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X Games heads to Munich
For the fifth stop of X Games in 2013, the Global X tour headed to Munich for the German debut of X Games. BMX disciplines represented in Munich included BMX Park and Big Air, and riders invited included X Games Barcelona gold medalist Gary Young (bike pictured here) as well as almost 20 other professional BMX athletes.
BMX Park moves inside
Last month in Barcelona, several events were postponed due to rain. Heading into X Games Munich, under the threat of bad weather, some disciplines, including BMX Park, were moved to indoor venues. This decision proved worthwhile as rain plagued the weekend. Fortunately, BMX Park went off unhinged.
Barrel gets fast planted
Typically, BMX Park is dominated by flairs, tailwhips, 360s and transfers, so when Scottish invite Kriss Kyle decided to keep it stylish and fast plant the purpose built barrel on the Park course, everyone took notice. Kyle didn't make it out of the first heat, but sometimes, style trumps contest placings.
Daniel Dhers wins BMX Park
After disappointing finishes in Brazil and Spain earlier this year, past BMX Park gold medalist Daniel Dhers put it all together to return to the top of the podium at X Games Munich. Dhers' methodical, no hold barred approach to the Park was a return to form for the seasoned pro from Venezuela.
Morgan Wade's double tailwhip
GoPro BMX Big Air suffered a few hang ups due to rain and wind, but once the competition got underway, it was on for all of the competitors. Morgan Wade's approach to Big Air has leaned more towards the "big" side this year, and his double tailwhip air at 19 feet, 4 inches on the MegaRamp quarterpipe had the entire crowd on the edge of their seats. Wade earned a silver medal in Munich.
Andy Buckworth's no-handed double front flip
Three years ago, Andy Buckworth earned a bronze medal in BMX Big Air at X, but since then, he has suffered injuries and been unable to compete when X Games came calling. He made a triumphant return in Munich, and landed two no-handed double frontflips over the gap portion of the MegaRamp. Buckworth finished in 7th place, but showed a renewed comfort on the ramp that sometimes bites back.
Chad Kagy wins BMX Big Air
Veteran competitor Chad Kagy returned to the top of the podium during BMX Big Air at X Games Munich. Kagy landed a cliffhanger backflip over the gap portion of the MegaRamp, followed by a flair tailwhip at 14 feet on the quarterpipe portion of the ramp to earn a score of 87.00 in Round 2 of competition. "It's been a few years since I've been on top of that podium, and it's refreshing to get back up there," Kagy said.
Mountain Bike Slopestyle debuts
For the first time in X Games history, mountain biking slopestyle athletes competed alongside their fellow action sports pros in the traditional summer X events such as RallyCross, skateboarding, BMX and FMX at X Games Munich. Sixteen of the best freeride mountain bikers in the world were invited for an X Games gold medal in a Freeride Mountain Bike World Tour (FMBWT) Diamond (top-tier) event.
MTB Slopestyle closes X Games Munich
Typically, X Games comes to a close with either a Big Air event or RallyCross. Not so in Munich. Due to high winds, Mountain Bike Slopestyle was delayed until Sunday night, giving the MTB Slopestyle riders the stage for the final show at X Games Munich. So not only did Mountain Bike Slopestyle debut in Munich, it also closed the week down with a high octane finish.
Brett Rheeder wins MTB Slope
Brett Rheeder edged out fellow Canadian Brandon Semenuk to win the first X Games gold medal in Mountain Bike Slopestyle during the final event of X Games Munich. "This is unbelievable," Rheeder said in the finish area. "We've wanted to have slopestyle in the X Games forever and to be the first one to win a gold medal in the event is easily the best result of my career."
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PHILADELPHIA - The Phillies, owners of the league's 28th-best bullpen, got 7 2/3 innings of one-run ball from their relievers Saturday. Raise your hand if you called it. No? You didn't? You're not alone.
The Phillies' lean, green bullpen – chock full of guys who began the season somewhere other than Citizens Bank Park – set the stage for an extra-inning win. Too bad that one run the 'pen gave up was in the 12th … and the Phillies had no match for it in their half of the frame.
Jake Diekman opened the 12th by recording one out and issuing three walks, and Justin DeFratus did the rest. A fielder's-choice groundout by Atlanta's Dan Uggla off DeFratus pushed across the winning run in the Braves' 5-4 victory and extended the Phillies' recent pain.
The Phillies have lost 12 of 14 games and stand to be swept by the division-leading Braves today during the nationally televised, primetime finale.
With the bases juiced and one out, DeFratus got Uggla to roll over on a pitch. Jimmy Rollins tossed to Chase Utley to start the potential inning-ending double play, but first baseman Kevin Frandsen didn't hold the bag and Justin Upton scored.
Aside from its 12th-inning miscue, Charlie Manuel's hodge-podge bullpen did its job.
In other bullpen-related news, there is nothing wrong with the sound system at Citizens Bank Park. Its volume knob was cranked clockwise at the start of the ninth inning, drowning out PA announcer Dan Baker's introduction of Jonathan Papelbon … and the boos that followed.
Papelbon, the embattled closer, tossed a clean inning to keep a tie game intact and give the Phillies a chance to win one for a change. And Antonio Bastardo pitched a scoreless 10th, and narrowly avoided trouble with a pair of two-out walks before striking out B.J. Upton.
Two guys with similar stories took the mound in this one. The Phillies turned to John Lannan, on only three days' rest, to toss the middle game of the series. The Braves gave the ball to Brandon Beachy, making only his second start after a return following Tommy John surgery.
Both teams closed their eyes and threw darts at the wall in the hope that they'd hit the bull's-eye. Atlanta didn't, but its blindfolded lob was closer to the mark than the Phillies'.
Beachy labored through 6 1/3 innings, tossing hit-free ball from the third through the sixth, before coughing up the tying run in the seventh. Lannan couldn't escape the fifth, getting hit around badly in that frame.
Ultimately, neither factored into the decision and the game evolved into a battle of the relievers.
That's never a promising harbinger for the Philies, who rank 28th in bullpen ERA, but it worked Saturday.
Excusing the bullpen for whatever was to follow Lannan, the Phillies set the bar low for their starter.
The 28-year-old has made 146 career starts. Never had Lannan made one on fewer than four days' rest. Against the Braves, he was going on three. To top that off, Lannan tossed seven innings and 103 pitches in Tuesday's slump-busting win against San Francisco.
So considering what Lannan was up against, his performance in the first four innings – save a solo homer by Justin Upton – was something of a minor miracle.
Then the wheels came off for him in the fifth.
Freddie Freeman, up with one out and the bases loaded, laced a first-pitch fastball for a two-run single. That was the last batter Lannan faced before giving way to Zach Miner, who surrendered an RBI groundout.
The Phillies entered the fifth with a 3-1 lead. They exited it with a 4-3 deficit.
The Braves' big inning wiped out the Phillies' 3-0 lead through two innings, highlighted by John Mayberry Jr.'s two-run, second-inning smash to left field.
Jimmy Rollins got the Phillies level with the Braves in the seventh, when Atlanta attempted to stretch Beachy for a seventh inning. Beachy, who made his season debut Monday after months of elbow rehab, surrendered a leadoff single. Two outs later, Rollins doubled in Mayberry to tie the game at 4-4.


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OMAHA, Neb. (July 3, 2011) – ETSU rising senior Dylan Pratt (Johnson City, Tenn.) became the second straight Buccaneer to compete at the 2nd Annual TD AMERITRADE College Home Run Derby on Saturday night at TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha.
Pratt was looking to become the second straight ETSU winner of the event in just the second season of the competition, after former Buccaneer Paul Hoilman (Johnson City, Tenn.) took home the inaugural title last season. However, it was College of Charleston's Daniel Aldrich that wowed the Omaha fans from the very beginning much like Hoilman did last year.
Aldrich blasted seven home runs in the opening round to take a comfortable early lead. After advancing to the finals, Aldrich out-slugged Georgia Southern's Victor Roache 4-2 in the finals. Pratt finished in third place with three home runs.
After round one, Pratt and Roache were both tied for second, five behind Aldrich. Both Aldrich and Roache have earned numerous accolades following the season as Aldrich was named National Freshman of the Year, while Roache led the nation with 30 home runs. Pratt hit one homer in the second round and was in a position to move onto the finals until Roache hit two home runs to ultimately advance to the finals.
Pratt finished the 2011 season tied for second on the squad with 15 home runs, while also ranking second on the team with 57 RBIs. Earlier this week, Pratt was named to the ABCA/Rawlings All-South Region Team as a designated hitter, joining fellow teammate Bo Reeder (Cookeville, Tenn.) who also earned a spot on the list. Pratt and Reeder were just the second and third Buccaneers to earn the honor. Former Buccaneer Caleb Moore was named to the second-team as a utility player back in 2005.
The collegiate home run hitting competition featured eight of the nation's premier power hitters facing off in an elimination-style format. Competitors were selected from a pool of eligible players that have ranked among the nation's home run leaders during the 2011 college baseball season.
The 2011 TD AMERITRADE College Home Run Derby also featured Major League Baseball legends Frank Thomas, Paul Molitor, and Joe Carter. The event was capped off by a fireworks display.
Other players that competed in the competition included Virginia Tech sophomore Andrew Rash, Doug Shribman from Bucknell, Arizona State's Joey DeMichele, Connor Harrell from Vanderbilt and Richie Shaffer from Clemson. DeMichele and Shribman did not record any home runs during the event.
For up to the minute news and highlights regarding every Buccaneer event, stay tuned to ETSUBucs.com and Twitter @ETSUAthletics.


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Powering the 2012 Cadillac SRX
"When we started planning to equip this vehicle with the 3.6-liter engine, I challenged our engineers to achieve fuel efficiency." That's Liz Pilibosian, vehicle chief engineer for the 2012 Cadillac SRX. The engine in question—code-named LFX—is the only engine available in the new SRX. "They came back and exceeded the goal with 308 hp."
The 60° V6 engine produces 308 hp @ 6,800 rpm and 265 lb-ft of torque @ 2,400 rpm. It delivers an estimated 17/24 city/highway EPA mpg. (It is mated to a Hydra-Matic 6T70 six-speed automatic transmission.)
Here are some aspects of this engine:
• Lightweight aluminum block and heads
• Four valves per cylinder, and dual overhead cams with infinitely variable cam phasing
• Forged steel crankshaft
• Powdered metal connecting rods
• Composite intake manifold (said to be 5.5 lb lighter than a comparable aluminum manifold)
• Integrated cylinder head/exhaust manifold design (saves 13 lb vs. an engine with separate head/manifold assemblies
• Cast aluminum pistons with polymer-coated skirts
• Cast aluminum oil pan
Steve Kline, lead development engineer, said that the exhaust system is "all new from the engine to the exhaust outlets. From larger diameter pipes to a higher-volume muffler, the system is tuned to pull exhaust gas out of the engine at 1,200 to 3,000 rpm. This means more torque when you need it most."
And speaking of the airflow, Pilibosian said, "The exceptional airflow qualities enabled us to exceed the 300-hp target, while careful calibration of the dual continuously variable valve timing system and the exhaust system contribute to the engine's great low-end torque."
LFX engine is a global product, as it is produced by GM in its plants in Flint, MI, St. Catharines, Ontario, and Melbourne, Australia.


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Android: What, Me Fragmented?
May 17, 2012 12:10 PM PT
There are nearly 4,000 different types of devices running Android, OpenSignalMaps has found. More than 1,300 of them have custom ROMs that tweak the android.build model.
Android brands are almost as diverse as the models, openSignalMaps discovered. Further, the application programming interface (API) level, meaning the Android version, has also become more fragmented over time.
These facts bear out the general impression that Android is a fragmented operating system. However, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Fragmentation "may make things tricky for developers, but by opening up to so many markets by its presence on such a diverse range of devices, it also affords developers huge opportunity," James Robinson, the lead Android developer and cofounder of OpenSignalMaps, told LinuxInsider.
"Credit should also go to Google's Android team, who have continued to provide tools that help developers target many devices," he added.
What Is Fragmentation, Anyhow?
"Fundamentally, the core of Android doesn't change; what Google's giving you is API access to different functionalities" when it releases a new version of Android, such as Honeycomb or Ice Cream Sandwich, Michael Morgan, a senior analyst at ABI Research, told LinuxInsider. "They're bringing to the table new things you can now do with your app. It doesn't mean you can't do the old things any more, it just means you can do new things with it."
That means older apps will merely be unable to access additional functions offered by new APIs, Morgan pointed out. On the other hand, devs don't necessarily use all the functions of any API. "Just because you have a giant supermarket doesn't mean you have to buy everything in it," Morgan explained. "It depends on what you want to do with your apps."
For supporting screen size, devs can either use dynamic design or hard-code support into their app. "Say you want 20 percent of whatever screen a device uses to be blue no matter the size of the screen," Morgan said. "That's one way to program. But, for graphic designers and people who stake their lives on how beautiful they can make things, they can hard-code the design and have only three screens it can work on."
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Fragmentation
Android has a "good API set," Sam Abadir, chief technology officer at AppMobi, said.
On the other hand, "it's becoming impossible to target [Android] as a platform since almost every device has its own aspect ratio and resolution," Abadir told LinuxInsider. "There are so many OS versions -- 2, 3, 4 -- that, in combination with OEM modifications, the cross-product results in thousands of variations on a testing matrix, meaning it's impossible to test [the product] thoroughly."
Android fragmentation "is definitely a problem, but it's not insurmountable," Andy Jones, senior Android developer at PayAnywhere, told LinuxInsider. "The important thing to do is identify the minimum API level that your app will run well on and program for that API level."
Although there were "significant paradigm shifts" between the smartphone and tablet versions, meaning Gingerbread and Honeycomb, generally speaking devs don't need to rewrite code in order for the newer versions of Android to run their app, Jones said. In that case, however, the apps won't take advantage of the better APIs in the newer versions of Android.
The Thousand Faces of Android
Custom ROMs are "implemented by every major carrier and every third party company that I know of" because they are "the only way they can distinguish themselves," PayAnywhere's Jones said. However, the differences between ROMs "generally don't hurt application developers -- as long as one uses mostly the generic Android APIs."
Screen support "is by far the biggest fragmentation problem," Jones stated. Different image and layouts may need to be created for different screen resolutions, densities and sizes, especially if the accuracy of taps, is very important.
Another problem is that some brands fail to correctly implement APIs, openSignalMaps' Robinson pointed out. For example, getting signal strength updates and tower locations "doesn't work on many TouchWhizz devices from Samsung."
While Google "does good work explaining the API changes and how to handle things when old functions are killed off, they need to do more to ensure that the APIs are implemented as uniformly as possible within the custom user interfaces," Robinson stated.


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Place Category: Parks and Playgrounds
American Playground is named for the American Manufacturing Company, the second-largest industrial employer in Brooklyn in the early 20th century, and the original owner of this plot of land. Founded in 1890, the American Manufacturing Company produced rope and bagging. According to an article that appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle on April 19, 1919, it was the "largest cordage concern in the world." The company occupied a five-block complex along Franklin Street, and its buildings still stand adjacent to the park.
American Playground is in Greenpoint, a neighborhood of great historical significance to the borough of Brooklyn. Greenpoint, which lies at Brooklyn's northeasternmost extremity, was purchased from the Keskachague Indians by the Dutch in 1638 as part of the larger acquisition of Boswijck (Bushwick). Greenpoint is named for the grassy banks that lined the East River when the Dutch set up the first small farms here in the 1640s. Though this neighborhood bears a verdant name, much of its history is defined by heavy industry.
Beginning in the mid-1800s, Greenpoint became home to a great concentration of factories, warehouses, lumberyards, foundries, coalyards, and gas storage tanks, concentrated primarily along the waterfronts of the East River and Newtown Creek. Greenpoint was well known as a home the five "black" arts: printing, glassmaking, potmaking, oil refining, and cast-iron manufacturing. Kent Avenue, just south of this park, was a center of shipbuilding during the Civil War (1861-1865). Street names such as Java and India are a reminder of the days of busy trade with distant lands in coffee and spices.
On nearby West Street, between Oak and Calyer Streets, stood Continental Ironworks, the shipyard that built the famous ironclad U.S.S. Monitor in 1862. The Monitor clashed with theMerrimack, the Confederate Navy's ironclad counterpart, off Hampton Roads, Virginia, on March 9, 1862. This encounter, though it ended in a draw, is thought to have ushered in the modern era of steam-powered, armored ships, revolutionizing naval combat. In 1872, Eberhard Faber moved his pencil factory to Greenpoint. Occupying an entire block between Greenpoint Avenue and Kent Street, on Franklin and West Streets, the factory produced the first eraser-capped pencil.
As industry grew in the neighborhood, so did traffic along Newtown Creek. By 1915, it was one of the busiest waterways in the country. In that year alone, more than 100,000 ships passed through the creek, carrying more than five billion tons of cargo. Immigrants from Ireland, England, Russia, Italy, and especially Poland arrived during the late 1800s to work in Greenpoint's factories. Today the Polish community is Greenpoint's largest ethnic group , and the largest Polish community in the United States. After World War II, the factories of Greenpoint experienced a steady decline, and today all that remains of Greenpoint's industrial past is the hulking shells of the great companies they left behind.
American Playground lies along Franklin Street between Milton and Noble Streets. The City of New York assigned the lot to Parks on April 18, 1955. Before that, the City had been leasing the land from the American Manufacturing Company since 1927 for parks purposes, at a rent of one dollar, payable every third year upon renewal of the lease. In gratitude for the generosity of the American Manufacturing Company, the Commissioner of Parks for the Borough of Brooklyn, James J. Browne, named the park in its honor.
Today, American Playground has basketball and handball courts, stately iron fencing around the perimeter, a comfort station, a sitting area facing Franklin Street, a flagpole and yardarm flying the flags of Parks, the City of New York, and the United States, play units with slides and safety surfacing, swings, benches, and spray showers disguised as a cactus and a swan. Ample shade trees grace the park, providing cool cover during the summer months. Although the park initially contained a mini-pool, a 1996 renovation removed it, replacing it with the spray showers. This $181,728 project was funded by Council Member Kenneth K. Fisher.
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It looked like a couple were duplicates sprat so I left them out.
and before anyone askes the grey was on them when I got them can't clean it up
Sprat, email sent, i'll load them for you
It looked like a couple were duplicates sprat so I left them out.
and before anyone askes the grey was on them when I got them can't clean it up
Thanks one million. I have a few more showing the ejector pins and mag release screw. I fired 5 rounds last week they were 40gr of 3031 relatively wealk rounds. next I will use military rounds for gas function
these are the same pictures found on the roderus site(you must be a member and log in to see the forum) also on weaponeer under FAL
I have removed the JB weld I used to help the feeding ramp, now that the mag locks into place rounds feed out of the mag into the chamber without any problems
to the nay sayers and non believers I say get a life.
Sprat and sprat1 are one and the same.
Sprat, I think it shows a huge amount of skill and patience to pull that build off. Good job. My comment was only to say it's time to get that bad boy heat treated. I did not mean for my comment to sound like a naysayer towards you.
Sprat I am having problems with norton interfering with some uploads. I will get the rest uploaded when I can figure out what is stopping it.
lets see...........
Sprat - Nice build, right out of a 3Rd world country - lol - we might be closer to that than most can imagine, gas food & everything else. I got an Imble Tapco fal receiver years ago.
I'll have to dig it up and take a closer look at it. I helped a friend build one with a 100% receiver. Gun plumber made it easy. The only hard part was the locking pin if I remember
right. We had to use dry ice & heat to get it in. You should see the Thompson 28 build at Beltfed - Others said it could not be done, but see who got the last laugh
P.S. There was a place selling raw AR 15 receivers and had info on heat treating
in SG news at there web sight. PSS. ( Don't let the want-to- bee's bother you )
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that is ver cool! But I have a mill and lathe so that is the route I will take.
very nice but i wonder about cast
and 80% forging would be better
cool i have century 80% but i never did any thing with it just a paper wait for me due to some of the issues


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I am not sure how good it may be but Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is the official site for the Broadway production of Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman's, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. It takes a sharp, irreverent look at America's seventh president, Andrew Jackson.
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In BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, rising star BENJAMIN WALKER reprises his role as America's first political maverick. A.J. kicked British butt, shafted the Indians and smacked down the Spaniards all in the name of these United States-who cares if he didn't have permission? An exhilarating and white-knuckled look at one of our nation's founding rock stars, BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON recreates and reinvents the life of "Old Hickory," from his humble beginnings on the Tennessee frontier to his days as our seventh Commander-in-Chief. It also asks the question, is wanting to have a beer with someone reason enough to elect him? What if he's really, really hot?
Friday, November 12, 2010
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Posted by M at 3:05 PM
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2 comments:
- Paul Swendson said...
Great last question. When I cover Andrew Jackson in my history classes, I raise the same issue. Why on earth would we want a "common man" running the country?
- Jess said...
I've seen it - it's excellent! And while they obviously take a lot of liberties with the characters, there's a surprising amount of historical accuracy. And the music is fantastic.
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What is XIO?
XIO is a high-speed communications channel, used for most newer SGI systems (IP27, IP30, IP35 - note the O2 is NOT a XIO system). It's typically used in a switched star topology, the switch being called XBow.
XIO devices are called widgets.
Linux support
There is no explicit support for XIO in Linux/MIPS. (Of course there are supported devices using XIO, but there is no XIO layer yet.) A proposal for a XIO layer is here: XIO API.
Physical layer
XIO is usually used on a single-ended, source-synchronous physical layer (STL levels - SGI Transistor Logic). It's either an 8- or 16-bit channel, running at 400 MHz (using the dreaded compression connectors). There is also a version, called Crosstown, that uses normal cabling and differential PECL transmission.
Link layer
XIO contains a link-layer protocol (LLP) shared with CrayLink. Transfer is organized into micropackets. These contain a total of 128 bits of data and 32 bits of control. The control information encapsulates an 8 bit sideband (used by higher layers for framing), sequence numbers (for go-back-n link-layer retransmissions) and check bits (CRC-16).
The link layer is able to run both on 8- and 16-bit links, and if a upper half of a 16-bit link is non-functional, it will automatically revert to using the 8 lower bits.
XIO supports basic read/write memory transactions. IRQs are sent through XIO by instructing a device to write a defined value to some register in another XIO widget. This write actually triggers the IRQ handling process in the interrupt controller. For instance, the HEART chip has such register at 0x80 in XIO widget space.
XIO addresses differ from physical processor addresses. They are two-part (widget-offset) and each XIO device is free to implement the translation from its unified memory space to the XIO address. BRIDGE and HEART are examples of two different approaches.
Device identification
There is no distinction between memory and configuration space in XIO. Instead, each XIO device has a predefined header that consists of a widget ID and several configuration registers.


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Uggla working on implementing adjustments
WASHINGTON -- Braves second baseman Dan Uggla opened some eyes during Spring Training when he said he had set a goal to strike out fewer than 120 times this season.
Considering Uggla has averaged 162 strikeouts over the past seven seasons, that might be an unrealistic goal. But this season's early results indicate Uggla is at least trending in the right direction.
Uggla entered Sunday's series finale against the Nationals hitting .200 with four strikeouts through his first 20 plate appearances. In addition to the sample size not being big enough from which to draw conclusions, Uggla's batting average is also not indicative of the quality of the plate appearances he recorded during the regular season's first week.
"He's had some great at-bats," Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "He's hitting the ball about as well as anybody on this team."
After running into some tough luck with some balls that were hit directly at opposing defenders, Uggla gained some satisfaction with the decisive two-run, fourth-inning single he hit off Stephen Strasburg during Saturdays night's win at Nationals Park.
Along with giving the Braves a lead they would not squander, the single also gave Uggla more reason to believe breaking balls might not be as problematic as they were last year, when he recorded career lows in batting average (.179) and on-base percentage (.309).
Uggla spent this offseason focusing on keeping his front side much quieter than it had been as he had admittedly become "homer happy" over the past few years.
"I'd have rolled over that [curveball] last year," Uggla said. "When you're head is moving as much as mine was moving, you speed the ball up. You think that you can hit it and it's not a strike, and you're already committed to swinging at it.
"I'm excited about the way things have been going. I just need to be more selective. When you feel good, you want to go up there and hit. But I need to remember to be selective and put the ball in play."


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Dreamliner battery charger eyed in jet probe
- Investigation could take days%2C weeks
- Planes are grounded until battery problems are resolved
- Experts are confident the problems will be found%2C fixed
WASHINGTON — Federal investigators plan to test the battery charger and other electronics from Boeing's 787 Dreamliner on Tuesday in an effort to track down what went wrong with the batteries in the grounded aircraft.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) plan the tests at the Tucson headquarters of the charger's manufacturer, Securaplane Technologies. Investigators also have wire bundles and battery-management circuit boards to test from a plane that caught fire Jan. 7 in Boston.
"They need to make sure they account for all of these unforeseen things that can happen," says Prashant Kumta, a battery expert and engineering professor at the University of Pittsburgh.
Oliver McGee, an aerospace engineer who is a former deputy assistant secretary of Transportation, says technology in the plane includes millions of miles of wires and millions of lines of computer code, and involves numerous contractors.
"You have to put the puzzle back together again," says McGee, who urges patience on the investigation.
The testing comes nearly a week after regulators grounded 50 Dreamliners worldwide Jan. 16. The groundings followed the Boston fire aboard a Japanese Airlines plane and an emergency landing Jan. 16 in Japan of an All Nippon Airways flight because of a smoldering battery.
In another vein, investigators from the Federal Aviation Administration and from Japan's Civil Aviation Bureau visited the battery manufacturer, GS Yuasa in Japan, on Monday.
Tatsuyuki Shimazu, the chief air worthiness engineer at the Japanese bureau's Aviation Safety Department, says they are collecting information about how the batteries are made, so "whether there is a problem or not has not yet been determined."
Boeing, which has nearly 850 Dreamliners on order and is cooperating with the investigation, has halted deliveries until the electrical problems are resolved.
Airlines have already canceled hundreds of flights through Jan. 29, suggesting they expect the problem to take at least that long to fix.
Richard Aboulafia, vice president for analysis at the Teal Group, a consultant for commercial and military aircraft companies, says if the problem lasts more than a couple of weeks, it will create questions about how airlines can serve their routes. But he says Boeing is doing what it can to find and fix the problem.
"It's a big concern," Aboulafia says. "You don't want your new flagship aircraft taken offline."
Lithium-ion batteries are popular because they are smaller and charge faster than other batteries. But Kumta, the battery expert, says the concern is that the batteries, which are filled with a flammable liquid called an electrolyte, can explode or cause a fire when overheated or ruptured.
The Boston battery could have had charging problems even though NTSB found that it never received more than the 32 volts it was designed for, Kumta says. That's because the charger is supposed to let the battery run down before recharging, just like a cellphone or laptop is supposed to run down before plugging it back in. If the charger didn't match the battery's needs precisely, Kumta says, it could cause problems.
In addition, battery experts have questioned whether enough testing was done on batteries to mimic the temperature and pressure of flight. The battery would essentially seek to burst open in flight if not pressurized or built for different pressure at altitude, according to battery experts.
"With all of these, there might be a slight miscalculation or misjudgment," Kumta says.
He is confident, however, that any problem with the battery could be fixed.
"You learn from experience," Kumta says. "It's a new application, and people have to learn from it."
Contributing: The Associated Press


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Chaparral O-line coach breaks down Shane Callahan
In writing today's feature on Chaparral offensive lineman Shane Callahan, I tracked down Wolverines offensive line coach Rod Dobbs, who, for 18 years, was the offensive coordinator and line coach at Northern Colorado. He's also spent time as the head coach at Prairie View.
Anyway, the timing didn't work out, and it didn't make the paper, but he had some really good insight into who Callahan, an Auburn commit, is as a player.
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There have been few hotter stocks this year than Tesla.
The electric car manufacturer helmed by ambitious CEO Elon Musk is up about 240% YTD, and now sits at $121.
But Bank of America Merrill Lynch's John Lovallo II and John Murphy are holding firm to their original $39 price target.
In a note this morning, they write that there are "300,000 reasons" to be skeptical of Tesla's climb — that's how many units the company's current compound annual growth rate implies would be sold in 2020:
... we estimate that a $120 share price implies over 321K vehicle sales in 2020, which is a full 300K units higher than our current 2013e and would represent a 7-year CAGR of 48%. We also note that this analysis assumes TSLA can achieve EBIT margins of about 12.5% in 2020, which would be over 380bps better than the 2012 average of BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Bentley, and Porsche and 400bps better than our European analyst's forecasts for this group in 2015.
A 48% growth rate has never been achieved by any other auto manufacturer ever:
We analyzed the lifecycle of over 130 vehicles categorized as luxury by Ward's Auto, the result of which indicate that approx. 70% reach peak volume within the first 8 quarters of launch. In other words, if Tesla's vehicles follow a pattern similar to the industry norm, volumes could begin leveling off within the next year, rather than growing into perpetuity as the current share price would suggest.
They also warn the Q4 2013 gross margin growth target 0f 25%, even if reached, could end up being the product of an accounting trick:
While Tesla has stated that its 25% 4Q13 gross margin target excludes any potential positive impact from Zero Emission Vehicle Credits (ZEVs), it remains unclear if the company intends to include the potential benefit from Green House Gas Credits (GHG) or Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) credits (both listed as "Other Regulatory Credits" in Tesla's SEC filings) in its calculation.
They conclude: "While nothing is impossible, particularly with Elon Musk at the helm, we believe these assumptions warrant a healthy degree of skepticism."


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Pictured: The Harvard lightweight eight A emerges from beneath the Anderson Bridge.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—The Harvard lightweight crew started off the 2010-11 season by showcasing its depth with two boats among the top four finishers in the men's lightweight eights event at the 46th Head Of The Charles Regatta Sunday on the Charles River.
The Harvard A entry placed third among 21 men's lightweight eights, while the Harvard B boat was one place and less than seven seconds back. A boat of Crimson freshmen placed 17th in the event. Harvard placed ninth of 19 in the lightweight fours and took 25th place against heavyweight competition in the 42-boat club eights event Saturday.
The strong team showing, combined with that of the Crimson heavyweight crew, enabled Harvard to claim the MacMahon Cup Regatta Point Trophy for the most total points by any club, school, college or university at the Head Of The Charles.
"We had a very good result in the eight," said head coach Charley Butt. "The A boat rowed very well and very fast, and then the B boat really stepped up and had an outstanding row. We're rowing well enough and we're strong enough to be competitive, but that doesn't take anything away from the fact that we have to keep improving."
Harvard's A eight, which contained several members of last season's varsity eight, finished the three-mile course in 14:24.146, about 1.3 seconds behind runner-up Cornell, while Princeton took first place. The Crimson's B entry crossed the finish in 14:30.849, three places ahead of Princeton's second boat and further ahead of entries from Georgetown, Yale, Navy and others.
Lightweight Eight A
Cox: Lizzy Maybank, 8: Will Newell, 7: Andrew Trott, 6: Tom Nesel, 5: Austin Meyer, 4: Tim Moore, 3: Erich Schultze, 2: Jared Dourdeville, 1: James Stewart
Lightweight Eight B
Cox: Angela Chang, 8: Matt O'Leary, 7: Alex Newell, 6: Florian Mayr, 5: Nicholas Gates, 4: Michael Paresky, 3: Patrick Thornycroft, 2: Stuart Taylor, 1: Tom Foley
Lightweight Eight C
Cox: Shane Bouchard, 8: Michael Wales, 7: Andrew Campbell, 6: Michael Lukas, 5: Cam Heron, 4: Matt Gibbons, 3: Ben Hughes, 2: Zach Connerton, 1: Jamie Ashton
Lightweight Four
Cox: Paul Farber, 4: Tyler Caldwell, 3: Sean Duncan, 2: Billy Hennrikus, 1: Ben Bayley
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Radcliffe 2010 Head Of The Charles Regatta Results
Women's senior-master singles: Cambridge Boat Club (Ellen Kennelly '85) – 8th of 22, 22:58.998
Women's senior-master eights: Etats Unis (Liz O'Leary) – 1st of 29, 18:35.435
Women's senior-master eights: Radcliffe Association of Rowing Alumnae – 15th of 29, 20:27.510
Women's alumni eights: Radcliffe Association of Rowing Alumnae – 10th of 32, 19:22.770
Men's club fours: Harvard heavyweight crew – 7th of 58, 18:02.235
Men's club eights: Harvard heavyweight crew A – 1st, 15:09.811
Men's club eights: Harvard heavyweight crew B – 3rd, 15:40.274
Men's club eights: Harvard lightweight crew – 25th of 42, 16:59.971
Women's club eights: Radcliffe heavyweight crew – 8th of 30, 18:43.437
Women's master doubles: Cambridge Boat Club (Lindsay Burns '87 andLinda Muri) – 2nd of 21, 20:15.796
Men's senior-veteran singles: Harvard University (Harry Parker) – 16th of 27, 24:10.427 (23:22.427 after handicap)
Men's championship fours: Harvard heavyweight crew A – 6th of 15, 16:20.376
Men's championship fours: Harvard heavyweight crew B – 10th of 15, 16:45.008
Women's championship fours: Radcliffe heavyweight crew – 4th of 20, 18:00.008
Men's championship eights: Harvard heavyweight crew A – 2nd of 35, 14:02.323
Men's championship eights: Harvard heavyweight crew B – 9th of 35, 14:21.288
Women's championship eights: Radcliffe heavyweight crew A – 17th of 30, 16:54.651
Women's championship eights: Radcliffe heavyweight crew B – 22nd of 30, 17:12.115
Men's lightweight fours: Harvard lightweight crew – 9th of 19, 16:41.207
Men's lightweight eights: Harvard lightweight crew A – 3rd of 21, 14:24.146
Men's lightweight eights: Harvard lightweight crew B – 4th of 21, 14:30.849
Men's lightweight eights: Harvard lightweight crew C – 17th of 21, 15:30.423
Women's lightweight eights: Radcliffe lightweight crew A – 3rd of 12, 16:33.524
Women's lightweight eights: Radcliffe lightweight crew B – 7th of 12, 17:13.904


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2009's Top Personal Media Players
Apples are not the only fruit
Kit of the Year Yes, Apple dominates the PMP scene - for all those who grumble about the quality of its earphones. That didn't stop other manufacturers, most notably Sony, offering some darn fine alternatives in 2009, either by fighting back on price - Philips - or sound quality - Sony. But its hard to beat the all-round, utterly slim loveliness of the iPod Touch.
Apple iPod Touch
There's no doubt the 8GB iPod Touch is a great games machines, and at a new low price of £149, with a wealth of decent yet cheap games just a download away, it's a great choice for gamers who don't feel the need to brag of their allegiance to a gaming brand. It's especially good value when you consider you get a class-leading media player and excellent browser thrown in too, and a stack of other useful tools.
The 32GB and 64GB models are really for video fans rather than gaming buffs, since they're all about capacity. We'll have to see whether developers create games with the facilities of these two in mind or opt for generic Touch releases, in which case you may as well have the 8GB version and spend the price differential on some games.
Read the full review
Reg Rating 90%
Price £149 (8GB), £229 (32GB), £299 (64GB)
Sony Walkman X
The Walkman X is a very good quality music player, and a more than decent video player too. If it's purely sound and video quality you care about, then it definitely has the edge on the iPod Touch, with its superior sound quality and better, albeit slightly smaller, screen. Yet it's only really a sliver of an edge, since the Touch beats it for web browsing and the additional functionality offered by both iTunes and the App Store. A very good portable media device, but not quite the Touch beater Sony was hoping for.
Read the full review
Reg Rating 85%
Price £229 (16GB) £299 (32GB)
Philips GoGear Muse
There is a lot to like about the Muse. Its format support is excellent, as is the player's ability to handle video above the screen's native resolution. The bundled noise-cancelling earphones will hold obvious appeal to anyone who regularly uses their music player on a tube, train or plane. Some may see the absence of storage expansion as a drawback, but we reckon that is countered by the generous capacity/price combination.
Read the full review
Reg Rating 80%
Price £149 (16GB) £179 (32GB)
Best of the Rest
Samsung YP-R1
Apple iPod Nano
iRiver P7
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This month, Ruche's accessories make the cover for their magazine. Take a look at our jewelry on the gorgeous model!
Here are the accessories that were being featured:
Congratulations on your accessories making the cover! And thanks for your sweet comment! :)
Congratulations, well deserved, they are beautiful pieces.
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Drivers: Seas L21RNXP, Tang Band W3-1364s (bamboo fibre cone)
Frequency: 40Hz-20kHz. Designed to be listened near field (ie. not much SPL).
Build process here.
The speakers are really small as seen above. Very pleasing.
About the bass... the optimum compromise between distortion, listening level, and excursion is 40Hz. That's pretty deep, dipole or not. The woofers are working hard. Some 30Hz can be felt but not respectable. Below 30Hz is just asking for trouble. These metal cone makes horrible sound when bottomed. It's simply just physics and there is no way I could get more, except putting again a pair of 15" on my desk.
The distance to rear wall is about 35cm. I could not hear any faults. Phantom image is convincing, almost like the speakers making no sound and the music comes out from behind the wall.
I have small clip taken using my mobile phone in YouTube.
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As pitchers and catchers prepare to report to Florida to try to nab one of the final spots on the Washington Nationals roster, the Nats' entertainment team is working to finalize the mascot roster back here in DC. The team has set a deadline of next Friday, February 11, to receive applications. Selected candidates will receive invitations to participate in the 2011 racing president auditions on — when else? Presidents Day weekend.
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SwiftWatch is a Citizen Science monitoring and conservation program that brings volunteers and community groups together to act as stewards for Chimney Swifts and their habitat.
Historically, Chimney Swifts inhabited large, hollow trees. As Europeans settled in North America, these habitats became scarce. Swifts adapted and began using chimneys for nesting and roosting.
Chimney Swifts are once again facing complex challenges. Their Canadian population has declined by 95% since 1968. Their habitat is being lost as buildings are modernized and chimneys are capped, steel-lined, or torn down. Other factors, such as severe weather events and changes in insect abundance, are likely also affecting swifts.
Through SwiftWatch, volunteers and community members are filling critical information gaps and addressing key threats. Since 2010, volunteers have identified 750 active chimneys in the Maritimes and Ontario. Of these, over 100 are now regularly monitored. Bird Studies Canada and partner organizations are working with schools, home owners, building managers, chimney sweeps, and townships to maintain and protect these sites.
This project was undertaken with the financial support of the Government of Canada.
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Winning this medal represents not only crossing the finish line of the 118th Boston Marathon in 2014, but a recognition by each of this year's runners of the sacrifices that last year's marathon brought on.
Boston's marathon is the world's oldest annual modern-day marathon. Runners aspire to participate in this legendary marathon. Growing up in Boston, I took pride in this celebrated annual rite of spring. Little did I know that in 1997, after coming back from near death, I would become the first person with what they used to call "full-blown AIDS" to complete the Boston Marathon. Back then, my doctors advised me that running the marathon would be too much stress on my already-weakened immune system. But I needed to transcend the impact the disease had had on me, claiming my two lovers Kevin and Michael, and many others. I had to run a marathon again to reclaim my life somehow and give me something more than doctor's appointments, sickness, and funerals to focus on. Finishing that 1997 marathon had given me just that. But how could this year's runners transcend the tragic event of what had happened last year and reclaim the spirit of the Boston Marathon?
How would the new security changes affect this year's race? These were some of the changes runners would be facing. There would be no convenience of checking in a personal bag before the start of the race in Hopkinton; no backpacks, handbags, or glass containers; no container with more than 1 liter of liquid; no personal hydration systems; no costumes covering the face or bulky outfits. The enhanced security changed parking arrangements. There was a large presence of local, state, and federal law enforcement. State and local 10-wheeler dump trucks blocked the streets leading to the starting line and the finishing line areas.
In Athletes' Village, looking around at the thousands of runners who were stretching, milling, and lying about, I was sure everyone had last year on their minds, but no one seemed to be talking about it. The atmosphere was emotionally charged, because of the importance of this Boston Marathon. There were no special instructions given in case the race was stopped. Fear did not permeate the atmosphere. I found a place to stretch out before the race, next to a female runner from Pennsylvania. This would be her first Boston Marathon. She had planned on running it before what had happened last year. Because I would turn 60, I had also planned to run in this year's marathon before what had happened. My friend Erik, from Denver, whom I had met in 2010 in Athens to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of the marathon, told me that he was running this year after reading my story about being in last year's race. Whatever the reasons were for the 36,000 runners running this year, we now had all come together for one reason, to show our support for those who had lost their lives and limbs, and to reclaim this marathon.
Before I knew it, the starting gun went off and we were running toward Boston. The day was filled with blue skies and we were all feeling the heat from the warm day. Some time into the race, this surreal feeling came over me that I was no longer in my body and my fellow runners were not in their bodies. Our feet were hardly touching the ground, as if we were moving in unison. As if we knew each other before. The roar of the spectators filled our senses most of the route. There were young children eager to pass a runner a slice of orange, banana or a cup of water. I was uplifted more by the glee in the eyes of a young girl and the love she exuded than the slice of orange she was offering me. My emotions would ebb and flow during the race, especially when I would see runners with the names of those who had lost their lives written on their bibs and shirts. Some runners had their 2013 bib numbers pinned on their backs. I was wondering how I was going to feel running past the spot where my fellow runners and I were stopped.
And there it was. My emotions stirred up again as I reached the spot on Commonwealth Avenue where I had been preparing to go down into the underpass tunnel beneath Massachusetts Avenue and had been stopped. But this year, all of a sudden, I heard my name being yelled out. My friend Lisa and her friend were calling me from behind the barrier. Did she know that was the spot that I had been stopped? Tears of joy flowed. We hugged and I went on to the finish.
Everyone who ran the race that day had to be a "winner" for the fact that, out of the cowardice of two brothers, a phrase, a thought, a bond, a unity, a rallying cry arose to the sky -- "Boston Strong."
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In 1997, I became the first person living with AIDS to finish a Boston Marathon; and despite more near-death experiences, I have run many more marathons. I am currently writing a book entitled Soul of the Phoenix_, which I expect to be published in the next year."_


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Sequoyah Elementary is a neighborhood school located in the heart of Russellville. It is comprised of approximately 585 students in pre-K through fourth grades. Students who attend Sequoyah live in the neighborhood, the greater Russellville area, as well as surrounding areas. We welcome and embrace diversity in our student population. Due to increased enrollment in recent years, two additions were added onto the building in 2015, which include a new fourth-grade wing, state-of-the-art art room, a self-contained classroom, a PT/OT room, and two preschool classrooms. Although the facility is large, Sequoyah has maintained its neighborhood school feel.
Staff at Sequoyah are committed to ensuring every learner realizes his or her potential and developing strong, positive relationships with students, their families, and the community. We possess an unwavering commitment to our students' academic needs and successes, as well as fostering each child's social and emotional development. Teachers work diligently to provide an enriched, rigorous curriculum employing hands-on and minds-on activities to fully engage our learners.
Sequoyah maintains a strong reputation for possessing high academic expectations and top test scores. As a result, we have received Reward and Recognition money from the Arkansas Department of Education three consecutive years. The money awarded has been spent on providing classrooms with materials, supplies, and technology which directly benefit our students.
Sequoyah is fortunate to have an active Parent Teacher Organization (PTO) and wonderful community involvement. PTO members provide many resources, time, and talent to the school. Fundraising efforts result in many experiences and materials, which our students and staff appreciate and enjoy. These funds have supplemented field trips, purchased playground equipment and iPads, provided scholarships for students, and have supplemented classrooms with additional materials. One of the great programs supported by the PTO is the Sequoyah PTO Student Tutor Program where volunteers provide one-on-one academic tutoring and are positive role models for our students. The PTO's largest fundraiser of the year is the Spring Fling, which includes games for students, great food, a silent auction, and fun for the whole family!


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Why geoengineering is like chemo: Nasty but necessary
The Gunther Report
Why geoengineering is like chemo: Nasty but necessary
I'm pleased to let you know that my book, Suck It Up: How capturing carbon from the air can help solve the climate crisis, is being published today as an Amazon Kindle Single. Please buy the e-book here for just $1.99.
The book reflects two years of reporting and my best thinking about three topics that matter: climate change, geoengineering and a technology called direct air capture of CO2. It explains why we've made so little progress (none, actually) in dealing with the climate threat, and how that might change. Part of the answer is to look for ways to recycle and reuse CO2.
I'm going to print the introduction to the book below, but first a word about the publishing process. As the newspapers, magazines and book publishers that traditionally support long-form journalism are struggling, exciting new outlets like blogs and ebooks are opening up. I'm the publisher as well as the author of Suck It Up, with a big assist from Amazon, which has selected the book as a Kindle Single.
The Kindle Single allows writers to tell stories that are longer than a magazine article and shorter than a book. Suck It Up is about 17,000 words long, the equivalent of 60 to 70 double-spaced typewritten pages. It's intended to be read in one or two sittings, and it's priced so the ideas in it will spread. If you don't own a Kindle, you can read the book on your smart phone, iPad or laptop. Just download the free Kindle software here.
I'd like to sell lots of copies of Suck It Up not just because I think it's a good read about an important topic, but because I want to make the e-book business model work. It's an exciting new platform for in-depth reporting.
So, please read the intro, check out the book and if you like it, help me spread the word through social media or the old-fashioned way -- tell a friend about the book.
This book may depress some people. It shouldn't. To the contrary, I'd like to stimulate a conversation about new ways to think about global warming, the most daunting problem facing humanity. To start, we need to face a grim reality: Governments, businesses and environmentalists have failed miserably to deal with the threat of climate change.
This June will bring the 20th anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. There, officials negotiated a treaty -- it's known as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change -- in which they agreed to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere "at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system." Some 192 countries, including the United States and China, ratified the convention. Since then, annual global emissions have grown by nearly 45 percent. Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are rising steadily. The risks posed by climate change grow every day.
In the U.S., climate regulation appeared tantalizingly close just a few years ago. More than a dozen FORTUNE 500 companies, including GE, Ford, Shell and Duke Energy, joined with influential environmental groups to form the U.S. Climate Action Partnership to press Congress to "enact strong national legislation to require significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions." In 2008, presidential candidates Obama and McCain supported legislation to cap carbon emissions. But President Obama made the economy and health care his priorities, and the Republicans morphed into implacable opponents of climate regulation. A weak cap-and-trade bill barely cleared the U.S. House of Representatives and never came to a vote in the Senate.
What's maddening about the lack of progress is that we know what to do about global warming -- or at least we think we do. Back in 2004, physicist Robert Socolow and ecologist Stephen Pacala, both of Princeton, wrote an influential paper in Science: They argued that energy efficiency, nuclear power, low-carbon fuels, avoided deforestation and other current technologies that they called "climate wedges" could be deployed right away to stabilize emissions.
"Humanity," they wrote, "already possesses the fundamental scientific, technical, and industrial know-how to solve the carbon and climate problem for the next half-century."
Since then, Socolow is among those who have been dismayed by the resistance to climate action.
"I know no one who predicted that the climate change message would be rejected on a scale that it is now," he says. "Scientists and environmentalists interested in getting climate taken seriously have failed beyond their wildest imaginations.... We are losing the argument with the general public, big time."
This no accident. But the reasons why climate regulation has failed are not widely understood. Yes, the recession made it hard for Congress to pass a costly scheme to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Yes, fossil-fuel interests spent a fortune opposing cap-and-trade. Yes, partisan media like Fox News gave a platform to climate skeptics and the mainstream press found it hard to sound an alarm about an invisible, slow-moving threat.
But the obstacles that stand in the way of a climate regulation are bigger than any of that.
One is the need for a global solution. Had Congress acted to put a price on carbon, as the European Union has, that would have been a good start -- but only a start. CO2 emitted anywhere spreads everywhere. To curb greenhouse gas emissions, Canada will have to stop extracting oil from the tar sands of Alberta. Brazil will have to decline to exploit rich oil deposits off its Atlantic Coast. China will have to stop building coal plants. Governments all over will have to support nuclear power plants, allow wind turbines to spoil some ocean views, and put solar arrays in beautiful desert places. We'll all have to spend more money for energy, because it's expensive to capture emissions from coal plants or build the batteries for electric cars.
A second fundamental obstacle is this: The costs of mitigating emissions will be felt immediately but the benefits -- essentially, reducing the risk of climate disasters -- won't be felt for years. Governments find it hard, for obvious reasons, to impose costs on people today to generate uncertain benefits in the future.
Finally, there's the thorny question of how rich and poor countries will share the costs of financing a transition to a low-carbon economy.
This is why climate change is the most difficult problem mankind has ever faced.
"Climate change is the biggest collective action problem, probably, in human history," says Scott Barrett, the Lenfest-Earth Institute Professor of Natural Resource Economics at Columbia University. "It always was, in theory. Now, after 20 years of action, we've seen that it is in practice."
See what I mean about depressing?
And yet.
This book offers a way out. That's why I wrote it. I've been writing about the social and environmental impact of business for years. I've seen how markets can solve big, complicated and seemingly insurmountable problems. Who could have anticipated the benefits generated by electricity, air travel or the Internet? Who could have predicted that globalization would lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty in China and India? Markets work fast. Governments are sluggish.
That's why we need to explore new approaches to global warming. One is geoengineering: Planetary-scale actions designed to counter the climate effects of greenhouse gas emissions.
In particular, we ought to take a close look at a set of emerging technologies that are designed to capture carbon dioxide from the air. Backers of these technologies, which are sometimes called direct air capture of CO2, say, with good reason, that they shouldn't be thought of as geoengineering. They're more akin to recycling.
Why, they ask, can't we find ways to capture and recycle CO2 the way we now collect and recycle newspapers or aluminum cans? Suck it up -- and then make it into something useful. As it happens, scientists already know how to pull CO2 out of the air. But the conventional wisdom holds that it's costly and impractical to do so. In the pages ahead, you'll meet some smart people -- including Bill Gates -- who are trying to prove the conventional wisdom wrong.
My first sustained exposure to geoengineering and air capture came in February, 2010, when I was invited to a private meeting of the trustees of the Environmental Defense Fund, one of America's most respected environmental groups, at the Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, CA. Steve Hamburg, EDF's chief scientist, brought together scientists, economists and policy experts to talk about what it might mean for scientists to invent the equivalent of a global thermostat. "Part of my job is to bring new ideas and issues to the organization," Hamburg told me later. Even if they sound a little crazy at first.
One of the speakers that day was David Keith, a physicist who was then teaching at the University of Calgary and has since joined the faculty at Harvard. Keith is a brilliant scientist, an entrepreneur and a strong advocate of government-backed research into geoengineering. He has a way of disarming critics by acknowledging the obvious problems with the idea of deliberately manipulating the earth's climate.
Geoengineering, Keith said that day, "is like chemotherapy. It's something nobody should like."
But, as his listeners immediately understood, we treat cancer patients with chemotherapy because it's better than the alternative. Someday, Keith said, we may turn to geoengineering for the same reason: Like it or not, in the event of a climate emergency, geoengineering could be best option we have to head off a global catastrophe.
Keith, for his part, has become so convinced of the need for new climate solutions that, with the financial backing of Bill Gates, among others, he has started a for-profit company to build machines to remove carbon dioxide from the air.
Geoengineering raises thorny questions. Will it work? What might be the side effects? Who gets to decide when to deploy it? Who controls the global thermostat? What if Russia and Canada decide it's fine to let the earth get a bit warmer, but India wants it cooler? Some scientists have mused about "geoengineering wars."
I needed to know more. What I learned surprised me, and it will surprise you, too.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - About 80 people - many of them armed - rallied outside the Oklahoma Capitol in support of gun rights.
The rally Friday was sponsored by the Oklahoma Defense Force, a group of gun rights supporters that includes a self-described militia led by Ron Cross - who says the group has about 300 members.
Cross urged action against what he calls government's hostility against gun rights. He says they should organize to oppose any proposal to restrict the right to keep and bear arms.
Among those attending is former Republican state Rep. Charles Key, who said in 2010 that he supported creating a state militia.
A law allowing residents with a handgun license to openly carry weapons was approved last year and many at the rally had their guns on display.
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The 'it doesn't economically make sense' comment caught my attention. Just how much is John Moores asking for to buy this team? Forbes valued the franchise at $458 million back in March, and although I would not be surprised to learn he's trying to sell the team for more than that how much more does he want? Is the team asking $750 Mil? $1 Billion? Some other amount even more obnoxious?
The Dodgers could fetch $2 billion because they have cachet. They are the team of Robinson, Koufax, Drysdale, and Scully. They have a storied, successful history. The Padres? We have Gwynn, Hoffman, Jones, and Joe Randa. They've been to 2 World Series in their history and won one game. Sorry - no one is going to pay an exorbitant price for a team that's been a doormat for most of its existence.
The other variable in this equation, the wild card, and the one that prompted this post, is the Jeff Moorad question. Near as I can tell his ownership group still controls 49% of the team. What do they plan to do with their shares? I see two options:
- They sell their stock in the Padres along with Moores and get completely out, recouping whatever money they can.
- They don't sell any of their stock in the Padres and remain as a minority owner.
He has absolutely no requirement to work with Moores to finalize the sale. It also makes you wonder if his side of the aisle is the one driving the price way up.
Moores only controls 51% of the team. Fifty-one percent of $500M is $255M. Heck, Phil Mickelson could buy the team himself for that price. Yet the Tull group left the bidding because the asking price doesn't economically make sense to them. That tells me Moorad's shares are for sale, and that the total asking price for the entire team is way up from what Moores agreed to sell it at in 2009, thanks to the $2B price the Dodgers sold for this spring.
This morning the Dave & Jeff show relayed a report from Ken Rosenthal that MLB expects to be ready to announce a winner by next Friday, which would finally bring this whole soap opera to a close. I prefer to spend my time looking at the product on the field, but I am looking forward to seeing who wins the bidding and how much they pay for this franchise.
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Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, founder of the civil rights organization Crusade for Justice, led protests in the '60s that made Denver the focal point of Chicano activism. He fought for Chicano unity and against racism and police brutality.
During his life, he was a professional boxer, a published poet and playwright, a political activist and a leader.
When Gonzales was named to the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 1988, Denver Post columnist Tom Gavin described him this way:
...Rodolfo Gonzales. The social and racial justice agitator. The rock-the-establishment militant. The spit-it-out confrontationist. The founder of the Crusade for Justice, a battle-with-police, picket newspapers, educate the young, inculcate pride, pre- serve-Hispanic-heritage organization which, at its height, shook this town in a way the Black Panthers never did. ... He's grizzled now, and gray. He's heavier. He's recovering from a recent heart problem. But he stands tall, Corky Gonzales does, and taller still...as Rodolfo Gonzales. The one was a pretty good boxer, the other was a leader of men.
Gonzales secluded himself from public appearances after suffering a heart attack in 1987 that caused a car accident. The accident left him with permanent head injuries. He died in 2005 at age 76.
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Jean-Paul Guillobel, a Haitian who was sure he wanted to work in tourism, decided to attend the very best hotel management school: Vatel in France! With his Vatel dipoloma in 2010, he came back to Haiti with a wealth of professional experiences and is now one of the most famous hotel marketing consultants in the country.
Why did you choose Vatel and what memories do you have?
When I was 12, I went on a cruise in the Caribbean islands with my parents and I was fascinated by jobs in the hotel industry and how dynamic tourism was in that area. I wondered why Haiti wasn't taking advantage of its touristic and cultural heritage in order to make tourism a sector driving its economy. So I looked into this, and found out that Haiti actually was one of the pioneers in tourism in the Caribbean islands in the 1940s to 70s, and that lasted until the political unrest we had when the Duvalier regimes were overturned in our country. So I decided to work in tourism and left to get an education in hotel management at the leading school: Vatel in France!
I decided to enroll at Vatel Nimes in order to be in an urban area while having an international education with students from all over the world. I've got great memories of the time I spent at Vatel, especially:
- my teachers who were all enthusiastic professionals,
- my classmates who allowed me to discover different cultures, ways of thinking and managerial techniques,
- my internships in beautiful and famous hotels,
- my theoretical courses that I put into practice every week at the Vatel Hotel & Spa****.
Tell us about your internships and what you learned from them.
I started in 2007, in Megeve, in the French Alps, with the Maisons & Hotels Sibuet Group, in a little chalet called Hotel du Coin du Feu*** in the restaurant, at the front desk and as the Administrate Assistant. Because they were happy with the work I did, the group recontacted me for a summer season in accommodations in 2008 and at the front desk in 2009 at the famous Hotel Mont-Blanc****. Between that, I did my second year internship in Corporate Sales and Marketing in the Brussels-based PDG group, which, at that time, owned: Le Chatelain All Suites Hotel*****, the Progress Boutique Hotel**** and the Hotel des Colonies***. One of my best professional experiences and the one that made me want to work in Marketing! Victor Camhis, my internship manager, who manages the group today, a dynamic, detail oriented and strict man, was the best Manager I ever had in my whole career.
In September and October 2009, before starting school again, I decided to complete my training by two months in F&B in the Alain Ducasse Cooking School in Paris. A short but intense experience that allowed me to hone my sense of the smallest detail. And finally, from June to December 2010, I did my final internship in the colonial zone of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic as the Sales & Marketing Assistant in the three ACCOR hotels: Mgallery Hostal Nicolas de Ovando***** Mgallery Hotel Frances**** and Hotel Mercure Comercial***. I was in charge of contacting the neighboring sector of Haiti, developing business relationships with travel agencies, influential customers in my native country and setting up relationships with governmental organizations. My internships and Vatel courses taught me to be realistic, efficient, very strict and painstaking.
Then how did opportunities begin to knock on your door when you returned?
When I came back to Haiti in 2011, right after the earthquake, the economic situation was difficult and my training in hotel management was less sought after. So I took advantage of this to expand my skill sets to related sectors of activities. That's how I started my career as a Sales Supervisor at Tampico, a fruit juice company in Haiti. I was quickly promoted as Assistant Sales Manager for a sister company, Cannex S.A. As I wanted to continue in Marketing, I took the job of Research and Project Manager for Scream, a Marketing Agency. Because of all these rewarding and varied experiences, I started to work as an independent Consultant in the HTR sector and to work as the Industrial Sales Consultant for a Colombian multinational in Cement and Concrete, ARGOS, which in Haiti, is named Cina.
Today I work independently, as a Consultant in Hotel and Special Events Marketing and publish quite a few articles.
My services include:
- marketing and social media strategies,
- designing special events,
- public relations,
- training in the hospitality sector, etc.
Customers I've worked with include:
- many famous hotels,
- NGOs,
- special events companies,
- a delivery company,
- a foundation,
- a pub, and many more.
Through my Consultations, I create personalized links between service providers and their customers, so they can resist what our competition offers.
My missions consist in:
- analyzing changes in the market,
- drawing up marketing strategies and communication plans,
- creating innovative concepts that will be profitable for the customer,
- marketing campaigns,
- managing Supplier relationships,
- contacting hotels, restaurants and night clubs.
In your opinion, what qualities and skills do you need to be a consultant in this field?
Generally speaking, all consultants have to be thorough and well organized. You have to know how to manage your schedule and be ready to change it, especially in a country where political and social unrest can cause problems.
You took part in writing the book "Le Tourisme: l'ouverture pour le peuple de Toussaint? Précis sur le tourisme en Haïti." How did you have this opportunity?
Three years ago I started contacting Hugues Seraphin, the author of this book. I was introduced to him by Laurent Botti, a lecturer at Vatel Nimes, who has a PhD in Tourism and who I've kept in contact with. Hugues Seraphin is a lecturer in tourism and special events at the University of Winchester in England. He often consults me about changes in tourism in Haiti.
What do you think the future holds for tourism in Haiti?
The government and its various local and international partners have understood that tourism is worth developing, especially because of the social and economic potential it has. In the past three years, tourism was strengthened in the touristic areas of the North and Greater South. There are many on-going projects. Many international groups have already materialized large projects, in particular, Occidental Hotels & Resorts, Best Western International Inc., NH Hotel Group, Marriott Hotels and soon to open Hilton Hotels & Resorts. Other important projects to develop tourism concern Ile-a-Vache, Jacmel, Ile de la Tortue and are strong signals that tourism will be starting up again, outside of Port-au-Prince. I think that all these projects, when they'll be rolled out, will improve and diversity the HTR market and open up career opportunities to the local and international populations.


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There's a fine line between being too lazy to do something and being physically unable to do something, which leads logically to the fact that there are more things in common between the very rich and the very old than you may think. Case in point, this "Neptune Portable Reclining Lift" which lux blog Born Rich deemed worthy for a "Luxurious Bath." The great thing? This is totally designed for old people too weak to lower themselves into a tub without breaking a hip.
Now, I'm no billionaire, but I'm pretty sure that the really rich don't needed an elaborate contraption to lower their fois-gras-filled bodies into their gold-plated bathtubs. I mean, as I understand it, rich people are good with money, not insanely lazy people willing to drop over US$1,000 on a seat that lets them lie back in a tub without using any of their muscles. That's something that the elderly and infirm who are unable to lay back easily need.
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