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NEW YORK — While much of the nation was focused on the first presidential debate Wednesday night, there was no debate among Manhattan's classical music cognoscenti over who the most prestigious musical visitors of the week were, and are.
In fact, there was no contest.
The musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra spent Wednesday afternoon rehearsing with music director Riccardo Muti in preparation for their opening tour concert Wednesday night, a gala performance of "Carmina Burana" at Carnegie Hall. Four more concerts will follow, two each in Carnegie and two more in Mexico to conclude the tour on Oct. 10.
Carl Orff's splashy cantata is launching both the Carnegie season and a weeklong CSO residency in the fabled hall, which opened in 1891, the same year the Chicago Symphony was founded. Joining the orchestra at Carnegie — the only tour venue to hear the Orff — are the Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Children's Choir and vocal soloists.
Carnegie Hall galas, like Chicago's, do not skimp on conspicuous consumption. Or opulence. The top tickets for "Carmina Burana" went for $154; patrons paid extra to attend a post-concert supper. The concert was to be broadcast and streamed live over WFMT-FM 98.7, New York's WQXR and some 20 other radio stations across the country.
The CSO musicians I talked to sounded fired up about returning to Carnegie, whose warmly enveloping acoustics never fail to display the orchestra at its best. They also appeared glad not to have a contract dispute hanging over their heads any longer.
But they disagreed as to how much effect, if any, the CSO's 48-hour strike and subsequent joint ratification of a new labor agreement late last month will have on this tour.
CSO violist Maxwell Raimi said he was afraid the tour wouldn't happen, so deep-seated were the differences between labor and management.
"It's fascinating for us to play 'Carmina Burana' today," he remarked during a rehearsal break Wednesday afternoon. "The last time we played this music was the day after we had given a strike authorization. Now to be able to play it, when we only have to think about doing what we do (as an orchestra), is great."
Principal oboe Eugene Izotov reserved his gratitude for Carnegie itself, a hall he came to know and love during his years as principal oboe of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.
"We (CSO musicians) try to do our best wherever we play," he said. "But when you're playing on the stage of Carnegie Hall it's a very liberating feeling, because it's all about the music."
Stephen Lester, the CSO bass player who is chairman of the orchestra members committee, said he feels no connection between the contract contention and the tour. "We are back to business," he said. "We are dealing with our maestro and the audiences here and in Mexico. We don't think about (the contract dispute). There obviously are issues we will have to think about, but not on this trip."
For his part, a relaxed and jovial Muti taped an interview with Charlie Rose for Rose's PBS TV program, which aired Tuesday night.
In the course of their half-hour conversation, the 71-year-old maestro disputed his image as an "authoritarian" conductor. "When you have the eyes of 100 musicians looking at you, waiting for you to reveal heaven to them," he said, "you need to convey a certain conviction, which to some people means you are authoritarian."
He rated the Chicago Symphony along with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic as "the three best orchestras in the world." But when he was asked where the New York Philharmonic (an orchestra he has guest conducted many times and several times asked him to be its music director) falls in that hierarchy, Muti replied only that "they are very good musicians."
The maestro signed off with a wry quip about how he'd like his obituary to read: "Here lies Riccardo Muti, a crazy man who spent all his time trying to find the ideal quarter note."
Monday and Wednesday will bring the first concerts the CSO will ever have played in Mexico, where Muti is a known quantity. First stop is at the Festival Internacional Cervantino in Guanajuato; the second will be in the historic Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City.
Meanwhile, the CSO players are keeping busy, with Citizen Musician and other outreach and educational activities. On Wednesday, principal clarinet Stephen Williamson got the chance to partake of a piece of American musical history.
At the invitation of the Rose Museum, the official archives of Carnegie Hall, he became the first clarinetist to play one of the museum's clarinets once belonging to the legendary Benny Goodman since it had been repaired. The instrument had remained in its original case, untouched, its wood cracked, since Goodman's daughter Rachel donated it to the museum long ago.
But after recent repairs rendered the clarinet playable once again, Williamson jumped at the chance to cut loose with a few Goodmanesque licks on Benny's fabled licorice stick.
So how did it feel? "I was absolutely delighted," Williamson said with a smile.
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Electric vehicles are finding a bit more traction in the four-wheeled world than in the two-wheeled market (see what I did there?), and as such we are starting to see more plug-in electric cars from established OEMs hitting the streets already or within a model year or two of being ready for public consumption.
One of the largest global OEMs, BMW is not keen to miss out on the next movement in people-moving, and thus has been teasing its BMW i3 project for some time now. A plug-in electric with roughly a 100 mile range, BMW's tests with the Mini E project show that most automobile drivers travel less than 100 miles in a day, but still a significant number of would-be buyers are put off by the low-range figures and daunting uncertainty about charging.
Following in the footpaths of cars like the Chevy Volt, the BMW has announced that the i3 will have an optional gas engine in it as well, serving as an electric generator to recharge the BMW i3's battery pack. With BMW tipping that the engine will "come from the BMW family" and be in the 600cc range, we don't have to rack our brains long to realize that BMW will be cross-polinating its electric car program with a motorcycle engine from BMW Motorrad.

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Britney Spears' younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears is engaged.
The former Zoey 101 star took to her Twitter.com page on Saturday (02March13) to announce she is set to wed long-term boyfriend Jamie Watson by sharing a snap of the pair hugging while showing off her engagement ring.
She later posted a close-up snap of the ring alongside the caption "He did good".
Spears, 21, was previously engaged to Casey Aldridge, the father of her four-year-old daughter Maddie, but the pair split in 2010.


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OAKLAND — Unable to shower its teams with shiny new taxpayer-built stadiums, Oakland is hoping to convince them to stick around with a loving embrace that will stretch from the Black Hole all the way to the left field bleachers.
Mayor Jean Quan on Monday declared the second week of September as "Oakland Loves its Sports Teams Week" with events scheduled both for the Raiders Sept. 10 home opener and a Sept. 14 A's game.
"We want to show the world the love we have for our sports teams," Quan said during a spirited rally outside City Hall attended by about 100 fans and officials dressed either in green and gold or silver and black.
Oakland is the only city in California with major league football, baseball and basketball teams, but all three could leave within five years to proposed facilities with more revenue-generating luxury suites in more affluent corners of the Bay Area.
A's owner Lew Wolff is still seeking approval from his fellow owners to move the club to downtown San Jose, while the Warriors need no such permission to make good on their plan to pack up for a proposed waterfront arena in San Francisco.
The Raiders want to stay, but haven't disclosed how they would help finance the new stadium they want built at the Coliseum site. The team still could choose to become a tenant at the 49ers planned $1.1 billion stadium in Santa Clara.
Oakland has responded to the challenge to its sports primacy by launching a planning effort seeking private investors to transform the Coliseum site into a sports-and-entertainment complex. It also is pitching the Port of Oakland's Howard Terminal near Jack London Square as a waterfront home for the A's.
In addition to offering potentially viable stadium sites for its teams, the city is working to drum up support from fans across the East Bay by teaming up with booster groups such as Save Oakland Sports, which helped organize Monday's rally and is working on next month's slate of events.
Oakland Loves its Sports Teams week begins Monday, Sept. 10 with a tailgate party before the Raiders evening home opener at O.co Coliseum. On Wednesday, there will be a noontime free concert outside City Hall, followed on Thursday with a 7 p.m. Save Oakland Sports fundraiser at Ricky Sports Theater and Grill in San Leandro. The week ends with an effort to sell out Friday's A's fireworks night game, during which fans in one section will have pro-Oakland rally cards.
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The High Line's planting design is inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew up between rail tracks after the trains stopped running in the 1980s. Today, the High Line includes more than 300 species of perennials, grasses, shrubs, and trees — each chosen for their hardiness, adaptability, diversity, and seasonal variation in color and texture. Some of the species that originally grew on the High Line's rail bed are reflected in the park landscape today.
This week we share with you one of our gardeners' current favorites.
The foxtail lily, Eremurus stenophyllus, is another iconic spring bloom at the High Line. It's easy to see where the plant's common name comes from when you spot the showy flower stalks of copper-colored blooms rising upright amongst the park's grasses. Look closely, and you'll see that every flower stalk is composed of hundreds of little bell-shaped blooms.
At around three feet tall it may be hard to believe, but Eremurus stenophyllus is a dwarf compared to other foxtail lily species. Some species, like Eremurus elwesii and Eremurus robustus can grow up to ten feet tall with four-foot leaves.
Eremurus stenophyllus can be found on the High Line between West 17th and West 21st Streets. Eremurus himalaicus a second variety of foxtail lily, with white blooms, can be found between West 27th and West 29th Streets.
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By Yeganeh Torbati
DUBAI, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Within days of the 2009 election
that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office,
demonstrations engulfed Tehran and other Iranian cities, centred
on the capital's sprawling Azadi Square.
By Yeganeh Torbati
DUBAI, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Within days of the 2009 election
that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to office,
demonstrations engulfed Tehran and other Iranian cities, centred
on the capital's sprawling Azadi Square.
The unrest's defining moment took place on June 15 around
the square's white marble monument, where photographer Hasan
Sarbakhshian found himself in the early evening after walking
street by street through western Tehran feeling a heady mix of
hope, excitement and worry.
His press card revoked by authorities weeks earlier,
Sarbakhshian used a simple digital camera to record the hundreds
of thousands of people gathered in silence below the monument,
accessory and observer to four decades of tumultuous political
"As a photographer I saw Azadi Tower as a character in my
pictures," said Sarbakhshian, who also photographed
pro-government rallies there and now lives in the United States.
"It's a witness, a third eye."
But the tower, having stood through Iran's explosive
revolution in 1979 and an eight-year-long war with Iraq in the
1980s, is now falling victim to neglect and shoddy repairs, and
suffers from extensive internal water damage.
"Azadi Tower is exposed to humidity, and still no one has
paid any attention," Seyyed Mohammad Beheshti, an architect and
former cultural heritage official, told the Iranian Students'
News Agency (ISNA) recently. "The past disregard of this
valuable building must be rectified."
Completed in 1971, the tower is shaped in the form of an
inverted letter Y and features a design influenced by both pre-
and post-Islamic architecture.
Iranian news organisations have published pictures of
cracked stones, water dripping from ceilings and peeling walls.
ISNA quoted an unnamed expert as saying repairs in 2010 to the
tower and the museum complex below were to blame.
"Two years ago the municipality rebuilt (Azadi), and
drainage systems in different sections of the complex were
destroyed," the expert told ISNA in December. "Now, with the
slightest rain, the rainwater has nowhere to go."
A committee has been formed to determine next steps, but any
repairs must be delayed until the weather warms up.
"Azadi Tower's foundations and ceiling are stricken with
serious problems," municipal official Gholamreza Ahmadi told
state news agency IRNA.
"Azadi Tower has not been well cared for."
News of the damage to a structure that has served as a
symbol of Tehran to the outside world concerns many Iranians,
not least the monument's creator, Hossein Amanat.
A member of the persecuted Baha'i faith, Amanat was one of
many prominent Iranians compelled to leave the country during
the 1979 Islamic Revolution. He is worried that the authorities
will not address the problem urgently or competently.
"I feel responsible to talk about how urgent it is for them
... to correct the damage they have done themselves to this
building," he said in a telephone interview. "They should find
qualified and informed people to do it."
Amanat was 24 when he spotted a two-paragraph notice in the
Etelaat newspaper in 1966 advertising a contest to design a
monument to commemorate 2,500 years of Persian monarchy.
A fresh graduate of the University of Tehran's architecture
school, he had planned to emigrate to the United States to
continue his studies but stayed instead to work on his design.
The resulting monument features two prominent arches: one a
sweeping parabola reminiscent of ancient Iranian architecture,
and the other more representative of Iran's Islamic identity,
evoking its many grand mosques.
"It's really an allusion to prominent periods in the history
of Iran," said Amanat, now 70 and living in Canada. "It reflects
my great imaginations about the history of Iran and the
fascination it had for me since childhood.
"It is the essence that I understood as a simple young boy
in those days."
The completed tower was named Shahyad Aryamehr, or King
Memorial, and coincided with a push by the Shah Mohammad Reza
Pahlavi to encourage tourism and investment by the West. Its
shape, suggesting a curtain fluttering open in the wind, was an
entrance to the city.
"Shahyad became the perfect metaphor for the many cultural
paradoxes that were the rapidly changing Tehran," wrote Abbas
Milani, an Iran expert at Stanford University, in his 2011
biography of the Shah. "Shahyad was a gateway to the future and
a celebration of the past."
But by the late 1970s, the monarchy that Shahyad was built
to honour was losing its grip on power. Iranians flocked to
Shahyad Square during the revolution to demand the return of
exiled Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who would eventually found
the Islamic Republic.
Grainy photos show them bearing banners with Khomeini's
picture and standing atop the gleaming monument's base.
Those images helped the tower shed its royal associations
and ensure its survival under Iran's new rulers, who removed
other icons connected to the Shah but embraced Shahyad, renaming
it Azadi, or Freedom.


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President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney – who has struggled to find momentum – will offer voters two starkly different prescriptions for fixing the ailing economy as they duel Wednesday in their first and perhaps most critical debate.
More than 60 million people are expected to watch when the nationally televised, 90-minute debate kicks off at 9 p.m. EDT, far more than watched the two major party national conventions and dwarfing the number that watched Romney in Republican primary debates.
Underscoring the significance, the men will arrive at the University of Denver debate site after days of closed-door rehearsals, Obama in Nevada and Romney in Colorado. The stakes are particularly high for Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who's stayed close to Obama in most polls but continues to trail.
"It's one of the few possible game changers left for him, and the only one he has a certain amount of control over," said Tobe Berkovitz, an associate professor of advertising at Boston University.
Most polls show Obama remains vulnerable – his Gallup job approval rating Sept. 28-30 was 47 percent, about where it's been for some time, and a Quinnipiac Polling Institute survey released Tuesday, taken Sept. 25-30, put him ahead of Romney 49 percent to 45 percent.
Obama also battles high expectations. Romney has not engaged in a one-on-one political debate since he ran for governor of Massachusetts 10 years ago, while Obama debated Republican John McCain three times in 2008 and is a familiar presence on American television. Regardless of political spin from the campaigns, Americans by a 2-to-1 margin expect Obama to win the debate, according to polls.
The numbers suggest an opportunity for Romney, who will try to tell voters that Obama should be held responsible for a stubbornly sluggish economy. Romney plans to stress that Obama's remedies too often involve "going forward with a stagnant, government-centered economy," said senior adviser Ed Gillespie.
Obama is trying to lower those expectations. "The president is familiar with his own loquaciousness and his tendency to give long, substantive answers," said Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki, calling it a challenge when there's a timer running. "That's certainly something he and all of us are cognizant of."
"Gov. Romney, he's a good debater. I'm just OK," Obama said with a grin to a Nevada audience earlier this week. "But what I'm most concerned about is having a serious discussion about what we need to do to keep the country growing and restore security for hardworking Americans. That's what people are going to be listening for."
Alan Schroeder, a Northeastern University professor who has written a history of presidential debates, "Presidential Debates: 50 Years of High-Risk TV," said Obama in 2008 tended to be "very agreeable" with McCain.
"That was part of his strategy, to appear willing to extend the olive branch, but I don't think that's going to fly this time," Schroeder said.
Barring a major gaffe or surprise, few analysts expect the debate to radically change the race right away. Quinnipiac found that 86 percent thought it would make no difference in how they voted.
But what a debate can do is plant images and ideas with voters that they'll seek to confirm or dismiss over the campaign's final month.
The key economic flashpoints Wednesday are expected to involve taxes, the federal debt and jobs.
Romney is running ads tying Obama to the government's $16 trillion debt, notably in a recent spot showing a baby and talking about the debt she was inheriting.
Obama is pointing out that Romney's plans would mean even more debt. "Clearly, the American people didn't like what he had to say" about Romney's policies, Psaki said.
Obama's predecessor, President George W. Bush, was responsible for a huge chunk of the debt boom. When he took office in 2001, the figure was $5.7 trillion. Because of tax cuts, a new Medicare drug program, war spending and other factors, the debt was $10.6 trillion when he left office eight years later.
Both men would add trillions more to the debt over the coming decade.
On jobs, Romney is expected to offer frequent reminders that the jobless rate went over 8 percent during Obama's first full month in office in February 2009 and has never dropped below that level. That's the longest stretch over 8 percent since such records started 64 years ago.
The nation lost about 7.9 million jobs during the December 2007-June 2009 recession – most of which occurred during the Bush administration – but the pace of hiring has since lagged behind usual post-recession standards.
Romney maintains his incentives for business would help create 12 million jobs over four years. Obama is likely to tout his American Jobs Act, which would provide government spending on public works projects as well as incentives for business that would help create millions of jobs.
Both are expected to cite changes in the nation's tax system as key strategies for job creation. Romney will urge continuing the Bush-era tax cuts, set to expire at the end of this year, and further cut those rates 20 percent. He offers no details on how he would pay for his plan.
Obama wants to continue only the Bush cuts affecting families earning less than $250,000 or individuals making less than $200,000.
Stressing tax cuts could be valuable. Obama has to focus on the future, said Drew Lieberman, a Democratic political consultant in Washington, and not the past three years.
"He needs to resist the temptation to look backward and defend the last three years and keep it focused on the future," he said.
Obama and Romney are scheduled to debate again Oct. 16 and 22. Vice President Joe Biden and the Republican nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, will debate Oct. 11.
Lesley Clark of the Washington Bureau contributed.


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Parishioners of shuttered St. Ann's will hold annual German Mass at St. Louis Church
St. Ann Church on Broadway remains locked up nearly a year after it was deemed unsafe for parishioners to worship there.
But, as according tradition, the parish's German roots will be celebrated Sunday – inside another glorious Buffalo church with German heritage.
St. Louis Church on Main Street will be the site of St. Ann's annual German Mass at 12:30 p.m.
St. Ann parishioners are still anxiously awaiting an engineering study of the ornate 1886 church. The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo hired Arbour Construction Management and Siracuse Engineers to determine what can be done about structural problems in the building.
Those problems, which included out-of-place stones and buttresses that were pulled away in the northwest tower, were discovered during an earlier inspection that prompted former Bishop Edward U. Kmiec last April to suspend all activities at the church.
The engineering report was anticipated late last year, but members of the parish have yet to see it.
"There's still an awful lot we don't know," said Martin Ederer, who is part of a small community of parishioners advocating for the church to stay open. "We're in limbo."
Diocesan spokesman Kevin A. Keenan said the report currently is "going through internal review."
St. Ann Church was supposed to close under a decree issued by Kmiec in 2011. Parishioners appealed the decree to the Vatican, forestalling the closure, because under Catholic canon law a worship site must remain open while an appeal is considered.
Kmiec cited safety reasons last April – just a week after the 2012 German Mass – in ordering a suspension of activities at the church. Kmiec has since retired and been replaced by Bishop Richard J. Malone.
Some members of St. Ann still gather occasionally for Masses in the church convent or school building, depending on the availability of a priest.
Monsignor John W. Zeitler, a retired pastor who speaks German, will be celebrant at Sunday's German Mass, which also will feature music by the Buffalo Schwaben Chor. St. Ann Parish was founded in 1858 by German immigrants, who built what is now one of the city's oldest churches. St. Louis, the diocese's oldest parish, was founded in 1829 and consisted of a large German-Catholic presence for many years.
St. Ann members had mixed feelings about getting together for the traditional Mass in a church other than home space, but ultimately decided to press forward with the tradition.
"It's a way for us to get together, and we know we have a priest that Sunday, so let's do it," said Ederer. "It's important to pray together."
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Amelia Rose Earhart has completed the round-the-world journey that her namesake never finished nearly eight decades ago.
The 31-year-old pilot completed the 24,300-mile journey Friday when her single-engine plane landed at Oakland International Airport, where she was greeted by her parents and crowds of supporters.
Earhart is not related to the famed aviator who disappeared during her attempted global flight in 1937.
RELATED: Amelia Earhart flies again! Namesake to recreate global flight
The Denver resident and her co-pilot Shane Jordan took off from Oakland on June 26 and made 17 stops in 14 countries. They flew in a Pilatus C-12 plane equipped with GPS and other modern technology her namesake never had.
Earhart hopes the global flight will inspire girls to fly. She runs a nonprofit called the Fly With Amelia Foundation that sends teenage girls to flight school.


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Punxsy's Cressley helps lead Clarion to PSAC title
BLOOMSBURG — Alex Thomas earned Outstanding Wrestler honors, and Punxsutawney native and redshirt sophomore Steven Cressley finished third at 184 pounds during Clarion University's Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Championship-winning performance in Bloomsburg this past month.
Thomas (197 pounds), James Fleming (157 pounds) and Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (165 pounds) each won individual titles to lead the Golden Eagles toward their first PSAC team crown since 1994.
Clarion tallied 135 1/2-points to control the rest of the field. Bloomsburg followed with 110 1/2-points, and Edinboro scored 109 to take third. Clarion ended Edinboro's streak of five-straight PSAC titles.
Cressley, a 2008 PAHS graduate who reached the PIAA tournament during his senior year, finished 3-1 overall at the PSAC Championships. He registered an 8-5 decision over Lock Haven's Jacob Bachman for third place.
After beating East Stroudsburg's Brendan McKeown (15-9) to start the tournament, Cressley lost via major decision to Edinboro's Chris Honeycutt, 11-2. Honeycutt won the 184- pound PSAC title.
After beating Millersville's Jason Foor by an 18-3 technical fall, he finished the tournament with the victory over Bachman.
Later in December, Clarion upset Edinboro in Waterford with a 25-21 victory.
The win was the Golden Eagles' first over the Fighting Scots since Feb. 6, 1998.
During the win, Cressley suffered a 10-2 major decision loss to Honeycutt, who was the No. 2-ranked 184-pounder in the country at the time of the bout.
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The 1999 Annual Report of the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
Assuring nuclear competence into the 21st century was a major focus of the Nuclear Energy Agency in 1999
In its 1999 annual report published today, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) notes that the future of nuclear energy will depend on a number of technical, environmental, economic, social and political factors. A total of 348 nuclear power units were in operation in OECD countries in 1999, providing almost one quarter of total electricity production. However, nuclear energy continued to be a subject of controversy and public debate. In two Member countries, political decisions have been taken to begin phasing out nuclear energy production.
Assessing ways to maintain future nuclear competence was therefore a major focus of NEA work in 1999. A number of experienced specialists will be leaving the field over the next decade and nuclear engineering courses have begun to disappear as nuclear energy careers become less attractive. A workshop was held during the year to consider this issue and devise new approaches to recruiting, training and retaining staff in the area of nuclear safety, and preserving a critical mass of knowledge in both industry and regulatory bodies. In addition, the NEA focused specifically on the situation with respect to nuclear education and training, and prepared a report which includes recommendations to governments and industry to counter a potential shortfall in nuclear expertise in the medium to long term.
In a related effort, the implications of the decrease in nuclear safety research funding and the untimely shutdown of important research facilities were explored during the year. Recommendations were made regarding the organisation of centres of excellence in certain areas, where facilities and teams of experts could be maintained in order to ensure the continued availability of advanced knowledge for future nuclear safety programmes.
this connection, the NEA has taken steps to pool available R&D
expertise and technical infrastructure from its Member countries in
order to initiate new international safety-related research projects
such as the CABRI project in France dealing with high burn-up nuclear
fuel and the PLASMA project on nuclear plant monitoring, a collaborative
effort between Japan, Hungary and the OECD Halden Reactor Project.
Nuclear energy and electricity market deregulation and sustainable development issues were also high on the NEA agenda. A meeting for energy policy makers, organised jointly with the International Energy Agency (IEA), addressed issues raised by current trends in nuclear power production in OECD countries. A study published during the year on the reduction of capital costs of nuclear power plants concluded that significant economic gains could be obtained through technological progress, enhanced project management and a number of specific measures.
A broad dialogue was initiated on, and directions proposed for, the future evolution of the international system of radiation protection, particularly in light of the increased pressure from civil society to limit risks to human beings and to the environment, and to become more involved in radiation protection decision making. The NEA issued a strategy for nuclear emergency management and communication, based on several years' experience from international exercises.
A key requirement for the continued use of nuclear energy is the safe management of radioactive waste. A new study reviewing developments in geologic disposal in the last decade concluded that the technology is mature enough for deployment, but progress still needs to be made in building confidence and addressing the ethical and political dimensions of this issue. During the year, the NEA carried out "peer reviews" of national radioactive waste management plans and programmes in Japan and the United Kingdom.
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CLEARLAKE -- It started with an anonymous letter; now, more than 100 students will get a backpack full of food every week during the school year until May 2015.
Volunteers from North Coast Opportunities (NCO), the Lake County Office of Education Healthy Start Program and the Lake County Hunger Task Force helped fill the first round of backpacks for the Fighting Hunger Together Backpack Program Monday afternoon.
The program got its start after Walmart received a letter from an unnamed person about the nutritional needs of children in Clearlake, NCO Community Action Coordinator for Lake County Tammy Alakszay said.
With a $50,000 donation from the Walmart Foundation Initiative for Fighting Hunger, the Redwood Empire Food Bank (REFB) from Santa Rosa will purchase and deliver 1,200 pounds of food each week to the NCO warehouse in Clearlake, Doreen Gilmore, of the healthy start program, said.
She said the food bank is able to purchase food in bulk at a discounted price.
NCO and Healthy Start program members will then distribute stuffed backpacks among 120 students from the Pomo, Burns Valley and Eastlake elementary schools.
"The whole idea that kids are getting extra food got me so excited," Alakszay said.
Each backpack will be filled with seven to 10 pounds of healthy food, such as apples, oranges and canned vegetables, as well as kid-friendly snacks every week for the next 83 weeks of school, Alakszay said.
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Winter is Over, Yes?
Is it safe to come out of hibernation yet?
I know it's supposedly spring, but the freezing temps and ice-crusted snow outside tells my senses otherwise.
The need to reorganize my art inventory and tackle all those projects started - but never finished - during the dark months of winter, however, indicates to me that we are moving into a new season.
2013 has been a wild and crazy ride so far. Almost everyone I know is in the middle of huge life changes that are culminating at the end of this month/start of April. Some are moving to new cities, or provinces, and even (possibly) to foreign countries to begin new jobs. A whole whack of people are buying new houses. Four couples I know are getting divorced (or separated). And sadly, reports of serious illness - some just temporary, others lifelong afflictions - keep coming in.
The universe is shifting, and I thought I should charge out to meet it and see if I can influence events because this wave of momentum (for better or for worse) is going to crash into me despite any attempt to dodge it.
I've grabbed my metaphorical surfboard and snorkel.
See those WIPs in the picture? That sums up my attention span these days. Dozens of projects started, none completed. All this swirling electricity in the air makes for a jumpy Ghoul. To be fair, February was a complete write-off for me, spent battling a monster flu that has yet to completely leave my system (still have a touch of congestion in my chest when I wake up).
I have made some progress since that picture was taken, and will share some finished works with you by Monday (which happens to be my birthday).
So for all of you who are also being carried off by the tumultuous currents of change, feel free to toss me a rope and we'll tether our lifeboats together.
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Mercury in retrograde. That damn planet causes more carnage than a rat at a food expo. Glad to know your feeling better. It ain't looking much like Spring here either. I say we paddle those lifeboats to the Seychelles. Its 30C and sunny, all day, most every day. Can you imagine that!Life is always less gloomy in the sunshine.
spring? not quite yet...
Woke up this morning to the news of a near record snowfall for this weekend...heaviest coming on sunday and tapering off to be done by tuesday. Hoping they get those roads clear...I'm feeling like taking a road trip.
You're back - yay!
To hell with the retrograde planets and all those crazy curves on the road of life. When Ghoul Friday is back and posting, all is right with the universe:)
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NEWPORT Gwent Dragons captain Andrew Coombs is pencilled in to start against Glasgow on Sunday – and the Wales lock is set to be joined in the squad by a pair of new tightheads.
The Rodney Parade region are looking to solve a propping crisis by bringing in Bruce Douglas and Lewis Thiede from Bristol and London Scottish respectively.
The Dragons are without a recognised tighthead because Nathan Buck is ill, Dan Way has a back problem and Francisco Chaparro is banned until April 27 following his dismissal for a tip tackle against Leinster.
Douglas, 34, won 43 caps for Scotland and has played for Harlequins, Borders, the Scarlets, Montpellier and Worcester.
Doncaster-born Thiede, 23, had a spell with London Wasps before signing for Scottish where he has been working under head coach James Buckland, who the Dragons have been using as a scrum consultant.
"You get these emergencies every so often where you are hit by not just one injury but three medium to long-term absentees at tighthead," said director of rugby Lyn Jones.
"We've secured loans with Bristol and London Scottish but we are just waiting for confirmation from the RFU and WRU that they are able to play."
The region have their fingers crossed that the new boys will get the green light and they are also hopeful that their skipper will be in their ranks.
Coombs, who started against Ireland at the Aviva Stadium a fortnight ago, has been left out of the Wales matchday squad to take on France in the Six Nations tomorrow evening.
The 29-year-old lock is an emergency reserve at the Millennium Stadium and will start for the Dragons as long as his services are not required.
"He will be starting at five as long as he is not needed by Wales," said Jones. "It's a boost for us to have a player of Andrew's stature available.
"I thought he had a decent game against Ireland and he needs to get back on the field and put that disappointment behind him."
Meanwhile Jones has denied reports of Dragons interest in former Wales centre Gavin Henson and Ospreys fly-half Matthew Morgan.
"There is no truth in that at all. We're concentrating all our efforts on strengthening our squad in the front five department," said the director of rugby.
The Dragons have so far signed loosehead Boris Stankovich from Leicester, hooker Rhys Buckley from Moseley, wing Aled Brew from Biarritz and full-back Lee Bryne from Clermont Auvergne.


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Carlos Marmol Will Probably Hit the Disabled List Today and Other Bullets
I didn't drink a drop last night, but I feel hungover as hell.
- You're never going to get "good" quotes after a game like that, and last night was no excuse. "That was a great game. Obviously, we finished on the bad end of it but it was one heck of a game to watch," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "We both emptied the benches, and that was pretty much the way it was going to end." Shrug. What else is anyone going to say? There's the usual rah-rah stuff from the players in that article as well.
- Carlos Marmol, after stinking up the joint last night, pulled his hamstring and was removed from the game. He's headed back to Chicago for an MRI today, and will probably head to the DL. The close distance between Chicago and Milwaukee would have allowed Marmol to return for the game if he felt well enough, but the fact that the bullpen was completely used up last night probably decided the matter for the Cubs. DL'ing Marmol would allow the Cubs to call up some relief in the pen – probably lefty Scott Maine. Interesting – a Cubs player is headed to the disabled list with an injury, and I put it in the Bullets and not a God's Wrath Watch. Can't figure why. Must just be tired…
- Last night, Welington Castillo demonstrated one of the sometimes inarticulable criticisms lodged against him as a future starter: he doesn't really catch a good game. He wasn't giving pitchers a nice target, he doesn't frame well (when he tries at all), and he often catches the ball awkwardly (in fact, sometimes he does the opposite of a frame, making strikes look like balls). If you didn't see the game, you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about. See? Inarticulable. But, it was obvious, and he's got work to do.
- Jon Heyman says the Cubs are likely to try and extend Matt Garza before trying to trade him, which is something we've expected for months. Heyman suggests a five-year, $80 million deal, which would have sounded high-ish just a few months ago, but now sounds like a steal (in light of the way the CBA changes are playing out, and the amounts guys are getting on extensions).
- James Russell, who's been the Cubs' best reliever this year, who was terrible as a starter last year but dominant as a reliever, says he'd rather be starting. What the what? "I'm still not over the whole starting thing quite yet, I don't think," Russell said. "It's really pretty much up to them. Whatever they want me to do is what I want to do. But just, in the back of my mind, I think I can succeed at starting and do well and help our team out starting. If they think otherwise then that's perfectly fine with me …. I'll let them decide. I'm not going to say anything. Just keep my mouth shut and go about my business in the bullpen and whatever they want to do in the offseason or next year, whether it's me staying in the bullpen or trying out for a rotation job then so be it." Why in the world is this even being discussed right now? I mean, I know someone elicited this response from Russell, but why even go there? There's absolutely no reason to even ask the question, and there's no reason for Russell to go on at such lengths about it. You're a reliever right now, kid, and a damn good one. Enjoy it.
- If you're desperately curious to know who would have pitched had last night's game gone so long that Lendy Castillo was gassed, Sveum said it would have been Reed Johnson. Castillo would have gone to right field, and David DeJesus to center.
- Rudy Jaramillo wants his hitters to have "swagger." I'd rather they had "patience," "power," and "line-drive ability."
- Holy smokes, I thought Gordon Edes blasted Josh Beckett, but Jeff Passan blows Edes out of the water. Clearly Beckett has pissed off quite a few folks in his day. It's a great read if you're always on the look out for Soxenfreude.
- So, I talked a big game going into last night's one-day fantasy contest, and, I, um, didn't back it up. I finished ahead of just about 1/3 of you, so at least I wasn't at the bottom of the pack. Congrats to FiveFifty550, necubsfan, bdeal01, mmontice, maddawg24, mattylud, CryinMyBlueKoolAid, acsheetz, jshdeal, and Cubbie Blues for finishing in the top 10. Be on the lookout in June – we'll do it again.


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The Quotable Sherman Alexie
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I bet you and he and Jeanine are right! That is, right to say it and ask it and provoke our curiosity about it...and probably right that college-degreed white women buy more books!ReplyDelete
By chance, I was just with a group of men and women (mixed in age but probably all college-degreed) who were discussing a Sherman Alexie story!
Yes, I had heard that somewhere when I worked (briefly) in publishing, and I think it's probably true.ReplyDelete
Which just makes any gender imbalance in publishing that much more upsetting - if more top editors are men, more top prizes go to men, but the books are being read by women...
And, of course, I come from a long line of book-loving women. My great-great grandmother was the only woman in her town who could read, so she became the default postmistress. I always loved that story.
- Anonymous6:57 PM, June 29, 2010
I'm certain this is true, and it may be higher. Most MFAW candidates where I attended were women, most attendees to readings were women, etc.ReplyDelete
Reading may not be couched as masculine in schools, especially poetry.
I read that women contribute less than 40% of contents in literary journals, which is just amazing.
THanks for the note. It was an interesting comment. And he really said he got a lot of backlash for it.ReplyDelete
I do know a lot of women and they buy lots of books, but I don't think it's just white women. I think educated in the keyword. Or women who are interested in learning.
Of course, men obviously buy books. My husband soars through novels. He's a fast reader too!
I'm not sure how we would find this out. Or if this even matters.
I just like that he said something that caused a stir.
Maybe he's referring to teachers... he has written a few YA novels latelyReplyDelete


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ARM Continues Partnership with the Market-Share Leader for 3G CDMA Wireless Solutions
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. and CAMBRIDGE, UK, – Oct. 15, 2002 – QUALCOMM Incorporated, pioneer and world leader of Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) digital wireless technology, and ARM [(LSE: ARM; Nasdaq: ARMHY)], the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions, today announced that QUALCOMM has licensed the new ARM1136J-S™ microprocessor core for use in advanced wireless voice and data devices. The announcement was made at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., and distinguishes QUALCOMM as one of the first ARM® Partners to use the new microprocessor core. Announced yesterday, the ARM1136J-S microprocessor core is the first offering based on the ARM11™ microarchitecture. (See separate press release…ARM Sets Performance Standard with Two New ARM11 Cores… Oct. 14, 2002)
QUALCOMM will use the ARM1136J-S core in future Mobile Station Modem (MSM) chipsets for next-generation mobile devices that support high-speed wireless voice and data applications. CDMA technology, which QUALCOMM pioneered for commercial use, is the world's fastest-growing standard for cellular communications. Today, CDMA2000 is enabling 3G wireless networks around the world.
The ARM1136J-S core will also enhance QUALCOMM's Launchpad™ suite of applications, including multimedia, position location and other advanced features.
"As a leader in driving the worldwide rollout of 3G CDMA wireless communications solutions, QUALCOMM has partnered with ARM for the continual innovation of high-performance, low-power embedded processor solutions," said Luis Pineda, vice president of product management for QUALCOMM CDMA Technologies. "The ARM1136J-S core will be used to support our chipset and system software solutions for the next generation of 3G CDMA mobile devices, which are tailored to deliver all the benefits of 3G CDMA wireless service."
"This agreement has enabled ARM to work with industry leader QUALCOMM in creating products using the new ARM1136J-S processor core," said Mike Inglis, EVP, Marketing, ARM. "ARM's long-standing partnership with QUALCOMM spans the development of current and next-generation wireless devices. QUALCOMM's expertise will enable them to leverage the new ARM11 family core to support the performance and power consumption requirements needed to enable 3G cellular networks."
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ARM is the industry's leading provider of 16/32-bit embedded RISC microprocessor solutions. The company licenses its high-performance, low-cost, power-efficient RISC processors, peripherals and system-on-chip (SoC) designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides comprehensive support required in developing a complete system. ARM's microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming a volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, hand-held computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions. More information on ARM is available at www.arm.com.
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QUALCOMM Incorporated (www.qualcomm.com) is a leader in developing and delivering innovative digital wireless communications products and services based on the company's CDMA digital technology. Headquartered in San Diego, Calif., QUALCOMM is included in the S&P 500 Index and traded on The Nasdaq Stock Market® under the ticker symbol QCOM.
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Professor Raphael Lemkin, left, and Ricardo Alfaro of Panama (chairman of the Assembly's Legal Committee) in conversation before the plenary meeting of the General Assembly at which the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide was approved.
Raphael Lemkin (right) with Ambassador Amado of Brazil (left) before a plenary session of the General Assembly at which the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide was approved. Palais de Chaillot, Paris, December 11, 1948.
Representatives of four states who ratified the Genocide Convention on October 14, 1950: (seated, left to right) Dr. John P. Chang (Korea), Dr. Jean Price-Mars (Haiti), Assembly President Amb. Nasrollah Entezam (Iran), Amb. Jean Chauvel (France), Mr. Ruben Esquivel de la Guardia (Costa Rica), (standing, left to right) Dr. Ivan Kerno (Asst. Secretary General for Legal Affairs), Mr. Trygve Lie (Secretary-General of U.N.), Mr. Manuel A. Fournier Acuna (Costa Rica), and Dr. Raphael Lemkin (crusader for the Genocide Convention). Lake Success, New York, October 14, 1950.
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AMD pushes x86/graphics CPU to 2011
Keywords:processors 32 nm x86 graphics cores
At an analysts' event, AMD also sketched out for the first time its plans for 32 nm chips in 2011, a process it was originally expected to use for products in 2010.
The company has cancelled Shrike, a dual-core 45 nm processor that was to be the company's first to combine graphics and x86 cores in 2010. The combination of graphics and x86 cores was one of the motivating forces behind AMD's multi-billion dollar acquisition of ATI Technologies, as well as a focus of its current Fusion marketing campaign.
Replacing Shrike, AMD has decided to move up to 2010 its plans for a four-core notebook processor in a BGA package. The chip will have equal or better performance and lower cost and power consumption than Shrike, said Randy Allen, general manager of AMD's computing solutions group
"As we have gotten more mature information about the 45 nm process technology we were seeing product improvements [for Shrike] in all three areas [of performance, power and cost] in single digits," said Allen.
"Shrike in 45 nm would deliver modest improvements, but we see huge improvements in 32 nm which is the sweet spot for the convergence so graphics and x86 cores," Allen said.
"We always knew that 32 nm would deliver the big benefits" for combined x86 and graphics cores, "and the 45 nm benefits would be more incremental," Allen added.
The move comes at a time when AMD is focusing its efforts on mainstream computer platforms as part of its strategy to get back to profitability. "We have to focus predominantly on mainstream and value products," Allen said.
For its part, archrival Intel Corp. is expected to release a notebook processor that includes a graphics core, perhaps before the end of 2009.
Allen also described for the first time AMD's plans for 32 nm processors it will now deliver in 2011. The Orochi and Llano chips will be the first to use AMD's next-generation Bulldozer core. The desktop chips will have four x86 cores and support four to eight MB cache and DDR3 memory.
Also in 2011, AMD will deliver Ontario, a 32nkm notebook chip with two x86 and one graphics core, supporting DDR3 memory. The Llano chip will also include a graphics core.
The changes come at a time when AMD and the PC market in general is under increasing pressure. AMD has announced two rounds of layoffs in 2008, and analysts project a decline in PC sales in 2009.
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Imagine how excellent your performance can be in the office when you are comfortable and the same thing can be said about your employees and colleges as well. The less the number of people, complaining constantly about aches and back pains etc, the better it will be for you to lead the team and everyone will be able to work in peace. So use some help if you have to, but make sure that the right chairs are chosen in order to increase the work efficiency.
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With some of the most striking 2D visuals around and a understated but compelling narrative, Machinarium is a perfect example of a modern adventure game.
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Sounds really nice. Where do you buy this? Steam, by chance?
Wow, that is a beautiful game, and fun. Solving the puzzles in the demo made me smile. One article nit-pick: you should link to their site, machinarium.com
I do not see this specifically mentioned in the review, and I think that in the current age it's a critical piece of information. The developer says that Machinarium is totally DRM free, which in and of itself is something I think is worth rewarding. You can just buy the download and it works like a normal application does instead of the regrettable situation that exists for so many other games.
I do think in general this should be mentioned in future Ars reviews, as it's an important feature for a game to have in my opinion.
This game is really great. I don't enjoy most puzzle adventure games, but this one is an exception. Just the right amount of head-scratching followed by satisfying 'a-ha's
Yes. Or Impulse.
Impulse, all I needed to see was the artwork. Waiting for it to download from Steam.
This is the first game I've wanted to buy in years. Awesome.
Amanita Design also has the great (free) Flash game Samorost (and its sequel), which is another point-and-click adventure.
Where can I get it for $17? On the developer's website, Steam, Impulse and GamersGate it is $20.
Sounds great...its downloading right now.
It's $20, $17 was the pre-order price. If you buy it straight from the developer they give you the soundtrack in MP3 format too.
Looks great. I will gladly buy this. Just the right price, too. Guess there's no way to truly full screen it though (without the black border)?
The only way to do that would be to scale the artwork in some way... not a great idea.
If you really wanted to do this, you could adjust your display resolution, and let your monitor or video card handle the scaling.
This game looks really promising. I think I'll pick this up right after I finish with Trine. That's another game that gave me a very pleasant surprise - the levels are very colorful and well drawn, while the RPG element and physics puzzles provide quite an entertaining mix. I hope these people continue making games because I'll gladly part with my money for more.
agreed. no hassle factor makes buying a much more simple decision.
Also worth mentioning that there is a flash demo on the machinarium site.
I bought the game based off this review, and the amazing Flash demo on their site. It's an absolutely work of art.
Thanks for that heads-up. (It would have been worth mentioning a link to the game site at all, for that matter; why would such information not be worth including in a glowing review of the game?)
What's the length of the game? Like a traditional 'full' adventure game (10hrs+) or a 3-4 hr one like the episodes that Telltale releases? Because a good, full-fledged adventure game at $17 is a steal.
Cute game! This shows you can go far as an indie developer.
I pre-ordered this, and have put several hours into it. All I can say is "Good luck" on the "extended checkers" game. It's very hard to beat.
I think it's worth noting that (as far as I can see) if you buy it straight from the developers, you get a "native" Linux client. I think I'll be buying it tonight.
I've been told by people who've completed it that it's a 6-8 hour adventure.
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Scan the review + 5 minutes on the demo = instabuy.
I've been looking for a point and click adventure that doesn't require VMWare Fusion or Boot Camp, and it looks like I'm in luck.
I just hope it finishes downloading before I leave the office in 3 hours...
Looks amazing, will be buying it as soon as I get home from work.
Thanks for the review Ars.
I played the demo last night. I just blew damn well near $200 on other games... (2x L4D, 2x Borderlands, 1x DAO)
Gotta start saving my pennies again for this.
I preordered my copy direct from the developer and got links to Windows, Mac and Linux (32-bit only) clients, the soundtrack and got immediate access to a "Pre-order Pack" which includes 5 hi-res pictures and 5 MP 3 tracks from Machinarium Soundtrack. I heard really good things about the game, tried the demo and decided to order to support a developer that knows how to treat their customers by releasing a DRM free game. I paid $1 more buying direct than I saw it listed for on one of the direct download stores, but I figured it would give them more profit and it also got me 3 different versions. GamersGate was selling for $16 on pre-orders, but they are selling the Windows and Mac versions separately. If you need/want mutiple OS support, I highly recommend buying it direct from Amanita Design.
I just wish I have more time to play this and the other good games coming out and recently released. I guess I got spoiled being laid off over the summer and making a dent in my pile of unplayed games.
This game remindes me of "The Neverhood". One of my all time favorite games. I will be buying this game.
I think it's in the Ars style guide to purposely not include an easy direct link to anything in any article. Why?
It is a Flash game however. So performance will be better on Windows than on Mac or Linux.
Demo: http://machinarium.net/demo/
Buy: https://sites.fastspring.com/a.../instant/machinarium
(links taken from JayIsGames)
I finished playing through the game on my XP netbook with a 900mhz processor and 1gb RAM yesterday. It ran slowly at some places when there were many things moving on screen, but still very playable. It is a beautiful game and the soundtrack is lovely also.
Wow. I'm totally DL'ing this for my wife. I bet she'll love it!
Thanks for the review!
WOW! This game is truly awesome. Fantastic art.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that people buy this from the Amanita site. You get 3 versions, Mac, PC and Linux. I just installed on my Macbook Pro and it runs sweet.
Excellent and fun game. So nice when these rare gems come around...
Yeah, using about 50% CPU on my 2.4 GHz Core2Duo MacBook (hardware acceleration disabled).
-edit- the full version that is, not there's any difference to playing it in a browser really.
Review + demo = bought this morning. The art is truly gorgeous, and it's a neat point-and-click adventure with some pretty difficult puzzles so far. I love it.
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His ground game could win Nevada, but McCain's still a 13-12 favorite.
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HENDERSON, Nev.— Wayne Allyn Root is your typical Vegas oddsmaker turned vice-presidential candidate. Root grew up wanting to be Jimmy the Greek, and he built a sports-handicapping empire by talking fast and selling himself. When he's playing the part of Bob Barr's running mate, the pitch is pretty much the same: Root looks at America and sees a potential client. Like a guy who lost everything making dumb bets on football games, the United States has done everything wrong, gotten itself into a huge hole, and needs professional help. Root thinks he's just the guy to patch things up, but his prescription will have to wait. Dallas is at Arizona, a "Game of the Year" for Root (the term is relative; there are 12 to 15 Games of the Year each season), and he's desperate for the Cardinals to cover the spread.
Add Wayne Allyn Root to Nevada's claims to fame: the perennial fastest-growing state in the nation, the only place in America with legalized brothels, and now home to the only candidate for national office who runs a sports book on the side. (Or is it the other way around?) And in 2008, if it goes from red to blue, Nevada could legitimately claim to have tipped the election to Barack Obama.
To get a sense of the state mood, I could have gone on a statewide listening tour with stops in Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Elko, and Pahrump. But with gas prices what they are these days, I decided it would be more prudent to confine my reporting to a single block. Anthem Country Club is an upmarket gated community in the Las Vegas Valley—mountain views, a waterfall or two, the Strip's sparkling lights a mere 20 minutes away. Past the security guards is a pair of houses abutting a circular drive. Behind Door No. 1 is the Libertarian Party's vice-presidential nominee. Behind Door No. 2: Nevada's foreclosure king.
A former stalwart Republican with the glory wall to prove it—hello there, Karl Rove!—Root now peddles "conservative libertarianism." In April, he's releasing a Goldwaterian manifesto called The Conscience of a Libertarian. The theme of Root's campaign is to turn America into one big Nevada—a freedom-loving stronghold with no state income tax and a government that doesn't care if you gamble, smoke a joint, or pay for sex.
In 2004, the rest of the states might've signed off on that live-and-let-live plan. It seemed to be working for Nevada, with housing prices and gambling revenues soaring and unemployment an afterthought. Today, however, Root might have trouble getting people in Nevada to buy into his idea, much less the rest of the country. Tourism is on the wane, causing Strip casino revenues to fall for eight straight months and companies like Harrah's Entertainment to make big layoffs. Unemployment is now up to 7.3 percent, the state's highest in 23 years. With credit hard to come by, home builders and Vegas moguls have halted new projects. Nowhere has the housing bust been felt as acutely: Nevada has owned America's highest foreclosure rate for 20 straight months, and according to the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors, home prices in Southern Nevada have gone down 31 percent since last September.
Which brings us to Root's next-door neighbor. Michael Krein is the owner of Nevada Real Estate Services and the president of the National REO Brokers Association, a trade group for brokers who manage and maintain real-estate-owned properties—that is, foreclosures. "Most real estate agents are not equipped either financially, mentally, or with the right skill set for this business," he says. Krein explains that the hassles and stresses of the foreclosure business are mostly mundane (though he does admit to being shot at twice and stabbed once): paying the utility bills, getting the pool cleaned, dealing with homeowners' associations.
In the last few years, Krein has had a lot of properties to maintain. Speculation in the Las Vegas market, he says, pushed home prices beyond the reach of the average people who live and work there. The bad news in Vegas is that foreclosed properties are everywhere. That's also the good news: Krein says there's never been a better time to buy a house (he is a Realtor, after all), so long as you have good credit and money for a down payment.
While many Nevadans seem to be heeding his advice—September home sales in Vegas were up 181 percent over the deader-than-dead September 2007 market—a lot more are sitting tight, uncertain about the economy and their jobs. Still, as Root tells it—and the Census Bureau would agree—Nevada must be doing something right because its 2.9 percent growth rate led the nation in 2007.
Each year, Root says, scads of newcomers pack up for Nevada, seeking refuge from the tax burden of the "People's Republic of California." These IRS-hating émigrés behave completely irrationally, he argues: "They're bringing the social ideas and the political ideas that made their life a living hell in California, and they're starting to vote Democrat." Nevertheless, back when the economy was going strong, Bush beat Kerry here by 21,500 votes. And that was no surprise: Save for two Ross Perot-aided victories by Bill Clinton, Nevada had gone with the Republican every year since 1968. But in the last four years, the state has indeed turned blue. There were 4,500 more registered Republicans than Democrats in 2004; as of Oct. 17, there are around 112,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans in Nevada.
Silver State Democrats, while perhaps aided by a quiet annexation by Golden State liberals, clearly derived the most benefit from an early caucus date (the brainchild of Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid). The close contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama goosed party registrations and enthusiasm— 117,599 Democrats turned out for the 2008 caucus compared with a piddling 9,000 in 2004. David Damore, a political science professor at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, says that while the caucus was a split decision, "You sort of had Hillary controlling the Democratic establishment. What impressed me about [Obama] at the time is that he put together an entire precinct-level organization with no help." (Obama did get the endorsement of the powerful Culinary Workers Union, whose 60,000 members work predominately on the Las Vegas Strip.)
Meanwhile, John McCain punted the state's Republican caucuses, coming in third to Mitt Romney and Ron Paul. With McCain getting a late start, even Republicans agree that the GOP has been outhustled this election cycle. Chuck Muth, a former executive director of the Nevada Republican Party with a mordant sense of humor, is unwilling to say that the state party is disorganized. "You'd have to find it first," he says. Muth says the base isn't excited about McCain—"they're not walking door to door, they're not making donations, they're not making phone calls"—and that, unlike the Bush campaign in 2004, McCain simply doesn't have enough money to foster a big grass-roots push. (McCain now has nine offices in the state and around 30 paid staffers, compared with 15 and more than 100 for the Obama campaign.)
But even as Obama has inched out to a lead here, all is not lost for the GOP. Kerry lost by more than 40,000 votes in Nevada's rural counties, and while Obama has made a strong effort to tighten that gap—he's visited sparsely populated Elko County three times—it seems unlikely that he'll make huge inroads with the state's gun-loving conservatives. Heavily Democratic Clark County will also be a test for the Obama campaign's ground game—with casino employees working odd hours and many Latino voters going to the polls for the first time, turning out the vote will be a challenge. (Good news for the Dems: According to the New York Times, "Information from counties representing more than 90 percent of Nevada's population show Democrats … holding a commanding advantage in early voter turnout.")
There's also the Palin push to contend with. On Tuesday, the veep nominee drew big crowds to rallies in Reno and Henderson. According to Wayne Root, the Palin airlift is a conscious effort by the Republican Party to counteract his influence. "They picked Sarah Palin, I believe, because they said this guy has a shtick, this guy has an image—Wayne Root—that works, let's go find something like it. And Sarah Palin is a female version of my image." (For Root's extended soliloquy on the similarities—and fundamental difference—between himself and Sarah Palin, click
And Root may not be wrong. In a Zogby poll conducted just before Palin was chosen as McCain's running mate, the Barr-Root ticket had 10 percent of the vote in Libertarian-friendly Nevada—not far off the number that Ron Paul pulled in the GOP caucus. (Paul isn't on the ballot in Nevada for the general election, and after a dispute with Barr, he's thrown his support to Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party.) In Zogby's latest four-way poll, conducted Oct. 9 to 13, Barr is down to 1.2 percent, below Ralph Nader's 1.6 percent and "someone else" at 2.7. What gives? "When [Palin] joined the ticket, conservatives came flooding home," explains Zogby's Fritz Wenzel. "They are now showing some discontent over McCain's handling of the financial bailout and are again leaving, but they are now going to Obama, not Barr."
Wayne Allyn Root the oddsmaker pegs McCain as a 13-to-12 favorite in Nevada, though he does give the Libertarian ticket a "less than 50-50" shot of becoming a Ross Perot-like spoiler. If Obama wins the state, he says, "it will be because Bob Barr and I got between 6 and 10 percent." Root's future plans: "In 2012, I expect to be the [Libertarian] nominee. ... With my personality, which is bigger than life, I will attract five to 10 million votes in a Ross Perot-like number. And then in 2016, I will be a credible candidate for president of the United States. And in 2020, I'll win it." He also plans to continue picking NFL winners, which could perhaps lead to the happy outcome of the Super Bowl becoming a national day of rest.
Who is Michael Krein going to vote for? While he calls himself "a staunch conservative, bordering on social Darwinism," he says that he'll probably make more money if Obama is elected. "You increase taxes, you're going to affect jobs; you affect jobs, you create more foreclosures. Sorry, that's how life works." Is that reason enough to vote for Obama? Krein's not saying. He does say, however, that he's not necessarily rooting for more foreclosures. "At this point," he says, "I've got plenty."


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Vermont State Police said neither man was seriously hurt when the single-engine Cessna crashed around 9:30 a.m. in Middletown Springs.
According to police, the pilot had intended to land at an airport in Glen Falls, N.Y., but had to turn back after spotting hot air balloons and cars on the runway. He turned toward Rutland, Vt., intending to refuel there but fell a couple miles short, according to police.
The pilot, identified as Richard Piccirilli, 65, of Sun City, Calif. suffered lacerations and a possibly broken wrist, according to police. His passenger, David Querry, 53, of Hemet, Calif., got a cut on his nose. Both men refused immediate medical attention.
A phone listing for Piccirilli was disconnected and a phone number for Querry was not immediately available. The men had taken off earlier in the day from a grass airstrip near Burlington, Vt.
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