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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co was sued on Monday by an investor who claimed the company knew statements about its Autonomy acquisition were misleading and led the stock to fall, according to lawyers representing the plaintiff.
The proposed class action lawsuit was filed in a San Francisco federal court.
HP dropped a bombshell last Tuesday with an $8.8 billion write-down on its acquisition of British software firm Autonomy, saying the company inflated sales with improper accounting. Autonomy co-founder Mike Lynch has denied any wrongdoing.
HP bought Autonomy for a hefty $11.1 billion last year. HP has said it alerted regulators on both sides of the Atlantic.
The lawsuit, one of the first to be filed by investors on the Autonomy mess, said HP hid the fact it gained control of Autonomy based on financial statements that could not be relied upon. It also said that HP had not revealed to investors that it tried to undo the Autonomy agreement before it closed because of the accounting issues.
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[50 Cent]
I make 'em move
I make 'em move
I make it hot up in here
Look around, see what we got up in here
[Chorus: repeat 2X]
Bring 'em in, kick 'em out, bring 'em in, kick 'em out
Bring 'em in, you ain't freakin we ain't speakin bitch
Bring 'em in, kick 'em out, bring 'em in, kick 'em out
Bring 'em in, it's Dr. Dre, 50 Cent trick
[50 Cent]
They said we couldn't do it, look now, I did it
I topped "In Da Club," I'm still sippin the bubb'
The drama I'm widdit, I get biz, you get it
I breezed on that shiddit, I split your widdig
That's why a nigga bit it, I can't forget it
I said I didn't do it, witnesses said I did it
I'm fresh out on bail, my Benz is all kitted
Five TV's, my rims is so siddick
I cruise through your bitch and just fall in love with it
Baby come in - girl I wanna give it to you
Once I'm in - in sum, I'm a freak with it
Money come quiddick, hot shit I spit it
G-Unit kitted, blue New York fitted
Shorty wanna cut, oh yeah, I'm with it
She come to my hotel room, she know she gon' get it
It's exercise, my homey he been waitin
He next to ride
[50 Cent - singing]
People always talkin 'bout
My reputation~! I don't love 'em, I don't need 'em
I don't love 'em, I don't need 'em, I don't love 'em
I don't care, what she do, with him
It's all good with me
[50 Cent]
They can't do it how I do it, I'm #1, I knew it
I thug, do my thang, and gangsters bop to it
It's hit after hit, damn I'm on the road
I'm like James Brown now, man I got soul
Naw I ain't a pimp but HELL YEAH I got hoes
I was born due to this, when I breathe I make a killin
You think I'm bullshittin, my money touchin the ceiling
Can't buy condos, I'm buyin the building
I'm pissin the wrong women, R. Kelly do it to children
You bet against me boy, I'ma hurt your feelings
Cause over and over I'ma keep on winnin
My Rolls Royce tinted, your Phantom rented
That's why we never ever ever see you in the hood with it
Man e'rybody know, like e'rywhere I go
When 50 in the club shit just go out of control
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(2013 Vintage) Straw color (still in barrel), the nose has lovely aromatic notes of tropical fruit, such as lychee, mango, and pineapple, followed by aromas of quince, toasted almonds and acacia flowers. The palate is round and smooth with a good balance between freshness and fullness. This wine distinguishes itself by a good density and remarkable finesse. The finish is long, with its vivacity and its power. Overall, this vintage is marked by its elegance.
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By SCOTT BAUER?
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) – If there's one thing that can unite political foes in Wisconsin, it just may be the Green Bay Packers.
Republican Gov. Scott Walker, who made a national name for himself by going after public employee unions last year, posted a message on Twitter calling for the return of the NFL's locked-out unionized officials after a disputed call led to a Seattle Seahawks 14-12 victory over the Packers on Monday night.
"After catching a few hours of sleep, the (hash)Packers game is still just as painful. (hash)Returntherealrefs," Walker tweeted early Tuesday.
Democratic state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, who was one of 14 Democrats who fled to Illinois for three weeks last year in opposition to Walker's union proposal, said he saw the irony in Walker's post but in Wisconsin "we're all fans, first and foremost."
"If you were born and raised in Wisconsin, you were raised on the Packers," Erpenbach said. "Every Sunday it's Packers and pancakes, not necessarily in that order."
The NFL locked out the officials in June after their contract expired. The league has been using replacement officials, and through three weeks of the regular season there has been much criticism over the way some games are being handled.
Walker's spokesman Cullen Werwie tried to spin the governor's post on Tuesday, saying it wasn't meant as a pro-union political statement. Walker's tweet was being widely mocked on Twitter in light of his push last year that effectively ended collective bargaining for teachers, nurses and most other public workers.
"I don't think this anything to do with unions, but has everything to do with refs making bad calls," Werwie said.
Erpenbach was so incensed over the game that around midnight Monday night he tweeted two different public phone numbers for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and urged people to call and voice their displeasure.
"I could never ref an NFL football game, ever," Erpenbach said. "The replacement refs are doing the best they can do out there, but the commissioner doesn't want this to sink to a World Wrestling Federation-type event on Sunday. They have to do something. It calls into question the integrity of the game."
While Erpenbach himself plans to leave a message for Goodell urging an end to the referee labor dispute, he won't be advising the Packers to employ the same tactics he and the other Democratic senators did last year.
"I would not recommend the Packers get on a bus and leave the state," he said.


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In her remarks, Tal will trace the route of her career, drawing from lessons learned along the way. Tal often says, while it is easy to draw a straight line backward through her career, retroactively understanding how each step led to another, it's impossible to have the same kind of clarity looking forward. Still, the wins (and the setbacks) have been instructive on what does and doesn't work in advancing your career.
Tal will also discuss the skills that are especially important in journalism today. While writing and reporting tend to be the most visible form of journalism; the aspects of editing, producing and working in the newsroom are critical elements of this multifaceted industry. Tal will draw from her years of experience in various positions to share the skills that are unique to certain roles, as well as the skills broadly that every journalist should have.
She will also happily take questions – so come ready with what you want to know.
Tal Kopan is a political reporter for CNN Politics, where she covers immigration, cybersecurity and other hot-button issues in Washington. During the 2016 election, Kopan served as a breaking news reporter, covering top stories from delegate battles at the political conventions to the Donald Trump presidential transition.
Prior to joining the network, Kopan was a reporter for POLITICO in Washington, D.C., where she reported for their breaking news team and policy verticals. Most recently, she was a reporter for POLITICO Pro Cybersecurity, where she covered cybersecurity policymaking on Capitol Hill and followed cyber-related issues in the Justice Department such as cybercrime. On the breaking news team, Kopan covered campaigns as well as state political trends.
Kopan also previously worked as a Web producer at Fox Chicago News and as a freelance Web producer at ABC 7 Chicago, where she spent time covering stories such as the trials of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the election of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Kopan was selected as a 2014-2015 National Press Foundation Paul Miller Fellow and a member of the 2015 class of Journalist Law School at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She was also the recipient of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Midwest Chapter's 2008 Ephraim Family Scholarship.
Kopan graduated with honors from the University of Chicago with a bachelor's in law, letters and society.
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Joy Crane, AB'15, Reporter, New York Magazine
Daniel Nassaw, AB'68, Pulitzer Prize winner for Explanatory Reporting
Daniel Hertzberg, AB'02, Washington bureau editor, Wall Street Journal
Student moderator: Adam Thorp, the current Maroon editor-in-chief
Join us for a panel discussion featuring veteran journalists and up and coming writers as they share insight on the dynamic field of journalism and media. Read on to learn more about our panelists!
Joy Crane, AB'15, Reporter, New York Magazine
Joy Crane is a staff reporter at New York Magazine, covering technology, business, and national politics. She is also a rather insistent fact-checker, working along side award-winning feature writers such as Andrew Sullivan, David Wallace-Wells and Max Read. Previously with the Financial Times, Joy was head book researcher on FT Columnist & Managing Editor of Gillian Tett's best-seller The Silo Effect (Simon&Schuster 2015). She recevied the Robert Novak Prize for her six-part investigative series on campus sexual assault in 2013.
Joy graduated from the University of Chicago, where she served as the Editor-in-Chief of both The Chicago Maroon and the investigative journal, Greycity Magazine.
Daniel Hertzberg, AB'68, Pulitzer Prize winner for Explanatory Reporting
Joy graduated from the University of Chicago, where she served as the Editor-in-Chief of both The Chicago Maroon and the investigative journal, Greycity Magazine.
Daniel Hertzberg, AB'68, Pulitzer Prize winner for Explanatory Reporting
Dan Hertzberg is a retired journalist. His long career included 32 years at The Wall Street Journal, where he held jobs including reporter, National Editor, Deputy Managing Editor and Senior Deputy Managing Editor. He later supervised coverage of global financial news at Bloomberg News. He is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
Dan has served as a member of the Alumni Board of Governors and chair of the Advisory Committee on the College and Student Activities and has been active in his reunions. Dan is married to Barbara Kantrowitz and they have two grown sons, Michael AB'04 JD'11 and Benjamin, a scientist.
Dan has served as a member of the Alumni Board of Governors and chair of the Advisory Committee on the College and Student Activities and has been active in his reunions. Dan is married to Barbara Kantrowitz and they have two grown sons, Michael AB'04 JD'11 and Benjamin, a scientist.
Daniel Nasaw, AB'02, Washington bureau editor, Wall Street Journal
Daniel was born and raised in New York City, where he attended public schools and studied classical violin at Mannes College of Music. At the University of Chicago, he majored in Philosophy-Intensive Track, focusing on the existential writings of Martin Husserl and Martin Heidegger. He also studied Italian, winning a grant to take summer classes in Rome. He DJed house music on WHPK radio and at parties in Hyde Park, and wrote for and later edited the Chicago Weekly News, an independent alternative to the Maroon.
Daniel's career in the news business has taken him across the United States, affording him the opportunity to interview characters from Barack Obama, to Quincy Jones, to a Native American holy man. He has reported from the cockpit of an F/A 18 Hornet 15,000 feet in the sky, a pornography shoot in a Toronto hotel room, the White House and the halls of Congress, murder scenes, and everywhere in between.
In his spare time, Daniel plays guitar in a rock band and now and then pecks away at a novel. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, an analyst with the federal government.
Adam Thorp, former editor-in-chief, The Chicago Maroon
Adam Thorp was the editor in chief for the Chicago Maroon, the University of Chicago's student newspaper for a year-long term that ended last month. Under his leadership, the paper launched an online classifieds portal, a popular twice-weekly email newsletter, a set of podcasts, committed to an increased focus on impactful reporting. He spent last summer reporting for Injustice Watch, a non-profit criminal justice non-profit, and the summer before that fact-checking the 2016 presidential campaign at PolitiFact. He is a graduating fourth year studying history at the University of Chicago.
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Eddy Dubois passed away peacefully on December 24, 2010.
His daughter sent me a message yesterday. Strangely enough I wanted to contact Eddy.
I never met Eddy personally.
Our path crossed when I conducted research on an airman, Laurent Dubois. Laurent was Eddy's brother. Laurent's mother was Juliette Sauvé and I went looking for any link between Laurent and me.
I talked about Laurent in this article on my other blog Lest We Forget.
Eddy found my article and wrote me. I wrote an article about our virtual meeting…
Eddy had invited me to visit him in Joliette. We had to postpone it because of his health. Eddy shared a lot of pictures of his ancestors with me.
I would have like to write articles on them. Now I can't because I don't have Eddy's permission to go ahead. I am sure he would have given it, but I prefer not to post anything.
I have paid homage to Eddy in this article…


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NRA Likens Videogames to "the Filthiest Form of Pornography"
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Now when do we point out to the NRA the logical fallacy that even if videogames did turn people into violent killers then they would still need to get hold of a real gun before any mass shooting can start? So would be easier to ignore their perceived middle man of murder and just ban/restrict the guns.
Furthermore the NRA here are ignoring the fact that in Lanza's case that part of the problem was that he very much had access and exposure to guns. Also if the NRA wants to put guns in the hands of the good guys, who are these good guys? Because that is quite subjective and let's not forget the old adage "he was such a nice person. I'm shocked he did such a thing," outward appearance can be deceptive. So probably given the "good guys" guns is not going to help very much and could take a turn for the worse if one of those guys decides he'd like to shot a place up after a bad day.
Also thinking about if the NRA got their way and everyone had guns, what would happen if this shooting situation happens again? I think you could run into the problem where the people with the guns could in the heat of the moment be confused about who the gunman is because everyone has a gun, then a hasty decision gets made and then the situation could get a whole lot more messy.
Fantasizing about someone killing you sounds more like it. I'm looking at you horror.
Well, I guess NRA blaming others makes sense. What else are they going to do, admit that guns are bad and should be banned? Just stay quiet when everybody is talking about gun control?
They're clearly just trying to shift the blame off of themselves in the aftermath of Sandy. Nothing to see here.
Political scientists point to the NRA as the textbook model of a political group in US politics. They have several million members who donate and there is a perception that they wield significant power within the beltway (there's been some debate within the political science community as to whether this is actually true, but more often than not perception is reality in politics). They have a regular web broadcast where they claim that "the war on the second amendment" is just beyond the horizon and claim that guns are to be used if the government "attacks their freedoms."
Wayne LaPierre in particular has flouted conspiracy theories along the lines of "president Obama has done nothing to restrict guns during his first term, ergo he must be plotting to ban guns in his second term."
Do you hear that? That's the sound of the NRA throwing us under the bus.
And zero fucks were given.
I kinda want to see how the NRA reacts when someone attacks their favorite hobby that can take a bad wrap when taken out of context... oh... wait.
The hypocrisy in that statement is too damn high.
Seriously I can't believe how someone can say something that stupid considering who they are.
Hey NRA, the 1993- right now media called, they want you to get your head out of your ass.
This is one of the dumbest things I've heard recently.
I can't help but picture LaPierre as Golum staring accusingly at videogames saying "We didn't do it. HE did it! Silly gameses stuffing their pocketses with your moneyses" all the while coddling his bushmaster AR-15 and calling it the precious. The NRA is the evil creature in the room that nobody will do anything about until it bites the hand that feeds it.
Sweet manky jeebus, no, we don't all buy this. We're a big country and the NRA represents only a small (though disproportionately politically influential) fraction of our population. The NRA's message was aimed squarely at its members and means fuck-all to anyone not already so inclined.
Just my two cents.
The NRA, the propaganda and lobbying outlet of the gun manufacturers, really shouldn't talk about "filth".
Oh, of course. Because arming the whole population so that every loony has a gun is a great idea, and countries, like say, Britain, which have very few guns and strict gun laws are clearly rampant with gun crime and mass shootings...oh wait.
Note: I'm not saying we here in Britain have no gun crime, no mass murders, or no violent crime, but the lack of guns clearly has reduced all those.
Indeed. Also, we may infect those poor honest Americans with the evils of socialised medicine!
NRA - Notorious Rambunctious Assholes
God damn I love me some filthy pornography.
It's called getting the heat off you. They'll say some stupid shit, appeal to emotions, and talk to lawmakers. That or what most pro-gun people are saying that the NRA sold them out... AGAIN.
Let's look at some interesting fact:
Violent Videogames in Europe: Yes
Violent Videogames in America: Yes
NRA: 0 - Ronack: 1
Goddamn it NRA. You MIGHT have been able to manage this one if you had decided to align yourself with violent media in the 'ultimately a way to blow off steam and harmless for 99% of the participants' camp. Instead you had to attack pretty much the only people with significant experience dealing with this sort of thing.
As a Texan I believe in guns & hunting & stuff, but seriously? If this all the NRA can put forth, we really deserve to lose all the battles on gun control.
What, more than ALL of the Middle East, Africa, and Mexico? REALLY? By a large percentage? Do you have numbers somewhere? Because we'd have to be having a massacre every week just to keep up with Syria alone I think.
The NRA are trying to divert attention away from the things they love, into things other people love. What better target then the videogame industry, which has been attacked in the courtrooms many times? In my opinion, they just don't like all the negative attention they're getting and are trying to get people to stop thinking they're evil and start thinking we, videogamers, are evil.
I'm not even going to start describing what I think of the NRA right now.
And his statement is being lambasted by all but the most bleeding-heart far right wing individuals. I'm not at all worried about these guys.
It seems as though a lot of major American media outlets are tearing this guy apart for everything he said. So much so that I'm actually surprised by it. Looks like it'll be joked about for a few weeks before being forgotten entirely.
To think that this is how the NRA chose to handle the criticisms and questions against it.
Only about 1/3 of the Wal-Marts in the US sell guns (the report I read was something like 1,500+ stores out of 4,000+)[1] and I'd wager that you'd find those Wal-Marts in areas that are somewhat rural or where hunting is a big thing; IE most of the South and Rocky Mountain states. I live in Louisiana so its quite a normal thing to see at any given wal-mart in the state; especially considering there are some towns that close the schools on the Friday certain hunting seasons start. I see people talk about it like its a scary thing, but when you grow up here it's not. Being taught the dangers and proper use of guns is just part of life here. My family does not own any personally, we don't hunt, but other members of my family do; as do many of the friends I had growing up. Regardless of ownership at one point or another we're all taught the same basic things about gun safety.
1. Treat a gun as if it is always loaded, even if you're super sure it's not.
2. Never point a gun at another person unless you intend to fire in self-defense.
3. Guns aren't toys, so don't play with them like they are.
Now I'm not saying that there should be a chicken in every pot and a cap in every ass; second amendment or not, the sale of any weapons need to be regulated. What I am saying is that Walmart selling guns doesn't bother me, nor does it bother me that the majority of people I pass every day own guns (hell my grandpa has a concealed weapon permit). If a psychopath wants to raise hell with a gun he's going to do it, but other than that I feel secure in trusting that the people in my community who own guns legally are responsible with them.
A side note on the topic of background checks: They're great for stopping former violent criminals for getting their hands weapons legally (because let's face it that career criminals will get them through other channels) and likewise for those with mental issues. If someone flies under the radar though like this Lanza kid or his mom with nary a mark on their record then the background check is at best an empty gesture of security.
[1] This is not the original article I read, but it has the same basic info. http://theweek.com/article/index/214734/why-are-more-walmart-stores-selling-guns-again
Sad part about this statement is that within 24 hours of it happening there were people already saying this almost word for word without sarcasm.
And yes, I'm talking about 5 year olds carrying handguns to class.
Lol video games, a callous, corrupt
If only they still did that. At this point, especially with LaPierre in charge, they're basically another "non-profit" that's in the bag for the GOP.
I'm not going to say that all of them go about killing animals, but for the ones that do . . .
If you want to talk about it being filthy, sick pornography to go about killing people in a video game that cannot actually feel then I can only wonder how sick it is to go about killing other living creatures in real life. I'm not speaking for the people who do it for food or survival, but strictly of the sicko's that shoot 'em solely for entertainment.
Just some food for thought.
Guys! This is actually the best possible outcome for us. Nothing makes us look more sane than the NRA coming out against our medium.
Does anybody notice the irony of 19 years of lowered rates of violence, during the initial rise of all of the violent media he cites?
Granted, Bulletstorm is recent, but GTA has been around since the late 90's, Mortal Kombat since the early 90's, and Splatterhouse since 1988. He says himself that some (presumably purposefully) incendiary game (I'm assuming it's a flash game?) named Kindergarten Killers has been around for 10 years. American Psycho was over a decade ago, and Natural Born Killers was from 1994. Jesus man. Not only are your movies poor examples of 'slasher flicks', they're also incredibly dated and random.
Since when has the media tried to hide Video Games? Any time ANYTHING happens its almost always video game's fault. Mentally unstable person kills people? Video Games. Idiots do something stupid? Video Games. An ant dies? Well, lets throw out all the video games, or else that ant would still be alive.
Yes you can't shoot someone without a gun. But making something illegal doesn't remove everyone's access to it. See weed and booze.
And there have been shootings in places with strict gun control.
Perhaps we should stop looking at the symptoms and look at the causes behind such incidents. There needs to be a neutral, well-informed study done on such horrifying incidents. Perhaps should look at family issues, mental disorders and what-not.
While a video-game on its own might not be enough to triggers a mass-murder (or any violent media-piece for that matter), could it tip someone over whom already has issues?
After hearing this news and news corporations talking bad against gaming, I'm thinking that maybe the apocalypse would be for the better. It's that depressing.
This analogy doesn't really hold up. It's a lot easier to brew moonshine or grow weed than it is to make your own AR-15.
The NRA hasn't been concerned with protecting anyone's rights for some years now. They only have an interest in keeping the debate going and the donations flowing. If you are really concerned with protecting your 2nd (or 1st) amendment rights, DO NOT give your money to the NRA. Gun Owners of America or Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership would be a better choice.
Could you link me to that video if you can? I would love to see it!
Violent games = pornography? Maybe so. Maybe so... I should probably mention that I have no problem with pornography;D
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Ok, so what with this being Shoegaze Week here on DiS, we thought what better way than to round the whole thing off than by compiling the ultimate Mixtape for the genre. In true DiS tradition, instead of having just one person's opinion being taken as the gospel, we've asked various artists, labels, promoters, writers, contributors and users of this here site to name their ultimate Shoegaze track. Here are the final 40. Did someone say make that a double album?
1. Ride - 'Like A Daydream'
Scott Causer (Northern Star Records): "It's the sound of endless summers, of falling in love. It's so glorious and uplifting, makes me feel like I'm 17 every time I put it on - like all good music should."
2. My Bloody Valentine - 'Sometimes'
Bones_316 (DiS User): "It was the first song I ever heard by them, and it ignited the passion that's still burning like 1000 little stars in the distant sky surrounded by a breeze of calm air on a warm night with the sound of laughter in the background and the faint whispering of the one I love."
3. The House Of Love - 'Shine On'
Andy Oliver (Third Wave Collective/Psychedelica magazine): "The early Creation version of this song is permanently embedded in the core of my soul. Half my earlier life was engineered by this track especially my lust for gothic indie girls."
4. Sway - 'Fall'
Daniel Land: "The logical conclusion of the shoegaze experiment; it seems to push shoegaze music as far as it can go. It proves to me that the genre is still relevant and capable of surprise."
5. Slowdive - 'Catch The Breeze'
Nathaniel Cramp (Sonic Cathedral): "It's just a hazy, lazy pop song and then, as it goes into that three-guitar coda towards the end, it turns into the most beautiful piece of music I've ever heard. So beautiful, in fact, that I won't even attempt to describe why as it's enough to turn anyone into a pretentious fool!"
Chris Moore (Model Morning): "The sound of the guitars at the end have shaped the Model Morning guitar sound. Every time I hear that track it never fails to make me get lost in the sound. Amazing!"
6. Swervedriver - 'Rave Down'
Chris Davis (Spotlight Kid): "It's a juggernaut of guitars and has an almighty monster of a groove, but with the added laid back melodic blissed out drawl of Adam Franklin cutting across the slabs of noise!"
7. Sonic Youth - 'Beauty Lies In The Eye'
Adam Franklin (Swervedriver): "A pre-gaze influential track..."
8. Lush - 'De-Luxe'
Debbie Smith (SPC ECO/Curve/Echobelly): "When you're wrapped in polythene/What's that supposed to mean?". Indeed. Fucking awesome. I was obsessed by that band; whenever they played live I'd be right down the front going completely ape-shit, especially to this song. It was brilliant that all this noise was being made by two girls and a fuckload of pedals. You didn't really see girl guitarists much and Miki played a 12 string. And they got stupendously drunk as well! Top band."
9. My Bloody Valentine - 'Soon'
Tim Hann (I Concur): "I love how messed up the guitars sound with the tremolos being ragged continuously and how the song seems to go on about two minutes more than it should do but this still doesn't detract from its brilliance."
10. Autolux - 'Turnstile Blues'
Chris Woolford (I Concur): "Those screwed up fuzz guitars just cripple me every time. I wish I could make a sound like that."
11. Chapterhouse - 'In My Arms'
Ulrich Schnauss: "My all time favourite song, without question."
12. The House Of Love - 'Christine'
Ryan DelGaudio (Dom Keller): "Just a great track!"
13. Ride - 'Sennen'
Jonathan Thompson (Oppressed By The Line): "Perfect harmonies, shimmery chiming guitars, and time hasn't tarnished it in the slightest."
14. My Bloody Valentine - 'Only Shallow'
Peter Morley (Model Morning): "Turn it up loud and get lost in its ear bleeding extra large velvet pillow."
15. Spectrum - 'How You Satisfy Me'
Larry Holmes (Sennen): "I suggested it to the rest of Sennen and Rich in particular got excited. It sounds loud even if you play it quietly, like it's tearing your speakers. It's flipping brill is what it is!"
16. Spiritualized - 'Shine A Light'
Will Lillejord (Mint Ive): "Quite possibly the most wonderful piece of music ever created."
17. Ride - 'Vapour Trail'
Matt Forder (The Domino State): "I know its one of the more poppy numbers from Nowhere, but on the basis that I break out into a little jig every time it appears on my iPod, this has to get my vote!"
18. Revolver - 'Heaven Sent An Angel'
Mark Lasbury (The Amber Herd): "Not an obvious track - but one of my favourites from that era."
19. Slowdive - 'Machine Gun'
Alexander Tudor (Drowned In Sound writer):
20. My Bloody Valentine - 'When You Sleep'
Oliver Ackermann (A Place To Bury Strangers): "Just that guitar sound like someone humming and vice versa. This is just one amazing record."
21. Verve - 'Blue'
Martin Orton (Mourning Becomes Electra): "This kicked it off for me, so for purely nostalgic reasons, it is this."
22. Joy Division - 'Dead Souls'
James Brown (Pulled Apart By Horses): "Why not?"
23. Smashing Pumpkins - 'Mayonaise'
Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit): "Much of the rest of the record may not fit into the 'Shoegaze' bracket, but I reckon 'Mayonaise' still ticks all the boxes. I never really gave much thought to how heavy the MBV influence is on this one, but as I was a latecomer to Loveless, and the majority of the earlier bands like The Swirlies, this Pumpkins track is the closest I got at the time."
24. Lush - 'Covert'
Lyle (Drowned in Sound Contributor)
25. Death In Vegas - 'Dirge'
Stewart Nash (Hungry Audio Records): "The imagery surrounding The Contino Sessions album may have been closer to Goth but the music was very shoegaze."
26. Trespassers William - 'Lie In The Sound'
Richard Knox (Glissando/Gizeh Records): "It's one of those songs you play when you are on a train and the sun is setting and you're in a reflective mood."
27. Ride - 'Dreams Burn Down'
Oliver Chetty (Mint Ive): "Slow building verses with choruses that consist of a wall of sound. A self-indulgent classic."
28. Verve - '6 O'Clock'
Dan Wale (Drowned In Sound writer): "For me there could be no other, though it actually appears as nothing more than a B-side, collected on the 1994 compilation, No Come Down. '6 O'Clock' is an hallucinogenic artefact from a band that existed at the time, entirely within its own orbit. It's one of the most limitless pieces of music I've ever heard in my life - almost formless - caught in some kind of a pull, but a cathartic, gentle one, no resistance; a smiling acquiesce.
29. Adorable - 'Sunshine Smile'
Duncan Jones (Club AC30): "Their most shoegaze sounding track."
30. Slowdive - 'When The Sun Hits'
Rob McCleary (Model Morning): "When the drums kick in its just amazing!"
31. Velocity Girl - 'Crazy Town'
Jordan Dowling (Drowned In Sound writer):
32. Kevin Shields - 'City Girl'
Jason Holt (Spectrum): "This is from the Lost In Translation soundtrack. Every time I hear the song it takes me somewhere else, which for saying it's just one guitar, one bass (mixed low), drums and heady reverbed up vocals is great."
33. Ride - 'Leave Them All Behind'
Steven Matrick (Kepler Events/APTBS manager): "First of all it may be the single greatest drumming performance of all time and is undoubtedly the peak of Ride's career. Mark Gardener and Andy Bell's voices harmonize with such an incredible unity, while Bell's guitar playing is also incredible on this song and who could forget that bass line. Genius."
34. Swervedriver - 'Never Lose That Feeling'
Robin Allport (Club AC30): "It had to be that one really, didn't it!"
35. Lush - 'Hypocrite'
Alex Hegazy (Drowned In Sound writer): "With a catchy, angst ridden, self referential chorus, this is the sound of a shoegaze band moving up from ground level to the dazzling, dizzy and precarious heights of a fairground big wheel ride (see the video). At the time this song reached #1 in the Indie chart and in line with the trademark shoegaze guitar sound, this song hinted at future Britpop aspirations."
36. Spiritualized - 'Come Together
Tom Morris (Her Name Is Calla): "I remember seeing it performed on Jools Holland's show years ago when the album came out and it had a big impact on me, I'd never heard anything like it before. I remember buying the album the next day in Woolworths with my dad. As I recall, I also bought Beautiful Freak by Eels and was then skint for ages, back when CDs were about £16.99 in Woolworths..."
37. Chapterhouse - 'Falling Down'
James Vincent (Dom Keller): "Reminds me of school, everyone thinking I was a 'Greb' for listening to this kinda music. Then Britpop came along, and then everyone was into it. Who had the last laugh?!"
38. Ride - 'Taste'
Mike Schulman (Slumberland Records): "Just a great combination of tune and racket that still sounds good this many years later."
39. Lift To Experience - 'Falling From Cloud 9'
Matt Flood (Jesus Deluxe): "Like listening to Scott Walker front My Bloody Valentine."
40. My Bloody Valentine - 'You Made Me Realise'
Mark Gardener: "It just blew me away in a way that I had never been blown away before!"
Tirard (DiS User): "Loveless may well be their best album but 'You Made Me Realise' is their masterpiece, a perfect song, and one that has since become legendary for their ear-splitting, stomach-destroying live performances of it. In just under four minutes they managed to fit all of the shoegazing essentials: dreamy, barely-recognisable vocals; harsh yet melodic guitars; pounding drums and, of course, that feedback section. Even the lyrics are brilliant - something that many shoegaze bands were notoriously bad at - with Kevin Shields delivery spot on. If you don't like it or can't even appreciate the significance of it then you 'Might as well commit suicide'."


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[First published October 4, 2005] If you will forgive me, sometimes I have to get personal because of the importance of a question to the credibility of my research and data. I have for years claimed I was a "Nobel Peace Prize finalist". This has been questioned by both friend and foe, which have asserted that (1) there is no such category, and (2) the Nobel Committee does not release such information, and (3) it doesn't leak. Several years ago, someone unhappy with my research results checked with the Committee, was told the above, and then spread the word that I lied and, therefore, my assertions about my data and results could not be trusted.
So, to those who emailed me about this slander, I pointed out that I was only passing on what the local media told me in setting up an interview on this. Assuming it would settle the matter, I emailed them this pre-interview news item from the Honolulu Advertiser (3/1/96):
Rudolph Rummel's lifelong study of war, violence and mass killing has led him on a quest for peace. So it is only fitting that . . . he is among 117 finalists for the prize, which will be announced in October.
Recently, a colleague who I highly respect, is a friend who supports my research, and who is knowledgeable about the workings of the Nobel Committee tried to persuade me to drop the claim to being a finalist as not too important, and anyway, to people like him in the know, it looked "foolish."
He simply is unaware of the esteem many without his inside view of the Nobel nomination give to it or even better, to being "finalist." Of the prizes and awards I've won, and all the books and professional articles I've published, this is the number 1 credibility booster for my research claims.
In any case, I passed on to him the above news item. He then communicated with the Director of the Nobel Institute (who is ex officio secretary of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee) and I received this reponse:
He confirmed my impression that there is no short list of 117 nominees. Not in 1996 or in any other year. There is a list of people nominated for the Prize, as you indeed were. There is a short list of at most 30-40 people. The credentials of these candidates are examined by a group of confidential reviewers for the Nobel Institute.
In his time as Director, and he has been in that position since well before 1996, Geir Lundestad has never experienced a leak of either the long list of all nominees or the short list of those reviewed.
Okay, so I went on LexisNexis and did a search for the February 1996 wire from which the local media said they got their information. The incredible Internet came through again. I found the wire and it is below in full, so that no one feels I left anything out:
Associated Press
February 29, 1996; Thursday 09:21 Eastern Time
SECTION: International news
DATELINE: OSLO, Norway
Taiwan's president, Lee Teng-hui, has been nominated for the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize for his pro-democracy drive, one of 117 names on the final list tallied by Nobel officials this week.
Lee, Taiwan's president since 1988, was nominated by a former Swedish deputy prime minister, Per Ahlmark. Ahlmark also submitted the names of Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng and Rudolph J. Rummel, professor emeritus at Hawaii University, who has collected evidence on repressive political regimes.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which never releases lists of candidates, on Thursday refused to confirm the names of nominees for this year's prize.
However, those making the nominations often announce them. Other known nominees this year include U.S. President Clinton and his emissary Richard Holbrooke for their peace efforts in Bosnia.
"I can only say that we now have a final count on nominations. There are 117 this year, including 28 organizations," said Geir Lundestad, the committee's non-voting secretary. The number in past years has been between 120 and 130.
The five-member awards committee arrived at the final number Wednesday when it began sifting through this year's nominations mailed by the Jan. 31 deadline.
Taiwan is planning its first democratic presidential election on March 23. However, the drive toward democracy has heightened tensions with mainland China. Beijing regards Taiwan as a breakaway province and threatens to attack the island if it declares independence.
"Almost the entire transition by Taiwan to a democracy has occurred during Lee Teng-hui's presidency," said Ahlmark in his nomination letter, released in Sweden.
"For the first time in several thousand years of Chinese civilization, part of the Chinese nation is today run through elections and an equal voice under political freedom," Ahlmark wrote.
Taiwanese are worried about China's reported plans to hold a military exercise by 150,000 troops on the mainland coast facing Taiwan. Some regard the exercise as an attempt to dissuade Taiwanese voters from supporting Lee.
Other known nominees include former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who has acted as a mediator in crises in North Korea, Haiti and Bosnia; Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician jailed for revealing secrets of Israel's atomic weapons program; Russian Human rights activist human Sergei Kovalyov; East Timor's Catholic Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo; Bishop Samuel Ruiz of Mexico, and Maha Ghosananda, a Buddhist Monk, for his efforts to bring peace to Cambodia.
Groups nominated include Russia's anti-war group Soldiers' Mothers, The Salvation Army and Doctors without Borders.
The peace prize, worth 7.4 million Swedish kroner (about dlrs 1 million) this year, will be announced on a Friday in mid-October, Lundestad said.
The award is always presented in Oslo on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, a Swede who invented dynamite and endowed the prize in his 1895 will.
The other Nobel Prizes in literature, economics, physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine are awarded on the same day in Stockholm, Sweden.
There you have it. Regardless of what he says, Geir Lundestad was a source of inside information — a leak. Moreover, the wire refers to a "final list" of nominations, and "arrived at the final number Wednesday when it began sifting through this year's nominations." Clearly, the Committee winnowed down all the nominations that came in to a "final list," which is consistent with saying this was a list of finalists. Therefore, the local media got it right. I was a finalist on a list of 117 nominations.
[But since most colleagues will accept Geir Lundestad's claim that there was no leak of the finalists list, and to claim I was a finalist is controversial, I just note that I have been frequently nominated by the the Nobel Peace Prize by former Swedish deputy prime minister, Per Ahlmark (see here]


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South & North Arapaho Peak Climber's Log
ajdonner - Aug 21, 2005 8:57 pmRoute Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: 21 August, 2005
Weird summer day in the IPW-at least from what I have experienced. The weather actually got better as the day progressed. Got to the top of S Arapaho, the weather looked nasty quite a ways to the south and southwest and I decided to go for N Arapaho. Very straightforward (painted arrows and cairns whenever route finding was ), well travelled and fun scrambling! This would be a good introduction to this sort of thing... All in all a great way to spend the morning!
Asphazell - Jun 30, 2005 11:20 amRoute Climbed: Skywalker Couloir Date Climbed: June 11, 2005
What a great climb! This is my favorite snow couloir that I've climbed as of yet. Had 5 inches of new snow to boot, was like winter up there =)
mtnsavy - Jun 21, 2005 2:48 amRoute Climbed: Skywalker Date Climbed: June 2003
Classic couloir climbing.
jwproulx - Jun 20, 2005 4:45 pmRoute Climbed: Skywalker Couloir / Arapaho Peaks Traverse Date Climbed: June 18, 2005
This was an amazing climb on a spectacular day. Lori, Jim, Andy, Sandeep, and all -- here are my photos:
I'll get them organized and post some here soon.
There was some rockfall and icefall in the couloir - there's a cornice at the top invisible from below. Stay away from the debris trail and wear your helmet! The ridge was spectacular. I watched several natural wet slab avalanches down the east side, including one that started a few steps away from me. Careful out there.
Chris - Jun 20, 2005 9:47 amRoute Climbed: Southeast Ridge - South Arapaho Date Climbed: June 19, 2004
Extremely warm (hot even) day. Saw dozens and dozens of wet slides, even triggered a couple below Arapaho Saddle with only a baseball sized rock lobbed into the snow. Great hike, great company, great views...
edlins - Jun 6, 2005 3:44 pmRoute Climbed: a west-side couloir on north and traverse to south Date Climbed: June 5th, 2005
went for north star, took next couloir south instead. scary snow, long day, fun traverse. 13 hours car to car.
Steve Larson - Nov 28, 2004 10:05 pmRoute Climbed: Arapahoe Peaks Traverse Date Climbed: December 1990
During the run-up to the first Gulf War, and the dissolution of my relationship with the Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder, I decided to take a day off and walk up these two peaks, which are so striking from the plains outside Boulder. It's a beautiful hike, the third class ridge is fun. Too bad the Arapahoe Glacier is off-limits. It would make a good ski run.
colint - Aug 10, 2004 2:54 pmRoute Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: May 2004
Intense winds and blinding snows made for a fun climb, but kept me off the North Arapahoe traverse.
Aaron Reid - Aug 6, 2004 12:20 amRoute Climbed: Arapaho Peaks Traverse Date Climbed: 8/5/2004
Did the traverse today, what a great route. The crux slab is overrated in my opinion... I'm 5'6 and I pulled myself up with just my hands on the shelf and a tiny bit of traction from my hiking shoes. The slab is maybe 6 1/2 feet high on its right side. The crux for me was downclimbing the slabby face to avoid the 7 ft. notch right near the end of the route.
georgbetsy - Aug 5, 2004 5:28 pmRoute Climbed: Southeast ridge on South Arapahoe + traverse to North Arapahoe Date Climbed: August 5, 2004
We had a great time hiking up South Arapahoe and traversing to North Arapahoe. We started at 7:15 and just made it back to the car before the thunderstorm started. I cannot believe how many people were just starting at the trailhead with dark clouds all over the place. No wonder so many people get hit by lightning each year.
RyanS - Aug 3, 2004 2:44 pmRoute Climbed: Arapaho Traverse with Old Baldy Date Climbed: July 31, 2004
We finished our month in the Indian Peaks with the Arapaho Peaks. The traverse was a hoot, and the climb of "Old Baldy" was worth it for the view of the Arapahos alone! A trip report is available here.
pphlux - Jul 1, 2004 12:30 pmRoute Climbed: South Ridge Date Climbed: June 29th, 2004
Climbed with my sister after camping at Buckingham campground. Made the south summit after 2.5 hours. Stayed on top for an hour fighting marmots, and headed down, as she was not very interested in the traverse. Great climb. I'll certainly be back for the traverse soon.
Ryan Kowalski - Apr 19, 2004 4:09 pmRoute Climbed: Standard route to traverse Date Climbed: July 7, 2002
Pretty easy scrambling on the ridge and a great approach hike are what single out this wonderful climb. Popular peaks, but understandably so.
f360driver - Apr 14, 2004 6:52 pmRoute Climbed: Standard Date Climbed: July/03
Easy Hike. Hoping to do Sky walker couloir soon.
CharlesD - Mar 18, 2004 10:35 amRoute Climbed: Standard South Ridge Date Climbed: October 11, 2003
Despite the light snowfall the night before and the startlingly strong winds, we persevered. Started from 4th-of-July at 8am with Justin and Kristie van Voorst and Nathan Smith. Surprisingly stout weather above TL. Made it to the summit of South Arapaho with little trouble after a steep climb from the col. van Voorsts turned back here leaving Nathan and I to traverse the ridge. Definitely looked worse than it was and was conciderably easier in every way than the nearby Neva north ridge. Snow and strong cross-winds made going a little more challenging, but not as much as I'd expected. Some route-finding challenges along the way. Total there-and-back time from S peak was 2.5 hours. Descent through lessening winds and melting snow. Arrived back at the car at 4:30.
CanopyBoy - Aug 3, 2003 10:53 pmRoute Climbed: Standard North to South ridge traverse Date Climbed: August 2, 2003
Both peaks are very rewarding in themselves, but the true gem of courage is the ridge traverse. The beginning of the ridge from the south peak is rather inviting, but sooner or later it throws you a few class 3 curveballs. Although there is only 100 feet of elevation gain between the peaks, its sure takes a lot of work. August was perfect, the only snow on the mountain was the glacier itself.
Kane - Jun 15, 2003 8:50 pmRoute Climbed: Standard traverse of South and North Arapaho Date Climbed: 6-12-2003
My friend Josh and I climbed these two wonderful mountains on a perfect day in June. Personally i was a bit aprehensive concerning getting both summits. Recently in Colorado the thunderheads start building at 11:00 a.m. and are full blown within 2 hours or less. I'm talking no clouds to lightning in less than two hours! The ridge traverse takes about 1hour and twenty minutes, one way. So needless to say I was feeling a bit uneasy when the cloud buildup began as we started our traverse. As we summited North Arapaho those clouds began to drift away over the Denver area and we had great weather for the rest of the day. Here is a trip report.
mpyle - Jun 2, 2003 7:46 amRoute Climbed: South Face Date Climbed: 31 May 2003
Climbed a gentler snow slope east of Skywalker. On snow almost whole way from TH. Feared the steep snow and possible cornices on the traverse, so limited myself to the south peak.
mtnhiker13 - Dec 27, 2002 1:12 pmRoute Climbed: 4th of July Trailhead Date Climbed: June 29, 2002
The class 3 route from South to North Arapahoe Peaks make this mountain a favorite. A great get in shape hike for something like Long's Peak. Challenging but do-able. We climbed during the peak of the wildfires this summer so the views we had weren't very good. I would like to go back under better conditions.
Nelson - Jun 9, 2002 9:06 amRoute Climbed: Skywalker Couloir Date Climbed: June 8, 2002
In this year of abnormally low snow, early June conditions ranged from near ice, to slushy unprotectable mush, to perfect styrofoam. It changed every hundred feet. The quote-unquote "easy" finish looked tougher than Princess Leia, so we went the Princess way. It was only four feet wide at places. A hidden cornice at the top finished off an exciting climb!


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By Gil Troy, Canadian Jewish News, 11-10-11
The mid-October issue of the Jerusalem Report exploded as a naches-bomb for me. Naches, of course, is that delicious Yiddish word meaning delighting in someone else's accomplishments. My delight stemmed from two articles in that issue demonstrating how young Montrealers are revitalizing the Jewish world. These articles raise the question of how did these transformative, creative juices start flowing in Montreal?
The first article described downtown Toronto's vibrant Jewish scene, centring on the hip, Carlebachian "Annex Shul." One co-founder, Richard Meloff, is a Torontonian who studied at McGill University in the mid-1990s, while the Annex's spiritual leader, Yacov Fruchter, is a Montrealer who enrolled at McGill in 2002.
The second article was written by a Montrealer who is now a Jerusalemite, Justin Korda, executive director of ROI community, an international network of 600 social entrepreneurs and Jewish innovators in 40 countries, created by American Jewish philanthropist Lynn Schusterman. Korda's article, "Innovating Jewishly," describes how social entrepreneurs are transforming modern Jewish life at the grassroots level, social entrepreneurs being innovators who combine "the vision of a social reformer with the business acumen of an entrepreneur."
The Montreal flavour to these welcome Jewish revolutions struck me because when I moved to Montreal in 1990, I saw a stodgy, top-heavy, uncreative Jewish community. Even the few young Jews involved in this decaying city seemed prematurely old, shmoozing their elders, not wowing their peers. Although still dining out on its Yiddishist, Zionist prime earlier in the 20th century, the city was now traumatized by Quebec separatism, which sent many young Jews packing. Montreal Judaism seemed more likely to turn Jews off than turn them – and others – on.
I asked Meloff how he explained Montreal's success in helping to incubate exciting new Jewish expressions. "Montreal's Jewish community was where I was when I started to feel the tug of my faith and heritage and it was a wonderful, welcoming place," Meloff responded. He was impressed by Montreal's ideological diversity – "there was Hillel and Chabad, Revisionist Zionists and progressive Zionists, and perhaps most critically, a tight-knit and traditional community that surrounded the school. Toronto is huge and impressive, but the community is far-flung. Montreal seemed so intimate yet still had the amenities of a significant community." Meloff got the message that "you could do anything you wanted from a community point of view" – which soon resulted in the launching of the "Ghetto Shul," a vibrant, intimate, student-based synagogue in Montreal which has inspired – and helped populate – Toronto's "Annex Shul."
Fruchter notes that Montreal's traditionalism provides such solid grounding for Jewish life in the city, including "a fairly strong knowledge base," as well as "strong Holocaust education and a commitment to Israel." He also draws inspiration from leading activist Orthodox rabbis such as Rabbi Reuben Poupko and Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz. Fruchter appreciates the "Moroccan (French) element of the Jewish community," which "has remained distinct while adding some 'cool' and spicy flavour to the overall community," as well as the "fertile ground for cross-denominational exchange" resulting from the mix of Toronto and Montreal Jews at McGill. Finally, Fruchter mentions that "Hillel and the Ghetto Shul are set up to maximize empowerment and ownership. When I was the student president of Hillel Montreal, I controlled the $50,000 program budget."
In his article, Korda, who with his friend Sig Shore created a dynamic duo of Jewish activism during their days at McGill, added another critical element, the successful Birthright Israel program which has connected thousands of young Jews to each other and to their heritage through "transformative free trips to Israel." Birthright Israel helped inspire the founding of the Ghetto Shul, which inspired the founding of the Annex Shul, while ROI logically flows from philanthropist Lynn Schusterman's generous involvement with Birthright.
I would also add two important "I" words – infrastructure and investment. Montreal has a rich Jewish organizational and educational network, maintained by a strong federation and thousands of generous donors. Visionary donors such as Charles and Andy Bronfman were also critical in funding identity-oriented initiatives, small and large, which bore fruit later.
The Montreal formula, then, emerges. A traditional, literate, well-organized, and well-financed community also needs strong youth-oriented programming, empowered young leaders and an openness to new ideas. But ultimately, you need sparkplugs, young, passionate, creative people to create a new mix, putting their dynamic modern twist on our ancient, enduring, traditions.


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Vermont Yankee exhaust fans fail during ventilation test
BRATTLEBORO -- During testing of a ventilation system at Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in Vernon exhaust fans failed to come on, resulting in an overpressure of the reactor building.
Rob Williams, spokesman for Yankee, said technicians had started up the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system in the reactor building, which normally is negatively pressured. When the exhaust fans failed to kick on, a six-by-ten-foot aluminum "blowout" panel detached from the reactor building and landed on the roof of the plant's turbine building.
"The panels worked as designed," said Rob Williams, spokesman for Yankee. "But we are looking into why the exhaust fans didn't operate."
The panels at Yankee are there to protect against tornado wind loading that can cause overpressurization conditions in the reactor building, said Neil Sheehan, spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
"If the reactor building is threatened by tornado-force winds, the panels can blow out and provide near instantaneous pressure equalization in the building," said Sheehan.
The ventilation test was being conducted on Monday while the plant has been powered down for a refueling outage. Williams said neither workers at the plant nor the public was put in danger when the panel blew off the building.
The reactor building is negatively pressurized, meaning the pressure inside the building is less than outside, keeping potential leaks of radioactive materials inside.
Because the reactor had been powered down for refueling, there was no danger of radioactive materials escaping to the atmosphere, said Sheehan.
"Our resident inspectors at Vermont Yankee, with support from Region I Office specialists, will continue to review the activities until the issue is fully resolved, including the development of a root cause evaluation and corrective actions," said Sheehan.
A temporary cover has been put in place pending the installation of a permanent fix.
In a memo to the Vermont State Nuclear Advisory Panel, Uldis Vanags, the nuclear engineer for the Vermont Department of Public Service, noted the panels are secured with a wire rope to prevent them from falling to the ground when they release.
"However, in this case the panel that released fell onto the turbine building roof," wrote Vanags.
He stated the reactor building serves as secondary containment that is at negative pressure so all air in the building is vented up the plant stack.
"Vermont Yankee is currently in a refueling outage, and secondary containment was not required at the time the event occurred," wrote Vanags. "Within approximately a half hour, Vermont Yankee restarted reactor building ventilation to reestablish a negative pressure and exhaust up the plant stack."
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The links and resources that Iro shared with me are located on the Microsoft Educator Community website. If you haven't visited this site before, you are missing out on some great opportunities. I'm so glad Iro reminded me of this resource in our Skype session. I get so busy in my job that I forget to check it for the latest offerings. For this article, I will focus on activities that feature Skype in the Classroom. It has been so powerful to help teachers connect their students to classrooms all over the nation and world!
From the Microsoft Educator Community page, you will notice that there are many resources listed on the left side of the screen. If you select Skype in the Classroom, you will be taken to their community page. Here you will find links to Virtual Field Trips, Skype Lessons, Skype Collaborations, Mystery Skype, and Guest Speakers. In our connection, Iro shared that February would be their Literacy Month and I immediately wanted to know more!
Virtual Valentines 2017
One of the current Skype Collaborations Iro told me about is called Virtual Valentines 2017: Melting the Miles between Classrooms. This seasonal event allows students to learn about geography while sharing Virtual Valentines or even connecting via Skype with a partner school! You can find this collaboration and many more in the Skype Collaboration portion of the site.
Iro also showed me a link in the Skype Collaboration area that focused on the upcoming Read Across America event on March 2, 2017. This is a great opportunity to connect classrooms all over the United States to celebrate literacy. In 2016, one of our seniors read a Dr. Seuss book to students in another state for this event! That student still talks about her experience, and she has been an alumnus for nearly a year!
Skype Lessons
A few of the most interesting Skype possibilities that Iro shared with me were Skype Lessons. The first was called Beyond the Blocks: Minecraft Literacy with The Elementia Chronicles. This lesson is a Skype connection with author, Sean Fay-Wolfe. Educators can simply select the "Register for this Skype Lesson" link at the bottom of the page and then view the presenter's available times for a connection.
Did you know that there are webinars and courses on the Microsoft Educator community site? Iro shared a few Skype webinars with me on the page so I could show our teachers. A great beginning Skype course you might consider showing educators is Introduction to Skype in the Classroom. I also was interested in the webinar called Getting Started With Mystery Skype.
I'm so glad that Iro reached out to me to share these great resources for our learning community. Connecting students is so important as we work to help them prepare for the future. Using these tools will help you and your teachers connect with other schools and places. One of the questions I always get from teacher librarians is "how do you find schools to do Mystery Skype?" Up until now, I have relied on my Twitter PLN. This site makes it easier by having one place to find classes to connect.
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Thousands of daily visitors, hundreds of tour buses, sunset watchers, cruise ships… it's non-stop cabaret for Oia during the long hot Greek island summer.
But then… comes winter. The village exhales. Serenity replaces chaos. Total and complete quiet takes over and the village rests. It slides into a familiar hibernation from which it will awake in late February. It's a time to think, to contemplate, to walk alone and to listen to the voices inside you.
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The basic institutions that are characteristic of a liberal society are constitutionalism and the rule of law; equal basic rights and liberties; formal equality of opportunity; free, competitive markets with private property in means of production; government's obligation to provide public goods and a social minimum; and the fiduciary nature of political power to impartially provide for the public good. Liberals interpret these basic institutions differently. Classical liberalism regards extensive property rights and economic liberties as basic, while libertarians see all rights as property rights and as absolute. High liberalism regards economic liberties as subordinate to personal and political liberties and subject to regulation, with redistribution of income and wealth to mitigate gross inequalities and provide all citizens with adequate resources to guarantee the worth of their basic liberties and opportunities.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Taking Shots with Tournament Dollars
I final tabled the 180 man sng but was the short stack because my AQo < A9s two hands before the final table bubble burst. A few hands into the final table I got it AI with AA and was unlucky so i was 1st to bust.
Late in these tournaments you have to know how to pushbot, assign ranges and Know when/who to 3bet. You simply cannot sit on a stack, blinds are huge and increasing quickly. You have to make moves. Had i won the AQ hand i wouldve entered the tournament with a really nice stack and i'm always confident entering a final table with chips. If the AA hand had held i wouldve again been in it to win it, but variance is a biotch and it was not meant to be.
The $3 rebuy was also alot of fun. I was at one of those tables where guys went AI almost every hand, it was Sweet! I've seen Johhny Bax employ this strategy but it was obvious that the two players involved had no clue. Between them they probably spent 15 - 25 double rebuys each. At the end of the Rebuy hour I had a 25k stack and 4 of the top 10 stacks were at my table because of these guys. I spent a total of 5 buy-ins including the Add-on.
After rebuy madness I was able to play a conservative game for most of the tournament because of my huge stack. Unfortunately i went extremely card dead getting AK once and my highest pocket pair being 77 over the next 2.5hrs. Still i was able to stay in it by stealing and out playing opponents. I busted 90th out of 3040 when i shoved KTs from HJ and was called by QQ in BB. My stack was around 57k with blinds 3500/7000 ante 700.
Tournament Dollars
My strategy this year has always been to get better at MTTs and take shots at larger buy-in tournaments. My goal remains to play in at least 3 Sunday Million tournaments before the end of the year. However i will not be playing in the Sunday Million this week, instead i've unregistered and will take shots at some of the medium buy-in tournaments.
I'm looking at playing a $10 Rebuy and a $55 MTT FO this week... probably tomorrow night which will be my last chance at another big score for April. Tonight i will review lastnight's tournaments and watch a few PXF vids.
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Unlucky in the $3r mate. Pretty disappointing to get through 3000 players to pick up a relatively small win. Isn't 1st for these usually something like $7-10k?
Which satellites to the Million are you playing and what is the standard like?
- Game101 said...
hey Pud how's it going. 1st was around 6.9k... wouldve been sweet:) but i don't get dissappointed as long as i played well.
I'm pretty pleased with my progress in mtts so far this year. I feel that i will take down something soon, so i'm optimistic.
I usually play the $3 rebuy sats and like most micros the play is pretty weak... as soft or softer than the $4 180 sngs.
- E z e k i e l said...
Since you play some at full tilt do they have any wsop packages that are accessible to those of us with lower bankrolls or even using something like FPP's, is that tokens? Do you think the competition for these is any softer at Full Tilt than Stars?
- Game101 said...
Hey Zeke
honestly i haven't played or even looked into any WSOP packages on either site. I will give it a look see this weekend and make a post about it.
"Tokens" are like Tournament dollars Stars.


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Pittsburgh's Miss Smiling Irish Eyes crowned for 2013
Maggie Marie Donaldson will be in St. Patrick's Day Parade
Irish eyes were smiling Friday in Pittsburgh, and they belonged to Maggie Marie Donaldson.
The crowning of Miss Smiling Irish Eyes for St. Patrick's Day is an annual tradition anticipated by folks of Irish descent throughout the region.
Donaldson, of West Deer Township, will be the queen in the city's 2013 parade on Saturday morning. She was crowned by Allegheny County Chief Executive Rich Fitzgerald at the downtown Rivers Club on Friday morning.
Donaldson is a student at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf. She wants to go to college and pursue a career as a marine biologist, specializing in environmental issues and their effects on marine life.
She will be involved in ceremonial functions as well as the downtown parade itself, which starts at 10 a.m. (See The Parade Route)
Maidens on the queen's court this year are Shea Shovlin, an Oakland Catholic High School senior from Edgewood, and Erin Marie McMahon, a senior at South Park High School.
To be eligible for the contest, Miss Smiling Irish Eyes must be "a single woman between the ages of 17 and 22, of Irish birth or descent, of good moral character, and an active promoter of her Irish ancestry," according to the printed guidelines.


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The Duke Blue Devils are Sweet 16 bound after holding on to a 74-69 victory over Texas on Saturday evening. Duke made some big plays down the stretch, starting with a Kyle Singler tip in that gave the Devils a two point lead.
Shortly thereafter, Singler was called for his fifth foul with 1:07 left in the game. Gary Johnson stepped to the line and sank two free throws to tie the game at 69 apiece. On the other end, Nolan Smith scrapped for a rebound off a miss and was fouled.
Smith, who ended the game with 11 points and a team-high 3 assists, calmly drained both of his free throws to give Duke a 71-69 lead.
The Blue Devils then leaned on their defense and kept the Long Horns from scoring, thanks to an incredible save. Jon Scheyer made a save in front of the Texas bench, making a backhanded pass with his left hand all in the same motion. That save was an almost perfect toss down court and Elliot Williams battled for the ball and was fouled by Johnson.
While Williams missed the two free tosses, a mad scramble ended with the ball in Gerald Henderson's hands. "G" was fouled as he attempted to get a pass off while on his knees and that allowed him to seal the game with two free throws to give Duke a 74-69 win.
Henderson had a game-high 24 points and 6 rebounds, and his play helped Duke push their season record to 30-6.
Kyle Singler chipped in with 17 points and 7 rebounds and Jon Scheyer added 13 points to go with 3 steals.
Oddly, the Blue Devils were out-rebounded and outscored by 12 points in the paint, not to mention their bench had just 13 points to the Horns 24. Duke didn't even have a single point on the fast break, but they did what it takes to win.
One of those things was the fact that Duke protected the ball, making just 9 turnovers. Duke was also solid from the free throw stripe, but hitting 7 of 14 three pointers could have been the key.
The Blue Devils also held A.J. Abrams in check, not to mention harassing Texas' three-point shooters and holding them to 5 of 22.
Duke will return to Durham before departing for Boston, Massachusetts where they will play Villanova to see which team will advance to the final eight game on Saturday.
Stay tuned for more on this game and the NCAA Tournament from Blue Devil Nation. And yes, I got lucky with my pick of Duke 75-70, missing each team's score by a single point. Everybody gets lucky every now and then.


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Mount Pulaski Courthouse will celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday
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[January 22, 2014]
MOUNT PULASKI — Abraham
Lincoln's birthday will be celebrated on Feb. 8 at the Mount Pulaski
Courthouse State Historic Site, where Abraham Lincoln, Judge David
Davis, Samuel Treat, Billy Herndon, Stephen A. Douglas and others
rode by horseback and horse and buggy to bring the court of law to
this Logan County seat venue (1848-1855). The Mount Pulaski
two-story brick courthouse, an example of early Greek Revival
architecture, is one of only two remaining structures from the once
15-courthouse Illinois 8th Judicial Circuit of the mid-1800s.
Portrayers of Abraham and Mary Lincoln will be on hand at 9:30
a.m., when the courthouse opens with coffee and refreshments.
Servings of Mary Todd Lincoln's traditional cake will be provided,
along with other refreshments, until 3:30 p.m. Children's crafts and
games will begin at 10 a.m. and last until 2 p.m. A variety of
materials will be available for making Abraham Lincoln cards and
valentines. A staff of volunteer docents will be on hand to provide
tours throughout the day.
The speaker, Stroud-Borth, is a retired pastor who lives in Mount
Pulaski. She did her pastoral internship on a Lakota reservation in
South Dakota and served two congregations in South Dakota for 6 1/2
years. Her second parish was in southwestern Minnesota. In all those
places, she learned bits and pieces of the conflict between whites
and Indians and President Lincoln's involvement, even as the Civil
War raged in the South. In her words: "This story is not well-known
in Illinois. I want to share it here, and portraying Sarah Wakefield
is a way to do that."
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There will be an exhibit of some books, pictures and craft
items collected during Stroud-Borth's year on the Lower Brule
Regular visiting hours at the historic courthouse are Tuesday
through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. The phone number is 217-792-3919.
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MONTREAL - A squad car parked outside his home. Replacing his usual driver with an an armed officer.
A heavy police presence at a press conference checking credentials of media attending, even going so far as to place an officer in city hall washrooms.
There was fear for the life of Laval Mayor Gilles Vaillancourt last week shortly before he stepped down from his job on Friday and the local police force took it seriously.
Reports in other media Wednesday suggest that the threat came from the Mafia.
"There was definitely a threat, we can't confirm who it was from or what exact words were said but we were made aware of this threat by another police force," said Laval police spokesperson Nathalie Lorrain.
Lorrain could not specify which police force provided the threat information, whether it was the Sûreté du Québec or the RCMP.
Vaillancourt resigned as mayor of Laval on Nov. 9 after weeks of speculation on his future. He had taken a medical leave of absence on Oct. 24 after his name had come up repeatedly in the Charbonneau Commission hearings and his homes, office and banking establishments had been visited by officers from Quebec's anti corruption squad ( Unité permanente anticorruption, known as UPAC) in the past month.
Lorrain said that Laval police looked into the threat and ultimately came to the conclusion that it wasn't as serious as first thought.
"We don't just supply police cars and then forget about it. We did investigate the threat and found it wasn't really founded but we can't take any chances," Lorrain said.