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Early on 31 December 1862, the pride of the U.S. Navy, the Monitor, was about to die. For several hours, her crew had fought to keep the ship afloat amid a foaming sea whipped by wind into waves that topped the Monitor's solid iron decks and washed around her solitary turret. The seas struck the turret "with a force to make it tremble," according to Paymaster William F. Keeler. Landsman Francis Butts, standing atop the structure, later wrote that the waves "would leap upon us and break far above the turret" with "a shock that would sometimes take us off our feet."
Two days earlier the Monitor had departed Hampton Roads, Virginia, under tow by the steamship Rhode Island, en route to Beaufort, North Carolina. By the evening of 30 December, the two ships were passing Cape Hatteras and heading into a storm. As the evening progressed, the wind increased and the seas grew heavier. The Monitor, with a low freeboard of only 18 inches, no longer rode the waves but plunged through them. Water began to pour down from the turret into the ship. Overpowering the bilge pumps, the flooding steadily increased through the hours to cover the engine-room floor plates and inch toward the boiler fires.
Just after 2230, Commander John Bankhead, the Monitor's captain, gave the order to hoist a red lantern to signal the ironclad's distress to the Rhode Island. He also ordered the towline cut. One hawser had parted in the heavy seas at 1930; the remaining line served only to impede the Monitor as she yawed and jerked on it. Three men—Master Louis Stodder, Boatswain's Mate Wells Wentz (who had shipped under the alias John Stocking), and Quarter Gunner James Fenwick—fought their way forward through heavy seas to the bow with axes in hand. The waves swept Wentz and Fenwick into the sea, drowning them. Stodder, clinging to a lifeline, managed to sever the hawser and return to the turret.
With his vessel in danger of sinking, Bankhead ordered abandon ship, and Commander Stephen Trenchard had the Rhode Island's first cutter and launch lowered to take off the Monitor's men. While the steamer's boats made their way across the water, men heroically struggling at the oars, the Monitor's crew gathered in the turret to await rescue. Once the boats arrived, some men, racing across the flooded deck to board them, were pitched overboard. Paymaster Keeler noted later in a letter to his wife that he had heard through the wind and waves "the bubbling cry of some strong Swimmer in his agony" as officers shouted "hoarse orders through the speaking trumpets."
Soon after 2330, the sea reached the fires inside the engine room, and the Monitor's mighty iron heart slowed and stopped. As the ship heaved and rolled, Bankhead ordered the anchor dropped in an attempt to allow his vessel to ride more smoothly. Climbing into a boat that had once again approached, Bankhead and more of the crew looked up to see "several men still left upon and in the turret who, either stupefied by fear or fearful of being washed overboard . . . would not come down." After discharging his overloaded boat, Rhode Island Acting Master's Mate D. Rodney Browne took half of his crew and rowed back for the last of the Monitor's men. At about 0100 on 31 December, they arrived where she had last been seen but found only an eddy on the surface.
The Monitor, filling with water, had capsized, sinking by the stern as the heavy turret, held in place only by gravity, slipped off the deck, overturned, and sank. The crewmen who had stayed on top were swept into the sea, but inside the turret, two men, perhaps struggling to climb the ladder to the top, were knocked off their feet. They fell onto the overturned roof as the massive Dahlgren guns, loose gear, and the cold sea followed, pinning them down. After the flooded structure hit the seabed, the Monitor's hull followed, coming to rest atop the turret as tons of coal poured from the ship's bunkers, sealing the two men in an iron tomb.
Discovery off Cape Hatteras
The ironclad's quick construction, epic battle with the CSS Virginia off Hampton Roads on 9 March 1862, and loss less than a year after her launching had made the Monitor a national icon. The Union mourned her sinking and the loss of 16 crew members—4 officers and 12 enlisted men. As a century passed, America never forgot the Monitor, and expeditions by the U.S. Navy and private organizations searched for the sunken ironclad. In August 1973, a team from Duke University Marine Laboratory, headed by John G. Newton, Robert E. Sheridan, Harold E. "Doc" Edgerton, and Gordon P. Watts Jr., on board the research vessel Eastward, succeeded in pinpointing the wreck in 235 feet of water 16 miles off Cape Hatteras Light. The 7 March 1974 announcement of the Monitor's rediscovery made national headlines. It also sparked a four-decade-long quest to protect, preserve, and study the wreck, and to share its story with the public.
The Monitor site was named the nation's first National Marine Sanctuary in January 1975; it was also listed in the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a National Historic Landmark. Under the auspices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, the Monitor has been successively documented, analyzed, and partially excavated. At the request of Congress, NOAA, working with the U.S. Navy, would raise the ship's anchor, engine, propeller, and turret from the seabed. The recovered machinery and many artifacts now reside in the USS Monitor Center at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia, many of them undergoing conservation treatment after nearly a century and a half in the sea.
The turret was the last major piece of the Monitor that was recovered, and raising it involved the combined efforts of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, the Navy Supervisor of Salvage (SUPSALV), Naval Sea Systems Command, Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) TWO, Phoenix International Ltd., The Mariners' Museum, Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock, and the U.S. Coast Guard. The 2002 expedition was led by Captain Chris Murray (SUPSALV) and Captain (Select) Bobbie Scholley (MDSU TWO). It included Sanctuary superintendent and archaeologist John D. Broadwater, who had been NOAA's lead contact on the Monitor project since the wreck's discovery.
Working on the bottom, Navy saturation divers removed the deteriorated armor-belt and hull structure pinning the turret to the seabed, braced the Monitor's hull, and began partially excavating the silt-filled turret as it lay exposed, upside down, on the seabed.
Inside a 'Damp Tomb'
On 26 July, Senior Chief Wade Bingham uncovered a bone as he slowly removed silt from inside the turret. NOAA archaeologists, joined by archaeologist Eric Emery from the Honolulu laboratory of what is now the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), confirmed that the bone was human. Over the next few days, they carefully excavated and removed much of the skeleton, which was rusted into the roof of the turret, to allow the recovery work to continue. With the remaining bones protected by plastic and sandbags, the turret was readied for its lift. A massive steel "spider" encompassed and grabbed the steel structure, which was partially filled with coal and sediment and weighed several hundred tons. At 1730 on August 5, the turret broke the surface and within minutes was safe on the deck of the crane barge Wotan.
As the Wotan approached the shore with her precious cargo, Broadwater, along with NOAA's Jeff Johnston and Wayne Lusardi, prepared to enter the turret through the hatch that had once been on its roof, to recover the remaining bones of the skeleton. Broadwater, the first to go in, recalled that he stopped in awe in the entrance to what he described as a "damp tomb." At eye level, he saw the remaining skeletal remains of "a sailor who had not escaped. All sensations of the barge's motion disappeared, along with all thoughts of the two people behind me, a flood of emotions and questions filled my head."
Some answers to what had happened in the turret were forthcoming as its excavation later uncovered the sailor's boots, still on his feet, and then the articulated, laid-out remains of another sailor lying beneath the first body. Personal effects soon appeared, too: a gold ring on the finger of the first sailor's right hand; a rubber comb, stamped "US Navy," in one of the boots; badly corroded coins; a silver spoon that likely had been in the first sailor's pocket; and glass and rubber buttons from both enlisted men's frocks and overcoats. Eric Emery worked closely with the team as they carefully removed all the bones of the two Monitor sailors and prepared the remains for shipment to JPAC's laboratories in Honolulu. NOAA and Mariners' Museum archaeologists and conservators would excavate and recover some 400 artifacts before the cleared turret began its decades-long bath in a preservative solution in preparation for eventual public display.
Over the next decade, JPAC's team of forensic scientists carefully analyzed the remains of the two men, designated as Monitor #1 and Monitor #2. Mitochondrial DNA was obtained from the remains, and a quest to find descendants of the 16 Monitor officers and men lost that December night began in order to try to obtain a DNA match. The skulls were carefully scanned with a three-dimensional laser, and casts were made to guide an eventual facial reconstruction. The remains were studied to determine the men's race, age, height, and any injuries or diseases they had suffered during their lifetimes. Chemical analysis of their bones indicated both men were likely European immigrants. They were Caucasians, Monitor #1 between the ages of 17 and 24, and Monitor #2 between the ages of 30 and 40. The older man had suffered injuries in his lifetime, including a broken nose.
At the same time the forensic work took place, genealogists and historians from NOAA and The Mariners' Museum as well as dedicated volunteers scoured archives and contacted descendants of the ironclad's crew to learn more about all of the sailors, and especially the lost 16. Historian John V. Quarstein's 2011 book, The Monitor Boys (History Press), helps share some of the stories. Building on that and exceptional work by USS Monitor Center Chief Curator Anna Gibson Holloway, NOAA genealogist Lisa Stansbury conducted an exhaustive search in immigration papers; naval pension requests; census, birth, marriage, and death records; and a host of other sources to learn more not only about the lost 16 but also their surviving families.
Stansbury's work was helpful in determining more descendants for possible DNA testing; it also demonstrated, in often poignant detail, the impact the deaths had on their families. Her research tied together the family history of one of the young officers who died, Third Assistant Engineer Samuel Auge Lewis, and she discovered the service and medical records of First Class Fireman Robert Williams. In the case of First Class Fireman Thomas Joice, Stansbury found that his widow lost her pension due to remarriage, spent her last days in a poor house, and in 1908 was buried in an unmarked grave.
Another heart-tugging set of records are the requests for a pension by the mother of Landsman Daniel Moore. A freed slave, Moore helped support his mother, and his death meant her continued labor as a domestic servant until the pension came through. The original document records Mrs. Moore's mark; as a slave, she had never learned to write.
Despite the excellent genealogical research and the evidence obtained from the two men's remains, the quest to positively identify them remains elusive. But in 2012, Louisiana State University's Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services laboratory completed clay facial reconstructions of the two sailors. The models, built up over casts of the skulls, were then photographed and lifelike skin, eyes, and hair digitally added. Extremely fragile, the reconstructions were carefully transported by UPS at no cost to Washington, D.C., for a national unveiling at the U.S. Navy Memorial just prior to the 150th anniversary of Monitor's battle with the Virginia.
The unveiling of the two faces in a very tangible way helped reconnect Americans with the fact that these two men were more than a pair of remains in a laboratory; they were once alive. Moreover, they were members of a shipboard family, the Monitor's crew, who had served, fought, and died with their ship.
Final Resting Place
NOAA, and particularly Director of the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries Daniel J. Basta, and Navy reservist and Superintendent of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary David W. Alberg, firmly believed that these two sailors deserved to be honored with burial at Arlington National Cemetery. In early 2013, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus concurred and ordered the men to be interred at Arlington in time for the 151st anniversary of the Monitor-Virginia fight.
Alberg joined the military escort that met in Honolulu to escort the Monitor sailors to Arlington. Carefully wrapped, and with freshly pressed enlisted dress blues of the World War II–era Navy laid inside their caskets, the two sailors flew in the hold of a Delta commercial flight from Honolulu to Atlanta and then to Dulles International Airport, outside Washington. On 8 March, the anniversary of the Monitor's entry into Hampton Roads the evening before her fight with the Virginia, descendants of the Union ironclad's crew gathered for a lunch and later, along with hundreds of servicemen, dignitaries, and members of the public, attended a funeral service at Fort Myer Memorial Chapel.
Loaded onto horse-drawn caissons, the flag-draped caskets then slowly rolled through Arlington National Cemetery to the grave site, close to the resting place of men lost when the battleship Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. Before a crowd of thousands, the formal burial ceremony began as the sun sank low in the sky on a cold, blustery day. With a crack of 21 rifles and the sounding of "Taps," the two sailors, perhaps the last Civil War naval dead our country will ever inter, were laid to rest.


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The company made the announcement last week on the first day of the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) show in San Francisco.
"As the TRX Suspension Trainer grew in prominence, it became more and more evident that the TRX name offered strategic benefits and brand-building value that we could not ignore," Randy Hetrick, founder and CEO of TRX, said in a statement. "The success of our flagship product has allowed the TRX brand name to embody the spirit of innovation. As we embark on an era of expansion into more and more functional fitness solutions, the name change simply makes sense."
Hetrick and TRX hosted a reception Wednesday night at its new headquarters in downtown San Francisco. The TRX offices include a training room on the sixth floor, complete with a view of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the east. Construction is under way on the roof of the TRX headquarters for an outdoor training area with a 360-degree view of the city.
The rebranding announcement follows a recent purchase of 24,000 TRX Suspension Trainers by the United States Department of Defense, which distributed them to deploying U.S. military brigades and battalions. The purchase marks a return to TRX's roots. Hetrick is a former U.S. Navy SEAL and invented the suspension trainer as he and his Navy SEAL teammates improvised ways to stay fit on covert missions.
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The Louisiana flood of 1927 lives on in song (Randy Newman's "Louisiana 1927" being only the most recent), but seems largely to have been forgotten. As we struggle to deal with the greatest of our natural disasters, now may be the time to recall what was our greatest natural disaster until then. Events of the day bring to mind John Barry's 1998 book Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. An interview with Barry about the 1927 flood is available here.
UPATE: Chris McVey demurs:
I must take issue with Scott's characterization of Katrina – "the greatest of our natural disasters."
Galveston. 1900. Category 4 hurricane. No warning. 8,000 dead. You can look it up.
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Thank you for mentioning that great book, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America, in your blog today. I have thought of that book several times this week as I have watched Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent flooding.
I read that book several years ago and was thoroughly fascinated with the Great Flood of 1927 and how it changed life in Mississippi and Louisiana. I think some of the political finger pointing that is revealed in that book will soon come to the forefront in this event.
One of the unspoken issues in 2005 is that Mr. Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi, is not liked by the mainsteam media (MSM) because he is a white, male, Southern accented, Republican governor who was formerly head of the national Republican party and big Bush booster. I think he will be treated very differently by the MSM than the white, female, Cajun accented, Democratic governor of Louisiana.


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Peter Griesar: Life in his own superfast lane
Put musician Peter Griesar alone under the glaring lights of the Hot Seat, and he clams up. But in a one-on-one interrogation, the words pour out of him more like a flood than a stream of consciousness. In fact, Griesar, who released his album Superfastgo last February, has so much to say.
Between swallows of margarita, and waving a tortilla chip for emphasis, Griesar jumps from discussing how UVA's fraternity system no longer deserves derision, to declaring he has great hopes for the Bush twins' political future, to complaining about the New York blackout hype, given that his own power goes out a few times a day.
Suddenly, he stops mid-sentence and gestures toward a gray-haired woman in a purple dress who's carrying a huge red-feathered hat. "Where do you think," he exclaims, "she's coming from?"
This is classic Griesar. He revels in the here and now. Talking about the past is relevant only in the context of the present. When Griesar explains how he originally came to Charlottesville in 1987 as a first-year UVA student from Dobb's Ferry, New York, he quickly points out, "I was in the same school system as Puff Daddy and Moby."
Currently consumed with recording a new album at his Esmont home studio, Griesar wants to revisit making Superfastgo about as much as he wants to discuss ancient history. He's oblivious to how much airplay the CD is getting.
"It was playing in March on 130 or some such radio stations," he says, "but beyond that I don't really know." He hasn't even heard WNRN's "It's Peter Griesar!" promotion, asking wide-eyed, "No, do they really say that?"
Forgive his ignorance; Griesar isn't getting out much these days. Skinny like someone whose energy needle stays in the red zone, he's wrapped up in writing every lyric, playing every instrument, and mixing every rough cut for his new album.
"Honestly, I could not live this way my whole life. It's definitely too obsessive, and it's not healthy," he admits. "I will forget to eat, drink, piss, shit, do sort of normal bodily activities, maintain relationships with people who are important to me, all kinds of things."
Although his self-absorbed approach to music is draining, Griesar views it as a lost art. "What I do is not unnatural or dangerous or wrong," he says. "It's just an anachronism in this modern American society, where most people don't give themselves the opportunity to follow their heart for days, weeks, months."
Griesar speculates he's about two-thirds of the way through his current project. When will it be done? "When I feel like I have to hit the reset button on my brain or my body for survival's sake," he says, laughing. "At that point it's probably over."
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Most overrated virtue? Virtue
What would people be surprised to know about you? I have four chickens: Curtis, Wifey, Booty, and Ecstasy.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I'd like to be able to fly. That would be cool.
What accomplishment are you proudest of? Learning to do what I wish.
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Favorite book? Telephone
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The cost of battling emerald ash borers that are wiping out ash trees across the region is adding up.
Municipalities are spending thousands of dollars to remove and replace trees ravaged by the metallic-green beetle. They're saving trees they can and preventing hazardous conditions around the ones that are the most severely damaged.
"They have no choice but to spend the money on it because otherwise it becomes a huge liability," said Julieann Heminghous, emerald ash borer outreach coordinator for the state.
Financially, it is more sound to remove trees before they fall and damage property or injure or kill someone, she said.
The beetle covers more than 40 percent of the state in as many as 39 counties, experts said. Only the western edge of the state is beetle-free.
The tree killer arrived near Detroit in 2002, most likely in wood-packing materials on cargo ships or planes from Asia, experts said. It was found in Kane County four years later.
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"The only way this could have been prevented was more stringent regulations on wood products and treatment to avoid that first beetle hitchhiking over to the U.S.," Heminghous said. "The devastation of our canopies is greater because we have such a high concentration of ash trees."
Municipalities and developers stockpiled ash trees early on because of their hardiness and ability to grow quickly.
They also cost less, which explains why tree diversity isn't what it could be.
"This will be a considerable loss to our canopy and will take years to recover," Public Works Director Cris Papierniak said. "Diversity was not a consideration when subdivisions were first built, and some streets will have a severe impact while others will not notice the infestation."
The 1,800 ash trees in the village of Cary are 28 percent of the trees on public right of way. Eighty-five percent of those are showing signs of ash borer infestation, and crews so far have removed 450 of them.
"Diversity is the key," said Scott Schirmer, ash borer program manager with the Illinois Department of Agriculture. "We will be able to avoid significant losses if different trees are planted."
The village budgeted $87,500 this year for its 50/50 replacement program in which trees are removed for free and the replacement costs are split between the village and residents, Papierniak said. The total budget impact of infestation is estimated at $1.5 million.
Ash borers also have left a mark on the village of Algonquin, where more than 34 percent of ash trees on public parkways are infected, parks Superintendent Steve Ludwig said. The village has removed 2,249 trees since 2006, and 190 more are on a removal list.
The village will spend around $90,000 this year to remove and replace ash trees. It would have cost millions, Ludwig said, if the village had contracted out the tree work rather than doing it itself.
"The challenge is to keep up, because if we do nothing, we are going to have dead-standing hazardous trees coming down," Ludwig said. "That would cost more in hazard mitigation and lawsuits" than dealing with the infected trees in the first place, he said.
Elsewhere in the county, there are more than 1,000 infested trees in Lake in the Hills and 500 in Crystal Lake.
Officials from each town are doing what they can to replace as many trees as possible.
At $300 to $400 a pop to remove and replace a tree, crews have to work within budget guidelines, said Rob Caldwell, arborist in Lake in the Hills.
"We have been able to keep up with removal and replacement, but with the numbers growing, it is going to be difficult," he said. "Future problems could arise financially."
Crystal Lake recently spent $124,000 on a forestry division bucket truck that has improved the efficiency of in-house tree removal. The city has taken out 97 ash trees to date.
The thousands of infected ash trees on private property are up to homeowners, who can inject or soil-drench the trees with insecticides or have the trees removed or replaced at their own expense.
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Best Medical International Inc., a Virginia corporation, filed suit for patent infringement in the Western District of Pennsylvania against Accuray Inc. and several defendants as individuals on August 6, 2010. The patent in suit, U.S. Patent No. 5,596,619 entitled "Method and Apparatus for Conformal Radiation Therapy" is related to a method and apparatus for conformal radiation therapy with a specialized radiation beam.
The complaint alleges that Accuray has manufactured and sold a product that infringes the '619 patent. The complaint also alleges that the individual defendants have aided and abetted Accuray's infringement of plaintiff's patent and have divulged plaintiff's trade secrets and intellectual property to defendant Accuray.
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Valgrind is a tool to analyze a program regarding memory leaks.
One of the valgrind tools is the memcheck, that can be used to detect memory leaks during the execution of an application.
To do that, valgrind can be started as:
> valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes -v appname
where appname is the application you want to run, including its parameters, if it have to be called with any.
As valgrind can produce a lot of output (and thus scroll out of your terminal), you can call valgrind redirecting its output to a file, so nothing gets lost.
> valgrind --tool=memcheck --leak-check=yes -v appname 2>&1 | tee valgrind.log
This will call valgrind as seen above, and will redirect all the output coming from both our application and valgrind to a file in the current directory called valgrind.log (of course it is possible to use any file name of the log).


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The fear of inadequacy almost prevented Kevin Rose from starting Digg, a social news site that, at its peak, attracted 38 million unique visitors a month (and landed Rose on the cover of Inc. magazine). Though Digg's popularity eventually waned, Rose went on to launch other companies, including Revision 3, an online video company he sold to Discovery Channel, and Milk, a mobile development lab that Google acquired last year. Now, as a partner at Google Ventures, Rose advises other entrepreneurs on conquering the fear of failure. --As told to Issie Lapowsky
Back in 2003, I was hosting a cable television show, The Screen Savers on TechTV. It was a pretty geeky show focused on tech, everything from reviewing the latest software to talking about motherboards.
Because we were based in San Francisco, we were able to get some really influential founders on the show, including Steve Wozniak and Stan Lee. I was a geek in my early 20s, and I would get so nervous. These guys were larger than life to me. My palms would be sweaty. My heart would race.
The turning point for me--what made me stop being so nervous--was when I realized that these guys were just real people who decided to pursue their own passions. Something flipped in their brains, and they said, "You know what? I don't have to work for someone else. I can go do this myself."
Because of that realization, I decided to try to create this social news site I'd been thinking about for a few months. In 2004, I quit my job to work on Digg. My parents were pretty pissed off that I was leaving hosting a national television show.
Trusting myself was still a challenge, even while building Digg. As a result, one big mistake I made was giving away a lot of control rather than figuring things out on my own. I hired a CEO in the first six months, and started bringing in outsiders to take over the pieces of the business that I was unfamiliar with. Because I wasn't formally trained in business, I felt like I needed to hand responsibility off to someone else. I learned a lot from these people, but if I could do it again, I would have taken the Zuckerberg approach: If you don't understand something, you don't hand it off. You surround yourself with people who can bring you up to speed.
There are a couple of types of founders I meet with on a daily basis now that I'm at Google Ventures. Some of them have already started. They're raising money, they have a technical team identified, and they've made the leap of faith.
Then there's a whole other breed of people waiting in the wings. These are the people I meet who come up to me at conferences, looking for validation. If there's any piece of advice that I have, it's that if you have an itch you need to scratch, something you feel needs fixing, no one else is going to build it for you. You shouldn't look to someone else for validation. You have to really believe in yourself and know that, worst-case scenario, if it doesn't work out, you still built something really cool.


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|Pub: Conspiracy Ent.
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|Release: March 3, 2009
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Trying to please everyone can sometimes result in pleasing no one. I recall when I was a wee lad, I came across an album by Billy Preston (he played keyboard with the Beatles) called Everybody Likes Some Kind of Music. While there's no disputing that, I am not into buying an album of tunes with only one song that suits my taste. I don't imagine that album was much of a seller.
It's virtually impossible to be all things to all people, and although developers Milestone are still aiming SBK: Superbike World Championship at a target demographic, they want that target to be as wide as possible - probably the broad side of a barn. To this end, they have created a racing game that is a sim and arcade-style racer - and just about everything in between. This brings me to my point: it's not easy to please everyone. Arcade-racing enthusiasts just want to have fun. They can't be bothered with deep customizing options and unforgiving control systems. By the same token, sim players want all the depth and challenge that a game can throw at them - an arcade mode being little more than a novelty. The multiple personality traits of SKB: Superbike World Championship sounds good in theory but overall the game just lacks fun, possibly a result from diversifying the gameplay.
On the surface, SKB seems to have it going on. It's got a good selection of modes, licensed tracks, vehicles, and riders. Players can pick-up-and-play immediately in the arcade mode or get deep in over their heads with the sim component. It's only after an hour or so that the game begins to show some flaws. The main problem is that the gameplay becomes redundant. There is no shortages of challenges in any of the modes, but they are dangled in front of you like the proverbial carrot on a stick. You have to complete the current race before anything new happens, and it winds up as a lot of tedious work, especially in the more challenging sim modes. Completing a current race successfully requires that you know the track by memory and that you hone the skills to keep the bike in an upright position, which is not an easy task. Learning the layout of the track will come somewhat easier, since you can end up spending hours on it. The unforgiving nature of the control system ensures that you'll endure frustration that is almost beyond the scope of human suffering. Okay that's a bit dramatic, but man this game can be difficult in the sim mode.
There are some features in place to help ease the pain, but there's no tutorial mode to speak of. It would be great if we could ride around and develop our skills without having to race or perform specific tasks under pressure. There's a challenge mode where you will be forced to race and perform stunts such as burnouts and skids in addition to time trials. I never did feel totally comfortable with my skills. As soon as I passed the test, it was time to move on to the next one. The motivation behind this mode is the ability to acquire medals. It's hoped, as you work tirelessly to grab the gold, that in the process you will have assimilated some skills without even realizing it. Trust me, with this game, there's no gain without pain.
The game is licensed, so that means you'll be using real-world bikes, competing against real-life riders on real-world tracks. In some of the challenges, you'll compete against your closest rival in a section of track that is corner-laden. These rendered riders perform similarly to their real-life counterparts, some more aggressive, others more methodical in their approach. Of course, none of them are easy to beat in the sim level, although you can adjust the difficulty options for the A.I.
Customizing is an entity unto itself. Tires, suspension, brakes, gear ratios, and various engine components can be purchased, swapped, tweaked, and tuned. It can be overwhelming, since it's almost impossible to tell in advance how the various upgrades will interact and affect the bike's overall performance. I suppose it's a great feature for the gear-heads but for regular weekend warriors like myself, there is some help in the form of a virtual engineer that will make suggestions for you. This guys seems to know what he's talking about, but that doesn't have to stop you from making some radical mods. You will receive feedback after each race, called telemetry. The engineer will gauge your performance against your bike's characteristics and give you suggestions based on that. I can't be quite sure but I think I heard him tell me to let someone else drive.


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Anchors away! Golf adopts rule to outlaw putters anchored to the body
Golf's governing bodies have adopted a new rule that outlaws the putting stroke used by four of the last six major champions.
The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and U.S. Golf Association announced Tuesday that Rule 14-1b would start in 2016. The new rule will make it illegal to anchor the club against the body when making a golf stroke.
By adopting the rule, they are going against two major golf organizations that argue long putters are not hurting the game. The PGA Tour and PGA of America spoke out against the rule.
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Report: Citizens insures thousands of out-of-state policyholders
When Citizens Property Insurance sends out its monthly customer bills, only 31 percent of them go to the same house that is insured.
The rest go to other mailboxes in Florida — and around the globe, according to data analyzed by the American Consumer Institute of Citizen Research.
More than 19,000 bills go to people who live in Canada, nearly 27,000 go to New Yorkers, almost 12,000 go to folks in New Jersey and hundreds more go to England, Germany and France.
From Singapore and China, to South Africa and Luxembourg, Florida's state-run insurance company is providing subsidized insurance coverage to 22,775 property owners who reside abroad. Another 176,465 policies go to homeowners with primary addresses in other states, the study found.
At least 1 million of the nearly 1.3 million monthly bills for homeowners policies stay in Florida, but that includes an estimated 500,000 policies that go to addresses different from the property that is insured.
As Florida grapples with how to lower the cost of homeowners insurance along its hurricane alley, the out-of-state subsidies are a luxury it cannot afford, said Steve Pociask, president of the Washington, D.C.-based think tank that reviewed Citizens' billing lists.
"It all comes down to affordability,'' he said. "People who live here and have their primary homes insured here are teachers, police, service workers and they are being stung by higher prices. while 27,000 people who have their bills sent to New York are getting subsidized insurance. Why do we want to subsidize these folks?''
The inequities are enough to prompt Sen. David Simmons, the chairman of the Senate Banking and Insurance Committee to draft legislation to require that out-of-state policyholders whose second homes or vacation are insured by Citizens no longer receive subsidized rates.
"It is a real issue,'' said Simmons, R-Maitland. "We thoroughly investigated it. The people who have the wind-only policies in the coastal accounts pay comparitively less than people who have personal accounts who are paying close to actuarially sound rates. It's grossly unfair."
Pociask's findings have also prompted a coalition of business and environmental groups this week to call for legislation to ban property owners whose primary residence is out of state from qualifying for Citizens insurance, which are offered at below-market rates.
"It is bad public policy to continue to allow public subsidies for wealthy, out-of-state homeowners, including coastal homeowners who should be paying a fair price to live in a vulnerable area,'' said Manley Fuller, president of the Florida Wildlife Federation and a member the Stronger Safer Florida Coalition, whose goal is to reduce the risk of hurricane losses in the wake of a major storm.
The study, produced independently by Pociask using data supplied by Citizens, does not distinguish between policyholders who own or rent their property to full-time residents in Florida but receive their bills out of state, and those who live in Florida only part of the year.
It's a controversial suggestion in a state where steady improvements in the real estate market are being driven in part by international buyers.
For example, in Sunny Isles Beach, development is under way for eight luxury condominiums, most of which are being marketed to foreign and out-of-state investors. Mayor Norman Edelcup predicts the city's property tax base will double in the next five years because of it. But, he said, access to property insurance is key.
"If Citizens were to deny insurance coverage to non-resident owners — in effect creating second class citizens — I would be totally against it," he said.
If those property owners are denied Citizens coverage, and can't obtain insurance from an alternative carrier, "that would immediately cut those buyers out of the market and that would have a dramatic effect on us,'' he said.
Legislators tried to impose a surcharge on non-homesteaded property once before, in 2006. But the measure, which was adopted by legislators as part of a sweeping insurance reform bill, was repealed the next year in the wake of spiraling insurance costs at the state-run carrier.
Under the current system, anyone who obtains a Citizens policy faces the risk of being charged additional assessments if the state runs out of money to cover claims in a massive storm. Floridians who don't carry Citizens coverage would also face fees to bail out the state carrier, leading some to question the fairness of giving out-of-state residents subsidies if they escape the added costs.
"We should not be subsidizing insurance — period — because it distorts risk and it distorts the market,'' said Christian Camara, Florida state director of the R Street Institute, a free-market think tank. "But we especially should not be subsidizing folks who do not live in Florida and would not be subject to the assessments in a worst-case scenario."
Efforts to shrink Citizens and reduce the potential size of those assessments was the focus of a major property reform bill passed last session.
Under the plan, Citizens established a clearinghouse to encourage private insurers to take over Citizens plans, limited the maximum Citizens policy from $2 million to $1 million and eliminated subsidizes for new construction in environmentally-sensitive coastal areas.
But Pociask, who said his organization receives no funding from Florida entities, warns that because of the large number of out-of-state policyholders, the reforms may not do enough to ease the financial burden on Florida residents if a massive storm were to hit.
"The whole idea of having that investment from other countries is really good for the state, but, the question is, should somebody else be on the hook for paying for their insurance?'' he asked.
Simmons said he is prepared to find the answer with legislation next session.
"Our plan is to address the inherent inequities that exist without denying anybody access to Citizens,'' he said. "But we want to make sure the existing Citizens policyholder are not subsidizing other policyholders who are out of state."
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Afghan Lawmakers Demand That Civilian Shooting Suspect Be Tried In Country
Afghan lawmakers expressed anger Thursday over the move by the U.S. to fly an American soldier accused of killing 16 civilians out of the country to nearby Kuwait, noting that Kabul should not sign a strategic partnership agreement with Washington unless the alleged perpetrator faces justice in Afghanistan, The Associated Press reported.
According to the news outlet, negotiations over the agreement, which would govern the presence of the U.S. military in Afghanistan after most combat troops withdraw by the end of 2014, were tense, even prior to the shootings.
The U.S. military said that the soldier's transfer out of the country did not preclude the possibility of trying the case in Afghanistan, but this did not appease many Afghan leaders.
"It was the demand of the families of the martyrs of this incident, the people of Kandahar and the people of Afghanistan to try him publicly in Afghanistan," Mohammad Naeem Lalai Hamidzai, a Kandahar lawmaker who is part of a parliamentary commission investigating the shootings, said in a statement.
CNN reported that Afghans took to the streets of one city Thursday to demand the prosecution of the U.S. soldier in the country, and one lawmaker accused the Americans of showing "a fake video…to convince the Afghan people that it was the act of only one soldier."
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Monday, November 19, 2007
Brownie points on offer!
65,329.26 brownie points go to the first person that can correctly identify each racer in the photo above from the start of the '98 Iditasport Extreme.
Start from left and work your way right. There are 15 racers.
P.S. In the very likely event that no one gets all names correct, partial points will be awarded to whomever gets the most.
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- AnonymousNovember 19, 2007 at 11:30 AM
No pic.ReplyDelete
Yeah, Mike. Hows about a redo on the pic. Or maybe no one started the event, thus the blank screen here. You are a tricky one! ;)ReplyDelete
Is there no header picture showing up?ReplyDelete
Sorry for hijacking this post with a request, but I can't name all those racers: Could you sometime do an entry regarding hydration. How you create, pack, and carry your water supply?
Many thanks,
Mike Riemer
- AnonymousNovember 19, 2007 at 3:08 PM
Header pic is showing up; it wasn't this morning even though I saw the photos in the 'warm feet' post (didn't check over the weekend).ReplyDelete
Group photo is up, but [Schultz]I know nothink! Nothink![/Schultz]
Stamstad was sponsored by Chevy trucks? I must really know nothing about the endurance racing scene.ReplyDelete
Geez--I thought *someone* might at least offer up a few guesses.ReplyDelete
Not so much, apparently.
I'll give y'all another day or so...
Mike, the pic is showing now. Thanks! Okay, second from the left is Stamstad, that's the easy one! Next to him I'll say that's fassibinder, and then someone in the backround. After that it's you, Mike. Then I haven't a clue who the rest are except to say that one of them is probably Rocky, but I don't know what he looks like.ReplyDelete
Okay, I tried! Who knows anymore?
Here goes:ReplyDelete
2 Stamstad
4 The dude that stole your film?!
5 Curiak
7 Todd Scott (?)
Yeah, I got nothin.
Stamstad and you. Thats all I can come up with, yep.ReplyDelete
From left:ReplyDelete
Gil Hjellen
John Stamstad (pulling a trailer)
Gary Sweeden
Boris Droste (in back, hidden)
Mike Curiak (red fork)
Pat Norwil (in back)
Dawes Wilson (with fairing)
Jacques Boutet (over Dawes' shoulder)
Dan Bull
Jim Jager (in back, rosy cheeks)
Mike Estes
Paul Black (in back, with headlamp)
Mike Madden (front, yellow/red)
Andy Heading (in back, red cap)
Dave Inwood (hilarious Kiwi)
Just out of the frame all the way to the right is another Andy from the UK.
Some of the most anxious moments of my life, right before the start of that race. Nothing could have prepared me for how unprepared I was for that experience. And the conditions couldn't have been better!
Not in order:ReplyDelete
John Stamstad
Pat Norwil
Bill Merchant
Gil Hjellan
Gary Sweden
Paul Black
Dawes Wilson
Ralf Kuba
Chloe Lanthier
Is Cullen Barker in there?
Andy Heading
Rocky R?
Thats all I can do.
Send me Brownies Now!
oh.. you poset answers already looks like I got a few random guesse right...ReplyDelete
send me brownies anyway.
The cyclists were last to leave the start that year, so that pic only shows a partial field. Remember that there were divisions for cyclists, skiers, and ski-jorers in '98 and '99. So not pictured are Bill M, Ralf Kuba, and one other ski-jorer whose name escapes me, as well as Tom Possert (who virtually invented the foot division by blowing everyone away and finishing that year). I can't remember if any skiers started the race in '98, but I'm 99% certain that no skiers finished.ReplyDelete


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2012 All-SEC Honorable Mention (AP)
2012 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2010 SEC Academic Honor Roll
2008 SEC Academic Honor Roll
The only player in LSU football history to leave school with a national championship and two degrees ... True freshman on LSU's 2007 national title team and then later earned Bachelor's degrees in sports administration (December, 2012) and general studies (May, 2011) ... Part of two SEC titles with the Tigers in 2007 and 2011 ... Spent six years on the football team after NCAA granted a sixth year of eligibility in the spring of 2012 ... Finished LSU career playing in 50 games, starting 36 times ... Started at both guard and tackle during his career ... Three-time member of the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
Played in 12 games with 10 starts, all at left tackle ... Received a sixth-year of eligibility from the NCAA in 2012 after suffering a season-ending knee injury in pre-season camp prior to the 2011 season ... Permanent team captain for the Tigers in 2012 in a vote of his teammates ... Played a total of 703 snaps with 29 knockdowns ... Played every snap in LSU's last seven games, including 84 vs. Alabama when the Tigers racked up 435 total yards and 22 first downs ... Played every offensive snap in a total of nine games in 2012 - Washington (66), Auburn (70), South Carolina (81), Texas A&M (72), Alabama (84), Mississippi State (68), Ole Miss (77), Arkansas (67) and Clemson (47) ... Served in a backup role for season-opener against North Texas (31 snaps) as he split time with La'el Collins at left guard ... Started in place of an injured Chris Faulk at left tackle in week 2 vs. Washington and played every snap in the 41-3 LSU win ... Took over starting role at left tackle for good against South Carolina after playing just nine snaps the week before vs. Florida ... Had 4.5 knockdowns in games vs. Auburn and Alabama and three vs. Washington and Ole Miss ...
Suffered a season-ending knee injury during fall camp ... Served as a player-coach for the offensive line throughout the season ... Petitioned the NCAA after the season and was granted a sixth year of eligibility.
Started all 13 games at left guard for the second straight year and competed in 823 plays ... Ranked third on the team in knockdowns with 62 ... Played every offensive snap in nine games (North Carolina, West Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, McNeese State, Auburn, Alabama, Ole Miss and Arkansas) ... Delivered arguably his best game of the year in the Cotton Bowl win over Texas A&M when he racked up a season-best nine knockdowns on 71 snaps ... Led the team in knockdowns against Ole Miss with eight and against Auburn with seven.
Starter at left guard in all 13 games for the Tigers ... Played a total of 778 offensive snaps ... Played every snap of LSU's final five games ... For the year, missed one snap at Georgia and the final 12 plays of LSU's blowout win over Tulane ... Played every snap in 11 of LSU's 13 games ... Played season-high 75 snaps in road win over Georgia ... Finished regular season with 40 knockdown blocks ... Had season-high of five knockdowns in win over Louisiana Tech.
Played in 12 games with no starts during his redshirt freshman season ... Saw action on the offensive line, as a tight end in short-yardage situations and as part of the shield for LSU's punting unit ... Was often forced to change jerseys during the middle of the game, going from No. 68 when playing the offensive line to No. 81 when switching to tight end ... Saw action on a total of 90 plays from scrimmage, including 18 vs. Troy, 17 vs. Mississippi State and 16 vs. North Texas ... Forced into action for a series against top-ranked Alabama when Herman Johnson went down with an injury ... Saw action in seven plays on that series against Alabama, lining up across from Crimson Tide All-America Terrance Cody ... That drive concluded on 1-yard TD run by Charles Scott to tie the game at 21-21 with 6:12 left in the contest.
Redshirted as a true freshman for the Tigers in 2007.
The No. 1 offensive line prospect in the state for 2007 ... Named to the Rivals.com 250 with a four-star rating ... Played in the inaugural Offense-Defense All-American Bowl in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. ... Member of the New Orleans Times Picayune's Blue-Chip List and Baton Rouge Advocate Second Dozen ... Showed his versatility by being a standout on the defensive line as well ... Named 2006 district MVP and Class 3A first-team all-state on defense with 99 tackles -- 28 for losses -- and 11 sacks ... Had 70 tackles and five sacks as a junior ... Also a track and field standout in high school ... Won the state title in the shot put and was runner-up in the javelin during his prep career ... Maintained a 3.5 GPA ... Coached by David Comeaux.
Full name is Joshua Garrett Dworaczyk ... Goes by Josh ... Born Sept. 19, 1989, in Missouri City, Texas ... Parents are Roger and Melissa Dworaczyk ... Has three siblings - Jakob, Kristen, and Joseph.


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Blink Chargers at Fry's Grocery Store. 40th street and Thunderbird!!
Now this is useful!!
MikeD wrote:Model/price?
Even if they wanted to, is that supported by Blink, or any other charging provider? I don't believe there's any way to integrate the two systems.jstack6 wrote:Let's all keep asking them ans doing their feed back with each receipt until they give us Electric FUEL points! !


text: Quincy Jones is suing Michael Jackson's estate claiming he is owed royalties on some of the superstar's hits and was improperly deprived of a producer credit on music used in the This Is It film.Jones' lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles seeks millions in damages from the singer's estate. The suit claims Jackson's estate re-worked some of the superstar's music that Jones produced and cut him out of the royalties and other profits. The producer is also asking a judge to order Jackson's estate to provide a full accounting of its proceeds to determine how much he is owed.Jones produced some of Jackson's most popular albums, including Off the Wall and Thriller. Jackson's estate had no immediate comment on the lawsuit.- AP


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I would like to reflect on my experiences in childhood, adolescence and adulthood and share a few modest insights that I have gained in light of my newfound awareness of myself as a person on the autism spectrum. I hope that my perspective enables the reader to further appreciate some of the challenges and strengths inherent in the autistic experience.
I have trouble remembering much from my childhood. Having said that, I knew that I was different early on, but life was relatively serene. I had no major problems until adolescence. No one knew or suspected that I was on the autism spectrum, including me.
I can share a few memories with you. I began reading newspapers at the age of two. At about the same age I was attracted to drawing car and gas station logos. To this day, I have a fascination with logos, typefaces and design in general: on CD and book covers, billboards, and especially street.
I had trouble differentiating between literal and implied meanings. My parents had asked me "do you want a cookie" enough times that I must have concluded that my new name was "you." So when the hunger pangs struck, I would insistently declaim, "You want a cookie!" My parents would ask if "you" wanted to "go down the street" to play with friends and were most puzzled to find me walking straight down the middle of the road. Here's another one: when I started baking oatmeal cookies, the directions on the box insisted that I butter the bottom of the pan. Though I didn't quite understand how that would help the cookies bake, I obediently flipped the pan over and generously layered the underside with butter. These and other such misunderstandings were innocent enough, but when asked at twelve if I was gay and, assuming that word meant happy, I said yes, my peers were not so forgiving. Their laughter meant something quite different than the laughter of my parents over my baking escapades.
In school I was quiet, studious, and had little interest in athletic activities, childhood games, or having friends. I was not completely socially isolated-that would come soon enough-but I didn't really care whether I had friends or not. I was introspective and drawn far more to my inner world than the outer world. In grade school, my teachers reported that I was bright but prone to daydreaming.
I also had problems with my physical coordination. I recall having a tough time learning to tie my shoelaces. Only after relentless prodding from my parents did I learn how to swim and ride a bicycle. I was awkward and unskilled in gym class. Even my gait was considered rather odd. These days, though my coordination is smoother, I still have trouble with certain aspects of the physical world, such as spatial perception.


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The Rock of Southwest Baptist Church came closer Tuesday morning to realizing its plan to add a two-story teen center building after a crucial vote of the Jefferson County Board of Commissioners. After two lengthy public hearings, two of three members of the board voted to endorse a version of the March 26 planning commission decision approving an expansion from 26,000 square feet to about 48,000 square feet of floor area. The church argued that it had the legal right to build up to 63,000 square feet.
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25 Jun 2013
(HONG KONG) Dragonair, three-time winner of the Skytrax "World's Best Regional Airline" award, announced a series of celebratory offers to thank passengers for their support. The Skytrax World Airline AwardsTM is the largest airline passenger satisfaction survey and the most prestigious among all the surveys measuring airline service excellence. The results are based on the votes of more than 18 million airline passengers from more than 160 countries. Dragonair is equally honoured to be named "Best Regional Airline in Asia" in the same survey.
Dragonair Chief Executive Officer Patrick Yeung said the awards reflect the great teamwork displayed by Dragonair staff. "What won us the recognition from Skytrax is the hard work, commitment and professionalism of our frontline staff and those who support the operation behind the scenes. They should all feel very proud."
To share their joy and to thank passengers for their support, Dragonair is launching a series of celebratory offers from July to September, including double Asia Miles, inflight sales offers and tasty surprises.
Mr Yeung said at a media gathering today: "We are proud to share our Skytrax accolades, which belong to Hong Kong, our home city for 28 years. We hope that our passengers will love the celebratory offers and surprises that we are offering."
Dragonair, an affiliate member of oneworld, is a Hong Kong-based airline operating a fleet of 39 passenger aircraft and serving 45 regional destinations, including 22 cities in Mainland China. Dragonair has been recognised for its product and service quality, and was named the "Best Regional Airline" at the TTG Travel Awards 2012, and voted thrice as "World's Best Regional Airline" in the annual Skytrax World Airline Awards™ in 2010, 2011 and 2013. Dragonair is part of the Cathay Pacific Group, providing seamless connectivity for passengers to more than 170 cities around the globe.