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Recently we learned that Dodge is seriously upping its muscle car game with the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat. The coupe will sport a supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi V8 with north of 600 horsepower. That's the most powerful V8 Chrysler has ever made. Great. Swell. Neat-o. Now bring on the sedan.
Somewhat lost in the news about the Challenger Hellcat late last month was the fact that most likely, the Charger sedan is getting that engine too. Automotive News reported that "the supercharged Hellcat is expected to migrate to other SRT vehicles, including the Charger SRT." And the Dodge portion of Fiat Chrysler's five-year plan indicates the same. Check out the top right hand corner of this image. We've seen some possible mules with this engine running around too.
Nothing else with four doors comes close to the Hellcat's power. The soon-to-be-discontinued (and likely replaced by a new one) Cadillac CTS-V puts out 556 horsepower. The Charger SRT's 6.2-liter Hemi has 470 horsepower. The Chevrolet SS comes to the party with 415 horsepower. It sounds like the Hellcat will trump all of them.
We haven't seen any official specs on the Challenger Hellcat quite yet, but some have speculated a zero to 60 mph time of under four seconds, which given its estimated power figures seems entirely plausible. Put this into the Charger and you have what very well could be America's fastest sedan.
I'm an unapologetic fan of the Dodge Charger. I drove a gorgeous blue Charger R/T Daytona halfway across Texas once, and I did burnouts in a Charger SRT8 on my wedding day. I like the car. I like the way it sounds, I like the way it drives, and I really like the way it looks.
See, it used to be that in America, you had entire ranges of V8 engines to choose from when you purchased your family sedan or wagon. Gas prices, emissions regulations, technology and the car-buying public's tastes have changed all that.
The V8 engine, once the mainstay of American automotive transportation, is now a fairly rare thing; it has become relegated mainly to our luxury and high-end performance cars, available only to those willing to pay extra for both the gas and the motor. You can have V8s in Corvettes and Mustangs and Cadillacs, not affordable family cars.
That's why I like the Charger. It's a long, wide family sedan with eight cylinders under its hood. It rolls like we used to. Sure, the Chevrolet SS is very similar, but it drives more like Chevy's take on the E39 BMW M5 than a classic American muscle sedan; not that this is necessarily a bad thing. (It's also from Australia. You know the toilets flush the other way down there? Weird.)
The Charger is old school muscle, done in a modern way with some nice luxury touches and a really good infotainment system. You can drop your kids off at school in it, rip some burnouts in the parking lot, and then drive to work with everyone around you dropping their speed to 10 mph below the limit because they think you're a cop. Not many cars can do all three of those things.
So I'm amped for the Charger to get a range of V8 options like the muscle cars of yore, and I'm looking forward to seeing what the Hellcat can do under its hood. The Challenger SRT Hellcat sounds like one of the mightiest performance cars America has ever unleashed, and adding extra two doors and more practicality to that is an enticing proposition.
Just make sure we can get it with a manual, please?

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The maintainer "GHC HQ" means Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Ian Lynagh. Daniel Fischer has taken responsibility for numeric stuff. Email
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The following packages match the appropriate language standard, and as such cannot change independently. The code is maintained by the GHC team.
The following packages match the appropriate language standard, and as such cannot change independently. The code is maintained by the GHC team.
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This page describes the process for maintaining the Core libraries. The core libraries are a subset of the packages in the Haskell Platform, and define basic APIs that are expected to be available in any Haskell implementation. They are listed under "The Core Libraries" below.
Non-core libraries are, of course, managed by their own authors/maintainers (named in their .cabal file), using whatever policies those maintainers see fit. [Note: arguably the policies below might usefully be applied to all libraries embodied in the Haskell Platform, but that is a question for the HP team.]
General principles
- Each core package has a named maintainer, or small group of maintainers, who have commit access to the package.
- Third parties are encouraged to make proposals for changes, both to the library API and its implementation, by sending the proposal to the maintainer (CC'ing the libraries mailing list).
- The maintainer is trusted to decide what changes to make to the package, and when. They are strongly encouraged to follow the guidance below, but the general principle is: the community offers opinions, but the maintainers decide.
- Third parties submitting proposals to the maintainer of a library can expect a timely and thoughtful response.
- The more effort the proposer invests (for example, by constructing a patch rather than making an off-the-cuff suggestion) the more consideration s/he can reasonably expect.
- Proposals that have widespread support, and are accompanied by patches (preferably with tests and documentation), should normally be accepted by the maintainer.
- It is up to the maintainer to decide what "widespread" means; in particular, it does not always mean "a majority of those who responded". The majority-responder story is vulnerable to selection bias; e.g. 7 people (out of a client base of hundreds) say "add this function" but the maintainer thinks it will make the interface incrementally more complicated without sufficient benefit.
- Where there is significant work involved in implementing a proposal, it is reasonable for a maintainer to ask for a patch. The principle is that maintainers are not obliged to do the work of implementing a proposal, even if it does enjoy wide support. For more substantial changes, it makes sense to develop the implementation in dialogue with the maintainer.
Guidance for proposers
A "proposal" can be anything from a one-sentence suggestion to a fully-implemented, tested, and documented patch. However, the more substantial the proposal the more attention you can expect. The process is this:
- Send your proposal by email to the maintainer, with a copy to the email@example.com mailing list (which you need to subscribe to before posting).
- Set a deadline for discussion (no less than two weeks), and act as chair/moderator for the discussion.
- At the end of the discussion period, summarise your understanding of the consensus (or lack thereof), including a link to the thread in the mailing list archives, and send the summary to the maintainer for decision. The deadline gives you a moment to summarise the debate and hand over to the maintainer. It isn't a deadline for the maintainer to decide; for example he or she may seek more discussion first.
- If the decision is positive, create a ticket on the GHC trac. The description of the ticket can summarise the proposal and link to the mail thread. Further discussion and implementation patches can be attached to the ticket, and the ticket helps the maintainer to keep track of what is on the go. (Obviously if the maintainer prefers some other mechanism, follow his or her guidance.)
- For non-trivial changes the maintainer may ask for a patch. You may create the patch up front, and make it part of your proposal; or you may want to have some discussion about the design first, and only then roll up your sleeves to do the implementation; and for bigger jobs you may want to wait until the maintainer agrees in principle with the change.
Here are desirable properties for a proposal and its implementation. The more of these properties your proposal or patch has, the more likely it is that the maintainer will adopt your idea. After all, to adopt it the maintainter will have to do whatever tasks you didn't do.
- Description. A good proposal says clearly what you propose, why it is a good idea, and what its consequences would be.
- Patch. Use darcs record or git commit (depending on what sort of repo the library lives in) to create it. Save the patch to a file, using darcs send --output or git format-patch. Make your changes against a copy of the master branch of the relevant library, and make sure it compiles.
- Portability. Good code is portable. In particular, try to ensure the code runs in Hugs and GHC, and on Windows and Linux.
- Style. Good code follows the conventions in the library you are modifying.
- Documentation. Good code includes valid Haddock documentation.
- Tests. Good patches have suitable tests for the library's testsuite.
Guidance for maintainers
The principle is that we trust the maintainer to behave sensibly. The guidelines below are just that: guidelines, not rules. Still, the core libraries are used by many, many people, so maintainers should make every effort not to mess them up by accident.
- API changes should be discussed on the libraries mailing list prior to making the change, even if the maintainer is the proposer. The maintainer still has ultimate say in what changes are made, but the community should have the opportunity to comment on changes. However, unanimity (or even a majority) is not required.
- Every API change should be described precisely in the commit log. The commit logs should be sent to a public mailing list, or otherwise made easily available (e.g. via github), so that the community can keep an eye on changes and comment.
- Backwards compatibility is important to many users. API changes are expected to retain backwards compatibility wherever possible. However, from time to time we may decide to have major revisions which are explicitly not backwards compatible; in these cases we may try to make the previous version of the package available concurrently, as in the base-3/base-4 switchover.
- You don't need to consult the community for purely internal changes; i.e. changes that do not affect the library's clients.
- Changes that simply widen the API by adding new functions are a bit of a grey area. It's better to consult the community, because there may be useful feedback about (say) the order of arguments, or the name of the function, or whatnot. On the other hand few clients will actually break if you add a new function to the API. Use your judgment.
Libraries maintained by the GHC team are subject to the GHC validation policy - patches will be tested for validation before committing (TestingPatches). Those packages not maintained by the GHC team will probably have a GHC lagging mirror repository that is subject to validation.
The Core Libraries
The following packages constitute the core libraries:
|Johan Tibell and Milan Straka
|Simon Marlow
|Andy Gill
|Edward Kmett
|Simon Marlow
|David Terei
|Ryan Newton
|Bryan O'Sullivan
|Chris Dornan
The maintainer "GHC HQ" means Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Ian Lynagh. Daniel Fischer has taken responsibility for numeric stuff. Email email@example.com
The following packages match the appropriate language standard, and as such cannot change independently. The code is maintained by the GHC team.
These packages are maintained only for backward compatibility, and are not expected to undergo API changes in the future.
See also
- GHC Working Conventions, including guidelines for submitting patches via darcs.
- Notes on programming style


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Just before tearing itself apart about whether gay people should be allowed to marry, France has gone through another political financial scandal. This is not an uncommon occurrence. We tend not to care very much about our politicians cheating on their wives, or even, like one of our former presidents, having two families complete with a hidden daughter. We tend to be less tolerant with embezzlement and tax fraud, which does not keep them from happening with a troubling regularity.
In this particular case it was Jerome Cahuzac, a socialist minister in charge of the budget, who was discovered to have a secret account in a Swiss bank for tax fraud purposes. Jerome Cahuzac being the political head of French IRS, it was, let's say, embarrassing. Of course, Jerome Cahuzac was "advised" to resign, both as a minister and a Member of Parlement. After another round of "advice", he has finally decided not to run in the coming by-election in what used to be his constituency.
Politics being what it is, the affair prompted a round of half-hearted reforms, with ministers forced to disclose their fortune, then faded out of the headlines in the wake of the gay marriage controversy. However, it is only a matter of time before another scandal surfaces. As I have said, those scandals are relatively common in French history and Frenchmen somewhat expect their politicians to use their position to get, if not rich, at least wealthy.
When the regime is weak, however, or when the country goes through a crisis, this can lead to drastic changes in government. I don't think this will be the case, directly, for the Cahuzac affair, but the general climate it breeds certainly will pave the way for it. There are, indeed, certainly precedents for this in French history.
The first to come to my mind is, of course, the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which prepared the way for the French Revolution. In 1772, Louis XV had ordered for his mistress, Madame du Barry, a diamond necklace costing some 2,000,000 livres – a huge amount of money, even for a king. Louis XV, however, died before the necklace could be completed and Madame du Barry was banished from the court, so the jeweler found themselves with a hugely expensive jewel on their hands and nobody to sell it to, the new queen having refused to accept a necklace designed for a courtesan.
In the meantime, a con-artist, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, "Comtesse de la Motte", manipulated her lover, Louis René Édouard de Rohan, known as Cardinal de Rohan, into believing the queen was in love with him and arranged a meeting between him and the said queen, a prostitute passing herself off as a queen. She then "borrowed" a lot of money from the Cardinal, and bought her way into the high society.
She was then contacted by the jewelers who wanted to use her to sell their necklace. She accepted and told the Cardinal that Marie Antoinette wanted to buy the necklace, but wanted him to act as a secret intermediary… this worked well, until the Cardinal failed to paid the agreed upon amount and the jewelers complained to the queen about him. Let's say Marie Antoinette was not amused.
Jeanne de la Motte was condemned to be whipped and branded then sent to life imprisonment in the Salpêtrière. She escaped, however and fled to London where she published a book entitled Memoires Justificatifs de La Comtesse de Valois de La Motte, which attempted to justify her actions while casting blame upon the queen. The Cardinal de Rohan, for one, was acquitted.
A lot of people were convinced the Queen had indeed a hand into the whole affair and had used La Motte as an instrument to discredit the Cardinal de Rohan. Rohan's acquittal, of course, did not help and the queen's approval rating plummeted with the consequences we all know.
Another less well-known example is the Stavisky affair in 1934. Alexandre Satvisky was a French con-artist who had managed to put himself at the head of the municipal pawnshop of Bayonne. He used his position to sell worthless bonds, with fake emeralds as a surety. He used his political connections to avoid trial and continued his scams until December, when, faced with exposure, he fled. The police finally found him, mortally wounded, in January in Chamonix. He apparently had committed suicide, albeit in a bizarre way since the bullet had traveled an inconvenient three meters before hitting his head.
He had an extra-long arm, you see.
The affair finally went public and grew into a full-blown scandal, leading to the resignation of premier Camille Chautemps from the Radical-Socialist Party (which was neither radical nor socialist, by the way). His successor Édouard Daladier, dismissed the prefect of the Paris police, more to the right than Atilla the Hun Jean Chiappe. The result was a violent demonstration which degenerated into a coup attempt by various far right organizations such as the Action Française, the Croix-de-Feu and the Mouvement Franciste. Fourteen people were killed in the night of 6–7 February 1934. The Republic survived, barely, but Daladier had to resign and the left were faced with an immediate threat from the united far right, which led to the 1936 victory of the Popular Front.
The Stavisky affair also triggered the founding of a far right terrorist organization La Cagoule in an general erosion of democratic values which would pave the way for the Vichy regime.
Of course, nobody has tried to storm the parliament in the wake of the Cahuzac affair. Its effects are more insidious but can be every bit as deleterious.
France is indeed facing a two-pronged long-term crisis which is slowly but surely destroying its social cohesiveness. Like all human societies, it suffers from the systemic effects of peak energy and peak complexity.
As the amount of net energy available to the society shrinks, it becomes less and less able to both maintain its infrastructure and actually do things. The result is that our infrastructures, both material and immaterial, decay, as does our ability to effect positive change. Alsp, our usual way of dealing with problems, that is increasing the complexity of the society, is becoming more and more counterproductive.
As always, in such a situation, the top tiers of the society, preserve their position by grabbing resources from those located lower in the hierarchy. In democracies, this mostly done in indirect ways, by dismantling institutions which benefit mostly the lower and middle strata of society: welfare, public education and services, collective transportation, subsidized medicine…
Moreover, we are slowly losing our privileged position as a first circle ally of the current world hegemon. Not only is the United States losing ground to China, but the center of world economic activities is drifting away from the Atlantic, making us more and more peripheral in world affairs. That means that our ability to profit from the imperial system set up by the USA (and from the remnants of our own Empire) is slowly dwindling.
In such a situation, elections become more and more about gay marriage and the legalization of marijuana and less and less about wages and taxes. Mainstream politics sound then more and more like empty noises to the working class and to a significant part of the middle class.
This creates a disconnect between the population and the political class which grows more and more parasitical as the resources of the society diminish. This disconnect is bound to increase as various elites are forced into resource grabbing by the shrinking economy and competition between the various strata of the society sharpens.
In normal times, scandals, even though they can end the career of the politicians involved in them, do not undermine the legitimacy of the regime. Neither the Panama Scandals nor the Oil Sniffers Hoax or the Urba Affair threatened the survival of the Republic because, outside far right circles, they were seen as bugs, not as features. Globally, the system worked, and even if you disagreed with the party in power, you could hope for things to get done your way once your pet team was in the government.
The problem is that it does not work that way any longer. Our economies cannot function without solid growth, which is more and more becoming a thing of the past. As the government lacks the means to do anything but further the status quo, the policies of the left become indistinguishable from those of the right and their ideology focus away from societal issues to preserve the fake dichotomy so central in our political system.
Of course, people are not fooled and see more and more their political class not as the promoters of such or such policies but as professionals fighting to advance their career. It becomes, by the way, more and more true, as the younger generation of politicians internalize the constraints of the system and focus on secondary, bobo, issues such as feminism or voting right for foreigners.
In such a situation, careerism, greed, and ultimately corruption become features of a political system more and more cut off from the day-to-day realities. Outright fraud remains rare, but privileges abound. I certainly enjoy some of them despite my low status and my position as an outsider, even though the main one – I can't be fired – comes not from my being a politician but from being a civil servant.
The occasional scandal will then be considered by a large part of the population as the proof that the whole political class is corrupt and that only extremists are sincere. In 1780, that ultimately meant the Jacobins. In 1934, that meant the Communists or the various far right sects which would later found the Vichy regime. Now, it means caesarist parties such as the French National Front or Populist/leftist ones such as Mélenchon's Parti de Gauche.
That makes corruption far more dangerous than in more prosperous times as it increases the already strong preference of our declining societies for authoritarianism. Fueled by an ever growing thirst for an effective political action, but similarly lacking in means, this authoritarianism won't be less corrupt than its democratic rivals. In fact, it may be more, despite a few show-trials, because of a greater control of judicial institutions by the government – corruption-ridden China is a case in point. It will also be less efficient at mobilizing remaining resources since its legitimacy will be based not on its origin but on its supposed ability to solve the problems faced by the society, something it will be very unlikely to be able to do.
What authoritarianism will do, however, is destroy what will be left of the democratic tradition and replace it with a mythology of charismatic leadership which will pave the way for warlords later in the game. This can be disastrous. Democracy as an idea is probably going to survive or at least to be revived at some point, unless we lose writing, which is quite unlikely. Democratic tradition at the local level, however, with the network of associations and local institutions it depends, would be shattered by a period of brutal authoritarianism.
This is why it is vital for the future to eliminate corruption as much as possible, and to reduce, as much as possible again, the privileges of the political class. It's not because they are bad – they are, but it is inevitable that the political class grabs some privileges and that some of its members go over to the dark side: that's what human do. It's because they reinforce a trend already strong in all declining societies which leads to runaway resource grabbing by self-appointed elites which would make the present political class almost competent and responsible in comparison.
We need to go robespierrian on corruption, lest a new Robespierre shows up.


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2001 Intimidator SS Camaros - The Intimidation Factor
When Dale Earnhardt Sr. Put His Name On A Camaro, Everyone Paid Attention- Even Four-Time NHRA Pro Stock Champion Jeg Coughlin Jr.
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Throughout his racing career, Dale Earnhardt Sr. wasn't much for settling for second best. His Rookie of the Year award and seven NASCAR Winston Cup Championships only solidify the statement. He's also a four-time IROC winner-quite possibly the motivational turn that secured his admiration of the Chevrolet Camaro. Well, that and the fact that, as a teenager, he and his dad built a '67 race Camaro back in 1967. As success came for Dale, so did more Camaros. His competitive nature, on and off the track, played a huge factor in the development of the "Intimidator" SS Camaro. But there was another reason: To build a car that would kick the proverbial rear ends of any late-model Roush Mustang.
"We would sometimes work on our own cars after-hours at the shop," remembers former DEI Race Relations Director, Steve Crisp, "And across the street, the Roush guys would be working on their late-model Mustangs. Every time they would fly by, Kerry Earnhardt, Dale's son, would joke with his dad about how mean those cars were. Well, Dale had been provoked enough and decided he would design a Camaro to beat up on those Mustangs."
As owner of a Chevrolet dealership since July of 1986, Dale always had a vision of one day being able to sell limited edition, upgraded Camaros à la his hero, Don Yenko, did back in the late '60s. With the stock LS1 having plenty of room for additional potency (heads, cam, exhaust), the '00 Camaro was the perfect candidate for the mods. The only thing left to do was to put together the ideal plan for the performance upgrades.
GM's Scott Settlemire, also known as the "F-bod Father," got word of Dale's intentions and put him in touch with Matt Murphy of GMMG Inc., a company known for doing wicked upgrades to the fourth-generation Camaro. Murphy's history goes deep into upgrading the performance and visual aesthetics of late-model Camaros, which made him the "go-to guy" to collaborate with Earnhardt on the Intimidator project. Murphy ran with Earnhardt's performance and visual feeds and put together a Camaro that would enable any high-performance enthusiast to own a late-model hot rod with the reliability and street manners of a daily driver, which could also kick serious ass when necessary.
Per Earnhardt's request, the limited run of 83 '01 Camaros would carry some distinct styling cues of the first-generation Camaro including period-correct SS badges and American Racing's 200S wheels that pay tribute to the classic Trans-Am cars of the era. This winning combination of old-school looks and modern LS horsepower proved that in 2001, a factory hot rod could still be purchased off a dealership's showroom floor-a Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet dealership only-but a dealership nonetheless. It was a parallel reminiscent of purchasing dealer-upgraded Camaros back in the muscle car glory days of the Yenko, Dana, and Baldwin Motion cars-Dale's vision exactly.
Four-time NHRA Pro Stock Champion Jeg Coughlin Jr. and his brother Mike are hard-core second-generation drag racers and sons of legendary drag racer and Jeg's Mail Order Performance owner Jeg Coughlin Sr. Needless to say, the younger Coughlin's know their way around muscle cars, and just so happen to be huge fans of the Earnhardt's-Jr. and Sr.
While taking some time between the NHRA Drag Racing series, the Coughlin brothers made it a point to take a shop tour of Dale Earnhardt Incorporated (DEI) in Mooresville, North Carolina. As luck would have it, their arrival was just one day before the official unveiling of the Intimidator SS Camaro. Steve Crisp offered the Coughlin's a shop tour of the facility. During the special tour, Jeg noticed a garage that had coverings over the windows and inquired with Crisp about the contents of the seemingly "off limits" garage also known as the Deer Head Shop-an exclusive area that isn't part of the normal tour.
Crisp allowed the Coughlin's in and explained that Dale Sr. was about to unveil the Intimidator SS Camaro project the next day. A quick tutorial on the subject and a peek under the car's black cover revealed the Dale Earnhardt-designed 2000 prototype. This instantly grabbed the Coughlin's interest. Enough so that they both laid down deposits on the limited-run hot rods then and there-the first to do so. But instead of ordering car numbers 1 and 2, both drag racers chose their NHRA competition numbers: Mike #28 and Jeg Jr. #25.
As a unique feature, each Intimidator SS would carry Dale Earnhardt's personal signature on the new silver dash face. Unfortunately, only 33 of the gauges were signed before Dale's untimely death at Daytona in 2001. This meant that out of the 83 '01 Intimidator SS Camaros, 51 were left unsigned. Fortunately, having ordered their Camaros early on, both of the Coughlin cars came with the personally autographed dash face. The only difference between Jeg and Mike's Intimidator Camaros: Jeg ordered the T-top and Mike the hardtop. In fact, you could only order your Intimidator SS with two options: T-tops and traction control.
When we arrived to photograph Jeg's car, it only had 316 miles on the clock, so it's safe to say he values the car from the standpoint of collectability. Mike tells us, "My Intimidator SS comes out twice a year: Once during the Daytona 500, and again on Dale Sr.'s birthday."
The Coughlin brothers couldn't be happier with their very special fourth-gens. With a performance-enhanced LS1 that belts out 381 hp, it's easy to understand why.
The GMMG chambered exhaust delivers a wicked tone and reaps the benefits of increased air velocity from the high-flow carbon-fiber airbox lid and black MAF sensor ends.
The six-speed manual transmission is treated to a Dale Earnhardt Short Throw Shifter, while a posi rearend accommodates the 3.73 cogs and ensures the Camaro stays glued to the boulevard even in a moment of unavoidable illicit street behavior. You never know when an unsuspecting Ford Mustang might provoke.
The interior plays home to a race-inspired theme that pays tribute to Dale's NASCAR Winston Cup Monte Carlo SS via the silver-faced dash and white Hurst shifter knob. The seats and floor mats are dressed with the embroidered Intimidator SS logo. While the numbered console plaque provides the car number, the dash plaque indicates the horsepower and torque numbers-a stealthy reminder that this car means business. They're all subtle touches that make no attempt to overpower the roots of the early Camaro's initial design plan.
The exterior reeks of the Intimidator badness with deep, black pigment poured throughout, and a stinger deck stripe amassed in gray for added "sass" on the otherwise ordinary SS hood. It's a direct tribute to Dale's friend, Jon Moss, and the GM prototype ZL1, also adorned in black with a gray hood/deck stripe. To keep the retro theme going, Dale tied in the vintage Trans-Am style of the late '60s, by incorporating the aforementioned 17x9 Magnetallic Gray five-spoke American 200S wheels on all four corners.
Not stopping there, the blacked-out taillight panel gives kudos to the '67-72 SS 396 Camaros. The revised progressive-rate front and rear Eibach springs help the car maintain performance in the corners while playing a prominent factor in the menacing appearance of the 1.5-inch lower ride height.
"While driving this very special Camaro," GMMG's Matt Murphy says, "It's hard not to imagine Dale sitting next to you and saying, 'Well, get on it, HIT IT!' "
If there is any doubt that the Intimidator SS is a force to be reckoned with, this collectible Camaro SS will forever be a "humble" reminder that first place was the only acceptable position for NASCAR's most well-known racer-Dale Earnhardt Sr.
The Intimidator SS Camaro The Numbers •85: Dale Earnhardt Intimidator SS Camaros were built. •1: '00 (prototype owned by Dale Jr. and the only one Dale Sr. ever drove). •1: '01 prototype. •83: '01 numbered cars. •1: '02 (non-numbered, specially built for Kelley Earnhardt). •33: Total silver-faced dashes were signed by Dale Sr. •Car numbers with signed dashes: 1-12, 14-28, 46, 50, 52 and two prototypes. 32 signed in black ink and 1 signed in blue ink. •38: T-tops. •47: Coupes. •Both prototypes were T-tops. •Car Number 13 was held out per Dale Sr. being superstitious. •Last car is number 83. •30 deposits were taken before Dale Sr.'s death. •400 requests were received the week after the accident. •Intimidator SS #3 is owned by DEI and is believed to have less than 40 miles on the odometer.
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For Duncan, the civil rights issue was that black elementary and high school students are disciplined at a higher rate than whites. His evidence for discrimination is that blacks are three and a half times more likely to be suspended or expelled than their white peers. Duncan and his Obama administration supporters conveniently ignored school "racial discrimination" against whites, who are more than two times as likely to be suspended as Asians and Pacific Islanders.
Heather Mac Donald reports on all of this in "Undisciplined," appearing in City Journal (Summer 2012). She writes that between September 2011 and February 2012, 25 times more black Chicago students than white students were arrested at school, mostly for battery. In Chicago schools, black students outnumber whites by four to one.
Mac Donald adds, "Nationally, the picture is no better. The homicide rate among males between the ages of 14 and 17 is nearly ten times higher for blacks than for whites and Hispanics combined. Such data make no impact on the Obama administration and its orbiting advocates, who apparently believe that the lack of self-control and socialization that results in this disproportionate criminal violence does not manifest itself in classroom comportment as well."
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, nationally during 2007-2008, more than 145,000 teachers were physically attacked. Six percent of big-city schools report verbal abuse of teachers, and 18 percent report non-verbal disrespect for teachers. An earlier NCES study found that 18 percent of the nation's schools accounted for 75 percent of the reported incidents of violence, and 6.6 percent accounted for 50 percent. So far as serious violence, murder and rapes, 1.9 percent of schools reported 50 percent of the incidents. The preponderance of school violence occurs in big-city schools attended by black students.
Educators might not see classroom comportment as a priority. According to a recent hire, a Baltimore high school now asks prospective teachers: "How do you respond to being mistreated? What do you do if someone cusses you out?" The proper answer is: "Nothing." That vision might explain why a 34-year veteran of the school had to be taken from the premises in an ambulance after a student shattered the glass in a classroom display case.
Mac Donald reports that a fifth-grade teacher in St. Paul, Minn., scoffs at the notion that minority students are being unfairly targeted for discipline, saying "Anyone in his right mind knows that these (disciplined) students are extremely disruptive."
In response to the higher disciplinary rates for minority students, the St. Paul school district has spent $350,000 for teacher "cultural-proficiency" training sessions where they learn about "whiteness." At one of these sessions, an Asian teacher asked: "How do I help the student who blurts out answers and disrupts the class?" The black facilitator said: "That's what black culture is." If a white person made such a remark, I'm sure it would be deemed racist.
Some of today's black political leaders are around my age, 76, such as Reps. Maxine Waters, Charles Rangel, John Conyers, former Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder, Jesse Jackson and many others. Ask them what their parents would have done had they cursed, assaulted a teacher or engaged in disruptive behavior that's become routine in far too many schools. Would their parents have accepted the grossly disrespectful public behavior that includes foul language and racial epithets? Their silence and support of the status quo represent a betrayal of epic proportions to the blood, sweat and tears of our ancestors in their struggle to make today's education opportunities available.


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- Anonymous10:24 PM, March 25, 2006
moi aussi j'ai un félin renifleur à l'excès ici ;)ReplyDelete
Dès qu'un truc pénètre son espace, il vient sentir.
- Anonymous4:23 AM, March 26, 2006
Inspektor is a great name for him LOL!ReplyDelete
He's got gorgeous green eyes!ReplyDelete
Inspektor, really good nickname :à)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous6:05 PM, March 26, 2006
Yes, great name! But, he stands still long enough for you to take his picture. That's good. He understands that his public needs to see him.ReplyDelete
Inspektor... He should get some cool wire-rimmed glasses to look intelligent when he's bouncing off the walls!ReplyDelete
THALIE: Oui, certains chats sont tels des enquêteurs compulsifs! Ah, ces renifleurs invétérés... LOLReplyDelete
CLARE EATS: That you can say!
KROSS-EYED KITTY: Many thanks! His eyes are very big and of a nice yellowish green colour...
MARIE, PARIS: Yes!!! ;-))))
SHER: Those were lucky shots! In between, he knows how to calm down a little and accepts to pose for his avid public!
STACEY: LOL ;-)) But what you don't know is that when he's calm, we also call him "professor", because he looks like a high-nosed intello (geek) freak with his holier than though attitude!!!!
Il est beau! En fait, il ressemble à mon Kumqwat!ReplyDelete
ELVIRA: Merci beaucoup! J'aimerais bien voir une photo de Kumqwat....ReplyDelete
What a cutie!ReplyDelete


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For the past two decades, advanced Limb Gait Simulators and Exoskeletons have been developed to improve walking rehabilitation. A Limb Gait Simulator is used to analyze the human step cycle and/or assist a user walking on a treadmill. Most modern limb gait simulators, such as ALEX, have proven themselves effective and reliable through their usage of motors, springs, cables, elastics, pneumatics and reaction loads. These mechanisms apply internal forces and reaction loads to the body. On the other hand, external forces are those caused by an external agent outside the system such as air, water, or magnets. A design for an exoskeleton using external forces has seldom been attempted by researchers. This thesis project focuses on the development of a Limb Gait Simulator based on a Pure External Force and has proven its effectiveness in generating torque on the human leg. The external force is generated through air propulsion using an Electric Ducted Fan (EDF) motor. Such a motor is typically used for remote control airplanes, but their applications can go beyond this. The objective of this research is to generate torque on the human leg through the control of the EDF engines thrust and the opening/closing of the reverse thruster flaps. This device qualifies as "assist as needed"; the user is entirely in control of how much assistance he or she may want. Static thrust values for the EDF engine are recorded using a thrust test stand. The product of the thrust (N) and the distance on the thigh (m) is the resulting torque. With the motor running at maximum RPM, the highest torque value reached was that of 3.93 (Nm). The motor EDF motor is powered by a 6S 5000 mAh LiPo battery. This torque value could be increased with the usage of a second battery connected in series, but this comes at a price. The designed limb gait simulator demonstrates that external forces, such as air, could have potential in the development of future rehabilitation devices.
- Lower Limb Gait Simulator Based on a Pure External Force
- Toulouse, Tanguy Nathan (Author)
- Sugar, Thomas (Thesis director)
- Artemiadis, Panagiotis (Committee member)
- Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Program (Contributor)
- Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)


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Police arrest two dozen protesters
Police say they arrested two dozen people at an anti-war rally on the University of Minnesota campus today.
Those arrested blocked the entrance to a National Guard recruiting office near campus.
The arrests happened after about 200 students and others rallied in opposition to the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq. Many of the protesters marched through campus and down University Avenue before collecting at the three military recruiting centers on the University campus.
Organizer Erika Zurawski with Students for a Democratic Society said she hopes the demonstration spurs some action that gets students' attention.
"And I want students to engage themselves in being opposed to this war and really start to come out into the streets in a way that we haven't seen in recent years," Zurawski told the crowd.
Police did not arrest a handful of students who chained themselves to nearby Army and Navy recruiting offices, because the offices were closed and the students were not blocking the flow of traffic.
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The market for IT jobs has not just bottomed out, it's stronger than it has been in several years. There is, however, a catch: The premium pay for jobs requiring the typical certifications that many IT hands labor for has continued its plunge and now is at the lowest point in 12 years.
That news comes from a quarterly survey by Foote Partners, a consultancy that issues detailed reports on the IT labor market, monitoring some 2,200 employers and more than 120,000 jobs.
Why the disconnect between a stronger overall job market and shrinking paychecks for certified techies? "Pure-play [tech] jobs are on the decline," says Bill Reynolds, a partner in the firm. Where once the majority of tech jobs were in technology companies, now many organizations whose business is not directly related to tech have many openings that require different skills, he tells me.
[ The IT economy vs. the rest of the economy: Count yourself lucky to work in tech, at least for now. But with no light at the end of the economic tunnel, it pays to keep your skills sharp. | Keep up with the key tech news and analysis with the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. ]
Business skills are more and more in demand, but they don't show up on a certification test, Reynolds says. "In fact, less than 20 percent of all IT professionals employed today -- or approximately 4 million of a total technical workforce estimated at between 20 to 24 million [pure technology and hybrid workers] in the U.S. -- now work within the walls of what could be consider the traditional IT department," his company reports.
I've been looking hard at the market for tech jobs lately, and what Reynolds and his company are telling me tracks very closely with what I'm hearing from many employers and seeing on the major tech employment boards. However, I believe Foote overstates the number of tech jobs in the country.
Still, it's no accident that there are more tech job opening in New York and Washington, D.C., where financial services and the federal government are huge employers, than in Silicon Valley, according to Dice, the largest of those job boards.
A long-term decline in certified jobs' pay
"The average market value for 274 noncertified skills dipped slightly from July to October [2011] for the second consecutive quarter, following gains in the previous five calendar quarters and in 21 of 28 quarters going back to 2004. But pay premiums for 240 IT certifications continued their downward trend for a fifth straight quarter -- and for 19 of the last 20 quarters," the Foote report states. (Foote tracks actual salaries, but it doesn't release that data to the media.)
There were some exceptions to the decline in premium pay for certified jobs: The applications development/programming category and the systems administration and engineering category both grew in overall market value, bolstered by gains in specialist certifications from Oracle, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Red Hat, and Microsoft.


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Driver of stolen SUV dies after hitting tree: Edmonton police
The 27-year-old man who died in a crash in north-central Edmonton early Thursday morning was driving a stolen vehicle and fleeing from its owner, police say.
Emergency responders were loading an SUV passenger onto a stretcher and attempting to cut out the driver when CTV News Edmonton arrived at the scene at 120 Avenue and 89 Street around 6 a.m.
The 2010 Toyota RAV4 was mangled and a nearby tree was damaged.
Delton neighbourhood residents told CTV News Edmonton they heard the vehicle speeding down their street right before the crash.
"I had my windows open," Vern Smart said. "The speed of the car – you could hear it… And then the squeal. And then the smash of the car. And then I come out and all I seen [sic] was that car smoking."
The RAV4 was stolen by two people from a home garage a few blocks away at 125 Avenue and 81 Street, investigators were told.
"The male owner of the RAV4, who happened to be at a nearby convenience store at the time of the theft, spotted his RAV4 drive by, and subsequently pursued the two suspects from a distance in a secondary vehicle, while speaking with 911 emergency operators," Edmonton Police Service said.
"Shortly thereafter, the stolen vehicle lost control and struck a tree on 120 Avenue."
"I heard the brakes squeal and then I heard a big, big bang, basically. I came outside and seen [sic] all this commotion going on," Coby Steinhauer, who was getting ready to leave for work, recalled.
The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
His 34-year-old passenger was expected to survive his injuries.
Speed is considered a "major" factor.
With files from CTV News Edmonton's Evan Klippenstein
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Living inexpensively is practically a competitive sport among the thousands of snowbirds that nest in Mazatlán each winter. They get to know the bus routes, taco stands and fish markets, and they keep up with hot deals—like the burgers during Monday Night Football at Yoopers. They shop and dine like locals, learning the art of low-cost fun from full-time Mazatlecos. With these insider tips, you'll be amazed how far your budget stretches.
Kitchens are among the best perks at the resorts on the golden beaches in Mazatlán's Zona Dorada. Stock up on basics at the Soriana supermarket, a short bus ride from most resorts. But the real fun is in meeting the butchers, bakers and anglers selling at city mercados (markets) and in neighborhood shops.
You'll get first dibs on the morning catch if you rise early to greet the returning pangeros (fishermen) at dawn on downtown's Playa Norte. Or sleep in and then head to the sidewalk shrimp market on Aquiles Serdán, where you can haggle with las changueras—apron-draped ladies who sell shrimp, octopus and other mariscos from ice-packed plastic buckets.
Over at the Municipal Market, formally known as the Mercado Pino Suárez (at Aquiles Serdán and Melchor Ocampo streets), take time to admire the wrought iron façade—this art nouveau madhouse dates to 1899. Inside, the counters are overflowing with mangoes, pineapples, tomatoes and all manner of chilies, spices and beans. If you know you'll be washing your fruits and vegetables in purified water, you should be able to bypass the peelable produce rule and gather some lechuga (lettuce) and fragrant cilantro. If you're looking for a plump chicken, you'd best shop early—the meat and fish aisles grow more pungent as the day progresses. Several stands sell the plaid plastic totes no self-respecting homemaker would be without (the ones bearing the likeness of Frida Kahlo or the Virgin of Guadalupe make great souvenirs). While you're in the area, pick up a $5 arrangement (of gladioli, say, or sweetheart roses) at the nearby flower market (Aquiles Serdán at 16 de Septiembre). Splurge on pastries at Panamá Bakery.
In the 10 minutes it takes to putter by boat from downtown's port to Isla de la Piedra (Stone Island), it feels as if you've returned to Mazatlán's Zona Dorada circa 1960. The island—actually a peninsula—faces the port and cruise ship dock and has one of the best beaches around. Mild waves lap at a long stretch of tan sand lined with seafood shacks selling pescado zarandeado (whole grilled fish in a spicy glaze) with tortillas, rice and beans. Island excursions include a leisurely cruise, lunch and open bar (Viajes el Sábalo). Replicate the experience for about half the price by taking a bus and water taxi, then hitting Lety's, midway along the beach.
Mazatlán's not all about sand and sea. The city is surrounded by lagoons, villages, ranches and mountains, all worth exploring. Our favorite countryside getaway involves a 40-minute drive to El Quelite, a beautifully preserved 19th-century village at the base of the Sierra Madre. Humble stucco, brick and wood houses buried in fuchsia-colored bougainvillea line quiet cobblestone streets by the plaza's filigreed gazebo and modest church. The main attraction here is lunch at El Mesón de Los Laureanos, where Dr. Marcos Gabriel Osuna greets every guest like an old friend. You'll meet Lola, the roving green parrot, and choose from a tasty menu of regional chilorio (shredded pork), codorniz (quail) and lengua (beef tongue), or quesadillas for the less adventurous.
It won't cost you a single peso to see the art that's displayed along the city's beachside malecón (promenade). Bronze sculptures present an open-air history of the city—there's a pulmonía (one of Mazatlán's famed open-air taxis) and a beer-brewing vat to honor the local Pacifico brewery. Native-born movie star Pedro Infante is memorialized on a motorcycle pointed toward the sea, while an enormous sculpture of a lighthouse, marlin, fisherman with his net and a voluptuous nude woman honors the fishing fleet. The 12-mile-long malecón is busy day and night with joggers and couples strolling arm in arm. Crowds gather at the foot of Sánchez Taboada for impromptu shows at Cliff Diver Hill.
Old Mazatlán's Plaza Machado is a virtual stage show on weekend evenings: Artists set out beaded jewelry, musicians play sax and guitar, giant screens display old black-and-white movies, and waiters rush about at sidewalk cafés. At the heart of it all is the beautifully restored Teatro Angela Peralta.
Kids can't resist the bizarre creations, like tacky shell roosters, at Sea Shell City Museum. The artisans' market next door has some surprising finds, especially at the tiny store Hecho a Mano, where silly coconut masks go for $12 and miniature skull figurines for $10. By now it must be time for two-for-one drinks at Joe's Oyster Bar on the beach or happy-hour specials at pretty much any Zona Dorada bar. Now do you feel like a pata salada (sandy-foot local)?
Yoopers: Avda. De Las Garzas; 011.52.669.668.2247
Panamá Bakery: Benito Juárez and Cañizales; 011.52.669.980.2333
Viajes el Sábalo: 011.52.669.986.9980
El Mesón de Los Laureanos: 011.52.669.965.4143
Teatro Angela Peralta: Plaza Machado; 011.52.669.982.4444; culturamazatlan.com.mx
Sea Shell City Museum: 407 Avda. Playa Gaviotas, Zona Dorada; 011.52.669.913.1301
Joe's Oyster Bar: 100 Avda. Rodolfo T. Loaiza; 011.52.669.983.5333


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Nvidia to launch G70 'at Computex'
ATI said to be focusing on SLi-rival
Nvidia's next-generation G70 graphics chip will be unveiled next month at Computex in Taipei, Taiwanese motherboard maker moles have claimed.
A variety of sources, cited by DigiTimes, reckon the G70 will be fabbed at 110nm by TSMC and deliver double the performance of the GeForce 6800.
But while Nvidia may plan to launch G70 in early June, the part does not appear likely to ship in volume until toward the end of Q3, Digitimes sources say.
This lends weight to claims that ATI will not launch its own next-generation graphics chip, codenamed R520, early next month, and will instead focus on its SLi-like multi-chip rendering system. Then again, it may not want to let its arch-rival take all the glory, particularly given Nvidia's relative strength in the high-end of the graphics chip market. ®
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I write from the year 2012, 10 years ahead of your time. Much has changed about the world, as expected, but one thing should remain familiar to you: the Oakland Athletics are a good ballclub. They seem destined to make the postseason, and their bullpen leads the American League in ERA. If you think that's incredible, just wait until you see who they're winning with. I'll let you find out for yourself, but let's just say Billy Beane still has it. Now, about the purpose of this message: Only you can save our beloved planet. The first thing I need from you is…
– A letter from an Athletics fan to his past self. Probably.
Oakland's rotation took another hit on Wednesday night, as Brett Anderson left his start with an apparent oblique injury. Anderson's injury comes on the heels of Brandon McCarthy's season-ending brain surgery and Bartolo Colon's regular season-ending suspension. The A's are dependent on young starting pitching. Preventing abuse of those young arms means relying even more on the bullpen. This is typically a bad thing, and true, it could spell the end of the A's Cinderella run. All season long, the A's bullpen has been there to pick up the slack when asked. They are, if not the driving force, at least a large reason as to why the A's have won 59 percent of their one-run games.
This group of A's relievers may remind some Oakland loyalists of the Moneyball Athletics, who employed Billy Koch, Chad Bradford, and Jim Mecir. The quartet of Grant Balfour, Ryan Cook, Jerry Blevins, and Sean Doolittle has stories worth knowing, even if they have not appeared on the silver screen—yet.
Grant Balfour
Season stats: 67 G, 19 SV, 65 2/3 IP, 2.88 ERA, 2.11 SO/BB
Pre-2012 career stats: 323 G, 10 SV, 335 2/3 IP, 3.57 ERA, 2.43 SO/BB
How the A's acquired him: Via free-agent signing (winter 2010)
Why his story is worth knowing: Balfour is the Athletics' closer. He leads the team with 19 saves, and therefore is the de facto face of the bullpen.
His story: Australian-born, Balfour's big-league career is a rarity within itself. Earlier this season, he broke Graeme Lloyd's Aussie record for most career saves. Balfour's path to the ninth inning involved a few detours. He missed nearly the entire 2005 and 2006 seasons recovering from elbow and shoulder surgeries. Balfour's original team, the Twins, decided to move on after the 2006 season, leaving him to latch on with the Reds. Soon thereafter, Balfour landed in Milwaukee via waiver claim. In July, 2007, the Brewers traded Balfour to the then-Devil Rays for a similar pitcher, Seth McClung. Balfour's story from thereon is easy to recall, but it's worth remember that the Rays exposed the Aussie to waivers the following spring. No one bit, Balfour reported to the minors, and eventually rejoined the Rays en route to one of the finest relief seasons in club history.
Ryan Cook
Season stats: 62 G, 62 2/3 IP, 2.44 ERA, 2.48 SO/BB
Pre-2012 career stats: 12 G, 7 2/3 IP, 7.04 ERA, 0.88 SO/BB
How the A's acquired him: Via the Trevor Cahill trade (winter 2011)
Why his story is worth knowing: Cook might be the A's best right-handed reliever.
His story: Cook spent three seasons in the University of Southern California's rotation. He posted ERAs of 5.97, 5.06, and 5.11. The Diamondbacks took him in the 27th-round anyhow, and he spent the next two seasons as a middling minor-league starter. Then Arizona converted Cook into a reliever. His stuff played up in short spurts; his fastball gained a few more ticks than anticipated, and his weaknesses were no longer exposed. Even after the A's acquired him, nobody expected this from Cook. Baseball America ranked Cook as the 18th-best prospect in Oakland's system, behind fellow reliever Andrew Carignan. Kevin Goldstein wrote Cook's slider was "solid" but that he needed to improve "in order for him to have above-average major-league value." Cook started this season with 21-straight scoreless appearances.
Jerry Blevins
Season stats: 55 G, 58 1/3 IP, 2.47 ERA, 2.38 SO/BB
Pre-2012 career stats: 151 G, 141 2/3 IP, 3.75 ERA, 2.51 SO/BB
How the A's acquired him: Via the Jason Kendall trade (summer 2007)
Why his story is worth knowing: He's been the best lefty-on-lefty reliever in the pen.
His story: The Cubs drafted Blevins in the 17th-round in 2004 out of Dayton University. No other pitcher taken in the round, collegiate or otherwise, reached the majors. Blevins is a career reliever, making his success a little more improbable. He's not used like your typical LOOGY. In fact, he's faced about 60 percent right-handers for his career, and about 50 percent this year. Former A's reliever Andrew Bailey once said about Blevins: "In the bullpen, he likes to speak his mind a little bit and talk to fans, and give them crap back, and it's pretty funny to watch that out there." The question was whether Blevins was an Ohio kind of guy.
Sean Doolittle
Season stats: 35 G, 37 2/3 IP, 3.35 ERA, 6.38 SO/BB
Pre-2012 career stats: 1 G, 1 IP, 9.00 ERA, 2.00 SO/BB (minors)
How the A's acquired him: Via the draft (first round, 2007)
Why his story is worth knowing: He was a prospect a few years ago—as a hitter.
His story: Doolittle played first base as recently as 2009. Injuries and stalled progression led to his position change. He pitched in a game for the first time at the end of last season, and threw 25 more innings in the minors in 2012 before his promotion. Our own Sam Miller wrote in ESPN the Magazine about Doolittle's conversion. When Miller asked Doolittle about the breaking pitch he used to complete a strikeout, Doolittle said, "It started as a slider, but it's starting to look more like a curveball." He continued, "I don't know when that happened. It could look totally different in two weeks. I'm not sure what I was doing to make it look like that." Doolittle has the A's best reliever strikeout-to-walk ratio.
Those four are just the main cogs. The A's have other underdog relievers making the most of their opportunities, too. Jim Miller has two player comments in the past five Baseball Prospectus annuals; he also has a 2.08 ERA in 39 innings. Jordan Norberto has overcome bad hairstyle decisions on his scalp and face in order to post a 2.77 ERA in 52 innings. Pat Neshek used to be popular with the Twins, and he's back to being dominant with the A's after a few lost seasons. Travis Blackley, another Australian that battled injuries, has given the A's productive innings out of the rotation and the bullpen.
If you like rooting for a good story in the postseason, then consider the A's. Not only do they have enough good stories to fill up a bullpen, but those guys could be the key to Oakland making the postseason.
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Serial entrepreneur and investor Jason Calacanis appears to be gearing up for the launch of his next venture, which may also signify one more pivot for his information site Mahalo. And that next step also looks like a new chapter for an internet domain that itself has seen a couple of pivots.
On a tip from a reader, we visited inside.com and found this:
Clicking to subscribe, you get sent to a mailing list creator owned by Calacanis, and an email confirmation referring questions directly to him (or, at least an email address to his name). We have sent an email to that address but have yet to receive a reply.
Putting to one side that we've already passed September 1 there seem to be other clues that the company is moving ahead with an Inside.com venture, which seems to be either a rebranding of either all or part of Mahalo. Two recent clues of that:
1) An ad posted by Mahalo is seeking a user experience/user interface graphic designer for Inside.com. In that ad, it describes inside.com as a "knowledge community, focused on creating high-quality videos, apps, iBooks and written courses."
"We're well-funded by Sequoia…Newscorp, Mark Cuban, Elon Musk (Paypal) and CBS," the post reads. If that sounds like Mahalo rebranded to you, the rest of that description, describing what sounds like an existing product, seems to clinch that: "Our library is growing rapidly as we continue to focus our efforts on joining users with expert teaching content."
2) When Mahalo's president, Jason Rapp, left the company at the beginning of September, AllThingsD posted a staff memo, which seemed also to give some hints that a name change was on the cards.
"The company has never had a clearer path or brighter future (plus a new name!) and for that reason it's the perfect time for me to step back and pursue my next adventure," he wrote, signing off, "Mahalo and see you Inside, Jason."
Inside.com and Mahalo, in a way, are in something of a similar position, both being ships in the dot-com waters looking for a friendly dock.
Mahalo, founded by Calacanis in 2007 as a "human-powered search engine" as an alternative to Google and the rest. Perhaps because making a dent into Google's search traffic proved to be actually very hard, it has pivoted several times since. Among them, it's offered information in a Q&A format (tagline: "we're here to help").
Most recently, Mahalo settled into life as a how-to video and learning site, spinning apps and other media out of the concept (new tagline: learn anything). Why is inside.com being introduced as a brand within this? Well, it is strong word, like about.com (with which it competes) and it might snag more random users than the Hawaiian word for "thank you."
Inside.com, meanwhile, was originally a high-ambition, but ultimately-failed website covering the media industry from the first dot-com boom. The domain was eventually purchased, in 2006, by ex-Inside.com employee Rafat Ali, who had started the media blog paidContent.org — having between Inside and pC worked for Silicon Alley Reporter, started by none other than Calacanis, and eventually sold to Dow Jones. In purchasing the domain, Ali had the intention of putting his different media sites (which also included mocoNews.net) under the Inside brand. That idea appeared to die after the paidContent group got bought by the UK newspaper The Guardian, which apparently wanted to sell the name for upwards of $100,000. For a long while — nearly four years — visits to inside.com redirected to paidContent.org. (Ali left paidContent in 2010 and this year started a new travel-focused site, Skift.)
Interestingly, inside.com is still registered, as of today, to Sedo LLC, on behalf of ContentNext Media, the parent company of paidContent.org that was sold by the Guardian to Giga Omni Media in February. The ownership of inside.com was last updated on June 13 of this year.
That means that either an ownership transfer to Calacanis has not yet been recorded, or… who knows?
TC has reached out both to Jason Calacanis and Giga Omni Media for comment and we will update as we learn more.
Update: Calacanis comments below: "Inside.com is an awesome domain name."
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Sand dunes such as those seen in this image have been observed to creep slowly across the surface of Mars through the action of the wind. These are a particular type of dune called a "barchan," which forms when the wind blows in one direction (here, east to west) for long periods of time. Barchan dunes are common on Mars and in the desert regions of the Earth.
These barchan dunes are located on the western rim of the Hellas impact basin, in the Southern hemisphere of Mars. This area is covered by extensive deposits of layered rocks that were initially deposited as loose sediments and over time formed these rock layers. Portions of these layered rocks were subsequently eroded away and the remaining layers now form numerous flat-topped hills called "mesas." The barchan dunes are forming in the lee (downwind) of the mesas.
This area was previously image by HiRISE in 2008 (PSP_007676_1385) and was retargeted here through a public request (http://www.uahirise.org/hiwish). Careful comparison of repeat images such as these can reveal the speed and manner by which dunes move across the Martian surface. This information can be used to study the current atmosphere of Mars, the age and mobility of sand deposits on the planet's surface, and the hazards that sand dunes may pose to landed vehicles such as rovers.
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BONHOMME, dit Beaupré, NOËL, surveyor; b. 13 Nov. 1684 at Lorette (Ancienne-Lorette, Que.) and baptized the same day at Quebec, son of Ignace Bonhomme, dit Beaupré, and Agnès Morin; m. on 29 May 1709 Félicité Hamel at Ancienne-Lorette; d. there 29 May 1755.
It is difficult to know what Noël Beaupré's professional training was because his certificate of professional competency has not been found. This certificate was normally conferred by the king's hydrographer or the teacher of hydrography upon pupils who had followed the mathematics courses successfully, or by a recognized surveyor upon candidates who had completed their apprenticeship with good results. In any event, on 15 Dec. 1718 Noël Beaupré received official papers as surveyor and geometrician from the intendant, Michel Bégon; he was 34 at the time. He styled himself royal surveyor in his deeds from 4 June 1731 until the end of his life but he does not seem to have received any official appointment confirming this title.
The surveyors' role, clearly defined in the official papers they received from the intendant, consisted of "surveying and measuring of every sort, [and] drawing up the written reports . . . as is the practice in the provost court and viscounty of Paris, for the allotted fees and emoluments." Surveyors were required to place plainly visible boundary marks and to use only compasses, lodestones, and other instruments that had been duly inspected by the king's hydrographer. Noël Beaupré mentions specifically in his reports that for his boundary marks he used stones, earthenware shards, or cinder blocks. In addition to measuring newly granted lands, the surveyors, thanks to their work of setting boundaries and making their reports, often put an end to the numerous lawsuits that arose over land boundaries between neighbours, even between seigneurs, and especially among heirs. They settled definitively disputes which had lasted for years.
Noël Beaupré's qualities and capabilities were speedily recognized, and people had recourse to his good offices on the Beaupré shore and Île d'Orléans, on the south as well as the north shore of the St Lawrence River, throughout the territory of the government of Quebec and even outside it. Between 1718 and 1752 he drew up close to 900 deeds and reports. Among the reports are two of special importance: one on the survey done in December 1737 and January 1738 on the lands in Nouvelle-Beauce recently granted to Thomas-Jacques Taschereau, and another on the setting of the boundaries of the fiefs of Beaumont, Vincennes, and Saint-Gilles, done in 1743 at the request of Jacques-Hugues Péan de Livaudière, Charles-Marie Couillard de Beaumont, and Marguerite Forestier. The second report put an end to a difficult division of the seigneury of Beaumont after the sale of the seigneury by the heirs.
Noël Beaupré died at Ancienne-Lorette and was buried there on 29 May 1755. His reports demonstrate his attention to detail and accuracy, qualities that account for his great popularity everywhere in the government of Quebec.
AJQ, Registre d'état civil, Notre-Dame de Québec, 13 nov. 1684. ANQ, Greffe de J.-É. Dubreuil, 12 juill. 1722; Greffe de Florent de La Cetière, 2 mai 1709; NF, Coll. de pièces jud. et not., 2975, 3125; NF, Ord. int., 15 déc. 1718; 31 mai 1730; 8 juin 1731; 13 août 1738; 16 mars, 26 août, 8 sept. 1743; 12 avril, 18 déc. 1745; 19 févr. 1746. ASQ, Fonds Verreau, XIII, 22; Polygraphie, III, 107c. Tanguay, Dictionnaire.
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NASA has launched its first spacecraft devoted to monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide, the heat-trapping gas thought to be responsible for much of Earth's recent warming trend.
The space agency's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 satellite (OCO-2) blasted off today (July 2) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 5:56 a.m. EDT (0956 GMT, 2:56 a.m. local time), carried aloft by a United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket. The liftoff was originally scheduled for Tuesday (July 1), but a problem with the launch pad's water system caused a one-day delay.
The satellite will measure carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere 24 times every second, revealing in great detail where the gas is being produced and where it is being pulled out of the air — CO2 sources and sinks, in scientists' parlance. [NASA's OCO-2 Mission in Pictures (Gallery)]
"With the launch of this spacecraft, decision-makers and scientists will get a much better idea of the role of carbon dioxide in climate change, as OCO-2 measures this greenhouse gas globally and provides incredibly new insights into where and how carbon dioxide is moving into, and then out of, the atmosphere," Betsy Edwards, OCO-2 program executive at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., told reporters during a pre-launch press briefing Sunday (June 30).
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have risen from about 280 parts per million (ppm) before the Industrial Revolution to 400 ppm today, the highest concentration in at least 800,000 years.
Humanity is primarily responsible for this increase, researchers say. The species pumps 40 billion tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, chiefly by burning fossil fuels such as coal and gasoline; the planet's natural sinks remove just 20 billion tons annually, on average.
Six weeks or so from now, OCO-2 will maneuver into a polar orbit 438 miles (705 kilometers) above Earth, joining five other Earth-observation satellites in the A-Train constellation. ("A" is short for "afternoon," since these spacecraft cross the equator going north at about 1:30 p.m. local time every day.)
The new satellite will then begin using its single scientific instrument, a grading spectrometer, to measure carbon dioxide levels with an anticipated precision of 1 part per million, NASA officials have said. The spacecraft will zoom over the same swathe of Earth once every 16 days, allowing researchers to track changes in CO2 concentration over a variety of timescales.
"Ultimately, scientists predict that looking at these changes over time will give us patterns that are weeks or months or years long [and] that will help them to unravel the mysteries of the carbon cycle," Edwards said.
The $465-million mission has a nominal lifetime of two years, but the spacecraft has enough fuel to keep operating for much longer than that, OCO-2 team members have said.
This marks NASA's second attempt to monitor atmospheric carbon dioxide from orbit. The space agency's original Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) satellite crashed into the Pacific Ocean in February 2009 shortly after launch, when the nose-cone fairing of its Orbital Sciences Taurus XL rocket failed to open properly.
The original OCO mission cost just $275 million. The higher price tag of its successor, which features a nearly identical spacecraft, is partly a result of the decision to go with a different, bigger rocket, NASA officials have said.
The OCO-2 craft is the second of NASA's Earth-observation satellites to blast off in 2014, after the Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory, which launched Feb. 27. The space agency plans to loft three more Earth-science missions this year: the free-flying Soil Moisture Active Passive spacecraft, as well as ISS-RapidScat and the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, two instruments that are slated to be installed aboard the International Space Station.
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