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Normative generally means relating to an evaluative standard. Normativity is the phenomenon in human societies of designating some actions or outcomes as good or desirable or permissible and others as bad or undesirable or impermissible. A norm in this normative sense means a standard for evaluating or making judgments about behavior or outcomes. Normative is sometimes also used, somewhat confusingly, to mean relating to a descriptive standard: doing what is normally done or what most others are expected to do in practice. In this sense a norm is not evaluative, a basis for judging behavior or outcomes; it is simply a fact or observation about behavior or outcomes, without judgment. Many researchers in this field try to restrict the use of the term normative to the evaluative sense and refer to the description of behavior and outcomes as positive, descriptive, predictive, or empirical.[1] [2]
Normative has specialized meanings in different academic disciplines such as philosophy, social sciences, and law.
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In philosophy, normative statements make claims about how things should or ought to be, how to value them, which things are good or bad, and which actions are Kids Home White 2017 18 Shirt Tottenham 20 Dele Nike 07Z4vqxnw or wrong. Normative claims are usually contrasted with positive (i.e. descriptive, explanatory, or constative) claims when describing types of theories, beliefs, or propositions. Positive statements are (purportedly) factual statements that attempt to describe reality.
For example, "children should eat vegetables", and "those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither" are normative claims. On the other hand, "vegetables contain a relatively high proportion of vitamins", and "a common consequence of sacrificing liberty for security is a loss of both" are positive claims. Whether a statement is normative is logically independent of whether it is verified, verifiable, or popularly held.
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Much modern moral/ethical philosophy takes as its starting point the apparent variance between peoples and cultures regarding the ways they define what is considered to be appropriate/desirable/praiseworthy/valuable/good etc. (In other words, variance in how individuals, groups and societies define what is in accordance with their normative standards.) This has led philosophers such as Lukaku adidas 9 2018 Originals Red Belgium Shirt Kids Home 2019 C7YCBqx and J.L. Mackie (for different reasons and in different ways) to cast doubt on the meaningfulness of normative statements. However, other philosophers, such as Christine Korsgaard, have argued for a source of normative value which is independent of individuals' subjective morality and which consequently attains (a lesser or greater degree of) objectivity.
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Normative economics deals with questions of what sort of economic policies should be pursued, in order to achieve desired (that is, valued) economic outcomes.
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In the academic discipline of International relations, Smith, Baylis & Owens in the Introduction to their 2008 [3] book make the case that the normative position or normative theory is to make the world a better place and that this theoretical Inter Shirt 18 Nike 44 Milan Navy Third 2017 Kids Perisic qwAxxvE1nB aims to do so by being aware of implicit assumptions and explicit assumptions that constitute a non-normative position, and align or position the normative towards the loci of other key socio-political theories such as political Liberalism, Marxism, political Constructivism, political Realism, political Idealism and political Globalization.
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In law, as an academic discipline, the term "normative" is used to describe the way something ought to be done according to a value position. As such, normative arguments can be conflicting, insofar as different values can be inconsistent with one another. For example, from one normative value position the purpose of the criminal process may be to repress crime. From another value position, the purpose of the criminal justice system could be to protect individuals from the moral harm of wrongful conviction.
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Normative elements are defined in International Organization for Standardization Directives Part 2 as "elements that describe the scope of the document, and which set out provisions". Provisions include "requirements", "recommendations" and "statements". "Statements" include permissions, possibilities and capabilities. A "requirement" is an "expression in the content of a document conveying criteria to be fulfilled if compliance with the document is to be claimed and from which no deviation is permitted." It is not necessary to comply with recommendations and statements in order to comply with the standard; it is necessary to comply only with the requirements (that are denoted by the verbal form "shall"). There is much confusion between "normative" and "requirement", however the ISO terminology is supported by national standards bodies worldwide and is the legitimate description of these terms in the context of standards documents.
In standards terminology still used by some organisations, "normative" means "considered to be a prescriptive part of the standard". It characterises that part of the standard which describes what ought (see Shirt Man 17 8 White United adidas Kids Mata 2016 Originals Third xCYYtqOE above) to be done within the application of that standard. It is implicit that application of that standard will result in a valuable outcome (ibid.). For example, many standards have an introduction, preface, or summary that is considered non-normative, as well as a main body that is considered normative. "Compliance" is defined as "complies with the normative sections of the standard"; an object that complies with the normative sections but not the non-normative sections of a standard is still considered to be in compliance.
- Normative = prescriptive = how to comply
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Typically, normative is contrasted with informative (referring to the standard's descriptive, explanatory or positive content). Informative data is supplemental information such as additional guidance, supplemental recommendations, tutorials, commentary as well as background, history, development, and relationship with other elements. Informative data is not a requirement and doesn't compel compliance.
See also[edit]
|Look up normative in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
- ^ Bicchieri, Cristina (2005). The Grammar of Society: The Nature and Dynamics of Social Norms. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521574907.
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They may not be getting new Formula One engines anytime soon, but F1 fans will get to enjoy the first-ever F1 night race in 2008. The Singapore Grand Prix is set to start at 8:00 pm local time, making it the darkest F1 race in history. Italian lighting firm Valerio Maioli S.p.a. will use a state-of-the-art system to create optimal visibility while at the same time reducing glare. Full details below:
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2008 FORMULA 1TM SingTel Singapore Grand Prix
About FORMULA 1™ Singapore Grand Prix:
The inaugural FORMULA 1TM SingTel Singapore Grand Prix will take place on 28 September 2008 on a street circuit of public roads around the Marina Bay area. The race is the 15th round of the 2008 FORMULA 1™ race calendar and includes a bespoke state-of-the-art lighting system that delivers optimal visibility for night race conditions.
The race will be the first in Formula 1™ history held at night and is the first FORMULA 1™ street race to be held in Asia. Positioned as the Monaco of the East, it is the most anticipated race on the 2008 Grand Prix calendar.
Official website:
Marina Bay - in the heart of Singapore - just minutes from 5-star hotels, the MRT underground system, the bustling business district and historic landmarks such as City Hall and The Padang which form part of Singapore's heritage hub.
Start time:
2000 hours (local time)
Title sponsor:
SingTel, Asia's leading telecommunications company.
Race Promoter:
Singapore GP Pte Ltd
Sanctioning Body:
Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA)
Expected attendance:
80,000 spectators
3-day Corporate hospitality packages were first released on 28 November 2007, to be followed by 3-Day general passes in mid-January 2008. 1-day ticket sales will commence before Chinese New Year, in February 2008.
Track description
Track length:
5.067km / 3.148 miles*
Race direction:
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24, consisting of 14 left turns and 10 right turns
Maximum speed:
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Slowest corner:
80 - 100 kph
Overtaking opportunities:
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Track design consultant:
Kellogg Brown & Root Pty Ltd, Australia
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Race Distance:
308.95 km* (*Info subject to FIA confirmation)
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Lighting System
3,180,000 watt
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Power Generators
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Power Cables
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A sound engineer in Cologne is piecing together a colorful portrait of his city by compiling its entire music history in an archive. It goes well beyond the cheesy Carnival tunes that are usually associated with Cologne.
Cologne and music. For most people, the folk music played during Carnival comes to mind first. But the city of one million people on the Rhine River has more to offer than meets the ear.
From composer Karlheinz Stockhausen to the a cappella ensemble Wise Guys, Cologne has produced bands from all kinds of genres since the 1940s, many of which have made a name for themselves around the world. Music is intertwined with the identity of the city, which today is a center for electronic music and has one of the strongest jazz scenes in the country. Plus, experimental rock band CAN and funk rap crew Goldene Hausnummer are some of the more successful made-in-Cologne bands from other genres.
An ambitious hobby
Cologne resident Matthias Schumacher has a passion for music and dedicates every free second that he has to it. As a sound engineer, he has regular contact with bands, club owners, and others from every corner of the industry. He knows Cologne's music scene intimately and has seen first-hand that the city is full of talent and its music is constantly evolving.
However, he was disappointed to find that none of this music was being stored and all of these fragments of history and culture were being lost.
So, Schumacher decided to take matters into his own hands and create the Cologne Music Archive, where the city's entire music heritage could be compiled and accessed both now and in the years to come.
"Our goal, of course, is to have a permanent space which should be open to the public so that journalists and experts can come and do research, and so that musicians can come and find their own history again," said the sound engineer.
Still in the early stages, the archive does not yet have an official location, but is steadily growing in Schumacher's attic, for now.
Every now and then, people call him to say they may have something useful in their basements and then come by carrying boxes of records, old concert tickets, posters, or photos.
"We don't only collect records, but everything, really. Every box is like a birthday and Christmas on the same day," said Schumacher. "You have to be a little crazy about it."
The sound engineer turned archivist is driven by his goal to trace the city's history and learn how Cologne and the music that has come out of it have influenced each other over the years.
Music a mirror for Cologne
While it might sound like a hobby for graying music-lovers who can't let go of the past, the archive has also hit a nerve with young musicians as well, including the local folk rock band Lupo.
All five members of Lupo - lead singer Maximilian Speidel, guitarist Pedro Schädel, bass player Alexander Lemke, violinist/keyboardist Benni Landmann, and drummer Andreas Wandscheer-Genehr - were born in Cologne and are between the ages of 18 and 20.
They agree that music is fundamental to Cologne's identity and see their own music as an integral part of Cologne's musical tradition. While other aspiring musicians their age are into metal, electro pop or hip hop rap, Lupo puts a contemporary twist on Carnival tunes by working in rhythms from other genres.
"Our style is something unique that didn't exist before," explained guitarist Pedro Schädel. "And what makes us special is that the five of us come from different musical backgrounds. That makes for a great mix and it really comes out in our music that there's a bit of everything."
Even though all the band members are young, they are well aware of the value of the music made in their city and plan to submit their first album to the archive, once they record it later this year.
"Today we have recordings and CDs and MP3 files can't get lost that easily, but for 50-, 60- or 70-year old music, that's why the archive is good - to preserve the music that didn't get recorded with modern technology," Schädel added.
Cool Cologne
And those who use the archive to dig into the past might be surprised to find that some of the earliest electronic music was created in the city's studios and that its jazz scene is one of the best in Germany.
"Cologne is just really a unique city when it comes to diversity," said Schumacher, adding that music is not just central to Cologne's culture, it also gives the city's cool factor a boost.
The music archive is more than a pile of old vinyls. It's about discovering and defining the city - and uncovering the roots of today's made-in-Cologne music.
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During the third quarter behind the wheel of our 2013 Four Wheeler Pickup Truck of the Year winner, we decided to get some work done. This included trailer towing, moving a pickup-less friend out of an apartment, hauling tools to the jobsite and more. Our 2013 Ram 1500 Outdoorsman may be option packaged toward the needs of an outdoor enthusiast, but many of these features are extremely handy when working day to day on the job. Our favorite feature by far has been the RamBox option. We can't even begin to tell you how useful these two huge bedside compartments have been. We've used them to stow away tools, tie-downs, towstraps, rigging equipment, and more. We even fit a 48-inch Hi-Lift jack in there. For us, having the RamBoxes meant that the interior of our 2013 Ram 1500 stayed cleaner. We didn't have to secure any dirty items in the cab, and our stuff didn't get stolen as it was safely locked in the boxes instead of sitting in an open bed for all to see. We have never missed the in-bed storage above the rear wheelwells that the RamBox option fills.
The tie-down rails mounted in the bed, however, have not been a favorite feature. We like the idea of the adjustable tie-down spots, but the aluminum railings and large plastic loops seem to get in the way when we want to use the bed for squarish items like boxes, couches, or refrigerators. The aluminum rails can dig into the cargo's finish, mar paint, or punch holes in soft items. We'd rather see flush-mounted or submerged hidden hooks here so they don't interfere with the cargo. The factory spray-in bedliner does a great job of warding off scratches, but it stains easily with oil and is hard to clean. It also does nothing to protect the bed from larger dings and dents caused by heavier items shifting during transport. We typically prefer a drop-in–style bedliner in most cases.
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A few of the smaller, less often noticed options on our truck have been very helpful as well. The backup camera is well worth the $200 cost if you tow regularly or need to frequently back into tight places. It has allowed us to hitch up trailers on our own in seconds, every time. The tailgate bed extender may seem like a cumbersome chunk of plastic at first, but it folds up and stores out of the way at the front of the bed. We have used it many times in place of tie-downs to keep the cargo from rolling around. It also functions as a very sturdy bed extender for those larger loads. We appreciate that the dual trailer plugs are mounted in the bumper, rather than below it where they would get damaged off-road. We love that the built-in adjustable trailer brake control is conveniently located above the center console where you can see and reach it. The gain readout is displayed in the dash so you don't have to look away from the road when making adjustments. Next quarter we'll wrap up our year-long evaluation and see if there is anything we would change or order differently on our 2013 Ram 1500.
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A new dimension: How disruptive technologies will change the U.S. digital 3D cinema business model
As the first months of the new year come to a close, and with award season in full swing, it's a perfect time to take a look at the current state of cinema technology. The implementation of newer cinema technologies, especially 3D, continues to be an important barometer of movie theatre success.
Where are we today? The digital 3D industry has certainly matured in the eight years since Disney released Chicken Little and the five years since James Cameron's Avatar swept 80% of its domestic box office from 3D showings. More and more films are being released in 3D, and because of that, competition in the 3D equipment marketplace in the U.S. is heating up. Exhibitors can now be more discerning than ever before about their options.
Disruptive technologies have historically brought massive change to industries, broken up monopolies, and created cost-saving alternatives for consumers. These manufacturers of disruptive technologies will ultimately add value to the product and enhance the consumer experience.
What should exhibitors be looking for when choosing the right 3D provider? The best-quality 3D experience, as well as long-term cost-saving solutions, should be high on the list of priorities.
Introducing disruptive technologies for 3D cinema
Most U.S. theatres choose to equip 3D with passive polarization systems and passive polarized 3D glasses. Because of the passive polarization, light efficiency and color contrast are key qualities of a great system. Light-doubling systems seek to get the most light out of projector lamps. Systems using disruptive new technologies, such as Volfoni's "Triple Beam" technology, offer high light efficiency with no interfering lenses, thus preserving color neutrality. With up to 20% more light than previously available technologies, the corresponding savings in projector power, lamps and electricity, is significant. As manufacturing costs continue to come down for these 3D systems, the savings are passed on to exhibitors looking to buy or lease the highest-quality 3D equipment available.
Ending the "risk-sharing" business model of 3D
The current business model of risk-sharing (where a 3D provider takes a percentage of the box office per 3D ticket) is waning in popularity for exhibitors. Once upon a time, when 3D first reappeared in cinemas, there was a lot of risk and uncertainty. However, the 3D market is now mature, risk is under control, and the industry desires the best-quality 3D at a sustainable price. The new business model to pursue is one focused on total cost of ownership. With an overall savings of up to 50% compared to the risk-sharing model, exhibitors are now paying attention to total cost of ownership for their long-term needs. Being able to own their very own 3D system and make decisions on 3D ticket pricing is a hugely important factor when comparing 3D providers.
Changing the mindset about 3D glasses
New business models for 3D extend greatly into the realm of 3D glasses. As it stands right now in the U.S., it's up to the major studios to reimburse 3D equipment manufacturers for the number of 3D admissions (pairs of 3D glasses used) per film at theatres serviced by that specific 3D equipment provider. This model may not be sustainable in the long run, for either the studios or the 3D providers. Having disposable 3D glasses, even with recycling systems in place, is not a good business model ecologically. Many patrons complain that they have to pay a high ticket price for a 3D film's new pair of glasses, even if they bring in their very own 3D glasses that they received from last week's cinema outing. The time should be upon us where we no longer look at 3D glasses as disposable. Moviegoers should be able to purchase their own 3D glasses at the theatre and use them over and over again. For example, some moviegoers may have wanted to see Gravity multiple times, but balked at paying the 3D surcharge more than once.
Cinemas outside the U.S. give an incentive to moviegoers who bring their own glasses back to the theatre, a great concept that should be part of our nation's drive to be "green." The U.S. has remained the only country in the world where studios must pay for glasses, and patrons are not encouraged to reuse glasses. In Europe, for example, the glasses cost $1 when purchased inside the theatre (included in the ticket price), but if the consumer brings his or her own glasses, then they receive $1 off the ticket price. On average, 50% of these consumers bring back their own glasses. It's also worth mentioning that selling 3D glasses, with various designs and styles, is an added source of revenue for exhibitors, and a new source of marketing for studios. If 3D is getting more affordable, comfortable and fun for consumers, will people go see more 3D movies? We say yes! The price reduction will certainly attract more moviegoers, and being able to bring your own glasses is more than a novelty—it is what avid U.S. moviegoers wish was possible.
Change is not easy. The status quo will always try to resist it, but ultimately progress will take place. Studios and exhibitors will need to come to an agreement about the fair distribution of savings. Exhibitors will need to look at glasses not as a burden, but as an added source of profit. As 3D cinema continues to grow around the world, especially in places like Asia, Russia and Brazil, the U.S. should look at the overseas success of the total cost of ownership model for 3D cinema and adopt it. Audiences will continue to expect high-quality 3D experiences at the cinema, and all other premium features must match the pricing set forth by a theatre. When exhibitors strive for the best possible combination of quality products, affordability and service from their 3D providers, they will be sure to receive positive feedback and the loyalty of their patrons. And the entire digital 3D cinema industry will be better off for it.


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Royals Birthdays – December 4
1957 – Pat Sheridan (Outfielder – 1981-85)
Happy Birthday!
Did You Know: Pat Sheridan had a couple of key hits for the 1985 World Champion Royals. He actually scored the winning run on Willie Wilson's 10th inning RBI-single to clinch the American League West title on the next to last game of the season.
He also lead off the ninth inning with a game tying pinch-hit HR at Toronto in ALCS Game 2 which would have been a much more memorable moment had the Royals been able to win that game. As it was the start of the Royals 'comeback' was delayed until George Brett's heroics is Game 3 at home.
After the 1985 season Pat signed as a free-agent with his homestate Detroit Tigers, but we'll always remember his part in the Royals World Championship. Plus he had one of the best moustaches in club history…


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The Bisons will open the third season when Campbell, the 2008 Atlantic Sun regular season champion, visits the Lipscomb Soccer Complex Thursday night at 7. The game has been billed by the conference as the A-Sun "Game of the Week".
The Bisons are 3-5-1 overall. Campbell is 1-6-0. Campbell won 4-3 in Buies Creek, N.C., last season with a combined five goals scored in the second half.
Campbell leads the overall series 5-1-0 with Lipsomb. Last season Campbell started out 2-5 before winning the next 12 games including all nine A-Sun games.
"There is new life," said Morrow. "We talk at the end of each season and self-evaluate where we are as a team.
"It is not like the talent isn't there. I think this is something we can rebound from. I feel good that we have at identified issues and talked about them. The guys know where they stand. It is important to get off on the right foot."
Morrow doesn't expect the Bisons to simply become a better team because they are starting conference play. But he still believes in the talent of his team.
"I think our out of conference play was a complete failure," said Morrow. "We had that discussion at the end of our game with Wofford Sunday. We did some things well, but overall we were not happy with where we were at the end of it.
"The consistency wasn't there. The quality wasn't there. We have not been as organized in the back. I think it has been a big wake up for the guys for sure. And I think they will respond."
One of the major losses has been the absence of defender Kezi Lara. He is out indefinitely.
"Some of the guys bring parts of the game the Kezi doesn't bring," said Morrow. "I don't want to go into this first A-Sun weekend without a player. We have to be able to play without him.
"The first 25 minutes against Furman Friday we played really well and had them on their heels. When Kezi left the game it changed. We haven't really changed personnel on the back row. We are just going to have to play differently."
Offensively, the Bisons have had their share of opportunities. Garrett McLaughlin leads the conference in shots with 30 followed by Andrew Chamberlain in second with 26 and Garret Pettis in third with 25. Miguel DaSilva is tied for eighth with 17.
Pettis leads the conference in shots per game with 4.17.
Morrow expects Campbell's Camels to give the Bisons all the challenges they can handle.
"They are always pretty well organized," said Morrow. "In the past they have been very good going forward. I know they will be a skillful team.
"This will be a good opportunity for some other guys to step up for us. We will be better because of some of the adjustments we have made. They should give us more flexibility in the future and hopefully we will be better for it."


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Jose Reyes has a case of hyperthyroidism, said his agent, Peter Greenberg said. "We're waiting for the final results tomorrow,'' Greenberg told the Times. "But, all indications are that it's the most minimal case of hyperthyroidism possible. The doctor is very pleased and so is Jose.''
Reyes later told reporters that his thyroid is fine. I don't believe this is two different stories as much as it is Reyes getting positive news and downplaying things.
Reyes could resume working out in a few days.
For the all the criticism the Mets have received about injuries, they did well here. Reyes was pulled immediately at the suspicion of something wrong and were forthright in giving information.
Positive news on Francisco Rodriguez. Threw in the bullpen this morning and will throw BP Friday. If all goes well look for him Monday.
Jon Niese, who has the leg up on the fifth starter position, starts today against the Braves in Orlando.
Here's the line-up:
Jason Pridie, CF
Ruben Tejada, 2B
Daniel Murphy, 1B
Mike Hessman, 3B
Chris Carter, DH
Omir Santos, C
Kirk Nieuwenhuis, RF
Jolbert Cabrera, LF
Russ Adams, SS
Working out of the pen will be Fernando Nieve, Nelson Figueroa, Bobby Parnell, Eddie Kunz and Eric Niesen.


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Role of Self-generated Odor Cues in Place Cell Representation of Spatial Context
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The importance of the hippocampus in the formation and retrieval of episodic memory has been famously demonstrated in the case of patient H.M. Subsequent studies conducted in animal models have provided considerable insight into the specific functions of the individual components of the hippocampus. In the rodent, the pyramidal neurons of the CA1 and CA3 regions of the hippocampus have typically been associated with the encoding of visuo-spatial cues and their utilization in navigation. These 'place cells' fire when the animal is in a specific part of its environment (its place field). However, these cells also encode non-spatial information from other sensory inputs, such as olfaction and audition. This study was conducted to find out how contextual odor cues are represented in the firing of CA1 place cells and whether these cues could drive stable spatial representations. One group of mice was first extensively familiarized to a cylinder containing both visual cues and preserved, self-generated odor cues. Then, after assessing place field stability across a six hour delay, the visual and odor cues were rotated in opposite directions by ninety degrees (counter-rotated). Another group of mice was familiarized only to the visual cues that were subsequently rotated. The next day stability and rotation were re-assessed in a novel cylinder. However, the odor cues of the two groups were switched: the preserved odor cues of the first group were removed, and the odor cues of the second group were now preserved across the three sessions. In a separate experiment, a third group of animals was familiarized only to the odor cues. Firstly, we found that contextual odor cues attenuated rotation with the visual cues, but only following extensive familiarization. Secondly, the removal of familiar odor cues impaired long-term stability of place fields. Third and finally, the self-generated odor cues alone were not sufficient for the generation of stable place fields in a free, open-field exploration paradigm. We therefore conclude that although they are not as dominant as discrete visual cues, highly familiarized odor cues exert a significant effect on the representation of space of the mouse CA1 place cell, illustrating the role of contextually relevant information in navigating an ever-changing world.
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Introduction to RefWorks
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This hands-on workshop introduces faculty, staff, or students the basics of using RefWorks to manage references and produce bibliographies. Learn how to import references from databases such as PubMed or CINAHL, organize and manage a RefWorks database, and produce a bibliography. RefWorks is a web-based product that is available to all UT Health Science Center affiliates.


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A parallel, if equally esoteric and equally unoriginal, analysis is that happiness has rendered me mute. Blogging has historically been for me a way to work things out, a means to find a way to handle the negative, see a problem from a different perspective, reason my way out of a challenge. In the space I'm in now, blogging to share that I'm here, I'm happy, I'm doing stuff, feels self-indulgent and dull. I understand how to frame a post about a problem. It's not clear to me how to frame a post that's an update or an observation. I'm not the person who can in that Seinfeldian way make nothing into something.
I've written this post before, though, and I keep coming back to write it again because I do miss the frequent practice of writing. I'd like to try to find the point of interest in the mundane, or at least find a way to make it seem as though the broader point of interest is there because life is not actually mundane for me, it just seems to me that my life has become mundane as observed by others.
I offer for now, the cop-out, a bulleted list of the past couple of months of happenings, things that have been all manner of things to me—interesting, exciting, scary, fun, productive, creative, sad, happy. All those things that make a life:
- Best Christmas to date with Maddie and Riley, including instructions to Santa to have the reindeer enter through the back door.
- A cat! We have a cat! His name is Hubble, he's six years old, he's black with yellow eyes, and he adores Maddie.
- Trees! We have trees! We had a pear tree and an apple tree planted in our front yard. Someday, we'll even have pears and apples.
- Work. I have the same job. It has ups and downs. Lately, it has more downs than ups. I can't really say more.
- My birthday! I turned 40. I had a huge, crazy party that was ridiculously fun. So far, 40 is freakin' awesome. I think my use of the phrase "freakin' awesome" is an indicator of my advancing age.
- The beach. I went to the beach for a couple of kid-free nights. Fires, reading, hiking, eating, games, pajamas, amazing.
- Las Vegas. I went to Las Vegas for a few kid-free nights. Cirque du Soleil, Red Rock Canyon, Hoover Dam, jogging on the strip, zip-lining, hot-tubbing, amazing.
- Joshua Bell. I saw him in concert again. He's the real deal. Perfect seats, unreal performance.
- Running. I've been running up a storm. I've got my sights on a half marathon at the end of May, and maybe even one as soon as mid-April.
- Skiing. The kids are in ski lessons for the second year in a row. We're one weekend into four Saturdays of this. Riley is more enthusiastic than Maddie, but both had fun last weekend and seem ready for more tomorrow.
- Piano. Maddie and Riley are four weeks into their first round of piano lessons. No one seems overly wowed by playing the piano, but I'm glad they are getting the exposure.
- Harry Potter. M&R are officially obsessed with Harry Potter. We're halfway through book three. It's a real joy to read them books that I love and find they they love them, too.
- My Kindle. I got a Kindle for Christmas. Much to my surprise, I am completely devoted to it. I [heart] my Kindle.
- Mexico. I'm gearing up for a trip to Mexico, a repeat of the trip I took to Mexico around this time last year. CANNOT WAIT.
- Au pair. Having an au pair is the best thing I've ever done for our family. It's a huge gift to me, and a huge gift to Maddie and Riley. Anyone who is interested in getting an au pair, I'd be happy to tell you what it is about the experience that's so fantastically great. Life-changing, truly.
- Our house. I continue to love our house and feel fine about being a homeowner again. We are all capable of change.
I realize that my description of our relationship sounds rather passionless, and that's what I mean about not knowing how to talk about it. The easiest way to explain it is that he makes me feel the way I felt when I was with John. Maybe that seems creepy or weird, which is why I hesitate to describe it that way, but it's true. I said to him (Must come up with nickname! Will go with T for now.) the other day that I could remember so clearly how I felt when John and I moved in together. I felt like I'd won the lottery; I was so excited to go home every day and find John! There! In our apartment! EVERY DAY!!! That thrill never wore off. I get the same thrill now, just not daily. More like twice a week in a good week. But I'll take the thrill when I can get it.
So that is the briefest of views into life right now. It's Friday night, I'm going to head home for a movie and quesadillas with the kids, then pack up an epic amount of stuff to take up the mountain for skiing tomorrow. May the rest of you be enjoying such unremarkable times.


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Ching Shih
Ching Shih was one of the most badass pirates of all time. In a ten-year span, Ching's "Red Flag Fleet", a pirate armada consisting of somewhere around four hundred Chinese twenty-gun junks and several thousand men, sailed up and down the coast of Imperial China kicking asses, sacking towns, breaking necks and cashing cheques. Few pirates ever enjoyed such unbridled financial and military success as the Red Flag Fleet, thanks in a large part to the cunning and ruthlessness of Captain Ching Shih and her desire to be the most feared pirate in history.
Yeah, that's right. I said her.
Ching Shih's origins are a mystery to historians. She first appears in historical records in 1801, as a Chinese prostitute taken to be the wife of Cheng I, a notorious pirate captain. Now Cheng I already had a pretty sweet deal going with his pirate fleet, and like any pirate worth his eyepatch he enjoyed kicking an ass or two. However, things really started to pick up once Ching Shih showed up on the scene. Then all of a sudden the Red Flag Fleet was like a fucking super-size scrotum-kicking machine in a room full of men with elephantiasis of the balls.
Cheng I ended up on the wrong side of a tsunami and died in 1807, so Ching Shih married her husband's First Mate and started running the show herself. Now a lot of people weren't too keen on having a chick for an Admiral, so like any good pirate would, Ching exerted her authority by laying down a pirate code of conduct that made Abu Gharib look like fucking Club Med. If you stole or looted from a town that provided assistance or tribute to the pirate fleet, Ching would chop your fucking head off with a battle axe and dump your lifeless body in the ocean. If you stole from the pirate treasury, or she thought you were stealing from the pirate treasury, Ching would chop your fucking head off with a battle axe and dump your lifeless body in the ocean. Raping any captured female prisoners was punishable by death. Fuck, if you had consensual sex while on duty you got your head chopped off and the babe you were getting it on with would be strapped to a couple cannnonballs and chucked off the side of the boat. Ching wasn't fucking around, and she wanted to make damn sure you weren't fucking around when you should have been working. Plus, she knew that cultivating tons of pent-up sexual frustration was a good way to end up with a bunch of pissed-off guys who were more than eager to take out their aggression on any dumbass pirate hunters stupid enough to get in their way. If you weren't able to handle it, and tried to go AWOL she would track you down, chop off your ear and pass it around to all of the other pirates with a note on it saying, "this guy ran like a little fucking bitch because he was a total pussy."
Throughout the remainder of 1807 Ching sailed up and down the Chinese coastline plundering ships, sacking towns and being an all-around scourge on society. She would sometimes even take her shallow-bottomed boats and row them up small rivers to attack towns that were least expecting it. She rarely lost a battle, and any resistance she faced was crushed handily. One time, two dumbass towns decided it would be a good idea to raise an army and attack her fucking pirate army. Just think about how stupid that is for a minute. Ching not only paddled their asses like a Frat Brother during Pledge Week, but after the peasant armies were crushed she sacked the two towns and beheaded any man stupid enough to be hanging out inside the city walls.
Ching gets ready to fuck somebody up.
In 1808 the Chinese government finally got fed up with Ching's shit. They commissioned an Imperial fleet so set sail and attack the Red Flag Fleet. Now most Caribbean pirates and privateers would have taken this opportunity to find a nice big cave and hide out for a few months. Not Ching. She sailed right out and met the Navy head-on, and kicked their fucking asses. During the fighting, she was able to capture sixty-three ships from the Chinese Navy. Any sailors she came across had two options - they could either join the pirates or they could be tied down to the deck and beaten to death with clubs. As you can imagine, it wasn't too difficult for her to replace the pirate soldiers who had fallen in battle. Her military success was so ultimate and her wrath so terrible that the goddamned Admiral of the Chinese Navy, Kwo Lang, committed suicide when being faced with the prospect of being captured by her forces.
Over the next two years, Ching Shih would do battle with a renegade group of mutinous pirates and would face Dutch and British warships that had been called in by China for the explicit purpose of turning the Red Flag Fleet into a coral reef. None of them were successful in defeating her. In 1810, Ching accepted a general offer of amnesty from the Chinese government. She and her force of seventeen thousand men pulled their two hundred ships into port for the last time and were allowed to keep their plunder and retire to quiet lives in the Chinese countryside. Ching lived to the ripe old age of 69, spending her days running a brothel/casino and being a big-time pimpmaster.
Ching Shih assembled and ran one of the most formidable pirate armadas the world has ever seen. Her forces wreaked havoc not only among the merchant shipping population, but were also incredibly successful at going toe-to-toe with the Chinese Navy in large-scale sea battles. She was tough, well-respected, had a formidable code of honor, and was militarily and tactically superior to a number of Chinese and European naval commanders. And best of all, she was able to get away with everything, keep all of her loot and avoid suffering the indignity of a death by hanging.
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Zac Efron Spotted With Actress Teresa Palmer — Has He Finally Moved On From Vanessa Hudgens?
The very eligible, and desirable, bachelor was spotted at a screening with the Australian actress — are they Hollywood's hot new couple?
It looks like Zac Efron is doing everything he can to get over ex Vanessa Hudgens, including hitting the town with another hot young actress! Movieline reports that the 23-year-old Lothario showed up to a screening of the new flick Take Me Home Tonight and left with 24-year-old Australian actress Teresa Palmer! Hot new couple alert?
When asked why he was attending the screening Zac simply said, "I'm just here for my friends. And I always have fun at these kinds of events."
This is not the first time Zac has been seen with a lady following his split from Vanessa. In fact, Zac was spotted out with a group of girls Jan. 26, getting very close to one blond throughout the evening! Could this have been Teresa?
Zac and Vanessa split over Thanksgiving after almost five years together. The two had since been spotted getting cozy a number of times, but it appears Zac may have finally moved on.
What do you think HollywoodLifers? Are Zac and Teresa an item?


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The uncertainty principle bounds the uncertainties about the outcomes of two incompatible measurements, such as position and momentum, on a particle. It implies that one cannot predict the outcomes for both possible choices of measurement to arbitrary precision, even if information about the preparation of the particle is available in a classical memory. However, if the particle is prepared entangled with a quantum memory, it is possible to predict the outcomes for both measurement choices precisely. I will explain a recent extension of the uncertainty principle to incorporate this case. The new relation gives a lower bound on the uncertainties, which depends on the amount of entanglement between the particle and the quantum memory. If time permits, I will also outline a couple of applications.


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In 1983, a young concert pianist named Diana Dabby took a break from practicing for a solo piano concert and found herself absorbed by a journal she stumbled on in the library at Lincoln Center in New York. Written by physicists and engineers, the articles were devoted to the future of music. Dabby, who had two degrees in music and thought constantly about the topic, found that she could barely make sense of its predictions.
Most people would have shrugged their shoulders and gone back to doing what they were good at. Dabby decided to put herself through college—again—by playing concerts and giving music lessons while she earned a second bachelor's degree, in engineering, at the City College of New York. She went on to graduate school for electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dabby dreamed of a future in which musicians would acquire the skills of mathematicians, engineers, and physicists and use their artistic intuitions to, as she puts it, "come up with something for music in our time."
The idea that science and art have something important to teach one another has been trotted out so often that it has become a truism, yet it often falls short of the truth. More often, one field seems to borrow the jargon or aesthetics of the other without bringing over the substance. Dabby, however, wanted to bring science to bear on music directly—and eventually she found a way to do just that, by using math to generate new musical ideas. Late last year, she launched a Web app called CantoVario that uses ideas from chaos theory to generate variations from any music file. (Listen to some variations of notable pieces of music here.)
By design, it's not necessary to know much about math or music to use CantoVario. A would-be chaotic composer need only click on a particular effect, choose a spot on a color wheel to set how close or distant they want the new version to be to the original, and—like magic—the program generates a new audio version of any song. Some variations sound almost unaltered, while others are unrecognizably minced up. A Scott Joplin rag may jag off in unexpected ways. A Franz Liszt piece can evolve so many times that it may become hard to remember which is the original and which merely a computational riff. In effect, it's using math to generate inspiration.
Dabby's work has begun to capture the imagination of people drawn to its novel use of mathematical ideas or to its musical potential; the South Korean pianist JongSun Lee, for instance, recently commissioned and performed an original piece and a variation. But it is hardly well known. Dabby, who is now a professor at Olin College of Engineering in Needham, has kept a low profile in the math world, focusing more on her work's creative potential.
In fact, though, Dabby's project touches on a much larger theme: Variation is at the heart of all kinds of creation, and she has invented a new way of generating it. Dabby sees herself following in a musical tradition that stretches from Bach to John Cage. But variation is far more pervasive than that, showing up in all kinds of art and in each of us—down to the slight tweaks in our DNA that make us all recognizably different, though identifiably human. Accordingly, some people are beginning to borrow Dabby's ideas to generate chaotic variations beyond music. The principles of her work have now been used to create new dance "chaography," computer-generated variations on rock climbing routes, and even a chaotic remix of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."
"When I first started dreaming of something new for music, what I really wanted to do was reach the man and woman in the street," said Dabby, who speaks in a light, dreamy voice with the earnest conviction of a character in a Victorian novel. "This is not meant to just generate music; it's meant to take a piece that you or your band or someone has written and allow the composer or the musician or the listener to go on a journey with that piece, into uncharted domains."
Steven Strogatz, a mathematician known for his work in nonlinear dynamics, was just developing his class on chaos at MIT when Dabby showed up in his classroom. She had been given a journal on chaos by another professor, and had read it cover to cover.
"I understood enough to sense there was something there for music," Dabby said. "It was as if the artistic side of me—every corpuscle of that side—was resonating with what I was reading. So I decided I would find out more about chaos science."
The word "chaos" is often used in common parlance to mean things that are disordered. To mathematicians, chaos is behavior that appears random, but is actually the result of a system that is evolving according to set rules. The reason chaotic systems seem so unpredictable and random is that they are sensitive to slight changes in initial conditions, commonly referred to as the butterfly effect—the idea that something as small and unpredictable as a whisper of air movement from an insect flapping its wings could cause a thunderstorm halfway across the globe.
Dabby became interested in something called the "strange attractor," a mathematical entity that pulls trajectories back toward it, sort of like a whirlpool that draws in nearby currents. Those trajectories are similar, but differ depending on the initial conditions. It reminded her of the musical concept of theme and variation—think of the recurring motifs in jazz, or any number of classical pieces where the theme is played, then repeated and translated into something new. What if, Dabby wondered, it were possible to generate chaotic variations in music?
Strogatz admits to being a little skeptical of his unusual student at first. She was, he recalls, eager and engaged, but weak by any conventional measure.
"She was really noticeably different from the other MIT students, in that she could barely do algebra; she was really mathematically in a different place than everybody else," Strogatz, now a professor at Cornell University, recalled. "I knew she was enthusiastic, but the jury was still out on whether she could produce anything good."
For her graduate work, Dabby used chaotic trajectories as a kind of scaffold for music. She would generate a particular curve, then translate a melody onto the curve—meaning that as one moved along the curve, each spot would correspond to one note. She would then map the notes onto a "pitch axis," a kind of musical yardstick divided not into inches or centimeters, but into notes—one spot is middle C, another A sharp. Then, to create variations, she would generate a new curve, and use the pitch axis to determine the new order of notes. The result would be a subtly changed piece of music, with little and big differences in each phrase.
From the beginning, the technique generated music audio files—some of which Dabby learned to play on the piano. She wanted to show that it would work on all styles of music, so she applied it to a prelude by Bach and another by Gershwin. When she began to think about building a Web program open to anyone, she wanted to make it as open as possible—simply using music files that anyone might have on a computer to generate new music.
As time has progressed, so have the variation techniques, which don't just rearrange existing notes, but play with rhythm and add new notes. The theory behind each technique is largely hidden, with effects described in simple language on the website. "Brought together by fate" alters the order of notes. "Twirling left" and "twirling right" generate variations that include notes not found in the original. "Dance all night" varies rhythms and pitches, building off the original and the variation as it unfurls.
Despite what you might expect, the results don't sound like some new form of computerized robot music. Instead, the variations end up sounding familiar—each one resembling the original piece, but stippled with unexpected bits.
Strogatz said that despite his early doubts, Dabby's work has been a legitimate contribution. The melding of art and math, he said, doesn't always so successfully produce something that people in both fields can agree is interesting.
"I can't tell you how many people send you files and say, 'This one is a Lorenz attractor played through a loudspeaker,'" Strogatz said. "They'll play chaos in the most literal way, and it's bad. It's uninteresting. Her work is musical. It retains and in some ways improves the musicality, but uses chaos in this interesting way."
If chaos can be harnessed to generate new ideas in music, what other areas could be ripe for such perturbation? Liz Bradley, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder who met Dabby when they were graduate students at MIT, talks about the work in a class she teaches on nonlinear dynamics, as a way to wake students up to the practical and creative applications of chaos theory.
"This is something that just hooks them immediately," Bradley said. "It's a fabulous way to make mathematics and computer science real and tangible, and exciting....You have a whole class of students and they're like differential equations, big whoop, and then you show them this and they sit up."
One year, a student came to Bradley with an idea: He was a ballroom dancer and wondered if the technique could be used to generate new forms of choreography. The conversation sparked a project, and eventually the approach culminated in a program called Chaographer that uses a similar idea to Dabby's, mapping an original dance sequence and then varying it, using animation and motion capture. The technique was demonstrated in a 2007 performance in Boston called "Con/cantation: chaotic variations."
These techniques are decidedly not automated creativity. They still require the ear or eye of a person to curate the movements or passages, culling good ideas and tossing the ones that don't make sense. In dance, impossible transitions need to be somehow controlled for or eliminated. In musical variations, gaps sometimes show up in the variation that make little sense to the human ear. But diversity—the thing celebrated in culture, music, and biology—needs to come from somewhere, and the variation generator is like a brainstorming device that takes the lid off all the possibilities.
Along the way, Dabby's work in chaos seems to have had another, more personal effect. As a pianist friend told her, all this time thinking about variations had changed the way Dabby wrote music. It had become part of her. Over the years since her first encounter with science, the musician, remade as an engineer, had become a chaotic variation herself.Carolyn Y. Johnson can be reached at email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @carolynyjohnson.


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Santa Barbara, California--The sleek center fielder Curtis Granderson added power hitting to his game in mid-career, the Clash started as punks but attained some elegance and sophistication, and, of course, Thomas Edison groomed his filament to perfection. Welcome now the 2015 Kia K900. Entering the American market twenty years ago, Kia was reviled for its crude cars, and earned customers who were eagerly sought by payday loan companies.
The K900 obviates all that ugliness. Prepare to be amazed by this unexpected, stately, substantial sedan. Settle into the 16-way, Nappa leather driver's seat of the K900 V8 VIP, which goes on sale with backseat accouterments in late-February for $66,400, and rest your sensible head. (The standard Kia K900 V8 starts at $60,400 with destination.)
Yes, this is a Kia. Behold the dashboard's marquetry. Peer over the cowl that obscures windshield wipers, presenting instead a sensuous undulation of sheetmetal with its high-quality paint job--all that separates you from the road. Press the start button and watch two rings meet in the center of the 12.3-inch cluster and populate with graphics that will indicate the car's speed and inner labors. Lay your thumb over the shapely e-shifter's lever to command eight speeds.
And get ready, because the 5.0-liter direct-injection DOHC V-8's variability is at your bunion's command. In fact, the need to nudge into the throttle may be a blessing, for it's easy to make these 4555 pounds lurch. The K900 surges forward, and gears are exchanged as tracelessly as derivatives on international markets. Meanwhile, the chassis displays Churchillian rigidity. Very far away, the exhaust note displays a hint of wrath. But tune out completely if you want: 900 watts and 17 speakers render Arcade Fire almost listenable.
Conventional aspects are met to perfection
We drove the K900 V8 VIP from a base camp at Santa Barbara's recently refurbished El Encanto Inn to the college town of San Luis Obispo, and it was fitting that we had started out the morning on floors of heated marble: it helped us ease into thrones that are warmed, cooled, and power-adjustable at four positions. (Five people can be seated in all.) The steering wheel with its wood insert is also heated. In fact, every relevant creature comfort and safety feature we can think of is included in this harbinger of Kia's future.
Sweeping through turns between hills and dashing over narrow byways through vineyards and along river benches, the car was excellent--especially when we remember that the Cadenza Limited was the company's most ambitious effort until now.
With three driving modes (and a Snow setting), the 2015 K900 is semi-dormant in Eco, rubbing the sleep from its eyes in Normal (Comfort), but quite alert in Sport. Even more steering assist in Sport would be nice, but putting on our Lexus hat was the quick fix. On those occasions when we operated the transmission manually, we found ourselves grasping in vain for paddle shifters, which are not included. Otherwise, everything makes sense and operates easily, and the amount of carefully crafted details--the metal trim around each button and control, for example--overwhelmed us.
The morning after our wine country test, we stopped fifty-five miles into the trip home from Santa Barbara, showing the car to a friend who raved about the beauty of the analog clock. "Somebody spent some time putting that together," he said.
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Kia says the 2015 K900 is for brand loyalists who have made their way from indenture to partnership. We say it's a big, rear-drive stud, measuring 200.6 inches long, 74.8 inches wide, and 58.7 inches tall. Blake Griffin will fit in any seat except the rear-center without feeling that a zone defense is collapsing on him.
Outside, the 2015 Kia K900 shows the hint of a Jaguar's schnozz. It wears a high beltline and flaunts a symmetrically tall tail with just a cusp of spoiler. The 19-inch wheels are elegant. The car commands attention and exudes dignity. Dress well; everyone will be looking, and you're on display for truckers who can gaze through the panoramic roof, read the 9.2-inch central screen, and know you're playing the Bangles.
LED lamps are used at all positions, including lovely U-shaped indicators on each side mirror and the elevated rear stop lamp's broad inscription. With tubes agleam and adaptive headlamps blazing imperiously, the 2015 K900 looks sensational at night, one part Vegas, the other part contemporary museum installation. Inside the cabin, courtesy and accent lighting create warmth, which counterbalances the leather upholstery's disappointing lack of leathery aroma. Pull up next to an S-Class and rev your illumination: there might be hasty dimming in response.
Gourmet or Goulash?
By the K900's on-sale date a few weeks from now, a V8 model without all the backseat amenities will join the V8 VIP at a presumably lower price, which is yet to be announced. Kia says a few more than 200 of its 700-plus dealers will offer the car. Look for initial rollout on the West Coast and in Southern states.
Meantime, the Acura RL and Volkswagen Phaeton are reminders of how to belly flop in premium luxury waters. And the Hyundai Equus hardly abounds on roadways. Then again, the premium sedan class isn't that big.
Besides Hyundai, no mass-market automaker -- Kia, with more than 500,000 units again last year, far outsells the previously named niche brands -- has attempted to paddle out to the shipping lane where Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, and BMW are steaming along. (The exception is pickups that threaten the $60,000-barrier.) In fact, every time we looked hard at the Kia nameplate on this fine car, it was like beans for dessert. Will it sell in Beverly Hills or Rancho Cucamonga?
Kia officials say people must experience the 2015 K900 for themselves. We know from our own reaction, and that of a discerning friend, the wow-factor is insuppressible. We imagined an S-Class owner's sneers turning to smiles upon being invited inside, but the only other stopping point on the 200-mile drive home from Santa Barbara was an old Kia haunt, Walmart (this one near Irwindale Speedway), where premium luxury sedans were not in abundance.
Too bad, for it would have been an appropriate place for the sneering upper crust to receive the message that emanates from the 2015 Kia K900: you overpaid.
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I just received this text message from our very own Jon Washburn:
please post the video I just tweeted up on MSF…the greatest basketball video I have ever seen.
Coming from Jon, a certified basketball fanatic, saying it's "the greatest basketball video" he's "ever seen" is quite high praise. I was thoroughly intrigued to watch the video and am posting it on MSF, so it must be pretty good.
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What you just witnessed is a bunch of Chinese dudes, who love them some Indiana Pacers basketball, reenacting some of the greatest Boom Baby! moments in Pacers history.
Some people do war reenactments; these guys do Reggie Miller reenactments.
I don't know if it's quite the greatest basketball video I've ever seen, but it's a thoroughly entertaining sixty-nine seconds of pure Pacers bliss, so certainly worth posting.
But now my question to you, dear reader, is this: what do you think is the greatest basketball video ever? Post below, and perhaps we'll gather them all up into a post and have a fun little poll…


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Famous for its clean, natural environment and unparalleled livability, Portland, also called the City of Roses, has combined the best of nature, urban planning, and recreation to form one of the fastest-growing, most people-friendly cities in the country.
Though just over half a million people call Portland home, it isn't crowded. The city is one of the most walkable in the country, according to the American Podiatric Medical Association, and Portland's careful attention to urban planning and transit means that students, tourists, and commuters have a variety of good options for getting around.
The mild climate and the vast natural resources near Portland, including everything from the wine-growing region in the Willamette Valley to the Columbia River Gorge and Mt. Hood, attract a number of tourists, artists, botanists, brewers and more.
Careers in Portland
The relatively low cost of energy, and the number of highways, transport options, and marine shipping facilities make Portland a good home to many industries.
These include education, healthcare, computer component manufacturing (computer chip-maker Intel is Portland's largest employer), and sports apparel. Adidas has its regional headquarters in Portland, and Nike, Columbia Sportswear, and Yakima Products are all headquartered in the Portland metropolitan area.
Portland businesses are also involved heavily in steel and aluminum manufacturing. In fact, in the last half of the 20th century, steel was the number one industry in the city. Schnitzer Steel, which has been in business in the city since 1906, employs over 600 people and engages in steel recycling and manufacturing.
A majority of Oregon graduates stay in the state after earning bachelor's degrees. A recent study found that 80% of public school graduates were employed in Oregon, and nearly half of those (47.5%) were employed in the metropolitan Portland area.
The recent economic recession hit Oregon hard, and the state and city's construction and manufacturing industries lost many jobs and revenue declined. However, the outlook for high-tech business is bright, and this is good news for a city that boasts the "Silicon Forest". Healthcare workers, including nurses and allied health care workers, and educational personnel will also be in high demand.
The Orgeon Employment Department's recent employment forecast said that though Oregon fell fast in the economic crisis, businesses are slowly rebuilding their way out of the recession. The department predicts that the state will rebound to pre-recession levels by 2014.
Education in Portland
Students in Portland have a wide array of options when selecting a school. Along with public and private schools, there are over 20 art, health, and other career/vocational schools in the Portland area offering hundreds of specialties.
According to Jeanie-Marie Price, Director of Marketing and Communications for Portland State University, Portland's location as the state's economic and cultural center makes it possible to integrate active community involvement with academic programs. Its position as one of the nation's most livable cities makes [it] an attractive place to learn, live, and recreate, she added.
Portland State University is Oregon's largest university, and is part of a seven-university system administered by the Oregon University System (OUS). Oregon also has 27 private colleges and universities, eight of which are found in the Portland area, as well as several career/specialty schools.
Private Colleges & Universities
- Cascade College
- Concordia University
- Lewis & Clark College
- Linfield College - Portland Campus (School of Nursing)
- Marylhurst University
- Reed College
- University of Portland
- Warner Pacific College
- American Jewelers Institute
- Art Institute of Portland
- Concord Career Institute
- DeVry University
- Floral Design Institute
- Heald College
- ITT Technical Institute
- Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts
- Multnomah Bible College & Seminary
- National College of Naturopathic Medicine
- Northwest Film Center
- Oregon College of Art and Craft
- Oregon Culinary Institute
- Pacific Northwest College of Art
- Walla Walla College School of Nursing - Portland Campus
Just outside Portland's metropolitan area are the private college campuses for Linfield College (McMinnville), George Fox University (Newberg), and Pacific University (Forest Grove).


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'Friends With Benefits' Star Bryan Greenberg Says: Hooking Up With Your Best Friend Never Works!
The highly anticipated romantic comedy hits theaters July 22 and Bryan says working with Mila Kunis was a dream!
Bryan Greenberg has worked with some of Hollywood's most sought after leading ladies — Uma Thurman, Alexis Bledel and now his Friends with Benefits co-star Mila Kunis.
HollywoodLife.com sat down to interview HBO's How To Make It In America star, and we were pleasantly taken a back by his down-to-earth attitude. Perhaps it's because Bryan, 32, is just a simple guy from Omaha — but his talent and jaw-dropping good looks can make any girl's heart skip a beat.
"I don't think [friends with benefits] works. From experience, I've tried it," Bryan tells us. "Things change once you get romantically involved even though you think it looks good on paper. But it changes once it goes into practice."
Check out our interview to find out why Bryan loved working with Mila, a sneak peak of the second season of How To Make It In America, and what makes him smell so good!
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