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BMW M6 Convertible arriving this fall
BMW M announces the arrival of the ultimate 2+2, open air driving experience - the new BMW M6 Convertible. Like its Coupe stablemate, the M6 Convertible combines a 500 horsepower V10 and the seven-speed Sequential M Gearbox with Drivelogic. It also combines the luxury and elegance of the 6 Series Convertible with true super-car performance - 0 - 60 mph in about 4.5 seconds and a top speed electronically limited to 155 mph. With production beginning this September, the 2007 M6 Convertible will begin arriving in U.S. showrooms this fall.
The M6 Convertible has all of the performance capabilities of the M6 Coupe in addition to the styling cues that clearly identify this car as the work of BMW M - the aggressive and functional front air dam, the light and open 19-inch wheels that showcase the large compound/cross-drilled brakes as well as the tail-end treatment featuring air-diffuser and four round tailpipes. It combines it with the elegance and functionality of the 6 Series Convertible - the luxurious 2+2 seating, the generous trunk and the multi-layered soft-top. This rare combination will provide the open-air enthusiast with one of the most unique driving experiences on the road.
It is a true luxury car, but as a true product of BMW M, its reflexes were honed on the race track.
The 500 hp, V10, 7-speed SMG, 2+2 Convertible
The M6 Convertible takes full advantage of the high-revving, 500 hp BMW V10 engine. With a redline in excess of 8,000 rpm, this engine delivers its power in a way that feels like nothing else. With its 5.0-liter capacity, this normally aspirated engine delivers a genuine 100 hp/liter, once exclusive racecar territory. This engine combines state-of-the-art electronics, including double-VANOS variable valve timing, with technology straight from motorsports like ten individual throttle butterflies.
The driver may not need all the power of the V10 in all situations. In city traffic or while commuting, for example, the comfort-oriented P400 setting may suit. P400 is automatically activated when the engine is first started and offers, as the name implies, 400 horsepower. All the driver has to do to call up the full 500 hp is push the power button. A P500 sport mode is also available for even more dynamic response.
In order to take full advantage of the available power, the M6 Convertible comes standard with the seven-speed Sequential M Gearbox with Drivelogic. The unique SMG not only enables the driver to take full advantage of the performance potential but it also offers maximum flexibility as well.
It offers the flexibility of shifting from either the paddles mounted behind the steering wheel or the console mounted shift lever. It also offers the flexibility, through Drivelogic, of 11 different shift modes - six for the manual function (S-mode) and five for the automated mode (D-mode). Drivelogic gives the driver the flexibility to tailor shifting characteristics to suit the driving style of the moment.
The result is 0 - 60 mph in about 4.5 seconds and a top-speed electronically limited to 155 mph. It is a true testament to the chassis engineers at BMW M that the M6 Convertible can lap the famous Nordschleife at the Nurburgring nearly as fast as the M6 Coupe. It accomplishes this without sacrificing comfort thanks to a specially tuned suspension featuring Electronic Damping Control. EDC not only offers the driver the choice of three settings ranging from Sport to Comfort, but it also constantly adjusts the shock-absorber firmness to the given driving conditions.
Variable M Differential Lock and DSC with M Dynamic mode
The variable, speed-sensing M Differential Lock gives the M6 Convertible outstanding traction in all driving conditions, particularly when accelerating out of a bend. Even in the most demanding situations, this intelligent differential provides a decisive edge in traction. This is especially beneficial when accelerating with the drive wheels on surfaces of varying coefficients of friction. Here, the M Differential Lock immediately builds locking force with the increasing difference in speed between the drive wheels. Power is then able to get to the drive wheel with greater traction.
Befitting its character the BMW M6 Convertible offers a special version of BMW's Dynamic Stability Control. In addition to the normal DSC mode, there is the M Dynamic Mode. The M Dynamic Mode retains all the functionality of DSC but waits for a higher threshold of wheel slip before engaging. As with all BMWs, the driver has the option of switching it off completely.
High-performance brakes have their roots in motorsport
Reflecting the car's enormous performance potential, the BMW M6 Convertible offers braking performance to match. Large 14.7-inch front and 14.6-inch rear brakes feature weight-optimized cross-drilled, compound rotors. These ensure not only outstanding stopping performance but also offer greater resistance to the effects of heat under extreme conditions. Tests show stopping distances of just under 118 feet from 62 mph and less than 460 feet from 124 mph.
Braking safety is aided further by BMW's two-stage Adaptive Brakelight technology. Under hard braking, or whenever the ABS is engaged, the taillights illuminate in tandem with the brake lights and at the same intensity, giving following drivers a much bolder warning which helps them to react more quickly.
Unique multi-layered softop provides the profile of a Coupe
The soft-top on the M6 Convertible is made up of three layers. A special noise and heat insulating layer of polyurethane (PUR) foam is held between the weather-proof outer layer and the interior roof lining. Its unique fin-roof look gives the M6 Convertible the same dynamic profile of the M6 Coupe. The C-pillar is characterized by the traditional Hofmeister kink.
Although the roof covers a generous passenger compartment, it folds into compact dimensions. The vertical rear window requires very little storage space and can be raised or lowered independently of the roof. It can be lowered with the top up to provide additional ventilation and can be raised with the top down to act as a wind deflector. The roof can be raised or lowered while the car is traveling up to 20 mph. The top can be ordered in either black or grey.
A luxurious environment tailored to the driving enthusiast
The interior of the BMW M6 Convertible retains the luxurious look and feel of the 650i Convertible and has been enhanced with special touches that distinguish it as a product from BMW M.
Immediately apparent will be the exclusive seams on all the seats as well as the M logos in the headrests. Next will be the shift paddles and shift lever that are unique to the Sequential M Gearbox. The white-on-black instruments feature the traditional BMW M red indicator needles.
The optional Head-Up Display presents essential information directly in the driver's field of vision. This can include directional information from the standard on-board navigation system. It also offers the choice of a special M display that includes road speed, transmission gear and an engine speed graphic.
Using iDrive, the driver can select a preferred setting for each of these in the MDrive display. Then with a simple touch of the M button on the steering wheel, all the preferred settings are instantly engaged offering a custom tailored driving experience.
The interior has been designed for easy access to the rear seats. In addition to the room for passengers, the M6 Convertible provides plenty of room for their luggage. The flexible tray for the convertible top can be folded out of the way when the top is up in order to create additional luggage space. There is room for one large plus one small hard-shell case. Alternatively there is room for two 46-inch golf bags with enough room left for a medium-sized hard shell case.
The BMW M6 Convertible will be available in standard BMW colors such as Black Sapphire, Silver Grey Metallic, Monaco Blue and Stratus Grey. It will also be offered in special M colors such as Indianapolis Red, Interlagos Blue, Silverstone and Sepang Bronze. The Merino Leather interior will be offered in a choice of three standard colors: Black, Silverstone and Sepang Bronze. Full leather is available as an option in the three standard colors as well as Indianapolis Red and Portland Brown. The interior may be further accented with the choice of optional carbon fiber trim.
Standard and optional features suit such an exclusive car
The BMW M6 Convertible will retail for $105,095 (including destination charges) and befitting the exclusive nature of the M6 Convertible, the list of standard features includes auto-dimming interior and exterior mirrors, Park Distance Control, Adaptive Xenon Headlights, Bluetooth hands-free phone interface, On-board Navigation system with real-time traffic and Logic7 sound system. Also included is BMW Assist for four full years and enrollment in an exclusive one-day M driver training course at the BMW Performance Center in Spartanburg, SC. The standard Logic7 sound system with surround sound simulation may be enhanced with optional Sirius Satellite Radio. The M6 Convertible owner can also travel with his or her complete music library thanks to the center-installed BMW interface for iPod. Other options include the Head-up Display and BMW Comfort Access.


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Talented song and dance men have hoofed it across the silver screen almost since movies were born, but of those who earned fame during the Golden Age of Hollywood, only three stand out as genuine legends: Fred Astaire, James Cagney and Gene Kelly.
Astaire, of course, is the paragon of onscreen elegance; Cagney, meanwhile, perfected a style of quintessentially American acting, singing and dancing so winningly explosive that it's been celebrated — and lovingly parodied — ever since.
And then there's Gene Kelly. In movies like On the Town (with good friend Frank Sinatra), An American in Paris and, of course, 1952's Singin' in the Rain — for most movie fans, the greatest Hollywood musical of all time — Eugene Curran Kelly created an utterly inimitable onscreen persona: optimistic, playful, knowing and yet, deep down, hopelessly romantic. That he could dance, it seemed, from morning til night without breaking a sweat only added to his visceral charm. (There's an old saying to the effect that the women who swarmed to movie musicals in the middle part of the 20th century dreamed of dancing the night away with Fred Astaire — and of going home with Gene Kelly.)
Here, LIFE.com offers rare photographs of the protean dancer, singer, actor, producer, director and choreographer in France in 1960, as he enjoys a prestigious off-screen career highlight: creating a ballet for the storied Paris Opera.
As LIFE noted in August 1960, in an article about Kelly's Parisian triumph:
The figure on the austere marble stairs of the Paris Opera [see first image in this gallery], looking like a sporting type who got in by mistake, is the newest addition to its ballet roster: Gene Kelly. Normally the staircase swarms with France's most resplendent music-goers, and on gala openings it is lined with red-coated guardsmen.
But at times this summer the scene looked right out of his American in Paris as Kelly rushed to and from the stage at rehearsals of his 45-minute jazz ballet, Pas de Dieux (Dance of the Gods). Idolized in France for his movie dancing, Kelly was signed by the Opera's own ballet company to enliven its shopworn repertoire with this work set to Gershwin music. He does not perform himself, but his radical dance ideas drew 23 curtain calls from a fancy premiere audience of ballet regulars. Cheered one of France's top critics: "Kelly succeeded in blowing away a half century of dust from the Paris Opera."
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter @lizabethronk.


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A week after the Costa Concordia sank in shallow water two hours into a holiday cruise, transfixing the world, attention is now focused on the behavior of the captain before and after the ship hit a rock formation at 9:40 p.m.
What began as a serious tragedy off the Tuscan island of Giglio may now have some serious tabloid elements to the story.
New questions involve the role of a 25-year old blonde Moldovan, a Filipino cook, the captain's alcohol intake, a dinner ordered after the collision, and the captain's moves after the ship ran aground, leaving a 160-foot gash in the hull.
Captain Francesco Schettino seems to have been attentive to Domnica Cemortan, alternately described as a hostess and a dancer, for much of the evening before, during, and after the ship hit the rock, possibly dining with her as late as 10:30 p.m. The two were also together as late as midnight, according to Ms. Cemortan, at a lifeboat station, where he ordered her to leave the semi-submerged ship.
What was clarified this week: After charting an alternate course to sail closer to Giglio Island – a course that Costa Cruises denies it authorized – Schettino told investigators he "turned too late" to avoid rocks that some maritime experts say are uncharted but do show up on other nautical charts. In one animated mapping using nautical GPS positioning of the Concordia, the back half of the ship is shown grazing what is described as an exposed rock.
Transcripts of radio conversations between the Coast Guard and Schettino confirm that he left the ship while hundreds of passengers were still onboard.
In upcoming days, an accurate timeline may emerge of Schettino's precise movements between the restaurant and the bridge as well as who he called and consulted – facts that are still murky and confused right now. The details have serious legal implications and consequences for insurance and recovery of the $450 million ultra-modern vessel.
Today rescue workers said the 117,000 ton Concordia is shifting on the ocean floor by 1.5 centimeters an hour, delaying additional rescue efforts and attempts at removing the oil onboard. Relatives of the 11 dead and 21 still missing are arriving from Peru, India, and European nations.
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Between 9 p.m. and 10:50 p.m., Schettino and Ms. Cemortan, who works for the cruise line but was not employed for the cruise, were seen eating and drinking together. The two were caught on an amateur camera at 9 p.m. in a ship restaurant. Cemortan, who gave an interview to a Romanian paper Thursday, said she was dining with Schettino at 9:30 p.m., around the time the boat hit the rocks. Rogelio Barista, a ship cook, told Manila TV he was befuddled by orders from the captain at 10:15 to serve food, including dessert, to Cemortan.
"I have had 12 years of experience as a cook on a cruise ship," Mr. Barista said, in comments translated by CNN. "I have even witnessed fires, so I wasn't that scared. But I did wonder, though, what the captain was doing ... why he was still there."
Moreover, in what is generally an industry taboo, Schettino consumed at least part of a decanter of wine, according to Italian passengers who saw him in the restaurant.
William Wright, a British sea captain interviewed on Sky News today, said that just as commercial air pilots are forbidden to drink within a certain time frame of flying, so are ship captain eight hours prior to a voyage. Drinking on board by ship captains is "absolutely unacceptable" and there is a "zero tolerance" policy, Mr. Wright said.
Tapes indicate the Concordia did not make the call to abandon ship until more than an hour after the collision. The initial warning of danger came from a cell phone call by a passenger to a relative on shore who alerted the Coast Guard. It appears that ship communications with the Coast Guard deliberately hid its plight by presenting the crisis as an electrical blackout.
New tapes show that in the meantime, chaos ensued. The crew initially told passengers the problem was an electrical malfunction, then told them to don their lifejackets and head to lifeboat stations, but tapes show that passengers were later told to return to their rooms.
"We have a message from the captain," says a crew member to passengers in a corridor in a video released Thursday. "We kindly ask you to return to your cabins, or go for a walk if you like. We'll resolve the electrical problem that we have with the generator. I'm kindly asking you to go back to your rooms, where you'll be seated and tranquil."
Cemortan, who has so far not explained why the captain was so attentive to her under such extraordinary conditions, has defended Schettino, echoing his initial story that his maneuver of the ship to shallow water saved thousands of lives and that he was not one of the first to leave.
What Schettino himself told investigators is that he tripped and fell into a lifeboat accidentally while trying to help others. What remains unexplained is how he landed in the same lifeboat as the No. 1 and No. 2 next ranking Concordia officers.
"Seems quite amazing both for myself and other people," said Mr. Wright, the British captain. "But we need to see the investigation." The cruise liner was commissioned in 2006 and is one of the largest cruise vessels in the Carnival fleet.


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For Charles Clough, a solo show that raises the question: What was the 'Pictures Generation' really?
Not long ago art collector Dorothy Vogel invited Louis Newman, director of the David Finlay Jr. gallery, to her apartment for dinner.
Vogel is one half of a legendary art-collecting couple, famous for having priceless works of art not only hanging on every inch of the walls of a small Upper East Side apartment, but also stowed under their bed and couches and in the closets; when the furniture was getting in the way of new acquisitions, they started getting rid of furniture.
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During the visit, Newman saw a small painting he liked, by Charles Clough.
"That's how I found out about Charlie," he told me as he stood in his gallery on Saturday, at the opening of a show of Clough's recent work. "I saw this painting and I'm like, 'It's Abstract Expressionism.' And she said, 'You have to remember we started out in that realm and with that circle of artists and all, but it wasn't affordable to us so that's why we went in a different direction.'"
Clough was not, in fact, an Abstract Expressionist, nor was he part of the Minimalist school, arguably the movement best represented in the Vogels' collection. In fact, the question of what kind of artist Clough is has vexed many who attempt to classify him.
Clough's work from the '70s and '80s has recently been associated with what has come to be known as "The Pictures Generation," a group that was coming into prominence well after the Ab-Exers and included friends and collaborators of Clough's.
But Clough was not originally grouped with them. When curator and critic Douglas Crimp curated an exhibition called "Pictures" in 1977, he brought together works by five artists: Sherrie Levine, Jack Goldstein, Phillip Smith, Troy Brauntuch, and Robert Longo. The exhibition tapped a vein of figuration developing among many artists in a New York City art scene that was awash in Minimalism.
It was only three decades later, when Douglas Eklund, curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, included Clough in an exhibition he curated called "The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984." Eklund expanded Crimp's circle of five artists to include some 25 more who had worked around the same time and place, among whom arguably the most famous is Cindy Sherman, an addition of his, and Longo, one of the original five.
Sherman and Longo are long-time friends and collaborators with Clough. The three started the Buffalo-based Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in 1974, a space strongly identified with the Pictures group. But before now, Clough has not been a prominent figure in the discussion of this group of artists compared to these two artists, who continue to reap the benefits of art-market megastardom. And in fact, Clough's inclusion in the Met's "Pictures" show came largely out of his longtime friendship with Longo.
"I think Longo was key person within Doug Eklund's dialogue. And Robert pushed for me," Clough said when I asked about why he'd been chosen to participate in the show. "There could be so many different ways of approaching the art of the '70s. It seems to be a very subjective grouping that Doug [Eklund] came up with. I'm grateful I was in it."
"Ideologically, what Hallwalls was about was a curatorial project where we were all over the place: painting, sculpture, all the conceptual stuff, earth art, body art—what else was there?—the 70s were calling it eclectic, pattern and decoration for example… There were so many dogmas involved. There was [Clement] Greenberg's dogma and then there was Michael Fried's dogma, and then there was the conceptual artist with their rules. Everybody's got their rules and my critical position is more of affirmation and inclusion. And so I've always retained a painterly approach—throughout storms of dogma and various points of view."
Compared to other artists in the Pictures group, Clough's practice is relatively staid. He's stuck with gestural painting even as contemporaries like Sherrie Levine have adopted postmodern appropriation, too, like taking a photograph of a photograph.
As a result, Clough's contemporary work doesn't scream of association with the rest of the group. The thick slabs of color smeared and daubed on canvases in his current show are, from a style standpoint, almost indistinguishable from the Ab-Ex methods of, say, a Clyfford Still, which would account for Newman's initial misidentification of Clough at that dinner at the Vogels'; these works, used alone as a guiding logic in categorizing Clough's work, would place him in the neo-expressionist camp with artists like Louise Fishman, perhaps.
"I didn't think Charlie really belonged to the Pictures Generation because he's really an abstract painter," Walter Robinson, the editor-in-chief of Artnet magazine, told me at the opening Saturday. "Then, he was reminding me back in the early '80s he was making these abstract finger-paint pictures on top of magazine pages. If a museum would do a group show of post-modernist abstraction, he could play in that group of artists."
Eklund's grouping was predicated on the belief that each generation riffs off the last; that the Pictures artists, though stylistically disparate, were all paying homage to the same concepts of kitsch and appropriation, reacting to the culture in which they lived, and that was what guided their artistic production. And so the fact that you can look at Clough's work and not see an aesthetic through-line linking him to the other Pictures artists either disqualifies him from the grouping or is completely inessential to the larger point, depending where you stand.
"It's a legitimate grouping of his work because he in fact was part of that seminal grouping of artists," said Paul Hasegawa-Overacker, better known as Paul H-O, who'd been roving around the gallery, camera man in tow, interviewing people about the show. "They were literally hanging and painting the sign of Hallwalls when it first started in this place called the ice house. Robert Longo is quite articulate about the influence of Charlie Clough about the way that Robert thought. It was Charlie who was giving him Artforum and Art in America, all these different magazines and saying, 'Take a look at this' … Charlie being a little bit older than Robert was actually in a lot of ways somewhat of a mentor."
Clough is quick to admit the influence of friends and fellow artists as well.
"You know the whole Pictures Generation, in the early '70s in Buffalo, I started Hallwalls with [Robert] Longo and [Cindy] Sherman," Clough told me, verifying his association with Pictures from, at least, the standpoint of time and place. "At that time, I was interested in deconstructing painting, basically. I did various things with painting and photography, combining them, gluing photos onto walls in installations where the photo revealed and the paint concealed. Gestural responses are crucial to my way of working."
Of course, finding oneself in a clearly demarcated position in the art-criticism taxonomy is good for business, but it can come with its own set of problems.
Artist Patrick O'Connell had shared studio space with Clough around that time, and reminisced about the broader swath of artists associated by Eklund with Pictures. "There were lots of things that were not, well, included. It was so broad in its inclusion that it became impossible unless you were very familiar with the work to focus on that moment," he said. "It was a totally bizarre exhibition, because it was really defined by any of us who were breathing below 14th street.
Douglas Crimp provided a broader view of the meaning of the Pictures exhibit.
"I guess it has proved to me that all of us who participate are making art's meanings—the viewers of art, the critics of art, obviously the artists and the museums that make exhibitions—all of these constitute meaning in works of art. Meanings don't inhere in the objects themselves. They actually have to do with reception."


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The Japan market crash has finally broken through to the mainstream.
Last night and this morning, several non-finance folks have been asking "What the heck is happening in Japan?"
First, from an obvious market standpoint, it's crashing.
Japan's main stock index, the Nikkei, fell 6.25% last night, to 12,445. Just a few weeks ago it was right around 16,000.
That's a crash.
Of course, Japan had been one of the hottest markets in the world, surging like crazy since last autumn.
Here's a chart, via FinViz, of Nikkei futures going back several months.
The big runup that started in November coincided with the emergence of "Abenomics," the big economic strategy outlined by new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who supports eliminating the Japanese slump via a three-arrow combination of ultra-aggressive monetary policy, fiscal policy, and structural reforms.
The monetary policy has been the easiest to implement because all it took was for the BOJ to just declare an aggressive inflation target and a lot of QE. The fiscal and structural parts are much more difficult.
But for the purposes of rising asset prices, the monetary stimulus deserves a lot of the credit for the big Nikkei surge.
So what's gone wrong?
Basically, people are doubting the Bank of Japan's resolve.
Matt Yglesias has a great post at Slate showing that the collapse of the Nikkei also corresponds with a recent decline in inflation expectations, and those declines in inflation expectations associate with hints that the Bank of Japan is not fully committed to stoking more inflation.
One of the arrows refers to comments from the Finance Minister concerning the rise in Japanese Bond Yields, which hinted that maybe the Bank of Japan was getting freaked out. And the other arrow concerns minutes from a Bank of Japan meeting, in which concern was expressed over rising yields, which also caused investors to question the bank's resolve.
The bottom line is this: For a central bank to do its thing it needs to be aggressive and clear in its goals, and not worry about the bumps along the road.
Paul Volcker was willing to crash the U.S. economy (well at least create a recession) in order to beat inflation. Ben Bernanke gets called a traitor by U.S. Presidential candidates, but is committed to his extraordinary monetary policy actions.
The Bank of Japan already looks nervous. And the market is starting to bet against it.


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Is it me or when you start playing ELO it's a whole different world? I feel like I just started playing a new game. With all these new rules I find myself struggling trying to make a good deck, selling cards and buying cards and then I try again and it never seems to work. the 25* count doesn't really bother me since I always use 25* in extended, but not being able to use some of the good cards like copper, jackie cr, hawk, graksmxxt... I find myself losing every single game because my opponents always draw some magic combinations and it seems the 14 health thing makes it even harder. Here is my current deck so you can help me, I suck at ELO and please give me some suggestions I am currently playing frozn and vortex but I also play sentinel, uppers, skeelz and sakrohm.
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Because the OP cards are generally banned out of ELO, the best approach is to try to build a deck that has a lot of strong/well-rounded cards in it. A good ELO deck isn't automatically destroyed by a single gimmick. If you die to SoA, SoB, heavy DR, or heavy attack manip, you need more well-rounded cards in your deck.
If you are just starting out, take a look at the cards that are frequently temp-banned in ELO. These are the strongest and most well-rounded cards, so including them might help your game a bit. Try to play a dual-clan deck so that you can have all of your bases covered. If you are running a Jungo half with Askai, make your other half a clan that does well against SoB, who rob Jungo of their precious +life. If you are running a Bangers half with Beeboy, balance it with a half-deck that has some strong threats, because Bangers' 4-damage 3*s aren't going to win any games by themselves.
Once you get good, you can look for less obvious combinations. Vortex and GHEIST back each other up well, since a Vortex loss may enable a heavy-hitting GHEIST to get through for big damage. All-Stars and Roots is an extremely well-rounded combination that many strong players have had success with, because it is adaptable to a large variety of situations. There is no limit to the amount of different synergies you can discover, and you will eventually learn which of those will work well in whatever metagame is created by the unbanned cards for that week.
Good luck, and have fun!
subclavianHoA Imperator Wednesday 07/11/2012, 02:36
One word: mono sentinel (okay, two words)
It's a deck guaranteed to work.
ghelas Titan E X C A L I B U R Wednesday 07/11/2012, 03:34
Subclavian speaks the truth. Even with their best 2* banned, mono-Sent are still rock solid. They are one of the few clans I will even consider playing mono.
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I'm not that excited on using the sentinel clan again... I just finished the win 500 battles with them and I am bored of playing them


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Sources: The Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group and Neonatal Group at http://bit.ly/10e2com and World Health Organization at http://apps.who.int/rhl/newborn/hscom2/en.
Throughout time, in most cultures, it was natural for a newborn to be cradled on its mother's bare chest immediately after birth. That intimate moment disappeared with the advent of hospital births, after which the baby is taken away for assessment, medical treatment and cleaning before being returned to the mother.
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Wride says traditional initial tests on the newborn can be delayed. "We can do assessments while the baby is lying on the mom's chest, so it's less stressful. The weight and length measurements can always wait awhile.
"I think you can tell the difference in a baby's cry when it's taken away immediately after birth," she says. "It's a sad-sounding little yelp as opposed to the first cry that clears the lungs. I call it the 'where's my mommy cry.'"
Slack says skin-to-skin bonding has helped address a perceptual problem for delivery room physicians and nurses.
"Moms and dads have had a true gripe about us," he says. "Many of them often said, 'You medical people make birth so clinical.' While we gave quality care, we were losing that warmth they needed. Skin-to-skin helps us bridge that gap. It's a big improvement for all of us to have that warm, friendly atmosphere."
Seeing a new life come into the world is a joyful occasion, says Wride. "We never get tired of seeing a baby being born. They come out as clean slates with such promise for their lives. My favorite part is to watch mom and dad pack up the baby and take off in the car. I always think, 'Oh, another happy little family is going home.'"
The opportunity to bond with her newborn was important to Steele, who continues the skin-to-skin experience at home.
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The fallen deputy has been identified as Deputy Sheriff Josie Greathouse Fox of the Millard County Sheriff's Office.
Update: Millard Country Sheriff Robert A. Dekker has informed the media that the shooter, Roberto Miramontes Roman, is a Mexican national, has been previously arrested for theft charges and has been previously deported from the United States as an illegal immigrant.
A Millard County sheriff's deputy was shot and killed early Tuesday, and a statewide manhunt for the suspect may have narrowed down to a few blocks of west Salt Lake City.
Deputy Josie Greathouse Fox was gunned down about 1 a.m., during a traffic stop a mile east of Delta. Her body was found by a second deputy, who was responding to a request for backup. Fix, a mother of two, had been with the Millard County Sheriff's Department five years.
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Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Jeff Nigbur identified the "prime suspect" sought in the shooting as Roberto Miramontes Roman. He is described as a 37-year-old Latino, 5-foot-7, 130 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes.
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Roman is possibly armed with an AK-47 assault rifle, and is considered dangerous. Anyone with information on Roman's whereabouts is urged to immediately call 911.
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You're in your early 60s and thriving. You've saved a half-million bucks in your IRA, and since you've got other income or other savings you don't need to tap it until you're required to, at age 70 ½. So you should leave the IRA alone and let it grow, right?
Not necessarily, say many financial planners. In fact, depending on your other circumstances, making withdrawals in your 60s could help you stretch your savings longer, by reducing your income-tax bill later in life.
The issue, as Arden Dale explains this week in The Wall Street Journal's Wealth Adviser section, is that once you reach the age-70-½ threshold, you have to take a "required minimum distribution" (or RMD) of a certain percentage of the assets in the account. Withdrawals from a traditional IRA are taxed as income, so the bigger your IRA is after 70, the greater the chance that the RMD will push you into a higher tax bracket. In contrast, you might be in a relatively low tax bracket in your mid-60s, where the income from an IRA withdrawal won't come back to bite you.
This is, to be sure, the kind of problem you'd like to have – it's something of a moot point unless you have an account that's well into the six figures. Advisers offer Dale various advice about how the strategy could play out. For a 60-something who isn't working anymore and could use the income, IRA withdrawals may be a better option than collecting Social Security, since by deferring those benefits, he'll be entitled to a bigger pension check down the road. A retiree who doesn't need the income immediately, meanwhile, can always roll the money into a Roth IRA or another taxable account where it can keep growing – perhaps doing so in small annual chunks, since such rollovers are also taxable.
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SmackDown! pay-per-views have been disappointing, lacking, and just plain awful. With hopes to turn things around, WWE Armageddon made its way to us from Providence, RI, offering a fresh breath of air that could mean a promising 2006.
Armageddon's card consisted of many last-minute matches, including the two-on-one Handicap match between Bobby Lashley
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"Cowboy" Bob Orton tried to intervene, but found himself on the receiving end of a boot to the face that sent the cage back at him, in the process lacerating him above the eyebrow. The younger Orton came back with repeated shots, eventually setting up a table and splashing Undertaker through it.
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The Undertaker got back to a vertical base
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Bob tried to get involved again, but was once again stopped thanks to a hard blow from 'Taker. 'Taker regained his urn and used it to crack the Orton's in the face. A couple of Tombstones later and both men were laid to rest as The Undertaker stood atop the cell, urn in hand and victorious.
WWE Armageddon 2005 Results:
- The show began with a music video that
hyped the Undertaker/Randy Orton feud. Some really cool stuff that's been going on in this one. Definitely one of the better feuds of 2005.
- JBL came out with his Image Consultant,
Jillian Hall, and cut a promo on Rhode Island and Matt Hardy. JBL harped on the fact that Hardy lost his girlfriend, then whined to his geek friends on the Internet. He was soon cut off, leading to...
- Match One - John "Bradshaw"
Layfield w/ Jillian Hall vs Matt Hardy
Hardy came through the crowd, attacking JBL from behind. Sadly for Hardy, that would be about 90% of the offense he would get for the entire match. Hardy got caught up, neck first, between the top and middle rope, and stayed their for a little while as JBL proceeded to choke, punch and kick his head in. With the exception of a swinging neckbreaker and moonsault, it was all JBL. The Texan ripped off a turnbuckle padded, sent poor Hardy into it and delivered up a Clothesline From Hell like never before.
Winner Via Pinfall - John "Bradshaw" Layfield
Match Rating - 7/10
- We then caught a recap of SmackDown! where Melina tried to use her "Assets" to gain the favoritism of Batista, but to no avail, as "The Animal" and Rey Mysterio walked out, new Tag Team Champions.
- In the backstage area, Psichosis and Super Crazy walked up to Melina and told her that they will pull themselves out of the match they have with MNM, as long as Melina does to them what she did to Batista. She told them that they were sick and walked away.
- Hell in a Cell Last Rites Moment
- The Undertaker's brutal beatdown of Mankind.
- Match Two - MNM w/ Melina vs The
Mexicools (Psichosis and Super Crazy)
Quick paced match that really kept the crowd going. Psichosis and Crazy took to the air, landing a corkscrew as well as a tope con hilo over the referee's back. Melina got involved, tripping up Psichosis and taking away his momentum. MNM used their double teaming tactics to wear down Psichosis, keeping him isolated from making the tag. Once the tag was
made, it was all Mexicools. Melina tried to get involved again, but was sent
down for her troubles. Crazy hit a moonsault on Joey Mercury, but the pinfall
was broken up by Johnny Nitro, leading to The Snapshot for the win.
Winners Via Pinfall - MNM
- JBL and Jillian Hall were shown with
Steve Romero, chatting with fans on WWE Instant Access.
- WWE's most untalented announcer Kristal ran into Booker T and Sharmell who guaranteed a sweep in Booker's match against Chris Benoit. Sharmell also let Kristal know that when she left, she could use her broom to ride away on.
Match Three - Best of Seven Series
For The United States Championship MATCH # 4 - Booker T w/ Sharmell vs "The
Rabid Wolverine" Chris Benoit
A technical match on all accounts. Tons
and tons of chops and suplexes. They seemed to be a little off their game
however, floundering a bit at times. Several Crossface attempts, as well as a
low blow/scissor kick combination from Sharmell and Booker all came back
negative. With Booker down, Benoit went for a diving headbutt, only to come up
with a two count. Benoit once again went for the crossface, this time Booker
rolled through and hit the ref. Benoit was quick to his feet to apply the
Sharpshooter, forcing Booker to tap. The only problem was that the referee was
out. Sharmell came in and hit Benoit with the broom, but that didn't phase him. As he went to take care of Sharmell, Booker came from behind and attacked, setting up for the Book End, which was reversed into a DDT and topped off with a Crossface for the victory.
Winner Via Submission - "The Rabid Wolverine" Chris Benoit
Best of Seven Series - Booker T (3) vs Chris Benoit (1)
Match Rating - 6/10
- MNM and Melina were shown talking with the WWE Instant Access crew.
- Hell in a Cell Last Rites Moment - The Undertaker chokeslamming Rikishi off the top of the Cell.
- SmackDown's GM�Teddy Long and Palmer Cannon made their way to the ring. Long thanked all the fans for their support in making SmackDown! number one. Cannon took the mic and said that since it's the holiday season, he has a treat for everyone. He brought out Big Vito as Santa Claus and Nunzio as an elf. The duo handed out lumps of coal to everyone, yes even Michael Cole. Once in the ring, the two began requesting all sorts of title shots. Cannon denied their requests, but offered them a different gift. The Boogeyman made his way to the ring and absolutely destroyed the FBI. Nunzio
was thrown shoulder first into the ring post. Vito tried to charge in, but
caught the stick into the midsection and a pump handle slam. The Boogeyman lit
his stick, and as the smoke poured out, he waved it over the Santa Claus bag and opened it up as worms poured out everywhere. He took a bite himself and then shoved a handful down Vito's throat before leaving. I am putting all my stock in this guy, he is truly one of the better parts of SmackDown!
- They played another Undertaker/Randy
Orton hyped video, showcasing their tremendous feud.
- Randy Orton stood by with Kristal and
cut a promo on how he is the master of the mind games. He showed off The
Undertaker's urn before leaving to prepare for his match.
- Match Four - 2 on 1 Handicap
Match - Bobby Lashley vs William Regal and Paul Burchill
An�big time�squash match that saw a little double teaming from Regal and Burchill, but mostly a power display from Lashley. Lashley used the dreaded Dominator on Burchill to secure himself a win.
Winner Via Pinfall - Bobby Lashley
Match Rating - 5/10
WWE New Years Revolution takes place on January 8, 2006 from Albany, NY.
- Things were then sent over to the Friendly Tap, where Josh Matthews was standing by with Friendly Tap owner and former WWE official, Tim White. White wasn't answering any questions, rather just drinking beers and drowning his sorrows. They showed a clip of the Hell in a Cell match that put him out of commission When asked how he was doing, White talked about how his wife left him, how he lost all his friends, how he developed all these medical problems. He pulled out a riffle and told Josh Matthews to leave. Matthews agreed as White walked away with the gun. From their the most disturbing thing on WWE 2005 PPV took place. With screams from Josh Matthews a gun went off, signifying what could only be the suicide of Tim White. Matthews looked squeamishly on as I pondered what the hell had just happened.
- Match Five - WWE Cruiserweight Championship Match - Juventud "The Juice" Guerrera (C) vs Kid Kash
After a slightly awkward transition, we were sent back to the ring for more action. Another slightly sloppy, but not-so-terrible match. Kash went for his trademark springboard moonsault, but caught a pair of knees to the midsection. "The Juice" hit a huge huricanrana off the top rope, but planting Kash with a Juvi Driver for the two count. Juvi missed the front flip leg drop and was leveled (no pun intended), with the Dead Level Brainbuster for the win.
Winner Via Pinfall and NEW WWE Cruiserweight Champion - Kid Kash
- Bobby Lashley was then shown with the WWE Instant Access group.
- Next up was an awesome commercial for the Royal Rumble, which featured all the McMahons. Vince as the leader of Rome of course. In the end, Shane or "Shanicus", stabbed Vince in the back and did his trademark dancing around. Hillarious. The Royal Rumble will be taking place on January 29, 2005 from Miami, FL.
Match Six - Inter-Promotional Tag Team Match - The Big Show and Kane vs "The Animal" Bastista and Rey Mysterio
Not much good�here. Each team demonstrated their strength, with Mysterio being the only man out of place. The match evolved into a brawl, with Batista and Big Show wrestling over the announce table, as Mysterio delivered a 6-1-9 to Kane. He went for the West Coast Pop, but was caught in midair and planted with a chokeslam for the three count.
Winners Via Pinfall - The Big Show and Kane
- They hyped the Tribute To The Troops edition of Raw.
- Hell in a Cell Last Rites Moment - The Undertaker beats up on Shawn Michaels.
- Match Seven - Hell in a Cell Match - "The Legend Killer" Randy Orton w/ "Cowboy" Bob Orton vs The Undertaker
Winner Via Pinfall - The Undertaker
Match Rating - 8/10
Overall Event Rating - 6.5/10
Chris Sokol is from Long Island, NY and would like to wish all the SLAMMER'S! out their, Happy Holidays!


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Dr. Christopher Loftus has been named chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine effective Aug. 1. Loftus comes to Loyola from his position as professor and chair of the Department of Neurosurgery, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, where he has worked since 2004. Before that, he was chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City. Loftus has special expertise in the circulatory system around the brain and the treatment of benign and malignant tumors, aneurysms, vascular malformations and blockages of the carotid artery. Loftus has an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and his M.D. from SUNY, Downstate Medical Center. He completed his neurosurgery residency at the Neurological Institute of New York, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
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text: The job scheduler is responsible for managing the user credentials and tokens as well as allocating CPUs to jobs. So if you are not going to use our scheduler, you need a different solution for the credential management. How do the user's processes get created with the right token? MPICH2 has a couple different solutions with different tradeoffs - I'm not sure which one you use. We have had requests for two different scenarios - enabling other MPI stacks to use the credential management of our job scheduler and enabling other job schedulers to do the credential management for our MPI stack. We are looking at both of these for the next release but they didn't make V1. So like most product decisions, we didn't "have to do this" it was just the normal tradeoff you make between features and schedules with a healthy dose of security paranoia thrown into the mix. John Vert Development Manager High Performance Computing -----Original Message----- From: Bill Bryce [mailto:bill at platform.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 1:12 PM To: John Vert; Robert G. Brown Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: RE: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I ask one simple question..... Why did Microsoft have to do this (and I quote from MSDN) "Every job and task that uses Microsoft MPI must be submitted through the Microsoft job scheduler. There are several ways to submit jobs and tasks to the job scheduler:" I do not have that restriction with other MPI's such as MPICH2 for Windows from Argonne. Regards, Bill. -----Original Message----- From: John Vert [mailto:jvert at windows.microsoft.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 3:19 PM To: Robert G. Brown; Bill Bryce Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: RE: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!! I'd like to clear up a few misconceptions on this thread. 1. There is no "MS specific library that abuses 'standard MPI'". The #1 goal for our MPI implementation is to make it as simple as possible for software vendors to port their codes to Windows and our MPI stack. That is why we based our implementation on MPICH2. The feedback we have gotten from software vendors has shown this approach was successful and we have had very few issues with MPI incompatibilities. We have not added anything outside the MPI spec. 2. MPICH2 is not licensed under GPL or under BSD. See http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/mpi/mpich2/license.htm Many commercial closed-source MPI implementations have been based on MPICH. Microsoft is actively working with Argonne on incorporating the changes we made back into the MPICH2 distribution. Argonne has been great to work with and really supportive of our efforts. 3. The changes we made can be loosely grouped into three areas. Performance, security, and scheduler integration. We handle the user credentials differently than Argonne's Windows implementation which is different than Argonne's Linux implementation due to some fundamental differences between the two operating systems. The scheduler integration is pretty straightforward - things like cleaning up all MPI child processes when a job is cancelled, and automatically propagating things like the allocated nodes and the number of CPUs from the scheduler to mpiexec. I don't think this is significantly different than what other job schedulers have done. 4. If you want to learn more about Windows HPC clusters, I recommend checking out www.microsoft.com/hpc and www.windowshpc.net. I'm also happy to answer questions on this list, but frankly the S/N ratio tends to drop dramatically as soon as someone mentions Windows or Microsoft. John Vert Development Manager High Performance Computing -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Robert G. Brown Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 7:59 AM To: Bill Bryce Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org Subject: RE: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!! On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Bill Bryce wrote: > So this change effectively ties Microsoft MPI to only Microsoft Windows > platforms, and the security changes are closed source. Not all of > Microsoft's partners like MS MPI - when HP ships Microsoft CCS they > remove MS MPI and put in HP MPI - which probably just adds to confusion > on the end user side. Security changes? To MPI itself? This puts them into a somewhat grey area with regard to the GPL, doesn't it... that viral thing. I'm sure that they can manage the remote job launch any way that they like, but doesn't that leave the MPI CODE still portable? It isn't completely crazy that the US government would intervene here if they broke MPI portability. After all, MPI exists at all primarily because of direct government intervention (unlike PVM, which exists because some Very Bright People conceived it and invented it and made it fly). Still, nothing the Borg Empire does in this regard would surprise me. rgb > > Regards, > > Bill. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] > On Behalf Of Robert G. Brown > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 8:22 PM > To: Tom Mitchell > Cc: beowulf at beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!! > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Tom Mitchell wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 02:02:53PM +0500, amjad ali wrote: >>> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 14:02:53 +0500 >>> From: "amjad ali" <amjad11 at gmail.com> >>> To: beowulf at beowulf.org >>> Subject: [Beowulf] Win64 Clusters!!!!!!!!!!!! >>> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> Would any of you please like to share usage-experience/views/comments >>> about Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 based Beowulf Clusters? >>> >>> What in your opinion is the future of such clusters? >>> >>> How you compare these with the LINUX CLUSTERS? >> >> With full consideration to "fat, soft pretzels with >> cheezy-mustard sauce or rolled in asiago parmesan and garlic." >> >> MS pulled a version of mpich/mvapich/MPI and ported it to windows. >> They also developed some library code to gateway some *inx > library/system >> calls to windows. The root sources of MPI are public and not GPL so > they can. >> >> It might be worth looking at the MS announcement -- but why >> bother. If you look you might think that common MPI codes >> would just compile and run... I have no idea I expect some will >> and there begins silly porting for the next... > > Sure. MS did this, no doubt. And as you note below, no sooner do they > get it in when they begin the borgification of MPI, just as they've > borgified java, c, c++, and anything in the Universe they can sucker > somebody into buying in borgified form. > > Borgifying MPI is the most humorous thing in the Universe, BTW, given > its historical origins -- it was basically a language written > (reluctantly!) by supercomputer vendors when the US government got tired > of paying for all their important codes to be ported to each new > generation of proprietary hardware with its proprietary low level calls. > MS is doubtless trying to figure out just how much of that they can > undo while building up a big enough market share and enough vendors of > closed source applications written with their borgisms that they can... > > Oh wait. It IS GPL. Do you think that they actually read it? > > However, I was really referring to the other aspects of program > development and performance tuning associated with using a closed source > development environment. > > Resistance is Futile. > > rgb > >> >> Once a set of boxes are interconnected and you have library >> support for MPI or another way to share data (PVM... whatever) >> you are off and running in the clustering world. Sadly MS >> has a MS specific library that abuses "standard MPI" and could >> quickly cause source code to surface that runs correctly or on a >> MS cluster but not on another OS based cluster (Linux, Solaris, >> Irix, AIX). I see this all the time with java script, and c, >> c++, and other codes where little 'features' hook you in. >> >> Some will be fooled into thinking that this is something to look at >> or worse something to spend money on. >> >> SUMMARY: >> Since you posted this on 1 Apr 2007 all I can do is giggle >> and wonder why I replied. >> >> Regards, >> mitch >> >> PS: Ask in a year but not on April fools/joke day. >> >> > > -- 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 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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Last month, while World Bank President Jim Yong Kim launched the gender data portal, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remarked that "data not only measures progress, it inspires it". Indeed when data is both relevant and effectively communicated, it can help to inform policies, identify challenges, and catalyze changes and innovations that deliver development results.
With that goal in mind, we started an Open Data Lab. One of our objectives is to help the development community become more effective data communicators by experimenting with different data visualization techniques and tools. The human brain finds it easier to process data and information if it is presented as an image rather than raw numbers or words. And visualizations that let and encourage users to interact with data can deepen their understanding of the information presented.
We decided to begin with data that defines our challenging work and mission: poverty reduction. Over 20 years ago Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen with various collaborators along the way developed the now widely used methods, tools and indicators to monitor the population "living on less than $ a day". Earlier this year they released the latest update of the World Bank's global poverty monitoring data along with a re-vamped version of PovcalNet: an interactive on-line computational poverty analysis tool. We downloaded the table with regional poverty estimates and used PovcalNet to calculate the results for additional poverty lines. We then combined all the data in the three-panel visualization embedded below.
Click here for a guide on using this data visualization.
You probably already know that the global incidence of extreme poverty (defined as living on less than $1.25 a day) has fallen from 52 percent in 1981 to 22 percent in 2008. And three regions in particular – East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa – have experienced very different poverty trends over this period. But did you know that:
• Between 1981 and 2008, three regions (East Asia and Pacific, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa) have together consistently accounted for over 95 percent of the developing world's population living on less than $1.25 a day?
• Even if we doubled the extreme poverty line to $2.5 a day, these three regions would still account for 93 percent the poor in the developing world?
• Even if we doubled the poverty line further to $5 a day, 88 percent of the developing world's poor population would be still found in these regions.
You can explore more interactive country and regional data dashboards with the latest World Bank poverty statistics here: http://povertydata.worldbank.org/poverty/home
What do you think? Did you learn or discover something new about global poverty data? Did it help improve your understanding of these data?
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Check out this recent working paper and try this in PovcalNet
Thanks Amparo. Yes we'll add inequality on our to-do-list. Using the Mean Log Deviation (MLD) measure, as outlined in Shaohua and Martin's recent working paper "more relatively-poor people in a less absolutely-poor world", is a good approach for global and regional aggregation/decomposition of inequality. And note that PovcalNet allows you to quickly get one measure of vulnerability by varying the poverty line by x%. A $1.25 per day is equivalent to $38 per month ($1.25*365/12) and 20% increase would mean setting the poverty line equal to 45.6. Enter this poverty line in PovcalNet here and let us know what you find.
Poverty Data
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Great Job! It's the Tableau Viz of the Day.
Great charts - digging deeper into your visuals?
Great map
Seeing between the lines
Average useful floor area per dwelling and per person
Check out our household survey microdata catalog
We do not curate indicator data on such housing characteristics for different countries. But do maintain a library with household survey microdata and DDI compliant metadata which you can search at the variable level: http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/home. This will likely turn up some data that you will find useful.
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No doubt the poverty rate in South Asia has declined
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