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The Duke Blue Devils had fire in their eyes when they entered Donald L. Tucker Center and by games end they were perched atop the ACC with a 74-66 victory.
Resilient Blue Devils show poise in victory
Miles Plumlee ended the game on the bench with 5 fouls. Mason Plumlee was reduced to a shadow of himself as he was saddled with 4 fouls, 3 early on but the Blue Devils overcame foul trouble. Had somebody told you Mason Plumlee would score a single point would you have thought there would be a Duke win? The resilient Blue Devils never allowed Florida State to get too confident and the frustration played a factor as the game went on. Duke showed great poise throughout the game despite a most hostile crowd and pretty much took them out of the equation during large stretches of the game. And when the crowd did get into it as Florida State closed the margin late, the Blue Devils never folded on a night when they played 40 minutes of good basketball. And that's what it took to beat a talented and explosive Florida State team.
Time to recognize this Duke team
The Blue Devils have secured victories over the likes of Kansas, North Carolina. Michigan, Michigan State and now Florida State on the road where they are now 7-0. It's time to give them their due at 24-4 overall with three regular season games to go. If Duke takes care of business in their next two games against Virginia Tech and Wake Forest, they'll at worst play for the ACC regular season title. This team just finds a way of getting it done. The Blue Devils have remained in the top ten all season long and that has been the case for an amazing and soon to be 92 straight weeks streak under Kryzewski.
Dre all day!
When Andre Dawkins brings it and is on his shot, look out! Dawkins scored 18 1st half points and finished as the Blue Devils leading scorer with 22. This was the 4th time Dawkins scored 20 plus points this season and this one came when Duke had to win to remain in the ACC regular season title hunt. Dawkins also grabbed 5 key rebounds and dished one dime to go with a steal. Dawkins came up huge when Duke needed him and that was a huge reason for tonight's win. Dawkins made three-pointers on back-to-back possessions twice in the first half. Back-to-back treys by Dawkins stretched a 7 point lead to a 13-point lead in a span of 26 seconds. Dawkins leads Duke with 89 three-pointers on the season and leads the ACC with a .422 three-point percentage.
Austin wanted the rock!
You have to love the fact that freshman, Austin Rivers, wanted the ball in his hands in key situations and so did the staff, his teammates and fans. Rivers scored 20 points to go with 4 assists and 4 rebounds in one of his better efforts of the season. Rivers was there to knock down four daggers, otherwise known as the three pointer and each one was a exclamation point. But I liked his defense in this game, especially his late steal. Rivers will be a unanimous choice for ACC Rookie of the Year and he could make a run for some first team votes if he doesn't already have a few.
Speaking of the three ball ...
Duke drilled home 16 of 37 three point shots which translates into 39 points. In comparison, the Seminoles scored 12 points beyond the stripe, a 27 point differential. Seth Curry struggled for much of the game but Krzyzewski stuck with him and his late game play and three were huge for Duke. And Ryan Kelly hit what might have been the biggest of all the threes where the Blue Devils maintained much needed momentum.
Miles Plumlee comes up big
On a night when Mason Plumlee scored a single point, Duke still won, thanks to his brother Miles Plumlee who scored 10 points and 8 rebounds which led the team. Miles earned the praise of Krzyzewski who said his play set a standard for the rest of the season. Considering the foul trouble Duke had in the post, Plumlee showed the ability to succeed without being too aggressive. The senior has been playing some really good basketball of late and just in the nick of time for the Devils.
Another solid effort from Kelly
Ryan Kelly had his second 4 point play of the season when he was fouled on a made three pointer in the first half and then made the ensuing free throw. Kelly was in double figures for the 17th time this season, the third most on the team. Kelly knocked down a huge three-point shot with 4:30 remaining in the game which gave Duke's 6 point lead as the 'Noles made a run. Kelly took another charge and leads the Blue Devils in that category. Kelly hit all five free throws. Kelly is shooting 80.8 percent from the free throw line, 41.2 percent from three-point range and 45.3 percent from the floor.
Ridiculous turnaround
Who made this schedule? The Blue Devils will head to Durham shortly and be back on the Duke campus in the wee hours of the morning. Then they will have a short day and night before tipping off at noon against Virginia Tech. Duke will be tired and in need of a lift that only the ....
... Cameron Crazies can provide
The Blue Devils are having a fabulous season and they are growing as a team right before our eyes. And with just two home games left and coming off a huge road win over Florida State, the Blue Devils will need their sixth man to turn out in droves and show their appreciation. So, come on Crazies! Do your thing.
Facts and numbers of interest
Duke improved to 31-8 against Florida State in a series that began in 1955. Duke had lost the previous two meetings, including the 76-73 buzzer-beating loss to the Seminoles on Jan. 21 in Cameron Indoor Stadium.Duke won its seventh straight ACC road game. During the Blue Devils' 58-year tenure in the ACC, they have started 7-0 in ACC road games just four times. The last time Duke started 7-0 in league road games was in 2005-06. Duke finished a perfect 8-0 in ACC road games in 1998-99 and 1999-2000. The Seminoles had allowed no more than 11 three-pointers in a game all season until Duke hit 13 tonight. Duke improved to 5-1 this season against ranked teams. The Blue Devils have wins over North Carolina, Kansas, Michigan, Florida State and Virginia. Duke's only ranked loss came on the road against No. 2 Ohio State. Duke is holding opponents to a .277 shooting percentage from three-point range.


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*I find this word extremely difficult to pronounce and have to constantly remind myself that it rhymes with 'salami' and is not "suuu-nah-MY."
The NZ bar owner who decided it would be a good idea to serve goldfish shots to his patrons. Not goldfish as in 'how nice, a twist of orange peel in whatever that blue liqueur is called'* but goldfish as in 'there is an actual goldfish in my drink and it is alive.' The bar owner said that, while personally he thought it was 'distasteful,' it wasn't cruel because the fish was swallowed whole so it can die in agony in your stomach acid, rather than be chomped by your mighty jaws. There was a public outcry and he called off the promotion, but he's still a wiener.
Like this, but with tequila.
Also - and this is very much secondary to the plight of the goldfish, but still a valid point - taking the names of shots literally is a slippery slope. A man walks into a bar and it is pandemonium:
"Oh my God is that a zombie?"
"Harvey! Get away from that wall!"
"I said no! I said no!" "THIS IS WHAT YOU ORDERED BITCH"
"Excuse me, bartender...what is this cowboy doing?"
People who use 'literally' wrong - I was literally in the middle of dinner. It was literally Tuesday. This is literally retarded. You should literally not do it.
Bret Michaels - I don't care how much you liked Poison. Have you seen Rock of Love? Or Rock of Love 2? Or Rock of Love Bus? Or Rock of These Women are All Skanky and Also Bret Michaels you are Unattractive? That's my favourite one.
"Chrystelle, you're a beautiful pair of breasts, but I can't be with you. I'm a wiener."
See also: Flava Flav, and Flavor of Love. These people are douchebags.
"Women sleep with me even though I look like the lovechild of a bloodhound and a poo."
Human Interest News - I don't really care if one of the firemen in Smalltown Village has now been on the force for 50 years, and attended three fires at his own house during that time. I also don't care if a dairy has started stocking chickens in string bags after plastic bags dripped on the floor by the chiller. I also don't care if a sportsperson who represented NZ in one game 40 years ago got ticketed for parking illegally. I made up all of those but they could all be true. While I'm on the subject of newsreaders - stop trying to be likable! Stop making puns (I'm looking at you, TV3)! Stop making little good-humoured digs at the sports guy! I do not watch the news to see you flirt with your co-host. Actually I don't watch the news at all but if I did, it would be to, you know, find out what the news was.
People who can't drive their shopping trolley - It worries me that people who are unable to not take up the whole tinned goods aisle are allowed to go through the checkout and climb into an SUV. See also: people who, while rolling through produce, see their neighbour! Who they haven't seen since, oh, last Tuesday, which was just before Timmy's piano recital - how did that go? Oh, well, I suppose at that age it's hard to keep focused on your practice, isn't it. Are you going to that BBQ at Melanie's next week? I AM STANDING BEHIND YOU TRYING TO GET TO THE BANANAS OH MY GOD.
John Mayer, King of the Wieners, hasn't said anything outstandingly offensive this week , just the usual nonsensical douchebaggery - "I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction, except I never had the addiction."
On which note, I have decided that unless JM does something new to add to his extensive catalogue of wienerdom, he is going to be retired from Wiener of the Week - I tire of him. He is becoming passe. But it's been real, John.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Why the Greek Debt Panic?
This is also a point made by the other coauthor team in Critical Review's special issue, Steven Gjerstad and Nobel laureate Vernon L. Smith. Asset bubbles pop all the time, but worldwide financial crises are rare.
A financial crisis is a banking crisis. So why did the bursting of the asset bubble in housing cause a banking crisis, freezing interbank lending and then bank lending into the "real" economy?
Because, according to the Basel thesis, Basel I bank-capital regulations, enhanced in 2001 in the United States by the Recourse Rule, encouraged banks worldwide and especially in the United States to leverage into asset-backed securities, including mortgage-backed securities, that were either government guaranteed (by Fan or Fred) or were privately issued but had an AA or AAA rating. How did the Basel rules encourage this? By giving such securities a 20 percent risk weight.
Translation: An AAA-rated mortgage backed security worth $100 required only $2 in bank capital at the 8 percent Basel rate for adequately capitalized banks. $100 x .08 x .20 (the 20 percent risk weight assigned to asset-backed securities by the Recourse Rule) = $2. By contrast, a commercial loan of $100 required $8 of bank capital, because Basel gave such loans a 100 percent risk weight. $100 x 8 percent x 1.00 = $8. Similarly, a $100 whole mortgage retained by the bank required $4 of capital, because the Basel risk weight for unsecuritized mortgages was 50 percent. With these risk weightings, securitized mortgage-backed debt offered significant capital relief.
Today's FT brings the news that "European financial institutions have $235 billion worth of claims on Greek debt, most of which is thought to be in government bonds." Why do they hold so much Greek government debt? Because under Basel II, implemented (outside the United States) in 2007, Greek government bonds, rated A-, had the same 20 percent risk weight as AA/AAA asset-backed securities in the United States. That is, until S&P downgraded Greek debt from A- to BBB+. That raised the risk weight to 50 percent, suddenly requiring 60 percent more capital from banks holding Greek bonds.
This appears to be the reason that the possibility of Greek default has led to fears of another banking crisis.
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- Milton Recht said...
For a given amount of capital, Basel rules establish the maximum bank investment in that category. In your example, if the bank had $40 of capital, it could hold $1000 of mortgages, or $2500 of AAA MBS (2500x.08x.20=40).
Assuming the riskiness of mortgages and AAA MBS are identical, one still needs to explain why banks would increase their MBS holdings, and the risk of their holdings, by 2.5x by switching to MBS from mortgages.
Moreover, there is an additional risk to the holdings from the loss of the diversification effect by increasing the amount of loans/investments backed by housing. Why didn't banks keep their MBS holdings equal to their prior amount of mortgage holdings and use the freed capital to diversify.
Simultaneously, borrowers through refinancing and through purchases were increasing their risk by higher debt leverage in their homes. If banks wanted to hold their risk constant as they increased their holdings of MBS, the banks could have asked for a higher down payment on their mortgage loans. A higher down payment is equivalent to putting aside higher capital. For example, if a bank requires a 10 percent down payment for a mortgage, $1000 of mortgages is backed by $1111 of home values. At 25 percent down payment, $1000 of mortgages is backed by $1333 of home value. In the later case, the bank increases it collateral by 20 percent giving the bank an extra cushion against defaults and home price declines.
Banks increased their risk three ways. They lowered the capital for the loan; they lowered the down payment and amount of collateral; they over invested in one asset class, residential houses, and lost the benefit of diversification from holding more of other asset classes.
Basel lowered capital, but it does not explain the banks willingness to increase the risk of its holdings, especially when they could have lowered the risk, or kept it constant, by diversifying and by raising down payment requirements on their mortgage loans to compensate for the additional risk.
Basel capital rules for MBS are one important part of the puzzle but it is not the whole story. Other factors affecting banks and borrowers' risk tolerances and risk avoidance were also at play.
- February 17, 2010 at 1:18 AM
- Marcus said...
Because asset-backed securities are more diversified from the get go. It's similar to the difference between buying $100 in stock of one company or buying $100 of a mutual fund which holds stock. The latter is a more diversified investment.
A bank can lend a home owner $100,000 to buy a house or a bank can buy $100,000 worth of mortgage-backed securities and be diversified across hundreds of mortgages.
It's these very facts that lead to the lower risk rating of mortgage-backed securities over holding mortgages directly.
So why did banks buy the securities? Because they believed the same risk models which lead to the rules to begin with.
- March 26, 2010 at 7:40 AM
- Anonymous said...
You should mention that governmental deposit insurance has removed the discipline of the market that depositors would otherwise bring to bear on banks, keeping the banks from over-leveraging themselves. All that is left to restrain them is governmental regulation, which can always be (and was) gamed.
- April 4, 2010 at 9:45 PM
- Dela @ Chromatic Tuner said...
I am concerned that the Greek debt crisis might lead to a war (although I don't know who would be fighting who). The problem is economic at its heart, and such a war might involve the breakup of the EU or departure of a country from the euro.
Here's the current situation: Some 27 countries, some with small overseas territories, are in the European Union, and many of those are also in NATO. Greece happens to be bankrupt (and Italy is allegedly also heading that way, not to mention Spain and/or Portugal). France and Germany are arguing over what to do about it. France pretty much wants money to be created and poured into its banks to shore them up. Germany is afraid of inflation and wants most of Greece's debt to be written off. (At least that's what I think their positions are.)
People are afraid that this situation is going to get out of control (the so called "debt contagion"). If that happens, then there might be departures from the euro/EU, attempts at "military Keynesianism", and, for all we know, attempts at taking over assets in other countries by force. After all, Hitler built up his forces and broke various international treaties before going to war - in the wake of the Great Depression.
How big is the risk of a war from a European recession/ depression stemming from the debt crisis? Is the hatchet truly buried?
- November 2, 2011 at 6:35 AM


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The idea, I guess, is that Comic-Con is for the "fans." You hear the word "fans" more than just about any other at Comic-Con. And for the most part, that's true. Most of the people here are hardcore fans of one thing or another and are here to celebrate that one thing or another. Some people are here to gawk, sure, while some people are mostly just here to try and find some celebrities (like the kid I stood in line with this morning, who kept asking me which celebrities I thought would be there today). And other people are here to take in the whole experience and not really get too immersed in any of it. But the vast majority of the people here are fans, which is turning into a word with increasingly less meaning in the hands of marketers. At the Piranha screening the other night, one of the publicists wandered by after the majority of us had waited over an hour to see gory footage, and said to the recently arrived actors, "The fans have been so patient."
Honestly, though, fans of what? I guess I'd call myself an Adam Scott fan, but he wasn't the reason I was there. Fans of the original Piranha movies? Of director Alex Aja? Or has the word "fan" just become an all-purpose word to mean anything anyone wants it to mean. I find fandom a little alienating and hard to process because I'm just not sure I can muster that level of devotion to anything, much less something entirely fictional (I'm not even a hardcore fan of any sports teams). I like things. I appreciate things. But there are only three or four things I'm a genuine "fan" of. But the Hollywood definition of a fan tends to be anyone who can be suckered into anything. Now, to a degree, this is true. Most fans buy a lot of crap devoted to their chosen properties. But how is it at all possible to be a fan of something you haven't even seen yet? Comic-Con is a machine devoted to ruthlessly turning people from those who don't care about shit, to those who care passionately about it, to those who forget how passionately they felt about it while at the Con years later when they're disappointed by the final project.
I've heard a lot about the "Sundance effect" from people who go to that film festival, which, roughly, means that at the festival, any film that is the slightest bit entertaining often gets massively blown out of proportion as some sort of new masterpiece, simply because a lot of the fare offered at the festival is so depressing and hard to watch. There's a similar effect at Comic-Con, which creates an ideal atmosphere to screen pretty much anything with any geek potential (and plenty of things without) and then builds a place where it will be met with mostly uncritical eyes. There are exceptions, to be sure, but Comic-Con is a place not to build anticipation but fan faith, a rock solid belief that, lo, these things will be as awesome as they seemed after you spent all that time in line to get into Hall H.
I'm thinking about this today because it was the day for THE two movie panels, the Warner Brothers one and the Marvel films panel. I attended neither, though I sat in line for the Marvel one for a bit, simply to spend a little time outdoors (one of the cruelest ironies of Comic-Con is that it sends 100,000 people to one of the most beautiful outdoor cities in the U.S., then asks them to spend all of their time indoors). I was also thinking about it because of how well the trailer for The Walking Dead was received, even by me. It's much, much easier to cut together a bunch of awesome moments from a movie based on a pre-existing property that Comic-Con attendees are already warmly disposed toward than it is to get people interested in any sort of original property (just ask the folks behind new independent sci-fi drama Skyline, which emptied Hall H yesterday). I'm increasingly less sure of why anyone covers Comic-Con, because it's turned growing hype into a science. Everybody here is hearing Pavlovian bells. (I hope to write more about this tomorrow.)
That said, though, the entertainment world runs on geeks, more or less. Geeky objects of affection have largely become the mainstream culture. This is more or less fine. I like this stuff, too, even if I seem curmudgeonly about it. But Comic-Con has become so huge that it has kind of a love-hate relationship with the folks who are its lifeblood. Today, at the Chuck panel (which you can read my full report about here), the interest in keeping things moving along so quickly led to the asking of absolutely no fan questions. For a show like Chuck, which has something of a deeply symbiotic relationship with its fanbase, this was ludicrous. It makes sense that there's a need to keep the Ballroom 20 schedule moving along nicely, but not even allowing fans to ask one or two questions was a bad call.
And yet, Comic-Con is often one of the few places where it's possible to develop a relationship with fans for the entertainment community. Stars are more approachable here - I could, say, walk up and talk to an actor I liked, should I spot them - and they tend to be a little more gracious. The people here are the hardest of the hardcore fans, and while I'm sure it's just as exhausting for a Harrison Ford as it is for anybody else, I was at that Community panel, up on stage, and the effect of having 1,600 people cheering in your general direction is electrifying. I knew they were in no way cheering for me, but, Lord, it was still a tremendous rush (and I'll write more about that panel in a separate post).
Leverage and The Venture Bros.: The problem, then, is how to give the fans a valuable experience. I almost said "what they really want," but, honestly, for a lot of fans, just being in the same room as the actor or author they love is enough. The panels that go from merely good to truly great, however, are the ones that figure out a way to harness what it is that the fans might love about their particular favorite property and find a home for it on a Comic-Con stage. I attended two panels in the Hilton's Indigo Ballroom today to get a feel for the room (which was where Community was), and the difference between the two was oddly illustrative.
Leverage isn't a bad little show, but the panel it hosted was flat and blah for some reason. It's entirely possible that this had to do with the audience being about half Venture Bros. fans waiting a panel they weren't interested in out, but it also felt like the collection of actors assembled was a little unsure what to do with all of the fan attention (outside of Christian Kane, who's used to it from Angel). Sometimes, you can just tell that a particular celebrity is a little frightened of the fan attention, and that was the case here. Timothy Hutton, for example, wasn't hiding under his table or something, but it was easy to tell he felt slightly out of his element. It didn't help that the panel's momentum was broken up by a lengthy, out-of-context clip from tomorrow night's episode that brought everything to a screeching halt, pacing-wise. When it came time for fans to ask questions at the end of the panel, the moderator had to keep begging more fans to step forward and ask.
The Venture Bros., meanwhile, came almost completely unprepared. James Urbaniak, Patrick Warburton, Doc Hammer, and Jackson Publick had a trailer to show us - and it was a very good trailer indeed - and a few bits of news - the next batch of episodes from season four will hit on Sept. 12! - but, for the most part, they just showed up to shoot the shit with each other and invite us to listen in. Since so much of what makes The Venture Bros. so enjoyable is the interplay between the voice actors and the weird, weird minds of Hammer and Publick, this was a completely acceptable alternative to the normal, staged-within-an-inch-of-its-life panel, where "news" bit after "news" bit is trotted out for all in attendance. The team behind Venture Bros. knew that no one from the big, mainstream media was going to be there, so they just relaxed and let us listen in on their conversation. Urbaniak started things off by quoting Citizen Kane. At one point, Warburton tried to get girls to take an interest in his teenage son. There was a lengthy story about Hammer lactating or something. Not a lot was going on, but almost all of it was very, very funny. And, even more importantly, everyone on the panel had some idea of how to work the show and didn't seem terribly stiff at it.
At the end of the Venture Bros. panel, Hammer and Publick replayed the trailer and added snarky director commentary (with one saying he'd typed up the text for the trailer and given it to the other to proofread and he'd only made one spelling error!) over top of it. None of this was absolutely vital. I'm not sure that I learned anything new about the show, nor do I think I would have missed much if I had skipped the panel. But it was marvelously fun all the same, a way to celebrate the show's fans that was at once both essential and inessential. (And I loved Publick and Hammer's snide way with dispatching "news" that wasn't really news but was, instead, full of the most minor of tidbits about the upcoming episodes. It was wonderfully snarky and subtly satirical.)
Fables: After Community (about which, again, more in a moment), I sat in the Hall H line for a time, and I came to realize that for a certain subset of fan - say, the fans who are not under constant deadlines - the line standing is part of the point of the whole process. The girl I struck up a conversation with was downright cheerful about waiting in line for Kevin Smith (who was on after Marvel), since she got to meet so many interesting people in line and talk to them. It's easy to forget while working a job steeped in covering pop culture that for a lot of people, there are very few people in their lives who care this much about trivial bullshit. Standing in line and meeting someone who's just as excited about Kevin Smith movies as you are can be a warming experience, a way to feel oddly connected.
But then there was a stabbing. Yes, a stabbing (with a pen). Other sites have all of the details, but Hall H was closed down, with no one being let out or in, and it soon became obvious that nothing was going to come of waiting in that line, so I decided to go to the Fables panel instead.
Fables was the series that really got me into comics a few years back. I came to comics pretty late, not allowed to read them as a kid (outside of the few at my grandmother's house), and the only superhero I know terribly well in the sense of having a good working knowledge of his storylines and villains is Superman. Fables, though, had such an irresistible concept that I just had to pick one up. And then I kept picking up trade paperback after trade paperback, until I had blitzed through the entire series and simply had to start visiting my local comics store to keep up. Whereupon I started buying other acclaimed series and seeing what they were all about. The first time I thought of going to Comic-Con was a couple of years ago, and it was solely to see the Fables panel. I've fallen away from interest in the series in the past year, catching up only sporadically (and I've let Jack of Fables slide entirely), but I still have a huge sense of goodwill toward the series.
Say what you will about Bill Willingham, but the guy knows how to take care of his fanbase. He's easily approachable by just about anyone who might want to talk to him. He maintains an online forum which remains one of the most polite and thoughtful on the Internet, and he regularly talks to his fans there. While we were waiting in line for the panel, he came along to assure us that all of us were going to be getting in and talk with us about what we hoped for from the panel. He seems like a nice guy who's really pleased to be doing this full-time, and his overall demeanor colored the whole panel, which was full of occasionally unfunny jokes (bastions of humor the Fables team aren't), big news for fans of the comic, and assorted other odds and ends.
It seems like Willingham and his team are going all out for the series' 100th issue, making it 100 pages and including lots of great goodies, like a board game and cutout puppets. The main story of the issue is going to be about a magical duel between a character who seems to be Frau Totenkinder and Mr. Dark (a villain I like in theory but whose nebulousness and pure evilness has dragged some of the suspense out of the tale), and the artwork shown from upcoming issues was gorgeous. The panel also announced another Cinderella miniseries, this time featuring her taking on her deadly arch nemesis (who will have something to do with Asian Fables) and just generally joked around with fans.
I complained a bit about comics panels yesterday, but I genuinely enjoyed this one, even if I've fallen out of love with the series. Willingham's jocularity set the tone, and the fanbase for Fables is small (though large for Vertigo) but loud. This, honestly, is a property that's just waiting for just the right adaptation to really blow up huge - and might I suggest Rachel McAdams and Josh Holloway as Snow and Bigby? - and it's nice to see Willingham biding his time until that inevitably happens by building a relationship with his fans (many of whom he seemed to know by name). I don't know if this panel made me more likely to pick up the latest issue of Fables or continue with Jack of Fables again, but I certainly didn't find it bafflingly self-serious, like I've found many other comics panels.
Up next: I'll bet you're just dying to know what it's like to moderate a Comic-Con panel. Well, I'll tell you!


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CHENNAI: Dr. Youhanon Mar Dioscoros, Metropolitan of Madras Diocese exhorted all to donate generously to build a student chapel at Coimbatore for the benefit of Orthodox students pursuing their higher education at the Karunya University and there around. Mar Dioscoros' exhortation came out through an office order.It is assumed that more than 200 students belonging to the Orthodox Church are studying in and around Karunya University, which is run by a protestant organization. There is no Orthodox Church or chapel in the vicinity too."At present only the senior students are in a position to go and attend Holy Qurbana at Churches in Coimbatore city, for the city is almost 40km away. The administration does not allow girl students to go such far distances and so is the case with junior students", said one of the senior students, who spearhead the campaign."The present scenario is that they (the Orthodox students) do not have a proper place to worship together and to conduct our Holy Qurbana on Sundays. These students have come up to us with a strong desire to establish a chapel near to the Karunya campus, with the hope that they all could attend the service regularly", said Dr. Mar Dioscoros in the office order dated January 10, 2010.The Metropolitan had contacted local land owners and the expected cost to buy a piece of land will be about 1 lakh of Rupees per cent. The plan is to buy a minimum of 10 cents for the proposed chapel. Total cost of the project is projected to be about 13 lakhs of Rupees.All well wishers can send their contributions to the account no. 13470100027739, (Federal Bank, Coimbatore) or to the address: Fr. P.J. Mathew (Vice President, OCYM/ MGOCSM Coimbatore region), St.Gregorious Orthodox church, 138 Near Modern Theatre, Yercaud main Road, Salem 636008 (Phone: 91.944.238.2306).The Metropolitan expects all the Orthodox alumni of Karunya University, their relatives, parents and well wishers to generously contribute to this noble cause.http://www.orthodoxherald.com/2010/07/17/mar-dioscoros-welcomes-donation-to-build-a-student-chapel-at-coimbatore/
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4Kast.1 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 69 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We are looking for a sharp design/symbol/brand for our company. The name of the company is Fourkast Footbag Company, we simply go under the name Fourkast as well. There is a lot of creative room to work with this name in regards to design. We may accept more than one design as well!
Fourkast Footbag Company/Fourkast
We are looking for a symbol and or logo representing the word Fourkast. Again, there is a lot of room to work with this. We like what many of the skate companies have done with their logos. Designers are welcome to play around with both the Fourkast and/or Fourkast Footbag Company logo/brand. A brand that people can recognize as ours is ideal!
The color scheme is pretty open. A one color or two color brand could work fine. For the art file, vector based is best for us.
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January: The Godhead
"We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost" (Articles of Faith 1:1).
The outlines in this unit will help the youth learn how to strengthen their faith in the members of the Godhead as they study the scriptures and share their testimonies with others. They will gain experience following the guidance of the Holy Ghost in their efforts to learn and teach the gospel. Encourage them to ask questions about what they are learning, to seek to learn more, and to share with others what they discover.
Outlines to choose from this month:
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Throughout this unit, you may want to remind the youth that the names of Deity are sacred (see D&C 63:61). Encourage them to use these names with reverence and respect.


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1. Re: Issues resolving javax.*David Bosschaert Mar 1, 2011 6:40 AM (in response to Patrick Giefing)
Hi Patrick,
The javax packages are generally not automatically exposed by the OSGi framework from the JRE. This allows multiple implementations and versions of these packages to co-exist in the OSGi framework. I know Equinox does expose these packages by default in some configurations.
You can get an OSGi framework to export additional packages from the system bundle by adding them to the org.osgi.framework.system.packages.extra property. In the JBoss OSGi framework this is done by modifying the runtime/server/<configuration>/conf/jboss-osgi-framework.properties file like this:
javax.sql;version=1.0, \javax.sql.rowset;version=1.0, \
... etc ...{code}
Hope this helps,
2. Re: Issues resolving javax.*Patrick Giefing Mar 1, 2011 7:29 AM (in response to David Bosschaert)
thank you for the quick answer, works fine now


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5 Survival Tips For Web DesignersCategories Trend Hunting, Web Design
This is a guest post from Kai Gittens – a web designer at Revlon Cosmetics. Kai discusses web design and development on his personal blog.
Cameron Chapman caused a bit of an uproar last fall with her Smashing Magazine article Does The Future Of The Internet Have Room For Web Designers? Her general position was that the current crop of mobile devices and their accompanying applications are robust enough to the point that they may eventually replace the need for desktop and laptop computers. Add that to the fact that it's much easier to purchase pre-built website templates, and it appears as if web designers are going the way of the dodo bird and headed for extinction.
In all fairness, her point was well argued. It's also important to note that Chapman was questioning the need for web designers, not the need for design in the digital space.
In case there are issues in the future, here are 5 survival tips:
1. Remember that "design" is not going anywhere
Clients will always want their brand and products represented in a graphically appealing way that stands apart from their competitors. There will always be a need for design.
2. Remember that technology changes rapidly, and that's in your favor
Mobile device development did not stop with the iPhone or the Android or the Blackberry Curve. Along came the iPad, which allowed for more design space and gave us the digital magazine format. Creating Wired Magazine's beautiful iPad app required some programming skills, but a significant amount of work was first done in Adobe InDesign.
The point is, technology doesn't stay stagnant and will always provide new design opportunities.
3. Learn some web development
Web design may or may not disappear but web development is staying right where it is. Chapman ends her article stating that, while the backend for mobile programming and templates will be "pretty standardized, the manner in which [they are] displayed will become a battleground of creativity." This is a win-win situation for developers.
My suggestion is to study a website-friendly object oriented programming language that you can use right away. Right now, that means either JavaScript or ActionScript 3.0 for Flash.
4. Strive to become a "jack of all trades," not a "master of one" in the digital space
If you know how to use WordPress, you can learn the basics of Microsoft SharePoint in about a week. If you prefer ActionScript 2.0 to the more difficult ActionScript 3.0, you're ready to use HTML5's Canvas function. You'd be amazed at other areas of web development to which you can apply your current skillet. DON'T SELL YOURSELF SHORT!!!!!
5. Search the job boards to see what skillsets are in demand
Regardless of theories by bloggers and pundits (me included), it's potential employers that will decide whether or not web designers are needed. Regularly review the job sites to see what skillsets they're looking for. Also, go on a few interviews, even if you already have a job. You'll get a great feel for the current marketplace.
Do you think that Chapman is right? If so, are you doing any extra work to keep yourself relevant? Let me know!
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MURFREESBORO, TENN. - Tennessee State Track and Field started the indoor season on Saturday at the Middle Tennessee State Christmas Invitational.
Ashontae Jackson led the way for the Tigerbelles by winning
the long jump and placing second in a pair of running event. Jackson won the
long jump with a distance of 20 1/2 feet (6.11 meters). The senior ran the 55 meters in 7.17
seconds and the 200 meters in 25.26 seconds.
Ja'Lyn Burr was one of five individual winners for TSU and the second woman to finish first. Burr had a triple jump of 38 feet, 8 3/4 inches (12.11 meters).
In the 400 meters, finished with a time of 58.03 seconds, good enough for second.
The Tigerbelles also took first in the 4X440 meter relay by 2.5 seconds, clocking in at 3 minutes, 54.86 seconds
On the men's side, a trio of
winners paced the Tigers, starting with Royce Dates in the long jump. Dates won
with a jump of 24-6 7/8 7.49 meters.
Daryl Rice captured the top spot in the high jump with a height of 6-6 1/3 (1.99 meters). In the 800 meters, Jamill Jackson's time of 1:55.92 claimed first place.
The TSU men also took second and third in the 4X440 meter relay with times of 3:25.17 and 3:26.76.
TSU track and field is back in action on January 5th, at the Gentry Center for the Ed S. Temple Classic.
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My website http://www.mcgcorporateboxes.com.au provides information on corporate box facilities at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in Melbourne, Australia for sporting events.
Purchasers of corporate hospitality packages who entertain clients. They traditionally tend to be from medium to large organisations from banking, finance, IT, Telco, insurance, construction. Viewers of the website and my new brochure could be the end user of the boxes (Sales and Marketing manager for example) or it could be a personal assistant looking for packages on behalf of his/her boss. People who attend the events are predominantly male.
I have written all the content and placed it into a Powerpoint presentation for you! Refer to Presentation1.ppt or Presentation1.pdf in the attachments. I need you to jazz it up and make it look professional for me. All text must stay the same but the layout and other artwork such as shadowing etc are completely up to you. You can keep the same colour schemes as the website but not essential that you do.
Note about the images:
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The huge, burning object that slammed into Jupiter last week still remains a mystery to scientists who are currently examining this latest impact on the gas giant.
The newest Jupiter collision was spotted Friday by amateur astronomers Anthony Wesley in Australia and Christopher Go in the Philippines. It occurred less than a year after another object whacked Jupiter last summer.
Wesley posted photos of the blazing fireball that signaled the collision to his website. They were taken from Broken Hill, Australia. [Video of the Jupiter fireball.]
IN PICTURES: Awesome photos of Jupiter
Scientists are now analyzing the impact, in hopes of being able to identify the cosmic object that crashed into the largest planet in our solar system.
For the time being, however, there is no consensus on what it was, said Heidi Hammel of the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo.
Hammel was the lead researcher of a study that was recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, which determined that a rogue asteroid about 1,600 feet (500 meters) was the culprit in another spectacular crash on Jupiter that occurred on July 19, 2009.
It was Wesley, too, who first spotted the July 2009 Jupiter crash. His observations kicked off an international observation campaign to study the impact site.
Studies about Jupiter's latest impact are already underway, though no results have been released so far.
"We are working on the data analysis and I cannot say news on this," Agustin Sanchez-Lavega of the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, told SPACE.com in an e-mail.
With this new collision coming less than a year after the July 2009 incident, researchers are rethinking current estimates of the frequency of such planetary impacts on Jupiter.
"Certainly the impact probability statistics seem to need revision, based on these two events within the past 11 months," Hammel told SPACE.com.
Jupiter is certainly no stranger to violent impacts. In 1994, the comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke into more than 20 pieces and pelted the gas giant repeatedly. At the time, astronomers estimated such impacts could occur on Jupiter every 50 to 250 years.
- Photos - Rogue Asteroid Hits Jupiter
- Big Fireball on Jupiter Spotted by Amateur Astronomers
- Video - Fireball on Jupiter: Asteroid Hits Gas Giant
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Here are some brief excerpts from an interview with Khandro Rinpoche by Sandra Scales entitled "Compassion Is About Awareness" that beautifully express some of the dynamics between compassion, awareness, and wisdom.
From the book "Sacred Voices of the Nyingma Masters," pages 185-187:
Sandra Scales: There are so many teachings about love and compassion, and I trust in them. But why does compassion actually work? Is there logic behind it? Would you talk about what true compassion is?
Khandro Rinpoche: Compassion is not about kindness. Compassion is about awareness. Compassion in the general sense of kindness would be an expression of awareness, but one that might not necessarily be free from the stain of ego grasping. Genuine compassion is egoless. It is the inherent essence expressed, inseparable from awareness. This natural essence, which is genuine compassion, does not need to be formulated or even expressed as something like "compassion." We see this exemplified in our great teachers. Their genuine compassion does not require phrases and expression or even actions. Just their presence, who they are, is nothing other than the quintessence of compassion. We, in contrast, have to invent and demonstrate compassion. Our contaminated compassion still requires effort and deliberation. That is conventional or general compassion.
SS: If we practiced this kind of conventional, ego-tainted compassion repeatedly, would that lead to awareness compassion?
KR: Yes, the good thing about the use of deliberate or conventional compassion is that it matures the mind so that ego grasping diminishes. It definitely has that effect and is therefore a skillful method for developing awareness compassion.
SC: Thank you, Rinpoche. This afternoon, you were talking about looking into or through the eyes of others. Would you speak more about that?
KR: We talk about compassion but in a very impersonal way. Genuine compassion arises as the ability to go beyond self. This requires that we transcend our preoccupation with our own happiness and suffering. As meditators, one of the first things we can do is to honestly look at the world from behind another's eyes. Experience that person's craving for happiness and fear of suffering with the same immediacy that we would if his heart and mind were ours. We may see that this individual's immense hope and fear are even greater than our own. See the similarities we all share. We cannot even begin to commit ourselves to the path of selfless compassion if our mind is unable to sense the sameness of the ground we all stand upon. Ultimately, to understand selflessness, we have to go beyond self.
SC: This breaks down some of the imaginary barriers between us?
KR: And can also lead to the understanding of all-pervasive ground, an understanding that "Oh, yes there is the same happiness, the same suffering, the same ignorance and the same wisdom." And yet this mind of ours thinks, "No, it is different. Your problem is your problem, my problem is my problem." And so separation begins. When that separation is established, we definitely have a natural instinct to safeguard our own selfish interests and to be unaware of other's needs.
But if we were able to really look into the eyes of another, we would see the oneness of all sentient beings and the sameness of the ground we all share. And then we would know the immense potential each being has for complete liberation at that very moment.


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1. Can anyone with a Z8 anticipate a problem with domed struts and/or top frame rail/hood misalignment?
Many reports by Z8 owners have indicated that hitting a bad pothole or similar obstruction under normal driving conditions can cause damage to the front strut towers (doming) and distort the upper frame rails, which in turn can cause a misalignment of the front quarter panels and the hood. These reports have come from numerous owners of both stock and modified cars, including a couple of Alpina owners.
2. Are there parts available from BMW to correct this problem before it occurs?
In the autumn of 2006 BMW AG released a "Performance Package" (PP) which they say will enhance the handling performance of the car over rougher roads ? thus the name. However, it is widely accepted that the release of the PP is BMW?s way of giving us a preventative solution without admitting to there being a problem. More info on the PP can be found here.
3. What is the price of the PP and the install?
The PP retails for under $600 and the install will be around $800, with most board members are reporting around $1400 all in.
4. Where can I get the PP and have it installed?
You must order and have it fitted by your BMW dealer, but it is very important to make sure you go to a dealer with Z8 experience, as this thread shows. Having the kit installed by a service center with little to no Z8 knowledge could result in increased installation costs and possibly an incorrect installation.
5. Is the PP color matched to the car?
No, the PP comes in a black powder coat finish that matches the engine and air box, but some owners have color matched or chromed theirs.
6. Beyond fitting the PP what can I do to minimize the chance of suffering this damage?
BMW NA's official position is that there is a NOT a problem, and thus they will NOT suggest any preventative measures, including the use of the PP. However, the Z8 Club in Europe has suggested that the OE run-flat tires are the key contributer to the damage as they are very heavy and have extremely stiff sidewalls. All the preproduction testing of the Z8 was done using Michelin Pilot Sport tires, the Bridgestone Run Flats were an eleventh hour addition to the car demanded by BMW's Marketing Department, which is almost certainly why the issue didn't surface during the rigorous preproduction testing. Using regular tires both lessens the unsprung weight and the more compliant sidewalls absorb much more of the force that might be transferred to the strut towers in an sudden pothole impact. It is also worth noting that all the owners who opted to fit Dinan castor plates under the front strut towers escaped any damage.
Some owners have opted to install the more complaint Alpina suspension on their Z8's to lessen the possibility of the damage, as only two Alpinas are known to have sustained this damage.
NB: Dana Caldwell at Peter Pan BMW will be offering the full Alpina suspension kit for Z8 owners.
(Personally I had Dana fit the PP and the Alpina suspension kit with 20" BMW Motorsport rims and Pirelli P Zero tires to my car, and am delighted with the result.)
7. How can I tell if a Z8 has this type of damage?
The first frame thread gives you all the information on the issue, with images of what to look for.
8. What should I do if my Z8 has this type of damage?
The ONLY way to officially confirm damage on a Z8 is to contact BMW Customer Relations (Bill Stuart - 201 263 8210) and schedule an inspection by a Field Service Engineer. This inspection is done at your local BMW Service Center.
9. How difficult or expensive is it to repair this type of damage?
If the shock tower domes are only slightly distorted and there is no pinching of the hood gap lines then fitting the PP should be sufficient, as it will have the effect of sandwiching the the top of the dome, and stabilizing it. If however the shock tower crowns are badly domed, and the upper frame rails are distorted, the car will have to be returned to one of the three BMW Aluminum Repair Centers in the US. They will remove and replace the front half of frame, which involves removing the engine, and disassembling the entire front of the vehicle, which is both a lengthy and expensive process.
BMW NA have suggested to some owners that this should be handled as an accident insurance claim, but BWW NA has also taken appropriate care of regular/repeat customers who are the original owners of the car. This is decided on a case by case basis with BMW NA.
Nov 2008 addendum.
BMW AG is working on a kit to replace domed strut crowns and upper frame rails without doing a full front end frame removal/replacement. Full details and images of this new solution will be posted as soon as we have them.


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The British menswear label Smithfield recently teamed up with furniture designer Peter Masters to create an eclectic and 100% recycled interior for their new Manchester shop. The dynamic space uses mailing tubes and shipping boxes as elements of digital-age styling, recycling them into incredible wall coverings, light fixtures, hanging sculptures, and clothing displays.
Peter Masters runs a company called Burnt Toast that specializes in clean-lined, well-crafted objects, and he has also created interiors for a variety of clients including the UK based store Habitat and sportswear label Adidas. Burnt Toast's deconstructed aesthetic, which can been seen in their designs for chairs and tables, coordinates well with the upscale urban fashion at Smithfield. Although the corrugated interior is intentionally minimal, a designer's eye can tell that there was considerable planning behind these well chosen forms.
The concept behind Brunt Toast's interior is that the cardboard components can be reused in a variety of configurations without added materials or cost. As the fashions change through the seasons, the store will also continue to look fresh. The store's relaxed, but mature aesthetic compliments the clientele that visit The Northern Quarter neighborhood in Manchester.
All the cardboard components are made from 100% recycled materials and are sourced from Romiley Board Mill. All of the wood used in the construction came from MRC, a Manchester wood recycling company. Smithfeild's store blog states that "the focus behind the shop, both interior and contents, is that to stand out from the crowd it shouldn't cost the earth."
Besides the tubes and boxes, there are cardboard animals watching over the fashions. The dogs were inspired by the collie in the Smithfield logo. The company chose this breed to represent them, because they are synonymous with hard work and a fiery temperament. The store carries a host of Scandinavian and European brands including: Wood Wood, Spitfire Design, On Tour, Organic label Knowledge Cotton Apparel, Dunderdon and local brand Three Crowns.
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This is something I recreated from a recipe on a magazine I flipped through awhile ago. The combination of these two main ingredients - minced pork and fresh clams, was just superb. I did not use much seasoning, the fresh taste was a gift from the nature.
I have been light cooking lately, easy to cook, to eat and to clean recently. Except this one. I spent half-an-hour or more just to get them ready to steam. Having said that, for sure I will make it again as it was so tasty and juicy.
Ingredients (3-4 servings):
- 12 large clam
- 1 tbsp sake
- 1 tbsp water
- 150 g minced pork
- 1 medium size eringi mushroom, chopped
- 1/4 carrot, chopped
- 1/4 tsp sugar
- 1/4 tsp sesame oil
- 1/2 tbsp katakuriko/corn starch **
- Salt
- Pepper
- Put sake and water in a small pot, bring to a boil then add in clam. Put the lid on and cook until all clams opened. Set aside to cool down slightly.
- Transfer clams to a plate, reserve the liquid/soup.
- Remove flesh from each clam and set aside for later use. Keep the shells intact, rub inner part of shells with katakuriko. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl, combine all other ingredients EXCEPT salt and pepper. Mix with chopsticks/spatula/hand in same direction until the side of bowl became sticky. Then, add in liquid reserved from steaming the clam. Beware of sand/dirt at the bottom of the pot of liquid.
- Add salt and pepper to taste, again mix in same direction till well blended. Set aside for 15 minutes or so.
- Divide mince mixture into 12 equal portions, press a steamed clam (flesh) into each portion then stuff it into shells.
- Put stuffed clams in a plate, steam in a preheated steamer on low-medium for about 15 minutes.
- Garnish and serve warm.
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Amazon Indians, victims of war, exhumed in Peru
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Forensic teams have begun the long-delayed exhumation of members of an Amazon tribe that suffered devastating losses during Peru's 1980-2000 conflict with Shining Path rebels.
The first body, unearthed over the weekend, wore the standard ochre robe of the Ashaninka, said Ivan Rivasplata, leader of the forensic anthropologists from the Peruvian prosecutor's office engaged in the mission with army escorts.
He said in Lima that the team hopes to exhume about 130 bodies from five common graves in two communities in the Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro river valleys, where remnants of the Shining Path continue to exert influence, living off a vibrant cocaine trade.
Some 6,000 Ashaninka were killed, 5,000 enslaved and 10,000 forcibly displaced by the Shining Path during the conflict, according to a government-convened truth commission, which reported that 30 communities disappeared. The entire ethnic group numbers only about 97,000, according to Peru's 2007 census.
The Ashaninka, a hunter-gather people, live primarily in an area where jungle meets mountain. It was there that the Shining Path tried to forge the cradle of a new Maoist-inspired state. Most fiercely resisted the rebels.
One Ashaninka survivor, Miguel Pachacamac, said in video taken by the forensic team and provided to The Associated Press that rebels did not even bother to bury the natives they killed. "They left them for the vultures."
The long valley where the Ashaninka live is currently the world's No. 1 cocaine-producing region and only in the past few years have Peruvian authorities begun venturing into its backwaters to exhume victims of a conflict that claimed an estimated 70,000 lives.
The valley has also been the site of a bitter struggle over a major hydroelectric project that would have benefited Brazil and Peru while displacing thousands of people. The Ashaninka, led by tribal activist Ruth Buendia, succeeded in halting it through legal challenges.
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The last day of racing at the track world championships in Manchester saw competition in the women's keirin and scratch race, the five-event men's omnium, and the men's 1000m time trial.
For the first time, things didn't go the host nation's way with American Jennie Reed scoring an upset win in the keirin to defeat Britain's golden girl Victoria Pendleton and Germany's Christin Muche.
The Netherlands boosted their gold medal tally by two on the final day with Eleonora Van Dijk winning the women's scratch race from Yumari Gonzalez (Cuba) and Belinda Goss (Australia), and Teun Mulder winning the men's 1000m time trial in 1:01.332, beating French pair Michaël d'Almeida (1:01.514) and François Pervis (1:01.579).
The New Zealand team finally tasted gold when Hayden Godfrey won the men's omnium, a five event race that tests all of a track rider's skills and fitness. Godfrey won the scratch race, placed third in the 200m flying time trial, was fourth in the 3000m pursuit and 1000m time trial, and finished seventh in the points race. Second overall in the omnium went to Australian Leigh Howard with Aliaksandr Lisouski (Belarus) finishing third.
Stephen McMahon was there to catch the action.
|Leigh Howard (Australia) was one of the early starters in the men's omnium sprint 200m t.t.
|Gianpaolo Biolo (Italy) after his short, sharp 200 metres.
|Germany's Robert Bartko concentrates on the task in hand.
|Evgeny Kovalev (Russia) on his flying lap.
|The home crowd was keen to see twenty year old Steven Burke (Great Britain) in action.
|Ghislain Boiron (France) took victory in the sprint 200m t.t.
|Bobby Lea (USA) finished in a very respectable fifth place just over a fifth of a second down.
|Robert Slippens (Netherlands) builds up a head of steam on his way to a time of 11.132 sec
|His win in the men's scratch has not affected Aliaksandr Lisouski's (Belarus) determination.
|Walter Fernando Perez (Argentina) powers his way into the first turn on his flying lap in 200m t.t.
|2007 men's omnium winner, Alois Kankovsky (Czech Republic) is an imposing figure.
|Victoria Pendleton (Great Britain) won her keirin heat ahead of Lisandra Guerra Rodriguez (Cuba)
|The second heat of the women's keirin was a closely fought contest.
|Competitors take a moment to compose themselves before the start of the omnium scratch race
|The short repose over, the serious business begins again.
|Reona Sumi (Japan) was active early on in the men's omnium scratch race.
|Riding with determination and aggression, Hayden Godfrey (New Zealand) won the omnium scratch
|Riders must stay behind the derny so use slope of the track to maintain steady progress.
|Tension builds as the derny purrs its way around
|Diana Maria Garcia Orrego (Colombia) leads the group as the pace of the derny begins to increase.
|Aliaksandr Lisouski (Belarus) looking comfortable during the omnium individual pursuit
|Tim Mertens (Belgium) on the move.
|Gianpaolo Biolo (Italy) settles into position for the 3000 metres ahead.
|Alois Kankovsky (Czech Republic) pumping out some serious watts.
|Travis Smith (Cananda) on the lookout for the best line into the first turn.
|Roberto Bartko (Germany) on his way to the fastest time for the individual pursuit in the omnium.
|Leigh Howard (Australia) rode consistently to take the bronze medal in the men's omnium.
|After 5 events the 2008 world men's omnium champion was Hayden Godfrey (New Zealand).


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Boeing officials have confirmed that there will be at least one further version of the AH-64 attack helicopter and probably two more versions of its CH-47 heavy lift helicopter before any aircraft developed through the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative are fielded.
Boeing's outgoing director of attack helicopters, Mike Burke, stated that the Apache AH-64E was a sustainment program but that the aircraft is likely to still be flying for many years beyond the initial introduction of the new Future Vertical Lift (medium) fleet. It has a joint venture with Sikorsky to present the SB>1 Defiant as the Joint Multi-Role (JMR) technology demonstrator as the first step on the path to realizing the FVL (medium) platform, which is intended to replace all of the U.S. Army's AH-64 Apaches and UH-60 Black Hawks.
Mike Burke leaves Boeing today. During his 33-year U.S. Army career he served at nearly every echelon and finished as a Brigadier General. During the first Gulf War he was an Aviation Brigade Commander and deployed his Apaches in battle. He has been a main driving force behind Boeing's attack helicopter business development. Happy retirement Mike! Photo by Andrew Drwiega
Dave Palm, director of Vertical Business Development, added that the company expects that the Chinook would benefit from "at least two more turns of technology" after the CH-47F. Boeing's senior management has already said that the Chinook will come close to having a 100-year service life from its initial introduction in 1962.
The U.S. Army's approved Multi Year II buy of CH-47Fs is planned to flow through to 2019, while the first of eight new build Special Forces MH-47G will be delivered this September. All 61 of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) aircraft will potentially be upgraded to the same standard.
With FVL (heavy) not expected until around 2060, Palm said that the next version of the CH-47 could be expected after 2019, ensuring that there was a continuous production line and skills retention. He said that new rotor blades are currently being tested that should increase lift by over 1,800 lbs. Palm continued: "The F model is all about incorporating the Digital Advanced Flight Control System (DAFCS) whereas the next improvement would further improve the payload and range."
Interestingly, Jeff Shelton, Boeing's SB>1 Defiant business development manager, stated that the JMR TD team agreement with Sikorsky "allows us to use technology developed on JMR or FVL to backward place onto our current fleets – Apache or Black Hawk."
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There were no real surprises with Nikon's new Coolpix digicam line-up
–five of the seven 2010 models take HD videos. The digicam we're reviewing–the 14.2-megapixel S8000–captures stereo 720p HD clips at 30 fps. Yet the last time we looked, the Coolpix and its ilk are cameras, so still quality should be paramount. Let's see how this package adds up…
Features and Design
The Coolpix S8000 is a very attractive camera with sculpted lines around the 10x zoom lens. We had an all-black model, but it's also available in red, bronze and champagne silver. Nikon claims this is the thinnest camera in its class at 1.1 inches thick, but that's a moving target and competitors are at most just a fraction fatter. Still it is thin, given the potent zoom. The digicam measures 4.1 x 2.3 x 1.1 (WHD, in inches) and weighs 6.5 ounces with battery and card. You'll have no issues carrying this around with you all the time.
Along with the usual logos and decals, the front has a nice textured surface on the left side; the thumb rest on the back has a nub-like surface. It felt just right in our hands but you know the drill—do your own hands-on before you buy this or any camera. Also on the front is an AF Assist lamp, a great help for fast focusing. There is no visible flash as it's an auto pop-up type like many Canon PowerShots like the SX210 IS. Nikon claims the S8000 has a "wide" lens but with an opening focal length of 30mm it's not nearly as wide as many Canon, Sony and Panasonic models. In our book 25-28mm is true wide angle but 30mm isn't too bad and you'll grab nice landscapes and portraits. The 300mm on the tele end makes this a good choice for travelers.
The rear of the S8000 is dominated by a 3-inch LCD rated a fine 921K pixels. The screen worked well for the most part. Hidden in the thumb rest at right is a small speaker. Below this are the typical controls and keys: Menu, Playback, Delete and Camera which gives access to Auto, Scene modes (16 options), Smart Portrait and Subject Tracking. Smart Portrait lets you soften skin tones and use Face/Smile/Blink Detection while Subject Tracking helps capture things on the move—more on these in the Performance section. Instead of the usual four-way controller, there's a Rotary Multi Selector i.e. a dial surrounding the center OK button. With the selector you can access the four-points of the compass—exposure compensation, macro, self-timer and flash. When you tap exposure compensation (brightness) you can also change hue and how vivid you want your colors. The last key is the red dot so you can quickly shoot a video rather than turning a mode dial. This is a good feature.
On the top is the shutter surrounded by a wide/tele toggle, tiny on/off button, stereo mics and the pop-up flash. On the right side of the Made In China camera is the compartment for the mini HDMI out while USB-A/V out and the battery/SDHC card slot is on the bottom along with a tripod mount. Definitely use Class 6 or better cards for best results. All in all, the S8000 is a nicely designed camera you'll easily use after 15 seconds of setup.
What's In The Box
The Coolpix S8000, battery/charger, USB and A/V cables, strap and 20-page Quick Start guide as well as a 172-page User's Manual. The CD-ROM has the Nikon Software Suite featuring Nikon Transfer, ViewNX, ArcSoft PanoramaMaker 5, QuickTime and access to my Picturetown which offers 2GB of free online storage.


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Saturday, 23 February 2013
Soft and Full of Sparkle
I used 2 coats of Kiko 209 as a base colour and then painted some New York Summer Vegas Silver which is silver micro glitter and holo bar glitter, onto half the nails. I wanted some larger pieces of glitter in there too so I added a few strokes of Essence Blair. I really like how soft and sparkly it looks. I may do quite a few glitter gradients like this in the near future.
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This is really dainty and pretty! I love that you've used 2 different kinds of glitter to build up the gradient, good idea! XReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you. I thought that would be best because just the chunky glitter wouldn't give me the amount of sparkle I wanted to achieve :)Delete
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Thank you Elsa! I bet a glitter gradient would look amazing on your short nails. Everything looks amazing on your nubs....seriously! <3Delete
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Really beautiful. I am feeling the Oscars with this mani! I could see any of the stars wearing this look walking the Red Carpet!ReplyDeleteReplies
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Kalopin wrote:Thanks, that's one of my favorites! :-]
[...and then, go through and look at the crazy b.s. they discuss on "alternate history"!]
[...maybe they were too scared?]
I enjoyed the laugh though, knowing the amount of their stupidity. I have received similar reception on a few others...
why, do you think it makes this research look any less legit?
Yup. That forum thread seems to show that even the crazies think you're crazy.


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Ann Newby died June 21, 2013
Anabel "Ann" Largent Newby, 87, passed away peacefully on Friday, June 21, 2013. She was born on July 15, 1925 in Ulm, Arkansas to Harvey "Cuz" and Lula Payer Largent. Ann graduated from Weiner High School, where she played basketball. She attended Arkansas State College, now Arkansas State University, in Jonesboro. Ann was raised in the Lutheran Faith, and later became a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Brinkley, Arkansas where she resided with her family.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband of sixty-two years, Eugene Riley Newby; sister, Mary Crabtrey; and brother, Harvey Clay Largent. Ann is survived by her sons, Gary (Robin) Newby of Paragould and Joe Newby of Greers Ferry; daughters, Ange Newby (Jim) Holland of Benton and Jana Newby (Cecil) Bogy of Independence, Kentucky; grandchildren: Nathan (Angela) Newby of Paragould, Jay Holland of North Little Rock, Corye (Craig) Donham of Dallas, Texas, Allison Newby of Shirley, and Riley Newby of Heber Springs; great-grandchildren: Owen Newby of Paragould, Bristol Bartlett of Heber Springs, and due in September, Jaxson Donham of Dallas, Texas; special care-givers and friends, Shirley Johnson and Tammy Burnley; and many nieces, nephews, and friends.
Ann loved to crochet, cook casseroles, and tweak new recipes to get them just right. Living on Greers Ferry Lake, she never met a large rock that she couldn't find a way to move so that she wouldn't have to mow around it. A good challenge was all she needed to get her problem-solving wheels moving. The more complicated she could make the solution, the better she liked it. Ann loved flowers and her yard had a variety of different blooms year round. She was a dental assistant in Brinkley before moving to Bald Knob, where she and Gene owned the Bald Knob Drive Inn. They retired to their lake house on Greers Ferry Lake, where they enjoyed many good times with their family swimming, boating, and cooking on the grill.
A celebration of her life was held on Monday, June 24 at Heber Springs Funeral Home in Heber Springs. Visitation was prior to the service at the funeral home. To view Ann's online obituary please visit www.heberspringsfuneralhome.com or for more information please call (501) 887-9152.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the first responders of the Drasco Volunteer Fire Department, P.O. Box 89, Drasco, Arkansas 72530.


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The Oscars will be celebrating 50 Years of James Bond tonight, and there is no question the influence Ian Fleming's fictional spy has had on popular culture all over the world. While pro wrestling has had its share of James Bond style villains -- such as such as Live and Let Die's voodoo-influenced Papa Shango -- and even former Olympic weightlifter turned pro wrestler Harold Sakata (Tosh Togo) starring as the evil Oddjob in Goldfinger, there has been only one thorough James Bond-like character in a mainstream wrestling show: the WWF-Attitude era's brilliant repackaging of the "Man of a 1000 Holds" Dean Malenko. On James Bond's special night at the Oscars, SLAM! Wrestling thought it would raise its martini (shaken, not stirred) to this short-lived but memorable tribute to James Bond.
Malenko came in as part of the Radicalz from WCW to WWF in January 2000, which included Eddy Guerrero, Chris Benoit, Perry Saturn, and Malenko. While Guerrero and Benoit both became the Radicalz biggest breakout stars in the WWF (though both are no longer with us), the more soft-spoken Malenko was left as a supporting character, at best. However, in the pre-Stephanie McMahon-Levesque run Creative structure, midcarders were not to be banished, but repackaged and pushed faster than an Aston Martin.
Malenko's wrestling-focused gimmick turned into a true sports entertainment character, based on the most colourful aspect of James Bond: Bond's sexist womanizing. Indeed, one could analyze Malenko's old gimmick as being like James Bond without a Bond girl; Malenko's moves were better than any James Bond stunts, and his opponents just as devious. But without a Bond girl, Malenko's character could not make it in the entertainment-heavy WWF. One wonders if a James Bond film could make it at the box office without a James Bond girl, if one uses that comparison?
Malenko was given the nickname "Double Ho Seven," and came out to a catchy James Bond inspired Titantron. His last name Malenko now became an anagram for:
Whether intentional or not, the WWF's Double Ho Seven was a Swiftian Satire, and much more powerful than the simple parody of the Austin Powers film series. Unlike Austin Powers, Malenko played his character without any whimsy, which made it seem all the better.
Lita told Double Ho Seven that the only way she would ever go out on a date with him would be if he could beat her in a wrestling match. In the film world, Bond has rarely battled female villains in hand-to-hand combat, or has usually come up on the short end of the stick (think Roger Moore against a ferocious Grace Jones in A View to A Kill) but the WWF's Double Ho Seven character took on all comers, Andy Kaufman style. Unlike Roger Moore, Malenko won that match against the girl he had eyes for with The Texas Cloverleaf, a move so destructive that not even Q could have invented it. In the end, like 007, Double Ho Seven got his girl.
The end of Malenko's Double Ho Seven character was once again a work of writing genius: two other female wrestlers who were disgusted by the ways of his sexist womanizing decided to take him on in a handicap match. While Double Ho Seven thought facing two women in the ring would be fun, some outside interference by Crash Holly cost him his match against them. Emasculated, Malenko's character never recovered from that defeat: his character's end at the hand of two feminist wrestler characters was entirely appropriate. Pierce Brosnan's run as James Bond fittingly ended a few years later (thankfully, in this writer's opinion, who couldn't stand Brosnan's Bond).
Ranjan Chhibber is a former WWE Writer with a Ph.D. in Film History, and an award winning academic who is currently Assistant Professor of the Humanities & Popular Culture at Florida State College. He invites anyone driving to Florida for Spring Break to stop off at his public lecture "James Bond: A 50 Year Retrospective," on Tuesday March 5th, at 7pm, at Florida State College's Nassau Center, minutes from gorgeous Fernandina Beach. Snacks and non alcoholic beverages will be served. Dr. Chhibber will show film clips of every actor who has played James Bond, but promises to sneak in a reference to Dean Malenko, who he thought was one of the coolest agents backstage when he worked for the WWE, but was afraid to tell him so, lest he be put in the Texas Cloverleaf. He can be reached through his publicist, Jaclyn Allmon, at email@example.com


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