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A Taiwan Navy Kidd-class destroyer launches an SM-2 surface-to-air missile during 2013 drills. Recent difficulties in purchasing certain weapons have made Taiwan look more toward indigenous development. (Getty Images)
TAIPEI — The Asia-Pacific naval market is heating up, with massive quantities of new ships to boost regional navies in coming years.
According to AMI International, a US-based naval analysis firm, Asia-Pacific has already surpassed Europe as the world's second largest naval market. AMI projects the region will spend $200 billion on new ships and submarines by 2032, making up roughly 25 percent of the global projected new ship market.
At least 100 new submarines will join regional navies during that time, making up 40 percent of global new-build vessels.
About 1,000 new warships, at least 30 meters long, also will be constructed.
One motivating factor is certainly China, whose maritime claims and military modernization efforts are driving regional neighbors to buy new weapons, upgrade old ones, improve training and huddle closer to US Pacific Command.
But not all of the market growth can be laid at Beijing's feet. For example, Singapore appears more worried about pirates in the Malacca Strait and potential conflict with Malaysia and Indonesia. And China is hardly the only Asian country making conflicting claims in the resource-rich South China Sea.
Some purchases merely carry out long-planned upgrades, while others reflect "a heightened need to protect sovereignty, offshore resources and maritime trade in an increasingly threatening environment," said Tony Beitinger, vice president of market intelligence for AMI International.
In addition, Beitinger said, "governments are seeking out opportunities to solidify defense and security relationships with like-minded countries in the region, protect territorial claims, EEZs [exclusive economic zones], develop defense infrastructure and partner in defense procurements and research and development."
In Northeast Asia, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan face China with better militaries than their neighbors to the south, as well as with a far more capable partner if they choose to hit the panic button: the US military.
Tokyo and Seoul have defense treaty agreements that guarantee US protection, while the US has pledged to help Taiwan if China uses force for "unification." All three countries have sophisticated industries that can produce state-of-the-art ships, aircraft and missiles.
"The Japanese and South Korean selection of the Lockheed Martin F-35 reflects increasing interest in the reduced-signature air platforms with the ability to operate in contested airspace, with a likely emphasis on the strike role in the case of Seoul — the latter driven by concern over North Korea," said Doug Barrie, senior fellow for military aerospace, International Institute for Strategic Studies in London.
"Taiwan undoubtedly would like to bolster its combat aircraft fleet beyond the planned F-16 upgrade, given the continuing development of China's Air Force and Navy, but this remains difficult politically," he said.
All three are working on the recapitalization of fighter fleets, improving airborne early warning aircraft, improving intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities, maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare.
"Advanced sensor technologies, such as active electronically scanned array radar and passive infrared search and track, coupled with improved air-to-air missiles, including extended-range air-to-air missiles, will likely become of even more interest as China's development of fifth-generation combat aircraft continues," Barrie said.
Meanwhile, the US is shifting forces toward the Pacific. The Pentagon plans to shift the Atlantic-to-Pacific ratio of warships from 1:1 to 3:4, continue to rotate US Marines through Guam, Okinawa and Australia; homeport new littoral combat ships in Singapore; base F-35s in Japan; and seek to preposition military equipment and rotational forces in the Philippines under the banner of humanitarian assistance.
Japan: Industry Unbound
Japan has just modified its ban on arms exports, partially lifting a ban in effect since the end of WWII and likely sparking an arms industry that heretofore stuck to making weapons for the Japan military.
Largely a reaction to saber-rattling by China and North Korea, the export ban is accompanied by plans to import the F-35 and other advanced weapons.
"The F-35, arguably, is intended to counter Chinese acquisition of fifth-generation fighters, such as the J-20 and J-31, as well as the acquisition of advanced surface-to-air missile systems," said Dean Cheng, a China military specialist at the Heritage Foundation. "The ability of fourth-generation fighters, such as the F-15 and F-16, to operate within the operational envelope of systems such as the [Russian-built] S-300 and S-400 [surface-to-air-missile] systems is open to question."
Japan is also modernizing its C4ISR capabilities to better coordinate existing forces.
"This includes an overhaul of the Japanese space capability, beginning with the Basic Space Law, allowing the Japanese security establishment access to the nation's satellite systems," Cheng said.
Japan is also trying to develop a US Marines-type force with amphibious vessels and craft to protect the Senkaku Islands (called the Diaoyus by China).
"This requirement was established in 2013 as a result of Chinese activities that are becoming more provocative to sovereignty of Japan, her contiguous seas and island claims," Beitinger said.
Beitinger said Japan is also buying up to four helicopter carriers to augment its Osumi-class amphibious platform docks; additional area air defense/ballistic missile defense destroyers called the 33DDG to go with its Atago-class destroyers; multimission 25DD destroyers to improve air defense and replace the anti-ship and anti-submarine frigates. The Japanese are also expected this decade to start building air independent propulsion (AIP) submarines to replace the Harushio class.
"Japan is also training in retaking ground, specifically countering amphibious operations, which would suggest a specifically Chinese focus," Cheng said. "Thus, we are seeing shifts in deployment, changes in training."
South Korea: Buildup Continues
South Korea is most concerned about China and North Korea, although significant political tensions exist with Japan. Still, few expect open conflict between the two Asian democracies.
Cheng said South Korea's decision to purchase F-35s, overturning a decision to buy the F-15SK Silent Eagle, may be due to vagaries in Seoul's defense acquisition system, which often places economy ahead of military effectiveness.
"By contrast, there does not appear to have been any major recent North Korean acquisitions to warrant the need to overturn the earlier decision, nor to couch it specifically in terms of the need for greater stealth capability," he said.
The South Korean Navy is continuing to expand its mobile strategic fleet, working to buy a new aircraft carrier class for projecting power and countering regional threats. Beitinger said it is buying a modified Dokdo-class LHD that can operate F-35Bs, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles. The Navy has also ordered three more KDX-III class destroyers to add area air defense/ballistic missile defense. It has also started to build an indigenous 3,500-ton AIP submarine with a vertical launching system for up to 12 Sky Dragon land attack missiles.
Taiwan: Homegrown Weapons
Taiwan, the only country that China has openly said it would invade if it declared independence, has since 2006 sought to buy 66 new F-16C/D fighters. But Washington has approved only an upgrade package for 144 F-16A/B fighters. Plans to retire its 64 F-5 fighters and 58 Mirage 2000 fighters will winnow the Air Force from 389 to 270 fighters, including the 126 indigenous defense fighters being upgraded.
Thwarted by US desire to placate China, Taiwan's military is working to build its own arms, including new ships, missiles and possibly a submarine.
Taiwan's fleet of warships more than 3,000 tons is less than half the size it was in 1996, when it fielded 43 destroyers and frigates during the Taiwan Strait missile crisis. Having since scrapped more than 20 ships, Taiwan's Navy now has 18 warships over 3,800 tons: four Kidd-class (Keelung) destroyers, eight Perry-class frigates and six La Fayette-class (Kang Ding) frigates.
It has offset the losses by developing the Hsiung Feng 1/2/3 anti-ship missile, a new land-attack cruise missile, the road-mobile HF-2E, and the Wan Chien (Ten Thousand Swords) air-launched joint standoff weapon.
The Navy plans to buy two more US Perry-class frigates and to build, under the Hsun Hai (Swift Sea) program, 10 catamaran corvettes armed with HF-2 and HF-3 missiles. Taiwan is also producing 30 stealthy 170-ton Kuang Hua-6 guided-missile patrol boats armed with the HF-2.
Local defense industry sources say it will be tough for Taiwan to restart a local submarine build program. The US offered to sell Taiwan eight diesel-powered submarines in 2001, but was unable to find a manufacturer. ■
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As a little girl, one of the first crushes I ever had, was on Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz). I vividly remember watching I Love Lucy with my mother while folding towels warm from the dryer. I sometimes wonder how much this later influenced what I sought in a man because from a young age (we're talking Elementary school), I very much developed a "type" and my crushes on boys very rarely strayed from a particular set of qualities.
In 7th grade, as part of sex education class, the teacher had us make a list of things we sought in a partner. It was to help us realize what we wanted. Some of the things on my list were quite different from the other girls in my class. I had the typical virtues on my list: kind, intelligent, generous, romantic… but #1 on my list was the word "accent".
I'm pretty sure Desi Arnaz influenced this preference. It's an odd thing to think about. To imagine that if a young Cuban man I would never meet, hadn't pursued his dreams back in the 1950's, my life could be dramatically different. (And the fact that an intercultural couple was put on TV back then and became popular is even more shocking.)
Here is one of my favorite clips from the show. This is the episode where Lucy goes to Cuba on vacation and meets Ricky for the first time.


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Type: Standing
Date of Establishment: 1977
Membership: 9, including Chair, plus an administrative assistant, if requested by the chair, and an editor from the Audio-Visual Section of Booklist to serve as consultant.
- Current membership in YALSA
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OAKLAND — Oakland police announced new crowd-control tactics that will be in place next week when Occupy Oakland undertakes its first major protest since January, and a federal monitor is expected to issue a potentially damning report on the department's handling of earlier Occupy-related protests.
The measures, announced at a Monday news conference, are geared toward improving communication among officers and other police departments assisting at major protests.
Police also will employ small teams of officers capable of infiltrating crowds and removing troublemakers.
"These changes are a critical component of the ongoing effort to reform the department," Chief Howard Jordan said. "We are committed to improving our training, tactics and policies in light of our experiences."
But department critics questioned the timing of Monday's announcement and the department's assertion that by the end of the month all officers will have received meaningful crowd-control training.
Oakland police have been inundated with more than 1,000 misconduct complaints stemming from Occupy Oakland protests since officers first removed the group's encampment from outside City Hall in October.
While many protests were peaceful, several became violent, with protesters sometimes taunting police and officers on occasion blatantly violating protocols. One officer was videotaped beating a retreating Afghanistan War veteran during a Nov. 2 protest, while another was caught on camera firing a bean bag projectile into the leg of a civilian videotaping a line of riot-patrol officers.
Questions on timing
Monday's announcement comes as the department is awaiting two potentially critical reports about its handling of the Occupy protests, which were generally more violent in Oakland than elsewhere.
A city-commissioned consultant, the Frazier Group, and a federal monitor overseeing the Oakland Police Department are both expected to release their findings Monday, officials said.
"The city is just trying to get ahead of the story," said Rashidah Grinage, head of PUEBLO, a group that advocates for police accountability. "They already have a crowd-control policy; they just didn't follow it."
The Occupy protests occurred at a particularly vulnerable time for Oakland police.
A federal judge in January threatened to place the department under federal control if it didn't make significant progress in implementing reforms agreed to nearly a decade ago to settle a federal police misconduct lawsuit.
But the protests raised new doubts about the department's ability to make the required reforms. And, with so many Occupy-related complaints streaming into the department's Internal Affairs Division, police won't be able to complete several key investigations on time, placing the department in further violation of the agreement.
Outline of reforms
Jordan defended his officers' handling of the Occupy protests but said the department needed to do a better job of planning for them and making sure that all officers follow protocols.
The new measures will be included in the department's crowd-control policy, and additional reforms will be implemented based on the findings of the upcoming reports, officials said.
In the interim, the department has begun using additional investigators to handle excessive force accusations, reviewing its procedures with mutual aid partners and meeting a community group formed to make recommendations on crowd-control policies.
Police have also met with journalists and have pledged to train officers in media-related First Amendment rights. Police arrested several journalists at a major protest in January.
Additionally, police said that by the end of the month, every officer will have received about 45 minutes of crowd-management training from the Frazier Group.
That raised red flags with Jim Chanin, the attorney who helped negotiate the 2003 settlement and later this year could ask the federal judge to place the department into receivership.
"I am aware of no sustained training that the Frazier Group has given to all the police officers that are going to be involved in Occupy Oakland," he said. "Other than possibly a single lecture, it's impossible for me to understand how the Frazier Group gave meaningful training."
Bracing for May Day
After several quiet months, Occupy Oakland is staging its first major daytime demonstration on May 1. The group has joined calls for a general strike and is planning a 3 p.m. march from the Fruitvale BART Station to Frank Ogawa Plaza outside City Hall.
The last major Occupy Oakland action included protesters trying to take over an abandoned convention center and then ransacking the lobby of City Hall, while police sealed off several streets and arrested more than 400 people.
Mayor Jean Quan cautioned that mass arrests were not out of the question depending on the protesters' behavior, but hoped that the departmental reforms would help ease tensions.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
30 Jays in 30 Days - Edwin Encarnacion's Offense Is His Best Defense
Tao-Approved Nicknames: EE is perfectly acceptable, and somewhat endearing. But don't you dare call him E5, or we'll write you a stern, scolding tweet to set you straight.
History: Seven MLB seasons and 786 games, with Cincinnati and Toronto. Entering fourth season with the Blue Jays.
Contract Status: Jays exercised one-year, $3.5 million option over the offseason. Free agent after this season.
Career Stats: .260 AVG, .336 OBP, .453 SLG, .789 OPS in 3078 plate appearances. 117 home runs, 392 RBI.
2011 Stats:.272 AG, .334 OBP, .453 SLG, .787 OPS in 530 plate appearances in 134 games played. 17 homers, 36 doubles, 55 RBI. OPS+ of 110, highest of his career.
Splitting the Season into Convenient Portions: In 95 games and from June 1st through the end of the season, Encarnacion posted a .360 OBP/.499 SLG/.858 OPS with 16 home runs and 24 doubles.
Looking Back: There's something about Edwin Encarnacion that makes it hard for a significant portion of the Blue Jays fanbase to embrace him. Certainly, the Jays made an unpopular organizational about-face at the end of spring training last year, thrusting Encarnacion back into active duty at the hot corner in spite of assurances that he would never darken that side of the infield with his troublesome glove work. And when it went poorly from the outset, with EE making three errors in his first two starts in field, fans pounced on the weakness with choruses of hisses and boos.
There also seems to be something about Edwin's body language that is off-putting to that angry horde, as though fans are seeking for him to appear more contrite after those gaffes. We've heard more than a few fans bemoan the fact that Encarnacion didn't care about his eight fielding misplays at third, but somehow Brett Lawrie's six errors are forgiven because he appears dutifully upset by them. (As though we could ever know such things.)
But if there was some perception that Encarnacion wasn't sufficiently fazed by his bad defense, those struggles clearly affected him at the plate early on. He pressed and struggled through much of the first two months of the season, managing just one home run, striking out 21 times versus just four walks. But as the Jays transitioned Encarnacion out of the infield and into a role which saw him primarily used as a DH and occasional first baseman, his offensive numbers turned around dramatically. In July and August, he'd post OPSs of .909 and .960, and he was the Jays' second best offensive player for a significant portion of the summer months.
A key part of that success - and part of the reason for our boundless EE optimism - was an improved strikeout rate. EE's whiff rate of 14.5% was the lowest of his career.
Looking Forward: In spite of the fact that the Blue Jays already have a dozen or so options in left field, they asked Encarnacion to make an attempt at the position in five Dominican Winter League games. Though there isn't much in the way of reports about how that experiment went, the fact that there's been no further discussion of the notion probably speaks volumes.
Edwin's defense at first base was perfectly fine last year, and given the physical struggles of Adam Lind last year, it would not surprise us to see Encarnacion get at least a start per week at that infield corner. Given our druthers, we might even like to see Encarnacion platoon with Lind versus left-handed pitching, though such a scenario seems unlikely at this point.
(Strange, isn't it, how we're always stuck talking about Edwin's glove? It's clearly the least of his tools, but it seems to overshadow all else.)
Encarnacion should get plenty of at bats in the middle of the Jays' lineup this year, and given the current hopeless devotion to Lind as the cleanup hitter, we'd expect EE to find himself in the five-hole if he hits well, and maybe seventh if he struggles.
2012 Expectations: Wherever he occasionally plays in the field or hits in the lineup, we fully expect a solid season at the plate from Encarnacion. That 95 game stretch starting in June was no fluke, and if he can carry forward that level of performance, an OPS in the .830 range or higher is well within reach.
You might hope for something more than that out of your DH spot, but the major league average output for the position was an OPS of .764. We can't see Encarnacion's performance falling beneath that level, and we can imagine him providing good value at 50 points over the mean. Could he go 100 points above that level? It wouldn't surprise us and if he does, he'll be a tremendously valuable piece of the Jays offense.
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There are worse players to have DHing, that's for sure. When he first arrived from Cincinnati he drove me nuts, probably in no small part due to the fact that he was replacing Scott Rolen. Talk about a comedown. But I think the general perception of him among Jays fans is really unfair. He's done everything the team has asked him in terms of losing weight etc., he legs out doubles that a guy his size doesn't seem to have any business making, and it's awfully fun when he hits three-quarters of his seasons home run total in a two-week span.
What I'm saying is that if he had been born in Riverside, CA and not La Romana, DR he'd be huge in this city. HUGE.
- February 28, 2012 at 9:02 AM
- Bakatron said...
i was probably very high when i made this bet over the internet but as long as EE does not field, i see him posting ortiz like numbers.
if i lose the bet, my friend gets a jays hat. i have no regrets giving it but i wouldnt mind winning the bet.
- February 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM
And what do you win Bakatron?
- February 28, 2012 at 1:12 PM
- sporkless said...
The odd thing about EE is that everyone seems to expect him to have a monster breakout hitting year every year, yet he is remarkably consistent at the level he performs at. Which is a good (not great) level.
Where these expectations come from I'm not sure I understand, but I think it has a lot to do with his lack of popularity by the home crowds.
- February 28, 2012 at 1:27 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
So you're saying I shouldn't be cranking up the expectations?
- February 28, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- gabriel said...
I don't think EE has a problem playing in the field when he doesn't have the burden of being the starter. He looked quite creditable at third later in the season as well as at first; I'd be happy to see him giving Lawrie the occasional day off from the field.
Lrxst is quite right that EE looked very good and smart on the basepaths last year, taking the extra base and stealing bases opportunistically; and it sounds like he's in great shape this spring as well.
- February 28, 2012 at 5:08 PM
We saw Edwin play 3B 2 years ago, it was awful and everyone knew it. He was old enough and played enough 3B that we also knew it wasn't going to get better. When they signed him again we were promised he wouldn't play 3B, just 1B and DH, but then he did and proved everyone's expectations right.
Brett Lawrie was young, in his first season ever playing the position. It was expected that he'd make a few errors, but given time he will get better. That's the difference in the comparison.
That and the fact that Lawrie posted a .963 fielding percentage compared to a .892 for Edwin. Lawrie also had a range factor of more than 1/game over Edwin and a UZR/150 of 15.7, compared to -37.0 for Edwin.
- February 28, 2012 at 8:12 PM
- Tao of Stieb said...
I'm not saying that EE is as good a fielder as Lawrie. (And get that fielding percentage garbage out of this discussion, by the way.)
My point is just that people are now cynical about EE's defense, which gives him no margin for error. Maybe that's reasonable, as you note, because of their relative levels of experience.
And yeah: I though EE did a really good job on the basepaths. You ever see him round third? It was quite a sight.
- February 28, 2012 at 11:14 PM
- Ty said...
This is totally qualitative and anecdotal, but I noticed that EE smiled a lot more last season, specifically in the 2nd half. Happy EE is probably my favorite person ever. Easily the team leader in smiles above replacement.
- February 28, 2012 at 11:50 PM
Fielding percentage may not be a great stat, but its a direct counter-argument to, "We've heard more than a few fans bemoan the fact that Encarnacion didn't care about his eight fielding misplays at third, but somehow Brett Lawrie's six errors are forgiven because he appears dutifully upset by them."
You compare the numbers 8 and 6 and make it seem like they both just made a bunch of errors, when in reality EE was almost 3 times as likely to make an error as Lawrie was.
- February 29, 2012 at 2:08 AM
- Tao of Stieb said...
Again, my point wasn't to try to say that EE and Lawrie are roughly equivalent.
On the other hand, we're comparing pretty small samples, so going to UZR/150 based on 273-380 innings is a bit of a misuse of the stat.
I think that EE is probably not quite as bad in the field as people think (though still very much below average), and we just don't really know what Lawrie is going to be. He could be a Gold Glover, or he could be a butcher. We just don't know, and anything we say at this point is a guess based on happy thoughts.
- February 29, 2012 at 6:42 AM
The odd thing about EE is that everyone seems to expect him to have a monster breakout hitting year every year, yet he is remarkably consistent at the level he performs at. Which is a good (not great) level.
Where these expectations come from I'm not sure I understand
selective sample sizes -- see above for an example of this. for some reason Jays fans think, every year, THIS is the year EE maintains it over the course of a whole season.
There is no rational basis for having a high degree of confidence that EE can be a + offensive player over a whole season. The evidence is to the contrary.
- February 29, 2012 at 9:26 AM
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Toyota aims to bring something fresh to the growing compact Crossover segment with its C-HR. Here, concept car looks are matched to proven mechanicals that include a hybrid powerplant. If you're thinking of buying something Qashqai-sized in this class or one of the trendier compact models, then this fashionable contender could be exactly what you're looking for.
What if you want a fashionable little Crossover - say, something like a Nissan Juke? If that's the case, you may have been a little put off by the cramped interior and rather average build quality you get with models of that sort. So what if another brand were able to offer you a contender that was even trendier, better made, more efficient and not that much more expensive? You'd be interested wouldn't you? Well that's apparently exactly what's being offered here in the form of Toyota's C-HR. 'C-HR' is supposed to stand for 'Coupe High-Rider' and sure enough, this car has a very coupe-style look. More importantly, we're told that it drives in a coupe-like way too. Sounds promising doesn't it? Let's check this model out.
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The album was recorded at the legendary Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, New York and London throughout 2011. It also features guest musicians Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder, respectively, on the original compositions 'My Valentine' and 'Only Our Hearts'. Eric also appears on the track 'Get Yourself Another Fool'.
The album artwork concept was conceived by Jonathan Schofield (Visual Director at Stella McCartney) and designed by Matthew Cooper (who has worked with artists such as Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand). Paul was photographed by his daughter Mary McCartney for the album sleeve.'Kisses On The Bottom' is a collection of standards Paul grew up listening to in his childhood as well as the two new McCartney compositions 'My Valentine' and 'Only Our Hearts'. With the help of Grammy Award-winning producer Tommy LiPuma and Diana Krall and her band—as well as guest appearances from Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder, McCartney's new album is a deeply personal journey through classic American compositions that, in some cases, a young Paul first heard his father perform on piano at home. The full tracklisting reveals that Paul has been both reverent and adventurous in his song choices.
Musicians: Diana Krall and her two bands (studio and touring), father and son guitarists Bucky and John Pizzarelli, and Andy Stein, virtuoso violinist from Commander Cody. Stevie Wonder plays a trademark harmonica solo on a McCartney original, 'Only Our Hearts,' and Eric Clapton adds his bluesy guitar to a couple of tracks including a sensational cover of 'Get Yourself Another Fool.'
All kidding aside, I think about it, this is a perfect title for this album. Whomever thought of it is a genious. First off this is an album of pre-rock & roll standards and the obvious throw-back to the good old days of handwriting love letters. Secondly just look at the media blitz going on about this title, lots of free publicity for an album that is still a month away from being released.
Paul has apparently had some fun with his choice of album title—while causing some confusion amongst those who have historically subjected his every move to microscopic scrutiny (with many fixating on an anatomical interpretation!). The phrase 'Kisses On The Bottom,' however, actually comes from the album's opener 'I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter'. Originally made a big hit by Fats Waller in 1935, the song opens with the lines 'I'm gonna sit right down and write myself a letter and make believe it came from you. I'm gonna write words oh so sweet. They're gonna knock me off of my feet. A lot of kisses on the bottom , I'll be glad I got 'em'.
"In the end it was 'Look, if I don't do it now, I'll never do it'," he says. In short, Paul believes it is about time "the songs me and John based quite a few of our things on" received the recognition they deserve. Moreover, the record also features a couple of new original McCartney compositions in the spirit of those classics. "When I kind of got into songwriting, I realized how well structured these songs were and I think I took a lot of my lessons from them," Paul explains. "I always thought artists like Fred Astaire were very cool. Writers like Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, all of those guys - I just thought the songs were magical. And then, as I got to be a songwriter I thought it's beautiful, the way they made those songs." Determined to approach the record in a new and unique manner, Paul enlisted the help of LiPuma and Krall and her band-who delivered ultra-high quality musicianship and were completely in tune with Paul's restraint and feel for the music.
In the studio, the recording of this album was also a new challenge for Paul who, for the first time ever, performed exclusively in the vocal booth without an instrument - no guitar, no bass, no piano - which led to a vocal performance like no other in his career. He adds, "It was very spontaneous, kind of organic, which then reminded me of the way we'd work with The Beatles. We'd bring a song in, kick it around, when we found a way to do it we'd say 'Okay, let's do a take now' and by the time everyone kind of had an idea of what they were doing, we'd learnt the song. So that's what we did, we did the take live in the studio." "It was important for me to keep away from the more obvious song choices so, many of the classic standards will be unfamiliar to some people. I hope they are in for a pleasant surprise." The album was recorded at the legendary Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, New York and London throughout 2011. It also features guest musicians Eric Clapton and Stevie Wonder, respectively, on the original compositions "My Valentine" and "Only Our Hearts."
Please note this album has not been released yet. Low quality audio of this album was leaked on the internet from an advanced sample CD.
Most fans who visit this site will be purchasing various formats of the album when it comes out, but in the meantime I have linked all tracks to unofficial youtube audio samples.
UPDATE: The youtube account that had these audio clips has been terminated due to copyright infringement. Though some tracks are still up there.


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John Allen's decision to retire instead of pursuing the top U.S. command in Europe opens up a vacancy in one of the most coveted military jobs in the world and confirms that scars are still visible after the David Petraeus scandal.
The four-star Marine general, who until this month was the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, officially retained the support of the White House after President Barack Obama nominated him last year to take the NATO command, even after he'd been ensnared in the adulterous web that forced out Petraeus last year as director of the CIA.
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But even though a Pentagon investigation cleared Allen of any wrongdoing, he decided to finish his tour in Afghanistan and hang up his uniform rather than go through with a postponed Senate confirmation hearing for the NATO post.
The emails that Allen exchanged with Tampa socialite Jill Kelley have not become public, but if Allen came before the Senate Armed Services Committee for a confirmation hearing to run the most diplomatically sensitive U.S. combatant command, the messages could have surfaced.
Even though Allen's camp said his wife was copied on many of the emails, defense officials also have described some of them as flirtatious and embarrassing. Opting to retire makes it less likely members of Congress, journalists and Allen's fellow generals will ever see them.
Neither Allen nor President Barack Obama alluded to the Petraeus scandal in their statements announcing Allen's retirement on Tuesday.
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Allen said that after spending so many years away from his family in Iraq and Afghanistan, "It is now my turn to stand beside them, to be there for them when they need me most." Specifically, he has told his friends that he wants to step aside to help his wife, Kathy, as she deals with health problems.
Obama and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta both praised Allen on Tuesday for his years of service generally and what both leaders called his consequential tenure as the top commander in Afghanistan.
"I will be forever thankful that the international effort in Afghanistan was in General Allen's capable hands during much of my tenure as secretary of defense," Panetta said. "His leadership over the last 19 months will long be remembered as pivotal to this campaign. The strategy he developed and implemented has put us on the right path towards completing this mission, with Afghan forces now on track to step into the lead for security nationwide this spring and to assume full security responsibility by the end of next year."


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Remote garage opener
Remote garage opener
It has homelink as a part of the tech package.
Yes it does, but it's not working correctly on my car. The "delivery specialist" tried repeatedly to set it up, and it accepts the code but the garage car stops partway. This doesn't happen with the regular remote or with my Leaf. Replaced the battery on the remote and tried again - no joy.
Another indication something is bolixed up is that it sends out stuff when you try to reprogram it - the door starts to move *before* pressing the button on the actual remote to try and reprogram the car.
Not a big deal since I can always just use the regular remote. Tesla is supposed to be looking into it.
Psychotic Homelink! Call the techiatrist.
Ned - WOW! Sounds like the dang thing is sending another "unsolicited" open/close command before the door reaches the end of it's travel causing it to stop. With all the Alpha, Beta, Charlie, Delta... Zulu testing Model S went through, you'd think this sort of thing would have cropped up and been fixed before release to the wild. It's not like Homelink hasn't been around a while or is some kind of breakthrough technology.
I configured without the Tech package. There have been functionality issues with some of the other features and at this point, I'm just as happy I took a pass.
It's still early. They'll get it ironed out, have faith.
I've decided to take the Tech package after a lot of thought and input. Xenon headlights, LED foglights will look awesome... and what's another $3750 for a $75k car?
Yeah running the fob lights looks stunning. Hoping for voice control home link.
@Michael23 - the key fob has lights? Wow, that must have come from the most recent sw update :)
(sorry BrianH - somebody had to beat you to this one!!!!)
Lol ipad strikes again
How many garage doors does the HomeLink support? Normally most support 3. I've taken apart a large share of HomeLink transmitters and some of them use an EEPROM for the code storage and can thus support more than the standard 3. I'd like to have support for more than 3 because, in addition to my house, I also have a vacation home with gate access and a garage door.
It supports three. I did not have the wackiness described above, I just could not get it to accept the signal from my remote, after many tries. I finally got down and held the remote right against the front of the car and it got the signal and is now working well for me.
Does your homelink signal have decant range? I have a 2003 Passat with homelink. It works but the range is terrible. I have to be in just the right place and close to the receiver for it to open. The little fob remote will work from half a block away.
Homelink is part of the tech package? Not standard?
That is correct. Home link is not standard equipment.
so far, from the street like 30 ft or so. I'll do a real range test for you.
Regarding the difficulty of getting it to learn: I should have mentioned that. The specialist held it right in front of the grill. When I tried it later I found it doesn't work from any other position.
Depending upon the opener, Homelink can be problematical to program. It's a common complaint. Usually you have to combine both the car's and the opener's instructions to get it to work.
Tesla's implementation seems to be a bit different than just installing a mirror with Homelink already installed, so I don't doubt it will have a few teething problems.
Oh good (and bad?). My home link doesn't work either. I thought it was just me. I guess I feel a little better now that I know it is a common problem. Hopefully a sw fix is in the works.
Same problem for garage and gate. Opens or closed last way and then reverses.
Mine works fine, though I also had a bit of a time getting it to accept the code. It's very easy to access, with a homelink menu at the top of the screen regardless of what you have up. Still two taps instead of one though. I suspect most people only use one code - to open the garage. It would be nice if you could set it to send your default code on the initial tap rather than bringing up a menu with one choice.
@MandL | OCTOBER 8, 2012: It would be nice if you could set it to send your default code on the initial tap rather than bringing up a menu with one choice.
Or it could send the code when only 1 garage door has been programmed and bring the menu up if multiple ones have been programmed.
I am extremely impressed with Tesla's Homelink implementation, and it is an example of how something can be done better when there is a touchscreen. First, I programmed my home opener--a very old Sears. Worked fine when I did as the screen suggested and pulled relatively close to the door. (It did not work when I was far and there was another car in between me and the door.) Next I programmed my dad's. The process was different--the Tesla determined that he had a newer opener, showed a picture of the opener, and told me to go press a button on the back of it called 'learn'. I had no idea the opener even had such a button, but sure enough, it was there, and I pressed it. I then followed the rest of the process and the opener completed the programming process and it worked fine.
I was trying to think of what I would have done on my old car to attempt this process. Just pressing a button and having it fail would have probably sent me to the Internet looking for documentation for the opener and/or the car to try and debug the situation. In the Tesla case, it told me what I needed to do in situ. Very impressed.
It would be nice if you could set it to send your default code on the initial tap rather than bringing up a menu with one choice. (MandL)
Or it could send the code when only 1 garage door has been programmed and bring the menu up if multiple ones have been programmed. (Alex K)
Even better: Based on GPS, it should decide which code is the one that is needed, and then send that on a single tap.
Even more better: Based on GPS, automatically send the code when I pull into my driveway...
Of course, it should be configurable such that the current behavior can also be achieved (or is the default). I bet, quite a few people prefer the manual way of doing this, at least in the beginning and particularly when they have different codes for the gate and the garage door.
I have my wife's Homelink programmed for each of the 3 doors on the garage. The gps will have to be pretty accurate to know which door I'm in front of.
@vb - I like all your suggestions, especially the "even more better" one :)
ps. BrianH - vb was using a "technical term" when saying that....
Much better than more gooder.
How about "even betterer"?
Sounds morether worser, even.
I was having the problem where my garage door would stop half way. So far the work around I have found is to keep the car stationary. Pull into the driveway and stop. Then press the home link entry in the menu. Wait for the garage door to open completely then move in. Same with closing. Back into the driveway press the button and wait. Not the best work around but better than having to keep the remote in the glove box.
Christian H;
A-ha! A vital clue as to the reason for the problem.
Yeah, this is clearly a doppler shift problem with the Homelink transmitter. That's what happens when you have a car as fast as the S.
That was a joke, FYI, for those pulling out their physics textbooks.
For that, you earn a standing wave ("good-bye!"). >:p
I accept that.
I worked with TM engineering to debug the Homelink problem for my car. It is due to signal transmission timing from the Model S for some, but not all, garage door openers. It tends to occur more frequently with older openers. TM engineering took over my car remotely to debug the problem.
They reprogrammed signal timing and found that 6 second signal duration works well with my configuration. A software fix is in the works and will be included in a subsequent release of the software.
If you're curious, this was discussed briefly in this report over at TMC:
I can not believe how fantastic Tesla is.. Does anyone know of another car company that would go the extra mile that Tesla did over a garage door opener?
Just the fact that they can remotely control the car is pretty impressive! What used to take the time to take your car into the shop and wait for a diagnosis by a tech can now be done remotely from an engineer in another state. Pretty remarkable if you ask me...
I pointed my remote towards the front bumper from all sorts of angles, and it wasn't until I pointed in the direction off to one side of and behind the front license plate holder that the headlights flashed signaling the acceptance of the remote that everything seemed to work. Perhaps there is a metal shield on the license plate holder that blocks the infrared signal from passing through.
Is the remote infrared? I would think it's RF.
Yes, can't be IR; any opaque material would block it.
And it is in fact RF simply because it's homelink.


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If you've used a competitive OS to Windows Phone 7 that features an on-screen keyboard (notably Android and iOS) you will surely agree with me when I say that the keyboard present on our WP7 devices blows everything else out the water. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's close.
Microsoft Research has published an article that provides a fantastic insight into the keyboard and how it has been developed to adapt to users with how the habit of typing isn't entirely accurate (for some key presses we may place our finger on the top-right of a key almost touching a neigh-borough key). Read on after the break.
Eric Badger, developer lead, went on to say:
That was our starting premise, we wanted to have the best text-input solution in the world. When it comes to digital communication, the task of getting an idea from your head to the keyboard is really important.
The collaborated team used a data collection tool (seen above), which was later turned into a game called Text Text Revolution! (by Dmitry Rudchenko, developer on the team) and provided users a fantastic way to grow accustomed to their Windows Phone devices. The tool/game, since its launch, has collected more than 20 million touch points for training.
The keyboard in WP7 dramatically alters the virtual size of the likely next later by combining statistical models of language patterns and touch points, which makes the target area larger. This change in the size of each "button" isn't displayed visually (or you'd have the keyboard resizing everywhere) and is completely backend. The software analyses what users are typing, calculates which letter is most likely to be typed next, and enlarges the virtual key area. Thus pressing "T" will result in T. Not Y or R.
For future releases, the blog covered plans for the keyboard to take into account the speed at which a user is typing, which sounds really impressive and is a fantastic step in the right direction to further advance the WP7 OS in user-friendliness. Do you enjoy using the keyboard, and do you prefer it to other OSs?
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Hi everyone, I'm searching for Henry Taylor. He and his wife Emma Sarah Pollett (DOB 1825) arrived in South Australia on 21-04-1849 aboard the "John Mitchell".
I have no information about Henry Taylor regarding his birth, place, parents etc. and also nothing since his arrival in SA.
He was a Locksmith and had 10 children all born in SA.
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In a recent column in which I took a walking tour of Downtown, I made light of the many bail-bond storefronts, sarcastically describing them as "clustered like boutiques on Rodeo Drive."
Downtown activist and defense attorney Dayvid Figler objected, saying I was being unfair by equating bail bonds with blight. There's a bunch Downtown because they want to be close to the Clark County Detention Center. It's simple geography, he argued.
It's a fair point, a simple case of the jail being too close to this newly important corridor. As Figler conceded, however, the situation is not ideal. The bondsmen offer a service that is of no use to the vast majority of us, not unlike Downtown lawyers. And wedding chapels.
This got me thinking: What exactly is this line of business that is lucrative enough to attract dozens of these entrepreneurs all over the Valley, all while we can't get a full-fledged grocery store Downtown?
Bail is used to encourage the accused to appear, and to protect the public from danger. There's a "standard bail schedule." For instance, I'll need $3,000 when I get charged with "anarchy."
The actual bail, however, departs from the schedule and is based on a complicated formula that incorporates the circumstances of the alleged crime and the person's record. Ultimately, the judge has almost total discretion, and bail can add up quickly. Say, for example, you try to cash a forged check in a casino for $200. You'll be charged with possession of a forged instrument, attempted theft and even burglary. Pretty soon, your bail could be $15,000.
Now you have three choices: You can languish in jail until your trial or plea agreement, which could take weeks or even months, and for such a minor crime, you might be released immediately after pleading guilty; you can pay cash and get your money back so long as you appear; or, if you don't have cash, you can go to a bail bondsman.
(Now's the time to jog your memory of the Charles Grodin/Robert De Niro classic, Midnight Run.)
The bail bondsman will charge you 10 or even 15 percent of the bail, so in this case, $1,500, plus administrative expenses. They often require collateral, like a car or house title, which covers their loss if you don't show up.
The bond is essentially insurance against you not appearing. If you don't show, the bail bondsman hires a bounty hunter. Once they find you, you pay. If they don't find you, the court gets a windfall, paid by the bail bondsman. The upshot is that we have a system in which people's freedom is dependent on their ability to pay.
Reformers such as Timothy Murray, executive director of the Pretrial Justice Institute, argue that this is unjust and foolish.
"The system that the bail-bond industry profits from and is keen on preserving is prejudicial to people who can't afford release while affording for the public no protection against defendants who have access to money. And we don't know where the money came from," Murray says.
Instead of judging a person's risk of flight or danger to the community, we use money as a stand-in, assuming, often wrongly, that a person with access to cash or a bail bondsman is less of a risk than a person without those advantages. The result, Murray says, is that billions of dollars are wasted housing 450,000 inmates in U.S. jails who haven't been convicted, many of whom pose no flight risk or danger to the public.
Scott Hall, the president of a bail-bond industry trade group, points to a paper by Eric Helland of Claremont-McKenna College and Alexander Tabarrok of George Mason University, which posits 200,000 felony defendants fail to appear every year, and of these, about 60,000 remain fugitives for at least a year. And, the paper says, defendants who have a surety bond hanging over their head are 28 percent less likely to fail to appear in court.
Murray, however, calls the paper's methodology flawed and points to jurisdictions that are assessing the true risk posed by defendants and releasing more of them—with some supervision—before trial. By doing so, Murray says, they're saving taxpayers money by reducing jail costs.
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Why have one event when you can have three? The Jewish United Fund drew record-breaking crowds this year during its JUF Trade Dinner Season, a series of three dinners, each featuring an influential speaker. CNN's senior political analyst David Gergen kicked off the festivities at the Hilton Chicago with remarks on the global scene (and a three-course kosher meal). Up second, Steve Wozniak discussed his passion for technology and his early years at Apple. Former NBA commissioner David Stern closed the series out with an inspirational talk about sports and motivation. It must have worked; the events raised more than $2 million to support JUF's Annual Campaign. –Photos by Robert F. Kusel


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The vast potential of ESA's upcoming Sentinel
The humid and moist tropical climate of Gabon yields immense forests that cover over 85% of the land, making them the number-two driver of the national economy – and deforestation a subject of concern.
The GMES project on Forest Monitoring Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation mapped deforestation in Gabon from 1990 to 2010 using NASA's Landsat satellite.
But the Equatorial African country's heavy cloud cover means that imagery is often difficult to acquire over some areas.
While it takes Landsat 1.5–3.5 years to obtain imagery of the entire country, the future Sentinel-2 mission would require less than a year because of its more frequent coverage.
The future monitoring of land cover by Sentinel-2 was just one of the many topics covered at the Sentinel-2 Preparatory Symposium, hosted this week at ESA's ESRIN centre for Earth observation in Frascati, Italy.
Other applications discussed include forestry, agriculture, cartography and the mapping of glaciers and wetlands.
"Sentinel-2 will fill the gap from both a research and operations perspective," said Chris Steenmans, Head of Programme at the European Environment Agency's Shared Environmental Information System.
"We are currently struggling with fragmented satellite data, so the timely information that Sentinel-2 will provide is important. The mission will also complement other Earth observation investments on a global level."
Sentinel-2, planned for launch next year, is one of five Sentinel missions that ESA is developing for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme.
Through GMES, decision-makers will have access to reliable, timely and accurate information services to manage the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and ensure civil security.
At the recent symposium, Medhavy Thankappan, Director of Science and Strategy at Geoscience Australia's National Earth Observation Group, presented a national land cover dataset based on analysis of satellite data acquired over an eight-year period.
The dataset will provide the basis for monitoring Australia's water resources, agricultural practices, soil erosion and forests.
"The next step is to update the land cover information with new data from a consistent source – to move from mapping to monitoring," said Mr Thankappan.
"We would also like to move to a higher spatial resolution – that's where Sentinel-2 comes in."
Owing to its high resolution of 10 m per pixel, and wide swath of 290 km, global products from Sentinel-2 will be able to be applied locally.
The mission will adhere to the Sentinel Data Policy, which establishes full and open access to data acquired by all five of the upcoming Sentinels.
Participants at the symposium, however, expressed concern over the data delivery arrangement.
"Sentinel-2 is like a dream come true for the forest remote sensing community," said Tuomas Häme, Research Professor at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland.
"It is of utmost importance that the mission can be fully utilised by organising data delivery to the users as smoothly as it is organised for the similar missions with a free and open data policy."