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While ‘free speech’ is something that goes down big in theory in capitalist heartlands like the United States, in practice the protestant heritage of the WASP elite in North America means that today’s online web 2.0 environment is in reality heavily censored. High-handed bans on platforms like Facebook, Photobucket and YouTube are well known and generate much commentary. To give just one notorious example, earlier this year Facebook removed the painting Ema by Gerhard Richter that had been posted on the platform by the Pompidou Centre to promote a Richter retrospective. Against such dumb-ass attitudes Matt Mullenweg of WordPress.com likes to pose as a libertarian defender of freedom of expression on Web 2.0. He’s even been quoted as saying: “WordPress.com supports free speech and doesn’t shut people down for ‘uncomfortable thoughts and ideas’, in fact we’re blocked in several countries because of that.”
You’d have thought then that unlike Facebook, Photobucket and YouTube, WordPress.com wouldn’t disallow ‘pornography’ in their terms of service. But check those terms and you’ll find that they do! Of course, like all those corporate sites that ban users from posting ‘pornography’, this is just a catchall term allowing WordPress to censor anything they like. One person’s pornography is another’s social critique and/or art. In the case of WordPress.com it seems they’ve banned what they brand ‘pornography’ on their free site in an attempt to driver users onto their paid for hosting services. Like WordPress.com’s use of ads on their ‘free’ site, this is just another capitalist scam (they’ll remove ads from you blog if you pay an annual fee)
And check out the messages sent to those running blogs WordPress.com disables: ” “If your blog is designed to promote affiliate links, get rich quick programs, banner ads, consists solely or mostly of duplicate or automatically generated material, or is part of a search engine marketing campaign, WordPress.com is not the place for you.” You’d think WordPress were living in the 19th century since it seems they’ve never encountered appropriation art and conceptual writing in all their unoriginality – nor understood the nature of their break with the old order of representation… Like the ban on ‘pornography’, the phrase ‘consists solely or mostly of duplicate or automatically generated material’ is designed as a subjective catchall to allow WordPres.com to disable blogs and thereby drive users off their ‘free’ service in the hope they’ll then cough up the dosh for hosting. After all, if WordPress.com genuinely didn’t want duplicate material on their site then they wouldn’t include a reblogging button on it would they! Ultimately WordPress.com censors nearly as much as Facebook and is just as stupid – both suffer from institutional puritanism despite their on the surface rather different agendas….. And this illustrates very well that there are no alternatives under capitalism!
And while you’re at it don’t forget to check – – you know it makes (no) sense! | http://stewarthomesociety.org/blog/archives/category/scam | 2013-05-18T10:21:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Moviefone.com has re-imagined some classic Hollywood movies with the stars who were originally tapped to play the lead roles pictured on the movie posters. As they point out, most films don’t start and end with the same actors attached.
It’s funny how jarring it looks to see Will Smith as Neo in “The Matrix.” Or Johnny Depp skipping school in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” And can you get your head around Meg Ryan and Al Pacino in “Pretty Woman?”
Not even.
I posed a similar question to Steve Martin when I attended the 2nd Annual US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen many moons ago. He was in town to accept a Star Award from the American Film Institute and took questions after the ceremony.
My hand was the first one raised.
I asked Steve, “Were you ever asked to do a film that you passed on, and then later — after the movie was produced — had regrets?”
His response? “I’m never offered good film roles.” (That got a laugh.) Then he got serious and said that he was more likely to develop his own projects.
If that is true, I guess there are no “might have been” movie posters for Steve Martin.
Except for maybe “Striptease.” | http://stickyegg.com/tag/moviefone-com/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Kathryn, this is really a beautiful piece of work. Well done!
I love his/her shell and all the coral. Beautifully done.
Lovely colourful piece.
Love the texture!
Great design and lovely embroidery. Your stitches give it so much movement and texture.Hugs Elaine
what a wonderful little piece ! I adore your stitches
Gorgeous!
great textured stitching
Lovely piece and I love the idea behind it - I hope you were talking about the turtle as being endangered and not the practice of hand embroidery! Although as a double meaning it has merit!
Beautiful work Kathryn.
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Pirates Press Release
Pirates unveil newly renovated McKechnie Field
Historic ballpark undergoes the most extensive makeover since 1993
The Pittsburgh Pirates today announced the reopening of an enhanced McKechnie Field following the
completion of the first major renovation of the historic ballpark since 1993. Pirates Chairman of the Board, Bob Nutting was joined by several Front Office executives and local government officials as they unveiled the improvements to the ballpark that has hosted Pirates Spring Training home games since 1969.. "This project speaks to the strength of our partnership with Bradenton and Manatee County.. The continued support of the local community is the real reason why we are about to embark on our 45th season here in Bradenton.".
The renovation of historic McKechnie Field represents a unique public and private economic development project. The renovation was funded by the City of Bradenton, Manatee County and the Pirates. No property tax funds were used for the project, as the public contribution was raised through the Tourist Development Tax-- a fee included in charges for visitor accommodations in Manatee County. Manatee County offers limited parking in the lot behind their building and in a lot accessible from 6th Street West. Both lots cost $10, with all proceeds benefiting the Boys and Girls Club. A $10 parking lot will be available at 800 17 benefiting Meals on Wheels PLUS and the Food Bank of Manatee. Overflow parking will be available in a lot located at 14th 941-747-3031 or visit Pirates.com. | http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20130220&content_id=41810588&vkey=pr_pit&c_id=pit | 2013-05-18T10:42:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
8660 Saint Charles Rock Rd, St Louis, MO | Directions 6311438.707462 -90.345130
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A Great Little Dive To Visit in St. Louis.
Housed in authentic 1950′s-60′s style diner is the Mi Hungry BBQ restaurant featuring authentic Jamaican cuisine. I stumbled upon this place simply because its an old diner and I thought it was rather intriguing. I happened to be on one of my routes on St. Charles Rock Road, but needed to take a lunch break. The sign advertises Jamaican food with the original diner’s iconic “burger boy” server sporting dreadlocks. I took a trip to Jamaica 5 years ago. It was a great place with great food. I have been missing the taste of jerk chicken since I left the island
When walking in I was greeted by both owners Ava, and Rueben. They are extremely polite and friendly. I informed the two that I was craving jerk chicken in the worst way. They got me started right away by taking a freshly smoked chicken and applying all the necessary sauces to the bird while frying him up. So many choices were offered as sides. I decided on home made potato salad, beans and rice, and their very own coconut bread. My entire plate, or should I say plates because it filled two of them up, was ready within 5 minutes. They had a choice of both domestic and exotic beverages but I decided on water.
The jerk chicken reminded me of what I had while vacationing in Jamaica. It was very tasty, just the right amount of spicy, and very juicy with a smokey flavor. I’m not a huge fan of beans and rice, however this stuff is great. Rice is usually dry to me. The rice here was very flavorful and moist. The beans were tasty too. I could have ate an entire plate of beans and rice and been happy. I was unsure about the potato salad at first. It resembled what you would see from a grocery store, so I had to ask about its origins before sampling. Ava responded with a very surprised, “yes we make it ourselves!” So I gave it a shot and need no further reassurance on whether it was “real” or not. The potato salad is like none other I have ever tried. I has a near makeup and consistency of mashed potatoes. It has a sweet and tart flavor to it. I found it to be very delicious. The coconut bread was good. It had a mild sweet flavor to it, not like someone just basted it with sugared butter. You could tell that the flavor was baked into the bread. Ava informed me that customers come in just to buy the bread.
Overall I had a delightful experience. I love old cafes and diners and I love trying new food. This place offers both and does a good job. You can really tell that the owners are passionate about the food they are creating. Ava and Rueben have been operating for 18 months now. They also offer full service catering that includes not only their Jamaican recipes, but a host of American foods as well.
Be sure to stop by and grab a bite. They are hosting a Customer Appreciation Day on June the 20th, 2011 starting at 6pm and lasting until 10pm. They are having games, live reggae music, art, and free giveaways.
Phone Number is: 314-218-5465
Address: 8660 St. Charles Rock Road. St. Louis MO, 63114
amazing food and service. my husband and i tried this place today and it was AMAZING! the owner was such a sweetie and the tripe and the rib tips were some of the best ive had! and try the jamacian lemonade to die for!
I love this place. Its good very good
AWESOME!!!.
OMG! My husband and I just had lunch here and it was AWESOME! I highly recommend you go there... NOW! You won't be disappointed.
I had the jerk pork, with greens and sweet potatoes. The pork was fall off the bone tender and saucy with just the right amount of spicy (hot enough to tingle, but not so hot that you can't taste your next bite). I'm not normally a fan of greens, but these were very tangy and perfectly wilted -- not mushy. The sweet potatoes are syrupy but not too sweet, served sliced with cinnamon sticks and were the best I've ever had. My husband had the curry chicken, which was also very tasty and perfectly spiced -- So good that my husband ordered a second helping to take home. He also had the sweet potatoes and green beans that were surprisingly spicy and good.
The owner was great fun to talk to and without asking served us samples of several dishes including the Brownstew Chicken, which was a fantastic comfort food dish. I'm not sure I'm brave enough to try the Snoot or Tripe, but I'm definitely going back to try everything else on the menu.
Don't let the "dive" look of this place cause you to drive by... You must stop. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.
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Photo galleries for Music
1. The Urge concert pics
November 14, 2011
2. Wilco concert at the Peabody Opera House photos
October 5, 2011
3. Bon Iver comes to St. Louis
September 12, 2011
4. Blink 182 concert pictures
August 22, 2011
5. My Morning Jacket concert pics
August 3, 2011
6. U2 360 Tour: highlights from around the country
July 27, 2011
7. U2 St. Louis pictures
July 18, 2011
8. Kid Rock with Sheryl Crow
July 17, 2011
9. Florence + the Machine pictures
July 6, 2011
10. Taking Back Sunday: concert photos
June 20, 2011
11. SuperJam 4 pictures
June 13, 2011
12. CMT Music Awards 2011
June 13, 2011
13. Mumford & Sons St. Louis pictures
June 6, 2011
14. Billboard Music Awards 2011
June 13, 2011
16. Stagecoach Festival 2011 highlights
May 2, 2011
17. Bamboozle 2011 highlights
May 2, 2011
18. Arcade Fire pictures
April 22, 2011
19. Plain White T's pictures
April 14, 2011
20. Lil' Wayne in St. Louis pictures
April 11, 2011
21. Queens of the Stone Age pictures
April 6, 2011
22. The Strokes at Madison Square Garden: concert pics
April 2, 2011
23. Ke$ha in St. Louis pictures
February 23, 2011
24. El Monstero pictures 2010
December 20, 2010
25. Best concert photos of 2010
December 7, 2010
26. 2010 Soul Train Awards red carpet
November 28, 2010
27. Roger Waters photos
November 1, 2010
28. The Walkmen and Japandroids
October 21, 2010
29. Band of Horses pictures
October 14, 2010
30. Vampire Weekend pictures
October 4, 2010
31. Eminem in action at Epicenter 2010
September 27, 2010
32. Virgin Mobile FreeFest 2010 concert pics
September 27, 2010
33. Matador at 21 | Pearl Ballroom at the Palms Casino Resort
October 13, 2010
34. Avett Brothers pictures
September 27, 2010
35. Linkin Park concert pics
September 15, 2010
36. 2010 MTV Video Music Awards 5
September 13, 2010
37. 2010 Americana Music Awards
September 10, 2010
38. LouFest pictures 2010
August 30, 2010
39. American Idols Live pictures
August 26, 2010
40. Lollapalooza 2010 highlights
August 9, 2010
43. Lady Gaga in St. Louis pictures
July 19, 2010
44. Lilith Fair St. Louis pictures
September 20, 2010
45. 311 concert photos
June 29, 2010
46. Photos: Rockstar Mayhem Festival 2010 3
September 10, 2010
47. Nashville Rising benefit concert
June 23, 2010
48. The Eagles at Busch Stadium pictures
June 28, 2010
49. Sting in St. Louis pictures
June 24, 2010
50. Dave Matthews Band photos
June 17, 2010
51. Bonnaroo 2010 highlights
June 6, 2011
52. Metromix 'Hot 5' Competition
May 12, 2013
53. The Black Keys photos
June 11, 2010
54. Fishbone at City Museum
June 4, 2010
55. Sasquatch 2010 photos
June 1, 2010
56. Rock on the Range 2010 highlights
May 25, 2010
57. Broken Social Scene concert pics
May 10, 2010
58. Korn concert pics 2
May 11, 2010
59. Owl City photos
December 3, 2010
60. Pearl Jam photos
May 5, 2010
61. Bamboozle 2010 photos
June 3, 2010
62. Nickelback photos
April 26, 2010
63. The Dead Weather photos
April 26, 2010
64. Angels and Airwaves photos
April 20, 2010
65. Cross Canadian Ragweed photos
April 19, 2010
67. Daughtry, with Cavo and Lifehouse photos
April 7, 2010
68. Black Rebel Motorocycle Club photos
March 24, 2010
69. John Mayer photos
March 22, 2010
71. Willie Nelson photos
March 12, 2010
72. B.B. King and Buddy Guy photos
February 22, 2010
73. Sammy Hagar and the Wabo's private Mardi Gras show
February 16, 2010
74. Keller Williams photos
February 1, 2010
75. Nick Jonas and The Administration with Diane Birch photos
January 21, 2010
76. Ho Ho Show with Breaking Benjamin, Sick Puppies and Papa Roach
December 14, 2009
77. Best concert photos of 2009
December 2, 2009
78. El Monstero photos 2009
December 15, 2010
79. Boys Like Girls, Cobra Starship photos
November 16, 2009
80. David Cook photos
November 11, 2009
81. Son Volt photos
November 9, 2009
82. Metallica rock NYC: concert pics
November 16, 2009
83. Concert pics: Pixies in Los Angeles
November 6, 2009
84. Paramore with Paper Route
November 4, 2009
85. Concert pics: Phish Festival 8
March 25, 2010
86. Echo and the Bunnymen in concert
October 19, 2009
87. Them Crooked Vultures in concert 1
October 16, 2009
88. Bruce Springsteen at Giants Stadium
October 12, 2009
89. Har Mar Superstar concert pics
October 20, 2009
90. Weezer concert pics
October 26, 2009
91. CMJ 2009 highlights 1
October 29, 2009
92. Farm Aid 2009 pictures: The musicians
October 5, 2009
93. Blink-182, Fall Out Boy and The Academy Is...
September 30, 2009
94. Pink's Funhouse Tour: concert pics
January 14, 2010
95. Nine Inch Nails concert pics
August 27, 2009
96. The Sounds concert photos
October 16, 2009
97. Noisettes concert photos
July 23, 2009
98. Coldplay
July 27, 2009
99. Mayhem Festival: The bands
July 23, 2009
100. Kid Rock with Lynyrd Skynyrd 2
July 22, 2009
101. All-Star Charity Concert with Sheryl Crow
November 24, 2009
102. No Doubt with Paramore
July 14, 2009
104. The Fray with Jack's Mannequin
July 6, 2009
105. Train rocks Fair St. Louis
July 1, 2010
106. Concert pics: Spinnerette
June 25, 2009
107. Brad Paisley with Dierks Bentley
June 19, 2009
108. Dave Matthews Band
June 18, 2009
109. Concert pics: Aerosmith
August 31, 2009
110. Rascal Flatts with Darius Rucker
June 11, 2009
111. Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction in concert
May 18, 2009
112. Bret Michaels at Rib America festival 2009
May 25, 2010
113. Billy Joel and Elton John
June 11, 2009
114. The return of electroclash 2
January 14, 2010
115. No Doubt: hella good photos 2
January 14, 2010
116. Concert pics: Morrissey
April 7, 2009
117. Concert pics: Chris Cornell
April 12, 2009
118. Coachella 2009 highlights
July 7, 2009
119. 2009 Academy of Country Music Awards
April 18, 2010
120. 2009 Rock Hall of Fame red carpet
March 15, 2010
121. Cut Copy
June 11, 2009
122. Flogging Molly
June 11, 2009
123. Boyz II Men playing Guitar Hero
February 20, 2009
124. AC/DC rocks Scottrade 1
June 11, 2009
125. Girl Talk
June 11, 2009
126. Lil' Wayne at Chaifetz Arena
June 11, 2009
127. Carrie Underwood
November 29, 2010
128. Smashing Pumpkins
June 11, 2009
129. Metallica
June 11, 2009
130. New Kids on the Block
June 11, 2009
131. Kings of Leon 1
June 11, 2009
132. Sara Bareilles
June 11, 2009
133. Death Cab for Cutie
June 11, 2009
134. The Kooks 1
January 13, 2010
135. Triple threat
June 11, 2009
136. PointFest
June 11, 2009
137. Springsteen rocks Scottrade
June 11, 2009
138. Photo Gallery: iFest
April 20, 2009
139. Joshua Radin at Blueberry Hill
June 11, 2009
140. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Rock Verizon
June 11, 2009
141. The Black Crowes Rock Soldier's Memorial
June 11, 2009
142. Foo Fighters Rock Scottrade
June 11, 2009
143. O.A.R. Rocks Soldier's Memorial
June 11, 2009
144. Photo Gallery: Umphrey's McGee
June 11, 2009
145. Photo Gallery: Ingrid Michaelson
June 11, 2009
146. Edwin McCain Concert Photos
June 11, 2009
147. DMB Rocks Busch Stadium
June 15, 2009 | http://stlouis.metromix.com/music/photogalleries | 2013-05-18T11:02:27 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
March Madness—and March, for that matter—is drawing to a close, and with it the 2012 NCAA Tournament. Here's a Final Four schedule for Saturday's action. The action begins when the Kentucky Wildcats take on the Lousiville Cardinals; the champions of the Midwest regional, the Kansas Jayhawks, will wait to face the No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes. The winners move on to the National Championship; the losers tell themselves, from this moment forward, that they got to the Final Four, and go no further in their reminiscences. Which is satisfying in its own way, I guess.
No. 1 Kentucky Wildcats vs. No. 4 Louisville Cardinals (5:09 p.m. Central, CBS)
No. 2 Kansas Jayhawks vs. No. 2 Ohio State Buckeyes (7:49 p.m. Central, CBS)
More 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket news and views are available at SB Nation's NCAA Tournament hub. There you'll find a complete printable NCAA Tournament bracket and just about all the Final Four analysis you need as the best of the best mass in New Orleans.
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A 'Thank You' From the Keller Family
As former St. Louis Park baseball standout Derrick Keller battles back from leukemia, his family wants to thank those who are thinking of him.
Keller has had ups and downs in recent weeks, and his family says the community's support means the world to him. Here is their "thank you" note, posted recently to his CaringBridge page:
I can't tell you how much your prayers have meant to us - but I can tell you some of the results.
The staff didn't tell us right off but those who didn't know Derrick didn't have much hope for him - they do now!
According to one of his wonderful nurses, Ashley, he has 40 hrs of being stable with just a little help with his blood pressure. This is HUGE and we owe it to all the wonderful staff at Amplatz Hosp. and to you for your continued support and PRAYERS!
Please don't stop praying! His lungs were almost collapsed but today the xray does look better. He will need the support of these machines for 2 to 3 weeks so the medicine can help his lungs clear!
We'll never be able to thank you enough for your prayers and support but we are trying to let you know how huge it has been.
God's blessings, love, hugs and thanks to you all, Linda & Bob | http://stlouispark.patch.com/announcements/a-thank-you-from-the-keller-family | 2013-05-18T10:21:49 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
February 1, 2012
Lacey, Washington—Students from the Women’s Studies
Department of Saint Martin’s University, with the support of
adjunct professor Teresa Marbut, will explore the impact of
agribusiness and capitalist corporations on women and children
in Third World and developing countries in an upcoming Robert A.
Harvie Social Justice Lecture. The lecture, “Buying Hope:
Women’s Rights and Sustainable Living in the Age of Agribusiness
and Corporate Greed,” begins at 4 p.m., Monday, Feb. 6, in
Harned Hall, room 110, on the Saint Martin’s University campus,
5000 Abbey Way, Lacey, Washington, 98503. The free event is open
to the public.
Marbut, an ecofeminist philosopher who has dedicated her life
to the whole foods and fair trade movements, holds a master’s
degree in theological studies from George Fox University. She
will complete her doctoral degree in religion and philosophy
from the California Institute of Integral Studies this summer.
The lecture will consist of student presentations on ethical
alternatives to buying products that create a disparity in
workers’ income potential. It also will highlight global
grassroots efforts seeking to support workers, including women,
and fair-trade initiatives that stimulate an environmentally
friendly and sustainable future for both producers and
consumers. Refreshments prepared with fair trade-certified goods
will be provided. Also featured in the presentation will be a
display of other fair trade products and a demonstration on ways
to find fair trade goods throughout Washington. Student
participants include:
Seniors:
Gina Saldaña, political science major with a women’s studies
minor
Marina Arias, psychology major with a women’s studies minor
Christian Cabrera, community services major
Alyssa Nastasi, psychology major with a women’s studies minor
Lana Majoros, psychology major with a women’s studies minor
Juniors:
Sara Harvill, psychology major with a women’s studies minor
Lauren Duran, psychology major
Danielle Reeves, elementary education major
Kenya Timmons-Roblee, English major
Megan Yotsuda, psychology major
Sophomore:
Alexandrea Rebar, community services major with a women’s
studies minor
The Robert A. Harvie Social Justice Lecture Series, now in
its sixth: | http://stmartin.edu/whatsnew/MediaReleases/2012/20120202HarvieLectureSeriesHighlightsAgribusinessOnWomenInThirdWorld.aspx | 2013-05-18T11:02:46 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The local leg is part of a series race to benefit south Louisiana remote control car racers and tracks. Between 35 and 50 racers are expected to take to the track located on the south side of the railroad tracks in Patterson next to Pete’s Auto.
Other races in this series are being held at St. Charles Raceway in Destrehan, RC Power in Springfield and Finishline in Lafayette.
The goal, according to Paula Blakeman, with Tri City RC, is to attract only South Louisiana racers and to give them their own field to compete in. This keeps them from having travel expenses when they go to races across the Gulf Coast or having to give up on their normal club races in order to compete in a series because of costs.
Both children and adults participate in the races. This particular series is geared toward the sportsman club racers, so the sportsman and kids class races will be the main events. Experts will take the back seat and run the earlier races.
All of Saturday’s races are open to the public. Qualifying begins at 1 p.m. and there is no admission for spectators. Tri City RC track is a non-profit organization.
Bleachers are available, but chairs are welcome. Burgers, chips and drinks will be sold.
Also, the group encourages spectators to walk around and visit with the racers. | http://stmarynow.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Radio+controlled+cars+set+to+race+in+Patterson%20&id=20697877 | 2013-05-18T10:31:59 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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I don't have a problem with an enemy having a one shot kill ... as long as I can get one of my BO's to revive me before he does it again.
The problem is that those mobs who can one shot kill you can do it once every two seconds and just go on a bloody spree.
The biggest problem I'm having lately is the "Breh" or at least something close to that. They dual weild pistols and thier commanders can wipe out an entire away team in one shot, and do so often.
OMG it seems like every ground mission in B'Tran lately I get stuck trying to tackle these guys. I thought I was making progress at one point untill I realised they respawn every time I get wiped.
Now I don't mind an elite mob pwning me now and then, in fact I expect that to happen sometimes.
What I don't expect is for mobs to be so overpowered that there is nothing you can do except zerg until you eventually get lucky and he just doesn't use that attack, or misses, or whatever.
There is no tactics, there is no approach, there is only you standing full HP/full shield then *bang* you on the floor calling for help, only to watch your team go down one at a time beside you.
The Breh (If I have that right) are a constant pain for me, the devidians in the weekly I can get over.
It did suck at the time, I actually went into the mission without even thinking about my difficulty being set to elite, but I eventually killed them all. It probably would have helped if I had realized that I could go into the room and actiuvate the consoles, instead I kept pulling them to the hallway and never entered the room till it was over a dozen injuries later. None the less their ability to one hit kill was very frustrating. Once I shot at one they would do thier life drain thing right away and kill me in one go, all I could do was watch. It's to bad that triolic tribble buff has no noticable effect whatsoever.
Seriously ... what good is a resistance vs when it's still a one hit kill? | http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showpost.php?p=3129049&postcount=28 | 2013-05-18T10:43:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
TAG | revertible notes
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FINRA on Reverse Convertibles, a Complex Investment Vehicle
On FINRA’s website, under “Investor Alert,” they offer the following to investors; over the past few years, brokerage firms and banks have been issuing and marketing complex investments known in the industry as “structured products” to individual investors. These include “reverse convertibles,” also known as RCN, which are popular in part because of the high yields they offer..
FINRA is issuing this alert to inform investors of the features and risks of reverse convertibles. They are complex investments that often involve terms, features and risks that can be difficult for individual investors and investment professionals alike to evaluate. If you are considering a reverse convertible, be prepared to ask your broker or other financial professional lots of questions about the product’s risks, features and fees and why it’s right for you.
What Is a Reverse Convertible?
FINRA says that: 1.)a debt instrument (usually a note and often called the “wrapper”) that pays an above-market coupon (on a monthly or quarterly basis); and).
According to FINRA, when you purchase a reverse convertible, you’re getting a yield-enhanced bond. You do not own, and do not get to participate in any upside appreciation of, the underlying asset. Instead, in exchange for higher coupon payments during the life of the note, you effectively give the issuer a put option on the underlying asset. You are betting that the value of the underlying asset will remain stable or go up, while the issuer is betting that the price will fall. In the typical best case scenario, if the value of the underlying asset stays above the knock-in level or even rises, you can receive a high coupon for the life of the investment and the return of your full principal in cash. In the worst case, if the value of the underlying asset drops below the knock-in level, the issuer can pay back your principal in the form of the depreciated asset—which means you can wind up losing some, or even all, of your principal (offset only partially by the monthly or quarterly interest payments you received).
A reverse convertible might make sense for an investor who wants a higher stream of current income than is currently available from other bonds or bank products—and who is willing to give up any appreciation in the value of the underlying asset. But, in exchange for these higher yields, investors in these products take on significantly greater risks.
How Do Reverse Convertibles Work?
FINRA reminds us that the initial investment for most reverse convertibles is $1,000 per security, and most have maturity dates ranging from three months to one year. The interest or “coupon rate” on the note component of a reverse convertible is usually higher than the yield on a conventional debt instrument of the issuer—or of an issuer with a comparable debt rating. For example, some recently issued reverse convertibles have annualized coupon rates of up to 30 percent. A reverse convertible’s higher yield reflects the risk that, instead of a full return of principal at maturity, the investor could receive less than the full return of principal if the value of the unrelated reference asset falls below the knock-in level the issuer sets. For a reference asset that is a single stock, the knock-in level can be 20 percent or more below the original price.
Depending on how the underlying asset performs, you will receive either your principal back in cash or a predetermined number of shares of the underlying stock or asset (or cash equivalent), which amounts to less than your original investment (because the asset’s price has dropped). While each reverse convertible has its own terms and conditions, you will generally receive the full amount of your principal in cash if the price of the reference asset remains above the knock-in level throughout the life of the note. In some cases, you will also receive a full return of principal if the price of the reference asset ends above the knock-in level at maturity, even if it has fallen below it during the term of the investment—although in other cases, any breach of the knock-in level will result in your receiving less than the original principal. However, you typically will not participate in any appreciation in the value of the reference asset during the life of the note.
Reverse convertibles can have complex pay-out structures involving multiple variables that can make it difficult to accurately assess their risks, costs and potential benefits. For example, a hypothetical payoff structure of a reverse convertible with common stock as the reference asset could result in the following scenarios:
According to FINRA, generally speaking, the higher the coupon rate the note pays, the higher the expected volatility of the reference asset. In turn, the more volatile the reference asset, the greater the likelihood that the knock-in level will be breached, and the investor could receive less than a full return of principal at maturity (as illustrated in cases three and four above).
The bottom line is that reverse convertibles come not only with the risks that fixed income products ordinarily carry—such as the risk of issuer default and inflation risk—but also with any additional risks of underlying asset. When the underlying asset is a stock, this means exposure to the business risks of the company as well as systemic equity market risks, including price volatility. If you are considering investing in reverse convertibles, it is critical that you look beyond the high coupon rate and focus on the risks of the underlying asset. Remember that even if the issuer of the reverse convertible is able to meet its obligations on the note—and even if the yield keeps pace with or surpasses inflation—you could wind up, when the note matures, with shares of a depreciated—or even worthless—asset that you otherwise would not have purchased.
Why Do Investors Buy Reverse Convertibles?
- High coupon rate or “stated yield.” Reverse convertibles can offer coupons from 7 percent to 30 percent. Typically, however, a higher coupon rate indicates higher volatility in the underlying stock or asset. This translates into a greater likelihood that the knock-in level will be breached during the term of the reverse convertible and that investors will receive stock (or the current cash value of the asset) at maturity worth considerably less than the full return of principal in cash. As a general rule, the higher the offered yield, the greater the risk of losing all or a portion of the principal invested.
- Expectation of flat markets. Investors who are betting that a stock price will be relatively flat may expect to do better with a reverse convertible than buying the stock itself. But remember, the coupon rates for reverse convertibles linked to relatively stable stocks may not be as high as for those linked to volatile stocks.
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Investor Tip—Be Sure to Adjust for Annualized Yields
FINRA reminds us that while yields on reverse convertibles are often described on an annualized basis, fees are often expressed only for the term of the note. It is important that you consider how these numbers are described—and, if necessary, do a little math so you can make an apples-to-apples comparison of yields and fees. For example, a sales brochure for a 3-month instrument might boast a yield of 10 percent per year and a fee of 1.5 percent. This is not as attractive as it may sound, because a 1.5 percent fee on a 3-month product amounts to a 6 percent fee on an annualized basis. As a result, your actual annualized coupon would be 4 percent—or 1 percent over the term of the investment. You get the same result if you compare the yield for the term (here, 3 months) with the fee for the term: a 10 percent per year coupon provides a return of roughly 2.5 percent over the 3-month term, and 2.5 percent minus 1.5 percent is 1 percent
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Credit Ratings—They May Not Mean What You Think They Mean
Credit ratings are a way of assessing default and credit risk—in other words, the creditworthiness of the issuer. While the note component of a reverse convertible carries the issuer’s credit rating, that rating does not reflect the risk that the price of the unrelated underlying asset will fall below the knock-in level, resulting in a loss of principal. A reverse convertible packaged by a highly rated issuer could be linked to a poorly rated company—or to a highly rated company whose stock performs poorly.
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- Conflicts of interest. An issuer may conduct activities that could represent conflicts of interest with respect to investors of its reverse convertibles. For example, the issuer might engage in regular business activities with the company whose stock is the underlying asset, such as investment banking, asset management or other advisory services and writing research reports about the company. An affiliate of the issuer, for example, might publish research reports that are unfavorable to the stock and could hurt the performance of a reverse convertible that is linked to that stock.
FINRA Tells Us How to Protect ourselves
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This extremely valuable information comes to us from the FINRA website.
Have you or a family member become a victim of the sale of risky Reverse Convertible Notes or RCNs by your broker or brokerage? If so call a Securities Arbitration Lawyer for a free consultation on how to potentially recover your losses. To speak with an attorney, call 888-760-6552, or visit.
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There are about 20,000 violent street, motorcycle and prison gangs in the U.S. today containing approximately one million criminally active members - 147,000 of which are currently incarcerated in federal, state, and local correctional facilities. (2) While not all gangs are sophisticated and well organized, they all use violence to control neighborhoods and perpetuate their illegal money-making activities. Gangs have also become the primary retail distributors of most illicit drugs. (2)
Types of Criminal Activities Gang Members Commit
Gangs continue to pose a serious threat to public safety in many communities throughout the Houston area and the United States.
Gangs Are Not Just an Inner City or Urban Problem
Gang movement to suburban areas can be attributed to several factors including the breakdown of traditional hierarchical gang structures resulting from law enforcement targeting of gang leaders, an abundance of wholesale illicit drug suppliers, and the expectation of high profits from new suburban drug operations.
Other reasons include an effort to expand the gang's influence, expanding drug distribution territories, recruiting new members, hiding from law enforcement, and escaping other gangs. As a result, many suburban and rural communities are experiencing ever increasing gang-related crime and violence because of expanding gang influence.
The movement of gang members to suburban areas result in territorial conflicts between rival gang members and competition for the new territory - suburbia. As gangs grow regionally and nationally, they will continue to meet with resistance by other gangs possibly resulting in drive-by shootings, homicides and other violent crimes - now in suburban communities.
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Stranded is excited to announce its fourth annual holiday trunk show taking place on Sunday, December 4th at Illiterate Gallery (82 S. Broadway, Denver).
Find the perfect present this holiday season with one-of-a-kind designs from Stranded Jewelry and three other Denver-area designers.
In addition to the rare, re-worked vintage accessories that have made our trunk shows popular, Stranded will be debuting two new collections: Arabesque Meets West and Hot Metal.
Utilizing materials salvaged from costume trinkets of yesteryear, the new Stranded Jewelry Vintage Collection offers elegant and eco-friendly looks touched by the style of the past.
The concept behind Arabesque Meets West was to incorporate the exotic style of the Middle East into urban, fashion-forward jewelry. This collection is unique, exotic, and beautiful.
Mixing a variety of warm-toned alloys such as copper, brass, and gunmetal is how the Hot Metal collection was formed. This fun, anything goes collection is edgy, sexy, and fun to wear.
Joining Stranded Jewelry at the Trunk Show are three fellow local artists. Creating green-minded jewelry by using second-hand materials, billie & honey craft unique apparel, accessories and handbags. Also featured at the show are Counter Couture, offering specialty silk-screen prints on everything from handtowels to t-shirts and Montana Girl, who creates charming lariat scarves, flower pins, and countless accessories utilizing yarn collected throughout journeys and adventures around the world.
This event offers a great way to find the best in Mile High style while mixing and mingling with other fashionistas finding the perfect locally designed look.
The special event only happens once a year and is free to attend and open to the public.
Stranded Jewelry Trunk Show
December 4, 11am – 3pm
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Stranded In Denver – Season Finale!
Like most awesome things (HBO shows, strawberries, summertime), there is a season….the Stranded In Denver series is taking a little hiatus and will be back next Summer for your enjoyment but lucky for our readers we’ll be going out with a BANG!
Don’t worry, we’re not killing anyone off but rather wrapping up this Labor Day weekend by:
- Introducing you to the incredible ladies that have helped make this project a great success,
- giving you a sneak peak at some pieces from our Fall Collection (coming to our website very soon!)
- and last but not least, a MOST AWESOME CONTEST GIVEAWAY!! If that’s not something to jump up and down about, I don’t know what is!
THE LADIES of STRANDED IN DENVER
These dedicated and enthusiastic assistants helped me search for fashionistas all over the Denver metro area and helped make the process of dressing, photographing, and interrogating SID models as smooth and painless as possible. This project wouldn’t have been possible without their help. Allow me to finally introduce Taryn Spranza, Dana Palmer, and Karen Amrhein.
Taryn, a lover of all living creatures and 80′s pop music, and certainly wise beyond her youth, took on her assistant role more seriously than anyone, including myself! Poised, confident, warm, and friendly – Taryn really impressed not only me, but the models we worked with shoot after shoot.
Dana has an energy about her that’s not only infectious but addictive. If I could read auras, I imagine hers would be a bright fuchsia with bright blue polka dots. Dana helped make each of my models relax, enjoy their experience, and most importantly LAUGH!
Karen, a free-spirited consultant and mom to two beautiful boys, brought so much dynamic energy to our shoots. Don’t let her tough arm tattoo fool you, Karen has a vibrant warm personality that helped balance my dry sense of humor.
ENTER TO WIN A STRANDED JEWELRY NECKLACE!
Five lucky fashionistas will be the proud owners of a necklace from our Stranded Jewelry Fall Collection! We are giving away the must-have piece of the season (pictured directly above) made with beautiful coral-colored jasper beads complimented with an antique brass oval chain and valued at $75. Measuring 40 inches in length, this piece will compliment all your favorite fall essentials. See contest instructions below!
- Below is a list of questions we asked our three lovely assistants. We’ve mixed and matched their responses to the questions – All YOU have to do is guess which answer belongs to which assistant and voila – you WIN! Simple as that! We’ll give you a helpful tip, some of the clues as to who said what are hidden in this very blog post! There is also a bonus question at the end, get this question right and it will replace one incorrect response to questions 1 -10; giving you more opportunity to win!
- Your response needs to be in the form of a blog post. One submittal per person please.
- Because readers will be able to see each other’s responses, we won’t announce the winners until we have our FIVE winning posts – we will notify the winners and deliver your necklace!
- Contest ends Sunday, September 18 or once we have our five winners – whichever comes first!
- Immediate family members of our three assistants are unfortunately disqualified from participating in this contest.
What are you waiting for? Submit your entry today!
Stranded Contest Questionnaire(Guess which of our three assistants (Taryn, Dana, or Karen) replied to each question below – the first five people to get all ten questions right, wins a FREE Necklace valued at $75!). If you get the bonus question right, it will replace one wrong answer to questions 1 -10 – giving you more opportunity to win!
I want to give a special thank you to the professionals that helped make this last SID blog post possible. Thanks to Wonderfully Made Makeup Artistry by Maria for lighting up the faces of these beautiful gals, the talented Jared with Inner G Salon for the fabulous hair, and last but not least, Jessica Juriga Photography for the amazing photos! You guys ROCK!
Another very special thank you goes out to the classy ladies who were gracious enough to lend us their time, their personal information, and their beautiful faces! Thank you for making this a great summer for Stranded Jewelry!
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Stranded In Denver with Heather Lopez
Stranded Fans, allow me to introduce Heather Lopez. We met Heather in the Highlands neighborhood walking her dog and heading to the local yogurt shop with her nephew Cameron. Although Heather grew up in Boulder, she is a recent transplant from California and is loving every minute of her new surroundings. As with most of our models, we adorn them with a few different styles of jewelry to see what works best – but when Heather saw these turquoise colored drop earrings, her face lit up and I immediately knew that this would be the pair to shoot.
What’s great about the color turquoise is that it looks fabulous on just about any skin tone, whether you’re a sun-kissed blonde like Heather or an olive-skinned brunette. No other color says summer quite like it and no summer wardrobe is complete with out it!
Special thanks to our former California Girl who lit up our lens with her sparkly baby blue eyes! Read more about Heather below.!
Thanks for reading and stay tuned next week to see who’s left Stranded In Denver!
Stranded In Denver with Erika Oliver
Stranded Fans, allow me to introduce Erika Oliver, our next lovely addition to the Stranded In Denver summer series. We met Erika in the Highlands neighborhood where she was on her way home from work. Midway through her first week in a new job, Erika was ready to kick off her shoes and enjoy a well-earned glass of wine. Luckily, she was willing to take a few minutes from her evening to assist us with our project.
It never ceases to amaze me how putting a camera in front of someone can immediately transform their personality from professional/serious to quirky, playful, and even flirty. That’s definitely what we got from Erika! Once adorned with jewelry, she quickly forgot about her planned night of relaxation and dove right into some very sassy shots! We modeled Erika with several different pairs of earrings but my Trusty Assistant and I both agreed that Erika was Prettiest in Pink. The vibrant hot pink in the earrings matched Erika’s personality to a ‘T’. Her smile: infectious, her personality: contagious, and my only complaint was that she left us wanting more.
Thank you Erika for a fun shoot and some gorgeous photos! Read more about Erika below.!
Thanks for reading and stay tuned next week to see who’s left Stranded In Denver!
Stranded In Denver with Gina Scalzi
Stranded Fans, allow me to introduce Gina Scalzi. We met Gina while walking out of City, O’ City Café and as fate would have it, she was walking in. If Gina looks familiar it’s because she’s an accomplished actress starring in several independent films, theatre, and several regional and national commercials. Gina was definitely at home in front of the camera, super confident and oozing Italian charm. With her sharp and to the point attitude and mysterious piercing dark eyes, she reminded me of an exotic and complex character in a romance movie.
This dark haired beauty would have been a perfect candidate to model several of my middle-eastern inspired jewelry but I had a different look in mind for her that day. We complimented Gina’s exotic look with a repurposed vintage necklace from the 70’s. The long and short drops in the chain are complimented by the long layers in her hair. Bustling around her with jewelry and interview questions, Gina took it all in with the ease and confidence of a true star.
Even with all the havoc around her, Gina commanded the camera and gave us some striking photos. Grazi Bellissima for the stunning photos! Read more about Gina below.!
Thanks for reading and stay tuned next week to see who’s left Stranded In Denver!
Stranded In Denver with Cassie Gootee
Stranded Fans, please meet Cassie Gootee, our next Stranded victim in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. This fiery-haired siren quickly caught our eye as we strolled through the Buffalo Exchange in search of a few props for our shoot.
In addition to Cassie’s striking presence, we noticed her keen sense of style – let’s face it: not surprising for anyone who works at the Buffalo Exchange let alone the Store Manager! Cassie has managed the Buffalo Exchange for the past three years and has a love for fashion on or off the job.
We complimented Cassie’s look with a bold piece made with a large but delicate Lucite flower pendant, blue crystals, and brass mesh chain. This piece combines feminine charm with an edgy urban appeal. We thought it quite fitting for Cassie’s style. Sort of sassy southern belle meets city chic. Cassie’s gorgeous smile lit up our camera and resulted in some damn good photos; choosing just one was the most difficult part! Thank you Cassie for the gorgeous photos. Read more about Cassie below.!
Thanks for reading and stay tuned next week to see who’s left Stranded In Denver!
Stranded In Denver With Shae Whitney
Stranded Fans, please meet Shae Whitney, our first Stranded victim to be captured in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. We spotted this beauty tending bar at City, O’ City. With her 1920’s Louise Brooks vibe, this dark-haired starlet from another era captivated our camera like no other. This photo takes me back to the glamour days of flappers, long-stem cigarettes, and prohibition. It’s fitting that she tends bar, no?
I was elated to locate a piece that would accentuate Shae’s fantastic look. Although every intent of this asymmetrical turquoise flower and white jade necklace was to flaunt a modern look, Shae’s overpowering style transports this piece into a timeless vintage treasure. All set to head over to the speakeasy!
This necklace is bold, feminine, and classic – and the same could be said for our model. Thank you Shae for the vintage glam shoot and some breathtaking photos! Read more about Shae below.
Model: Shae Whitney
Age: 24
Occupation: Mixologist/Bartendress
Describe Your Look with One Word: 1920’s
What do you like your jewelry to say about you? I love big gold pieces. I’m a Leo and I feel that they accentuate my bold nature.
What were you up to when we stopped you today? Heading home from work to feed my chickens.
What’s she wearing? Shae is wearing an asymmetrical necklace made with a beautiful turquoise flower and large white jade stones on sterling silver chain. Like what you see? If so, please visit us at!
Thanks for reading and stay tuned next week to see who’s left Stranded In Denver!
Stranded In Denver with Alisa Carrington
Allow me to introduce Alisa Carrington. I have to be honest – my accomplice and I thought we were done shooting for the day and wanted to celebrate with a patio margarita at El Diablo.
Turns out there was a gorgeous diabolina running around El Diablo - there’s a little bit of mischief behind those adorable freckles and crazy cute dimples – no? My associate and I gave each other a knowing look, each recognizing that our work for the day was not done!
Although busy and definitely taken off guard, Alisa was gracious enough to sit down for a few minutes to model some earrings, answer a few questions, and give us some stunning photos. Alisa’s badass pixie hair and fresh face was complimented with a pair of blue fan drop earrings made with glass beads on elegant sterling silver ear wire. These earrings provided Alisa just the right pop of color to compliment her auburn hair and beautiful tan. What a great end to a successful day of shooting!
Thank you Alisa for an amazing shoot and some gorgeous pictures! Read more about Alisa below.!
Thanks for reading and stay tuned next week to see who’s left Stranded In Denver!
Stranded In Denver with Carly Dutch-Greene
Stranded Fans, allow me to introduce Carly Dutch-Greene. Carly’s killer tan was the by-product of her 10 relaxing days in Greece! Along with her golden glow, she caught my eye with her bright coral romper and summer sandals. Carly had “The Perfect Summer Look” and I knew I had to capture it for our Stranded In Denver summer series.
Carly says the vivid butterfly tattoo over her right shoulder symbolizes freedom, beauty, and transformation. My goal was to accentuate her tattoo with some bright, playful earrings so the choice to adorn her with Stranded’s Flower Power earrings was an easy one. Made with large teal colored Lucite flowers and bright green glass beads, these earrings were a perfect match!
Looking at Carly’s photo, with her golden skin and fun summer earrings makes me want to book a tropical vacation ASAP! Thank you Carly for an amazing shoot and some gorgeous pictures! Read more about Carly below.Model: Carly Dutch-Greene Age: 19 Occupation: Full Time Student at UC Denver Describe Your Look with One Word: Classy What do you like your jewelry to say about you? I like for my jewelry to represent my unique side. I also have a weakness for earrings! What were you up to when we stopped you today? Enjoying the afternoon with my girlfriend Paige and some Sweet Action Ice Cream. What she’s wearing? Carly is wearing one of our most popular earrings from our summer collection. These statement earrings are made with large teal colored Lucite flowers complimented with bright green glass beads with a bird etching for $25. Like what you see? If so, visit us at! Thanks again Carly! Have a great holiday weekend and stay tuned next week to see who’s left Stranded In Denver!
Stranded In Denver with Kaitlin Yaws
It is my pleasure to introduce Kaitlin Yaws, our next gracious participant in Stranded In Denver series. When we met up with Kaitlin in the Denver Design District, she was in a hurry to head out to lunch. Although pressed for time, Kaitlin was kind enough to assist us for what she recognized was a much worthy cause: FASHION!
What I first noticed about Kaitlin was her pretty “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” vibe. She rocks a fierce ‘do that most of us would die for and with the beautiful angles of her face and neck, I knew she’d be the perfect earring model. Her shots were amazing and the jewelry popped against her skin.
Kaitlin, you didn’t make us look good, you made us look REAL GOOD. Read more about Kaitlin below!Model: Kaitlin Yaws Age: 29 Occupation: Interior Designer Describe Your Look with One Word: Edgy What do you like your jewelry to say about you? I like for my jewelry to express my creative side. What were you up to when we stopped you today? Headed out to lunch. What’s she wearing? As with our model, these earrings are edgy and sleek. Kaitlin is rocking our long drop earrings made with beautiful bright blue briolette quartz and strung on sleek gunmetal chains for $25 Like what you see? Visit our website at. Thanks so much Kaitlin! Stay tuned next week to see who’s left Stranded In Denver!
Stranded In Denver with Paige Mitchell
Audience, please meet Paige Mitchell, our next target in the Stranded In Denver project. Paige is a full-time student and has a passion for the art of dance. When I first approached Paige window shopping along Broadway, she was friendly but slightly reserved. To my surprise, once I put her in front of the camera, this bright-eyed beauty came alive wasting no time in giving me several sassy, flirtatious shots. The camera certainly loved her and so did my jewelry. Paige, you ROCKED it girl!Model: Paige Mitchell Age: 20 Occupation: Full Time Student at UC Denver and Dancer Describe Your Look with One Word: Chill What do you like your jewelry to say about you? To represent my fun and outgoing side. I also have an appreciation for various types of style. What were you up to when we stopped you today? Enjoying the afternoon with my friend Carly and some Sweet Action Ice Cream! What she’s wearing? Paige is wearing a very unique piece made with a repurposed vintage filigree pendant strung on circular brass chain for $45.
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Thanks so much Paige! Stay tuned until next week to see who else is left Stranded In Denver!
Stranded In Denver with Amy Carr
I’m excited to present to you our very first victim in the Stranded In Denver series. Audience, please meet Amy Carr, owner and stylist at Double Dutch Hair Studio on Broadway. Don’t let her tough-looking exterior fool you, Amy’s got such a sweet disposition and gorgeous blue eyes that made our necklace light up the moment she put it on. Amy definitly rocked our photo shoot and will be a tough act to follow!Model: Amy Carr Occupation: Owner/Stylist – Double Dutch Hair Studio Describe Your Look with One Word: Eclectic What do you like your jewelry to say about you? To express my originality What were you up to when we stopped you today? Working on the Double Dutch Hair Studio Grand Opening this Saturday, June 11. What’s she wearing? Amy is wearing a multi-stranded asymmetrical necklace with a large teal flower, strands of brass chain, and repurposed vintage chunky lucite beads.
Thanks so much Amy! Stay tuned next week to see who’s left Stranded In Denver!
I’ve intrigued you deeply with my first blog post, I know. And so now, I introduce a fun and quirky segment of Stranded Jewelry called Stranded In Denver.
I do love jewelry. I think about it all the time. I’m embarrassed to admit that sometimes I imagine strangers I see, walking down the street or sitting at a bar, wearing my jewelry and how great they would look. With just the right pop of color here, and just the perfect chunky necklace there – I’m at peace with the lovely vision I’ve created in my head.
Yes, I acknowledge this behavior is odd and very intrusive if someone was ever to suspect, but I can’t control myself. So I thought I’d channel this odd behavior into something positive. This, and with the help of my creatively genius sister Yasmine, is how the concept of Stranded In Denver was developed. Only the twist is, instead of singling out gals in need of accessory makeovers, I’d go out in search of great style and attitude in the City of Denver. Once my target is selected, I adorn her with Stranded Jewels and feature her on my blog with a few sassy snapshots and a little get-to-know-ya bio.
So, stay tuned because this week we will be hitting the streets of Denver looking for some fashionistas to beautify my blog!
Hi and welcome to my very first blog post! My name is Amelia and I’m a jewelry designer living in Denver, Colorado. I left my full time job in the engineering industry in February 2011 to pursue my jewelry passion full time and I couldn’t be more excited! The spring season has been wonderful so far with two successful shows, first at the Denver Fashion Spring Market in April and then at the Boulder Creek Festival last weekend.
My web site’s design and shine is the product of the fabulous people at Poitra Visual Communications. Seriously, these folks are amazing and I can honestly say that I can’t keep up with their creativity – check it out –. For more of the vintage and one-of-a-kind items, visit my Etsy online store and of course I’ll be at several summer festivals including the Highlands Festival on June 18th. Feel free to check out my events page to find out all of our stops this year and the area stores where you can find select pieces!
So that’s who I am, but who are you? That’s the question I’m going to answer with my Stranded in Denver series! I see fashionistas strolling the streets of Denver every day and I want to meet you to inspire and be inspired. I plan to set out and find all of you creative souls sporting your unique styles from vanity to vulgar. So follow along as I explore the streets of Denver, dive into some do’s and don’ts of the jewelry industry, and occasionally post completely unrelated yet adorable photos of my dog Jack.
Amelia
Location: Denver, CO 80209
Hours: Mon - Sat: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Phone: 720-984-6007
Website:
Local Denver Jewelry Designer, specializing in vintage jewelry and hip, funky, fresh new designs too!
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The field of data visualization all too often is viewed as having the single role of attaching data to an image, regardless of whether it’s for analysis or journalism or entertainment. In a recent interview, Ben Fry, principal at Fathom, said this is a tendency that needs to be overcome. Visualizations have far more nuance, and varied intent, than many people realize:
People evaluate stuff that’s, say, for journalism or for pure entertainment under the same rubric as the way that you look at analytic tools. We need different ways of evaluating things. I hope we’ll develop a better understanding of the different roles [visualizations] can take given different audiences or the different contexts in which they will be used.
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Fry compared visualization to the field of writing, in which the roles of various genres and outcomes — and how they are perceived and consumed — are more clearly defined.
We’re going to start understanding that visualization isn’t this sort of monolithic thing — that it’s not “data plus image equals this.” I like to look at it like writing. You have novels and poetry and haikus — there’s lots of different types of writing and styles of writing and ways that you address things. I think the same thing happens in visualization. Some visualizations are tools for analysis and some are purely entertainment.
For more on creating and democratizing visualizations, and where the field is headed, check out the entire interview in the following video:
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Hamilton, Niall Robert and Wood, James and Galloway, Alexander and Olsson Robbie, Mikael and Zhang, Yuxuan (2012) The metallurgy, mechanics, modelling and assessment of dissimilar material brazed joints. Journal of Nuclear Materials. ISSN 0022-3115 (In Press)
At the heart of any procedure for modelling and assessing the design or failure of dissimilar material brazed joints there must be a basic understanding of the metallurgy and mechanics of the joint. This paper is about developing this understanding and addressing the issues faced with modelling and predicting failure in real dissimilar material brazed joints and the challenges still to be overcome in many cases. An understanding of the key metallurgical features of such joints in relation to finite element modelling is presented in addition to a study of the mechanics and stress state at an abrupt interface between two materials. A discussion is also presented on why elastic singularities do not exist based on a consideration of the assumption of an abrupt change in material properties and plasticity in the vicinity of the joint. In terms of modelling real dissimilar material brazed joints; there are several barriers to accurately capturing the stress state in the region of the joint and across the brazed layer and these are discussed in relation to a metallurgical study of a real dissimilar material brazed joint. However, this does not preclude using a simplified modelling approach with a representative braze layer in design and failure assessment away from the interface. In addition modelling strategies and techniques for assessing the various failure mechanisms of dissimilar material brazed joints are discussed. The findings from this paper are applicable to dissimilar material brazed joints found in a range of applications; however the references listed are primarily focused on work in fusion research and development. | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/40486/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:58 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Welcome to the Science Department
The question is not ‘What is Science?’ but, ‘What isn’t Science?’
In the Science department we believe that Science is a practical subject that allows pupils to explore their ideas and form theories through investigative and experimental work.
Pupils are encouraged to undertake different types of enquiry and research their ideas using ICT and text resources. This learning is enhanced by the recent addition of 30 laptop computers, data loggers that allow pupils to record and follow investigations and the use of ‘Activote’ individual voting devices.
Pupils are actively taught how to think through problems, communicate effectively and use numerical methods confidently. They are allowed flexibility within their own learning to develop the most appropriate skills for them at their own pace.
Teaching is planned to ensure that all learners are facilitated; visual, auditory and kinaesthetic activities are included within each lesson. Scientific concepts are applied to the world of work at every opportunity and examples are drawn from the local area and Wales as a whole to ensure the learning is relevant to each child. Pupils are encouraged to personalise their learning by considering the impact on themselves of choices made by them or society. Examples of relevant issues are food, diet, fitness and global changes.
All pupils are encouraged to succeed and are exposed to excellent role models within the Science team.
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Teaching facilities include: 6 dedicated laboratories, ICT focus room containing 17 networked computers, Video conferencing suite, 30 networked laptop computers with 10 network points in each laboratory.
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Years 7, 8 and 9 all have 6 hours of Science a fortnight. Pupils develop their skills through the range of ‘Interdependence of organisms’, ‘The sustainable Earth’ and ‘How things work’. Learners are taught to apply their scientific skills, knowledge and understanding to design strategies, solve problems and offer explanations, relating scientific ideas to the information about them, including current issues. Years 7 and 8 are split into six, 6 week learning programmes and year 9 is split into 3, with the remainder of year 9 being used to start the GCSE course.
KS4
At GCSE pupils study either:
GCSE Applied Science or GCSE Science and Additional Science
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Unfortunately I have to put the clipping work on hold until the end of the week as I'm heading home for a few days to see my family. In the meantime, I've answered a few of your comments about clipping on the previous post.
Also, here are a few amusing 'outtakes' as I was trying to get the VFPU TnL code working:
Hmm, something wrong with the indexing I think
M.C. Escher would be proud
Whoops.
-StrmnNrmn
27 comments:
That Super Mario 64 logo actually looks pretty cool.
Wow thats some funky looking Mario lol
Nice looks like my daedalus on the Pc
Thanks for the update StrmnNrmn, please try to fix the Mario Kart problem for R8. I see what is happening now since you explained that, it's wierd it started happening now but please try to find a solution. Also with this new clipping I can see the super mario logo (top pic)looks alot more clean and shiny. The graphics do look like they improved alot, but for example in Mario Kart do the graphics look better in that? Like you know how the drivers look like they're a little sprite just moving along the road, and you can see the drawling outline on them. Lastly did any of these optimizations effect Diddy Kong Racing from getting rid of all the purple? Well thanks StrmnNrmn in advance and I really do appreciate your work alot, keep it up and your going to have something reallly special here.
ps. That problem with Dynarec ON and you not being able to get past the title screen in Super Smash Brothers is still there, could you look into that for R8 possibly?
Geez Morgan give the guy a rest hes going to spend time with his family now i think he has already made enough new and improved fetures for R8.
Yes, the guys only human, have you seen the amount of work he's already got lined up for R9 & 10? I think he'll get around to it when he can.
For now he can take a well deserved break.
cant wait for next release , this man deserves more than a breat but keep up the go work, get the ea games compatable :p
wel done tho....
FREE PSP OR MAC MINI
morgan: Stop nagging..
He has more important things to do
Like i said before , and i will say it again there are a few full speed games currently.
Forsaken
Bust a move 1 2 3
Extreme-G
Star Soldier Vanishing Earth (NEW)
Have fun on your break StrmnNrmn, hope you come back refreshed!!
Guys I'm not nagging I never ask StrmnNrmn questions, so I told him all of my thoughts so that when in his spare time he could answer them. Why would you guys get on my case I try to do good for this blog and for the emulator. I mean I try to help anyone here and stuff like that, give me a break.
"I try to do good for this blog and for the emulator"
and by this you mean that you try to get the features which you want implemented and the games that you want fully compatible, without considering others?
your post actually made me chuckle.
Morgan Morgan Morgan,
Thinking for yourself as usual :)
Not everyone wants mario kart fixed at this minute :) there is more important things to be fixed!
Guys I'm just telling StrmnNrmn what I would like fixed yes. I'm just telling him this so he knows that I and most likely more people would like to see imporovements in Mario Kart. When people here have questions I try to answer them, and if anyone has a problem I'll try my best to help them. Wow I'm requesting something now stop being dickheads and stop this stupid arguement, I'm sure StrmnNrmn doesn't want to read this. I don't know why people hd to respond to what I said because it was directed to StrmnNrmn, not anyone else.
Morgan all yourdoing is putting pressure on him t do more hes already got tons loaded up for the meanwhile.
If he can take care of what I requested great if he doesn't he doesn't. I understand what kind of work StrmnNrmn has piled in front of him, I'm just throwing suggestions. I see lots of people here actually nag and crap but when I ask him a request you all jump on my back. Give me a break and mind your own business.
u know if it wasnt for people like morgan strmnnrmn wouldnt know what to optimize its good to tell wats wrong so he can fix it
I'm sure StrmnNrmn knows perfectly well about the purple texiture problems and the lag in mario kart and i'm sure he will fix it in his own time not to suit you.
There is a reason for having a compatibility list ()
StrmnNrmn can look up details there if a game isnt working properly etc etc. He probably wont until its optimised and ready to go
Please everyone just drop it it's a waste of time to talk about, just space StrmnNrmn has to read. I feel bad he even has to read this message right here. Now when StrmnNrmn said he'll be gone that is until Friday (end of week) or is he including the weekEND? He said "a couple of days" so I assume he's talking about until Friday.
Just to add Wally if you turn Dynarec OFF you can go very far into gameplay in Mario Party 1. I know about compatability list thanks.
Nah,
I just test them with the default settings for now..
BTW strmnnrmn when you get back do set up your email. McZonk has sent one with some critical information in it (lots to do with your current project)
Oh okay I didn't see that part, well that's good though it makes for less work. I know I'm being nosey for this but Wally would you be in any position to share the "critical information" to us?
Yes please what is this information
Its just related to current GFX matters thats all
Okay, well thanks for that Wally, I hope whatever the specifics are about it help StrmnNrmn.
Question Wally is Super Mario 64 a 30FPS game because I noticed in some parts like the menus it goes over 30FPS. Now I never thought I'd say this but if it does go over should we have a speed limit setting maybe to keep the roms from over performing in those areas. I mean because eventually when StrmnNrmn makes the speed increases in later versions won't the menus just keep speeding up?
I hope he realeases it by monday I cant wait much longer as this will be a vast improvement im my oppinion.
will there be ny speed improvement in this release?
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Berea Animal Rescue Friends will host their annual Soup-R-Bowl fundraiser to benefit the animals in their no-kill shelter on Saturday, Jan. 26 at the Berea High School cafeteria.
The dinner includes all-you-can-eat soup (a variety of choices will be available), chili, salad, wrap sandwiches, beverages and desserts.
There will also be raffle baskets, sideboards and ARF merchandise.
Tickets, available at the door, are $10 for adults and $5 for kids 5-12. Kids under 5 eat free. | http://strongsville.patch.com/events/soup-r-bowl-dinner?logout=true | 2013-05-18T10:41:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The Lone wolf follows a clue that leads her into a mysterious underworld. – NEWEST UPDATE – – THE LONE WOLF UPDATES EVERY THURSDAY -
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Hey, mister, can’tcha read? Dusty and Eric discuss Stunt Granny’s Second Annual Akeem Memorial Hall of Fame inductions! Who made it under the categories for both serious wrestlers (based on their contributions to and impact on pro wrestling) and fun wrestlers (based on the contributions to our childhood Halloween costumes as we covered ourselves with license plates that spelled “REPO”)? What angles do the guys fondly remember from the past? And what timeless matches does the crew go back and watch on a regular basis? Listen to analysis on all this and a little bit more!
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Kool A.D. – ’63′ & ’19′ (Mixtapes) | Stream & Download
Former member of Das Racist, Kool A.D., has stayed busy since the separation and returns today with not one, but two new projects for our listening enjoyment. The two mixtapes are called 63 and 19, which serve as follow ups to his last project, 51; he must enjoy numbers.
Anyhow, the first of the two, 63, comes loaded up with twenty one new, original tracks for our enjoyment, which serves as a showcase of Kool’s interesting skill and content; as does the second one, 19. The mixtapes feature fellow wordsmith’s Mike Finito, Lakutis, Meyhem Lauren, and more. Don’t sleep on the dude A.D., check out the mixtapes after the jump and speak your mind below.
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Kate Bosworth, wearing Chanel, shows why she is the perfect muse for the label at the 37th Annual Deauville American Film Festival for her new movie Another Happy Day. We're enamored with the classic silhouette of the dress and its elegant pearl trim. We also love that she paired the look with a tousled updo and stained lips and cheeks. | http://stylebakery.com/celebstyle/as_seen_on_kate_bosworth_in_chanel.html | 2013-05-18T11:02:29 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Love was in the air at Release the Kraken!
Release the Kraken!
A Group Exhibition Featuring Vintage Aquatic Paintings Re-Imagined by over 30 Artists
August 12th – September 11th
View the Work
Friday night was Kraken at Subtext with a crowd of 300+ that came out to show their support and celebrate Subtex’s 5th birthday. And live music from The Makeup Sex and tasty bites from MIHO Gastrotruck made the show that much better. Thanks again to everyone who has supported us over the years… Subtext loves you! A special thanks to Max Dolberg for photographing the event. More pics after the jump.
About the Show: What’s the best way to celebrate Subtext’s 5th anniversary? Krakens, of course! For this epic show, we’ve been hunting down vintage aquatic-themed paintings for over a year now, and we’ve found some gems from all over the country. Each artist was given a painting with a body of water in it, and then asked to “Kraken-ize” it by adding some sea monsters, hydro-creatures or aquatic beasts of their liking. The result will be nothing short of awesome. Release the Kraken marks the 5th year of our gallery, and we couldn’t be more excited to celebrate it with you!
Krak is the New Black.
Congrats! Sorry I missed the opening. Looks great. | http://subtextgallery.com/2011/08/14/love-was-in-the-air-at-release-the-kraken/ | 2013-05-18T11:02:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Esther’s Story (Part Two) Podcast Add comments Apr 092012 Here’s part 2 of our conversation with Esther Featerstone. Here she talks about her love for Zumba, the village of Lindfield and her amazing plan to host a 32 hour Zumba marathon to take the Guinness World Record. All for charity!. | http://suffuse-solutions.co.uk/home/2012/04/09/esthers-story-part-two/ | 2013-05-18T10:12:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The Audacity of Smart
We are Downtown Orlando's answer for bicycle rental in the 21st Century. We provide a network of distributed bicycles available on short-term, "as-needed" basis throughout the Downtown area, allowing you to locate, reserve, rent and drop off a bicycle at any bike rack in town.
About the Bike
All Sun Cycles feature “Chainless” shaft-drive transmissions which ensure a seamless transit to where you want to go, without the inconvenience of a chain popping off or clothes getting caught up in the gear.
How to Rent and Prices
Whether you want to ride for a year or just an hour, choose the package that suits you best.
SunCycle Hubs
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Her team leading by 10 in a showdown between one-loss teams, Muncy standout guard Brianna McLaughlin took a seat on the bench after picking up her fourth foul early in the third quarter. As she did, one could sense the game's complexion changing.
Indeed it did. But instead of wilting, Muncy point guard Jordan Jones made sure her team had all the momentum. Jones put on a dazzling show during a game-breaking run that bridged the third and fourth quarters and showed why she is one of the HAC-III's best players while leading Muncy to an impressive 67-36 win over St. John Neumann Saturday at the Catholic Community Center.
Jones, one of our Indians to score in double figures, finished with 16 points, eight assists, six rebounds and six steals.
Meghan Trenholm of St. John?Neumann, left, Charity Good of Muncy battle for the ball Saturday afternoon at the Catholic Community Center. View additional photos at cu.sungazette.com
"These are the types of games that we know Jordan can play every game and she really stepped up today. Without her out there it was a total game changer," Muncy coach Craig Weaver Jr. said. "It was her defense, it was her handling the ball, she saw the floor very well and hit a lot of girls and her shooting caught fire. Everything was working for her tonight."
Jones, a three-year starter, can either play point guard or shooting guard. She has good range, is quick, rebounds well for a guard and plays stifling defense. That whole potent blend was on display, especially when Neumann (6-1, 2-2 HAC-III) seemed poised for a comeback. Jones had a hand in the third-quarter's last nine points and in 16 of 18 during an 18-1 run that blew the game open.
What had been a 10-point game turned into 57-30 advantage just a minute into the fourth quarter. During that time, Jones ran the court well, found teammates for three baskets, scored nine points and swished a 3-pointer.
"I knew that I had to step up," Jones said. "Brianna obviously has a huge impact on the team so any time that she or anyone is in foul trouble we all have to step up. A lot of players stepped up and we have a pretty complete team."
That was evident all day.
Muncy (7-1, 3-0) trailed just once, briefly in the second quarter, and asserted itself in the HAC-III while remaining tied for first with Benton. Despite missing chunks of time with foul trouble, McLaughlin still scored a game-high 20 points and made six steals. Sisters Charity and Crystal Good were a force inside, both recording double-doubles and combining for 22 points and 22 rebounds.
The bench made an impact too. Allison Edwards replaced McLaughlin when she picked up that fourth foul and was outstanding. The freshman had two assists in four rebounds during that run and fellow reserve Nikki Scott hit two fourth-quarter jumpers.
"We kind of try not to be so up and down and not so much of a roller coaster," Jones said. "We try to be consistent through the entire 32 minutes but that doesn't always happen, but we definitely stepped up and played one of our best second halves."
"The team stepped up," Weaver said. "We look at what we've got and we can go seven girls and not really miss a beat. All the girls stepped up and it was a great team win."
Meghan Trenholm recorded a triple-double for Neumann and gave it a brief second-quarter lead before Muncy responded with a 9-0 run to take a lead it never relinquished. Trenholm scored 14 points, grabbed 17 rebounds and made 10 steals. Jones, though, showed her in the second half and held her to only three third-quarter points.
Neumann point guard Emily Sholder was up sick the whole previous night but battled through and played almost the entire game, scoring six points and dealing three assists. Rachel Danneker grabbed seven rebounds and Emily Sheleman scored eight points but the Knights wilted under Muncy's pressure and hit just 5 of 27 second-half shots.
"They're a really good team, no question about it and we had to play very well to beat them but we can play better than that," Neumann coach Steve Sholder said. "We have some tough games ahead of us and we have to learn from this. You have to play hard the entire game. Once they went on a little run I think we gave up a little bit and that's not acceptable and it won't happen again and that's not normally what I get from these girls."
Muncy was humming on both ends of the floor in the second half, hitting 15 of 26 shots and forcing 10 turnovers. The Indians made 20 steals during the game and scored at least 15 points in every quarter. Charity Good grabbed two straight rebounds late in the first half, was fouled on both and hit four foul shots, giving the Indians an eight-point halftime lead against a team that had won three straight.
"We both come in 6-1 and I said you find out right now where you rank and you find out where you stand with things," Weaver said. "For them to come in and play the way they did today is definitely a nice confidence boost for us."
MUNCY (67)
Jordan Jones 6 2-4 16, Brianna McLaughlin 6 5-6 20, Crystal Good 5 2-2 12, Charity Good 3 4-6 10, Gina Paisley 1 0-0 2, Allison Edwards 1 1-2 3, Nikki Scott 2 0-0 4, Haley Gyurina 0 0-0 0. Totals 24 14-20 67.
NEUMANN (36)
Meghan Trenholm 3 7-10 14, Emily Sholder 3 0-2 6, Rachel Danneker 0 2-2 2, Emily Sheleman 4 0-0 8, Baylie Gerrity 0 0-0 0, Stephanie Fernandez 0 0-0 0, Megan Helminiak 1 4-5 6. Totals 11 13-19 36.
Muncy15 15 22 15-67
Neumann14 8 7 7-36
3-pointers: Muncy 5 (McLaughlin 3, Jones 2); Neumann 1 (Trenholm).
Records: Muncy 7-1, 3-0 HAC-III. Neumann 6-2, 2-2.
JV Score: Muncy 27-17
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In today's Politico, Chris Frates reports on how some lobbyists now apparently feel like they're being shuttled there instead of the White House complex itself in order to avoid their meetings showing up on the visitor logs.
They're probably right.
Without laws requiring real-time, online disclosure of lobbying activity, we're going to be left with piecemeal policies, and transparency rhetoric that reaches beyond reality.
And meetings with lobbyists will sometimes be scheduled to avoid disclosure.
Now, not all meetings are scheduled at these rooms in order to be hidden, of course. I've probably been to 10 meetings in the conference center in question (and I'm a lobbyist), and these of meetings are often meetings where the administration is trying to maximize disclosure.
But, of course, the White House plans some meetings in order to gain (or avoid) the public eye. Everything the White House does is done with public exposure as a primary consideration. As the article notes, the decision to have a phone call or have an email exchange is often done with an eye to FOIA laws -- emails create a record trail, and phone calls do not. As long as we don't ban phone calls, administration officials will continue to gravitate toward them for more sensitive, or frank communications. Given that context, I'd be shocked if administration officials weren't planning meetings' locations based on whether the meetings will be disclosed.
The problem, though, is that the White House has sold the visitor logs' release as an accountability mechanism.
Whenever the administration talks about taking on special interests, and taking on lobbying, they're giving one side of the story. Their comments should be annotated with the reality of Washington influence.
The visitor logs do provide an unprecedented view into the work and influence of the White House (as Paul Blumenthal's research shows), but it's also a system that's easily (and quite often) evaded. It wasn't designed as an accountability mechanism, but for managing White House security. And releasing the records wasn't designed to affirmatively take on lobbyists, but as a response to a CREW lawsuit.
Somehow, in time since the logs were first released, this has become a hallmark transparency achievement of the administration. It's certainly a transformative development, but Obama has started to hang his hat on it. He shouldn't. The visitor logs are a security system retooled as a disclosure system, and aren't a replacement for real lobbying laws.
As we get a clearer picture of what the visitor logs do, and what they don't do, we should focus harder on what we need to ask for: real-time, online disclosure of lobbying. And we should take the visitor logs for what they are, not what we're told they might be. | http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2011/02/24/popping-the-white-house-visitor-logs-bubble/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Obits: Darryl Will
Darryl “Willy” Earl Will, age 68, of Hamburg, passed away Sunday, Nov. 11, 2012 at his home in Hamburg. Memorial services were held Friday, Nov. 16 at 1 p.m. at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Hamburg, with interment following at the church cemetery. Clergy officiating: Pastor Donald Andrix; organist: Cheryl Andrix; congregational hymns: “On Eagle’s Wings,” “Jesus Loves Me,” “What A Friend We Have In Jesus,” “I Know That My Redeemer Lives”; honorary urn bearers: Hamburg Fire Department; urn bearers: Mike Buckentin, Larry Mueller, Delmer Droege, Robert “Schiptz” Mueller, Dave Franck, Brad Droege, Dennis Feltmann, Norm Thoele.
Darryl “Willy” Earl Will was born on Nov. 10, 1944 in Glencoe, the son of Oscar and Lorna (Schultz) Will. Darryl was baptized as an infant on Dec.10, 1944 by Rev. L. T. Wohlfeil, and was later confirmed in his faith as a youth on March 30, 1958 by Rev. E. H. Borher, both at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Hamburg. He received his education at Hamburg Public School and Emanuel Lutheran School in Hamburg and was a graduate of Norwood Young America Central High School Class of 1962. On Feb. 24, 1968, Darryl was united in marriage to Lois (Graupman) Bohlmann by Rev. R. L. Reith at Emanuel Lutheran Church in Hamburg. This marriage was blessed with two sons, Patrick and Eric, and two step sons, David and Donald. On March 28, 2003, Darryl was united in marriage to Doris (Harbarth) Bacon at Trinity Lutheran Church in Gaylord. This marriage was blessed to include Darryl’s step children, Lonnie and Marlene. Darryl and Doris shared over 9 years of marriage.
Before graduation, Darryl worked for Buster and Frieda Clark in the hatchery and at Bruer’s Mobil station. After graduation, he worked for R.W. Graupman Building Contractors for five years, Richter Electric for 22 years and Eaton Corporation in Eden Prairie for 19 years until Darryl retired. He was a lifelong member of Emanuel Lutheran Church in Hamburg. Darryl was also a member of the Hamburg Fire Department for 31 years, where he served as the fire chief for 13 years. Darryl enjoyed playing cards, woodworking, gardening, old time music, dancing and watching the Minnesota Vikings and Twins. He loved to hunt and fish. Darryl especially cherished the time spent with his friends and family, especially his grandchildren. Darryl passed away one day after his 68th birthday. Blessed be his memory.
Darryl is preceded in death by his parents, Oscar and Lorna Will; sisters, Diane Breyer, Sandra “Sandy” Herrmann.
Darryl is survived by his: wife, Doris Will of Hamburg; sons, Patrick “Pat” Will and his special friend, Jodi Drees, of Norwood Young America, Eric Will of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; David Bohlmann and his special friend, Nancy Kroells, of Green Isle, Donald “Donny” Bohlmann of Norwood Young America, step-children, Lonnie Bacon and his wife, Jeanine, of Winthrop, Marlene Barfknecht and her husband, Daren, of St. Peter; six grandchildren, Taylor Bohlmann, McKenzie Bohlmann, Brady Will, Kalvin Barfknecht, Keaton Barfknecht, Emersyn Bacon, Baby Bacon arriving in March 2013; sister, Marlene Graupman of Chaska; brothers, Warren Will and his wife, Barb, of Jordan, Douglas “Doug” Will and his wife, Donna, of Ft. Worth, Texas; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Jerome and Marlys Warzecha of Glencoe, Edwin and Mavis Frauendienst of New Auburn, Gerald and Lois Urban of Amboy, Minn., Ernie and Jan Breyer of Glencoe, Bob Herrmann of Hamburg; nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.
Arrangements were with the Paul-McBride Funeral Chapel of Norwood Young America. Online obituaries and guest book available at. | http://sunpatriot.com/2012/11/21/obits-darryl-will/ | 2013-05-18T10:52:26 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
It seems the powers that be are intent on making a new The Crow film, a remake if you will. I thought that Alex Proyas did a magnificent job with his 1994 film starring the late Brandon Lee. The film will forever be haunted by the accident that caused Lee’s tragic death, and I feel … Continue reading »
Bea’s Top 5 Disney Villains
Say what you like about Disney’s capitalistic and commercial ruthlessness, it is responsible for the enchantment of many generations. The princesses, the castles, the tales of the fantastic, the cute sidekicks and catchy show tunes, all of these things have helped mould pop culture and countless childhoods and it doesn’t seem to be stopping any … Continue reading » | http://supermarcey.com/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
The XSI Export Options dialog box contains options for exporting XSI Files.
Geometry
The Geometry section of the FBX Export Options dialog box is used to identify the geometry that will be exported.
Export only current selection
The Export only current selection only checkbox is used to export the currently selected geometry. The entire SketchUp model is exported when there is no selection. Additionally, the entire model is exported when this checkbox is not checked.
Triangulate all faces
The Triangulate all faces checkbox is used to break the output into triangles instead of multi-sided faces.
Export two-sided faces
The Export two-sided faces checkbox is used to export faces twice, once for the front and once for the back. This option doubles the number of polygons in the resulting XSI file and can slow down rendering. However, this option ensures that your model will appear more like it appears in SketchUp. Both faces will always render, and materials applied to front and back faces are preserved.
Materials
The Materials section of the FBX Export Options dialog box is used to identify how materials will be exported.
Export texture maps
Check the Export texture maps checkbox to export textures with your FBX file.
Scale
The Scale section of the FBX Export Options dialog box is used to identify the scale used in the F BX output.
Swap YX coordinates (Y is up)
Units
The units drop-down list is used to determine the unit size in the FBX output.
updated
10/16/2012
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About Google Search
Instant Previews are page snapshots that allow users to get a glimpse of the layout of the web pages behind each search result, in order to help them decide whether or not to click a link.
To see an Instant Preview, hover your cursor over a result. Then hover over the arrows that appear next to the result to see a visual preview of that result. For some previews, highly relevant parts of the page will appear in text call-out boxes over the preview image to help you see where your query appears on the page. Some results may not have previews available.
Instant Preview are extremely useful to users and can help them decide whether or not to click on your site in the search results. You can, however, specify that Google should not display Instant Preview for your page, in which case neither the text snippet nor the preview will appear.
Instant Preview is available for most types of pages in Web search results. If Instant Preview isn't available for your site, it's probably for one of the following reasons:.
updated
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How to fix common problems with Firefox OS Developer Preview
Table of Contents
Please refer to geeksphone.com for hardware specifications, warranties and contact information not included in the documentation you received with your phone.
1. Restart the device
Reboot or restart your Firefox OS device by pressing and holding the power button located at the top of the device and selectfrom the menu. Most issues can be resolved by restarting the device after prolonged use.
If the device is not responding, you can also perform a hard restart.
- Open the device's battery cover.
- Remove the battery.
- Place the battery back into the device and close the battery cover.
- Hold the power button to turn the device on.
2. Close An Application That Is Not Responding
Close the application using the application switcher.
- To close an app, press and hold the home button at the bottom of the device.
- The app switcher will appear with a thumbnail of the opened application and the name of the application.
- Swipe left to find the thumbnail image for the app you want to close (if you have more than one application open).
- Swipe up to close the app or press theat the top left corner of the thumbnail.
- The thumbnail will dissapear signifying the closure of the application.
3. Enable Data Connection
Some sites may not load when data connection is not present and you are not connected to wifi.
- Swipe down the notification bar to open the utility tray.
- Tap the Data icon which is the second icon so that it turns blue.
4. Enable Wi-Fi
Applications may present a connectivity error/ issue. A quick fix is to enable wifi and connect to your desired network.
- Swipe down the notificatio bar.
- Tap the wifi icon to toggle it on/off.
5. Update Your Device
- Open the Settings application by tapping the
icon.
- Tap thebutton.
- Tap thebutton.
- A notification will appear if an update is available.
6. Reset Your Device
- Open the Settings application.
- Tap thebutton,
- Tap thebutton,
- Tap thebutton
- Tapto continue or to cancel.
Where Do I Go To Submit Feedback?
If a problem persists or if you would like to send feedback, tap thebutton then the button then the button to send Mozilla feedback.
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Why is it so cumbersome to organise bookmarks on Firefox?
It's a truly hideous, badly written piece of code, that never gets fixed, release after release. What more can I say?
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Bitdefender QuickScan Web Netscape Plugin
- Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape "9.5.3"
- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
More Information.
What kind of problems do you have with organizing the bookmarks? | http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/951813 | 2013-05-18T10:54:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Lahendused aeglus- ja stabiilsusprobleemidele ning vastused veateadetele jm tõrgetele
Related Topics
- Fix problems with websites (Facebook, YouTube, webmail etc.)
- Firefox is slow or stops working
- Error messages: what they mean and how to fix
- Firefox crashes
- Päevakajalised teemad
- Unblock Firefox from connecting to the Internet
- Firefox won't save settings or remember information
- Procedures to diagnose and fix problems
- Problems with add-ons, plugins or unwanted software
- Videos, sound, pictures and animations don't work
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Foreign Literature
Subject Areas Covered
To make it easier to locate material, the Arts, Languages and Literature library uses the Dewey Classification system. This groups together subjects using a numbering system. The subject numbers for foreign literature are :-
830 German Literature
840 French Literature
850 Italian/Romanian Literature
860 Spanish/Portuguese Literature
870 Latin
880 Greek
890 Other Literatures
Then each area is broken down in the following way:
0 General Works,
1 Poetry,
2 Drama,
3 Fiction,
4 Essays
5-7 Speeches, Letters, Satire and Humour
e.g. 831 is German Poetry.
Specialist Material
The Library has a great range of specialist collections. There are a number collections that may be of interest -
Cervantes
Parker
Shakespeare
War Poetry
Other sources of information include
Information Leaflets accessible online -
Writers' Information Pack
Literature on Video
Information Leaflets available online and from the Library -
Creative Writing Groups in Birmingham
Reading Groups in Birmingham Libraries
Leaflets are also available covering the various collections.
Biography and Information Files Card Index - journals and newspapers articles are indexed for relevant articles.
Journals
As well as book material the section takes a range of journals covering a variety of subjects. The following are the literature journals currently being taken.
Suggested Websites: Foreign Literature
We have compiled a list of websites.
The Central Lending Library has everything from classics to cult novels, from bestsellers to brand new authors. Whatever your tastes we are sure you will find something to suit you! SERVIE IS PRESENTLY CLOSED DUE TO TRANSITION TO THE NEW LIBRARY OF BIRMINGHAM.
Literatures in English
Children's Literature
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12-13-2008 06:12 AM
Turn your antivirus off. In some cases it can be the reason.
Uninstall BB Desktop.
Restart your computer
Install BB Desktop again.
If BB Desktop 4.7 does not work properly - install BB Desktop 4.6.
Do not forget to restart your computer just after you uninstall BB Desktop software. It is necessary to free system files which can be locked by Windows. | http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/BlackBerry-Bold/I-can-t-get-my-PC-to-recognize-my-phone/m-p/106029 | 2013-05-18T10:32:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
A Creative Life
The following information is regarding my end of year assignment for my studies in Graphic Design. It is a book I designed, laid out, branded and constructed, all the way through to the marketing and point of sale for in-store promotions. I am looking for someone to invest in the project and would be grateful to anyone how may be able to get the word out for me…
I have attached a number of images showing various spreads etc, the cover etc
I am more then happy to answer any queries.
* MY life in ART *
by Daryn Mcbride
A VISUAL HISTORY OF MY CREATIVE TALENTS
art – illustration – design – marketing – photography – surfing
…this book is a one off hand painted copy of what I hope to produce in print, however I’m looking for an investor for the project as being a full time student of art and design, and father of 5 year old triplets…
…need I say more…
The book has been painted in 3 strengths of coffee and highlighted in white wax pigment mixed with Gum-Arabic
…I spent a great deal of time designing and laying out the pages and have included a ‘secret’ compartment in the back of the book that has a CD containing movies, Art, Photos, sketches, and an E-Book digital version of the book in its entire 200 plus pages…
…also in the secret compartment of the book,there is a limited edition retro T-Shirt silk screened by the artist himself.
(thanks to Sam at Diffuse Screenprint and Design here in Mount Maunganui for the use of the gear to do the T’s).
I am now looking for somebody to help get behind this project and get it to print, so for anyone wishing to get behind such a project please make contact with me directly.
Regards
Daryn Mcbride
darynmcbride@kinect.co.nz
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A couple of the comments on that last post reminded me of something I read, gosh, it must be about three years ago: almost all adoptions are transcultural adoptions. Cricket’s certainly falls into that category; he went from an Irish/British/German-American home of practicing Catholics to a (currently) single-parent home of a practicing Jewish mother. Cricket is being raised vegetarian, and while I am vegetarian myself, the Mister and the boys are not. (Okay, Kit is at the moment, being as he’s only drinking breastmilk [and the breastmilk of a vegetarian, no less], but I’m sure that a year from now he won’t be any longer.) Cricket is growing up in the north, and Joey and Kit are growing up (at least for the next few years) in Southern California. But there are also less clearly defined cultural differences—I’d describe our house as more kid friendly, although of course that’s just my point of view. But we have a much higher tolerance for noise and chaos, and a greater appreciation of silliness. Ruth has a more organized life for Cricket, with more travel and a very carefully planned diet.
Ruth (disclaimer: as far as I understand from our past conversations and the decisions she makes) sees herself as needing to protect her culture. She doesn’t want Cricket to think that Christmas is awesome because they are Jewish, and she understands Jewish holidays as being less exciting for children than Christian or secular ones. She doesn’t want her child pressured into conforming to cultural gender norms, and licensed characters goob her out. And fair enough, sez I, to all of these things. I have some of the same concerns, although I choose to handle them differently. The problem for me is that Ruth doesn’t see our (Book) culture as having any value for Cricket—and if it holds any interest for him, that’s a bad thing, as it may serve to draw him away from her culture. This isn’t something that we talked about before the adoption, because the idea of a transcultural adoption (or, frankly, the idea that I had or was anything that might matter to Cricket) wasn’t something I was aware of. I did ask specifically about sending Christmas gifts, and got permission spelled out in our agreement. But the only other time that the cultural difference came up is when Ruth told me (eight months pregnant) that I would probably have to talk to Cricket at some point about being a Jew with Nazi ancestors (mine).
The whole mess is slightly more complicated now, because Cricket is interested in his brothers and the things that they like—what their lives are like. Last Christmas, in addition to a gift, I sent a pound of dates because Joey was completely nuts about them, and I thought it unlikely that they’d be able to get good dates where they are. I included a note explaining that these are dates, and Joey loves them, and I thought you’d like to try them, Cricket. I never heard whether he had one or not, or liked one, or anything like that. We don’t hear back about things that we send. And that was more discouraging for me than was probably reasonable. Too, these boys will be doing and liking more and more things that Cricket is supposed to stay away from: Joey is crazy about Blue’s Clues; we’re going to Disneyland again this fall, and I expect Joey to lose his mind with joy; some of their favorite foods are sure to be meat-related. I feel as though I should be allowed to say these things, but I’m not sure that I am. And the ways that I reach out keep getting worn down; I certainly won’t send anything like the dates again, and Skype hasn’t happened in . . . shoot, I’m not sure. We Skyped in March, maybe? Or maybe the last one was February. I sent a sweater that I knitted, but if I don’t see any sign that he has worn it this fall or winter, I won’t send another in future. And when Joey and Kit are old enough to reach out themselves, while I certainly won’t refuse to help them, I don’t look forward to trying to get across how unlikely they are to hear back. | http://susiebook.wordpress.com/tag/culture-gap/ | 2013-05-18T10:30:32 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
the Sound Transit Light Rail going several years ago, Emerald City Improv began the tradition of the No Pants Lightrail Ride.
The third iteration of this fun event saw almost as many photographers as participants. Nonetheless, the participants fearlessly shed their pants and boarded the Lightrail, with many riding from downtown Seattle all the way to Sea-Tac Airport. The reactions of public transit riders and TSA officials were priceless. Check out a few shots in the rest of the post, with the full gallery published on Metromix Seattle. | http://suzi-pratt.com/tag/seattle-no-pants/ | 2013-05-18T10:21:14 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Nuvixa StagePresence Review
Aug 14, 2012 11:36 AM, Reviewer: Jan Ozer
A new computer platform seeks to simplify and enhance remote presentations.
Figure 1. A presentation in Stage mode, showing step aside slide positioning.
Nuvixa StagePresence is a software program for quickly and easily compositing the image of a presenter over any application on your Windows computer, including PowerPoint, or over a slide show that you create in the StagePresence software. In my tests, the tool was easy to use and produced reasonable quality when I followed the quality-related recommendations on the company’s website. StagePresence’s value proposition, however, is ease of use and speed; if you’re looking for broadcast quality, you’ll be disappointed.
You can try the product for free if you don’t mind SD video with a Nuvixa watermark over your video, or pay $19/month or more for HD video without the watermark. You can host the videos on the Nuvixa site, which simplifies sharing and interactivity, or you can download your videos in MP4 format and deploy them as you’d like. Pricing also varies by the quantity of video stored on the Nuvixa site and by the number of hours that your videos are viewed.
Hardware and Software Setup
To run StagePresence, you connect a camera with a motion sensor to your computer; I tested with two cameras, a Microsoft XBox 360 Kinect and an Asus Xtion Pro Live. You can record in one of two modes. First is called the stage, where you record within the StagePresence software itself, which can load either a series of images, or a PowerPoint file. Or you can record in desktop mode, which records whatever is showing on your desktop.
When broadcasting from the stage, you can deploy step aside slide positioning, which shifts the image location depending upon where you stand in the camera view. For example, in the figure, when I stepped to the right (my left), the image that had formerly been centered and near full screen shrank and moved to my right shoulder. This is a nice polished option that worked well in my tests.
In both the stage and desktop modes, you can use simple gesture commands to navigate through your presentation. These also worked well in my tests, though if you wave both hands during presentations, you can trigger an inadvertent page turn. I cured this by keeping one hand in my pocket while I spoke. Before and during the presentation, you can control the size of the overlay using the scroll wheel on your mouse, or program controls, and position the presenter by clicking and dragging it to the desired location.
Environmental Considerations
To get the best results, Nuvixa recommends that you position yourself in front of a plain and simple background and wear clothing that has distinctly different colors from the background, which I did. I used the normal fluorescent lights in my office, augmented by a small desk lamp with a compact fluorescent bulb positioned behind the Kinect to light the bottom of my face.
Interestingly, I cost myself some time trying to game the system by shooting against a greenscreen and rigging lights to optimize exposure. After an hour or so I reverted to ambient lighting, which produced the overall best quality.
I should have invested that hour on audio quality. Specifically, for audio, you can select any input recognized by your computer. In my tests, I used the internal microphone of my HP EliteBook 8760w notebook, which is great if your nose is in the notebook, but sounds a bit hollow if you’re the recommended 3ft. from the camera. If I was producing for actual distribution, I would have hooked up a lavaliere microphone to the notebook, and selected that input in the StagePresence software.
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Formant coders
Up:
Linear prediction vocoders
Parameter updating
Example: LPC10
So called because 10 LP coefficients are used.
8 kHz sample rate, 180 samples/frame, 44.44 frames/second
Order 10 LP analysis: First two coefficients are quantised as log area ratios with five bits each, last 8 as reflection coefficients. Number of bits per coefficient decreases with index down to two bits
7 bits used for pitch and voicing decision
5 bits used for gain
Total: 54 bits per frame, 2400 bps
Disadvantages:
Can sound very ``buzzy'' - noise through parameter updates
Poor LP modelling results in wide bandwidths and rapid decay of the pulse excitation
Regularly voiced excitation is unnatural - normally some jitter
Voicing errors produce significant distortions
Binary voicing decision is sometimes poor
Not suited to model nasals - although okay in practice
Only models speech - doesn't work if background noise (i.e. not suited to mobile phone applications without further work).
Items which have to be addressed:
Glottal pulse shaping
Pitch synchronous parameter updating
Fine tuning of the voicing decision
Separation of speech and noise
Exploitation of temporal correlations of acoustic vectors
Speech Vision Robotics group
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Yes, this is a very, very late #WriterWednesday post. In fact, it may not even be Wednesday anymore by the time it goes up. But I think I’ve got some very good reasons for the delay… and some very good news for folks who’ve been waiting for new releases from me. All in all, it has been a very, very busy week.
The big part of the week was preparing for my wife’s knee replacement surgery. She had the surgery today, and she is fine. In fact, I’m writing this from her hospital room while she argues with the charge nurse about the fact that the hospital has screwed up her menu AGAIN. She needs a special bariatric diet, but whenever she’s been in the hospital, they keep trying to feed her all the wrong foods. It never seems to fail.
Whatever we may think about the patient services at this hospital, the surgery went well and they do have a highly regarded joint replacement unit. We expect that she’ll have a pretty good recovery. The fact that she is complaining is actually a good sign. She wouldn’t be this feisty if she didn’t feel pretty good. Ah, the wonders of modern pain management techniques.
So, as I said, most of the week has been preparation for this event. This involved lots of shifting things around at home, making sure that the areas that she is going to need to move through will be accessible to someone using crutches. From what I understand, she won’t be using the crutches to support herself as much as to balance and catch herself if she should totter a bit.
You know, you never realize how much STUFF you have until you have to shift it. And it is surprising the number of things you can stick into a relatively small area when you’re trying to get something out of the way “just for now” and end up not going back to it. Yeah, we had a lot of stuff to move. The cats had great fun after we had cleared the space, rolling on the exposed carpets.
Of course, I did manage to find time to do a few other things. I went to work, and the dayjob continued with their attempts to work me to oblivion. In fact, last Friday night that was pretty much the result. I came home and crashed into bed and didn’t get up until after 8PM. Did almost the same thing on Tuesday, but my wife managed to get me up and moving again around 7 PM.
One of the things that I did manage to squeeze in, was finally getting “Welcome to Paradox” published. I managed to get the text to go through Smashword’s meatgrinder process, although it took a few revisions to get the formats to come out right. I was doubly surprised after submitting a revision this morning to find that, while I was at the hospital, “Paradox” was approved for the premium listings. What does that mean? It means that while you can go to Smashwords and buy “Paradox” now, soon it should show up in the Barnes and Noble and iTunes stores as well. What about Kindle? Well, Kindle used to pull content from Smashwords once upon a time, but I think they stopped that a while ago. That means I’m going to have to submit to Kindle separately, and I just haven’t had time to do that.
Seems like a project for next week.
My major project for the coming week will be helping my wife with her recovery. She will be in the hospital for a few days, then will go home, but will need help around the house for a week or so. Would you like to show support for my wife, and her husband? Take 99 cents and go buy a copy of “Paradox” from Smashwords. Or be extra generous and buy a copy of “The Gift” as well.
Talk to you next week.
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Glad your wife is well. Sorry the hospital seems to like to do crazy things with food, but glad the most important part went well. Hope recovery at home, by now seeing I’m late in visiting, is easy for her too. My wishes to her.
Congrats on getting Paradox done and OUT! Woot! That’s a feat in itself.
Things at home have had their ups and downs. She’s clearly making progress, but I haven’t been able to do much on my own until now. Even with friends pitching in, I’ve been running short on sleep and usually end up taking what time I get to catch some rest. At least now I’m beginning to be able to catch up on my sleep.
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A fresh take on intersection crossings for people
Posted April 14, 2011 in Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil
Many thanks to my friend Dhiru Thadani, ultra-talented architect and illustrator, for the following food for thought:
Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily about community, development, and the environment. For more posts, see his blog's home page. | http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/a_fresh_take_on_intersection_c.html | 2013-05-18T10:12:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Professor Lawrence A. Sullivan, a member of the full-time faculty at Southwestern since 1991 and an internationally recognized authority on antitrust law whose Handbook of the Law of Antitrust has been cited in hundreds of U.S. Supreme Court and other federal court opinions, passed away on October 7. He was 84. Beloved by his family as a warm and giving man, valued by students for his gentle but passionate and precise teaching, and esteemed by faculty as a generous and nurturing colleague, Professor Sullivan's contribution to legal education and the profession were celebrated at the "Antitrust and Intellectual Property in Global Context - A Symposium in Celebration of the Work of Lawrence A. Sullivan" presented by the Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas in February (2007). Members of the bench, attorneys, Southwestern colleagues and professors from esteemed law schools nationwide gathered to speak about the reach and impact of his work on antitrust law. "Larry Sullivan embodied all the values that law schools seek in a professor. Southwestern is a far better place today because of his legacy," said Dean Bryant Garth.Professor Sullivan first began teaching law as a visiting associate professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, upon completion of a judicial clerkship with Chief Judge Calvert Magruder of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He spent the following decade and a half in private practice with the Boston firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot where he became a partner. Returning to Berkeley in 1967, Professor Sullivan went on to serve as Acting Dean of the law school, Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute, and in 1979 was named as the first Earl Warren Professor of Public Law.
After becoming professor emeritus at Berkeley in 1991, he joined the Southwestern faculty where he was honored as the Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law in 1997 and received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 2002. He taught antitrust, intellectual property, regulation and deregulation in the telecommunications industries, European Union, and software and internet law, among other courses, and played a key role in the development of Southwestern's Biederman Entertainment and Media Law Institute. He took emeritus status in 2005.A magna cum laude graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles where he received his B.A. in Economics in 1948, Professor Sullivan earned his J.D. in 1951 at Harvard Law School where he served on Law Review. In 1978, he was a Guggenheim Fellow and in 1984, he was a Fellow of the Max Planck Institut fur Auslandisches und Rechtsvergleichung in Hamburg, Germany. Professor Sullivan wrote several books and chapters and dozens of articles on antitrust. Along with his colleague, Southwestern Professor Warren Grimes, he recently published a revised and expanded edition of The Law Of Antitrust: An Integrated Handbook, considered a standard reference for students, practitioners and the judiciary. In May 2007, both professors were named winners of the Fifth Annual Jerry S. Cohen Memorial Fund Writing Award for the second edition (2006) of their treatise. Professor Sullivan's casebook, with E. Fox, Cases and Materials on Antitrust, is also used in law school antitrust courses around the country. Professor Grimes noted, "As a scholar, Larry was careful, scrupulously fair, but never hesitant to advocate for results he believed in. He taught many a younger colleague how to blend and balance a thorough and careful analysis with articulate and persuasively stated conclusions."Another of his collaborators, Professor Eleanor Fox, the Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation at New York University Law School, said, "Larry Sullivan was a humanist, a historian, and a person who valued people. He thought about the law's impact on people and worried about misuses of power and wealth. Even as antitrust law became so technical and lost sight of its origins, he never did. It was a rare privilege to collaborate with Larry on our casebook, and even more, to be his friend." Renowned antitrust litigator Maxwell Blecher described Professor Sullivan as "a towering figure in the world of antitrust law who made monumental contributions to its development and understanding. He was also a warm and caring human being. His passing is devastating and he will be missed enormously by all of those who treasured his keen intelligence, wisdom and friendship."Appointed by former President Carter to the National Commission for the Review of Antitrust Laws and Procedures, Professor Sullivan also served as a consultant on antitrust issues to the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Energy; the Senate and House subcommittees on antitrust; the Federal Trade Commission (FTC); the California Attorney General's Office; and the governments of Australia and Brazil. He lectured on antitrust and European Union issues before a myriad of national and international forums. In 1991, Professor Sullivan was awarded the Berkeley Citation by the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1992, the California State Bar Antitrust and Trade Regulation Section named him "Antitrust Lawyer of the Year." According to Professor Robert Pitofsky, former Chairman of the FTC, and Dean Emeritus and Sheehy Professor in Antitrust and Trade Regulation Law at Georgetown University Law Center, "Larry often stood alone in the face of some very arrogant and unwise thinking and will be much missed."
Professor Herbert Hovenkamp, Ben and Dorothy Willie Chair at the University of Iowa College of Law, concurred, "Larry Sullivan was a truly brave and gifted academic who was always ready to defend his ideas - even when he represented a small, embattled minority."
Echoing a sentiment shared by all his colleagues on the Southwestern faculty, Professor Catherine Carpenter commented, "Larry was the most special of people: as kind as he was brilliant. And by his contributions to Southwestern, he elevated all of us. I know that we are all thrilled to have had the pleasure of his company for so long."Professor Robert Lind added, "When Larry first told me about his illness he said: 'Well, I've had a good run.' He did indeed: teacher, scholar, musician, raconteur, world traveler, mentor, policy wonk and doting grandfather. Larry brought all of these skills and interests with him to Southwestern.We benefited from them as individuals and as an institution. His smile, laugh and the twinkle in his eyes will remain in our hearts and his great intellect will remain on our bookshelves."
Valiantly battling cancer with signature humor and grace, Professor Sullivan died at home surrounded by his loving family. He leaves his beloved wife Joan; three sons by his first wife - Larry B., Mark (Barbara), and Neil (Megen); three stepsons - Eric (Liane), Douglas (Kimberly) and Jonathan (Jennifer) Sears; a stepdaughter, Emily Sears Vaughn; 10 grandchildren; and one great-grandson.
Funeral services for Professor Sullivan will be private. In lieu of flowers, the family has asked that donations be made to the Professor Lawrence A. Sullivan Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund at Southwestern Law School. | http://swlaw.edu/news/overview/newsr.7fsbuBLLsn | 2013-05-18T10:21:42 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Center for Distance Education
Phone: 580.774.3149
Interactive Video Classes
Two-way interactive classrooms (ITV) allow instructors to communicate with students at remote sites providing them with the equivalent of on-site instruction, as well as versatility in instructional options.
Interactive curriculum:
- provides graduate level programs to remote sites
- provides concurrent classes to high school students
- provides cooperatively developed degree programs with two-year institutions
- facilitates meetings for faculty, administration, students, professional organizations, and other groups
Interactive Video Class Sites
Class Sites Summer 2013
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ARC Linkage Grant
Australian Research Council
Transforming the Australian accounting profession for the carbon challenge
A/Prof G Frost; Prof S Jones; Prof JD Roberts; Prof J Guthrie
Accounting
Project Summary
The introduction of Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) will have an immediate and lasting impact on the cost of doing business in Australia. By determining how accounting processes can be optimised to identify, measure and analyse the impact of emissions trading on organisations' financial performance, this project will be a significant step in minimising the negative impact of this historic change on the Australian economy, and maximising the associated business opportunities. Our findings will be the basis for giving the accounting profession the new skills to adopt a central role in meeting the carbon challenge.
ARC Funding
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s)
CPA Australia. (Cash contribution in addition to ARC funding of $105,000 over 3 years). | http://sydney.edu.au/business/research/grants/transforming_the_australian_accounting_profession_for_the_carbon_challenge | 2013-05-18T10:43:09 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
.5016 - Global Poverty,Social Policy and Ed
- EDPB5017 - International Policy Trends in Education
- EDPB5018 - Investigating International24 - English in Academic Settings
- EDPK5001 - Qualitative Methods
- EDPK5002 - Quantitative Methods
- EDPK5003 - Developing a Research Project
- EDPK5013 - Quantitative Analysis
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- MDED5002 - Scholarship in Teaching
- MDED5008 - Assessment
-. Graduate Diploma in Educational Studies.
Annual review for postgraduate student contribution amount
Annual review for postgraduate student contribution amount not available for Graduate Diploma in Educational. | http://sydney.edu.au/courses/programs/master-of-education/Graduate-Diploma-in-Educational-Studies | 2013-05-18T10:53:57 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
On this Date in History:
Yesterday, I had a column on Franklin D. Roosevelt and his personal determination to overcome his polio related disability. I spoke of how that inspiration helped lead to the eradication of polio in the Western Hemisphere and the continued effort today to terminate the terrible disease world wide. I said it was perhaps his greatest legacy. Well, that determination and attitude also helped raise the nation in a time of crisis.
FDR declared War on Dec 8 1941 and laid out blue print for victory on Jan 6 1942 challenging the nation to do what seemed impossible. The nation responded and then some..
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, US military production had increased to help the British utilizing the Lend Lease program. So, the effects of the Great Depression were starting to wane. But, the US entry into World War II absolutely ended the Depression. On January 6, 1942 President Roosevelt gave his State of the Union Address and set out a bold objective. He said that the US would produce 60,000 planes, 45, 000 tanks, 20,000 anti-aircraft guns and 6 million tons of merchant shipping. No nation had ever produced such numbers and it was especially difficult to fathom given that, in spite of the increased production of the late 1930′s, much of the nation’s industrial capacity remained underutilized. But, as he had defied polio, President Roosevelt would not take no as an answer. He simply stated, “Let no man say it cannot be done!”
See, the industrial capacity of the United States was far greater than any other nation in the world. Even during the depression, the auto industry produced about 3 million cars a year. And Washington would look to Detroit to meet its war production goals. The auto makers had been accepting government contracts outside of their auto production business to help with lend-lease. The corporate heads of the auto industry said that they would be glad to help but wanted to continue to produce private cars in addition to taking on additional contracts. It’s as if the big wheels in Detroit had no clue as to gravity of the situation or the breadth of the task required. It has often been said that World War II was the first war in which machines operated by men would determine the outcome. Whomever could build the most and best machines would have the great advantage. But, Roosevelt knew what was needed and he sprang a little suprise on the auto chieftans. Private automobile production was banned. So, they had no choice.
With no more cars to build, Detroit geared up for war. On this date in 1942, the last private vehicles from Studebaker, Plymouth and Chrysler rolled off the assembly lines. There was some down time for labor as factories were retooled in the auto industry as well as just about all facets of American production. Because the winners get to write history, we often hear of the “German War Machine.” We refer to Detroit and the United States in general as the “Arsenal of Democracy.” The truth is, by the end of World War II, the United States of America became the biggest war machine the world has ever seen. The numbers are daunting. Rationing of necessary materials like tires, gasoline and sugar was implemented. Construction of highways and roads was halted. While the poohbahs of the auto industry might not have gotten it, the American people did as drives to collect old tires and paper sprang up all across the nation. Not only did most Americans not complain about rationing, they also pitched in by growing personal “victory gardens” in an effort to produce their own food and allow the general food supply to be used to meet the needs of the war.
Sparkplug factories converted to machine gun production. Lifeboats were made by a company that formerly produced stoves. A corset maker turned to something at least that resembled its expertise; grenade belts. Compasses were made by a toy company, Merry-go-round production turned to gun turrets and a pinball machine company made armor piercing shells. And of course, Detroit turned out tanks, jeeps and other motorized vehicles as well as aircraft engine plants. As it turns out, the ambitious war time production goals set out by President Roosevelt were modest.
By 1944, the US had far surpassed those objectives as well as adding 5000 ships to the merchant fleet. The turnaround in the industrial might of the United States was stunning. Winston Churchill commented that “the United States is like a giant boiler; Once the fire is lit under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate.” Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Japanese empire was Harvard educated and had been stationed in Washington during the depression. He had seen America’s dormant factories but noted the “industrial might” that nation had in slumber. It is said that after he was told that the Japanese ultimatum was delivered to Washington nearly an hour after the attack on Pearl Harbor, he supposedly said, “I’m afraid all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve.” Now it is questioned if he ever said those words but most historians do not doubt that was his feeling. Either way it’s a good quote and is right on the mark.
In 1940, the GDP of the US was $101 billion with federal spending making up over 17% and defense expenditures up to over 9% of the GDP. Even though increased defense spending in the late 1930′s and helped the economy, unemployment was still had 14.6% or about 46% higher than it was at the end of 2009. By 1944, unemployment in the United States stood at 1.2%. By the end of the war, the GDP had increased 73% from 5 years earlier to $174 billion, defense made up about 37% of the GDP and federal spending represented a whopping 89% of the GDP. During the Korean War, the US spent over 14.2% of GDP on the defense and at the height of the Vietnam War it was 9.4%. The defense budget for fiscal year 2010 represents about 4.7% of GDP but makes up about a fifth of federal spending. Still…4.7%. In order to reach the level we had in World War II, the defense budget would have to increase about 900%. That should give some perspective and allow your mind to wonder about what the true military might our nation still possesses.
The US is often criticized around the world for its military power…until some needs the US to help in the event of a natural disaster or threat from an unruly neighbor. George Washington, in my mind, is the greatest of US presidents because he set the precedent of so many aspects that our nation continues to follow. Washington said, “To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” The founders of the nation knew this and the Great Seal of the United States reflects this ideal as the eagle holds olive branches and 13 arrows in its talons to represent “peace through strength.” Throughout the history of the United States, it is in times when the nation had a weak military that major wars broke out. The most glaring example is following World War I when the US had almost disarmed completely disarmed. Many historians question whether the axis powers would have become so emboldened if the US had maintained a strong military capability.
What I find interesting is that its tough to find a nation in history that had overwhelming military capabilities that did not use it to conquor and dominate peoples and nations. To be sure, the US military can be a persuasive tool in geopolitics but, no nation has ever been so reluctant to unleash its military might as the US has been. Yes, there have been many military conflicts but, aside from the Indian Wars, it has always been used for mainly for virtuous reasons of freedom of others or defense, though there are always secondary considerations. And after victory, the US routinely eventually returns the nation to the people, which is very odd…and something that is rarely recognized or appreciated around the world. Let us hope that the United States never again must unleash its full potential.
Weather Bottom Line: Well, it appeared that my initial idea of several days ago that we’d get 4 inches of snow was pretty good. Another example of why one should stick with the original thought. I think I got about 3 inches at the old homestead and the National Weather Services put Jefferson County at about 3-5 inches. It was really pretty interesting because we started gettting snow about 1 am but the dewpoint was still just 8. The flakes were many but very small. It was like a giant flurry event. By 1:30 visibility had diminished greatly but it was still small flakes. At 2 am the dewpoint had risen to about 11 or 14 (can’t remember which) but we were in a lull in the snow. I went to bed. When Snow White and I got up today, our porch and door was covered as the wind drifted the snow all over our porch and the little nest we keep for our adopted stray cat Paintbrush. He was quite upset but when he came around to see if we had fixed his bed, we gave him a whole bunch of food so that seemed to quell his anger. Then he went out to look for the ladies.
If we get clear skies and no wind, I betcha we get to the low to mid single digits overnight…someone is going to get near zero… I seriously question the double digit lows that I’ve seen advertised on TV and I still don’t think we get above freezing on Sunday. Looking at the longer term, while I don’t see any periods of extreme cold, overall I don’t see any days beyond the mid 40′s with most days at or below average for the forseeable future. I don’t see it now but maybe we’ll get another shot a good snow. But, this was pretty as Snow White and I enjoyed our trek around the neighborhood, stomping in the snow and looking at the beautiful portrait painted by nature. You should really take time to see it. | http://symonsez.wordpress.com/tag/world-war-ii-military-spending/ | 2013-05-18T10:32:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Central diabetes insipidus is a rare condition that involves extreme thirst and excessive urination.
See also: Diabetes insipidus - nephrogenic
Central diabetes insipidus occurs when the body has too little of the hormone vasopressin.
Vasopressin limits the amount of urine the body produces. Normally, the hypothalamus gland in the brain makes vasopressin, and the pituitary gland stores the hormone. Without vasopressin, the kidneys do not work properly to keep enough water in the body. The result is a rapid loss of water from the body in the form of dilute urine. A person with diabetes insipidus needs to drink large quantities of water, driven by extreme thirst, to make up for this excessive water loss in the urine (as much as 20 liters per day)., central diabetes insipidus can be caused by a genetic defect.. The person is not allowed to drink any water or fluids. This test is done during a hospital stay. It tells the difference between someone who is making urine because of drinking a lot of liquid and someone who is not. If you have central diabetes insipidus, you will still make a lot of urine even when fluids are not given.
Another test involves giving the person vasopressin. This helps tell the difference between central and nephrogenic diabetes insipidus.
A CT or MRI of the head may show a problem in or near the pituitary gland.
The cause of the underlying condition should be treated.
Vasopressin (desmopressin) may liters per day) to ensure proper hydration.
The outcome depends on the cause. If treated, central diabetes insipidus usually does not cause severe problems or result in early death.
All patients with diabetes insipidus should wear a medic alert bracelet or necklace to alert caregivers to this condition in an emergency situation.
Call your health care provider if symptoms indicate diabetes insipidus may be present.
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RigsEnvy is a great place to see what HDSLR cameras people are using in the real world:
While we all know shooting a great film does not require a great rig, most people agree that it helps! Since everyone is interested in these, we thought it would be a good idea to build a web site dedicated to these wonderful pieces of gear.
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I like reading kernel chagelogs. There is usually at least one NEAT thing in there. This time (2.6.32) that's a memory de-duplication technology that will be of great benefit for VM environments.
.So. Cool. And there is more:
To make easier a local.If you want to build a monolithic kernel for some reason, they've just made that a LOT easier. I made one a long while back in the 2.4 era and it took many tries to be sure I got the right drivers compiled in. Turn off module support and you've just made a kernel that's harder to rootkit. I don't see this improvement being as widely useful as the previous, but it is still nifty. | http://sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2009/12/new-linux-kernels.shtml | 2013-05-18T10:21:44 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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One of the best things about the internet is have access to so many useful and inspirational blogs and websites.
One I really like is Gurney Journey – the blog of James Gurney creator of Dinotopia.
James Gurney is an incredible artist and freely gives of his passion, knowledge and research on all things to do with painting, imaginative realism and illustration. James posts every day and every day I learn something.
Here is an example of a recent post:
Donkey and horse minipaintings
Yesterday on my morning walk I did these tiny sketches of a donkey and a white horse with an old sable watercolor round brush and casein paint. Casein is an opaque water-based paint.
Instead.
The donkeys were fascinated by the smell of casein. Maybe they liked the milk-based binder. I was afraid they might try to eat the paint, but they didn’t. Lee just nibbled my fingers with her lips, and Peanut kept sniffing the paint rag.
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Here’s what I used:
Jack Richeson / Shiva casein colors
Moleskine watercolor notebook
Winsor and Newton Series 7 round watercolor brush
I’m using a watercolor palette for a mixing surface, but I didn’t use any of the watercolors for this sketch. | http://tabascocatart.com/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:43 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
In standard Jeff Bezos style, he reported in December that the Amazon Kindle Fire was “selling very, very well.” No numbers, mild exictement, no exuberance – sort of like, it’s just a number.
According to some estimates however, Amazon ended up selling 5.5 million Kindle Fire tablets in Q4 2011, and it is expected that 18.4 Kindle Fire’s will sell in 2012.
And since we are talking about a tablet that is not an iPad, those are numbers that are definitely worth getting excited over. 18.4 million tablets in 2012 will equate to half of the non-iPad market worldwide.
Earlier estimates, predicted that Amazon would sell 4.4 million Kindle Fire tablets in Q4, but the sales volume has been nothing less than phenomenal and the tablet is… pardon the pun, on fire! | http://tabletcrunch.com/2012/01/13/kindle-fire-sells-5-5-million/ | 2013-05-18T10:31:37 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
: Andrew Jackson Jihad Song: Candle in the Wind (Ben's Song) Record: Only God Can Judge Me Tabbed by: Michael McElligott Chords used: G C D Csus11 Dsus4 Dsus2 ----3----|-----0----|-----2----|------3-----|-----3-----|-----0-----| ----3----|-----1----|-----3----|------1-----|-----3-----|-----3-----| ----0----|-----0----|-----2----|------0-----|-----2-----|-----2-----| ----0----|-----2----|-----0----|------2-----|-----0-----|-----0-----| ----2----|-----3----|----------|------3-----|-----------|-----------| ----3----|----------|----------|------------|-----------|-----------| NOTE: The chords with suspended notes are all used in the song and, in my opinion, make the difference. They may not be immediately apparent, but upon more intent listening you will notice in the marked places. You can get away without playing them, but I really do recommend you at least attempt to. (listen to song to approximate the length of different C's) Intro: G C G G C G G C G G C G G C G I wish I had more money than I have D and I know that's not punk but I'd like to pay my rent C I can't survive without money. G D G C G No I can't survive without money. Break: G C G G C G And I want to eat red, red meat. D Dsus4 D I want to feel it digesting inside of my tummy C I support animal testing. G D G C G I'd kill a kitten to save a human being. Break: G C G G C G The whole human race, we are big, big dicks. D Dsus4 D We fuck holes in the world and fuck everybody else C Csus11 C And we fuck because we are lonely. G D G C G We fuck because we are lonely. Break: G C G G C G And we ought to give it one more shot D Dsus4 D we have to save the world, and bathe ourselves with love C Csus11 C Csus11 C because love is all we need G D G C G except that love isn't really all we need. D Dsus4 D We need compassion C Csus11 C Csus11 C and we need empathy D Dsus4 D Dsus4 D and we need love, a little bit C Csus11 C Csus11 C and we need some money D Dsus4 D Dsus4 or a way C Csus11 C Csus11 to fulfill our five basic needs D Dsus4 D Dsus2 D (this is done quickly Dsus4 D we all have C We all have End on: G
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My parents, J, W, and I spent probably half the day together. My parents rested and visited the bar in the evening while J, W, and I went into town for dinner. The first night we went to a Mexican restaurant and had decent Mexican food. It certainly was no Latinos Restaurant though! After dinner, we walked the main street and took in all of the food vendors, groups of teens and college students, and gift shops. It was a combination of a Taiwanese night market and Coney Island but without the guidos.
I had read about stinky tofu, a delicacy which is basically fermented tofu. I decided I had to try it once so J, who had eaten in Taipei, bought some with cabbage and hot sauce on it. Stinky tofu can be described as ripe cow manure mixed with garbage and a hint of BO. I took a bite and did everything I could not to spit it out on the street. Although I read some have compared it to blue cheese or goose liver, I can only describe it as taking a big handful of cow manure and shoving it in your mouth. It is disgusting and have no clue why anyone would willingly eat it. That said, I can now proclaim I ate an authentic Taiwanese dish. J did buy me an ice cream after to get the taste out of my mouth but I swear I could smell it on me for the rest of the night.
The next evening we returned to town and at a small Thai restaurant where I had a wonderful Pad Thai dish and a couple of beers. I am unsure if it is a southern Taiwanese thing but there was a couple who had a golden retriever and lab lounging under their table. Surprisingly I was a little weirded out about it but then I realized that I was being foolish, the dogs were impeccably groomed, and were not bothering anyone. Anyway, wouldn't I like to bring my dog to a restaurant if I knew he would behave as well?
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Finding to take them on into the classroom. Y’all know how to set everything up, just be careful.
Group of Young Men: Ok! Yes, M’am!
(Another young man joins the group)
3rd Young Man: MS. ALLISON!!!
Me: Huh?
3rd young man: Where did you get that fit? It’s tight! If I give you some money would you get me some? Man, that is the bomb!
Me: Hang on guys, let’s talk after I finish getting everything out of the car.
(I leave the building heading back to my car. Immediately, I grab my phone and call my stepson who is home sick.)
Me: Sweetie, what’s a “fit”? One of the boys just said he loved my “fit” but I have no idea what he’s talking about.
Stepson: Outfit.
Me: Ohhhhh. Okay, thanks sweetie.
(I re-enter the building.)
Me: So you like my fit guys? I got it from the flea market.
Young Men: Continue to talk to me about my fit as we set up the recording equipment.
For years, I was anemic. If it was anything less than 75 degrees outside I was freezing and I wore sweat suits all the time. My husband, at the time, finally got fed up with the Walmart sweats that I wore and took me to the local flea market. He insisted that if I was determined to wear them the least I could do was be fashionable. We bought thick sweat suits with hoods and some had stripes down the sides. I bought sneakers and some of them even matched the sweat suits. Finally I was warm! But, it never occurred to me to think of my clothes as a way to reach my young juvenile delinquents.
When the young men saw me in these sweat suits, it was as if I’d won the “cool points” lottery. They loved making music and recording CDs with me but seeing me in these hooded sweat suits somehow changed their perception of how they could interact with me. They began to share things about their “outside” lives in ways that they never did before. They always wanted to stay and play on the equipment but now they also wanted to stay and talk to me. It was an eye opening experience for me to say the least.
After that experience I began to pay more attention to the outer me that my students meet. Many times, I’d dress to be taken seriously as a professional for the principal and teacher but realized that that could be a barrier in getting younger people to trust me enough to make art with me. Again, I began looking for common ground and this is where I’ve found it for me. It’s all in the fit.
When I’m working in a middle school or high school, I make sure that the first day I share my love of shoes. Whether it’s my zebra striped boots or my pink plaid peep toes, the teenage girls LOVE them. They talk to me because they want to know where I shop. They stop me in hallways to chat about shoes and ask when I’m coming to their class. They want to know what I do and it allows me to begin a dialogue. I can tell the difference in their initial perceptions of me because sometimes my arthritis flares up and I can’t wear my high heels and then it seems that I have to work harder for their acceptance because they perceive me as old and out of touch.
Sometimes, my clothes actually become part of my lesson plan. Just recently, while teaching an 8th grade unit on the ancient civilizations of Mali, Ghana, and Songhai, I wore a caftan with an Adinkra symbol of Sankofa printed front and back. It’s the image of a bird flying backward with an egg in its mouth. It means “to go back and get it”, the “it” being wisdom. The students and I were able to talk about the Ghanaian traditions of using fabric and symbols to communicate and we did an art project that allowed them to create their own Adinkra inspired fabrics. As we worked, we began to speculate about enslaved Africans continuing the traditions here in the US during slavery and what meaning that could possibly have held.
Those young men crossed my mind again as I chose to wear all African clothing while teaching 3rd and 4th graders in a remote area of Alabama. The children asked me if I was from Africa, why did I wear those clothes, what was that in my hair (beads), etc. In Alabama, I didn’t choose to use my clothing in a direct lesson this time, but I wanted to subtly expose them to the idea that people who dress or look differently that you are not the enemy. They can love you and be nice, they just look different. If not for that long ago experience in a Kentucky juvenile facility, I would never have thought to use my clothing choices as a way of finding common ground in the classroom. Now, in addition to my planning time, I always spend time looking for the perfect fit.
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Also by Allison Upshaw in ALT/space:
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Margi Cole, Artistic Director, formed The Dance COLEctive (TDC) in March, 1996 to preserve, advance and strengthen the art of contemporary dance in Chicago and Illinois. TDC aspires to challenge assumptions about how dance is presented, through the use of cutting-edge choreography, innovative collaborations, and inspired creative site-specific-works. TDC’s vision is to become one of Chicago’s premier dance ensembles, recognized for its compelling, socially relevant, and inspiring choreography. In fulfilling its mission and vision, TDC:
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Over the past 13 years TDC has contributed to the support of 15 choreographers, 53 dancers and 58 collaborating artists, many of them Illinois artists.
Artistic Director Margi Cole has received recognition for her contribution to the field of modern dance through awards such as the Illinois Arts Council’s Individual Artist Fellowship, a Chicago Dancemakers Forum grant and the American Marshall Memorial Fellowship, a program which selects leaders in their respective fields to represent the United States on a month-long tour of European countries. TDC received its first grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for its Southeast Tour in March 2008.
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The term “diversity of tactics” is used to distinguish direct tactics that include property damage and armed retaliation against the police from nonviolent direct action and extremist tactics such as planting bombs and armed insurrection.
By now several thousands progressives and liberals have read the article “The Cancer in Occupy,” by Chris Hedges from February 6. In the article, Hedges condemns the so-called “Black Bock Movement” and “Black Bloc anarchists” for a variety of sins that include breaking store and car windows, burning flags, and swearing and throwing tear gas canisters at the police. There is a major problem with the whole premise of the article. As Hedges’ critics are quick to point out, “black bloc” (lower case) refers to tactics – there is no such thing as a “Black Block Movement” or “Black Bloc anarchists.” However unless they are regular readers of anarchist and left libertarian websites and blogs, activists are unlikely to have seen the numerous critiques of “The Cancer in Occupy” that correct this and other factual errors in Hedges’ article.
Hedges’ Critics
The longest and most comprehensive critique of Hedges’ article, “The Folly of Chris Hedges,” appeared on Infoshop News later the same day. Infoshop News also links to other excellent critiques of “The Cancer in Occupy.” Two of the best are an article by Don Gato on the AK Press website entitled “To Be Fair He is a Journalist: A Short Response to Chris Hedges on the Black Bloc” and magpie’s “I am the Cancer (or ArmchairsGTFO).”1
For me the major problem with “The Cancer in Occupy” is Hedges’ failure to acknowledge that 1) the debate over “diversity of tactics” (i.e., incorporating tactics other than exclusive nonviolent resistance) has been raging for months in local Occupy groups and 2) his views represent only one side of the debate. Contrast his Truthdig article with more objective articles in the Occupy Wall Street Journal and on the Occupy Oakland website that present both sides: “Diversity of Tactics or Divide and Conquer” and “The Revolution Will Be Strategized: Reflections on Diversity of Tactics From NYC.”
A Generational Split Over Violence
I first became aware of the “diversity of tactics” debate on January 21, whenMaking Contact radio played excerpts from the December 15 forum “How Will the Walls Come Tumbling Down: Diversity of Tactics vs Nonviolence in the Occupy Movement.” There has been an erroneous assumption by many armchair liberals and progressives that commitment to exclusive nonviolent resistance is a basic tenet of the Occupy movement. Nothing could be further from the truth. Although the vast majority of Occupy protests have been nonviolent, groups in different cities have taken very different positions about their willingness to engage in corporate property damage and retaliation against police violence. As the WAMMM (Women Against Military Madness) blog describes, diversity of tactics advocates are more likely to be young, newly recruited activists. Those favoring exclusive nonviolence are more likely to be older activists who have engaged in civil disobedience in the antiwar or nuclear movement.
A Range of Positions on Diversity of Tactics
Both Occupy Boston and the original Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park adopted statements in October 2011 endorsing diversity of tactics,” as opposed to exclusive nonviolence (see Boston statement of diversity of tactics and Occupty Wall Street Library).
In contrast, both Occupy Los Angeles and Occupy DC began with a commitment to exclusive nonviolence. However after the extreme police violence that accompanied the police crackdown on Occupy sites in many cities, both sites are revisiting this stance.2
Prior to the December 15th public forum, Occupy Oakland had no formal position either way. The outcome of their “How Will the Walls Come Tumbling Down” forum was a refusal to endorse exclusive nonviolence. Occupy Seattle, which held similar internal discussions in December, took a similar position.Occupy Portland held a similar debate four days ago.
Commending Violence in Greece
Nearly all the on-line critiques (rightly, in my view) accuse Hedges of being a hypocrite for endorsing “rioting” in the Greek anti-austerity protests in his 2010 Truthdig article “The Greeks Get It,” while simultaneously condemning disenfranchised minorities when they engage in similar “class warfare” in his own backyard. This is doubly ironic given the important role the Greek black bloc played in these protests: Historical Role of Violent Resistance
Several are equally dismayed by the way Hedges (deliberately?) misrepresents the historical debate over violent vs nonviolent tactics. Numerous critics object to his inclusion of window breaking, erecting barricades, flag burning and swearing at police as “violence.” Prior to the 1999 anti-WTO protests in Seattle, the activist community has consistently distinguished between physical harm to other beings and damage to private property, which has never been equated with violence. Moreover as Nihilo Zero points out in “The Folly of Chris Hedges,” the latter is clearly taking the side of the ruling elite in minimizing the important role played by militants like John Brown, Malcolm X, and Emma Goldman in the American struggle against class and racial oppression. The US civil rights struggle was won by both the nonviolent tactics of Martin Luther King and the violent tactics of the black power movement. Likewise, in the struggle for Indigenous peoples’s rights, the American Indian Movement embraced violence alongside other organizing tactics in fighting for Indigenous peoples’s rights.
The Bizarre Interview with Derrick Jensen
All agree that Hedges’ phone interview with activist author Derrick Jensen is the most bizarre section of the piece. Several question whether Jensen really said what Hedges claims he did, or if he’s being quoted out of context. The Jensen quotes, referring to the Black Bloc throwing flowerpots at the police “because it’s fun” and the need to “work with the system more” before resorting to violence are diametrically opposed to the views he expresses in his writing and his recent documentary End:Civ Resist or Die. In the film Jensen openly advocates violent resistance against what he portrays as a corporate/fascist occupation.
A Tactic, Not a Movement
Yet as Nihilo Zero, Don Gato, and others point out, the major problem with Hedges’ article is that the so called “Black Bloc Movement” he attacks doesn’t exist. Black bloc is a term used to describe a specific tactic – dressing alike (in black) and wearing masks – to avoid identification by the police. Its use is by no means limited to anarchists. Black bloc is employed by activists across the ideological spectrum who wish to avoid identification by the police. Hedges clearly has no direct knowledge or contact with either “black bloc” practitioners or the thousands of other Occupy activists who reject pressure to commit to exclusive nonviolence. Thus the entire article is based on totally erroneous assumptions, starting with Hedges faulty premise that “black block” represents a specific movement with a coherent ideology:
- According to Hedges, the so-called “Black Bloc” don’t see capitalists as their real enemies. This is an extremely bizarre accusation to make without supporting evidence, especially as “black bloc” doesn’t refer to any specific belief system. Hedges cites an article by an anarchist writer named John Zerzon in making this assertion. However as several critics point out, Zerzon doesn’t speak for the black bloc – no one does.
According to Hedges, the so-called “Black Bloc” opposes “all forms of collective organization.” Again, Hedges has absolutely no idea who the people are behind the masks nor the diversity of views they represent. In “To Be Fair He is a Journalist: A Short Response to Chris Hedges” on theBlack Bloc, Don Gato refers readers to real life leftist and Canadian activist Hersha Walia, who helped organize the Tent Village protest at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. He provides a link to YouTubespeech in which she describes friends who engage in black bloc tactics as some of the hardest workers in other movement building activities, for example infoshops that produce and distribute literature, bike and food collectives and other political organizations that deliver services to marginalized groups.
- Accord to Hedges, the so-called Black bloc is “rigid” and “dogmatic.” Nihilo Zero points out that it’s actually Hedges who is being rigid and dogmatic when he uses his prestige as a so-called working class journalist to declare off-limits a long list of tactics, such as swearing at the police, destruction of corporate property, flag burning and blocking streets with garbage and debris.
- According to Hedges, so-called “Black Bloc anarchists” are “hypermasculine damaged males.” Again he has no way of distinguishing the sex of protestors with their faces covered. As Gato suggests, this totally unsubstantiated accusation is a great insult to the Feminist and Queer blocs that participated in Move-In Day in Oakland.
- According to Hedges, protestors who shout “Fuck the Police” will alienate the people they seek to draw into their movement. Nihilo Zero asks which people? He acknowledges that profantiy may alienate uptight politically correct liberals, but not disenfranchised minorities for whom police harassment and violence is a regular, life long experience. He points out that N.W.A’s “Fuck Da Police” is one of the most popular songs in American history. For his part, Gato questions the use of “moral superiority” as a draw card for recruiting the disadvantaged. The argument that allowing the police to beat them up without retaliating to impresses the masses with activists’ moral superiority shows a total lack of understanding of the circumstances or values of low income Americans.
Stuart Jeanne Bramhall | http://takethesquare.net/2012/03/03/debating-violence-in-the-occupy-movement/ | 2013-05-18T10:11:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Sunday
Jul082012
Kittens and pink flowers.
The kittens discovered their love for hydrangeas over the weekend. I just could not get them off this windowsill. So I gave up and documented the mischief once again.
Cats, hydrangeas and pretty light. Overkill you say?
Naaah.
Reader Comments (5)
So cute - I love hydrangeas. They always remind me of an old Editor of mine who banned them from photo shoots because "only stylists have hydrangeas"
Ditto picnics.
Discuss?
LOL. Sounds totally logical to me!
Thank you very much for including "Bright Bazaar" in your blog roll. A gerat blog with super tips!
the last pic is definitely cuteness overload! :-)
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Auditions can be tricky – you never know exactly what the casting director, director or the client is looking for. One thing you want to do is READ the audition posting and all accompanying documents completely. All this info can have hints about what to wear for an audition. Dressing the part can help the very visual directors “see” YOU in the role!
Here are some definitions of commonly used wardrobe phrases:
Casual or Home Casual: Clothing worn for relaxing or socializing with friends at home
Upscale Casual: Fashionable yet comfortable party clothing
Outdoors or Camping: Jeans, sweaters, denim, wool shirts and jackets
Formal: Very dressy outfits, i.e., tuxedos, cocktail dresses
Business or Spokes: Business suit or a nice shirt and tie for men and a tailored dress or a suit for women
Trendy (usually for men and women under thirty): Jeans, cool t-shirts, and the latest fads in clothing
Uniforms: Outfits worn by policemen, military officers, doctor, nurses, priests, nuns, pilots, postal workers, etc.
Work Clothes: Clothing associated with an occupation – waitress, trucker, realtor, construction worker, farmer, mechanic, etc.
Sports Outfits: Attire worn by a baseball player, bowler, equestrian, skater, hiker, etc. These terms are often used theatrically when describing wardrobe that is character-specific.
Here are some Tips N Tricks for wardrobe:
- Avoid busy patterns, stripes, shiny fabric or jewelry, or garments with logos on them.
- Avoid showing too much skin.
- Avoid Blacks and Whites – they don’t show up well on camera.
- Choose jewel tones or rich autumn colors that enhance your skin tone and look great on camera
- Avoid turtle necks or cowl neck shirts – they leave you looking cut off at the neck.
- Don’t overload on the accessories!
- The eyes naturally go to the lightest/brightest color you have on – remember that when getting dressed.
Have a few GREAT standard audition outfits ready to go at a moments notice – that way you aren’t caught with “nothing to wear!”
Have a great audition!
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Two days ago Lance Armstrong announced his retirement from professional cycling, again. Talking Treads didn’t exist the first time Lance Armstrong retired from the sport of cycling. Good thing too, because if it had, you’d be reading the same post for a second time. My relationship with the idea of Lance Armstrong is complicated. During his reign as champion of the sport I only moderately cared about cycling. I worked at the Recreational Sports office on campus and, as a result, had a passing interest in all sorts of sports I’d previously had no interest in.
It shouldn’t have surprised me that I would become more seriously interested in cycling. I had been a track and cross-country runner in high school and the parallels are pretty obvious. Without getting too far into my history as a cyclist, it was in this timeframe that I got out the Giant Boulder I purchased when I graduated from the 8th grade, and started riding a little single track. It would be a few years before I bought my first road bike (an unbranded steel frame from the late ’70s with shifters on the down-tube with a top tube that measured 6 cm longer than the bike I ride today) but I always see that time working in a bike shop, talking about Le Tour and Lance Armstrong as the catalyst to my self-identification as a cyclist – a roadie to be specific.
So, my history as a cyclist feels linked to Lance. I’m sure I’m not the only one. Lance is credited for inspiring to the renaissance of road cycling in America – and, judging by the number of those ugly Radio Shack jerseys from last year I see out on the road, he still inspires people to start riding. The truth is that, at least for a time, I counted Lance as something between amazing athlete and hero. How couldn’t I? A man, a jerk maybe, but a man who survives testicular cancer and comes back to the sport of cycling and dominates one of the most grueling and difficult events in sports. How couldn’t we mortals be impressed.
It is impossible to talk about Lance without talking about doping – trust me, I’ve tried. The question of whether or not Lance doped might never be answered. Personally, I’m long past defending or accusing Armstrong. It’s not that I don’t care or need to rationalize away the likelihood that all my cycling heros have bent or broken the rules. It’s more that the accusations and positive tests for athletes like Floyd Landis have left me unwilling and unable to say, one way or another, which cyclists are cheaters. Instead, I watch to tour the same way I watched Barry Bonds break the single season home run record – interested but disconnected.
It’s not going to matter if Lance is a convicted or exonerated as cheater (or, more likely, neither) his story has already affected cycling. People like me started riding on the heels of his post-cancer domination. Some long time fans stop caring about the pro-tour as the evidence against Armstrong and other top cyclists grew.
There’s a lot of talk about what the post-Armstrong era of professional cycling in America will look like. Will the new fans stay? Will they abandon the televised races? In my mind, none of that matters. The pro-peloton will survive. The question I think is most important, is will the cyclists that are out there because of Lance – the ones in their US Postal Service jerseys and on their Trek bikes – will they take up the mantle and pass their love of riding to a new batch of cyclists?
Well, will you?
#1 by Heather Nielson on February 19, 2011 - 9:34 am
Great read – very well put. Thanks for writing it! | http://talkingtreads.com/2011/02/18/post-armstrong-again/?like=1&source=post_flair&_wpnonce=04d8dffccf | 2013-05-18T10:12:56 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Tamari Promotions with UFC Legend Royce Gracie
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that allows a wide variety of fighting techniques and skills. Competitors use interdisciplinary forms of fighting techniques that include striking, wrestling, and grappling disciplines to their strategic and tactical advantages.
The roots of Mixed Martial Arts can be traced back to ancient Greek ‘Pankration’, which was introduced into the Olympic Games in 648 B.C. The most modern form of MMA was popularized in Japan with Pride FC, and in the United States (and now the world) with the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the UFC.
Originally organized with the intention of finding the most effective martial arts for real unarmed combat situations, with time, and with having so many different disciplines facing off against each other, the ‘hybrid’ discipline of MMA was incubated to harvest the effective techniques of the otherwise discrete disciplines into one. It is not uncommon to find modern MMA fighters incorporating varied disciplines such as Muay Thai, Greco-Roman Wrestling, and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu into their game. | http://tamaripromos.tumblr.com/mobile | 2013-05-18T10:53:41 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
My first full-time was as a secretary for managers in a systems group at Vanguard.
Not exactly what I’d planned on out of college, but it was a job that paid bills. Even better was that I had an awesome boss who knew my life’s goal was outside my current position and let me take on more responsibilities such as creating a departmental newsletter.
Even even better was I was in charge of ordering office supplies.
Now, that may not sound that exciting. How much fun can it be to order pens, folders (hanging and tabbed), etc. for a bunch of programmers, right?
Wrong. | http://tammydotts.wordpress.com/tag/humor/ | 2013-05-18T10:22:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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great food. i love this place. living in ybor, brew co. is so convenient. i sometimes get off work late and they still will fix me up something delicious when its close to closing time. the out door seating is great to enjoy the weather and the people watching. my favorite is the wasabi tuna salad... its sooo good!
Nice brews, great food!. This place gets a big thumbs up. The beers here are home brewed and delicious. Light enough for the whimpiest drinker and dark enough to match a good Irish stout. The food here is addictive. Try the baked goat cheese or hummus platter for an appetizer. The hearty soup in a bread bowl is to die for. They have daily specials that never miss and a regular menu with plenty of options. The pizza dough is made by hand with their own ale and has an interesting taste I cant' describe, but you have to try it! Service is always good, our favorite server is nicknamed the beernazi as he will chastize you if you try to order a bud or michelob. Home brews only and that's ok with us!!
Best Beer in the area by far!! Food is Chef quality Pub food and the atmosphere is fantastic.. The last Brewpub standing in Tampa and for a good reason. The most consistent Beer, great food all in th heart of Ybor City's Centro Ybor. The Old Elephant Foot IPA is the best IPA I have had ( and I have had way to many ) and there is usually 9-11 house beers to choose from including an Imperial Stout, Porter, Hefe, Redeye Ale and a Barley Wine that will knock your socks off.
Billed as "a brewpub with attitude," this spot serves up an extensive menu with its fresh pints..
In Short
No crowd of bikers or yuppies hang here; instead you'll find a mix of people who enjoy good food with a fresh pint of beer. Almost everything on the menu has beer in it, in some form or another. Vegetarian selections on the menu include a hummus dip with pita, vegetable pasta and vegetable calzones and pizzas. For a more traditional beer-drinkin' meal, try steamed mussels, shepherd's pie, bangers and mash, or fish-and-chips (there's a fresh bottle of malt vinegar on every table).
Bottoms Up!. This place has excellent beer (I recommend the beer sampler) but the food is even better. I've tried almost everything on the menu and never been disappointed. The wait staff is a little slow so expect to be there for a while but it is worth it. Try some of their homemade root beer too while you wait. Bottoms Up!
Stop in!. Great bar with fantasic staff and food! Common to see owner cooking or meeting patrons. First Class microbrew!
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Braves sending five players to Anaheim
Heyward second-youngest electee; surprise nod for Infante
ATLANTA -- When Omar Infante received a call from Braves general manager Frank Wren at 8 a.m. ET on Sunday, his initial reaction was that he had likely been traded. A few moments later, the veteran utility player found himself bubbling with excitement and dealing with the shock surrounding the fact that he has been selected to participate in next week's All-Star Game.
"I was jumping around with my wife and kid," Infante said, with Braves second baseman Martin Prado interpreting. "I was so happy. I was shocked and couldn't believe it."
When Wren called Prado and Jason Heyward to inform them that they had also gained their first All-Star selections, there was much reason for them to be surprised. Like Brian McCann and Tim Hudson, a pair of All-Star veterans, they were more excited to learn that Infante will be joining them for this year's All-Star Game, which will be played July 13 at Angel Stadium.
"I'm so happy for him," Hudson said. "I was just thrilled when I learned that he made it. That's just great."
With five All-Star selections, the Braves will have their greatest representation since they sent seven players to the 2003 All-Star Game. Atlanta could gain a sixth representative this year if Billy Wagner wins the Final Vote balloting that will determine which players fill the final roster spot on both the NL and American League rosters.
There was little doubt that the Braves would gain at least four selections this year, and little reason to believe that Phillies manager Charlie Manuel would fill a roster spot with Infante, who has hit .311 in the 56 games he had played while serving as Atlanta's primary utility man this year.
While serving as the NL's manager the past two years, Manuel felt there was a need for a utility player, and after evaluating his options, he felt that Infante was the best choice. The versatile Venezuelan may have strengthened his candidacy while hitting .353 against the Phillies this year.
"I thought that was the greatest pick ever," Braves manager Bobby Cox said. "It was a surprise pick for sure. But it makes all the sense in the world. When I was managing that All-Star team in Japan [after the 2000 season], I spent half my time calling other managers asking, 'If I get in a pinch, can I move your player who might be a shortstop to second [base] and stuff like that. Getting a guy like Omar, who can play anywhere, helps."
With Phillies second baseman Chase Utley on the disabled list with a strained right thumb, Prado will serve as the NL's starting second baseman. The Braves' 26-year-old infielder entered Sunday leading the Majors with 115 hits. His .336 batting average was 15 points higher than any other qualified NL player's mark.
After being awoken by Wren's early-morning call, Prado informed his mother that she would be joining him in Anaheim next week. Irma Prado recently received a six-month visa that allowed her to exit Venezuela and spend the remainder of this season with her son in Atlanta.
"[Wren] told me that I was selected by the players," Prado said. "I got great support from the fans. But he told me the players gave me a majority. They voted for me. That made me feel very good."
Having received the third-most votes among all NL outfielders, Heyward could also be part of the league's starting lineup. But before being cleared to play, the 20-year-old outfielder must see how his injured left thumb reacts after being removed from a cast on Sunday.
Heyward is the second-youngest Major Leaguer to ever be elected to start an All-Star Game. He is two months and 12 days younger than Ken Griffey Jr., who became the youngest elected player in 1990.
"It's cool," Heyward said. "First time for everything. First times are always the ones your going to remember the most. But to be able to do it with four other players on my team, I think that's something special."
When he learned that he'd gained his third career All-Star selection, and first since 2004, Hudson thought about how much fun he will have taking his five-year-old son, Kade, on the field during the festivities surrounding the State Farm Home Run Derby, which will take place on July 12.
"I don't really think he knows what it's all about, but I'm excited to get out there with him, get him a little All-Star jersey and make some fun memories," Hudson said.
Living up to the expectations the Braves had when they gave him a three-year contract extension in November, Hudson has once again legitimized himself as an ace. The 34-year-old right-hander entered Sunday evening's start against the Marlins having posted a 2.09 ERA in his previous 12 starts.
McCann has now earned an All-Star selection during each of the first five seasons of his career. No other player in Braves franchise history had ever gained three All-Star selections in their first three full seasons. Each of the 26-year-old catcher's selections have come courtesy of the votes cast by fellow Major League players.
"He deserves it," Cox said. "He puts up stats and he plays the game in such a professional manner. The players love him."
McCann's vision problems have forced him to endure rough starts both of the past two seasons. But the 26-year-old catcher has recently shown some signs of why he has already won three NL Silver Slugger Awards. He had hit .271 and compiled seven of his nine homers in the previous 48 games that he had played entering Sunday.
"To be voted in by the guys you play against every day, and have their respect, that means a lot to me," McCann said.
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs. | http://tampabay.rays.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100704&content_id=11910382&vkey=allstar2010&fext=.jsp | 2013-05-18T10:22:39 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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My headache *still* won't go away.
Several sessions today; some good, some not. I found Dave Johnson's talk on Roller pretty informative, and Greg Stein's talk on open source licensing was gratifying (although it was pointed out that he knew 3/4 of the people in the room and he was shamelessly preaching to the choir). Talking to him afterward, it seems that he doesn't know of anybody other than me who does both FSF and ASF. I've gone into this stupid schism before, but it still surprises me that I'm mostly alone on talking about how important it is for the two largest free software communities to find more common ground. How is it not obvious to other people, especially the ones smarter than me?
Other random highlights: chatting up someone in French, shocking them; the keysigning party, which attracted way more photographers than I was expecting (i.e., a number greater than 0); several enjoyable and informative chats with Google people; taking a close look at Abdera; Doc Searls' interesting and amusing keynote. I'm glad that some other people try to inject humor and entertainment into powerpoints, which are man's latest and most promising result in the search for something to bore others to death.
In between sessions, Bjorn and I are going to sneak off to the aquarium, which I've heard is something I need to see. Apparently whale sharks are cool.
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
ApacheCon Day 0
My headache *still* won't go away.
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I'm not part of the FSF, but I've always argued against getting religious about licensing. Interoperability is good, and I think that there are appropriate uses for both BSD style and GPL style licenses in the world. | http://taose.blogspot.com/2007/11/apachecon-day-0.html | 2013-05-18T10:52:35 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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all you guys need to know is that i love one character and that is the amazing Captain Jack Harkness and my favourite show is Torchwood.
Favourite Who QuotesEdit
- "Great balls of fire." - Third Doctor to a Time Scoop which was comeing towards him, The Five Doctors.
- "Wonderful chap, all of them." - The Brigadier describing the Doctor, The Five Doctors.
- "Well i have a bannan and in a pinch you could put up some selves." , - Jack Harkness talking to TheNinth Doctor, The Five Doctors. | http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/User:Silversurfer06 | 2013-05-18T10:41:17 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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I love Tarte's products so much- they are such high quality, but when I see things like this I get really sad! Packaging like this looks so cheap and gross
Tarte shadows are really lovely, richly pigmented and they glide on smoothly. The colors are great and there is no fallout. The only thing I dislike is the packaging. I realize many people love the packaging and there is nothing "wrong" with it, I just prefer a more simple/sleek packaging without all the frills.
When I got this palette, the first thing was the adorable packaging. Then i opened it up and saw such gorgeous colors, so neutral, but can be glamorized. and the pigmentation is incredible. I love these eye shadows.
Just received this palette today.. It's an amazing palette eyeshadows are very pigmented and easy blend able it's a must have... The only problem I had was that the eye primer that came with the palette was very dry and I wouldn't be able to use it, other than that I recommend this palette!
I Love everything about this set. The Look is so stylish and the quilted case and charms are really sturdy and well made. It is such a fun case for such great colors, I use the heck out of it and would definitely buy it again!
I love this palette! The colors are so gorgeous and so is the packaging.:) The brush is really handy too :)
Great deal, purchased specifically for the neutral colors but love even the darker colors. Don' t really care for the look of the case. Could definitely deal without the gold chain.
Beautiful Palette! For a gift to the special person! I take it everywhere sleek and colors can take you from morning to night!
I love the colors in this palette! The magnetic compact and shadow pans are a great idea! I have the TEN palette too, and it's great to be able to switch around a few shadows and customize the palettes.
Completely obsessed with this! The colors are amazing and the double ended brush works wonderfully. You can use this kit for your every day look or glam it up for the evening with the darker pigments. I get so many compliments on my eye make up when I'm wearing the shades from this palette. LOVE LOVE LOVE!
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great colours, easy to blend, and long lasting, ca mix with my other skincare product, and wish to get price in promo or those Tarte eye shadow cream in one package!
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~ Shrimp, Kale, Chermoula, Oven ~
It’s not fair to say that this recipe is all about the chermoula sauce. After all, shrimp and kale are no slouches when it comes to ingredients. It’s just that the chermoula does something wicked to this dish. Let me first tell you what chermoula is: a North African paste including cilantro, parsley, lemon, paprika, cumin and garlic. Typically chermoula is used as a marinade for fish, but I’ve used it with beef, chicken, thick slices of eggplant and cauliflower steaks; it always tastes good. So good, you might be tempted to eat it with a spoon or swipe a hunk of bread through it and call it a snack. In the case of this recipe, I dropped chermoula-coated shrimp over a bed of kale and popped the whole lot in the oven. It was almost too easy considering how good it turned out.
Baked Shrimp and Kale with Chermoula
For a smokier version, substitute the paprika with smoked paprika. Serves 4.
Chermoula:
1/2 cup fresh cilantro sprigs, chopped
1/4 cup fresh Italian parsley leaves, chopped
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
2 large garlic cloves, minced
2 teaspoons paprika
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon ground coriander
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 pound large shrimp, deveined, shells removed
1 bunch lacinato kale, tough ribs removed
Extra-virgin olive oil for drizzling
Heat oven to 375 F. Combine the chermoula ingredients together in a large bowl. Mix well. Add shrimp and toss to coat. Tear the kale leaves into large pieces. Lightly oil a 9-by-13-inch rectangular baking dish. Arrange the kale in one layer in the baking dish. Lightly drizzle with olive oil. Dump the shrimp into the baking dish and arrange in one layer over the kale. Spoon any remaining chermoula over the kale and shrimp. Bake until the shrimp are bright in color and just cooked through, 20-25 minutes. Serve with crusty bread.
If you like this, you might enjoy these TasteFood recipes:
Grilled Sriracha Chicken Skewers
Moroccan Lamb Stew
Coconut Shrimp Curry
Delicious! An amazing combination. Moroccan flavors are wonderful.
Cheers,
Rosa
I am new to chermoula – already a convert and I haven’t even tasted it!
You won’t regret it!
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The chermoula is an enticing pairing for shrimp and kale! What a scrumptious dinner!
I’ve never heard of chermoula before but it sounds like it would be great (even though I don’t like cilantro). may have to give it a try!
If you don’t like cilantro, then use parsley and mint!
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Thanks! I will
I love shrimp and I only bake them in one recipe. This looks amazing. So vibrant.
What a fantastic dish. Sounds very tasty and yep, I’d smear that paste on bread and call it a snack for sure!
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I’ve got a spoon in one hand, and a hunk of crusty bread in the other….let me at that chermoula!
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Hey all. Just to get the ball rolling on this space, I would like to share some thoughts about how to go about submitting photos in a way that you feel comfortable.
Depending on the institution that you work in you may feel that posting to this blog would be chancy due to anti-tattoo policies or corporate image standards. If that is the case feel free to post only closeups of your work to preserve your anonymity. I would also be happy to have submissions emailed to me if you do not want to post from an account tied to your name. If that’s the case, DM me for contact info.
Another concern that I saw on feedback seemed to mirror how I generally feel about posting photographs of my ink online - there can be a fear that showing what you have increases the risk that someone might rip it off. If that is a concern I would recommend being photographed from a distance that allows viewers to get an idea of what your style is while not giving such a close up view that the details of the piece are easily duplicated. Sometimes the real beauty in tattoo photography is seeing the overall effect that the work has on someone’s look rather than the execution of any one design.
I hope to hear from you soon, and, more importantly, see what you have to show!
Welcome tattooed librarians, archivists, curators, and the people who love them. We are now accepting submissions to be included in this community blog. Please submit 1-2 photos of your ink with a mind towards keeping things as work friendly as possible. Bonus points for photos of your tattoos taken in library, archives, or museum collections spaces.
I would like to borrow a page from Librarian Wardrobe by asking that you to include some basic information with your submissions, namely:
I have seen some excellent ink at ALA and SAA conferences, so hopefully some of my peers will come out and show their colors!
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Tax complexity isn't merely a hassle for taxpayers, it's a huge drag on the economy. It takes more than 6 billion hours — or $163 billion a year — for companies and individuals to figure out what they owe, the IRS says. And the Government Accountability Office estimates that the distortions and inefficiencies created by the complex tax code cause up to $733 billion in "deadweight losses." Together, these costs equal 6% of GDP.
In all honesty, most years most of my new clients comes from the big name national tax guys. This year, I seemed to have a lot of former Turbo Tax users who screwed up their own returns.
One of those clients doubled her mortgage interest deduction from 21,000 to 42k. The penalty alone was $1800.
So spend a few bucks and tale care of your local tax practitioner.
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One of the problems with the Making Work Pay credit was that seniors received the payments early in 2009. By the time tax time rolled around, many didn't remember getting the payment, and did not have the record that they were eligible. You certainly could assume that - if you were preparing the return - they DID get the credit, but that leaves a fair amount of people who do their own taxes, and either don't remember or don't know that that's what they got (one senior told me "I got some kind of money, but damned if I know what it was"). Of course, there's the contingent that will outright lie, but I'm not including them - just the confused/forgetful ones.
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Like many Ithacans, Jewish-born Richard Feynman only visited Cornell for a short time, but his work there changed the scientific world forever. Born in New York City on May 11, 1918, Feynman discovered a love of physics early in his college career. He got his first big break in the field while pursuing a PhD in theoretical physics at Princeton University. A group of scientists invited him to Los Alamos to participate on the Manhattan Project, a governmental initiative to build the first atomic bomb in a technological race against the German Nazis. Once detonated, the bomb’s devastating effects, combined with the death of his first wife pushed Feynman into a lengthy depression. Seeking a new start, he left Los Alamos and took a job at Cornell University as a physics professor.
The transition to Cornell was not an easy one. Most residents know you can’t get a hotel room in Ithaca the week before classes start, but Feynman did not; he spent his first night in town sleeping on a couch in the physics department. While he quickly adjusted to his new role as a professor, he found himself uncomfortable with the liberal-arts environment at Cornell, and was deeply offended by the anti-Semitic views of some of his fellow professors. The Ithaca dating scene was also a struggle. In spite of these issues, Cornell became a respite for Feynman, allowing him to establish himself as an educator at a time when his grief made it impossible for him to focus on research. Dissatisfied with his outlook on life, Feynman eventually resolved to find a way to renew his love of both life and science. Sitting in the cafeteria at Cornell one day, he observed a student throwing a plate into the air. He noticed that while the plate spun in the air, the red Cornell emblem moved faster than the plate itself. This simple observation served as a catalyst for Feynman’s scientific inquisitiveness, propelling him back into the laboratory. His “Wobbly Plate” research eased his depression and later earned him a Nobel Prize for his contribution to quantum electrodynamics.
Unfortunately, the therapeutic effects of his research didn’t last long, as Feynman became increasingly disgusted by Ithaca’s small-town mindset and long, unpredictable winters. While fighting with tire chains in the midst of a frigid snowstorm, he decided it was time to pursue life in a warmer, more sophisticated city. He accepted a job at the California Institute of Technology where he went on to find a new wife and family, and a teaching career that would last the rest of his days. He passed away in 1988 after battling cancer, but left behind a legacy as a brilliant physicist and beloved teacher who made physics accessible and understandable to everyone.
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Feynman, Richard, et al. Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Print.
“Natural Scientists: Past and Present Science” T.R. (Joe) Sundaram. Web. 8 March 2011.
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According to an unclassified notice from the TSOC, the Texas Department of Public Safety tells people to avoid traveling to Mexico.
The warning comes as kidnappings, violence between drug cartels, as well as between law enforcement and the cartels increases. Violence continues in northern Mexican border cities as well as other locations such as Monterrey and Acapulco. The DPS also said that drug related violence has even been documented in popular tourist destinations such as Cancun and Mazatlan. Officials say that rape and sexual assaults continue to be a serious problem in Cancun and other resort areas. Other documented violence includes criminal assaults on highways throughout the country, if you do choose to travel south of the border, officials say it's best not to travel at night.The Borderland Beat blog covers the violence in Mexico that the mainstream media largely ignores (even as their editorial pages support opening the border to Mexican trucks). Borderland Beat reports,
A total of 151 inmates escaped from a prison in the northeastern Mexican city of Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, Texas, officials said Saturday.Just across the river from El Paso, the number of murders in Ciudad Juarez exceeded 3,100 for 2010. We're having a hard time understanding why on earth anyone would think that opening the border to Mexican trucks is a good idea. | http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2010/12/still-another-reason-not-to-open-border.html | 2013-05-18T10:20:28 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Rapper 50 Cent has no problem with file-sharing
It seems that music publishers are forgetting to let their artists in on the evils of file-sharing again.
Rapper, 50 Cent, recently gave an interview to Pål Nordseth in Oslo, and thanks to a translation on TorrentFreak, we learn that the famous rapper doesn’t see file-sharing as the problem the music companies do.
“What is important for the music industry to understand is that this really doesn’t hurt the artists,” he said. “A young fan may be just as devout and dedicated no matter if he bought it or stole it.”
Somehow one suspects that 50 Cent won’t be on the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) Christmas card list this year. The cornerstone of all the arguments against file-sharing has been how it hurts the artists, but the number of artists who don’t agree with the association seems to be growing.
If not album sales, how will artists make their money? 50 cent has some thoughts on this matter also. “The concerts are crowded and the industry must understand that they have to manage all the 360 degrees around an artist.” He also went on to say that “They, (the industry), have to maximize their income from concerts and merchandise. It is the only way they can get their marketing money back.”
Short of just giving up the fight all together, with the artists turning against them, the record companies need to rethink their business model, and come up with something new that embraces the new technologies. Until then, the companies will need to find someway of enticing customers away from file-sharing, and that seems difficult with some artists saying the exact opposite.
December 9th, 2007
well 50 cent is right.
December 9th, 2007
Here’s an alternate view. Say file-sharing continues to grow. Since it’s difficult to stop people from doing this, what if it was encouraged? What if digital song files became promotional vehicles, instead of being sold as revenue generating products? It’s a bit of a flip from what record labels are used to, but this has apparently been the case in China (where piracy is rampant). Music artists over there adapted to this climate and shifted their business models to making money from other means: live performances, merchandise, ringtones, commercial licensing, and corporate sponsorships. Of course, not every small artist could do all of that, but perhaps other revenue generating models will emerge as this industry continues to evolve. Just a thought.
December 10th, 2007
I always get a kick out of the pathetic protestations of the music industry … pirating indeed. They should talk.
The funny thing is that this is about popular music which is all about sharing. This music shares the same harmony, simple melodies, and often banal structure. Being derivative is what this is all about. It wouldn’t have relevance otherwise and it wouldn’t be popular if people didn’t share it with one another. That part isn’t going to change any time soon and 50c seems to understand that.
What many people don’t get is that this is not about the music or musicians. This is about the record business and maintaining control. Making money is always about gate keeping and that means politics and technology. Now the technology is changing and it’s time for someone else to make money. History repeats itself.
December 10th, 2007
well ….i think the chemistry between mr jackson and mr banks is absolutely superb ….50 ALRIGHT!! KEEP IT UP!!
December 10th, 2007
I’m wondering what he means with “the concerts are crowded” when the tour in Europe isn’t sold out at all…. i.e. Berlin: 12000 tickets available, 4000 tickets sold…
January 3rd, 2011
The Winter Texans are pouring in, I think the Golf Course has already filled up! Sure beats the winters I remember in North Oklahoma, ha ha
April 20th, 2011
Nice post! Have a good day and good luck!
August 15th, 2011
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>>.
call me old-fashioned (Score:2, Funny)
But I prefer my leaves unelectrified.
Re: (Score:2, Funny)
I'm waiting until they can actually use photosynthesis. Until then, this is just STEMS and SEEDS as far as I'm concerned.
Battery. (Score:2)
Speaking of the obvious:
all-electric
... car will have a 100-mile range,...
In other words, it will have a 60 mile range when it's fresh off the lot, and a 30 mile range after the first few months.
Let's be honest, this is combining an industry that habitually lies about fuel economy with batter tech (Laptop manufacturers are regarded as always lying about these.).
Nothing to see here, move along... (Score:4, Informative)
Re: (Score:2, Insightful)
That will be interesting when your iPhone gets hacked. [slashdot.org]
This just in (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nothing to see here, move along... (Score:5, Interesting)
Before anyone panics (Score:5, Informative)
Re: (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Before anyone panics (Score:5, Informative)
"You aren't going fucking anywhere, dude".
I recently did a trip through Wales with mates in a car with a nice GPS, but when you plan a trip that's longer than your car's fuel tank, having it add a "refuel your car here, take this exit off the freeway" sort of show would be REALLY handy.
Re:Before anyone panics (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm starting a company to do just that -- Celadon Applications, LLC. We already have a fully functional prototype and are in the middle of raising money to add some more features and polish to make it into a commercial product (the prototype is a bit cluttered and could use to be more user-friendly). The prototype [rechargeamerica.net] makes use of weather forecasts, 10-meter altitude data with a vertical resolution of 4 inches, and so forth, along with driver behavior modeling and physics calculations every several meters to determine how much charge you'll have at each point along the trip. The final version will have a very powerful crowd-sourced, trust network-validated charger database overlay on the map as well (it's coded, but is currently being debugged). So you find your route won't make it to your destination, no problem -- you drag it over to a charging station. And you can click on the station, get pictures, reviews, find what there is to do in the area, etc. It'll initially be populated with not just "known" recharging stations, but also "likely" recharging places, such as RV parks and so forth -- as well as phone numbers and email addresses to contact their owners. And you can add your own charging stations, even just a high-power outlet in your garage -- and list a fee for it if you want.
We've done some accuracy validation on the simulator part with a Tesla Roadster. Of 7-ish legs that we tested, all but one of them were in the 2-4% error range. The last one was on surface streets and was about 12% error because Google was way off on how much traffic there was going to be (they said 40 minutes, it actually took closer to 25); when we hard-coded it to get the amount of traffic right, it fell back into the normal error range. To counter that issue, we're going to add real-time traffic forecasts in wherever available. Oh, and this is so far without any of Tesla's help. If we can get more detailed hardware specs, we can do even better.
The market forecasts range wildly, but they range from a million or two EVs up to 32.7 million shipped by 2015 (Wintergreen Research). Either way, it's a massive market, and even with just a couple percent penetration, there's huge profit potential and the potential to create a lot of jobs. And it should help open up the EV market to a lot of people who wouldn't otherwise consider them. And most of our competition is way behind -- the standard approach, you'll find, is just to draw a circle around the car and say this is how far you can drive (as though you can go just as far over the top of Mount Whitney as you can over flat land on good roads).
Re:Before anyone panics (Score:5, Funny)
The prototype makes use of weather forecasts, 10-meter altitude data with a vertical resolution of 4 inches
You are so doomed [wikipedia.org]...
Re: (Score:3, Interesting)
Non-crowd-sourced chargers are no bette; check out EVChargerMaps some time. But the advantage of crowd sourcing with a trust network is you can get an idea of how much you can trust it. And with contact information for the owner, you can call up in advance. Our system is also designed to send followup emails every three months to station owners asking them to verify that their charger is still working and to follow a link to confirm it.
Re: (Score:3, Informative).
Interesting? Probably, but not really necessary in practice. It's normal for inexperienced drivers to obsess about range -- there's even a term for it: range anxiety. But it's merely a psychological problem -- range itself is almost never a problem.
EVs just aren't designed for road trips. Sure, you can do it if you're patient and determined. But the good news is that they're perfect for the other 97% of our driving needs, and as a result, most people, most of the time, just plug the thing in at home,
100 miles with or without A/C? (Score:4, Insightful)
In a slowly-moving traffic, a running A/C will really eat into battery life... Somebody working, say, 40 miles from home — not that unusual — will need the charge to last 80 miles plus whatever extra for the air conditioning... Depending on how hot it is, they may or may not be able to pick kids from school on the way home...
Unless it is really cheap, I don't see, why many people would rush to buy it. "Normal" cars last about 300 miles and can be "recharged" (to 100%) in 3 minutes, instead of 80% in 30...
Re:100 miles with or without A/C? (Score:5, Insightful)
The millions of people who have short commutes who live in urban areas would do just fine with a car like this and many people like the idea of not just driving without relying on oil, but also not contributing to their city's level of smog.
I just wish I knew how much this thing costs.
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Not really. I live in an urban area (Seattle). I even take public transit most days. I wouldn't even consider switching my gas car for a car like this.
1)I don't have an outlet in my parking space. Not even the home one, much less at lots near work. Most people in dense urban areas don't.
1a)I don't always park at home even over night. Sometimes I'm at a girlfriend's, sometimes I'm at a hotel in another city. Neither would have an outlet even if I had one in #1.
2)When there's an accident on a bridge, I
Re:100 miles with or without A/C? (Score:4, Informative)
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If we all wanted to sweat all the way to work, we'd all be cycling or walking.
I only do that "turn off aircond to save power" thing if my fuel tank gauge shows "below E". And even in that scenario I can probably squeeze out half the max range of a typical battery powered car.
It takes about 2-5kW to run a car airconditioner (from the figures Toyota give for their P
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Turn off the AC? Only if you want to die.
What's worse is places like this are a double whammy for electric cars based on batteries. We have to replace our lead-acid battery every two years because the heat eats it. Li batteries are almost as sensitive (if not more so) so this 'battery packs last 5-10 years is more like 2-3 here.
One more problem - the Phoenix Valley is nearly 75 miles across.
Before Phoenix can embrace the electric car we need 300+ m
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Well, in most places in the US, this is the only option.
Re:100 miles with or without A/C? (Score:4, Insightful)
>> 1)I don't have an outlet in my parking space. Not even the home one, much less at lots near work. Most people in dense urban areas don't.
You don't think that would change? BC Transit just added outlets for charging electric bikes at a lot of their light rail stations. If people started driving electric cars then charging stations would materialize (progressive companies would install them at work for example).
>> 1a)I don't always park at home even over night. Sometimes I'm at a girlfriend's, sometimes I'm at a hotel in another city. Neither would have an outlet even if I had one in #1.
Your girlfriend is Amish? Hotels are very likely to start offering a charging service if electric cars were available.
>> 2)When there's an accident on a bridge, I can take 2 hours to drive home. I wouldn't trust it to keep a charge for that long idling.
Umm... Idling? Are you kidding? What exactly do you think will idle on an electric car? Running AC full blast might be a problem (could be alleviated with solar cells, like the prius already has), but the other power drains (minimal lighting, radio) won't drain the batteries significantly.
>> 3)I want the option of being able to drive farther. I want to be able to drive an hour or two out of the city on a weekend, or take a road trip. This car doesn't have that. So I'll need another car anyway. I don't have room for two in my garage. So add 100-150 a month for a parking spot to the price.
If you do a road trip every weekend, then yes I agree an electric car wouldn't work for you. But if you do a road trip only occasionally, then there are many car sharing services (ZipCar) or even better, car sharing co-ops, and also plenty of rental agencies. You don't have to own two cars just because you occasionally want to drive far.
>> 4)I don't always drive to work. Occasionally I drive to work (20 mi), to a concert venue after work (40 mi), then home (30 mi). That's cutting it too close.
Even assuming none of those places had a charging opportunity, the second generation electric cars will be perfect for you, since they will surely add that extra 20 miles of range.
>> 5)I'm forgetful. If I forgot for even 1 evening to plug it in I'd be in trouble. That's not acceptable. It needs to be able to go at least a week without plugging in.
I suppose you'll just have to suck it up and turn your brain on for a change. A minor inconvenience in the big picture I think.
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Re:100 miles with or without A/C? (Score:5, Informative)
Please - just because this is useless to you, doesn't mean it's useless.
Americans on average have 2.28 cars per household. The majority have a garage and can easily plug the thing in.
The average driver drives 15,000 per year. Most days have a predictable amount of driving that will be well under the 100 mile range.
At $30,000, this car will be cheap to operate over the life of the vehicle. No oil change, simple transmission, no coolant. Inexpensive energy.
Having friends who already own electric cars - I can tell you that the joy of having your car "full" every morning is wonderful. No more unplanned trips to the gas station. It's hard to state how fantastic this is.
Imagine if you had to take your cellphone to the mobile phone store a couple times per week to "fill" it up. We tolerate that with cars because that's what we're used to.
As a 5 seater hatchback, I can drive the kids to school, commute and get groceries. With 100 mile range, I can drive up to wine country for the weekend. Sure, I'll have another vehicle to tow my boat and drive into the mountains. But this car sounds fantastic and will handle 95% of my trips. If they build it, I will definitely buy one.
But I guess I'll be the only one, since it's "useless"
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You obviously have not had to sit in a car on the freeway with the sun beating down on it. The A/C is going to need to run almost nonstop to keep it tolerable.
Consider the fact that, in as little as 30 minutes, a parked car can turn itself into a fucking OVEN. As in, a car can raise itself by 1 degree per minute even if the outside ambient temperature is a mere 70 degrees.
Re:100 miles with or without A/C? (Score:4, Interesting)
Been there, done that. Mid-summer Los Angeles traffic near the 405/101 interchange with two nearby accidents a few years ago (one of the events that scarred me enough to stay out of LA whenever possible). Temps were right around the 100-degree mark, and all of those exhaust vapors made breathing even more difficult. The engine was overheating, so I had to kill the A/C to reduce the load, and rolled down all of the windows. It wasn't a pleasant scenario, but even though there was little wind, it was not the deadly oven that you're describing.
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If I forget to put gas in the car, a little light comes on when I still have a gallon or so left, and I pull into a conveniently placed refilling station, which in an urban setting is every few miles. Refilling takes 5 minutes. Running out isn't an issue. If you're 40 miles from home and get a warning that you're low on charge, you're fucked. You have no place you can easily and quickly refill- a full charge is 8 hours. Even a partial charge would be an hour or so. The logistics of that just don't wo
Re:100 miles with or without A/C? (Score:4, Insightful)
"do I have enough fuel? Where can I get more fuel? I will plan my route and time accordingly!" It's really not that hard, Einstein.
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You completely missed the point of his comment. Have you ever had to get somewhere at a specific time, and planned on leaving just early enough only to realise you need to get gas? That is what he is talking about.
Also, thank you for stating the obvious. Everyone understands the drawback of a slow charging electric car. However, for daily commutes in a lot of cities this would suffice. And as the GP stated, most households have more than 1 car, so for the longer trips they still have access to a gasoline fu
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The difference is that with an electric, you'll basically be topping it off any time you're at home. It's like leaving every morning with a full tank of gas, so unless you're doing a lot of driving that day, you should rarely get to the point where the "low fuel" light comes on.
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If you're that paranoid though. Crack your windows. Car windows generally open at the top first and heat likes to escape through the top of the cabin.
Additionally. You live in Seattle. This year has been a freak year for temperatures, I'll give you that, but most of the time the outside temperature is pretty
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Where did I say anything about carjackers?
Rolling down the windows doesn't really help unless there's a breeze. It can make the difference between heat stroke or not in hot weather, but it won't keep you cool. It's not a replacement (unless you're moving and thus generating your own breeze, but that isn't the situation we're discussing).
You're reading way too much into the Seattle thing- electric cars aren't being marketed for Seattle only. This is a problem with the car generally- in California, the M
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Re:100 miles with or without A/C? (Score:4, Interesting)
And just where do you think the power comes from when you plug into the wall?
Well, I am pretty sure it at least comes from United States.
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Because solar doesn't provide shit for power without a huge surface area. The stuff in the Prius just powers some ventilation fans to keep the air circulating when you're not in the car. That is a huge waste of money in any kind of car scenario.
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Contrary to popular opinion, human beings were able to exist prior to air conditioning.
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A/C isn't just for hot areas either. It is often used along with heat in the winter time to clear windshields. In many cars, the defrost setting turns on the A/C. The inside of a car can
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I wouldn't brag about have a car that Mexican drug runners wouldn't drive.
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and it's still going to be far cheaper than gas.
references? for all contenders so far, the battery cost alone drive the cost higher than gas (IE find the real cost of batterys divide by miles the are expected to last). With diesel smart cars getting 50 mpg= 2000 Gallons per 100k miles, you'll have to find me a battery under 5000 dollars that will last (and is in production and real today)? Although lead acid golf cart batterys might be close, those gives up almost 1/2 the energy, and thus costs more to operate than a gasoline car.
Don't get me wrong
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History (Score:2)
Of course, the climate (chuckle chuckle) has changed in the industry so we'll see. But still, I'll believe it when I see it actually go into manufacturing.
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Re:History (Score:5, Informative)
The Volt is not a BEV, it is an EREV. That is, the Volt is a plug-in series hybrid that uses a small gas engine to drive the electrical system (somewhat like a diesel-electric locomotive except with gasoline). The goal is to run all-electric for 40 miles (covering 75% of commuters) and kick in the gas engine when the battery gets low enough.
And it appears to be on schedule for 2010. More info here [gm-volt.com] and here [chevrolet.com].
Sigh. Chevy Volt battery is still too small. (Score:2)
They need a big enough battery to recycle the energy from coming down from a mountain pass to go up the next pass (a longer-range analog of recycling power from a full stop for the next start and acceleration) or cruise across the valley. That will also get a range in excess of a hundred miles on the level and in city traffic.
Do this, with enough engine plus electric horsepower to maintain highway speed up a mountain road, and you've got a car that can fully replace a gasoliine vehicle.
Let's remember a few things for this discussion: (Score:5, Interesting)
1) There is already enough juice in the grid at night to power 80% of the 220 million cars without any further need for more power plants. (According to the DoE) [autobloggreen.com].
2) The average commute for people is far less than 100 miles, which means the only thing you could be missing out on is a truck for hauling or a car for road trip vacations.
Now, the price hasn't been released. If it's under 30K, it's a winner. As the summary said, there's no details on the charge, but as long as I can plug it in at night and it's charged in the morning, it will not only save me gas, but I don't have to bother with filling up.
Re:Let's remember a few things for this discussion (Score:5, Insightful)
Here's a clue (Score:2)
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Why do people always worry about optimizing the wrong things?!?!
Seriously... I'm 36 years old and I've never run out of gas. Never. Am I really that much of an anomoly? Even for someone like yourself, it's got to be more rare than having your car break down with a flat tire or a busted hose or a water pump failure or an alternator.
So yes... running out of juice would require that you call AAA and get yourself towed home. It would suck.
But seriously. I think I'd rather worry about optimizing t
Re:Let's remember a few things for this discussion (Score:5, Informative)
AC (also electric) is going to without a doubt cut down on the battery's life
Actually, not that much, unless you drive *really* slowly. The LEAF will have a 24 kW-h battery. The motor gets
.24 kW-h/mile[1], and assuming you average 30 mph[2], the AC draws .75kW[3], and you use it 100% of the time, we have (x is hours drive time):
24 kW-h = 30 *
.24 * x + .75 * x
[algebra happens]
x =~ 3.0
30mph * 3.0 hours = 90 miles, a 10% hit to overall range.
If they use the AC system as a heat pump instead of a resistive array, range on full heat will be about the same.
Just call up someone and have them bring a bit of gas to make it to the next gas station, but how are you going to move that electric car?
And then, the next gas crunch hits. Everyone's gonna be calling me up to borrow my electric vehicle, but how are you going to move that gas-powered car?
I give a decent percentage chance of this actually occurring for some reason in a closer timeframe than my mean-time-to-oops-dry-tank, which is currently measured in decades.
[1] 100 mile range / 24 kW-h battery [wikipedia.org]
[2] With a crappy 1 hour, 30 mile commute, where you spend good chunk of time cruising the freeway followed by some traffic lights when you get to the city
[3] The amount a 8200 BTU/h window-type air conditioner pulls, which is a reasonable comparable for this size car.
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Re:Let's remember a few things for this discussion (Score:3, Interesting)
You might want to double-check those figures before accepting them as gospel. They're not assuming charging at night; they're assuming that any and all excess non-peaking capacity in the electrical grid is used to charge the cars. This is wildly unrealistic and provides only a best-case figure. Basically they're saying that if you ran every coal plant in the country ba
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So, I'm 50% wrong, and out of the box we can only charge 90 million cars. Or I'm 75% wrong and it's 45 million. Or I'm 90% wrong, and we can only immediately put 22 million EVs on the road.
Can you give up on progress and go back to whittling wooden crucifixes where you don't have access to a computer? Jesus fucking Christ. I've never run into so many absolutely stupid and cynical naysayers. Just give up and die already, and at least leave more oxygen unmolested.
Re:Let's remember a few things for this discussion (Score:5, Insightful)
Let's remember some other things that I think are relevant to the discussion. Or really just one thing: Amdahl's law's_law [wikipedia.org], which I think is woefully ignored in the green-car world. As an result-oriented environmentalist, this disappoints me immensely.
In short, Amdahl's law says that when you want to improve a system that is made up of lots of different components, you do best to improve the lowest-performing part first. In programming, that means focusing your performance analysis on the parts of the program that are taking the most time before you focus on making the fast parts faster. In terms of automobiles, that means you should replace the most fuel-guzzling part of the fleet before you start thinking about making the thrifty cars thriftier.
Let's do some numbers, for the same number of miles driven, replacing a 12 mpg vehicle with a 15 mpg vehicle saves you as much as replacing a 30 MPG vehicle with a 60 MPG vehicle. Improve that 12 mpg to 18 mpg and now you need to replace a 30 mpg with a 180 MPG car (the EPA calculates the carbon-cost of an electric vehicle using our mix of power source to be roughly 120 mpg) to match the fuel savings.
So if we were really serious about making a dent in oil consumption and CO2, we would be pushing for more fuel-efficient pickup trucks, cargo vans and SUVs instead of this inane (but highly press-friendly!) pursuit of ever-more-efficient small vehicles. The people that drive those vehicles can't or won't replace them with small cars no matter how efficient.
Ultimately, it comes down to whether we value results or whether we value cool technology. As a gadget-nerd, I freely admit that all-electric cars are much sexier than a new pickup truck that gets 16 mpg instead of 12. But the programmer inside me knows that the pickup truck will probably do a lot more good over the lifetime of the vehicle. There are only so many R&D dollars going around and I feel like they aren't being well spent (from the point of view of the environment -- for marketing, the halo effect of the Prius is definitely worth it).
Math? (Score:2, Insightful)
Lets say my commute is 60 miles. You're saying that improving a 30mpg to a 60mpg vehicle, which halves the gas usage, is the same as a 12mpg to a 15mpg, which does nowhere near that kind of improvement?
60/12=5
60/15=4
60/30=2
60/60=1
And then you state:
180/12=12 to 180/18=10
is a greater improvement than
180/30=6 to 180/180=1
What kind of math is this?
The problem, of course, is moving freight around. Rail is insanely more efficient than any other method available. And no, your pickup truck is going to be used for
Re:Math? (Score:4, Informative)
His point is therefore that improving the worse-performing engines (SUV's, trucks, vans, lorries, busses, etc.) so that they *save* an extra N units of fuel will be the largest factor in reducing the fuel consumption. For each truck that gains 6 miles/gallon in efficiency, you'd need a car that gained 120 miles/gallon, or 2 that gained 60,
FWIW, I think his argument falters when you take into account the overwhelming number of cars on the road, compared to other vehicles. If you figure a 20:1 ratio, then that saving of 120 miles/gallon is still only (6*20) or 6 miles/gallon/car. The reciprocal problem, however, is one of uptake (you need 20 cars to have their efficiency increased for the effect of 1 truck, if both cars and trucks gain 6mpg). Personally I think it probably comes out in the wash, so we should strive to improve both
Simon
Buy a Tahoe (Score:3, Insightful)
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Why would someone driving a 12mpg truck want to buy a 120mpg shoebox? Those people are not interested in mileage or they'd already be driving something that got 40mpg.
Re:Efficiency (Score:4, Insightful)
Now there's the real scam. Why, if one person owns two vehicles do they have to pay insurance for both vehicles? You can only drive one at a time. I had the same deal for a time there when I owned two motorcycles. Oh boy, I think I got a 10% discount for the second motorcycle. The risk to the insurer is the same for two as one. Price it at the higher vehicle and the second should be free. There's no way I can wreck both vehicles at the same time.
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Ya, cool...that's nice and all. But could someone please tell me where the apartment dwellers are supposed to charge their cars at? Unless there's some sort of metered charging pole (via credit card swipe), I doubt they will let us leech for free. Also, will there be charging poles at designated parking areas while at the office?
I'm not opposed to electric vehicles, but there is some serious down-to-earth questions that need answered first.
Re:Let's remember a few things for this discussion (Score:5, Insightful)
The metered outlets will be installed by a third party and offered as an amenity. It's just like when internet started in apartments first. You install one EV Charge Parking Spot, and you have ten times as many potential customers driving by it every day.
Again, once there's an inexpensive, safe, reliable EV that goes 100 miles on a single charge, all other problems become trivial to solve.
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I wouldn't exactly call adhering to the National Electrical Code and Fire Code to be something trivial. Planning and routing conduit for 220v and maintaining public safety is not to be scoffed at.
Doable? Sure. Trivial? Hell no!!!
Re:Let's remember a few things for this discussion (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously... is everyone in America a "can't do" blowhard these days?
An auto manufacturer from Japan just did what American companies said was impossible, and has built a 5 seater EV with a 100 mile range with today's technology.. and the problem will be running some goddamn conduit and 220V?
ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
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It's a little more difficult to hook up an idiot-, water-, abrasion-, and UV-proof 220V public outlet than a (hopefully) stationary indoor dryer or oven. The problems I see are liability and charging (no pun intended) for use. The rules are already in place for the logistics of installing the outlet, although they're pretty expensive to implement (GFCI [and possibly arc fault], watertight conduit, covered-in-use receptacle, etc). The aesthetic and insurance angles remain open issues.
Re:Let's remember a few things for this discussion (Score:4, Insightful)
Electric vehicles are nearly twice as efficient as ICEs converting their energy store into forward motion. Even if electric energy was 50% more expensive than gasoline energy, it would still save you money.
If this car is less than $22k, I will buy one day-of-release. TFPR does not provide an MSRP, but it does say it will be low-priced. Four doors, and your gas bill gets moved over to your house electric bill. I never drive more than 100 miles in a day, so it would be perfect for getting me around town on all my stop-start errands.
Moving the cost of driving from a fuel purchase tracked with credit card might make it more difficult for people to get reimbursed by their company for business driving. I wonder how that's going to get sorted. Also, in a roommate situation, it becomes a little unfair to evenly split the electric bill if only one tennant is charging a car.
Looks cool.
Seth
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Also, in a roommate situation, it becomes a little unfair to evenly split the electric bill if only one tennant [sic] is charging a car.
Then don't split it evenly. If you already have a roommate and then acquire the car then you'll easily be able to determine what the added cost will be for charging the car, otherwise just split the bill appropriately. It should be possible to calculate the kw/hour used for charging the car that you can do the math once you get the bill.
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Wouldn't it be easier to just buy an electric car to the roommate?
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Looks cool.
Did you click through to the Flash site? Maybe you don't have flash enabled...
It looks worse than Nissan's answer to the Scion xB, the Cube.
Where's the Outlet? (Score:2)
Not everyone owns a house with a handy electrical outlet available.
A little hard to plug in at a condo car port or an apartment parking lot.
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Perhaps a bit of a random thought, but for apartment / condo car ports if they were roofed with something similar to what BP gas stations use [solarpowerauthority.com] it might help with recharging.
Re:Where's the Outlet? (Score:5, Insightful)
Not everyone owns a swimming pool.. are you suggesting people should stop making diving boards?
Not everything is about you.
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Not everyone owns a swimming pool.. are you suggesting people should stop making diving boards?
Not everything is about you.
I live in a condo AND an apartment?
Remember internet access? (Score:2)
Apartments were one of the first spots with internet access, because you could run a few lines and connect up a few hundred people.
Likewise, some company will be offering a cut of metered electric service to the apartment complexes, and they'll be able to list "EV Charging Spots" as an amenity to the apartment.
Really, once an electric car is mass produced, inexpensive, and safe, the rest of the problems that come up are completely trivial.
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They have these in my city:
Sure there aren't many yet, but there also aren't any all-electric mass produced cars on the market. Give it time...
Laminated Lithium-ion Batteries (Score:3, Interesting)
9.2 kWh pack recharges in 15 minutes time. This truly could be a game changer in EV-battery technology.
Full detail on the battery tech: [greencarcongress.com]
Just think if it was remote control by Kindle (Score:5, Funny)
It could make the car disappear. Parking problem, solved
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Can somebody explain that joke for the rest of us?
Universal battery form factor is critical. (Score:2, Interesting)
For those looking for... (Score:2)
the price, go here [wired.com]. It is currently slated for under $30k.
200 volt power source (Score:2)
Recharge time is dependent on amp-hours, not volts. If you hook up a 200 volt power source that can only deliver 1 amp, you are not going to charge your batteries in 8 hours because that is only 8 amp-hours.
I image that the car is designed around residential wiring, which is usually 12 gauge and rated at 20 amps, so in 8 hours you should get 8*20=160 amp-hours, which at the quoted 200 volts is 32kWatt-hours. Based on $0.10 per kWh, it should cost $3.
Pwn yourself one today! (Score:2)
an advanced computer system with remote control by IPhone,
So, which character [slashdot.org] do I send to hotwire your car?
Rejected marketing angle: (Score:2)
Just interested in the batteries (Score:3, Interesting)
I wish I can get a hold of the batteries. I am sure they are a better replacement to the Trojan batteries I am using for my solar system.
City states (Score:5, Insightful)
Why should I like this better than say... (Score:4, Insightful)
A Tesla Model S
It has a better range, a quicker full charge, a potential 5 minute battery swap, and the "S" is for SEXY.
lithium-ion tech (Score:3, Interesting)
Lithium-ion batteries are not ready for this task. They are not easy to make. That is why they cost a fortune. I don't think I am alone, but I have never had a Li-ion laptop battery make it more than 1 year in a laptop. After about 1 year the run time on the battery goes from 2 hours ( new ) down to 30-45 minutes. Plus, I don't run on battery power that often. Less than 2 hours a week. This tech is not ready to be put in mass produced cars. I know all the new claims about longevity. I bet the those who believe those claims also believe the claims Lenovo made about the battery in my current laptop. Battery life claims are notoriously unreliable.
One issue is that Li-ion batteries are very sensitive to heat. Leave them out in the sun, and their capacity will drop like a rock - even if you do not use them. This is going to be a huge problem anywhere where it is sunny through much of the year. Heat kills a Li-ion battery's longevity. Parking a car under the LA sun is a perfect way to quickly kill an electric car.
I don't know how much the Nissan battery pack will cost, but a Tesla battery pack runs about $30,000. If you replace it every 2 years, the cost quickly gets out of hand. My guess is that Nissan will not make an binding promises about warranting the battery pack. If it fails ( drops to less than 50% initial capacity ) in less than 3 years, you will be SOL.
I did see an article in the WSJ ( Wall Street Journal ) about an electric lawn mover about 2 months ago. The company clearly stated that the $800 battery pack would have to be replaced approximately every 2 years. Sadly, I think this is the brutal reality when it comes to battery powered vehicles. Massive piles of batteries that will require disposal, and the expense of purchasing new while disposing on the old.
I think a better solution is a supercharged engine that is 1.5 liters or less. Add to that capacitors and electric motors for acceleration. Capacitors are light, so they don't weigh down a car like batteries do. When and only when accelerating, the capacitors power the electric motors to give acceptable acceleration. When cruising, a 1.5 liter supercharge engine should be able to carry most light cars along at 100 mph or less no problem. Massive power is only needed for high speeds ( 100+ mph ) and rapid acceleration. When cruising at constant speed, it does not matter if you have 600 hp or 90 hp. During cruising and braking, the capacitors can be recharged. The capacitors only need enough power for short bursts. They discharge quickly, but also recharge quickly. Start and stop traffic might wear down the power in the capacitors fast than the system can recharge. However, you can accelerate on the engine alone in start and stop traffic. You generally don't need rapid acceleration in start and stop traffic.
Keep in mind coal power production is not exactly what one would call efficient ( less than 50% ). Nor is power transmission ( 10% or more loss ). Nor is turning electricity back into forward momentum. Also, high efficiency batteries are going to require a lot of rare earth metals. Unfortunately, world supply is limited.
Got one (Score:5, Interesting)
Sure, I use another car for driving vacations, but these battery electric cars are perfect for some of us.
100-mile range is misleading (Score:3, Interesting)
Nissan is knowingly setting itself up to over-promise and under-deliver by quoting the EPA range of 100 miles, because the EPA test is well known to be extremely optimistic for EVs. AC Propulsion's eBox has an EPA range of ~170 miles, but a realistic range of 130. Tesla's Roadster has an EPA range of ~220 miles, but a realistic range of 175.
Nissan's car will probably have a realistic range of 70-80 miles. The good news is that this is more than enough for many, many households. The bad news is that many households don't realize it, because "range anxiety" is a very real (psychological) phenomenon, even though actual range limits are not.
Re:WORTHLESS (Score:5, Funny)
Two Nissan LEAF cars + duct tape = 320km range.
I like your idea!
on the road charging? (Score:5, Interesting)
I was wondering if I could do the same thing I have for camping trips. I have a front and rear receiver hitch, and a 220V generator on a mount that slides into the receiver hitch. It's 5 hp, and runs a RV air conditioner for 5 hours on under 5 gallons, I am sure you could do a better generator mount than this guy [joe-ks.com] if we get a hitch mount, and just plug the car charger into it for road trips, ditch the weight for in town. Hopefully the chargers aren't locked out while moving. Not only does the GEN not have to meet as many emissions standards ( = cheaper) but has other uses also.
Re:on the road charging? (Score:5, Funny)
Not only does the GEN not have to meet as many emissions standards
That's the spirit!!
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Same, don't need a palm-top when a phone is all thats required.
FTFA it only lets you monitor the battery level and set the climate control.
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According to the lack of replies and even lack of moderation, I would say "nope, just you".
FUD Farm (Score:4, Informative)
You have posted elsewhere the same thing. What are you, the brain damaged step-child of an Exxon board member?
A DOT vehicle can easily carry the batteries to get you to a charging station or even back to your house.
The hurricane fear mongering is just sad.
And maintenance is far less expensive for an EV, because it's far less complicated mechanically. If you'd done any research on the GM vehicle, you'd know that they basically rotated the tires. There are Priuses with over a hundred thousand miles that haven't needed new batteries. And the batteries will be less expensive too replace than putting in an entirely new engine, so you could literally keep the same car for decades if you kept it rust free.
Honestly, who is paying you to repeat the same inane bullshit?
Re:This puts the lie to the H-1B program. (Score:4, Funny)
Um, I'm an engineer, and I'm in Japan, and I'm working for a Japanese company despite my American nationality. Watch it before you make such blanket statements.
;-)
Liar. If you live in Japan, tell me what Mothra is doing right now.
Thought so.
Re:Doomed. (Score:4, Insightful)
According to their press release, they claim that 70% of their target consumers drive less than 100 miles a day. I know there are many USian cities that would make that unfeasable, but it's important to remember that this car is going to be a slam dunk for a lot of people out there.
Furthermore, once these things start to sell, I can't imagine it'd be too long before the capacity becomes comparable to a regular gas-guzzler.
Re:Doomed. (Score:5, Insightful)
So, given the choice between saving thousands dollars a year on gasoline and maintenance, or renting a car for the entire week you get for vacation and the few weekends you can get out of town, you'll pick the more expensive option?
You said this car was "doomed" because it doesn't work for anyone, which is complete nonsense. For many people I know, who nearly always travel to their vacation via airplane, and who rarely leave town on the weekends, a cheap electric plus an occasional rental is the most economic option. And most people live in cities, not out in the sticks.
If you regularly leave on the weekends and you can only afford one car, then go with an ICE. If you live in the sticks, get an ICE. Otherwise, if you do the math, this is the way to go. | http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/02/229203/nissan-unveils-all-electric-leaf?sdsrc=prev | 2013-05-18T10:32:15 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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