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Quote from: Hooky on March 15, 2010, 02:57:16 AMIt sounds ridiculous but after tonight's episode my suspicions from the first leg are confirmed: This is my least favorite team.They have come in first 2 weeks in a row? I thought you said if they continue to be second to last you would not like them? I like Mike and Louie and think they work well together.
It sounds ridiculous but after tonight's episode my suspicions from the first leg are confirmed: This is my least favorite team.
I think this is the first time EVER to see such a recover like this. I haven't read spoilers and have seen Michel and Louie as a strong team. However, they started third-to-last, second-to-last and second-to-last, and noone not reading spoilers wouldn't have bet for them to last any longer. However, they have recovered, and are now the strongest team in the race after getting more wins than the same cowboys!I'm really hoping they do not make the season a bit foreseeable, and we can have different teams winning legs. IMO, I hope they win.
Quote from: DavidMV on March 22, 2010, 01:38:33 PMI think this is the first time EVER to see such a recover like this. I haven't read spoilers and have seen Michel and Louie as a strong team. However, they started third-to-last, second-to-last and second-to-last, and noone not reading spoilers wouldn't have bet for them to last any longer. However, they have recovered, and are now the strongest team in the race after getting more wins than the same cowboys!I'm really hoping they do not make the season a bit foreseeable, and we can have different teams winning legs. IMO, I hope they win.They are strong, but not necessarily the strongest, IMO. According to mswood and the departure times for Leg 6, Louie & Michael were one of the slowest teams in Leg 5. I think much of the reason they have come in first so much is because they had a good head start and are good at maintaining their current position. I don't think they are that great at catching up from the back, though. It seems that it was mainly the flight choice on Leg 4 that brought them to the front.They are consistent, but not the strongest team in the race. Honestly I'm not sure that any of the teams remaining hold that title. Thankfully, we have a good balance of teams that are all about equal in relative racing strength this season (except for maybe Jody & Shannon, Jeff & Jordan, and Brent & Caite if they don't get their act together soon).
Quote from: Hooky on March 22, 2010, 05:15:25 PMQuote from: DavidMV on March 22, 2010, 01:38:33 PMI think this is the first time EVER to see such a recover like this. I haven't read spoilers and have seen Michel and Louie as a strong team. However, they started third-to-last, second-to-last and second-to-last, and noone not reading spoilers wouldn't have bet for them to last any longer. However, they have recovered, and are now the strongest team in the race after getting more wins than the same cowboys!I'm really hoping they do not make the season a bit foreseeable, and we can have different teams winning legs. IMO, I hope they win.They are strong, but not necessarily the strongest, IMO. According to mswood and the departure times for Leg 6, Louie & Michael were one of the slowest teams in Leg 5. I think much of the reason they have come in first so much is because they had a good head start and are good at maintaining their current position. I don't think they are that great at catching up from the back, though. It seems that it was mainly the flight choice on Leg 4 that brought them to the front.They are consistent, but not the strongest team in the race. Honestly I'm not sure that any of the teams remaining hold that title. Thankfully, we have a good balance of teams that are all about equal in relative racing strength this season (except for maybe Jody & Shannon, Jeff & Jordan, and Brent & Caite if they don't get their act together soon).I have a feeling that Brent & Caite will have their Tammy-&-Victor-lost-in-Romania moment where they'll suddenly solve their issues and star working effectively.Back on topic. To further analyze Mike & Louie's performance in the race, we'll have to check the differences between them and CarBra since it'll be too hard to compare them to teams that got lost. But as you've said, they're good at keeping their lead which is exactly what they need in this position. And having luck with not getting wrong directions helps a lot as well. Kudos on their hat trick
The bunching will really see if these guys can keep up with the pack. I expect them to drop to maybe third or fourth this week.
I have a feeling that Brent & Caite will have their Tammy-&-Victor-lost-in-Romania moment where they'll suddenly solve their issues and star working effectively.
Amazing Race's Michael and Louie: "Mr. Know-It-All" Joe Needs to Get Over the U-TurnLouie Stravato, 47, and Michael Naylor's enemies were already eliminated on The Amazing Race, so they decided to keep their competition Daniel and Jordan close, working with them for the first half of the second leg in Shanghai. "I said, 'If we go head-to-head, I think we can beat them out,'" Michael, 45, tells TVGuide.com. They didn't, as the brothers edged them for the last spot in the final three. Still, the self-described "Porn-stache-ioed cops" stick by their decision, just like they do with their choice to U-Turn Heidi and Joe who "needs to get over it."TVGuide.com: How far behind Dan and Jordan were you?Michael: I feel we were 10 minutes behind. I spoke to Daniel after. He had a horrendous cab ride as we did. He reacted a little differently to his cab ride. It felt like forever and watching it again, it felt like forever. I want to say 10 20 minutes tops. We finished [the Roadblock] right after them. ... [The Roadbloack] was just looking for a needle in the haystack. At one point, I was taking everything out of the case and leaving them out, but I was told you couldn't do that. You had to put them all back.TVGuide.com: Why didn't you do pork dumplings?Louie: There were prior episodes from prior seasons where you had to order the food in that language, so I was worried about that. I think Mike and I brought that up. We decided not to risk it. ... But looking at it now, it looked kind of easy. ... [When we saw Dan and Jordan were still at the Roadblock,] we were very motivated. I was pumped to see them still there, still searching. I was like, "We can do this. We've got this."Amazing Race's Jeff and Jordan: We like to make mistakesTVGuide.com: Why were you willing to work with them at the beginning of the leg?Michael: When the brothers came back to get us, I was ecstatic. Louie had more of a feeling that he wanted to leave them and go on our own. We work better alone, but I wanted our competition with us. ... It would've worked had we gotten a little bit more of a break. We're not going to sit and whine about it afterward. It's the game.Louie: My whole thing with Dan and Jordan being with us was that I drilled them with a million questions before searching the area [for the Garden Bridge], and one of them was, "Did you use the translation service?" Dan said, "Yes, I did." But they didn't have any answer of where it was or what it was. When we found, maybe an hour later, a taxi and asked for the translation phone, the [translator] was like, "Yes, it's a bridge. You have to drive there by taxi." ... That's when I got really mad.TVGuide.com: What did they use before hooking up with you guys?Michael: They went on the Internet. They did a lot of research during the two hours. After the Fashion House being right under our nose in the last episode, I was really going to scour the area. We only had $20 for that leg, so I'm saying, "It's got to be pretty close." What you didn't see was that there was a giant bridge that we were on and it had shrubs that led to these gardens. Inside the gardens were five other bridges. Dan and Jordan already checked them, so that saved us time. But they didn't know about the translation service or they didn't remember it the way I used it. So Louie in hindsight is like, "If we did that [by ourselves], they would still be left out in the cold." But hindsight's 20/20.Amazing Race's Joe and Heidi: Morse code challenge was "an impossible task"TVGuide.com: Did you ever think about ditching them?Louie: I was kind of excited in the cab ride when we were in front, and they got stuck at the light and we lost them. I thought they were going to get lost. I was kind of pumped at that point, but obviously that didn't happen. It is what it is. I get a lot of phone calls: "Oh, the brothers really used you guys." I said, "No, they played the game." TVGuide.com: You weren't concerned about the Speed Bump possibly slowing you down and putting you behind them which it didn't since that was the easiest Speed Bump ever.Michael: [Laughs] Not really because I really had the feeling that we would conquer that Speed Bump. That took Louie about four turns and me about six or seven turns. The toughest part was that our fingers were frozen. But it was quick and we were right back with [Dan and Jordan]. TVGuide.com: Mike, what was so hard about the puzzle last week?Michael: Don't break my heart, will ya? [Laughs] I have puzzles all over my desk! I have puzzle text messages now. "Do you want to do puzzles with my kids?" [In the first leg] when we were painting the house, I was going, "Louie, this is the right color!" He said, "No, it's not!" My wife has been telling me for years that I'm colorblind and I'm starting to believe it! The outside of the puzzle, I was able to do it. ... I got to the middle I couldn't see the colors. I couldn't see the blend. It was like a dragon with spines. I kept praying that the puzzle was wrong so I wouldn't look so foolish. But I'm the fool!Amazing Race's Steve and Allie: Elimination was "hard to swallow"TVGuide.com: You U-Turned Joe and Heidi, and he's still not over it, judging from the Elimination Station videos.Michael: He needs to get over it. I'll be honest with you. That was the only time on the show that the edit wasn't 100 percent because I had to talk Louie into U-Turning them. I had my heart set on Joe and Heidi from the beginning. It was 50 percent business, 50 percent "I couldn't stomach 'em." One of his [passport stamps] was China. I thought, "There's a possibility we could go to China," so do I want to bring somebody who speaks Mandarin to Asia? No way! Then there's the whole thing on the bus he was a negative factor. Other people didn't like him. He was mean to Daniel and Jordan. He needs to get over it. Joe is hung up on Joe. Louie: Every single Elimination Station video, he's out of control. People are posting, "Give it up. Let it go, Joe." C'mon! He was negative all the time and he was like a Mr. Know-It-All. He'd make comments on the bus about everyone, and me and Mike are sitting right in front of him. Like, "Dude, we're right here." TVGuide.com: What did you say to each other at the finish?Michael: We talked about it a little bit. I said it's part of the game. Jet and Cord said to me, at the final four, I think, "Mike, if a U-Turn comes up and we get there first, we're U-Turning you." I laughed. I said, "I think that's a compliment." If they or anyone else U-Turned us, I would say, "Great move." It is what it is. We thought Carol and Brandy were a threat not physically but because they were world travelers. They were in decent shape, but everywhere we went, they were like, "Oh, I know somebody from Singapore, I know somebody from here who speaks French, who speaks Spanish." Amazing Race's Carol and Brandy: Caite "very clearly had a problem with us as lesbians"TVGuide.com: They thought you were friends and were "blindsided" to learn that you trained Brent and Caite to U-Turn them. How would you characterize your relationship with them?Michael: Well, to us, they were just people that we knew. I don't remember hanging out with them very much a couple conversations, but I wouldn't consider that good friends. My definition and theirs are different, I guess. We ended up being real good friends with Jet and Cord, Steve and Allie, Monique and Shawne, Daniel and Jordan, and Brent and Caite. We had longer conversations with them. Maybe [Carol and Brandy] thought we had some, I don't know.Louie: The cowboys are tough competitors. Everyone's asking, "Why didn't you target them?" We just wanted positive people with us at the end. We were so sick of the negative people, it was insane. If any of the other teams beat us and were in the final, we said so be it.
The Amazing Race 16: Exclusive Interview with Michael Naylor & Louie Stravatoby David McAlpine and Gina ScarpaLast night, on The Amazing Race, teams battled the language barrier to complete their tasks in China. The road block had them counting over 500 statues, while the detour had them searching for a needle in a haystack. Louie and Michael, who were the last team to arrive at the last pit stop, had to also deal with a speed bump along the way. They made it all the way to a footrace with Dan and Jordan to the pit stop but didnt make it there in time and were eliminated from the race. Today, Louie and Michael spoke to RealityWanted in an exclusive interview about their experiences on the race.Q. David, RealityWanted: Whose idea was it to try out for The Amazing Race and what motivated you to do it?A. Louie: It was my idea. I'd been watching the show since the beginning and I couldn't think of a better partner than Michael. It always intrigued me.Q. David, RealityWanted: You ran a really good race. What do you attribute your success to?A. Michael: We stay in the moment and we stay present. We decided we were going to deal what we're dealing with. It's so similar to our job--you don't need to overthink it. We weren't really good in the beginning because we were analyzing everything. But around leg three, we decided that we've got this.Q. David, RealityWanted: What was the toughest leg of the race?A. Louie: I think it was when I was carrying the incese up to the temple. I learned that I have asthma and yeah, my cardio did suck. Crawling through the trenches was tough too.A. Michael: South America was a smack in the face. I couldn't get my groove, couldn't get comfortable--I just wasn't letting myself go. The first three legs were really hard, just figuring out how everything worked.Q. David, RealityWanted: You were aligned with Brent and Caite for some ofthe time. How did the two teams benefit one another?A. Michael: They were really nice people. When you have 8 or 10 hours in an airport with nothing to do, you want to talk to nice people. They didn't really help us other than the U-Turn, but they were nice kids.Q. David, RealityWanted: Brent and Caite wanted Carol and Brandy out for personal reasons. Why did you want them out of the race? A. Michael: I really, truly believed that when we were getting down to the end that they were going to be a threat. Carol had worked with malls or something and everywhere we went, every city, she knew something about where we were. We were looking to the future and trying to make sure everyone was on a level playing field.Q. David, RealityWanted: Which team did you feel was the biggest threat? Why?A. Michael: I didn't see a threat in the other three teams. I thought we were all evenly matched; everyone had their strengths and everyone had their weaknesses. At the beginning, I definitely thought Shawn and Monique and Steve and Allie were threats at the beginning, though. You know, Steve never slept on the plane and he was always getting information. He was a professional coach--I really thought Steve would get to the finals.Q. David, RealityWanted: Were you relieved when you saw that the speed bump was not an incredibly difficult task?A. Michael: So relieved! Our fingers were absolutely frozen but I can remember Jordan stomping his feet going 'That wasn't much of a speed bump!'.Q. David, RealityWanted: How close were you to Dan and Jordan heading to that pit stop this week?A. Michael: We were maybe 10 to 20 minutes behind them; really, really close. We were at the point where we were calling them our step children, we liked them. They were real good kids and we enjoyed being on the race with them.Q. David, RealityWanted: How difficult was it for you to be eliminated so close to the final leg of the race?A. Louie: It was so difficult, but we had no regrets, we ran a great race. I guess it looked like I was smiling on the mat, but I was smiling because we accomplished to much. We went around the world and I went around the world with my friend.A. Michael: I was very disappointed and I knew it was going to kill me to come home and watch it with my son and my daughter, especially when they're thinking I might have won a million dollars.Q. David, RealityWanted: Whats the biggest thing youll be taking away from your experience on The Amazing Race?A. Louie: Showing my children that anything can be accomplished as long as you can put your heart and soul into it. And other stuff, too, like other places in the world. People have negative thoughts about places like France, but the people there couldn't have been nicer to us.A. Michael: It was so great to be around these people. The world's a great place and I definitely want to travel more. My kids know now that you can do anything--give it a shot, who cares? There wasn't one time during this that I said to myself, 'I hope my kids don't see me act like this," and that's what I was proud of.
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Amazing Race eliminees Louie Stravato and Michael Naylor have insisted that the decision to U-Turn fellow contestants Brandy Snow and Carol Rosenfeld was a good strategy move. The women were forced to complete a second detour challenge earlier this season after competitors Brent Horne and Caite Upton decided to U-Turn them, leading to their elimination.Speaking to Digital Spy, Stravato said: "It was absolutely a great strategy move. Mike says it best."Naylor continued to say that he viewed Brandy and Carol as a "strong team in any city", explaining that they were "very well travelled" and "very intellectual". "They were very well travelled which was my main reason for wanting them out, I had nothing personal with them," he said. "They weren't a physically strong team but they were very intellectual. Carol was super smart and every city we had gone to they had known something like the dialect."He added: "I was looking ahead. Jet and Cord were great guys and very well focused, but they weren't superheroes as far as I was concerned. I think all four were equal at that point."Snow and Rosenfeld previously admitted that they had been "blindsided" by the U-Turn, suggesting that it had been "less of a strategic and intelligent move, and more of a very personal, pretty hatred and prejudiced move".Michael and Louie ('The Amazing Race')No one ever wants to be eliminated when a $1 million prize is at stake, so getting booted from The Amazing Race on the week before the finale must be an extra blow. Detectives Michael Naylor and Louie Stravato finished bottom in last week's leg but a non-elimination surprise meant they were given another chance to chase a place in the final three last night. Unfortunately, the pair fell behind again in Shanghai and were eliminated from the competition ahead of next Sunday's finale. We gave them a call to chat about their exit and their memories from the experience.Did you think you had quite a good chance of making the final three?Louie: "Oh yes"Michael: "Definitely, absolutely!"Did starting bottom this week affect your morale?Michael: "Well about thirty seconds into it we're walking up the top of the platform and we see Dan and Jordan running towards us. I couldn't believe we made up two hours on them."Louie: "We were pumped when we saw them. It was pretty exciting - at that point!"They seemed to come and find you because they couldn't locate the Garden Bridge. Did you know that?Michael: "They couldn't find it but they'd done a lot of preliminary work checking the internet and the Science Museum and the park on the other side of the bridge. They checked all of those so they did a lot of the work that I know we would have done. It was smart to stay with them."You had to contend with a speedbump but you seemed to complete it pretty quickly. Did it really affect your progress?Michael: "I originally thought that with the speedbump we'd get through it quick and move right along, and Louie jumped in there and was counting with Dan at the same time so I thought we had a great shot."It seemed to us to be a pretty tight race between yourselves and Dan and Jordan. Was it like that in reality?Michael: "They got out of the gate about ten minutes ahead of us. They found their statues and then we had a bad cab drive, but I talked to Dan and he had a pretty bad cab ride too. I think there would have been a ten or fifteen minute difference."On reflection, do you think Caite and Brent's decision to U-Turn Brandy and Carol was a good strategy move?Louie: "It was absolutely a great strategy move. Mike says it best."Michael: "I think those four teams were all equal. Brandy and Carol would be a strong team in any city. They were very well travelled which was my main reason for wanting them out, I had nothing personal with them. They weren't a physically strong team but they were very intellectual. Carol was super smart and every city we had gone to they had known something like the dialect. I was looking ahead. Jet and Cord were great guys and very well focused, but they weren't superheroes as far as I was concerned. I think all four were equal at that point."You guys got along really well on the race. You never seemed to argue...Louie: "That was something that me and Mike really noticed big time especially at the end when we were done. We never fought or got sick of each other. That was a huge plus in the whole picture, that was what made us powerful I think. It made us a team to beat."Has your relationship changed at all because of the race?Michael: "We were close before this, so that's still the same. We have some stories to tell for the rest of our lives. We still keep thinking about things we forgot to mention. Every time I read my journal I think of a new story we've forgotten to talk about!"You kept a journal?Michael: "Yes. And my son last week tried to sneak up and read it but he chickened out!"How did your kids react to seeing you on TV?Michael: "My kids absolutely loved it. My son got a lot of attention at school. His school was following me on a map in the doorway with everyone coming in to see where I was this week. It was tearful eyes last night. My daughter was like, 'Dad I guess I'm not getting a BlackBerry now!"Louie: "Although my children are a lot older than Michael's but they still watched it in awe saying, 'My dad is larger than life.' My whole thing was to show them that anything is possible to achieve in life if you put your heart and soul into it."What was the best bit of the race for you?Louie: "Just the people I met throughout the world. You hear so much negativity about other countries, especially France. People in France were nothing but nice to us. They wanted to help us. One guy went out of his way, getting into his vehicle and saying, 'Follow me'. Other than that, we probably never would have found the place. All the other teams got lost and we got lucky. The camaraderie of the people around the world was insane."Michael: "There were a lot of nice cab drivers and everyone tried their best for us. I think we had very, very little negativity. It was pretty wild. I was impressed, a lot of positive. I really enjoyed so much of it, seeing the world. I wanted to stay in the countries and I can't wait to get back outside the country again."
Exclusive: Louis Stravato and Michael Naylor talk 'The Amazing Race'After finishing last in The Amazing Race's prior non-elimination leg, the odds were against the "Detectives" team of Louis Stravato and Michael Naylor surviving the sixteenth season's next penultimate leg. And that's exactly what ended up happening, as they became the eighth team eliminated from The Amazing Race's sixteenth edition during Sunday night's penultimate broadcast. On Monday, Louis and Michael talked to Reality TV World about their The Amazing Race experience -- including whether they really thought they had a chance of overcoming their prior last-place finish, if they were surprised how easy their penalty Speed Bump task was, whether they actually believed the "Dating Couple" team of Carol Rosenfeld and Brandy Snow were negative people, and if they share Brandy's belief that homophobia was behind Caite Upton's dislike of the lesbian women. Reality TV World: You guys said all the right things before the leg began, but what were you thinking your chances of not finishing last realistically were once you found out the next leg wouldn't have any type of bunching point [like a plane flight, bus ride, etc.] that would let you catch back up to everybody else? Michael Naylor: I didn't think we were leaving the continent, I really didn't. I figured it's a smack in the face, we have a lot of ground to make up and we'll do the best that we can. We weren't five minutes into it when walking up the top of the stairs we saw ["Brothers" Dan and Jordan Pious]. So that changed our whole mode, to see another team still there. Reality TV World: Yeah, what was your reaction when you saw them coming back? Did you buy their explanation that they wanted to race with you? Louis Stravato: We were excited first. I mean me personally, I was excited at first. But then, I didn't want to be [with them], I wanted to be [just] us. I didn't want to do it with another team because I just wanted us to be the ones -- if we made a mistake, I wanted it to be our mistake, not with another team. Michael Naylor: The way I thought about it is we just made up ground, we made up two hours. I was ecstatic and I wanted to keep our competition with us, so we differed on that. That was probably the only thing we differed on in probably the entire race. Because I really felt keeping the competition with us [made sense because] we have a small Speed Bump ahead of us and I think we'll be able to conquer it and go from there. I just didn't like being in Argentina when we were alone, thinking we were last. That's a tough feeling when you're racing and you're not knowing where the other teams are. Now we got our competition right next to us. Reality TV World: About how long did it actually take you guys to find that Garden Bridge with them once you were working together? Michael Naylor: Months, it felt like. Louis Stravato: A couple of hours. Reality TV World: A couple of hours? Louis Stravato: Yeah, at least. Michael Naylor: They were there two hours [before us], so they had done a lot of the research. We had asked them what they had done [and] they'd done research. When we were at the top of that bridge that we thought was the Garden Bridge, there was a whole garden to the right, like a park, with like four other bridges. So they had already searched that area, they had searched the Internet -- they had searched a lot of other things -- so we were pretty confident when we saw them. We probably stayed with them about another hour there, and it seemed like forever because it was freezing cold [and we were] checking areas and walking all around. Louie had originally asked them, "You guys are sure you called the translation service? The Shanghai translation service?" And they originally said yes, and then we realized later on that they hadn't, that's when we called and they gave us the right thing. Louis Stravato: I had drilled Danny with numerous questions just so we could cancel out certain things. I said, "you checked that museum," "you went down over there," "you called the translation service," and he was like "yes, yes, yes." So I was like alright, this is good, we're knocking out a lot of clues to finding this garden. And they didn't check that translation service. This is where I dwell back to if me and Michael had been by ourselves, I guarantee we would have went to a taxi and called that translation service and asked where's the garden. Reality TV World: So you think they being with them was a hindrance, in hindsight? Louis Stravato: In my personal opinion. Michael Naylor: That's his personal opinion, my personal opinion is that after we had walked by that fashion house that was right under our nose, I still would have checked inside that museum -- which was huge -- [and] I would have checked probably the garden. So it would have taken me just about as long, I think, to do that. So I'm not going to go back, and like I said, hindsight's 20/20. I still feel it was the right move keeping them with us the whole way, competition-wise, and duking it out in the end. I mean in the end, it was probably a 10-15 minute difference between us and a cab ride was the difference. Reality TV World: Were you guys surprised how easy that Speed Bump ended up being? Michael Naylor: (laughs) Louis Stravato: Oh my god, that Speed Bump was so easy. We were psyched, we were pumped about it, and I guess Jordan was making comments to Michael. What'd he say to you Mike? Michael Naylor: Oh, he was really, really heated at one point -- [he said] "that Speed Bump wasn't even a Speed Bump!" Because their goal was to stay with us and the Speed Bump would slow us down and that would be their edge. And when Louie went right in [to the statue-counting Roadblock task], Louie was in there a minute behind Daniel. Because that was right next to it, we didn't even have to go far, [the Speed Bump] right outside the doors of the [Roadblock] temple. So we didn't go far, we popped it in there. Louie got it on four [coins] and I think I got it on eight or nine coins. The toughest thing was that our fingers were numb [from the cold weather]. It was easy. Reality TV World: what was it that made you guys decide to do the "Pork Chops" Detour instead of the "Pork Dumplings," did you just want to keep [Dan and Jordan] right next to you? Michael Naylor: On one of the past episodes they'd had that task where you had to order the Chinese food and they had to do it in their language, so I kept thinking it was going to be like that. When I ever saw it was just a matter of picking up the things and delivering them -- I didn't find that out until just now, because nobody had obviously done that one -- I wanted to shoot myself. Louis Stravato: Yeah, but you don't know what the Detours are going to be. Just like if we knew that all [that earlier Detour task] was was bouncing a flag on your head instead of carrying huge incense up steps, we totally would have did that, but you don't know. You roll the dice and that's what you do. Reality TV World: About how long were you actually there with the stamps trying to do the "Pork Chops" task, any idea? Michael Naylor: Maybe a half hour, 45 minutes. Again, when you're doing it it seems like forever but it wasn't that long. Reality TV World: Michael, we didn't actually see you have any problems with the wind at the stadium during the second Roadblock task on last week's episode, was that the case or did they just not show it? Michael Naylor: No, no, we had no wind on our side. What happened was they picked the side with the sun, where they had the warmth. We were cold on the other side [but[ they were the first ones so we went over there. We never had any wind so my puzzle never blew. And Louie was screaming at me at one point, "Hey, be careful, be careful!" So I was getting a little nervous, but mine never blew at all. Reality TV World: Phil really seemed to get you guys with his "out in the cold" trick at the non-elimination Pit Stop, was that actually the case? Michael Naylor: Oh yeah, he got us. Louie was praying on the train ride in, maybe it's not an elimination. I was 100% it was an elimination, we're done, "We're done Louie, that's it." Because you've been racing for so long at this point you can't see that there's even going to be another leg, so when he ever said that he totally got us. Louis Stravato: We were humbled at that point. We had no regrets and even [after being eliminated] on last night's show, we had no regrets. I mean we traveled all the way around the world. We got to the Top 4. I mean we did what other teams couldn't do. And I did it with my buddy. I can't say anything more. Reality TV World: Your criticism of Carol and Brandy was a pretty big part of your storyline on the season and seemed to play a role in fueling Caite's own dislike of them. Can you explain what that was all about -- did you really feel they were negative people? After they got eliminated you seemed to suggest you might not have really thought they were negative but you were trying to make them a target for the U-Turns. Michael Naylor: Well I always felt that they were a strong team. When Brandy said that we were good friends and thought we were friends, I never -- I got really close with ["Father/Daughter" Steve Smith and Allie Smith], ["Brothers/Cowboys" Jet McCoy and Cord McCoy], Daniel and Jordan, and ["Moms/Attorneys" Monique Pryor and Shawne Morgan], and [Brent Horne] and Caite to some degree, so those are our friends. I never really had these great conversations, we never really bonded [with Carol and Brandy]. They were nice people, I had no problem with them, but there was no big friendship built up there. So it was kind of baffling when they were "shocked." When they came up to us at one point on the chain [counting Roadblock task] and [said], "Can you believe it?" I was like it's a game for a million dollars, what don't you believe about it? To fuel that thing, I don't really think we fueled it that much. We wanted them eliminated so we did kind of pump it up a little bit towards the U-Turn. I mean they really were well-traveled and if they got back to the [Race's] end-city I think they would have been a good factor in the end-city. With them, it was nothing, nothing personal. And being a little bit negative that they were, they were no more negative than anyone I deal with on a daily basis, they weren't super-negative. They were mean towards Caite, but that was their own personal choice. Louis Stravato: You know going back a little bit, going back to ["Married Couple" Joe Wang and Heidi Wang] and then Carol and Brandy, my whole thing was at what point is this not a game for a million dollars? You know you've got to play the game. Like Mike says, I came with a friend and I'm leaving with my friend. I didn't come there to make friends but we did happen to make friends. But I mean it's a game for a million dollars! You've got to play the game, strategy has got to be involved. Michael Naylor: I have to say that Jet and Cord were probably closer to us than almost any other team... Louis Stravato: Yep, I agree. Michael Naylor: We had gotten friendly with them [and] Jet said to me at one point, "If I get to the U-Turn before you I'm going to U-Turn you." So I had no problem with that. It's a race for a million dollars and he's man enough to say if I get there before you I'm going to U-turn you, and that's a compliment to me! We're taking it as a compliment and some people are taking it as a negative. Caite had her own reasons for doing it and that's between her, but we definitely wanted her to do it so I'm not going to deny it. Reality TV World: so you guys didn't really believe "everybody" wanted them out of the game when you were making comments like that, right? Michael Naylor: No, yeah, Jet and Cord wanted them out of the game. They were rude to Jet and Cord early on. Reality TV World: Well when I talked to Steve and Allie they flat-out said that wasn't the case, that's why I'm asking. Michael Naylor: Oh, they weren't rude to Steve and Allie. They were rude to Jet and Cord and I don't know who else they were rude to. To me they weren't rude, I never thought they were rude. Reality TV World: When I talked to Carol and Brandy, Brandy said she thought you guys had played a "smart" game but she was a bit disappointed because you guys seemed kind of "dirty" and made things "personal." Michael Naylor: Yeah, but I don't see how anything can be personal. It's a tool in the game and people get upset because they get taken out of the game. It's a tool in the game. You've got to be prepared that someone's going to U-Turn you at one point and do something. Reality TV World: When I talked to them they had also denied saying any significant "mean things" to Caite and Brandy said that given the way Caite always seemed to call them "The Lesbians" and the derisive way she seemed to say it, she believes Caite is homophobic or has some problem with lesbians. Michael Naylor: Yeah. If you don't get to know the teams and you don't get to know their names, it's real hard when you're racing and you don't get to talk to them. Louie was having a tough time with some of the names halfway through. It was probably until France when we were getting the names right, because you don't spend a lot of time with them, you know what I mean? If you're racing you're not with them, you're not spending a ton of time with them. Louis Stravato: It was just easier to identify them as "The Lesbians." Michael Naylor: Right. Louis Stravato: It's not politically correct, we understand that... Michael Naylor: ...but that's how Brent and Caite did it. And that's their only reasoning for doing it, I mean from when I talked to her it wasn't a homophobic thing at all. Louis Stravato: I don't think she's a homophobe at all, I don't think she's homophobic at all. Michael Naylor: Some people just can't take that they weren't liked, they have to take it to a reason. There was no reason, they just didn't like you and that was it. They did make comments. I mean they -- you can make it, you might not say it -- you know it's funny because Brandy told me later on and in the end Brandy actually apologized to Caite at one point. So when she said that she's incorrect. But it's her memory against mine, so what are you going to do? Reality TV World: You guys really seemed to start getting confident during those European legs when you finished in first place three times in a row. Michael Naylor: Oh yeah... Reality TV World: In hindsight, do you think that maybe you weren't doing that much better than the other teams and [you kept your lead because] it was just kind of a situation like what you went through on last night's leg where nobody had a chance to bunch back [together] with a plane or closed location or such? Michael Naylor: We really felt that no team was better than the other. I never thought that we were better than any of the other teams, at all. In this race it comes down to how well you run on that leg of the race. I never felt we were better than anyone. I felt the Final 4 were all evenly paired up. Everyone had their strengths, everyone had their weaknesses. So I never felt in this race that we were better than any team. From start-city to end-city, I knew that any team could win it. I still feel it to this day. I mean if you get a break -- Monique and Shawne to me, were super-strong. Steve and Allie were super-strong. Louis Stravato: Yep. Michael Naylor: So it's like when you get those teams and they're out -- look at ["Married High School Sweethearts" Adrian Davis and Dana Davis]. I mean the first leg, who would have assumed he'd be out [first]? When we were at the starting line I was like, "This guy is going to be great during challenges!" You really don't know. I never, ever underestimated one person on that race at all. Reality TV World: Last week's episode had shown Jordan saying he felt using the U-Turn on Carol and Brandy instead of Jet and Cord was kind of a dumb move... Louis Stravato: You can call it whatever you want. We didn't call it a dumb move, we called it a strategic move. We called it getting rid of negative energy. Reality TV World: Well, what I was going to ask was did you sincerely believe Carol and Brandy were a stronger team than Jet and Cord? Louis Stravato: No. No, I'm not saying that. Michael Naylor: My personal opinion on that is I differ. I thought in the end-city -- now Carol build malls and does all these things, is very super world traveled, Brandy was very well traveled. Were they going to be a big threat here -- and I said this originally, I said this to everybody -- in the end-city they will be a threat. Whatever city we go to they're going to know it and they're going to be able to travel. They knew somebody in every city that we went. They knew who spoke French, who spoke Spanish. So in my personal opinion I definitely thought that they were more of a threat, to a degree, than Jet and Cord. Louis Stravato: They even knew different dialects of Spanish for Latin and South America. Reality TV World: How were you cast, [and given the state's small size,] were you surprised to find out there was also another Rhode Island team? Michael Naylor: We were shocked to find out there was another Rhode Island team. We kept saying, "Long Island, you can't mean Rhode Island." It was crazy. Louis Stravato: I applied for The Amazing Race and I chose Mike to do it with me.
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Lately, it seems as though every week Longboat Key Mayor Lee Rothenberg is urging or Town Manager Bruce St. Denis is nudging town commissioners to raise taxes.
Last week, for instance, Rothenberg made another pitch to his colleagues to raise the town tax rate from 1.4952 mills to 1.6 mills. And two weeks ago, St. Denis showed commissioners how the Sanibel Island City Council raised its millage rate 44.6% for three years after Hurricane Charley — from 1.7 mills to 2.5 mills — to build up its reserves. As City Editor Kurt Schultheis reported last week, Sanibel now has a disaster reserve of $4.5 million and total reserves of $15.1 million. Wow.
Compare that to Longboat Key's reserves of $4.7 million.
Apparently, the way St. Denis sees it, the town doesn't have enough money in reserve to deal with the aftermath of a direct hurricane hit, even though it has $20 million of insurance coverage, which is $7.3 million more than Sanibel spent after Charley.
What's more, he worries about the continuing strains of the recession on the budget for next year, suggesting that a tax hike will be inevitable.
Sure, we'd all like to have a huge cash cushion — far more than we would ever need. But let's be realistic: $15 million in reserves would be the size of the annual town budget. No way.
One of the questions to ask is this: In whose bank account would you rather have excess cash — yours or the town's? While the city council in Sanibel may feel secure with its $15 million cash cushion, that's money that would be better left in the hands of taxpayers.
What's more, it's not as if the town of Longboat Key would not have access to capital in an emergency.
Let's remember: The Town Commission has the power to tax. It also has the power to raise the millage rate to a legal limit of 10 mills. If Longboat Key needed to borrow funds for an emergency, it could, without much strain.
Thankfully for taxpayers, and to some surprise, the majority of Longboat commissioners — Vice Mayor Bob Siekmann and Commissioners Gene Jaleski, Peter O'Connor and Jim Brown — appears to be holding firm and resisting the mayor and town manager's lobbying. Their position: Keep the millage rate at 1.4952 mills. Rothenberg wants 1.6 mills.
Pressure is building. The first and final readings of the town budget and tax rates are scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 14 and 5:01 p.m. Sept. 29, respectively, at Town Hall.
You can be sure there will be another round of lobbying for higher taxes. But let's hope the majority doesn't cave. We have the cushion we need.
+ Pipeline to Gov. Crist
It's not too late. Longboaters have until Friday, Sept. 11, to plead their case to Gov. Charlie Crist on the Port Dolphin LLC liquefied natural-gas pipeline. It's worth the effort.
Port Dolphin officials say they will invest more than $40 million in the construction of the pipeline, which will run about 28 miles 100 feet under water in the Gulf of Mexico, terminating between Egmont Key and Anna Maria Island at Port Manatee.
The project will be good for Florida consumers and the economy. Port Dolphin will bring additional energy supplies to the state and create jobs, both of which Florida needs.
About the only problem with the project is that its path is slated to run through two prime sources of sand that could be used by Longboat Key and other coastal communities for beach renourishment. If adjustments are not made to the proposed path of the pipeline, the results will cost Longboat Key residents (and other communities) millions of dollars to find and retrieve new sources of sand.
Town Manager Bruce St. Denis told Longboat Key Kiwanians earlier this summer that every mile farther that sand must be transported adds 40 cents a cubic yard to the cost. In the last renourishment, the town pumped 1.5 million cubic yards at a cost of $21 million. If sand is dredged from a site just 5 miles farther than where the town last dredged, the cost would rise at least $3 million. Add another $1 million to find and permit the site. Coastal Planning & Engineering, the beach consultant for Longboat Key and Manatee County, estimates the proposed path of the pipeline would add more than $50 million over four decades to the cost of sand for Manatee County.
Clearly, this is a balancing act on how public resources should be allocated.
Whatever decision is reached should be done so with the idea that nothing is free — neither the use of the sand by Longboat Key nor the bottoms of the Gulf of Mexico for Port Dolphin. There's a price and cost for both.
Heretofore, however, the state and federal governments have not charged local jurisdictions for dredging sand, save for the permitting fees. Nor have they charged pipeline companies for placing pipes along the Gulf bottoms. But now we have competing interests who want the same resource.
In the marketplace, the highest bidder would win.
But, in this instance, Gov. Crist, we hope, will consider the consequences.
To award Port Dolphin its desired path would deny Longboat Key and Manatee County use of sand these two jurisdictions already have identified for future use. The cost would fall disproportionately on Longboat taxpayers because we always pay 70% of the renourishment cost ourselves.
On the other hand, to force Port Dolphin to change its course would raise the cost of Port Dolphin's energy for Florida consumers, who are also taxpayers.
There's room for compromise, mitigation and compensation — on both sides.
Let Gov. Crist know that Longboat Key and Manatee County taxpayers have much at stake.
+ Stimulus: legal plunder
Here are your stimulus dollars at work:
A friend in Phoenix recently received an e-mail from a business associate. It said:
"I'm currently consulting with a design-build company that has won about $1.5 billion in federal contracts within the last 90 days. They are actively searching for a Native American tribal-owned company to help them with the 78% small-business spend requirement placed on them by the government.
"Do you have any tribal contacts that may be interested? They are expecting more awards before the bidding season ends in October, so the problem is compounding."
Unless we're missing something here, this is the usual government-politician approach — rather than select contractors on the basis of competence and competitive bidding, the federal government selects contractors, or rather redistributes your wealth, on the basis of race, color and tribe.
It's against the law for you to hire that way, but it's OK for those who make the laws to do it.
As Frederick Bastiat put it centuries ago: legalized plunder.

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131. C.P. CAVAFY: Ithaka
Constantine P. Cavafy (1863-1933) was a Greek poet, although he was born and spent most of his life in Alexandria, Egypt. Ithaka is one of Cavafy's most famous poems and is a tribute to the original Greek poet, Homer, and his poem The Odyssey (which along with it's companion, The Iliad, are the two oldest known works of Western literature). The Odyssey revolves around the hero Odysseus and his long voyage home to Ithaka after the Trojan war.
My hero in the comic is NOT meant to be Odysseus. I used Cavafy's words and drew upon my childhood diet of comic books and Ray Harryhausen movies to tell a different story.
RELATED COMICS: Mark Twain An Educational Journey and No Regrets. Christopher McCandless Into the Wild.
– There are many English versions of Ithaka. I used the translation by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, found on the official Cavafy website.
– The cyclops I drew is a homage/swipe of Ray Harryhausen's cyclops from The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.
– For a sexy Scottish version of Ithaka, here's a reading by Sean Connery.
– Thanks to everyone who sent in this poem, I've had it saved in my quotes folder for over a year now.
– For those interested, here's a podcast interview I did recently.


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Scouting for Food will be held on Saturday, Dec. 8, beginning at 10 a.m.
Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will be passing out a plastic bag with a Scouting for Food flyer to many homes in the Fort Morgan and Brush area prior to Dec. 8.
The Scouts are encouraging everyone to put food in plastic bags outside their doors before 10 a.m. on Dec. 8. The Scouts will come and collect food between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
The Scouts need non-perishable commercially canned or boxed foods such as canned vegetables, soups, tuna or other canned meats, pasta, and cereals. Please, no glass jars or frozen foods.
All of the food collected will go to Caring Ministries of Morgan County to help make Christmas food boxes for those families less fortunate in area communities.
For further information, contact Doug Nickell, Scoutmaster Troop 22, at 867-4047.


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Good news—there are only 13 days left until the election! Bad news—there are 13 days left until the election. If you're on political overload, you can use a handy Chrome extension called Unpolitic.me to remove all the politics talk from your Facebook and Twitter feeds.
Like infant-eraser Unbaby.me (created by the same folks), it blocks out all the Romney/Ryan/you're stupid/no you're stupid chatter on your social networks and replaces them with pictures of adorable animals. Because a wrinkly bulldog is better than a spray tanned Romney any day. [BuzzFeed]


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Opinion: Ukraine Edges Closer to Europe
Editorial page editor Paul Gigot on the significance of Kiev's economic association treaty with the European Union, and Vladimir Putin's next move. Photo: Associated Press
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This Week in God
First up from the God Machine this week is the end of the extraordinary Nuns On The Bus tour, which wrapped up in Washington this week, after a series of well-received events in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states. Suzy Khimm reported this week on the culmination of the successful tour.
"It's immoral!" [Sister Diane Donohue, an] 81-year-old Catholic nun said of [Paul Ryan's] fiscal plan, as the crowd gathered on Capitol Hill erupted in cheers. Another nun, Sister Simone Campbell, denounced the proposed cuts to food stamps, child care, and other programs for the needy. "That's not Christian," said Campbell, who leads a Catholic social justice lobby called NETWORK. […]
The nuns were concluding a two-week bus tour through nine swing states to protest the Ryan budget proposal, contending that it undermined Catholic teachings to serve the poor and vulnerable. Their rally on Monday outside the United Methodist Church's D.C. offices was peppered with prayers, gospel songs, and Bible verses (Isaiah 58:7: "Share your food with the hungry, and give shelter to the homeless.")
But the Catholic nuns also understand that Kumbaya moments aren't enough to change votes in Washington: They have a full-fledged lobbying campaign, complete with a 53-page "faithful budget" that outlines their own fiscal priorities in considerable detail, backed by an interfaith coalition of social justice groups.
There can be no doubt that the nuns have been noticed on Capitol Hill. Indeed, Sens. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) introduced a resolution this week, coinciding with the end of the tour, honoring nuns. They said in a statement that the resolution "recognizes the Catholic Sisters' fulfillment of their vital missions to teach our children, care for the sick, feed the hungry, shelter the homeless, lead major institutions, demand corporate responsibility and fight for policies that promote human dignity."
The priorities of the Nuns On The Bus are non-partisan, but given their proposed policies – a rejection of austerity, coupled with higher taxes on the wealthy – Republicans, especially the right-wing chairman of the House Budget Committee who inspired the tour in the first place, are generally dismissive of their pleas.
When Democrats disagree with Catholic leaders on contraception, it's billed as proof of a war on faith. When Republicans disagree with Catholic leaders on social justice, it's proof that the right is fiscally responsible.
Also from the God Machine this week:
* A Republican state senator this week recommended a proposal that would prevent Muslims in the state from building houses of worship. Other faiths would not be affected.
* A Christian minister in Alabama is hosting a pastor's conference this weekend, and "all White Christians" are invited. Asked about the discrimination, the Rev. William Collier said, "We don't have the facilities to accommodate" those who are not "part of the chosen race."
* The Vatican is running its largest budget deficit in years. After briefly running a profit, the Vatican ran a $19 million deficit last year.
* And a growing number of American Mormons are going high-tech in the hopes of boosting Mitt Romney's Republican presidential campaign. Romney, of course, would be the nation's first Mormon president (thanks to reader R.P. for the tip).


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Get Moving! Health Directions on WIS-TV
Four fitness professionals from Health Directions, LMC's health and wellness facility, were guests on WIS-TV yesterday to talk about how to "Get Moving" for heart health as part of our Take 5 for Heart Health campaign. Watch the segment below.
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What's going on here?
It's entirely normal for voter support to drop, as time goes on, for a proposed ballot measure.
But Gov. Jerry Brown's tax proposal is showing the opposite effect, according to a new poll from the Public Policy Institue of California. Support is actually increasing.
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The PPIC poll shows that 68 percent of likely voters support the governor's plan, which would raise the sales tax by a half cent, and boost the income tax rate for the state's wealthiest citizens. A month and a half ago, the support rate was 60 percent.
It's likely that the increased support has to do with the governor's warning that public education faces deep "trigger cuts" of nearly $5 billion if the tax plan is rejected at the ballot box People don't like the idea of cutting schools more than they have been.
Brown has said he's not making threats, but is simply laying out consequences unless new revenues are approved.
To be fair, the PPIC poll also shows voters with a split personality when it comes to the tax plan. 68 percent like the idea of increasing the income tax on individual filers who make more than $250,000 a year.
That's not surprising. Most people want to tax "the other guy".
But when it comes to raising the sales tax by a half cent, 64 percent of likely voters are opposed. That's true across party lines.
Fifty-four percent of Democrats don't like the idea, while 74 percent of Republicans are opposed.
This isn't an either-or situation, however. Brown is pursuing both tax hikes, which would expire in 2016, to help erase California's deficit and spare schools and social programs from further cuts.
And it's still very early. The governor's initiative is still in the signature-gathering phase, and tax critics have yet to fire up their campaign.
Another crucial factor is the behavior of the legislature this year. Another protracted budget fight will only sour the public further on state government, and undermine the governor's call for more tax money.
Democrats seemed to signal that another fight is on the horizon on Tuesday, when they announced that they were suing State Controller John Chiang. Last year, Chiang moved to withhold the pay of state lawmakers for two weeks under provisions of Proposition 25, which requires passage of a balanced budget.
Democrats believe Chiang overstepped his authority.
It'll be in Jerry Brown's interest to get a budget done on time, despite that conflict, in order to sell his message that government is being responsive.
Voters are showing that they're open to the tax question, but far from sold.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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'Net losses: Gov, critics talk Internet taxes
Virginia Governor Mark Warner supports the efforts of 40 U.S. states to create an agreement– the streamlined sales-tax project [SSTP]– designed to increase the collection of sales and use taxes on Internet-based retail sales nationally.
The reason: "You either pay one way, or you pay another way."
"I don't think there ought to be an unfair benefit for an Internet-based store over a bricks-and-mortar store," Warner said on a spring visit to Waynesboro to talk about legislative actions in the 2005 General Assembly. Legislators passed up the chance to have the Commonwealth jump headfirst into the SSTP game.
"Right now, we don't know what amount of revenue is lost, but there have been estimates that it runs into the multiple billions of dollars," said Warner, who's rumored to be interested in a possible run at the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2008.
A Waynesboro Democrat questions whether the effort to involve Virginia in the streamlined sales-tax project might cost the state billions in future economic development.
"Internet retail is an important economic-development tool for small towns and rural areas," says Stacey Strawn Evans, co-owner of Blue Moon Galleries, a Waynesboro Web retailer.
"I can tell you that we wouldn't be here in Waynesboro employing people and purchasing a building in an enterprise zone if it weren't for our Internet sales," says Strawn Evans. "Quite a few buildings downtown would be empty if it weren't for their Internet retail base.
"I don't understand this effort to put a crimp in a segment of the economy that's responsible for so much of the economic growth in the past several years," Straw Evans says.
Warner says it's simple. There have been estimates that the tax-revenue loss from uncollected sales taxes on Internet sales is in the area of $200 -$600 million annually in Virginia alone, the governor says.

Warner: "You either pay one way, or you pay another way."
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Academics / Courses / DescriptionsELEC_ENG 428: Information Theory
Quarter OfferedFall : MW 9:40-11 ; Guo, Dongning
Information measures and their properties: entropy, divergence, mutual information, channel capacity. Shannon's fundamental theorems for data compression and coding for noisy channels. Applications in communications, statistical inference, probability, physics.
- Prerequisites by course: ELEC_ENG 302 Probabilistic Systems and Random Signals or equivalent.
- Prerequisites by topic: Good understanding of basic probability. (A review of probability theory will be given in Week 1.)
REQUIRED TEXT: Cover & Thomas, Elements of Information Theory, 2nd ed., Wiley, 2006.
- R. G. Gallager, Information Theory and Reliable Communication, Wiley, 1968.
- D. J. MacKay, Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms, Cambridge, 2004
COURSE DIRECTOR: Prof. Dongning Guo
Problem Sets: There will be weekly problem sets. Problem sets are required to be handed in by the end of the class (usually on Friday) in which they are due. Each student is allowed to have one exception to turn in his/her homework within 72 hours past due time during the quarter. Late problem sets will not be accepted otherwise. Each of you is encouraged to work on the problem sets on your own and by consulting the textbook. Working together in small groups on the problem sets is encouraged whenever it helps to better learn the material. However, each person must write up his/her own solution to hand in.
- Overview of information theory and its applications.
- Review of probability theory.
- Information measures (entropy, divergence, mutual information) and basic properties.
- Typical sets and the Asymptotic Equipartition Property.
- Data compression/lossless source coding.
- Entropy rates for stochastic processes, Markov chains.
- Huffman coding, Lempel-Ziv compression.
- Channel coding, channel capacity.
- The channel coding theorem for discrete memoryless channels.
- Converse to the channel coding theorem, joint source channel coding.
- Discrete and continuous-time Gaussian channels, band-limited channels.
- Source-channel separation.
- Rate distortion
- Problem sets: 30%
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Halloween celebrates many things, ghosts and goblins, the crisp Fall weather, and of course candy! I wanted to make a quick and easy set of bags for all that trick or treating loot but I was having trouble coming up with a good idea that said "Halloween". After much brainstorming Joelle, Page, and I had an Ah-Ha moment: we could make them in a candy corn shape!
Even though it is the simplest of candies (they are basically made of sugar, and appropriately, corn syrup) I have a soft spot for candy corn. They are such a fun shape and I love their sunny colors. For me they signify Halloween and the Fall, and despite their meager ingredients I love the way they taste! Plus I thought the idea of putting candy into a candy shaped container was cool!
To make the bags I used our beautiful 100% wool felt. It comes in the most lovely saturated colors and needs no hemming. The finished bags are about 10-inches deep so they can hold a lot of candy, and since it's made from sturdy all natural materials they can be used for years to come. These are so quick and easy and make Trick or Treating all the more special!
Happy Trick or Treating! –Molly
To make a set of three bags:
- Three 18-inch x 18-inch pieces of Wool Felt in "Sun"
- One 18-inch x 18-inch piece of Wool Felt in "Bright Orange"
- One 18-inch x 18-inch piece of Wool Felt in "Ecru"
- One yellow spool of cotton thread (color 1640)
- One orange spool of cotton thread (color 1720)
- 2-yards of 25mm grosgrain ribbon in Orange
- One Candy Corn Trick or Treat Bag Template, available for free download here, print, cut out and assembled as directed.
If you'd only like to make one trick or treat bag you will only need one piece of the yellow "Sun" colored felt, to make two you will need two pieces.
10-inches tall
Fold the yellow ("Sun") felt in half diagonally and then place the Candy Corn Base template along the fold as directed. Cut the felt along the template. Repeat this for the two other pieces of yellow felt.
Trace the middle template three times onto the orange felt as shown above so that all three shapes fit onto the one piece of felt.
Cut three of the top templates from the ecru felt (you will have no problem fitting them.)
Cut three 20-inch lengths from the grosgrain ribbon.
You will have three of each shape and three lengths of ribbon.
Adding the Stripes
Iron the middle crease out of one of the yellow base pieces.
Place a white piece at the point of the base piece, lining up the sides so they match exactly.
Place an orange middle piece below the white piece so that the middle piece's edges line up exactly with the base. The top of the middle piece will overlap the bottom curved edge of the top piece.
Pin the middle piece down along both of its curved edges. When you pin along the top curved edge make sure that you are pinning through all three layers (the top piece, the middle piece, and the base.)
Using the orange thread top stitch the middle piece along the pinned edges. By sewing the top edge of the middle piece you will also be sewing through the top piece.
Sewing the Bag
Fold and pin the entire piece in half width-wise, right sides together, so that it forms a pie-slice-shape. Using the yellow thread, sew the pinned sides together with a 1/2-inch seam allowance.
Sew a horizontal line 2-inches above the bottom of the bag as shown above.
Snip off the bottom angle of the bag a 1/4-inch from the bottom horizontal seam.
Hemming the Top
Press the side seam of the bag open.
Fold and pin the top edge of the bag 1/2-inch towards the wrong side all along the top edge. Since this is a curved edge it will not lay 100% flat so do not iron it down, just fold it over with your fingers and pin it.
Using the yellow thread hand stitch this fold down with a small running stitch. The stitches you make should be very small on the right side of the bag and wider on the wrong side. The picture above is a close up of the wrong side, and the picture below is of the right side.
Attaching the Handle
Open the bag so that the seam is in the center. Pin the ribbon 3/4-inch below the rim of the bag at the left and right sides, making sure not to twist the ribbon.
Using the yellow thread and the sewing machine sew the ends of the ribbon down 1/2-inch from the top edge of the bag, along your hand sewing seam. Make sure to backstitch on either end of these short seams to secure the handles.
Turn the bag right side out, repeat for the other two bags, and you're all done and ready for candy!


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Behind every massively multiplayer online first-person shooter there is a story, and in PlanetSide 2's case that story will be written by the man who taught the Teen Titans about the ravages of drug abuse.
Whenever I think of comics great Marv Wolfman, the Teen Titans drug abuse series is what immediately springs to mind. Not his creation of Marvel Comics' Blade or Daredevil villain Bullseye. Not his work on countless films, comic books, and television shows. Just those three issues, distributed to schools around the country in 1983 to help promote drug awareness. Free comics just stick with you.
Now Marv goes back to work with Sony Online Entertainment (he handled some writing for DC Universe Online), providing a rich backstory for PlanetSide 2, a game whose players will be too busy shooting each other to appreciate the fiction.
"I'm thrilled to be working with SOE again," said Marv Wolfman. "Not only do I get to take elements from the original PlanetSide and further develop an extensive backstory that can help players more fully understand this incredible new world, but even better, I get to create dozens of individual characters that I hope will help bring alive the story of PlanetSide 2 for the entire player community."
Hopefully none of those characters will have to do battle with the greatest enemy of them all: Drug abuse.
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During an interview with 97.1 AMP/Los Angeles Ke$ha said she wants her fans to see all sides of her on her upcoming album release.
One of those sides she's tapping into? The supernatural.
Ke$ha described her most recent ghost encounter, which went down in a San Francisco elevator.
"I was kind of talking s*** to the ghost and apparently it didn't think it was very funny," she explained. "The elevator went completely haywire! It shot from the top floor to the bottom floor way faster than any elevator is actually supposed to move and I'm sitting there laughing so hard and I'm like peeing in my pants and my friend is crying in the corner and then finally it just stopped after two minutes."
While she didn't specify if that experience made it's way onto her album, she did mention her favorite collaborator on her upcoming release Warrior. Expect to hear from several big names on Warrior including will.i.am, fun.'s Nate Ruess, Ben Folds, The Black Keys' drummer Patrick Carney, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, and one of her personal idols, Iggy Pop.
"He's like a god to me and I couldn't even believe he would sit in the same room with me," she said. "On the song I did with Iggy Pop, I was just screaming about sex. It's really fun."
Nevertheless, Ke$ha's love life isn't as wild as her music would suggest.
"You know, unfortunately, it's been a bit of a dry spell, but I've just been trapped in the studio with a bunch of old dudes!"
And it's not because she's picky. When asked if she's into girls, she coyly replied, "Um, I love everybody."
Warrior will be released December 4th.
-Sarah Carroll, 97.1 AMP/Los Angeles
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|How do I encourage my child to become more active?
With participation in all types of physical activity declining dramatically as a child's age and grade in school increases, it is important that physical activity be a regular part of family life. Studies have shown that lifestyles learned as children are much more likely to stay with a person into adulthood. If sports and physical activities are a family priority, they will provide children and parents with a strong foundation for a lifetime of health.
Parents can play a key role in helping their child become more physically active. Following are 11 ways to get started:
There is a powerful relationship between childhood obesity and lifelong weight and related medical problems.
Exercise along with a balanced diet provides the foundation for a healthy, active life. One of the most important things parents can do is encourage healthy habits in their children early on in life. It is not too late to start. Ask your pediatrician about tools for healthy living today.
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Thousands gathered in the Dallas Market Center in November for three days of preaching, Bible study, and action for social justice. The Justice Revival, organized by Sojourners, convened Dallas clergy, activists, and political leaders representing more than 200 churches to address two main concerns: the city's 6,000 homeless people and the high percentage of high school students in the Dallas school district who are not adequately prepared for college. Eleven-year-old Dallas public school student Dalton Sherman was a highlight of the event. "Do you believe that what you're doing in your community is shaping not just my generation, but that of my children—and my children's children?" he asked a cheering crowd.
In a highly segregated city, participants came from across denominational, political, and ethnic lines—including evangelicals, mainline Protestants, historic black church pastors, Latino ministers, and the Catholic bishop. Service projects following the event took nearly 1,000 volunteers to five low-income neighborhoods throughout Dallas.
Following Sojourners' 2008 Justice Revival in Columbus, Ohio, volunteers worked at 50 projects cleaning parks, rehabbing homeless shelters, organizing food pantries, and hosting gasoline-giveaways in poor neighborhoods. Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland convened a statewide anti-poverty task force that included more than 300 participants, with one segment dedicated to addressing challenges unique to children and youth.


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Black Friday starts at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving day and retailers expect to ring up as much as 20 percent of their holiday sales over the Thanksgiving weekend. CNBC's Courtney Reagan reports.
Target employees are seeing red after the retailer announced its stores will open at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving night, cutting into holiday time for workers. An online petition asking Target to not open on Thanksgiving has over 179,000 signatures, and the number continues to rise.
Thanksgiving, a time for family, togetherness, turkey ... and standing for hours to service the needs of the relentless hordes of shoppers seeking the last Furby and deeply discounted HDTV sets. Indeed, Black Friday, which traditionally started in the pre-dawn hours of Friday, has seen its hours pushed back in recent years so that stores start offering savings on Thanksgiving night itself.
This year, Walmart, Toys R Us, Kmart, and Sears are all opening their doors at 8 pm Thursday. Together with Target, that's two to four hours before they kicked things off last year.
A Target worker started an online petition calling on the retailer to not move Black Friday to Thursday. In a few days the petition gathered nearly 200,000 signatures. NBC's Diana Alvear reports.
Reached for comment, Target spokesperson Molly Snyder told NBC News: "Target's opening time was carefully evaluated with our guests, team and the business in mind. Across the country, team member preferences were considered in creating our store staffing schedules. Thanksgiving weekend is one of the busiest of the year, and we appreciate our Target team's flexibility on this weekend and throughout the holiday season."
Synder told NBC News that Target employees always receive time-and-a-half pay for working national holidays. Workers clocking hours during Thanksgiving and Black Friday also receive additional pay bonuses, she said. Only one-third of Target's workforce is scheduled to work on Thanksgiving.
Some employees are "excited" for the chance to work extra hours, she said. "We've heard from many stores that they had more team members volunteer to work than they had available shifts," Snyder said.
Not everyone is thrilled about stores being open on Thanksgiving, with Casey St. Clair, a Target employee, and Stacey Widlitz, S.W. Retail Advisors.
But there are a few people out there, almost 200,000, who think that something with "Friday" in the name should actually start on Friday.
The Change.org user who created the petition, "C. Renee," is a self-described six-year employee of Target living in California. In the petition description the user wrote that having to work on Black Friday prevented him or her from visiting their family on the East Coast.
C. Renee wrote, "I currently work two jobs, substitute teaching and work Target at nights and weekends, so having Thanksgiving off really does give me that one day to relax and visit family I otherwise have no time to see." The user did not respond to an NBC News request for additional comment.


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Crater Lake Blue, the American Cheese Society's 2004 gold medal winner and more recently, June 2006, took home a bronze medal for foil-wrapped, blue-vein cheese made outside the United Kingdom at the World Cheese Awards. It is a contemporary blue cheese. Robust and sweet with a rich buttery finish, it is best described as a blend of Roquefort and Danish blue cheese recipes. Versatile on a cheese plate or in a special recipe. Its complexity of flavor makes it one of the rare blues that can pair perfectly with both Ruby and Tawny ports. Simply an outstanding cheese, Crater Lake Blue is a terrific example of the craftmanship exhibited by today's American cheesemakers.
Awarded 2nd Place in the American Cheese Society 2007 Awards in the Cow's Milk Blue Cheese Category.


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- Movie Genre : Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller,
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- Languages spoken : English
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|2 May 2019
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|Last Ex-Dividend Date
|02 January 2019
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Fund Objective
The fund aims to provide an income-focused return with some capital appreciation over the longer term, investing mainly in a range of collective investment schemes from selected managers to achieve a broad exposure to diversified investments, including equities, absolute returns, fixed and variable rate interest bearing securities and immoveable property. The fund may also invest in transferable securities, money market instruments, deposits and cash. The investment managers are selected for their investment expertise and are monitored on an ongoing basis. This selection and ongoing monitoring is currently undertaken by Standard Life Investments and is based on extensive research with the aim of blending managers with expertise across the chosen asset classes. Typically, the fund will have high exposure to lower risk assets, such as bonds. Past performance is not a guide to future returns and future returns are not guaranteed. The price of assets and the income from them may go down as well as up and cannot be guaranteed; an investor may receive back less than their original investment. The fund may use derivatives to reduce risk or cost, or to generate additional capital or income at low risk. Usage of derivatives is monitored to ensure that the fund is not exposed to excessive or unintended risks. The value of assets held within the fund may rise and fall as a result of exchange rate fluctuations.
Fund Managers
Bambos Hambi
Bambos has over 20 years investment experience of which almost 10 years is in managing retail fund of funds, this length of fund of fund experience is almost unrivalled. Bambos graduated with a degree in Mathematics from the University of London. Bambos began his career in 1978 at Legal & General in the actuarial department before moving to the investment division. He joined Morgan Stanley Quilter in 1987 to manage pension funds and discretionary equity portfolios for high net worth clients. In this role, he was responsible for analysing and picking equities and constructing portfolios. This experience of direct stock selection & portfolio construction is exceptionally rare within fund of fund managers. He progressed to head up a team of four, managing portfolios which held collective investments such as unit trusts. He moved to Friends Ivory Sime in 1997 to manage 3 Fund of Funds before joining Rothschild in 2001 to head up the Fund of Fund Desk and run almost £1bn in assets. Bambos and his team joined Gartmore in November 2003 to build up its' Multi-Manager business.
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The Pop-up Solar Cooker Book is a clever invention created by middle school student Jared Mann from Christenburg, Virginia, USA. The project was submitted to the National Museum of Education's Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors in 2008, and placed in the top fifteen finalists from 2,200 entrants. The design is patterned after children's pop-up books that have displays which spring open when pages are turned. The first page opens a solar panel cooker, which Jared describes is better for heating liquids, and the second page opens a solar box cooker.
The cooker book uses bubble wrap to create the enclosure for the panel cooker, and as a glazing cover for the box cooker. The panel cooker has reached temeratures of 66 °C (151 °F). As with good pop-up book design, the Pop-up Solar Cooker Book folds flat for easy transport.


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H.C.S (Judicial Branch) Examination
Haryana Civil Judge Junior Division
Haryana Public Service Commission
Competitive Examination: The selection of suitable candidates for appointment in HCS (Judicial Branch) will be made by holding an examination. The examination shall be conducted in three stages namely.
(i) Preliminary Examination,
(ii) Main Examination,
(iii) Viva-Voce.
Syllabus for Preliminary Examination H.C.S (Judicial Branch) Examination Haryana Civil Judge Junior Division
Haryana Public Service Commission
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Syllabus for Preliminary Examination:
The Preliminary Examination shall be of objective type with multiple-choice (which can be scrutinized by Computer) as distinguished from the written examination which shall be subjective/narrative type.
The question paper for Preliminary Examination shall be of two hours duration. It shall consist of 125 questions and each question shall carry 04 marks and for every wrong answer one mark shall be deducted.
The objective type multiple-choice question for the Preliminary Examination shall be from the syllabus for the Main Examination.
The candidate shall be expected to have a general and basic over view of the main subjects and also the ability to answer questions on current events of national and international importance, Indian legal and constitutional history and governance. The candidate shall also be tested for his analytical skills and aptitude. The standard of the question paper shall be of graduate level. The object of the Preliminary Examination is to short list candidates for the Main Examination. There shall be no minimum pass marks in the Preliminary Examination. The marks obtained in the Preliminary Examination shall not be counted towards final result.
Candidates equal to 10 times of the number of vacancies advertised in order of their merit in the respective categories shall become eligible to sit in the Main Examination. However, this number shall be subject to variation. If two or more candidates at the last number (the number at the end) get the equal marks, then all of them shall be considered eligible to sit for the Main Examination, warranting the corresponding increase in the stipulated ratio. Candidates thrice the number of advertised posts in order of merit of Main Examination will be called for Viva-Voce.
Syllabus for Main Examination H.C.S (Judicial Branch) Examination Haryana Civil Judge Junior Division
Haryana Public Service Commission
The Main Examination shall consist of six papers five written and a viva voce. The description of papers and the syllabus shall be as under:-
Paper-1- Civil Law-1
Code of Civil procedure, Punjab Courts Act, Indian Contract Act, Indian partnership Act, Sale of Goods Act, Specific Relief Act, and Indian Evidence Act,
200 Marks
Paper-II- Civil Law-II
Hindu Law, Mohammadan Law and Customary Law, Law of Registration and Limitation
200 Marks
Paper-III Criminal Law
Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and Indian Evidence Act
200 Marks
Paper-IV English
The English paper will be of 200 marks and consist of the following:-
1. English Essay (1000-1100 words) – 100 Marks
2. Precis – 25 Marks
3. Words and Phrases (Make sentences of the given words and Phrases) – 25 Marks
4. Comprehension – 25 Marks
5. Corrections – 25 Marks
Paper-V- Language
Hindi (in Devnagri Script)
Paper-VI- Viva-Voce
To judge the personal qualities of the candidates. The viva-voce shall relate to the matters of general interest and is intended to test the candidates' alertness, intelligence and general outlook. it shall be conducted in English.
(i) Main Examination will be subjective/narrative type. Main Examination will be conducted in English Medium except for language paper.
(ii) Bare copies of legislative enactments only shall be supplied.
(iii) Each written paper shall be of three hours duration.
(iv) The standard of the language paper shall be that of Matriculation Examination of the Board of School Education, Haryana.
Language paper
(v) shall comprise the following:-
(a) Translation of an English passage into Hindi : 20
(b) Explanation of Hindi passage in prose and poetry in the same
language : 30
(c) Composition (essay), idioms and corrections : 50
Total : 100
Candidates thrice the number of advertised posts in order of merit of Main
Examination will be called for viva-voce.
Candidate who qualifies for the Main Examination will have to apply
again on separate application form for the Main Examination. The qualified
candidates will have to obtain Application Form for the Main Examination from
the Commission's office.
No. candidate shall be credited with any marks in any paper unless he obtains at least thirty three percent marks in it.
No candidate shall be called for the viva- voce unless he obtains at least fifty percent qualifying marks in the aggregate of all the written papers. However, for the candidate belonging to the scheduled Caste and Backward Classes the qualifying marks for this purpose shall be 45%.


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Another state agency, another privatization scheme off the rails.
The account of how the Florida Division of Blind Services has failed to monitor the agency's private vendors is just one more example for Republican Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, who has been trying to bring sensible reform to the state's privatization spree.
Privatization only works well when the agency doing the hiring writes strong, service-oriented contracts and state employees provide effective oversight. Anything less is just government misfeasance.
Ever since then-Gov. Jeb Bush took office in 1999, state government has been moving more toward hiring private vendors to do state business — from handling state park reservations to opening private prisons.
And Gov. Rick Scott, a former health care executive, has only accelerated that push, for instance by making it easier for charter school companies to qualify for money that used to be dedicated to public schools. Nearly 60 percent of the state's budget now flows to private coffers.


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Authorities seek suspect in Virginia home bombings
A man accused of indecent exposure over the summer is wanted on charges of detonating pipe bombs at the homes of two investigators in the case and his ex-girlfriend this week, authorities said Wednesday.
The Stafford County Sheriff's Office said at a news conference that they're searching for 25-year-old Laurence Alan Stewart II. He is wanted on charges including attempted capital murder of a law enforcement officer, manufacture or possession of a weapon of terror and arson.
Authorities believe Stewart is armed and may have explosives.
"This man is a serious danger and threat to society," Stafford County Sheriff Charles E. Jett said.
No one was injured early Tuesday from the explosions in Stafford County and Fredericksburg.
Earlier in the month, the sheriff's office sought the public's assistance in helping to locate Stewart, who was charged with indecent exposure, obscene sexual display and violation of a protective order. Authorities said he was reported to have exposed himself to two different individuals while sitting in his car at the Stafford Marketplace in North Stafford in July and August. Neither of those people were connected to the bombings, police said.
Authorities said the detective and deputy sheriff involved in that case were those targeted by the explosives, as was his ex-girlfriend. The protective order violation charge was related to the ex-girlfriend.