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Generally speaking, people don't get wilder as they get older. The ones who spend their teens and 20s partying discover that recovery takes longer and hangovers hit harder the deeper they get into their 30s. That's also when the responsibilities of adulthood really take hold, making it feel irresponsible to, say, maintain a steady cocaine habit. But "Fat Mike" Burkett, leader of seminal punk band NOFX and founder of indie punk label Fat Wreck Chords, is not like most people. When Burkett started NOFX in 1983, no one would have imagined that such a supremely sloppy, juvenile punk band would become one of the genre's most enduring and successful groups. By the mid-'90s, NOFX had become one of the biggest punk bands in the world—all without mainstream radio play or the backing of a major label—and Fat Wreck had become a tastemaker, selling millions of records in the process. All of this made Fat Mike wealthy—and a little bored. He and his bandmates were never known as teetotalers, but Burkett took it up a notch, dabbling in drugs at an age when most people slow down or stop. After his marriage ended in 2010, he also became more outspoken about his BDSM lifestyle: This year, he scored a silent fetish film, Rubber Bordello, directed by and starring his girlfriend, Soma Snakeoil. All of these themes turn up on Self-Entitled, NOFX's 12th studio album and first since 2009's Coaster. Produced by Bill Stevenson (Descendents, Rise Against, The Lemonheads), it's the rawest album the band has ever released, though Burkett—always honest—doesn't necessarily think it's his best. Just before NOFX started a tour on December 4, he talked with The A.V. Club about the album, reconfiguring Fat Wreck Chords, and getting strapped to a palm tree and beaten while high on DMT.
The A.V. Club: You've said you were less prepared for this album than you had ever been.
Fat Mike Burkett: Totally unprepared. One of the best songs on the record I wrote in my head on the train ride from Hollywood to Santa Ana.
AVC: Which song was that?
MB: "Cell Out." I told our drummer: "Oh, we have another song to record." And he's like, "What? But…" So he still had another half-day of recording. But it turned out to be one of the best songs.
AVC: Bill Stevenson is known for being a meticulous guy. It seems like that would clash with the NOFX recording style.
MB: Yeah, but he works with a lot of bands. He gets us. He gave me shit this time because I still had about five songs to sing and I had two or three more days in the studio, and I just kind of wanted a binge. He's like, "You know, Mike, we're not done. You don't need to be celebrating yet." [Laughs.] And my voice was all bent out of shape because I'd been drinking so much. But I like how it turned out, because everyone was like, "Wow, your voice sounds live on these songs. It sounds like you did a live show." Because I was all dehydrated from staying up all night.
AVC: Do you still get as much out of writing for NOFX as you have in the past, or has it changed?
MB: Well this album, I just kind of… I was listening to old L.A. punk records, and I just wanted to make an old-school punk album. And the crazy thing is, it's getting great reviews everywhere, way better than [2006's] Wolves In Wolves' Clothing. I was way more proud of that than this one.
AVC: Really?
MB: And we worked way harder [on Wolves In Wolves' Clothing]. You know, if I listened to them back to back right now, I'd still think Wolves is a much better album. But you know, this one's just fast, and punchy, and simple, and edgy. And sometimes people are going to like that more.
AVC: Does it bother you that you you're not as proud of this one?
MB: No, because what I set out to accomplish, I did. But, you know, a year from now if I rated all our records, this one would be in the top eight, probably. [Laughs.]
AVC: Some artists have a really difficult time stopping. They'd work on an album forever if they could. You seem like you don't have any problems walking away when it's time.
MB: Yeah, there's a couple of phrases here and there that I think could have been better. Usually I have the songs, and they're done for three or four months, so you can still mess around with them. But I didn't get to do that this time. This was the first album I can remember where we recorded 18 songs, but I had to finish the lyrics for six of them in the studio. That's just stupid.
AVC: Has the writing process drifted that way, or have you usually been done before you record?
MB: More or less done. I'm anal that way. I just want to worry about performance when I'm at the studio. But it's crazy, because probably 90 percent of the bands on Fat Wreck Chords aren't ready when I get to the studio, and they can afford to fuck around in the studio less than I can. It always amazes me when I see bands writing lyrics in the studio, like, "What have you been doing for two years?" [Laughs.]
AVC: Maybe they think they don't have to be concerned about time because they're using the label's studio.
MB: My old employee, he got kicked out of his house, and I hadn't been to my studio in months. It'd just kind of been closed down. But I go there one day, and he's living there. [Laughs.] The guy broke in and was living at my studio. It was a fucking weird situation. I had the cops take him away.
AVC: Wow, the cops had to come?
MB: Yeah. I was like, "What are you doing here?" He wouldn't answer me, and there was shit taken apart. I was like, "What the fuck is going on here?" And he wouldn't tell me. So I just called the cops.
AVC: Do you think that because you're a successful musician, but you're also known for being a partier, that people try to get away with that kind of thing?
MB: Oh, absolutely. People take advantage of me all the time, and I let them until a certain point.
AVC: Are there any other good examples?
MB: I had a personal assistant in L.A., and there's drugs that are in my house sometimes, locked up or stashed away. You got to figure that anyone that's working for you is dipping in, you know? It's just what people do. "Let's do some coke or some pills. Let's take a few here or there." That's part of the game. But this one guy—he worked for me for about two years, and he's a good friend of mine. But then I get home and all the drugs are gone. He goes, "Yeah, I had a birthday here the other day, and so I took all your drugs." [Laughs.] I went, "You took them all?" And he's like, "Well, at first I didn't, but then I went back and got the rest." [Laughs.] But he said it like, "Oh, no big deal, right? Because I've taken them before." And I was like, "No, you took all of them!" And when someone's already in debt to you thousands of dollars it's just like, I can't. You know, if you had called and asked, I would have given you anything, whatever. The good thing is that he doesn't work for me anymore, but he had a great gig.
AVC: The coming back for it is the kicker. If it's just one momentary lapse in judgment where you just take everything and go…
MB: Well, that's the thing, just taking it all. And I was actually going to party that night, and now I've got to fucking drive 45 minutes to Venice, if I can score anything. So that's why I keep stuff locked up and hidden away. It wasn't a good safe, but it was decent. It's like a little security safe, and he tried a weird key in it and broke it.
AVC: That's really hardcore.
MB: That's why he had to cop to it, because there's no other person that could have done it.
AVC: It seems like operating in this world, you probably attract flakey people.
MB: Yeah, what happens to me is that I have a lot of friends who are out of work. So I end up hiring these people, and there's a reason they're out of work. [Laughs.] They're the sort of people that don't have a good job, ever. They're flakey people. They can't hold a job, so I hire them and expect them to do a good job for me, and it never works out.
AVC: Do you have people like that who guilt trip you into hiring them?
MB: No, not so much. It's just a few that end up hanging around. It's the people you see at bars; it's people you see at your house. You're just like, "Oh, yeah. I need this done. I need this room painted and I don't really want to paint it. Will you paint it?" And then they just start working for you. It's happened to me so many times. It's the drunks and the flakes.
AVC: Have you learned to avoid it?
MB: You'd think, but the studio thing just happened last week! The guy just got out of jail. He had to spend like a week in jail.
AVC: So is there repair work you're going to have to do to the place?
MB: Yeah, some. It's just a weird thing. He stole the keys from my house, because he knew no one was in the studio for a while. And then he locked himself out of the studio, and then he had to break the back window to break in. So we couldn't figure out why the back window was broken when he had the keys, and he was like, "Oh, I locked myself out." [Laughs.]
AVC: It's interesting that you came to drugs late in life. Because it seems like by the time you came to them, a lot of people would be having their last hurrah.
MB: Yeah, I tried drugs in my 30s. I went to college, and I started my label. And it was exciting, but things had to get done and I had to be at work every day. I was just fucking busy in my 20s, building what I have. And it was kind of like, "All right, now I've got a few million bucks, my band is successful, I'm going to start partying!" [Laughs.] Well [Me First And The Gimme Gimmes, his side project] really pushed it on me, because everyone in the Gimmes was big partiers back then. So they got me to try coke, and I think because I tried drugs so late in life it helped me not become an addict. Because I'll go—I mean, I won't go a long time, but I'll go two or three weeks without partying when I have to do something. When I've got shit to take care of. But then I go on tour, and what are you supposed to do on tour? Why be sober on tour? Why play sober? Why do a job sober if you don't have to? And being a musician is really one of the only jobs that you're really pushed into performing drunk. People expect it. People expect rock stars to be wasted, and if you're not it's a disappointment. If you're an actor you can't show up at work wasted, or any kind of the arts. You're not supposed to show up at work wasted. Maybe Jackson Pollock or something.
AVC: You said that the Gimmes were all big partiers. Have they tapered?
MB: Oh, yeah. All of them.
AVC: But you're still going strong.
MB: Yeah, everyone else stopped. [Laughs.] Do you see what they did to me?
AVC: Have you gotten wilder as you've gotten older?
MB: Totally. Me and my girlfriend have a dungeon in L.A., and we're building one in San Francisco now. And Motor Studios, my recording studio, is booked like half the year or whatever, but there's a huge lounge and it doesn't get used that much, so we're turning the lounge of the studio into a dungeon. So when bands record there, they're going to be sitting on funny-shaped furniture in the lounge. [Laughs.] And there's bunk beds in there. And we're putting eyebolts all over the bunk beds, so you can get tied to the bunk beds and stuff. So it should be a fun studio. It might actually bring in more bands, you know? But yeah, my lifestyle is getting crazier and crazier as I get older, for sure. But you know, I go to parent-teacher meetings all the time, and I just played in the Waldorf school golf tournament. So that's why my life is crazier now—it's because there's just so many different aspects of it.
AVC: The dungeon in L.A., that was just a studio apartment that you converted?
MB: Yes, it's awesome. We rent it out, too. There's a bed in there. So it's like $350, and you can rent it out for the night. It's a B&B, bed and breakfast. I mean B and—what is it? A B&D. [Laughs.]
AVC: What do the neighbors think?
MB: I think our neighbors are drug dealers, so I don't think they're going to say anything. We're always smelling some kind of weird drugs next door. I think the guy makes DMT.
AVC: Have you ever tried DMT?
MB: I tried it once. I tried it in the Dominican Republic. I smoked two hits, and it was awesome. It was like 6 in the morning, these clouds were going over our head, and there's all these beds on the beaches, so we're just lying on this bed, and it was awesome. It only lasted 20 minutes, but that's what you want.
AVC: Did your time perception get skewed? Did it seem like longer?
MB: No, it didn't seem like a long time. It seemed like 20 minutes. It was great. Then we smoked some more. The second time we smoked it my girlfriend, she tied me to this palm tree and beat the hell out of me. [Laughs.] It was awesome.
AVC: You had a really funny quote in an interview where you were talking about having the drug talk with your daughter, and your advice was going to be, "Wait until you're in your 30s, after you've graduated college and made your first million." She's still young, but how much do those kinds of concerns weigh on your mind?
MB: You know what? I haven't had to deal with it yet. But especially with Soma's daughter, Sidra, she's 13. I'm just waiting for the day she asks, "How come it says everywhere that you do drugs? I don't see you do drugs." And my answer will be, "Well I don't do drugs around you, silly." But I don't want to have that talk with her.
AVC: But she probably has an idea what her mom does, right?
MB: Yes. She's an adult filmmaker and a performer and a model.
AVC: When you go to these parent-teacher conferences, how much are they aware of your life?
MB: We're not sure. But all it takes is one person to know, and then everybody knows. And we're pretty public—we're not too private about what we do. We had some people from school over for dinner. We had some parents over and their kids and our kids, you know, it was like a nice dinner party. And you start talking about stuff. You just can't hide everything, you know? We think what we do is, I wouldn't say "normal," but awesome and healthy, and we think we're way more adjusted than normal people. I mean, we're having a way better time. When you start talking about kinky sex or the shit we do, people are always interested, and they all want to do it. They're just too scared.
But tomorrow night we're taking my guitar player and his wife, and we're going to this thing, it's a club called Supper Club. It's a restaurant, a really nice restaurant, and it's all beds. So you just lounge in bed and they bring you super-nice trays, with like a five-course meal. And you're just getting wasted and you're in bed. There's little shows that happen, and all the waiters are like fucking freak trannies, so it's a super-cool place, but tomorrow is bondage night. They have that like twice a year, so that'll be fun. We're getting tied up in some crazy position and fed dinner. [Laughs.] So you know, this is how I live.
What's funny about that restaurant, too, is that we've actually done bondage stuff there on regular nights. You know, we just kind of have a habit of doing that—bondage in public places. And people don't say shit. They don't know what to say. We've done it on airplanes before, and we've never been stopped.
AVC: What have you done on airplanes?
MB: My girlfriend has tied me up pretty severely, just in coach, window seat, arms tied to the armrests, and legs tied, and blindfolded, and nipple clamps, and all kinds of shit.
AVC: And they don't say anything?
MB: No. We've done it three different times on planes, and we've never had anyone stop us. We have been stopped once when we were making out, which is funny because kissing is frowned upon. [Laughs.]
AVC: Maybe they thought you were a panicky flyer or something.
MB: [Laughs.] Well, you're not really doing anything against the regulations, I don't think.
AVC: How did you end up scoring Rubber Bordello?
MB: Well the keyboard player for the Mad Caddies is a friend of mine, and we'd been working on stuff together anyway. My girlfriend made the movie. I was like, "I could make this soundtrack with Dustin," so he wrote most of the piano parts and I wrote most of the horn parts, and we got a drummer and hired some musicians and did it. We watched scenes of the movie and figured out what song felt right with it and what tempo. And it was something I'd never done before but it was super fun.
AVC: It seems like it'd be pretty intense.
MB: Yeah, it was just fun. When you work with really good musicians, you don't have to worry about that part. When all the musicians finally saw the movie they were freaking out. They were like, "Holy shit!" [Laughs.]
AVC: Freaking out about the content, or how it all worked together?
MB: The content. [Laughs.] Me and Dustin did all the writing, so once we had the song down we brought musicians in one by one.
AVC: The scene where Soma and the other woman are pegging the guy and then fisting him…
MB: Yeah, that's a tough one, right?
AVC: Yeah! How do you brainstorm a score for a fisting scene?
MB: I was having a hard time with that scene. I was like, "Babe, you have to put this in?" I don't know, but I think it works. I think all the songs work.
AVC: The first two songs on the album, "72 Hookers" and "I Believe In Goddess," have sexual under- or overtones to them. Do you have any line that you draw personally about what you'll discuss or put in a song?
MB: You know, I keep getting worse and worse is what I keep doing.
AVC: Keep stepping over the line and drawing new ones to step over?
MB: Yeah, because the more you talk about it and open up, things don't seem weird anymore. So writing about stuff now it's like, "Oh, this isn't weird, right?" And people are like, "Yeah, it's weird, dude." "Oh, because I didn't think it was weird anymore." [Laughs.] And the song "Secret Society," it's funny because most people think it's like some kind of government song, but it's all about the BDSM world and the weird things that we do.
AVC: Are there more autobiographical songs too?
MB: I'm trying to see what songs are on it.
AVC: Like "I've Got One Jealous Again, Again."
MB: Yeah that's totally, completely autobiographical.
AVC: What about "I, Fatty"?
MB: "I, Fatty" is about Fatty Arbuckle. I've read that book, I, Fatty—it's just such a cool book. His autobiography is just great. But also I made that a little vague, because I figured with "I, Fatty" people would think it's about me. "Down With The Ship" is kind of about me, but it's kind of my feelings about Fat Wreck Chords a few years ago. Everything was falling apart, and I just wanted to cash out, and my employees are going to be really bummed at me. But as it turned out, we just figured out a better way to run the business and now we're doing fine again.
AVC: For a long time, you were selling tons of albums, but you laid off a bunch of people a few years ago, just like a lot of labels have. Were you just sick of doing the label in general?
MB: Well, it's really fun again now. We just kind of reinvented ourselves a little bit, and stopped spending lots of money on bands and just getting kind of smaller punk bands. And we opened a record store, which is a part of our warehouse [in San Francisco]. There was a storefront, and so we sell kind of rare records and all our records. But we're only open on Fridays from 3 to 6, and there's free beer for everyone. It's awesome because we get 30 to 80 people I'd say. Every Friday afternoon it just turns into a big party, and we do shitloads of business. I'm usually passing out beers and playing music and stuff. So it's a totally different retail experience, and it doesn't cost us shit, and it's only like three hours a week.
AVC: How did you adjust what you were doing at Fat?
MB: Well we went from 18 people to five people. We shut down all our foreign offices. And it's just like, you know, bands like the Descendents, who we have to give huge advances to, we just stopped doing that. We'll still give them a lot of percentage points, but I'm not taking a chance on losing money on bands anymore.


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Dad Creates Time-Lapse Video Showing Mom What Really Happens While She's Away
When Mommy is away, Dad and son will play.
And if your dad works in the video production business, that playtime gets filmed, turned into a time-lapse video and instantly goes viral.
Emio Tomeoni, 30, of Kansas City, Mo., works odd hours and often finds himself at home during the day with his 21-month-old son, Xavier. He would always tell his wife, Stephanie Ramos, 31, about the adventures he'd had with his son that day, but really wanted her to see it rather than just hear about it.
"We both have perfect jobs, but our hours are completely upside down," Tomeoni told ABCNews.com. "She's night side, I work regular hours. Her off days are weird. We're making all these adjustments. We didn't have a solid day care yet, so I'm taking weird days off and I end up at home with our son in the daytime a lot. And it's great.
"Me and him alone, progressively, I got obsessed with getting him toys," he said. "So I kept telling her how our days went, saying, 'This place was a wreck, a disaster. We played all day.' And then she'd walk in and it would be spotless."
Tomeoni knew his wife would come home stressed after a long day at work. Therefore, he would always do his best to have the house cleaned so it would be comfortable for her by the time she got there.
However, the house would be so clean that his stories about all their elaborate playtime in the living room were hard to believe. So, he decided, "I'm just going to stick a camera in the corner one day and just film the process."
The video not only resonated with his wife, but thousands of people on the Internet, also. Since it was originally posted on Dec. 23, it has already surpassed 10,000 views on YouTube.
"I do a lot of videos for my wife. She loves them. They're a little personal glimpse into our life. I wanted to show her something to make her smile," Tomeoni said.
Never in a million years did Tomeoni think he'd gain this much recognition - some viewers even called him "father of the year" - for a simple video he created of a fun afternoon with his son.
"It was really odd. I looked at it when I was done with it, and my thought was, 'My wife is going to love this - mainly because the house was clean at the end of the day and I changed his diaper.' That was my initial thought," said Tomeoni. "But after I got some random feedback, it seemed like it could be big."
Tomeoni thinks the video has gotten so much attention because it's truly universal. No words are necessary, and everyone can understand a father's love for his son.
"All you ever want to do is show people who you really are. You can't do that with words. You can't tell people who you are. You have to show them. And it takes time," Tomeoni said. "I wanted to show my wife what she already knows, but now she's seen."

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1.) If you were in Hall H during the Tron Legacy panel at the San Diego Comic Con 2010, you have a film credit! The filmmakers took the roar of Hall H and dubbed it in the arena scenes — you can find a shout out to Hall H under "Special Thanks" in the credits. Add it to your CV, superstar!
2.) An immediate throwback to the first film is the uncredited appearance of Cillian Murphy as Edward Dillinger Jr., the son of the human villain Ed Dillinger, who is also the face of the program Sark in the first Tron.
3.) In 1989, Kevin Flynn hums Wendy Carlos' theme to Tron as he plays with Sam's action figures.
4.) Tron Legacy screenwriter Edward Kitsis recently told io9, "Right in the beginning, when Alan meets Sam in his container-house apartment, Sam changes his shirt. This is very similar to the scene in the first film when Alan comes to the arcade, and Flynn goes upstairs to change his shirt."
5.) There's also an old-school videogame shout out. Says Kitsis, "When you get to the apartment in Flynn's arcade, there's a handheld Coleco."
6.) When they're debating how to defeat Clu, Kevin tells Sam, "It's his game! The only way to win is not to play." This is a reference to the final scene of War Games, another 1980s movie about computers gone haywire.
7.) At the End of Line Club, watch out for Steven Lisberger as a bartender (which Michael Sheen confirmed with us).
8.) Flynn's Arcade is on Mead Street, which a reference to influential Tron designer Syd Mead.
9.) At one point, you can see a "Dumont Shipping" sign at Sam's apartment. This is a shout out to Dumont, the tower guardian from the original film.
10.) When Rinzler and Sam duke it out in the arena, Rinzler stops attacking Sam as soon as he's wounded. Rinzler used to be Tron, and this is a throwback to his original programming "to fight for the users" (a line he says towards the end of the film). Also, Rinzler's armor is reminiscent of Tron's from the first film.
11.) Kitsis, who was a scriptwriter for Lost, revealed, "I'm told that the Lost numbers are hidden somewhere in Tron Legacy."
12.) Kitsis told us that his "favorite Easter egg is [when Sam says,] 'That's a big door.' " Kevin Flynn says the exact same thing when he's breaking into ENCOM in the first film.
13.) Screenwriter Adam Horowitz also noted that "there's a quick shot of a tank from the first Tron. The tanks don't play a huge part in the story, but we found a way to squeeze one in there." Also, you can apparently see a model of Flynn's Bit on his mantel.
14.) Castor's End of Line Club is a tribute to the MCP's oft-repeated catchphrase ("end of line") from Tron.
15.) You can see a poster for the 1979 Disney scifi flick The Black Hole in Sam's room in the beginning of the film. Tron Legacy director Joe Kosinski is helming a remake of The Black Hole.
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A few weeks ago we, along with our friends at PickupTruck.com, were given exclusive access to a vehicle whose return we've been anticipating for what seems like forever. Today our prayers to the General have been answered — the El Camino is back! In January we reported this re-bodied Holden Ute would be called the 2010 Pontiac G8 ST, and like a Phoenix rising screamin' from the ashes of a bygone era of car-platformed trucks, this new heir to the truck-car throne would emerge from the over-built and over-spec'd world of modern haulers. Just like the Phoenix, this business-up-front and party-in-the-back sport truck looks a little younger, a little more refreshed and has a bit more hawkish figure, but don't be fooled by the disguise. If we play our cards right, it may end up retaining the legendary king of truck-car names, El Camino. That's right, more important even than the return of the truck-car to the General's fleet, is the news that this car will not be called the 2010 Pontiac G8 ST. In fact, they don't have a name. Instead, you are going to be able to help choose what GM calls it. That's right, enthusiasts across the country can have a hand in giving this sport truck back the name it so rightfully deserves - a name which still dances on the breeze and lives in the heart of every red blooded hoon — "El Camino". With this in mind, we're beginning our campaign here and now to call this wondrous segment-bender the 2010 Pontiac G8 El Camino sport truck. Hit the jump for more on the Pontiac El Camino.
We're not going to spend a whole lot of time talking about the under-pinnings of the Pontiac G8 sport truck as it shares virtually everything but the nose, hood and interior with its brother from down under, the Holden Ute. We'll let the press release and video from PickupTruck.com handle that job. For the moment, yes, it's built on the same rear-wheel-drive platform also shared with the G8 ST's four-door non-truck brother, the 2008 Pontiac G8 GT. Fitting, don't you think, since Australia has picked up the wild-child mantle the US of A seems to have laid down as of late — and what a wild child this is. The G8 sport truck boasts the same 361 HP 6.0-liter V8 found under the hood of the Pontiac G8 GT. Plus, the sport truck will lose much of the rear weight we've been told hampers the true tire-squealing abilities of this born-down-under import so we expect once behind the wheel, we'll in no time be bathed in the glorious clouds of tire smoke billowing from beneath the six-foot cargo box. Pontiac even claims a 5.4 second 0-to-60 time and unlike it's crude Malibu-based forefather, the latest pickup car will sport a modern independent suspension and fat rubber all around. Getting sideways will still be the most fun way through a corner, but we're betting it will be a lot less suicidal now with this new Pontiac G8 El Camino. But like we said, we already knew all this. No, the real story is how we're going to make GM call this the "El Camino." We've been told Pontiac will have a special website set up in just a few short hours to allow enthusiasts to submit their suggestions and we're hoping to rig the vote.
We've spoken with a number of high-ranking officials with the General and all tell us they'd support a Pontiac El Camino if it's what "the people" want. Who knows why they didn't just call it that in the first place. Perhaps they were scared of pissing off purists who could never see a non-Chevy El Camino. Perhaps they were concerned how it would fit into the General's grand alpha-numeric numbering marketing scheme for their "performance brand." Whatever the reason, let's show 'em how wrong they were. This is an opportunity for you, the readers of Jalopnik, to rise up and truly make this the most amazing day in the history of this site — the day the El Camino returns! If you're a lover of the hoonage, defender of the truck car, and a member of the Jalopnik nation, you'll follow the link below to let GM know you want a name this car begs for. Do it for the mullet, do it for your country and our way of life. God bless America! Vote El Camino!
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NEW YORK - The 2010 Pontiac G8 sport truck blurs the line between cars and trucks and is creating an all-new segment in the North American car market. This dramatically different vehicle blends the sporty handling of a performance coupe with the cargo capabilities of a light truck.
Based on the all-new Pontiac G8 performance sedan, the newest member of the G8 family has a longer wheelbase and a cargo bed suitable for either work or recreation. The G8 sport truck significantly stretches Pontiac's commitment to style and performance and is expected to arrive in dealers' showrooms in late 2009.
"Pontiac has never shied away from offering segment-defining vehicles, going back to the original GTO," said Jim Bunnell, Buick-Pontiac-GMC general manager. "There's simply nothing else like the G8 sport truck on the road today, and we definitely believe that there are customers who will be excited by its distinctive design, performance and cargo capabilities."
Consumer named
Another unique aspect of this new vehicle is the fact that it will be named by a consumer. Beginning today (March 15, 2008), consumers can visit www.pontiac.com/namethiscar and submit their name ideas. "As an important part of the G8 family, we know that 'sport truck' doesn't fully describe the vehicle's ability to blur the lines between sports car and truck," said Craig Bierley, Pontiac marketing director. "Because its fans will surely be as unique as the vehicle itself, we're giving them a voice in selecting a name that reflects its appeal." The winning entry will be announced April 15.
The G8 sport truck maintains the same sporty exterior design as its namesake sedan. Flared fenders wrap around the 18-inch wheels and give it a wide, confident stance. The roofline has a coupe-like profile that reflects the vehicle's performance pedigree.
The doors, roof and exterior panels aft of the B-pillars are unique from the G8 sedan. One-piece outer body panels give the vehicle a sleek appearance. Wrap-around taillamps and fully concealed tailgate hinges add to the sculpted look. A color-coordinated, soft tonneau cover conceals and protects items in the cargo bed from the weather.
The sport truck draws its strength from the same powerful 6.0L V-8 engine used in the G8 GT. It puts out 361 horsepower (270 kW) and 385 lb.-ft. (522 Nm) of torque. The combination of a six-speed automatic transmission and Active Fuel Management technology provides both car-like fuel economy and an unexpected 0-to-60 time of 5.4 seconds.
While these performance numbers are respectable by sports car standards, the G8 sport truck offers flexibility unlike that of a sports car. A 73.9-inch (1878 mm) cargo bed has 42.7 cubic feet (1208 L) of cargo space and a durable composite bed liner. It also can carry a payload of more than 1,074 pounds (488 kg) and tow a 3,500-pound (1,600 kg) trailer.
The G8 sport truck is based on the same rear-wheel-drive architecture as the G8 performance sedan. However, the sport truck's body structure was reinforced in key areas to support its cargo and towing duties. More than 60 new components were added to strengthen the structure. Compared to the sedan, the 118.5-inch (3,009 mm) wheelbase is approximately four inches longer and the overall length is six inches longer.
Suspension and wheels
A four-wheel independent suspension with electronic stability control delivers confident handling, whether loaded with weekend home-improvement supplies or towing a pair of personal watercraft to the lake.
The steering box is located ahead of the front axle line for a quick, direct feel. The sport truck's front stabilizer bar is one mm larger than the sedan, and the rear suspension has been enhanced to support payloads without adversely affecting handling.
The G8 sport truck rides on 18-inch machine-faced aluminum wheels with a P245/45R18 summer performance tire. All-season tires are available. An optional Sports Package includes 19-inch machine-faced aluminum wheels with P245/40R19 summer performance tires.
Brakes and steering
The sport truck shares the G8 GT's four-wheel disc brake system, featuring 12.64-inch front and 12.76-inch rear rotors. Front rotor thickness is 1.0 inch, while the rear rotors are 0.87-inch thick. Twin-piston, front alloy calipers and vented rotors and single-piston, alloy rear calipers with vented rotors are standard, as is ABS.
Comfort and convenience
Given its heritage, it's not surprising that the G8 sport truck offers many of the same creature comforts as the G8 GT, such as:
* Air conditioning with electronic dual-zone climate control
* Cruise control
* Driver Information Center
* Bluetooth connectivity
* Tilt/telescoping steering wheel with DIC and radio controls
* Power windows/locks/mirrors
* Remote keyless entry and remote start
* Theft-deterrent alarm system
Fully-bolstered, four-way adjustable cloth seats are standard. Heated, six-way leather seats are available. They can be customized with two-tone, black-and-red inserts and a coordinating gauge cluster.
Behind the seats is a surprisingly large interior cargo area with more than 8.5 cubic feet (245 liters) of storage space. There are two covered storage compartments beneath the load floor and a pair of cargo nets.
Sound system
The G8 sport truck's 230-watt Blaupunkt AM/FM/six-disc CD changer has an MP3 input and five speakers. The 6.5-inch audio display controls both the sound and climate control systems.
Safety and security
A full list of safety features are standard, including:
* StabiliTrak electronic vehicle stability system
* Tire pressure monitoring system
* Dual-stage frontal air bags with a passenger sensing system
* Head-curtain side air bags
* Side thorax air bags
* Three-point safety belts in all seating positions
* Safety belt pretensioners
* OnStar
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By the way, we went a little early — but we couldn't help it — Edmunds blew their hot load of shots a little early for some Google mojo. Can ya blame 'em. Actually, yes.


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Six hours of May Day
Mileage: 94.3
May mileage: 94.3
Temperature: 43
Today was an amazing day. The first time I've felt strong on a bike in more than a month.
I've been fighting off a slump since late March. I haven't blathered about it too much on my bike blog, because, frankly, it had me a little bit worried. I wasn't injured or sick. I had just lost all of my edge. Everything that made me feel good and strong at the end of a day rather than trashed had faded. I was worried the edge was gone for good. It all started the day I rode an unintentional but effortless century on March 20. I felt so great that I set out the next day with Geoff and rode a 50-miler on the Pugsley. That was the day I blew up. Limped home from that ride, confused about why I felt so terrible. I didn't feel even close to 100 percent a week later, and about week after that I took a forced break from the bike, several days at least. But each day away, I just felt tired and irritated. When I started biking again, I was as bad as ever. I kept up my mileage because of habit, hope, and because it was a way to spend time with Geoff when he was amping up his own bike training. Luckily I wasn't training for anything because most of those rides I was just striving to survive them, rarely pushing very hard, although I was giving all I had to give.
Why the big slump? I never knew for sure. It definitely wasn't that century, although that may have been the proverbial straw. Geoff thinks it was a belated reaction to the Ultrasport and all of the preparation that led up to it, of which I never gave myself much recovery time, mentally or physically. It seemed unlikely to me that I was experiencing a physical blowup that long after the fact. I thought it was entirely mental. But that didn't explain why I was so grumpy when I took my self-imposed bike break, or why, even on the days I was excited about a ride and determined to push a certain limit, I couldn't coax my body to go anywhere near it.
In the past two weeks I had become more accustomed to the somewhat weakened version of myself. I got more excited about bike commuting and other bike-related goals that weren't necessarily competitive. But I did want to do this 24-hour race at the end of June. I wanted to do it as well as I could. So I planned this eight-week loose training regimen that was to begin Monday. I wheedled my way out of the first two days, and today was to be my first weekly long ride (I like to start at six hours, work my way incrementally to 10 or 11, and then pull back.)
The trails are still slush-covered. It was going to have to be a road ride. But I don't currently have a working road bike (well, I guess I have a three-speed. But none of them are speeds I like.) Anyway, I took the Karate Monkey. I figured it would be slow, but six hours is six hours. I headed north with a light east wind at my side. I noticed that, like yesterday morning, I felt pretty strong out of the gate. I didn't think it would last long. The day wasn't particularly enthralling - mostly overcast and drab. But, surprisingly, it was one of those days in which I felt better and better as I went. I didn't stop much so I didn't take many pictures. I just rode at my comfortable pace, and hit the end of the road before the three-hour mark had passed, took my short snack break (had to hurry because the recently thawed fall mosquitoes were out in full force), and turned around.
It would have totally come in under six hours - I probably could have even done a spur to make it a century - except for the wind turned south and kicked up a harsh 20 mph headwind for the last 10 miles home. I think I ended at about 6:05. About a 15.5 mph overall average, including two short breaks. I know it's not impressive for pavement, but for me, riding the big bike and its fat knobby tires, after a monthlong slump ... I'll take it.
Maybe I'm back? I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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15.5 mph average on a *mountain bike*????ReplyDelete
I'd say that's pretty good.
Lots of folks (including me) probably would have a hard time averaging that mph on a road bike for 6 hours.
I know you love to ride and hike, but you should take a few days off to chill out and recover.
That way you can write more blog posts:-)
hmmm....sounds like you have been over training. The ultrasport took more out of you than you realize? Overtraining can definitely cause mental and physical symptoms.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 2, 2008 at 5:32 AM
Your body will recover in stages, both physically and emotionally. You need to listen to it and take time to heal. Your training sounds almost like that of a pro cyclist -- without the chef or massage therapist:)ReplyDelete
Sounds like a good run Jill, Go hard then easy for a few days, then hard again.ReplyDelete
More sunshine often helps!
Keep Going!
I agree - you may have been overdoing it to some degree for a long time without adequate time to fully recover. Also, take a look at the nutrition side. Are you getting enough quality essential oils and proteins? A short rest and some pampering might do you some good. :)ReplyDelete
Hey Jill,ReplyDelete
You might check out this wierd Nubrella for those heavy rain commutes.. http://www.nubrella.com/
- AnonymousMay 2, 2008 at 9:28 AM
Slumps will happen and you just need to roll with them. It's just the body saying that it needs time to sort itself out. Go and do something else that you enjoy and come back in a while. If you obsess about them, the stress will just drag them out.ReplyDelete
Once the slump is over, you'll be back up in no time.
- AnonymousMay 2, 2008 at 10:22 AM
If you step away and look at your year (not just the last or next few weeks) consider when during the year you planned your break. Have you had a break? Did you plan a break? You can't go 24/7/360 and expect to either maintain a high level of performance OR peak at any time. With that kind of approach you'll never get much above the standard you ride all the time.ReplyDelete
The old training addage "if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got" applies. It does not mention a break as part of your yearly program but most high performance endurace athletes include a break somewhere in the year. Itis a normal element of a plan that relies on periodization.
Because your A level event falls at a non-traditional time of year, your 'break would logically come sometime shortly after or even as late as now. But of course longer days, fairer conditions make you want to get out and hammer. Find a way to deal with the contradiction.
Yr Pal DrCodfish
Make sure you are allowing yourself plenty of time to rest and recover. Training in itself doesn't make you stronger...recovery from training is what makes you stronger.ReplyDelete
Keep in mind that commuting will also take its toll. I can't remember how far your commute is, but bear in mind that it becomes a sort of two-a-day mini training sessions and can add to difficulty in recovery.
Peace out!
- AnonymousMay 2, 2008 at 12:37 PM
You really should be glad to have such a recovery. I am still getting my legs back after ultrasport. Just last week I've finally been able to ride on snow again.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 2, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Right on, drcodfish. I remember something a professional dancer once told me. We were talking about injuries and dancers. I commented that dancers always seemed to be nursing injuries. He said, "Yeah, that's true. But the real truth is that dancers injury themselves."ReplyDelete
Hmmmm. Be smart. Eat well. Really allow your body to recover. Stop driving yourself so hard you can't really do those things.
I have no idea who you are really but there is something that rings of ego and self-worth related to accomplishments. I hope I'm not entirely correct. Maybe what you reveal is goals set and goals achieved. I know it suks to feel bad on a bicycle when you're used to feeling good but there is much worse in life. Accept my apologies for writing something that was based on a fragment of information. PS...My hat's off to your accomplishments thus far.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 3, 2008 at 1:25 PM
have you seen this?ReplyDelete


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EASA is concerned that the shrinking distance between rows in coach class – so-called "seat pitch" – presents a safety issue. Specifically, EASA believes that packed-in rows could hamper passenger evacuation of a plane in an emergency. EASA rules for commercial aircraft require that all occupants be able to leave a plane using slides within 90 seconds.
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It is the policy of the Department to utilize De-escalation techniques during any interaction where there is resistance. In an attempt to slow down the pace of an incident, actions shall be taken that are designed to eliminate the need to use force to resolve any event or situation. A degree of force which may have been justified earlier in an encounter does not remain justified indefinitely. Officers shall immediately reduce the level of force as the threat or resistance decreases or stops.
This policy is in addition to Division Directive PG 400.0, Use of Force/Report. The two policies are to be read together, and in the event that any conflict exists between this Interim Policy and Division Directive PG 400.0, this policy prevails.
De-Escalation Techniques. (The guiding principles for de-escalation are patience, flexibility, and the desire to resolve each situation peacefully.)
1. Officers should look for opportunities to de-escalate potential use of force situations by:
a. Talking to a person using a tone of voice and language that is not aggressive or confrontational.
b. Officers shall use advisements, warnings, verbal persuasion, and other tactics before escalating to the use of force, if feasible.
c. Officers shall talk to the person to convince the person to comply.
d. Reduce any threat presented by withdrawing to a tactically advantageous position.
e. Take actions that allow for greater distance and time to de-escalate a situation or deploy a lesser force option or no force at all.
f. Create space or place barriers between you and the subject(s).
g. Wait the person(s) out when circumstances permit.
h. Permit a person to move about when safe.
i. Permit a person the opportunity to make statements or ask questions.
j. Reposition tactically and request additional resources.
2. Medical Attention Following Use of Force
After any use of force, officers shall immediately assess the subject for visible injuries or complaints of injuries once compliance is received, and the scene is secure. The officer will monitor the subject and immediately request medical attention if needed or as required by this section. Officers who transport a civilian to a medical facility for treatment shall take the safest and most direct route to the medical facility if feasible. Officers shall notify Park Police Communications of their starting and ending mileage.
a. In situations where the subject is forced into a face-down position, officers should not take any action which could impair or inhibit the subject's ability to breathe. If physical force is required to subdue a subject that is under arrest, officers must release pressure/weight from the subject as soon as the subject is restrained or it is safe to do so (whichever occurs first). Officers are charged with monitoring the subject for any health concerns, respiratory or breathing problems; and
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In addition to the $6,000 closet, Lucky's May issue also features a "Best Swimsuits Of The Season" feature, in which "best" means "teeny bikinis which barely cover the areolae and pubic mound."
Yes, the string bikini is a "classic." That cannot be disputed. But does this one fit? Do the strings need to be tied a little tighter on that top? Do I sound like my mother?
Please to be explaining how this is "sporty." Also, will someone please help this woman? She is clearly stranded on some sharp rocks, and the hat won't be of service.
Just in case the swimsuits haven't been small enough for you, or haven't shown enough skin, here we have some cut-outs.
This is alright. But isn't it funny how the suits in Glamour, which offered more coverage, seemed more flattering to the body and less strained?
The single one-piece shown in this feature seems to lack both lining and support. It does offer boobsquash! Is this a desirable look?
Frankly, these cups could be a smidge wider.
This is a heavenly little suit, which is maybe why we only see one set of footprints.
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Lucky Promotes "Nude" Shoes, But For Whom?
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Know that saying of "Don't make an ugly face; it just might stick"? Yeah. Also, I'm pretty sure that if my hair has to be in a top knot or off-the-neck braid for one more week, I'll never be able to coax it back down.
I'm no stranger to heat. I lived--nay, flourished--through 25 summers in California's Sacramento Valley, when hot means not just a few days over 100, but 30. But every building there has AC. Now, I'm in Eastern Washington, that duplicitous region. Not only does winter bring the stinging cold and dirty exhaust-coated ice that clings to the road from November through March... but summer comes with the audacity of 90 and 100-degree 10-day heat waves. It's a "both/and" kind of place--glacial winters and boiling summers.
But hey, there's no state income tax. So, yeah.
Two weeks ago we scurried to fill our van like Steinbeck characters fleeing the dust bowl and drove out to my in-laws' air conditioned house to escape the rising temps. This week, I'm resolved to stay put. My game plan:
One of these things is not like the other...
I make a point making my drive-thru coffee place the very last stop on my daily errands. When I get my iced vanilla americano back home, it goes straight into the fridge--with first a little top-off of lactose-free milk, just to replenish what I sipped on the way home. Then, at each of the 400 times through the rest of the day that I open the refridge to fetch, refill or put away sippy cups, I take a sip. And my blood pressure recedes a few points.
That membership fee pays for itself after your third slow stroll around the refrigerated dairy/produce cases.
Today the boys watched for 20 minutes as the Vitamix guy made them a smoothie. I stood by the cart and nodded at him periodically, thinking to myself with a grin, "There's no sweat running down my back. It's 11 a.m. and my feet aren't swollen yet."
I think the guy took my smile as a sign I wanted his $500 blender. We walked away instead of telling him that at $500, it better cool my house AND puree bananas.
Another Costco amusement: Watching 40 chickens receive their new plastic homes. Also: dinner.
Our half-finished basement is not a thing of beauty, but it stays a good 15 degrees cooler than upstairs.
So while it's not fun hauling 12 blankies and 29 pillows down there (and that's just the stuff I need to get comfortable), it beats showering in your my own sweat each night.
I listened to The World Over while doing my dishes over a steamy sink last night. Want a sure-fire way to be grateful for living in a brick-oven-of-a-house? Listen to the plight of Christians not living in the promised land of Eastern Washington. Read about the children at the border, Ebola in Africa, or the homeless that whether this kind of weather sans shelter. I didn't need to go far to find people who's lives are about a million times harder than mine. That doesn't make my house less hot, but it makes my little burden much more an inconvenience than a burden.
That's my spin for this week. Linking up with Heather of unbelievably-bad-airport-experience fame.


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'Don't be scared of my gender': BBC announces first female Doctor Who
British actress Jodie Whittaker was unveiled Sunday as the first woman to play " Doctor Who", telling fans of the cult BBC science fiction series they should "not be scared by my gender".
The 35-year-old, who starred in the British award-winning drama "Broadchurch", will take over from Scottish actor Peter Capaldi later this year as 13th incarnation of the Time Lord.
Fans were treated to a brief glimpse of Whittaker, walking towards the Tardis in a forest, in a clip shown after the Wimbledon tennis final on BBC television.
Following the announcement, Whittaker said "it feels incredible" to take on the role."
It feels completely overwhelming, as a feminist, as a woman, as an actor, as a human, as someone who wants to continually push themselves and challenge themselves, and not be boxed in by what you're told you can and can't be," she said.
The adventures of the doctor – a time travelling, humanoid alien who traverses the universe – have maintained a loyal following since they were first aired in 1963.
Whittaker anticipated some controversy over the choice of a woman as the new doctor despite such a move being well trailed, but said viewers didn't need to worry.
"I want to tell the fans not to be scared by my gender," she said.
"Because this is a really exciting time, and Doctor Who represents everything that's exciting about change. The fans have lived through so many changes, and this is only a new, different one, not a fearful one," she added.
Christmas 'regeneration'
Despite the high-profile announcement, viewers will have to wait until the end of the year before seeing Whittaker on screen.
Capaldi, who has held the role since 2013, will leave the show during the Christmas special by "regenerating" into the new doctor.
Whittaker will work alongside "Broadchurch" creator Chris Chibnall, who takes over as executive producer.
"I always knew I wanted the 13th Doctor to be a woman, and we're thrilled to have secured our number one choice. Her audition for 'The Doctor' simply blew us all away," he said.
Chibnall remarked that there had been "a lot of secret-keeping" in the run-up to the announcement, while Whittaker said she had told "a lot of lies" to keep the news under wraps.
The show is aired around the world, and marked its 50th anniversary four years ago with a special episode screened simultaneously in nearly 100 countries.
Fans took to Twitter to air their views on the choice of the new doctor, with some accusing the producers of ruining the show.
Others were thrilled, with one post retweeted thousands of times showing a girl watching the trailer before exclaiming excitedly: "The new doctor is a girl!"
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The chemical components of Medical Marijuana, referred to as cannabinoids, play a major role in the realm of medicine known as CAM (Complementary and Alternative Medicine). Medical Marijuana, also know as Medical Cannabis, has been employed for a wide array of medicinal uses for many centuries for its pharmacological effects on the CNS (Central Nervous System) and the immune system. Its anticancer properties and its ability to help the body cope with the side-effects of cancer as well as the treatment process through the activation of specific receptors throughout the body were discovered quite recently.
The non-psychtropic and modifying cannabinoid that has a number of different medical properties called Cannabidiol comprises 75% of the total cannabinoids content in a few rare strains of cannabis. This modifying cannabinoid called Cannabinol has low psychoactive properties. It is known to reduce the psychoactive effects of THC by degenerating it. Its anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antispasmodic, and antioxidant properties are well-known.
The cannabinoid, Cannabigerol that is found in Cannabis, particularly its medical marijuana and hemp varieties is the precursor form of other cannabinoids like THC and CBD. It is a bone stimulant with antibacterial and anti-proliferative properties.
Tetrahydrocannabivarin is found in cannabis along with THC. This psychoactive cannabinoid has numerous medical benefits in THC, which include decreased appetite and as the dosage gets larger, it is known to oppose the medicinal properties of THC. There are a number of THCV-based pharmaceuticals that are currently undergoing human trials to address the problems of obesity and Type II diabetes.
Akin to Tetrahydrocannabivarin is the non-psychoactive cannabinoid, Cannabichromene that is usually found in cannabis and it also known to have a few medical properties. It is renowned for its anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferative, antimicrobial, analgesic properties, also stimulates the growth of bones and constricts blood vessels.
One of the principal psychoactive cannabinoid compounds found in marijuana is Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC that occurs naturally as THC-A, its acidic form and is not absorbed readily by the body in its naturally occurring state. When heated, THC-A undergoes decarboxylation to a readily absorbable from that has a number of different medical benefits.
Both Tetrahydrocannabinol and Cannabidiol have anxiolytic, antispasmodic, anti-proliferative anticancer, anti-inflammatory, neuro-protective, antiemetic, and neuropathic analgesic properties. In addition, Cannabidiol is also a bone-stimulant and immunosuppressant with antibacterial, antipsychotic, antiepileptic, anti-ischemic, anti diabetic, anti psoriatic, and vasorelaxation properties while the antioxidant Tetrahydrocannabinol stimulates appetite, reduces the intraocular eye pressure, promotes the growth of new nerve tissue, also protects nerves from damage.


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This makes sense
I just stumbled on this by Seth Godin and it makes sense to share this now, when students are preparing presentations for exams and final evaluations. I'm sharing the whole article here because it is such great advice. I suggest you get his book here.
It doesn't matter whether you're trying to champion at a church or a school or a Fortune 100 company, you're probably going to use PowerPoint. Powerpoint was developed by engineers as a tool to help them communicate with the marketing department—and vice versa. It's a remarkable tool because it allows very dense verbal communication. Yes, you could send a memo, but no one reads anymore. As our companies are getting faster and faster, we need a way to communicate ideas from one group to another. Enter Powerpoint.Powerpoint could be the most powerful tool on your computer. But it's not. Countless innovations fail because their champions use PowerPoint the way Microsoft wants them to, instead of the right way.
Communication is the transfer of emotion.
Communication is about getting others to adopt your point of view, to help them understand why you're excited (or sad, or optimistic or whatever else you are.)If all you want to do is create a file of facts and figures, then cancel the meeting and send in a report.
Our brains have two sides. The right side is emotional, musical and moody. The left side is focused on dexterity, facts and hard data. When you show up to give a presentation, people want to use both parts of their brain. So they use the right side to judge the way you talk, the way you dress and your body language. Often, people come to a conclusion about your presentation by the time you're on the second slide. After that, it's often too late for your bullet points to do you much good.
You can wreck a communication process with lousy logic or unsupported facts, but you can't complete it without emotion. Logic is not enough.
Champions must sell—to internal audiences and to the outside world.
If everyone in the room agreed with you, you wouldn't need to do a presentation, would you? You could save a lot of time by printing out a one-page project report and delivering it to each person. No, the reason we do presentations is to make a point, to sell one or more ideas.
If you believe in your idea, sell it. Make your point as hard as you can and get what you came for. Your audience will thank you for it, because deep down, we all want to be sold.
Four Components To A Great Presentation
First, make yourself cue cards. Don't put them on the screen. Put them in your hand. Now, you can use the cue cards you made to make sure you're saying what you came to say.
Second, make slides that reinforce your words, not repeat them. Create slides that demonstrate, with emotional proof, that what you're saying is true not just accurate.
Talking about pollution in Houston? Instead of giving me four bullet points of EPA data, why not read me the stats but show me a photo of a bunch of dead birds, some smog and even a diseased lung? This is cheating! It's unfair! It works.
Third, create a written document. A leave-behind. Put in as many footnotes or details as you like. Then, when you start your presentation, tell the audience that you're going to give them all the details of your presentation after it's over, and they don't have to write down everything you say. Remember, the presentation is to make an emotional sale. The document is the proof that helps the intellectuals in your audience accept the idea that you've sold them on emotionally.
IMPORTANT: Don't hand out the written stuff at the beginning! If you do, people will read the memo while you're talking and ignore you. Instead, your goal is to get them to sit back, trust you and take in the emotional and intellectual points of your presentation.
Fourth, create a feedback cycle. If your presentation is for a project approval, hand people a project approval form and get them to approve it, so there's no ambiguity at all about what you've all agreed to.
The reason you give a presentation is to make a sale. So make it. Don't leave without a "yes," or at the very least, a commitment to a date or to future deliverables.
Bullets Are For the NRA
Here are the five rules you need to remember to create amazing Powerpoint presentations:
- No more than six words on a slide. EVER. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.
- No cheesy images. Use professional stock photo images.
- No dissolves, spins or other transitions.
- Sound effects can be used a few times per presentation, but never use the sound effects that are built in to the program. Instead, rip sounds and music from CDs and leverage the Proustian effect this can have. If people start bouncing up and down to the Grateful Dead, you've kept them from falling asleep, and you've reminded them that this isn't a typical meeting you're running.
- Don't hand out print-outs of your slides. They don't work without you there.
The home run is easy to describe: You put up a slide. It triggers an emotional reaction in the audience. They sit up and want to know what you're going to say that fits in with that image. Then, if you do it right, every time they think of what you said, they'll see the image (and vice versa).1
Sure, this is different from the way everyone else does it. But everyone else is busy defending the status quo (which is easy) and you're busy championing brave new innovations, which is difficult.


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Age hardening of three commercial purity Al-Cu-Mg alloys is described. For all alloys, 99.90 wt% of aluminum was used as base to ensure comparable, low impurity contents, and Fe and Si contents of the alloys are expected to be between 0.02 and 0.04 wt%. The production route included casting, stress relieve, homogenizing, upset forge, hot rolling, solution heat treatment, cold water quench and stretch.
Al-Cu-Mg based alloys (2xxx series) are widely used in structural applications, in particular alloys with Cu:Mg atomic ratio close to 1 are used extensively in the aerospace sector, whilst alloys with low Cu content (0.1-0.25 wt%) and 3 to 4 wt% Mg are thought to be potential alloys for car body applications. It has been found that hardening occurs in two distinct stages in Al-Cu-Mg alloys, with the first stage of age hardening leading to a plateau stage during which ageing causes no further hardening.
The first stage of hardening occurs within about 1 minute ageing for ageing temperatures between about 100 and 200°C. Also ageing at room temperature causes the hardness to reach a plateau, and it is generally thought that both hardening reactions are due to the same mechanism.
In studies on Al-Cu-Mg based alloys with and without micro alloying additions or impurities and with a range of Cu:Mg ratios, several explanations for the first stage of hardening were suggested. The main four mechanisms are strengthening due to:
Two commercial purity Al-Cu-Mg-Mn alloys with Cu:Mg ratio close to 1 (atomic ratio) have been studied, the compositions are reported in table 1. For all alloys, 99.90 wt% of aluminum was used as base to ensure comparable, low impurity contents, and Fe and Si contents of the alloys are expected to be between 0.02 and 0.04 wt%. The production route included casting, stress relieve at 300°C /24 h, homogenizing for 24 h, upset forge, hot rolling to 20 mm plate at ~420°C, solution heat treatment, cold water quench and stretch by 2.5%.
To remove dislocations and to dissolve (pre-) precipitates generated in previous processing and ageing, all samples were freshly solution treated at 495°C and subsequently quenched into water at room temperature before the ageing treatments commenced. Room temperature ageing was performed at about 25°C and for ageing at 50°C, samples were transferred to an air circulation furnace within 5 seconds from completion of the quench.
The works cited above refer mostly to high purity Al-Cu-Mg alloys. It is conceivable that the reaction is to some extent influenced by the presence of small amounts of additional alloying elements or impurities, such as Si, Fe or Mn. This could somewhat influence the relative importance of the mechanisms.
As commercial aluminum based alloys will always contain some Si and Fe, with grain structure controlling additions such as Mn, and in the case of the widely used AA 2024 (Al-Cu-Mg-Mn) are generally aged at room temperature, it was decided to perform a detailed study of microstructural changes in the course of the hardening in commercial purity Al-Cu-Mg-Mn alloys. The techniques applied are isothermal calorimetry, differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and three dimensional atom probe (3DAP).
The precipitation process of Al-Mg-Cu alloys within the α + S two phase region has been the subject of numerous studies because this is the base system for the 2xxx series commercial aluminum alloys. According to Silcock, the precipitation sequence of this alloy is described as:
Mechanism I, GP/GPB zone hardening, has been invoked in many works throughout the 1950s to mid 1990s. However, several works have reported that no zones can be observed at this early stage of ageing. Ringer et al. reported that in a high purity Al-1.1wt%Cu-1.7wt%Mg alloy Cu/Mg sub-nanometer clusters have been observed after a short ageing time by means of conventional atom probe field ion microscopy (APFIM) and proposed that the initial rapid hardening is due to these clusters (mechanism II). According to this work the second stage (the peak of hardness) is due to GPB zone formation.
The age hardening curve of this alloy has two distinct stages: the first stage is a rapid hardness increase which occurs within 1 min aging at temperatures ranging from 100 to 240°C. The hardness increase during this period accounts for approximately 60% of the total hardness increase observed at the peak hardness condition (figure 1).
After this rapid reaction, the hardness curve exhibits a long plateau (~100 h at 150°C), which is followed by a second stage of hardening towards the peak hardness. The origin of this characteristic age-hardening behavior was widely studied in the past and following Silcock, it has been generally accepted that the first stage is associated with the formation of GPB zones and that the second stage is attributed to the precipitation of S phase.
Recently, using atom probe field ion microscopy, Ringer et al. proposed that the initial rapid hardness increase is caused by clustering of a few Cu and Mg atoms, and that the second stage hardening is due to GPB zones, which start to form near the end of the hardness plateau. They also concluded that presence of S phase does not contribute to the initial rapid hardening.
On the basis of thermal analysis data, Zahra et al. recently claimed that the initial rapid hardening is due to the precipitation of GPB zones; however, no microstructural evidence for the presence of GPB zones in this initial stage was reported.
Reich et al. considered a somewhat different mechanism for hardening suggesting that it was caused by solute-dislocation interactions (mechanism III). In this mechanism Cu and Mg solute atoms segregate to the dislocations present from before the hardening, locking these dislocations and increasing the hardness.
This suggestion was based on three main observations from experiments in a high purity Al-1.1wt%Cu-1.7wt%Mg alloy:
Figures 1 (a) and (b) show hardness-time curves at 150 and 200°C, respectively. At both temperatures, the rapid hardness increase is observed within 1 min aging. The fraction of the initial hardening to the peak hardness at 150°C is higher than that at 200°C, i.e. ~70% at 150°C and ~50% at 200°C.
As previously reported, a relatively prolonged hardness plateau follows the initial rapid hardening. Another interesting result was obtained when the alloy was subjected to the thermomechanical treatment described above. As shown in Fig. 1 (a), a further rapid hardening was observed when the specimen was deformed by 5% after the initial rapid hardness increase at 150°C. This indicates that additional rapid hardening is induced by the plastic deformation and suggests that the source of the hardening may be associated with a solute-dislocation interaction. However, the same phenomenon was not observed at 200°C.
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Black Valedictorian Sues Her School After Being Forced to Share Honor with White Student
In 1957, nine black students were denied entry at the illegally racially-segregated Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas, setting off a firestorm that became a watershed moment in the civil rights movement.
Now, a young woman claims another school in the state is still discriminating against minority students.
In a lawsuit filed against the McGehee School District in McGehee, Arkansas, 18-year-old Kymberly Wimberly says she graduated from McGehee High School with the highest GPA in her class, but was forced to share the valedictorian honors with a white student with a lesser academic record. The suit alleges a "pattern and practice of school administrators and personnel treating the African-American students less favorably than the Caucasian ones."
Despite having a baby in her junior year, Wimberly took honors classes and maintained a stellar GPA. "I'm not going to say it wasn't difficult. My teachers thought I'd fall flat on my face, but I kept trying to succeed," said Wimberly, who will attend the University of Arkansas this fall.
Wimberly wants punitive damages and for the school record to list her as her class's sole valedictorian.
[ABC News]