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Few traditional brick-and-mortar companies still deny that the Internet will change the way they do business, and the smart ones have figured out that they need people with both business and technical skills to survive the change. So why do so many companies still exhibit the behaviour of pre-e-business when it comes to IT management? The problem, says Beverly Lieberman, president of executive recruiter Halbrecht Lieberman Associates Inc. in Stamford, Conn., is that companies say they want to change, but most stay mired in the traditional way of doing things. That doesn't bode well for their ability to attract the kind of help they need.
"Lots of companies are going to get burned in the next year or so," Lieberman says. "Maybe half of those looking for quality candidates won't get them.
They'll have to settle for the B players because the A players won't want to go to them." Marvin Langston is an A player. The first-ever CIO of the Navy Department, he ended his government stint as the deputy CIO of the entire U.S. Department of Defense. Langston was courted by a number of big companies for traditional CIO spots, but he decided instead to go to Salus Media in Carpinteria, Calif.--a new Web-based health-care company that offered him the COO spot--mainly because he no longer wanted to battle the old corporate mind-set.
"There is a dearth of talent available to the brick-and-mortars now," he says.
"[Top CIOs] have the ability to move to places that give them the capability to do what they feel needs to be done. They just won't go to those outfits [that bog] them down with bureaucracy." The sense of urgency is palpable. By 2005, investments in e-business applications and infrastructure will drive average IT spending beyond 10 percent of revenue in North America, compared with 5 percent today, according to a recent study by Gartner Group in Stamford, Conn. Leading-edge adopters of IT will boost their spending to an average of 16 percent of revenue, compared with 12 percent today. But these leading adopters make up only 15 percent of all enterprises. The rest will still be spending only 1 percent to 5 percent of revenue on IT by the middle of the decade.
Regardless of spending, many brick-and-mortar companies will be marginalized in their industries by their inability to reinvent themselves and their threatened business models. Their old-style culture will still prevent them from taking advantage of whatever IT investments they do make.
"Many companies still haven't realised that information resources are central to their business future," says Frank Goldschmidt, business development director for RHI Consulting, a Menlo Park, Calif.-based IT consultancy.
Goldschmidt estimates that less than half of the companies with more than US$50 million in sales really understand this.
Traditional CIOs are expected to be technically knowledgeable and to know how to fit the current IT resources to their companies' business base. It's basically a reactive position, however, since the executive decisions that influence changes in IT are usually made at a level removed from the CIO's office. The CIO traditionally reports to the financial side of the business, and IT is viewed as a cost burden rather than as a strategic asset.
It's a mind-set that's been hard to shake, even for companies with business tightly linked to technology. For example, Fingerhut, based in Minnetonka, Minn., is a 52-year-old, US $2.5 billion database marketing company that already invests between 8 percent and 9 percent of its revenue annually in information technology. Even so, says President and Chief Operating Officer John Buck, only in the past five years has Fingerhut management realised the power of IT and how it can influence the position the company occupies in the marketplace. The CIO's power in the company has grown along with that understanding, Buck says, to where the CIO is now a critical position. "We certainly need somebody who knows information systems and has administrative abilities. But [the CIO] must also be able to sit at the same table as the company's business leaders and be able to provide a vision for where the company's business should be heading." The task for Fingerhut is "leveraging our technology assets," Buck says, by bringing together all of the systems, technology and direct-marketing capabilities that were developed for the company's catalogue business to support other direct-to-consumer business channels. The Internet will likely be the biggest part of that, but the company's management is also looking at channels such as wireless communications, interactive TV and others.
The strategy for making that happen rests with Fingerhut's new CIO, Gary Bledsoe, and key members of his organisation. Bledsoe sits on the company's executive committee, as did former CIO Alan Bignall, who left recently to work at a dotcom.
Indeed, raising the clout of the CIO within the organisation is a key ingredient in quickly coming to grips with the needs of the new technology age.
At the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), for example, Jim McNulty, who took over as president and chief executive officer in February, has boosted the CIO's position into the top ranks of management under a total revamp of that venerable institution's executive structure. Scott Johnston, the new CIO, is now one of a nine-member slate of managing directors who report directly to McNulty.
McNulty says he intends to work so closely with Scott "that he will be able to describe the exchange's business plan to me [as if he were CEO], while I should be able to describe the plan to him as the CIO." The skills an IT executive needs to bring to this elevated role are far more extensive than those required of a traditional CIO. If companies still look at IT simply as a cost centre then they can always find someone to fill the slot, says Linda Pittenger, CEO of People3 (people cubed), a Gartner Group IT human resources consultancy based in Somerset, N.J. But it's a different matter if they want to transform themselves into "e-capable" organisations. Then a different set of competencies are needed.
To start, she says, technical knowledge has to go beyond simply knowing how to maintain current IT resources. These new-style CIOs must know what emerging technologies are and how to apply them to a company's business operations, which also means knowing and understanding what the competition is doing with those technologies. They must know how to design architectures that use those technologies and how to build systems based on those designs.
These CIOs must also have a broad set of business skills, including a knowledge of business processes, the ability to do competitive analysis, and an understanding of how to prioritise their actions against the business portfolio of the company. They must have good negotiation skills, since there's no way they'll be able to do everything that's needed on their own and will have to convince the business side of the company and others to help.
Pittenger expects CIOs to display broad agility and adaptability in pushing their agendas, to display a sense of urgency in doing so and to be an energetic advocate for change, something that's not easy to do on a consistent basis in an environment where there might be resistance to change. It's these and other behavioural competencies that are often the hardest for people to develop, she says.
Experience in the company's industry is also important, particularly given the speed at which organisations will be trying to shift to e-business. McNulty chose Johnston for the CME in part because Johnston had traded on the floor of the CME and intimately knows the ins and outs of how exchanges operate.
Up to now, the CME has focused wholly on its own membership, McNulty says, but the future focus will include many clients outside of the exchange as the world moves to electronic and online trading. Given the pace at which the trading world is moving, in order for the CME to be competitive, "I feel a great sense of urgency to get things moving," he says. "If the CIO doesn't know the financial world and trading, even if all other things are equal, it would still take a lot of valuable time to bring [that person] up to speed." Given all of that, it's no wonder that people who meet these requirements are in short supply. But demand doesn't just flow one way. Those who fit this "uber-CIO" description have their own list of requirements for companies that want to employ them. If it boils down to any one thing, it's the level of commitment companies show in putting IT at the focus of their business strategy.
When Tom Lesica, former CIO at Pepsi-Cola, was considering the job of senior vice president and CIO at New York City-based clothing retailer J.Crew in November 1998, he eyed a list of things to gauge J.Crew's commitment. He looked for a clear description of what the technology agenda was at the company and whether that agenda had been formally recognised at both the board and investor level. He judged that partially by what technology had been funded on the operations side of the business and by what commitment had been laid down for IT against the capital and expenses side of the ledger. But perhaps the most important indicator was the positioning of the CIO within J.Crew's management structure. From Lesica's point of view, since the role of the CIO has shifted from taking orders from higher-level executives to a strategic partnership function, that has to be confirmed by the CIO being a full member of a company's operating committee, reporting to the CEO, and actively participating at the board level.
"If those things are there, then I know I can start getting involved in the technology itself and working out the balance of technology execution alongside working with the operations side in laying out the business strategy," Lesica says. "That's the value I want to bring to the organisation." (Lesica took the job at J.Crew but left in May to join Greenwich, Conn.-based NewRoads, formerly CyberGistics--a company that handles call centre management and online order fulfilment for other organisations--as executive vice president of business process and technology and CTO.) Having the executive power to make decisions was definitely the swing factor behind Langston's move to Salus Media. Though he has a CTO under him to handle the daily side of the company's IT operations, as COO, Langston is charged with designing the technology infrastructure and building the product that supports the company's business strategy. Being a CIO in a traditional company and having to go through either the CFO or COO above him to get decisions made was not something he wanted to deal with.
"My experience from seeing what happens in both government and commercial companies is that CIOs don't have much power unless the COO has some understanding of technology," he says.
Langston recently used his influence on decision making to convince the rest of the Salus management team to pull most technology development work in-house.
Although this was a major investment involving expanding the infrastructure and hiring new people, he convinced them the trade-offs were worth it. As a traditional CIO, having to work through other layers of management, Langston says he would not have been able to exert the same influence.
If this is as hot an issue with leading CIO candidates as they and the recruiters say it is, it's also one of the major problems for brick-and-mortar companies looking to hire this calibre of CIO. While recruiters say they are seeing unprecedented demand for CIOs from the brick-and-mortars, the savvy behind that demand often leaves something to be desired. Bridging the gap between what the companies say they want in a CIO and what the top candidates say they will accept will be a long job.
"Brick-and-mortar companies know they need a CIO, but they are not particularly sure of what it is they need," says Rich Brennen, managing director of the IT practice for recruiter SpencerStuart in Chicago. "They need a CIO and they need to build an e-business, but they also want the CIO to report to the CFO. That doesn't cut it in the recruiting market today. The very best of the CIO candidates absolutely require that they report to the top of the business." Pettinger agrees, "but there are not that many companies that have that kind of outlook yet. [Many CEOs believe that] the current CIO isn't working, so they'll go and get some bigwig as a replacement. But it's the same problem if all they've got to offer is the traditional CIO role." As a result, recruiters are spending a lot of time educating CEOs about what a CIO can do for them, how the role has changed, and just what it will take to attract quality candidates. And if they don't get the message? At least in Lieberman's case, they will lose the chance of hiring through her since "I only undertake a search if I think the company has the ability to attract someone of quality." The situation is likely to get worse before it gets better. The available pool of highly qualified e-conomy CIO candidates "is very, very tiny," says Kazim Isfahani, a senior industry analyst with the Cambridge, Mass.-based Giga Information Group, and he expects the situation to continue for as long as the next five years or so. The good news for CIOs is that even less-experienced candidates will find organisations willing to take a chance on them in the hope that they will grow into the role. "On the other hand," he says, "you can have the title of CIO, but that doesn't mean you necessarily know anything." The recent decline of the dotcoms, which recruiters say have been a large draw for CIOs, could also loosen the supply. But it may not be enough. Once the good CIO candidates have a taste of the freedom that the smaller companies offer, he says, they won't accept the old brick-and-mortar ways of doing things. One way or another, the old economy companies will have to change or get left behind.
What is the most effective way to attract a top CIO? Let us know at firstname.lastname@example.com. Brian Robinson is a freelance writer based in Portland, Ore.
The CIO of 2000
Do you fit the mold of an All-Star CIO? See if you could answer the following ad.
Wanted: Executive with broad experience in managing enterprisewide IT, as well as extensive experience in developing and implementing strategic IT plans that will form the basis of the company's expansion into e-commerce and e-business.
The successful candidate will have broad knowledge of emerging technologies and how to apply those technologies successfully to further the company's competitive position. Further, the candidate will have proven experience in implementing a wide range of business processes and in conducting competitive analyses, and an ability to balance investments in technology against the demands of the company's various business areas.
As a member of the company's operating committee, the candidate must have excellent interpersonal and communication skills in order to persuasively detail technology investment plans to the CEO and the board, as well as to outside observers, such as investment analysts and the press. Since the CIO will need to gather support for the technology strategy from across the company's various divisions, the candidate must also have well-developed negotiation and diplomacy skills. As the executive in charge of technology strategy, the CIO is expected to be an energetic leader for change throughout the company as it moves into the world of e-business.
Dividing Lines
There's a disconnect between what top CIOs want in a job and what some companies are willing to offer What All-Star CIOs want - CIO reports to the CEO and has a place on the company's operating or executive committee.
- Top CIOs, knowing the complexities of technology decisions, want a direct say in how technology is used in a company and how it can be used to further the company's business.
- Technology is a strategic focus of the company, and funding for IT reflects that.
- If companies are serious about using technology to build their business, that will show up in the investments they commit to it.
- The company is committed to the use of the Internet as a basis for an e-business future.
- All top CIOs expect the companies they work for to understand that the Internet is important and their future is in e-business.
- Remuneration (salary plus stock) reflects the true worth of the CIO role in the company.
- While money is not the first reason most All-Star CIOs go to a company, they are well aware of their worth in a tight market.
What Old Economy Companies Offer
- The CIO will be a major player but will report to the CFO.
- Reporting to the CFO, it's tough for the CIO to have the influence necessary to get the job done. And politics and bureaucracy can get in the way.
- Technology is important to the company, but IT is considered a cost of operations rather than a strategic asset.
- If IT is still considered a cost centre, then the company probably still views it as a support function.
- The company has a website and an intranet but no plans yet to expand that to e-business.
- Companies that view the Web primarily as a marketing venue won't land top talent.
- Pay is competitive with what CIOs in similar companies are getting.
If a company is not willing to pay top executive compensation, chances are they are not committed to empowering the CIO.
Join the CIO Australia group on LinkedIn. The group is open to CIOs, IT Directors, COOs, CTOs and senior IT managers.


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Here we will show the projects the committee are undertaking to help make the site more environmentally-friendly and self-sufficient, and some of the things we are doing to include the local community and raise awareness.
As an allotment site, every plot-holder has always recycled in one way or another - from sheds and huts built from old pallets and scraps of reclaimed wood, to compost made from rotting down weeds, waste food and other organic material. Old bins made into water butts, unwanted furniture and other household items re-used to make allotment huts more comfortable. - Even old bed frames, tyres, plastic pipes, and broken bricks etc have all been used one way or another to invent ingenious ways of helping to grow or protect crops on the plots for years and years.
As a Society, we are looking at ways to improve our site facilities, using new technologies to harness renewable energy, at the same time as making our facilities more user-friendly and accessible for workshops and other events in the future.
We have already installed 2 large wood-burning stoves to provide heating in our Trading Shed and Exhibition Hall - 'Alice'. These stoves will burn scrap wood and logs, but have also been used to incinerate weeds and hedge cuttings. The burners have inspired a waste-paper recycling scheme, which we have started to trial. This involves making 'bricks' out of the paper to use as heating fuel for the stoves.
Other projects we are currently looking into include generating electricity using Solar and Wind power; site 'street lighting' using Solar energy; and installation of composting toilets. We are also very active with our local
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Chicago CBD Asset Changes Ownership After 22 Years
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Baum Realty Group has facilitated the sale of a 16,180-square-foot, value-add property in "The Loop," Chicago's central business district.
The seller, fast-food chain restaurant Wendy's, bought the mixed-use facility in 1995 and sold it for $3.6 million, according to PropertyShark data. Greg Dietz and Danny Spitz, Baum Realty managing directors, represented the owner. The buyer is Bowman Industries LLC, an out-of-state investor.
The facility at 6-8 S. Clark St., which features a mix of office and retail spaces, has had only one tenant in the last couple of years—a Wendy's restaurant. The retailer occupied the first floor of the building, while the other three floors have been up for lease.
"It is rare for a boutique property located within Chicago's 'Loop' CBD to become available for sale, particularly with a blank slate to completely rebrand a vacant building," said Dietz in prepared remarks. His colleague, Spitz, added that another advantage the building had was its proximity to four Chicago Transit Authority 'L" stations.
Since 2014, Baum has brokered more than $450 million in deals, one of its most recent acquisitions in the Chicago area being a Chase Bank building at 7180 W. Grand Ave. in Elmwood Park, Ill.
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You know when you have a great idea, you tell a bunch of people who are vaguely skeptical but some time later a weak version of that idea comes out and everyone thinks it's bloody fantastic?
Maybe you don't.
I had such an idea just over two years ago. I was noticing how people on MS messenger were changing their screen name to say what they were up to and using a community tagboard to make personal mini-announcements. I was getting into MySQL/PHP at the time and so knocked up a working prototype. I didn't have time to do major development but did a lot of thinking and observing of how it was being used.
I was also watching, waiting for someone to jump into the evolutionary niche that was staring me in the face.
There was a site called buddyping based on location with SMS and then last year something called twttr came out. It gained a few disambiguating vowels and became a big hit in the blogging community. Initially, I was irked by this but then I realised:
- It's proved my original motivation. There is a basic need to be met. However…
- It's still not as good as my app. I have extra features but I also have a fundamentally different underlying model. This comes from…
- Having sorted out my ideas with little precedent, I have a clear, independent vision of how it should work. It's very hard to be original when you have already adopted an existing model. Any twitter-clones that come along are likely to be twitter++ rather than anything really innovative.
I think Facebook could still flatten the field and I think they know it. They have the large network and a decent mobile interface. Scan their developers group and the API and you'll see they are careful not to let any third-party run away with their networks. I'll probably get more worried when they lose the 'is' (if you know what I mean).
So, anyway, this is where I declare that I'm going to stop obsessing about this stuff to friends and actually do it. I'm doing it because if I don't I'm going to have to wait for another couple of years for the twitter-clones to get round to recognising the issues that I already have elegant solutions for. And that would be even more frustrating than the last couple of years have been already.
My Cercia contract expires at the end of June by which time I'll have my corrections done and a few quid in the bank. Interested parties are encouraged to get in touch.


text: On Tue, 15 May 2012, Julian Reschke wrote: > > I'm not sure people have asked for user-selectable fonts. I *do* see a > requirement to select font *sizes*, for accessibility reasons. Once the output format is "flexible" or "changeable" or "customizable", changing fonts and sizes is a natural consequence. That's what happens with HTML and browsers today, it's generally considered a Good Thing, ditto for reflowing. The downside is that it MAY completely ruin carefully designed and "beautiful" pages that were /designed/. > > Not sure what you mean by "formatting". Justification for example, italics for example, indentation for example. > > "Re-flowable text" naturally follows from different device sizes. That seems to be the current thinking, how "natural" it is I think we could debate, designers certainly would debate it. > > Did anybody ask for "artwork that moves"? If so, I missed that. Artwork moves when the text reflows, or perhaps the artwork stays put while the text "moves" (reflows). That means you can no longer say: "...the diagram to the right shows..." > > Finally, it's not only about "small" devices but also about "large" devices. > For instance, I personally like to use the full width of my display for test > display if I choose to, but the current fixed-with format doesn't allow me to > do that. Understood. > > Thinking about good design is good. We probably haven't discussed that because > we don't have it right now, and everybody assumed it will be better in the > future (for some value of "better"). By "good design" I am referring to "readability" and "clarity." Perhaps these are over-used terms in this context, but I would not want to throw out "design intent" in favor of output device "flexibility". To put this a different way: I would much rather have a more "modern" format that looks good when printed and displays well on "large" screens rather than optimizing the output for my iPhone. I agree that it is (probably) possible to come up with a source format that will satisfy all these requirements, I am just not seeing a lot of discussion here about what exactly we want/need and why in terms of richer media etc. Ole > > Best regards, Julian > >


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Writing 201 Interview: Nathan (my youngest brother.)
Nathan is a 25-year-old University of Alberta student with a major in Human Geography and a minor in German. He works as a Bike Mechanic for Sustain SU (Student Union) at the University of Alberta. Being part of the Sustain SU is not just a job for Nathan, it is being part of a leadership team that focuses on the environment. Senior volunteers and employees have meetings and events in which they hope to make Sustain SU a better experience for other volunteers.
Nathan's major in Human Geography is helping him to train for jobs such as an Urban or City Planner. Jobs such as these may include dealing with zoning applications at a desk or planning for areas in the City of Edmonton such as Century Park, for example. A planner stands as an intermediator between different clusters of people in the city such as the civic managers (City Councillors, Mayor), individual citizens, different interest groups (volunteers, community programs etc.), and civic builders\development companies. "A planner will bridge the gap between all these groups because all four of these clusters are required in the city and need someone to organize them" comments Nathan. Planners can also be hired as individual consultants.
The subject matter of Human Geography highly appealed to Nathan because he is
interested in "how we design and interact within the city. A planner can change ideas and designs that influence the city, which City Council votes on." As a Planner, Nathan believes he will have the ability to change infrastructure decisions in a city and not just have to live with them like many other citizens do.
As for Nathan's minor in German, he would like to do an internship and study abroad or do summer school to improve is fluency. Nathan has a great interest in travel and would like to see more of Europe. He would like to go to France and Eastern Europe as well as Germany which he loved. Nathan would also like to visit many of the United States. What he enjoys about many places in Europe and the States is that "they have a great deal of biking tours and bike friendly roads/paths in which he can travel on." Nathan not only loves being a bike mechanic but likes his bike as a mode of transportation for leisure in which he can see many parts of other cities and countries.
Nathan spends most of his time at school, especially in the Bike Library where he has a computer set up that he can also do school work on. He spends a lot of time at home and visiting his girlfriend and enjoys watching movies and doing crossword puzzles. On Wednesday nights, he goes to Swing Dance lessons and he often goes to Swing Dances on the weekend. He also spends a large amount of time helping out with Sustain SU.
Nathan appreciates having a girlfriend in a relationship because he says it is "nice to have someone to be close with more than others and to talk freely with." He also likes having someone there that you can be with "without words and understand each other" completely. He thinks that people who are single should "just be patient and not go around looking for a significant other." The best way to find a relationship is just to be friends with someone first because you develop a stronger relationship with someone you know better. He cautions single people to enjoy being single and not just be focused on dating. He thinks people should "make something good" out of their free time not being an attached person.
In the future, Nathan might like to work for the City of Edmonton but he would also like to experience other cities that are more forward thinking. "People in Edmonton and even in Alberta are conservative and are often stuck in their ways and this can make some people more self-centered," Nathan believes. "It can be frustrating" he cautions. People need to look into the future and consider what the future will be like for their descendants. Seeing different cities will allow Nathan to experience different ways cities and people work and act together.
Not to mention, the environment is a big issue for Nathan. "There is so much evidence that in one-hundred-years the world will be majorly effected by environmental issues if [we] don't do something now. People don't consider what the world will be like . . . "says Nathan. "Just because you want to drive your car to work every day or throw objects out" to get the latest edition of something means people are not considering the effects their actions will have on tomorrow.
As for the next 5 years, Nathan would like to be graduated from university. Since, he enjoys doing such a variety of things and he is planning for a daily job with set hours he is not sure how that is going to work out. But for now, he expresses that he has times that are up and times that are down. Sometimes he is really busy and sometimes he is not so busy at all so he would like to just focus on the here and now and getting through each day.


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The London Inter-Bank Offered Rate (LIBOR) is considered as a daily reference rate based on the interest rates at which banks offer to lend unsecured funds to other banks in the London wholesale money market or also known as interbank market. LIBOR is generally higher than the London Interbank Bid Rate (LIBID), the rate at which banks are prepared to accept deposits. LIBOR rates are mainly used as a reference rate for various financial instruments.
The LIBOR rate is responsible for measuring the cost to the bank for fundraising from the existing market in order to re-land. This forms the basis of the entire floating rate lending in the Euro market. LIBOR, the London Interbank Offered Rate, is the most dynamic interest rate market in the world. It is calculated by rates that banks participating in the London money market offer each other for short-term deposits. LIBOR is used in determining the price of many other financial derivatives, including interest rate futures, swaps, and Euro-dollars. Due to London's importance as a global financial center, LIBOR applies not only to the Pound Sterling but also to major currencies such as the US dollar, Swiss franc, Japanese yen and Canadian dollar.
LIBOR is estimated at 11:00 am at London time on daily basis. The department of the British Bankers Association calculates it. They average the inter-bank interest rates offered by its membership. The periods of calculating the LIBOR is a short as overnight and as long as one year. The rates offered by banks vary constantly throughout the day. However, LIBOR is fixed constantly throughout the day. However, LIBOR is fixed for the 24-hour period. Generally, the difference between the instantaneous rate and LIBOR is very small, especially for short durations.
The most important financial derivatives related to LIBOR are Euro-dollar futures. The interest rate paid on Euro-dollars is largely determined by LIBOR, and Eurodollar futures provide a way of betting on or hedging against future interest rate changes.


text: Casey Rocheteau was the recipient of the inaugural Write A House permanent residency in Detroit in September, 2014. She has attended Callaloo Writer's Workshop, Cave Canem, and Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Sicily. She's released two albums on the Whitehaus Family Record. Her first collection of poetry, Knocked Up On Yes, was released on Sargent Press in 2012. Her second collection of poetry will be published on Sibling Rivalry Press in early 2016.


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Police Report Dec. 3, 4, and 6
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Dec. 3
An accident occurred at 12:19 p.m., at Hardee's parking lot, involving a pickup driven by Larry A. Bagby, of Adrian, Mo., and a car driven by Alice M. Shupe, of Nevada. No injuries were reported.
Dec. 4
A one-vehicle accident occurred at 1:46 p.m., at Main and Burton, when a pickup driven by Derek S. Woodall, of Nevada, went off the roadway and struck a tree. Woodall received evident, but not disabling injuries. Stormy B. Miller, a passenger in the vehicle also received evident, but not disabling injuries.
Dec. 6
There was a report of a petty theft from a motor vehicle, on the 600 block of west Vernon, made by Teresa Hagenson, of Nevada. She reported vehicle license' stolen.


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Does your job search strategy emulate that of your forefathers? Has it reached a dead end? Are you completely perplexed as to why you can't start your career, enhance it, or get back to work all together?
Worse, are you contributing to the latest 7.3% unemployment rate, as released by the Department of Labor today?
This is a vicious and non-productive cycle going on with professionals all over our country, and it bothers me every day. As I continue my quest to provide much-needed advice to the good, hard-working middle-class American population I was struck by a term I read: "thought followers." I wanted to better understand what it meant.
A thought follower tracks the work and progression of a thought leader – a renowned expert in his or her particular field acting as an influencer for individuals that prefer others blaze new trails for them. Thought followers abide by popular trends, waiting for their leaders to test the unchartered waters before taking the plunge themselves. Thought leaders are the risk-takers while thought followers sit back, choosing to remain comfortable in their normal routine until it becomes only natural that they make a transition.
As a creature of habit, I see almost everything through my employment lens. When introduced to the concept of though followers, I immediately made the connection that the majority of job seekers today exemplify this thought-follower mindset. In my experience, this mindset has become the greatest weakness in our unengaged workforce. The proof is in that same unimpressive unemployment rate.
We live in a world of technology, innovation and change. In order to survive, middle-class America must realize that a linear path is no longer a viable option for long-term career enhancement. Travel the new employment world by taking a series of stepping stones that each bring you closer to your ultimate career destination. That means being strategic (making sure every career move makes sense), taking risks, and becoming your own thought leader rather than relying on behaviors of the past. I never before considered the difference between thought leaders and thought followers.
Instead of blindly following the traditional career progression that has proven obsolete, ask yourselves: Am I working towards the new American dream, or away from it?
Our elected thought leaders shut down the government recently. If we continue to follow their example, we will go off the cliff with them. It's lonely being a thought leader, especially in times when your followers need your guidance more than ever. That's why we need to start depending on ourselves for survival. Middle-class Americans: I challenge you to own your career by building yourself as a first-choice candidate that fits in our new normal economy rather than calling yourself a victim of it.


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Experience Kenya and Tanzania, the great plains of Africa, as we merge the wildlife of these two nations with their tribal cultures, stunning landscapes and some rest & relaxation beside the Indian Ocean.
The seemingly endless plains of the Serengeti and the immense volcanic crater of Ngorongoro Crater offer superb game-viewing. Add to this the herds of elephant in Tarangire National Park and Amboseli National Park and you have a wildlife spectacle second to none.
We travel through the lands of the Maasai and numerous other tribes with time to learn about their various lifestyles, including hiking in the Usamabara Mountains and visiting the Irented villages en route. The coast of both nations is the land of the Swahili people and their culture extends into Zanzibar, where we have 4 days to relax on the beaches and explore.
Visit the Karen Blixen museum & Giraffe Sanctuary in Nairobi
Enjoy the National Museum, Nairobi and discover more about our ancient past
View wildlife on safari in Amboseli NP
Marvel at the view of Mount Kilimanjaro in Amboseli NP
2 day safari in the Serengeti, the ultimate African wildlife experience
Take an optional hot air balloon ride over the Serengeti
Safari to the stunning Ngorongoro crater National Park
Safari in elephant rich Tarangire National Park
Camp in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro
Explore the iconic Usambara Mountains with optional trek
Explore the beautiful and historic streets of Zanzibar's Stone Town
Chill on the white sand Indian Ocean beaches of ZanzibarSHOW MORE HIGHLIGHTS
If you want to experience the amazing East African wildlife, this is the trip for you. A relaxed trip with plenty of 2 night stays in small hotels, with some wild camping and camps with facilities. There is plenty of opportunity for upgrades from camping. A very easy lifestyle.
Border Information: If joining at Zanzibar, you will most likely enter Tanzania from Zanzibar Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (IATA code: ZNZ).
There will be an informal meet-and-greet and orientation of Stone Town with our local Zanzibar guide at 6:00pm - please meet at the reception of the joining hotel at this time if you wish to take part in this orientation. Please note that you will not usually meet your regular crew tonight, as they will be arriving in Dar es Salaam this evening and will travel to Zanzibar with members of their previous group tomorrow.
Please note that many of the options listed below will only be possible for those with extra time in Zanzibar before the start of your trip with us - please contact the Sales team if you would like to book pre-tour accommodation with us to have extra time exploring Zanzibar.
In Stone Town we will stay in a good local hotel.
Please note that the first 4 days of this trip overlap with our "YDF - Victoria Falls to Zanzibar" trip, so some of the group that come to Zanzibar will leave before we take the ferry to Dar es Salaam. This is because Zanzibar is part of both trips, so it means customers going all the way through do not follow our Zanzibar itinerary twice!
These activities are not included in the itinerary, however they are available to book and/or payable locally.
Today will be a free day to explore Stone Town, the atmospheric old town on the exotic and beautiful island of Zanzibar!
Your crew will arrive on Zanzibar this afternoon, and there will be an important meeting at 6:00pm at the joining hotel - there will then be the option going for sunset drinks at Africa House and heading out to the night markets for a local dinner.
Guided tour of Spice Plantations and local lunch
These activities are not included in the itinerary, however they are available to book and/or payable locally.
On our second day on Zanzibar we will join our local guide for a very interesting and informative tour around the sights of Stone Town and learn about the history of the island. We will then head away from town and take in a tour of a spice plantation, enjoy a local lunch with our guide, then head to Nungwi beach at the very north of the island. Nungwi is the Indian Ocean at its best - bright white sand, sparkling blue sea outstanding seafood and a fantastic chilled atmosphere.
On our third day on Zanzibar, we will have free time to enjoy Nungwi beach and relax, or to try snorkeling, diving, or other beach activities, or maybe go further afield looking for Red Colobus monkeys in the Jozani Forest.
In Nungwi we will spend both nights in a good hotel right on the shore of the ocean.
These activities are not included in the itinerary, however they are available to book and/or payable locally.
Snorkelling day trip, Zanzibar
Dhow trip, Zanzibar
Scuba diving in the incredible waters of the Indian Ocean near Zanzibar (per dive)
Walk through the Jozani Forest in search of the very rare Red Colobus monkeys
Today we will return to Stone Town and then take a ferry from Zanzibar to Dar es Salaam, before travelling on the local commuter barge from the city centre to the suburb of Kigamboni. The ferry will take about 2 hours and 30 minutes. The rest of the afternoon will be free to relax at the campsite.
In Dar es Salaam we stay at a beautiful and well-equipped beach camp on the southern side of the bay across from the city.
Ferry back from Zanzibar to Dar Es Salaam
These activities are not included in the itinerary, however they are available to book and/or payable locally.
Fishing Trips (per boat), Dar Es Salaam
Today we join our overland truck and set off early to beat the morning trafiic in Dar es Salaam. We have a full day's drive to Lushoto, where we have a nightstop camping in the grounds of a beautiful colonial hotel at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro.
In Lushoto we will camp in the grounds of a hotel.
Estimated Drive Time - 7-8 hours (please note that all drive times given here are the approximate number of hours that the truck will be in motion only, and does not include any time taken for coffee or lunch stops, border crossings, photo stops, activities en route, comfort breaks, shopping stops, toilet stops, etc. The times given are approximate estimates only and whilst given with the best of intentions, the drive times are heavily dependent on traffic, road conditions, weather, police roadblocks, and many other factors - flexibility is essential on any overland trip!).
These activities are not included in the itinerary, however they are available to book and/or payable locally.
Half day trek out to the stunning Irente view point and community visit to the Irente villages
After breakfast we head west to the town of Arusha, where we will stop for food shopping in preparation for our excursion to the Serengeti National Park. On the drive to Arusha we will go past the whole length of Mount Kilimanjaro where we'll hope for clear skies and fantastic views from the road.
We will then head to our campsite on the outskirts of Arusha. On arrival we should have time to go on an optional walk to a nearby Maasai village, or visit a reptile house and snake-bite clinic that are run by the campsite. We will also prepare and re-pack for the Serengeti excursion starting the following day.
In Arusha we will stay in a well equipped campsite.
Estimated Drive Time - 6-7 hours.
These activities are not included in the itinerary, however they are available to book and/or payable locally.
Visit to an African snake park
Take a short walk to a nearby Maasai village to learn all about the life and culture of the Maasai people
Today we will be met by our fleet of 6-person 4x4 jeeps - we will load the jeeps with our camping and personal gear, and then head out for our 4-day excursion to the Tarangire National Park, Serengeti and Ngorongoro Crater, leaving our truck behind.
We will also be leaving our large bags behind (where they will be stored in a secure location), and advise you to bring along a smaller daypack for your personal gear for this trip that will need to be packed soon after the group meeting before we set off. You should pack clothing for 4 days (including a warm jumper or fleece and long trousers), a waterproof jacket, toiletries (including sun screen and insect repellent), your camera and charger, a small towel, a head torch, a water bottle (as there are no single use plastics or bottles available during this excursion), books and personal snacks, etc.
We will have a safety talk with our safari guides and then on to a day drive within Tarangire National Park followed by a treetop walkway in the afternoon. You should have many oportunities for photographs so remember your cameras!
Once we make it into our camp site we will have our evening meal before the opportunity for a night game drive to Lake Manyara.
This morning we will make our way down into the plains of the Serengeti. We will take an evening game drive around the savanna before heading to our campsite - the area is one of the world's premier spots for wildlife viewing and we hope to able to find elephants, lions, leopards, giraffe and other big game during our time here!
Tonight we will stay at a campsite within the Serengeti National Park. The camp where we stay is very basic (with showers and flush toilets, but no other facilities) but is located right in the middle of the plains, surrounded by animals and their nocturnal noises! Your leader will outline the basic safety rules to be followed when camping in an unfenced location where wild animals are present.
The next morning we will get up very early and we set off in our jeeps for an early morning game drive in the heart of the Serengeti plains. The early morning is the best time of day for wildlife viewing, as many of the animals are at their most active while it is still cool.
There is an option this morning to take a hot air balloon flight over the Serengeti instead of the game drive - demand is high for this activity, so this must be pre-booked at the time that you booked your trip with us.
We will return to our campsite for lunch, and then aim to exit the Serengeti early afternoon. We will head back through the conservation area to our next campsite, on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, where we will arrive in the early evening.
Again, the campsite tonight is very basic and unfenced. It can often be quite cold on the crater rim so it is recommended that you take some warm clothes for this night.
Head on an unforgettable safari in 4x4s into the Serengeti, Tarangire and Ngorongoro Crater National Reserves - three of the world's most incredible areas for wildlife spotting
These activities are not included in the itinerary, however they are available to book and/or payable locally.
Hot Air Balloon ride in the Serengeti (this must be pre booked through your sales consultant)
This morning we will have another early start to descend into the world-famous Ngorongoro Crater for a morning game drive. Again, the Ngorongoro Crater is an outstanding area for wildlife spotting, often described as a 'natural wildlife enclosure'. This is the best chance on the excursion to spot black rhinos as well as a myriad of other big game.
We will spend as long as our entry tickets allow in the Ngorongoro Crater before departing, which will usually give us about 3-4 hours of game driving. We will then be dropped off at our campsite back in Arusha, where we are re-united with our truck.
We will have a well-deserved free afternoon to relax at our excellent campsite or to do some of the optional activites on offer here.
Border Information: Exit Tanzania at Namanga, enter Kenya at Namanga.
Today we will head to Amboseli National Park. Here you can experience the iconic view of the African plain with Mount Kilimanjaro standing majestically in the background. We will drive through the park in our truck keeping a keen eye out for all of the animals we will pass.
Estimated Drive Time - 4-5 hours.
Welcome to Nairobi, the final stop on our trip!
You will have time to explore Nairobi fully - possible activities include visiting the Karen Blixen Museum, the National Museum and the Langata Giraffe Centre. Your tour leader will let you know some of our reccommendations however you are more than welcome to move through the city independently for the day!
Border Information - if you are leaving the trip here, you will most likely exit Kenya from Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (IATA code: NBO).
Today is the final day for passengers finishing their trip in Nairobi.
These activities are not included in the itinerary, however they are available to book and/or payable locally.
NNP Animal orphanage & Safari walk, Nairobi
Learn all about the different tribal groups of Kenya at the Bomas of Kenya cultural centre in Nairobi
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Marathi film "Sairat," which had the biggest opening weekend, is creating history at the box office. The film has minted over Rs. 40 crore since its release, and now is on the verge of becoming one of biggest blockbusters in Marathi cinema.
The film, directed by Nagraj Manjule, started creating records with its opening weekend collection itself. The collection of over Rs. 14 crore in three days is the highest in Marathi cinema, beating the previous records of Nana Patekar's "Natsamrat." And the film continues to create records even after finishing its 10-day run. "Sairat," starring Rinku Rajguru and Akash Thosar, has grossed Rs. 40 crore until the second weekend, DNA reported.
The impressive storyline and stellar performances of the casts made the film worth a watch. Also, positive reviews, word of mouth and Bollywood celebrities promoting the film has benefitted the movie at the box office.
Earlier, Riteish Deshmukh and wife Genelia D'Souza praised the film on Twitter and now Aamir Khan took to Twitter to appreciate the film. Praising the film, Aamir said that he is heartbroken and also urged his fans to watch the film.
"Just saw Sairat. I'm heartbroken, still recovering from the shock of the end. Congratulations to Nagraj, Ajay-Atul, Rinku Rajguru, Akash Thosar, Tanaji Galgunde, Arbaaz Shaikh, the entire cast and crew & to Zee. Please watch it if you haven't already," Aamir tweeted on Monday night.
Riteish tweeted that he has not seen a better love story than "Sairat" in recent times. He also said that "Sairat" deserves to be the biggest grosser in Marathi industry.
"#Sairat : haven't seen a better love story in a long time - the genius of @Nagrajmanjule & the magic of @AjayAtulOnline - मला याड लागलं रे.. #Sairat : Lead Pair - Rinku & Akash make a stupendous debut. brilliant. Producers NitinKeni, NikhilSane & Team Zee - More power to you. #Sairat rightfully deserves to be the highest grossing Marathi film ever," he tweeted.
"Saw #Sairat yesterday..Refreshing 2see such a pure,real, coming of age love story..congratulations Team #Sairat.. Well deserved success," Genelia tweeted.
[1 lakh = 100,000 | 1 crore = 10 million | 100 crore = 1 billion]


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Norman Rush is an American novelist whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s. He is the son of Roger and Leslie (Chesse) Rush. He was the recipient of the 1991 National Book Award and the 1992 Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize for his novel Mating.Rush was born in San Francisco and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1956. After working for fifteen years as a book dealer, he changed careers to become a teacher and found he had more time to write. He submitted a short story about his teaching experiences to The New Yorker and it was published in 1978Rush and his wife worked as co-workers for the Peace Corps in Botswana from 1978 to 1983, which provided material for a collection of short stories he published as Whites in 1986, and for which he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His Botswana experience was also used in his first novel, Mating, which won a National Book Award for fiction in 1991, and in his second novel, Mortals.He lives in Rockland County, New York.
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Some of my favourite collectable cars are those I like to call noble failures, cars that were ahead of their time and no-one realised. The #1935-Chrysler-Airflow / #1935 / #1934 / #Chrysler-Airflow / #Chrysler is a good example. Call it the shock of the new, because the 1934 model with its #Art-Deco streamlining and waterfall grille was so different from the previous model that people just couldn't take it in, especially the long-wheelbase Imperial version. Luxury cars were supposed to have huge imposing radiators with prestigious-looking hood ornaments like the Rolls-Royce flying lady or the Packard cormorant. They learned their lesson. After that first year they switched back to a more traditional front end.
The car I'm writing about today is not so much a noble failure as a forgotten one. I have been after one for years, but I could never find quite the right example until recently. By the mid- '60s the pony-car craze was in full swing. Ford had the Mustang, Chevy the Camaro, Pontiac the Firebird, Chrysler the Barracuda.
Common to all was a V8. Sure, you could get a six-cylinder if you wanted, but that was a base model which was primarily a grocery- getter. Except for the Pontiac.
John DeLorean was the engineer behind the Pontiac GTO. He enjoyed thinking outside the box.
Of all the button-down engineers at GM he was probably the most European in his thinking and his lifestyle. He was the guy who put the big honking 389ci V8 into the smaller-bodied Tempests and Firebirds, but he was also enamoured with the Jaguar E-type. Why not develop an American version of the classic European straight-six?
The engine grew from the standard Chevrolet six- cylinder but had its own cast-iron block and head castings. Only the valve cover and camshaft carrier for what was America's first mass-produced overhead- camshaft engine were aluminium. It also featured a reinforced glassfibre belt to drive the camshaft, which was considered quite advanced back in the day. With a one- barrel carburettor and a mild cam this 3.8-litre engine put out I65bhp, and was mated to a three-speed manual gearbox as the base powertrain package for the Firebird.
DeLorean then added high-compression pistons, a hotter cam, dual valve springs, a split dual-exhaust manifold and the new-for-'66 Rochester Quadrajet four- barrel carburettor. This took power to 207bhp, increased to 215 for 1968. Some guys convert their engines to Weber carburettors, which look a lot sexier but don't seem to give any more performance than the Quadrajet.
So, instead of a heavy V8 pony car with its 60/40 weight distribution, would Americans go for a European- style pony car with lower horsepower but better handling? The answer: not so much. Pontiac built 108,000 Firebirds for the 1968 model year, of which just 4662 were six- cylinder Sprints. And only 1025 of these had the high-performance engine package.
The car I have finally found is a 1968 Firebird Sprint with this engine, the very desirable four-speed gearbox, the Safe-T-Track 355 rear end and the hood-mounted tachometer. This combination cost as much if not more than the V8 when new and in America, where bigger is always better and performance was measured in quarter-miles, why would you do that?
Americans didn't much cotton- on to six-cylinder engines, and still don't. When the latest Ford GT was introduced with a six-cylinder, howls of protest were all over the internet. It took the 2016 Le Mans win to overcome all the scepticism.
But as a teenager I was intrigued by this hopped-up six because it was so different from everything else coming out of Detroit. Overhead camshafts, especially back in the '60s, were things that came from Europe and were to be seen on the autobahn, the Stelvio Pass or Silverstone. Not Woodward Avenue.
Over the years I came close to finding the right Sprint. I looked at one but it was an automatic, another had the three-speed. Finally, a friend called to say he'd found the perfect one, a convertible in Caribbean blue with a blue interior, a white top and all the right options. It was a three-owner car, never restored but well maintained. For its first 25 years it had been a daily driver. It had just over 100,0 miles but ran nicely.
After driving it for a while I have decided to give it a full restoration. The great thing with cars such as Firebirds, Camaros and Mustangs is that every single part is available, many of them new old stock.
The best part will be when it's finished and I take it to a Cars and Coffee, park in the Pontiac section next to a couple of Trans Ams or 455 HO big-blocks, open the hood and hear guys go 'What is that? A six? Cool!'
That's my dream, anyway.
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The adage goes that it is sometimes more fun to drive a slow car fast than a fast car fast. You know, cars that seem to go fast while in fact going slowly.
With that in mind I had a look through my garage to see which of my cars best fit the bill. There was my 1937 Fiat Topolino. It has 13.5 horsepower and a top speed of 52mph. The speedometer reads in kilometres, so 50mph is 80km/h, but the sensation behind the wheel is more like 80 miles per hour!
Believe me, bobbing up and down at 50mph in a car with tiny wheelbarrow-sized wheels and tyres and rudimentary suspension can be frightening. Just trying to keep control as the girl in the lane next to you in her Honda Civic is texting and applying lipstick while maintaining the same speed.
The next to grab my eye was the Morgan three-wheeler. It has a 998cc two-cylinder JAP engine, sounds like a Gatling gun at full pelt, and gives a ridiculous sense of speed as it is just inches off the ground. Toyota Camrys loom like trucks as they pass you. I know, because I often end up reading their hubcaps at eye level.
One day I'm on Mulholland Drive in the Morgan, scaring myself silly, throttle wide open, and I come around a corner, rear end sliding. Just as I straighten out I see an LA policeman with his radar gun. It's aimed right at me so I figure he's got me so, as I pass him, I pull over and I wait. And wait. And nobody comes.
So I turn and pass in the other direction and I pull up next to him. Hi, how're you doing?' He says Good.' And I say 'I thought you were going to stop me.' He says Why? you were only doing 37mph. The speed limit says 45.' I think what gives the sensation is vibration, minimal suspension, and being extremely noisy. In the Morgan, all three come together, overwhelming your senses. But noise is not everything. My 1909 Baker Electric is one of the few vehicles that is taller than it is long. It looks like a phone booth on wheels. It has tiller steering and a top speed of 22mph and seems slow until you're going downhill. When you go downhill in a vehicle whose roof is taller than it is long, there is a tendency for it to become front-heavy. You find yourself thinking Hey, slow down, slow down! Take it easy! You're going 19!'
Speed limits originate from our perception of speed. When they came up with the highways here in America, people were taken for a ride in a modern car with a blanket over the speedometer and the driver would ask the passengers to say when it felt uncomfortable. And 65mph was what most people said felt fast. And that's sort of how they came up with the speed limit.
Till the day my dad died, he'd say Slow down, you're going a mile a minute!' I'd say Dad, we're in the F1 McLaren. We're doing almost three miles a minute'. A mile a minute to him was fast.
There is 110 reason for anyone to go over 18mph. Being a speed demon proves nothing!' It says that in the manual for the 1907 White steam car. You sit maybe six feet off the ground in the White, with no windshield. So 40mph seems fast enough. You get a real sensation of speed and the steam engine has so much torque. Now let's go to the ultimate in slow vehicles that scare you silly. I have a machine that is the most extreme example of frightening low speed. It is a 1906 Advance steam tractor. It weighs 13 tons, requires 250 gallons of water and. once you start the process of firing it up. It takes 90 minutes to pull away. It's been converted to run on propane because shovelling coal can get tiresome. It has steel wheels about 6 feet tall, which I've put rubber on so as not to tear up the road too badly. It's a steam tractor, used to plough fields. The guy I got it from had it at a tractor pull and he pulled 55,000lb with it. That's about 27 tons. On a sled.
The steering is by two massive chains, pulling to the left or the right. It takes two people to drive it, one to steer and one to work the throttle, clutch and brakes. Actually there are no brakes. What you do to stop is shut off the throttle, disengage the clutch, put it in reverse, let the clutch out and shudder to a halt.
Driving does not get much slower, or more exciting, than this. The sound is amazing. Hissing steam, a deafening whistle and the huge gears clanging. My buddy George and I took it out on the road last week and I said something I thought I'd never hear myself say. Slow down! We're going almost 4mph!'
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- Post is under moderationWhen Bullitt came out with Steve McQueen I wanted to know everything about the Ford Mustang. The same with #Knight-Rider – I remember tuning in just to see the car. These days most people don't notice the cars the stars are driving, but they seem to know the ones in the video games, like Gran Turismo 6, which just came out.
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The idea that concept cars make their first appearance in video games makes a lot of sense. A movie opens and it makes $50 million and is a huge success. A video game launches and makes 700, 800, 900 million dollars on the first day because people want to see those vehicles.
In the movie you tend to think of your self as James Bond or Steve-McQueen , whereas in the video game there is no human element, it's just the car. So you are the driver, as opposed to that person, and you can make it do whatever you want it to. And the video games are way more accurate than the movies. There's a whole cottage industry of picking out all the little mistakes in various car films. The only thing missing from games now is the gasoline and rubber smell. When you watch a game like Gran Turismo 6, they've gone to great trouble to recreate the sounds exactly. A friend of mine got one of the driving games and it has Mark Donohue's Camaro in it. And he couldn't last past a certain time, he just couldn't get any better. Then he read Mark Donohue's book about how he set up his Camaro and his tyre pressures and things, and he put all the stats from the book into the video game. He was lapping faster. So you actually are driving the car.
When I got to drive a Jaguar at the Nürburgring, I practised on the video game. Braking points, the Karussell, all of it was exactly as it was in real life. Not that I had it memorised, but it meant that the track was not foreign to me when I got there.
The amazing thing to me is the amount of time people dedicate to it. If you'r e going to sit down and play a game it's the same as watching a two-hour movie. You sit down and pick your team, your tyres, and your car. It's hours of information and input. You're racing against some guy in Thailand and he's racing against some guy in Finland. It's a huge commitment.
My #1966 #Oldsmobile Toronado is in Gran Turismo 6. They did a great job with the Toronado. The attention to detail is amazing because you just take for granted that when a car goes by you see a shadow. You don't realize how many hours went in to making that shadow. When they did the car, they came to my garage with a secret camera and they put the car in the middle of the floor with a big tent over it. It was some kind of 3D camera but I don't know what it does because I wasn't allowed to see it. It is not just the look but the feel they have replicated well. The heaviness of the big sedan is matched in the game just great.
I had the #Mercedes-Benz Gran Turismo concept car in my garage recently. It's stunning. The front of that car looks like an SLR from the '50s. The pure design of it I thought was really really good. I thought it was a clean design, it looked masculine, and it looked Mercedes-Benz. It looked futuristic yet it looked like it could also be a real car.
People ask why Mercedes would go to all that trouble for a video game. When you say it like that it sounds disdainful, but when you use the words they used, 'Gaming Console', it suddenly sounds more important. It is a gaming console that is played by millions of people. It's why games, not movies, are seen as the future.
If a car is in a movie it might only be in the shot for a second. There was some hype about Lexus in that movie with Tom Cruise, but he got in the car and drove away in a second or two, before you even realised what he was driving. In a video game you know your car is going to be seen by exactly the people you're trying to reach – young men, aged 12 and up. Guys who will soon be getting their licence. And what car are they going to want to drive? The car they lusted after in the video game. It's very clever marketing. In the future I think you will see people going to dealerships and taking virtual test drives in a simulator. An actual seat from the car and the dashboard in front of you and you'll 'drive' this 'car' instead of taking it out on a real test drive. You'll go on a virtual test drive to see if you like it. I think that will happen. We will see cars reach reality, having started on video games. We already have. Every major car company will do this.
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FrontLines - March 2010
By Richard Nyberg
HANOI—Vietnam and the United States are working to clean up soil and sediment contaminated with dioxin, a chemical in the defoliant Agent Orange.
Dr. Lai Minh Hien of Vietnam's Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment (center) explains dioxin contamination in Sen Lake, near Danang Airport, to, left to right, USAID Vietnam Director Frank Donovan; Nguyen Manh Hung of East Meets West; Andrew Herrup, environment, science, technology & health officer from the U.S. Embassy; and Vietnamese officials.
A recently signed memorandum of understanding outlines how the U.S. and Vietnam governments will continue to improve environmental, health, and social conditions around Danang Airport, where Agent Orange was stored during the Vietnam War.
Michael Michalak, the U.S. ambassador to Vietnam, said the agreement "marks an important milestone and a new level of commitment in working together to find new and innovative solutions to a complex problem."
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US, Vietnam Make Progress on Agent Orange Clean Up
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- AnonymousApril 7, 2010 at 7:37 PM
Sure; where do you find unpolluted soil and water to replace the tonnes of both that will be removed; Treatment of soil and water Will take decades; just look at the soil and water contaminated by DDT in the 1950's,1960's and early 1970's around the world! Then there is the question where does one put this contamination safe enough to clean it or worse yet hide it?! Now comes the question can it be cleaned? If not where does one intend to 'hide' it that will last up to two centuries or until sometime when it can be cleaned for reuse? Well once again Monsanto and Company are dodging their responsibility to humankind in cleaning this up still 60 years later as if they need a golden invite to do so.ReplyDelete
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Lemony Tahini Sauce
- A perfect healthy sauce to adorn your vegetables or potatoes. The kids will love the slight taste of lemon and sesame seed.
- 1 medium garlic clove
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- Chop the garlic clove finely and then sprinkle it with salt. Using the flat edge of your knife, press the knife into the garlic and salt, scraping it along your cutting board. You want to achieve a garlic paste. Scoop the garlic paste up and place it into a small bowl.
- Add the tahini to the garlic and whisk until combined. Whisk the mixture while you gradually add the lemon juice. The tahini will actually thicken at first, but by the time all of the lemon juice has been added it will become a nice creamy consistency. Add in the water, 1 tablespoon at a time until a nice creamy consistency has been reached. Add the cumin and more salt to taste and stir.
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An earlier version of this column inadvertently omitted the quotation by Lawrence O'Donnell.
Picture a football game where the reporters and commentators, bored by the feckless proceedings on the field, suddenly poured out of the press box and took over the game.
In politics, it seems as if the media is intent on not just keeping score but also calling plays.
Consider that a popular political movement started on one cable network (Rick Santelli's tea party moment on CNBC) and enabled by another (Fox News all but handed out lanterns and pitchforks) produced a number of victorious primary candidates, including the improbable Christine O'Donnell in the Delaware Republican primary for United States Senate. A former aide to the candidate was quoted in Politico as saying that Ms. O'Donnell had hoped that her political endeavors would yield a television contract.
In New York, Carl Paladino, the victor in the Republican gubernatorial primary, recalled another television personality, the fictional Howard Beale from "Network," at his victory party, saying, "New Yorkers are as mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!" One of the people commenting on all these events was the soon-to-be CNN host Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York, yet another reminder that the looking glass goes both ways.
Media and entertainment figures have always been part of politics as players and occasionally, candidates, but they are increasingly taking off the studio mikes and grabbing the megaphone.
With his demonstration on the National Mall in Washington on the anniversary of the famed Martin Luther King speech in August, Glenn Beck of Fox News projected real-world political might in a way that the press lord William Randolph Hearst could have only dreamed about.Continue reading the main story
On Thursday night, Jon Stewart, the host of "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central announced that he would lead a rally on the mall on Oct. 30, just three days before the midterm elections. Pivoting between cameras, between smirking and declaiming, he trumpeted "A Rally to Restore Sanity." He will be joined by a faux counter-demonstration from Stephen Colbert, who will archly lead what he called "A March to Keep Fear Alive."
It is an odd choice for Mr. Stewart, whose career and influence are built on observing politics from a coolly ironic distance. As recently as a few weeks ago, he was quoted in New York magazine, "Maybe the nice thing about being a comedian is never having a full belief in yourself to know the answer." Which is why, Mr. Stewart went on to say, comedians "don't lead a lot of marches."
Yet there he was on his show, chanting about the event he is leading, "It's happening, people. It is happening. It is happening. A real gathering." Was he aping Glenn Beck or parodying him? By this point, it's tough to tell, and creating equivalence with Mr. Beck by hosting a rally carries its own perils.
In a sense, the pair from Comedy Central are a postmodern response to a modern media universe. Kurt Andersen, the novelist and host of public radio's "Studio 360," called Mr. Stewart's rally for civility "a milestone in this arc of increasing entanglement between show business and politics."
"The current media condition is not just more power. It's nuclear power, and we don't really know where we are going with it," he said. "Jon Stewart could not be more right about what is going on, but he is turning himself into another creature for that weekend."
Mr. Stewart suggested that he was speaking for the "70 to 80 percent of you out there who care about the issues." (They might be called the Silent Majority, but probably not the historical allusion Mr. Stewart is shooting for.)
"It's hard to pull off a mock-u-march in the swamp," said Mark McKinnon, a communications consultant and political adviser, referring to federal Washington with one of its less flattering nicknames. "But you've got to give them style points for trying. If nothing else, they'll have themselves to laugh at."
On the other hand, they don't issue permits for comedy shows on the mall, and Mr. Stewart might stand in front of the adoring crowds amid the soaring monuments to American democracy on the mall and have the urge to deliver more than just punch lines, you know, Something Important.
"I guess he will just have to tell Important Jokes," said Lawrence O'Donnell, one of the writer-producers of "The West Wing" and a soon-to-be-host on MSNBC. "I think part of the message is that rallies on the mall are something of a joke."
Mr. Colbert's job on Oct. 30 seems far more straightforward. Although there is nothing simple about what he does — it takes a huge amount of processing power to both hear and react in real time as a confected persona — he can use the environment to add luster to his satire without feeling compelled to add gravitas. Mr. Stewart does not play a goof on TV, he plays a truth teller, and life outside the studio carries with it an implicit escalation of expectation.
"Stewart and Colbert are awkwardly transitioning from media figures to political figures with an understanding that there may not be that much difference anymore," said Michael Hirschorn, a writer and a producer of a number of reality shows.
A Washington event and the flurry of coverage it will engender places Mr. Stewart into the realm of the commented upon. Did he outdraw Mr. Beck? Did he keep his own liberal inclinations up a sleeve or wear them there? And will he continue to laugh off pleas to run for office with a flick of the quip?
Tucker Carlson, the founder of The Daily Caller, who has had his own go-round with Mr. Stewart, said regardless of what happens on Oct. 30, it probably won't be a comedy.
"He'll try to pass this off as an extended bit, but on some level it's real," he said. "Stewart's basically a deeply self-serious character and increasingly less funny."
But like a lot of Mr. Stewart's fans, Aaron Sorkin, the creator "West Wing" and the writer of the coming film "The Social Network," sees Mr. Stewart as opposing the Tea Party's theatrics, even as Mr. Stewart goes to some lengths to suggest that he finds left-leaning harridans equally odious.
"Somebody has to say something, and I think that both of these men know exactly what they are doing," Mr. Sorkin said. "The line between politics and entertainment has always been a wavy one, and I think it will be amazing."
As in, Mr. Sorkin might actually go?
"I will be there," he said. "If 100,000 people show up, I want to be the 100,001st. They are too smart to say something dumb."Continue reading the main story


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Fun giveaway! Those pillows would add the perfect pop of color to any room! Now if only I can convince my husband to design our room around it. :)ReplyDelete
These pillows are so gorgeous! I wish I'd be around to win one back when you did this giveaway :)ReplyDelete
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Seller Submission: 1950 Mercury Custom Truck
My first thought when I saw this thing was -- wow, that is the strangest Mercury grill I've ever seen...except that it isn't -- the seller has done extensive modifications to this thing -- just read this part: front fenders widened 3", chopped 5", 1957 Cadillac bumper and 1959 taillights, corvette grill, ford truck used for the back of the cab. 1955 Chevy bed fenders extended 11" on a custom bed with a custom tailgate that does not open. The wood bed does not lift up the frame and gas tank are located directly under it.
So, it is very customized from a cosmetic perspective, but what about the greasy parts -- here is where it gets good, the entire body is mounted in a '97 Mercury Grand Marquis chassis and it is powered by a Ford 4.6l Modular V8 that is mated to a 5-speed manual mated to a 3.27 posi 8.8" out back -- this thing is wicked.
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Wicked cool. Except for cruising with your arm out the window smoking a Camel, the application of the cool is zilch. But that is the wrong way to look at a car like this.ReplyDelete
I am so uncool that except for admiring the concept, and this iteration as eye candy, I wouldn't know what to do with it after the first few miles.
Cool truck. Soooo close to perfect in my eyes. Maybe wasp out the wheels for Detroit Steel models. There are a few unsettling lines. The back of the cab and the back of the bed have different angles. The cab roof is angled yet the bed and hood are flat. Maybe chop and drop the front of the hood to match the angle as it would be hard to remove the angle from the cab roof.ReplyDelete
It is on a Grand Marquis chassis. There is NO WAY I could have left that 4.8L in there. I have been dreaming about putting a Roush Coyote in one of those, or its twin, the Ford Crown Vic. Maybe I should buy this, swap a few suspension parts, upgrade the brakes, strap a coyote in there. Then it would be wicked...LOL Shallowest bed I have ever seen. Great build, Greg. GLWTS, and congrats to the new owner, whomever it turns out to be..ReplyDelete
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Today I am wearing my existing manicure - 3 coats of OPI's "Do You Think I'm Tex-y?" a pink/purple jelly (please see previous post). I decided go recycle this mani by adding a layer of OPI's "I Lily Love You" on top. I Lily Love You is from The Nice Stems collection and is a pink jelly base polish with lots of glitter and iridescent flakies. Super pretty and feminine!
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Malgosia Bela and Liu Wen join fellow supermodel Cara Delevingne for La Perla's spring/summer 2014 campaign
BY Stephanie Hirschmiller | 28 November 2013
Cara Delevingne is the star of La Perla's spring/summer 2014 lingerie campaign but she's not alone. The model of the moment shares the limelight with fellow supers Malgosia Bela and Liu Wen - as captured by photographers Mart Alas and Marcus Piggot - the duo behind Lady Gaga's Versace campaign - and under the artistic direction of Fabien Baron.
READ: Lady Gaga for Versace confirmed
It is often said that three's a trend but for La Perla it's also a full-on communications strategy - geared to appeal to a diverse range of women.
Malgosia is pictured in the sumptuous 'Heritage' corset, Liu in a transparent body - her modesty covered by some delicate paisley embellishment and Cara, who appears twice, wears both the 'Sparkling Jasmine' black lingerie set with a silk shrug and a stunning underwired swimsuit that is probably not suited to water but will be sure to give an interesting tan line.
READ: Cara Delevingne: I want to be covered in tattoos
Cara wears La Perla Sparkling Jasmine
READ: Cara Delevingne shows her softer side for La Perla
The brand cites the "charismatic, knowing, adult femininity of Malgosia Bela, the perfect 'zen' elegance of Liu Wen, the first Chinese model to ascend to the ranks of the most in-demand international supermodels, and the youthful and rebellious magnetism of Cara Delevingne."
Liu Wen wears La Perla Paisley Body
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Lexmark Embedded Clock/Stopwatch Freeze
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PaperCut MF provides excellent integration with Lexmark MFPs and touchscreen printers. PaperCut's embedded application provides tracking and control of off-the-glass copy/scan/fax and offers secure print release and find-me printing options. For more information see the PaperCut MF Lexmark tour.
Some customers have reported intermittent problems where the Lexmark MFP displays a clock or stop-watch logo and appears to freeze. PaperCut has worked closely with Lexmark engineers to diagnose the cause of this problem. The issue was caused by a bug in the Lexmark firmware.
Updated firmware for all affected devices was release in November 2010. If you are affected by this problem, please upgrade to the latest available device firmware available from Lexmark.
If you continue to have problems after upgrading to the latest firmware, please do the following:
- Enable the Lexmark debug logging (see here)
- Reproduce the problem.
- When the problem occurs capture a copy of the debug log as described in the above article.
- Zip up this log file and send it to the PaperCut support team.
- It is important to also include:
- Model name/number of the Lexmark device
- Device firmware version
- Description of how to reproduce the problem, or when the problem occurs.
For infomation on other known Lexmark Embedded issues see our known issues page.
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I started Free Pour Jenny's in 2016, combining my interests in mixology, foraging, gardening and alchemy.
I create small-batch, handcrafted cocktail bitters using homegrown and wild, foraged ingredients in Whitehorse, Yukon Territory (in northern Canada).
The boreal forest that surrounds Whitehorse is a perfect place for foraging for these amazing ingredients. My ingredients are hand-picked or grown in small amounts, and the bitters are then made with the fresh ingredients during the short growing season. As such, some flavours are seasonal and will be available in limited quantity.
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Today was haircut day and I told Carolyn I wanted it very short. She pointed to a picture stuck in the mirror and said, "Like that?" Precisely, I responded and took it to my favorite Russian barber, Reuben, who produced the picture on the right. It works for me.
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