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California girl records two aces in a single round!
Fair warning: This story will make you feel both old AND untalented.
Meet Naomi Lee, a 12-year-old seventh-grader in Menlo Park, Calif. She's a fairly decent young golfer, and she proved that beyond a shadow of a doubt earlier this month when she recorded two aces in the same round on Pebble Beach's nine-hole course.
Golf Digest has tracked the number of two-ace rounds, and the total for all time? One hundred fifty. Lee, obviously, is the youngest female to close the deal. And the odds of such a feat are 67,000,000-to-1, according to GD's research.
Now, haters gonna hate, and here's your material: This is an executive (i.e., shorter) par-3 course, and the holes she aced were 82 and 64 yards. Plus, she had nine shots at par-3s, rather than the usual four on a standard course. So, yeah, we're not exactly talking pro-length holes here. Still, an ace is an ace, right?
Lee isn't a Janie-come-lately to the game; she recently won the designation of "Bay Area Player of the Year" from U.S. Golf Kids. She'll play in the Teen World Championships in Pinehurst, N.C., in late July.
"I'm trying to be good at golf, and this helps a lot, because I know if I put my mind to it, I can make awesome shots," Lee told Golf Digest. "From this, I kind of have new confidence. And people say that great shots happen because of confidence ... I'm probably going to remind myself every time I stand over a golf ball that guess what, 'I got two holes-in-one, and that's like, amazing.'"
Oh, and she has another ace, recorded more than two years ago at the same course. How's your game coming along, by the way?
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(SportsNetwork.com) - The Miami Dolphins' fast start to the season has become a distant memory, lost in a current 1-5 slump that has featured struggles on the field and turmoil in the locker room.
The San Diego Chargers are in the midst of their own struggles that has them chasing a playoff spot and they'll try to get right this Sunday with their first victory in Miami in nearly 32 years.
Under second-year head coach Joe Philbin, the Dolphins raced out to a 3-0 start for the first time since the 2002 season, but that quickly gave way to a four-game losing streak.
Miami snapped that slide with a 22-20 overtime victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Oct. 31, but reports began to surface days before that game that tackle Jonathan Martin had left the team due to emotional issues following a prank at the team's lunch room earlier in the week.
Then, on Nov. 4, guard Richie Incognito was suspended by the club for his alleged role in bullying Martin, putting a lot of negative focus on the Dolphins ahead of their Monday night matchup with winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The Buccaneers were winless no more after besting the Dolphins 22-19.
Miami did rally from a 15-point deficit with 19 straight points, but Tampa Bay scored the winning touchdown early in the fourth as its defense stood up from there.
"(The Buccaneers) did a great job but we had plenty of opportunities and they played better in the fourth quarter and deserved to win," said Dolphins coach Joe Philbin. "They played better than us out the gate and the film will say that when we watch the tape. They had better tempo, they controlled the line of scrimmage better and you don't want to go on the road and dig yourself into a 15-0 hole, which is what we did."
Ryan Tannehill connected on 27-of-42 passes for 229 yards with two touchdown throws, while second-year wide receiver Rishard Matthews broke out with 11 receptions for 120 yards and two scores.
Miami, though, ended the game with a mere two yards rushing and allowed 140 on the ground.
"It's definitely tough because we want to be a balanced team," said Tannehill. "We want to be a team that can establish the run game and then use it to set up play-action and things like that, so it's something that we'll definitely try to get back on track."
The Dolphins will look to do so against a Chargers team they have bested at home in six straight meetings, including playoffs. San Diego has not picked up a win in Miami since Jan. 2, 1982 in a divisional playoff matchup at the Orange Bowl.
The Chargers have won the last two meetings overall, including 26-16 in 2011, and the all-time series is even at 14-14.
San Diego comes in with an identical 4-5 record, having lost two straight following a bye. After an overtime loss two weekends ago in Washington, the Chargers were unable to capitalize early and dropped a 28-20 decision to the Denver Broncos this past Sunday.
The Chargers trailed 28-6 early in the third quarter before Philip Rivers threw a seven-yard touchdown pass to running back Danny Woodhead in the third frame and Ryan Mathews scored on the ground from a yard out early in the fourth.
However, settling for two field goals in the first half ended up being the difference.
"Offensively early on there we weren't able to get touchdowns," said Bolts head coach Mike McCoy. "We had the three field goal attempts there. Against a good team like this you have to finish drives with touchdowns in the red area. That's something we did not do a good job of early in the game."
Rivers threw for 218 yards while completing 19-of-29 pass attempts, getting sacked four times. Mathews ended with 59 yards rushing and Ronnie Brown, the second-overall pick of the 2005 draft by Miami, added 36 yards on nine carries.
San Diego lost despite holding the ball for more than 38 minutes compared to Denver's time of possession of 21 minutes and 57 seconds.
"We kept battling and made it a one-score game and had a chance," said Rivers. "Our defense gave us enough opportunities."
Probably a popular waiver claim in fantasy football this week, Matthews had a coming out party on Monday night with his game. It was unexpected to say the least, given his previous career highs in a game were four catches and 42 yards.
However, the 24-year-old became the first player in club history to have 11 or more catches and two touchdowns in a single game.
Lost in the mix behind Mike Wallace and Brian Hartline, who have combined for 83 catches and over 1,000 yards this season, Matthews has stepped into the inside role left vacated due to Brandon Gibson's season-ending knee injury.
"I have to be honest with you, Matthews has exceeded my expectations at that position," Miami offensive coordinator Mike Sherman said. "I see him more as an outside receiver than an inside receiver. The inside guys have to be nifty and he's a little more niftier than I gave him credit for."
Sherman will now be tasked with getting Miami's 25th-ranked ground game going after the horrid performance versus Tampa Bay. A return home could help as running back Lamar Miller, who had two yards on seven carries Monday night, had a career-high 105 yards rushing in the win over visiting Cincinnati and is averaging 5.6 yards per carry at home this season.
Tannehill has also done well at home this season, completing six touchdown passes to three interceptions, but will be behind a shorthanded offensive line.
In addition to missing Martin and Incognito, backup tackle Will Yeatman reportedly suffered a torn ACL in practice on Wednesday that would end his season.
That isn't good news for Tannehill, who has been sacked 37 times this season.
Miami's secondary did grab its 12th interception of the season on Monday after having just 10 all of last year. No. 12 came from safety Jimmy Wilson, his second of the season.
Defensive end Cameron Wake had three sacks versus the Bengals before coming up empty against the Bucs, while linebacker and leading tackler Dannell Ellerbe is coming off a solid game in which he had 11 tackles and a sack.
Miami will need to knock Rivers out of rhythm given his success this season. He has completed 71.6 percent of his passes with 18 touchdown throws to seven picks for an excellent 105.9 passer rating.
Rivers' average of 328 passing yards per game on the road this year is second- best behind only Peyton Manning and he has three games this season in which he completed at least 20 passes and 80 percent of his attempts. That matches Brett Favre and Drew Brees for a single-season high.
Rivers' top weapons are Woodhead, who has caught a club-high 53 passes with four touchdowns out of the backfield while also running for 220 yards and a score, and tight end Antonio Gates.
Gates caught four of eight targets last Sunday for 62 yards and is 67 yards away from 9,000 in his career. He is set to play in his 157th career game and has a chance to pass Dallas' Jason Witten (160 games) for the quickest to 9,000 yards.
Gates is also just six receptions shy of becoming the third-fastest to 700 career catches.
Rookie linebacker Tourek Williams notched his first career sack and also forced a fumble. He could see increased playing time with Larry English having gone on injured reserve due to a biceps injury suffered versus Denver.
Other young contributors on San Diego's 29th-ranked defense include linebackers Donald Butler and Manti Te'o as well as cornerback Derek Cox and defensive end Corey Liuget.
The Dolphins and Chargers are two of five teams in the AFC that sit at 4-5 and just a game back of the 5-4 New York Jets for a playoff spot. Needless to say, the loser this weekend can probably kiss its playoff chances goodbye.
Three of Miami's five losses have come by three points or less, but things won't get easier this Sunday given the current state of the run game and offensive line.
San Diego, meanwhile, has allowed 58 points in back-to-back losses after yielding just 15 in two previous wins. A meeting with the Dolphins should get them closer to that form than the current one.
Sports Network Predicted Outcome: Chargers 24, Dolphins 17


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Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee have quietly attempted to scuttle a congressional hearing looking into whistleblower allegations of discrimination at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Rep. Patrick McHenry, a North Carolina Republican, slammed the Democratic effort, calling it an "attempt to silence and intimidate whistleblowers."
Rep. Maxine Waters of California and Rep. Al Green of Texas, two ranking Democratic members of the House Financial Services Committee, last week wrote a letter urging the cancellation of Wednesday's scheduled hearing about Angela Martin, a CFPB employee scheduled to testify about employment discrimination and retaliation.
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations had originally invited three CFPB officials to testify at the hearing, including a federal employee union official. Democrats urged cancellation after the CFPB barred the officials from testifying before the subcommittee.
Without CFPB participation, Waters and Green wrote, the hearing would focus instead on "a confidential and on-going grievance resolution process, and a discussion of which jeopardizes the disclosure of the privacy of other CFPB employees," according to the letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.
The public break between Democrats and Republicans occurs as members of the subcommittee examine allegations of racial disparities at the consumer agency.
Politico on Monday published the planned opening testimony by an independent investigator slated to testify before the hearing. The investigator, Misty Raucci, is reported to level serious charges about the culture and working atmosphere at the bureau.
"I found that the general environment in Consumer Response is one of exclusion, retaliation, discrimination, nepotism, demoralization, devaluation, and other offensive working conditions which constitute a toxic workplace for many of its employees," Raucci plans to testify, according to Politico.
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, a Texas Republican, and McHenry denied the Democrats' request, and the hearing is slated to go on as scheduled.
"To allow the CFPB's refusal to cooperate to result in the cancellation of the scheduled hearing would be to accede to a gross intrusion upon the Subcommittee's prerogatives," they said in a Monday letter to the Democrats obtained by the Examiner.


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After passing by homeless people on her walks to and from school in Irvine, CA, 9-year-old Khloe Thompson decided to start her own charity – Khloe Kares.
Thompson along with her mother and grandmother, distribute sturdy, hand sewn cloth bags filled with basic necessities – feminine hygiene products, soap, socks and toothpaste to homeless women. Unlike plastic bags, Khloe's Kare bags are meant to last forever.
"You make me feel like a human being," one woman told Thompson after receiving a Kare Bag, according to Thompson's mother.
Los Angeles holds almost two-thirds of the nation's homeless population.
Thompson's work doesn't end with Kare bags. She recently hosted a GoFundMe campaign to fund a toy drive that would supply "dolls and trucks" to children in group homes, as well as the charity filing fees that would turn Khloe Kares into a 501(c)3 charity organization. Thompson surpassed her goal of $10,000 by almost $3,000.
"I want to inspire other kids to be great and to make your mark on this earth," Thompson says.
For more information and to find out how you can help Khloe's organization grow, visit www.khloekares.com.


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I haven't posted in a while mainly due to illness. I've been meditating on positive and healing affirmations and I feel I am getting stronger everyday.
There has been other major changes occurring in my family this year as well.
My son and his family are moving 1 thousand miles away. He had an opportunity to take a better paying position.
We've been so involved with our grandchildren since they were born that the idea of not being able to see them and our son and daughter-in-law anytime we wanted has left my husband and I feeling the loss big time.
We are helping them with their relocation now and we will be leaving at the end of this week on our big moving adventure. And in doing so I realized I won't have time to post very often, therefore I'm taking a blogging break.
I wish you all a busy, happy, healthful summer and I'll be on line again in late August.
HAVING WRITTEN---Like any art the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magick.-Holly Neal....... ........... The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new Eyes- M. Proust
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Photo Gallery: Transit of Venus
Beautiful, Magical
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Photo Gallery: Transit of Venus
(Photo The Associated Press)A bird comes into land atop one of the domes of the landmark Taj Mahal as Venus, top left, begins to pass in front of the sun, as visible from Agra, India, Wednesday, June 6, 2012. People around the world turned their attention to the daytime sky on Tuesday and early Wednesday in Asia to make sure they caught the rare sight of the transit of Venus. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
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The rule of nine : Paul Madriani Series, Book 11. / Steve Martini.
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| San Diego defense attorney Paul Madriani is still reeling from the trauma of a near nuclear explosion he helped avert at the naval base in Coronado. Threatened by federal authorities to keep quiet about the close call in California, Madriani is now faced with a new problem in the steely-eyed and alluring Joselyn Cole, a weapons control expert, who believes he has to go public with what he knows if they have any hope of stopping a similar event in the future. But Madriani has been linked to the murder of a Washington, DC, political staffer, and authorities believe a shadowy figure called Liquida-a hired assassin known as "the Mexicutioner"-may be responsible. And this man, as the last survivor of the attack in San Diego, might be driven by a bizarre, horrifying, star-crossed vendetta and might now be looking for Madriani himself. What Madriani and Cole begin to fear is that this madman has joined forces with a demented former radical known as the Old...
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|Early Judaism(s)
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|Scripture and Early Judaism(s)
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|öLawö and Early Judaism(s)
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|Deuteronomy and the Origin of Judaism
|p. 72
|The God of Cyrus and the God of Israel
|p. 85
|Jewish Apocalyptic
|p. 100
|Enoch and Genesis
|p. 120
|Eating and Drinking in the Qumran Texts
|p. 130
|Eating and Drinking in the Roman Empire
|p. 141
|p. 154
|Index of References
|p. 167
|Index of Authors
|p. 171
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NHL Trade Rumors: Will the Maple Leafs Be Able to Land Roberto Luongo?October 30, 2012
The Toronto Maple Leafs won't be able to trade for Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo and not give up much value because even though the veteran's contract is massive, he is still capable of helping a team make a deep playoff run.
Here is the latest rumor involving Luongo and the Leafs, according to TVA Sports (via SLAM! Sports):
According to TVA Sports hockey analyst Enrico Ciccone, Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke contacted his Vancouver Canucks counterpart, Mike Gillis, about the 33-year-old goaltender last weekend.
There's no question that acquiring Luongo would bolster the Leafs' chances of ending their playoff drought, but does general manager Brian Burke have enough pieces to make a deal with the Canucks?
Yes, he sure does.
To ensure that the Canucks still have great goaltending depth after trading Luongo, asking the Leafs for young netminder James Reimer would be a wise move. Reimer has a lot of talent and a bright future ahead of him, but he's not an untouchable player, especially if the return includes a goaltender of Luongo's caliber.
The Canucks really need some more center depth, especially at the NHL level. Toronto has two quality centers that it could use in a Luongo trade: Joe Colborne and Tyler Bozak.
Colborne is a phenomenal talent with impressive offensive skills and great size. He has the potential to be a good top-six player for many years and would be able to contribute to the Canucks' offense in the near future.
If Vancouver is looking for a player that can make a more immediate impact at center, Bozak is the best option. He's coming off the best season of his career and would provide some much-needed third line scoring for Vancouver.
Nazem Kadri is another young forward that the Canucks would likely covet as well. His defensive skills aren't what they should be at this point of his career, but he definitely has the potential to be a solid two-way player.
Newly-acquired winger James van Riemsdyk hasn't even played a game for the Leafs yet, so I don't think Burke would be quick to move him anytime soon, but the former second overall pick has the size and goal scoring ability that the Canucks desperately need.
The Canucks could also use some more defensive depth. Matt Finn, who was selected by the Leafs in the second round of this year's draft, is one defenseman that Burke could consider parting with in a trade for Luongo.
Toronto has a lot of defensive depth, but players such as Morgan Rielly and Jake Gardiner are probably untouchable because of their potential to become legitimate No. 1 defensemen.
The Leafs can also offer the Canucks a number of expiring contracts that Vancouver can acquire to shed payroll in attempt to create as much salary cap space as possible for what promises to be a fantastic free-agent class next summer.
Burke has the pieces to get a deal done without having to give up anyone from his core of promising young players, including Rielly, Gardiner and Phil Kessel.
To get Luongo, Burke will probably have to offer a first-round pick from the 2013 NHL draft and one or two of the players from the following list:
- Nazem Kadri
- Tyler Bozak
- James Reimer
- Joe Colborne
- Clarke MacArthur
- Matt Finn
- Nikolai Kulemin
- James van Riemsdyk
- Tim Connolly
Giving up a first-round pick from a deep draft wouldn't be ideal, but the Leafs already have a number of first-round picks in their organization who are on their way to becoming NHL regulars.
There is one problem from the league's most recent CBA offer to the NHLPA that the Leafs could potentially run into if they pursue Luongo, as TSN's Bob McKenzie explains.
One of most interesting aspects of NHL proposal is aimed at punishing clubs more than players, with regard to existing back-diving deals.— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) October 17, 2012
Any existing deal in excess of 5 yrs would carry cap hit in every year of contract, even if player were to retire with year(s) left.— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) October 17, 2012
In other words, the benefit clubs thought they were getting by reducing AAV with back-diving deals/bogus end yrs would be reduced/negated.— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) October 17, 2012
Sorry I lied. Important note on back-diving contracts (BDC). If player traded, then later in deal retires, original club on hook for cap hit— Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) October 17, 2012
If these rules become part of the next CBA, the Canucks are going to want more in return for Luongo. However, even then, Burke and the Leafs have the assets to make a deal.
Nicholas Goss is an NHL Lead Writer at Bleacher Report. He was also the organization's on-site reporter for the 2011 Stanley Cup Final in Boston. Follow him on Twitter.


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ATI posts Catalyst 6.7 drivers
Windows and Linux versions
ATI has posted its Catalyst 6.7 driver package. For Windows users, the download is backed by WHQL certification, but Linux fans haven't been ignored - a version of the drivers for the open source operating system has also been released.
Catalyst 6.7's headline features include the ability to activate manually CrossFire's Alternate Frame Rendering mode for Direct3D applications by moving the Catalyst AI slider to the Advanced position. ATI said it is encouraging users to apply this setting if they are not seeing significant performance gains in applications when Crossfire is enabled.
The company admitted, however, that the enhancement will not work with Direct3D apps that already have a problem with AFR.
The drivers, now at version 8.27.10 now support X.org 7.1 X Server via the ATI Driver Installer as well as via packages for supported distributions that utilise X.org 7.1.
ATI's Catalyst 6.7 for Windows software package is available for XP, Media Center Edition 2005 and XP Pro x64. The drivers support Radeon 9500 and higher-numbered GPUs, along with all the X-class chips.
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Sony game unit sales fall
Technology giant's game business posts diminished revenue, profit due to "lower" sales of PS3, PSP hardware and software sales.
Sony's game unit continues to slide. The company reported sales for the quarter ended September 30 today, revealing revenue slipped 15.8 percent year-on-year from ¥176 billion ($2.2 billion) to ¥148.2 billion ($1.9 billion), with operating income also falling from ¥3 billion ($37.5 million) to ¥2.3 billion ($29 million).
Sony attributed the downturn to "lower" sales of PlayStation 3 and PSP hardware and software, though the company said this was partially offset by contributions from PlayStation Vita. Additionally, profits were down due to the slower sales, as well as "unfavorable" foreign exchange rates.
As for specific sales figures, Sony sold 3.5 million combined units of the PS3 and PS2 compared to 4.9 million during this time last year. The PSP and PlayStation Vita moved 1.6 million units during the three-month period, down slightly from the 1.7 sold year-over-year. Of note, this time last year, the PS Vita had not yet gone on sale.
Concerning software, the PS3 and PS2 accounted for 41.4 million combined unit sales during the period, up compared to the 40.2 million sold a year ago. The PSP and PS Vita added 8.7 million units, up year-over-year from 8.2 million. Again, the latter figure only accounts for PSP sales.
In all, Sony posted revenue of ¥1.6 trillion ($20.1 billion) for the quarter, up from ¥1.57 trillion ($19.6 billion) hauled this time last year. Losses for the period came in at ¥15.4 billion ($192.4 million), better than the ¥26.9 billion ($336.2 million) hit the company took last year.
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2007 Lamborghini Gallardo ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Fast, beautiful, and Italian.
Now that it has been bought by the Volkswagen Group and put under the direct supervision of Audi, Italian sports car manufacturer Lamborghini, passed from owner to owner for the last 35 years, finally has a stable platform from which to operate, and a group of companies that can offer high-technology and manufacturing synergies while it goes about designing and building breathtakingly beautiful sports cars.
The new, 2007 Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera is proof that the partnership is working.
Superleggera means super light, in Italian. The Lamborghini designers took the existing Gallardo coupe, added still more power and more torque to the V10 engine, and then took 220 pounds out of the car by substituting lightweight carbon fiber and titanium throughout the car to make it quicker and faster than it was before.
This thing is so quick, so fast, so loud, and sounds so angry at full-throttle that it may scare kids, old people, pets, and livestock. But that's just part of its charm.
This is one of the most exciting, easy-to-drive sports cars ever built, a very special car for the few who can afford it.
The Lamborghini Gallardo is available in coupe and roadster versions.
The Superleggera is intended for drivers who may want to take it to the race track on weekends, so it comes only as a coupe, safer and more structurally rigid than a superlight roadster would be.
Options for the Superleggera include a stationary rear wing instead of the standard articulated wing that rises and falls with the speed of the car. Also on the options list are eight-piston carbon disc brakes ($10,000), as well as a window net, fire extinguisher, and a bar for competition seat belts.
The six-speed manual transmission is a no-cost option.
A navigation system and an entertainment system is available for the Gallardo, but not on the Superleggera version because it would add weight. You can listen to the AM/FM radio, or just listen to the music from the V10 engine.
Safety features include seat-mounted side air bags, anti-lock brakes, traction control, electronic stability control, and all-wheel drive.
All Lamborghini Gallardo models are built on an aluminum space frame, with aluminum extruded parts welded to cast aluminum joint sections, and an aluminum body structure with thermoplastic hang-on parts such as fenders and door skins. The Gallardo is plenty light, but the Superleggera goes even further.
From the outside, the Superleggera is nearly identical to the standard Gallardo coupe, with the exception of the Superleggera logo on the lower portion of the doors.
But the shape hides a whole menu of lightweight parts including a carbon fiber diffuser under the rear end of the Superleggera, a pair of carbon fiber mirror housings, a carbon fiber driveshaft to the rear wheels, a polymer rear window and engine cover instead of glass, carbon fiber intake manifold, lightweight exhaust manifolds, forged aluminum wheels, and titanium wheel nuts, to make the car as light as possible.
Inside the cockpit, the Superleggera has shiny gray carbon fiber door panels, a carbon fiber dashboard panel and carbon fiber console in order to save weight and look sexy. The headliner and carpet also have special graphics.
The standard Superleggera seats for the rest of the world's customers are carbon fiber sports seats that are closer to racing seats than street seats, with fore-aft adjustment only; since they are one piece, the backrest portion can't be adjusted separately, and some drivers simply won't be comfortable in the scantly upholstered seats.
The seats, in turn, are equipped with racing-style four-point seat belts, which means donning and adjusting two separate shoulder belts that come through openings in the seatbacks. Once adjusted to the body and cinched tight, the belts allow very little movement, so it's a good idea to close the doors first, because you won't be able to reach them once belted.
Fortunately, U.S. models will have the standard Gallardo coupe seats and seat-mounted side air bags as well as conventional three-point seat belts. The good news is that, once belted in, driver and passenger can reach all the audio, climate, window and other controls in the center of the dash quite easily and comfortably.
Enthusiasts will recognize the audio and climate controls from various Audi models.
The sharply angled windshield and the deep dashboard give the feeling that you're sitting quite far back in the car, and you are, just ahead of the rear window and firewall that separate you physically but not aurally from that fire-breathing, V10 engine.
Driving Impression
To drive the Gallardo Superleggera is to drive one of the most exciting, powerful and capable sports cars in the world today. Lamborghini quotes a 0-100 kilometer (0-62 mph) time of only 3.8 seconds, and a top speed just under 200 miles per hour.
The six-speed manual transmission is a very good transmission hobbled by a Sixties-style shifting gate built into the floor console, an anachronism that makes it difficult to shift cleanly and smoothly. Although we spent some time with the clunky-shifting 6-speed manual version, we spent most of our test drive time on the roads around Scottsdale, Arizona, and at Phoenix International Raceway with the much more attractive egear version.
The egear transmission is a combination of manual and automatic that is shifted up and down by paddles attached to the steering column (and not to the steering wheel itself, which can be awkward in some driving situations). To get Neutral, you pull back on both paddles at once. To drive in automatic mode, push the console-mounted button with a large A on it. To engage Reverse, touch the R button on the dashboard. Although the egear transmission can be clunky, too, especially as it downshifts into first before coming to a stop, it is a joy to use in performance driving situations, shifting in lightning-fast fashion under full throttle and blipping the throttle on downshifts to match engine rpm to road speed. This transmission, coupled to a 522-hp engine that doesn't run out of revs until 8000 rpm, makes for an exciting driving experience.
The thoroughly sorted-out racing-style suspension system on the five-year-old Gallardo works in concert with a front/rear weight distribution of 42/58 percent, the huge, sticky Pirelli P Zero Corse tires, the car's low center of gravity, and its viscous-coupling all-wheel-drive system to deliver acceleration, cornering and braking that few other cars on this planet can match. The viscous coupling can send up to 100 percent of the engine's torque to either the front or rear tires, but normally operates at 42 percent front-drive and 58 percent rear-drive for maximum performance on dry pavement.
At the same time, the steering is ultra-direct and quick, and the ride is reasonably plush and quiet, but it does crash pretty hard on rough pavement and potholes.
The stationary wing optional for the Superleggera is said to add more than 370 pounds of aerodynamic downforce to the rear of the car at high speeds.
Braking performance, even without the $10,000 optional carbon ceramic brakes, is exceptional, with a 60-0 braking distance of only about 109 feet, and a powerful feel that will pull you right up against your seatbelts in a panic stop situation.
Overall, the Superleggera instills a huge degree of confidence in a good, experienced driver.
We think the Lamborghini Gallardo was a very special sports car as it was, easy to drive, dramatic to look at, an all-around sexy beast. But with the advent of the Superleggera version, the Gallardo becomes even more exciting and more special. Only about 350 of these cars will be available worldwide, making them instant collector's items.
Jim McCraw drove the Gallardo Superleggera in Arizona.
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Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera coupe ($220,300).The Lamborghini Gallardo is a high-performance exotic super car made in Italy and little brother to the Murcielago. The Gallardo is available in coupe or Spyder convertible. It has an aluminum body and space frame allowing it a better power to weight ratio. It rides on Pirelli PZero tires mounted on 19-inch wheels and Brembo brakes that have eight-piston front calipers and four-piston rear calipers. It is powered by a 520 hp 5.0-liter V-10 controlled by a six-speed gearbox with 'E-gear' paddle shifters. The Gallardo is full-time all-wheel drive. The Lamborghini Gallardo is a carryover from 2006.
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It's time to pack the car and the kids for a road trip adventure. To make sure you have fun, here are five mistakes to avoid. I can't guarantee it still won't wind up like Clark Griswold's vacation but dodging these will get you off to a good start.
You're leaving later than you planned. When you travel by airplane, you're on someone else's schedule. You have to be on time or they'll leave without you. Taking a road trip gives you lots of flexibility, which is great. However, it can create a lack of urgency to get out the door.
Save your yelling voice for breaking up your kid's car-ride disputes and pad your departure time by 30 minutes -- even an hour if you have really slow movers or toddlers. And be sure to fill the gas tank the night before!
You realize something you really need is stuck in the back of the van or trunk of the car and you can't get to it. Making the situation worse is the trash strewn about and the impending carsickness!
Give each child three bags that remain close to them. One should include all their toys, books, snacks, etc. (including an extra outfit, so you won't have to unpack the whole car to change them). One is for trash. The last is for queasiness. Explain how to use the last one. Accidents usually happen because you can't get to your little one in time and they don't know where to point their mouth. With their own bags and instructions, these situations can be avoided.
Everyone is a mess, uncomfortable (and complaining). Someone's nose is running, another just spilled some juice and a third has cookie-crumb hands. Things are getting gross, legs are getting cramped and tempers are getting short.
Be sure to pack -- in easy reach -- tissues, paper towels, and wipes. You may want to consider toilet tissue and hand sanitizer for those emergency pit stops. Also bring blankets, pillows, and other favorite comfy things from home. It's cool for kids to have that stuff in the car because it's unexpected. It's also helpful when one person is hot and another is cold. And if they are comfy, clean and relaxed … maybe they'll sleep (fingers crossed).
Traffic is bad but the GPS alternate route is worse. There are times when you'll want to go off the GPS' main route and unfortunately the alternate routes offered can be confusing and frustrating.
Have a road atlas or at least a printed map of the area. You can then get a big picture of where you are, where you want to go and possible alternate routes.
Everyone wants to stop but you're completely off schedule.
You are going to have to stop. You are going to want to stop. You need to let those little beasties out to run around! Map out playgrounds or even fast-food places with playlands ahead of time. Check your GPS -- most can locate parks and rest stops closest to the route you are driving. More important, face this fact: You can't control everything, so don't try. Plan for as much as you can and enjoy whatever happens. You might arrive later than you wanted, you may have gotten lost, you may have gotten sick – who knows – but whatever it was, it will probably wind up being the best story of the trip. Try to enjoy it all – while it's happening and forever after.
Wherever you go, whenever you leave, whatever you decide to do, use these ideas to make getting there a little more fun!
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As crude piles up, where will it go?
Published 4:32 pm, Sunday, March 20, 2016
Oil producers have brought so much crude to the surface that one Houston company is trying to put some back underground.
Fairway Energy Partners is drilling to a cavern 2,000 feet underground south of the Astrodome and plans to pump it full of 11 million barrels of oil. The project is one of many in Texas and around the globe that have sprung up to house the overwhelming supply of oil that is suppressing prices and forcing many producers to make drastic cuts in investments and jobs.
"Crude is piling up everywhere," said Christopher Hilgert, the CEO of Fairway, an oil storage company based in Houston.
Worldwide, oil producers have been pumping an average of 1.5 million more barrels per day than the global economy can use since late 2014. Much of the surplus has come to the U.S, where imported crude has driven oil storage to record levels and shows little sign of slowing down.
The demand for more storage has created big opportunities for companies such as Fairway, which is using several hundred million dollars in private equity funding to add capacity. Other Houston companies that offer oil storage, such as Plains All American Pipeline and Enterprise Products Partners, are having no trouble finding customers for their tank farms.
U.S. pipelines, terminals and storage facilities held 523.2 million barrels of crude oil as of March 11, the most in modern records kept by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Across the 34 most developed countries of the world, commercial storage held more than 3 billion barrels of crude oil and products in December, roughly 350 million barrels more than is normal, according to the International Energy Agency.
"The demand for tanks is really exceptionally high," said Eelco Hoekstra, CEO and chairman of international storage giant Vopak. "People believe that the low oil environment might be there for a while because of the fundamental changes to the way the United States can produce oil."
Still, capacity remains. While global storage capacity estimates are opaque, most market watchers say the U.S. is at about 65 percent capacity.
"It's not like we're about to spill crude out onto the ground," said Brian Busch, an analyst at commodities tracking firm Genscape. "But if we don't see an actual physical change in the fundamentals, then a year from now it's going to be a very different picture."
Analysts warn that the sea of oil will weigh on prices for years to come. Most expect the millions of stored barrels to seep back out onto the market past 2017, ensuring that oil remains plentiful and prices remain low until refineries can burn through the backlog.
Wherever it's available
New oil storage capacity is coming online quickly. Between September 2014 and September 2015, the U.S. added nearly 30 million barrels of storage.
But the burden on tanks isn't distributed equally because oil is produced hundreds or thousands of miles from where it's eventually refined. That leaves some parts of the country with capacity to spare, while tanks in other areas are brimming with oil.
At the logistics hub of Cushing, Okla., tank farms are holding about 67.5 million barrels, just 5 million barrels short of capacity.
"There is some talk already that some crude oil has been turned away from Cushing due to a lack of space," Tim Evans, a commodities specialist at Citi Futures, recently told clients.
Cushing's tank farms are of particular importance because they're the delivery point for West Texas Intermediate oil futures, the U.S. oil benchmark. A disruption at the logistics hub could have an outsize effect on the financial markets that depend on the city's ability to smoothly process oil.
Drillers and refiners are closely watching the rising levels of oil. If storage becomes too scarce, producers could be forced to sell the barrels nobody can house for pennies on the dollar. Refineries use the space as a buffer to ensure a steady flow of oil and refined products. With less cushion available, markets may become more volatile.
Gulf Coast
For now though, tanks closer to the massive refineries along the Gulf Coast are taking extra crude. The Houston region has around 63 million of storage capacity at terminals and refineries. Currently, utilization is approximately 60 percent full, according to Genscape.
Much of the remaining capacity is already reserved for long-term customers, though. Anyone looking to store crude on the short-term or spot market is having a tough time finding space, said Hilgert, the CEO of Fairway.
"The Houston market is very tight," he said. "There's essentially no spot capacity left."
The math on the storage trade is straightforward: If holding the oil boosts prices more than the cost of storing it, more oil moves into storage.
At the start of March, a barrel of oil sold on the spot went for about $34. On the futures market in March, oil to be delivered a year later was trading for nearly $40 per barrel. A rally in past weeks has brought current prices near $40 per barrel and future prices higher as well.
"You can buy and sell oil in six months at $5 above today's prices," said Morgan Downey, a former commodities trader and the author of Oil 101. "That provides an incentive to people with oil to store it."
Going underground
The cheapest storage is generally found in vast underground caverns or in tank farms, and those generally fill first. After that, more expensive storage is tapped until it's no longer profitable to fill. The steeper the futures curve, or the larger the difference between today's prices and future prices, the higher inventories build.
As conventional onshore storage has filled, some traders have gone looking elsewhere for space. Genscape's Brian Busch, for example, said he's heard reports that unused rail tank cars are being filled with crude. Traders also are looking to fill oil tankers and park the vessels offshore.
So far, the difference between future and current prices hasn't been large enough to generate much interest in floating storage, said Jamie Webster, a crude oil analyst at energy consulting group IHS.
"At least on aglobal basis, the economics are not really there," Webster said, adding that it may come soon. "I still anticipate that some floating storage is likely to take place."
For the global oil markets to return to normalcy, much of the crude sitting in storage eventually will need to flow into the open market.
Fresh production
And when they do, those barrels will be competing with fresh production. All of which will, in the short run, keep prices down, but it's the only way for them to recover, analysts say.
Otherwise, "what the inventory will ultimately do is keep a lid on any rally in prices for a substantial period," said Dominick Chirichella, senior partner at the Energy Management Institute, a research group.
The EIA estimates that the draw-down will take place after 2017. Until then, EIA analysts project that global inventories will rise by 1.6 million barrels per day in 2016 and by 600,000 barrels per day in 2017.
"These inventory builds are larger than previously expected," the EIA says, "delaying the rebalancing of the oil market."


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Beneath the Skin is a gripping psychological thriller by the Top Ten best-selling author, Nicci French.
Zoe, Jennifer and Nadia are three women with nothing in common. Except for the man who wants to kill them. He sends them terrifying letters, full of the intimate details of their lives - and promises that he will bring those lives to a violent, horrible end. But not before he has enjoyed himself.
Invisible and apparently unstoppable, he delights in watching the women suffer, thrilled by his power to leave them utterly helpless, alone in their terror and confusion. Except they're not all as helpless as he thinks . . .
©2000 Nicci French (P)2014 Audible Studios
"Chilling and captivating read!"
Very highly. The reader had an excellent skill for differentiating her voices between each of the characters.
Not giving too much away but the last of Jenny's chapters. Absolutely chilling, cleverly planned out and written. Highly effective psychological thriller.
I especially liked Nadia - I suppose she is the character the reader feels they spend the most time with and she both embodies and set herself apart from the other women before her.
Yes! I couldn't wait to listen to it again, it had me on the edge of my seat and I absolutely devoured it!
It is very hard not to become so involved with the characters that you regret the loss of them and the helplessness of the characters around them.
"Quirky and a little disturbing."
Told from the victims' point of view. This makes it interesting but also quite disconcerting. I wasn't sure I was comfortable with that at some points in the story.
The last "victim" is the best for obvious reasons once you have read the book.
She made me feel engaged with the characters, even when you weren't meant to like them much.
Not the usual way these stories are told. Quite obvious at some points, puzzling at others but the ending tidies everything up without you saying "what?" but you are left feeling a bit ..... flat?
I enjoyed it but I wouldn't read it again.
"Beneath the Skin"
Very compelling story. I recommend memorising Part One particularly, your understanding and enjoyment of the rest of the book will be greatly enhanced.
Gripping story
You always want to know what happens next
Well narrated
I recommend it to anybody who enjoys a good book well narrated
"Novel take on the crazed killer of women theme"
It's not the kind of book I would normally buy. I'd have suspected it of coming under that heading of 'chick lit' and given it a wide berth. But Audible offered me a package deal of them and so I bit. Not a bit sorry. It has held my attention comfortably for three days or more while working at other jobs, and I was keen to get back to it when I had to take a break.French's take on the killer of women theme is to tell it from the angle of the prospective victims, whom we come to know and appreciate, and whom we hope will not die.Characters well drawn and convincing, police appropriately baffled, neat tie up of plot at the end. You're not left hanging by the thoughtful TV fade-out. This is the great joy the book, I think, over most other media. What I really wanted to say was that the weight of concern and value shifts on to the victims in this book, for which reason I think it is timely and has its heart in the right place. We could do with being a lot less fascinated by killers and much more concerned and interested by their victims.
No contest about my favourite character - Nadia takes all the prizes, because she does fight back, does not play the helpless woman card, manages to remain funny and appealing amid the increasing mess her life gets into.
It made me sad and thoughtful too, and for that I am always grateful.
I thought French was perhaps trying to tell me that nobody is going to care more about my life and well-being than me! I'm glad to have this message reinforced. It's easily forgotten. As a psychotherapist, I often try to tell patients this, and it is not an easy point to get across. Women especially actually think it weird! Dependence is a normal part of the human condition - over-dependence is a good way to mess up your life big-time!
"A gripping book that gave me the shivers"
A compelling story that makes you want to stay up late and 'turn the next page'. All three lead characters were wonderfully articulated and utterly believable.
For me it was the richness of the characters that really came through, by the end of each part of the book I felt I knew the women involved and had a great sense of the level of persecution each had suffered. The evil and malice of the perpetrator builds as the book progresses and there are moments when the book send shivers down you spine.
This is definitely the sort of book that you could listen to in one sitting, that said the construction around three characters means that it would work equally well as a three parter.
If Carlsberg wrote books ....
"Love Nicci French"
As ever, a really good listen. Cleverly written leaving me wondering where story was going. Enjoyed.
This book is so well-written inasmuch as the characterization of the three women is believable and convincing. The build-up of tension was tingling and the outcome was completely unpredictable.....I had to "blitz" listen to the last few chapters!!
"Can't be bothered"
I have listened to and read quite few Nicci French novels and generally enjoyed them. I can't be bothered with this one, though. An awful, pretentious first section, then a long rambling part about a woman assaulting a mugger with a watermelon. I kept thinking - when is the story going to start? Eventually, I decided - not soon enough for me.
I didn't like this as much as the Frieda Klein series. I found the police unconvincing and the story came to a rather abrupt end with little explanation as to how the storyteller had reached the conclusion she did.
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Published: Thursday, 16 March 2017
Hole lot of Golf in one Membership
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Sign up for a single 18 hole course ticket and we will upgrade your season ticket at no extra cost to a Rover ticket.
Terms and conditions of this offer can be found on our Golf Season Tickets page and the price list is available to view via the Golf homepage.
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Please be aware that new changes have been implemented for the upcoming season whereby we now have resident and non resident of South Lanarkshire prices. New members joining will need to provide proof of residency if they stay within South Lanarkshire to receive the discounted price. Two forms of proof are required: photo ID, i.e. driving license/passport, and a utility or council tax bill.
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Hey everyone, i recently purchased a new phone and wanted to change the voicemail on my tracfone to include my new number. The tracfone already has a voice message i put in long ago.
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Anyone know how this can be done?
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Tried that one earlier too. Didn't work. The #4 key gets me nowhere. Sometimes tells me invaled key or number.
Trac does not have their own voice mail system. You are using the voice mail system provided by the underlying carrier. Find out who your underlying carrier is and follow their instructions to make the changes you want.
I sent an email to Tracfone and they reset my voicemail to where there was no message. I could then start over with a new message.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- It is one Louisville e-commerce operation where the "Help Wanted" sign is still out.
It may be the middle of the Christmas shopping season, but eBay Enterprise in the Jefferson Riverport in Southwest Louisville still needs about 200 seasonal workers.
"We do need workers," says eBay Enterprise CEO Chris Saridakis. "Actually we would love to fill this center with a few more hundred people during the next few days."
Saridakis and some of his management team are in Louisville this week to assist employees who are working overtime to get goods shipped out in time for Christmas. "I'm here to help our team pick and pack boxes and fulfill orders for our customers," he says.
The online Christmas shopping season is off to a strong start and it is about to hit its peak.
E-Bay recently expanded in Louisville, investing $45 million for more warehouse space. The Louisville operation, which has 2,500 workers right now, runs online shopping sites for various brands like Bath and Body Works, Dick's Sporting Goods, Estee Lauder, and Pet Smart, according to Saridakis.
E-Bay needs more pickers, packers, shippers and supervisors like Patrika Barlow. She started as a seasonal worker but now is a full time supervisor. "It's a busy time of year." says Barlow. "There are a lot of opportunities right now; this is the place to be, it's growing."
Pay starts at about $10 an hour.
In an uncertain economy it seems odd that these kinds of jobs go unfulfilled.
Says Saridakis, "This time of year it is very hard to find good, qualified workers who can show up every day, it is very competitive."
Saridakis says seasonal work can turn into permanent employment like it did for Barlow.
So what happens if e-Bay cannot find enough workers for the shopping season.
"If we don't get the workers we will be a little bit delayed in getting the orders out; of course everybody wants to get their packages before the holiday," answers Saridakis.
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Zend is pleased to announce that Zend Server, the leading PHP Application Platform, is now integrated with the new VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.0, and a Zend Server Blueprint is available on the new VMware Cloud Management Marketplace.
As part of a suite of announcements that VMware made today at VMworld 2013 in Barcelona, the Zend Server Blueprint enables clients to easily implement the combination of vCloud Automation Center and the Zend Server Application Platform to automate key steps in the Continuous Delivery process. You can learn more about Zend's point of view and best practices for Continuous Delivery here, including access to the Zend Pattern for Infrastructure Automation with VMware vCloud Automation Center.
VMware's vCloud Automation center enables any key IT process to be created as a service. Within that, the Zend Server platform provides automation of core capabilities for PHP application delivery, such as automated application deployment, clustering and high availability and core application management capabilities. The combination of both products enables a client to create IT services which are automatically provisioned on demand from a service catalog and include Zend Server as part of the foundation for those services.
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Volvo's S90 sedan, sibling to the XC90 SUV, makes an improved Pilot Assist for self-driving standard across the board. There's a slew of safety assists, and the cockpit is to die for. Too bad CarPlay isn't standard across the board.
How to keep small cars selling in the era of compact crossovers: more technology, quieter cockpits. Here's how the top 10 manage.
Ford pushes Sync AppLink as a legitimate interface on par with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and will offer all three. Toyota goes further; it adopts open AppLink, but not CarPlay or Android Auto.
Hyundai raises the bar on compact cars. Audi raises the bar for highway cruisers. Tesla puts Ludicrous on the speedometer. Cruze gives Chevy a real compact car.
The Sonata got Android Auto earlier this year, but CarPlay support ran into a snag; now the automaker is saying early 2016 for Sonatas to support CarPlay, putting it almost two years behind schedule.
Ford figures a way to retrofit Siri Eyes-Free to five million Sync 2 Fords and Lincolns. It's not CarPlay, but it's something.
Porsche and Google have gotten into a spat over just how much data Android Auto collects — but who's telling the truth?
EnLighten shows time until the light turns red, or green. If you won't make the light, it suggests you start slowing down now to save fuel.
The bulk of 2016 VW line offers adaptive cruise control, lane departure warning, blind spot detection, and auto braking after a crash. Microsoft phone fans (fan?) will love MirrorLink feature.
GPS is more than the blinking dot on a moving map. It will steer headlamps, improve self-driving, wring more miles out of a hybrid's battery. Accuracy will improve from several car lengths to several inches.
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When it's time for a change in your house what's the best way to achieve it? Repainting your rooms can give your home a completely different feel. You can go from plain white walls to ones that pop with pomegranate red or sea foam green. A little bit of color change can truly brighten up your home.
How do I figure out how much paint I need?
The amount of paint you will need depends on a variety of different things. Whether you are doing multiple coats, the quality of your paints, the amount of space you need to paint, if you are also painting the ceiling, etc. In order to calculate the amount of wall space you need to cover, you should multiple the length of the wall by the height by the number of walls. You should then have a total square foot area for the walls. You can also factor in the ceiling by multiplying the length of the room by the width.
Finding the right type of paint
Each gallon of paint will list the amount of square footage on the side of its label. It all depends on the quality and number of coats you plan on applying. Higher quality paint will have more coverage with less coats, and it will give off an overall better look. Buying lower quality may save a few bucks initially, but you'll be paying for it in the long run by having to repaint.
How much paint do I need for a 12 x 12 room?
A typical gallon of paint has the ability to cover 400 square feet of wall space. Most of the time, you will apply two coats. A 12 x 12 x 8 room is about 350 square ft., not counting the ceiling. This means that you will need two gallons, maybe a little more if you are planning on painting the ceiling as well.
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July 16, 2012
Open Access Benefits Journals Over Science
Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online
The online paywalls erected by scientific journal publishers, who maintain healthy profit margins, may soon come crashing down.The first crack in publishers´ pricey barriers came with a set of new proposals issued today by the U.K. government.
An announcement made by Universities and Science Minister David Willetts outlined the government´s plan to adopt a number of recommendations from a report earlier this year on open access by Dame Janet Finch. These recommendations include the government making payments to publishers for each paper published in return for open availability of the research.
"Removing paywalls that surround taxpayer-funded research will have real economic and social benefits," Willetts said in a statement. "It will allow academics and businesses to develop and commercialize their research more easily and herald a new era of academic discovery."
The change in policy by the British government is the latest chapter in the debate raging between major academic publishers, including Elsevier, Springer and Wiley-Blackwell, which charge high subscription fees, and the academic community that says paywalls are effectively speed bumps along the road to further research.
In January, over 7,000 researchers in several countries around the world publicly declared they would not publish, edit or perform peer review with Elsevier journals. The boycott was in response to the publisher´s support of a House of Representatives bill, the Research Works Act, that critics feel would restrict public access to published, publicly-funded research. Elsevier withdraw its support of the bill following the boycott.
Despite that fact that Elsevier's profit margin in 2010 was around 36 percent, British universities pay more than $300 million in fees to the company and other journal publishers, according to The Guardian. Incidentally, newspapers like the Guardian have seen their profit margins drop as the internet has opened up the news business.
Many universities and research organizations encourage their scientists to publish their work in open-access, free online repositories. However, two factors play into the lack freely accessible research.
First, many researchers are worried that academic publishers will not publish any research if it is also available freely online.
Second, publishing work in a more prestigious journal affords that study and its researchers a certain credibility and value that cannot be attained by simply throwing the research up on the web.
Several in the scientific community welcomed the new development, despite the fact that research authors will still have to pay a fee to get their work peer-reviewed and published online.
"The Government, despite having made a bad choice, still has an opportunity through the detailed implementation of the new structure to ensure that researchers and taxpayers do not lose out completely," Fred Friend of University College London told BBC News.
Last month, Friend noted in an online statement that the new proposals would still maintain the publishers´ healthy profit margins.
"It would be ironic if the very publishers who through lobbying have delayed the introduction of open access by several years were to dominate the open access publishing market," he wrote.
The U.K. government has committed over $230 million for the development of an online infrastructure dedicated to open access objectives and pledged $120 million to the development of the European Bioinformatics Institute´s Elixir project, a potentially leading repository for bioinformatics information.


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Utilities to have in your AIX toolbox for debugging process problems
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As an AIX administrator you've probably run into problems such as these:
There are several AIX utilities that can help in these kind of scenarios: truss, trace, and kdb.
At first glance, these utilites might seem overwhelming and too complicated to use. But if you try them out you'll quickly realize you don't need to understand everything in the output to still pick up useful information that will help you narrow down issues.
Truss is my favorite because it is the easiest to use. Truss shows all of the system calls a process is making. For example, if a process needs to open a file, it creates a system call that is passed up to the kernel. By looking at a process with truss you can get an idea of what the process is doing and why it might be failing. Useful flags are "-f" to also show info on child process that are created, and the "-p" flag which lets you specify a process ID of a running process to trace.
One time I had a database client on a server stop working. It gave a very non-descriptive error about why it was failing. I reseached the error online and couldn't find any info. I checked with the DBA and he insisted they hadn't changed anything. So I ran the failing database client command with truss and it showed that it was trying to access a file in a non-obvious place and wasn't able to access the file due to file permissions. It turned out the DBA's had installed an update that had changed some file permissions :) With the help of truss we were able to determine what the process was doing and why it failed.
To learn more about truss, look through the man page, and then try running truss on an "ls" command for a file/directory your user doesn't have access to. Look through the output and you should find something like this:
kopen("/testdir", O_RD
This shows that "ls" tried to open /testdir but got an "Err#13 EACCESS" which means the user didn't have access to this directory.
The trace utility records systems events. You run it for a set amount of time (starting with the "trace" command, followed by a "trcstop" command), and then use the "trcrpt" command to create a report. You can use the "-p" flag on trcrpt to specify a PID that trcrpt should report on. The trace utility generates a huge amount of output in a short time, so you probably want to only run the trace for a few seconds. This article over at developerWorks has good example command lines to use trac
I once had a process that could not be killed. I tried "kill -9" several times with no success. If a process is hung in kernel mode it will not respond to signals like kill. I was able to run a trace on the system and find that the process was repeatedly trying to open a log file from another process. So I stopped and started the other process and then the original process that I couldn't kill died.
The kdb command starts the kernel debugger. You want to be very careful within kdb as you can potentially crash the system if you do the wrong thing in here. I am not very familiar with kdb as there isn't very much information publicly available. The same developerWorks article previously mentioned has an example of using kdb to debug an issue: http
Other examples of using kdb:
Give these utilities a try and get familiar with what the output looks from them. Then, the next time you have a problem you can't figure out, give them a try and see if the output points you in the right direction. Again, don't get overwhelmed by the output or intimidated. You don't need to understand all the output - just try to look for patterns or things that look unusual.


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The Original Egg Apron! Child Size. Made to order!
Gather freshly laid duck or chicken eggs with ease in my hands-free egg apron! The crochet Egg Apron is Camouflage and Blue.The design includes 10 egg pockets and ties.
This custom-made apron is a child size apron, fits most children ages 5-10 (the boy in the picture is almost 10 years old)! The last picture also shows it on my 14 year old. The pockets are also "one size fits most"; accommodating eggs of different sizes from small chicken eggs through to duck eggs.
Since I live on a farm, I have been able to personally test the design of the apron including the pocket size and placement; in addition to ease of inserting and removing eggs. Although thankfully no video or photographic evidence exists, I even did a few jumping jacks to thoroughly field test the apron and all of the eggs stayed safe and sound in their little pockets! As well as my own testing, this apron received a glowing review from "Community Chickens", check out her blog post/review (link below)!
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9 inches tall by 12 inches across.
The apron tie is 1 inch wide by 45 inches long.
Should fit most children ages 5-10 years old.
Made from acrylic yarn.
Handmade by me on my farm in Nebraska, USA!
Care Instructions: Machine wash cold, tumble dry low.
Shipped with priority mail through the USPS.
Please give me up to 2 weeks to get this done for you!
****Community Chickens' review of my crochet egg apron: http://www.communitychickens.com/cheerful-crocheted-egg-gathering-apron-a-review-and-a-deal/
These aprons are made using my own crochet pattern. You can find the pattern here if you are interested in making one for yourself: https://www.etsy.com/listing/247484862/
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