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SpaceX founder Elon Musk has always acknowledged the debt his company owes to NASA. Much of SpaceX's technology is rooted in the space agency's research. As the entrepreneur says, "I would not have been able to start SpaceX without the amazing work NASA has done in the past. Nor would SpaceX be where it is today without the help of NASA."
But standing on the shoulders of giants is also the first step to becoming one yourself, and SpaceX's ambitious test of a reusable booster this month may have done as much to prove it is on a trajectory to greatness as all its other spectacular successes put together. The risk involved is testing a radical concept for a reusable booster concept during a vitally important cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station (ISS). As if the ISS resupply flight was not important enough, SpaceX also wants to compete against United Launch Alliance for U.S. Air Force missions to launch military and intelligence satellites. Failure was not an option, just a distinct possibility.
SpaceX has not revealed much of its flight data, but it seems to have been overwhelmingly successful (see page 25). And the flight certainly evokes NASA's can-do spirit of the 1960s. SpaceX's breakneck pace of development has been almost Apollo-like in its execution.
The ground-launched Grasshopper vertical-launch, vertical- landing development testbed, which formed the first part of Musk's plan to slash the cost of each launch, only flew for the first time in September 2012. Pending further successful tests of the follow-on Falcon 9 reusable demonstrators as well as more booster recovery attempts on other launches this year, SpaceX says the first reflight of a used booster could come as early as next year.
Success is far from guaranteed, and the pieces of Musk's low-cost launch puzzle still need to be fitted together. But the ambitious effort shows a more aggressive investment in R&D than by the established players, either those supported in the U.S. by the Defense Department or those in Europe backed by the EU and European Space Agency. If Musk can get so far so quickly, who is to say his vision of human settlements on Mars is beyond reach.
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TORONTO — No, nothing happened to me. I heard there was some concern about my whereabouts over on Wilner's blog. Fear not. I'm perfectly fine. I merely took a few days off to celebrate the ol' anniversary with The Wife.
But, I'm back in Blue Jays land and apparently they played on without me. And they made a bunch of moves, too, huh. Only real updates today were that catcher Gregg Zaun is due back Wednesday as planned and there is no news concerning Shannon Stewart's MRI, though GM J.P. Ricciardi did say Stew could be out a while. Doesn't sound good.
Ricciardi was also asked what he thought of this year's Blue Jays Draft class.
"It's hard to tell. I'll let you know in a couple years," he replied with a smile.
As noted on draft day, David Cooper — Toronto's first overall pick — is likely ticketed for Class A Auburn for starters. Considering he's an advanced hitter, the Jays are hoping he doesn't have to reside in the New York-Penn League for too long. In fact, if Coop plays well, he may skip by Lansing and head straight to high A Dunedin before the year's up.
"He'd probably start in the Penn League, like we do with most of the guys," Ricciardi said. "Then, if he progresses for maybe about a month, if he does well, we'd move him up to Dunedin. But he's an advanced bat, so hopefully he'll be able to get up there."
See, I basically just paraphrased that quote. Also, in regards to catcher J.P. Arencibia — one of last year's first-rounders — he won't be in Dunedin much longer. All he's done is hit .307 with 11 homers, 22 doubles, 56 RBIs and an .882 OPS in 55 games for the Class A Blue Jays.
"He's getting close," Ricciardi said, when asked if Arencibia was due for a promotion. "He's got to go. There's not much more he can do down there."
Today's lineups:
SEATTLE (22-41) at TORONTO (33-32)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Ichiro Suzuki, CF
Jose Vidro, DH
Raul Ibanez, LF
Adrian Beltre, 3B
Jose Lopez, 2B
Jeremy Reed, RF
Richie Sexson, 1B
Kenji Johjima, C
Yuniesky Betancourt, SS
PITCHING: LHP Jarrod Washburn (2-7, 6.56)
Alex Rios, RF
Matt Stairs, DH
Scott Rolen, 3B
Vernon Wells, CF
Rod Barajas, C
Kevin Mench, LF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Marco Scutaro, 2B
David Eckstein, SS
PITCHING: RHP Jesse Litsch (7-2, 3.45)
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where is everybody? I am serious? What do you guys think of the draft….
I think the jays made a wise decision with Copper, he can easily turn into a DH for us in the future (currently the spot is occupied by noone for the future) and I heard his bat is AWESOME…i believe he hit .359 with 56 rbis in 55 games (similar to what arencibia is doing)
Oh and do you think arencibia might be ready for next year because his numbers look awesome and he was supposed to be this good, People didn't like picking him 2nd overall last year and he didn't do so good but he has certainly picked it up and after snider, cecil, might turn out to be the top prospect and the most needed prospect…remember we are going to have no catchers next year.
Whats going on with Ahrens? Currently I am pretty disappointed with him espeically being the 1st pick in the 1st round.
ANYWAYS GUYS COMMENT…START SOME TOPICS…WILNERS BLOG IS GETTING TONS OF COMMENTS so if you need topics (steal em off of there and then start a discussion here)
The draft was great, however its too bad that the Brewers took Brett Lawrie right before our pick. It would have been nice to get a young Canadian with that much potential in the system.
I was please with the draft overall, however it was too bad that the Brewers picked Brett Lawrie right before we had our pick. It would have been nice to get a young Canadian prospect with that much potential in the system.
I was the one that asked Mike about you. Usually when you go away for a few days you let us know through the blog. No big deal though, I was just mostly hoping you weren't under the weather or anything.
I don't know enough about any of the draft choices to say anything, so I wont. I don't get where all the regulars have gone…G-sumner, Garry and even Rshobi haven't commented in a while.
As for the Jays, last night was as demoralizing as any loss this season and there have been some head scratchers. When this team's going well they can compete with the best of them. Tonight it's Carlos Silva and the way he's been pitching lately he should get rocked. With this team though you never know.

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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
A Lot of Discussion About Women in Philosophy Lately
I have two main thoughts to add. The first regards Penaluna's point that women are not attracted to philosophy because of its dominance by men and the misogyny in the canon. I see how that might explain, to some extent, the fact that we don't have many women. But I don't see how it explains the fact that we lag behind other disciplines in the humanities and sciences with which we are most continuous (I'm thinking of literature and psychology, though I realize this claim is contentious). I am more impressed by the suggestion that a large part of the problem is that we haven't made much of an effort to attract women, but off the top of my head I can't think of ways to attract women that wouldn't seem ham-fisted and condescending. I am open to suggestion.
Second, Leiter and Jender suggest that the APA ought to do a study like the one the Australian Association of Philosophy did. Leiter says, "Surely the American Philosophical Association could manage something similar."
I completely disagree. The APA obviously could never manage anything remotely like that.
--Mr. Zero
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Penaluna points out that in Philosophy - more so than in other disciplines - one tends to identify more with the authors one reads,thus making it more problematic for women when the author is a misogynist.
Also the canon in philosophy is, after all, more uniformly male than in English.
And, let's not forget this important point: the atmosphere currently, particularly in some special areas, is very male-dominated and sometimes down-right sexist, making things more difficult.
And finally, let me toss in one more speculation I think Mr Zero left out, about the similarities between the gender profile of philosophy and some scientific disciplines, and the potential similarity in causes.
- October 20, 2009 at 10:17 AM
What may well explain the lag behind similar disciplines (English, Psych) at least is that unlike those disciplines, undergraduate study of philosophy has no substantial economic/career continuance or outlet other than graduate school/professional academic (English and Psych both directly feed into a variety civil or industry jobs).
- October 20, 2009 at 10:35 AM
I haven't done any sort of scientific study on this, but I have noticed the top students in my classes tend to be girls more often than guys.
- October 20, 2009 at 10:57 AM
But is the canon in English less uniformly male because philosophy is just somehow inherently more male, or because more serious and sustained interventions have been done in the English canon than in the philosophy canon? Was it more women working in English that altered the canon, or was it an altered canon that led to more women working in English (not that there's any reason it can't be both)?
I think that it might be more fruitful to recognize, as 10:17 does, that there is a shocking lack of women working in philosophy because there is in many quarters outright hostility to them. This runs the gamut from supposing every woman hired in philosophy to be an affirmative action hire, to not taking seriously what women do or say (because, as women, they can't have 'seminal' ideas), to seeing women who do philosophy (outside some pink-collar ghettoized subfields) as honorary men, to outright harassment, sexual and otherwise.
This conversation could benefit both from more empirical data as well as from the years and years of good work on gender and epistemology, some from within philosophy itself, from de Beauvoir to Haslanger.
Thanks for opening the conversation here, mr zed; hopefully this won't degenerate quite so quickly into a zombie zone.
- October 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM
One interesting thread of discussion has been the claim that "aggressive argumentation" is what keeps women out of philosophy. Responders typically consider this to be a sexist point, and point to law and linguistics as realms of aggressive argumentation where women have thrived.
I suspect that those responders misunderstand the point. When people say that philosophy is a realm of "aggressive argumentation", I suspect this is actually a nice way of saying something nastier - namely that academic philosophy has a disproportionately large number of pompous, arrogant assholes.
- October 20, 2009 at 11:58 AM
I agree with anon 11:58. It is condescending to essentialize women as needing to engage in warm fuzzy hand-holding conversation, of which there is a dearth in philosophy.
But often, the aggression or outright dismissal of women working in the field is masked as the ordinary kind of hostile questioning or skepticism, whereas it is importantly different.
An example: In discussions of Nancy Cartwright's work, I have seen several male philosophers hold explicitly incompatible views over the course of an hourlong discussion, because they took it for granted that OF COURSE they disagreed with her. They started out holding position Not-X; as it became apparent that they had gotten her point wrong, and Cartwright herself argued Not-X, they gradually moved to hold position X. Because who could agree with such obviously false material as Cartwright publishes.
That sort of thing looks on the face of it like regular assertiveness in argumentation, but is much more insidious, and needs to be called out and recognized as such before philosophy can move forward with this.
- October 20, 2009 at 12:55 PM
Also, affirmative action hiring in Philosophy tends to lead to the stigmatization of women faculty as "inferior philosophers." Putting aside the issue of whether or not the stigma is justified, I've seen several women philosophers leave academe because few if any grad students want to work with them.
- October 20, 2009 at 1:53 PM
Female philsci-er,
What makes you think that practice has anything whatsoever to do with the fact that Nancy Cartwright is a woman? Have you never heard philosophers be absurdly contrary when discussing, say, Stalnaker? I think this kind of thing is endemic to the field. (I don't really mind it, myself, but I agree that it can get out of hand.)
- October 20, 2009 at 4:05 PM
I once saw/heard Sandra Rosenthal scream at a male philosopher at a conference: "I doubt the whole premise of your question!"
- October 20, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Here is the data I would be interested in seeing:
What is the ratio of female:male philosophy majors?
What percentage of female philosophy majors pursue careers other than philosophy (both inside and outside of academia)?
What is the average salary of female philosophy majors who chose career paths apart from philosophy? What is the average salary of female philosophy majors who became professional philosophers?
In my own experience, I have had a large number of philosophy majors who were also female students. All of them went to law school or graduate school for psychology.
- October 20, 2009 at 7:33 PM
Guys. Fellas. Boys. Please. Let me offer the obvious reason why there are fewer women than men in philosophy: they are smarter than us. It's not that they can't handle the "aggressive argumentation" or don't have the creative or analytical skills. They clearly do -- as one poster pointed out, women are thriving in the field of law (and specifically in litigation).
But, seriously, you know and I know that academic philosophy is pretty much pointless. It's great brain masturbation, and it's a noble course of study. But unless you're a shiftless, self-indulgent bum like most of us men in philosophy, you'd have better sense than to work in the field.
Who can back me up here?
- October 20, 2009 at 9:40 PM
way to miss the point, anon 4:05. Cartwright is just an example; *obviously* there are a lot of controversial philosophers who generate animosity.
The point, to make it even more explicit, is that a lot of implicit bias against women gets expressed in what masquerades as regular assertiveness or aggressiveness in questioning or criticism. Yet it is importantly different than the kinds, or level, of such behavior directed at male philosophers. It is easy for people, especially those with male privilege who simply don't have to notice these things because it doesn't affect them, to think that all this criticism is the same. My point is that it is not, we need to start recognizing that.
This is a statistical point. There will be individual cases of aggressive women (per the Rosenthal example), and of irrational objections to particular male philosophers (like Stalnaker). And yet overall, female philosophers get more of it, and more vitriolic versions of it, which does slowly wear you down and make you think that this really is a crappy field to work in.
And yes, I am asserting that this is the case without providing any more examples that people can misunderstand, or providing any empirical data, of which there is so much available that if you haven't seen it, either you have deliberately not looked at it or you fail Google 101. There is always more perfect data that could substantiate my claim to an even finer degree, but the overwhelming weight of evidence supports it already.
- October 20, 2009 at 9:59 PM
Way to be condescending, female philsci-er!
Yes, I was aware that it was an example. The example was, I assume, supposed to support your point, but I explained why it did not support your point.
Very funny about failing Google. I've read Haslanger's paper. It doesn't support your point either, in any way that I can see.
In sum: good use of sarcasm and attitude; zero for actual support of your claim.
- October 21, 2009 at 6:11 AM
Is it possible that the abstract thought experiments that dominate philosophy simply fail to be interesting enough to women to make them want to pursue philosophy as a career?
(Perhaps, something analogous to why there are far more male trekkie/sci-fi enthusiasts than female trekkies.... by enthusiast, I don't just mean 'watches some sci-fi', but is engrossed by it?)
- October 21, 2009 at 6:42 AM
Polacrilex: I agree, I think that data would be helpful. As far as I understand, we face a "leaky pipeline" situation: many women undergraduate philosophy majors, fewer women philosophy graduate students, and even fewer tenured or tenure-track philosophy faculty. Knowing why women leave a discipline that they appear to be attracted to in college would be an important place to start, and would generate better understanding, I would think, than the whole "women are just to smart to be philosophers!" meme.
Some of this data has been compiled by Sally Haslanger and the APA's Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, I believe. Check out her 2008 paper (and the appendices) "Changing the Culture and Ideology of Philosophy: Not by Reason (Alone)".
- October 21, 2009 at 7:29 AM
Positive discrimination in favour of women is easily the most dangerous option to take. Last night Anne Widdecombe made the following comments about David Cameron's plans to recruit more female MPs in the UK Conservative Party, and I think her words apply equally well to the philosophy profession:
"I think it's very bad for women because I believe that every woman in Parliament should be able to look every man in Parliament, from the prime minister downwards, in the eye and to know she got there on exactly the same basis. If she can't do that she's a second class citizen."
If all female applicants were judged on weaker merits then it would become rational (for men and women) to believe that for any female in a position, it's more likely that she's a worse philosopher than a male in a similar position. At least at the moment no woman in any position is thought of as being worse than a male in a similar position. The cost is that there are just far less of them in those positions. At least those in those positions know they got there on merit.
- October 21, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Way off topic, but I need some advice. I'm in my 2nd year VAP-ping after getting the PhD. How long do I feature my dissertation on my CV? Right now it's a title and 2 sentence blurb on the first page and a longer page long abstract later in the CV. Should this change the longer one is out? Any suggestions?
- October 21, 2009 at 9:12 AM
As a tenured female philosopher in a male-dominated subfield at a Leiter-ranked research university, female philsci-er's point seems completely right on target to me.
- October 21, 2009 at 9:16 AM
Sorry if I'm late to the debate here:
Are there any data that show that women are denied grad school admission or academic jobs in philosophy *at higher rates* than men? I know it's tough all over, and that there's a lack of women in the profession; but none of this yet points to bias in admissions or hiring. It could even be that women are *favored*, i.e., admitted/hired at higher rates than men are, but since so few women are interested in becoming a professional philosophers, current demographics information is misleading.
I don't have any data either way but am hoping someone else does. Otherwise, the conclusion seems to be that we philosophers are somehow much more biased than scholars/teachers in every other academic discipline. Yes, we're special, but we'd like to think we are in an enlightened way; and this conclusion would fly in the face of that. (Which isn't to say that it can't be true.)
- October 21, 2009 at 9:34 AM
Another possibility: Male philosophers lack the social education that most people have, such that we have an over-developed sense of being threatened by women. And this builds in bias in the admissions and hiring processes, which are conductive to discrimination given their subjectiveness and secrecy.
But, in my experience, that's really not the case. Philosophers are not socially cripple (at least not all of them), and I think all the ones I know can be open and fair about this issue. So this leads me to think that the explanation has something to do with a lack of interest by women to be professional philosophers. (Why should every discipline attract both sexes equally? Are we rejecting the view that men and women are biologically different, and these differences may manifest themselves in cognitive dispositions, i.e., the way we think? Should we think that the nursing profession is biased against men, since it's dominated by women -- or that men are less interested, for whatever reasons, in becoming an RN?)
- October 21, 2009 at 9:51 AM
"At least at the moment no woman in any position is thought of as being worse than a male in a similar position." - anon 8:38
Sadly this is not necessarily true. There are any number of examples from threads concerning the job market from this blog and its previous incarnation, in which people felt totally within their rights declaring that they can't get a job because women and minorities are taking them due to affirmative action policies. To some folks, any woman or person of color in a philosophy job is already seen as illegitimate. This is one of the zombie lies referred to in anon 11:21am.
- October 21, 2009 at 10:03 AM
I think it is worth keeping in mind that very very few people--men or women--want to go into philosophy as a career. Why? Well, any number of reasons, I imagine: Many don't have what it takes to make it as a philosopher, many just aren't bothered by philosophical problems, many see philosophy as impractical in one way or another (it doesn't help people, it doesn't put food on the table), many who find it to be impractical also don't find it to be fun or creative or whatever in the way that art/music/literature are. Is it possible that one of these factors might be a bit stronger for women than men? It seems plausible to me.
Anecdotally, a disproportionate number of my very best students have been women and when I try to encourage them to go into the field, what they say tends to be that they enjoy philosophy, but that it isn't practical.
- October 21, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Perhaps I am just naive, but could someone give me some examples of explicit bias and misogyny in philosophy? I don't doubt that there is implicit sexism going on, as there is in all fields, to some extent.
But as a BA and MA in philosophy, I am struggling to come up with examples in which sexist comments have been made, in front of or behind the back of another female or minority student.
Like I said, I may just be naive--I certainly have less experience of the field than a PhD or TT prof.
- October 21, 2009 at 10:42 AM
Positive discrimination in favour of women is easily the most dangerous option to take..."I think it's very bad for women because I believe that every woman in Parliament should be able to look every man in Parliament, from the prime minister downwards, in the eye and to know she got there on exactly the same basis. If she can't do that she's a second class citizen."
But we know from empirical studies that people are more likely to want to hire a person with an identical CV but a male name. So hiring people on the same basis actually requires "positive discrimination." If, for example, you adopt a policy of when you read a CV, you bump it up in your estimation because it had a woman's name, you would be correcting your own bias, and only then could you end up rating the identical CVs the same.
(Given these empirical results, one might worry that men in philosophy can't look women in philosophy in the eye and to know they got there on exactly the same basis...)
So this leads me to think that the explanation has something to do with a lack of interest by women to be professional philosophers.
There are relatively few things you can do with a philosophy Ph.D., so one would assume that most people who sign up for the Ph.D. want a tenure-track job. If women get tenure-track jobs in a lower proportion than men, that is some evidence that your explanation doesn't account for all the data, that there is something besides lack of interest that is keeping women out of philosophy. (Of course, it's defeasible evidence: we might find that women lose interest in their Ph.D.'s more quickly.)
Here's one thing that has puzzled me: women seem to drop out of grad school at an alarming rate. Individually, they all have a reason that has nothing to do with gender: "I want to study something else"; "I'm depressed and grad school is making it worse"; "I want a career with more regular on/off hours" (to name some of the reasons my graduate school colleagues dropped out). But that's just it: these reasons aren't gendered - they might be reasons for men to drop out too. So why are people that drop out because of them disproportionately women? (Is it that these aren't really their reasons, just their justification?)
- October 21, 2009 at 10:42 AM
- Mr. Zero said...
What does it matter if the sexism is explicit or not? If it's implicit then it's there. Implicit sexism is sexism.
Anyways, you should read the Haslanger piece.
- October 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM
Just a small point, so we don't feel the need to reinvent the wheel.
This subject of gender-bias was discussed ad nauseum on the old blog. Very little definitive came out, except that analyses of hirings over the past several years and the available data on who was on the market suggest that women were represented in hires fairly proportionately to their make-up in the candidate pool. So, presumably, at the stage of hiring, explicit biases in favor of diversity and (mostly) implicit biases in favor of men seem to cancel each other out. That's not to say any particular case of bias is fair, but what unfairness there was seemed to go roughly equally in each direction.
Of course, this says nothing of the biases that contribute to the job pool being what it is.
- October 21, 2009 at 12:04 PM
But implicit sexism is a lot harder to eradicate. Philosophers are really good about constructing arguments, checking to see whether or not the conclusion follows from a set of premises, etc., but there is no reason to think that philosophers have any special insight into evaluating whether a premise is true, esp. when the premise concerns matters that are subtle and contextual. Philosophers can be laser sharp, but there are a lot of ways which they are retarded. Show me the invisible/contextual stuff! See, it's not there. Perhaps philosophers are so retarded because they are not immersed in actual situations, but in thought experiments; or maybe it's because they think that mental states are all introspectable, with the result that a behavior is not driven by sexism, racism, etc., unless introspection tells us so. A lot of horrible behaviors are embodied practices. Are human brains and bodies not capable of sophisticated activity without a mind to always see them through?
- October 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM
Just to forestall a certain idiotic response to my post, I am not suggesting that if something is invisible to us, we should just accept the word of others as to what is going on. The suggestion instead was that by being regularly immersed in actual-world situations, and not being in detached reflective mode all of the time (which keeps us out of such situations even if we are surrounded by them), it's easy to develop a perceptual acuity where these things are visible and obvious. Sort of like the magic-eye posters. It's a better way to live also, to see what's there.
- October 21, 2009 at 3:12 PM
As a woman in philosophy who will be on the job market in a few years, I hope that philosophy departments will avoid affirmative action favoring women. This is partially self-interested. I would rather know that I wasn't chosen for my gender, and I don't want to be seen by colleagues as a less-qualified faculty member who was hired to create a better gender balance.
- October 21, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Dear idiot fellow woman in philosophy (anon 11:33pm): read what Tired Tenure Tracker explained, above.
This is why women working in philosophy should be assumed to have BETTER qualifications than their peers when not hired through affirmative action.
- October 22, 2009 at 9:36 AM
New thread request:
I could use some anecdotal love from the bruthuhs and sistahs out there who have real jobs and are vicariously reading this one. (Okay, there's not vicariously readingit. They're actually reading it. But you get what I mean.)
I just discovered that I sent out a writing sample with a couple of typos in it. It only went to two or three places, so no huge deal. But it got me thinking: Are there folks out there who were hired for jobs even though they now know they had typos in their application materials? And would they be so kind as to state that fact for the record?
- October 22, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Filosofer: I have a tt job; I know for sure that I had typos on my CV, letter of application, writing samples, teaching dossier, etc. So typos are no biggie; worry more about what's on your CV
- October 22, 2009 at 1:00 PM
I'm thinking my typo will read "Forthcoming, Ethics" when it should actually read, "draft in progress".
- October 22, 2009 at 5:26 PM
I had two typos on the first page of my writing sample last year, one of which was in the abstract. It went *everywhere*.
And I did really well with it. No one seemed to care in the least when they discussed it with me.
There are times when philosophers are actually understanding of others' shortcomings and focus on what actually matters, not silly things. So, don't stress about the types. You have enough other stuff to stress about.
- October 23, 2009 at 8:02 AM
Everything I've ever written has had typoes in it. I've had two TT jobs.
Don't sweat the typos. Unless instead of the universal quantifier, you wrote 'fuck off'.
- October 25, 2009 at 9:44 PM


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The OECD, Inter-American Development Bank and Costa Rican Investment Board held the Second Plenary Meeting of the Caribbean Rim Investment Initiative (CRII), attended by government ministers from the region in San José, Costa Rica, on 5-6 September.
Building on the initiatives developed during the previous meetings held in Lima, Peru ; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic ; and Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles , the conference discussed investment strategies that promote sustainable development in the region. Reports on the business environments of pilot countries (Jamaica, Dominican Republic and Costa Rica) were reviewed. Discussions centred on recommendations for reform, monitoring of progress and initiatives for regional co-operation.
High level officials from the OECD, Inter-American Development Bank, other international organisations and the private sector attended the conference, which was inaugurated by Mr. Alberto Trejos, Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica. Participating in the ministerial round table were the Honourable Minister Phillip Paulwell, Minister of Industry and Commerce of Jamaica; Mr. Errol A. Cova, Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Economic and Labour Affairs, Netherlands Antilles; and Mr. José Lois Malkum, Secretary of State for Finance, and Mr. Frank Guerrero Prats, Governor of the Central Bank, both from the Dominican Republic.
In recent years, countries in the Caribbean Rim have made significant steps towards liberalisation and regulatory reform by recognising the benefits of foreign direct investment and the importance of creating a favourable environment for private investors. Some of these initiatives include the granting of national treatment to foreign direct investors in an increased number of industries and the elimination of most restrictions on capital and profit remittances. The conference will explore key policy issues for countries in the region and identify actions necessary to improve the investment climate and to maximise the inflows and benefits of foreign investment over the coming years. This includes the development of positive links between foreign investment and the development of local enterprises.
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Cambridge, Mass. - For the second time in his young career, UMBC freshman guard Rodney Elliott (Baltimore, Md./John Carroll) has been named America East Conference Men's Basketball Rookie-of-the-Week. The most recent honor is for games ending Dec. 15, 2013.
UMBC competed just once last week, but Elliott scored in double figures for the fourth consecutive game in the Retrievers' 91-71 setback at Coppin State on Dec. 11. He scored 16 points in 21 minutes of action and tied his season-high with six assists. The freshman point guard hit 6-of-7 free throws and 2-of-4 shots from behind the arc.
Elliott leads the Retrievers in five categories, including scoring average (14.1 ppg) and assists (3.6) per game. He is currently ninth in America East in scoring, third in assists, and third in assist-to-turnover ratio (1.1).
Elliott has scored more points (155) through 11 games than any freshman in the UMBC's Division I (1986-87) era. He earned his first award of the season for contests ending Nov. 17 after averaging 17.7 points per game in a three-game span.
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Verizon Steps In On Prenda Case; Says Brett Gibbs Never Informed Them Of Judge's Order Killing Subpoenas
from the oops deptAs the minutes tick off until the Prenda hearing today, yet another bit of news has dropped in relation to the case. Verizon has stepped in and filed a declaration stating that contrary to Brett Gibbs' own claims to the court, it does not appear Gibbs informed Verizon not to follow through and identify the people in the subpoena that had originally been sent.
To understand what happened here, the key aspect to many Prenda cases is getting the identity of people associated with IP addresses, often by getting a court to grant discovery, after which Prenda's lawyers send subpoenas to ISPs with a list of IP addresses. As has happened a few times, courts readily grant the request for expedited discovery (which is rarely denied in normal court cases), but upon learning of Prenda's overall practices, they then pull back that permission and (usually) order the lawyers to immediately inform the ISPs that the order has been withdrawn and not to comply with the subpoena. Here, the same thing happened, and Prenda's Brett Gibbs told the court that he informed ISPs that the order had been withdrawn.
Just a little while ago, however, Verizon stepped in to the case, with a declaration saying they never received any notice of the withdrawal, and had, instead, complied with the subpoena, believing it was valid.
On or about September 6, 2012, Verizon received subpoenas from plaintiff AF Holdings in AF Holdings v. John Doe, C.D. Cal. Case No. 12-cv-6669 and AF Holdings v. John Doe, C.D. Cal. Case No. 12--cv--6636. ...Verizon processed these subpoenas in the ordinary course.Having Verizon come out and more or less directly state that Gibbs lied to the court isn't going to go over well when it appears that Judge Wright is already not happy with Gibbs or his buddies at Prenda...
Based on Verizon's records, it does not appear that Verizon received from AF Holdings or its counsel a copy of the Court's Order Vacating Prior Early Discovery Order and Order to Show Cause dated October 19, 2012, nor does it appear that Verizon received other form of notice that the subpoenas attached as Exhibits A and had been withdrawn or were invalid. If Verizon had received such notice, we would not have processed these subpoenas for AF Holdings.
I have reviewed a declaration filed by Brett Gibbs in this litigation, dated February 19, 2013, in which Mr. Gibbs states:Following receipt of the October 19,2012 Orders, I caused the Court's October 19, 2012 Orders to be served on the registered agents for service of process of Verizon Online ensure that Verizon Online LLC had notice not to respond to the subpoenas that had already been served.(Gibbs Decl. dated Feb. 19, 2013...) Again, based on Verizon's records, this statement appears to be wrong.
Verizon released the information responsive to AF Holdings' subpoenas in the cases identified above (case nos. 12-cv-6669 and 12-cv-6636) by fax to the Prenda law firm on November 7, 2012. If Verizon had received notice of the Court's Order dated October 19, 2012, we would not have released these records to Plaintiff.
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The September issue of Seattle Metropolitan magazine is now in stores and on-line and features this year's list of the Top 100 Washington wines.
A few words about how I compiled the list. As stated in the article, wineries were allowed to send in a maximum of four wines, one in each of the following categories: one $25 or less; one $25–$50; one $50 or higher; and one white wine of any price. Alternately, if wineries were submitting wines in only one category, they could submit two wines. Wines were then rated using a 100-point scale and were subsequently ranked based on score, price, and overall excitement about the wine. A cutoff of 91 points was used to create the list. As in previous years, due to the high number of submissions - more than 500 - there were a number of excellent wines that did not make this year's list.
You can read an electronic copy of the Top 100 list here as well as a list of 90-point rated white wines here and a list of 90-point rated reds $25 and under here.
Seattle Metropolitan's Top 100 Washington Wines
The September issue of Seattle Metropolitan magazine is now in stores and on-line and features this year's list of the Top 100 Washington wines.
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Roger Says:
Nice list. Not too many surprises, though it's nice to see some new producers make a showing. Interesting that there aren't many wines 95 pts or higher (exceptional). Is it a function of the year, the wine making, or your taste buds? :-)
Chris Says:
"Alternately, if wineries were submitting wines in only one category, they could submit two wines."
I think this is a new wrinkle, and one that may reward some wineries for excellence at the top, but imo, it really discourages entries in the under $50 category, and likely greatly reduces the number of wineries who might enter otherwise. I know your other list of bargains at <$25 compensates for this, but to my palate there are literally hundreds of worthy Washington wines costing less than $50, but now there is even less chance for them to be noticed in this list. More for me I guess, but I'd prefer they sell enough to stay in business, and your Top 100 is really about a Top 60 wineries.
But, hey that's a nitpick and you do a great job with this, so keep on keepin' on.
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Roger, I think there's a few different things going on here. First of all, I believe 95 points and up is pretty rare air. There is a small handful of producers that I believe consistently produce wines that are at this level year in and year out - Cayuse and Quilceda Creek would be two examples. There are others who occasionally produce wines that reach these heights/have a wine in their lineup that consistently reaches this level. Additionally, wineries were restricted in terms of the number of wines they could submit and the prices of these wines. If this were not the case, the number of wines in this category would be considerably larger. Also, keep in mind that how I defined the rating categories for the Seattle Metropolitan article is different from how I define them here (see http://www.wawinereport.com/2012/01/rating-system.html).
Chris, this is indeed a change from previous years. I was looking for a way to allow wineries who only produce in one price category to be able to submit more wines. However, I also worried that this might have the effect that you mentioned (as an aside, this is part of the reason that when I create my top list in this space each year, I only list one wine per winery, to not crowd out other wineries).
I agree that there is an abundance of extremely high quality Washington wines under $50. Looking at this year's list, the average price of wines in the Top 100 (104) was $48. If I include all wines rated 90 points and above it's $43. While this does seem a little higher than I might personally like - and I believe there is a large number of excellent bottles at lower prices - it is consistent with what Wine Spectator has seen looking at a much larger number of bottles. In the last three years, Washington wines rated at 90 point and above there have averaged $42, which is incidentally the lowest price average of any wine region in the world! I'll take a look back at the two previous years and see if this did have the type of impact you suggest. Thanks for the thoughts as always!


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I kinda like these *cough* my squadron *cough* For those of you who don't know, the one on the right is the "subdued" one we use for BDU's.
I started to search the web for squadron patches that were well designed and met USAF heraldry guidelines for squadrons
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Nice - saw Maj. Younger wearing that or something similiar down in Katrina.
OK - now I am confused. You say this is >your< unit's insignia?Maj. Owen Younger was one of the IC's down at Katrina, and was wearing that patch as well. Even if he was a wall flowere before (which he doesn't appear to be, I would think he received some visibility when he got back and since.You really aren't aware of him?


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The "Alien" prequel is taking shape, with the studio reportedly thrilled with the new script and the director having winnowed his choice for the lead role down to two of Hollywood's hottest actresses.
It comes as not great surprise that Natalie Portman and Rooney Mara, a pair of actresses with experience on the darker side of cinema, are Ridley Scott's first two choices to pick up Sigourney Weaver's mantle in the upcoming "Alien" prequel, as reported by Vulture.
Portman, the frontrunner, has shown a comfort level with weapons and violence in films ranging from "The Professional" to "V for Vendetta." Her next film is Darren Aronofsky's psychological ballet thriller "Black Swan," which comes out Dec. 1 and has generated some Best Actress buzz.
Mara, meanwhile, is currently working with her "Social Network" director, David Fincher, on the American remake of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," which comes out Dec. 21, 2011.
Damon Lindelof, co-creator of the dearly departed "Lost," just submitted his script for the as yet untitled film, and the studio is stoked.
The folks at Fox are said to be pleased that the story as it is now could be done with a budget far more modest than the $150 to $160 million that Scott has mentioned. Scott's last film, "Robin Hood," cost roughly $200 million, but was a critical disappointment and took in only about half that domestically.
The "Untitled Alien Prequel" will presumably get a new name in time for its release in the summer of 2012.


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WASHINGTON — Some parents are scratching their heads over less restrictive head lice policies that allow children with live bugs in their hair to return to the classroom.
And some school nurses are no longer sending home the dreaded "lice note" to other parents with kids in the classroom, alerting them to the possibility of lice in their own child"s precious locks. The policy shift is designed to help keep children from missing class, shield children with lice from embarrassment and protect their privacy.
"Lice is icky, but it"s not dangerous," says Deborah Pontius, the school nurse for the Pershing County School District in Lovelock, Nev. "It"s not infectious, and it"s fairly easy to treat."
Usually by the time an itchy child is sent to the nurse, Pontius says, the child has probably had lice for about three weeks to two months. She says classmates already would have been exposed. There"s little additional risk of transmission, she says, if the student returns to class for a few hours until the end of the day, when a parent would pick up the child and treat for lice at home.
Pontius also doesn"t send lice notes. "It gets out who had lice," she says, and there"s no need to panic parents. Parents with elementary school-aged kids should check their children"s hair for lice once a week anyway, she says. If they are doing that, then there"s really no need for the notes.
The idea of letting kids with untreated lice remain in class doesn"t set well with some parents.
"I"m appalled. I am just so disgusted," says Theresa Rice, whose 8-year-old daughter, Jenna, has come home from her elementary school in Hamilton County, Tenn., with lice three times since school started in August.
"It"s just a terrible headache to have to deal with lice," says Rice. To pick out the tiny eggs, or nits, and lice from Jenna"s long blond hair is a four-hour process. Add to that all the laundry and cleaning — it"s exhausting, she says. Rice had to bag up her daughter"s treasured stuffed animals, which remained sealed for weeks even after Jenna was lice-free.
Jenna"s school implemented a new policy in the past year that allows children with untreated lice to go home at the end of the day, be treated and then return to school. The policy, the district said, complies with the guidelines of both the Tennessee Department of Education and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Other schools, in California, Florida, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Carolina and elsewhere, have similar policies.
The National Pediculosis Association in Massachusetts is opposed to relaxing bans on lice and blames the updated policies for spreading the bugs.
"The new lice policy throws parental values for wellness and children"s health under the bus," says Deborah Altschuler, head of the Newton-based group. "It fosters complacency about head lice by minimizing its importance as a communicable parasitic disease."
The association says lice treatment shampoos are pesticides that are not safe for children and not 100 percent effective. The group instead urges parents to screen regularly and use a special comb to manually remove lice and nits from a child"s hair.
Lice are tiny grayish-white bugs that infest a scalp, sucking bits of blood every few hours. Lice don"t jump or fly. They crawl. They are not a sign of poor hygiene.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that there are 6 million to 12 million head lice infestations each year in the United States among children 3 to 11 years old. While itchy and unpleasant, health experts say lice don"t spread disease and are not a health hazard. The American Academy of Pediatrics updated its guidelines in 2010 to adopt a "do not exclude" infested students recommendation for schools dealing with head lice.
The National Association of School Nurses revised its position the following year. In its guidance, the association said children found with live head lice should remain in class but be discouraged from close direct head contact with others. The school nurse should contact the parent to discuss treatment.
The association doesn"t have figures on how many schools have adopted less restrictive policies. It varies by state and often by school district.
The ways in which schools manage head lice have been changing over the last couple of decades.
It used to be that schools wouldn"t allow children to return to the classroom until all the lice and the nits were removed. The academy has long encouraged schools to discontinue "no-nit" policies. The itty-bitty nits — which can often be confused with dandruff — cement themselves to the hair shaft, making removal difficult.
The CDC says the nits are "very unlikely to be transferred successfully to other people" — and many schools have dropped their no-nit policies. But supporters of no-nit rules, such as the National Pediculosis Association, say the eggs will hatch new lice and need to be removed from a child"s hair to be considered lice free.


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Miami Skyline Faces Futuristic Shake-Up
One word almost never associated with Miami real-estate is "generic." But architect Zaha Hadid says the city's skyline is just that - and she's in town to shake things up. Beth DeCarbo joins Lunch Break with a look at her daring new design.
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Boehner sketches immigration plan
Speaker John Boehner has been stunningly silent about his plans to move immigration reform through the House.
But privately, the Ohio Republican is beginning to sketch out a road map to try to pass some version of an overhaul in his chamber — a welcome sign for proponents of immigration reform.
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If his goal is met, it'll be a busy few weeks.
The speaker wants House committees — Judiciary has primary jurisdiction — to wrap up their work on a version of immigration legislation before the July 4 recess. And he would like immigration reform to see a House vote before Congress breaks in August.
( PHOTOS: 20 quotes on immigration reform)
His goal is to begin moving either bite-size immigration bills or the bipartisan House immigration group's legislation through committees before the Senate passes its bill, which could happen by the end of this month. The Senate Gang of Eight plan is on the Senate floor this week and is expected to get a vote before the July 4 recess.
It's an ambitious plan, considering House leadership has not yet settled on what bill it will advance.
Boehner's thinking, and the fact that Republican leadership is willing to discuss the process for immigration reform, represents a significant shift and suggests a new urgency for Republican leadership. It is a moderately good sign for the prospects of immigration reform in the House. After months of coy talk from Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), any sign of planning for legislation is a positive development for reform proponents.
( Also on POLITICO: TOP 5 hurdles to immigration reform)
The leadership's plan is to allow the bipartisan group to release its legislation and closely monitor how it is received by House Republicans. If it's decried as too lenient, leadership could fall back on Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte's (R-Va.) small-bore proposals, which he has been slowly considering in committee. They so far include measures governing E-Verify, and changing the high-skilled and agricultural worker visa programs.
Republican leadership prefers to move immigration reform in pieces, rather than a large bill. But that's pure procedural calculation, since a House-passed bill would have to be meshed with any Senate bill before it is sent to the White House.
Passing an immigration overhaul will be difficult in the House. The wide gap between the two parties has been on display recently, as the bipartisan immigration working group has experienced fits and starts in releasing its legislation. Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho), whose presence in the group was comforting for conservatives, recently dropped out. There is a pocket of conservatives that are opposed to a new process that would legalize the roughly 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the country.
Another question will be how the House handles the Senate's bill, should it pass the upper chamber. A senior GOP leadership aide said they would consider putting that measure into the committee process if it passed the Senate.
Of course, there are elements in leadership who think immigration reform will never pass the House. There is too much resistance to sweeping legislation, not to mention the charged issue of immigration reform splits the party in many directions.


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" I had to come back due to parts not being available. Once the parts arrived, I was notified. I showed up at the service department without an appointment and was promptly taken care of quickly. Overall it was a great experience. "
" I've had the distinct pleasure of dealing with Jackie Berry who was informative and helped me every step of the way through the buying process all the way to the Business Manager Hunter Bowles. The timeliness and follow through was impressive and they both partnered with me to get me the car I needed. I didn't feel like it was me vs them. As for Jackie Berry - Clone him please. :-). Good sales help is hard to come by. In a world where a lot of sales people come across as disingenuous, Jackie is a standout. Looking forward to coming back for my next car at Pohanka Chevrolet! "
" Alright service was more interested in upselling Got my wife's car detailed and this is the second time they have just done an ok job and for the money it cost its not worth it "
" I had a great experience with Pohanka this weekend. I had an appointment with Andrew and he was very polite and helpful. I told him this would be my first new vehicle and he went above and beyond and helped me get into the vehicle I wanted and at a great price. I will definitely recommend going Pohanka Chevrolet for anytime in search of a new vehicle. "
" I was considering purchasing a newer vehicle recently and made an appointment with sales associate Greg McDaniel. He was professional, knew answers to all of my questions, and was respectful of a personal health issue which had to factor into my car-buying decision. He was tops and I highly recommend him. Also, as I was departing, Mike, the sales manager, introduced himself and was very encouraging that I should find a vehicle that suited MY needs. How refreshing... "
" Perfect car buying experience. Used the Costco auto buying service. We were out of state buyers because our local dealers were unable to find our desired truck, nor negotiate a desired price. Our salesman, Hunter Bowles, found the exact vehicle with all the options we wanted offered at an excellent price. Thank you! "
" Nice; quick; hassle free service. "
Great customer service!
" I went in to look at a used car and everybody there was very helpful. I had many questions and the salesman was very good at explaining everything, and when he didn't know the answer to one he was honest about it, and found someone who could answer it. I ended up purchasing the car for a reasonable price, and I'm very happy with it "
" Great service in and out in an hour for oil change Terry is a great service advisor go with him or Ryan or samantha if terry Dolyes is not there "
" Went to have state inspection done. Greeted quickly and service completed quickly as well. "
" Love the staff there they are awesome!!! Thanks Guy E.!! "
" I can not be more satisfied with the attention of Greg McDaniel (Sales & Leasing Consultant) a very kind person and at all times he helped me in the process of buying my truck silverado 1500 treated me with respect and Greg was very professional, he was passive I am very satisfied with the purchase and attention in Pohanka Chevrolet I am sure that I will be a customer for years. Thanks Greg for your professionalism. "
" I love coming to Pohanka because I always receive excellent customer service (Elliot was awesome), a detailed and fair estimate and overall price, and kept up to date on the status of things. The loaner car for me was also a life saver and worth coming back to Pohanka repeatedly. "
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" My experience with Andrew Blunt at Pohanka was quite good. Though I was not specifically in the market, the team presented a deal that included employee pricing and a great price on my trade in. I highly recommend them. "
" I cannot say enough good things about this service center. Sam was super, called back when a loaner came available. Ryan handled my servic and went above and beyond. I was so impressed with the team I called their manager to compliment them. I've never had a positive experience with dealer service, I even drove all the way from Alexandria because the Chevy dealer near me was not worth the convenience. Customer for life. "
" Everyone is professional,kind and understanding of what my concerns and/or needs are. "
" Great customer service "
" I visited several dealerships in the area and walked out disappointed due to how inefficient and aggravating the process of a trade in and car purchase is. I came in Pohanka and Jayson Brown offered to help me. I am so glad he did. He is not your average car sales guy. He is absolutely the best. He valued my time and I walked out with a car purchase. He is extremely polite and easy to talk to. I really enjoyed working with Jayson. I will be back soon to purchase another car from him in the near future for my son. He has me as a lifetime customer. Thank you Jayson! "
" Had a fantastic experience buying a vehicle without anyone being "pushy" and they went out of their way the work with us. Very happy! "
" Faisal was my sales representative at Pohanka Chevrolet and he took the time to answer all my questions and if he didn't know the answer, he found a tenured member of the team that did. He worked with my hours as a single mom and executive assistant for Justice Department, answered questions at any hour to address them professionally and this was really great- including the financing side to give me a great offer on 2019 Equinox without any pressure or hoops to jump through. I will look forward to working with them for this vehicle and any in future, they're all great. Even the folks that didn't have you as a "Sale" we're willing to help and we're always available. I highly recommend this dealership, they treat everyone with respect and give everyone all the time you have available which is hard to find anywhere these days. Please go to them and get yourself a beautiful vehicle! "
"Roller Coaster Ride"
" My brand new 2019 Cruze (less than 3000 miles on it and 2.5 months old) had an issue with the OnStar not connecting to anything. Duh, it's under warranty, right? Well, first you have to deal with the idiots at OnStar, that take 12 days to tell you that you should have escalated your call, which I did, and that it would be another 4-5 days for the escalated level 2 techs to get back to you. All they could tell you to do is to "Push the Blue Button on the rear view mirror". (side note - the Blue Button is NOT on the mirror, it's on the console above the mirror). Then fed up with them, I called the dealership I bought the car from, only to be told to contact OnStar. They do not service it. It's clearly a hardware issue, as I have been in the IT field for over 20 years, but it took a call to GM's corporate offices to say that - YES, the dealership should look at the car, and Yes, the technicians are trained to diagnose OnStar issues. Then began the journey to the dealership. I will say, Pohanka Service has the most awesome hours, operating 2 complete shifts, so that is a big bonus to them. Samantha Campbell has a very nice friendly southern charm to her, that can calm down the biggest volcano - of which I was by the time I got there. Guess that's why she's the Assistant Manager, and the only one I dealt with as Jeff, the Service Manager, barely would return any of my calls, and acted like I was something he didn't want to waste time on. Okay, first off, let me explain that I live with weird hours - very early hours - 4am to about 8pm is my average day. Chantilly is a very highly congested traffic area, and to get there, you will more than likely be sitting in some traffic - like an hour to get 15 miles. So after I got word from GM corporate to go to the dealership to have them look at the vehicle, I headed out to Chantilly. Samantha was very nice to get the service porter to take me and my teenage daughter over to get some dinner and bring us back, about 6pm ish. While finishing up our takeout, I got a call from OnStar's Level 2 technician. I gave my phone to Samantha, who took it back to the vehicle to "Push the Blue Button", and when they told her to take the vehicle to a local dealership, they couldn't understand that she WAS the dealership. Funny how consistently bad they were. Sam gave me back my phone shaking her head about how dumb they were, even to her. Then we waited, and waited and waited. About 8:30, Samantha comes over and says the mechanic has checked all he can check and sent information to GM to await instructions, but they can't do anymore tonight. She offered to have a car wash, but seeing as it was so late, I declined and just wanted to get back home - again another hour drive. Then lots more phone calls, and voice mail. Okay, I did explain to Sam that I operate weird early hours, but apparently that didn't get noted or sink in as she called me after 9pm and told me she needed my permission to try something remotely, but didn't say what it was. I replied as the phone woke me up, and said she could do whatever was needed remotely as long as it didn't start the car or honk the horn disturbing the neighbors. Apparently she never got the message, as it took another phone call the next day to find out that they wanted to remotely try to change my car's phone number to see if that cleared the issue - which it didn't. More calls to find out if they heard back from GM.... Did they hear back? No, Did they hear back, No. So I tried calling the Service Manager, Jeff. He kept wanting to pawn me off on Sam. Didn't seem to want to get involved. Nice to know that going up the chain of command does NOTHING. Few more calls to GM Corporate, only to get no information - nobody can even take a few minutes to explain what the delay is in the process. Not very good Customer Service. Would it have killed someone to have offered a little bit of information on the process and why it took so dang long? Okay, here's the deal that I learned - OnStar - even though they are owned by GM, works mostly out of the Philippines - where you get people that speak a semi-broken English and don't care if your stuff works or not - they have a script to read to you and that's it. They can sure check to see if you've paid your ransom fees. Yup I'm comparing their software to malware, and ransomware. Level 2 technicians come out of Detroit or close to there. They are script readers that speak better English, but still can't do much more than their script, but they know that if you came referred by the level one techs, they verified your paid up, so they don't ask for your account information. GM has some Engineers that respond to an old school text relaying station much like a tele-type machine from the early 80's, but they ONLY correspond to a dealership's request, there is NO OTHER WAY TO CONTACT THESE PEOPLE? Not a great system, but they really don't give a xxxx, as OnStar is considered a third party vendor item, much like your Satellite radio. But that OnStar sure is a great safety and security selling point - until it doesn't work. Then your warm fuzzy feeling of protection is blown to bits - kinda like being robbed. Okay, so I'm playing the waiting game to get this service work done, and by this time, I'm 2 days out from leaving for a week's vacation, and GM says, Yes, we need a new OnStar module. They send it out (and the dealer did ask that it be expedited, so it was overnight delivery) and it will be here on Friday - I leave on Saturday 7am. So I head over to Pohanka, on Thursday evening and they offer me a loaner vehicle so they have the vehicle there to service it when the part comes in. That process took about an hour after it took me an hour to get there and another hour to drive home. Again, traffic is not their fault, but did it really have to take me an hour to just get a loaner vehicle? I get there on Friday - they called at 6pm to tell me it was ready for pickup. I get the car, and yes, this time it's washed and pretty (thanks) and I tested the OnStar, and it connected and give me directions home (yes, I know how to get there, but I had to test it out somehow to see if it worked). Okay since I've been such a pain in the xxx, calling all the time looking for answers, I guess they wanted to do what they could, and I now get that GM corporate's communication systems suck and that's not Pohanka's fault at all. So now that you know the full story, you can see that part of the blame of the service process is GM, part is their service department. Overall, are the people nice? Yes, Sam is very nice and friendly. Jeff is another story. Do they do good work? Don't really know much of what went on, but I'd have to say it's good - they fixed the issue once they got the parts. I'd trust they are all well trained. Are dealerships pricey for service? Yes, but they are well trained and most of their costs are preset in a computer for what is being done. This was warranty work, so there was no cost. Are they fast? Nope. Not even close. Turtle mode is faster. They don't even acknowledge your there in a timely manner (not good Customer Service) Would a wave and smile kill you? Could their customer service be better? Yes, but that is long lesson (and a class that I teach, so yes, I'm pretty picky about Customer Service). They did okay with what they had, but communications with the customer isn't a strong suit. Had I not bought the vehicle there, I probably wouldn't have dealt with them. May have to shop around more for a good service department - didn't have much luck with many other dealerships in the DC Metropolitan area either, so it's not just this one. In comparison to others around, they aren't too bad, but that's not saying much. Barely good isn't very good. Even Sam couldn't make up for it with her charm and friendliness. She did make it more tolerable. "
" Service department is top notch. Went in for an inspection close to closing and they got the technician who was about to leave. He agreed to do it. In and out in 20 min. Also went back for some warranty work. Side molding was detaching from door. Service advisor said no problem. Ordered the part and I returned later in the week to have it installed. Arrived about 830 in the morning and I was on my way with my truck 1 hour later. Great service department. Highly recommended "
" I don't generally do reviews, but since Pohanka emailed me and asked: I brought my 6-DAY-OLD 2019 Chevy Malibu that I bought LAST WEEK from Pohanka in for servicing on the morning of July 4 because the information panel suddenly went dark just THREE DAYS after I bought it. When I pulled in to the service bay, I was quickly attended to, and a service technician, salesman and a manager from the showroom were even brought out in minutes to see what's the matter. Unfortunately, it was not a quick fix, so they took the car into the shop and said it possibly could be fixed in 30 minutes and would I like to wait. I said sure. Not the way I wanted to spend July 4, but these things happen. In the waiting room, it was about 10 a.m. now, there was one customer looking at his cellphone, so I asked the cashier there if it would be possible to turn the TV to ESPN. She said no. So I slinked off to stare into space. After an hour wait, I asked my serviceman for a loaner because I had a bunch of errands to run. I was given one quickly and efficiently. I drove off, and about an hour later, Pohanka called and told me they had to order a computer part and it might not come until Monday because of the holiday week, so I kept the loaner and that's that. In review: *A brand-new 2019 Malibu, just six days old, has a bad computer module? *Very good service from the man who wrote up my ticket and arranged the loaner. *Strange experience in the waiting room, since on previous visits the cashiers were always very pleasant about turning the channel – and I would only ask if there weren't a bunch of people already watching what's on. Anyway, Happy Fourth everyone! "


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Improving boot performance with Bootchart
Shining Boot
Bootchart analyzes the boot process and tells you where the system is wasting time.
In this article, I explain how to deploy Bootchart to investigate the boot process and discover where system optimization can be applied to maximum effect.
One of the gripes about Linux is the amount of time it takes to boot. When you switch on a Linux-based mobile phone, you don't want to wait half an hour before you can start to use it. Linux desktop users aren't infinitely patient either, and developers have introduced various tools over the years to tackle the issue of boot time. If you make the effort to analyze the boot process, the results can be remarkable. The Moblin2 distribution boots from a solid-state drive in just five seconds [1], and the boot time for the usual Debian on an Asus Eee PC 901 can be reduced to a fast 14 seconds.
A handy tool called Bootchart [2] investigates the boot performance of a Linux computer. The application painstakingly logs the boot times for individual services and processes, then it converts the data into a lengthy Gantt diagram and outputs it in EPS, PNG, or SVG format. The diagram serves as a guide for directing your performance-tuning efforts.
Bootchart is installed easily on Ubuntu 8.10 and openSUSE 11 with the distribution's package. Packages are available for other distros, too. On openSUSE, you additionally need to add the init=/sbin/bootchartd option as a kernel parameter in your Grub boot menu (see the box titled "Bootchart for openSUSE 11").
Introducing Bootchart
Bootchart consists of a shell script that runs before the init process. The script calls init, then it starts logging data. Bootchart gleans information from the /proc directory or, to be more precise, /proc/stat, /proc/diskstats, and /proc/*/stat. (The asterisk is a wildcard that represents any process that binds /proc.)
Bootchart uses the virtual tmpfs filesystem to store the data in RAM initially: It stops collecting data when it sees the names of a couple of typical processes that occur when the login screen is displayed, such as gdmgreeter and kdm_greet. It then swaps the collection from RAM into the /var/log/bootchart.tgz file on your hard disk.
In Ubuntu, a Java application first automatically converts the data into a PNG graphic, which is stored in the /var/log/bootchart directory. In openSUSE 11, you need to enter the following at the command line to do the same thing:
$ sudo bootchart --format png
The graphic generated from the TGZ archive is then stored in the directory in which you issued the command.
Because the boot procedure is something like a race between dozens or hundreds of processes, the Bootchart graphic can be quite confusing. To make life easier for users, Bootchart comes with a tree-pruning function that lets you hide inactive and very short lived processes. Also, you can group similar processes for easier viewing.
Before you start your analysis, hand over the stage to Bootgraph, a utility that comes from the Linux kernel developers. Bootgraph is included with the kernel scripts starting with version 2.6.28. In combination with a simple Perl script, Bootgraph shows what the Linux kernel does at boot time, and it offers a couple of optimization options.
To use Bootgraph, you first need to type uname -r to find out whether your kernel version is 2.6.28 or later. If so, reboot your system and add a new kernel parameter, initcall_debug, to the Grub boot manager, as described in the "Bootchart for openSUSE 11" box.
Now reboot your computer with the new option enabled and type the following simple command to create a vector graphic:
$ dmesg | perl /usr/src/kernel/scripts/bootgraph.pl > /home/User/bootgraph.svg
This command uses a Perl script to dissect the output from dmesg and store the results – an SVG-formatted graphic – in the home directory for the user. To view the graphic (Figure 1), use the Firefox browser – although this gives you a landscape view – or use a vector drawing program like Inkscape to rotate it 90 degrees.
Bootchart for openSUSE 11
OpenSUSE 11 offers two approaches to specifying additional boot parameters: Either you can enter them permanently in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file – you need to add them to the line starting with kernel in the section for your current distribution – or you can type the line directly in the Grub boot menu to run it once. To enter the information in the Grub boot menu, use the arrow keys to move to the right boot entry, and press E to edit. Then add init=/sbin/bootchartd to the end of the line starting with kernel.Pressing Enter confirms the change, and pressing B will boot your machine with the modified line.
Seeing is Believing
At the top of the Bootchart-generated diagram (Figure 2) are various statistics that give you the date of the test, the name of your Linux distribution, and your kernel version. Below this, you will see details of your CPU and the enabled kernel options. The time that elapses during the boot phase is listed next to the time keyword.
The two diagrams that follow show the CPU load during the boot phase and the input/output activity. Valleys represent idle processor time. Because the diagram shares the X axis with the main chart, you can also see which processes are not stressing the CPU sufficiently and thus are wasting valuable boot time. The next diagram looks similar but relates to the hard disk, showing the data throughput and active time for the disk.
The main part of the Bootchart graphic starts below this. The X axis represents the number of seconds that elapse during the boot process. For easier orientation, the diagram includes thin vertical lines at one-second intervals.
This section comprises a number of labeled bars that run from left to right. Each bar represents a single process during the boot phase. Although some of the bars terminate after a couple of seconds, others drag through to the end: These processes keep running after the boot phase terminates and include services such as the CUPS or the ACPI daemon. To determine when a process starts and when it ends, see where the horizontal bars intersect the vertical timelines. Child processes are connected to the parent processes in the graphic by dotted lines.
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Wonder how to work catwalk cool into your own closet? Here's how to translate the trends for real life.
Traditionally, when you think leather, you think fall: coats, skirts, boots, blazers. But leather for spring? Lighten up: It's a thing. In fact, lots of designers warmed up to the material for the season, as we saw leather skirts from Just Cavalli and Proenza Schouler, leather dresses from Marni and Reem Acra, leather jackets from Miu Miu and Valentino, leather tops from Balmain and Tibi and leather shorts from Hermes and Fendi. Head-to-toe leather? We saw that, too.
"Ever-present as the very essence of cool, leather can look pitch-perfect or punk gone horribly wrong," style expert Jacqui Stafford writes in her new book "The Wow Factor: Insider Style Secrets for Every Body and Every Budget." "Every body shape can embrace leather, as its stiffer structure tricks the eye into creating the illusion of the perfect silhouette."
THE RUNWAY: Milly by Michelle Smith, spring 2013
A metallic silver snakeskin leather skin looks both space-age and sort of athletic when paired with a black mesh top and — what are those? – shop class safety glasses?
Fake it. It's OK to go faux. New fake leather fabrics look real, feel nice and cost a whole lot less than the real thing. We're kinda swooning over spring's bounty of lighter-weight faux leather jackets. Look for bright colors, cropped sleeves and a relaxed cut to apper modern and seasonal.
New York & Company faux leather moto jacket, $99.95, nyandcompany.com.
Rock a leather dress. Whether you opt for a little cocktail number or a vampy version of the sheath (so chic!) a spring leather dress will give a shot of glam to drinks out or a business meeting in. Small-busted? "Use leather's stiff structure to create more curves than you really have," Stafford advises, suggesting a corset-like bodice. Straight up and down? Embrace a sheath or fitted vest to show off your waist. Susanna Monaco leather dress, $495, shopbop.com
Skirt the issue. Inverted triangle shapes – where you're broader up top and narrow through the hips – would look fab in a gentle A-line-shaped leather skirt, Stafford writes, as the silhouette "and the fabric's sheen draw all eyes to your bottom half and lend welcome balance to a bustier top."
DKNY leather A-line skirt, $208, neimanmarcus.com
Shorten things up. If you've logged a zillion miles on the treadmill, you best be showing off those amazing legs. Leather shorts look cool and of-the-moment for spring, especially when paired with a soft and delicate blouse (think lace or a sheer chiffon). And, best of all? Come fall, just wear them over tights.
Alice + Olivia "Eric" leather shorts, $440, aliceandolivia.com
Lesley Kennedy writes about online shopping for the Online Shopping Report at ShopAtHome.com. Email her at email@example.com.