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Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, who led the club to unprecedented heights with a brand of football widely regarded as the closest to perfection the game has seen, will leave at the end of the season and be replaced by assistant Tito Vilanova.
Guardiola's decision to step aside to rest and recuperate brings to an end a four-year tenure during which he led the Catalans to 13 trophies, including two Champions League triumphs and three straight Spanish La Liga titles.
The announcement on Friday at an emotional news conference at the Nou Camp, with Guardiola flanked by president Sandro Rosell and sporting director Andoni Zubizarreta, came after months of speculation over the 41-year-old's future.
It was also three days after his team were denied a place in the Champions League final by Chelsea in a spectacular match and followed last weekend's 2-1 La Liga defeat at home to rivals Real Madrid that all-but ended their hopes of a fourth title in a row.
"Four years is an eternity for a coach of Barcelona," Guardiola said as stony-faced first-team players including Xavi, Andres Iniesta, Victor Valdes and Carles Puyol looked on.
"Four years wear you down and that's the fundamental reason," the former midfielder added.
"The person who will occupy my place will give something that I cannot, because being here for four years is hard, the demands are very high and you have to be very strong.
"When I started out I thought I could achieve everything and that's what I want to get back."
Rosell and Zubizarreta said they had promoted Vilanova, who had an undistinguished career as a player but has been a crucial part of Guardiola's coaching success, because he was well placed to protect his close friend's legacy.
The pair were contemporaries at Barca's famed 'La Masia' youth academy and Vilanova was also Guardiola's assistant in his first coaching role in charge of the club's B team.
"Personality, integrity, commitment to the club and inside knowledge," Zubizarreta said when quizzed about why Vilanova was a good candidate.
"We have always said that when we need a player we look to the reserve teams but when we need a coach we look within too, to Tito," added the former Barca and Spain goalkeeper.
Guardiola, who said he would be available for consultation if ever needed, had previously renewed his Barca contract on an annual basis and waited until February 8 last year before agreeing a new deal.
He went on to capture a third consecutive La Liga title and a second Champions League crown, as well as the Spanish and European Super Cups and the Club World Cup thanks to a passing style of unmatched fluidity and control.
Known as a superb motivator, he has managed to get the very best out of hugely-gifted players like Argentina forward Lionel Messi, winner of the last three World Player of the Year awards.
"I want to thank Pep with all my heart for the huge amount he has contributed to my career, both professionally and personally," Messi said in a statement on his Facebook page.
The 24-year-old added that he had preferred not to attend Guardiola's farewell news conference as he was feeling too emotional.
Guardiola hinted he would be taking a break from the game but a host of suitors will be queuing up to persuade him to return.
Inter Milan, Manchester City and Chelsea are among the clubs to have been linked with the sharp-suited Catalan while national team jobs with England and Qatar have been mentioned in other media reports.
Reaction to his impending departure poured in from across world football.
"I would have loved him, even going through a disappointing year, to stay and come back and insist on this philosophy at the club because that would be interesting as well," Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, once linked with Barca given his love of the 'beautiful game', told a news conference.
Italy coach Cesare Prandelli told reporters that he hoped Guardiola brought "his fantastic idea of football" to Serie A, where he played for Brescia and AS Roma.
Barca have a chance to claim more silverware this season in the Copa del Rey and play Athletic Bilbao in next month's final.


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RICHMOND, Va. — A soldier who barricaded herself in a building at a Virginia base and then fatally shot herself in the head earlier this week was a 33-year-old human resources specialist from New York, the Army said Wednesday.
Fort Lee officials identified her as Sgt. 1st Class Paula M. Walker of Yonkers.
Walker was pronounced dead after being taken to Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center on Monday. She had barricading herself in an office on the third floor of the four-story building that houses the Army's Combined Arms Support Command and was throwing things around. About 1,100 people were inside, but no one else was hurt. Her gun was not a service weapon, officials said.
Walker had been in the Army for nearly 14 years and at Fort Lee since December 2011. Maj. Gen. Stephen R. Lyons, who took over as commanding general of the support command last week, has said he did not know whether she was being treated for any mental health issues and could not speculate whether drugs or alcohol might have been a factor.
Prior to coming to Fort Lee, the Army said Walker served at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, starting in 2010 and was at Fort Eustis, Virginia, beginning in 2006. Her career included a 15-month combat tour in Iraq from 2007 to 2008.
Lyons has described Walker as upset and enraged but said he couldn't say whether that was consistent with her personality. The Army says her awards and decorations include three Army Commendation Medals, four Army Achievement Medals, one Joint Meritorious Unit Award and four Army Good Conduct Medals.
Fort Lee police responded within two minutes of being alerted to the shooting. An alarm was sounded across the post and those in the building either took shelter inside or evacuated as directed, officials said.
The heavily trafficked Fort Lee reopened and normal operations resumed within an hour of the morning shooting.
The daily population at Fort Lee — 25 miles south of Richmond and 130 miles from Washington — is about 34,000, with members from all branches, their families, civilians and contractors.
The shooting is the fourth violent act at a Virginia military installation this year.
In March, a civilian truck driver shot and killed a sailor aboard a Navy destroyer at Naval Station Norfolk before he was shot and killed by Navy security. In June, authorities said, a sailor repeatedly stabbed another near Naval Medical Center Portsmouth. The same installation was placed on lockdown in April when a sailor shot and killed himself inside a barracks there.
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MEZIERES, Switzerland Usher, Lauryn Hill, Macy Gray and Erykah Badu are booked to perform at the Montreux Jazz Festival during its 51st edition, organisers said on Thursday.
LOS ANGELES Just three months ago, "Zero Dark Thirty" looked like a strong contender for the movie industry's biggest prize.
But when the Oscar for Best Picture is handed out on Sunday, the thriller about the decade-long U.S. hunt for, and 2011 killing of, Osama bin Laden is unlikely to get its name engraved on the coveted gold statuette.
After a fierce campaign over the movie's depiction of torture that started in Washington and extended to human rights groups, "Zero Dark Thirty" went from front-runner to also-ran at the Academy Awards.
Despite winning early honors from influential critics in New York, Washington, Boston and Chicago, pundits say the failure of "Zero Dark Thirty" to win traction in Hollywood may have as much to do with its style as the heated debate it has provoked.
"It's a little cool," said Dave Karger, chief correspondent for Fandango.com.
"Usually you need some kind of crowd-pleasing element to have a shot at winning Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and that is what (Iran hostage drama) 'Argo' has. It has a great rousing emotional aspect to it which 'Zero Dark Thirty,' by design, does not have," Karger told Reuters.
Early signs of trouble for "Zero Dark Thirty" came in mid-December when U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein, John McCain and Carl Levin sent a letter to movie studio Sony Pictures.
They called the film "grossly inaccurate and misleading" for suggesting torture helped the United States track the al Qaeda leader to a Pakistan compound.
The senators cited intelligence records released in April 2012 that showed this was not the case and said the movie "has the potential to shape American public opinion in a disturbing and misleading manner."
Director Kathryn Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal said repeatedly that the film shows a variety of intelligence methods, not all of which produced results.
Three weeks later, Bigelow was omitted from the Oscar's Best Director shortlist, chosen by about 5,800 movie industry professionals who make up the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Bigelow was only one of four big directors to be snubbed, and "Zero Dark Thirty" received five Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture. But Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan was among those who pointed the finger at Washington.
"Chalk up this year's (Oscar) nominations as a victory for the bullying power of the United States Senate and an undeserved loss for Kathryn Bigelow," Turan wrote in January.
In a column in The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, deputy editor Daniel Henninger agreed.
"Had Senators Feinstein, Levin and McCain not saddled up their high horses in a December 19 letter to Sony Pictures denouncing the movie, 'Zero Dark Thirty' would not now be out of the running for Best Picture at the Oscars," Henninger wrote.
Pete Hammond, awards columnist at entertainment industry website Deadline.com, said the political attacks on the film certainly had an impact before "Zero Dark Thirty" was released in U.S. movie theaters nationwide in late January.
"But when it opened wide, it actually helped by bringing so much publicity, and now there has been a backlash against the backlash," Hammond told Reuters.
By late January, Bigelow and Boal were making speeches, getting magazine profiles, and writing opinion pieces in which they directed critics to the U.S. officials who sanctioned, or turned a blind eye, to harsh interrogation techniques.
Victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks ordered by bin Laden voiced their support, as did departing U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who called it a "great movie."
Steve Elzer, spokesman for Columbia Pictures, the Sony Pictures unit behind the film, said the studio was very proud of the movie, saying it had generated "an amazing national conversation."
"'Zero Dark Thirty' has been a huge critical and commercial success that has also been praised by a large number of experts, historians and academics outside of the political arena.
"No matter how we do at the Oscars on Sunday, we know this will be a motion picture that will be remembered many years from now. We couldn't be more proud to have been associated with this film," Elzer told Reuters.
Despite the furor and small protests by human rights activists at some awards ceremonies, "Zero Dark Thirty" has won stellar reviews and reaped more than $100 million at the worldwide box office, most of it in North America.
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a 94 percent positive rating. Oscar Best Picture favorites "Lincoln" and "Argo" score 89 percent and 96 percent respectively.
Yet "Zero Dark Thirty" has picked up just one major prize in the Hollywood guild awards for directors, actors, producers and writers that are considered a predictor of Oscar success.
Boal won the Writers Guild of America trophy for Best Original Screenplay last weekend, and is a strong contender for the Oscar in that category on Sunday.
Jessica Chastain is thought to have a good chance at taking home the Best Actress prize for her performance as the feisty young CIA agent credited with tracking down bin Laden in the face of skepticism from her bosses.
"Jessica Chastain is a good place to put your 'Zero Dark Thirty' vote if you are wounded by the backlash against the film and want to express your support some place," said Tom O'Neil, of awards website Goldderby.com.
However, the film, which is being promoted as the "most-talked about movie of the year," is seen as a long shot.
"Controversial movies suffer with Academy voters. I think 'Zero Dark Thirty' will have a tough time winning Best Picture because I think the Academy is going to go with less controversial choices," Rotten Tomatoes editor in chief Matt Atchity said.
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What is KaliKosmos?Kali is the Greek word for beauty and kosmos the Greek word for order, completeness, humanity and by extension the world. In Greek philosohy the concepts of beauty, order and completeness were ideals that each person should strive to have in his or her life.
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Who is KaliKosmos?KaliKosmos Travel is an online agent training and management company that works with its community of travel agents; each independently contracted with Carlson Travel located in Memphis, Tenn.
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KaliKosmos Travel not only provides its members with start-up assistance through training, the use of reproducible materials, email services, and an online agent portal; but it also manages its members' business dealings to help them provide integrity and superior customer service to all clients.
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Cognitive Synergy in Multimedia Learning
The main focus of our study was to investigate multimedia effects that had different results from the findings of existing multimedia learning studies. First, we describe and summarize three experimental studies we conducted from 2006 to 2010. Then we analyze our findings to explore learner characteristics that may impact the cognitive processes in multimedia learning. Third, based on this analysis, we identify individual student characteristics that offer a more coherent explanation for why and how multimedia students learn differently: affection, prior knowledge, metacognition, and cognitive synergy. Including these student characteristics in multimedia learning considerations can shed additional light on an issue of great importance, namely how cognitive synergy affects multimedia learning. It can also lead to the identification and development of methods for helping students overcome learning difficulties and thus has important implications for multimedia researchers and teachers who are trying to optimally align learner characteristics with pedagogical and practical approaches to multimedia learning.
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Microsoft has served up a tasty treat for Zune users: free Wi-Fi access in thousands of McDonald's eateries.
The announcement means any US customer who's splashed out on one of Microsoft's recently launched Wi-Fi enabled Zune MP3 players, can now access Zune Marketplace – Microsoft's version of iTunes – whenever they pass under the Golden Arches.
Ronald McDonald's currently got 9800 of his fast food joints wired up for Zune-based downloads.
The deal follows Microsoft's announcement that Zune 3.0 - the latest version of Zune software – is now available to download. The modernised software allows punters to buy songs from FM radio stations over Wi-Fi, though a feature called "Buy from FM".


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This should be great news for Major League Baseball. Seeking to bridge the ever-widening gap between the five or so richest teams and small-market, lower-grossing rivals, the league will force the richies to hand over about $260 million this year for its revenue-sharing plan.
But don't expect the poorer teams to get their fair share. The new
More teams may take the same approach, reporting lower fees for revenue sharing while raking in higher sums through owner-controlled cable channels. The Red Sox do it, the Los Angeles Dodgers do it and so do the Atlanta Braves, the Chicago Cubs and the Toronto Blue Jays. The Twins will launch their network next year. The Houston Astros and the Chicago White Sox may do the same.
The new cable channels could make the richest teams even richer, increasing the disparity between them and the weakest teams in the league. The five most valuable clubs–the Yankees, New York Mets, Red Sox, Dodgers and Atlanta Braves–took in an average of $46 million in local media revenue last season, compared with a per-team average of $22 million league-wide. That is why these five teams are worth an average of $541 million, compared with an average of $295 million for all teams.(Baseball clubs are valued at two to three times revenue.)
Baseball Commissioner Alan (Bud) Selig first imposed the revenue-sharing plan in 1993 as a way to fix baseball's broken economic system. He says the financial disparity between top-tier and bottom-tier teams has taken much of the competition out of the sport. The Yankees pulled in $223 million in revenue last season–almost double the league average–even after paying $29 million into the revenue-sharing scheme. Their fat checkbook lets them bid enormous sums for the best players, a key reason they are the only club to capture more than one championship in the past decade (the Bronx Bombers have won four in ten seasons).
Baseball officials insist revenue sharing isn't being undermined. "For purposes of revenue sharing," says Robert Manfred, baseball's labor lawyer, "we value all TV deals on what they would get in an arm's-length transaction. And for those deals where there is equity in lieu of cash, we include the value of the equity."
The real numbers suggest otherwise. Last year
Zimbalist estimates that last year YES raked in a total $170 million ($130 million in subscriber fees, ad sales of $30 million and $10 million from games sold to DirecTV and WCBS TV in New York). Take out $40 million for production costs and Nets games (YES won't carry Devils games until 2007), and YES netted $130 million in Yankees-related revenue. Subtracting $10 million in profits for
In 1993, the first year of revenue sharing, the richer teams gave $20 million total (1% of baseball's overall revenue) to the poorer teams. By 1996, as part of a new contract between players and owners, the top clubs forked over $50 million, or 3% of aggregate revenue. By 2002 the pot had grown to $169 million, 5% of baseball's total revenue. This season the wealthier clubs will give around $260 million to the low-revenue teams. By 2006, the last year of the contract, Selig believes the richer teams will transfer well over $300 million to their poorer rivals.
Selig's plan requires that 34% of all "local" revenue–from ticket sales, local broadcast rights, concessions and parking–be contributed to a pool and then divided equally among the league's 30 teams. But five of the eight most valuable teams–the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Braves and Cubs–own cable channels or are owned by companies that also own cable networks, letting them reduce revenue sharing and market themselves without having to show the value on their balance sheets.
Last year John Henry, former owner of the Florida Marlins, paid $700 million for the Red Sox and 80% of the New England Sports Network (FORBES, Apr. 15, 2002). In 2001 the Red Sox received $18 million from NESN, but the games are worth far more than that. Author Zimbalist estimates that NESN's revenue rose to $50 million in 2001 from $39 million the previous year and that NESN netted about $14 million. Thus Red Sox owner Henry received $11.2 million of revenues without subjecting it to baseball's revenue sharing. Fueled by the increase in revenue from NESN, the Sox increased 14% in value this year and are now the third-most-valuable team, worth $488 million.
Similarly synergistic shelters are employed by the Los Angeles Dodgers, owned by Rupert Murdoch's
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Ok all you pygmy owners, I am curious. How much feed and what do you feed your goats. Like dry does, nursing does, bucks and such. I want mine to graze but know they need suplemental feed and hay. So I was just wondering what everyone else with pygmy goats do. Here is what I do now. All 3 does are nursing so they get 1 cup grain mix in the morning, same in the evening plus 2 flakes of alfalfa orchard grass hay mixed. I have 2 bucks and both get 3/4 cup grain mix morning and night plus 1 flake alfalfa orchard grass hay mixed. Free choice purina mineral and baking soda. All goats have a lush green pen full of weeds and grass. Soon we are fencing in 2 acres of weeds scrub and grass. I am not sure if what I am doing is enough as this is my first year with goats kidding. Grain mix is. 3 parts dumor pelets 1 part corn 1 part oats 1 part BOSS and I am slowly introducing a new recipe that is 4 parts alfalfa pelets 4 parts 10% all grain 2 parts BOSS Right now bucks are not getting the new grain mixed in, I am not sure if they need the alfalfa pelets and I know they need the amonium cloride in the dumor pelets. Ok what does everyone think and sorry so long.
I would not give the bucks any grain at all unless they lose shape from breeding. They do not need grain. Pygmies in general do not need grain. Maybe a little when nursing kids. If you are giving them grain I would give them maybe a handful once or twice a day if they are not nursing kids. If they have plenty of browse, they really don't need it.
I give grain to my young kids, and preggo and nursing does. I give my kids the amount of grain that 'feels right' to me, depending on size and health. The does get grain when they get to the last month of pregnancy till weaning of thier kids. They are weaned on and off of grain, every animal, whenever there is a ration change. Do not make sudden changes. I don't even feed mine hay in the summer, as long as they have grazing. All of mine are a very nice weight and condition. They do also get alfalfa pellets from the last month of grain till end of lactation. Young kids get it too. Bucks and wethers don't get any grain, as it just causes problems. As long as you have grazing for them, I don't feed grain.
I have 2 pygmy does and I feed them a mixture of sweet feed with hay. I do have some other goats and everyone gets sweetfeed and hay and the boys get medicated pellets and very little sweet feed. I have someother goats in another pen and they are all wethers and I give them only medicated pellets and hay only. Of course everyone gets grass out in the fields. Good Luck with your goats
That sounds like a lot of grain to me. When I had Pygmys the bucks each got 1/4 cup grain twice per day with 1 tsp. of ammonium chloride added. The only reason they got the grain was to get the a.c into them. Dry does got no grain (other than what they picked up from the horses spilling), expectant does (in the last 2 months of pregnancy) were gradually worked up to 1/2 cup twice a day, which is also what they received when nursing and milking. Yes I milked them and they had wonderful (but not very much) milk. Some of the does tended to gain weight easily and had to be cut back, but none of them ever got more. They also had alfalfa hay (rationed), and goat minerals and baking soda free choice. Debbie
What does the amonium chloride do for them? I have had little goats only for a couple of weeks, so I know very little. We use grain only for treats and luring them where we want them to go. The vet said they don't need grain if they have good browse.
Ok! You all have given me great ideas. It does sound like I am feeding too much feed but all my advice was given to me by the breeder I got them from and they show all their goats so I guess they need them on the heavy side. A few questions. Would a 5 month old buck be considered a kid and need grain? He cries for it poor guy spoiled I guess. Now the pen the 2 bucks are in is aprox 30' X75' and full of grass, weeds and clover. Would you consider that enough to eat on or supplement with hay? I am fencing in 2 acres but the bucks won't have access to that just the does will.
No, that buckling does not need grain. I usually throw a flake of hay to the bucks & if they eat it, fine. They have a smaller pen. Somedays they eat it, other days they don't. You can try that. If they don't eat the hay you know they are getting enough in their pen.
The ammonium chloride prevents the boys from getting urinary calculi (stones in the urinary tract), a very painful condition which can kill them. I have heard and read that bucks do not need a.c. if they are not fed grain, but never wanted to take the chance. So, all my bucks and wethers get a bit of grain with the a.c. Regarding the size of your buck pen and supplementing with hay I would do as suggested above and give them a flake of hay. An area that size will probably be trampled into just dirt before too long and you will have to feed hay. Debbie
Glad to hear the 5 mo buckling doesnt need grain. He wont be glad to hear that. I will start decreacing it over the week. My lazy bucks I can't imagine them trampling their pen down to dirt. I have to mow it every week now so it dosnt get too tall they wont walk in it. They can't keep up with the growth now but maybe with the grain gone they can.
Personally, I know my babies don't need the grain but my pygmies are all show animals and need to be in quality fit order. I give them black oil sunflower seeds for a shiney coat and the bucks get chopped hay when they are running the weight off. Maybe even some cob with their minerals. My breeding does get a homemade mix of vigor plus sweet feed and goat ration w/ minerals. My pygmies think treat time is 5pm every night and its how I get them in their pen. Of course their ration probably equals out to 1/4 to 1/2 cup each and they compete with 3 boers and the dominant wether for the food. All my animals are in no way over weight and very healthy and well decorated. I think I do ok. Still learning but I think we do what works for us. My goats free range in heavily wooded areas during the day also.
Here is what I do with my pygmies... My nannies get grain in the last trimester of their pregnancies and they get 1 cup per goat per day.When they have bagged up in the last month I up their grain ration to 1 cup 2x's a day.This has worked out really well.They have nice large pastures and alot of browse.You have to remember that goats prefer browse over grass.I supplement with mineral and salt and I give approxmatley 1 flake of grass/alfalfa mixed hay,per goat twice a day.Wethers do not need grain at all they are more prone to UC then bucks.I only grain my bucks during breeding season and they will get as much grain as the does. When I do decide to keep doelings I will grain them the first year so I know they get all of the nutrients that they need. This has worked well for me and I have had great kids this year, my goats are also on a rotational de worming program,routine feet trimming and yearly vaccinations.Plus we just finished having all of the does freshened last week(except our one unexpected preggo lamancha) and all but 7 are sold out of 21 kids.


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I know that it is closed-source but I was wondering if MSFT ever thought about giving the a Linux/Unix hybrid kernel a try. Windows 2000 was great!
It's always interesting to speculate about these things, but the NT kernel is inseparably tied to the rest of the operating system. If you swapped the kernels, you would probably spend the bulk of your time writing compatibility layers in Linux/Unix to mimic NT kernel features.
Besides, I can't think of any value added by using a Linux kernel.
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The NT API is to strongly tied to many major applications and device drivers for that to be appropriate unless the Linux/Unix hybrid were to have API control layers to fix that (which would negate a lot of its functionality).
I think a better way would be for both Linux/Unix and Windows to get a common higher-level API, although I think this is adequately provided by WINE and .NET/Mono.
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Louis (Detroit): I am excited about Friday's Bad Boys reunion. They're still my favorite team. It got me thinking about how some of those players became Pistons. How did the Pistons get Bill Laimbeer?
Langlois: Jack McCloskey traded for Laimbeer just minutes before the trade deadline in February 1982. You can read more about it here. We've already posted a ton of material on the Bad Boys and more is coming in the next few days. A big part of it was a 10-part series I wrote a few years ago on the 10 moves Jack McCloskey made to build the Bad Boys. Laimbeer was one of the first and one of the shrewdest moves McCloskey made. The headliner in the deal that brought Laimbeer to the Pistons was thought to be Kenny Carr. And McCloskey liked Carr, but the real motivation for the deal from his perspective was Laimbeer. He quickly flipped Carr to Portland for a No. 1 pick.
Michael (@Michaelptrain23): Why does Greg Monroe get hammered all the time and get no calls and neither Mo Cheeks nor John Loyer works the refs for his big man?
Langlois: Probably every big man who takes the ball to the basket with the regularity Monroe does feels like he doesn't get half the calls he deserves. For all the carping fans do about officials, the difficulty of seeing through the tangle of bodies and flailing arms at speeds beyond the ability of the human eye to decipher with unimpeachable accuracy in real time is incredible. I see the Pistons 82 times a year, so my perspective is skewed. As, I would guess, happens to most fans who watch the Pistons predominantly and no other team to nearly the same degree. Sure, Monroe probably gets fouled at least once every game without the call being made, but my guess is most teams have a player who feels similarly. As to a coach arguing for his player, you can't possibly tell by watching games on TV about the level of interplay between a coach and the officials. At home games, I'm seated about 15 to 20 feet from where Loyer prowls the sidelines and I can't say I hear much of what he discusses with officials over the din of the crowd. Coaches – just like players – really have to be judicious in making their stands with officials. Just my opinion, but I've long thought a coach who spends half his night bantering with officials is planting the seed with his team that there's a built-in excuse to fail: They're out to get us. A well-timed barb is one thing, but a constant diatribe is counterproductive. It very likely is distracting the coach from doing his job, quite possibly providing the team a reason to expect failure and – oh, by the way – giving the official a reason to stick it to you at the next opportunity.
Shawn (Garden Grove, Calif.): Do you think the Pistons would draft someone like Randle, Vonleh or Gordon if they thought they were the best player available by a sizable amount?
Langlois: Well, sure. It seems reasonable to guess that Julius Randle, Noah Vonleh and Aaron Gordon – all freshmen power forwards at high-profile college programs who entered college already prominently on the NBA radar – are going to at least start the draft process as top-10 prospects if they all decide to enter the draft. (Vonleh announced Sunday night he was; Gordon and Randle's seasons are ongoing.) What doesn't seem likely at this point? That any of them are going to be the best player available "by a sizable amount." At least not by a consensus opinion. One team or another might see a clear separation between one and the other two – and everybody else available when their time to pick comes – but it at least appears at this point that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It's going to be a very interesting evaluation with those three, as I mentioned in an impromptu Twitter chat that broke out Sunday night as I was watching Gordon play for Arizona as Vonleh announced his intention. As for the Pistons, power forward wouldn't seem to be high on their list of needs. Then again, Greg Monroe is a pending restricted free agent and the draft comes before July 1, so Monroe's situation will not be resolved by the time the Pistons need to make a choice on draft night. (Assuming they retain their No. 1 pick by finishing somewhere in the top eight on May 20 when the lottery is held; otherwise, the pick goes to Charlotte.) I would expect them to make a wing shooter the priority, but if there isn't a player who fits that description good enough to be drafted in the top eight, and if they see star qualities in one of those three power forwards, then you take the best player and sort out the roster fit. If Aaron Gordon is available, for instance, and your evaluation of him says he's the second coming of Blake Griffin, then you don't take a shooter who might turn out to be, say, Jimmer Fredette just because you need shooting. Because if the guy you take doesn't leave any bigger imprint in his first three or four years than Fredette has made, you still have a gaping roster need on the perimeter and you passed on a superstar.
Johnathan (@Johnathan_Hill): It's looking like we might get to keep the draft pick. If Smart or Ennis comes to town, do you think Jennings gets traded?
Langlois: Not necessarily, Johnathan. I'm still of the belief that Marcus Smart is going to be gone by the time the Pistons would pick, unless they pull a top-three pick, if they don't have to send their first-rounder to Charlotte. I haven't seen all that much of Tyler Ennis to have a solid opinion of him. I know he's lauded for his feel for the game and his general embrace of being a point guard. Physically, I guess I'd have some doubts about his ability to have an immediate NBA impact. (Scouts wondered a year ago about his Syracuse predecessor, too, but Michael Carter-Williams, though worrisomely thin, was incredibly rangy.) Nevertheless, drafting a point guard wouldn't necessarily mean Jennings would have to go. You'd probably look to convert a strength into bolstering other areas, and having three point guards – Will Bynum's deal has another year to run, remember – would make for a crowded spot. But the Pistons would still have a modest dollar total invested into their point guards, given the rookie pay scale and the relatively reasonable deals both Jennings and Bynum hold. So they wouldn't have to deal from weakness – forced by cap economics – if they were to draft a point guard. And that would give them the luxury of time to determine what direction to take.
Tony (@NickleOff): The Bad Boys were disliked by everyone but Pistons fans. The current team is disliked by Pistons fans. How can Joe D make this team likeable? They're the opposite of the Bad Boys. Bad shot selection. No defense. No cohesiveness.
Langlois: Fans like winning teams, Tony. Fans, in general, don't find losers endearing. (Chicago Cubs fans the outlier.) The rest is all decoration. Fans especially aren't drawn to losing teams that fail to meet expectations. This Pistons team did and nobody would run from that assessment. How you make them likeable is to undergo a thorough evaluation of why they underperformed and take steps to correct the problem. Come back next year and win more games. You'll be surprised how much you like them then.
Ken (Dharamsala, India): It looks more and more like Mo Cheeks was not the major reason for the Pistons' woeful play. Rather, the Pistons have woeful talent. Joe knew many of the key players of the 2004 championship team. He played against them. Do you think he is too far removed from the game to make wise personnel decisions? Do you think maybe now Tom Gores is reassessing Pistons talent?
Langlois: I don't think they have woeful talent, Ken. I think the talent base is a long way past woeful. The product has been disappointing. No argument there. The whole hasn't come close to equaling the sum of its parts. In a word, that's what has come to be known as "chemistry." And the Pistons never found it this year, for whatever reason. Ultimately, that falls on the head coach. I think it's probably unfair to lay that at Loyer's feet, given the circumstances under which he took over. Given some off-season roster tweaking, I think John Loyer could indeed be the right coach for this team, but that will be a decision management will make when the season ends. As for Joe D being too far removed from his playing days to be an effective executive any longer, it's a fair question to raise but unlikely to hold any validity. Sure, when he put the 2004 title team together, he had a different perspective, perhaps. Just as all people do, he brought what he had to the job every day. And at that time, one of his best attributes was his proximity to his playing days and what they provided him regarding knowledge of NBA personnel. I won't pretend to speak for Joe Dumars, but I'm sure he would contend that whatever has been lost as that proximity wanes has been more than made up for by the experience he's gained on the job. What I have come to appreciate over the years is the depth of respect Dumars fosters around the game. That goes for current players far too young to remember the Bad Boys or any of his playing career, too. I've been amazed – and this speaks to a pervasiveness of available video of his era that wasn't true of the generation that preceded him – at how versed in Bad Boys history young players coming into the league still are today. It also goes for his peers, coaches and player agents, a powerful lobby. Personnel mistakes are the nature of the business. Jerry West – among the rare few like Joe D who is universally revered by all those factions – once said if you were right 51 percent of the time in personnel decisions, you were doing pretty well. It's a hit or miss game. Ben Gordon and Charlie Villanueva didn't work out. Josh Smith and Brandon Jennings are getting unfairly lumped with them. They haven't experienced appreciably more team success, but they've been more productive individually. Too soon to close the book on their Pistons chapters. And Joe D's draft record is very good. Those who say it isn't are either skewing the facts or have no feel for NBA draft context.


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5.7L PCM to YJ wiring harness, need help.
This is the final hurdle for the planning of my YJ Hemi conversion, and is probably the most difficult. I'm working on getting a 5.7L Hemi out of a Ram pickup into my YJ. This can be easily done to Jeep TJ Wranglers because Teraflex offers a plug and play harness to match the Hemi's PCM to the Jeep TJ harness. However, they have not developed such a harness for a YJ.
http://www.teraflex.biz/pages/Hemi%2...une%202005.pdf I can still drop in the Hemi, but I'd have to use their "Hot Rod" harness which offers no function to the stock YJ gauges. Teraflex mentions something about older style "twisted pair" wiring in the gauges of 2001 and older Wranglers as being the reason for this. Can anyone give me some advice on how to go about fabricating my own wiring harness, and would it work? I was thinking I could get wiring schematics from each a manual shift Hemi Ram and a manual shift 95 YJ and analyze them to see if anything can be done. I don't have much experience with wiring harnesses or PCM's, so any info you can give me will be a great help. Thanks :) |
Sounds like quite the project. I'm sure this has been done somewhere. I'll check some other forums and see if I can find anything.
It'll be killer when it is done. Have you tried talking to the folks at Painless wiring. They may have what you are looking for or at least something that you can adapt. It would probably easier to adapt a harness than to start from nothing.
It'll be killer to say the least. I won't be able to get the project off the ground til next spring, but I plan to take pictures and document everything. Once I find the cheapest and easiest solution in which everything works I'll have something for others with YJ's to go off of.
Thanks for the info, I'll keep Painless wiring in mind. |
sounds like it is going to be nice.i am starting my conversion next week and am haveing the same problem.I have a 1992 jeep wangler with a 4 cyl am pulling it out an installing a L98 tpi out of a 1985 corvette with the ax-15 trans and 8.8 ford rear end.Have all the part the only thing that is holding me up is having to convert the factory harness of the L98 and the jeep i have wiring daigrams but it is the a maze.i was hoping to find someone that has done the LTI or something like that and maybe has married the harness and could help.
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L98 TPI wiring to YJ
He told me they can send you a custom wire harness to work with the engine, along with an "adapter" that plugs the engine harness into the Jeep dash harness at the firewall connections (around the brake booster). He said the cost was somewhere around the $350 + range. Hope this helps you out... Oh, and if you get to this before I do, PLEASE let me know how it goes. Im still at the getting all the parts welded in and not quite ready to wiring yet. |
Cowboy 724,
As for your question, I would follow the same website. They claim to do custom Jeep harnesses to the application. Lots of good stuff in there for the cheap too. Hope this helps. Centech Online Wiring and Automotive Accessories |
thanks so much dirt diver.I have just gotten all the parts I need i will be getting started soon I will post pic of the whole conversion.
thanks steve |
Good luck sclose55. Yeah I would have mine done already but i ran into a snag. I was replacing the oil pan on the engine (craigslist bought) and when I dropped it, the guts fell out. Bearings were shot, and there was rust and water. Ended up being an engine rebuild. Funds went to the cleaning and machining ($450), the rebuild kit (320$), and getting the heads cleaned and threaded lifter studs installed (150). Alot more than what I planned on spending on the engine. When I get mine mounted, I plan on doing my "build thread" for the whole engine , intake, and jeep build at the same time. Keep me posted.
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i talk to centech today and they told me that they do no wiring for 92 and newer jeep yet.so back to drawing board if i hear of anything i will let you know please do the same . thanks |
Couldnt you just run the factory hemi harness for the engine controls and run aftermarket gauges in place of the stockers? They'd be a lot more reliable, thats for sure. Likely be cheaper than getting custom harnesses made, etc. Just an idea. Ought to be a cool swap.
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Hey guys, i recently pulled my car out of storage and im trying to check my timing to make sure its correct. First off the car is a 93 gt, but it has had a carb'd 351w put in before i bought the car. Every guide online tells me to either pull the spout or remove the vacuum line that runs to the distributor when checking the timing with a light. I cannot find a spout and it definitely doesn't have the vacuum line running to the distributor. Any ideas what could be going on guys, im not sure what all they did during the swap.
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Let me guess: you bought the car from someone else and didn't do any of the work we see... The wiring looks like a commercial for a girl with frizzy hair - an explosion in a mattress factory. No telling what has been done or how it is wired. It looks like someone cheaped out and used a EFI distributor. There is no mechanical advance, and no way to advance the ignition timing without a computer. The ignition timing is set at the base setting and never advances. Locked timing is costing you performance and economy. You're going to get to make a tour of the online auto parts store catalogs and find a truck distributor for a 351 made before 1986. It will be a unit designed to work with the DuraSpark ignition that originally came on Ford trucks. It will have an electronic pickup and a mechanical advance and a vacuum advance. DuraSpark II ignition diagram: Diagram courtesy of /www.billwrigley.com See http://webpages.charter.net/1bad6t/duraspark.html for more help.
Please provide a pic of the harmonic damper. The forward most box resembles one used for a mag pickup/trigger.
So my timing should be looked right now, i put a timing light on it last night and revved the engine at the same time and the timing marks seem to be moving when doing so. Does this not mean that it is advancing on its on?


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What Happened to Brittany Murphy?
The Clueless actress died yesterday at the age of 32.
-Kathy Campbell
I was simultaneously surprised but, sadly, not shocked when I heard yesterday that Brittany Murphy had died of a heart attack at the age of 32. While the coroner's ruling won't be known for some days or weeks, part of me can't help but wonder if the actress who played wide-eyed Tai in Clueless is yet another victim of Hollywood's dark side.
After finding fame in 1995, she starred in films like Girl Interrupted, 8 Mile, Just Married and Uptown Girls, and while she had talent and oodles of energy to spare, some wondered if there was something bugging Brittany.
She dyed her dark hair blond and her lips suddenly looked plumper, but a bigger concern was her weight, which yo-yoed dramatically, prompting rumors of anorexia or cocaine addiction. Brittany denied the claims, telling Jane magazine in 2005, that she had never tried the drug in her entire life, adding, "I've never even seen it…. I am also way too high-strung. I can't even take a Sudafed. Can you imagine? My God. I think my heart would explode."
Whether the last part of that quote proves to be prophetic remains to be seen, but that hasn't stopped Perez Hilton from drawing his own conclusions and warning Lindsay Lohan and Courtney Love to run, not walk, to rehab in order to avoid a similar fate. "Dear @LindsayLohan and Courtney Love, wake up!!!!" he Tweeted. "Please go to rehab again and GET IT TOGETHER before it's too late! R.I.P. Brittany Murphy."


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Mark Wahlberg has been open about this before, and when he sat down with Men's Health magazine, he was open again: he kinda wishes he hadn't done everything he did when he was younger and rose to fame as "Marky Mark."
"Believe me, if there were things I could take back I would. I can't take any of it back and it's moulded who I am today, but I would certainly like to erase some of those things. I should have kept my shirt on a lot more. And not pulled my pants down so much.
"When I did my first film I really felt like I had found my niche. It was difficult because I wanted to do anything in my power to make people forget about my past. I wanted to be credible, respected and taken seriously.
"Well family is the most important thing to me. So when I'm back home I'm in the gym at 4:30am, when it's still dark out and the kids haven't woken up yet. Then I get the kids up, get them off to school and get my day started.
"Family, faith and being a good person are the be all and end all. If I succeed at business and I fail at being a good father then it was all for nothing."
I love seeing how much Mark has matured! He's got his priorities straight, doesn't he?
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Dozen illegal weapons found in Palestinian embassy in Prague, police say
PRAGUE — A total of 12 illegal weapons were found in the Palestinian embassy complex where a possibly booby-trapped safe killed the ambassador, police said on Sunday.
The deputy Palestinian foreign minister, however, denied the weapons were illegal.
Police spokeswoman Andrea Zoulova declined to give more details, citing the investigation.
Ambassador Jamal al-Jamal, 56, died on Wednesday when an embassy safe exploded. The career diplomat had started his posting in October.
Deputy Palestinian Foreign Minister Taysir Jaradat said on Sunday that he met with his Czech counterpart and was asked about the weapons.
"We told them that these guns have been in the embassy for a long time — going back to the former regime of Czechoslovakia — and these guns were either licensed in the embassy or were given as gifts to the ambassador," he told Voice of Palestine radio station. "They are not in use."
During the Cold War, the Palestine Liberation Organization had strong ties with the Soviet Union and eastern bloc countries, including Czechoslovakia, Romania and east Germany.
The PLO maintained diplomatic missions across the eastern bloc, sent fighters for training courses in eastern Europe and sent many students to local universities.
The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has a Ph.D. from a Soviet university.
It remains unclear what caused the safe to explode, but the ambassador's death is being investigated as a case of negligence.
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Yesterday, the FDA approved a new, cheaper version of the female condom, which should be available for purchase by 2009. Do we even care? Should we?
According to the Chicago Tribune, female condoms will be 30% cheaper if the FDA-approved version (which is made of synthetic rubber instead of polyurethane) is approved. The article cites expense as a possible reason why female condoms have never really caught on in the US. We might be able to deduce a few other reasons why they aren't that popular by doing a close read of this portion of the article:
Users also complained it was difficult to insert, slippery, sometimes squeaky during sex and unsightly.
Yeah, that doesn't sound all that great. And, the female condom has a 5% failure rate when it comes to preventing pregnancy, which is 2% higher than its male counterpart. Still, it is a way for a woman to take STI and pregnancy prevention into her own hands (or, uh, vagina), and that's a good thing.
So what's the deal?
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sometimes i feel like...
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i'm the only person who has ever actually used the female condom, much less used it as my primary method of birth control for a time. and i have to say that other than the fact that it takes a couple of seconds more to put in place than a male condom, i have no complaints. in fact, the ring on the inner part actually helps to stimulate the vaginal g-spot, which means good times! also, my college gave them out, so i never had to buy them (although you had to specifically ask for them b/c they did not set them out in a bowl like the do the other condoms). thank goodness, too, because they are mad expensive.


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Asset-based economy
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The asset-based economy is a post-industrial macroeconomic state of capitalism in which growth is based largely on appreciation of equity assets, typically financial instruments such as stocks, as well as real estate.
The term has been applied, often in a deragoratory sense, to the economic conditions in the United States in the 2000s, during the recovery from the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
In an asset-based economy, manufacturing, as well as perhaps services, no longer provide the engine for growth. Rather the appreciation of assets leads to an increased net worth among individuals which, in the direct sense, can serve as collateral for borrowing, which in turn creates greater demand for goods and services. Proponents of the model often advocate reduction of tax rates in order to stimulate greater demand for assets, which in turn raises asset prices yielding even greater equity.
Critics of the asset-based economy contend that it is highly flawed because it depends on the continuation of low interest rates to stimulate the borrowing that will finance the purchase of assets at a rate sufficient to sustain the upward trend in asset prices. Thus, they reason, the model is highly vulnerable to the perhaps inevitable decreases in the real estate and financial markets.
Defenders of the model argue that the asset-based model need not be a permanent condition, but can be viewed as a stop-gap measure until demand for goods and services increases enough to sustain growth without low interest rates.
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- The benefits and history of asset based history in the Appalachian region by the regional committee, from the US government archive.


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Im thinkin of moving on from him for a few reasons.
1. He's God tier, and that inherently comes with a certain "You must be a noob if your using sagat"
2. Ive been questioning my skill level with him, and I realize im not as good as id like to be.
and a few others...
Let me state that I've been playing SF, since World Warrior... so I have much respect for the game, the craft, and the skill that goes into mastering a given character.
I used to main Ken back in the day, but moved to Sagat when HD REMIX came out... so when SFIV came out, my logical move was to remain with Sagat... .little did I know he's be top tier...
I'll openly admit that im not that good, but Im not that horrible either. Of the many sagats that Ive fought online I can comfortably say that I dont really play like them (but then again, Sagat vs Sagat matches arent really "normal" fights)
Here are a few matches for reference... feel free to shred them to bits.. i have thick skin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EISRAzs5WUc (this one was recorded just a few days ago , some random dude recorded a match between him and i) [Sagat vs Cammy]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YehU16Fbz0o - [Sagat vs Cammy]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmsjuHHHlAY - [Sagat vs Ryu]... ryu owns me the first round.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mav_gnKfQAo - [Sagat vs Abel] .. this match clearly defines Sagats stamina, and ability to take damage... its almost unfair, and I feel like I won this match because of tier differential.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4lzLg-E5YU - [Sagat vs Seth] - We duke it out in this match
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HwmXT718zM - [Sagat vs Guile] - This match was epic cuz me and this guy had fought twice before and he was talking tons of garbage between each match..
I have a few more, but you get the gist of it...
What im lookin for is just some straight up honest critique... Should I stay w/ Sagat? Move on? Im interested in picking up GUY when Super comes out, since he was my fav during the alpha series just cuz he looks cool as hell, and he's different.
My other favs include: Ryu, Ken, Akuma, Guile, Dhalsim, Dictator, Gouken is fun too...
Im currently G1-E rank right around 15000ish points (not that it means anything, but just putting a number on it)
Dunno, guess im just reflecting and tryin to figure out which direction to go...
Im really lookin for some help fellas....
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Tara Reid enjoyed a brief run of relevance in August when she made headlines for marrying her boyfriend Zack Kehayov after a whirlwind engagement of several hours. Now — and brace yourself, because this might shock you — she confesses that the marriage wasn't exactly real in the legal sense.
When a TMZ camera guy stops her at LAX after a long flight, she tells him, "We were never really married. It was never legal."
While on vacation in Greece with Kehayov in August, Reid tweeted "I just got engaged!" An hour later, she tweeted that the couple had tied the knot, writing "Greece married!" and later "Love in Greece…I am now a wife:)"
Graciously, she also thanked her followers for their well wishes. "Thank you for all of your support! I love you guys."


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Pitcher Cliff Lee during his breakout season in 2008. (PHOTO: Aaron Harris/AP Photo)
In a frustrated moment early last baseball season, I cornered a producer friend and convinced him to help me record a song. It's a song I often sing to myself while reading through much of the baseball "analysis" typical of April and May, when it seems far too early to draw meaningful conclusions from any player or team's output in a massively random game at the beginning of an extremely long season. It's sort of obnoxious. It goes like this:
Small sample size! Small sample, sample size! Small sample size! Small sample size!
And so on. Here's the video:
There's little worse than explaining a joke, no less one so straightforward. But the premise is that many strange things happen in small fragments of baseball seasons, and too often our minds trick us into believing a short series of coincidences is something significant.
Think about it: Almost any baseball fan would contend he can tell the difference between a .250 hitter and a .300 hitter. But that difference amounts to only one hit every 20 at-bats. A .250 hitter might go 1-5, 0-5, 3-5, 1-5 across four games while a .300 hitter goes 1-5, 1-5, 3-5, 1-5. And that's if they're performing in a manner consistent with their skill level across those four games – the .250 hitter could easily hit .500 over 20 at-bats, the .300 hitter could go hitless. But nonetheless, we convince ourselves the difference between the two hitters is noticeable, even obvious.
It's often hard to trust the human eyes and mind to assess baseball players, and harder still when we're trying to do so with less than ample evidence. And yet every year, when some scrubby slap-hitter gets off to a hot start, someone or some collection of people suggest he has "turned a corner," only to watch him soon turn three more corners and wind up right back on the road to mediocrity.
But on extremely rare occasion, it happens that what looked to be figment of baseball's capriciousness actually indicates something lasting, and a player's performance goes from absurd to astonishing as the evidence mounts.
When Babe Ruth had 12 home runs by the end of May, 1920, there were probably some people who said, jokingly or otherwise, "Hey, he's on pace to hit 48 home runs this year." And because, to that point, no batter had ever hit more than 29 home runs in a season, maybe there was some nattering naysayer like me somewhere, singing, "Small sample size! Small sample, sample size! Small sample size! Small sample size!" And so on.
Ruth hit 54 home runs that year, nearly doubling the record he set the year before and a full 30 more than anyone besides Ruth had hit in a single season in the 20th century. A bunch of factors helped Ruth – new equipment and his transition to being a full-time position player among them. But it's hard to imagine any attentive baseball fan, at the outset of 1920, expecting this guy Ruth to hit 25 more home runs than anybody had ever hit in a season before.
Then he did.
Babe Ruth, of best-baseball-player-ever fame. (PHOTO: AP Photo)
For a more recent and less Ruthian example, take the case of lefty starter Cliff Lee, now with the Phillies. Entering the 2008 season, Lee had 741 2/3 innings worth' of evidence to suggest he was about a league-average pitcher. Then Lee allowed only one earned run in his first four starts for the Indians in 2008, striking out 29 and walking only two in 31 2/3 innings. I remember it because I thought it was hilarious, this pedestrian pitcher looking like Walter Johnson for a few weeks. The song didn't exist yet, but I said to my friends, "Small sample size!"
Lee eventually allowed a few more runs, but it soon became indisputably clear he was more than a flash in the pan enjoying a random run of unprecedented luck. Lee has been among the very best pitchers in baseball since the start of that season.
GALLERY: Opening-day starters
All of which is to say that though baseball's early-season oddities are normally just that, occasionally they're the first signs of something meaningful and awesome. When faced with statistical quirks or short bursts of production in April and May, we can stay mindful that they're probably nonsense and hopeful that they are not.
Baseball's wealth of slim possibilities helps the game appeal to the optimistic, the imaginative and the romantic. Maybe 2013 is the season someone arrives on the scene and hits 25 more home runs than anyone has ever hit before. Maybe the middle-of-the-rotation innings-eater on your favorite team figures something out and wins the Cy Young. Neither is likely, but neither is unprecedented.


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Little Women, Big Men
Daily Beast takes a look at vertically challenged couples.
Jada Pinkett Smith (5') and Will Smith (6'2")
In 1990, Jada Pinkett was considered too short to play Will Smith's girlfriend when she auditioned for The Fresh Prince of Bel Air." But the two remained friends, began dating in 1995, and were married two years later. Not that Will Smith prefers everything petite -- last month, he caused a controversy in New York when his 53-foot Men in Black trailer upset neighbors in Soho.
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If the scandals that have plagued corporate America in the past two years haven't gotten you thinking about your own company's vulnerabilities, then the latest revelations out of WikiLeaks certainly should.
In an interview with Forbes' Andy Greenberg, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange declared that half the documents that have been fed to the organization are from corporations, and that sometime early next year his organization plans what presumably will be the first of many corporate disclosures. It will begin with information about one of the nation's leading banks. The target is rumored to be
Got your attention now?
WikiLeaks is promising to give a voice to the disenfranchised, disgusted and disillusioned within Corporate America, those who have knowledge of company behavior ranging from distasteful to criminal. "Companies turn people into leakers by their failure to listen, look and respond," says business consultant and author Margaret Heffernan, whose forthcoming book, Willful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at Our Peril, will tackle the issue.
In other words, it will no longer be a company's general counsel who will decide if and when something is disclosed to the public. Now, it's any insider with a flash drive who's troubled or disgruntled by an organization's conduct.
And the types of information WikiLeaks is disclosing can be more damaging–and memorable–than a traditional corporate crisis. A "transactional crisis," in which something ranging from discomforting to catastrophic strikes a company, may occur because of an accident or event that could not have been foreseen. Such an event, ranging from Mark Hurd's resignation from HP over a sexual harassment investigation to the
However, Wikileaks is ushering in a new form of the "reputational crisis," in which the very way an organization and its leaders operate, think and respond is made public. In his Forbes interview, Assange referred to it as "the ecosystem of corruption," adding that it's "all the regular decision making that turns a blind eye to and supports unethical practices: the oversight that's not done, the priorities of executives, how they think they're fulfilling their own self-interest."
To put it in recent, non-WikiLeaks terms, think about what people remember about two recent major corporate crises. In the case of the financial markets meltdown and the BP oil spill, it wasn't just what a credit default swap was, or how many gallons of BP oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico. People also recall
These types of careless comments, along with the kinds of corporate WikiLeaks disclosures Assange promises, show the true underbelly of an organization and can do the most damage.
Preparing for or avoiding a "disclosure crisis." Companies can accept the inevitability of an unsavory leak and prepare for how to best react to it, or they can take action now to minimize the likelihood that insiders will feel the need to disclose company secrets. Either way, below are some steps to ponder:
Establish and maintain a culture of civility and transparency. The old saying, "If you're not prepared to read it on the front page of a newspaper, don't put it in an e-mail," has now been expanded to, "If you're not prepared to send it around the world, and for it to be seen by your boss, colleagues, regulators, investors and your family, don't put it in an e-mail."
Establish zero tolerance regarding obscenities, crude jokes or topics of intolerance in company communications–even those about your most cutthroat competitor. If your organization is agnostic about "doing the right thing" and you question the necessity of this step, keep in mind that reputations, market share and stock prices can drop with the stroke of a computer key in today's "Wikiworld."
View dissent within your organization as a positive thing. Yes, it's tough to do, but necessary. "A company where there's no dissent is at serious risk," Heffernan says. Because dissenters can pinpoint your areas of greatest risk, doing so will help an organization identify its most acute vulnerabilities.
Make needed reforms now, then let stakeholders know what you did–and why. After its Upper Big Branch mine exploded in West Virginia and killed 29 workers,
Listen to your employees, and address their concerns. Business thinks it's had it rough during the Great Recession. However, many employees–both those who managed to hang onto their jobs and those who didn't–have had it worse. Yes, times are tough, but don't be short-sighted. Heffernan has described the phenomenon of employee "pressure points" and what happens when individuals finally become fed up. Don't give your employees a reason to reach their boiling point.
Prepare, prepare, prepare. We've never encountered an executive whose crisis response performance didn't improve appreciably after a well thought-out training program. Include hypothetical scenarios about difficult leaks in your crisis communications drills and exercises, which should take place at least annually. And prepare your leaders to face the public and stakeholders. Their credibility will be tested like never before, and the reputation of your organization may very well depend on your executives' performance.
Get comfortable with the uncomfortable. Forbes cybersecurity reporter Greenberg has coined the term "forced transparency" to define the reality that WikiLeaks and its copycats now leave companies and governments no choice but to voluntarily–if grudgingly–share information that previously was secret.
Yes, Assange is currently in police custody in the U.K., and governmental officials worldwide are demanding his head, but he's the symptom, not the cause. Technology is making it more and more difficult for those in power to control information–particularly information that shows their institutions have behaved distastefully, hypocritically or even criminally.
A disclosure crisis, like all types of corporate crises, will lay bare an organization and its leadership. But if you learn how to function when your company is stressed, business continuity is possible under duress.
Stephanie Nora White is a partner with Wixted Pope Nora Thompson & Associates/WPNT Ltd., a business communications training and strategy consultancy that works with Fortune 500 companies to prepare executive and employees worldwide to plan for and respond effectively to corporate crises. Rebecca Theim is principal of Tipitina Communications, a public relations and communications firm, and an associate of WPNT.


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Planet of origin | The Infosphere |
Known members | Big Brain, Other Brains |
First appearance | The Day the Earth Stood Stupid |
The Brain Spawn were a sentient species that came into existence during the Big Bang. They invaded planet Earth during the 31st century. They looked similar to human brains, and used telekinesis to move around. Their leader is the Big Brain who lives in the Infosphere. The species had an ability to make people stupid; the only one immune to this power was Fry, due to lacking the delta brain wave after traveling in time and becoming his own grandfather.
They were responsible for destroying some planets like Space Rome, Don Martin 3, and Tweenis 12.
After their initial defeat on Earth, the Brain Spawn began constructing a massive Infosphere, where they collected all the information in the universe. They planned to destroy the universe in order to stop the creation of any new information once the task had been completed, but were foiled by Fry and the Nibblonians.
A Brainspawn was spotted amongst the crowd of Futurama characters during the conclusion of Into the Wild Green Yonder.
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The Lumia 820 is a decent smartphone but there's not enough difference in price between it and the flagship Lumia 920.
Design & display
The Nokia Lumia 820 is a smaller and cheaper version of the flagship Lumia 920. It has rounded corners, a completely flat face and makes use of interchangeable backplates. Our review unit came with a gloss white "shell" and although the surface is a little slippery, ergonomics are impressive. The Lumia 820 is easy to hold and use single handedly and it's not too much of a stretch to touch the very top of the screen with your thumb.
The Lumia 820's battery is removable and therefore replaceable (it's accessible by taking off the rear shell). The Lumia 820 also has a microSD card slot for extra storage, so the 8GB of internal memory can be expanded. Neither of these features are present on the flagship Lumia 920.
The Lumia 820's design and implementation isn't perfect. The polycarbonate shells are very difficult to pry off and require way too much force to remove and the phone is also rather heavy at 160g. Combined with the glossy rear surface, that extra weight makes the Lumia 820 a slippery customer at the best of times. The one positive of the shells being difficult to remove is build quality — despite removable parts, the Lumia 820 feels impeccably well constructed. There's no evident creaks or rattles, even when force is applied to the case.
Nokia has laid out the Lumia 820's controls in typically Windows Phone fashion. There's a standard headphone jack on the top, volume, power/lock and a dedicated camera button on the right and a standard micro-USB port for charging on the bottom. The buttons on the right side are very well positioned for comfortable single-handed use. Windows Phone 8's standard, touch-sensitive back, home and search buttons sit just below the screen and they're very responsive.
The Lumia 820 has a 4.3in AMOLED touchscreen with a resolution of 800x480. This resolution obviously can't match more expensive phones and therefore the Lumia 820 can't display the same crisp text as many devices on the market. However, it displays excellent and accurate colours, has good viewing angles and is bright and clear. There's visible pixels if you look close enough, though, and we also found the 820's screen hard to see in direct sunlight. One notable feature is that the screen responds to touches even if you're wearing gloves. It's a handy function for those in cool climates, but it's not as relevant in Australia.
Software & performance
The Nokia Lumia 820 runs the latest version of Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, Windows Phone 8 and it offers good performance. We didn't experience much lag when flipping between apps, scrolling through long lists or opening apps like the camera. Basic day-to-day tasks on the Lumia 820 are smooth and responsive. Scrolling, especially in the Internet Explorer browser, is smoother and faster than most Android phones we've used. All in all the combination of the Windows Phone 8 OS and the Lumia 820's hardware, even if not at the cutting edge, makes for a speedy and efficient device.
The biggest new addition to Windows Phone 8 itself is a new home screen interface with support for small, medium and large live tiles. There's also more colour customisation options, built-in Skype integration, a revamped backup system that now includes the ability to backup SMS messages, a 'Kid's Corner' function where only pre-selected apps can be accessed and the expansion of the People Hub with a new 'Rooms' feature that shares lists, calendars and photos.
The Windows Phone 8 ecosystem has some excellent core features. All users receive 7GB of SkyDrive Storage for free. The built-in, free Microsoft Office app handles Word and Excel documents with ease and is without a doubt the best office client on any mobile platform we've seen. The Xbox Music service is decent value at $11.99 per month or $119.90 per year for unlimited music streaming. Annoyingly, the Windows Phone 8 platform can't open a basic .wav file, such as the voicemail message service used in many workplaces.
Nokia provides some excellent pre-loaded apps on the Lumia 820 which you won't find on rival Windows Phones. Nokia Maps and Nokia Drive are the most notable and convenient. The Maps application is significantly more comprehensive than Apple Maps and even betters Google Maps on Android phones in some ways. It allows you to download a range of maps from entire countries to use when you don't have any mobile network coverage. In addition, Nokia Drive provides free turn-by-turn navigation in a clean and easy to navigate layout. The ability to download maps means the navigation service doesn't use any mobile data, just the Lumia 820's built-in GPS chip. The screen isn't as large as the Lumia 920, but still works well for turn-by-turn navigation and the clean interface is attractive.
Nokia also includes the City Lens app on the Lumia 820, which uses augmented-reality to display nearby points of interest. However, we found it largely a gimmick and the same results show up in a standard search through the Nokia Maps app.
Despite Nokia's excellent bundled apps, one of the biggest issues with the Nokia Lumia 820 and the Windows Phone OS is the lack of popular third-party apps. A visit to the Microsoft App Store will quickly tell you all you need to know but many apps we use on a daily basis on iOS and Android simply aren't available on Windows Phone.
It's not simply about the number of apps here, but the number of important apps that have become popular on smartphones. A few examples include Dropbox, Pocket, Instagram, Spotify, Pinterest, Pulse News, Flipboard and many more. These apps and many more may eventually come to the platform, but they're not available right now. Further, many of the non-official Dropbox apps we used, as an example, were awful and attempted to masquerade as an official app. The price of apps on the Windows Phone platform also seem higher than competing platforms. The lack of quality third-party apps is an issue that we suspect will prevent most average consumers switching from iOS or Android to a Windows Phone like the Lumia 820.
In addition, the Windows Phone services available on the Lumia 820, such as Xbox Music, strongly appeal to those who are already ingrained in the Microsoft ecosystem. If you've got an Xbox, use a Windows 8 PC and have a Windows Phone 8 device, these services are a great option. For everyone else, like those who might use a Mac, an iPad or an Android tablet, the incentive to use these services is significantly diminished. A good example is already established services like Spotify that this author uses daily. This isn't available (yet) on the Windows Phone platform yet it's readily usable on an iPhone or an Android device. To switch to the Windows Phone platform and the Lumia 820 requires a compromise that many everyday consumers may not appreciate.
Camera, battery life
The Lumia 820 comes with an 8-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss lens and dual-LED flash. It's not as impressive as the outstanding camera on the Lumia 920, but it captures reasonably good quality images for a smartphone. We were particularly impressed with its ability to capture macro shots with good detail along with its accurate colour reproduction. It does struggle when taking photos in low light, however, and you'll need to keep a steady hand to avoid blurry shots. The camera also doubles as a full HD 1080p video recorder. It produces steady video footage with good detail levels, though we did find it odd that the camera is set to record at 720p by default.
Adding to the Lumia 820's camera experience are Nokia's multiple camera modes, which it calls lenses. There's a panorama lens to capture panorama shots, a cinemagraph mode that captures movement and turns still shots into a GIF file and a SmartShot lens that captures multiple photos and then allows you to remove elements from an image, like someone walking in the background of your photo. These are all valuable additions, but they open in a seperate app to the camera despite being present in the options menu, which is annoying. There's also no way to immediately share a Cinemagraph image, from the app, which seems like an oversight.
The Nokia Lumia 820 doesn't include native wireless charging but Nokia sells an optional backplate that includes wireless charging capabilities. With this accessory attached, the phone becomes compatible with a range of first party charging accessories including a wireless charging plate, a charging pillow, a charging stand and a wireless charging speaker developed in conjunction with JBL. Curiously, the charging backplate has a matte finish rather than the glossy finish of the standard cover that comes bundled with the Lumia 820.
Disappointingly, the Lumia 820 has below average battery life. We often fell short of a full days use by a few hours, so you'll definitely need to charge more than once a day if you're a heavy user. Considering the smaller screen size and resolution compared to the Lumia 920, we expected more.
The Lumia 820 is a 4G-capable device and is sold through Optus and Vodafone on various plans. The latter won't have a 4G network up and running until sometime in 2013, but it's a nice future proof option if you decide to go with Vodafone. The Lumia 820 carries an official outright RRP of $699 and is available now.


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This replacement kitchen ventilation filter is a compatible replacement oven range filter for many types and styles including the:
- Broan 97012577
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- Plus other oven range hoods or microwaves which use a filter of this size
American Metal filters are fully compatible with the name brand (OEM) model and can be used in a variety of ducted and non-ducted oven range hoods and other compatible applications which require air filtration. This filter replacement reduces grease, smoke, as well as dust and recirculates filtered air back in to the kitchen. It can also be used with compatible microwaves which use a replacement aluminum air filter of this size (check dimensions below).
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This is your resource to discuss support topics with your peers, and learn from each other.
Last night I succeeded in getting the core of one of my QML apps ported from MeeGo & Symbian running on the BB10 Dev Alpha.
It's not hard, but I've written it up in case anyone else is looking to get started. Main points:
Going one step further, I've now got a single source tree (for my app, Bedside) which I can use with Qt Creator (to target Symbian, Maemo & MeeGo) and the BlackBerry 10 Native SDK (to target the BB10 Dev Alpha).
I merged in files from a Cascades project:
Since I had an existing, Qt Creator-based, file structure I changed bar-descriptor.xml to match the existing 'images' and 'qml/Bedside' directories I wanted deployed. However, the BlackBerry Native SDK's structure is nicer out-of-the-box so I'd probably use it for future projects, and change the .pro file to match for Qt SDK.
This was a straightforward copy, merging in the target I already had for generating Debian control file icons.
.pro file
Here was a bit more tricky, but I used the following to wrap up the BB10-specific bits:
device|simulator {
The names 'device' and 'simulator' are obviously a little generic, but it looks like these should be trivial to change in Makefile.
Qt Creator doesn't seem to like wildcards on SOURCES and HEADERS, so I had to continue to list them explicitly.
In my existing main.cpp I could use Q_OS_BLACKBERRY with #ifdef to bypass the missing Qt Mobility, set the appropriate BAR-relative path and configure other device-specific properties (e.g. is a close icon needed: it's not on swipe-based UIs like BB10 & N9).
06-25-2012 10:40 AM - edited 06-25-2012 10:40 AM
I would suggest adding BB10NDK to QtCreator as new gcc toolchain and Qt version (simply by pointing to qmake executable). After this you'll be a happy user of QtCreator which builds apps for the BB10 device
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I would suggest adding BB10NDK to QtCreator as new gcc toolchain and Qt version (simply by pointing to qmake executable). After this you'll be a happy user of QtCreator which builds apps for the BB10 device
That wouldn't give any of the deployment & debugging options, would it?
I'm using a QtSDK that has those plugins bundled (not sure where I've got it from) and it works fine. I can build, deploy and run from QtCreator just fine
07-05-2012 07:16 AM - edited 07-05-2012 07:46 AM
I have cloned qnx-qt-creator from gitorious and installed BB10 NDK.
When I tell Qt Creator to add a new Qt Version pointing it to
And what should I put in Toolchain under "Compiler path", "ABI", "debugger" and "mkspecs" ?
I am using Debian sid 64 bit
thanks for any hints
Hi lildeimos,
I'm still using the Playbook SDK instead of the BB10 SDK. It basically does the same but more stable
Selecting qmake did work for me and I think the toolchain was automatically detected. There is however a problem with the default mkspec in BB10 SDK. I never fixed it properly because so far I've used the BB10 SDK only from command line and there appending "-spec unsupported/blackberry-armv7le-g++" to the qmake call was enough. If you find a way to set that mkspec as a default it should fix your problem.
I've created to screenshots that show my Qt Creator setup. Maybe it helps.
Great example, Jaffa!
Works so far for my testing project. But I have a problem with the makefile.
You've edited it yourself?
My project compiles just great inside the BB10 native SDK using the makefile the SDK generated for the example. But as soon as I start QtCreator and compile my project there for the N9 the makefile gets modified and after this I'm unable to compile the project again in the BB10 SDK.
Have you got similar issues while testing or let your QtCreator the makefile untouched?
Has anyone a Idea how to use just both files with just different naming?
It would be the preferred soultion for me.
Have you got similar issues while testing or let your QtCreator the makefile untouched?
Qt Creator leaves my Makefile
untouched. In fact, it never touched it as, before this, it just had a single target in it for updated debian/control


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It has become a familiar refrain in this lackluster economy: Strong growth will depend on capital spending. Well, don't look now, but the outlook for business outlays, especially for new equipment, is improving rapidly. And that's a key reason why projections for a better economy in the second half may well be on the mark.
Of course, after three years of falling business spending on new plants and equipment and one economic disappointment after another, doubters abound. They say there's no demand. Capacity is excessive, and operating rates are low. Profits are weak, and financial conditions are restrictive. Strong arguments, right?
Not anymore. One after another, the obstacles to a solid revival in business investment are starting to fall. Demand conditions in the second quarter are firming up, along with industrial activity. And sizable stimulus from the new tax package is ready to add support this summer.
Businesses have made huge strides in shedding their excess capacity. The growth in manufacturing capacity, for example, has nearly come to a stop, meaning that increases in production will lift utilization rates quickly. In fact, for the first time since World War II, businesses are starting to use up productive capital faster than they are replacing it, which is creating a pent-up demand for new business equipment (chart).
In addition, profits have turned around, reflecting ongoing efforts to contain costs. Margins are rising, even during the past two quarters of soft economic growth. And finally, financial conditions have improved markedly, implying a lower cost of capital, as stock prices rise and bond yields fall. Borrowing conditions are the best in years, as seen in narrower credit-market spreads and less restrictive lending practices at banks.
STRONGER DEMAND IS THE KEY. CEOs won't invest in new equipment unless they are optimistic that they can sell any increases in their production. That's where the latest data look encouraging. Real consumer spending in March rose 0.5%, higher than the first estimate, and households added an additional 0.1% increase in April. Even if spending rises only modestly in May and June, real consumer spending should grow at an annual rate of about 2% this quarter. Plus, demand for new and existing homes in April rose strongly to levels well above their first-quarter averages.
The pace of consumer spending should quicken this summer, as tax relief frees up household income, even while the labor markets are slow to recover. Despite shrinking payrolls, real aftertax income is up a solid 2.4% from a year ago, thanks to past tax cuts. It'll get a fresh boost beginning in July, when withholding schedules are adjusted and Washington mails out rebates for child credits.
Business demand and output are also improving, a sign that the Iraqi war caused much of the economic malaise early this year. In particular, the beleaguered factory sector is perking up. The index of industrial activity from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) rose sharply in May, and new orders and production rebounded strongly. Moreover, the normally gloomy Gusses at the National Association of Manufacturers now say "the economy is at a turning point," and they expect growth to reach 3.9% in the second half.
Through April, the three-month trend in new orders for capital equipment excluding aircraft is rising for the first time in a year. Also, April shipments of capital goods stood well above their first-quarter average, suggesting that equipment outlays are heading up after a first-quarter dip. Spending on tech gear is already on a steady uptrend, rising last quarter for the fifth quarter in a row. Computers, telecom equipment, software, and such have regained nearly all of the losses seen in the recession (chart).
PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT, the excess-capacity argument is getting tougher to make. Based on Federal Reserve data for nonfinancial corporate businesses, depreciation of fixed capital, such as equipment and buildings, began to exceed overall capital spending in the fourth quarter of 2001, a trend that continued throughout 2002. That means the capital stock owned by nonfinancial corporations is shrinking. More generous depreciation allowances, passed in reaction to September 11, helped to spur this trend, and depreciation write-offs have been enhanced further in Washington's newest tax package.
It's also crucial not to dwell on the current low operating rates in the factory sector. Manufacturing is only about 18% of the economy, and it accounts for about 22% of all capital spending. The average capacity utilization rate at factories hardly captures the usage of all capital in the economy, especially since businesses that generate the other 78% of new outlays are in areas such as housing, finance, medical care, and other consumer and business services that have kept this economy moving forward in recent quarters. The ISM's index of nonmanufacturing activity jumped to 54.5% in May, from 50.7% in April.
STILL A DOUBTING THOMAS? Then look at the latest numbers on profits compiled by the Commerce Dept. The data show businesses are generating plenty of money to finance new capital projects. First-quarter operating profits rose at an annual rate of 4% from the fourth quarter. Earnings of domestic companies, which exclude inflows from U.S. multinationals and outflows of foreign outfits based in the U.S., jumped 10%, and they have risen back up to levels not seen since 1997.
In addition, profit margins of nonfinancial corporations continued to rise (chart). Margins are increasing for two reasons. First, businesses have cut their labor costs by slashing payrolls and boosting productivity. Productivity rose at a 1.9% annual rate in the first quarter, faster than the Labor Dept.'s first estimate of 1.6%. So, even though prices in nonfarm industries are up only 1.1% from a year ago, unit labor costs, which are up only 0.8%, have risen even less. This drop in variable costs has helped to lift profit margins.
Second, margins are rising because the elimination of unproductive assets has lowered Corporate America's overall cost structure. That means lower fixed costs, which allow more revenue to fall to the bottom line.
And now, companies don't have to rely solely on internally generated funds. Outside financing, whether from banks, credit, or equity markets, is becoming increasingly attractive. That's because investors' assessments of overall risk levels have begun to recede, after having been elevated by terrorist attacks, corporate scandals, and war.
To be sure, we live in an economy with changing rules and new uncertainties. Nothing can be taken for granted anymore. What's clear, however, is that a solid foundation for a recovery in capital spending is now falling into place, and that's something that has not been true since the investment bust began in 2000.
Corrections and Clarifications The chart "The capital stock is shrinking," which accompanies "Why the second half isn't looking half bad," (Business Outlook, June 16), is incorrect. The depreciation data from the Federal Reserve measured depreciation plus totals for capital consumption adjustments. As a result, the data overstated the amount of depreciation of the capital stock at nonfinancial corporations. The exact numbers would show that the growth in the capital stock is slowing, but the stock is not shrinking. |
By James C. Cooper & Kathleen Madigan


text: Ford Motor Co. (NYSE:F): Amid speculation that Ford's board might allow an earlier exit for CEO Alan Mulally than originally anticipated, Mulally announced that he would continue to serve as CEO of the company through the end of 2014, if not longer. He told Bloomberg that he loves working for the company and that he does not plan on an early exit. Separately, Mulally believes auto sales in the U.S. will hit 17 million in the next few years as more pent-up demand is relieved.