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The Corvette's godfather, Zora Arkus-Duntov, engineered Corvettes to be driven and enjoyed. That's what Tim and Crystal Lee do with their Vette, the last one built with the RPO L82 high-output small-block V-8.
Their C3 has a family connection that goes back to August 1980. Tim's dad, Don Lee, bought the Dark Claret L82/automatic Corvette brand new from a Chevrolet dealer while on vacation in upstate New York. For the next three years, Don drove and enjoyed his Vette. But when he heard that Chevy was introducing the C4, he sold the '80 to a neighbor and waited for the '85 model with its new, fuel-injected L98 engine. Time rolled on and the '80 Corvette faded into Don's "I used to own a …" list of cars.
Fast forward to 2013. One day, Tim Lee, now an auto mechanic, got a call from the grandson of the man that bought his dad's '80 Corvette. The car had been garaged for 20 year and the grandson had some questions about the car. After a long conversation and some haggling, Tim was able to talk him into selling it to him. Imagine the chance to buy your dad's old Vette! The Corvette was back in the family, only this time Tim's wife, Crystal, had her eye on the car.
The 33-year-old C3 was tired, but intact. Tim set about making the car right for his wife. The car had been semi-regularly driven, never hit, not abused, and everything was original. Aside from needing a new paintjob only regular maintenance-type items needed to be replaced. The car was treated to a new radiator, water pump, fuel pump, gas tank, master cylinder, and brakes. The carburetor was rebuilt and all of the ignition wiring replaced. The 15x8 RPO N90 aluminum wheels were polished and shod with new 255/60R15 BFGoodrich Radial TA tires. The interior had minor wear and only needed a good cleaning. Since the car is registered in California for daily use, it had to be 100-percent smog legal.
Tim discovered that the car was built close to the end of the '80 production run, and is the last L82 Corvette to roll off the line.
To understand the now not-so-desirable late-C3 cars, you have to look within the context of their day, so let's go back to 1979 and 1980. The only surviving muscle cars then were the Pontiac Firebird Trans Am and Chevrolet's Camaro Z28 and Corvette. The '79 Trans Am sold 117,109 units, while Chevrolet sold 84,877 Z28s and 53,807 Corvettes.
Corvette's chief engineer Dave McLellan (who succeeded Zora in 1975) and his team were very busy back then. With a slim budget, they had to design, engineer, and develop the all-new, fourth-generation Vette, as well as help bring an all-new Corvette assembly plant on line. Plus, for the last years of the C3 there were the ever-tighter emissions controls and Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) rules that had to be factored in. While Corvette sold in low numbers compared to its steel-bodied Chevy counterparts, it had to pull its weight and improve. Although the '79 Corvette hit an all-time high sales mark, its styling was getting stale, and the 18-year-old chassis that was once revolutionary was now archaic. Plus, the Corvette Team had to keep America's Only True Sports Car exciting and fresh. A real fun job, huh?
McLellan's team refreshed the 1980 Corvette on a shoestring. The most obvious visual differences were the new front and rear bumper covers, with an integrated air dam in the front and a rear spoiler with an aerodynamic Kamm-back design. The hood profile was lower and the hood, doors, and lift-out roof panels were made of thinner and lighter material.
The refreshed body didn't just look swoopy—it was swoopy. The previous body design wasn't as slippery as we imagined, with a drag coefficient of 0.503. The new bumper covers got the Cd down to 0.443. While that doesn't seem like much, road tests reported there was noticeably less air resistance.
Also, the '80 Vette got a 250-pound weight reduction from the '79 model thanks to the lighter-weight body panels, along with a new aluminum rear differential, aluminum front frame crossmember, and the L82's aluminum intake manifold replacing the standard L48 cast-iron one.
For the first time since 1974 there were two different engine sizes used: a 350 and a 305. For Vettes sold outside of California there was the base L48 350, rated at 190 hp, and the optional L82 350 (230 hp). California Corvette buyers had only one engine choice: the LG4 305-inch small-block also found in steel-bodied Caprices, Malibus, Camaros, and pickups. Though in Corvette form it used stainless steel tube headers to bump its power output to 180 hp—still 10 less than the L48. The three-speed Turbo-Hydramatic automatic now had a lock-up torque converter, and the optional-except-in-California T10 four-speed had wider gearing.
Inside, the '80 Corvette's interior got revised cloth covering, a relocated power door lock button, and a new single storage bin behind the seats. Creature comforts that were previously optional were now standard, including air conditioning, tilt/telescope steering wheel, remote mirrors, power windows, and time-delay lighting. Also, the new speedometer only went up to 85 mph, though the car could go much faster than that. Thank you, Big Brother.
Even though the 1980 Corvette was a much-improved car, sales dropped 13,193 units to 40,614 compared to the '79 model. While not a stump-puller, it was a noticeable, healthy improvement over the heavier '78 and '79 Corvettes. But those upgrades and improvements came at a cost—seen on the window sticker. Base price of the 1980 Corvette was up nearly $3,000, to $13,140. Loaded to the gills, a new Vette that year stickered at around $16,000.
1980 had several interesting Corvette "lasts." One was its assembly location, as 1980 was the last full year of production at the aging St. Louis Assembly Plant. Corvettes had been built there since December 1953, but the 1920-vintage plant's age, combined with tighter emission rules on the horizon—especially those covering volatile organic compounds from the paint shop—meant a new plant was needed. In 1980, the all-new Corvette Assembly Plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, was in the works, rolling out its first Vette the following year, two months before Corvette production ended at St. Louis.
The other "last" for Corvette in 1980 was the optional L82 engine, the hydraulic-lifter replacement for the '70-72 LT-1. Rated at 250 hp (5 hp less than the '72 LT-1) in 1973, its first year, the L82's factory horsepower ratings started dropping, thanks to ever-tightening emission-control regulations. In 1975, when Corvette lost its "true dual" exhaust system and added a single, two-way catalytic converter, the L82's output dropped to 205 hp. Engineering tweaks raised that figure to 210 for '76 and '77, 220 for Corvette's Silver Anniversary year in '78, 225 for '79, and 230 for 1980. The L82 was $299 extra in '73, and its price jumped to $595 in '80.
From a "performance car" perspective, 1980 couldn't compare to the Corvettes of 10 years before. However, after 13 years of production and refinement, for a day-to-day car that's fun to drive, this was a much-improved Shark. An '80 Corvette can be well-bought for as little as $10,000. With a staggering amount of aftermarket parts—including EFI, plus modern three-way cats that enable a true dual exhaust system—and crate engines from Chevrolet and other vendors, an '80 Corvette can easily be brought up to "glory day" performance levels, resulting in a sleeper late-C3.
According to Tim, his wife, Crystal, loves her Corvette. It has plenty of low-end torque, handles and rides nice, and stops on a dime. Even though it's not a rip snort'n monster like the Vettes of old, it still turns heads and she gets lots of thumbs up from youngsters that shout out, "Cool car!"
Even though late-'70s and early-to-mid-'80s Corvettes are way down on the desirability list, this Corvette is still in the family, and being driven and enjoyed by its owners.
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The 78-year-old, who was speaking during a public discussion with Switzerland coach Ottmar Hitzfeld in Zurich, said he will seek re-election in May 2015.
"I want to do it," he said in Swiss newspaper Blick. "Because it is not over yet. My term might come to an end, but my mission is not finished."
Blatter, who had first joined FIFA in 1975 and took over the presidency from Joao Havelange in 1998, had earlier indicated that he was ready to stand down when his current term ends but more recently said he could continue.
UEFA president Michel Platini, who had been thought the most likely candidate to succeed Blatter, has yet to announce whether he will put his name forward for next year's elections but told Le Parisien last month he was confident he would be successful.
Meanwhile, Blatter also looked ahead to this summer's World Cup in Brazil during the event at the Ringier Pressezentrum.
"That's my 10th World Cup," he said. "My first one was in 1978. Brazil -- that will be something gigantic, something grand."
He played down fears that the tournament could be overshadowed by riots after the problems that occurred during the Confederations Cup in the country last year.
"Four years ago, ahead of the South Africa World Cup, everyone said that it's going to be dangerous everywhere. Nothing happened," Blatter said.

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Right now, even though the market has sold off recently, we remain in what is technically called a bull market. Under current economic circumstances, it's amazing the market is not at half of its current value of 12,250 points. At half current values, a market priced at 6,125 points would represent a cash yield on the Dow Industrials of 4.8% instead of the current 2.4%, far more realistic when the average dividend yield over the last 100 years is 4.6%. In analyzing what is ahead, we can at least get some idea of the risks involved in further investment in the stock market.
For 50 years we have used debt to fuel growth by increasing the money supply through government deficit spending. Growth fueled by anything other than savings is an invitation to disaster. Without real political reform, U.S. economic outlook is disastrous. More than 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson wrote, "I place the economy among the most important virtues, and public debt as the great danger to be feared. To preserve our independence, we must not let our leaders load us with perpetual debt. We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude."
Here is what we are looking at: The dollar will lose its reserve status; the U.S. will sink into a more severe slump than we are experiencing; and there is likely to be a currency collapse far greater than what has already occurred, because 65% of the world's monetary reserves are in dollars. This will create a panic for gold, and a new currency will have to be created. The battleground in the next five years is the future of the dollar and the dollar's reserve status.
International contracts are written in dollars. As previously written in Market Watch, there are several viable movements currently under way to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency. As always, debtor countries such as the United States want to maintain dollars as the reserve currency. Similarly, countries that are holding dollars as part of their reserves represent the economies that want to make the change. These countries have whopping trade balance surpluses with America. And, as they continue to hold those surpluses, they risk the value of reserves deteriorating further as the dollar goes down in value. Countries such as China, that hold large dollar reserves, do two things when dollar reserves are at risk of losing value:
1. They add to their gold reserves, which China has done, now becoming the fifth-largest holder of gold in the world behind the U.S., Germany, France and Italy, respectively.
2. They try to make their own currencies into a currency fully acceptable around the world. China is already doing that successfully by using its currency, rather than dollars, to settle international contracts.
We are a petroleum-based economy. The price of petroleum is important to the U.S. and our competitive position in the world. Estimated reserves of natural gas in our country were recently upgraded to 2.2 trillion cubic feet, enough to satisfy consumption for 100 years. We are importing 51% of our oil now, down from 60% only a few years ago. Our newly discovered oil fields, especially the Bakken Field in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana, are estimated to be Saudi-sized reserves. Off shore, where moratoriums on drilling exist, there are another 60 billion barrels of oil, enough for us to become fully independent, and be exporters of oil within 15 years.
The U.S. pays an average of $2.72 for each gallon of gas that we bring to this country and resell. Here are competitive economies relative prices: Norway — $7.41; Germany — $6.82; England — $6.60; Italy — $6.40; France — $6.04; Japan — $5.40; and Canada — $3.81. It's easy to see mathematically that if the dollar ceases to become the world's reserve currency, fuel prices would substantially increase. That would increase the cost of production of U.S. goods by 10% to 20%. It would be difficult to be price competitive in world markets under those conditions; the dollar would continue to fall until American-made products can be purchased abroad at a "favorable price." This is not only an ugly scene — it's probable. Here are a few other reasons to suggest the stock market might be in for a rough couple of years:
1. Ben Bernanke's speech recently suggested that the U.S. economy is headed in the right direction. QE2, he claimed, was responsible for adding 700,000 full-time jobs. Although that sounds good, the cost of each new job comes to $850,000.
2. The rise in the Standard and Poor's Index of 500 stocks under QE2 has mostly been a result of the decline in the purchasing power of the dollar, the price in which the shares are measured.
3. Housing prices continue to go down, and although the government says inflation is running at 3.1% annually, we all know inflation exceeds 3.1%.
4. Yale University professor and housing expert Robert Shiller expects the stock market to gain only between 2% and 3% annually over the next decade. He sees no resurgence of consumer spending because the "real" unemployment rate is 16%, and, he points out, housing prices continue to head south.
5. Seventy percent of the money borrowed in the worst week of our crisis (October 2008) was borrowed by foreign banks. Because the Fed refuses to be audited, we do not know how involved the Fed is with the debts of the rest of the world's countries that are at risk of going into permanent default (Greece, Spain, Ireland, etc.). How much is the U.S. taxpayer at risk because of the obligations that the Federal Reserve has undertaken, in secret, on our behalf, outside of Congress' authority?
Public debt has been the bane of governments throughout history. The great Austrian economist, Ludwig Von Mises, called this the "Crisis of Interventionism." Interventionism aims at confiscating (stealing) the "surplus" of one part of the population and then giving it to the other part. Once this surplus is exhausted by total confiscation, a further continuation of the policy is impossible. The crisis of interventionism is summed up by the adage: "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money!" It is not coincidental that growth of public debt fits hand-in-glove with large and invasive government.
For real recovery to take place there must be political reform. We're in this mess because of unethical politics. There is the usual noise out of Washington that reform is on the way. The Democrats and the Republicans were complicit in creating today's problems. So far, all "reform" proposals are designed for political expedience instead of real reform. Reform can only come from a vastly smaller government. Otherwise, our government will continue to increase our public debt until further catastrophe occurs.
The wise investor will try to protect himself from the stock market. Gold and silver have a long way to go up in price, because the dollar has a long way to go down. Cash provides the patient investor with great future buying opportunities. For investors who cannot resist the stock market, A-plus growth stocks selling at low PEs and yielding more than 3% are Abbott Labs, Chevron, Coca-Cola and Johnson & Johnson.
Caveat emptor.
George Rauch, Longboat Key, is chief executive officer of Bradenton-based General Propeller and a former Wall Street investment banker.


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A fun cartoon detailing the life of Pope Francis.
The video "The Day of the Dead," available on YouTube (3:49), offers a good overview of the Mexican celebration for the "Day of the Dead" activity on day 4.
The video "C4: Ignite Your Catholic Faith—What Are the Marks of the Church?" is available on YouTube (3:32), and is used for the "On Your Marks" activity on day 1.
The video "Introduction to the Liturgy of the Eucharist," by dioceseofstpete, available on YouTube (1:50), offers an overview of material presented in the Handbook. It is especially helpful for day 1, but would be effective on any day.
The video "Precepts of the Church," by Saint Mary's Press, available on YouTube (0:51), is an option for day 4.
A personal story about discovering how Catholicism is truly universal.
A personal story about seeing the Church as a wise elder sitting on a porch.
Descriptions of each person of the trinity.
The beliefs, practices, and attitudes of the Catholic faith.
A list of vocabulary words for Unit 3 that defines the terms bishop, Body of Christ, Catholic Church, charism, Communion of Saints, consecrated life, diocese, doctrine, Final Judgment, fruits of the Holy Spirit, Gifts of the Holy Spirit, laity, Marks …
A list of vocabulary words for Unit 2 including Annunciation, Blessed Trinity, church, Creation, creed, disciple, ecumenism, evangelist, faith, Gospel, Incarnation, Kingdom of God, Messiah, ministry, Original Sin, parable, Paschal Mystery, salvation, stewardship, and Theotokos.
A list of vocabulary words for unit one, defines the terms Bible, biblical inspiration, canon, covenant, Deposit of Faith, Divine Revelation, Ecumenical Council, Gospel, inerrancy, Israelites, Law, Magisterium, natural revelation, New Testament, Old Testament, Parousia, reason, Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, …
A scripture passage from the Gospel of Luke about Martha and Mary is read along with a commentary, and is followed by large group discussion questions.
A list of discussion questions from the video Sr. Thea: Her Own Story.
A vocabulary list for unit 7 defining terms associated with consecrated life.
A reflection worksheet and class discussion on the video Gang Busters: One Man's Mission to Stop Bullets by Creating Jobs.
A vocabulary list for unit 6 defining the terms dalmatic, dogmatic theology, Donatist heresy, formation, Holy See, insignia, and seminary.
A brief video on Pope Francis.
A short explanation of John 3:16, discussing justification by faith versus salvation as a gift.
A video on the order of the universe.
A short video about the theological and scientific views on creation.
A brief explanation of God's presence, or lack thereof, in Purgatory and Hell.
A video explaining the assassination attempt on Pope Saint John Paul II's life.
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Just because a bus is out of service doesn't mean that its driver won't cut you off. That's a tip.
Great ride down Massachusetts. This properly adjusted seat is really paying off. I felt fast, as in fast enough and that's good enough for me.
I hate when pedestrians are afraid to cross even when they have the walk signal. The extent to which pedestrians have been cowed to sheepishness and forced to duck like chickens due to the piggishness of drivers is bullshit and I could get hoarse over it. It's a real
I'm starting to recognize more "regulars" on Q, including Ms. Pink Wheels and Mr. Guy Who Turns Left at Vermont Ave. I hope remain "regulars" so I have more time to come up with better names. Good number of bicyclists riding up 15th.
I'm glad I've had a month to learn to the learn the ins and outs (read: potholes and manholes) of my route home because doing it in the dark is concomitantly much easier. Still didn't prevent me from almost biting it along 11th, but there's not much you can do when the road is craggier than...[insert your own Star Wars or Lord of the Rings reference. I'm tired]
Rode behind a bike commuter with excellent judgment along Pennsylvania. I always like it when I encounter another bicyclist who approaches things about the same way I would. Makes me feel more correct about stuff, though I suppose it could just be that we're both doing it wrong. We parted somewhere by the Capitol.
Rode behind a bicyclist with Velo Orange fenders, the kind I covet. We rode down East Capitol and then down A, SE and I thought/worried at one point that she was my neighbor (not the one we like, but the other one), but she wasn't and continued to ride down 17th somewhere. I wanted to say "nice fenders," but I'm not sure that's something one should say, much less could say with a straight face. So, there's that.


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Here are some snippets from Bryce Dallas Howard's July Self Magazine's story, fellow vamp, Anna Paquin from True Blood is on the cover.:
friend formula
"Understanding that those dearest to me show and accept love differently is key. For example, I'm not a big letter writer, but my best friend is, so to show her that I care, I write to her. Recently, she revealed she's kept every letter I've written to her since we were 15!"
style changers
"I wear more of my clothes! My nice things used to stay in the closet because I was afraid to ruin them. A stylist friend taught me that it's important to get "dressed!"
workout plan
"Everyone got fit for Eclipse, but maintaining was the challenge! I created a fitness club with five friends. We have weekly check-ins and a reward system. I don't want to let them down, so success is much more likely. And fun!"
happiness requirements
"1. Ordering in and hunkering down with my husband to watch Spartacus on TV
2. Hanging and talking about nothing and everything with my best friend and sister"
Beauty secrets
"I dry-brush my skin before showering. It's exfoliating. And Elizabeth Arden Eight Hour Cream Skin Protectant is a fantastic lip balm."
food choices
"I was a vegan until I developed a condition that makes meat's amino acids critical to my health. The transition was emotional, but I'm grateful that I can still appreciate where food comes from."
killer cool
"I'm a "Twi-hard"; I read all the books. Victoria is bloodthirsty and a grieving widow. So she was fun to play!"


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Plagiarism at the It Makes Sense Blog
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One of our writers, who uses the nom de plume "Le Corbeaunoir," worked very, very hard and produced a fine article about Amy Busefink and the ACORN voter registration fraud prosecutions in Nevada. Titled "Project Vote's Amy Busefink: A Progressive From the Neighborhood Gets Busted," it was posted on the Res Publica Blog at 12:32 AM on January 17, 2011 and has been well-received on the internet. At some point later that day, as shown by the screen grab posted above, "Professor1" at the It Makes Sense Blog posted a large — 16 paragraphs worth — verbatim portion of that post listing himself as its author under the slightly rearranged title "Busted: Project Vote's Amy Busefink: A Progressive From the Neighborhood." Although Professor1 uses the exact text right down to the hyperlinks and footnotes written by Le Corbeaunoir, and one of the photographs Le Corbeaunoir obtained for the Res Publica article, Professor1 gives no attribution to Le Corbeaunoir or the Res Publica Blog, not even a linkback to the authentic article. Le Corbeaunoir has asked that the It Makes Sense Blog correct this situation, but has received no response at this point. Read the rest of this entry »


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The following resources explore how you can weave accessibility and inclusion into your organizational culture.
Bobby Silverstein discusses the implications of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other laws related to accessible technology with respect to shifts to a gig or project-based workforce.
What does the future hold for accessible IT? Federal and industry executives from across the technology sector recently joined PEAT, supported by the General Services Administration (GSA), to share experiences, learn from each other, and discuss the future of accessible IT.
Digital recruitment is key to an effective talent sourcing strategy that engages all potential candidates, including those with disabilities. But with so many platforms to choose from, where should businesses begin?
Jutta Treviranus, Director and Founder of the Inclusive Design Research Centre, discusses how to improve artificial intelligence systems so they can better serve everyone, including people with disabilities.
Cisco's Project Lifechanger started out as a volunteer pilot program, and is now helping to transform the company's hiring and employment programs.
The world of work is changing. As many as 1 in 5 workers now make up the "gig economy," and technologies such as live video, artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) are entering the workplace. This series of podcasts and related resources explores how these emerging trends are impacting people with disabilities.
At this year's Coleman Conference on Cognitive Disability and Technology, PEAT had the opportunity to learn from experts working on the latest research on technology for people with cognitive disabilities, and to share with attendees the work we do around public policy and accessible workplace technology.
This webinar is focused on strategies to improve coordination between the public workforce system and employers to help businesses overcome barriers to recruiting, hiring, and training individuals with disabilities.
In recent years Facebook has become a tool for professional networking and on-the-job workplace productivity through its enterprise collaboration software, Workplace. In this webinar, Director of Accessibility Jeff Wieland and Director of Policy Monica Desai discuss why and how Facebook has made accessibility a priority.
Getting thousands of employees to understand and integrate an accessibility mindset into their day-to-day work is no easy task. At Capital One, the accessibility team has launched a range of creative internal efforts to promote widespread awareness of accessibility standards and best practices.
This primer covers why accessible workplace technology matters, and how to get started.
Larry Goldberg of Oath and and Jeff Wieland of Facebook discuss how Teach Access is working with industry, academia, and advocacy groups to expand the quality and quantity of undergraduate programs that teach the fundamentals of accessibility.
The Paciello Group's Henny Swan argues that it's time to shift our thinking away from compliance by recognizing how accessible technology can enable people by design.
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Command Core Expressions
Core expressions are declarative or programmatic expressions based on the org.eclipse.core.expressions plugin.
Expressions and the Command Framework
The Platform Command Framework uses core expressions for enabledWhen and activeWhen for handlers, programmatic activation of contexts, and for visibleWhen for menu contributions. The command framework provides the IEvaluationContext that command core expressions are evaluate against.
The IEvaluationContext provides a default variable for evaluations, and a number of named variables. In the command framework, we provide the global selection as a
java.util.Collection as the default variable. It can either be empty, have one entry (if the ISelection was something like an ITextSelection), or have the contents of an IStructuredSelection.
The <with/> element can be used to change which variable the child expression elements are evaluating against.
Variables and the Command Framework
ISources provides the variables.
Expression examples
Here are some examples. I'll pretend all of the examples are deciding when a handler is active.
Basic IStructuredSelection
A view provides a structured selection through its selection provider. An example would be the InfoView in org.eclipse.ui.examples.contributions<b>. You can browse the plugin.xml and
InfoView.java files. The InfoView provides an
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Robin Sparkles (Cobie Smulders) is going back to the mall — and she's bringing a lot of famous (Canadian) faces with her!
How I Met Your Mother has lined up a slew of Canadian-born celebrities for the Feb. 4 return of Robin's teen idol alter ego, CBS announced Monday.
How I Met Your Mother returning for a ninth season
James Van Der Beek, Jason Priestley, K.D. Lang, Paul Shaffer, Barenaked Ladies frontman Steven Page, Rush lead vocalist Geddy Lee, and former Canadian professional ice hockey player Luc Tobitaille will all guest-star. Alex Trebek will return, as will Growing Pains' Alan Thicke, who played Robin Sparkles' Space Teens co-star.
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Will the Supreme Court Repeal Obama's Health Care Law?
The U.S. Supreme Court will begin Monday hearing three days of oral arguments for cases that question the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the health care law passed under the Obama administration in 2010. Court watchers are split on how they think the court will decide the case.
"We're confident that it will be constitutional," said White House Senior Adviser David Plouffe on "Fox News Sunday."
Recent polls show a majority of Americans would like to see all or part of the law repealed. A March 17-18 Rasmussen Reports poll found that 56 percent of likely voters would somewhat favor or strongly favor repealing the law.
The most controversial aspect of the law is the requirement that every person (with a few exceptions) purchase health insurance, also known as the individual mandate. A February Gallup poll found that 72 percent of Americans, including 56 percent of Democrats, believe that the individual mandate is unconstitutional.
Plouffe believes, though, that after the rest of the law goes into effect in 2014, most Americans will support the law after they have lived under it.
"I'm convinced that at the end of this decade Republicans are going to regret terming this 'Obamacare,'" Plouffe said.
At issue in the case is whether the Commerce Clause in the U.S. Constitution, which gives Congress the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes," gives Congress the power to require individuals to purchase health insurance. The Court will also look at whether the requirement that employers provide health insurance violates the Commerce Clause, and whether the expansion of Medicaid and the requirement that states set up health care exchanges infringe on state's rights.
Conservative columnist George Will believes that the court will strike down the individual mandate because to not do so would bring an expansion of federal government power via the Commerce Clause.
The Supreme Court is "going to try, at long last, to see if there is any limiting principle on the ability of Congress to act simply because it asserts that whatever they're regulating has a substantial impact on interstate commerce. If there is no limiting principle, then the Madisonian architecture of limited government is gone and the federal government has an unlimited plenary police power," Will argued Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
Commentator Cokie Roberts countered, though, that the Court will allow greater regulation of health care because everyone will need health care at some point in their life.
"Well health care is different," Roberts said. "We all will participate in the health care system one way or the other. The way that most people do is to go to the emergency room, which we all then end up paying for."
If Roberts reasoning is correct, Will answered, then it would allow the government to regulate almost every aspect of Americans' lives, because, "everyone uses food, shelter, clothing, energy, transportation. This is a comprehensive argument if you let it loose in this case."
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) does not support the law, but believes that the Supreme Court could uphold the individual mandate if it views the penalty for not purchasing health insurance as a tax, which is the Obama administration's argument in the case.
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A Worcester businessman has launched a company that helps Internet radio stations play 24 hours a day, even when their disc jockey goes to bed.
Richard A. Cerny is president and chief executive officer of Westboro-based Backbone Networks Corp., which has been "incubating" for several years, but officially launched as a startup in February.
The company's product is providing an online network for Internet radio stations. These stations can be run by one person slinging songs around the Web, or several people serving a college, nonprofit or church.
"We take care of the technical part of broadcasting, enabling live remotes, radio automation, setting up the servers, managing connections and logging," said Backbone Vice President Paul Kamp via email. "The broadcaster can focus on their content. As they grow their Internet radio presence to a point where they need a network of stations, we can provide that too."
Users pay a monthly fee of between $300 and $1,150 (depending on how much information the radio station needs to store, or how many listeners the station has) or $2,700 a year (the discounted rate for a nonprofit) to link into Backbone's network of music, radio programming and other Internet radio stations. The service can provide up to 15,000 listening hours per month.
Backbone's network is maintained "in the cloud," on remote computer servers accessible via the Internet and a Backbone password. A user can log into the network and take music from the Backbone computer library, and can set up an automated playlist that includes music, talk, and other programming. The idea is that the broadcaster can focus on content and let Backbone worry about the technical issues involved with setting up and running an Internet radio station.
His company's slogan is you can have your own Internet radio station "with a Mac and a mic," meaning an Apple MacIntosh computer and a microphone.
Some of their customers include Babson College, Simmons College, Newbury College, Dean College, the New England Institute of Art in Boston, as well as some high schools and nonprofit groups. I didn't see any local colleges or institutions on their customer list, the closest being Western New England University in Springfield. But their customer list is national, from California to Florida to Pennsylvania to the Carolinas.
According to Mr. Cerny, Backbone serves the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System, a 1,000-plus- member association of college radio stations around the country, and has broadcast games for the nascent Major League Lacrosse, based in Boston.
It has also hit a sweet spot broadcasting live concerts. This summer, Backbone provided live audio of a hip hop concert in New York City and another in Los Angeles to thousands of listeners on the Web via Tune In, an Internet radio station.
In August, Backbone did the same for a regional concert in San Francisco called "Outside Lands," which featured well-known artists such as Stevie Wonder, Jack White, Metallica, Beck, Neil Young and Crazy Horse, and a long list of other acts. While Golden Gate Park held about 60,000 people on each day of the three-day concert, "over 100,000 unique listeners around the world tuned in for nearly half a million listener sessions," Mr. Cerny wrote on his blog on Backbone's website, www.backboneradio.com.
Backbone can also provide detailed reports on who's listening to your radio station, and where they are.
"If you're an artist and people are playing your songs at Babson College and say, Lithuania, well, you know where you want to hold your first two concerts," he said.
The company has four employees who operate out of an office on Friberg Parkway in Westboro.
Mr. Cerny previously led Telecast Fiber Systems, a Worcester-based manufacturer of fiber optic systems for television broadcast production. The company was sold at the end of 2009 to Belden Inc. of St. Louis. Mr. Cerny stayed on to lead the Worcester division for a year, then began looking for a new challenge.
That new challenge is Backbone. Mr. Cerny said the company is also exploring how to sell its network to low-powered FM stations, which the Federal Communications Commission provides to nonprofit organizations. The Backbone network would give these stations material to stream on the Web and over the airwaves.
But with a limited number of low-powered FM station licenses, this market has a limited number of users. Internet radio stations are seemingly endless on the Web. But one of their limitations is that when there is no one playing tunes, they go silent.
Mr. Cerny also sees big potential in churches. He's headed to the Worship Facilities Expo in Atlanta later this month to introduce Backbone Networks to churches, in the hope of building a church radio network that would be modeled on the college radio station network.
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SOCHI, Russia � They were touted as the fastest speedskating suits in the world.
Now the U.S. is dumping the high-tech attire after a dismal start to the Sochi Olympics.
Kevin Haley, vice president of innovation for suit developer Under Armour, told The Associated Press on Friday the Americans had received permission to go back to the suits they used while posting impressive results on the fall World Cup circuit and at the U.S. Olympic trials in December.
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The change begins today with the men�s 1,500 meters, when Shani Davis hopes to make up for a disappointing performance in his first race at Sochi. Under Armour was busy altering the logo on the old suits, so it conforms with International Olympic Committee regulations.
�We want to put the athletes in the best possible position when they�re stepping on the ice to be 100 percent confident in their ability to capture a spot on the podium,� Haley said by phone from Baltimore.
The change was a stunning reversal after the Americans arrived in Sochi proclaiming they had a suit that would give them a technological edge over rival countries such as the Netherlands.
Instead, the Dutch have dominated through the first six races, winning 12 of a possible 18 medals, including four golds. The Americans have yet to finish higher than seventh; Davis and female stars Heather Richardson and Brittany Bowe have all been major disappointments.
While Haley expressed confidence in the new suit, saying all the data proved it should produce faster times, he said the company agreed to the change because a few athletes felt it was actually a drag on their times.
�If they have one less thing to be distracted by,� Haley said, �that should give them a little bit of an advantage.�
No test time
The new skinsuits, developed with help from aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin and unveiled just before the Sochi Olympics, had definitely become a major distraction.
Even though several coaches and athletes defended the technology, it was clear that U.S. Speedskating needed to change things up to make sure this didn�t become a total bust of a Winter Games.
�Morale is down right now,� said Joey Mantia, another of the U.S. skaters in the 1,500.
The new suit, known as �Mach 39,� has become a convenient explanation for the American woes, since they were unveiled so late in the game, without giving the skaters a chance to wear them in competition.
Even before the Olympics began, the designer of the Dutch suits expressed skepticism about the American claims. Bert van der Tuuk said he even tested some of the elements used in the U.S. suit � rivets, seams, bumps and a diagonal zipper to cut down on drag � and found they provided no significant edge.
Others backed the new suits. Haley said the majority of the team wanted to stick with it, but the change was made to make sure everyone was comfortable. ISU rules require the entire team to wear the same suit.
�There�s absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is the most scientific suit in the whole world,� said U.S. skater Patrick Meek. �These guys make F-16 fighter jets. If they can invade Afghanistan and Iraq, they can build a speedskating suit.�


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"We started doing it, and it went really well." The former Indiana Hoosiers star had wrapped up an 11-year NBA playing career and was shopping his fishing show. Bang. Serendipitously, he landed a job as a scout for the Denver Nuggets, owned by Kroenke Sports Entertainment. "Stan Kroenke had just bought the Outdoor Channel. When they saw the show, they liked it, thought that it had potential," Jeffries said. "And they picked it up. That's how everything worked out great for me." Working in the same building as the KSE offices is a far piece from where Jeffries started fishing. He grew up in Bloomington, Ind., where state parks surrounded him. There were two ponds on his family's 75 acres, two more up in the woods and Salt Creek just across the road. "I fished as much as I could," he said, "Probably from the time I was 6 years old, I would go to the ponds, and then the river starting around 8, 9 years old. Me and my cousins, me and my friends, that's what we did." His father, Tom, would take Jeffries out on a 15-foot boat with a 50-hp Evinrude before upgrading to a 17-foot bass boat. "We caught a lot of bluegill, crappie, and we just kept progressing up with the boat," he said. In being named 2000 Indiana Mr. Basketball, Jeffries took Bloomington High School North to the state finals. He caught the eye of Indiana University Coach Bobby Knight, who kept Jeffries close to home. Jeffries said his father fished with Knight, an avid angler, but he never got the chance as Knight was dismissed two weeks into Jeffries freshman season. "Mike Davis came in, and he was actually my lead recruiter, so I felt comfortable with him," Jeffries said. "I wasn't going anywhere. My goal was going to the NBA. Why transfer?" Fueling Indiana's Cinderella run in the 2002 NCAA Tournament helped Jeffries enter the NBA Draft early. He had 24 points and 15 rebounds in IU's 74-73 upset of top-seeded Duke in the East Regional semifinal. The run ended with a loss to Maryland in the title game, but Jeffries earned accolades, including the 2002 Silver Basketball from the Chicago Tribune as Big Ten MVP. "I had a really good sophomore year and declared for the draft," said Jeffries, who was in Bradenton, Fla., training for the draft when he asked the simple question, "What's biting?" It led to his first saltwater experience and a deeper passion. "We jumped like eight tarpon and caught six. I was hooked. I had never seen anything like that in my life," Jeffries said, noting his biggest silver king was 140 pounds. "I hadn't caught fish that weighed that much in my whole life. Every fish combined to that point hadn't weighed that much." Drafted by the Washington Wizards at the 11th overall pick, Jeffries played there through 2006, then had his first stint with the New York Knicks. After a season with the Houston Rockets, he returned to the Knicks then retired in 2013 after a year with the Portland Trail Blazers. Jeffries, who played center and forward, was known for tenacious defense. He averaged 4.8 points and 4.1 rebounds over his career. Through those 11 NBA seasons, he spent a lot of off time fishing. "Every summer, I would plan, I would talk to people, where should I go?" he said. "I got hooked on yellowfin tuna fishing, then marlin fishing. I like jigging and popping just because of the excitement of it, and seeing these fish come up and the visual aspect of the fishing." His largest fish to date is a 750-pound black marlin he hooked off the coast of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. His travels have led him to locales like Bermuda, Bahamas, Panama, Venice, La., Cape Cod, Mass., and the South Pacific, among others. "The South Pacific is amazing," he said. "If it didn't take so long to get over there, I'd be there a lot more. It's definitely somewhere I enjoy going to. It's fun. It's a different kind of fishing -- catching GTs (giant trevally), dogtooth tuna, jobfish, red bass. "I love fishing in Panama. I love sword fishing down in the keys. My house, right here in Tampa, and Sarasota, I love fishing this area, it's so diverse. Just for fun fishing, I love fishing my area for snapper. "So I fish a little bit of everywhere. I try to get a feel of different areas. I don't want to just fish the same area and get stagnant." He's splitting time between Denver and his responsibilities with the Nuggets and his Tampa home, where a 39-foot Yellowfin awaits his beckon call. "I go out as much as I can. When I'm not filming, if the weather is good, I'll go out every day," he said. While still knowing there's more to learn, Jeffries said there are a few comparisons that can be applied between the teamwork of basketball and a crew chasing big fish. "The type of fishing I do, the jigging, popping style, you can get better at it," he said. "You've got to know how to tie your leaders, know how to work your stickbait, your poppers, how to jig, how to read the water. There's a competitive nature involved in that kind of fishing. Someone better comes on the boat and you can learn from them." He's already tested some of his NBA contacts, like L.A. Lakers guard Jeremy Lin, who played alongside him in New York. Jeffries said he'll also host Nuggets guard Nate Robinson and Nuggets Coach Brian Shaw. "There's a lot of guys who want to come on the show," Jeffries said. "It's a good concept. It's a lot of fun and we enjoy it. If you take anybody out fishing and you catch fish, it's very, very hard not to like it and enjoy it." Like in his NBA career, Jeffries says he doesn't plan to stress out catching fish consistently to produce TV shows. That's not him. His time fishing has been about getting away, relaxing and camaraderie, so why change. "I love doing the show," he said. "It's just like anything else. I love fishing, so why not film it. I just laugh, joke around. The in-house production team doesn't want to see me do bad, so it's a good thing for me to be able to just relax and be myself. "I always joke around. I never put pressure on myself to be successful. I always just had fun and enjoyed my life. My life has always worked out randomly." "Modern Fishing with Jared Jeffries" show page Click here for videos, stories and photos from ICAST 2014. Share This Story Related Wild Card : Posted 07-22-2014 To Catch A Great White View Fishing : Posted 07-16-2014 Tail Wagging The Dog View Comments


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This morning I read an article by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and Daniel Nexon, titled "Paradigmatic Faults in International-Relations Theory." This piece originally appeared in a 2009 edition of Internaionl Studies Quartlerly.
I like when people agree with me, so when I saw my words echoed across time (it's as if Jackson and Nexon read my post, built a time machine, and told their former selves what a great idea they read on tdaxp). Yesterday, I said it was riduclous to describe the International Relations cliques of "Realism," "Liberalism," and such as paradigms. I wrote:
The highlighted passage, originally by Daniel Maliniak simply means that empirical research is increasing, and that non-empirical research is declining, within political science. But Maliniak, and thus Walt and Mearsheimer, bizarrely use "paradigmatic†to refer to less paradigmatic (that is, less capable of progress) fields, and "non-paradigmatic†to more to more paradigmatic (that is, more capable of progress) fields.
Political science has been in the fever swamp for so long that the notion of progress as an outcome of normal science has almost entirely been lost. If Walt and Mearsheimer had their way, it might be lost, and the field simply divided into a stationary oligarchy of old boys network.
As Jackson and Nexon write:
The terminology of ''paradigms'' and ''research programmes'' produces a num-ber of deleterious effects in the ï¬eld. It implies that we need to appeal to criteria of the kind found in MSRP in order to adjudicate disputes that require no such procedures. In order to do so, we spend a great deal of time specifying the ''boundaries'' of putative research programmes and, in effect, unfairly and misleadingly holding scholars accountable for the status of theories they often view as rivals to their own.
Perhaps the most well-known instance of this kind of boundary-demarcation occurs in the debates surrounding ''realism'' in international relations theory. The proliferation of countless lists of the ''core commitments'' of a realist ''paradigm''—by adherents and critics alike—shifts the focus of scholarship away from any actual investigation of whether these commitments give us meaningful leverage on the phenomenal world, and instead promotes endless border skirmishes about who is and is not a realist (Legro and Moravcsik 1999), whether predictions of balancing are central to the ''realist paradigm'' (Vasquez 1998:261–65), and so forth. Such debates and demarcations not only distract us from the actual study of world politics, but also harm disputes over international relations theory by solidifying stances that ought to remain open to debate and discussion.
So I enjoyed Jackson's and Nexon's takedown of the so-called "paradigms" in International Relations.
But they don't go far enough.
Their piece ends with an appeal to Max Weber (how non-progressive can you get?!?) and an unfalsifiable taxonomy that I won't go into
A more useful conclusion to the paper would have been to recognize that statistics is the language of theory, the language of modeling. Instead of inviting international relations scholars to chase their own tale and bow to Max Weber and the dead, how much more useful would a positive theory of research programs in International Relations have been? For instance, consider a citation indexing method, such as PageRank [pdf] to determine if they are "clusters" PageRank sets in which certain articles were influential (exemplars?) and others were not. Did Jackson and Nexon really have no one availability to sketch even a proposed methodology for testing their claim?
The answer is probably "no." My purpose isn't to pick on Jackson and Nexon, but to point out the weakness of International Relations as a whole. In a related post by Patrick Musgrave, titled "The Crass Argument for Teaching More Math In Poli Sci Courses", the following diagram showing is shown:
Which clearly displays a "humanities ghetto," that includes political science.
How can this be, if International Relations is the disciplined extraction of meaning from data, which is the same focus as the high-paying, well-employed fields?
The obvious answer is that International Relations does not teach actually useful methods for the disciplined extraction of data. It does not teach critical thinking or logical reasoning. It teaches something that apes these skills, a rhetorical ability that impresses old scholars and does not help society.
International Relations is a non-progressive field where, by and large, it sucks to be young.
In an evocative comment that ties the article and the blog post together, Patrick Thaddeus Jackson states:
I don't think that it is our job as university faculty to increase students' future earning potential. Nor do I think that it is our job in teaching PoliSci undergrads to make sure that they can read APSR in the 1980s and 1990s. Our job is to teach students to think critically about politics, and while I am perfectly fine with the suggestion that some statistical literacy can be useful to that end, I am not prepared to give that higher pride of place than things like reading closely, writing cogently, and disagreeing with one another civilly.
The dichotomy that Jackson notes is entirely false. In his own piece, he was not able to express a constructive critical thought about paradigms — the original Nexon and Jackson article is devoid of the model specification or operationalization that would needed to turn his criticisms and taxonomy into something capable of progress. Any competent graduate from the humanities ghetto can read "closely" or write "cogently." That's needed is to think usefully, and for this statistical literary is required.


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New BMW 3 Series GT unveiled
* BMW 3 Series GT due on sale this summer * Hatchback with raised driving position * Longer and more spacious than 3 Series Touring...
This is the BMW 3 Series GT, a new hatchback version of the popular executive model that's due on sale in the UK this summer.
The 3 Series GT will sit at the top of the four-model line-up, for while much of its styling and feature list will look familiar to owners of the coupe, saloon and Touring, it sits on a longer rear-drive chassis than any of them. BMW says the car will offer more space for rear passengers, an elevated driving position and the improved practicality that comes with a hatchback opening.
The 3 GT is 20cm longer and 8cm taller than a 3 Series Touring, and its wheelbase grows by 11cm. The seating positions (front and rear) are raised by 6cm BMW claims this makes it easier to get into and out of the vehicle and rear legroom is increased by 7cm over the 3 Series saloon and Touring.
With the rear seats in position, the luggage capacity is 520 litres around 25 litres more than the 3 Series Touring's load space. It's also the same capacity as the 5 Series saloon, a vehicle that's equally likely to be on the 3 GT buyer's shortlist. With the 40:20:40 split seat folded, the 3 GT's capacity is 1600 litres.
Handles at either side of the LED-illuminated boot will fold down the rear seat backs although the backrests can also be adjusted if required (through 15 stages, and 19 degrees) to alter the boot shape and capacity. The huge rear glass door operates electrically and is activated by either the keyfob or a button on the edge of the hatch. However, an optional sensor also allows you to open it by waving a foot under the rear bumper.
The exterior styling gives the 3 GT a more sporting stance than BMW's previous attempt at this type of vehicle the poorly received 5 Series GT. The current 3 Series' sharp nose is retained, and the extra length has allowed BMW's designers to make a decent fist of disguising both the increased height and the larger amount of metal beyond the rear doors.
The rear hatchback does hold one secret, though; an integrated spoiler that pops up at speeds of more than 68mph. BMW claims that it reduces lift on the car's rear axle by more than 35%, allowing the car to keep the same aerodynamic qualities as the 3 Series saloon.
Inside, the fascia and driver area are easily recognisable as a 3 Series, with a similar dashboard layout to the saloon and Touring, and familiar BMW touches including the iDrive infotainment controller and a head-up display.
The 3 Series GT's position at the top of the 3 Series range will be reflected in its line-up and pricing. The entry-level model will be the 181bhp 320i GT SE, at 28,830; that's around 3000 more than the equivalent saloon, and 1700 more than a 320i SE Touring, but cheaper than the entry-level 5 Series.
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"She can understand us"
Jülich researchers demonstrate emotional life in comatose patients
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Jülich, 9 December 2008 – Do people in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) experience their surroundings? Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich have now been able to demonstrate that these patients do indeed react if addressed directly. In a recently published study, researchers from the Institute of Neurosciences and Biophysics showed that in future functional imaging could be able to give new insights into what is experienced by comatose patients.
In cooperation with neurologists from Düsseldorf University Hospital, Jülich researchers headed by Dr. Simon Eickhoff have used functional magnetic tomography to show that after sensory stimulus activity of the corresponding areas of the cerebral cortex was still present in a patient who had been in a coma for years. Furthermore, they were able to demonstrate that an understanding of speech was still present and that there was a person- and situation-specific activity in the so-called amygdala which is known to occur in the case of emotional reactions. However, this could only be demonstrated for the patient\\\'s children and close friends and above all when she was addressed directly. This provided objective evidence for the view held by the patient's family and friends that she recognized familiar voices and "reacted" when spoken to.
The results published in the December issue of the high-impact journal "Experimental Neurology" thus show that even after severe traumatic brain injury and after many years of deep unconsciousness a processing of sensory stimuli and emotions takes place similar to that of the healthy brain.
Every year, 270 000 people suffer traumatic brain injury in Germany – in a road accident, at work or at home. The longer patients remain unconscious after such an injury the smaller is their chance of recovery. Almost 20 per cent of PVS patients remain in a permanently unconscious state and thus require continuous nursing.
The question of the state of awareness of PVS patients and how to deal with this situation, which is extremely distressing for all involved, has frequently been asked even before the case of the American PVS patient Terry Schiavo. In particular, the clinical diagnosis of deep unconsciousness is frequently countered by the view put forward by family and friends that he or she "can understand us". Jülich researchers have now found an answer to this question.
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Eickhoff, S.B., Dafotakis, M., Grefkes, C., Stöcker, T., Shah, N.J., Schnitzler, A., Zilles, K., Siebler, M.: fMRI reveals cognitive and emotional processing in a long-term comatose patient. Exp. Neurol. 214(2):240-246 (2008)
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I went to an amazing show in London last night... Revolution Pro Wrestling Uprising.
Match of the night was Prince Devitt vs. Ricochet. Those two are just so damn smooth in the ring, and they had the crowd popping like crazy with their big moves and lightning exchanges.
Davey Richards vs. Zack Sabre Jr. was also exceptional. They put on a masterclass in mat-work and chain-wrestling.
Other highlights were Michael Elgin vs. Noam Dar and Marty Scrull vs. arguably the best wrestler in the world... Hiroshi Tanahashi. It was surreal to watch him wrestle in the East End of London.
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The sex case starring Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi may get even more high profile: George Clooney is being considered to testify as a witness.
The "Up in the Air" actor and his Italian model girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis, are on a list of 78 witnesses named by the prime minister to defend him against charges of sex with an under-aged prostitute, an attorney for Berlusconi told Bloomberg News. The judge has yet to make a final decision on what witnesses will testify in the trial, set to begin April 6.
"It seems odd, since I've only met Berlusconi once and that was in an attempt to get aid into Darfur," the actor said in a statement about being considered for the witness stand.
Karima el-Mahroug, the Moroccan nightclub dancer who Berlusconi allegedly paid for sex, said in a court document that she spotted Clooney and his girlfriend at a dinner party hosted by the prime minister in February 2010 near his villa close to Milan.
Canalis reportedly has denied being present at the party. Her famous beau has a villa of his own not far from where the party was held, beside Lake Como, BBC reported.
A few rich and famous also made it on the defense's witness list. AFP reports supermodel Belen Rodriguez, TV presenter Barbara d'Urso and soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo could also be called to testify.
On Feb. 15th, the scandal-ridden prime minister was ordered to stand trial for paying a 17-year-old for sex and abusing his power to free the teen, nicknamed "Ruby the Heart Stealer," from police custody in Milan due to unrelated theft charges, Bloomberg reports. Both El Mahroug, now 18, and Berlusconi, 74, have denied the charges.
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1. Determine the lowest used combo (with no combos after it!!) in your combo table, and make a note of its ID.
2. Go to Quest->Import->Combos
3. Set the starting point at the value that you noted in (1)
4. Select the file 1st.cmb in the dialogue.
5. ZQuest should append the new combos to your combo table, and because I pre-loaded the tileset and the palettes, they should instantly work, and be available.
P.S. My German is somewhat degraded, and I primarily read the language infrequently, but en Deutsche is slang (phonetic 'en') of sorts, over here. (Probably a remnant of WWII era slang.)
I need to do some further refinement, so that the tile works without interfering with custom quest icons, and some other things. The behaviour on the name entry screen is a bit quirky.
Anyway, I mentioned this because I have yet to add a modifier to the the cset value, when the module has a manual tile override. At present, the tiles default to csset 9--where the sprite palette data loads, IIRC--but the module can use any cset that it wishes.
I'll need to add some way to read Link's modified colour to the new routine, with an option in the module to suppress that.
Even so, here's the current module-driven name entry screen:
You can set the frame tile and cset, Link's tile and cset, the cursor tile and cset, and up to two decoration tiles (and csets each), for up to ten (internal) quests in the nodule package.


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