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New Bakken Shale Pipeline to Cushing, OK in the WorksRead time: 5 mins
Steve Horn | April 19, 2012
By Steve Horn • Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 13:45
The controversy over TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline has raged on for years now, with no end in sight.
The Keystone XL pipeline would carry tar sands crude from the tar sands epicenter of the world in Alberta, Canada, take it down to Cushing, OK, and then eventually down to Port Arthur, TX, where it will be refined and placed on the lucrative oil export market.
While Republicans continue to try to make Keystone XL a campaign issue, President Obama has officially put the fate of the pipeline on the backburner until after the November 2012 U.S. elections.
But this has not stopped other key pipelines and pipeline extensions from being built "in the meantime, in between time," as the song lyrics made famous by the classic novel, The Great Gatsby, go.
Most recently in the limelight: Obama's late-March approval of the TransCanada Cushing Extension, which extends from Cushing, OK – the self-proclaimed "pipeline crossroads of the world" – to Port Arthur, TX, where oil would be placed on the global export market.
Now, another key pipeline proposal is in the works, one that would move unconventional oil and gas obtained via the problematic hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") process in North Dakota's Bakken Shale basin southward to Cushing, where it would then be moved to Port Arthur and also placed on the global export market. Another portion of that pipeline would move the oil and gas westward toward Coos Bay, Oregon, where it would also be exported to the highest bidder.


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xbay wrote:GSW United wrote:aletha33 wrote:GSW United wrote:kidd are not as good as nash on making every players around him a better offensive players.
Look at Nets and Suns....because of nash the sun became an elite team while kidd are still 'don't know where'.
Sun is the super offensive team while W's on the second place but last year we are about as same as they are....
not quite sure what you're trying to say, but yes, let's look at the Nets and Suns...
Nets, back to back finals appearance...
Suns, zero final appearances.
as you were saying?
i am not saying the past...coz i am not the person living in the past.
what i say just put this 2 teams on the game now..SUNS and Nets..who win will win the title...that's it.
The reality is simple who win is the king.
Nash hasn't even tasted the NBA Finals, Kidd has. If it wasn't for the Shaq era with the Lakers, they would've won the title... or at least had a better shot against the Spurs. Nash is built to run an offense, same with Kidd. Kidd is better all-around. Double-doubles? or Triple-doubles? The list goes on.
Watching Kidd with the Suns and Nets was simply entertaining and amazing. You'd have to see it to actually get a real, true perspective on it.
back to back championships final but didn't win...that's mean nothing.
nash are more complete sport player...he can really good on soccer.
Kidd is good on tripple double but if can't help your team win the championship title, it's meaningless...
look at Tom Brady how superior he is in the season but if u didn't win the Superbowl is nothing.
And i do think the personal life Nash are more simple than Kidd...i don't want to say Kidd we all know that.
Sorry if i am wrong...
for me Nash is better than kidd. If not because of that incident 2 years ago, Sun probably win that championships already.

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Car Comparison
2014 Cadillac CTS vs. 2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Class: Which Is Better?
In the midsize luxury sedan class, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class is the heavy hitter, and it's not surprising why. Wearing the very definition of an aspirational brand on its grille like a twinkling beacon of success, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class is what people park in their driveway when they want to tell the world they've finally made it ... made it to the point where they can swing the lease payment, anyway.
The new 2014 Cadillac CTS proves that Cadillac is not sitting by idly as it rebuilds its credibility as the "standard of the world." Longer, larger and better equipped, the new CTS is solidly positioned to go head-to-head against the Benz. Before we compare the two, let's look at what Cadillac and Mercedes have in store for mid-luxury sedan buyers this year.
2014 Cadillac CTS Highlights
With the ATS sitting at the bottom of Cadillac's lineup, the 2014 CTS is redesigned and moves firmly into mid-luxe territory. The competition on this playing field is stiff, but Cadillac brings serious game, and the new CTS is credibly positioned to take on the best in the class.
2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Class Highlights
In the face of this and other threats to its dominance in the mid-luxury market, Mercedes upgrades the E-Class Sedan for 2014, adding a new turbodiesel model, installing new standard and optional safety technologies and sprucing up the styling.
With the stage set, let's look closer at these two direct competitors to determine if you should go with this or if you should go with that. This article does not, however, include the high-performance versions of either model, the CTS-V or the E63 AMG.
Fuel Economy
Cadillac offers three different engines for the new 2014 CTS. The 2.0T models are equipped with a 270 horsepower 2.0-liter turbocharged 4-cylinder engine, while the 3.6 models have a 321-hp 3.6-liter V6. The performance-oriented CTS Vsport has Cadillac's new twin-turbocharged 3.6-liter V6, pumping out a robust 420 hp. An all-wheel-drive system is optional for the nonturbocharged V6.
Over at the Mercedes-Benz store, the E-Class is available with a turbodiesel 4-cylinder engine, a V6 engine, a gas-electric hybrid powertrain or a twin-turbocharged 4.6-liter V8. The E250 BlueTec turbodiesel makes 195 hp, which doesn't sound impressive. Torque measures 369 lb-ft at just 1,600 rpm, which is very impressive. The E350 has a 302-hp 3.5-liter V6 engine, and this powerplant also forms the basis for the E400 Hybrid model's powertrain, which generates a combined 329 hp. The E550's twin-turbo V8 makes 402 hp and is paired exclusively with 4Matic AWD. 4Matic is optional for the E250 BlueTec and E350 models.
In addition to offering greater powertrain variety, Mercedes also delivers better fuel economy, and all its engines have Eco Start/Stop technology. The volume-selling E350 models return 23-24 miles per gallon compared to 21-23 mpg for the Cadillac CTS 2.0T and 3.6 models. The E550 4Matic is rated to get 20 mpg, which is right in the same neighborhood as the CTS Vsport. Plus, Mercedes offers the E400 Hybrid (26 mpg) and the E250 BlueTec (32-34 mpg). Cadillac doesn't have a train to compete against these models.
There is no doubt. The E-Class is the more fuel-efficient luxury sedan.
When it comes to safety technology, the 2014 Cadillac CTS and 2014 Mercedes E-Class are exceptionally well equipped and offer an impressive list of optional upgrades. It is no surprise, then, to discover that for nearly every safety feature offered by the CTS, the E-Class is available with something identical or similar. However, Mercedes goes the extra mile, making several thoughtful and practical items either standard or optional for the E-Class.
It is true that Cadillac offers a Safety Alert Seat that vibrates in response to sensed threats, but the E-Class has a steering wheel that vibrates when the Lane Keeping Assist system senses the driver drifting. That delivers the message to the part of the body responsible for correcting the problem. Plus, the Benz can be optioned with active versions of Lane Keeping Assist and Blind Spot Assist, and is also available with Steering Assist, forward Cross Traffic Assist and a Pedestrian Detection system. The COMAND infotainment system allows the driver to use a 360-degree camera and front camera views at very low speeds, and every E-Class has Attention Assist, a drowsy-driver detection system.
Neither model has been subjected to crash tests. However, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety rated last year's E-Class a Top Safety Pick. As for the Cadillac CTS, it is based on the same basic vehicle architecture as the smaller ATS, which is, in the eyes of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, a crash-test rock star.
Assuming each of these luxury sedans proves its mettle in crash tests, the nod still goes to the E-Class for its more thoughtful and diverse range of safety technologies.
Except for its 3.6-liter V6 engine, the 2014 Cadillac CTS is brand-new from the ground up, and it is way too early to assess whether it will be reliable. However, in looking at the previous CTS model's track record with both Consumer Reports and J.D. Power, the future for this new model looks bright.
During the past few years, the Mercedes-Benz E-Class has come close to equaling the Cadillac in reliability, dependability and quality but hasn't turned in quite as commendable a performance. Nevertheless, it is no slouch in this regard. So, for now, we'll call this one a draw.
In terms of pricing, the 2014 CTS represents a better value, as it stickers for thousands of dollars less than the 2014 E-Class and comes with free scheduled maintenance during the 4-year/50,000-mile warranty period. The exception to the cost/benefit analysis is the CTS 3.6, which is actually $1,800 more than the equivalent E350, the most popular version of the Mercedes and the one for which lease deals are readily available.
One reason Mercedes can regularly offer lease deals is that the E-Class enjoys an average depreciation rating from ALG. The market research firm hasn't assessed the redesigned Cadillac's ability to hold its value over time, but the previous CTS, as good a car as it was, fared poorly in this regard, earning a below-average rating. If that trend continues for the new CTS, the value of the lower price tags and free maintenance erodes quickly.
Also, because the CTS is so new and dealers are still trying to sell old CTS models, there aren't any deals on the Cadillac. We doubt, though, that any Cadillac dealer would let a customer walk away in favor of the E-Class, and we bet they'll find a way to sweeten the deal to keep the customer at the Cadillac store.
We're going to give the Cadillac CTS the subtlest of nods here, one that could easily go in the other direction with minor changes in the market.
When you're talking about mid-luxury sedans such as the CTS and E-Class, the lists of standard and optional features are long. While the Cadillac and the Mercedes don't cancel each other out completely, each offers a handful of unique technologies that could serve as a deciding factor.
For example, the CTS is available with triple-zone climate control, while the E-Class comes with a dual-zone system. The Mercedes is available with a massaging driver's seat and a rear-seat entertainment system, while the Cadillac's owner can remotely start the engine to get the car's heater going in advance of a drive on a wintry day, or to get the air conditioning blowing on a muggy summer day.
If you shop for a new car on the basis of the available technology, the choice between the CTS or the E-Class is personal, so we're not calling an advantage either way.
AutoTrader's Advice
Based on these five assessment criteria, the 2014 Mercedes-Benz E-Class retains its right to the midsize luxury sedan sales crown in comparison to the all-new 2014 Cadillac CTS. Still, the Benz doesn't win this contest by a wide margin. If the new CTS proves itself to be as reliable as the old CTS, or if Cadillac figures out a way to milk the engines for greater fuel economy, the tables could easily turn in the CTS sedan's favor.
And it sure doesn't hurt Cadillac that Millennials reportedly don't want to drive the same car their parents do. Now, if they could just find good paying jobs to afford their first new CTS.
Find a Cadillac CTS or Mercedes-Benz E-Class for sale


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Thank you so much for your kind birthday wishes.
It's almost a week later now and I've been so busy with work.
This is my first day off and I finaly had some time to catch up with blog reading and to post.
February the 6th was a happy cake eating and gifts unwrapping day.
This book was one of my presents
It contains some wonderful stitchery projects.
Like this needle book, I love to make this sometime.,
Heleen spoiled me with this most gorgeous bag.
Lucky me... to have a sister who can make such handsome bags!
This morning the streets were snowy white and a bit slippery, again!
I can't wait til this winter is over. I just about had it with the cold!
To keep warm I even added an extra quilt on the bed with the tacking cotton still in it!
This dutch folklore only needs one side of the binding sewn on.
I can do that this evening.
p.s. Dear swap friends,I find it so lovely that some of you write emails back and forth and become swapfriends. How neat is that!!


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Russians Call It White Swan; Americans Call It Black Knave
It is warm, the sky is blue, soft rumbling is heard from the most powerful turboprop engines in the world… We are at the airbase in Engel's. These are photos that you could never have hoped to see before. During the Soviet era, this was top, top, top secret stuff. But not anymore thanks to brave Russian bloggers who took their cameras with them when they visited this place. Are you ready to see the largest supersonic, variable wing geometry plane up close and uncensored? Let's take a look!
This is the commander of this strategic Russian base. He is also a pilot and takes practice flights on an Ilyushin-78.
First, let's see some older Russian Tupolev-95MS. They are not the ones we came here for but they still carry a lot of firepower!
Tu-95MS is a turboprop bomber and rocket carrier, the fastest turboprop plane, and one of the symbols of the Cold War. It is the only turboprop bomber which went into full production. It was designed for bombing the enemy's important targets with cruise missiles, in any weather conditions and at any time of the day.
On July 30, 2010 these planes broke a record of non-stop flying, after they had covered 30 thousand kilometers, crossed three oceans and refueled four times!
The Tu-95SM carries X-55 cruise missiles.
A double-barrelled GSh-23 gun is located in the rear of the aircraft. The range of a 23 x 115 mm bullet is 2 kilometers.
On the next few pages you will see the Top Secret Soviet TU-95s!
Preparing the aircraft for a flight.
Inside of the cabin of Tu-95MS.
The crew consists of seven people. There are no ejection seats for them, so in case of emergency, they should leave the plane through the entrance ports.
Tu-95 has the most powerful engine in the world (15000 hp). Its propellers have a diameter of 5.6 meters which is more than a single track tunnel of Moscow Metro.
It is also one of the noisiest aircrafts in the world and can be spotted even by hydroacoustic systems of submarines, however stealth is not critical for making nuclear missile strikes.
At this airbase they make a minimum of two practice flights a week.
Are you ready to see the real thing? It's ahead!
These aircraft are practicing take-offs and landings, refuelling in the air, and long flights over Russia.
The first to take off is a rocket carrier scout plane. It makes a circle of a 300-kilometer radius.
A Tu-95MS is about to take off. The two lights imitate a predator to scare birds away.
The feeling of seeing such a big, heavy and powerful plane ascending are indescribable! But what you see next is really cool!
The Ilyushin-78 is the only plane of the Russian Air Force that can refuel other planes in the air.
It's amazing that such a gigantic thing can fly! Moreover, it can carry up to 90 tons per load!
And the highlight of the show is the Tu-160! This is a supersonic bomber rocket carrier. Here is what we waited so long for!
Maximum speed: 2230 km/h.
Cruising speed: 917 km/h.
Maximum flight range without refuelling: 13950 km.
Operational ceiling: 15000 meters.
Rate of climb: 4400 meters a minute.
The plane has 4 engines with a total 100000 hp!
Russian pilots call it 'white swan' for its beauty and gracefulness. Americans call it 'black knave' for its invulnerability.
Each one costs 7.5 billion rubles (250 million dollars), and since 1984 35 of them have been produced.
The Real White Swan of Russians!
The Tu-160 is the the largest supersonic variable wing geometry plane. It is the most powerful and the heaviest military aircraft in the world. It has the biggest take-off mass and weapons load.
What's interesting on the next page is that you are able to see the cozy little cafeteria where the pilots of these monsters have their lunch breaks between intercontinental flights.
The local cafeteria. Each lunch will cost you approximately 110 rubles (15 dollars).
Museum of Aviation.
Nearly evening, and the first aircraft are returning to the base.
Its take-off mass is comparable to the mass of 9 x 71-619KT trams!
A crew of more than 30 technical specialists work to prepare the aircraft for another flight.
When these aircraft fly over neutral territory, they are accompanied by NATO fighter interceptors. In case they come too close, which does happen sometimes, Russian swans gather up their supersonic speed and fly away, leaving the NATO planes behind.
Tu-95MS landing.
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123 responses to "Russians Call It White Swan; Americans Call It Black Knave"
just a couple of points
110 roubles is not $30 it is more like $3 dollars
The plane may gather is speed to outfly NATO planes but it cant outrun a rocket
neither can Nato bombers outfly rockets
First, nobody spoke of Nato bombers outflying anything, but this article mentioned outrunning escort fighters and being "invulnerable". Outrunning a fighter is irrelevant, because in a conflict a fighter isn't going to hit you…but his missile will. Second, many Nato fighters can keep up with the TU-160 just fine if they choose to expend the fuel to do so. The planes are impressive, but there are lots of other exaggerations in this article as well.
India has six of this plane in active service with Indian navy and none of these got crash till date even after active service of 30 to 35 years. Superb Russian Engineering.
India does not have this plane. Indian Navy operates Tu-142 Anti sub marine warfare aircraft,which is a turbo prop. This is the Tu-160 strategic jet bomber.
neither can you nato buckets yankee boy.
neither can you nato buckets yankee boy.
Agreed, can't outrun rocket nor outrun our Pigs (F-111's) that we recently retired.
35 Tu-160's have cost the community 8,750 million dollars. My country has just spent billions on US fighter planes.
Our schools have a Fete with a cake stall (they beg) to raise money !…..We will have air force but no body that can read or write. So its easy for our government to frighten and manipulate people.
Sorry but this is how I feel, it is the communities money, it should be spent on the community. Leaders want to fight, let them go fight.
Leader are mad at war. they said 'fight for ppl's freedom'. but reality is 'fight for profit'.
Fight for Profit??? Is war really bring profit to many people?
The people do not make a profit. The arms dealers and makers DO!
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JJ : I have not relevance to The Communist Party! and I don't konw what they do!
What makes you think Geoff is from USA?
Probably something to do with Geoff being a really common American name. (sarcasm!)
I know Geoff personally, and I am fairly sure he is from Queensland in Australia.
Hah, I have an uncle Geoff in Townsville, North Queensland, but he is now in his 80's so this is probably not him. I live in Perth. Someday, I will visit Kiev, Leningrad, Stalingrad, and then from Moscow travel on the TransSiberian Express to Valdivostok – then to Japan! I like Russians but have never been there – yet!
Go to Africa your place of origin
We all orgininate from Africa
i thought the most common capitol hill squawking war budgie name was HANK(the YANK),and his old boiler's (wife's) name was inevitably BLANCHE.
paranoid delusionist yankee college boy? probably stands saluting his star spangled underpants flying from a pole every morning too.
Geoff isn't a common name in the US, it's more common for British, like Nigel or Ian, or one of their colonial places. In the US, Jeff is a much more common spelling. Likewise we don't use "Fete".
Last two pics are impressing.
"When these aircrafts fly in the neutral territory, they are accompanied by fighter interceptors of NATO." Does this make much sense to any of you guys?
No sense. If any escort, you would expect it would be Russian fighters. Not NATO
What it means is that they are intercepted by NATO aircraft, so that they don't fly into NATO airspace. Just like back in the cold war. The same would be true if NATO aircraft approached Federation airspace. Kind of like back in the Cold War. I Myself have seen Soviet TU 95's flying at very low altitude off the coast of the U.S. back in the eighties. They were just "snooping and pooping" so to speak.
Oops, guess I need to stop repeating myself, Duh! Anyway, the Tu 95 is a beautiful plane! Cool post!
Actually the Dutch Royal Airforce frequently escorts Russian Bears out of Dutch airspace. It's an escort as in showing someone where the door is, not a protective duty.
It is the Russians that are getting "too close", entering foreign airspace without any request for authorisation. However, it is just a pretty harmless game and keeps both Russian and NATO airforces sharp.
In our country, NATO means No Action Talk Only.
I think that is a mis translation they mean to say fly out in non neutral territory (NATO).In the old day during the Cold War if a TU-95 was near say Alaska some US Air Force aircraft would fly up to "escort" really it was a show that (Soviet) "we can fly our plane here" and (USA)"we can see that you are coming and intercept you". Back in 2008 I think it was, Russia sent a Tu-160 to Venezuela and it did get "escorted" the entire flight(outside Russia) by various Swede, British,and American aircraft depending on its location.You can even find some film shoot by both the fighters and inside the Tu-160 on the internet.In the old day sometimes the crews would wave at each other sometimes they would extend the middle finger!Always they took pictures.
Two things I find not very efficient one is with the Tu-95s they still have the 23mm cannon that is simply a waste of weight surely they have modern counter measures the guns are useless the B-52 for example had the tail cannon removed in the late 80's.The second thing is the Ground power units in Russia they are part of a Ural bad idea if the Ural breaks down you loose the power unit and then you are going to need another specially modified Ural.In the US our ground power units are separate and self contained this way they can be towed by any truck also this allows us to have several power units just waiting for use it is more efficient.The Russian military should very seriously consider copying the US system of ground power unit employment from direct experience in this line of work I can see that the current Russian set up is not efficient.
After Eurofighter foul up, NATO has no more new designs. Just remodeled Eurofighter, same on the outside, totally different on the inside. Reason: EU recession. No money to support military designs. If not, NATO would be in GAZA already preventing genocide.
It's neutral territory they shouldn't escorted by anything out of their own will.
Get real! The TU-95 is a cruise missile carrier. It will be followed wherever it goes. It's just like driving an Abrams tank along the border of a neighboring country. You will be watched.
Oh please… Escorts have every right to share the neutral airspace right alongside another nations weapon of war. It is as much their right as it is the Russians to fly their bombers in neutral airspace.
So it is totally ok when russian fighters check the nato-vessels and -aircrafts over the Baltic Sea?
lol, looks like Russians don't feel it's right for their airborne missile platforms to be escorted while menacing the border of another nations airspace. Too bad for them. 🙂
no more than they like being threatened by ILLEGALLY sited I.C.B.M's in "nato pet poodle" countries like poland and romania. in direct contravention of international agreements.
Since it's neutral territory, anyone who wants to can fly there, including a fighter escort from another country.
What is really happening is this "neutral territory" they are flying in is actually just a few kilometers or so out of NATO airspace. It's a game they play, testing each other. They fly just outside of the border, and the NATO fighters demonstrate they saw the TU coming by meeting it there and flying alongside until they are away from the border. They don't interfere with each other at all.
It's also natural for the pen to be mightier than the sword. You know the meaning of "pen" – the type we keep sheep?
Canada (flying for NORAD) follows ("escorts"?) Tu-95s when they track along the edge of Canadian airspace in the Arctic. Yes, they also wave farewell when the TU-95 moves along to the edge USA airspace. Canada was thrilled when the Russians pulled the Tu-95s out of storage and learned to fly them again. Canada's air force hasn't had so much fun in years!
Air superiority fighter, resp. multirole combat aircraft(MRCA) Eurofighter, having a max. flight altitude of up to nearly 20,000 m and maximum speed of Mach 2,35, nearly 3,000 km/h.
Can not shadow the Tu-160…? probably not. But pilots know how to avoid an incident with subsequent political banter, furthermore Cold War is over since the nineties.
The Tu-144 as well is an amazing civil aircraft with its elegant appearance and the technological Know-How inside.
I can't believe they still use those dual prop engines.
US submarines can track them from hundreds of miles away, underwater. They just SO noisy.
Yeah right. I bet the submarine can do it while standing on its nose and stroking its torpedo too.
That is a different version of the Tu-95 the Tu-142 is the maritime patrol version this is the Tu-95 in its role it is of no matter if a sub can hear its engines.Same basic air frame entirely different roles and to be honest the submarine is going to hear any aircraft anyway perhaps not an ASW heilo but any fixed wing it will and still it can hunt the sub.Just because the plane can be heard that does not make it a non threat.
the only "submarines" you would have any experience of sonny would be floating in a toilet.
Tu-160 Operational ceiling: 15000 kilometers.
Wow! That's some ceiling! 😉 Should be meters of course.
Yes, according to them, its operational ceiling is 40.5 times the orbit height of the ISS. Half the height of GPS geostationary satellites, and higher than any US space shuttle or Buran flight! It cruises so high, it's nearly 4% of the distance to the moon, right in the strongest part of the Van Allen belts. The pilots should get astronaut wings, and radiation pay, and they should really think about using it to -drop- satellites into orbit, and resupply the ISS!
They also seem to think its maximum altitude is greater than its maximum range. Weird.
"A double-barrelled gun GSh-23 is located in the rear of the aircraft.A range of a 23×115 milimeters bullet is 2 kilometers." Very impressive… but for a plane from WWII maybe…
Several MiGs were shot down by USAF B-52 tailgunners during the Viet Nam conflict.
but the MiGs without AA missiles…
F-14 was the only modern aircraft built without cannon, and now every modern fighter has internal cannon (including F-35, F-22, Gripen, Rafale, T-50, Su-35, etc.), for use in air to air (dogfight) or air to surface role.
For close encounter would be useful the double barrelled gun in Tu-160.
You mean F4 phantom? Vietnam War vintage, now used as target practice drones?
Black Jack (Knave) is more like "Evil Knight" than something invulnerable.
Agreed. McCarthyism never went completely away. No one in the states would ever call anything in any foreign military invulnerable, even if close allied nation. Its why they're more proud of the Abrams tank than the Harrier for example.
Knave is at most a backhanded, begrudging compliment, or sign or envy.
unlike what you talk sonny boy,which is evil shyte.
Get a life Katana, ever wondered why no-one cares to answer your childish chides so that you're always on the outside of everyone else's discussions? Just as no-one cares about Russia, much less give a fig about trying to invade the place. Keep it and stay in it, it suits you. Paranoia deluxe. Oh and by the way, I'd rather be a poodle than a slave that works only to support a macho idiot who can only keep it up by killing children in Aleppo.
absolutely nothing to be proud of those retro flying junk. it is only a matter of a short time until we hear in the news one of those had crashed. And that will be pretty much regrettable for the human lives
You know nothing about aviation clearly the Tu-95 is a very good design just like the B-52 they both have lasted for years a well made air frame can last for years with the correct maintenance and with avionics upgrades.This is not some hunk of junk Airbus.
From that last comment, you are clearly pretty ignorant of aviation too.
If you think something from 1984 is retro junk, you might not want to get on that next 737 or 747 flight…
.."nothing to be proud of those retro flying junk…". Hahah! Then you shouldn't be proud of most of the US Airforce! This plane is newer than most the USAF. Russia has actuallty newer models than the old F-15's, F-16's and F/A-18. And the troubled F-35 and the Russian SU T50 will be operational almost at the same time.
Saw a few Bears during my time in the US Navy. They always had an escort of F-14s or F-18s.
Same with me back in the mid 80's. They would sometimes get close enough that you could clearly see the pilots.
Da. Impresionant.Da pentru cine si pentru ce?(cum intreba si d-l presedinte Ion Iliesc.)
I was in the United States Navy in the Sixties. I was in the Mediterrain Sea on a US Navy ship when the B-52 and KC-135 collided over Polarmares, Spain. Our ship escorted two sea-going tugs, pulling barges laden with the plane's cutup fuselages to a point off Greenland in Feburary of 1966 to dump the wreckage.
Every day we were overflown by at least one TU-95 at a very low attitude(about 100 metres) so the Russian Technicans could stand in a half door on the TU-95 and take pictures of us and the wreckage on the barges.
The TU-95 was an impressive plane when viewed that closely. We could always hear it coming, it always came in from the stern on the starboard side. We always got a good view of it up on the open bridge. It was very, very noisy plane.
That was over forty five years ago, I can still visualize the TU-95 over us.
It's Crazy to think we used to fly them loaded for bear like that. What a mess it must have been to clean that one up, both physically and politically. Thanks for serving!
Translation error – NATO designation Blackjack NOT Black Jack! A blackjack (or sap) is a leather covered, weighted weapon for striking at close range. When used properly, can break bones or even kill.
The TU160 is the Russian version of the B1, which was cancelled. Size, load, performance, etc. are very similar, but bigger than, the original B1. The B1 was resurrected under Reagan as the B1B; different job, different engines, high subsonic in normal operation, only Mach 1.25 @ altitude. Paradigm shift from speed to stealth.
So during the Soviet years billions of rubles were spent on these planes … no wonder the average Soviet citizen had to line up for toilet paper! The government was going broke trying to keep up with the arms race!
Yes. Like you would know the first thing about life back in the Soviet union.
he is just another example of an indoctrinated vacuum headed yankee college boy,a typical flock ovine,when one goes "baaaaaahhhh!" the rest bleat accordingly .
…" The government was going broke trying to keep up with the arms race!…". Then YOU should learn the lesson. Small wonder why the now US owes $18 Trillion and have a $5 Trillion Deficit EVERY YEAR! They outspend the next ten most military powerful nations combined. Tell me how much the Avergae US citizen owes today from their National Debt. Please don't make angry your creditors from Communist China!
Considering the US is shifting to drones and can produce many drones for what a fighter or bomber cost. Only takes one stealthy drone to down one of these bombers. Seems rather pointless.. The current generation drones are getting more maneuverable and more stealthy making them even more lethal and cost effective.
Drone's that can perform complex last minute decision making (abort, change of target) for bombing runs aren't here yet. And just because a bomber can't be shot down doesn't mean it shouldn't be flown, or even built.
Heck, India and Russia are developing a hypersonic cruise missile together. Supersonic drones are here, but hypersonic drones… oh dear.
Those current drones seem rather pointless. Seems like money wasted. Even non lethal and cost ineffective.
That is as far as you know that is the current technology… Drones will be the dominate air power within the next decade. The limiting factor right now is the pilot, aircraft like the F-22 are severely limited by the pilot's biological factors. I can safely say that the US is developing significant next generation and beyond drones, human and auto flown drones. The US already has hypersonic missiles and recon aircraft, drones are probably on the list.
The F-22 is severely limited by being a complicated, overpriced piece of crap.
Lmao, I worked in the airforce for several years on base in north dakota. I was an F16 mechanic in the hanger next to the F-22's. The F-22 SHITS on any fighter of today and it's already over 10 years old. Trust me there are things you don't know about this plane because the GOV won't tell you it's real potential. The specs of the original 12 production F-22 raptors are nothing like the updates given to them in secrecy over the years to keep it on top of the game. Try something like a APU powered turbo-pump for the afterburners flowing more than 100,000 ADDITIONAL G/PH, that should give you a guess as to the sheer bad-assery going on inside that Pratt engine. Only other thing I'd like to divulge without going into detail is that it can now give the SR-71 a run for it's money in an all out speed race.
100,000 gallons per hour additional? So with only that running the AB it would use up all 2630 internal gallons of kerosene in about 95 seconds, or 137 seconds with the drop tanks on? What is the purpose of such a high FF if you have to dead-stick land after 2 minutes or less? Or is that hi-flo beast of a pump for sucking gas INTO the F22?
…"The F-22 SHITS on any fighter of today …". Only when the plane can fly, but most of the time it's grounded for "maintenance". The F-35 is known to be inferior and more troubled.
Would love to have a go in the rear gunner position.
Can someone translate what is written on the Blackjack's side?
yes, it says "go shove a razor wire suppository up your ass you yankee pimps"
name of the plane (these big bombers got their own names like ships in the navy).
AS a retired SAC Aircraft Maintenance Officer, I appreciate this photo article. Thank you very much for posting it. I teach high school Junior ROTC – Aerospace Science – and this makes an interesting counterpoint to the US part of the equation.
I had the privilege of going to the Moscow Air Show in 1991 with the SAC Contingent.
I teach my students about the beauty of aircraft – and the importance of communication. A little more time spent communicating and a little less spent rattling sabers at each other would go a long way.
And – all you happy armchair warriors up there on the comment list? – ever stood on a flightline and loaded a plane at -50F or at +110F? Ever loaded thermonuclear hell into an aircraft and wondered if you – or your country – will be alive next week?
Keep talking -or typing – your rants.
I am SO glad we never carried out our missions. And I pray we never will.
And if you've never walked where I've walked, then, most respectfully, Sierra-Tango-Foxtrot-Uniform!
At last, an adult finally showed up!
$30 for lunch? Did I read this right? S*it I can get double quarter pounder with extra large fries and super size coke for $6 at Mcdonalds
Thats a typing mistake. It is not 30 Dollar but 3 Dollar. After the devaluation of 2014 it is much less.
We Vietnamese used Russian aircraft but deafeded very mordern American aircaraft.
All you have just said i saw is not bad so there is nothing more to add but if you have a question concerning good s…… area you can contact me.
Russian aircraft is one of the best in the world.
Operational ceiling: 15000 kilometers.
Rate of climb: 4400 meters a minute.
Really..???? That makes it a spaceship.. !!!
B1 and Tu160 have different front view – this is surely Tu160.
Then, about russian "idiots", who can only copy.
Beginning of the program: B1 – early 1970th, Tu160 – 1972.
Weigh (max): B1 – 216 tons,Tu160 – 275 tons.
Engines: B1 – 4×65 kN, Tu160 – 4×175 kN.
Introduction: B1 – October 1986, Tu160 – April 1987.
No futher comments.
Stop spending astronomical amount of money on expensive military hardware.Spend it to eliminate poverty and human suffering.
Gov'ts should use that huge amounts of money to alleviate poverty…………….
The good post I see it so much responsive. I also like it.
Actually the Dutch Royal Airforce frequently escorts Russian Bears out of Dutch airspace. It's an escort as in showing someone where the door is, not a protective duty.
It is the Russians that are getting "too close", entering foreign airspace without any request for authorisation. However, it is just a pretty harmless game and keeps both Russian and NATO airforces sharp
Oh, please people for heavens sake. This plane is a copy of America's B1-B bomber which has been in existence for 30 years. The B1-B, (though still in service) was replaced by the Bat Wing B2 Bomber which is by far the world's most expensive and advance strategic bomber. This Russian plane is harmless and old tech.
"…this plane is a copy of America's B1-B.." hahah!! See the pictures. Those are completely different planes. This means you can't recognize your oen plane. LOL. And if you weren't the typical lazy ass American (jelous) kid, you can read that both design and tech are completely different too. And even if you cry, the TU160 is much better, Please keep showing off your envy.
I love when jelous (and ignorant) kids from the US say this plane resembles the much more expensive (and inferior) B1-B. This means they have never seen a picture of their own (smaller and slower) bomber.
The US is without doubt the most hated nation on this planet, condemn Hitler but look what they did to the native american Indians the rightful residents. Look what they did to the Africans, look what they did to central America, Asia, Philippines, Africa. they are the only nation to have used the nuclear bomb not once but twice! Against a country that was trying to surrender.
This nation has many hundreds of military bases spread around the globe over a thousand if you count the private military consultants/trainers under the umbrella of the CIA & USSOC ( United States Special Operations Command)
constantly meddling in other countries buisness always looking at what new resources they can steal and how to remove non responsive (patriots) to install new compliant puppet leaders under their influence.
We want the US, OUT of Europe, out of the Middle East, out of South East Asia, out of Australia, South/Central America…
I have nothing against the American people, I blame your government if it was to use the money it spends for military domination on its own people and infrastructre it would be a much better place with free high standard medical care, education, employment and positive production. but instead it not only tries to enslave the planet but its own population too.
We are told that terrorists are a huge threat in the US but in reality statics prove that you are much more likely to be murdered by a cop than you are by a terrorist (now theres food for thought!)
As for the plane yes its nice but its end purpose is to wipe out people therefore I hate it!
Desde Colombia los felicito por tan interesantes articulos.Las fotos son espectaculares.
The US could have conquered the entire planet with its monopoly in nuclear weapons. Instead our nation massively demilitarzed.
The Soviet maniac, Stalin brought on the cold war.
Super genaration Russians will bring more.
Hope there isn't gonna be another World war
USA is using what they democracy to threaten other countries direction as if it should be understood in same way. Democracy it's not a stone that can never be broken. We do believe that democracy is good for every country, but must be applied to bring the best good for every community/society. it should be a box that contains more and more box suitable for the end-user.Suitability here meant nothing else but carrying each country's national philosophy not other country's ideas. U people you should know that not just pressuring every country for your own kind of democracy.
@ Hill: Not what America has done to Africa, but what great harm America is still causing Africa. For instance, America is currently backing Hausa-Fulani Nigerian government to exterminate the indegeous people of Biafra who have chosen to embark on self-determination out of the contraption called Nigeria, which was created by the then British imperialist, Fredrick lord Lugard in 1914, following his amalgamation of the three major ethnic groups that separately existed on their own as sovereign regions and with their own names. Nigerian government through various means has been killing and maiming members of MASSOB and IPOB groups who have stood their grounds to actualizing sovereign state of Biafra. Sadly, America has turned blind eyes toward the killings being perpetrated on both MASSOB and IPOB members in Biafra land. I wish Russia makes quickest advancement militarily to checkmate America's imperialistic might.
@Chukwuemeka Okeke
Thank you for pointing this out I will look into this and try to bring the attention to friends and groups.
Think man. Then you would be under the Russian yoke instead. Fancy being Putin's little toy? No thanks – we all know what they say about the deep secrets of homophobes. Anyway if you really care to follow events in your continent I would be worrying more about the Chinese, who have just about wipped away the shoes off your feet and the land that you stand on, aided unfortunately by none other than your own countrymen.
…"you would be under the Russian yoke …". LOL. Really? Which one? Russian "yoke" consists only in ONE Naval Base in Syria (and is used to attack medieval jihadis, savages who had actually killed Rusians AND Americans). ONE base against HUNDREDS of US bases scattered around the world.
So, please tell us: WHY so SCARED?
…"we all know what they say about the deep secrets of homophobes….". Wow. Please let us know more fantasies of yours. Those tell more about your irrational FEARS, than anything else.
Are we at war, or going to have one. Show the US keep out where they don't belong
Biggest and heaviest supersonic plane? I think all of you are forgetting Concorde. 16 planes built in the 1960's which could carry 100 passengers, plus luggage etc. across the Atlantic at Mach 2.0, all the way. Purely European engineering and nothing to match it has ever been built.
I think this plane is better but not the best coz Americans have more other planes which are better than this one but its also a good plane.
It's not a turboprop maybe it's a turbofan? doh!
Once weapons were made to fight wars, now wars are started to make, weapons.
a country caught in a war economy is like a snake eating itself from the tail up (sooner or later it will lose its head!)
Who cares how fast or how much destruction it can cause
for what good is this when everyone's dead, all your family, friends, loved ones, gone.
All will end when the power for hate over balances the power of love, it all comes down to the math.
There are only about 16 in service.
Enough to have the US media and the Pentagon in panic.
Whoever wrote this article needs remedial English classes, the standard of grammar and syntax is AWFUL!!
Today/current life is to interesting, so i thk "3rd world war" is impossible…
I like this web site so much, bookmarked. "I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true." by Dorothy Parker.
Great post thanks for the share.
This was a great story , Thank you so much
Nice story, the only problem is the gigantic jet is huge on radar, zero stealth, so good luck in any conflict with F-22 Raptors. A one way mission. Sort of like B-52 trying to penetrate Russian air defenses. They better launch their cruise missiles while still above Russia.
Black knave? Invulnerability? Some Russian's fantasy. Even the self defense, two tail guns, with supposedly maximum range of 2 km, AMRAAM launched by F22s will hit the bomber from 50 miles away and end of story. Russian crew will not even know its coming. These old planes with their enormous radar signature are obsolete on modern battlefield. As I said above, they better launch their cruise missiles while still flying above Russia, otherwise they are toast. And size of engines, speed or whatever other glorious parameters these planes have make no difference.
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Bleeding heart liberal rag Forbes does some important journalism and investigates the Fast and Furious pseudo scandal. It turns out that the basic facts the wingnuts are presenting — that the ATF was engaged in a gun-walking sting operation, is false. Well, waddaya know?
Unfortunately, this is unlikely to matter. The scandal has taken on a life of its own and it will, in my opinion, likely lead to the resignation of Eric Holder. It's just how these things work. (Look for a shift from the scandal itself to a Village-wide condemnation of "the handling" of the scandal.)
I had to laugh when I read this, though:
Irony abounds when it comes to the Fast and Furious scandal. But the ultimate irony is this: Republicans who support the National Rifle Association and its attempts to weaken gun laws are lambasting ATF agents for not seizing enough weapons—ones that, in this case, prosecutors deemed to be legal.
Irony doesn't begin to cover it.
I saw Chris Hayes speak this week here in LA about this book and he said a lot of interesting things, but this hit home especially: he said, "the defining characteristic of the last decade or so is a feeling of disorientation." This sort of thing is partly why. (I date it to the gothic Clinton scandals, personally.)
Article like this should put the scandal to rest. But it won't. And we'll keep crying "but…it's not true! That doesn't make any sense!" and it will keep on happening and there's nothing we can do about it except try to keep our own grip on reality. The disorientation is a feature not a bug.


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A mainstay of the Portland music scene over the past several years, Mike Coykendall joins us with an all-star band, including Rob Burger, Mark Orton, Garth "Steel" Klippert, Sean Oldham and Todd Corbett, to play from Chasing Away the Dots, the new record five years in the making out recently on Fluff & Gravy.
Coykendall is nothing if not in demand. The veteran Portland producer and musician has been amazingly prolific over the past two decades or so— roughly half that time spent in the Rose City after relocating from San Francisco. He's released a handful of records under his own name— this year's Chasing Away the Dots is his fifith— as well as a part of bands like Klyde Konnor and The Old Joe Clarks. He's also been a mainstay in M. Ward's band, and has produced and/or engineered numerous others at his Blue Rooms Studio. It's been on that production and engineering end that Coykendall has made a name for himself as of late, working with names like Ward, Blitzen Trapper, Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside and Jolie Holland, to name a few.
We talked to Coykendall about the varied sound of the new album, what it's like to produce himself versus others, and his formative years in rural Kansas. The band played four new songs, plus got to an Old Joe Clarks number (Burger and Orton were both members of the San Francisco band along with Coykendall and his wife, Jill).
Audio recording/mixing: Steven Kray, with tech assistance from Bill Ward
Video production: Jarratt Taylor
Video shooters: Jarratt Taylor / David Christensen
Photos: Nathan Quigley
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The game may be over for Infinity Ward. After two months of drama that daytime soap opera fans would find hard to accept, Activision may have just tactically nuked it right out of business.
Rarely has a more successful company crumbled as quickly as Infinity Ward. After releasing one of the best-selling video games of our time, a pair of firings quickly snowballed into legal warfare that pitted the former developer heads against the publisher. The courts soon became the venue of choice for both sides, but that became secondary to the battle over the future of the Modern Warfare franchise. A third entry is already underway, but the question of who would be left to make it rang with resonance as 28 of the 93 original IW employees have since left the developer after their bosses were fired in March.
Then yesterday the most recent bomb was dropped, and 38 current and former IW employees officially sued Activision, claiming that the publisher had withheld their contractually obligated bonuses in order to force them into working on the new Modern Warfare title. It now seems like that may have been the final straw, and Activision is allegedly making plans to close down Infinity Ward and push the development of Modern Warfare 3 off to two new studios.
CVG is reporting that Janco Partners industry analyst, Mike Hickey, has told investors to expect Activision to close down Infinity Ward as soon as a second Modern Warfare 2 map pack has been released. No info has been released on when the second map pack is due out (although rumors suggest mid-summer).
"Continued defections from their Infinity Ward studio have created meaningful uncertainty around the future of their Call of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise. A reported 26 developers have left the studio behind, with an original studio size of roughly 100," Hickey told investors. "It was revealed yesterday that 38 Infinity Ward employees filed a lawsuit against Activision over royalties and alleges that they were held 'hostage'.
"We expect Infinity Ward studio will be essentially closed after their next map pack release," Hickey wrote, "with development work on Modern Warfare 3 spread between two studios not historically tied to the franchise."
Activision has yet to comment. Although this is just one analyst's advice to investors, with 28 employees having left the staff that was maxed out at 93, it seems not only possible, but likely that Infinity Ward will soon be a memory. No word yet on where the employees will end up, but if irony has a say in it, there is one company that is definitely looking to hire.


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A couple of weeks ago we released Alpha 2 of Code First Migrations. Today we are happy to make Alpha 3 available to you.
The overall feedback we got on Alpha 2 was that you like the direction we are headed. We heard that there is definitely a use case for automatic migrations, and while not everyone will use them, we should continue to invest in them. You are asking us to look at the story for data migration that doesn't involve dropping down to SQL. Alpha 2 also had some commonly encountered bugs that were annoying and we needed to fix
Alpha 3 is still is primarily focused on the developer experience inside of Visual Studio. This release adds most of development time features we plan to include in the first RTM. Your feedback will guide any changes we make to the overall design. Apart from responding to your feedback our team is starting to focus on improving quality. We are also working on completing the deployment and team-build stories, including a command line tool and an MSDeploy provider.
What Changed
Alpha 3 is focused on adding the remaining features that you have been asking for around development time migrations. The primary changes in Alpha 3 are:
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Kyle Lohse (4-0, 1.62) v.s. Lucas Harrell (1-2, 4.71)
Kyle Lohse had been unreal so far this year, coming into the game with a 4-0 record and a 1.62 ERA. The Astros spoiled that however as they touched him for 5 runs (3 earned) in 5 innings pitched and held on for a 5-4 win. The Astros have now won 4 games in a row, and improve to 12-14. The Cardinals fall to a still very impressive 16-9.
*Lucas Harrell was just okay tonight, but it was good enough to earn the Win thanks to the good offensive performance the Astros brought forward. Harrell's line: 5.1 IP / 7 H / 4 R / 3 ER / 2 BB / 3 K. He moves to 2-2 on the year with a 4.76 ERA.
*After the first couple of innings, it looked like this could be a very high scoring game. All 9 runs were scored in the first 2 and a half innings. The rest of the game was scoreless.
*Wesley Wright, Wilton Lopez and Fernando Rodriguez threw a combined 2.2 IP yielding only 1 hit and 1 walk, with 2 strikeouts and no earned runs to keep the Astros ahead. All 3 pitchers earned a hold in the game. Brett Myers earned his 7th save in 7 chances with a scoreless 9th - although the inning was not without it's drama.
*Myers allowed leadoff hitter Rafael Furcal to reach first on a single. Jon Jay then came up - a guy who has been absolutely red hot so far this season. He blooped a ball to second base which Altuve easily could have caught in the air for the out. Jon Jay assumed that Altuve would do just that, and slowly jogged towards first. Altuve made a VERY heads up play and instead let the ball drop, quickly throwing to Lowrie at second for the first out, who made the turn and just barely beat out Jay at first base for the double play. A very heads up play by Altuve, absolutely great baseball awareness.
*Altuve didn't just excel at defense - as usual his bat was a huge asset again. Tonight he collected a basehit, but also showed his power stroke with a 3 run shot in the bottom of the 2nd. It was his 2nd homerun of the year, and it put the Astros ahead for good. He finished 2 for 5 with 2 runs and 3 RBI, and his now hitting .360/.404/.550 on the year.
*Jordan Schafer tied the Astros franchise record for consecutive games reaching base to start a season with his 25th straight such game tonight. He reached on an error in his first at bat in the first inning, reached in the 2nd on a fielders choice and also reached via a walk on his last at bat in the 8th. He also notched his 10th and 11th stolen bases of the year. Have I mentioned how much I love the way this guy plays?
*Jed Lowrie. What is there left to say about this guy? He bats from the 5 hole tonight, and goes 2 for 4 with a double and an RBI. He also made a great turn and strong throw on the key double play in the 9th. He's hitting .338/.430/.514 on the season.
*Chris Johnson made his third error of the season tonight, a throwing error. He also went 0 for 4 with a strikeout at the plate.
*Did anybody else watching the game notice when Brad Mills was handing out high fives to everybody after the game that Justin Maxwell and Mills turned away from each other when Maxwell reached him in the line and didn't high five? Maybe i'm reading too much into it, but i'm sensing some conflict there for sure. Perhaps Maxwell thinks he should be starting more often. Who knows. Something could come up in the next few days.
*Since I love to pick on Bogusevic I might as well point out that he went 0 for 3 tonight and is now hitting a lowly .231 on the season. BUT he did pick up a walk, and his OBP - believe it or not - is a very good .348. He'll come around.
*How fun was tonights game to watch? High scoring at the start, including a homerun by Altuve, a pitchers duel in the middle innings, and then some nail biting moments at the end, capped by Altuve's very heads up double play - all ending in the Astros 4th straight win. This is a FUN team to watch this year.
Turning Point:
Altuve's 3 run shot in the 2nd put the Astros up 5-2. Although there were some nail biting moments after that....it was all the Astros ended up needing.
Man of the Match:
Altuve again. Not only did he have the huge 3 run shot, but he had the equally huge heads-up double play in the 9th which was potentially a big turning point. Great job by our small second baseman tonight!
Goat of the Game:
From Man of the Match to Goat of the Game in back to back games. Chris Johnson went 0 for 4 with a strikeout and an error.


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A Realm To Be Tamed
Enter the Stolen Lands, a wilderness claimed by nobles, bandits, and beasts alike. Into this territory the fractious country of Brevoy sends its emissaries, tasking them with subduing the lawless folk and deadly creatures that have made it a realm of savagery and shame. Beyond the last rugged frontier stretches the home of voracious monsters, capricious fey, wily natives, and bandits who bow to the rule of a merciless lord none dare defy. Can the PCs survive the Stolen Lands, bring their dangers to heel, and lay the foundations of a new kingdom? Or will they just be one more fateful band, lost forever to the ravenous wilds?
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Just got back from Bouchercon, and had one of those revelation moments.
When I play, I play to win. That's the point for me. If I lose, I try to learn from it so I can win next time.
Traditional publishing is a game where I'm not allowed to win.
I suppose this is rather obvious. There are too many factors involved--luck being one of the biggies--that are out of my control.
But if I look at my writing career, I've done my best to have as much control as possible. I was the guy who sent out 7000 letters to libraries, who visited over 2000 bookstores, who blog toured over 100 sites in a single month, who gathered 10,000+ names for his newsletter, who talked about social networking before anyone knew what Facebook was.
I think all of this has had a positive effect on my career. I've made some money. I'm still selling books.
But even with my best effort, and with all I've learned, I'm not allowed to win.
Winning involves big print runs and marketing campaigns and distribution. No matter how hard I try, or how well I play the game, those things aren't up to me.
So along comes ebooks.
For the first time, there's a level-playing field. It's no longer about who has 200 copies of their latest hardcover on the Borders New Release table for five weeks at 40% off cover price. It's no longer about huge New York Times ads, or getting a review in People magazine. It's no longer about being available at every Walgreens and CVS.
I have no idea if I'll be able to win the ebook game. There are still a lot of factors involved.
But it's nice to finally feel like I actually have a chance to compete.
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Chris Rock has been pulled over by the police for the third time in two months and is continuing to chronicle it on social media.
The "Grown Ups" actor shared the latest selfie earlier this week, prompting a conversation about racial profiling.
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Five area players have contributed to the success of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth men's hockey team that was 7-2-1 overall and tied for first place in the MASCAC.
"We have gotten off to a surprisingly good start, considering we were picked fifth out of seven teams by the MASCAC coaches in their poll,'' said Corsairs veteran head coach John Rolli. "It's a credit to the team that we've been winning while dealing with injuries that have forced several key players to miss games.''
Rolli's roster includes senior forward Billy Manning of Stoughton, sophomore forward Dan Dempsey of Norwell, junior forward Paul Graham of Quincy, junior defenseman Cullen Lundholm of Plymouth, and sophomore goalie Nate Eagan of Hingham.
"Manning is a solid two-way center iceman, Dempsey is a goal scorer's goal scorer (with two key goals, including the winner in OT against Stonehill), Graham is a big, physical right winger who can crash the boards and help set up his linemates,'' said Rolli, whose team was 4-1-1 in conference play.
"Lundholm is arguably one of our top two defensemen. He has played well, but has been limited due to injury, and we're hoping to get him back after the semester break,'' added Rolli, "and Eagan is a backup to the top goalie in the MASCAC, Collin Tracy.''


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The Urban Hound Daycare and Hotel in Boston
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CAIRO, Oct. 3 (UPI) -- Egypt says an exact replica of the tomb of Tutankhamun will be installed near the 3,000-year-old original to divert tourists away from the threatened site.
Officials said they hope the $675,000 project will prolong the life of the original tomb while maintaining sustainable tourism in a country where many ancient archaeological sites are under severe threat.
Tutankhamun's tomb, in Luxor's Valley of the Kings, is one of many burial sites deteriorating from the impact of years of tourism, while restoration efforts will likely to make the problem worse, they said.
"The attempt to fix the tombs to make them visitable is itself now the largest long-term risk to the tombs," said Adam Lowe, whose firm Factum Arte, based in Spain, led and funded the creation of the tomb's replica.
The project has been undertaken under the supervision of Egypt's supreme council of antiquities, Lowe told Britain's The Guardian newspaper.
The project is intended to protect the threatened original while still giving tourists the chance to experience what the tomb is like inside, archaeologists said, and similar efforts could allow visitors to experience other sites that are too fragile ever to be opened again.
"It's revolutionary," Egyptologist Kent Weeks, who has been researching such ancient sites since the 1960s, said. "It's not just a way of protecting the tomb of Tutankhamun, but it's a test case, a model that could be used to protect other sites across the country."
While not the real thing, the facsimile, intended to be an exact duplicate, will give visitors a better understanding of the tomb, officials said.


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This website was developed by Francisco Javier González Echeverría. (See author profile) I decided to create my own website in December 2011 to communicate, in my own words, my research on Michael de Villanueva ("Servetus"). There had been websites that discussed and reproduced some of my works, but they were created by others.
All of our research is aimed at increasing knowledge about Michael and the contributions he made to humanity throughout his life. For this reason we think it is important to dig deep into his circumstances, his birth, origin, family relationships, education, etc. All of these factors, as in every human being, are involved in the generation and evolution of his ideas, his human, social, theological and scientific preoccupations.
We think this is the right way to study of Michael de Villanueva ("Servetus") who we consider a universal figure, belonging to whole of mankind.
Image of the history of cardiology, first mural of Diego Rivera (1886-1957) painted in 1943, in the "Ignacio Chávez" Institute of Cardiology of Mexico, Tlapan delegation.
Almost seventeen years ago we started on a path that led to our involvement in the passionate and difficult research on the life of Michael Servetus or Michael de Villanueva. This research required an exhaustive search through the archives and libraries of many countries. It also required correspondence with experts in diverse fields
It all started in January, 1995. The village of Sesma in Navarre had asked us to give lectures as part of their historical conference. While preparing for the lectures, we could not find enough information in the archives and libraries, so we asked the parish priest of the village if he knew where there could be more documentation.
The parish priest said that he had seen sheets and some books in the loft of the parish house, annexed to the church of Sesma. We went up to that cold and dusty place, and there, piled on the wood floor, we found books of notes on Sesma, works of Father Feijoo, inquisition documents, some medicine books and the will of the last cabildo responsible, clerig Mr Manuel Ezquerra Barinada, dated in 1890. There was also a Materia Medica Dioscorides of small size, edited at Lyon by the printer Thibaut Payen, bearing his last name in Latin, Paganus. It was dated 1546 on the cover and 1547 at the colophon
We then gave our lectures on a part of the history of the village of Sesma, and later we dedicated ourselves to investigate this Dioscorides. Our knowledge of Latin and Greek were of great help, for we could translate the content and personal data that this work held. We also contacted the expert of the National Library of Madrid, Mr. Julián Martín Abad, the Head of Manuscript, and Rare Books.
He told us that the book was unusual for having a cover from 1546 and a colophon from 1547. Mr Abad also said It was not cataloged in the known indexes, and suggested that we contact libraries in France and the UK which might have copies of it . He also told us we should contact the German specialist on Lyon printers, Sybille Koerner v. Gültingen.
This first book happened to be by Michael Servetus (1511-1553). We have found many other editions with other printers, but the first who printed it were the brothers François and Jean Frellon in 1543 at Lyon . Since then we have worked on discovering more lost works of Michael, many of which were detailed in his contracts, or in declarations of Lyon printers. Among all of the Lyon printers, we note Jean Frellon, in whose printing workshop Michael worked as as corrector, developing enriched revisions of other works. Jean Frellon called Michael de Villanueva (Servetus) "his brother and friend . Because of all this, we chose one of Jean Frellon's printer's marks as the logo for our website: the Crab and the Moth and its motto in Latin, matura, whose meaning is "hasten". This printer, Jean Frellon, was so affected by the death of Michael Servetus in 1553 that he never printed after that year, he worked only as an editor.
We became interested in the data of Michael's life after we observed that, in his theological work, Servetus used Hebrew and referred to Hebrew sources that were not in print in those times. According to expert hebraists, his Hebrew was Mediterranean, different of the Central European Hebrew, that was used by important hebraists Michael meet with near 1530.
We were not the first investigators to think that Michael might have had Jewish heritage, though most Servetologists denied this possibility. Since an idea or opinion is a worthless hypothesis if it is not demonstrated with documentary data, we decided to research Servetus's ancestors. As we where investigating his maternal line we discovered protocols in the notarial archives of Zaragoza that demonstrated that the maternal family of Michael belonged to the Jewish-converso family the Zaporta. In 1999 by a newly discovered notarial protocol on the aunt of Michael, Beatriz Conesa, we established that his maternal grandmother, Beatriz Zaporta, was the sister of the important merchant (banker) Mr Gabriel Zaporta. Once we demonstrated in 1999, for the first time with verifiable documents, the Jewish converso heritage of Michael, we thought it was necessary to check all the existing data on his life; for we thought that his story, which many presented as a truth without fissures, could be a fiction. So we studied the data of " Michael Servetus" and of "Michael de Villanueva". We saw that some important data had been partially transcribed by some servetologists. In order to authenticate this research we sought the original manuscripts of the official documents of Michael's registration at the University of Paris; the complete original royal document of French Naturalization of Michael de Villanueva; the diocese registry of his brother, Juan Servetus;resgister of the Crown of Castilla's retinue for the coronation of Charles V, declaration of the Dean of Paris University, Jean Tagault, against Michael de Villanueva; Jewish-converso notaries from Zaragoza named De Villanueva; Jewish conversos named De Villanueva at Tudela de Navarre, Nuns from Villanueva de Sijena at Tudela, etc.
Finally, in March 2011, we published the result of all our research into Servet's life and work in one book, The love for truth. Life and work of Michael Servetus. (El amor a la verdad. Vida y obra de Miguel Servet). We believe, based on Michael's own words, that it was his love for truth that made Michael confront, once and again, intolerance and injustice. The work has more than 600 pages and 1000 footnotes. It also contains graphical documents some of them appearing for the first time, for we do not think it is valid or serious to claim a document exists without showing it. For this reason in this website we show a summary of his life and work, followed by graphical reproduction of the related documents.
The truth is that before going inside that old loft our knowledge of Servetus was limited to what we had been taught at the Faculty of Medicine: that he had discovered the minor circulation of the blood and some general data. There is an episode that Maite and I remember. It happened 30 years ago, in 1982. While touring France we stopped in the town of Annemasse. We were strolling by a garden when we spotted a statue in the distance. We felt curious and we got closer to it. We were moved and touched by the view of Michael with a suffering expression, dressed in rags, serenely waiting...We also remember saying : "Poor man! But, how did they do this to him? He had done nothing!..."
Even now, Maite and I are moved when we remember that image and what we felt before it. Perhaps it is better that Michael ends this presentation with his very words, some of the many he transmitted to us in his writing. Maybe if mankind would take this words up again, many of the conflicts that ravage us would be peacefully solved, and we would learn to tolerate the different, and different opinions.
Inherent of human condition is the sickness of believing the rest are impostors and heathen, and not ourselves, because nobody recognizes his own mistakes[..]If one must condemn everyone that misses in a particular point then every mortal would have to be burnt a thousand times. The apostles and Luther himself have been mistaken[..] If I have taken the word, by any reason, it has been because I think it is grave to kill men, under the pretext that they are mistaken on the interpretation of some point, for we know that even the chosen ones are not exempt from sometimes being wrong
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Free speech is a beautiful thing. And it's amazing how free someone's speech becomes — and how unavoidable — when they're part of a tiny elite with billions of dollars at its disposal: Suddenly you can "speak" in all the major media outlets. You can "speak" on Fox News. And you can use your money to elect politicians who'll "speak" for you in high office.
Will all that cash on hand – and a "news" network, too – their videos are everywhere. Next they'll be projecting them on buildings and in the sky, like some dystopian blend of Blade Runner and the Rotary Club. And right now they're using their video super-powers to full effect – first to create an artificial "fiscal cliff" panic, then to force their losing agenda on the public.
To paraphrase the late Gil Scott-Heron, the counter-revolution will be televised.
The public spoke loudly and forcefully in the last election: Raise taxes on millionaires, billionaires, and corporations. Defend Social Security and Medicare. And create jobs. That means the forces that oppose those things have a lot of work to do – and a lot of video to shoot.
I wonder if Philo T. Farnsworth knew what he was doing to democracy?
We come from genteel folk, so we'd rather not keep harping on the enormity of the can of whup-ass voters just opened on Republicans. Please don't make us do it again. Suffice it to say that Republicans lost the Presidency, they lost the Senate — and they lost the House, too, in popular votes. That's a remarkable rebuke, considering the billions that Sheldon Adelson and other dubious rich folk put into their campaigns.
But please: Let's stop hearing smart and insightful people say that Adelson and his pals "lost" millions on this election. That money, plus the GOP's creepy gerrymandering, bought them the House of Representatives.
If they hadn't spent all that money we'd be debating how big the stimulus should be, not how deep to make the spending cuts. They got a lot of state offices, too. So election reform still needs to be #1 on everybody's political to-do list.
Money Talks
They're getting their money's worth now, from both the GOP and Fox News. First, the Republicans. Here's Speaker of the House John Boehner rejecting an offer which reflects the election results (which means he's rejecting the will of the people):
And here's a snapshot of Fox News coverage of the same proposal, whose alarmist but relatively neutral "Republicans, Democrats play political dare ahead of more fiscal talks this week" tone quickly morphed into "Dems resist GOP counter-offer to avert fiscal crisis, as Pelosi tries to force vote on tax bill."
They report, you decide: Which form of punishment should these intransigent Democratic traitors receive? If you were a Fox News viewer you wouldn't know Democrats won on these issues, or whose "cans" really got kicked last month.
Canned Music
And speaking of "cans," we'll now pivot from the one voters delivered and focus on one manufactured with billionaire money. That would be "The Can Kicks Back," a supposedly "grassroots" organization aided – like so many others – in large part by Pete Peterson, the anti-government, anti-Social Security, anti-Medicare billionaire and former Nixon Cabinet member.
This thinly-disguised lobbying operation called on one of its most reliable operatives, Alan Simpson, for its latest video. In it, as you can see, the ornery octogenarian dances Gangnam-style (the meme that won't die) in order to persuade young people to cut their own Social Security and Medicare benefits. "These old coots will clean out the Treasury before you get there", warns Simpson – who is, needless to say, an old coot trying to clean out the Treasury.
The Peterson crowd is trying to do that with a one-two rhetorical punch: they argue for cutting Social Security benefits, and then label its $2.6 trillion trust fund a worthless "IOU." (Here's video of an old coot doing exactly that, thanks to Alex Lawson. Don't you pay your IOUs, Mr. Simpson?)
It's the same old song – but with a different meaning since the voters rejected it so soundly.
It's amazing how much money they pour into this stuff. As my pal Peter Case says: It's a free country, but it sure ain't cheap.
Fortunately, the counter-counter-revolution has video at its disposal, too. There were some strong, clear, and funny words from fifty-something Jon Stewart. (Sorry about that, JS. If it makes you feel better, guys like Alan Simpson have a name for guys your age: descendants.)
And via Dave Johnson, there's this terrific video, narrated by Ed Asner, explaining … well, the whole "economics" thing as it stands today. That's the thing one I try to explain every week in thousands of words. I looked at the seven-minute length and thought, "There's no way I'm watching that whole video." But it's engrossing, funny, and very clear. It's worth watching.
Given the nature of this video material, perhaps the reader understand why I felt compelled to work the name "Philo T. Farnsworth" into this piece somehow.
Montgomery Cliff
And that leads us to the man with today's last word, the man who epitomizes selfish, insular, and heartless wealth more than anyone else in American life today (well, except for Mitt Romney): I speak, of course, of Montgomery J. "Monty" Burns. In this clip from The Simpsons, Mr. Burns is kind enough to explain it all for us. He does at least as good a job as Ed Asner.
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Say what you will about Fox, but they do bring us The Simpsons every week – and that leads us to our modest proposal for today. I think that from this day forward every new video from Boehner, Alan Simpson, or Fox News should close with the words "Excellent, Smithers."
Which reminds me: Has anybody ever seen Mr. Burns and Sen. Simpson in the same room at the same time? I'm just asking.


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It's been some time since my last "behind the scenes" photo, so let's check out a photo from Michelle & Brad's Rochester, Minnesota wedding which took place at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church. We've probably all seen a Grand Exit at a wedding where usually everyone is lined up and throwing rice as the Bride & Groom take their first walk in public as a married couple.
I know that there was concern that rice was harmful to some birds, but I think it's a toss-up between urban legend and a flat out insurance liability concern for the church/venue of the ceremony. Since then, probably even before the bird "scare", there have been rice substitutes such as seeds, flower pedals & blowing bubbles.
At Michelle & Brad's wedding, they opted to use bubbles. Bubbles can have such a cool & unique color to them, which can add to the look of the picture. Here's a photo taken by Joni Neiman during their Grand Exit:
Obviously, you can see me walking backwards in front of the happily married couple, shooting blind. Yes, there are definitely times when I don't look through the viewfinder while shooting. Once you've become so familiar with using a camera & lens, you can use it without looking through the viewfinder. It is a technique I used quite frequently!
Here's two pictures from their exit – the first photo was taken just as they walked out. Notice the color in the bubbles!
and this next photo was taken at nearly the same time as Joni's picture was taken. You can see her husband holding the camera up in the background to the left of Michelle…
Pretty neat huh??
Remember, I'd love to feature anyone's wedding photo that has me in the photo somewhere. Chances are likely that I took a photo around, if not at, the same time!


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Motion designers are imagining the 3-D interfaces of the future. In 2010, for Iron Man 2, Prologue envisioned the stunning, holographic, 3-D interfaces used by boy genius Tony Stark to engineer his superhero devices. And who doesn't recall the intuitive, spatial interface Tom Cruise's character works with, in one of the most memorable and most quoted scenes of Minority Report. Now there's the "Hand Up" – a highly responsive, crystal interface envisioned by Dvein for the Spanish retro-futuristic sci-fi thriller Eva. Arguably more poetic in comparison to its predecessors, but no less believable.
Set in 2041, Eva tells the story about a programmer named Alex, who returns to his home town after ten years to work on a boy robot. Alex uses his 10-year old niece, Eva. as his model, his muse and his inspiration.
Alex interacts with the 3-D interface to configure the robot child's personality and to finetune its emotions. The way the user interface works appears to mimic the behavoir of interconnected elements inside a neural network, where each change has a real-time effect on the other elements in the network. Much like how we imagine thought processes or emotions inside the brain to behave.
The inspiration for the sparkling crystal interface comes from a series of poetic associations. Snow crystals hint to the many snowy scenes in the movie. There's also the fantastic notion of a machine made entirely from glass, instead of metal. The design also evokes the romantic idea of early 20th century laboratories, full of wicked, shiny test tubes, where weird scientists conduct mysterious experiments.
The design of the "Hand Up" formed the foundation for the design of the incredible machinery and the glass structures as featured in the title seqeunce.
The title sequence for Eva premiered at our Playgrounds Vs Submarine Channel event in Amsterdam in October 2011, as part of a series of three "Watch the Titles" presentations. Dvein Carlos Pardo talked to us after their presentation.
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For several years now, motion design collective Dvein have been carving a reputation for themselves as one of Spain's most exciting motion design studios. They share more than a few similarities with their collegues from Physalia. Both Dvein and Physalia are from Barcelona, and both refer to themselves as "a collective," rather than a company, thus putting the emphasis on creativity and individuality.
From 2006 – 2009, Dvein created a series of high impact event title sequences for the design and digital culture festivals TOCA ME, OFFF, and F5. Creatively, Dvein was given a free hand with these projects, which allowed them to explore an imaginary universe of their own creation – a universe in which the comfortable boundary between the synthetic and the organic is completely dissolved. What you're left with is that intriguing feeling of "the uncanny."
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