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Good afternoon. I am Bill Mayer; I am Chairman of the Board. It is my pleasure to introduce a great American that you all know, Senator John McCain, who dedicated his entire life to service to the US Government first in the Navy which he retired in 1981, elected to the Congress in 82', to the Senate in 86' and now a presidential candidate to run our country. A very unusual man, we share something in common. I flew in the Air Force in the 60s. I was very lucky my plane wasn't shot down and I think in reading his book and his memoirs about that experience is very powerful influence on his life. Just yesterday John released a new book called "Hard Call". If there is any mistake, you would [0:02:01] ____ for sales of this book. We will be selling copies of the book here. It literally just came out yesterday; it's a very interesting book. It's a compilation of the hard calls various people have made and it's been separated into sections; inspiration, foresight, judgment. And under foresight he talks about Winston Churchill at the eve of the Second World War and so it's quite a powerful book and I would urge you all to read it. Senator is going to have some comments and then I think I will ask the first question and we will do Q & A from the audience. Senator McCain. Thank you Bill thank you very much Bill, thank you Bill for your kind introduction, thank you for your stewardship of this wonderful organization. This is not the first time I've had the opportunity to visit this beautiful area, but also the Aspen Institute and you and Walter Isaacson I think have done a magnificent job. This has become a center of thought and discussion and dialogue that's needed throughout the United States of America. So thank you Bill for your kind introduction and it's nicer than the one I received at the Scottsdale Rotary Club, where the guy said here's the latest dope from Washington, Senator John McCain. So thank you for that. Yesterday I yesterday I started out in Beaufort, South Carolina and at a town hall meeting there. By the way if you've never been to Beaufort, South Carolina, it's one of the really lovely cities in America and then I flew to I where were I made an appearance at the Iowa State Fair, where I met a pig named Big Red who happens to weigh 1,203 pounds, an incredible experience. Runner up and only 1,197 was Corn Dog and so it gave me a chance of course to see real pork-barrel spending and have a chance to look at lot of the a lot of the pork and then I went to Sun Valley where we had an event there and came here this afternoon. Cindy and I are here and we I always love being back here. I do spent time in California. As you know, they have stolen Arizona's water. And in fact we have so little water in Arizona that the trees chase the dogs. But I was doing an event recently with Governor Schwarzenegger and of course he and I have many similar attributes as you can tell. So over there in over there in California and we went this event we had to deal with climate change and trying to enact green technologies and anyway there is always protesters in California. No matter what the event, there is always protesters. I walked by here is this great big tall guy, muscular guy and he says, "Hey", he said "has anybody ever tell you, you look a lot like Senator John McCain?". I said "Yeah." And he said "Don't it just make you mad as hell?" So well thank you for for your kind kind words. And by the way I would also like to thank all of you who are kind enough to spend some time in the winter with us in Arizona on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce, I would like to thank you. And I would like to ask your sympathy for the families of the State of Arizona because Barry Goldwater from Arizona ran for President of United States, Morris Udall from Arizona ran for President of United States. Bruce Babbitt from Arizona ran for President of United States. I from Arizona ran for President of United States. Arizona may be the only state in America where mothers don't tell their children that someday they can grow up and be the President of the United States. I had a beloved friend named Morris Udall who ran in 1976 against Jimmy Carter and his joke has been stolen by every presidential candidate and he said he walked into a barber shop in Manchester, New Hampshire and said "Hi, I am Morris Udall from Arizona and I am running for President of United States". The barber said "Yeah we were just laughing about that this morning." We had a we had a very similar experience when I first ran in 1999; we were at three percent approval in a poll that had a five percent margin of error. So we could have been at minus two when we began and we were proud of our campaign in 2000. In fact after I lost in South Carolina to President Bush in the primary, I slept like a baby. I sleep two hours, wake up and cry, sleep two hours, wake up and cry. And anyway, but these are very interesting times and the most enjoyable part of a gathering like this is for you to ask questions and make comments and an occasional insult that might come to mind. And so I would like to make just very brief remarks about three issues - just three. And then I would like to respond to questions or comments. Again thanks for coming today and thank you for your involvement in the institute, thank you for your involvement and engagement of the issues of the day, thank you for contributing to the dialogue on a variety of issues that are challenging our nation, and these are very challenging times. My friends I am running for president of United States because I believe the transcendent challenge of the 21st Century is the threat of radical Islamic extremism. I believe it's here, I believe it's a multi hydra headed I believe that the challenge is going to be with us through out the 21st Century. If right after 9/11, we had been having a discussion in the United States by the way there are going to be some doctors, some doctors in Scotland who become so radicalized that they will become suicide bombers and wanted to destroy the Airport in Glasgow, Scotland, you would have said that that's unlikely. If you would have said that there is some kids that grew up in London and are soccer fans that went to Mosques and got the message and got on the internet and became suicide bombers you would have thought that was unlikely. Our stereotype of the radical Islamic extremist is the kid standing on a street corner in Islamabad with no hope, no job, no opportunity, no education, are taken in the madrasas, brainwashed and become suicide bombers. That's still happening. In fact the majority of suicide bombers that are coming into Iraq today are Saudis. In case you didn't know that I am I am sure that most of you did. But the fact is we've got to win this struggle militarily, diplomatically, intelligence, but ideologically. And the greatest struggle where we are not doing it, what nearly what we should is ideologically. Today millions of people are watching Al Jazeera. Today millions and 100s of millions get on the internet and they get the message latest message from Osama Bin Laden or Zawahiri or one of the radical extremists, they can they can go online and see the picture of an American Humvee being blown up by an IED. We are not doing what we should in cyber space. And I am glad that we have got people in this room who are engaged in making cyber space a far more available and accessible to all people. But we as an American as Americans and those who believe in the fundamentals of freedom and democracy are going to have to do a lot better job because that's where I think the ideological struggle is been waged. My friends we didn't win the Cold War by a tank battle in Europe with the Soviet then Soviet Union. We won it because we had the message of hope and freedom and democracy for people all over the world and that's what prevailed eventually. And this struggle that we are in, is going to require us marshalling every resource, every bit of intelligence, to fight back the forces that are want to destroy everything we stand for and believe in. That's why I am running for president because and I am prepared to do that. Now I would like to just mention with to you; climate change. My friends, you can feel it today. It's real. 20 years ago it probably would have been 20 degrees cooler in this tent. The fact is climate change is real. The debate should have been over long ago and the question is what are we going to do about it. I'd like to quote Tony Blair, a man who I've grown to admire enormously, "The question is suppose all of us are wrong who believe that climate change is real and all we do is develop green technologies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, then we will have a far better world to hand to our children. But suppose we are right and do nothing suppose we are right about climate change and do nothing about it, then what kind of a planet we are going to hand to our children and our grand children." And my friends, the debate should have been over. The question is are we are going to do the things necessary, including an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions which includes China and India and must including going to alternate energy sources because it's now a national security issue as well as climate change issue. We are too dependant oil. We all we all know that. Look around the world where we get our oil, starting with Venezuela and you will find that our dependence on foreign and imported oil is very shaky in many parts of the world. So we need to have a cap-and-trade. Joe Lieberman and I have tried to get through the Senate on four different occasions; a cap-and-trade of emissions which is a capitalist excuse me enterprise oriented way of reducing greenhouse gases. Nuclear power has to be part of any solution. You know our good friends, the French 80 percent of their electricity is generated by nuclear power. We always imitate the French as you know and so by the way on my last trip to Iraq, I came back and I stopped in Paris on the way back and met the new President of France and as you know he is pro American, which shows you that if you live long enough any thing is possible in this world. And by the way I think it may be he might be the first pro American leader since [0:12:34] ____. I am sure but so so we have to address it and we have to make Americans aware that this is a two prong problem. One, we have to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and we must give our kids a better and cleaner world than the one that we are presently on track to live in if we if we believe that we are here not only on this earth to do good while we are here but to pass off to generations in the future, a better world. Now I would like to talk to you about spending very quickly. A lot of us are very keenly aware, us Republicans as well as Democrats are keenly aware that we lost the last election. We lost the last election partly due to the frustration and anger about Iraq and that's true. But the major reason why we Republicans didn't do the things that we should have done is because of spending. We allowed spending to get completely out of control. We Republicans came to power in 1994 to change government and government changed us. We have former members of Congress today who are Republicans who are in federal prison. If that's not corruption, then I don't know what the hell is. And we should be ashamed and embarrassed. And we should be apologizing to our constituents. My friends, not long ago we spent $3 million to study the DNA of bears in the Montana. I don't know if that's a criminal issue or a paternity issue but the fact is it was your money the fact is it is your money. In 1987 Ronald Reagan vetoed the then Highway Bill and he said, "I haven't seen this much portions. I gave out blue ribbons at the Iowa State Fair. He vetoed the Highway Bill at a 152 of these earmarked projects on it. Two years ago the President of United States signed a bill that had 6140 earmarked projects on it, it was too big and billion of your money of your money. So what happens now? By the way Ronald Reagan also used to say he used to say "Congress spends money like a drunken sailor, only I've never known a sailor drunk or sober with the imagination of members of Congress" and that's a pretty that's a pretty cute line and it goes over pretty good. I find it mostly at Republican Women's Club meetings. But the fact is the fact is about three months ago I am not making this up about three months ago, I got an email from a guy that said, "As a former drunken sailor I resent being compared to members of Congress." So so I don't blame him I don't blame the guy. So so the point is my friends that it gets from the ludicrous to the tragic. Now we all know about the collapse of the bridge over the Mississippi river and our hearts goes out to the victims and those who are who are still missing. My friends 200,000 people a day went over that bridge - 200,000 people a day. In this Pork-barrel Bill that I am talking about that they passed, the $2 billion in pork, there was not one penny for bridge inspection and repair, not one penny - not one penny. My friends the tipping point on this issue and there is tipping points in sports, there is tipping points in life, there is tipping points in politics and we can all point them out. The tipping point was, on the front page, a parade, the insert of everybody every Sunday newspaper just about in America was the picture of a bridge going off in the mist. It was the bridge to nowhere in Alaska. A $233 million bridge to an island with 50 people on it - $233 million. Don't you think we should have taken some of that $233 million and put it to bridge repair or bridge inspection at least? We are now finding out there are thousands and thousands of bridges all over America that need repair and certainly many more of them need inspection. Now finally I would like to so as President of the United States first Pork-barrel Bill that comes across my desk, I would veto it and I will make the office of those pork-barrel projects famous and you will know their names you will know their names, I promise you. Iraq my friends the war in Iraq was terribly mishandled for a long period of time. I railed against the strategy I said I had no confidence in the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld. I said that we needed a strategy such as the one we are employing now. And Americans are saddened and they are frustrated and they are angry. And their patience was pretty long their patience was pretty good. And now we have a new strategy and we have a new General and I am proud to tell you, we are succeeding we are succeeding. Now will you always have for a long time are we going to have this terrible suicide bombers? Yes, ask the Israelis how hard it is to defend against suicide bombers, because as long as people are willing to give up their lives and in order to take others you are facing an enormous challenge. And so we are going to see that. But I can guarantee you that in Anbar Province, there has been a dramatic turnaround. I am sure that many of you are aware of the O'Hanlon and Pollack piece, that was in The New York Times that stirred such a huge outcry amongst the liberals and those who have declared defeat and that we should go home. In Ramadi they went downtown Ramadi which without body armor and with a few soldiers. My friends, six months ago Ramadi was a shooting gallery. Ramadi was Fort Apache. We are succeeding there. In Baghdad today, in 53 neighborhoods there are American and Iraqi soldiers out there 24 hours a day. They are on patrol 24/7, they are in the neighborhoods and they are providing an environment of security for the people there so that the economic social and political process can move forward. What's the bad news? The bad news is of course the Maliki Government is not functioning effectively, and they have got to. And the police are corrupt. You still have problems with the corrupt police Shiite dominated police. But we are succeeding and I believe that Patreaus is going to come back and we are going to start a great debate, my friends, on the floor of the United States Senate. It would be a historic debate, because I am convinced that if we set a date for withdrawal and by the way ask the people who are for or against going into this conflict as to whether the date for withdrawal would do anything but cause disaster, ask Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, Zbig Brzezinski, General Zinni ask any of them, setting a date for withdrawal is a date for catastrophe and genocide. So let me just let me just also make one additional point. Please, the next time you look at a map of the Middle East, look where Iraq sits and look at the countries around it. That great philosopher and Center for the Boston Celtics and a great hero of mine, Bill Russell once said "When things go bad, things go bad." And right after the initial success of our invasion the Iranians couldn't have been more co-operative, the Syrians were scared to death because they have assassinated the former Prime Minister of Lebanon, Hariri, and we were dominant in the region and things were fine. And then things started to go down hill in Iraq and we know where we are today. Now look at the region and what happens as a result of failure in Iraq. The Saudis will have to will feel compelled to help Sunnis, the Turks will not allow an independent Kurdish state. They have already said they won't allow it. Look at Syria emboldened again as they try to destabilize a democratic government in Lebanon. Look at Southern Lebanon and the threat that has below, they opposes to the state of Israel. Look at Gaza where Hamas, a terrorist organization is now in control by the way proving that elections don't necessarily mean democracy. Look at Afghanistan and Pakistan. My friends, if Musharraf goes, and is the victim of an overthrow by an Islamic government, you think we have got problems in Afghanistan now. Think and contemplate that. So it's the region we have to worry about as well as the situation in Iraq. Now I would like to to just to end up by reminding you of one good thing. And by the way, I am confident we will win, I am confident we will never surrender and I am confident that they will, because I've had the great honor and privilege of associating with the young men and women who are serving our nation. They are the best we've ever had. They are the most professional they are the most professional, they are the bravest, they are the best equipped and they are the best trained. And no matter how anybody here feels about this war and we are entitled to our views, at least thank god all Americans are in support of them and I am continued to be gratified by a brief story. About three months ago I was asked to be present at the awarding of the Purple Heart to a young man by the name of Mark Robbins. Mark Robbins is a First Class Petty Officer in the Navy SEAL team members and the ceremony was at a Naval Hospital, his family was there, some of his SEAL team members and I was honored to be there. I know that you know that the Purple Heart was originated by the George Washington as the only medal we give for someone who is wounded in combat with the enemy. That was not the first time that I had met Mark Robbins. The first time I met with him was a couple was three weeks earlier, I had been on my way back from a trip to Iraq. I stopped at Ramstein Air Force Base, we re-fueled there and I went over to Landstuhl, the hospital where the wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan are taken, treated and then send on to Walter Reed and Bethesda. I walked into his hospital room and less than 48hours, before I walked into his room less than 48 hours, Mark Robbins and his SEAL team members had been in a vicious fire fight outside of the city of Baghdad, with Al Qaeda. In the course of this fight, an Al Qaeda guy had stood with a rocket propelled grenade and was about to fire it and probably would have wounded or killed some of his comrades. He stood, fired and killed the Al Qaeda guy. In the course of it Mark Robbins took an AK 47 bullet in his right eye, it followed the curvature of his skull and exited at the back of his skull. He was asleep, I said to his friend who was there to tell him thanks. I went down the hall. His friend Petty Officer Swink came to see me and said "Mark wants to see you." I came back into his hospital room; he said I got to sit up. He sat up by the way after he was shot in the eye in that bullet, he walked to the helicopter he walked to the helicopter incredible. Anyway he sat up, he said "I got to sit up" he sat up in his hospital bed and he grabbed hold of my hand and he said, "Senator McCain, thank you thank you for coming to see me, thank you for your support." And then he said, he squeezed my hand tightly and he said, "Senator McCain, we can win this fight we can win this fight." Well, my friends it's going to be tough and long and hard but I am inspired by young Americans like Mark Robbins and the belief that we can win this fight too. Thanks very much and I will be glad to answer any questions that you might have.


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If you own a dog, you probably know that they are some of the most affectionate creatures in this planet. They are not only good with humans, but with other animals as well. They love interacting with almost everyone they come across and they can befriend even the hardest of hearts. Just take for example, Ruby.
After this beautiful pooch was rescued from an abusive home, she was brought to Edgar's Mission, an animal sanctuary in Lancefield, Victoria. But one day, three piglets showed up at the sanctuary she was living in. Ruby was kind of apprehensive about the three new additions, but slowly she started warming up to them. She treated them like they were her own babies. The piglets were saved from "inhospitable" circumstances, and most of their siblings hadn't survived. They were looking for a surrogate family, and that's when Ruby stepped up to the plate.
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How is Dan Gilbert's petulance, poor plan rewarded with LeBron James?
With the Rocket's whiffing on Chris Bosh and Dan Gilbert landing LeBron James, exactly what is the point of actually being smart in team building?
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The point of competitive systems is to reward superior strategy and engagement with success. The NBA has the lottery, but its purpose has been to even talent discrepancies using a weighted chance system to make tanking less attractive. But the entire league isn't supposed to be determined by luck. Luck plays a part in which No. 1 picks become transcendent and which wind up as punch lines. It plays a part in injuries and, to a degree, the bounce of the ball off the rim.
Luck should not decide who's good and who's not. And more than anything, bad management seemingly should limit how much success is achieved, even if you do happen to hit the jackpot in the lottery once.
And yet, here we are.
The big winners of the 2014 NBA offseason are the Cleveland Cavaliers and the big losers are the Houston Rockets. Except Houston has been run well, and Cleveland has been a disaster. Go figure.
After James left in 2010, Dan Gilbert was ... a little upset. There's the letter, sure. But Gilbert pretty much went into petulant child mode. Remember, he was at the forefront of owner outcry over the nixed the Chris Paul deal that would have sent him to the Lakers. After what the Heat pulled, Gilbert essentially decided superteams are the mortal and moral enemy of his empire. Beyond that, he relentlessly pursued the playoffs. He seemed desperate to land a first-round matchup with Miami, to provide Cleveland with a chance at redemption, even though they would have been waxed. This is in part because of how much money he would have made off such an alignment.
He took shortcut after shortcut trying to get back to the playoffs. There was no patience, no rebuilding plan. Drafting Dion Waiters, trying to nab a transcendent surprise talent. Signing Jarrett Jack. Keeping Anderson Varejao. The Cavs spurned a methodical, well-planned rebuild in favor of a win-now-at-all-costs approach. And it was catastrophic. In a system like the NFL, where the worst team gets the No. 1 overall pick and so on, the Cavaliers would have been stuck in neutral, trying to find their way out of mud Gilbert put them in.
Yet the "karmic" gods, or whatever, have rewarded Gilbert, despite his failings. Three No. 1 picks in four years. Three. It's like the basketball gods were giving Gilbert the ultimate "Good Job, Good Effort." That stacked the roster, even if you don't think Anthony Bennett will ever amount to anything. (P.S.: It's too soon for that, the kid has looked good in Summer League.) Remember, in 2012 this same team was partying at the lottery and yelling, "We're never coming back here again!" The Cavs were back the next year. And they won. Again.
And then there's the lockout.
In the lockout, Gilbert led the charge of owners seeking supreme tax penalties on superteams, making them nearly impossible to maintain (beyond Miami, look at what's going on in Brooklyn). It was his side pushing for a bigger percentage of Basketball Related Income. It was his side putting more restrictive limits on what the max stars could make.
Everything that frustrated LeBron James about this season?
Gilbert did that. Everything that James and the players have championed for? Micky Arison may not have been gung-ho about it, but he was more on that side that Gilbert's.
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But he couldn't even keep all of his veterans, including one of James' favorites, in part because of the league's new punitive tax measures. Those measures, strongly supported by spurned Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert, were directed at least in part at breaking up Big Three-type rosters, or at least making them extraordinarily expensive to maintain and bolster. And after three injury-plagued seasons, Miller was sacrificed, with Micky Arison using the amnesty provision to save roughly $17 million in luxury taxes for the 2013-14 season and create some future flexibility.
That decision backfired, and not just because Miller miraculously played all 82 games for Memphis, shooting 45 percent from three-point range. James started the season irritated by Miller's departure, played the season irritated that Miller wasn't available to fill in for Wade and finished the season irritated that the veterans left behind -- without useful youthful reinforcements -- had broken down. It's impossible to know how much that played into his decision to return to Cleveland, or at least to return earlier than he anticipated, since he wrote in the essay that he always planned to someday.
But it certainly didn't help.
via After LeBron James' Departure, Miami Heat's NBA Debts Keep Piling Up | Bleacher Report.
So Gilbert took vindictive measures against a system that cost him a superstar because he failed to secure enough talent to keep the superstar at home. He ran the team into the ground trying to make the playoffs to no avail. He fired his coach three times in four seasons (including the same guy twice!) and fired his GM. And he made efforts to ensure James and superstars like him would be paid less while also ensuring it would not be viable for those stars to team up with other superstar talent for a long period of time.
For this, he was rewarded with three No. 1 picks and the best player on the planet signing with his team as a free agent.
Life's not fair, but shouldn't it at least make sense at some point in this process?
Gilbert and the Cavs deserve recognition for not doing anything to prevent James from joining the Cavs. And they made the pitch they needed to. But the situation still reads as "Petulant owner lashes out and constantly strikes out but gets rewarded by luck and LeBron's desire for his kids to grow up in Ohio."
This is like if Wile E. Coyote ("Supergenius") wound up catching the Roadrunner.
Meanwhile, on the other side, here's Daryl Morey. He turned Kevin Martin, Jeremy Lamb and picks into James Harden. He cleared space for Dwight Howard and successfully pitched him after years of building a competitive team while also accumulating assets. He found takers for Omer Asik and Jeremy Lin, contracts he signed because at the time, they were major talent upgrades. He offered Chris Bosh the chance to compete for a title now, in a role preventing him from having to bang down low and would maximize his talents in a tech-savvy organization with no state income tax.
Instead, he got Trevor Ariza.
The NBA's not fair. And you can ask Derrick Rose, Kobe Bryant, Greg Oden ... or former Bucks owner Herb Kohl, who tried to build a winner the right way during his tenure. But the events of the past four days reveal more than just that simple imbalance. It reveals a legitimate flaw in the NBA's design.
If Gilbert and the other over-pursuant owners hadn't smashed-and-grabbed their gains in the last CBA negotiations (or if the player's union was competent enough to fight back), this doesn't happen. If probabilities don't hit some sort of Hitchhikers-Guide-To-The-Galaxy random-engine level in the lottery, this doesn't happen. But it did.
For all the hemming and hawing about tanking, at least those teams had a plan. They accepted their fates and wanted to build the right way. The Cavaliers instead jumped off a cliff believing they could fly and happened to sprout the wings of fortune. The Rockets designed a masterful engine that would take them to the heavens, and they ran out of fuel before they could escape the atmosphere.
The Spurs are an expertly run team and they have the title. The best-run teams will, over time, be better and poorly run teams the losers. But this remains a fascinating point. The Cavaliers slammed their head into the wall so many times they broke through to Valhalla. The Rockets are good not great after a grand design. There's a lot that goes into this winning thing.
It's better to be lucky than good. But you'd think in a competitive environment that being good would help more and being bad would hurt just as much.
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Science may trigger unwelcome school memories of frustration at failing to grasp its basic laws. But many of us still fondly remember the story of Archimedes yelling 'Eureka!' in his bath on discovering that the volume of his body equalled that of the water it displaced. And, as I discovered the other day, a new exhibition displaying the first drawings of 20 of the world's most life-changing inventions (not all of them science-based) proves that science and engineering can be both enlightening and entertaining.
Star Wars Stormtrooper, 1976
Cleverly displayed on Samsung Galaxy Note 4 tablets, the drawings are on show at digital communications company O2's Eureka! Gallery at The Proud Archivist café in Haggerston, north London. Appropriately, this ultra-hip café itself fosters experimentation, offering such events as mixology lessons and what it intriguingly calls 'creative breakfasts'!
The show has been jointly organised by Mark Champkins, Inventor in Residence at London's Science Museum, and O2. 'We wanted to show that breakthrough moments start from humble beginnings and how a simple sketch can have a real impact on people's lives,' explains Champkins.
Eiffel Tower, 1887
The pioneering inventions range from Robert Stephenson's 1829 Rocket steam locomotive to — hurrah! — the Anglepoise® Original1227™ lamp. One of the show's more fascinating insights is that lateral thinking often spawns innovation: although a car designer, George Carwardine adapted his 'constant tension' springs to create the gracefully articulated Original1227™ lamp of 1935. Fast-forward to the 70s, and George Lucas's initial inspiration for the Stormtroopers' costume in his 1977 movie Star Wars was, apparently, an image of a Vietnamese soldier — another leap of the imagination.
Brompton Bicycle, 1975
The Original1227™ lamp is in excellent company: other brainwaves include Charles Babbage's 1832 Difference Engine No 1 (the world's first computer) and a page from Einstein's general theory of relativity, published in 1916.
I was struck by something else: the staggeringly precise technical drawings here are not dry renditions of objects but beautifully delicate and aesthetically pleasing in their own right. Here indeed is a show that shows science in a different light.
Gensler Shanghi Tower, 2014
The exhibition, at The Proud Archivist, 2-10 Hertford Road, London N1, runs until December 7, 2014. Open 9am -6pm, seven days a week. www.theproudarchivist.co.uk.
Top Image: Patent for Anglepoise® Original1227™ Lamp, 1935
Words: Dominic Lutyens, arts writer for the FT and Elle Decoration. Books include 70s Style & Design and Living with Mid-Century Collectibles.
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Caesar's Palace odds for next year, Arkansas at 5. 4 of the top 6 are from the SECLSU 3-1USC 6-1Alabama 7-1Oregon 9-1Arkansas 12-1Georgia 15-1Florida State 18-1Oklahoma 18-1Virginia Tech 18-1Michigan 18-1http://beyondthebets.com/2012/01/04/caesars-palace-releases-2013-college-football-bcs-national-championship-futures-odds/
USC really?
Do you watch football?
USC Georgia really?
I don't watch the pac 12 and I thought they would be hurting from the probation by now.
chokelahoma is noticibly absent, as is Dabo's group.
USC has had top 5 recruiting classes throughout the whole probation. They will be very good next year. The freshman WR they have is amazing. Their D is full of pissed off Pacific Islanders and BAMF's. I think Barkley is better than Luck based on the games I watched from both of them this season. Luck is probably smarter, but Barkley never seems to miss a throw. Despite Kiffin's coaching they would have gone to a BCS game this year if they weren't on probation. Not sure who all they lose but I don't think its very many skill players.
Read this:http://www.thedaily.com/page/2012/01/06/010612-sports-wolken-column-arkansas-1-3/BY DAN WOLKEN FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012DALLAS — Regardless of the outcome Monday night between Alabama and LSU, the Southeastern Conference will claim a sixth straight BCS National Championship. Since the formation of the Bowl Coalition in 1992, which begat the Bowl Alliance and then eventually the BCS, no league has achieved a stretch of dominance that even comes close.Even more impressive than the six straight championships, perhaps, is the fact that four different schools have won them — one-third of the league. The SEC's stature has grown to such a degree that any school that wins the conference is almost assured of at least playing for the national title.This makes fans of other leagues understandably angry. When Oklahoma State can win the Big 12 — which the computer rankings pegged as the strongest conference in the country this year — and get passed over for Alabama, which didn't even win its division, it's hard to deny there's a strong SEC bias at work.But that bias is well-earned, and it's not going away anytime soon.In January 2013, a national champion will be crowned at Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens, Fla. And for a seventh straight time, it will come from the SEC.This time, though, it won't be Alabama or LSU going back-to-back. It won't be Florida, Auburn or even Georgia.Your national champion next season? I give you the Arkansas Razorbacks.Though they didn't make a BCS game this season — they'll play Kansas State in the Cotton Bowl tonight — you can make an argument Arkansas was the third-best team in the country this season. The Razorbacks weren't in the class of LSU or Alabama — they lost to those teams by a combined score of 79-31 — but really, who was? Remember, before the Razorbacks took that Nov. 25 beating at LSU, there was an outside chance they could have snuck into the championship game this year.By any measure, it's been a great two-year run for Bobby Petrino at Arkansas, leading the Razorbacks to the Sugar Bowl last year and the Cotton Bowl this year with the chance to finish 11-2. That's what Arkansas' players have focused on this week."To end the season in the top five would be huge for the program," linebacker Jerico Nelson said.But next year could be even better.Without a college football playoff, schedules matter more than ever in determining who plays for the BCS championship. And Arkansas' schedule in 2012 screams national title contender.Though the Razorbacks are actually still searching for one more game next season, let's assume it will be a lesser opponent they can beat. Arkansas' three other non-conference games — Jacksonville State, Louisiana-Monroe and Tulsa at home — should all be easy wins.So the question is whether the Razorbacks can win the SEC for the first time since they joined the conference in 1991. The schedule suggests they'll have a heck of an opportunity.With first-team All-SEC quarterback Tyler Wilson likely to return as a Heisman Trophy candidate next season, Arkansas' offense will have plenty of firepower to beat the lesser lights of the league. Home games against Kentucky and Ole Miss, as well as road games against Mississippi State and rebuilding Auburn, shouldn't be much of a problem.Arkansas plays two tricky, but winnable road games — Nov. 10 against South Carolina and Sept. 29 at Texas A&M, which will be implementing a new offensive system under first-year coach Kevin Sumlin.But the ultimate issue for Arkansas is whether it can beat LSU and Alabama. This season, the Razorbacks had to play both on the road. Next season, they get both in Fayetteville.It's really that simple. If Arkansas can beat LSU and Alabama, it'll win the SEC West. If the Razorbacks can win the SEC championship game, they'll probably play for a national title. That's why any talk about Arkansas' expectations for next season begins and ends with winning the division."We're just working hard each day to try and find a way to get to Atlanta," Petrino said this week, sidestepping a question about Arkansas' evolution into a national title contender. "Our players are very confident about it. Again, I think it comes down to work ethic, attitude and belief."Winning the Cotton Bowl certainly wouldn't hurt that belief. Since the 1970s, Arkansas has rarely been considered among the nation's elite programs, but Petrino is on the verge of changing that. His offense is innovative, entertaining, and explosive. Arkansas will lose some talent at receiver next season with Joe Adams and Jarius Wright, but Petrino's got it rolling to the point where there's little doubt he'll plug in talented playmakers to pair with Wilson, who has thrown for 3,422 yards this season. It also helps that running back Knile Davis, a 1,300-yard rusher who missed this season with an ankle injury, is slated to return.And though Arkansas' defense won't be on the level of LSU or Alabama, Auburn proved last season that an elite offense can win the SEC West and the national title. There's no question Arkansas' defense will need to improve, but again, it's impossible to overstate the importance of playing its toughest games at home."In the SEC, every week you have a chance to get beat," defensive end Tenarius Wright said. "You also have a chance to go out and blow someone out. It is all about your mindset. The overall big thing is that we have a chance to be top five going into next season. We are very happy to be in this situation."They'll be even happier when they'll be representing the SEC in Miami next year, trying to make it seven in a row.
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Clemson is stacked. But Vegas knows that douchebag Sweeney is one step above helmet wearing retard
Next season, they get both (LSU and Bama) in Fayetteville.
Is he just saying we play both at home or has it been confirmed we play LSU in Fayetteville?
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Down and Out, Not in Beverly Hills
Frozen River, Wendy and Lucy, and other great new movies about America's poor.
In the shadow of Shea Stadium, a street urchin ekes out a living doing odd jobs at an auto-body shop. Further north, a dollar-store worker resorts to smuggling immigrants across the U.S.-Canada border to supplement her income. In the Mississippi Delta, a single mother tries to keep her family afloat tending a convenience store on a desolate stretch of road. Across the continent, a drifter and her dog linger in a small Oregon town after her car stalls and she can't afford to have it fixed.
Scenes from the precarious economic moment? They are, in fact, plotlines from some of 2008's best movies. Last week, the academy recognized Courtney Hunt's Frozen River, a downbeat chronicle of a woman on the economic periphery, with nominations for lead actress Melissa Leo and Hunt's own script. But it was hardly the only American indie to tap into the dismal zeitgeist. Other homegrown films from last year—Chop Shop, Ballast, and Wendy and Lucy—fixed a steady gaze on American poverty. Delving into the lived experience of the poor, these "recession indies" offer a corrective for a culture in which the poor are usually invisible, both in real life and at the movies. It's a welcome change in an indie landscape that has recently been dominated by the solipsistic likes of Napoleon Dynamite, Garden State, and Juno.
In Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop, the protagonist is Alejandro, a 12-year-old Latino orphan who calls a junkyard swathe of Queens home. When he's not slaving away at a garage, he's working the streets peddling bootleg DVDs. His dream is heartbreakingly pathetic: to buy and fix up a broken-down food truck—a venture that, once we get a glimpse of the battered truck, has "bad idea" written all over it.
A stoic lament for a dream deferred, Chop Shop builds on the achievements of Bahrani's previous film, Man Push Cart, a stark study of a Pakistani food-cart vendor in Manhattan. Bahrani may stack the deck by making a likable, hardworking kid his protagonist, but his movie is resolutely unsentimental. Like the other recession indies, Chop Shop isn't interested in agitprop. The mode is ethnographic. Bahrani renders an outer-borough subculture with unblinking detachment, refusing to judge or lecture. Moral epiphanies unfold organically. When the camera leaves the dingy streets for a scene at the U.S. Open nearby—where a desperate Alejandro, surrounded by a glittering crowd, ponders his first purse-snatching—the effect is powerful. At that moment, Ale seems to have walked out of his reality and into the audience's, implicating us in his marginalization.
Ballast, the stunning debut film by Lance Hammer, shares similar qualities. Like Chop Shop, Ballast bears the hallmarks of Italian neorealism: nonprofessional actors, location shooting, no score, a rejection of artifice. Set in rural Mississippi in the bleak midwinter, the story centers on a fractured family: Lawrence (Michael J. Smith Jr.), an African-American man who runs a convenience store with his twin brother; Marlee (Tarra Riggs), his estranged sister-in-law; and James (JimMyron Ross), Marlee's 12-year-old son. The three are brought together when Lawrence's brother commits suicide—and Lawrence tries, and fails, to follow suit.
The movie is matter-of-fact in its depiction of rural poverty. Lawrence's house is bare and dim. Marlee's days are stretched thin by a long commute and an exhausting job as a janitor. Shot handheld and opting for ellipses over exposition, only once does Ballast go too far: a shot of Marlee scrubbing a urinal at her job that puts too fine a point on her plight. But elsewhere Hammer is restrained, observing life on the margins as it's lived without the condescension of false redemption.
More conventional but no less attuned to everyday life is Hunt's Frozen River. Leo plays Ray Eddy, a woman who wakes up one morning to find her husband and the money she had been saving to buy a prefab home gone. Stuck with a dead-end job at Yankee Dollar and desperate to make the payment for the double-wide trailer, Ray turns to smuggling immigrants in the trunk of her car across the U.S.-Canada border, with the help of a Mohawk woman who lives on a nearby reservation. Meanwhile, back home are her two kids, left to fend for themselves while Mom tries to make ends meet.
Compared with the other movies, the plot-driven Frozen Riveris less formally adventurous and more accessible (hence, perhaps, the Oscar nominations). But Hunt and Leo nail the details of a life without a safety net. The movie takes place in a succession of drab locales where the downtrodden congregate—trailer homes, bingo parlors, dollar stores. Hunt also enlarges our image of poverty by setting her movie in and around an American Indian reservation in upstate New York, shining a light on perhaps the worst-off—and most frequently forgotten—segment of the American poor.
Part of what makes Ray's plight at once moving and terrifying is how familiar it is in the current moment. The dread of missing a house payment, the frustration of not making enough at your job: This is what every day looks like for Ray. Leo's portrait of working-class desperation is bracingly unaffected—she never once plays to the crowd. Her turn underscores a common strength among the movies discussed here: the absence of recognizable stars and the baggage they bring. Leo's Ray is no Erin Brockovich—the former is a lived-in performance without a hint of vanity; the latter a strenuous, Oscar-baiting act of faux de-glamorization. (True to her character—and her status as a character actress—Leo was both grateful and grounded when she received word of the Oscar nomination: "It's delightfully surprising. I had no expectations. What does all of this mean? Four letters: W-O-R-K.")
Michelle Williams, on the other hand, is a star, but the way she disappears into her role in Wendy and Lucy is a marvel. Williams plays Wendy, a drifter on her way to find work in Alaska who gets stranded in a small Oregon town after her car stalls. Strapped for cash, she's reduced to sleeping in the driver's seat, returning scavenged cans and bottles for deposits, and shoplifting Iams for her dog, Lucy. Her normally blond hair shorn and dyed brown, Williams looks like a Bressonian pixie. But Wendy and Lucy's real forefather is Vittorio De Sica, whose Umberto D., about an impoverished pensioner and his dog, remains one of the highlights of Italian neorealism.
That influence notwithstanding, Reichardt's movie is distinctly American. It invokes one of the great traditions in American cinema—the road movie—but pointedly has the car stall 10 minutes in. Reichardt foregrounds Wendy's existential dilemma by eschewing back story. For the entire running time, all that matters is what's in front of Wendy: a broken-down car, a dwindling reserve of cash, and a missing dog. The movie ends with Wendy moving on, carrying even less than the little she already had—an all-too-common feeling for many Americans right now.
Too few to be a trend but too great to be ignored, these socially committed movies suggest, one hopes, a new sobriety and seriousness among American independent filmmakers. But will audiences respond? So far, the signs aren't encouraging. The four films, combined, have made about $2.5 million, or roughly one-third of Twilight's opening midnight gross. When Americans do go to movies about the poor, they're usually set a continent or two away—think of art-house hits City of God, Born Into Brothels, and Slumdog Millionaire. Perhaps bulletins from our own trenches sting too much for domestic audiences. That certainly seemed to be the case for The Wire, arguably the most devastating portrait of the urban poor that audiences have seen in years, which saw its run end in 2008 after five critically acclaimed, poorly rated seasons.
The Wire shares something with these films: They all serve as urgent dispatches on the way we live now. Wendy's predicament—like Ale's in Chop Shop, Marlee's in Ballast, and Ray's in Frozen River—resembles, if not in its details then certainly in its outlines, what millions of Americans are going through. Immersive and rigorous, these movies depict an experience that is at once common and unseen: the struggle of scratching out a living, or getting by without one.


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Faith Loudon plans to eat at as many local Chick-fil-A restaurants as she can manage on Wednesday — at least six. Other Marylanders, meanwhile, are vowing to donate the amount it would have cost them to get a chicken meal from the fast-food chain to gay-rights groups.
Nothing turns a sandwich into a symbol faster than a company executive wading into politics, especially on a subject as divisive as gay marriage.
Chick-fil-A's president and CEO, Dan T. Cathy, told the Biblical Recorder, a Baptist journal, in early July that the company was "very much supportive of the family — the biblical definition of the family unit." In a radio interview in June, Cathy said, "I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'"


text: Unite backs expansion of Luton airport 25 February 2013 Unite, Britain's largest union, has thrown its weight behind the campaign to expand Luton Airport to create an extra 5,000 jobs and help boost the local economy. Approximately 36,000 people receive jobseekers allowance across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. The airport and its associated businesses can play a central role in correcting this imbalance in the years to come. The self interest of a small group of 'not in my back yard'campaigners who are clearly out of touch with the reality which confronts tens of thousands of unemployed people should not be allowed to stand in the way of sensible growth and development. Under the plans submitted to the local planning authority, the airport intends to create over 5,000 new jobs in the local economy. The plans come at a time when people are looking for work, the economy is suffering and unemployment is especially high amongst the young. Unite national officer Oliver Richardson said: "Supporting the expansion of Luton airport is common sense. It will create jobs and boost the local economy. The 'not in my back yard' mentality cannot be allowed to get in the way of these crucial plans to expand the airport. Unite fully supports the proposals to expand Luton along with the majority of respondents who took part in a consultation on the expansion last year. "It's a choice between £100 million worth of investment or doing nothing." ENDS Contact Ciaran Naidoo on 07768 931 315 Notes to editors: Unite is Britain and Ireland's largest trade union with 1.5 million members working across all sectors of the economy. The general secretary is Len McCluskey.


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When one syncs it to the console (paired). Is there any icon on the menu showing the battery like how it shows the picture of a Gamepad and 4 Wiimotes?
Does it show a Pro controller or is it shown as a Wiimote. Also if a Wiimote is paired, does the Pro controller get placed as Player 2? In the 4 blue light below?
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Micro Persuasion: Fear of Losing Control Unites Us All
I agree with Steve on the concept that "we have to encourage our clients to experiment." Yes, that's one of the reasons companies hire an outside agency, to push them in ways they may not normally think and to be an external, somewhat more, objective voice on communications strategy and tactics.
I also agree with Frank Shaw in that too much is being made about companies needing to 'let go of control' in order to be successful in these 'new' communications tactics. If a client wants a sure thing, I tell them to buy an ad.
Our business is all about balancing risk with reward. For example, if you are working with The Wall Street Journal on an article on your client, the reward is a potential positive article that drives business/improves reputation etc., but the risk is that in the process of developing the article the reporter may talk to a disgruntled customer, partner or other voice that could turn the article negative for your client. The risks and rewards haven't changed that much over the years, but the tools available have.
And to quote from Nicole Kidman as Dr. Lewicki in that superbly underrated (OK not that underrated but I saw it in one of the first theaters with THX and that WAS cool) film "Days of Thunder":
Dr. Claire Lewicki: Control is an illusion, you infantile egomaniac (our whole PR industry not Steve). Nobody knows what's gonna happen next: not on a freeway, not in an airplane, not inside our own bodies and certainly not on a racetrack with 40 other infantile egomaniacs.


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The story of Pilots is a fascinating one and offers important insight in terms of what the organisation is all about. Pilots started with a boy from Tottenham who got himself lost in the Pacific…Well, kind of…in a roundabout way…
The Pilots Badge
The Pilots badge is not simply a logo, but is, in fact, full of meaning.
History Archive
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The Theology of Pilots
Pilots aims to encourage children and young people in the work they are already able to do in making the world a better place, believing that God has created all people for this purpose, whoever they are and whatever they believe.
The concept of 'mission' concerns everything which aims to protect the values of God (peace, understanding, hope, care, justice, faith, love... everything which leads towards a better existence for all), such as the provision of food for the hungry, shelter for the vulnerable, comfort for the weary. Mission is also about giving people the opportunity, should they wish to take it, to enter a relationship with God and see the part they have to play in protecting these values.


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Stephen Broadhurst
Digital Transformation in Cardiff, United Kingdom
Stephen Broadhurst
Digital Transformation in Cardiff, United Kingdom
As part of the IBM Interactive Experience I help clients use leading IBM technologies to create compulsive user and employee experiences. I work particularly with the Telcommunication industry, and am helping them look at new realms where we can place cognitive computing, AR and VR to create powerful new services and products
I mentor a number of startup companies in London and Cardiff, and have a passion for the application of innovative technology at scale, particularly around gamification, omni-channel and cutting edge customer experience
I have built the business case for, designed the architectures for, and delivered major transformation programmes, leading teams and organisations ranging from 6 to 480 consultants.
Have a look at my LinkedIn page for all the work details.
At home I love to travel with my family and produce panoramas of where we go. I'm a high-fidelity audio fan, working on silent computing, high definition digital audio and classic vinyl recordings. I love to fix and drive cars whilst drinking too much coffee and have been steadily working on how to improve both my coffee and classic MX-5 for a while - some of these I find time to write about on my blog


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