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I don't employ any people in my car so you must mean the chauffeurs in the yellow cars who speak only Pashto or Urdu?
Cars don't destroy Jobs.
Cook destroys Jobs.
Jobs created Cars.
Jobs created Pixar which created Cars, using the transitive property.
All technology destroys jobs. We invent things to save time and effort. I can't wait until we've saved so much time and effort that I don't have to work anymore...Not in my lifetime, unfortunately.
Technology only destroys jobs if you accept that the vast majority of the improvement in quality of life resulting from less labor required for survival should be reserved for a handful of plutocrats. Employment is low. Profits are high. Fewer people work more to get less out of fear that they will be cut next.
What technology can do is increase everyone's quality of life. Lower the work week to 32 hours and abolish the distinction between part time and full time employees and increase minimum wage to a scale that follows the cost of basic food, utilities, shelter and transportation (it would be around $18 an hour if it had been). More people working less and having more time for family or other hobbies that actually make life worth living.
While I love the idea of shortening the work week to increase employment, the minimum wage cannot be a living wage. It makes no damn sense.
You need a place to work as a teenager. Someplace to develop the basic skills needed on every job: show up on time, well groomed, and ready to work, don't be a dick to your customers, and so on. You should not get a living wage for this job, because (a) you don't need it, these are the jobs you start with while still living at home, and (b) employers couldn't afford it - with a low enough wage, 100% employment of teens who can barely do anything is practical, and was common. That's the point of a minimum-wage job - it a job that you can always get, to learn how to work, and to get enough experience to get a "real" job.
A semi-skilled job, the bottom tier of jobs that one would do as an independent adult, that requires a bit more then just showing up, that should pay a living wage.
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 29, 2013 @08:07PM
Minimum wage jobs are not just for teenagers. There just are not enough teenagers to man every grocery store, every restaurant, every retail outlet, etc. Millions of people are attempting to support families on minimum or barely above minimum wage jobs. These people need to be able to support their families just like anyone else.
The only other option to a reasonable minimum wage is a guaranteed minimum income. And we don't have nearly enough automation to deal with the people who would simply choose not to work given the the option.
1. Robots are made that can replace workers.
2. Employer fires workers and purchases robots.
3.All additional profit is pocketed by the former employer.
4. Workers find new jobs in the service sector (serving mostly former employers).
While this model is oversimplified, 68% of US jobs is in the service sector.
2. Employer fires workers and purchases robots.
3.All additional profit is pocketed by the former employer.
2a. Prices plummet as demand decreases. Less money in the hands of the consumers means less demand for everything. Any company that wants to continue to exist drops prices to match the lowered costs of production, thus eliminating the "additional profit" there would have been had sales remained constant.
4. Workers find new jobs in the service sector (serving mostly former employers).
One of the first adopters of automation will be the service sector. Imagine being able to remove the employee costs at a McDonalds by presenting a display of items to the consumer who selects his choices and then waits a few minutes for the food to pop out of a window.
Automats [wikipedia.org] were one of the early "robotic" systems in service. Now that we have NFC and "wave your card at the cash register" payments, there is no reason for them not to come back in big style. Especially if costs can be cut and there are a lot of people out of work because larger scale automated systems have made them redundant. It's nice to walk into a Subway and have a low-paid "sandwich specialist" make your sandwich to order, but in the long run it will be a choice between paying for personal service like that at full price or being able to eat at all.
You seem to assume that workers can only do one job....or that jobs, such as Retail, are even ones that workers are really interested in doing.
From what I can tell, many people would prefer to not work Retail, with its low wages and long hours.
Technology does destroy jobs (well sometimes creates jobs in other areas as well), but the same is produced for less, so in effect society is better off. The problem is not with technology but with the method of resource distribution. As you need less and less jobs the wealth gets distributed more unevenly.
The current system (capitalism) was ok, and maybe even necessary when we where not producing enough for people to survive, it encouraged people to produce more, but now we are producing enough to survive, to excess even. Society has a to find a better way of distributing wealth. If we don't the 99% will either die off because they are not needed, rebel because they don't accept dieing. If the 99% do die then the 1% will be split up again 99% of them will become redundant.
If the goal is to own as much as you can, and it is all based on greed and you can make a robots that can produce anything that you want, why would you want any other person around taking up your natural resources?
I don't employ any people in my car so you must mean the chauffeurs in the yellow cars who speak only Pashto or Urdu?
TFA seems to be arguing (not unreasonably) that if you've solved the machine vision and 'coping with surprisingly unpredictable environments' problems well enough to put a car on the road without being bankrupted by splattered pedestrians and next of kin, you've probably also solved the problems that were keeping our robot overlords out of a lot of 'semi-structured' environments that have not previously been economic to automate.
Conventional industrial automation is unstoppably, brutally, efficient; but you pretty much have to build the entire environment around the robots; because they are dumb as hell if anything doesn't go to plan (though, so long as it does, they can stuff boards or spot-weld chassis parts like nobody's business). If you solve the problems inherent in driving a car, you've made substantial progress in attacking environments that aren't built around robots and their limitations, which opens up many more just-sloppy-enough-to-confuse-robots and not-labor-intensive-enough-to-rebuild-for-robots workplaces.
Sure, a few Johnnycabs might be the most visible; but that'll be the tip of the iceberg.
TFA seems to be arguing (not unreasonably) that if you've solved the machine vision and 'coping with surprisingly unpredictable environments' problems well enough to put a car on the road without being bankrupted by splattered pedestrians and next of kin, you've probably also solved the problems that were keeping our robot overlords out of a lot of 'semi-structured' environments that have not previously been economic to automate.
Well, duh. I figured that out a decade ago; that's why I got into software engi
Don't forget truckers.
Taxi drivers are only the tip of the iceberg, most people are employed transporting goods B2B, B2C or C2B. Who do you think brings the groceries to the grocery store? Deliver you pizza? Collect your trash? A self-driving car would solve the hardest part, being able to load up a truck and have someone meet it at the other end would be huge. Also imagine all the people who can be more effective by doing paperwork and such while going site to site instead of driving, that too should let fewer people do the same work. A self-driving car is going to be an Industrial Revolution-class change.
Nevermind the new jobs that this will enable.
I'm curious - what new careers do you foresee, that current professional drivers would qualify for? Or are you saying they should give up their fairly-decent-wage driving work and go flip burgers whilst sucking hind teet for minimum wage, social consequences be damned?
See, that's the real problem - I'm sure we can all come up with a million ideas for work the next few generations can do, but that means precisely jack shit to the current generation who will lose their only source of income.
What's the stop-gap for the time period between auto-cars taking work from humans, work they need to pay their bills, and the creation of these ephemeral 'new jobs' that won't exist for a good while?
Probably none. But I don't think the picture is as dire as you paint it because the change from "driver" cars to driver-less cars isn't going to be instant. It's not like all truckers are gonna lose their jobs tomorrow or next years. It's gonna be a gradual process over the next ten or maybe twenty years.
Nevermind the new jobs that this will enable.
I'm curious - what new careers do you foresee, that current professional drivers would qualify for?
I was a trucker for 20 years. I've just been given an offer of a place at a top 10 university to do a BEng (Hons) in Electronics Engineering. Not all of us do trucking because we're incapable of doing anything else and I find your insinuation that we are quite insulting.
Nevermind the new jobs that this will enable.
I'm curious - what new careers do you foresee, that current professional drivers would qualify for?
I was a trucker for 20 years. I've just been given an offer of a place at a top 10 university to do a BEng (Hons) in Electronics Engineering. Not all of us do trucking because we're incapable of doing anything else and I find your insinuation that we are quite insulting.
I find your assumption that my statement is an insinuation of an inherent lack of non-driving-related skills, and thus an insult to professional drivers, quite telling - Firstly, being offered an opportunity to pay for a Bachelor's Degree isn't really all that impressive, considering how many other people in the world have received similar offers. It's also not a paying job, so far as I'm aware; what will you do to cover expenses while in the program?
Also, there is something to be said for experience - 20 y
It'll bring a greater standard of those who still have jobs. We're looking at a very serious economic transition here, possibly a key point in history. How it is managed is the difference between a utopia free of work and want, or a dystopia where the poverty-stricken masses scavenge for scraps thrown out from the farms owned by the wealthy.
I have a lot of sympathy with this point of view, but there is a problem with it.
George Carlin said, to paraphrase, look at how stupid the average guy is and realize that half of the people are dumber than that.
My point is that we are not going to have a country with nothing but doctors, high-end engineers, programers, and tech people. Not everyone has the brainpower to do that. We have to have something to do or we with have the society in Vonnegut's Player Piano.
That could be the real challenge... what are we going to do when it's not economical for a human to do ANY busy work. Even the not-so-bright need something to do.
Come on, man, Wells explained this almost a century ago. The general busy-working masses that don't have the brainpower to be a "high-end engineer or tech person" live in a leisure garden paradise and do nothing, while the engineers and tech people live underground, keep the general machinery of the world ticking, and occasionally kill and eat one of the those surface-dwelling Eloi for sustenance. Simple!
So we can free up those people to do things we can't make robots do yet.
Sure, if you want an insanely dull and boring life.
Like, if I never want to meet people, make friend, get a girlfriend? I think I might need to get out now and again just to get to their homes.
Concerts. Restaurants. Bars. Sporting events. Hell, shopping! I can buy literally anything online right now, today. But I sometimes I want to see and touch and feel what I'm buying.
I'm trying really hard to find a way to side with the humans on this one but I'm failing. I simply cannot figure out how to justify opposing this, particularly in reference to jobs like over-the-road trucking and basic shuttle-vehicle jobs such as buses and cabs. I can only imagine how much this would alleviate trafic in cities, cars with no ego behind the wheel, and how many meth-addled over-the-road truckers won't be behind the wheel (and honestly most should probably be replaced with improved freight r
I think you vastly overestimate the ability of human pilots. We're pretty fucking awful compared to a fully sensored autonomous vehicle.
omg here come the neo-Luddites (again)...
there is just absolutely no way anyone can predict what kind of spin-offs will be created given the rise of autonomous cars...perhaps entire new industries (cough like IT cough) will be created that require real humans to work on and fix our new 4-wheeled overlords. In fact, it's almost a given.
what IS guaranteed, however, is CHANGE...and man is that frightening for some people. i like to remember the old phrase "the only constant is change" at times like this.
Buggy whip manufacturers just started making OTHER type of whips..
er... so I'm told.
Lots less business when they're scraping texting drivers off of guard rails.
There are plenty of circumstances where we have machines that are extensively automated and we still have highly trained people operate them. Commercial aircraft have pilots there because there are too many circumstances where a person is going to be best able to make the right decision. Most of the time, these planes are running on autopilot and they do very well. But the circumstances where the autopilot fails (i.e. does the wrong thing) can have catastrophic consequences. So we have multiple pilots there
This is the old Luddite argument: without technology a lot more effort is required to get things done -- so more people get work. It follows that technology is bad.
In fact, the situation is exactly the opposite: if a machine can drive a car, then having a person drive the car is a waste of the person's time. They can instead do something else with their time, so society get both that and the driving done. In the 19th century, more than 80% of US population directly worked in agriculture. Today, the propotion is 2-3% -- yet we have a lot more food, and many other things to boot.
It's true that in the short term, there is a loss when the specialized skills (say driving) of the people displaced become less valuable, and those people lose their jobs. But this is a transient effect. Some skills were standard 30 years ago, yet rare today.
The more important issue is that technology more easily replaces low-skilled workers. Computers have reduced the demand for secretarial work; robots and other industrial automation reduce the demand for factory workers, and so on. This increases the returns to IQ and education, and reduces the number of well-paying jobs available to less-educated workers. But this seems inevitable, and needs to be solved by changing the attitudes of society toward education rather than by hamstringing technological progress.
Exactly. It's easy to have enough "jobs" for everyone. Give anyone without a job a teaspoon and point them to a ditch that needs digging or a hole that needs filling.
The point is to have people doing jobs that contribute the most/build the most wealth. For that, anything that can be done more economically by machines should be so those humans (the real scarce resource) can be freed up to do more of things that they do better than machines.
One nice thing about being a programmer is that if computers ever take over your job then the Singularity has arrived.
One of the big ideas behind "modernization" was that, in general, people could work less and enjoy more benefits. Indeed, our per-person output has skyrocketed. The idea that we could get even more productive in the future is a conditionally great one. The big "if" is that right now, in the US, almost all of the benefit is being concentrated at the top-end of the economic spectrum. Indeed, our GDP has more than recovered from the recession even though most people are still suffering because of even more recent wealth concentration.
When normal people receive even half the benefits of modernization, its a good thing, and net job loss will be more than outpaced by work reduction.
Back in 2007 the company I work for (manufacturing) was going to outsource my entire department to a company in Taiwan. The logic was that there was no way we overpaid ($100K+ per engineer), lazy (40-50 hrs/week) Americans could do what the industrious (60-70 hrs/week) and inexpensive ($24K/yr) Taiwanese could do. It was an obvious win-win for the company bean-counters.
However, when I was hired a few years before this, I began implementing a whole lot of automation into our stone-age processes. They were still keeping all production records in Excel spreadsheets and paper notebooks for fucks sake. Bar codes? RFID? What were those? I modernized the place, and after a few years of attrition we had fewer low-paid manufactuing drones working in the department, but we no longer needed them.
SO the bean counters did their cost audit and were shocked beyond belief that the American factory was producing goods WAY cheaper than they could get them produced in Taiwan. Taiwan came back with a cheaper offer, but it was STILL higher than our costs. The bean counters did another audit, because they knew there was NO WAY we could produce goods cheaper than Taiwan. Results: We sure can.
So, as a result of some (admittedly crude) automation, I and those who helped me with the automation, saved hundreds of jobs in the US from being offshored. And now my department is mosty highly trained (and well paid) engineers and technicians rather than mostly low paid people who move stuff from machine to machine. We still have the people who move stuff around, but they are fewer, more efficient and paid more than they were before. And the equipment is better maintained and more productive than ever.
So whenever some jackwit like this says automation is killing jobs, I get to trot out my personal example of automation SAVING jobs and creating new ones.
Self-driving cars will kill some jobs, but it will create plenty of new ones, many we haven't even thought of yet.
If you look at it from a global perspective, by automating the factory you allowed X people in the USA to produce a certain amount of goods. To produce that amount of goods in Taiwan would take X*Y people. Therefore globally you actually destroyed jobs via that automation.
You need the human touch to grow pot or cook meth. No machine could... Oh dammit! Drug-bot 3000 done took our jerbs, and it don't blow up or burn down no trailers.
Don't worry. You need the human touch to pimp out your ride so you're down wid da' homies out front da sto' where you buy shit wid da' EBT card.
Oh no! Pimp-bot 3000 done took our jerbs. Damn, he fly.
Don't worry. You need the human touch to kill terminators. Oh no! Da terminators are killin' eachother. Look at that. HoneyBadger 4000 is killing that other robot. He don't care. HoneyBadger 4000 don't give a shit.
Don't worry. You need the human touch to choke on burning robot fumes...
Maybe even start to move the OT point to say 35-30 hours a week as well upping the ot exempt level to say 100K a year + COL.
Why should BOB be working 60-80 hours a week when jack does not have a job?
The internet put people out of jobs in the newspaper and magazine industry, it also opened up a world of new ways for people to make money.
Self-driving cars will have a lot less impact than the internet. A handful of cab drivers, whoopee do.
It's going to be awesome seeing self-driving cars assign red light camera companies to the scrap heap of history...parasitic bastards.
Read Manna [marshallbrain.com] by Marshall Brain. It's an interesting view of two potential post-labor robot-driven economies. I hope we end up in the robot-driven paradise instead of the everyone-on-welfare dystopia, but I'm not convinced we will. I'm crossing my fingers for a Star Trek economy in my lifetime.
(Of course, given that we're looking perhaps a bit beyond 30 years in the future, it'll probably look very similar to today in a lot of ways with some changes that nobody predicted.)
Self driving cars will cost jobs, as will eventual moves towards automation, telecommuting &c.
The increasing role of technology in every sphere of life will eventually rule out all but very skilled, specialised jobs in small numbers. This is a trend that started in the industrial age, and no amount of legislation will stop the fact that we simply don't need to employ as many people as we used to.
I've advocated on here before the role of a guaranteed minimum income, and this could be an opportunity to create the first real leisure society. Consumerism as we more or less know it would fund economic development still, as it does now, except the source of our income wouldn't be our increasingly obsolete labour but a guaranteed disposable income, rising gradually ahead of living costs over time.
The amount of creative works, open source projects, general hackery &c. that'll spring from having a majority of people free from having to be employed will be mind boggling.
The biggest stumbling block to this in my mind is the dismantling of "trickle up" neoliberalism and the replacement of a brain dead political class.
I saw this on the Jetsons. George Jetson goes to work, pushes three buttons, and goes right back home.
What we've seen over the past 50 years is a growth in per capital GPD, much of it due to automation. This should have led to more pay for less work, or same pay for less work. However: the median income has held steady while the "top 0.1%" has taken off. Instead of everyone working 10 hour days and getting a livable wage as the efficiency would indicate, we have people working 40-50 hour weeks for less money, while a select few get a LOT more for it - effectively getting thousands of hours of income for each week of work. The tying of insurance and other benefits to a floor in minimum hours of work made this condition worse. I know of many people, parents and artists mostly, who would LOVE to have a professional job of 20-30 hours/week and are even willing to take proportionally lower pay to get it, but our current (US) system doesn't allow it.
Robots taking jobs isn't a bad thing - there's less work to do overall. If there are fewer hours of work to go around, then either everyone works fewer hours for the same pay, or... a few people work "full-time" and everyone else gets shafted.
Quite a few sci-fi books have looked at this. I think Heinlein's "By His Bootstraps" visited a future where our protagonist worked at a junkyard where they took brand-new, off-the-lot cars and crushed them. The car builders had full-time work - the crushers had full-time work, too. That's messed up.
Eventually, almost everything will be done by technology. Even maintaining the technology will be done by technology. While it does mean more will be done, and more will be produced, this will collapse if there is not more of a market to consume it. Otherwise we will eventually get to a point that the 0.001 percenters will own all the production, and no one else will have anything to buy it with. So even the 0.001 percenters will end up losing. But how will that even be solved if there is nothing left for humans to do? Either we will have a world where no one has anything unless they have machines (and all they can produce for is themselves), or we will have socialism where the government provides everything
But a societal one. Just like the industrial revolution put a lot of manual labourers out of work, the digital revolution will do the same to the vast majority of low-and-no-skill labourers.
The moralistic notion that necessities, and even some small luxuries, need to be earned is starting to become antiquated. We need to begin seriously considering things like basic income [wikipedia.org] if we are to transition without a whole lot of bloodshed. Good luck convincing the X%.
All of us benefit from being the heirs of the industrial revolution. Even the poorest of us have better health and nutrition than before. We all have better healthcare than the mightiest king did 300 years ago. Yet for the average person who lived during the industrial revolution life was poor hell. Craftsmen and herders were sent into Dickensian factories and mines. I hope we can live long enough for the majority of citizens to see a benefit from our present computer revolution.
Robots will replace every human working in fast food eventually so what do you do to employ tens of millions of people put out of work? Look at the millions without jobs now. Even in IT a lot of automation has reduced the need for more IT engineers and to save money they are making us do more with less which forces is to rely more on automation. Robots will also evemtually replace surgeons and could replace lawyers too and so you and up with a broad swath of skill levels without jobs or money. Some sections of our society will just decide to kill the constitution and lock people up in dorms to keep these jobless out of the eye of those or we can free people to turn their attention to things that interest them. Things that they could not focus on before. Think scientist who did not have to worry about money or resources. Google manna chapter 1 and read it.
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The Dawn spacecraft isn't exactly a speedster. With its engines operating at maximum thrust, it would take about four days for the craft to accelerate from zero to 60. But what it lacks in horsepower, it makes up for in stamina — the engines can operate for years at a time, giving Dawn quite a push.
They're about to push the craft away from its first target and toward the second, where it'll arrive in early 2015.
Dawn has been orbiting the asteroid Vesta for the last year. It's found that although Vesta's only a few hundred miles in diameter, it's put together like a planet, with layers of heavier material as you bore toward the center. Dawn also confirmed that several types of meteorites on Earth actually came from Vesta.
Now the craft is ready to head for the largest asteroid, Ceres. It's about twice the diameter of Vesta. And unlike Vesta, which is quite dry, there's some evidence that liquid water could lurk below the surface of Ceres. One of Dawn's prime objectives is to look for that water.
To reach Ceres, Dawn will rely on three ion thrusters. Electricity from two large solar panels gives an electric charge to the craft's xenon fuel. The thrusters then shoot out a stream of xenon ions — generating up to a third of an ounce of thrust.
If the thrusters do their job correctly, they'll help put Dawn in the space history books — as the first craft ever to orbit two separate bodies in the solar system other than Earth.
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The Lions are represented on all three units – offense, defense and special teams – on this year's All-Rookie team as voted on by the Pro Football Writers of America.
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Ansah, drafted in the first round and fifth overall out of Brigham Young, had eight sacks and two forced fumbles. He played in 14 games, all starts. He led all rookies in sacks.
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The move comes shortly after IBM projected that its annual sales of data analytics products would reach $20 billion by 2015, up from an earlier estimate of just $16 billion.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Ranking the Big 10 Coaches
Gee, there's an "out on a limb" bold cyber statement. Flame away at me Michigan fans, but I think Carr is a solid coach. Am I pleased with last season? Hell no. But Carr made the steps to correct the problem and I for one (probably the only one) believe he will right the ship this season.
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Steps to correct the situation?
Here's the other side of that coin....
Aren't LC's last 4 coaching hires 3 long-time journeymen position coaches and his best friend who led CMU on a "controlled flight into terrain"?
Could it be that LC is cleaning house in preparation for his leaving? Is he working hard to get good jobs for his buddies before he goes - then filling the vacancies with "place-holders" who will be easily (and painlessly) replaced by the new regime?
I make the odds better than 50-50 and as much as 3-1 for a George Puscas kielbasa that this is LC's last year.
Cynical? Of course. But if you think the decisions down there are made for "Michigan", you're dead wrong. The "buddy system" is as alive and well in AA as it is anywhere else - and may be even stronger there.
- March 22, 2006 8:49 AM
- Benny Friedman said...
Anon, though I don't agree with you entirely, you get a ton of credit for mentioning the "George Puscas kielbasa." Brings back memories. Oh, how hard I tried to get one of his Love Letters lapel pins.
- March 22, 2006 10:00 AM
- The King said...
Carr is mediocre at best at this point, if you're looking at what he does with the talent on the field. He's certainly nowhere in the league of Tressel and Ferentz. Both of those guys have pulled 10 win seasons with relatively talentless squads. If Carr didn't have the Big 10's most talented team he'd have a losing record every year.
- March 22, 2006 11:12 AM
- Wangs said...
As much as I'd like to, I can't argue with the King.
And I think the fact that Herrman was allowed to linger for so long is strong evidence that the buddy system is too strong in Ann Arbor.
- March 22, 2006 11:20 AM
- Benny Friedman said...
King, I'd hardly say that Tressell won with relatively talentless squads. Tosu has consistently pulled in top recruiting classes and sends tons of guys to the NFL. He's a great coach, but he has great talent, too.
Let's also not forget that in college, getting the talent is at least half the battle. Carr deserves credit for that, unless you think anyone could do that at Michigan.
- March 22, 2006 11:21 AM
as much as the constant underachieving bothers me w/ michigan football, at what point does the blame fall on the players laps and not the coach? I agree that herrmann stayed around too long, but given 1997-2000, when we fielded great to very good defenses, i could see the case for keeping him around a bit. But Michigan pulls in all these high profile guys and they fail on the field and it's always the coaches' fault? Henson's departure rocked us and gave us years of John Navarre torture. Bear Bryant himself couldn't do anything about 2001 when Navarre accounted for 5 turnovers. Nor could anyone do much about Henne's inexplicable dive to mediocrity, Breaston's inability to catch anything downfield, The Curry brothers fascination w/ pass interference and Jeremy LeSeur's inability to cover my little sister. If we bomb again this yr then i'd say carr may have had his day but till then the guy is still soemthing like 15-5 or so in games vs top 20, and his vs top 10 record is quite sparkling as well. He deserves the benefit of the doubt.
- March 22, 2006 11:29 AM
The common perception among Big Ten fans is that Michigan simply does not develop talent well. Players come into the system and never get much better. Other teams can take 3 star recruits and make them NFL draft picks in 4 years, while UM has guys like Henne, Hart and Breaston who seem to be as good as they will ever be day one on campus...Now whose "fault" that is, no idea...
- March 23, 2006 2:55 PM
- DanDierdorf said...
Carr is a stand up guy and he runs a clean program. Tressel has a bail bondsman on staff and available 24/7. Iowa ... Geez ... It's freaking Iowa for Pete's Sake!!!
- March 23, 2006 11:12 PM
you make a pretty good point, that's something that's worth looking over and seeing if the stats bear out.
- March 24, 2006 1:24 PM
As a Buckeye fan, I am pleased to see Carr still at Michigan. Last year was the opportunity they needed to bring in some fresh faces. College football has changed. It used to be, the goal was to get a coaching lifer (Bo, Woody, Bobby Bowden, etc), who could run the program like a dynasty, but with the changes in college football, it is just hard for any coach to be successful for more then 10, 12 years - the burnout, the long hours, the changing athlete, not to mention all the money they make, so they don't need to be successful for as long.
- March 26, 2006 9:56 PM
First off, I'm a Hawkeye and fan of your guys site. Great original material and always entertaining. That said, I think you Wolverines are going to put the conference on notice next year. You guys are due for a huge season and you have all the offensive tools on hand to do it - although you did get dicked on the tough schedule. Carr is a good coach - have you already forgotten the Wolverines snapped our win streak at home this year (Last time Mr. Tressel came into Kinnick he left on the wrong end of a 33-7 shalacking...I wont mention what happen last season....moving on...)? Or that you went to the Rose Bowl only 2 seasons ago and took Vince Young and the next seasons champs to the very end? You guys have high expectations in AA, and given your history, thats understandable. But you people calling for Carr's head, who are you going to bring in?? Oh and dandierdorf, "freaking Iowa" has made it to a January bowl game each of the last 4 years. You can give us the lame Iowa label all you want, your not the first nor will you be the last, but we get the results on the field. And more importantly, Iowa City has more than its fair share of bars and hot bicthes - dont knock it till you've tried it ;)
- March 27, 2006 12:13 AM
- Yost said...
Thanks for the nice comment. Hell, we're just happy to be responding to something BESIDES the whole radio thing for a change.
I hope you're right about a big season in store for our beloved Blue.
Best of luck to the Hawks this season. And thanks for the post. As always, you show what classy fans Iowa folks are.
- March 27, 2006 12:17 AM


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Perdue has proposed a new bill that broadens the way teachers deal with disciplinary problems. Perdue wants to give teachers more power in the classroom when it comes to dealing with unruly children. The bill would basically give the teacher the upper hand in deciding a child's punishment.
Teachers at Southside Elementary in Cairo say their job would be impossible without decorum in the classroom.
"Without discipline you can't teach because every child has to know what's going on, where the teacher is, where they're suppose to be in their book," says Kathy Higginbotham, a second grade teacher:
In an effort to reform schools, Gov. Perdue plans to give teachers more authority in the classroom. A proposed bill requires principals to fully support a teacher's decision to remove unruly students from class.
Educators here say most schools would be in favor of the bill. However, they say it wouldn't have a great impact on schools at this level because they don't deal with very serious problems.
Charlie McBee, principal of Southside Elementary, says, "On the rare occasion that we may have a truly chronic problem we try to deal with the parents and of course teachers and administrators. It's done cordially and we're pretty much in agreement when a decision has to be made."
Students at Southside are disciplined according to the schools assertive discipline chart, which can restrict them from recess and other activities anytime they misbehave, which helps make harsher punishments a last resort.
"If they know what's expected and you're consistent with that discipline things run pretty smoothly," adds Higginbotham:
Perdue proposed a similar bill last year but the plan did not pass in the house. Another bill has been proposed by Perdue that would cause high school students to lose their driver's license for six months if they miss too many days of school.


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It's improbable, considering Marion's public trade demand hurt the Suns chances of trading, because now every team in the league will low-ball Steve Kerr knowing that he HAS to make a move. But, if I'm Mullin, I'll make it happen. He's already made the commitment to the uptempo, offensive-oriented basketball. Might as well try to outscore everyone. Marion is a 20 and 10 guy when at his best.
Are there down sides to signing Marion? Of course.
*He's not good at creating shots for himself or others. This is especially not healthy come clutch time, and it means he'll have to play alongside Baron, the team's best creator, to be his most productive. Which means if Baron gets hurt, Marion may not be as valuable.
BUT the Warriors season relies on Baron's health anyway. And while the Warriors would love to have five players who can create, they need what Marion brings more than what he doesn't.
* Like PG Baron Davis, he can terminate his contract after next year. He wants an extension for $60 million over three years, at least. So, any team that gets him will have to break bread to keep him.
BUT the Warriors don't have to commit that money yet. A one-year try out isn't the worst thing. They can acquire him, see how he fits, then negotiate next offseason. If he walks, you've only lost Harrington and Pietrus or whoever. Worst-case scenario, you have $16 million erased from the cap. If he fits perfectly, pay him. Marion knows he needs to play with a great PG, which slims his options. He may end up loving it here, and he's cheaper than Garnett would've been. And isn't that what they got rid of Richardson for, the financial flexibility to get a four-time All-Star like Shawn Marion?
*He'd be taking minutes from Brandan Wright, who could develop into the next Shawn Marion, at a much cheaper price. Wright certainly has the physical tools that puts him in the category of a Shawn Marion.
BUT he could also turn out to be Stromile Swift. Who wants to wait and hope a guy can develop when you have the chance to nab a proven player?
The only thing he can't do well is defend big, bruising power forwards — though he'd be better at it than Al Harrington — and shoot from 3-point range (with that form of his, I'm surprised he shoots 34 percent from three for his career). He runs the floor as well as anyone in the league. He finishes. He rebounds. He defends.
With Kevin Garnett now in Beantown, is there a better forward for the Warriors right now? Who embodies everything Nellie ball is about, at least from a big man perspective, more than Marion?


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Definitely some wisdom in these words.
When we contemplate our sensations, we are less likely to experience so much suffering. For instance, when someone is nice to you, you may feel happy at the time. If you then worry whether next time they will still be nice to you, you are now suffering. In that case, your nice sensation of happiness disappeared quickly. On the other hand, if someone insults you and you feel resentment, you are just adding more suffering for yourself. If we learn to contemplate our sensations and feelings, we will see them as transient phenomena and suffer less.
From Things Pertaining to Bodhi: The Thirty-seven Aids to Enlightenment by Chan Master Sheng Yen, page 16


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El33tonline writes:
"The PS Vita has no shortage of smaller, indie games headed its way over the next few months but there are far fewer full retail games coming to the platform this year that we know about."
I want MM to make a proper LBP3 with 3D modelling like their tech demo and 3D gameplay.
Not sure...I love little big planet...and the Vita version is probably the best yet....but don't really feel like I need a sequel yet.
What I really need is a free-roaming platform game.
Jak and Daxter?
I don't think there will be a LBP game on the vita made by MM. They are working on new stuff like Tearaway.
Little Big Planet for the Vita it's one of the best games I've ever played. Would love a sequel!


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CR Fashion Book Second Issue Pictures
Leap Into the Balletic Second Issue of CR Fashion Book
Leap Into the Balletic Second Issue of CR Fashion Book
Carine Roitfeld counts her private ballet lessons as the inspiration for the dance-themed second issue of her magazine, CR Fashion Book.
"I'm obsessed with the body of the ballet dancer, obsessed with the music and obsessed with the Russian tradition in ballet," Roitfeld told WWD. "When you are a dancer, you don't get money. You do it because you love it. It's so pure and beautiful — the freedom, the movement, the gestures."
It follows that the pictures in the magazine would be beautiful, too. Gus Van Sant captured dancer Sergei Polunin in the middle of a leap for one of the issue's covers; for the other, he shot a stiletto pointe shoe created by artist Brigitte Niedermair. The issue includes Rick Owens's first ever editorial, a photo story by Bruce Weber, and Gisele Bündchen's interview with model Kiara Kabukuru. Photographer Maurizi Bavutti captured a surreal vision of what dancers look like backstage, and Kacper Kasprzyk depicted a dancer's life and training by photographing David Hallberg.
The second issue of CR Fashion Book will be on European shelves Feb. 21 and will debut stateside Feb. 28. A sneak peek here in the gallery.
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The Valle de Guadalupe is close to paradise. That valley has this ability to touch every one of your senses from the oddly unnatural silence in the air being away from the urban drone, the scent of desert plants and flowers blooming, the warm sun on our skin, to the taste of wine cultivated exclusively there. Though no doubt more remarkable were the people we met whom without knowing us treated us with such kindness and passion I have a closer idea of what being human is.
I do not think I will ever be able to thank Jay and DD for including me on this trip - an amazing day is a poor way to describe it sufficiently. Thousand thanks goes out to Pat and Candice for also sharing the day with me - its way too easy to have such a fantastic time with like-minded, wonderful individuals as you all.
We met with Jair at his restaurant and head over to Parellelo, a winery whose architecture expressed a Mexican sensibility and had every functional and environmental aspect was carefully incorporated into its being. We were given a tour and sampled 2 wines.
West to El Mogor - a small winery run by a enterprising man who outgrew a hobby for making wine, where we sampled a swiss grape wine and a annual field blend in the cool underground wine cellar.
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Today marks the start of PAX 2014 here in Seattle, which means the public will have a chance to go hands-on with a number of upcoming titles. Techland and WB have Dying Light here at the show, with a new trailer that showcases the game's movement through the undead-infested environments.In this first developer diary, the team discusses how it evolved its design to allow player freedom. Techland makes big claims not only about what the movement in Dying Light does for the game, but how it will change the FPS genre.
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Graziano da Silva meets with the State Minister for Finance of Bangladesh
19 February 2014, Rome – FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva met the State Minister for Finance of Bangladesh, M.A. Mannan, at FAO headquarters today.
The head of FAO noted that Bangladesh was one of the 38 countries from all regions in the world awarded by FAO in 2013 for having made outstanding progress in the fight against hunger, having met the Millennium Development Goal target for halving the proportion of chronically undernourished people since 1990 before the target date of 2015.
Graziano da Silva congratulated Minister Mannan on Bangladesh's achievement in rice production, noting that the country had begun exporting part of its crop on the international market.
The Director-General also voiced his welcome for the new "One House, One Farm" policy, saying it was in keeping with the spirit of the International Year of Family Farming 2014, an FAO-led, UN initiative designed to support the more than 500 million family farmers who play a key role in global food security, economic development and environmental sustainability. A presentation on this project was held at FAO headquarters following the Minister's visit.
Graziano da Silva and Minister Mannan also discussed the approval of the Bangladesh Food Safety Act last October.
Watch the video interview with the State Minister for Finance of Bangladesh, M.A. Mannan.


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DigitalNZ is a collaborative project led by the National Library of New Zealand that has been around for a few months now. They have already done fantastic things with providing tools for searching across New Zealand digital content from a range of organisations, including from Te Papa's Collections Online, as well as providing access for developers (via an API) to create new ways for people to engage with that content.
Today they launched the Make It Digital service. From their blog:
1. The Guides and Ask a Question sections are designed to help people who are trying to create new digital content, or digitise their stuff. A lot of you will have questions on how to go about digitisation and this is the place where you can ask. We hope that some of you will be able to share your expertise by answering others' questions, and helping us to write and update the guides.
2. The Voting section – It's a public forum for people to share their ideas for new NZ digital content, with voting and commenting functions. There's some great ideas in there already that you can vote on, for example, School Journal, New Zealand music artwork and Appendices to the Journals of the House of Representatives.
As with all DigitalNZ work so far, Make It Digital has the makings of a fantastic service, and we're really looking forward to see it grow, and watching people contribute, ask, share and create! Check it out here http://makeit.digitalnz.org/


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Already, a considerable accumulation of fallen leaves pads most of the local trails. Weather patterns have delivered the combination of blustery winds, rain and cooler temperatures that are typical of the season.
Typically, a thick fog has encased most area waters each morning and the diminishing daylight hours have served to abbreviate the duration of daily outings.
Outdoor travelers should take these changes into consideration when planning a trip and allow adequate time for the return. As always, packing a flashlight with spare batteries is a wise move.
The fall foliage has moved well past peak in the upper elevations, and appears to have progressed into the "mellow yellow" stage, with a mix of muted tan, yellow and brown being the most predominant colors.
With only a week remaining in the trout season, sportsmen will soon be trading in their fishing poles for smoke poles, as the muzzleloading season for whitetail deer opens Saturday, Oct. 16.
Modern muzzleloaders
When first devised, the muzzleloading season was developed to permit hunters an early opportunity to pursue big game with primitive arms, prior to the opening of regular rifle season.
In the Northern Zone, hunters are allowed to harvest a deer of either sex during muzzleloading season. In effect, it has legalized a long-standing tradition of taking a doe for camp meat.
Muzzleloading season was first initiated for "primitive arms," which were defined as a single-shot rifle loaded with a charge in the barrel. Most of the muzzleloaders available at that time were either flintlocks or percussion cap models, with the Hawken and the Kentucky long rifle style being the most popular guns of choice.
However, in recent years, advancements in muzzleloading technologies have rapidly changed the game. Davy Crocket or Daniel Boone wouldn't even recognize the modern muzzleloading rifles.
Possibly, the only common variable between today's rifles and the primitive guns that these famed woodsmen once carried is that they still require a charge to be loaded down the muzzle of the gun. Beyond that simple requirement, all bets are off.
Many modern muzzleloaders feature advanced ignition systems. No longer is a percussion cap or the spark of a flintlock necessary to fire a muzzleloader.
The charge now rarely consists of traditional black powder; rather, it is typically a non-corrosive, smokeless substitute called Pyrodex.
Pyrodex is an easier, cleaner and more consistent charge than traditional black powder. It also comes in a pre-measured pellet form, which improves the consistency of the load, the accuracy of the shot and the ease of cleaning the firearm.
Not only have ignition systems and the type of powder changed, so has the ammunition. The traditional round — mini-balls of lead that were once rammed down a barrel with a patch of linen — have been replaced with copper-jacketed slugs sheathed in a plastic sabot.
The advent of inline ignition systems, reliable loads and advanced optics have combined to make the modern day muzzleloader an extremely accurate, highly effective and relatively smokeless "smoke pole."
It is interesting to note the comparable technological advancements that have occurred in archery. The advent of compound bows, which use a system of wheels and pulleys to reduce draw weight, has reinvigorated interest in bow hunting.
Technological advancements in bow systems and modern materials have greatly diminished the learning curve. Bows now feature sight systems, sound dampeners, stabilizers and a host of additional aids that make bows lighter, faster, stronger and more reliable than ever before.
Some hunting traditionalists wonder if the technology of hunting implements has gone too far. Have the modern advancements removed the primitive elements from primitive arms?
"It's still only one shot," explained Bob Brown of Saranac Lake, a veteran hunter and well-known sportsman. "I've still got to be careful and make it count. And the deer is not going to know what hit him, whether it is a sabot or a round ball from a Hawken or a modern in-line."
Brown makes a valid point. Whether the muzzleloader features a stainless steel barrel, synthetic stock, inline ignition, electronic scope and a host of other advanced technologies, the success of the hunt essentially remains the same. The most important ingredient remains the hunter's skill set.
It boils down to individual choice. Have graphite fly rods diminished the angling experience? Are graphite rods actually more productive than fiberglass or traditional bamboo? Do such advancements provide sportsmen with an unfair advantage?
In the wider picture, if the latest technology can produce lighter and less expensive outdoor equipment that is easier to use and maintain, what is the harm?
From an advocacy perspective, outdoor equipment that is user-friendly, less expensive and more readily available is certain to aid the effort to recruit hunters.
In fact, when New York lawmakers recently passed legislation to allow crossbows to be used during the hunting season, state Sen. David J. Valesky explained, "Expanding New York's hunting regulations to include crossbows will expand Upstate's economic opportunities. It will provide increased revenue to the state and our local communities through licensing and will also draw in out-of-state hunters looking to experience hunting in New York."
The new law, which will not take effect until next hunting season, will allow hunters to use a crossbow during regular big-game season when most firearms are in use. According to the bill, hunters will be able to use their regular gun season tags and their muzzleloader tags in coordination with crossbow hunting.
Upcoming events
A bit closer to home, on Sunday October 10, The Wild Center in Tupper Lake will host a full day of events and activities in support the 10/10/10 Global Work Party. Organized by 350.org, the 10/10/10 Global Work party will represent the world's largest day of practical action to fight the climate crisis.
Communities in over 100 countries will join the effort by participating in activities that demonstrate local sustainable food, energy, water and transportation solutions to climate change. In honor of this monumental event, The Wild Center has a planned a full day of activities for the whole family that will celebrate more sustainable ways to coexist with the natural world.
Fisheries presentation
The Lake Champlain Chapter of Trout Unlimited has announced that DEC Region 5 fisheries manager Bill Schoch will be the featured speaker at their October Trout Unlimited meeting. The event will begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 12 in the Gander Lodge Room at the Gander Mountain Store in the North Mall, in Plattsburgh. It's free, informative and everyone's invited.
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Photo by Joe Hackett
The top gun is a Thompson Center Arms Encore Inline Muzzleloader with a synthetic stock and stainless steel barrel. On the bottom is a Thompson Center Arms Hawken muzzleloader, outfitted with traditional hardware.


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Mar 27, 2013
WALTHAM, Mass. -- The Brandeis women's tennis team, ranked 23rd in the latest ITA Division III national poll, had little trouble in their first outdoor match in New England, taking down Babson College, 8-1, at home on the Rieger Tennis Courts.
Sophomore Carley Cooke (San Diego, Calif./Point Loma) led the way with a pair of wins in the No. 1 positions. She paired with senior Faith Broderick (Washingtonville, N.Y./Washingtonville) for an 8-5 win over Alex Freeman and Alexis Freeman in the closest doubles match of the day. Cooke then defeated Freeman in singles action, 6-4, 6-1.
Junior Allyson Bernstein (Northbrook, Ill. / Glenbrook North) was a double winner, earning an 8-4 win with classmate Marissa Lazar (Hewlett, N.Y./Lynbrook) at No. 3 doubles, and a 6-4, 6-1 win at No. 2 singles. It was her first match this season in the second spot after playing her previous five matches at No. 3.
The No. 2 doubles squad of juniors Simone Vandroff (Moss Beach, Calif./Half Moon Bay) and Roberta Bergstein (Hingham, Mass./Hingham) also earned two points each. They were 8-4 winners in doubles action over the Beavers' Victoria Lorido and Minte Tamoshunas. Vandroff then defeated Tamoshunas at No. 3 singles, 6-4, 6-3, while Bergstein dispatched Lorido, 6-3, 6-1, at No. 4. Junior Alexa Katz (Philadelphia, Pa./Abington Friends) rounded out the Brandeis winners with a 6-3, 6-2, win at No. 5.
Brandeis returns to action next Friday when they co-host the Nor'Easter bowl along with Wellesley College.
Brandeis University 8, Babson College 1
Mar 27, 2013 at Brandeis University
Mar 27, 2013 at Brandeis University
|Singles competition
|1. Carley Cooke (BRANDEIS) def. Alex Freeman (BAB) 6-4, 6-1
|2. Allyson Bernstein (BRANDEIS) def. Alexis Ferraro (BAB) 6-4, 6-1
|3. Simone Vandroff (BRANDEIS) def. Minte Tamoshunas (BAB) 6-4, 6-3
|4. Roberta Bergstein (BRANDEIS) def. Victoria Lorido (BAB) 6-3, 6-1
|5. Alexa Katz (BRANDEIS) def. Courtney Fischer (BAB) 6-3, 6-2
|6. Inna Loseva (BAB) def. Emily Eska (BRANDEIS) 6-4, 6-3
|Doubles competition
|1. Faith Broderick/Carley Cooke (BRANDEIS) def. Alex Freeman/Alexis Ferraro (BAB) 8-5
|2. Roberta Bergstein/Simone Vandroff (BRANDEIS) def. Victoria Lorido/Minte Tamoshunas (BAB) 8-4
|3. Marissa Lazar/Allyson Bernstein (BRANDEIS) def. Inna Loseva/Courtney Fischer (BAB) 8-4
|Match Notes
|Babson College 9-9
|Brandeis University 4-4, #23 National, #10 Regional


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Ariadne is a Web Application Framework and Content Management System built with PHP. It allows you to build complex Web applications and sites with ease. It takes care of the mundane stuff like internationalization, security, user management, templating, data retrieval and storage, caching, and site management. It stores content in a structured object store that can be accessed through an extensive filesystem-like API.
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Kempt Man of the Hour: Adam Duritz
- Jared Paul Stern
*Photographed by our fearless lensman, Patrick McMullan.*
John Waters wasn't the only one to surprise us with his stylistic splendor at the *Cry-Baby* musical premiere the other night. Waters' fellow Baltimorean Adam Duritz, the Counting Crows frontman and record producer, blew in like a breath of fresh air with a preview of coming attractions, sartorially speaking, swathed in summer suiting befitting a southern gentleman.
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As they wait for MLB to approve their TV deal with Fox, the Padres have locked into place a key member of their broadcast team for the next three years.
Mark Grant, this blog has learned, has reached terms on a guaranteed contract through 2014. The deal could stretch to 2016 if options are exercised.
To get the contract done, the Padres made Grant a club employee. It's more typical for a team's TV affiliate to employ its broadcasters, but the Padres, after discussing Grant with Fox, decided not to wait for MLB to sign off on the 20-year pact with Fox.
Grant, who pitched professionally from 1981 through the spring of 1996, including a stint with the Padres, has been a color analyst on Padres broadcasts since 1996, when team executive Bill Adams plugged him into a rotation of guest analysts with Prime Sports. Impressed by his baseball expertise, sense of humor and affable personality, the Padres and Channel 4 hired Grant full time in 1997.
Grant's play-by-play partner, Dick Enberg, also employed by the Padres, is under contract through the 2013 season. Color analyst Tony Gwynn, a Padres consultant, also will be in the booth for the 2012 season.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Padres lock up Grant
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John Carroll is a private, coeducational, Jesuit Catholic university providing programs of study in the liberal arts, sciences, and business at the undergraduate level and in selected areas at the master's level.
Academically, the University consists of the College of Arts and Sciences and the John M. and Mary Jo Boler School of Business, which both include graduate programs. John Carroll operates on a semester calendar, with two 15-week semesters and three summer sessions.
Admission, Costs of Attendance, Financial Aid and Scholarships
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BERLIN (MCT) — A German newspaper columnist this week asked why people here were shocked by the American government stalemate that led to the recent shutdown.
After all, they'd seen it before: Republican insistence on scaling back the Affordable Care Act and the subsequent shutdown weren't so very different from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's austerity insistence for Greece, and the subsequent Greek cutback crisis.
While it was only one column in one newspaper, it did nicely sum up how much of the world seemed to be seeing the United States during the budget impasse: as both dysfunctional (Greece) and authoritarian (Germany).
No one was amused, however. The United States, after all, is not a bit player on the international stage like Greece. It is the unquestioned global leader. And while after a decade of controversial war it's not so unusual for Europeans to express hostility toward the United States, many were shocked to see how hostile Americans seem to be to one another — and disinterested in how their internal fight might affect the rest of the world.
"This is pure domestic politics," said Xenia Dormandy, an expert on the United States and its place in the world at the London think tank Chatham House. "Nobody cares about any of the international implications. There's a lack of desire to even think about the repercussions."
The discord will have long-term consequences, even if the United States is able to see its way through this crisis to yet another battle over spending and the debt ceiling that will come early next year, some predict.
Willem Post, an expert on U.S. politics at The Clingendael Institute, a Dutch think tank, warned that the standoff in the United States and divisions within Europe over what to do about its own economy are causing the two continents to not take steps that would enable them to remain the dominant forces in the world despite all the talk of a rising China and a Pacific pivot.
The United States is still the world's largest economy and will long remain the world's most powerful nation, he noted. And Europe, troubled as it may be, remains a substantial economic force.
"This is a window of opportunity now, for two continents with shared goals, to make a partnership under which they will not diminish," he said. "Of course, they cannot wait 20 years to make this happen. This is a moment, and it must be seized. Instead, we have dysfunctional governments on both sides of the Atlantic."
And there will be consequences, he said.
"For us, failure to make progress now is an issue, but only one of many," he said. "For our children and grandchildren, it is a looming disaster."
Made all the more incomprehensible to Europeans because of the American role in it. For Europeans, their own dysfunctions makes sense; the European Union, after all, is made up of 28 nations with competing interests, while the eurozone, where the euro is the currency, is composed of 17 nations with differing economic needs and styles.
But the United States is a single nation.
"Europeans really don't understand," he said. "The United States is the model democracy; it should be leading by example. Instead, there is no talking, there is no compromise. The lesson to the rest of the world is that the United States these days can't be relied upon."
Joerg Wolf, editor in chief and a foreign policy expert at the Atlantic Community, a Berlin-based think tank, noted that "it is mind-boggling that politicians are so slow to see the costs of their actions."
Wolf wonders if politicians really need to experience the consequences to appreciate them.
"The perception in the United States Congress does seem to be that if a default causes problems for China, that's China's problem," he said. "The U.S. is playing with fire. There will be blowback."
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Im trying to make a "scrubber", like a bottom scroller u see when a webpage is too long, length-wise.
Except, its much smaller, and left side is "Small" right side is "Widescreen" and simply, when you mouse over it, a small animation plays of the scrubber moving from left to right, if you are already on "small", and vice-versa for large.
When you click on the Widescreen side (if you are on Small resolution already), it would switch to "Widescreen" (and in code, I have already made it so when they click Widescreen, it actually changes what you see on the site to widescreen for obviously widescreen users, and the same for Small)
I have built my own with Photoshop and HTML (It is so unprofessional though haha) I was just curious:
1. What would this technically be called? For me to possibly Google a solution?
2. Is there anyone who might possibly know how to code this with javascript/HTML/CSS?
3. Is there possibly a program I can download (Like WOWSlider is for making cool carousel for your site using JQuery), is there something like that I can download, but for scrubbers or whatever the technical term would be?
3. My form is pretty crappy... I used 2 images, and 2 gifs for the animations, is there possibly a better way that anyone may know of I can do this format in?
I am just curious, I thought it would be something that might look cool to fill that extra awkward empty space on my website.


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That's awesome!
Thanks for pointing that out. I don't think I'm going to be getting published right now but that's still really cool!
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Wow, seems interesting! I was thinking about writing a new story for my own pleasure for awhile but I have no ideas. Maybe this will motivate me to work on it!
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The shortest ACC basketball head-coaching tenure in 40 years ended Monday when Virginia Tech fired James Johnson after two seasons.
Athletic director Whit Babcock, on the job one month, met with Johnson Monday morning, five days after the Hokies lost to Miami in the ACC tournament. Tech was 22-41 under Johnson, 6-32 versus league opponents.
Johnson has three years remaining on his original five-year contract, and the school will owe him more than $800,000 — the amount could be reduced based on the salary Johnson earns at his next coaching job. Tech also continues to pay Seth Greenberg, whom then-athletic director Jim Weaver fired in 2012.
The Hokies have finished last in the ACC for three consecutive seasons. The most recent program so burdened was Clemson from 2000-02 under Larry Shyatt, who coached one additional season before the school replaced him with Oliver Purnell.
Coinciding with the product, attendance at Tech home games has declined markedly. The Hokies averaged 4,812 fans at Cassell Coliseum this season, less than half of the routine sellouts of just a half-dozen years ago.
Johnson is only the fifth head coach in ACC basketball history to serve less than three years. Jack Murdock worked the 1965-66 season as an interim at Wake Forest; Press Maravich left North Carolina State in 1966 after two winning years to coach his son Pete at LSU; Frank Fellows guided Maryland from 1967-69, and Neil McGeachy lasted only the 1973-74 season at Duke.
"I want to thank Coach Johnson for his dedication and hard work for our university and our basketball program over the past seven years," Babcock said in a statement. "A change of this significance affects many people and is never taken lightly, but I felt a change and a new direction was necessary for the long-term, best interest of our department."
Johnson, 42, was a Tech assistant for five years under Greenberg. He left for a similar position at Clemson in April 2012, and three weeks later Weaver hired him to replace Greenberg.
Tech was Johnson's first head-coaching job, and the subsequent departures of freshman Dorian Finney-Smith and acclaimed recruit Montrez Harrell undercut one of Weaver's primary reasons for hiring him: player retention. Finney-Smith and Harrell are key players for national championship contenders Florida and Louisville, respectively.
Despite the presence of ACC player of the year Erick Green, the nation's top scorer, the Hokies were 13-19 last season, 4-12 in the ACC, and exited the conference tournament in the first round. Beset by injuries this season to starters such as guards Adam Smith and Ben Emelogu and forwards Cadarian Raines and C.J. Barksdale, Tech went 9-22, 2-16, often extending deeper and more talented opponents to the waning minutes.
Such was the case in Wednesday's 57-53 ACC tournament loss to Miami. Johnson said then he was "optimistic" about returning for a third season and thanked his players for their efforts.
"I love these guys," he said. "They work hard for me. They never quit on me. Not being able to come into practice tomorrow, to not watch film, not go back to the hotel and get ready for another game, that's going to hit me."
Johnson could not be reached for comment Monday. Babcock is scheduled to meet with reporters Tuesday morning.
During a recent interview, Babcock said this season's additions of Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame, plus next season's arrival of Louisville, elevate the 15-team ACC above all other conferences in basketball.
"Ultimately, we want our program to be, and it sounds like you're shooting low, but if we're in the top half of this league," Babcock said, "then we're going to be in the NCAA tournament more times than we're not. … It's going to be big-boy basketball here. It already is, but it's not going to get any easier. .,.
"At Cincinnati we sold the fact that you had a big city, and that worked there. But there's just as many kids that I think want to get out of the city. So I think you can use a rural college town setting to your advantage. But if you have good coaches and good facilities, and you're not very far here from really good basketball talent, whether it's (Hampton Roads), or D.C., or Baltimore, or Charlotte even. So I wouldn't say it's the easiest job in the country, but I would say it's a really good job here."
Babcock has given no indication on whom he might target, but he is almost certain to hire a candidate with head-coaching experience. His pool will hinge on how much the school, which has reached two NCAA tournaments in the last 25 years, is willing and able to pay.
Among the many names likely to be linked to the job are Wofford's Mike Young, a Radford High graduate, George Washington's Mike Lonergan, Dayton's Archie Miller, Tulsa's Danny Manning and Xavier's Chris Mack, all of whom are preparing their teams for the NCAA tournament.
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Schilling Claims Done-ness
Curt Schilling has officially retired. Of course, you never know with these retirement announcements. So I'll save the tribute for another year or two. He announced the retirement on his blog, which would have been so cool had he kept his original, independent blog. Instead, it's just another athlete saying something through the media. I still don't know why he felt the need to join EEI (especially since he once claimed he never would so something like that). Did he need more money? Did he feel people couldn't find his blog? What other reasons would there be? It also shows us that as much as celebrities seem to be "just like us" in this electronic world, they can always just skip right out of their (insert current bullshit pre-packaged social time-wasting site here) account and just have their minions do the work for them. I envision a future with much more accessibility to "stars," as they will have grown up on the Internet with the rest us, but they'll always know they can be on that "higher" level with a click of a (insert current show-off handheld device here).
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Federal legislation was introduced Tuesday to try to stop the Tohono O'odham Nation from building a casino near Glendale.
The bill spearheaded by Republican Rep. Trent Franks would bar casinos on land in metro Phoenix that's made part of the American Indian reservation system in 2013 and afterward.
The federal government declared the Tohono O'odham Nation property near Glendale a reservation, but pending litigation prevents the land from being made part of the system.
A similar bill by Franks last year cleared the House, but never got a vote in the Senate.
The tribe had received $30 million to replace nearly 10,000 acres of ancestral reservation land damaged by a dam.
The tribe says the property near Glendale that it purchased in 2003 is part of that replacement program.
Members of the Arizona Congressional delegation released the following statements:
"When Arizona's gaming compact was voted into law, both the voters and tribes of Arizona were promised one thing, while ultimately receiving something else entirely. This bill is not about a vendetta. Nor is it about ending gaming in Arizona. It is, very specifically, about ensuring that the limits on casinos specifically promised back in 2002 during debate on Proposition 202 are realized." - Congressman Trent Franks
"More than a decade ago, Arizona tribes unified around Proposition 202, and the voters agreed. I'm cosponsoring this legislation because it upholds the will of those voters and the overwhelming majority of tribes who participated in this historic effort." - Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick.
"I am happy to join Congressman Franks in protecting our state's gaming compact. The proposed casino would have serious ramifications for the future of the industry and our local tribes. I will continue to work towards a solution that protects the compact's integrity while preserving individual tribal rights." - Congressman Paul Gosar.
"The Arizona state gaming compact is more than just an agreement, it is a contract between the tribes and Arizona voters. This bill ensures that this contract is upheld." - Congressman David Schweikert.
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(GREENWICH, Conn.) — A conservation center in Connecticut has sent out a birth announcement like no other.
"It's a girl," proclaims the website of the LEO Zoological Conservation Center, announcing the birth of not just any girl but an endangered Rothschild giraffe.
The giraffe, born Friday, was the first giraffe born at the Greenwich conservation center, and possibly the first giraffe ever born in Connecticut, according to the center.
The calf was delivered at 9:04 a.m. Friday by her mother, 6-year-old Petal, who gave birth standing after carrying the newborn for around 15 months.
Just 30 minutes later, the calf was standing and nursing on her own, according to center officials, who watched the delivery.
Now those officials are allowing the public to have a say in the future of the giraffe, which will live at the center with as many as five other giraffes and could grow to as tall as 18 feet.
Giraffe lovers can submit their ideas for what to name the new calf on the center's website.
The new calf joins a small giraffe subspecies of which only 670 remain in the wild in their native Kenya and Uganda. The giraffes were named and described by Lord Walter Rothschild, a British zoologist, in the early 1900s.
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British police are investigating a fox attack on a one-month-old baby boy which left his hand seriously injured.
The animal tore the infant's finger off after dragging him from his cot after entering his bedroom in Bromley, southeast London, according to reports.
"We were called at 1638 on Wednesday 6 February by staff at St Thomas' Hospital to reports a baby boy who had been admitted to hospital after being attacked by a fox," a Metropolitan Police spokesman said.
"Police attended to find a four-week-old baby with a hand injury.
"The baby was admitted to hospital after the attack at its home address in Bromley.
"Inquiries continue."
The child's mother was alerted by the child's screams and rushed into his room to see his hand lodged "halfway down the animal's throat", the Mail on Sunday said.
Surgeons were able to reattach the baby's finger and he was said to be recovering well.
An RSPCA spokeswoman said fear was the only reason a fox would attack.
"It's extremely unusual for foxes to attack young children or anyone," she said.
"It's not typical fox behaviour at all. Foxes will come closer to a house if there are food sources. Then they can become quite bold, but they usually do back off and run away when there's people around."
London Mayor Boris Johnson said more must be done to tackle the growing problem of urban foxes.
"They may appear cuddly and romantic but foxes are also a pest and a menace, particularly in our cities," he told BBC News.
"This must serve as a wake-up call to London's borough leaders, who are responsible for pest control.
"They must come together, study the data, try to understand why this is becoming such a problem and act quickly to sort it out."
Johnson added that his thoughts were "with the baby boy and his family".


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I was convinced that I was going to post my frist Memory Lane post today…but it's not quite ready yet!
I did finish the Dan Brown book…and I liked it, but he got a bit too pretentious at the end for my tastes, so I deemed it unworthy of a book review. It is a decent read, as long as you skip the last couple of chapters 🙂
My priest is sitting at level 78, 18,000 xp from 79, but I was soooo tired last night I decided to go to bed because 79 would still be there today! I am hoping to get her to 80 this weekend, but we have a lot going on, so I don't know if she will quite make it! I'm still very much enjoying my laser bubbles, and visiting the instances again, and having them provide a challenge. Brade's warrior is just about 80 (damn heirlooms! *shakes fist*), but is still a little squishy, which sometimes makes me sweat a bit. I have learned that while ToC Normal is certainly do-able at level 78, it is very taxing on your mana pool. I am almost always sucking fumes as we finish the black knight.
I haven't really done much with Beru's achievements since I hit Loremaster, although I imagine once my priest is 80 I'll find a little bit more time to check a few more off of my list. I desperately want 100 mounts. But, I find myself dragging my feet at grinding the last few out…or spending extra gold on them!
I spec'd my mage arcane awhile back, and have been enjoying it quite a bit. I get in trouble with my mana from time to time, but largely I do fairly well with it.
Last night our Sylvanas 10 man ToC group got a Tribute to Mad Skill, which I was really very pleased with. I very much think that a tribute to insanity is on the horizon for them soon. Our struggling Bloodhoof ToC group has been much improved as well, easily knocking out the first four bosses in the zone for the past couple of weeks. We did a few pulls on Anub last week, even though it's running both alt tanks and alt healers. Our DPS was there for Anub…and then we realized that there was no mortal strike in the group. Uh…yea, not so much! But I was happy that people got to give it a go 🙂
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