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Listen: Rappalachia by Gangstagrass
Just what the title and artist name suggest, Rappalachia by Gangstagrass is a fusion of rap rhythm tracks and old-time mountain music instrumentation and melodies. And it really, really works.
The concept sounds bizarre, but in 1954 Elvis Presley and his mad-genius producer, Sam Phillips, performed much the same trick on "Blue Moon of Kentucky," a waltz by Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, which they converted to four-four time with a heavy backbeat and an electric guitar. In fact, African American and white Southern musical traditions share common roots that go all the way back to the tobacco fields of colonial Virginia, where in the 1600s black and white indentured servants slaved away side by side.
Indie rock and rap producer Rench, the son of an Okie father who grew up in the California suburbs and who supervises Gangstagrass, has somehow grasped the primal truth of the American story on this album. Over its persistent booty-shaking drum tracks, Rappalachia features a rotating cast of mostly little-known rappers, including the very promising Nitty Scott, and alt-country singers, most notably Brandi Hart, featured on the traditional tunes "Honey Babe" and "Country Blues."
But the Gangstagrass raps place the music firmly in our raw and combative present, in the process earning several of those "explicit" warning labels for profanity. On one track, "Dollar Boss," renowned rapper Dead Prez gives explicit and eloquent voice to those historic shared grievances that lend grit and gravity to both the black and Appalachian traditions with the refrain, "Been 500 years but it feels like we're still picking cotton."
If America has a future, we'll have to find it in our past, and this music can only help.
This article appeared in the August 2012 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 77, No. 8, page 42).

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AU Optronics Corp (AUO, 友達光電), the nation's No. 2 LCD panel maker, yesterday posted record-high quarterly losses for the last quarter as the global economic slump cut demand for LCD TVs and drove down prices.
An additional allocation of reserves of NT$3.1 billion (US$105 million) for potential damage stemming from price-fixing lawsuits in the US added to the already weak quarterly results.
Net losses widened to NT$21 billion in the fourth quarter of last year, compared with losses of NT$11.34 billion in the fourth quarter a year earlier and losses of NT$15.8 billion in the previous quarter, AUO's financial statement showed. That marked the company's fifth consecutive quarterly loss.
The results were worse than the industry had been anticipating, and AUO blamed slower-than-expected sales of its new products.
"The results disappointed most analysts, even after the antitrust spending had been taken out of consideration," said Stanley Lin (林其範), an analyst with Oriental Securities Investment Advisory Co (亞東證券投資顧問).
Lin had previously estimated that AUO's losses would narrow to NT$15.52 billion in the fourth quarter and he said that the company's prospects for the near term look bleak.
"I did not hear much in the way of exciting messages from the company," Lin said. "I do not expect them to return to the the black any time soon based on the current market situation."
Giving his outlook for the whole of this year, AUO president Paul Peng (彭雙浪) told investors that "the worst conditions for the industry are over."
Peng based his forecast on the expectation of a reduction in the supply glut this year and he added that global LCD panel capacity would expand 14 percent year-on-year this year, slightly in excess of the 8 percent annual growth rate in demand.
That would help the company's revenues and profitability, which "will improve quarter by quarter this year," Peng said.
AUO pinned its hopes mostly on growth in demand for LCD TVs in emerging markets in populous nations, such as India, Indonesia and Brazil.
In the quarter ending Dec. 31, revenues dropped 9.5 percent compared to the third quarter, or down 13 percent year-on-year to NT$89.51 billion, with 42 percent of revenue coming from TV panels.
This quarter, shipments of LCD panels for TVs and PCs are expected to be flat, in a best case scenario, from the shipments of 26.8 million units in the last quarter, as demand looks to rebound gradually amid low inventory, AUO said. Such conditions would cause the equipment utilization rate to rise slightly to between 75 percent and 80 percent, the panel supplier said.
The average selling price of TV and PC panels is expected to hold steady this quarter, after dropping almost 6 percent quarter-on-quarter to US$672 per square meter, as AUO was scheduled to ship new high-resolution and thinner products that deliver a premium, from this quarter.
In a separate statement, AUO said last month's revenues plunged 21.7 percent month-on-month to NT$21.71 billion and shipments of TV and PC panels slid 15 percent monthly, as the company was in a product transition period, extending from the last quarter.
AUO said it was scheduled to massively produce high-resolution OLED panels used in smartphones this quarter and it planned to unveil OLED samples for TVs by the end of this year.
AUO also kept unchanged its budget of NT$40 billion on new equipment and facilities, down nearly 30 percent from last year's NT$57 billion.


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Jessica Chastain said she bought a custom couch for her Los Angeles apartment with her first big acting paycheck for "Tree of Life."
"I was in casting rooms with beautiful, tall, tan, blond women; I kept being told I didn't look modern," she said.
"But when I read the description for my character in 'Tree of Life,' it said, 'A woman who looks as though she's from another time.' I thought, 'Here we go!' "
That first big paycheck went toward the practical purchase of a couch, Parade magazine reported.
"I actually don't spend a lot of money on things. I still drive my 2006 Prius!" Chastain said.
The actress has most recently been nominated for a Golden Globe for her role as a CIA agent tracking Osama bin Laden in "Zero Dark Thirty." She said she's never met the real-life operative her character, Maya, is based upon.
"She's still working undercover, so no, I didn't [meet her]," Chastain said. "She gave everything to this mission. I find it so noble. This movie gives credit to someone who can't come out and say, 'This is what I did.'"


text: Giacometti's work can be seen to balance the concerns of the modern and the historical as well as the specific and the universal. While many have viewed his sculptures as emblematic of the horrors of World War II or representative of the alienation of modern urban life, his figures also contain specific allusions to ancient Egyptian burial figures and to early Greek korai. At the same time, the fragile figures are universalized, their tentative movements expressive of an essential human condition. In this work, the figures take wide steps, each in a different direction. The empty space around them acts as an obstacle to communication. They stride along, each untouched by another, alienated by the void that surrounds them.


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Unhappy Corbett signs budget, calls lawmakers back to focus on pension reform
Gov. Tom Corbett said this morning that he signed the $29.1 billion state budget passed by lawmakers, but he isn't happy about it.
The governor line-item vetoed $65 million in General Assembly spending and an additional $7.2 million in legislative-designated spending. Lawmakers passed a $29.1 billion budget and other related legislation.
Corbett wants structural changes to the state's large public-sector pension plans, but lawmakers haven't gone along. The governor had strong words for lawmakers and demanded they return to Harrisburg "and enact meaningful pension reform." Corbett said he is reviewing four options.
"It's time to stop talking around the edges" of the pension problem, the governor said.
If the pension system were reformed, the savings would go to education, people with disabilities and business recruitment, he added.
The state spends more than 60 cents of every dollar on pension costs, a burden that prevents the state from addressing other priorities, Corbett said.
The governor supports moving to a 401(K)-style plan for state retirees. He said this morning that reform can be achieved, while protecting benefits for current and future retirees.
Otherwise, Corbett, up for re-election in November, issued what sounded like a campaign speech. He touted economic successes -- "unemployment is at a five-year low" -- while noting it came without raising taxes.
"I said I would clean up wasteful spending and I did," he said. "Our strategy is working."


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CARY – Eight area residents face drug-related charges after nearly five pounds of marijuana was seized Friday from a home in Cary, according to the North Central Narcotics Task Force.
Arrested were Mauric R. Lebbos, 20, of Cary; Dylan J. Trama, 20, of Barrington; Eli P. Kulack, 21, of Algonquin; Jesse C. Peterson, 20, of West Dundee; Jacob N. McGowan, 21, of East Dundee; Ryan D. Kennedy, 21, of Algonquin; and Joshua R. Ernst, 21, of Elgin.
Each is charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to deliver and possession of cannabis.
The arrests concluded an investigation that revolved around a package delivered to a home in the 700 block of Laurel Lane in Cary, according to a news release. Authorities obtained information that the package from California contained a substantial amount of marijuana.
Narcotics task force members and the U.S. Postal Service searched the home Friday and found about 2,159 grams of marijuana, $1,500 in cash and drug paraphernalia, the news release said.
Members of the Crystal Lake Police Department and McHenry County Sheriff's Office assisted with the investigation, which is ongoing.


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CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – At age 18, many men are thinking about their first year of college, their high-school sweetheart, their favorite sports team or even their impending adulthood and the responsibilities that come with it. For many, the furthest thing from their mind is a cancer diagnosis. For Marine Corps Cpl. Daniel Botero, it was a reality.
The Colombia, South America, native said he decided that at 18, he was going to give back to the country that has given him hope and opportunities in life by enlisting in the U.S. military. With a four-year commitment on his shoulders, Botero already had done more than most of his peers.
But just as he was about to begin training to become a combat engineer, Botero was faced with a prospect that some adults cannot even fathom. He was diagnosed with testicular cancer in February 2009.
On top of that, doctors told him the cancer had spread to his liver, lungs and brain. As a new Marine and a new adult, Botero added new cancer patient to his life's résumé, while putting his Marine Corps career on hold. He began an aggressive course of chemotherapy that left him weak, without hair and unable to do simple tasks without tremendous effort.
After his first surgery, neither Botero nor his doctors were sure if he would make it through a necessary second surgery. "I was so weak from the chemo, we didn't even know if I would survive the anesthesia," he said. "I told them I needed a month to just rest, eat and try to gain some strength. My odds were still bad going into the second surgery."
In July 2009, doctors successfully completed his second surgery. Fourteen months later, his doctors told him his cancer was in remission.
Botero finally could begin his life as a Marine, a life that only a year earlier held no guarantees. In less than two years, he had become a Marine, been diagnosed with cancer, and had faced the very real possibility of dying before his 21st birthday. Now, he was a cancer survivor.
He jumped back into his Marine Corps training with zeal. With most of his family still living in South America, he said, the Marine Corps had become his family.
"The Marine Corps was all I knew, so I just wanted to get back into it," Botero said. "I begged them to give me something to do while I was in treatment."
That's how he became involved with the Wounded Warriors Battalion at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C. While working with the wounded warriors, Botero said, he developed an even more positive outlook while surrounded by those he came to consider as family.
The common bond that the Marines formed by enduring various injuries, diseases and treatments is one he will cherish forever, Botero said.
"The whole thing was a good experience, because I appreciate every little thing now," he added. "Instead of always being mad, we learned to be thankful. Everything is glorious."
When he left the Wounded Warriors Battalion and began his work as a combat engineer, Botero took what he learned with him on his deployment to Afghanistan with the 2nd Marine Logistics Group's Combat Logistics Battalion 1 Embedded Partnering Team. The positive attitude he had before his cancer diagnosis has only expanded since then, he noted.
"I'm a joker -- always smiling," he said. "That is what held me up through all of this."
Botero said his outlook on life has improved, but that the biggest change came in his outlook on the Marine Corps. "It made me realize the Marine Corps is a path, not just a job," he explained.
His appreciation for the Marine Corps and life itself is evident as he discusses the harder days of treatment.
"Going through this changed my outlook on everything," Botero said. "I realize you have to enjoy every minute. A lot of people think of their future, but I believe in living your future as you're building it."


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Spain, Germany, England find form in World Cup qualifying
World and European champion Spain romped to a 24th straight qualifying win on Friday, although no one in the country was able to see it.
Pedro Rodriguez scored a hat trick as the world's best team routed host Belarus 4-0 in one of a group of big wins for Europe's leading nations in 2014 World Cup qualifying.
Yet, celebrations were muted in the debt-ridden country after no broadcaster paid to televise the national team's match for the first time in 29 years.
Spain's wasn't the most convincing win of the third round of regional qualifiers, with Germany handing Ireland its worst loss since 1971, 6-1 at Dublin.
Wayne Rooney celebrated being handed the temporary England captaincy by scoring twice in a routine 5-0 win over San Marino, taking his goal total in international matches to 31, fifth on the country's all-time list.
But Italy was again unconvincing in beating Armenia 3-1, and the Netherlands managed only a comfortable 3-0 win over Andorra, which is 201st in the rankings.
However, Euro 2012 semifinalist Portugal, led by Cristiano Ronaldo, couldn't make the most of its dominance against Russia and lost 1-0 in a match between the top two teams in Group F.
The Portuguese are three points behind Russia, which is unbeaten under new coach Fabio Capello and has three straight wins in qualifying.
Also, Belgium enhanced its burgeoning reputation as a growing force in Europe with a 3-0 win in Serbia, which lost a home World Cup qualifier for the first time in more than 10 years.
Sweden and the Czech Republic needed second-half rallies to avoid draws against weak competition, beating Faeroe Islands 2-1 and Malta 3-1, respectively.
The victory for the Swedes left them second in Group C, three points behind Germany ahead of their meeting in Berlin on Tuesday.
The third straight qualifying victory for Germany was launched by Marco Reus' goals in the 32nd and 40th minutes before Mesut Oezil's penalty kick and goals by Miroslav Klose and Toni Kroos (two) turned it into a rout.
Spain warmed up for its Group I match against France, which surprisingly lost 1-0 at home to Japan in a friendly on Friday, by stretching its winning run in qualifying that dates back to September 2007.
Pedro set up Barcelona teammate Jordi Alba for the opener before scoring the remaining three goals himself in Minsk, putting Spain ahead of France on goal difference. Both countries have six points and only one team qualifies automatically from each group.
Golden era
Spain, seeking an unprecedented fourth straight major international tournament trophy, is enjoying a golden era in its soccer history, but that still didn't persuade broadcasters to pay for coverage.
The blackout came after the producer, Sport Five, failed to reach a deal with any Spanish television channel. This was the first time a Spain match was not broadcast at home since 1983, when the team visited Malta.
Rooney was playing for England for the first time since Euro 2012 and was given the captain's role with Steven Gerrard suspended and Frank Lampard sidelined with injury. Rooney marked the occasion by joining Manchester United teammate Danny Welbeck in scoring twice at Wembley Stadium.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain also scored for the hosts, who moved to the top of Group H.
It wasn't such a good night for Oxlade-Chamberlain's Arsenal teammate, Theo Walcott, who will spend the night in a hospital after colliding with goalkeeper Aldo Junior Simoncini early in the game.
Russia's winner against Portugal came with its only shot on goal in the first half, Alexander Kerzhakov scoring in the sixth minute.
Ronaldo, who has scored six times in his last three Spanish league games for Real Madrid, barely had a sniff in Moscow.
"Maybe we weren't as calm as we usually are," said Portugal coach Paulo Bento, whose team is the only leading European nation not to be atop its group at this stage.
Eddie Johnson scored two goals for the United States, including the winner in second-half injury time, in a 2-1 victory over Antigua and Barbuda. The road win put the Americans in position to advance to CONCACAF's final qualifying round if they beat Guatemala on Tuesday night in Kansas City, Kan.
Canada beat undermanned Cuba 3-0 in Group C. The Cubans had only 11 players for the game, and finished with 10 after striker Roberto Linares was ejected for a challenge that crumpled captain Kevin McKenna.
In South American qualifying, host Argentina took the overall lead with 17 points as Lionel Messi scored two second-half goals and Sergio Aguero added another. Messi scored in the 66th and added another with a free kick in the 80th while Aguero scored in the 75th.
Alejandro Chumacero scored in the second half to lift host Bolivia into a 1-1 draw with Peru, while Colombia beat Paraguay 2-0.
Radamel Falcao scored two second-half goals as Colombia improved to 16 points in eight matches — among the leaders in qualifying — and left Paraguay with only four points from five matches, the worst record among the nine teams.
Felipe Caicedo scored twice as Ecuador defeated Chile 3-1 in Quito. Ecuador improved to 16 points, Chile has 12.


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OK, they're not interested in Brandon Marshall. I get that. They're not interested in Terrell Owens, even as a short-term solution to a big problem. I sort of get that, also.
The Dolphins might not be interested in Dez Bryant if it takes the No. 12 overall selection in the draft to get him. Something about risk versus reward. I get that, too.
Yet there is an interest in Mike Williams.
Hmmmm. I'm trying to get that.
The team brought Williams for a visit at the Davie, FL. training facility on Thursday and spent several hours with him.
Williams is a 6-2, 220-pound prototype from Syracuse University. Well, he was from Syracuse University until he reportedly left the team in November. Those reports, by the way, were the result of Syracuse coach Doug Marrone saying Williams quit the team. So the sourcing cannot be questioned. Williams quit the team according to his coach.
It was a strange situation because Marrone said Williams went to him without being summoned and simply quit.
Asked at the time why Williams quit the team, Marrone said, "You'd have to ask him. I have no idea. I'm not going to discuss the conversation from my end. Obviously, I told you that he came up to me and voluntarily took himself off the team. That's it."
Well, that's not really it.
Reports later surfaced that Williams was on the verge of being suspended by Marrone when he decided to quit. It wasn't the first time Williams had issues at Syracuse. He was suspended from school in 2008 for cheating on a test.
When he quit with four games left in the season, Williams had 49 catches for 746 yards and six touchdowns. He ranked first in the Big East and 14th nationally with seven receptions per game. He was first in his conference and 20th nationally in receiving yards.
The saga of Williams leaving the team in 2009 is a big issue for teams. When a player leaves a team it raises questions as to how much he loves the game, it raises questions whether he's a quitter, it raises questions whether he's likely to repeat the offense in the pros if things get tough, because as Nick Saban used to say, past actions is the best predictor of future actions.
"I've been talking to all the NFL teams about that," Williams said during the Indianapolis Combine in February. " I want to leave it at that. But what I want everybody to know is I didn't quit. I'll leave that story at that."
So Williams didn't want to say what actually happened, or what he believes happened, but he did want to remove the doubt about him quitting.
"I told the teams that, all the teams know the whole story," Williams said. "I want to leave it at that, I don't want to make it a big media story. I just want everybody to know I didn't quit."
Williams apparently is admitting to teams that he cheated on the test. He told them he simply doesn't like school. And he's telling teams that he can be reliable.
"I want to let them know that I'm a nice person, I'm a good person," Williams said. "School was just my problem. I had bad judgment when I was young. School has been my problem, I want to let them know I can play football and be there for that team."
Obviously the Dolphins have bought in -- at least to the point of bringing Williams to town.


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Dejan Kovacevic chat transcript: Sept. 13, 2012
Dejan Kovacevic: Greetings, all, and welcome to another hour of splendor in reveling in the glory of Pittsburgh's many highly competitive sports teams, pro and college.(Dons armor, readies for your worst.)
PZ: Pirates are 4-14 in their last 18 games and still have GAINED a half-game in the wildcard standings. Encouraging or even more disappointing?
Dejan Kovacevic: To me, that makes the collapse all the more disappointing. It only magnifies the opportunity squandered by ownership, management, coaching staff and players. All of them. They've all blown this.
Andrew: Pirates. I'm just so depressed. This could have, SHOULD HAVE been the year. Say something, ANYTHING to ease the pain.
Dejan Kovacevic: Nope. Whether or not it should have been the year is open to debate. The whole thing still felt like it sneaked up on everyone. But the fact that it ended up being this level of opportunitiy is now beyond question.Want an amazing stat?The Pirates are 2-15 these past six weeks in games decided by two runs or less. Remember that when someone tells you they really weren't that close to competing, that another player added -- or another player improving his own performance -- wouldn't have made a difference.
Guest: Is the general lack of buzz about even possibly firing Hurdle the surest sign so far of the organization's (and most fans') low expectations for this season? Even the Brewers canned Yost in September 2008 when his managing threatened to slam their window shut just as it was cracking open. How long do we have to stick with Hurdle just because he says he likes Pittsburgh?
Dejan Kovacevic: I don't see that happening. And I don't see Hurdle being anyone's preference because he says he likes Pittsburgh. That's needlessly sardonic.Hurdle has made some mindbending decisions of late. I detailed the ones the other night in the Tuesday blog entry . But he's also achieved things in the first half of the past two seasons that no one else has in these parts in around 20 years.All concerned need to figure out why it keeps fizzling.
Najed: Are there any indications of how long Harrison will be out? If he's out for an extended period of time, do you see this being his last year in black and gold?
Dejan Kovacevic: The simple fact that James Harrison's status seems to change from day to day -- he's playing, no he's not, he's practicing, no he's not -- is maybe the strongest sign that his issue is long-term. Even if he makes it onto the field against the Jets.Knees are nagging, annoying things. I asked Harrison last week if he'd had any further actual procedures on it, even draining, and he replied there hadn't been anything like that since the last operation.So what is it?How long will it take?And yeah, at 33 and in the final year of his deal, is this it?
Jason81: If you had to venture a guess, when does the NHL season start? October? Around Christmas? October of 2013?
Dejan Kovacevic: I'll stick to maintaining that a week or so will be lost. That's it.This whole thing to me still reeks of posturing from the owners' side. There's no way there's this much resolve to save the Coyotes, Panthers and a couple other teams. Not when new arenas are going up in Quebec and now Seattle. There's a very simple solution for the league's weaker franchises, and if they need a road map, they can just draw a line from Atlanta to Winnipeg.
PhillyJake: What is the mood in the Pirates club house?
Dejan Kovacevic: I'm in Pittsburgh this week since returning from Denver and the Steelers.
DaveH: Dejan, How do you summarize the Pirates recent collapse?
Dejan Kovacevic: I'll be doing that, in kind of an odd way, for the Friday column.
Lee Foo: Dejan....you keep saying the BMTIB is remaining silent (for weeks now). What do you want them to do? I've read your columns and have seen nothing concrete. I do not understand why this is bothering you so much. They aren't the problem anyway.
Dejan Kovacevic: Lee, things really do bother me in life. What the Pirates' front office does or doesn't say wouldn't crack my top one zillion.I don't WANT them to say anything. I don't have words to put in their mouth. But any illustration whatsoever of urgency, whether verbal or otherwise, would at least offer a sign that the top priority in 2012 was -- and remains -- seizing an excellent opportunity to participate in the playoffs.I've never gotten that sense, verbal or otherwise. I've covered many other teams over the years and have never felt such a thing from any of them. With this one, I do.
Nicole: Dejan, if you could sum up in one word what you feel is the overwhelming reason the Pirates are playing the way that they are, I would love to hear it, because I can't quite put a finger on it myself.
Dejan Kovacevic: Fear.
Ryan, Wexford: Where is the backbone and leadership of this team? It seems to me that no one is taking responsibility for this free fall (especially the manager). Also, not one player has publicly supported Hughes through the media with Phillips's accusation (even though it's clear as day that there was no racial slur). When Cutch was beaned, where was the retaliation? The players laugh and joke on the bench, but I see a spineless team.
Dejan Kovacevic: And you didn't even mention A.J. Burnett being the only player over the dugout bar in Cincinnati the other night when things started getting heated. How alone Burnett must have felt.Bottom line: You can lead all you want in the clubhouse, but if that same urgency/confidence/lack of fear isn't felt all through the organization -- very top to very bottom -- you're going to be the one jumping over that railing all alone, then wondering why you bothered.Again, more on this tomorrow.
Nick: Do you think Chris Rainey will get more touches this week?
Dejan Kovacevic: I raised that point in the column from Denver on Monday morning, citing just the two I believe he had. It came up, too, in Mike Tomlin's press conference, and he gave something of a vague answer.Especially when facing a blitzing team, you'd love to be able to utilitize the screen pass more. Ask Peyton Manning and Demaryius Thomas.
Zack: Highest expectations of any Pittsburgh sport? I'd say Pitt basketball should go out of the Big East with a bang and then some
Dejan Kovacevic: I'll agree with you in terms of the potential on paper. This roster has the look of the most FUN team Pitt will have had in a while, with so many youngsters anchored by Steven Adams, an improving Lamar Patterson and a wealth of really good guards.But they've got to put it together on the court, and they've got to do it in a hurry to competitive by the team they reach the Garden.
Geno: Will there be any Tribune coverage of the Magnitogorsk game Malkin will play in on Sunday?
Dejan Kovacevic: Nyet.
Jon: People always cite age as being an issue for the Steelers defense. However, far too often the last two years it is the young guys that have been non-existent. $110 million is being paid to Woodley and Timmons for the foreseeable future, yet neither of them seems to make a difference. Thoughts on those being bad contracts?
Dejan Kovacevic: Thoughts on the Steelers being OLD and SLOW were laid out in the Wednesday column . Let me know on the blog what you think, Jon.
Dave in Ross: After Brandon Phillips second accusation/affirmation of Jared Hughes comments, why is there no MLB involvement? This is a serious thing to just throw out there without proof or response.
Dejan Kovacevic: I've had a few readers raise this very topic, but where is the precedent -- right or wrong -- for punishing anyone for an accusation of racism?I agree with you, Dave, it's a terrible thing to do. If it were me, I'd be lit on fire with anger. But as far as any MLB involvement or that of any league, I'd need to see some kind of precedent before expecting official action.Fact is, right now, if you look at that video I've shared online, there's proof Hughes never said what Phillips charged him with saying.As a result, Phillips looks terrible in saying so.
Guest23: If you had unlimited funds to do so, what band would you hire to play a private party?
Dejan Kovacevic: XTC. That's easy.
NYJohn: Wow! Fear.. Fear of Success? Fear of Losing? Fear of Heights (in the standings). Nicole asked for one word... I'm going to ask for a few more.
Dejan Kovacevic: You'll get 749 more tomorrow!
Kevin: Brandon Phillips needs to grow up. He is a show off player and was looking to cover up his mistake of tossing the ball back to Hughes.
Dejan Kovacevic: Yes, yes and yes.
Ronnie James Dio: ND's move to the ACC. Good for the ACC or are we looking at the 'new' Big East? Duane Allman and I both think it's a darn good move for the ACC. Well played sirs! "Holy Diver!"
Dejan Kovacevic: It certainly doesn't hurt the ACC, let's put it that way, especially having a significant -- if not all-out -- football component. We can all talk about how the Irish aren't what they once were, but it's amazing how the brand resonates so many years after the last time they were truly national contenders.College sports are about TV money. Notre Dame brings that. Notre Dame could have brought that to another conferenece such as the Big 10. It chose the ACC.
Grey: why do you and everyone else in the pittsburgh media continue to lob Hurdle those softballs?
Dejan Kovacevic: I'm in Pittsburgh. I do travel a lot, but I'm wholly incapable -- unfortunately -- of teleporting anywhere I wish at the snap of a finger.Speaking only for myself, anyone who knows me knows that I don't exactly hold back in my line of questioning of anyone.
PirateApologist: If it ever a slow sports day on your new radio show (congrats, by the way), are you going to just spin some Violent Femmes discs for an hour?
Dejan Kovacevic: No, but we ARE using Dead Kennedys in the intro. For real.Oh, and that radio show starts Tuesday at 1 p.m. It will run every week at that time on our online-only TribLIVE Radio that you can find right here .
Steel34D: I'll have to respectfully disagree on your assessment of Woodley, at least. If we're just looking at the Broncos game, we have to remember that Manning didn't hold on to the ball long enough for the pass rush to get to him that often. So then you look at the run game. It wasn't Woodley's side that the Broncos were running at - it was Carter's. I'll defer to your assessment of his involvement in coverage.
Dejan Kovacevic: Well, I'll further add that Woodley was sent in on a blitz only 10 times, according to our Mark Kaboly's film study that ran in the paper Tuesday. That's no way to take advantage of the asset. Woodley also had the fumble recovery after Larry Foote popped it loose.But Woodley is the easiest player on the defense to assess. He either gets to the QB or doesn't. That doesn't mean he's wholly one-dimensional in the mold of Kevin Greene, but that's the task at hand. No sacks, no hurries doesn't cut it.
Guest: Is Frank Coonelly alive? Is the low-profile a result of the DUI?
Dejan Kovacevic: Coonelly is very much alive, and I'm sure he's as deeply involved in running the franchise as he's ever been. But you're correct that he hasn't been as visible. I wouldn't know why that is.
Dumb Fan: Who is the bigger wimp? Crosby for not playing through concussions, or Walker not playing through back spasms? At least Derek Bell admitted he wasn't going to play.
Dejan Kovacevic: You know, you almost had me there until I looked at the nickname. Nicely played.
Matt: Is there a certain Penguins player, be it a developing youngster or a veteran, who would be most hurt by a lockout?
Dejan Kovacevic: Yes, and that's Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and the other high-end guys on the Penguins' roster. But especially those two. Careers only last so long. There are only so many chances at a Stanley Cup, not to mention individual honors. The only thing that can hold players like that down is not playing the games at all. And you never get them back. Anyone ever seen the list of careers ended by the 2004 NHL lockout?Here are some: Ron Francis, Igor Larionov, Al MacInnis, Mark Messier, Adam Oates and Scott Stevens.That's how Teemu Selanne and others could go out.
OK, we're a little late in starting Tampa Bay Lightning time. Quick Qs, quick As, and off we go ...
Guest: Initial thoughts on Haley's offense?
Dejan Kovacevic: I liked more than I didn't. See Monday column for much more.
Guest: Are you buyin' the Ravens?
Dejan Kovacevic: I'm starting to buy Joe Flacco, I'll tell you that. He's going mostly no-huddle for the first time in his career, and he's off to a great start.
sms: jerry meals call was considered the turning point in 2010......what is 2011's turning point so far.......
Dejan Kovacevic: Clearly, you mean 2012. I'll say the trading deadline.
BenderHeel: Chad Voytik - will play or will not play this weekend?
Dejan Kovacevic: It's still surprising to me that he didn't step onto the field in Cincinnati, especially in garbage time. I don't care about his redshirt. It's not as if he's some lock to be the QB in the next couple years.In light of that, no, I don't think he will.Maybe for that mega-battle with Gardner-Webb!
NYJohn: Given the comments that Dwyer will get more carries this week... does it mean that Dwyer will carry a full workload (20+ carries, 100+ yards) or just more than the rest of the committee?
Dejan Kovacevic: Being that Dwyer's banged up right now and limited in practice, no, I wouldn't think so.Funny, but did anyone else notice that Ike Redman ran a LOT harder when he came back onto the field after Dwyer's series?
Guest: Bigger Steelers villain - Ray-Ray or Brady?
Dejan Kovacevic: Neither. Terrell Suggs.
Polka: Thought's on Greg Brown calling the video crew in the truck "gypsies"?
Dejan Kovacevic: We are all excessively sensitive. Not even the Romani people themselves take great exception to the term. They don't prefer it, but neither do they abhor it.Honestly.
Naje: Skylarking ... one of the top 10 albums of all time...? It is on my list.
Dejan Kovacevic: XTC's Skylarking is one of my top three of all time by anyone.
Hank: Will we make it to 82?
Dejan Kovacevic: The trend is pointing in the wrong direction, for sure.
NYJohn: Besides today, will Barajas get a day off between now and the end of the season... or two... or all?
Dejan Kovacevic: I sure hope not. Don't know what I'd do without all the email, tweets and other screeds on the topic,
dillonerd: Why all this talk about the wildcat offense from the Jets from Mike Tomlin? I would be more concerned about a pass rush.
Dejan Kovacevic: I'm sure they are. I watched the first half of Jets-Bills, and I didn't see anything that would have me preparing for any offense other than the one Mark Sanchez was directing.
NYJohn: Wideouts going to run over the Jets, be shut down by their vaunted secondary, or somewhere in between?
Dejan Kovacevic: Depends. If Darrelle Revis still has any kind of concussion symptoms, he won't -- or shouldn't -- play. That changes everything.Last one today ...
Rob: What did you see from Mike Adams?
Dejan Kovacevic: It's funny, but once he finally figured out where to line up, I thought he did mostly OK. Really, the offense as a whole was fine, and it can improve with what look to be easily adjusted things such as a couple extra yards on first down. And you'd have to think that'll happen, as it's unlikely Redman and Dwyer are going to be held to 50 or fewer yards on a regular basis.
Playoffs by 2012: If the Pirates don't get to 82 wins, is this the most disappointing season since "The Streak" began?
Dejan Kovacevic: Easily. None other comes close.
That's it for this week. The column runs Monday, Wednesday, Friday. The new radio show is Tuesday (see above for details and link). The chat is Thursday. And the blog is as relentless as the Seven Springs Death March itself.Thanks to all for participating!


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PERU — The Rev. Dale Pederson, a veteran tour leader to the Bible lands and pastor of First Congregational Church in Peru, will give a presentation on Greece with his wife, Tara McDonnell-Pederson, at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Congregational Church.
Pederson and his wife will be leading a 12-day biblical study tour, following the steps of the Apostle Paul, to Greece and Ephesus, Turkey, including a 3-day Greek Island cruise, departing March 13, 2014. Tour members will experience the ruins of cities from ancient Greece and Rome, monasteries from the Middle Ages, significant archaeological sites, Greek islands and villages and sites that play a dominant role in the New Testament.
Included in the trip are visits to Thessaloniki, Phillipi, Berea, Athens and Corinth, a Greek island cruise with shore excursions to Mykonos, Crete, Santorini and Patmos and Epheses, Turkey. Classical Greece sites include the Parthenon, Athens and Mycanae.
The tour prices is $3,495. This includes round trip flights out of Chicago, first class hotels, the Greek island cruise, all meals on the cruise, full breakfast and dinner on land and a comprehensive tour itinerary. Illinois Valley area participants will be invited to a series of optional preparation classes beginning in January. The registration deadline is Oct. 1.
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Chairman Tony Fernandes has said he will leave QPR if he cannot turn around the Barclays Premier League strugglers.
QPR are rooted to the foot of the table, five points adrift of safety, and were knocked out of the FA Cup following an embarrassing 4-2 home defeat to npower League One side MK Dons on Saturday.
Fernandes, who took over in August 2011, remains determined to get the west Londoners on the right track, but says if he cannot, he will step down. The Malaysian businessman said on his Twitter account: "Attendance was great. Thanks to fans Everything worked. We will fix It. I'm still optimistic."
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Have you eaten your Christmas leftovers?
In America, we waste 40 percent of our entire food supply or 1,400 calories per person per day, according to a new study [1].
That number is just shocking, and I think it needs to make us re-evaluate our conversation about hunger, farming, and our policies around food.
The argument often is that we need the efficient methods of big ag, dependent as it is on oil, fertilizers, and monocrops, to keep food cheap and feed the world. But if we're just throwing out all that food anyway, perhaps we need a better system of distributing the food. We have more than enough food; we just need to get it in the hands of those without.
How about changing our policies to encourage more local food production and distribution so that we can eliminate waste?
Something to think about as you finish that leftover turkey and cookies from your holiday meals. (For more, read Greener Pastures [2] on Catholic farmers.)
60 Minutes had a story on water scarcity in California. Despite the governor's optimism that we can have it all, we're going to need to change the way we live--especially the way we grow our food and consume it.
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1. Sarah Jane DOUGLAS married John HUESTON in 1870 and farmed in West Auckland
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3. Elizabeth DOUGLAS married Walter CARDER in 1872 and lived in Hosonville - W Carder was a potter
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Mosaic artist Jeannette Brossart's "Gone to Seed" is a dandelion puff.
Mosaic artist Jeannette Brossart's "Gone to Seed" is a dandelion puff.
Well piece by piece, it is polystyrene, covered in subtle hues of smalti glass and test tubes. But together, it really is a dandelion puff.
All of Brossart's pieces made from old electronics, glasses, stones and metals have a natural element, which she hopes blends classic and modern mosaic styles.
"It's about trying to blend those things, and if people get it, they get it. If they don't, that's perfectly fine, too," Brossart said.
Brossart's pieces are just some featured in the "Art in Nature and the Environment" exhibit now open at Davidson County Community College's Mendenhall Building. The exhibit will remain open until Dec. 13.
The show includes work from nine North Carolina artists, who display a total of 61 pieces in oil, watercolor, fabric art, photography, acrylic, mosaic sculpture, mixed media and copper structure.
Vicki Rees of Raleigh has nine oil paintings in the exhibit, most of wildlife she's observed with her husband, Peter, at Lake Johnson.
"I painted when I was a kid, then I gave it up for 30 years," Rees said. "Now I've picked it back up again."
Rees said she does not focus solely on nature and paints a little bit of everything. The artist, who has been featured in a previous DCCC exhibit, is working on a series called "Sugarland," which revolves around pies and pastries.
The range included in the DCCC exhibit is widespread. Walking through the hallways and stairwells of the Mendenhall Building, it's easy to become hooked on a stunning photograph, such as Rod Hunter's "Egret At Sunset," or stare curiously at Bob Lillich's "Pennies for Your Thoughts."
Other artists displaying works at the show are:
• Lea Booth of Lansing who displays nature photography that incorporates her interest of birds and rare native plants.
• Karen Fridy of Lewisville is a fabric artist who creates colorful wall hangings using hand-dyed fabrics, a needle and thread as her "paint."
• Jeff Kaiser of Charlotte exhibits large realistic scenes of nature and the environment painted in acrylics to emphasize the mood and beauty of the scenery.
• Susan Lautemann of Winston-Salem paints in acrylics with an impressionistic style that helps create energy and movement throughout her colorful scenery and still life paintings.
• Karen Parker of Statesville paints traditional oils, exploring the structure of the subject matter and its interplay of surface, value and color.
"The many pieces on display are not only dynamic, but the art also gives the community an opportunity to see a wide variety of art forms and interpretations," says Barbara Cullen, curator of the exhibit. "The brilliant artwork of these local community members displayed on two levels of the Mendenhall Building is an educational as well as inspirational experience."
For more information, go to www.davidsonccc.edu.
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Five NBA championships, two times finals MVP, one NBA MVP, four time All-Star MVP, fifteen All-Star appearances, and eleven NBA first-team appearances.
Sound familiar to you?
Kobe Bryant is one of the best basketball players to have ever played the game, but after the release of the recent 2013-2014 season player rankings, this legacy has been insulted.
Bryant was ranked 25th in the recent standings, leaving many NBA fans worldwide outraged.
After, some would say, carrying the Lakers to a spot in the playoffs last season, it was seen as almost certain that Kobe Bryant still, at the age of 35, is one of the best in the game. Averaging 27.3 points and six assists per game in the 2012-13 season, he was easily worthy of a top ten ranking.
Last season Bryant finished in the top ten in player efficiency rating, averaging 38.6 minutes per game.
In comparison to the players around Bryant's No. 25 ranking, it's a joke. Chris Bosh is ahead of him, despite consistently living in the shadows of James and Wade in Miami.
Compare him to Bryant and, although they are two completely different players, you can't help but question what was going through the mind of the person who came up with these rankings. Another player is John Wall. Although he is a very talented player with a lot of potential, you cannot compare him to Bryant who is on a completely different level.
Some would say that Bryan't injury is the reason for this outrageous ranking, but why should this affect how he played before the injury and how he will play when he returns. Because this is what most of the player's ranking is based on, with the exception of the odd player who impressed in the playoffs.
He was ranked sixth last year and has now dropped significantly to give way to players that could only dream of being as good as him.
Bryant said himself that "anyone who believes that I'm No. 25 player needs drug testing."
This doesn't show an arrogant nature, but a frustrated one, and he has every right to be.
Kobe Bryant is without a doubt still an All-Star, and All-Stars should not be ranked like this.
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Open Pawn Project - New Release 0.3.1 (No it is not Hal 9000)
Pawn personalizes the computer in much higher degree Those facts are giving a chance to vastly improve interface. today OSes suffer of legacy principles of interaction which were created for much smaller displays, much less data, slower machines, and, frankly for another way of living. KDE, GNOME, MAC OS X or Windows is no longer the leading part of the desktop evolution. Look at SUN's looking glass project. They have a stunning visual design. But the real news is none.
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The Java Podcasters, Part 2by Chris Adamson
The first part of this series introduced two of the most popular Java podcasts, The Java Posse, hosted by Dick Wall, Tor Norbye, and Carl Quinn, and the Swampcast from Michael Levin. These podcasts are like night and day, in that the Posse's format generally features the trio discussing a series of news items, while Swampcast is often focused on interviews with prominent Java developers, authors, and other luminaries.
This segment delves deeper into Java podcasting, talking with the voices behind some Java podcasts you might not have heard of, but that you will probably enjoy. Each interview features a link to the podcast's home page, as well as a feed link that you can drop into your podcast client to subscribe to the podcast.
ZDot - Tim Shadel
Tim Shadel's ZDot podcast is an outgrowth of his blog, which allows him to mix up podcast entries with followup blog entries as comments come in from the show. Like a lot of developers, the first thing on his mind is the last thing he used: recent shows have featured JSF, Maven, Eclipse, Hibernate, and Subversion.
1. How long has the ZDot podcast been going? How has it changed over time?
I published my first podcast at the beginning of February 2005. I had recently done a good portion of some in-house training for programmers. I stumbled onto podcasting, and wanted to try it out. My initial focus was on Java frameworks and other development tools. Lately some Ruby has snuck in, and I'm pretty sure it'll be seen more often as time goes on, but Java will always have a prominent place. The posts have fluctuated a bit depending on my personal time and availability. My wife and I became parents last year, and it's been a joy. As you'd expect, there is less time for podcasting.
2. Your last show, about JSF as a "7-layer burrito I won't eat again", seemed a little "blog-like", combining your recent experiences with opinions you've developed. What do you think are the advantages of a podcast over a blog?
I read a lot, but occasionally I find some things easier to listen to than to read -- particularly someone's account of their experiences. When I search the web, I'm typically looking for answers and information; I'm focused on the task at hand. I find blogs provide an excellent "distributed knowledge base" for stuff like this. When I'm walking the dog or driving, I like to think about future development ideas. This is a great time to listen to other people's experiences and opinions as a seedbed for ideas I want to research. My approach to the show is that I don't provide documentation; other people do that very well right now anyway. I want to share my own experiences, stories, and opinions with others in hopes that it gives them a new angle to consider or generates ideas.
3. What's your format like? Do you see yourself as more of a reporter or a commentator?
My format currently is just about the "simplest thing that could possibly work" for what I want. I have a canned intro, I dive right into what I want to talk about, and I leave my contact info at the end. I keep the shows to about 10-20 minutes so that it's a reasonable amount to listen to on a commute. Larger topics will often be spread over 2-3 shows, but I try to switch subjects after that.
I don't report news, nor do I comment on it really. I tend to focus more on what I've actually done and then comment with my opinions on how it went, what worked and what didn't. So from that perspective, I'm definitely more a commentator rather than reporter, but even that's a bit of a stretch.
I've recently considered altering my format to include interviewing other programmers, weaving in MP3 comments from listeners, interviewing people about software history, or reviewing and commenting on current events of interest to programmers. I'm not sure what I think about that yet, but it may come.
4. What do you like in programmer-oriented podcasts? Are there others you listen to?
I like hearing what other people are working on. You can go to conferences and hear prepared presentations. But I like a more informal feel. I like hearing what people have succeeded in doing, what they've tried and abandoned, and problems they think they'll face in the future and their untested ideas on how they may approach them.
I've listened to all sorts of podcasts, from news to programming to general technology to college lectures.
SlashdotReview has (of course) a news feel to it. Andy McCaskey has a voice well suited to podcasting. I occasionally carpool with other Java programmers and sometimes a .NET guy. This one's interesting for all of us.
Michael Mahemoff's Software As She's Developed has covered topics like Agile development, AJAX, and other web development related topics. His voice from London adds a nice variety to the mix. His recent podcasts tend to be close to an hour long.
Ajaxian not only covers a compelling topic for upcoming development work, but it's also a well done blog, and I like their podcast interview format.
I really like reading Jon Udell's blog. He has an occasional podcast, but it was his soundbites experiment that intrigued me. He selected portions of existing MP3 content, wrote a short text intro to each, and then had that text spoken by a computer as an intro to the clip. While the soundbites themselves were interesting, it's the combination of text, audio, and technology that sparks ideas for me. See his Improving the audio circulatory system for more.
While not an actual podcast, Terrence Mann--creator of ANTLR--has a number of college lectures on MP3. I found them after looking for info about Domain Specific Languages. These lectures talk about language design and often focus on using the ANTLR tool. To see these, visit USF CS652: Programming Languages and scroll down to "Prior Lecture Notes".
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When Willie Walsh needs a break between meetings or a reminder of what brought him into the airline industry, he has two options: He can simply look out the window, or walk downstairs and across the street to a little stand built for aircraft spotters to watch the activity at London's Heathrow Airport.
The CEO of International Airlines Group (IAG) can see the functioning part of his empire at Heathrow. There are not more British Airways aircraft taking off than before, but at least the airline has stopped shrinking after 10 turbulent years and, following the acquisition of BMI, it has a bit of room to grow at one of the world's most congested airports. That stands in stark contrast to the other half of Walsh's empire, Spain's Iberia, which is in accelerated decline with no clear turnaround in sight.
The name of the BA and Iberia parent is apt—it is indeed an international group of airlines—though for now it is a European airline group that will soon include Vueling. IAG was not an early promoter of airline consolidation in Europe. Air France and KLM got together in 2004, followed by Lufthansa's deals with Swiss International Air Lines, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines. It was not until after those deals that IAG was formed in 2011. A little more than two years into its creation, reviews are mixed.
Of course, like Air France-KLM and Lufthansa, IAG is about consolidation the European way. It is distinctly different from the big mergers in the U.S., where two formerly separate entities have melded to form one. In Europe, the airlines are put under one umbrella, and everything that can be done jointly will be handled by the parent company to exploit synergies, but much remains separate. This approach has its limits. The day when brands can join across European countries and air operator certificates (AOC) can be combined is still a very long way off, it seems.
The creation of IAG looked like a great idea. BA was struggling with growing competition from low-cost carriers (LCC) and increasingly dependent on the functioning of its Heathrow hub. It was one of the world's great airline brands, but with almost all of its eggs in one basket: North Atlantic operations. Iberia was also being challenged by LCC competition and was specialized in long-haul services to Latin America. It appeared that the two would complement each other well, and the target was to achieve €500 million ($650 million) in synergies by 2015.
While that target may or may not be achieved, IAG needs to find answers for two fundamental questions: Will there be a future for Iberia? And how can the financial bleeding be stopped quickly?
"If you want a future for Iberia, you are going to have to change," Walsh tells Aviation Week at IAG headquarters. "If you want to hold on to what you have, what you have is going to be smaller and smaller. For Iberia to have a future, Iberia has to be efficient."
That is the message Walsh is delivering to the Spanish trade unions. But the April 15 deadline to reach a negotiated solution passed, and as Iberia proceeds with deeper double-digit pay cuts for pilots and cabin crew, as well as mass layoffs, it is doing what Walsh predicted: becoming smaller and smaller. Iberia called on pilots to start the talks, but so far, the Spanish pilot union, Sepla, is refusing to come to the bargaining table.
Walsh says he is not surprised. "I have dealt with the unions in several countries. I don't see much difference between them," he says. "It is always going to be difficult." One factor in the equation that could make a difference is Walsh himself. "I guess the difference between me and many other airline CEOs is that I have determination to tackle these issues and some others don't," he says.
His track record is impressive. After working his way up through the ranks at Aer Lingus to become a Boeing 737 captain, he started his management career in the late 1990s as a turnaround specialist at leisure carrier Futura, an Aer Lingus affiliate in Spain. He became Aer Lingus chief operating officer two years later and subsequently helped rescue the Irish carrier. That success earned him an offer to take over as BA CEO when Rod Eddington left in 2005. BA's health is due in large part to Walsh's insistence on cutting costs and improving efficiency, although at the expense of strained labor relations.
The two airlines are now run by Keith Williams and Raphael Sanchez, respectively, but Walsh is still deeply involved in anything strategic.
And the turnaround of Iberia is strategic for IAG. "It was clear that Iberia needed to restructure its cost in relation to pilots and cabin crew and that it did not have an efficient short-haul operation," Walsh says. "The bit that was different to what most people expected was the depth of the recession in Spain and the eurozone crisis. The cyclical problems are certainly deeper than I had expected."
IAG created Iberia Express as a separate operation responsible for short-haul feed for the Madrid hub. "Iberia Express has shown what can be done. It has non-fuel unit costs that are 40% lower than Iberia's. It is not just more efficient than Iberia, it has a lower unit cost base than Vueling," Walsh points out. "It demonstrates that the short-haul part of a network airline can be profitable."
That is, if it is allowed to operate. The Spanish government has imposed a mediation process to resolve a dispute between the airline and its workers over pay and work conditions. Iberia could very well be forced to discontinue its successful affiliation next year.
"They should not have gotten involved in the dispute," Walsh contends. "This is the bit that I don't understand when I look at Spain. There is 26% unemployment, 53% youth unemployment, jobs are not being created, and we set up a vehicle that actually created jobs and had the opportunity to grow."
Despite these problems, IAG still wants to invest in Spain. Its offer for the highly profitable low-fare carrier Vueling, which it raised to €9.25 from €7 per share, was recommended by Vueling's board and accepted by the airline's shareholders. Following the transaction, IAG will hold more than 90% of Vueling's shares. CEO Alex Cruz, like Sanchez and Williams, will report to Walsh.
"Vueling is a great airline and will be a welcome addition to IAG, where it will benefit from the group's financial strength," Walsh says.
But Vueling is not intended to become the solution for Iberia's problems; it will continue to follow its own intra-European point-to-point model. "Europe is a big market and there are different horse races. The beauty of IAG is that we have created a group that allows us to do that—multibrand, multinational. We can have several different brands in the group and you can operate in several different markets," Walsh says.
IAG is not looking to acquire other carriers for now. "We don't see anything that would represent additional value to us. Therefore, it is unlikely we would do anything in the short term," Walsh says.
That is also because the approach to consolidation is changing. "Unlike previous consolidation strategies, where it was all about getting bigger, we are very clear that this is about the right partners to make you stronger rather than bigger," he notes. "Size has some relevance, but as we have seen before, it does not necessarily guarantee success." And IAG serves as a good example, inadvertently.
The acquisition of BMI gave BA access to high-value Heathrow slots, and if another similar opportunity arises, Walsh says he would consider it. "An airline that had additional slots at Heathrow may represent additional value to us. But there are not many airlines left, to be honest with you."
One of the most important tasks IAG performs on behalf of its subsidiaries is fleet acquisition. And there is a lot to do: In the medium to long term, almost 100 widebodies need to be replaced at British Airways and more than 30 at Iberia. The process has started, but crucial decisions still lie ahead.
Last week, IAG took the process a step further, signing a memorandum of understanding for 18 Airbus A350-1000s and 18 options. All of the aircraft are earmarked for BA. IAG also agreed with Airbus on commercial terms and production slots for an additional batch of aircraft to be allocated to Iberia. But that part of the deal is dependent on the Spanish carrier reducing its cost base beforehand. IAG did not reveal how many more aircraft would be required. However, the airline is flying 15 A340-300s and 17 A340-600s that are no longer economical to operate.
BA has only once before ordered Airbus widebodies. The carrier is taking delivery of its first of 12 A380s this year, almost at the same time as the first Boeing 787 arrives. The airline operates 112 A320-family aircraft and has no outstanding narrowbody orders. In the medium term, BA must begin replacing its aging Boeing 737 fleet, but that decision will likely come only after the widebody replacement is done.
The A350-1000 plus 18 787 options that IAG plans to convert for BA into firm orders will serve to replace the Boeing 747-400 fleet. The order does not mean the proposed Boeing 777X is being ruled out.
"Based on what I have seen, it is almost inevitable that that is an aircraft that we will have in our fleet at some stage, whether that is something we would decide on now or at a later stage," Walsh says.
It makes sense for the group to operate different types of aircraft, he notes, given the variety of missions that are needed. In addition to the Iberia A340s, IAG must replace 46 Boeing 777-200ERs at BA.
Walsh is pleased with the performance of the 777-300ERs BA has integrated at a relatively late stage, saying, "if I'm honest, the regret I have is that we did not get the 777-300ERs earlier." BA is operating the -300ER in a 297-seat configuration; its 747-400s only have two additional seats.
On the other hand, Walsh believes that "as good an aircraft as the 777 is, it is going to be overtaken by the next generation of aircraft, the A350-1000, the 777-9X or versions of the 787." And IAG clearly intends to be among the early operators of those.


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Excerpted from article on The Next Web:
"Finding ways to keep track of what's happening in the world and in various markets can be pretty difficult, especially on mobile devices. People are interested in seeking out new ways to allow them to get information that's relevant and important to them.
Apps to help with this problem include Flipboard, a popular social news aggregator that has helped to change the way people consume content,Zite, Cir.ca, and Summly. Now, Clipped is seeking to take its place as one of those services and has launched its iOS and Android apps to help optimize the way people consume the news on their mobile devices.
Created by Tanay Tandon, Clipped's original intent was to be something that the average teenager could use easily. He says that it was important for the user to be able to open up the application and immediately find the most important information in front of them.
Processing, Clipped believes that it allows it to generate comprehensive summaries of articles. As Tandon tells us:
"The technology grammatically analyzes text, and discovers which sentence structures hold the most important information. The algorithm diagrams sentences through a Part of Speech tagger, and can determine which information is dependent on other sections. Through a combination of statistics and keyword analysis, we are then able to rank chunks of information and select which regions of the sentences are most relevant. Clipped then re-reads its summary and makes sure that the selected information contextually makes sense. The algorithm then returns the top information as a bulleted list for the user to read..."
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[http://www.onelabs.com/ O.N.E. Technologies] offers coreboot on all their x86 products.
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Here's a list of vendors and their products running coreboot/LinuxBIOS. Please contact us if you wish to add your product to the following list.
Artec Group
Artec Group runs coreboot on their Geode LX based DBE61 ThinCan system.
Cluster Labs
Cluster Labs sells a 1.1 GHz PIII cluster node with 1 GB memory, fast ethernet, and boots coreboot.
coresystems GmbH
coresystems GmbH is offering coreboot based services and products. If you are a hardware/appliance vendor and want your system running coreboot, contact coresystems. As a coreboot contributor, coresystems is hosting the coreboot development repository, mailing list and web page.
The Cray Xd1 is an Opteron-based system which runs coreboot.
CW Linux
CW Linux offers pre-installed coreboot motherboards, SDK and related hardware for people want to use or develop applications on coreboot. It also provides professional services for custom coreboot-based system development.
i-TECH Corp.
i-TECH is selling test and analysis tools with coreboot, including all its "Satellite" Fibre Channel analyzers (IFC-3016, IFC-4016, IFC-30, IFC40) and "PassPort"-based test and analysis tools.
Linutop is going to ship coreboot on their diskless computers.
Linux Labs
Linux Labs is selling LinuxBIOS Beowulf clusters comprised of 1U x86-based nodes with LinuxBIOS installed.
Linux NetworX
Linux NetworX, a major contributor to the coreboot project, used to sell a variety of cluster solutions with coreboot installed. LNXI was recently bought by Cray.
LUCIDA is shipping several of their thin clients, e.g. the LT2610 and the LT3712 with coreboot, according to their website.
MikroTik is offering the Routerboard 200 series which seems to be shipped with coreboot (devices from other Routerboard series might use coreboot, too).
O.N.E. Technologies
O.N.E. Technologies offers coreboot on all their x86 products and offers coreboot development services.
Silicon Mechanics
Silicon Mechanics will ship their Rackform nServ A236 with coreboot preinstalled if requested. See our news item from 2008/04/04.


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Originally published in: From Altneuland to Tel-Aviv - of Dreams and Deeds, David Breakstone, Ariel Feldstein, Eds,The Zionist Library of the World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem, 2006, pp. 127-8 ©
Herzl was far too "Eurocentric" and secular-minded to imagine that Zionism might provoke the reawakening of fundamentalist Islam and turn Israel into a prime target of Jihad. As a liberal cosmopolitan humanist, he too readily believed in the inexorable march of material progress, science and technology which were bound to overcome fanaticism, barbarism, and superstition.Antisemitism was an ever-present reality in Herzl's life from his childhood in Budapest, his university years in Vienna to the Kishinev pogrom which broke out a year before his untimely death in 1904. Moreover, in Paris in 1895, Herzl had personally witnessed the beginning of the violent Antisemitism that later accompanied the Dreyfus affair. In his native Austria, during the same year, the Christian-Social leader Dr. Karl Lueger came to power in the Viennese municipal elections on an unabashedly antisemitic program. Assaults on Jews were at that time being reported almost every day in the press from Tsarist Russia, Romania, Galicia, Bohemia, and Imperial Germany to French Algeria. This was the virulently hostile climate in which Theodor Herzl, the "visionary" of the Jewish state, came to formulate his revolutionary Zionist solution to the "Jewish Question".For Herzl, racist and nationalist Antisemitism challenged the very basis of Jewish socio-economic existence in the Diaspora, undermined the premises of individual emancipation and threatened the survival of the Jews as a group. Herzl could see no salvation through conversion, religious reform, radical assimilation, socialism, Jewish defense leagues against Antisemitism or migration to seemingly more hospitable lands. Even overseas, Jews would eventually encounter the same antagonism. The only constructive answer, so he believed, was to create an independent sovereign state in Zion which would finally provide the Jews with a national home, with ground under their feet, honor, self-respect and human dignity.Herzl's diagnosis of Antisemitism as an existential danger to the Jewish people was anathema to the wealthy Jewish notables and the religious establishment of his time. They saw his solution either as "utopian" or as a product of despair – as did the liberal assimilationists, the Reform Jews, the Jewish socialists (and later, the communists) who generally rejected Zionism in the name of their diverse "universalist" ideals. Most Orthodox Jews in Eastern Europe were even harsher, vilifying Herzl as a "heretic" or "false messiah". However, forty years later, the macabre horrors of the Holocaust would cruelly underline the prescience of Herzl's prophecy that the ground was burning under the feet of European Jewry. Shortly after, the State of Israel would emerge – much as he had imagined in his diary during the first Zionist Congress in Basle. Nevertheless, the last six decades have demonstrated that the existence of a Jewish state cannot in itself extinguish Antisemitism, as Herzl naively assumed. On the contrary, Israel since 1948 has become the focus and magnet for a "new" Antisemitism, one which obsessively challenges its legitimacy and basic right to exist.Herzl's failure to anticipate this development was hardly surprising. Indeed it was shared by virtually all his contemporaries and heirs in the Zionist Movement. Herzl was far too "Eurocentric" and secular-minded to imagine that Zionism might provoke the reawakening of fundamentalist Islam and turn Israel into a prime target of Jihad. As a liberal cosmopolitan humanist, he too readily believed in the inexorable march of material progress, science and technology which were bound to overcome fanaticism, barbarism, and superstition. Impregnated as he was by classical German culture, he never dreamed that the highly educated Germans whom he so admired would mass murder the Jews across Europe or that their would-be radical Muslim imitators would repeatedly call for the physical annihilation of Israel. Despite his undoubted sensitivity to the antisemitic danger, Herzl was also too much a rationalist to fathom the "heart of darkness" at the core of genocidal Antisemitism. The "exterminationist"declarations and policies of a Hitler, an Ahmadinejad or by leaders of the Global Islamic Jihad belong to a post-liberal, inhuman world, alien to his basic assumptions.Moreover, in Herzl's day the "Palestine Question" did not yet exist, with its explosive mixture of nationalist, sectarian, and colonial violence, its relentless struggle over land, religious symbols and identity which hascontributed so much to the current wave of global Antisemitism. None of this is Herzl's fault, though it should encourage deeper reflection on some of the weaknesses and flaws in the general Zionist analysis of Antisemitism. At the same time, we should not forget that without the emergence of a Jewish state – which Herzl first set in motion – Jews would still be at the mercy of every predatory state and megalomaniac leader in need of a scapegoat for his failures, with no prospect of real deterrence or effective response. The emergence from such powerlessness was a major achievement of Herzlian Zionism though in itself it cannot eradicate the scourge of Antisemitism.This article also belongs to the following subjects:Antisemitism Zionism > Zionism Revisited
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Jill Cornfield has been a passionate cook and baker since the age of 8, when she learned the difference between t and T in a recipe, and the snickerdoodles had to be thrown away.
July 2005
Williams Sonoma cookbooks are terrific gifts for beginning or non-cooks. Stuck for a wedding shower idea? You can't go wrong with a title from the Williams-Sonoma library, almost a small publishing industry in itself.
In recent years, Williams-Sonoma seems to be expanding their focus beyond a single topic (pies and tarts, cookies) and publishing cookbooks that comprise about 200 recipes. New American Cooking, which is compiled from recipes previously published in six other titles (California, New England, The Heartland, The Pacific Northwest, The South and The Southwest) has a broad range, with recipes that span the country.
Like other titles in the Williams-Sonoma library, New American Cooking is beautifully photographed and exhaustively tested, making it a reliable cookbook for beginning cooks or anyone interested in delving into a subject for the first time. Titles are nicely bound and printed on expensive stock.
Every recipe has an accompanying full-color photograph, sometimes of a related ingredient, though most often of the actual dish looking beautiful and presented in the perfect setting. Readers can pick up some nice serving and plating ideas from the presentations.
Don't expect to learn too much about regional American foodways from the introduction, which comprises six brief essays about New England, the South, the Heartland, the Pacific Northwest and California. Throughout the book are other short essays, all with accompanying photographs, on olives and olive oil, clams, Meyer lemons, corn, Texas chili, nopal cactus, one-pot meals and pie, among others, and they're a good if brief overview of Midwest microbrews, farmstead cheeses, Oregon hazelnuts and so on.
Recipes are reliable, if not fabulous, though there are several standouts. The skirt steak fajitas with avocado salsa were a big hit, and the salsa, a pleasantly chunky salad that's fine on its own merits and as an accompaniment for Mexican food, is slated for reappearance at my table. I couldn't wait to make the mussels in Thai coconut broth, but found they cried out for fish sauce. After adding some, the dish was much better. Since fish sauce is discussed in the glossary, I found this a curious omission. We felt the two teaspoons of brown sugar made the broth a little too sweet. I'd make this again, using 1 teaspoon.
Here's what else caught my eye: A good-looking fried chicken marinated in buttermilk with a touch of cayenne, shortcakes with berries and creme fraiche, sweet potato and cracked pepper biscuits, and numerous very pleasant fish recipes. I'm inspired by some new ingredients (jicama, carrot and red cabbage salad) and even a new technique (new to me, anyway): curing fish, since the wild-fennel gravlax is so clearly written and seems so accessible it makes me want to try my hand at it. Occasionally recipes have a twist: those shortcakes use a mix of cornmeal and flour that makes them stand apart from the classic version.
New American Cooking is a thoughtful, well-tested and reliable collection that lacks the fire and personality of cookbooks written by people rather than committee. The danger in photographing, testing, re-testing and considering is that you lose some of the life of a dish. On the plus side most beginning cooks can make any of the recipes, even those with more complex flavors.
The book has a few minor flaws. In the introduction, a photograph of crisp salmon with warm potato salad is misidentified as lobster salad. Some of the calorie counts and nutritional values seem to have some problems in calculation. Game hens with turnip green stuffing (with a measly slice and a half of bacon per serving) weigh in at 1271 calories per serving. Is it really possible for a game hen with a small amount of bacon to have more than twice the number of calories in hunter's cassoulet, made with bacon, Italian sausage, pork shoulder and leg of lamb? The cassoulet supposedly serves 8 to 10, so of course if the portion sizes are smaller so are the calorie counts. I'd figure on servings of 6 to 8, with proportionately more calories. It may seem like nit-picking, but in a book so carefully thought-out and planned and tested, you expect complete reliability.
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An assistant coach confirms that Tony Dungy is retiring after seven seasons in Indianapolis and that Jim Caldwell is taking over as Colts coach.
Receivers coach Clyde Christensen says Dungy informed the staff
of his decision earlier in the day and is meeting with players to
say goodbye.
The team has called a late-afternoon news conference to announce
the move, which comes a little more than a week after the Colts
were eliminated from the playoffs.
The plan to have Caldwell replace Dungy was put in place last
year when the coach pondered retirement. Caldwell joined Dungy's
staff in Tampa Bay in 2001, then moved with Dungy to the Colts in
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NEW YORK CITY — President Barack Obama toured the devastation Hurricane Sandy wrought on New York City on Thursday, and vowed to help the still-struggling city rebuild.
A week after his re-election, the president tried to offer comfort to families recovering from the storm and thanked first-responders who risked their lives as Sandy battered the East Coast.
"I'm very proud of you, New York. You guys are tough. You bounce back, just as America always bounces back. The same is going to be true this time out, alright?" he told reporters in Staten Island, after touring damaged homes and churches and embracing residents.
The president arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport at 11:30 a.m., and then boarded the Marine One helicopter and headed to the Rockaways, where he surveyed the damage in the badly battered Breezy Point, where more than 80 houses burned to the ground in the storm.
He then traveled to Staten Island, touching down at Miller Army Air Field near ravaged New Dorp Beach, where the president, dressed in a navy blue coat and brown khakis, thanked volunteers who've been helping with recovery efforts at a FEMA Disaster Recovery Center, which has been handing out food, water and other supplies.
"You guys are doing great work," he told one relief worker, before posing for a picture inside a Small Business Administration tent at the site, where he and other elected officials were greeted by a loud crowd of about 100 local residents who burst into cheers when Obama arrived.
"God bless you," he told them in return.
After leaving the tents at the air field, the president made his way to Cedar Grove Avenue and Center Place, where he walked along streets lined with mud and stopped to talk with residents in front of homes that had been ripped apart or caved in by the storm.
"We've got some work to do and I want you to know I'm here to do it," he told another small group gathered in front of a boarded-up brick church, St. George Malankara Orthodox Church of India.
In a brief speech after the visit, Obama recognized that many in the region remain without electricity, heat and hot water, and also vowed to help the city rebuild.
"I came up here right after the storm... and I promised everybody that I was speaking on behalf of the country when I said we are going to be here until the rebuilding is complete. And I meant it," he said.
The president also met privately with Damien and Glenda Moore, whose two young children, Brandon and Connor, died after being swept out of their mother's arms during the storm.
"I had the opportunity to give some hugs and communicate thoughts and prayers to the Moore family," he said. "Obviously I expressed to them, as a father, as a parent, my heartbreak over what they went through."
Obama told reporters that the distraught parents had come there, in part, "because they wanted to say thank you to all the people who have been supportive of them," including one police officer, Lt. Kevin Gallagher, who had stayed with them as rescue workers struggled to find their boys.
"That spirit and sense of togetherness and looking out for one another, that's what's going to carry us through this tragedy," he said.
The president was joined for the tour by a host of local officials, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro, all of whom he commended for their work.
The majority of residents in the area seemed eager to meet the president, shouting "We love you!" and calling his name. But not everyone was pleased with the visit.
"He should of been here a long time ago," said one woman whose home was destroyed by the storm and had visited the open FEMA center to pick up supplies.
Others used the opportunity to ask the president for help.
"We just want our houses fixed. We just need help," said Al Bevacqua, of New Dorp, who had the chance to speak with Obama, and blamed insurance companies for holding up recovery efforts.
"The community's been off the charts. Government's been doing what they can... but the insurance companies just keep people on hold," he said.
The visit was the president's second to the tri-state area following Hurricane Sandy. On Oct. 31, he and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie toured hard-hit areas of that state.
Bloomberg initially told the president not to come to New York on the Oct. 31 visit as the city struggled to recover.
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