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Newt's Legacy
It can seem so terribly unfair. Newt Gingrich led the Republicans to their first majority in the House of Representatives since 1955, and then to two successive majorities for the first time since the 1920s. He forced welfare reform and a balanced budget onto President Clinton. His reward for this record of accomplishment? Spurious ethics charges, anonymous quotes in the Washington Post from Republican congressmen about how much better things have worked since he quit the speakership, and a Republican front-runner for the presidential nomination that Gingrich coveted whose rhetoric is very largely intended to separate himself as widely as possible from the once all-conquering Newt. On the other hand, it all seemed rather less terribly unfair last week, when C-SPAN broadcast its three-segment interview with Gingrich.
By unfortunate coincidence, C-SPAN broadcast the third and final segment only four hours after it carried a major policy address by George W. Bush, a speech on education to the Latino Business Expo in Los Angeles. Bush called for enlarging the federal Department of Education, imposing stricter federal supervision on state and local school systems, and limiting the role of vouchers to an emergency treatment for the worst-functioning districts. Four years ago, and certainly eight, a Republican candidate who took such a New Democrat approach to schooling would have provoked a mutiny on the right, but Bush has already pocketed the conservative vote, and his only serious competitor for the nomination is Elizabeth Dole, who has gravitated even further leftward.
The abject disarray of the once-formidable conservative wing of the party is not entirely Gingrich's fault. But it is very largely his fault, and his interview nicely reminded viewers of how he led conservatives to their present unhappy pass.
Through most of the 1980s, Gingrich had been just one of dozens of clever young congressmen who identified themselves with the excitement of the Reagan revolution. In those long-ago days, a Vin Weber or Jim Courter would have seemed as good a bet to recapture the speakership for the GOP—actually a better bet than Newt, since Gingrich was then widely seen as a flighty and undisciplined free-lancer. But time and chance worked in his favor. Congressmen from swing states, like Courter's New Jersey, lost their seats. Congressmen from solid Republican states, like Mississippi's Trent Lott, ascended to the Senate. Others despaired of perpetual minority status and quit politics altogether. By 1990, Gingrich had become the unquestioned leader of the conservatives in the House. The Bush budget deal promoted him to conservative national leadership. Jack Kemp's decision to seek a cabinet seat in the Bush administration—rather than challenge Mario Cuomo for the governorship of New York in 1990—and Kemp's unwillingness to resign that seat silenced the supply-sider when the senior Bush broke his no-new-taxes pledge. Gingrich denounced Bush, and with that act positioned himself to lead the opposition to Bill Clinton after 1992.
Every leader remakes his movement in his own image, and between 1990 and 1998, Gingrich reshaped Republican conservatism. Unlike his deal-making elders in the House leadership, Gingrich was a fighter, and he imbued conservatism with his own fierce combativeness. Gingrich's concept of fighting was the scoring of parliamentary victories to expose the high-handedness and corruption of the Democratic majority. In the C-SPAN interviews, Gingrich discusses at some length how he used television (C-SPAN, actually) as a weapon against Tip O'Neill. Gingrich, Bob Walker, and other allies would use the quiet hours of "special orders" to give one-minute speeches in the well of the House denouncing the Democratic leadership. These stinging orations so irritated O'Neill that he ordered the House camera to pan the chamber during special orders so that viewers could see that nobody was listening—provoking such a ruckus that more people than ever tuned in.
Gingrich's greatest parliamentary victory, of course, was his more or less single-handed bringing down of Democratic Speaker Jim Wright on corruption charges. Gingrich dutifully acknowledges that it was the errors of the Clinton administration—the health care plan, the tax increases, and gays in the military—that toppled the Democratic Congress in 1994, but he does not really believe it. After the perfunctory acknowledgment, he devotes most of his airtime to talking about what he imagines really did the trick: the discrediting of the Democratic leadership through scandals like Wright's.
There may be some truth to this, although one wonders whether ethics charges could really produce the 10 million vote shift of 1994. Believing in the truth of it had, however, immense consequences for the Gingrich-led conservative movement. In trying to upend the congressional Democrats through procedural victories in Congress, Gingrich directed the reforming zeal of conservatives toward the procedures of Congress. Instead of tax cuts, the building of a post-Communist world order, equal justice under law regardless of race, the cultural and linguistic unity of the United States, or any of the dozen other powerful potential issues available to them in the mid-1990s, conservatives found themselves talking about term limits, a balanced budget amendment, House members' bank, the line-item veto, and a series of other issues equally remote from Americans' everyday concerns. The logical culmination of this way of thinking was the Contract With America, which spent the energies of the biggest Republican congressional swing since 1894 on six months of votes on the internal governance of the House of Representatives.
Throughout his C-SPAN interview, Gingrich referred to his passion for "ideas." But in the procedural politics that Gingrich sold to conservatives, ideas had only a weak independent existence. (Even now, Gingrich's idea of an idea is, as he repeatedly stressed, delivering better health care at a lower cost. Until one has some notion of how the job can be done, that's an aspiration, not an idea.) Gingrich's indifference to the grand themes of a Ronald Reagan followed naturally from his approach to politics. Grand themes appeal to national electorates. Congressmen, obviously, don't have national electorates. Their electorates are particular and local. A leader who seeks to attain national power by building a congressional majority is naturally going to be inclined to shun the grand themes of a presidential candidate and instead try to identify issues that could move particular and local blocs of voters out of his opponent's coalition and into his own. That's how proposals like the repeal of the so-called marriage penalty (the higher tax rates faced by married couples with two incomes as compared to two equivalent single filers) and treating western water-use rights as private property protected by the Fifth Amendment came to move ahead of Reagan-style grand initiatives on the Republican agenda.
This made considerable tactical sense, but it left Republicans speechless and defenseless in their 1995-1996 battles with Bill Clinton. As the president framed his defense of Medicare in the broad language of ideals, Republicans were left sputtering that their so-called "cuts" amounted to barely a couple of dollars a month. Clinton had a big idea about Medicare; Gingrich never did. It was the Reagan-Carter fight in reverse—principle vs. technicalities. To this day, conservatives have not recovered from Gingrich's down-grading of thematics. In 1999, for the first time since the 1940s, there is no generally accepted conservative agenda. Conservatives have dozens, even hundreds, of projects and concepts. But the clarity and power that comes from saying first we'll do this, then we'll do that, when this and that speak to the values and interests of tens of millions of people—that has been lost.
Because Gingrich lacked a unifying political vision of his own, he was susceptible to the sort of populism that postulates some hypothetical "will of the people" that politicians must detect and serve. This susceptibility explains why Gingrich got so caught up in fads and trends: He felt that if he squinted hard enough at them, he could detect the people's wishes. In his 1984 book Window of Opportunity, he interpreted the success of the Star Wars movies as proof that Americans yearned for a renaissance of the space program. In his 1992 speech to the Republican convention, he interpreted rising quality standards in the private sector as proof that the public had wearied of the bureaucratic welfare state. Gingrich taught a generation of conservative intellectuals to sleuth out the potential political implications of the success of particular movies, songs, and television shows. It was an amusing parlor game, but it dangerously disparaged the importance of political leadership. In truth, nothing in politics happens spontaneously—which is why it proved such a catastrophe when Gingrich made the fateful decision in early 1998 to let the electorate lead Congress on the Lewinsky scandal, postponing action on Clinton's perjury for the eight fateful months until Ken Starr delivered his report.
As Clinton again and again bested Gingrich, conservatives lost faith in the political appeal of their message. As Gingrich's parliamentary tactics proved useless against the agenda-setting power of the president, conservatives came to doubt not merely their tactics, but their doctrines. And once Clinton escaped punishment for his crimes, conservatives' uncontainable rage convinced them that his successor must be defeated, even at the price of nominating a Republican presidential candidate who owed conservatives little and liked them even less.
Much fun has been made of Gingrich's self-comparison to Henry Clay. But what was dismaying about Gingrich's interview was not the reappearance of his familiar fondness for grandiose historical self-comparisons, but the reminder of how much he once promised conservatives—and how they have since fallen.


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Ransomware - Five Reasons You're Not As Protected As You Think
Ransomware is the number one threat to an organization's data. These malware programs infiltrate an organization and encrypt every file they can access. The only way to unencrypt the data is pay a fee to the malware creator. Hence the title ransomware. Studies indicate that malware infected as many as 70 percent of businesses just this year!
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2013-14: Played in 24 games, started 23...11.1 points per game, 3.0 rebounds per game, 86 assists, 39 steals...ranked second in the NEWMAC in free-throw percentage (.842) and fourth in assists...led the team in assists and ranked second in points (267) and steals...recorded at least 10 points in 13 games, including five in a row...registered 23 points, six assists, and three steals versus Springfield (11/23)...also turned in a 23-point performance at Babson (2/19)...generated 21 points, including a three-point play with 24.3 seconds remaining and a free-throw with 0.7 on the clock to give MIT a 61-58 victory over Clark (2/15)...tallied 12 points, seven rebounds, and six assists at Regis (11/17)...produced a season-high four steals to go along with 15 points, five rebounds, and four assists against Mount Holyoke (12/7)...dished out eight assists versus Framingham State (12/10)...NEWBA Honor Roll (2/24)...NEWMAC second team all-conference.
2012-13: Played in and started 22 games...10.5 points per game, 3.4 rebounds per game, 62 assists, 35 steals...ranked sixth in the NEWMAC in assists per game (2.8) and eighth in assists...led the team in scoring and assists, was third in steals, and fifth in rebounds...registered at least 10 points in 13 games...posted 23 points at Wheaton (1/16) and 21 points against Bates (11/18)...notched seven rebounds versus Gordon (12/29)...dished out seven assists against Springfield (2/11)...generated six steals at Clark (2/16).
2011-12: Played in 24 games, started 23...10.7 points per game, 3.3 rebounds per game, 56 assists, 42 steals...led the team in scoring, assists, and steals, and was fifth in rebounds...recorded at least 10 points in 14 games...scored 23 points against Simmons (12/30) and had a 22-point performance at Mount Holyoke (2/4)...grabbed nine rebounds versus Wheaton (1/18)...dished out five assists on five occasions...had four steals in four games...against Albany College (11/20) she was sent to the charity stripe on three straight possessions where she hit five consecutive free throws that thwarted a late rally and propelled MIT to a 65-49 win...in a 617-57 win over WPI (12/3) she buried a jumper with 10 seconds remaining in regulation to give MIT a two-point edge...three days later in an overtime battle at Coast Guard, she connected on a three-pointer just 48 seconds into the extra session and later nailed a jumper with 47 seconds left to play, giving MIT a four-point cushion that resulted in a 73-67 victory...in a 69-65 come-from-behind win over Simmons (12/30), she went 3-of-4 from the free throw line during the final 16.4 seconds, including two successful attempts with two seconds on the clock...against Wheaton (1/18), she knocked down a trey right after coming off the bench to give MIT a four-point margin with three minutes left to play while her two free throws with 10 seconds to go sealed the 45-41 victory...trailing by four points at Springfield (2/11), Kordell sank a layup with 15 seconds on the clock and after a free throw by the Pride, she drove the length of the court for another lay-in with eight ticks left, while MIT stole the in-bounds pass and then drained two free throws with no time remaining to capture the 51-50 win...NEWMAC Rookie of the Year...NEWMAC second team all-conference.
Off the Court at MIT: Majoring in chemical engineering...completed an internship with the Fluid Metrology Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
High School: A 2011 graduate of Urbana High School...captain junior and senior seasons...three-time all-conference...three-time first team all-county...Gazette Player of the Year (2010)...named to Gazette first team...received three varsity letters...three-time county champions...two-time regional champions...National Honor Society...National Math Honor Society.
Club/AAU: Maryland Flames – Seraile.


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Registration is ongoing for the third annual San Diego Surf School Surf Contest set to take place on the waves off the end of Law Street in Pacific Beach on Saturday, Oct. 27. Plenty of prizes will be up for grabs when the event starts at 7:30 a.m. and runs until around 4 p.m.
"We wanted to give kids a chance to try out surfing competition and see if they like it," said Andy Drum, manager of the San Diego Surf School. "A lot of families have supported us over the years and this is a great way for us to give back to the community. The event is getting bigger every year."
Surfboards and wetsuits will be provided if youngsters don't have their own and organizers expect up to 200 young surfers to compete. Age divisions will include: Super Groms (5 to 7 years old), Groms (8-10), Youth (11-13) and Juniors (11-17).
"The younger kids can have their parents assist them in the water," said Drum. "We provide a stress-free atmosphere to make it really fun for everyone."
Prize raffles will be ongoing throughout the event, including Sun Diego gear and hats, T-shirts, bracelets, sunglasses and other items. Food will be donated by the French Gourmet restaurant, Einstein Bagels, Turquoise and Which Wich sandwich shop. Woodstock Pizza will award free pizza for a year to each division winner.
"We enjoy holding this event to see kids take their surfing to the next level," said Drum.
For more information about the contest, call (858) 205-7683, or sign up online at www.sandiegosurfschool.com.


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By BILL WALKER
The surest sign of winter in New Smyrna Beach, Fla., is the appearance of some unusually big birds migrating south. These birds, the Collings Foundation B-17G and B-24J, fly in every year for their annual maintenance appointment.
On a sunny Saturday this past November, the public got its yearly opportunity for an up-close view of the bombers and also the Collings TP-51C Mustang at American Aero Services, based at New Smyrna Beach Municipal Airport (EVB).
The open house is sponsored by company President Gary Norville who noted, "New Smyrna is very well known for housing the Collings bombers. Like the snowbirds, they come down during the wintertime. Before we had the open house people would come up to the fence and look through. They still do. But now we set a day when they can come in and look around."
Norville, a laid-back chief executive who favors an American Aero T-shirt and jeans as work attire (pictured below), is an important figure in warbird restoration. Perhaps half a dozen businesses in the United States regularly do ground-up restoration of warbirds and Norville's firm is one of the best known.
"The restoration community is small," he said. "It's just such a small niche of people that are into the high-end warbirds that there's not enough to go around. And unless you've got a good customer base or a couple of good main customers, it's very difficult to be in the business and stay solely in restoration and maintenance."
At the open house the 10,000-square foot hangar was packed with current projects. A two-seat P-51 was parked near the front door. Nearby a center section from a PBY flying boat was laid out for restoration and beside it the wings for a Focke-Wulf Fw 190 fighter. A few feet away, a Stinson L-1 Vigilant observation craft fuselage awaited the next phase in a two-year restoration.
Work was underway on a 1928 Army artillery piece and a German Flak 88 antiaircraft cannon. And part of a large rocket lay on the hangar floor (pictured below).
"What you can see here is the V-2 motor mount, the turbo pump and the nozzle," Norville said. "We are building the entire rocket body from scratch."
American Aero has so many projects going, in fact, it is moving to a hangar with twice the space.
"We are currently in the original building built by George and Jenny Baker when they started the business in 1980-1981," Norville said. "In 1986 I came here from the Spartan School of Aeronautics. We built the Hawker Sea Fury and a Mustang restoration. I slowly worked my way into managing and running the business. In 1998 George and Jenny offered for me to take over the business and I did. Our first restoration was the Collings Foundation F4U-5NL Corsair. We were already maintaining the bombers for the foundation, so we just transitioned into the new company maintaining them."
Norville noted that one of his mentors, Jack Roush, a NASCAR team owner and warbird owner, taught him "if you have a love for something and if you surround yourself with the best people you can find, you're going to have a successful business. I've found a great team of people and surrounded myself with them. And we've put out some very beautiful aircraft and other artifacts."
His favorite projects, he said, "include the award-winning P51-D we built for Jack Roush, another D-model Mustang for a local gentlemen here and the A-36A, which is only one of three in existence and one of the two flying. We recently finished that and took Grand Champion Warbird at Oshkosh. Now we have the Focke-Wulf 190 and we're also doing an F6F-3 Hellcat. What's cool about that is that it's the first time that a Hellcat has come back to New Smyrna in 70 years since it was a Naval Air Station."
To win a Grand Champion award, such as the A-36 restoration earned, has become increasingly difficult, Norville said.
"Now the bar has been raised so high that it has to look like it is in theater or coming right out of the factory," he explained. "That means all of the original inspection stamps, hardware, brass safety wire, line markings, hose markings as they would have been 70 years ago."
Norville's interest in aviation came through his uncle Fred Morris. "He would always take me flying on Saturdays over Lower New York and upstate New Jersey," Norville said. "Every Saturday he would go out for that $100 hamburger and fly all over and visit different antique airports. When it was time to take a direction in life I knew I enjoyed aircraft and World War II aircraft, so I went to the Spartan School of Aeronautics in Tulsa, Okla., and did the 24-month class there."
Norville once owned a Citabria and has taken flight lessons, but never got a license to fly. "I started and stopped so many times," he said. "I just wasn't ever comfortable with myself. I love going flying with other people — people that I'm comfortable with. I guess it's one of the greatest mysteries in Gary Norville's life."
Norville understands the legacy of the aircraft that American Aero maintains and the sacrifices of the airmen who flew the planes. "Veterans can come out here and families can come out and say, 'you know this is what grandpa used to do,'" he said.
One of Norville's prime concerns is the impact of federal regulations on the future of the restoration business.
"I just hope that through their nearsightedness the FAA doesn't ruin vintage aircraft aviation," he said. "There's nothing dangerous about the airplanes. They are definitely a part of history."
He notes that for both the professionals who maintain these airplanes and the pilots who fly them safety is paramount.
"If it's not ready to fly, it's not gonna fly," he said. "I just hope that the FAA would have that mindset and just let it keep going for other generations to come and not permanently ground a plane simply because it's old. That's kinda like saying you gotta put your 1944 Willys to the side because it's old. If you maintain the airplane, it's going to last forever."
For more information: AmericanAeroServices.com


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Spanish IYC commemorative video on the Contributions of Chemistry to the Wellbeing of SocietyActivity by Concepció Roca | added on May 10, 2011 | Spain
Sponsor(s): Foro QUÍMICA y SOCIEDAD
Fifteen personalities from politics, research, sports, gastronomy and the movie world take part in the Spanish IYC commemorative video report presenting their view on the contributions of Chemistry to the wellbeing of society.
Participating personalities in the video report "Año Internacional de la Quìmica 2011" present their view on Chemistry and the Chemical industry, for it's industry who translates laboratory milestones to products that make our daily life easier and more comfortable. Testimonies relate how the chemical industry supplies products to virtually all industrial sectors, specially to those related to society progress (such as health, building, textile, transportation, hygiene, food or aerospace industries among others); its capital relation to the quality of life; its contribution to the generation of work and capital in Spain; and how Chemistry plays a role in their profession and in their daily activities.
Participating members on the Government side include Government Vice-President Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Education Minister Ángel Gabilondo, Science and Innovation Minister Cristina Garmendia and Industry Minister Miguel Sebastián. Keeping on the political side, taking part in the commemorative video report are also European parliamentarians Alejo Vidal-Quadras and Andrés Perelló and regional deputies Ana Pastor, María Teresa Rodríguez Barahona, Inmaculada Riera and Guillermo Bernabeu. Chemistry Scientific and Researcher Avelino Corma, awardwinner of the Spanish Chemistry Research and Innovation Gold Medal for the 2001-2010 Decade; worldwide famous chef Ferran Adrià, 2010 125cc World Champion Marc Márquez, actress Michelle Jenner and oenologist and chemist Mª Isabel Mijares, round up such a representative support of Chemistry.
Showing their support and appreciation of Chemistry and celebrating 2011IYC, all of them offer their view, their opinion and their acknowledgement of Chemistry as a science and industry whose contribution in behalf of society, economy and wellbeing is as undeniable as unknown to many and so, they celebrate 2011IYC as an opportunity to make this science and its contributions widely known.
Chemical sector in Spain
Chemical sector in Spain includes more than 3300 companies and generates 11% of the country's Industrial Gross Product. The sector provides more than 500.000 direct, indirect and induced high quality and high qualification jobs, 89% of contracts of employment being for an indefinite period. With a 25.000 million euros foreign annual turnover, the chemical sector has become the second biggest exporter in the Spanish economy.
The Spanish Chemical sector is also the country's largest investor in R+D+i, its investment representing 25% of the country's industry global investment, and employs 20% of the country's researchers. This effort in research and innovation is what will allow offering the innovative responses our future requires.
Foro Química y Sociedad offers Spanish IYC Commemorative video on its new YouTube channel, also including several videos on Chemistry and its contribution to improving our quality of life, as well as the contribution of the Spanish Chemical industry.
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|Combat de la rue de Rohan le 29 juillet 1830,
painted by Hippolyte Lecomte
Image from Wikimedia Commons
Courage in the past, courage in the present, and courage in the future - no matter when it takes place, it is something that directs us, changes us, inspires us.
It all started innocently enough. My husband and I had decided that we wanted to see the movie, Les Misérables before we found ourselves suddenly swimming in the craziness of the spring semester - we were seeking some calm before the storm, I suppose. Having seen the musical several times years ago I was going along just fine with the storyline, not needing any kleenex until we got to the scene where all the characters sing the group number, "One Day More." It's a powerful scene - so much determination, the gathering and uniting of the peoples' will from so many different walks of life, the incredible music...it's enough to sweep anyone into the emotion of it all. I was there too with memories I hadn't thought of for quite some time - memories of an episode in my life that has since reminded me of all that I have accomplished and of all that I'm capable of doing.
In 1994, when I was an undergraduate pursuing a piano performance degree, I was offered a several month stint to be a pianist in two restaurants, one in San Francisco and one in Interlaken, Switzerland, whose waiters were also wonderful Broadway, jazz, and operatic singers. First courageous moment in this act of my life was when I decided, at the age of 21 to take a hiatus from my undergraduate studies to do this - I think many of my classmates and professors thought I was more than a little foolish. My time in San Francisco was no problem, it was when I got to Switzerland that I found myself thinking I had made a big mistake. The singers, who had come from the San Francisco restaurant beforehand and had already been working in Interlaken for over a month before I came, were older than me, the managers of the restaurant claimed that they didn't realize my boss, who had been the pianist before my arrival, was leaving only to be replaced by "a woman - a young woman." (I'm guessing you can imagine the tone of voice that was used.) Ugh. It was not a good start and I didn't really know that I was going to be able to pull myself up what seemed like a really steep hill. During a rehearsal one afternoon it became pretty apparent that the singers really wished that they had the music for the song, "One Day More" from Les Misérables. After failing to find the sheet music (remember, this was back in the 90's) I decided that this was my chance. After living in my apartment as a hermit for the first part of my time there, too afraid and shy to venture out on my own, I suddenly had the courage to find a store that sold manuscript paper, bought a tape player and a recording of the musical, and spent days transcribing the music. This was no easy task for me - I had never been wiz at music theory or at dictation, but I did it. And the day I presented it to the singers during a rehearsal? Oh my. From then on "One Day More" became one of our signature numbers with it always ending with one of the singers standing on a table waving a tablecloth in place of a French flag. And after I had stretched myself in multiple ways to get the job done I had no problems hopping on a train to have an adventure on my own, I didn't hesitate to walk into a store and try out my minimal knowledge of German, and I finally found my voice when dealing with the managers at the restaurant.
But isn't life odd? I had all but forgotten all of this until we were sitting in that dark movie theater and the song started.
Why do we forget these important moments? Why don't we take them with us wherever we go?
The same night we had seen the movie, I found an e-mail in my inbox with Dr. Noa Kageyama's latest post - "How Can We Develop a More Courageous Mindset?" * I couldn't help but chuckle. "Here we go!" I thought. I walked away from the post thinking back on all of the other courageous things I have done in my life and like Dr. Kageyama, I too found it pretty "mind-blowing." What we are capable of is astounding and inspiring. And yes, what we are all capable of doing is amazing too but I think I so often miss being amazed by what I've done, am doing, and can do by myself. Why not regularly review where we've come from, how much we've learned, and where we might go next?
Maybe this all sounds a bit egotistical and self-centered. But it seems to me that as musicians, as artists, most of us spend an awful lot of time staring at ourselves under a magnifying glass in an effort to detect the imperfections, to improve whatever we can improve. It's hard to see courage through such microscopic investigation so I'm thinking that it can't hurt to get a different view now and then. You never know where it might lead.
As for this last weekend, I've learned my lesson for now. I am facing an insane few months with 20 recitals scheduled, each with different programs. Truthfully I've been fretting about whether or not I've bitten off more than I'm capable of. But after watching young, passionate men and women face overwhelming odds at the barricades in France, and after reflecting on all the projects I never thought I'd conquer but did, I will walk into the fray with the anticipation of being able to look back on it all sometime in the future with a nod of acknowledgement that I met my courage yet again and had a heck of a good time doing it!
I'll see you on the other side.


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As Shawn Michaels, Michael Hickenbottom was The Heartbreak Kid, The Showstoppper, The Sexy Boy, The Boy Toy and all that. He was a world champion, one of wrestling's biggest superstars. He had fame and fortune, more than most of us dream about.
But he wasn't happy. His life wasn't complete.
Fast forward to 2005. Michael Hickenbottom is 39. With a wife and two children. He's ready to step into the ring against Kurt Angle. Sure to be a Wrestlemania highlight tonight.
And he's smiling again. Glad to be alive.
"When I was younger, I could find the negativity," he says. "I had anger, a chip on my shoulder. "We're built to mess up.
"But I could feel something going on within me when I took time off ... when my son was born, I thought, 'Gosh, that little guy is 100% dependent on me.'
"They don't just turn out bad or good. It's because of the environment. Glorifying of the Lord was something I needed. Everything changed for the better. It isn't about me now. I'm 100 times better than what I was."
His in-ring style has changed too. And no wonder with knee and back injuries knocking him out of action earlier in his career.
"I'd like to think with age comes a little wisdom," says Michaels. "How many times can you go out there and do it full bore? You've got to be a little more judicious. Maybe you don't want to be doing moonsaults if you're doing a (small show). As opposed to 10 years ago when I thought I was Superman ... going all out every second of the day."
And now, he's getting ready to face Angle.
"Both of us really wanted to make (this match) happen someday," said Michaels. "I'm just as excited as he is. I'm hoping we can do something that folks will remember for a long time."
Michaels says there's a big chunk of him in his in-ring character.
"I'm not an actor. Everything I do comes from within me," he says. "But there's no anger now. My character has matured and I hope it continues to mature. There's always a whole lot of me in the Heartbreak Kid and the Showstopper. But there's a lot more humility because there's a lot more of that in me.
"The idea to turn me into a bad-guy character, I couldn't do that now,"he says. "I don't have that anger, not in my heart."
As for his role as a Christian, Michaels says: "I don't want to beat anybody over the head with it. I want to be a fun-loving joyful Christian. I realize where I came from and I want to honour Him.
And after Angle? Hulk Hogan?
"He's one guy I've never faced," says Michaels. "Maybe it wouldn't be a classic, but he's still Hulk Hogan. He took this business to places it's never been."
And Michaels is taking it to new places, too. Even as a changed man, the Showstopper is still the Showstopper, sweet chin music and all.


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SoC 2008 student proposals
- name / university / current enrollment
- short bio / overview of your educational background
- did you ever code in C or C++, yes/no? please provide examples of code.
- do you photograph panoramas? please provide examples.
- do you make other use of hugin/panotools than for stitching panoramas? please describe and show examples.
- were you involved in hugin/panotools development in the past? what was your contribution?
- were you involved in other OpenSource development projects in the past? which, when and in what role?
- why have you chosen your development idea and what do you expect from your implementation?
- how much time you plan to invest in the project? (we expected full time 40h/week but better make this explicit)
- please provide a schedule of how this time will be spent on subtasks of the project. While this is only preliminary, be aware that at the beginning of the project you will be required to provide a detailed plan, and during the project you will issue weekly progress reports against that plan.
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James Legg, OpenGL Accelerated Hugin Preview
- I am James Legg, a 2nd year undergraduate in Computer Science and Mathematics at The University of York (UK).
- At university I have taken modules in human computer interaction, artificial intelligence, computer graphics and visualisation, theory of computation, algorithms and data structures, group & ring theory, linear algebra, vector calculus, and analysis among others. I have A-Levels in Physics, Maths, and Further Maths, and a Critical Thinking AS-Level.
- I have experience in C++ and OpenGL, for example I created a program that displays a procedural random terrain, including multiple layers of textures, using OpenGL, SDL (for platform independent event handling), and libnoise (for coherent noise generation). The source is available from http://lankyleggy.members.beeb.net (Download megamap.tar.gz)
- I do photograph panoramas and stitch them with Hugin, there are a few examples at: http://lankyleggy.members.beeb.net/panoramas/
- I also use Hugin for aligning bracketed photos to create HDR images, and I use enblend (and the Gimp) to create seamless textures from photographs. An HDR example and a tonemap are on the same page as linked above.
- I have only recently started contributing to Hugin, see http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx/browse_thread/thread/f94c584095fcb9d0.
- I have not been involved in other open source development projects beyond use, evangelising and bug reporting.
- After completing this project, I expect to have a new optional preview display, acting largely like the existing one. This should instead use OpenGL, and a grid-like mesh to remap the images. It will only be approximate, but still functional. It will not require OpenGL shaders, as the hardware for this is not available to most users, although I would like to make it easy for someone to add this functionality at a later date. The main purpose is to speed up the preview process. Unfortunately, it will not have the accuracy and logarithmic HDR display of the current preview.
- I would like to do this project since I have an interest in computer graphics and human interface design.
- I will invest at least 40 hours a week after the first 3 weeks of the project. Unfortunately the 3rd week of Coding Phase 1 is an exam week, However I will attempt to make up the time before the official coding start date.
- I plan to split the project into the following stages:
- Beginnings: I will derive a new panorama preview from Hugin's existing one, set up an OpenGL context for it, and add extra preferences into Hugin to control selection of preview types, and the amount of texture memory and mesh resolution to use. I plan to have this done before the official "Coding starts" date.
- Texture creation: After this each image would be scaled appropriately and placed in texture memory.
- Photometric Alignment: OpenGL (without shaders) only directly supports linear colour transformations, however after this stage, white balance correction and (approximate) exposure correction will be used to display the images.
- Mesh creation: A grid-like mesh will be created for each displayed image. This will then be transformed under distortion correction, input lens projection and output projection, to get the coordinates used to make the display on the preview window. This will require using and extending the current remapping code. I will find a way to track duplicates (e.g. fisheye projections with a FOV > 360 degrees), and to split the mesh across discontinuities in the projection. The final output would then be a linear approximation between the mesh points (along continuous mappings), which is then handled by OpenGL. The results of the mesh transformations will be stored in memory so that changing parameters does not cause unnecessary costly calculations. I expect to have started this by the end of coding phase 1, but I expect this will be the most time consuming stage.
- Usability improvements: This will add extra features, e.g. a feature show the outline of an image in the preview, which will hopefully provide quicker identification of images.
- Performance enhancing and testing: I will try to improve the performance of my code, and fix any bugs I may have. I will call for testers on the mailing list during this stage, and I may add additional requested features if I have the time. I will also make sure that the documentation is completely up-to-date.
If this feature is not wanted, or mentors are not available, I have an alternative proposal: I would like to make a cube map projection, since cube maps are the most common way of handling static reflections in real-time computer graphics, they should work well with interactive panorama viewers such as FreePV, and it has been requested before.
I would keep the definition of the faces that make the projection generic enough (perhaps specified in a script) to allow shapes other than cubes to be defined (I see there is interest in foldable panoramas and other shapes, including ceating a Pilosphere). This will require work on making enblend and enfuse blend across distinct faces. I don't know any algorithms that can do this well, but I would be willing to research it and experiment.
Marko Kuder, Utility for Creating A Philosphere
Here is the application I intend to submit to Google, combined with the information I gave on the mailing list it should answer the questions in the template.
Hugin is a software tool for simple design of panoramic images. It's main function is to aid in combining multiple photographs, taken from a point in space in different directions, by finding common control points in neighbouring views and applying necessary transformations so that the images can be joined into a single, bigger picture. This can of course become an even tougher problem as photographs usually suffer from irregular lighting and Hugin is able to compensate for that also by color and light balancing.
The ultimate application of these functions is the creation of 360 degree panoramas. But such photographs have an innate problem - how to represent them in a natural and more attractive way than long and sometimes oddly curved pictures. The function that is yet missing from Hugin and would solve this problem is the ability to transform an image in such a way that it can be applied to a spherical body or, in practice, the automatic creation of models which can be printed and then folded into a polyhedron or sphere. The development and addition of this feature to Hugin would be my assignment on this project.
The original idea description can be found at: http://wiki.panotools.org/SoC_2008_ideas#Utility_for_creating_a_Philosphere
Printing panoramas as foldable cut-out models has been somewhat popularized by Philippe Hurbain, a French electronics engineer and a panoramic photography enthusiast (his homepage is accessible at http://www.philohome.com). The rhombicuboctahedron, which he often uses for displaying his panoramic photographs, was nicknamed »Philosphere«, after Hurbain's first name. Even though printing panorama models has little technical potential, it is an idea that could bring panoramic photography closer to the general public, as it displays the photographs in a more interesting way. For this reason and because image transformations are a problem domain which can be handled with my education without much practical work experience (which I lack), I decided to apply for this specific idea. This way I could get some much needed programming experience, which is often expected when applying for a job, familiarize myself with working on a bigger project, which I would have to get to know without being involved in it's previous development, and work on something that is interesting to me. Other projects which are part of Google Summer of Code mostly require special skills or their project ideas are a very integrated part of the software they are based on. Since I plan to attend classes and pass my exams in June, I had to be realistic about my abilities and choose a project that I could handle in the time I would have. I was also a bit late in finding out about GSoC, so I have chosen only one project, this one, and spent the free time I had recently getting to know Hugin, the mentoring organization's project and making sure I was fit for the job.
While the basic idea of projecting an image on a sphere seems simple, it can get quite complicated if we want the projection to be as realistic as possible. The problem is that we have many types of cameras with different lenses and consequently multiple types of projections e.g. rectilinear, equirectangular, cylindrical and fisheye. Each of these should be handled differently and considering the fact that what we are working with are panoramas constructed out of multiple photographs, the simple problem can be expanded quite far. I do not intend to pretend that the original problem isn't trivial. We can map an image to a sphere simply by converting it to so called »orange slices« (as shown on http://www.philohome.com/rhombicuboctahedron/rhombicuboctahedron.htm), which can be done by transforming each horizontal line of a slice into a shorter one, so it fits into the set form. There is a problem with this approach though. The final result depends greatly on the projection of the original image and the number of slices. The more slices we choose, the more equirectangular should the original photo be (as opposed to a fisheye projection), but such a model can be very hard to fold when printed. The alternative to orange slices which can be easier to assemble is the use of polyhedra like a rhombicubioctahedron or icosahedron, although model images of these could prove to be harder to construct, as multiple different transformations would have to be applied to separate parts of the original image. Some software which offers 3D panorama model construction already exists, like PTGui (http://www.ptgui.com) and IP-slicer script (http://www.bruno.postle.net/neatstuff/ip-slicer), but the former, which is a commercial application, is only able to construct a rhombicubioctahedron from a 360x180 degree panorama and the latter only converts an image into orange slices. Both lack additional user options, such as projection correction and incomplete panorama support, which I would like to include in my project.
Pre-summer phase:
At first I intend to get to know Hugin and it's source code as much as I need to visualize my planned code in it (including planning the GUI modifications). After that I should make some research and study the mathematical basis for my problem, so I could define the required code. At the start of the first coding phase, in June, I will have some exams to pass, so it could be expected that I will be less productive for a period of 2-3 weeks in that month, but I intend to get a head start on the project by beginning coding before the official start of GsoC coding phase one and I plan to already have something to show the mentoring organization at that time.
Coding phase one:
Till the 14th of July, when mid-term evaluations begin, I intend to complete the inclusion of at least one of the planned transformations in Hugin with full functionality, so I could show some practical results.
Coding phase two:
After mid-term evaluations I would add as many additional functions and user options as possible, before doing the final bug fixes and polishing up the finished code and GUI to complete the project.
I was born and raised in Trbovlje, a small town in Slovenia and at the age of 22 I'm in the 4th year of the Computer Software university program at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science in Ljubljana, the capital of our country. My main interest is in computer graphics, although my dream would be to work in a small company designing software and electronic devices of various types, because I like inventing new things. From my education I have a lot of experience in Java programming and some in Python, C and C++, which would be my programming language of choice, for computer graphics in combination with OpenGL. Recently I have been working with our school's AI lab by doing research in the field of search algorithms and heuristics. Google Summer of Code appears as an opportunity to prove to myself that I can work on real software projects and I hope I will be given the chance to show the same thing to Hugin's project team.


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The Fedora Project on Tuesday announced the long-awaited beta release of Fedora Linux 18, complete with numerous improvements for users, developers, and systems administrators.
Several delays beset the project during this release cycle following the release of Fedora 17 back in May, but the final version of the Red Hat-sponsored Linux distribution--code-named "Spherical Cow"--is now due in January.
I had a chance on Monday to speak with Robyn Bergeron, Red Hat's Fedora project leader, about the new beta release and what it will bring to desktop and business users. Two new features, in particular, stand out.
1. A brand-new installer
Fedora has used the Anaconda installer for some time already, but for this release the project team totally rewrote it "from the ground up" so as to make it easier for a wide range of users, Bergeron told me.
"In the past, it wasn't a scary experience to install Fedora if you were an experienced Linux user, but someone converting over would see stuff about partitioning, etc., and that might be frightening to them," she explained.
The rewritten installer interface, however, now offers "a new experience that's definitely geared toward flexibility," she added. "It will be a much smoother, more user-friendly experience for them."
Small business users are likely to be among those who will benefit, Bergeron pointed out.
"For small businesses, which may not have a full-blown IT department, this will definitely lift a lot of the knowledge burden off of them," she said.
2. A traditional GNOME desktop
The world of Linux desktops may now include prominent mobile-inspired options such as Ubuntu's Unity and GNOME 3, but it's become patently clear that many users still yearn for a more traditional style desktop.
Just recently we saw a beta release of the new "Cinnarch"--which adds the traditionally flavored Cinnamon desktop to Arch Linux--as well as the GNOME project's announcement that the classic GNOME 2 desktop is coming back by popular demand.
Now, this beta version of Fedora 18 adds a MATE option for the first time, giving users the ability to get a classic interface through this GNOME 2 fork.
GNOME 3.6 serves as the default desktop in Fedora 18, but updates have also been made to the KDE, Xfce, and Sugar desktop environments.
Given that it's still a beta version, this new Fedora 18 release is not intended for production environments, of course. If you're interested in checking it out or helping to test it, however, it's available now as a free download.


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It is that time of year when it is important to watch for deer, while driving. Deer breeding and hunting season is upon us and deer are very active.
With a statewide deer population of approximately 900,000, there are an estimated 60,000 to 70,000 deer-vehicle collisions that occur throughout New York State each year.
To avoid a collision with a deer, drivers should reduce speed and watch for their presence on or near the highway. Here are more specific precautions to help prevent such accidents:
•Use caution when driving at dawn or dusk and scan roads and roadsides ahead;
•Reduce your speed at night and use high beams when possible;
•Be sure all vehicle occupants wear seat belts and children are properly restrained in child safety seats;
•Slow down when approaching deer or moose standing near the roadside, as they may suddenly bolt into the road;
•Deer often travel in pairs or groups, so if deer are spotted crossing the road, slow down and be alert that others may follow;
•Briefly use flashers or a headlight signal to warn approaching drivers when deer are spotted in or near the highway;
•Be especially alert and use caution when traveling through frequent deer crossing areas, which are usually marked with "leaping stag";
•Do not rely on devices, such as deer whistles, extra lights or reflectors, to deter deer. Research has shown that your best defense is your own responsible behavior;
•Motorcyclists should be especially alert for deer as motorcycle-deer collisions have a higher fatality rate; and
•If a deer does run in front of your vehicle, brake firmly but do not swerve. Swerving can cause a vehicle-vehicle collision or cause the vehicle to strike a pedestrian or potentially deadly fixed object, such as a tree or utility pole.


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At least one Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the Jewish community Psagot north of Jerusalem on Saturday evening and shot a nine-year-old Israeli girl at close range.
The victim, Noam Glick (pictured left), was rushed to a Jerusalem hospital and treated for what were miraculously only light injuries after being shot in the upper body.
Her father, Israel Glick, later recounted the terrifying incident in an interview with Army Radio:
"We went outside and found Noam standing and she told me, 'Father there's an Arab here.' …This is the scariest thing that could happen to a family, that a terrorist enters our home… The terrorist was startled by Noam and, instead of entering the house, shot her… Her screams saved us from catastrophe."
Israeli security forces later found a hole in the security fence surrounding Psagot and believe it to be the escape route used by the terrorist, who they agreed had likely had planned a more severe massacre of Israelis before being scared off by commotion caused by little Noam's screams.
Israeli soldiers entered the neighboring Palestinian village of el-Birah in some force to find the shooter, but by midday Sunday had been unsuccessful.
The attack and the Israeli response sparked a number of stone-throwing attacks against Israeli motorists in the area.
At the start of Sunday's cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Noam's shooting "a heinous attack," and blamed the whole thing on Israel's "peace partners" in the Palestinian Authority.
"I must say that the Palestinian Authority cannot shirk its responsibility for these kinds of incidents as long as incitement there continues," said Netanyahu.
A number of government ministers and members of Knesset urged Netanyahu to go beyond issuing condemnations and suspend the current US-driven peace negotiations until the Palestinian Authority takes responsibility for and puts and end to such attacks.
"When Palestinian leaders say that talks are at a dead end because Palestinians will never recognize a Jewish state in any borders, it's no surprise that somebody takes from that a practical conclusion and arranges attacks," MK Ze'ev Elkin told Israel National News. "We need to look at reality with clear eyes and not forget what the real goal is of those who sit opposite us in the negotiating room."
Meanwhile, Israeli army commander fear the recent rise in serious terror attacks heralds a new Palestinian terrorist uprising, or intifada.
Former IDF Central Command chief Gadi Shamni fears that in light of the past month's attacks in the West Bank, a new intifada could be in the works.
"The events of the past month may lead to an escalation in the West Bank [sic]," former IDF Central Command chief Shamni told Army Radio.
"It's very difficult to determine if this is the start of an intifada," he added. "However…I have no doubt that once events such as these occur, this can encourage all sorts of people who might not have acted, to act."
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V. J. Jerome--Biographical Note
[Biographical Note supplied by the Yale University Library,
where Jeromes papers are located.]
Victor Jeremy Jerome, writer, editor and chairman of the Communist Party's Cultural Commission, was born Jerome Isaac Romain in Strykov Poland in 1896. Shortly after his birth, his parents migrated to England, leaving Jerome with relatives in Poland. At the age of nine he joined his parents in England where he spent the next ten years. In 1915 he came to New York, where he worked at odd jobs and started school at City College. He left school when he married Frances Winwar, who bore him one child before their marriage ended in divorce.
His involvement with radical politics began in the early 1920's when Jerome accepted a position as a bookkeeper with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Possibly because of his involvement with left-wing politics, he changed his name in 1923. In 1924 he joined the Communist Party and in the following year married Rose Pastor Stokes. He returned to college and in 1930 received a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University. After Rose Pastor Stokes death in 1933, Jerome spent a year in Hollywood raising money for the Spanish Loyalists. He returned to New York and in 1935 he became editor of The Communist (which later became Political Affairs) and held that position until 1955. He had risen in the Party hierarchy and in the mid-1930's was appointed cultural commissioner of the Communist Party. In 1937 he married Alice Hamburger.
Between 1935 and 1965 Jerome wrote constantly. He wrote two autobiographical novels A Lantern for Jeremy (released during the "Foley Square Trials" in 1952) and its sequel, The Paper Bridge (published posthumously in 1966). He also published a collection of vignettes entitled Unstill Waters (1964). A prolific writer, he turned out short stories, plays, and literary and art criticism. Victor Jerome is best known, however, for his political and cultural essays. Among these are "The Intellectuals and the War" (1940), "The Negro in Hollywood Films" (1950), and "Culture in a Changing World" (1948).
A1952 pamphlet -- "Grasp the Weapon of Culture" -- which Jerome presented as a report to the Communist Party, became the "overt act" under which Victor Jerome was prosecuted and convicted under the Smith Act. Indicted with sixteen other Communist leaders in 1951, he was accused of "conspiracy to teach and advocate the overthrow by force and violence" of the U.S. government. Following a nine month trial in New York's Foley Square Courthouse -- Jerome passed the long hours in court writing poetry and reading page proofs of A Lantern for Jeremy -- Jerome was convicted and in 1953 sentenced to three years at Lewisburg Penitentiary. He served the sentence between 1954 and 1957.
Following his release from prison, Jerome toured Eastern Europe. He spent 1958 in Poland, and for the next two years worked in Moscow as an editor of a collection of Lenin's works. He returned to the United States in 1962 to continue work he had begun on a novel based on the life of Spinoza.
He died in 1965 at the age of 68.
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Dear Secretary General of United Nations,
The number of executions is rising in Iran, journalists are being detained for doing their job and activists face cruel and degrading punishments, long prison terms and even execution. According to the most recent reports by Amnesty International and the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, "Iran's judiciary continues to sentence child offenders to death, and carry out their execution by hanging". Also, on August 9th, 2016 the son of late Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, Khomeini's designated successor in 1988, published a shocking audio tape of his father's meeting with the "Death Commission" which summarily and extra-judicially executed tens of thousands of political prisoners held in jails across Iran. The massacre was carried out on the basis of a fatwa by the regime's then-Supreme Leader Khomeini.
We, the undersigned, hereby urge you to take up this issue and raise it in the General Assembly in order to;
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Palmer Mill - Devils Rest Loop - 2013/01/27
The weather forecast wasn't great for Sunday so we decided to stick close to home & explore some of the old forest roads West of Devils Rest. We ended up making a 10 mile loop from the Angels Rest Parking lot up Palmer Mill Road then through a maze of old abandoned roads to the Devils Rest Foxglove trail for our return to the Trail Head via Angels Rest. It was a very quiet day in the woods with some interesting artifacts along the way :^)..Read More


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LAKE FOREST – The good news: Matt Forte ran without difficulty during the Bears' practice Saturday.
The bad news: Evan Rodriguez stood still on the sidelines.
Perhaps the comparison seems ridiculous. Forte is a Pro Bowl running back who has averaged 103.5 yards from scrimmage in 62 games. Rodriguez is a little-known rookie fullback who has played 38 snaps without touching the ball on offense.
But the absence of Rodriguez as a lead blocker could affect the production of Forte.
Forte took part in limited drills for a third consecutive day as he practiced in shorts and shoulder pads along with his teammates at Halas Hall. He was listed as questionable on the Bears' injury report, but he showed no signs of a lingering injury as he ran and caught passes from Jay Cutler during the portion of practice that was open to members of the news media.
"He looks good to me," Bears running back coach Tim Spencer said.
After missing the fifth game of his career in Week 3, Forte said this week that he expected to return Monday against the Dallas Cowboys.
"It's real big, especially [for] me," Forte said. "I've missed a game. So it's real big to get in sync with the running game, as well as the passing game, so we can help the defense out. The defense has been playing lights out. We need to put a lot of points on the board so they can at least rest a little bit and continue to play good."
The Bears' offense will have to do so without Rodriguez, who was ruled out for Monday's game because of a knee injury that he suffered in Week 3 against St. Louis.
Rodriguez played 21 snaps in the season opener, which accounted for 28 percent of the Bears' plays on offense. He played 12 snaps (20 percent) against Green Bay in Week 2, but he was limited to five plays (7 percent) against St. Louis before exiting the game at halftime.
After Rodriguez left the game, the Bears' rushing offense stalled. They tallied 15 carries for 26 yards in the second half after notching 19 carries for 77 yards in the first half.
Bears offensive coordinator Mike Tice said Rodriguez's injury caused problems.
"We ran the ball good in the first half, then we were strictly single-back wing [without a fullback as a lead blocker]; it takes away from things," Tice said. "So, you have to massage that a little bit and come up with some other ways to run the football, as opposed to always being in single-back wing, or single back [with] two tight ends on the edge."
When Rodriguez is healthy, his value is apparent. In the first quarter of his NFL debut, Rodriguez delivered a block to help spring Forte for a 32-yard gain past midfield. Eight plays later, Michael Bush scored on a 1-yard run to mark the Bears' first touchdown of the season en route to a season-opening win against the Colts.
Now, the Bears must find a way to make big gains on the ground without Rodriguez.
"Evan, we moved and put a 40 number on because we felt like he could play on the line of scrimmage and play in the backfield," Tice said. "We know he had a couple of good games and some good plays. When you lose a guy like that, we take a step backward in that area.
"We have to come up with other ways to run other plays."
When: 7:30 p.m. today
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I grew up kayaking on the Dorset coast in the 70's with the local youth club - the Weymouth YAC. I went to college at Bristol University and switched to mainly river canoeing and slalom. After leaving college I paddled for Chalfont Park Canoe Club reaching Div 1 in slalom.
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Election-year gimmick
To the Editor:
Our elected officials in Albany have passed a state budget that increased spending by 2 percent to a new high of $142.6 billion. Did they trim the bloated levels of public school administrators' salaries or rein in the lobbying of the teachers unions? Of course not, but they did come up with a plan to send checks to some taxpayers.
The new budget gives middle-income households with children a $350 check, which is to be mailed next year, just in time for the politicians' re-election campaigns. What a perfect election-year gimmick!
Those $350 checks come from the pocketbooks of taxpayers, including seniors and retirees who have no children at home. Why leave them out of the check plan? They don't send children to school, yet they pay school taxes — with many having done so for decades. Was AARP asleep at the switch?
The budget extends the state's tax on
millionaires. New York maintains its reputation as the tax capital of the nation; it has the highest local taxes in the U.S., 80 percent above the national average. How many of these big earners will now move to North Carolina or some other low-tax state?
Long Island school districts will receive $2.25 billion in state aid, an increase of 5.3 percent over this year. Great. Now the teachers union can ask for bigger pay raises.
Do the teachers unions really need to spend big money on lobbying? They spent $3.5 million lobbying state and city officials last year, and now they are paying $250,000 for full-page ads in various newspapers. If the teachers have so much money to spend, maybe we should lower their salaries?
Voting on the 2013-14 school budgets will be next month. Attend the budget meetings and tell the school board that you want to see detailed teacher and administrator salary and benefits data. Also, tell them to stop keeping you in the dark. They're treating you like mushrooms.
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