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Don't get us wrong. We don't mean to take anything away from the more substantial qualities of "The Wolverine," a fairly satisfying if not stellar installment in the saga of the famous mutant that Hugh Jackman's been playing since, wow, 2000. (For a little perspective, Bill Clinton was still president.)
But let's just point out that Jackman bares it all in a brief but memorable scene in a bathtub, and the studio would be wise to advertise this scene as much as possible. Because Wolverine is all about Jackman, and not only is the actor in amazing shape, but he's funny in the scene, too. So why not flaunt it?
Jackman's been in good movies and not-as-good movies, but one thing he's never lacked is charisma. Whether hoofing it in a Broadway musical or crooning as Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables," that charisma makes him always worth watching. And so, whether you're an X-Men fan or not, it's Jackman that makes "The Wolverine" worth watching, too.
Oh yes, the movie. Well, as we mentioned, it's fairly satisfying. On the plus side, we get to know the Wolverine, aka Logan, a little better. We also see him physically challenged, losing some of his mutant healing powers, which gives Jackman a nice chance to display weakness.
There are also some welcome funny moments in the script, many having to do with its Japan setting. When Logan and a young woman he's protecting want to hide, they enter a Japanese "love hotel" where, they're informed, their room options are: dungeon, nurse's office, or Mission to Mars. (They pick the latter). Also pay attention to Logan's great comeback after throwing a bad guy out a window into a swimming pool.
And director James Mangold sets one terrific action scene - the film's best - on a speeding bullet train, making great use of those claws. Turns out, bone bonded with adamantium makes for rather efficient train-roof gripping.
On the minus side are some lackluster performances and an ending that, sorry to say, is simply not that exciting, or maybe we've all just run out of steam by then.
The film, Jackman's sixth outing as Logan, finds him hiding out in the woods of the Yukon, his best friend a grizzly bear. He runs into Yukio (an appealing Rila Fukushima), who tells him he's needed in Japan.
There, Logan is brought to the dying tycoon Harada, who apparently wants to say goodbye. As we see in a flashback, Logan had saved Harada from the Nagasaki atomic bombing. Actually, Harada wants to transfer Logan's healing powers and immortality to himself. Logan doesn't like the plan.
Before escaping, though, he attends Harada's funeral, and finds himself fighting off mob thugs seeking to kidnap the man's granddaughter, Mariko. Wounded, he manages to escape with Mariko onto a bullet train, where that great fight scene unfolds up on the roof.
Some quiet scenes follow, giving Jackman a chance to display a winning vulnerability. He makes us worry about Logan in a way we never did before.
If his character has some depth, the same can't be said for all the supporting players. Svetlana Khodchenkova, as Viper, is supposed to be villainous but comes across as only vampy; she recalls Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy in "Batman & Robin," only less interesting. Tao Yokamoto is attractive and sweet as Mariko. Famke Janssen appears as Logan's dead love, Jean Grey, in ghostly scenes that are a bit silly.
But really it's about Jackman. At this point he could play the role in his sleep - but he doesn't, and the nuances he and director Mangold bring to the character lift this enterprise up from the usual blockbuster-sequel fare.
Oh, and check out that bathtub scene.
"The Wolverine," a 20th Century Fox release in 3D, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "sequences of intense sci-fi action and violence, some sexuality and language." Running time: 126 minutes. Two and a half stars out of four.


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Liverpool striker 'will probably stay' at Anfield
Liverpool starlet Suso insists he is happy with life at Anfield and will stay at the club next season.
The 19-year-old Spaniard has been on the fringes of the Reds' first-team all season, with Brendan Rodgers rewarding the forward for his fine displays with both the reserves and Spanish youth teams.
And, whilst Suso is aware that there are 'quite a few offers' for his services, he is happy with life on Merseyside and looking to build on last year.
"This year for me has been beyond fantastic. At Liverpool this season has been great and I'm very happy," he told Marca.
"Next year I'll probably stay at Liverpool. I know there are quite a few offers but I will not go.
"I'm happy at Liverpool."
The news will be a boost to manager Brendan Rodgers, who faces a fight to keep star striker Luis Suarez at Anfield next season. The Uruguayan has already stressed his desire to leave the club after a season of controversies.
If he does leave, then Daniel Sturridge would become the main striker on the books at Liverpool, whilst Suso would also move up the first-team pecking order. He made 20 appearances in all competitions for the club last season.News Now - Sport News


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|The home of state legislators who do not read bills -- Oklahoma State Capitol
Thanks to my friend Dick Eastman and his newsletter for this gem (link http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2014/03/pending-oklahoma-legislation-on-vital-records-and-dismantling-the-historical-society.html)
I have inserted some additional thoughts in this piece that was not in Dick's original article since he is always a gentleman and diplomat about these sort of things and I'm, well, I'm a retired Navy Chief. That pretty much says it all.
Seems a professional genealogist last year tried to obtain a copy of a death record. Several years ago the boomer sooner state of Oklahoma Legislature enacted legislation that addressed vital records. That law only permitted the named person "the deceased" to request their own death record. The law also made it a felony if a Department of Health Services employee provided the death certificate to anyone other the named person -- the person that is dead!
So let's recap this for a second. Thanks to a law passed by the Oklahoma state legislature the only person in the in Oklahoma who could request a death certificate is the person who is dead and six feet under. Truly amazing and another case of we have to pass the bill in order to figure out what is in it. I would love to know the name of the law maker who authored that bill. I have some basic life principles I would like to pass on to him/her.
In this year's legislative session there was supposed to be amendatory legislation to address this one "glitch." Glitch? Is that what you call stupidity? However, the legislature decided to proceed with inserting the Model Vital Records Act embargo dates for birth, marriage and death records instead.
From Dick's newsletter:
"SB 448 permits access to the death records 75 years from date of death; birth certificates 125 years from date of birth . There is no mention of marriage records in the bill. The bill still makes it unlawful to permit inspection or disclosure the information to any person other than the person who is the subject of the record unless a court of competent jurisdiction permits before the 75/125 embargo dates.
"The bill passed the Oklahoma Senate on 45-0 on March 4 and is now in the Assembly awaiting action. To read the bill as it passed the Senate go to: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2013-14%20ENGR/SB/SB1448%20ENGR.PDF
"HB 3028 consolidates three departments: Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department and the Oklahoma Arts Council into one agency named the Department of Tourism, History and Cultural Affairs. It is an emergency bill which would take place immediately upon enactment and the governor signing the bill into law. The bill was originally introduced as a "shell" so that it could be "filled in" at a later date.
"The Oklahoma Historical Society is essentially dissolved, along with its board of directors and a new Oklahoma Historical division is created within the new Department of Tourism, History and Cultural Affairs. To read the bill see: http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2013-14%20FLR/HFLR/HB3028%20HFLR.PDF. On February 27 it passed the Government Modernization Committee 6-5. The bill has to be scheduled for a full vote by the House. If it is not scheduled by March 13, it dies.
"The Oklahoma Historical Society has 10,000 members and the new proposed division within the Tourism, History and Cultural Affairs apparently would not have members. House Bill 3028 converts the OHS Board of Directors to an advisory group with no authority and transfer all its assets and funds to the Tourism Department. The Society has been around for 120 years."
So we fix one bit of stupidity and add even more. As Forrest Gump said, "stupid is as stupid does."


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Martin Marty
The Religious Life of the Public / the Public Life of the Religious
Thursday, February 21, 2008
There were truths eternal in the gab and tittle-tattle.
There were real heads broken in the fustian and the rattle.
There were real lines drawn:
Not the silver and the gold,
But Nebraska's cry went eastward against the dour and old,
The mean and cold.
--Vachel Lindsay, "Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan"
Martin Marty is a phenomenon (a word well chosen by his friend Bill Moyers to describe this formidable historian, professor, pastor, editor, and author of more than 50 books)—intellectually, physiologically, and metaphysically. Nearing the completion of his eighth decade, Dr. Marty still rises before dawn each day to read four newspapers and the Moravian Texts, to walk 10,000 steps (he measures), and to repair to his studio to write—all before fortifying himself for the rest of the day's work with a post-lunch seven minute nap.
Born in West Point, Nebraska, where he received his elementary education in a two-room schoolhouse, Marty was ordained into the Lutheran ministry in 1952 and served as a pastor in that faith for more than a decade before beginning a 35-year residency on the faculty of the University of Chicago, where he held the position of Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor. Distinguished it was—and continues to be: Marty's contributions to academic and public understanding of religion in American life have been recognized by the bestowal of some 60 honorary degrees, the National Humanities Medal, and the Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In one of his most influential books, Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (1977), for which he won the National Book Award, Marty divides his history into two distinct periods, beginning with what he calls the Evangelical Empire of 1776-1877, and transitioning into "the Protestant Experience." Through the latter period he traces the nation's theological evolution by examining such factors as how the removal of indigenous peoples, the appropriation of land in westward expansion, the post-Civil War rise of denominationalism, and the influence of the urban-immigrant environment led to the ascendancy of religious pluralism.
One of many endearing aspects of Marty's writing and teaching is his willingness to do it in response to others' request—to be "at the disposal of the need of the moment." Accordingly, it is singularly appropriate—and gratifying to the evening's honoree—that Dr. Marty delivers his talk as this year's Ricardo J. Quinones Distinguished Lecturer. Established in honor of the founding director of the Family of Benjamin Z. Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, the Quinones Lectureship brings to the CMC campus some of the world's preeminent intellectuals, writers, and public figures. Tonight Dr. Marty's diponibilité lands him in the distinguished company of previous Quinones Lecturers Shelby Steele, James Q. Wilson, Harvey Klehr, and Paul Barolsky.


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2 HASKINS & SELLS January New Instructions A I X staff members will doubtless recall how, on the first day of joining our organization, they read and signed the instructions. Many will have had the experience of not being able to remember the numerous matters contained therein. With a view to overcoming this difficulty and making the instructions compatible with present conditions, the instructions have been revised and will, in the main, be issued in loose-leaf book form. The revised instructions have been divided into two parts—one which contains information of a confidential nature, to be kept in the office, where a copy will always be accessible to the staff; the other, of a non-confidential character, which will be distributed to the staff. The latter will be accompanied by loose-leaf diary and expense memorandum sheets which are correlated with the new form of combined time and expense report recently issued. The text of the revised instructions for distribution follows: SUGGESTIONS FOR PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT These pages are intended as a source of information and general guide to the members of the staff in the matter of professional conduct. Confidential matters relating to professional conduct and technique are embodied in a volume entitled "Confidential Instructions," which is on file in the library. All instructions should be consulted frequently until the accountant is entirely familiar with them. It is considered desirable that all members of the staff learn as quickly as possible the ways of the firm, grow into harmony with its ideals and traditions, and absorb its technique. It is important that each one have the proper point of view, assume the proper attitude toward his work, and appreciate the responsible function which is delegated to him as a representative of the firm. The file of the monthly Bulletin, which is in the library and which gives something of the history and development of the firm, will be found helpful in this respect. It is the desire of the firm that members of the staff confine their attention exclusively to the work of the firm and concentrate thereon with the purpose of cooperating in the rendering of effective service to clients. The department for professional training has the function of acquainting new members of the staff with their professional relations, duties, and responsibilities; in serving them subsequently in the matter of advice and information, professional, technical, and personal; in looking after their comfort; and in planning and directing their educational development. The library is provided as a comfortable and attractive place in which the members of the staff work and spend their time when not engaged in accounting work. A suggestion box located therein offers an opportunity for communications relating to the accountant, his work, the work of the firm, conditions, relations, methods, or what-not. The books in the library are for the use and information of the staff and as well all other members of the organization. They may be withdrawn from the shelves for use in the library without consulting anyone. After having served the purpose of the reader they should be left on the library table in order that the librarian may return them to their proper places on the shelves. Books desired for home reading or outside use may be obtained after the mere formality of registering them with the librarian. Suggestions as to reading will, if desired, be furnished by the director of professional training. EQUIPMENT All equipment, such as working bags, folders, paper, pencils, erasers, etc., are provided for the use of accountants. The only exception to this rule is a fountain pen, which the accountant requires for certain of his work and with which he should provide himself. HOURS When engaged on work in the offices of the firm the hours to be observed are those prescribed for the respective offices. When engaged on work for clients outside of the office of the firm, accountants should within reason observe the hours of the offices
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We can all agree that cars today are far better than they've ever been. From Ferraris to Kias, everything is pretty stout.
But the hood ornaments are as atrocious as the cars are good.
I was walking the lawn with our good friend Alex Roy the morning of the show, and he mentioned how all car designers need to look at these hood ornaments and realize what's missing from every new car. I went and took pictures of the best ones, and I totally agree.
Check this stuff out and realize a Honda H is pretty awful, even if it is red.


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Barney Frank, the most prominent gay politician in the US, has confirmed that he'll be marrying his longtime partner after he retires from public service at the end of his current term. Since marriage has a one-in, one-out policy, this of course means that a straight couple in Massachusetts must now divorce.
Rep. Frank has represented Massachusetts in the House of Representatives since 1981, and came out as gay in 1987. He and his partner, a surfing enthusiast named Jim Ready, will marry at a date to be determined.
Congrats, you two crazy lovebirds!


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Work on my bathroom continues. I had expected it to be complete on Friday but it lookse like the new completion date will be Tuesday or Wednesday.
It will be very nice to have a working shower, and a toilet I don't need to "flush" with a bucket.
The only interesting thing I've been doing is planning on a kernel to support long-term for some poor unfortunate souls who cannot use Debian-based kernels.
I know building, supporting, and maintaining a kernel will be a pain. But at the moment it looks like a valid thing to be suggesting.
Otherwise life goes on. I've been hit by the DIY bug, largely as the result of seeing all the bathroom work going on, and figuring I was going to live with dust/mess anyway - so I've erected some more book-shelves, and ordered a pair of ceiling fans.
The only other thing to report is that I've started deleting emails. (shock!)
I look after a few machines for myself, friends and so on. Each one will send me automated emails at times. I've got them going back years - but no longer:
# # Prune old mailboxes. # for maildir in .Automated.backups .machines.spotlight .machines.skx; do nrecent --keep=150 $HOME/Maildir/${maildir}/cur done
Another new use for my nrecent tool. (Note: Only delete files from ./cur, to avoid deleting messages I've not read. Maildir is your friend!)
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TSW Nurburgring Wheel 20"x10" Rotary Forged Matte Bronze 2005-2014
TSW 20" x 10" Matte Bronze Nurburgring Rotary Forged Wheel for all 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Mustangs.
TSW's Nurburgring 20" x 10" wheel is just one of the many offerings TSW has for your 2005-2014 Mustang.
This TSW alloy wheel is named after the Nurburgring circuit, also known as "The Ring", which is located in Nurburg, Germany. The 22 km track was built in 1920 and became known as one of the toughest and most dangerous tracks in the world. Jacki Stewart went as far as nicknaming the track "the green hell". Through the 1950s and early 1970s the Nurburgring was the main venue for the German Grand Prix as part of the F1 World Championship. The new Nurburgring Grand Prix Track, called GP-Strecke was completed in 1984 and has hosted several Grand Prix events.
The TSW Nurburgring wheel is a one-piece rotary forged aluminum wheel, made to the highest standards of manufacturing. The Nurburgring wheel features seven Y-shaped spokes that extend outwards to the edge of the wheel. Features a Matte Bronze finish that can really complement the exterior of your Mustang. TSW completes the Nurburgring wheel with a matching center cap. An extra thick TSW emblem is used to prevent warping and fading.
This TSW wheel is manufactured using a highly advanced production technique: Rotary Forging. First, the wheel is molded with a very thick lip section. This lip section is then rolled to form the barrel of the wheel. As the wheel is rolled, the molecular structure of the aluminum is changed which enhances the strength of the alloy. The process allows for a much lighter weight than a regular cast wheel, while increasing the strength. Weight savings is in the outer rim of the wheel which dramatically reduces rotational mass and enhances your Mustang's performance.
TSW wheels are specific for each application. The widths and offsets were designed so this 20" x 10" Nurburgring wheel fits all 2005-2014 Mustangs perfectly. Correct sizing is important for proper fitment. Every TSW wheel is equipped with a special metal centering ring so the wheel fits your Mustang perfectly and vibrations are nonexistent. Although the wheel is lightweight, it is designed to handle the weight of your Mustang and the specific load rating is stamped on the back of the Nurburgring wheel. Also, TSW wheels are specifically designed to be TPMS compatible.
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BlueRepublic necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 256 diseños de 32 diseñadores freelance.
Blue Republic Brewing Company or Blue Republic (please use whichever one works best within your design)
What We Do:
The company is a new craft brewery, manufacturing fine quality Artisan ales and lagers. Our beers are handcrafted under the watchful eye of our Brewmaster. We use the finest ingredients (malt, hops, yeast, water) available for brewing, giving us the best possible product. Our plan is to manufacture beer for the local community, and grow into a regional or national brewery.
Our Brand:
Handcrafting unique ales and lagers.
Our Customers:
Our target audience is the craft beer consumer. Beer consumption is overwhelmingly male-dominated, with men accounting for more than 80% of the volume consumed. However the logo should appeal to both men and women of drinking age (21 years or older).
We want the logo to be nice and simple, with clean lines. It will set the tone for our corporate identity. Our logo needs to stand out within the sea of 6-packs at the store, inviting the consumer to try our product.
Logo Uses:
The winning logo will be used on business cards, internet, tshirts, beer labels, marketing material, promotional items, etc. There is also an opportunity to perform additional work designing individual bottle labels and packaging material for our different beer styles.
General Concepts
The logo should be fresh, modern, and above all – cool with a hint of attitude!
We would like the logo to incorporate a symbol. We really like the idea of using of a hand print (see example) as part of the design, but you may be creative and attempt any design that you think would make a Blue Republic; hops, barley, coat of arms, military style patch, etc. Be creative!
Design Requirements
1. Very cool and definitely have some attitude!
2. Colors we like: Blue, White, Gray, Black, Red, Green
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6. Eye catching, on an over crowded store display shelf.
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Well I'm a Voice Actor and a Journeyman Acoustics specialist which is mainly spent around sound effects, voices, and simple music. I am currently recovering most of my material and reciving new equipment for my studio which was all lost originally in the Noreastern Hurricane Irene. I rarely ever check my own profile unless I get 30 watchers, which doesn't seem likely. If you wish to contact me please go through private messages.
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Ashton Kutcher Hospitalized after Fruitarian Diet for Steve Jobs Film
(NEW YORK) -- Ashton Kutcher was hospitalized with pancreas problems after following to a fruit-only diet to play the role of Steve Jobs for the biopic Jobs film, which premiered Friday at the Sundance Film Festival, USA Today reports.
The film claims that Jobs adhered to a fruitarian diet, which ultimately landed Kutcher in a hospital room two days before shooting the film. The actor said after the film's screening that the diet can lead to severe issues and that the "terrifying" experiencing left him "doubled over in pain," according to USA Today.
Jobs died from pancreatic cancer in October 2011.
The movie is slated for theaters in April.
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News tagged with overeating
Overeating generally refers to the long-term consumption of excess food in relation to the energy that an organism expends (or expels via excretion), leading to weight gaining and often obesity. It may be regarded as an eating disorder.
This term may also be used to refer to specific episodes of over-consumption. For example, many people overeat during festivities or while on holiday.
Overeating can sometimes be a symptom of binge eating disorder or bulimia.
In a broader sense, hyperalimentation includes excessive food administration through other means than eating, e.g. through parenteral nutrition.
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Turkey's economy minister Kemal Dervis said on Monday, April 24, his country's crisis-ridden economy was paying the price of "unbridled" global financial deregulation.
"Turkey, like many other emerging countries, is paying the economic and social price of this unbridled (international financial) deregulation," Dervis told the French daily Liberation in an interview.
He said the international community should urgently set up stricter rules on transparency and prudential standards for banks and speculators.
"It is always the same thing that happens. As soon as they think that their profits will drop, there is a flight of speculative capital," he said. "That just makes the crisis worse."
Dervis, a former World Bank vice-president, recently unveiled a new reform program aimed at revitalizing Turkey's economy, which has been embroiled in crisis since early in the year.
The new program became necessary after Ankara was forced to abandon a currency peg and float the lira on February 22 to contain a serious liquidity squeeze, triggered by fears of political instability after a fierce row at the top echelons of the state over ways to fight corruption.
The crisis was the second in four months. At the center of instability has been delay over reform of the banking system and over deregulation.
Flotation of the currency, which broke the backbone of an ambitious IMF-backed disinflation program, resulted in the lira falling some 47 percent against the dollar, price hikes on basic goods and rising inflation.
Dervis hopes through the program to win international confidence to win billions of dollars of international aid. The Dervis plan aims to cut public spending by nine percent, decrease the state's debt burden, restructure its weak banking system and speed up privatization. — (AFP, Paris)
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Jennifer Lopez is reportedly back on the block.
The accomplished actress, singer has split from longtime boyfriend Beau 'Casper' Smart, reports People Magazine.
"Jennifer and Casper have split," the source says. "They have not been together for a few weeks."
"It wasn't anything dramatic and they were on good terms – it just came to a natural end," the source adds. "They will remain friends and they see each other, but they are not together. It was very amiable."
The couple began dating in 2011.


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As explained on Userbase, Nepomuk is a promising new technology which aims to make the user's data easier to find. Not only through the now common search and indexing, but also by making use of more complex relationships between documents, contacts and all sorts of data. While the full potential of Nepomuk is still shrouded in mystery for most of us, for developers it is an exciting area of work where academic research and Free Software development come together. Nepomuk is looking for new developers, read on to find out how you can help!
The KDE team working on Nepomuk aims to bring the Semantic Desktop to KDE 4, allowing applications to share and respond intelligently to meta data about files, contacts, web pages and more. Let us make this short: Nepomuk is an important project for the future KDE desktop. Its goal is to get all the information available on the system to the user. You are receiving an email - Nepomuk should show you information relevant to related projects or persons or tasks. You look at images of a person - Nepomuk should have links to other images of that person or unanswered emails or events you met that person at. You open the video player - Nepomuk should propose to watch the next episode in the series you are currently watching.
These are all but examples of what Nepomuk should provide. It could all become reality. But for that more development power is needed.
Now is the perfect time to enter the world of the semantic desktop. We finally have a decent database back end with Virtuoso support in Soprano (instructions for testing it here). This not only improves critical issues like the memory footprint and the scalability. It also provides us with a range of new features. We can for example embed full text queries directly in SPARQL expressions. We can use aggregate functions such as COUNT or MAX. We can nest SPARQL queries. We can update data using the SPARQL update syntax. And so on. All in all handling the available data gets way more powerful and convenient.
At the same time the integration with Akonadi takes a leap. Akonadi already pushes all its contact, email, and event data into Nepomuk for us to consume and to enrich. This opens up many possibilities, ranging from tagging files, tasks and web pages with a particular contact to associating files with an event or linking a set of emails to a particular project.
Apart from that the Nepomuk playground is already full of examples and prototypes that only wait to be enhanced, re-factored, and reused.
All this information needs to be displayed and enriched via Plasma applets, application plugins, new frameworks, and most importantly your creativity. There are both simple and complex things to be done, from creating a search GUI to improving the data storage system or determining relationships between files.
If you are interested in the semantic desktop, in gathering, presenting and using this information, check out the Nepomuk project page to get an idea of what you could help with. Of course it does not stop there. You can implement your own ideas or work on the core components like improving file indexing and extraction of information. The team would love new blood and any kind of input is appreciated!
Join the Nepomuk mailing list and meet us on irc (freenode - #nepomuk-kde). We have the opportunity to be one step ahead of everybody else this time.
Intelligent relationships
Things like tagging files/emails to a particular project could really change how I work. At present I have a whole load of data files that I can often use in different projects simultaneously but I don't want to make copies for each one (they're big files). So they live in on folder under what I consider to be the main project, but that makes working with them in another project inconvenient. It would be great to be able to tag them and then find them easily or have meta-folders containing all the folders/files tagged to a particular project.
With Amarok and Digikam I don't need to care where my files actually are in the directory structure, because there are much more intelligent ways of organising them by metadata (artist, genre, date, subjects, locations). Nepomuk, I think, has the potential to bring this kind of useful organisation to other types of files (and much more than that).
So I really hope the help comes in let Nepomuk reach its potential.
By Stuart Jarvis at Thu, 2009/10/22 - 11:08pm
Isn't this something Dolphin
Isn't this something Dolphin should already be a capable of?
By kragil at Fri, 2009/10/23 - 12:02pm
SCNR and something useful
... not to mention the recent innovation of symlinking ;)
But seriously, this is something I think we could all use. Not least because a resource that is marked as related to a particular project may not be a file at all, but a contact, an email or a remote URL.
We discussed this with Sebastian at the Akonadi meeting in Berlin last weekend. Our first thought is to use the tmo:Task class from the Nepomuk project as the definition of a 'project' - since you can decompose any project into tasks and from there into subtasks, conversely, a project is just a scaled up task.
Have a look at tmo:Task and see if you think it's missing anything.
By Will Stephenson at Fri, 2009/10/23 - 2:06pm
Yeah :-)
I did think about saying "I know I could make symlinks to different folders", but I didn't. So of course, you're right :-)
From a very quick look at tmo:task it seems to have the right kind of ideas. I'll have a bit more of a look and try and think more about what I'd really want, ideally.
By Stuart Jarvis at Fri, 2009/10/23 - 4:49pm
tmo:Task types
It's so complicated now after a quick scan of Task that one should almost just make the semantic connection between obelisk, project, and elevating tag importance from a user POV. Let alone symlinks. A tag is worth spending the energy to see as a project in itself, differentiated from the historic purpose of an obelisk. We call such differentiation a project.
Files are easily elevated as projects that are effectively types of interaction. Tags are the way to get there, monikers that make sense ironically on the ball are hard to push in semantics because some demozen has a right to stand there with a cigarette in his drink and semantics off his tongue.
How do we see obelisk(s) (sem.) as opposed to sphynx (sem.) and pyramids (non-sem.)? We avoid such words as a matter for structural linguistics as professionals to show us the way through symlinks to manage our projections a little better on-disk as opposed to on-schedule. tmo:Task looks like it's proving nothing (in this description) from this professional demozen's point of view. As a reference it might prove its worth over time (not quite as old as symlinks) but not now.
By James Smith at Sun, 2009/10/25 - 6:19pm
Use tags (and other metadata) everywhere
Here is an idea (that I also suggested to N900 people):
Sample schenarios:
How to do it (as far as I can think of it):
By Stefanos Harhalakis at Mon, 2009/10/26 - 11:32am
Tags vs Ontologies
I noticed the same question was raised for digikam's metadata. It seems people have developed tag hierarchies as simple inheritance trees, given no other way to structure metadata and query it for entire sub-trees of tags. Some of these will be replaced by existing ontologies that describe the same structures. However, there will be other useful user-created structures that are not trivially replaced by existing ontologies. What will the KDE project do to support these? Will it be possible to define ontologies at runtime in the same way that a .ui file can be loaded to generate a UI? Could these be created semi-automatically from users' tag trees? What about ontology transformations between these ad-hoc ontologies and canonical ones as they are developed?
If we only offer a limited set of ontologies, I predict users will begin to project structure onto simple Nepomuk tags using '/' to preserve their investment in tag hierarchies.
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First wave of free agency? Done.
Second wave of free agency? Done. (Call it A.P. -- after Peyton.)
NFL draft? Done.
Now, where does your team stand in relation to its peers?
Well, I'll spoil the surprise and tell you the New York Giants still sit atop the board. Big Blue won seven of its last eight games against the best competition en route to the Super Bowl. The move for linebacker Keith Rivers flew under the radar, but it was a need-based maneuver that fortified one of the Giants' not-so-glaring weaknesses.
So that's No. 1. As for the rest, how does everyone stack up as compared to my last edition of the Power Rankings at the end of March?
Let the dissension commence!
The champs remain in the top spot until proven otherwise. Rookie wide receiver Rueben Randle was a heckuva bargain, and had a heckuva journey at the 2012 NFL Draft. When he sat for an interview with me, he looked like a dude whose high school girlfriend made him see "Love Actually" twice in the theater. It's tough waiting in a the green room while 62 other names get called, but Big Blue was thrilled to get first-round talent with the last pick in the second. Randle and first-round RB David Wilson only make the champs that much tougher.
It was another stellar draft for the Pats, and they still haven't stopped acquiring receivers. Now Jabar Gaffney joins Deion Branch, Wes Welker (hopefully), Brandon Lloyd, Anthony Gonzalez, Julian Edelman, Chad Ochocinco, Donte' Stallworth ... What, Hart Lee Dykes and Michael Timpson weren't available? Freddie Mitchell still around?
While writing the "team holes" pieces, I struggled with two things: 1) Typing 200 guys' names correctly on no sleep after a long draft weekend; and 2) trying to find real "holes" in Green Bay. When I mentioned that Tramon Williams has gotten worse, Packers fans came at me in droves in his defense. Consider me "aware" of his shoulder issue. This is still a great team. Saying the Packers need a better running game is akin to saying Sofia Vergara would be hotter if she had darker eyebrows.
Packers leapfrog the Niners from
the last installment of the Power Rankings due to a better draft. Yet, there are a couple of things to get to in this space:
1) A reader, "mrphil49erfan," pulled a Dr. Phil on me, pointing out that I was critically harsh on San Francisco's offensive line in my "NFC West holes to fill" take. True, it's better than viable.
2) The 49ers completely revamped a wide receiver corps that held it back in the playoffs. Randy Moss and Mario Manningham were added in free agency, then the club selected A.J. Jenkins with the 30th overall pick in the draft. The Niners went 1-for-13 on third down in the NFC Championship Game, with Michael Crabtree catching one pass all day.
Chicago might have gone for Shea McClellin a little early, but there's no question that the front line needed someone who can make plays on the edge. McClellin is an effort guy, not a speed rusher, so we'll see if his game is fast enough for the NFL. The right tackles in the NFC North are hardly considered world-beaters, unless you're one of those folks who have a Gosder Cherilus or Phil Loadholt Fathead in your room.
Much has been made of the losses of Mario Williams, Eric Winston and DeMeco Ryans in recent weeks. The last two are understandable, but Williams? Won't be missed. Houston has built a 49er-esque front seven, and what's not to love about defensive coordinator Wade Phillips getting two new toys ( Whitney Mercilus and Jared Crick) to rotate into an already formidable pass rush? The only weakness this defense has is at right inside linebacker, where Darryl Sharpton fills in for Ryans.
Terrell Suggs' injury is all the rage in Baltimore right now. The guy should've just pulled a Jeff Kent and said
he was washing his truck. Ozzie Newsome and
John Harbaugh can't be happy. This would all be mitigated if
Courtney Upshaw
Sergio Kindle stepped in and balled out. You know what the
Ravens have gotten from the former second-round pick? An all-encompassing nothing. And for all of the
Ravens fans who pointed out that tight end Ed Dickson's last name was briefly misspelled "Hickson" in
the "holes" piece, we caught it. Now if Hickson would just make the tough catches ...
Loved the Fletcher Cox pick. Mychal Kendricks, too. Awesome. Now, who's gonna keep Michael Vick healthy and on the field?
Bountygate: Medieval
Saints: Reeling.
Rest of the NFC South: Improved.
But still ...
Brees > Ryan > Cam > Freeman.
Peyton Manning gets the Broncos in the top 10. What was up with the Broncos opting out of the first round of the draft? You see, taking a guy in the first round requires cash. Literally, real money. Denver wasn't going to spend it, and was perfectly content getting extra picks. Now the question is how much of an impact can second-round DE/DT Derek Wolfe make? The thought here is plenty.
Pittsburgh takes a step up from our last rankings based on keeping Mike Wallace, as well as having a sound draft. Getting David DeCastro at 24th overall was probably the best value of the first round. He should start immediately. In fact, DeCastro and Maurkice Pouncey next to one another will be formidable for any interior defensive line. If second-rounder Mike Adams turns into a player, this will be a new-look Steeler team. The offensive line had all sorts of problems in 2011, and yet Pittsburgh went 12-4.
A big leap -- the Bengals ranked 19th the last time we spoke -- for the team that had the best draft in the NFL. Cincinnati picked up Dre Kirkpatrick at 17th overall, a move some felt the Cowboys could've (should've?) made had they kept their original 14th pick. Kevin Zeitler instantly upgrades the offensive line. Third-rounder Mohamed Sanu gives Andy Dalton a red-zone target to replace Jerome Simpson. And don't forget Devon Still, who will fit nicely in Mike Zimmer's eight-man rotation up front. With fresh legs on defense to create pressure, a tailback who doesn't cough up the ball (BenJarvus Green-Ellis) and slot receiver Jordan Shipley returning next to A.J. Green and Jermaine Gresham, why can't this team win 11 games?
The Lions made the head scratcher pick of the second round, taking WR Ryan Broyles when the team clearly had more pressing needs in other areas (offensive line, linebacker, secondary, to name a few). Making matters worse is that many analysts had Broyles as a third- or fourth-rounder. Do the two negatives cancel out, like cheating with sisters or something?
Rob pulled a Rex and started running his mouth about how good the Cowboys are going to be again. Someone should send him a stat sheet or DVD of Week 8, Cowboys at Eagles. Love Rob, but sometimes guys just gotta shut up and play ball.
The Chiefs had a good offseason in more ways than one. For starters, they're getting everybody back healthy. Second, signing Eric Winston and Kevin Boss to go along with another solid draft makes this team look like Denver's biggest threat in the AFC West. Yes, they signed Peyton Hillis, as well. They needed another slow running back to fill the Thomas Jones void.
First-round pick Kendall Wright was as happy and cool as could be at the draft. That pleasant demeanor should help while he watches Kenny Britt and Nate Washington get all his first-team reps. The more exciting pick might be Zach Brown, who could make an immediate impact on a defense somewhat devoid of playmakers.
The Falcons have morphed into a passing team, looking to ride the right arm of their fifth-year veteran behind center. It's hard to believe Matt Ryan has been in the league that long, but it's time this "franchise quarterback" takes the next step. This team has won 42 games in his first four seasons, but really has nothing to show for it. On defense, the onus falls on the pass rush, where Ray Edwards (3.5 sacks) hasn't complemented aging John Abraham the way the club envisioned.
New York's first three picks in the draft should help immediately. Quinton Coples might already be the best pass rusher on team, so long as he doesn't inherit Vernon Gholston's old locker. Stephen Hill could start right off the bat, unless Chaz Schilens forgets he's Chaz Schilens and kills it in camp. Demario Davis could start as well, with linebacker Bryan Thomas coming off an Achilles injury and Bart Scott coming off running five yards behind ball carriers all season.
If the Lions shocked people with the second-round selection of Broyles, how would you qualify the Seahawks taking Bruce Irvin in the top half of the first round? Seattle has been bold, signing Matt Flynn just days after ticking off Peyton Manning with an unannounced visit (We're here!), then making a move for a linebacker that several teams didn't think was a first-round pick. It will all work out in the end if a) Jason Jones slides up and down the line en route to 8-10 sacks, and B) Flynn plays within himself. There's no need to throw for 490 and win games on his own.
Oakland wasn't able to fill the cupboard in the draft, as the club's first pick didn't come until the very end of the third round. Carson Palmer has been geeked about running the new offensive system, and must be equally stoked to know he'll have virtually no competition at quarterback. He's elated to have Matt Leinart back as a caddie again.
Speaking of somebody trying to win games by himself, Philip Rivers did a little too much of that last season. His 20 interceptions were a result of forcing the ball to receivers, as well as an ever-changing lineup around him. Will 2012 go differently? Will Robert Meachem and Malcom Floyd start? Where do Eddie Royal, Roscoe Parrish and Micheal Spurlock fit in? A major problem for Rivers and the offense last year was the lack of continuity. Thus, Antonio Gates can't be overweight (or hurt), and at least two of the receivers need to establish themselves in the offense come preseason.
One of the tougher teams to gauge in these Power Rankings. How good are the Cardinals, really? Yes, Arizona won seven of nine to finish the 2011 campaign, but as of yet, they are undecided on a quarterback. Head coach Ken Whisenhunt needs to take a cue from himself, decide on a starter and stick with it -- like he did in the 2008 training camp, when Kurt Warner beat out the favored Matt Leinart and then took the Cards to Super Bowl XLIII. Of course, the chances of Kevin Kolb or John Skelton ever becoming Kurt Warner ...
It's so hard to type anything good about the Buffalo Bills, because they end up letting you down one way or another. But GM Buddy Nix is doing his damndest to get one of the AFL's original eight turned around. Buffalo hasn't made the playoffs since Rob Johnson was wearing Lilith Fair headbands and Lindy Ruff was coaching the Sabres. Well, Ruff is still coaching the Sabres and the Bills are still in the midst of a playoff drought -- the longest in the NFL. Hopefully, the additions of Mario Williams, Mark Anderson and Stephon Gilmore will make Buffalo a tough place for offenses to play.
Carolina chose not to grab a defensive tackle or give Steve Smith a viable No. 2 in the early rounds -- a bit of a surprise from draft weekend. What the Panthers did get is a big-time player in linebacker Luke Kuechly. The only pause here is the enormous amount of bad luck Carolina has had at linebacker. Thomas Davis can't stay healthy. The team's best player, Jon Beason, missed almost all of 2011 due to injury. Dan Morgan was a beast, but couldn't stay healthy, either. Let's hope Kuechly lines up 16 and knocks 'em down.
The retooling of the Redskins should be interesting, but this team's improvement will hinge on secondary play and the running game as much as it will on RG3. Roy Helu has to establish himself early as the guy, or else the Redskins will continue with the running-back-by-armada approach. Mike Shanahan won two Super Bowls with Terrell Davis ... not Ryan Torain, Evan Royster, Tim Hightower, Quentin Griffin, Olandis Gary, Mike Anderson, Tatum Bell, Selvin Young ... God, do I have to go on?
Who are the Bucs? Are they the club that lost the last 10 games of 2011 under Raheem Morris? Or are they a new-look team with a new head coach -- as well as new No. 1 receiver, new guard, new safety, etc. -- that can compete in a division whose champion is knee-deep in turmoil? The answer lies somewhere in between, but if the defensive line plays up to its potential, this is a completely different football team. All four players on the line were first- or second-round picks. Look no further than the Giants to see what a good front four can do for playoff hopes.
Everyone is allowed to change their mind. I saw several people immediately change their mind about taking a chance on bottom-shelf tequila while in Mexico this week. The thinking here is that the Jags' No. 32 ranking in our last power rankings was a bit harsh. GM Gene Smith did his best to solve the big issues this offseason, signing Laurent Robinson and drafting Justin Blackmon to improve the WR corps. Meanwhile, the nonexistent pass rush got a boost (in theory) when Smith drafted Andre Branch in the second round. Many around the league thought Branch would go in the first. Speaking of the first, Jacksonville won't climb any higher until last year's first-rounder, Blaine Gabbert, shows something. Anything.
The Dolphins' drop is due to a pretty bad offseason in Miami. This just in: Contrary to what you've been led to believe, Matt Moore is not an awful player. He played great down the stretch in 2009 for Carolina, only to have concussion problems in 2010 (thanks in part to porous pass protection). Last season, he threw 16 touchdowns to nine interceptions and kept the Dolphins in games. Maybe he's Mr. Right Now, but he's a viable Mr. Right Now.
GM Les Snead is doing all he can, as fast as he can. The Rams filled several voids in free agency, starting at corner with the Cortland Finnegan signing. Snead swapped with Dallas to get extra picks in the draft, drafting defensive tackle Michael Brockers and wide receiver Brian Quick with his first two picks. Then cornerback Janoris Jenkins was taken with help from the Cowboys deal. Finnegan and Jenkins comprise the biggest knucklehead CB tandem in the league. That said, teams won't be moving at will in St. Louis this season.
Brandon Weeden says he wants to start. Maybe he'll change his mind when he sees this group of receivers.
Matt Kalil and Harrison Smith were nice picks, but the concern here is starting the season without Adrian Peterson, as well as the questionable reliability of Michael Jenkins, Jerome Simpson and Percy Harvin at receiver. The corners are another issue. So is the development of Christian Ponder. So is whether or not head coach Leslie Frazier is the man for the job. We'll see.
The Colt drop to last in the rankings. Not because of a poor draft, but rather after an extended look at the depth chart. Remember the old saying "You need a program to know who any of these guys are?" Well, you need a program to know who most of these guys are.
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I sort of feel like a lab rat I once saw on a Discovery Channel special about gambling. Keep checking the site daily (or more), and you'll see new comics enough to keep coming back.
Today.... PAYOFF!
Now if I can just figure out how to do the extended letters so I can get a translation of the French comic. I only have a vague idea about an old farmer and a bus....
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Smackdown in Chi-Town
Milwaukee Iron Comparo
It is cliché, but it is also generally true: you can only compare a Harley to another Harley. Comparisons to other brands usually miss the point. Harleys are not bikes sold from the specification sheet. Rather they are desired, dreamed about, and obsessed over. The purchase of a Harley is never a rational purchase, at least to the extent that any motorcycle purchase is. Riding a Harley-Davidson addresses an emotional need, one that is shared with generations of riders. As a result, the copycats come off looking a bit anemic. Imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, but it makes for weak motorcycles. Maybe not from a specification standpoint, but they do lack passion and authenticity.
On the other hand, buying a Harley does not enter you into any kind of brotherhood. You're a fool if you think it does. Nor does it make you a rebel or an independent spirit. You've either got that in you or you don't. If you're an insecure, arrogant prick when you go into the dealership, you're an insecure, arrogant prick on a Harley when you leave. What Harley does offer the buyer is a solid, classic motorcycle with real history; a history that you can -- in some way -- feel a part of. One that is both good and bad, gritty and sad, inspiring and depressing. How that history informs your riding experience is up to you.
So we're agreed that Harleys can only be compared to one another. Let's start comparing. Your humble servants at MO have set up the battle royale of the Juneau Avenue product line; a Milwaukee iron cage fight, if you will. Something we like to call "Smackdown in Chitown."
Three engines
Four displacements
Five frames
It's a great time to buy a Harley-Davidson. The long lines are gone. Most models are available on demand and added dealer mark ups (aka. gouging) need not be tolerated. Reliability is rock solid, as is resale value. Plus H-D offers the most diverse line of motorcycles in their history. By the numbers:
But which one to buy? That's where MO comes in. We suffer so you don't have to. We started to pare our choices down by tossing out the big touring bikes. If you need an Electra Glide, you need an Electra Glide; nothing else will address that Jones. Then we threw out the chrome poser wagons known as Softails, the bikes we all love to hate. That leaves us with three frames, three engines and four displacements. Just to make things even we eliminated the smaller displacement Sportster from the mix, which left us with a perfect three-three-three.
Next we had to pick from the many models within each platform. From the Rod family we picked the new-for-2006 Night Rod, from the Sporty line a 1200R Roadster and a new Dyna Street Bob rounded out the group. We conducted the comparison in the Midwest: Evo Don's town of Chicago to be precise. We enlisted Longride from down the street and asked Gabe to fly out to the Windy City from his Oakland, CA home.
To put the bikes through their paces we tried to hit them with everything a typical rider would. We took the bikes through downtown Chicago on city streets, back alleys and scenic Lake Shore Drive - from the Museum of Science and Industry in the South to Wrigley Field up north. Then we headed out onto 80 mph toll roads and into the suburbs - we even went to Home Depot and a few dozen Starbucks, all the time dodging SUV drivers. Finally, your intrepid motojournalists rode all the way down to the Peoria TT dirt track race on two-lane country roads. We watched the race and then tried to hotwire a few bikes. Sound like a typical week of riding in your neck of the woods? Thought so!
What about test criteria? How do we judge these bikes against one another? Do we focus on fit and finish? Reliability? Comfort? Performance? Sex appeal? How about all of those distilled down to the essential: "What would you buy with your own money?"
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|FXD (Dyna Glide)
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What bike would you want to live with, commute on, and work on? Here's how we answered that question.
Third Place VRSCD Night Rod
With a motorcycle, as its very name implies, the motor is the thing. The powerplant makes or breaks a great bike. A great engine can excuse a multitude on shortcomings in suspension, handling, and comfort. If a rider falls in love with an engine, the rest of the motorcycle is just so much metal. The Revolution is just such an engine. It is a monster. It has a great vibe and gives you wonderful feedback. It's delightfully powerful and always predictable in its delivery of grunt, not to mention an amazing exhaust note when you get on it.
Luckily the V-Rod chassis needs no excuses. Stiff is the word. Long and low are a couple others. The VRSCs are unique motorcycle animals. Not really cruisers, not sport bikes, but with elements of both. The original V-Rod had forward controls and a mondo rake; great for cruising but poor for turning. The second VRSC was the Street Rod. It dialed up the performance with upside down forks, a tighter rake and well-positioned foot pegs. This time around the Night Rod lands somewhere in between the other two. We think the result is the best combination yet.
While the Night Rod rides quite differently from the V-Rod, the specs don't seem to bear that impression out. Looking at the table, the Night Rod is basically a V-Rod with mid-mounted controls. But that change in riding position makes a world of difference. It should be noted however, that even though the lean angles are listed as identical, the mid controls position your foot to hit the ground well before the pegs. So unless you like riding with your boot on top of your shift lever, you have even less usable lean angle on the Night Rod.
The low-slung, dragster look draws J.Q. Public like a bug zapper. During the test, there were many queries as to how the Night Rod rides, how much it costs, and then the interrogators would tell us how they would really like to get one. The Rod brothers are all attention getters, but Night seems to draw the most attention.
The brakes are all Brembo. One-finger Italian stopping power is always a good idea. Riding the Night Rod is a wonderful experience. The bars are low and a bit forward and, combined with the stepped seat, put you in a perfect riding position for anything from cruising to blasting down the freeway.
The power really comes on at four grand. Below that mark some lean fuel mixture stumbles creep in. A Power Commander and freer-flowing pipes would do amazing things to this already powerful machine. The seat is comfy enough to place your behind for a tank full of miles, mostly because that tank of petrol won't get you too far. After about 100 miles you need to look for a fill up, pronto. If you like to twist the throttle hard -- and you will enjoy that on this one -- you might start looking a few miles earlier.
It has its pegs under the seat in the traditional position, as well as a set of highway pegs for stretching your legs. And stretch them you will at times, because with that low seat, the legroom is short and the cornering clearance is, too. With those low pegs there is just no way to get all the way to the edges of the 190 rear tire without some hard parts seriously throwing sparks. We never felt very comfortable cornering hard because there is no spare lean angle on this Rod. The toes on your boots are the first things that touch, and then the frame isn't far behind. If aggressive cornering and carving is your thing, the Night Rod isn't your best choice; brother Street addresses that need. However, for everyday riding it's a good choice.
|Gabe's Impressive Table of Impressions
Styling/Build Quality: Painting the aluminum parts on this bike is a visual mistake; it looks too bland and generic. The bare aluminum on the original V-Rod gave the bike a visual center to bring the eye to; this bike just looks like a big, long cruiser. Build quality, fit and finish and attention to detail are all world class. Touches like the freeway pegs and bikini faring are slick and well-appreciated.
Ergos/Controls: The bike is actually as comfortable and easy to sit on as most any other cruiser, horror stories about the V-Rod aside. The mid-mount controls and low seat create a jockey-like riding situation, but if you are jockey-sized (like me!) it's actually pretty nice, although even my knees started to cramp after a while. Firefighter-sized people might want a bike with forward controls. The fairing and low bars actually provide a little wind protection to 80 mpg.
Motor/Transmission: Compared to any other brand of motorcycle, this motor is pretty nice, a good compromise between a screaming top-end racer and a chugging tractor. Compared to air-cooled Harley motors, it's flabbergasting.
It is smooth, perfectly fueled and makes an amazing amount of power. This powerplant has tremendous potential and I can't wait to see what else the Motor Co. does with it. My only complaint is the amazing amount of heat that bakes your right leg at stops.
Handling: It's long and low and lacks cornering clearance but it does have a rigid chassis, so it holds its line well. Like the other bikes, it's slow steering, but with modern wheels and tires it's quicker and easier than its bros.
Suspension/Ride Quality: The front is good (although the extreme rake minimizes the advantages of the giant forks), but the rear is typical cruiser; not so much travel and harsh over bumps and expansion joints.
Braking: Like the motor, the brakes are good enough to check the name on the tank. These triple Brembos have enough power and sensitivity for a mere single-finger stop, although stoppies might be unobtainable for now.
Observed fuel economy: Highway 40.79 mpg, City 34.13 mpg
Evo Don's last word: While it is clearly the most advanced and powerful bike in the group (and I want one), the sticker shock of the Night Rod killed its chances against this competition.


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How to Deliver the Post-Game Talk as a Baseball Coach
As a baseball coach, you enjoy when your team wins and suffer when they lose. Win or lose, though, you need to talk to your players after the game. After the baseball game is over, your post-game talk should cover the following points:
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The Regal Entertainment Group announced on Friday [5] that the online demand-driven documentary Girl Rising will make encore showings in Regal and Regal-owned United Artists and Edwards Theatres sites across the US from Apr 19-25.
The film, produced by girls' empowerment campaign 10x10, focuses on nine girls from nine countries striving to push their own limits in using education as a tool to change the world.
Girl Rising came to public attention through its crowdsourcing approach, in which respondents successfully utilised online resource and distributor Gathr to commit to buy at least 100 tickets per screening, securing theatrical placement.
"We've eradicated the risk of (opening a movie in theatres)," said Gathr CEO Scott Glosserman. "We have presented to the people a way for them to demonstrate their demand. That alone has changed theatrical distribution overnight. It has totally flipped. We've basically democratised theatrical distribution… that's the way we look at it."
"Regal recognises the intense interest by American moviegoers demanding that this film be seen in their local communities," added Regal CEO Amy Miles.
Over the Mar 7 opening weekend Girl Rising grossed an estimated $250,000 and has gone on to earn approximately $730,000 from 73,824 ticket sales.
Girl Rising features narration from Cate Blanchett, Priyanka Chopra, Selena Gomez, Anne Hathaway, Salma Hayek, Alicia Keys, Chloë Moretz, Liam Neeson, Freida Pinto, Meryl Streep and Kerry Washington.
"We have been overwhelmed by the incredible response to Girl Rising," said director Richard E Robbins. "Around the country, thousands of people have brought Girl Rising to their local theatres with on-demand screenings.
"Now, Regal Cinemas is making this film – and the stories of these nine incredible girls – available to anyone who wants to see it. The more people who witness the impact of education on girls' lives, the closer we get to driving change and getting girls into school."


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On January 17, the PEAT Think Tank held an in-person meeting with leadership from the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP). Based on an in-depth analysis of insights gathered at the meeting, PEAT has distilled a set of potential action steps that PEAT, DOL, and other organizations can use to prioritize emerging and prospective efforts around advancing accessible technology and employment.
PEAT's 2017 Think Tank meeting explored key issues related to accessible workplace technology through working groups and rich facilitated discussions with 63 participants representing industry, government, academia, and the disability community. The event generated several tangible recommendations for closing the accessible technology skills gap, expanding government apprenticeship and workforce programs for people with disabilities, and encouraging the development of accessible products.
Paul Schroeder, Aira Director of Public Policy & Strategic Alliances, discusses how emerging technologies are shaping the landscape of employment for people with vision loss, and other disabilities.
In recent years Facebook has become a tool for professional networking and on-the-job workplace productivity through its enterprise collaboration software, Workplace. In this webinar, Director of Accessibility Jeff Wieland and Director of Policy Monica Desai discuss why and how Facebook has made accessibility a priority.
In this webinar, Jennifer Ravalli of ADP and Dan Sullivan of AudioEye discuss how they have worked to make ADP's human capital management (HCM) software more accessible for employees with disabilities.
Learn how educational institutions are bridging the hiring gap for new graduates with disabilities by educating HR professionals online about common barriers to access. Rachel Kerrigan discusses how Perkins School for the Blind and Harvard Extension School have partnered to provide a free online course titled "Introduction to Inclusive Talent Acquisition" for hiring managers and recruiters. The curriculum includes PEAT's own TalentWorks tool, which provides key resources to help employers make their eRecruiting technologies accessible.
Jenny Lay-Flurrie, the Chief Accessibility Officer of Microsoft, shares valuable guidance on creating a workplace culture focused on access and inclusion.
In this webinar Rob Sinclair, President of the IAAP Global Leadership Team, discusses the mission of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP) and how its recently announced merger with G3ict will help encourage the growth of a worldwide accessibility profession.
According to a new survey report by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), 84% of organizations are now using social media for recruiting, up from 56% in 2011. These survey results add detail and paint a picture of what has become obvious: more and more, employers are posting job openings and information for job seekers on social media. And when these posts are not accessible, employers may be missing out on top talent.
Do you post job openings on Twitter and Instagram, or use LinkedIn to vet candidates? Today, 79% of job seekers use social media to locate job opportunities. In this webinar, digital marketer Eliza Greenwood will discuss steps to ensure that your social media recruiting efforts for active and passive talent can successfully reach candidates with disabilities.
One of the great promises of technology is that it can, and should, open the doors for people with disabilities to participate in the workplace by eliminating barriers. But when Deque web accessibility consultant and strategist Denis Boudreau investigated the basic accessibility of five top job hunting sites, the results were grim.
Good afternoon everybody. It's 2:00 o'clock so we're going to go ahead and get started. Hello, and welcome to our webinar today, introducing the new PEAT resource TalentWorks. We're very excited you've joined us. My name is Josh Christianson. I'm the project director of PEAT, and I'm joined today by Joiwind Ronen, who has been involved with PEAT in a variety of roles for a few years now and played an instrumental role in developing TalentWorks, and she will be giving us a tour of the resource a little bit later.
Deputy Secretary of Labor Chris Lu discusses his takeaways from meeting with the great Stevie Wonder and hundreds of other dedicated leading accessibility "stars" at last month's International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN). As he notes, "our commitment to accessible technology is about basic civil rights, as well as the collective productivity of America's workforce...employers, technology vendors and tech users with disabilities must all work together to raise awareness and educate one another about accessible workplace technology issues, most of which can be easily solved."
Hello and welcome to PEAT Talks, the virtual speaker series from the Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology. On every third Thursday of the month, PEAT Talks showcases various organizations on individuals whose work and innovations are advancing accessible technology in the workplace. My name is Christa Beal. I'm a member of the PEAT Team and I'll be hosting today's talk.
As businesses compete to attract talented, skilled employees, it's important to make sure that artificial barriers aren't blocking their path. In this cautionary tale, Sassy Outwater explains how employers may be missing out on top candidates when their online hiring and recruiting systems aren't accessible.
>>Hello, and welcome to PEAT Talks, the virtual speaker series from the Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology. On every third Thursday of the month, PEAT Talks showcases various organizations and individuals whose work and innovations are advancing accessible technology in the workplace. My name is Christa Beal. I'm a member of the PEAT team and I'll be hosting this today's talk.
The terms "accessibility" and "universal design" are often used together these days. But what is actually meant by these two terms? Sina Bahram, a digital accessibility expert, broke it down for us at our January PEAT Talk.
Interested in why accessible eRecruiting tools make sense, and how to implement? Join Denis Boudreau, senior web accessibility consultant for Deque, to learn the simple steps that web developers and designers can take to ensure that job seekers with disabilities are not excluded from employment opportunities.
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The title of "Runner Runner," a drama set in the world of online gambling, refers to a term of art in poker, defined by Wikipedia as a circumstance in which a hand is made by drawing two consecutive cards on the turn and river and . . . oh, forget it. Are your eyes glazing over? Mine, too. When it comes to this movie and the other direction, run run — don't walk walk.
A dreary, perfunctory amorality tale that isn't ashamed to sneak in admiring winks at the world it pretends to scorn, "Runner Runner" stars Justin Timberlake as Richie, an online poker whiz who is paying his way through Princeton when he encounters a cheater on the Web site that pays him to recruit new players. No sooner does Richie twig what's going on than — hey, presto! — he's on a plane to Costa Rica, where he intends to confront the site's chief, a Gatsbyesque figure named Ivan Block (Ben Affleck). Impressed by the younger man's gumption, Ivan persuades Richie to stay and work for him as tummler, foil, enforcer and, finally, useful idiot when the U.S. feds come a-knockin'.
Written by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, presumably by cobbling together remnants of their far better 1998 "Rounders" script, "Runner Runner" is a talky, inert enterprise, composed mostly of Timberlake spouting statistics, percentages and poker jargon while Affleck affects the too-cool air of a cyber-era mob boss too genteel to get his hands really dirty. Director Brad Furman — who made the terrific and underseen 2011 thriller "The Lincoln Lawyer" — hops from one scene to another with cartoonish alacrity, blithely glossing over details like logic and motivation to put his characters where they need to be in order to get to yet the next pat, too-tidy scene. (Early in the film, Richie needs to talk Ivan's beautiful assistant, played by Gemma Arterton, into letting him into an exclusive, decadent party — a song and dance we can assume must have been brilliant, considering that he's walking through said soiree just moments later.)
Affleck's nasty, natty crime lord is the one vivid character to pop out from an otherwise humdrum exercise: The filmmakers apparently want viewers to take it on faith that Costa Rica is tantamount to the 21st-century version of Batista-era Cuba, without conveying a scintilla of genuine atmosphere, danger or tawdry glamour. The one exception might have been that over-the-top party, which here looks like it was filmed in a back yard in Los Angeles's Hancock Park.
Timberlake has been good in movies ("Black Snake Moan," "The Social Network" and the upcoming "Inside Llewyn Davis" are just three examples), but here he takes on the by-the-numbers blandness of his formulaic surroundings. The film might take its name from poker subculture, but it lacks all the urgency, single-mindedness and swiftness that the title implies at its most literal. "Runner Runner" is a bummer. Bummer.
(91 minutes, at area theaters) is rated R for profanity and some sexual content.