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That combined cost was less than the actual price for the aircraft because the state saved $1.3 million by trading in two planes that are decades old.
The purchase and trade-in arrangements were made with Kansas-based Beechcraft Corporation, which plans to refurbish one of the planes.
"The existing planes were old and starting to cost the state millions to maintain," said Matt Bruning, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Transportation, which manages the state air fleet. "It was determined that due to rising maintenance costs and decreasing reliability the aircraft needed to be replaced."
According to bid documents, the larger plane has standard features such as a media center, memory foam cushions and chilled wine bottle storage, the newspaper reported.
Despite state officials agreeing with a 2012 audit that recommended leasing as a more cost-effective option, Bruning said ownership provides a flexibility that's often required of state agencies in emergency situations.
The Ford Raptor is a favorite around here. It looks like an R/C truck and has similar capabilities. It's also one of the best performance bargains out there…. but it has its limits.
We've hooned and off-roaded and even dunked the damn thing. We've also discovered that it will baby.
But its frame isn't made of spider kevlar, so it will break if you launch it off a massive jump.
Are Ford Raptor frames too weak for off-roading?
The Rednecks with Paychecks behind this video freely admit they got "a little to [sic] much speed built up and over jumped! OOPS!"
Yeah, just a little too much speed.
RICHMOND, Va. -- Elka Johnson planned to honor her son's life with a motorcycle ride after he was murdered during an early Tuesday morning.
Jakeem Johnson was just 26 years old when he was found shot on Lynhaven Avenue on Feb. 7, 2016. He later died at the hospital.
Elka loved hanging out with her friends in the Richmond social motorcycle club Lady Unity Rydaz. They were her support system during the tough times.
"She would smile so big," Elka's friend, Tasha, remembered.
Through the smiles, Elka grieved living a life without her son. Sadly, Elka passed away on July 24, 2017, from a heart attack at 46 years old.
"She died of a broken heart," Chelsea Wimbush cried.
Wimbush and Jakeem were parents to three of his four children.
"Jakeem and I had a friendship that was unbreakable," Wimbush said.
Elka's support system knew they had to complete her plans to honor both Jakeem and Elka.
Dozens gathered at Broad Rock Park on Warick Road Saturday morning for Elka's "Take Your Community Back Ride."
Richmond Police and motorcycle clubs from across the region rode in a procession from the park through Richmond's public housing communities ending at Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School.
"Put the guns down," Wimbush said. "You have to wake up and realize you can be gone within the blink of an eye."
Elka dreamed of ending the senseless violence that took her son. His killer is still on the run.
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An engine this small should, by conventional logic, not be this powerful. But, somehow, it is. And at this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans, Nissan plans to see just how well its under-sized, over-powered hybrid engine prototype handles auto racings's most grueling challenge.
The minuscule engine is known as the DIG-T R. It's an 88 pound, direct injection, three-cylinder turbo measuring 20 inches tall and 16 inches long, with a 1.5L displacement. And yet it produces a whopping 400 HP, with a better power-to-weight ratio than this year's standard F1 engine.
The tiny gas engine will be supplemented by a hybrid electric drivetrain, powered by chassis-mounted lithium ion battery packs, and installed in Nissan's ZEOD RC (Zero Emission On Demand Race Car). The ZEOD will race out of Garage 56, Le Man's traditional spot for experimental vehicles, so the only points Nissan will be interested in will be data points.
"Downsizing is very important in the automotive industry," Darren Cox, Nissan's global motorsport director, told Autoweek. "We already have three-cylinder engines in our range and there are more coming. This is the first time that this configuration has been used at the top level of motorsport, but that is because we are pushing the boundaries in terms of light weighting. There are a lot of expensive materials in there and the crankshaft is a work of art. The engine is a stunning piece of engineering."
This tiny engine is designed not just for power, but for efficiency. The more efficiently an engine runs at Le Mans, the less time the car loses for pit stops. As such, the ZEOD's hybrid drivetrain will run through its stores of electrical power in roughly one hour—Nissan calls them "stints"—before the gas engine kicks in to get the vehicle back to pit lane. There's no word yet on how the team will recharge or replace the depleted batteries—perhaps a rapid charge a la Tesla's Supercharging station, or simply hot-swapping the li-ion packs?
​The Eagles Nest is a perfect facility for weddings, private parties, family reunions, meetings, celebrations, sales events, training, demonstrations and much more. This spacious facility is located at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds and Event Center across the street from the Kitsap Sun Pavilion on Fairgrounds road. Seating accommodates up to 106 attendees, tables and chairs are provided.
More Barkley: Hauser notes a one-month-old SurveyUSA poll showed Barkley getting 8 percent in a three-way matchup with Norm Coleman (48 percent) and Al Franken (37 percent); Ventura had 26 percent in a newer SurveyUSA poll. “I don’t have Jesse’s style, his bravado, but I have exactly the same passion,” Barkley argues. But in addition to poorer poll results, he doesn’t have Ventura’s fundraising ability.
Worth remembering: Going back to 1998, no Democrat has won a three-way statewide race with a credible Independence Party candidate. So while Norm Coleman forces didn’t get Ventura to fully cleave the anti-incumbent, anti-war, anti-Norm vote, Barkley will probably do, and is far less likely to score the upset win.
Jesse’s open door: the dye-job diva — we’re talking Ventura, not King — did say he might still file if “God comes and speaks to me like he did the president, and tells me I should run, like he apparently told the president to invade Iraq.” WCCO’s Pat Kessler observes that “anything’s possible in JesseWorld” but notes the ex-guv’s dim view of religion makes this chance unlikely.
Former federal judge Miles Lord’s daughter, Priscilla Lord Faris, will give Franken a Democratic primary run. The 66-year-old was a real estate exec until becoming a lawyer 15 years ago, notes AP’s Martiga Lohn, and is a Franken donor. There’s not much about her issues, but the personal injury attorney has fought against silicone breast implants, the Fen-Phen diet drug and foreclosures. She says she’ll raise $1 million to $2 million for the campaign.
Monday was poll-flurry day: SurveyUSA put Coleman up 52 percent to 39 percent in a two-way race with Franken; however, the man-bites-dog surprise was Rasmussen, which had Franken topping Coleman 44-42 — the DFLers’ first lead since February. Polls often substitute for real news, but I was surprised Al’s counterintuitive lead didn’t rate bigger press somewhere. Can someone detail how two prominent national pollsters diverge so radically?
Also absent from the dailies: Obama is up 18 on McCain in Minnesota, Rasmussen reports via Fox9. The 52-34 spread is Obama’s biggest lead ever in the survey; with one Rev. Wright-fueled dip, the Democrat has lead here by 12 to 15 percentage points since February. That hissing you hear is air escaping from the Pawlenty-for-veep balloon.
A 30-year Minneapolis cop was indicted for corruption. The alleged low price: $200 to help a gangbanger access a police database. The “gangster” was an undercover cop, and Michael D. Roberts was in trouble. Roberts claimed he inventoried the payoff, but local activist Ron Edwards says Roberts gave him the cash “as a friend,” according to the Strib’s James Walsh. Still, Edwards tells KARE Roberts was “set up” and will be exonerated. Roberts faces 20 years on each count.
Put a transit strike on your short-term list of worries. Metro Transit workers resoundingly rejected a new contract and could walk out by mid-August, WCCO’s Liz Collin reports. It wasn’t close; 95 percent said no. The current contract expires July 31, but there’s a 10-day cooling-off period, Collin notes. The strike could coincide with the State Fair and GOP convention; 2004’s walkout lasted 45 days. More details on the issues, please.
GOP national convention organizers have found their 10,000 volunteers and raised the minimum $39 million. They’ll now try to raise another $19 million for “insurance, transportation and office space” so they can do it up right, the PiPress’s Jason Hoppin writes. Meanwhile, the paper’s Tom Webb says Bob Dylan may have strongly encouraged his son Jakob not to play an ag-industry bash on the convention’s second night.
The PiPress continues its series of public-employee salaries. Today’s installment notes how Minnesota counties are losing top execs to other states because of our salary cap. It was made more flexible in 2006, but tops out around $140K, while places like California are luring away talent for $100,000 more. Waivers are possible, and Ramsey County may go to 177K, Rachel Stassen-Berger and MaryJo Webster report.
Remember: we’re also electing legislators. Politics addicts seeking the early line should check out Politics in Minnesota’s rather detailed list of Top Ten contested House districts. Part one of Sarah Janecek’s compendium is here, and Part two is just out here.
Good news/bad news: the Duluth News Tribune’s John Myers says double-crested cormorants have made “a comeback of monumental proportion” since DDT was banned decades ago — but now the birds are fouling islands and taking anglers’ prizes. There were 89 Great Lakes nests in 1970; now there are more than 115,000. The feds have begun shooting thousands of birds to hold down the population. Some enviros think cormorants are wrongly blamed for fisherfolk skunking.
Minneapolis’ Green Institute — every urban remodeler’s friend through its ReUse Centers — may close, the Strib’s Steve Brandt writes. The 15-year-old nonprofit is $60,000 behind on $3.7 million in city loans; foreclosure and re-sale is a not-so-great option. A suburban ReUse Center has closed; the Minneapolis flagship remains open. The institute’s current boss says shuttering doors is a “definite possibility.” Previous management “used debt like a cash machine,” Brandt observes.
At the Strib’s “Big Question” blog, reporter Mark Brunswick explains how the Pawlenty administration poked its finger in the paper’s eye over a recent records request. The state can only charge 25 cents per page for copying fewer than 100 pages of records, but tacked on $275 for a Strib request that went 16 pages over. The government could’ve waived the charge but didn’t; buy a scanner, advises one records advocate. The paper makes common cause with the Minnesota Independent; strange bedfellows.
Nort spews: Justin Morneau sheepishly won the Home Run Derby last night; he bested Texas’s Josh Hamilton 5-3 in the final round, but Hamilton had the Yankee Stadium crowd chanting his name after a Derby-record 28 dingers in the first round. Them’s the rules, folks.
The Byron Review, it seems, was just the beginning. The UK government has unveiled a comprehensive action plan designed to develop ways of making videogames and the internet safer for children.
The action plan has six key objectives: four concerning child safety online and two regarding the impact of videogames on young gamers.
On the videogame side of things, the government plans to launch a consultation to consider “all necessary evidence around current and future video games classification”. Given the wording of the announcement, the government seems to have decided that the current videogame classification system does indeed require reform.
The government said it also plans to work with industry to improve the information and support given to parents on videogames. This could see the current BBFC rating system widened and the Pan European Game Information (Pegi) labelling adopted alongside it.
Pegi is a voluntary system currently used by many game manufacturers. It uses icons to identify specific types of content, for example, a spider signifies scary content. A syringe indicates drug use.
On its approach to internet safety, the government plans to create a UK Council for Child Internet Safety to monitor the ‘kids online’ issue and report back to MPs.
In the US, the New York State Senate this week voted in favour of legislation to create a governmental advisory council to examine the possible impact of violent videogames on society. The legislation won’t become law until 2010, provided the state’s governor signs it into the statute books.
Part of the legislation would require consoles sold in the state to be equipped with parental controls, something which the Byron Review also recommended. It would also grant the 16-member council the powers to take charge, locally at least, of the US’ existing Pegi-like ESRB (Entertainment Software Review Board) videogame rating system.
The yields still have it.
As financial markets wait for Spain to make a formal aid request, for Germany to give its approval, for lenders to give the nod to Spain’s new budget, for Moody’s to downgrade the country’s credit rating and for the European Central Bank to prove that outright monetary transactions, or OMTs, work, it isn’t any surprise that confusion reigns and the euro is showing little real direction.
But the bottom line remains: If Spanish borrowing costs don’t fall, the debt crisis will intensify and the single currency will once again be at risk.
For the moment, yields aren’t falling much. During the past few weeks, the price of 10-year money has bounced back and forth just under 6% and is currently trading at 5.72% as investors wait to find out more.
The Mile High Jazz Band will peform Big Band jazz.
Get ready for an evening of sweet and hot big-band music by the Mile High Jazz Band at Living the Good Life Bistro, 1480 N. Carson Street, in Carson City on Tuesday, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Admission is free, donations welcome. Late night menu is available.
The 17-member band will play jazzy, swinging, big-band selections. Highlights of the evening include Sister Sadie, Rock This Town, and Charles Mingus’ Haitian Fight Song.
The performance is funded, in part, by a grant from the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. For information about the Mile High Jazz Band, call 775-883-4154 or see milehighjazz.com.
StormRanger 7 in Tierrasanta on Friday, February 17, 2017.
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Anyone who has taken even a 10th grade literature course has come across a Shakespeare soliloquy at some point. Richard III goes through the list of all the reasons for his discontentment then boldly declares he will be a villain. There are seven soliloquies in Hamlet in which he walks himself through more possibilities than a Rube Goldberg Machine. And the Macbeths talk to themselves through everything they do. Perhaps most memorable is the example of Juliet, who uses logic and reason to validate her love for someone her family wants her to hate. Many teachers (and others) have declared the soliloquy to be a necessity of the stage, calling it a precursor to voice over narration. The characters are only thinking these things.
But what if they’re not? What if Shakespeare, over 400 years ago, understood the power of self-talk?
Flash forward 400 years to the work of leading expert in the field of self-talk, Ethan Kross, director of the University of Michigan’s Emotion and Self-Control Lab. He describes “self-talk” as the running monologue that we have with ourselves most of the day. Mentally working through the scenarios, whether asking ourselves where we left our keys, saying the steps of a recipe while we make something, or whether we should kill the usurper king of Denmark—and especially going through the scenario out loud—actually helps us to focus. Saying a word out loud helps us to keep an image of that object in our minds, which often helps us find the object more quickly. But Kross wanted to take this further, to see how self-talk could make us, without sounding like something out of pop-psychology, more confident and in control.
Kross conducted a series of experiments studying how people conducted their soliloquies. The most significant observation was not only the internal monologue of self-talk spilling into open speech, but the way in which successful people used it. They spoke to themselves in the third person, using their own names.
During Kross’s study, people who spoke to themselves using I or me tended to become more flustered and have a diminished performance on a particular task, or found difficulty in overcoming a problem. Those who used their names to talk themselves through the same tasks or problems in a self-advocating manner had success rates that shot through the roof.
While some self-talk can become negative, especially for those trapped in a cycle of self-defeat, self-talk itself is not an optimal solution. We learn self-talk as babies, babbling, then repeating sounds and words, and then walking (or singing) ourselves through various steps in the education process. Positive and negative feedback then influence the ways in which we continue this self-talk; children who hear they aren’t good enough or are doing something wrong will often tell themselves they can’t complete a task because of this negative feedback. The corollary is that positive feedback fosters positive self-talk. This continues as we age.
Negative feedback can be rewired with positive self-talk. What is impressive is how this can be achieved through switching to the third person. It’s a way to toggle how we can address the self. Switching our self-address is the same as flipping a switch in our amygdala, which controls our fear, and our cerebral cortex, which controls thought. These switches can increase or lessen the intensity of how we feel about a situation (or our sense of self within that situation). Third person helps us to gain psychological distance, which helps us gain self-control. This aids us in performance of tasks, critical thinking, and taking over an empire (or not). It also minimizes anxiety and dwelling on a task after its completion.
Further research will be conducted on the topic, but it may revolutionize the ways psychologists approach behavior modification therapy, as early results show that test subjects and patients seem to go through much less stress during third person self-talk. It can be a useful strategy to keep in mind.
And then next time you catch yourself asking yourself or your pet where you left your keys, keep in mind you’re in good company, and this is part of your biological process of development.
If you find yourself in the cycle of self-doubt and negative self-talk and wish to learn strategies for gaining psychological distance, contact me at Stephen@PfeifferPhD.com or visit my website www.pfeifferphd.com.
Chris Brown continues to give a “Little More” in anticipation of his upcoming album Royalty.
The upbeat cut, which follows “Back to Sleep,” “Anyway” featuring Tayla Parx, “Wrist” featuring Solo Lucci, and “Liquor,” is dedicated to his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, for whom he named his album.
“Little More” marks yet another teaser of the LP. In the past three days, he released a trio of music videos for “Back to Sleep,” “Wrist,” and “Anyway,” and late last week, he performed “This Christmas” with Tank during “Taraji and Terrence’s White Hot Holidays” special.
A mysterious blast of radio waves has been traced to its source. Its origins suggest there are multiple causes of these signals, which have been puzzling astronomers for nearly 10 years. What’s more, it has given us the first direct measure of the density of the interstellar medium, confirming there is a whole lot of matter we can’t account for.
Earlier this week Sony released a new projector for the PlayStation 4 rather quietly, it didn’t have a major presence at Gamescom like rival Microsoft but did conduct a stage show earlier in the week. The projector aims to do what Microsoft allows with Windows 10 to Xbox One streaming though it comes at a price that’s almost at par with that of the console itself.
Sony has launched a new mini-projector for the PlayStation 4 called MPCL1, it connects to the console and projects video on any surface that you want. It’s capable of streaming video over Wi-Fi and HDMI hook up can also be used.
The projector isn’t that big in size so it’s not that hard to carry around and presents gamers with an excellent alternative should there not be a TV around to get some gaming in.
It’s not exactly a high-end project as the resolution tops out at 1,920×720 capable of being projected on a surface of up to 120 inches. It has a brightness rating of 32 lumens.
Sony will sell the MPCL1 mini-projector for PlayStation 4 at $350 which is close to the $400 pricing that’s easily available with most PS4 bundles available at major online and brick-and-mortar retailers across the country.
The mini-projector will be released this October.
Filed in Gaming. Read more about PlayStation 4, Projectors and Sony.
Large corporations are paying too little in taxes and too much in campaign contributions. The top Wall Street banks have again become too big to fail. Walmart, ExxonMobil and others of the top 10 corporations boast larger revenues than most countries' economies.
And, if that weren't enough, corporations have gained extraordinary powers through trade and investment agreements to sue governments, often to override vital social and environmental protections that governments have put in place. Case in point: Next week, a mining firm is bringing the government of El Salvador to trial here in Washington for actions that the government took to protect its people and its environment.
It is time for a congressional investigation.
There is a precedent for congressional investigations into corporate abuses from just four decades ago from which we can draw inspiration.
Forty years ago, front-page allegations surfaced that the U.S.-based International Telephone and Telegraph (ITT) had offered funds to the U.S. government to prevent the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende from taking power in Chile in 1970. Using those allegations as a starting point, the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Multinational Corporations of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, under Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), convened a multi-year inquiry into "Multinational Corporations and United States Foreign Policy." The so-called Church Committee interviewed dozens of expert witnesses to look at the power and practices of U.S. corporations in the developing world. The result was 17 riveting volumes that offer a more thorough examination of corporate abuses overseas than any other inquiry of that (or perhaps any) era.