her own personal search for love.
Along those same lines, she couldn't be happier for her son, True, who recently got engaged – even if he's only 17.
"How long has he been dating this young lady?" Ellen DeGeneres asked Kirstie during an interview on Monday, which will air on Tuesday's "Ellen DeGeneres Show."
"He's been dating her for a year," Kirstie said.
So how does mom feel about her teen son getting ready to walk down the aisle?
"I feel good because they're really in love," she continued. "True's got a level head. He's a good guy. He's very monogamous and he's very sweet with her."
True – whose real name is William True Stevenson – is one of two children (along with 15-year-old daughter Lillie Price) adopted by Kirstie while she was married to Parker Stevenson, before the couple divorced in 1997.
However, Kirstie is hoping her son's marriage doesn't follow in her own relationship footsteps.
"I was married [when] I was just 19 years old and that didn't work. Then I was married when I was 30 years old and that's when everyone said you should get married and that didn't work," she told Ellen. "So, I don't think I'm an expert on the subject. So, I think if somebody's in love and wants to be married then let them be in love and get married."
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Sumac Pacha necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
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EkoRural works to help rural people find their voice in society and promote healthy families and ecosystems. We are tired of the old dichotomies dividing rich and poor, urban and rural, North and South, agriculture and food, expert and lay. We seek to break the perception that rural people are poor and powerless. We invest in local capacities to make transformative change in lives and communities, using the integrated family farm as the point of departure. In part, we achieve this by strategically linking consumers and producers over healthy food. While we work with everyone, women play a special role in our efforts. We are passionate about our work and bring energy and determination to social change movements by pioneering inspiring experiences. Our approaches are knowledge-based, people-centered, creative, collaborative, inclusive and respectful. People are proud to work with us (and we them), but they ultimately lead and own the outcomes of our activity together.
For more information on EkoRural, check out our emerging partner network at: groundswellinternational.org
Prospective financial supporters (like-minded individuals, foundations, donors)
Rural people and community leaders -- both indigenous and mestizo
Members of the media
Government officials, agriculture and food policymakers
Peers in social change movements
Consumers -- people who eat food.
Somehow, we want to capture the spirit of rural people, mountains/Andes, idyllic agrarian life, a transformation from environmental decline/deserts to greenness and sustainabilty.
While we work with the marginalized, we support both indigenous groups and mestizos, so we need a racially balanced logo. Provided the unique role of women in our work, we'd like to emphasize their leadership. In addition, we want to attract urban-based consumers to the movement through their eating habits and food purchases, so the logo should reach them too.
The tagline for the organization is: "Haciendo eko con lo rural"; this is a play on words that in English means, "Finding voice over rural concerns" but also "Building sustainable ecosystems". Obviously, the tagline does not translate well to English, but we may want to have a version of the logo that include the Spanish language motto.
We like the recent logo that was created for our partner network "http://www.groundswellinternational.org", in case that provides some clarity and inspiration. We have close ties with that organization and, if promising, could integrate with that logo, but we want to have our own identity.
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The Texas Rangers are sending struggling rookie outfielder Michael Choice to Triple-A Round Rock and preparing to use their 12th starting pitcher this season.
Choice, who had a .177 average with eight homers, was demoted and infielder Donnie Murphy was designated for assignment Monday.
The Rangers brought up right-handed reliever Roman Mendez and outfielder Jake Smolinski from Round Rock, and both had a chance for their major-league debut in the series opener against Houston.
Rookie right-hander Nick Martinez was scratched from Tuesday's start because of discomfort in his back. He will be replaced by right-hander Phil Irwin, who made his only big-league appearance in a start for Pittsburgh last year.
The Rangers have 10 days to trade, release or outright Murphy to the minor leagues. He was hitting .196.
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What Should Presidents Seek in Second Terms?
Presidential historian Douglas Brinkley joins Jerry Seib to discuss what President Obama faces as he begins his second term. Photo: Getty Images.
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... I ... question is ... aam has inauguration today set the stage for his second term ... on the a lot of people think second terms are destined for crisis and in many cases disaster for talked earlier with Douglas Brinkley a presidential historian ... he says the mythology of second term problems is actually overrated ... this is the mother ... taking largely because Richard Nixon certainly attic or second term a Watergate ... on you know for impeachment and all that driven out of office resigned ... on a George W Bush had a rough second term to check with the economy dropped out in October ... on overweight but ... I can tell you just as many great second terms of trade rose to the look offers so much in his second term in the global wind you what he did just weren't working with interior Department ... and the CCC narrowly easily enough ... aam ... of getting in the world for two ... of ... them but the euro over the white Eisenhower or the cup to solidify the Saint Lawrence Seaway interstate highway ... rating now so ... bill Clinton and what would Clinton's second to first term the command one term he would yield a break up the surplus which is is great ... on Legacy peace ... partner things the president's need to look out for because you're ... in a second term because you don't hear people say there's a tendency to either ... get complacent or to get a little cocky and assume that you know I know free can never have to face voters ... is that a legitimate dangers of course ... but you can see as factors for the ... second driver will still get the keys he estimates the worst on the opportunities are greater concedes that climate change today's been talking about what will present Obama will ... grab ahold of that the rhetoric of climate change the science of the news that an inaugural are stated Union ... 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Atlanta, Ga. - The Tennessee State men's basketball team notched its first win of the season with a 68-57 victory over the Jaguars of South Alabama.
Junior guard Patrick Miller led the Tigers in points, assists and steals with 14, eight and four, respectively.
Miller also had five of TSU's 46 rebounds. The Tigers had 15 more rebounds than their opponents.
TSU won the tip and within three seconds Covington had his first points of the game. The bucket set the tone early for the Tigers, as they started the game on a 13-2 run.
During the run, guards Jay Harris and Patrick Miller combined for 11 of the team's points. Harris was 3-3 in the stretch with a three-pointer.
South Alabama's Mychal Ammons got the Jaguars within six at 16-10 with a strong drive in the lane. The layup was just two of his half-high nine points during the period.
The Tigers kept a large cushion through the next seven minutes, and eventually went up by nine when a missed three by Jordan Cyphers was tip-slammed home by Michael Green.
A layup from Kellen Thornton with 2:30 left in the first period gave the Tigers a 13-point lead- their biggest of the half.
Another layup from Thornton made the score 36-24 in favor of TSU heading into the break.
TSU shot 45 percent from the floor during the first half which was nearly 15 points higher than its season average.
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With the lead down to just a couple, the Tigers came roaring back with a 13-4 run that was sparked by a pair of buckets from Robert Covington.
Covington finished the game with nine points and a team-high 10 rebounds.
After a bucket by South Alabama made the score 51-43, the TSU defense held pat and didn't allow the Jaguars to make a field goal for the next nine minutes.
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USA ended the game on a 10-0 run, but it wasn't nearly enough, as TSU walked away with an eleven-point victory.
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Hennessey's HPE700 Corvettes are nasty. They're the stuff of nightmares as far as the competition is concerned. The HPE700 Supercharged Corvette could be considered kind of a replacement for the ZR1 (not in production this year), and because it is Hennessey's 700-horsepower performance package incorporating the Eaton TVS R2300 supercharger, it may very well outperform a would-be ZR1.
But there is an option for those who are more a fan of turbochargers than superchargers. Hennessey also offers an HPE700 Twin Turbo Upgrade for the 2014 Corvette Stingray. While 100 HPE700 Supercharged Corvettes will be created, only 24 turbocharged HPE700 Vettes will roll out of Hennessey headquarters for the model year and each one will produce 707 brake horsepower.
So basically, Hennessey takes a plain old 2014 Corvette Stingray and injects it with a heavy dose of steroids in the form of twin ball bearing turbochargers, a fuel system upgrade, stainless steel inlet piping, turbo downpipes and exhaust system, dual wastegates, an air-to-air intercooler, and dual air induction filters. All of this is professionally installed before being dyno-tested at the Sealy, Texas headquarters, and performance-validated at the company's on-site test track, Lonestar Motorsports Park.
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It's indeed a compilation of dishonest editing. See http://www.factcheck.org/2009/12/truth-on-the-cutting-room-floor/
The first few quotes, with omitted material in brackets and italics:
"[The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans.] Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country — I know, because I am one of them."
(Obama counting himself among these "other" Americans, in his April 6, 2009 address to the Turkish Parliament in Ankara.)
"[I'm a Christian, but] my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and at the fall of dusk."
"So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed. That experience guides my conviction [that partnership between America and Islam must be based on what Islam is, not what it isn't]."
(June 4, 2009 at Cairo University, Egypt)
(and there's much more....)
I didn't waste my time with the clip knowing that what you point out happens on Fox all the time.
Thanks for clarifying it.
Anyone with a decent ear can HEAR the edits! I worked as a sound engineer for a while, and I have no problem hearing it. Indeed, I could have done a better job of editing than the dip who did this for Faux Noise!!!
I didn't have the patience to make it very far into the video, and the first few quotes rely only on dishonest cropping--where it's clear they're not presenting whole quotes! The FactCheck piece shows the more aggressive splicing that happens later on.
I can hear the edits too - I wonder how many people are duped by this?
Ok going to watch it right now.
This looks like obvious propaganda to me, snippets taken out of context and remixed. The story about FOX bowing to administration pressure should be a hint. Such an introductory accusation is conspiracy theory 101. Look for more dirty politics like this on the internet as the election proceeds. Here's a video with no organization taking responsibility for it, making an obviously false inflammatory accusation.
Any public figure with hundreds of hours of public speeches could be made to appear in video to say anything. Any recorded gesture of understanding can be twisted into something that apparently horrible.
There was a Harry's Law episode "BreakingPoint" which showed techniques used in reality TV to spice up the show, where a woman's testimony of love and respect toward her husband changed to the worst kind of ridicule. While Harry's Law is fiction, unethical editing isn't hard to do.
Since when has Fox News ever bowed to "pressure from the Administration"? They'd be overjoyed to attack Barack Obama like this, if they had quotes that could stand up to scrutiny.
Another sign of bullshit: the video's title is "Obama Admits He Is A Muslim", yet it begins with the "Legal Disclaimer" that "The writers, producers, and editors of this video are not claiming or implying that Barack Hussein Obama is a Muslim [....]"
In the U.S. at least, truth is a defense against charges of libel.
Reading about those (un)reality TV techniques reminded me of a science-fiction world where the protagonist was wary of saying anything to a reporter, since the technology was widespread that could make an interviewed person appear to say anything desired, by analyzing and resynthesizing their phonemes and mouth and facial movements.
Of course we don't need that kind of "vocal photoshopping" to lie with quotes!
I remember an old Mad Magazine parody of the business of moviemaking, showing among other things how once the critics publish their reviews and ratings, "little stars, little bells, little half-stars", the studios proceed to misleadingly quote them in their movie ads -- with only slightly silly examples of scathing reviews being flipped 180 degrees:
(from distant memory here)
|What the critic wrote:
|What the studio quoted:
|After the movie was over I went up to the projection booth, took the film, and burned it. Boy, did I have a wonderful time!
|Boy, did I have a wonderful time!
|This is a good movie for stars to avoid, as it would do more harm than good to their careers....
|"... for stars ..."
LOL, good low tech example!
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The Framers of the Constitution mandated free trade among all the states in the union. The free economic system for the United States was clearly spelled out in Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution.
"No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one State, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another."1
The original concept of free trade is healthy for our country and global economy. However, trade agreements such as NAFTA and WTO have simply cost Americans hundreds of thousands of jobs, moved plants to Mexico and lowered wages for American workers. How has this helped America?
It's good economy for us to sell to China, India and the rest of the world. It's good for Americans to have the choice to buy from other countries. This is good competition. It's not good competition if China does not play by the rules. If China is using slave labor and manipulating their currency so they can sell merchandise cheaper, that is not fair. If they are putting unfair taxes on our products so that they are not competitively priced in China, that must stop.
It's not good when American corporations ship our jobs to Mexico, China and the far corners of the world. Corporations who ship our jobs overseas should continue to pay the current corporate tax if more than 30% of their work force is out of the country. On the other hand if corporations will keep at least 70% of the jobs in the United States then let's reward them with a 15% tax rate.
Toyota, Honda and Nissan have made the American auto industry stay on their toes. I believe we have great American cars today. I drive a Ford truck and an old Toyota van with over 250,000 miles on the odometer. I do not believe we would have the kind of American cars that we have today without the competition of foreign automakers. As Americans we deserve the right to choose which car we want to drive. Competition gives us better choices.
I do not mind that China and India are making clothes and furniture. I do mind if American corporations are moving all of our work there and hiring people for two dollars an hour and then shipping the products back here to the United States to sell to us for a high price and a high profit.
The Amish are still proving Americans can make the best furniture in the world. We make our products in America better. Our corporations must be given a chance to thrive. If our corporations are going to thrive we should further do the following:
- We should lower corporate tax rates.
- We must encourage right to work policies.
- We must have the opportunity to ship our products to China, India and around the world.
- We can compete with the world. We have hard workers and the most creative minds on the planet. Our labor force can compete with anybody.
Other nations impose large fees on our products to restrict their citizens from buying our products and that is unfair. We should not do business with countries that limit our ability to sell in their countries by imposing ridiculous fees and taxes. It's also unfair of us to impose tariffs and fees on foreign products to make it difficult for Americans to buy.
It's good for American companies to have competition and Americans should have the right to decide if they want to buy a foreign product without government penalty or management. American products will only become better and remain financially competitive if there are foreign products to choose from.
Most Americans would prefer to buy American products. At every opportunity we should buy American made products. Examine the product carefully as it seems to be harder all the time to find items made in the USA. Most all Americans are trying to make their money stretch further. Products that are lower in price are going to have our attention when we shop. When we buy we each have to be responsible for our own money management and try to determine what is good, better and best for our hard earned dollars.
1. http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec9.html
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