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THE PRICE OF ALTRUISM: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness. Oren Harman. x + 451 pp. W. W. Norton, 2010. $27.95.
The biographies of scientists that I read as a youngster were tales of triumph over adversity. Michael Faraday was poor and unschooled, but he became the preeminent experimental physicist of his era. Marie Curie had to overcome bitter academic hostility to women, but in the end she collected two Nobel prizes. Genius was recognized and rewarded.
Oren Harman's biography of George Price tells a different kind of story. There is plenty of adversity in this life, but most of it is self-inflicted. And whenever triumph beckons, Price turns the other way.
The climactic events of the story took place in London in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Price, an American in his forties, had moved there looking for a new start. He had left behind a long trail of jobs that hadn't worked out—not because he had failed at them but because he had lost interest or saw a brighter prospect elsewhere. He had also left behind a family and a couple of girlfriends. He was alone, unemployed, living on five dollars a day, prowling the libraries. When the library of the British Museum closed for the day, he would retire to the Holburn Public Library, which stayed open late. There, Harman writes, Price "cast his net widely: anthropology, linguistics, medicine, neurophysiology, psychology, behavior—anything that might provide a clue." A clue to what? He was looking for a breakthrough—some problem he could solve and then write up for Science or Nature, thereby getting himself noticed.
Amazingly, he succeeded. He came across a 1964 paper by William D. Hamilton introducing the idea of "kin selection" in evolution—the notion that an organism can perpetuate its genes not only by passing them on directly to offspring but also by aiding relatives, who are likely to carry many of the same genes. Price reformulated the idea in a clearer mathematical form and showed how it could be applied more generally, not just to kin but also to other groupings of organisms. He wrote down an equation that he believed would solve a long-standing puzzle in evolutionary theory: If natural selection favors the genes of the most prolific individuals, how can we explain the evolution of altruistic behavior, which benefits the survival and reproduction of others?
Price took his new equation to Cedric Smith, a geneticist at the Galton Laboratory of University College London. Smith was so impressed that he marched Price down the hall to see the head of the department. "[Ninety] minutes later," Price wrote to a friend, "I walked out with a room assigned to me, with keys, plus request for curriculum vitae so that they could make it official about giving me an honorary appointment." Some weeks later, with further help from Smith, he got a grant from the Science Research Council. Then Hamilton intervened to make sure that Price's paper on selection and altruism would be published in Nature. This is the stuff of daydreams for an unaffiliated scholar. Price was on the very brink of triumph over adversity. And then he turned in another direction. Some months later his life went totally off the rails.
It was not the first abrupt shift in Price's career trajectory.
He grew up in New York in the thirties. Family financial setbacks forced him out of a private school, but he was probably better off where he wound up: Stuyvesant High School, already famous for its programs in science and math. Price led the chess team to a city championship and won a scholarship to Harvard. When the scholarship was not renewed after the first year, he enrolled at the University of Chicago, where he earned a chemistry degree and was encouraged to stay on for a doctorate. These were the war years, and he was also recruited for the Manhattan Project, working on the detection of radionuclides in biological samples.
After the war, Price returned to Harvard as an instructor in chemistry, while also consulting for Argonne National Laboratory. In that "atomic age," nuclear chemistry was a thriving field, and his prospects must have looked bright. However, he soon lost enthusiasm for the subject. In 1948 he had discovered Claude Shannon's work on information theory, published in the Bell System Technical Journal, and decided this was where his future lay. So he resigned both the Harvard and Argonne positions and took a job at Bell Labs. There too he made a promising start, getting an assignment from John Bardeen and William Shockley to measure temperature effects in the transistor, the most glamorous of Bell Labs' recent inventions.
He never made the measurements. Instead he accepted an offer to go back to chemistry, this time in Minnesota, working on fluorescence staining of cancer cells. According to Harman, Price solved several problems with important applications to medical diagnosis, but again his interests drifted. In addition, his personal life was unraveling. He had married while at Harvard and had two daughters, but now the family fell apart.
Next, Price decided that he wasn't a chemist but a writer. An article debunking ESP made a big splash when it was published in Science, and soon he was also writing for Life and Fortune and Popular Science. Later he had a book contract. He was going to be an inventor too. His idea for what would now be called computer-aided design led to an offer of a research position at IBM; Price turned it down, in order to retain the patent rights for himself. He never pursued the matter further. He never finished the book, either.
He did eventually go to work for IBM, but it seems he wasn't much engaged in the job.
On one of the rare occasions that he had come into the office, someone mentioned that there would soon be a public announcement of the new System/360 computer. "What's the 360?" George asked.
He was working for Frederick Brooks, the head of the System/360 project.
There were several more episodes in this game of serial self-invention, which Harman describes as "a manic scavenger hunt." Price had brief flings with Cold War politics, the psychology of B. F. Skinner, business cycles in the world economy, neural networks, the function of the hymen, a theory of color vision. As I was reading the early chapters of The Price of Altruism, trying to keep track as Price lurched from one brief passion to the next, I had the thought, "It's like Forrest Gump." A few pages later I found that Harman had already made that connection:
Like a real-life Forrest Gump, he was present at every important juncture: the making of the bomb, the development of the transistor, the growth of modern medicine. Never at the center, he arrived to solve problems, winning admiration before disappearing like a ghost.
The last wrong turn in Price's career, after his discovery of the altruism equation, was the saddest: He had a sudden religious conversion. "God was sending him messages, everywhere and always," Harman writes. The messages told him to devote the rest of his life to helping the poor and dispossessed—a task for which God had not provided him the necessary resources.
Price did not immediately abandon all work in the sciences. He wrote a joint paper with John Maynard Smith, a distinguished evolutionary theorist (and a rival of Hamilton), applying ideas from game theory to biological evolution. He also wrote an important article giving a new interpretation of a 40-year-old theorem of Ronald A. Fisher, clarifying the mathematics of natural selection.
Increasingly, however, his energies went to the homeless and downtrodden of London, with the result that he soon became homeless and downtrodden himself. Finally, when he had nothing left to give, he began to hear a different message from God, urging him to start another new life—and also a new family—but by then Price had apparently lost faith in his ability to reinvent himself yet again. In January 1975 he stabbed himself in the neck with a pair of scissors and died, age 52. His funeral was attended by Hamilton and Maynard Smith and a few of the homeless men he had helped support in his last years. The officiant at the service remarked that "George took his Christianity too seriously." I suppose the punning title of Harman's book is intended to make the same point.
Harman, who is a historian of science at Bar Ilan University in Israel, takes pains to put the life of George Price in the larger context of the long controversy over altruism in biology and in human affairs. He begins in the 19th century with Peter Kropotkin and Thomas Henry Huxley, then goes on to give thumbnail portraits of J. B. S. Haldane, Sewall Wright, John von Neumann, Fisher and others. Thus all these figures become a supporting cast in the biography of Price; again, it's a little like Forrest Gump.
This intellectual background is welcome (and it's very well presented), but it also raises some awkward questions of interpretation. For one thing, framing the story in this way implies that Price's late work on evolution was the main event in his life, while all the earlier episodes were mere preparation or rehearsal. It's rather like one of those progressivist accounts of evolution that sees fishes and birds and apes as mere steps along the path to Homo sapiens.
Second, there's the problem of assessing the importance of Price's contributions. Did his work change our understanding of evolution? Would biology look different today if Price had stumbled onto another topic during his scavenger hunt for a breakthrough problem? Harman offers too little help in answering these questions. A factor to be taken into account is that two other biologists independently discovered equations that are essentially the same as Price's, and published them a year or two before Price did—a fact that Harman mentions only in an appendix.
Furthermore, if one is to evaluate Price's work on selection, it's first necessary to understand it. The equation at the root of all this fuss is not too scary-looking. In one form it reads:
Here w denotes an organism's overall fitness, or in other words its likelihood to survive and reproduce. The variable z represents a trait that might affect fitness, and Δz is the change in the trait's value. An overbar decorating a variable means we are interested in the expected value of the variable when averaged over many trials. Finally, the expression Cov(w,z) is the covariance of w and z. What's the covariance? Well, the name says it all: It's a measure of the tendency of two quantities to vary together. If w usually rises when z rises, then the covariance is positive; if they tend to move in opposite directions, the covariance is negative; if the two variables are independent, their covariance is zero. Thus Price's equation defines a relationship between the expected change in a trait, the average fitness, and the covariance of fitness and the trait.
Harman makes a few attempts to explain the equation and its biological meaning, but in my judgment the explanations are too brief and too vague to be of much help to those who don't already understand the mathematics. All through the book I kept waiting for a careful introduction to covariance. The best attempt came at the very end, in the first two paragraphs of the last of three brief appendices. I later realized that Harman had borrowed those paragraphs from a 1995 paper by Steven A. Frank.
I do wish that Price's mathematics were given a clearer presentation in these pages, but the omission is forgivable. After all, the compelling interest in this book is not the importance of the science but the pathos of the life.
The Price of Altruism is sure to be compared with A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar's biography of John Nash, a mathematician and economist who has done brilliant work but has also struggled for decades with mental illness. There are similarities between the two figures—and perhaps even more interesting differences. When Nash announced that he was the emperor of Antarctica, it was clear to all that he was delusional. When Price announced that God was speaking to him from church spires, he was merely taking his religion too seriously. Delusions shared by a large enough population become socially acceptable.
"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work," wrote William Butler Yeats—as if the world were offering a fair bargain—indeed, as if we could count on having either happiness or accomplishment, though not both. Most of us come nowhere near perfection in either realm, which is what makes a human story like Price's oddly inspiring as well as intensely sad.
Brian Hayes is Senior Writer for American Scientist. He is the author most recently of Group Theory in the Bedroom, and Other Mathematical Diversions (Hill and Wang, 2008).
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This is how nervous investors in India have become: S&P BSE SENSEX Index closed 3.5% lower and Indian rupee fell 2.6% to INR 67.7 after Russian news agencies reported that two missiles were launched in the Mediterranean. They turned out to be just Israeli missile tests and there were NO military strikes against Syria. But now we know what to expect when there is one.
Turkey was also spooked. Turkish lira lost 1.9%. Borsa Istanbul National 100 Index lost 2.3%.
Brazil's industrial output fell more than expected in July, signaling a weak second-half. Barclays analyst Guilherme Loureiro decomposes for us:
From a sector perspective, the largest downward contribution came from consumer goods, which slumped by -2.6% m/m sa, but all major industrial sectors lost momentum from June.
The July [industrial production] report confirmed that activity in Q3 2013 is losing momentum, and with weaker sentiment, a moderating labor market, and soft credit conditions, we continue to expect growth to face headwinds as we move into 2H 2013.
Meanwhile, a weaker real has not translated into more exports, either. Michael Shaoul of Marketfield Asset Management explains:
Brazil posted a positive trade balance of $1.226 bln in August, somewhat below the $1.5 bln which had been expected. This compares to an average August trade balance of $3.276 bln between 2003-2012, which gives a sense of the recent deterioration in Brazil's trade position. Over the last 12 months the average balance has been $0.207 bln, the smallest surplus since November 2001, suggesting that the sharp reduction in the BRL has yet to translate into stronger exports (we are not surprised as it can take several months of a lower currency to stimulate external demand for goods).
But the government remains overly optimistic on its 2014 surplus budget. Barclays again:
The Brazilian government unveiled last week the details of the 2014 Budget Bill Proposal. The project reduced the public sector primary surplus target to 2.1% of GDP, from 2.3% in 2013, by adjusting down the Central Government target to 1.1% GDP (from 1.3% this year), while keeping unchanged the target of local governments vis-à-vis this year at 1.0% GDP.
In all, we remain skeptical that the government will deliver the 2.1% GDP primary surplus next year. An overly optimistic assumption on local government surpluses (especially in an election year) and inflated tax-revenues are two large sources of risk to its forecasts. Hence we maintain our 2014 1.1% GDP public sector primary surplus forecast.


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by Mike DeBonis and Ed O'Keefe
Wednesday, October 9, 1:39 PM
An unusual confrontation took place on the U.S. Capitol steps Wednesday when District Mayor Vincent C. Gray crashed a news conference held by Senate Democrats and asked Majority Leader Harry Reid to exempt the city from the ongoing shutdown.
"Sir, we are not a department of the government," Gray told Reid moments after the mayor concluded his own press event about 50 yards from where Reid held one. "We're simply trying to be able to spend our own money."
"I'm on your side, don't screw it up, okay? Don't screw it up," Reid (Nev.) told his fellow Democrat.
At their own news conference on the Capitol grounds Wednesday, Gray and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D) highlighted the partisan contradictions while detailing the drastic effect of the cash crunch on the District government — including schools, health care, services for the disabled and senior programs.
"Democrats, at this critical moment, have abandoned their long-held principles," Norton said, calling it "shameful ... to hold the city's local funds hostage to make a federal point."
In a particular jab at Democrats, the event featured remarks from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, who called on Reid and his allies to pass a D.C. funding bill — and at one point alluded to a favored bit of tea party rhetoric.
"I cannot help but notice your license plates say 'No Taxation Without Representation,'" Issa said. "Perhaps they should say, 'Federal government, don't tread on me,' instead."
Gray thanked Issa for his support and told a supportive crowd of hundreds to push Democrats to "act now" on a D.C. funding bill. As soon as the event wrapped up, Gray walked over to the separate event being held by Senate Democrats on the east steps of the U.S. Capitol.
Local television reporters began shouting at Reid: "What does 'don't screw it up' mean?"
Reid ignored the questions and walked away surrounded by aides and security guards, at one point telling reporters that "of course" he supports giving the District the budgetary flexibility needed to continue operating during the partial shutdown.
Norton left a few minutes later after being approached by Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), who was heard telling her "we've got your back."
After Reid left the steps, Gray got into a heated exchange with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who attempted to explain the Hill Democrats' position to the mayor. "We've got to open up this government for all the good people, in D.C., Maryland, Virginia," she said.
Gray replied to Boxer: "We're just asking to spend our own money — our own money, not the federal money."
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as soon as the polls turn even
"I'm on your side, don't screw it up, okay? Don't screw it up," Reid (Nev.) told his fellow Democrat.
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There's a lot to be excited for in 2013, and the Shacknews staff each have five games on their radar. The editorial team at Shacknews outlines their most anticipated games of 2013 individually. Next up, we've got cuss word expert Alice O'Connor's list of next year's titles.
Dota 2
I was keenly anticipating Dota 2 this time last year, and I still am. Yes, though you and I may have played hundreds of hours of Dota in the semi-public beta, it's not finished and out yet so on the list it goes. Valve still has 15 heroes to bring over from the original Warcraft III mod DotA Allstars, not to mention a tutorial to finish, general polish to apply, and other jazz. At the pace it's improving and expanding, a 2013 release looks likely.
As Dota 2 is already the best video game, having it complete and open to everyone will be jolly exciting. The pro scene, which is pretty great fun to follow, can only benefit too.
Oh, what is Dota 2? It's a multiplayer, team-based, objective-oriented, competitive, tactical action-RPG with 129 items, 94 characters, and 1 map, with each round lasting roughly 30 minutes to an hour. It's beautifully intricate, hugely rewarding, and so punishingly uninviting that I hesitate to recommend it to anyone. It is the best video game, though.
I'm not boasting, right, but I am pretty great at shoving. I really am not boasting, honest, but I've been remembered and recognised months later by strangers for how well I shove people, a reputation mostly earned for playing the amazing first-person shover Johann Sebastian Joust.
Joust is one of my absolute favourite games but has been one of those fabled 'indie event games' like Nidhogg, which most people only ever get to play a few times each year. It's finally getting a proper release next year in the Kickstarted collection Sportsfriends, which also includes crackers BaraBariBall, Super Pole Riders and Hokra. These are all wonderful. This is exciting.
Gone Home
I am a monster, yet I cried when I first played an early version of Gone Home. Not tears of joy cheated out of me with sappy soaring orchestral strings and a melodramatic death, as video games so often attempt, no–tears of joy cried at a beautiful point in its story. That's uncommon.
Environmental storytelling is one of video game narratives' greatest tools, and Gone Home runs wild with it. The gang at Fullbright Company, who worked together at 2K on BioShock 2′s fine DLC Minerva's Den, have crafted a sprawling family home where each room has purpose, and each item is placed in a practical and meaningful way. As we rummage in drawers, read diaries, scan VHS collections, and observe the careful placement of everyday objects, we come to know the family and uncover their mysteries.
The story is beautifully written, told and acted, and offers a slice of life far more terrifying than any alien invasion or undersea uprising: teenagehood. Tears rating: 7/10.
Booze is all that can really revive flagging interest at the end of any day-long conference, so They say, but Proteus is more special than any amount of gin. Last year, Proteus creator Ed Key closed out an indie games conference in London that, lovely as it was, took place in a flipping freezing hall and its attendees had all woken up far too early. Rather than talk about his struggles and successes in developing the first-person explore 'em up, lead a rallying call for indie games, or rag on Big Video Games, he simply ran Proteus projected onto a screen and left a controller at the front.
People wandered aimlessly across bright landscapes, pausing to tease singing flowers, watch stars bubble, and chase frogs, and we all watched, rapt. Proteus is a lucid dream where we it never occurs to us to fly into space or hold hands with Tilda Swinton, because a stroll in the countryside is just so beautiful. My friend and I rested our heads together as the craving for mother's ruin drained out of us. Special stuff, that game.
Dragon Age 3
As the only game on this list I haven't already played of enough to know I adore, Dragon Age 3 is a bit of a shot in the dark. Basically, I would quite like to make a lady person, dress her up in pretty clothes then kill hundreds of men, monsters, or animals, and Dragon Age 3 seems like my best shot at this in 2013.
I'm not very good at being excited about games in advance based on the tiny details publishers decide to release, see. I'm jolly excited about all these games I've played because, you know, I know they're jolly exciting, but no marketing campaign has yet captured my imagination for 2013.
Sure, Dragon Age is a pleasant series and I honestly enjoyed 2 more than the original so it'll be nice to see how this all pans out. Chiefly, though, ladykills.


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Is anyone aware that Alias star and new super hero hottie Jennifer Garner is married to a goofball? Her husban is new NBC sitcom star Scott Foley.
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If the prolactin-producing cells in your pituitary gland begin to mutate and grow out of control, they can form tumors called prolactinomas. Prolactinomas, also known as lactotroph adenomas, are usually not cancerous. They happen most often in women younger than 50. One symptom of a prolactinoma tumor is breast milk even if you're not pregnant. In men, prolactinomas may cause impotence or lower sex drive.
If you are diagnosed with a prolactinoma, your doctor may give you a medication called a dopamine agonist, such as bromocriptine or cabergoline. Cabergoline seems to be the more effective drug, and it has been shown to cut prolactin levels in roughly 90 percent of people with prolactinomas. Cabergoline also reduces the size of prolactinoma tumors.
You may have this test if your doctor suspects that you have a prolactinoma tumor. Symptoms of this type of tumor include:
Flow of breast milk in a woman who's not pregnant or nursing
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Lower sex drive
Impotence in men
Vision changes
Your doctor may also order an MRI scan of your brain to check for a prolactinoma.
Many things may affect your lab test results. These include the method each lab uses to do the test. Even if your test results are different from the normal value, you may not have a problem. To learn what the results mean for you, talk with your health care provider.
Results are given in micrograms per liter (µg/L). A normal blood level of prolactin is less than 20 µg/L. If your test result shows an abnormally high prolactin level, you may need imaging tests to find out whether you have a prolactinoma tumor.
The test requires a blood sample, which is drawn through a needle from a vein in your arm.
Taking a blood sample with a needle carries risks that include bleeding, infection, bruising, or feeling dizzy. When the needle pricks your arm, you may feel a slight stinging sensation or pain. Afterward, the site may be slightly sore.
Certain psychiatric medications, oral estrogen drugs, and hypothyroid medications may cause prolactin levels to be higher than normal. If you have kidney or liver disease, you may also have high prolactin levels.
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Chapter 10: Life on Earth
The only known life in the universe. So far.
It's possible, maybe even likely, that there is life elsewhere in the universe, but if there is life we haven't found it yet. What makes Earth unique in the solar system is not only that it has life but that it has such an incredible diversity of life forms. The origin of life, the evolution of a variety of life forms, and the evolution of life that can read this sentence is certainly unique in the universe.
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Biological Communities
- 10.2.
Roles in an Ecosystem
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Flow of Energy in Ecosystems
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Flow of Matter in Ecosystems
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Nitrogen Cycle in Ecosystems
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Fresh Water Ecosystems
- 10.7.
Types of Marine Organisms
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Ocean Ecosystems
- 10.9.
Adaptation and Evolution of Populations
- 10.10.
Population Size
- 10.11.
Extinction and Radiation of Life
- 10.12.
Characteristics and Origins of Life
- 10.13.
Metabolism and Replication
- 10.14.
Evolution of Simple Cells
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Evolution of Eukaryotes to Multicellular Life
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History of Paleozoic Life
- 10.17.
History of Mesozoic Life
- 10.18.
History of Cenozoic Life
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Human Evolution
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Modern Biodiversity
Chapter Summary
Although different ecosystems differ greatly from one another, the structure of an ecosystem is the same. There must be a source of food energy, usually from photosynthesis, and then herbivores, predators, scavengers, and decomposers, among others. Energy flows through the ecosystems in tropic levels and connections between organisms are made in a web, known as the food web. There are many types of ecosystems in fresh water, the oceans, and on land. Organisms must be well adapted to their habitats or they may go extinct. Extinction of a species opens up a niche, which a different species will likely evolve to fill. This has occurred throughout Earth's history as mass extinctions have opened habitats and adaptive radiation has acted on a different set of organisms to fill those habitats. The earliest life was simple cells, possible with RNA as the nucleic acid. Photosynthesis evolved and provided a food source for the food web, plus oxygen to the atmosphere. Multicellular life didn't evolve for 4 billion years. During most of the Paleozoic, life was restricted to the seas. Reptiles ruled in the Mesozoic and even in the Cenozoic life was fairly different from what we see today. The biological processes that govern the evolution of species has resulted in tremendous biodiversity we see today. This includes the evolution of humans, which is better understood as more fossils are discovered.


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Reality Check: Reviewing Obama's 2012 address a year later
President to deliver State of the Union address
MADISON, Wis. - President Barack Obama will give his State of the Union address Tuesday with a planned focus on the economy.
Last year's speech promised "an America built to last." The president rolled out an election-year agenda with hopes of making big changes, starting with the tax code.
"Right now, companies get breaks for moving jobs and profits overseas. Meanwhile, companies that choose to stay in America get hit with one of the highest tax rates in the world," Obama said last year. "It makes no sense and everyone knows it, so let's change it."
There's been no effort in Congress to alter this part of the tax code, and this wasn't the first time Obama proposed it. On personal income taxes, there were some changes.
"Right now, our most immediate priority is stopping a tax hike on 160 million working Americans while the recovery is still fragile," Obama said. "People cannot afford losing $40 out of each paycheck this year."
Congress passed an extension of the payroll tax cut quickly in 2012, less than a month after the president's address. But people may have noticed that their paychecks are smaller this year because the extension wasn't included in the fiscal cliff deal.
Obama also made the case for taxes to go up on millionaires and for tax cuts to hold steady for those making less than $250,000. The fiscal cliff deal kept taxes down for the lower tax bracket and increased them for those making more than $450,000.18524134
Obama promised a plan to help the unemployed and pointed out the story of a single mom from North Carolina who was part of a job-placement program.
"Join me in a national commitment to train two million Americans with skills that will lead directly to a job," Obama said in 2012.
Obama's effort to create a national job-training program has largely fallen flat. He proposed an $8 billion Community College to Career Fund, but that program so far has not been implemented.
"At a time when Americans owe more in tuition debt than credit card debt, this Congress needs to stop the interest rates on student loans from doubling in July," Obama said.
This was extended for a year, just days before the deadline, and Congress also extended the tuition tax credit that the president called for in his speech for another five years.
"We should be working on comprehensive immigration reform right now," Obama said in 2012. "But if election-year politics keeps Congress from acting on a comprehensive plan, let's at least agree to stop expelling responsible young people who want to staff our labs, start new businesses and defend this country. Send me a law that gives them a chance to earn their citizenship, and I will sign it right away."
The election year kept immigration largely off the table last year, but already there has been major movement this year with deals from both Congress and the president on the table.
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Mobile repair unit just what I need
The broken console latch on my Ford Flex aggravates me every time I open the front-seat storage bin. We took the Flex to the nearest Ford dealership. Pictures were taken, and the warranty repair for the broken latch and a couple of other small interior trim items have been approved.
But the latch is still broken. The last several weeks have been filled with work travel, visitors and other commitments that have taken precedence to spending a half-day at the dealership. I've been wishing the dealership offered a service to pick the car up and deliver it when it was done.
Customers at Sonic Automotive Inc. dealerships soon won't have that dilemma.
Sonic, the nation's third-largest dealership group, is spending millions of dollars to put iPads and iPhones in the hands of most dealership employees.
In the service department, those iPads will enable Sonic dealerships to set up a mobile repair unit. They can travel to a customer's home or office and take care of quick repairs like the broken trim in my Flex, says David Padgett, Sonic's vice president of fixed operations.
There's not a Ford-brand Sonic store near me. We'll get this repair done the old-fashioned way. But in the future, I'll be looking for a dealership that can offer such a time-saving service for minor fixes.
More dealerships are likely to add concierge-type repair services, says Mark Brandon, founder of Dealer Logix, the company working with Sonic to build the iPad service app. A few clients beyond Sonic are ready to jump in with mobile repair units because they are expected to help drive better customer retention, Brandon said.
Consumers do seem to be drawn to tablet technology. More than 57 percent think retailers that use tablets and other mobile devices are more innovative, according to a survey conducted in February for mobile commerce vendor AisleBuyer.
For me, the appeal goes beyond the cool factor. A dealership that can save me from fighting cross-town traffic and waiting around its service department will probably keep my business.


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The Iranian nuclear threat will challenge Obama and Netanyahu's sometimes rocky relationship like never before, writes Foreign Policy's David Makovsky.
Next month, U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will hold a key meeting over the Iranian nuclear challenge that will test their sometimes rocky relationship. After a weekend visit by National Security Advisor Tom Donilon to Israel, the White House announced this week that Obama will host Netanyahu in Washington on March 5. This will be an opportunity for the two leaders to synchronize their positions on Iran. Whether they can reach some common ground -- now or in the near future -- could be a decisive factor in Israel's decision-making on whether to strike Iran sometime this year.
International pressure on the Islamic Republic has never been higher. In addition to the new, crippling U.S. sanctions enacted on Dec. 31 and Feb. 6, the European Union recently pledged to halt the importation of Iranian oil by July 1. Iran's economy is reeling.


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Before we chat with today's author, I want to announce that the winner of the signed copy of Margaret Daley's novel, His Holiday Family, is:
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Congratulations! I'll contact you today for your snail mail address, and we'll get your book to you right away. I encourage readers to keep commenting and/or subscribe at right (above my list of books) in order to participate in future book give-aways!
Now let's chat with novelist Jill Elizabeth Nelson, author of Mistletoe Mayhem, featured in the Season of Danger anthology (Love Inspired Suspense, December 2011).
Jill Elizabeth Nelson is an award-winning author of mystery and suspense. She writes what she likes to read—tales of adventure seasoned with romance, humor, and faith. Jill speaks regularly at conferences, writer's groups, library associations, and civic and church groups. When teaching classes for writers, she delights in bringing the "Ahah! moment" to her students, so they can make a new skill their own.
Jill and her husband live in rural Minnesota where they raised four children and are currently enjoying their grandchildren.
Please tell us a few random things we might not know about you.
--My seven month old grandson weighs as much as my nearly three year old granddaughter.
--Since my family runs toward petite babies, don't ask me how we got the whopping grandson. He sure is a smiley little butterball! That's several random things so far.
--Oh, and I live in the Lutefisk Capital of the World, and I eat lutefisk, but I'm not Norwegian. That's three random things in one sentence!
Please tell us a bit more about the plot of Mistletoe Mayhem.
After being jilted by her fiancé, Kelly Granger buries her broken heart in her work as a veterinarian in her home town of Abbottsville, Tennessee, located in the Great Smoky Mountains. She and her assistant, Tim Hallock, battle to save community pets from a violent and mysterious illness. Is this sickness a danger to humans?
Her question is answered when state health inspector Matt Bennett is sent to investigate local eating establishments, including Kelly's sister's restaurant, for the cause of poisoning among the patrons. Kelly refuses to believe that her sister served toxic mistletoe extract to her customers—yet mounting evidence points in that direction.
Kelly puts herself in harm's way, facing down a vicious dog and even more vicious people, to uncover a common denominator between the human and animal illnesses. Matt has his hands full keeping up with her, as well as proving himself worthy of her trust—and hopefully, her love. Unless she has her heart set on her veterinary assistant, Tim Hallock.
The question won't matter if his investigation sends Kelly's sister to jail. She'll never have anything to do with him then. They need to uncover the truth. But will the answer cost them more than their romance? Will it cost them their lives?
What is it about your lead characters that will make your readers care about them?
Both my hero and my heroine love animals. That's a big thumbs up with readers right there. Mistletoe Mayhem is about letting go of bitterness and learning to trust again. Kelly, the heroine, must do that in order to finally recognize and open her heart to the man the Lord has sent her. Matt, the hero, must let go of unworthy jealousy and make peace with the possibility that she might choose another man before he can see the best way to win her heart.
If you were the casting director for the film version of your novel, who would play your lead roles?
I think Meg Ryan would make a wonderful Kelly, though she might be a little older than the character in my book.
I used an older picture of Meg Ryan, so we have the younger version for you.
Matt Damon with his hair colored dark would make a terrific Matt. Hmmm. Their names are the same. Must be a sign!
I did that once with my characters. Named them before choosing photos to use as guides, and then I ended up choosing actors with the same first names. Weird.
Many authors—including multi-published authors—have started taking their out-of-print books and even original books straight to e-books, which they've essentially self-published. What are your thoughts about the idea? Have you done it, or are you likely to?
Yes, I'm strongly considering the possibility. I'm researching modes and methods right now and haven't decided how to go about it yet. First, I plan to e-publish a handbook for writers on the technique of writing in Deep Point of View. I hope to offer this as a download on my web site early in the New Year.
What is the last book you read that you would recommend?
I recently enjoyed James Rubart's intriguing and unusual Rooms. Big thumbs up on his books for people who like a Godly supernatural twist to their stories. Another recent read that I relished (alliteration intended) was Race Against Time. I thoroughly enjoyed the Alaska setting, since I have a sister living there, and the writing team of Kimberley Woodhouse and her teenage daughter Kayla does an awesome job of telling a stirring and exciting story. I can hardly wait for the next book in the series.
What are you working on now?
I recently turned in a the manuscript for another LI Romantic Suspense entitled Betrayal on the Border, where we join a former Army Ranger (the heroine) and a television news reporter (the hero) for a wild ride pitted against drug runners. I don't have a release month for Betrayal on the Border yet. Now I've moved into Christmas preparations, and that will keep me busy, but I've got a fresh book proposal under way that I hope to submit to Steeple Hill after the first of the year.
Where else can readers find you online?
Visit Jill on the web at: www.jillelizabethnelson.com or look her up on Facebook or Twitter:
JillElizabethNelson.Author or http://twitter.com/jnelson57.
The book is available at fine book stores and for online purchase via the following buttons:
Finally, what question would you like to ask my readers?
I'm researching e-readers for personal use. Those of you who use an e-reader, which one did you choose and why? Those of you who do not use an e-reader, is it something you might consider in the future, or do you love holding a print book in your hands too much to move into the electronic reading world?
Thank you, Jill, for visiting with us and telling us about your novel. Readers, Jill has offered to give a signed copy of her book to the winner of our drawing on Thursday, December 15. To enter, leave a comment below in answer to Jill's question, above. "Please enter me" won't get you entered. Leave your email address, in case you win, like so: trish[at]trishperry[dot]com.
Be sure to check out my post about the raffle for Sandi Rog and my interview with Roseanna White, below. Leave an appropriate comment at the bottom of Roseanna's post to enter the drawing for signed copy of her book.
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Patricia A. Kerl
MAZOMANIE-Patricia A. Kerl, age 76, of Mazomanie, passed away peacefully on Sept. 5, 2013, with her family by her side, after a brief illness.
Pat was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and friend. She always had an open door policy at home and work which also included her heart. Pat worked for General Casualty Insurance Company for many years until she retired. She had a love of the outdoors, enjoyed her bowling, and card games with the girls, and let us not forget Ho-Chunk. Pat created many friends throughout her life and many she would say were more like family. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her.
She is survived by her husband of 59 years, Donald Kerl of Mazomanie; daughters, Debbie Kerl (Don Swenson) of Black Earth and Sandra Malm of Arena; grandchildren, Fawn (Dan) Sands of Madison, Daniel Malm of Mazomanie, and Cheyenne Kerl-Ambler of Black Earth; sister, Mona (Bob) Hafner of Arizona; and many other relatives. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ernist Parks, Doris McGinnis, and step-father, Clyde McGinnis; brother, John Parks; sister-in-law, Linda Parks; granddaughter, Jessica Kerl; father and mother-in-law, Felix and Viola Kerl; and brother-in-law, Calvin Kerl.
The family will be following Pat's wishes of cremation and will be holding a celebration of her life at a later date. Pat's brother, John Parks, will also be remembered. The family would like to thank St. Mary's Hospital of Madison (CVCIU) and Saint Mary's Hospital of Minnesota (CCU) for all of their help in trying to keep her with us. Online condolences may be made at www.gundersonfh.com.
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You haven't heard me EVER make disparaging remarks about other's military service....not even those who routinely do so themselves.
Its a matter of pride. You may or may not understand, I have no idea of what your background is, and again, nor do I care.
And just to set you straight....it was BILL who brought up my service....NOT ME....in the form of an insult of me wearing my uniform as a "costume". Once again, you are spewing substantively empty, factually inaccurate accusations......you're batting .1000!
But thank you for commenting. It once again shows you have nothing meaningful to contribute to this thread.
And no, I'm not going away. How would you feed your fetish if you didn't have me to insult with baseless claims?
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God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
Since you wrote that you're just a rodeo clown seeking mostly just to rile people up I've been doing an excellent job of ignoring your blather. I started to respond to your earlier post of you repeating the lie that the US supplied WMDs to Iraq (some pesticides made by US companies were used by Hussein in his chemical weapons...a far cry "the US supplied WMDs" nonsense), but stopped myself. But after reading the rubbish below I can't help myself. You win, congrats:
I'll take the river down to still water and ride a pack of dogs.
Article [I.]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Article [II.]
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
How Did Iraq Get Its Weapons? We Sold Themby Neil Mackay and Felicity Arbuthnot
Reports by the US Senate's committee on banking, housing and urban affairs -- which oversees American exports policy -- reveal that the US, under the successive administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr, sold materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs and botulism to Iraq right up until March 1992, as well as germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia. Other bacteria sold included brucella melitensis, which damages major organs, and clostridium perfringens, which causes gas gangrene.
Is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld an evildoer? If not, then what is he doing shaking hands with Saddam Hussein?
Here is another link.
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For the record, I too think UB was out of line with the uniform comment...but take it to PM's rather than soiling (RK) another thread with a personal argument.
This crap is getting so old.
Thought the 'conservatives' on board would understand my comments, but apparently they only read what I said as a slam on a fellow soldier...which I will now make indelibly clear for all.
When you rail against the US objective in Iraq as much as DNF does, how can he then consider the rest of us to believe he is supportive of our nation? Oh sure, he was in the service...begrudgingly...and no doubt poor-mouthing it all the while he got his internship years out of the way. (N0 I wasn't in the medical Army, but I had friends there that were doing it for that reason. Seemed reasonable to me)
So if you are full of animosity for your Commander in Chief, how can that relate to making us believe you were an American in combat, supporting the American way of life? It must have been a miserable existance for DNF to wear a uni for a country, headed up by GWB as CIC, who he was holding in contempt.
Subsequently, my observation was he wasn't placing any more respect for his uniform than it being a 'costume' he was required to wear. As much disdain as he holds for the leadership and administration he served under, how could he have any pride in his uniform?
PS Nothing makes me puke more than the liberal/socialists statement of "we are against the military, but we are in favor of the troops" That is the royal epitome of GDG.
WAKE UP AMERICA. The PC crowd is now running your nation into the ground.
When the one you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.
I just think that you are making a lot of assumptions and big jumps based on things you have read and deduced on an internet forum. To make a disrespectful statement like you did, you really need more than that to back it up.
If you knew for a fact that what you described about dnf is true, then I could see where your statement would make sense and *possibly* be called for. But until you know it as cold, hard truth, you should just remember the saying about not having something nice to say...
I did not serve in the military and I have much respect for anyone who has/does serve(d) honorably. As far as we know, dnf did just that. In this circumstance, your comment should piss off anyone who has ever worn a uniform for the United States of America. After all, they have all fought for his right to disagree with our government.


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Requirements include graduation from college with a bachelor's degree in the social sciences, criminal justice or related fields; ability to write the required reports, case plans, chronological notes; ability to communicate verbally with clients, judges, school personnel, law enforcement, families; ability to read and interpret police reports, mental health evaluations, chemical evaluations; ability to maintain workload of writing reports and supervising clients; appear in court; ability to motivate clients toward self-improvement.
The ability to speak Spanish is desired but not required.
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it's not really the gigapan's fault. well sort of. the vertical bands are due to vingetteing, the sharp line is where my battery died and i had to swap out the battery... which i didn't realise had died till some time later so the light levels changed. Ghosting can't be avoided i don't think cause things move. you could edit them out but it's not practical for huge pics to edit all the ghosts out. the shade variation to left of center is due to the sun, i had a sun shade thing on the end of the lens but it can only do so much. to the right, i edited in (badly!) shading for the sky as i had to approximate the gigapan settings which i somehow lost when the battery died
i just wondering why are there so many problems on all the giagapan epic's photos?? Is there any solution? Is this gigapan's problem or yours?
photo was taken with a canon sx1 i'll geo-code it
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I don't HT, but since you asked........Time to have two entry fees. X amount for entry with volunteer time and Y amount for strictly just entry, no volunteer time. Many sports do this already.
I don't HT, but since you asked........Time to have two entry fees. X amount for entry with volunteer time and Y amount for strictly just entry, no volunteer time. Many sports do this already.
Labrador Retriever, a 20g & grouse...is there a better combination?
That sounds great.
Gentle in what you do. Firm in how you do it.
WESTWIND WHISPERING COVE (LARRY son of Murray) WDQ MH, QAA2
LPK DELAWARE RIVER WHISPERING COVE, WDQ, QAA(SAVAGE SAM son of FC Chester MH)
WESTWIND WHISPERING COVE JAY ** ( Larry's son and Murray's grandson)
When my club HOST an event I consider us just that. The attendees are our guests and shouldn't have to work. When I go to another club's test it's their turn to host. Although I've thrown birds and such at other clubs events mainly because I like to help out and sometimes it's been neccesary to finish the test when all the help leaves.
We all do what we have to do to enjoy our events but I certainly don't EXPECT someone to help us but when they do it's greatly appreciated.
I use pro's to train all my "Goldens" and "I" run the hunt tests with them, not the pro's. I love running hunt tests, the pro's we meet are always helpful, and the people and dogs at the tests are great! I do this primarily because I love to hunt birds. Working with trainers and then using hunt tests to reinforce my handling and my dogs performance is a wonderful thing. I have never taken a dog beyond 'started' or 'JR' although all of my dogs handle well on blinds in actual hunting situations (I can get them to the bird). Until this year I worked, now I am retired....my new pup, will get added pro training, more work at home and I hope to take her all the way on hunt tests...As far as helping at the hunt tests, I would prefer to pay a separate fee, but I have jumped in and helped carry birds, clean up, after events, etc.
John Cottenham aka jacduck in many circles before the internet
"Duck hunter's minds are like concrete. All mixed up and permanently set."
The more dogs the merrier,,,this insures we can pay for everything. The more dogs that enter means you can hire more help so you don't walk around all weekend mumbling under your breath.
We usually have small entries and we manage to come out in the black and we hire help. When I hear about some of these big entry clubs loosing money because they have to hire help,,, then I would take a closer look at your booze bill and party fund. Or find some one who can spend the money more wisely.
Ephesians 6:12
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Psalms 12: 8
The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exulted
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
What percentage of Pro-run hunt test dogs, have the owner there watching his or her dog run? I would think that would be a pretty low number. On a normal weekend hunt test, how many out of State owner-handlers work the test versus Club members? Again, I would think a pretty low number. That's just the way it is with any hunt test or field trial, local club members put on the hunt test so that they can run their dogs and hopefully enough out of the area owners, can enter dogs and offset cost.
It sounds like things have changed a lot since I was running hunt test, back then the only reason I ever let a Pro run my dog was because he could travel to distant hunt that I couldn't due to work. I would think that most of the dogs on a Pro's truck are in the same boat. Hard to be upset with that isn't it? Are the entries so low you can't afford to hire bird throwers? I don't know if it's comparable, but when our club runs a field trial, we hire kids to man the gun stations, have the usual volunteer gunners for the live flyer and rely on club members for marshaling, traffic and the rest. We usually do a little more than break even. I just found out our Club has lost money every hunt test and is cancelling the hunt test this year, that tells me that we need more dogs entered and that a Pro with 12-16 dogs on his truck could save the day.


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By Sam Mamudi
Shares of drugmaker AbbVie (ABBV) are up about 5% today after the company was upgraded by analysts at Morgan Stanley to Overweight from Equal-weight, and the stock's price target raised to $49 from $36.
Morgan Stanley's thesis is that AbbVie's drug pipeline and earnings potential for its Humira franchise aren't being properly value by investors:
Pipeline offers underappreciated call options; we raise 2020E from $5.0B to $7.2B. Duodopa (Parkinson's), ABT-199 (leukemia), elotuzumab (myeloma), and elagolix (endometriosis and uterine fibroids) have significant potential. Galapagos JAK: ABBV can transition its Humira franchise; investors underappreciate that Abbvie has majority ownership of potentially the best agent in the oral class of drugs that threatens Humira.
AbbVie's stock is up 30% since it was spun off from Abbott Laboratories (ABT) in mid-December. (For the record, we wrote a bullish Take on Abbott last Wednesday (sub required).)


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Geoff Collins took the reins of Mississippi State's defense in Tuesday's Gator Bowl, and he seemed quite comfortable in the role.
Collins is MSU's co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. Defensive coordinator Chris Wilson normally sends in the defensive play calls, but head coach Dan Mullen said he wanted to see how Collins would handle it.
State lost to Northwestern, 34-20, but it was the defense keeping the game close while quarterback Tyler Russell was throwing four interceptions.
"We struggled against some spread teams and tempo in the past. So I wanted to try something different," Mullen said. "Give Geoff an opportunity to call the game."
Collins said the change was partly due to the departure of cornerbacks coach Melvin Smith, who took a job at Auburn just before the Bulldogs arrived here to resume preparations.
"Melvin was in charge of substitutions most of the time, and we do a lot of substituting with the defensive line," Collins said. "He was just letting me call it and Chris handle the defensive line substitutions. For the most part it was good."
It wasn't the only adjustment MSU had to make this past week. Safeties coach Tony Hughes took over Smith's duties with the cornerbacks.
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Northwestern finished the game with 357 total yards, including 161 rushing. That's 70 yards below NU's rushing average entering the game.
Mobile quarterback Kain Colter didn't give MSU too much trouble, except for a 31-yard scramble to set up a touchdown in the third quarter. The Wildcats committed three turnovers, all interceptions.
State was trailing 13-0 in the first half when the defense tightened up, forcing an interception and three punts on Northwestern's final four possessions before halftime.
NU threw two interceptions in the third quarter but also scored two touchdowns that period.
Safety Nickoe Whitley said Collins had been calling plays in practice all week, so it wasn't much of an adjustment for the players.
"It wasn't really different," Whitley said. "We're always still going to have to look to the sideline to get the call no matter who's calling it."
Defensive end Denico Autry, who had an interception and five tackles, said the defense felt good about the way it was playing at halftime, when Northwestern led 13-10.
"We thought we were going to come back out and take over, but things didn't happen that way," Autry said.
Still, it was a solid play-calling debut for Collins. Will he continue with this role next season?
"I'm just happy to be a part of Mississippi State football program," Collins said. "I love Chris Wilson, I love Tony Hughes, I love Dan Mullen. I'm just happy to be here."
Mullen didn't rule it out.
"I'm going to evaluate that as we move forward," he said. "I'll see where we're at."


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When I visited this school I was able to attend a few classes as well. The learned environment was wonderful!! The professors were so willing to assist any students needs or wants and gave there all. This school provides many resources for students to excel in their education and everyone on campus will be there to help a student do their best!
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Do you ride like the pros in the Tour de France, or simply for fun with your friends? Do you prefer long rides or fitness and fun races? Or perhaps you prefer taking part in time trials or triathlons? FOCUS helps you decide which racing bike is the right one for your riding experience.
Our endurance racing bikes are suitable for both for long tours on country roads and for spectacular cycling marathons such as the Ötztal Cycle Marathon or the Maratona dles Dolomites. The sitting position is athletic yet comfortable. These racing bikes offer maximum smooth-riding comfort.
Our racing bikes are designed for very sporty, race-oriented riding. The sitting position is very flat and aerodynamic. In other words, you sit in a very elongated position with your shoulders bent over the handlebars. These racing bikes boast maximum stiffness with minimal weight.
Our Aero racing bikes are built for time-trial riders and triathletes. They are characterised by their special aerodynamic properties. The sitting position adopted on a time-trial or triathlon bike is absolutely flat, so you're sitting bent as far as possible over the handlebars and creating as little wind resistance as possible. These racing bikes offer superb aerodynamics.
Depending on your personal preferences and how much you'd like to spend, you still have a few more decisions to make:
- Should your racing bike's frame be made of aluminium or carbon?
- Would you like mechanical or electronic gear shifting?
- Do you prefer using rim brakes or disc brakes?
You should also get yourself measured at a FOCUS specialist dealer so you can select a racing bike frame that suits you.
Extremely lightweight racing bike: the IZALCO MAX's frame cuts an impressive figure with absolute top values. It's lightweight at only 750 grams.
A racing bike that's especially strong on sprints: the IZALCO MAX and CAYO are always in the mix when it really matters. These racing bikes lose no power thanks to their extreme stiffness. Power from your calves is converted directly into propulsion.
Particularly fast racing bike: tested by the best. The IZALCO CHRONO – the original time-trial bike – makes you even faster. This naturally holds true for the cycling section of your triathlon too. A triathlon bike – the absolute pinnacle in the fight against the wind.
A racing bike for heading off on special adventures: the PARALANE's maximum tyre clearance of up to 35 mm gives you the freedom to fit tyres with various widths and tread depths. So you can ride on any type of surface – from asphalt to gravel tracks. All PARALANE racing bikes come with quick-and-easy-to-fit mudguards for bad weather.


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Year 3 - Week 47 - 360°
A warm day (22C wind from NW at 13km/h) in the Dairy Bush. We had some rain yesterday – much needed in this drought, but it was all in a sudden downpour, so I'm not sure how much good it did. You can see the patterns that the running water left on the path. Little insect action , although some winged Camponotus pennsylvanicus (carpenter ants) were around.
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I've extracted images from a year of Dairy Bush GigaPans to illustrate the rapid decomposition of the leaf litter in this forest associated with the presence of non-native worms. The forest floor is changing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRRv09_oF5w
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Ellicott City Target had mixed wave with Death Star Escape Luke, stormtrooper, Cdmr. Gree, yoda, etc. Also saw droid platform gunship. Still no new CW in area, just restock of old waves.
Ellicott City Target had mixed wave with Death Star Escape Luke, stormtrooper, Cdmr. Gree, yoda, etc. Also saw droid platform gunship. Still no new CW in area, just restock of old waves.
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"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
Severn Super WalMart off 97 just put out multiple CW Colt cases as well as Vintage waves 6, 5 & 4. (some variants). Happy Sunday!
"In my experience there's no such thing as luck."
Got a galactic heroes AT-ST for the little guys today at TRU in Frederick. Picked up a Wedge on Amazon for $19.99, not a great price, but I have one now.
Found the AT-ST at Kingstowne TRU. I had a 20% TRU Rewards coupon in my email yesterday, so that worked out nicely.
Also got my wave 3 case from EE, so I finally have the Gamorrean Guard and Wedge.
"Three goofballs and a guy in a monkey suit."
The DC area must be the biggest dead zone for new product if the last post was 3 weeks ago! Lucked out on wave 7 yesterday morning at the DC Target - got all except Logray because some stupid kid sprayed it with silly string. I imagine he will be easier to find later than some of the others. One question - was Wedge supposed to be in this wave or some revision of it? Or a wave 3 revision?
Let's get organized...what time is it and what day is it?
"Three goofballs and a guy in a monkey suit."
Finally found most of Wave 7 last weekend at TRU in Frederick and Targets in Westminster and Timmonium. TRU also had the Y-wing last week. I'm not impressed with yet another use of an inferior mold (even if they did upgrade it a little.) I also saw all the new mini-rigs. I don't understand the buzz about any of them. Even the Y-wing looked horrible. The new 3 figure battlepacks are yet another way I'll be saving money this fall. It's hard to believe that the ARC trooper and Rebel fleet trooper weren't packed 2 per case at least in the initial case assortments.
I missed them the first time they got them in, but I got the republic commandos and TFU sets at TRU in Frederick today. They had also restocked Y-wings and were amazingly low on the stealth ops clone trooper, both of which I don't really care about. I picked up the republic attack shuttle from TRU.com when they were running the one day 20% off sale. It's okay, but when my 4 year old announced that it was his I didn't put up any resistance.
Congrats - TRUs on this side of the river have been pretty dead.
Anyone have any earthquake-related collection mishaps? I had an AT-AT take a header off a 5 foot shelf, pancaking an Octuptarra droid. Fortunately both escaped without major damage. Otherwise, the destruction was mostly limited to figures falling over or off shelves.
"Three goofballs and a guy in a monkey suit."
I haven't even thought to check the SW room. It was such a mess anyway, I don't know if I could tell if anything fell over.


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Obi-Wan's head sculpt, clothes, and saber look really nice, but the body looks like an old HOF body that has high blood pressure.
The Jawas look ok except for the painted eyes, but more like 2-ups from the 3" figures than anything else, certainly not as good as the 6" AC one from 5 years ago.
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It's highly unlikely. Just do the math. If he has fished the rivers for 30 years straight without a break which is also unlikely he would have had to land 500 salmon every single season. If each season contains approximately 60 fishable days and he has fished non stop every fishable day, which I also doubt, he would have had to land over 8 salmon every single day he has fished for 30 years.
I fished Iceland's Midfjardara, which is one of Icelands best rivers. We fished it on its best weeks ever as per the camp management and the famous Ernest Schweibert who also fished that week. The anglers leaving the camp upon our arrival had very few fish due to a severe draught and then terrible rainstorms and wind for the last two days. When we arrived, due to the high water, the entire run of salmon which were holding in the Fiord for a month rushed into the river and filled the pools with fresh fish. I was one of the high hookers and took 32 salmon for the week which averages around 7 per day. You would have to do this and more for every year for thirty years and every day. Not possible.
I assume he has caught many more salmon than most people including myself but 15,000 is perhaps a big of a stretch.
I am at my camp on the Matane river and have been here since mid June. We have had a fabulous run of fish this year and it is my best year ever with 9 fish landed and 12 lost. Even though I am very pleased with these results I am no where near achieving my 15000th fish.
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15.000 Salmon?!
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...Icelandic fly fisherman, Arni Baldursson, has caught 15.000 salmon.
How's that even possible?
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I'd like to hear what folks here think is the best/most effective drill for developing pinpoint marking on multiple marks.
I'd like to hear what folks here think is the best/most effective drill for developing pinpoint marking on multiple marks.
"When a good trainer stops learning about dogs, he stops being a good trainer." the late Gene Hill
"If you want to find out what kind of trainer you are, leave your transmitter in the truck." the late Rex Carr
i think it's the ABCD(E) drill.-Paul
there's no good reason to fatten up a retriever.
ABCD drill is great for getting dogs to develop marking in multiple gun pictures.
I also like the X pattern - throw angle back, throw angle in, and then flat - alternating sides.
The best drill to teach marking - is throw singles and make the dog focus before being sent. Singles teach marking.
To help with the memory development, you can do singles bird in mouth or 360 the mark.
Walking singles develops pinpoint marking better than any other drill.
"there is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance --- that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
Herbert Spencer
I am a big fan of the "W" drill, and do lots of "rolling singles" (walking singles off a 4 wheeler as its too much walking to actually "walk").
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gulf coast - please describe the "W" drill??
and Tom - i like these too. are you doing anything different? for instance, sometimes i carry a small 2-stake holding blind, and i make sure to throw in, flat, and out, short and far.
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When in doubt, trust your players.
And that's exactly what veteran, state championship-winning Hall of Fame coach Dave Keel did Thursday night, as with his offense stuck in reverse in the first half (15 plays for just 26 yards) against archrival Germantown, the Highlanders needed a jump-start after a 0-0 first two quarters.
"The kids made a couple of suggestions," Keel said. "They said the sweep might be open and then Jay (running back) Schneider went and made us look like geniuses."
That he did.
Because Schneider took the ball on the first play of the second half from his own 19-yard line on that very sweep call.
He broke one arm tackle, juked another defender ("I did a little shake n' bake on him," he chuckled afterward) and found himself in the clear for a throat-clearing, 81-yard offensive statement of a touchdown run that launched the Highlanders to a stunning 28-7 victory over the Warhawks.
The win secured the Highlanders of at least a share of their 12th straight North Shore Conference title.
"The play of the defense (in the first half) had been very motivating to me," said Schneider. "We didn't say a lot at halftime (about the first half frustrations). We kept to our groups and talked about doing our parts.
"...That play said that the offense was ready to play. That Homestead was not ready to go away anytime soon."
Schneider's run was the start of a spectacular first three minutes of the third quarter for the Highlanders, as on Homestead's second play of the half, quarterback Nick Allen hit a wide open Jabree Washington on a circle route and Washington sailed in for an easy 41-yard TD.
And just three plays later, after Allen had hit back Shaquille Cole with a 41-yard pass to the Germantown 2-yard line, Allen called his own number on an option and scored easily.
It was a stunning turn of events, as after 24 minutes of doing virtually nothing, Homestead, in the space of 6:04, had gained 164 yards in just five plays and scored three TDs in the process.
The Highlanders were ahead 21-0 and would never be challenged again, as Homestead (6-1, 7-1) earned the right to be called champion. Whitefish Bay (5-1, 6-1), which beat the Highlanders, 14-7, last Friday, can clinch a share of the title on Friday when it visits Nicolet (2-5).
Homestead's win was vengeance for two defeats in a row to Germantown, including a searing thumping in the regular season closer last year.
"We didn't talk about that a lot," said senior defensive back Riley Pelisek who was all over the field this night. "Our attitude is that last season is last season. It's a different team with different personnel, so we had to move on."
That became fully evident in the second half as Homestead displayed more of the Highlander football that Keel had been used to seeing for the better part of the last two decades.
"We had to get that ugly taste of defeat out of our mouths," he said, "and the only way to do that was to get right back at it. Get right back on the field."
His defense was on the field in spades all night as Gemantown (5-2, 6-2) had knocked on the door three times in the first half, getting the ball to the Homestead 24, 23 and 25-yard lines on three spearate possessions.
Each time the Warhawks were turned back, mostly with the help of a relentless Highlander defensive front. Sophomore lineman David Pfaff got the honors the first time, smacking Warhawk quarterback Dwayne Lawhorn Jr., hard up the middle on a bull rush, forcing a fumble and a 12-yard loss on a third-down play.
That was an ignominious end to a promising opening drive for Germantown. The effort had consumed 12 plays but after that fumble, the Warhawks were forced to punt.
On the second series, the Homestead defense rose again as the Warhawks had gotten great field position on a short punt at the Highlander 45.
But on a fourth and six play from the Homestead 23, Warhawk coach Jake Davis eschewed the field goal and a deep Lawhorn pass to the front of the corner of the end zone was incomplete.
The Warhawk sideline howled for an apparent interference penalty on the play, but no call was forthcoming.
The Germantown defense gave the Warhawk offense one more chance as defensive back Tyler Palzkill snagged an errant Allen pass with just 49 seconds left in the half and returned it to the Highlander 25.
But after two incompletitions, Highlander senior lineman Ryan Stendler flew up the middle and crushed Lawhorn for a 10-yard loss. Lawhorn's half-ending desperation bomb to the corner then fell incomplete as the hard-working Highlander defense had given the team a chance.
Part of the incentive was that this group didn't want to be the team that saw the long run of conference championships come to an end, especially after the tough loss to Bay.
"The whole week the attitude had been focus and fight," said Pelisek. "We let a couple of plays get away from us last week, but tonight we just handled our assignments and played hard."
The offense could especially take pride in its second half. Germantown closed the gap to 21-7 early in the fourth quarter on a 20-yard Mason Yahr to Nick Holcomb touchdown pass.
Yahr had come in a bit earlier after Lawhorn had been injured on a 36-yard run that set up the Warhawks' only score.
But the Homestead offense, which would pound out an impressive 244 total yards in the second half, had an answer. It came right back with an eight-play 49-yard drive as Schneider keyed the effort by going 13 yards on a fourth and four play. Cole then scored from three yards out to put things away with 6:12 to go.
Schneider finished with 108 yards rushing on just six carries.
"We'd been tired of what had been going on (in the first half)," said Schneider. "We knew we had to get out there and do what we had been doing successfully all season."
Allen completed only two passes but they went for 82 yards. Meanwhile the Highlander defense harried the normally effective Lawhorn into a discouraging six of 24 night for only 61 yards, Yahr had the same number of yards on four of six attempts as Tyler Baran rushed for 72 yards on 23 carries for the Warhawks.
Germantown would have only 92 yards rushing on 33 attempts.
"I was very pleased with the way we came out and played in the second half," said Keel. "We couldn't get it going in the first half, but the defense was merely spectacular. We overcame my poor play-calling in the first half because we just kept battling."
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