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EMC Tuesday reported record third-quarter revenue and delivered a strong outlook for the future, crediting its good fortune specifically to its investments in paving the way for customers to move to cloud computing.
EMC said it expects its full-year 2010 revenue and income to be better than originally expected, with its storage, virtualization and security businesses all showing double-digit year-over-year growth.
In a departure from normal financial conference calls, which focus on the revenue and income numbers, EMC spent the first 10-plus minutes of its Tuesday conference call on how it is set to exploit the move toward cloud computing for future continued growth.
David Goulden, EMC's executive vice president and CFO, outlined three steps that customers go through to reach the cloud, including adopting virtualization, integrating business-critical applications to virtualization and adopting IT-as-a-Service architectures for running those applications.
These are the three areas in which EMC has invested. Goulden said that EMC, through its VMware business, has integrated its storage technology into virtualized environments, worked with VMware and its technology to develop the infrastructure on which customers can build SLAs for business-critical applications, and developed architectures like its Vblock unified storage on which to base IT-as-a-Service.
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Chrisman, the 1961 NHRA world champion who was also widely credited with developing the first Funny Car, was inducted posthumously. The other class of 2013 members included automotive publisher Robert E. Petersen, famed open wheel racer Alex Zanardi, legendary NASCAR team owner Bud Moore, sports car and road racing specialist Masten Gregory, champion motocross racer Brad Lackey and Harvey Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.
Chrisman, who passed away in 1989, became one of NHRA's biggest stars in the 1960s as he won multiple titles at NHRA's biggest events, including the Winternationals and U.S. Nationals. Chrisman was ranked 23rd by an elite panel of drag racing historians and journalists on the list of the top 50 NHRA drivers in 2001.
Aside from the great success he achieved driving a dragster in the early part of his career, Chrisman's lasting legacy in the sport was his involvement in the development of the Funny Car. He made significant modifications to a Mercury Comet in 1964 so it could accommodate a large blown and injected 427 engine. He debuted that car at the '64 U.S. Nationals and not only was it highly-competitive, but it also was an instant hit with fans. The first Funny Car established many performance records and changed the landscape of the sport of NHRA Drag Racing forever.
"At anything he undertook, Jack Chrisman was one of the best," NHRA Founder Wally Parks once said. "As a campaigner who drove some of the era's fastest and most innovative cars, his heads-up abilities put him out in front and won him a well-deserved world championship title. Jack represented the true spirit of drag racing."
Former NHRA announcer Bob Frey presented Chrisman for induction. Chrisman's son Steve, who currently competes in NHRA Top Fuel racing, accepted his father's Hall induction. Jack joins his uncle Art - a 1997 inductee - in the in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America,. NHRA President Tom Compton and NHRA Senior Vice President of Racing Operations Graham Light attended the event on behalf of NHRA.
Chrisman is the 25th inductee in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America from the world of NHRA Drag Racing. Others are Don Garlits (1989), Shirley Muldowney (1990), Don Prudhomme (1991), Connie Kalitta (1992), Wally Parks (1993), Bob Glidden (1994), Keith Black (1995), Bill Jenkins (1996), Art Chrisman (1997), Don Nicholson (1998), C.J. Hart (1999), Danny Ongais (2000), Tom McEwen (2001), Eddie Hill (2002), Ed Donovan (2003), Joe Amato (2004), Tommy Ivo (2005), Chris Karamesines (2006), Ronnie Sox and Buddy Martin (2007), John Force (2008), Kenny Bernstein (2009), Dale Armstrong (2010), Ed McCulloch (2011) and Ed Pink (2012).
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America is a museum showcasing the stories of Heroes of Horsepower along with a display of a wide variety of racing and high-performance vehicles. The constantly changing collection features racers from the world of Indy cars, stock cars, sports cars, sprint cars, powerboats, truck racing, drag racing, motorcycles, air racing, and even snowmobiles.

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A Tap on the Glass - Vol. 65 - Finding Passion in the New Year
One of the side effects of living a full and busy life is the presence of constant "white noise" playing in your mind. Sometimes we're plagued by unfinished business or a to-do list a mile long that nags at the back of our minds. Other times we're experiencing insecurities that are being manifested by that little gremlin in our mind berating us or telling us we are not good enough. Mental clutter seriously negatively affects your personal development by preventing you from moving forward in your life.
No matter what the source of your mental clutter happens to be, it can become serious enough to manifest itself in the form of physical ailments. At the very least, it is a source of constant stress and aggravation. None of us need THAT! So as we look to a New Year....maybe it's time to refocus.
You have to learn to break out of this noise and pattern and to do so, you have to identify what exactly is cluttering your mind. As an exercise, read through these three points and begin listing things or traits (albeit physical clutter, work problems, family problems) that you want to remove from your life.
1. Avoidance Behaviors that Clutter the Mind: A major source of mental clutter is the nagging existence of unfinished business. We tend to avoid situations we find uncomfortable or difficult, and many times we will overburden ourselves with other responsibilities just to avoid an unpleasant task. All this does is make us even more tired and more stressed than before, and the unfavorable task is still waiting. In fact, many times the job left waiting for us becomes even more dreadful in our minds because now we not only have the unfinished business hanging over us, but the anticipation of it builds up its own kind of stress.
Procrastination, which is directly related to avoidance, also causes mental clutter. Whenever you leave a job undone, you are going to have a nagging voice in your head constantly reminding you of the unfinished business. You will also feel physical stress until you just dig in and get the job done.
Avoidance prevents us from using good time management techniques and usually costs us hours in wasted time.
2. The Dangers of Indecision: Much like avoidance, indecision only delays the inevitable. There may be many reasons you hesitate to take action when an important decision needs to be made. In most cases, indecision is caused by a fear of making the wrong decision. By doing nothing though, you will only continue to fret about your situation and the stress you feel will only continue to build.
Forge ahead, trust your instincts, and make a decision. Even if you make the wrong choice, you will at least have cleared your mind of that particular worry. Errors are one of the prime learning opportunities life throws our way, so you still have the chance to take something good away from the experience, even if you do not make the best choice.
3. Overcoming the Feeling of Being Overwhelmed: Sometimes when we have too much to do, we are frozen in confusion, uncertain of where to begin. Large projects or an overloaded calendar can leave you frustrated and overwhelmed. Many of us cannot even decide where to begin when standing in the face of an excessive amount of work.
Rather than look at the whole picture, allowing it to frighten us, break the job down into its component parts. Tackle each task individually, each one bringing you closer to the accomplishment of your overriding goal. When you look at one piece of the puzzle at a time, it helps ease your fears and sense of frustration.
Let go of this stuff. You need to clear out the mental clutter and quiet your mind in order to achieve focus in your life. Having focus will lead you directly to better time management, which translates into greater efficiency and accomplishment. When your life begins running smoothly, you will experience greater peace and satisfaction and fulfillment, and greater success in all areas of your life and in the New Year to come.
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Re: When is the new 3 due?
That's an E36; you need to post your question on the E36 forum, not here. The E90 is two models newer than your car.
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Re: When is the new 3 due?
I am new to this forum. I changed the oil to my 325i 1994 but don't know how to reset the service switch. Any help please.
Yeah, that\'s accurate, especially the 10861 e39s.
This production table is so wrong its funny. There will be NO, NADA, ZIP ZILCH, E90s built in the year 2004. The problem comes dow to simple capacity. Where are they going to build the extra cars at? There is already not enough room to build the e83 (X3), so where are they going to build the extra few thousand e90's fro no reason whatsoever? Wait untill 2005 and the we will see.
Yeah, that\'s accurate, especially the 10861 e39s.
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I just hope the e90 makes me want to trade my e46 to an e90, just like I couldnt wait to trade my e36 for an e46. IMHO, I think alot people have been disappointed with BMW's newer designs along with me. I owned a Z4 for 9 months, luckily traded right before the rebates so I didnt do so bad, other than that Ive owned 6 other 3-series, my family really liked the Z4, my wife still says thats the best car youve owned and didnt want me to trade it (traded to an 04 330cic, silver gray), so its appealing to alot of people. When I owned the Z4, I was amazed at how many compliments I received about the car, but I just wasnt happy with the design so in the end so I traded it, I wasnt happy with the overall package.
The bottom line is the e46 will be a hard car to beat, but I hope they do it, I want to look forward to the next model, if all goes well, Ill get one.
That\'s a lotta frickin\' test cars then
They are pretty much all out in 2005, so I think May 2005 is too far out. I'm betting February for first production orders.
That\'s a lotta frickin\' test cars then
Yeah I actually got some more info...
...via email about both the 1 series and 3 series E#s. Apparently depending on body style, the 1 series can be E81, E82, or E87. The new 3 series can be E90, E91, E92, or E93.
That image was posted on bff. I don't go there so I don't know who originally posted it or where it came from! I just say aty post it on the E46 M3 forum here.
Yeah I actually got some more info...
Hey, Chief! Did you notice?!
Looks like the 1 Series is coded, "E81". ;-)
PS. Who did atyclb get this graphic from?
Hey, Chief! Did you notice?!
apparently only press and test cars
won't show up for customers until May 2005 as a 2006 model

apparently only press and test cars
According to a post on the E46 M3 board by atyclb
...a few will be produced by the end of this year:

According to a post on the E46 M3 board by atyclb
Re: When is the new 3 due?
I believe BMW planned to release the car as an 06' model but changed it to 05'. I can't wait. Hopefully the car will retain its BMWness.
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HONOLULU — The University of Hawaiʻi has announced the selection of five development teams that will be invited to submit proposals for the On-Campus Student Housing project at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The submitted proposals will be evaluated by the university, and one developer will be recommended to the UH Board of Regents for approval in April 2005.
On January 21, 11 development teams submitted Statements of Qualifications in response to the Request for Qualifications issued by the university for the project. Based on these submissions, the following development teams were selected:· Actus Lend Lease LLC of Honolulu, teamed with Allen & O'Hara Development Co., LLC of Memphis, Tenn. (a subsidiary of Education Realty Trust, recently listed on the New York Stock Exchange);
· American Campus Communities, an Austin, Texas-based company listed on the New York Stock Exchange;
· KUD International LLC, through its Honolulu office, teamed with Capstone Development Corp. of Encinitas, Calif.;
· Mānoa Student Housing, LLC (consisting of EAH University Communities, a nonprofit public benefit corporation, and Student Housing Partners); and
· Students First Campus Communities (composed of Omaha, Neb.-based America First Companies and Kiewit Pacific Company, Inc.) teamed with Leo A. Daly, Inc.
The developers have formed teams with well-established construction, architectural, financial and other firms from Hawaiʻi and the mainland. Over the past three decades, these developers have built more than 100,000 beds in student housing projects at colleges and universities throughout the country.
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Down on the farm with Michael Hancock
As readers of my Saturday column know, I'm no fan of Michael Hancock's plan to establish "a city farm network called Denver Seeds" that allegedly "will create thousands of new jobs for Denver citizens." In fact, having a Denver mayoral candidate talk about reducing a $5.4 billion local food trade "gap" with non-Colorado producers has got to be one of the zaniest campaign themes by a mayoral runoff finalist in decades. The city will create thousands of jobs in agriculture?
One thing I neglected to mention in my column, however, is that Denver Seeds is not merely one of Hancock's goals, it's listed as part of his "priority action plan for his first 100 days in office" – one of just six initial steps he lists under economic development. In other words, the program is not merely a poorly vetted initiative meant to underline Hancock's green credentials but a pillar of his development strategy, too.
Several readers critical of my column pointed out in emails that I wouldn't have to participate in the Denver Seeds program. That's very true, but if the city is poised to lavish resources on a city farm while assisting the development of a network of satellite farms, then it becomes every taxpayer's business – especially at a time when Denver is already overextended.


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My Prediction for Louisville vs Kentucky
I have been up since early this morning and in the grand scheme of things, I haven't gotten one thing done today. I have only listened to local sports talk radio and been on social media keeping up with everything UofL-UK for tonight. But isn't that what I am supposed to be doing today? I suppose it's finally time to come up with my prediction post, so here we go…
First of all, the December 28th game at Rupp means nothing to me. For one, it was at Rupp. Russ Smith and Luke Hancock shot a combined 10-31 that game. Speaking of Luke, he wasn't even starting at the time, Wayne Blackshear was. Mangok Mathiang started and played 22 minutes. Chane Behanan played 20 minutes and played that game knowing he was about to be kicked off of the team. Does any of that sound like the Louisville Cardinals that you have seen recently? We are a completely different team, and yes UK is a little different as well, so that is why the last game doesn't mean much to me. Actually if I do take anything away from it, I am glad that UK doesn't have a revenge factor for this game. So they can have that game at Rupp, I'll take this one tonight.
Meet The Opponents: Kentucky Wildcats
Fun Facts:
Kentucky is back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since winning the Championship in 2012
They have won 4 National Championships since 1978
They had the #1 recruiting class this year according to ESPN
John Calipari is coaching in his 9th* Sweet 16
Notable Alumni
Ashley Judd
Frank Vogel* (who is cheering for UL this weekend)
Tom Hammond
Road Through The Tourney:
#1 Wichita State 78-76 W
Starting Five:
#5 Andrew Harrison, 6'6, 215 Lbs, Freshman, Guard
Andrew Harrison was widely regarded as a top 5 player in the class of 2013 with Andrew Wiggins, Jabari Parker, Julius Randle, and twin brother Aaron Harrison. In his Freshman year at uk he has put up 11 points per game, 3.8 assists and 0.5 steals per game. Had a season high 26 points vs Tennessee on January 18th. Had a season high 9 assists vs Georgia in the S.E.C. Tournament. Chose Kentucky over Maryland, SMU, Baylor, Kansas and Arizona
CBS ranks remaining Sweet 16 starters from #80 to #1
Jeff Borzello of cbssports.com took the 16 teams that are left in the NCAA Tournament and ranked the starters from 80 to 1. Borzello says that "It's not based on potential, NBA prospects, or purely college numbers. It basically comes down to, if I need a player for the next two games or four games, which guy am I taking?" Let's take a look at how he ranks the starters for both Louisville and Kentucky.
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75. Stephen Van Treese, Louisville: Without Chane Behanan, Van Treese has had to play a bigger role down low. He's averaging 9.3 rebounds in his last six games.
48. Chris Jones, Louisville: Jones came to Louisville with plenty of hype, but he's been inconsistent at times this season. He needs to pressure the Kentucky guards.
34. Luke Hancock, Louisville: Hancock is Mr. March for the Cardinals. He was the Most Outstanding Player at last year's Final Four and is averaging 18.5 ppg in the 2014 tourney.
14. Montrezl Harrell, Louisville: Harrell's emergence down the stretch took the Cardinals to a different level. He has racked up six double-doubles in his last 10 games.
2. Russ Smith, Louisville: Smith has been a little too out of control in the tournament, with 13 turnovers — but Louisville needs him to a menace at both ends of the floor.
Louisville and Kentucky: Two Different Reactions About Making the Sweet 16
Louisville and Kentucky will meet on Friday night in the Sweet 16 in Indianapolis, IN. We all know that already. When the brackets came out, everyone knew this had a realistic chance of happening. And now here we are, just a few days away from Indianapolis not knowing what they got themselves into when they said they would host another Regional.
The Cards and Cats took two different paths to get to this point. Louisville played against a team that resembles them and knew their every move, and they escaped at the end. Then they battled St. Louis in a defensive game and scored enough points to pull away late. Kentucky played a very bad Kansas State team that will probably be playing at the YMCA next week. Then they played the undefeated Wichita State shockers in a very exciting game that was back and forth and they won at the end.
Two teams heading to the Sweet 16. Two of the most storied programs in all of college basketball. Two very different reactions about winning an NCAA Tournament game in the Round of 32.
UofL vs UK position battles: Small Fowards
All this week we will be breaking down the match-ups at each position for the Louisville vs Kentucky basketball game for this Saturday December 28. Today we continue with the shooting guard position.
Shooting Guard Position Battle
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Scientists have found Earth's oldest fossils in Australia and say their microscopic discovery is convincing evidence that cells and bacteria were able to thrive in an oxygen-free world more than 3.4 billion years ago. The finding suggests early life was sulphur-based — living off and metabolizing sulphur rather than oxygen for energy — and supports the idea that similar life forms could exist on other planets where oxygen levels are low or non-existent.
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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by HowardsPrenup, Nov 6, 2012.
People who use the word "epic"... Douche or no douche?
He does hate it but it's hysterical, I've been laughing about it. Muscle Hamster, holy shit
Asshole killed me in my CBS league Sunday... what the FUCK were the Raiders doing in that second half?
Hey listen here swamp ass. That is an epic nickname, the word "epic" does apply in my opinion. EPIC!
I have him on my team, picked him up late in draft. He scored 58 fucking points last week, insane!
And despite all that I only lost the match up by less than 3 pts
Damn you must have a good team. I won by 66 points
Atlanta's fucking kicker fucked me with 17 pts... any rational kicker score or at least a reasonable 30 pt effort by D.Mart and I'm good... or if the Eagles hadn't sucked cock the final 8 minutes last night and actually connected with Djax for a late td... or... whatever.
Over the season I'm 5.2 pts away from being 8-1... as it is now I'm 6-3. Lost one match up by 1.5 pts... last night by about 3.
I hate fantasy football.
I have Phil Dawson from Cleveland who had 16 pts, ha! I couldn't believe he kicked 5 field goals. I'm a Browns fan and was fuming, what kind of a team kicks 5 field goals and NO touchdowns? I'm usually really bad in fantasy, but this year I'm first place with one loss. Matt Ryan is tearing it up!
I've got TRich as a keeper for the next 3 years... dude is legit.
btw, Phil Dawson, Hook 'Em
I think so too - Browns need to get their play calling fixed so he can get loose
Yep, damn good kicker from Texas
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SYNOPSIS: Ariel, the daughter of King Triton, is fascinated with the human world and longs to be a part of it. Despite the efforts of her friend Sebastian, the witty crab, reminding her of how wonderful life is "Under the Sea," Ariel sneaks to the shore line and continues to collect things from the human world.
Prince Eric is in search of a beautiful voice only he hears while out at sea. Suddenly he and his shipmates become lost in a hurricane and the Prince is thrown overboard. Ariel saves him and carries him to shore, quickly swimming away. She watches from afar and realizes how handsome he is.
The evil Sea Witch, Ursula, catches onto Ariel's emotions and offers to help her "catch her man" by trading her beautiful singing voice for human legs. Ariel has three days to make Prince Eric fall in love with her, despite her lack of a voice. Ariel does not realize that this bargain is all part of Ursula's plan to rule the ocean and overthrow the reign of King Triton. Prince Eric finds a speechless Ariel on the beach and brings her home to his palace. Despite Ariel's silence, the two learn to communicate through dancing.
As the two grow closer to falling in love, Ursula's evil eels, Flotsam and Jetsam, block their kiss. Although Prince Eric does start to fall in love with her, Ursula steps in at sunset of the third day and turns Ariel back into a mermaid, drawing her back into the sea. The plot unfolds as Ursula's plan is eventually overturned and Ariel's voice is restored. King Triton regains control of the sea, but also realizes how much his daughter loves the prince. He restores her human form and delivers her to the world above, where Prince Eric is waiting to propose. As Ariel answers, Prince Eric realizes her voice is the one he has been following all along.
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'Smashed': James Ponsoldt aims for audience identification in poignant drama of alcoholic teacher
The series of incidents that make Mary Elizabeth Winstead's schoolteacher character, Kate, decide to stop drinking in Smashed are both horrifying and darkly funny. Intoxicated one night at a bar, Kate gives a ride home to a stranger who offers her a hit of a crack pipe and leads her, babbling and high, to a homeless encampment. Kate comes home the next day with a dent in her car. Laid out in prose, the scene may not sound particularly funny, but just as HBO's "Girls" found the humor in an uptight character's accidental brush with street drugs, Smashed, which Sony Pictures Classics will release on Oct. 12, mixes humor with drama, creating a film with unexpected potency. You may think you're drinking a mojito at times, but then the impact hits like shots of tequila.
Winstead plays an alcoholic who "makes a really specific and sometimes scary and compelling drunk," notes director and co-writer James Ponsoldt. "Mary's character, when you first meet her, maybe you laugh at her. Later, you find yourself wanting to shake the shit out of her."
Most of the film chronicles not Kate as a drunk, but her initiation into the world of AA and her attempts to deal with life without a drink at the end (or beginning) of the day. Although Kate's "bottom" does involve a crack pipe, this is not the kind of addiction movie that involves gratuitous scenes of substance abuse in seedy surroundings. That's because that's not the kind of film Ponsoldt and his co-writer, Susan Burke, who is herself sober, relate to.
"The goal was to film a movie that doesn't give you a sense of otherness, where you are observing people like animals in a zoo and they're objectified," Ponsoldt says of his approach. The director is 33 and he found most stories of addiction and recovery to be about people who are old enough to be his parents, or presented as a "hard-luck story of woe. I don't relate." Instead, Ponsoldt and Burke "wanted to make Mary's character feel like a cousin, ex-roommate, sister, someone you would know and love. Our goal was maximum identification and empathy."
Most of the legwork for the movie was done well before cameras started rolling. In the month and a half leading up to the shoot, Winstead went to AA meetings around L.A., accompanied by someone who was sober or regularly went to specific sessions. "Out of respect for AA and the sober community, we were always honest and clear about our intent. It was about creating and engendering compassion and specificity," Ponsoldt explains. "We were welcomed into the meetings, and also respected the anonymity of those people and that process."
People who were sober also served as advisors before and during the film. Along with the research, there was a "sense of trust that we were really going to be collaborators and create a character together. I wouldn't make her look like an asshole, and I would push her to be deeper and more honest."
Once on set, "everyone knew from day one she was doing something real special," Ponsoldlt says of Winstead. "She just delivered way beyond whatever we could possibly imagine." Besides Winstead, the film features a tremendous lineup of talented supporting actors. Aaron Paul, the Emmy-winning co-star of "Breaking Bad," has a larger role as Kate's husband, also a problem drinker, but even the small performances are memorable, a combination of great casting and Ponsoldt's ability to write actors great parts. Ponsoldt explains he has a "catalog of actors" on his wish list, and he likes to give unique performers "a role that captures their specific energy."
Octavia Spencer, who had not yet won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for The Help at the time of filming, plays Kate's sponsor. "For 15 years she's been a scene-stealer in everything she's been in," Ponsoldt says of Spencer, so her recognition is like "winning one for the good guys. She's just pure and vital talent." Nick Offerman ("Parks and Recreation") plays a teacher colleague of Kate's and his real-life wife Megan Mullally ("Will & Grace") the principal. Offerman's improvisation skills had the crew cracking up in laughter, while "his wife Megan is even filthier than he is."
Although he's a writer, Ponsoldt says he's "not precious at all about the dialogue that I write." He encourages his actors to try different things or alter their lines if necessary once on set. Because he does so much character work with his actors before the shoot, "we come to a place where we see the character in a similar way, Once we get to that place, I don't think they can do anything wrong in front of the camera." He'll shoot four or five takes with different deliveries, which gives him a lot of choices in the editing room. His rule is that "I tell my actors they can do anything they want to in front of the camera, as long as they're willing to do anything I ask them to do. It's a foundation of trust."
Besides trust, honesty figures heavily into both the story and Ponsoldt's creative process. In Smashed, Kate decides to tell a hard truth to her principal, one that comes with serious consequences. When Winstead and Ponsoldt were working on Kate's character together, their litmus test was always "Is this honest?" The question ended up being applied every step of the way, even down to costuming. With Winstead and costume designer Diaz Jacobs, Ponsoldt spent "days going through tons and tons of clothing choices," trying to find outfits that toed the line between hipster casual and unkempt. He wanted her to be the girl you look at on the street, and think, "Is she so cool and doesn't care, or is she a little gross?" At the same time, they nixed anything that looked too "funny" or "crappy-looking" that might detract from the story. Kate's mix of hoodies and long skirts feels true to her trying-to-hold-it-together character and the hipster neighborhood she lives in. Winstead also "barely showered for the duration of the shoot, had no makeup really," Ponsoldt reveals. "She was completely game for it. She has no vanity. She just wanted to look honest to our character." Her look pleased Ponsoldt, and turned heads among viewers. "People always talk about the way she dresses," Ponsoldt notes, "that's something I'm proud of."
Shooting, originally scheduled for 22 days, went so quickly that the production was able to cut days as they went, "which never happens, and will never happen again for me," Ponsoldt laughs. Ponsoldt and Burke wrote with a low budget in mind. The Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, an up-and-coming hipster destination, gives a personality to L.A. that's often not present. The first week was shot in Mary's workplace, a school, usually a cheap and easy location to secure. The next week production moved to the couple's house. Ponsoldt, on his second feature film after 2006's Off the Black, knew to write "a story that can do really well so you don't feel the financial strain."
Early on in the writing process with Burke, he showed the script to Jennifer Cochis, who he knew through Sundance. In turn, she showed the script to the producers at Super Crispy. The company's producers, Jonathan Schwartz and Andrea Sperling, "read it and loved it," setting it up with a half-million-dollor budget.
Going into the Sundance Film Festival, where Smashed had its premiere, Ponsoldt had two main concerns. One, was the movie "going to depress the hell out of people, or are they going to find the things I find funny funny?" Two, how would people who were sober or dealt with substance abuse respond? "It would have broken my heart if they called bullshit—if it wasn't true or honest," he says. At the first screenings, people laughed right away. It also became clear that the movie not only felt real to people who knew a Kate—it made some people realize they were too close for comfort to the main character. Strangers came up to him after screenings and told their stories. Even close friends have revealed things he never would have expected. Making a movie like this, it appears, has opened the floodgates at a level he's unlikely to experience again. He tells a few vague anecdotes about what he has heard, his voice modulated with emotion. "People have made themselves extremely vulnerable about the struggles they've had or been having, and that's incredibly moving," he confides. Not only does the film hit notes that ring true for people who have dealt with addiction, it ends on a question, something Ponsoldt says happens in "a lot of my favorite movies." This opens up dialogue even more. "This movie gives people permission…it can be a mirror for them to see themselves."
By going to an honest place and not passing judgment, Ponsoldt ends up creating something more moving and thought-provoking than most message films, a category he and Burke explicitly sought to avoid. When people make message films, he states, they become "self-important" and "about the message, not the characters." Message films also tend to avoid the ambiguity of Smashed. As Kate tells her first-graders a whopper to cover up the fact that she just threw up in the trash can, or as her sober co-worker awkwardly confesses his love for her, it's easy to cringe at the same time you let out a shocked chuckle. And that's what makes Smashed work. "I think humor is a wonderful tool," Ponsoldt declares. "You can go to darker places if you find that redemption in humor."


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The Listel Hotel Whistler is ideally located at the heart of the village, close to the bike park and only a few minutes' walk to the main lifts for Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains and the Village Stroll's world class shopping, dining and nightlife.
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This smoke-free, pet-friendly hotel is home to the acclaimed Bearfoot Bistro restaurant, and offers facilities including whirlpool and sauna.
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The Listel Hotel Whistler is across the street from the Whistler Golf Club driving range. The Whistler Conference Centre is within a block, and Whistler ski lifts are two blocks away. The bike park is also close by.
This green/sustainable Whistler, BC, hotel is home to the Bearfoot Bistro, a fine-dining restaurant with bar specializing in European-style cuisine and offering lunch and dinner, including a children's menu, daily.
The hotel has a spa tub, as well as 2 saunas, and a coin-operated laundry. A 24-hour business center is available, as well as business services, including faxing, photocopying, and printing (surcharge). The hotel's meeting space includes 1,476 sq feet (137 sq meters) of flexible space: 3 Ethernet- and wireless-equipped rooms, a 442-square-foot (41 sq meters) ballroom, and room to seat 140 theater style. Complimentary wireless Internet is available throughout the hotel. Covered parking is available for a surcharge.
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Bearfoot Bistro - Independently operated. European-style, fine-dining restaurant has a 2,000-label wine list. Menu specializes in seafood and game, including caviar, Kobe beef, and fresh oysters daily. Three- and five-course tasting menus, with or without wine pairings. Live music nightly during ski season and on weekends in summer. Open kitchen, plantation shutters, dark wood, and leather and wrought-iron chairs. Dinner daily.
Champagne Restaurant and Bar - Casual, European-style bistro offers dinner daily and is open until midnight. Menu includes steak frites, French onion soup, Kobe steak tartar, wild Arctic caribou, and grilled lobster sandwiches. Fresh oysters daily. Champagne by the glass.
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This hotel has a spa tub inside a glassed-in enclosure with sliding doors, and two saunas.
This hotel is located in Whistler Village at the foot of Blackcomb and Whistler mountains. Together the two mountains have about 200 trails on 8,170 acres of skiable terrain served by 33 lifts. Lift capacity is 59,007 skiers per hour, and the average snowfall on both mountains is 30 feet.
Blackcomb Mountain 2,438.5m (8,000 ft) has about 100 trails (15 percent beginner, 55 percent intermediate, and 30 percent advanced) on 3,414 acres of skiable terrain served by 17 lifts, including a high-speed gondola and six high-speed quad chairs. Vertical drop from the top is 1,609m (5,280 ft) and the longest run is 11.2 km (7 miles). The mountain has three snowboard parks, as well as a half-pipe designed for expert riders only. Summer skiing is offered on Blackcomb glacier from early June to late August.
Whistler Mountain 1,609m (7,200 ft) has about 100 trails (20 percent beginner, 55 percent intermediate, and 25 percent advanced) on 4,757 acres of skiable terrain served by 16 lifts, including two high-speed gondolas and six high-speed quad chairs. Vertical drop is 1,530m (5,020 ft) and the longest run is 11.2 km (7 miles). Chipmunk Terrain Park and the Whistler Pipe were both designed for beginner and novice snowboarders.
Ski and snowboard schools operate on both mountains. Heli-skiing and back-country snowcat and snowmobile adventures are available.
In summer, Whistler Mountain is transformed into a downhill bike park offering 193 km (120 miles) of lift-serviced trails for beginner, intermediate, and expert mountain bikers.
The Whistler area has three 18-hole public golf courses, including the Arnold Palmer-designed Whistler Golf Club, on the perimeter of Whistler Village; the Chateau Whistler Golf Club (1.5 km/1 mi); and Nicklaus North (3 km/2 mi), designed by Jack Nicklaus.
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This year's squad features players from five different countries and an assistant coach from a sixth, a mix that makes St. Francis both unique in the world of college sports and has helped build a program that has captured a trophy case full of awards.
Since 2000, under Head Coach Carl Quigley '75, the St. Francis Men's Water Polo team has won five College Water Polo Association Northern Division Championships and the last four Eastern Collegiate Athletic Association Championships. The team also advanced to the NCAA National Championship Final Four in 2005. More importantly, the Terriers don't just excel in the pool, but in the classroom as well. They were academic national champions five times, including this past 2007 season.
Hamwey, from San Diego, California, is one of the team's goalies, playing behind All-Conference Goaltender Nikola Djuric. In his first posting, Hamwey writes about what it's like to play a sport that is decreasing in popularity in the U.S., even as both the Men's and Women's Olympic squads won Silver Medals in Beijing this summer.
He also describes playing on an international team, "I have come to see views that I would have never realized before. Ideas that this country hold to be dear and true are often viewed quite differently from my teammates both positively and negatively."
The goal for the Terriers this year is to make it back to the NCAA Final Four, a goal they are all committed to, no matter their backgrounds. As Hamwey writes, "We are all connected by our passion and desire for the game we love and that is what has brought us all to the melting pot that is New York City and St. Francis College."
You can keep up with Louis Hamwey's blog at org-www.ncaa.com/blogcentral .


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Florida State's Jameis Winston completed 23 of 32 passes for 393 yards and five touchdowns.
TALLAHASSEE — Jameis Winston reaffirmed his Heisman Trophy candidacy with the best performance of his short career Saturday. The Florida State redshirt freshman put up career-highs with 393 yards passing and five touchdowns during a 63-0 victory over No. 25 Maryland.
The 63 points were the second-most scored by No. 8 Florida State during coach Jimbo Fisher's tenure. Saturday was the most lopsided win against a Top 25 program in school history. The Seminoles beat No. 15 South Carolina 59-0 in 1988.
The lopsided score also tied the point-differential for the worst loss by a Top 25 team all-time. No. 11 Texas lost 66-3 to UCLA in 1997.
Winston's weekly highlight came late in the third quarter when the pocket collapsed and Maryland linebacker Yannik Cudjoe-Virgil jumped on his back. The quarterback ducked and slid out of the sack, rolled right and threw a 12-yard touchdown pass to tight end Nick O'Leary.
Winston became the first FSU quarterback to throw five touchdowns since Christian Ponder in 2009. He's now thrown for 1,441 yards, 17 touchdowns with two interceptions and a 73.3 completion percentage this season.
"It felt like a little league football game out there," Winston said. "It was 12 o'clock, the sun was out. I don't think I saw a cloud in the sky. It was a beautiful day."
The Florida State defense was the concern throughout the week after giving up 34 points to Boston College seven days ago. Defenders got out of their lanes and missed tackles — something the Seminoles couldn't afford against a Maryland offense that averaged 498.5 yards per game.
That was not a problem.
The Terrapins were held to 121 first-half yards and Florida State gave up a season-low 11 yards rushing on 10 attempts in the first half. Maryland punted on its first three possessions of the game, a Florida State first this season. The Terps converted just 1-of-7 third downs in the first 30 minutes and 2-of-15 all game.
"As good as the offense played today, I thought the defense played better," Fisher said. "The defense, I thought, was the story of the day. They really took the show."
Things became even worse for Maryland when starting quarterback C.J. Brown went down late in the second quarter with the Terrapins trailing 14-0. Brown released a pass downfield just before Dan Hicks hit him around the waist and Jaccobi McDaniel followed with a blow to the chest. Brown lay on the turf for several minutes before he immediately headed to the locker room with a member of the medical staff.
Maryland coach Randy Edsall said Brown suffered a concussion and will be evaluated Sunday.
The Maryland offense was held to 234 yards and 33 yards rushing on 25 attempts.
"They have great athletes. They always do," Maryland backup quarterback Caleb Rowe said. "They were good, but we also could have taken advantage of a few things and we didn't do that."
It was the Florida State offense that started slow this week, but that didn't last long. The Seminoles scored on their first drive, a Karlos Williams 1-yard touchdown run, and then punted on the next three consecutive drives. That's when the Winston show began.
The Seminoles scored touchdowns on their next eight consecutive possessions.
O'Leary had four receptions for 55 yards and two touchdowns. Receiver Kelvin Benjamin had five receptions for 60 yards and two touchdowns. Receiver Rashad Greene had 108 yards receiving, but saw his streak of five games with a touchdown come to an end.
Williams added another touchdown from 17 yards out in the fourth quarter and backup quarterback Jacob Coker ran for a 24-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter.
"Not really much to say today," Edsall said. "We weren't very good. ... I take full responsibility for this. We didn't play well offensively, defensively, special teams.
"I know the guys in the locker room. I know who they are and I know the resolve that we have and we will go back and we will look at this and get better."
Florida State has a bye week before it travels to No. 3 Clemson on Oct. 19.
Maryland hosts Virginia next week.
Notes: Florida State starting center Bryan Stork suffered a concussion in the second quarter and did not return.


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Jimi Hendrix's 'Surrogate Mother' Delores Hall Hamm Dies
He called her 'Auntie Delores.' She called him 'Buster.' The bond between Jimi Hendrix and Delores Hall Hamm was strong, closer than that of many aunts. Hamm essentially raised the boy after he moved in with her upon entering second grade in 1949. On Tuesday, the matriarch of the family died at age 92.
The Seattle Times reports that Hamm suffered from complications related to stomach cancer. She leaves behind four of her five children, 16 grandchildren and a crowd of great and great-great grandchildren that will surely stretch the capacity limits of the private service planned for today (March 9).
"She was essentially a surrogate mother for him," Hendrix biographer Charles R. Cross told the newspaper. Hamm is described as "one of the only real parent-figures the guitarist ever had." Hendrix first lived with her when his mother (Hamm's sister) had no place to live after he was born in 1942, and then again in 1949.
While Hamm dropped out of school, she later became an advocate for a strong education, going on to get her nursing degree, and taking classes in the plastics trade. "She worked at Boeing," granddaughter Meliah Hamm says, "building chairs for the planes."
"She always read to us," she added. "She loved school. She loved talking about medicine. She wanted to be a doctor."
A memorial service will be held in April, but no further details are available at this time.


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Although I wasn't thoroughly impressed with the first trailer for Breck Eisner's upcoming remake of George A. Romero's 1973 shocker "The Crazies," the latest clip is definitely a little more effective. For whatever reason, I happen to think Timothy Olyphant is a decent actor, and it's good to see him recovering from the atrocity that was "Hitman." For those who are arriving late to the proverbial party, "The Crazies" chronicles the outbreak of a mysterious disease which turns ordinary, everyday suburban schlubs into blood-thirsty killing machines. Survivors try to escape, the government tries to keep everyone contained, and all Hell tries to break loose. If all goes according to plan, the film will infect your tender senses on February 26th, 2010. Check out the trailer below.
"Hitman" is based on the popular video game series for the Playstation 2, and follows the exploits of "47", an agent who has been trained from the time he was a small child to join the ranks of the world's best assassins. We're shown this through a clumsy montage over the opening credits, that for some inexplicable reason uses old footage from the show "Dark Angel" (circa 2000). We then jump into the future to see 47 confronting an investigator that we learn has been tracking him, and then we jump back in time three months to the beginning of the story.


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Did the Malaysian government just make a statement to the families based on a statistical probability?
Or did they make that statement based on debris found that was positively identified to the aircraft.
The Malaysian government has mishandled communication from the start. I think they just want this whole thing over and done with. The ones in power over there aren't exactly used to being criticized like this.
The published text of the PM's speech makes it clear its based on the analysis (what you are calling "statistical probability") not debris or black box.
I don't know why anyone would find that disturbing.
Even if he had debris, for any given family there would still be some "statistical probability" that their loved one survived (infinitely close to zero) involving some sort of miracle, a hidden parachute or a missed connection, etc. Just as we'd discard such false hope, pretending that there is some other pl
I don't know why anyone would find that disturbing.
In Tres Roeder's "A Sixth Sense for Project Management," he shows a diagram of communications. This diagram shows information versus time.
In the beginning, information is unknown; then the information changes, back and forth. For example: a dollar estimate may be $3,000 for a project, then $85,000 when we realize we need to excavate cabling tunnels for a line, then $6,000 when we realize we can run this across our existing tunnel and have a new fiber optic pulled for $3,000, then $7,000 when we realize we're going to also need a new transceiver, then $4000 when we find out some of the other equipment is unnecessary, then $14,000 when we realize the scope of labor required is twice as big.
Finally, once we have enough information, that figure stays. Perhaps at $14,000. We also realize we've got the correct figure because we have a full analysis of scope and work required--or at least, the figure won't change until we've done a bunch of work and realized, deep into the project, that we missed something. In any case, it is now not likely to change simply because our information base is hot.
During the initial planning phase, communication should reflect this: the understanding of the situation--the lack of precision--and what is being done to pin that down is to be communicated; conclusive statements should not be communicated because the current understanding of the situation is inconclusive. Once the situation has reached a point of conclusion, then you communicate these conclusions.
What is disturbing about the Malaysian government here is they have been repeatedly saying, "We have no idea what's happening and there's a ton of information out there we're missing; but this is what happened." Then, five hours later, "Oh we found more debris, we think this happened instead." Then the next day, "Oh there was some satellite telemetry information we weren't done analyzing, but it's provided additional information, so we think the plane may have gone this way..."
In other words: They have piles of information they know they're missing, piles of information they have a plan for finding (i.e. "ongoing investigation"), and huge and visible gaps they know exist and expect to fill. They should not be communicating any conclusions at this time.
There are supposed to be several salt-water activated beacons that should have been activated. You don't find it disturbing that every one of those failed?
It just seems like they have information that still doesn't make sense for what we're told are the available resources. The public info just seems so selective as if each government is trying to hold their surveillance cards as tightly as possible. And, intel from an old satellite seems like a cover story. This is all just so...off.
I thought that maybe a bunch of spy satellites picked up and stored the broadcasts, and that they can use timestamps from the various receptions to triangulate the position. That's sort of a reverse-active GPS.
Of course they'll never say "we got this from U.S. and British spy satellites" so they make up something about doppler shift data from a single satellite and hope they find the debris soon to corroborate the story.
Or maybe they did do it all from the doppler shift data they happened to store. It's at least plausible, and there's no need to create conspiracy theories when they aren't particularly shocking.
This [wired.com] is the most credible explanation I've seen thus far. (It was mentioned here a few days ago, but I'm too lazy to track down the link right now.)
To summarize:
Fire on board the plane.
Pilot diverts to the nearest safe airport (which is approximately line with the sudden course change to the west).
Flight crew runs through the fire checklist, which includes pulling all the breakers in case it's an electrical fire (Transponder and communications lost).
Fire causes decompression, pilots bring the plane down to 12,000 ft to remain conscious and keep the passengers alive.
Crew is overcome by smoke and/or decompression, plane flies on under auto-pilot until it
Yes.. this whole incident is going to make great fodder for conspiracy theories for years to come at this rate.
I would like to coin the theory right now that there was a second plane that extracted all the passengers mid flight and carried them the rest of the way. After everyone was taken off the plane it was allowed to fly on until it ran out of fuel.
There is very little reason to have spy satellites in the south Indian ocean.
Inmarsat is one of the few companies needing coverage down there because they have the contract for ACARS data an occasional sat phone calls. This area is not even on normal shipping routes.
The cause of the crash isn't a mystery. It most likely ran out of fuel.
The cause of why the whole damn plane went AWOL IS a mystery.
If it simply ran out of fuel, it should have made controlled water landing and likely floated, with plenty of people exiting the plane with life vests on.
It's virtually impossible to land a large plane in the water "safely"; if either wing or engine touches the water before the other, that side digs in and the plane cartwheels, ripping itself to shreds.
The hudson plane landing wasn't a miracle because of skill on the part of the pilot - it was a miracle because it was astronomically slim odds that the plane would continue in a straight line and remain intact.
Yes, that could be. But it seems clear that the plane was not being controlled by anyone who wanted the plane or its passengers to be rescued, so "oh, I've just flown the plane as far away from civilization as possible and I've just run out of fuel, yet I think I'll try at the last moment to make a successful water landing so as many people as possible can be saved" just does not seem likely. Either the plane was not under control, or those in control were not trying to save anyone.
And more specifically I s
The calculations show the southern flight path and consequently a water landing. But...how can they be so certain that no one survived? Isn't it possible that the airplane made a controlled glide into a non-powered water landing and that the life rafts deployed and allowed some of the passengers to survive? That has happened before. Admittedly this is very unlikely but can anyone at this point say it is impossible as the Malaysian government is doing?
Each life raft has an EPIRB [wikipedia.org] which is marine rated, and can be picked up by sattelites basically anywhere on the planet. At least one EPIRB would be of the automatic type which starts transmitting when it hits water. The EPIRB is wrapped up deeply inside the packed life rafts, so disabling them would be impossible while the plane was in the air. Unfortunately this means that if the life raft doesn't deploy and instead sinks, the EPIRB will not go off. The fact that no EPIRB signals were transmitted indica
They have a theory, nothing more. Still no actual debris has been confirmed. They don't have the full picture so its REALLY easy for their theory to be wrong.
God you suck ass at actually posting facts slashdot.
I may be wrong, but looking at the map it seems the plane was on exactly the opposite course from where it should have been going. Strange problems are not unknown with computer-controlled navigation systems going haywire when crossing the Equator, and oddly enough MH370 went AWOL quite close to the Equator...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... [theregister.co.uk]
Sorry, the story I linked to related to the International Date Line not the Equator. I was thinking of the much older stories about an F-14 or F-16 that flipped upside down when it crossed the Equator due to some software bug. Here is a reputable source for that (but only as a rumour): http://www.yourdonreport.com/i... [yourdonreport.com]
What's most interesting is that the anonymous reports from the US intelligence community the day after the plane disappeared said that the plane was on the bottom of the Indian Ocean. These claims seemed a little odd at the time since there was no supporting evidence at all and rescuers were still looking for debris on the original flight path. But, it's looking like they were spot on.
I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that the only real conspiracy in this whole affair is the US govt's cover up of the initial leak. The plane itself likely just suffered a catastrophic failure and lumbered on until it ran out of fuel. But, the US govt also likely tracked it the entire time. That's why someone was able to make a confident pronouncement so quickly. They knew exactly where the plane was, if not exactly what happened. But, this intelligence capability (tracking all flying objects all the time) is probably highly classified. Rather than give it up for a civilian SAR effort, they decided to keep it under wraps, knowing that eventually the plane would be found and the capability is far more useful if no one knows it exists.
* We've had flight recorders on all major airliners for decades now.
* We've had satellite phone technology for decades now. (since 1979 for Inmarsat)
Remind me again why "black box" style cellular data transmitters aren't required to be transmitting cockpit voice data and full telemetry from every major airliner at all times yet? With a system like that, installed in a way that can't be tampered with by the people in t he plane and runs independently of the rest of the electronics in the aircraft, there's no reason we would know the exact location the plane went down and, most likely, why. Hell, even if they decided to be cheap and only have it transmit the telemetry in once-a-minute updates we'd still would have know where the plane was to withing a handful of miles from the first day it went missing...
Remind me again why "black box" style cellular data transmitters aren't required to be transmitting cockpit voice data and full telemetry from every major airliner at all times yet?
Because in the middle of the ocean, there are no cellular towers.
You could do it with satellites, but that becomes cost prohibitive extremely quickly.
Not to mention that there just isn't enough bandwidth to do what you're proposing for every plane.
As a compromise, there's a company looking to put ADS-B [wikipedia.org] receivers on satellites.
That way, the existing line-of-sight radio broadcasts from planes can be tracked without an extensive ground based network.
That was on March 18, when they were still looking all over the place for the plane, and it's a scenario that still holds up.
That scenario stopped holding up once we found that the aircraft had maneuvered both vertically (changed altitude) *and* had undergone multiple changes to it's course. It also fails the sniff test as it fails to explain why the pilots didn't follow SOP and don their oxygen masks - which have microphones built into them. The reliance on "aviate, navigate, communicate" is also questio
Effectually we looked at the doppler effect, which is the change in frequency, due to the movement of a satellite in its orbit.
You can tell this is the PR guy and not the tech guy. Firstly, "Effectually"?
Secondly. The Inmarsat-3 F1 satellite is geostationary, it moves little and slowly relative to the Earth's surface. There is effectively no doppler shift due to motion of the satellite relative to the Earth. The doppler shift here would be that of the aircraft relative to the Earth/satellite. The absence of doppler shifts is the reason that Copas-Sarsat geostationary satellites cannot determine surface position of a emergency locator transmitter unless the transmitter sends that information. For beacons that do not transmit location the low-Earth orbit Copas-Sarsat satellites, which have motion relative to the surface, are used to determine location by multiple doppler readings (but it takes up to 90 minutes vs. seconds).
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Franczak joined CP in 1987 and has since advanced through a series of operating positions of increasing accountability and scope across CP's network.
"I wish to congratulate Mike on his distinguished career and thank him for his 25 years of dedication to CP and its customers," said CEO E. Hunter Harrison. "Mike served the company well in all areas for which he had responsibility. We wish him success in his future endeavors."
"I am grateful for the experience and opportunities that CP has afforded me over my long career here," said Franczak. "I look forward to watching the company's successful progress long into the future."