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The Ionos was designed in 1997 by students at the Espace Sbarro in Grandson school. This took inspiration from the Bertone styled Stratos, and was supposed to be a modern interpretation of it. The engine consists of two Lancia Kapps five-cylanders to make an upturned V10. It was 4800CC, producing 400 BHP. It had a Porsche transmission (4-wheel drive) and a Porsche gearbox. Dimensions : length 3,60 m ; width 1,80 m ; height 1,10 m, wheelbase 2,27 m; weight : 1100 kg.
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"From the Stratos of the 1970s to the lonos of the year 2000: such was the route taken by the Espace Sbarro students, interpreting the Lancia look in an all-new sports two-seater to unveil, in best school tradition, at the Geneva show. After last years Alfa Romeo lssima roadster it was suggested that the fifth-semester students of 'Automobile Creativity and Engineering' work on another Fiat Auto make, the aristocratic Lancia. The creative cue came from the legendary Stratos, first designed in 1970 by Bertone - the work, in particular of Marcello Gandini - as a research prototype and later in 1971, with a different shape, as a production car.
"This coupé project began with Ermanno Cressoni, director of Fiat Advanced Design, and Mike Robinson, chief of the Lancia style centre, and was driven by their enthusiasm, which immediately fired the students' creativity, " says Franco Sbarro.
In the first place, the students received documentation about the make from the Turin studio. "It wasn't easy, early on, to get them to understand what the true Lancia spirit was," Franco Sbarro remembers. "Then I explained how Lancia, throughout its ninety-year history has represented the forefront of styling and technology in the automotive field, so much so that solutions that might look new to young designers, such as aluminium bodywork or a pillarless DLO, have already been used by Lancia in the past."
During their first visit, in summer last year the Turinese companys design chiefs took a look at the preliminary research sketches. "Some of them were excellent designers, others less so. We tried to point them all toward a slightly more focused project. What was important, though, was that they made their own cars and not "ours"," says Robinson. As a 'homework exercise' during the July break, the students constructed their scale models. Two of these were selected and their concepts synthesised in a single 1.-4 model, which was subsequently interpreted in two more models produced by two groups of students. The final stage was producing the definitive scale model, while the work developed into full size with the milling of a 1: 1 polystyrene model at the Lancia style centre in Turin.
What remained of the Stratos spirit throughout all these stages? "Analysing the Stratos, we realisecl that it was the first time, in the 1970s, that a car maker had volume-produced a car especially for competition. It was compact, wieldy and low-weight. a bom racer " explains Sbarro. "We've maintained the concept on the lonos (it was Ermanno Cressoni who suggested the name, it makes you think of the ionosphere, like Stratos and stratosphere), although the aesthetics are very different. "
Just 3.80 metres long, with a 2.27 m wheelbase, the lonos is powered by a rear-mounted 1 0-cylinder engine made by joining two 2.4litre 5-cylinder units from the Lancia kappa in a lay-out that Sbarro prefers to call 'A' rather than 'upturned V', given that the gearbox (of Porsche production) is located between the cylinder banks, allowing for a notable economy of space. The transmission, front differential and all-wheel-drive hardware are from Porsche, with Mercedes exhausts and highperformance Brembo brakes (as used by Alfa Romeo on its German Touring Car racers).
"For the design, we didn't just take Lancia styling cues into consideration, but the whole design approach as well," says Ermanno Cressoni commenting on the look of the lonos. "It's a make which, deep down, has always had the tradition of spuming traditions,- you know, always offering something different and innovative. Anyone familiar with Lancia styling cues can find them reinterpreted in the lonos, anyone not familiar with them will in any case see a new, fundamentally coherent way of saying Lancia. "
Robinson continues: "On the Stratos, the wraparound windshield and the side windows create a kind of a crash-helmet visor shape. The theme is reinterpreted on the lonos, where a glass bubble gets enveloped and 'swallowed' by the rear-end bodywork." The straked cover that conceals the backlight without compromising rear visibility - is another reference to the Stratos, although in a different form. Raising the rear section, hinged towards the centre of the car the backlight is uncovered and access given to the engine bay.
The 'backbone' that runs the length of the lonos even seems to penetrate the passenger compartment at the base of the windscreen, reappearing later at the apex of the roof where the canopy 'bites' into the glass dome and leaves a gap to enable the airstream to reach the engine bay. Two engine-cooling air intakes have also been inserted low down, just behind the front wheels, with the flow of air being ducted along the inside of the side skirting to twin radiators (again from the Lancia k). All available space is exploited to the last centimetre.
"Meeting personalities like Franco Sbarro and the students at his school forms part of the creative interchange required to maintain a make's vitality, " says Cressoni at projects end. For Mike Robinson there was even a 'sentimental' element. "As a kid in America, I once saw a poster of the Stratos and decided to come to Italy and design cars. The circle is complete. Working with these young people on the 'Stratos II' really meant a lot to me."


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What is Structured Learning Assistance (SLA)?
Structured Learning Assistance (SLA) is an academic support program that is available to students enrolled in a 16-week Math 101 course. SLA features weekly study and practice labs twice a week in which students master course content to develop and apply specific learning strategies for the course, as well as strengthen their study skills to improve performance in the current SLA course, and for future courses. The labs are led (facilitated) by successful upper-level students, who in collaboration with the professor, develop lab materials. The facilitators clarify lecture points for the students and assist them in understanding the expectations of the professor, while additionally focusing on improved study skills.
The content for an SLA course is identical to that of a non-SLA course. The difference is that the SLA student is required to attend all SLA lab sessions for the entire semester. SLA lab activities frequently include study guides, collaborative learning/group activities, homework assistance, test preparation, and study skills such as discovering your preferred learning style, efficient note-taking, time management, and test-taking strategies. SLA labs meet from one to two hours per week throughout the entire semester. The SLA lab times are formally attached to the student's class schedule and there is no additional charge to the student for this support.


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China's changing course and sustainable success requires a shift in strategy
The End of Copycat China helps business executives and investors understand how China's economy is shifting from one based on heavy investment to one based on services and consumption by providing insight that helps shape effective strategy. Drawing from more than 50,000 interviews with entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, private equity investors, private Chinese companies, and multinationals, this book describes how Chinese firms are increasingly focused on innovation rather than copying what worked in America and how consumers are evolving with their hopes, dreams, and aspirations. China's growth model of the last three decades is becoming increasingly ineffective, as relying on heavy investment and exports is becoming less and less feasible. Fifty percent of China's growth in 2013 stemmed from consumption, and the government is establishing a free-trade zone in Shanghai and ending the dominance of state-owned enterprises. This book provides a road map for companies and investors looking to navigate these changes and capture emerging trends, with deep insight and practical guidance on what innovation looks like in the new China.
China's dramatic shift toward consumption presents a tremendous opportunity for foreign business, but traditional tactics are outdated at best, financially fatal at worst, as local competitors focus on innovation and move up the value chain and as consumers look for new brands and categories on which to spend money. New strategies are needed to keep pace with the changing regulatory and consumer environments, and business as usual won't get very far. The End of Copycat China is the business guide to this emerging market, with expert guidance from the inside.
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"It is like one long PSA for China"
I was hoping for honest insights and a straight-forward exposé on the changes in China. Instead, the data presented relies heavily on interviews with Chinese officials who make useless generalizations and sweeping statements, as well as anecdotal evidence that often lacks context. It feels like a presidential state of the union address for China (think vague statements that admit just enough fault to allow for the optimism that follows). I think that Dealing With China was a much more insightful read. While it does offer criticisms of China, I'm quite sure that the Chinese censors will give this book the green light. That doesn't necessarily mean a book isn't honest or hard hitting, but it should give one pause to consider the incentives that influence the author.
"Interesting book (except for last chapter)"
Rein has a lot of very compelling anecdotes and insights from his years of market research that are very engaging and informative.
While the author's insights into the Chinese market are invaluable, he is clearly out of his comfort zone when he went abroad in the last chapter to talk about China's relations with SE Asia. It is painfully obvious that he lacks the background to speak competently on Sino-Vietnamese, Cambodian and Filipino relations. Take his description of the US relationship with Vietnam as "rocky." That is so far off it's laughable. Moreover, he greatly misread the importance of the 2014 anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam. Ultimately, I don't hold this against him as I know it's not his expertise which is why I highly recommend the book up until the last chapter.
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The biggest shake-up of financial regulation since 1998 also saw measures introduced to keep the Bank in check when it becomes one of the most powerful institutions in the country from 2013.
The measures include the creation of a new independent oversight committee with the authority to launch retrospective internal reviews into the Bank's performance, and moving the Governor from a maximum of two five-year terms to a single eight-year stint.
Politicians warned, however, that more could be done to ensure the Bank is fully accountable to Parliament and the public and that its oversight committee has the power to enforce change.
The Financial Services Bill is an attempt to draw a line under past regulatory failings that resulted in bail-outs in 2008 costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of pounds. It will mean that, from 2013, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) will be scrapped and its supervisory powers handed to the Bank's subsidiary body, the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA).
Central to the Bill are new rules to clarify the lines of responsibility in a crisis. Under Labour's system of regulation, the Treasury, the Bank and the FSA all believed it was the other's job to keep banks in check. The Northern Rock crisis also revealed that the Chancellor had little power to force the Bank to act even when taxpayers' money was at stake.
The new law will give future Chancellors clear powers to direct the Bank in a crisis.
"There will be no ambiguity about who is in charge," George Osborne said yesterday. "In a crisis, when taxpayers' money is at risk, both the responsibility and crucially the power to act will rest with the Chancellor of the day."
The Bill will also enshrine in law the principle that the Government will be able to seize a failing lender and wipe out shareholders in the interests of financial stability.
"For the first time it will allow the Chancellor to direct specific liquidity interventions to assist individual entities, the Special Resolution Regime for banks, and general interventions to preserve stability as long as the Government is willing to take responsibility for the action and take the resulting risk on its balance sheet," Mr Osborne said.
The change in the law will bring in a number of other changes at the Bank, which will in future potentially have the power to limit mortgage lending and ban bonuses as well as set interest rates.
The Court of the Bank will have a fully independent sub-committee with the power to demand internal reviews of Bank decisions.
Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, said the law is a move in the right direction but does not go far enough.
"We still need a board that is fit for the 21st Century, that can demand changes following a review. More progress needs to be made but the Bank is digging in its heels," he said.
The Bank welcomed the reforms, stressing that it was in total agreement with the Chancellor over its new "power of direction" in future crises.
The Bill also confirmed that creation of the Financial Policy Committee, which will charged with identifying risks to financial stability and directing the PRA to take action.
The FSA's consumer functions are to moved to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which will police the markets and regulate consumer credit, which is currently handled by the Office of Fair Trading.
The Bill stops short of giving the FCA competition powers, though.
The measures in the Financial Services Bill are the centrepiece of the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since Labour moved supervision out of the Bank in 1997.
Unveiling the bill in a speech in Davos, George Osborne said: "There will be no ambiguity about who is in charge. In a crisis, when taxpayers' money is at risk, both the responsibility and crucially the power to act will rest with the Chancellor of the day."
The reform is an attempt to prevent a repeat of the Northern Rock fiasco, when Alistair Darling found he could not order the Bank to act. The Bank's decision at the time not to provide Northern Rock emergency liquidity support left Mr Darling with the sole "nuclear option" of invoking a never-used 61-year old law, but he was advised against triggering it.
"When taxpayers' money is at risk in a crisis this legislation gives the Chancellor the power to direct the Bank of England to act," Mr Osborne said. "This power will be a more credible tool than the 1946 power of direction, which has always been regarded as a nuclear option and therefore never used."
The bill will enshrine in law the principle that the Government will be able to seize a failing lender and wipe out shareholders to protect financial stability.
The Chancellor said: "For the first time it will allow the Chancellor to direct specific liquidity interventions to assist individual entities, the Special Resolution Regime for banks, and general interventions to preserve stability as long as the Government is willing to take responsibility for the action and take the resulting risk on its balance sheet.
"I hope that we will never again see the paralysis and confusion that did so much damage when the latest crisis hit."
He stressed that "during normal times the independent Bank of England will be responsible for prudential regulation and systemic stability".
The Chancellor hopes it will remove the regulatory "underlap" was blamed for lack of proper supervision under Labour, with the Bank, the FSA and the Treasury all believing it was the other's job to make keep the system in check.
"Everyone was so focused on ticking off a regulatory check-list that nobody felt it was their responsibility to use their judgement," Mr Osbornme said. "The astonishing result was that RBS was allowed to take over ABN Amro when the credit markets had already frozen up."
Publication will begin the legal formalisation of the new architecture of banking supervision that will see the Financial Services Authority's (FSA) major powers moved to the Prudential Regulatory Authority at the Bank.


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Original URL: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/06/review_netbook_asus_eee_pc_1000/
Asus Eee PC 1000 10in Linux netbook
The Eee family expands - literally
Posted in Personal Tech, 6th October 2008 11:02 GMT
Review Asus missed a trick when it released the Eee PC 901: it didn't incorporate a bigger keyboard than the one on the Eee 701. Had it done so, there wouldn't perhaps be a need for the 1000.
Yes, the 1000 comes with a larger, 10.2in screen, but with the display's 1024 x 600 resolution matching that of the 8.9in panel built into the 901, and with an otherwise identical specification, what the bigger machine really brings you is nothing more than a more adult-friendly keyboard.
Asus' Eee PC 1000: just like the 901, only bigger
We'll look at how successful the expanded input device is in a moment. First, let's look at the 1000 in the round. It's identical to the 901, only larger, magnified to make room for the bigger screen and keyboard.
You can see from Register Hardware's Netbooks Spec Table that the 1000 is one of the larger 10.2in SCCs, coming in slightly longer, deeper and taller than its nearest rival, the MSI Wind - and it feels bigger when you carry it too. Cast a glance in its direction and you might mistake it for a 12in notebook.
Asus hasn't used the space to deliver more portage: there are still three USB 2.0 ports, a VGA out, a 10/100Mb/s Ethernet connector, SDHC card slot and analogue audio socketry. The chunky 6600mAH is the same capacity as the one on the smaller 901.
Larger chassis, but standard SCC spec
The other internals are much the same too: 1.6GHz Atom N270 processor, 1GB of DDR 2 memory, Intel integrated graphics, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 1.3-megapixel webcam. The bigger box buys you a more solid-state storage: 40GB to the 901's 20GB, comprising an 8GB 'fast' SSD for the OS and apps, and 32GB of slower but cheaper storage for your data.
All of that means that your everyday computing experience will be the same on the 901 as it is on the 1000. The extra screen size only amounts to 1.3 inches and, as we say, the resolution's the same, so you won't get any more content onto it. But it does feel spacier, and we can see how some users might prefer it, especially those who might find themselves squinting at the 8.9in model.
The best Eee keyboard yet - but still one of the poorest netbook boards
Which brings us back to the... well... key difference: the keyboard. Just as the 901 delivered a slightly better typing experience than the Eee 900 did - and that, in turn, was nicer to type on than the 701 - the 1000 is a step forward. The keys may not be as big as those on a regular, 12in or larger laptop, but they're close enough. Like the keys on the 901, they're more rounded that those on the earlier Eees, and that makes for more rapid, less error-prone text entry.
What Asus hasn't improved on is the quality of the board itself: this one's just as rattly and cheap-feeling as the 901's board and with as much overall flex to it, too. Having used near full-size keyboards on the Wind and Acer Aspire One - the latter an 8.9in machine, don't forget - we have to say Asus is still well behind the others.
And even though Dell's idiosyncratic Inspiron Mini 9 keyboard is trickier to use than the 1000's, it feels like it has a better build quality. Asus definitely has some work to do here, as it's the Eee series' one major weakness.
One advantage of a bigger chassis is a bigger wrist-rest area, but Asus hasn't taken advantage of that to increase the touchpad size. Like the 901, the 1000 has a 67 x 37mm pad, again rimmed in brushed metal. It may just be us, but it seems as if Asus has smoothed out the rough texture it applied to the 901's touchpad. The texture's still there on the 1000, but it didn't feel so intrusive this time.
A familiar port array
Unlike other Eees, the 1000 line-up has entirely separate XP and Linux models. The 1000 is the Linux version, the 1000H the one with XP and a hard drive instead of an SSD. The 1000 again uses the Xandros version of Linux and presents the customary simplified UI. This provides access to all the essential apps - web browser, email, instant messaging, Skype and OpenOffice - but more are just a hack or two away.
In short, there's enough functionality here for 90 per cent of users, and nothing so tasking that the remaining ten per cent can't get what they want too. There's a big Eee user community now, and plenty of websites that offer guidance on customising the machines to your individual needs.
It's even easier for hardware tinkerers: there's a big hatch on the base of the 1000 that, when opened, reveals the 32GB SSD, the memory and the 802.11n Wi-Fi card. You can also see the main, 8GB SSD and the IDE interface points to which the connector is soldered for the 1000H's hard drive - the HDD sits in the same bay as the 32GB SSD, but at right angles to it.
No surprises on the right side, either
With the exception of the keyboard, the 1000 feels sturdy, and with its chrome-like details, it's not a bad looker, either. We're not fans of the pearl white model, or the shine applied to both this and the black 1000, but neither are offensive. Still, Asus could take a leaf out of other SCC makers' books and offer some alternative colours.
Our favourite remains the matte-black casing of our own Eee 701 - unlike the others, this was a colour scheme that lent the laptop gravitas.
For all that and the issue of the cheap-feeling keyboard, using the 1000 was no less a joy that working with any of the other SCCs we've tested. Xandros is one of the better netbook incarnations of Linux, and while open source OS buffs might prefer the up-front flexibility, functionality and power of, say, Ubuntu, at least with Xandros all the Eee's features work out of the box.
Shiny but not ugly
Some buyers may prefer the familiarity of Windows, especially if they need to run specific apps or hardware that lacks Linux support, but there can't be many of those. For the rest of us, Xandros provides a perfectly decent, functional computing experience.
As you can see from the results of our usual SCC-oriented Gimp test, the 1000 performs better than the 901 at all speed settings, suggesting it's benefited from a Bios tweak. That doesn't appear to have overly harmed the 1000's battery performance. It scored less well than the 901 did, but since it's still well ahead of rival SCCs, that's less of problem than you might at first think.
Gimp Results
Time in seconds
Shorter bars are better
Asus' move to equip Atom-based Eees with a 6600mAh battery made a big difference to the desirability of the series against rival offerings. The 901 and 1000 deliver the best out-of-the-box battery experience, though will see how upcoming SCCs from Samsung, Toshiba and others challenge that.
Battery Life Results
Time in minutes
Longer bars are better
If battery life is your key consideration, your choice of SCC is really between the Eee 901 and the 1000. If it's the best keyboard that you need, you'll have to look elsewhere. In the round, though, the Eee line remains our pick of the SCC crop, and the 901 still holds our Editor's Choice award.
The 1000 doesn't take it because we've yet to be convinced of the value of a 10in screen and, more to the point, this is one pricey netbook. The 1000 will set you back around £369, rather more than rebranded Winds, like the Medion Akoya Mini and the Advent 4211 - and that's with the Windows tax taken into account too.
The Eee PC 1000 has a better keyboard than the 901, but so does the Aspire one, the MSI Wind and most other netbooks. The Wind also has a 10in screen, but it feels more compact than the 1000. Only 802.11n and Bluetooth separate it from the herd, and how truly necessary are they, especially when you're paying extra for them? Ditto the 40GB SSD.
No, if you want an Eee go for the 901, which is smaller and offers the same (market leading) battery life. If you must have a 10in SCC with plenty of storage, the Wind's the one.


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The Original Wafu® Burger
- Cooking Time: 10
- Servings: 4
- Preparation Time: 20
- 1¼ pounds ground beef
- ½ onion, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon fresh ginger, very finely chopped
- 1 egg
- ½ cup Wafu® Original Sesame Japanese Dressing
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- Coarse salt and freshly ground black Pepper
- 4 whole wheat hamburger buns
- 1 large tomato, sliced
- 1 onion, sliced
- 4 large Boston lettuce leaves
- Preheat grill to high.
- Place ground beef in a large mixing bowl. Add chopped onion, garlic and ginger and mix with a wooden spoon. Add egg, Wafu® Japanese Dressing and bread crumbs, mixing well after each.
- Divide the meat into 4 equal portions. Lightly pat each portion into a ½-inch-thick patty. Season each patty on both sides with salt and pepper.
- Arrange tomato slices, onion slices and lettuce leaves on a serving platter.
- When ready to grill, place the burgers on the hot grate. Grill burgers until cooked to taste, 3 to 4 minutes per side for medium-rare.
- Meanwhile, place the hamburger buns on the hot grate and grill until lightly toasted, 1 to 2 minutes per side.
- To serve, place a lettuce leaf on top of each bun. Top with a burger, tomato slice and onion.


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Communication Engineer
- Recruiter
- Western Power Distribution.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
- Salary
- £35,920 to £40,093 per year
- Posted
- 11 Oct 2016
- Closes
- 27 Oct 2016
- Ref
- Sector
- Engineering, Telecoms
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Communication Engineer
Logistics - Surf Telecoms
Based in North Lincolnshire
EBA Grade 6
Salary Range £35,920 to £40,093 per year
An opportunity has arisen for a Communications Engineer to take responsibility for a region within the North Lincolnshire area and provide support to the Surf / WPD telecoms network. The main focus of this vacancy will be Trunk Network and associated equipment, but will also include other aspects of the telemetry systems and other telecoms work as required.
Responsibilities will include:
- Undertaking fault repairs, planned maintenance, configuration, installation and commissioning of telecommunications systems, equipment and plant.
- Managing your own working time to ensure that jobs are completed in the most efficient manner.
- Working with contractors and when necessary witness acceptance tests.
- Working with colleagues and customers to ensure a continuity of service.
- Working safely and in accordance with agreed WPD procedures and techniques.
- Providing technical support to customers and where necessary liaise with colleagues to solve complex issues.
You should be a good team player and a good communicator who is able to use your own initiative to solve a range of technical challenges. You should have at least a BTEC certificate or equivalent in Telecommunications or Electrical Engineering or have extensive relevant experience.
For more information or to apply, please visit www.westernpower.co.uk/careers
Closing date: Noon, 27th October 2016
An equal opportunities employer.


text: Good day, In option 3, would the bitmap not be about 8.3K? (31102 verses / 8) Else it is a bytemap, not a bitmap :) You are right that it is very fast. I use the same method. For wildcards it is also really fast (just OR a few bitmaps). The way to work around the huge size of the "bitmap index" is to store it in another format (like a list or Ranged list) and convert when needed. I like your idea about the RangedPassage as well. It really makes the list of verses for certain "common" words much smaller. Where is your program located Joe? God bless, nathan -----Original Message----- From: firstname.lastname@example.com [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]On Behalf Of Joe Walker Sent: 29 August 2000 05:23 To: email@example.com Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Another Important Issue Hi, If I understand the problem correctly the problem is that a search for "the" or "Lord" comes up with lots of hits and storing all those hits in a fast index file uses a lot of space. My Java program uses 3 ways to store lists of verses to combat this. They are all available either in memory or on disk. I have an interface "Passage" that stores a list of verses and 3 implementations: DistinctPassage - a simple list of verses. RangedPassage - stores a list of verse pairs (start and end) BitwisePassage - stores a 31k long bitmap. One bit per verse The latter can promise that any result set can be stored in only a few K, and a fairly simple bit of maths can be used to work out which is the best algorithm to use. The latter also makes for very very very fast result set combining methods. To search for "moses" AND "manna" I simple AND the bitmaps together. Shout if you want to know more. All code is GPL. Joe.


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Bush bids farewell to world leaders (Lead, Correcting name in para 2)January 20th, 2009 - 4:45 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Jan 20 (DPA) With just one full day left in office, US President George W. Bush spent Monday making farewell telephone calls to more than a dozen world leaders, the White House said.Bush spoke with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Israeli President Shimon Peres, Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, and South Korea President Lee Myung-bak.
He also spoke with former Mexican president Vicente Fox. The current president Felipe Calderon met with Bush last week at the White House.
Bush expressed his gratitude for the hospitality the leaders showed during his eight years in office, said Gordon Johndroe, a White House spokesman.
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How to Tune a Mandolin
Mandolins are fun to play, but they're a pain in the you-know-what to tune.
Because the double strings are like quarreling siblings who never seem to agree with each other.
Nonetheless, in this easy article, I will show you how to get your mandolin more or less in tune.
As you already know, your mandolin has four pairs of strings. Each pair is tuned to the same note.
Hold the mandolin on your lap in playing position. The 1st string is the one closest to the floor and is an E. Here are the names of the other notes.
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Tuning the Mandolin to Itself. 1) Adjust the 1st or E strings so they are in tune to each other. 2) Put your left index finger on the 2nd or A string of the mandolin at the 7th fret and make that string sound the same as the 1st string played "open" or unfretted. 3) Put your left index finger on the 3rd or D string at the seventh fret, and tune that string so it sounds the same as the 2nd or A string played open. 4) Finally, put your left index finger on the 4th or G string at the seventh fret, and make that string sound the same as the 3rd string played open.
Important Tuning Tip: Always play a string before you begin turning a tuning peg, That way, you'll know if you're turning the correct peg in the right direction.
Tuning to a Guitar: The E string on the guitar is the same as the 1st or E string on a mandolin. The third string at the 2nd fret of the guitar matches the 2nd or A string of the mandolin. The 4th string on the guitar matches the D or 3rd string on the mandolin. The 3rd string of the guitar is the same as the 4th string of the mandolin. Before you tune to a guitar, first make sure it's in tune.
Electronic Tuners: These little jewels are worth their weight in gold to a mandolin player. Before you fire up your electronic tuner, you should get your mandolin roughly in the ballpark, using the instructions above on tuning the mandolin to itself or tuning to a guitar. Electronic tuners are best used to fine tune your instrument.
Now that you've got your mandolin more or less in tune, you might need some help learning to play it. I'd like to suggest my new book, Bluegrass Mandolin for the Complete Ignoramus! This book teaches you everything you need to know, from how to hold your pick, to picking out tunes, playing simple chords, learning twenty-eight bluegrass standards and being able to start jamming on the mandolin. I'm so sure my book will help you play the mandolin that I'll offer you this guarantee. If you buy the book from us and don't like it, or it doesn't help you learn to play the mandolin, return it for a full refund. All I ask is that you try the book. Fair enough?
Thanks and Keep Pickin'
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NBC Chicago News story on The Field Museum's use of a portable CT scanner to digitally uncover what mummies look like.
Unwrapping An Ancient Mystery
Without opening its wooden coffin nor unbinding its wrappings, this CT scan was taken in 2010 of Field Museum mummy 11517, who proved to be a teenage boy. © The Field Museum


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We miss classes due to Delhi Metro snags, students complainDecember 7th, 2010 - 8:42 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Dec 7 (IANS) Many Delhi University students have complained to the university authorities that frequent snags and rush on the Metro makes it difficult for them to reach colleges in time for the morning classes, an official said Tuesday.
In a written comlaint submitted last week, the students travelling from areas like Gurgaon, Anand Vihar and Noida said it was hard for them to attend the morning classes, the university's proctor Gurmeet Singh said.
Speaking to IANS, Delhi University Students Union (DUSU) vice-president Priya Dabas said: "In the last three months, we have received several complaints from students about the rush and technical snags."
She said that transit stations like Rajiv Chowk and Kashmere Gate were overcrowded and students were forced to wait often for over half-hour every day.
According to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), over four lakh passengers use the Rajiv Chowk station daily.
"We have decided to put the matter forward to the vice-chancellor's office," Dabas added.
Ranjan Sharma, a second-year commerce student of Hansraj College, said: "Tehcnical glitches, huge rush and long delays are routine these days. I live in Gurgaon and have missed many 9.30 a.m. classes."
A group of students commuting from Noida to Daulat Ram College in North campus said the Delhi Metro was no better than the buses.
"We thought Metro was the most suitable mode of conveyance. But things have changed. Long delays and huge rush have turned the Metro into a nightmare," Sangita Biswas said.
Students also complained of the low frequency of trains and said they had to wait for over 15 minutes at many stations.
However, the DMRC said technical glitches cannot be avoided totally.
"Technical glitches are common in any Metro system, it cannot be avoided, particularly on the Noida, Anand Vihar and Gurgaon corridors. These routes are the longest ones, running into over 50 km, and are the most crowded as they carry more than half the total daily passengers on the Metro every day," DMRC spokesperson Anuj Dayal said.
He also said six-coach trains would be inducted on these routes by December end.
"With the overall ridership crossing 16 lakh in November, over-crowding has become a perennial problem, especially during the morning and evening peak hours," Dayal said.
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- Delays, overcrowding as technical problems hit Delhi Metro (Lead) - Feb 01, 2011
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- Auto strike sees Metro crowded, commuters lose cool (Lead) - May 20, 2011
- Snag hits Delhi Metro's Dwarka-Noida service - Oct 29, 2010
- Record ridership in Delhi Metro on Raskha Bandhan - Aug 13, 2011
- Metro services hit on Gurgaon, Dwarka route - Jan 10, 2011
- Efforts on to minimise Metro snags, say officials - Mar 30, 2012
- Snag on Metro's Gurgaon line affects services, rectified (Lead) - Aug 19, 2011
- Signal snag hits thousands of Metro commuters (Lead) - Mar 29, 2012
- Technical snag hits Delhi Metro - Jun 08, 2012
- Technical snag hits Metro services - May 01, 2010
- Glitches persist on Metro's Jahangirpuri-Gurgaon line - Jan 11, 2011
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This morning there was no doubt in my mind that we needed something a little rough and dark and sexy.
Who better than Billy Idol, that very talented punk rocker Billy Idol. Who hasn't bopped up and down to Mony, Mony, Rebel Yell or any other of his classic songs? And that lean pale body, sneer and attitude? Can we say perfect anithero inspiration?
Here's Billy performing in concert. Thanks to firstname.lastname@example.com for this awesome photo!
Billy still has all that sexiness from the looks of this photo! Also check out the video for one of my favorite songs, White Wedding.
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Chinhoyi Bureau
The Chinhoyi Agricultural Show opened on a low note yesterday, although it registered an increase in the number of exhibitors from 121 last year to 128.
The show is expected to be officially opened today by Senior Minister Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo.
Show Society general manager Mr Tawanda Makunde said he expected more visitors starting today.
"Traditionally, more people come on Saturday and we do not expect this year to be an exception," he said. "We have lined up a number of programmes to entertain and educate our visitors."
Uniformed forces, parastatals, farmers and farmers' organisations are among some of the exhibitors.
The major highlight for this year are fireworks, which are coming for the first time and a Congolese bike rider.
Mr Makunde said the vision for the Show Society was to grow it through having more exhibitors, while land was available for companies to erect their stands.
"We still have plenty of land on which we want companies to build their permanent stands for future exhibitions," he said.
In a bid to maintain the ambience of the park, the Show Society has limited the number of vendors and organised places where caterers are located.


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Ex Royals on the move, or not....
Just incase you might have missed it, Vital Reading brings you upto date with all the latest former Royals on the move this summer. We told you last week about Glen Little's move to Aldershot, and Scott Murray turning them down to take a coaching role at Bristol City and here are a few more.
Alan Bennett, remember him, has left Brentford after just one season and has signed for League Two side Wycombe Wanderers. He is set to make his debut against the Royals in a pre season friendly on Saturday after signing a one year contract.
Another ex defender Liam Rosenior was offered the chance to go on trial at Steve Coppell's Bristol City but the right back has decided he is better than that and will not lower himself to go on trial. He could well have another club lined up.
And one that I totally missed was Nicky Forster returning to Brentford after leaving Brighton. Good luck Fozzie!


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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Isringhausen is getting closer to landing a spot on roster
Isringhausen threw a scoreless inning Friday in the Mets' 10-0 victory over the Marlins and lowered his spring ERA to 1.80. A comeback that seemed unlikely when he signed with the Mets after a tryout Feb. 15 is inching closer to reality.
Isringhausen's first pitch was a fastball clocked at 93 miles per hour, which, he said, probably won't get any faster. With 293 career saves, he doesn't need to prove he knows how to pitch. He needs to prove he can stay healthy. And not just to the Mets.
Isringhausen, 38, who broke in with the Mets as a starter in 1995, last pitched in the majors in 2009 — only eight games with the Rays before undergoing Tommy John surgery. While healing, he wasn't sure whether he was going to try to play again this season.
Isringhausen has reached out to several of those players as a mentor, a notion that would have seemed inconceivable to anyone who knew him back in the hard-charging mid-1990s, when he was part phenom, part court jester.
Any one of the escapades and misadventures early in his career would be the stuff of legend for many players. For Isringhausen, they were just mileposts along the winding path of his 14-year major league career.
Now Isringhausen sits with his back to his locker, often in an almost grandfatherly pose, hands on his knees, looking at teammates. They are all younger than he is, and most of them are not as talented as he once was nor as wild, but many are drawn to him.
Over the past few weeks he has spoken to Ike Davis about pitch selection and has shown John Lujan how to throw his signature knuckle curve. He has also taken a special interest in Mike Pelfrey, prodding him to be more assertive as a leader.
"I told him, 'Hey, show me how,' " Pelfrey said. "I really hope he makes the team because he brings a lot of leadership."
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Friday March 5, 2010
She's made many outlandish fashion choices in the past, and this week Rihanna was living up to her reputation with another eye-catching wardrobe choice.
Making an appearance at Germany's ECHO Awards, the 22-year-old wore an Alexandre Vauthier jumpsuit, complete with this season's trendy lifted shoulders and a plunging neckline.
The Umbrella star performed her new single, Rude Boy, at the event, too. Surrounded by robots kissing her and cheekily pinching her derrière, Rihanna proved a big talking point for fans at the ceremony.
Also in attendance at the annual bash was Robbie Williams, who picked up an award for Best International Male, and British soul singer Sade.


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Important notes: This is an exciting time. We're doing a major reevaluation. There may be big changes in the End Poverty Campaign and other projects. .
For most activities, we require at least a year of experience - and several years for some activities. Except for those with high level, professional skills, we ask most volunteers to average at least 15 hours a week. Some exceptions to these guidelines are possible. You can speak with us about this before you come in.
Below is important information on volunteering and what you can gain here. Please read it completely before your info session.
This page is also important before your info session.
You can help from anywhere on Earth (and elsewhere if you can manage a phone, fax or e-mail connection).
Help fulfill Our Mission with the End Poverty CampaignSM and other programs, using creativity and innovation to encourage public service.
Utilize your abilities, sharpen your skills and grow in new areas. Learn while helping others make a difference.
Small is good
This smaller size offers you opportunities to directly work with our president and others. We get plenty done for our size, and we're very responsive to new ideas. Our offices are not luxurious, but we are very friendly and welcoming.
Sapna, a Hearts & Minds volunteer, enjoying gaining experience while helping us help millions of people
Skills and experience
Foreigners welcome
If your English is limited, your activities with us may be limited. We can arrange an assessment by phone or Skype (ours is: greatchange), before you decide whether to visit our office.
Volunteering with us provides excellent opportunities to further improve your English skills. We have many recommendations how to advance your skills with any language.
Develop skills
All volunteers are always welcome to let us know how we can improve their experiences and our organization's work.
We're officially open for volunteers 1 PM - 6 PM Mondays, 10 AM - 6 PM Tuesdays and Thursdays, and 10 AM - 3 PM Fridays. Substantial additional hours including evenings and weekends may be available for selected volunteers.
There are ways we help our volunteers and interns. We do not provide housing, but here is some helpful advice.
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doing valuable research for the End Poverty Campaign.
Unpaid internships, co-ops and
We also offer Leadership Opportunities for more ambitious individuals.
Students may fulfill community service or internship requirements and gain valuable experience. Course credit and independent study are possible in collaboration with your school. Here's more info.
Volunteers under age 18 can participate in most of the same activities as our older volunteers. They need a parent or legal guardian to co-sign our Volunteer Policies.
Hearts & Minds works with volunteers age 14 or older - and even some who are younger if always accompanied by a parent or guardian, who are also welcome to attend our info session and meet our president.
We will gladly consider installing additional software or equipment to make your experience here more comfortable, effective and fulfilling.
For hearing impaired individuals, we usually communicate by typing on a computer. This has worked well so far.
For visually impaired, if you can touch type, there may be extensive things you can do on our computers.
For physically challenged individuals, this may include regular
meetings in a fully accessible part of the building that houses our
offices. We may also set you up with a wireless connection to our
computer network there.
Mentally and psychologically challenged individuals: Please talk with Bill first, so we can decide what opportunities are best for you.
Required community service: We appreciate these volunteers, and they often make a valuable contribution. We also welcome court-ordered volunteering, but not for all alleged crimes. A few other special conditions also apply: more info.
Pay, expenses, costs and fees
For most volunteers, there are no application charges.
We ask our volunteers to make monthly donations on a sliding scale. Those of limited means may give $5 a month, if they can. The amount is up to you, based on what you can readily afford. For well-off volunteers, we appreciate your considering a donation of $100 a month or more.
Our preference is for you to set up an automatic, monthly donation here. You can always discontinue this. You can also donate at our office. Please do not send cash by mail.
You are not expected to start donating before your second time volunteering, and your info session doesn't have to count. There is a larger minimum for some required community service volunteers: more info.
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A 25-year-old woman died Sunday after a boating accident on the Ogeechee River.
Police and EMS responded to King's Ferry boat ramp off U.S. 17 for the call at 5:23 p.m. Shana Crozier of Savannah was pronounced dead at the scene, said Capt. Doug Lewis of the state Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division.
Lewis said investigators were told a boat went under a train trestle east of the ramp in the Ogeechee River in Chatham County when Crozier was hit by the trestle.
"From my understanding, she stood up in the boat and hit the trestle," Lewis said at the scene Sunday evening.
He said the trestle overpass was closer to the water due to high water levels, but the investigation is still in its preliminary stages. There were other occupants in the boat, which Lewis said was about 18 feet in length.
"(We are) just trying to identify the correct boat operator, gather any evidence that we can find, help the family in any way we can, and just try to bring some closure," he said.
Investigators with the DNR and assisting officers from the Savannah-Chatham police department were still on scene about 9 p.m. Sunday, and no further information was released Sunday night.
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Quincy Asian Resources, Inc. (QARI) Free Legal Clinic Immigration, Family Law, Landlord/Tenant, Personal Injury and Criminal Attorneys.
WHAT: QARI will host a free monthly legal clinic addressing individual concerns over immigration law, landlord/tenant law, family law, personal injury and criminal issues.
- Quincy-based attorney Gabriel Cheong will be on hand to answer questions about divorce.
- Immigration Attorney Jane Chiang of Sedna Law, P.C.
- Landlord/Tenant Attorney Mary Lee
- Employment/Workforce Attorney Kenneth An and Han Fang
- Immigration/Landlord/Tenant Attorney Kim Thai
- Personal Injury and Criminal Attorney Jason Chan
They will offer individual attention and advice to dozens in the community.
WHEN: Monday, April 28, 2014, 6- 8 p.m. and every 4th Monday of the month.
Upcoming Clinics:
Monday, April 28, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Monday, July 28, 2014
Monday, August 25. 2014
WHERE: 1509 Hancock Street, Suite 209, Quincy, MA 02169.
More information is available on www.quincyasianresources.org or contact us at 617-472-2200.
Quincy Asian Resources, Inc.– a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the development of the Asian-American community to benefit the entire community. We have staff and volunteers fluent in English, Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, and Toisanese. For more information about QARI's programs and projects, please contact QARI at 617-472-2200 or
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When I made the appointment for my very first facial, I never imagined I was signing up to be berated for two hours by an esthetician. I always thought the condition of your skin was just something you're either born with, or wealthy enough to afford expensive cosmetic procedures to fix. Unfortunately, I was not born rich or perfect looking so I sort of stopped caring about conforming to an ideal a long time ago.
Apparently I was totally wrong. Unlike the rest of your body, the skin on your face is actually a product of your mannerisms and habits, and even small adjustments can totally alter the quality of your skin. So today my shame is your gain, as I will condense my beautician's chastisements into 5 simple steps you too can take to get a flawless face. For the record, I have tried all 5, and can truly say that they work!
Unlike the skin on the rest of our bodies which is protected by clothing, our face is out in the open, all the time. This means that most of us touch our faces more than any other part of our bodies. We touch our faces with our hands and fingers, which apparently are always filthy. Everytime you touch your face, you are rubbing all the dirt and grease and bacteria that is on your fingers, into the delicate pores on your face, creating a perfect environment for a blemish. Gross.
Changing an unconscious mannerism is difficult. Once you become aware of it, you'll be shocked at how often you touch your face throughout the day. I just keep my esthetician's lecture about how dirty my hands are in my head, and that pretty much curbs any desire I have to let my fingers wander anywhere near my face.
- Cut Back on Dairy Products
As a former vegan, I already knew about the negative effects of dairy on the human body. After all, it is unnatural for mammals to drink breast milk after infancy. But, I had no idea that dairy products like milk and cheese can compromise your complexion. According to my esthetician, Patricia Plikshe, your body cannot properly break down dairy products (this is why so many people are lactose intolerant). When your body is unable to completely process stuff like junk food and dairy, it comes out in your skin. I guess you really are what you eat!
Another reason why dairy is so problematic, is because most large scale dairy farmers inject their cows with heavy amounts of hormones to keep them perpetually lactating. The added hormones get secreted into the cow's milk, which then goes into our bodies when we drink it. This extra jolt of hormones we get from milk wreaks havoc on our complexions. I have since switched to soy milk and stopped eating cheese. Guess what? I lost weight AND got clearer skin. Win/win!
- Throw Out Cheap Products
This is where money gets involved, folks. To my shock and horror, those cheap, 5 dollar face lotions I had been buying at the grocery store were one of my main problems! Cheap products are filled with ingredients your skin can't absorb. Many lotions even contain petroleum. Yup, the same crude oil found in gasoline is going onto your face if you penny pinch in the cosmetics department. When your skin can't absorb this stuff, it just kinda fills up your pores, causing tiny white bumps and small cysts on the skin known as mila. Once mila forms, you need to exfoliate and use a good product with glycolic acid to get rid of them.
Trust me people, it's worth it to shell out the 25 extra bucks on the high quality, all natural products recommended by your esthetician. Spending some extra cash, means you no longer have to put lotion laced with gasoline on your sensitive face think about it.
- Watch How You Wash
Since our faces are constantly exposed to the elements, and absorbing whatever grossness is on our fingers, your face requires a more thorough washing than you might think. Even if you use high quality face wash, in order for it to be completely effective, you should rub the soap into your skin for 60-90 seconds per wash. Taking the extra two minutes to wash properly is like giving yourself a mini-facial everyday. The results will surprise you!
Also, I was dismayed to hear from my esthetician that I had to perform the whole face washing ritual twice a day. I'm a pretty low maintenance chick who rarely even goes to the salon for a haircut, so hearing that I had to end and start each day with pampering my face was not good news. The first question I asked was, "Why do I have to wash my face before and after I go to bed? How could my face get dirty while I'm asleep?" (Obviously I'm not a model client). Well, apparently your body detoxes when you sleep and pushes impurities out through your pores. If you don't wash your face right when you wake up, then all those toxins just sit there on top of your skin. Eww.
- Don't Try and "Do it Yourself"
The most common way people destroy their skin is by trying to pop blemishes themselves. Trying to be your own esthetician will do irreversible damage to your pores, and will only make your complexion worse in the long run. Besides, you are never supposed to touch your face, remember? Doing this can cause infections and create permanent scars. The amount of force that is created by two fingers pressing down and breaking skin, will surely leave a scar that will be far more unsightly than letting a little pimple run its course.
I recommend just letting an esthetician handle what goes on with your face. During a facial, they will safely perform "extractions" if they feel it will not do damage to the skin. Let the fate of your face rest in the hands of a qualified professional!
Jessica Ruane is a freelance blogger for Instant Checkmate. She specializes in writing about personal growth, beauty, social media, and more. Follow more of Jessica's work on Google+ and ChrunchBase.


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Music Theory tends to focus almost exclusively on harmony, and this blog is no exception, but the rhythmic dimension of music often gets the shaft. Rhythm is the means by which melody and harmony make themselves known. Rhythm may be the most important of the three when determining how to distinguish different musical genres. (Of course, it's easier to just talk about their respective fashion styles.) Let's face it, most music sounds the same and relies on the same 7-note diatonic scale, and so it has been for 80,000 years when the oldest bear bone flute was discovered with the same major scale finger-holes that exist today. The 'feel' of a musical genre is paramount for deciding whether something is funky, rocking, or jazzy, especially when they use the same scale with small melodic jumps in steps, and the same stacks of harmonies in thirds and fifths. Maybe we avoid it, because ryhthymn is so darn hard to spell.
Classical music reflects this emphasis on harmony and melody over rhythm, which is probably why it's so boring. Beethoven is a master of all three dimensions, but where's the drum beats? Most classical music for centuries has sounded floaty and lofty, noted for its extreme lack of interesting percussion parts. It's almost exciting for kids who want to play snare drum in music class, until they notice there's scarcely a notehead or two on their score containing endless bars of rest. Get used to counting, kiddies—that's where the music lies, between the aching chasms of Cageian silence.
Much of Stravinsky's appeal comes from his experiments with polyrhythms, but his most famous passage in "Rite of Spring" is a deliberate technical exercise much like math rock music that only seems to appeal to musicians for its cerebral character. A passage played by a genius, full of off-beats and dissonances, signifying nothing (save a Pagan sex-magick ritual).
And what of Jazz? Jazz schmazz! Ting ta-ta ting. The soloist may have got rhythm, and the drummer will drop some surprise bombs on the kick and snare, but for the most part, they are locked into an even measure as dictated by the pinging ride cymbal and the bassline walking in quarter beats.
All music is dance music, as I always say, and today this is overly apparent in the ubiquitous four-on-the-flour mentality heard in everything from indie rock to EDM. It's all about longing for the comforting heart-beat of the mother womb, beating "lub dub lub dub", as well as the security of the steady steed—4/4 horse beats. And that's certainly ok. I get that—the whole Freudian thing. It's cool and all. But there's so much more out there, so let us turn our ears towards the consummate musical decade—the proggy fusiony rock 'n' roll of the early 70s.
Behold and hearken: Mahavishnu John McLaughlin and his Mahavishnu Orchestra! Below is the opening drum bar to "Vital Transformation" off the 1971 album Inner Mounting Flame (love those New Agey titles!). The beat is in 9/8, played by Billy Cobham, and is just about the tastiest thing ever. But to look at it, we will have to come face to face with the dreaded drum notation. Click on the score to play/stop.
Don't worry if the above don't make no sense. Nobody can make sense of this, unless they slow it down to baby-speed and count like an obsessive compulsive walking on a brick sidewalk. Follow the 1′s—they light up on the first beat of every measure. There are 4 measures total. The top Xs stand for the hi-hat, the middle Cs for the snare drum, and the low Ds for the kick drum.
What can I say about this, besides that I want to marry this drum beat? Is it dancey? Well, probably for Sherman Hemsley trippin' on CIA-grade LSD, dancing interpretively in his Prog Room. But that sounds like a Saw death-trap for most listeners out there.
If this has inspired you to seek out non-normative rhythms, then please do listen to the full Mahavishnu song below. And if you've heard it all already before, then I triple-dog dare you to tap along.
Have you riddim? Have you beat? Then feel free to post any exciting odd-time music in the comments below.


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So many of these players aren't " happy". There are millions who would commit mayhem in order to play in the Majors, let alone compete in the W.S. Too, too many malcontents; flipping bats, throwing helmets, kicking water coolers, frowning at opposing players, etc. Oh yeah. I forgot. The average major league salary is in excess of 4,000,00.00. It's no wonder they are not " happy ".
If it was just about the money, they wouldn't care enough to be unhappy. A competitor wants to compete in those big moments. I'm quite certain he wasn't thinking about his salary when he was taken out of the game. Pretty silly way to think. In addition, cooler kicking, helmet throwing, and other attitudes were just as bad in the 50's as they are today. Mickey Mantle wanted to quit baseball after he was sent down to the minors. All those guys were BOMBED every night of the week. No one talked about at the time because there were no cameras, phones, and social media hovering over athletes 24/7. Reggie Jackson was a huge asshole too. The list goes on and on.
WAA,WAA,WAA. Oh, Mr. Manager, Coach, GM, agent. I'm unhappy today. You didn't play me or tell me I'm not playing or took me out before I deemed it appropriate. I'm so upset I don't think I'll need my $100.00 per day meal money because my tummy is upset & my nerves are shot. Yup. Slo-mo, close-ups, social media, blah,blah,blah, etc. is the reason. And, I didn't say it was about the money. I simply used it as a reference. Many, many players make well in excess of $4,000,000.00 and some of them act like morons too. Yes, they are all competitors and want to play every day. Obviously. However, it's team game, not an individual performance at Carnegie Hall. Baseball is slowly becoming like the NFL circus.
Rich Hill was a 35 year old has been, playing independent ball, pitched in the W.S. made $12,000,000.00 for 2017, & he's unhappy? Now that makes a lot of sense.
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He was pissed because he wanted to stay in the game, perform, and help his team win. No admiration for that? Salary has nothing to do with it.
Nope. No admiration as you put it. ALL pitchers want to stay in, regardless of their performance. Say OK to the manager, who is the field boss, go back to the dugout and be thankful that your career was resurrected and you got to pitch in the W.S. In the minds of most fans, salary has a lot to do with everything. Do you read the posts on this forum?
A guy is not on the mound of a game 6 thinking about his age or his paycheck. Sports are filled with emotion. Some show it in different ways than others. He's not the first, nor will he be the last pitcher to get upset about being taken out of a game when he was pitching well.
You never answered my question.
I guess you feel the same when Lundqvist who is making a shit ton of money is pissed when he's pulled? The emotion they exhibit has nothing to do with money and all to do with pride, winning and being in the moment. On one hand you will complain that a player doesn't care and just collecting a paycheck and on the other, you will complain that he should just shut up, not show emotion and be thankful he's getting paid.
Don't feed the trolls
I was just making a like for like comparison. Pretty sure those death stares come during warmups as well.
End of discussion as it is going nowhere.
Couldve sworn Ive heard Lundqvist call out the team in front of him once or twice before. But yes, you can end the discussion as it is another form of waving the white flag
When a goalie is pulled it's almost always due to a poor performance. You can't say the same for a pitching change.


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9 Bad Boys of Business: The Class of 2012
Christopher Witrak
A list of notable kleptomaniacs, pathological liars, incompetent businessmen, and narcissists from last year's headlines.
US attorneys' offices had a record-setting year collecting money for damages from civil and criminal cases in 2012,
taking in a total $13.1 billion in criminal and civil actions, according to a recently
released report.
Last year the offices confiscated $6.5 billion, not even half as much.
US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, which covers Manhattan, alone reported a haul of $2.98 billion in forfeitures, the largest amount since the Department of Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund launched in 1984. Plus, the office acquired $526.7 million from civil actions and $76.8 million in restitution, fines, and special assessments. (A large portion of this massive amount came from the settlements related to the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.)
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Inside Five of the Most Pervasive Investment Scams
It should come as no surprise that the district containing Wall Street saw the largest catch. Since the financial crash in 2007, US attorneys from southern New York have handled some of the largest asset forfeitures ever, and have prosecuted a high volume of white-collar crimes in the world's financial capital. (View the Department of Justice's statistics
Below are a list of other high-profile pathological liars, kleptomaniacs, narcissists, bad businessmen and women, and swindlers from the financial industry and other sectors who made headlines in 2012.
Scott Thompson
(NASDAQ:YHOO) CEO Steve Thompson wanted his position at the Internet company a little too badly.
Thompson resigned in May of 2012 when a major institutional shareholder of Yahoo called attention to his misrepresentation of his
college record. Thompson claimed he had a degree in accounting and computer science from Stonehill College in Massachusetts, but activist shareholder
Daniel Loeb
of the hedge fund Third Point brought to the attention of the Yahoo board that Stonehill College did not offer a degree in computer science until four years after Thompson graduated in 1983. Oops.
Yahoo first responded to the claim, calling it an "inadvertent error" and later released a statement saying it
Thompson as a "highly qualified executive with a successful track record leading large consumer technology companies."
During the following week, though, Thompson's facade crumbled.
Thompson initially attempted to blame the "error" on an alleged mistake printed on his resume by the headhunting firm Heidrick & Struggles when
(NYSE:EBAY) hired him for a job. Heidrick caught Thompson lying again, though, and promptly released an internal memo stating that Thompson's claim was "
verifiably not true
" within a week of the accusation. Heidrick also notified the Yahoo board that it still had the resume in question in its possession.
In addition to this damning piece of evidence, the struggling Internet company also faced calls for Thompson's removal among executives and engineers in the company.
Amid the pressure, Thompson officially resigned and ended his brief five-month tenure at the company after revealing he had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer. He never admitted to lying, though.
Raj Gupta
You know you're important in the financial community when the prosecution calls
Goldman Sachs
(NYSE:GS) CEO Lloyd Blankfein and former
Procter & Gamble
(NYSE:PG) CEO A.G. Lafley to testify in your case.
In 2008, Raj Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director, helped some be greedy when others were fearful (to borrow Warren Buffett's famous adage), and the federal government caught him during its crackdown on insider trading following the financial crisis. Amid a collapsing financial system, Warren Buffett had ploughed $5 billion into Goldman Sachs stock. Gupta
slipped knowledge
of the deal
to Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund manager and founder of the former Galleon Group, whom law authorities also caught using the tips for insider trading. (See also
The 10 Corporate Criminals With the Longest Prison Sentences
The federal grand jury originally
Gupta of one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud and five counts of securities fraud in October of 2011.
Gupta liked playing the role of an information broker, building "
friendships and elite business relationships
." Prosecutors had a
of Rajaratnam bragging to associates that he had received insider information, though Rajaratnam did not officially reveal his source of information. The wiretaps helped bolster the circumstantial evidence of
phone records,
showing that Gupta frequently called Rajaratnam after receiving confidential information.
Federal officials have been using wiretaps since 2009 to help acquire more substantial evidence rather than basing insider-trading cases on purely circumstantial evidence. According to the
Wall Street Journal
, prosecutors dealing with insider trading saw this win as a big victory because it showed they could successfully prosecute insider-trading cases without the use of wiretaps.
Last June, a federal jury
Gupta guilty of three counts of securities fraud and one count of conspiracy tied to the information shared with Rajaratnam. In the fall, a Manhattan federal judge
Gupta to two years in jail. The prosecutors had called for 10 years.
The lighter sentence may have something to do with
a couple of letters
the judge received on Gupta's behalf: one from
(NASDAQ:MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates and another from former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Gupta also had to pay a $5 million fine.
John McAfee
John McAfee's story has captured so much attention that Warner Bros. has plans to make
a movie
about it.
Guatemalan officials detained the
eccentric founder
and former owner of McAfee software for illegally entering the country in December of last year. Up until that point, McAfee's bigger concern had been evading an investigation into the death of 52-year-old Greg Faull.
Faull and McAfee lived next to each other on the remote northern part of the beautiful island of Ambergris Caye, 36 miles off the coast of Belize mainland. (CNN wrote a good piece describing the McAfee's
millionaire residential compound
.) The two had irreconcilable differences, though.
McAfee owned many dogs, which Faull disliked because of their aggressive behavior and loud barking. On November 9, McAfee reported to police that Faull had poisoned his dogs. McAfee then shot his pets in the back of the head to end their misery, according to one his seven girlfriends. Two days later, police found Faull dead in his second floor living room. A gunshot wound to the head had ended his life.
The police understandably wanted to question McAfee about the Faull's death; however, he refused to comply and went into hiding.
From that point, his story grows increasingly bizarre.
McAfee has provided a look into his escapades by regularly writing convoluted posts to his John McAfee blog, which he launched after going on the run. (View it
.) He has also taken his case to the media, appearing on
and Alex Jones' show
According to his side of the story, the Belizean government has harassed him for not supporting the major political parties and resisting shakedowns. In April of this year, 42 soldiers raided his house for allegedly running a meth lab and owning illegal guns but found nothing illegal. McAfee demanded the prime minister of Belize make an official apology, and this demand apparently insulted the political figure. The government then framed McAfee through Faull's death, according to McAfee.
He has offered $25,000 to anyone who finds the real killer of Faull.
Doubts have been raised, though, because of his odd behavior and unbelievable stories.
His most recent
from January 2 details how he "trained" 29 men and women to become friendly with important government officials, usually by sleeping with them. During his James Bond training work, he says of his spies, "Eight of the women were so accomplished that they ended up living with me." McAfee had given his targets in the government laptops with invisible keystroke logging software, and the spies supposedly installed software on the computers that gave McAfee access to their documents.
What alleged discovery did this clandestine operation turn up?
In McAfee's own words, "Belize is clearly the central player in a larger network whose goal is to infiltrate the US with individuals having links to terrorist organizations."
After another series of plot twists, he has settled in Portland, Oregon, where he hopes to write a graphic novel about his life. You can read the rest of his story
Ira Rubin
Ira Rubin dropped his poker face for US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in January of this year when he pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges related to illegal gambling, bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering on behalf of three online gaming sites.
Rubin will face
three years
for helping PokerStars, Full Tilt Poker, and Absolute Poker hide the true nature of their transactions with US poker players from US legal authorities and banks.
What's wrong with a little Internet poker, you ask?
The Federal government banned banks from processing payments to offshore gaming sites with the
Unlawful Internet Gambling Act of 2006
. Ireland-based Full Tilt Poker, Isle of Man-based PokerStars, and Costa Rica-based Absolute Poker decided to circumvent the law and concealed billions of dollars in payments from US gamblers with the help of Rubin in addition to the 10 others tied to the scandal.
The Department of Justice also filed a civil suit, and PokerStars agreed to pay $731 million to settle the case.
Rubin helped list the payments as money wired to nonexistent merchants for items such as
golf balls, flowers, and jewelry
. He also aided in the fabrication of credit card payments.
This con artist has a long history of theft and swindling people out of money, going back to his teenage years when he engaged in petty theft. By the time he began working for the three companies, he had assembled a good resume for wire fraud and working in the black market.
No stranger to prison, he saw jail time on multiple occasions for passing bad checks while running a T-shirt business, for wire fraud for selling collectible cars that he did not possess, and for running a telemarketing scheme.
Judge Kaplan called Rubin an "unreformed con man and fraudster" and said he would likely leave prison "trying to cook up some new scheme that in all likelihood will be illegal." As a result, Kaplan handed Rubin three years, longer than the 18 to 24 months established in the sentencing guidelines .
Timothy Durham
Former National Lampoon CEO Timothy Shawn "Tim" Durham made a mockery of the individuals who invested in his commercial financing firm Fair Finance.
Over 5,000 clients of the firm
most of the $208 million collectively investing in Durham's poorly named Ponzi scheme between 2005
and 2009. Durham and his two associates James Cochran and Rick Snow spent the money collected from investors and loaned it to their other businesses.
Durham served as CEO of several companies acquired by the Indianapolis-based buyout firm Obsidian Enterprises, of which he also served as the CEO. Obsidian bought Fair Finance in 2002.
The trio used their clients' money to buy mansions, classic cars, and other luxury items. Durham became known for
lavish parties at his 30,000-square-foot mansion in Fortville, Indiana. One of his most noted bashes -- a Playboy Manison-themed birthday gala -- included 30 glamour models and several Indianapolis Colts players among 1,000 invitees. Customer funds also financed grand parties in Los Angeles, Miami, and on Durham's yacht in the Caribbean.
The depraved fun ended in 2009 when FBI agents raided the offices of Obsidian and Fair Finance, and the US Attorney's Office indicted the three partners with one count of conspiracy to commit wire and securities fraud, 10 counts of wire fraud, and one count of securities fraud. US District Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson
Durham to 50 years in prison after a jury convicted him of all charges in November of last year. For his crimes, Durham
will serve
the longest white-collar fraud sentence in Indiana history.
Among their clients, Fair Finance counted many elderly individuals planning on using the stolen money they had invested for retirement. Barbara Lukacik, a 74-year-old nun from Ohio,
$125,000 in the collapse of the firm.
Durham's attorney tried convincing the jury that Fair Finance struggled through the 2008 financial crisis, and that investors had run with their money when regulators placed the firm under scrutiny.
Judge Magnus-Stinson wasn't convinced, however, saying about Durham, "He has earned a place among the greediest, most selfish and remorseless of criminals." Although he apologized, Durham did not appear truly remorseful. Now a broken man, Judge Magnus-Stinson will allow Durham to file an appeal as
an indigent
Mike Lynch and HP Executives
(NYSE:HPQ) executives and employees embody incompetence, or former
(PINK:AUTNF) CEO Michael Lynch is a pathological liar.
investors when it announced in November of last year $8.8 billion in charges related to its $11.1 billion acquisition of
Autonomy in August of 2011. Investors promptly sent the stock to 10-year lows on the news.
HP took a $5 billion write-down on the value of the company and alleged that Autonomy engaged in serious "accounting improprieties, disclosure failures, and outright misrepresentations." How did HP executives miss this amount of financial fraud, though?
HP claims it could not have had knowledge of Autonomy's hijinks.
No one has officially been found guilty of any crimes yet, but HP points fingers at Lynch. HP stated it began its own investigation "after a senior member of Autonomy's leadership team came forward, following the departure of Autonomy founder Mike Lynch, alleging that there had been a series of questionable accounting and business practices at Autonomy prior to the acquisition by HP." According to
, a source from within HP said, "There was really sketchy accounting going on," speaking of Autonomy's books.
Lynch vociferously denies HP's accusations and recently
, "HP has again failed [to] publish any explanation of the serious allegations. It is now less clear how much of the $5 billion write-down is in fact being attributed to the alleged accounting issues, and how much to other changes in business performance and earnings projections."
The Department of Justice
has opened
a probe into the scandal, and investors have filed a class-action lawsuit against HP. Lynch says he will comply with the investigation.
Paul Burks
In one way, Paul Burks has earned the ignominious title of operating a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madoff.
While the website ZeekRewards.com lost $600 million, which pales in comparison to the $64.8 billion stolen by Madoff, its closure in August of this year by the Securities and Exchange Commission has impacted more than 1 million of its investors. Madoff worked for 4,800
Burks' company Rex Venture Group ran ZeekRewards.com, and the ZeeksRewards scam began in early 2011. The website had 2.2 million members, and it offered several ways to earn money through the ZeekRewards program. Two
purchasing contracts that were not registered with the SEC. Allegedly, the website promised investors 50% of the company's daily net profits through a profit-sharing system in which they accumulated reward points that could be received as a cash payout or rolled over to compound for better returns.
The scam required investors to roll over their points to keep it functional.
Federal investigators said ZeekRewards made false claims of profitability and that the company owed investors much more than the company's cash position. Stephen Cohen, an associate director of the SEC's enforcement division
, "ZeekRewards misused the power of the Internet and lured investors by making them believe they were getting an opportunity to cash in on the next big thing. In reality, their cash was just going to the earlier investors."
The SEC said 98% of the money invested in ZeekRewards
ended up
covering the payouts for the higher-up affiliates, making the company a pyramid scheme. In July of this year, ZeekRewards brought in $162 million and paid out $160 million, but an increase in requests for cash payouts would have pushed the company into insolvency.
Burks personally cashed in on this intricate scheme by siphoning several million dollars of investors' funds. He also distributed $1 million to family members.
Although he has avoided any jail time, Burks has agreed to settle charges with the SEC and pay a penalty of $4 million. As for his involvement in the mess, he did not
admit or deny any of the allegations
Sung Kook "Bill" Hwang
Tiger Asia Management under the leadership of Bill Hwang performed well in 2011, securing a 8.6% return when the average hedge fund
5%. Last year was rough for the fund, and Tiger Asia Partners (the other hedge fund founded by Hwang), though. Rather than seeing returns of any sort, both funds settled a costly insider trading case.
In 2001, Hwang founded both "Tiger Cubs," an appellation given by Wall Street to funds started by protégés of Julian Robertson. Robertson himself
had managed
the former Tiger Management, and Hwang was Robertson's top Asia manager.
Facing federal charges, Hwang admitted in December that the firm illegally traded using insider information and pleaded guilty to wire fraud. The fund used nonpublic information received through private placement offerings to sell short shares of the
Bank of China
China Construction Bank
, and one other stock. Then the funds covered the short positions with private placement shares purchased at a significant discount to the stocks' market price. (View the SEC press release
Under the control of head trader Raymond Y. H. Park, Tiger Asia Management used the information provided by the three investment banks to time the trades when Tiger Asia had made legal agreements that it would not utilize the non-public information to execute the trades.
In a separate act, Hwang and Park established a manipulative trading scheme that produced $496,000 in fake management fees.
To settle the case, Tiger Asia
$16.3 million, the amount gained from illegal trades executed from December of 2008 to January of 2009. Hwang will not do any jail time and remained silent on his civil allegations, but he and Park will have to pay $8.3 million in penalties each, separate from the penalty placed on Tiger Asia. The total settlement reached $44 million.
Regulators in Japan and Hong Kong
have also begun
pursuing legal action against Tiger Asia for manipulating the market.
Tom Hayes
Suspicions of Libor rate rigging had existed for years, and the scandal finally made headlines last June when Barclays reached a $450 million settlement with regulators in Washington and London. After months of investigations, prosecutors have begun making their first charges against individuals.
Officials from the US Department of Justice have focused on Tom Hayes (photo unavailable) in their investigation. In the UK, the
Serious Fraud Office and City of London Police
arrested Hayes last month along with two others in the first arrests tied to the rate-rigging scandal.
Former British
(NYSE:UBS) trader Tom Hayes faces
of wire fraud and price-fixing for manipulating the yen Libor rate while working at the firm from 2006 to 2009. Hayes also must answer to charges of conspiracy to manipulate the interbank lending rate with his former peer Roger Darin, who was a onetime short-term interest-rates trader at UBS.
Other individuals from UBS have been
, too. However, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
, "The volume of unlawful requests submitted by one particular senior yen derivative trader dwarfed them all." The one trader made at least 800 requests to UBS's yen Libor rate-setters, about 100 requests to traders at other banks, and 1,200 requests to interdealer brokers to alter the rates.
The CFTC has not officially specified who requested these manipulations, but the Department of Justice has pretty damning evidence against Hayes.
chat messages
between Hayes and Darin obtained by investigators have Hayes asking Darin:
"Hi roger i have a 500k usd fix in 6m today, can we try to keep it on the low side pls?"
In another example, he had switched to
(NYSE:C) and asked an interdealer broker on March 3, 2010:
"Any favours you can get with [Bank C Submitter] would be much appreciated ... even if [the Bank C Submitter] only move 3m down 1bp."
The broker replied, "Libor lower ;)"
Rebekah Brooks
Rebekah Brooks has made the list as the one women who belongs in the company of these bad boys of business.
Brooks ran News International,
News Corp.'s
(NASDAQ:NWS) UK news unit, as its CEO until July of 2011 when she found herself at the
center of the defunct
News of the World
phone-hacking scandal
. Brooks resigned in that month as the chief executive of News International when it became known that
News of the World
hacked the voicemail messages of kidnapped and murdered 13-year-old Milly Dowler.
Brooks has been brought to court for other charges in addition to the phone hacking.
At a preliminary hearing in London last month, Brooks faced accusations of conspiracy to intercept communications, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, and conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office.
Prime Minister David Cameron's former communications director Andy Coulson and veteran
journalist John Kay along with Brooks stand
of conspiracy to pay approximately 100,000 British pounds for information from a Defense Ministry Official. The information formed the basis of several news stories between 2004 and 2011.
Bribing a public official carries a potentially
hefty jail sentence
of 10 years in prison.
News Corp. does take care of its own, though. News International paid Brooks 10.9 million British pounds. It officially stated that it made the payment to "
one director as compensation for loss of office
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Creditors to Get Seven Buildings With $1.06 Billion in Debt; Vacancies and Falling Rents Pressure Landlords
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Maguire Properties Inc., one of the largest office-building owners in Southern California, is planning to hand over control of seven buildings with some $1.06 billion in debt to creditors, the latest sign that rising vacancies and falling rents are causing stress in the commercial real-estate sector.
Maguire, which borrowed heavily during the go-go years to make disastrous...