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Show must go on
"The government built the theatre, now we have to put on the show," said the LOCOG representative.
The basketball courts on the right, athlete's accommodation on the left.
The tower, by Anish Kapoor, and the main stadium.
The stadium.
Anish Kapoor's Tower.
The Velodrome.
The Velodrome from a distance.
Zaha Hadid's Olympic swimming pool, claimed to be spectacular inside.
The 50m Hadid swimming pool from the side... "One of the most complicated engineering feats ever undertaken." At least according to our tour guide...
The Hadid pool from the side.
The viewing observatory at the top of Kapoor's tower.
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Acer, asked just what kit they would be supplying for the Olympics, originally supplied us with a spec sheet (pdf) stating that the desktop machines would be running Vista, XP, or Linpus Linux (so, mostly Vista). Since we published this article they have been in touch to say that this was a mistake on their part.
Acer would like to assure the world that the London Olympics will not be running on Vista but mostly on Windows 7.


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The limited-government Club for Growth gave its take on Gov. Rick Perry's "record on economic freedom" in a new white paper.
The group said Perry's tax policy record "reveals several pro-growth elements," citing his work to pass tax cuts as lieutenant governor under then-Gov. George W. Bush and a 2006 tax cut.
It also saw these "rather large blemishes":
–Voting for a $5.7 billion state tax increase in 1987, while a Democratic House member.
–Signing a 2003 budget that stood against taxes in the face of a revenue shortfall but included "at least $2.68 billion" in "revenue adjustments, surcharges and fees."
–The 2006 tax overhaul that cut school property tax rates in response to a court order for change and attempted to make up the difference with increases in other taxes, most notably a revamped business tax.
That tax has since underperformed, putting substantial pressure on the state budget, but the Club for Growth's problem with it is that it sees the levy as "anti-growth.
This was the same tax package that earned the group's praise since it was an overall tax cut, leading it to say that "Perry's third blemish could also be paradoxically one of his crowing pro-growth achievements."
The group said, "Despite these blemishes, Perry has a long positive track record on pro-growth tax policy … Overall, Perry has maintained Texas's already superb tax climate relative to other states."
Among other items, the Club for Growth also took issue with Perry's penchant for using "government spending to attract jobs to Texas" through such means as the Texas Enterprise Fund.
"These gimmicky subsidies are a form of corporate welfare, and they're similar in effect to the tax credits decried by Perry in his 2010 book," the group said.
On the plus side, in the group's view, was tort reform: "Pro-growth conservatives looking for a champion on the issue of tort reform will be hard pressed to find a candidate with a better record than Governor Perry."

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Someone alerted me to this photo they saw of me in the gossip column of ArtForum (better known as "Scene and Herd") and I thought I would use it to illustrate the magic of cropping:
There I am standing in front of that photograph at the opening of Walead Beshty's show at Wallspace just on the other side of that wall that cuts into the left of the picture…
Psych, actually I'm standing behind that other more important looking guy (happens to be the Director of White Columns) at the edge of the photograph.
I found this mildly entertaining in the context of conceptual photography, a popular brand in which Beshty always has one foot. This show where I happened to be "scene" follows two veins of Beshty's work, although I imagine they are meant to be taken together as a record of the process. The first is the prominently featured abstract photograms. These large sheets of color photo paper are somehow folded or rolled in the exposure process. This is only gleaned from looking at them, so I'm not sure what the process is actually, but it seems sufficient to take away that these colors and shapes are not chosen but rather arbitrarily arrived at through a photographic process. In the other works — black and white portraits of the people, places, and machines that have helped Besthy along the way to producing his work — he likewise lets his process do all the decision making. Notice here the photogram that actually hangs off of the center wall.
This placement was arrived at again by some system of finding the center of walls… I don't think the point is actually to understand the system in place, but rather to see that there is a system, and recognize it as arbitrarily imposed… After all I think that is the underlying critique even found in this rhyming press release:
Whatever Marxist schadenfreude might be gleaned from black-and-white
Effectively reclaims the found object as a multivalent political site
Of the show's relaxed attitude toward lines of demarcation
which, sexy as it sounded, felt like little more than rhetorical lubrication
Among the most special is Walead Beshty's photo-slide meditation
Here flashy surface need not come at the cost of art historical, conceptual, and
socio-political elaboration
After my brush with the art world paparazzi I've decided to lay low, but I will be venturing out tonight to see two openings that look promising. First, "It's You. Not me" at Andrew Kreps in Chelsea. Second, and honestly more exciting, is the first solo show in four years for the painter Richard Phillips at Gagosian uptown. I'll leave you with some enticing words from Phillips himself and follow up later with my conclusions on the show:
"At its core, this show is the conflict between capitalism, fascism, and communism. It looks into the nature of representation, propaganda, and misinformation, and how they redirect the ideologies of institutions."
Tim Ridlen
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Joseph and Eva were my mother's paternal grandparents, my great-grandparents. They were both born in Prussia in the mid-1800s–Joseph in February, 1855 and Eva in December, 1857.
Joseph's parents were Joseph Plenzler and Mary Lesiecka.
I have found reference to Eva's father as John Dauer on Eva's death certificate. However, research into baptismal records for some of Eva's and Joseph's children have indicated her father was named Andreas. I am investigating this and have found a marriage abstract for Andreas/Andrzej Dauer and Marianna Aumiller in the Catholic parish in Głuszyna dated 1856. Eva and Joseph were also married in the Catholic parish in Głuszyna.
Per the 1900 census, Joseph arrived in 1883, Eva arrived in 1884. Joseph departed their residence in Wioreck, Preußen (Germany) on April 13, 1883 via the ship Gainsborough from Hamburg, arriving in Liverpool and then in the US. (Record 4 in the manifest.)
Eva arrived on the ship, Moravia, in the port of New York on May 6, 1884. She departed from Hamburg with her two eldest sons: Marczin (Martin) and Josef (Joseph). Martin was 3 at the time of arrival, his younger brother was just 6 months. (Lines 11, 12, and 13 in the manifest.)
By the time of the 1900 census, Joe Sr. was a naturalized citizen and a home plasterer. Eva and Joseph resided at 1541 Avondale Avenue, near Detroit Street. By this time, they had 10 children, nine of whom survived:
- Martin, born in Germany in 1880
- Joe (Jr.), born in Germany in 1884
- John, born in Ohio in 1885 (John was my grandfather)
- Vincent, born in Ohio in 1886
- Kaiser (Casper or Charles), born in Ohio in 1889
- Boleslaw (Robert), born in Ohio in 1891
- Mary, born in Ohio in 1892
- Frank, born in Ohio in 1896
- Sophia, born in Ohio in 1897
- Leo, born in Ohio in 1899
Vincent died in infancy.
Below is a transcription of Vincent's baptismal record:
Nomen: Vincenti
Parentes: Joseph Plencner, Ewa Dauer
Parentini: Michael Brzoska, Victoria Mosiniak
Natio: 3 Julii
Bapt: 18 Julii
Nomen Sacerdotes: Rev. M.F. Orczechowski
Below is a transcription of Vincent's death record through St. Stanislaus:
Nomen Defuncti: Vincentius Plencner
Obut: 4 Januari
Seput: 6 Januari
Netas: Six Montuim
Nomen Sac.: Rev. M. F. Orzechowski
I have no burial record.
Pretty amazing that Eva and Joe had nine children survive out of 10, given that cholera, "consumption" (tuberculosis), typhoid, and pneumonia were often fatal to children in the late 1800s and were fairly common in Toledo at that time.
Per the 1910 census, the family was still living on Avondale Avenue. Shortly after the 1910 census, Joseph passed away on May 4, 1910 of pneumonia at the age of 55 and was buried May 7, 1910 in Calvary Cemetery. Here is a transcription of his burial record:
Record #12068
Name of deceased: Joseph Plenzler
Late residence: 1541 Avondale
Age: 55 years, 2 mos., 9 days
Color: W
Sex: M
Disease: Lobar Pneumonia
Date of Decease: May 4
Date of Interment: May 7
Married, Single, or Widowed: M
Place of death: Toledo
No. of Grave: 26
No. of Lot: 112 to 115
No. of Section: 8
Name of Physician: A. Krieger
Name of Undertaker: W. J. Gasiorowski
Eva passed away four years later, on October 20, 1914 at the age of 56. She was interred through St. Stanislaus parish and buried at Calvary Cemetery. The interment record from St. Stanislaus is transcribed below:
Date of death: Oct. 20
Date of burial: Oct. 24
Name of person interred: Eva Plenzler
Place of birth: Poland
Age: 56 years
Priest: J.L. Kuta
Cemetery: Calvary
Here is a transcription of the burial record:
Record #15797
Name of deceased: Eva Plenzler
Late residence: 1541 Avondale
Age: 56
Color: W
Sex: F
Disease: Abcess
Date of Decease: Oct. 20
Date of Interment: Oct. 24
Married, Single, or Widowed: W
Place of death: Toledo
No. of Grave: 25
No. of Lot: 112/ 115
No. of Section: 8
Name of Physician: C. Storz
Name of Undertaker: W. J. Gasiorowski


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Could it be possible to install XNSW on machines connected to remote (distributed around a venue/building) displays which could be set as slaves.
Having one machine on the network set as the master.
Whatever setting I make on the master are reflected on the slave displays. Whether it's countdown or stopwatch, or even just TOD.
This is inspired by an event that I'm working on right now.
I was going to use an application that sends out keystrokes over the network, but I need to be able to change what XNSW is doing throughout the day, so doing this on all machines is becoming a pain.
Thank you.


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Eat well to live well
Liz Applegate
Title: Senior Lecturer, Department of Nutrition; Director of Sports Nutrition, Intercollegiate Athletics
Highest degree: Doctorate in nutrition
Hometown: Los Altos, Calif.
Why is UC Davis the "one" for you? "I have been here since my undergraduate days in the mid '70s and haven't left yet. Says it all!"
What is the best experience you have had here that you could share with us – something that happened to you uniquely because of your ties to UC Davis? "My major professor in nutrition grad school here at UC Davis, Judith Stern recommended me to Rodale Press publishers of Runner's World magazine to write their magazine's nutrition column. After 28 years as columnist, this had made for a powerful impact on my career in sports nutrition."
What do you hope to be your legacy here at UC Davis – what marks have you made or changes that you hope will continue? "During my tenure (almost 30 years) teaching Nutrition 10, I hope that the 50,000-plus students and those they share Nutrition 10 knowledge with will take to heart that each of us has one body to care for — our own — and if you take good care by eating well and being active, our bodies will serve us well."
Tell us about one person at UC Davis who has enhanced your life or your work. "Steve Oerding, artist extraordinaire from MediaWorks on campus, has enabled me through his wonderful drawings and animations to explain challenging concepts and topics in Nutrition 10 that have impacted so many students for a lifetime. We've been working together for almost 20 years."


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.- A bill to encourage freedom and respect for human rights, including religious liberty, in communist-run Vietnam was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on Sept. 11.
"It is imperative that the United States Government send an unequivocal message to the Vietnamese regime that it must end its human rights abuses against its own citizens," said Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), who authored the bill.
Smith, who chairs a House subcommittee on human rights, explained that the bill would place limitations on U.S. aid to Vietnam until the government improves its human rights record, while at the same time allowing humanitarian assistance to continue as needed.
In a discussion on the House floor, Smith pointed to a hearing held earlier this year, at which witnesses testified about the nation's continuing and sometimes increasing persecution of religious and political dissenters, as well as the Vietnamese government's failure to investigate and persecute human trafficking violations.
The Vietnam Human Rights Act of 2012 states that Vietnam's "transition toward greater economic freedom and trade has not been matched by greater political freedom and substantial improvements in basic human rights for Vietnamese citizens."
It also observes that the U.S. had agreed to Vietnam's acceptance into the World Trade Organization in 2006 "amidst assurances that the Government of Vietnam was steadily improving its human rights record and would continue to do so."
However, six years later, actions taken by the Communist Party of Vietnam continue to raise serious concerns about respect for human rights within the country, it says.
The legislation lists examples of the arbitrary arrests and imprisonments of numerous individuals - including Father Nguyen Van Ly – who has peacefully advocated religious freedom and human rights in the country.
It also notes "a pattern of violent responses by the Government to peaceful prayer vigils and demonstrations by Catholics" whose property had been confiscated by the state.
"Protesters have been harassed, beaten, and detained and church properties have been destroyed," the bill says.
"Catholics also continue to face some restrictions on selection of clergy, the establishment of seminaries and seminary candidates, and individual cases of travel and church registration," it adds.
In one 2010 case, more than 100 villagers in a Catholic parish in Da Nang were injured and at least three were killed in the violence that erupted as police tried to prevent a religious burial in the village cemetery.
The legislation also draws attention to the persecution of other religious minorities in the country, as well as attempts to intimidate and silence political dissenters and continuing problems with human trafficking.
The bill, which drew bipartisan support, prohibits an increase in non-humanitarian assistance to the Vietnamese government unless it makes "substantial progress" towards securing human rights within the country.
These improvements would require a repeal of laws that prohibit peaceful demonstrations and "unsanctioned religious activity," as well as the release of religious and political prisoners.
In addition, the legislation would demand significant government improvement in the area of respecting fundamental rights, including the freedom of religious expression.
It would also require the Vietnamese government to respect the human rights of ethnic minorities and improve its work to fight human trafficking.
While blocking an increase in U.S. funds, the bill would allow for increased humanitarian aid for food, water and medicine if deemed necessary.
Smith praised the passage of the bill, which he described as an important step in implementing "effective measures towards improving human rights in Vietnam."
Tags: religious freedom, Human trafficking, Human rights, Persecuted Christians
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THE last in my Asian beer round-up. At least until I find more. This is another favourite accompaniment in restaurants for spicy foods and hot curries. It is, the famous Tiger Lager Beer.
This small 330 millilitre bottle was from my local off-licence. But you can probably find Tiger bottles on sale for very reasonable prices almost everywhere. But not at my local Tesco. Strangely.
The neck label has all the important details.
The "Tiger" logo features an "Est." date of 1932. That makes it the most established Asian beer, by a single year, of this round-up. Whether the extra year will make a difference, I'm doubtful. But having been around for so long must be a sign of some sort of quality.
And the good news from the neck label downwards continues. That's because this is imported. Just like that other, well established Asian beer, Singha Lager Beer, it was brewed in Asia. Unlike Asahi Super Dry and Cobra Extra Smooth, it wasn't brewed here and pretending to be from overseas. And that does count for something.
The blue, orange and gold colour scheme stays for the main front label. But in comes a lot more clutter. Let's make some sense of it all.
Under the big "Tiger" logo, they describe this as "World Acclaimed Lager Beer". Under that is what looks like five medals. And under those, in rather small text is our explanation: "Awarded Championship Gold Medals: London Geneva Paris". The tiny pictures of the medals themselves are too tiny for me to read, but they look like the real deal. This really is an award winner, and in recent years too.
Under that is a confirmation that this genuinely is imported. This was "Brewed and Bottled by Asia Pacific Breweries (S) PTE Ltd". Not the most imaginative name for a brewery.
Under that and on the border of the label are a few measurements. Less than Singha, but more than your typical bottle. Maybe it has something to do with both this and Singha having been imported? In addition to the millilitres (330 in this case), we're also given the fluid ounces, which are 11.2. Again I ask, who measures beer in fluid ounces? Anyone?
There's not much to say about the read label.
The little 'story', if you can call it that, tells us that it's been brewed in Asia since 1932. But we knew that from the front of the bottle. It goes on though, to mention a "distinctive taste". I hope that's what it has. The world has enough bland lagers.
The label goes on to tell you the temperatures, in both C and F to serve it in. Good because usually, we only get it in C. That the ingredients are water, malted barley, maize, hops and yeast. Nothing unusual there.
There's a couple of addresses and a web address on there. These deserve a closer look. Tiger Beer UK is based in Surrey. But the address of Asia Pacific Breweries is Singapore. They kept that a well hidden secret. Instead of promoting Tiger as Asian, how about promoting themselves as Singaporean? I don't remember seeing any other Singaporean beers on the shelves. Would that work? I think it would.
The UK Tiger website is also on there. And it's website is at www.tigerbeer.co.uk. Lastly, hidden away under the "330ml" and next to the barcode is "alc. 5% vol.". Nothing out of the ordinary, but strong and respectable enough to be more prominent. Surely it deserves a place on the front of the bottle. What do you think?
In the glass, it looks just like every other lager. That is to say, it's yellow and fizzy. It is keeping its head better than most other, however. Which I take to be a good sign.
It smells a little different to other lagers too. There's something richer and less cheap about it. Even though it is still dominated by the usual blend of malted barley and hops.
The taste is… somewhat better than I had been expecting. Unlike most lagers, this one does give a certain amount of hop powered bitter and sourness. And one that lingers too. Not quite up to proper bitter beer standards, but for a lager, it's doing well. This gives it the "distinctive taste" that was mentioned on the label.
It's one of the smoother lagers out there. As you'd probably expect, it's also refreshing and easy to drink by the barrel load. Most important for me is that it isn't a bland imitation of western beer, intended cool the diner of spicy hot cuisine. My gripe with Asahi Super Dry and Singha Lager Beer was that they none of their flavours stood out. Cobra Extra Smooth did better by having some taste. And this does much the same by having a flavour that stands up to be counted.
The downsides are that it's still a lager. It's a little on the gassy side. The little taste that it does have, isn't pronounced enough for my taste and it can't match European beers in terms of flavour or body.
That said, Tiger is one of the best Asian beers I've tried. It has the character that comes from being distinctive. It's easy to drink, good quality and deserving of it's medals and heritage.
Rating: 3.75
Out of my brief round-up of Asian beers, Tiger and Cobra are my favourites. Asahi and Singha were okay but too bland. None of them score very highly because they are all lagers. And that makes them all poor relations to real beer and ale.
If they are brewing such acceptable lagers now however, how good will their proper beers be when they go mainstream in a few years time? These could be the big names that dominate the shop shelves in years to come.
Have you tried Tiger? What did you think?
Any suggestions, ideas, corrections or insults? Then leave a comment!
Tags: alcohol, asia, asian, beer, bottle, lager, review, Singapore, Singaporean, tiger


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Over the course of the next few months, we're going to look in depth at how to integrate Google web applications, like Calendar or Contacts, into your own web applications. If your app requires calendaring capabilities, for example, you can just use Google Calendar instead rolling your own calendar. Your app can create, read, or modify specific calendars within Google Calendar, or even access all of them if that's necessary. This mash-up approach has several advantages: Your users get a UI that's already familiar; they need to maintain only one calendar that can encompass their entire life (rather than several calendars, one for each application), and they can easily access the calendar functions from cell phone.. In the case of Google Docs integration, you can offload your document-storage issues to Google, including the physical space required to hold the documents.
There is a downside. If Google Calendar goes down, so does your application. If your users prefer iCal or Outlook, then you're in the position of reconciling different calendar applications or supporting all of them. The reconciliation process isn't too bad with calendars, all of which are pretty much the same, but it's a nightmare with Contacts.
In terms of the user experience, learning how to master a new UI is a significant barrier to adoption, so letting your customers use familiar applications to do familiar things is a very good thing. More to the point, you can probably write integration code for three separate calendars in less time than it would take to build a high quality calendering system. In fact, in the case of calendars, you can get away with implementing CalDAV (IETF RFC 4791), and integrating it with just about everybody. Unfortunately, there isn't an IETF standard that gives you access to the other Google services, so we need to know how to do things in a Google world, too.
The one requirement that all Google services impose is authentication. Although you can access all the services with a Google username and password, most of your users will be unwilling to let you have that much access. A better approach is for your users to tell Google exactly which services they'll allow your app to touch. In fact, even finer granularity is possible — they could restrict access to a single calendar, for example. Google actually provides two mechanisms for doing that. There's an older mechanism called AuthSub, but Google has effectively deprecated that protocol in favor of OAuth — an open protocol that's not at all Google specific. (The main website for the OAuth project is OAuth.net. The Beginners Guide to OAuth is particularly helpful, and is better than the introductory documentation on Google's site.)
This month, I'll go over the OAuth protocol, noting the things you need to do to get started, and I'll also discuss several security issues. Next month, I'll present a complete example of the entire authorization process. If you're in a hurry, Google provides samples of the essential code here, but those examples are just out-of-context snippets (in Java, Python, and PHP). Also, Google's article, Using OAuth with the Google Data APIs, describes the HTTP/REST protocol that underlies the high-level-language implementations, and demonstrates how to use Google's OAuth Playground, which lets you walk through the actual process manually. Exercising the actual protocol manually will make my explanations a little easier to absorb.
Setting up Google Apps
The first thing we'll need to do is set up a Google Apps account. via the link at http://www.google.com/apps/. If you haven't explored Google Apps, you should spend a few minutes looking it over. Google Apps lets you support various Google services (like Calendar and GMail) using your own domain name rather than google.com. Even if you use if for nothing else, I'd honestly recommend that you use Google Apps for email so that you can use a real email address ([email protected]) rather than a Micky-Mouse [email protected] address. Most small companies are better off using Apps to manage their email than doing it via an ISP — it has more useful features. For one thing, Google has, by far, the best spam filtering out there, and forwarding your email from an ISP service to GMail to do spam filtering doesn't work very well because Google will most likely decide that your domain (from which the email is forwarded) is a spammer. When you set up Google Apps for email support, you modify your DNS record so that email sent to your domain is forwarded directly to Google rather than to your ISP. (The part of the DNS record that points to your website is unaffected by this change.)
Google Apps accounts come in two flavors: free, which will work fine for the moment; and "for Business," which costs $50 per user account per year. (Think of a user account as an email in-box.) There are a few advantages to actually paying: You get 24x7 technical support, a 99.9% uptime SLA, better spam filtering than GMail, and more storage for things like email. You also get a guarantee that Google won't lose all your saved email (which has happened to friends of mine who had normal GMail accounts). The other advantage of paying for the service is that Google provides a few apps that aren't generally available. The free account provides customized-to-your-domain versions of email (GMail), Docs, Groups, Chat, Contacts, and Sites — the basic facilities that are provided to every Google account. Paid accounts add video (effectively domain-specific YouTube), Postini (which adds things like virus detection, black-list blocking, email-encryption services, and rapid failover in the event of a email-server crash), and a version of Wave (a pretty useful, though soon to be unsupported, collaborative-workflow tool that I rather like. It lets several people who aren't in the same physical location simultaneously edit a shared document while on a conference call, for example).
A Few Terms
Before moving on, I need to introduce some vocabulary; see Table 1.


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The Patrick Languzzi Interview: The Man Behind The Petition About The Dwight Evans For The 'BBHOF' Candicacy Campaign
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Sunday, January.13/2013
By John Tuberty – Special Guest Writer and Cooperstown Correspondent (Owner of The Wesbite Tubbs Baseball Blog, please view here . )
Under current Hall of Fame voting rules, the Expansion Era Committee meets once every three years to vote on retired players who are no longer eligible for election by the BBWAA, have been retired 21 or more seasons, and made their biggest contributions to the sport after 1972. In addition to the retired players, the Expansion Era ballot also includes retired managers, umpires, and executives from the post-1972 era. One player who is eligible to be included on December's Expansion Era ballot is former Red Sox Right Fielder, Dwight Evans.
Despite owning impressive career totals such as 385 Home Runs, 2,446 Hits, and 8 Gold Glove Awards, Evans struggled to draw support in BBWAA Hall of Fame voting and fell off the ballot after failing to draw the necessary five percent needed to stay on the ballot on a very crowded 1999 election. However in recent years, Evans has become a popular Hall of Fame debate in the sabermetric community and several articles have been written in support of his overlooked Hall of Fame candidacy. One particular writer, Patrick Languzzi is spearheading a campaign to put Dwight Evans on December's Expansion Era ballot. Languzzi, who writes for MLB Reports as the Hall of Fame Correspondent, created his own website, Call to the Hall, which is devoted to bringing awareness to Dwight Evans' overlooked Hall of Fame candidacy. Languzzi even started a petition which calls for Evans to be selected as one of the twelve finalists on December's Expansion Era ballot. Languzzi was nice enough to take the time for me to interview him about his Call to the Hall website and petition.
JT: Patrick, you, along with Nick Carfardo of the Boston Globe were recently interviewed by Tom Caron on the New England Sports Network (NESN) to discuss Evans' overlooked Hall of Fame candidacy (see link below). What was that experience like?
PL: The experience was validating for me, meaning, when I started this project, I never imagined it would have gone as far as it has, and gotten the attention it's drawn. It's great to see that I'm not the only one that feels that Evans' case deserves to be revisited.
JT: You mention in the NESN clip that you got a chance to meet Dwight, what can you tell us about meeting him?
PL: Through all of my research, I've gotten to know Evans, and what I've found is that he is extremely humble and unwilling to discuss himself as a possible Hall of Fame candidate. He was humble as a player too. A good example of this is the clip from the 1987 All-Star game (see link to clip below) when Dwight fields a fly ball and fires a strike to home plate, Tim Raines the player at third holds from tagging up.


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MARIA MILLER, under fire for her expenses claims, has resigned as Culture Secretary this morning.
Mrs Miller, the MP for Basingstoke, had been ordered to pay back £5,800 in money she claimed for the mortgage of a house she had claimed was her second home.
Oxford West and Abingdon MP Nicola Blackwood had earlier this week said her Conservative colleague had serious questions to answer over the scandal.
Mrs Miller told David Cameron the row over her expenses had "become a distraction from the vital work this Government is doing".
Prime Minister David Cameron said he was "sad" at the circumstances of her departure and hoped she could make a return "in due course" but was accepting her resignation.
It follows days of mounting public and political pressure on the MP to quit and signs she was losing support among Tory colleagues despite Mr Cameron's backing.
Yesterday Mrs Miller, writing for the Oxford Mail's sister paper the Basingstoke Gazette, said: "I am devastated that this has happened, and that I have let you (her consistuents) down."
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This year the Michael Jordan rookie card celebrates its 25th year! If the hype around its 20th birthday is anything to go by you can be sure there will be much more interest upcoming in this iconic card.
On top of this we usually see somewhat of a lull in interest in Jordan cards during the second and third quarters of the year. This is probably also a result of excitement and interest that bring more new and returning collectors over the holiday periods each year. So right now you will find considerably less competition vying for the cards that are available online through sites like eBay. However you will also find less cards available as many dealers hold their most valuable items off until the holiday season approaches.
Buying a Michael Jordan Rookie Card
My recommendation is to check out Michael Jordan rookie cards on eBay now. Decide what you want (eg BGS/PSA 8 or 9) and what you want to spend and keep an eye on what is available. You might find the want list tool useful for this as you can set your parameters and this website will remember what you are after and show you all listing each time you return. I have a blog post discussing the ins and outs of buying a Jordan rookie card which may also help: What to look for when buying a Michael Jordan Rookie Card.
How to add a Michael Jordan 'rookie' card to your collection without breaking the bank
If cost is an issue for you (a good Jordan rookie card will cost at least $1000) you might like to think about buying a reprint Michael Jordan rookie card. These are copies of the original card. They look exactly the same but are not authentic rookie cards. They still make nice additions to your collection if you like the look of the card and are not concerned with authenticity. And they can be bought for $5 to $25! Reprint Michael Jordan rookie card
The ultimate Michael Jordan rookie card
There is a Michael Jordan rookie card that I consider one of the ultimate cards to own – the buy-back Michael Jordan rookie card. Upper Deck purchased Jordan rookies from the open market and inserted redemption cards into packs for this card. The rookie cards were sent to Jordan himself for signing! These are extremely rare and very expensive but have to be the ultimate Jordan card – in fact the ultimate basketball card – to own. I have a couple of posts that might interest you in this:
- Michael Jordan buy back autograph cards
- See a collector pull a Jordan rookie buy back card on mail day
What about dealing in Jordan rookie cards?
As I have discussed earlier – dealing in Michael Jordan cards can be an exciting and rewarding hobby business to run. Many dealers use the quiet periods – right now – to stock up on great and valuable cards to release for sale come the holiday period when the market is flooded with excited buyers. Now is a great time to look into stocking up on Michael Jordan rookie cards if you are thinking about reselling at profit come November – February. Happy collecting everyone and best of luck adding the world's best basketball card to your collection!


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The openSUSE project has announced the official release of openSUSE 11.3, a major update of the popular Linux distribution. The new version brings several noteworthy technical improvements and new features for users and developers.
It ships with version 2.6.34 of the Linux kernel and Xorg 7.5. The new open source Nouveau driver is used by default for NVIDIA-based graphics cards now and kernel mode setting is enabled by default for supported hardware. openSUSE's Zypper command-line tool got several improvements in this release, including support for removing dependencies that are no longer needed.
Although Oracle's impressive Btrfs filesystem is still not ready for production use, it is made available as an option in openSUSE 11.3 for users brave enough to give it a test run. You can select it in the installer for your main system partition, but you will have to configure a separate boot partition because grub can't run from Btrfs yet.
KDE SC 4.4.4 is openSUSE's default desktop environment, but users can also choose GNOME 2.30.1. The lightweight LXDE environment, which is great for netbooks and low-cost tablets, was introduced in 11.3 as a new desktop environment option.
openSUSE 11.3 is available for download from the project's website. Keep an eye out for our hands-on review, which is coming next week.


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Ferrari CEO Amadeo Felisa recently confirmed that the Prancing Horse plans to release a streetable version of the 599XX. The car will be dubbed 599 GTO, weigh 3600 pounds, and produce 650 HP. A range-topping Enzo successor is also planned.
Details are slim, but Felisa has confirmed that the GTO will make extensive use of lightweight materials and offer both modified gearbox ratios and aerodynamic bits. Wheel diameter will be at least twenty inches, and the car will reportedly produce twice as much downforce as the ordinary 599 GTB. The GTO will likely be unveiled at a dedicated event this summer.
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458: Maranello has no plans to produce a 458 Scuderia, but the 458 Spider will debut in 2011.
Hybrids: A 599 hybrid concept will be displayed at the Geneva auto show, but the company has no plans to produce a hybrid street car before 2015.
Fuel Efficiency: Cylinder deactivation, start-stop technology, and KERS will soon appear on production Ferraris, with the California being the first guinea pig.
Enzo Successor: To emphasize its "unique abilities," Maranello's next hypercar will be offered only in left-hand drive. A limited number (duh) will be sold.
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Anonymous IberoAmerica, the Latin American collective within the Anonymous hacktivist group, has called off its operation to expose members of the Zetas narcotics cartel after announcing that a kidnapped Anonymous member was released. The released hostage also reportedly delivered a message: that the Zetas would kill ten people for every name of a Zeta associate released by Anonymous.
Anonymous members launched an effort called OpCartel last week after claiming a member had been kidnapped during a "Operation Paperstorm" protest in Veracruz. The group threatened to "dox" members of the cartel, releasing names and addresses of taxi drivers, journalists, and members of law enforcement associated with the group. To collect information to aid in their effort, the group posted a "plug-in" Web application to allow would-be informants to protect their identities while providing names and other information.
Over the past few days, however, there has been growing dissention within the group about going forward with the effort; the Zetas had responded with online efforts of their own, sending death threats through Twitter and other channels, including a claim that they had tracked down the IP address of the user of one Anonymous Twitter account. According to Stratfor Global Intelligence analyst Ben West, the Zetas have their own computer security resources, and could conceivably have made efforts to identify Anonymous members as retribution.
"Since we have seen evidence of cartels employing their own computer scientists to engage in cybercrime," he said in a video report, "it is logical to conclude that the cartels likely have individuals working to track anti-cartel bloggers and hackers. Those individuals involved thus face the risk of abduction, injury and death—judging by how Los Zetas have dealt with threats in the past."
After briefly cancelling the effort on November 2, the Anonymous group apparently voted to move forward with the plan according to a video post by Barrett Brown, who has acted as the public face of Anonymous in the past. But just a day later, the operation was called off again, apparently because Anonymous had met its original goal.
"On this day, our anonymous friend retained by the Zetas cartel has been released," the group said in a statement on its website. "We can say that while bruised, he is alive and well. He has sent us a message that if Anonymous reveals a name related to the cartel, the family of the kidnapped anonymous will suffer, and for each cartel member revealed, ten people will be put to death. The Anonymous collective has decided by consensus not to disclose the information that we have for now, as we understand that we can not ignore threats involving innocent civilians that have nothing to do with our actions."


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Developers said riders will be inverted 50 feet in the air with rolls and the coaster's track will be nearly a mile long. The ride will be 3 minutes long and will reach speeds of 65 mph.
Officials said they plan to break ground in 2015 and the ride is scheduled to open in 2016. The estimated budget to build the Skyplex is $200 million.
"Next to our theme parks, International Drive is one of the most recognized icons of Orlando," said Visit Orlando president and CEO George Aguel. "It's exciting for our tourism community to see this type of investment being made to continuously raise the bar on the dining and entertainment experiences we offer across our destination."
It' s not clear exactly how much it will cost to ride the coaster, but the developer says it will likely be less than $20 for unlimited daily rides.
Riders must be 48 inches tall to go on the coaster, which will was created by US Thrill Rides.
The towering coaster will be built near the Orlando Eye, a 425-foot ferris wheel that is scheduled to open in the first half of 2015.
"Nowhere in the world will you have two iconic structures like The Skyscraper and the Orlando Eye. This will be an incredible opportunity for International Drive," developer Joshua Wallack said.
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Lately, I've noticed a startling paradox in Silicon Valley. I see shitty companies hiring more engineers than they know what to do with, while other, much better companies struggle to fill open roles. Now my definition of "shitty" is completely subjective, but I bet you too can name some ridiculous startups that no sane engineer should work for. Meanwhile, companies catering to huge markets, logical business models, amazing user growth, and cash in the bank from top investors, are having a hard time hiring tech talent. What gives?
I call this phenomenon the developer divide. It occurs after a company has cracked a user need and is gaining traction, the VCs have started piling on the cash and the servers are melting from all the users. But there's one big problem. The company is having trouble hiring engineers to keep up with the torrid pace of growth.
Take Pinterest, the latest toast of Silicon Valley. The company is growing faster than Facebook when it was of equivalent size. Andreessen Horowitz, some of the smartest money on Sand Hill Road in my opinion, just invested in a $27 million dollar round only 5 months after the company closed its series A. The company has umpteen different ways to monetize and few serious competitors. Of course, the company is no sure thing and has plenty of risks ahead, but any investor could make a case for why this company is a good bet. But despite the opportunity, a LinkedIn search reveals the company still employs only 15 people.
The developer divide most often occurs when the company's product is targeted to a distinctly non-engineer user base. As opposed to companies which build products other engineers use, the developer divide presents itself when technical talent just can't see why anyone would actually use the service. Pinterest is a perfect case in point. Rural American women are the primary users of Pinterest, and though they use the site voraciously, their interest in Pinterest doesn't draw dude developers.
But don't feel too bad for Pinterest. The developer divide is a temporary vacuum that forward-thinking engineers quickly fill. Pinterest joins a long list of companies, which had difficulty recruiting engineers who didn't grasp the value the company was creating. Facebook, Zynga, and Yelp, all catered to the non-engineer user and all found themselves in the developer divide in their early days, but no longer. As the world began to realize these companies were on to something big, the divide closed and engineers began wanting in. How many of us wish we would have joined Facebook in 2006, when everyone was calling Mark Zuckerberg a moron for turning down Yahoo's billion dollar offer?
Time and again, young companies explode out of nowhere, only to be written off by those who don't get it. They write off the company as nothing new and can't understand the user growth. Skeptics are unable to see the site through the eyes' of its users and they dismiss the potential for the site to go mainstream. Remember when Facebook was only for horny college kids? With hindsight however, jumping on board during the developer divide would have been a huge, career-making win and cynics are often left with regrets.
So how do you know if a company is in the developer divide?
1. Look for an obvious secret
The developer divide is characterized by a gap in information. The company knows something about their user, which is not obvious to the outside world, but is the key to the business's success. However, to those who do not know this insight, the company appears to be little more than a novelty. I call this phenomenon the obvious secret. All great web companies started off as toys. It's the non-consensus companies, those that others write off, but who end up being right about their vision of the future, which produce amazing financial returns and change the world.
2. Look for a new user habit
In the age of infinite ways for users to spend their time and attention, the value created by all successful web companies rests on one thing, the constancy of their users' habits. A habit is defined as a series of behaviors, which occur nearly involuntarily. It's the programmed response you have when you hear about a book you want to buy and think of Amazon instantly. It's the spontaneous craving you have to check Twitter when you have a spare 30 seconds. Getting people to do something they've not done before, and getting them to do it regularly, often, and spontaneously, is damn hard. Wiring customers' brains to habitually use a particular company's product is the crux of value creation on the web, so look for companies that are creating rabid users of a new behavior.
3. Look for a huge potential market
This is self-explanatory but can't be emphasized enough. The "big market test" is the first screen investors use to weed out companies and it should be among engineers' requirements when assessing a new opportunity. Of course, while you could do your own market analysis and compute the company's TAM, SOM, and SAM, a nifty shortcut is to piggyback on the VC's hard work. Since institutional investors don't invest in deals, which go after markets smaller than $1 billion, it's a pretty good bet to take cues from top name investors on this criterion. Besides, VC's all have a Roman galley of MBAs working in their basement doing nothing but market sizing, so why do all that hard work yourself?
Now, as the Valley froths with angel investor money and soaring engineer salaries, great software developers find themselves in an envious position. Many tech professionals can write their own ticket, either within an established company or by starting their own businesses. However, missing out on joining a company confronted with the developer divide, that fleeting opening when few see the scale of the opportunity, can be a costly and regrettable mistake.
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Cultures of Europe and the Near East: Research
The Anthropology Department at The Field Museum has had a long history of fieldwork in Europe and the Near East. From Henry Field's excavations at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Kish to James Philips' field work in Egypt, to William Parkinson's current research in Hungary and the Balkans, Field Museum researchers have been studying how human communities grow and become more politically and economically complex over time.
The Kish Project, Mesopotamia, 1923-1933
In 1921, Stephen Langdon of Oxford University wrote to Berthold Laufer, then Chief Curator of the Anthropology Department of The Field Museum, to propose a joint Mesopotamian expedition. Laufer expressed The Field Museum's interest, and in 1921-22 the expedition's eventual chief financier, Mr. H. Weld-Blundell, conducted a survey of important sites in Mesopotamia, settling on Kish as the site holding the most interest and archaeological potential. In March of 1923, Mr. Ernest Mackay, protégé of the famed archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie, began the first season of excavations of the Joint Oxford-Field Museum expedition to Kish. Excavations continued during the winter months of the next ten years, from 1923-33, under the absentee direction of Stephen Langdon who, although serving as the director of the project, visited the excavations only twice, in 1924 and 1926. Mackay served as field director through the 1925-26 season, after which Mr. Louis Charles Watelin became field director. Watelin served as field director for the remainder of the project.
During the course of the ten years of excavation, work was conducted on seventeen different mounds both inside and outside the ancient boundaries of Kish. As was the custom of the day, the excavations were absolutely enormous in scale. Both Mackay and Watelin employed hundreds of local men and boys who worked at a break-neck pace to remove soil to depths of fifteen or more meters in trenches tens of meters on a side
The Kish Project, 2004-2006
For the eight decades since their excavation, the collections from Kish have remained divided, with forces of fate, scholarly predilection, geography, and international politics precluding the production of a synthetic site report for the city. Accounts of The Field Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition to Kish were originally published in the 1920s and 1930s by both Langdon (1924, 1930, 1934), who wrote a popularly oriented series, and Mackay (1925-1929 and 1931), who was responsible for a series of more scientific publications. However, Watelin died in 1934 and Langdon in 1937, with the result that no final site report was ever produced. McGuire Gibson (1972) and Roger Moorey (1978) both revisited the products of the excavation in the 1970s, and since these seminal publications, the archaeological assemblage from Kish frequently has been the subject of scholarly inquiry. Works have been produced on the private houses and chariot burials at Ingharra (Algaze 1983-84), on cuneiform texts from the city (Dalley and Yoffee 1991), on the physical character of its inhabitants (Rathbun 1975), and, most recently, on the nearby site of Jamdat Nasr (Englund and Grégoire 1991, Matthews 2002). Forthcoming works on the previously excavated Kish collection focus on the cylinder seals (Gibson, in preparation), and additional cuneiform tablets (Dalley, in press). However, a synthetic site report resulting from the 1920s and 1930s excavation is still lacking. As Kish may have been one of the first true cities of the world, and one of the first places to hold any sort of regional power, the lack of a final site report stands as a significant gap in the archaeological record of Mesopotamia.
The Diros Project, Greece
The Diros Project is an international, multi-disciplinary, Greek-American research project that addresses anthropological and archaeological questions that explores human social dynamics on the Mani Peninsula of southern Greece. Specificallly, we seek to examine the role of Alepotrypa Cave in the Mani Peninsula within long-term processes of cultural change associated with the European Neolithic, during which time agriculture lifestyles were introduced and people gathered in larger, more complex settlements. In particular, we seek to learn to what extent the Mani's unique Neolithic trajectory – ranging from closed to open systems of engagement – and its remote geographic location – at the southernmost tip of the European continent – influenced the degree to which the region was integrated through time into different social, political, and economic interaction spheres. During the Neolithic the Mani Peninsula occupied an intriguing role in interactions between the Greek mainland, the Greek islands, and the greater Mediterranean region, but the nature of these interactions has not been examined from an anthropological, as opposed to a historical, perspective.
The Körös Regional Archaeological Project, Hungary
The Körös Regional Archaeological Project is a multidisciplinary, collaborative, research project directed by William A. Parkinson, of the Department of Anthropology, The Field Museum, and Attila Gyucha of the Field Service of Cultural Heritage, Hungary. Richard W. Yerkes of the Department of Anthropology, Ohio State University is field director, and co-director of the Körös Regional Archaeological Project Field School. The project brings together an international team of geophysists, geologists, geographers, botanists, and other specialists to understand the various social changes that occurred in the Körös River Valley on the Great Hungarian Plain nearly 6,500 years ago, during the time when metals first began to be extensively exploited in the nearby Balkan and Carpathian mountains. This time period - the transition from the Neolithic to the Copper Age - is a time marked by significant social transformations in the organization of households and settlements throughout the Great Hungarian Plain. Unfortunately, our current anthropological understanding of these social changes has been clouded by a lack of research into settlements dating to the Copper Age. Over the last decade, the Körös Regional Archaeological Project has been conducting systematic research into the organization of Copper Age settlements near the town of Vésztõ in southeastern Hungary. As a result of our research, the economic and political organization of Copper Age societies is gradually becoming better understood, allowing us to understand the nature of the changes that characterize the end of the Neolithic in the region. This, in turn, allows us to model the dynamic social processes that occur within 'tribal' societies more generally.


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Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) have charted the extreme genetic differences that occur over time in the most dangerous malaria parasite in the world. While there is no approved vaccine for malaria, various experimental vaccines are in development. The CVD study suggests that developing a broadly protective vaccine for malaria may be challenging because the parasite's genetic makeup is so variable, constantly changing. If a vaccine targets only a single protein in the parasite, and there are many different versions of that protein, the parasite becomes a moving target for vaccine development. Drug-resistant malaria has been a major barrier to treating the disease, and this CVD study suggests that "vaccine-resistant" malaria may also become a problem. The study is being published in the Oct. 14 issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Scientists and health officials worldwide have made eradication of the disease a priority, with an effective and broadly protective vaccine a critical step toward that goal. Malaria -- a parasite spread to humans through mosquito bites -- is prevented by avoiding mosquito bites using bed nets or by killing mosquitoes with insecticides. The parasite is treatable using medications, although drug resistance is a relatively common problem. According to the World Health Organization, a child dies of malaria every 30 seconds. There are approximately 300 million malaria cases annually worldwide, resulting in more than one million deaths, most of them African children.
Certain regions within a key parasite protein -- a protein targeted by some experimental malaria vaccines -- seem to affect the human immune response more than others, and targeting those areas could help develop a better vaccine, according to the study led by Shannon Takala, Ph.D., assistant professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and a research scientist in the CVD. The study was conducted in collaboration with researchers at the University of Bamako in Mali, West Africa, and at the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
"This brings us one step closer to being able to design a broadly protective malaria vaccine," says Dr. Takala. "Though there are medications that are used to treat malaria, drug resistance is a recurring problem. An effective vaccine could help us eliminate malaria altogether, a public health goal that is attracting more global support than ever before."
"In addition to its home campus in Baltimore, the University of Maryland School of Medicine employs hundreds of researchers in 23 countries around the globe," says E. Albert Reece, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., dean of the School of Medicine, vice president for medical affairs of the University of Maryland and the John Z. and Akiko K. Bowers Distinguished Professor. "This study is an example of how our global footprint allows School of Medicine researchers to study diseases such as malaria in the very regions of the world in which they are devastating to the population."
A research team of Malian and American scientists at the CVD's outpost in Mali, West Africa tested malaria parasites from 100 children in Mali over a three-year period. The children, who had not been vaccinated against the disease, all experienced repeated malaria infections during the three years. The CVD researchers, including Christopher Plowe, M.D., M.P.H., Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, professor of medicine and chief of the Malaria Section at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, looked at the genetic diversity in a surface protein of the Plasmodium falciparum -- the AMA-1 protein -- that is the target of some candidate malaria vaccines.
By tracking the changes in the AMA-1 protein each time a child became infected with malaria, researchers found a surprising amount of genetic diversity. Among more than 500 separate malaria infections the children experienced throughout the study, researchers found 214 distinct types of the AMA-1 protein. The scientists also found that the genetic differences in certain parts of the protein but not others corresponded to whether or not a child got sick the next time they were infected with malaria. It was easier for a child's immune system to defend itself against illness in a subsequent infection if the protein in the second parasite was genetically similar to the parasite that caused their first illness.
Working with Michael P. Cummings, Ph.D., associate professor of biology at the University of Maryland, the researchers were able to track which variants of the AMA-1 protein were present in each infection and compare that data to the symptoms each child experienced during the infections.
"Applying a molecular evolutionary perspective to the study of the malaria parasite gave us new information about why it has been so challenging to develop an effective malaria vaccine," says Dr. Cummings, who is affiliated with the University of Maryland's Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. "The genetic diversity we found in the AMA-1 protein was so high that it could potentially thwart the usefulness of any vaccine based on this protein."
By narrowing their focus to those specific regions of the protein that are recognized as distinct by the immune response, the researchers were able to reduce the number of immunologically important AMA-1 types from 214 to just 25. By targeting those specific regions of the protein, scientists could possibly develop a more broadly protective malaria vaccine.
"The emergence of drug-resistant malaria was one of the main reasons eradication of the disease didn't work when it was tried 50 years ago," says senior author Dr. Plowe. "We want people to begin thinking now about the possibility that 'vaccine-resistant malaria' could be just as much of a problem for the new global eradication effort. We need to come up with ways to beat vaccine-resistant malaria before we start losing vaccines to resistance the way we have lost so many good drugs."
The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the United States Agency for International Development as well as a seed grant from the University of Maryland.


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"The number-one thing needed is to establish a balanced, well-thought-out national energy policy, including a renewable energy standard that runs for at least ten years out," says Richard Morrison, president and CEO of Molded Fiber Glass, in Kansas.
A renewable energy standard, or renewable electricity standard (RES), is a public policy that requires electricity utilities to source a rising percentage of their power from renewables. More than half of US states have such policies and there is a pressing desire within the wind industry to establish a federal RES for the country. "Doing this will change the uncomfortable, risky situation we now have, in which we're facing making large, long-term investments in an uncertain market environment," says Morrison.
Dan McDevitt, vice-president of supply chain for Nordex USA, agrees. "When I talk with people in Europe, I hear a real concern about whether the US wind market will come back strongly," he says. "A good national energy policy will remove lots of those doubts and give our industry the long-term footing we need to compete against other technologies."
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But many agree that there is another important policy step required to develop fully the domestic supply chain, and that is to create parity between US and Asian companies. Complaints are frequently heard that Asian components are being sold in the US for the cost of raw materials.
Causes are traced to currency manipulation of the Yuan - which some economists estimate has created a subsidy of 25-40% - as well as common practices such as loan forgiveness, which enables start-up companies to write off their overhead debt and quote new orders only on variable costs.
"We need the government to level the playing field," explains Joe Simko, president and general manager of Hodge Foundry in Pennsylvania. "If we received economic stimulus money, we would invest to improve our competitiveness, win more business and create jobs on American soil."
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One of the things I was working on is ready. A collection of translations of popular lullabies from around the world is uploaded on my site at http://www.mayamarkov.com/kids/lullabies/. I translated them because there seem to be very few Bulgarian lullabies (though numerous good songs for older children) and I wanted to have some to sing to my baby.
The WAV and MP3 files of longer lullabies are truncated because Sound Recorder offers you only a minute to record. There must be an option to lenghten the time but I didn't find it. I am quite challenged by computer technology (in fact, to be honest, by any technology). I struggle with programs the way a pig struggles with a pumpkin.
I am afraid that by these musical files, I created too much work for my brother who is Webmaster of my site (and also pays the fees for the domain name and the hosting). But he did a great job. I like very much the way he allowed listening to the songs and downloading them. He also found for me the program MidiPiano which allows you to create instrumental MID files right on the computer, without the trouble to play on an actual instrument and record. If I knew this option, perhaps I wouldn't bother to sing and record. Especially after I am such a poor singer. (When I was in 1st grade, after singing a song in front of the class for the first time, a classmate said, "Maya, how is it possible that your parents are musicians yet you are unable to sing?" This was quite rude of course and discouraged me to develop my singing abilities. On the other hand, listening to some popular singers, I often regret that they apparently hadn't such a frank classmate in 1st grade.)
The MID files will be uploaded soon, most likely next week.


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Description: Well before I submit my last character from The Jungle Book, I figured I would give those eyes a break from all the cartoon characters that have submitted recently and treat you guys to something more tantalizing. This drawing took me a total of seven hours (No Joke). I chose a scene right from the movie and implanted a pose in my head to make him look like a solider again. What I first did was go down to my parlor to watch FF7 until the perfect scene came to me. I then chose my pose and went straight to my room to do a rough sketch of how he was gonna look and to make sure that the pose and position was accurate. So having said all that, right now I am about to show you a lesson on how to draw one of my all time favorite characters since I was a kid. You are about to learn "how to draw Cloud Strife", from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. I had such a wicked time on this tutorial. As you know he is the main character of the Final Fantasy VII game and Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children movie. Now the best way to describe Cloud is to tell you a bit about his background and about the person he used to be. He is said to be anywhere between eighteen to twenty one years old. He has spiky blond hair (which is known as his trademark), and blue eyes that has a certain vibrancy to them which is mainly because of his ex association with SOLDIER. Some describe these types of eyes as "Mako Eyes" because they are a sign of that person being submerged into the condensed version of Lifestream. The only known people to have been exposed to the Lifestream are those in SOLDIER. These people have prolonged exposure to "mako" which is said to be similar to radioactive materials. Cloud was at one time part of the elite Shin-Ra task force which is also known as SOLDIER. Now this elite force is made up of a team of men that have been biologically enhanced by Mako. Some of these individuals are Cloud Strife, Zack Fair (Clouds good friend), and Sephiroth. There are also more men that have been enhanced as well, but we will leave that blank for now. Now Cloud is also equipped with dark colored clothes. On his left shoulder he displays a metal pauldron (which is the wolf like head that resembles a door knocker). His main weapon is his Buster Sword which he took from Zach Fair after they had their last conversation before he died right in front of Cloud's eyes. Cloud uses the over sized sword as his main weapon and he also drives a Fenrir Motorcycle. Cloud often suffers from pain due to the disease he carries called Geostigma which he contracted when Professor Hojo injected Cloud with Sephiroth's cells which exposed him to Mako. The story has so much to it, it is an epic tale that was started back in the 80's before Cloud was ever involved. I love the game and I also love both Final Fantasy movies. In this tutorial I will show you how to draw Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children step by step. I hope you like this lesson all my sweat and hard work went into it. Maybe next time I will show you how to draw Reno, who knows. Well have fun folks.


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I plan a kiteboarding trip with my other half to Rhodes between 17-24 August.
It will be my very first time there so, those who have experience about kiteboarding in Rhodes and certainly those who live in Rhodes could you please inform me about below:
- I'm a beginner kiteboarder. I read that there are two main kitespots in Rhodes. One in north - Kremasti area – and one in south - Prasonisi. I'm not sure about the wind direction at these spots but just to be on safe side I would book rescue (jet ski) as well (if it's possible). In the light of the above which kite spot would you recommend for me?
- Can you also recommend accommodation near the kite spots? Definitely I will rent a car but I don't really want to drive more than 40-60 minutes from the accommodation to the spot. I would rather prefer to be closer to the restaurants and drive to the beach than being accommodated close to the beach without the possibility of having a good dinner (and wine:-)). I found some accommodations but the experience is the best lead in choosing a hotel or apartment.
- I'm wondering whether it worth to carry my board with me (and pay an extra 80 Euro for the flight company) or it's cheaper to rent one….? So far I found one kiteschool in Kremasti – but I haven't got a reply from them re board rent price. I would be thankful if you could send me some kitecenter or kiteschool links.
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I'm fairly certain that song isn't sung in grade schools anymore. There's probably a "Preservation of Rodents Society" that would be all over them if they did. Anyway, as I was making the little Easter Bunnies for my grandbabies, that song kept running through my mind. As a result I'm calling this bunny pattern "Little Bunny Boo Boo." It's a play on words. The "Boo Boo" refers to the fact that this pattern can be made into a rice-filled cooling or heating pad to soothe a child's skinned knee or tummy ache -- just like my Chick-sicles and Love Birds.
I mentioned yesterday that there are multiple purposes for this bunny. Another application is it could be used as a "tooth pillow." Before the child goes to bed her "lost" tooth is placed in the front pocket of the bunny for safe keeping. During the night the tooth fairy pays a visit and exchanges the tooth for some cold hard cash. I think the rather significant looking choppers on this bunny lends itself to being a used in that way too.
The last purpose is to use the pattern as an Easter gift. Later it could be used for one of the other purposes, but for Easter you could hide treasures in the little pocket, like jelly beans or {hmmm, let's say} a vegetable...
The pattern and instruction for "Little Bunny Boo Boo" can now be found in my Etsy shop and can be purchased for the reasonable price of $7.


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When she realized she could make a career out of researching things as a librarian, she couldn't sign up for graduate school fast enough. After working with a few special collections -- including North Carolina History, Design, Forestry, and Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences -- Katherine joined the world of HowStuffWorks. Although her time as the corporate librarian lasted only a few months, she's continued to put her MLS to very good use as a writer and editor for the site. At more than a decade in, she's edited and written her way through a series of books, a newspaper column, Express magazine, and various corners of HowStuffWorks and other Discovery sites, and is now Managing Editor of Special Editorial Projects.
A Southerner for real, Katherine has a deep and abiding love of sweet tea and can bake biscuits practically in her sleep (no measuring cups or spoons necessary). She currently resides out in the country with her ex-rugby playing husband and their scarily intelligent JRT/beagle blend. She prefers freestyle to scripted, hand-beaded over bedazzled and loves that she learns all sorts of new stuff at work every day.
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Former Oakland Raider Thomas Howard was one of two people who died Monday morning in a crash in Oakland, CSN Bay Area has confirmed.
A BMW, which is believed to be Howard's, was driving at speeds of up to 100 mph, rear-ended a semi-truck along Interstate Highway 880 and flipped over the truck and the center divide crashing into an oncoming Honda, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Howard was drafted by the Raiders in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft and spent four seasons with the team. After being waived by Oakland in 2010, he spent the 2011 and 2012 seasons with Cincinnati.
He signed with Atlanta in October, but was released on Nov. 13.
An officer told NBC Bay Area that the drivers died after the 1 a.m. accident on 880 at 5th Avenue. The other victim was identified as 64-year-old Zenglong Liu of Hayward.
The officer said he isn't sure why the BMW was traveling so fast in the northbound lanes. But the accident was horrific, leaving all the vehicles involved nearly unrecognizable.
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And Howard's family also sent an emailed statement saying they are "grateful for the outpouring of prayers, love and support we have received today. During this difficult time, we ask that you respect the privacy of our family, as well as the privacy of the family of Zeng Long Liu. Please continue to pray for both families."


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86% of Louisiana voters support adoption of 2012 Coastal Master Plan
Overwhelming majorities agree coast vital to future and can be saved
(Baton Rouge, La.—April 3, 2012) Eighty-six percent of Louisiana voters say they want their legislators to approve the state's 2012 Coastal Master Plan, according to a new poll released today. The plan lays out a 50-year vision for protecting and restoring the coast, including increased hurricane risk reduction for coastal communities and reconnecting the Mississippi River with disappearing coastal wetlands. Overwhelming majorities of the voters surveyed in the poll believe the state's coastal areas and wetlands are important to the state's future and express optimism that the coast can be restored, despite decades of decline.
"This poll shows Louisiana voters feel strongly that our state's coastal areas and wetlands are crucial to our future," said Buster McKenzie, president of Baton Rouge-based Southern Media & Opinion Research, Inc., which conducted the poll. "An overwhelming majority of voters want their legislators to approve the 2012 Coastal Master Plan because they agree that coastal Louisiana can be saved if the projects in the master plan are implemented."
The state's Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority unanimously approved the 2012 Coastal Master Plan Mar. 21 and sent it to the state legislature Mar. 26. The legislature must approve the plan for it to take effect.
The poll found extremely high agreement statewide that Louisiana's coastal areas and wetlands are "very important" to the state's future:
- 91 percent of voters statewide,
- 98 percent of coastal voters,
- 87 percent of non-coastal voters (with an additional 11 percent saying "somewhat important").
Additionally, the poll found that 88 percent of respondents express optimism that when adequate funding becomes available, coastal areas can in fact be saved. Two potential sources of funding include Natural Resource Damage Assessment dollars from the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster and legislation in Congress that would dedicate 80 percent of expected billions in penalties from the disaster to Gulf Coast restoration, including in Louisiana. Both houses of Congress have approved similar versions of the legislation, the RESTORE the Gulf Coast States Act. However, Congress still needs to resolve the differences between the two bills and get a final bill to the president's desk before it can become law.
"Voters clearly realize that the state master plan is critically important to saving Louisiana as we know it because it will protect jobs, communities, fisheries and wildlife. That's why it's no surprise that such an overwhelming majority of voters in the state believe that coastal areas and wetlands can — and must — be saved," said a joint statement by the Coalition To Restore Coastal Louisiana, Environmental Defense Fund, Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation, Louisiana Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, National Wildlife Federation and The Nature Conservancy. "The message is clear: Let's pass the 2012 Coastal Master Plan and get this vital work underway as soon as possible."
The statewide telephone poll was conducted between Mar. 23 and Mar. 27, 2012. It sampled 801 registered, likely Louisiana voters, based on previous voting patterns.
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