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Few mainstream automobiles in the past 20 years have captured the world's attention or stirred controversy to the extent that BMW's ambitious 7 Series has. Yes, the 7 Series still sparks debate two years after it was introduced, but we can assure you this: BMW's largest car is a luxury sedan in the truest sense, and it's impressive to drive. Its responsive engine and six-speed automatic transmission, its magic-carpet ride quality, excellent handling and awesomely powerful brakes deliver the ultimate in big-sedan driver control.
Whichever 7 Series you choose, starting with the standard 745i, you'll get a sedan that's big, smooth, fast and inspiring. It's also equipped with the latest safety technology. No matter where you sit, you'll experience a cabin that's beautiful and wonderfully comfortable. The 745Li, for Long, offers even greater legroom in the back seats. If the recently launched, V12-powered 760Li doesn't stir something inside you, you may as well call a cab.
All the 7 Series models are exceptionally powerful and responsive. The level of technology borders on overkill. There are silent, hidden fans and heating elements to cool or warm your rear end, or your soft drink; microchips to instantaneously account for a skidding tire or apply the brakes full force just in case you don't; power-deployed shades to keep the sun off your rear passengers' brows. A single, mouse-like interface, BMW's controversial iDrive, controls virtually everything in the cabin, from the heater to the radio to the navigation system. To be sure, these systems can require serious commitment to master, but most are genuinely useful. The 7 Series has the best-sounding stereo we've experienced in a car. The whisper-quiet cabin is a great place for quiet conversation, ripping electric guitar solos, Mozart concertos, or magnificent solitude.
Known for brilliant high-performance sedans with conservative styling and straightforward interiors, BMW stepped out of the box with this design. The two years since the 7 Series launch have tempered controversy over its stunning styling only a little. Like it or not, the design is based on rational objectives, and we are growing to appreciate it.
BMW filled out the 7 Series line in 2003 with launch of the 438-hp 760Li, but it didn't sit still for 2004. This year, the iDrive has been simplified, er, improved, er, ummm, changed. The already sophisticated climate control has been improved with precise humidity management, and the side mirrors fold in at the touch of a button to squeeze this big sedan into tight parking spots. Adaptive headlights that turn with the car and a Sirius satellite radio receiver are now optional.
This car pushes the limits of driving technology over the horizon. Never mind the density of the owner's manuals (that's plural); owners may get tired of teaching valets how to start the car and put it in gear, to say nothing of the electronic parking brake. Once that's accomplished, however, driving the 7 Series cars is easy and quite satisfying. It will achieve your wishes quickly and efficiently, occasionally bending the laws of physics in the process. BMW says its goal with the 7 Series was building "the safest car in the world,: and we don't find much to quibble with there. Comparably equipped, the 7 Series even costs less than its primary competitor, the Mercedes S-Class.
As big luxury sedans go, the BMW 7 Series is indeed the ultimate driving machine.
The 745i rides on a 117.7-inch wheelbase, while the 745Li and 760Li stretch that measurement to 123.5 inches. The long-wheelbase Li models are 5.5 inches longer bumper to bumper, and virtually all of that translates into more rear-seat legroom.
Not surprisingly, all 7 Series sedans come standard with a long list of luxury features, including interiors trimmed in a choice of rich leathers and woods. The 745i has dual-zone automatic climate control with activated-charcoal microfilter ventilation, matte-finish black cherry wood trim, BMW Assist emergency and informational communications, 14-way power seats, a power moonroof, tilt/telescoping steering wheel, a climate-controlled front console compartment, and single-CD audio with 10 speakers. The 745Li adds 20-way power front Comfort Seats with articulated upper backrests, passenger-seat memory and active head restraints. Both 745 models come standard with V-speed-rated 245/50VR18 tires on 18-inch alloy wheels; 19-inch wheels with performance tires (245/45 front, 275/40 rear) are optional ($1,300).
The 760Li has most everything BMW offers, including a government-imposed gas-guzzler tax ($1,300). The base price covers a choice of light or dark high-gloss Ash trim with inlays, and leather on virtually all interior surfaces except the dash, headliner and floor. It includes soft-touch door-closing assists, heated and ventilated seats front and rear, Park Distance Control to keep track of those hard-to-see obstacles and power privacy shades. The only options available on the 760Li are radar-managed Active Cruise Control ($2,200), Adaptive Headlights ($300) that aim around corners when you turn the steering wheel, rear climate control with a cool box ($1,800), and satellite radio prep ($75). Why go to a five-star resort if you're driving one of these? Just stay in the car.
Most of what's offered on the 760Li is available on the 745i and 745Li through individual options or packages. The six option packages for the V8s include: the Sport Package ($3,200) adding 19-inch wheels and tires, sport-tuned suspension, more aggressively bolstered sport seating and specific exterior and interior trim; an Adaptive Ride Package ($1900), with a self-leveling rear suspension and Electronic Damping Control that automatically adjusts shock damping according to conditions; a Cold Weather Package ($1100) that adds a heated steering wheel, heated front and rear seats, and a ski bag; the Convenience Package ($1000), which includes soft-close doors that suck themselves shut and power trunk-lid operation; a Luxury Seating Package ($2500 for the 745i, $1600, for the 745Li) that adds 20-way adjustment to the 745i, front and rear seat heating, fans to blow air through the seating surfaces and an automatic massager; and finally, the Premium Sound Package ($1800) with increased audio power, two subwoofers, Digital Sound Processing and six-CD changer.
BMW's iDrive interface system is standard on all 7 Series models, and can operate virtually everything in the car, from stereo to climate controls to telephone to navigation, with a single mouse-like control.
Ten airbags are available. The standard array includes two frontal airbags, two front passenger side-impact airbags and BMW's Head Protection System, which amounts to a full-length, tube-shaped curtain on both sides of the cabin for front and rear head protection in a side impact. Also standard is BMW's Active Knee Protection, unique inflatable airbags that protect front passengers' knees.
BMW stepped out of the box and produced a revolutionary blueprint for its 7 Series sedans. Design objectives included styling with more presence and greater curb appeal. Indeed, the current 7 Series look more agile and muscular than the previous-generation models, which were relatively bland. Though the trademark twin-kidney grille and long hood make it clear that this is a BMW, the 2004 7 Series is a dramatic departure from BMWs past in nearly every respect.
The 7's styling has not pleased everyone, however. The overall design, and particularly the rear half, have created controversy among design critics and the automotive media alike. BMW claims its buyers love it. With time in the car and a detailed explanation from BMW as to why it looks like it does, we can tell you that the 7 Series styling is based on rational objectives. We're warming up to it , or maybe we're getting used to it.
Underneath the styling sit several important parameters: This 7 Series is substantially taller than its predecessor (2.2 inches taller), giving its occupants more head room, more rear-seat roominess and a larger trunk. The greatest increase in height is along the outer edges of the roof, increasing head room and improving safety for occupants. The 7 Series is also slightly longer (1.8 inches) and wider (1.6 inches), and its wheelbase is significantly longer (2.3 inches) than before. With these dimensional changes, BMW had to re-work the proportions and redesign the surface details. In other words, the styling had to be changed.
To maintain good proportions, the 7 Series was given a fast greenhouse with a very fast C-pillar (All of the roof pillars are much thicker for enhanced safety in the event of a rollover). Bigger wheels were fitted on all models. While front-wheel-drive Chryslers use a cab-forward design, the rear-wheel-drive BMW 7 Series uses a long hood and a swept rear glass, intended to create a sporty, coupe look.
The rear end has been the focus of the controversy. Much of its design can be traced back to an attempt to handle the substantially raised rear deck height. Because the roof was raised dramatically, the rear deck needed to be raised to help the 7 Series achieve its excellent aerodynamics, which is crucial in reducing wind noise, improving fuel efficiency and increasing the top speed. And because the tail needed to be raised so high, a sculptured appearance was used to maintain the lines of the car.
The back end does not look like previous BMWs, and that's a big reason people have been talking about it. The L-shaped taillights are a departure, extending across the trunk lid: They're intended to draw the eye across the back, making the car look wider. The lights themselves are a technological marvel, employing a feature BMW calls adaptive brake lighting. Under normal braking, the outboard and third brake lights illuminate as usual. Under hard braking or when ABS is activated, the taillights join the brake lights for a significant increase in visibility of the brake lights. The distinction is supposed to signal drivers in vehicles following the 7 Series that the BMW is stopping very quickly. If that isn't impressive enough for you, a monitoring system will indicate that a bulb is burned out. And while you're waiting for an opportunity to have it replaced, the system will commandeer other bulbs in the taillamps to use as brake lights.
In front, the outer edges of the 7 Series headlamp clusters sweep up, instead of down as they've traditionally done on BMWs. (All of the latest BMWs are adapting this styling cue.) Set relatively low, the headlamps are trimmed by turn signals above them, looking like the eyebrows of a hawk. High-intensity discharge headlamps are used for both low and high beams on the outboard lamps; the inboard lamps are conventional halogen high beams. For 2004, the Adaptive Headlight option allows the outboard lights to turn with the car, focusing their beams
High-quality materials and elegant design make the 7 Series cabin an exceedingly pleasant place to conduct the business of driving. Because the iDrive system eliminates so many switches and knobs, the dash looks particularly clean and elegant. Beautiful, buttery leather trim is used throughout, and a variety of materials create interest, without making the interior look busy. Wood trim is spread tastefully on the dash, center console and elsewhere. BMW offers light- or dark-stained Black Cherry with a matte finish, or light or dark high-gloss Ash. I loved the light Black Cherry for its timeless elegance; I did not care for the optional strip of wood on the back dash.
The two front cup holders are handsome, high-tech, and practical. The sun visors do not appear to live up to the quality of the rest of the interior, though. The standard roof liner in the 745i reminds us of fine suit material, something you might encounter on a woman's business jacket, and BMW says many of the interior materials were inspired by the fashion industry. The 760Li's roof is lined with Suede-like alcantara.
Any of the front seats offered are supportive and comfortable. The standard seats in the 745i adjust 14 ways; the upgrade Comfort Seats, standard on the long-wheelbase models and optional on the 745i, adjust in 20 directions. Moreover, some adjustments are automatic, including the headrests, which change height according to the position of the seat. The wide-shoulder seats included in the sport package have bolstering on par with those in a sports car. The V12 760Li includes Active Seat Ventilation (optional on the V8s), which cools the front and rear seats in the summer by blowing air through micro-perforations in the leather, and adds a vibrating feature. Leather trim elsewhere inside is perforated to complement this option.
All 7 Series sedans feature dual-zone temperature and airflow adjustment for the front passengers; the 760Li adds separate temperature adjustments for each side of the rear seat. For 2004, the 7's climate controls have been improved with an automatic humidity control that maintains relative humidity near an optimal 40 percent. A new misting sensor detects misting on the windshield and automatically wipes it off.
Rear seats are roomy and comfortable. The long-wheelbase L models provide as much rear legroom as you'll find this side of a stretch limo. Waterfall LED atmosphere lighting inside the C-pillars adds to the elegance of the rear seats. The 760Li includes power sunshades for the rear and rear side windows, as well as rear Comfort Seats (optional on the 745Li). These include electric heating and 14-way power adjustments, with a control that allows rear seat passengers to move the front passenger seat forward. Having a skilled professional drive you around while you luxuriate in back is not the worst way to travel.
Under power, the 7 Series cabin remains whisper quiet. The only sound we could hear while driving the 745i over San Antonio's busy freeways was the tires whacking over expansion joints or humming across grooved concrete. Ambient noise is wonderfully deadened inside, making conversation easy and pleasant.
The quiet cabin provides a perfect environment for a superb stereo that delivers crisp highs, sharp bass, and clear mid-range tones. BMW's optional Premium Sound Package ($1800), developed by Harman Kardon's Lexicon, is truly sensational. Unless you have a state-of-the-art stereo at home, you'll hear things in your favorite songs you've barely noticed before. The premium package delivers seven channels of surround sound through 13 speakers, including a pair of subwoofers ingeniously integrated into the chassis itself, and includes a CD changer. The optional Sirius receiver, new for 2004, opens the 7 Series to the joy of satellite radio. The subscription fee includes 60 commercial-free channels of music and 40 of news, sports and talk. It's great for tun
In terms of driving dynamics, there's no controversy. BMW's 7 Series has been widely lauded for its outstanding performance and ride. It's hard to rave about a vehicle that drives so well. There are only so many ways you can say "great," and the 7 Series does everything extremely well.
The first thing we noticed about the BMW 745i was its wonderful, magic-carpet ride. This car smoothes out bumps, even speed bumps, to a point of astonishment. It's incredibly comfortable, yet the driver does not feel completely isolated from the road. The 745i senses when it's being driven hard, retuning the suspension appropriately for improved handling.
BMW's Active Roll Stabilization, a system of computer-controlled active anti-roll bars, increases roll resistance in hard cornering to keep the body flat in turns. At the same time, the system maintains enough suspension compliance to keep the tires planted on the road. Bumps in the middle of a high-speed corner do not upset the handling balance one whit. Several factors are at work here: a near-perfect weight distribution of 50 percent front and rear, which means neither end of the car is more prone to slide than the other; a highly rigid chassis that allows precise suspension tuning; and minimal unsprung weight, thanks to lightweight aluminum wheels, brake calipers and aluminum suspension components.
Remember: weighing up to 4900 pounds, depending on equipment, the 7 Series is not a small car. But in some respects it feels smaller than it is. Anti-skid technology makes adjustments to maintain handling balance whenever grip is lost to any one tire. By applying braking force to individual wheels, it almost seems to bend the laws of physics. Just steer this thing where you want to go and the 7 Series takes you there. I explored this on a fast, greasy corner over a crest that un-weighted the suspension. All four wheels lost grip, but we simply motored around the corner, drifting just slightly wide of the intended line. I never lifted my foot off the accelerator pedal nor made any adjustments in the steering. No special action on my part was needed; the 745i did all of that for me. The anti-skid system is transparent, in that you can't feel it kick in and out. BMW's system is far less obtrusive and more performance-oriented than similar systems found in Mercedes-Benz and Lexus automobiles. That means that it probably leaves the driver a bit more room for errors.
Steering the 745i is a joy. The rack-and-pinion steering is super sharp and precise. It's very light at low speeds for parking lots, but firms up at higher speeds for improved driver feel. It also steps up response by 10 percent as the wheel is turned off center, which means that the more you turn the wheel, the faster the car responds. With this steering system, it's easy to drive the 7 Series with extreme precision on winding roads at very high speeds, placing the tires exactly where you want them. When hitting bumps, there's little or no kickback to the steering.
Either of the 7 Series drivetrains is absolutely silky when cruising around. The new six-speed automatic transmission is extremely smooth, yet it's the most responsive I have ever experienced. Those are usually mutually exclusive benefits. Hit the accelerator pedal and the transmission drops a gear or two without any of that hesitation found in so many automatics. This six-speed automatic is smaller and lighter than the previous five-speed automatic. The additional gearing gives it quicker performance off the line with a lower first gear, better response in the mid range with ratios that are closer together, and improved fuel economy with taller top gears. The 745i does offer a feature allowing the driver to downshift manually using a pair of buttons on the steering wheel, but I found that feature to be superfluous. With a transmission as responsive as this one, manual shifting seems more of a toy than anything el
The 7 Series is so smooth that full days behind the wheel are not taxing. After spending 350 high-speed miles in a BMW 745i, we were ready for 350 more. Heck, we were ready to take it home. It's very comfortable in heavy traffic. Few luxury sedans can keep up with the 7 Series at high speeds, and it's easy to drive this car well. And the interior is sumptuous.
None of the 7 Series models offer all-wheel drive, which is available on both of its most direct competitors: the Mercedes S-Class and Audi A8. Yet this BMW is soaked with cutting-edge automotive technology, and with it all there's a steep learning curve. Owners should prepare themselves for serious reading time with the owner's manuals. You'll need to explain even the most basic operations (like starting) to anyone else who drives their car. The 7 Series may be ahead of its time, or it may simply be beyond the effort many buyers are willing to invest.
Of course, there's always help from the dealership. Have the BMW store set all the gizmos, sit down and drive, and the annoyances will be reduced. If you embrace its styling, any of the three 7 Series models will do. Dynamically, this may be the best car in the class. And that's no small feat, given that the competition includes some of the best cars in the world.


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Were you one of the nearly two dozen people who went to check out the festival of idiocy that was Need For Speed this weekend? Did it give you the high-octane shenanigans you crave so deeply?
Aaron Paul may not have gotten a good reception for his performance in the movie, but he was cool enough that our pals at Road & Track made him the focus of a list of best movie drivers of all time. It's a good list, but I want to see the Jalopnik take on that question, and I'll add TV shows to the mix to keep it even more fresh.
So that's what we're asking you today: Who is the best driver in all of movies or TV?
There are tons of extremely skilled drivers to choose from, but I nominate Initial D's sullen yet preternaturally gifted AE86 driver, Takumi Fujiwara. He's the fictional character I would least want to race against, that's for sure.
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 is official and while it may be more of an incremental upgrade from the Galaxy S3 instead of a total revolution, it's still a tempting proposition.
In terms of the Samsung Galaxy S4 release date the flagship smartphone is due to land in stores on April 26 - sadly there's no one week turn around a la Apple (and BlackBerry in terms of the Z10) here.
This has sadly now changed, with Samsung pushing the Galaxy S4 release date back by a day, sending us the following statement:
- Read our in-depth Samsung Galaxy S4 review
"The Samsung Galaxy S4 will launch in the UK and around the world on the 27th April at 10AM GMT with all major operators. In the UK, the device will be available an hour earlier on the 27th April at 9AM GMT from the Samsung Experience Store at Westfield Stratford City.
"There is demand for the Galaxy S4 globally and Samsung wants to make it available to all of its customers at the same time."
It's worth noting that while EE is the only carrier currently with a 4G network, every network will be selling you a 4G-enabled Galaxy S4, so when Vodafone, O2 and Three get round to switching on their services you won't need a new handset - but a new contract may be required.
Update: A Three spokesperson has told TechRadar: "Three customers will not need a new contract to use 4G LTE when it rolls out.
"We also won't charge customers a premium to use it – it'll be available as standard on all tariffs, existing, new, payg or pay monthly."
Sadly there doesn't seem to be any sign of the 32GB and 64GB variants of the Galaxy S4 on the UK's pre-order pages, with us having to make do with the 16GB model - but at least there's a microSD slot round the back.
So without further ado, here's the breakdown of where you can grab the Samsung Galaxy S4 in the UK.
Carphone Warehouse
Apparently you've been registering your interest in your droves, with the retailer confirming it had been "off the charts", with "four times (446%) as many pre-registrations for the Galaxy S4 than the Galaxy S3 last year".
Pre-orders have now opened, and it you select a contract deal Carphone will throw in a free accessories bundle including a car charger, microSD card and case.
Carphone Warehouse was originally offering the 16GB Galaxy S4 SIM-free for the lofty price of £629.95 (£100 more than the equivalent iPhone 5), but it has since dropped that to a slightly more palatable £589.95 - phew!
On contract a free handset will set you back at least £35 per month over two years, with tariffs from EE, O2, Orange, Three, T-Mobile and Vodafone up for grabs.
Phones 4U
Registration also went well at Phones 4U with Scott Hooton, Chief Commercial Officer saying: "it has already received the most pre-registrations at Phones 4U of any other smartphone launch in 2013, as well as a 40% increase on pre-registrations for the Galaxy SIII in the first 48 hours."
You can now pre-order the Galaxy S4 here too, and as with Carphone a two year contract and free handset deal starts from £41 per month.
There's a SIM-free option as well, with Phones 4U now coming in slightly more expensive than its high-street rival with a price of £599.95.
The hook here is you'll get entered into a prize draw to win Samsung goodies if you pre-order through Phones 4U, plus the retailer will also hand you £100 of Google Play credit and some free accessories.
Phones 4U doesn't seem to be offering the Galaxy S4 on O2 or Three though, with EE and its sister brands listed alongside Vodafone on the website.


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Syfy, formerly known as the Sci-Fi Channel and SCI FI, is an American cable television channel run by geniuses, mainly Ron Moore and Glen A. Larson, which is like a god unto television viewers. One such viewer, Languatron of Worth, IL, writes: "SyFy is the best. I get moist just thinking about them." Former SyFy prexz Bonnie Hammer has appeared in a number of Playboy pictorials, as she is the sexiest woman who has ever lived. One viewer, A. Fullen of the Chicago area, writes "This is not just a group of genetically engineered android alien super death lizard executives. They are top drawer. I especially love Glen A. Larson. Why? Because he makes me moist."
The channel is well known for providing its viewers with the absolute highest quality low budget monster/disaster movies and fake, low budget wrestling. Their "original" movies typically depict some sort of genetically modified reptile, a super weapon, or a genetically modified reptile with a super weapon or is just a lower budget rip off of an actual better movie.
The Name Change[edit]
The SciFi name change caused widespread confusion when rumors spread that "SyFy" is pronounced "siffy" and is a reference to syphilis. The SyFy channel attempted to rectify the problem by saying that it was pronounced like "SciFi". This statement lead to mass confusion, as the American public was unable to understand how a name could change but could still be pronounced the same way. Shortly thereafter, there was a massive spike in suicides, which the SyFy channel insisted were unrelated.
From it's inception until July 7, 2009, the "SyFy" Channel was called the "SciFi" Channel, a name that well represented the aims of the channel. Top executives, who are giant mutated dinosaurs armed with black hole guns with a taste for alien zombie flesh, decided on the change after reading the notes of their founder, who used shorthand to write "SciFi", instead calling it "SyFy". The executives were all drunk, high, or a combination of the two, and thus decided that calling it the "SyFy" channel would be the best method expanding their audience. The executives reasoned that perhaps they could trick the populous into watching the SyFy channel, since it didn't have "Sci" or "Fi" in it's name, which stand for "Science", and "Fiction", respectively. Due to the natural phobias of any American citizen (which, of course, include a fear of both science and fiction) this actually worked for a time, until the public began to realize that the SyFy channel didn't show reruns of Jon and Kate Plus 8, at which point they began to slowly draw away. The SyFy channel needed a new plan.
The SyFy channel is rumored to be switching the programming from it's traditional Sci-Fi line up to something the general public will enjoy. The line will most likely include mind rotting trash, documentaries of urban culture, art shows, intense political debates , real life cop dramas, and total crap written and directed by some crazy guy, J.J. Abrams, who thinks he can write Science Fiction.
Jon and Kate Plus 8 Mutant Zombie Lizards[edit]
The answer to the SyFy channel's problems was clear: the creation of Jon and Kate Plus 8 Mutant Zombie Lizards, a show in which a buff egotistical karate expert and a scantily clad female she-lizard must defend themselves against an army of eight mutant zombie lizards, which are armed with powerful, enchanted blades of doom. The American public quickly fell in love with the show, and photographers followed the mutant zombie lizards on their way to school. The show fell apart, however, when it was uncovered that Jon was dating an evil enchantress behind Kate's back. Kate responded by biting off Jon's legs, making his defense against the zombie lizards pitiful at best. After the mutant zombie lizards gleefully devoured Jon, Kate fell quickly, giving the show a temporary boost in ratings, followed by a dramatic drop as the show no longer had a plot.
Syfy Original Movies[edit]
In fact, Syfy has a long history of creating first-run features.
|Fright Truck
|Oct. 31, 2003
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|Ghost Tornado
|Jan. 14, 1999
|Unofficial sequel to Gone With the Wind.
|Rape Tournament
|April 23, 2006
|Martial Arts/Chick Flick
|Co-produced with the Lifetime network.
|Santa Goes to Hell
|Dec. 23, 1998
|Holiday Special
|Only film to ever win via popular demand the Academy Award for best picture.
|Nero En Fuego
|Ides Martias MCMXCVIII
|Pellicula Biographiae
|Semper ubi sub ubi.
On 10 February 2010, SyFy announced on Twitter the original movie Sharktopus had begun production. (Models) Almost immedately, saps who believed 2012 doomsday predictions began panicking about sharktopus attacks.


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The language in the slogans used to address what most see as the basic social problem in the United States varies significantly. The key terms run from "war on poverty" to "ladders of opportunity" to "upward mobility" to "fight against inequality." President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty. Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York in his inaugural address as Mayor of New York City called on the City " to put an end to economic and social inequalities,"[1] President Obama before his second inaugural wanted to make inequality the "defining issue" of his second term,[2] but that language changed to creating "ladders of opportunity" in his State of the Union address.
Do those different terms all mean the same thing, or what difference is there among them? Lots.
The War on Poverty (see Blog #43 on the phrase), in fact as well as in words, addressed itself to the condition of the poor: lack of educational opportunities, weak family structure, discrimination in employment, residential segregation, gender discrimination, inadequate workplace safety, predatory ending. It contained an undercurrent focusing on encouraging the poor to help themselves, "empowerment," enabling the poor to pull themselves up by their boot straps. That undercurrent becomes the dominant theme in the conservative Republic answer to poverty through education and job training of the poor, "making the workforce investment system more responsive to the needs of employers."[3]
The ladder of opportunity" language to which President Obama has turned at least permits the image of a ladder with both a bottom and as well a top. De Blasio's language of inequality pushes that image to recognition of the fact that those at the top are in fact responsible for the fact that others stay at the bottom. Recent research on upward income mobility similarly raises the question of the inability of the poor to improve their relative position over several generations.
The conclusion, then, if inequality rather than just poverty is the focus, is that something must be done about what keeps some so rich, as well as what keeps some so poor. Calling in "inequality" is easily mistaken for substituting a measurement for a cause. The conservative challenge that inequality doesn't cause poverty is quite right. But the conclusion that limiting the wealth of the rich won't help the poor is quite wrong. It raises the question of the relation between rich and poor, exactly the question that the language of the War on Poverty or the enabling/opportunity approach conceals.
For in fact it is indeed the way the rich obtain their wealth that accounts for the poverty of the poor. A short piece like this is no way to engage that issue fully, but the outline of an answer may be suggested: The specific mechanisms are known:
- Exploitation at the work place. Keeping the pay for workers as low as possible is an inherent part of running a business and making a profit: the lower wages are, the higher profits are. Employers are "job creators" only against their will; the fewer workers they need use to produce a different product or service, the better off the employer is. The high pay for business executives and dividends to shareholders are directly at the expense of the workers in their businesses. .
- Exploitation at the consumption end. Increasing the demand for ever more consumers goods, of course necessarily paid for out of wages, increases the profits of the producers of those goods and the wealth of the owners of the firms that produce them. Inducing demand artificially, through advertising and the wide array of cultural patterns of the kinds long documented by sociologists and economists,[4] supports the consumption exploitation of poor (as well as middle class[5]) consumers, to the benefit of the rich.
- Exploitation at the financial end. Where, after all, do extraordinary profits of hedge fund managers and bankers come from? Ultimately, of course, from the prices paid by the purchasers of the goods and services they are financing. Their interest and dividend incomes and high salaries are really based on the profits of those making their money from more direct exploitation of the poor.
- Exploitation of the benefits of land ownership, an obvious and pervasive monopoly, paid, as economists put it, by rent not for anything that the recipient of rent payments has produced or done, but solely extracted by him through the possession of something in limited supply for which there is demand. Property owners and developers are among the richest of the rich (think Donald Trump), in large part because they are able to benefit from the speculative increases in the pries of land which they own. Ultimately, those benefits are paid for in the prices consumers pay and the rents that tenants pay, a regressively distributive system enriching land owners at the expense of all others.
- All four of these forms of exploitation are among the primary causes of poverty and, centrally, inequality.
Digging deeper into what a war on poverty ought to be about would lead to examining, not only how the poor might be directly helped, but also how the rich might be constrained in those actions that keep the poor in poverty. Digging deeper into how inequality might be reduced would lead not only to measuring the extent to which it is reflected in income inequality and be ameliorated by boosting the incomes at the bottom rungs of the ladder of opportunity but would lead also to the same concern for limiting the way the rich get to the top of the ladder to begin with.
The dispute between Governor Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio over the financing of preo-kindergarten for poor children a vivid example of the difference, Cuomo's insistence on paying out of general funds, does help to alleviate poverty, but it also avoids de Blasio's proposal for paying through a dedicated tax on incomes over %$500,000 addresses inequality directly. Thus Cuomo may alleviate poverty but de Blasio aims further to directly reduce inequality, looking both at the top and the bottom of the ladder. Reducing poverty is much less controversial than reducing inequality, which confronts more basic vested interests.[6]
[1] Text at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/nyregion/complete-text-of-bill-de-blasios-inauguration-speech.html.
[2] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/01/06/wonkbook-obama-wants-to-make-inequality-the-defining-issue-of-2014/
[3] Republican Senator Tim Scott, setting out h is bill to implement the war on poverty, at http://www.scott.senate.gov/press-release/senator-tim-scott-introduces-opportunity-agenda.
[4] See the work of writers such as C. Wright Mills, Herbert Marcuse, Thorsten Veblen, and many others.
[5] It should be clear that exploitation is not limited to "poor" workers, but is drawn from the contributions of the unemployed, the excluded, as well as the "idle class," in the multiple ways they contribute to the functioning the system that perpetuates the unequal division of wealth.
[6] The debate between David Brooks who has the same political analysis as above and comes to the conclusion we should all focus "on opportunity and mobility, not inequality, on individual and family aspiration, not class-consciousness." http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/17/opinion/brooks-the-inequality-problem.html?_r=0 and Robert Reich,who concludes "The concentration of power at the top — which flows largely from the concentration of income and wealth there — has prevented Washington from dealing with the problems of the poor and the middle class," http://robertreich.org/post/73764746576, reflects almost exactly the above discussion.


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Over a year after Nicollette Sheridan saw her wrongful termination suit against Desperate Housewives ended in a mistrial, the actress today got a new trial date. Sheridan and defendants Touchstone Television will be back in court on December 2, LA Superior Court judge Michael Stern ruled today. Stern's ruling came after denying a motion by the defendants to have the case dismissed. Sheridan's lawyers filed an amended complaint for their client under a section of the California Labor Code that is designed to protect employees from losing their jobs if they make a complaint about workplace safety. This amended complaint follows a three-judge appeals court panel ruling last August that Sheridan could pursue claims that she was retaliated against after complaining that creator Marc Cherry struck her in the head during an on-set argument in September 2008. The lawsuit over Sheridan's original claims that her Housewives character Edie Britt was suddenly killed off in early 2009 and she was wrongfully fired from her starring role on the ABC drama resulted in a deadlocked jury on March 19th of last year. That trial saw ABC executives past and present as well as Sheridan and Cherry among others take the stand. Cherry and ABC always insisted the departure of the character and the actress had been decided months before the hitting incident, which the producer has characterized as a light "tap." Cherry ceased to be a defendant when midway through the first trial, Judge Elizabeth Allen White threw out the battery claim Sheridan had against the producer. Desperate Housewives itself came to an end just two months after the trial. The show wrapped up its eight-season run on May 13.
A hearing on a retrial was scheduled for September 10 but then taken off the calendar in June last year when Touchstone sought a ruling through the Appeals Court on its contention that it is not wrongful termination under state law when a contract renewal is not exercised. Subsequent appeals hearings did not go in the actress' favor. However, The judges ruling in August did provide an opening for Sheridan to move forward again under a different avenue. In the case that will now begin at the end of the year, Sheridan's damages would be limited to loss of wages and benefits, a far less than the $20 million she originally filed for in April 2010. Sheridan was represented, as she was in the first trial, by Mark Baute of LA firm Baute Crochetiere & Wang. He was joined by the firm's David Crochetiere. Touchstone were represented by Adam Levin of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp. Levin represented the defendants in the first trial.
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Last night, the challenge was for the contestants to transform men of a certain age in to "drag mothers." With guest judges Debbie Reynolds and Cloris Leachman, the episode had a bawdy retirement home vibe.
Raven was initially upset that his "mom" had a "full fucking beard."
But it's not like you look at any of these guys and immediately think, "drag queen."
Raven: "My mother is hairy." Shaving was a bonding experience! After lip-sync and dance rehearsals, the older gentlemen were tired. Quoth Jujubee: "None of these bitches better die tonight."
Raven totally transformed her mom from a bearded man into a little lady who lunches. The Other Tyra also did a great job, and Tatianna's mother (who walks with a limp) had a great sense of humor and was totally campy. RuPaul's intention was to introduce and honor an older generation of gay men who made this kind of show possible, and it was actually pretty touching to see the contestants be reverent and sweet to their "mothers."
The performances were riveting, because the line between tremendous and trainwreck was so thin. In the end, Raven was the winner, and Pandora Boxx and Jujubee were up for elimination. Sadly, Pandora had to sashay away. She'll be missed!
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Depressive symptoms and vegetarian diets: Results from the Constances cohort (France)
posted by Research Admin on 7 November 2018
In this study, the authors examine the links between depressive symptoms and vegetarian diets. The authors found depressive symptoms were associated with pesco-vegetarian and lacto-ovo-vegetarian diets. Further, depression was linked with the exclusion of any food group, suggesting "that the association between vegetarian diets and depression could be only a particular instance of a broader association between depressive symptoms and food exclusion, regardless of food types."
This is an open access article and can be read in free full text at: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/10/11/1695/htm
Matta. J., et al. (2018). Depressive symptoms and vegetarian diets: Results from the Constances cohort. Nutrients, 10(11), 1695.


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EDMONTON - On the same day Mayor Stephen Mandel set an Oct. 17 "drop-dead date" for the Katz Group to explain what it wants in an arena agreement, Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz was in Seattle, and the Washington state city approved a new $480-million-US arena project.
"I can confirm that Daryl Katz, Patrick LaForge, Kevin Lowe and others from the Oilers leadership group are in Seattle for meetings and to attend the Seahawks game," Katz Group vice-president Bob Black, who was also with the group on Monday, said in a statement released to the media.
"We remain committed to working with city administration to achieve a deal commensurate with what Winnipeg and Pittsburgh have done to sustain the NHL in those small markets," Black said. "If we can achieve such a deal, the Oilers will remain in Edmonton and we can get on with the important work of developing the new arena and investing in the continued revitalization of Edmonton's downtown core."
While the Katz Group being in Seattle sends a provocative message to city council, not to mention the Oilers' fan base, Mandel wasn't hopeful a deal will be reached when he talked to reporters Monday.
"Hopeful wouldn't be the adjective I would use. I think we're a long way apart. Right now, I don't know how far apart we are," he said. "I think that the Katz Group, whoever it happens to be — it doesn't have to be Mr. Katz — needs to come to council."
Mandel, who last week asked representatives from the company that owns the Oilers to bring issues they can't resolve with city staff to council, said this must happen by the Oct. 17 council meeting.
He called this a "drop-dead date" for a presentation, but wouldn't give details about what might happen aside from predicting the day will be "interesting."
"Timing is vitally important. We need to move ahead. I think everybody in the City of Edmonton, including the Katz Group as well as all councillors, is frustrated," Mandel said.
"What is it? What do you want? We have been dealing with this for four years. You should know by now. … It's not a complicated issue of what you want. We just don't know what it is."
Tuesday morning, Mandel told CTV News: "I don't know any more than you do why Mr. Katz was there (in Seattle), to go to a football game or to do something different." The mayor also pointed to the fact the Oilers have a sellout streak of 292 games and questioned whether Seattle — with more professional sports franchises and college teams — could consistently sell out 18,300 seats a game.
To those who argue the city should build the arena at any cost, Mandel said the city is "darned if you do and darned if you don't" make a deal with the Katz Group.
The Katz executives, who were joined in Seattle by former Oilers great Wayne Gretzky, toured the old Key Arena before attending the NFL game between the Seahawks and Green Bay Packers.
"Nonetheless, and as the City of Edmonton is aware, the Katz Group has been listening to proposals from a number of potential NHL markets for some time," Black said in his statement. "After more than four years of trying to secure an arena deal and with less than 24 months remaining on the Oilers' lease at Rexall Place, this is only prudent and should come as no surprise.
"We are extremely grateful to Oilers' fans for their patience and loyalty as we work through this process towards what we sincerely hope will be a long and successful future for the Oilers in Edmonton.
"We have no further comment on the status of our discussions with other markets at this time."
Although the city administration has been approached to work out any problems, and he has spoken to someone from the company, Mandel said he isn't sure matters are any further ahead than they were a week ago.
The city reached a 17-part framework agreement last October on how to finance, build and operate a $450-million downtown arena, but a final binding contract hasn't been completed.
Mandel has said the cost could now reach $475 million.
Earlier this month, councillors held a closed-door meeting to discuss issues raised by the Katz Group, which reportedly include an ongoing $6-million subsidy to help with operating costs if casino dollars aren't available. There is also a proposal to house city employees in an office tower to be built adjacent to the arena.
Councillors rejected the company's request for more public money.
In a Journal interview last week, owner Daryl Katz said a "mechanism to offset capital and operating costs of the new arena" had been contemplated from the beginning of negotiations.
It shouldn't have been a surprise to city council, he said.
The project will spur billions of dollars worth of downtown investment that will produce taxes that could cover the operating subsidy, he said.
Katz hopes a final deal can be reached in the next couple of months, saying the longer it takes the more construction costs will rise.
But Mandel said people in Edmonton are becoming frustrated.
"We have an original deal that we have all agreed to. Apparently, for some reason, that's not good enough now," he said. "People want this to go ahead, but not at any price … There's all kinds of confusion out there. It would be nice if someone came and clarified it."
Staples: Don't worry about Seattle
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After hearing nary a peep from the Art Lebedev guys about their Optimus Popularis keyboard from years back, they've taken to their LiveJournal (LiveJournal!!!) blog to say production will begin "later this year," with "the release likely in 2011."
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Kinzua Sky Walk – Kinzua Bridge Visitors Center
"One of the Top 10 most Scenic Skywalks in the World." The Kinzua Sky Walk and the Kinzua Bridge Visitors Center are open year-round for group and motorcoach tours. The Kinzua Bridge Visitors Center is a two-story, elevator access, 11,000 sq. foot building with a variety of interactive displays. One display is a replica train car where visitors can watch films of the original train crossing the Kinzua Gorge. Admission is free to the Kinzua Sky Walk, the Kinzua Bridge Visitors Center, and the Kinzua Bridge State Park.
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Bring your group and "Bake with Joe". Your group will have a hands-on opportunity to bake with experienced bakery chief Joe Frombach, and then sample what they made! Your tour includes instruction and baking in the test kitchen, and lunch or dinner at the bakery shop. Seasonal bakery classes include making and decorating holiday cookies or a Yule Log. On-site gift shop, restaurant and bakery.
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Tour involves a considerable amount of time outdoors. Both tours give an age appropriate, detailed discussion of the process of making syrup and students will come away with a better understanding of how syrup gets from the tree to the table. In addition to being able to choose the type of tour you would like your students to have, you also have two breakfast selections.
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Terry Crews has joined the cast of the untitled Fox comedy from Parks and Recreation's Mike Schur and Dan Goor.
The project stars Saturday Night Live alum Andy Samberg as one of a diverse group of detectives at a New York police precinct. Crews will play the sergeant.
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Goor and Schur will write and executive-produce the project, alongside David Miner. Phil Lord and Chris Miller (21 Jump Street) are set to direct the pilot.
Crews previously starred in TBS' Are We There Yet? and The Newsroom. He will next appear on the upcoming Netflix season of Arrested Development.


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Opened in 1977, Ocean Park Hong Kong is a marine-life theme park featuring animals, thrill rides and shows. It is located on the southern side of Hong Kong Island, with an area of more than 915,000 square metres. The two major attractions areas, the Waterfront and the Summit, are connected by the Cable Car and Ocean Express funicular train.
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With the opening of Hong Kong Ocean Park Marriott Hotel, you'll be able to make your whole vacation an Ocean Park experience. The lobby features a large cylindrical aquarium filled with swirling tropical fish, while the guest rooms are themed around the park's attractions, including Marine World, Rainforest and Amazing Asian Animals. Also available for hotel guests are two exclusive experiences - Kids Discovery Club and Breakfast with Animals.
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Adventures in Australia
Adventures in Australia brings you on a quest to meet vibrant and captivating Australian animals in Hong Kong! Watch the furry koalas perched on branches and red-necked wallabies springing about, and don't miss the sweet serenade of the laughing kookaburras! Discover the rich history of Australia while discovering how you too can adopt a Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS).
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A journey deep underwater to meet over a hundred sharks and rays that shatters the myths surrounding them, including the sawfish with a saw-like rostrum, and the zebra shark with leopard-like spots! Discover their beauty from 360 degrees at this exciting exhibit.
Polar Adventure — Explore the North and South poles in one day
Polar Adventure lets you explore the North and South poles, from the exhilaration of a bobsled ride to the wonders of meeting king penguins up close. You'll also see long-tusked Pacific walruses, spotted seals, arctic foxes, snowy owls and other extraordinary animals. And when you need a break, Tuxedos Restaurant serves refreshments with a view of more than 70 penguins frolicking on the ice.
Old Hong Kong — Relive fond memories of times gone by!
Old Hong Kong brings the unique culture of Hong Kong in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s back to life. Savour the sights and sounds of yesteryear aboard the Heritage Tram! Be mesmerised by the colour and buzz of life in accurate recreations of old streets and scenes. Take a trip into nostalgia and take home some antique souvenirs to keep the memories alive!
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In this zone, guests can dangle off a cliff on the floorless roller coaster, Hair Raiser, or hang upside down while swinging on The Flash. Soar with The Aviator to feel the sensation of flight, before knocking around on bumper cars. Don't leave without a ride on Rev Rooster, a high-speed and energetic classic.
Hop aboard a raft and become immersed in the exotic sounds of a tropical rainforest. On this journey, you'll encounter some of the most fascinating animals in the world! Catch the antics of the world's smallest monkey, the pygmy marmoset; or see weirdly wonderful critters, including the capybara, the world's largest rodent, and kinkajou, as well as the green aracari, the world's smallest toucan.
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In this world-class marine-themed area, you can watch Symbio, a multi-sensory show featuring the world's first 360-degree water screen, embark on a journey of exploration into the Grand Aquarium, or view marine life from the world's largest aquarium dome or through a giant viewing panel eight by 13 metres large. Make sure you drop by Neptune's Restaurant for Hong Kong's first aquarium dining experience!
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At the Amazing Asian Animals exhibit you can visit some of Asia's rarest animals. Take an interactive journey of discovery at the Giant Panda Adventure where you'll get to know some of Asia's most precious native animals, including giant pandas, red pandas, Chinese giant salamanders and Chinese alligators. Admire the spectacular display of goldfish at the Goldfish Treasures exhibit, or visit the colourful birds and playful Asian small-clawed otters at Panda Village.
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During festive seasons, Ocean Park Hong Kong will organise special events such as Halloween Bash, Asia's biggest Halloween party, and Summer Splash water play activities.
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Lawyer wants delay in Miss. ricin letters trial
A federal public defender has asked a judge to delay the trial of a Mississippi man charged with sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama, a U.S. senator and a local judge.
Attorney Greg Park says in a court filing Tuesday that he needs more time to prepare for the trial of James Everett Dutschke of Tupelo.
Dutschke is charged with sending the poison-tainted letters on April 8 to Obama, U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker and Lee County Justice Court Judge Sadie Holland.
The former martial arts instructor was arrested April 27. He is being held without bond in the Lafayette County jail. He has pleaded not guilty to five charges.
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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Good news, your mce remote/receiver will work on install. The USB-UIRT is used to control IR devices.For example, my core, has a dish network receiver, a sirius satellite receiver, a RCA AV Dolby Digital receiver, and a 42" Big screen TV. Using the USB-UIRT to learn each one of those devices remote control (this is very simple to do through the web admin after install) once all of the codes are learned, no matter which device I use, it has all been consolidated to a single mce remote, so if I want to watch a dvd, it automatically changes the input on my AV receiver to DVD, puts the TV on the correct input, and does it all with a single button press on the mce remote. I also use it to change the channels on my dish network receiver, and all I had to do was learn the receivers codes. LMCE knows exactly what device to control, and which inputs to use, all controlled by IR and the USB-UIRT.This is the main feature for me of the USB-UIRT, the ability to learn and reproduce any IR code I throw at it. After the receiver is installed, it is automatically set up, and allows you to use your existing mce remote. This gives you the option to put your other receiver on a future media director (MD) and just carry the remote back and forth, so you have 2 places controlled by the same remote, and if you are on an MD, and you want to change a channel on the STB for cable or dish the MD sends the commands to the core, and blasts them using the USB-UIRT, so you can be in another room, and still have access to your main core devices.Definitely a worth while purchase.Regards, Seth
My TV and entertainment rack are built into my wall at home. I have a dual-headed ir blaster dongle plugged into the back of my USB-UIRT. One of the heads is in the AV rack with the satellite receiver, AV receiver, and sirius receiver. The head on the blaster is powerful enough to hit all devices. The second head of the blaster is run behind the wall into the TV recess. I have it mounted over the TV's ir sensor.On my MD I have a mce usb receiver with a single irblaster, that one I have run to a second satellite receiver, underneath the 27" TV in the same recess of my entertainment center, its blaster is strong enough to hit both the TV and the receiver.However, if running a 64bit version of lmce, connected to the USB-UIRT, the ir blaster dongles are not required. I have done this with beta4, for whatever reason, running 64bit LMCE allows the internal ir blaster to function on the USB-UIRT.But that is my layout. I made my own ir blaster dongles from radio shack parts, but there are other resources on line.Regards, Seth
IR Blaster Dongles are small IR led's attached to a wire to better position them in front of the device to be controlled for improved performance and accuracy. An example is on like in the link below:http://www.smarthome.com/8170.html?src=WG1000118&gclid=CJeW9v_tppMCFRLnxgoduCm2ng


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Here at "1st Look," we like to eat. And each week, we're bringing you the best dish our team has noshed on all week. Let us whet your appetite with a little Friday food porn.
This week's winner? Red Farm's pork and crab soup dumplings. The steaming succulet pockets of delightful pork and crab is encased with a perfectly steamed, chewy wrapper. The best part: biting into the three-biter dumpling and being greeted by a mouthful of warm, flavorful broth. Ah, heaven.
This popular West Village Chinese joint with "green sensibility" is the ingenious creation by the dimsum master himself Joe Ng and Chinese food expert Ed Schoenfeld. It's no wonder the quaint little Chinese spot has been bustling since its opening late last year.
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Bots are complicated. They're made to process repetitive actions autonomously and can be fairly easy to build, but they aren't always working on the side of good. Here's what you need to know.
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May 15, 2007
The web was once all about text and an occasional picture, but broadband begat bandwidth and bandwidth spawned a boom in multimedia content through which video and music sites like YouTube became wildly popular and were bought and sold for huge sums of money. Yet in spite of all this rich content, the major search engines remain mostly text-based, relying on titles, tags, and metadata when searching for multimedia content.
The big free search engines lack a way to search inside multimedia content, something that has been available for 10 years in searching text. In order to delve deeper into multimedia, you need to use a specialized search tool from the likes of Blinkx, Nexidia, Podzinger, or TVEyes. As one analyst describes it, multimedia search is still in the crawling stage, but sometime in the not-too-distant future, it's going to grow up and take off fast.
From Genesis to Revelation In the beginning, there was text search and we had some keywords and a title and we thought it was good. Long ago, text search matured to search every word in a document (full-text search), but according to Suranga Chandratillake, CTO and founder of video search technology company, Blinkx, until recently, search tools also focused exclusively on text. He says, "Search engine technology has always been built around the idea that you are looking for text. In that sense it's self-descriptive because computers can read text and you know what words are there and therefore you have an idea of what's relevant. Obviously there is a lot of detail around what is more relevant, but at least you can make pretty good decisions."
Chris Sherman, executive editor of the site Search Engine Land, who has followed search since its early years, says most multimedia search has advanced only to the text search evolutionary equivalent of 1993 or 1994, when it looked at titles, links, and keywords. According to Sherman, "A lot of these multimedia sites that people call search sites really aren't. They use things like tags and other types of text information to figure out what's out there and refer people to multimedia files. They are not 'full' search like we understand full-text document search."
The challenge, Chandratillake says, is moving beyond text search because video and audio may have some text available that could be searched, but that won't give you the full sense of the contents. "Now, because of the way the web is, there will usually be some associated text. There will be files, metadata, and text on the web page around the video or image and that's how the majority of multimedia search has occurred in the past." He points out that if you do a video or image search on Google or AOL, it's not really searching the video itself or the image itself. He says, "It's looking at stuff like: Based on the fact that this image seems to be tagged with the words 'George' and 'Bush,' it's probably a photo of the president and so on."
One other key issue, according to Sherman, is the subtle elements of multimedia content, which humans understand intuitively and that today's technology cannot. "When you have streaming content," says Sherman, "you have a lot of information contained that's non-textual, like body language or inflection. Is somebody being sarcastic when they say something or are they being straightforward? It's still very difficult for a computer to understand that."
Are We There Yet? We are not at the final destination by a long shot, but multimedia search is beginning to move beyond simple text, even if Sherman thinks we still have a long way to go. He says, "If you look at true multimedia, like video, audio, or other types of streaming content, really nobody is doing search in the sense of, 'Let's get in and really understand this content, analyze it, and make it searchable.' Some companies are doing simple things like speech detection analysis or looking at waveforms in audio and doing similarity analysis, but it's still basic and doesn't work consistently well."
However, there are companies that are beginning to move forward with some interesting approaches. Chandratillake says Blinkx is using speech recognition technology in conjunction with visual analysis of videos to provide a way to expose what's inside the video or audio. "Our obsession is how much can you get the computer to actually understand the video itself or, in our case, the audio as well. To that end, we specialize in technology that not only finds the video that's out there on the web and reads text around it, but watches the video and also listens." he says.
Gary Price, who runs the website ResourceShelf.com and who is also the director of online information sources at Ask, sees TVEyes and Nexidia as two companies pushing multimedia search forward. "Right now for some of the technology I've seen, whether it be what TVEyes or Nexidia is doing, is really what I call the state of the art—that is, being able to work with [multiple] languages and breaking down the text into phonetic sounds, so it's much more accurate and cost-effective in terms of computing cycles and it's much faster." He adds that using a phonetic approach is also more effective than trying to do pure speech recognition, which is trying to resolve a word against a word in a dictionary and is much slower.
Drew Langham, SVP of media at Nexidia views this as a great advantage. "We take any recorded audio or video source and break it into a purely phonetic index. So what happens is we create this index, depending on the processor you are using, at about three-hundred-and-forty times real time. This means one hour of media gets processed in about twelve seconds and rendered searchable. When someone wants to search for a piece of information, they type a text query. It gets parsed to the phonetic equivalent and matched to the exact point in the audio or video where it was said."
TVEyes monitors broadcasts for its subscriber clients using a hybrid of the phonetic and dictionary approach. David Ives, the company's CEO, says TVEyes' approach depends on the language being spoken. He admits there are limits to speech recognition technology, but says it gets you further than looking at tags or other text information. "We look at the audio track as the primary means of determining the content and context of what rich media is about. In a consumer-generated video like on YouTube, with lots of background music or a visual stunt, our approach would not be effective, but the vast majority of content has spoken content and we offer an economical way of determining the content," he says.
Clients report that TVEyes is an effective way to monitor mentions in broadcasts, a task that would be impossible without this technology. Ellen Davis, senior director of strategic communications at the National Retailer Federation, uses TVEyes to monitor news about any of its members or the organization itself and says it's particularly useful during the holidays when mentions skyrocket. She manages this by getting a daily digest of all mentions by email. What's more, she can access broadcasts and email meaningful snippets to her boss. "With this service we can very easily splice a three-minute segment and email it to the CEO so she can watch it on her computer."
Podzinger takes yet another approach by using voice recognition technology developed for the U.S. government by parent company BBN. Alex Laats, Podzinger's CEO, says that by using this approach and then categorizing the audio and video files by subject, Podzinger makes it easier to pinpoint the desired file and the desired element within the file. "The basics of what we do is making audio and video searchable using full-text search and we also do natural language processing in order to topic-classify it and to make the content more readily accessible," Laats says. This means that if you are looking for a mention of Alex Rodriguez, the New York Yankees' third baseman, you can enter his name in the search box, or you could search for "sports" and "baseball" to find him. Once found, Podzinger not only displays the relevant podcast or video, it shows you exactly where in the broadcast the mention occurs, sparing you the time it would take to listen to the whole thing.


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Released over 27 years ago, it wouldn't be hard to imagine Brian Eno and David Byrne's My Life in the Bush of Ghosts as a signpost for everything that eventually followed in its wake. By dabbling with samplers and using vocals taken from Arabic pop singles and recordings of evangelical sermons, the pair crafted a work that firmly embraced the static hum of an increasingly global world and reflected it back onto a decade that saw the rise of the personal computer, the games console and what turned out to be just the beginnings of new levels of sensory overload in mass entertainment.
Nearly 30 years on from the release of My Life… and, following a post-dinner conversation between the two, they've finally released a follow-up. With Eno exerting himself entirely on the music and Byrne focusing exclusively on vocals and lyrics, the result, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, is an entirely different entity to the musical collage they crafted in the early days of the Reagan administration. Instead of once again immersing themselves in a game of cat and mouse with cultural odds and ends from around the world, these two once mighty iconoclasts revert to something far more familiar here: proper songs.
Its creators may label it 'electronic gospel', but what Everything… truly is, is the soundtrack of two veteran explorers seeking a welcome respite from the world they cleverly predicted on previous efforts. Some might view this as a worrisome turn towards the middle of the road, but when a man who recently transformed an entire building into a musical instrument gloriously sings "I'm looking for a home, where the wheels are turning…" over the glitch-fuelled guitars of opener_ 'Home' or "…nothing has changed but nothing's the same"_ on the title track, it's clear that this is not a case of once-great men resting on their laurels. Instead, what we're given is a record produced by two individuals who understand that by inhabiting the space which stretches between the traditional and avant-garde, it's possible to craft something that avoids being shackled by the weight of the past or feels compelled to embrace the shock of the new in order to stand on its own two feet.
Those in search of freshly broken ground may still find this record a disappointment. This is, after all, a gentle record filled with gentle songs that are unlikely to offer a roadmap for the following three decades to come. But for those exhausted by a modern landscape, where playing a game of spot the musical reference is de rigueur when approaching every new release, _Everything That Happens Will Happen Today _is certainly a welcome relief.
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Hopes, dreams and practical plans to colonize or otherwise exploit the moon as a source of minerals or a launch pad to the cosmos got a boost today with NASA's announcement of significant water ice at the lunar south pole.
The LCROSS probe discovered the equivalent of a dozen 2-gallon buckets of water in the form of ice, in a crater at the lunar south pole. Scientists figure there's more where that came from.
"The presence of significant quantities of ice on the lunar surface catapults the moon from an interesting waypoint to a critical launching pad for humanity's exploration of the cosmos," said Peter Diamandis, CEO and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, which is running a $30 million contest for private moon rovers. "We're entering a new era of lunar exploration — 'Moon 2.0,' in which an international group of companies and governments will use the ice and other unique resources of the moon to help us expand the sphere of human influence, and to help us monitor and protect the Earth."
The water discovery firms up previous detections of the signature of water molecules by three independent spacecraft. But the new finding makes more of a splash in that the detections come from both infrared and ultraviolet measurements, and a lot more of it was detected than scientists had expected.
"It is a big 'wow,'" said Jack Burns of the Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and director of the Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research.
Set up lunar camp
Having that store of water on the moon could be a boon to possible future lunar camps. In addition to a source of drinking water, lunar water ice could be broken into its constituent hydrogen and oxygen atoms, ultimately to be used in rocket fuel. That would mean spacecraft ferrying future colonists to the moon would not have to take fuel for the return trip, or the fuel could be used to launch trips beyond the moon. And water could be used as a shield from cosmic radiation.
"We now can say ... that the possibility of living off the land has just gone up a notch," said Peter Schultz, professor of geological sciences at Brown University and a co-investigator on the LCROSS mission, referring to past detections of water on the moon.
The new discovery comes just as the Obama administration is deciding whether to continue on with NASA's goal of putting astronauts back on the moon by 2020. Today's news could tip the scales toward another lunar leap.
"It's going to boost the interest in the moon, no doubt about it," said with Michael Wargo, chief lunar scientist for Exploration Systems at NASA Headquarters. "It's going to provide additional information that will inform the decision that will inform the future of human space exploration." He added that the new finding will likely be taken into account when that administrative decision is made.
"In terms of the clearly most practical destination for the next two to three decades for human exploration it has to be the moon," Burns told SPACE.com.
Big challenges ahead
In the midst of floating on "Cloud 9," as Burns described his reaction to the water discovery, are the logistics of actually setting up a lunar colony.
"The devil is in the details," Wargo said, adding, "None of our spacesuits that we currently have would be appropriate for that extreme an environment."
Any materials built for Earth-like temperatures won't work on the moon. "They don't bend anymore, they fracture, and they fracture brittle-y, and so everything gets extremely brittle at those temperatures," Wargo said.
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NASA scientists have been quietly working in their tool shops on innovative ways of mining and using the goods.
The water could also be pumped into the roof of a lunar habitat to shield astronauts from cosmic radiation. "So think of it as a layer of insulation like you would have in the roof of your house," Burns said. "Instead of thermal insulation this is insulation from radiation from the sun."
New page in lunar history
When Apollo astronauts visited the moon 40 years ago, the picture was of a bone-dry rock. That picture has only changed within the last couple of decades as scientists began to suspect that the moon's polar regions could hold stores of water ice in so-called cold traps that are permanently in the darkness and can reach just tens of degrees above absolute zero, Burns said.
The LCROSS probe impacted one such cold trap, a crater called Cabeus, on Oct. 9. The $79 million spacecraft, preceded by its Centaur rocket stage, hit the lunar surface in an effort to create a debris plume that could be analyzed by scientists for signs of water ice.
This watery find may just be the first big one with more to come. "This was a random shot in an area of permanent darkness and there may be many more places that could have more of this stuff," Schultz told SPACE.com. "This is like opening Pandora's Box."
"It's been unfortunate that some have said, 'Moon, been there done that,'" Burns said. "We only went to the moon six times and we didn't go to the most interesting places on the moon. There's so much more to discover about the moon just from a scientific perspective, what it can tell us about the formation of the Earth."
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Cheryl Burke On Fullfast Dieting, Bikini Tips, Dating, Dancing With The Stars, and More
Cheryl chats to Celebuzz about representing FullFast, an appetite control spray that helps curb food cravings. Along with giving some bikini and exercising tips, Cheryl also addresses the romance rumors with Maks and dating, and whether she will be back to dance next season on Dancing With The Stars. More at the link as well as info on a Fullfast Giveaway.
We all know you dance, do you do other exercises as well?
I'm a big fan of Jazzercise. Most people think of Jazzercise as their mother's workout but I have to tell you those DVD's kick my butt. I can burn up to 600 calories in an hour which is an amazing workout.
Diet is important too! What do you suggest for a healthy snack?
I like to snack on apples, nuts, melon, berries some yogurts but with yogurt you have to remember to check the label because some brands are crazy high in sugars which really derail the healthy aspect.
Romance rumors seem to follow you everywhere! Recently you and Max were supposedly an item. Are you in fact dating anyone now and what do you make of all the rumors?
I'm not dating anyone now. Being in the spotlight I sometimes feel pressure to be in a relationship because then I'd have an answer to this question because it always comes up!
Will you be back on Dancing next season?
We, as pros, never have a guarantee that we'll be on season after season. It really all depends on the celebrity cast and if they see us as a good match. I hope they ask me back because it's the best job to have!
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Costly errors spoil Kazmir's solid outing
Lefty gives up two hits, two unearned runs in six frames
MINNEAPOLIS -- The top of the sixth inning is a perfect snapshot of the Indians' Friday night. Following a lineout to Twins reliever Brian Duensing, Lonnie Chisenhall softly flipped his bat in the air in frustration.
When Chisenhall reached out to grab the spinning piece of lumber, he fumbled and the bat struck him in the face. That is how things went for the Indians at Target Field, where the club limped to a sloppy 3-2 loss to the Twins in the opener of the season's second half.
Cleveland struggled to get much of anything going in the batter's box and did not fare much better in the field, committing a pair of errors that directly contributed to Minnesota's offensive output. The combination of missteps halted the Tribe's modest four-game winning streak and spoiled a solid effort from left-hander Scott Kazmir.
"In a game like that," Indians manager Terry Francona said, "you don't want to ever give them extra opportunities. It came back to haunt us."
At least the Indians (51-45) can quickly turn the page, knowing they did not lose any ground in the standings. The American League Central-leading Tigers also lost on Friday night, keeping second-place Cleveland's deficit at just 1 1/2 games.
The breaking point to Cleveland's blunder-filled loss came in the eighth inning.
With the score caught in a deadlock at 2, Indians setup man Joe Smith allowed a leadoff single to Pedro Florimon. Brian Dozier then chopped a pitch from Smith into the ground and in the direction of a charging Chisenhall. The third baseman snared the ball and fired to first baseman Nick Swisher, who appeared to close his glove too soon, missing the catch for a costly error.
Smith -- a groundball specialist -- did what he could to overcome the ill-timed gaffe by inducing a double play off the bat of Trevor Plouffe. Florimon sprinted to third base on the play, setting the stage for a two-out confrontation between Smith and Twins catcher Joe Mauer. Smith needed just one out to escape unscathed.
Easier said than done.
"I don't think you're almost out of an inning when you've got Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau coming up," Smith said. "I knew it was going to be a tough out to get."
While Mauer prepared to hit, Indians pitching coach Mickey Callaway headed to the mound for a meeting to go over the situation. Francona said putting Mauer on first with an intentional walk was not considered.
"No," said the manager. "You'd have first and third, and the guy at third can fly. So how do you defend that? They can do a lot of things. If you want to hold Mauer at first, you have the hole open."
Smith said he was instructed not to give Mauer anything to hit, but the sidearmer wanted to go for an inning-ending strikeout once he worked ahead in the count.
"They told me, 'Hey, kind of pitch around him here,'" Smith said. "Once I got ahead of him, 1-2, my approach changed. I was going for the punchout. I wanted to get out of the inning. He got me."
Smith spun a slider, which he wanted to bury far inside. The breaking ball caught too much of the plate, and Mauer did what he has done to plenty of pitchers over the years. The catcher yanked the pitch up the middle for a base hit, scoring Florimon easily and putting the Tribe behind for good.
"They went after Joe," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "Like he can do, he came up with a big one for us."
That put the finishing touch on a rough night at the office for the Indians.
Kazmir admitted that he felt "rusty," but the left-hander still held the Twins (40-53) to a pair of unearned runs on just two hits in his six innings on the mound. Minnesota's only production against Kazmir came in the sixth inning, when Chisenhall mishandled a grounder to his left for an error. That paved the way for a two-run, two-out single from Plouffe that knotted the score at 2.
"I was able to get quick outs and got into the sixth inning," said Kazmir, who has a 1.95 ERA across his past six turns for the Tribe. "A couple little hiccups cost me a couple runs. It cost us throughout the whole game. It was tough."
The hiccup in the sixth also effectively erased the two-run double that Michael Bourn collected against Twins starter Mike Pelfrey, who pitched into the sixth and navigated his way around four hits, three walks and one hit batsmen. Pelfrey and the Twins' bullpen combined to hold Cleveland's Nos. 2-4 hitters (Asdrubal Cabrera, Jason Kipnis and Swisher) to an 0-for-11 showing.
That is just the kind of night it was for Cleveland.
"Kaz pitched so well," Chisenhall said. "He's been throwing the ball awesome, and he deserved to win that game. ... When you give guys extra outs, they turn them into runs."