text: Chevy Pickup Trucks Get More Internets Than Chevy VoltRay Wert12/24/09 8:30amFiled to: car techchevy voltChevyvoltGm2011 Chevy Volt2012 Chevy Volt2011 VoltChevrolet Volt2011 Chevrolet VoltNew Chevy VoltChevy Volt Electric Carautonet mobileWiFiTop211EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Earlier this month GM announced "Chevrolet Wi-Fi" by Autonet Mobile as an option on seven Chevy vehicles including the Silverado pickup. Weirdly, despite the Chevy Volt being, like, the most technologically-advanced vehicle ever built, it won't get the option. The dealer-installed system, which we used for connectivity at last year's Detroit Auto Show on our Jalopnik-built GEM Electric staff car, connects to the wireless 3G network and transmits a 1.5 mbps WiFi signal both within and beyond the car in a 150 foot circle. The Autonet Mobile device, already available as an option from Chrysler and GM's Cadillac brand, costs $199 with service running $29 per month. Frankly, the service is cool as hell, works great and seems like a no-brainer as an enhancement to any super-tech car. The "Chevrolet Wi-Fi"-branded version of the service will be offered on seven models — Equinox, Traverse, Silverado, Tahoe, Suburban, Avalanche and Express. Heck, even Ford's going to offer a BYOA Wi-Fi service with the new version of Sync being unveiled at CES. But, Volt spokesperson David Darovitz tells the Extended-Range Electric Vehicle-obsessed folks over at GM-Volt "the Volt will not have this capability."So, wait, the Chevy Volt'll have Blackberry and iPhone apps but won't have Wi-Fi? Weird. Guess we'll just have to bring our own Internets with us. [via GM-Volt, Autonet Mobile, Gizmodo]Reply21 repliesLeave a reply


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How Much Does Media Coverage Influence What We "Know" About Basketball?
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Example 1: There is an article on ESPN about the Best of the decade in the NBA. On the question of best player, they choose Kobe Bryant as the Player of the Decade. Regardless of whether I would agree or not, what I found interesting was their stated reasoning. Here are some quotes from their final paragraph where they make their case for Kobe:
"No one has ever shouldered the Next Jordan burden like Bryant"...
"He's been the consensus top talent in the league for years..."
"the NBA player you're most likely to remember when someone asks about the first decade of the new millennium is not O'Neal or Duncan. Close as this call is, Kobe Bean Bryant has to be the choice. Has to be."
In other words, Kobe is the best player of the decade because he has almost lived up to the hype of the media calling him the next Jordan, because "we all" agree that he is a top talent, and because he will be remembered. Not a word about what the players have done on the court, not a word to try to support who actually PLAYED the best or PRODUCED the most, just essentially a conclusion that Kobe is the best because...well...we decided he was the best, he is popular, and he is memorable. That kind of stuck with me as I considered example 2...
Example 2: This morning on Celtics Blog, one of the writers listed several games to point out that despite his shaky reputation, Kevin Garnett has been absolutely huge in crunch time for the Celtics this season. In the ensuing comments for the thread (as well as a forum topic on the site) there were several protests to the effect that we all "know" that Garnett isn't clutch, but in response there was lots of evidence presented from stats sites like 82games.com that show that in crunch time Garnett scores about as much as Pierce and Ray Allen but at a higher percentage and that he compares very favorably to Tim Duncan as a crunch time scorer for the past 7 years. But even after that, some said that regardless of the facts they just "know" that Pierce and Allen are clutch while we all know that KG isn't. One person in particular gave an insightful post that tied together for me why what so many believe runs counter to the actual facts:
"look at all the stats numerous people have already posted here and on the front page. I think that is enough evidence to make you question whether this whole thing (KG being unclutch) may not have been blown out of proportions by specific incidents and very selective media coverage..."
So I ask you...what do you think? Just on these two examples, I remember specifically how inundated we have been in recent years by the phrase "Kobe Bryant is the best basketball player on the planet" by the talking heads on TV. I remember how we have been flooded with "King James" marketing. But I very rarely see any spots about how Tim Duncan is the greatest...how much does that play into how we subconsciously think of these players? Likewise, I remember how big KG was for the Celtics during their title run, especially in late game situations without much fanfare but that the talking heads always emphasized that Pierce and Allen were the late-game performers...even though Garnett led that team in 4th quarter scoring. How much of our "knowledge" on matters like this comes from what the press coverage tells us that we should believe?


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Excuses are for losers
This is a piece of paper that I've had for over ten years. An English Teacher at my high school had this posted on his door. I'm not sure how I obtained it, I may have taken it or asked him for it, but I've had it ever since. Whenever I feel uninspired, lazy, or like I need to improve on a skill -- I dig it out and read it. I remind myself of the person I once was and, hopefully, continue to be.
I'm not writing this to encourage you to find your spirit. I've done that before. I like the memory and I want to share it with you. If you are inspired as a result then that's good too.
If I were rewriting these words to myself, today, I would say following:
FACE IT. No one owes you a healthy body. Eating cookies for breakfast is directly related to how you feel later today. Oooooppps.
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Growing up with cricket in the 1990s was different from what it is now. Hriday Ranjan takes a trip down memory lane to relive an era that remains only in our memories.
I have a friend who says that the one reason India never really played any other sport, is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. The guy was so good, that he hijacked the imagination of an entire generation of children.
He said this after we grew up, of course. Because if he had said it back then, someone would have slit his throat; or worse, burnt his collection of Trump cards.
I don't fully agree with what he said, but there is some truth in the fact that we were obsessed as a nation. And never again, in my opinion, will that level of obsession be replicated. For two reasons:
- There was hardly any other sport. Sania Mirza had not debuted yet, and Vishwanathan Anand would feature in Sportstar frequently, but we would skip the pages till we reached the interview with Venkatpathy Raju.
- Cable television had just been born, and unlike our earlier generation who depended on the papers and radio, we could actually watch our heroes in action; this catapulted even bored children into fanatic worshippers.
All this led to a nationwide obsession with one sport — cricket. Your knowledge of the sport surpassed any ranks you scored in class, and the lack of knowledge on cricket, or an interest in it, brought about a social leprosy that was cruel. I have had friends who didn't like cricket too much complain to me about it. When they would tell people they didn't really follow cricket, people would gasp, as if they had said that they have only one kidney; or no heart at all.
We played cricket at school, and then returned home to play some more cricket, and then played some cricket in our fantasies. It wasn't surprising that cola companies would come up with lines like 'Eat, sleep, breathe cricket' to promote their unhealthy crap down our throats. Now, cricket in school was a civilised affair. The school provided the bat, the ball, and the stumps — thereby negating any favouritism or nepotism in the process. There would be a toss, and the game would be played in spirit of the game.
Or in the fear of the PT sir.
PT sir would be overseeing the action, and so everyone would behave themselves, which basically meant not reaching for each others' throats at the slightest provocation. If the ball went out of the wall, we would all request passerby to throw us the ball, the bell would ring, and we would all go back to class, smelling like a bunch of obstinate buffaloes. It was a very civilised affair.
Not so civilised once school was over, though. Here, it was a Game of Thrones. You had to conquer a pitch, stake your claim over it by digging holes and drawing the crease. You had to build your army of soldiers, those who would be willing to sacrifice their home work to play a game with you. One of your army reached the ground early and put the stumps in place and dutifully waited for the others to arrive.
You played on the pitch, fighting among yourselves like hooligans. But once there was an external threat, you bonded like blood brothers to fight for your pitch. Finding a place to play was the major source of worry, especially with the bindaas lives that dogs and cows lead in our lives.
And cows came with their own set of worries: over-enthusiastic bulls who wanted you to learn Life Processes much earlier than your scheduled day of enlightenment. You scrounged the nooks and corners of the earth, to find that perfect spot to lay your stake on, and then drew the crease and put the stumps in place.
Of course, once your land was marked, and you had a thriving civilisation of cricket fanatics, your pitch would be the cynosure of evil preying eyes:
- The elder boys in your area, eyeing your pitch
- The college-going gang who just wanted a place where they could sit in a group and talk and laugh (basically the morons)
- Cows who wanted to sit in the middle of the pitch and ruminate on the larger questions of life. Who would choose exactly the middle of the pitch to drop a massive dump of dung, which is cow graffiti for "I was here".
Unlike the cricket at school, playing cricket at home was a sordid affair. You fought for it with your life, and held it close to your heart. But the struggles didn't end there. After you had vanquished the demons outside, you had to deal with the politics of your own army.
Every pack of kids playing cricket will be witness to three broad categories of players:
The Franchise Owners: The franchise owners would be the ones who owned the bat, and thus, the game in entirety. The owner of the bat wielded an enormous amount of clout in the scheme of things, considering that his possession – the bat – made the key difference between a set of boys playing cricket, and a set of boys hanging out with three sticks, one rock, and a rubber ball. The franchise owners generally called the shots in the game. And even when the merely defended the ball, they would call it an exquisite shot.
The Enthusiastic Gamers: These were the guys who would be instrumental in the day to day running of matters like the pitch and the space. These guys wouldn't be great at the sport or anything, but made up for that with sheer enthusiasm. They would arrive first and leave last, and generally did the rounds, calling you out from your house when your mother was trying to stuff food inside you.
The Icon Players: Every league of gully cricket would have these icon players. These guys didn't own the bat, but they owned the game. The franchise owners couldn't do anything to these guys, thanks to the latter's superior cricketing skills. Also, the Icon Players would be pivotal to things when challenged by other leagues to a cricket match. They had to be humoured; else they would drift away to another league.
Every gully cricket league had these three types of players, each of them ensuring that the game ran along smoothly. Of course, if you owned the bat, were enthusiastic, and were the icon player — well, there was no stopping you. You were the Lalit Modi of the league, and anyone who objected to your actions would be sent a 10,000-page reply, in four cartons. But the process did not end with securing the rights to the pitch. There was the other nitty-gritty to take care of.
Firstly, the ball: it is a well established fact that India is the only country where people play cricket with a tennis ball (Okay, may be Pakistan and Bangladesh too). But what is not mentioned is the number of tennis balls that were used to play cricket. When you are a younger child, it is always 'Soft tennis'. Since there is more money in the league when you're younger (since your parents are still trying to pamper the apple of their eyes), soft tennis balls are popular. They came in shiny, fluorescent yellow and had the name of the company written in bold black letters. A soft tennis ball would often provoke ridicule among the elders; the users of the Hard Tennis ball.
Quite simply, the Hard Tennis ball was a tennis ball that was hard. The ball itself had two colours, yellow-red, or yellow-pink. The market leader was 'Vicky', and to lose a Vicky hard tennis ball, was tantamount to banging your friend's car into a tree. The hard tennis ball could hurt if you got hit on the nose, and care should be taken to avoid injuries. By batting all the time.
Third, and a poorer cousin of the tennis balls, were the rubber balls. They were simple rubber balls, the kinds that Dronacharya used to make Pandavas and Kauravas play with. Through all these years, it went through only one type of evolution. The makers had made the effort to add fake rubber stitches to make it seem like a cricket ball. The rubber ball was used when funds were really tight, since they came cheap.
On the flip side, they lasted for a maximum of three days, and if an Icon Player was knocking the ball around, it could crack in half. It was only much later, when your innocence was robbed off you by the Biology teacher, or the video rental store nearby, that you started playing with what was called as 'Cork ball'.
Cork ball was made of some sort of synthetic cork material. It never broke, but did cause considerable damage to people's noses. If parents got a whiff that the cricket was being played with a cork ball, there would be hell to pay. But the larger repercussions of using a cork ball were that the bats would crack.
You needed adult cricket bats for this. Not the ones that had a picture of Sachin Tendulkar, with the words — 'For Tennis Ball Only' written in small letters below. Setting up a new league entailed going through the grind each and every time.
And just when everything was set — you had a pitch, a bat, and a Vaanar Sena of your own. You found an ideal location for the stumps and drew the crease. The crease was measured by putting the bat on the floor and measuring it till the handle, and then adding the length of the handle only, to draw the final line. This line, of course, existed merely in the mind, as it would be erased, tampered with, and redrawn on numerous occasions through the game.
But for now, you had found an open space, and there were a few cows grazing in the distance, pretending they aren't interested in your superhuman batting skills. But then, there would be other obstacles on your way. The ball would fall into the gutter, go into a house where a pissed off aunty wouldn't return it to you, or God forbid, to a group of seniors who were playing at a distance. Now, I don't know why, but if a ball goes into the pitch of seniors playing, they would
(a) Hide the ball, or
(b) Throw it in a drain, or
(c) Throw it so far off that it would take half an hour to find it. When I was younger, I used to think the seniors near my house knew that we were better than them.
But when we grew up, I realised we did exactly the same thing. Perhaps it was a sign of growing up; of being tough on the streets; or something like that. But what did one do when the sun had set? When you couldn't play cricket anymore because there would be drug pedlars who would give you chocolates and kidnap you and take out one of your kidneys?
You started playing cricket indoors; corridors, garages, houses, dormitories, everywhere. If there ever was a league of indoor cricket, India would kick Australia's arse and become the king of the sport. Not only did we take our obsession with cricket indoors, we also enacted new rules that could be adapted to the change in scenario. Like the Hong Kong Super 6′s, indoor cricket had its own set of rules:
One-Tup-Out: Since you were playing indoors, you couldn't dive around as you would normally in the ground. So the rule here was that if you caught the ball after it bounced ONCE, the batsman would still be declared out. One-Tup-Out required Bradmanesque skills if it was a small enclosure, and general public apathy towards the rule gave birth to the second rule.
One-Tup-One-Hand: This rule said that you could catch the ball after it bounced once, but to be fair to the batsman, you could only catch it with one hand. The One-Tup-One-Hand rule would have larger repercussions on real cricket much later, when rules like one bouncer per over were drafted in to benefit the batsmen.
Three-Miss-Out: This rule said that if you missed touching the ball with your bat on three deliveries, you could be ruled out. Critics have pointed out that this rule could be inspired from baseball, to which the makers of the rule nonchalantly pointed out that it was called 'three miss' and not 'three strikes', and hence it was merely an inspiration. Indoor cricket was great for afternoons, when elders either went to work or took a nap. It could be played without making much noise, and the only risk was breaking a few things in the house.
Indoor cricket, some would say, required a lesser amount of cricketing skills, and sometimes turned out to be more enjoyable than the game outdoor. Here, there was nobody picking on you, no need to put your hand in a drain, and the ball rarely got lost.
But what if you did not have access to a bat or ball at all? Like in school, when you were forced to study? Of course there would be a way out!
"The absence of a bat and ball do not stand as obstacles to the obsessed." — Anonymous.
The chewing gum scene back then was just turning bright. For years, we chewed on Big Fun, simply because they gave cricket cards free with each pack. It was a different matter that the bubble gums themselves felt like scented tails of pigs. But we chewed on, since there was a cricket card to win. Somewhere along the line, came Center Fresh.
Center Fresh produced chewing gums that were actually enjoyable. For once, a chewing gum didn't seem like the necessary penance to achieve something else. There was a nice jelly in the middle of the gum, but best of all — they provided cricket cards. Bright, colourful cards that had no spelling mistakes, factual errors, and the pictures were bright and clear.
Not like the Big Fun cards, that looked like the receipt of a weight checking machine at the railway station. Of course, there were the cricket cards that were available in the market. You could simply buy a pack and laugh at all those people who were chewing gum like maniacs to collect the entire pack.
Cricket cards of that era seemed to be frozen in time. I remember the numbers changing just twice in all the time I played with them. The statistics were pretty simple — Matches, Runs, Highest Score, Batting Average, Wickets, Bowling Average, Best Bowling; there were a few Trump Cards in the pack, but you could still beat a Wasim Akram card on the basis of batting, and a Mohammad Azharuddin card on the basis of bowling.
There was a sense of fairness and justice in the entire process. There were WWF cards too, but rumours had begun to float that the matches were all fake, and seniors at school would sometimes snigger if they saw you with WWF cards (or snatch them away, depending on their IQ). But since cricket cards were based on actual facts, and you could actually see the matches on TV, and read about them in print, they were considered holy. Possessing a good collection of cricket cards automatically meant that you social standing would shoot up; people would generally invite you to their discussions, hoping that you'd decide to bring out the cards.
However, cards came with their own set of risks. If you were caught playing cards in class, you were in trouble. The cards would sometimes be thrown away, or torn, or simply confiscated. Numerous trips to the Staff Room to find them would prove futile, and it would be the end of your prized collection. Also, some of us had spiritual parents, who thought that playing cricket cards is the gateway to more sinister habits, and we would grow up to be gamblers who would blow up all their hard earned money. Making cricket cards a considerable risk, on occasions.
What did one do if their cricket cards were taken away from them? Give up on cricket? Hell no! There would be other options, obviously. For those who had access to neither bat, nor cricket cards, there was Book Cricket.
I remember feeling grateful to the person who invented the game. It was an ingenious concept. You held a text book in your hand (preferably of the subject of the ongoing class), and opened a page randomly. You then looked at the page on the left. The last digit of the page number denoted your score. For example, if you opened page no. 54, your score for that delivery would be four. If you got a page that ended with zero, you were out.
While purists preferred the Test match method where every player was allowed to play ten batsmen, those with lesser patience opted for a limited number of book openings, and the total score was accumulated. Agreed, it did not set your pulse racing, nor did it come with ups and downs of playing a sport. But it could be played right in class. You needn't even speak to each other, and if a teacher arrived, you would look like two kids looking at a text book and making notes.
After the Dronacharya Award and Arjuna Award, if the Government decides to award innovation in sports, probably name it the Ekalavya Award, then the inventor of Book Cricket should win it.
But teachers in our school eventually got a whiff of our nefarious activities. They probably saw a long list of numbers and wondered why the guy was practising basic addition in Class VII. But Book Cricket was busted too. And now with Book Cricket out of the question, was there anything else I could do?
How could I contain all the enthusiasm for cricket that was bubbling in my mind, threatening to spill out? I devised my own way. I realised that there was something that no one could take away from me. Something that was deep within me that only belonged to me. My dreams.
We would be asked to sit for hours at a stretch to meditate, and I had a tough time reining in my mind, that was running like a wild horse towards Raveena Tandon. I started daydreaming about cricket.
So when everyone would be asked to close their eyes and meditate, and I was done with my customary meditation for Raveena, I would start daydreaming about cricket. It would begin with me bumping into Debasis Mohanty randomly while playing cricket at the local Shahid Sporting Club: just a regular 'Hi-bye' sort of a meeting, not for me the falling over and taking pictures. I was cool. He would be talking to a group of (less knowledgeable) kids about cricket, when I would barge into the discussion and spell bind him with my vast and expansive knowledge of cricket.
We would strike an instant connection and sow the seeds of a deep friendship. Later that day, when he would bowl to me in the nets, he would be surprised to know that I was quite a talented batsman too, with my flowing drives and booming pulls over mid-wicket. Later he would call me to his house for lunch, as we would sit and discuss, like two brothers, everything from W.G. Grace, to why swing bowling needs to be promoted if we wanted to win more tours overseas.
This would be the beginning of a beautiful friendship, and when India would play a home series, he would write to my school asking for permission: permission for me to join him while he was preparing for the series. 'He has got a deep understanding of cricket and we in the Indian team are of the opinion that we could benefit from his inputs, and together bring unending glory to the nation. Hence, we kindly request you to let him accompany us.'
Who would deny a letter written like that? Our Headmistress would let me go, and I would join the boys in preparing for the tour. I would have chats with them on specific tactics for specific bowlers ('Sachin, you need to be a little careful while playing Cronje, he's gotten you out a few times earlier).
I would also advice Javagal Srinath run in hard for the first few overs, since he was our best bet to take early wickets, and my friend Deba could come in as first change and look at causing further damage. Venkatapathy Raju, whom I never liked much, I would barely talk to.
I would spend hours in my dream land. When I would walk, I would be either practising a shot or doing my bowling action. At home, when I was asked to sweep the floor, I would practice some drives (was never really good with the sweep, only cowards play that shot). It reached a stage where I would be doing the bowling action even while walking for lunch, or coming out of the assembly. And so would a lot of other classmates of mine.
Finally, the class teacher announced that no one was allowed to do the bowling action. If anyone was found doing the bowling action, they would be banned from going to 'Games' on that day (she obviously knew little of the other methods we had devised). Once when I got caught doing the bowling action, I was tempted to explain that I was doing Shahid Afridi's action, and technically it wasn't really a bowling action, as his action had been called for scrutiny by the ICC. But better sense prevailed. I quietly accepted the slap on my cheek, did not show my other cheek, and left.
Cricket, you see, was not a game played on a ground, with a bat, ball and sticks.
Cricket was in the heart, the soul, in the blood running in our veins.
Cricket was in the mind.
(Based in Hyderabad, Hriday Ranjan blogs at http://heartranjan.wordpress.com/. His first book Xanadu Nights should be out shortly. His Twitter handle is @heartranjan)


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Siemens U.S. CEO Eric Spiegel on how innovation can contribute to the revitalization of the U.S. manufacturing sector
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The following is a statement by Eric Spiegel, President and CEO of Siemens Corporation and CEO of the U.S. Region.
Last month President Obama invited business leaders to the White House to discuss strategies for reversing the terrible tide of outsourcing that has battered American manufacturing for more than a decade. I was honored to be one of them.
I told the president that I believed the conventional wisdom about manufacturing's inevitable decline was wrong. For too long, we've operated under the assumption that because labor is cheaper elsewhere, and because no company, however well-intended, would choose to build something for more when they could build it for less, manufacturing here was more or less doomed.
But that conclusion assumed a couple of things that have turned out to be wrong: First, that cheaper wage rates would always translate to lower production costs. And second, that the products of the future, like those of the past, would essentially be commodities, the kind that could be built of equal quality, with equal technology, anywhere in the world.
These assumptions were right when it came to making lower-technology products that require little innovation on the front end, and minimal precision on the back end. If you're manufacturing blue jeans, your highest cost is probably the wages you pay, making it difficult, if not impossible, to compete on a global scale by manufacturing them in America.
But they are largely wrong when it comes to high-end products. High-end products require skilled workers, precision assembly, intensive research, and complex technology. If you're in the business of building high-technology products, the wage rates you pay are usually a much less significant line-item on your income statement. That's especially true when you consider that U.S. workers are, on average, three times as productive as Chinese workers. Together, this makes it possible to build them in America, as cost-competitively as anywhere else, because access to innovators is far more important than access to cheap labor.
But there is, as always, a catch. If we can't improve the products we build here, through each new generation, we won't succeed. Constant innovation is the only way to stay ahead of competitors, the only way to prevent products from becoming commoditized. Sometimes products get to a point where you can't make the next generation any better than the last. You can certainly try: you can add an internet connection to an alarm clock or a remote control to a trash can, but at some point, what you've got really is as good as it's ever going to get.
When you reach that point, your competitors catch up with you, and once they do, they can build what you build, just like you did, but for less. That means that success in American manufacturing will require us to build technologies that we can constantly improve; it's the only way we can compete, the only way we can keep our competitors a few steps behind.
That's why there's such a strong push by companies like mine to build things like wind turbines, clean coal and smart grid technologies in the United States. With the right army of innovators, each of these products will have constant room for improvement.
For example, we just opened a plant in Charlotte where we build the world's most advanced, most efficient natural gas turbine. And we built it in America because each new generation of the turbine will need to be better than the previous one. That's how you leverage America's strength. That's how you make manufacturing work in America. And with the Labor Department reporting a 136,000 job increase in the sector last year—the first year-over-year growth since 1997—I'm hopeful we've begun to turn the corner.
But I don't want to paint too rosy a picture. The truth is, though innovation is still happening in America, it isn't happening only here. The major advances being made right now in wind and solar technology are being made in Europe. The major advances being made in biofuels are all happening in Brazil. The same can be said for batteries in Asia.
Too many of the advances forward are happening elsewhere. If we keep taking a back seat on innovation in such critical new industries, there will be a point where we are no longer the leader in innovation. When that happens, when we don't have a competitive advantage to leverage, we'll be outmatched on the global stage, without recourse.
To prevent that from happening, we must all work together to make the right kind of investments, right now—in STEM education, in research, in infrastructure—to ensure that companies can do the work of rebuilding America's manufacturing sector, and creating jobs on the scale our economy needs.
If we get this right, the story of the next decade won't be another one about the decline of manufacturing. It'll be about how American manufacturing, once again, saved America.
Eric Spiegel is the President and CEO of Siemens Corporation and CEO of the U.S. Region
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I am taking my son canoe camping/fishing. He is a never ever flyfisherman. I have dabbled in it for a few years now. I suspect the ponds and lacks in this area will be loaded with a variey of fish. So my question is What have others caught in this area and what are the best fly patterns to use? I have been tying wooly buggers and leadwing coachmans.
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I'd suggest getting in touch with Scott E. Smith out of Thunder Bay. He's probably the best guide up there and he should be able to help you out. He's written a book or two and you should have no trouble finding some web references.
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Lake Superior Prov park WOW I'm envious, I have only fished at Sault Ste Marie which isn't as far north as that but we had really good luck there. If you are interested I may be able to come up with some peoples email addresses that you could contact for info, I also have a map around here somewhere that shows what runs in what rivers along the Lake Superior coast. When are you going and what direction are you driving from, up from the soo or from Thunder Bay. Let me know Bill Gass PS and to think that my main trip this year is only up to the Restigouche River. |
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I am coming up from the Soo. I don't know which lakes or ponds I am headed. I called the ranger and He said just come and check it out there is plenty of water. I am trying to find a used canoe. I may be forced into renting one. I will have my 11 year old son who has never flyfished. He casts well on the lawn with his 5 wt. We are planning on a canoe camping/fishing trip. I thought he would have fun with pickerel, walleyes and smallmouths (hell I would have fun with all of that) I have been tying up a bunch of wooly buggers. |
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There were a lot of things to love about the Bills' 35-17 victory over the hapless Kansas City Chiefs. Here are a few that are on my mind:
- C.J. Spiller is the best offensive player on the team. The kid has been dynamite in the two games, as big a breakaway threat as anyone in the NFL. Now the Bills need to find a way to build the offense around him, and stop leaning on Ryan Fitzpatrick. That's what Chan Gailey did against the Chiefs, and he needs to keep doing it.
- Fitzpatrick played a nice game. He only attempted 19 passes, and while much of that was a product of the lopsided score, I'm much more comfortable when Fitzpatrick is throwing in the 20-27 pass range. That's a good balance because it takes more of the burden off Fitzpatrick.
- The offensive line has been great. Only one other time in team history – 1980 – have the Bills not allowed a sack in each of the first two games of the season. Eric Wood, Andy Levitre, Cordy Glenn, Erik Pears and Kraig Urbik are starting to look like one of the most reliable lines in the league. Not only have there been no sacks, the Bills have rushed for 396 yards in the two games.
- Stephon Gilmore showed that he can have a short memory. He didn't have a great NFL debut, but I thought he played with much more confidence and tenacity in Week 2. He solid in coverage, and he led the team with seven tackles including a pair of stops of third downs that forced punts.
- I think Scott Chandler is going to be the guy who takes over as the main slot receiver in place of David Nelson. I'd rather see Chandler on the field in a three-wide set, lined up in the slot, as opposed to Donald Jones who I just can't bring myself to like. I think he does nothing for the Bills, outside of block with fervor, which is nice, but not enough to warrant full playing time. Chandler can do almost all of what Nelson did, and he's a little bigger and sturdier.
- Props to Leodis McKelvin. He was benched on defense and didn't play a single snap, but he didn't let it affect him as he ripped off an 88-yard punt return touchdown. In all reality, that's his primary skill, running really fast, and that's a good thing to have in the return game. As a cover corner, he's just not very good. Problem is, I'm not sure how much better Justin Rogers is.
- Mario Williams was visible, which was nice. No sacks, but he certainly played a role in Buffalo piling up five. Williams also recovered a fumble, and it was clear that he was making things happen as opposed to the Jets debacle.
- I also liked Mark Anderson's performance. What I didn't like was Dave Wannstedt dropping Anderson into pass coverage. I don't see the point. The guy is a one-dimensional player – he's a pass rusher. Dropping him into coverage makes no sense to me. Yes, it might be confusing for a quarterback, but it seems that more times than not, the quarterback will figure it out and exploit the coverage matchup. Thankfully, Matt Cassel wasn't up to that.


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Call to end Havering's cold weather payment postcode lottery
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»As the chill-winds begin to bite, it has emerged that Havering's postcode lottery still exists when it comes to cold weather payments.
Cllr Clarence Barrett, leader of the opposition Residents' Association on Havering Council, has called on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to end its "bizarre" system.
The DWP makes payments of £25 to the elderly and disabled when the average temperature is recorded as zero degrees Celsius or below for seven days in a row between November and the end of March.
But the measuring stations for residents, some just metres away from each other, are 40-miles apart.
The RM4 postcode has its temperature guaged in Andrewsfield, near Great Dunmow, Essex, while the rest of the borough has its measured at a site 40 miles away in Gravesend.
Meanwhile the rest of London, including neighbouring boroughs, are measured in Heathrow.
The Recorder first reported on the anomalies in 2010. At the time, a 19-year-old who lived in Straight Road, Harold Hill, RM3, didn't receive payments for two weeks while her elderly parents living just metres away in Broxhill Road, RM4, did.
This week Cllr Barrett said: "This is a very helpful scheme for those in need, but there is something clearly amiss when a resident living on one side of the road is eligible to a cold weather payment while their neighbour living opposite is not.
"Having the temperature of the same road measured by weather stations 40 miles apart is simply bizarre."
He added: "There should be some form of consistency when measuring temperatures that is equitable to all and doesn't leave some residents out in the cold.
"Although never an exact science, it would make much more sense if the whole of Havering were measured by one weather station."
But the DWP replied to Cllr Barrett stating that the current system will remain in place.
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I'm rather embarrassed to admit that the first thing I used my new iPad for was to source nipple tassels at under £1 a pair. Don't worry, this is not the true confession of a fashion designer; nor am I putting them through on company expenses (had I used my office computer it would have clocked my viewing history and I would have had to self-sabotage my own IT department). Tragically, the items in question are not for me, or the enjoyment of my husband, but to attach to the invitations to a joint 18th & 21st birthday party I am planning for my elder sons.
It's a Sunday evening and I am working – as I always do. After the small kids have gone to bed and various older children have left for boarding school or university, I find it useful to clear the "in-tray" and mentally prepare for the week ahead. Normally I am working on a new collection, planning for various fashion weeks or just dealing with e-mails. However, the next few weeks are giving me sweaty palms. I have five children ranging from ages seven to 21. My PA is on honeymoon and the outlook is brutal; aside from the above party, there is the 10-year-old's paintballing party, the seven-year-old's go-karting party (my fault for having the children two days apart), three school sports days, a smorgasbord of other end-of-term events, plus the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition preview party to organise. Oh, and a fashion business – we design and sell handbags, shoes and luggage – to run.
My bigger boys' party at Madame Jojo's – for a bit of naughtiness and legendary Soho entertainment – is causing me the most angst, and I fear I have bitten off rather more than I can chew. Not only were the nipple tassels quite hard to track down but, when they arrived, my graphic design department decided they were too large. I was away on business so they sent me pictures of themselves (clothed) modelling the tassels to review the size.
We resolved this issue, then moved to the next challenge: finding the entertainment. I recalled that [the artist] Marc Quinn had had some amazing people at his launch of his new exhibition recently. I say "people", rather than men or women, as they seemed to be both (Shims?) but I hope they will serve the drinks. Then (also through various iPad-sourced websites) I found Charlotte from the alarmingly named Torture Garden, who has lined up some mind-boggling-sounding acts such as Kitty Bang Bang and Rubber Octopus Man.
As a marked contrast to all this, it is the fourth year that I have organised the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition preview party, which celebrates the legendary exhibition. (I am co-chair with the artist Tracey Emin). Working with the Royal Academy – and with its boss Charles Saumarez Smith and the architect Nick Grimshaw – is a real pleasure. There is the excitement of lots of new projects, buildings and exhibitions coupled with the eccentricity of an entire block in Piccadilly run by and for British artists. I love the traditions, from the beef tea drunk by the Academicians' selection committee when choosing art works for the exhibition to the trumpet fanfares between courses at the president's dinner, and I'm looking forward to watching the fashion and art crowds mix with the country lawyers who also turn up in their droves. For me, it is Britain at its best. Long may it reign.
Talking of Britain, I feel for the new chancellor George Osborne. I know him a bit and I think he won't be scared to do what he has to do even if it will make him unpopular. But I think that whoever properly tackles this deficit is going to find it hard to take the country with them. It is facing (in an admittedly rather larger way) what every company had to face 18 months ago. When Lehman Brothers fell in September 2008 there was a moment in the aftermath when some of my cleverest friends were saying that we could all be trading in vegetables any minute. I was scared. What need would there be for designer handbags? In a very small way, I did what the government is doing now. In my experience, the cutting is the easy part. Taking your people with you is where the skill comes in. They first need to understand the situation, then to share your fears and then a certain amount of war spirit needs to be mustered, so a bit of adrenaline kicks in to cope with the inconvenience. That is relatively simple when you are talking about a few hundred people who know and trust their leader. It is clearly very different when you're trying to convince a whole country made up of many people who probably don't know what the "deficit" really means and many in the media are lobbing bottles at the message.
I think it almost needs a "state of the union" address – the kind of thing you would get during a war – where everyone is ordered to watch the TV and listen to the challenges we have to face. (Would David Dimbleby do the honours? I know Jeremy Clarkson would be up for it.) It would save a lot of pain and wasted energy if people understood and got behind what has to be done. Like all difficult things, once you accept the necessity, it can often be a surprisingly productive journey, showing that things can be done differently and often just as well. Rarely has communication been more important. It's just as well our PM has a history in PR.
For my own part, I definitely need to reintroduce an element of rationing to our family picnics, which have a terrifying tendency to rocket out of control. Most women tend to carry the world in our very large handbags (and hallelujah for that, I say!). I feel a similar need to cart all my worldly goods with me on a picnic. The first school sports day picnic I ever did, I went for an olive green theme. Green tents (naff, I know, but essential as it always rains, and not as embarrassing as it sounds if everyone has them), green Provençal tablecloths, nice wooden director's chairs with olive green cotton seats, matching napkins (of course), pots of lavender and rosemary, baskets with linen liners, proper (warm) sausages, homemade onion tart (by my husband), crudités, chocolate-dipped strawberries, magnums of pink wine, a side of smoked salmon, English mustard for the sausages, Dijon mustard for the onion tart, real glasses, real plates. I was nearly dead before I started!
It poured with rain from the moment we arrived. As I put up tents in my new silk dress, it became similarly tent-like in the wind. My hair was matted to my face and my espadrille rope-soled shoes drank the mud like a thirsty child. Never again. This year it may well be a Pret sandwich, a bag of crisps and a box of juice, sitting inside the car with the heater on.
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Dr. Ramiro Acevedo
Physics and Chemistry Instructor
Sugar Land campus - Brazos Hall 212
Dr. Acevedo joined the full-time WCJC chemistry faculty in August 2011 after completing his Ph.D. in applied physics at Rice University. He is also a graduate of the University of Houston, earning a B.S. in chemistry. Dr. Acevedo has taught both chemistry and physics courses at WCJC.
Dr. Kam Chu
Physics Instructor
Sugar Land campus - Brazos Hall 130
Dr. Kam Chu received his Ph.D in Physics (Experimental Condensed Matter Physics and Superconductivity) from University of Houston. Subsequently, he did his postdoctoral fellowship at Texas Center for Superconductivity, a world-class material science research institute. He was an information technology consultant of oil and gas and health care industry for several years. He has more than 15 years teaching experience in college level courses. He began teaching for WCJC in 2013. At WCJC, he teaches College Physics I/II and University Physics I/II.
Dr. Xuan Wu
Physics Instructor
Dr. Wu received her M.S. and D. Eng. in electrical engineering from Lamar University, Texas. She joined WCJC physics faculty as a part-time instructor in August 2014


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July Classes Posted!
DATE: June 9, 2012 CATEGORIES: Current Classes
Summer weather is finally returning, it seems (and throwing some lightning-storm temper tantrums at the delay), which makes it the perfect time to start thinking about what you'll be doing during the hot summer months of July and August. Why not spend some time at the Asylum? We've got shade and air conditioning and tons of exciting classes, many new, and some long-awaited returns! Check out details on our July classes below.
For standard tool trainings and testing, visit our Tool Training and Testing page. And we do have just a few seats left in these June classes:
Urban Poultry 101
CNC Custom Shelving
Woodworking Intensive: Cabinet Drawers & Doors
Project: Blinky Pants
Hot Glass: Introduction
Advanced Fixturing & Machining
To check in on updated info about the current full slate of classes for sale, watch our Current Class Offerings page.
- Special Event! MiniGolf Course Design Challenge, June 29 – July 6 — Get to design and build a part of the first-ever Artisan's Asylum miniature golf course! Nine self-organized teams will each create their own miniature golf hole, designed to be deployed along the aisles and public spaces within the Asylum, covering no more than two 4ft by 8ft sheets of plywood. At the end of the week, the golf holes will be placed around the Asylum for a public tournament, in which the participants will rate each hole in four categories: best mechanical movement, best use of electronics, general finishing quality and artistic merit, and most fun. Winning teams will receive major bragging rights and $200 worth of Asylum class credit to distribute among team members.
- Special Event! Duct Tape Wallet Workshop & Social Night, Friday, July 13 — The first duct tape wallets were thought to have been made around 10,000BC, and most are thought to still be in use today. Come and learn this ancient technique, and never have to buy another wallet again! This is intended to be a social event; students pay what you choose, and are free to bring food and drink and friends along. Proceeds will be used to buy things for additional Asylum social events and to keep up the common areas.
- Introduction to Casting & Moldmaking, Tuesdays, July 10-31 — A popular class returns! Learn the basics of casting from life and from object models, using safe materials to replicate everyday objects in plaster, wax, plastic, or rubber — including your various body parts. Taught by Bevan Weissman, longtime Asylum instructor & member, professional artist and engineer who enjoys incorporating both disciplines into his work. Bevan is unfortunately moving to Philadelphia this fall, so take his celebrated moldmaking class before it's too late!
- NEW! Introduction to Leather Carving, Thursdays, July 12 – August 2 — Learn to decorate and work with leather while creating a small project of your own design! Over the course of four weeks, students will learn the fundamental tools and techniques for leather carving and coloring, becoming comfortable with use of the head knife, awl, needles & thread, and dyes. Taught by Emily Lamkin, professional artist and designer and owner of a leatherworking business called Curious Alchemy that specializes in leather masks and accessories.
- NEW! Foam Projects: Monster Heads, Saturday, July 14, 12-5pm — Foam fabrication returns to the Asylum with this one-day workshop. Students will modify and add to existing patterns to make their very own crocodile, dinosaur or monster head out of flexible sheet foam. Wear it around town or mount it to your wall! Taught by Bob Field, repeat Asylum instructor, founder of Foam Props and 25-year professional in foam fabrication.
- Resin Inlay for Jewelry & Small Metals, Saturday & Sunday, July 28 & 29 — Karen's popular resin inlay workshop returns! Spend a day learning to use natural, easily accessible ingredients like spices to add vibrant color to your small metal jewelry and sculpture. Basic metal soldering will also be introduced in this one-day workshop, offered twice. Taught by Karen Christians, Asylum member, professional jewelry-maker and artist, published author, and founder of Cleverwerx, e-commerce metalsmith and jewelry website, and Metalwerx, jewelry school in Waltham, MA.
Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
- NEW! Tool Training: Laser Cutter, scheduling currently weekly by appointment, starting July 22 — A laser cutter can cut arbitrary 2D patterns and engrave a wide variety of materials, from paper to granite. The Asylum is overjoyed to announce that at the end of this month we'll be getting a CO2 laser cutter with a 150 watt laser beam and a 3ft by 4ft operating bed. This class will train students on how to use the laser cutter safely and effectively, running through using the drawing creation process, laser setup and operation. It will qualify members to operate the laser cutter independently. Funds from the training classes will help pay for the cost of shipping the tool here, setting up its infrastructure, and maintaining it. Taught by Joe Schlesinger, electrical & computer engineer, MakeIt Labs maker space founder, and member of the Asylum.
- CNC Art to Part, Saturday, July 7 — In three hours, learn how to turn a 3D computer model into a network of interlocking flat shapes that can be cut out on an Asylum CNC router! Students will learn the use of 123Make, Inkscape, Draftsight, and CamBam. Taught by Judah Sher, Asylum member and industrial designer who's been designing, building, and selling his own CNC router over the past two years.
Digital Media
- NEW! Digital DJing with Traktor, (Brought to you by CEMMI.) Saturdays, July 7-28 — Explore the fundamentals of digital DJing with Native Instruments Traktor software. Material covered will include EQing, filtering, beat gridding, beat jumping, phrase mixing, harmonic mixing, looping, bass cuts (and other alternative mixing techniques), crafting a mix, and self promotion. Taught by Matt Allen, a software engineer, electronic musician, and DJ who releases and performs in both trance and techno.
- NEW! Make Your Own Sound: Intro to Digital Audio Signal Processing and Synthesis in PureData, (Brought to you by CEMMI.) Thursdays, July 12 – August 16 — In this new class, students will learn to design their own unique audio effects, sounds, and synths at a basic level. Students will learn the ins and outs of oscillators, samplers, filters, Flanger, FM synthesis, and much more with software such as PureData or Max/MSP, or in traditional programming languages. Taught by Nick Donaldson, professional electrical & sound engineer, who has been writing digital audio software, designing sounds, and producing music for years.
- Electronic Thing-A-Week, Wednesdays, July 11-25 — Tired of the delayed gratification of long, arduous projects? This three-week smorgasbord is for you! Drew will be guiding you through a series of electronics kit-based projects ranging from an altoids-pack battery charger to a home-made car alarm – every day you spend you take a finished project home. Sign up for all three classes at once for a discount!
Glass: Lampworking
- NEW! Glass, and All that Sparkles, Saturday & Sunday, July 14 & 15 — With the Hot Glass: Introduction class behind you, you can now concentrate on the specifics of shaping and decorating of these little glass objects you know how to make. Using bits of glass, metals, foils, meshes, and other goodies, you will learn about the world of "enhancements". Over two days, the class wil cover shaping and design ideas, and explore surface decorations, internal decorations, implosions and enamels. Taught by Joanne Soroka, professional lampworker, artist, jewelery-maker, and teacher.
- Tool Training: Oxy-Acetylene Welding, Cutting, Brazing, & Heating, Thursday, June 28 — The oxy-acetylene (O/A) rig is arguably the most versatile, potentially dangerous, and misunderstood piece of equipment in any metal shop. This one-shot class will demonstrate welding, cutting, brazing, and heating, and teach you how to set up, operate, and shut down an oxy-acetylene rig without harming yourself, other Asylumers, or the equipment. Taught by Ethan Labowitz, professional metalworker and instructor and founder of the Boston Institute for Clean Energy Prototyping (BICEP), and Paul Carson, professional engineer, metalworking enthusiast, and bike builder.
- Intro to TIG Welding, Mondays, July 9-30, and Tuesdays, July 10-31 — Come learn how to weld with Skunk! TIG welding is a precise type of welding generally used to make space frames (like bicycle frames) and small pieces. Students learn operation of a TIG welder and a large range of supporting equipment for a variety of materials and joint types. Taught by Skunk, metal sculptor, graphic designer, bike builder, Grand Poobah of the nerd bicycle gang SCUL, and long-time Asylum TIG welding instructor and member.
- Metalworking Intensive, Wednesdays, July 11 – August 1 — In this class, the instructors will guide students through professional-grade steel construction skills in the building of industrial steel stools, storage racks, and work tables for the shops of the Asylum. By the end of the session, students will have learned all the skills necessary to building load-bearing steel structures, including cutting, grinding, jigging, and MIG welding. Taught by Calvin Domenico and Edison Gieswein, long-time Asylum members and volunteers who've been manufacturing professionally and for pleasure for much of their careers.
- Build Your Own Bike Frame, Mondays, July 2-August 27 — Ever frustrated by riding a bike just not shaped well for you? Ever tempted to try and build your own frame, but not sure where to start? This is the class for you! Over four weeks, students will build a custom-fit bicycle frame from steel tubes, using Fillet brazed, lugged, or TIG welded construction. Taught by Paul Carson, Asylum member, engineer, and self-taught bicycle designer.
- Sculptural Metalworking, Sunday, July 22 – August 12 — Ecco's popular metal sculpture class returns, improved and extended! This class is intended to be an introduction to sculptural metalworking techniques, featuring MIG welders, spot welders, and cold forming. Students will learn how to express themselves artistically through steel.
- Manual Machining & Layout (Machining Like A Pro), Thursdays, July 12 – August 16 — An expansion on our classic metal machining class, this 6-week course will teach you not only the operation of the milling machine and the metal lathe, but also the layout and design skills necessary to help you to make metal parts to exacting specifications like a pro.
Screen Printing
- Single-Color Screen Printing: A One-Day Introduction, Saturday, July 21– Ever wanted to make your own custom t-shirt, tote bag, sticker, poster, or greeting card? The Asylum finally has a space and classes for you! In this one day intensive introduction to screen printing, you'll learn all the basics and by the end of the day create a screen using your artwork and print a one-color design on your choice of t-shirts or paper. Taught by Erik Heumiller, graphic designer, film editor, printer, and Asylum renter and volunteer.
Sewing & Fiber Arts
- NEW! Sewing: Basic Alterations, Mondays, July 9-30 — In this exciting new offering from professional clothing designer Zoya Derevyannich, students will work over six weeks to become comfortable making basic alterations to their own (or others' clothings). Finally finish that pair of pants you've been meaning to shorten or that dress or shirt you've always wanted to take in! With over a dozen years of experience in men's and women's clothing alteration, Zoya is the owner of Zoya Designs, specializing in custom fashion design, alterations, and private collection.


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The rule of a society or state by a smaller group within it. The Greeks recognized it as a form of government. Most early Greek states were oligarchies, though the size of the group varied. The feudal oligarchy in England was confined at first to those of Norman descent. It was a closed oligarchy but most oligarchies are adoptive, that is people can be invited to join, perhaps by education. The Church in Feudal times was adoptive, and a poor person could sometimes rise in the hierarchy. Most modern states could be classified as oligarchies in one form or another. Thus South Africa during the Apartheid period was ruled by that group consisting of those recognized as being of European descent - thus closed (and within that group the Afrikaners were dominant, and within that group the Broederbond, a semi-secret society possibly made the policy); the Soviet Union was ruled by the Communist Party. Membership was to some extent open, but promotion was by those already with power. The Nomenklatura was the list of those eligible for appointments. In those states classified as democracies the oligarchy may be concealed by a form of election - that is, in practice the electors choose from among members of the implicit oligarchy (much better than having no choice at all). In Iran only those selected by the Mullas can be elected by the people. The structure of the Catholic Church is similar to that of the former Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Officials are not elected by the ordinary members. The Pope is elected by the Cardinals who have been selected by a previous Pope. Thus it is an adoptive oligarchy, and self-perpetuating, with no popular input. In the past, however, the election was influenced by a group of Roman aristocratic families, and also by the Great Powers, such as the Holy Roman Emperor, the kings of France and Spain and others. Is Britain an oligarchy? Many of those holding real power appear to have attended the small group of private schools and the two oldest English universities. (But in the past the grip of this group was much more complete). Candidates for election are chosen by the party activists or the party central offices. However, it is possible for people outside this group to gain office (e.g. Margaret Thatcher and her successor). Some believe there is a limit to what any party can achieve, set by the oligarchy. However, the truth may be that circumstances (e.g. the power of allies) may be the real limit. There are also the secret services which may behave like an inner oligarchy. Is the United States an oligarchy? In theory it is a democracy with every post open to anyone. In practice those standing for election need large amounts of money for campaigning. Most candidates receive money which tends to come from the Corporations, whose interests and desires are therefore met by those elected with their money. These wishes include low taxes for the corporations and their executives, and therefore a weak government, unable to regulate their activities, even if they are contrary to the needs of the voters. Is this a recreation in modern conditions of feudalism? Perhaps this is the reason fewer and fewer people vote, as all elected officials pay more attention to those who give them money than to the electors. There is a loose use of the term oligarch to refer to the group of people who gained control of the Soviet Union's assets after the end of communism. Thus the hyper-rich to whom such assets as the oil industry were given are sometimes called the oligarchs. But they have little political power as the power of the state remains with the post KGB group. |
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dm was great, what
dm was great, what
Nah, Lulu is still the best Metallica album to date.
I would cut my legs and tits off to see Lulu live in its entirety.
If you got the money you can go to the top
The female dog don't care what you got
As long as you can raise that
Little doggie face to a cold hearted pussy
You could have a taste
A taste of what the big dog got
Death Magnetic sounded very uninspired to me, and that was topped by mediocre production
listening to all the of the unforgivens in a row is great
also hi guys
Reload disappeared off of my computer.
I think my friend deleted it.
didnt pay for our music."
It ain't my fall
It ain't my call
It ain't my bitch
Load and Reload are awesome.
That is all.
devils dance is p. brill
Watched the Classic Albums: THe Black Album on Netflix...
Jason always looks angry and on the verge of tears in every single interview I've ever seen of him.
Forgot this song even existed.
James did too, apparently.
Feel so lucky to have gone to that Death Magnetic concert a while back.
It was just amazing, the band is great.
Less than a month left to seeing Metallica in Helsinki.
gonna be there too
and Megadeth about a month later
I'm seeing them in Norway after like two weeks with Mastodon and Gojira supporting /can'tfuckingwait.
live thread, live!
I can pretty much play Anesthesia. holy fucknips it's hard. after the drums kick in, it's improv apart from a few notable parts.
Live debuts of The Struggle Within and My Friend of Misery
I kinda wish they had Jason there to play Misery, still awesome though.
i like james' jacket
oh boy here we go
Still think RTL or MOP would be a better full live album.
Escape & Leper Messiah
Did they play the album backwards just so they could put Enter Sandman at the end?
I know that they're playing all of the Black Album and Ride the Lightning at the Orion Festival.
And I'll be there
Raw shit
Did anyone listen to that Lou Reed collaboration? Holy shit that was abysmal
everyone here loved lulu
He probably is, the whole band treated him like horseshit.
Anyone have that link for the hilarious Frantic remix?
Found it...
almost better than the real song
hahahahah i've never heard that before, that's great!
Cannee wait for download, 2nd time seeing them in less than a year.
Awesome show
Oh boy, going to be Metallica de-virgined (seeing them for the first time live) tomorrow...
Do you guys know if they're ONLY going to play the Black Album and NOTHING else or something more?


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A CSF Outflow In Vitro Model
Team achieves IH research milestone
Pia-arachnoid cells, also known as "cap cells,"are located at the top of the arachnoid granulations and are thought to control the unidirectional CSF flow through the arachnoid granulations. In order to better understand this process, the Gryzbowski/Katz research team at Ohio State focused on growing cap cells in their lab to create the first CSF outflow in vitro model.
David Holman, M.S., a member of the Gryzbowski/ Katz research team and the lead author on this particular study, explained how cap cells were grown. Using donated brain tissue collected at autopsy, samples were transferred to cell culture plates, where cell growth occurred in seven to ten days. The newly
grown cap cells were checked for certain proteins to determine if the cultured cells identically mimicked cap cells found in humans.
The cultured cap cells were also grown on a special filter membrane designed to measure hydraulic conductivity. The cells were perfused at a fixed pressure and their hydraulic conductivity was successfully measured, indicating a successful in vitro model, as well. Future studies of the CSF outflow in vitro model's hydraulic conductivity will test a variety of different conditions including increased fluid pressure and the effect of Vitamin A.


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lose is not a word that carries much optimism for the Islanders any more, because close is a word for losers.
With their coach Jack Capuano hospitalized as he battles kidney stones, the Islanders opened the season last night at the Coliseum with a 2-1 loss to the Devils, one that saw the home team dominate play for extended periods of time but eventually succumb to a team that knows how to win.
"New Jersey is not out to try and break you down," said Doug Weight, who took over for Capuano behind the Islanders' bench. "They're out to try and take away the outside of the rink, put the puck in your zone and play in there. They block shots, they're frustrating.
NHL Headlines
Islanders fail to convert chances, fall to Devils
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AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 29, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas, Jan. 29, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- JW Marriott Austin® announced today that the hotel has reached its final construction height or "topped out." When the JW Marriott Austin opens, it will be the largest hotel in Austin and the largest JW Marriott hotel in the United States.
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Slated to open on March 1, 2015, construction began on the 1,200,000-square-foot hotel in August 2012. More than 286,000 rooms have already been contracted with first groups arriving the day the hotel opens. The 34-story JW Marriott Austin was designed to house large conventions and meetings with more than 112,000 square feet of event space, 42 meeting rooms and 1,012 guest rooms.
Several large conventions have already been booked through 2020, including annual meetings for the Specialty Tools and Fasteners Distributors Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges, South by Southwest Festival and the 2017 Professional Convention Management Association's Convening Leaders annual meeting.
"We are excited to be one step closer to showcasing Austin as a meetings and convention hub for businesses and organizations worldwide," Bob Lander, president and CEO of the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau, said. "To already have more than 280,000 rooms contracted shows the demand for this hotel and the desire businesses have to come to Austin."
The JW Marriott Austin, which is located on the square block bounded by Second and Third Streets and Brazos Street and Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, will employ more than 700 people upon opening. The hotel is expected to generate more than $16 million in taxes annually, and $5 million to $6 million will go directly to the City of Austin, according to the Austin Convention & Visitors Bureau.
"This is an exciting day for Austin. A few months after becoming Mayor, I gave a speech calling for a convention center hotel to be built in downtown Austin. The topping out of this tremendous project represents how this vision is now a reality," Mayor Lee Leffingwell said. "Austin is increasingly an international destination, and the addition of this international-caliber hotel helps secure our city as a premier world destination."
The hotel will feature three restaurants including a full-service regional Italian restaurant, a restaurant highlighting local Texas cuisine and a restaurant with a walk-up food truck-style window on Congress Ave. The JW Marriott Austin will also achieve a LEED Silver certification and two-star Austin Energy Green Building rating.
"We look forward to being in the heart of downtown Austin and offering new restaurants and event space for everyone," Scott Blalock, general manager for JW Marriott Austin, said. "Having this number of hotel rooms under one roof will allow Austin to bring in conferences and large national conventions for which it could not otherwise compete."
White Lodging, which manages 23 other properties in Austin and Round Rock, will manage the JW Marriott. The company will employ more than 1,700 people in the greater Austin area when the JW Marriott opens, making it one of the area's largest private employers.
About JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts - JW Marriott is part of Marriott International's luxury portfolio and consists of beautiful properties in gateway cities and distinctive resort locations around the world. These elegant hotels cater to today's sophisticated, self-assured travelers, offering them the quiet luxury they seek in a warmly authentic, relaxed atmosphere lacking in pretense. JW Marriott properties artfully provide highly crafted, anticipatory experiences that are reflective of their locale so that their guests have the time to focus on what is most important to them. Currently, there are 63 JW Marriott hotels in 25 countries; by 2016 the portfolio is expected to encompass more than 90 properties over 30 countries. Visit us online, jwmarriott.com, @jwmarriott and facebook.com/JWMarriott.
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