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Jenny McCarthy "singled out" one of New York's Finest when she planted a midnight kiss on him Saturday night during "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve." McCarthy, a co-host for the holiday special, shared a lengthy lip-lock with a lucky police officer who was nearby when the ball dropped in Times Square.
"I just happened to be standing with that hot cop," she later explained to co-host Ryan Seacrest. The kiss, which the cop rated a "10" when McCarthy asked for a grade, was captured on camera in the first moments of 2012.
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McCarthy later took to Twitter, saying, "Hope u guys enjoyed it! FYI. I was wearing fake fur & the cop was a G rated kiss. (except for my hand squeezing his butt. Happy new year!" It looks like McCarthy's midnight kiss will be a New Year's tradition — she also smooched a stranger last year when she first co-hosted the popular ABC countdown show.
The Playboy Playmate turned actress and author, who famously split with Jim Carrey in 2010, told OnTheRedCarpet.com before the show, "Well, I am single. Wink, wink. We'll be there five hours this year so who knows? I might pull out of the crowd and find a cute guy to kiss. I don't know. We'll see."
She also tweeted earlier that evening, "I'm going to #BeBold in 2012 by asking more guys out and not waiting for them to come to me."
Finally, someone kept a New Year's resolution.
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Not long ago, I spent the morning having coffee with Kanzi. It wasn't my idea; Kanzi invited me, though he did so in his customary clipped way. Kanzi is a fellow of few words 384 of them by formal count, though he probably knows dozens more. He has a perfectly serviceable voice very clear, very expressive and very, very loud. But it's not especially good for forming words, which is the way of things when you're a bonobo, the close and more peaceable cousin of the chimpanzee.
But Kanzi is talkative all the same. For much of his day, he keeps a sort of glossary close at hand three laminated, place mat like sheets filled with hundreds of colorful symbols that represent all the words he's been taught by his minders or picked up on his own. He can build thoughts and sentences, even conjugate, all by pointing. The sheets include not just easy nouns and verbs like ball and Jell-O and run and tickle but also concept words like from and later and grammatical elements like the -ing and -ed endings signifying tense.
Kanzi knows the value of breaking the ice before getting down to business. So he points to the coffee icon on his glossary and then points to me. He then sweeps his arm wider, taking in primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, an investigator at the Great Ape Trust the research center in Des Moines, Iowa, that Kanzi calls home and lab supervisor Tyler Romine. Romine fetches four coffees hot, but not too hot takes one to Kanzi in his patio enclosure on the other side of a Plexiglas window and then rejoins us. Kanzi sips gulps, actually and since our voices are picked up by microphones, he listens as we talk.
"We told him that a visitor was coming," Savage-Rumbaugh tells me. "He's been excited, but he was stubborn this morning, and we couldn't get him to come out to the yard. So we had to negotiate a piece of honeydew melon in exchange." Honeydew is not yet on Kanzi's word list; instead, he points to the glyphs for green, yellow and watermelon. When he tried kale, he named it "slow lettuce" because it takes longer to chew than regular lettuce.
The not-for-profit Great Ape Trust is home to seven bonobos, including Kanzi's baby son Teco, born this year on June 1. Kanzi is by no means the first ape to have been taught language. The famous Koko, Washoe and others came before him. But the Trust takes a novel approach, raising apes from birth with spoken and symbolic language as a constant feature of their days. Just as human mothers take babies on walks and chatter to them about what they see even though the child does yet not understand, so too do the scientists at the Trust narrate the lives of their bonobos. With the help of such total immersion, the apes are learning to communicate better, faster and with greater complexity.
All the same, today Kanzi is not interested in saying much, preferring to run and leap and display his physical prowess instead. "Ball," he taps on one of his glossary sheets when he finishes his coffee.
"Tell him you'll get it for him," Savage-Rumbaugh instructs me and then shows me where the necessary symbols are on a sheet I have in hand. "Yes-I-will-chase-the-ball-for-you," I slowly peck out, chase being a word Kanzi uses interchangeably with get.
It takes me a while to find the ball in an office down the hall, and when I finally return, Savage-Rumbaugh verbally asks Kanzi, "Are you ready to play?" He looks at us balefully. "Past ready," he pecks.
Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
Our dodge a not unreasonable one has always been that animals are ours to do with as we please simply because they don't suffer the way we do. They don't think, not in any meaningful way. They don't worry. They have no sense of the future or their own mortality. They may pair-bond, but they don't love. For all we know, they may not even be conscious. "The reason animals do not speak as we do is not that they lack the organs," René Descartes once said, "but that they have no thoughts." For many people, the Bible offers the most powerful argument of all. Human beings were granted "dominion over the beasts of the field," and there the discussion can more or less stop.

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Monday, May 2, 2011
By way of a beginning...
Before the questions, we need a bit of context. Once a year, I teach a legal history course (or seminar) to a mix of second and third year law students and graduate students (mostly history grad students, though I also get some from political science, anthropology, English). Some years, the course is a lecture, sometimes the course is a seminar. The subject varies from year to year as well; it might be your basic bread and butter American Legal and Constitutional History course, or a legal or constitutional history course focused on a particular topic (work law, one year, citizenship law another), or a seminar in comparative constitutional history.
By and large, the courses work, or at least they appear to have done so. We more or less cover what I want to cover and deal with the things I think matter. My teaching evaluations for the courses track those of my other courses, students speak to me after the semester is over, some students take a course again from me another year, others ask for letters of recommendation, some sign up to participate in our JD/MA program. These seem to be signs that the courses and seminars are reasonably successful.
But looking back on the various semesters, I'm not sure I've quite pulled the courses off. Specifically, I have the feeling that what I've managed to do is teach to some not terribly happy medium--at some point early on in the semester we find a space that the law students and the non-law students find tolerable and then we stay there.
That's better than a lot of alternatives, but it means that the non-law students don't benefit from taking a course with law students and the law students don't get much out of taking a course with the non-law students. Instead of managing to create a new and interesting synthesis that pulls from their different disciplinary perspectives, I wind up with a course that seems both generic and a little dull.
Of course, perhaps students' disciplinary identity is such it is impossible to create a new synthesis. Or maybe its possible, but not every year with a random group of students (some of whom might be appalled to learn that they were signing up for new experiences and perspectives). Or maybe its possible, but only in courses taught by truly gifted teachers.
But let's imagine that it's possible for the merely competent, rather than the extremely gifted, to teach a legal history course that manages to create a synthesis between law and history. If so, how can it be done? What does it take to encourage students to engage one another at points of difference and build on that engagement?
I suppose that to get to that point, we need to engage the assumption underlying it, so feel free to do that, too. Am I right to think that a class that produces some sort of interdisciplinary synthesis is more valuable than a class that simply muddles through and leaves everyone a bit more informed at the end of the semester than they were at the beginning?
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Interesting post. My first inclination is to assume that history grad students will bring a deeper knowledge of historiography and theory to the course. By contrast, law students will probably be better able to read and understand cases, placing them within their doctrinal context. Is this right? Do law students respond more to doctrinal/case oriented questions, but grad students historiographical questions/debates?
- May 2, 2011 at 6:11:00 PM EDT
- Elizabeth Dale said...
Hi Anders. It's what you suggest, but on a couple of different levels, at once.
On one hand, law students tend to think about historical materials vertically--what does this tell us about today? Non-law students (especially history students) tend to engage more horizontally--what does this tell us about the context of that time?
At the same time, law students tend to engage the primary sources from a theoretical or policy point of view--what assumptions (about economics, or polities) does this case, or constitution, reflect? Non-law students tend to engage the secondary sources (articles, books) from a theoretical point of view--what is this author assuming about that time period.
So there are obvious points of overlap, but there's also a lot of potential for people talking past one another.
- May 3, 2011 at 3:25:00 PM EDT


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Restored 'Star Trek' shuttle unveiled for crowds in Houston
After months of restoration work, a piece of television sci-fi history has come to Space Center Houston in Clear Lake.
The Galileo Shuttlecraft, fully restored to its original luster when it was featured in the 1967 Star Trek episode "The Galileo Seven," is now finished and will be on permanent display inside Space Center Houston's Zero-G Diner.
On Wednesday morning the spiffed-up Galileo will be unveiled to Houston, with a number of celebs from the Star Trek on hand for the party, which is free and open to the public.
According to NASA spokesman Jack Moore, lots of smoke, dazzling lights and costumed characters will accompany the first glimpse of the spacecraft.
The vehicle represents not only a piece television history, but also the impact that the show had on those whose lives revolve around space travel and exploration, influencing generations of innovators.
"Science fiction, especially a series like Star Trek, has inspired many astronauts and engineers," said Richard Allen, president and CEO of Space Center Houston in a press release last week.
Organizers for Space City Con, which will be held this weekend, Aug. 2-4, will be throwing a bash at 10:30 a.m. for the Galileo. At 12:30 p.m. there will be a panel discussing the Galileo. Just some of the actors scheduled to appear include Don Marshall, Lieutenant Boma from the original 1967 "Galileo Seven" episode of Star Trek and Robert Picardo from Star Trek: Voyager. Gil Gerard, Capt. William Buck Rogers from Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, will also be on hand.
Those men and others will also be appearing at Space City Con.
The prop was bought at an auction last year by collector Adam Schneider for $61,000. The prop's condition was less than stellar, and the trailer-sized vehicle was coated in rust. A Trek fan had bought in the '80s for just around $2,000.
It was thought to be lost for some 20 years before it showed up at another auction last year looking haggard. It came to the Master Shipwrights warehouse in New Jersey around the time Hurricane Sandy hit the area last October. Just as it survived space hazards, Galileo withstood the ensuing flood at the workshop.
It was hijacked by space hippies in the Trek episode "The Way To Eden," so here's hoping security is tight at Space Center Houston, just in case.


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Christmas has come and gone-and so has a lot of our family! We had a lot of visitors these past few weeks and got to do lots of fun things together. We started off with a visit from Reed's parents a few days before Christmas. We had a lot of fun with them and the local cousins, but unfortunately didn't really get any pictures. But Monday night we had yummy homemade pizza and decorated sugar cookies, Tuesday we went to a BYU basketball game, and on Wednesday we had everyone over for dinner before heading down to The Riverwoods to see the lights and ride the carousal.
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text: Moving big animals to places they don't already live is at once appealing and disturbing, a sort of adolescent environmental fantasy come to life: African lions in Nebraska! Komodo dragons in Australia! But at the beginning of the 21st century, with 7 billion humans competing for space and resources on a rapidly warming planet, exercising arguable control over the fate of nature, moving species around is a legitimate option. It's called assisted migration. Often the goal is to save endangered plants and animals, though not always. Sometimes, as with the Komodo dragon proposal, the goal is to restore ecological balance, and other proposals are motivated by an almost romantic sense of possibility: Wouldn't it be marvelous to watch cheetahs dash across the grasslands of South Dakota? As an idea, assisted migration has been around for decades, but since the millennium's turn it's moved from a mostly fringe concept to something that scientists discuss, if not argue. After all, many examples of unwittingly assisted migration show what can happen when relocation goes wrong: Cane toads swarming across Australia, brown tree snakes devouring Guam's birds, kudzu swallowing much of the southeastern United States, and of course the voracious Burmese pythons of Florida. On the flip side, however, are pheasants and sweet clover, brown trout and Norway maple, which despite their non-native origins are now considered a natural part of North American life. Sometimes relocation works fine, and an argument can be made that consciously acting as landscape-scale zookeepers and gardeners is a legitimate response to impending catastrophe. Above: Komodo Dragons to Australia? In a Feb. 1 Nature paper, biologist David Bowman of Australia's University of Tasmania raises the hypothetical possibility of introducing elephants and Komodo dragons to Australia. At first it sounds mad, but what's happening now in Australia is a form of madness, too. Massive wildfires that have become a regular and lethal fact of Australian life don't only represent climate change or natural susceptibility, but the buildup of vegetation that until 50,000 years ago would have been eaten by Australia's now-extinct megafauna. Elephants could fill that role again, writes Bowman. "The idea of introducing elephants may seem absurd, but the only other methods likely to control gamba grass involve using chemicals or physically clearing the land, which would destroy the habitat," he writes. "Using mega-herbivores may ultimately be more practical and cost-effective." Komodo dragons wouldn't do much for fires, but they would eat feral pigs and buffalo, the targets of ongoing and largely unsuccessful animal control efforts. Image: Komodo dragon (Adhi Rachdian/Flickr)Rewilding the Great Plains Only an eyeblink of evolutionary time separates the contemporary Great Plains from one resembling the savannas of Africa. It's not a perfect resemblance, but close enough that ecologists have considered "rewilding" the Great Plains with African mammals for decades. Whether they're visionaries or crackpots is a matter of opinion; for now, most people would probably pick the latter, though the idea's survival suggests a certain persistent appeal. And for one animal, at least, it's already reality: Herds of wild horses, their disposition a matter of ongoing controversy, last roamed the west some 13,000 years ago. Bringing big mammals to North America could provide a safe haven for the species, and might also bring the environment closer to what it was before the native megafauna went extinct. Image: Wild horses outside Carson City, Nevada. (Rick Cooper/Flickr)Bring Back the Cheetah Given the resistance of ranchers to reintroduced wolves, it's hard to imagine lions ever roaming the Great Plains -- but what about cheetahs? Considered by Tim Flannery in his 2002 book The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples, cheetah pose no threat to cattle, and are less dangerous to people than mountain lions. They could also be good for pronghorn antelope, the world's fastest hoof mammal, said science writer and environmental activist Connie Barlow. Pronghorns likely evolved to outrun a now-extinct species of North American cheetah, and "will surely slow down in a few more thousands of years if we do not return the cheetah," said Barlow. Image: Keven Law/FlickrSaving Torreya taxifolia An evergreen conifer that moved south during the last Ice Age and was stranded when the glaciers retreated, Torreya taxifolia was until recently found only along one short stretch of Florida's Apalachicola river. In the mid-20th century they experienced a severe die back. Just 500 are left in that original habitat, and like American chestnut trees they no longer live long enough to reproduce. Between the disease and regional climate change, T. taxifolia's continued wild existence seemed unlikely. Then, early this millennium, a group of activists called the Torreya Guardians transplanted healthy seedlings cloned from botanical garden survivors into a few southern Appalachian locations. So far the transplants are healthy, and the Guardians intend for the trees to not only for the lineage to continue, but for T. taxifolia to again have an ecological role. The trees could have survived in gardens, in what are called "potted orchards" -- but "potted is the equivalent of caged," wrote Torreya Guardians founder Connie Barlow in 2004. Image: United States Forest ServiceAntarctic Polar Bears? At first, moving polar bears to Antarctica sounds reasonable. They're endangered. They like cold and ice. Even after global warming, Antarctica will have plenty of both. But one thing Antarctica doesn't have is large terrestrial predators, and animals there would be utterly unadapted. 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Bill Davis Racing Dodge Intrepid R/T- The Long Road To Victory
Behind The Scenes Of The Winning Bill Davis Racing Team
We all know what a gallant effort Dodge has made in the 211/42 years since its "Second Coming"-scoring three wins in the '01 NASCAR Winston Cup series along with two more so far this year (through midseason), including the '02 Daytona 500.
This year's win by Dodge in the Daytona 500 was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The following is the first installment in a series of articles designed to give a glimpse behind the scenes at the talent Dodge has assembled for its assault on the Winston Cup Series in 2002. This month we'll ride along with Bill Davis Racing (BDR) and the Caterpillar-sponsored No. 22 Dodge Intrepid R/T to see how BDR shifted into victory lane in motorsport's biggest race.
From The BeginningWe can't begin this story without recognizing the insight of Bill and Gloria Davis, who over the last two decades have brought the likes of Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon, Bobby Labonte, and Ward Burton into the Winston Cup Series. And looking toward the future, Scott Wimmer is scheduled to make his debut in a Dodge Intrepid R/T later this season.
Bill and Gail Davis already built a successful trucking business before they ever thought of getting into the racing game. Although their endeavor began as a hobby, that didn't last long.
"I've been involved in racing since high school," says Bill. "During that time, I helped Bob Himes' Top Fuel drag racing team. They were a local team that operated out of a shop in Little Rock, Arkansas, close to my house. From 1969 until 1972 I raced motorcross at some local tracks around Little Rock and across the United States."
In the early '80s, with his booming trucking business underway and Gail handling its day-to-day operation, Bill became involved in ASA racing with the late Julian Martin, father of now "Winston Cup" great Mark Martin.
"I grew up knowing the Martins," says Bill. "My father and Mark's father, Julian, were good friends. Julian sparked my interest in both racing and the trucking business."
Bill jumped in with both feet in 1987, building and campaigning an ASA car for Mark Martin to compete in the Midwest.
In 1988, Mark joined the newly formed Jack Roush organization in Winston Cup, but Davis wanted to continue his race team if sponsorship could be found. Davis, Martin, and the Carolina Ford Dealers formed a Busch team, and their relationship continued through the end of the '90 season.
It was then that Martin encouraged Davis to commit full-time to the racing business.
"At the end of the '90 season, Mark told me that if I wanted to be taken seriously I had to commit and move to North Carolina," says Davis. "I told myself that I really liked being a part of racing, but I had a business and employees in Arkansas. I was on the fence. I didn't know what to do."
Well, Davis made the move, and as they say, the rest is history.
After a call from then top Ford executives Lee Morse and Michael Kranefuss, Bill cast his watchful eye on an open-wheel star from the midwest by the name of Jeff Gordon.
Bill liked what he saw and gave Jeff a tryout at the Rockingham Busch race in 1990. "Jeff qualified on the outside pole at Rockingham in his first Busch series race, and that made up our minds," said Davis. "I signed Jeff to drive the Carolina Ford Dealers car for the '91 season.
"In 1992 we got backing from Baby Ruth and hired Ray Evernham. We had a phenomenal season. We broke every record there was, including 11 pole positions (a single-season record), most money in a season, and most laps led."
Gordon and Evernham's success wasn't overlooked by other owners. While Davis was working on plans to take the pair to Winston Cup in 1993, Gordon and his crew chief were lured away by Rick Hendrick.
After losing Gordon and Evernham, Davis regrouped, signing then-rookie Bobby Labonte and Maxwell House to a full-time Winston Cup deal. They finished 19th in the points, scoring top-5 and top-10 finishes, and a pole, in 1993. Davis and Labonte worked together through the '94 season, after which Maxwell House made the decision to get out of racing.
Labonte left the team at the end of the season, joining Joe Gibbs Racing. Not long after Labonte's departure, MBNA signed a three-year deal with BDR for the No. 22 Winston Cup entry. Davis recruited several talented drivers, including Busch series star Randy Lajoie, but a lack of chemistry left Davis to find yet another driver.
With ten races remaining in the '95 season, Davis secured Virginia native Ward Burton to drive the MBNA-sponsored No. 22 car, and seven races later Burton gave Bill and Gail their first Winston Cup victory in the AC Delco 400 at North Carolina Motor Speedway.
Davis had built a team with tremendous potential over the years, but something was missing. A talented, young, first-time crew chief named Tom Baldwin joined BDR with seven races remaining in the '98 season. Once on board, Baldwin led Ward Burton and the No. 22 team to their best finish in the Winston Cup series point standings-16th.
Building on the improved finishes and consistency, Ward visited victory lane in 2000 with a dominating victory in the Mall.com 400 at Darlington Raceway, giving Caterpillar their first Winston Cup victory since joining the team in 1999.
The team's domination continued at Darlington Raceway, handing Dodge its second "new age" win in the '01 Mountain Dew Southern 500.
Leading into the '02 Winston Cup season, many questions faced the BDR team-off-season rule changes, such as NASCAR's "one-engine" rule, loomed over their heads.
We all know the hard work put in during a race weekend, but what did it take back at the shop to get the BDR/Caterpillar-sponsored team into victory lane in the series' biggest race?
Let's peek inside the shop doors.
On The InsideWhen you first turn the corner onto Old Thomasville Road in southwestern High Point, North Carolina, it seems like any other light industrial area you might find anywhere in the U.S.
But as soon as you pull into the parking lot and walk inside, you're greeted by the winning trophy from the '02 Daytona 500 and know you're somewhere special.
Welcome inside BDR: Be careful not to step on Short Track, Bill and Gail's elderly dog-that's if he's not asleep on the pillow next to Gail's desk or "on guard" while his "mother" works out in the gym.
In today's seemingly impersonal racing world, this organization is just the opposite-a highly trained group of warm, down-to-earth people working their hearts out in the sport they love. Don't get me wrong-they're paid and paid well for all their hard work, but most enthusiasts would do the same job for nothing.
You can experience much of this insider's tour yourself by just stopping by the shop. Unlike most professional race teams, the BDR shops are open to the general public.
"We've never lost sight of what built this sport-the fans," says Davis. "Without them and their support, we wouldn't have these great jobs we love. Without the fans all this wouldn't exist.
"Our shop has always been open to the fans. We could have anywhere from a few each day to a couple of hundred if it's near one of the Charlotte races. For the most part they're quiet and leave the guys to do their work. We try and give them a once in a lifetime experience."
When you walk through the glass doors that lead into the assembly room, on the left you'll see the red/gold No. 23 Hills Brothers Coffee Intrepid R/Ts being prepared for veteran Winston Cup driver Hut Stricklin. To your right are Ward Burton's familiar yellow/black No. 22 Caterpillar-sponsored Dodge Intrepids.
The assembly room is where the race engines are installed, the cars receive their initial suspension setups, and rear gears and final quality checks are made before loading the cars onto their haulers for the next race.
In one corner of the massive BDR main shop building sits the Caterpillar and Hills Brothers Coffee haulers being restocked and readied for the next race by hauler drivers John Pounds (No. 22) and Rick Simmons (No. 23). Just to restock these with all the spare parts, engines, nuts, bolts, and everything else you might need 36 weekends a year is a full-time job.
Can you imagine carrying enough parts to rebuild two-plus cars at every race, and keeping track of that inventory?
Along the back wall are the surface plates-the perfectly level areas where the proper suspension setup is applied, along with the shock/spring packages for each track. These guys are under the direction of Head Engineer Todd Holbert, son of the late road racing great Al Holbert.
If you look closely you can see the team's setup notebooks for each track sitting on the back cabinets-full of those deep, dark chassis secrets.
Stepping through the back doors and into the fab/paint shop is the room where some of the 150-plus employees of BDR work on repairing, fabricating, adjusting, and conforming the chassis to meet the strict regulations of the NASCAR Winston Cup series. Here the Intrepids go from a bare Hopkins chassis to painted, decaled, and aerodynamically perfect vehicles ready for the wind tunnel or racetrack.
Unlike other shops that aren't built to suit the needs of the workers, BDR long-time employee and Director of Operations Lee Robertson designed each space to make life easier on the mechanics.
The fab shop houses three lifts that hoist the vehicles overhead for underbody work, allowing the mechanics to stand under the car-reducing the wear-and-tear on the hard-working men in the shop. Once the bodywork on each car is finished, they're rolled across the room into the paint shop.
Across the street from the main race shop is the engine shop (the only "off limits" area in the place). But this is unlike anything you might expect to see in a manufacturer's assembly line. Normally, engines are built as they travel down the line and workers install their pieces until it's completed. But not here. Each Dodge powerplant Is lovingly built by some of the most skilled mechanics in the business.
The engine builders at BDR all have more than a working knowledge of each aspect of the engine-building process. They know that it's the heart of the vehicle, so no expense is spared (within NACASR rules) in building them, and any problems here will make for a short Sunday at the track.
The engine shop is led by Head Engine Builder Terry Elledge, one of the most valued members of the BDR organization. He and his staff helped develop the stout Dodge engine for Winston Cup competition.
As in all forms of racing, the exact specifications of each engine is a closely guarded secret, but we can tell you that under the hoods of the No. 22 and No. 23 Intrepids live Dodge's NASCAR-approved V8s. Producing 750 bhp with 530 lb-ft of torque, these monsters run a 12:1 compression ratio, with a 4.125x3.330 bore and stroke using BME pistons and breathing through a Braswell carburetor.
With the '01 Daytona 500 victory under their belts, we'd say Terry Elledge and his staff have a good understanding of Dodge's Winston Cup engine.
Here And ThereWe've walked you through almost every corner of the BDR High Point shops, and now it's time to follow the guys to the track and see what else it takes to put a Winston Cup Dodge Intrepid on the asphalt.
Getting the car properly prepared at the shop is half the battle in being fast off the truck. Being able to quickly pass through the required NASCAR technical inspection is critical to getting as much track time as possible. This allows the team more time to dial-in the qualifying and race setups.
"I'm real proud of the effort the guys put in the car," says Burton. "Most of our guys have jobs at the shop. They aren't the hired guns (race-day-only pit stop specialists) some teams use."
"I think these guys have more pride in the job they do by being with the car all the way from the shop to the track and back. It's like it's their baby," says Ward.
"Look at my over-the wall-guys-they're some pretty talented men. My crew chief, Tommy Bladwin, changes the rear tires; Mike Brown carries the rears for Tommy, and he's the shop General Manager. Tommy Wallace changes the fronts for us-he's a suspension fabricator back at the shop, while Trip Bruce, who carries the front tires, is also my car chief at the track and a mechanic back at the shop."
The team's finest hour has to be awarding Dodge its first Daytona 500 of the new age. Davis was overwhelmed with pride by what the team and Dodge accomplished.
"It doesn't get any better than winning the Daytona 500," said Davis. "This is it. This is what we all work for. When you're a young person and you want to be a racer, and you're a real racer, you dream of not only competing at this level, but then to win the biggest race that we run is just amazing. I thought the Southern 500 was about as good as it could get last year, but this is just hard to describe. It is unbelievable. I'm just so happy for everybody that supports us-all the people that work at Bill Davis racing who work so hard and dedicate themselves to it. This is just a wonderful thing.
"Without Dodge's support, development, and engineering help, we couldn't have won the 500. The manner in which they help all the Dodge teams is more than you can put into words," said Davis.
Claiming his first Daytona 500 win was also the highlight of Ward Burton's Winston Cup career, and the Virginia native has high praise for the whole team.
"It's been exciting," says Burton. "To win NASCAR's biggest race is a real accomplishment for the team. I just feel really thankful for all the support that Dodge has given us; the guys on the team and their families who have sacrificed so much and worked so hard. Bill, Gail, this team, and myself have come a long way since 1995. It means a lot to bring home this trophy together."
The entire BDR crew has been through some rough times since their Daytona 500 win. NASCAR's one-engine rule has given Terry Elledge and the guys in the engine shop more than one sleepless night, along with many others in the series.
In addition, the new and harder Goodyear tires have been a headache in setup for Todd Holbert and the engineering department, not to mention driver Ward Burton.
The depth of a team's talent is most evident when their back is against the wall. Remember why Dodge chose Bill Davis racing-their eye for and use of talented people.


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Date Announced: 01/16/2013
Description of Recall: Southeast Toyota Distributors, LLC (SET) is recalling certain models interspersed through model years 2009 through 2013 as follows: model year 2009-2012 Tacoma, 4Runner, Camry, Camry Hybrid, Prius, and RAV4; model year 2009-2010 Avalon, FJ Cruiser, and Highlander Hybrid; model year 2010-2013 model year Corolla, Sienna and Tundra; model year 2009-2013 Highlander and Venza; model year 2012 Prius V; and model year 2010-2012 Sequoia. During modification by SET to include accessories such as leather seat covers, seat heaters or headrest DVD systems, these vehicles may not have had the passenger seat occupant sensing system calibration tested. Without passing the calibration test, the occupant sensing system may not operate as designed.
Conequence: If the front passenger seat occupant sensing system is out of calibration, the front passenger airbags may not deploy or they may deploy inappropriately for the passenger's size and position. This could increase the risk of personal injury during the event of a vehicle crash necessitating airbag deployment.
Action Need To Fix It: Southeast Toyota will notify owners, and dealers will test the sensitivity of the occupant detection sensors, and recalibrate them as necessary. The recall began on March 21, 2013. Owners may contact Southeast Toyota at 1-800-301-6859.
Notes: Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
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Date Announced: 04/09/2013
Description of Recall: Southeast Toyota is recalling certain model year 2008 and 2010-2013 Toyota Tundra, 2010-2012 Rav4, 2012 Toyota Sequoia, 2010-2011 Toyota Corolla, 2010-2011 Toyota Camry and Camry Hybrid, 2010-2013 Toyota Highlander and Highlander Hybrid, 2010-2013 Toyota FJ Cruiser, 2011 Toyota Land Cruiser, 2010-2013 Toyota Venza, 2010-2011 Toyota 4Runner, 2010-2013 Toyota Tacoma, 2011-2012 Toyota Sienna, 2012 Toyota Prius, 2013 Scion FR-S, 2011 Scion XD, 2011 Scion XB, and 2012 Scion TC vehicles. These vehicles were sold with labels that were outside the allowable one percent of accuracy of actual weight added. Thus, these vehicles fail to comply with the requirements of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) Number 110, "Tire Selection and Rims."
Conequence: An inaccurate label could lead to owners overloading their vehicles and tires. An overloaded vehicle can result in a tire failure which may result in a vehicle crash, personal injury, or property damage.
Action Need To Fix It: Southeast Toyota will notify owners and provide a corrected label with instructions concerning its installation. A small group of the affected vehicles will need additonal remedies which are still being developed. The recall began on May 28, 2013. Owners may contact Southeast Toyota at 1-800-301-6859.
Notes: Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.safercar.gov.
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The organization seeking to ask Boulder County voters to convert the county to a home-rule form of government with its own charter is still collecting petition signatures to place a charter-creation question on a future election ballot.
Last month, the Boulder County Community Rights Network had said it hoped to gather enough voters' signatures by Monday in an effort to convince the county commissioners to put the charter-creation idea on this November's ballot.
The organization indicated in a Monday afternoon news release, however, that it fell short of having the required 12,396 signatures it needed to turn in to meet its own fall-election deadline.
Volunteers have collected more than 10,000 signatures, the organization said.
Boulder County Community Rights Network can continue to collect signatures, though, and present them to the County Clerk and Recorder's Office for verification at some future point. If enough are turned in, the Board of County Commissioners would then set an election date.
"It shouldn't take more than a few weeks to obtain the remaining signatures necessary to move ahead with the process," the Community Rights Network's Mary Smith said in the organization's news release.
The organization's activists contend that a home-rule charter amendment would give Boulder County the authority to prohibit or more strictly regulate activities that threaten the county's communities — activities such as the use of hydraulic fracturing to free up oil and gas deposits in unincorporated Boulder County.
County commissioners and their legal advisers have said, however, that a home-rule charter wouldn't give Boulder County any more authority under state law and the Colorado Constitution to permanently prohibit fracking.
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UPDATE: [African-American] Women of Color Writers and Environmental Justice Literature
Panel at RMMLA Conference, October 8-10 2009, in Snow Bird, Utah.
As the environmental movement gains more attention, many genres of
literature reveal their own insights of the natural world and how the
concept of "nature" varies between different people. This panel is
particularly interested in works by women of color and how they are using
literature to challenge definition, expand the boundaries of the
environment, and discover new routes towards environmental justice.
Prominent examples include works by Ana Castillo, Linda Hogan, and Toni
Morrison. Some important questions that papers may address:
What counts as an "environment"? How are traditional notions being
challenged by women of color?
How are social issues inextricably linked to the environment and how are
women of color writers portraying these connections?
What challenges are faced by women of color writers? What is at stake in
terms of the environment?
How/Why are women of color writers using literature as an environmental
justice tool?
How are women of color writers using different literary genres to discuss
the environment/environmental justice?
Other topics related to women of color writers and environmental justice
literature are also welcome, as well as topics relying on ecofeminist
interpretations. Abstracts of 250-500 words should be emailed to Andrea
Campbell, Washington State University, akatecampbell_at_gmail.com by March
1st, 2009.
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DJ Patil is the chief data scientist and deputy chief technology officer for data policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where he advises on policies and practices to maintain US leadership in technology and innovation, fosters partnerships to maximize the nation's return on its investment in data, and helps to attract and retain the best minds in data science to serve the public. Since joining OSTP, DJ has collaborated with colleagues across government, including the chief information officer and the US Digital Service as part of the Obama administration's commitment to open data and data science. He leads data science efforts related to the Precision Medicine Initiative, which focuses on utilizing advances in data and health care to provide clinicians with new tools, knowledge, and therapies to select which treatments will work best for which patients while protecting patient privacy.
DJ joined the White House following an incredible career as a data scientist—a term he helped coin—in the public and private sectors and in academia. Most recently, he served as the vice president of product at RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce) and previously held positions at LinkedIn, Greylock Partners, and eBay, where he oversaw initiatives at eBay, PayPal, and Skype. Prior to his work in the private sector, DJ was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) science and technology policy fellow for the Department of Defense, where he directed new efforts to bridge computational and social sciences in fields like social network analysis to help anticipate emerging threats to the United States. DJ has authored a number of influential articles and books explaining the important current and potential applications of data science. In 2014, the World Economic Forum named DJ a Young Global Leader. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, and a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland, where he used open datasets published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make major improvements in numerical weather forecasting.
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NFL Training camp season is always a time for irrational exuberance. Every team thinks it can win the Super Bowl, even though 31 of those teams will end being horribly wrong. And so, to preview the upcoming NFL season, which could be the most unpredictable ever, we now give you five reasons why your favorite team could win the Super Bowl. Today, it's the New England Patriots.
1. Bring us your malcontents. After rehabilitating (at least temporarily) the likes of Corey Dillon and Randy Moss, the Patriots have become something of a halfway home for notorious NFL turds. And Bill Belichick really upped the ante this season by bringing in Albert Haynesworth and Chad Ochocinco, two men with a history of sporadically brilliant play and consistently idiotic behavior. And before you think that Belichick will magically turn both of these men into the superstars once again, you have to consider some of the warning signs from the preseason. Haynesworth finally made his preseason debut against the Giants after struggling with nagging injuries (or laziness, you never know which) during camp. Ocho has dropped more than his fair share of passes and, frankly, he's a whole lot older and slower these days, regardless of how good of a soldier he's been. It's not a given that both men end up playing like All Pros this season (though Haynesworth's return to a 4-3 defense won't hurt his chances). If they do, expect Belichick to be anointed the Master Savior Of All Wayward Souls by every insufferable NFL analyst who hasn't done so already.
2. Tom Brady is a bit cheesed off. After winning the MVP last season with a ridiculous TD-to-INT ratio (36-4), Brady was oddly passive in the Pats' playoff loss to the Jets. Something tells me that performance was an anomaly. The Pats haven't won a playoff game since 2007, but it's certainly not because Brady stopped being an effective playoff quarterback. He had arguably his best season in 2010, and with two emerging tight ends in Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez, plus a running game bolstered by the drafting of Stevan Ridley, Brady will again bring New England into the playoffs and give them as good a chance to win it all as he always has.
3. Did we mention Peyton Manning might be badly hurt? I don't know if Manning's cryptic neck injury is a good sign for Brady or not. On the one hand, it could rid the Patriots of critical roadblock on their way to a fourth title. On the other hand, Manning and Brady are so existentially linked that perhaps one needs the other to flourish. Maybe Manning's decline also signals the decline of his historical counterpart. Maybe they feel each other's pain! Maybe they're linked by MAGIC! IF JON GRUDEN BELIEVES IT I DO TOO.
4. The defense will be better. Haynesworth aside, the Patriots also brought in Shaun Ellis, Andre Carter, and Mark Anderson to reinforce a d-line that was lacking in 2010. Though they cut safety Brandon Meriweather, the secondary still boasts an emerging star in CB Devin McCourty and a high profile draft pick in Ras-I Dowling. Hard not to like someone with the first name Ras-I. Sounds like a Batman villain. This is a pass defense that gave up a ton of yardage last season (a misleading stat somewhat since teams were playing from behind against New England often). There's little doubt that the moves they made will improve that going into 2011.
5. No more fake punts in the playoffs. Belichick learned his lesson the hard way last time around.
You Could Win The Super Bowl! New England Patriots
NFL Training camp season is always a time for irrational exuberance. Every team thinks it can win the Super Bowl, even though 31 of those teams will end being horribly wrong. And so, to preview the upcoming NFL season, which could be the most unpredictable ever, we now give you five reasons why your favorite team could win the Super Bowl. Today, it's the New England Patriots.


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The extension granted in March for the DNS servers run by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) for victims of the DNS Changer malware expires in a month. To recap: after the FBI (working with a cadre of private industry partners, including Trend Micro researchers) disconnected the ESThost/Rove Digital "rogue" DNS infrastructure in New York and Chicago as part of operation "ghostclick", ISC acted under a custodial court order to install & maintain legitimate DNS servers for affected users.
The DNS Changer Working Group (DCWG) estimates that more than 350,000 users are still affected by DNS changer malware. Unlike the previous shutdown date in March – which was put off by a federal court – there will be no extension this time. In addition to checkup sites like the one maintained by the DCWG, commonly used sites like Facebook and Google have begun notifying their users as well. We urge users to check if they are affected by this problem; if they are they can go to the links provided by the DCWG or contact their ISP for help removing this threat. Users who ignore these warnings face being cut off from the entire Internet once the court order expires on July 9.
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Joyce Graham Henderson, most recently of Ripton, Vt. died in Burlington, Vt. early on Friday, Nov. 2, 2012 at the age of 60. She was born in Arlington, Va., the daughter of Donald Graham Henderson and Alaine Marsh Henderson, longtime residents of Alexandria, Va; her father worked for the federal government, rising to the level of Assistant Chief of Staff for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the 1970s. With the notable exception of a year in London during the swinging mid-'60s, Joyce grew up in Alexandria, and attended Charles Barrett, Thomas Jefferson and finally T.C. Williams High School, from which she graduated as a member of the Class of 1969. She has friends and extended family across the state of Virginia.
Joyce received her A.B. in History with honors from Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. She pursued graduate work in public administration at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University and the Washington Public Affairs Center. After an internship with the U.S. Department of State and a stint at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, Joyce worked as an editor and staff associate in Washington, D.C. for Trans-World News Service and the American Association for Engineering Education. She continued to work as a free-lance writer, editor, and indexer for major scholarly presses throughout her life.
From 1979-1982 Joyce served as project officer at Appropriate Technology International, managing economic development projects in Africa and the South Pacific: she had primary responsibilities for all operations in Kenya, and shared responsibility for projects in Fiji, Malawi, Swaziland, and Vanuatu. This was work of which she was particularly and deservedly proud. From 1982-1984 she lived in Cairo, Egypt, working for Chemonics International's Basic Village Services Project, and edited a volume of the United Nations' comprehensive development study of the Sinai.
For the past 27 years, Joyce and her husband William B. Pierce owned and operated the Chipman Inn in Ripton, Vt. She was Ripton's Assistant Town Clerk, and served several terms on the Regional Planning Commission.
Joyce loved people, and served as an inspiration for many as she battled lung cancer and other adversities with grace, optimism, and determination. She was a voracious reader, with a special love of historical novels and mysteries as well as literary classics. She was adept at all sorts of board games and word puzzles, composing as well as solving crosswords. She was also a skilled needlewoman — knitting sweaters, crocheting socks, and creating needlepoint pillows. She was an amateur photographer, painter, calligrapher, and musician, and a lover of cats. Joyce spoke some Arabic and Swahili as well as French; she lived for a time in England, France, and Italy, loved to travel, and had many friends around the world as well as close to home.
She is survived by Bill, her husband of 30 years, as well as by her brother Geoffrey R. Henderson of Arlington, Va. and her sister Diana E. Henderson of Boston, Mass.
A memorial service in Joyce's honor will be held at 1 p.m. on Dec. 1 at the Sanderson/Ducharme funeral home in Middlebury, Vt.


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|Here's an invite inspired from the popular sitcom How I Met Your Mother
|Meme lovers will totally relate to this one!
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Episode Seventeen - January 31st, 2006
Phantom Console, Save Heroes of Might & Magic, Full Auto, Final Fantasy XI Xbox 360 Beta and more!
Right Click Here and 'Save As' to Download!
Welcome to Gamers With Jobs Radio, the video gaming podcast for people who hate podcasts. This week, Russ and Shawn ridicule both video game console manufacturers and video game consumers all in one episode! Plus, a look at Full Auto, the Final Fantasy XI beta for the Xbox 360, an in-depth look at Retro Gaming on the 360, accusations of homosexuality and more! Featuring new music tracks from Alec Harrison. Crank it up, we won't tell.
Special! be sure to take a look at The Tech of Gamers With Jobs Radio over at www.insomniacorp.com for a behind-the-scenes look at how we do that voodoo that we do, blah blah blah...
Music Track Listing:
0:01:18 - GWJ Radio Main Theme, Ian Dorsch
0:04:20 - Breakbeat, Alec Harrison
0:12:36 - Reload, Alec Harrison
0:16:42 - Green on Black, Alec Harrison
0:23:12 - GWJ Radio Main Theme (Dark Mood Remix), Ian Dorsch
0:28:19 - Waiting for Mr. 7, DJ Drunken Master
0:39:37 - Panties, Elliot Fienberg
0:45:05 - Ode to the Blue Devil, DJ Drunken Master
0:48:18 - Tantronic, Alec Harrison
0:52:33 - GWJ Radio Main Theme, Ian Dorsch
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Original music written and performed by Ian Dorsch.
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Wow - I had no idea how complex the hardware situation could be for the recording. I definitely didn't picture there being so many different pieces while listening to the previous episodes. Neat!
A little addition to the SaveHeroes.org story, before claiming victory on their site (which they've done) they created a "News Suppression Pact" as a threat to Ubi about what will happen if their demands were not met.
As an action of protest, following this announcement, no news or updates will be posted on our web sites. Additionally, Heroes of Might and Magic 5 information will be removed from our web sites. We request that Ubisoft officially confirms that the release date of Heroes of Might and Magic 5 will be delayed past March 2006, for a period of time sufficient to develop a balanced and fully functional game. We do not regard the announcement made on Gamespot as true until Ubisoft issues official confirmation.
Thank god the game was delayed, they were like three proclamations away from pie-facing the President of Ubisoft and lighting his car on fire.
Wow - I had no idea how complex the hardware situation could be for the recording. I definitely didn't picture there being so many different pieces while listening to the previous episodes. Neat!
Indeed. That is some hardcore sh*t, Fletcher. It pays off, though -- GWJ is one of, if not the, slickest sounding podcasts I listen to. It puts to shame the variety of Ziff Davis podcasts that some of your fellow TechTV survivors put together every week, and in theory they are getting paid to do it.
Have you considered running a bit of donation drive for Insomnia Corp? I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be glad to chip in a couple of bucks to help you get the equipment upgrades you need. The wonderful show you put together every week is well worth it.
Edit: Right, so I'm a blind idiot. I see you've got a handy little donation button right there in the sidebar. Cool.
Yeah, shielded cables? So much better. I'm using Monster Cables to connect my microphone to my FireWire audio interface.
Pretty much, what my co-host and I do, is record our own voices locally, splice together when I get his track over Audacity. I'm looking for something better for OS X that I can obtain totally legally through legitimate means... legitimately. GarageBand... just doesn't sit well with me.
Don't play coy with us Logan, drop a link!
The radio thing has kind of become part of my weekly schedule lately. My work week ends on Monday night, I get up on Tuesday morning, make breafast, and listen to the show while I eat.
It's become sort of a ritual.
Full of Zest and Verve, as a Quickie should
Excellent music... and great show!
Ha! I got a "job" with another branch of that same epigone perfume company. They actually took us to a big pep rally in Dallas (maybe in Houston?), put us up in a posh hotel and fed us well for a weekend. As a bonus there were a lot of attractive girls.
I left that place after milking the free vacation and responded to a job ad for what I thought was an electronics store only to wind up in an identical place that sold cheap car stereo equipment out of car trunks. My summer job hunt finalized with me doing construction work. From a hotel full of scantily clad perfume-salesgirls to a bunch of beer-gutted sweaty construction guys making homoerotic jokes -- yeah, I won that job hunt.
Our ears (like all of our sensory organs) are so adept at adjusting to piss-poor inputs, that we rarely notice volume differences, hums, hisses and other stuff – until it's recorded. Then it sounds like a f*cking freight train.
Particularly if one were to wail "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTED!" into the microphone.
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Our ears (like all of our sensory organs) are so adept at adjusting to piss-poor inputs, that we rarely notice volume differences, hums, hisses and other stuff – until it's recorded. Then it sounds like a f*cking freight train.
Particularly if one were to wail "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTED!" into the microphone.
As if that would ever happen.
Man this was a really excellent show guys, and the music was great!
Concur, great show and great music. Too bad Mr. Harrison's site appears to be utterly diddled.
I so want a guest spot on a show if only to yell "c*cks!" at opportune times.
Send them a .wav of you saying "c*cks" so Fletcher can just insert it where appropriate.
Send them a .wav of you saying "c*cks" so Fletcher can just insert it where appropriate.
This is unacceptable because I modify the timbre and pitch of each utterance *c*cks!* so as to construct ideal sonic textures and my sense of comic timing *c*cks!* is finely honed, so my actual "presence" is required to yield maximum effect. I AM NO MERE SAMPLE, BUB! I AM A REAL HUMAN *c*cks!* WITH FEELING!
Great episode guys!
Like Thin_J, I've worked the radio broadcast into my morning schedule. Tuesday is my longest commute (I work at a different office every day of the week). So I download the episode, throw it on my MP3 player and then listen to it on the way. Previously I would finish listening to the show while checking my e-mails and doing responses, but this week it finished EXACTLY as I was pulling into the office parkinglot. Excellent timing!
I'm really enjoying some of the new music on the show! I know it would probably cut into the talk-time, but is there any way to expand on that section? Maybe let the transitions run for a few more bars or something. Just a thought.
Again, Two Thumbs Up!
Great show and I'm also liking the inclusion of all the new music. How about some other music genres, other than techno, though. I really dig Drunken Master's trip hop track in the middle of the show.
Nice to hear some real feedback from a 360 owner. I don't feel like I'm missing anything, by not owning one. I keed!
Speaking of T-Shirts, where are the GWJ ones?
They're sitting in a warehouse, waiting for me to give the green light. Pretty much
They're sitting in a warehouse, waiting for me to give the green light.
That's what I figured. Jerk.
Great show guys like always but did you have to beat up my FFXI.....


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To mark International Women's Day, UNESCO and the UIS have jointly released the World Atlas of Gender Equality in Education, which includes over 120 maps, charts and tables featuring a wide range of sex-disaggregated indicators.
The vivid presentation of information and analysis calls attention to persistent gender disparities and the need for greater focus on girls' education as a human right.
The atlas illustrates the educational pathways of girls and boys and the changes in gender disparities over time. It hones in on the gender impact of critical factors such as national wealth, geographic location, investment in education, and fields of study.
The data show that:
- Although access to education remains a challenge in many countries, girls enrolled in primary school tend to outperform boys. Dropout rates are higher for boys than girls in 63% of countries with data.
- Countries with high proportions of girls enrolled in secondary education have more women teaching primary education than men.
- Women are the majority of tertiary students in two-thirds of countries with available data. However, men continue to dominate the highest levels of study, accounting for 56% of PhD graduates and 71% of researchers.
The atlas also provides a fresh perspective on the progress countries are making towards gender-related targets set by the international community under Education for All and the Millennium Development Goals.
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Autonomous, driverless vehicles look set to hit the streets in the near future and become increasingly common, so UK researchers have investigated algorithms that could help developers include escape manoeuvres to allow such vehicles to quickly and safely switch lanes to avoid collisions with other road users.
Writing in the aptly named International Journal of Vehicle Autonomous Systems, Matthew Best of the Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering at Loughborough University, in Leicestershire, discusses the optimisation of a vehicle's standard brake, acceleration and steering control inputs in the context of avoiding collisions. He has devised a computer simulation that allows all those parameters to be optimised concurrently during a safety manoeuvre and to show how speed reduction and swapping lanes might be carried out by an autonomous vehicle.
The optimal rapid lane-change would inevitably be an aggressive, high "g" manoeuvre that would destabilise the vehicle, and additional computing power would be needed to act quickly to correct under steer and other issues that arise during and after such a vehicle movement. The high-speed lane switch would likely be rarely used in a real-world autonomous drive, but could, in exceptional circumstances, allow driverless or robot vehicles to be safer on roads that which they share with other such vehicles and vehicles with human drivers.
Best points out that simulations at 70 mph (the UK national speed limit on motorways) reveal that braking alone would not lead to a safe outcome in many situations, so a lane swap would almost certainly be needed, assuming there were an empty lane for a vehicle to move into. A lane-change would in the best circumstances move the vehicle to safety in half the distance as braking at that speed.
The researchers concede that at present the limitations of on-board computing power in autonomous vehicles and the need for high-speed data streams measuring real tyre friction coefficients and more means that his algorithm is limited to the simulation at present. However, it paves the way for developing more powerful, safety aware driving systems for such vehicles.
"Optimisation of high-speed crash avoidance in autonomous vehicles" in Int. J. Vehicle Autonomous Systems, vol 10, issue 4, pp 337-354
Lane-swapping autonomous cars avoid collisions is a post from: David Bradley's Science Spot
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Address: 10, Rue Capois, Champs de Mars, Port-au-Prince
Located at the very heart of Port-au-Prince, our 95 rooms and suites and 5 spacious meeting rooms provide one of the largest hotel and conference capacities in the Haitian capital, in a secured and relaxing compound.
Le Plaza Hôtel has not been subjected to any damage during the January 12th 2010 earthquake and has never stopped to operate.
Le Plaza Hotel offers to business travellers a comfortable accommodation in a green atmosphere. We do provide our guests a complimentary wifi Internet access, as well as buffet breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner at La Terrasse bar and restaurant. Facilities also include a swimming pool located at the heart of a beautiful tropical garden, a business center, and a private and safe parking for your vehicle.
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Since 2008, Le Plaza Hôtel has been managed by a young and dynamic team who launched a long-term renovation program. Offering to our guests and visitors a warm and caring service in an oasis of confort : this is our daily commitment. As the telephone communications are still somehow difficult in Haiti, we recommend you to book directly and safely online. You will also find our best deals and promotionnal offers. You can also easily contact by e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Located in downtown PAP
The pool was relaxing
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Dry cleaning service available
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L'accueil est exceptionnel là-bas! Les plats, très délicieux. J'adore vos chambres très confortables! Le plaza est le meilleur du centre-ville! Félicitations! Je vous recommande seulement de continuer de casser les prix (Smile), je veux revenir vous visiter plus souvent!
Best hotel in downtown Port au Prince. This place is so convenient for someone who doesn't have a private car. The rooms are very nice and clean.
I never stayed at Le Plaza but I had lunch there twice. The location is quite nice when you consider that you are in downtown Port-au-Prince and the atmosphere is relaxing enough to help you forget all the troubles you leave outside. The food at both La Terasse Bar and Kanel restaurant was excellent. The service was also very good and the prices reasonnable.
I stayed at Le Plaza in early August and was extremely pleased by the proximity of the hotel to other places, the staff, the service, and my overall experience.
Le Plaza is located near Champ Mars, I must admit, the location isn't inviting, however once you are behind the gates this place is truly an Oasis. Like most places in Haiti the facilities warrant some upgrades but the room was clean and the bed was super super comfortable. The AC was good, the fridge worked, and we lived for the free, uninterrupted wi-fi during our entire stay.
The food at Le Plaza is very good, I was pleasantly surprised by the full breakfast buffet which included fresh fruits, traditional Haitian staples, fresh coffee, and an omelette station. The wait staff are friendly, attentive, and not bad on the eye. Our favorite waiter was Johnykelle he's featured in the magazine as the face of Le Plaza, he is a very interesting young man. I loved the women at the front desk, they were friendly, and always greeted us with a smile, they handled all of our issues, whether it was to make a phone call or to give us the wi-fi password for the 100th time, they were pleasant and always helpful.
The pool at Le Plaza was inviting and relaxing, we met other patrons who were in Haiti on business, and even some aspiring minor league soccer players from Cuba who were waiting on their visa to the States (a litte fact that I did not know). One thing I would suggest is to allow the waiters to wait on people at the pool and serve drinks in plastic cups as to not worry about breaking glass, the one thing I hate when relaxing is having to get up for my snacks and beverages. I would also keep the pool open pass 10pm maybe an extra hour or two, also, perhaps have a vending machine, or a small fridge at front desk with juice/ water/snacks for midnight munchies.
We checked out of Le Plaza for a countryside trip with plans of checking in two days later, the hotel held our bags for us (which was very accomodating). I forgot two pairs of sandals in our room, when we checked back in the housekeeper returned them to me, she remembered me telling her we would be back. She got a major hug/tip from me, I hadn't worn either pair.
I would recommend Le Plaza to anyone looking for a low key, no frills hotel with excellent customer service, friendly/accomodating staff, great food, and wi-fi.
Le Plaza, I will see you Impact Haiti 2013……
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You mentioned that, MRIs are almost always preferable to CTs for imaging the head, and usually for the spine, except during trauma or when MRIs are not practical – such as when there are metal clips on the head. Why is the MRI not practical when there are metal clips in the head? Kindly explain.
The MRI is a very strong magnet — you would not want it to move around metal clips in the head, or anywhere else in the body!
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The latest on "NONSTIC" finds that the proposed identity program is undergoing technical problems and experiencing delays. Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that so many people don't trust their government to run identity, or much of anything really for that matter, in cyberspace?
WaPo gives thoughtful consideration to the high concept of US national identity. Interesting report also trolled up from The Bradley Project here.
Babbage @ The LA Economist experienced his own version of the modern checkpoint society tolerated in California and made some observations about the current status of REAL ID.
Looking on the bright side, officials in Sacramento reckon that if manufacturing the new driving licences is that difficult for professionals, then all those biometric details and security features are going to make it prohibitively expensive for counterfeiters to reproduce. That is no doubt true for the backstreet forgers around MacArthur Park. The worry is that if driving licences become worth thousands of dollars instead of mere hundreds, organised crime could move into the bogus-ID business in a big way.
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The French, probably in the midst of a Malian air war adrenaline rush, have gone on another offensive: the hashtag is out. From now on, it's called a mot-dièse, which is sort of like a Twitter Royale with Cheese.
The French are notoriously tight-handed when it comes to language—they don't want American BS corrupting what's generally considered to be one of the most beautiful languages in the world. To that end, they actually have an official government agency that dictates this thing, and makes it law, as opposed to the American linguistic Wild West, with our YOLOs and hip-hop and "booty calls" and "hashtags." No—from now on, you'll call it a mot-dièse if you're working within the French government, and you'll like it, mon ami. If you're a private citizen, you'll just be sneered at for using this filthy Yankee neologism. [Yahoo News]


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Six middle school-aged boys playing with toy guns in East Lexington's Great Meadows started a fire that firefighters from five towns are still trying to control.
Six middle school-aged boys playing with toy guns in East Lexington's Great Meadows started a fire that firefighters from five towns are still trying to control.
"[The fire] is at least four acres, but I'm going to guess it's more than that," Lexington Fire Chief William Middlemiss said.
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With the use of a four-wheel drive truck, firefighters were able to circle the fire and contain its southern expansion after an hour. The department strung a 3,000-foot hose through the woods, and extinguished the blaze after three hours.
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When doing my research on Black I found it very hard to find any negatives about him, and believe me I tried. His numbers are fantastic, he was a career .313 hitter at Purdue with lots of power and a phenomenal ability to get on base with him tying a Big 10 record for walks in a season with 62 this year. Then I started delving into the scouting reports expecting to find lots of negatives on his bat speed but nothing, all the reports I read indicated the same things as the numbers, plus raw power, a great ability to get on base and also a very strong arm. So this is where Black really started puzzling me as the reports and numbers don't match the 14th round draft grade, so I sent some E-mails out to people in the industry to try and dig up anything and thus far the only negative report I've received was from Baseball America's John Manuel (via Aaron Fitt, thanks for that!) with him saying "The feeling is that he doesn't have a position. No scouts loved him and I didn't put him high on the Indiana list. I just don't think teams believe in him much and my guess is he put out a higher number than teams were willing to go for."
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I fed my kids Kool-Aid and Cupcakes for dinner. APRIL FOOL!
Actually our dinner contained ground beef . . . .
and mashed potatoes . . .
the food colored pretzel salt only looks like sprinkles . . .
(and we had corn, but I didn't put it on the plates until after the reveal.) There actually really was Kool-Aid, but not in these cups . . .
It actually was a very yummy dinner, and TOO MUCH FUN!
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April Fools
I fed my kids Kool-Aid and Cupcakes for dinner. APRIL FOOL!
7 comments:
- Amy Kolling said...
I thought about doing the Koolaid/jello thing for their drink too! It was so much fun to see their face when they tried it!
- April 2, 2009 at 6:03 PM
- Amy @ Living Locurto said...
Awesome!!! I made the jello juice and my 2 year old kept trying to suck it out of the straw... we cracked up! LOL! My oldest wasn't fooled:-(
- April 3, 2009 at 9:04 AM
- Kimi said...
SO stinkin' cute!
- January 12, 2010 at 8:40 AM
- Unknown said...
This is a hoot! Great joke on your children and looks like they loved it!
- January 12, 2010 at 8:47 AM
- Unknown said...
This is just too funny! I love the jello drinks. I would totally fall for that. I will be linking to this post in my April Fools Favorites post.
Thanks for the fun inspiration!
- March 31, 2011 at 3:08 PM
- Momma47 said...
My son's 4th birthday is tomorrow. I'm going to make these for lunch, and tell him that since it's his birthday, we're doing his party first. Then bring out the real cupcakes after they eat their lunch. Thanks for the great idea!
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