text: On 7 Jan 2003, Randall Jouett wrote: > OK. I'll shut up and do my homework, Robert :^). > I'll just answer a few more e-mails that were > posted to the list (mainly to complete my thoughts), > and then I'll be quiet and study :^). OTOH, one has > to admit that at least a few of my remarks has stimulated > list activity between members. Do I at least get a C+ > for my random-number idea? :^) As a genuine professor, I award you with a C+ on the basis of noise, effort, and (perhaps excessive:-) enthusiasm. It's not a C- not so much because of the random-number idea per se, but for creative thinking, however wrong. Now, also as an honest-to-god professor who has to start preparing to "teach" tomorrow morning any minute now, I'll tell you what I'm going to tell my new crop of students: Spontaneous thought and idea-kicking-around is indeed a component of learning, but: a) Nobody can teach you anything. Not even me. At best we can help you learn, but even that will work only to the extent that you have made YOURSELF ready by the application of the fundamental precepts of (self) discipline. b) You therefore must first learn to teach, to discipline, yourself. c) Teaching yourself, learning, discipline, is difficult (but rewarding and fun!) work and a serious enterprise. One important step is to control the interior monologue and think through your ideas on your own before offering them up -- a bit of sorting and filtering here decreases the noise level of the communications channel and is generally a good thing. Another is to use YOUR time and study FIRST -- read up on things, draw pictures, TRY to understand on your own. Get to the point of marginal frustration, stop, study, and try again to the point of marginal frustration for a cycle or two. Recognize that true satori is always the result of, and satisfying to, the extent of this investment of time. In many cases, proper application of this ritual will lead one to a steady stream of satori in this or any other discipline, especially if one has a playground/cluster/computer to use for self-imposed "homework". It is, by the way, also useful should you wish to study zen, history, mathematics, physics, a language. ONLY WHERE IT HAS BEEN TRIED AND APPLIED AND FAILS can the next step be fruitfully applied: d) When a problem refuses to resolve, a thorny concept fails to become clear AFTER you've worked to the point of frustration several times, THEN ask for help from a Perfect Master (where you can assume that this list contains many PM's and a few bozos, where it has long been established -- in the FAQ yet -- that I'm a bozo;-). At that point, with the ground fruitfully prepared by your efforts and studies, Enlightenment can often be brought about with the proverbial whack upon the head with a manual or a finger pointed at an Enter key. Before that point, especially if the question has a trivial answer, you are more likely to be whacked on the head with a sucker rod (read, e.g. man syslogd) and told to RTFM. Of course, I will summarize this tomorrow as: "If you don't read the physics textbook like a bloody novel before you go to bed at night and work on your impossibly difficult homework assignments with ritualistic religious fervor, you ain't gonna learn Maxwell's Equations no matter how brilliantly I lecture." My continuing students have pretty much all figured this out after a semester of abuse at my hands. Now to torment the incoming ones...;-) > Thanks for all the great input, Robert. Much appreciated! You are most welcome. Enjoy learning about cluster computing, especially in a hands-on way. rgb Robert G. Brown http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/ Duke University Dept. of Physics, Box 90305 Durham, N.C. 27708-0305 Phone: 1-919-660-2567 Fax: 919-660-2525 email:rgb at phy.duke.edu


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* Flextronics upgrades design and production facility
* Aims to cut time to market
* Local manufacturers seen as asset for startups
* Reflects trend of 'reshoring' manufacturing ops to U.S.
By Noel Randewich
MILPITAS, Calif., Feb 14 (Reuters) - Moving ideas from
sketches on napkins to factory floors is often the toughest
stage for a startup entrepreneur. Flextronics International Ltd
thinks it can help with that.
The contract manufacturer, which produces the Xbox game
console for Microsoft Corp and smartphones for Google
Inc, as well as networking equipment and other
electronics gear, has upgraded its campus in Milpitas,
California, with equipment aimed at creating product prototypes
for customers in a hurry.
China has become the world's factory floor over the past
decade as incentives, low wages and entry into the World Trade
Organization made it a highly efficient workshop for everything
from shoes to electronics.
But Silicon Valley companies as small as startups and as
large as Google are increasingly looking to local contract
manufacturers for help with design and early production of new
electronics products, experts say. This reflects a nascent trend
of "reshoring" manufacturing operations to the United States.
Flextronics and rival contract manufacturers like Foxconn
and Jabil Circuit Inc already offer customers
"value-added" help designing their products, advice on what
components to use and whom to buy them from, and other
value-added services.
Singapore-based Flextronics said it spent $12 million on the
Milpitas upgrade, with plans to spend another $20 million in
coming months. The idea is to meet growing demand from companies
in Silicon Valley that want to get products to market faster,
site manager Zahid Hussain told Reuters this week.
"Technology is changing. Time to market is critical right
now," Hussain said. "We're providing turnaround time. We're
providing end-to-end solutions."
Flextronics' campus includes labs with metal detectors,
guards and strict security procedures to protect the
confidentiality of clients whose engineers are designing new
products and producing prototypes.
Inside are cutting-edge machines that "pick and place"
components on circuitboards, as well as 3D printers and X-ray
and testing gear that Flextronics can use to turn a proof of
concept into a prototype product in 72 hours or less, Hussain
Last year, Google looked to a local contract manufacturer
that its engineers could visit conveniently instead of an Asian
manufacturer when it wanted to design and produce its Nexus Q
home entertainment device fast.
The Flextronics facility and others like it can be
particularly attractive to small Silicon Valley companies facing
tight deadlines to produce their first products, said Thomas
Dinges, an analyst at IHS.
"You've got all these companies coming out with new stuff
that's totally different, and they realize they need a couple
hundred or a thousand units, and if they don't hit that, their
company is dead," Dinges said. "I'm going to use someone who is
local who I know has done this before."

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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Financing progress independently: taxation and illicit flows
Development Progress
"With less than two years to go before the deadline for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it is time to take stock of what the goals have achieved and, just as importantly, what the goals have overlooked – including finance.
The debate on what follows the MDGs – the post-2015 framework – is a chance to focus on two major finance themes that are not reflected in the goals themselves. First, that taxation is the central source of development finance; and second, that illicit financial flows undermine effective taxation and require international action. If this chance is not to be wasted, we need a consensus – and soon – on targets in these interlinked areas." READ MORE
Mobile App Tracks Emergency Volunteers
Digital Communities
"Community emergency response teams (CERT) have a new mobile app at their disposal to help track the locations of fellow volunteers and key points of interest during a deployment.
Called Deploy Pro, the app uses a GPS-based interactive map to display the positions of team members using color-coded pins. In addition, the program contains a triage victim counter and CERT reference guide for use in the field.
The program's design is based off the Rowlett CERT app created by Mike Ross, president of 91 Media, in Rockwall, Texas. Ross put together the original app specifically for Rowlett CERT members in May. But Deploy Pro will be usable by all CERT teams in the U.S. Ross said it should be available early next month." READ MORE
Google's Eric Schmidt thinks government censorship will be wiped out in ten years
The Next Web
"Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt is highly optimistic — he thinks that government censorship can be ended within a decade, Bloomberg reports.
The key to that? Encryption. Schmidt said in a speech, hosted by the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, that "the solution to government surveillance is to encrypt everything."
He acknowledges that the NSA and other countries have probably broken some of the encryption standards used today, but "it's always a cat-and-mouse game" and in the race for stronger protection over Internet traffic, he thinks the censors will lose. As of now, Google and other Internet companies have already made their networks more secure in response to the NSA revelations." READ MORE
Study Says Social Movements "Should Never Be Called a Twitter or Facebook Revolution"
"A report on Digital Activism and Non-Violent Conflict was released this month by the Digital Activism Research Project. It found that the role of hacking and cybercrime in digital activism is grossly overstated by the media and that while Facebook and Twitter are the leading platforms for activism on a global scale, other tools do well on a smaller, regional scale. The study found no causation or correlation between specific tools and positive outcomes." READ MORE
GOPAC Initiates Efforts to Prosecute Grand Corruption as a Crime Against Humanity
Digital Journal
"The Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC) has released Prosecuting Grand Corruption as an International Crime to frame options for international prosecution of the perpetrators of the worst crimes of corruption.
The document will serve as the centrepiece of deliberations amongst the world's parliamentarians, at the fifth Forum of Parliamentarians on 27 November 2013, held during the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption, in Panama City." READ MORE
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- Photography by Mr Cedric Bihr | Styling by Mr Dan May,
Style Director, MR PORTER
- Words by Mr Tim Teeman
Mr Ethan Hawke sits in the restaurant in New York's Chelsea, attractively rumpled in what he calls his "rehearsal outfit" of jeans, jacket, T-shirt and shirt: any layer ready to be taken off as he "rolls around in the dust on stage". Rag & bone is Mr Hawke's favourite casual label at the moment, but he's also quite a fan of formalwear when the occasion demands it: "Women love dressing up, so it's kind of fun to play the game with them." Having once played Hamlet, Mr Hawke is preparing to play Macbeth on Broadway. "It's amazing, like a giant, black T.S. Eliot poem," the 42-year-old Oscar- and Tony-nominated actor laughs.
Having first attained fame in 1989 in Dead Poets Society and later in blockbuster movies such as Gattaca and Training Day, Mr Hawke found his niche as an indie heart-throb, first in Reality Bites opposite Ms Winona Ryder and then alongside Ms Julie Delpy in Mr Richard Linklater's Before cycle of films focusing on Jesse and Celine, a young couple who meet by coincidence before - it emerges in this year's Before Midnight - their now long-term relationship is faced with destabilising questions around fidelity and love. Mr Linklater can imagine a fourth Before film, but Mr Hawke feels otherwise: "After the other two it felt unfinished. Now it doesn't."
His desire to act bloomed when he was growing up in Texas, "like any young kid wanting attention". His parents divorced when he was young. "My mother moved around, so every year I was the new kid at school. There was a certain amount of alienation, but you learn to move within a space, to be the person or character others want you to be."
I project myself onto my son. It doesn't matter if my daughters don't like Star Wars. But when I say, 'This is a Stormtrooper, son,' and he's like 'Who cares?', that's difficult
Every young person, Mr Hawke says, "thinks they're incredibly unique in their alienation or loneliness. But in a lot of ways I was really average". His mother was a "wild advocate of the arts" so he read Messrs Fitzgerald, Ferlinghetti, Hemingway and Sam Shepard, although he claims when he met Ms Delpy for the first time, "she was steeped in European cinema. I liked Raiders of the Lost Ark and football."
Writing was Mr Hawke's first passion, but at 13 he won his first stage role, and a year later got a part opposite Mr River Phoenix in the movie Explorers. "First, it was a lark but after it was over I felt as if I'd put my hand in the flame of the movie industry and got totally burned and had no desire to do it. I was in this movie that was supposed to be this giant success that was a giant failure. I felt like the 14-year-old gymnast who goes to the Olympics, but doesn't make the final squad." He returned to writing and has now published two novels, with two more in the drawer "with a lot about what I feel", so he won't publish them until his children are older.
The stage is Mr Hawke's first love, "not because I prefer theatre to movies but because it's a so much more disciplined art form. You've got to be a total moron to be terrible in a movie, there are so many people helping you. On stage it's easy to be terrible: you have to control your body, breath and temper." The reason British actors win so many awards, he says, is because they're so well trained. The older actors Mr Hawke admires include Ms Vanessa Redgrave - "the Bob Dylan of actors" as he calls her - "who haven't gotten lost to the trappings of vanity the profession lavishes on you."
Mr Hawke as Jesse, with Ms Julie Delpy playing Celine, in Before Midnight, 2013
So he didn't enjoy being a heart-throb? "I never defined myself as that. If you invest a lot in that it's broken the mind of more than one actor. I wanted to look like Harry Dean Stanton. I always felt my boyish looks prevented me from being considered for serious roles." Did he have lots of sex as a young star? He smiles. "It was like shooting slingshots or riding a skateboard and doing crazy jumps. I feel very lucky that when I was 23 I was really 23."
Fame, he says, is a very powerful tool, its best aspect the creative freedom it has afforded him. While he has worked hardest when "responding to failure, success has meant I am asked to play Macbeth."
Mr Hawke is so candid his teenage daughter Maya (the elder of his two children from his first marriage to Ms Uma Thurman) recently begged him to consider her feelings after he was quoted as saying he felt he was too young when he married Ms Thurman in 1998, aged 27. After his and Ms Thurman's divorce, Mr Hawke married Ms Ryan Shawhughes, the couple's one-time nanny, in 2008. He has stated adamantly she had had nothing to do with the breakdown of the marriage, which produced two children, Maya and his son Levon, 11. He and Ms Shawhughes had two more daughters, Clementine, five, and Indiana, two. Mr Hawke finds bringing up Levon "much more complicated" than his daughters. "I project myself on to him. It doesn't matter if my daughters don't like Star Wars. But when I say, 'This is a Stormtrooper, son,' and he's like 'Who cares?', that's difficult," he smiles.
So why did he and Ms Thurman divorce? "We tried to be as optimistic as we could be: we all want to believe in love and the possibility of love. The older you get, the more you realise how powerful love is. You understand the right ways for emotion to lead your life and the dangerous ways. I don't regret marrying early. Gattaca was a great moment in my life and a great moment in Uma Thurman's life and we fell madly in love and wanted to do all that."
the career
From left: Mr Robin Williams and Mr Hawke in the Oscar-winning 1989 film
The actor starred alongside Ms Winona Ryder in the 1994 romantic comedy
Before sunrise
Ms Julie Delpy and Mr Hawke in the first film of the romantic trilogy, 1995
Mr Hawke in Mr Andrew Niccol's 1997 sci-fi movie
Mr Hawke played rookie policeman Jake Hoyt in the 2001 blockbuster
But all that isn't always easy, especially when you're young. "People have such a childish view of monogamy and fidelity," says Mr Hawke. "'He's cheated so he's bad, she's cheated so she's bad', as opposed to a recognition that our species is not monogamous. To act all indignant, that your world has been rocked because your lover wasn't faithful to you, is a little bit like acting rocked that your hair went grey." Is he monogamous? "I am, but in Before Midnight there is the threat of sexual attraction to others and maintaining your sexual identity with your partner over a long period of time. Human beings are sexual beings."
Mr Hawke adds, emphatically, "My relationship with my present wife is thrilling to me and I'm committed to it. But neither she nor I know what shape the future will come in. Sexual fidelity can't be the whole thing you hang your relationship on. If you really love somebody you want them to grow, but you don't get to define how that happens. They do."
He is, however, coming to terms with growing older. "Turning 40 was super hard, I had always seen myself as 'the kid': I started a theatre company at 23, published my first book at 25. I went from being a really old young person to a really young old person. When you're 35, 36, you're still trying to be 28, flirting like crazy, staying out late. Now I'm turning my eye to the benefits of ageing.
"However, anybody who says vanity is not part of life is not telling the truth," he adds. Indeed, the actor has always been told he has the teeth of an Englishman. "I know that's not a compliment. When I was younger I was told they gave me character, but now I have character so...," he laughs. "Ageing is awkward, but you have to let it happen. Flowers bloom, then they dry, but even then they have a kind of beauty."
Mr Hawke's ambition is to find his "voice" as a film-maker, but mostly he sounds proudest of his "amazing children". He hopes he hasn't embarrassed Maya again by talking so candidly. "I like to be open. If I started listing the starlets I saw naked with their bizarre oral sex techniques we'd get readers by the dozen." Great, go for it, I say. "No," Mr Ethan Hawke says very firmly. "I'm going to pee now."


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Travolta told the jury in the Bahamas extortion case that Jett was autistic and suffered seizures every 5 to 10 days. Travolta said, "He was autistic. He suffered from a seizure disorder."
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Vista-inspired Windows Mobile 6 spied on web
'Crossbow' screenshots leaked
Some nice-looking screenshots of Microsoft's next version of Windows Mobile - codenamed 'Crossbow' - have popped up on the web to show the upcoming operating system's swankier graphics.
The images come courtesy of MSMobileNews, which has a selection of shots on offer. Meanwhile, the similarly names MSMobiles has a smaller pic showing Windows Mobile 6.0/Windows Mobile 2007's Vista-like folder icons.
The first report provides some Windows Mobile release information, though the data was first made public in April this year. Specifically, Crossbow is due to ship to OEMs in Q4 to allow them plenty of time to get devices ready for the OS' introduction in late Q1/early Q2 2007. Crossbow is expected to give gadgets more a better telephony experience and to improve its messaging technology.
Come Q4 2007, and Microsoft will release 'Photon', the follow up to Crossbow, to developers. Photon is said to sport a new Windows CE foundation. It's due to be launched to the public Q1/Q2 2008. ®
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The tireless Tony host will headline the rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Neil Patrick Harris has already lined up his next high-profile gig once the series finale of How I Met Your Mother airs later this year – he's Broadway-bound.
The singing and dancing triple threat, who hosted the Tony Awards for the fourth time on June 9 (to great reviews), is set to don a wig, dress and high heels for his role as a German transgender rock singer in spring 2014's first Broadway production of the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which features a book by John Cameron Mitchell and music and lyrics by Stephen Trask.
"I am simultaneously ecstatic and terrified to be stepping into Hedwig's high heels," Harris said in a statement.
On the talk-show circuit before the Tonys (which he also produced), Harris, who turned 40 last weekend, also said he is looking forward to moving New York with his partner, David Burtka, and their 2-year-old twins, Gideon Scott and Harper Grace.
"We think it's important that our kids develop an accent," he deadpanned with Jimmy Fallon earlier this month.


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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.100 no.7 Cape Town Jul. 2010
Surviving in the public sector
To the Editor: I have read the latest Med-e-Mails from SAMA with increasing distress. The apparent failure of our new Minister of Health to solve the problem of enabling doctors to negotiate just salary increases, because of labour legislation, is sad indeed. The obvious anger that this has evoked among members of the profession is very serious. It is awful to hear threats of resorting to strike action once more in this essential service. We can expect that the brain drain will again accelerate. Medical and nursing staff who decide to stay in the service for love of our people will be increasingly open to burn-out and discouragement.
My experience of 48 years in the public health structures of this nation suggests that those who stay will not find help in coping from the Department of Health. Those sensitive to their neighbours' pain then often find the situation intolerable - they have to opt out for their own well-being. My own experience of that, as a gynaecologist in a rural KZN town, came in 2001. Dealing with as many as 120 child rapes per annum over a period of 10 years upset me so much that I had to pass this important and difficult work on to more junior staff with less experience. Now, with more time to consider the problem, I realise that medical staff in public hospitals must take care to structure their own support, which can be done in several ways.
Those of us who are members of faith communities will usually be able to find a mentoring individual or group to provide a secure place where we can off-load and find objective insights to help deal with our own pain.
In the 60s and 70s, in a deep rural mission hospital, our weekly journal club was run in such a way that we could give one another mutual support. That sometimes included insisting that someone take time off. We were a small group of 5 doctors looking after 550 inpatients. But there is no reason why like-minded doctors should not form small support groups even in the largest hospital. That is better than always taking flight from a difficult situation without helping one another to make it more bearable.
Any person who becomes aware that they are suffering from significant burn-out (illogical rage reactions, sleep disturbances, depression, etc.) should seriously consider seeking the help of a psychologist. That decision has significant financial implications, but if one chooses the right colleague, it will be well worth the expense.
These and other similar solutions should be sought in good time by all who feel strong enough and who desire to stay and work for our people. It is often too late to begin when one is actually in crisis. In that situation, the only sensible way to cope may be to leave!
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In 1949, medical student Ergi John Pesiri offered nursing student Nancy Long a ride home from a Marquette mixer, promising to get her back before curfew. He did that and more, becoming her hero and later her husband. The romance that began that night was celebrated in 2003 with a toast that left Nancy Pesiri momentarily speechless. "I was astonished," she admits, "just astonished."
For Dr. Pesiri, who calls his wife "the more loquacious" of the two, that meant he had accomplished his secret mission. After months of clandestine calls to Marquette — made anonymously from pay phones so there was no opportunity for the university to identify him with caller ID — the doctor had chosen the perfect gift to commemorate the couple's 50 years together.
Pesiri announced at the couple's golden anniversary celebration that he had endowed a full-tuition scholarship in Nancy's name to be awarded annually to a nursing student.
Nancy understood the significance of his gift. He had brought them full circle, back to Marquette where it began. Now, another nursing student will get the same Marquette start.
The Pesiris have stayed connected to Marquette. Although they moved back east after graduating in 1951 — Pesiri was in the service, first stationed in the Pacific, then in Washington, D.C., and Nancy was working at Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Center in New York City — they came back to get married at Church of the Gesu in 1953.
They haven't missed a class reunion since leaving Marquette. Both feel the endowed scholarship pays a debt owed to their university.
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Docomomo US/New York Tri-State was organized in 1995 and was directly involved in the formation of the national organization. Since that time, Docomomo's network of volunteers comprised of architects, historians, and preservationists has organized numerous exhibits, tours, and educational events relating to modern architecture and sites. The region boasts a rich array of modern buildings representing diverse building types and styles from corporate icons such as Lever House and the Seagrams Building, to town houses and suburban homes by leading modern architects and designers of the period.
In 2004 the New York/Tri-State Chapter produced the "Manhattan Modern Map" with the Buell Center for American Architecture and the World Monuments Fund. The map, which identities over 120 modern buildings of note in the borough, is now available through architecture-related bookstores in the city.
In addition to offering several events each year, the group works on preservation advocacy for modern buildings in the New York Tri-state region, publishes a biannual newsletter, and holds events and activities for members and others interested in modern architecture and design. The chapter is working with the local landmarks commission and other local nonprofits and university architecture programs to identify and document significant Modern buildings, especially those that are not already well documented.
Past and Ongoing Regional Advocacy
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As a former mayor of Pittsburgh, Tom Murphy knows a lot about urban development and finding innovative solutions to complex problems.
During his time in office, Murphy took a deteriorating industrial city and transformed it into a technology hub. This, he said, was possible for any city – as long as the people who live there want it bad enough.
A senior resident fellow for Urban Development at the Urban Land Institute (ULI), Murphy specializes in public policy, retail/urban entertainment, transportation/infrastructure, housing, real estate, finance and environmental issues.
For his talk, "The Changing Rules of Community," Murphy spoke about how the rules are changing and communities need to understand what will help them succeed in the 21st century.
"It's a remarkable thing that you're doing," Murphy told the crowd in reference to One Spark. "You're empowering yourselves. Wouldn't you want to see this creativity, innovation and hustle and bustle every day?"
According to Murphy, there are five converging forces cities need to think about such as globalization, climate change, technology innovation, infrastructure needs and demographics. And, he said, it will be the millenials (ages 18 through 35) who will help change cities around America.
"This is a remarkable example of how you bring the forces together to create a 21st century city," Murphy remarked of One Spark and Jacksonville. "Every city has a choice of what it wants to be. Don't lose the spark."


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Launched by business partners LoriAnn Vaughan-Biggers and Rotem Fartook, the Bella Vaughan collection is a range of exquisite handcrafted, platinum engagement rings and fine jewelry with a focus on showcasing fancy-cut sidestones such as Asscher and trapezoid, and highlighting the center stone of your choice.
Each Bella Vaughan piece is intricately made using a state-of-the-art process that achieves a timeless beauty paired with wearable sophistication. The engagement and bridal collection is available in either a European (squared off) or traditional, rounded band.
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Pacific Rim: Uprising
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
CAST: John Boyega, Scott Eastwood, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Burn Gorman, Ron Perlman
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Jim Wallis interviews Richard Viguerie, a law-and-order conservative, on the death penalty and prison reform.
Across the political and religious spectrum, Americans are rethinking the death penalty. Here are some reasons why:
A small congregation in Kentucky demonstrates how your church may have more money—and power—than you think.
Your congregation—large or small—has more to invest than you might expect.
The new Louisville Loan Club is a way to protect people from the shark pool of payday lenders.
Building community and clout through congregation-based organizing.
Theological considerations should frame the Christian response to capital punishment.
Among democratic nations, the United States has the highest death penalty rate in the world. As the only G8 country to regularly use capital punishment, the United States joins China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, North Korea, and Yemen as the world's leaders in executions.
The U.S. should repent of seeing guns as sacred; sane laws would be a start.
A Dream of Justice.
Big Money's corrupting influence on the elections is way out of hand. Here's how to fix it.
We should honor slain diplomats by keeping the flame of diplomacy alive.
May God cause us to cry out to those mountains of injustice, "Oh freedom!"
Attitudes toward capital punishment are changing, including among conservatives.
Superstorm Sandy left behind an indelible image of the future.
What's next, frogs and locusts?
Before the election, several bishops went so far as to threaten their parishioners with eternal damnation if they voted for Obama.
Culture Watch
The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era. Oxford University Press
The Walmart workforce has begun to publicly rattle its chains.
Three of the best films of the year: Samsara, Looper, and Seven Psychopaths.
The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto. SmileyBooks
Betsy Shirley talks to author Francisco X. Stork about helping young adults ask the hard questions.
I Told My Soul to Sing: Finding God with Emily Dickinson by Kristin LeMay / Grace and Mercy by Jonathan Butler / Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade by Sharon Leslie Morgan and Thomas Norman DeWolf / We Are Not Ghosts by Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young
Adapted from "Women as Compassionate Champions: The Doers and the Leaders," by Nyambura J. Njorage, in Women, HIV, and the Church: In Search of Refuge.
Regarding Jim Wallis' article "How to Choose a President" (November 2012): To me it is not Christian to cut vital services such as Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security; there are people who are really hurting
Cathleen Falsani's interview with Eugene Peterson ("The Pastor's Message," November 2012) contained excellent thoughts.
Reflections on the Common Lectionary, Cycle C
Most agree that public education can and should be improved ("Beyond 'Superman,'" by Nicole Baker Fulgham, September-October 2012).
Something called a GiveBox appeared / this fall on Falckensteinstrasse, and my first gift
Kelvin Hazangwi, executive director, Padare/Enkundleni Men's Forum on Gender in Harare, Zimbabwe


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The term "ladies first†may be very common, but not in African football, where the men's game is traditionally considered far ahead in popularity and participation.
Interest has soared over recent years, but it is yet to hit the level where it competes in the continent's sports pages or in stadium attendance.
This general trend is true in Ghana as well, although the Black Queens, as the national team is known, were the first senior side from the west African country to reach the finals of a major international event.
They played at the FIFA Women's World Cup USA 1999 a full seven years before their male counterparts followed suit seven years later at Germany 2006, and the Black Queens went on to qualify for three consecutive Women's World Cups.
However, that previous success could not prepare lovers of the women's game in Ghana for the treat that arrived this past weekend as the National Women's League debuted.
It is a dream that has come true following a huge commitment by the Ghana Football Association (GFA), coupled with the backing of FIFA and CAF.
The league will feature 12 clubs serving the best of women's football in the country and beyond, and Leanier Addy, Chairperson of the Women's League Board tells FIFA.com that moment for such a league has finally arrived.
"The introduction of the league will have a huge impact on the development of the game. It will also serve as a breeding ground for players on various national teams,†said Addy, a former footballer who doubles as the only female on the Executive Committee of the GFA.
Coaching courses and equipment
There were major challenges, both organisational and logistical, that had to be overcome before the ambitious project could come to light.
As a first step, FIFA organised three Women's Coaching Courses to help enlighten the participants on the essentials of the game as well as hone their interest.
"There were courses at the Basic, Intermediate and Advanced levels, which drew the participation of about 18 female coaches from across the country. The response has been very positive and most of them are working at the grassroots level,†noted Francis Oti Akenteng, Technical Director of the GFA.
Products of the FIFA courses include Dora Zutah (assistant trainer of Black Queens), Adjoa Agyeiwaa (Ashtown Ladies), Comfort Akapko (Sekondi Navy team) and Gladys Akakpo (Map Baya FC, a third-tier male team).
Agyeiwaa, an assistant trainer with the Kumasi-based Ashtown Ladies, one of the 12-clubs in the league, believes her involvement in the courses should reflect positively on the performance of her team.
"The courses have been very influential and exposed me to many technicalities in the game. It has made me better, and I'm banking on the knowledge gained to help power my team to the title,†she said.
In the not too distant future, Oti Akenteng has predicted a takeover of the female national teams by women's coaches who have worked on the courses during the last three years.
Just before the league rolled out on 16 December, FIFA came to the rescue of the GFA by donating sporting equipment including footballs, training kits, shin guards, goalkeepers gloves and boots, which were distributed to the participating clubs.
"(The materials) will go a long way to help the teams playing in the league. It will cut down on their costs, and they can now channel the money they would have used to acquire these items to another important use,†said Addy.
A good start for lucky dozen
The 12 clubs have been grouped into two zones – the Southern and Northern with the former made up of Cape Coast Ghatel Ladies, Soccer Intellectuals, Hasaacas Ladies, Ayoola Ladies, Immigration Ladies and Volta Amalga Ladies, and Bolga Ghatel, Reformers, Lepo Ladies, Ampem Darkoa Ladies, Fabulous Ladies and Ashtown Ladies in the Northern Zone.
After the round-robin league format, the top placed clubs from each zone will slug it out in a one-off match to decide the national champion, with the bottom-placed clubs relegated to the second-tier division.
The league will feature current and ex-national team stars including Black Queens captain Adjoa Bayor, Leticia Zipki, Rosemary Ampem, Patricia Mantey (Immigration Ladies), Memunatu Sulemana, Portia Boakye (Fabulous Ladies), Priscilla Saahene (Ashtown Ladies) and Jane Ayieyam (Bolga Ghatel Ladies) and sees Ghana joins the likes of South Africa, Nigeria and Cameroon with a competitive women's league.
The first weekend of action proved that the women could play some entertaining football as 19 goals were scored in the opening six matches and only one match ended scoreless.
Hasaacas Ladies were the first round's big winners with a 7-0 beating of Ayola Ladies to begin their campaign on a high.
There will surely be more highs to come for women's football in Ghana with the help of the new league.


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Jockey Tyler Baze allowed to resume riding
Jockey Tyler Baze will be allowed to resume riding in races Jan.
1 as long as he abides by several conditions set by the California
Horse Racing Board.
Baze was able to exercise horses starting Saturday in his return
to the saddle after being sidelined since June when his license was
suspended after he failed a sobriety test at Betfair Hollywood
The 31-year-old rider completed a required 60-day residency in a
substance abuse program in early October, but was denied
reinstatement because he had not undergone an evaluation by the
Winner's Foundation, a group that offers help and counseling to
racing industry members with alcohol and drug problems in Southern
The racing board ruled Friday that as long as he is licensed in
California, Baze must abide by the terms of a contract with the
Winner's Foundation that he signed in late October; participate in
a sobriety monitoring program; appear in person before the CHRB
investigative staff each day he is named to ride; and promptly
report any interaction with law enforcement to the CHRB staff.
Among the requirements of Baze's contract with the Winner's
Foundation is that he stay in a sober living house for at least a
year and allow the foundation to test him with a field Breathalyzer
at its discretion.
Baze won the 2000 Eclipse Award as the nation's top apprentice
jockey. He is a cousin of Russell Baze, thoroughbred racing's
career wins leader among jockeys. Another cousin, rider Michael
Baze, died from an accidental overdose of cocaine and prescription
pain medication in 2011 at age 24.


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Last summer, I reviewed a modular embedded system for hobbyists, educators and tinkerers called the BUGbase developed by Bug Labs. Reader feedback prompted additional interest in more programmable, relatively inexpensive embedded hardware systems. I have spent some time taking a look at a couple of these solutions and will be sharing my experiences with them throughout this month. Read on for more details.
While the Bug Labs product remains the most approachable to programmers due to its Java interface and relatively easy API, several readers suggested I take a look at less expensive systems that could provide an adequate level of programatic control and flexibility to become more familiar with introductory embedded system development. After evaluating many of these alternatives, I have narrowed my coverage selection down to the following choices:
Gumstix Overo Earth: I'll take a look at the newest and one of the most sophisticated Gumstix motherboards available today.
Gleason Research Handy Board System: Primarily designed for educators and industrial design prototyping, the Handy Board system and related products provide a wide variety of embedded application opportunities to explore.
Arduinos Pro: I will share my experiences with both the standalone Arduino board (available from various suppliers such as Spark Fun) as well as O'Reilly's Arduino Starter Kit.
Bug Labs BUG: I will revisit the Bug Labs BUG which now features a new OS update and new BUG modules including BUGsound and BUGvonHippel.
There were a few others I saw online but didn't have the opportunity for a hands-on evaluation. These include such offerings as the Beagle Board and the Virtual Cogs VC21 Portable Computing Kit (their website was not responding last time I checked). I mention them here for sake of recognizing that other alternatives exist besides the four choices I will be covering each week throughout the month of March.


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This weekend marks the four-year anniversary of President Obama's signature domestic policy achievement — Obamacare. But don't expect many Utahns or Americans anywhere to be doing much celebrating.
In his push to gain support for Obamacare before it became law, President Obama traveled the country telling Americans that, If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period.
Unfortunately, as many have found out the hard way, that's simply not true. And as we've all come to learn, those claims were so wrong that the fact-checking website Politifact named President Obama's promise the 2013 Lie of the Year.
It wasn't true for William and his family in St. George, Utah. William's daughter has a complicated medical history, and she had been seeing a doctor for several years who successfully found the right treatments to care for her illness.
However, as William wrote to me, "Because of Obamacare, she was not able to keep the doctor she had been seeing for several years." He added that the new doctor was not aware of the seriousness of her medical condition and of the care required and rendered by her prior doctor to control her illness. As a result she did not receive proper care and her health dramatically declined over the past two-month period. Sadly, William's daughter had to be admitted to a hospital for several weeks before her new doctor was able to learn her medical history and properly treat her.
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Debbie from Salt Lake City is one of those people. Because her husband's employer decided not to renew their previous health plan, like so many other job creators facing the enormous costs of Obamacare's mandates, Debbie and her husband looked for a new plan on HealthCare.gov. For the same type of plan they were used to, the plan costs jumped significantly — almost 20 percent of their annual income.
Debbie wrote to me, "We cannot live with this. I am very unhappy and frustrated with this new Obamacare. We not only cannot have the same insurance we had in the past, but the plan we must choose is overwhelmingly expensive for us. We are paying more and getting so much less."
These are real stories from real Utahns, and they're heartbreaking.
But unfortunately there's an attitude of denial by President Obama and many of his friends in Washington, who continue to claim that Obamacare is actually working. The Democrat Senate majority leader even went so far as to say that folks such as Debbie, William and others with similar horror stories are lying about their troubles with the law.
Rather than scrapping this disastrous law and working with Republicans in Congress to implement real, patient-based health care reforms — such as the Patient CARE Act proposal I have introduced — Democrats are choosing to malign those negatively impacted by the law.
Americans deserve better.
It's my hope, and the hope of so many Utahns I've heard from, that President Obama and his allies in Congress will finally work with us to repeal Obamacare and reform our system in a way that Utahns and Americans everywhere deserve.
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Why Doctors Injected HIV Into a Dying Girl
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June 24, 2013
This article was cross-posted from "A Girl Like Me," a program of The Well Project.
Isn't it AMAZING that a little girl who was sentenced to death had the HIV virus injected in her and she is now healthy and alive? I know the cure for some cancers and HIV is coming ... I feel it and I am crying tears of Joy for her and for myself and millions around the world. Isn't it ironic that a disease that has been stigmatized -- so much ignorance around the HIV virus and so, so much discrimination -- is actually saving lives and who knows how many with cancer such as this little angel will be saved? The once ostracized HIV patients like myself and what some called as 'the ones CURSED by GOD' will help others with cancer? so Ironic..so beautiful..so good to finally be talked about in a loving and positive way! Imagine that!!! HIV PATIENTS SAVING CANCER PATIENTS THAT HAVE NO HOPE! Hope and faith is something I will never lose ...
and you should never lose it as well.
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Payne Stewart would have been 58 today
Series: Golf Buzz
Published: Friday, January 30, 2015 | 9:52 a.m.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece orginially ran on Oct. 25, 2014, the 15th anniversary of Payne Stewart's tragic death.
It's hard to believe, but Saturday marks the 15th anniversary of the tragic passing of one of golf's most charismatic figures, Payne Stewart.
Stewart, an 11-time PGA Tour winner and three-time major champion, perished in a LearJet plane accident on Oct. 25, 1999, when the cabin lost pressure. All on board died of hypoxia -- a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply.
The plane, still on auto-pilot, crashed in a field in Mina, S.D., when it eventually ran out of fuel. Stewart's agents Robert Fraley and Van Ardan, and pilots Michael Kling and Stephanie Bellegarrigue, along with Bruce Borland, a highly regarded golf course architect with the Jack Nicklaus design company, also perished.
Stewart was 42 at the time of his death. He was just four months removed from what would prove to be his final major championship victory, the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2, an incredible tournament where Stewart outlasted a then-majorless Phil Mickelson.
Watch highlights from that '99 U.S. Open here:
The plane incident happened just one month -- nearly to the day -- after Stewart was part of the U.S. Ryder Cup team that mounted a then record-setting, final day, come from behind victory in the 1999 matches at The Country Club in Brookline, Mass.
That was Stewart's last public appearance and, if ever there was an everlasting way to remember someone, that was it.
Stewart had always been known for two things -- his distinctive clothing (plus-fours and tam-o-shanter hat) and his intensity. Before those 1999 Ryder Cup matches, Stewart mixed things up a bit when he suggested that based on the strength of the European team -- or perceived lack thereof -- they should be caddying for the U.S. team not playing against them.
Harsh, no doubt, but that was Stewart's personality. He loved dishing it out, but also had a heart the size of the Wanamaker Trophy that he won in the 1989 PGA Championship.
In his Sunday singles match, Stewart displayed the type of sportsmanship he'll forever be remembered for. His opponent Colin Montgomerie was having a horrible week with the Boston galleries heckling his every move. With the Ryder Cup already secured late that afternoon for the Americans, Stewart picked up Montgomerie's golf ball on the 18th hole and conceded the match out of courtesy.
It was mature, it was classy, it was the right thing to do. It exemplified the person Payne Stewart had come to be.
During the 2014 U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2, Rickie Fowler paid homage to Stewart with his clothing for the first round:
Rickie Fowler goes retro in honor of Payne Stewart, his favorite player. pic.twitter.com/4fXWlm6ToR
— Dave Shedloski (@DaveShedloski) June 12, 2014
The rememberance by Fowler proved to be good karma. He tied for second at the U.S. Open.
Justin Rose, the 2013 U.S. Open champ, also paid tribute to Stewart to Pinehurst back in June. After holing his final putt, Rose gave the famous fist in the air reaction Stewart gave when his winning putt dropped in 1999. You can see video of it here:
To understand just how long Stewart has been gone, here are a few things that have happened since he left us far too early:
- Tiger Woods had just two major championships on his resume before Stewart's passing. Woods has had 12 since.
- Phil Mickelson, major-less before Stewart's passing, has won five of them since.
- Woods (2000, 2002 and 2008) and Retief Goosen (2001, 2004) joined Stewart, Willie Anderson, Alex Smith, John McDermott, Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, Gene Sarazen, Ralph Guldahl, Ben Hogan, Cary Middlecoff, Julius Boros, Billy Casper, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Andy North, Hale Irwin, Curtis Strange, Ernie Els and Lee Janzen as the only winners of multiple U.S. Opens.
- Seven Ryder Cups have been played. The U.S. has gone 1-6 over that time, with the lone victory coming in 2008 at Valhalla, when Stewart's dear friend, Paul Azinger, was the U.S. captain.
- And, for the younger crowd, Twitter, Facebook, iPhones, iPods and blogs didn't even exist until well after 1999.
Stewart has been missed and will continue to be missed. Unfortunately, we'll never have the chance to see him captain a U.S. Ryder Cup team -- something that surely would have come to fruition.
Though he passed so young, Stewart left us with so many great on-course memories.
Even still, it's hard to believe it's been 15 years.
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Optimism among the nation's manufacturers dropped to its lowest reading in four years as many executives worry about the sluggish economy, the pending fiscal cliff and a slowing global sales market, according to a recent survey from the National Association of Manufacturers and Industry Week magazine.
A slim majority – just 51.8 percent – of responding manufacturers characterized the business outlook for 2013 as "somewhat positive" or "very positive" in the NAM's latest survey. That percent is down from 69.2 percent in the third quarter and from 88.7 percent at the beginning of the year, according to the survey.
Eighty-four percent of respondents said political uncertainties such as the fiscal cliff are the main driver for the lack of optimism in the coming year, according to the survey.
Here are other key worries of manufactures and what percent are concerned about it:
• Rising health care costs, 79 percent.
• Unfavorable climate, such as taxes and regulation, 74.7 percent.
• Weak domestic sales and economy, 67.6 percent.
• Rising energy and raw material costs, 39.6 percent.
• Finding and retaining qualified workers, 38.7 percent
• Weak global sales and exports, 33.9 percent.
• Access to capital and financing, 8.4 percent.
Manufacturers said they expect sales to grow at just 1 percent and lack of confidence will reduce investment and hiring, according to the survey. Slightly more than 36 percent of respondents said they have reduced employment or stopped hiring due to fiscal cliff concerns.
The NAM survey results contrast some with today's report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor statistics that the national economy added 146,000 nonfarm jobs in November and the unemployment rate declined to 7.7 percent, the lowest since December 2008.
Manufacturing, however, lost 7,000 jobs in November, according to BLS. The number on a national scale is statistically insignificant and means sector employment was largely unchanged, according to BLS.


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Miami Hurricanes routed by Teddy Bridgewater, Louisville in bowl return
During a long, painful NCAA ordeal, the Miami Hurricanes self-imposed bowl bans in 2011 and 2012.
Their first trip back to the postseason was equally excruciating.
With the help of a gifted quarterback that chose Louisville over his hometown Canes, the Cardinals embarrassed Miami 36-9 on Saturday in the Russell Athletic Bowl.
"Obviously, disappointed," UM coach Al Golden said. "We got beat in all three phases. There are no excuses."
Junior quarterback Teddy Bridgewater, the former Miami Northwestern star who committed to play for the Canes in high school before former coach Randy Shannon was fired, completed 35 of 45 passes for a career-high 447 yards and three touchdowns. He ran for another.
To give Bridgewater an extra-special farewell and Miami more misery, Louisville had the quarterback run a keeper on fourth-and-1 with 12:19 left at the Citrus Bowl. The 21-year-old swept right and, naturally, into the end zone, as Louisville fans roared "Ted-dy! Ted-dy! Ted-dy!"
Bridgewater, embraced by teammates, threw up the "U" and quickly criss-crossed his hands in a "No way" sort of motion, ending it with what appeared to be a semi throat-slashing gesture.
"I would just like to apologize to the University of Miami," Bridgewater said after the game. "I was out of line doing that."
He will now decide whether to leave early for the NFL. If he does, he is expected to be the first quarterback taken in the draft — and possibly No. 1 overall.
Saturday's performance, witnessed by 51,098 fans, enhanced that possibility.
"This moment right here is all about the team," said Bridgewater, who wouldn't give a time frame on when he would make his decision.
Miami junior tight end Clive Walford, who led the Canes with four catches for 82 yards, had been contemplating turning pro but said after the game he decided after the second catch to return.
The Hurricanes ended their season at 9-4 and failed to reach 10 victories for the third time while having the chance since they last did it with 11 wins in 2003.
No. 18 Louisville finished 12-1.
With the loss, Miami has gone from 6-6 to 7-5 to this nine-win campaign in Golden's three seasons.
Golden said that despite the way the season ended, he was "really proud of Stephen [Morris] and this group of seniors and what they've been through and what they've endured in moving us forward. We're going to miss them greatly for all that they've contributed and for their leadership through a really tough three years."
It was a horrible day for Miami's offense, which generated 174 yards — 14 of those on the ground. The Canes were 0 for 11 on third-down-conversion attempts.
Morris completed 12 of 27 passes for 160 yards in his career finale. He was sacked four times.
"Obviously, it wasn't a performance I wanted to have, this being my last game here," Morris said. "Give credit to Louisville."
The Canes defense allowed 554 yards. It was the sixth time in the past eight games that Miami gave up at least 500 yards.
Louisville converted 8 of 14 third-down attempts.
When asked if he would evaluate the staff and perhaps make changes, Golden said: "I'm going to evaluate the whole program."
It started out so promising for Miami on Saturday.
The Hurricanes created a buzz on Louisville's second offensive play when Deon Bush flattened Bridgewater in the end zone for a safety during the Cards' opening possession. Miami led 2-0 with 11:51 left in the first quarter. UM's Pat O'Donnell, the nation's No. 3 punter, set up the score with a beautiful punt that just died on the 2-yard line.
UM took the kickoff and went three-and-out.
The Cardinals then scored nine consecutive points on field goals of 36 and 43 yards in the opening quarter and 42 yards with 12:47 left in the first half. At that point, Bridgewater had completed 9 of 14 passes for 106 yards.
Miami had a hard time protecting Morris and harder time getting its offense to click.
Bridgewater, on the other hand, despite his team's early ineptitude with numerous penalties, kept moving the Cardinals toward the end zone. Finally, midway through the second quarter, he hit DeVante Parker with a 26-yard touchdown pass — UM freshman cornerback Artie Burns was boxed out by Parker.
The Cardinals led 16-2 with 7:10 left in the half.
All-American defensive end Marcus Smith pummeled Morris on the ensuing drive, causing him to lose the ball. Brandon Dunn recovered for the Cards, but Louisville was finally stopped and forced to punt.
After an uncharacteristic 20-yard shank by O'Donnell, Louisville took over at its own 40-yard line with enough time left — 1:45 — to pad its lead. Leave it to Bridgewater to make it happen. On third-and-6 from the 44, Bridgewater made one of his trademark escapes and scrambled from a charging Shayon Green, then Tyriq McCord. Finally, he beat Tracy Howard in coverage with a 21-yard completion to Damian Copeland.
Three plays later, Bridgewater hit junior Michaelee Harris — also out of Miami Northwestern — for the 12-yard TD. John Wallace missed the extra point, but the Cardinals led 22-2 with 30 seconds left in the half.


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It goes from 0-60 in about 4 seconds. That's about 5 seconds longer than it took for this Pearlescent Yellow Callaway C12 to grab your attention.
Back in the late '90s, Reeves Callaway was inspired to create a car that would compete in the production-based GT2 class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, and the then-new fifth-generation Corvette was the ideal platform to build such a grand-touring car.
Assembled at Callaway Cars Europe's shop in Germany, the C12 build began by taking a factory-fresh C5 Corvette apart down to its bare frame and substructure, keeping the original roof and greenhouse, but little else. On went race-ready chassis hardware that made it ready to handle the Circuit de la Sarthe hour after hour, including brakes engineered to survive 24 hours' worth of heat. The chassis mods widened the car's stance by nearly five inches overall, and the car was covered with a composite body whose swoopy curves were sculpted in clay, digitized, then perfected via computer.
Just 20 were built during its 1998-2000 production run, and the one you see here is the 15th one built. Owner Dick Gundeck says that the C12's exterior design caught his eye first. "I've always liked the design," he says. "Paul Deutschmann was the designer of the car, and I thought it was what the Corvette should look like now. Even though mine's a 1999, and we're talking about 15 years later, I think it's a spectacular, timeless design. Pictures don't do it justice."
They also don't do justice to the 440 Supernatural Engine, the Chevrolet-based engine that powers the C12. The "440" number comes from its peak horsepower rating, the result of Callaway's R&D work on the then-new LS engine platform. In its June '98 issue previewing the C12, Motor Trend said, "The bulk of the engine alterations are aimed at moving more air into the powerplant, and more spent gases out. Intake-runner lengths have been altered, cylinder head port shapes have been changed, cam profiles redrawn, and the entire exhaust system, including dual catalytic converters, replaced. The pistons and connecting rods are upgraded for periods of high-rpm abuse." All good not just for that quick 0-60 time, but an estimated 192-mph top speed, according to M/T.
Nearly a decade and a half after it was built, C12 No. 15 shows no signs of age-related slowing down. "It's very exhilarating," says Dick, whose C12 shares its garage with grand-tourers like Ruf Porsches. "It sounds great, and it attracts a lot of attention, which is always neat to get," he says. "That's one of the reasons why we get these kinds of cars."
Plus, it combines Callaway's high- performance upgrades with rock-ribbed Bowtie reliability. "I haven't had any major issues at all," says Dick, who also notes that when new, the C12—like the other Corvettes their Old Lyme, Connecticut shop upgraded—carried a full GM warranty.
But there's one thing that the C12 has—like the other Callaways—that regular-production cars will never have: exclusivity. "They don't build a lot of Callaways, and I don't think any of the C12s were built 'for spec'—they were all built for individuals, to their order," says Dick, who's got the car's original window sticker (base price: $140,000) to attest to its equipment, and rarity. "The 440 Horsepower Super Natural Engine was a $15,000 option," he says. "It has a Le Mans Brake Package that was $4,650 extra, a Dual Coil Suspension that was $4,500 extra, and the Pearlescent Yellow color, to match a paint sample, was $12,500." (That color, by the way, went on only one other C12.)
Add in $8,600 for the matched-to-a-sample yellow/ black leather interior, $4,525 for Callaway Sport Seats, $2,800 for the carbon-fiber cockpit trim, as well as several other options, and the sticker's bottom-line number was $204,565 (f.o.b. Old Lyme).
Despite its rarity, it's a car that Dick does take out and exercise. "I drive it occasionally—it's not something up here in the Northeast that I can take out on a regular basis," he says, as we chatted on the first day of Spring. "We have a Cars & Coffee meet this Sunday, and I'll probably take it to that."
If the thought of a "Powerfully Engineered" Callaway strikes your fancy, be prepared to pay for the privilege. Callaway's latest creation, the C16, starts at $225,000 for the base coupe version, and can run over $360,000 for a fully-loaded Speedster. Previously-owned Callaway Corvettes, owing to their stout engineering and prior owners' fastidious maintenance, are commonly priced near and above $100,000.
But, if you've got the means, Callaway has the car for you. "It's a lot of bang for the buck," says Dick. "You have the exclusivity with the car. Callaway builds a great, great product, and stands behind it."
And, in the case of the C12, that exclusivity is combined with a powertrain and chassis engineered to survive the 24 Hours of Le Mans, inside an aerodynamically-stylish composite body that's guaranteed to draw a crowd wherever you take it—to the Circuit de la Sarthe, to Cars & Coffee, or any place in between!
"It's a spectacular, timeless design" —Dick Gundeck
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|1999 Chevrolet Callaway Corvette C12
|Richard Gundeck, Ridgewood, NJ
|Callaway Cars Europe, Bad Friedrichshall, Germany
|Callaway "Super Natural" overhead-valve V-8 (based on the '99 GM Powertrain GEN III LS1)
|GM Powertrain LS1, cast-aluminum alloy
|347 cubic inches (5.7 liters)
|GM Powertrain LS1, cast-aluminum alloy, with combustion chambers reworked by Callaway Cars
|Stock LS1 2.00-inch intake, 1.55-inch exhaust
|Callaway custom-ground hydraulic roller
|Callaway custom-forged, 10.3:1 compression
|Callaway custom-forged steel
|Oil System:
|Stock Callaway C12
|Fuel Injection:
|Stock Callaway C12, sequential electronic multipoint
|Stock Callaway C12 electronic coil-on-plug
|Callaway-designed with high-flow catalytic converters
|Six-speed manual
|Hydroformed C5 Corvette frame
|Callaway-specific upper/lower control arms, transverse composite leaf springs, antiroll bars and coilovers, front and rear
|Four-wheel disc with ABS, 14-inch front and 12-inch rear rotors
|Callaway-engineered/designed, cast-aluminum, 19x10 inches front, 19x12½ inches rear
|Pirelli PZero, 295/35R19 front, 335/25R19 rear
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Warp Speed Imagineering
Reprinted from TAPR Packet Status Register, # 60, Fall 1995.
- This paper reviews the current status from a regulatory perspective of the use of spread spectrum (SS) in both the amateur and commercial services.
- Back in 1989, Al Broscius N3FCT [1] discussed the use of commercially available Part 15 SS devices that were becoming available in the market, for use in the amateur radio service (ARS) for packet radio operations. He identified several commercial systems that were then available and made the following recommendation:
- "To responsibly address this technology, we feel amateur operators should
- experiment with the commercial systems now available in establishing long
- distance communication paths using high-gain antenna systems coupled with
- the maximum legal power of one watt, determining interference levels seen
- by weak signal receivers attributable to spread spectrum transmissions, and
- carefully introducing this technology to computer bulletin board operators
- who could financially support development of an unlicensed computer
- Internet."
- experiment with the commercial systems now available in establishing long
- To the author's knowledge, to date very little effort has been made by the amateur radio community to pursue this recommendation. For instance, although there have been reports by various hams of their experiences with such devices on various USENET newsgroups over the last several years, there has been no written report of such experiences in ARS publications such as QEX, PSR or DCC proceedings. So while there are now millions of SS devices out in the world today in the hands of the average consumer, SS remains an unrealized technology in the world of amateur radio.
- Since the Broscius article in 1989, there has been a lot of activity in the commercial sector regarding SS. As a result of the request and feedback of many manufacturer's of Part 15 devices, the FCC changed the rules in 1990 in order to make it possible to product devices under Part 15 which could operate at higher data rates and to close up some of the holes in the previous version of the regulation that had been issued in 1985.
- In January, 1991, Apple Computer filed the now famous Data-PCS petition with the FCC which asked for the allocation of 40 MHz in the 1850-1990 MHz band for a new radio service to be used for high-speed, local area network services. Some important points of the petition include:
- be accessible to users of personal computers without imposition of licensing obligations, network connection fees, or air-time charges;
- be open to any computer manufacturer's products and any network access and usage scheme that complies with the regulatory requirements.
- be regulated in a manner that assures non-discriminatory access to assigned frequencies by compatible devices for like purposed; and
- Have flexibility built into the initial regulatory scheme to encourage innovation in and the evolution of Data-PCS technologies and services.
- In 1993, the FCC allocated 20 MHz for this new service, in the 1910-1930 MHz band. In addition, ten additional MHz were allocated this year by the FCC for this service in the 2390-2400 MHz band. Lest you forget, this ten MHz of spectrum is part of the current ARS allocation which runs from 2390-2450 MHz. The ARS was made primary in this band by the FCC and the Data-PCS service now shares this band with the ARS on a secondary non-interference basis.
- Finally, Apple Computer this May '95 petitioned the FCC for yet another new service called the NII Band (National Information Infrastructure). In this case, they are asking the FCC to:
* allocate for use as part of the NII Band the 5150-5300 MHz band, a shared
private-government band that currently is not heavily used within the
United States and has been allocated throughout most of Europe for
unlicensed wireless local area networks;
* allocate for use as part of the NII Band the 5725-5875 MHz band, a shared private-government band that currently is used by unlicensed Part 15 technologies, industrial, scientific and medical ("ISM") devices, and Amateur radio operators;
- This comes to a total of 300 MHz!! Again, lest you forget to notice, about 150 MHz of this is coming out of the ARS allocation at 5.7 GHz. Apple describes the essential characteristics of this new service as follows:
- "The NII Band will be fundamentally different from any other wired, licensed-wireless, or unlicensed service. Unlike licensed-wireless services, no single entity will have an exclusive license to provide service using the spectrum. Unlike both licensed-wireless and wired services, availability will not be determined by a service providers deployment plan or the economics of a fee-for-service offering.
- Unlike traditional Part 15 operation, NII Band devices will not have to contend with unpredictable and uncontrollable interference, a host of different devices employing a variety of modulation schemes and power levels, and the continuing threat of giving way to incompatible services.
- Unlike Data-PCS offerings, the NII Band will support very high-bandwidth transmissions and communications over longer distances. Unlike the proposed unlicensed bands above 40 GHz, the NII Band will support certain in-building and longer-distance communications that are not feasible using very high frequencies and will be amenable to more rapid product deployment.
- The NII Band would promote the full deployment of a National Information Infrastructure ("NII"), extending the effective reach of the NII by making possible high-bandwidth access and interaction throughout a limited geographic area -- where mobility is key -- both on a peer-to-peer, ad hoc basis and through wireless local area networks. Moreover, it would provide for unlicensed, wireless, wide area "community networks" connecting communities, schools, and other groups under served by existing and proposed telecommunications offerings.
- The NII Band would advance a host of public policy objectives, including assuring that all segments of society have access to the "information superhighway;" extending advanced telecommunications offerings to schools, libraries, hospitals, and government agencies; and promoting the participation of small businesses, businesses owned by women or minorities, and pioneering firms in tomorrow's telecommunications marketplace."
- As you can see this is a very ambitious proposal. If it makes it thru the rulemaking process at the FCC, then in the near future the average consumer will have in their hands communications facilities which will make the current technologies and practices of the ARS look like something from the age of 'spark gap' transmitters. To date, it is estimated that there are about 60 million Part 15 devices out in the world. Of these, about eight million are SS devices.
- One can expect to see lots of exciting wireless products announced and SS technologies will be a major part of many of these new offerings.
- Little has changed in the amateur radio service as far as high-speed SS packet radio is concerned in the period since 1989. Most of the commercial SS equipment available today on the market cannot be operated under the current Part 97 rules. One event of note however, was the publishing by the ARRL of the "Spread Spectrum Sourcebook" [2]. This was an excellent attempt by the League to acquaint the average ham with the technology of spread spectrum. Another excellent reference on packet radio technology and the use of SS appears in [3].
- About the time of Apple's Data-PCS petition, Robert Buaas K6KGS submitted a request for an STA (Special Temporary Authorization) to amend Part 97 to allow relaxed usage of SS technology in the ARS. Buaas' request was granted by the FCC in 1992 and he was awarded an STA that had been renewed several times and remains in effect as of today. There is a recent QEX article which covers the STA and SS technology [4]. An earlier QEX article which describes the STA appears in [5].
- Since the original STA was granted, Buaas and the other hams who are authorized to experiment under the STA have performed many experiments using SS technology both with existing Part 15 SS devices and homebrew hardware that was developed for the purpose of the experiments. This work formed the basis for the ARRL Board of Director's to pass a motion in January, 1994 to have their counsel submit to the FCC a petition for rulemaking to modify the SS rules in Part 97. Nothing was filed with the Commission in 1994, however the League's Board reaffirmed its decision this year at their January meeting. At this time, the author can report that both the League and TAPR will be submitting petitions for rulemaking to the FCC to change the SS rules. This filing will be the joint effort of both organizations during the past year to come up with a set of rule changes which will allow the amateur community to make the most effective use of SS technology in the ARS.
- Future issues of PSR will provide more information on the petitions and how they are moving thru the formal rulemaking process. In addition, in the coming year TAPR will be launching an initiative to better acquaint the average ham with this technology and make it possible for them to experiment with it thru the availability of new hardware.
- To sum up, the ARS has a lot of catching up to do with the commercial sector in this area. SS technology is not magic and is by no means the solution to all of the world's problems. However, it can make possible some new avenues for the deployment and availability of high-speed packet radio systems to the amateur radio community in the future.
[1] Broscius, A. "License-Free Spread Spectrum Packet Radio," 8th ARRL
Computer Networking Conference Proceedings, p.16 [1989]
[2] American radio Relay League "Spread Spectrum Sourcebook," ARRL, [1991]
[3] Lynch, C.A. and Brownrigg, E.B. "Packet Radio Networks - Architectures, Protocols, technologies and Applications," Pergamon Press [1987]
[4] Price, H. "Digital Communications", QEX, p. 22 June, [1995]
[5] Rinaldo, P. "CDMA Spread Spectrum STA", QEX, p. 2 June, [1992]