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At a glance, the Iconic GTR looks like just another Cobra replica. But taking a closer look you realize it's the bespoke details that make it special. Shiny toggle switches, plush leather, jewel-like gauges, a roll-bar that conceals LED turn signals with a full spectrum of color adjustment; it all makes the GTR feel like a creation made for winning the Riddler Award. But don't think that it's all show and no go — the body is all carbon-fiber with ground effects that help make over 500 pounds of downforce. Open the power-operated bonnet you'll find a F1-style front suspension and the heart of the beast, a 800 HP naturally-aspirated 6.9-liter V8. And that's not just some crate motor, it's a hand-assembled custom with a unique fuel-injection system.
Iconic Motors says that this is just the beginning for their company, even hinting at the possibility of a future electric supercar, but time will tell. For now, the planned run of 100 GTR Roadsters will be sold for about $600,000 a pop. That may seem like quite a lot if you're comparing it to a fiberglass kit car; but if you look at it through the eyes of the carnauba-drenched, mirrors to show off the chassis, custom hot rod commissioners, it all makes sense.
Long Island, N.Y. - The GTR Roadster by Iconic Motors will make its world auto show debut at the New York International Auto Show. A truly groundbreaking automobile, the Iconic GTR boasts 18 pending U.S. patents, a chassis made of high strength chromoly, a carbon fiber passenger tub and carbon fiber body panels, and a high performance air management system with under body inverted carbon fiber wings designed to generate more than 500 pounds of down force at 175 miles per hour.
The Iconic GTR's 1950s inspired body design features many panels constructed of a poly silicate matrix sandwiched between two layers of carbon fiber that results in an incredibly strong light weight and rigid body. With its carbon fiber and aluminum honeycomb reinforced chassis having over 20,000 pounds of torsional rigidity, the GTR offers a level of performance handling that rivals that found in many modern race cars.
"I have wanted to build a car that combines the latest innovative technologies with the most exquisite detailing, design and all out performance since the day I began reading car magazines as a kid," said Claudio Ballard, the inventor and visionary behind the GTR Roadster. "Everything from the custom-built, heated and cooled carbon fiber seats to the computerized gas cap that slides open like the glass on a moon roof embodies my vision."
From its luxurious leather and suede hand-stitched interior to its hand-assembled 420-cid/800-horsepower naturally aspirated V-8 engine, the vehicle is a rolling showcase for revolutionary technology shrouded in a racecar. The entire nose clip swings up and forward to reveal the highly detailed engine compartment, showcasing a custom-fabricated engine built to super car racing standards featuring titanium valves, high strength light weight stainless and aluminum components throughout along with the very latest in high performance friction reduction technology. The patent pending shifter mechanism is specifically designed to display its inner workings as a beautiful piece of automotive artwork, and even the gauges, dashboard starter and hazard light push button switches are custom designed from stainless steel and manmade synthetic sapphire with a hardness level just below that of diamond. The dash center console has a 8-inch touch screen display utilizing the same bright-view technology found in military strike fighters and bombers for clear visibility regardless of sunlight exposure in support of its onboard GPS navigation and driver information displays.
The Iconic GTR - proudly designed, engineered and constructed using state-of-the-art computer-aided design and manufacturing technology entirely in the United States with over 99% U.S. sourced materials.
Ballard will build one hundred of these high performance pieces of rolling artwork roadsters. Priced at $600,000, his team will begin taking orders for the Iconic GTR in April with production slated to begin in Fall 2008.


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Troels won the 2005 World Barista Championship using a coffee from Brazil - the Daterra Reserve - roasted by George Howell from Terrior.
The Daterra Reserve is a very high grade coffee from the Daterra estate in Brazil.
It's commonly called a Single-Origin Espresso which, while technically true, I take issue with as it's actually a blend of a couple different coffee cultivars grown on one estate.
This coffee is very popular amongst espresso freaks and is now roasted by a range of high-end roasters.
As a recent experiment, I had the chance to taste the Daterra as roasted by three different roasters. This was an incredibly cool opportunity to see the results of different roasting styles and philosophies and evaluate the end result in the cup.
First up was the Daterra from Terroir (as mentioned above). This is actually the first Daterra I ever tasted and the coffee I most associate with "Dattera". It's a Northern Italian style roast - quite light and focused on preserving the varietal and origin characteristics of the coffee. It seemed to perform best in an LM ridged double basket, standard dose and with the highest brew temp of the bunch (I liked it the most at 202.1F). At lower temps it had incredible aromatics, but I found that it simply had too much acidity for my taste. At the higher temp it retained much of the aromatic power (floral, citric with some raw honey notes). In the cup it was dominated by a heavy, almost fluffy marzipan flavour. There is some lovely sweet citrus in there, some hints of what I would describe as quince and a wonderful caramel finish. Medium bodied... not a big or heavy espresso. The finish is clean and sweet and not particularly long-lasting. One trick I discovered with this espresso is that simple alterations to the extraction parameters can have unusually dramatic results. Ristretto shots become quite heavy and almost cloying with aromatics degraded and a peanut note emerges. In general, I would describe this as a comforting and quite traditional espresso. It's not big, it's not "extreme." While it is good as a macchiatto, it really doesn't hold up well to much milk and is best suited for use as in straight espresso.
The second of the three was from Caffe Fresco. This is an unusual take on the Daterra as it is a much darker roast than the other two. Now... to be clear, this is in no ways a "dark" roast coffee. It's just that the other two are quite light... especially for espresso. I actually prefered this coffee in the LM ridged double basket as well, but very, very slightly updosed. At a lower brew temp I found the complexity of the coffee really emerged - In the end I found 198.8F to be my personal "sweet spot". This is not the aromatic bomb that the Terroir is. It's far less of an "unusual" espresso. In the cup it is dominated by a sort of "peanut butter cup" flavour. Sweet, nutty and with a goodly amount of chocolate. There is a little fruit brightness, but it's more of a dark or dried fruit flavour. Much heavier than the other two - this is quite coating. As a straight shot this is a bit unbalanced, but in short milk drinks it softens and rounds out. It makes a really wonderful cappuccino. I would describe this as a new american take on the classic espresso.
The third of the three was from Ecco Caffe. In terms of roast degree, this falls between the first two - though just barely darker than the Terroir. Given this, I'd expected the two coffees to have similar flavour profiles and similar target extractions. I was wrong. I'm dying to figure out how the same beans taken to very similar degrees of roast can be this different. I ended up deciding that I enjoyed this the most in a triple basket, downdosed significantly. At a brew temp of 201.2F it really hit a nice balance. In fact... the word I would use to describe this coffee overall is balance. Wonderful floral, spice and fruit notes in the aroma; it's one of those coffees that is just fun to smell. in the cup there is that same marzipan note - but there is also a really cool belgian candy sugar note. Tons of fruit up front - meyer lemon, pomegranate... you name it. Hints of various tropical spices and that sweet caramel and honey finish. Once again, this is a medium-bodied coffee but this time it's very long-lasting. I love it as a straight shot - but (perhaps because of all the fruit) it seems to hold up really well in short milk drinks as well. This coffee is the espresso equivelant of comfort food.
This was a really great experience for me.
To see the commonalities... but also the differences.
I love to see roasters creating coffees that reflect their own tastes - their own beliefs and philosophies.
Three really great espressos... a really great coffee.
Brazil Daterra Reserve
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See: Beware Of The Middle Income Trap -- The Economist
China is far from a middle income economy. Per capita income is under $8,000 a year in most cities. But in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou and Beijing, the China view looks more like that of middle class Eastern European nations like the Czech Republic than an emerging market where most people still earn just a few hundred dollars a month. Cities like Hong Kong, in particular, are more like Tokyo and New York than they are anything that resembles a developing economy. Hong Kong has been rich for sometime, and now that magic is spilling deep into mainland China, starting from the coast, and now inching into second tier cities nationwide.
For sure, China's eastern seaboard cities have hit or are hitting the middle income trap. Their economies are growing slower, but are still humming along as upwardly mobile Chinese drive demand for housing and consumer goods in those hot urban centers. As China becomes "middle class" by World Bank standards, what does that mean for China as a whole?
See: China To Be High Income Nation In Ten Years -- China.org (Chinese State Council Information Office)
In their final installment on the Chinese economy, titled "Beyond the Miracle", Barclays Capital analysts in Hong Kong led by Yiping Huang wrote that China will avoid the middle-income trap as a whole. However, they did not underestimate the risks facing China's economy in the coming years. It's one thing to be middle income. It's another thing to move out of that middle income and into the coveted high income category of Western Europe, the United Statesa and Japan.
The experience of countries that failed to make the jump to high-income status suggest that their inability to innovate and upgrade can be attributed to three broad factors: (1) macroeconomic, political and social instability; (2) persistent inefficient allocation of resources; and (3) insufficient support to physical infrastructure and human capital development.
The Chinese economy faces a long list of risk factors, such as worsening corruption and worsening income inequality, particularly in those aforementioned cities. These, and other risk factors, could easily disrupt China's growth trajectory as much as a shift away from exports to domestic consumption is doing so now.
Yiping said that they think policy reforms and economic forces should be able to address many of these issues. For instance, with assistance of rapid increase in wage rates, expected interest rate liberalization and further reforms, China is probably close to a turning point when income distribution switches from deterioration to improvement. Similarly, the government recently stepped up its efforts to crack down on corruption. An implicit acceptance of social media as a monitoring mechanism for government officials is particularly encouraging, although in itself this will be insufficient to eradicate corruption. And, finally, the protection of intellectual property rights has improved significantly, and that should help local entrepreneurs and foreign entities set up shop in China without the fear that they are days away from having their intellectual property ripped off.
After joining the WTO in late 2001, China set up a nationwide court system for dealing with intellectual property right issues. International experience also suggests that such protection can strengthen significantly when indigenous intellectual property rights become dominant.
So what could derail a middle income China?
1. Environmental Degradation
One of the major consequences of China's rapid economic growth during the past few decades is serious and widespread degradation of the environment, writes Yiping in "Beyond the Miracle", Barclays' 25 page report on China's long term growth prospects. According to one count, 16 out of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. The press has been loaded with stories this year alone about China's horrible air quality. Air pollution may be relatively easy to address, considering the experiences of major cities such as New York, London and Tokyo dealing with similar problems during their postwar periods. But other environmental damage could be much more difficult to reverse. For instance, water shortages have already led to a rapid drop of underground water table levels in Northern China. Underground water supplies in about two-thirds of China's cities are also considered seriously polluted. These problems, if not tackled quickly, are likely to reduce life quality, hamper productivity, drive away investment and, eventually, dim China's growth outlook.
2. Increasing Cost of State-Owned-Enterprises
The government runs China, and the SEOs are not only massive in size, but costly and slow to innovate, if they innovate at all. The SOEs have evolved into an important lobby group within the government apparatus and are obstacles to further reforms. The state sector is generally profitable, thanks to implicit input subsidies and monopoly power, not necessarily its own competitiveness. In relative terms versus the private sector, the SOEs suck in more resources but churn out less in output. This is a significant limiting factor on the non-state sector's growth potential. It is best demonstrated by credit allocation in the banking sector to municipal development projects that have been wasteful, either through corruption of local officials, or by building housing developments where there is no demand. SOEs may also contribute to fiscal risks, as both the state sector and local governments continue to face soft budget constraints, and become a source of social tension.
3. Financial Crisis
This is what the hard landing crowd has been waiting for. Financial risks are already on the rise in China, reflected in "excessive borrowing" by heavy industries and local governments. The rapid growth of the shadow banking sector also suggests that further delaying financial reform is no longer an option. International experience also suggests that liberalization of currency be accompanied by significant increases in financial instability. It remains an open question if China's banks and its financial system more generally could withstand the shocks likely brought about by financial liberalization and opening.
"In our view, the government's ability to control and alleviate risks in these three areas –environmental damage, the SOEs and financial shocks – will determine China's chance of maintaining its growth sustainability," says Yiping. "If the above risks explode, China's growth could collapse, at least in the short term, with devastating implications for the rest of the world."
See: China Stocks Fall To Three Week Low On Real Estate Bubble Alert -- Bloomberg
China Equities: The Big Let Down?*
The China growth story may very well still be in tact, but investors will have to pick their spots carefully. Here's a look at how some of China's biggest companies trading on the NYSE have done year-to-date and in the past 12 months.
YTD 12 mos
MSCI Emerging Markets Index -2.41% -1.48%
iShares FTSE China 25 (FXI) -4.72% -4.27%
Asia Info Linkage (ASIA) 1.66% -5.73%
Baidu (BIDU) -11.08% -34.86%
China Mobile (CHL) -5.43% 4.93%
Dang Dang (DANG) -1.45% -41.82%
E-House China Holdings (EJ) 9.76% -30.45%
Focus Media (FMCN) -1.87% 5.13%
Giant Interactive (GA) 9.24% 41.39%
JA Solar (JASO) 21.78% -48.51%
LDK Solar Co. (LDK) 21.53% -70.69%
Mindray Medical (MR) 10.73% 25.73%
NetEase (NTES) 22.01% 8.53%
Qihoo 360 Technology (QIHU) 9.26% 85.58%
Renren Inc. (RENN) -12.46% -44.38%
SINA Corp (SINA) 9.62% -18.73%
Trina Solar (TSL) 7.6% -51.56%
Xinyuan Real Estate (XIN) 24.86% 82.46%
Youku Tudou (YOKU) 13.32% -3.73%
*Stocks listed have a minimum daily average volume of 500,000.
I've spent 20 years as a reporter for the best in the business, including as a Brazil-based staffer for WSJ. Since 2011, I focus on business and investing in the big…
I've spent 20 years as a reporter for the best in the business, including as a Brazil-based staffer for WSJ. Since 2011, I focus on business and investing in the big emerging markets exclusively for Forbes. My work has appeared in The Boston Globe, The Nation, Salon and USA Today. Occasional BBC guest. Former holder of the FINRA Series 7 and 66. Doesn't follow the herd.


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Driven by the ambition for another Super Bowl title as the end of his NFL career approaches, retiring Ravens star linebacker Ray Lewis is also determined to honor the late Art Modell.
The former Ravens and Cleveland Browns majority owner died at age 87 on Sept. 6 from natural causes, a passing that affected Lewis deeply, as he was close to Modell and his family.
As the Ravens prepare for Saturday's AFC divisional round playoff game against the Denver Broncos, honoring Modell is on Lewis' mind.
"Yeah, it's hard for it not to," said Lewis when asked if he's been thinking about Modell lately. "Last week when I came back, I put his shirt up under my other shirt. His legacy will never die. So, it's something that's always on my mind. Not just his, a lot of people that I've lost over the years.
"I take them with me every time I go on the football field. But he is one of the special ones, and I know that if we have the ability to look down from heaven, then he is smiling. He is smiling because I know he'd be pulling in here right now, saying, 'Here we go again.'"
During his final home game at M&T Bank Stadium, a 24-9 AFC wild-card victory over the Indianapolis Colts, Lewis wore an undershirt with the Biblical chapter, Psalms 91, stenciled across his chest.
The lengthy scripture begins: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my god; in him I will trust."
Lewis said he was given the Psalms from a military veteran.
"It's a safe place," Lewis said. "A lot of things are always swirling around in your life and pulls you in and out of this and pulls you in and out of that. When you read Psalms 91, and I will encourage anybody to read it no matter what you are going through in life, because it's a safe place. It's what God confirms. For me, through the ups and downs, the roller coasters of 17 years, you have to find a safe place.
"You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and any time I read it, anytime I come across it [in] my Bible, and the first scripture in there is Psalms 91. For me, I always like to display it to people because no matter what you are going through in life, we all need that safe place. We all need a place to go back to despite your religion, whatever you may want to claim. I think that has always stuck for me."


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The Cooperative (Co-op) Education Program at High School
Co-op education is a unique program that integrates academic study with practical workplace experience. A co-op credit will provide you with an excellent opportunity to test drive a job to see if it is suitable. Our high schools offer a range of different co-op programs that offer something in common – real-world work experience.
Co-ops are beneficial regardless of the program or level of study you are taking. These credits will offer you experience to steer you in a particular direction for education or for work following high school.
What is Co-op?
Co-op education allow you to "try on" a potential career choice by going to work for part of a school day or a full day. Typical co-op programs have students working two to four periods a day. Each student has a Personalized Placement Learning Plan which provides the framework for this learning opportunity. While students spend most of their time at the workplace, they do complete an in-school pre-placement session and participate in integration days with their co-op teacher.
Expanded Co-op Opportunities
As a result of the province's Student Success strategy, we are able to offer you expanded co-op opportunities. You are now able to apply two co-op credits toward compulsory graduation requirements.
This broadens opportunities for experiential learning and gives you a chance to start working and testing career options. These credits are applied to your 18 compulsory credits required for graduation.
Along with this change comes a move to develop stronger partnerships between education, business, and community organizations – the goal is to increase the number of co-op and job placement opportunities for students.
Contact your high school's guidance department to get more information about co-op courses available.
What is the Difference Between Co-op and the Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP)?
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Quote:As most of us know here bunkai is not for sparring,it is meant to be an attack ender right from the start. In some kata there are neck,arm,or other bone breaks. There are strikes to vital areas that would kill too,but isn't it just all hypothetical? There's no way of testing it,no way of proving it.
Quote:am I? I think I asked sometime before if there were software that models body dynamics.but similar subjects you bring up have been talked about before. I think last summer, when we had discussions about how many psi of pressure would it take to break a rib or something.we came up with you have to punch hard enough to break about 4 x 1/2" pine boards to equal breaking a rib. thats a fair enough test without having to actually break someone's rib.you could do the same type of test for an elbow break. Find out what diameter dowel is equivalent strength as an elbow. wrap it in padding to simulate flesh and to protect your arm, and attempt to snap it with an elbow break. I haven't tried this, but it would be a good enough test for me.After you know that, next time you are doing bunkai with a partner, be aware of what force would be needed if it were real.other than that, it's just faith....and hopefully, you'll never have to actually test it.btw, medical sources have maximum stress measurements of human bones and joints.
Quote:I would like to stick to real theories with fighting applications
Quote: Whats more if I were to make a kata that did contain obvious methods of maiming or killing (attacking obvious weak spots like eyes, neck, wrist, fingers, groin) I guarantee it would not be stylistically similar to karate kata.
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By DAVID GREEN
Morenci power-lifter Taylor Baugh had never missed a dead-lift attempt in all her years of competing, but that's exactly how the final event in her state champion quest began last weekend in Traverse City.
The squat and bench events left her—the defending state champ—in fourth place in the women's 105-pound division at the Michigan High School Powerlifting Association finals, but she knew her speciality, the dead-lift, was yet to come. That's why it hurt so bad to scratch on her first attempt—a lift of 225 pounds that would have pushed her into the lead. She had the bar halfway up when it slipped out of her hand.
"The bar was a larger diameter than what she's used to, making it hard for her to get her hands around it," explained coach Dan Hoffman.
Baugh said she was furious and stormed out of the gymnasium crying.
"I thought it was over," she said. With a bar too big and slippery, she was lost.
Baugh's aunt was engaged in a pep talk when Coach Hoffman found her.
"I'm yelling at him and he's yelling at me," she said. What he wanted was for her to pull together and think about how to overcome the problem.
Baugh had to alter her hand grip—in the middle of the final competition of her high school career—and she practiced the adjustment with a lighter weight.
"I went for 240 pounds on my second attempt and whipped it up because I was so mad," Baugh said.
That put her on top of the field by five pounds until one of her chief rivals matched that lift to take a 15-pound lead.
There was only one way to repeat as state champion. She would have to lift 15 pounds more than her state dead-lift record—15 pounds more than she had ever achieved in the past.
Hoffman didn't like the odds. The extra weight, the larger bar, the new hand grip. It certainly wouldn't be a sure thing.
Two-hundred and sixty pounds were loaded on the bar and Baugh chalked her hands really well to help with the grip.
She moved into position and noticed the huge crowd of people circling her. Her platform was the only one still competing and everyone had gathered for the show.
"I got mad and yelled and pulled the bar up close to my legs," she said. "I got louder as I pulled and the gym was filled with chanting."
It was a good lift. The crowd erupted in cheers and Baugh kept her title, tying the state record at 510 total pounds.
She was soon in tears again, but this time with a big smile.
Baugh said it all hit home the next morning when she thought back on all the hard work that paid off with a pair of state titles.
She says Morenci's small but powerful team comes from a small town with big hearts and a lot of determination.
GLECKLER—Sophomore Madi Gleckler gave a solid performance in the 105 weight class.
"She was good on eight of nine attempts, with a personal record on the squat and dead lift," Coach Hoffman said.
She lifted 140 and 220 on those events, then added a 90-pound bench press for a 450 total and fourth-place finish.
LOCKWOOD—Makiha Lockwood got off to a great start, but her day soon turned sour.
The junior opened with a squat at 260 pounds to tie the state record, then set a new record of 270. However, the lift was ruled no good by two of the three judges. Coach Hoffman thought it looked good and he says he's tough on meeting the guidelines. Her third attempt was a repeat of the second.
"From there on things went badly when she failed on three consecutive attempts in the bench press," Hoffman said. "This disqualified her from the competition."
It was a tough way to lose, he said, especially knowing that Lockwood is "hands down the best 181 in the state."
"The girl who ended up winning had lost twice to Makiha this season," he said.
HOFFMAN—Sophomore Malachi Hoffman competed in the 155 junior varsity class and earned fifth place. Hoffman was good on two squats and posted a 280. On the bench he went three for three and scored 220. He was also three for three on the dead lift to finish with a personal best 370 and a total of 870 pounds.
ELARTON—Freshman JJ Elarton competed in the junior varsity 181 class in his first state meet. He was good on two of three tries for each lift, squatting 245, benching 200, and dead lifting a personal best 380.
"His final dead lift attempt was 400 which would have put him in place for a medal," Hoffman said, "but it was just a bit too much."
FELTZ—Sophomore Shawn Feltz entered the state competition for the first time, lifting in the junior varsity 242 class.
"He was perfect in going nine for nine on the day," Hoffman said. "He hit personal bests in both the squat and the dead-lift at 340 and 380. He benched 225 giving him a 945 total and a ninth place medal."
Former Morenci student Chris Hinkley was a state champion in the 132 junior varsity class.


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John Pawson has revealed these images of his proposed conversion of the Grade II* listed Commonwealth Institute (CI) building, west London, into the new home for the Design Museum
The £80 million proposals will see the museum move from its current home in Shad Thames, east London into the refurbished 1962 RMJM tent-like landmark, which has stood empty for more than a decade.
Pawson's design team for the new project has been helped by Roger Cunliffe, a 'leading member' of the original architectural team for the CI in 1958, and by James Sutherland, the building's original structural engineer.
The museum hopes to open its doors to the public in 2014 and double its visitor number to 500,000 a year with an 'expanded education and public events programme'.
The museum's founder,Terence Conran described its existing base near Tower Bridge as 'full to the brim and bursting at the seams' and said he relished the opportunity to move to west London's Albertropolis, in what is regarded as the territory of the V & A.
Pawson's scheme has been halied as 'a soft touch approach, using a quiet palette of materials, including terrazzo and hardwood floors'. The proposals will also make the north and south facades more transparent and, working with structural engineer Arup, features new openings in the floors of the five-storey museum, which will open up new views of its original hyperbolic paraboloid roof.
Plans were submitted for the scheme, which sits within a larger development of the site designed by Rem Koolhaas' OMA, before Christmas (2011). Pawson
Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum, said 'This is an important step forward for the Design Museum. We are very excited by all the work that John Pawson and the rest of the design team have done.
'They have put forward a brilliant strategy to bring the former Commonwealth Institute back to life, which will allow the public to see the essential qualities of this historic listed buildin, and make a wonderful new home for the Design Museum.'
The architect's view - John Pawson
'The most exciting thing about the project is that, at the end of it all, London will have a world-class museum of design, with galleries for permanent and temporary exhibitions, education spaces and a library. There is particularly nice symbolism in the fact that in making this legacy for future generations, we are saving a work of iconic architecture. I hope the result will demonstrate that you don't need to demolish old buildings to make wonderful new public space.'
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It may be an impertinent question but where on earth is the £80m coming from?
Its surely an obscene amount of money to be spending at the best of times?
Eddy Rhead's comments are less than thoughtful. This museum, available to children and young people (and the rest of us too) across the UK and wider, for the next 100 years or more, will open up the vista of design - industrial, domestic, aesthetic and practical, to all.
Enabling all of us to access information and inspiration, it's probably costing each of us about 1p - great value for a rare new museum to enjoy, learn from and connect with.
Last week my city, Manchester, announced huge cuts to vital services across all aspects of council departments. By coincidence they are having to make £80m of cuts.
But i suppose London is getting *another* new swanky museum for us all to enjoy eh? So that makes it all alright.
I stand by my thoughtless thoughts as much now as i did a year ago.
If you dont mind - can i have my 1p back please?
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MADRID (AP) - Spain remains in recession but only just.
MADRID (AP) � Spain remains in recession but only just.
The country's National Statistics Institute says the Spanish economy contracted in the second quarter by a quarterly rate of 0.1 percent as a result of weak domestic consumer demand. That offset a solid export performance.
That was Spain's eighth straight quarterly fall. The contraction was better than the 0.5 percent fall recorded in the first three months of 2013.
Spain has been in recession for most of the past four years following the collapse of its real estate sector in 2008. Despite 27.2 percent unemployment and a bloated deficit, the government claims its reforms and austerity measures are paying off. It predicts the economy could start growing again in the third quarter.
On a year-on-year basis, Spain's economy was 1.7 percent smaller.


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Italian coffee giants Lavazza have thrown their hat in the coffee pod ring to compete with the likes of Tassimo and the current champions Nespresso, but will the A Moda Mio serve up a quality crema or just leave a bitter taste in the mouth?
At just 20.5cm wide the Mio is pretty dinky for a fully featured espresso maker, especially as it features a steam arm for milk heating, 1-litre water tank and decent size used pod holder and drip tray.
As for styling the Mio is undoubtedly retro, but the cute curves, high-gloss two-tone finish in silver with red, black or white mean it will sit happily in the sleekest of modern kitchens. The plastic body construction isn't the best – the Nespresso models we've tried feel substantially more robust – but it's sturdy enough not to look cheap.
Once filled with water and turned on it takes about 40 seconds to heat up ready for use. Pop your chosen coffee flavour in the flip-top slot, pull down the silver lever and push the button. A double espresso will take around 35 seconds, longer than both the Tassimo and Nespresso systems, and be warned, we only wanted a single shot, but the espresso button is manual, so it's up to you how much coffee you want in the cup.
Sluggish speed aside the espresso tastes fantastic; rich, smooth, and equally as good as the Nespresso and on a par with the best restaurants have to offer.
While Tassimo and Nespresso both boast an impressive range of drinks and coffee flavours, the Lavazza has only four basic blends to choose from – light, medium, dark and decaf - all 100% Arabica beans.
But there's more to the Moda than just espresso, you can also knock up a macchiato or cappuccino using the handy steamer. Usually the Achilles heel of budget coffee makers this steam arm was surprisingly simple to use and heated/frothed milk with a satisfying whoosh and gurgle. Our only niggle with the steamer is that the arm is about 2 inches too short and as a result most standard mugs were awkward to use, while the classic espresso cup fitted perfectly it didn't hold enough milk for a latte or cappuccino.
The steam is controlled via a dial on the side of the machine, that can also be used to produce hot water for tea, but the water flow comes through such a narrow opening it'd be far quicker just to boil the kettle.
The Mio is easy to keep clean, the used pods fall automatically into a container and the excess water drains through into a separate drip tray. The whole unit pulls out as one making trips to the sink drip proof.
Coffee pods cost £3.59 for 16 from Waitrose, Tesco or www.lavazzamodomio.co.uk, that's 22p per cup and, while not as cheap as a vat of Mellow Birds, you really do get what you pay for.
We're chuffed with the Lavazza coffee machine. For under £120 it punches well above its weight in both looks and performance. The coffee is of seriously high quality, and if you consider the steam arm as an added bonus to a really good espresso maker you can't fail to be impressed.
We admit that the casing it a touch plasticy and the machine lacks the clunk-click of more luxury machines, but the fact that the pods are available in supermarkets (unlike Nespresso) and the machine is child's play to use (and clean) should mean more people get to enjoy proper coffee at home without unnecessary mess, fuss or expense.


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This crater, known as Orcus Patera, is a strange, elliptical crater located near Mars's equator. Roughly 240 miles long by 90 miles wide, its elongated shape doesn't fit with standard models of crater formation, leaving astronomers with a baffling mystery.
Orcus Patera is located between two of Mars's biggest volcanoes, Elysium Mons and Olympus Mons (which is also the highest peak in the solar system). Beyond its immense length and width - it's not quite as long as the Grand Canyon, but five times as wide - it rises up over a mile above the surrounding area, and it reaches depths more than a third of a mile beneath the Martian surface.
The term "patera" is used for irregular craters formed by volcanoes, with other famous examples including Mars's Hadriaca Patera and Tyrrhena Patera. But while Orcus Patera is definitely irregular, it probably wasn't formed by volcanic activity, and that's the mystery astronomers are still trying to solve.
One possibility is that it started life as a regular, nearly circular crater created by meteorite impact. Over time, compressional forces brought on by shifting tectonic plates squeezed Orcus Patera into its modern shape. It's also possible that Orcus Patera was once two craters right next to each other, and erosion wore away the distinct region separating the two until only one weird crater remained.
However, the most likely theory is that an object struck the crater at a remarkably shallow angle, probably less than 5 degrees from horizontal. This is known as oblique impact, and it would be able to dig out such an unusual-looking crater shape. Still, there's no conclusive evidence in favor of any of these theories, and so Orcus Patera remains a mystery to astronomers until the day comes we can get out there and take a look at it up close.


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This note came to us from Green Tree Community Health Foundation. They hope readers and donors will get the message out that a key fundraiser has been disastrously disrupted by the U.S. Post Office.
Green Tree Community Health Foundation, the public charity located in Chestnut Hill that supports and provides funding to many local non-profits, depends on its Annual Appeal to raise funds for grant making. One hundred percent of all funds raised support local charities, including the Center for Enrichment, Meals on Wheels, Keystone Hospice, Cradles to Crayons, MANNA, Center in the Park . . . to name just a few.
But this year it has a major problem. After it did its major Annual Appeal mailing in October, the Foundation was distressed to see almost no return. But then its Executive Director, Susan Hansen, began receiving phone calls from donors asking why their checks had not been cashed. Concerned, she called the U.S. Post Office at Market Square and learned to her horror that, through a postal service bureaucratic mishap, envelopes with checks enclosed were being returned to sender, stamped "Not A Valid Address."
Hansen wants all to know that Green Tree's address, which is 6 E. Willow Grove Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118, is indeed a valid address. If any donors get their checks returned, she hopes they will be re-sent, and, if any checks are not cashed, she asks if donors will call the foundation to see if they have been received.
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This month the seven colleges of DCCCD will celebrate their students' accomplishments as commencement ceremonies mark the end of one phase in their lives and many new beginnings.
For accounting student Fawn Walker, graduation signifies the completion of a 30-year journey toward earning a college degree.
Mountain View College student Fawn Walker took a long, circuitous route to earning her college degree. She started college in 1983 with dreams of completing a degree in accounting. But life shifted her priorities: There was marriage, parenthood, a mortgage and horses to breed.
"I went to college and took a 30-year break," Fawn said. "With a young toddler at home, I felt burned out. I was doing a lot." So she quit Mountain View and broke from the tradition set by her parents — completing college. "Everybody in my family has a degree except me," said the Red Oak resident. "I got pregnant, got married and that was that."
Fawn took a job as a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service and settled into her life.
"When I got this job, I thought I didn't have to go to school anymore. I had more money," she explained. "Then I kept getting promoted at the post office, and everybody had a degree. I started to regret not having mine."
In 2013, with a solid work record and her finances in shape, Fawn found breathing room and re-enrolled in school. Now, at age 50, Fawn Walker is on track to receive her associate degree in accounting this May from Mountain View — exactly where she started her college career. She is not the typical DCCCD student, whose average age is 27. But she has found acceptance among peers whose ages often are less than half of hers. They marvel at her story.
Getting back in school was a challenge Fawn found both daunting and encouraging. She relished her new studies but found a lot had changed in college since the 1980s. Everyone had a computer, and she had to take classes, either online or in the classroom, around her work schedule. Re-taking some courses was particularly difficult.
"I had to take remedial algebra. I forgot that entirely," said Fawn, who is a staffing analyst in the post office. But with hard work and determination, she was invited to become a member of Phi Theta Kappa, the internationally recognized honor society at two-year colleges for students who master their courses with top grades. It is PTK's tassel that will hang from her mortarboard when she walks across the stage.
"I am so excited about this and yes, I am going. I want my family to see this," she said.
Dr. Robert Garza, president of Mountain View College, praised Fawn.
"We would like to congratulate Fawn on her tremendous accomplishment," Garza said. "Although she may have taken some time to complete her degree, Fawn never gave up. Her commitment and determination to finish what she started is something that we can all learn from."
And Fawn Walker is not finished with her education. She hopes to transfer to the University of North Texas or Dallas Baptist University. Until then, she is busy with work, family and breeding Arabian horses. "I will go on to slowly earn my bachelor's (degree)," she said.
At commencement, Fawn plans to celebrate her success and uphold the dignity of a college graduate. Instead of tossing her cap, she will grip it with both hands. The graduating senior said, "I am so excited. I've waited a long time for this."
Mountain View's 7 p.m. graduation ceremony will be held on Wednesday, May 11, at the Inspiring Body of Christ Church, located at 7701 S. Westmoreland Road in Dallas.
DCCCD's other six colleges are staging commencements as well. Ceremonies are listed below, in date order:
Eastfield College – Saturday, May 7, at the Curtis Culwell Center, 4999 Naaman Forest Blvd. in Garland at 4:30 p.m.
Note:This ceremony includes 68 students from Lakeview Centennial High School in the Garland Independent School District and the first graduating class from W.W. Samuell Early College High School in the Dallas Independent School District. Twenty-seven Samuell ECHS graduates will receive their associate degree from Eastfield College before they receive their high school diplomas.
Brookhaven College -- Thursday, May 12, at Alfred J. Loos Field House in Addison, 3815 Spring Valley Rd. at 7 p.m.
Cedar Valley College – Thursday, May 12, at the Inspiring Body of Christ Church, 7701 S. Westmoreland Ave. in Dallas at 7 p.m.
North Lake College – Thursday, May 12, at the Irving Convention Center, 500 West Las Colinas Blvd. in Irving at 7 p.m.
Richland College– Thursday, May 12, at the Curtis Culwell Center, 4999 Naaman Forest Blvd. in Garland at 7:30 p.m.
El Centro College — Sunday, May 15, at Fair Park Coliseum, 1438 Coliseum Dr. in Dallas at 3 p.m.


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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Earlier Friday, midfielder Robbie Rogers announced on his website that he was stepping away from the game of soccer, beginning a new chapter of his life after announcing that he is gay.
Last month, the Chicago Fire acquired the 25-year-old midfielder's MLS rights as part of the trade from Columbus which brought midfielder Dilly Duka to the Men in Red.
Since the trade, Fire head coach Frank Klopas said he had reached out to Rogers to discuss what his plans were but the two didn't connect.
Reached for comment Friday, Klopas said his opinion of the former U.S. international hadn't changed.
"Yesterday I thought he was a very good player and I still think that today. Should Robbie want to return to the game, we would still be open to him being part of the Fire."


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The Ubiquitization of SEO
It's taken over a decade, but I believe that we've finally arrived at the point where SEO and search have entered the stage of ubiquity. Perhaps we were at the long downhill slide a few years ago with the explosion of Search and SEO, with the explosion conferences. But, it's ever-present now. It's sauntering through the halls of every agency, it's dribbling off the lips of small business owners, and it's the little voice in every head of every executive at the boardroom table. It's in the common vernacular of how we talk about digital marketing: "what's SEO's part?". And, we've waited a long time for this recognition, the juncture where it's common place for businesses to ask how we optimize and leverage search. Ubiquitization. We might do well to be careful for what we wish for. And, of course, the caveat to that, is just because they know they need it, doesn't mean they "get it". But that's a separate post entirely. And, perhaps, a nice follow-up to this one?
Ubiquity has it's price. I think we realized this a couple of years ago as an industry, as a field, but it was better to say nothing. It was important to enjoy the renaissance, the birth of a long overdue movement treading water in the digital undercurrent as the long-toothed serfs of the digital world. What ubiquity brings in terms of positives for the industry is acutely contrasted by its negatives.
Same As It Ever Was
Recently, Rand Fishkin posted a Whiteboard Friday that discussed the SEO's job. Specifically, it's this quote: "The SEO's job, in my opinion, should have no boundaries other than what are the things that positively influence this cycle. What are the things that will help you achieve your goals?"
Inherently, I can't disagree with Rand's assertion: SEO's job is whatever is necessary to help the client and achieve the goal. It's what I've spent my career doing (and likely what you've spent yours doing too), learning technical website structure, learning UX, learning enough about design and its advances over the years to make websites accessible, learning social, learning content strategy, learning to architect search strategies, unlearning how to write to write for the web, etc. King of all, master of none. Because each affects the end goal of throughput of a website, whatever that particular throughput is.
Hasn't it always been this way? The fact is SEOs have always been responsible for a website's throughput. When throughput was visits, it was our SEO that was held accountable for the throughput metric. When the throughput was TOS (Time on Site), it was SEO that was responsible for this metric too. We all know too well that throughput is a multi-shaped, multi-shifting creature (depending on the site), but if the company uses SEO/Search, you can bet your ass SEO is invariably being bonded to that throughput's success or failure. When SEO claimed the lion-share of success, it bears the burden of failure.
As companies demanded more from throughput metrics, as the traditional ROI metrics began to filter down to the digital space, and the analytics became ever more capable of measuring traditional ROIs, the role/job of SEOs expanded. Traffic and SERP Position isn't enough to satisfy traditional ROI metrics concerned with sales/dollars. Traditional ROI metrics demanded that SEOs incorporate other skills, become more holistic in their approach to satisfy ROI, expand their narrow focus.
And, just to wrap up the point, once SEOs were seemingly responsible for a website's success or failure, it became less about the SEO (but that always remained our core strength) and traffic and rankings, but blending these techniques with other disciplines to create a throughput monster. The job expanded from necessity to become as valuable to the market as possible, to keep business moving through the door, and to earn as much as the market would bear. This is really no different than any other service industry job: create as much value as you can to create as much profit and growth as you can. However, the explosive expansion of the job role coupled with the explosive expansion of information available from professionals has led to a state of marketplace saturation. And, so here we are today: ubiquity.
Positive Change of Ubiquitization
There's Enough Pie To Go Around. For Now.
It's not all bad. Ubiquitization of SEO/Search has brought more people to the table than ever before. From giant Fortune 500 brands to neighborhood corner businesses, everyone is of the understanding that SEO is must have. It is an essential tool and channel in the marketing arsenal and practically writes itself into scopes of work (we'll get back to this point later). The days of working really hard to get businesses to see the value are all but gone; they're finding us now and convincing us why they are a good candidate for our services. Is that oversimplified? Ya. Granted, there are always small factions that lag behind and insist they will catch up when it's time. And, there's no denying the magic two-step of the Dog and Pony Show plays to an endless record.
The ubiquitization of SEO has led to more opportunities for more people and agencies. There are more slices of the pie to go around, offering entrepreneurial folks the ability to build something sustainable and scratch out a living thanks to the expanded job role of SEO. But, eeking out a living is as close to nirvana many will get to. In fact this post illustrates these points beautifully, and published today no less. We Can't Help Every SEO Prospect!, makes the point for me. For every seasoned professional that turns down a site for one these reasons, there's an opportunity for an other SEO to pick it up (yep, even the "ethics". Some SEOs are bendy that way 🙂 ).
As much as we'd like to think that SEO is still a highly specialized marketing field that deserves a handsome reward, our collective work on a number of different battlefields and boardrooms over the last decade to make it inclusive to marketing mix, has also caused its commoditization. Like any commodity, there will be concentrated pockets and coffee-drip waterfalls, and has truly become a price vs. brand service.
Negative Change of Ubiquitization
The Monolith of the Super-Group and Homogenization of SEO
Evenutally, the concentrated pockets will grow and trickle-down will become less. It's already started to happen; independent SEOs and those running small SEO/Search shops are packing in the tent for the seemingly greener pastures of agency-life (both digital and search). The information and voices have already started to become more concentrated and are coalescing, take Moz/Distilled, iAcquire, SEER, Blueglass, etc., as examples. And, concentrated pockets of influence tend to try and make things more homogeneous than they already are. They attempt to mainstream it and mainline it. Because, after all, when it's about price (which it is), only brands are worth paying the premium for. It's no real coincidence that Moz hooked up with Distilled 4 years ago to off-load the SEO/Search Clients, to focus on tools. And, it's no real coincidence that Search "super-groups" are commonplace, and why every traditional and digital agency is hounding (and getting) the best SEOs with chops.
The attempted (still in progress) hijacking of SEO to be "inbound marketing" is just the latest attempt to mainstream it and mainline it. Make SEO a faceless, unassuming thing. Just another channel in the tome of the marketing playbook that everyone can lay claim to. By the end of 2013, I strongly suspect and agree, as Tad Chef so eloquently put it in his piece on The Future of SEO in 2013 will ultimately have to be "[…]about giving SEO a new meaning." If not, you can either join an agency, go in-house, or become a marketer. That's where this train intends to stop. Where the companies pay top dollar for "inbound marketing", and the SEOs are working themselves into the grave taking the clients that "can't be helped".
The Prisoner's Dilemma of SEO
Commoditization through our new-found ubiquity is/will be making life hell for Independent/Small SEO shops and small businesses alike. Maybe you got lucky and hooked with a big firm and get fed a stream of business to contract out on. If that's the case, this might not apply to you. But, for the small business it's about price. Plain and simple.
Their margins are slim enough, that they're not going to want dump that into the prices being asked by Premium Search Brands, which means they're going to haggle and shakedown every independent and small firm to the cent. It'll be no different than any service or product that drops down from the "premium" tier; you're willing to pay less in the hopes that what you buy gets you to the point-in-time down the road when you can upgrade. Make no mistake that small businesses are just as needy, if not more so. They intend to get every penny worth and ever so gently (though sometimes not) bend that scope. Indeed, it's cynical, but it's straight economics and a ever-revolving Prisoner's Dilemma. The trick is learn how to cooperate to survive so every gets the best of the situation. Small shops and independent SEOs will have to cobble together several of these projects to make ends meet, struggling to keep it together until they either move up the Tier Structure or pack it in.
Going forward, I have to be honest and admit I don't know how this shakes out. The industry is, and for the most part always has been, in its own Prisoner's Dilemma. Experience and historical trends tell me that the Search and SEO industry shifted the gear to warp drive on this course. There's always the possibility that this trend will reverse itself.


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As mega-storm Sandy roared up the Atlantic, those of us living along the Gulf of Mexico were spared. However, many of us have friends or family who were not so fortunate.
Anne Hunter would normally have been at her apartment in the heart of Soho, but her parents had driven from Texas to New York City to visit her last week. At the last minute, she opted to hop in the car and ride back with them to Texas. As luck would have it, the family was making their way back to Texas as Sandy howled through Manhattan, so Anne missed the brunt of the blow.
�It has been very disconcerting to behold Sandy,� she said. �After enduring the hurricanes and oil spills along our Gulf, it's hard to accept that NYC is now subjected to the same devastating effects of a natural disaster, though I am finding that New Yorkers are resilient.�
Hunter said her roommates are reporting that their building will be without power for a few more days. Text and email correspondence with her friends in the city has been limited due to lack of power, but she shared a few snippets from the emails and texts that she has received:
"Bizarro � listening to roaring winds and police sirens."
"We are all together and meeting new people."
"A bit eerie, reminds me of 911."
"No power, no service, had to walk from Prince to 29th to Ace Hotel to get service."
"I feel like putting on lots of eye shadow and going out, this is so boring."
"Bummer, the Apple Store is closed."
"You are lucky not to be here, there is only the sound of wind and sirens."
"The trees are dancing, power shut-outs and rivers rising."
"Sandy is wild. Wicked howling winds, No subways or public transport.�
�We are cooking up a storm and sipping wine."
Hunter is a part-time resident of South Walton. She was scheduled to return home to New York Nov. 2 via a flight into Newark.
Another South Walton resident, Meg Nelson, has extended family living in the Manhattan area. She said they are reporting no power and trees down, but no flooding, for which they are thankful.


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There is an article this morning in the Chilliwack Progress newspaper about how the Chilliwack Museum and Historical Society were able to bring the medals awarded to members of the Coots family back home to British Columbia.
The medals were from the First World War, and acquired at an auction at Norfolk, England in late December.
The article says that "The collection consists of 12 medals awarded to Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Leslie Coote and his son Captain Ian Vernon Coote of Chilliwack for their military service. It also includes a written account from Lieutenant Russel "Ginger" Leslie Coote — Andrew Coote's second son — documenting his remarkable wartime experiences".
Read the article at www.theprogress.com/news/187313381.html
If you want to learn more about the medals given to Canadians who fought in the wars and conflicts that the country has been involved in, go to Medals, Honours and Awards at www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/medals/index-e.html


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1999: Falcons Stun Vikings in Overtime for NFC Championship
The 1998 Minnesota Vikings certainly appeared to be a championship team in the making as they rode a powerful offense to a 15-1 record that easily topped the NFC Central and set a mark with 556 points scored along the way (since topped by the 2007 Patriots). Head Coach Dennis Green's team had benefited from the revival of 36-year-old QB Randall Cunningham's career; after a year's retirement and a season as a backup, he took over for the injured Brad Johnson and proceeded to lead the NFL in passing, with 3704 yards and 34 touchdowns against just 10 interceptions. He had outstanding targets in veteran WR Cris Carter (78 catches, 1011 yards) and rookie sensation Randy Moss (69 receptions, 1313 yards, and a rookie-record 17 TD catches) at the other wide receiver spot. RB Robert Smith accounted for 1187 rushing yards as well.
The Vikings easily disposed of the upstart Arizona Cardinals in the Divisional round and hosted the Atlanta Falcons at the Metrodome on January 17, 1999 for the NFC Championship.
The Falcons had won the NFC West with a 14-2 tally under Head Coach Dan Reeves. They didn't dazzle in the ways that Minnesota did, with a run-oriented offense keyed by RB Jamal Anderson (1846 yards). Veteran QB Chris Chandler had a steady season in which he achieved career highs in passing yards (3154) and touchdown passes (25) as well as a 100.9 passer rating. Wide receivers Terance Mathis and Tony Martin both had over 60 catches and 1100 yards. The defense was unspectacular but opportunistic, leading the league in takeaways (44). Atlanta defeated the 49ers in the Divisional round to move to the NFC Championship game, where they were an 11-point underdog.
The Falcons scored on their first possession, marching 76 yards in 15 plays and getting a touchdown on a five-yard pass from Chandler to Anderson. Minnesota came right back with a 31-yard TD pass from Cunningham to Moss, evening the score at 7-7 after one quarter. The Vikings appeared to take control of the game in the second quarter, taking advantage of fumbles by Atlanta RB Harold Green and TE O.J. Santiago as they added two field goals by Gary Anderson and a one-yard touchdown run by Cunningham for a 20-7 lead.
Momentum shifted back to the Falcons late in the second quarter, however, when Cunningham fumbled the ball away. Chandler threw a 14-yard touchdown pass to Mathis on the first play after the turnover and the deficit was cut to 20-14 at the half.
Atlanta pulled closer in the third quarter thanks to a 27-yard Morten Andersen field goal. But the Vikings got on the board again early in the fourth quarter after a 15-play, 82 yard drive that ended with a 5-yard TD pass from Cunningham to WR Matthew Hatchette.
The Falcons came back quickly thanks to Chandler's 70-yard pass to Martin that set up a 24-yard Andersen field goal. The Minnesota offense stalled in its next two possessions, but when they went 55 yards to set up a potentially game-clinching field goal with just over two minutes left in the fourth quarter, it appeared that they were on the way to the Super Bowl. However, Gary Anderson, who had not missed any of his 35 field goal attempts during the season or his four thus far in the postseason, was wide to the left on the 38-yard attempt.
Atlanta's offense had shown great poise throughout the game, particularly in the loud Metrodome venue, and with the Vikings fans in full roar, proceeded to drive 71 yards in eight plays that culminated in Chandler's 27-yard pass to Mathis that tied the score at 27-27 and sent the contest into overtime (pictured at top).
Minnesota received the kickoff in "sudden death", but in two possessions was unable to effectively move the ball. Mitch Berger punted 52 yards to the Atlanta nine yard line after the second possession. Chandler, now limping from an ankle injury, provided more heroics as he hit Santiago on passes of 15 and 26 yards to move the Falcons to the Minnesota 48. The offense drove the ball in deliberate fashion down to the Vikings 21, and Morten Andersen kicked a 38-yard field goal (pictured at bottom) to give Atlanta a 30-27 win and the conference title.
The Falcons offense accounted for 427 yards to Minnesota's 356 in the stunning victory. Chris Chandler (pictured at left) had an outstanding performance as he completed 27 of 43 passes for 340 yards and three touchdowns with no interceptions. Tony Martin gained 129 yards on 5 pass receptions, while Terance Mathis caught 6 passes for 73 yards and two scores and Jamal Anderson, who also led the running attack with 67 yards on 23 carries, also caught 6 passes, for 33 yards and a TD.
Randall Cunningham (pictured above right) completed 29 of his 48 passes for 266 yards and two TDs, also having none picked off. Randy Moss and Cris Carter both caught 6 passes, with Moss gaining 75 yards and scoring once, and Carter accumulating 67 yards. Robert Smith rushed 21 times for 71 yards against the tough Falcon defense.
Afterward, many of the comments pertained to the shocking missed field goal attempt by Gary Anderson. "There's no such thing as a guarantee in football in any way, shape or form," said Coach Dennis Green. "We had such tremendous expectations. That makes it ten times more disappointing," added Anderson, who had not only had an outstanding season prior to the miss but was one of the great placekickers in NFL history over the course of his long career (the same could be said of Atlanta's Morten Andersen).
Jubilant Atlanta LB Jessie Tuggle, leader of the defensive unit that performed so well, exclaimed, "We shocked the world! No one thought we would be where we are right now, playing in the NFC Championship. But not only did we come here to play in it, we came here to win it."
The jubilation failed to extend into the Super Bowl against the Denver Broncos – the Falcons lost convincingly, 34-19. They dropped to 5-11 in 1999 and didn't return to the playoffs until the 2002 season.
The stunning loss in the '98 NFC Championship game cast a pall over what had arguably been the Minnesota franchise's greatest season. The Vikings were back in '99, but the team wasn't as dominating and made it into the postseason as a wild card, losing in the Divisional round.
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As six gloved hands pull six mixture controls to idle cutoff, the rumble of six idling Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp engines gives way to a metallic tink, tink, tink as the Hamilton Standard constant-speed propellers spin to a stop. Seven pilots (two in the lead airplane) simultaneously open their canopies, take off their helmets, dismount, and position the propellers so their blades are horizontal. To the distant sound of applause, Number Six's pilot marches down the flight line, joined in turn by his wingmen, until they reach the Number One ship. There the pilots shake hands and hold a quick, informal debrief of the performance. "That was the best rejoin ever," one pilot said.
"Thanks, I thought so, too," another replied. The formal debrief is later.
But the pause is brief. Promotional materials appear, and the pilots stride to the crowd line where their fans await. "Could I please have your autograph?" shouts a girl of about 5 in a pink dress. "Thank you." "That was a great show." Then they're shuttled to a Geico tent to sign autographs.
Fog that was slow to burn off forced the Geico Skytypers to scrub a planned skytyping mission before their 20-minute airshow routine. Even so, each squadron member worked at least 12 hours on the hot, humid August day.
The squadron dates to the birth of skytyping (see "Typing in the Sky," below). Lead pilot Larry Arken acquired the East Coast skytyping business from his father, Mort, in 1992, although the senior Arken remained involved in the operation until he died in 2007, at age 83. The younger Arken added more emphasis to the squadron's airshow. "I seem to like that better," he said. "We took the performance that used to be just a series of flybys and passes into something a lot more dynamic," with opposing solos and other maneuvers.
"We do acrobatics but we don't do high G loading. Anything we do has to be positive Gs." While the SNJs are capable of negative Gs, Arken said the team avoids them because of the smoke oil they carry and its weight—airplanes three and five have oversized, 70-gallon smoke oil tanks in place of their rear seats. Because they're on the outside of the skytyping formation, they burn more oil than the aircraft in the center. The other SNJs hold 43 or 44 gallons of smoke oil in tanks beneath the rear seats.
A day on the airshow circuit is not all glamor and excitement. Before 7 a.m. most of the team is having breakfast at their hotel in foggy Springfield, Massachusetts. They're already discussing whether the fog will lift in time for them to skytype as scheduled. The team's mechanics sit down and volunteer that the airplanes are ready to go.
Departure for the Great New England Air Show, at Westover Air Reserve Base in nearby Chicopee, is 7:30. The pilots discover an arrival route that avoids most of the heavy airshow traffic. The squadron's mechanics, snarled in traffic, arrive after being redirected by cellphone.
The show briefing begins at 8:35 in "the hauler," a tractor-trailer the mechanics drive to the venue. It carries equipment, spare parts, golf carts, and an air-conditioned meeting room usually used for briefings. Pilots review every aspect of the show.
Tom Daly leads the safety and operations segment of the briefing. "The golf course is going to be the best friend for us," because it provides the best visual reference to the show center line. "We're using the inside of the runway as our termination line as separation from the crowd." The line they cannot cross is closer to the crowd but is not as easy to identify, he explains.
The pilots take turns reviewing maneuvers. "Go vertical diamond now," Arken says. "Smoke on now [click]. Right turn, 700, smoke off now [click]." All around the table, pilots' right hands click ballpoint pens—imaginary smoke switches—in unison.
Outside, the fog is slow to lift—base meteorologists and flight service both have called it wrong. This throws the entire schedule in flux, and the pilots seem antsy. Finally, the word comes down: No skytyping today. Planeside at 1:10 p.m. for coordinated mount-up, engine start, and taxi for a 1:30 liftoff and 1:45 showtime.
There's a lot of history in this team. Ken Johansen, flying right wing, is the son of Bob Johansen in the slot position. Tom Daly, opposing solo, and Jim Record—a pilot assigned this weekend as the ground observer—were in the first class to graduate from Dowling College's then-new aviation program. Daly, a retired New York City police officer and helicopter pilot, is now dean of that program; Record, a retired TWA captain, is one of his instructors.
New pilots join the team only by word of mouth. Arken and Bob Johansen have the longest tenures; most current pilots have been with the team at least 15 years. The newest have four or five years. Arken says the lowest-time member has 8,000 to 10,000 hours of flight time, an ATP certificate, and military as well as commercial airline experience.
"The flavor of the team has always been military," he said. "My father was a 26-year military man. As a result, the majority of our pilots are military pilots, and most of them were fighter pilots." Pilots with civilian backgrounds are welcome, but they have to conform to that culture. "On the team, 90 percent of us are presently flying or have flown for a major air carrier," he added.
At 2:35 the pilots arrive at sponsor Geico's tent, where the line already is more than 100 people deep. Fans get personalized autographs, and several families ask to take photos—younger kids are hoisted onto pilots' laps.
At 3 p.m. it's still hot and humid, and cumulus buildups appear northwest of the field. The mechanics service and secure the aircraft as the pilots return to the hauler for the debrief, which takes nearly two hours. They begin by watching Record's video of the performance, taken from show center, and critique themselves frankly, sharing any places they feel performance was not what it should be.
Eventually they return to the hotel for quick showers before departing for a performers' event put on by the airshow organizers.
Their day won't end until after 9 p.m., and there's another show tomorrow. Sunday's weather already is on Arken's mind; he's concerned not only about weather for the show, but at Republic Airport on Long Island, where he hopes six SNJs, eight pilots, three mechanics, and a tractor-trailer will be by the end of the day.
The squadron uses six SNJs for the show; only five are needed for skytyping. "I love them," Arken said. "They're expensive to run, but they perform a mission that nothing else can do. They're great formation platforms and they have the charisma of a military aircraft."
They also can hold enough fuel and smoke oil to conduct the squadron's current missions. As a result, the Geico Skytypers' fleet won't change anytime soon. In March the team will meet in Florida to practice for the 2013 season, which begins with the MacDill AirFest in Tampa April 6 and 7, followed by the squadron's first-ever Sun 'n Fun appearance April 12 to 14. The full schedule will be posted online.
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Airborne messaging was the origin of today's Geico Skytypers. Team owner Larry Arken's father was a military pilot and marketing person who recognized the commercial potential of skytyping, which had been invented in 1946 by Andy Stinis—one of the original Pepsi Skywriters. Stinis used seven North American SNJ advanced training aircraft, flying in a line-abreast formation, to "type" dots and dashes creating letters in the sky—imagine a very large, airborne dot-matrix printer. In 1964 Stinis received a U.S. patent for computer-controlled skytyping between aircraft.
Greg Stinis, son of skytyping's inventor, moved a fleet of SNJ–2s to California in the mid-1960s and launched a West Coast division, hiring Mort Arken to run the East Coast operation. "My father saw that there was a tremendous opportunity to market this for other corporations to use," Arken explained, and subsequently bought the East Coast business. (Greg Stinis' son Stephen manages the West Coast operation today, which now flies Grumman AA-5B Tigers.)
When Arken's father got involved, messages were encoded on paper tape—similar to ticker tape—and a reader on the lead airplane decoded the characters, transmitting commands to the smoke systems on each airplane in the formation. Smoke oil is sprayed onto the hot engine exhaust stack, and the positions and lengths of the resulting puffs of smoke spell letters that can be read from as far as 15 miles away.
"We've moved to the datalink, and have gotten very sophisticated," Arken explained. Messages can be entered in flight through a mini-laptop with a touch screen. The Skytypers discovered that a message typed by five aircraft, instead of seven, was just as readable from the ground.
Flying line abreast, the five aircraft can type twelve 25-character messages an hour. The SNJs are 250 feet apart, so each character is 1,000 feet high. A message is about five miles long, and if winds are calm, it remains readable for three to seven minutes. Most skytyping flights are about three hours from engine start to shutdown.
"Typically skytyping is a much more relaxed operation than an airshow," Arken said; the weather is good, and the air is cool at 9,500 feet. "It is harder for us to fly that formation, which is why after three hours I see the guys getting a little bit fatigued."
The airplanes type a variety of messages—advertisements, corporate messages, birthday greetings. "We did a lot of wedding proposals last year," Arken remarked. In the Long Island, New York, area, where the East Coast team is based, prices start at about $1,800 per message, although the team can travel anywhere. "We were over Chicago last year, at the Ryder Cup. We do a lot in Florida when we're down there," he said. The West Coast skytyping squadron is based in Chino, California, and Las Vegas. —MPC


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Here's what's new at www.the-cartoonist.com for September:
1) Cartoon Gospel and OT Cartoons for the month
2) KNOTS Scouting Cartoon - watch the jellyfish!
3) Out to Lunch Cartoons - Added a series of silly wordplay on snakes (asps) and a Scuba cartoon. More to come in September!
Other things in September:
- The online version of the Cartoon Old Testament is now all there. Don't forget the ebook and kindle options.
- The Mobile Gospel, the iphone app from ROK Comics, is a nice portable way to have the Gospel handy on the road (based mostly on Luke).
- I'll be showing up at the Mid-Ohio Comic Con (my first comic con, wonder just how weird it will be) in October and doing a Trade Show in November ... hustling my books and cartoons of course
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Difficult Task for Drivers to Steer Clear of Deer in November
COLUMBIA - Odds are a record number of people will hit a deer this November.
According to car insurance companies in Columbia, November accounts for 18 percent of all deer-car collisions and the chance of hitting one is going up.
"In Missouri, the chances of you hitting a deer with a car or vehicle within the next twelve months is one and 116," State Farm spokesperson Jim Camoriano said.
The rate makes Missouri a high-risk state for deer-car collisions because it is now in the top third for risk among states. Last year, Missouri was a medium-risk state with every one in 135 drivers hitting a deer, the 18th highest total in the nation.
While hunting season and a growing population contribute to the spike in November collisions, the main culprit is romance.
"A buck's home range...is going to enlarge during the breeding season," Missouri Department of Conversation deer biologist Emily Flinn said. "(A buck) wants the area that he lives in include more does so that he has a greater chance of encountering those does to breed them."
During breeding season, bucks travel greater distances to find mates, which increases their chances of crossing a road or highway and being struck by a vehicle. According to Camoriano, people are three times more likely to hit a deer in November than almost any other month.
"They're acting crazy," MoDOT Senior Maintenance Worker Brad Peffermann said. "They're crossing the roads trying to find each other. They're more willing to come out into the open than they would be at a different time of the year."
Peffermann added that number of deer he cleans up goes up five-fold this time of year.
The price tag for hitting a deer isn't cheap. The average property damage per claim is $3,300 according to State Farm Agent Stephanie Wilmsmeyer. The key to avoiding costly claims is to drive slower around dawn and dusk, use high beams when necessary and stay in your lane instead of swerving if a collision is possible.
Although cleaning up deer isn't Peffermann's favorite thing to do, he's glad more collisions don't happen in the summer.
"This is the best time to do it because they're frozen," Pefferman laughed. "They're not all hot and nasty."
If there are deer that need to be cleaned up, call MoDOT at 1-888 ASK MODOT or send a message online.


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Well, this bench having been outside in CO, for I don't know how long was so dry rotted that I can't believe I saved it, thou plenty of times I was contemplating fire pit..
I used one whole bottle of Gorilla Glue to fix and fill all the cracks. Sanded, stained with a gorgeous cherry stain and polyurethane the bench back to beauty.
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About a week and a half ago my wife decided to finally start playing around with her Mist of Pandaria expansion, which naturally got my attention and made me want to give it a shot as well. One play session led to another, and here I am writing leveling guides again.
So hello once again, my wonderful readers. I hope you're ready for some light reading.
As always, I post guides based on the characters that I am playing at the time, so that I can give advice based on actual experience within the level ranges that I'm describing. I don't write guides for a class that I already have at max level and just assume that how it works at end game is the same early on because I know that is not always the case. So, you'll see in this first MoP leveling guide that I'm writing about Resto Druid leveling because that's what I've done with my own since level 10. I will write about the other Druid specs when and if I decide to level one.
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Steve Mason | 20/02/13
Steve Mason has announced details of two U.K. shows in April. These follow the release of his forthcoming album Monkey Minds In The Devil's Time, which is out on March 18th through Double Six.
The list of dates is as follows:
10th Manchester Gorilla
11th London Village Underground
Tickets for the shows are on sale now priced at £12.50 in Manchester and £17 in London via www.seetickets.com (Manchester) and www.ticketweb.co.uk (London)
Steve Mason has also recently premiered the video for his new single, Oh My Lord. Released digitally on the same day as the album, and featuring the B-side Pills At The Scene Club, it was recorded during the album sessions with producer Dan Carey in his south London studio.
The video was directed by Institute For Eyes (Luke Seomore & Joseph Bull) who have previously worked on films and videos for the likes of Wild Beasts, Moby, Delilah and just completed a short film for Channel 4, The First Dead Lies.
Working with director of photography David Proctor (These New Puritans, Esben and the Witch, Wild Beasts) and aesthetically inspired by Japanese 1960s avant-garde cinema, the video, shot on the outskirts of east London, is an exploration of a mysterious character haunted by the perpetual noise of modern society. As the narrative progresses the video moves further into the internal world of the central character played by Barry Ward.


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"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (1 John 1:9 NKJV)
Reformed worship is marked by its great use of the Word of God. Even the prayers in Reformed worship are formed by the Scriptures as the Word of God. That includes the prayer of confession, which usually follows a reading of Scripture.
The biblical understanding of confession is "to say the same thing as ..." When we confess our faith, we "say the same thing" as God tells us in his Word regarding himself, the way of salvation, and what a true Christian is to be. When we confess our sins, we "say the same thing" as God regarding what sin is, how serious it is, and how much we desire to be delivered from it and its effects. In order to do that, we use the Scriptures as our guide.
In preparing to lead the congregation in corporate prayer of confession of sin, the minister does several things:
How wonderful this portion of worship is! God himself tells us (and in a responsive reading we remind one another) how far short of his glory we fall. In heartfelt prayer before that God, we make a humble confession of our many failings as we are led by the one called to minister on our behalf. And we do all this before "the throne of grace," encouraged by many, many promises of divine forgiveness. Is there any other way to approach the absolutely holy God?
The author is pastor of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Franklin Square, New York. Reprinted from New Horizons, March 2007. First article in series. Index.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. - Ready or not, Roy Halladay's next start will count.
Halladay allowed two runs over 4 1-3 innings in his first big league spring training appearance in 11 days, prepping for the regular season in the Philadelphia Phillies' 7-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday.
The two-time Cy Young Award winner had not pitched in a major league game since March 17, when he came out of a start against Baltimore after one inning due to a stomach virus. He pitched in a minor league exhibition last Saturday.
"Physically this is as good as I've felt coming out of spring training in probably five years as far as total body," Halladay said. "Stuff-wise, I think location and movement, I'm just a click behind where I want to be."
Against the Blue Jays, he gave up eight hits, struck out six and walked two. Edwin Encarnacion and Adam Lind hit consecutive RBI singles in the third.
While Halladay got batters to swing and miss, his command was off. At one point, he threw 11 balls in 12 pitches during a stretch of the second inning.
"I thought there were a lot of goods," Phillies pitching coach Rich Dubee said. "A real lot of goods. I thought he held his legs fantastically, I think he's strong again. For me, today was a big upgrade."
Halladay is set to make his first start of the season Wednesday at Atlanta in the Phillies' second game.
Brandon Morrow, Toronto's No. 2 starter behind R.A. Dickey, gave up three runs — two earned — and six hits in seven innings. He pitched shutout ball until Chase Utley's sixth-inning home run, his fifth homer of spring training.
Coming in, Morrow had allowed 15 runs in 15 innings over five starts.
Laynce Nix hit a three-run homer in the eighth off Sergio Santos, who gave up four runs and three hits in one inning.