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12/29/00 11:23am, Punta Arenas, Chile
Vern Tejas of Alpine Ascents here with the first Mt. Vinson
climb of the new Millennium...or was that last year.
Regardless, our small yet experienced team is poised on the
tip of South America ready to fly across the Straits of
Magellan to the last continent. Our food is organized, our
bags are packed and all has been weighed to the ounce. Soon
all will be loaded onboard a magnificent C-130 Hercules for
the 6 1/2 hour flight to the "Ice". The weather
however, needs to improve at our temporary destination Patriot
Hills (Latitude 80 South & Longitude 80West). With only
500 foot visibility, I for one can afford to wait. And seeing
as how that is also how our extremely qualified flying team
feels as well, we can catch up on our jetlag. And of course we
have all of Punta Arenas to explore. So we are off to see what
this historical southern outpost has to offer. "To The
12/30/00 8:17am, Punta Arenas, Chile
What a
fabulous day for flying a kite...So that's what we did. It was
the maiden voyage for my wonderful Christmas present, a three
square meter red TRACTION KITE. You know, the kind that are
all the rage with the new sport "Kite Boarding". I
believe that it could have a lot of crossover potential for
snow travel. So Bob and Gary accompany me to the nearby beach
to get a handle on it, so to speak. And we get a little lesson
in respect for the wind. We realized right away after
measuring the wind at 26 mph., that we were pushing the
envelope. The kite soared beautifully into the sky taking me
along with it. Fortunately, Bob was carrying his mandatory 40
feet of perlon and was able to snub me off to a sand filled
tire. Gary instinctively jumped on for added ballast. And that
little kite proceeded to drag the two of us, tire, sand and
all down the beach. Many times it would lift our feet right
off the ground so instead of flying the kite, it was flying
us. This is where the rope came in handy, as it kept us close
to the earth. Twenty minutes of that and none of us were
interested in going to the gym, for we already had our work
awaited weather reports come in four times daily from Patriot
Hills. It appears to be gradually improving there, so spirits
are high. Wish us some good weather. Vern Tejas signing off
from Punta Arenas, Chile.
12/31/00 2:57pm, Punta Arenas, Chile
No sane
person would fly a kite on a day this windy. So we head over
to the park to catch the military parade...But that's a whole
other story. Bob suggests we check out the cemetery that he's
heard folks are dying to get in. Seriously though, it turns
out to be a great idea because the cemetery of Punta Arenas is
world class. Being dead in Chile is special. And Sunday is the
day when folks express their love for dear ones who've passed
on. This is the most beautiful place in town. Many add to the
vibrant bouquets adorning the neat rows of tombs and graves.
Truly monumental mausoleums are interspersed throughout
fantastically trimmed hedge trees. People are walking slowly,
some smiling, some in tears. They come to tend the living
flower gardens on their family plot. One side of the cemetery
is reserved for multi storied burial structures which provide
a highrise of sorts for the deceased. We find it all to be
fascinating and leave with a deep feeling of awe and
The balance
of the day we work out, nap and generally prepare for the
evenings headlong rush into the next thousand years. We think
of our loved ones. And we wish to all that health and
happiness walks with you into the new millennium.
Bob, Gary and
Dispatch #4:
01/01/01 2:57pm, Punta Arenas, Chile
The weather
in Patriot Hills is clearing, though the winds are strong.
Speaking of clearing, that's what the runway crew is doing as
we speak. The last storm left a bit too much snow on the ice
to safely land our C-130. And speaking of the runway, it's a
unique glacial occurrence. Catabatic winds sweeping down off
the polar plateau for centuries have blown away snow
accumulations on the leeside of the Patriot Hills. This has
created a long blue ice strip on the glacier's surface that
can be used to land a wheeled aircraft. However, after a snow
storm the runway is camouflaged white and is rather
treacherous to land a plane on. The wind, in time, will
naturally clean the snow away. But time is of the essence, so
that is why the snow blower was invented.
Today Gary
got his Skypilot's license for his deft handling of the BIG
RED KITE. Thanks Santa. Wind was a steady 12 kph. and blowing
onshore so we weren't so concerned about drowning. Afterwards,
a bit of jogging on the beach and a nice staircase helped to
defog our party heads. The silver lining to our forced standby
is it allows us plenty of time to workout, so we will be
totally peaked when we get to Base Camp. Ciao! for now, Vern
Dispatch #5:
4:20pm, Punta Arenas, Chile
YIPEE! It is
finally flyable and more importantly landable at Patriot
Hills. Our intrepid crew are now returning from a successful
fuel flight to the Ice. And the crowd goes wild. Our spirits
have been lifted by the prospect of soon being on our way.
If only it
holds for a day while our flight team gets some rest. The
challenges of trying to accomplish even what would be
considered routine in the civilized world, can be overwhelming
when one is this remote. But with the fuel in place and a
well-rested crew the stage is set for the last leg of our
journey to Mt. Vinson. Cioa! from Vern Tejas in Punta Arenas
on what is hopefully our last night here.... at least for
Dispatch #6:
01/04/01 9:10am, Punta Arenas, Chile
Hi this is
Liz just to let you know that Vernon, Gary, Bob, Paul Gauthier
and Michail Pankin, left last night from Punta Arenas to
Patriot Hills at about nine o'clock local time and arrived 6
hours later. They then, today, 4th of January, set off
from Patriot Hills to Vinson Base Camp, so we are now awaiting
further information on their progress at Vinson, thanks you,
bye, bye.
Dispatch #7:
01/05/01 8:39am, Camp I, Mt. Vinson, Antarctica
hello, Vernon Tejas. Finally we made it out of Punta Arenas.
The weather is co-operating. We've been having good weather
for 2 days. Made it to Camp One. Everyone is elated and
exhausted. We flew all night and climbed all day. We're at
8,800 feet on the flank of Mount Vinson. Friends and family to
pray for us. Elated and ready to summit!
Vernon from
Alpine Ascents off and clear. Neil
McCarthy is currently in Punta Arenas with Team II. All
are well and awaiting departure to the ice.
Dispatch #8:
01/06/01 7:31am, Punta Arenas, Chile (Team II)
everyone from Punta Arenas Chile. It is a beautiful day here
and our team is sorting through equipment to have it weighed
for the flight to Patriot Hills, Antarctica. We just came from
a meeting and they hope to fly us out tonight!!! They have
said the weather looks good now and they have put us on
standby for a 7pm departure. Spirits are very high because
originally they told us that Sunday would be our earliest
opportunity to go.
There are
quite a few factors involved with being able to fly to
Antarctica. The main weather factor is what is happening on
the ground at Patriot Hills. This flight is possible because
there is a blue ice runway at the base of Patriot Hills that
allows a wheeled C-130 Hercules to land. This runway exists
because of cross winds (Katabatic) that sweep down off Patriot
Hills and clear the snow from the ice. But it can also blow
new snow onto the runway or the cross winds can be too strong
for the plane to land.
weather factor that contributes to a safe landing is perfect
line of sight. The pilots need to be able to see the horizon
and have visual contact with folks on the ground in order to
line up properly. They told us there are a few folks on the
ground with sighting mirrors reflecting the sun to help the
pilots line up with the runway. Yes it is 2001, and technology
is amazing but after all, we are about to fly to one of the
most remote places on earth. The captain of the plane told us
the landing would be a bit bumpy, he described it as similar
to a car going over a cobblestone road, but he assured us it
is very safe and well within the design limitations of the
plane. Well, that is all for now. Joe, Tom, Paul T, Michael
and myself are eager to be on our way and have some packing to
do. I hope the next time I talk to you it will be from Patriot
Hills or Vinson Base Camp. Neil McCarthy
Dispatch #9:
01/07/01 9:25am, Camp III, Mt. Vinson, Antarctica (Team I)
Vernon Tejas:
Wow, what an afternoon! Thanks for all your wishes. It seems
to be working for us. We have been joined by two other
members. Now the team is five. They were able to fly with us
to Antarctica. Their names are Michail Pankin, Paul
Gauthier. We are happy to be at camp 3, 12,100 feet. If
weather is good we will try for the summit tomorrow. Tired,
but dare not let the chance slip by. Hi mom.
Dispatch #10:
01/07/01 12:26pm, Punta Arenas, Chile (Team II)
everyone. This is Neil McCarthy in Punta Arenas. Unfortunately
we were unable to fly last night or this morning. As it turns
out it had absolutely nothing to do with the weather. We were
informed that there are some internal problems taking place in
Air Traffic Control here in Punta Arenas and they have
restricted flights in and out of the airport. We have been
assured that everything is being done to resolve the issue as
quickly as possible. I have also just been given a report that
the weather has begun to deteriorate at Patriot Hills, so a
flight tomorrow does not appear likely. We are disappointed
but we are remaining positive that we will be on our way as
soon as possible. I am sure there are some folks down in
Antarctica hoping we get to fly in soon as well, because our
flight in is their flight out. We will certainly remember that
when we sit down for dinner tonight in a wonderful restaurant.
Best Wishes to everyone.
Dispatch #11:
01/08/01 7:26am, Punta Arenas, Chile (Team I)
Vern's first
group consisting of Michail Pankin, Paul Gauthier, Bob
Hempstead and of course Vern, summited on 07 Jan 2001.
Gary Weaver did not make it to the summit of the mountain.
All are back at Base Camp today. 2nd group consisting of
Michael Davis, Paul Theofanous, Tom Johnson, Joe Leroy, with
Neil McCarthy arrived at Patriot Hills today at 15:42 local
Punta Arenas time. The group hardly had time to settle in and
off they went on the Twin Otter to Vinson Base Camp, arriving
at 18:54 local. Teams are doing great.
Dispatch #12:
01/08/01 9:25am, Base Camp, Mt. Vinson, Antarctica (Team I)
Yesterday we summitted ! Hat's off to the team. Less than 4
days after leaving South America and we're on top of
An amazing
effort by Michail Pankin, Paul Gauthier and Cowboy Bob
Hempstead. The weather co-operated and served up a crystalline
day. Thanks for the prayers.
We just made
to Base Camp when the plane arrived with Neil and the second
team. Timing is everything. Ciao - for now.
Dispatch #13:
01/09/01 8:45am, Camp III, Mt. Vinson, Antarctica (Team II)
From: Vernon
and Neil, Mike D, Paul T, Joe L, Tom J. It's a beautiful day.
We are at Camp 3 and will climb to the summit tomorrow.
Weather is supposed to be good. We are going to enjoy a hot
drink and watch the sun move across the sky. Wish you all were
here and everyone is doing great.
Dispatch #14:
01/12/01 9:44am, Camp III, Mt. Vinson, Antarctica (Team II)
through various channels) The team, as of last night, 11 Jan,
were at camp three. They are up there with another team of 5
at the moment. The day before (10 Jan) they had been at camp
three, but had to return to camp 2 due to very high winds. Not
been able to attempt the summit yet due to adverse weather
conditions, so are still waiting at camp 3 for the winds to
die down. Lying low in tents at the moment.
Dispatch #15:
01/13/01 8:15am, Camp III, Mt. Vinson, Antarctica (Team II)
Well the dawn
was clear and beautiful but the wind was high. So we woke up
early and we gave it a college try. The wind and cold
cut us like a knife. So we returned to Camp 3 to enjoy
the better life. We will try again come the morn.
Wish for us don't be set by storm. Pray for us we have
no storm. We are all well and thinking of you. Vern
Dispatch #16:
01/14/01 8:15am, Camp III, Mt. Vinson, Antarctica (Team II)
Good news -
all groups have summitted Vinson, and were making their way
back to camp 3, and hopefully by early today will be at Base
Camp. Then ANI will start to ferry the groups back to Patriot
Hills. There they will wait for the Hercules to come in and
bring them back to Punta Arenas.
Dispatch #17:
01/16/01 8:27am, Patriot Hills, Antarctica (Team II)
Hey! We are
now one step closer to our return to civilization. The Twin
Otter aircraft flew us to Patriot Hills. This is the main
connection HUB for adventurers in Antarctica. We are on
weather standby for the Hercules C-130 which will take us back
to Chile. We visited the now famous DC-6 crash site as a
diversion. Being here on hold is a lot more enjoyable now that
we have accomplished what we came to do. We all are looking
forward to our reunion with our loved ones. But for now
patience is a virtue. Ciao! for now - Vern Tejas.
Dispatch #18:
01/17/01 9:00am, Punta Arenas, Chile (Team II)
Hey gang, We
made the great leap across the Drake Passage last night,
arriving in Punta Arenas around midnight. We are all busy with
flight arrangements and packing. Yet we still find time for
goodbyes and reflection. What a fantastic place Antarctica is,
with it's starkly beautiful mountains and unforgiving weather.
We were truly lucky to be able to visit this vast wilderness
and climb it's proudest peak. One returns with awe and respect
for one of the few untouched regions of our world.
Thank you for
coming along for the climb. We really appreciated your prayers
and best wishes as they are certainly what helped to get us
through. We all are happily looking forward seeing our loved
ones very very soon.
Ciao! for now
Vern Tejas
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Introduced in 2009 as a nostalgic yet forward-thinking nod to the mid-century-era 300SL, the Mercedes-Benz SLS is the first car entirely designed and developed by Mercedes-Benz tuning house AMG from the ground up, and it's every bit the stunner it has been ever since the old days.
The two-seater SLS's backbone consists of an aluminum spaceframe weighing only 531 pounds. The structure isn't as extreme or expensive as the carbon fiber chassis that underpinned the late SLR, which was a joint venture between Mercedes-Benz and McLaren, but the contemporary layout was optimized with a keen eye toward performance.
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When it comes to portable devices, size matters. And Apple's iPad and iPhone are finding themselves outclassed by both smaller and larger competitors, respectively. Is it finally time to change?
Apple has a few serious problems in the market: The iPhone has a 3.5-inch screen, but virtually all of the competing phones are 4-inch and larger. Meanwhile, 7-inch tablets are gaining popularity, and they're available from Amazon and Samsung, but not Apple.
Steve Jobs was firmly against increasing line complexity, which is kind of weird given the success of the iPod line. But rumors hint that Apple is about to release a bigger iPhone and a smaller iPad. Let's chat about why both would be a good idea.
Winds of change
If you look at this month's Consumer Reports, you'll notice some interesting things. One is that Apple, on 10-inch tablets, holds the number one and the number three spot with the third- and second-generation iPad. (Samsung is second.) Another is that Consumer Reports has begun covering 7-inch tablets because volumes have come up sharply.
On the phone side, things are pretty scary for Apple. The iPhone has dropped below the middle of the pack for AT&T — and that's the good news! It is either dead last or next-to – last for every other carrier.
RIM and Microsoft have also been dropping for a while, and they aren't even on the lists this time.
In short, Apple has two problems: There is a growing segment of the tablet market where Apple doesn't compete, and its smartphone is, based on its comparative size, too small to keep up with the new market leaders.
A smaller iPad
Long thought to be a product graveyard, the 7-inch form factor was once seen as too big for a phone and too small for a tablet. However e-readers changed all of that. It turned out that 7 inches was pretty much ideal for an e-book, and if you already had it for an e-book reader, it was one hell of a lot better for movies and Web-viewing than a smartphone, and still more portable than a 10-inch tablet.
Suddenly, the 7-inch tablet is selling. The expensive Samsung 7.7 is ranked best in class, and not that far behind the iPad overall. But that is likely because the tablet was weighed against the gold standard that the iPad represented. If it went the other way, where the benefits of portability were ranked higher, I doubt the iPad would have done equally as well. In other words, in an alternative universe where Samsung set the standard rather than Apple, the iPad likely wouldn't have done as well against the 7.7 as the 7.7 currently does against the iPad. (No wonder Apple is trying to block Samsung's tablets in the US.)I'm a Kindle user and so is my wife. We both tend to leave the larger tablets at home and take our Kindles on the road. You quickly find that most of what you want to do with a 10-inch tablet, the 7-inch does reasonably well, and it is a lot easier to carry. I can drop mine in the pocket of a jacket, and my wife puts hers in her purse.
Portable devices don't do you much good if you have to leave them at home. And a 7-inch, at least for us, has proven far more useful. I'm actually carrying a Windows 8 tablet instead of a laptop now. It is the nearly 12-inch Samsung Series 7, and it is as portable as the iPad but just a tad small for my work. This makes me wonder if the 7-inch is actually the better form factor for things folks do with the iPad (that is, media consumption). One wonders what would have happened had Jobs come out with the 7-inch first, since the 7-inch Kindle has always outsold the 10-inch — though, according to Amazon, the 10-inch users are more loyal.
A larger iPhone
The current belief is that the coming iPhone 5 will have a 4-inch panel, not a 5-inch one. An increasing number of folks think that any 4-inch would be eclipsed by powerful new 5-inch phones like the coming 5-inch LG Media Phone. Many suspect that both the smaller iPad and the larger iPhone will be announced in the same month (October) if not at the same time.Currently I carry the Nvidia Tegra-3-based HTC One. The nearly 5-inch screen is vastly more useful than the 3.5-inch screen phone I had been carrying. Consumer Reports agrees: Most of the phones that outrank the iPhone are also in this class. Reviewers found the larger screen to be vastly more useful.
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If the rumors are true, Apple is right to come out with a smaller, and likely cheaper, iPad to compete with Amazon and Samsung, and to come out with a larger iPhone to avoid falling off comparison charts. I wonder if Apple should jump all the way to 4.5 inches, in order to better compete with this emerging class of Super Smartphones. In any case, I expect it will eventually make the bigger move to a larger screen.
This is going to be an interest fourth quarter, a true test for Apple's new leadership. It'll be really interesting to see the battles between vendors, and between sizes. I wonder though, if we'll have too much choice and lose interest in the market. Both tablets and smartphones are getting rather confusing, and consumers aren't fans of confusion.
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Why does the media like to use the Cowboys as a bad joke? I am a Cubs fan, that team is in something of a funk. I was watching SportsCenter this morning when they were talking about the Cubs and their turmoil. The line that the broadcaster said was, " The Cubs are the Dallas Cowboys of MLB." I did not like that statement. Just because the team had some "problems" of their own. Every media outlet, or most of them, badmouth the Cowboys. I just would like to remind them the Cowboys still had a winning record. No the Cowboys didn't make the playoffs, but at least we gave it a try.
The Cubs are nothing like the Cowboys. I love the Cubs but they continuously lose every year. That's why they are called the lovable losers. I have been trying to ignore the media about the Cowboys but this one irked me. The Cowboys are champions! So, what they haven't won a playoff game in years. But they at least give good runs toward the playoffs.
Don't get me wrong I am not defending the Cowboys for losing seasons. I want them to win every single year as much as the next Cowboys fan. Maybe this blog is similar to the Are We Spoiled as Cowboys Fans blog that I wrote. But I've taken this in a different direction. I am proud to be a Cowboys fan. This year we we will shut up all the critics and they fans that badmouthed my team.
Another quick story before I am done for the day. I work in a small town Emergency Room. Everyone there knows I am a die-hard Cowboys fan. I get harassed constantly in Chicago Bear Country. One of our ER doctors is from Philly and you guessed it – an Eagles fan. I only see him once in a while. The other day he harassed me about the whipping we received at the hand of his beloved Eagles. Then about 10 minutes later he walked by me and noticed my watch, Cowboys of course. He started to say something about the Eagles are tough and the Cowboys are nothing. But my quick little comeback was, " At least, my Cowboys own 5 rings, how many does the Eagles have?" Never bothered me again for the rest of the night. Go Cowboys!


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IFT 2012 Prototypes Make Visitors Hungry For More
Our News and Trends Editor offers a list of her favorite food and beverage prototypes from this year's annual meeting and food expo.
Although hot weather is not my cup of tea, nothing could keep me from attending the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) 2012 Annual Meeting and Food Expo June 26-28 in Las Vegas. This year, my only regret was that I couldn't spend time at every booth.
Tasting the creative, healthy and delicious prototype food and beverages created by the supplier community is my favorite part of the show, and keeps me coming back for more. I'm always amazed how they come up with prototypes that are in sync with consumer trends and desires. They are so well thought-out, they could be on retail shelves just as they are.
Kid-friendly food & beverage products took center stage at Cargill (www.cargill.com). With 25 percent less sodium than a traditional quesadilla (thanks to SodiumSelect, a new sodium reduction system), fewer calories and fats and more whole grains, fiber and protein, Chicken Quesadillas were so tasty I had to do a roundabout to sample them a second time.
Everything is better in color, so we checked out the newest innovations at D.D. Williamson/colorMaker (www.ddwcolor.com). They included certified organic annatto powder; oil dispersible caramel color; low 4-MEI caramel color and Acid-proof Class One "Plain" caramel color. The process cheese shapes for children contained naturally derived color — a great treat for kids of all ages.
Fortitech Inc. (www.fortitech.com) focused on increased energy, improved cardio health and weight control with several custom-formulated premixes. For weight management, the premix blend contained niacin, pantothenic acid, chromium, L-carnitine, CLA, green tea extract, calcium and potassium. An energy premix included vitamins B12 and B6, CoQ10, pantothenic acid, niacin, folic acid, biotin, taurine, D-glucoronolactone and D-ribose. Since I was fatigued, I really enjoyed taking advantage of the Cranberry Flavored Power Cap, a neat gizmo that fits over a bottle of water and releases whatever premix you want into the liquid. Gave me lots of energy. It's the next age in beverage product development for the retail market.
At Wild Flavors (www.wildflavors.com), seasonal prototypes, such as Mint Lemonade sweetened with stevia, were in abundance, many of them using natural mint flavors and ingredients made possible from its recent acquisition of A.M. Todd. Consumers love the mini concept, so Wild's Mini-Sandwich Trio really hit the trend both in size and flavors. The mini sandwich threesome included: sundried tomato and lemon marinated chicken with parmesan and garlic aioli on a Mediterranean roll; smoked paprika and stout turkey breast with apple honey mustard on pumpernickel roll; and shredded pork with Georgia peach BBQ sauce and cider molasses glazed onions on a poppy seed bun.
Although known primarily for Asian cuisine, Kikkoman Sales USA Inc. (www.kikkomanusa.com/foodmanufacturers) featured three American-made products at IFT with a delicious meatball prototype for each. These products regulate sodium intake and enhance flavor. Kikkoman Natural Flavor Enhancer (NFE-P), which amplifies umami goodness in savory applications and replaces MSG and HVP while providing a clean label, was used in turkey meatballs. Less Sodium PTN Soy Sauce, which contains 45 percent less sodium than regular soy sauce, was highlighted in beef meatballs. Gluten-Free Soy Sauce is naturally brewed with four ingredients: water, soybeans, rice and salt. Paired with gluten-free breadcrumbs it made for tasty gluten-free turkey meatballs.
Corn Products and National Starch celebrated their new name — Ingredion (www.ingredion.com/us). We stopped at the Natural/Clean Label counter to partake of the addictive Cheesecake Dessert, made with the new Novation Indulge 3340 texture system. It was topped with an exotic coconut lucuma fruit topping, made with Novation Prima 600 functional native starch.
Chef John Czukor thrilled us during an almonds and aperitifs flavor pairing at the Almond Board of California (www.almondboard.com/FoodProfessionals) booth with Milk Chocolate Almond Clusters — smoky roasted almonds with a light caramelly milk chocoate, with Jack Daniels Whiskey. Hints of the Jack Daniels' sweet butterscotch notes pair perfectly with the distinct, buttery flavor of California almonds, creating a balanced sweetness that isn't overpowering. The sharpness of the alcohol is mitigated by the chocolate's soft creaminess and neutralized by smooth roasted almond.
Key snacking trends include kid-friendly, nutritious snacks and bite-sized, portion-controlled snacks for adults. Grain Processing Corp. (www.grainprocessing.com) outdid itself with a kid-friendly pizza snack (perfect for school lunches), featuring TruBran corn bran, a natural, insoluble dietary fiber with a light creamy color that boosts fiber levels without sacrificing taste. I know these are perfect for kids, but they were a hit with the "kid" in us all.
Thinking outside the conventional teacup, Virginia Dare (www.virginiadare.com) brewed dark chocolate flavored black tea, featuring TT99 Natural Black Tea Concentrate, which eliminates the need for tea solids in RTD tea beverages, and Natural Dark Chocolate Flavor. It's a delicious, refreshing, yet unexpected combination sure to appeal to both coffee and tea lovers.
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In midwinter Bill Robertson leaves home half an hour before he's due in the office. He hits the cruise control, tunes into his iPod for some background briefing and drives 60 kilometres through undulating countryside ribbed with glistening vineyards as the sun hits the frost.
There's not much traffic on the road in his home town of Leeton, with its population of 11,000, and not much more in Bilbul - the town on the outskirts of Griffith where Robertson works as the CIO for De Bortoli Wines.
Keenly interested in progressive management methods, such as those outlined by Brazilian entrepreneur Ricardo Semler, Robertson has found a niche where ideas are shared, and innovation encouraged. As a result, he has designed a low-cost IT infrastructure based on bootable Linux PCs and open source business applications. It all began in 1995, when Robertson walked into the offices of Darren De Bortoli, managing director of De Bortoli Wines, for an interview for the CIO position, and found himself covering familiar ground.
"Darren is a strong believer in the management practices of Ricardo Semler, and the company is structured along those lines," Robertson says. "We have a flat management, we don't have secretaries or centralised purchasing, and our meetings are more like a chat on the balcony."
Turning the tables on conventional geographic spread, De Bortoli has opted to maintain its Bilbul headquarters, where the original family vineyard was planted 75 years ago. It is from here that Robertson oversees the company's national IT infrastructure - covering three cellar doors, a restaurant, four vineyards and three wineries. His 'regional offices' are in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth.
Born in Sydney, Robertson moved to the country with his family as a child and, while he doesn't rule out a shift back to the big smoke, he says it would take a particularly impressive offer to get him there.
"From the balcony of the IT department I can look out over the De Bortoli gardens and vineyards. It's a long way from the ocean, but you can't have it both ways, and this is a lovely place to live," Robertson says. "There's a lot of bad news that comes out of country areas, but there are a lot of thriving business centres that you just don't hear about."
Salad days and rice
Robertson himself has had no shortage of career opportunities. With the vague notion he was interested in engineering, he says he spent much of his late teens stripping down and repairing second-hand motorbikes rather than studying for the HSC. Following high school he managed to perpetually defer a teacher's scholarship, and spent a year or so labouring and picking up farm work where he could.
His first break in IT came when he landed a job at SunRice, a rice growers' cooperative headquartered in Leeton. With 2,000 members, A$800 million in sales annually and subsidiaries in Jordan, Singapore, Japan, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, SunRice provided a range of opportunity and scope to rival many city-based companies.
An aptitude test saw him land a trainee programmer position and join the IT team. However, as he hit a quarter century, a company restructure gave him pause to ponder his career path.
"SunRice went through a bit of turmoil and they brought in [management consultant] McKinsey and Associates, to sort the company out," Robertson says.
"As a couple of the different IT departments came together, I realised guys like me, who came through a traineeship, weren't going to be taken seriously because we weren't tertiary qualified."
In retrospect, Robertson says he understands why the trainee programmers were the ones who lost work. But at the time it wasn't so easy to accept.
"It is demoralising and demotivating watching your friends go," he says. "Being caught in the cogs of what industry needs to do is not much fun."
However, Robertson did not have to look far to find an opportunity to move ahead. He found work in the IT department at a research facility with the then Department of Agriculture in Yanco, 10 kilometres from Leeton.
This period also steeled Robertson's resolve to return to study and he enrolled in a degree in information technology by correspondence through Charles Sturt University, graduating with distinction in 1993.
At the same time he became interested in management practices, reading such luminaries as Peter Drucker and Edward de Bono along with Semler.
Management matters
"If you are going to follow behind someone as a manager you have to believe they will operate with integrity," Robertson says. "The managers that impressed me early on had an open door policy and a human touch, they would take ownership of the problems, didn't do blame shifting and would fight the good fight on your behalf."
De Bortoli continues to be a family operation, with a low-key, non-hierarchical approach to management. Moreover, Robertson says knowing the De Bortolis personally makes him more keenly attuned to the company's overall goals.
"When I ask for funds to carry out a certain project it's like asking Darren to pull his wallet out and hand the money over," Robertson says. "That sharpens your understanding of the costs of IT and the benefits it needs to bring to the company."
Robertson's first task at De Bortoli was to research and implement an ERP system. From a longer-term strategic standpoint however, he was interested in ensuring return on investment, creating a stronger bargaining position with reference to IT vendors, and avoiding vendor lock-in. Add to this De Bortoli's sustained growth rate of 20 to 25 percent per annum and Robertson had his work cut out for him.
"When I sat down to do the sums I realised we were a greenfield site every three years or so, and we were spread out across so many locations we were struggling with desktop support," Robertson says. "I knew that the sooner we were able to implement a strategic direction the better it would be for that growth."
Flexible management practices and an open mind gave Robertson the room to experiment with an array of different solutions, including a range of hardware combinations and even thin client technology. His greatest challenge was managing the company's growth while keeping IT costs under control.
"In 2000 Robertson set about replacing the mixed Windows and Unix servers at Bilbul with Linux software, in order to make the most from a small IT team.
"I couldn't really afford to have Windows specialists and Unix specialists. We're only a small shop, and we really need to be generalists." Robertson says. "There's a lot of overlap between Linux and Unix so re-training the administrators wasn't at all difficult."
Further afield Robertson pinpointed hardware, especially hard drives, as key points of failure early on in the piece. Working with a small IT team to service nine different locations, Robertson wanted to minimise reliance on such weak links.
He toyed with thin client solutions, but found interstate telecommunications links too unreliable to ensure high levels of connectivity. After five years of experimentation Robertson came up with an innovative solution: bootable Linux-based PCs, which run Open Office applications, and use USB drives for storage at remote locations.
The open road
When it comes to open source software Robertson has implemented Open Office, Linux, a management system called Typo3, and the Mfg/Pro ERP system, however, he also uses a proprietary Lotus Domino mail server. Robertson says his first concern was to avoid vendor lock-in, and it just so happens that a lot of open standards software is also open source.
"If you were starting up a company, open standards would be a no-brainer, but you can't simply come in and re-engineer all the IT infrastructure in one hit, you need to do it gradually," Robertson says. "We are currently running 30 bootable Linux-based PCs across the country and about 70 Windows terminals which we will gradually switch over."
When recruiting, however, Robertson isn't necessarily looking for staff with a background in Linux. In keeping with the De Bortoli ethos, he is more interested in their capacity to "fit in" and learn about new technologies, rather than their technical background.
"We've stopped hiring people with this or that technical skill," Robertson says. "We hire people for their flexible minds, so we can do the re-skilling we need to once they're here."
Robertson believes rural agribusinesses, such as De Bortoli, are well placed to recruit high quality technicians. Low turnover of staff and the need for a generalist approach mean companies such as De Bortoli can spend money and time on staff development.
And despite the widely reported skills shortage in rural areas, Robertson says he manages to attract the right people. Having hired people from as far afield as Singapore and Peru, he says most make an easy transition to country life, helped by Griffith's strong economy and cosmopolitan atmosphere.
"Griffith is the only place west of the Dividing Range with restaurants that appear in Sydney's Good Food Guide," Robertson points out.
"When we go out for dinner we have to decide between three or four very good Italian restaurants. I have the beautiful countryside, the safe, family-friendly environment, and I can hop out and pick up some home-made gnocchi gorgonzola for my lunch, so I can't really complain."
Business according to Semler
At just 24 Brazilian entrepreneur Ricardo Semler revolutionised the family shipbuilding business, then told the world how through his books Maverick, and Seven Day Weekend.
Some of his key management practices include: Flat management hierarchies to encourage the free flow of information and flexibility. Informal working environment, no set meetings, standardised memos or red tape. Corporate democracy: wages, promotions, productivity targets and shopfloor layout are all set by employees. Working hours are flexible, dress codes non-existent, change embraced and participation encouraged. MANAGEMENT STYLE: Non-hierarchical with a focus on staff development and encouraging innovation. "We've stopped hiring people with this or that technical skill... We hire people for their flexible minds, so we can do the re-skilling we need to once they're here."
BIGGEST CHALLENGE: Managing the company's growth while keeping IT costs under control. "When I ask for funds to carry out a certain project it's like asking Darren [DeBortoli, MD De Bortoli Wines] to pull his wallet out and hand the money over... That sharpens your understanding of the costs of IT and the benefits it needs to bring to the company."
INNOVATIVE IDEA: Bootable Linux-based PCs running Open Office applications. "If you were starting up a company, open standards would be a no-brainer, but you can't simply come in and re-engineer all the IT infrastructure in one hit, you need to do it gradually."


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UPDATE: I shot Grahame-Smith a quick e-mail and he clarified what Deadline wrote: "It's a sequel, not a remake." So there you go.
Here's some news that falls squarely within the realm of "holy crap." Tim Burton's 1988 comedy (horror-comedy seems inaccurate, no?) classic Beetlejuice is coming back to big screens with a sequel.
Deadline reports that David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith of KatzSmith Productions (Grahame-Smith also wrote the book and film script for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) have just signed a two-year first look deal with Warner Bros., and that the duo's first project is expected to be the new Beetlejuice. Deadline's phrasing is a bit odd here, calling the movie "a reboot [that advances] the storyline of the original." Don't reboot literally start from the beginning? That description sounds much more like a sequel.
The presumption is that the "reboot" angle means there's going to be a new cast, no surprise for a two-decade-plus old movie that featured young talents like Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder and, of course, star Michael Keaton. It would be nice to see some originals return as well — don't be surprised if some of them do (c'mon Keaton!) — but with a creative mind like Grahame-Smith overseeing what sounds an awful lot like a proper sequel, this sounds like something you might want to raise your hopes for.


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Baseball Season Ends With Defeat
Stanford Beats Titans Twice to Win Super Regional
June 10, 2008
From Sports Information
Jason Castro's three-run double in the sixth inning broke a 5-5 tie and carried Stanford to an 8-5 victory Saturday, June 7, over Cal State Fullerton for the championship of the NCAA Super Regional and a berth in the College World Series.
Austin Yount (6-3) allowed only two runs (one earned) in 5.1 innings of relief to get the victory, Stanford's (39-22-2) fifth in five tries over the Titans (41-22) this season. Reliever Jason Dovel (3-4) was charged with the three decisive runs and took the loss before a sellout crowd of 3,415. Drew Storen got the final four outs for his eighth save and second in two nights.
Fullerton went 0-2 in a Super Regional for the first time and lost for only the second time in seven opportunities. Fullerton has never gone 0-2 in 30 Regionals.
The game swung on one-out, bases-loaded situations in the sixth inning. In the top half, Fullerton had scored twice to tie the game and Brian Wilson hit a line drive. But it went right to first baseman Brent Milleville who went to the bag for an inning-ending double play. In the bottom half, Stanford loaded the bases after one out on a walk and two singles. Joey August popped up but Castro sliced a bases-clearing double to left on a 3-2 pitch after two foul balls to make it 8-5 and chase Dovel.
Fullerton never led in the series but twice rallied to tie.
Stanford scored in the first inning for the second time in the series. Colin Walsh drew a leadoff walk from Cory Arbiso, stole second and scored on a single to center by Joey August. The Titans, who loaded the bases in the first on a hit batter and two walks but failed to score, tied the game in the second. Joel Weeks was hit by a pitch, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch and scored on a two-out single to left by Josh Fellhauer.
Stanford regained the lead in the bottom of the second. Zach Jones was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on a two-out single by Walsh. Joey August's high-hopper went down the right-field line for a double scoring Walsh. August came home when Jason Castro's blooper fell in front of left fielder Gary Brown for an RBI single.
Fullerton answered back in the third. Erik Komatsu was hit by a pitch, stole second, went to third on a fly ball and scored on Brian Wilson's single to center. Gary Brown singled and Wilson scored when first baseman Milleville threw errantly to second after fielding Weeks' ground ball. Yount relieved starter Erik Davis and got Dustin Garneau on a fly ball to the left-field wall and Joe Scott on a grounder to short.
Arbiso retired eight in a row until surrendering a single to Castro with one out in the fifth. Castro stole second as Milleville struck out and scored on a two-out single by Randy Molina that chased Arbiso.
Fullerton again came back as Scott bunted for a hit and went all the way to third on Yount's wild throw to first. Fellhauer lined an RBI single to center and went to third on Colon's hit-and-run single to right center. Komatsu tied the game at 5-5 with a double to right. An intentional walk to Jared Clark set the stage for Wilson's unlucky swing.
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Ravens outside linebacker Adrian Hamilton went down with an injury after landing awkwardly during team minicamp today. He was on the ground for several minutes in obvious pain.
After being attended to by trainers who were concentrating on his upper body, Hamilton eventually walked off under his own power.
He was holding his lower back with his right hand.
Later, coach John Harbaugh said it wasn't a major injury and was muscular in nature.
"It doesn't seem serious," Harbaugh said. "It was all muscular."
Hamilton initially was concerned that it was a major injury, but it's more of a muscular contusion.
The Ravens practiced indoors because of inclement weather today during the final day of a mandatory minicamp.
Meanwhile, Pro Bowl defensive tackle Haloti Ngata remains sidelined as he works his way back from a sprained left knee suffered during the Super Bowl.
Ngata isn't doing much in the way of activity at practice today after working on the side on conditioning in previous workouts.
Tight end Ed Dickson has a strained groin, but it's not considered serious.
"We're resting him," Harbaugh said.
Safety Omar Brown isn't practicing with an undisclosed injury
Also not practicing: offensive guard Marshal Yanda (shoulder surgery), defensive lineman Kapron Lewis-Moore (knee), nose guard Terrence Cody (hip surgery) and offensive guard Antoine McClain (foot surgery).
Inside linebacker Arthur Brown (sports hernia surgery) has been working into full-team drills.


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Two of the best-known and most-respected super-affiliates, Simon Hodgkinson and Jeremy Gislason, have just released an important affiliate marketing guide you'll want to read… Called the Affiliate Marketing Survival Guide, this 146-page guide starts right at the beginning with a glossary of affiliate marketing terms and carries right on through to some advanced topics to help you really make money online.
If you've been online for any length of time you'll already recognize Simon & Jeremy's names, as they've been major players in Internet and affiliate marketing for about a decade now, possibly longer. In fact, they've been at it so long I can't even remember when I first heard of either – but I DO know that I've bought a lot of their products over the years and we've been affiliates for each other at times, have competed in affiliate contests, etc, and I can personally vouch for their experience, knowledge and integrity. They became, and have remained, super-affiliates and uber-successful product producers by always over-delivering and avoiding all the sneaky little tricks affiliates have tried over the years.
Even the way they're marketing this new e-book shows how innovative and intelligent their marketing is… Since this is an affiliate marketing survival guide they've tied the marketing in with the current popularity of everything zombie. For example, they point out this report can help you avoid being one of the '…thousands of slow-moving, half-dead affiliates shuffling around like zombies.'
Another way you can tell they're genuinely trying to help with this e-book is it's initial launch price – as I write this you'll be snapping up your copy for under $10 – almost unheard of for a 146-page report from two of the biggest in the business! Even if you're reading this after the introductory price special is over and the investment is $27 or $47, you're downloading it already knowing it's worth a lot more than what you're getting it for!
I know you want to download it immediately and get into the meat and bones of the Affiliate Marketing Survival Guide right away, but do yourself a favour and read the salespage too – not only will you get a chuckle from it but you'll learn more about great salespages too. But if you're still in too big a hurry to put the information to use in your own affiliate marketing business then go ahead and download your copy but bookmark the salespage to go back and read it when you've got more time… You'll enjoy the laugh!


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Paisanos: Spanish Settlers on the Northern Frontier of New Spain by Oakah L. Jones. This book is about the colonists sent by Spanish Authorities to settle the northern frontier of New Spain. 260 pages with added references and an essay to 332 pages. The Encomenderos of New Spain 1521-1555 by Robert Himmerich Y Valencia. Excellent source of genealogical and historical information on the early settlers and much more information on the conquistadors. Recommended for your genealogical library. 506 settlers are profiled. 304 pgs. Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico by Hugh Tomas. A comprehensive study and an excellent book. See the online reviews posted on amazon.com. 602 pages. The Conquistadors First-Person Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico by Patricia de Fuentes. Accounts by Juan Diaz, Andres de Tapia, Cortes, Francisco de Aguilar, Pedro de Alvarado, Diego del Pilar and "the Anonymous Conquistador". All give you a feeling of what it must have been like during the conquest as well as information on the cultures and life in those days. 208 pages. FUNDADORES DE NUEVA GALICIA, GUADALAJARA, TOMO I by Guillermo Garmendia Leal. Excellent source of information on the early settlers of Nueva Galicia. Covers the years 1529 to 1650. Recommended for your genealogical library. Spanish text. 165 pages. Sumaria Relacion de las Cosas de la Nueva Espana by Baltasar Dorantes de Carranza. Excellent source of genealogical information on the Conquistadors. Recommended for your genealogical library. Spanish text. 419 pages. "Relacion Secreta de Conquistadores informes del archivo personal del Emperador Carlos I" by Mariano Gonzalez-Leal. "Indice Geobiografico de Cuarenta Mil Pobladores Espanoles de America en El Siglo XVI" Tomo I 1493-1519 and Tomo II 1520-1539 by Peter Boyd Bowman. List and some details of the first conquistadors to the New World. "Don Juan de Onate, Colonizer of New Mexico 1595-1682" by George P. Hammond And Agapito Rey (available through your libraries book exchange program). Currently out of print. New Mexico's First Colonists by David H. Snow. A compilation of what is known genealogically, of these early settlers. 131 pages. Diccionario Heraldico, Apellidos y Nombres Propios by Lander Munoz Excellent source of Heraldry information with coat of arms information on those coming to the Americas and family histories. Recommended for your genealogical library. Spanish text. 417 pages. Cortes Conquering the New World by William Weber Johnson. A very interesting book with an excellent Epilog. Very easy reading. Books on others researching their culture and personal history The Acclaimed Bestseller RAIN OF GOLD by Victor Villasenor. Follow the history of the authors family for several generations. This history could easily be our own. This bestselling non fiction work easily reads like a novel. See the reviews on Amazon.com by following the link above. Places Left Unfinished at the Time of Creation by John Phillip Santos. The Author John Santos (de los Santos) is a Rhodes Scholar. He traces his family history by retracing the route Cortes took to Tenochtitlan and visits the great pyramids of Mexico. He introduces the reader to his family in Texas and traces their history for several generations. He brings to life his family history that is often times lost when we are removed from the old country. See the reviews on Amazon.com by following the link above. Just published Who's Who of the Conquistadors by Hugh Thomas the author of "Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico". Biographies of over 2000 of Cortes' Conquistadors. From previously unpublished materials of Mexico and Spain. See more by following the link above. Hardcover - 464 pages. The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes a leading world authority on DNA and human evolution. The science of finding our ancestors through DNA. Now, utilizing the information in this book we can find our ancestors using mitochondrial DNA or Y chromosome research. Hardcover - 320 pages. The Conquistadors With Michael Wood (2001) on VHS Tape by Michael Wood. In his latest series, he walks in the footsteps of Cortés, Pizzaro, and their fellow conquerors to explain what happened when two cultures met for the first time. Michael Wood brings history alive as he relates this story of conquest, heroism and greed and shows us how the Conquistadors have changed the way that we see the world, in terms of history and civilization, justice and human rights. Wood's passion for the story he's telling makes Conquistadors compelling viewing.


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'Calves' heads and Brains: or a phrenological lecture', print, London, England, 1826
In the 1800s, phrenology became popular with large numbers of people but soon became controversial within medical circles. Phrenologists believed that the shape and size of various areas of the brain (and therefore the overlying skull) determined personality. This print shows a caricature of a phrenologist who is lecturing to a crowded audience in room filled with plaster heads, books, skulls and pictures. Some of the audience are examining the shape of their own heads. The contents of the shelves include a bottle of Gall. This is a reference to Franz Gall (1758 –1828), a German physician and the founder of phrenology, who had lectured in London in 1823. He had worked with Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832), whose plaster cast model head is in the bottom right of the print. The lecturer may be George Combe (1788-1858), an Edinburgh phrenologist who published Elements of Phrenology in 1824. The second edition of the book was attacked in the Edinburgh Review, September 1826. The print is signed by the 'artists' "L. Bump" and "J. Lump" – another way of mocking phrenologists.
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text: On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:27:13PM -0400, Greg Lindahl wrote: > For a long time, the HP Procurve 4000M was the price/performance leader for > fast ethernet switches. One of my co-workers (John Eshleman) points out a > new contender: > > http://intel.com/network/products/exp420t.htm > > The 420T has 48 ports and 2 slots which take gigabit expansion cards. It is > apparently always store-and-forward, but claims 20 usec switching latencies > for 100 mbit. Street price (www.hardwarestreet.com) is $1540, the gbit > uplinks are $377. i think someone should actually test the 420T before anyone gets their hopes up...the previous generation, 410T 24port switches performed horribly when taxed at all. streaming at full speed over >8 ports (that is, 4 senders and 4 receivers) even with largest-possible-legal packets brought the performance on all ports down to half, and degraded further as more ports were taxed. we were donated some (thank you, intel!) but had to replace them with ciscos as our apps were actually hitting a network bottleneck far before their time. they are decent switches for people who don't need all the bandwidth at once...but that's what i buy hubs for. fortunately the intel etherexpress pro/100 cards we were also donated are still champs in the 100mbit range.


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Nick Lavallee
Nick Lavallee is a comedian from the State of New Hampshire. Despite what some believe, it's not a province of Canada.
Lavallee's latest album, "The Other Dude", consists of musical comedy, stand up performances and their accompanied videos on the DVD. Lavallee has appeared alongside Sally Struthers in "I Love You, Sally Struthers", meaning your mom will also like him, if she's okay with his naughty language. Voted "Best Comedian" in 2010 and 2011 by readers of New Hampshire's Hippo Press his earlier albums debuted in the top 50 of iTunes Comedy charts.
Nick's online content has been featured on the front page's of Funny or Die, Rooftop Comedy and the Boston Comedy Examiner. Lavallee has performed opening spots for such national headliners as Comedy Central's Bo Burnham and Maine's King of Comedy, Bob Marley. Earlier this year, Lavallee solidified himself as a national act by appearing the Laugh Factory in Las Vegas and Hollywood upon personal request from the club's owner, Jamie Masada.
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WAR CHILD 'HEROES': New Vs. Old, Part 4: Elbow
'War Child: Heroes' is the ultimate covers album: an unprecedented coming together of music's greatest ever legends and today's best artists in support of a great cause.
The album concept sees the biggest heroes in music history select a personal favourite track from their own back catalogue, and nominate an act from the next generation to create a modern reworking of that classic song.
Legends supporting the album include: Sir Paul McCartney, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, The Clash and U2. Modern artists recording include: Duffy, Scissor Sisters, Elbow, Beck, Rufus Wainwright and Lily Allen.
The album will be released in February 16 2009 on Parlophone. All profits will aid the real heroes: children affected by the brutalities of war.
Preorder now: www.warchild.org.uk/heroes/buy
All this week we look at the key instruments used by the artists in both the original classic tracks and the modern reworkings put together by today's acts. Plus we talk to the acts involved about the album.
Today: Elbow covers "Running To Stand Still"
Legend Credentials:
U2 have been the biggest music act in the world since the late 1980s. It's a position that iconic lead singer Bono insists the band have to prove their credentials for with each new album and tour (as he said in 2000 "we are reapplying for the position of 'best band in the world'."). Such has been U2's insistence on pushing themselves that they have had creative and commercial successes beyond any other.
U2 have won more Grammy Awards than any other band (22); they were only the fourth band to appear on the cover of "Time" magazine (after The Beatles, Bob Dylan and The Who); their 2005 Vertigo tour was the biggest grossing ever ($389m) being seen by over 4.6 million people; U2 have sold over 140m albums; their most recent album 2004's "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" debuted at number 1 in 32 countries, smashing their previous US record sales in the process.
Remarkably for a band with such longevity and profile, they have never changed line-up (Bono, lead singer and songwriter; The Edge, lead guitar, keyboards, vocals; Adam Clayton, bass guitar; Larry Mullen Jr., drums joined together at their Dublin school in 1976) or manager, they have worked with Paul McGuinness since 1978.
Equally remarkably, the band began with high ideals and firm principles. They decided to use the band's career to promote their belief in social justice from the very start – and they have stuck by it to amazing effect.
Their popular early song "Sunday Bloody Sunday", from 1983, commemorated the slaughter of innocent civilians during the Irish troubles and called for a renunciation of violence. Throughout the 1980s the band used this song to campaign against the IRA. This led to threats that if they continued they would be kidnapped. The band continued anyway.
U2 were major participants in the historic and seminal "Live Aid" concert of 1985, and Bono has become prominent in efforts to end poverty and seek relief from AIDS and promote trade for Africa, using his profile to meet personally with world leaders and business chiefs.
U2's new audition for the biggest band in the world begins again with their first album in five years, No Line on the Horizon, due in March.
The Original Track:
This beautiful, soft, piano-based song is the fifth track from "The Joshua Tree", U2's landmark 1987 album. According to Bono in a BBC TV documentary, the track order for the album was devised by singer Kirsty MacColl. She put her favorite song first, then her second favorite, and so on… Bono has since rated the track much higher, naming it in interviews as among his favourite five all-time U2 tracks.
Elbow's Guy Garvey
"The first song we ever covered together before we had enough of our own songs to do a performance was 'Running To Stand Still'. For 'Heroes' we've changed the order of things but kept every musical theme in the song. We wrote it with the members of U2 in mind."
Elbow gear includes: Fender Twin Reverb, Vox AC-30 (just like The Edge...), Line 6 DL4 Delay, Roland VK-8 keyboard, Epiphone Jack Cassidy bass, Fender Jazz Bass.
Guitars include Fender Stratocaster, Gibson ES-335 and a Godin Montreal (it seems Elbow have joined the increasing number of artists who use one of those great Canadian guitars!)
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Bono, The Edge and producer Daniel Lanois talk through the story behind the making of the original track, and making "music that takes you to a physical as well as an emotional place".
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Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has accused Tony Abbott of ''wilful neglect'' in the wake of Toyota's decision to quit manufacturing in Australia.
Labor has demanded the Prime Minister outline his government's plans to create new jobs and support workers after the shock announcement, which Mr Shorten described as an ''economic tsunami''.
Mr Shorten, who was flanked at a press conference by industry spokesman Kim Carr, employment spokesman Brendan O'Connor and MPs representing electorates in Victoria that stand to lose thousands of jobs after Toyota's decision, said Mr Abbott was sending jobs overseas that would never come back.
"What a disgraceful day yesterday," Mr Shorten said on Tuesday.
''There is the Abbott government and their ministers cooking up political games and instead at the same time as they are playing political games, we see 2500 people being told by their employers that is it, your job no longer exists.
''The shockwaves of this economic tsunami are unprecedented in terms of employment.''
He added: "Even the Australian car industry could not survive the wilful neglect of the Abbott government.''
The world's largest car maker announced on Monday evening that it will stop building cars in Australia by the end of 2017. Some 2500 of the 4000 workers employed by Toyota locally will lose their jobs, and hundreds more positions are expected to go in the components sector and other related supplies industries.
Mr O'Connor said it was not good enough for the Prime Minister to wait until 2017 to intervene on behalf of the Toyota workers.
"We call upon the government today to outline exactly what plans it has to provide opportunities for these workers to find new jobs," Mr O'Connor said.
Earlier on Tuesday, Mr Abbott said he couldn't ''offer false hope'' to workers who may use their jobs. He said he understood his words would be "of little comfort" to workers who have been hit with the devastating news, but he had been assured that Toyota's management would look after its employees.
''Some consolation ought to be there in the fact that Toyota aren't going tomorrow, they're not closing down next week or next month or even next year,'' Mr Abbott told ABC radio.
Mr Abbott, who is meeting with Victorian Premier Denis Napthine on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the issue, said he was confident Toyota's workforce could move ''from good jobs to better jobs'' in the long run.
''The job of government is not to offer false hope or miracle cures. The job of government is to sit down and carefully and methodically . . . sort out what is best done in difficult situations,'' he said.
Mr Abbott cited the example of Newcastle, which lost its steel works in the 1990s, but was now a ''different and many would say somewhat better city today''.
Asked repeatedly what he would be offering the Victorian Premier by way of Commonwealth assistance to deal with the economic fallout of Toyota's decision – which economists warn could tip Victoria and South Australia into recession – Mr Abbott refused to provide specific detail.
''I will be offering [Dr Napthine] a good hearing,'' Mr Abbott said, adding that ''the best thing the government can do is get the fundamentals right''.


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No. 19 Michigan pulls away to rout Minnesota 42-13
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Michigan figured out a way to help Devin Gardner cut down on mistakes.
Gardner didn't throw the ball until midway through the second quarter, and played his first turnover-free game since becoming a starting quarterback last year and it helped the 19th-ranked Wolverines pull away to rout Minnesota 42-13 on Saturday.
"We're going to do what's working and that's what was working at the time," he said.
Gardner had seven turnovers in his previous two games, allowing both Connecticut and Akron to have chances to upset Michigan.
Against Minnesota, he threw a 24-yard, go-ahead touchdown pass to Devin Funchess late in the first half and ran for a 2-yard score late in the game as the Wolverines turned a game that was close for a half into a lopsided victory.
Michigan (5-0, 1-0 Big Ten) clearly planned to rely on its running game — without Gardner as a primary ball carrier — to take pressure off their turnover-prone QB.
"We wanted to run the ball and we wanted to send that message," Michigan coach Brady Hoke said. "I thought we did a pretty good job of it."
The Golden Gophers (4-2, 0-2) were without coach Jerry Kill for an entire game for the first time because of his epilepsy. He had a seizure Saturday morning, when he planned to travel to Michigan to coach in the game, and remained home to rest in Minnesota.
Defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys served as the acting head coach at Michigan, leading the team from the press box.
"We have been through a lot of battles together," Claeys said. "We are all very well trained on our jobs and our responsibilities. We miss him here as a friend. We are all pretty much used to this, and so are the kids."
The Wolverines have won 18 straight games at home, the longest active streak among BCS conference schools and their longest since winning 28 in a row in Ann Arbor from 1969-73. They play at Penn State next week before coming back to host Indiana, which beat the Nittany Lions 44-24 on Saturday.
Gardner, who entered the game with 10 turnovers this year, had thrown at least one interception in nine straight games since replacing an injured Denard Robinson last year at Minnesota. He was 13 of 17 for 235 yards and ran seven times for 17 yards. Gardner recovered his own fumble late in the game and bounced back on the next snap by converting third-and-11 with a 22-yard pass to Funchess to set up his second score.
"I was able to manage the game," Gardner said.
Funchess had career highs with seven receptions for 151 yards and a score. Fitzgerald Toussaint ran for 78 yards and two touchdowns from 8 and 12 yards to give Michigan a 7-0 lead on its first drive and a 28-10 advantage late in the third quarter.
The running game put Michigan in third-and-short situations, helping it convert 10 of 13 third downs.
"We couldn't stop them and get off the field," Claeys said.
Minnesota's Mitch Leidner completed 14 of 21 passes for 145 with a TD and had 66 yards rushing on 18 carries. Leidner's second turnover, an interception, was returned 72 yards for a TD with 1:19 left.
As promised, the Wolverines were determined to get their ground game going with running backs. Toussaint's 8-yard TD run ended a six-play drive which consisted of six handoffs.
The Gophers, likewise, wanted to keep the ball on the ground and they had some success early. They ran the ball 12 times on a 16-play, 9:44 drive that was capped by Leidner's 7-yard pass to Maxx Williams to tie the game late in the first quarter.
Kill had his fifth game-day seizure in three seasons at Minnesota, and the second this year. He did not coach the second half against Western Illinois, the third game he wasn't able to finish because of a seizure. He returned for the next two games.
Williams insisted the players' mood did not change when they were informed Saturday morning at the team hotel that Kill wouldn't be on the sideline at Michigan Stadium.
"We know coach's situation," he said. "We have to be prepared. We have to be ready for anything. It didn't really affect us."
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It was over in about five seconds, but it seemed to happen in slow motion.
Dr. Jim Pennington, his daughter Laurissa, 18, and son Luke, 15, watched in horror Thursday as a climber no more than 30 yards away from them near the summit of Mount Hood fell and triggered a chain reaction that ended in nine climbers falling into a crevasse. Three died in the accident.
"We watched the whole thing," said Laurissa, a senior at Hood River Valley High School. "And then it was like this moment of silence. We were scared to death because we were way up there and we still had to go down it."
The Penningtons had left from Timberline Lodge at 2 a.m. to climb Mount Hood and reached the summit at around 8 a.m. It was Jim Pennington's fifth time to reach the summit of the 11,240-foot peak but the first time for Luke and Laurissa. The three shared the summit with some of the climbers who would soon be involved in the tragedy.
After snapping some photos, the trio began their descent.
"I remembered it being icier than normal on the slope just above the bergschrund," Jim said. The bergschrund is a crevasse that forms when melting snow and ice pull away from the mountain's snowfield each spring and is a well-known hazard to climbers on Mount Hood.
Jim made a crucial decision as he and his kids descended through the Pearly Gates, a narrow gap just below the summit. There are two options for negotiating the next part, the steep, treacherous spine known as the Hogsback: go virtually straight down it and over a snow bridge across the bergschrund, or head to the right and go around the bergschrund.
There were a couple of roped teams just below the Pearly Gates, so Jim instructed Luke to lead the way but to head to the right.
"As we were inching our way to the right we saw the top person start to fall," Jim said. There were four climbers roped together. "I noticed two people in the roped team did a good job of getting in the self-arrest position." But the falling climber hit a second climber, and the two then took out the last two in the party.
The four climbers careened down the Hogsback, hitting two other climbers roped together just below them. Those six hurtled 300 feet down the icy slope and slammed into a third group of roped-together climbers just above the bergschrund. All nine climbers were swept into the crevasse. Three died of their injuries from the fall.
The Penningtons paused only briefly.
"My dad just told us to take it really slow," Laurissa recalled.
After watching the domino effect of three groups of roped-together climbers being swept helplessly away, Jim wondered to himself if he would be able to stop his group if one of his kids started to fall. But they made their way carefully down and got safely to the edge of the bergschrund where the mountain's steep grade mellowed.
"I was very proud of both Luke and Laurissa," Jim said. "They kept their heads and did a good job of being careful climbers."
At the bergschrund, Jim unroped from Luke and Laurissa. They continued down to the lower part of the Hogsback to wait while Jim helped with the rescue efforts.
"I helped pull people out, did medical triage and just sat with the sicker patients," said Jim, a family practice doctor.
After 3 hours, Jim climbed down to join Luke and Laurissa.
"The kids were getting low on water and I started getting concerned about that," he said. The Penningtons then headed down to Timberline Lodge.
"The last thing we did," Jim said, "was look up and see the helicopter pulling a climber out" of the crevasse. They didn't know the Pave Hawk helicopter from the Air Force Reserve's 304th Rescue Squadron had crashed until they reached the lodge.
"We were really shocked by that on top of everything else," Jim said. The helicopter came to a rest not far from where Luke and Laurissa had been waiting for their dad.
Jim, whose experience Thursday marked the second time he'd helped out with a helicopter rescue after a mountain climbing accident, said it made him a "little more nervous about climbing."
"The lesson for me is, you need to be careful who you're roped to," he said.
Laurissa said she plans to climb more mountains — though she may stay away from Mount Hood for a while.
"I just know now that I'm very cautious," she said. "You can't be too careful."
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Coloring is a favorite pastime for kids. It used to be that everytime the kids wanted to color, you would have to go buy a new coloring book. Not so these days with all the internet usage and kids coloring websites.
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PUBLIC hotel flashed back to 1977 Tuesday night for a far-out, Studio 54-themed, one-year anniversary bash. Famed hotelier (and co-founder of the popular New York night club) Ian Schrager was present, hobnobbing with esteemed guests such as Desirée Rogers and B.J. Armstrong. A cool personal touch? The inclusion of personalities DJ Johnny "Jellybean" Benitez and doorman Mark Benecke — two original Studio 54 alums.
But the largest attraction of the evening was the action on the dance floor. The renowned Pump Room restaurant was transformed into a thriving disco, complete with flashing lights, high-energy '70s tunes, and coveted VIP seating, where Chicago's finest had a bird's-eye view of all the action. Sirius Radio fan? Perhaps you heard the live interviews and the event's music on its Studio 54 Channel throughout the night.
Schrager has turned down numerous requests over the years to host an event of this kind, so why Chicago? With the Windy City being the first in the PUBLIC portfolio, it was simply his way of saying thanks for making year one such an amazing success. We'll toast to that.
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The mass violence in Norway is terribly tragic and evil. Beyond the shocking news it captured my attention via the mix of religion and politics that apparently motivated the alleged perpetrator, Anders Behring Breivik. As is being revealed, he published a massive manifesto arguing, in part, "that 'Political Correctness' should be called 'Cultural Marxism' and is the reason for political leaders allowing mass Muslim migration into Europe." As is becoming well known, he tweeted a quote from John Stuart Mill that "one person with a belief is equal to the force of 100 000 who have only interests." Clearly he cared about ideas. And some of his motivating ideas are occasionally echoed in Christian circles—even on this site.
Although pundits will try to marginalize his mind, in fact, Breivik's many blog comments and other writings reveal a very thoughtful conservative opposed to Marxism, particularly as expressed in the Frankfurt School. He, like many on the right, sees this debilitating expression in multiculturalism, homosexuality, liberal Jews, the loss of chivalry, and Islam. He repeatedly defined himself as a "cultural conservative" and drew his fundamental views from Fjordman, an "influential European anti-Jihad/anti-multicult[uralist]/anti-Marxist intellectual/blogger." Additionally, he referred to his faith as "Conservative Christian," and in a blog post, he was particularly dismissive of liberal Protestantism, writing:
Today's Protestant church is a joke. Priests in jeans who march for Palestine and churches that look like the minimalist shopping centers. . . . In the meantime, I vote for the most conservative candidates in church elections.
Commenting on the horrible news, Andreas Bochmann, senior lecturer in pastoral studies at Newbold College wrote:
Don't call him Christian! Murder and violence cannot be defended by Christian faith. Even the qualifier "fundamentalist" does not justify the term Christian. The discussion of fundamentalism in this context is not all that helpful, as this term often simply is used to describe people with a conviction we do not share.
I understand that Bochmann is trying to make a larger point: that true Christianity is essentially not violent. I agree. But we Christians dismiss some serious ethical questions if we turn away from the religious thinking of this mass killer—the same applies to Islamic terrorism as well. In this case, the terrorist thought of himself as a Christian and that identity fundamentally fed his politics.
Connecting religion and politics, Breivik repeatedly alludes to the crusades, but one does not have to go back that far. This weekend I listened to a New Yorker podcast interview with Calvin Trillin who began his distinguished journalism career on the Freedom Rides in the South. He mentioned living in Atlanta when conservative Christians would bomb African-American churches about once a month in the early sixties. Each time I hear someone of a certain age complain about terrorism today, I wonder what they were saying during the Civil Rights movement.
Breivik is a Christian. He did not say that he was an atheist or a Muslim. Granted, he seems more interested in the old empire of Christendom rather than Christianity's theology or clearly the peacemaking ethics of its Founder. And while this terrorist doesn't deserve much thought, before we slip onto the next bit of overheated summer news, if we care about the power of Christianity, we best not dismiss this tragedy. Blowing up government building and killing young liberals is about power.
Saying that he's not a Christian doesn't obviate the fact that his understanding of Christianity is not uncommon. Although it is uncomfortable, his fundamental frame of fear toward others—Muslims, those who critique capitalism or homosexuals is not rare. That mix of religion and politics is common. We hear it in some leaders in America, on cable news, in our churches, and even on this site.
While, thank God, the expressed violence is rare, the true belief is not. I agree that Breivik is not a fundamentalist in the theological sense. But beyond the difference of source texts—in this case William S. Lind—there is a fundamental similarity: he, like many on the right, fear the loss of power. One sees this phobia expressed in the rhetoric opposing gay marriage, women ministers, or the scientific pedagogy of origins. And while those who wish to conserve a more capitalist, closeted, male dominant, creationist past are not responsible for this violence; fundamentally, Breivik is us.
We learn nothing by looking away from a faith or a politics that mirrors our own. As scary as it is—by reflecting a little deeper in the abyss, we might see a future for ourselves with less to fundamentally fear.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://spectrummagazine.org/node/3285