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It's been almost twenty years since he was cast as an old geezer trapped in a boy's body on 3rd Rock from the Sun. Lately, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been getting younger every day—making cancer funny with Seth Rogen, singing on the Internet, and starring in a million new movies, including The Dark Knight Rises. Here, young Joe kicks off our fall fashion preview, showing us all how to pull off a three-piece suit and taking Amy Wallace on his own personal (and slightly disorienting) Hollywood Walk of Fame
This is what it's like, getting lost with Joseph Gordon-Levitt. "Oh boy. Dude," he mutters to himself as he steers his gray 2005 Honda Accord hybrid around a flat, arid stretch of the San Fernando Valley, the place where he grew up. We're trying—and failing—to find his alma mater, Van Nuys High School. "This is funny. It's been a long time," he says, laughing as he turns right, then left, then right again. Because Joe (as he likes to be called) is focusing on the road, it's easy for me to appraise his otherworldly features without seeming like a letch. The planes of his face, the pale skin, the gymnast's build. Dressed in a white T-shirt with a red circle on it, gray chinos, and a dusty pair of Vans, a slight stubble scruffing up his square chin and a red plastic watch cinched to his left wrist, the actor who's appeared in films as varied as 50/50, Inception, and this summer's Batman sequel, The Dark Knight Rises, doesn't look his age, which is 31.
We pull up to a nondescript campus dotted with the beige double-wide trailers that are synonymous with California's overcrowded public-education system. "Here it is," Joe says triumphantly. But it isn't. This is an elementary school, not a high school, I say. "Interesting," Joe replies, which is what I'm thinking, too.
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A street sign—Ranchito Avenue—sparks a memory: One of Joe's best friends in high school lived on this street. Worth a try. But when we turn a corner, we come up empty. "Fucking hell," Joe says, laughing again. "I have a really terrible sense of direction." Maybe it's farther west, I suggest gently. "Yeah, maybe," he says, turning the car around. "I'm starting to think I'm maybe on the right track now," he says, his brown eyes twinkly. Already he's shown me a park where the 10-year-old Joe played flag football. He's taken me over Laurel Canyon Boulevard, the route he and his mom traveled every day to auditions, beginning when he was 6. After asking me to hold his sunglasses, he's even summoned the graceful physicality he often displays in his work to do some tumbling, springing backward into the air. Then, having slightly bobbled that first backflip, he's grinned and tried again. And the second time, he stuck the landing.
Now, as we drive past a black-clad skateboarder with a Mohawk so spiky it could draw blood, Joe tells me there was a time when he disdained sidewalk surfers "because I grew up here, where skating started, and most of those guys were dicks." But that guy, the one we just passed? "That guy looks pretty cool," he says. When I ask if he went to his prom at the high school we're having trouble locating, he sheepishly says no. "I was a sort of serious little dude—snobby. I thought girls my age were very frustrating. They were, like, looking in their compact mirrors and shit, and I thought that was evil," he says, adding that he was in danger of becoming "a hopeless ivory-tower douchebag. I'm a little more forgiving now. I've grown to laugh at myself a little bit more than I did."
When we finally come upon Van Nuys High, a security guard at the front door sends us to the main office. "We have lots of liability issues," the guy says, explaining why we must get permission to wander around. Joe thanks the guy, but as we head down a hallway, he whispers: "We're not going to go to the main office." Left, then right, and we find ourselves in a sunny courtyard teeming with hundreds of teenagers. They're hurrying to class, trying to beat the bell, and I can't help but notice that many are wearing T-shirts and chinos and Vans. "This is pretty fucking awesome, dude," Joe says, grinning. "We came at just the right time."
Our adventure began at the Chateau Marmont hotel on the Sunset Strip, where Joe was greeted warmly by employees in crisp outfits who knew him by name. This made him uncomfortable. "I've been here a lot recently," he was quick to explain, "because it's a good place to have meetings. I'm directing this movie"—it's a coming-of-age story he wrote—"and that means lots of meetings." We didn't stay. Instead, we got in his aging vehicle, whose enviro-conscious reputation he calls "a sham" and whose make and model he asked me not to mention. "Don't put this in the story," he said, even as I told him I was going to. "It's so boring. I hate cars. Let's say it's a magic carpet!"
His career, certainly, is flying high and steady: He's about to be in four movies. In addition to The Dark Knight, he's got Premium Rush, a bike-messenger-under-siege action flick due out in August, followed by Looper, a sci-fi adventure, in September. In December's Lincoln, Steven Spielberg's biopic, Joe depicts the son of the sixteenth president, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, who suggested Joe for the part.
Directors who've worked with Joe laud his collaborative spirit and uncommon versatility. No slouch in the serious-drama department (2008's Stop-Loss), he brings an arch intelligence to comedy that has made headbanging hilarious (last year's Hesher) and, yes, even cancer funny (50/50, also from last year). He can do noir (2005's Brick) and popcorn fare (2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra). Add to all that his eagerness to sing and dance ("What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"—an impromptu and slightly twee YouTube duet with Zooey Deschanel) and Joe emerges as a sort of old-timey showman. Imagine Fred Astaire hiding in the body of an edgy intellectual who's as likely to quote Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig as RZA, a founder of the Wu-Tang Clan.
Raised by middle-class left-leaning professionals who still live in the same house he grew up in, Joe has Hollywood roots. (He is the grandchild of the blacklisted director Michael Gordon, who made the Doris Day–Rock Hudson classic Pillow Talk.) He got his first paying job—in a TV commercial—at 6 years old and was the star of his first feature film, Angels in the Outfield, at 12. Next came 3rd Rock from the Sun, on which Joe played Tommy, an ancient alien hiding in the body of a teenage boy.
Joe's filmography is littered with these kinds of time-warping cinematic devices. He loved Memento, Christopher Nolan's 2000 thriller, which moved forward and backward in time, so much that he lobbied to get a role in Inception, that brilliantly confusing 2010 movie about the inner workings of the mind (I think), in which past and present were fluid at best. He was in the 2007 film The Lookout, in which he played a star athlete, injured in a car accident, who can remember events only if he thinks of them as stories and works his way backward from the end. Come to think of it, even (500) Days of Summer, the 2009 not-a-love-story Joe starred in with Deschanel, started at day 488 of their doomed affair and then went back to day one (then to day 290, day one again, day three, etc.).
In the upcoming Looper, Joe plays a hit man who works for the Mob of the future and recognizes one of his targets as his future self. During production, Joe spent three hours a day having prosthetics applied to his face and wore blue contact lenses—all to make it more believable that the characters "Joe" (Joe) and "older Joe" (Bruce Willis) are the same person. The result suggests a young Robert Forster, but it's subtle enough that it messes with your head in an interesting way, making you sometimes wonder if Joe is in the movie at all. (When I share that observation with Joe, he looks like he wants to hug me. Instead he says, "That's precisely the highest compliment I think you can pay an actor: 'I wasn't sure if it was you.' ")
Less is known about Joe's role in The Dark Knight Rises, which Nolan, the director, has shrouded in his customary secrecy. Joe plays John Blake, a Gotham City cop (who's rumored to also be Robin). Nolan recalls being struck by the actor's "youthful energy" when they first met: "He has tremendous charisma and that incredible kind of positivity that can't be faked." Which makes him perfect, of course, for Commissioner Gordon's protégé. "We really needed somebody with a sense of idealism to contrast with Gordon's weariness," Nolan says of Gary Oldman's role. "I thought of Joe first and foremost."
"A little bit of a contrarian" is the way Zooey Deschanel describes the Joe she first met on the set of the 2001 movie Manic. "Very intellectual. Very, very serious and very intense." Joe, then 19, had just decided to quit acting and was headed to Columbia University to read Nabokov. Deschanel, meanwhile, had just dropped out of college to become an actor.
"We would joke about that. I would be like, 'You hate movies.' And he'd be like, 'You hate books,' " she says. "The Joe that I knew back then, I would never think of him as having anything but wonderful qualities. But you would say something, and he would go, 'What do you mean by that?' Not a word went unexamined, you know?"
I do know, in fact. During our day together, I definitely saw remnants of that hyperanalytical, smarty-pants (dare I say ivory-tower douchebaggy?) quality, like when Joe told me how much he hated Americans' fawning over celebrity. "I really don't like this notion that some people are more important than other people," he said. "These stories about these elevated people called 'celebrities' teaches you"—and by "you" he meant regular, nonfamous folks—"that what you have to say doesn't matter. It's degrading." It is a testament to Joe's bright-eyed friendliness that he managed to say all this in a way that didn't make me feel dirty. This is, after all, a celebrity profile.
Still, Deschanel says that eight years after Manic, when they co-starred in (500) Days of Summer, Joe was lighter, less burdened. "He changed a lot," she says. "He became a lot more open-minded." When I tell her Joe did a backflip for me, she laughs. "Of course he did. He loves to do backflips."
Now Joe is telling me that traditional Hollywood—yes, the industry that employs him—is crumbling. "The entertainment business as it has been is not going to be around that much longer," he says. "The way it's going is, there's going to be artists, and they'll make their shit, and they'll connect to their audience, and you don't need any of the middlemen—the studios or the agents." He's been regaling me about how the Internet is "ushering us into a cultural golden age" and how curation "is the art form of the twenty-first century." He's been lambasting American intellectual-property laws (see: Lessig) and comparing Hollywood's current crisis to how the blacksmiths felt when the car was invented. He's also been waxing poetic about how quality is more important than originality.
"Ever since I was a kid, I'd always played with video cameras," Joe says, explaining his answer to this tectonic shift: hitRECord.org, a site into which he has poured $500,000 of his own money. The site describes itself as "an open-collaborative production company" where "we make things together." Joe recalls how the red record button on his family's Hi8 camera inspired hitRECord's logo, a red circle (which explains the dot on his T-shirt). "I turned it into a symbol for getting going. A motivational mantra."
Built around a simple idea most of us learn in nursery school—sharing—the site allows users to post things and others to remix them and mash them up, all with the goal of making them better. HitRECord also hosts live events, giving Joe the opportunity to draft his famous (but not more important than you) friends: Anne Hathaway, for example, who recently sang a duet with Joe in French. Joe launched the site with his older brother, Dan. A photographer and fire spinner who went by the moniker Burning Dan, the elder Gordon-Levitt died of an alleged drug overdose in 2010. "It was an accident" is all Joe will say about that. Recently, when hitRECord published an anthology, RECollection, which includes a book, a DVD of short films, and a CD of music, he dedicated it to Dan.
RECollection also includes a series of "tiny stories," one of which is authored by Joe. Here it is in its entirety: "When I was younger, I wanted to be something. Now, I just want to be younger."
All this begins to make sense when I reach John Lithgow, who met Joe on 3rd Rock from the Sun. "It's kind of extraordinary that he was playing an old man in a young boy's body then, because that's kind of what he was," Lithgow says. "He was a very mature boy—I remember him carrying on about the ecological damage that is done when people build new golf courses. What teenager worries about that? And now he's a very youthful adult. He's done a flip-flop."
Rian Johnson, Looper's writer-director, agrees, noting Joe's ability "to merge work and play. He's found a way to turn his fame into this fuel that he uses to drive what he really cares about." Which, lately, is directing that film he mentioned, Don Jon's Addiction—a change of course he feels so strongly about that he dropped out of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained in order to commit fully. The film, shooting now, features Joe as a selfish, porn-addicted lout, as well as Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, and Tony Danza (with whom Joe last shared the screen in Angels in the Outfield, eighteen years ago, when he was not yet in high school).
I flash on this when the girls at Van Nuys High first spot Joe. We are wandering the campus, aiming vaguely toward the room where he once took calculus, when he feels them on his heels. "We might be caught," he says to me under his breath, and before I grasp what he means, we are surrounded. To their credit, none of these fresh-faced teens is looking in a compact mirror, but one of them does squeal, _"Oh. MY. GOD!" _
Joe puts a finger to his lips. "Shhh! I'm Joe," he whispers, gallantly shaking hands even as he says he can't pose for pictures. "Nice to meet you. We're trying to keep this quiet." The girls—not evil at all, it turns out—disperse, and riot defused, we keep walking. That was sweet, I say—then, seeing the way his eyes are darting around, revise my pronouncement: Maybe it doesn't feel sweet to you? "No, it's sweet," he says, breathing easier. "Sweet."
Amy Wallace is a GQ correspondent.


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The Lansing School Board discussed and unanimously approved a capitol outlay resolution June 9 that permits the board to introduce a new budget in the future with a property tax levy of potentially eight mills.
The approved resolution gives the board "continuous and permanent" authority to introduce a new budget calling for a tax levy raise.
However, the board did not propose a new budget or proposal that would raise property taxes at this time.
Superintendent Dr. Randall Bagby said the School Board had no intention of raising the levy now or in the near future. The resolution merely gives the board authority to pursue a levy increase through a new budget in the future, he said.
The resolution was brought up because of a Kansas statute that went into effect May 1 allowing for funds raised through a tax levy increase to cover a wide range of school district expenses that previously were only covered within the general fund budget, potentially allowing the district to shift certain expenses from the general fund to funds from property tax levies.
Specifically, the new allowances would permit expenses like custodial and maintenance salaries, computer software, repairs to vehicles, and band uniforms to be covered by capitol outlay rather than the general fund.
Bagby encouraged School Board members to consider the resolution because of the funding struggles the school district faced after budget cuts in 2012, suggesting that passing "maximum authority" now would help protect against future funding issues.
"My purpose is to put in eight mills in the resolution — the maximum authority — even if we don't have an intention of using it this year, or even next year, but to protect against budget cuts," the superintendent said.
The School Board also discussed a proposal from Assistant Superintendent Dan Wessel to purchase an additional 600 iPads for the middle and high schools.
The new purchases would add 300 devices each to the middle school and high school, raising the district count to a total of 2,000 iPads.
"This will help us to get that technology into the hands of the students and teachers in the classroom as much as we possibly can," Wessel said.
In November, the School Board set a goal to increase student access to technology and to reach a 1:1 ratio between students and iPads. The new acquisitions will let the district reach a 1:1 ratio in the middle school, but an addition of 250 iPads would be necessary to reach the ratio in the high school.
Currently, the iPads available to students are checked out by teachers for a specific class, distributed to students, and then collected at the end of the period.
Usage policies may change with the new acquisition in the middle school, perhaps allowing students to carry a machine with them during the day rather than checking one out for specific classes.
"The middle school is definitely searching and wanting for this to become a personal and not a shared device," Wessel said.
The School Board approved the $227,400 proposal.
Board members also unanimously approved the 2015 Child Nutrition and Wellness Program agreement, which makes the school district eligible to receive State Department of Education benefits available for funding student lunch, breakfast, milk, and snack programs.
During July's meeting, the School Board plans to select new officers.
Lansing School Board action provides budgetary options
The Lansing School Board discussed and unanimously approved a capitol outlay resolution June 9 that permits the board to introduce a new budget in the future with a property tax levy of potentially eight mills.

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Take a Look at Original Casting Call for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' Video
Nirvana's all-out mosh fest of a video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' has become one of the most iconic clips of the past quarter century. But it started out just like any other music video casting call.
Even though this original flier has been around for a few years, it's making the rounds again, and we think it's too cool to not take a look at again.
Filmed on a soundstage in Culver City, Calif., on Aug. 17, 1991, the video takes place in high school gym, where Nirvana turn a run-of-the-mill pep rally into a virtual riot that ends with the band's equipment getting smashed. The cheerleaders bearing anarchy symbols on their uniforms are a nice touch too.
According to All That Is Interesting, the instrument-smashing climax was not staged. Apparently, the antsy kids -- presumably the same ones who answered that casting call -- got tired of sitting through so many takes of the video throughout the day and staged their own form of protest.
You can watch the still-awesome final product below.


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UW-Oshkosh rushed for 370 yards and scored 14 points in every quarter to demolish UW-Stout, 56-10, on Thursday (Sept. 22) in Menomonie. The game was a non-conference bout between the WIAC rivals.
Nate Wara (Jr. • Oshkosh) highlighted the offensive showcase with 185 rushing yards, while his two tailbacks each averaged better than 14 yards per carry. Justin Budiac (Sr. • Mukwonago) totaled 74 yards on the ground as Cole Myhra (So. • Menomonee Falls) churned out 69 more. The passing game was also effective, with Garrie Fox (Sr. • Madison) registering 131 yards on six catches.
UW-Stout (2-1) had allowed just 114 rushing yards per game entering the night, while the UW-Oshkosh (2-1) offense averaged 108. The Titans' quarterback, backfield and offensive line more than tripled both of those figures. UW-Oshkosh's point total was its highest since scoring 62 against Lakeland College during 2007.
The Titan defense forced punts on UW-Stout's first three possessions. Wara and the UW-Oshkosh offense then quickly turned its first six plays into 14 points. After running for 16 yards to approach midfield, Wara broke free for a 52-yard touchdown to make it 7-0 just 3:23 into the contest.
Wara handed off on the Titans' third play of their next drive, and Budiac took his carry 46 yards for the score and a 14-0 advantage. UW-Stout would respond early in the second quarter with a 13-play drive and 36-yard field goal by Ricky Marteney.
UW-Oshkosh got the ball back and continued to deliver explosive plays. Wara found Fox for 34 yards and Caleb Voss (So. • Van Dyne) for gains of 17 and 15. Utilizing his legs once again, Wara rushed into the end zone from six yards out to gain a 21-3 cushion.
The Blue Devils reached opposition territory twice during the second quarter, but they turned it over on downs at the 35 and 21-yard lines. Just before halftime, Wara found a seam and raced 78 yards to just short of the goal line. Charlie Weissman (Sr. • Colgate) later carried the final yard to put the Titans up, 28-3, with 1:29 on the clock.
Weissman kept the momentum going by returning the third-quarter kickoff 49 yards. UW-Oshkosh ran four plays for minimal gains, including a fourth-down conversion, before lighting up the scoreboard again. Wara took to the air this time and connected with Fox for a 36-yard score.
UW-Stout found success with a 14-play drive that consumed nearly seven minutes. Ross Carey hit Josh Peterson on consecutive passes to pick up 22 yards. Paul Bernier carried the rock on 10 plays, finally plunging in for a two-yard score that cut the deficit to 35-10 midway through the third period. Bernier booked 95 yards on his 21 rushing attempts for the game.
A fortunate special teams play assisted the Titans with their next touchdown. When UW-Oshkosh punted, a Blue Devil roughed the kicker to award a first down. Wara took advantage with a 14-yard run on his next snap. He then dropped back and fired a strike to Fox, who hauled in a 26-yard touchdown to regain a 32-point advantage.
The Titans tacked on a pair of fourth-quarter scores with Myhra's 61-yard run and James Steffens' (Fr. • Waterford) 74-yard interception return. The pick-six by Steffens capped a strong night by the UW-Oshkosh defense, which held Carey to 9-of-30 passing for just 91 yards. Peterson topped the Blue Devil receivers with four grabs for 57 yards.
UW-Oshkosh compiled 535 yards overall, with Wara hitting 11-of-16 passes for 172 yards and two touchdowns. The Blue Devils (316 yards) won the time of possession category by holding the ball for almost 35 minutes. UW-Stout also equaled UW-Oshkosh's total of 19 first downs. The major difference came in yards per play, where the Titans averaged nine yards to the Blue Devils' four.
Taylor Goodman (Jr. • South Wayne) paced all tacklers with 10, as the Titans also received a sack from Andrew Thompson (Jr. • Greendale). UW-Stout was led by eight tackles apiece from Aaron Kobes and Damian Guggenbuehl.
The Titans begin their conference slate by hosting UW-River Falls on Oct. 1.


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The 2014 U.S. Trade Agenda
On March 4, President Obama released an ambitious trade agenda (http://www.ustr.gov/about-us/press-office/press-releases/2014/March/Presidents-2014-Trade-Policy-Agenda-Commitment-to-Bolstering%20Middle-Class-Values) for the coming year that includes the conclusion of a multilateral trade deal with 12 Pacific Rim countries, advancing a bilateral agreement with the EU, and a renewal of the "fast track" negotiating power known as Trade Promotion Authority. The Administration laid out these priorities as part of a grand strategy to level the global playing field for American businesses and workers by removing barriers to trade and investment. SEMI supports these ambitious goals and continually works with Congress and the Administration to ensure that high standard, comprehensive trade pacts represent the best interests of its members.
The Administration first signaled a foreign policy pivot toward Asia in 2012 and since that time has ramped up economic and security considerations in the region. A central element of this strategic shift, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), could boost annual U.S. exports by $124 billion in a pact that would cover approximately one-third of global trade. TPP would accelerate global economic growth while providing significant commercial gains to the countries a party to the agreement, including the U.S., Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. However, conclusion of the agreement is anything but imminent. "Behind-the-border" issues such as intellectual-property protection, environmental and labor standards, investor-state dispute settlement rules remain contentious. Later this month, President Obama will travel to Asia to discuss commercial issues with heads of state from Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia. Resolution of TPP will be atop the list of issues to be addressed.
Similarly, President Obama's trip to Europe last week put a central focus on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). This time last year the U.S. and EU announced that they would seek a free trade agreement to ostensibly eliminate all tariffs on bilateral trade and create the largest free trade zone in the world by 2015. With the framework now in place, both countries now look to make significant progress on the text of this agreement. TTIP will ultimately modernize trade rules related to regulatory and standards systems for these two partners but more importantly, the agreement offers a unique opportunity to act as a precedent-setting mechanism for future trade negotiations globally. The next round of negotiations will likely be held in May in Washington. SEMI's public policy team will continue to play an active role in the consultation process and provide industry input to the U.S. Trade Representative's negotiating team.
Both of these agreements have the potential to bring huge benefits to American workers and businesses but they won't be seen until U.S. negotiators receive the final piece of the puzzle: Trade Promotion Authority (TPA). Earlier this year, legislation was introduced to grant this authority to the Administration in order to put trade agreements on the fast track to congressional consideration. Under TPA, the President could negotiate agreements with other countries that would then be submitted to Congress for an up-or-down vote with no amendments. TPA is based on the common-sense idea that the executive and legislative branches of our government need to work together on trade agreements. However, not long after President Obama called for Congressional approval of TPA in his State of the Union address, Democratic leaders in both the House and Senate voiced opposition to the legislation. With U.S. negotiators hamstrung, the Administration is currently redoubling efforts to persuade Congressional Democrats of the necessity for TPA. SEMI is also engaged with a broad-based group of advocates to push for TPA approval. It is imperative that Congress and the Administration work together to further U.S. trade and investment with the hope that TPA legislation will soon be enacted.
On April 3, the Congressional committees of jurisdiction on trade (Senate Finance and House Ways & Means) will hold hearings on the President's 2014 trade agenda, in which many of these issues will be thoroughly discussed. You can tune-in live via C-SPAN at http://www.finance.senate.gov/ and http://waysandmeans.house.gov/. SEMI is an active member of Washington-based coalitions supporting TPP, TTIP, and TPA. For more information on trade policy and how it may affect your company, please contact Taylor Sholler (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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|Calm before the storm :)
Next time you feel like slapping someone on the back of their head to school them about their invasion of the fast lane, try the following tips instead and I guarantee you will enjoy your swim more. And as an added bonus, you will actually improve in your swimming, so time is not wasted.
1) Dive Under - when you approach the annoying obstacle swimmer in your lane, just dive under and take it as a sprint underwater kick exercise. Keep a tight streamline to minimize the drag and just kick along the bottom underneath the swimmer until you get passed them. While you are passing them from down under, give them a wave or just show them your funny face to keep it fun. This is great for building your breath control and also for improving your kicking (bread and butter of swimming fast). If you are not a great kicker, grab a pair of fins to help you with the underwaters.
|Streamlined underwater kick with zoomers
3) One Arm Drills - if I'd have to pick one drill that should be done every day, it is one arm swimming. This is the king of kings when it comes to working on your body roll, arm entry, front catch, breathing and maintaining great body position and the list goes on. One arm swimming is the ultimate technique training drill. You can try it with arms down or bottom arm extended, but most importantly make sure that you roll to both sides equally. Do not just gallop through the water skipping the full rotation to the side where you move your arm.
4) Fists and Finger Drills - the opposite of swimming with paddles is to use your fists or just a few fingers to swim. The idea here is that you work on catching the water with forearms or to get a faster cadence into your stroke as you won't require as much power for the arm to move through the water. Remember keep those fists relaxed, you are not angry and not punching the water, just caress it. If fists swimming is not your forte, grab a pair of palm or anti paddles or just a simple tennis ball and have fun.
5) Sculling - if you are not sure what sculling is, you are missing out. In order to swim fast, you need to find support in water and sculling is one very good way to improve your water perception. There are many positions you can scull in: arms forward, arms back, one arm forward, arms in scarecrow position (windshield wiper) etc. etc. etc. Remember, it is not a breaststroke movement, it is sculling (from side to side in a very small figure eight like motion). Try to stay away from kicking while you scull, use a pullbuoy if you cannot resist the kick on your own :).
|Butterfly sculling drill
7) Open Water Training - why not take the passing of slow people as training for open water races. You can draft a bit, then closely pass them when opportunity arises, at the same time you can sight if someone is coming in the other direction. It does not get more challenging in the pool than this. Overcrowded lane is a perfect playground to mimic the mass starts during triathlon and open water races, so take advantage of it and practice it:). Don't be afraid of touching or bumping into the other people, they will survive and as a side effect, they might actually get the hint and go to a slower lane. Open water and triathlon swims also have a very brisk speed variations and you can fully incorporate those in the crowded lane. Sprint to the next person, pass them as a recovery time and sprint to the next or wise versa etc.
8) Medley Swimming - maybe if you'd switch to another stroke than freestyle, suddenly the slow swimmers might not be so slow anymore, so explore it. Don't be afraid. The more strokes you swim, the more enjoyable your practices will get and you will soon find that you are more comfortable and better aware of your body in the water.
9) Simply Kick - a lot of power in swimming is from legs, so don't be negligent in this department. A crowded slow pace lane is a good reason to get on with the kick and improve your chances of success. Of course, you can kick with a kickboard, but I'd suggest to leave your kickboard at home and stick with just your body. You can do variations of head lead side kick (arms at side), arm lead side kicks (bottom arm extended) or 360 streamline kick rotation etc. etc. Let your mind go wild and be creative.
|Head lead side kick drill - keep that spine straight
11) Slow Swimming - I've mentioned swimming slow in a few of my previous posts here and here. A crowded lane is a perfect venue for this. Slow down, relax and only engage the muscles that need to be engaged (example: are your fingers relaxed when your arm is out of the water or are they tight?).
There you have it. I am sure you can think of other ways to make the crowded lane workout more interesting (don't be shy about sharing them in comments below - let's keep the list growing:). The list above will hopefully give you some inspiration when all hope is lost and your anger gets the better of you. Get creative and let the lane and its occupants be your playground. And if you have a friend who suffers from the crowded lane anger, share this article with him or her, so they can be a happier swimmer :)


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DISASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS FOR MODEL "B" CARBURETOR 1. Remove 4 cover attaching screws and choke bracket.
2. Lift Cover straight up to prevent damage to floats. Hold Throttle Kick Lever while lifting cover.
1. Place cover up-ended on flat surface and remove float hinge pin and floats.
2. Lift air horn gasket from cover and remove Float Needle, Seat and red fibre gasket, using screw driver of proper width.
3. Remove Main Metering Jet and Power Valve Assembly from Main Well Support. Use care so as not to lose small spring and ball of Power Valve Assembly
4. Remove Main Well Support by loosening attaching screw.
5. Remove Main Well Support Gasket and lift Power Stem and Spring from Cover. 6. Remove Choke Valve Screws and Choke Valve.
7. Unhook Choke Spring and remove choke shaft assembly.
8. With small pointed instrument remove choke retaining ring. Choke swivel assembly and spring may now be removed.
Cover is now ready to be cleaned in carburetor solvent and dried with compressed air. It is not necessary to remove passage plugs. Blow out all passages with compressed air prior to assembly.
Note: All Main Metering Jets for Rochester GM Carburetors are calibrated by fuel-flow, rather
than drill size, at the Factory. Clean with solvent and compressed air only.
1. Remove Throttle Kick Lever and Spring by loosening screw and washer.
2. Holding Pump Plunger full down, remove Pin Springs and Pump Link from Throttle Lever and Pump Rod. Pump Plunger may now be lifted from Bowl.
3. Lift Pump Spring from Pump Well and remove ball check in bottom of well.
4. Tap lightly, with small screwdriver, outer edge of Pump Discharge Guide to compress lips, rotate slightly to remove. Bronze Spring and Large ball check will fall from Bowl when up-ended.
5. Remove Pump Screen and Retainer from Bowl.
6. With Bowl up-ended, remove Throttle Body attaching screws.
Bowl may now be cleaned in same manner as air cover. By holding a flashlight to passage holes, it can readily be determined if they are clean.


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ROA President RADM Paul Kayye sat down with Senate majority leadership today. The Reserve Officers Association was one of 13 associations invited to meet with Democratic senators. More Senators attended than associations with at least 22 elected officials stopping in to listen to association concerns. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (Nev.) was in attendance, as were Veterans Affairs Chairman Daniel Akaka (Hawaii) and Armed Services Chairman Carl Levin (Mich.).
RADM Kayye talked about the deployments of the Guard and Reserve and reminded the group that when it comes to benefits such as the Post-9/11 GI Bill, Title 14 as well as Title 32 service should be recognized for the education allowance.
Other topics that were discussed were veterans' employment and training and the need for a jobs program, marketing Hire a Vet, support for military members and the families as they transition into veteran status, VA claims processing, and the need to pass the Defense Supplemental, among other topics.


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Thanks to all of my readers I've put together a collection of single mom rules to live by, or as I like to call them the Single Mom 10 Commandments. I hope you find them as useful as I have. This is the first installment. Part 2 of my Single Mom 10 Commandments is coming next month.
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|System: X360, PS3, PSP
|Review Rating Legend
|Dev: Visceral Games
|1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid
|4.0 - 4.4 = Great
|Pub: Electronic Arts
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Feb. 9, 2010
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
|5.0 = The Best
|Players: 1
|3.0 - 3.4 = Fair
|ESRB Rating: Mature
|3.5 - 3.9 = Good
by Adam Brown
April 28, 2009 - The Divine Comedy is certainly a classic from a literary perspective, but now EA is attempting to transform it into a classic video game as well. Dante's Inferno will be focusing on the first part of Dante's quest to find Beatrice, the object of his affection, entitled simply Inferno.
This portion of the Divine Comedy has Dante making his way through the widely accepted medieval perception of Hell, which involves nine different circles. These circles (Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery) should make for great source material and almost seem tailor-made for a game, as each are being made into their own level. At EA's recent spring press event, we were able to play through part of the first circle, Limbo, and from what we've seen, it seems poised to draw gamers' attentions.
This very early demo dropped us in on the back of Charon, a living ship that ferries souls over the river Acheron to be judged. The setting was definitely unsettling, as Charon's massive head continued to move around at the front of the ship and his spine and ribs were clearly visible. Not only was the nature of this vehicle/creature disturbing, the ominous dark clouds and violent wind that were also present helped to further set the mood. It wasn't long before taking in the surroundings took a backseat, with the battle to survive garnering most of my attention.
In the beginning, Dante was faced with some fairly basic enemies who were quite easy to tackle with his trusty, spinal column-handled scythe. This will be Dante's main weapon, which will help him with many things during his travels (e.g. puzzle solving and platforming), not the least of which being the slicing of his foes. The scythe also comes with its own backstory, as Dante supposedly swipes it from Death's cold, dead hands himself.
Getting back to the fight, though, the first few enemies were easy enough to dispatch with, except for a couple flying attackers who were difficult to hit since the game lacks a lock-on feature at this point. Still, the ease with which I was able pick up the controls is a testament to the game, since I was essentially thrown into combat without any explanation of what the buttons did. Unfortunately, the reason it felt so natural and familiar is that I went about it as though I was playing the God of War series, which Dante's Inferno seems to borrow liberally from. Of course, if you're going to borrow inspiration from any property, it might as well be from one of the best action series on the market. Pressing the square and triangle buttons will result in scythe attacks, while the circle button is reserved for ranged attacks which involve hurling crosses. Making use of just these basic attacks, which can also be strung together into combos, worked incredibly well and was quite effective.
After dispatching with the slew of weaker enemies, a massive beast piloted by one of the lesser foes climbed over the side of the ship. After providing it with a somewhat lengthy beating, a quick time event (QTE) popped up, allowing Dante to eject the current rider and take the beast's reins himself. This will be a key feature in Dante's Inferno, referred to as tamable enemies, which will allow players to gain control of some sizeable and destructive creatures. The large beast was a little sluggish to handle, but it more than made up for what it lacked in speed with its immense power. It was quite enjoyable to swat away the remaining foes as though they were flies; with the rancor-like head of the creature sealing the final enemy's fate, biting down and decapitating the foe. As the icing on the cake, you are even tasked with using the massive beast to rip off Charon's head in order to advance.
This lengthy combat sequence was followed up by some fairly traditional platforming elements such as scaling a crumbling wall, running atop a falling bridge, and making some well-timed jumps to ultimately reach safety. Some parts of this segment were actually pretty fun, but as with some of the combat, there was a heavy reliance on QTEs throughout. Much like God of War, Dante's Inferno seems to want to incorporate QTEs into just about every aspect of the gameplay. If you want to kill some of the game's enemies, take over a tamable creature, make your way through most of the action sequences, get through some locked doors, or even flip switches, be prepared to play many games of "Simon Says" with the screen using your controller. While this can get repetitive quickly, the animations and events that take place during these QTEs are usually quite pleasing to the eye, making their implementation a bit of a double-edged sword.


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Since losing the White House in November, the Republican Party has been going through a very public period of "soul searching," wrestling with what the party stands for and how to broaden its appeal in future elections. Mostly, that struggle has been cast as a fight between the tea party and what's loosely referred to as "the establishment."
In reality, it's more complicated than that, of course. The GOP, just like its Democratic counterpart, is a messy compilation of a variety of factions – social conservatives, antitax and small-government crusaders, defense hawks, and a hodgepodge of single-issue voters (gun enthusiasts, for example) – all of whom have different, and sometimes conflicting, priorities.
Now, the battle over the "sequester" – the automatic cuts to defense and non-defense discretionary spending scheduled to hit at the end of next week – is highlighting one of those intraparty fights in a big way, by pitting the GOP's defense hawks directly against its antitax crusaders.
And so far, it's pretty clear who's winning.
As Time's Michael Crowley writes: "With the sequester scheduled to inflict $46 billion in cuts to the Pentagon budget, President Obama has offered an alternative that would mitigate the cuts, in part, by raising taxes on the wealthy. But Republican leaders won't swallow any new taxes or accept smaller cuts to the federal budget. And so, defense will get the budget ax. And national security conservatives, long accustomed to being granted virtually every wish by their party, find themselves appalled."
The GOP's national security conservatives have made it clear they believe the sequester is not just bad policy, but extremely dangerous. Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona recently called it "outrageous and shameful," saying it "impairs the ability to defend our nation in these very tense times with great challenges to our national security."
By contrast, the antitax wing of the party has lately been arguing that the sequester will be no big deal – and, in fact, doesn't go nearly far enough. Sen. Rand Paul (R) of Kentucky, a tea party conservative who tends to be skeptical when it comes to foreign intervention, told CNN this week that the sequester was a mere "pittance," pointing out that it will only slow the rate of growth of spending, while spending overall will continue to increase. The likely impact of the cuts, according to Senator Paul, "will be in some ways a yawn."
Now, it's true that the antitax wing of the party suffered a defeat of its own a few months back when Republicans agreed to raise taxes as part of a deal to resolve the "fiscal cliff" (putting the sequester off for three more months). But it seems that battle has made them even more determined to win this time around.
At the same time, the relative diminution of the pro-defense wing of the party may have been inevitable – in part, because of the legacy of the Bush years. The GOP's defense hawks are now primarily associated with the unpopular war in Iraq and unpopular public figures like former Vice President Dick Cheney. In fact, frustration with the Bush administration's willingness to spend huge sums of public money on wars and other foreign interventions (as well as on new domestic spending, like the Medicare prescription drug plan) was a primary factor in the creation of the tea party.
The sequester itself may still be resolved at some point – if not before it officially hits next week, then perhaps in subsequent weeks as its effects begin to play out. But the impact of this particular battle on the internal dynamics of the Republican Party – particularly if it establishes the antitax wing as dominant above all others going forward – could be much longer-lasting.


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The King of Fighters (UK - BD)
Chris takes one for the team with this review of the movie based on the game
When a Boston museum hosts a private unveiling of three priceless relics; the Kagura Mirror, the Yagami Necklace and the Kusanagi Sword, no one is prepared for the shocking events that follow.
Folklore tells that when the ancient relics are placed together, they become incredibly powerful and are capable of opening a portal to another dimension where the mystical entity known as the Orochi resides. Legend has it that whoever controls the Orochi will become invincible.
The beautiful Maggie Q ( Nikita, Priest) stars as Mai Shiranui, an undercover cop tasked with solving the mystery of the Orochi whose plans are thrown into disarray when evil genius Rugal Bernstein, played by Ray Park ( G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra), steals the relics. When Mai's boyfriend Iori Yagami , played by Will Yun Lee ( Hawaii Five-0), discovers the Kusanagi sword has been left behind, she finds herself plunged head first into the action.
Mai is forced to enter the other dimension to battle Rugal and prevent him from merging the fighters' tournament with the real world. As the battle against Rugal escalates, the cast undertake some out-of-this-world martial arts action as they karate kick their way through the fight of a lifetime. (Taken from the press release).
When I was a lad I, before the death of the arcades and the advent of systems like the PS3 and Xbox 360, I lusted after the Neo Geo. SNK's outrageously (for the time) powerful and expensive games console was streets ahead of the machines most of us had, offering huge storage capacity and arcade-quality visuals and audio (in fact, it actually was an arcade system). One of the most popular games on the system was Fatal Fury, a Street Fighter II-style beat-em-up that spawned numerous sequels and a spin-off series called King of Fighters. By now I'm sure you've figured out that this film is based on that series, but you're probably wondering where it falls on the 'terrible movie adaptation of a decent game' scale. Well, there's a depressing inevitability to the answer: at the very lowest end.
The King of Fighters is undoubtedly the worst film I've seen this year. Honestly, all hyperbole aside I cannot remember watching something worse, not even on late-night TV. It's not even one of those 'so bad it's good' affairs, it's just plain bad. The script is a complete mess, throwing us into the action with little to no explanation and never really recovering from there. Acting is woeful across the board, even from star Maggie Q, who has been pretty good in some of her roles, but Darth Maul himself, Ray Park, takes it to another level. Never mind the 'King of Fighters', I can only assume he was aspiring to the title 'King of Shitty Actors'.
The characters bear little to no resemblance to the videogame; in a staggeringly offensive move the son of a Japanese man is played by a Caucasian actor. Not a mixed race actor, a 'couldn't look more white' actor. There's also a completely random and throwaway soft-core lesbian scene between two of the fighters that just screams desperation. Speaking of the fighters, well they enter the alternate dimension by way of Bluetooth headsets. Yes, you read that right. I know it's a low-budget film, but come on. Add to that some appalling editing, boring fight choreography and some pretty weak special effects (the evil demon thing is represented by a ball of glowing snakes) and you have a disc that, for once, I was only too happy to send back to the distributor.
The King of Fighters limps onto Blu-ray with a 2.40:1 (1080/24p AVC) encode that does the job, but is unlikely to set the world alight. For the first half of the film the visuals are bland, which doesn't give the BD a lot to work with, but during the latter stages the action is more varied and colourful. It's then that the palette comes alive with some nice, bright primaries that really pop off of the screen. Contrast is very flat and there are some less than inky blacks on display, while detail is unimpressive and textures mushy. I was actually surprised to read that the film was shot using Red One cameras, because I've seen much better results from that particular piece of hardware ( District 9, The Social Network). I was also very surprised to see what appeared to be compression artefacts during a number of scenes (see the first screen capture), as that's not something that happens frequently on BD. It's not the worst looking disc I've ever seen, but it's far from the best (I knocked a point off for the compression issues).
The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track is on a par with the visuals, which is to say perfectly functional if uninspiring. One big positive is the intelligibility of the dialogue - something that's not always a given nowadays - with the terrible delivery of every execrable line rendered very clearly. Surrounds are used sparingly for ambient and spot effects, with the score getting most of the attention, but there's very little in the way of discrete action at either end of the soundstage. Bass is almost non-existent, even during the fight sequences where it would really have helped to beef up the lacklustre brawls. The music has some weight to it, but not much. It's the very definition of 'meh'.
A trailer (01:32 HD) and a promo spot (02:01 SD) are all that Universal could be bothered to muster up for this one. The trailer is probably the preferred way to watch the film, but the quality of the promo's video is abysmal and the content uninteresting.
I've already made my feelings about the movie known above, so I won't bang on about it again for too long, but any film that's worse than Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li should be given a wide birth. I'm not really sure who Universal thinks the target audience for this film is. It's poorly scripted, badly acted, the fights are weak, and the effects lame. The only reason I've awarded it a solitary mark is for Maggie Q and Bernice Liu's rather luscious appearance, so consider that a point for chauvinism. As for the Blu-ray itself, well it's a decidedly average affair. Average video, average audio and, well, actually below-average extras. So, a crap film on a perfunctory disc. Don't all rush at once!
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray release and resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking individual images, but due to .jpg compression they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
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They made a movie out of King of Fighters?
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What gave you that idea?
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Wow, judging by your glowing review, Mr. Gould, I'm guessing this made Tekken look like City of God, lol...
Maggie Q is undeniably pretty but she's just not boobalicious enough to play Mai Shiranui.
Maggie Q is undeniably pretty but she's just not boobalicious enough to play Mai Shiranui.
Chris Gould Editor Join Date: May 2001 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 7,171
I've tried to erase Tekken from my memory, but from what I can recall it was marginally better than this. Of course that's a bit like saying being slowly eaten alive by pigs is better than having your eyes gouged out with a rusty spoon. Or something.
Suitable only for persons of 12 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 26th December 2011
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English
Subtitles: Dutch, English, French
Extras: Trailer, Promo Spot
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Gordon Chan
Cast: Maggie Q, Sean Faris, Ray Park, Will Yun Lee, Bernice Liu, Monique Ganderton, Françoise Yip, David Leitch
Genre: Action and Fantasy
Length: 93 minutes
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What may be the nation's largest spill of coal ash lay thick and largely untouched over hundreds of acres of land and waterways Wednesday after a dam broke this week, as officials and environmentalists argued over its potential toxicity.
Federal studies long have shown coal ash to contain significant quantities of heavy metals such as arsenic, lead and selenium, which can cause cancer and neurological problems. But with no official word on the dangers of the sludge in Tennessee, displaced residents spent Christmas Eve worried about their health and their property and wondering what to do.
The spill reignited a debate over whether the federal government should regulate coal ash as a hazardous material. Similar ponds and mounds of ash exist at hundreds of coal plants nationwide.


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This 3-in-1 conversion crib grows with your child, going from crib, to toddler bed, to full sized. A toddler guardrail, stationary sides, and softened edges and corners make it safe, and it's easy to finish off the room with its coordinating dresser table. ($299.99)
We love the classic polka dots and stripes on this sweet step stool, in a sweet shade reminiscent of cotton candy. And talk about functional furniture -- it can give your little girl a leg up for tough reaches (use caution!) and offers extra storage space in the low drawer and on the top. You can even brand it with her name. ($79)
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Ever find yourself digging through a mountain of apps in an effort to stay up to date on all your latest news and social media feeds? HTC's newest commercial for the HTC One highlights BlinkFeed and its ability to display "all of your favorite content, news, networks and more, streamed live to your home screen." HTC has already taken a stab at promoting BlinkFeed in the UK, but most seemed to agree that the first attempt was a bit creepy.
The two US commercials for BlinkFeed take a much lighter approach, showing smartphone users digging through their home screens while an HTC One user is sitting back, enjoying Blinkfeed. Personally, I favor the first clip below and love the "dig gopher style" line, but both ads do a decent job of highlighting the HTC One. I'm still not 100% sold on BlinkFeed, but I have a half dozen friends who own the HTC One and seem to really enjoy the fact that all of their social media content can be accessed without the need to open an app.
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Phenotypic and genetic variation can have important ramifications for grouse conservation and management. In some cases, regional variation can reflect natural and/or adaptive variation between populations, subspecies, and species. In the case of sage-grouse, phenotypic, behavioral, and genetic variation resulted in the taxonomic reclassification of sage-grouse as two distinct species; the greater sage-grouse which is found throughout most of the range, including Washington, and the Gunnison sage-grouse which occurs mostly in Colorado. Phenotypic variation in blue grouse resulted in their recent taxonomic reclassification as dusky grouse and sooty grouse. Current research of phenotypic, behavioral, and genetic variation in spruce grouse may support a future taxonomic 'split' of this species. This type of variation can influence numerous management decisions including: (1) harvest regulations; (2) protective status; and (3) translocation efforts.
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Chevy Volt "More Sophisticated Than a Fighter Jet"
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- Elegant engineering allows for evolution of plug-in hybrid
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Purposely destroying a $40,000 vehicle sounds like something only a crazy person would do, so when industry experts recently tore down a Chevy Volt to learn some of its secrets, the word "deranged" certainly might come to mind. Yet the destructive act had a redeeming quality: their Volt gave its life so that we could all know what makes it tick.
John Scott-Thomas is a Senior Analog Engineer at industry giant UBM TechInsights, and after spending hours mulling over the hundreds of circuit boards embedded in the Volt, he said it's one of the most advanced vehicles he's ever seen. According to Thomas, in conventional cars the various electronic components make up about 20 percent of its value. In the Volt that number is closer to 40 or 45 percent, and it's a trend he sees being emulated in more and more passenger vehicles over the next decade.
"GM likes to remark that the Volt depends on more than 10 million lines of programming code to operate," said Scott-Thomas on a call with journalists. "By comparison an F-35 fighter jet uses 6 million lines of code, so in some ways this is a more sophisticated vehicle than a fighter jet."
All that code is needed to help regulate and coordinate the millions of calculations the Volt performs each second to control everything from the all-important braking and battery pack electricity flow, to the relatively trivial interaction of the driver with the gauge cluster and infotainment system.
Questions remain about the safety of battery-powered vehicles, but Scott-Thomas said all those lines of code combined with some mechanical circuit breakers on the battery pack mean that from a battery/electronics perspective the Volt is very safe - a fact the federal government recently corroborated with test results indicating that it's just as safe as a conventional vehicle. In fact, in some respects the Volt can be considered safer because it's performing 500 individual diagnostic calculations 10 times per second that are meant to ensure smooth, coordinated operation of all the vehicle's parts.
Ultimately both Scott-Thomas and his cohort Albert Steier, an engineering consultant with Munro and Associates, came away from their destruction of the Volt impressed with how flexible and dynamic a platform GM has designed.
"It's a very complex vehicle-perhaps the most complex you'll see on the road today," remarked Scott-Thomas. "The Volt has been designed for evolution and can easily be improved as new technology comes along over the next few years."
What it means to you: With more lines of code than a fighter jet, the Chevy Volt is one of the most impressive pieces of engineering on the road.


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She seemed embarrassed to tell me that she's voting for Mitt Romney, as if the admission might suggest that she'd been hiding racist leanings during our long friendship.
Four years ago, she voted for Barack Obama and made sure then that I knew it. She was proud to vote for the black man, to celebrate the history-making and imagine an America breaking free of racist roots.
This time, she said, it's not about race: Been there, done that. Now we can all go back — with a feather in our cap — to politics as usual.
That's the party line, anyway. And that's what we'd like to believe.
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Our reporters hear it often on the campaign trail, at Republican rallies that are blindingly white and steeped in patriotic calls to return the country to American values with a real American at the helm.


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Boston Red Sox ace Chris Sale was admitted to hospital with a stomach illness on Sunday and is being kept overnight for observation.
Sale started on Saturday in the opener of the Red Sox's American League Championship Series (ALCS) against the Houston Astros.
He allowed two runs and walked four in Boston's 7-2 loss.
The 29-year-old left-hander allowed two runs and struck out nine over 6.1 innings in the Red Sox's four-game American League Division Series (ALDS) win over the New York Yankees.
#RedSox LHP Chris Sale reported a stomach illness today and was admitted to MGH for observation this afternoon. He will be kept overnight for evaluation and any further updates will be released when available.— Boston Red Sox (@RedSox) October 15, 2018
Sale dealt with shoulder inflammation during the regular season, but still finished with a 12-4 record and a 2.11 ERA in 27 starts. He tallied 237 strikeouts and walked 34 in 158 innings.
Sale spent his first seven seasons with the Chicago White Sox before he was traded to Boston in December 2016. He has made the last seven All-Star teams.
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