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by Guido Socher (homepage) About the author: Guido likes Linux because it is a very flexible and offers much more possibilities than any other operating system. Content: |
Product Review: TextmakerAbstract:
Textmaker is one of the new commercial word processors for
Linux. The article reflects the authors opinion and is
neither sponsored nor influenced in way by anybody else.
This leaves us with basically 2 commercial products: Staroffice and and Textmaker (http://www.softmaker.de/tml.htm). I always had a love and hate relation with Staroffice. It has a lot of features but it is very slow and really heavy. I absolutely hate it when Staroffice starts up and occupies the screen for almost a minute with a big logo which you can't click away. You notice also in many places that Staroffice wasn't really a Unix application from the beginning. So I was quite excited when I found Textmaker. It seemed to be quite slim: 7Mb download is an acceptable size.
There seems to be no support for mathematical formulas or technical drawing which makes it not a choice for scientific applications but it has definitely everything that a home user or business person expects from a word processor.
I will not continue to list all the features. Instead I will
focus on things that I personally really miss: A fast, lightweight,
true Unix office application. With true Unix I mean things like:
Runs with no problems from a central installation in a multi user
environment. X11 offers a seamless integration of local and remote
application so a true Unix application should support that too.
How about Textmaker? Textmaker is quite stable no crashes within
several days of using it. It uses about 8Mb Memory per running process and does not seem to
have big memory leaks.
Problems? Yes. The separation between users
is not very good. If one user starts a document and does not save it
then a second will user gets a notice at startup that there is an unsaved
document. If she opens it then she gets the document of her colleague.
Rendering of text and pictures on the screen is very slow even if it
is running on a fast server. Something is wrong with the way Textmaker
updates the screen. I don't type very fast but the text on the screen
was always about one word behind my typing. This problem with the
rendering of the screen does not seem to
exist for a locally started Textmaker.
An other point that speaks for it self is that fact that all files in the Textmaker installation are executable (chmod 755), even font files. The happens usually when somebody who has no clue that a Unix file system is different from Windows packs files together under Windows. Textmaker is basically a Windows program that was re-compiled for Linux. Therefore most of the Linux specific things do not work. That is very unfortunate because Linux has much more possibilities and features than Windows.
Something that is probably a feature and not a bug is the fact that you can only start one instance Textmaker. It you try to start a second Textmaker process it opens the already running window. It is rather unfortunate that one can not disable this behavior (e.g via command line option). I personally like to have 2 separate top level windows when I copy/paste text parts. With Textmaker I had to use its own small internal text windows.
Which version did I actually test? Well the home page of Textmaker
(http://www.softmaker.de/tml.htm) says Textmaker
2002 but the "about menu point" in Textmaker says 389. What ever that is.
In the end I decided to buy a license even though this looks still
like beta version to me but I wanted to encourage softmaker to continue.
It has the potential to become a really good word processor if they
remember to fix bugs before and after adding features.
Softmaker should also focus on the integration into Linux. Just re-compile
it for Linux is not enough.
What I liked most in this version? The developers at Softmaker have some humor. I never understood what the following
pop-up meant but it makes me smile every time I see it:
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text: Let's brew the potion. Put a yellow flower first. Level 33 – Brain Test 3: Answers – Brain Test 3 is a brand new word in puzzle games! If you managed to easily pass the first two parts (Brain Test and Brain Test 2), then now you will need to pass: reverse puzzles, role-playing levels, dialogue and chat systems. In some levels of Brain Test 3, we will have to communicate with numerous characters, answer their questions, although sometimes they can mislead us. We will be equipped with our own inventory, the items of which we can use to complete the levels. Items from the inventory can be combined together to get a new item. In this part of the game, we will need to help Alex collect six gems, throughout all the levels we will collect them. Also in Brain Test 3, we will meet with the main characters of the previous parts. The creators of this game, promise that it will be much more difficult to pass than the previous parts! Levels can not be completed by shaking the phone or stroking the screen. You will need to do several actions to go further. You can always find hints to complete the levels on our website Answers-games.com.

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The 'zen' of Kaizen
Awakening today in a rather satori-al mood – the title of this blog post is what popped into my mind. Don't ask me why or how but that's what happened. I'm a stickler for etymological cleanliness – not in the sense that I'm always cleaning up my words after myself but that I like clear and clean concepts.
However, as I alluded previously about my satori-al disposition at waking time, I find myself essentially in the midst of a paradox – the paradox of Clean Play. There is no such thing as 'Clean Play' except perhaps in the mind. And it is to that mindful playfulness that I invite you.
If anything Kaizen is the putting on of a mindful attitude to one's surroundings and systematically and continually improving specific streams of work and information flow all around you. And therein is the rub – It all sounds so booooring!!!
Clean Play…, remember Clean Play. A curious thing happens when one is attuned to the systematic tick tock – discontinuities begin to appear.
The way I see it, the truth of the matter is quite different – like true false. Or false true if you insist. One would think that – Systematics brings order out of chaos. It does no such thing. I think of Systematics as laying a thin sheet of knowing on a rippling chaotic ocean of unknowing. The knowing is only maintained by expending energy.
This thin sheet – the Systematic, is for us – a map through the unknowing, a steadying hand in the Chaotic. But my intuition tells me that we have the basic ingredients to be Chaotic riders rather than Systematic riders. That is if we learn the ropes of the Systematic correctly, you'd do much better setting it aside and riding the Chaotic. As you may well surmise, this transition is also vectored i.e. you can go from the Systematic to the Chaotic but there's little of value in going from Chaotic to Systematic.
Clean Play folks… you've got to get to Clean Play.


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Nexus Blog // Desalination Outlook for MENA
By Salman Zafar. This article discusses how renewable energy-powered desalination could be a sustainable opportunity to increase supply of potable water in MENA countries.
This article was originally published by EcoMENA Echoing Sustainability in Mena and can be accessed here.
Desalination is a water treatment process that separates salts from saline water to produce potable water. The desalination process uses large amount of energy to produce pure water from salt water source. Salt water is fed into the process, and the result is an output stream of pure water and another stream of waster with high salt concentration. Desalination techniques are mainly classified into two types:
- Processes based on physical change in the state of the water, and
- Processes using a membrane that employ the concept of filtration.
There are more than 15,000 industrial-scale desalination units worldwide, with combined capacity exceeding 8.5 billion gallons per day. The market leader is the membrane desalination process with around 44 percent of total capacity, followed closely by the thermal process of multi-stage flash (MSF) with about 40 percent market share. The main sources of feed water for desalination are seawater (58 percent), brackish ground water (23 percent), and other sources such as rivers and small salt lakes.
Water Problems in MENA and Desalination
Access to clean drinking water is one of the major health issues today. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the most water scarce region of the world. High population growth rate, urbanization and industrialization, coupled with limited availability of natural potable water resources are leading to serious deficits of freshwater in many parts of MENA. Freshwater sources in the MENA region are being continuously over-exploited and increased use of desalted seawater is unavoidable in order to maintain a reasonable level of water supply.
Conventional large-scale desalination is cost-prohibitive and energy-intensive, and not viable for poor countries in the MENA region due to increasing costs of fossil fuels. In addition, the environmental impacts of desalination are considered critical on account of emissions from energy consumption and discharge of brine into the sea. Brine has extremely high salt concentration and also contains leftover chemicals and metals from the treatment process which poses danger to marine life.
The negative effects of desalination can be minimized, to some extent, by using renewable energy to power the plants. Renewable energy-powered desalination offers a sustainable method to increase supply of potable water in MENA countries. The region has tremendous wind and solar energy potential which can be effectively utilized in desalination processes like reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, and ultrafiltration and nanofiltration. The cost of renewable energy desalination is expected to become more attractive with technological advancements and coupled with rising costs of freshwater and fossil fuels.
Solar-Powered Desalination for MENA
Solar energy can be directly or indirectly used in the desalination process. Collection systems that use solar energy to produce distillate directly in the solar collector are called direct collection systems while systems that combine solar energy collection systems with conventional desalination systems are called indirect systems. The major drawbacks with the use of solar thermal energy in large-scale desalination plants are low productivity rate, low thermal efficiency and large area requirement. Solar thermal-based desalination plants are more suitable for small-scale production especially in remote arid areas and islands having scarce conventional energy resources.
Concentrating solar power (CSP) offers an attractive option to power industrial-scale desalination plants that require both high temperature fluids and electricity. CSP can provide stable energy supply for continuous operation of desalination plants based on thermal or membrane processes. Infact, several countries in the region, such as Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia are already developing large CSP-based solar power projects that promises to usher in a new era in the Middle East.
The MENA region has tremendous solar energy potential that can facilitate the generation of energy required to offset the alarming freshwater deficit. The region would be facing a grave water crisis with the population expected to be double by 2050. Solar-powered desalination combined with efficient use of water reserves and re-use of wastewater can help in easing the water crisis in the region. It will also help in reducing the financial load on MENA governments from power and water sectors, and thus diverting funds to much-needed educational, health and industrial sectors.


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Hidalgo is a full-time Star Wars authority at Lucasfilm Ltd., working across various departments to ensure consistency in Star Wars messaging. He is the co-author of both The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, the Transformers Vault: The Complete Transformers Universe, and the forthcoming Star Wars: The Essential Reader's Companion.
Calling continuity "more art than science," Hidalgo offered several pieces of advice on how to handle continuity in a sprawling, multi-author world.
Be flexible
Hidalgo noted that continuity can be a double-edged sword for creators. "For all the things it gives you in terms of authenticity and texture in the universe, it can become an inhibitor of storytelling," he said. "It can become a situation of, we've run out of timeframe to tell a good Luke Skywalker story or Han Solo story we want to, because another source establishes that he was doing X, Y and Z at the time."
However, Hidalgo said, Lucasfilm tries not to let this interfere with solid storytelling across different authors, licensors and mediums.
"You just have to agree that there's a certain amount of elasticity there," he said. "We maintain the flexibility of having the artistic license to say, 'yeah, but this is a really good story idea, so let's not tie the author's hands or the artist's hands on what he wants to do here, so let's let him explore the story, and we can figure it out retroactively.' "
He said they also consider whether every story has the same level of canonicity; whether a story can be changed to avoid breaking with continuity; and whether they can simply "take out the elements that would really stomp on another tale."
Avoid absolutes
Hidalgo noted that every writer wants to leave their mark on a universe, often through larger-than-life villains and high-level threats. But, he noted, not every threat can be the biggest one the characters have ever faced.
"Any time an author decides to make the biggest, most dangerous thing, another writer will want to come in and create a bigger and even more dangerous thing," Hidalgo said. "So avoid saying that."
Instead, Hidalgo said, you should let the reader decide for him or herself that a villain is more dangerous than any other. If the character supplies that information, they could "come off as amnesiatic for not remembering the last big, dangerous thing they faced."
Don't let continuity drive storytelling
"My rule of thumb is, if your starting point for a story comes out of continuity as opposed to story, that's problematic," he said. "That's not a recipe for an exciting story.
"If the entire purpose of a story is to patch continuity or to override something, is that a worthwhile story? I know this could be an artistic debate but I just don't think that's a good starting point."
Other topics discussed by Hidalgo include:
* How he became involved with LucasfilmCreators Workshop sessions take place every month, giving members real-world knowledge that will help them succeed in their comics career. Additionally the monthly Creators Workshop book club sessions feature guest writers and artists discussing the craft and art of comics, as well as the business side of things.
* Lucasfilm's process for reconciling continuity;
* The most common continuity questions;
* Whether the galactic empire employs aliens;
* How often you should re-tell or recast an origin story;
* How Star Wars novels come about;
* Whether Lucasfilm's transmedia approach occurred naturally or was planned;
* Whether stories developed for video games translate well to other media;
* Balancing the needs of new fans and current fans; and, of course...
* Did Han shoot first?
There's still plenty of time to sign up before the next session. We hope to see you there.
-- Posted by Paul Allor


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Scientists have received and are analysing the final data gathered by SMART-1 on 2 September, prior to today's Moon impact. This update presents several of the images received, as well as additional images and information from the worldwide ground observation campaign.
The seven AMIE images included in this update article were taken on 2 September by the AMIE camera on board SMART-1 during the last few orbits prior to Moon impact. They were taken between 15:19 – 17:34 CEST (17:19 – 19:34 UT) and were analysed by camera scientists during the night of 2-3 September.
The images include both oblique and nadir (vertical) views, with the camera pointing mode having been selected to best exploit the illumination conditions during the final orbits over the Moon's night side. In several of the images, the Moon's horizon can clearly been seen; excellent details of the surface are also visible.
Ground observation campaign
An impressive sequence of impact images was captured by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), a 3.6-meter optical/infrared telescope located atop the summit of Mauna Kea, a 4200-meter volcano on Hawaii's Big Island (see before, during, after image sequence below).
The CFHT observed the projected impact area between 07:00 – 08:44 CEST (05:00 06:44 UT), and astronomers were rewarded with a beautiful image of that indicates a very short impact flash, possibly lasting less than a second. While still to be confirmed, a preliminary assessment indicates the impact flash was possibly caused by thermal emission from the impact itself or by the release of spacecraft volatiles, such as the small amount of hydrazine fuel remaining on board.
"It was exciting to see the impact flash live from Hawaii, just after receiving, at ESOC, the last radio signal from SMART-1," said Prof. Pascale Ehrenfreund, from Leiden University, Impact Ground Campaign Coordinator.
SMART-1 impact flash seen by CFHT telescope
Many other observatories, including both professional and amateurs sky watchers, also participated in ground observation activities. "We look forward to collecting worldwide reports from this impact. We call upon the community to search for the ejecta blankets and for future lunar orbiters to search for the SMART-1 crater," says Bernard H. Foing, ESA's SMART-1 Project Scientist. Their updates will be published on the ESA portal as they are received in the coming days.
Radio telescope observations
SMART-1 was also observed by a network of five cooperating radio telescopes over several months leading up to Moon impact. The observatories' activities are coordinated by the Joint Institute for Very Long Baseline Interferometry (JIVE), hosted by ASTRON (the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Astronomy), Dwingeloo, The Netherlands.
The participating observatories are capable of making highly sensitive observations, characterized by very accurate timing and the ability to detect very weak radio signals.
Starting in the spring of 2006, the cooperating telescopes observed radio signals emitted by SMART-1 and reflected from the Moon as part of a programme to test and validate the very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique. VLBI allows ground-based telescopes to track spacecraft with very high accuracy, and furthermore has applications in radio astronomy, including the testing of radio wave propagation in the vicinity of massive bodies like the Moon and the study of the Moon's surface physical properties.
In working with SMART-1, the radio telescopes applied the same techniques used by ground telescopes to track the descent of ESA's Huygens probe to the surface of Saturn's moon Titan in January 2005. This technique is also expected to be used in tracking China's Chang'e-series of Moon missions, to be launched starting in 2007.
These and other SMART-1 data will be analysed by the science teams in the coming days and the ESA Portal plans to publish results as soon as they are available.
Note to editors:
The five radio telescopes involved in the SMART-1 observations and coordinated by the Joint Institute for VLBI (Very Long Baseline Interferometry) in Europe (JIVE), are: the Medicina (INAF) 32- metre antenna in Italy, the Fortaleza (ROEN) 14-metre antenna in Brazil, the German-Chilean TIGO (BKG) 6-metre antenna in Chile, the Mount Pleasant Observatory of the University of Australia and the Australia Telescope Compact Array (CSIRO).
The SMART-1 impact observation campaign involved several amateur and professional astronomers all around the world. They include: the South African Large Telescope (SALT), the Calar Alto observatory in Andalucia, Spain, the ESA Optical Ground Station (OGS) at Tenerife, Spain, the TNG telescope in La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain, the CEA Cariri observatory in Brazil, the Argentina National Telescope, the Florida Tech Robotic telescopes, US telescopes, NASA IRTF, the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope, the Japanese Subaru Auxiliary telescopes on Hawaii, and many others.
For more information:
Bernard H. Foing, ESA SMART-1 Project Scientist
Email: bernard.foing @ esa.int
Pascale Ehrenfreund, SMART-1 Impact Ground Campaign Coordinator
Leiden University, The Netherlands
Email: pascale @ strw.leidenuniv.nl
Leonid Gurvits, Radio VLBI Coordinator
Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE), Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
Email: lgurvits @ jive.nl


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When: February 2, 12:00 to 5:30
We'll intersperse lessons with small projects. You'll learn what an Arduino is, and how to sew it together with fun glowing, noisy things on a scarf or hat or shoes or whatever we find that we can work thread through. We'll have a break with sandwiches so that no one goes hungry
What to bring
Required: Yourself, a laptop, and $42 dollars if you go home with an Arduino, else $20.
Suggested for maximum fun:
- scrap fabric, zippers, buttons and notions
- junk toys with keypads, switches, speakers, etc.
- old gloves, scarves, hats and such
- scissors, pliers and other small hand tools
Class size:
We have room for 20 people and some overflow, but we only have 20 Floras to give out. We're using this meetup to handle RSVPs: eTextiles using Arduino
If you can't make this workshop then sign up for the next workshop on March 2 here: eTextile Workshop


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Walter Piston's Second Symphony, written in 1943, is one of those mid-twentieth century American musical gems that deserves to be heard more often. Following its National Symphony Orchestra premiere in March, 1944, conductor Hans Kindler declared that the symphony,
is without even the shadow of a doubt one of the half dozen great works written during the last ten years. It sings forever in my heart and in my consciousness, and it does not want to leave me.
A year later, the work was performed by the Boston Symphony, NBC Symphony and New York Philharmonic. But, with the exception of a few recordings, it has fallen largely off the radar.
The unfair perception of Walter Piston as a dry, Ivy League academic and later a twelve tone composer (as heard in his Eighth Symphony) may be partly to blame. Born in Rockland, Maine in 1894, Piston served for many years on the faculty of Harvard University. His students included Leroy Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Elliott Carter, John Harbison, and Daniel Pinkham. As a music theorist he is remembered as the author of a series of respected textbooks: Principles of Harmonic Analysis, Counterpoint, Orchestration, and Harmony. Aaron Copland described Piston as, "one of the most expert craftsmen American music can boast." But as conductor Gerard Schwarz noted, with the advantage of hindsight, Piston's music goes beyond craft:
In some ways Piston was the dean of American music. But as a result of his intellect and his association with the university environment, he was considered to be a somewhat dull, academic composer. For anyone familiar with Piston's music, it is clear that he is neither dull nor academic, but incredibly imaginative and innovative. It is true that he uses classic forms, but with his own language. I have studied most of his output and I have come to realize that he was a master, an inspired composer.
Beyond a neoclassical structural purity, the Second Symphony doesn't conform easily to any distinct stylistic category. At moments it may remind you of the sonorous chorale-like orchestration of Piston's German contemporary, Paul Hindemith. As with Hindemith, who could play almost every instrument and wrote a wide array of sonatas, Piston had a deep understanding of orchestration. "I've always composed music from the point of view of the performers" he said. As the second symphony unfolds, it's easy to sense the instruments coming to life, suggesting distinct personas. At times, they engage in a soulful conversation (as in the second movement's lamenting dialogue between the clarinet and flute).
As Carol J. Oja points out in this article, Piston was an "internationalist" who did not actively seek to develop a distinctly "American" musical style. But there are moments in the Second Symphony when it's easy to catch a hint of the blues. Additionally, there's a feeling of Ragtime swing in the spunky melody that pops up around the 2:00 mark in the first movement. The fugal counterpoint that follows sparkles with a fresh, innocent mid-century American vibe. Despite these lighthearted adventures, the first movement ends with a solemn brass chorale, sinking back into the atmosphere the music seemed to be trying to escape in the opening.
The second movement emerges out of a single horn tone. A lonely bassoon line spins into a short canon in thirds with the low strings. By the time the clarinet begins its soulful, extended statement, we already have a sense that the music is striving, reaching higher towards some unknown goal. The flute picks up where the clarinet leaves off, taking the conversation to a new level of intensity. The movement alternates between collective anguish and serene beauty (listen to the glistening violin entrance at 15:30).
Here is Gerard Schwarz's recording with the Seattle Symphony, originally released on the Delos Records label in 1992:
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- Moderato 0:00
- Adagio 10:07
- Allegro 21:51
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Additional Links
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- View the New York Philharmonic's score to Piston's Symphony No. 2 with Leonard Bernstein's markings.
- Listen to the Seattle Symphony's recordings of Walter Piston's Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Symphonies.


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Germany's Merkel pays Putin a prickly visit
| Moscow
Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel held a tense meeting in the Kremlin Friday, as both clearly struggled to reconcile the rising political acrimony between their countries with their long-standing and increasingly important economic partnership.
The Russia-Germany summit is an annual affair, and it usually goes well, in part because of strong and long-standing economic relations, and in part because Mr. Putin – a German-speaking former KGB spy in East Germany – has gone out of his way to cultivate good relations with German leaders. But rising criticism in Germany of Putin's alleged "crackdown" on his domestic opposition has been met lately with a growing Russian unwillingness to accept "mentoring" from European leaders whose own home front is racked with economic and political disorder these days.
"Our relations with Germany are in crisis these days, but it's a superficial crisis," says Alexei Pushkov, chair of the State Duma's international affairs commission.
"The economic foundations are solid, but there are real political disagreements that look like a storm front coming in.... Our German friends have missed something, that things have changed since [the financial crash of] 2008, and Europe is less and less of a model for us. It's still a nice place, but we're not willing to take advice and accept criticism from them. This is gone," Mr. Pushkov says.
"There is more distance now, psychologically and politically, between Moscow and Europe.... The Germans think that good economic relations are a gift to us, in exchange for us changing ourselves to look more as they want us to. But we think Russia is a good market that they should cultivate and appreciate. Increasingly, all this criticism calls forth irritation in Russia," he adds.
Under pressure
Ms. Merkel has been under intensifying pressure at home to get tough with the Kremlin about perceived human rights violations, including the jailing of two women from the Pussy Riot radical performance art group for singing a blasphemous song in an Orthodox church.
Last week, the German Bundestag (parliament) passed a 17-point resolution, authored by the German government's special coordinator for Russian affairs Andreas Schockenhoff, that demanded Russia observe European norms of human rights and democracy. Merkel, who faces a tough reelection bid next year, told a Moscow press conference that she had raised at least some of those issues with Putin in their private meeting Friday.
"We spoke about the situation of civil society in Russia and I expressed my concern about plans for certain laws," Merkel said, referring to draconian new Russian legislation that imposes tough penalties on public protest, a harsh requirement that nongovernmental groups that receive outside funding register as "foreign agents," and a sweeping new definition of "treason" that was signed into law by Putin this week.
"I think we need to speak openly and honestly about these issues. This dialogue is a precondition for understanding each other and identifying the conflicts," Merkel added.
But during a public exchange about Pussy Riot, Mr. Putin suggested that Merkel doesn't know all the facts of the case, including what he alleged was one of the Pussy Riot women's involvement in a 2008 "performance art" display which he claimed had anti-Semitic overtones.
"As for political and ideological issues, we hear our partners. But they hear about what's happening from very far away," Putin said.
For example, "Does [Merkel] know that ... one of [the Pussy Riot activists] hung an effigy of a Jew and said that these people need to be got rid of? You and I cannot support people who take an anti-Semitic stance. And I ask you to also take that into account," he added.
'The business community is very happy'
Germany is Russia's largest trading partner after China, with trade turnover of $87 billion last year. German gas companies are part owner, along with Russia's natural gas monopoly Gazprom, of the Nordstream pipeline under the Baltic Sea that opened a year ago to bring Russian gas directly to European markets. Germany depends on Russia for about 30 percent of its oil supplies, and 40 percent of its natural gas.
Just this week Gazprom and the German chemical giant BASF signed an asset swap deal that will give Gazprom a major foothold in gas trading and storage operations in Germany, while the German company will receive a 25 percent stake in the key western Siberian Achimov gas field.
"In economic relations, investments are growing, trade turnover is increasing, and the business community is very happy," says Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs, a leading Moscow foreign policy journal. "The economic foundations of the relationship are solid, and very much based on the interests of German big business. And this is not new, these ties between our countries go back to the 1970s."
But Russia has been angered by an EU investigation into Gazprom's alleged "anti-market" practices, and under increasing pressure the company has been forced to lower the prices it charges several European countries for its gas.
"The energy market in Europe is changing, and that could become a core issue between Germany and Russia in future," says Mr. Lukyanov. "It remains to be seen whether Gazprom can find ways to compromise."
But growing political tensions, which have spiked since Putin assumed a third term as Kremlin leader last May, have isolated Russia in European political forums, such as the Council of Europe, and are increasingly clouding bilateral relations with countries like Germany.
"There is a decoupling of economic relations from political ones taking place," says Lukyanov.
"Russia and Germany have a lot to lose if bad politics bring disengagement. The economic base of the relationship is too big and too important, and everybody would suffer."


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"In my eyes he (Lamas) is the next (top) contender, so I knock him down and put myself right back where I was last year." - Erik Koch
Erik Koch is still nicknamed "New Breed," and he's still in the top 15 when it comes to youngest fighters in the UFC, but it's safe to say that after the 2012 he went through, the 24-year-old has aged a bit more than he normally would have.
"Oh yeah, definitely," Koch chuckles. "Not physically, but mentally and emotionally it was a rollercoaster of a year."
After a late-2011 injury scrapped him from a UFC 143 bout in February, things brightened considerably when he was selected to face featherweight champion Jose Aldo at UFC 149 in July, but that fight bit the dust when Aldo withdrew due to injury. Rescheduled for UFC 153 in Brazil last October, this time it was Koch pulling out after suffering a knee injury. Rollercoaster? Oh yeah.
"It was a very frustrating time for me. It was literally like bi-polar – super awesome one day, and then all this stuff happening and it was my lowest of my low. But I've got such a good backup support system: my coaches, my teammates at Roufusport, my people back home in Iowa; everybody helped support me and got me back to where I wanted to be, and now, I still want that title, but I just want to fight more than anything. I want to get in there and get fights going, and make people remember who "New Breed" is."
Koch gets his chance on FOX this Saturday night in Chicago against fellow contender Ricardo Lamas. Sure, there's no title on the line, as Aldo has moved on to face Frankie Edgar next week in the main event of UFC 156, and no official word of this even being a title eliminator. But to Koch, it's still the biggest fight of his career, and one he's intent on making a statement in.
"Everybody keeps talking about the title, and this is a good title contender fight, but I'm not looking at it like that," he said. "Lamas is a really tough dude and I'm not looking past him. It's a fight for me to show everybody that I'm back and I want to get going; I want to start the year off right. This is me just getting back on track."
And despite the setbacks that have kept him out of action since his September 2011 win over Jonathan Brookins, Koch is not the kind of guy you should count out. Yeah, 2012 was rough, but he's been through rougher times. How rough? How about being forced to make it on your own after deciding at 17 that you were going to leave high school and become a professional fighter? That's rough.
"It did not go over with the parents well," recalled Koch when asked his parents' reaction to his decision to drop out of school to chase his prizefighting dream. "My parents have always told me and my brother that whatever makes us happy, do what you do. And I had a really good childhood, a really good family, but it was just one of those things. I was so obsessed with MMA that I couldn't keep my mind on school and stuff like that. And it was a brash decision when I was young, my parents didn't like it, I got kicked out for it, and I had to deal with some consequences. But through even being homeless and not having a place to live, making it on my own and making it work in this sport showed them how dedicated and how crazy about it I was. I think after that I had their support a hundred percent, and now they support me more than anybody else."
To call Koch's decision a gutsy one would be underselling it quite a bit. But fighters are a different breed, and when you find someone willing to give up everything in order to pursue life in the toughest of sports, that's a real fighter. And Koch, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa native, was all in, willing to deal with tremendous hardships to make it.
"I lived all over the place," said Koch of those early days. "Me and my friend Derek, he had problems at home too, and there literally were days, weeks, and months that I lived out of a car. What's funny is it always seems like winter too. (Laughs) I don't even know why, but it was always winter when it happened, and it sucked."
When Koch wasn't living out of a car, he was finding a place to sleep in local parks, but he never wavered.
"I said I'm gonna make it work, and I did. I kept going to practice, kept learning, kept getting better and started taking fights, and it all worked out. I wouldn't take any of it back now because look where I'm at."
Koch turned pro in 2007 at the age of 18, won his first nine fights before a decision loss to Chad Mendes in a 2010 WEC bout, and he hasn't lost since. Needless to say, he has no regrets.
"I'm a stubborn guy, we've got a stubborn family, and I stuck it out, pushed through, and I honestly think that's what built what I am today."
What he is today is one of the best featherweights in the world, and a fighter that will only get better as time goes on. But as far as he's concerned, the time to be at his best is now, and he's ready to test that theory against Lamas, who emerged from the pack with his three straight wins over Matt Grice, Cub Swanson, and Hatsu Hioki.
"He's a big featherweight, a strong featherweight, and he's a grinder," said Koch. "He's never out of the fight; he sticks in there and he wins. He's a hard dude to break, and I think how strong and how tough he is are his best attributes. He also beat Cub, and in my eyes he's the next (top) contender, so I knock him down and put myself right back where I was last year."
Where he was last year was on the verge of wearing championship gold. To get that close and see it go away stings, but what hurt Koch even more was not even getting the chance to put his gloves on and step into the Octagon. On Saturday, he's back, and not a moment too soon.
"I love that feeling of competition, and there is no rush like having your hand raised," he said. "That feeling of being in there and having all the eyes on you and getting to put all that hard work from a training camp together into the cage, that's what I miss, and God, I'm so happy it's almost here."
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Bexar County politics is definitely strange at best, weird at worst. Take for instance the cross-wire politics that happened on the Southside at the Harlandale Civic Center Thursday, August 31st.
Republican Congressman Henry Bonilla invited what should have been a huge crowd of Republican precinct chairs for a gathering so that he could bond with them, so to speak.
Apparently he was attempting to revitalize his Southside campaign since he recently boasted that he is a product of the Southside. It has been reported that his mother lives somewhere in the Southside.
Unfortunately for him and his campaign staff, only about 20 or so precinct chairs showed up for the meeting.
A call supposedly went out for Republicans to attend. One Democratic Party activist was called at the Bexar County Democratic Party Headquarters and was invited to attend the meeting. Obviously the Bexar Democratic Party's caller ID did not dissuade the caller from inviting the Party activist.
In an effort to be polite, the activist and her husband went to the meeting with digital camera in hand and for what ever reason, took pictures with the Congressman and the candidate for State Rep. District 118, George Antuna.
Never asked directly by the Bonilla staff what Precinct they represented, they blended in with the crowd, so to speak.
Bonilla was quoted by the Party activist as saying, "we asked the Judge for the Southside and we got the Southside."
Bewildered and befuddled, the two Democratic activists scrathed their heads and waved good bye to the Republican precinct chairs.
The moral of the story is when you get invited to a Republican event, take your digital camera and document your visit!!!
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Instead of skin tests, your pediatrician or allergy specialist may order a blood test that has various names, including specific IgE blood test, in vitro IgE test, and radioallergosorbent test (RAST). (When the test was first invented years ago, it was called RAST, based on the specific way the test was done in the laboratory. Even though that technique is no longer used, the name RAST has kind of hung on.)
The specific IgE blood test is especially useful if skin tests cannot be done because, for instance, a child has eczema over much of his body or cannot be taken off medication that interferes with skin testing. This blood test shows specific sensitivities, as skin tests do, but does so by detecting the presence of allergy antibodies circulating in the blood. If antibodies are in the blood, it usually means the same antibodies are also in other tissues.
The method is not quite as versatile as skin testing because certain extracts are not available for measuring specific IgE using this technique. For example, a specific IgE blood test cannot be used to detect sensitivity to medications and is rarely used to detect insect venom allergy. However, the specific IgE blood test, in general, is adaptable and sensitive enough to detect a wide range of allergies.
The procedure costs more per test than skin testing. It requires only a few minutes of the patient's time to draw a blood sample and there is no risk of any allergic reaction. The results take from 1 to 5 days, whereas skin test results are available immediately.
While sometimes useful, radiographs (x-ray films) are not essential for diagnosing asthma or allergies. In fact, people with asthma usually have normal chest radiographs. However, chest radiographs are sometimes done to make sure children do not have other conditions that can mimic asthma.
Sinus infection can produce symptoms similar to those of respiratory allergies, and children who have respiratory allergies are prone to sinus infections. Your pediatrician may order an imaging test to see if your child simply has a prolonged or recurrent infection, or whether a sinus infection is complicating his allergies.
An imaging test can be done the old-fashioned way, with a radiograph of the head, or it can be performed by computed tomography (CT). A CT scan is more sensitive than a radiograph and shows finer details of the anatomy of the sinuses, which can help your pediatrician decide on the best way to treat your child's sinus problem.
Finally, imaging tests can sometimes help your pediatrician identify the reason your child snores or has a permanently stuffed-up nose. A radiograph of the upper neck area can show if the stuffiness is caused by enlargement of the adenoid tissue, which sits in the upper throat just behind the nose.
If your child has symptoms indicating possible asthma, your pediatrician or asthma specialist may perform tests to evaluate his lung function. Lung function tests are performed in your pediatrician's office or a pulmonary function laboratory where special equipment is available. An instrument called a spirometer is used to measure how much air your child can breathe out, as well as how fast the air flows. The technician will place a clip over your child's nose to prevent air escaping from the nostrils.
The technician will then ask your child to perform breathing maneuvers into a mouthpiece attached to a pulmonary function monitor. The maneuvers aren't difficult or painful. All your child has to do is take a deep breath, then breathe out forcefully through the mouthpiece. Instead of using a spirometer, the doctor may ask your child to blow into a simpler device called a peak flow meter. Your pediatrician usually has your child perform the lung function test at least 3 times at a sitting to make sure results are consistent.
If lung function testing shows that your child cannot blow air out fast enough, your pediatrician may perform further tests for asthma. Your pediatrician may give your child a dose of bronchodilator medication to see if there is a change in airflow. If airflow is normal or improved after the medication, the result strongly suggests that asthma is present.
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disorder that involves many body systems. It causes symptoms in the respiratory and digestive tracts that can mimic those of asthma and allergies. A child with cystic fibrosis may have asthma or allergies, as well. Your pediatrician may order tests to measure the levels of certain minerals in your child's sweat (commonly called a sweat test). If the results indicate cystic fibrosis, further tests will be done to confirm the diagnosis.


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If you want a decent return on your investment, says Helen Joyce, the best language to learn is Brazilian Portuguese...
Some lunatics learn languages for fun. The rest of us are looking for a decent return on our investment. That means choosing a language with plenty of native speakers. One spoken by people worth talking to, in a place worth visiting. One with close relatives, so you have a head start with your third language. One not so distant from English that you give up.
There really is only one rational choice: Brazilian Portuguese. Brazil is big (190m residents; half a continent). Its economic prospects are bright. São Paulo is Latin America's business capital. No other country has flora and fauna more varied and beautiful. It is home to the world's largest standing forest, the Amazon. The weather is great and so are the beaches. The people are friendly, and shameless white liars. You'll be told "Your Portuguese is wonderful!" many times before it is true.
You won't need a new alphabet or much new grammar, though you may find the language addicted to declensions and unduly fond of the subjunctive. You'll learn hundreds of words without effort (azul means blue, verde means green) and be able to guess entire sentences (O sistema bancário é muito forte: the banking system is very strong). With new pronunciation and a few new words you'll get around in Portugal and parts of Africa. If you speak Spanish, French or Italian, you'll find half the work is already done — and if not, why not try? With Portuguese under your belt you'll fly along.
Best of all, you'll stand out. Only about 10m Brazilians have reasonable English, and far more Anglophones speak French or Spanish than Portuguese, of any flavour. I did not choose this language; it was thrust on me by the offer of a job in São Paulo. But when I think of my sons, now ten and five, one day being able to write "fluent Brazilian Portuguese" on their CVs, I feel a little smug.
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I've been told that Atlanta wouldn't budge on giving Shaq a starting nod over Al, who is after all still only 24-years old and an All-Star. Shaq believes he will get the starting nod over Jermaine O'Neal in Boston as Kendrick Perkins rehabs from his knee injury.Sound decision making, though, I have to deduct a couple of points for the answer not being "Because there's little reason to believe that Shaquille O'Neal will be more productive than Zaza Pachulia next season, taking minutes away from Horford, Josh Smith, and Pachulia would not lead to significant improvement, and we have far a more pressing concern in needing to improve our perimeter defense."
Atlanta also wasn't willing to pay Shaq more than the minimum and that was a sticking point for him. He didn't want to sign for the minimum when the Hawks had their bi-annual and mid-level exceptions available because of the perception that would create–as in the Hawks could have paid him more but didn't. That's not the case with Boston, which had neither of those exceptions and so could only give him the minimum.
The big guy still has his pride.
The latter point is clearly not a concern in-house. Cunningham also reports that the Hawks are looking at adding Francisco Elson, Brian Skinner, or Josh Boone to fill the 13th roster spot. Elson and Skinner would be marginal improvements over Jason Collins in the (apparently) crucial* third-string center role. Boone, at least, could reasonably be expected to outperform Josh Powell.
You may be asking, what about Garret Siler?
Well, Scott Schroeder of Ridiculous Upside makes the case for Siler:
Siler is probably the most obvious player to include on this list since Cunningham suggested there is "some interest" in the 6-foot-11, 300-plus pound big man out of Augusta State. Though Cunningham suggested that "he's got a lot to prove after a bad showing at Summer League," I'd like to counter that THE DUDE MADE 75% OF HIS SHOT ATTEMPTS AND PULLED DOWN 3.8 BOARDS IN JUST 14 MINUTES OF ACTION. I've been driving the Siler bandwagon for awhile, sure, but the kid deserves an opportunity. He has great size, soft hands, scores as efficiently as anyone and seems to be willing to do whatever it takes to get an opportunity - I mean, he runs the court very well for a guy his size.Siler is very efficient but because he's big and slow and can't create his own shot, he's not especially productive. And that's in NCAA Division 2 and the Chinese League. He did appear slimmer in Las Vegas and I'd rather the Hawks anchor the bench with Siler than Collins but he's probably not an untapped resource.
As for the other four names on Schroeder's list of non-retreads, I whole-heartedly support the idea of signing Pops Mensah-Bonsu or Alade Aminu (though I've still no reason to believe he's not going to play for Elan Chalon next season) while signing Chris Hunter or Kurt Looby would likely be, relative to Collins, Powell et al., more interesting though no more useful.
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desperately needing a laptop...
February 16, 2006
... so i can post while i'm away from home. I've certainly lost any momentum i had going on this blog gig. Sorry for the delay, friends.
Back from WonderCon a couple nights ago, only to arrive home to find wee little Carter sicker than a dog, throwing up and, well... that other thing one might encounter when battling a stomach virus.... Yeesh. Poor little guy. Few things are more sad than helplessly watching a 14-month old in this much pain.
So yeah, WonderCon.
The show was certainly well attended. So much so that on Saturday, the Fire Marshall was keeping people from entering at one point. (Rumor was too, that same Fire Marshall was monitoring CO2 levels? What the...? I know comics fans can be geeky as hell, but this wasn't a porn convention!)
That said, for Top Shelf, sales were just o.k. sale. For a company that really relies on convention sales to pay some bills, Friday was a near-disaster. This seemed to be similar for other exhibitors as well. (Of course, the back-issue bin dealers seemed immune to this.)
Saturday was a good day, but it was also a grueling nine hours long. Ouch.
Sunday was looking grim, until i scored some wholesale sales with Last Gasp, Lee's, and Isotope. Love ya!
Theories abound as to why San Francisco comics shows don't seem to generate the kind of sales we see elsewhere. (Even APE -- which you might think would rock for Top Shelf -- is teeming with locals low on the cash flow.) And the truth is, they all have a point to be made. WonderCon in particular though, like San Diego, is as much a multi-media event as it is a consumer comics show. We had Bryan Singer and Brandon (Superman) Routh commanding long lines. (So i heard.) Kevin Smith was on hand, signing... hmmm, i'm not sure what he was signing, but that line sure was long. And on the comics front, the big guns really stole the show, including Grant Morrison, Frank Miller, and Jim Lee. The DC news-machine also seems big at WonderCon.
Another posited explanation for mediocre sales is that San Francisco is still reeling from the post dot.bomb bust a few years back. There's no doubt it hit the local economy square in the jaw, but would it still be this damaging? Any locals have any thoughts on this?
The best theory as i see it, is that the Bay area in general is serviced by no fewer than close to a dozen exceptional comics shops. (Heck, even the book stores kick ass in San Fran. I NEVER make a trip to SF without a visit to Green Apple Books in the Richmond District. Second only to Powell's here in Portland for the selection of new AND used graphic novels.) And so the line goes, that given the availability of not just Top Shelf books, but a wide array of comics overall, any fan of our books will most likely have already picked them up.
This makes sense. It also makes sense when you consider that (oddly) in San Diego, to my knowledge (sorry if i'm mistaken), there's not one single marquee, destination comics shop in the whole of San Diego.
I've got more WonderCon report stuff to cover.... but holy mama i'm so tired. 3:00 a.m... must go... to bed... more on the... flipside.


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NBA head coaches and general managers are on slightly different timelines. The coach's job is to win on game nights and he can't do that without NBA ready talent. A GM's job is sustain said coach's ability to win for as long as possible, over the course of many seasons, upgrading the roster along the way.
There can be special arrangements of course. Philly's Brett Brown and Boston's Brad Stevens were head coaches hired last summer by win-later teams more interested in building culture and developing young talent than adding W's in the standings. But by and large, coaches want to compete now and they can't showcase their stuff if they're forced to rely on guys who are easily bested by their competition.
Which brings us to the first six weeks of Charlotte's summer. The team built a tremendous amount of momentum last season by adding an All-NBA center and qualifying for the Playoffs. Steve Clifford proved to be the coaching world's best kept secret – a defensive maestro who garners tremendous respect from his players and peers. The rebranded Hornets were set to enter the offseason with an immensely popular new coat of paint, two first round draft picks, massive cap space and subsequent expectations for improvement.
The franchise's goals are two-fold: make the Playoffs in their rebrand year but don't mortgage the farm to do so; the Hornets name change will bring a ton of new fans to the arena, sustained success will keep them there.
How have they done? Let's take a look at the roster moves in chronological order:
ADDITION: Noah Vonleh, PF/C
First Round | 9th Overall Selection
Charlotte lucked into Detroit's number nine pick after Cleveland miraculously won the Lottery and pushed the Pistons back a slot. The Hornets wound up taking Indiana PF/C Noah Vonleh, an 18 year old prospect with a tremendous amount of potential. The comps to previous CLT developmental bigs like Alexis Ajinca and Bismack Biyombo are way off, Vonleh enters the league with a much higher skill level and an actual feel for the game.
That's not to say he'll help Clifford's cause immediately, he's still an 18 (!) year old rookie with some raw mechanics and little knowledge of the NBA game. But if all goes well, the Hornets won't be selecting this high again for a long while and bigs with Vonleh's skills rarely escape the Lottery. Great long-term value play for Charlotte.
ROLE: 14-18 minute per game developmental power forward.
REPLACES: Anthony Tolliver, D.J. White
ADDITION: P.J. Hairston, SG
First Round | 26th Overall Selection
Rich Cho swapped late first rounders with Miami for some extra assets and wound up taking former UNC shooting guard P.J. Hairston with the 26th pick. From a skills standpoint, the pick makes a ton of sense. P.J. can stroke it from deep and Charlotte was desperate for three point shooting last season. But Hairston comes with character baggage that he didn't take long to unpack. Punching a guy during a pickup game is hardly an earth-shattering offense but stringing together the subsequent Street Fighter combo of bone-headed decisions is. For a guy who will likely top out as an eighth or ninth man this season, he had better be worth the distraction.
ROLE: Either 20 minute per game bench shooter or end of bench distraction.
REPLACES: Chris Douglas-Roberts or Jeff Taylor.
SUBTRACTION: Brendan Haywood, C
Traded to Cleveland
He was due over two million in salary and didn't play a minute last season due to a foot injury so Charlotte salary dumped him to the Cavs, using their 2nd Round pick as a sweetener. Interesting side note: as Mark Deeks reported, Haywood's amnesty'd contract bumps up to an unguaranteed $10m again next season, giving the Cavs all sorts of interesting cap possibilities should they pursue another marquee free agent.
REPLACED BY: Charlotte still needs to add a third center, TBD.
SUBTRACTION: Josh McRoberts, PF
Unrestricted Free Agent | 4 years, $23 million
This one stung (pun intended). Making just $2.7m last season, McRoberts might've been the best value in the league. A smart, multi-talented glue guy, Josh is an elite passer and was often the team's de facto point guard in the half court last season. As an added bonus, McRoberts hit over a hundred threes to keep the paint open for Big Al. His stats may have looked meager, but there are only a handful of bigs in the league who can do what Josh does and those things were all absolutely vital to Charlotte's Playoff run.
For his efforts, Miami offered him a full four year midlevel deal at $5.75m per. The Hornets balked and instead committed $7m per over two years to the next guy on our list. Given Josh's fit with his old team and the subsequent departure of Lebron James from the Heat, both sides may regret not meeting on some sort of 3 year, $21m compromise.
REPLACED BY: No one can replace The Basketball Jesus but his duties will be distributed to both Cody Zeller and…
ADDITION: Marvin Williams, SF/PF
Unrestricted Free Agent | 2 years, $14 million
Unlike McRoberts, who had no history of hitting threes on the reg until last season, Williams has been stretching the floor for years as a combo forward. He's become a very good defender (though the on/off court numbers don't scream "lock-down") and has a rep as a solid lockeroom guy. Don't surprised if he finishes games this season as Clifford's lone veteran power forward, stretching the floor without giving up much at the other end.
His two year, $14m deal is certainly on the high side but the years are non-threatening and he gives the Hornets flexibility down the road once Zeller or Vonleh develop. Remember, it wasn't that long ago that McRoberts was a no-name veteran castoff who blossomed under Clifford. Cross your fingers that it happens a second time.
ROLE: 26-30 minute per game part-time starter and full-time finisher.
REPLACES: Josh McRoberts, Anthony Tolliver
ADDITION: Brian Roberts, PG
Unrestricted Free Agent | 2 years, $5.5 million
Here's the deal: Kemba Walker plays a ton of minutes and rarely gets hurt. So if you're going to spend a bunch of money on a backup point, it better be for a bigger guard who can suck up minutes playing alongside Walker in the backcourt. The Hornets reportedly went after two guys like that (Shaun Livingston and Kirk Hinrich) but couldn't get a deal done so turned to Plan B: an inexpensive Kemba-clone.
That's not a one hundred percent accurate comparison, Roberts is the purer shooter and Kemba is an ankle-breaking lightning bolt but you get the idea. Both are score-first lead guards with slight, frisky builds. At 6'1″, 173, Roberts isn't going to over-power anyone in the paint and he has tendancy to get bullied fighting through screens but he can score and hit distance buckets, most importantly from the left side of the floor – and we all know who likes camping out down on the left block.
In fact both Roberts and Marvin Williams excel shooting from that side – ironically, the side of the three point line Charlotte struggled from last season considering Al Jefferson's presence. As @DCWLN pointed out on Twitter, Clifford often cleared that side once the entry pass was made and Al would usually score through double teams anyway. Signing Roberts and Williams gives the Hornets another spacing wrinkle however; a way to punish the league's better defenses who can diffuse Al & Kemba's inside/out game.
ROLE: Backup PG, 18-20 minutes a game. Also an insurance policy in case Kemba misses any time.
REPLACES: Luke Ridnour's corpse.
ADDITION: Lance Stephenson, SG
Unrestricted Free Agent | 3 years, $27 million (third year team option)
In June it was inevitable. By mid-July it was unlikely. CUT TO: LAS VEGAS, The Evening of July 15th. Michael Jordan, Rich Cho and Steve Clifford came to terms both financially and psychologically with Lance Stephenson as their new starting two guard. It was news Charlotte fans around the globe were waiting for (I had tweets from Hornets fan sites in Spain, Japan and Canada queued up in my mentions) and it was finally here. Born Ready is a Hornet.
This is a huge signing for Charlotte, yet another signal that Jordan, Cho and Clifford have finally turned Bob Johnson's once sinking ship around. Lance is 23 and has played in two consecutive Conference Finals, the last of which he may have been his team's best player. He led the league in triple doubles last season with five – which I believe surpasses the total number of triple doubles in the Bobcats ten year history – and, as ESPN pointed out, Lance was the youngest guard to average 7 RPG & 4 APG since Magic Johnson did it in '83.
After McRoberts bolted for Miami, the Hornets were desperate for another playmaker to allow Kemba more off the ball opportunities and steady the second unit as a lead threat. Lance basically played that very role offensively last season for the one-seed Pacers. Unlike Josh, Stephenson is a reliable second or third scorer who can pick up the slack when Kemba has an off night or when opponents key in on Big Al. He's turnover-prone (1.7 assist to turnover ratio, McRoberts notched a 4 by comparison) and Clifford isn't going to enjoy watching Lance go off script at the wrong times but some of that may have been due to the Pacers' moribund offense and personnel. We'll have a full offensive breakdown of Lance in a future post but in the meantime, rest assured that this is likely a major upgrade from both a talent and fit perspective over Gerald Henderson.
And defensively? Let's just say that an MKG/Lance/Marvin Williams/Jeff Taylor wing rotation has a chance to the best perimeter D in the league. Lance is strong, has good size and length and we know he won't back down from any assignment. For better or worse, he basically demanded to guard Lebron in the EC Finals and held his own more often than not. Again, we'll have the full scouting breakdown of Lance soon but rest assured, he should be great at both ends.
Finally, there's the character concerns. Some say Lance's antics cost him $6m per season. I say it saved the Hornets $6m per season. Charlotte's getting a potential max-salary type player for a massive discount just because he's an occasional idiot. Cho's masterful manipulation of Stephenson's market, combined with the organization's cohesive recruiting effort led to the Hornets getting a similar and potentially superior player for around $36m less than they offered Gordon Hayward – who's never even won a Playoff game mind you, much less sniffed a Conference Finals. Thank you Utah!
It's that last point I find most important. You can argue teams and situations all you want, but if you want to build a winning culture, you gotta bring in guys who've won. Who have been there and performed. The advanced stat guys will hate that statement. You can't boil it down into a metric. But hoops intuition is real. Kemba has the big game gene. MKG has the gene. Lance has the gene. Those guys are bulldogs who want the pressure; the high stakes. Michael Jordan knows a winner when he sees one. This one was Born Ready.
ROLE: Starter, 36-38 minute per game.
REPLACES: Gerald Henderson, Josh McRoberts' playmaking.
Gerald Henderson
With Stephenson's signing, the Hornets co-captain and incumbent starter is suddenly the odd man out. The team now has four other guys under contract who play his position either most or part of the time. Some folks on twitter have imagined a move to sixth man for Hendo but I'm not buying it. His game doesn't really translate to that role and it's unlikely he'd take the demotion well given that he's just entering his prime. Gerald's $6m per year salary is a bargain compared to what the market's been paying out this summer and he could very well opt out of his player option next July, making his contract an even more attractive expiring deal. Chances are that Henderson will be starting somewhere this coming season and it's not going to be in Charlotte. Keep an eye on this situation, especially if the Hornets make a play for…
Carlos Boozer
Fellow Blue Devil and former Bull Carlos Boozer was officially amnestied just a few hours after the Lance signing and there have already been a few rumors linking him to Charlotte. If the Hornets hold off on signing Brian Roberts*, they should still have around $4m in cap space (counting Lance, Williams and rookie/roster cap holds) to place an amnesty bid. But I don't think that will cut it. Atlanta and a few other teams with $8m+ cap space have been rumored as potential suitors. If Charlotte truly wants Carlos in teal next season, they'll need to dump salary and they'll need to decide fast. Teams have 48 hours to place a bid. Tick-tock. Tick-tock.
*As pointed about by Grantland's Zach Lowe, Brian Roberts' contract fits nicely into the Hornets' bi-annual exception should the team use the remainder of their cap space first. Rookies can and generally do sign for as much as 120% of the rookie scale but only count for 100% of the scale until then.


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Sally Jenkins, a pro-choice columnist for the Washington Post, writes a devastating essay today on the reaction from her side of the abortion issue to the Super Bowl ad featuring Tim Tebow that celebrates choosing life. Jenkins says she couldn't disagree more with Tebow on the issue of abortion, but cannot believe the kind of knee-jerk overreaction coming from NOW, which Jenkins presumes refers to "National Organization for Women Who Only Think Like Us." Jenkins says the overwrought reaction exposes the intolerance of the supposedly tolerant Left and shows that so-called "pro-choice" groups are really more pro-abortion:
I'm pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But based on what I've heard in the past week, I'll take his side against the group-think, elitism and condescension of the "National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women All The Time." For one thing, Tebow seems smarter than they do.
Tebow's 30-second ad hasn't even run yet, but it already has provoked "The National Organization for Women Who Only Think Like Us" to reveal something important about themselves: They aren't actually "pro-choice" so much as they are pro-abortion. Pam Tebow has a genuine pro-choice story to tell. She got pregnant in 1987, post-Roe v. Wade, and while on a Christian mission in the Philippines, she contracted a tropical ailment. Doctors advised her the pregnancy could be dangerous, but she exercised her freedom of choice and now, 20-some years later, the outcome of that choice is her beauteous Heisman Trophy winner son, a chaste, proselytizing evangelical.
Pam Tebow and her son feel good enough about that choice to want to tell people about it. Only, NOW says they shouldn't be allowed to. Apparently NOW feels this commercial is an inappropriate message for America to see for 30 seconds, but women in bikini selling beer is the right one. I would like to meet the genius at NOW who made that decision. On second thought, no, I wouldn't.
As for those who say the Super Bowl is no forum for personal perspectives on life, Jenkins offers a particularly compelling counterargument:
His critics find this intrusive, and say the Super Bowl is no place for an argument of this nature. "Pull the ad," NOW President Terry O'Neill said. "Let's focus on the game."
Trouble is, you can't focus on the game without focusing on the individuals who play it — and that is the genius of Tebow's ad. The Super Bowl is not some reality-free escape zone. Tebow himself is an inescapable fact: Abortion doesn't just involve serious issues of life, but of potential lives, Heisman trophy winners, scientists, doctors, artists, inventors, Little Leaguers — who would never come to be if their birth mothers had not wrestled with the stakes and chosen to carry those lives to term. And their stories are every bit as real and valid as the stories preferred by NOW.
Shouldn't tolerance include hearing opposing viewpoints, or at least allowing them to be aired in public forums? After all, tolerance means putting up with something, not agreeing with it. If the only ideas we allowed to air publicly were those that had almost-total consensus, that's not tolerance but political correctness — a rhetorical straitjacket that goes against the very idea of free speech.
When groups like NOW want to silence people like the Tebows, they're doing so to protect their own turf. The ad asks people to choose life, not to ban abortion. If NOW really was pro-choice, they'd see nothing invalid about showing the end result of one choice and the faith that carried the Tebows from that terrifying diagnosis to the pinnacle of athletic and scholarly success. Tebow represents hope in the midst of hopelessness. NOW doesn't want people to have hope; they want women to buy abortions, and this ugly response has made that crystal clear.


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Rajasthan School
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Imbibing the organic character of Indian villages & old cities, the Rajasthan School is a low rise 3 level school with open, enclosed and semi-enclosed spaces of various volumes.
Taking cognizance of the desert climate of its location with temperatures in excess of 35°C for most of the year, each of the classrooms is north oriented to derive indirect sunlight.
The auditorium, primary school, and administration space occupy the southern side of the plot opening into a large sheltered open area towards the north beyond which the secondary school classrooms, library & cafeteria are located.
The semi-sheltered courtyard has multiple angular pathways, connecting the two parts of the school with landscaped play spaces that foster engagement.
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The entire school opens towards a multipurpose playground & athletics track on the northern side.
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The organic layout creates a different character to each part of the school orienting each space with different views & different perceptions.
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After a few false starts with the rear wheel needing to be reset a few times, I finally started my last ride of 2013. It took one more adjustment down on Old Hawleyville road to set things right. I had waited later in the morning, till it warmed up over 20 degrees to start riding. Anything colder than that is just miserable if you ask me, unless I am in the woods. At this temperature I figured 4 layers should be sufficient but I could have used my wind vest, too.
Riding the Cross Check is so smooth and with a thinner tire, Continental Tour Ride Urban Bicycle Tire (700x37) with puncture protection, much faster, too. Although these tires are pretty bomb proof I rode with my tool bag because it happens to match my bar tape nicely. In fact the epiphany that I had while riding Cross Check this morning was why do I need two Cross bikes? The Cannondale was a good introduction to road riding and a solid performer when it comes to gravel grinders but I think I might try to sell that, along with a few other bikes and maybe buy a road bike or even a full suspension mountain bike frame and build it up from parts off the Spot.
I had thought about selling the Qball but if I through my tubeless wheelset on it (with tubes) and go back to the carbon fork I think I could make it into a light singlespeed commuter. Like the Cross Check, I hope to run the Qball into the Ground. For 2014 I think I am going to do more Gravel Grinders. I registered for the 115K course for the 2014 D2R2 ride. I think I might bag SSAP this year, no choice if I sell the Kona (thinking of doing that, too, which could finance my full susser dreams) and instead do the Detour de Connecticut. There might be Gravel Grinder in the Berkshires in 2014 that I would like to do and of course the Bloomin' Metric and maybe some other benefit rides throughout the year. Also, I think I will be riding a lot more dirt roads in North Western Connecticut.