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Le Mans 2003
By Phil Wicks
Reynard Motorsport was founded by Adrian Reynard in 1973 and was known then as Sabre Automotive. They participated in Formula Ford, Formula 3, Formula 3000 and Champ car to name a few. Their involvement also stretched outside the scope of motor sport and in latter times they were involved in developing and producing airliner seats for the Virgin Airline company. The Cart car market was their bread and butter but a rule change saw markets drift away. Reynard also helped BAR in their early days and acquired Riley and Scott in 1999. After a financially troubled period the fatal blow came in 2002 when they launched an aborted float on the New York stock exchange. Declared bankrupt, Reynard was divided up and the rest was history.
This model is the NASAMAX entered 01Q-01 and its uniqueness was the fuel supplied. It ran with 100% bio ethanol. NASAMAX and ASTEK developed the fuel and the delivery system, using a blanket of nitrogen in the fuel tank to prevent and suppress fire. Ironically, the car retired after almost nine hours racing after catching fire!! So this is the end of one of motor sports more successful marques with achievements spanning three decades. How have Spirit risen to the challenge?
As you may be aware, I have already checked out the 936 and found it cosmetically wanting, even though it is a potential winner in its motor class. This model, on the other hand, is well made and decorated. Tampo is crisp and clear and detail is above the 'acceptable' mark. It shares a motor with the 936 in the SX-01 and here the confusion starts! This model is marked on the insert as having a 24,000 rpm motor whereas the SX-01 is designated a 20,000 rpm motor on Spirits web site?? Not to worry. Having already driven it I can assure you that it is the lesser of the two. Still quick but not blistering!
So, are there going to be any shortcomings? well, actually, yes! But with this model it's the mechanical side which causes the heart ache but before you despair, I will tell you now that there are no irreversible faults. Simple things and silly things side by side, which you wouldn't expect to find amongst market leaders. So, where to start. Let's kick off with an old perennial.
A lost wheel and alloy swarf - could put lesser racers off?
I bought the model at Red Racer Hobbies (nothing wrong so far) and decided to run a few laps on their banked and sweeping six lane Carrera track. Right from the off it sounded like an early SCX Audi R8, body rattles and a noisy gear!! The model was going well SOOB and my first thoughts were, a bit of gear paste and some super glue on the back of the rattly bits. Just when I was settling in on some good laps the left rear wheel fell off. The model did have a little judder on hard acceleration but not having Doctor Phil's medical bag at hand I was putting up with it. I don't know that the judder caused the wheel to drop off, but seeing as this is not a recent model I can suspect that maybe there could be some shrinkage in the plastic parts? Anyhow, the wheel was well and truly off and it was a loose fit to boot! A check for hub cracks revealed nothing except for the model's brake disc dropping out of the back of the wheel! It turns out that all the discs are installed loose!
So with road test over, I left the model until my return home and on the next quiet Sunday afternoon, with the sun beating down, I decided to give the old girl a once over to bring it up to race standard. The following sequence of events prompted me to do a retro review! I took the top off the model and the cause of the gear noise was immediately recognisable. Like its stable mate the BMW 2002, this model has an alloy hubbed contrate. And, also like its stable mate, the gear was dry assembled. The noise I had been hearing was not a bad mesh sound. It was the sound of the motor shaft churning its way through the alloy hub!! But unlike the BMW and thanks to a loose wheel, I had caught this one in time and was able to salvage it.
The extent of the damage, but not fatal!
The axle was popped out and the motor removed. The axle was checked for damage and a thin sleeve of aluminium was removed from the spigot end of the motor armature! I checked the other rear wheel and that too was loose. So both rear wheels had the superglue treatment while the axle was out. Whilst apart, I noticed the ends of the rear axle were 'rough hewn'. They have been sliced off a length of wire and not turned off or radially sawn. This would be an essential check as the process leaves the ends of the axle eccentric. The rear was reassembled and a drop of Vaseline was applied to the gears. Problem one solved.
Lovely lights, but loose!
The next thing I went for was loose components in the body or on the chassis. It didn't take long to find what I was looking for. Both headlight lenses are loose in the body. One more than the other. The problem here is that when the light parts had been heat welded inside the model, the headlight bodies weren't clamping the light lenses to the body shell, allowing them to move.
The right hand lamp is attached at the top only!
On one side the heat weld had been excessive and one end of the lamp assembly was not attached to the shell at all! A drop of PVA glue was applied to these and left to set. I avoided super glue as there is a risk of the clear lenses clouding over if the glue comes anywhere near them. Even the fumes given off can be detrimental!
Next up was to check out the primary drive components. The motor was loose in its mounts, not a lot, but enough to cause the model to judder in a non magnet situation. This was hot glued in. Same rules applied here as to previous models, make sure the mating surfaces are clean and oil (and aluminium) free. Next, ensure the hot glue gun IS hot! The best test is leaving it to heat up 'til the glue does not 'string' after use. I.e. When removing the gun from the job, there isn't a long string of glue in its wake. 'Stringing' would tell me the glue wasn't hot enough and would surely detach at a critical moment in a race. So, with the motor NEATLY glued in place the next check was the wheels and tyres.
Mmmmmmmm? Both rear wheels are eccentric, not by much but they still are. Both rear wheels run out by about a millimetre and with the rear tyres also not being the best moulding, a tyre in the wrong position on a hub could leave the tyre surface quite badly eccentric. In this case I rotated the tyres until the eccentricity was at a minimum, almost corrected! I could quite easily have lost 2 mm off the rolling diameter If I had tried to sand the fault out. Instead, a light sanding will finish the job. The fronts had their own issues too but they will get a chamfering and truing.
Inverted tyre goes pear shaped at weak point?
The tyre compound is quite soft, almost handy! So they will be staying on to prove themselves. One problem there is with them is that there is a moulding fault line across the inside and outside of the tyre. Not too noticeable when the tyre is in place, but when one is removed and inverted, it changes to a pear shape instead of a ring!
Internal fault line
The fault line lets its presence be known as a straight recess in the tyre tread from side to side. Inverting the tyre shows this to appear on the inside in the same position? Cartrix tyres also have this characteristic and most of us know Cartrix tyres as have a habit of splitting laterally or turning rock hard over night!!
External fault line
Next up, the magnet is a medium bar type mounted between the motor and rear axle. Strong enough to put the model on the threshold of holding itself to a piece of inverted Scalextric track. The rear wing clips into the chassis. This will allow it to be removed if the racer chooses to even though the body will need to be removed first. The body screws are good too. A medium Phillips or posidrive will fit the screws and the rears are a good length. The fronts are shorter but still long enough if you race with the body loose. Before the body was refitted I enlarged the screw holes through the chassis to minimise the risk of screw threads catching on the chassis while in motion. This was done by lightly turning a modellers round file anticlockwise in the hole several times.
The guide is stiff which is a good starting point. It will need a little attention before it is race ready. If you deslot for any number of reasons the last thing you want is the marshall to fumble your car because the guide is stuck to one side or other! Also, when refitting the body, watch out for the lead wires again. The wires can get trapped under the body if not in their little clips. Also be sure the lead wires sit inside the central area of the body nose cone. One side or the other will see the guide once again become stiff, giving the marshalls more strife.
Before the top goes on, just ensure the rear axle is central between the bearings and not binding on either side. If they are binding, simply move the contrate across a little. The bearings are an exceptional fit and hold the rear axle firmly in place. I couldn't be anything but impressed with the model's ground clearance. As low as you like to the track, but if you are plastic track racing you may need to watch out for this on track joins at elevation changes. Lastly, the model box advertises the motor as rated at 24,000 rpm. Not sure why, because the SX – 01 motor is the same one as in the Porsche 936, which they advertise as 20,000 RPM. It certainly drives like a 20,000 rpm motor.
Last up but first in this case is the track test. The model was run on a large six lane Carrera circuit with a number of banked corners. Apart from the transmission noise the model took off smartly and behaved impeccably for the duration of the test. A lot of fixed front wheel model dislike banked corners as when they enter banking, the front and rear axles run on different planes! With the rear of the model usually being dominant because of weight or a traction magnet it means the front inner wheel is pulled up in the air by the outer front following the track contour. In doing this the guide is also lifted part way out of the slot. This is often enough to see the model deslot readily if the corner is driven into too fast. On this model it wasn't apparent and banked and flat corners alike drove well. Straight line speed was good too. Not a pocket rocket but also not a slouch. It will be interesting to pitch it against the Scaley and Fly equivalents. In all, a good track test with no hitches (except for the wheel detachment!) and no bad manners or surprises. The track was a little dusty from standing and this was accounted for during testing.
Wheelbase 90.0 m.m.
Front axle width 62.0 m.m.
Rear axle width 62.0 m.m.
Guide to rear axle 100.0 m.m.
Overall weight 80 grams
Rear axle load 44 grams
Front axle/guide load 36 grams
Front / rear weight dist 45% / 55%
Body weight 25 grams
Pinion 9z brass
Contrate 27z alloy/nylon
Final drive ratio 3 : 1
Rear wheel diameter 21.5 m.m.
Progress 22.52 m.m. per motor rev.
Rear tyre tread width 11.5 m.m.
Guide length 18.2 m.m.
Guide depth 5.9 m.m.
Guide thickness (median) 1.46 m.m.
Motor SX-01 20,000 rpm @ 14.8v
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Greens confront need for diversity
The Republican Party isn't the only political force that has a diversity problem.
Environmental activists say their own movement needs to step up its game if it wants to play much bigger in Washington.
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The green movement dreams of pushing major bills through Congress on the scale of President Barack Obama's health care reform law and the immigration overhaul expected to begin next year.
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But those issues enjoy something the green movement does not: wide and deep support across key Democratic groups, including Latinos and African-Americans.
"You should fish where the fish are biting," said Van Jones, the former green jobs adviser to Obama. "All causes that want longevity need to look to influence the emerging majority, which will be a nonwhite majority."
The greens say their plight is less dire than the GOP's, insisting that diversity exists in environmentalism, especially at the local level. It's nationally that environmental organizations — and the face they present to the country — too often drive the perception that green issues are the purview of white liberals.
(Also on POLITICO: Environmental activist drowns.)
Some activists think the problem is already hurting their causes.
Just look at the issues that have caught traction during Obama's presidency versus those that haven't, said Daniel Kessler, spokesman for 350.org, the climate activist group that staged mass sit-ins and arrests outside the White House last year to protest the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
"We've seen stuff move over the last couple years since Obama's been elected, where you had a broad rainbow of people come together and you have seen legislation move," Kessler said. "The health care bill comes to mind. I think immigration reform, in this coming year, will be another example of a diverse set of people getting together, primarily led by the immigrant community in this country — Hispanic Americans. I think we're going to see progress there too. But the climate bill didn't have that kind of support behind it, and it crashed and burned."
People have offered many reasons why the cap-and-trade bill died in 2010. But opponents' message that the legislation would close plants and wipe out jobs undoubtedly hurt, supporters say.
"The opposition said, 'This is going to hurt low-income communities of color,' and it created a case of divide and conquer," said Vien Truong, director of environmental equity at the Greenlining Institute, a California-based think tank.
Longer term, it's been four decades since Congress passed landmark environmental protection bills like the 1972 Clean Water Act and 22 years since the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments — and addressing problems like climate change will require legislation with the same wide-reaching effects. Many activists say there's no chance of a climate bill passing Congress unless they get support from more people within communities of color.
"If we're going to be successful, we need to reflect the population," said Adrianna Quintero, founder of Voces Verdes, a coalition of Latino environmental leaders.
That means green groups need to change, she said.
"They need to diversify their leadership, the membership and their staff at all levels," Quintero said. "But mostly, the vision needs to look toward a world that looks more diverse, that takes into account cultural nuances and different life experiences."
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Right now, the images people see when environmental causes rise to the top of the national agenda often have one thing in common: They're white images.
Rising leaders such as Bill McKibben, the 350.org founder who was named one of Time's "People Who Mattered" in 2011 — white. Eco-celebrities such as Mark Ruffalo and Daryl Hannah — white. Leaders of the big environmental organizations, such as Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune — also, for the most part, white. (On the other hand, Sierra Club President Allison Chin, who serves on the group's board of directors, is the first person of color to hold the top post in the 120-year-old organization.)

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Thanks to Theresa of MindLoveMisery's Menagerie for hosting Saturday Mix. Today's prompt is a poem or piece of prose to describe a hummingbird or another creature using unique similes and metaphors.
Silent but for humming, sound of wind,
Whizzing, flying, carbon bubbles sigh.
A tune of a melody, light, profound,
Sweetness of ambrosia nector cries, gold drowns.
Sleekness and color, bright, bold splashed paint,
Fast and fleet, wings of bubble bees rate.
Fluttering of bedazzling delight teasing.
Flit and flutter, bird or bee dreaming,
As comets blazing across the sky beam.
Music created, of soothing toned sweet hums,
In churches as monks chant matins well sung.
Soul of being, flash of sight, slight thrumming,
Awake in the nostalgia, dreams summoning.
Such honey, sugared lies, praises so sweet.
Observing the beating, a golden snitch fleeting.
Fluttering of bedazzling delight teasing.
Please let me catch you, most superior bird,
Chirp and chatter with warbling tweet words.
Catch the bird thrumming, humming his own song,
Words of a lifetime lift the world prolong.
Wisdom knows, one cannot catch butterfly clouds,
Nor humming birds, who flutter profound.
Fluttering of bedazzling delight teasing.
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As the nation enters the second week with its federal government largely shut down and no immediate resolution in sight, the Washington, D.C., area is feeling the impact.
But Maine isn't far behind the nation's capital and its environs when it comes to bearing the brunt of a government funding lapse. Maine, in fact, ranks fifth in a new study that ranks the states (and Washington, D.C.) most and least affected by the shutdown and the potential for a default on the nation's debt obligations.
The study, put out by the website WalletHub, says Virginia is the state most affected by the shutdown. Makes sense. Washington, D.C., ranks fourth on the list. Makes sense, too. But that's just one spot ahead of Maine. Maryland — home to numerous federal offices and federal workers — is sixth, one slot behind Maine.
So why does a shutdown hit Maine harder than it hits Maryland? It's not because Maine is home to a disproportionately high number of furloughed federal employees — though the state has its share. Rather, it's the state's high concentration of seniors and veterans, its businesses' dependence on loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, and the role real estate plays in the state economy.
The study also takes into account each state's dependence on federal contract dollars and the number of student financial aid applications per capita. But it doesn't even consider the range of other federal funding streams — from education funds to food stamp benefits to low-income heating assistance — on which Maine residents depend to a higher degree than residents in other states. Some of those funds haven't been affected by the impasse yet, but they could be if the shutdown drags on long enough.
As for the WalletHub study, the analysis ranked Maine second on the list of states that could be most affected by a Social Security funding shortage, a possibility if the country defaults. Maine, after all, has the highest median age in the country. A greater share of its population is 65 and older than the rest of the nation's — 16 percent in 2010 compared with 13.1 percent nationwide — and, therefore, dependent on Social Security checks.
WalletHub ranks Maine No. 5 for its population of veterans per capita — though other analyses have ranked Maine second or third — meaning more residents would feel the brunt of delayed pension and disability payments if the shutdown extends past the end of October.
Maine placed seventh on the list of states that could be most affected by a disruption in loans from the federal Small Business Administration, and the state was 10th on the list of states whose economies rely most heavily on real estate.
With lenders unable to readily verify loan applicants' income tax returns, and with more than 90 percent of Federal Housing Administration staff on furlough, home buyers face the possibility that approval of their mortgage applications will be delayed. That doesn't bode well for a real estate sector still struggling to bounce back from the recession.
What other states are bearing the brunt of a shutdown? Alaska took the No. 2 spot on WalletHub's list, and Alabama landed at No. 3. New Mexico, Colorado, Idaho and Hawaii round out the top 10.
Only one of Maine's New England neighbors even made it into the top half of the most affected states: Vermont, at No. 21. Massachusetts ranked 30th, Connecticut 34th, Rhode Island 35th and New Hampshire 37th.
It's just another reason why, for Maine's sake, the sooner the shutdown stalemate ends — with the Affordable Care Act intact — the better.


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The Optima™ font family, a humanist sans serif typeface, was designed by famed designer Hermann Zapf during his tenure at the D. Stempel AG foundry between 1952 and 1955. The Optima Nova™ font family was a redesign done nearly 50 years after the original by Zapf and famed designer Akira Kobayashi.
Reminiscent of the Roman monumental capitals so admired by its designer, Hermann Zapf, the Optima font family was a unique sans serif that has been much imitated and revived in the years since its creation.
After a tumultuous early life in Germany during the war and military work as a cartographer, Zapf eventually found his way to the Stempel Foundry where he was made Art Director. During this time he created his two most famous typefaces: the Palatino™ font family in collaboration with August Rosenberger and Zapf's personal favorite, Optima.
Optima is distinct amongst sans for its slight, glyphic serifs. Given this blend of sans and serif, along with its carved face, Optima has usually worked best in logo and etch work. In the early 2000s, Zapf decided to revisit Optima and expand the family to make it more flexible and wide-ranging. The resulting Optima Nova font family, created by Zapf himself in conjunction with Linotype type director Kobayashi, included more weights (light, demi, and heavy) and expanded Glyph sets to include Adobe CE and Latin Extended characters. The italics were also completely overhauled to include italic details instead of relying on a tilted roman.
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7 players we wish were headed to the 2014 NBA playoffs
Stars win games in the NBA, and the result is a postseason studded with them. But not every great player makes it. USA TODAY Sports' Adi Joseph picks seven players whose absence will be noticed over the next two-plus months:
Carmelo Anthony, New York Knicks
The high-scoring small forward has never before missed the playoffs, for all the criticism he takes about being selfish. True, Anthony only has three playoff series victories under his belt, but he has reached the postseason two more times than fellow 2003 draftee LeBron James. Anthony is the NBA's second-leading scorer and had one of his best individual seasons as the Knicks fell to pieces around him.
PHOTOS:Carmelo, from Syracuse to MSG
DeMarcus Cousins, Sacramento Kings
What would the NBA's most notorious hothead do in the playoffs? That alone would be worth the price of admission. Cousins will miss the Kings' final regular-season game because he picked up his 16th technical foul of the season Sunday. He is a constant, aggressive complainer who has gotten himself in trouble on the court more than anyone since prime Rasheed Wallace. But Cousins also is remarkably talented, averaging 22.7 points, 11.7 rebounds and 2.9 assists a game.
JOKING?Cousins' weird April Fools prank
Anthony Davis, New Orleans Pelicans
The hype around the 21-year-old blossoming superstar has reached a new height this season. Davis is posting 20.8 points, 10.0 rebounds, an NBA-best 2.8 blocks and 1.3 steals a game, all for a team that has been so beset by injuries that its promise never took off. Davis has faced injury himself, but there may not be a more talented young player in the league.
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Kyrie Irving, Cleveland Cavaliers
The top pick of the 2011 NBA draft has missed 49 games in three seasons yet still would top many lists of point guards younger than 25. He also is one of the most charismatic and marketable stars the NBA has, despite not yet playing in the postseason. Cleveland seemed to be ready to contend this season after some offseason moves but instead ends up back in the draft lottery. Washington Wizards point guard John Wall was drafted first overall the year before Irving and finally reached the playoffs this year, so patience could pay off.
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Kevin Love, Minnesota Timberwolves
What else could the All-Star power forward do this season? After being limited to 18 games last year because of injuries, Love is fourth in the NBA in scoring, third in rebounding and even tied for 10th in three-pointers made. He has had a season to remember, all while keeping the Timberwolves hovering around .500 and playing better than that, as victims of many close-game losses.
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Steve Nash, Los Angeles Lakers
The NBA's oldest player moved up to third in career assists last week as he plays intermittently through a variety of injuries. Nash, 40, has two MVPs and eight All-Star bids on his Hall of Fame-worthy résumé. But he doesn't have a championship, which obviously was not in the cards with these Lakers. He is expected to return next season, if his back allows. A 12th trip to the playoffs would be a nice send-off for the often-overlooked legend.
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Rajon Rondo, Boston Celtics
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Miller leads Nuggets past Pacers, 92-89
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INDIANAPOLIS – Denver's Andre Miller brought back a blast from the past Friday night.
The 36-year-old backup guard scored eight of his 15 points during a 10-0 run in the final three minutes, leading the Nuggets past the Indiana Pacers 92-89.
Miller had a hand in all of the points, also getting an assist on JaVale McGee's dunk during the decisive spurt.
McGee dominated the first half and finished with a season-high 20 points off the bench, helping Denver (10-10) win for 13th time in its last 16 games against the Pacers and for the seventh time in the last nine games in Indy.
Indiana (10-10) was looking for its first three-game winning streak of the season and had a chance to force overtime when George Hill blocked a Denver shot with about 5 seconds to go. Hill raced down the floor and took an off-balance 3 just before the buzzer sounded, but the ball bounced errantly off the rim. Hill finished with 15 points, while Paul George led the Pacers with 22 points.
And Denver needed every point from Miller and McGee to survive this one.
Despite trailing for most of the second half and 80-74 midway through the fourth quarter, Indiana refused to let Denver pull away.
They closed to 82-81 when Hill completed a three-point play with 4:32 to go. Forty seconds later, Roy Hibbert tied the score by making 1 of 2 free throws, and then George knocked down a 3 with 3:32 to play. That gave the Pacers an 85-82 lead and sent the crowd into a frenzy.
But Miller's poise changed the game.
He started the run with two free throws, then scored on a layup and hit a 15-footer. After feeding McGee for a breakaway dunk, he closed the run with a 14-foot pullup shot – rekindling images of his All-Star days. Suddenly, Denver had a 92-85 lead with 1:01 left in the game.
George knocked down another 3 with 59.2 seconds to play, and Lance Stephenson made 1 of 2 free throws with 29.9 seconds left to make it a one-possession game.
But the Pacers couldn't get any closer.
Like McGee, Corey Brewer came off the bench and finished with 20 points.
All five Indiana starters scored in double figures, including David West who had 18 points and 11 rebounds, but the Pacers' bench was outscored 55-12.
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Feeling a little depressed, so I started to draw this and it was really muted; but then as I started to feel better, the light made its way into it. Just a reminder to me that no matter how dark the night is, the morning always comes.
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Beautiful Landscape, great atmosphere! 5h and collect :)
Beautiful! Made me smile too.... 5/5 and fav
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Simply stunning! This is very calming to look at. 5h and collection
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very very very beautiful draw....Loved the soft ,soothing shades...5/5..my fav..
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News Release 2009-116 | September 29, 2009
Joint Forum Final Release of Report on Special Purpose Entities
WASHINGTON—The Joint Forum today released the final version of its paper entitled Report on Special Purpose Entities. This paper serves two broad objectives. First, it provides background on the variety of special purpose entities (SPEs) found across the financial sectors, the motivations of market participants to make use of these structures, and risk management issues that arise from their use. Second, it suggests policy implications and issues for consideration by market participants and the supervisory community.
John C. Dugan, Chair of the Joint Forum and Comptroller of the Currency, said today, "This paper significantly adds to the understanding of the use of these vehicles, both on how they are structured and operate and on how risk is transferred. This work will serve to inform supervisors and other market participants of the benefits and risks associated with use of SPEs." Mr. Dugan added, "Policymakers can use this analysis for important contextual background to help advance the ongoing discussions on updating the regulatory and supervisory landscape for structured finance transactions and securitization markets."
The Joint Forum was established in 1996 under the aegis of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, IOSCO, and the IAIS to deal with issues common to the banking, securities, and insurance sectors, including the supervision of financial conglomerates. Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan has been Chairman since September 2007.
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You and Your Research: ... At Los Alamos I was brought in to run the computing machines which other people had got going, so those scientists and physicists could get back to business. I saw I was a stooge. I saw that although physically I was the same, they were different. And to put the thing bluntly, I was envious. I wanted to know why they were so different from me. I saw Feynman up close. I saw Fermi and Teller. I saw Oppenheimer. I saw Hans Bethe: he was my boss. I saw quite a few very capable people. I became very interested in the difference between those who do and those who might have done.
When I came to Bell Labs, I came into a very productive department. Bode was the department head at the time; Shannon was there, and there were other people. I continued examining the questions, ``Why?'' and ``What is the difference?'' I continued subsequently by reading biographies, autobiographies, asking people questions such as: ``How did you come to do this?'' I tried to find out what are the differences. And that's what this talk is about.
... How about having lots of `brains?' It sounds good. Most of you in this room probably have more than enough brains to do first-class work. But great work is something else than mere brains. Brains are measured in various ways. In mathematics, theoretical physics, astrophysics, typically brains correlates to a great extent with the ability to manipulate symbols. And so the typical IQ test is apt to score them fairly high. On the other hand, in other fields it is something different. For example, Bill Pfann, the fellow who did zone melting, came into my office one day. He had this idea dimly in his mind about what he wanted and he had some equations. It was pretty clear to me that this man didn't know much mathematics and he wasn't really articulate. His problem seemed interesting so I took it home and did a little work. I finally showed him how to run computers so he could compute his own answers. I gave him the power to compute. He went ahead, with negligible recognition from his own department, but ultimately he has collected all the prizes in the field. Once he got well started, his shyness, his awkwardness, his inarticulateness, fell away and he became much more productive in many other ways. Certainly he became much more articulate.
And I can cite another person in the same way. I trust he isn't in the audience, i.e. a fellow named Clogston. I met him when I was working on a problem with John Pierce's group and I didn't think he had much. I asked my friends who had been with him at school, ``Was he like that in graduate school?'' ``Yes,'' they replied. Well I would have fired the fellow, but J. R. Pierce was smart and kept him on. Clogston finally did the Clogston cable. After that there was a steady stream of good ideas. One success brought him confidence and courage.
One of the characteristics of successful scientists is having courage. Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important problems, then you can. If you think you can't, almost surely you are not going to. Courage is one of the things that Shannon had supremely. You have only to think of his major theorem. He wants to create a method of coding, but he doesn't know what to do so he makes a random code. Then he is stuck. And then he asks the impossible question, ``What would the average random code do?'' He then proves that the average code is arbitrarily good, and that therefore there must be at least one good code. Who but a man of infinite courage could have dared to think those thoughts? That is the characteristic of great scientists; they have courage. They will go forward under incredible circumstances; they think and continue to think.
... Now for the matter of drive. You observe that most great scientists have tremendous drive. I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode's office and said, ``How can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does?'' He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, ``You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years.'' I simply slunk out of the office!
What Bode was saying was this: ``Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest.'' Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works ten percent more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest. I don't want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime. I took Bode's remark to heart; I spent a good deal more of my time for some years trying to work a bit harder and I found, in fact, I could get more work done. I don't like to say it in front of my wife, but I did sort of neglect her sometimes; I needed to study. You have to neglect things if you intend to get what you want done. There's no question about this. ...
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Melissa Minnick, Walkersville, MD
"I think that when we teach life science with a hands-on constructivist method, we will bring these children's world to them. Then they start to make the connections that we want them to make. Then they start to do that investigative thinking and that scientific thinking, and make the connections from what they see in their world to what they're doing in the classroom, and realize that science is all around them."
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Melissa Minnick teaches fifth grade at Glade Elementary School in Walkersville, Maryland. Located 50 miles west of Baltimore, Walkersville is a small, middle-class community. The students at Glade Elementary regularly exceed the state average on state tests.
Melissa remembers how influenced she was by an early teaching experience: "When I was seven years old, I was at a babysitter's, and I helped a child understand subtraction as backwards addition, and when the younger child understood it, I realized that that's what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. So, all through high school, all through college, that's what I worked on, becoming a teacher." It's not surprising then, that Melissa finds the moments when she gets to watch students "grasp a concept" the most rewarding.
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New tax business opens in Leadville
Easy Web Taxes, a full-service tax preparation company, started up January 2013 in Leadville. Its founder, Gwyn Brodine, has a background in both accounting and preparing taxes. The other employees are family members, including daughters Sarah, an IRS registered tax preparer, and Rebekah, marketing and administration, as well as son Gregory and husband Daniel, who work with technical and network issues. Customers calling Easy Web Taxes usually speak directly with Gwyn or Sarah, who are also available to contact on Skype. Easy Web Taxes allows its customers to upload documents by computer 24/7 from any location and files tax returns for clients online through its website. Easy Web Taxes differs from programs like TurboTax because the customers don't have to file the taxes themselves. Because of its online set-up, the company can prepare tax returns for clients in every state throughout the country.
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Senate 'Gang of Eight' Unveils Immigration Reform Proposal
The U.S. Senate's bipartisan "gang of eight" unveiled the immigration reform bill they had been working on for months at a Thursday press conference.
"Our immigration system is broken and it is time for a national conversation about how to fix it," the senators said in a joint statement. "We believe common sense immigration reform is vital in order to secure America's borders, advance our economic growth, and provide fuller access to the American dream."
The gang of eight includes four Republicans – Jeff Flake (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), John McCain (Ariz.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) – and four Democrats – Michael Bennet (Colo.), Dick Durbin (Ill.), Robert Menendez (N.J.) and Chuck Schumer (N.Y.)
The senators emphasized that the proposal is a starting point and it will go through the usual committee markups and floor debates.
"Our bipartisan proposal is a starting point, and will be strengthened by good-faith input and ideas from across the ideological spectrum. We look forward to multiple Senate hearings on this bill, an open committee process with amendments, and a full and fair debate in the Senate," the statement read.
At the press conference, Durbin suggested that the bill should be called the "Schumer-McCain" bill in recognition of the hard work that those two senators put into the legislation.
Schumer also got choked up while reflecting on the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.). Their work picks up "where he left off," Schumer said.
"We are a nation with a conscience that can't tolerate violations of basic human rights," McCain remarked.
McCain also made fun of himself as he noted that he is "not the easiest to get along with" and the other members "put up with my tantrums."
Rubio reflected on the importance of immigrants in the history of the United States.
"It's tragic that a nation of immigrants is divided on immigration," Rubio said.
He also said that the immigration system must be reformed because the current system is not working.
"Leaving things the way they are, that's the real amnesty," he remarked.
A reporter pointed out that gun control legislation just failed to pass the day before and asked how the fate of the immigration bill would be any different.
McCain answered that the difference will be the broad, dedicated support the legislation enjoys, and he pointed out the people standing behind him on the stage from across the political spectrum representing business, labor and faith communities.
The committee work on the bill is expected to begin the first week of May. A copy of the bill can be found here.


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Fossilized remains unearthed from caves in China indicate the existence of a new human species that had darker skin, a thicker skull and an apparent penchant for venison, scientists claimed.
Dubbed the "Red Deer Cave People" because of evidence suggesting copious amounts of deer were cooked in the caves, the remains do not bear a close resemblance to those from modern humans, the U.K. Guardian newspaper reported.
With their jutting jaws, large molar teeth, flat faces, broad noses and prominent brows, the Red Deer Cave people may represent a new evolutionary line, according to Darren Curnoe, who led the research team that studied the remains.
"They look very different to all modern humans, whether alive today or in Africa 150,000 years ago," Curnoe told the Guardian. "In short, they're anatomically unique among all members of the human evolutionary tree."
In addition to their mix of ancient and modern features, Discovery.com reported the Red Deer Cave People also preferred to eat deer.
Bones of an extinct species of giant red deer were found in abundance along with antler tools, according to National Geographic.
"They clearly had a taste for venison, with evidence they cooked these large deer in the cave," Curnoe told the Guardian.
The fossils were first excavated in 1989 from the Maludong Cave in Yunnan province in China, but hadn't been studied until now.


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— U.S. states executing
prisoners should stick to using legally obtained drugs approved by
federal health regulators, despite shortages that have left
officials scrambling, a legal rights advocacy group urged in
recommendations released on Wednesday.
The Constitution Project said in a report that drugs
used in executions should have U.S. Food and Drug Administration
approval, and should be checked to ensure they are effective and
have not expired.
Capital punishment is a possible sentence in 32 of the 50 U.S.
states, and many states are grappling with a shortage of drugs once
used for executions. Pharmaceutical manufacturers and governments in
Europe, where many of the companies are headquartered, object to use
of the products in executions.
The report said most states use a combination of three drugs for
lethal injections: sodium thiopental as an anesthetic, pancuronium
bromide as a muscle relaxer and potassium chloride to stop the
"Although many states require the use of sodium thiopental in their
lethal injection procedures, the shortage of the drug for executions
has caused states to scramble to find alternative supplies or to
begin using a different drug as a replacement," the group wrote.
Last week, a botched execution in Oklahoma prompted President Barack
Obama to call for a federal investigation. State officials cited
problems with the inmate's veins. The situation brought renewed
scrutiny of execution procedures, which vary state by state.
In the wake of drug shortages, some states have turned to new lethal
"cocktails" as an alternative to hard-to-obtain, FDA-approved drugs.
Those face legal challenges.
The wide-ranging report by the Constitution Project also urged
states to ensure their facilities are set up correctly and that
properly-trained medical personnel deliver the injections.
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The group calls for 39 changes to the capital punishment system
to ensure constitutional rights are protected.
For example, it seeks new standards for obtaining and reviewing
forensic evidence and calls on Congress to establish a federal
system to accredit forensic laboratories.
It recommended other safeguards such as preservation and review of
evidence after conviction to help prevent executions of innocent
people. It also called for major reforms in several states including
Texas, Alabama, California and Pennsylvania.
"While some jurisdictions have made progress toward implementation
of best practices, others persist with policies that appear harder
to justify in light of changing knowledge and standards," it said in
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The Facebook public image offensive continued today with a press conference at the social network's Palo Alto headquarters announcing its new "simplified" privacy settings.
The event is a marked departure from Facebook's standard method of announcing changes, which is to simply make changes and tell users after the fact. The news conference follows a tumultuous month of growing discontent with the site's increasingly complex privacy settings. There has also been a string of bugs that leaked profile info to advertisers and private e-mails and chats to random users.
"We just didn't communicate as well as we should have," Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, acknowledging the backlash.
"Feedback we got from users really resonated. That's why we holed up for the last couple of weeks," brainstorming and developing the changes the site will roll out over the next week.
Zuckerberg broke down those changes into three categories:
Sharing: One simple control, with options
Last month's changes required users to navigate 50 settings (with more than 170 options) to set up profile privacy, as shown in a recent New York Times infographic.
Change: One control will lock down all information — a change that will be retroactive on the site — with the option for granular changes.
Basic directory information: Less of your info will be out there
As of December, Facebook users were no longer able to hide profile information such as current city, hometown, education, work, likes, interests, and friends — unless they deleted that content.
Change: Less of this information will be publicly available.
Platform: Facebook and friends won't follow you all over the Internet
Currently, if your Facebook friends have not adequately battened down their own privacy profiles, any third-party application or advertisement you access via Facebook has access to their profiles as well.
Further, the new instant personalization means that users who access Facebook's partners Yelp, Pandora or Microsoft allow those sites to access profile information — unless you opt out of each, individual site. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)
Change: Users will be able to leave the Facebook platform and prevent apps, advertisers and partners from accessing the profile of their Facebook friends.
Throughout the press conference, Zuckerberg dismissed media criticism that last month's changes to the privacy policy were made for monetary gain.
As with all changes to the site, he said, April's updates were meant to improve user experience for the site's nearly half-billion users — not to offer up even more user information to advertisers.
Regularly returning to the site's meteoric rise over its six-year existence, Zuckerberg stressed that the way the site is used now is vastly different from its beginnings in his Harvard dorm room. To that end, "We try to be innovative and iterative in our development," he said.
This isn't the biggest "backlash" Facebook has experienced, Zuckerberg said. That came with the "newsfeed" changes to the site, which resulted in protests outside the Facebook offices.
What's more, he noted, the current discord is not reflected on the site itself. Despite campaigns to quit Facebook, there have been no noticeable changes in the 400 million-plus membership number.
The mea culpa tour continues tomorrow in Washington D.C. when Facebook representatives meet with House and Senate staff to discuss the changes announced today. While Zuckerberg says otherwise, it's most likely a concession to the Federal Trade Commission, which recently raised concerns following a letter from four Senators demanding that the government organization examine Facebook's policies.


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Update: The Kings won six consecutive games, acquired Marian Gaborik in hopes of jump-starting their offense and rekindled thoughts of moving up in the standings. It's unlikely they can catch the San Jose Sharks for second in the Pacific Division, but it does seem more probable they can avoid being caught from behind and tumbling into a wild-card position by the end of the regular season. The Kings are 36-22-6, solidly in third in the division and sixth in the Western Conference. Tonight's game is the second on a three-game trip that also takes them to Calgary on Monday … Anze Kopitar leads the Kings with 52 points, including a team-leading 33 assists. Jeff Carter has 40 points, including a team-high 22 goals for the Kings' 27th-ranked offense … Taylor Hall leads the last-place Oilers (22-34-8) with 59 points (21 goals, 38 assists).


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This competition happened on 6th July 2013 and now only I blogged about it.
As part of the Spicy Korean Burger promotion, there was a Korean singing contest held on 6th July 2013. Yup! That was the day of the Finals where the top 10 performed.
I will share some pictures below.
The mechanics:
In order to enter, customers have to come up with one video of themselves or with friends singing a Korean song and then upload to the contest tab in the Facebook page.
They will have to share the video with their Facebook network and get as many 'likes' as possible.
The top ten videos with the most 'likes' will make it to the finals, where one lucky grand prize winner will be flown on a six-day four-night trip to South Korea.
Source : http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/05/15/kfc-msia-launches-so-hot-so-korean-spicy-korean-burger/
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My journey....begins when I uploaded this video
By July was informed I made it to top 10. I was thrilled! There were a total of 36 entries.
I was damn lucky!
SATU DUA TIGA Let's Pose together!
(Note how "Plain Jane" I was before showtime)
VOILA! My look of the night after my transformation! Super Bling Outfit.
Sempat tangkap gambar in front of stage and Fooling around with my third eye before before the competition begins.
Check out of similarities in terms of outfit with the Female Talent in KFC's TVC.
And the show begins with 10 of us vying for the GRAND PRIZE....an all expenses paid trip to KOREA!
Some contestants showing off their dance moves and vocals! All were so talented and young!
Talented Elaine Chung with her song We were in love(우리 사랑했잖아) by Davichi & T-ara(다비치&티아라) I just love her powerful vocals and in the end I fell in love with this song!
Talented Kimberly Yong that showcased her keyboard skills topped with singing. I really admire people who can sing & play at the same time. Not an easy task.
And here's one shot of me in action! In a full swing of expressions and in BLING! I sang Because I'm A Girl by KISS. One of my all time favourite Korean song.
Kimberly Wong sang a song by Ailee(에일리) _ Heaven and I fell in love with this song too!
After this competition I have two new Korean songs to learn!
The talented Fatma Wati who is so immersed in her performance & she delivered such a great performance too!
Judges of the day:
Dennis Lau (Malaysia's top Violin Player & musician)
& Najwa Latif (Malaysia's up & coming songstress)
My heart skipped a little when they announced third place. Congrats to Kimberly Wong who won cash RM1,000. BOOM! I was caught by surprise with the cracker so loud that I covered my ears. My ears were still covered when they announced the second winner, Fatma Wati who won air tickets for two to Korea.
And then I was still closing my ears when they announced the GRAND PRIZE WINNER!
YONG CHOY PENG! That's Me! I was still closing my ears....(Yes I very takut balloons and fireworks)
It took a while for reality to sink in that I had to go up on stage to receive my prize. I was stunned! I could not believe it! I actually won the trip for two to KOREA! And I was just setting my resolution to go there in a year's time! Thank you KFC Malaysia for making this possible for me! It certainly is a dream come true! And my mom arrived in the nick of time to share my happiness with me.
And here's my winning moment!
Mom looks cute here with the peace sign pose. Like a little girl.
I was practically in tears and could not believe it! I have actually won an all expenses trip to KOREA and I'm bringing my mom. The best moment was that my mom was able to witness my winning and I was just so touched!
MUM, this one's for you. MUACKS!
YAY! We're going to Korea next year! Thank you KFC Malaysia for the wonderful gift. And I will blog bout my trip in Part 2 next year with lots of interesting pictures!
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I'll be blogging at wordpress.com from today. This is my new blog. Its still work in progress.
To follow my blog entries, the url for the feed is http://jacob69.wordpress.com/feed/.
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people who have
type 1 diabetes. The person's pancreas is not removed.
The transplanted pancreas is placed in the front part of the abdomen.
Insulin from the transplanted pancreas is released
into the bloodstream through the lower abdominal blood vessels (veins).
When the surgery is successful, the person may
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may still develop complications from diabetes. If the person already has
complications, they may continue to get worse as time goes on.
This surgery is used mainly for people who have
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I remember the reasons that I moved from Pennsylvania to Miami with great clarity. My wife and I were going from the gray and brown to the green and bright and the trip to Florida in 1971 has become family legend. Two years later, our expanded family (our daughter was born in July 1972) got back in the car and moved to Boston. I don't remember exactly why. I know that I had taken a job as the Director of Data Processing for Massachusetts General Life Insurance Company, a small insurer that occupied a few floors of an office building on Federal Street, but the rest is a fog. I remember looking out of a window onto Federal Street on a blustery and overcast day in May when a co-worker explained that there was only one good day of weather in Boston each year. Unfortunately, he remarked, we had already had it. I remember the reasons that I left Boston to return to Jacksonville Florida in 1975 but I'm just not sure why I went north in the first place.
While I was driving up and down the eastern seaboard something happened to the data processing business. It changed.
In 1974, IBM announced virtual storage and the MVS version of OS/360. With virtual storage, a programmer could request an address space larger than the physical memory installed on the computer. At Mass General Life, we didn't have our own computer but we rented time on the machine up Federal Street at the Boston Stock Exchange. Accordingly, we were the last on the list of companies that the IBM salesman visited to discuss the announcement.
"Why should a programmer use more memory than the mainframe supports?" I asked him.
"Why, indeed!" he responded with the usual IBM enthusiasm. "Just think of all the new applications that you can write. Imagine how many partitions can be active at the same time."
"How does it work?" I wondered.
"Well, if there isn't enough memory, the operating system will write a portion of the program or a segment of data to disk. Then, when that portion is needed, it will read it back into storage," the IBM salesman lectured.
I have to admit that the concept of virtual storage, later called virtual memory, was lost on me. We were locked into the sequential processing of large master files. The system couldn't validate transactions until they were sorted. It couldn't change policies until the transactions were validated. It wouldn't apply premium payments until the policies were changed. One step after another, each a part of the daily processing cycle. Why have multiple partitions when you could only do one thing at a time, anyway? And what program couldn't be written in 64K or less?
At about the same time, I got a note from our company's president to return a call from a salesman for Data General, a high-tech company located out on Route 128. Although the salesman wanted me to visit their facility, we agreed on a lunch meeting the following week. Data General was started by a few engineers from DEC who believed that they could build a mini-computer that would appeal to businesses based on price and performance. They first built a machine called the Nova and the salesman wanted to tell me about their new offering, the Super Nova.
The Data General salesman was a true believer and I was a confirmed skeptic.
"Have you heard that our new COBOL compiler is faster and more efficient than IBM's compiler?" he inquired.
"Who's going to rewrite all of our programs from assembler language to take advantage of your new COBOL compiler?" I asked.
"You can lease a Super Nova with tapes and disk for less than your rent at the stock exchange. Just take those savings and hire a few programmers for the rewrite." To the Data General salesman, it was a straightforward decision.
I remained unconvinced and recommended against the switch from a mainframe to a mini-computer. We were not looking for something smaller. At the time, our holy grail was a meg and a mike. If we could get a machine with a million positions of storage (a meg) and a microsecond processor speed (a mike), we could do just about anything. After all, everyone knew that bigger was better.
Data General was a good company with good people. They had a vision of data processing, however, that would take a quarter-century to become reality. During the '70s, the momentum belonged to the mainframe and it would take the recession of the '80s and the success of the personal computer to make people change direction. Eventually, Data General began to manufacture storage systems before they were purchased by EMC in 1999.
As my family and I traveled from Boston to Jacksonville in the late summer of 1975, I was completing my first 10 years as a data processor. It was a decade when computer programming had come of age. Although the term was not then in general use, we programmers had become the masters of the universe. Since standards were non-existent, we used whatever languages and techniques we liked best. Since users were intimidated by us, we dictated the requirements of the programs that we wrote. We made our own rules and we programmed on our own terms.
Unlike other departments within the company, the data processing department had an existence beyond corporate boundaries. Other than the operating system and a few utilities, software was custom-written or, at least, customized to a unique specification. When a programmer was assigned to write a program in the company's primary processing system, it was a job for life. In 1975, we performed our own analysis, wrote our own programs from beginning to end, and performed our own testing.
Although these programming tasks were solitary, there was community. A gathering of programmers was like a meeting of sovereigns. Each data processing shop was a separate principality and its director was the lord of the manor. We were a heterogeneous group of white males who saw our profession as the equal to medicine or the law. We would confer but we would not become subject. In all of this, our behavior was not malicious, just uninformed. It was our arrogance as much as the technology changes that would shortly come that sowed the seeds of our undoing. The coming changes, however, were only obvious in retrospect.
In November 1975, another young man left Boston and returned to his home in Seattle. Before the year was over, Bill Gates, having dropped out of Harvard, formed a small company with his partner Paul Allen, to follow his dream of placing a computer on every desktop. They named their company "Micro-Soft."
- A Personal History of Systems and Computers: Part 1
- A Personal History of Systems and Computers: Part 2
- A Personal History of Systems and Computers: Part 3
- A Personal History of Systems and Computers: Part 4
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BIG RAPIDS, Mich. – The Northern Michigan University men's basketball team fell in its second straight game on Saturday (Jan. 12) from Big Rapids, Mich. Ferris State University defeated the Wildcats 51-41 in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference matchup from Wink Arena.
The Bulldogs (8-6, 7-3 GLIAC) went on a 7-0 run in the first five minutes of the game before the 'Cats were able to get on the board. From there, NMU scored seven consecutive points of its own to tie the game at seven. NMU tied the game again with ten minutes to go in the half and would then lead for the remainder of the half, giving the 'Cats the 24-21 halftime advantage.
Northern (4-10, 3-7 GLIAC) was the first on the board to open the second half on a three-pointer by Junior forward Matthew Craggs to extend the lead to six (27-21). NMU continued its lead until 7:41 remaining in the game when the Bulldogs took 37-36 advantage. FSU led for the rest of the game, leading by as many as 11 with just under a minute to go.
Sophomore guard Quinten Calloway had 13 points for the 'Cats on one three-pointer, four field goals and went 2-for-2 from the free throw line. Craggs added a double-double with 10 points and 10 rebounds.
NMU committed 15 turnovers to FSU's 11, but were able to out rebound the Bulldogs 32-29. Ferris shot 15-for-41 on the afternoon and were 18-for-25 from the free throw line, while the 'Cats were 15-for-46 overall and 5-for-6 at the charity stripe.
Drew Lehman led all scorers with 15 points after scoring one three-pointer, four field goals and was 4-for-6 at the free throw line. Daniel Sutherlin added 13 points and led the Bulldogs with eight rebounds, five on defense.
Northern returns home on Thursday (Jan. 17) to matchup against Saginaw Valley State at 5:30 p.m. and Wayne State University on Saturday (Jan. 19) at 11 a.m.


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Harvard vs. Penn State
The Crimson heads back on the road looking to add two wins to its unblemished EIVA resume (photo courtesy Zach Williamson).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Harvard men's volleyball team looks to keep its EIVA record perfect this weekend when it heads out on the road to face Saint Francis (Pa.) and No. 12 Penn State. The Crimson will face the Red Flash on Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. before tangling with the Nittany Lions Saturday, Feb. 22 at 3 p.m.
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Last Time Out
Harvard hit a season-high .390 en route to a convincing 3-0 victory Sunday, Feb. 16 over George Mason. The win came by set scores of 25-22, 25-18 and 25-23.
The victory was Harvard's first ever sweep of George Mason and first win for the Crimson over the Patriots at home.
The Crimson hit .390 as a team, representing the team's highest percentage since hitting .432 at Sacred Heart on April 20, 2013. Casey White scored a match-high 11 kills to finish with a .318 percentage, while brother DJ White hit .444 with nine kills. Caleb Zimmick posted a .636 percentage with eight kills, and also turned in three aces and five blocks. Nick Bendell directed the offense, dishing out 38 assists.
Related Link: Men's Volleyball Cruises to Straight Set Victory over George Mason
Rank and File
After knocking off two ranked opponents in pool play at the Asics Invitational Jan. 3, Harvard entered the American Volleyball Coaches Association Division I-II poll at a program-best 13th Jan. 6. The Crimson, which received votes in the preseason poll, remained in the national mix for three-straight weeks, and has since received votes each week.
Related Link: AVCA Division I-II National Poll
Scouting Saint Francis (Pa.)
Saint Francis (Pa.) improved to 7-4 on the year and 2-1 in the EIVA after topping Rutgers-Newark and NJIT last weekend. Logan Patterson ranks sixth in the league with 3.06 kps while his .344 hitting percentage is good for fourth. Kyle Beatty's 3.00 kps sit seventh in the conference. Mike Kresch has dished out the conference's best assists per set average (9.63) while M. Kochan's 1.17 bps lands second.
Inside the Series with the the Red Flash
Harvard has rattled off the past four victories over Saint Francis (Pa.) to hold a 5-3 advantage in the all-time series that dates back to 1994. The Crimson has posted four sweeps of the Red Flash including the last two meetings.
Related Link: Men's Volleyball Registers Second Straight Sweep Against St. Francis (Pa.), 3-0
Scouting No. 12 Penn State
After dropping two matches at the Outrigger Hotels Invitational to open the season, Penn State has gone on to win a nation's best 10 straight to move to 10-2 overall, 3-0 in the EIVA. Aaron Russell and Nick Goodell rank first and fourth in the conference with 3.80 kps and 3.20 kps, respectively. Taylor Hammond boasts the highest assist per set average (10.87) with Connor Curry's 2.55 dps placing second. Prior to Saturday's match, the Nittany Lions entertain Sacred Heart Friday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.
Inside the Series with the Nittany Lions
Harvard and Penn State will meet for the ninth time on Saturday, with the Crimson trailing the all-time series, 1-7. The Crimson earned its lone victory in the series last year, when Harvard blanked the Nittany Lions, 3-0, in the team's second meeting of the regular season. Roles reversed when the conference rivals met in the EIVA championship match, as Penn State earned a straight set victory over the Crimson.
Related Link: Men's Volleyball Ends No. 9 Penn State's 51-Match EIVA Win Streak, 3-0
Coming Up
Harvard concludes its first rotation through EIVA play next weekend when it welcomes Rutgers-Newark and NJIT to Cambridge. The Crimson hosts the Scarlet Raiders Friday, Feb. 28 at 7 p.m., before entertaining the Highlanders Saturday, March 1 at 4 p.m.
EIVA Rallies
Harvard will host its second annual EIVA Rally night Friday, April 4 against Penn State to help raise funds and awareness towards cancer research. The EIVA formed the "EIVA Rallies" campaign last year to benefit the Memorial Sloan-Keetering Cancer Center. For more information or to make a donation, please click here.
The White Brothers
Casey and DJ White have been instrumental to the Crimson on both sides of the net thus far this season. The Hermosa Beach, Calif., natives have combined for nearly a third of Harvard's blocks (18-49), digs (67-196) and service aces (10-28). Offensively, the brothers have notched .431 percent (122-283) of the Crimson's attack.
Setting it Up
Nick Bendell has served as the Crimson's primary setter in his first collegiate campaign. Bendell has dished out 9.17 aps, which lands 24th in the NCAA and fifth in the EIVA, to lead Harvard to the nation's 22nd-best hitting percentage (.255).
Honored Freshman
Casey White was named Off the Block's National Freshman of the Week honorable mention February 17 after helping the Crimson to a 2-0 weekend to remain undefeated in conference play. The outside hitter posted 11 kills and an ace in a five-set thriller against Princeton Thursday, Feb. 13, and helped Harvard to its first-ever sweep of George Mason Sunday, Feb. 16 with a team-high 11 kills on a .318 hitting percentage.
Related Link: Off the Block
And the Award Goes To
Two Crimson student-athletes have earned EIVA Defensive Player of the Week accolades thus far this season.
DJ White earned the honor after pacing Harvard with 2.43 kps, 1.57 kps and 1.5 bps for the Crimson's efforts against two top-15 teams Jan. 27. Kyle Rehkemper was tabbed defensive player of the week for his 2.00 bps, 1.00 kps, 2.50 points per set and .333 hitting percentage performance in Harvard's EIVA opener against Sacred Heart Feb 7.
DJ White and Rehkemper have been selected for best player over a seven-day stretch three times each.
Related Links : DJ White Earns EIVA Defensive Player of the Week Honors | Rehkemper Named EIVA Defensive Player of the Week
Block Party
Harvard protected the net against MIT, posting 16 total blocks, a season high and the most by a Crimson squad since tallying 18 in a 3-2 win over NJIT April 12, 2013. Currently, Harvard ranks No. 36 in the NCAA in blocks per set (1.67).
Caleb Zimmick has posted 21 total blocks this season to average 0.84 bps which lands 55th on the national list.
Serving Up Aces
Seniors Nick Madden and Kyle Rehkemper have totaled 47 career aces each, which puts them just three shy of entering Harvard's career-top 10. Currently, Madden is tied for 48th in the nation with 0.28 aces per set while the Crimson as a team rank 24th (1.08).
Record Watch
Seven active players have already made a place for themselves in Harvard's record book. Chris Gibbons owns the top spot for career digs (619) while Will Chambers' .420 sits atop career hitting percentage (159-36-293). Nick Madden finds himself on four of the Crimson's career annals as the senior is third in block assists (187), tied for fifth in total blocks (206), sixth in kills (709) and seventh in digs (345). DJ White and Caleb Zimmick rank in the top-10 in three lists each. White's 546 kills rank 10th while his .308 hitting percentage and 2.89 kps rank seventh and eighth, respectively. Zimmick lands on each of the block lists with 29 solo blocks (T-5th), 160 block assists (6th) and 189 (7th) total blocks. Kyle Rehkemper appears on two lists as the senior sits fifth in block assists (162) and eighth in total blocks (179). Michael Owen's 124 block assists is good for seventh.
Related Link: Men's Volleyball Record Book
Seniors Chris Gibbons and Kyle Rehkemper earned spots on the 50th Asics Invitational All-Tournament team after helping Harvard down two ranked opponents – then-No. 5 Stanford and then-No. 8 UCSB – to reach the championship round of the invite. Rehkemper contributed to the Crimson's offense with 13 kills and a .792 hitting percentage while Gibbons registered nine digs.
Preseason Pick
Coming off an appearance in the EIVA Tournament championship, Harvard has been picked third in the 2014 EIVA Preseason Poll. The Crimson's third place pick is its highest ever finish in the poll with 23 points.
Defending champion Penn State was chosen to repeat, receiving seven of the eight first-place votes for nine points while Princeton was selected second with a total of 20 points and the one remaining first-place vote. George Mason (32 points), St. Francis (Pa.) (38), NJIT (50), Sacred Heart (52) and Rutgers-Newark (64) rounded out the preseason rankings.
Related Link: Men's Volleyball Tabbed Third in EIVA Preseason Poll
Ivy League Digital Network
For the first time ever, each of Harvard's 11 home matches will be streamed in HD quality featuring a live scoreboard, new graphics package and play-by-play commentary through the Ivy League Digital Network. Subscribers to the network can watch matches both live and on-demand at their convenience, and will have access to live and on-demand content for all Harvard athletics events throughout the duration of their subscription.


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Musical collaboration Collective Cadenza (CDZA) brings to our listening pleasure proof that romance in the 21st century just isn't what it used to be.
In their new musical video experiment "History of Wooing Women" they take you on a journey through the history of love songs. Starting in 1955 with "Only You" by The Platters, they move seamlessly to 2010 with Enrique Iglesias and a plethora of bleeped-out words.
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This is the second in our biweekly series from Amy Pennington – urban farmer, founder of GoGo Green Garden, and author of Urban Pantry and Apartment Gardening – on how to start growing your own food, no matter how tiny your garden-to-be is.
Today: Want to start growing your own food? You can do it. Here's your game plan.
Garden Planning 101
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Gardening and growing food are two of the most intuitive things I have ever done. This is not to say that I've always had a green thumb. In fact, I've killed every houseplant I've ever owned (including a cactus) and have officially given up on keeping them. All of this is to say that anyone can garden. The only skill you need is the ability to observe. You have this, I promise.
Here is my disclaimer, which I'll likely repeat again during the lifespan of City Dirt; it is helpful to recognize that information often varies from source to source. It is also worth noting that gardening "experts" often use a combination of education and experience to offer advice and instruction on how to grow a bountiful garden. That doesn't necessary mean it will always work for you. I have opinions about what works and what doesn't, but there are many options for home gardeners. I also garden organically, 100%. This means no chemicals for killing slugs, adhering to a strict crop rotation schedule, and in general making decisions based on what is best for the soil, not what is best for me personally.
Additionally, gardening requires one to work with nature, and this is not an exact science. There are many variables in gardening — sun exposure, latitude, time of year, watering schedule, and more will affect the success of any planting you do. So although certain factual information having to do with nutrient requirements and plant science will not change among the information you read, strategies will. It's up to you to decide what works best for you and your garden. With City Dirt, I aim to give you enough information and tools to make informed choices. Happily, there is often more than one answer.
Garden Musts When starting a garden at home there are three things to consider that will immediately contribute to your success.
1. You must have sun! At least 4 to 6 hours of direct sunlight a day for leafy greens and 10 to 12 for fruiting plants (hello tomatoes, cukes, and beans). I know you hear stories about how arugula is a weed and can grow in any condition, or perhaps about a tomato that doesn't need full sun, but trust me on these numbers. In order to have a successful (i.e. fully mature) plant, you need sun. Track your sun pattern starting NOW. At what point does it hit your property? At what time? Keep a sun log that tracks the sun across your yard at various times throughout the day, so you can watch how the sun changes with each season. Remember, it is winter, so in northern states the sun is sitting low on the horizon. If it tracks across the backyard now, it may arch over the house come summer.
2. Access to water is also a must. If you have to lug gallon jugs up some stairs and across your property, the odds of you watering often are slim. Make sure you have a hose and spigot handy. Anyone installing over 60 square feet of beds may also want to consider an automated watering system (drip irrigation, soaker hose or sprinkler system) so a nearby spigot will make your life way easier.
3. And finally, your soil should be considered. Many soils can be remediated or conditioned, but if your house sits on a cement block, is deeply water logged, or is built on sand, you may need to consider container planting as your only option.
With these three key components in mind, you must choose a space for your garden. Choose the space that best encompasses all three considerations and know that this may not be where you want to put your garden. Far too often, I see clients forcing gardens to work in their linear and square back yards. Let go of landscaping "rules" and put the garden in a spot where you can expect it to be successful. If you're not starting out with your best foot forward, you're inviting frustration and problem solving into your future.
As for how much space to allow, assuming you have the option, consider both your time commitment and your eating habits. There have been a handful of surveys and studies done to estimate yield per square foot in a garden, but these are widely disparate and I find them to be only remotely useful. Instead of trying to figure out how much space you'll need, determine how often you eat at home and just what food your family consumes. Every garden I grow in has waste each season, though that is never the goal. Do yourself a favor and be honest. Are you a stay-at-home parent or green-dedicated cook who makes three meals a day with vegetables as a major component? Then you'll need a big ol' garden. If you're hoping only to start small, if you're one person, or if you have an active lifestyle that keeps you out some nights, a smaller garden will suffice. I suggest starting with no more than 100 square feet your first year. Beds should be no more than 4 ½ feet wide, so you can reach in to the center with ease. I like a bed length to be 6 feet long, as well. (I explain why here.)
Sketch out the space to approximate scale and leave some surrounding space for future beds and/or a bed dedicated to perennials like sage, mint, or artichokes. Hang the sketch, think about it, and contemplate the space for a few weeks. This gives you an opportunity to change things around as you watch your sun pattern. Garden Wish List To help determine the amount of space you will need, I encourage gardeners to sketch out a garden "wish list" of vegetables they'd like to grow. This should be your big garden brainstorm of the year. Get creative! Be bold! Think about vegetables, herbs or fruits that are not widely available — think like a cook. Basil can be found in grocery stores all year long, so why dedicate precious space to grow basil? Try something new like cinnamon basil for summer teas or salads, or lime basil for Asian-inspired dishes. Instead of the perfect red tomato, which a farmer will likely grow faster than you, why not try some odd shaped little tomatoes? I love White Currant tomatoes for their clear skin, pale yellow hue, and sweet acidic taste. Using this list, you will map out each of your garden beds over the course of the year, a topic we will cover in the near future. Next up, however, is seed ordering! Check back in two weeks for seed resources, ordering strategies, and suggestions for your first planting of the year.
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Woman dies in motorcycle wreck in SE Houston
A woman died in a motorcycle crash Sunday night along Interstate 45 in southeast Houston.
The wreck happened about 8:40 p.m. on the inbound Gulf Freeway frontage near Edgebrook, according to the Houston Police Department.
Police said the woman was a passenger on a Harley-Davidson that was traveling northbound when it slammed into the back of a van.
The van, police said, changed lanes to enter the freeway when the motorcycle, which witnesses said was traveling at a high rate of speed, hit the back of it. The woman died at the scene. The motorcycle driver was injured and was rushed to a nearby hospital in critical condition.
The motorcycle driver and passenger were not wearing helmets, police said.
Police are investigating the crash and so far no charges have been filed in the case.