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TRANSCRIPT: Jacksonville Coach Jack Del Rio
December 17, 2003
Q: On this Joe Horn thing, since you played a number of years, what do you think of the act, the way the league handled it and when is enough as far as celebrating?
A: "First of all, I think he's a fine football player. I think it's a shame that people are spending so much time talking about this than about what kind of player he is, but in terms of that, excessive celebrations and things like this that kind of cross the line, I think that to me, if you ever disrespect the game, in an effort to kind of celebrate or have fun yourself individually, then I agree with some type of discipline. I think the line was crossed and the league's trying to send a strong message about that, but as in terms of his ability to play, I think he's a good football player."
Q: Do you think that the league has to step in to incidents like the cell phone incident and the sharpie incident and do you think that the incident was enough?
A: "I don't know. The league has to worry about that kind of stuff. I've got enough issues to deal with myself."
Q: If this player had been your player, what would you have done?
A: "I'd prefer not to deal with the what-ifs and instead, I prefer to deal with directly what I do need to deal with. I'm not going to go down that line with you and try to answer a what- if scenario."
Q: What are your impressions of the Saints now that you've looked at them?
A: "Explosive offense, it looks like they're more athletic on defense than a year ago and I still consider them a dangerous team that still has a shot at the postseason and so we're preparing to play our very best and expecting them to be at their best."
Q: Do you think both teams are playing better now than they were at the beginning of the year?
A: "I can't speak for the Saints. I haven't studied the entire year yet. It's too early in the week, but I know that we're playing better football than we were earlier and our focus really is on finishing out playing some good football and wanting that to carry into the end of the season next year."
Q: I know your record isn't where you want it to be at right now, but coming up with two games to play is your team where you want them?
A: "I can't say it's where I want them. We'd rather be in the playoff hunt ourselves. That is not the case, we cannot go back and change that. Our focus is just on playing some good football and finishing strong and laying a good, solid foundation for the future."
Q: Do you think that your team is on track for the future?
A: "We've made some strides. We've turned the corner in several key areas. Attitudewise is the biggest. We're playing with great effort, playing with good energy and good purpose and I think you have to start there. I think until you get that going, it's difficult to have success."
Q: Is attitude the biggest thing league-wide that coaches have to create?
A: "Every situation is different. I think that one thing that is occurring right now leagu-ewide is that the level of talent is not real great from the bottom to the top. Doing things the right way, believing in your approach, whatever that approach may be, those things are crucial if you're going to have success."
Q: Do you guys get any motivation from what Carolina did last year and try to build on things for next year as an example?
A: "I think Carolina is the most recent example. If you look at the history of this league, teams that have finished strong for the most part have gone on and played good football the following year. That is our intent."
Q: Earlier in the season, you had a chance to beat Carolina and didn't get it done and you had some frustrating times, are you kind of settling in now to what you expected it to be?
A: "We've had some close games I think. A lot of the games I think in the league come down to the fourth quarter in crucial moments and how you respond in those games and so it is our hope that we have learned some lessons and that we can go forward and not make the same mistakes and continue to grow as a team."
Q: How has Byron Leftwich progressed through the season?
A: "I think he's been outstanding. I think he has matured. He has worked diligently on some of the things that he's had to catch up on the run with, some of the mechanics, some of the ball handling, all of the things that you would want to work on in training camp, we've kind of had to do it on the fly. It's a credit to his intelligence, his desire, his work ethic, that we've been able to bring him along during the year in the heat of the battle. He's made some progress. He's going to be a very good football player in this league."
Q: When the Saints drafted Deuce McAllister, Randy Mueller compared him to Fred Taylor. How do you see this comparison?
A: "I think that's a fair comparison, because they both are big men that are faster than you think. They both are elusive. I'm happy to have Frank. I know the Saints are happy to have Deuce. He's a fine football player and it represents a great challenge for us this weekend."
Q: Are there any surprises about becoming a head coach or anything that might have caught you off guard?
A: "Really not much about being a head coach hasn't caught me off guard. I probably couldn't foresee having to deal with some of the incidents and issues. There were so many that popped up in my first year. I think we probably got them all out of the way now, so that we can have a much smoother ride down the road."
Q: It doesn't seem that long ago that you started working here as an assistant strength coach?
A: "It wasn't long ago. Mike Ditka gave me my start and I was there being an assistant to do anything I could to make myself useful and from there I got my start and it wasn't that long ago. I've been very fortunate, very blessed and been able to work with some terrific people that have helped me along the way."
Q: Do you still have a home here?
A: "I don't have the home there anymore. I still have a lot of friends and some family. My daughter's at LSU and pretty excited about the way the Tigers are playing. New Orleans is still a special place to me."
Q: Did she get a ticket to the Sugar Bowl?
A: "I'm going to get one for her and see if we can't make that."
Q: Playing against the Saints, does it bring any additional motivation as a coach for you?
A: "No, not really. Because I played there and because I coached there, it's a team and a city that I have great fondness for and when we're not playing them, I'm always pulling for them. I don't know how to say it except I'm pulling for them except when we're playing against them. I'm looking forward to competing against them this weekend."
Q: How did you get involved with (Mike) Ditka?
A: "I did not know Iron Mike previously prior to that. I only knew of him and he knew of me. I made an effort to contact him and put my name into the mix and about a month later I got a call from him and he brought me in and said he didn't have much to offer, but he'd give me an opportunity to start out and work in the weight room and help with the linebackers, if I was basically willing to work on a handshake, because that's what we did. My first year there, we worked on a handshake. I didn't have a contract. I just thought it was a great opportunity. I know that I was spending more at the Academy of the Sacred Heart on my kids schooling than I was making, but I thought it was well worth it."
Q: Did you know Mike Woicik?
A: "I knew Mike Woicik from my days in Dallas, having trained under him, so that was definitely a benefit that Mike had a history with me, Mike Woicik did and knew the type of work ethic I would bring and I'm sure that helped facilitate the whole thing."
Q: Coming off a game against the Patriots, I know (Bill) Belichick and (Rick) Venturi have a past together and I know they play a 3-4 so it's a different scheme. Are there any similarities between the two defenses?
A: "Not really. I'm sure they'll exchange notes this week. We had some opportunities and came up a little short. He does a nice job. Bill's doing a nice job up there with that football team. We'll see. This is a new challenge."
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P-W starts season with win over Detroit Allen Academy
The Pewamo-Westphalia boys basketball team kicked off the 2012-13 season Tuesday night at home against Detroit Allen Academy.
Despite trailing the Wildcats in the first quarter, the Pirates rallied to take a two-point lead at the half, then outscored their guests 18-3 in the third as they pulled away for a 57-38 win.
P-W coach Luke Pohl said his players came out with some first game nerves in the opening half, but came out of the locker room focused in the third quarter.
"The guys seemed to have some first-game jitters at the start, but they settled down in the second half," he said. "I think our guys are capable of putting together big quarters like that, but we will have a great test on Friday at Detroit Loyola.
Trailing 14-9 after one, the Pirates were able to keep the game close with solid post play and some big plays by junior guard Nick Spitzley. With about five minutes left in the second, Spitzley hit a three-point basket that gave the Pirates a 21-18 lead. They took a 26-24 advantage into the break.
Spitzley led all scorers with 26 points to go along with eight assists.
Lane Simon finished with 15 points and seven rebounds.
"Nick made some great moves and got to the rim, while Ty Simon played well in the post," Pohl said. "Lane Simon also had a good game for us.
"We had some guys come into the season a little banged up after a long football season, but we are getting healthy."
P-W (1-0) will travel to Detroit on Friday with tip-off scheduled for 6 p.m.

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Creighton forward Doug McDermott has been named the Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Week after averaging 27.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists in a pair of double-digit victories last week. McDermott has now earned the league's top weekly award six times this season, tying The Valley's all-time single-season mark first set by Bradley's Hersey Hawkins in 1987-88. Hawkins (14) is the only player with more career Player of the Week recognitions than McDermott (11).
McDermott shot 58.1 percent from the floor (18-31), including 57.1 percent from 3-point range (8-14) and also made 90.9 percent of his free throws (10-11). His week began with 29 points, 10 rebounds and four assists in a 91-77 win vs. Missouri State. He sank 5-of-7 three-pointers in the victory. McDermott scored 18 of his points in the second half, and he¹s now scored 68 points in two meetings with MSU this season.
On Sunday, McDermott scored 17 of his game-high 25 points in the second half of a 75-58 win vs. Bradley. He made 9-of-15 shots and had the final nine points in Creighton¹s 12-0 second half run that gave the hosts a 17-point lead with less than five minutes left. The victory ensured Creighton's 14th 20-win season in the past 15 years. McDermott's big week give him a nation-best totals of 551 points and 191 field goals this season, and he's just the fourth player in Creighton history with three straight seasons of 500 or more points.
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2012's Best and Worst Airlines
WSJ's annual ranking of airlines, based on data crunched on delays, cancellations, complaints, bumped passengers and lost baggage, is in. Scott McCartney joins Lunch Break to break down the winners and losers. Photo: Getty Images.
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... I ... I'm Wendy downs welcome guests and the West Airlines last year that you have an opinion let's see if what you think matches up with what our Middle Seat columnist Scott McCartney found ... twenty crunch the data I Scott ... she alright last to say the worst in the best for just a moment we got to know what are your criteria we all have our own things annoy us about the airlines and we complain about ... you look at once ... she she ... she ... she's ... data ... collected on time results ... cancellations ... excessive delays that is one of the ways to stretch and forty five minutes or more ... of mishandled baggage of past eight years ... and complaints filed with the Department of Transportation ... mix it all together and you get a pretty good read on ... which airlines are doing well in which it airline is is ... really messed up ... glass half empty right now worse airlines ... I ... you know that you know wants to wear where American and United they've both been miserable years last year ... United actually scored lowest in our rankings um they had ... computer problems in March when they ... moved United under Continental computer systems ... um they ... had a terrible summer they try to re do the scheduling and get by with a few were on stand airplanes it all backfired ... that that that you think ... of all that ... so a very tough year that go on to its customers a couple times during the year ... Americans also in the apology business ... they never cut a mediocre the first six months of the year compared with their peers ... and then the wheels came off this fall the other is that I would dispute that really mess things up in September and October ... and even one example Christmas day in Dallas ... but an inch of rain and a half inch of snow there was some eyes but that everybody else did fine with that ... and just the wheels came off an American than a ... thousand people sleeping in the terminal to hundreds of flights canceled people didn't show up for work they can get points the least that was a huge mess ... all our choir not feeling happy that they're flying ... an American but ... not so over at Delta they did pretty well on this is a turnaround for them ... this is really pretty amazing turnaround Delta was that the bottom of our rankings in two thousand and ten ... two thousand eleven they they really did pretty well ... two thousand and twelve they ... just didn't have a car ... plant in some places a really good measure in ... flight gets canceled a really hands ... on it they had so few flight cancellations led about one half of one percent on ... really ... remarkable performance um they were at the top and ... on her or are near the top in all of our categories ... I've been talking to Delta's operations folks is that you you know we had a good year and into the eleven a great year in two thousand and twelve ... um what one example they they set their own measures against themselves they tried to exceed two thousand eleven ... they exceeded all those measures that they got to measure themselves against ... attacks Delta performance rather than the competitors is the really now so far ... overall ... this is seems to be delivered better by your criteria nearly ten per cent ... of flights on U S passenger ... planes ... arrive within fifteen minutes of this dental time that sounds pretty good how are they making these ... for a bigger improvements ... it was pretty good year ... credit ... goes to the reduced schedules airlines ... through the recession ... really curtail the bottom line they're still ... taking place at service ... read read reducing that reducing congestion has really helped ... on new technology has helped some on the new permit a big airline like Delta as has helped alot ... in the general was you know airlines are able to focus more on ... their performances gotten more competitive ... the travelers pay more attention ... to its other happen to respond to overall in the industry is doing better than it was just a couple years ago ... Scott McCartney is in the wholesale man Warren has rankings Martin Personal section thanks so much Scott ...


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WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (Sept. 13, 2009) - Led by senior Yevgeniya Stupak (Kyiv, Ukraine) and junior Tara Sheets (Gate City, Va.) the ETSU women's tennis team closed out the 17th annual William and Mary Fall Invitational on a high note with two wins at Busch Tennis Center in Williamsburg, Va.
"Overall our girls finished the tournament well," said head coach Steve Brooks. "With it being early in the season I know we have a lot to work on and over the last couple of days some of our players struggled to stay in matches because of conditioning. That being said, it was good to get the season started and now we look forward to coming back and hosting our tournament next weekend."
Playing doubles together for the first time the ETSU duo picked an 8-6 victory over Harvard's Chang and Sibilski, while Stupak closed out play with a fifth-place finish in the Flight A Singles bracket, defeating Winthrop's Elizaveta Zaytseva 6-1, 6-2.
With the victory Stupak -- the reigning 2009 Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year -- revenged a 2009 home loss to the
"I thought Tara and Yevgenyia both looked better today," said Brooks. "
The Lady Bucs return to action next weekend as ETSU host its annual Fall Classic at the Buddy Hartsell Tennis Courts in
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Ha, Barack Obama's official photographer thinks he snapped this shot of a young Vladimir Putin standing there dressed like a big old nerd, ready to meet Ronald Reagan, 21 years ago in Moscow. Conspiracy?
The photographer Pete Souza says he's sure the goofy looking dude on the left with the camera around his neck and the blond hair is Putin (more recent pic here), while he was a KGB spy. The Russians deny it and are reportedly "furious" about the emergence of this picture for some reason, maybe because it proves that Vladimir Putin was once a big fan of John Ritter?
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As medical science uncovers more information about how the brain works, a growing list of legal implications emerges relating to brain injury. The brain and its auxiliary systems are truly the control center of the body. The slightest injury, however, can result in radical shifts in a person's quality of life and ability to function normally.
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When the brain is damaged, a cloak of mystery surrounds the true nature of the injury. A great deal of caution is required. This is where advances in the medical sciences become important. More and more evidence is suggesting that alterations to the brain because of an accident can manifest in immediate functional disabilities, or lasting cognitive and psychological problems. The nature of the latter is tough to address because real symptoms sometimes do not show up until years after an accident. Yet, science is making direct links between compromised nervous and cognitive health with a previous injury.
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Denzel Washington and director Antoine Fuqua could be mounting up together again for a remake of the classic western "The Magnificent Seven."
Having previously collaborated on "Training Day" and the upcoming "The Equalizer," Washington and Fuqua are in early talks for the remake, a project that has been in the works at MGM for some time and at one point had Tom Cruise attached. The news was first reported by Schmoes Know.
John Lee Hancock ("The Blind Side") wrote the most recent draft of the script, which Nic Pizzolatto ("True Detective") previously worked on.
The original "Magnificent Seven" (1960) was directed by John Sturges and starred Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson as members of a band of gunslingers defending an oppressed town from outlaws. The film was itself a remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai."
Washington and Fuqua's first outing together, 2001's "Training Day," was a critical and box-office hit, grossing $76 million domestically and earning Washington an Oscar for lead actor.
Their upcoming thriller "The Equalizer" is scheduled to hit theaters Sept. 26, and Sony is already bullish on the movie. The studio tapped writer Richard Wenk to start work on a sequel and will no doubt seek to get Washington and Fuqua on board as well, so the "Magnificent Seven" project could face some competition.


text: No more artifacts moldering in the "Tin Shed." No more storing archives in nooks and crannies. No more driving a long, narrow, winding road to learn what Mesa Verde National Park has to offer. After decades of fundraising and lobbying, and five months after a "soft" opening, the Mesa Verde Visitor and Research Center will (host) its grand opening Thursday morning. "What we hope to accomplish is to help people plan their trip to the park, to excite them and give them lots of questions that they have to visit the park to answer," said Mesa Verde collection curator Tara Travis. "Before, especially for people who got here later in the day, they had to drive all the way up to the park to see what's here." http://bit.ly/15ZTgYA - Durango Herald


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Beautiful autumn days
I stopped to photograph these yellow maple leaves on the way home from work tonight. I've had little opportunity to get out and enjoy the beautiful weather. Autumn isn't waiting for me; the leaves are taking on their final colors and, one by one, drifting to the ground. The old maple tree in the front yard has already lost most of its leaves.
The season is changing in another sense, with the election of a new President. He's not the person I'd have preferred for the job, but he will be the leader of my country -- my President for the next four years. I will pray for him and his family. May he be blessed with the wisdom of Solomon, because he's certainly going to need it.


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Shaun White & Spencer O'Brien Win Dew Slopestyle
(December 19, 2008) Yesterdays sideways blizzard cleared out today just in time for the first ever Winter Dew Tour Slopestyle finals. There were no complaints from the riders about this course—the triple set of jumps were big and lofty and very watchable from the top and bottom.
In the men's division, Andreas Wiig was still coming back from a rolled ankle so he took it easy, opening up a usually reserved podium space for the rest of the field. Mikkel Bang stepped up and consistently flowed with great style and was a crowd favorite all day, and Janne Korpe beat out the rest of the heavy pack for third with tight, dizzying spins down the course. Shaun White was comboing up 10s and 9s all day, but in classic Shaun style, pulled out his ace card in the final round on the last jump—switch back 12 for first. Daniel Ek's double backside rodeo 10 on the last hit was a notable highlight as well.
The girls were hitting the same exact course as the guys—no ladies tees here, which made the women's event one of the best contests on record. These jumps were massive stepdowns, the first jumps of the season for some riders, and they didn't even flinch. Spencer O'Brien showed her competitive side—when it got to the finals and she saw her chance at first slipping away with Jenny Jones in first and Bev Vuilleumier in second, Spencer just sent it going back 3 to a clean, stylish back five over the big kicker. Jenny wins for consistency, stomping her run, a front 3 to back 3 to front 5 all through practice, qualifiers, and finals, while Bev went front 3 to back 3 to a surprise 7 and put it down for a fresh face on the women's slopestyle podium.
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This is just great news! Looking forward to more details about this release.
Strapping Young Lad 7xLP Box Set!Announcing news that will move entire nations. The incredibly long-overdue vinyl worship session of every bit of Strapping Young Lad's music one could ever ask for. That's right. A Strapping Young Lad 7xLP Box Set Discography. This monstrous limited edition 7xLP box set will contain *all five Strapping Young Lad full-lengths*; as well as *extra vinyl dedicated to the band's non-album material*; plus other special, newly-created gifts [yet to be announced]. The genre-busting Canadian industrial/death band has never seen their seminal albums "Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing," "SYL," nor "The New Black" touch wax before. Their other two records, "City" and "Alien," were pressed in ultra limited numbers of 500 copies only and sold out within months of their release. The massive box set is slated for a late 2012/early 2013 release.
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This is just great news! Looking forward to more details about this release.
January 18, 2012 9:48 pmPosted 6 years ago+3/-0(3)+100%/-0%
January 19, 2012 12:18 amPosted 6 years ago
Can you please detail the source materials used for these pressings?+0/-0(0)+0%/-0%
January 19, 2012 12:22 amPosted 6 years ago
Good Choice!+1/-0(1)+100%/-0%
January 19, 2012 9:39 amPosted 6 years ago
Great news! As much as I know, the master tapes for some of the Devin records got ruined in the flood some time ago but I guess you do your best Also, I hope these will be on black vinyl because they sound better than coloured vinyl (especially if most of these albums are on single LP-s:)
Thanks for doing this, guys! Cheers+1/-0(1)+100%/-0%
January 19, 2012 12:27 pmPosted 6 years ago
After the Maudlin Of The Well box set i hope to receive soon, yet another awesome package.
If you are inviting fans to help finance this package as you did for the Maudlin's box , you already have mine!+1/-0(1)+100%/-0%
January 19, 2012 4:57 pmPosted 6 years ago
OMG as soon as this goes on presale you'll have my money. Thank you for doing this!!!+1/-0(1)+100%/-0%
January 20, 2012 1:41 amPosted 6 years ago
I doubt Dev had the masters for HAARHT or City. I would expect Century Media to have them but OM, Physicist and who knows what else were likely the ones affected by the flood.
Thanks admin for the reply. Please keep us posted on the source material.+0/-0(0)+0%/-0%
January 20, 2012 7:52 amPosted 6 years ago
oh god yes! please email me when preorders start as i will buy this for sure. this is fantastic news for metal and vinyl fans everywhere!
January 20, 2012 10:38 amPosted 6 years ago
done! can't wait for this+1/-0(1)+100%/-0%
January 28, 2012 2:46 amPosted 6 years ago
This is fantastic news!
I have wanted these albums on vinyl for a very long time and this seems like the best package any SYL fan could ever wish for.
kudos, guys!+1/-0(1)+100%/-0%
March 28, 2012 7:50 amPosted 6 years ago
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Not to be confused with switching iPhones and iPads to Intel-powered chipsets, Apple is rumored to have been in discussions to have their existing iOS device chipsets manufactured by Intel's industry leading foundries. Noel Randewich and Nadia Damouni of Reuters report:
Intel said last week it will open up its prized manufacturing technology to make chips designed by fellow chipmaker Altera -- snagging its first sizeable customer in a contract manufacturing, or "foundry", business expected to grow.
That has spurred talk of an Apple deal. A source close to one of the companies says Intel and Apple executives have discussed the issue in the past year but no agreement has been reached.
Previously, Intel manufactured only their own chipsets. While Reuters says no deal has yet been made, the advantages of switching to Intel are several. First, it removes Samsung, now a major rival, from Apple's chip manufacturing chain. Not only funding, but giving access to a company that's shown no hesitation to take inspiration from Apple in the past is a growing competitive disadvantage. Second, Intel remains the most advanced chip fab in the world, and will likely be able to take Apple to smaller die sizes faster than anyone else, allowing for more power efficient processors earlier.
Apple's size, and their tendency to order huge volumes of the same or similar components, makes them attractive clients, but also helps Apple enjoy tremendous economies of scale.
An Apple/Intel fab deal, if it ever comes to pass, could be a huge win for everyone. Apple gets better chips, Intel gets more diverse revenue, we get more advanced iPhones and iPads, and Samsung gets to turn all that foundry capacity towards making more Galaxy chips.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Manufacturers in the New York region said business worsened in early December, according to a report released Monday that shows the difficult time for factories after Hurricane Sandy.
The Empire State index fell to negative 8.1, a drop from the negative 5.2 seen in November, indicating the downturn broadened to touch more firms in the New York Fed's latest survey.
Tampa, Charlotte among gainers.
• U.S. homeownership at 18-year low
It marked the fifth month in a row that the index has been in negative territory. Readings below zero indicate activity is declining.
In December, 23% of firms said business got worse, while 15% said business improved.
The drop in the index came as a surprise. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch expected the headline index to rise to 5.2 as activity recovered in the aftermath of regional disruptions caused by Hurricane Sandy.
Despite the weak data, stocks opened higher, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.14% up 42 points to 13,177. Analysts said the gain was due to growing optimism that Congress and the White House will reach a budget deal to avert the fiscal cliff.Read Market Snapshot.
According to the report, manufacturers in the parts of the region hit by Sandy estimated that revenues in October were 7% lower than otherwise would have been and 5% lower in November. Read the full survey.
The Empire State data are watched closely because they are the first regional reading of the health of the nation's manufacturing sector. Similar factories data for the Philadelphia region are due later this week.
Both reports are diffusion indexes where readings above zero indicate more respondents saw improvement during the month.
The report "shows that the economy is still struggling under the weight of excess inventory and limited demand," said Steve Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities.
Thomas Simons, economist with Jefferies & Co, said that "global growth concerns have combined with slowing business confidence due to the fiscal cliff to stifle the [factory] sector, which had been a leader in the economic recovery since the early days.
Details also weak
The details of December's Empire State report were also weak.
The new-orders index slipped back to a negative 3.7, a reversal after having posted a positive reading in November.
The shipments indexes fell to 8.8 in December from 14.6 in the prior month.
The index for the number of employees stayed in negative territory, standing at negative 9.7 in December from a negative 14.6 previously.
On a modestly positive note, expectations of activity in the next six months were slightly more optimistic. Still, they stayed well below levels seen earlier this year.
The future general business conditions index reached 18.7, up from 12.9 in November.


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World of The Boomerang
Across the continents and time.
Aboriginal man Combo of Bogan River 1836
Photographer: Reproduction © Courtesy of the Research Library, Australian Museum
Think of Australia and a boomerang may well come to mind as one of the country's most unique and distinctive emblems. In the shorthand of our memories the boomerang is as Australian as the kangaroo, koala or Vegemite. No-one was surprised to see Australia's 2000 Olympics logo featuring boomerangs.
More surprising, for some, is the fact that boomerangs were used for many thousands of years in other parts of the world as well. A wooden boomerang found by archaeologists in Little Salt Spring in Florida, USA, was broken and discarded by its owner some 9,000 years ago. In the 1986 excavation of a limestone cave in southern Poland, a complete boomerang, beautifully carved from mammoth tusk and about 23,000 years old, was recovered (see reference). Remember, Central Europe was then in the grip of the last Ice Age with a climate similar to northern Siberia or the north of Canada today. Trees were absent and people used bones and tusks of animals to make their tools, implements and weapons.
Few of us associate the boomerang with ancient Egypt in Northern Africa or Sumer at the head of the Persian Gulf. Yet the boomerang was used in these countries. The Sumerians, who invented the first writing system, had the graphic symbol for such an object some three thousand years before Christ was born. In 624 the Isidore of Sevilla, Archbishop and Christian scholar of late antiquity, wrote about boomerangs used at that time around the Mediterranean Sea and possibly in southern Europe. In fact, the boomerang was known outside Australia at least until the nineteenth century. The Hopi people of Arizona, USA hunted rabbits with it. The Indian boomerang, known as valai tadis, was used in several areas of the Subcontinent for hunting hares, deer and partridges. It was also used as a weapon of war.
P. Valde-Nowak, A. Nadachowski & M. Wolsan, Upper Palaeolithic boomerang made of a mammoth tusk in south Poland, Nature 329 1987, 436 - 438
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Jamaica question waiting time after Usain Bolt pulls up injured in final race
Furious Yohan Blake hit out at organisers after Usain Bolt's dramatic final race at the World Championships.
Eight-time Olympic champion Bolt sensationally pulled up injured with 50 metres to go of the 4×100 metres relay and fell to the track with Great Britain taking gold just ahead of the USA and Japan.
The race started 10 minutes later than scheduled with two medal ceremonies for the 5,000m – with Sir Mo Farah getting his silver medal – and the high jump taking place before.
The Jamaicans were expected to be amongst the medals
Bolt's sudden injury ended his career in sorry style after he planned to retire from the track following the championships, having already won bronze in the 100m last weekend.
And Blake, who won Olympic 4x100m relay gold with Bolt and Jamaica in 2012 and 2016, believes the lengthy build-up caused Bolt's injury in London on Saturday night.
"I think they were holding us too long in the call room. The walk was too long. Usain was really cold. In fact Usain said to me, 'Yohan, I think this is crazy'," said the 100m world champion from 2011.
"It was 40 minutes and two medal presentations before our run. We keep warming up and waiting, then warming up and waiting. I think it got the better of us.
"We were over warm. And to see a true legend, a true champion go out there and struggling like that…
This is not the image Usain Bolt wanted to end his career with (Adam Davy/PA)
"The race was 10 minutes late, we were kept 40 minutes and it was a 300 metre walk. It was crazy."
Team-mate Omar McLeod echoed Blake and criticised the organisation with his heart going out to Bolt.
He said: "It's heart-wrenching. I gave it my all and I really wanted Usain to leave golden, or even if it was just a medal, it was really heart-wrenching.
"I couldn't believe it, I'm in shock, utter disbelief.
"It was ridiculous, man. We were there around 45 minutes waiting outside, I think they had three medal ceremonies before we went out so we were really trying our hardest to stay warm and keep upbeat.
"But it was ridiculous. We waited a really long time. I drank like two bottles of water."
Usain Bolt finished his career with eight Olympic gold medals (Yui Mok/PA)
Team-mate Julian Forte, running in his first World Championships, added: "I really wanted to be a part of the team that sends Usain off in style. Unfortunately it's one of those things, it's part of sport.
"They kept us in the call room for an extremely long time in our running kits, and it's not the warmest over here and they had us around there for quite a while, so I think they really need to look into that and do something about it.
"We were excited, we were ready, we had been doing some hand offs and everybody was feeling good, but they kept us hanging around for a long time, you know. So it's just really crazy."
Dr Kevin Jones, Jamaica's team doctor, confirmed Bolt's injury.
He said: "It's cramp in his left hamstring but a lot of pain is from disappointment from losing the race. The last three weeks have been hard for him, you know. We hope for the best for him."
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The second annual student essay contest sponsored by Syngenta Crop Protection and Farm Press Publications is upping the ante and expanding into more states.
The Future of Southern Agriculture Student Essay Contest is now offering a total of $20,000 in scholarship awards to winning entries. Four prizes will be awarded with two $6,000 winners and two $4,000 winners. In addition, the contest will expand to now include 11 universities from the Southeast, Mid-South and Texas.
Participating universities have been divided into two regions — Southeast and Delta/Southwest. One undergraduate essay and one graduate essay from each region will advance to the national final. Of the four finalists, the undergraduate essay and the graduate essay writers with the highest cumulative score will be awarded $6,000, and the runners up will each receive $4,000.
Michael Boden, head of the Syngenta Southern Field Crops business unit, said Syngenta "is pleased to be a sponsor of the Future of Southern Ag Student Essay Contest. We are committed to the southern agricultural industry and its future success, and additionally, we support and promote education of students with links to the industry.
"It is our goal to build on the momentum established last year with the Future of Delta Cotton Student Essay Contest. We are asking students to share their vision of the future of southern agriculture and what steps should be taken now to turn this vision into reality.
"We encourage all graduate and undergraduate students at the eligible universities across the southern region to visit the Future of Southern Ag Web site for more information and to submit their essay online."
"We are proud to be a sponsor of the Future of Southern Agriculture Student Essay Contest," added Farm Press Editor Elton Robinson. "Asking students to share their ideas is a novel way to identify new perspectives and create debate that could help shape the future of southern agriculture."
To enter, submit an essay of 750 to 1,000 words on the following subject: By 2050, the world's population is expected to increase to more than 9 billion, up from the estimated 6.7 billion as of January 2009. Taking into account commodity price fluctuations and variable input prices, what is the best agricultural business model to deal with this environment? How can the U.S. Southern farmer continue to compete in the export markets and/or against foreign imports to sustain agriculture as a viable business? What processes should be put into place to ensure the safety, quality and availability of U.S. food, feed and fiber production?
All undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled for the spring 2009 semester at Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University, University of Arkansas, University of Tennessee, University of Missouri, Texas A&M University, Auburn University, University of Georgia, Clemson University, Virginia Tech University and North Carolina State University are eligible to apply.
Essays and entry forms must be submitted electronically. For complete information on the contest go to Future of Southern Ag.
For a list of grand prize and honorary prize winners, check the site after Aug. 15.
Essays are being accepted online now through April 15, 11:59 p.m. CST. Judging will take place May through early July, and winners will be determined in late July. Judges will include Farm Press editors Elton Robinson, Delta Farm Press, Paul Hollis of Southeast Farm Press, Ron Smith with Southwest Farm Press and other industry experts.


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Jobless Wayne Hudson got through £2,294 in six-hours after being handed a bank card stolen from a car parked on the drive of a Chesterfield house.
Derby Crown Court heard this month how at 4.17am on June 28, he withdrew £100 from a cashpoint outside a Co-op store and took £200 a minute later.
He helped himself to £200, £100 and £50 from another machine on Hasland Road, according to the court, before ending up at a cashpoint outside a third shop, taking out £50 at 9.06am.
Hudson, 33, of Springfield Road, Bolsover, used the card to buy clothing before going to a sports shop, Derby Crown Court heard.
Lisa Hardy, prosecuting, said: "He bought some very expensive trainers. The total loss was £2,294."
Anti-crime cameras filmed him wearing some of his new clothes, the court heard.
He was arrested and on October 7 he went on to his family's home and stole his mother and brother's bus passes.
He admitted theft of bus passes, receiving a stolen bank card and making an illegal, false representation by using it. Hudson has 25 previous convictions and was jailed for a year.
Mrs Annette Thomas, mitigating, said Hudson had a previous drug habit and does not think about the significance of his actions.
Judge Jonathan Gosling told Hudson: "You committed a raft of offences on bail."
The court heard the bank card had been in a car with the pin number before it was stolen.


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This poor fellow was rescued from one of the Dublin pounds just before Christmas. He went to a new home after that, but that didn't work out -- the classic case of a family getting a dog for the child and not really having thought through the overall picture. Poor Louie had gone from pillar to post, and no one had ever taken any time to train him (he didn't even know sit, and pulls hard on the lead, though he's only about three :cry: ). So his situation was suddenly very urgent as the second family didn't want him any more. I'd considered taking him since my folks are seeking a cavalier, but he'd have been more than my parents could handle, I decided with some reluctance, and with me in the middle of a move, it was the wrong time to take in a dog that needed calm and some training. I knew though that he'd find a home without too much difficulty -- he's very handsome, with lovely markings, and very sweet with people and other dogs; he just needs a gentle, firm hand and some stability in his poor life.
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Microsoft Corp v Commission
|Microsoft v. Commission
|Submitted 7 June 2004
Decided 17 September 2007
|Full case name
|Microsoft Corp. v Commission of the European Communities
|Case number
|Case Type
|Action for annulment, Appeal against penalty
|Grand chamber
|Nationality of parties
|United States
|Court composition
Microsoft Corp v Commission (2007) T-201/04 is a case brought by the European Commission of the European Union (EU) against Microsoft for abuse of its dominant position in the market (according to competition law). It started as a complaint from Sun Microsystems over Microsoft's licensing practices in 1993, and eventually resulted in the EU ordering Microsoft to divulge certain information about its server products and release a version of Microsoft Windows without Windows Media Player. Also, the European Commission especially focused on the interoperability issue.[1]
In 1993, Novell claimed that Microsoft was blocking its competitors out of the market through anti-competitive practices. The complaint centered on the license practices at the time which required royalties from each computer sold by a supplier of Microsoft's operating system, whether or not the unit actually contained the Windows operating system. Microsoft reached a settlement in 1994, ending some of its license practices.[2]
In 1998, Sun Microsystems raised a complaint about the lack of disclosure of some of the interfaces to Windows NT. The case widened when the EU examined how streaming media technologies were integrated with Windows.[3]
Citing ongoing abuse by Microsoft, the EU reached a preliminary decision in the case in 2003 and ordered the company to offer both a version of Windows without Windows Media Player and the information necessary for competing networking software to interact fully with Windows desktops and servers.[4] In March 2004, the EU ordered Microsoft to pay €497 million ($794 million or £381 million), the largest fine ever handed out by the EU at the time, in addition to the previous penalties, which included 120 days to divulge the server information and 90 days to produce a version of Windows without Windows Media Player.[5][6][7]
The next month Microsoft released a paper containing scathing commentary on the ruling including: "The commission is seeking to make new law that will have an adverse impact on intellectual property rights and the ability of dominant firms to innovate."[8] Microsoft paid the fine in full in July 2004.[9]
In 2004, Neelie Kroes was appointed the European Commissioner for Competition; one of her first tasks was to oversee the fining brought onto Microsoft. Kroes has stated she believes open standards and open source are preferable to anything proprietary:[10]
|The Commission must do its part.....It must not rely on one vendor, it must not accept closed standards, and it must refuse to become locked into a particular technology – jeopardizing maintenance of full control over the information in its possession
Microsoft has a compliant version of its flagship operating system without Windows Media Player available under the negotiated name "Windows XP N."[11] In response to the server information requirement, Microsoft released the source code, but not the specifications, to Windows Server 2003 service pack 1 to members of its Work Group Server Protocol Program (WSPP) on the day of the original deadline.[12] Microsoft also appealed the case, and the EU had a week-long hearing over it. Neelie Kroes stated:[13]
|Microsoft has claimed that its obligations in the decision are not clear, or that the obligations have changed. I cannot accept this characterization--Microsoft's obligations are clearly outlined in the 2004 decision and have remained constant since then.
Indeed, the monitoring trustee appointed in October 2005, from a shortlist put forward by Microsoft, believes that the decision clearly outlines what Microsoft is required to do. I must say that I find it difficult to imagine that a company like Microsoft does not understand the principles of how to document protocols in order to achieve interoperability.
Microsoft stated in June 2006 that it had begun to provide the EU with the requested information, but according to the BBC the EU stated that it was too late.[14]
On 12 July 2006, the EU fined Microsoft for an additional €280.5 million (US$448.58 million), €1.5 million (US$2.39 million) per day from 16 December 2005 to 20 June 2006. The EU threatened to increase the fine to €3 million ($4.81 million) per day on 31 July 2006 if Microsoft did not comply by then.[15]
On 17 September 2007, Microsoft lost their appeal against the European Commission's case. The €497 million fine was upheld, as were the requirements regarding server interoperability information and bundling of Media Player. In addition, Microsoft has to pay 80% of the legal costs of the Commission, while the Commission has to pay 20% of the legal costs by Microsoft. However, the appeal court rejected the Commission ruling that an independent monitoring trustee should have unlimited access to internal company organization in the future.[16][17] On 22 October 2007, Microsoft announced that it would comply and not appeal the decision any more,[18] and Microsoft did not appeal within the required two months as of 17 November 2007.[19]
Microsoft announced that it will demand 0.4% of the revenue (rather than 5.95%) in patent-licensing royalties, only from commercial vendors of interoperable software and promised not to seek patent royalties from individual open source developers. The interoperability information alone is available for a one-time fee of €10,000 (US$15,992).[20]
On 27 February 2008, the EU fined Microsoft an additional €899 million (US$1.44 billion) for failure to comply with the March 2004 antitrust decision. This represented the largest penalty ever imposed in 50 years of EU competition policy until 2009, when the European Commission fined Intel €1.06 billion ($1.45 billion) for anti-competitive behaviour.[21] This latest decision follows a prior €280.5 million fine for non-compliance, covering the period from 21 June 2006 until 21 October 2007.[22] On 9 May 2008, Microsoft lodged an appeal in the European Court of First Instance seeking to overturn the €899 million fine, officially stating that it intended to use the action as a "constructive effort to seek clarity from the court".[23]
In its 2008 Annual Report Microsoft stated:[24]
|The European Commission closely scrutinizes the design of high-volume Microsoft products and the terms on which we make certain technologies used in these products, such as file formats, programming interfaces, and protocols, available to other companies. In 2004, the Commission ordered us to create new versions of Windows that do not include certain multimedia technologies and to provide our competitors with specifications for how to implement certain proprietary Windows communications protocols in their own products. The Commission's impact on product design may limit our ability to innovate in Windows or other products in the future, diminish the developer appeal of the Windows platform, and increase our product development costs. The availability of licenses related to protocols and file formats may enable competitors to develop software products that better mimic the functionality of our own products which could result in decreased sales of our products.
On 27 June 2012, the General Court upheld the fine, but reduced it from €899 million to €860 million. The difference was due to a "miscalculation" by the European Commission. The commission's decision to fine Microsoft was not challenged by the court, saying the company had blocked fair access to its markets.[25] E.U. competition commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, has said that such fines may not be effective in preventing anti-competitive behavior and that the commission now preferred to seek settlements that restrict businesses' plans instead. As such, 'The New York Times called the Microsoft decision "a decision that could mark the end of an era in antitrust law in which regulators used big fines to bring technology giants to heel."[25]
A spokesperson for Microsoft said the company was "disappointed with the court's ruling" and felt the company had "resolved [the commissions'] competition law concerns" in 2009, making the fine unnecessary.[25] He declined to say whether Microsoft would file an appeal or not. Almunia called the ruling a vindication of the crackdown on Microsoft and warned "The judgment confirms that the imposition of such penalty payments remains an important tool at the commission's disposal."[25] He also claimed that the commission's actions against Microsoft had allowed "a range of innovative products that would otherwise not have seen the light of day" to reach the market.[26]
The fines will not be distributed to the companies that lost income due to Microsoft practices. The money paid in fines to the European Court goes back into the EU budget.[27]
Related investigations
In May 2008, the EU announced it is going to investigate Microsoft Office's OpenDocument format support.[28]
In January 2009, the European Commission announced it would investigate the bundling of Internet Explorer with Windows operating systems from Microsoft, saying "Microsoft's tying of Internet Explorer to the Windows operating system harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice."[29][30] In response, Microsoft announced that it would not bundle Internet Explorer with Windows 7 E, the version of Windows 7 to be sold in Europe.[31][32][33][34][35][36]
On 16 December 2009, the European Union agreed to allow competing browsers, with Microsoft providing a "ballot box" screen letting users choose one of twelve popular products listed in random order.[37] The twelve browsers were Avant, Chrome, Firefox, Flock, GreenBrowser, Internet Explorer, K-Meleon, Maxthon, Opera, Safari, Sleipnir, and Slim[38] which are accessible via BrowserChoice.eu. The automatic nature of the BrowserChoice.eu feature was dropped in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 in February 2011 and remained absent for 14 months despite Microsoft reporting that it was still present, subsequently described by Microsoft as a "technical error". As a result, in March 2013 the European Commission fined Microsoft €561 million to deter companies from reneging on settlement promises.[39]
- ↑ http://leconcurrentialiste.com/2014/02/10/the-microsoft-case-by-the-numbers-comparison-between-u-s-and-e-u/
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This story appears in the July 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Everyone in Russia has a dacha story. It may be a trace of childhood memory like playing ball late into evening by grace of a sun that won't set, gathering pinecones to perfume the samovar fire, or swimming in an icy pond rimmed by the green spires of spruce.
It may be quietly romantic—a first love that fades with the season or blossoms into marriage. Or a narrative that is poignant, even redemptive. An older woman tells of coming home from work to find her husband in bed with her best friend. She kicked him out and, with retirement looming and no husband, wondered, What will I do now? The answer was the dacha she bought for 500 rubles, with a forest nearby for mushroom hunting, a lake, and a garden. "The dacha saved my life," she says.
The story may be wreathed in sorrow, refracted through the lens of Russia's tragic history. After Natalia Ivanova's grandmother, a young widow with two children, remarried, her new husband bought a dacha outside Moscow. When he disappeared in a Stalinist labor camp, she stayed at the dacha for the rest of her life. "She never sowed anything, even flowers—only grass, which became thicker and thicker," remembers Natalia, a Moscow writer and editor. "A childhood photograph shows it reaching well above my head."
Sweet or bitter, lighthearted or dark, the story always takes place in summer. A dacha, after all, is a summer cottage.
Boris Veshnyakov has dacha stories too. They are muscular, with overtones of swagger. Once he confronted a group of teenagers who were drinking and blasting boomboxes in his dacha community near Valday, a town in northwest Russia. "I picked a couple of them up and dunked them in the lake. Physical force is the only language they understand." Another time, a beefy lout, flouting dacha decorum, let his dog swim in the lake. "I called over my son-in-law, the wrestler. End of problem."
When Boris isn't at the dacha, he's driving a cab. One day while speeding down a road, he pointed out a pit where dachniks from big cities open their car doors and fling their garbage. "That's how it is in Russia today," he groused. But Boris had a plan. He was going to set a camera trap to catch offenders.
Until then, Boris, a 63-year-old man with ice-blue eyes, a belly with the contours of an ingested basketball, and an array of short-sleeve shirts with tropical prints more typical of Maui than Moscow, was just Boris the cabdriver to me. Then I discovered his other identity. He was also Chairman Boris, the put-upon leader of Nertsy, a community of a thousand-odd dachas in Valday.
Boris's kingdom, the realm of the dacha, is a Russian phenomenon. One out of three Russians owns a dacha. In the Moscow region, where there are some one million dachas, Friday night marks the onset of dacha rush hour, in which the laws of inertia decree that a car at rest in dacha traffic stays at rest for a very long time.
The dacha has threaded its way through Russian culture ever since Peter the Great handed out land on the outskirts of St. Petersburg to courtiers. ("Dacha" is derived from the Russian verb "to give.") The dacha is the stage upon which the drama (or comedy) of Russian summer unfolds. Summer in Russia is precious and brief; winter, interminable. The growing season in the taiga around St. Petersburg is a short four months. In western Europe it stretches eight months or more. A fifth of Russia is above the Arctic Circle. More than half is underlain by permafrost. The advent of spring, then summer, is a fairy tale of sorts. The soil thaws, as does the soul.
A dacha community is Russia abridged, with its stories of love, loss, and suffering; frictions; conflicting narratives in which everyone seems to have the True Story but no one really does; free-flowing vodka; and opportunities for corruption. (Municipalities grab property illegally and sell it to developers for dacha subdivisions.) It's a place to brood, ponder life, party, cherish the company of family and friends, and more recently it's become a badge of conspicuous, over-the-top consumption for Russia's new money. The dacha is a litmus test for changing Russian values and a celebration of those that stay the same.
Boris's dacha, like most in Valday, is a garden plot with a cabin. Such plots, originally six sotkas (.15 acre), date back to Soviet-era land distribution programs that allowed Russians to endure postwar food shortages made worse by the disaster of centrally planned agriculture. With privatization in 1990, owners could buy land and expand beyond six sotkas, but the landscape remains a mishmash of shoulder-to-shoulder dwellings. Decor tends to out-of-date calendars, mismatched crockery, paintings of bears in the forest, and lace curtains hanging in doorways to defend against mosquitoes.
On the other end of the spectrum are kottedzhy (cottages), the name for the wannabe castles built by New Russians, postcommunism's superspenders. Many communities of steroidal cottages—there are 500 around Moscow—have elbowed aside traditional dachas and sometimes become primary residences. "Oligarchs go to the Loire, see castles, and say: I need one of those," Konstantin Kovalyov-Sluchevskiy, a local historian, says dryly. Interiors tend to early Las Vegas: marble columns that hold up nothing, gilt thick as a call girl's mascara. On the outside are high stone or brick walls, sometimes with slits, as if to allow archers to shoot burning arrows at any peasant foolish enough to attempt a breach. "Their owners have not developed a soul," Konstantin observes sadly.
Valday doesn't have many over-the-top kottedzhy, but it does have a dacha used by Russia's President Vladimir Putin, who drops in from time to time by helicopter. Boris insists that when Putin visits, scuba divers patrol the lake in front of the compound, which has a Turkish bath, a Russian banya, a Chinese teahouse, and a Finnish sauna. It might be true; then again, it might not. It isn't easy to know when to take Boris—who believes in angels but has a tattoo of a devil playing guitar on his left shoulder—seriously.
The pride of Valday (population 16,000) is its 390,000-acre national park. The terrain, a slow roll of birch-covered hills dotted by 200 lakes, overlies a watershed that sources two great rivers: the Dnieper and the Volga. Cool, green, quiet, it is an idyllic refuge from the heat of the city. In summer the population doubles, according to an informal census based on bread sales.
Though it is only about 225 miles from Moscow to the south and 180 miles from St. Petersburg to the north, the two cities might as well be on the moon as far as Valday is concerned. Big-city dachniks are regarded as an alien species best avoided, in the way that one tries not to brush against stinging nettles in the forest. Though I suspect he is mistaken, Boris insists that only city folk trash their surroundings; locals would never be so remiss.
It's a cultural divide, says Maxim Semyonov, editor of Valday's weekly. "Our village past is still present. Our first multistory building went up only 40 years ago." City folk, Maxim explains, consider the dacha a place to relax. "In Valday a dacha is about hard work and serious gardening." Nadezhda Yakovleva, a soft-spoken woman with delicate features who runs the local museum, provides more evidence. She points to an 1839 photograph of Muscovites picnicking in Valday. "With French wine and sandwiches," she says in pitying tones. The habits and attitudes of modern-day Muscovites are no better, she implies. "They don't eat healthy. They lie in hammocks and don't worry about bad weather like us. In their kitchen garden, called a supermarket, there will always be crops."
In Boris's community of Nertsy about 30 percent of the thousand dachas are owned by people from St. Petersburg or Moscow. "They have generators and pumps," says Raisa Stepanova, a retired bookkeeper, with a tinge of envy. She has neither. A dacha with no running water or electricity is the rule. Raisa's small wood dacha, painted three different shades of yellow, stands next to a birch tree. Rather it leans on the tree as if for support. There's an outdoor privy in back.
A word about the dacha dress code in Valday: Women favor two-piece bathing suits with a faded '50s look or cotton housedresses. For men: Speedos, sometimes paired with rubber boots. (Why do Russian men wear Speedos? "I don't know, but it is truly Russian," says Melissa Caldwell, a social anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz. "I once almost had to burn my eyes after walking through a park in St. Petersburg and encountering what seemed like thousands of middle-aged men sunbathing in their Speedos.")
Nina Marmashevya, Raisa's best summer friend, joins us for green schi, a summer soup made with sorrel. Nina, a sturdy woman with hair the color of paprika, does not so much hug as crush me against her bosom. Small glasses appear on the table. Raisa fills them with homemade brandy. Soon the women are pleasantly tipsy, and Nina wanders over to Raisa's garden and starts picking potato beetles off leaves.
It is hard to say if Raisa's garden represents a labor of love or love of labor. Raisa, who is 68, makes fertilizer from compost, waters plants by hand with buckets from a well, and lugs her harvest home in shopping bags on the bus. At the end of summer she has more than 200 jars of preserves to see her through winter. "Each year I say that's it, I am not planting. But then in spring I do."
"So why not taper off?" I suggest. "It doesn't seem terribly relaxing."
"It's relaxing to me," Raisa says.
But a dacha means different things to different generations. Recently her daughter, who has two kids, bought a house in the city. "She is struggling," Raisa says. "I offered to sell my dacha to help her out."
"No, you can't sell it," her daughter said firmly. "At least I can still come here with the kids and go swimming."
Valday is where Joseph Stalin had a secret dacha he probably never used. One story says the paranoid dictator took one look at the dacha —known as Object No. 201—at the end of a solitary road at the end of a peninsula and said something like: I'm never staying in that mousetrap. But Valday historian Galina Zimina suggests that Stalin, who had 20 other dachas around the Soviet Union, just never got around to it. "We'll know when they release more of Stalin's archives," she says.
In 1935 Stalin ordered the creation of a dacha colony for writers in Peredelkino, outside of Moscow. In Soviet times political and cultural elites were rewarded with country homes. Artists, party bosses, even cosmonauts, had their own summer compounds. The dacha was the carrot to the stick of the gulag. "Peredelkino was Stalin's way of keeping writers under control," says Konstantin, the historian. "He could keep an eye on them in one place."
In his study on the second floor of his dacha, in the green shade of Peredelkino, Boris Pasternak wrote Doctor Zhivago, the novel that won him the Nobel Prize in 1958. He accepted. "Proud, astonished, abashed," he wrote the Swedish Academy. The Soviet state thought otherwise. A vicious campaign against him, the possibility of exile, the threat to family (secret police surrounded his dacha) forced him to retract. One can only imagine his pain. At Peredelkino he would tend his garden, bent over, covered with dirt. "The natural world revived him," says the dacha's curator, Irina Samokhina. His tweed cap, plaid scarf, and black overcoat still hang on the wall, as if he had just returned from a walk. Pasternak loved striding across the fields near his dacha, especially the one that led to the church where he prayed. Today the field is covered in newly constructed kottedzhy.
"Nertsy is not a collection of dachas," Chairman Boris tells me as I sit on the deck of his dacha admiring the lake view. His sister-in-law, who has been drying garlic, brings us a plate of fried fish, sliced cucumbers, and potatoes sprinkled with dill from the garden. There is no such thing as an unfed guest in a Russian dacha.
"It's family," he says. "When my neighbor grieves, I grieve. When I am joyful, so is he." He repeats a common refrain: "There is no conflict. Everyone gets along." True enough, though small irritations that abrade goodwill between neighbors seep out like water from a slowly dripping faucet. Nertsy, unlike the fortress dachas of Moscow suburbs, is a no- or low-fence community, but property lines still matter. Woe to the dachnik whose cucumber vines stray an inch onto public space or an adjacent holding.
A slight chill descends when discussion turns to Katya, a neighbor of Raisa Stepanova's. Katya lives near the path leading to Lake Nertsy. "Her garden keeps edging closer to the lake," Raisa complains. "If her plants get trampled, she has only herself to blame." Scratch a disagreement, and you'll find a boundary issue. When arbitration is required, Boris appears with a survey pole to map the parameters of the dispute.
The penalty for infractions?
"A fine," says Boris. "But just try and find the person to pay the fine." His face darkens. Boris would like someone else to take over the unpaid post of chairman. But no one wants the job.
The soil is sacred, almost mystical to Russians, a legacy of pagan beliefs and peasant tradition. "The religion of the soil," philosopher Nikolay Berdyayev called it. A dacha provides the opportunity to dig in that soil and be close to nature. "By the end of the day I am tired and stressed," a Valday woman tells me. "I go to the garden, touch the ground, and bad things go away."
In July the soil yields cucumbers and feathery dill, also squash, peas, and green onions. July is for berries: black, red, and white currants; blueberries; blackberries; raspberries; gooseberries; and delicately perfumed wild strawberries, which, even more than the resinous astringency of pine, is the smell of summer. August brings mushrooms (a light rain is known as a "mushroom rain"): the prized beliy, or white mushroom, and boletes that grow near birch trees and can be dried. Also potatoes—always potatoes. A Valday garden is unthinkable without them, although they cost less to buy than grow.
Galina Yertseva, an economist for the town, grows potatoes along with her two sons' families and her in-laws. "Why? It's in the blood," she says. Perhaps, I suggest, it's a genetic memory associated with times of famine, like after World War II, when people picked over fields for rotten potatoes to mix with weeds to make flour. Galina agrees. Her six-year-old granddaughter is playing in the garden. I ask if she has any aptitude for growing potatoes. "Hardly," Galina answers.
The work of growing food may be an instinct passed on from generations that knew hardship, but a younger generation with no such memory or interest is stepping into place. "Given a good enough economy, I think in the future the dacha will be purely for investment and entertainment and not a source of food," says researcher Tatyana Nefedova of the Institute of Geography in Moscow. As the dacha shifts from the Soviet-era ideal place for dutiful toil to a retreat for the sheer fun of it, the decorative replaces the practical: flowers instead of potatoes, plaster gnomes instead of onions.
In Soviet times the dacha also was a respite from the communal apartment. In a world where the word "private" was missing from the dictionary and a drape served as a wall, the dacha provided room to breathe and escape from watchful eyes. "A dacha has no address," Konstantin says. "In detective movies the criminal always hid out in a dacha where he could not be found. A dacha was freedom."
Now that the Iron Curtain has been lifted and Russians can come and go as they please, there is a wider world beyond the dacha. In 2011 three times as many Russians traveled abroad for summer vacation as in 1997. "When our daughter was little she came to the dacha," says Tatyana. "Now she prefers Croatia." "Visiting is good, but home is better," a Russian proverb avers. Sometimes we need distance to appreciate what is near at hand. Will a more affluent and worldly generation of young Russians buy into that thought and cherish the homely dachas of their parents? Naturally, Boris, from his summit view at Nertsy, has a story about that too.
One day his 30-year-old daughter, Vladislava, came home to visit after a trip abroad. "She travels everywhere," Boris says. "Egypt, Italy, Turkey." This time, Vladislava, who works in advertising and lives in St. Petersburg, had gone to comfortable, orderly Switzerland. But Vladislava had had her fill of Swiss perfection. Now she longed for the familiar warmth of cobbled-together, unruly Nertsy. She sat on the deck of the family dacha and gazed at the calm, green oval of Lake Nertsy. Sunbathers stretched out on half-sunken docks splintered by winter ice. Water lilies floated like tiny yellow coronets. "Lake Geneva," she said airily. "It's just a pond."


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- 1 1/4 cups shredded potatoes, found in the grocery refrigerator section
- 1 teaspoon sea salt, divided
- 4 tablespoons butter, divided and melted
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1 pound sweet Italian sausage
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 cup red bell pepper, diced
- 1 large or 2 small scallions and tops, chopped into rounds
- 4 large eggs, certainly free-range if available
- 1 1/2 cups half and half
- 1 tablespoon instant potato flakes
- 1/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg (fresh is always better)
- generous 1 cup grated Jarlsberg or good quality Swiss cheese
- paprika
Preheat oven to 390 degrees F. Grease a straight-sided 8 inch round baking dish*(see note below). Mix the shredded potatoes with 1 tablespoon melted butter, 1/2 teaspoon salt and the Parmesan cheese. Press into the bottom of the round baking dish. Bake for 35-45 minutes (or longer) until the potatoes start to brown. Remove from oven. ~
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Yield: 5-6 pieces of quiche.


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The Toy Industry Foundation (TIF) is seeking toys for infants, toddlers, and teens for an early fall toy distribution at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia. Held in cooperation with Boys & Girls Clubs of America Military Services, the foundation's giveaway, scheduled for September 18, will reach an estimated 500 kids living at the base.
Toys for the Langley Air Force Base distribution are being accepted through September 2. Companies are encouraged to complete a product donation form and send it to firstname.lastname@example.com or via fax to (212) 675-1328, or to contribute funds to this cause. Donors will receive a supporter badge to place on their own website.
Additional information can be found at www.thetoybank.org, and questions may be directed to Elizabeth Max, foundation program manager.


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'DeisBikes was developed by students
Now that spring is here, it's the perfect time to take advantage of 'DeisBikes, Brandeis' new bicycle-sharing program. It was created by a group of students from professor Laura Goldin's Greening the Campus and Community class, as a way to offer the campus community an eco-friendly, alternative means of transportation.
"This is the first time there's been anything like this at Brandeis," said Susan Paykin '11, one of 'DeisBikes' founders, during the program's launch event in March. "People are so excited. I've talked to a lot of students who have told me they have a bike at home that they ride all the time, but for students who live on campus, this is not the most convenient place to have a bike. This is going to make it so much easier to continue riding here."
After receiving funding for the project from the Student Union, Paykin and her classmates purchased used bicycles, and had a local bicycle repair shop tune them up.
Professor Laura Goldin said the bicycle rental program is emblematic of what she hopes all students take away from Greening the Campus and Community. "What the students learn in class is not just how to design a good project and how to address the natural resource demand issue," Goldin said, "but they also figure out how to design a project that can work and is realistic. And the students in this case deserve real credit because they were able to carry this project forward, develop support, and make it happen."
Anyone who is interested in renting one of 'DeisBikes' 12 bicycles can sign up at the Shapiro Campus Center. The daylong rental is free, but there is a charge if a bicycle is returned late or damaged beyond typical wear and tear. Helmets are also available.
'DeisBikes is sponsored by the Brandeis Student Union, Greening the Campus and Community course, Department of Student Activities, and the Campus Sustainability Initiative. For more information, visit the 'DeisBikes Web site.
Photos by Mike Lovett