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Her appearance surely garnered a lot of new ballet fans.
Veronika Part on the David Letterman Show July 9
Posted 10 July 2009 - 04:08 PM
Posted 10 July 2009 - 04:14 PM
here's the whole thing in hq.
She was charming & beautiful. What a good thing for ballet; I wish it would happen more often.
Posted 10 July 2009 - 04:19 PM
Her appearance surely garnered a lot of new ballet fans.
Maybe not new ballet fans, but maybe a few Veronika fans.
Posted 10 July 2009 - 04:20 PM
A lot of things can be said back and forth , but I came out with a better idea: KEY WORDS...
So, forgive me if I'm not explicit enough, but I'l try to do my best. Here I go...
High vs. low standards, language barrier, little on-air time, cultural issue, profits, average public concept, Swan Lake/drama/betrayal/jump/mat/suicide/giggling/, ABT-money, Letterman-money, Part-money, plans, productions, actresses, Maryl Streep, Sophie's Choice, giggling?!?!, giggling, Paris Hilton, beautiful, runaway nameless models, public education, Lorena Feijoo, Giselle, TV show, charm, high vs. low standards-(yes, again), cultural issue, films, numbers, today, silly comedies, millions, quality cinema, non existent, giggling, Harry Potter, ballet, spiritual, grand, mistery, ballet mocking, vulgar, sick and tired...
and then, I could be on and on and on...but better not...
I don't mean to go against nobody's opinion in particular...I just think it was my time to ask to "agree to disagree"
Posted 10 July 2009 - 05:52 PM
I agree; I'm one.Really?
Her appearance surely garnered a lot of new ballet fans.
Maybe not new ballet fans, but maybe a few Veronika fans.
Posted 10 July 2009 - 06:01 PM
This is my last post about this subject; I've posted far too much about this subject already. However, the opportunity for a ballerina to be on national tv is a huge deal, period. Believe me -- I know how hard it is to get people --even famous people -- on national media, and particularly national tv (as this is what I do for a living).Really?
Her appearance surely garnered a lot of new ballet fans.
What's not to like? Even if just one more person became interested in ballet after this interview (and Dave did show those gorgeous photos of Veronika), that's enough.
And I repeat: Veronika Part was utterly charming with Dave. She made the best of the few minutes she got (since she's a "no-name" guest except to ballet fans, she would never have gotten more than a few minutes. The fact that she was booked at all was a small miracle. Daniel Radcliffe, on the other hand, is a huge movie star. He would get more minutes, and would always be a first guest. It's probably even written into his contract. That's tv. That's advertising -- adverters will pay more for "big" name guests.).
End of explanation.
Kudos again to Veronika Part, ABT, David Letterman and his staff for booking this lovely ballerina.
Posted 10 July 2009 - 06:30 PM
since she's a "no-name"
That is totally circumstantial, and it basically belongs to the "to who" concept. I know MANY people for which Plato is a "no-name".
The fact that she was booked at all was a small miracle.
Umm...after being booked at the Mariinsky, where CERTAINLY NOT EVERYBODY GOES, a TV show definitely looks smaller to me. It's an honor, and a truly shame if the happening of it is considered a miracle.(Not to you, Deborah, but to whoever brings the much needed money for Letterman and even Part to survive and live)
Daniel Radcliffe, on the other hand, is a huge movie star.
Again, circumstancial...again, to some...certainly not to me, and I think I might not be alone...
That's TV. That's advertising -- advertisers will pay more for "big" name guests.
I know, I know...definitely agree on this 100 %. In other words, "IT'S BUSINESS AS USUAL"
End of explanation.
Same here. Peace out !
Posted 10 July 2009 - 06:45 PM
Those days are long, long gone in the United States, unfortunately (although we do sometimes get a ballet dancer in fashion mags). In Russia, ballet is regularly shown on TV. Major premieres at the Mariinsky and Bolshoi and in France at POB are highlighted on news shows. Even in England, Darcey Bussell became a crossover star, regularly appearing on popular talk shows. Here -- we're lucky to get a ballet shown on PBS once every two years and maybe a dancer on Charlie Rose occasionally. I wish it was different. Maybe shows like SYTYCD and Dancing with the Stars will bring dance back to the popular forum.
Mostly due to the passion of Mendez and the respect he is held by his boss, a ballet dancer appeared on a popular late night talk show in 2009. It probably helped that it was summer time, too.
Posted 10 July 2009 - 06:56 PM
Thursday, July 9
Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince)
Veronika Part / Levon Helm (American Ballet Theatre) / (CD, "Electric Dirt")
As a singer, Levon Helm is one of my favorites, but as a ballet dancer...
Posted 10 July 2009 - 07:01 PM
I'm explaining national tv, which I do know. Veronika Part is a no-name to these demographics (and especially to the advertisers). And Plato wouldn't get booked on national tv either (at least not easily. That is very sad too, but it is what it is). You wouldn't believe how many worthy artists don't have a prayer of getting on national tv (especially late night tv). Hollywood celebs are the rule here; second are major musical groups. This is just a fact. Daniel Radcliffe IS a huge star. That's not circumstantial either, but how it is (although honestly, I'm not a Harry Potter fan, even though I did the PR on one or two of the Harry Potter books for Jo's publisher. I also haven't seen one of the movies. But young Mr. Radcliffe did a terrific job in "Equus" which I happend to see in London).
Perhaps you don't watch national tv much (and I don't blame you for this. So much of it is less-than-great) so you don't know who is usually on.
I'm not criticizing Ms. Part; I think she's wonderful. It's just the reality of national media. And again -- kudos to Dave and his producers for having her on.
I admire your passion (and I actually share it); I think it would be wonderful if artists of all kinds were featured on national media more regularly -- but that's just not the case (again, b/c of ad dollars).
Finally, national media exposure for ABT, NYCB or any ballet company IS a blessing (national tv numbers alone are in the milliions)..
Posted 10 July 2009 - 07:17 PM
Dave Letterman is a big kisser of the lady's hand, bart. He does it all the time. Likewise does he show his admiration for all beautiful female guests.
Question for Letterman watchers: does he behave this way often with young women or guests from fields outside his comfort zone? or is it something Part herself seems to have brought out in him?
Posted 10 July 2009 - 07:29 PM
Not shooting, just saying. Letterman never just puts in the time. What you saw as negative behaviour is his perpetual behaviour and why he is such a successful late-night host. Consider the hour the show airs. It's for a laid back time of day, many watch the show in bed, and Letterman often acts like a kid, reflecting everyone's need to relax and unwind.
That said, everyone else must have watched DL before, because you all gave him more credit for his behavior toward his guests than I can. I think he was boring and NOT funny and it seems to me he showed up for work and was just putting in his time. My observation was that he couldn't have cared less about his guests......So no shooting, please ....
If you should chance to see him when his guests are politicians or representing serious issues or world problems, he becomes a very serious interviewer, only tossing in jibes if appropriate to ease tension. I respect him for his knowledge of so many things (we're the same age, he's just 2 months older than I am) in areas in which I am sorely lacking, such as American politics, the current wars, sports, and big social issues. Either he is already knowledgeable or he does his homework very well.
He cares very much about his guests and is able to elicit good conversation from the majority of them. His kind of funny is an acquired taste. It took me awhile. My husband tuned into the show for a few years before I began to like it.
Letterman could have done much worse with Veronika. He showed respect for her throughout. Since you've never seen the show before, I do understand your reaction.
Posted 10 July 2009 - 07:32 PM
Again, I do recognize that a step has been made. I came to the US in 2001, and this is the first time I see a ballerina on national TV. Agree with the hope that this might open some other doors.
You were right. I do not watch TV...I don't even own a TV. I watch my ballet on my laptop, so I also want to thank BT for giving the hint on Miss Part appearance. I went over my mum's to see it. Frustration comes at the knowledge that Veronika Part, one of the most exquisite current exponents of one of the most beautiful art expressions in history gets way less coverage than Paris Hilton or Tara Reid...
BTW, thanks Tony-(Mendez)-for initiating all this. Your exquisite sister-(RIP Miss Josefina Mendez)-must be smiling up there...good job!
Posted 10 July 2009 - 07:53 PM
The movement in the performance clip, nicely repeated after the end of the interview, is on another level altogether; I enjoyed that glimpse myself, and I'm glad the large, presumably unfamiliar audience saw it. Twice. In case they didn't believe it the first time! But to see her get up out of her chair and start to move that special way provided a link to and a contrast with everyday movement.
Posted 11 July 2009 - 03:11 AM
I haven't had a chance to read the latest comments here, but to me, she is coming across so far as being Absolutely Charming and Glamorous. Her responses are minimal, but seem very much aware. The initial video clip, a picture and David Letterman, who is doing most of the talking, have already given several very good reasons, beyond what you seen on the show, to explain exactly what a special person Veronika Part is. It doesn't really seem necessary at all for her to say much more.
She seems very likable (I would say 'Lovable'), alive and believable. I think that she is doing beautifully and look forward to seeing the rest within a few day when my high speed is supposed to be connected.
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Witt said he supports raising Arkansas' minimum wage and supports equal pay for women.
Witt's Republican opponent, state Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Hot Springs, said he believes the Affordable Care Act is unsustainable. He said he favors repealing it and replacing it with a block grant program that would give states complete control over Medicaid funding.
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Westerman said he opposes the EPA's proposed carbon emission standards, which he called "unfair attacks on our pocketbooks."
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McPherson said he supports the proposed ballot measure to raise Arkansas' minimum wage and federal legislation to ensure equal pay for women.
Crawford spoke at the conference Thursday.
The group also heard a live audio address Friday from former President Bill Clinton, who praised the caucus for the work it does to improve the quality of life in the Delta.

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And that feature is one that's been asked by the community for a while, so it's nice they're listening to us. Is it going to be perfect? No. Are there going to be bugs? Yes. But it shows that they are at least trying to make the game better and listening to us.
When will first patch arrive ?
No seriously, when?
The option to change playable leagues during a save is what stands out more to me. And if the transfers and contracts system is improved then we can have real progress in FM12.
Calling it the Director cam might be a bad idea, as some people might wrongly read into this that there is going to be a Director/Chairman mode.
Manage Anywhere, Anytime the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season- meaning you dont have to stay in the nations which are chosen by you to be playable at the start of your career.
I really like the idea of adding/removing nations from your save while you are playing it. I wonder how that will work with custom databases....
I'm starting to look forward this game now. I wasn't if I would before.
Awesome features , so far specially the add nations to the save , i still notice some skating on the match engine , however its till a work in progress , hope the animations are improved because what i saw in the video is not much different then the FM 2011 animations
WHY WONT FM improve the A.I for term , it does not make sense , they keep on increasing the features that makes it easier for the USER , but not even improve the intelligence of the CPU, i hate playing easy games that does not last long. i rather lose and have fun instead of winning so many games thats just easy . ill get bored
Key new & improved features for Football Manager 2012:
Transfers & Contracts
Sounds OK I'd have been more excited to read about improved AI transfers dealing though.
Scouting improvements
Sounds exciting. It could be a big part of my FM experience if its as good as I'm imagining.
3D Match Improvements
Looks nice but hardly surprising that the graphics get an update.
Manage Anywhere, Anytime
Holy ****. I thought that was practically technically impossible. That's great I can start a game on this old comp then move it over to a new one and add more leagues. Or start a long term game find it getting slow and take leagues out.
6 times as much stuff to say during team talks and conversations cant be bad, can it?. tentatively excited about this feature.
Intelligent Interface
Sounds interesting. Makes me wish I had a bigger monitor.
Brand New Tutorial
Don't care but then I have been playing a long time perhaps first timers are crying out for it.
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The manage anywhere anytime feature is a genius addition imo, thanks
The stats stuff and the squad depth screens look nice. Won't be much use of course if the match engine isn't up to scratch, but we'll have to wait and see about that. Manage anywhere etc sounds great, hoping it is as straightforward as advertised. Also like the interface changes.
'Brand New Tutorial – ..... as well as a new in-game "how to" system.'
Will be interesting to see what this covers. Hopefully, it won't be just bits of the inadequate manual stitched in.
Can someone please reupload the screenshots so that we can actually SEE something?
I really hope you improve the transfer system as that is one of the most important aspects of the game. Network gaming should also be improved as the interface is really laggy even with an excellent connection.
Looking good
I can see how Manage Anytime, Anywhere would be a nice addition for career managers. For club managers, though, it is not very impressive...
I hope the AI gets a boost. All that has been announced now are tweaks to the surface of FM, and nothing has been said about the workings beneath - such as the morale system and AI team building, game-world economy and most importantly; how the ME deals with good defending (i.e not all chances end in a shot off or on goal - many are stopped in the nick of time by good defending, something which is also "good storytelling" from a game developer's point of view).
Manage anywhere, anytime sounds great, hoping for some editor improvements also
Imagine you're in 2020, with the Torquay team you've taken from League 2 to the Prem. The world of football has now changed, and South Korea is now one of the best teams in the world. You, however, can only see limited information about them as you didn't load them. If you were to add South Korea as playable, information would be more readily available - you may be able to sign a prospect from a South Korean club that before you didn't know existed!
without reading too much will you load all players from orig database when loading a league in 2013 (minus those that would of retired) or will it be all faux + what was loaded anyway?
I can't believe it's already been a year since I've been this underwhelmed!
Transfers & Contracts - Sounds like which I really hope, that it fixes the poor options of trying to sign a player / staff when theres just a few punds away but the player wont sign if he doesnt get that extra few cents deal-breaker.
3D Match Improvements - Graphics and animations upgrades sure good, but hopefully some improvements to the ME as well. Really think one on one times with goalies should results in more goals than now. And hopefully no damn corner-bugg this time. PLEASE!
Tone - Sounds good, hopefully you can get the message through to the darn players.
Manage anywhere, anytime, Intelligent Interface, Brand New Tutorial - Dont care about that too much to be honest.
"media system, press conferences, the youth system, newgens, the social networking options, friendlies, international management and many more" - Looking forward to hear more about that.
So good news, and looks like SI wants to skip one patch as Im guessing the game is later than usual, which is better if its more playable at the start.
Too late to ask for something for FM12 now, but hopefully a player from a small club(homegrown or with a love for a club) that has played in a bigger but wants to return to his former club is much easier to sign that now. Cause now Favorite-clubs seems to mean nothing.
do teams still "dislike 100" when you leave a club, just like Blackburn dislike Dalgleish 100, Valencia Benitez 100, Chelsea 100 Hiddink etc etc
New game sounds ok to me but doesnt get me as excited as other versions. The only features that appeal to me that may make me buy it are the scout information, but to me it just looks like backroom advice but displayed differently and a bit more info added that you could if you wanted to find out anyway. The teamtalks tone sounds good and is the only feature that is making me feel excited. I may not buy this versions as doesnt seem too different to FM2011 in which I have a great save. I may wait for 2013 version where it should be more polished.
Here you can find full version of screenshots plus some new.
If a new tutorial is a key feature for the new game then the other 793 features can't be too amazing.
Hopefully I'm wrong.
You'll probably find that a lot of them are small features that add to the overall enjoyment of the game - new buttons and things like that, rather than 'gimmicks'. I'd imagine we won't even notice about half of them, even those which really benefit us - it'll just make it more natural to play the game.
I know, the game won't even come out for another 2-3 months. It's back to 2016's Algeciras for me!
The date and time looks stupid at the bottom of screen. I've just saw the screenshots for the game.
The tutorial is a different mode, away from the main game and goes a lot more indepth on things like buying and selling players. Teaching you the basics of the game, basically.
I think what Miles is trying to say is that it'd be basically be like starting with the nation as it is in FM11, just a couple of years down the line with a couple of years added to the info.
Manage Anywhere, Anytime – the ability to add or take away playable nations in your saved game as often as you want. Manage in that country at the start of the next season- meaning you don't have to stay in the nations which are chosen by you to be playable at the start of your career.
I love you!
Big question, are you still taking data from people for the finished product?
What about adding more transfer clauses into transfer negotiations, such as the ones Fabregas has in his transfer to Barcelona?
although I do appreciate the screenshots.. next time.. please release some where you actually can see whats on the image.. they are WAY to small.. well almost useless
but sofar the features look great! - looking forward to read some more
Thought the match engine might of improved more graphically.
Click on the image once to make it full size, then again to make it have its own page. Then, zoom in by pressing the image again. The images should be easy to read then
Looking forward to seeing the ME Tweaks the most to be honest...
I really hope there's less clearances in touch, less kicking the ball off other players and other such annoyances.
any chance of a x64 exe?
Needs moar manager dot.
Miles, when will you start to represent new features in your blog like you did last year?
In a few weeks time.
Also, for what it's worth, the new font on the screenshots looks like a step backwards IMO :P
Before I get into my little rant, I just want to say I've been playing this game since '98 and its my absolute favorite. Love it to bits!
There is something, however, that really gets to me: the awards. How can some guy whose team gets knocked out in the 2nd round win Best Player of the World Cup over the guy that led his team to the championship just because his Avg rating is a little bit higher. It really gets to me! Please let this be fixed in FM '12!
Great improvement. if I thought, it can't be better. It showed it is still improving.
It would be better if the system of a number of consecutive match in same week, continental matches colliding with international friendlies are also checked.
Hugely excited. I made myself read each bulletpoint of the OP very slowly as if I was opening Christmas presents and trying to make it last as long as possible. Excited for the leagues concepts - I always end up regretting not adding a league at some point - for example the South American leagues yield a lot of great regens but that's no use to a BSP team... but when you finally get to the Premiership, you might think "If only I had access to more Argentinian wonderkids!"
Going to leap to SI's defence on a couple of things... the term "overhaul" has been suggested a couple of times but it completely goes in the face of the progress of FM - just about every feature is evolving and gets a little bit better and more intuitive each year. An overhaul would end in bugs galore that no-one would love and all for potentially very little progress. A step sideways. I think an 'overhaul' is only needed on things that are broken or totally undeveloped, of which there are very few examples now.
I do agree with some of the other posts in that I'm looking forward to hearing about the transfer system updates... the transfer bidding system is something that hasn't evolved since the option to "offer to clubs" was introduced. Here's hoping we get some bidding wars rather than seemingly independent and unconscious blanket "take it or leave it" offers from clubs which are all coincidentally identical to each other as if there has been some unholy cartel between your buyers' CEOs.
I also agree that I hope that the AI is evolving as I seem to find if I win the Premiership with a 'small club' there is very rarely any uproar or indignation to try and dethrone me and I end up winning again and again. But that's something for another day I suppose!
Did I see someone say Prize Money and Sponsorships don't change with Dynamic League Reputation? That sounds baws.
Very good news, but i think this version will be some misses, like no stadium editor, huge changes in training, multiplayer features, sound improvement, etc...
But i'm looking for discover the other features, could be a very exciting waiting for news about FM 2012.
The countdown are begin!
2 more questions about adding and subtracting leagues:
Can you add leagues that aren't out of the box too (xml files)? If there's some conflict between some files and the game crashes, can you still remove the league without ruining your career save?
I can't believe people are complaining about features simply because they wont personally use them. SI is stuck between a rock and a hard place every year with people complaining that certain features aren't necessary when for others they are absolutely ground breaking (ie. Manage anywhere, anytime which I think is just brilliant). Some people just expect way to much
Press Conferences and Team talks are awful and overpowered, why the hell should we not be peeved that **** like that is being implemented that we have no choice in using, if we don't want our season to go pear shaped at least, whilst bugs that have been in the game for a 6 years are still prevalent?
Sounds very exciting, loving the look of some of these new features and can't wait to see what else is to be announced
I like the sound of the tutorial mode too, I have plans to use it to show my inept friend how to play He watches football, just 'doesn't get' FM.
Manage anywhere sounds great, as lots of people have said already. Keep up the good work.
At the risk of sounding like an old, cranky, disgruntled customer, I have to say I'm not overly impressed at the match engine. I know it's still a work in progress but I was hoping the semi-imbecile keepers and defenders would be at least improved, if not eradicated. The new cameras and crowd animations are all well and good but when it comes to the bread and butter stuff, the match engine itself is the single most important thing in the game imo.
I'm not sure about the ball physics, either. iirc, PaulC mentioned that they would be improved, for example by including the Magnus effect to have realistic ball curving. Having seen the trajectory in both the headed goal from the free-kick and the shot from outside the box in the Valencia game (from memory), I have to say I'm not entirely convinced this has been 'fixed'.
Hopefully the code is old and it's moved on in leaps and bounds. Would love to see realistic dribbling, last-ditch tackles blocking shots and passing/shooting with the outside of the foot as well as more player animations, although it does look noticeably smooth compared to FM11
Still, in SI I trust. The ability to add new leagues mid-game is something I thought would be technically impossible and I'm looking forward to the tweaks in the transfer and contract negotiations. The new tones added to the team-talks will add a new nuance to them. Don't see the point in trumpeting an improved tutorial system and customisable screens tbh. Looking forward to reading more info and I hope it'll be out in late October/early November as usual - wouldn't want to wait till December till it came out!
My club have been wound up and is no more playable (we are now in French CFA2) but the new features are exciting, will surely buy it.
Even though most of these changes look like tweaks to whats there (other than adding/removing leagues), the improvements look really sensible and im looking forward to playing this years version
The "Manage Anywhere" functionality was top of my wish list! My poor netbook is coping only just at the moment with all the leagues I got loaded, and my patience aswell, processing takes forever. If this means I only have to load the league or country I'm in at that moment, and I can apply or get interest from clubs outside that league or country (and when I accept a contract I can switch on that league and switch the old one off) would be brilliant. It would make my game so incredibly much faster.
I just hope the improved graphics don't spoil it all for my low end netbook. FM11 works fine graphics-wise, but I fear an increase in minimal graphics specs would be too much to ask for from my machine. That would force me to continue FM11 and that would be a real bummer considering the Manage Anywhere improvement in FM12...
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Has nothing been done to make network games better and faster? This is only thing i was looking to be added to fm12 after closure of fml
Manage anywhere is nice, but I might find it useful only if there's a job in an unplayable league that looks interesting (like if I didn't load the Spanish leagues, but the Barcelona job became available and I'd have a reasonable shot at it)
Favorite of the new features is the tone. Hopefully now I can get my team of nervous nellies to calm down, whilst kicking still a boot at that midfielder who is looking complacent.
Now this looks awesome. Think i may get this one.(didn't get fm11) The manage anywhere thing is one thing i've been wanting but thought was impossible to have.
All i want to know is if the AI transfers/tactic would be much more realistic.it seems that big teams are purchasing the wrong players and playing too badly for their club reputation.
I have to agree with Mons. I was mostly anticipating development in the 3D animations and player movement. After waching the preview video and focusing especially on the movement and positioning of goalkeepers and defenders, I have to say that there is not that much noticeable improvement compared to last year. You just have to watch the first few goals on the video and you can see that the players are still very mechanic and not that realistic like you would expect after several years of match engine development. Okay, it´s still a work in progress, but I don´t feel that optimistic about major improvements over the next few months.
Manage Anywhere- will you know what jobs are available in country's leagues that you haven't loaded ? What I mean is I can forsee a situation where I am managing an EPL club, say and I'm happy to continue doing so, but if I knew the Barcalona job was available then I might be tempted to load up the Spanish leagues and apply for the job... Or will I just have to load up leagues on the basis that 'I'd like to have a go at that one now' ?
One small thing, i noticed on the screenshots the message about how you haven't had a backroom meeting since... Would a coach really go up to a manager and pester them for a ''brains trust'' meeting in real life? Don't they think the manager knows he hasn't met up with his staff and is quite capable of organising a meeting when he sees fit- maybe he doesn't really give a **** what they think and would rather they just got on with their jobs- if I wanted your opinion i'd have asked for it.
The AI has always been atrocious at team-building.
Its inevitable that the player will dominate the gameworld sooner or later because the AI teams/managers have very poor team-building logic.
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While the 'Manage Anywhere' is no doubt going to be the biggest new feature, I'm 'hopefully optimistic' about major improvements in international management. At least it was mentioned in the announcement as an area seeing improvements, but it has been touted before without much significant being delivered.
The issues around scouting and reports are probably my biggest gripe. Anyone else see this as area needed a significant overhaul?
Sounds like some good improvements and features
I especially like the adaptable interface, the add/removal of leagues (awesome feature actually) and scouting improvements.
I am more sceptical of the implementation of the new features though. But am certainly looking forward to trying them out in the demo.
They should really make Mourinho do absolutely everything right all the time in all aspects of the game, to the best of their programming genious's ability. Then it would be up to us to beat that. We would, given enough time and effort. Then the next iterations of the ME should take into account what we did to beat him, and we'd have to start all over again.


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If a colleague on your team is planning to quit his job and this may cause bad feelings in your company, would you notify your boss?
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I probably would not, because 1) I assume it is not your job to manage people (since you refer to your boss), 2) this is one of the best ways to undermine the trust between yourself and your other colleagues. If you're concerned about the company, go to your colleague, express your concerns (DO NOT try to talk him out of quitting -- it is his life), and politely ask him to notify the boss in due time.
[re. 1): i tend to keep to myself stuff that I learn accidentally, but which is basically none of my business]
If you're worried about the effect this will have on your work going forward, talk to your colleague and find out when he'll be notifying management. If he's planning to wait until the last minute, I'd urge him to tell them sooner, but you can't do more than that. Ultimately this is his perogative, and if he's told you, I'd assume it was in confidence.
On a more proactive note, you could investigate what the standard handover procedure is, and make sure that your colleague has usefully documented any complicated knowledge that isn't shared with other people on the team.
Clue: Mind your own business.
I would NOT. If your Manager is smart he probably knew it before you did and has already taken proactive measures to take care of it. If he doesn't know it even then it is not your business to interfere in your workmate's life. What if you tell the Manager and the guy chooses to stay back ?
No, it's not your call to make.
If he's acting unprofessionally or slacking you should tell your boss that though not the reason why, that's for your boss to speak to him about.
But you should assume all knowledge you have of his possible plans (because until he quits that's all they are and there are plenty of instances where people have a change of heart) is in confidence and shouldn't be shared.
Perhaps if you were in his position, you might do the same thing.
You know only his stated intention, which is to leave, not the reasons behind it.
Gambling, parents sick, sexual abuse, drug problem, new job offer, bundle of documents destined for a brown cardboard box in the back of some Swedish hideaway, you just don't know.
Now, we have a handy term that means you don't have to be in his situation to see things from his point of view.
This is a life question, not programming, and the thing about life is that you will be the one up, and eventually, the one down.
How did he look when he told you? Like he wanted to say more? We got it down to one phrase, and although casual it can mean the world to someone:
Like I said, one day you'll be the one down, regardless of his situation. When you are, you might remember the day you went a little out of your way to show a little empathy and feel better a little better at that time. Just a thought.
Definitely not.
News Flash: Programmers typically find the best jobs by networking.
My Advice: Do not kill your relationship with this colleague.
Do unto others as you wish they would do unto you. I would definitely not tell my boss in this case.
It's also your boss's job to deal with issues like this, and not yours. Getting involved in this way in other people's business is usually a detriment to you.
Generally no, for all the reasons already given. In a sane environment, nobody expects you to snitch on him.
The only possible exception might be if said coworker plans the breach his contract in a way that severely hurts your company. E.g. if he has a cancelation period of, say, 3 months, but plans to walk away without notice, it would be justified to interfere. Otherwise, just stay out.
Generally speaking, no. I don't think it is anyone else's business if someone wants to quit, and it is not my place to tell work. In my mind, that would be the equivalent of telling a man's wife that her husband doesn't find her attractive any more. Not my business nor my call.
Now, as stated above, if there were prevailing circumstances... if the employee planned to somehow attack the company on departure (delete existing code and wipe out the backups) or plan the timing in such a way as to hurt the company (make a big scene on the day a multi-million dollar client is visiting) or maybe just leaving under high pressure stakes (we have a week to get this done and don't know how we're gonna make it with the few people we have in the first place) then maybe I might drop a hint that my boss needs to talk to this co-worker about their attitude or intentions.
Absolutely not. It's not my responsibility to manage the relationship between my co-workers and management. What goes on between them, is between them. What I happen to know, or not know, as a result of happenstance, is my business.
And it's rare - if ever - that anything good comes from getting yourself involved in other people's business. Even the person you think you're "helping" will probably think less of you for it, since you paint yourself as non-trustworthy and a meddling busy-body.
In short, just don't do it.


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How do I draw a rectangle of a specific size? I need to draw one that is 1072 pixels wide and 620 pixels tall.
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In Photoshop CS6, simply click on the canvas with the Rectangle tool selected, them enter the width and height.
In versions prior to Photoshop CS6, you can set the size in the shape options, before to drawing the shape itself (please see the other answer on this page for screenshots and more info). This also works in Photoshop CS6, but a single click on the canvas is easier, if you have CS6.
You can also draw the shape while watching the info panel, and/or adjust afterwards by nudging (make sure you have pixel snapping turned on, so you're adjusting in whole pixel increments).
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Corrective glasses are usually intended to help focus light on your retina. Supposing I had good vision already, but simply wanted more light, could I make glasses that would send more light into my eye without magnifying, focusing, or distorting the image? (Ignore chromatic aberration.)
First, let me try to clarify the question, because not everyone seems to get it ("where would the photons come from?"). If I'm buying binoculars, I might choose from 8x24, 8x36, or 8x50 binoculars. The first number is the magnification; 8x for all the examples. The second number is the size of the objective in millimeters, 24 to 50 millimeters in the example. All else being equal, the larger objectives will gather more light, and produce a brighter image. The 8x24 and 8x50 binoculars will deliver the same 8x magnification, but the 8x50 pair will be brighter.
So it's reasonable to ask if you could make 1x binoculars that have a big objective that brightens the scene in front of you. There's no conservation of energy issue here; the larger front objective would gather more light. The problem is that there's a relationship between the magnification and the sizes of the entrance and exit pupils:
If you create a binocular with an entrance pupil (objective, basically) that's larger than your eye's pupil, so that it can gather more light than your eye's pupil, then at 1x magnification, the exit pupil is going to be just as big as the objective lens. And since that's bigger than your eye's pupil, the "extra" light is going to run into your iris instead of going through the pupil, and you will gain no advantage from it.
Expanding a bit on what ptomato said, I think there's a problem with the second law of thermodynamics regardless of any problems with the first law.
Suppose the universe consisted of two things: a black body the shape of eyeballs and the microwave background. Then the black body would come into thermal equilibrium with the microwave background.
Now we introduce these glasses that make things brighter, placing them in front of the black body. Suddenly the black body has more light coming on to it. It absorbs all this light, so it has to heat up. We made heat flow from a colder place (the microwave background) to a hotter place (the black body) by a passive optical phenomenon. That violates the second law.
EDIT: It turns out this principle is called "conservation of brightness" or "conservation of surface brightness" and is well-known in optics. See, for example, http://www.cv.nrao.edu/course/astr534/Brightness.html
You want an optical amplifier. It uses stimulated emission to amplify the light, like in laser, but without the feedback loop. Generally used for amplifying fiber optics signal to greater than 200 km. Making wearable glasses with this wouldn't be easy. Inverting electron population of a piece of glass with enough gain to be useful. As ptomato noted it is an active device, therefore in needs a power source to feed it. But I don't think your are concerned about this.
Others have discussed things around this, but doesn't night vision qualify as an answer to "glasses that make everything brighter" ?
There are 3 main categories discussed. Most likely you're only interested in the first category.
For more info on the first category, the article on Night vision device discusses current technologies. The article image intensifier goes even further. Apparently these primarily use photocathodes to intensify images. They are a bit different from the optical amplifiers discussed by Bernardo Kyotoku in that they rely on the photoelectric effect.
No, not using optics; you'd need some sort of active amplification. Without magnifying, focusing, or distorting the image, the glasses would need to be flat. But consider the energy in the light entering the front face and leaving the rear face of the lenses - what you want would require there to be more coming out than going in, which violates energy conservation. The extra energy has to come from somewhere.
This question caused a lot more discussion than I expected. I would like to try to explain my answer a little further, because people seem to have misunderstood me.
Let me say first, I want to consider the case of using only lenses and similar devices. In j.c.'s answer we have already established that what you ask is possible using amplification, frequency conversion, or thermal imaging -- all of which are used in night vision / image intensification technology. Browsing Wikipedia I found out that some animals have a tapetum lucidum, a reflecting membrane behind the retina which turns around any light that made it through the retina without getting absorbed, allowing it to pass through the retinal cells once more and be absorbed on the rebound. This increases the efficiency of the retina, which is also a way to do what you ask, but I'm discounting it since it is not available to us humans without resorting to surgery.
Now down to business. We want to create corrective glasses that make your vision brighter, but with no
This means, considering the following diagram:
The optical system we want to create is represented by the "?" box. The wavefront on the left has to be the same as the wavefront on the right, only brighter. (Except for the effects of propagation across the distance that the box occupies, but let's ignore that.) Notice that I have drawn the wavefronts as squiggly lines with arrows all over them. This is because the images that our eyes observe are not the same as the point sources we deal with in undergraduate optics, they are made up of many different rays traveling in different directions and with different phases (i.e. running a little ahead of or behind each other.) So it's not enough to just capture "more light" into the system, it has to be in the right place, traveling at the proper angle, with the right amount of delay compared to the other rays.
Now look at my crude drawing of an eye looking at a triangle:
I have drawn the outermost rays of the outermost points of the triangle that enter the eye. I have also drawn some rays that go off in different directions that don't enter the eye. To make the image brighter, you would have to ensure that more of the rays that diverge from a single point on the triangle, also converge on the same point on the retina. But how? If the eye's iris and lens were infinitely large, then they would naturally converge there. But we don't have huge eyes, so we would have to use external lenses to achieve that. There is no way, though, to build a system of lenses that does that, without changing the rays that are already on the right track. You can't refract some of the rays and not others.
So what I definitely want to make clear is that the idea of "if the glasses can capture more light, then it will brighten the image" is a partial misconception. I say 'partial' because what coneslayer says is true: binoculars with a bigger aperture will produce a brighter image. However, this is only true if the brightness was already reduced due to a smaller aperture! Think of it this way: the absence of binoculars is equivalent to 1x binoculars with an infinitely large aperture!
Ultimately, the brightness of the image on your retina is limited by the natural aperture of your eye: your pupil. This is why your pupils get bigger in the dark. And you can't make your pupils any bigger than you already do instinctively, at least not without resorting to surgery.
By the way, I would like to thank everyone who contributed here for making it such a lively discussion. This forced me to think more carefully about the problem than I did at first, and get all my arguments in order.
I'm assuming that brighter means more light power hitting your retina. Focusing light increases the Intensity of light (Power per unit area), but there is no passive way to increase the light power that hits your retina passively.
I want to avoid an appeal to thermodynamics and instead try to reason this to you somewhat intuitively. The light power that hits your eyes, is essentially the amount of photons that are hit your retina. There are ways to increase the energy of each individual photon (there are special crystals that can double or even triple the frequency of light), but always at the expense of the number of photons (i.e. the power stays at most the same as it was before doubling). You are essentially asking for a way to passively increase the number of photons hitting your eye. The simplest way is to merely turn up the brightness of the light in the room. There is no magic trick you can do with a piece of glass that will spit out more photons than you originally had. Let alone one that will increase the amount of information that you have available to you.
Suppose you just start with an enormous magnifying glass (convex lens) and project the (inverted?)image onto a very fine ground glass intermediate screen. That would be plenty bright and small. It Seems to work with my reading glasses projecting an image onto a piece of paper.
I think something like this (with complex lenses separated by a ground glass screen) is sometimes used in the motion picture industry.
The "speed" of a photographic lens, and the brightness of the image produced by any lens is determined by a single number - the focal ratio. That is the ratio of 1) the distance between the lens and the image (of an infinitely distant object) and 2) the diameter of the lens. It is basically the ratio of collecting area to image area. You can increase it by moving the image closer to the lens but only up to a point where you reach the lens itself. This principle is the reason that no concentrator lens can produce a spot of light on a surface and make that surface achieve a temperature greater than that of the visible surface of the sun.


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In the autumn of 2011, Excel Bridgeport, a small, nonprofit education organization in Bridgeport, Conn., hired a team consisting of two Columbia Law School students and three Columbia Business School students to help the city's parents re-engage with its public school system. The academic performance of city schools was so abysmal that the state board of education had ordered a takeover from the district board in 2011, and parents wanted a greater say in how their children's schools were being run.
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Back in Bridgeport, the parents recruited by Excel began convening each month, filming their meetings, and sending the videos to the center's student-consultants—who chose to work remotely at first to ensure that parents felt full autonomy. The students, meanwhile, provided parents with the research they needed to make decisions: parent-engagement best practices culled from all over the country; exercises that helped parents trace their disenfranchisement to its root causes; lesson plans challenging parents to think through strategies for achieving desired outcomes.
By May of 2012, the parents had drafted a new engagement policy. By August, they convinced the Bridgeport school district to adopt it.
The new policy brims with the parents' ideas for helping their children grow through meaningful engagement with the school system and provides detailed instructions on how to make that happen. The policy requires schools to inform parents each year of a student's learning objectives. It mandates regular communication with parents via a variety of methods—including text messages and social media—and it calls for using Google Translate to interact with each parent in his or her preferred language. Most importantly, it received support from every relevant stakeholder, including teachers and principals.
Amanda Meyer '13, a student-consultant on the Excel Bridgeport project, saw how "skilled generalists" could help work toward solutions to problems that, as a teacher in the Bronx and Brooklyn prior to attending law school, she had wanted to address. "[The parents said] they felt so much agency—that for the first time their voices mattered," she says. "And they were articulating ideas in a powerful way."
Meyer's Excel Bridgeport teammate and fellow co-chair of the Education Law and Policy Society, Andrew Bruns '13, says Liebman's center afforded him an opportunity to dive into a field that he truly enjoys. As a high school athlete in a small rural town in Ohio, Bruns says he was struck by the wide disparities between the underfunded urban and rural schools and the well-resourced suburban schools he visited with his basketball team, an observation that eventually led him to focus on education reform during law school.
"Working on education reform means using my legal education to get involved with something I'm passionate about," he says. "It's a nice change [from more traditional legal fields] and can have a big impact."
Following his work with parents in Bridgeport, Bruns was engaged through the center during his last semester of law school to assist Connecticut's state education board. He helped create a peer networking program to match schools in the state based on shared strengths, weaknesses, and needs, in an effort to benefit from best practices.
In addition to the Bridgeport project, the Center for Public Research and Leadership has successfully partnered with Newark's public school system, the Connecticut State Department of Education, and, on more than one occasion, New York City's Department of Education. Liebman says he receives regular requests from school boards at the federal, state, and district levels looking to recruit Columbia Law School students for projects. "People call me all the time, desperate," he says. "There's a huge need for professionals, who are trained and flexible, to do this work."
Susan Sturm is also training multifaceted professionals to help drive change. Sturm introduces her students to a nuanced theory of multidimensional systems change she has been developing since her undergraduate years, and then challenges them to connect it to their own lives and goals. The idea, spelled out in Sturm's 2006 article "The Architecture of Inclusion: Advancing Workplace Equity in Higher Education," is to remove the obstacles precluding what she calls "institutional citizenship," or the full participation of all members of an institution.
Sturm takes as her starting point lawyers' roles in structuring networks and institutions, and then highlights the features of successful institutional transformation. These include mapping and diagnosing the dynamics that underlie structural inequality, identifying individuals with the leverage and commitment to work across networks, and focusing on issues that offer the most opportunity for impact.
In Sturm's yearlong, upper-level Diversity and Innovation course, students apply those theories while working on supervised field research projects with the Ford Foundation–funded Center for Institutional and Social Change. One recent student, with support from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, conducted participant-researcher work with a coalition of community groups advocating for public school reform. She interviewed the lawyers and activists involved to find out how they frame their problems, and to determine what they believe people with legal training bring to the table. Amanda Meyer, meanwhile, applied the knowledge she learned in both Liebman's and Sturm's seminars in collaborating with the Center for Institutional and Social Change on a program that helps women with criminal records access higher education and graduate from college.
Another former student received a Skadden Fellowship to further pursue a project he began in Sturm's course. He is examining how higher education institutions can partner with surrounding communities and use university resources to address issues such as failing public schools.
"We meet individually and I ask [students], 'What is your burning question?'" Sturm says. "'What is it you really want to do in the world?' They're asked to think that through in a highly theorized but also deeply personal way, to connect their own experience and ambition with some of the most cutting-edge ideas out there, and to use that to identify the right field research project for them."
For recent graduate Mae Ackerman-Brimberg '13—who worked on children's rights issues after college and is pursuing a joint degree at the Law School and Columbia University's School of Social Work—that meant investigating why public institutions so often fail the young people who rely on them. As an intern with an in-home family therapy program for youth involved with the juvenile justice system who are struggling with substance abuse, she worked to bridge the gap between the legal and social services systems to serve young people.
Sturm sees the inherent value of such interdisciplinary approaches to effecting change and seeks to train students in the fine art of wearing many hats. Lawyers, she says, should think broadly and dream big. Her students are following that lead.
"Aside from learning the skills," says Ackerman-Brimberg, "she wants us to open our minds about what people with law degrees can do."
Opening students' minds to new ways of thinking about how lawyers can operate more effectively, both in the U.S. and abroad, is a specialty of sorts for Professor Katharina Pistor.
The native of Freiburg, Germany, and 2012 Max Planck Research Award winner trains students to situate law within a matrix of other disciplines to understand how legal structures interact with other, more diffuse norms. In her upper-level Law and Development course, students examine how different countries' legal systems have impacted economic and social development, and how multilateral organizations can, and must, pick up where state sovereignty ends.
"I see this as a training in being able to deal with a more globalized world," Pistor says. "We teach our students how to ask the right questions, so if they go to negotiate a transaction, or into an arbitration, they can see where the other side is coming from."
Rodd Izadnia '12 describes Pistor's courses as "in the vein of critical legal theory." But instead of examining law's role in shaping constructs like race or gender, they interrogate how law interacts with political economy. "She points to transnational institutions and discusses how they're creating law, and what impact that is having developmentally," Izadnia says, noting the increasing importance of these entities as globalization limits the autonomy of state actors.
That analytical framework, he adds, has given him a deeper understanding of his role as a dispute settlement lawyer at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, where member nations raise arguments over matters of international trade. And, as is the case with the students working alongside Professors Liebman and Sturm, Izadnia sees the potential for positive change that goes hand-in-hand with the approaches he has learned. "The belief I gained from her class and that is affirmed here [at the WTO]," he says, "is that this organization and the kind of cooperation and communication that it facilitates is all driving towards development goals, economic prosperity, and human rights."


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On Thursday, April 18, 2013, the Langdale College of Business and the Valdosta-Lowndes County Chamber of Commerce hosted the 2013 Economic Summit. With a theme of "moving forward," the purpose of the summit was for the leaders of the community to take a critical look at where Valdosta-Lowndes County stands relative to its peer and aspirant communities.
Unfortunately, our region suffers from a substantial wage gap, as Lowndes County's average weekly wage persistently trails the state, southeast, and national averages. Despite our diverse – and generally robust – economy, we continue to struggle. The "great recession" took a substantial toll on our region, and our unemployment rate now exceeds both the state and national averages. Further, our poverty rate in Lowndes County now stands at a very troubling 27.1%.
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More than half a century ago, the first commercial nuclear power reactors went critical in the United Kingdom and the United States. In the decades since, technology has brought us 3-billion-transistor chips, manned spaceflight, and violin-playing robots. Nevertheless, the basic design of commercial nuclear power reactors has changed not a whit. They seem to be trapped in a land that technology forgot.
Yes, conservatism can be a good thing, perhaps nowhere more so than in the design of nuclear reactors. Electric utilities aren't known for daring, and you can't reasonably expect them to risk several billion dollars on a reactor without a track record. On the other hand, you can't pin hopes for a nuclear renaissance on designs that were fresh back when color TV and transatlantic jet travel were novelties. You need the promise of something much better, and no fewer than a dozen advanced reactor designs are in the running to offer it.
The backers of these designs are eyeing potentially enormous businesses, as "waking giant" countries China and India pursue major electrification schemes. In the United States and Europe, a significant shift to nuclear is far from assured, but several factors seem to be pushing that option, including climate change concerns and awareness of the hidden costs of fossil fuels.
The new reactor designs fall into three categories. First, there are the new light-water reactors, which aren't radically different from what's out there right now but add better safety features. Then there are the small modular reactors that produce less than 300 megawatts but can be scaled up. Need more power? Just add more modules to your plant. Finally, there are the really-out-there designs, known in the industry as Generation IV.
There are too many worthy, intriguing designs for us to describe here. So, after talking to a dozen nuclear experts, we simply chose seven reactor designs that struck us as the most innovative and interesting. We picked reactors of different kinds and at different development stages, including those that are only a hair's breadth from regulatory approval and others that are literally still on the drawing board.
Did we leave out a new reactor design that you think beats all these here? Will new reactors reenergize the nuclear industry? Leave your comments below.
Next-Gen Light-Water Reactors
To understand the new generation of nuclear reactors, you need to start with the basics. Think of a reactor as a tightly grouped array of thin, 4-meter-long, heat-emitting rods stacked in the center like a bunch of rigid metal asparagus. Surrounding those rods is a pressure vessel full of ordinary, or "light," water. Each rod is filled with uranium fuel pellets, which when close to one another emit neutrons and lots of heat. The water in your basic thermal nuclear reactor needs to do three things: get hot; cool the nuclear fuel, which would otherwise overheat and cause a meltdown; and reduce the speed of the neutrons emitted by the nuclear reactions in that fuel. Here's why. When a neutron hits a uranium nucleus, that nucleus then fissions into two smaller nuclei while emitting more neutrons. Then those neutrons hit other uranium nuclei, which fission, emitting neutrons that hit other nuclei, and so on. That's a nuclear chain reaction. It seems counterintuitive, but the neutrons must be slowed—the technical term is "moderated"—to increase the rate at which they split the uranium nuclei they encounter in the fuel rods. Without the water to moderate them (graphite is another commonly used moderator), the neutrons would move too quickly for the uranium nuclei to absorb them, and the nuclear reaction would simply fizzle.
In a light-water reactor, ordinary water accomplishes both cooling and moderation. There are two main types. Pressurized-water reactors, or PWRs, are associated historically with Westinghouse Electric Corp., in which the vessel housing the fuel rods is kept at 160 atmospheres, so the water flowing past the core never turns to steam. The other kind are boiling-water reactors, pioneered for commercial uses by General Electric, which work, as the name suggests, by boiling the water that cools the reactor. Right now PWRs vastly dominate the nuclear landscape. The heat is used to produce steam that drives a turbine, which spins a dynamo to generate electricity. In both types, the steam is always produced by water flashing on extremely hot pipes.
Given their long history, light-water reactors won't be going away anytime soon. One of the leading contenders for the next generation belongs (unsurprisingly) to Westinghouse, in the form of a souped-up PWR known as the AP1000. So far, it's the only new PWR design that's been approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (Although other countries have nuclear certification processes of their own, some borrow heavily from the NRC, which is influential internationally.) This new breed of PWR, which also includes a French model called an EPR, is known in the industry as Generation III or III+.
Westinghouse AP1000
Passive safety features will shut down this reactor without any power, pumps, or people
How it works:
The AP1000 core is similar to standard PWR cores: The fuel produces heat that turns water into steam, which drives a turbine.
The reactor's designers have significantly improved the safety features on an otherwise standard PWR. Whereas conventional reactors rely on motor-powered valves and water pumps to deal with accidents, the amended AP1000 design has safety systems that rely on airflow, pressure changes, and gravity. For example, if a coolant pipe breaks, both the pressure and temperature rise inside the containment vessel [1]. Those changes trigger a water-flooding emergency system [2, 3, 4]. The water inside the sealed containment vessel heats up and turns into steam. The steam rises to the top, where the steel shell has been cooled by air circulating around the vessel. Thus cooled, the steam condenses back into water. This cycle reduces the pressure and temperature, and the nuclear chain reaction ends. Unlike other pressurized-water reactors, the AP1000 needs no safety features beyond the passive ones.
Water—particularly superheated water—corrodes metal, and so the pipes, joints, and other conduits must be periodically checked, maintained, and replaced. According to one estimate, the AP1000 will use as much water per megawatt as a regular PWR.
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Westinghouse is building four AP1000s in China. Construction on Sanmen 1, which will be the world's first operating AP1000, began in March of last year and should be completed in 2013. Three U.S. utilities have announced plans to build six AP1000 units, with one scheduled for commercial operation in 2016. However, construction can't start until the NRC grants the reactor its final approval, which the agency says will not happen before mid-2011.
Manufacturer: Westinghouse Electric Co.
HQ: Cranberry Township, Pa.
Type: Pressurized-water reactor
Power: Thermal, 3415 MW; electric, 1117 MW
Fuel: Enriched uranium clad in fuel assemblies similar to those in ordinary PWRs
Refueling: Every 18 to 24 months
Coolant: Water
Moderator: Water
Waste: Spent fuel, consisting of leftover uranium 235 and other highly radioactive waste, similar to standard PWR waste.
Europe's Evolutionary Power Reactor will be the world's largest pressurized-water reactor
How it works:
An EPR core is similar to a standard PWR core, but larger.
The reactor is a descendant of the time-tested N4 and Konvoi reactors, the most modern reactors in France and Germany. An EPR's turbines can be maintained while it is in service; its manufacturers claim this will make for very little downtime and a lifetime of 60 years. The Union of Concerned Scientists has referred to the EPR as the only new reactor design under consideration in the United States that "appears to have the potential to be significantly safer and more secure against attack than today's reactors" [1]. The EPR also has the highest-ever efficiency (36 percent) in converting thermal energy into electric compared to other light-water reactors, whose efficiency typically runs at about 33 to 34 percent.
Some analysts have expressed doubts that the EPR is the world's safest reactor. Their main concern is the spent fuel: The reactor's higher burn-up rate makes the waste more radioactive, raising concerns about proliferation.
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Four EPRs are now under construction: one each in Finland and France and two 1650-MW units in Taishan, China, which is already planning to build two more. The Finnish plant will be the world's first EPR and the first Generation III+ reactor. A handful of U.S. utilities plan to build at least four EPR plants after the NRC finishes its review.
Manufacturer: Areva
HQ: Paris
Type: Pressurized-water reactor
Power: Thermal, 4500 MW; electric, 1650 MW
Fuel: The reactor can use 5 percent enriched uranium oxide clad in fuel rods similar to those of conventional PWRs. It can also use fuel with up to 50 percent mixed uranium plutonium oxide.
Refueling: Every 24 months, at most
Coolant: Water
Moderator: Water
Waste: Spent fuel, consisting of leftover uranium 235 and other highly radioactive waste.


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The Weekend Snack Pack Program just scored some new wheels.
Courtesy of a Mitchell benefactor, the Weekend Snack Pack Program was gifted a 2001 Tahoe today, Nov. 13, for the program's use. The vehicle was given to the Snack Pack Program by a Mitchell resident who prefers to remain anonymous. It was accepted by Cindy Novachich, program director.
The Weekend Snack Pack Program provides one bag of easy-to-prepare meals per qualifying child each weekend. Foods given include things like ravioli or macaroni and cheese, with a snack and either a fruit or a vegetable.
Novachich said the vehicle will be used to pick up food items and for deliveries, and has twice the room of her current vehicle.
"For years, people have told me that I needed a bigger vehicle and I have agreed, but there has never been any extra money (in the program), and we've always used 100 percent of our donations to purchase food," Novachich said. "The cost of a vehicle and insurance was something I told people to pray about. With the hard economic times, our donations have been down and the number of bags we pack each week keeps increasing."
The Weekend Snack Pack Program was begun by Novachich in 2010 from her home and currently delivers about 350 weekly packs to four local elementary schools: L.B. Williams, Longfellow, Gertie Belle Rogers and John Paul II. This summer, the Dakota Wesleyan University student group Enactus worked with Novachich to move the Snack Pack Program onto campus in Hughes Hall, providing a free space for the program to set up and expand, as well as easy access to the public. Enactus students have also been assisting in marketing, promotions, website design, and grant writing. DWU will assume the cost of the car insurance and Enactus is looking at securing donations for tires and oil changes.
Since working with Enactus on project figures, Novachich decided to log the miles she spent on grocery shopping, deliveries and presentations to service clubs, which came to approximately 40 to 50 miles per week.
"It is truly a special gift for we who operate with recycled bags and boxes and through the generous donations of food drives. It is a blessing that will enable our charity to continue to use 100 percent of the contributions given to buy food for kids," she said. "We are able, through food, to give hope to children in Mitchell who live in poverty. The donor of the Tahoe heard about our need through her work on other charity groups and felt God was calling her to provide this for us. I am so very thankful."
If interested in donating toward the Weekend Snack Pack Program or volunteering to pack meals, please contact Novachich at email@example.com or call 605-770-5832. Individuals may stop by during packing times to lend a hand, or service organizations can sign up as a group. Also, there are bins located outside of Hughes Hall for food donations to be dropped off.