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'98 Dodge Neon R/T Pro Stockers - Dodge Flashes Hot With Neon R/T
Mopar Thunders Back To The Top Of NHRA Pro Stock
The NHRA Prolong Super Lubricants Nationals in Seattle may be remembered for any number of reasons, but for those of us of the Mopar persuasion, a plan came together beautifully with the 2001 edition. In the final round of Pro Stock action, Dodge teammates Darrell Alderman and Mark Osborne raced for the title, with Osborne earning his first win since becoming one of the Dodge Boys. But there was more. By the end of the day, Alderman reset the speed record (normally the domain of Warren Johnson) to a blistering 202.64 (with a 202.42 backup), while Osborne won the event with a 6.819, the third-quickest time in NHRA Pro Stock history.
So here is today's quiz: What's the slickest car in the history of drag racing? If your answer was anything but "the brand-new, '98 Dodge Neon R/T Pro Stockers," just put your copy of Mopar Muscle back on the shelf and slowly back away; you're obviously not a Mopar fanatic, and if you leave quietly, no one will get hurt.
Seriously, although Mopar's "new" '98 two-door Neons had debuted only at the NHRA Mopar Mile-High Nationals in Denver in July, the David Nickens-owned factory team arrived in Seattle the following weekend and in one race went from showing promise to dominating the class. To use another tired but appropriate metaphor, they went through the event reminiscent of how Sherman went through Georgia during the American Civil War. They left nothing but broken dreams and records in their wake at Seattle.
By all counts, the one item that propelled the Dodge factory hot rods from contenders to winners was the long-awaited introduction of the team's new RJ Race Cars' Neons. Indeed, even at this early stage, it's undisputable the aerodynamic, factory-developed Neon body style has finally freed up the Nickens Racing-built Pro Stock "Hemi" engines to perform to their potential. Essentially, it takes less horsepower to push the Neon bodies through the air than it does the wider Avenger bodies; as a result, the engines are able to turn more rpm during a pass, equating to better speeds and elapsed times.
The Seattle race marked the first time since the '95 NHRA Winternationals at Pomona that a pair of Mopars met in the final round of Pro Stock, the first time the brand has held the speed record since 1994, when Alderman ran a then fastest-ever 197.80, and the first victory for the new Pro Stock Hemi mill that debuted at the start of last season (see Mopar Muscle, June 2000).
The long road back to dominance for Mopar Pro Stocks began with the development of that engine combination. When Nickens began the dyno development work on the new powerplant, he realized it didn't make maximum horsepower until the engine was turning beyond 9,500 rpm. Unfortunately, the boxy Avenger (compared to the new Neon) body required so much horsepower to push it down the track and through the air that the new Hemi couldn't spin above 9,500 rpm during a quarter-mile lap. Obviously, the solution was to develop a more aerodynamic body than the Avenger, one that would put less rpm-hurting load on the engine.
After looking at what was available, the engineers at Mopar eventually settled on the Neon. Unfortunately, by the time that was decided, the Neon was available only in a four-door model; the last two-door Neon had rolled off a DaimlerChrysler assembly line in 1998. However, NHRA has a rule that allows bodies up to five model-years old to compete in the Pro Stock class. So in the end, Mopar went with the '98 two-door Neon, which would be legal for NHRA competition until at least 2003.
Once that decision was made, the factory engineers met with Rick Jones of RJ Race Cars in Galesburg, Illinois. Jones' shop has been building Nickens' Pro Stock cars for several years. However, building the new cars was not simply a "let's do this" type of decision. In fact, the project to replace the Avengers started in 1999; to make sure the project was properly conducted, it took Jones and Mopar nearly two years of serious research, development, and manufacturing to get the first Neons to the track.
In this regard, the Neon R/T Pro Stock is one of the first real "factory hot rods" to come out of Detroit in 30 years or so; not since the specialized A-Bodies of the early '70s has a vehicle had this type of factory engineering behind it. Dodge now has a purpose-built engine developed by the factory just for Pro Stock use and a body specially modified for Pro Stock racing as well. DaimlerChrysler Aero-Thermal Development Engineer Terry DeKoninck talked about the unusual factory involvement in this project.
"Usually, the factory engineers get a hold of the car only after it's been completed and is pretty close to finished," said DeKoninck. "On this project, we were brought in very early in the process. We essentially took over and directed it. We made a lot of changes from the original mold and plug, and it came out pretty well."
The "we" in the equation includes Jones, who spearheaded the construction effort. The Neon body created for Pro Stock racing was carefully scrutinized, then constructed with the primary focus on the effect of air over the body.
"I've been to the Lockheed wind tunnel in Georgia many times working on the aerodynamics of this car," said Jones. "The fact is, the body was built first, then we built a chassis to fit underneath the body; it's a very slick piece."
As predicted, the Neon is more aerodynamic than the Avenger. The reduction of the frontal area, which is the width and height of the car, plays a role in the aerodynamics. This alone is very critical, but according to DeKoninck, the way the air flows over the body also allows it to develop more downforce, keeping it closer to the ground as it moves down track on a run. Finally, with the standardized rules that have taken place in Pro Stock, the cars have a slightly longer wheelbase and equalized nose lengths with the competing brands. Taken in whole, team owner David Nickens believes the body could be worth as much as 30-40 hp now that the engines can get up into the higher rpm ranges. Pro Stock is a class where 5 hp is a big deal; if Nickens can achieve the additional level of performance he's talking about, everyone from Warren Johnson on down will be playing second fiddle to Dodge from this point on; that was the idea in Brett Fischer's playbook.
"We're looking forward to having a body that's as good-if not a little bit better according to the data we have-as what GM has," said Fischer, Dodge Drag Racing's program manager, before the car's debut. "We're going to try to walk away from the GM guys. We were right with them in our old bodies and we'll obviously pick up with the new ones. We can beat those guys...."
Mark Osborne agrees. He has the benefit of having owned and driven Pro Stock cars using GM bodies, and the newest Dodge driver knew the Neon R/T would have star potential right off the bat.
"I was very impressed with all of the body lines," said Osborne. "The fenders, taillights, and windows are really tucked in tight. We should run some real good speeds and elapsed times with the new Neon."
Now, with only two races complete as of this writing, the happy days of Mopar racing in Pro Stock may indeed be here again. From Sox and Martin's earliest efforts to Bob Glidden's Arrow to Alderman's dominance of the early '90s, the heritage is there and these new cars have already begun to put the Dodge name in lights again-Neon lights.
Neon R/T Quick SpecsOwner: David Nickens
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VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) ? A lawyer for Kevin Costner told the South Dakota Supreme Court on Monday that the actor did not breach a contract with an artist when he placed commissioned sculptures of bison and American Indians at a different site than originally was agreed upon.
The Hollywood superstar, who filmed much of his Academy Award-winning movie "Dances with Wolves" in South Dakota, paid Peggy Detmers $300,000 to make 17 bronze sculptures for a resort called The Dunbar he planned in the state's Black Hills. The resort never was built and the sculptures are instead at his Tatanka attraction near Deadwood.
Detmers said she spent more than six years creating the artwork and gave Costner a price break because she anticipated selling smaller sculptures at the resort.
Detmers claims that because The Dunbar was not built and the sculptures were not "agreeably displayed elsewhere," as the contract stipulates, that the sculptures should be sold and she should be entitled to 50 percent of the proceeds.
But a circuit judge ruled last July that Detmers indicated her approval of the Tatanka location by participating in the site' development and several events related to its opening. The Tatanka site houses the sculptures, a museum and a visitor center.
Kyle Wiese, one of two lawyers representing Costner at Monday's hearing, noted Detmers took part in the construction and mock up process and ground breaking ceremony at Tatanka in June 2003.
"All of this conduct ? taking part in the dedication ceremony and giving a speech ? indicated she was agreeable to put these sculptures at this location for the long term," Wiese said. He added that Costner said he would not have put nearly $6 million of his own money into building the Tatanka site if Detmers had not been agreeable to the location.
The Tatanka site is located on 85 acres of land next to 915 acres of land where Costner had envisioned building The Dunbar.
Detmers' lawyer, Andrew Damgaard, concedes Detmers agreed to the placement in 2003 at Tatanka. But he said she was under the impression The Dunbar still would be built.
"It's very clear from the record that people were telling her the resort was intended to be built, that it was intended to be built on that property," he said.
Costner did not attend Monday's hearing. The Supreme Court will issue a written decision at a later date.
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We had plenty of good things to say about the Vertex 3 when it stormed onto the SSD market earlier this year. You only have to look at its read/write figures to see why. Quite simply, the Vertex 3 managed to harness the power of the Sandforce SF-2281 controller to the greatest extent.
Like any SF-2281 controlled SSD it did take time performing incompressible writes (write speeds reporting at less than half that of reads), but 4K random read performance and real-world tasks, such as Windows boot times had us singing high praise for the Vertex 3.
Benchmark figures and even observable desktop performance don't tell the whole story though. Along with other manufacturers who had issues with the latest SandForce controller, OCZ's Vertex 3 suffered from some reliability issues too. Mind you, OCZ estimates that only two thirds of a percent of Vertex 3s experienced reliability problems, specifically BSOD when running Windows 7, but any SSD bearing the marks of unreliability is going to be avoided.
After discovering some bizarre activities caused by a certain SATA command, OCZ and the controller's manufacturer SandForce released a firmware update that appears to have stamped out the issue. It slows down timings associated with that naughty SATA command, which means no more blue screens, but inevitably also slightly slower performance.
Now OCZ has resolved the problem, it's keen to build a dependable drive that gets near the vanilla Vertex 3's performances for everyone.
Architecturally, the only difference is in the type of NAND used: the Vertex 3 uses Intel 25nm NAND, whereas this new Max IOPS edition employs Toshiba (Toggle) 32nm NAND. The difference between the two comes down to the capacity on each NAND die leading to more chips for the 8 channel SF-2281 controller to access per cycle.
More IOPs please
The performance advantage here is interleaving. With more NAND channels to access, the controller can send more read requests per cycle, increasing IOPS (inputs/outputs per second).
Random 4K write IOPS increase nominally from the original Vertex 3's 60K IOPS to 65K. However, 4K random reads weigh in at 55K IOPS, significantly more than the original Vertex 3's 40K.
You're probably sick of large numbers and the acronym IOPS by now though, so what does it all mean? It means the Max IOPS deals with incompressible data better than its predecessor. Good. It doesn't match the Vertex 3's initial sequential performance. Fine. We doubt most users would notice the difference, and we're a lot more confident of the drive's reliability now.
TechRadar Labs
Sequential read/write (incompressible)
AS SSD: Megabytes per second: Bigger is better
Vertex 3 Max IOPS
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Vertex 3
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Vertex 3 Max IOPS
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Vertex 3
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Read: 20
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It's always difficult to measure reliability in an early review, but the fact OCZ is gearing design more for longevity than straight line performance is definitely encouraging.
For the extra cash you're spending on the new Max IOPs edition you don't really get a whole heap of extra speed, but the improvements to the incompressible performance and reliability could well be worth the extra outlay. A good choice for a reliable boot drive.
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In the mid-'90s, around the time Elizabeth Warren's name was appearing on a list of minority law professors, I was applying for entry-level reporting jobs at dozens of newspapers. In a few cases — one of which involved a summer job at a paper tartly critical of affirmative action — something odd happened. First came the nibble of interest; later, the bashful questions: What, exactly, was my ethnic background? Perhaps I'd like to be considered for a minority internship?
At the time, I was in my early 20s, underemployed, and eager to please. But did I qualify? It was hard to say. One of my parents is Filipino; the other is white; my surname is Spanish. Still, I disliked the implication that my dull, dutiful stories, which I'd clipped to my resume, were suddenly fascinating if their author were less ambiguously ethnic. What grated most — what steered me away from these strange, unbidden opportunities — was that no one asked: Are you actually disadvantaged in some way? Does your ethnicity relate in any way to what you've written?
Which brings us back to Elizabeth Warren. We may never know whether she played up her scant Native American ancestry to advance her academic career. But whatever the flap says about the Harvard law professor's US Senate campaign, it also reflects badly on the ham-fisted, box-checking approach that many employers once took toward diversity — and that some still use today.
Especially in the 1980s and '90s, the heyday of identity politics, the well-justified desire to open academia and other fields to people of color led in practice to some awkward moments, at least for those who bristled at having their experiences of life reduced to "white," "black," "Asian," "Hispanic," or "Native American." And even now, when jobs and school admissions may still ride on these crude categories, anyone whose ancestry falls outside or between them is in a painful spot.
As for Warren, it's easy to imagine that, in their rush to get less white and less male quickly, law school faculties might have scrounged around in a promising job candidate's background in the hope of finding some diversity. Warren comes from a state crafted from the former Indian Territory, a state whose license plates bear the slogan "Native America." You can almost hear a wishful line of questioning: "You're from Oklahoma? Are you, by any chance, part Indian?" To which a legal scholar who's at least 1/32nd-Cherokee could answer honestly: "Well, I'm not not."
This lets Warren off too easily. On Wednesday, she said she'd identified herself as a member of a minority in a directory of law professors because she wanted to connect with others "for whom Native American is part of their heritage and part of their hearts." Her explanation makes little sense. Why not join a genealogy club instead?
Yet if Warren handled this subject badly, let's admit that it's impossible to handle well. The question still lurks: Are you "diverse" or not? For mixed-race Americans who mean neither to exploit their ancestry nor minimize it, politely brushing aside the issue is harder than it seems.
Meanwhile, the usual ethnic categories keep blurring at the edges; the 2010 census counted over 9 million Americans as multiracial. Yet as The New York Times reported last summer, many elite colleges still can't say how multiracial applicants fit in with their diversity goals. So applicants are left to fret: Check every box that applies, or hope that skipping the question entirely won't keep you from getting in?
This isn't a rant against promoting diversity. We need lawyers and doctors and teachers and reporters who've known life outside the affluent, often monochrome suburbs of the Northeast Corridor, and who've done something besides jumping from one parentally subsidized resume-building activity to the next.
But even today, our Dilbert-like workplace bureaucracies — the hiring committees, the stilted phone interviews, the people scurrying around to deliver what they think the boss wants — often can't detect the kinds of diversity that matter most. They just aren't up to the task of judging how applicants' backgrounds might influence their work.
Under different circumstances, mixed ancestry could be a gift, one that brings the ability to float above America's long, tortured racial history and observe it from a critical distance. With time, the old categories may blur enough, and old prejudices may erode enough, to make this whole subject seem quaint.
For now, though, the hiring committee and the admissions office are sending a different message: You're not so special. Just check a box.
Dante Ramos is deputy editor of the Globe's editorial page. Follow him on Twitter @danteramos.


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A small frame and low price tag aren't quite enough to help Lenovo's IdeaCentre Q150 pull away from the compact-PC pack.
At some point, you know that you've gotten all you're going to get out of a compact PC, and no amount of money you sink into the product will deliver fantastic results. Such is the case with the $350 (as configured, as of September 27, 2010) Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 compact PC. At that kind of a price, you can't really expect a miracle–and, in this case, Lenovo even struggles to top the performance and feature set of this system's miniature predecessor, the Q100.
To power the Q150, Lenovo opted for one of Intel's latest dual-core Atom processors, the 1.66GHz D510. Joining the CPU is 2GB of DDR3 memory. Unfortunately, that tandem didn't quite race through our WorldBench 6 suite of tests: The system's score of 40 on our benchmark was but four meager points higher than that of the Lenovo Q100 compact desktop.
However, we can't fault Lenovo's love of storage. Offering an extra 350GB of capacity over its predecessor, the Q150 has a total of 500GB. It might not outrun the various compact PCs we've tested over the last year (the Viewsonic VOT530 and its WorldBench 6 score of 90 take that prize), but it certainly beats out all other compact PCs for the sheer amount of stuff you can stash on this small system.
The Q150's case seems unromantic, even by compact-PC standards–it's black, it's tiny, and it mounts on a stand. One unique addition that sets it apart from its peers is a VESA-compatible mounting bracket: When attached to a display, the PC resembles a little parasite stuck on a larger animal, but the feature is an ingenious method for creating some "out of sight, out of mind" space savings.
As for connectivity, the Q150 hovers right around the average mark for the category. Two USB ports and an optical connection for audio on the front join two USB ports, stereo audio connectors, one VGA port, and an HDMI port on the rear. Unsurprisingly, the system has no optical drive. The machine offers a gigabit ethernet connection and 802.11n networking.
The Q150 is bundled with a wired mouse and keyboard, subtracting two USB ports right off the bat. It's bad enough that each device offers no more functionality (for instance, media-shortcut buttons) than what you'd find on leftovers in the bargain bin at the local electronics store. But considering the limited number of USB ports on the Q150, eating up two just to be able to operate the computer subtracts from its utility as a media-streaming device.
Sacrifices are expected in the compact-PC category, and the Lenovo IdeaCentre Q150 is no exception. But in spite of its generous storage capacity, minuscule frame, and palatable price tag, it stumbles in comparison with the competition. If you're looking for a compact bargain and you aren't perturbed by dismal storage capacity, the eMachines ER1402-05 offers superior performance for $300. Just keep in mind that spending a bit more–or heading over to the budget PC category–will net you a PC that isn't quite so anemic.


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A statue burning in the Bonfires of San Juan Midsummer's Night in Alicante © Rafa Pérez and others. Patronato de Turismo de la Costa Blanca
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Alicante celebrates the coming of summer with the bonfires of San Juan. In a spectacular display of music, colour and fireworks, thousands of people throng the streets to experience this fiesta which pays tribute to fire.
To celebrate the arrival of summer, the people of Alicante would traditionally flock to the countryside on 23 June for a festive dinner: they feasted on typical products, and at midnight they would light bonfires and dance around them, set off fireworks and go swimming in the sea. This custom endured over the years, and in 1928 the fiestas of the Bonfires of San Juan were formally constituted. For several days, Alicante celebrates this great homage to fire, where the stars of the show are genuine works of ephemeral art: the bonfires and the enormous cardboard and wooden figures which go up in flames on the night of San Juan.
The queen of the fiesta, known as the "Bellea del Foc" ("Beauty of Fire"), is chosen in May from among the candidates presented by a committee in each neighbourhood. The festivities officially begin on 20 June with the "plantà", or building of enormous bonfires with their tongue-in-cheek cardboard figures which fill the streets of Alicante with wit and good humour. That day the "barracas" or large tents are also put up to serve as a public dance floor, and where fiesta-goers can sample the typical figs and "cocas" (a kind of pastry with tuna, onions and pine nuts). Some of the highlights of the festivities include the Entry of the Bands and Committees, with their respective "beauties" and their ladies-in-waiting wearing traditional dress; the floral offering to the patron saint of the city, the Virgin of El Remedio on 21 and 22 June; and the international folklore parade, a spectacular procession featuring dance troupes from all over the world. In addition, every day at two in the afternoon from 19 to 24 June, there are firework displays in Plaza de los Luceros square: these are the ear-splitting "mascletàs", for which ear-plugs are highly recommended due to the racket of the exploding firecrackers and rockets. And finally at midnight on 24 June comes the "cremà" (burning), the high point of the fiestas. After a spectacular white palm tree of fireworks, the bonfires all over the city are set alight and blaze away amid much merriment and dancing and singing, while fire-fighters shower the merrymakers with water in what is known as the "banyá".
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Nick Auden didn't live to see the legislation, but the case of the Denver melanoma patient who died while seeking access to an experimental drug helped inspire a first-of-its kind law in Colorado.
The "Right To Try" law allows terminally ill patients to obtain experimental drugs without getting federal approval. It's a proposal being advanced in several states by patient advocates who are frustrated by the yearslong federal approval process for experimental drugs in the pipeline.
"There are experimental drugs out there that can and do save lives, and access needs to be expanded," said Auden's widow, Amy Auden of Lone Tree, Colorado.
Nick Auden died in November at age 41 after unsuccessfully lobbying two drug companies to use an experimental treatment outside of clinical trials. Auden had acknowledged there was no guarantee the drug would work.
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Saturday signed Colorado's "Right To Try" bill, which was passed unanimously in the state Legislature. Similar bills await governors' signatures in Louisiana and Missouri, and Arizona voters will decide in November whether to set up a similar program in that state.
Supporters call it a ray of hope for dying patients trying to navigate the red tape of existing "compassionate use" guidelines for obtaining drugs outside clinical trials. The process requires federal approval.
"When you're terminal and there's a drug out there that might help you, it can seem that the obstacles to get that drug are insurmountable," said state Sen. Irene Aguilar, a physician who co-sponsored Colorado's bill.
Aguilar dubbed the measure the "Dallas Buyers Club" bill, after the movie about a determined AIDS patient who smuggled treatments from Mexico because they weren't cleared for use in the U.S. But skeptics call "Right To Try" a feel-good campaign that won't help dying patients.
The law doesn't require drug companies to provide any drug outside federal parameters, and there's no indication pharmaceutical companies will do so. A 2003 lawsuit to force the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expand the availability of investigational drugs failed.
A federal judge disagreed that terminally ill people have a right to access to investigational medicine, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to consider an appeal. State-level approaches are an effort to circumvent the federal system, but critics say they won't work.
"The FDA regulates drug development, and this doesn't do anything to change that," said Dr. David Gorski, a surgical oncologist and editor of the blog Science Based Medicine.
Gorski said a drug company "wouldn't do anything to endanger a drug they're potentially spending hundreds of millions of dollars to bring to market" through elaborate FDA trials.
Colorado's bill got a careful no-comment from state doctors' groups, hospitals and health insurers. The bill was amended to clarify that health care providers and insurers aren't liable if a patient who uses a drug outside clinical trials gets sick or dies.
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Home Page Chess Life Online A Couch Potato's Guide to the 2012 World Championship
|A Couch Potato's Guide to the 2012 World Championship
|By GM Ian Rogers
|May 8, 2012
On Friday in the Russian capital Moscow Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand will commence battle for the world title and a $2.5m prize fund. Not since Garry Kasparov took on Nigel Short in London in 1993 has a World Championship match started with one player an overwhelming favourite. (One betting site has been offering almost 5 to 1 against a Gelfand victory.)
Yet there is reason to believe that the upcoming world title match could be a classic and a treat for those watching at home on the internet.
"Nowadays Moscow holds just about the best tournaments in the world," said Anand last year and with extensive video streaming and commentary in two languages, the organizers of the 2012 world title match hope to set new standards for internet coverage.
While Anand is a veteran of three - arguably four - previous world title matches, Gelfand also has plenty of match experience, having competed in the Candidates Matches twice in the 1990s, as well his successful Candidates run in 2011 which has brought him the challenger's mantle.
Gelfand knows what it is like to beat Anand - he has done so five times - as well as virtually every top player except Kasparov.
Although at 43 Gelfand might be thought to be over the hill, he is only a year older than Anand and has enjoyed some of his greatest successes in recent years, including the 2009 World Cup.
The choice of Moscow as the host city should favor Gelfand, who grew up in the USSR with Russian as his mother tongue. The match sponsor, Andrei Filatov, is also an old university friend of Gelfand - although Filatov has insisted that the match conditions will be scrupulously fair to both players.
Then there is the question of desire. This is likely to be Gelfand's one and only shot at the world title, while Anand has to try to psych himself up for his third world title match, one which he is expected to win comfortably. Gelfand has certainly not been lacking in self-confidence, saying "One on one, I don't see why I am weaker than anyone."
The ratings of the two players may be a long way apart - 2791 for Anand versus 2727 for Gelfand - but in the recent period during which Gelfand has scored his two biggest wins - the World Cup and the Candidates matches - Anand has not won a single classical tournament and defeated Topalov only by the narrowest of margins.
Of course there are also quite a few reasons to expect Anand to retain his title with a minimum of fuss.
The score between the two players may only be 18-17 in Anand's favour but Gelfand has not beaten the Indian in a classical game since 1993(!).
Anand always seems to raise his game for world title contests and his demolition of Kramnik in 2008 was awesome. Two years later Anand also showed his ability to win clutch games when he defeated Topalov in the twelfth and final game with Black.
Anand has an established team of seconds supporting him, assistants with experience in analysing through sleepless nights through draining World Championship matches, while Gelfand's team are untested in such a contest.
Gelfand's stamina is also under a cloud. At his most recent outing, at Wijk aan Zee in January, Gelfand faded in the fourth and fifth hours of games, as well as falling to the tail of the field by losing his final two games.
And yet ... five to one against in a two horse race? Someone is seriously underestimating Gelfand.
Before the Match
You may not be able to attend the opening ceremony at the famed Tretyakov Gallery but you can certainly get into the mood of the match by browsing through some of the Tretyakov's 160,000 paintings online. If something a little less demanding is preferred, the recent Russian comedy Here is Carlson can be downloaded and viewed. (Carlson is, of course, a person with superhuman powers, though unfortunately his amazing chess abilities do not feature heavily in the film.)If dance music is your scene, see some of the sights that Anand and Gelfand will call home for three weeks in April's Russian chart-topper Moskva.
Games begin at 7am New York time, so US fans will need to be dedicated to see all the action from Moscow. A healthy Russian breakfast will be a good start - potato pancakes. These can be prepared the previous night and may be used as snack food throughout the game.
For sufficient supplies to last until lunchtime, take 5 potatoes and grate them into a bowl. Add a grated onion and a mixture of two eggs beaten with half a cup of flour and a pinch of salt.If you are a Gelfand supporter, you will then add kefir, or a sour yoghurt, to give the pancakes a Belorussian flavour. Mold the mixture into flat pancake shapes and fry them at a high heat until golden brown. Serve with sour cream.
During the Games
The official web site, http://moscow2012.fide.com/en/, looks to be the place to go for both video and audio coverage, though both Internet Chess Club and ChessBase have their own teams of popular Grandmaster commentators who entertain as well as explain the games. (ICC features Spanish language commentators as well.)
However the line-up for the English language commentary on the official site will be hard to beat, including Kramnik, Svidler, Leko, Timman and Short. To have players who have fought for the world title themselves providing their thoughts should be a rare treat.
ChessGames.Com is trying something slightly different, with Natalia Pogonina (assisted by Jennifer Shahade on occasion) commentating as well as interacting with multiple kibitzers. The result could be chaos and/or great entertainment.
For text commentary, the master is Sergey Shipov and Chess Vibes is expecting to have Shipov's deep analysis and philosophical musings translated - move by move - into English by the man behind Chess in Translation , Colin McGourty. Chess Vibes will also be on the spot in Moscow producing the videos which have become one of the trademarks of their site.
Plenty of other sites will provide text commentary, as well as computer generated assessments. Chessdom have raised their game considerably since 2010, though nowadays their Grandmaster commentators seem to include a little too much product placement. Susan Polgar's blog will have the former Women's World Champion's commentary and plenty of other options are likely to spring up as the match gets underway.
After the Games
As soon as the games finish, the two players will be ushered into a press conference, which should be viewable on the official match site as it happens.
One site always worth a visit is The Week in Chess. Apart from having the game available for an up-to-date download at any time, TWIC will also feature videos, usually an instant daily summary from the team at Europe Echecs.
A few hours after the game is completed, Chess Vibes post-game videos will give you a feel for the atmosphere at the match and ICC's Game of the Day will explain the details of the contest you have just witnessed.
Wait a little longer and you should be able to find move-by-move video commentary on YouTube - it's not The MasterGame but these videos can be useful, especially for less experienced players.
Text annotations will soon start to spring up - ChessBase often finds young and entertaining annotators for big matches, while Denis Monokroussos generally provides a worthy symbiosis of man and machine.
One blog to watch is that by Eric van Reem, a member of the Anand delegation. Don't expect too many analytical comments on the games in Mate in Moscow but there will be plenty about the atmosphere of the match and its surroundings.
Of course Chess Life Online will also cover the match, with regular reports by this writer from Moscow.
So, once you have followed the games online, eaten the potato pancakes, viewed the press conferences, had lunch (the leftover potato pancakes), then watched the videos and read the pundits' opinions of each game, please go outside and do some exercise or you will end May with a vitamin D deficiency and seriously overweight!
2012 World Championship Match Schedule
(All games at 3pm Moscow time = 7am EST)
Game 1 Friday May 11
Game 2 Saturday May 12
Game 3 Monday May 14
Game 4 Tuesday May 15
Game 5 Thursday May 17
Game 6 Friday May 18
Game 7 Sunday May 20
Game 8 Monday May 21
Game 9 Wednesday May 23
Game 10 Thursday May 24
Game 11 Saturday May 26
Game 12 Monday May 28
Playoffs (if needed) Wednesday May 30


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New Delhi: The main reason given by the government for demonetising high denomination notes was to curb black money. Various estimates have been made of the quantum of such money -- which is not expected to be deposited in banks -- ranging from Rs 3 lakh crore to Rs 5 lakh crore.
But if one goes by the deposit trends so far and the projections, the black money expected to be purged may be much less. The Narendra Modi government may thus be in for a shock.
On Tuesday, in a reply in Rajya Sabha, the Minister of State for Finance, Arjun Ram Meghwal, said that there were 17,165 million pieces of Rs 500 notes and 6,858 million pieces of Rs 1,000 notes in circulation on November 8, 2016, the day Modi made the announcement of demonetising the two high denomination notes.
The total amount of high denomination currency circulating in the system on that day was, thus, Rs 15.44 lakh crore (Rs 8.58 lakh crore in Rs 500 notes and Rs 6.86 lakh crore in Rs 1,000).
On November 28th, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced that Rs 8.45 lakh crore (Rs 8,44,962 crore) in the banned high denomination notes had been deposited in the banks between November 10 and November 27. Banks were closed on November 9.
This was the value of banned notes deposited in the banks in 18 days, out of the 50 days that the government has permitted bank customers to do so. That too, when huge queues outside banks detered many people from putting money into their accounts.
Further, all commercial banks in India have to maintain a portion of their deposits with the RBI known as cash reserve ratio (CRR). The RBI uses this to manage liquidity in the system.
On November 8, the total amount of actual cash with the RBI as CRR was Rs 4.06 lakh crore (Rs 4,06,900 crore), according to the weekly bulletin of the central bank. This is cash, sent mostly in large currency notes according to bankers, by the banks on any incremental deposit that they have, thus adding to their CRR deposit held with the RBI.
Additionally, banks retain money with themselves to manage day-to-day affair and to provide money on demand by customers. According to the RBI, the average cash-to-deposit ratio of banks in India is 4.69. If four percentage points from this goes as CRR to RBI, amounting to Rs 4.06 lakh crore (on Nov 8, say), the cash with banks would average around Rs 70,000 crore. This would include all denominations, of course.
So, if we take the money deposited in 20 days and add the November 8 CRR to it, that amounts to Rs 12.50 lakh crore. If we further add a portion of the cash-in-hand on November 8, say Rs 50,000 crore, the total amount of money which is not with public in old notes is Rs 13 lakh crore.
There are still 30 days left to deposit banned currency notes. At the rate at which money is being deposited, it stands to reason that Rs 2 lakh crore or more would come into the system till December 30, thus throwing to the winds all calculation of the government to tackle black money.
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Tuesday's Internet outage in China is dividing experts over what caused the networking error, with authorities calling it a hacking attack, and others blaming it on the country's censorship systems.
The outage briefly crippled the Internet in China, with many local websites inaccessible to users. User traffic was mysteriously redirected to a U.S.-based IP address belonging to a company that has hosted software capable of circumventing China's online censorship.
The networking error, which only lasted a few hours, affected at least two-thirds of China's websites, according to Qihoo 360, a software security vendor in the country.
On Wednesday, local authorities said a preliminary investigation found that a hacking attack caused the outage. China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team is continuing to investigate the matter.
On the same day, China's state-controlled Xinhua News Agency published a story quoting security experts whodemanded authorities do more to protect the nation's Internet infrastructure.
Others experts, however, believe the error may have been caused by a glitch in China's notorious censorship systems, also known as "The Great Firewall."
China routinely blocks sites with content critical of the nation's government, including Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times. Tuesday's Internet outage, however, rerouted traffic to an IP address belonging to Dynamic Internet Technology, a U.S. company whose site is also blocked by authorities.
DIT could not be reached immediately for comment. But the company's clients include The Epoch Times, a publication banned in China. It also hosts Freegate software that can help Chinese Internet users view sites blocked in the country.
Some are speculating that hackers hijacked a root DNS (Domain Name System) server in China to reroute all user traffic, said GreatFire.org, a group that monitors China's Internet and opposes the nation's censorship.
But in a Wednesday posting, GreatFire.org dismissed such claims, noting that a public DNS server operated by Google had also been affected by the networking error. During the outage, users trying to access the Google DNS server from China were also rerouted to the IP address from Dynamic Internet Technology.
"Some are suggesting Dynamic Internet Technology is behind the outage. However, hacking into a root DNS resolver is not enough to cause this outage," the group said. "They have to hack into GFW (The Great Firewall)."
Instead, authorities may have tried to block DIT's IP address, but accidentally ended up rerouting all the nation's traffic to the address, the group added.


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Holla for the red dot boutique - that jacket is perfection! I've been on the hunt for a sweater like that in a cheaper, {and bigger} version but it doesn't exist. Boo.ReplyDelete
These pictures make me ridiculously happy, so I can only imagine how they make you feel! Please have another girl {or three} and use that amazing bed, and hand down those amazing clothes!! Looooove these pics and the cute family!! xoxo!
While I agree that Drew has magic camera skills, you're pretty stinkin' gorgeous! This I know.ReplyDelete
Love it all!!!
cutest.pictures.ever. omg.ReplyDelete
Beautiful photos! Wish I new about Drew back when we were in the OC...ReplyDelete
But seriously I want you to make me quilts and dresses. They are all so stinkin' adorable!!! That's it! I have GOT to learn how to sew!
i.am.in.love... with ALL of it!! the photos, your awesome creativeness, the colors, your stinkin' cute family!! so amazing :) i'm just starting my way into photography & this is so inspiring. these pictures are a celebration of life...what photography means to me... a celebration of the amazing journey, family, & friends God has given you!! thanks for sharing Julie!! :)ReplyDelete
gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous! i love all of it. off the hook, sic, i tell you! those dresses, that coat, THE BED, the pillow...no detail overlooked. wow!ReplyDelete
Every bit of this post makes me smile.ReplyDelete
LOVE the pics! LOVE your blog!ReplyDelete
What a GREAT photo shoot! I got a sneak peek on twitter... Love EVERYTHING... The colors are WONDERFUL and HAPPY!ReplyDelete
you've got a BEAUTIFUL family! The pictures are amazing and the dresses are TOO cute!ReplyDelete
Where in CA do you live? I'm in Valley Springs but originally from Fremont. :) I LOVE living in CA!
These pictures make me happy. I can't stop looking at them! Your family is beautiful & Drew is amazing! LOVED hearing how you pulled it all together. You are a creative genius!ReplyDelete
And, I can't believe you returned the anthro sweater?!?! But, love the jacket you picked out :) HOLLA for Target!
i so love everything about this photo shoot!!! I can really tell that you payed attention to detail..you are so very talented...ReplyDelete
and you are that beautiful.. you just need to see yourself that way...
God Bless !!
I love the pictures! The bed idea is brilliant!! I love all of their outfits too! It is all so great! :) I was worth acting like a "crazy person" over! :)ReplyDelete
Oh your pictures are so beautiful! They make me want to cry! I think Im a little emotional today :) But they are georgous!!!! Wow! It was like eye candy.ReplyDelete
You have got to be kidding me!!! The colors are amazing, you are all beautiful...love them.ReplyDelete
Those make me want a house full of girls...which is no small statement! Drew did an amazing job, the lighting, the colors, the bed, the fabrics...yeah for your hubby supporting all that! Gorgeous.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 30, 2010 at 9:16 PM
what a great story, great pillow, great everything.ReplyDelete
i love it all.
Amazing and both ends! Drew is such a talent but my did you do a GREAT JOB on your end coordinating such lovely, LOVELY outfits.ReplyDelete
HOLY MOLY!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
This is AMAZING! I love love love everything about these photos!
Thank you SOOO much for sharing these!!
wow. those are gorgeous! i love reading your blog. you've got a gorgeous family. way to go on finding the jacket and the girls dresses. love them all!ReplyDelete
Okay, totally get out of my head with the sewing fears! And for the record, I would have NEVER guessed...I love all your pretties! Love, love, love the pics! Joy pillow = melt my heart!ReplyDelete
WOW, amazing!! You are SO talented!! Great pictures, Great style! Just out of curiousity, where do you live in SoCal? You mentioned Irvine Park in your post. We're in Mission Viejo and go to Saddleback church. I first found your blog back when we were living in Germany. I bought a shirt from you in support of Cora's Playground!! I LOVE it, I'm so sad that my daughter is officially too big for it. Anyway, we got transferred here (we're originally from MI) at the end of August. I've been on a blog hiatus of sorts while we've been getting settled but have spent some time catching up this weekend. Just found it a small world moment. Again, Great pictures!! :) MicheleReplyDelete
Love it! Turned out awesome!ReplyDelete
And I should call this Drew because I, too, am a dork every single minute of every single day.
Amazing photos! You have a beautiful family and super awesome taste in clothing! :)ReplyDelete
Claw foot tubs are a dime a dozen out here; just what you don't want to hear! Right now a neighbor has one on their front porch, no joke. Not sure if they are planning on using it come spring-time for flowers or a photo shoot, or just getting rid of it...
We have a claw foot tub in our second story bathroom and I'm wondering if it will crash through the floor someday into our kitchen...but for the most part I do love claw foot tubs for their roominess and beauty, just not a fan of them being on the second story. ;)
P.S. Love the bed, though, too. Awesome idea!
Just gorgeous!!ReplyDelete
What pretty photos! Congrats on getting such great family pictures!ReplyDelete
I think I just might have to plan a trip to see you! And a photo shoot with Drew B ... I think that would be even more fun than her heading to NC. Those pictures are amazing!!! LOVE THEM!!!!ReplyDelete
I have a quikt that I started in the fall with a friend and it is definately coming back out to finish up ... I love allof yours. This one is for me and the 2nd one will be for Maddie. Selfish I know, but am always making things for her so decided "ME FIRST" this time .. and as you see I am on the back burner. ha!
Did you get your jacket or the sweater you have on at the Red Dot Boutique? Where is that located? Is there a web link for it?
You do look amazing and if you can figure out how to bottle the "Drew B Look" let me know - I'll take several bottles as well.
You hair looks fab .... were the pics taken after your new color? If so ... stick with .. love it!!! So natural!
Thanks for taking the itme to share all the details! :)
amazing!! Love every single one of them. (and I agree with what Beki said. I'm pretty sure there is no magic cream... it's just YOU!)ReplyDelete
those pictures are amazing...amazing. i love them....and the bed? wow....adorable.ReplyDelete
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Your photos turned out awesome!! I love everything about them...all the vibrant colors and your ADORABLE family! DrewB is amazing and you looked gorgeous!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for linking my NoodleNoggins site. I am honored that you chose my hat!!
Loves to you for your crazy ideas! What wonderful memories you have captured for your little girls. And lets me just say what a WONDERFUL husband you have to let you go through with your looney {I say that lovingly} ideas, mine would have LAUGHED and then in a serious face would have said "No."ReplyDelete
Oh I so excited now for our family photo shoot coming up in March! HEY!!!
Okay, you didn't mention your shoes! (saw them in the pic of ou and hubby kissing) Where in the round world did you get your shoes?!?!ReplyDelete
Adorable photos - your family is beautiful!
i relly didn't think that drew & your family could out-do last years pictures on joy's bday but you did!! amazing! i hope one of the girls gets to keep that bed in their room!ReplyDelete
I would never in a million years have put all that together, and I would have been scared to death how it would look, but I LOVE LOVE LOVE it.ReplyDelete
Beautiful pics, beautiful girls and beautiful you.
Oh and I love the Joy pillow, perfect touch to remember a perfect baby girl.
Love everything about this post.ReplyDelete
every stink'in bit of that post was sooo pretty...your eyes just sparkled. your family is just gorgeous!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2010 at 9:44 AM
Ok, So rad. Beyond rad. Freaking high fashion photo shoot rad. For next year I can totally tell you where the magical land of claw foot tubs are in downtown grossville. ( bring a bazillion high schoolers to carry it home) And come over anytime for a quick lesson on buttonholes. ( easiest thing EVER. But don't ask me about zippers. hate those. will never ever see one in my designs ever, never.) Seriously congrats on the photos. How will you ever top this year? So amazing.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 31, 2010 at 12:44 PM
These photos are So beautiful! I LOVE the colours too :)ReplyDelete
Also, I'm glad you mentioned you can't do buttons or zippers- I can't sew those either so I avoid a lot of projects, but I think you sew wonderfully and now its nice to know that you don't need to know how to do those to still make great things :)
These photos are amazing!!!!!ReplyDelete
You have a beautiful family, there's so much love there :-)
Oh my word fabulous. Each and every picture is more then amazing. Really. And your ideas on clothes and the bed and everything...A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. I want your crazy head, but it sure doesn't look crazy. You are seriously one of the best "artists" out there. The things you make are just fabulous. And if you didn't make them you know where to find the best stuff. This entire post just made me happy. And I needed a happy moment. Those pictures are treasures. Seriously.ReplyDelete
lovely recap of a lovely day.ReplyDelete
so so cute....every single detail!!!
I am almost speechless. Almost.ReplyDelete
These photos are beyond amazing. It brought me to the verge of tears. They completely conveyed how beautiful your family is. And I don't just mean on the outside.
You crazy, wonderful, brilliantly creative girl! I only wish DrewB lived remotely close to South Carolina!
oh good gracious...every one of those pictures is deliciously scrumptious! Love everything about them! The girls' dresses are gorgeous and all the colors just blended together perfectly....fabulous! Know you'll enjoy them tremendously! Yea for Drew!ReplyDelete
Girl you have the prettiest eye lashes in the world. You pictures are awesome! Love the bright colors!! And the clothes & bed.ReplyDelete
every time i read your posts, i have tears in my eyes. i'm sure i'm not the only one. you have a beautiful family.ReplyDelete
I think you should become Drew's photo stylist!! I'd hire you in a heartbeat!ReplyDelete
Most fabulous pictures EVER!! Oh my goodness, the jacket...the dresses...the bed...the lighting...the beautiful faces...the pillow...the...the...ReplyDelete
I have no more words. Only awe.
Your coordination skills are freaking awesome. seriously. really. I want all of your outfits for our family photos!ReplyDelete
I want that bed!!!! If you need a place to store it...i'm just saying. :)ReplyDelete
I'm a lurker coming out to tell you how wonderful your family pictures are. I LOVE your girls' outfits...so fun!!!! Great job!ReplyDelete
these are gorgeous, Julie. love.ReplyDelete
and i got the red dot boutique jacket in black from the clearance rack but had no idea it came in teal. lucky!
Umm...yeah. Amazing. One of my favorite posts. Perhaps because it is now February and this month doesn't seem to offer me happiness...you know this. Yet somehow reading about the details and the patterns and the love and Drew's magic...it all made me happy. Happy. In February. How do you do it?ReplyDelete
P.S. Spent the afternoon on Saturday stalking some birdies and collecting fallen feathers at Irvine Park... almost peed my pants from laughing reading your post.
Thank you SO much for that post! Your attention to detail is amazing and it showed in those FABULOUS pictures! WOW! Now, where did you get that great necklace that you are wearing? Did you make that? Tutorial? Thanks for the inspiration and THANKS for the link to the jacket...who would have thought?ReplyDelete
Your blog is so inspiring - Thanks for that!
P.S. would you just die knowing that we have so many cast iron bathtubs that we actually use them to water our horses and cattle out in the pastures (my husband is a rancher) Wish we lived closer I would have dug one up for you! :)ReplyDelete
absolutely beautiful shots and even more beautiful family...loved hearing about all the details!!! left drew a comment...hoping new england works for her! ;) xoxoReplyDelete
How adorable can one family be!!!ReplyDelete
beautiful beautiful pictures.ReplyDelete
Love all your new pictures! :)ReplyDelete
I am the designer/owner of tidbit! It just just got around to me that you linked us and mentioned us! thanks! your blog makes me want to be you! love your photography. love your color. love love love!ReplyDelete
These are BEAUTIFUL!!!!ReplyDelete
And I found the paint name.. slap myself with the "mom" brain.
These are stunningly beautiful! Would you mind telling me where you found the fabric for your daughter's dress? I would like to make a skirt for my daughter in those patterns! Beautiful!ReplyDelete
SOO, I stumbled across your blog and boy am I ever glad I did!! You are so sweet and talented and I love your uplifting spirit!! I noticed you have an etsy shop, but nothing for sale!!!! Will you ever be remaking and selling the dress your oldest daughter is wearing? I LOOOVE IT and need one for my daughter!!!!! I love ALL of your family pictures!!!!!ReplyDelete


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As we noted yesterday, Jack Black took the liberty of announcing that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are expecting twins during a pre-taped interview on The Today Show, which we all got to see for ourselves this morning. One would think Black's blooper would ruffle Jolie's feathers, but as this clip shows, Jolie handled the situation with breezy laughter and an amicable Oh Well! shrug. And as it turns out, Black wasn't the only Kung Fu Panda co-star to fill everyone in on The Chosen Two's glorious impending arrival. Once again for no apparent reason, fading funny man Dustin Hoffman decided to reveal the twins' due date during the same segment. When Brangelina is expecting and which nationality Jolie has selected for her next soccer team members, after the jump.
As Natalie Morales' best week ever continues, the (also expecting) Today Show correspondent revealed yet another tidbit: Hoffman decided to let her (and, by extension, the entire world) know that the twins are due on August 19th. As Lost fans, we should probably go ahead and find out what secrets hide behind the numbers 8, 1, 9, and 19, but we don't have enough time (or shame) at the moment. With her privacy sufficiently invaded, Jolie let her guard down during a press conference in Cannes after a reporter asked where she planned on giving birth: "I actually haven't completely decided...We are certainly thinking of France." Which means she can finally check off another country on her International Soccer Team Nationality Map! Sadly for Sweden, Jolie isn't feeling the Scandinavian love right now: "Asked by a Swedish reporter if she'd consider giving birth in Sweden, Jolie responded, 'Not at this time... But, you never know, there's more babies.'" More babies? Where are "more babies" hiding and what bizarre names do they have? More importantly, do they attack The Chosen One with utensils like the rest of the team?


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In the wake of the devastation left by Hurricane Sandy last October, New York has announced a new plan to combat stormwater surge should the city suffer another such storm. Developed by New York-based WXY Architecture + Urban Design, in concert with local officials and community groups, the East River Blueway Plan was announced by Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer, and calls for the creation of storm water barriers along a 4-mile-stretch of the East River waterfront.
The plan, which has been in development since 2011, calls for the creation of wetlands, parks, bicycle and pedestrian pathways and bridges, and the redevelopment of a disused beach under the Brooklyn Bridge. "We're looking at how to bring the East River back, how to make it great from a habitat point of view," says WXY principal Claire Weisz, FAIA. The plan also proposes raising the existing park road and replacing a bulkhead that currently blocks access from FDR Drive to the river. Instead of being blocked by solid infrastructure, storm surges would be mitigated and absorbed by the natural buffer of wetlands that extend into the river, and residents would have better access to the waterfront.
The Blueway plan fills in the gaps left between existing infrastructure development plans—including the East River Esplanade designed by SHoP Architects and Ken Smith Landscape Architects, the first phase of which opened in 2011—and will complete the East River Waterfront up to 38th Street. "There was a need for continuity," Weisz says.
Stringer announced the plan in his State of the Borough speech, where he also pledged $3.5 million toward the construction of the wetlands, jumpstarting funding for the project. The wetlands will extend into the river and create a natural edge to the city, rather than a line of bulkheads which, over the years, have served to increase water speeds in the river, and to cut off access for area residents to the waterfront. "The design was really based on ideas that came from community activists and residents who really understood how the river worked," Weisz says.
Other flood-prone cities have also turned to wetlands and greenways to help absorb storm water surge, including New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. In New York, the hope is that "you potentially get protection of utilities and you get this connection that people have been looking for along the East River," Weisz says. The plans balance of disaster preparedness with creating new amenities "really underscores the idea that you really can't just build back exactly the same. You have to make these places well-loved by people, but also protected. They can also help protect where people live."
The full Blueway Plan report is set to be released soon, at which point the project can move forward with further community review and development. And though the project has been in the works since long before Hurricane Sandy hit, the timing is right for the new plan to get underway. "We did this plan after Hurricane Irene and this place was inundated by water," Weisz says. "The workshops and the people planning this did understand." But what the devastation wrought by Sandy did was "give us the opportunity to move the focus onto the aspects of the plan that really helped with resiliency and to get more support for them," she says. With the East River Blueway plan, WXY was intent not just on fixing existing problems, but "creating a vision that was ambitious about the long term," Weisz says. "If we're repairing our infrastructure how can we make it better."


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SEATTLE, WA – Secretaries have begun rioting near Starbucks' headquarters after news spread that decaf coffee would no longer be brewed after noon.
The coffeehouse chain has not fared well in the past year, and corporate leaders enacted a cost-cutting plan to save $400 million by September. Amongst closing unsuccessful stores and laying off employees, Starbucks has decided to stop continuously brewing decaffeinated coffee after 12PM.
Panic and anger quickly spread across the corporate landscape. Secretaries have begun protesting in all of the major metropolitan areas, staging sit-ins at storefronts and holding hand-painted signs that read "SAVE OUR COFFEE" and "DECAF IS THE NEW BLACK". But Seattle demonstrations have divulged into all-out rioting, with women throwing rocks through storefront windows and confiscating the regular coffee to dump into sewer drains.
While the decaf coffee will be available upon request, customers will have to wait while a cup is brewed for them. Mrs. Kathy Phillips, secretary to the CEO of a paper company, explained, "You know who's making these decisions? Executives and presidents, all hopped up on espresso, who depend on their secretaries' cool and calm demeanor to get them through the day. Well what do they think gets us through our day?!"
Ms. Tanya Morgan, head secretary at a law firm, interjected, "They depend on us! And we need our decaf fix in the afternoon, at a moment's notice. Well those Starbucks execs have another thing coming, uh huh!"
When asked to elaborate, Ms. Morgan only winked and replied, "Let's just say their workforce has been infiltrated."
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- Provides visual access to files and their relationships that are otherwise impossible
- Cross-platform server based access for workgroups
- Directly interoperable with Adobe CS4
- Doesn't track research time on e-mail or Web browsers
- Doesn't support QuarkXPress or Lightroom
Our Verdict
GridIron Flow is a groundbreaking application—there has never been anything like it. This visual workflow manager uses a simple interface to show you important information about your projects and keep you organized. It's like an operating system upgrade for users of creative software, as if Mac OS X's Spotlight feature suddenly began tracking the relationships between your files and the amount of time you spend working on them.
How does it do this? Flow creates a map that shows a flowchart of how assets from one application are used in another application's documents. It also shows files that were exported into other formats and exactly where all those files reside. For the first time, you can effortlessly see critical information about every related file in a project. Flow also saves revisions of your files, so you can revert to previous versions. And it tracks the time you spend actually working on each document, which makes billing for your time much easier.
For example, you can easily recover an earlier version of a Photoshop () image that you used in an Illustrator ( ) document, which you then placed into InDesign ( ), exported as a PDF, used in a Flash ( ) animation, and then placed into a movie—just by dragging the final movie file onto Flow. Or you can find an original text file after it was placed into an InDesign document, exported to PDF, and subsequently included in a PowerPoint ( ) presentation.
In the background
After launch, Flow operates in the background. It analyzes each file in order to track it to wherever you may import, export, or place it. It watches when you move files on your hard drive and it invisibly keeps original documents when you save over them.
The first time Flow runs, it may take overnight to scan all your documents for links, but even before that, you can drag any file onto its icon to generate a map on the fly. After the initial scan, Flow's demand on your Mac's processor is minimal. Flow keeps its maps and deleted files in a folder (named FlowData) at the root level of your hard drive. If you use Time Machine to back up your Mac, you'll want to add that folder to Time Machine's list of folders to ignore.
Flow works with almost every kind of creative-output file type: Adobe Creative Suite software formats, video and sound editing applications from Adobe and Apple, Microsoft Office, 3-D apps, AutoCAD, CorelDRAW, Painter (), text files, and even random files you choose to associate with a project—just drag them onto a document in Flow's map to connect them.
Most creative applications keep track of the files you've linked to each document, and can collect those linked files into a package. But let's say you create an illustration, and then you use it in a multitude of projects and export it in a multitude of ways. Flow can reveal everywhere that file was used as part of another file—even if it's exported to PDF, Flash, or a movie.
This is handy and valuable. Here's a scenario that happens every few minutes somewhere in the world: Your client wants to swap out a photo in all the places it's been used in multiple projects. Flow lets you instantly see all the places that photo was used so you can calculate how much time it will take to universally replace it. There is no other way to do that in one step.
Flow can also do its magic for cross-platform workgroups. If you place its Share Map onto a dedicated file server, Flow keeps track of every change made and everyone will see updates to the map as they appear.
Speaking of seeing updates, Flow can display a floating map, visible inside Adobe's Creative Suite 4 applications, that shows all the other documents that depend on the current file, all the versions of that file, time spent working on that file, and more. The map updates in real time as you work. Yet another floating window warns you as you use the Finder to move or delete files that are used by other files.
One major limitation is that this version of Flow does not support QuarkXPress () or Photoshop Lightroom ( ). GridIron says it's planning to support these creative pro apps in the very near future. It also doesn't track research time spent on e-mail or browsing the Web, both of which you may want to include in your billable hours.
Macworld's buying advice
GridIron Flow 1.0.1 is a valuable asset manager that easily delivers hard-to-gather information. It's especially helpful for creative pros who tend to repurpose files for a variety of projects. Because of its value to workgroups, the company has priced it accordingly: $299 for one copy, or $399 for three copies. At $133 per user, I believe Flow will save users time and money. Flow worked exactly as advertised. If your workflow does not include QuarkXPress or Lightroom, I recommend it now without hesitation. Otherwise, wait for the next revision, which should support those apps.
[Jay J. Nelson is the editor and publisher of Design Tools Monthly , an executive summary of graphic design news.]


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