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Just some quotes from Techradar's interview with James Loader, Nikon UK Product Manager for Consumer Products:
"We're watching the market, much the same as everyone else is, we'd be foolish to ignore what's happening. However, I would say that the Coolpix P7100 meets the needs of SLR users that want something more compact, or for those users that want to step up."
"With our DSLRs we are already close to number one in the market, we have been attacking Canon really hard lately. Neither us or Canon are in the CSC market, but we still dominate the industry. I believe we have something for everyone at the moment."
According to Loader, customers are not really asking for a new Nikon mirrorless camera and I think he is not far from the truth:
"When we were at Focus on imaging trade show last year, it didn't get asked for. It's really only the press that constantly want to know."
Nikon is expected to announce their mirrorless solution in September.


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The U.S. Department of Commerce has released its report on international trade in the month of May. This is known as the trade deficit to the rest of us. May's trade deficit narrowed to -$44.39 billion, and the consensus from Bloomberg was -$45.1 billion. Dow Jones was calling for -$45.0 billion. The preliminary reading for April of -$47.24 billion was revised to -$47.04 billion.
Where this report gets interesting is that it is a contraction in May after having seen a wide jump up in April. The prior jump was due at least partially to annual revisions, but the trade gap rose to a deficit of -$47.0 billion in April from -$44.2 billion in March.
In May, exports were up by 1% to $195.46 billion and imports were down 0.3% to $239.85 billion. Petroleum product exports helped in May, as did record levels of exports in cars and consumer goods.
If you are looking to see if the energy export and import trends are good, look no further — petroleum imports were the lowest since November of 2010. The flip-side is that non-petroleum imports were a record.
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Over my four year tenure at Pivotal Labs I've heard it a lot: "You guys really drink the Kool-Aid around here, don't you?" and I'd shake it off with a joke, "Yeah, you can grab anything from the fridge you want, so long as it's powder-based fruit punch." I thought I knew what they were getting at, we're pretty rigorous about things that are radically different from the way most software developers work – TDD, pair programing, and a common start time to name a few. But it takes more than common practices to build a culture that is so strong that it consistently elicits cult analogies.
First off, I'm not excited to be called a cult member – the term is derogatory and carries a lot of baggage with it. But if we look at this definition from Wikipedia, the word cult is a "term for a new religious movement or other group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre by the larger society." While we're not "religious", I would say we're a "movement" to change the way software is made, and our practices intentionally push the boundaries of what most organizations are comfortable with. But what makes a cult is beyond practices.
I said I thought I knew what people were getting at, but I didn't fully understand it until recently when I was sitting down with a candidate who was on the edge about accepting a job offer at Pivotal. She had been trough our usual rounds of interviews and had some really good questions. I did my best to answer them honestly. At the end she thanked me and offered, "If nothing else you're all very consistent." I indicated I wanted to know more and she shared that she had also talked to pivots at meetups and even overheard a couple of us on the train and apparently we "… all say the same things about [our] company." She had to leave, so we said our goodbyes, but what she had said moments before was still washing over me.
How is it that we're so consistent? Even when we think no one is listening we say the same things that we say when trying to attract new talent. For my specific situation, I wasn't glossing over any of the parts of our company that are feeling growing pains; I felt confident that reality was not only good enough to stand on it's own, but that it was the right thing to say. I wanted her to make an informed decision about coming to work with us – one of the hardest things to do is work with someone who doesn't want to be there. I imagine school teachers feel this way a lot of the time, compared to other classroom settings where students opt-in.
Okay, being open is a pretty good thing, but it doesn't fully explain how I was giving the same message that the rest of my coworkers were giving. Each person has a unique perspective on life, and there certainly isn't someone coming over the speakers every morning telling us what to think. Upon reflection, I think the reason we have a common appreciation for our work place is because we pair program and rotate through projects. While I'm sharing my technical skills when at the keyboard, I'm also learning about what's going on in the company, on the team, and with the individual between keyboarding times (see future post "Why Slow Tests Aren't Always a Bad Thing"). Face-time, and pairing specifically, homogenates a workforce.
This constant sharing of ideas and perspectives quickly creates a value alignment without anyone ever having to say what those values are. We even pair when interviewing so we're selecting for those values from day zero. And since we have this strong alignment, it's easier to identify pivots as a group, or a "cult" if you must, rather than as individuals who works for a faceless brand. If you want your company values to be represented at all levels, you have to talk about and challenge those values every day so that there is shared understanding, and pairing is a great way to do just that.
As it turns out, that interview candidate accepted the job the day after we spoke. I also checked the fridge, and though it is well stocked with a variety of beverages including fancy tea, Kombucha, over thirty kinds of beer, and a plethora of juices, Kool-Aid is no where to be found. We understand why we're at our job better than anyone else in the business, plus we can message those values even when we think no one is listening, and that's a powerful thing to find in the workplace.
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OMIM: xeroderma pigmentosum, complementation group C; XPC: 278720
OMIM: Sabinas brittle hair syndrome: 211390
OMIM: trichorrhexis nodosa syndrome: 275550
OMIM: Hartnup disorder: 234500
Inheritance: autosomal recessive
Incidence: rare
Key findings: brittle, low sulfur hair links several syndromes that may have different causes
- skin: fine white scale and generalized mild erythema; photosensitivity in some
- hair: easily fractured, sparse hair
- nails: nail plates may be abnormally thick or thin
Associated findings: short stature (common)
- central nervous system: intellectual impairment is usual, but of variable severity; motor development may be impaired and remain permanently deficient
- eyes: neonatal cataracts and photophobia (common)
- genitals: decreased fertility (common)
Age at first appearance: birth
Long-term course: hair abnormalities may not be detectable at all times and in all locations; many born with ichthyosiform erythroderma or collodion membrane that generally improve during the first year; normal life-span; overall outlook dependent on which organ systems are involved
Diagnostic tests: chemical and microscopic analysis of hair; analysis of cellular DNA available for some cases
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An engine swap is the process of removing a car's engine and replacing it with another. This is done either because of failure, or to install a different engine–usually one that is more powerful, modern, or maintainable. This has been the case with some of the mid-'80s cars as not only are they becoming more affordable and easier to obtain, they are being updated with newer small-block 350 engines.
After looking over the car and doing some research, we realized that our engine swap would be a weekend project. We also learned that some states will allow you to upgrade your engine, but some states, like California, have the most restrictions. Fortunately, this tech was being done on an Arizona car, and thanks to the state's rolling smog law, we were able to legally replace the engine with this newer replacement motor. Before attempting this at home, you should also make sure that you could do this repair without raising too many eyebrows in your neighborhood.
When we started off on this piece, we figured that we would take an affordable G-body (in this case a Buick Regal) and show you how to update the drive train with something more affordable and easier to work on. We called Summit Racing and ordered everything that we thought we needed for our engine swap. Now see how this weekend project unfolds, as we install a new Summit Racing/Holley engine into this '84 Regal.
1. This '84 Regal was ready for a small-block 350.
2. We started off by disconnecting the battery. This should help prevent sparks and the ground out of any components.
3. The old engine was disassembled, leaving it ready to get pulled out.
4. You are going to have to disconnect the exhaust manifolds and the transmission, so it will require you to access the engine from under the car.
5. The exhaust needed to be disconnected to access the motor mounts.
6. Using a dedicated catch pan, we removed the antifreeze giving us the option to re-use the antifreeze if it was still good and we wanted to do so.
7. On this particular car we were able to keep the hood lined up by unbolting the hood shocks towers allowing us to hold the hood straight up. This gave us much room to allow the engines to be removed and installed without obstacles.
8. When holding your hood up, make sure not to over stretch the hood as you can easily crack the windshield if the hood touches the glass.
9. To help avoid getting fluids on the ground we used a zip lock bag and tie strap; which will help catch some of the fluids while you remove the engine.
10. With everything loosened, the old engine came out with ease.
11. The engine compartment was ready to receive its new small block.
12. Since we didn't know which holes on the frame would line up with the motor mounts in place, we bolted the motor mounts to the engine, allowing us to center the engine in the right place.
13. One of the last steps before dropping in the engine is to install the flywheel that will bolt up to the 200R transmission.
14. For this install, we opted to use a carb mount engine lift plate to help keep the engine level.
15. This engine just needed some guidance and should be connected to the transmission once it is lined up.
16. The AC lines were reconnected and the system was ready to be recharged.
17. This Holley carb was ready to help the small block run.
18. The engine was in and only needed a few things to make it run.
19. Having everything on hand from Summit Racing made this weekend project easy.


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Taught by Trevor Gordon Hall in Crafting Fingerstyle Melodies seriesLength: 23:12Difficulty: 3.0 of 5
Fingerstyle guitar is a broad term that can incorporate percussive elements of playing as well as Chet Atkins/Jerry Reed amazing flurry of notes approach and so much more in between. What the percussive traditions open up are ways of viewing harmonics and various sounds incorporating the full guitar into playing, and the Chet Atkins/Jerry Reed style open up ways of finger patterns and stringing together open strings to build speed and assemble blazing lines mimicking banjo rolls and more. This course is meant to navigate through gems found on both sides of the tradition shining light on how to use those ideas for opening up more ways to polish and enhance melodic playing.
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Fingerstyle guitar is a broad term that can incorporate percussive elements of playing as well as Chet Atkins/Jerry Reed amazing flurry of notes approach and so much more in between. This course is meant...Length: 7:02 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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We are working towards polishing and crafting melody in this course. This can be difficult to develop without looking at possible inefficiencies in how we are holding our arms, hands, and guitar. In this...Length: 5:21 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
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Working towards how to really craft melody we will focus on using good right hand technique while switching left hand chords. This is important to gain comfort with because as we move on to other left...Length: 28:11 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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Melody is our goal. Playing it well and with color. In this lesson we will focus on a very important technique to help cross strings with ease and confidence. Melody requires one note after another regardless...Length: 15:01 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
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This batch of exercises serves as a sort of overture for what the rest of this course will cover. Each exercise will start with a D chord and add on a different ending. Each ending will highlight a specific...Length: 19:18 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Let's expand the second half of each exercise with more movement in the left hand. It's important to keep notes ringing as long as possible. We will cover how to use these exercises to start thinking...Length: 20:32 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now, we will talk about how to pivot over strings with thumb while crossing as well as a moveable shape you can use anywhere on the fretboard. The pattern will always play one note per string string until...Length: 22:52 Difficulty: 3.0 FREE
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In this lesson, we will take the same right hand finger patterns and change up the left hand. If we have a major pattern, a minor pattern, a dominant, and an inversion of major, we can play almost any...Length: 23:12 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Working towards melody will require good understanding of various chords in arpeggio form. We are working up to a full etude that will hop all around the fretboard while still maintaining same patterns...Length: 25:02 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now we'll be expanding on more changes with the same shapes while building to our Etude. We will start with our now familiar Major 9 pattern and move into placing the minor 9 pattern on low part of the...Length: 23:42 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Let's expand again! On to the A Major and F# Dominant shapes.Length: 19:12 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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"Hopefully now you're starting to get the hang of this! Let's look at the D Major - B Dominant shapes in this lesson. It's important to remember you want to be able to play each arpeggio starting from...Length: 17:17 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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We want to continue our goal being comfortable with every shape we have learned on different parts of the neck. This lesson will highlight putting some of these shapes in open position, as well as deepening...Length: 17:52 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now on to Dmajor to A First Inversion. Be sure to play each exercise and listen for the sound color of each. What do these sounds make you think of? What mental image or mood or feeling? These can better...Length: 16:20 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Let's move on to the last shapes in this section: D - A First Inversion - Bm-A First Inversion.Length: 18:02 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now let's put all of those shapes together in a progression. You can see how much mileage you can get out of one right hand crossing string picking pattern.Length: 22:57 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Using open strings can sometimes be a confusing proposition. Normally when we ascend in pitch we go up fretboard OR to higher strings but now when using open strings sometimes you have to go to a higher...Length: 34:09 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now we will take the same right hand patterns we've been working on with a few minor tweaks, and add in some open strings. This will change the way we approach playing scales and melodies. Go slowly and...Length: 22:49 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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The concept of utilizing the open strings we have available will be very important in your fingerstyle journey, so make sure you go slow and learn this new way of thinking. Open strings throw a lot of...Length: 34:27 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now that we have some open string ideas let's shift to some arpeggio triad shapes incorporating what we have covered so far. Each small chunk of this etude can be seen as its own exercise so have fun...Length: 19:51 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Let's put all of this together with harmonics not just being used for color but for sustaining melody notes similar to a piano sustain pedal. This frees us up to really extend sustaining life of the melody...Length: 18:56 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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In part two, be sure to practice getting clean right hand and left hand harmonics. Go only as fast as you can play evenly in tempo making sure you don't memorize gaps between the notes and the harmonics.Length: 19:40 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Remember, this course is all about finding different ways to play a note. In this lesson, we look at some arpeggio shapes, but look to use our open strings and harmonics to accomplish the goal of the...Length: 25:47 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Coloring a melody can be a multi faceted task on the guitar. We can use harmonics, open strings and fretted notes. Here we look at some ways to affect a melody and get some of these concepts under our...Length: 34:19 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Let's now take a look at the Triad Melody Etude. This etude incorporates chord movements, open strings and harmonics - all things we have been working on!Length: 21:17 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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In this lesson, we will finish up learning the Triad Melody Etude. Be sure to take each section slowly and spend plenty of time with it, and you will have it down before you know it!Length: 25:41 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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This etude will fully explore what we have been discussing. It modulates keys a few times while still using harmonics, open strings and thinking melodically.Length: 21:23 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now, the next section of the Modulating Melody Etude.Length: 13:56 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Now we come to the last part of the Modulating Melody Etude. Try playing each section together slowly and make sure to let harmonics ring out as long as possible. Sometimes this requires being extra...Length: 21:03 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Playing fingerstyle can put a lot of demands on your hands and arms. Being able to take proper care of yourself is a must! In this lesson, Trevor shows us some of his go to exercises and tools for keeping...Length: 18:47 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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Trevor is always asked about his nails! In this lesson, he gives a comprehensive, step by step tutorial of exactly what his regimen is regarding his nails. A must see for any fingerstyle player!Length: 18:15 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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"Inspiration is for Amateurs..The rest of us just show up and get to work"... In other words, don't simply wait for inspiration to strike, instead put the work it and it will come! Learning how to...Length: 11:39 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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In this lesson, Trevor takes us through his song, "The Meeting at the Window". The lesson begins with a complete playthrough, followed by an in depth teaching of the first section of the song.Length: 24:47 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Now, the middle section of Trevor's song, "The Meeting at the Window".Length: 15:01 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Trevor wraps up the teaching of his song, "The Meeting at the Window".Length: 10:39 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 36
Now we get to take an in depth look at Trevor's beautiful song, "That Old Familiar Pain". Trevor will go through the piece step by step. This this first part, we get a complete playthrough, followed...Length: 25:07 Difficulty: 4.5 Members Only
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Trevor teaches us the middle section of his song "That Old Familiar Pain".Length: 16:41 Difficulty: 4.5 Members Only
Lesson 38
Trevor wraps us his song "That Old Familiar Pain" by teaching us the last section of the songs, which includes a little bit of percussion!Length: 18:53 Difficulty: 4.5 Members Only
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text: Guys, looking for accessible breaks in Northern Monmouth county. My father just passed away, and I have some family coming to town for the services. We would love to get a surf in to just get wet and have a couple of laughs during a trying time. Don't anticipate a big window, and won't have much time to explore. If someone could send me a PM with some accessible breaks, it would be much appreciated.


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Love And Logos: 'Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!' Gets A New Look
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, NPR's oddly-informative news quiz, had a question that couldn't be answered through witty wordplay. The show needed a visual makeover. Until now, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! was still using its original branding, a typeface and speech-bubble logo developed shortly after the show's debut more than 15 years ago.
(You know, being a radio show allows one to get away with keeping its visual look a bit longer than average.)
Since times do change, the NPR Marketing and Branding team was tasked with giving Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! a new look as fresh and timely as the week's headlines. As a graphic designer, writing for me feels akin to playing Not My Job. But for the love of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, I was willing to throw vectors to the wind and give you a peek at the process.
A redesign is hardly ever as effortless or clean as the final product, and this one required the work of several different departments here at NPR: Programming, Consumer Products, Legal and, of course, the entire Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! crew, too. In Marketing and Branding, we pored through portfolio after portfolio and chose four designers we thought had a smart and savvy style that would best represent the show. We asked them each to develop a series of logo comps and, eventually, we selected one skilled designer: Mike Casebolt.
Detailing The Design
As it turned out, Casebolt was an NPR fan and was happy to take the job on as a freelance project, working nights and weekends (when Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! airs, of course). After presenting a few bells (literally) and whistles, we figured out what concepts were – and weren't – working.
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It will just be a hologram of Paula. - Kyrie O'Connor
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What's the sweatiest part of your body? It's not your armpits--it's your upper back, according to a new study from the University of Loughborough. The least sweaty regions? Your hands, fingers, and feet.
Sweat may soak your tee and make you smell sour, but it's also a useful part of your body's response to exercise. When sweat evaporates, it takes heat away from the body, keeping you cool. Aside from the smell, sweat is more friend than foe. Here's how to work with it--not against it. (For more ways to improve your workout, check out the 100 Best Fitness Tips of All Time.)
1. Tuck in Your Shirt
One way to increase evaporation and thereby reduce sweat is to tuck in your shirt and allow a gap between your shirt and skin. Doing this will create a pocket of air against your skin that helps sweat evaporate and your body cool.
2. Wipe Your Brow, Not Your Body
As sweat only helps cool the body when it evaporates on the skin, it may seem like wiping it off is a bad idea. "Theoretically, it is," Ollie Jay, Ph.D., principal investigator at the Thermal Ergonomics Laboratory at the University of Ottawa, tells MensHealth.com. "But picking up forehead sweat with a towel is not a big deal. The sweat produced on your forehead compared to the rest of your body is pretty minimal."
3. Step on the Scale
A good rule of thumb is to drink as much fluid as your body generates in sweat. "Typically we suggest that people who exercise a lot in the heat should look at their body weight before and after the exercise," study author George Havenith, of the University of Loughborough, tells MensHealth.com. "That is an estimate of what they lost in sweat and that is what they need to drink." (One pound is about 16 ounces of fluid.) Your body can only absorb up to 32 ounces per hour, so no need to chug gallons at a time.
4. Treat Your Pits Like Dirty Paws
Armpit and groin sweat originate in apocrine sweat glands--as opposed to eccrine sweat glands found everywhere else. Apocrine glands infuse normal sweat with proteins, and are located in the least evaporative areas of the body. This thicker sweat gathers in your pits and groin, and starts to stink. If you can't shower, try using hand sanitizer on your affected areas. It will kill the bacteria and give you a few more odor-free hours.
5. Exercise Your Sweat Glands
If your body temperature is often elevated above your resting temperature, your body will learn to be more efficient in creating sweat. Whether you're training longer or living in a hot environment, your body will adapt. Scientists haven't found a link between ethnicity and sweat response, says Jay, but they have found regional adaptations. Ready to sweat? Check out The NEW Spartacus Workout on DVD!
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Noted academician Goverdhan Mehta, who had chaired a committee to evaluate the National Education Mission through Information and Communication Technology (NEMICT), feels such a thing is possible if all attributes required for a degree course can be delivered online. However, he adds, "it should be properly structured with proper rigour and proper system of evaluation. It's absurd to give online degrees for engineering, nursing etc. According to me, certain minimum amount of productive contact interaction is a must for any degree programme."
Now a national research professor at the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad, Mehta says that attributes of skills or scholarship expected from a degree holder has not been defined in India. "Acquiring knowledge is one thing and doing a formal degree is another. If I am scientist and I want to learn philosophy, the government should ensure I have access to a learning platform of the government where I can get a reasonable idea about this subject. As far as degree programmes are concerned, we need to put in place a proper framework for that. Online education cannot be left to fend for itself," he says.
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Jimmy Fallon Combines David Bowie and Tim Tebow to Form 'Tebowie'
A strange and vaguely familiar character was introduced during last night's episode of 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.' The talk-show host married the looks of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow and early-70s David Bowie into one, glamorous yet reverent character called "Tebowie."
Singing a reworked version of Bowie's 'Space Oddity,' Fallon held a conversation between Tebow and Jesus. "This is Jesus Christ to Tim Tebow, please leave me alone / Don't you know my day of rest is Sunday / And I'm sick of watching all these Broncos games," he sings to the tune of the familiar chorus.
The outfit was as spectacular as the lyrics. Early shots show Tebowie in gold, glittered platform boots. He's wearing a Denver Broncos jersey beneath a set of shoulder pads too dazzling for the Lingerie Football League.
"I hear that you play New England next week / Dude you're on your own / Brady is too good and I've got better things to do."
The Ziggy Stardust makeup and haircut complete the look for Fallon, but the whole thing wouldn't work if he wasn't such a capable impersonator. As one expects, the skit finishes with Tebowie crouching to a knee and putting a fist to his forehead, as the quarterback as done on so many occasions.
(Editor's note: oddly enough, we've seen Bowie and the Broncos, or at least their respective fans, interact before. October 16, 1995: Bowie plays a concert with Nine Inch Nails at McNichols Arena in Denver at the exact same time the Broncos beat up the Raiders across the street at Mile High Stadium. Both events got done at about the same time, and the mix of face-painted football fans and heavily glammed-up Bowie disciples on the buses home, each snickering at how ridiculous the other looked, is something we'll never forget.)


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4BETTER OR WORSE: The week in review
Worst rash of child porn cases: Brittney M. Demmer, 28, is indicted on 10 counts of possession, including videos of prepubescent children, the Daily Progress reports. Dustin Jame Lapradd, 23, a former UVA student, also is charged with 10 counts. And Greene County man Trenton Ray Morris, 26, is arrested October 2 and charged with 10 counts.
Worst embezzling case: Heather Eve Gallimore, 36, the woman charged with swindling the Greene County Youth Center, is sentenced October 2 to 12 months in jail and $24,000 in restitution
Worst change of heart for victim's family: Darryl Andre Johnson was in court October 1 to be sentenced for the shooting death of Phillip E. Adams Jr. last October 22 at a party on the Corner. Instead, he asks for a new lawyer and to rescind his Alford plea to first-degree murder. Adams' family had traveled to be at the sentencing, and one upset member had to be escorted out of the courtroom. Tasha Kates has the story in the Progress.
Lengthiest stabbing sentence: Lamont Jermaine Blakey gets 15 years October 1 after being found guilty of second degree murder for stabbing to death Joshua Lee Gibson, whom he believed was involved with his girlfriend, Kates reports. The killing took place September 30, 2008, at Friendship Court.
Most stimulated: UVA scores $38.7 million from federal stimulus funding– "so far–" according to a release that hints more is in the works. The money rolling in is going to 102 projects across the research spectrum, including medicine, astronomy, physics, engineering, education, and biology.
Speaking of grants: The Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service is awarded $80,000 from Virginia to make sure the U.S. Census Bureau's address lists for the state accurately capture high-growth areas in the upcoming 2010 census, which affects representation in Congress, voting districts, and funding.
Latest 5th District Republican candidate: North Garden resident Michael McPadden, a Northwest Airlines captain, throws his cap into the race September 28, joining four other Republicans eager to challenge U.S. Representative Tom Perriello from Ivy in 2010.
Latest armed robberies: A man is robbed on 15th Street late October 4 and the 7-Eleven on Ivy Road is hit a few hours later by a similarly described black male perp: short, early 20s, wearing dark baggy pants and sweatshirt pulled up over his mouth.
Most controversial greenhouse gas theory: UVA professor emeritus William F. Ruddiman suggests that primitive farmers who burned forests and planted rice paddies spewed emissions into the atmosphere 5,000 years ago. The Washington Post has the story.
Worst place to have a nicotine fit: UVA Medical Center bans smoking outside on its property starting October 1. The hospital offers visitors "comfort kits" with tips on quitting smoking, word puzzles, and hard candy, according to the Progress. Patients may be given anti-smoking lozenges or prescribed a nicotine patch. Employees get a smoking cessation program called "Healthy Hoos," while unrepentant smokers must hit public streets. There are no fines with the ban, but security or police may be called on violators who refuse to put out their cigs.
Best note-burning: October 7 the Nelson County Historical Society torches the $275,000 mortgage it borrowed to purchase the 11-acre Oakland property in 2004, where it established a museum focused on rural life in Nelson County.
Best pie: Lemon chiffon baked by Kathy Banner wins the first Charlottesville Pie Fest October 3 in Crozet.
Best 1959 Lincoln Continental project: Converting the gas guzzler owned by Neil Young into a fuel-efficient electric land yacht is the ambitious undertaking of Perrone Robotics, according to Brian McNeill in the DP.
This original version of this article misspelled Michael McPadden's name. It has been corrected online.–ed
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Since the Progress is reporting today that Judge Cheryl Higgins is allowing Kenneth James Rothwell, an admitted child molester and convicted child porn possessor, out of jail, I don't think these folks have anything to worry about. Apparently, preventing children from being raped is not very high amongst Judge Cheryl Higgins' priorities.


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"Oblivion" Starring Tom Cruise, Morgan Freeman, Melissa Leo. PG-13 (sci-fi action/violence, brief nudity, language). Fresh-off his role as "Jack Reacher", Tom Cruise plays another Jack - astronaut Jack Harper - in the sci-fi adventure "Oblivion", part post-apocalyptic action film/part futuristic soap opera. The year is 2077. 60 years earlier aliens attacked the Earth. Although humans won the war, they left the planet uninhabitable by using nuclear weapons. So survivors had to leave Earth and move to Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Jack and his partner Victoria (Andrea Riseborough) are part of Tech 49. Their job is to protect what's left of the Earth's water, which is being sent to Titan. Jack repairs security drones that are programmed to kill scavenger aliens who are still around. In two weeks their mission will be over and they'll be able to join the others on Titan, including Sally - the head of Mission Control (Leo). But things don't go as planned. There's a mysterious crash-landing that brings a third astronaut into the picture. Then Jack meets-up with Freeman's character. He may be human, alien, friend or enemy. And then things get even crazier later on. Visually "Oblivion" is quite impressive, but what really makes it work - at least for the first 90-minutes - is the style of storytelling, which is rather unconventional. Director Joseph Kosinski ("Tron: Legacy") takes his time setting things up. We get to know Jack and Victoria separately and their relationship together. Sure, Cruise's opening narrative explains way too much, and Leo's southern accent is annoying - but there's much to like here, including a tricky love triangle, some effective plot twists and the stylized look. But there comes a point in "Oblivion" when I could no longer continue on this ride. The story gets way-out sci-fi wacky, so much so that the characters spend much of the final act trying to explain what's actually going on. Moon-sized craters start appearing in the plot so it's impossible not to lose focus while trying to make sense of it all. Cruise gives a solid performance in a role in which he does many of his scenes alone. Freeman is only in four scenes, but he's still great. The screenplay is based on Kosinski's own unpublished graphic novel and I give him credit for trying to make a different type of science fiction film. But, in the end, this journey is unsatisfying. LCJ Rating: C Also In Theaters
- "42" (PG-13) Hits it out of the park. B+
- "The Sapphires" (PG-13) A gem! B+
- "The Place Beyond the Pines" (R) Cooper, Sch'dy shine. C+
- "Jurassic Park 3D" (PG-13) 20th Anniversary celebration. A-
- "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" (PG-13) Franchise gets demotion. C-
- "The Croods" (PG) Beautiful but too simple. C+
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So Microsoft has bought the best bits of Nokia, and given their already cozy relationship, the two companies will likely be working as one much more quickly than, say, Google and Motorola did. What can we expect from the next couple years of this intriguing mashup?
One of the few things Nokia is truly known for in the modern smartphone market is actually innovating in the camera space. Most skeptics of the 41-megapixel Pureview sensor have been silenced by its versatility and image quality. Sure, there's work to be done in speeding it up and adding features, but the core technology is unique and powerful.
Microsoft knows this adds a big card to their hand, and Pureview will almost certainly be a flagship feature of Windows Phones from now on. It won't be on every device, but you can be sure it's going to hit a lot more models than just the top-end superphones.
Shipping dumbphones with a dead-end OS doesn't fit Microsoft's plan to nibble away at the smartphone market. Nokia's approach has led to years of decline, but they still have reach, especially in emerging markets. Microsoft will want to use this reach to put some kind of Windows Phone device in the hands of someone trying to decide between a Samsung flip-phone and a Nokia Asha.
This won't be easy — but it may be a better fit for a cut-down version of an OS than in the disastrous Windows RT tablets. A Windows Phone "lite" running on cheap hardware could put millions into Microsoft's world of services.
A side effect of this will be an attempt to freeze Android out of the budget segment. Every month, Android phones get closer and closer to supplanting dumbphones in massive markets like India and China. Offering a killer low-end phone will halt the enemy's progress and boost friendly ranks.
Microsoft may have recently updated its Skydrive service with better photo options, but they're still lagging far behind Apple and Google when it comes to a smooth, connected photo-taking and sharing experience. Microsoft should be bending over backwards to make sure apps like Instagram and Vine are available on Windows Phone, while pushing connections with Facebook to the maximum. Why, for example, isn't Binging all your and your friends' Facebook photos and tags already a homepage action? And why is WP always the last to be supported by the cool new thing?
Nokia has a lot of thoughtful software engineers who have built accessible, innovative apps over the last few years, and they may combine with Microsoft's vast ecosystem of services to make something powerful. Or at least, it's possible.
Microsoft has been waiting for a way to extend the mobile reach of Skype for a long time, and this is a great opportunity. Include it (with some sort of sweet data deal) on every Windows Phone as an answer to FaceTime and Google Hangouts and watch as users stick with the default. Want to bet every phone Microsoft sells starting a year from now has dual cameras?
After an initial (and largely ineffective) push, companies like Samsung and LG have offered only lukewarm support of Microsoft's newer platforms. Microsoft thanked them both with the self-produced Surface tablets, and by partnering for all intents and purposes exclusively with Nokia. Expect this frosty relationship to chill even further now that Microsoft has no particular need for their design and manufacturing prowess.
A few comments have been made about the branding of devices: Microsoft Windows Phone Nokia Lumia 1020 is about four words too long, and many have suggested that "Nokia" is on the chopping block. That's doubtful. Nokia is one of the most well-recognized mobile brands in the world, and has many positive associations. Windows Phone and Lumia are newer and more mixed. Moreover, callously retiring a cherished and valuable brand would be very bad PR.
No, Microsoft's best move is to make sure that "Nokia" is solely associated with Windows, so much so that they don't have to say it in the name. If anything, "Nokia" will be the last brand standing when it comes to what's actually advertised. Intel, after all, didn't tell Dell to call their computers "Intel Pentium Inspirons"… yet "Intel Inside" is a brand that persists to this day, while "Inspiron" is virtually without cachet. Google relaunched Motorola rather than absorb it.
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Self-Regulation and Effort Investment
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In K. A. Renninger, I. E. Sigel, W. Damon and R. M. Lerner (Eds.), Handbook of child psychology, 6th ed. Vol 4, Child psychology in practice. pp. 345-377.
Abstract: In the first section of this chapter I argue that laypeople and researchers still have a hazy sense of what self-regulation entails. I highlight recent conceptualizations and empirical findings related to the self-regulation of motivation and effort, documenting why we cannot comprehend children's and adolescents' engagement and persistence in the classroom unless we understand how they steer and direct their behavior in the direction of valued goals and away from undesired goals. Accordingly, I propose to look at engagement and disengagement patterns from a self-regulation perspective. I supply examples from recent research, including my own research program, to illustrate how we have translated our theorizing about self-regulation of motivation and effort into research designs and into practice (guided principles for intervention), but also how practice led back into theory. In the final section, I offer some principles for research and practice and also point to some unresolved issues.
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THE BLIND DATE CHALLENGE- Travelogue: Train doesn't quite leave the station
The background
Both challengers rated each other a 10, and Matchmaker was sure young love would bloom between her two blind date enthusiasts.
Skip ahead six months. Alas, since the date, Sheela and Dave have gone their separate ways. It's not always clear why these things don't work out, but Dave's still single and ready to mingle, and Matchmaker's a firm believer in second chances.
This second chance is Sarah, a fourth-year Foreign Affairs major who spent last year studying in France. Given Dave's passion for traveling and fine foods, the match seemed only natural. But a date like Dave and Sheela's is going to be a tough act to follow...
The date
Did you do anything out of the ordinary to plan for the date?
Dave: Ha, I did take a lint remover to my slacks. I suppose that's unusual.
What did you wear?
Dave: A pair of black slacks with a white long-sleeved shirt. I also had on a pair of black leather shoes.
Were you first or second to arrive?
What did you do while waiting?
Were you nervous or excited?
Dave: I was a bit excited. I had heard from "Cupid" that Sara is finishing up her degree in French, so I figured she'd be well-traveled and that we'd have a lot to talk about since I spent a year abroad.
When did you calm down?
Dave: Things were pretty laidback the whole time. We started to talk immediately, so I really didn't think about being nervous.
First impression:
Dave: She's really cute and outgoing!
Would you say this person was your type?
Dave: At first glance, yes. Both she and I have the same affinity for travel and culture; we really couldn't get off the subject. I thought it was so cool that she got to study in Lyon, France for a year!
At L'etoile
Sarah: Yes, twice.
Dave: Once, last summer.
Did you order drinks?
What did you have to eat?
How was the food?
Dave: The food was excellent. My salmon was cooked perfectly throughout. I could really tell that the chef/owner puts a lot of passion and creativity into his cooking. The presentation and taste were both out of this world!
Did you share meals? Sample each other's dinners?
Dave: We shared our appetizer and dessert. For a first course, we ordered seared scallops with grapefruit. For dessert, we shared creme brulé.
How was the service?
How was the conversation?
Dave: Pretty good. We talked about how we miss our homes (she's from New York, I'm from Seattle) and why we came to Virginia.
What did you talk about?
Did you have a lot in common?
Dave: The most important item that we had in common was our love for travel and culture. I felt like we could've talked about that endlessly.
What did you find out that was interesting about this person?
What was your date's best characteristic?
Dave: She has great eyes and a very magnetic and original personality.
What was the most memorable moment of the date?
Was there anything you really disliked?
Dave: I was really disappointed that she doesn't like salmon. I come from Seattle, so for me it's a diet staple. But to each her own.
Was there anything about your date that surprised or impressed you?
Dave: I was surprised that she had a sub-par Germany experience. Apparently she went to Berlin with some of her pals, and the city turned out to be not as nice as expected. Also, she's not afraid to remind Red Sox fans about how many championships the Yankees have won.
Was there "chemistry" between you? Interesting body language?
Dave: I'd definitely say there was some chemistry between us!
Did anything out of the ordinary happen?
How did dinner end?
Dave: I spilled some tea on my sleeve; luckily we both though it was funny.
Did you decide to go somewhere afterwards?
Dave: Nope.
What was the VERY end like?
Dave: I wish that the date could have gone on longer. Unfortunately, we both had work we needed to attend to.
Did you walk each other to the car?
A hug? A kiss?
Did you have fun?
Dave: Yes! Sarah rocks. We simply must chill again sometime in the near future.
Did you make plans for a second date?
Overall experience?
Dave: I had a lot of fun. She's a really cool girl, and it seems (at first glance) that we have a lot in common.
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the date?
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N° 31–2003: ESA's Cluster solved an auroral puzzle
20 May 2003
ESA's four Cluster spacecraft have made a remarkable set of observations that has led to a breakthrough in understanding the origin of a peculiar and puzzling type of aurora.
These aurorae - seen as bright spots in Earth's atmosphere and called 'dayside proton auroral spots' - occur when fractures appear in the Earth's magnetic field, allowing particles given out from the Sun to squirt through and collide with the molecules in our atmosphere. This is the first time that a precise and direct connection between the two events has been made.
The Earth's magnetic field acts like a shield, protecting Earth from the constant stream of tiny particles ejected by the Sun and known as the 'solar wind'. The solar wind itself is made of hydrogen atoms, broken into their constituent pieces: protons and electrons. When electrons find routes into our atmosphere, they collide with and excite the atoms in the air. When these excited atoms release their energy, it is given out as light, creating the glowing 'curtains' we see as the aurora borealis (or the aurora australis in the southern hemisphere). Dayside proton auroral spots are caused by protons 'stealing' electrons from the atoms in our atmosphere.
On 18 March last year, a jet of energetic solar protons collided with the Earth's atmosphere and created a bright 'spot' seen by NASA's IMAGE spacecraft, just as Cluster passed overhead and straight through the region where the proton jet was emanating. An extensive analysis of the Cluster results has now shown that the region was experiencing a turbulent event known as 'magnetic reconnection'. Such a phenomenon takes place when the Earth's usually impenetrable magnetic field fractures and has to find a new stable configuration. Until the field mends itself, solar protons leak through the gap and jet into Earth's atmosphere creating the dayside proton aurora.
Philippe Escoubet, ESA's Cluster Project Scientist, comments, "Thanks to Cluster's observations scientists can directly and firmly link for the first time a dayside proton auroral spot and a magnetic reconnection event."
Tai Phan, leading the investigation at the University of California, Berkeley, United States, now looks forward to a new way of studying the Earth's protective shield. He says, "This result has opened up a new area of research. We can now watch dayside proton aurorae and use those observations to know where and how the cracks in the magnetic field are formed and how long the cracks remain open. That makes it a powerful tool to study the entry of the solar wind into the Earth's magnetosphere."
The Earth's interaction with the Sun is a current focus of scientific attention because of its importance in knowing how the Sun affects the Earth, most notably our climate. Also, while not immediately dangerous to us on Earth, it is also important for quantifying the danger to satellites, which can be damaged or destroyed by powerful solar flares.
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Proton aurorae were globally imaged for the first time by NASA's IMAGE spacecraft. The images revealed the presence of the 'dayside proton auroral spots'. By a fortunate coincidence, IMAGE and Cluster both spotted the event on 18 March 2002. Combining with IMAGE's observations, Cluster made it possible to establish the ground truth of the phenomenon.
The paper on these results, Simultaneous Cluster and IMAGE Observations of Cusp Reconnection and Auroral Spot for Northward IMF by Tai Phan and 24 other authors will be published in Geophysical Research Letters, 21 May 2003, Vol. 30, No. 10.
The principal investigators responsible for the instruments that made these results possible are: Henri Rème of CESR/Toulouse, France (Cluster Proton Detectors), Andre Balogh of Imperial College, London, United Kingdom (Cluster Magnetic Field Instrument) and Stephen Mende of University of California, Berkeley, United States (IMAGE/FUV).
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ESA's Cluster is a collection of four spacecraft, launched on two Russian rockets during the summer of 2000. They are now flying in formation around the Earth, relaying the most detailed ever information about how the solar wind affects our planet in 3D. The solar wind is the perpetual stream of subatomic particles given out by the Sun and it can damage communications satellites and power stations on the Earth. The Cluster mission is expected to continue until at least 2005.
Cluster is part of the International Living with a Star programme (ILWS), in which space agencies worldwide get together to investigate how variations in the Sun affect the environment of Earth and the other planets. In particular, ILWS concentrate on those aspects of the Sun-Earth system that may affect mankind and society. ILWS is a collaborative initiative between Europe, the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada.
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As you might imagine, I get a lot of questions when I'm driving my Ferrari. "Hey, you, in the Ferrari!" people shout, for example. "Do you know there are flames shooting out from your engine?"
No, I'm just kidding. Despite all the jokes, I personally believe fire is a very unlikely event, largely because modern Ferraris are safe, reliable, well-engineered vehicles manufactured from the finest possible materials. Also, I carry around a fire extinguisher the size of a desktop fax machine.
No, the big question I've been getting lately is: Can you daily drive your Ferrari? In fact, I've received this question many times right here on Jalopnik, presumably from readers looking to trade up from an NA Miata with no muffler. But rather than answer it with a simple sentence ("Yes, if you have a big enough fire extinguisher"), I've decided to undertake a thorough examination of the issue using my patented journalistic style: wild exaggeration and libelous half-truths. Here goes:
Fuel Economy
I think we can all agree that excellent fuel economy is an important quality in a daily driver. So let's compare the Ferrari to, say, the Chrysler 200 V6, which is an outstanding vehicle for commuting from Point A to Point B, assuming that one of those points is the Enterprise lot at a major international airport.
If you're not well-versed in Chrysler's current lineup (and really, shame on you), the 200 V6 uses a 3.6-liter engine and a 6-speed transmission. It returns 19 miles per gallon city and 29 mpg highway in "EPA tests," which were presumably carried out by highly qualified Chrysler engineers until it got better numbers than a Camry. ("Quick! There's a tailwind! Measure it on the highway!")
The Ferrari, meanwhile, also uses a 3.6-liter engine and a 6-speed transmission, and it holds a 1,000-pound weight advantage over the Chrysler. So what kind of mileage does it get? 20? 30? FIFTY MILES PER GALLON?!
No. It gets eleven.
That's right: I'm getting 11 miles per gallon. Now, I'm aware this may sound bad, but there's a silver lining: since the Ferrari's fuel economy is so awful, it doesn't really fluctuate much based on how you drive it. So you're sort of encouraged to push it hard and rack up those fuel bills, which – if you're a writer and you're performing the noble, selfless task of informing the world what it's like to own a Ferrari – are definitely tax deductible business expenses.
But the Ferrari's real fuel problem isn't gas mileage. Instead, it's…
If you buy a Ferrari, you have to expect some attention. But it's more than you might think. In fact, it's probably a lot like being a celebrity: people are always looking at you, and smiling at you, and taking pictures of you, and presumably calling you an asshole the moment you're out of earshot. The difference is that when I'm done being a celebrity for the day, I can get back into my Nissan Cube, and no one will look at me except old white men hoping to see a cute Asian girl behind the wheel.
But you don't have that luxury when you're driving the Ferrari, so you have to be really careful about how you act. For example: you can't pick your nose in a Ferrari. You also can't text, or listen to loud music, or change lanes without signaling, or park even an inch into the spot next to you. Any of these things will be immediately photographed and posted on the Internet, where you will be called out for being "THAT ASSHOLE ON JALOPNIK WITH THE FERRARI," presumably by a guy who uploaded the picture while driving down the interstate.
But you get the most attention at gas stations. Because that's when they approach you.
Now, this wouldn't be so bad if the right people approached you. But they never do. What I've learned is that car guys – the nice ones who have a Focus ST and would love to discuss old Volvos – really keep their distance, because they're intimidated by you.This guy owns a Ferrari, they think. He would never talk to someone in a little hatchback.
So instead of car people coming up to you, you get guys with full beards in large pickups adorned with rebel flags, saying things like: "HOW MUCH'D THAT DERN THING CAWST?" Then you have to sit there and listen as they tell you about the time their uncle had an '87 Corvette until he drunkenly wrapped it around a telephone pole while racing "oneuh them Mopars."
The result is that I tend to spend gas stops playing around on Twitter, where you should definitely follow me because you'll see a lot of photos of the 360 at gas stations. "I'm getting gas!!" the captions all say, the subtext being that if I wasn't on my phone looking busy, two guys in a Firebird would be asking me why the engine is in the trunk.
In exotic cars of years past, visibility was a huge problem. Take the Lamborghini Countach, for example: the rear window was the size of an iPhone, and half of its view was blocked by that huge wing they installed on all the cars to remind everyone that it was the 1980s. So anytime you wanted to back up, you had to open the door and look around, which was really embarrassing because the door opened upwards. Basically, the whole production looked like you were raising your hand to tell passersby that yes, you own an expensive Italian sports car, but no, you cannot currently see out of it.
This isn't a problem in the 360. In fact, the 360 has excellent visibility to the front and the sides. The issue is in back.
Now, I want to be careful here to mention that there's no problem with seeing out of the back. You can do that just fine. The problem is that when you look in the mirror, or over your shoulder, there's the engine, in all of its beautiful, V8, red-trimmed Italian glory. It's wonderful, and exquisite, and spectacular, and before long you realize you've spent so much time staring at it that the light's green and your photo is about to be on the Internet as "THAT ASSHOLE ON JALOPNIK WITH THE FERRARI WHO DOESN'T PAY ATTENTION AT TRAFFIC LIGHTS."
I've now had my 360 for roughly a month, and in that time I've put roughly 900 miles on it. Never mind that 500 of these miles were on the drive home, and that I've only really taken the car out about a dozen times. I now consider myself an expert in Ferrari 360 ownership costs.
No, I'm just kidding. I actually have no idea how much it will cost to own, but I probably should've researched that beforehand, because I hear it could be expensive.
But it probably won't be as expensive as you might think. The 360 is considered one of the more reliable modern Ferraris, which I realize sounds a lot like hearing from your lawyer that you've been arrested for one of the lesser murder charges – but it still warrants mentioning. The guys on the forums say that an average 360 owner should expect to budget $1,000 to $3,000 every year for maintenance, plus $4,000 every four years for a major service, plus $25 per year for pepper spray to use when you get tired of people at gas stations asking if it's faster than the new Corvette.
So we've covered the big issues. But how practical is it day-to-day? What can you do with it? What can it carry? Fortunately, I've devised a video to answer these very questions. So sit back, relax, and ready your fire extinguishers.
@DougDeMuro is the author of Plays With Cars. He owned an E63 AMG wagon and once tried to evade police at the Tail of the Dragon using a pontoon boat. (It didn't work.) He worked as a manager for Porsche Cars North America before quitting to become a writer, largely because it meant he no longer had to wear pants. Also, he wrote this entire bio himself in the third person.


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Bushido is the badass Japanese way of kicking ass no holds barred with total style and finesse. Actually I think the Chinese might do it too, but I'm not sure on that one. So anyway, I guess when you break the name down bu means "kicking ass no-holds-barred" and shido means "doing something with style and finesse". I don't know, someone's gonna have to check a dictionary on that one. I would myself if I could read that mess of squiggled shit, but anyway…
History of bushido[edit]
So like I was saying, bushido is really old and ancient, like long before Mr. Miyagi ever put on his first karate suit and even before someone showed they can actually do there bushido skills on TV. The only way normal people could know about it before TV is if someone did some bushido on them, meaning they probably weren't alive to tell anyone about it. I don't even think they actually called it bushido until like 1980. (Someone should Google that and look it up.) Before then people didn't know what to call it so they just said "Damn, that ninja/samurai can kick ass", but the people that said this were in Japan at first so it probably sounded something more like "Ching chong tong suzuki kong wing ding hibachi kicko asso."
Living by bushido[edit]
My friend told me the best way to see how you do bushido by people speaking English so you can understand it is by watching a movie called Ghost Dog. I rented it but it just had this black dude doing stuff forever and no bushido-crazy chinks going A-cha! so I fast-forwarded though most of it. I started to watch some about halfway through but then my girlfriend called and is like "My dog is having palpitations" and blah blah blah and says I need to go with her to the vet or whatever. Anyway, by the time I got done telling her she can just go by herself with her damn dog the Giants game was about to start and I wasn't really watching the movie anyway so I turned it off. But it doesn't really matter, everyone pretty much knows that bushido is all about ninjas kicking ass, no questions asked.
Getting geisha[edit]
See, you'd think that the masters of bushido would do what they do so they can look cool in front of all the geisha girls and get laid like mad, but no man, it's not like that at all. These dudes are like deep and don't even care about chicks, just the kill. I don't know if that makes them really cool or really stupid though. If I could beat a big-ass gang of dudes in 10 seconds flat I'd be all about telling everyone and getting that geisha girl poontang.
The best bushidoers[edit]
- Jet Li – There's no doubt he he's the bomb when it comes to bushido, so I don't think anyone's gonna deny me here.
- Ralph Macchio – Yeah he got all chinked out in the Karate Kid so even though he's American he's still probably one of the best bushidoers ever I'd say.
- Hatory Honzo – Don't know much about the dude, but I've heard his name and that he's like the god of ninjas so he probably deserves a mention here.
- That ninja guy from Tenchu– Tenchu may be a playstation game but I think its based on a historical story or something, and even if just half of his stealth kills happened in real life he's still definitely one of the sweetest ninjas ever, and that makes him a grand master of bushido.
- Chuck Norris – One of the few white guys in the whole world that can truly kick ass bushido style.
Who would win in a fight between bushido and Sparta?[edit]
This is the question that everybody wants to know. Since Japan is more than a hundred miles away from Sparta, this matchup never happened. Now that we have planes we could easily fly some bushido dudes into Sparta and have them fight, but unfortunately the Spartans have been dead ever since about the time people started to wear t-shirts and jeans and normal clothes instead of armor. But anyway, I debated about this with my friend and we decided that if 300 bushidoers went up against 300 Spartans the bushidoers would probably win, but they'd only have about 6 or 7 dudes left in the end. The main reason they would win though is because there ninjas are so fast and can throw ninja stars from far away before the Spartans notice them. And also, some of them can teleport.
Bushido today[edit]
In our modern world there are still many people doing bushido training in oriental countries, and some of them sell some of there surplus ninja stars and nunchucks to us by mail order in magazines or at flea markets downtown. I tried training before and even got a tattoo on my arm that says bushido in Japanese (便所) and everything. But since I didn't have a real sensei or any jap blood it didn't last very long. I couldn't do a wa-cha sound very good either cause I couldn't get my voice up that high. Oh well I don't really think I'd really want to become a bushido anyway. I'd miss the poontang too much.
See also[edit]
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|Culture: Bushido | Engrish | Manga | Battle Royale | Cosplay | Domo-kun | Samurai | Japanese High Schools | Japan Self-Defense Forces | Ninja Gaijin | No Gaijin Allowed | Domo-kun | PlayStation Portable | Nintendo Eightfold Path | Wii | Mario | Pikachu | Death Note | Yaoi | Hello Kitty | Doraemon | Naruto | Vocaloid | Yu-Gi-Oh!
Companies: Toyota | Nintendo | Honda | Mazda | Mitsubishi | Konami | Sony
People: Chikan | Godzilla | Junichiro Koizumi | Shinzo Abe | Shigeru Miyamoto | Sadaharu Oh | Hikaru Utada | Oda Nobunaga | Toshiro Mifune | Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Places: Tokyo | Osaka | Hiroshima | Nagasaki | Fukoshima Nuclear Plant
Organizations: CLAMP
History: Prehistory | Kamakura/Minamoto Shogunate | Muromachi/Ashikaga Shogunate | Sengoku Period | Azuchi/Oda Shogunate (Incident at Honnō-ji) | Edo/Tokugawa Shogunate | Empire of Japan | 2011 Earthquake in the Land of the Rising Sun


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The festival also promises a dating game, an air sex competition, wrestling, not one but two spoken-word artists, a "Weird Al" Yankovic tribute band, a veggie hot dog-eating contest, and a "taco cannon," which will deliver delicious Tex-Mex to attendees' pieholes at somewhat dangerous speeds. Now that's entertainment.


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Rock Center
It was the greatest rock and roll record of all time. In 1969, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan formed the ultimate super group and recorded a super-secret album together: 'The Masked Marauders.' But it never really happened – it was all a joke.
Brian Williams reveals the true story behind 'The Masked Marauders.' It all started with a fictitious Rolling Stone record review.
If you were duped by the hoax, leave a comment below or visit our Facebook page or tweet us @RockCenterNBC.


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UnNews:Famous person does something
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
12 June 2007
LOS ANGELES, California -- Today in Beverly Hills Famous Celebrity gave an exclusive interview to 'Famous People Magazine', 'Beautiful People Magazine' and 'Celebrity Pets Magazine' about how well her new dog fits in with her new wardrobe.
She took time out from her busy schedule, regularly filled with important tasks like not eating, to tell 'Fashion! Magazine' and 'Hair & Makeup Mag' about who she wore at the last World Fashion Awards telecast. In the exclusive eight-page spreads she showed off the new baby or child that she got from a poor, dirty country that doesn't have a shining star filled with shining stars in it, like Hollywood and its stars, like Famous Hollywood Actor and Famous Hollywood Actress.
Later, after not eating the fabulously expensive dinner for which she didn't have to pay at a fabulous restaurant, she, in an exclusive interview with 'Inside Entertainment Magazine', 'Inside Entertainment Television ' and 'Entertaining Tonite! Television', came clean on her harrowing descent into drug dependency after she became addicted to placebos.
In other important news, Famous Hollywood Actor was doing something in...
WASHINGTON, DC -- Famous Hollywood Actor, star of many pictures for which he was paid several million dollars to earnestly pretend to be a hero of some sort, stood in front of the Capitol today with important information critical to the future of the entire world. During the press conference he informed the public about who to vote for in an election of some sort that may be coming up. Soon. 2008, probably. His performance will surely earn him a nomination for the coveted Best Press Conference Award in this year's Television Award Show.
Famous Hollywood Actor, a man who takes time out from his busy days being pampered by a cadre of assistants who are paid to do things for him, things that normal people do for themselves, said at the press conference after the press conference that it is vitally important that you vote for The Other Guy rather than The Incumbent Guy.
"The Incumbent Guy doesn't understand what's good for this country here that I am in now." said Famous Hollywood Actor, "I once played a politician in a film that you may have seen, and let me tell you, if its box office receipts of almost one hundred and fifty million dollars worldwide does not make me an expert on running a city or a state or a country, or on choosing the best candidate for those jobs, I don't know what does."
Famous Hollywood Actor was nominated for an award for his role in the film that he mentioned in his speech. Other famous Hollywood actors, like Famous Hollywood Actor and Famous Hollywood Actor, were also nominated for that same award, but fans of both Famous Hollywood Actor and the other nominated famous Hollywood actors were shocked when, instead of Famous Hollywood Actor or one of the other famous Hollywood actors, the award was won by the black sheep of the group, Famous Hollywood Actor, for his award-winning role in a movie. The film, 'Important Historical Event', was a fictionalized account of an important historical event and Famous Hollywood Actor played the central person in that event; a common everyman who overcomes adversity of some kind.
Needless to say, after not winning the award Famous Hollywood Actor wished that he was in...
ASPEN, Colorado -- In this quiet and sleepy town where, unlike Hollywood, people like Famous Hollywood Actor and Famous Hollywood Actress can get away from the pressure of being famous Hollywood actors and actresses and instead hang around and relax with other famous Hollywood actors and actresses, Famous Hollywood Actress staged a protest.
"We must stop these evil land developers from developing the land around this quiet and sleepy town." said Famous Hollywood Actress, while surrounded by people who get paid to tell her how great and smart and pretty she is. They also get her coffee sometimes.
Developers are planning to turn a small area of the quaint woods that surround Aspen, ones that weren't clear-cut for ski slopes, with low-cost housing. They say that it is necessary because the people that cook the food that people like Famous Hollywood Actress eat and that make the beds that people like Famous Hollywood Actor sleep on while visiting Aspen can't afford to live there. They blame this on the blameless good and environmentally conscious land developers who cater to people like Famous Hollywood Actor, Famous Hollywood Actress, and other famous celebrities like Famous Celebrity, who have pushed up the price of land to the point where regular, ugly, not famous people with unibrow and oily skin have been pushed out. Some of the regular, ugly, not famous people with bad haircuts and crooked teeth who work in Aspen have to commute daily from as far away as Not Aspen, or even Also Not Aspen.
"We didn't pay all this money to visit Aspen to be surrounded by people that are not famous Hollywood actors and not famous Hollywood actresses." continued Famous Hollywood Actress, "If they stay, we go."
If this development goes ahead, agents of Famous Hollywood Actor and Famous Hollywood Actress say that their clients will have no choice but to vacation at the...
NORTH POLE, Arctic -- Famous Hollywood Actor, star of both 'Big Budget Blockbuster', 'Big Budget Blockbuster 2: The Blockbustering' and 'Quirky $20,000,000 Independent Film' handcuffed himself to something to protest what people are doing to places.
"People are destroying this valuable and irreplaceable resource." said Famous Hollywood Actor to the flock of photographers, interviewers, hairdressers and hangers-on. "We flew you up here on a private jet to see what we are throwing away by being so wasteful, and to watch me be all emotional about this thing that I have believed in strongly ever since my agent told me that it was important. I, as a famous Hollywood actor, only believe in things that are important."
Famous Hollywood Actor flew to the Arctic on a private jet with his private chef, private masseuse, private masseur and several tons of wood and old tires for what Famous Hollywood Actor called "...a wicked bonfire". Reporters, photographers and miscellaneous people were flown in on a second private jet; one that that wasn't as nice. A third jet was chartered to fly in sushi from Japan and sharkfin soup from China, while a fourth jet flew water from Spain so that the assembled crowd could experience what nature tastes like.
"If we keep wasting the valuable resources of the Earth, places like this will be covered in ice all year round." Famous Hollywood Actor continued, "Soon there won't be any penguins here at all."
Famous Hollywood Actor took time out from his selfless protest to selflessly point out that he selflessly started the pro-things & stuff group Famous Actors Karing Environmentally and donated a rumored large sum of money to the tax-deductible organization. The group is well on its way to being helpful to things and stuff. Soon, Famous Actors Karing Environmentally plans to save a tree or something.
Meanwhile, at the bottom of the heap...
NOWHERESVILLE, Georgia -- Ted Somethingorother, of no fixed address, still has no fixed address.
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Two of the region's largest transportation construction projects, the Dulles Metrorail extension and Capital Beltway's High Occupancy Toll [HOT] lanes, got underway simultaneously this year.
They also converge at Tysons Corner and promise to make what is already a difficult traffic situation in the area even worse over the next four years.
Tysons Corner, which straddles McLean and Vienna, is Fairfax County's large business district and Virginia's largest source of sales tax revenue. It is often called the "economic engine" of the commonwealth but is also notorious for traffic congestion.
ONCE COMPLETED, officials expect the projects to bring transportation relief, particularly because they will provide more transit options for people who work and live around Tysons Corner.
Commuters and residents will be able to ride the subway to and from Tysons Corner once the first phase of the Metrorail project is complete in 2013. The HOT lanes, also set to open in 2013, will allow people from as far south as Springfield, to take a bus on the Capital Beltway into Tysons Corner.
But the massive amount of construction that is underway now will require traffic detours and lane closures in Tysons over the next four years.
The Metrorail project includes the construction of four new subway stations in Tysons Corner: Tysons East at Route 123 near the Capital One headquarters, Tysons Central 7 at Route 7 just northwest of Route 123, Tysons Central 123 at Route 123 and Tysons Boulevard, and Tysons West at Route 123 and Spring Hill Road.
Workers are also constructing a short tunnel for the Metrorail train near the intersection of Route 123 and Route 7.
THE HOT LANES project calls for four additional lanes to the Capital Beltway from Springfield to Tysons Corner. It also requires the construction of several new access ramps along the beltway, including three new access points in Tysons Corner alone.
In order to provide HOT lanes access to the Dulles Toll Road, construction workers will have to widen bridges and change traffic patterns in areas around the toll road. The toll road would also have to be closed during some off-peak hours, according to officials.
The addition of an access point at Jones Branch Drive has impacted the Jones Branch connector, which will be reduced to one lane of traffic for much of the construction period.
A HOT lanes connection will also be built at the Westpark Drive bridge, which connects Tysons Corner north of Route 123 to the Tysons Corner mall. Construction has already started on the bridge, which must be widened, and impacts traffic flow on Route 123 near the Tysons Corner mall.
Finally, the HOT lanes project calls for the reconstruction of the Route 7 bridge over the Capital Beltway and would require several lane closures and shifts near the Route 7/Capital Beltway exchange over the duration of the project.


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RC Design Unveiled for Daytona
Ricky Carmichael Signature Design Unveiled
For 2012 Daytona Supercross By Honda Course
Supercross Legend Designs Course for Fifth Straight Year
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – For the fifth-straight year, legendary Supercross champion Ricky Carmichael will challenge riders with his latest signature course design in the 2012 Daytona Supercross By Honda scheduled for Saturday night, March 10, the only AMA Supercross event in Florida this year.
"It's an honor and a pleasure to design the course for Daytona, where there is so much racing history involved," said Carmichael, who owns a record five Daytona Supercross By Honda victories. "The fans are great, and there is a great group of people working at Daytona International Speedway. I'm flattered that they continue to want me to keep coming back to design their race course. It's a pretty cool deal."
The Ricky Carmichael Signature Design course will draw some parallels to last year's layout with the placement of the starting gate remaining on pit road and providing fans with a great view of the first turn. It will feature slight changes in the course's configuration, particularly in the corners.
"It's fun to sit down at the drawing board and to think of a design that will be fun and challenging for the riders, as well as exciting for the fans and for the people watching on television," Carmichael said.
Top riders such as two-time defending Daytona Supercross By Honda champion Ryan Villopoto, James Stewart, Chad Reed, Andrew Short, Kevin Windham and Ryan Dungey will battle for victory on Carmichael's tough and challenging course.
Following the Daytona Supercross By Honda on Saturday, March 10, the Ricky Carmichael Amateur Supercross will take center stage on Sunday, March 11 and Monday, March 12 on a modified version of the layout. Amateur riders interested in competing in the Ricky Carmichael Amateur Supercross can sign up by visiting https://secure.tracksideonlineresults.com/daytonasx/
"Ricky Carmichael is the most decorated Supercross rider in history and there's no better course designer than 'The Greatest of All Time,'" said Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood III. "We have received positive feedback on Ricky Carmichael's course designs for the Daytona Supercross By Honda from both riders and fans. Year in and year out, Ricky has created a course that has provided a tough test for the riders as well as a thrilling show for the fans."
Daytona International Speedway has been home to the original Supercross since 1971 – the longest continuous Supercross event in America – and stages the grueling and demanding race in the tri-oval. Aside from Carmichael, Supercross greats like Bob Hannah, Jeff Stanton and Jeremy McGrath have captured career-defining wins at the Daytona Supercross.
Grandstand tickets for the Daytona Supercross By Honda are on sale now. For ticket information for all Daytona International Speedway events, call 1-800-PITSHOP or go online to www.daytonainternationalspeedway.com.
Fans can stay connected with Daytona International Speedway on Twitter (www.twitter.com/disupdates) and Facebook (www.facebook.com/DaytonaInternationalSpeedway)