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Louisiana Environmental Education Symposium
March 10, 2012
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Please disregard the earlier date reservation. The date and location had to be changed due to circumstances beyond our control.
2012 is the Year of Outdoor Teaching! Join us for a day of exciting environmental education sessions and earn needed CLUs!
The 2012 Louisiana Environmental Education Symposium, sponsored by the Louisiana Environmental Education Commission (LEEC), will be held at the Crowne Plaza in Lafayette, LA this year, allowing for more participation from other portions of the state.
We'll offer concurrent sessions, an exhibitors' hall, presentations, and short courses, with many emphasizing the how-to's of successfully educating students using the great outdoors. Whether it's local (recent Mississippi River flood …) or global (climate change…), we'll have the experts and the resources to help you educate your students! So mark your calendars and make plans to join us for some fun, games, and learning!
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Seared Marinated Artichokes
Recipe by Natural Chef Dana Miller
- 4 large artichokes
- 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
- ¼ cup olive oil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 2 cloves garlic, minced fine
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- ¼ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1. Wash artichokes under cold water. Using a heavy stainless steel knife cut off the stems about ½ inch from the base. Pull off the lower petals that are small and tough. Cut off the top inch of the artichoke. Trim the thorny tips of the petals with kitchen shears.
2. Place the artichokes, bottom up, in the inner pot of the Instant Pot fitted with a steamer basket and 2 cups of water.
3. Choose the "Steam" setting and reduce cooking time to 8 minutes.
4. While the artichokes are steaming prepare the marinade by placing the lemon juice, balsamic vinegar, olive oil, oregano, garlic, salt, and pepper in a small jar with a lid. Shake well to incorporate all of the ingredients. Set aside.
5. When the "Steam" cycle is complete, release the pressure and carefully remove the artichokes.
6. Allow to cool slightly so you can handle them. Cut the artichokes in half. Remove the center cone of purple prickly leaves. This is the choke that protects the heart. Now, scrape away the thistle fuzz covering the artichoke heart. The heart is the meatiest part of the artichoke.
7. Drizzle the marinade over the warm artichokes. Turning to make sure to coat them well with marinade. Allow them to sit for 30 minutes to overnight.
8. When ready to serve, sear artichokes cut side down on a grill pan or BBQ for 3 to 5 minutes
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Weather patterns set up in such an enticing way that Tony Laubach drove all the way from his home in southern Illinois to chase the storms that exploded across Colorado's Eastern Plains on Wednesday.
And while the system didn't produce epic tornadoes for Laubach and his fellow storm chasers, there was plenty to keep him busy dodging hail and tracking supercells.
"I think the fact that we're chasing an HP (high-precipitation) supercell in the high plains of Colorado — that's kind of rare," Laubach said.
The storm pounded northeastern parts of the Denver metro area with hail, caused street flooding and, because of tornado warnings, closed Denver International Airport.
Hail and heavy rains battered Boulder and surrounding areas Wednesday afternoon, prompting Boulder County emergency officials to be on high alert for potential flooding, according to emergency radio traffic.
Officialsmonitored potential trouble areas for flooding, and a Nederland resident on Second Street had reported the creek was flooding his or her home, according to emergency dispatchers.
The weather service's hazardous weather outlook says Boulder County could see showers and thunderstorms through Saturday.
Today's forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a high of 73 and fog before 9 a.m. There is a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms between noon and midnight with a chance of more large hail. The overnight low is expected to be near 47.
Friday's forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with a high of 69 and a 60 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after noon. The overnight low is expected to be near 50.
Officially, six tornadoes were spotted — three of them in Aurora — but no significant damage was reported.
Heavy weather also snarled traffic on Interstate 70, Peña Boulevard, U.S. 85 and elsewhere as drivers struggled with flooded roads. In some areas, snow plows were called out to clear the hail. Part of Tower Road was still closed at 9 p.m.
Passengers at DIA were told to evacuate their gates and take shelter, but they were allowed to begin returning to gates shortly after 3 p.m. At least 40 flights were diverted, and lengthy delays were reported.
Frontier Airlines reported that some of its jets were damaged by hail, causing 13 flights to be canceled.
Laubach said that while the storm didn't quite live up to billing, he wouldn't rule out the possibility that Thursday's weather could produce significant activity — most likely heavy rain and hail with perhaps a small threat of tornadoes.
As the tornado warnings shifted east from Denver to Aurora and then out past Byars, Laubach and the storm chasers moved along with them.
Laubach was a close friend and colleague of renowned local storm chaser Tim Samaras, who with his son, Paul, and Carl Young died in an Oklahoma tornado almost exactly a year ago.
After checking the Colorado forecasts, Laubach made a beeline to the Denver area, along the way picking up a chase partner who flew from Michigan to Kansas City, Mo.
And while the severe weather pattern may continue for the next few days, Laubach figured that Wednesday would be the most likely window to observe tornadic activity.
"Today was my pick-of-the-litter day," said Laubach. "Tomorrow, I think that you're going to have more of a hail and flooding threat than tornado threat, because I think the upper-level winds are weakening more."
Denver Post Staff Writer Carlos Illescas contributed to this report.


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AHI Swim Team, located in American Canyon, CA, (Napa County) is a program of excellence instilling a lifelong love of swimming. We are a Spring/ Summer Recreational Swim Team, part of the Twin County Swim League, following Contra Costa County Swim Rules, serving approximately 130 swimmers ages 4-18 in our community. The team is organized and managed by a volunteer parent board, and parent volunteers run the meets. We swim at the American Canyon High School Pool beginning late March, continuing through early August. Practices are held weekday evenings in April and May and switch to a combination of morning and evening for the summer. Coach schedules will be considered before summer practice times are finalized. Swim meets are held Saturday mornings or Wednesday evenings in June and July with 1-2 full weekend meets plus two all-day Saturday meets also planned. AHI seeks coaches for the 2020 season, coaches must be at least 18 years of age with a love of swimming and at least one year of competitive swimming or coaching experience. Coaches will collaborate with the coaching staff and parent board to inspire young swimmers to do their best as a valuable member of the team, encourage mentorship among swimmers, teach good sportsmanship, and to improve youth swimmer performance at all levels. Current CPR and Lifeguard Certification is required. Coach fees are commensurate with experience. Please submit your resume to Heidi Zipay, President, AHI Swim Team, at email@example.com . AHI website: ahi.swimtopia.com.
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The Accounting Historians Journal Vol. 9, No. 2 Fall 1982 BOOK REVIEWS Dale A. Buckmaster, Editor UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE Carl Thomas Devine, Inventory Valuation and Periodic Income (New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1942. Reprint edition, New York: Arno Press, 1980, pp. vii, 195, $19.00). Reviewed by Dale Buckmaster University of Delaware It is tempting, but unfair, to start a review by describing this book as containing more than anyone would ever want to know about in-ventories. Professor Devine identifies his objective in writing the book as an "investigation into the effects of various inventory valu-ation methods on the reported income stream." (p. iii) These "vari-ous inventory valuation methods" include Identified-Unit Cost, FIFO, Weighted Average, Moving Average, Standard Costs, Replacement Costs, Lower of Cost or Market, Normal Stock Methods (including LIFO), and Inventories at Selling Price. Within the context of the literature of the period, Professor Devine does much more than examine the effect of these methods on in-come. The first chapter is an overview of accounting income theory and chapter two is a description of the nature of accounting inven-tory costing. In chapter three, Devine discusses balance sheet con-siderations of inventory valuation. Chapter four, "Costs and Their Determination," contains, as a part of the discussion of cost deter-mination, a section on the appropriateness of capitalizing interest. I found this section to be a more objective evaluation of the con-troversy than is found in contemporary literature. The chapter on Replacement Costs is a summary of the various positions on re-placement cost accounting current at that time. Chapter eleven, "Inventories at Selling Prices," is an interesting interpretation of revenue recognition. The highlight of chapter twelve, "Special Prob-lems in Inventory Valuation," is a discussion of the economics of hedging and the accounting treatment of hedging contracts.


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ago I received the opportunity to fly out to San Francisco, California courtesy of THQ to preview Darksiders II. The trip went well except for two things that really stood out: spending roughly ten to twelve hours on a plane within a thirty-six hour time frame, and the fact that we couldn't actually play the game itself. Like I stated in my preview article back in January, the presentation itself went really well and we learned quite a bit about the game and about Death himself, but I was kind of disappointed that we couldn't at least play the demo that they showed us at the event. Fast forward two months to March 19th, 2012 and I received another opportunity to fly back out to San Francisco (again, flight and hotel courtesy of THQ) for another Darksiders II presentation, but this time we actually got the chance to try out the game. Let's see how it turned out this time.
To be honest, this time was entirely different. There wasn't really a vocal presentation this time around, save for being told what the demonstration contained. The dungeon the demo took place in was in the Maker's Realm, one of the games' four major zones and said to be the size of the Darksiders 1 map. The dungeon itself is the final dungeon of the realm and is roughly six hours into the game. As such, Death began the demo at level ten, giving us nine skill points to play around with in either the Harbinger or Necromancer trees, but I'll hit that shortly. In the demo, Death is on a quest to restore something known as The Guardian and is accompanied by a Maker called Karn, who I swear sounds like he's related to Shrek. Kind of looks like him too.
To start things off, I went to the skill trees and allocated my skill points. Because I like to heavily favor spell casters, I decided to throw the points into the Necromancer tree, mainly focusing on raising skeletons. Basically, I put three points into Exhume, (allowing me to raise three skeletons at a time), three points into Undying (raising my skeletons health quite a bit), and from there I can't quite recall. I know I put one point into Corpse Explosion (skeletons explode upon death or the effect ending), and I think the other two I put into Enervation (skeleton damage gives you wrath, or magic basically) or Fiery Souls (skeletons deal fire damage). Basically, every fight I decided to raise some skeletons which really helped in some fights, but had one minor setback: the screen got crowded quickly. Basically you have you, Karn, the monsters, and your skeletons fighting, and sometimes I couldn't keep track of where I was or who I was attacking, if anything. I got used to it after a while though, so it wasn't a major issue. After checking out the skills I took a look at the armor and weapons the demo started me with and equipped what I thought would be best for a Necromancer, mainly anything that helped with wrath regeneration without really sacrificing health or defense. Secondary weapon-wise I stuck with a hammer that added some frost damage and gave some wrath regeneration per kill.
Thanks to the game's new loot system, I was periodically picking up new gear, and there was one feature here that I really enjoyed. In other games (Borderlands comes to mind) when you pick up a bunch of new loot, you have to check each item in your inventory if you can't recall what you just picked up. Diablo II also drives me nuts with that sometimes, but at least your inventory space is limited, so it's not nearly as bad. With Darksiders II, when you pick up a new piece of loot and go to your inventory, whatever category contains the new loot will have a star next to its icon, showing that you have a new weapon or piece of armor or what have you. It's also easy to tell if the weapon you have is better or worse than what you're using, as green text indicates an increase in a stat while red text indicates a decrease, and I believe this was also shown even before you picked up the loot, making it easy to see if it's even worth your while to pick up or leave behind. As stated above, gearing towards necromancy I tended to stick with gear that increased my wrath while not really sacrificing my health or defense a.
The game controls pretty smoothly and I was able to pick up on Death's new abilities rather quickly, though there were a couple things that tripped me up. As Death can wall run, occasionally he'll come across a small block sticking out of the wall that he'll have to mantle over. This is done by hitting either A if you're lined up properly, or using the Death Grip ability once you have it. However, if you use the Death Grip, DON'T hit A, as you'll just leap above it and throw everything off, and that's where I kept getting tripped up. I'd be running along a wall, use the Death Grip to mantle over a block, accidentally hit A, and leap straight up and lose all momentum, plunging myself into the fiery pit below. When you come upon the constructs that you can ride, they don't control too badly either, but I find that they move rather slowly. Granted they are kind of big, so I wasn't expecting any to move like Speedy Gonzales or anything, but even a small speedup would have helped, as when I had to move the construct from one area to the next, it just felt like it dragged a bit and I was itching for more action. Thankfully, the time on the constructs isn't too long.
So I got my skill points allocated, worked my way through the dungeon, gathered three Heart Stones to revive some giant guardian, and now I have to fight this guardian. I won't spoil things too much, but to say the least, it reminded me of Shadows of the Colossus…which I really suck at. Thankfully you don't have to climb up the guardian for the most part, but it was still a challenge, and you'll learn quickly how to summon and dismount your horse as well as how to use the L button to focus on an enemy. However, there was one thing that kind of got to me during the fight, something that I had no control over whatsoever. Right in the middle of the fight, the darn thing froze up. We reset it, tried the boss again thanks to auto-save…and it froze up again. Yeah I know, its early code and I have no intention of holding that against THQ, but I really wanted my revenge on the guardian after the first freeze.
Overall, my time with Darksiders II left me wanting more, and I have every intention on picking this up on launch day, something I rarely do anymore outside of the rare game I've been waiting on for years (such as Diablo 3). The controls are nice and smooth with few issues, the puzzles can be challenging (if Prima hadn't provided mini-guides for the demo, I probably wouldn't have made it to the boss at all), and the graphics are pretty nice for early code. Yeah there were a few issues, such as a sewer area where I followed the water to its' exit and had a "world ends here" moment, as there was basically nothing but a vast area to look into. Basically, Darksiders II left me wanting more and June can't get here fast enough.
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I began my lifelong love of gaming at an early age with my parent's Atari 2600. Living in the small town that I did arcades were pretty much non-existent so I had to settle for the less than stellar ports on the Atari 2600, but for a young kid my age it was the perfect past time, giving me something to do before Boy Scout meetings, after school, whenever I had the time and my parents weren't watching anything on TV. I recall seeing Super Mario Bros. played on the NES at that young age and it was something I really wanted. Come Christmas of 1988 (if I recall) Santa brought the family an NES with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt and I've been hooked ever since.
Over 25 years from the first time I picked up an Atari joystick and I'm more hooked on gaming than I ever have been. If you name a system, classics to moderns, there's a good chance I've not only played it, but own it. My collection of systems spans multiple decades, from the Odyssey 2, Atari 2600, and Colecovision, to the NES, Sega Genesis, and Panasonic 3DO, to more modern systems such as the Xbox and Wii, and multiple systems in between as well as multiple handhelds. As much as I consider myself a gamer I'm also a game collector. I love collecting the older systems not only to collect but to play (I even own and still play a Virtual Boy from time to time). I hope to bring those multiple decades of gaming experience to my time here at Gaming Nexus in some fashion.
In my spare time I like to write computer programs using VB.NET (currently learning C# as well) as well as create review videos and other gaming projects over on YouTube. I know it does seem like I have a lot on my plate now with the addition of Gaming Nexus to my gaming portfolio, but that's one more challenge I'm willing to overcome.
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This Thursday night, what looks like an entire night's programming on NBC is going to involve TV show characters dressing up for Halloween. And StarCraft is getting some love.
Towards the end of the above clip you'll see The Office's Dwight Schrute wearing, of all things, a Sarah Kerrigan outfit (the star-turned-villain-turned-spoiler of the StarCraft saga). With pink bra, alien dreads, the works.
You guys knew he wasn't Whoopi Goldberg, right?
Dwight Dresses Up As StarCraft 's Kerrigan In Next Week's Office [GameSetWatch]
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The British Coulmbia Interior RV Show, the first full complex event at the South Okanagan Events Center (SOEC), is expected to draw at least 10,000 people from all over Western Canada to Penticton.
"Mayor (Jake) Kimberley and the previous administrative staff at the City of Penticton, before the SOEC was built, had a vision of what could take place with our convention center and opportunities that Penticton presents as an area for those not only to come and visit, but to be able to bring conventions and the like of what we are talking about here. The creation of the South Okanagan Events Center went a long way towards that," said Penticton Mayor Dan Ashton.
Pentiction Western News reported that the B.C. Interior RV Show, taking place from May 4 to 6, will be the first full complex event encompassing the events center, Okanagan Hockey School arena, Memorial Arena and the Penticton Trade and Convention Center.
Utilizing the complete nine acres of city property has been a vision of SOEC general manager Dean Clarke since he first arrived in Penticton in September of 2010, having previously worked at Kelowna's Prospera Place. Clarke said a trade show of this size could have more impact than hosting a concert at the events center.
"Yes, absolutely. I think it's going to impact everyone. It is going to impact our revenue, impact their revenue and it is going to impact the restaurants, hotels, everyone. It keeps our people employed," said Clarke. "This is the investment our citizens have made in this infrastructure, and we need to show the results and I think we are."
The event will feature RV dealers displaying the best brands in the industry. Factory representatives from leading RV manufacturers will be on-site to speak with the public and answer questions.
Okanagan Hockey School will also host RV units as well as boats. Memorial Arena will feature RV accessories, leisure equipment and lightweight camping trailers. In the Penticton Trade and Convention Center, educational sessions and workshops will be held and more than 50 different vendors supporting the RV lifestyle will be promoting their products and services.
Al Mullins, president of the B.C. Interior RV Society, a non-profit that is comprised of several South Okanagan RV dealers that collaborated to put the event together, said the RV industry saw a downturn during the recession that closed operations such as General Coach in Oliver.
"We lost some key manufacturers out of the South Okanagan, but it is coming back again and coming back hard," said Mullins.
One of the draws, he said, is the flexibility in the different types of units to suit budgets of young families to snowbirds who pick up and drive down south for the winter in RVs that have all the amenities of home.
"As one of my customers tells me, it's not camping anymore, it is roughing it smoothly," said Mullins.
He said a similar show in Edmonton did extremely well and one in the Lower Mainland had 16,000 people pass through the doors in four days. He expects people from all over the Pacific Northwest to come to Penticton in May for the RV show.
"This is the only complex in the Okanagan Valley that literally can hold this big of a show. We are going to fill this complex inside and out, drawing people from all over Western Canada and even the States. This is a must-see event," said Mullins.


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Lance Armstrong's sitdown with Oprah Winfrey—which is being taped today but won't air until Thursday—won't have a ton of drama. He's going to admit to doping, and he's probably going to cry. The only reason to watch it is not for the news value, but for the schadenfreude of seeing a man who adamantly and repeatedly denied drug use, to the point of suing anyone who claimed otherwise, finally fess up.
To help you get ready to feel extra-smug over Armstrong's embarrassment, Buzzfeed has put together a highlight reel of Lance's best denials. Pay extra attention to the ones with Lance sitting at a desk, with the timestamp on the video—those are from depositions given under oath. Whoopsie!


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Academy Award-Winner Charlize Theron to Be Crowned With the Decade of Hotness Award at Spike TV's 'Guys Choice'
Attendees Include Robert Downey, Jr., James Gandolfini, Scarlett Johansson, Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson, Kid Rock, Among Others
Premieres Sunday, June 20th At 10 PM, ET/PT
NEW YORK, May 25 -- Spike TV's "Guys Choice" will honor Academy Award-winning actress Charlize Theron with the Decade of Hotness Award, one of the evenings highest honors, given to a legendary beauty we love for all of the right reasons: she kicks ass as a superhero, she's an Oscar winning actress and a world class beauty. Taping Saturday, June 5 at the Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, CA, the fourth annual award show premieres Sunday, June 20 (10:00 PM � Midnight, ET/PT).
Theron's remarkable acting ability combined with her unbelievable beauty has earned her a legion of fans across the globe. For her extraordinary performance in "Monster," she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. In 2007, men's magazine Esquire named Theron the Sexiest Woman Alive. Never afraid to mix it up, Spike guys find her equally appealing for her action roles in "Hancock," "The Italian Job" and "Reindeer Games." Last year's recipient was fellow Academy Award-winner, Halle Berry.
The star-studded, action-packed night will also feature appearances by "Iron Man 2" super-stars and nominees Robert Downey, Jr. and Scarlett Johansson. Additional appearances include: Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Rock, Brooklyn Decker, Jason Statham, James Gandolfini, Dwayne Johnson, Quinton "Rampage" Jackson, Liam Neeson, Ozzy Osbourne and many more.
Voting for this year's winners is being held online at guyschoice.spike.com through Friday, June 4th. Also online, fans can log-on to view exclusive red carpet and backstage coverage of "Guys Choice."
The official sponsors of Spike TV's "Guys Choice" are AT&T, AXE Hair, Captain Morgan, Corona and Pizza Hut.
Casey Patterson, Carol Donovan, and Beth McCarthy-Miller will serve as executive producers.
Spike TV is available in 98.6 million homes and is a division of MTV Networks. A unit of Viacom (NYSE: VIA, VIA.B), MTV Networks is one of the world's leading creators of programming and content across all media platforms. Spike TV's Internet address is www.spike.com.


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MONTEVALLO, Ala. - The Georgia Southwestern baseball team earned a doubleheader split at Montevallo on Saturday afternoon behind a stellar pitching performance by Matthew Suggs in the nightcap. Montevallo won the opener, 7-0, and GSW grabbed Game 2, 3-1.
The Hurricanes finish the day at 3-6 overall and 1-1 in Peach Belt Conference play. Montevallo sits at 4-5 overall and 1-1 in the PBC.
Montevallo broke open a scoreless game in the sixth inning with four runs on three hits and a walk. Michael Simmons drove in three of the runs on his one-out double to left-center field.
The Hurricanes were unable to do much against Falcon starter Michael Shreves (2-1) who retired the first 11 GSW batters in order. The Hurricanes finished with four hits in the game. John Duran and Corey Benson had doubles for Southwestern.
GSW starter Frank Ambrosino (0-1) pitched well before stumbling in the sixth. Ambrosino did not allow a hit until the third inning and scattered a total of four hits through five innings. Justin Lott came on to pitch 1 1/3 innings and Drew Cataldo threw the eighth.
Randall Sheffield put Southwestern ahead immediately in Game 2 when he opened with a leadoff home run.
After Montevallo pushed across a run in the third inning to tie the ballgame, Stephen Eldridge decided it was his turn to go deep and he put GSW ahead for good with a solo shot in the fourth.
While the Hurricanes would add an insurance run in the fifth inning when John Duran scored on a Michel Coffey sacrifice fly, GSW starter Matthew Suggs (1-1) wouldn't need any help after the Eldridge blast. Suggs tossed a complete game and held Montevallo to three hits as he struck out a program-best (NCAA era) 12 batters. Suggs retired the side in order in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings before surrendering a two-out single in the ninth. Fittingly, the game ended on a strikeout.
Sheffield posted the Hurricanes first multi-hit performance in the series, adding a triple to his leadoff home run.
Josh Clemen (1-1) was the tough-luck losing pitcher for Montevallo as he went the distance as well and allowed three runs - two earned - while striking out five and walking two.
The two schools wrap up the series Sunday at 2 p.m. EST.


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It's Open Season on open source
Three kings tackle MS, Google, MySQL, Web 2.0 and freedom
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Welcome to Episode 1 of Open Season - the freshest of Meat Casts dedicated to open source software and related technology. With Open Season, you get a nasally but passionate host - me - and some guys who actually know what they're talking about - Alfresco VP Matt Asay and Mulesource CEO Dave Rosenberg.
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Jim Busby is a complete contradiction, and so is his twisty, steely Deuce coupe. He's a legendary road racer with international acclaim, but says he's always been a hot rodder. He's slapped the pavement from Mid-Ohio to Sebring, from the 24 Hours of Daytona to the Nürburgring, and from LeMans to Spa, yet he started his career racing slingshots.
So what is he doing building a vintage road racer out of an old Deuce coupe sitting on a stock frame with ancient suspension? How could he find it interesting, aspirational, or challenging when he's built Lolas, Porsche-factory 962s, track-tested for Ferrari, and forged a winning career with victories at such storied races as LeMans and Monza? Once you find out what buzzes Buzz, it starts to make sense. He says, "I had a 30-year road-racing career that was very successful, but it started and was at its heart from hot rodding. I still do it today. It's what I am—my roots are hot rod–based. I can rebuild a '39 trans with my eyes shut." Growing up in Pasadena and working at Pasadena Body Shop before he could legally drive, he prepped cars next to Larry Lee (Troy Lee's dad), who striped them. Pasadena Body Shop was the unofficial hang out for the Pasadena Roadster Club, which "was the bad boys club, and they had the nicest cars," Buzz says. As soon as he saved $70, he bought a 1932 Tudor—which he still owns, and which still runs its 1⁄4 x 1⁄16 flathead.
It's what I am—my roots are hot rod–based. I can rebuild a '39 trans with my eyes shut."
By the mid-'50s he was racing dragsters, eventually building his own 392 Chrysler Top Fueler on a thin budget. His skill and determination led to owning and driving the successful Smothers Brothers Beach Boys Special fueler with Dwight Salisbury. Drag racing buoyed him into road racing, first in Europe, then in the U.S. in the mid-'70s, racing IMSA. "When I raced with the Porsche factory team and we were at Ontario or Riverside, I came to the track in my '32 highboy. I've had '32s all my life—probably over 100, with maybe 35–40 roadsters," Buzz says.
One of the reasons Buzz found a kindred spirit in Porsche for all those years was because they were the only European "serious racing" company that built hot rods. He says, "If you look at the first Porsche based on Dr. Porsche's rear-engine VW and look at the shape and gearbox placement—we still race that car today in the 911 form. Every time you see a Carrera 4RS, that is a hot rodded version of the very first Porsche from 1949. Everybody else builds a 13-cylinder, 84-valve whatever and sticks it into their car. Porsche doesn't—they build hot rods." Just like the hot rodders did on the dry lakes and mean streets, Porsche modifies the car, making slope-nose fenders to reduce frontal area, adding duck bills to minimize lift, modifying the engine for more power, and so on. Buzz calls them "the most brilliant hot rodding outfit in the world."
But how can a guy drenched in exotic Porsche machinery get so geeked about constipated flatheads and leaky 97s? "Flatheads take me back to my youth, and you can still make them go pretty fast—and the one that fascinates me the most is the Ardun conversion," says Buzz. You can see what he means when you consider his Bonneville roadster, co-owned by hot rod collector Richard Munz and running 200-plus mph with a blown Ardun flathead.
But that's not the direction he has taken with his latest coupe, seen here. When he decided to build a car for racing in the historics—the vintage racing events for multi-million-dollar vintage road machines from Ferrari, Porsche, and Jim Hall's past—he decided to blend what he knew from 40-plus years of road racing into an authentic Deuce coupe—with an overriding aesthetic governing every modification. "In the day, the 1932–1934 Ford highboy was the dominant road-race car—Gilmore Stadium, road races, the Targa out of Gilmore, Gardena, stadium with jalopies, all of that. I thought there's no reason you can't road race a 1932 Ford. I know all of the technologies: how to triangulate the rearend like they do in NASCAR, weight-jack the front spring like a sprint car, design and build an antidive front suspension, antisquat rear—basically, all of the stuff I learned in road racing." OK! But it had to be a steel, chopped '32 with a stock frame and no independent suspension. Continues Buzz, "When you go with any independent suspension, it's not a 1932 Ford. Look at a Go-kart—it doesn't have independent suspension, it doesn't have any suspension. It keeps the wheels lined up on the pavement. The independent suspension may comply better, but I think a great engineer could take a solid-axle car and go to Indy and be competitive. The Bugatti Formula 1 cars didn't have an independent suspension—those were all solid-axle cars in their day, and they were quick—they didn't know about negative camber, so that's why a Bugatti Formula 1 car had positive camber—and they looked really dumb. But 10 years later, it would have looked like our car.
"Anything can be run, and I'm a purist—you can refine things like move the engine back 5 percent and lower the driver down for better CG [center of gravity], put the spring behind the axle for lower CG—called 'bulldogging' the front end—a trick from at least back to the '40s." So getting the chassis down as low as the engine is part of the plan. You don't think of these cars as 1932 Fords or Porsches when you're Buzz; you think of them in terms of CGs, front-to-rear weight bias, contact patch, camber angle, toe-in, toe-out, squat, and antisquat. You look at the given system and engineer it accordingly. It just happens to be a '32 Ford instead of a 962 Porsche. "I incorporated antiroll bars into the coupe and a very rigid frame with a NASCAR-style 'cage; you can't twist it. With independent, you don't have control over camber angles, but with a straight axle you do, as it moves through an arc," Buzz says.
If you look at grainy photos of those old '50s jalopies, they had umpteen degrees of negative camber so the tires would dig into the asphalt or dirt for better traction. Busby knew that was the right direction. "I built into the suspension the amount of camber I wanted statically, and then in the rear, through Speedway Engineering, I engineered the housing to have 3⁄4-inch of negative camber by making clearance in the housing with pineapple splines. Now I can put toe-in into it—I can misalign the rear without hurting the axle—just like NASCAR," he says. Basically what Busby did was bend the camber into the axle just like the good ol' boys do.
At the front, Buzz used another ancient trick by putting a bracket with a bearing in the center of the front axle to help locate the axle side to side while allowing for up and down travel. The lower roll center is controlled with antiroll bars, front and rear. So when the coupe rolls over, the antiroll bars make it resist its roll by transferring the weight. Buzz suggests it's fooling the tires into thinking there is more or less weight than there really is.
The engine CG is very low, as is the battery. "It's virtually dragging on the ground because we want CG down. I've got an old steel body, so a heavy portion of that car is above what would be ideal for a race car," he says.
Once he got the Deuce dancing in his brain, Buzz approached Bobby Walden in Pomona to fabricate a reproduction Brookville three-window, all-steel body as light as possible. Says Buzz, "I told him to leave some things out of it to keep weight down. He built the body, and I told him the specific chop I was after. Frank Weston in Pasadena, when I was a kid, had a great three-window with an Olds, and it had a great chop. To me, the chop was just right."
The guys in Pasadena knew you leaned the posts a little bit, and lengthened the top a little bit.
In '40s Pasadena, if a cop pulled you over, and your hot rod was chopped too much, you got a ticket for impaired visibility—better known as a harassment ticket. The hot rodders' rule for chopping tops was to hold a dollar bill vertically, and it had to fit between the center of the windshield frame, top to bottom. That became the preferred chop in the San Gabriel Valley—with about 3⁄4-inch less taken out of the back for a slight wedge. The posts were angled back, but not too far back. "The guys in Pasadena knew you leaned the posts a little bit, and lengthened the top a little bit," Buzz says.
He had Walden take the liner out of the trunk lid and louver it because 1932 Fords make lift at the back. Buzz added a blade so the air trapped inside the trunk exits and spoils the air outside like a Porsche ducktail. "I applied aero that we know about today—and what we know about chassis—to a '32 Ford so that it stays as a '32 Ford with a solid axle," he says.
Jim Busby Racing has been located in Laguna Canyon just outside of Laguna Beach, California, for 40 years. The canyon has been home to head-altering Godfather Timothy Leary, and head-porting legend Jocko Johnson, who made Laguna Canyon his last stop before retreating to the desert for good. As Busby describes his shop, "We've built just about every imaginable device in here." Formula 1, hot rod restorations, road-racing machines of many stripes, even Pikes Peak racers and dragsters—it's pretty much all been through the doors of Busby's shop. The crew recently finished the Lister Knoop/Mann Special that won its class at the 2012 Pikes Peak Hill Climb, finishing 12th overall, with Busby's longtime driving partner and friend Rick Knoop at the wheel of the 1958 Lister Jag. So the 1932 coupe buildup had to share space and time with some stout customer work.
Once the coupe's body was completed, it was mated to the chassis Busby's shop had been building. The build ethic was so dedicated to the authentic hot rod aesthetic that it started out with Buick drum brakes on Lincoln backing plates. "They were OK but not where I wanted to go, so I made up a set of Wilwood brakes to my specs—that's the only thing I walked away from as a hot rod basic. I lost my patience and I got frustrated with them, so I put discs on it and they work great."
The coupe blitzes with a wicked Roush-Yates 358ci Ford monster motor snarling with more than 850 hp. Says Buzz, "With my relationship with Roush-Yates, I'm running a current NASCAR Cup motor—not last year's—with a G-Force T-10–based changeable-ratio transmission with all dog rings like Hewland gearboxes, with intermediate bearings." All of this was artfully packaged into the coupe's shell, along with the 'cage, engine setback, fuel cell, dry-sump system, radiator, and things like brake-cooling ducting and weight-jacking systems.
So now that Busby's got his mad-dog road-racing Deuce, what's he doing with it? "We do three-day track days with it at Laguna Seca," says Busby, "where we run with everybody from five-million-dollar Ferrari pontoon-fender Testa Rossas, to this, to whatever, and it's a pretty elite crowd—the guys are way too rich. And we beat them. We go whistling by the Ferraris in our 1932 Ford and wave to them, and it's a lot of fun. We've taken it out to Willow Springs and haul ass there, but I haven't had the time to do as much with it as I would like because we're way too busy here at the shop.
We go whistling by the Ferraris in our '32 Ford and wave to them, and it's a lot of fun.
"I originally had the idea of doing a series with cars built to the coupe's specification to be raced at the historic races—'28–34, Ford, Chevy, Plymouth, whatever, and they had to be a straight axle so they looked the part. You could chop it, channel it, section it, whatever you want. I just haven't had the time to put that together, but I think it would be a lot of fast fun.
"But, mainly, I just wanted to build it, and it had to work—it couldn't look like it could, it had to. Guys have tried to do radical racing versions of hot rods but they don't work—this one works, and it works because of our history."
Mainly, I just wanted to build it, and it had to work—it couldn't just look like it could, it had to.
Three-Window Lore
The Ford Model B was introduced in 1932, and designated the four-cylinder cars. Hence, "Busby's Buzz 'B,'"the ironic title to this story. The 1932 V8 cars were Model 18s.
Ford made 20,506 V8 and 968 four-cylinder three-window coupes in 1932—about half as many produced as the five-window coupe.
The three-window was Ford's Deluxe coupe, while the five-window was marketed as the Standard. In prior years, the difference between Standard and Deluxe models was the addition of cowl lights, dual taillights, an upgraded interior, and other minor trim for Deluxe models, so having an entirely different body was somewhat unusual, though not unprecedented.
The front opening "suicide doors" of the three-window became the precursor to this feature appearing on all Ford passenger cars in '33–'34.
The Buzz
Jim Busby raced for the Porsche factory program under the Brumos Porsche/Audi, Beverly Hills Porsche/Audi, and Al Holbert Porsche/Audi banners from 1982–1989.
From 1979–1981, Busby drove a combo of BMW March M1s and 935 Porsches. In 1978, he was first in his class at LeMans and the overall winner at Mid-Ohio. In 1981, he won Riverside in a 935 Porsche.
For the '82 and '83 seasons, Busby raced 924 Porsche Carreras, winning LeMans in 1982 in the GTO class.
In 1983, Busby Racing built two Lola T616 cars in GTP and Class 2 using Mazda rotary drivetrains under the BF Goodrich banner, winning the '84 LeMans and '84 Monza in Class 2.
Busby was back with Porsche for the '85–'87 seasons, racing 962s. In 1986, he was first in the GTX class at LeMans and second overall in the GTP class at Sebring. He raced for Nissan/BF Goodrich for the '90 and '91 seasons, retiring in 1992.
The Busby & Munz Bonneville Roadster
Busby's got numerous Deuces in his stable of cars, including this Bonneville roadster he runs along with another multi-Deuce dude, Richard Munz. Richard's son and Busby's son have both taken a few runs in the roadster. The engine starts with an 85hp flathead Ford made in 1949, but now it spits 515 hp—with a single four-barrel carb. Add an era-correct S.C.o.T. blower, and it hammers 675 hp—good enough for 202 mph on the brine. Sounds fun, as does the thought of seeing the stunned look on the faces of those engineers who toiled away in the early '30s at Ford, were they alive today to witness what Buzz has wrung from their humble efforts.


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Check out these links to articles covering topics ranging from Reddit and Google+ to email marketing and website design.
Somewhere in between the PR pitches, tech announcements, and six second video snippets, you may just find time this month to read up on a few new social media tools and best practices.
Keeping in mind that our collective heads are exploding, I have taken the liberty to compile a "To Do" list for the month. Feel free to take some time out of your day to check out one of these articles.
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Which ones are your favorites or hot topics? I really like Nos. 10, 13, and 28.
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The leak Wednesday of photos of a what appears to be a prototype of China's first stealth fighter jet attracted immediate attention worldwide, but many note that China is years away from moving that jet into service.
Pictures of the jet and accompanying articles appeared on the front page of the Chinese daily Global Times on Wednesday. The lack of a government suppression of the disclosure lends credence to China's reports, the Associated Press reports.
The Global Times did not comment on the authenticity of the pictures, but since the government wields extensive control over state media, the report's appearance and the fact that censors have not removed images from websites suggest a calculated move to leak the information into the public sphere.
That in turn would reflect the growing confidence of the traditionally secretive People's Liberation Army, which is pushing for greater influence and bigger budgets.
US defense officials don't appear worried.
"It is not of concern that they are working on a fifth-generation fighter," since the Chinese are "still having difficulties with their fourth-generation fighter," Marine Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, told the Associated Press.
The prototype jet pictured in the leaked photos, known as a J-20, is notable because, like the US F-22, it would be undetectable by radar and antiaircraft defenses. The F-22 is currently the world's only operational next-generation stealth fighter jet.
The pictures emerged only days before US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates's visit to China planned for this weekend and a couple weeks before President Hu Jintao travels to the US to meet with President Obama, CNN reports.
The timing of the disclosure is no coincidence, some say, and hints at China's new approach to military power – deterrence – by broadcasting their growing capabilities, The New York Times reports.
These days, there is more muscle to show. A decade of aggressive modernization of China's once creaky military is beginning to bear fruit, and both the Pentagon and China's Asian neighbors are increasingly taking notice.
By most accounts, China remains a generation or more behind the United States in military technology, and even further behind in deploying battle-tested versions of its most sophisticated naval and air capabilities. But after years of denials that it has any intention of becoming a peer military power of the United States, it is now unveiling capabilities that suggest that it intends, sooner or later, to be able to challenge American forces in the Pacific.
The Global Times also reported that utilization of the new jet remains many years off and denied claims that the development of the J-20 is a sign of military aggression, instead calling it merely a reflection of China's economic growth.
"If the development of the J-20 is true, it will be another reflection of China's fast industrial advancement, which has already been highlighted by high-speed railways and space exploration," Song Xiaojun, a Beijing-based military expert, told the Global Times. "Besides the global, military impact, the rumored J-20 also bears political significance because it represents China's growing power."
He disagreed with some media reports that China is becoming aggressive militarily.
"The country's increasing military strength matches its economic growth," Song added.
Bloomberg reports that Vice Admiral Jack Dorsett, head of US naval intelligence, said the US underestimated the speed at which China could reach certain military technology milestones – the development of a ballistic missile capable of hitting a maneuvering target and, potentially, the stealth fighter jet.
Meanwhile, China Post reported that Taiwan's deputy defense minister in charge of intelligence Shen I-ming said the "authenticity of the photos was questionable" and that while China has been developing a fifth generation fighter jet system, that is not what is pictured in the published photos. Shen also said that Taiwan has been monitoring China's military development.
Agence France-Presse also cast doubts on the claims of a stealth jet, as well as when it could be ready.
Dennis Blasko, an expert on the People's Liberation Army – the world's largest military force – said the timeline for development of the jet was "probably considerably longer than what most outside observers would estimate."
"I have yet to see proof of a test flight. And testing for a prototype can take quite some time before production begins," Blasko said.
CNN reports that the stealth jet wasn't expected to be operational until 2017 but that testing is now expected to begin much earlier than that, and AFP reports that Chinese officials said it could enter into service as early as the next eight to 10 years.


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SurinameSuriname is a country in northern South America. It borders French Guiana to the east, Guyana to the west, Brazil to the south, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north.
Suriname was first colonized by the British and captured by the Dutch in 1667 who governed it as Dutch Guiana until 1954 The country of Suriname achieved independence from the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 25 November 1975. Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles, and the Netherlands itself have cooperated on a basis of equality since 1954
At just under 165,000 km2 Suriname is the smallest sovereign state in South America; French Guiana while less extensive and populous, is an overseas department of France. Suriname has a population of approximately 560,000 most of whom live on the country's north coast, where the capital Paramaribo is located.
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For many Americans, summer is the time to hit the road in an RV, taking time off work to see the country from the relative comfort of a home on wheels.
But for some free-spirited adventurers, summer never has to end as the RV becomes a mobile office, taking advantage of the growing ubiquity of wireless Internet access.
Jim Nelson and René Agredano are examples of this new breed of telecommuters who are at home on the road.
It's a far different lifestyle than cubicle culture of the traditional office setting, Nelson said in an interview from their favorite guest ranch in Lake City, Colo.
When asked why they choose to work out of a recreational vehicle or camper, many professionals cite the freedom that comes with a mobile lifestyle.
Nelson made the choice years ago after suffering through a two-hour daily commute in the San Francisco Bay area, when he was a marketing manager for a hardware company.
"It just beats your soul," Nelson said. "Now I can commute by choice. I can move somewhere if I want to if it's prettier. It's not the grindstone."
In 2007, Nelson and Agredano sold their graphics business, their Eureka, Calif., home and most of their belongings and hit the road full-time in a 24-foot, fifth-wheel trailer. Equipped with gadgets including a satellite dish for Internet access, solar panels and a pair of laptops, they have a virtual office that travels with them. Nelson, 45, works remotely as a graphic designer, while his wife of 15 years, 43-year-old Agredano, works as a freelance writer and jewelry maker.
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Oh my goodness. It's happening again. Will there be anywhere to hide this time, or are we already trapped — tied like poor little Pauline to the railroad tracks as the engine of another high tech bubble barrels down upon us.
Until last Thursday, there was some cause for hope. True, the day before the New York Times had written a piece reporting on the growing prevalence of "acqhire" transactions. That's where a company (like Facebook) buys a company for millions of dollars, only to promptly shut it down. Why? Because it wants the employees — $500,000 to $1 million per engineer is the current going rate. That's not quite as high as it was during the Internet Bubble years, but the same companies are doing lots of big-ticket acquisitions as well. Whether or not these transactions pay off in new revenues, the dilution to existing stockholders will be the same.
And then there are the valuations. Groupon, which sold its first half price pizza coupon only two and a half years ago, turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google only a few months ago. By April, it was said to be valuing itself in the $15 — $20 billion range. But that was a whole month ago, so the number $25 billion is now in the air. And then there's Facebook. Goldman Sachs, everyone's pick for most savvy investment bank on the Street, announced an investment round in Facebook in January of this year at an eye-popping $50 billion valuation. Facebook had revenues last year south of $2 billion.
Still, things aren't quite as crazy as they were back in the day, back when anyone with a drivers' license to prove they were under 25 could stroll along Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park or Winter Street in Waltham looking for money. VCs would swarm them like horny johns cruising the Red Light District for a little fun on a Saturday night. Without even asking to see a business plan, they'd throw an entrepreneur $10 or $30 or $50 million for a roll in the hay they hoped might lead to a quick IPO. Hundreds of times, it did, although the same companies were often dead as a doornail a year or two later.
I remember one 20-year-old Harvard student who graced me with a half hour of his time in 2000. He was making the rounds of all of the top law, accounting and venture capital firms in Boston to decide which ones he would permit to work with his new still-to-be incorporated company. Suddenly, he looked at his watch, and stood up. It turned out he needed to jump on his bike and beat it back to Cambridge or he'd be late for his job in the student center mailroom.
True story.
And yet, until last Thursday, there was still one major piece missing, and its absence was keeping things semi-rational, at least back here in the stolid Northeast. That piece was the lack of a clear path to liquidity, because the window of the initial public offering (IPO) market for emerging companies has been closed, or barely ajar, since the Great Big Internet Bubble burst in 2000.
And then, on Thursday, it happened. LinkedIn went public.
Wall Street, you see, is not a sophisticated network of brilliant strategists as some suppose, but an extremely highly paid fashion industry
You know LinkedIn — that's the company that allows people to punch out invites to people they don't know for reasons they haven't figured out so they can waste time they don't have (this is something the business experts refer to as "Social Media." Others refer to it as "another stupid time suck.")
But never mind that. The stories about Groupon and Facebook have been streaming into the collective conscience for a while now, and the fever is rising. Because Groupon and Facebook aren't available, it's the perfect tease. With so much hype about the exploding valuations of these two companies, some nominally comparable company would just have to do the gracious thing, and offer itself up to a public desperate for a piece of the action.
LinkedIn priced at $45, opened at $83, hit a high of $122.70 and closed its first day of trading at $94.25. It's valuation at the close? $9.1 billion. It's profit? $15.4 million on $243 million in revenues for 2010. I'll save you the long division: that's 592 times earnings. Sounds a little high, doesn't it? But this is social media!
For those of you below a certain age, this would be a good time for a short history lesson. What triggered the enthusiasm that grew to madness last time around was the IPO of Netscape, the company that released the first popular Web browser. Netscape was supposed to come out at $14 a share, but at the last minute, the company upped it to $28. Good call. It soared to $75 and closed at $58.25 on its first trading day, giving Netscape a market value of $2.9 billion. The company was 16 months old.
People noticed.
The ones that noticed the most were underwriters and VCs. For the underwriters, this was just another product opportunity to be seized and exploited. Wall Street, you see, is not a sophisticated network of brilliant strategists as some suppose, but an extremely highly paid fashion industry. Every year it "discovers" and sells a new fashion line and touts it as the must-have latest and greatest. One year it will be REITS, the next derivatives. It doesn't really matter what "it" is, so long as it's new and can give the machine something to sell. After Netscape, it was Internet startups, and with Netscape to point to, it was easy to persuade the market that this line was hot.
The VCs were another matter. Until then, they had been a relatively sober bunch, running funds that were in the $50 — $200 million range, holding their investments for up to ten years, and hoping to sell or take a few of them public for a yield of up to ten times the original investment. Well, Netscape really opened their eyes — a $2.9 billion valuation in just 16 months!
The problem was, entrepreneurs noticed as well. They weren't going to sell 40% of their company for a first round investment of $2 million any more. And the VCs didn't want to make small investments, either. They had been charging 1% a year of the value of fund assets as a management fee, and 20% of the eventual profit. That 1% fee would only generate $1 million on a $100 million fund, and that's not enough to even keep VCs in BMWs. So in no time they were raising $600 million — $900 million — even $1.2 billion funds — all of which was supposed to be invested in early stage companies. Of course, they raised their management fees, too, sometimes to 2%. On $1 billion, a 2% fee is $20 million. You can live on that.
So it was that the pump and dump cycle bloomed, with VCs stuffing $200 million or more into a single start up instead of $20 million before taking it public. That could happen within a year, and never mind revenues. If you're looking for revenues, well, you just don't get the Internet.
My firm and I did very well during those years. But it was a difficult and uneasy time. You had to hire like mad just to take care of your existing clients. And you always knew that when the bubble burst, it would be sudden and ugly. It did, and it was.
You'd like to think that everyone learned something from the last time around. Unfortunately, what they learned most clearly was that you can make a lot of money on the upswing of a bubble, and that you feel like a chump if you don't get on the bus.
So my hopes aren't high that we'll avoid another boom and bust, especially if Groupon and Facebook go public later this year. It's true that these are real companies with real revenues, and also that we are still recovering from the brutal impact of another bubble that burst after the Internet brought us low. Maybe these factors will keep the froth from getting to thick in the marketplace. Maybe investors will insist on evidence of real value before parting with their hard earned cash. Maybe the reality of bursting bubbles has finally been absorbed.
Maybe. But I wouldn't put your money on it.
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Lightning to USB Camera Adapter
With the Lightning to USB Camera Adapter, it's easy to download photos and videos from your digital camera to your iPad or iPhone with Lightning support so you can view them on the gorgeous Retina display and share them with family and friends.
After you connect the Lightning to USB Camera Adaptor, your iPad automatically opens the Photos app, which lets you choose which photos and videos to import, then organises them into albums. When you sync iPad to your PC or Mac, the photos and videos on your iPad are added to your computer's photo library.
The Lightning to USB Camera Adapter supports standard photo formats, including JPEG and RAW, along with SD and HD video formats, including H.264 and MPEG-4. Requires iOS 9.2 or later.
What's in the Box
Lightning to USB Camera Adapter
Tech Specs
System Requirements
iPhone, iPad and iPod touch models with iOS 9 or later
iPhone Models
- iPhone 11 Pro
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can i still charge my ipad when using camera lightning connector connected to my Yamaha MX 88 Keyboard
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can i connect a xbox one controller to my ipad?
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No. It is input from camera only. (And NOT from card reader)
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will this work with iOS 12 and hook up to midi device. thanks
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Maybe, probably not though. If you want to use it for connecting to MIDI sources get the Lighting to Maybe, probably not though. If you want to use it for connecting to MIDI sources get the Lighting to USB 3 adapter, because that one has both USB and lightning. And it uses the lighting port for supplying extra power to devices/peripherals. This is the part of the description of the Lightning to USB 3, "Then you can connect USB peripherals like hubs, Ethernet adapters, audio/MIDI interfaces, and card readers for CompactFlash, SD, microSD, and more."
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You can't. But after on iOS 13, you can connect a Bluetooth mouse to your phone (but I don't suggest You can't. But after on iOS 13, you can connect a Bluetooth mouse to your phone (but I don't suggest, because the iPhone is too small for using mouse. But i do recommend you do this on a iPad)
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Good things are supposed to come in threes. Is that why Hollywood obsesses over the trilogy, trying to bring every franchise to that not-so-round number of three before they tie everything up with a precise bow? Even films that don't set themselves up for natural sequels are finding their way to Part Three. Like Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.
Yes, the Richard Linklater talkers that paired Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy for lengthy conversations about life and love apparently will spawn one more go-round of insightful verbal sparring … at least, according to Hawke. While speaking with IndieWire on behalf of his The Woman in the Fifth, Hawke revealed that he'll reunite with Linklater and Delpy for a third effort, and soon.
We're also doing a follow-up to Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, so that will be fun. We're going to shoot that this summer," Hawke reveals. "I've gotten into trouble, so I'm sworn to secrecy [about where it will take place]. The biggest change between this one and the last one is the Internet. The first time we did it, we didn't have any pressure; nobody gave a shit.
People give a shit now. Not that these films are box-office juggernauts. But critics fawn over the collaborations (and rightfully so), so the idea that they'll attempt another is wildly appealing. It has been eight years since star-crossed lovers Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) last reunited in France. Maybe Linklater can hold the third chapter for 2014, giving the couple a 10-year reunion to see where life has taken them.
The Before films actually could – and should – extend beyond a third film. Much like Michael Apted's Up documentaries, audiences simply could check back in with Hawke and Delpy at different stages of their lives to see how we measure up against their progress. The budgets are low, the value is high … so long as Hawke, Delpy and Linklater are game every 10 years or so, would you be interested in watching?


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Read-In Chain to be held Feb. 7
The English Department will host the annual National Read-In Chain in honor of Black History Month on Monday, February 7, from noon-2 p.m. in the Nestor Hall West Lounge.
The English Department invites students, faculty, and staff to participate in this literacy initiative, co-sponsored by the National Council for Teachers of English and the NCTE Black Caucus, by selecting and reading works of African American authors, poets, and orators. Original creative works are also encouraged.
Students of Indianola Alternative Middle School will also present original poetry at the Read-In, based on the work of inventor George Washington Carver.
Columbus State banking service moving to US Bank
Columbus State is in the process of moving its banking services from Huntington National Bank to US Bank. Reimbursement checks have been issued from the new US Bank account for the past few weeks, as some of you may have noticed. Next week's (Jan. 31) payroll checks will be issued from US Bank for the first time, so checks will need to be cashed at US Bank. If you currently bank with Huntington, your direct deposit may not post earlier than pay day as it has previously. You should see no other changes that will directly affect you. Questions about the banking change should be addressed to Human Resources at ext. 2408.
ITDL Seminar:
iPads in Education: Introduction, basics, open discussions, and brain storming
Did you know that between April and December of 2010 more than seven million iPads were sold? At first, many people around the world were baffled by Apple's iPad. Yet today the iPad is at the center of many business, educational, and personal discussions about what it is and how it can be applied to how we now work, learn and live.
If you are interested in what an iPad is and how iPads are currently being used, this is a session you won't want to miss! The session is open to all employees, even if you do not own an iPad (or tablet computing). Please join us and gain better insight from fellow faculty and staff members who are early adopters of this life-changing technology. (Note: iPads will not be available for all participants during this session. If you have an iPad, please bring it!)
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When: Friday, January 28 (1:00 - 3:00 p.m.) - Register
Where: Innovation Center CT 107
Campus invited to Sustainability Committee meeting with MORPC
The Sustainability Committee invites the campus community to attend a meeting Tuesday, February 1 at 2:00 p.m. in WD 409. Jerry Tinianow with the Center for Energy and Environment at the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) will speak about Eco Summit 2012 (September/October 2012) which will be hosted in Columbus. The Eco Summit is expected to draw nearly 2,000 international scientists, including the world's top 30 ecologists, restoration scientists and environmental policy specialists. Come to the meeting to hear more about the Summit, and other initiatives from the MORPC Center for Energy and Environment.
Volunteers needed for Central District Science Day March 19
Columbus State will host the Ohio Academy of Sciences Central District Science Day on Saturday, March 19. Approximately 500 students from local area middle and high schools will present their science projects in hopes of advancing to the state competition in May. Volunteers are needed to judge these projects and to assist in the smooth operation of the activities.
Judges will be needed from 8 a.m. to approximately 12:30 p.m. If you have never judged before, don't worry! An orientation session will assist you. All judging is done in pairs and inexperienced judges are paired with an experienced judge.
Additional volunteers are needed to assure smooth operations during the event. Times of service will vary. Volunteers help students find their display sites, assist in registration, tally up the scores, assist the judges by collecting score cards, and act as hall monitors to maintain order and security. There is a volunteer job for every person regardless of science training.
This is an excellent community service opportunity so come and make it a success.
If you would like more information about this event or if you want to volunteer as a judge or in any other capacity please contact John Blaha (NH 4114, ext.5930.
Christopher's Restaurant reopens for Winter Quarter
Christopher's, a student-run dining room for faculty, staff and guests, will open for service on Thursday, January 27. Christopher's will serve lunch every Thursday from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Eibling Hall Room 05 through the end of the quarter. Stop in Thursday, when the special will be roast pork loin or meatloaf plus lots of side dishes including mashed or sweet potatoes, soup, salads and peanut butter pie for dessert! Read the entire menu here.
Employee development opportunities listed
Part of PERFORMs is the development of employee skills, knowledge and abilities. To support managers and employees in accessing development opportunities, the Human Resources Department has identified existing opportunities and created new ones. Some sources of employee development are listed here:
Human Capacity Development Courses
For a listing of courses and to register go to: http://web.cscc.edu/is/employeetraining/index.htm
Mindleaders (online courses)
For a listing of courses and to enroll online go to http://iti.cscc.edu/mindleaders.html. Use your Novell User ID and password to login. Employees will then be able access courses such as: Exceeding Customer Expectations, Project Management from a People Perspective, Effective Business Writing, and Intermediate Excel
Center for Workforce Development
Courses through the Center for Workforce Development are now available to employees participating in PERFORMs at no cost to the department or to employees. Employees will be able to access courses such as: Legendary Customer Service, Achieving Success with Difficult People or Introduction to Microsoft Project.
All courses must be approved by the supervisor and be identified as part of the Development Goal(s) on the PERFORMs Planning Guide. For a catalog of courses go to http://www.cscc.edu/workforce/pdf/CWDCat2010.pdf . To register, complete the attached voucher form and send it to Tracy Jones, WD 330. For more information contact Tracy Jones at ext. 5489.
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Former OPETH Drummer's SOEN: New Song Available For Streaming
SOEN — the project featuring Swedish drummer Martin Lopez (ex-OPETH, AMON AMARTH), bassist Steve DiGiorgio (SADUS, TESTAMENT, DEATH, ICED EARTH), vocalist Joel Ekelöf (WILLOWTREE), and guitarist Kim Platbarzdis — will release its debut album, "Cognitive", on February 15 via Spinefarm Records. The CD was mixed by the Grammy Award-winning Canadian producer David Bottrill, who has previously worked with PETER GABRIEL, TOOL, SMASHING PUMPKINS and MUSE.
"Cognitive" track listing:
01. Fraktal
02. Fraccions
03. Delenda
04. Last Light
05. Oscillation
06. Canvas
07. Ideate
08. Purpose
09. Slithering
10. Savia
11. Writhen (bonus track)
The song "Delenda" is available for streaming on the SOEN Facebook page ("like" required).
SOEN's music is described in a press release as "a unique mix of melodic and rhythmic exprementation."


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Spurs sign Eric Dier from Sporting
England under-21 defender Eric Dier has completed his move from Sporting Lisbon to Tottenham Hotspur, the Premier League club have confirmed.
Spurs are believed to have paid four million pounds for Dier, 20, who was born in England but moved to Portugal as a child.
The defender progressed through Sporting's academy to the first-team, making his debut in 2012 and since then racking up 30 appearances for the club.
Dier, who has previously spent a short time on loan at Everton, has been highly regarded in England for some time, representing his country at every level from U18s to U21s in the past three years.
Eric Dier completes his move from Sporting Lisbon on a 5-year contract & speaks to Spurs TV - http://t.co/SaCga0K0hj pic.twitter.com/PitgpzAK0x
- Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) August 2, 2014
He becomes Tottenham's third summer signing following the arrivals of Ben Davies and Michel Vorm from Swansea.
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- Formula E
Ex-F1 drivers register Formula E interest
Five former grand prix drivers have registered their interest to race in Formula E by signing up to a new Drivers' Club.
Sebastien Buemi, Karun Chandhok, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Lucas di Grassi and Takuma Sato have all shown their support for Formula E by signing up to the club, which also registers their willingness to race in the series in the future. Alejandro Agag - CEO of promoters Formula E Holdings - says it is an important step for the series to be endorsed by drivers who have driven at the highest levels.
"We're delighted to be starting the New Year, which of course is a very important one for Formula E, on such a positive note by announcing our new Drivers' Club," said Agag said. "From the very beginning, we have set out to deliver great racing to fans across the globe and to do that you need high calibre drivers. Now that we've announced all 10 teams, everyone is keen to find out who the drivers will be.
"Of course, we cannot confirm any drivers just yet as it will be down to the individual teams to select who fills their seats. However, we hope by offering them a 'pool' of top international drivers to choose from - all of whom support the new series - we can deliver on this promise of providing close, entertaining racing in city-centres around the world. We also hope it will showcase to fans, TV broadcasters and potential sponsors the high profile names Formula E is attracting and the level of drivers they can expect to see race come September."
Former HRT and Caterham test driver Ma Qing Hua has also registered his interest along with IndyCar driver Marco Andretti and DTM's Adrien Tambay.


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Bragging rights
The objective of this first taste of Bentley's fastest ever production car, then, is to ascertain just whether or not its sporting pretentions translate into genuine sporting ability.
Bentley quotes some remarkable performance figures for the Speed; 0-62mph is dispatched in 4.2 seconds while the top speed is 205mph. Can you think of a heavier production car that's capable of hitting 100mph from standstill in 9.0 seconds flat?
Fat tie brigade
There's no doubting the Speed's straight line performance, nor the way in which that twin-turbocharged engine delivers huge overtaking potential in any of the lower six ratios. With a ride quality that's both cosseting and controlled over all but the roughest of surfaces and decent suppression of wind and road noise, the Speed is a more appealing device for covering ground than most forms of air travel.
Big boy
The Speed never manages to overcome its mass, though, so although it doesn't kick and scream its way reluctantly along a twisting stretch, nor it doesn't cry out for more.
One slightly disconcerting characteristic, particularly on really demanding roads, is a stickiness to the throttle upon lifting off. The Speed continues to surge forward for a split second, which is both alarming upon first acquaintance and disruptive to your flow.
Boys from the black stuff
There is pleasure to be had from edging the Speed towards its limits, but it remains a much more adept Autobahn stormer than back road blaster. An aspect of our test car's sumptuous cabin summarises the Speed quite neatly; carbon fibre trim sits awkwardly alongside dark wood, and it's the black stuff that feels out of place.
Engine: 5,998cc, W12, twin-turbocharged
Transmission: 8-speed ZF automatic, four-wheel drive
Power (hp): 625@6,000rpm
Torque (lb ft): 590@2,000rpm
0-62mph: 4.2 sec
Top speed: 205mph
Weight: 2,320kg
CO2: 338g/km
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Chocolate, Walnut And Prune Fudge Torte
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- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 cups diced pitted prunes - (abt 8 oz)
- 1 cup prune juice
- 1 cup unsalted margarine - (2 sticks)
- 8 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chopped (do not use unsweetened)
- 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup coarsely-chopped toasted walnuts (abt 4 oz)
- 8 large eggs room temperature
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 1 pinches salt
- 1 cup prune juice
- 1/4 cup unsalted margarine - (1/2 stick)
- 10 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chopped (do not use unsweetened)
- 24 walnut halves
Servings 16
Step 1
For Cake: Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 350 degrees. Butter 9-inch-diameter springform pan with 2 3/4-inch-high sides. Dust pan with cocoa powder. Tap out excess. Wrap outside of pan with heavy-duty foil.
Place prunes in small bowl. Pour 1 cup prune juice over. Set aside to macerate 15 minutes.
Melt margarine in heavy medium saucepan over low heat. Add chocolate and whisk until smooth. Remove from heat. Add 3/4 cup cocoa powder and whisk until smooth. Mix in walnuts and prune mixture. Cool to lukewarm.
Using electric mixer, beat eggs, yolks, sugar and salt in large bowl at medium speed until well blended and just beginning to foam, about 1 minute. Add chocolate mixture and stir until well blended. Transfer batter to prepared springform pan.
Set springform pan into large baking pan. Pour enough hot water into baking pan to come halfway up sides of springform pan. Set baking pan in oven and bake cake until top looks dry and crusty and tester inserted into center comes out with some moist crumbs attached, about 1 hour 5 minutes. Cool cake in pan on rack 30 minutes. Place in refrigerator uncovered and chill overnight.
For Glaze: Bring juice and margarine to boil in heavy medium saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat. Add chocolate and whisk until smooth. Cool until thick but still pourable, stirring occasionally, about 45 minutes.
Line baking sheet with foil. Dip walnuts halfway into glaze. Arrange on prepared sheet and refrigerate until chocolate is set.
Meanwhile, using small sharp knife, cut around sides of cake to loosen. Release pan sides. Set cake on rack. Pour glaze over cake and spread to coat completely. Arrange walnuts, chocolate half at outer edge, around top cake. Refrigerate until glaze is completely set, at least 3 hours. (Can be prepared 3 days ahead. Cover loosely with foil or cake dome and keep refrigerated.) Cut cake into wedges and serve.
This recipe yields 16 servings.


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This made me laugh out loud, even after watching it more than once:
A notable quote:
Happy Mother's Day, Mom – Tucker wants me humping his shoulder.
It's made by Barats & Berata, a sketch-comedy group. They have lots of videos, which I haven't looked at yet.
(via The Rekounas Blog)